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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30
The Water Supply.

There is no more important matter to
be looked after on the farm than the
purity and healthfulness of the water
supply. But being out of sight it is often
neglected and sickness and sometimes
death are directly traceable to the foul
condition of the we'll. At this season Of
the year, when insect life is at it's full
ness and will soon be seeking winter
quarters, there is great danger of the
average farm we'll becoming thus con-
taminated, for bugs, crickets. small
worms, ETC., seem especially inclined to
creep under loose we'll platforms. thence
fall into the water. l have looked into
wells in which the surface of the water
was almost covered with crickets and
grasshoppers in all stages of decompo-
sition and the water had sort of ran
cid and bitter taste yet was being used
right along because there was no other
available supply. If the we'll was cov-
cred with boards it might pay to raise
one and at least look down. If sight or
s,
we'll cleaned and fixed up. The health
of the family is too valuable thing to
fool with in this way, and no trivial
matter of few dollars should be allowed
to stand in the way Of pure water and
good health.
Recently one of the wells on the farm
gave unmistakable signs of contamina-
tion, although dug only last fall by
professional, under orders to secure the
top thoroughly to prevent the ingress of
all forms of animal life. The horses
made known their disapproval by sniff
fing at the water and drinking spariI ely
of it. Upon investigation gopher was
found floating in the water, evidently
having been there but a few days. We
pumped the we'll dry. cleaned it thor
oughly and found few feet from the top
the place where the animal had entered
between the stones of the wall. Here
was brought to light a point not prop
erly considered. that sound platform
will not exclude burrowing animals. Had
the wall been laid in cement for several
feet at the top the gopher would prob
ably have remained outside, but
this was not done. nor Is it done in one
we'll in hundred. But even where this
is done and the top of the we'll secured
with lumber and cement to the best of
the average we'll digger's ability so long
as boards come and go with the weather,
it will be a difficult matter to entirely
exclude insects by this means.
Two years ago we made so-called
'blind" we'll 33 feet deep. Where there
is an ample water supply and the loca-
tion of the we'll is good, am more than
ever in favor of this kind of well. for it
is absolutely free from the form of con-
tamination described above. in fact the
water is necessarily pure il, as stated
above, the well is properly situated. In
making the blind we'll we dug four-foot
hole down to the water. this being as
small as was convenient to work in.
Then beginning about four feet above
the point where the water came in we
widened to five feet, and, as the vein was
not very strong went some eight feet
below it in order to have considerable
reservoir. The well was then run up
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30
WANTFAIRT TRADE
ingtOn in the Interest of ReciprOc-
ity.

WASHINGTON Nov. 30.-Interest in the An
glo-American joint high commission was accel-
Grated today by the arrival here of several prom
inent Canadians who largely interested in
lumber and manufacturing. George H. Bert
ram, liberal member of parliament and lead
ing ship builder; William Hutchinson. OF OF
tawa vino has great milling and oatmeal in
terests, and Henry c. Hamilton, of Toronto q
leading lumberman, are among the arrivals
These men have come here to talk and urge rec:.
procity whereby lumber may be admitted into the
United States at a much lower rete than under
the Dingley bill. 1t is said that the proposition
to allow American manufactured articles to en-
ter Canada free in return for like privileges for
Canadian farm produce and lumber has occa-
stoned such variance of opinion among members
OF the commission that the entire reciprocity
question has now approached a critical stage.
Joseph Baltes appointed postmaster today
at New Market, Scott county.
Congressman Norris is expected tomorrow.
]. T. Heck, Of Waseca, who served chief
Of division in the treasury during the bond
issue, has been retired. Congressman Tawney is
looking up position for him.
JOHNSON.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30
Through Cars to California.

Tourist car running through to Los
Angeles, leaves Minneapolis and St.
Paul every Thursday evening via "The
North Western Line"-C., st. P. M. &
o. Railway, the pioneer through car
line from the Twin Cities to California.
For tickets at lowest rates and infor-
nation, call at 413 Nicollet avenue, Min
neapolis; 395 Robert street. st. Paul, or
address T. w. Teasdale, General Pas
senger Agent, st. Paul, Mimi.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30
KEEP ONLY LUz0N
CAPT. MORGAN SAYS THE UNITED
STATES SHOULD GO THAT FAR.

