The Sioux County Journal
VOLUME
HARRISON, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1895.
NUMBER 27.
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TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A OMOICt 8ELEOTION OF INTER
ESTINQ ITEMS.
t"M"l end Critlriama Bm4 Cpoa
the llappaniageof the Day Hlatori
cat and Newa Notes.
Florida orange are displaying tome
of the remarkable rallying power of
Michigan peaches.
Senator Lexow nays be la done with
Paxkburst. Ah! But li Parkhurat
done with Lexow T
There Is nothing quite so discourag
ing to labor an the aftermath of an
unsuccessful strike.
The big theater hat will go Juet as
oon as It become generally known
that It Is worn only by women with
false balr.
A German scientist says that think
ing la one of the chief cantos of wrin
kles. Perhaps this explains how our
Congressmen preserve their good looks.
The male loa constrictor In the Lon
don zoological gardens swallowed his
nate the other day. And now the scien
tists are trying to get at the Inside facts
of the cose.
A Brooklyn paper prints a column
of directions and explanations about
preparing and cooking terrapin. What
this country really needs Is a good
method of making snowballs palatable
and nutritious.
The growing attempt to tyrannize
over man has taken in Connecticut the
malign form of a legislative effort to
prevent the employment in shops of
Women who have able-bodied husbands.
Can this be Interpreted as anything
less than consigning these husbands to
the doom of toll?
Another method of exterminating tu
berculosis has been discovered and
there la hope that It may prove effective.
The fact cannot be forgotten, however,
that former methods, discovered from
time to time and announced with assur
ing confidence, are still with us, and yet
consumption continues to consume,
with no apparent diminution of Its or
dinary appetite.
Always ready to give full recognition
and credit to a meritorious bit If news
paper enterprise, we heartily congratu
late the Chicago Herald upon the re
markable work of Its marine reKrter.
As soon as La Gascogne was sighted
me lleruld s ship carpenter went to
work with a will and before morning
had completely overhauled and recon
structed the overdue Atlantic liner.
He remodeled the steamer's hull, cut a
eerie of portholes In her side, tore
away part of her upper deck, knocked
off several funnels nnd gave her two
additional masts. This Is great work
for one night.
Is there to be no end to the list of de
falcations? Every day adds new names
to the long and ominous array of men
In trusted position that wore supposed
to be honest, but are now revealed to
the world as thieves. That is the word.
If a tramp steals your overcoat, you call
him a thief. If a Sunday school super
intendent takes money from a bank or
from a corporation of which he is treas
urer, he is only a defaulter. Why not
call a thief a thief? The higher the
position he holds In society the worse
should be regarded bis crime. Indeed.
the well-dressed thief, with pretensions
of piety, Is by far a greater scoundrel
than the follow of the baser sort. Vet
the latter is severely punished, while
the former Is let off with not half his
Just deserts.
In spite of all the many crises of a
political as well as of an economical
character through which France has
passed during the past Ave years, she
U furnishing evidence of a prosperity
most satisfactory to her old-time allies
nnd many friends lu this country. For
the first time In a decade the official
ktatlstlcs show a large superiority In
the number of births over deaths, while
no less than 2,oMO,7.0 persons are re
turned as belonging to the so-culled
leisure class that Is, possessed of
sufficient wealth to enable them to dis
pense with the necessity of working for
their living. There Is no other nation
In the world, not even our own great
and glorious country, that can make
such a remarkable showing in propor
tion to population of the Individual
wealth and prosperity of Its citizens as
France. Hats off to Europe's great
Kepubllc!
