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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1904)
4 - '4 STRANGE LAND TENURFS. 4 t Mvery student of English history or llctlon has rend of undent leases of property which require rent to be paid in peppercorns or roses, or In some other curious way. Tho Windsor Mng uzlne describes some customs lu con nection with Innd tenure which nre Htlll more curious. Whenever u certain estate at Ching ford, in Essex, passes into new hands, the owner, -with his wife, man servant and maid servant, goes on horseback o the parsonage and pays homage by blowing three blasts uion a horn. lie carries a hawk upon his list, and his servant leads a gray-hound, both sup posed to be for the use of the rector for that day. Tlie newcomer receives a chicken for the hawk, a peck of oats for his horse nd a loaf of bread for his greyhound. 'After dinner the owner blows three more blasts, and then with his party 'withdraws from the rectory. The "Castor-Whip Tenure" Is even mioro remarkable. On Palm Sunday every year a servant from the 1 trough ,ton estate attends service at Cudor Ohurch with a new cart-whip, and after cracking it three times in the iroreh, marches with It to the manor house. When the clergyman begins the Her- unon the servant quits his seat. A purse containing thirty pieces of sil ver is iixed at the end of the AVhlp lash, and, kneeling on a cushion, he .'holds the purse suspended over the head of the clergyman until the end jeC the sermon. Then purse and whip are left at the manor-house. The "Whisper Court" at Rochford, jSDssox, Is a strange Michaelmas ob .servance held under the superintend ence of the steward of the manor. The business of tho court is carried out at midnight in the open air. The absence of a tenaut Is punsh able by a tine of double rent for each hour he falls to be In attendance; no artificial light except a llrebrand is permitted; the proceedings are rocord 'ed by means of one of the embers of :the brand. The roll of fourteen ten juits Is called over and answered to in whisper, and then they kneel and swear allegiance. The explanation of this odd cere- iinony Is that, very many years ago, the lord of the manor, after an ab Hence from his estate, was returning liome by night. Passing over King's iHill, he accidentally heard some of Jils discontented tenantry plotting his assassination, and. thus warned, he reached home by an unexpected mute. He enacted that from that time forth the tenants on his estate should as (rtemblo every year exactly at the same time to do him homage round tn post which he erected on the pro dse spot where tlie plotters met. Tho Cnro of Umbrellas. More umbrellas are spoiled through tireless treatment than wear out from actual hard work. One great mistake that many people make Is to leave an umbrella standing on Its point to dry latter It has been used In tho rain. This is most harmful, as all the water jtrickles down and settles in the folds ,ut the narrow end of the silk, and this not only causes the silk to rot, but the wire frame to grow rusty. The right way to treat a wet umbrella when brought into tlie house is to open It wide and wipe It as dry as possible, ,then half close It and leave it standing on its handle to drain. Wet umbrellas should never be put near a lire; thlB "also is likely to cause the silk to split Future Liifo of Animals. Sir William Blunden, a doctor and 'baronet, has favored a meeting of tho 'Society for the Prevention of Cruelty ,to Animals with some views on the future state of animals. He "certainly believed," he said, in the future exist ence of animals, and, though he could not bring forward evidence In support pjf his proposition, he could not at tho same time bring forward evidence to the contrary. If they took the case of 'the tinker's ass, which was born and .reared in hardship, he found It hard to tthink that a merciful Creator formed that animal merely to suffer at tin bands of man without receiving some compensation in the next life, if not 1n the present. Chose a Suitable Toxt. "Dr. Thirdly Is certainly an up-to date clergyman," said Fosdick. "SoV" said Keetlick. "Yes. sir. One of his parishioners ,was killed by tho explosion of his automobile and the doctor took for the loxt of his funeral sermon the biblical account of Elijah going to heaven In u chariot of tire." Smart Set. Comparatively Spunking. First child .My father's got so much .money he doesn't known how to spend 1t. Second child That's nothing. .My father's got so much money that moth er can't spend It. New York Sun. Feminine Point of View. He Don't you think Miss Pinklelgh Is rather pretty? . She Well, she isn't a bad-looking ftarlrl when she has her complexion on. fOPICS OF THE TIMES, CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER ESTING ITEMS. CatmtictttH uutl Criticism tinned Upon the llnt'PciilniiH of the Day Histori cal and Ncwh Noted. lie who waits on fate wins failure. Just remember, as you go along. Hint the present good roads movement owes Ita origin to the bicycle. Tho one fact that shines out lucid and dlstiuct In tho "explanations" re garding railways wrecks Is that they lappeu. Kaiser Wilhelm has ended his voice training and doubtless he now has it lu a condition to meet all comers for the heavyweight championship. Since Tsi An took to an