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GEO. E. BENSCHOTER, Ed. and Pub.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
And France won’t be content with
half morocco either.
Colombia may hold a poor hand, but
she has a first rate poker face.
The worm has turned. Anti-Hia
watha clubs have started into being.
Things are moving rapidly when a
horse that trots in 2:01 is considered
alow.
The more popular a driver is, the
longer neck his horse seems to have
tn a close finish.
War between South American repub
lics Is always useful in relieving the
ennui between revolutions.
Mary Macl^ne says the future is a
lute without strings. It may also be
described as an untooted flute.
Mr. Balfour seems fated to play sec
ond fiddle. First Chamberlain and
now the king is taking first honors.
Turkey is willing to bring about re
forms in Macedonia if she is only
given time and her ammunition holds
out
The hickory nut crop is reported to
be unusually large. If the coal trust
doesn’t behave we may burn hickory
nuts.
Life Insurance companies are not
sending agents to Macedonia just at
present, as the climate there is very
unhealthy.
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A careful statistician says 140,000,
000 safety pins are made in this coun
try every year. What becomes of all
the safety pins?
Ohio country school teachers rre
leaving their jobs to run city trolley
Oars. Prefer to teach the young idea
how to scoot, it seems.
The farmers in Central Iowa are
clamoring for elevators. Probably get
ting too blamed lazy to walk upstairs.
—Los Angeles Times.
Alfred Austin has written a tragedy.
The publishers confidently expect it to
take rank with the best efforts ul
Messrs. Ade and Dooley.
Harry Lehr says the lapel button
hole Rhould be abolished. Harry is al
ways deeply Interected in some ques
tion of supreme importance to man
ulnd.
Doubtless King Edward feels that
the salary he receives justifies him in
amplifying the duties of his job to tha
extent of acting as his own managing
editor.
Prominent Citizens Urge Purchase
of Jones Site So That Dam May Be
Built at Once—Opinions on the Dam
Project.—Headlines in Ohio State
Journal.
Col. Carroll D. Wright declares that
the world is better now than it ever
was before—and as the world is what
we make it, that's a big compliment
to all of us.
The Washington Post asserts that
Lou Dillon and Major Delmar are the
only ones who ever kept the promise
held out in the sign, "Will be back
in two minutes.”
Train robbers will have nervous in
digestion and fainting fits when they
hear that an unguarded clerk carried
$3,000,000 from Washington to New
York in a suit case.
It Is safe to suppose that when the
man who was enjoined by a neighbor
from swearing received notice of the
’•estraining order there was need for
its application right away.
In some parts of Switzerland they
have laws which make it necessary to
have horses hitched to automobiles
so that other horses will not be fright
ened by them. The horse still lias
his uses.
Corbett thinks he can whip Fitz
simmons and Fitzsimmons thinks he
can whip Corbett and both will con
tinue to think so as long as the pub
lic is willing to pay the admission fee
to the ringside.
A new York society woman says
the Goelets were extravagant in pay
ing J2,000.000 for the duke of Rox
burghe. Would she have approved ot
buying him if he had been marked
clown to Jl.999.998?
The intending train robbers waved
r. red light across the track for Engl
reer Boss, but he ran by without stop
ping. The man who knows when to
disobey ironclad orders is the one
worth money to his employers.
“Jimnre the Bum," who has just
died ;n New York, gets more obitu
aries and edttortalR than though ho
had been a meritorious citizen. Yet
there are "bums” dying every day,
"unwept, u’lhonorcd and unsung.”
Dr. George F. Kuuz has discovered
that the activity of radium is multi
plied one thousandfold by mixing it
with * pul veri zed willemitc, which costs
iittle or nothing. Thanks to the ac
tivity of scientists, the world is likely
soon to get the full benefit of that
mysterious force, radioactivity.
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LET THE PEOPLE SAT
WHEN TARIFF REVISION SHALL
BE UNDERTAKEN.
Senator Hoar Urges That Changes In
Our Protective System Be Not Mads
Until the People Shall Have Passed
Upon the Question at the Polls.
Senator Hoar dropped some pearls
of wisdom and sound policy in his
speech at the dinner of the Essex club
on the 10th of September. “The
Grand Old Man” of Massachusetts was
easily the star among the speakers.
He usually Is in any company. He
talked about the tariff, about foreign
trade and about reciprocity, and it was
clear brained, wholesome talk, that
was alike timely and pertinent. Tariff
revision, he said, might become neces
sary, just as it ts necessary to some
times revise the statutes of Massachu
setts; “but," sa*-* tl;.> vise statesman
and profound economist, "you cannot
be doing it all the time, because,
whenever you are doing it business is
thrown Into confusion and uncertain
ty.” In the course of time, he added—
and no protectionist disputes this—
changes may be required In the most
satisfactory and the most scientific
tariff schedules, but the time to make
such changes, he Insisted, was not In
the year before a presidential election,
but after a presidential election, when
tne changes can be made in accord
with the Instructions of the people.