Hamlin Garland, the novelist, told n
Chicago audience which had assembled
iu the Interest of ethical culture, that ho
was a scientific anarchist a theoretical
hnarehlst not n real, bona fide, red
uhlrted, beer-soaked, dyiiamlte-loiided,
revolutionary anarchist -hut a gentl.
liianly anarchist who wanted to leave
r-verylwwly else alone and who wanted
to be left alone himself. We doubt
Hamlin's sincerity. He doesn't want to
le left alone. Why, bless you, no. He
delivered his pretty talk in order to at
tract the public eye. And he Is doing It
rry successfully, too. We don't Maine
him. We admire bis resalts but we do
wish he would acknowledge that be la
pounding bis own drain. Why not ba
honest enough to do this? What sense
la there In preaching theoretical I
archy? If that theory could be made
practical every one would he truly
good too good to read Sir. Garland's
books. But It will only be brought
about when again the stars atng togeth
r. Theoretical anarchy would make
Chicago a terribly poky place and take
away all Uie fun and excitement of life.
And we feel sure Hamlin doesn't want
such a state of affairs as that
The millionaires who have flourished
on the Pacific slope In recent years
furnish some Interesting evidence on
the subject of short lived fortune. It
Is recalled that tbe owner of eight
stupendous fortunes lived In Kan Fran
cisco only a few years ago, Messrs.
Stanford, Huntington, Crocker and
Hopkins having millions made In rail
roads, while the immense wealth of
Messrs. Flood, O'Brien, Mackey and
Fair was mado In mining. Of these
great fortunes only that of Huntington
remains in the original hands. Mackey
Is living, hut his wealth has shrunk
tremendously. The Stanford estate
has been dedicated to public uses. The
Crocker estate has to support several
families. The Hopkins estate Is small
er now than when Mark Hopkins died.
Flood and O'Brien saw their wealth
diminish to ordinary proportions before
their death, and Fair has just died, and
his wealth will be divided lain several
parts In any case, and may be swal
lowed up by legal talent.
The North German Lloyd Steamship
Company is not likely to win many
friends or regain any of the prestige It
lost through the sinking of Its steam
ship Elbe by the manner In which It Is
treating the survivors of that dreadful
disaster. Several of those survivors
are now In this country, one of whom
lost a wife and child In the wreck.
They were preceded to the t'nlted
State by a long cable mesaage from the
company's agents In Ixindon adjuring
the peimle of this country not to put
confidence In any account of the dis
aster they might give. Hoffman, who
lost his wife and his son, was brutally
described by the company's agents as
a man making sensational and untruth
ful statements to magnify his own Im
portance. With cruelty which seems al
most devilish they even set on foot a
story that he might have saved his
family had he chosen, though he, for
his part, declares thnt his wife was or
dered from his side and his boy snatch
ed from his arms when safely in the
lifeboat. It Is reported that Hoffman
was kept under constant espionage by
the company's agents In New York and
practically mado a prisoner. So far as
the treatment of this man Is concerned
It Justifies the conclusion that the chief
regret of the steamship company Is that
any passengers were rescued to tell the
story of the disaster. There appears
to be every evidence that the officers
and crew of the ship Elbe were Ill-dls-cipllned
nnd cowardly. The mere fact
that only one woman was Raved, and
she chiefly through her expert ness In
swimming, proves that sufficiently.
That only one boat should have safely
gotten away from the sinking vessel Is
evidence of the luck of discipline on
board. The mere obvious fucts of the
horrible casualty condemn the com
puny and what Hoffmun or Verera may
have to say adds but little weight to
the condemnation. The steamship
agents are as stupid aa they were
brutal In persecuting and maligning
the few survivors of a disaster In which
the servants of the company showed
to such very great disadvantage.
Making Newspapers In Hyrla.
A learned Syrian traveler, at present
enjoying a sojourn In Buffalo, says that
the Syrian papers probably contain not
tbe most distant allusion to the mas
sacres In Armenia. After observing
the ways of American newspapers he
declared that the Yankee editor was In
Paradise and did not know It.
