The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, September 09, 1897, Image 3
U5 f c b i V X W WHEN WILL WAGES RISE Stocks have risen in value wheat is booming Republican editors are hys iericalily happy but the wage earner Is looking in vain for an increase in ais pay Prosperity is here but somehow or other the men who work for a living dont seem to be getting any of the benefits And in addition to the fact that wages are low there comes the added fact that work is scarce When he wage earner finds no difficulty in securing a place to labor and when he receives a decent wage in recompense for that labor then indeed will the Republican hilarity over good times have cause for existence Consistency demands that the Re publican employers of labor should prove their faith in the return of pros perity by meeting the demands of la bor for a reasonable wage with a prompt and cheerful response A fail ure to do this is either a confession of the falsehood of their claims or of the fact that th ej are oppressors of the poor and speculators in human lives Starving miners who ask not fair wages but simply pay enough to keep themselves and families alive are met with injunctions and armed guards are evicted from their miserable homes and are denied the liberty of free speech and peaceable assembly Re publican consistency is only equaled by Republican rapacity inhumanity falsehood and greed Chicago Dis patch Tariff and 1rosperitT Prosperity for the people so far as it has come at all has come through the beneficence of Providence in grant ing the United States an abundant wheat crop The good price for wheat result- from the fact that the worlds crop of this cereal is some 200000000 bushels short of the average Its an ill wind that blows nobody any good and this couutry profits frojn the loss sustained by foreign counties Prosperity for the trusts comes through the action of the Djngley tar iff The sugar trust on the basis of 2M cents per pound gets an increased dif ferential from 293 under the Wilson bill to 7S3 under the Dingley bill The glass trust gets an averagencrease of 30 per cent The meat trustgots an in crease from 20 per cent to 4S78 per cent on beef and an increase on pre served meats from 20 to 25 per cent and on lard from 10 to 21 per cent ThefoIIowinglines of business which are organized more or less compactly in the form of trusts all get very large increases Oilcloth Trust1 Sandstone Trust Dental Tools Trust Felt Trust Imager Beer Trust Lead Pencil Trust Patent Leather Trust Watch Case Trust White Lead Trust Barbed Wire Trust Boiler Trust Boot and Shoe Trust Brush Trust Borax Trust Broom Trust Trust Button Trust Casket Celluloid Trust Coal Trust Crockery Trust Cotton Trust Duck Trust Cotton Thread Trust Electric Supplies Trust Marble Trust Match Trust Paper Bag Trust Plate Glass Trust Pocket Cutlery Trust Pulp Trust Rubber Gossamer Trust Rub ber Trust Safe Trust Sanitary Ware Trust Sandpaper Trust Sash Door and Blind Trust School Furniture Trust Shot and Lead Trust Smelters Trust Soda Trust Water Machinery Trust Trunk Trust Type Trust Writ ing Paper Trust There is no argument necessary Facts speak louder than words Not a Revenue Producer There is a dead silence on the part of the Republican press on the subject of the Dingley tariff as a raiser of rev enue Great hurrahing over the providen tial dispensation which has given wheat a high price will not convince the people that McKinley contrived to create a famine in India and a short crop of wheat abroad nor will it di vert attention from Republican legis lation which is the true test of Repub lican ability to manage the affairs of this nation Wiien the Dingley bill was under dis cussion its Republican advocates urged that it would produce a revenue the first year of its existence amounting to at least 15000000 a month Up to Iate the receipts show that it has not brought to the Government treasury half the monthly amount estimated a scant 7000000 a month having been received There is something radically wrong TVith the Dingley tariff bill and if the deficit is not made good in some unfore seen manner the Republican money manglers and tariff tinkers will find themselves in an exceedingly awkward predicament With appropriations for the year amounting to 52S73507S the deficit threatens to be something of a stum bling block to the braggart bulldozers of the party in power Evidently too much attention was paid to filling the pockets of the trusts and too little to the construction of a revenue-producing measure when the Dingley bill was -formed Too IMuch Politics in Pensions There never has been any hostility to pensions for Federal soldiers who were disabled in the service of the country where the disability was ac tually incurred in the service or was the result of the service No one who has not studied the question has any conception of the amount of fraud and rascality that is