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    THE FAIttlEKS' ALLIANCE. LINCOLN NEB. SATUHDA.Y. FEB.. 21. 1891.
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES
TALE OF A JAGUAR'S TAIL
A WILD STORY OF AN OZARK
LINDELL HOTEL.
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WILDERNESS.
INVITATION FOB A NATIONAL INDEPENDENT CONVENTION IN 1892.
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We the undersigned do hereby declare our allegiance to the following principles:
1st. The free and unlimited coinage of silver.
2d. The abolition of national banks ami the substitution for their notes of legal tende
" taeamry notes; and the increase of currency to $50 per capita.
3rd. Government ownership of all railroads and telearavhs.
4th, The prohibition of
futures.
5th. T7ie adoption of a
r K.e-jrre$iaen( ana urmea oiaies oenaiors oy aireci vote oj me
Gth. The Australian ballot system. -
And we hereby express our wish for a National Independent Convention to nominate can
didates for President ana Vice-President on the above platform; and we heieby agree that if pure,
able and honorable men are so nominated we will support them and vote for them in preference
to any oiner candidates.
We also hereby express
, each state and territory of the federal Union by the executive officers of each industrial organiza
tion in said state or territory, and returnd signed to such officers: and when five million signatures
shall be obtained and reported
each state and territory said executive officers shall select one representative from each state (each
state acting by itself) to constitute a provisional committee, and said provisional committee shall
meet at. Cincinnati, on the 2 2d day of February, 1892, and fix a ratio of representation based 'on
the number of signatures in each state, determine upon the place and date of holding said nation
al convention, and appoint from their number an executive committee to raise funds, procure a
hall, and perfect all necessary details for the same. .
And we hereby invite all men, without regard to past party affiliations, to unite with us in
our effort to free our country from the domination of corrupt parties, trusts combines and mo
nopolies, to establish justice and pure government, and promote the general welfare.
NAME.
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
SOMf ERRORS OF.'tHOSE WHO
KEEP POULTRY.
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Interesting IUaii fr Beekeepers
Household Hints, Et.
Errors in Keeping Poultry.
Although there are many
different breeds of fowls, adapted
more or less to the varied wants of
the farmer, there are soae general
rules for their management which are
applicable everywhere. One serious
error is the common custom of keep
ing hens until they become too old for
profit, because they were choice birds
and good layers when young. A hen
of any breed will lay only about half
as many eggs the second year after
she commences laying. All fowls
kept by a farmer after they are 2
years old are kept at a loss, so far as
the money is concerned. ; When &
whole flock is allowed to run without
killing off the old ones and replacing
them by. pullets, disease is sure to at
tack them. If the plan of keeping
only pullets is once followed I am sure
that no farmer will ever abaudon it
Another bad practice is that of allow
ing fowls to become wild, so that they
are afraid of any one 'and hideaway
their nests and the few chickens they
hatch lose their lives for want of food.
To be sure, ehickens hatched late in
the summer and brought up in the
fields by a wild mother are hardy, but
this practice- is not profitable as the
cost of wintering exceeds the summer
returns. As a general rule, however,
summer chickens are more profitable
than the very early ones, as they get
a more varied diet, better exercise and
are healthier in every way. But fowls
to be profitable must be kept tame.
If, however, the chickens are to be
'. grown for sale, for. breeding or for
show purposes, it is necessary that
the chickens should be hatched as
early in the season as possible, so that
i they may attain full growth and feath
ering by fall Am. Agriculturist
Potato Growing Profitable.
There is probably no farm crop in
which inexperienced farmers suffer
greater disappointments than in pota-
toes. They read in the papers of iarge
yields, and observing that the marke't
price is high, a great many rush into
the business, and of course overdo it
This is cause number one. Potato cul
ture in these times requires a great
luna or practical experience. It also
requires the man who begin it to be
prompt with every demand, whether
it be in cultivation, in bug poisoning,
and In late years in spraying the vines
to prevent mildew and blight, which
are the usual causes of rotting of the
crop. It Is no wonder with so many
things to attend to that some are neg
leeted. Hence potatoes are commonly
deemed a precarious crop. Accidents
of season excepted, they need not be.
We believe it possible every year to
grow potato crops that will pay larger
profit than any grain crop, provided
the proper conditions are fulfilled. '
In the first place, the farmer who
would grow potatoes extensively must
be near a market, by which we mean
a good shipping station, where there
is enough competition to insure fair
prices. Farmers who are within three
or four miles of freight cars can draw
two and sometimes three loads per
day. When the distance is so far that
only one load per day can be drawn,
it adds heavily to the expense of mar
keting, and requires a high price to
make the crop pay. , This high price
cannot always be depended on. Every
few years the potato market is liable
to be glutted, and only those who keep
alien ownership of laml, and .of 1 gambling in stocks, optionr, and
,
constitutional amendment requiring the election of President and
ur desire that this declaration shall
by the executive officers of the different industrial organizations of
expenses down bo as to be able to
market cheaply can come out without
1 083. Am. Cultivator. " , :
Buckwheat for Stock.
