The Chandler Publicist. (Chandler, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1895 Page: 4 of 4
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IN THE NEW COUNTRY
BRIEF BITS OF GENERAL NEWS
FROM THE TERRITORIES.
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory
with Their Bndaot of General and
Loral Lore Itemized lor the Con-
venience of the General Header.
Bobby Burns is Insane in tho jail at
El Reno.
A contract has been let for a new
court house at Ardmore.
Attorney Wm. M. Cobb was arrest-
ed at Perry last weekVuf a charge of
perjury.
Colonel Freemon, agent of the Osage
Nation, has banished Mr. Ilagncll, a
government employe.
Work is progressing upon the Choc-
taw road west of South McAlester.
They are about twenty miles out from
that place with raifk
A new hotel will be t^ccted at Pur-
cell. It will fill a long felt want as
hotel accommodations in the city on
the bhuff ure very poor.
They have a good many firos in Ok-
lahoma lately, lias 1ihal good old
fashioned barrol with water In it gone
out of fashion?
W. K. Warren and Ina McClung
were married at Alva last week, theirs
being tho first church wedding in the
history of tho town.
T^ county commissioners paid for
twenty-eight cSyoto sculps m one
week recently and have decided ta re-
voko tho county bounty.
Kl Reno two official papefc -the
Eagle and the Globe,—while tho El
Reno Herald savs It is tho official pa-
per of tho war department
W. G. Classen, tho Edmond man who
sued G. W. Wallace for alienating his
wife's affections, has agreed to dis-
miss the case, pay all costs and take
his wife back.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Hanesof Oklaho-
ma City, named t^eir baby Winnie af-
ter Winnie Davis, the daughter of the
Confederacy, and the older Winnie
wrote and ueknowledgod tho compli-
ment.
• Mrs. Burt, a contributor to tho Cen-
tury and other magazines, slipped in-*1
to NormiA the other day from the
East, got a divorce and slipp^l back
home aguin and the papers have just
got onto it. «
2A Woodward judge got this off: "I
want to inform everybody that if they
come into this court while I am on the
bench, drunk, they Setter look out.'
When tho boys showed him tho gram-
mar of it he set'em up all round.
-.'Last Friday a bride and groom came
Jnto Guthrie in a lumber wagon. They
had been married in tho morniug and
they wanted to put up at the hotel,
but they thought the proprietor
charged too much. The saise night a
man drove up In tho yard with a load
of pig«, whue tho young people 1ft l
gone to bed in the bottom of their
wagon. The opign began to squeal
about midnight; the proprietor got up
and turned the hoso on them and by
mistake hit the bride and groom, and
for the nex^hour no oue got a£y sleep
within a block.
Last Tuesday evening as Mrs. R. Q.
Tllakcney of Oklahoma City, was dry-
ing from her residence on West Soventh
to the ofl^'o of the Oklahoman. her1
horse became frightened and shyto
one side. Insfite of the lady's efforts
to drive him by the object that had
frightened him, the horse backed and
cramped the carriage, upsetting it and
throwing her and the little boy out of
the buggy. Mrs. Hlakeney's face was
badly bruised and lacerated by falling
upon the sharp rock along tho Choc-
taw crossing where the accident oc-
curred. The little boy had his face
bruised but not so badly as his moth-
er. Wiyie tfle injuries sustained were
not serious yet they were painful, and
the nervous shock which Mrs. Blake-
ney received will not be recovered
from for sdlae time.
OW. L. Kennett, a well-known cattle
man arrived in Oklahoma City Friday
bringing word of an atrocious murder
and robbery that had occurred In the
Seminole country. J. L. Teckel, a wel
to do farmer and stock dealer living on
a ranch in the Seminole country had
been to McAlester to collect some
money which wasdue him from a stock
buyer inthatcity. Aftercollecftngthe
money, about one hundred and thirty
dollars, he deposited all but five dol-
lars in the bank and started for his
home. He was riding horse back and
when he entert^ the timber along
Skunk creek, it is supposed the rob-
bers who thought he would have the
money on his person assaulted and
robbed him. His clothes were badly
torn and his revolver lay nearothe
spot where his body was found, and
he had evidently resisted the robbers.
His h"!•«•«• was found in tho timber •
few yards from where the murdered
man lay. Two freighters who were
passing on the road the next morning
found the body. There is no clue to
who the murders and robbers were,
but it is likely that they* were mem
bers of some of the outlaw gangs that
lff{pst the Indian country.
win some portions of Oklahoma—es-
pecially the West—crops look bad and
unies^ihe Onitar of all tilings tends
considerable moisture in a short tin*,
all hopes for even a third crop of any-
Next Monday the elections in the
cities of the second class in Oklahoma
take place.
If Oklahoma City had kept 0Q boring
she might hsve struck the North polo
right in the middle.
Near Pond Creek tho other day tho
Wind blew up a broom corn flold and
swept it aloDg for miles.
