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Jay Gould’s Dairy Side.— Mr. Gould Is 
said to have given the following bit of per¬ 
sonal history: 
My father had a little dairy farm in 
Delaware County, N. Y., and the special 
products of that farm were butter and 
cheese. We had a rotary churn, which was 
operated by a treadmill, on which we work¬ 
ed a large dog and sometimes a sheep. In 
course of time the dog and the sheep came 
to understand what was in store for them 
when they saw the people about the place 
setting the churn up. Thereupon they were 
in the habit of disappearing. On such 
occasions, to supply the missing motor, I 
was pressed into service, and eventually I 
came to understand that when the churn 
was being prepared I, too, was in danger of 
involuntary servitude: so I used to dis¬ 
appear. On one occasion, however, I re¬ 
monstrated so bitterly against being made 
the substitute of the dog that my father 
chastised me with a good deal of severity, 
and after brooding over the matter all 
night I concluded to leave the farm and 
seek my fortune elsewhere. So, like many 
another boy, I packed up my clothes, and 
in the early morning left the farm and 
started out into the world for myself. 
It has long been known that Mr. Gould 
is a temperate man and this statement ex¬ 
plains why he is so : 
I have never been able to drink spirits 
with any satisfaction. I would like to drink 
claret, and I have tried very hard to make 
it a part of my daily regimen, but it does 
not agree with me. I find, indeed, that the 
only thing that I can depend upon as a 
suitable drink for me is warm milk. Now, 
when I have had a particularly busy day 
and have been under an unusual strain, I 
find that I don’t sleep very well; so I never 
go to bed at all now without having a small 
spirit lamp by my bedside and a pint or 
two of good, fresh milk in a pan. When I 
become aware that I am wakeful and rest¬ 
less I light the lamp, warm the milk, drink 
a little of it and immediately fall asleep. 
A Drainage Experiment.— An interest¬ 
ing experiment was tried at the Texas Ex¬ 
periment Station. Soil was selected that 
was underlaid at a depth varying from 10 
Inches to two feet with hard, tenacious 
clay. The ground slopes to the north about 
five inches to the rod. Tiles were laid 20 
inches and 4 and 2)4 feet deep. The cost of 
the tiles and all the labor of digging and 
laying them was, per rod, 88 cents at 20 i i- 
ches, $2 17 at four feet and $1.12 at 2)4 feet 
deep. A small area of undralned land 
yielded 3% bushels of potatoes ; an equal 
area of drained land yielded 10X bushels— 
the latter being superior in size and quality. 
Even better results than this were obtained 
with cabbage on the tiled land. It has also 
been planned to test strawberry plants on 
tiled and undrained soil. It is believed that 
strawberry plants will stand the drought 
and heat better on tiled land. It is also 
proposed to test a mulch of cotton-seed 
hulls against a soil kept clean and loose by 
constant surface cultivation. 
People’s Party Liquor Plank.— The 
Ohio People’s Party at their State conven¬ 
tion adopted the following resolution: 
We believe that the solution of the liquor 
problem lies in abolishing the element of 
profit, which is a source of constant temp¬ 
tation and evil, and we therefore demand 
that the exclusive importation, exporta¬ 
tion, manufacture, and sale of spirituous 
liquors shall be conducted by the Govern¬ 
ment or State at cost through agencies and 
salaried officials in such towns and cities as 
shall apply for such agencies. 
This has aroused the anger of the Prohibi¬ 
tionists and seems to please nobody in par¬ 
ticular except possibly advocates of cheap 
whisky. The Voice says that it would kill 
State prohibition, as any place that applied 
for it could have a rum shop, the same as a 
post office. It also says that whisky long 
since sold for $1 13 per gallon; the present 
price is $118 The tax is 90 cents per gal¬ 
lon. We have thus 28 cents for cost and 
profit. Putting the profit at eight cents, 
we have 20 cents per gallon, five cents per 
quart or 2)4 cents per pint at which our 
generous government would retail whisky. 
And not only this, but these rum sellers 
would all be “government officials” ap¬ 
pointed from Washington to sell cheap 
whisky. The city of New York, for ex¬ 
ample, would be one of the first to “apply” 
for superior “liquor facilities.” There are 
already here upwards of 8 000 liquor and 
beer saloons, with an average of three em¬ 
ployees each, including the “bosses’’and 
barmen. At least as many would be re¬ 
quired under the new regime. Who in the 
name of common sense can defend such a 
resolution ? 
