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About Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1896)
U II r v f i 1 LW 3 J 3 1 t t v fcOW IN THE BANKS SOLDIERS TAKE SIDES IN BOOTH FAMILY JAR THE They Ask Bollingrton Booth to Head an Independent American Array but He Declines and Quits the Organi zationCause of the Trouble New War Cry The trouble In the ranks of the Salva tion army seems to grow Ballington Booths peremptory removal by luc fath er from the command of the army in the United States has caused dissensions that way result in a permanent disruption of tihis famous religious organization If Ballington Booth lifts his hand in assent it is believed that the American branch will throw off its allegiance to the parent body in England The root of the evil seems to be jealousy in the Booth family Ballington Booth for nine years the com mander of the army in America has been forced do resign and in consequence has teggaS BOOTH TUCKEK left the army The leaders of the various branches throughout the United States asked him to take charge of an independ ent army saying that if he did so the Americau army would secede from the British or parent organization This Booth refused to do Thus the army re mains intact but there is no love for tihe British authorities and a mutiny may occur at any time Eva Booth sister of Ballington and daughter of Gen William Bootih the head of the universal army of Salvationists is temporarily in command of the American army She will remain an charge until the arrival here of Com missioner Booth Tucker and his wife who have been appointed to succeed Mr and Mrs Ballington Booth as commanders of flhe American forces The trouble began about a month ago when Gen William Booth issued an order -relieving the commanders in the United States France Canada Australia and India and ordering them all to report in London in April The news greatly sur prised the army in America For nine years Ballington Booth had been in com mand here He had found the army weak and struggling despised and ridiculed He put his whole soul and energy into the nvork By Qiis side was his wife a woman 1 0MgIi - education great personal mag uetisin and undoubted ability She shared equally his labors and while the dealt with the men she organized the famous slum -corps and inaugurated a wonderful relig ious work among the outcast -women The Booths found here an army of G000 per sons They have to day a disciplined suc cessful body of more tllian 30000 men and women who are laboring jiight and day to save souls They have acquired prop erty aud public support They have made tihe Salvation army recognized as one of the most powerful forces for Christianiz ing -work in this country The officers of the army throughout the United States assert that the other Booths pre jealous of Ballingtons success and iM EVA BOOlir therein is the cause of the trouble This Herbert and Mrs Bootih deny The New Commander F De la Tour Booth Tucker the Jiew commander is 43 years old He belongs to an old English family and before he joined the Salvation army was a resident magistrate in the Punjab district in In dia Eight years ago he became inter ested an the army and after investigation decided that only by its agency could the heathen millions be converted to Chris tianity He threw up his commission and entered tho ranks of the Salvationists as a cadet He went to England and after a stay tlhere of about a year return ed to India to evangelize the natives The ex magistrate donned the garb of the in habitants of the country went barefoot ed and begged his bread as a traveling preacher among the Gingaratis one of the native tribes It was mainly through his efforts that the army got a foothold in that vast country He rose rapidly and now holds the position of foreign secretary Five years ago he married Emma Booth tthe second daug bter of Gen Booth and sister of Ballington Booth She is very active in army work and is lady principal of the organizations training schools Senator Elkins of West Virginia is not a candidate for the presidential nomina tion In an interview Mr Elkins declares that he is content with his senatorial honors and that the statements concern ing his presidential ambitions were made by ill advised friends and are unauthor ized He says he is for McKinley William H Luckenbach D D presi dent of the New York and New Jersey synod of the Lutheran Church at Hudson N Y died of paralysis He was 67 years old WILES AND SITTING BULL An Interview Between the Two as De scribed by the General Made insolent by recent successes Sitting Bull iu 1S7G sent word to Col onel 3D S Otis who was escortiDg ono of Miles supply trains to get out of the way as he was scaring off the buf falo If -you dont said the note I will fight you again I want you to leave what you have got here and turn back I mean all the rations you have got and some powder Colonel Otis however