Other Islands Of the PHILIPPINES Have
No White People, and Natives Have
Their Own way There-When the
of Manila Permanently Capt. Nor
gan Says 1t VIII Have an Immense
Business BOOm-In n had Condition
at Present-Finest HarbOr in the
World.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30
PRACTICAL
FARM NOTES

In long continued rains bring the
sheep to the barn. They will not have
colds all winter and they will pay you
back.
II breeding ewes are fed on cOncen-
trated foods and kept in an over fat
condition, small, weak lambs will be
the result
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30

A new Smith grubber, direct from fac
tory, for sale by us, very cheap. Do you
want it? Do you need It? If so, don't
let his golden opportunity pass by. Ad-
dress THE REPRESENTATIVE,
Minneapolis, MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30

Kindly mention The Representative
when writing to advertisers and II you
do not receive prompt attention please
let us know.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30

Prominent Minister and Teacher Both Given
Up to Die. Were Cared
By the new treatment Names and addresses
given at the ST. Paul Medical and Surgical
Institute, Fifth and ST. Peter streets, St. Paul,
MIMI, where curcA. This treatment given at
home.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30


morning until noon without water, may
truly be called cruelty TO animals. At
the same time this is the usual custom
on the farm. Let the driver try going
without drink for himself that length
of time while at work on hot day, and
he will have a good idea of the cravings
of his team for water.
Pumpkins are excellent in the fall,
and will please a cows taste after trial
of light feeding, and will supply that
characteristic Of a good milk flow for
many weeks If housed before heavy
frosts come, and the crop sorted
at storing time, and perhaps later sort
ed again, which will pay if quantity
holds out.
Late planted corn, which will be but
we'll tasselled by the last of August,
thereby containing a large quantity of
succulence until well into the winter,
if cut and put into large shocks before
frost, will be very profitable invest
ment in labor, as all lend little toward
keeping up flow of milk until the cows
need be dried again, about two months
before coming fresh.
The delivery Of milk in glass bottles
is on the Increase and bids fair to come
into pretty general use within the next
few years. I cannot do better than
quote from the Practical Dairyman an
item that shows the advantage to be de-
rived from that way of delivering milk.
It is as follows:
Bottled milk is not only neater,
more attractive and more wholesome
FOR the consumer, but 1t saves the
milkman money in several ways. One
saving comes from measuring the milk.
In the glass bottle there is just one
quart, or one pint, as the case may be,
but no more, whereas, In practical deliv-
cry by quart measure from a large can,
the delivery man is hurrying along his
route, and, generally, puts in more milk
with each measure than is called for.
Little as this milk loss may be in in
dividual instance, in the course of
a days delivery Of 20 to 40 cans, this
item assumes considerable Importance,
and in the course of years time the
difference between selling bottled milk
and the old method of delivering from
the can is very large indeed, and means
much money saved (or made) in the
former case over the latter. Indeed, a
dairyman with experience in both meth
DDS believes the savings in ten years
time in selling in bottles sufficient to
purchase a good farm. Another saving
to be mentioned is the saving of time
in delivery. The man who leaves the
milk fancies the bottles every time, as
he can do his work more easily and
rapidly.
Clinton, Ia.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30

$1,000 is reported. Most of the Irish So
cieties run little creameries. on the CO.
operative plan. so common in the
United States.--News and Advocate.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30

Bring or send the above ad and your case will
be assured prompt attention.-Ei.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-30

The Rings steal hundreds Of mill
lens annually from the People. One.
tenth Of the plunder IL used to con-
troll the daily press and buy mp the
leaders Of the two old parties. to
darken intelligence and make the
voters poor. blind and incapable OF
self-defense. Strike before 1t u too
late.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-08
sufficient amount of s!eep.-New York
A Delicate Elatterer.