perpetrated in the - r V granting of pensions The trouble about it has been that the pension of fice has been made a political machine and operated as such ina great meas ure ever since the war Louisville Post Crowding Silver Too Far The fall in the price of silver is urged by the advocates of gold monometal lism as an argument against bimetal lism The argument is all the other way and those who are not blind partisans are beginning to see the logic of the situation The advocates of gold have pushed their cause too far and threat en the destruction of 1500000000 worth of coined silver held by India Mexico Brazil South America China France and Austria to say nothing of the United States Is it not evident that Europe has a deep financial inter est in bringing about some plan to pre vent the wiping out of this value The New York World a strong gold organ asks the pertinent question What is to become of the commerce of the silver countries Englands best customers if their money is to be wiped out Mexico has already put a stop to foreign trade for this cause Must not all the other silver countries do the like if the decline continues It is evident that there is such a thing as crowding the limit England may discover this fact when she loses her trade with all the silver using coun tries Bannas Wrath - 1J itf Hanna to Major Dick You care lessstupidreckless fellow Did you 11UL iino mac vvw t postal money orders should never be used in such cases They are apt to come back and make serious trouble I shall forgive you this first mistake But hereafter dont attempt to execute any of my general orders in detail without consulting me as to the de tails You are not as old in this busi ness as I Look how I handled the middle roaders gold Democrats gold prohibitionists anarchists even Herr Most and never got caught It will cost me a nice figure to clear this up for the subsidized press is bleeding the life out of me But thank heaven I have plenty of stuff left over to do the work Ohio Farm News Crime of 73 Illustrated It is remarked that the administra tion is afraid to oust John Sherman though it has not much use for him And John threatens to make speeches in Ohio too He will though be more of an object lesson than an orator Peo ple will not pay much attention to what he may say but they will look upon him as a physical exhibit of the crime of 1S73 Mr Sherman is one of those who have not outlived their sins Although about twenty four years have elapsed since Mr Sherman failed to tell his colleagues about the devil ment concealed in the mint bill the failure has not been forgotten As the distressing results of that act strike upon the country with greater and greater force as the years pass the sufferers get anxious to know who was the original sinner It will be an un fortunate day for the Democrats if the Hannaites suppress Mr Sherman Prosperity Howlers Hedging Some of the Hanna organs which have been spilling over on the subject of prosperity see the necessity for hedging a little One of them says It will not be a boom era but some thing steady a period of steady and substantial growth That will not do The people want a boom They want a swift ride to prosperity They have been a long time in the trough of the business sea They were promised prosperity immediately on the election of McKinley but things got worse Then they were to have it on the inaug uration but it did not materialize Then Congress was to fix it but the number of idle men has not decreased and thousands of those who have em ployment have had their wages reduc ed since the adjournment of Congress Nothing but an immediate boom will redeem the promises of the advance agent Cincinnati Enquirer Playincr with lSdjjed Tools Those mine owners who imagine they have scored a great victory by secur ing permanent injunction of a sweep ing nature against the United Mine Workers of America are likely to see their mistake after the hour of their triumph has passed There is a grow ing public feeling that the injunction as a weapon to be used against labor U mrrTnQ TVYP PA DlVfTTPCi organizations is not to be handled lUxllyib UJtl AJtlM CiJLtO carelessly In the Pittsburg case Judge Collier makes a temporary injunction against the striking miners permanent after calling the coal strike the won der of the century because of its free dom from violence One naturally asks What next Boston Transcript Only the Tariff Considered Every student of economics knows that in the history of every vigorous nation all short periods of depression in trade have been followed by longer periods of renewed activity Yet if this country shall be more prosperous dur ing the next three years than It has been during the past three every preju diced tariff advocate will assert the opinion that all that is neded for still greater prosperity is more tariff All other influences that go to make a couutry prosperous will be ignored