An Inquirer asks if buckwheat is
good for stock. That depends. For
the feathered stock most emphatically
yes. For cattle and hogs not always,
rarely for the latter. The hull of the
buckwheat is not digestible, and hence
Is not fit for food. The bran or the
buckwheat when run through the mill
should have the hulls taken out The
hulls will cause piles in pigs. Hulls
are valuable to use us absorbants in
the manure pile, but not otherwise.
The colored part of the grain, the yel
low part next to the hull, is rich in
nitrogen, and is excellent for making
growth in animals. This canaille will
make plenty of milk, but it will be
short in butter fat, and the fats will
be soft and white. Buckwheat will
make poor butter. It should be mixed
with yellow corn meal with some
brao to make the food healthier, or to
make ' the . required waste material
The canaille is a concentrated food
too much so, too, to be fed alone. The
white part of the kernel is the starch,
and this makes the white floor. Buck
wheat canaille Is good food for all
young animals if mixed half and half
with bran a little linseed meal added
will improve the ration. For fatten,
ing a grown animal add corn meal
Field Experiment With Oats, 1800.
; The Illinois Experiment Station
.bulletin says: The largest yield of
grain was produced from sowing two
and one-half bushels of seed. A fairly
compact seed-bed gave the best results.
The time of sowing has 0id in thpse
tests a more marked influence on the
yield than any other condition. The
earlier sowings, with one exception,
the earliest, have uniformly given the
Dest yields. Ine yield was not
materially affected ty the length,
plumpness, or by the weight of the
berry or the weight per bushel.
loose varieties with long, slender
berries and light weight per bushel
contained appreciably the largest per
cent kernel. In other words, those
varieties which would have sold best
on the market or, what is less im
portant would have taken the
premium at fairs, did not yield better
than the other varieties . and did not
have so high a food value.
Agricultural Atoms.
Take care of the weeds. Those
gathered in the screenings may be
boiled for the pigs, which should be
the only use made of them. Every
weed seed should be taken care of if
possible, and those that are brought
from the neighbor's farm by the winds
should be made the subject of a kindly
expostulation.
A little oil is a constant requisite in
the farm practice. On the machine it
makes easy work and saves wear; on
the wagons it avoids the horrible
squeaking which chills the blood; it
smooths everything, and a little oil on
one's manners and tongue will make
things all over the farm and the dwell
ing go so smoothly as to make life
worth living. Always have a little oU
on hand ready for all uses.
It is never worth while to quarrel
with a neighbor over the fence. If
anything goes wrong, stray fowls in
the garden, small pigs in the field,
pigeons on the newly sown seed, or
any other small matter, it is far betler
to suffer it than be at enmity with a
next neighbor. One neighborly ser
vice will over-weigh a score of these
little trifles, and no one knows when
such a service may be invaluable to
themselves.
Bee Notes.
All should know that the bee doe
not make honey, but simply gathers IS 1
people.
be circulated for signatures in
POST OFFICE.
from the flowers; when it obtains ' its
sweets from sugar; it deposits sugar
syrup in the cells, not honey, and no
amount of manipulation by the bees
can make it into anything else but
sugar syrup.
Aroma is a term employed to desig
nate those substances, the extreme
minute particles of which are supposed
to affect the organs of smell so as to
produce peculiar odors. The particles
diffused through the atmosphere and
affecting the olfactory nerves if the
theory of particles of matter be cor
rectmust indeed be extremely
minute, yet not so much so but what
we easily detect the smell from a field
of any honey-bearing plant or flower.
These odors have generally been sup
posed to depend upon essential oils.
Scientists tell us that odors of flow
ers do not, as a general rule, exist in
them as a store, or as a gland but are
developed as an exhalation. While the
flower breathes it yields fragrance, but
kill the flower and the fragrance
ceases. It seems, then, that the odors
are simply exhalations dependent upon
essential oils, not upon vapor impreg
nated with matter and cannot there
lore, be condensed as such, and we
have yet to learn that these exhala
tions are visible, or leave the least
stains; and while it is well known that
they combine with various fatty mat
ters, they do not sensibly increase their
weight or bulk. Thus, no matter how
much our nice clover or linden honey
may perfume our room in which it is
placed, the quantity of honey is never
materially less.
- Hints to Dairymen.
Build a silo, so that your milk feed
shall cost you less.s Build it sufficient
ly large so you can have ensilage
enough to feed in summer and fall
when the pasturage dries up. That
will keep your cows up to their best
flow, so you can have milk to do busi
ness with in late fall and winter, when
prices of butter are higher. That's
good economy.
Stop the expense of bad handling.
You must handle a dairy cow not as if
she were a steer, but as a bovine
mother. You want to make money
out of her motherhood; then handle
her, shelter her, feed her and treat
her generally as a mother should be
handled, sheltered and treated. If
you don't know how a mother should
be treated, ask your wife or your
mother.
Stop this expensive summer dairy
ingkeeping cows on expensive pas
ture and getting nothing for the rnilk
just because there are thousands ot
other men just like you who had
rather milk a cow in summer and
make nothing, than to go into winter
dairying and make a fair profit Give
up all those cranky old notions about
dairying, and proceed to measure the
business from the dollar standpoint,
just as any other manufacturer does.
