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Its Ferformanon by School-Children
the Iiono 8t»r State.
Dishonest collogo students aro muc
addictcd to tho uso of "ponies." Bu
these "ponies" are translations of tb
classics, which tho boys stealthily cor
suit, instead of potting out their lesson
by hard work. Pony practico by th
school-children of the Southwest is mor
literal—a good deal more honorable. I
correspondent of tho New York Worl
3ays: At Manor, Tex., in that sparse
ly sottlod country along tho lino of th
Houston and Texas Central railway,
same to a largo wood-colorod buildin,
surrounded by a caravan of horses,
counted upward of fifty, all saddled am
oach hitched to a tree. Every thin)
about the houso was as still as death.
"It must bo a funeral," I said.
Suddenly tho scenef changed. Th
doors of tho building burst open and ou
broko more than fifty school-children
"School's out!" they shouted, and a car
avan of children scrambled for thi
horses.
In a momont tho youngstors ha(
mounted and were riding heltcr skolto
over tho prairio. The Texas mustang!
seemed to scent tho frolic and kiclcet
up their heels as they galloped homi
with tho school-children. With thci.
dinner-pails jingling on tho pommels
the saddles and thoir dresses ant
jackets waving in tho wind they looket
like a mad caravan of liodouins.'
"How far did you come?" I askod
little tot who sat bohind his sister on
speckled mustang.
"I turn dood way—I turn—"
"Why, he's coino six miles," Inter
ruptod his sister. "Jimmy is only flv«
years old. Ho doesn't know how far hi
docscomo."
"I live oightmiles," said a little Lort
Fauntleroy on a dancing broncho, "bu
I can rido it in an hour, and have dom
it in thirty minutes." Then ho spurroc
his horso till ho leaped .away over th(
prairio
WANDERING «JEWS.
Men of tho
Kacn Said
to Be In Ever]
Laud on IJnrth.
It is remarkable that Emin Pashs
should be a Jew by birth, and ono of hi
rescuors, Vita Hasten, a Jew by pro
fession, says tho London Jewish Chron
icle. llut tho presence of these Jews ir
equatorial Africa docs not stand alono
From tho time of Abraham downward
tho migratory instinct has been dom
inant in tho race. Mesopotami, Canaan
Egypt, Canaan oneo more, Assyria
Babylonia, Persia, Canaan a third time
and then the world at large—such art
the suggestive stages of Israel's na
tional migration. The Jews, indeed
havo over boon tho "tribe of tho wan
dering foot." In an ago when move
ment from one country to another was
rare and hazardous proceeding—in the
twelfth century, to wit—Benjamin, o
Tudola, and Pctacliia, of llatisbon
traveled through a great part of Europe.
Asia and Africa, and were thereby able
to make considerable additions to th«
world's knowledge.
Tho second lienjamin and Ilalevy
who explored tho Lclashas, may also b(
mentioned. Tho oxislenco of Jews it
out-of-the-way corners of tho globe, the
Felashas and I'.eni-Israel and the Cochir
Jews has only been made possible bj
tho migratory tendency of the raco. The
four young men who kept last Yon:
Kippur in so queer yet so touching
fashion in tho wilds of South Africa
aro among the latest illustrations of the
tendency. No doubt tho wandering in
stinct has been strengthened by perse
cution, but now that peaco and quiet
ness aro his in greater moasuro tho Jen
still retains his predilection for travel.
TOADS iN UNORESS.
The Novel Way this Frog'H Rival Gets Bid
of Needless Covering.
It is safe to say but fow people havf
ever been fortunate enough to catch a
toad in the act of changing his skin. A
man who professes to have been an in
terested eye-witness to such a transac
tion describes the novel operation.
Tho toad pressed his elbows against
his sides downward. After a fow smart
rubs his skin began to burst open along
his back, but he appeared to be uncon
cerned, and kopt on rubbing until hf
had worked his skin into folds on hit
sides and hips.
