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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-02
Roots for Cattle,


| hardly know what [ would do with
out the supply of mangels and sugar
beets that | have stored in my cellar,
says writer in the Practical Farmer.
1t seems to have become necessity to
give our stock at least one daily mess
of succulent stuff. Even hogs, pigs
and poultry get an occasional ration;
and the Belgian hares are fed almost
exclusively on roots.
Poultry Notes.
See that the ducks are in the house
at night.
Hard boiled eggs are treat to young
turkeys.
In stormy weather hens should be
kept in doors.
Overlooking and lack of freedom will
cause indigestion.
Eternal vigilance is the price of sue
cess with poultry.
Exposure to bad weather will hurt
any stock, young or old.
Clean off the dropping boards every
other day during winter.
Ducks are heavy feeders and must
have all they want to eat
Buy eggs in season, only from breed
ers that you know are reliable.
Hens should have some corn, but
corn alone will not do for laying hens
No fowl should be allowed to get
thoroughly wet except duck or goose
Gather a supply of leaves and store
them in dry places for your winter
scratching open.
A little salt and pepper-just enough
to seasons the right amount to add
to morning mash.
Dairy Tips.
Cold weather is obviated by warm
stable.
Cows with long horns usually have
short milk records.
There is less labor involved in caring
for cows properly than improperly.
A lazy bull is usually an ugly one.
Break him to work and he will become
gentle.
Frozen compost heaps under the sta
BILE windows are menace to dairying
In the spring.
The term good milk" signifies 9
great deal. It means that it comes
from healthy cows and healthy, nour-
ishing feed, and that it is not contain
mated by the hands of the mixer, or
from other sources after It leaves the
uddeE.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-02
The Irva1id's Pillow.

A small fluffy pillow which can be
rolled into any shape is great comfort
on top of larger pillow or bolster, and
NAV be made to fit closely to the aching
point. A frequent careful punching
from the sides leaves them fluffy and
soft again, and this beating of the pill
lows may be done quite effectually in
quiet manner A noisy stirring action
is sometimes more trying to weak
person than the hard pillows.-Wom-
ans Home Companion.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-02
whi.ky and Snakebite.

Another popular delusion is shatter-
ed. Prof. Leonard Stejneger, United
States Government expert, says that
whisky, instead Of being an antidote
for snakebites, according to the gem
eral belief, is really an aggravation Of
the trouble, as it accelerates the cir
culation of the blood and hurries the
poison through the veins and arteries
with greater rapidity than it would
otherwise have.-New York Tribune.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-02
To Remove Mildew.

To remove these unsightly patches
from linen, stir a quarter pound Of
chloride of lime in gallon of cold
water. Let this settle for an hour,
then pour off the liquid without DIS
turbing the sediment, and soak the mil
dewed articles in this for two honrs.
Lastly, wash in the usual manner. and
hang the clothes out to dry.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-02

20 to "a inches wide and SO inches long,
as shown by the cut. 1t can be placed
on the kitchen table when in use, the
point being over one side, and the other
end raised little so the drip will run
off at the point. But it is much better
to make strong legs for it and brace
them, as shown in the cut.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-02
up and will prove very inexpensive
and strictly sheep and dog proof
American Agriculturist.
Where He Got His Wool.

If you want to ask sheep where he
got his wool and why, take a dog into
mountain pasture land, and if the
sheep are afraid of the dog they will
invariably run up hill rather than
down. You have your answer. The
ancestors of the domestic sheep, like
wild sheep of the present day, lived
among high mountains and needed
their woolly covering to protect them
against the constant cold Of the high
atmospheres. They chose the high and
inhospitable region to live in because
they found the fierce, flesh-eating ami
mails of the plains too strong for them.
A proof of these facts is that the wool
grows on a sheep the year round.-Chi-
cago News.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-02
a,c,ept war Customs.

In the ancient wars 1t was the Gus
tom for both armies to go into winter
quarters. but nowadays such thing Is
quite unknown, and several battles dur
ing this century have been fought on
Christmas Day and New Years Day.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-02

When q married woman begins %
exaggerate the size of the milk bills to
her husband, her next move will be to
suggest that he buy cow.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-02
Boiling Unnecessary.