It costs just as much to support the
carcass of a cow that is running you
in debt as it does one that is giving
you 50 a year profit Not one farm
er in a hundred ever tested, his cows
to know which were the ones that
were beating him "out of house and
home." How is he to act if he don't
know, and how is he to know if he
does not put forth intelligent effort to
know. There is scarcely a dairyman
in the land who Is not keeping two j
cows to do the work of one. Ask any
of the progressive dairymen you
know, and they will tell you that;
about their first step in cuttinsr down
useloss expense was to get a better!
cow. Buy her, breed her, get her j
anyway you choose, but be sura and
get her.
Mouey has some human character
istics. It talks and it gets light.
The Tribune ia almost ashamed to
bring forward another jaguar, says
that excellent ard highly trustworthy
journal, the New York Tribune,
founded by Horace Greeley. We h ve
so many times announced the killing
of positively the last of tho race, con
tinues the Tribune, that we hate to
acknowledgo the appearance of an
other. But Individual humiliation
must not be allowed to stand in the
way of truth, so we freely ndmit that
another jaguar, perhaps the largest
ever seen, was killed a row days ago
in Arkansas.
In the northwestern part of Arkan
sas, about half way between sweet
Home, Washington county, and Rob
inson's Cmss-Itoads, Benton county,
lives a woman named Mrs. Martha
Leathers, more generally known as
tho Widow Leathers. She is a lady of
some three-score yer and ten, and
she has lived alone for tho last twenty
years in a wild neighborhood, several
miles from the nearest house. About
ton days ago she was awakened one
night by a strange noise on the roof.
Hastily dressing, she stepped out of
the one door of the cabin and looked
up. What was ber Horror to see in
the bright moonlight an immense
jaguar alternately scratching at the
shingles and gnawing at the corner of
the chimney, and occasionally striking
the roof violently with his. tail and
making a -loud report Tho widow
looked only a moment when she quick
ly went back in and bolted the door.
She-had no weapons of any kind.
The night was bit 'or cold, and it oc
curred to her that the beast had prob
ably sought the chimney for warmth.
and that if she built a good fire and
got it thoroughly warmed through,
it would perhaps go away. She
soon had a roaring fire leaping up
the chimney from the big stone fire
place. As she expected, this pleased
tho jaguar, and he ceased scratching
and gnawing and began to purr, mak
ing a sound like a buzz-saw when it
strikes a knot and to wag his tail on
the shingles with a noise which re
sembled distant thunder. If the fire
got a little low he would slap his tail
on the roof angrily three or four times
with such force that it shook the
house.
As it grew light the widow crept out
of the door and again surveved the sit
uation. Tho jaguar was Bitting up on
his haunches contentedly purring and
warming his forepaws over the top of
the chimney. She did not look long,
fearing that he would see her, but
went back, and, the jaguar pounding
the roof with his tall for more fire, she
piled on a dozen more sticks of wood.
one tnougnt that mo beast would cer
tainly leave at sunrise, but it did not
It merely leaped down and got one of
her pigs and returned to the roof,
where it devourod the pig and beat for
more fire. This kept up for four days,
two pigs being sacrificed each day, and
an immeuce amount of firewood. Some
times the jaguar would sleep for an
hour or so, but would always wake up
cold and begin pounding on the roof.
On tho morning of the fifth day the
widow Leathers decided that something
must be done. It was growing monot
onous. Such a thing would grow mo
notonous even bere in New York.
We should hate to have a jaguar on the
of roof the Tribune building, gnawing
at the tower and pulverizing the slate
shingles with his tail to inform the
janitor that his feet were cold.
At 9 o'clock on the fifth day Mrs.
Leathers went into the loft with a
three-inch augur. Selecting a time
when the jaguar was purring his
loudest she bored a hole in the roof
about a foot and a half behind where
she calculated he sat Her judgment
was good, and when she looked up
through the hole she could see bis tail
wagging backward and forward across
it Reaching out with one hand she
seized his tail and drew about two
feet of it down through the bole. Be
fore the beast knew what was going
on she tied a knot in the tail, so that
It could not be withdrawn. Then,
while the jaguar writhed his bo3y
about and uttered the most terrible
cries ever heard in Northwestern Ar
kansas, she walked three miles through
the woods to Ben Hawkin's place and
got him to come over and shoot the
animal, after which sho untied the
knot in his tail and allowed it to roll
to the ground. It weighed six hun
dred and fifty pounds.
The reader will observe that tho
circumstances surrounding the killing
of the Widow Leathers' jaguar are all
novel. The case is also important
from the fact that it proves that a
woman does not necessarily need to
be young to help on the extermination
of this beast True, a young woman
like Pauline Collier, or Maude Fames,
or Susan Handfield, or Margaret Res
pass, would, no doubt have twisted
off the animal's tail, and then gone out
and fractured his skull with it but
while this would have given tho affair
more eclat, it would not have increas
ed the jaguar mortality any, which
; lar all, seeTis to be the great thing
uosired.
To be tender to another man's wife' isn't
legal tender. Texas Sittings,
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