In Bey rout, said he, there is a censor,
an officer of the Turkish Government,
and to him must be submitted the first
copy of every newspnper, and until he
approves It not another one rnny bo
taken out of the pressroom. As there
are some thirteen dally papers In Bey
rout It Is easy to Imagine what on In
convenience this Is. It will not do to
give the censor proof slips. Ho must
see the entire sheet as It Is Intended for
circulation. While the press wait the
censor runs his eye over the Journal.
If there Is a line of news which the
government would prefer not to have
published, If there Is a lender reflecting
In the slightest degree upon die conduct
of affairs in Constantinople, the censor
draws his pencil through it nnd the
mutter must he taken out.
In anticipation of such an occurrence
Syrian editors always keep In reserve
several columns of matter In typo. Tills
Is all most laudatory of the Sultan, of
the Grand Vizier, of all Turkish official-
dom. Itlscarefully made up In portions
of varying lengths, stick fuls, two-stick-
fills, half columns, and squibs. If tho
censor orders port of the first forms
out these tales of fulsome flattery are
Immediately substituted, a fresh Im
pression taken, the censor approves,
and the presses are started tu. Buffalo
Courier.
ROBABLY every
girl has at some
time or other form
ed a vague and
misty picture of
the man she In
tends to marry.
This ideal husband,
as a rule, Is en
dowed with every
mental, moral and
physical grace.
Faults are left out
entirely from his general make up, and
yet he Is by no means to be of such un
common clay that he will be above ex
hibiting a demonstrative affection and
auorlng admiration for the woman
who has so long enshrined his Image lu
the holiest recess of her heart Girl
seldom marry their first Ideals and It
Is a blessed thing that they do not, for
those brain pictures have a kaleido
scopic fashion of changing, and the
woman of 23 admires a very different
creature from the girl of 17.
Again Ideal men are not real men,
and a woman wants something that
she can more thoroughly rely upon
than a bunch of vlslonarv nerfeetlon.
I-t a man come alone whom the wom
an' heart recognizes as the one being
in the world to make her happy, and
away go those phantom pictures over
which she ha spent so many moment
In maiden meditation.
The Ideal man may have been tall
and fair, the real one dark and dumpy,
but If he is beloved he will be suffi
ciently beautiful to satisfy even the
Idealist conception. Men and women
are but loving, breathing human beings
after all, and It Is much better for faults
to be seen than to build up an exalted
sentiment regarding frail humanity
which is found by the very uature of
tilings to bv shattered at some time
sooner or Inter. Isn't it ever so much
more delightful to avoid this crash by
looking matters fairly In the face and
saying: "This man or tills woman (iu
not be without faults," and with this
prosaic and practical basis to start on
bring Into the home life those two fire
side pets, the bears of matrimony,
"bear and forebear," aud. though It
may not seem as romantic as to begin
life In adoring contemplation of a
fancied perfection, It wears ever so
much better In the long run and brings
more complete happiness than the
other form can ever hope to attain.
Throw aside the Ideals, enshroud the
real with a HI tie fiction, If you will, but
never lose sight of the fact that the
Ideal man or woman has no place on
till earth, and, If you have a desire for
mundane happiness, do not set up
housekeeping with either an ideal man
or an Ideal woman.
Two Btyllah Oowna.
A Girl's MurrluKunlile Age.
The age of marriage should be de
termined by the understanding of both
principals as to the nature of their
bond, writes Mrs. Burton Harrison In
some very wise words under the title
of "Heigh Ho! for a Husband," In the
January Ladles' Home Journnl. It
must always seem to an older person
ho has had experience In observa
tion of careers "made or marred" by
marriage that the mistake Is apt to bo
In Impetuous Judgment, rather than
Immaturity or the reverse. One has
seen iulte as many failures resulting
from the mating of gray hair with mid-
du ages as from tho nuptials of eigh
teen with two-and-twenty. A a gen
eral thing. Indeed, young heart teem
to grow more together, to accept the
inevitable of life more frankly, to be
mora lenient with offending for lore'a
aWeaBBal ' tawaW
I" AfiR
QEABERJ
aake than do their elder. Old lover
who have spent their lives together In
their Journey through life have a fund
of tendernea In recollection of their
common youth that is a fountain sealed
at which they alone can refresh them
selves. Then In youth hard knocks are
borne so easily together; laughter Is so
apt to come after tears; hopes shared
are sustaining even In disappointment!
