Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 25, 1896, Page 7

{ = They Have to Like It. All the defeated candidates and all the ‘xiends of the defeated candidates areyerfectly delighted with the ticket, of course. Their feelings probably much resemble those of the tenderfoot who ventured into a barroom out in one of the mining camps once upon a time, and, walking up to the bar, was asked what he would take. “A pousse cafe, if you please,” was his polite response. “A what?” asked the astonished bar- keeper. “A pousse cafe, if you please,” re- peated the tenderfoot. “Young man,” said the barkeeper, “you ll take whisky; just ordinary, plain whisky, and you'll drink it out of a tin dipper. And you'll have to like it, too.” And the young man allowed that it was so.—Boston Herald. His Side of the MBarriage Question. De Billion? You're a hap. . os 1lmeans—Ya’as, but—hang it—the luck isn’t all on my side. If she finds money, I find blue blood, bwains and —er—beauty. Power of Conscience, Coal Magnate—My dear, I couldn’t sleep last night. Wife—No wonder; the room was ter- ribly warm. res, the room was warm, but that *t what was the matter. My con- uce troubled ie.” I got to thinking of all the poor people in the world, and what a hard time they bad to get along, and I couldn’t help thinking it was a pity they had to pay so much for things.” e and I firmly resolved that, with heaven’s help, I’d reduce the price of coat 25 cents a ton before the Fourth of July—but I guess maybe 15 cents will be erough.”—New York Weekly. for Money.” Late in the evening a report spread ibrough the train that we had as a fellow-passenger 2 man worth $20,- 000,00u, who had got on at Buffalo. I made inquiry of the porter of my car, and he replied: “Dat’s what dey say, sah; but you can’t allus.tell. He is in de next car, an’t dun say if he’s rich till me into the smoking compartment and said: “Dat story was all true, sah.” rhen he’s worth $20,000,000, eh?” “All of dat, an’ nrebbe mo’.” “How did Fyou tind it out?” From de odder po’tah, sah. De gemian has just gin him 10 cents, while everybody else has come down wid a quarter.”—St. Louis Post-Dis- pateb. ~ Not for Charley. Charley—I don’t see why you should be so hard-hearted, doncher know. T’m not a bad fellah, and when they say I’m a little light at the top, why they do. know. Alice—What did you ever do, Char- le. y Charley—I won evwy booby pwize at our wuist club last wintah, and it has some cwack players, I can tell you. Alice—I can believe it, Charley, and if I were a booby prize I would feel that we were made for each other. But as it is I'm going to be somebody’s first prize. Rather Presumptuous, Mr.Capsule—Did you send for me? Prisoner—L want you to bail me out. } * Mr. Capsule—But I don’t know you. Prisoner—Don’t know me? That’s pretty good. Why I trade at your drug store. Mr. Capsule—I assure you I don’t re- member your face. Prisoner—Heavens, what a memory! Why, I bought a postage stamp from you last Wednesday night!—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Realistic. Voice from the Nursery—Boo-hoo- yow! Wah-wah-wow! Mother in the parlor—Mercy! Tom- my, what on earth are you doing to Robbie? Tommy—Nothin’ ma. We're playin’ war an’ Robbie wouldn't play ‘less I'd let him be general. Mother—Well, why is he crying? Towmy—Oh, he’s Gen. Weyler an’ I'm Cuba.—-New York Press. Pointing the Resemblance, She—Don’t you think, Mr. lamsum has the looks and bearing of a states- man? He—Indeed I do. He reminds me forcibly of two of the greatest Amer{- cans eyer connected with our govern- ment. She—Oh, how nice. Whom do you think he resembles? He—He strikes me as having a Web- sterian body and a Clay head. Not Slang, Either. Sick Man—Wrile me up a policy. Insurance Man—Not on your life. Secret Out. “Mamma,” said the little girl, point- ing to the woman on the other side of the car, ‘what makes that lady wear her rings outside her glove?” “Hush!” said the mother, in an ag- gravated stage whisper. “Don’t be rude. The lady wears her rings out- side her glove to keep them from blackeniag her fingers.”