kept on the Indians from time to time liring upon him When General Miles heard of this affair he moved after Sitting Bull and on flie 21sr of October found him near the head of Cedar Creek The famous medicine man sent in a flag of truce and an interview was held between the lines under an agreement that General Miles should take six persons with him and Sitting Bull also six Sitting Bull said the general in telling the story to a writer spread out a blanket and wanted me to sit down upon it but I stood up while be sat down As we talked one and an other young Indian sauntered up until there were perhaps ten or fifteen in a half circle One of my men called at tention to this I said to Sitting Bull These men are not old enough for council and unless you send them back we will stop talking Soon afterward the interview came to an end with noth ing settled I found out later from a scout and interpreter named John Brughier that one Indian muttered Why dont you talk strong to him and that Sitting Bull replied When I do that I am going to kill him Brugh ier also told me that one of the young warriors slipped a carbine up under Sitting Bulls buffalo robe But I bad in mind the fate of Canby and had in structed the troops on the ridge back to keep the spot in range The next day came a second inter view The general tried bard to in duce the Indians to obey the govern ment and to go to their respective reser vations Sitting Bulls answer was em phatic The Great Spirit made me an In dian He did not make me an agency Indian and I do not intend to be one Seeing that further parley was use less General Miles gave au ultimatum through the interpreter Tell him that either I will drive nim out of the country or he will drive me out I will take no advantage of the flag of truce and will give him fifteen minutes to get back to bis lines If my terms are not accepted by that time I will open fire Sitting Bull started up with a grunt and rushed out in a fury followed by bis chiefs not stopping to shake bands In a very short time the Indian lines were all astir with yelling warriors and with ponies scurrying about and presently the grass was burning here and there to stop all advance of the troops Miles had with him only 308 rifles while the Indians swarmed in for greater numbers in front and on the flanks but his men went forward with a- rush and the hostiles were driven two score miles to the Yellowstone leaving some of their dead in the flight McClures Magazine Newspapers vs Posters I struck an inland Indiana town re cently and about the first thing I no ticed was flaring posters announcing the appearance of a second rate star at the local opera house that evening In the course of my business I found myself in a drug store where the ad Vance sale of seats was -held and after celling a bill of goods asked for a ticket to the evenings performance Oh said the young man behind the counter those people aint coming They busted last week Why dont you take down or cover up the posters then I asked Oh everybody knows they aint doming It was in the papers Sure enough The management trust ed to half a dozen lines in the local pa pers to counteract the influence of sev eral stands of red black and yellow posters And the papers did it Probably was the only person in the town who had asked for a ticket after the news paper announcement Can you think of any better illustra tion of the relative value of newspa per advertising and the other kind Push Is Marriage a Failure The Earl of Stafford married at St Germain 1694 the eldest daughter of the Count de Grammont in his will he thus expressed himself I leave to the very worst of women who is guilty of everything that is bad the daughter of M Grammont a Frenchman whom I have unfortunately married forty five brass halfpence with which to buy a pullet for supper a greater sum than her father can often give her he being the worst of men and his wife the worst of women Had I only known their characters I had never married their daughter nor made myself so un happy A Liover of Breton Folklore Le Vicomte Hensart de la Ville marque who died the other day at the age of SO had done probably more than anyone in his generation to popularize the knowledge of Breton folk lore folk poetry and folk music in France His Barzaz Briez a collection of the pop ular songs of Brittany with the orig inal melodies and critical excursus and notes is a statfdard work He was the first to provide a translation of the Breton bards of the earliest epochs A Regiment or Plows One hundred and sixty plows starts In a row at a recent plowing match at Dartford England Girls like to talk about love because all of them know some verse they can vquote about it THE FAEM AND HOME MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARM ER AND HOUSEWIFE f he Kate of Farm Wages Should More Nearly Approximate Earnings Al ways Carry Insurance Farmers Should Stand