The Oklahoma papers aro booming a
Confederate reunion which is soon to
take plaoo in Houston, Tox.
Secretary Hoke Smith will land at
Vinita next Friday, and ho had better
put his scalp ilf a safe over night
Since I'nitet States Marshal Nix has
been In the oftleo four of his deputies
have been killed in fights with band-
Its.
The mayor of El Ilono is to get 8300
a year; tho city marshal jfl.000; the
city attorney and tho police judge $900
each.
Tho territorial firemen's association
l \\9 a gavel that is just h little novel
At a meeting of the association held j
at El RenOf a year ago, tho boys wen-
all feelingjust— well just a little gay.
and when they started out at night to
take in tho town to avoid getting lost
from tho crowd, tho president bought
a small cowbell. Tho bell became
h%torlc, and being used on a nnm
ber of auspicious occasions, was gilded j
and presented to the president of the
associations and is flow usefl as the *
o^Sdal gavel. *
The most unusiial hiding place for
savings yet discovered is reported from
Muscokee, I. T. An old woman who
lived alone In a little cottage at Rle-
golvllle was known to have conslder-
able^vealth, and it was known that j
•4io had no faith in tho establish®!
banks and saving funds. But where
tho old wouflln kept her money was a
mystery until she caine to die a few
days ago. Then a ^borough search
was male of the premises without dis-
closing the hiding place. Finally,
when tho body was being prepared for
burial, a porous plaster on the old
woman's side was in^-iced, which did
not He as close to tho skin as such
plasters generally do. When the plas-
ter was removed a number of govern-
ment bonds, representing tho old
woman's efltlre fortune, were found
between it and the skin.
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
Poultry Industry In China.
The breeding and rearing of fowls is
an important industry In China, as
they form a very considerable portion
of the dally food of the better class of
the people. Tho United States consul
at Chln-kiang says that the varieties of
fowls are few in number. The prin-
cipal are the Yangehow fowl, a large
bird of good flavor, which weighs from
four to six founds. .This variety is n
good layer and sitter, the eggs being of
brownish tinge and good size. It l.t\
during eight or nine months of Hi
year, about 200 eggs, ceasing only in
tho hot summer nights. This descrip-
tion Is kept more for the table than
for laying purposes, as its flesh Is par-
ticularly good. The LanMian fowl Is
i distinct and fflirly pure breed from
the Yaaktze river region, jus' below
Chln-klanfl. It is a lame, heavy, hand-
some bird, w< U'4in* from seven to
eight pounds. Tiw eggs are of darkish j British outfit breed n are so captivat-
care. A pair costB from five to six dol-
lars. They are taken out on the lake
and rivers in a small boat—one man to
every ten or twelve Cormorants. Tho
birds stand perched on the side of the
boat, and, at a word from tho man.
they scatter on the water and begin
to look for fish. They dive for the fish
and then-rise to tho surface with tho
li^i In their bills, when they are called
back to tho boat by the ti.^Jierman. As
docile<18 dogs, they swim to their mas-
trr find are taken Into the boat, when
they lay down their prey and again
resume their labor.
IlMMMllllR for Milk.
when it is so eai i" ■ Oiablne In
moderate degree the milking and the
breeding qualities of one animal, why,
it may be asked, should breeders have
gone to such extremes on the one sldo
or tho other? We .believe that the
whole thing Is due to rihysiologt .il
laws, says London ldve Stock Journal.
Tho perfect beef animal and the per-
fect milk animal are two totally differ-
ent productions, and in their highest
excellence the two characteristics can-
not exist In the same frame. Common
stock, possessing fair milking and fair
grazing properties,are easily produced,
but the abnormal beef Jieast and the
abuormal milk or butter cow must
have a carcaM spaclallj suited for cx-
llence in oue direction or the other.
brown, and of good size
Hone or Typhoon chicken Is a distinct
fancy breed# In oolor it is white and its
skin, logs; bones, flesh nn.i oomb are
very dark. The flesh of this fowl Js
much esteemed, and, lulled down into
soup, it is prescribed by physicians for
ccrtaln diseases. The Cho# is another
variety. This brood Is small, weigh
Ing generally from two to throo
pounds. A pure white cock of this
breed 1h always carried on the coHln
at a native funeral cortege, and Is sac
ed by symmetry of form that they
haye done comparatively little in de-
veloping special milk and butter
breeds. There Ss. indeed, only one the
Ayrshire—and in it the wedge shape,
so suitable for milk, offends ideas of
beauty. For Jin1*' . t we have to go to
Jersey and Gul
breeds, which have been developed
if hundn d revs'
systematic breeding for this particular
quality. Our best milking shorthorns
ai o tend t" the wedfce shape.
Fitt Hens.
So much has been said about laying
hens getting too fat, that more than a
few people have concluded that the best
way to keep hens In good condition for
laying Is to half starve them. This is
a mistake. If layers are fed the proper
kind of food, and given a chance to ex-
erclse properly, they will not get toe-
fat to do their best as layers. An or-
dinary flock of fartnofowls are not apt
to ppct too fat, for they run at large and
are constantly taking exercise enough
to keep them in good condition.
