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The Saint Paul globe., 1900-02-12
QUARTETTE OF WHITE FACES,

Breeders Gazette.
Four calves at one birth from one cow
and that cow a two year-old heifer-is
certainly a remarkable record. 1t was
achieved by the pure-bred Hereford COW
Surprise 47623, now owned by George Sea-
ton, Bureau county, ILL.,. and picture of
the "quadruplets'' when eleven months
old is presented on another page. These
calves were bred by w. J.. Lewis, Henry
county, ILL.,. and sired by the noted bull
Phil Armour. They were acsepted for
registry by the American Hereford as
socia ton as-the authenticity of the unique
birth was fully established. They appear
in the herd book as Foreman, Captain.
Major and Jessie-three bulls and g.
heifer. The dam was two and a half years
old when she produced this "lttter;" she
died when the calves were three days old,
she did not clean properly. Mr.. Sea-
ton fed them on bottle for while and
then from a bucket. He showed them at
a few fairs. but found it difficult to make
the incredulous public believe that the
four youngsters were produced at one
birth.
The bulls were altered, fed for market
and sold In Chicago when over three
years old; the heifer never bred and
was sent to the butcher few months
later. None OF them was in high condi-
ton when marketed, as very little grain
had been given them.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-02-12
IMITATION BUTTER.

Ex-Gov. w. D. Hoard, of wisconsin,
says that the National Dairy union is
determined that the makers Of oleomar-
garine shall be compelled to put their
product on the market on its own mer>
it's. He states that "the National Dairy
union Is an organization of sufficient
.compactness and size to secure justice in
one way if not In another. At no time
have we objected to the sale of oleo-
margarine in its natural or uncoiored
state. But We do object to its sale In
the guise of butter, and have started a
movement which, If we do not get what
we ask of congress this session, will be
felt in way that will result disastrous
ly for those who oppose us. The Grout
bill, recently introduced, provides that
any substitute for butter not colored to
resemble 1t shall be taxed one-quarter OF
a cent pound. If co1ored the tax shall
be 10 cents pound. The hundreds Of
millions in the dairy business are taxed
and we deem 1t but fair that commodity
put on the market in dishonest compet1-
tion with that taxed property should be
made to yield revenue
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-02-12
CREAMERY NOTES.