Unprecedented crops at home and fam ine and crop failures abroad less fool ish speculation a frugality learned by bitter experience all will be futile in comparison with the laws made by an omniscient Congress Philadelphi Record Why the Tariff on Coal Will not some one rise up and ex- plain to the people what particular ad vantage at this crisis in the coal trade is the G7 cents a ton duty imposed by the Dingley law on importations of bi tuminous coal The miners are called on to go to work at 54 cents a ton by the operators some of whom declaim ed that such a tariff advance was nec essary to the payment of living wages What protection is there in a duty with the miners getting only 54 cents a ton for mining Pittsburg Post Bread Goitijr Up -with Wheat Dollar wheat means a good many things besides happiness for the farm er It means for Instance an increase in the cost of a loaf of bread The in crease will be felt first by the bakers but it must ultimately be felt by the consumer The price of flour has re sponded at once to the rise in the price of wheat and has gone up in propor tion Boston Herald Hotter than Coal Heat According to Lord Kelvin there arc only 200000 tons of fuel in the world for each person alive to day This alarming fact is pointed to by Chair man Dingley as his reason for the in creased tax on coal but Dingley fails to take into account the unlimited sup plies of heat in another and lower world which should be of personal in terest to the robber barons Louisville Post Good Returns for Farm lahor The people of the West are going tc realize good prices for their products particularly grain while the Southern cotton crop will be large but under ex isting conditions will bring fair re turns The Louisiana sugar crop prom ises to be excellent and the rice crop will give a considerable yield New O rleaus Picayune Brief Comment That check Major Dick gave to the Populist seems to have been something in the way of a dicker Chicago Dis patch The prediction of Senator Aldrich that the new tariff would fall some 400000000 per annum short of meet ing the expenses of the Government is in a fair way of being borne out Brooklyn Citizen Mark Hanna is quoted as saying some time ago that no man in public office owes the public anything In so far as Mr Hana has had any power in the matter he has seen to it that the public got nothing except xfce worst of it Binghamton N Y Leader Mark Hanna denies the report that President McKinley will swing around the circle in Ohio making cam paign speeches for him It is pleasant to know that there is a limit to the Presidents display of gratitude toward his campaign manager New York World The colored voters who had always voted the Republican ticket as a mat ter of religious duty are thinking over the matter and considering whether it would not be better for their interests in the long run if they showed a little independence for once Cleveland Plain Dealer What would the Federal courts do if the coal miners were to apply for some of those most extraordinary injunc tions There is a broad suspicion to the effect that they would be promptly and firmly refused Government by injunction goes by favors New York Evening Journal Those persons who are finding fault with President McKinley for appoint ing so many of his relatives to office evidently overlook the fact that Na poleon used to make a specialty of that sort of thing McKinley has been boomed on Napoleonic lines for many years past New York Journal The revival of prosperity through the bounty of nature in this country and failing crops elsewhere comes despite restrictions on trade for the benefit ol plutocrats The rake off for the favored few provided for by the Ding ley iniquity is merely a fly in the oint ment of the countrys content St Louis Post Dispatch The public at large would be much interested to learn the name of the man who supplies the laughter and v V i - rf A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS 5ow the Kind of Wheat that Is Best Adapted to the Soil Advice About Clipping Horses Removing the Corn Tassels Selectinc Seed Wheat It is found that a change of feed even that from an adjoining farm is an advantage Wheat grown upon strong limestone soils in a cool climate has more vitality and will yield more to the acre than when sown in a warm er climate For this reason a change of seed every few years is desirable If home grown seed is to be used se lect the very best and then run it through the mill several times to get only the largest and most perfect grains There are two leading varie ties of wheat the white and the red The white wheats make the best qual ity of flour They require a good soil thorough preparation of the ground and early seeding The usual yield is from twenty five to thirty bushels to the acre The red wheats are more hardy and are most in demand The leading kinds areFultz Mediterranean and Fulcastor Our leading