Note the qualification: Tariff changes
should only be made in obedience to
the expressed will of the people. The
Dingley law, having been enacted in
response to the demand of the sover
eign people, may not and must not be
changed in any essential particular
until the people shall have declared
their wishes through the ballot box.
That Is the thought which the Ameri
can Economist has again and again
urged as the guiding principle in all
tariff changes, whether by legislation
or by any other method. It is also the
thought which Senator Hoar enter
NOT FOR RECIPROCITY.
Why Secretary Shaw Had So Little
to Say About It.
In his speech at Chicago before the
National Association of Merchants
and Travelers, Secretary of the Treas
ury Shaw spoke of three way3 sug
gested to acquire more markets for
this country. One is reciprocity, to
which the secretary referred as a plan
"to trade compliments—to exchange
trade privileges—to set our doors
somewhat ajar for the special advan
tage of our people. Considerable has
been said along this line, but not very
much has been actually accomplished.”
Just this passage on reciprocity, and
no more, from the cabinet official at
the head of the Treasury department.
And, in truth, no more can be said.
Reciprocity is a neblous thing, an un
tried theory. No one can define it.
The situation is wisely described in a
few words. Reciprocity is not, as yet,
even an experiment. Its actual work
ings are unknown.
One of the three ways commented
on by Secretary Shaw is to move
toward free trade in the hope that
greater freedom of importation will
induce other nations to follow the
example. "I would like to inquire,”
asked the secretary of the business
men he addressed, “whether you, in
making your purchases abroad, give
preference to those countries which
favor us with an open door, or do you
buy where you can obtain the desired
article to the best advantage?’ The
answer is evident. Business men buy
according to margins of profit. They
go for silks to protective France, and
not to free trade England. We open
ed the door to Brazil, and yet
that country continues to sell to us
$70,000,000 worth of goods a year, and
buys from us only $10,000,000 worth.
The third method, which Secretary
Shaw approves, is to adopt a system of
encouraging "regular lines of Ameri
can ships, flying the American flag,
and carrying American merchants and
American travelers, with their wares
and merchandise, the product of
American labor,” between our ports
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LOOKING BACKWARD.
tains. It should be the uniform
thought and doctrine of the Republi
can party.
As to the much talked about and
little understood question of reciproc
ity as a means of promoting foreign
trade the venerable statesman was
equally clear and pointed when he
saiu:
“Everybody is in favor of reciproc
ity and everybody is in favor of for
eign trade. We wish to sell every
thing we can sell to foreign countries
and to buy from foreign countries
everything that It Is for the interest
of the whole people that we should
buy rather than make ourselves."
That is the question. Reciprocity
begins and ends right there. If it be
gins at all under and in accordance
with the principles of protection to
domestic labor and industry. What is
we should stop making in order that
we should stop making in order Ljat
foreigners may make and sell it to us?
What industry or group of industries
shall we wipe out of existence, dis
placing American employment, Ameri
can labor and American wage paying?
It is a hard question and one that de
mands an answer. No advocate of reci
procity in competing products has
ever answered it; none ever will an
swer It except he answer it as a free
trader—namely: "No mater what in
dustry or group of industries shall be
annihilated. Let us have more for
eign trade at any cost to domestic
labor and wages.'
That is not tne answer of protec
tionists. and it should not be the
answer of any Republican. It is not
Senator Hoar's answer. This is what
Le said a*, tils EKJ.JX CffiTi dinner:
“Do you wish to buy of Canada any
thing we can make better ourselves?
L>o you want to strike down one
American manufacture for the benefit
of another? Or do you want to estab
lish the reciprocity that Blaine favor
ed: 'Soil to Canada everything that
we have got to soil tliut she does not
produce, and buy of Canada every
thing that she has got to sell that we
do not produce.’ ”
That is Blaine reciprocity. Republi
can reciprocity as defined in the plat
form of 1900, the only reciprocity that
is no’’, free trade.
and countries where our trade is un
developed. Here is practical food for
thought. Secretary Shaw has little
to say about reciprocity, because little
can be said about a mere theory, if
not a chimera.—St. l.oiiis Globe Demo
crat.
Hampered.
The New York Journal of Com
merce is of the opinion that our
woolen manufacturers are greatly
hampered by the tariff on wool. They
were not thus hampered during the
free wool period, 1894-97, a period of
stagnation, loss and bankruptcy. If
occasionally, a woolen manufacturer
indulges himself in a dream of free
trade in wool he Is sure to wake up
w’hen he recalls what happened to
him as the result of the Wilson-Gor
man atrocity, and, particularly, what
would happen to him when the re
moval of the tariff on wool should be
—as it certainly would be—accom
panied by a very material reduction
of the tariff on woolens.