Plainview Minn--Creamery has begun
operations.
There Is some talk of establishing a
creamery at Hoffman.
ST. Clair Minn.-Creamery receives H.
900 pounds of milk every other day.
Sumner, Io.-The Little Valley creamery
made 300 tubs of butter last year,
amounting to 184,4T pounds, which sold
for S34, 1856.
for last year $5,974
Belview, Minn.-Creamery paid to pa
irons last year $4,000.
Revere, Minn.-Cash receipts of the
creamery for the past year were 1884.
Manchester, Io.-Creamery made SIS, 900
worth of butter last year.
Otisco, Minn.-Creamery received 1885,
373 pounds of milk last year and made
127,OSs pounds of butter, which sold for
$22,s12
Ellington. Minn.-The Dairy associa ton
received $50 002 pounds Of milk in the sea-
son and made 81, ,SSS pounds of cheese.
At New Ulm Linden & Cottonwood's 8
creamery received $14,3T for 1856 pounds
of butter shipped last year. Paid patrons
1888.
At Cambridge. George Mold, with a
herd of fifteen common cows, realized
$4s1 .56 from the creamery last year.
At Sleepy Eye the Evan creamery made
25,S74 pounds of butter last year.
Creamery is now running every day
EIgin creamery received s,2so,625 pounds
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-02-12
FIELD, FIRM and HOUSEHOLD.
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building will be used for the exhibit, and
1000 tubs of butter will be shown. The
fare Will be one fare for the round trip
on all railroads
The receipts of wheat for the week at
nine Western points amounted to $780,
600 bushels; In previous week, 2,119, 900;
last year. 4,035, 600; decrease in 1900, 1,745,-
600 bushels.
The exports of wheat and flour from
both our coasts and Canada In the week
ending Thursday equal 2724,0O bushels;
in previous week, 1851, 200; last year,
6,5S5, 900; decrease in 1900, 1851, ,000
1t may thus be seen that the receipts
of wheat for the week at the nine West
ern points show a decrease compared
with 1899 of 900 bushels, and the ex-.
ports show decrease of 1861, 600 bushels.
While the entire wheat crop of the
world Is 1900, ,000, 900, when there was a
shortage of only 70, 100000 in 1877 the price
rose Is or 20 cents, said President ]. J.
Hill, when he addressed the State Agri-
cultural society. That rise of 15 cents
bushel on the entire crop of the year
amounted to more than the full value of
100000 bushels at the former price. That
shows that people who have learned to
eat wheat will sacrifice a great deal.
rather than change to some substitute
diet. - ss-, 80 ~ ss : :t-s-szs.
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100000 pounds this year. He is now
buying the seed by the train load, and
has In the past few years become rich
in the raising and buying Of sunfower.
He is shrewd and inquisitfve, but while
supplying the world with what sunflower
seed it needs, he has never been able
to find out what Is done with 1t.
A good many: people are now engaged
in the sunfiower industry, but 1t is not
so profitable as 1t was when Farmer
Crackle first began 1t. He sold his first
big crop for 9acents1 pound, and the
next year his neighb6rs put out a good
deal of land inIssunffowers and sold the
product for cents d pound, which was
some hundreds 6f dollars per acre. The
profit was so great shat everybody en-
gagged In the suffiower business and the
whole Of Petty township was one field OF
sunfiowers. This broke the market from
s to 2 cents, and then there was an over
production in the worlds supply. Many
of the farmers went back to raising corn
wheat and other cereals, and now things
have settled down to a basis that pays,
but does not make men rich so fast
as when Farmer Crackle began the In
dustry years ago! 'n
The sunfowerfis grown from the seed.
and twenty-acre sheld soon aftes It
comes up looks much like a badly neg
lected piece of ground which had run to
weeds The sunf1owers grow to almost
unbelievable proportion, with little or no
ro
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-02-12
DON'T EAT THEIR OWN STUFF.

State Dairy Commissioner Mcdonald, of
Washington, tells the following as an
amusing incident of his recent Eastern
trip:
During the pure food convention at
Chicago the commissioners were taken
through the great Armour meat packing
establishment. We were invited to din
ner at the company eating house, and 1
became acquainted with doceor and one
of the superintendent, both employed by
the Armour company. These gentlemen
and myself fell into a discussion on oleo.
and they naturally put forth their strong
est arguments in its favor. Finally ask
ed them what they used on their tables.
Both answered butter then pointed out
the fallacy of their argument, when the
price of oleo was so much lower than
good butter They had nothing more to
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-02-12
HOW THE FARMER FARES,

South Dakota farmers seem to be as
prosperous now as they were poor six
years ago. The Dakota Huronite cites
as an example of this the case of one
who, during the year, has disposed of
700 bushels of potatoes for $475 and 800
bushels of wheat for $418. Besides this
he received $210 for wool and S475 for milk.
The increase from cattle and sheep came
to $500. Thus he has made a neat total
of a,648, apart from the products used
in supporting himself and his family. In
commenting upon this favorable showing
the Sioux City Tribune calls attention to
the fact that the dairy products were the
most profitable of all. The farmers cows
brought him more gross income and net
profit than eighty acres of wheat land
at ten bushels to the acre or several hun
dred sheep. The Huronite adds that all
the other Dakota farmers who work In
telligently are doing equally well.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-02-12
NARROWED WITH STONE BOAT.