81 suppose we all have our little vani-
ties" said the Hon. James Hamilton
Lewis when complimented on his many
accomplishments. You remember
how shrewd person warmed even the
heart of the iron duke by remarking
when presented: 4 have longed, your
grace, for the honor of meeting the one
man in Europe who is proof against
t1attery.' But the palm for delicate
compliment belongs to man who call
ed me to the door of the house the 9TH
er day. Is this Col. James Hamilton
Lewis? he asked as l faced him. Plain
Mr.. Lewis, at your SERVICE answered.
'Mr. Lewis said he, Il was so much
STRUCK with a speech you made in the
house last week that l went to the
document room to get copy for my
self and another for a friend. They
charged me five cents for copy, and
hadn't the change. Could you lend
me enough to buy two copies? AS it
happened, / had not made any speech
the week before, and, of course, they
don't sell speeches at the document
room; but l let him have the dime he
wanted. l reproached myself after
ward for not making it a quarter. Such
an artist at f1attery as he ought to
drink something better than ten-cent
whisky" Seattle Times.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-08
Watch VS.. Locomotive.

Very few of the millions of people
who carry watches realize to what
wonderful extent fabrication is devel-
oped and what an extraordinary num-
Der of turns the balance wheel makes
with one oiling. A Chestnut street
matchmaker, whose knowledge of these
wonderful pieces of mechanism is not
exceeded by any man in this city, has
made up an interesting table of COM
parison to show the perfection of lubri-
cation in watch.
A watch will run on one oiling from
a year to a year and a half. Every
minute the balance wheel turns on It's
axis 450 times, and 1000 times in an
hour. Accepting the year as the time
the ordinary watch will run with one
oiling he finds that if the driver of
locomotive was as well oiled as the bal
ance wheel of watch it ought to run
sixty miles an hour day and night for
64S days, or well on to two years with
one oiling. In that time it would ira
verse a distance equal to nearly four
times the circumference of the earth.
In view of the fact that in reality few
locomotives will run one day without
reoiling, he maintains that the watch
maker has developed his art to a far
greater degree than the locomotive
builder has yet been able to reach
Philadelphia Record
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-08
A Friend Indeed.

ga friend in need is a friend indeed
So 1t Is written, and such friend is as
often found among the lowly as those
who sit in high places. One Of the best
known young men about town found
one Unexpectedly last week among the
ragged urchins that haunt newspaper
row, says a Louisville newspaper. 1t
was an evening after supper. He was
standing at the corner of Fourth ave-
nue. and Green street. He was ap-
preached by a newsboy, who was
''stuck" on two papers.
"Ain't you going to help me out this
evening" said the boy.
The young man had often helped him
out of such predicaments before, but,
wishing to see what the boy would do
if he refused, he answered: "No, l
can't to-day. / am broke. l haven't
even money enough to pay my laundry
BILL"
"Oh, you's foolin'. You's not broke"
"Yes, 1 am"
"Say, mister, If that's on the dead,
I'll loan you some money. Why, I've
got er quarter l won't need until time
to get my papers tomorrow"
"But maybe l can't pay you to-mor-
row. What will you do for papers"
"Well, if you can't, then I'll black
shoes instead Of sellin' papers,"
Seeing that the boy was sincere, the
man refused the proffered loan, and in
recognition of the offer gave the boy
% cents. Besides, he remembered him
to his friends, and now the boys sales
have doubled
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-08
A Sunday School Story.

A San Francisco manufacturer has
advised his little son not once, but 80
times, to avoid contentious with other
children, but If a quarrel is forced up
on him to defend himself at all haz-
ards. The boy is member of the Ply
mouth Congregational Sunday school,
and it is the custom of the pastor to
give every child in the Sabbath school
q nice little Bible on the Sunday fol-
lowing his 7th birthday. Last Sunday,
says a San Francisco paper, it was
Master Kerr's turn to receive a Bible,
and when his name was called he
marched forward with a black eye he
had received in a fight with another
urchin the day before. The pastor
eyed the boys face narrowly and the
whole congregation Uttered. The little
fellow flushed with embarrassment,
but accepted the Bible as gracefully
as possible, listened to the few words
of commendation and advice and start
ed for his seat. The tittering was re-
newed, and when halfway down the
aisle the boys pent-up feelings could
be restrained no longer. He resented
the imputation conveyed, first by the
pastors searching gaze and then by
the congregations amusement, and,
stopping in the aisle, he turned around
and shouted:
'Well, l licked him, anyway
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-08
Cure for Hvdrophobia.