The World Is Advantaged.
A Democratic free trade paper, com
menting on the fact that the British
are protesting against cheap bounty*
sugar, says that their attitude and the
facts suggest that “the bounty busi
ness may be carried so far as to chief
ly benefit the consumers of other coun
tries and that the production of beet
sugar has tended to enormously re
duce the world's price of sugar. Thai
being the case, it would be preposter
ous to deny that the world generally
is advantaged.—San Francisco Chron
icle.
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Familiar Tactics.
The free-traders in England are
trying to defeat the protectionists by
setting up a cry of the dear loaf. How'
like the tactics of the free trades in
this country. The facts are against?
free trade, therefore the appeal to ig-;
noranco must come from the reaim of
fiction.—Jersey City Journal.
They Know.
There is not a farmer in the United
i States, whether he raises sugar beets
or not. who favors the Cuban treaty.
Our farmers know what is best for the
country as well as themselves.
The Crisla of Alfalfa.
Alfalfa (Lucerne) Is frequently
spoken of as a comparatively new
plant, while, as a matter of fact, it is
a very old plant, having been culti
vated by the Greeks and Romans long
before the Christian Era. Later it
was introduced Into South America,
gradually travelling northward through
New ^Mexico, Southern, Western and
Northern states, and lastly .nto Can
ada, where the more it is known the
better it is liked, said F. C. Elford,
speaking at an Ontario farmers’ insti
tute. I think the chief objections to
lucerne have been raised by persons,
who, not knowing it, have tried it
once or twice and failed. Those who
have been growing it for years are its
strongest advocates. In our experi
ence of fifteen or sixteen years, the
best results have been obtained by
following a hoed crop, using as a
nurse crop about one bushel of barley
or oats per acre. We sow at least
twenty pounds of good seed per acre.
We put the seeder in front of the
drill, thereby getting a deeper cover
ing for the seed. Too much care can
not be taken in the preparation of
the seed bed. Twenty pounds is lit
tle enough; some sow thirty. The
first winter and spring is the critical
period of its history, and in order to
get it safely past this danger point,
it is better not to pasture after the
nurse crop Is taken off, but to allow the
young clover to grow and form a
mulch so as to protect its roots from
the frost. The next season, though it
may not look very promising at first,
it will produce two or three crops of
hay or fodder, and the stand will be
come thicker with each successive
cutting. Considerable of the lack of
success in growing lucerne has been
the failure to comply with one or two
minor, yet ail Important rules, viz.,
lack of sufficient previous preparation
of the soil, too shallow covering of
the seed, and close pasturing the first
fall.
Sneezeweed.
This is a perennial plant growing to
a height of 3 feet under favorable con
ditions. It is found in moist ground
from Connecticut to Illinois and south
ward to the Gulf. The whole plant,
especially the flower, is bitter and
more or less acrid and pungent. Sheep,
cattle and horses that are unfamiliar
with the plant are often poisoned with
Fl&M—Buff zrwfed (TTrlmium CHtfunmaUf, OOfr
third natural Size.
It when driven to localities where it
abounds. As a rule these animals
avoid it, but it is claimed that they
often develop a taste for it and are
killed by eating it in large quantities.
The poison exists principally in the
flowers. The young plants appear to
be only moderately dangerous. In the
mature ones the amount of poison
varies greatly in the same field.
Applying Manure Green.
John Parton, being asked the ques
tion whether it was better to apply
manure green or well-rotted, replied:
There is less loss in putting manure
on laud green than in rotting it before
it is applied. Besides this, there is a
special advantage that in putting the
manure on in the winter time it is
done at less expense. In rotting the
manure under the most favorable con
ditions chemists tell us that it loses
50 per cent. However, when it is on
the land in the green condition and
the fermentation allowed to take place
in the soil, as soon as any plant food
is liberated it is in the place where it
is most readily taken up. Besides
this, the decay of manure in ferment
ing has a beneficial efTect in wanning
up the soil. Experiments carefully
conducted at Guelph, as to applying
manure fresh and rotted, proved that
the ordinary way of leaving manure
exposed to the weather was wasteful;
when protected from rain it was still
subject to loss, and when put on fresh
the best results were obtained.
Onions are of great antiquity and of
universal cultivation in every civilized
country, some nationalities preferring
one variety and some another. The
peculiar characteristic odor is due to
a volatile organic compound contain
ing sulphur.
Clover, soy herns, cow peas and
alfalfa are all great nitrogen gath
erers.
LIVE STOCK
Before the Lambs Come.