—Indianapolis News. The Pulpit in 1900. The Elder—Wkat a touching sermon our pastor gave us last evening. The Deacon—Yes; I rever heard a more beautiful allusion than he used in closing, whem he prayed that the punctured soul might never lack a Bible repair kit by which to inflate his tires With the breath of salvation and scorch on to the celestial roadhouse!” —New York Press A Change of Front. ished—Oo-er! The Vanqu ’Ere’s my bruvver a-comin’ along! The Victor—Eh? Oh! begs yer par- don if I’ve ’urt yer, ole chap. I never knoo your bruvver was as big as that! Displeased With the News. A man who was trying to sell a sol- diers’ prayer-book was in town last Saturday. When told that Lee had surrendered thirty years ago he called the town marshal a liar, greased his gun and cussed the Yarkees, “for,” said he, “hain’t I jest hearn tell o’ Gin'ril Gordon goir’ ter Richmond an’ huggin’ Jeff Davis?’—Atlanta Consti- tution. Utilizing the Doctrine. First Office Boy—Reg’lar snap! Me new boss is a Theosophite—one of them fellers that believes you come to life again when you die. Second Office Boy—What good is that to you? First Boy—What good is it? Wait till you see how often my grandmoth- er’s goin’ to die this summer.—Puck. Unprecedented. She—We were so disappointed, doc- tor, that you did not call Tuesday evening. He—I was disappointed, also. The fact is, I was suddenly called to visit a patiert— She—Ah! That was it? Nobody could think of any reason for your ab- sence.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Art's Backer. “T suppose your craving for dramat- ic art, Miss Stella, wouldn’t let you sleep until you trod the fascinating boards?” “You are quite wrong. It wasn’t anything of that kind.” “What was it, then?” “A Chicago pork-packer.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “A Bang-Up Time. How Shorty Celebrated, “What did youse do on the Fo'rt, Shorty? Did youse celebrate?” “Did I celebrate? Well, now, you're jest talkin’. Der was a feller out sout’ bought a iot of fireworks an’ hired me to set ’em off.” “Gee swipes! Wot good did dey de him?’—Chicago Tribure. Boy Nature. IMPROVED FEEDS. Science Coming to the Aid of the Stock Keeper. The scientist and experiment sta- tions are developing new and valuable qualities in various products which combine to make the improved feeds so popular in Eurcpean countries. For many years we exported all our oil cake, so rich in the best elements of fattening qualities for combining with bran, grain and hay. Cotton seed meal, too, has certain valuable feat- ures not yet so well understood, but valuable as a rich food in combina- tion. Peanut meal has nearly 50 per cent nitrogenous matter, and 20 per cent of fat; beans, 24 per cent of nitrogen and 2 of fat. Hemp cake is well known to contain vaulable medicinal qualities for all breeding stock; has a peculiarly exciting action; rich in celluose, which produces good stimulation of the di- gestive organs, much as oil meal. It is extensively imported into Europe frem Russia as a horse food. Hemp cake contains 32 to 38 per cent of protein and 10 per cent of fat, and must be fed fresh, as with oi} cake, cotton seed meal or any rich food which deterio- rates with age very rapidly, none of which should be fed if mouldy or sour. There are many other valuable rich foods which, when skilJfully combined, with the modern scientific or im- proved foods, which combine to make the well-balanced ration for growth of bone and muscle, with fattening quali- ties as desired, and their medicinal qualities subserve to maintain the health and vigor of the animals. These rich foods, fed with the grain and forage of the farm, aid digestion and develop better results than the common farm feed. That is to say, if we have an abundance of feed for our stock on the farm. It pays to sell $25 or $50 worth of ccrn or hay and buy some of the impruved fouds—separate- ly or skillfully combined for the best feeding results. The progressive dai- rymen are the most general in the adoption of these improved feeds in this country, to obtain the best-bal- anced ration for immediate results. European countries have more gener- ally adopted them for the horses and for the fattening animals, as the man- ufacturer prepares special feeds for special purposes. Rich calf feeds are used in place of new milk, as cheaper and better. As we adopt the improved breeds, we wil! edopt the improved feeds more profitably “ Palled” Manes. A reader wants to know what a “pulled” mane ig. He has noticed the use of the term in reference to car- riage horses. Heavy-harness horses and plain- gaited saddlers—walk-trot-canter