A young man filed on one of those
famously productive quarter sections
near Bisbee in Towner county, last
spring. He broke forty acres and leveled
1t off with a sort of stone boat having
strips Of wood nailed across the bottom
and load of rock to hold it down. He
then seeded the piece to flax. He har,
vested twelve bushels per acre and sold
the crop for SLOT per bushel, and thinks
that $513 go from forty acres of breaking
is good enough profit for anybody. Now,
If he had been able to sell the straw
for So or So per acre-as he may have a
chance to do in the near future-hs
would have more reason than ever to
rejoice that he lives in North Dakota
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-02-12
EGGS AND APPLES.

e. H. Daniel, Of Kentucky, has many
perfectly sound apples which he has kept
over from last year. He has cellar
which is kept at the same temperature
all the year, and he has discovered that
by putting up apples in such way that
they will ont touch each other they may
be kept sound for months, and possibly
years.
He also has method by which he
will, in the future, buy eggs at the times
of the year when they are cheap, and
keep them for months, when he can re-
eeive handsome price for them. He
finds that by permitting pure fresh water
to run oyer eggs constantly they may be
kept sound for months. He will likely
try the experiment this season, as he has
a system Of water works by which he can
easily keep large supply of them.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-02-12
HAY PANCAKES.

A machine has bsen invented in Brook
lyn with which hay. instead of being bal
ed In the old-fashioned way, is made up
into pancakes about three-quarters Of
an inch thick and foot in diameter. It
is compressed as hard as a board, so
that while with the old style of baling
a ton made a package Of 160 cubic feet.
the new style occupies only fifty cubic
feet. Large quantities are being shipped
to the British army in Africa and to the
American army in Luzon. When gov
ernment army mule takes chew of that
plug he thinks he has "Battle-Ax,' sure
enough.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-02-12
sUNFLOWER SEED.

Practically the worlds supply of sun
flower seed is raised and shipped out OF
Lawrence county, Illinois, says a corre.
spondent of the Indianapolis Sentinel.
One man, w. r. Crackle, has mon
opoly of the trade. In that he is the only
person who deals largely In the seeds He
expects to buy and ship not less than
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-02-12

ten to what he says about the applicants
who tried to pass his examination and
now figure with the 'salso rams
saThey cannot spell and they cannot
do ordinary arithmetic. Fifty per cent
fail. and they fall because they cannot di-
vide lo0,eoe by 4.02s and get correct re-
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-02-12

apparently. they do not teach simple
arithmetic and spelling,
In Itself this 1t not very funny. The
humor of 1t does not strike one until one
begins to divide 100000 by 4.o2s and get
the correct answer. There was gambler
once OF the name of Gates who would
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-02-12

Cream Balm is placed Into the nostrils, spreads
over the membrane ard is absorbed. Relief i'm
mediate and cu-e follows. 1t is not drying-doss
not produce sneezng. Largo Size, 30 cents At Drug
rists or By mail; Trial Size, 10 cents BY mall.
ELY BROTHERS, Sc Warren Street, New York.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-02-12

suit. It is simply marvellous. the lack of
education in these rudimentary branches.
Our public schools teach botany and
psychology and sewing and molding, but.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-02-12
Nasal
cATARR RH

In all its stages there
should be cleanliness.
Ely's Cream Balm
cleanses, soothesandh heals
the diseased membrane.
Itcures catarrh and drives
away . cold in the head
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-05-10
FACTS FOR SPINSTERS.
More Unmarried Men Than Women
Says the Government Report.

Some one has proposed a hus-
bands union for the protection of
husbands: just what they are to be
protected from is not yet stated. Pos
sibly the union is to be founded on the
same lines as the School for Wives es-
iaolished in England.
SUI better, according to the New
YORK sun, are the marriage schools
which are being developed in Germany
on very practical lines. They are for
girls and women only, and the value
OF such a training cannot be overes-
umated. Girls leave the marriage
school competent to undertake the
management Of the house-and OF a
husband. The girls who have been
graduated from these schools have
been extra lucky in getting married. so
It IS said.
Another society which has been or
ganized in Denmark is the Celibacy
Insurance society. It's object is to pro-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-05-10