automobile the Boxers have suspended operations. Pliny doubtless recognize suorlor fa cilities for homicide when they see Ihem. Those who are inclined to critiel.e fireproof construction in buildings Khould remember that "fire proof" Is only a relative term. Steel will melt It tho fire Is hot enough. A Connecticut man has lost, a for tune on a technicality. The only way In which he can get even Is to go Into the bribing and grafting business and then get off on another technicality. The Chicago professor who com plains that more attention is paid to raising pigs than rearing children should read the report of the woman who fed her pig and her baby from the same bottle. As a birthday present on Iowa farm er gave his 10-year-old daughter 500 pigs. His Idea was to take her at tention uway from some of these fris ky young animals who poisoned the nlr of the front steps with monoxide of cigarette. A British schoolboy Is held rcspon- sible for the following comment In his school examination papers upon one of our national Institutions: "In the United States people are put to death by elocution." Indeed, the boy. stroke truer than he knew. There arc no swear Avords in tlie Japanese language. The nearest one Jap can come to swearing at another is to call him a beast. After this prob ably when one of the mikado's sub Jeets desires to be particularly abusive he will call tlie other fellow a bear. "Men who run great businesses says young Itockefeller, "cannot afford to bo dishonest; scrupulous honesty Is necessary to success." Ah! that ex plains why .T. Pierpont Morgan frank ly owned up to tho Now York tax ns sessor that he was worth $100,000. The San Juan News says that Americans have virtually made base ball the national outdoor sport of Por to Itlco. Tennis tournaments are also held, and football, cycling and other pastimes have been tried to some ex tent. When a Northerner Is accli mated, it is said, he enjoys the vari ous forms of outdoor exercise much as lie does In the North. Southward the course of umpire takes its way. The movement for the preservation of the Calaveras groves of big trees In i national park has enlisted support in thirty States outside of California, and the petitions on file in Congress con tain the names of l,-m,'200 persons. Of these 239,500 are citizens of Cali fornia. The others arc scattered In all parts of the country significant testi mony to the national character of the loinund. President Roosevelt is heart ily lu favor of the plan, for tlie success if which a determined effort Is now making. A few years ago several States passed laws by which the public was undo financially responsible for mob .ioleiice to persons, as it has, of course, .tug been responsible for destruction it' property by the same cause. Doubts is to whether such laws would be en orccd have been lessened by some re cent events. In Ohio two counties liove been compelled to pay heavy la mages for mob violence to residents if the counties, and In loulslana five liousand dollars has been awarded to he family of each of three victims of nib law or lawlessness. Many people think that the world iocs not advance, and that It is useless j agitates for reforms. Yet It was only s far back as 1S20 that the agitation r the normal school education of somen began. The amount of proju .ice at that time against the advanced -.lueatlou of women Is evidenced in ic ease of Hev. Charles Brooks, a cul iiteil and refined Unitarian minister, io went all over Massachusetts lec iilng on the higher education of onu n and who was actually mobbed i some communities by what were sen called the better classes, and an .-.iitiv of him, with a dunce's cup, was exhibited, bearing tho legend: "A fool going to the legislature to nsk for money for a normal school for young girls." Now there Is no fenr of tho educated woman In Massachusetts; that Is, unless you are planning to hold her hand. The great want of this age Is meni men who are honest and sound from center to circumference, true to tho heart's core; men who will condemn wrong In friend or foe, In themselves a.s well as others; men whose con sciences are as steady as the needle to the pole; men who would stand for tho right if the heavens totter and tho earth reels; men who can tell tho truth and look the world and the devil right In the eye; men who never fag or Hindi; men who have courage with out shouting to bring it; men to whom the current of everlasting life nuw still and deep and strong; men who know their place and llll It; ineu who will not He; men who are willing to earn what they eat and perforin whut they are paid for doing. If there Is any spot on earth which deserves the title of the "dark and bloody ground" It 1 not Kentucky, but Haiti. From the very day In 1-UVJ when Columbus a; d his men set foot upon the shore, t! beautiful but ill- fated bilaiid has been the scene ot warfare, torture, murder, anarchy and misery. In a single generation the nit live Inhabitants were totally destroyed by the cruelty of the Spanish Invad ers. Their places were lllled by negro slaves Imported from Africa. Thoii came the buccaneers, mostly French pirates and marauders, who settled on the wast coast. Their horrible deeds make in themselves a whole chapter of history. In 1807 tho western part of the Island was ceded to Francei For another hundred years negro slaves iHMired In, and .then between tlnj three races, the black, the white anil the mixed, there broke out one of tha most terrible struggles In history. 