Together Te9t Cows Pay What Labor Is Worth The difficulty which farmers find in securing good help is largely their own fault The standard of farm wages is very low and for the very best help only 2 or 3 additional is what most of them will allow Of course under these circumstances the active and en terprising young men not afraid of work seek other employments It is not true that young men seek city life expecting to have an easier time though this may be true of some of them Many work quite as hard as they would on the farm but they get better pay than the farm would afford them It will be better both for farm ers and young men if the rate of farm wages more nearly approximated earn ings The poorest help as it is now generally gets more than he earns and this is made up by labor of the farmer or of other help not fully paid for - Farm Insurance Carry a two thirds insurance on your dwellings and furniture on barns anl out buildings live stock in stables crops in barns and upon farm machinery carriages wagons carts and harness A policy of insurance for 4000 for one year in a first class company may be had for 20 and in a mutual com pany for two thirds of this amount Carry enough insurance and do not let the policy expire It is a duty every man owes to himself his family and his creditors Be careful with lights have no smoking around the buildings do not smoke yourself and do not al low others to do it Take care of the ashes Many fires occur from direct carelessness Have a large iron pot or a little brick building to throw them in Have the ashes taken out in the morning and if thrown into such a re ceptable there is no danger Wood ashes are very valuable to spread around fruit trees or to spread over the onion ground and they should be saved dry Coal ashes after they are sifted can be used for making walks around the dwellings and out to the barn A six inch layer of stone should be first placed on the earth and then a six inch layer of ashes Ram the ashes down hard and a neat dry walk can be had which will last for a number of years and will be a great comfort in wet weather An insurance tends to make the insured more careful and easy in mind and if by accident a fire occurs there is money enough to make another start with Baltimore Ameri can Farmers Should Stand Together The great trouble with farmers here tofore has been that they hang together bout like the grains of sand in a pile says the Wallace Farmer There is so much of the spirit of independence among farmers that they are jealous of each other and hence by lack of con fidence imperil the success of any enter prise their friends may have in hand and allow themselves to be easily di vided and conquered Test the Cows It will certainly pay a man who keeps only three or four cows to know what each cow is doing says Hoards Dairy man If he cannot otherwise conveni ently get his milk tested say twice a month it will pay him to own a Bab cock tester and one of the spring scales or balances advertised in this paper The small testers especially those run ning with gears are usually quite ac curate It is sometimes necessary to whirl the bottles a minute or two longer in the smaller machines Weigh the milk given by each cow at every milking test two or three times each month and if you do not find it neces sary to dispose of one or two cows your case will be one of the rare exceptions to the general rule A four bottle tester suffices for a small dairy Mixing Fertilizers It does not pay to go into the business of preparing mineral manures such as bones or phosphate rock unless it can be done on a large scale Bones are bard to dissolve either with acid or with alkalies and cannot be got into condition for spreading evenly over the surface except under difficulties that make it unprofitable The commercial phosphates are sold lower than farm ers can prepare them for their own use even with the bones furnished free of cost Besides raw bone makes an ex cellent poultry feed and it produces as might be expected a strongly phos phatic manure What the poultry cant eat should be ground as finely as possi ble and mixed with composting stable manure which is usually deficient in phosphate Mating of Hens The number of hens with each male should be usually from eight to fifteen of the larger breeds and from fifteen to twenty of the leghorn or other small breeds A better way would be slight ly to increase but not double this number and use two males changing them nearly every day but this is not always convenient says the New Eng land Farmer Two males should never run with the same flock as one will master the other and a cock that has been once thoroughly whipped is al most worthless as a breeder when in the presence of his conqueror and but little better even when put with an other flock Remember then in selecting breeding fowl look first for good health next for perfection of shape and then for pro