Then, grasping one hind leg with his
forelegs, ho pulled tho skin from the
leg as slick as a man would remove
pair of pants, thon stripped tho othci
hind leg in the same way. Ho next tooli
the cast-off portion of his cuticle and
pulled iti forward between his forelegf
until ho could catch it in his mouth
whereupon he. forthwith began to swal
low it then by raising and lowering hit
bead, swallowing as tho head bent for
ward each time, ho stripped off the skin
underneath until it camo to his forelegs.
At this stage of the curious proceed
ings ho grasped one of the forelegs witfc
the opposite paw, and by much pulling
stripped off tho skin changing hands,
bo stripped tho other, and by a slight
motion of tho bead, all the time swal
lowing, ho drew it from the nock and
swallowed the whole. The entire op
oration occupied but a few minutes.
The Agent Met Her Match.
"I was settling down to work," said
business man to a Boston Globo re
porter, "when a pretty woman entered
my offlce. No ono would suspect that
she was a book-agent. She placed a
volume in front of me and began to talk.
I told her I would not buy the book if 1
really wanted it. 'Never mind,' said
she, gaily. 'It won't cost you any thing
to look at it.'
"As she desired, I did look at it."
1
read tho introduction and then chapter
1. It was about ton o'clock when I
spened the book. At eleven o'clock the
pretty book-agent had become uneasy.
I never raised my eyes. Another houi
»nd she was pacing up and down the
Qoor. At one o'clock, when she had
learly worn .hors« out, I laid, the book
lownt and, putting on my hat and ooat,
tald to the thoroughly-exasperated
woman: 'That's a clovor book I regret
ihat .I can not read mo*e of it, but I
nust go away to dinner.'
"She was mad, but she didn't say a
word. Grabbing tho book, she shoved
•t into her eachel and make for the
troet."
FARM LIVE STOCK.
THINGS WORTH KNOWING ABOUT
COWS, HORSES AND HENS.
.Willi for Hens—Why One Hen*
Kept on Laying When Egg* Were Forty
live Cents a Doaeo—Tb* .Bemitifal Cl«t»
land Bay Carriage a»n«.
So many people an now rich enough
to keep carriages in Hills country that the
breeding of coach ltcrees is profitable
business. Six hundred dollars to $2,000
is about' the way prices run for a well
broken pair of Cleveland bay carriage
horses.
CLEVELAND BAT.
The cut represents one of these beauti
ful, spirited animals, clean limbed and
shiny coated.
Peed for Wortc Doraea.
As a rule, in the corn belt of the coun
try, too much of that grain is fed to
farm animals of all^kinds.
An excellent system of feeding for
horses at the lieginning of plowing time
and through the working season would
be as follows: Feed oats in the morning,
cut feed at noon time, and oats again at
eight. This with lmy and a bran mash
twice week will keep the horses strong
for work. Those who have tried it earn
estly recommend routs to be mixed with
cut feed for horses. Carrots and meal,
or rutabagas and meal, make an excel
lent occasional horse feed. In this coun
try generally wo do rot feed animals on
tho root crops as much as we should do.
They afford variety, and animals want
variety in food as well as man. One
reason why root crops for stock feed are
not cultivated here laore is the high price
of labor. Neither tho farmer nor the
farmer's hired man likes to break his
back over carrots, rutabagas or mangel
wurzels, no matter how excellent they
may be for horses and cows.
How Sheep Bat Hay,
Ti)t sheep is more dainty feeder than
any other farm animal, aud if fed whole
hay will inevitably get some of it soiled
and leavo it uneaten. In some experi
ments by Professor E. W. Stewart he
found that by feeding twenty-five medi
um Merino sheep fifty pounds of early cut
timothy hay thoy left twelve pounds un
eaten. When the allowance was in
creased to seventy-five pounds they left
fifteen pounds uneaten. When the hay
was cut to three-eighths of an inch ic
length there was scarcely any waste, and
this /as f"und equal to seventy-five
pounds of long hay. There was an equal
gain in cutting fodder corn, though at
best this food is not so well adapted to
sheep as is hay, as a considerable por
tion of the coarser part will remain un
eaten.—Field and Farm.