These thoughts make an early mar
riage sacred from the common gibes
about "rushing blindfold Into a pit,"
"tying a millstone around one's neck,"
"marrying In haste to repent at leis
ure, " etc.
But materialism Is the governing
power of our age and society. When
certain Indispensable are now lacking
to a home discontent and heartburn
ing are as often seen lurking near.
A Modlah Dream Kobe.
Why Cindy'. Noae Tnrna Up.
' Sweetheart Cindy's hair la flaxen.
Fine as cocoon silk,
Tumbling over tempting shoulders
White and rich as milk.
Cindy'B eyes are big as marbles,
Liquid hh the dew.
Bright as morning stars and colored
With the sky's o'n blue.
Cindy's nose turns tip a little
Not abrupt or high
But enough to challenge notice,
Ant! I wondered why,
Till I found the lips below It
Pouting with a kiss;
Then I knew that Nature hud not
Fashioned it amiss.
-Clarence Ousley.
Uncrowned Qneena.
there aro In Philadelphia fifteen
working-women's associations.
Miss Varlna Anne Davis, daughter of
Jefferson Davis, has her first nov-il
ready for publication.
The Frlncess of Wales and her daugh
ter have taken up wood carving as n
means of pleasant occupation.
Tbe physicians of Mrs. Humphrey
Ward have ordered her to discontinue
her literary labors for a long time.
Miss Clara Brett Martin, the leading
woman lawyer of Canada, has been
nominated for school trustee of Tor
onto. Mrs. Maria Lawrence, of Palmer,
Mass., has obtained a position as a
member of the fire department of tha
town.
Mrs. Dodge (Anna G. Peabody, for.
merly of N'ewburyport Mass.) I a
member of the Hawaiian Board of
Education.
The recent death of Miss Christina
Itossettl has been the subject of many
expressions of regret In the current
English periodicals.
Mrs. M. H. Evans, of Wattsville, Va.,
has can-led the mall between Watts
ville and Temperancevllle, eighteen
miles, for the last six years.
The buckles which are sold separate
ly for the decoration of stock collars
can now bo hud In crystal, moonstones,
rhlnestones, silver, gold, steel and Jot.
Mrs. Sarah Grand Is at work on a
new novel. She refused to tell sn In.
tervlewer what the nature of the new
book would be aud would not even dis
close Its title.
Pnrla Hkirt for Double-Width Cloth.
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TOPICS FOR FARMERS
A OEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR
OUR RURAL FRIENDS
The Most Profitable Stock for the
Farm How to Measure an Acre In
dependence of furm Life lien House
Should Be Warm.
Profitable Farm Stock.
In answer to the question as to the
most profitable stock for the farm, Mr.
Powell said at a farmers' meeting re
cently: "The first talk upon agricul
tural topics I ever heard was by Solon
Robinson, and the first words of It were,
'Don't put all your eggs In one basket.'
And I cannot give a better answer to
your question than this. Study your
conditions and carry more than one
kind of stock, making each kind supple
mentary to the other or to some other
purpose of the farm work. For the
dairy farm a good line of pig stock will
prove a profitable Investment This Is
especially so on a butter farm, or a
milk farm where skim milk Is returned.