park hacks, usually have their tails docked and their manes pulled. To pull a mane is to thin it on the neck and shorten it to about six or eight inches in length. This serves to lighten the appearance of the neck and give it a more breedy look. The “operation” is performed by twisting the long hairs around a mane comb and jerking them out, or by simply pulling them out by hand. A bit of rosin on the finger tip makes the work easier. The shears may be used to give an even edge to the pulled mane. To “roach” a mane is to cut it off in a curved line two or three inches above the neck, so that the hair stands erect. ‘The manes of mules are generally roached and bronchos are usually “dressed” in this fasbion. To “hog” a mane is to cut it close off with the shears. Some carriage-horses are thus treated, but it is a “hair-cut” that is most unsightly, and, fortunate- ly, little in fashion. A somewhat re- cent fad among drivers of light har- ness roadsters is to “hog” the foretop and a few inches of the mane on the top of the neck just back of the bead- stall. It is a miserable practice, and makes the head of the horse look about as unsightly as a singed cat. A full mane, foretop and tail on a light roadster and a gaited saddler, and a docked tail and pulled mane on a high- stepper and park hack, are dictated by the most approved “fashion” in such matters.—Breeders’ Gazette. Pasturing High-Priced Land. In answer to the question, “Will it pay to pasture cattle on land worth $75 an acre and what is the profitable age to feed steers?” C. P. Goodrich in much better with good tillable land Prairie Farmer said: One can do worth $75 an acre than to pasture it. Three times as much stock can be fed from a given area by soiling than by pasturing. Now, as to the best age to fed steers. There is a principle in re- lation to the feeding and growth of animals that has been well establish- ed by the record of our fat stock shows and by hundreds of careful records made by experiment stations and in- telligent feeders all over the country, and that is: The older an animal is the more food is required to put on a given gain in weight. And another thing: The more rapidly an animal is made to gain in weight the less food it takes to make a pound of gain. This is because it takes a certain amount of food to sustain life, and this food of support bears a smaller ratio to the whole food consumed when the animal is made to gain rapidly. If only enough food is given to just make an animal hold its own then this food is entirely thrown away or worse. Now these principles being true it follows that to get the most profit out of making beef, the steer should be crowded every day of his life and made into beef as young as possible. There is most profit in “baby beef”— steers that have been pushed as rap- idly as possible and made a weight of Mrs. Begood--Aren’t you really going | 1,000 pounds by the time they are four- to the Sabbath school picnic this aftey- | teen or fifteen months old. This is noon, Willie? Willie Littleboy—Gee, no, ma’am; Bod ‘Thickneck has promised to take | me out to look at an old dead horse.— | The World. what some of the best feeders are do- ing. Why Not Keep Sheep? The Wisconsin Farmer says: We have been wondering for. many years why it is that many more sheep are not kept on the farms of the it West. When we consider how Sittte work and at how little expense a flock of sheep can be kept it is almost unac- countable to find so few of them on the farms of the central West. Plain buildings answer for housing, and there is not the necessity for cleaning out sheep stables every day as there is those for the dairy er the horse. Very little bedding is required if it be of the right sort, and the refuse of the roughage from the racks will usually supply it. They are always quiet and contented and will render a profit, if managed right.