1 resulted In the extermination of t:h whites and the Independence of tin negroctf, under that great leader, Tous. saint. L'Ouverture. In 1S01 France re conquered the Island, but lost It again two years later. Since then the story of Haiti has been one long chapter of wars. The Dominican Republic wai formed In 18411. This event, instead ot giving over that half of tlie Island the eastern to peaceful government, merely provided another stage for melodrama, and the history of Halt J as a whole continued In the new pollt leal division. The Dominican Repub lic, which is the division Just now In the throes of anarchy, has a population of somewhat more than six hundred and ten thousand, mostly negroes anil mulattocs. Suffrage is universal, li) theory, at least, and a president U supposed to be elected once every four years. In point of fact, the people arc absolutely Incapable of self-rule, and the president is any man who is able to seize the government by force anil to hold it. The present trouble began with an attack by General Morales up. on the government of President Wos y Gil, who himself was only tlie head of a government which had come Into powor seven niouths before by over throwing tho administration of PresV dent Vnsquez. Danger to the lives and property of foreign residents o Santo Domingo has made it necessary for the United States and other coun tries to send warships and check tin lighting, but every one knows thai this is only a makeshift. A satlsfac tory and permanent arrangement com patible with the independence of tin republic Is more dilllcult to devise. Nc one has yet suggested It. Housekeeping i Frnnoe. In a talk by .Miss Maria Parlo. on French housekeeping, she said tlia' economy and patience were two stronj traits of the French housekeeper. Manj Inconveniences and conditions tin known to American housewives hav to be overcome, but, notwithstnndiiu this, the French home is a model neatness and comfort outside of, per haps, the one point of temperatunj for in France the question of fuel Ij an important one. According to Mist Parloa, French cookery Is not compll cated, as is generally supposed; for ex ample, the usual French breakfast con sisls of a cup of coffee or chocolau without cream and a slice of bread (. roll, and high seasonings of food an unknown, herbs and vegetables belnj used in preference to spices. Thii statement of the situation is contrary to tin? general belief, and certainly t wo accept it as literally true, the hlgli ly-seusonod dishes we obtain in Amerl can large cities must be originated bj others than Frenchmen. Weather Signs. Mrs. Strongloy John, mother Ii coining to spend n week with us. Mr. Strongloy Thunder and light nlng! Mrs. Strongloy No, just reign. Butte Inter-Mountain. The Czar's Scepter. The Russian stato scepter Is of soil) gold, three feet long, and contain among Its ornaments, 20S diamond 300 rubies and 15 emeralds. Never marry a woman big enough t( whip you. lliuiillliiK mi Unruly Hog. Any one who bus tiled It will testify that It Is not an easy task to hnnd'.o a stubborn hog, and most hogs are stub born. If one has occasion to do this work the device shown in tho cut is simple and effective. Take a strong rope about the diameter of a clothes line and about ten or twelve feet long. From this cut off three feet and tie a loop lu each end, then tie the remain ing piece In the center of the looped piece and bring the loop over the snout of the hog after slipping the loops .n the llrst piece over his hind feet. Have a ring lu the long looped piece, and through this slip another rope, also looped, so as to como over his neck, as shown In tho cut. This rope may be heavier than tho llrst one, and If the animnl Is unruly and strong, the end which Is shown over the back of the hog extending to tho hand of the one who is driving It, may be slipped over his rump and Into the lower loop and tied, leaving a long loop In the driver's hnnds for better control. The illus trations show clearly how the contriv ance Is constructed. To Grow Klne Celery. A Michigan gardener writes: Take any land that will stand drought, put at least one load of well-rotted manure on every square rod of ground, plow and fit the ground well, set plnnts In rows 10 Inches apart and six to eight Inches apart In hie row (set with an old brick trowel), keep the surface well worked till the plants cover the ground, after which no Aveeds will bother. By raising celery by tills method the plants become dense, and consequently darken the lower parts of tho plants, causing' the celery to grow white from the center. None but White Plume will grow successful ly this way. White Plume can be grown In single row and be blanched by placing bundles of corn stalks on both rows. Bundles should be at least eight Inches in diameter. I grew White Plume celery X Inches high lost year on high ground, and It was ns white ns snow. I find the (Slant Pascal is best for late winter use, but It has to be earthed to blanch. These two varieties arc the best to my notion. One-.Mini Corn Hied. Make two runners, one 5 feet and one 7 or 8 feet long; use Jxlt stuff: placo 2 feet apart and nail boards on top as shown in cut. Fasten a scythe blade on for knife. It is better than the steel plate knives. Knife should run high on edge and at an angle of about -15 degrees from the runners. A ONU-MAN COItN Sl.Kl). The object of the long runner Is lo keep the sled from bucking to one side, which Is caused by the cutting being all dono on one side. Wo stand 1 1 1 to "lit in large corn, and put on a box and sit down in small. It is a waste of labor to knock tlie corn down on sled and pick it up again. Keep it up in your arms. The single sled is now preferred to the double ones here. I am a boy M years old. My father has taken the Practical Farmer since before I was born.