There is and always will be a demand
for country fed hams, shoulders and
bacon. It Is Impossible to overdo in the
Hue of pig production. Or, raise
lambs. Australia and South America
can outdo us lu the production of wool
all the time, but we can hold our own
when It comes to hot-house Iambs. Mut
ton Is the highest-priced meat In tha
market, and there Is not a farmer or
fruit grower or dalrymau that cannot
carry a tidy flock of sheep with his oth
er business, and, beyond first cost,
hardly know that he has tbem until
time for marketing comes. The hot
house lambs we grow bring tlO each,
and any one can get this who will bring
a good article to the market at the right
time. Another line every farmer should
carry Is poultry. Of horses, I will only
say that tbe time is coming when there
will be a demand for finely bred, closely
matched driving horses, and whoever
has them will find hi profit." 1TUU
delpbla Ledger.
Measuring- aa Acre.
Few farmers know the sire of their
fields or how many acres they contain.
It I desirable In fact, Indispensable
for good work that a farmer should
know thi. Good cotton cord, the size
of a plow line, should be kept for this
purpose. To make one, buy sixty -seven
feet of cotton rope, one Inch round,
fusten a ring at each end, and make
these rings precisely sixty-six feet
apart This is four rods. Tie a piece
of red rag In the center.
One acreof ground will be a piece four
of these cords long and two and a half
wide, equal to 1(1x10 rods, makng 100
square rods to an acre. The advantage
or the rings is that one person can
measure by driving a stake in the
ground to hold the rope while he
stretches It out. The rope should be
soaked In tar and then dried. Tills will
prevent its shrinking.
Last year a neighbor of the writer
had a heavy sod plowed by contract at
-.o0 per acre. Three persons stepped
It off. One said it was four acres; an
other made it a little over five, and the
intra said It was three and a half acres.
The contractor sent over and got this
rope, and all five men measured it and
It was found to be Just three and a
half acres. He had paid to have the
grass cut off it for three years at $1 per
u-ie, oi ao eacn season, counting it tn
oe nve acres in extent thus losine $4 .V)
loxuugu ignorance.
Life on the Farm.
A prosperous aud intelligent farmer
sat in tnt office a short time ago dls
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c.ciiis ui uie last year;
iu uuanciai panic, the unexplained
ousiness depression, the Industrial un
iw anu me progress of a rebellion
against the government, which, If not
arrestee, would have ended in civil
war. "Well," he said, as he rose to eo
'1 am going back to my farm and let
tue oia world go on Its own gait I am
happy there. Nothing disturbs me.
In the worst year that can come I will
have plenty to support my family. I
ii nave my loks and miners nn
know what Is going on outside, but I
am safe. Panic and trade revulsions
do not affect me at all, and even a
revolution would hardly disturb me In
my quiet nook." Now, bright people
have boon cudgeling their brains to
make out a picture of the future ( topia,
butlsthereanytlilng.evenlnthe dreams
of visionaries, that is much nearer to
a condition of lunteriul happiness thun
this? Hurdslilp and struggle are there
and everywhere. Life without struggle
would be worthless. But there is also
independence; aud, with Industry and
frugality, absolute assurance against
future distress. It would be an untold
blessing If armies of the unemployed
und of the unfortunate could be trans
planted to the farm. In Minnesota
alone there are opportunities enough
lor millions. St I'uul Pioneer Press.
Dry Rot In Timber.
A correspondent of the Country (icn
lemiui question the correctness of
Prof. Brewer's recent assertion that
'posts set top eud down lust longer
hau those set butt end down." Ho
says he once built a fence, and set a
number of marked posts top end down.
After twenty years the fence was built
over and the marked posts were de-
ayed the same as the others. He also
doubts Trof. Brewer's statement that i
"dry rot is caused bj a fungu which
begins on the surface, pushes tbe
threads of Its spawn into the pore, and
In time they ramify through the mass."
The writer say "that may be the kind
of dry rot they have in Connecticut, but
in Pennsylvania it 1 caused by the
timber being too large to season
through, the center being wet and the
outside dry. Small timber never rot
If placed where they can season
through. A pine beam In the mill at
Sugar Kun, twelve inches square, broke
down before the mill had been built ten
years. All the outside was perfectly
sound, and no appearance of any 'fun
gus' on the surface, but all the center
was dry rot" The writer cite a num
ber of similar instances, and argues
that If a fungus caused the dry rot It
would attack a small stick of timber
Just as quickly as a large one.