* The ewes will dupli- cate themselves, and in addition to the wool that grows on their backs we can usually expect semi-annual returns from the inyestment. Sheep do best on short pastures, and they keep a pasture or field in the best of condition, as they graze weeds with apparently as much relish as they do good grass. The land upon which the sheep is kept does not become impoverished. There is always a fair demand for good mut- ton at prices that are relatively as good as those paid for any other kind of stock. There are fewer sheep now in the hands of farmers than for many years in the past, and if present indi- cations may be accepted as a guide, now is a good time to get a few sheep The Barnyard Refuse. The pickings of the voidings of the horses and cattle with the waste grains, hay seed and broken leaves of clover hay, which the hens secure, amount to a large quantity and also af- ford a variety. This is the reason why a common hen sometimes lays more eggs than the pure breeds, very cor- rectly observes the Prairie Farmer. The latter are over-fed, get but little exercise, and, as all writers teach, “feed heavily” to pure breeds; the common hen is compelled to work, while the pure-bred hen has nothing to do but patiently wait for her meals. But nearly all farmers feed corn, which keeps the hens warm, and though the supposition is that the common hen re- ceives only corn, yet no estimate is made of the varied food she picks up in the farmyard. The fact is that the common hen is better fed, so far as variety is concerned, than the pure breed, but she must seek it, which she does in an industrious manner, her very industry keeping her in excellent laying condition. It pays te keep a few hens in the barnyard in order to utilize the waste that occurs. The farmer may not notice the loss from waste, but the alert hen with her keen we does not let a single grain escape er. A Test for Lean and Fat. The Indiana Farmer says: Since the demand for lean meat has become so general the thin-rind hog men are be- coming aggressive and claim that they have the lean meat hog of America, and that their type of hog yields a product of the finest quality. The thin-rind breeders will ask at the swinebreeders’ meeting, to be held at Danville, Ky., that a “fat hog” show be given at Louisville, Ky., next De- cember, and that representative ant- mals of the different breeds be slaught- ered by expert butchers, and examined by expert judges and see if their claims are based on the facts. They claim that in their muscular animal they have bred off all grossness such as jowl and flabby belly down to the minimum, and there is more and finer meat in their hog than any other, gross weight and net weight considered, also in net weights of choice cuts that they ean show a larger per cent. The test which they propose would tend towar? a settlement of these contentions. Tying a Horse. Never tie a horse with the halter shank in his mouth. Horses are often led out for various purposes with the halter shank in the mouth, and when put in the stable or being tied tempora- ly, the attendant ties the shank, leav- ing one part of it in the mouth; and if the horse happens to turn his head or step back, so that the part in the mouth pulls against the jaw, the ani- mal will usualiy pull back until he breaks the shank or cuts his tongue off, or nearly so, or-he may break his jaw And he may thus learn a bad habit of pulling back, in addition. Some of the Country Gentleman read- ers know this, and many do not; this ts for the benefit of the latter.—Coune try Gentleman. Signs of Lice. If chickens trail their wings or be- come droopy, look for lice; nine cases out of ten they are the cause. If your little chicks get troubled with lice, dip your finger in kerosene oil and rub it on the top of their heads. Tobacco leaves or tobacco in most any form placed in the bottom of the nest of a sitting hen keeps the lice away. A remedy for a lice-infested hen house is burning sulphur in it. The house must be tight and all ventilators closed; then put a pound of sulphur on some live coals and close the door tightly, and leave it closed for an hour or more. When whitewashing the hen house, if lice are troublesome, add a little carbolic acid to the whitewash.