ductiveness Size should nt influeuce the choice or rather a medium size Is better than very large or very small unless one is growing a breed iu which Bize is all important as in bantams In wj i sas plumage a good glossy feather well be of good health and of course it one has a pure breed the feathering sh6uld be good- enough no marked strain of other breeds Canned Meats for Summer Farmers usually have a plentiful sup ply of fresh meat in winter when the weather is cold and by freezing the meat can be kept sometimes for weeks without being injured But in summer it is different and the ration of salted pork or corned beef is apt to become tiresome It is a surprise that some of the fresli meat butchered in winter is not canned as i may easily be Cut it in small pieces without any bone and cook so thoroughly as to expel all air Then place it quickly in glass jars that have been slowly heated until they are nearly as hot as the cooked food If this is done and the cans are immersed except their tops in hot water the glass will not break Pack the meat as close ly as possible in the can and when filled cover the top with melted lard and seal the can The lard will protect the meat beneath it from any air that may be under the lid of the can and which may have ferment germs A few cans of fresh meat for use in sum mer will be quite as convenient as the cans of fruit and vegetables which all good housewives now put up every summer and fall in greatest abundance Fresh fruit in the summer is more easy to get in the country than is fresh meat of any kind Buying and Selling Young Stock For a farmer who can keep but a moderate amount of stock buying and selling is perhaps as profitable a way as breeding Most young animals can be bought for less than they are worth This is especially true of yearling cat tle heifers and steers They will often be sold by the time they are near a year old for little more than they would have brought when -calves to be sold to the butcher The gain from one to two years is greater than in any other year of the animals existence This is especially true of heifers which may be bred to drop their first calf at 2 years old and will thenceforward pay their way Of course if all farmers tried this policy there would be n6 young stock for sale But a great many will always try to raise a fine calf and be discouraged and reauy to sell it just about the time when giving it good care and feed would insure the largest prof its Whatever stock a farmer buys he will do well to secure it whpn not older than a year Left longer it will not become wonted to the new home nor do so well as it would if left on tho farm where it was reared Microbe Farming The mystery of nitrification is now so well known that any farmer can un derstand it says the Agriculturist Plants live on nitrogen but apparently have no power to take it either from the air or the soil Here the nitrogen-bacteria get in their work These microbes like atomic sponges take in the nitro gen from the soil and the air and transform it into nitric acid in which form the plant can consume it A soil may be destitute of nitrogen and need both that and the microbes or it may lack only the microbes in which case a supply of them renders the field imme diately fertile Stable manure has lit tle nitrogen but swarms with the germs of microbes Add to a field where cloverseed wont catch a light dressing of soil from a plot where clover thrives to perfection and a catch of cloverseed is almost sure to result Why Because the soil added is full of the germs or microbes that enable the young clover plant to avail itself of the nitrogen in ground or air Drawing Sand on Gardens Many heavy clay soils are improved by a mixture of sand with the surface soil It as especially valuable for mel ons cucumbers and early vegetables A very slight covering of sand less than an inch dnj depth will suffice if the land is not plowed very deeply The pulverization of clay soils is greatly helped by baving some sand mixed with them as this gives a chance for water to soak into the soil and for frost to penetrate deeper Tbis also is greatly aided by undefdralning which almost all clay soil needs Leather as a Fertilizer Leather as a fertilizer has no value whether untreated steamed roasted or pulverized It contains from G to 8 per cent of nitrogen but is insoluble and it may be years before it will decay in the soil sufficient for plants to take up Its nitrogen Hence in Connecticut and some other States the law forbids its use in any form as an ingredient of commercial fertilizers without an ex plicit printed certificate of the fact con spicuously fixed to every package Treat Heifers Kindly Some of the best heifers are ruined when they come in with their first calves To properly train a heifer to be milked requires patience To strike her for nojt permitting herself to be milked when she does not really under stand your