II white clothes are well soaked In
very warm water containing plenty OK
soap and little kerosene, they iced
not be boiled. With slight rubbing
and a little borax added to the rinsing
water, they will be white and nice.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-02
cultixation for Pear Orchard.

The system commonly practiced
some years ago was that which was
applied to the apple, but on account Of
the destruction caused by the pear
blight, and owing to the fact that the
pear blight f1ourished most in varieties
which made a vigorous, rank growth
and produced a large quantity of
sappy wood, 1t has been found to be
not well suited. Pears with firm, de-
terminate growth are less affected
than those of luxuriant growth. A
study of these facts has brought about
O revolution in methods of cultivation.
The most successful and profitable
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-02
How Often to Feed Cows.

The COW is ruminant animal, and
this means that she takes time to digest
her food III the most thorough manner.
If fed literally night and morning and
in sufficient variety she will eat more
heartily than if three full meals are
offered to her per day. AS noon few
corn stalks or clover hay may be given.
In feeding grain to. COWS it should be
ground and mixed with enough cut
feed to make it bulky. If COWS eat
whole grain or meal not mixed with
cut food it goes to their second stom,
ach and does not come up to be chew
ed in the cud-American Cultivator.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-02

pear orchards at the present time are
those which are cultivated by sowing
clover under the trees.
The clover is not removed from the
ground at any time of the year. 1t is
cut and allowed to lie and decay upon
the ground, and in this way to act as
fertilizer. When an orchard is being
cultivated the practice is to sow the
clover in July. By early autumn it has
grown ten or twelve inches, and affords
a covering for the ground during the
winter. 1t is cut at blossoming time
the following year. 1t returns to the
soil a sufficient amount of nitrogen,
which is so material to the healthy
growth of the tree. Potash must also
be applied in some form of CONNER
cial fertilizer, or in wood ashes. The
orchard is kept in a clover sod so long
as the trees are growing satisfactorily.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-02
Increase of Fertility.

based on their digestibility, but even
when food is digested it is not all as
simulated, the larger portion being
voided. Of the protein in clover hay
nearly one-half fails to digest, and of
the digested portion the manure heap
receives a large share. If ton Of
clover hay is worth $40, enough of it
goes into the manure heap to equal So
worth of fertilizers. A ton Of cotton
seed meal, which may cost the farmer
$40, will return to him, in the manure,
about $1S, and that, too, after the
farmer has used these foods for pro-
ducing meat, milk and butter, though
the estimates depend, Of course, upon
the market prices for plant foods. The
reason is that much Of the food is COM
posed of fat and starch, which create
heat and fat for the animals, but fat
and starch come from the air and not
from the soil, hence the real plant
foods Of the materials purchased for
use on the farm are those portions
which are added to the manure. In
fact, at 500 per ton for cotton-seed
meal, it can (and Isl profitably used on
the land as fertilizer, but in so doing
the farmer loses some portions which
can be utilized by stock and which are
of no value as manure. BY feeding all
foods to stock they are simply passed
through the body of the animal and
rendered more acceptable to plants,
the animals being machine for reduc-
ing foods to a condition fit for vegeta-
ton. 1t may be several seasons before
ed from the soil, while every year the
land increases in fertility and produces
more than before.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-26

The Chicago Record prints an inter-
view with John F. Finerty, the ex-con-
gresham, in which he says: "In
American national politics I am a Re-
publican, but America is dearer to me
than any party. I behold with alarm
the trend of the country, under a Re-
publican president, toward policy that
can end only in the speedy establish
ment of military republic, which, in
the traditional and natural order of
events, must be followed by an imperial
form of government. l think I can
safely say that -tenths, at least, of
the Irish-American people stand OPP
posed, even unto death, to such a
change, and they hold the men who
would make it traitors to their country.
Imperialism and the Irish question have
no tangible connection. Irish-Amer-
leans have been brought up to revere
the traditions, declaration and constitu-
ton of the fathers. They believe in
American freedom and simplicity, not
in European militarism and extrava-
gance. They left imperialism behind
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-26
MCKINLEY AND THE CATHOLICS.