There is very simple method of cur
ing both hydrOphobia and that form
Of epilepsy which is so frequently m s
taken for it, which cure is known as
the Buisson treatment, and is effected
by forcing the poison through the pores
of the skin by profuse perspiration. In
cases where cOnvulsions have already
taken place, says correspondent Of
the Boston Transcript, the patient
should enter a vapor bath, with tenn
perature from 127 degrees to 140 de-
grees Fahrenheit, and remain there un-
til all symptoms Of hydrophoba have
disappeared. Where these baths are
used as preventive, one should be
taken on each seven consecutive days.
This remedy is so simple that if no
Russian or Turkish bath can be had it
Is quite possible to gain the desired re-
suit in any room by excluding the air
as much as possible, placing patient in
chair over a lighted oil stove, on
which is pan of hot water, and, hav-
ing wrapped all in blankets, allowing
the patient to sweat out the poison.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-08
Best Time to Sleep.

In view of the many changes which
have been rung on the early -to-bed,
early-to-rise idea, the following opin-
ion from an eminent medical authority
ought to be of interest: He takes up
the old statement that an hour before
midnight is worth two hours after, and
gives his opinion as follows: Il had
an opportunity to make some study of
this subject in my naval service dur
ing the late war. On shipboard, as Is
undoubtedly known to most of you, the
ships company-officers and men alike
stand four-hour watches day and
night, and to get the required amount
of rest are obliged to get their sleep
irregularly; to so arrange it that the
same man shall not be obliged to take
early or late watches continually, the
dog watch of two hours is interpo-
lated, thus adding to the irregularity.
In watching the results for over two
years, 1 could never discover that the
watch, officers and men, were not as
fully refreshed by their sleep as were
the medical and pay officers, who stand
no watch, and have hours as regular
as those of any householder" 1t seems
to make but little difference to those
who have given careful attention to
this subject whether people sleep at
one time or another, so that they get a
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-08
meal, and one small cake of CASTLE
soap cut in small pieces.

meal, and one small cake of CASTLE
soap cut in small pieces.
Here is a physical training direction
adapted to most individual characters
tics: Sleep nine hours out of the TWEEN
ty-four, bathe in cold water, exercise
five minutes daily with light dumb
bells, drink a cup of hot liquid before
breakfast, spend half an hour every
day in outdoor exercise, make the best
of bad bargains and always keep you1
temper.
Every season there is a great inquiry
for the famous cholera mixture which
is so reliable. The prescription, which
is a good one to preserve, is as fol
lows, but should be put up by a skilled
druggist, SO that quantities may not be
excessive: Equal parts of tincture of
opium, tincture of rhubarb, tincture of
red pepper, spirits of camphor and es-
sence Of peppermint.
Rustics who live on bread-and- milk
diet nearly always have heavy hair to
an advanced age, while people who
lunch and dine on meat rarely have aft
er 25. A very clever and well-known
doctor claims that meat eating and
badness go together, and he has often
checked cases of falling hair by COM
bining with local treatment a diet of
milk, eggs and fruit.
In cases of scarlet fever, the entire
body Of the patient should be carefully
sponged with lukewarm water twice a
day, care being taken, however, to un-
cover only that portion of the body
which is being bathed. After each
sponging, some oily substance, such as
vaseline or glycerine, and cold cream
one part to eight should be thoroughly
rubbed into the skin This procedure
not only relieves the itching and burn
ing, but prevents the spread of the con-
tagiOn.
What the man of to-day needs most
is not athletics in a gymnasium, but
plenty of fresh air in his lungs. In
stead of quantity Of violent exercise
that leaves him weak for several hours
afterward, he needs to learn to breathe
right, stand right, and sit right. And
if the woman who spends so much
time and strength getting out into the
air, would dress loosely, and breathe
deeply, and get the air into her, she
would have new strength and vigor,
and soon be freed rom many aches and
pains and miSeries
The safest way to reduce obesity is to
begin by eating and drinking less, and
to take as much exercise as possible,
Increasing it gradually day by day.
Butter, fat, oil, sauces, haricot beans,
peas, vermicelli, rice, tapioca, mac
aroni, all fatten. Bread should be eaten
in moderation, and stale or toasted.
All sweets are forbidden. Plainly
roasted or boiled meats taken in mod
GRAFTON, with plain boiled green
vegetables, may be eaten, also fruit
apples and oranges especially. Goose
berries and currants are good when in
season, and for drink take lemonade
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-08
A Terrible Heredity.