wheat growers sow mostly the Fultz and the red Mediterranean The Fultz has a short stiff straw that stands up well The improved Mediterranean is a very valuable wheat especially for rich clay soils that have recently been limed On such soils crops have been grown the past season averaging forty bushels to the acre upon fields of twen ty acres in extent The editor would ad rise each farmer to sow that wheat that best suits his soil Have plump clean seed seed six pecks to the acre and take the month of August to get the wheat ground in proper condition for drilling early in September The American Clippine the Horse It might be thought that clipping would have a tendency to increase the risk of colds and chest diseases in the horse Such however is not the case on the contrary it reduces the proba bility of such affections The greatest sufferers are those that after a hard days work are brought into the stable wet with perspiration or from rain and having a heavy coat of hair take a con siderable time to dry notwithstanding careful dressing a performance which is too generally neglected To thor oughly dry a horse in such condition is too hard work to please most grooms consequently the horse gets a chill and his respiratory organs become affected A clipped horse is readily dried and when afterwards clothed passes the night comfortably and is not so liable to catch cold as the horse that rests in a coat damp if not sodden with per spiration or rain Clipped horses should always be well clothed when not at work and especial care should be taken to nrpsrvA omrkprntnreof the skin for the first few days after they have undergone the operation of having their natural hairy covering reduced by the clipper Portland Transcript Kemovinjr Corn TaHsela We have never believed that it would pay to detassel corn in order to save the plant vigor and strength required to perfect the male blossom It would in the first place involve too much labor and we could never see that the stalks from which tassels had been removed were any more prolific than others What used to be known as topping corn which means cutting off all above the ear is a certain injury to the crop It used to be done to let the sun reach the ear Bur the ear needed all the foliage that the stalk was deprived of In order to perfect its grain Besides it has long been recognized that theae thin toppings of corn have far less sweetness and nutrition than has the larger part of the stalk below them At earing time the richest part f the stalk will be the middle and as close to the ear as possible Give a cow a cornstalk and she will always begin in the mid dle eating both ways till she comes to less nutrition ana casting out the butt and top ends as not suited to her taste Exchange Pear Blieltt Pear blight is one of those plant dis eases that has been exhaustively stu died and its exact nature fully demon strated and yet it has left us precisely where we were before as respects reme dial measures Tn a word the only remedy when blight has stricken a branch is to cut well below the affected part and burn it if the whole tree seems affected to dig it out and burn it I am not aware that any specific applications are of any use except as they may promote a more uniform and healthy development of the tree thus giving it greater resistance and making it less susceptible to the attack of the blight bacterium Particularly should undue stimulation of rank fertilizers be avoided since they induce extraordi nary growth which is liable to be soft and spongy and often unseasonable running into fall when the tree should be hardening the seasons growth The Seckel pear has the reputataion of be ing one of the most resistant varieties but It is not proof by any means as your correspondent has testified Blight varies somewhat in different years The reasons for this are un WI1 UUL Pi ue aue to more touch applause interjections in the leave to print speeches in the Con- I favoralle weather conditions some sea- gressional Record As most of these speeches were not spoken who laugh ed and who applauded Was it the compositors who set the speeches in type Indianapolis News The mosque of St Sophia at Con stantinople was built over 1000 years ago and the mortar used is said to have been perfumed with musk The musky odor is still perceptible sons than others Discouraging as pear culture is owing to the insidious char acter of blight it will pay to watch trees carefully for the first appearance of disease to cultivate prune and care for them systematically Germantown Telegraph Oats and Peas or Soilincr Excepting clover there is no better soiling crop than a mixture of oats and peas cut green It can be s vro much earlier than com and will be in condi tion long before corn Is ready to cut for green fodder The pea vines also make it a better ration than green corn at its best as they supply the nitrogenous element in which corn is