We have received a copy of the
Evening Tribune, Of Pawtucket, R. l.,
which contains an article on Mckinley
at the Plattsburg Catholic Summer
School, in which the writer says: "The
whole-souled and spontaneous enthusi-
asm with which the large audience re-
ccived President McKinley's Philippine
utterances shows plainly, as the Tribune
has contended, that the rank and file as
we'll as the best educated thinkers
amongst Catholics in this country are
almost unanimous in supporting the
present policy of this country in dealing
with Aguinaldo. They are solidly with
the flag, wherever it is, and under all
circumstances" Other imperialist or
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-26

In its editorial on the death OF Rev.
George w. Pepper the Boston Pilot
says: He was born in the north OF
Ireland, of family characterized for its
ultra Professionalism. His father was
grand master of the local Orange lodge,
which had held its sessions in the family
homestead for two generations; but the
future patriot soon outgrew the preju-
dices, never very harsh, which were his
inheritance, and lived to be the warm
friend and defender OF Catholics both
here and abroad. He had known them
as fellowsoldiers and fellow-c citizens
and, though differing in faith and, for
the most part, in politics, he was as one
with them on the questions OF national
justice and patriotism. He was honest;
he was truthful; he was patriotic. He
loved his native land. He loved, fought
for and loyalty served his adopted
country. That is a good epitaph for a
good and loyal man; such a man was
George w. Pepper.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-26

An Irishman in the Transvaal writes
as follows to the Standard and Diggers'
News of Johannesburg: every Irish
man leaving ireland carries with him a
hatred of the cruel laws enacted by
England. 1t is memories such as these
which actuate Irishmen to fight against
England all the world over. And now
when there is chance to strike a blow
against that arch tyrant, the hated
Sassanach,' Irishmen on the rand will
be found in the front ranks among the
burghers of the Transvaal. Pat has
seen too much Of England's land thiev-
ing in his own country to support her
in despoiling the Boer of his heritage.
Irishmen in the Transvaal republic will
support the country OF their adoption
where they have the same equal rights
to worship their God as they have in
Ireland under the laws of Christian
England"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-26

Says ex-senator John ]. ingalls, in
the New York Journal: If poor devil
of striking laborer resists the laws,
call out the militia by all means and
kill him. But if swollen corporation
brides courts, laughs at justice, oppres-
ses the weak and robs the helpless, let
us put a plank against trusts in the
next platform and ask for contribu-
ton. How would it do to
call out the militia to enforce
the laws in the case of Captain
Oberlin M. Carter, thief convicted by
court martial of stealing $4,000, and
sentenced to dismissal, to a fine of
$1,000 and term in the penitentiary?
He has resisted the president, Secretary
Alger, the attorney general and the
court martial till his bondsmen and the
contractors are safe, and still draws his
pay and dimes at his club.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-26
THE NECESSITY FOR HOME RULE.