A Fence Fraud,
Look out for the barbed wire fence
fraud. He is a dangerous man to trifle
with. He calls on a farmer and proposes
to put up an eight wire fence at eight
cents per foot. This is apparently so
cheap that the farmer usually signs the
contract. Then when the bill comes in,
which it does promptly, the deluded
farmer sees that he has agreed to pay
eight cents per foot for each particular
wire instead of that amount for the en
tire eight. When the scheme works
right and the premises are all fenced in
the farmer has to surrender his farm ih
part payment and give bis note for the
balance. Farmers will do well to be on
their guard against these fellows and
ghow them the gate as soon as possible.
—Yankton Journal.
Milk for Hen*.
A .neighbor of ours, whose hens, to our
exasperation, kept laying on when egga
were forty-five cents per dozen, while
ours persistently luid oil during the same
season, on being questioned, revealed the
fact that her hens had a pailful of
skimmed (perhaps clabbered)'milk each
day, and no other drink. On comparing
notes we each found that our fowls were
almost exuetly alike, with this difference
—a difference that had put many a dol
lar to the credit side of his ledger, while
our own was left blank during the same
period. This thing had been going on
for years, with the same results always
in favor of milk diet.—Texas fitock Jour
nal.
Millet for Cattle.
Corn ts generally considered the best
feed for cattle for the market, but a large
farmer in the south part of the state is
authority for the statement that millet
fed cattle weigh heavier than those fat
tened by feeding corn. The gentleman
referred to is a stock buyer as Wll aa
successful farmer, and he says that when
buying cattle he makes it a rale to buy
without weighing, if possible, when oer
*»n that the stock has been fed with
millet, as they always weigh heavier
than when fed corn. He is also of the
opinion that cattle have reached the low
est possible figure, and that now is the
time to go into .the business of raising
cattle.—Clark Pilot Review. .r®i
Varolii on Cattle.
The Rural New Yorker lias never found
anything better to/ldll lite on cattle than
frnfrmwy* water, to whieb* little sulphur
baa been added. Keep the tobacco and
sulphur in water near the boiling point
for twelve hourr/stirring it occasionally.
Apply the daop&on to the poll o| the
bead, akmmMSe-' top of the neok and'
spine, oq&ebrisket sfpdunder the legs.
,Of qoone, the animals most be kept lira
place when treated in this way.
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LATE LIVE STOCK LORE.
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SKTTLEMEN'S BUREAU OF INFOR
MATION AND STATISTICS.
A Beef Raisers' Bureau—Such a Bureaa
Will Keep Them Constantly Informed
•f the Supply of and Demand for Cat
tle, and Prevent Disastrous Losses.
The last interstate convention of cat
tlemen recommended unanimously the
establishment of a bureau of statistics
and information for cattlemen. By this
means they could control the supply and
prevent the market from being over
stocked with certain grades or becoming
scarce of others. Both state and nation
al bureaus are recommended. Among
other things the comi&ittee appointed to
report on the subject say:
We believe the establishing of state
bureaus for information and statistics
would be of incalculable benefit to the
producers of live stock in the United
States, but are doubtful if united action
on the part of each state can be had, and
unless all unite on a uniform system
there would be no practical good result.
We therefore recommend that this
convention memorialize congress to ap
propriate sufficient money to introduce
this improvement in conducting the
live stock business of our country, under
tho auspices of the department of agri
culture.