deficient But as the main soiling crop corn will al ways have the preference as more can be grown of it per acre than of the peas and oats By sowing successively until the middle of May oats and peas can be kept in best condition for soiling until com fodder has got into tassel But the latest sown oats and peas should all be used for green fodder as the excess of nitrogen in the soil will make the late oats rust and the late peas mildew so that they cannot be saved for grain But if there is more of them than can be fed green the corn and peas make excellent silage if put up just as the grain is beginning to form Cultivator Alfalfa Replacing Corn It is not likely that alfalfa the cloveri which has succeeded so well in Call- fornia will ever become plentiful in the East Our wet winters will rot the roots or at least decrease their vigor On very dry sandy oc gravelly soil it might succeed here But it seems to be especially adapted to hot and dry cli mates and hence its success in the arid regions of the far West As its root often goes several feet deep it is likely to change the character of the climate for wherever alfalfa roots have gone wTater will also go The alfalfa retains its greenness during the severest droughts Of course it must be all the time evaporating moisture and this also will have some effect in changing the climate Hence in localities too dry for corn alfalfa is taking its place as a feed for all kinds of stock It is at the same time fitting the soil for growing corn and other crops American Culti vator Winter Carnations If carnations are wanted for winter blooming in the dwelling or green house they must be carefully cultivat ed now Plants raised from cuttings this spring must have the flower buds nipped off as soon as they show them selves Follow this treatment all through the summer Keep the earth around the plants loose mellow and free from weeds By fall strong stout stocky plants will be had and with proper management a handsome dis play of choice flowers may be had all through the winter The last of Sep tember they should be potted taking a large mass of earth up with the roots After they are nicely potted water freely and set the pots in a par tially shaded place until they finally recover The earth must be kept moist but not wet in the pots They thrive best in a cool temperature from forty five to fifty degrees They grow nicely in a well protected cold frame- The American Alsike Clover It is no wondoc that alsike clover so often proves a disappointment to farm ers Avho sow it thinking that it will like other clover at least remain in the ground trwo full years Alsike do- ver seeds with its first crop Then unless the clover has been cut before it fairly got into blossom the root will not sprout again and the farmer is left with a bare stubble the remainder of the summer Some permanent grass should always be sown with alsike clover Timothy is one of the best as 14 is a patient grass growing a little be neath the clover early In the season and then shooting up quickly and coming into head when the ground is cleared off for it to do so The alsike roots being dead begin at once to de cay In the soil They are so rich la plant food that timothy sown with al sike always makes a better sod and will last longer than when it is grown alone Weaninsr Lambs It is not always safe to separate the ewes and lambs suddenly especially in warm weather when any unusual con dition in the ewe may lead to unexpect ed trouble The rale must be a close oversight of the flock one by one and the drafting off of those ewes whose lambs may be safely separated from them permanentlj Sheep Breeder Farm Notes If weeds are annual they will soon disappear if not allowed to produce seeds if they are perennial keep them cut down so as to prevent them from making leaves Leaves are the breath ing organs of plants and to frequently cut down the plants as fast as they be gin to grow will soon put an end to them Currying the horses when they have become dry after their return from the days work relieves them of itching due to attacks of insects and opens the pores of the skin If they are well rubbed down and also given a brisk brushing they will feel better and also be in better condition for work the next day Four times as much can be produced on an acre by the use of wheel hoes and other hand implements than by the ordinary cultivation with horse power as the hand implements will al low of growing the plants closer in the rows and the rows need not be more than twelve inches apart but in so do ing the crop must be supplied with an abundance of plant food and carefully attended to In Michigan a law is in force which requires all orchards infested with in jurious insects to be sprayed or disin fected This law is enforced by three commissioners in each township who are appointed on petition of ten free holders If the owner refuses to do the work the commissioners