~ Maine Farmer. Raise Cabbages for Poultry. Set out a few hundred cabbage plants for the use of the hens. It mat- ters vot whether the cabbages make hard heads or not, or whether they be- come large or small. The hens will enjoy them during the winter, when green food is not easily obtainable. ere is but little nutriment in cab- bages, yet they serve a dietary pur- pose, providing a change of material, thus preventing injurious effects from a continual dry food. They can be grown at small cést and pay well for th+ purpose. Stock Notes, The colt can be made ill-tempered by teasing. Oat meal and bran is a good lamb fattener. Don’t neglect the stock to whoop it up for a candidate who favors policies that reduce the price of stock. A stock man says: When grade is bred to grade the result is degeneraey. The offspring tends to fall back to the scrub ancestry instead of the im- proved. In crossing improved breeds with common ones use a pure bred sire, with a scrub or grade dam of the best quality you can get. Awarded flighest Honors—World’s Fair, ‘DR: PRices + MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant, 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. He Will. “Oh, Edgar, darling, here is a case of @ woman who was struck dumb by lightning. Do you suppose her hus- band will love her still?” “Certainly, my dear; he would be a freak if he didn’t.” A Child Enjoys. The pleasant flavor, gentle action, any soothing effect of Syrup of Figs, when in need of a laxative, and if the father or mother be costive or bilious, the most gratifying results follow its use; so that it is the best family remedy known ané every family should have a bottle, Has Two Names, ffe—What is the name of your wheel? She—Do you mean the name the maker gives it or the names papa called it when he fell over it in the hall last night?—Indianapolis Journal. How to Grow 40c Wheat. Salzer’s Fall Seed Catalogue tells you. It’s worth thousands to the wide- awake farmer. Send 4-cent stamp for catalogue and free samples of grains and grasses for fall sowing. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. Very Willing. Heiress (engaged to an actor)—And oh, Algy, will you give up all the old ties? Patents Issued. List of patents issued last week te Northwestern inventors: Eugene A. Bryant, Minneapolis, Minm., metallic packing; Archie D. Bryce, Lake City, Minn., mechanical motor; Clarence W. Carter, Minneap- olis, Minn., street car brake; Herman. Dittbenner, Minneapolis, Minn., piston red connection for saw mill carriages; Lars Grondahl, Red Wing, Minn, washing machine; Theodore Grutting, St. Paul, Minn., electric heater; Amasa Harvey, Minneapolis, Minn., friction clutch; Alexander S. Hill, Pierre, S. D., clamp; Silas Johnson, Willow Lake, S. D., windmill; Matthew J. Peppard, Minneapolis, Minn, device for use in erecting dock-bents, etc. T. D. Merwin, Patent Lawyer, 910, 911 and 912 Pioneer Press building, St. Paul, Minn. She Moved. “Does fault finding have any effeet on your girl, Mrs. Housewife?” “Oh, yes. I told my girl the other day to move ‘round faster.” “And did she?” “Yes. After that she skipped.” A Preliminary. Ardent Lover—Dr. Entomologist, F wish to ask you for permission to marry your daughier. Dr. Entomologist—As soon as I have classified you. the Woman, The Man, and The Pill. She was a good woman. He loved her. She was his wife. The pie was good; his wife made it; he ate it. But the pie disagreed with him, and he disagreed with his wife. Now he takes a pill after pie ¢ and is happy. So is his wife. § The pill he takes is Ayer’s. Moral: by using Ayer’s Cathartic Pills. Avoid dyspepsia Actor (with spirit)—You bet I will, iKickaya QUICK CURE FOR ALL PAIN. GUT PRICES OR PUSPS. Everything the farmer sells is low. selislow tohim? We have re to join, and, therefore, defeat SCARS your deal: olndian A or ratedly refused windmill com! a have, since '89, reduced the cost of Yew wind power to one-sixth what it was. We believe in low prices, high grades WM and large sales. io ome knows the a best pump or prices until he knows fa ours. ‘e make short hand and long ear stroke pumps, with best seam- & jess brass tube cylinder, lower than iron ones—a 2% x x6 inch at $2.12. Tell Buy none other. Aermotor prices and goods are alway’s best. Through gratitude, and because we are deal with, the work rice makers, and are safest to has given us more than half its windmill business. We have 20 branch houses— yular., PPPPPPPEP PEP PP PPP PPP PPP PRP PPP RRP PPP PRD DP PDD DP PD really is, bands. They select it bargain. it is the >Pr>orr rr rr RD PDD A woman knows what a bargain She knows better than a man. “BATTLE AX” is selected every time by wives who buy tobacco for their hus- smallest in price, and the best in quality. The 5 cent piece is almost as large as the 10 cent piece of other high grade brands. AREER RE ERREREREREE EE CE EERREEEER! 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