We know that when liens are kept In
pens most of the time, they can easily
be fattened beyond the point of profit
a# far as laying Is concerned, but on:
readers are nearly all farmers who al
low their fowls perfect liberty and tu
such we want to give the warning that
they are just as liable to underfeed
them. Those who have fed their fowls
liberally during the past severe winter
will be rewarded with plenty <*f egg
as soon as ^ie weather moderates thl;
spring, a hile those Who have been fear-
ful of overfeeding will probably he com *
polled to wn\ till the price of eggs ha
fallen very low before their hens will
be producing at their highest capacity.
Too «nany are careless about properlj
feeding thi ir hens during the season
when tfcey do not lay many eggs, for-
getting that it is necessary to keen them
at tho highest point of health and vigor
if best results are to be expected.—
Farm News* .
TtlE CARRIER PIGEON.
This variuiion of tho Enoch Arden
style of story is vouched for by it Tahl-
equah paper. "A man living in Tahl-
equah went to lienor county souio
years ago, Having his wife here. Ho
did not write to her. she lost track of
him altogether. Finally she heard he
was dead, and married another man.
They lived happily and several child-
ren were born to them. Imagine the
woman's surprise a few weeks ago
wheg her first husband returned to
town. Ho callod on her and told her
that as she was his lawful wife he
wautt^ her to leave the man. The
gi.vo men got together and taUced the
inattOr over. They went to a certain
justice of the pi%ce aud caused him to
draw up an agreement to the effect
that the womatf was to live with the
first husband a certain length of time,
and if she wcro not satisfied, he was
to draw off and the other man was to
take her. The second husband has
left town, and she Is now living with
her first husband. If this arrango-
mAit is satisfactory after tho time
specified in the contract has expired,
the teeond husband will return and
claim her.
The®l>awes Commission convenes at
South McAlester on May 7th. This
meeting will bo for the purposo of
treating with the Indians looking
toward an atnicahlo disposition and
salo of land for town sites. lt*s gen-
erally thought by the citizens tluft the
< jpvernmont is going nt this matter in
a wronje way, ami aro inclined to
doubt tho sincerely of Mr. Dawes in
their behalf. It makes but little dif-
ference how things are settled, a groat
injustice to a large number will be the
result It Is knowt that about oue
Inulan out of fifty is capable of carlug
for himself, and no matter how muoh
money lig may have, it remains in his
possesion but a short time, when I10
becomes a subject of eharlty. There
la i^t one way in wMoh thecotntry
should Ik* opened, and if tho l'nited
States Km S vested right—or a right
at all to tho landw -she shouhT take
the lands from the ludian make them
citizens and then dispose of the prop-
erty at auctliyi and sell to tho highest
bidder for cash, placing tho money
derived to the credit of the natives,
and paying it out in installments. To1
treat with the Indiana and get them
to agree upon a small sum per acre
for their land, and turn uround and
job the same land out per lot to tho
speculator at a nominal price, will be
working a great injustice the Red man
whom we all know is mkt able to take
euro of himself. By Rod man,*we do
not mean White squaw men, half or
quarter breed. They are most part
aro cunning and have made largo suma
of money. But what I'ncle Sam wauts
to guard against is that class of full
bloods that live in the woods and aud
who are not able to or who have not
the ability to take caro of their
inoiief
Judge Scott will render his decision
a the Choctaw injunction next Tues-
dor.
Ardmore is rebuilding. The
tract for the new court house has al-
soilP*i
Jipissfr Fiji
The illustration given above is*epro-
dticed for the Farmers' Review from
the French of Ad. Benlon. It shows a
carrier pigeon en route with a mes-
sage. The letter in tills case appears
to be fastened, to his legs.
The carrier pigeon Is a bird larger
genially than the common pigeon,
measuring about i "> Inches in length
and weighing ift>out one and one-fourth
pounds. The neck is long and the pec-
toral muscle very large. An appendage
of nuked skin hangs across its bill, an 1
contiues down 011 either side of the
lower mandible. The great develop-
ment of this muscle is wh it ;
bird the power of long continued flight.
The quality that renders these birds
so valuable as messengers is their love
for home, which seems abtufhnaily de-
veloped. The art of training them is
carried to perfection in Turkey, where
the procedure is about as follows: A
number of very young birds are taken
to a distance of one-half mile from
their home and freed. The most Intel-
ligent will quickly flnd their way to
their homes. Those that get lost are re-
garded as stupid, and are rejected. Tho
ones that return home are then taken
to greater distances, first only two 01
three miles from the
afterward to hundreds
thousand miles. Thus taught, they be-
come expert in returning to their own-
ers, and do this from all parts of the
country.