Warmth in the Hen Houae.
In the very coldest weather It pay
to Introduce artificial heat into the hen
house. A small coal Btove does not
cost much, and a fire in it made once a
day will keep the temperature right and
the fowls will be as happy as In spring
time. It is cold weather quite as much
as the difference In feed that make
eggs scarce in winter. Besides, In the
coldest weather there is always tempta
tion to feed corn for warmth. The stove
In the hen house, carefully guarded
against fire, is cheaper as well as better
for the fowls than giving them a corn
diet so as to keep them warm.
Tomatoes.
The tomato of to-day Is actually the
poor man's food and one of the rich
man's choicest viands. They are in de
maud both In and out of season, and
are a relished dish prepared in a hun
dred different ways. They are No. 1
to eat as plucked from the vine, no les
so sliced with salt and vinegar, equally
as well cooked either with cream or
with butter, better as fried in butter
and flour with gravy, and fine when
prepared as oyster soup by cutting the
acid with soda. Tomatoea can be
grown on most any soil that will grow
corn .though the better the soil the more
llnely you are to grow a paying crop.
Fresh manure 1 to be avoided, a It
produces too rank a growth of vine
and has more of a tendency to produce
rot. A good soil that will hold mois
ture well In a dry season is as good a
any, especially if it Is a clover sod.
Ohio Farmer.
Farm Notee.
For tree wouads various things ore
used. Perhaps the best material is tar.
long used by Professor Sargent with
excellent results. At the Kew gar
coal tar and carbolic acid is used with
entire success.
The Robertson cow ration, Including
a mixture of sunflower ?eed, cave an
iucrease over older methods of feed
ing, but not enough to pay for the extra
trouble and cost said the Vermont sta
tion director.
The most successful poultry breed
ers separate pullets and cockerels as
soon ns they are hnlf grown. They de
velop better, and in all respects do bet
ter. A few quarrelsome cockerels dis
turb the peace of a whole yard of
fowls.
Animals cannot be fed by a rule.
Each one must receive what it may re
quire, and this can be only known by
observation. Animals differ, and the
quantity of food that may satisfy the
demands of one may be insufficient for
another.
As much as five hundred pounds of
sulphate of muriate may be applied to
an acre of ground, and while It is best
to do so In the fall, on very heavy
soils, yet early In tbe spring Is an ex
cellent period for applying. If good
wood ashes can be obtained cheaply
they are better thaji salts.
A heavy application of groand bone
will produce excellent results for sev
eral years, for the reason that the bone
gives off its particles slowly, and Is not
dissolved for several seasons. For Im
mediate results acidulated rock or bone
superphosphate should be used. In
the latter form there Is always a fair
proportion of nitrogen.
Watch a sod orchard. It will begin
to fail before you know It Barn ma
nures are generally more economically
used when applied to farm crop than
when applied to orchard, yet they can
be used with good results, particularly
when rejuvenating old orchards. Ev
erything points to crimson clover as
the Ideal orchard cover and green laa
uure. Currants and gooseberries do quite
as well In the partial shade of medium
sized orchard trees as if fully exposed
to the sun. Blackberries and raspber
ries may also be grown between the
trees in an orchard, but If so one must
not forget to make double applications
of plant food, otherwise the trees or
the small fruits will bo starved. Suc
cessful double cropping must be ac
compimled by double feeding.
Although farmers may not find beef
cattle profitable, yet prices nre twice
as high now ns they were half a cen
lury ago. Farmers then found cattle
profitable, and such should be the case
at the present day, a breeds are su
perior to those of former days, and
facilities for transportation to market
nre more numerous. The largest nrof.
IU are obtained when tbe breed are
resorted to for obtaining alee and
quality.