The session OF the British parliament
which closed on August 9th but en-
phasizes once again the oft-repeated
tale that as long as an English parlia-
ment has the care of Ireland's legislative
interests so long will Ireland's affairs
be either mismanaged or neglected, says
the Dublin Freeman. Ii ever anything
enforced the argument for native
legislature the history OF the Irish ques-
tons which were before parliament this
session does. First there is the Finan-
cial Relations question, for which the
Irish members could not get an oppor-
tunity OF formal debate. Here is not a
contentious Irish question, but one
upon which Unionists profess at least
to be in agreement with Nationalist.
Yet an opportunity was not found OF
discussing it in a manner adequate to
the state OF the case or to the terrible
grievance which the robbery of Ireland
to the extent of millions year indi-
Gates. Then comes the University
question. That indeed was discussed;
the Irish case was admitted, but it was
explained that as long as the represen-
tatives of the stone-throwers of Belfast
objected to university education for
Irish Catholics so long must the gov
ernment, though convinced Of the ne
cessity, refrain from dealing with the
question. For the same reason, though
it was admitted that ireland is one OF
the most peaceable countries in the
world, though the judges have been re-
ceiving white gloves, though the crime
of an English city is greater in week
than that of all Ireland in a year, the
government refused to repeal the Coer-
cion Act. The Orangemen object, so
this disgraceful measure, to which the
queen affixed her signature in the jubi-
lee year of 1887, remains on the statute
book. The one piece Of legislation
which was accomplished for ireland was
the Agricultural Bill We have ex-
pressed our strong view of that measure
as only another provision for place
hunters and as means OF providing ar
guments for the raising OF rents by the
land commissioners. Time will tell
whether the more favorable prognosti.
cations INDUCED in in some quarters will
be realized. In the matter OF private bill
legislation, the Great Southern railway
and various public bodies opposed tc
them spent 10000 in order to have q
question decided that would not cost
$500 to settle if it were argued before
an Irish tribunal. The Dublin corpora.
ton, after obtaining the verdict of the
House of Commons twice by an over.
whelming majority in favor of the bill
to extend their boundaries, had all theil
work destroyed by an irresponsible
committee of the House of Lords. Suct
is the record of the session. England
and Scotland have got all the measure!
they want, ireland gets a Castle Board
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-26
ApM1RA1 DEWEY FOR Au1oAoMY.

1t has been known for some time at
Washington that Admiral Dewey, the
hero of Manila, is opposed to war OF
conquest in the Philippines. In an in
,terview with Rev. Clay Macauley, for
merly OF Minneapolis, who saw him
several months ago, he said:
Rather than make war of conquest
on the Filipino people I would up an
Choir and sail out of the harbor." 1t
was because OF his unwillingness to
wage war on the Filipinos in the inter-
est OF capitalists and corporations that
Dewey was ordered home. The brave
patriot is lover OF liberty. He de-
stroyed the fleet Of Spain with astonish-
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-26

A st. Paul Jew who runs a depart
ment store has presented two bronze
lions for the ornamentation of Como
Park. In his letter to the president of
the park board he said: 1.-THE idea was
suggested to me by the fact that a
country which has of late shown friend
ship for America in many ways uses the
lion as symbol of her power. The fra
ternal feeling between the two branches
OF great race is gradually obliterat
ing ancient animosities, and mighty
undercurrent of sentiment is bringing
about unity of motive and action,
which will ultimately create univer-
sal brotherhood to lead the way to-
ward higher and better civilization.
Let these lions suggest the thought that
into the hands Of the united Anglo
Saxon race are placed the reins of pow
er, and that provincial prejudices have
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-26

The administration organs in Chi
cago pour out their abuse in nky
streams on the head OF Prof. ]. Laur-
ence Laughlin for his utteranccs on the
Philippine question. The Inter Ocean,
especially is very bitter and calls him
"blathersome' for exercising the right
OF free speech in behalf OF the oppressed
Filipinos. When Prof. Laughlin re-
members that the Inter Ocean is owned
and operated by Ycrkes, the street rail-
way magnate, he will only smile at its
blackguardism and continue in his cru
SADIE against injustice and wrong. He
was all right with the plutocratic press
when opposing bimetalism, but he is
all wrong when dcnouncing imperial
ism.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-26
DANGERS OF IMPERIALISM. q