As to thqfr rapidity of flight therals
much dispute. The more conser vat! e
say that the usual speed is about ::•
miles per hour. Some, however, be*
Hove it possible for these birds to fly
from 50 to 90 miles per hour In rare
Instances. It t;i*os about 12 hours for
a carrier pigeon to digest • crop full
ot grain. Passenger pigeons have boon
shot in New York with their crops full
el aice, which they could not have ob
tallied nearer than the Carolina rico
fields. They must have traveled 800 or
400 miles in six hours, or ov#r 50 miles
per hour.
In England pigeons have been re-
peatedly used in wagers, bets being
made on the full speed of the birds.
Null# lii the Dairy.
1. Salt, like acidity and charity, cov-
ers a multitude a
2. To the majority of consumers a
small amount *>!' salt will increase fin*
flavors in butter, while a large amount
our special of salt may partially hide poor flavor
3. Salt Is thus partly a flavoring and
partly a preservative.
4. No amount of salt will preserve
poor biftter, but good salt will help tu
preserve good butter. •
5. Salt should be applied with a reaJ
sonable addition of brains.
G. If working only once, use an eas
ily dissolved salt, or else partially die
solve It before using. The latter is
not a g<*>d plan, as it is difficult to dis
tribute such a jvnsty mess.
7. *rhe itmount of moisture left In the
butter when the salt is add**! should
be regulated according to the dissolu-
bility of the salt.
s. When salt is applied to grained
butter and left to dissolve at the
proper temperature (about 60 degrees)
it will absorb moisture from the but-
ter globules in dissolving, and this is
quite an Important matter*
9. Heavy brine, when applied only
once in brine salting, will be diluted in
proportion t# t he water left from wash-
ing, and hence be apt to leave the but-
ter too light salted for the average con-
sumer.
10. It is more difficult to salt evenly
with brine than with dry salt.
11. First and last and all things get a
good dairy salt which has not been ex-
posed to bad odors. *
12. Do not believe that you can tol-
low any fixed rules, but consider the
dissolubility of your salt, the amount
of moisture and the temperature in
your butter, and use judgment In salt-
ing as in all other work.—National
Dairyman.
Tho Cow KtnblcH.
The model cow stable is comfortable
for all conceded for the cows and foi
the owner. It may be thus described?
it is roomy, light and airy; clean an<i
free from dust and the too common fes-
such cases a greater speed than .'Jti tooned cobwebs that hang from every
utiles per hour has rarely been made, abeam and window frame, it has sunny
In is:;;; ;i -r«;it trial of puieons was .windows in which 011 the coldest daya
made at (Ihynt. On June l' . of that 'i"' «nnshine makes things look warm
■ ear, 24 birds that had been entered within, * the cold is so severe that 11
i"i- ihc prise were thrown up at Rouen, 11 n<" foally warm. But it is built in
about 150 miles from Ghent. Tho first such a manner that the winds cannot
pigeon arrived in Ghent in one and .Penetrate, and the comfortable, clean,
one-half hours; 16 came in within two 'oomy, stalls are well littered, and the
and one-half hours, and three in tho
course of the day;fiftir were lost. The
first pigeon must have traveled ot a
rate of nearly 100 miles per hour, which
seems incredible. Vet it Is possible,
seeing that sixteeif others also obtain-
ed a speed of over 60 mile* per hour.
It is hard to believe that carrier
[lomicile, hut pigeons aro not governed by instinct,
and even a yet men that handle them say that it is
merclg a matter of education. If the
bird cannot recognize some landmark
he gets lost. Also biiOls thrown up dur-
ing a fog or haze, seldom reach their
destination. There are, however,some
1 are instnncesextant that se^m to prove
that the birds can suceet d irrespective
Of the educational principle. •
rlflced at the grave. .\|>#> on native
boats a cock bird is killed 011 the Chi-
nese New Year's day, and the blood
Bprlnkled on the bow to propitiate e\tl
spirits, and to Insure good luck during
tho year. Ducks are reared In great
quantities, and are largely used for
food, both fresh and salted. They are
all artificially hatched, as the duck is
an uncertain sitter. The common duck
is a good-sized hird, weighing, when
dressed for the table, three ^>r four
pounds, and is much esteemed for the
excellence of Its flavor. After fledging,
the birds are driven about in vast
flock# through canals, and from £bnd
to pond, wheflp they find their food.
They are brought under strict dtscip
line, and obey their keeper's call with
extraordinary mi. I |gi n- . | he Man
darln dflck is smaller than the common
duck, and Is a beautiful bird, with di
versified and brilliant plumage. It Is
reared chiefly for its beauty. In tho
gnyinds of the wealth) there 1 always
an artificial lake, where the Mandarin
duck is kept The) are considered as
^mhlems of conjugal fidelity, and a
pair of them usually form a part of
wedding processions. Preserved ducks'
eggs are considered a-delicacy, and al-
ways form an important port of a Man-
darin dinner, i he process bl prosen
ing them is as follow 9 \ lye of bean-
stalk and lime Is made by burning
these to powder. This is put In water,
black tea leaves and salt in certain
proportions being added. The boiling
is continued until alfc the water has
vaporated, and the residue becomes
! Governor Hoard, of Wisconsin, who
4 has made a special study of this aub-
je t of breeding for milk or for beef,
says: "I believe that the English ideal
of the form of a dairy cow has been on
the whole, a hindrance to the develop-
ment of dairy cattle. It is essentially
j based on the outline of the shorthorn,
and hence Is more or less a beef form.