A special study of hereditary drunk
enness has been made by Prof. Pell-
mann of Bonn University, Germany.
His method was to take certain indi-
vidual cases, a generation or two back.
He thus traced the careers of children,
grandchildren and great grandchildren
in all parts of the present German en-
pire until he was able to present tabu-
lated biographies of the hundreds de-
scended from some original drunkard.
Notable among the persons described
by Prof. Pellmann is Frau Ida Jurka,
who was born in 1740, and was a drunk
ard, thief and a tramp for the last
forty years of her life, which ended in
1900. Her descendants numbered S34.
of whom 700 were traced in local rec
ords from youth to death. One hun
dred and six of the 700 were born out
of wedlock. There were IA beggars
and 6z more who lived from charity.
OF the women, 1S1 led disreputable
lives. There were in this family "a
convicts, of whom were sentenced
for murder. In a period of some sew
enty-five years this one family rolled
up bill of costs in almhouses, prisons
and correctional institutions amounting
to at least 100000 marks, or about
s., ,250, ,000.-Medical Record.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-08

A correspondent of an Eastern paper
writes to ask why a disturbance Is
made about the use of the piumage OF
birds by milliners, when bobolinks are
shot daily and served in restaurants.
1t is true that the bObolink is never
found in his own proper name on bills
of fare. No one with any sentiment
would be willing to eat larks, night
ingales, brown thrushes, bobolinks or
doves. The accomplished chef gets
around that neatly. In his vocabulary
the bobolink is a reed bird and the dove
a pigeon. AS sort Of retribution,
sparrows also are reed birds. When
the knowing bon vivant thinks he Is
swallowing the trills and roulades Of
the bobolink he may really be no near
er that aesthetic feast than the squack
of the sparrow. 1t serves him right,
as the enemy Of some of our finest war
blerS
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-08
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Ten drops of tfncture of iron in wa
ter, taken through a glass tube after
meals, will prove specific for chronic
cases of nOsebleed.
The aromatic syrup OF rhubarb is a
good remedy for hives in children. A
teaspoOnful should be given every three
hours, as required.
Some of the pleasant-flavored pow
ders inj jure the teeth In case of doubt,
you cannot do better than use the plain
mixture of English precipitated chalk
mixed with powdered orris root.
For dysentery, physician recon-
mends one dram of powdered CHINA
mon, mixed with few drops of water
to make into a ball. Take it morning
and evening, washing down with a
M outhful OF water.
There seems to be only one sure way
of eradicating warts, and this is to
soften the excrescence with hot water,
protect the surrounding skin with
vaseline, and slowly burn off the Wart
with lunar caustic.
1duy luldlIIS dlC l1OuOlCO w I'LL
eczema of the scalp. An excellent rem
edy for these troublesome minute
white pimples is soaking of the scalp
daily, with mixture Of equal parts of
castor oil and alcohol.
When a splinter gets into the eye and
will not dislodge after several days,
causing mistiness of sight, wash out
the affected member with an eyecup
every three hours with a saturated
solution of boric acid.
Tincture of iron is one of the most
indispensable household remedies, and
should always be kept at hand. 1t will
drive away ringworm, and, used in
moderation, will cure the most painful
of all ailments, soft corn.
Sleeping in a narrow, hard bed is now
considered conducive to a good figure
throw away your soft mattresses and
even your pillows, and you are prom
ised freedom from round shoulders and
double chins. Many women are giving
the experiment trial.
1t is not generally known that a
mustard plaster made with the white
of an egg will not leave a blister. The
egg plays an important part in thera-
peutics, when understood. A raw egg
will carry fishbone out of the throat,
and it's white skin is a most efficacious
application for boil.
A bran-bag is one Of the most CRATE
full of all toilet accessories. 1t is
cleansing to the skin, and very
refreshing. 1t is made by filling a mus
lin bag with two quarts Of bran, one
ounce Of orris root, one ounce almond