We think such an appropriation on the
part of our government is due to tho live
stock industry, which has been devel
oped in the past twenty years over 6uch
a vast extent of territory as to make it
almost impossible to get united action
on tho part of individuals interested, and
it would seem to us quite as consistent
on the part of congress to aid in har
monizing and advancing tho interests of
this great industry, in which nearly one
half of the population of tho United
States depend far support, as it is to
maintain a weather bureau or other sim
ilar agencies.
Care of Farm Borsea.
I saw on article in The Journal ask
ing for advice in regard to taking care of
boras. I will give my experience in
taking caro of farm teams. I feed in the
morning when they aro at hard work
throo quartaof corn or six quarts of oats
whichever I have, at 5 otlock and a
good feed of hay. Clean out the stable,
bed down lightly and curry. Hitch up
after 7 and work until 12, but do not
crowd them very hard. Work them
to a twelve inch plow and plow two
acres a day. When they come in, if
they aro warm, kit them drink very
sparingly of water, put in and let them
eat hay for half an hour, take out and
Ivoall tho water thoy will drink aafi
them their grain, three to four quart?
of corn or eight quartoof oats:
I give an hour nooning and always let
•team eat hay first ana eat their grain
just before going to work. If they are
ted grain first and then allowed to eat
hay it crowds the grain through them
and they do not have it to work on in the
afternoon. Some may think I am afield
fogy, but I will give an illustration. One
year ago last summer I fed the teams as
quick as they were put in the barn they
commenced to run down and did not
stand up to their usual amount of work
In the afternoon. I changed and let them
eat hay first and they gained and stood
ap to work better. I quit at 0 .o'clock in
the evening, give all tho water they will
drink, if not too warm, let them eat ha
for half and hour and then feed three
of corn or dx quarts, of oats.—
r. Journal of Agriculture.
Different Kinds of 'Wool.
Having been asked a great many times
by tho wool grower "What constitutes
a delaine and combing wool?" in answer
ing I would say a delaine, or rather a
fine delaine wool, is a merino wool, free
from excessive yolk, black top and a
frouzy point or, to reverse it, a merino
wool, white oil, white wool, firm, elastic
and clean end, from two and one-half to
three and one-half inches long. A comb
lag wool is a wool grown on the Cots
wolds, Shropshire, Hampshire, Leicester
and other long wooled sheep. Thecoajfe
est combing is used for and called braid
and carpet wools than one-fourth blood,
three-eighths blood, one-half blood. The
last three grades usually bring the best
price per pound and generally'the best
price per bead of sheep, and also mate
good mutton. They usually sell for ex
porbsheep and the lamb—a good spring
lamb—for the early market. The wool
must, however, be strong, of bright
color, elastic, free from burrs and breaks
and have a nice, dean, healthy top to
taring the best price.
Again I have been asked "How w&nli
you proceed to grow this wool?" If I bad
a flock of gpod merino ewes, or ievpn
merino half or three-quapter blood nook,
I would breed them totiitber aflrst class
pore or thoroughbred Ootswold or Slmj
(hire buck. The lambs of course would
be one-quarter fine and three-quarters
coarse blood. The ewes from this 1
would breed to a thoroughbred smooth
bodied merino buck (no wrinkles), con
sequeutly my clip would be from one
quarter combing to one-half and three
quarters blood combing and delaine, a
style? of wool always in demaud, and
some part of it always bringing the high
est market price. The wethers would
generally run from 130, pounds and up
ward, thus classing
as export sheep, and
the lambs, if dropped early, bringing the
highest market price. Of course fine
bucks and Shropshire or Cots
wold bucks would be necessary in this
Hn«—always thoroughbred. Breed ewes
three-quarter merinos to the coarse
irooled bock, and tbe ewes thnenaoar
tors coarse to the merino buck, and the
above will be the resnlt that is, a clip of
toe delaine or combing down to one
quarter oombing, a large sheep for mut
ton and large lambs for the spring mar
feat—W. E. Goody, in Kansas Farmer.