object is to aggravate the difficulty She should be gently han dled when a calf and taught by kind ness alone If she sbows any faults they must be corrected by teaching her that you are her friend It is better to send her to the butcher at once than to use a stick on her Shelter for Grindstone It is very common on some farms to keep the grindstone out of doors shel tered only by the foliage of some tree in summer but in winter exposed to all kinds of storms These stones are al ways more or less porous If they were not they would not make good material to sharpen metal cutting tools When a grindstone gets wet and the moisture in it freezes pieces of the stone chip off and the stone wears away unevenly thus soon becoming of very little value Some Pertinent Pointers The following hints on how to make Roads Better are selected from a neat little pamphlet sent out by the Juniata Limestone Company Limited Cove Forge Pa r The system of working out road taxes is a most vicious one and is responsible for the failure which has marked the past construction and repair of roads Since it seems to be a necessary evil however let us not despair in that it is evil evil works its own reward First see that your road can be drain ed on both sides a drain in the middle of a- road while quite common does not help the road much After making sure the road can be drained find out how much of the sur face must come off Dig down deep lenough to determine whether or not it has a bottom this side of China Often you will find as much as eighteen or twenty inches of mud sticks and stray etones the collection of some eight or ften supervisors gathered at great ex pense to the taxpayers during as many years Their removal may injure a few theo ries but will benefit the road and thats what were here for J Right here too many road makers make their great error they stop en tirely or worse yet cover the stone with mud Why do they cover it with mud Well bless your honest heart didnt the supervisor purchase a road plow as he was instructed and what do you suppose a road plow is for if not to jplow mud from the sides of a road and heap it on the middle Then throw it away you say Not much Do you suppose our tax payers can stand such unheard of ex travagance If he didnt cover it with mud he prob ably went over it with a hand bammer and gave it a lick and a promise com monly known as breaking it down We imagine the recording angel was kept busy for some seven months and three days keeping tab on the language of those who were forced to use the road forced we say for there many who saw an advantage in driving three miles further to get around it Incidentally what did the road maker get re elected most likely We have known as low as seven votes to elect a road supervisor he proved to be worth about that much to the township We know a township in Pennsylvania which was turned topsy turvy by a supervisor who supervised It now possesses the proud distinc tion of being the possessor of the best roads in the Stite Theres a moralhere probably two Let the whole road be covered to the depth of at least six inches with lime stone screenings Now look over your road Is it level Oh it is is it Well you are all dead wrong Didnt we tell you to make it higher in the middle A road that is level when made will soon sag and you will find it is easier to drain a road which is high in the middle than one with a sag in it When the State made roads roads were made When each township makes its roads why the tax is worked out as for the roads that does not matter so much in the summer they are usually dry and in winter covered with snow while in the spring and fall Too many roads nave been built by stories told from the top of a rail fence The mismanagement displayed in road making would wreck any business enterprise It seems as if money collected as road tax was made of counterfeit or bad a bole in it else why is it thrown away If our school tax had been expended like our road tax the Chinese would have been sending missionaries to civ ilize us long ago Now give your road a chance and note results Do it again next year Not on your life Do it once and that time well and there you are The moral is plain dear reader The mass of our people need educa tion along this line badly We stand ready to give our assistance in the mat ter of making roads better that we may all enjoy better roads The Cooks Mistake A Prairie avenue capitalist who gain ed the larger part of his wealth in the sawmill and lumbering industry in Northern Wisconsin is noted for the vigilance with which he watches the small details of his big business As an example of this characteristic a story is told of a tour of inspection made by him to his logging camps in the pine wcotfs On this trip the Cfcicago lumberman was grieved to notice that some of his teamsters used too many oats in feed ing their horses and was shocked by a -few other