vide for those women who either can
not or will not provide themselves
with husbands. The premiums begin
at the age of Is and end at 40, an age
at which it is supposed most of the
members will have abandoned all
thought of marriage. Such being the
case. the woman receives an annuity
for life. If she marries at any time
she forfeits all her rights.
Old maids in the United States are
outnumbered by the bachelors, al
though it is popularity supposed that
the contrary is the case. To come to
exact figures, there are 7.427.767
bachelors and 1924, 494 spinsters. This
is upon the authority of a. govern
ment report. Even in Massachusetts,.
where it was thought that old maids
constitute large proportion of the
population, they could each find 4us-
band and then not exhaust the stock
of single men, for there the 226,OS5
men and only 219.255 women who have
not yet entered into the bonds of
matrlmOny.
New York state has 100000 more
bachelors than spinsters Only one
state in the union hasN more female
celibates than male, and that in Cali
fornia, in which there are 59,456 Of the
former and 22,S29 of the latter. The
state of Washington has, perhaps, the
largest excess of forlorn single mem
so, 537 all told the unmarried women
numbering only 9,1S1.
Out of an equal number of bache-
Tors and widowers between rs and 30
years of age, thirty widowers remarry
for every thirteen bachelors who enter
the bonds of Hymen for the first time.
For every spinster married between 80
and SIS two widows are remarked. Both
facts are eloquent in favor of the
comparative advantage of matrimony.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-05-10
THAT WAS HIS IDEA.

Shell have been thinking over our
wedding. dear, and our future life.
He-And have You got everything
arranged?
She-Everythingl You know how
metnodical | am and how / like to
plan ahead
He-Thats right. am glad I'm GO
ing to marry a girl like that.
She-And now about the wedding.
1t will be a church wedding, of course.
He-Oh, certainly.
She-And with regard to the trip.
I've been thinking it ali over. dear,
and | believe after all, few months
In Europe would be the best thing we
could do.
He (his salary is two thousand nine
hundred)--Do you think so?
She-0h. yes. Then after we get
back. won't II be nice to pick out a
nice, cozy house? So much better
than an apartment | know just what
| want.
He-Finei
She-You might buy one.
He-0f course. That's easy.
She-They are so cheap now. A
friend of mine got one the other day
how much did she pay for it? Why,
1t wasn't more than thirty thousand.
He-Dirt cheap. viii one be
enough?
She-of course you goose. Wen
need one with stable. though. And
what do you think, dear, shall II be
automobiles. or horses?
He-Both.
She-I was afraid you might thinl;
that too expensive.
He (wearilyl-oh. not at all. | don't
mind little thing like that. How
many servants?
She-Well. II we are economical. we
can set along with five. And now,
dear. there is only one thing more
that you can help me with. When
shall we have the weddinge
He-Do you really want me TO de-
eide thate
She--Yes. | do.
He-oh, am not particular. say
, about II years from today.-Lite.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-05-10
GANDER FEATHER GIRL.

Full proud the ostrich plumes that
"a once
Ger woman's bonnet dangled,
The dainty bird of paradise,
Our plumage never tangled;
But how to fashions limboo straight
All these must go together,
AS kneel we to the girl who wears
The single gander feather.
More tempting badge was never
donned
BY sweet and saucy maiden.
It's like challenge to mankind,
With tausting laughter laden;
But comes it ON our ravished sight
In fair or stormy weather.
It's victory for the girl who wears
The single, gander feather!
st. Louis Republic
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-05-10
WATCHING DIGESTION WITH THE
X RAYS.

The use of the fiuorescent screen, too
has been greatly extended. DR.. Francis
H. Williams of Boston has used it as
valuable instrument in medical
diagnosis. especially in studying lung
diseases. 1t has been used at the
Harvard Medical School to follow the
processes of digestion. To accomplish
this, in one instance goose was fed
with food mixed with subnitrate of
bismuth, salt which absorbs X rays.
The passage of the dark mass down
the long neck of the bird could be
traced on the fluorescent screen, and
the peculiarities of its motion in the
gullet could be studied. A cat was
also fed with the same substance, and
the movements OF its stomach noted
These movements were analogous to
those of the heart--in other words
wre rhythmical when The processes of
digestion were going on normally and
nninterruptedly. When, however, the
cat was irritated, 1t may be by the
sight of dog, these pulsations in
stantly ceased. AS soon as the source
OF vexation was removed and the pur.
ring of the animal showed a contented
frame of mind, the stomach resumed
its rhythmical movements. The de-
pendence of the digestive apparatus ON
the state of the nervous system was
thus clearly shown. The female cat
was much more tractable under these
apartments than the male. Prof. John
frowbridge in Appletons' Popular
Science Monthly.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-05-10