ZteWestern Rural says that If g, uam
bar of English sparrows are shot tiara1
line to time and left lying amrtaid where
Hie otherocan see'them thsseotbenwill
take the hint and leav* At any rate
to worth trying.
G08S1P OF THS ATHLETIC CLUB*
The Orange club, a strong social organi
sation in that pretty New Jersey town, hoc
arraugod au athletic adjunct known as th#
Orange Atliletio club. Thoy are laying
out a Hold with a track, baseball diamond
and numerous tennis courts. The mem
bership of tho adjunct is already larg*
enough to make it a success.
The annual spring games of the Warn*
Athletic club, of Wilmington, Del., will
take place on Saturday afternoon, June tt,
on tho baseball grounds. The open eventa
are 100 yard, 220 yard, 880 yard and 2 mils
runs, running high jump, running broad
jump, 1 and Smile bicycle races and put
ting 10 pound shot. All these are handi
cap. There are other events open only to
members of the Warren club. There will,
also be a 100 yard run and a 2 mile bicycle
race, both scratch, for the championship
of Delaware. Entrance fee, 50 cento pel
toon for each event. A large number of
New York city athletes will take part ia
these games.
A representative of the Denver Athletto
club of Colorado is traveling through the
east looking at the various gymnasiums oi
largo athletic clubs and Young Monll
Christian associations. TJie Denver dob
is In a thriving condition and intends pn#
iting by the experience of its oitntCT
brethren.
The Maple Athletto club of Chicago re
cently elected the following officers: Presi
dent, Louis Mallory vice president, Ed
ward Deegan secretary, Bernard McCann
treasurer, Nicholas Sheridan/* There are
now 120 members in good standing, and
among these are quite a number of good
athletes.''
The Pacific Coast Amateur Athletic as
sociation, whose headquarters ape at Sao
Francisco, has lately adopted tnles coo
cerning championship events, disqualifies
tion of athletes, records, and athletes sell
ing prases similar to the American Athletic
unioA. Efforts so far to amalgamate the
two bodies have been unsuccessful, but they
are working more in harmony now thai)
ever before.
Although the city of Pullman, His., Is
owned bv the Pullman Palace Car com
pany, ana persons wishing to reside there
can only rent houses, the town boasts of a
beautiful athletic plant on the shore
Lake Calumet, and in proportion to the in
habitants, nearly all of whom are employed
in the railroad shops, there are numerous
flood athletes. The athlotic grounds and
boat house are within a stone's throw of
the huge aggregation of structures In the
Pullman works, and being so accessible
stimulates athletic practice.
COLUMBUS' CENTER FIELDER.
fames MiObmany, a Famous and SkOlM
Ohio Ball Player.
James McTamany is the popular tad
eteady center fielder of the Columbus club,
fie was born July 4,1803,'in Philadelphia.
His first professional engagement waa ia
1884, with the Ironsides, of Lancaster, Pa
a member
of the Eastern league. He staid
with this club until it disbanded, late ia
the season of 1B85, and was then sifmei
the Brooklyn club, of the AmerkaB
JAMES M'TAMAITST.
line remained with the Brooklyn Mm
Jfuring the seasons of 1880 and 1887 and
did excellent work. He was one of tltt
men purchased from Brooklyn by tho Kan
sas City club when it joined the American
association in
1888.
When the Columbus club was farmed te
lake the place of Cleveland in the Americas
association McTamapy was one of tb»
Sto
layers selected to make up tho new team
has done brilliant work for Columbuat
fend his future sucoess seems assured.
She Won the Toboggan 81Me Handicap*
FIDES.
Twelve thousand people saw Fides cna
the line first in the toboggan slide handi
cap recently, thereby winning for her own
er, Mr. Belmont, a neat sum, and placing
to her own credit a record of l.lOJ^ fa*
three-quarters of a mile. This is three
quarter seoonds faster than the time mode
by El Rio Hey and Tipstaff in the fall at
1880. Fides' victory was a popular on%
although no one was prepared to see tb*
raco run In such phenomenal time by this
sturdy filly, carrying, as she did. 111
pounds on her back.