At the recent anti-imperialist meet
ing at Hyde Park, Sigmund Zeisler, Of
Chicago, spoke in part as follows:
"What are we fighting for? What
principle, what heritage, what right dc
we defend? We are fighting for the
principle that all men are not born free
and equal and that life, liberty and the
pursuit OF happiness are not among the
inalienable rights of men. We are de-
tending with Our lives that heritage Of
shame, that purchased legacy of dis
honor, Spain's rotten title to despoti-
cally rule over millions of freedom
loving people. We are struggling to
maintain the right to govern without
the consent Of the governed.
ALREADY there are among the de-
tenders of the governments course men
who are candid and blunt enough to
proclaim that Thomas Jefferson is
rather out of date, that the principles Of
the declaration of independence are
puerile sentimentalities. Though these
men in effect declare that George III
was all right and George Washington
was all wrong prefer their brutal can
dor to the miserable cant OF those who
with eyes directed heavenward, with
tongues reeking with philanthropy pro.
fess their adherence to the vital prin.
ciples OF our national existence while
undermining and shattering its very
foundations.
Here is the exact situation: We
the American people, giant among
the nations of the earth, are employing
our unlimited resources of treasure ant
lives to deprive the Filipinos of the
freedom and independence for which
they have struggled these 100 years, tc
utterly crush or bring to its knees ar
infant people whose only strength is ii
the eternally just principle for which
they fight.
"Our policy in the Philippines
aimlessly drifting and oracularly ex
pressing oneself both ways on the ques
ton can be dignifed by that term:
defended partly on the ground OF thu
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-26

A special cable from London to the
New York World says that VIM.
O'Brien's Irish League organization
has reached proportions making it a
formidable factor in politics. The gov
crnment is resorting to repressive mea-
sures TO check its growth on the ground
that the speeches OF Mr.. O'Brien and
his colleagues are calculated to intmi-
date landgrabbers. Two newspapers
the Waterford Star and the Tippcrary
Nationalist-are being prosecuted for
advocating the principles OF the United
Irish League, which two Tory judges
have condemned in violent harangues
from the bench
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-26

Champ Clark, the Missouri congress
man, says that President Mckinley has
no Philippine policy at all; that he is
an opportunist-a political Micawber
waiting for something to turn up. He
de6es any expansionist to inform the
people what the presidents policy is
McKinley's policy, it appears to US, is
to have war on his hands when the
campaign opens, so that lie can appeal
to the country to sustain him in keep
ing the flag afloat wherever it has been
raised.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-26

THE Mission Indian" is the name Of
an interesting publication issued at Ban
ming, CAL, by the Catholic missionaries
tor fifty cents year, payable in ad-
vance. The number for Aug. S admin
lsters deserved castigation to Major
Pratt, OF the Carlisle Indian school at
Philadelphia, where he publishes "The
Red Man" and pours out his bigotry
in its columns against the Catholic
church at the expense of the govern
ment. The address OF Rev. FIR. Chrys-
ostom Verwyst at the Indian Institute
in Los Angeles, which appears in to-
days issue of the Irish Standard, is
given in "The Mission Indian" to-
gether with an excellent paper read
by Rev. B. F. Hahn on the education
of the aborigines.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-26

Rev. James Cough, meek and gentle
priest OF Belleville, ILL.,, speaks in the
following elegant style OF the disorderly
members of St. Patrck's church who
have been communicated by Bishop
Jansen i'll East St. Louis: "What
those fellows need is priest who will
punch few noses II | were sent there
l should be the man to do it. They
have no religion, that crew on the river.
They need a priest who could give few
straight punches, and Father O'Hallo-
ran was the man that could do it,"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-26

Under the heading OF organs Star
Ascending" Father Cronin says in the
Buffalo Union and Times: Bryan's
strength with the American masses is
his sincerity, his courage and his hon
esty. No one believes that William
Jennings Bryan would lie to his friends,
would spaniel before the bosses, or get
rich in Office. Clean, manly and intel
lectual, he is type OF the best Ameri-
can citizenship, and is looming more
and more grandly on the political hori-
Zon.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-26
The Minnesota State Fair

Will be held September 4 to at the
State Fair Grounds, midway between
St. Paul and Minneapolis. 1t promises
to exceed all former efforts in extent
and completeness of exhibits OF the
leading resources OF the state as we'll as
in amusement features. A purse of
$4,000 insures the entry of the fastest
horse on the turf. Liberal prizes in the
live stock, poultry, agricultural, horti-
cultural, floral, art and manufactures de-
partment will bring ready responses
from the numerous competitors for
supremacy, and the public will be better
repaid than ever before for their at
tendance at this most worthy institu-
ton. The grounds and buildings are
being put in the best possible condition.