is something almost womanly in the
pride which he takes. in his home and
its belongings.
1t was Mr.. Rhodes who made it the
fashion in South Africa to use Dutch
furniture, and he bought up all
the good specimens which were to be
found in old boer houses. Every piece
of furniture in his house is pure Dutch
and antique, and he is careful that
they are all in keeping with each other
as regards their size and the weight
as well as their design. Some of the
old bits of marqueterie he has secured
are almost priceless, but everything at
the same time is simple.
There are few knick-knacks about
the rooms, and flowers are generally
long-sten4ned lilies or other large,
luxutiant blooms. arranged en- masse
in solid vases. The dining-room is an
enormous apartment. 1t runs the
whole length of the house, looking on
to the piazza, and the table is always
handsomely furnished with bits of old
Dutch silver and beautiful flowers.
All the important people who visit
the Cape on business or pleasure are
welcomed as visitors at Groote Schuur,
whether its owner is there or not.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rochfort Mcguire were
the guests of Mr.. Rhodes until they
went with him to Kimberley, and Lady
Charles Bentinck and Lady Edward
Cecil still have the use of his house,
although he has left.-London Mail.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-05-10
A LEPER MONEY KING.
Heroic Character Who Condemned
Himself to an Exile's Life.

Sixteen years ago John C. Whey
landed at Honolulu from a sailing YES
sci, young, strong and ambitious. He
settled in the prosperous island COM
munity to make his fortune, and for
years worked hard at his trade as a
carpenter. He became a prosperous
contractor. Now, with an income
of over $500 a month, he is a money
king of leper settlement.
Whey went to San Francisco in $780,
1t was in that year that he began to
suspect that he had fallen victim of
the malady once so prevalent in the
Hawaiian Island, but now, thanks to
Anglo-Saxon methods of quarantine,
very seldom seen away from the island
of Molokai
One night Whey lifted a hot lamp
glass in his home, where he was en-
tertaining friend. The glass was so
hot that smoke rose from his scorched
fingers and the friend uttered an ex-
clamation of horror, but Whey showed
no signs of having felt the pain. He
saw the smoke. 1t was a grim confir-
nation of his worst suspicious. The
thickening skin that comes with the
first advance of leprosy could not have
been shown in a more startling man
ner.
After that night Whey Stunned his
friends. He was seen walking along
the waterfront of San Francisco with
his hat over his eyes, buried in
thought. He avoided speaking to any
one Whey was contemplating the
step he finally took of placing him.
SELF under the guards that hem in the
thousand or more lepers of Molokai.
1t was terrible step to consider. In
all the world there is probably M
more horrible place to live than in a
ieper settlement, where among a
thousand companions there is not one
with the hope that belongs to the aver
age man.
Many have committed suicide rstber
than go to MoIokai. Others have
risked death to escape from there. In
the wilds of Hawaii there is a CANYON
IN which live few lepers who guard
the approach to their resort with guns
lest they be arrested and moved IN tbe
settlement. They are not molested az
they are harmless to the world and
may as we'll be allowed to live ont
their wretched existence in the spot
they have chosen.
IL was to Molokai that Whey finally
decided to go. He returned to Homo
lulu, surrendered himself and was
taken to the settlement. But for its
horrible population, Kaanapali. the
Molokai leper settlement is one of the
most lovely spots in the world. Ira
climate is unsurpassed, its scenery
grand. But these beauties are lost in
contemplation of the horror Of the
place.
The lepers live and love, marry and
raise children like human beings in
the outside world. They even have
their entertainments and their indus
tries, but the pail is never absent.
Whey built home there and with
the courage of man who refuses to
yield to anything but death itself. he
took up again his occupation of con-
tractor.
He is at Molokai yet. He has a
home, with servants, lepers all. but is
still property owner in Honolulu. He
will never see any of his relatives o,
former friends again.