1 To my mind, the true science of breed-
ing for dai^y qualities is based on the
same law « distinctivensss that gov*
cms in Weeding horsey for speed. I
do not think that the Fngllsh ideas of
1 dairy breeding, based largely as they
are on the 'general purpose' notion of
neef and milk both, are conducive to
; 1 he best development of dairy quality
and potSnc.N."
We consider that Governor Hoard's
views are quite right, and that though
moderate capacity for beef and milk
an be combined, yet superiority In
both canned be attained in the nine
animal Therefore, we hold that Brit-
ish br lers who have striven for the
perfection of beef cattle, and Channel
island and Ayrshire breeders who
j have aimed at superiority of butter and
milk, have been acting in strict coil
; foiOhily with philological laws which
will prevent comlflned excellence In
milk and beef, though, as we have said,
moderate achievements are within tho
reach of everybody.
The vindication of what our breed-
ers have accomplished is consequently
j to be found in their observance of laws
of nature, which cannot be set
caked and hard. This is powdered fine, | nought, and if the attempt should ever
thing, will be vanished. The streams I rea(*y been let.
are drying up and the^'round is crack- Wiftlara B. Reed, a hay farmer liv
Ing in many places, stock is suffering inK near Optima, was shot aifd killed
and thousands of heads will be ship- last Thursday by loin Kskew, as tke
pefl to other points for grazing. The result of a land difficulty, l.skew of-
country East and South, also in thel,orei1 10 ?ive himself up to the author-
Indian Territory, has been more fort- •tics, but has not yet been taken Into
unatcly favored. Wheat, corn and custody. Reed w^s about fifty ycara
pasturage land all look healthy, anri 1 an<* Eskew only a little over Iwen
the inhabitants scein jubilant
Every traveler In Oklahoma will be
sorry to hear of the death of Colonel
Barr. He knew how to run a hotel to
suit everybody.
Coal is so plentiful in the Creek
country that fifty cents per ton load-
ed upon the cars is all the diggers get.
It is claimed 3,000 men are at work in
the Lehigh and Coal Gate mines.
Ponca and Cross have about come
to peaceable terms and tho latter j the close of the fair, and he was at
town will move to ponca, thus iual< once ariested by the Ft. Smith author'
ing that place one of tho finest points itlea. He was convicted some tim«
in Oklahoma. The depot will be aince, although sentence was not pass-
moved so it is claimed in a short time ed until the first of the week.
id the fresh eggs are placed therein
one by 0110, with a little rice husk.
They remain in this preparation one
hundred days when they are ready for
use. Tho preserved eggs will keep for
several years. When ready for use they
have the appearance of hard-boiled
eggs. The shell is taken off, and they
are put on the table, cut into small
slices and eaten as hors d'oeuvre
be made it will be found to be Incom-
patible with principles that are fixed
and unalterable.
Cheap Rations. -With butter selling
at 18 cents on the Klgln board of
trade, feeding for profit is not so easy
as it used to be. Tho writer finds
nothing Cheaper this winter than a
grain ration of bran equal in quantity
ows lie and stretch their limbs and
chew their cuds with evident satisfac-
tion and comfort. There is plenty ol
room to ijiove about to do The neces-
sary work. The floor is clean and lit-
tered outside of the stalls, if not inside;
and when other litter is used, with
clean, fresh sawdust, it enables one to
go about without soiling a shoe or no-
ticing any disagreeable odor. The gut-
ters gather all manure, and they ar«
kept well filled with absorbents, but
never with horse manure, which gived
out too strong an odor to be permitted
in any cow stable. Above are the feed
bins and the store of fodder with thfl
cutter and spouts to get the feed down
from above into the mixing boxes.
There is a cellar under the floor to re-
ceive tho manure drjiwn from the. gut-
ters with a broad hoe made for th4'.j|ur-
])#se, and swept cleanly down twice a
day. The passages are amply wide, and
one can go about with the greatest con-
venience and ease.—Ex. #
Advantages of a Separator.—The
gain of butter by the use of a separator
over that of the best di ep fettlng meth-
ods is slight. If any. Tests have varied
considerably in this respect. Tho
principal advantage of the separator
is the economy in time and space In
the dairy. 110 setting pan or pail being
required. Tfle cream is separated soon
after the milking, and the cream only
has to be taken care of. The skimmed
milk too is sweet, and therefore better
for feeding, as the souring is at the
axpense of tho nutriment in tho milk
some of the sugar of it being changed
into acid. The quantity of milk for
a pound of butt%r depends on the pro-
portion of fat in it. If there is 4 per
cent, there will be a pound of butter
for each 25 pounds, or about 12 quarts.