8ardou*a "Cleopatra." ,,
Sanlou's "Cleopatra'.' will shortly be pro
duced at tbe Porte Saint Martin theati%
Paris. It was written in collaboration
with Emile Moreau. Both writers ooMr
ceived the idea at about tbe same time, an4
both submitted it to Bernhardt. She told
each ono that the other had proposed
similar plan to her, and thus came abovfr
tho combination of genius. At first Mor
eau wanted to model the play after Shake
speare's "Antony and Cleopatra,"
Sardou decided that in no way should En
glish influence be felt. Another play by
Sardou will be produced at about the same
time, which has for its hero Labussienk
He was an actor, and at a time during tb*
French revolution when hft companions ft
the Theatre Francais were in gtSab daagm
he saved them.
ROWINQ. ,,
Tbe entries for the regatta of the
sissippi Valley Amateur Rowing rnisrwb
tion, which M4U take place at Duluti^
Minn., July 81-36^. close July 7.
JohnTeemer.thftcelebroted professional
oarsman, claims that he is rowing bettaf
now than em. Be l} preqtlqing tor tkl
profspslnnal smntg in the big regatta aft
Duluth. a-' Yt
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Give us a call and satisfy yourselvos.
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McLean bounty.
The Paradise of North Dakota. A Kalf Million Aero** of Fertile Agricultural Lands
still open to Hettlcment, and nil underlaid with lramenio veins of Co&l.
McLEAN COUNTY is situated on the Missouri river, and adjoins Burleigh county
on the north. It covers an area of 928 square miles, and contains 614,120 acres of the
finest quality of farming land. Th,e soil is a rich black loam, from eighteen inches to
three feet in depth, with clay subsoil, and is capable of produoing enormous crops of
cereals and vegetables it also has fine grazing and meadow lands, oielding nutritious
grasses in abundance.
WASHBURN, the connty seat, is admirably located, being on a beantiful plateau at
the "Big Bend" of th6 Missouri river, and commanding an excellent view of the river
for several miles in each direotion. Several mail and transportation lines diverge
from here, and it is the most important point on the Bismarck, Washburn A Coal
Harbor Steam-Packet Line. It is Jtlso the terminal point of the projeoted Aberbeen,
Bismarck & Northern railroad, now merged into the great "Soo" line, which has sur
veyed the line and secured the right of way to Washburn.
All kinds of building material, excellent blue sandstone, good timber, and fine clay
for brick-making, can be found in the immediate vioinity of Washburn, and have been
used extensively by the citizens of the eounty. An excellent quality of brick, as well
as the best of lime, are manufactured on the outskirts of the town.
Washburn has ia fine courthouse and jail, two large hotels, a substantially built
50-barrel flour mill, three general stores, a blacksmith and wagon shop, and a number
of substantial residences. :.^
OUR COAL FIELDS.
McLean county is noted for its extensive coal fields, which underlies nearly its en
tire area. In fact, there is coal enough in McLean county alone to supply the state
of North Dakota with fuel for half a century. It is found in all parts in stratss vary
ing in thiokness from three to fifteen feet, and it is a matter of but a short time when
this coal will yield an immense revenue to the enterprising owners of the land.
The extensive stock ranges, the superior agricultural lands, and the cheap fuel in
wood and coal, of McLean county offer the greatest inducements to settlers.
RAMSETT BROTHERS,
DEALERS IN
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We will sell our goods' at the lowest living prices for
Cash on its equivalent.
CEO. L. ROBINSON,
DEALER IN
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
COAL HARBOR, North Dakota.
A Ml line of Groceries, Dry Goods, Hats, Caps,
Boots and Shoes, all of which will .be sold
At Prices that will suit you.
Farm Produce Bought and Sold.
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