Camping Out at the Fair.— At many of 
the large Western fairs this year, pro¬ 
visions will be made for camping out by 
those who wish to attend as economically 
as possible. Comfortable tents will be pro¬ 
vided by the management, and full meals 
or hot coffee will be served at cost prices. 
Visitors will bring their bidding, rubber 
blankets, etc. It is also proposed to try 
this “camping out” plan at the World’s 
Fair in ’93. Tents will be pitched on the 
highest nearby ground and rented for a 
small sum. No doubt these would accom¬ 
modate many persons who want to go to 
the fair and yet cannot afford to pay heavy 
hotel and boarding house bills. Old soldiers 
and their children would be particularly 
well pleased with such a scheme. 
Use of Bio Words. —All who have trav¬ 
eled through the South have been amussd 
at the efforts of many of the negroes to use 
“ big words.” Some long, “ fine-sounding ” 
word catches their ear, and they memorize 
it for use on all state occasions. The fol¬ 
lowing letter was written by a negro man 
named Adder, who is renting a farm near 
Atlanta, Ga. He writes to the owner ask¬ 
ing about the purchase of 25 bushels of 
corn in this fashion : 
Mr. T. B. Parks : 
My Dkar Sir.—As the sun, the great orb of day, Is 
fast bathing his majestic head b“h!nd the western 
hills, a^d the moon, the pale goddess of night, Is 
spreading her silvery wings to ascend the milky way, 
and the ever-twinkling stars that dot the skies like 
shimmering gold that bedecks the brow of “the 
oeauty ” who trips a fantast ic toe to sweet mellowing 
strains of music, I rise In my majesty and seize my 
pen, and say howdy, for the future has flopped her 
glided wings, and says, R chard, you must “get up 
and get,’’ as January, on silken wings, has flown be¬ 
hind the misty mount of the past, and February anon 
comes gliding along en swift, greased wheels and 
will say “ all aboard,” and this poor old nigger will 
be nowhere. 
After this burst of eloquence, the farm 
hand goes on to ask about the purchase of 
the corn In a brief and practical way. The 
letter is written in a good business hand, 
all words are spelled correctly, the sen¬ 
tences are grammatical and well punctu¬ 
ated. 
ALL SORTS. 
You Wouldn’t.— Who wouldn’t be a 
“ downtrodden and oppressed Western 
farmer” with wheat and rye selling above 
a dollar a bushel at Chicago t —Albany 
Journal. 
Does Like Cure Like —It would be 
irony of fate if the Republican party were 
compelled to adopt a tariff for revenue only 
to save them from bankruptcy by a tariff 
for protection only.—Providence Journal. 
He Ought to Own the Earth.— George 
—Henry George—says a man ought to cul¬ 
tivate the farm he owns to make it worth 
as much as possible. That’s good enough 
as it goes, but there’s something better 
than that: he ought to own the farm he 
cultivates. Heaps of farmers don’t do that. 
—The Press. 
Success in Small Farms —We are con¬ 
vinced that a good farmer will make more 
clear money from 40 acres of well-fertilized 
and well-tilled land than the average 
farmer is now making from his 160 acre 
farm. If the farmers who own 160 acre 
farms would sell off three 40 acre tracts to 
three other good 40 acre farmers, and in 
that way get out of debt, they would be 
bettering their own condition, besides add¬ 
ing to the general prosperity of the whole 
country, provided all followed the policy 
of intensive farming. In that way the rural 
population would be quadrupled. We 
should then have lower rates of taxation, 
better homes, better schools, better roads 
and better times all around.—Fort Collins, 
Col., Courier. 
Why Not Pension All of Us f—The 
latest proposition of the treasury looters is 
to pension clerks in the Federal offices at 
Washington who have completed a certain 
term of service. It Is not urged that the 
pay of these employees is less or their work 
more arduous than the employment of or¬ 
dinary mortals who may not hope for pen¬ 
sions, but the theory upon which the looters 
proceed is probably that the average gov¬ 
ernment clerk has so much time to spare 
that he is led to spend his money, without 
making due provision for old age.—Chicago 
Times. 
How the Germans Pay Duty.— The Ger¬ 
mans have met every increase caused by 
the McKinley Bill. They have done it by 
cheapening the products of their mills at the 
expense of the consumer. We get the same 
stocking as before in appearance, but it is 
nothing but trash. Instead of the respec¬ 
table two thread yarns we were all so par¬ 
ticular to get before, we now get a miser¬ 
able single thread that has hardly strength 
enough to hold together while it Is running 
through the looms.—An Importer, in St. 
Louis Republic. 
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