And there should be this proportion
in the kind of cows mentioned. If they
are well fed.—Country Gentleman
Keep Down Expenses We hear frf m
men on every side that farming does
not pay as well as It did twenty years
ago, and that the country is goi lg to
the dogs. Their fathers or grandfath-
ers made mone>« on the farm; why
can't they? The trouble is Just here;
They live beyond their income. They
spend more tAian they earn. (Setting
•011 tick" has ruined many farmers,
not only In Kansas, but all over tho
coni#e> Farm- 1 twenty and forty
jours ago bought and sold for caslff
Their wants were not so numeAiua as
\ STRAIGHT TALK.
'COME LET US REASON TO-
GETHER,"
>dav.
and
gooso Is generally of pure white plum- to the milk the cow gives and a forage
ty-one.
District court convent?® at El Rene
May 13th.
Charley Smith, the negro who ahol
| and kilied Robt. Marshall and John
Welch dining the fair at Muskogee
last fall, has been sentence d by Judg«
Parker, to haug on the 2Mh of June.
| It will be remembered that Marshall
i and Welch were killed in a drunken
brawl in the Midway Plalsanco about |
age, very striking 111 appearanc
great size and majestic > irriage, much
resembling the swan. The turkey has
long been introduced Into China, and
Is reared at Canton and Tlen-Tsin en
tlrely for foreign markets, that is. for
the foreigners at the treaty ports. The
peacock is reared in many parts of
China, and has long been known to the
people, though it is not a native of the
country. Its tall feathers are used by
the Mandarins in their caps to deslg
; irate official rank.
| The Gold and Silver Pheasants of
China may be called domesticated
( birds, as they are uow so oxtcnsivelv
reared that it Is doubtful if thev are
found wild. There Is a bird in China -
! the Cormorant-—which Is domesticat
j ed. trained to wonderful intelligence.
and employed in catching fish These
i blrtJi are reared and trained wl^h great Ex.
the
They bought what they needed,
could pay for. There was none of thl?
modern splash and empty style about
things that we see now. ^Ex.
Diversifying the Crops—To make ths
farm pay we must diversify the crops,
it would not be wise to depend 011 any
one crop. The Imprudence of putting
all one's eggs into one basket lias long
been a proverb. Therefore, I would
divide crops as well as circumstances
woi ld admit It not only gives tho
farmer a chance to rely on more than
one crop In seasons of shorp crops", but
also that he may have employment for
a.> long a period as possible without
being crowded at any time during the
season. Every farmer ought to pro-
duce. as nearly as possible, everything
day has about seven and one-half adapted to his climate that his family
pounds of bran, and a smaller ylelder 1 consumes. The prosperity and happi-
is matched with a correspondingly ««ss of every farmer depends largely
smaller mess of bran. Hran for milk 1 on An colored man once said
in equal bulk measure for measure
is so safo a rule that the veriest novice
noed make no mistake. The expert
with good cows can profitably feed
richer and more concentrate^
ration of cornstalks. Cornstalks-
nothing hut saving them we have to
grow them to get corn and exchang-
ing a pail of milk for a pail of hran is
a good trade, especially if it Is Jersey
milk With this ration it requires
about four and one-half pounds of bran
to make a pound of butter. Wo have
made it with less bran, but the in-
creased feed makes a paying increase
In butter yield per cow with good cows.
i*o\\ giving thirty potftuls of milk per
• Hought corn kills horses," and it li
true with many other things farmeri
buy.—Ex.
j 1 To fctep mujt BWeet, or sweeten sous
I milk. i uV IttlO lii ylncli uf lurb^natp 61
| soda.
If You, an a Bnnlne** Man. Are Inte*-
cBted In a Core for "Hard Time*"
l.end fi Your Attention—Let li Talk
Business.
Business Men: You are all feeling
the hard times. You know by ex-
perience the difficulties to be overcome
In your efTorts to do business in theso
times. The 'rent bills come around
regularly. l*he clerks are to be paid
?very week. Yet the trade Is slow. The
income keeps dropping lower, collec-
tions mflre tardy. Goods if not turned
promptly become shop worn and each
aow order is bought for less money,
thus indicating heavy declines In value
and corresponding losses In stock.
If thes6 conditions contfhue com-
mercial disaster must Inevitably fol-
low.
Is it not time for everyday business
men to look into the causes of these
conditions and study carefully for a
remedy?
Politicians lyive had the chief say so
In these naitters. Party has been^with
them, above country. Their own sel-
fish personal Interests have dominated
their action to the sacrifice of every in-
terest of the people. #
Corporations, creatures of the law.
have^jeen built "up and fostered until
they action of our • congress,
legislatures, courts and Juries
They great trusts manipulate
trade to their* andvantage and
the pOapIe'B injury. The Stand-
ard Oil company recently broke down
an<j absorbed Its last competitor and we
see coal oil go up 33 per cent In one day.