can do it and tax costs against him Thus far the law works well and its justness is recognized No man has a right to grow weeds orxrreed insects to destroy bis neighbors crops or fruit a Flour that Makes the Best Bread The soft fine white flour will not give as large an amount of muscle bone or nerve making food as tha whole wheat flour which constitutes In itself a complete life sustalner In se lectlng flour choose that which Is darM in color and free from bran The best bread flours in the market are of a yel lowlnsh white tinge rather granulated and do not easily pack They make a strong and elastic dough Though no whole wheat flours they are decidedly the best of the white brands After se lecting the flour the next important thing is to have a good strong sweet and pure yeast The compressed cakes are good and convenient and will do the work much more quickly than ten times the amount of home made or ba kers yeast When settting bread to risa stand your bread pan in another of warm water cover the two so that tho moisture will pass over the top of thg dough at an even temperature of 78 degrees Fahrenheit Mrs S T Borer in Ladies Home Journal Apple Pie Take six to nine greenings according to size Wash them well before using Pare quarter and core them cut each quarter into lengthwise slices about one fourth of an Inch thick and la them in an earthen dish until the pas try Is prepared When the under crust is ready place the slices- carefully around the edge of the bottom and then cover the bottom with one layei of slices placed closely together Bo careful not to puncture the crust with the corners of the slices Over thli layer of slices put a cupful of granu lated sugar then lay the remainder of the slice over the sugar Sprinkle two dashes of salt over the apples and then grate over them about one fourtlr of the yellow rind of a lemon and youi pie is ready for the upper crust Twin Biscuit Two cups of sifted flour two level teaspoonfuls of baking powder half teaspoonful of salt two tablespoonfufc of butter three quarters of a cup of milk Sift together the flour salt and baking powder rub the butter well through and then add the milk all ai once Mix with a knife to a dough then cut through several times until smooth and glossy This takes tha place of kneading Turn It out on o well floured board roll back and fortfc a moment to cover it with flour then gently roll out to about an inch thick place in a baking pan far enough not to touch in baking touch lightly with melted butter ana bake about twelve minutes v Tomato Ketchup Mrs S T Rorer the famous cooking expert gives this her favorite receipt for making tomato ketchup in the La dies Home Journal Use half a bushel of sound August tomatoes Wash an cut them into pieces Cook gently fo half an hour then press through a sieve Cook again for one hour then add one ounce of ground ginger ona ounce of mustard one gill of salt half a pound of sugar and one quart of vinV egar Cook to the proper consistency add five drops of oil of nutmeg an4 the same of celery or a tablespoonfui of celery seed Bottle cork and seal Fruit Tapioca Stew any kind of fruit till It is a nic marmalade flavoring It with a II tth lemon juice and grated rind wheif cooked place it In a deep dish and pout over It some tapioca boiled in milk till smooth creamy and just fit to pour then place the dish In the oven ana bake for half an hour Serve hot ol cold with clotted or whipped creamu or the whites of one or two egg4 whisked into a stiff froth with powder ed sugar and a flavoring of vanilla v Ice Cream Scald one pint of milk in a double boiler add one teaspoonful of floufr dissolved in a little cold milk and cool for twenty minutes beat togethei three eggs and one cupful of sugar stii in a little of the cooked milk and add to the contents of the double bolleii When the custard is just thick enough to coat the back of a spoon strain and set away when cold add one pint oi cream and freeze Of Value to Housekeepers A little borax In babys bath will pre vent the skin from chafing and froi4 breaklng out from the heat Kettles should be washed as soon a you are through using them and not be allowed to stand until cold A damp cellar will cause many kind of sickness and great attention should be paid to the proper airing and drain ing Nuts when dry may be restored td freshness by soaking them in milk oi in milk and lukewarm water for sey eral hours Knives should be gently rubbed witl oil before they are put away for any length of time to prevent them fronr rusting Many lung troubles come from superj ficial breathing Deep full breathy should be drawn and the lungs fullj expanded In either hot or cold weather thf windows should be open at night an4 the house thoroughly ventilated at ali times and seasons A good knife should never be useoV for stirring potatoes or other vegetal bles when frying as the heat destroy the temper of the steel r a