evidences of petty extrav agance but what pained him most was the amount of provisions consumed at the camp He believed that this was due to the wastefulness of the cooks though such waste is difficult to detect But the Chicago man soon hit upon an ingenious detective scheme by which K V he was able to tell whether or not the cooks were economical in theuseojL supplies At all the earn ps nplg and fedon the SdapsironYfhe woodsmeriJ tables After a visit to the pig pen he approached the cook with a friendly smile and remarked Ahf Antolrie thats afiiie fat pig you ha v e there Gouldnrfc -well feed another As Antoine was wise he replied Xb we cant keep more than one We havent enough scraps At the next camp the same question was asked the unsuspecting Peter and he promptly replied Why yes We could feed nnothei pig just as well as not Send us onev Then the lumberman fbund the camp foreman and said OBrien you will have to discharge that cook of yours He can feed too many pigs Chicago Chronicle Funny Advertisements Curiuusly worded advertisements which are funny without Intent are common in the London papers It would seem An English periodical offered a prize the other day for the best collec tion of such announcements and the following is the result Annual sale now on Dont go else where to be cheated come In here A lady wants to sell her piano as she is going abroad in a strong iron frame Furnished apartments suitable for gentlemen with folding doors Wanted- a room by two gentlemen about thirty feet long and twenty feet broad Lost a collie dog by a man on Satur day answering to Jim with a brass col lar round his neck and a muzzle Wanted by a respectable girl her passage to New York willing to take care of children and a good sailor Respectable widow wants washing for Tuesday For sale A pianof ort the property of a musician with carved legs Mr Brown furrier begs to announce that he Aviil make up gowns capes etc for ladies out of their own skin A boy wanted who can open oysters with reference Bulldog foi sale will eat anything very fond of children Wanted An organist an a boy to blow the same Wanted A boy to be partly outside and partly behind the counter Wanted For the summer a cottage for a small fam ily with good drainage Lost Near Highgate archway an umbrelhi be longing to a gentleman with a bent rib and a bone handle Widow in com fortable circumstances wishes to mar- ry two sons Wanted Good boys for punching To be disposed of a mall phaeton the property of a gentleman with a movable headpiece as good as new The last is a copy of an inscription painted on a board which adorned a fence in Kent Notis If any mans or womans cows gets into these here otes his or her tail will be cut off as tho case may be No Proof of His Powers Ethel Yes papa I believe you told me once that young Litewait claimed to be a hyp notist Oh he is one papa I know he is Hes proved it to your satisfaction has he Yes papa Was be trying to demonstrate it when I saw him kissing you in the con servatory The beautiful girl blushed Yes papa You considered that satisfactory proof did you Yes papa And youre sure it was hypnotism Perfectly certain papa You wouldnt try to deceive your poor old father in a matter of that sort would you No indeed papa The old man shook his head doubt- fully i I think it would have looked more like a genuine case of hypnotism if he had kissed your mother or me he said However well not discuss that I have made up my mind though that all hypnotists must keep away from here Why papa My observation convinces me that you are too good a subject to make It possible for any of them to demon strate any real hypnotic power to my satisfaction As for young Litewait you may say to him that I feel certalr that I can hypnotize him so perfectly that he would never know what hit him True Love Wins Even in Russia AJtussiau girl had her way at Kharfc how recently Her relatives forced t to consent to marry a man she disliked When the wedding party appeared b j church however and the priest aske4 her if she would take the man she sail 3 No She would not yield to remoi strance so the party returned home an argued with her First her parent beat her then the bridegrooms frlendj beat her She was taken back to th5 church weeping and the service wa begun again But she again said No j and this time the priest saved her froil her relatives - J m w an tea to sing Bass 3 Ferrari the celebrated composer n Intpc tho TOlmwinf nnondntn j us 1 moirs On a cold December night a nW in a little village in the Tyrol opent the window and stood in front of i with hardly any clothinsr to h hn Peter shouted a neighbor who wi passing what are you doing there 5 lra catching a cold What fori bo 1 can sing bass to morrow church x Underwriters have not vp rWil whether Nero fiddled or played on tl nan jo uunng the fire The editor who violates no corl aence in saying frequently weal uiulIx tye ft