Scarcely a corporation exists to-day
which has not forfeited their charters
by violations of the laws under which
they are created. Is It not time for the
people to assume their sovereign power
and curtail some of the assumed pow-
ers of these wards of the state? Many
of their charters are for long terms,
but the power that made them can con-
trol them if it will, and it can forfeit,
their chapters if they deviate *from a
strict Observance of their charter re-
strictions. • #
• The active energetic business men
are being pushed to the wall by these
conditions. Bright business men, by
tens of thousands, are being driven
from business each year and forced to
seek employment from others. They,
together with their former em-
ployes, make up a large portion of the
great army of unemployed that now
rove over the land unable to flnd work.
The people with mear^ are compelled
to feed them and their families. How
shortsighted is the policy that causes
this enforced Idleness! Then too how
enormous are the losses to the country
on this account? Just take a pencil
and calculate, say three million men
Idle who could earn on an average even
the small amout ef one dollar per day,
Idle for two years of 300 working days
each or 600 daj's. This makes a total
loss to the country that is lost forever
of $1,800,000,000.00. This does not In-
clude the loss of labor of those who are
working on short time; nor the loss
from the waste Incident to Idleness, nor
the depreciation In values of all prop-
erty. The census showed our wealth to
be seventy-one billions. This has de-
preciated at least twenty-five per cent.
In many cases twice that, in the past
•two years. This makes a loss In itself
of over twenty billions of dollars.
These values, however, may be re-
stored In a great measure, by an Im-
provement of conditions, but the two
or two and one-half billions lost from
Idle laborers is lost fqrever. Great
Heavens! What a record this is to look
back upon!
What has^caused all this? Some say
It is due to over production; that we
have made too many goods, have all
our railroads and citic% built agd there
is nothing to do. Can there be over-
production of products or goods so long
as there are hungry and naked or half
clothed people in the country? Is there
not plenty of undeveloped country both
agricultural or mineral? to engage the
energies of the laborers who have fur-
nished their work on the railroads in
ttie cities? Let us rather call It "under-
consumption" caused by inability to
buy and consume products.
Why this Inability to buy? An an-
swer to this question solves the problem.
These people who are unable to buy
are, In the main, laborers. *11 wealth
is produced by latyjr. These laborers
produce same of this wealth. But
they have none now. They have
been robbed of it by our sys-
tem of distribution. Our system of dis-
tribution is the transportation and ex-
change medium, or money.
When It .costs more to transport
goods 40 the market than the producer
gets for them the producer or cdh-
suraer is being robbeA In ^Ither event
it comes out of labor. But our money
system is the most subtile and least
understood agency for transferring the
results of labor to the drones who pro-
duce nothing. Scarce money produces
theouse of credit in business, and these
Credits bear interest. The interest ac-
crues day and nights, Sundays, holi-
days and rainy days, as well as during
drought and famine.
TlriB Interest accredited to men for
the use of credit ls# greater than the
average In wealth and In time absorbs
all the results of labor, leaving tho
laborer In a worse condition than the
chattel slave. This is easily seen when
we look at a few facts.
Our last census shgws our Indebted-
ness of all kinds, natlonnl, state, coun-
ty, municipal, rtfllroad and Individual
to be over $30,000,000,000—thirty bil-
lions of dollars. This at 7 per cent per
annum makes a (Train of twenty-one
hundred millions annually. To pay
this large sum, which goes enly to a
few people, It will require all our
wheat, corn. c<Ttton, pork and beef, and
then leave an unpaid balance of some
three hundred million dollars. 80 you
see these bondholders have tho labor
of 70,000,000 people on better terms
than th«islaveholder ever held his black
slaves. They are not worried with
care of their Rlaves. If any get sick
and unable to produce they are turned
out to die like an old horse.
Tho remedy for all this Is to strike
down the cause. Bank Issues of money
cause a debt before a dollar of money
gets into tio> nhinnsls of trads
Government Issues of money direct, to
the people for services hsve no debt
befelnd them, and If liiusd In sufficient
volume to do the business never will
have a debt producing effect. Thomas
Jefferson said banks of Issue were mora
dangerous to a country than standing
armies. Debt is the most potent agency
In the enslavement of our people.
Any remedy that will prevent debt
and Its consequent evil, interest, will
go far towards the solution of our
ecftnomlc troubles. Monopoly of money;
through the national bank:; is tho
mother of all the monopolies we suffer!
from except tho monopoly of la#id. Al
good curfency system of government
full equal tender volume equal to
France would be one of the first reme-
dies. •
Then a graduated land tax, or thd
single tax, is a remedy for the monopolj^
in land. To*thls should be added tha
government and municipal ownership,
of all natural ^nonopolles. In a single
word# break down the monopoly In
moncj, land and transportation, and
gllow tho wage earner and producer to
get the frtrlts of his labor. To effect
this in a peaeealfle manner through tho
ballot the People's party Is organized.