A. G. Garnley, a Manitoba shoep
breeder, says: The lamb crop, lik<
any other, to be successful, must be
prepared for beforehand; therefore
as the breeding season approaches th»
ewes ought to be getting in good con
dition, and It cannot be done easiei
than by giving them the run of tht
stubble aelds after the grain is
stacked. Before the breeding season
is over the winter will have set in
and the flock will be in their winter
quarters. No elaborate building it
necessary. A hay rack running round
the inside, with a small door in the
center, just large enough for one
sheep to go in and out when the big
door is shut. It must be dry and en
tirely free from drafts for the sheep
to do well; 30x60 feet will be ample
accommodation for a hundred good
sized ewes, until lambing time.
The winter feed should be wild hay,
oat straw or oat sheaves. They may
be allowed to run at the oat stack,
care is taken to remove the overhang
lng portions as they eat it away from
under, to prevent the chaff from get
ting into their wool. The hay is fed
in the rack inside, and only what they
will eat up clean. Always clean out
the racks before the next feeding, j
have often heard it said that sheep
won’t drink water, but that is a mis
take, they will drink large quantities
of water at the right time and place.
They won’t drink out of a water hole
on a cold day, but watered in their
pens and in troughs, a hundred head
will drink almost two barrels a day.
I think good water is most important.
Keep salt where they can get it at al.'
times, summer and winter.
The hay, oat straw, and chaff will
have brought the ew’es along nicely
till about six weeks before lambing,
when, if the lambs are expected when
the flock is in winter quarters, the
ewres will require a little extra feed ,
ing, to stimulate the secretion of milk '
Oat chop, or oat sheaves, one sheaf
between four, the bands cut and scat
tered over the snow, will, along with
their usual feed of hay, tone them up
and bring them along. When they
are let out to the sheaves, be sure and
have the door wide open, to prevent
them crushing their sides, which is
dangerous to in-lamb ewes, being li
able to kill lambs. As the time for
the coming of the youngsters ap
proaches, the shepherd will be mak
ing preparations. If the lambs are
coming in May very little is necessary ;
to be done, but if in March, and the j
sheep pen is not warm enough for ;
new-born lambs, then warmer quar j
ters must be provided. My plan is to I
have a shed built of poles, covered
with straw and well banked with ma
nure, into which turn the cattle, mak
ing the vacated stalls into temporary
pens, by nailing a few boards across
the ends.
Care of Breeding Animals.
Comparatively little attention is
given to this very important subject,
because it is not deemoJ necessary
by the average farmer. Somehow or
other the breeding animals, no mat
ter what the class of stock, are ex
pected to get along and rustle for
themselves. They may even be ex
pected to do hard work every day.
In fact, as a rule, they are and es
pecially is this true In the case of
i-orses and cows. Very few people
seem to consider the extra strain on
the female of carrying young as a
matter worthy of consideration, though
the proper nutrition of the dam, as
will be apparent later, has a very
marked Influence on the development
of the foetus and its final growth and
vigor. Do not overlook the fact that
a certain amount of exercise and
work Is necessary for the female, as
it aids digestion and tones up and
keeps the whole system In good con
dition, which means the development
of a strong, healthy foetus. Such
breeding animals as cannot be work
ed should, therefore, be given the
run of large, shaded pastures where
they will be obliged to move around
In order to secure the necessary sup
plies of food and thus obtain that
gentle, stimulating exercise which is
so essential for the health of the
mother and young as well. The food
provided in the pasture, besides be
ing succulent, is nutritious and ex
erts a desirable physiological action
on the system.—Prof. A. M. Soule.
The Angora in the United States.
The Angora industry has now been
successfully growing In the United
States for more than forty years. The
early breeders worked hard with a few
Imported animals, and by crossing and
recrossing with the common Mexican
goat of the West, the American An
gora flocks have grown from nothing
to their present number of about four
hundred thousand animals. The ob
stacles which the early breeders had
to overcome were appalling; weak
men would have fallen by the wayside,
but these sturdy pioneers saw that
some day the Angora goat would be a
power In the live stock Interests of
tho United States, so they persevered,
and you are beginning to feel tho im
petus of the growing movement. Our
association now numbers 425 mem
bers, and the value of our flocks
reaches into the millions, there being
more than forty thousand Angoras oil
our association records. We have
sufficient foundation stock to proceed
with, thanks to the years jt patient
work of the Angora pioneers, and, as
Secretary Wilson has said, “The An
gora industry Is an American institu
tion which has cc*o9 lo stay.—w. C.
Bailey.
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Sir Evelyn Arthur Falrbairn Is th®
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bears an hereditary title and was
born deaf and dumb. A tall, hand
some man, with a peculiarly wlnnir#
smile and attractive manner, he gives
no outward sign of a misfortune
which would have shadowed a tem
perament less buoyant than his own.
Sir Arthur Is a famous globe trotter,
a great part of his travel having bee»
undertaken to study means of ameli
orating the lot of those afflicted as
be is himself.
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