If you lik e the idea come and join us,
and give us your moral and tlnatfclafr
support. •
THEY BOTH DO IT.
Ciov. Stone Arraigns ltotli Old I'artle®
for Klertlon Frauds. •
In his cal> to reconvene the legisla-
ture In Missouri, Gov. Stone recounts
some of the outrages perpetrated in tho
large cities of that state and recom-
mends the passage of laws that will
prevent their recurrence. He says: "la
the preservation of a free representa-
tive government nothing is so import-
ant as the purity of elect^ms. Generally
throuahout this state* \ am 'confident *
elections are characterized by high in-
tegrity. But, unfortunately, this is not
true in the large cities. It Is known
that gross frauds have been commit-
ted in those cities. The inducement
and opportunity for corrupt practices
in large populous municipalities are
great, and experience proves that dis- «
honest mes of all parties have not been
slow to debauch the elective franchise.
Not a few consummate and dastardly,
outrages have been perpetrated. Can-
dor will compel a general admission
that the disgrace of election frayds is
fairly divided between the adherents
of the different political organizations.
The truth of this statement is* made
evident by the fact that both repub-
licans and democrat*, so called, have
been/eeently Indicted in St. Louis and
Kansas City for participation in such
frauds. In one of the wards in Kansas
City, which has a "boss" so conspicu-
ous and potent that the ward 1s cur-
rently referred to a.O his ward, there
are twice as many voters registered as
there are adult males residing therein.
This "boss" is a noted republican poli-
tlrlan. *ln the same city It is well
known th£t election returns have been
fraudulently changed In the office of
the recorder of voters so as to alter
the result at the polls as certified by
the Judges of election. The officer un-
der whoso administration the crime
was perpetrated was a democrat. When
such wrongs are ngt only possible, but
are actually and boldly committed, It
Is evident that the public safety imper-,
atively requires such changes in the *
law as will not only terminate existing
abuses, Ifut prevent their repetition ln##
the future. Tills is a question whlsh
afTectB the rights and interests bf the
people of the entire state almost as
jfitally as it does the people of the cities
Immediately concerned. When we re-
flect that about one-fourth of the total
.population of the stfite reside In St.
Louis and Kansas City, and consider
the tremendous influence which those
cities can exert In the election oS na-
tional and state officials, and on the
legislative policies of tho state, no
thoughtful Or patriotic citizen can be
oblivious or Indifferent to the para-
mount Importance of vigilantly guard-
ing the ballot box against every de-
scription of fraud and crime.
The Reserve a Farce.
During the recent run on the U. S.
treasury«gold supply (vshich was a put
up job to affect legislation) the gold
coin belonging to the government gave
entirely out. On Feb.l, as we under-
stand the statement of the treasurer,
there was not as much gold coin in the
treasury as was deposited by the hold-
ers of gold certificates. The govern-
ment had used all its g^ld coin and
about $1,000,000 more in redeeming
greenbacks. There was some gold In
bars, but greenbacks aro not redeem-
able In barH. hazard Freres, one of the
New York bankers who were pulling the
gold out of the treasury, was reported
in the dispatches in the fore part of*
February to have taken gold to the
treasury and deposited it. This was
likely to make good the overdraft. The
gold reserve was wiped out. The awful
calamity, the "loss of credit," "going
to a silver basis," "silver dollars worth
but fiO cants," etc.. etc.. as prophesied
by the gold bugs did not happen. Here
there was greenback money to the
amount of $346,000,000 and not a dollar
•of gold to redeem It with And yet
the greenbacks continued to go at par.
They were resting solely on tl eir legal
tender power and receivabiyty for
taxes and dues. That the "reserve" Is
a farce must be apparent to every one.
If the greenbacks can rest one day on
no coin whatever, and all the time on
only one dollar In three, four or five,
would they not be just as good If there
was no reserve at all if they were eot
redeemable in other money? Look at
the silver dollar how it stands alone.
It Is not redeemable In nny other kind
of money and yet everybody (Including
gold bugs) will give Just as much for it
as for a gold dollar. Redeeming one
government dollar with another Is a
great humbug. It 1b that false idea of
money tlmt deprives the masses ^ the
people of that prosperity which only
a few enjoy. Omaha World.
Diplomacy Versus Ducks.
There was a doctor who claimed
that he was not much on smallpox,
but MMis great on fits. The administra-
tion may not be much on diplomacy,
but nothing can beat it in duck hunt-
ing. Ub deeds in this lino are still being
sung by tho cuckoos.
The effort to side-track the People's
party on a single plank platform has
been met with such a storm of opposi-
tion and condemnation all around the
country as to paralyse the schemers,
' and has had the further effect of unit-
| Ing the People's party forces more
I strongly than ever before.
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