- Archie Orange, Galesburg, Kan. On Howlnir Clover. Sowing clover is an absorbing ques tion with farmers who desire to keep up the fertility of their land. When Boed Is high there is always a disposi tion, with somo, to defer sowing clover until another year, and plow up the fields again. Seed may le cheaper next year, you know. This manage ment may have kept these same fields under tho plow for yearn, making it moro uncertain to secure a catch, and requiring moro acres, every year, to Kecuro tho requisite amount of grain. It is unwise and foolish to fall to sow clover because seed Is dear. 70 It lIAKWilWI A 1100. f DlTeraifled Forming tn the ICxtrcmo, Tho managers of tho Mnryvlllo (Mo.) Btroct Fair offered a $10 prize to th Nodaway County agriculturist whq flhould exhibit tho largoat number ol form products grown on his farm thU season. W. It. Bosley, of Ilavonwood, drovo up with a Avagon load of stufl nnd took tho prize. His wagon contained o stalk of corn thirteen and one-half foot high; white, red, yellow and speckled corn in enrj wheat, rye, buckwheat, rape, timothy seed, onts, thirteen kinds of green beans and pens, throe kinds of pop corn, two kinds of cucumbers, one red pig, a turkey, two chickens, two Guinea fowls, hedge balls, strawberry vines, one cnbbago weighing llfteeq pounds, celery, summer nnd winter let luce, peanuts, two kinds of beets, horseradish, asparagus, blueatem grass, slough grnsB, clover hay, prairie hay, carrotfl, green mustard, six kinds o pickles, seven kinds of Jelly, Jam, cher ries, three kinds of parsnips, thres gourds, two kinds of sunflower seed, sweet corn, can of honey, castor bean, one sunflower, the flower of whirl measured forty-six Inches In circumfer ence; sugar cane, two kinds of mlllcl In stalk, an oyster plant, four kinds ol radishes, turnips, four kinds of Irish potatoes, two klntlH of sweet potatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, two kinds ol squash, green lettuce and onion. -Baltimore American. How tn Market the Itutter. Thoso who possess the knack of mak lug butter that has that fragrant flavor that distinguishes the produce of many farm dairies, often make the nils take of keeping the butter on hand too long after It Is made before marketing it. It will bo found that however pal atable It may be, and however good the flavor It possesses when llrst made, It will have escaped after too long keeping. Kven when transported long distances It loses Its dlstlnctlvcncHH while In transit In fact, It seems that butter which possesses to a large de gree this niuch-ueslred flavor deterio rates much quicker than an tnfcrloi kind. As a consequence of this, tho farmer's wife who makes a superior article which hns a local reputation for excellence should endeavor to dlsposo of the product to local trade, or at least sell It so near home that It will bo but a day or two between the churn and the customer. This can bo easily managed lu almost, any locality whero there Is a market for It by securing n list, of private customers and furnish It to them direct as they need It. Thh class of patrons are much more profit able year in and year out than the city hotels or the commission houses or those customers who buy In the gen eral market To Prevent Itluck Itot. As a preventive of black rot lu vine yards next season the North Carollmr experiment station recommends that all dead leaves nnd rotten grapes b raked up and removed and rotten grapes clinging to the vines and trcl Uses picked off. Loose shredded hark that can be readily pulled from the vines prun lugs, dead grass and weeds should be burned; in fact, anything capable ol harboring the dustllkc spore should bn destroyed or taken awy. While the vines are still in a dor mant condition, spray with the coppei sulphate solution, thoroughly wetting tlie vines and posts, and paying par ticular attention to hunches of tendril I or rough surfaces on the posts thai would be likely to retain the spores. M is much easier to keep black rot out ol a vineyard once cleaned than to keei It down in a vineyard not cleaned. Sheen for Mixtion. Mutton as a human food Is gaining rapidly in reputation. So much Im provement has been made in the meth ods of breeding, fattening, slaughter ing and ripening mutton thai a greatj army of people who were once prejuj diced against It no longer tlnd any thing the matter with It. Good au thorities predict that the time Is rapid ly approaching when as many sheep and lambs will be slaughtered In this country as there are hogs and cattle slaughtered now. History shows us that in old countries mutton Is tho poor man's meat. The reason for this is flint It can be raised at less cost. (iooil Milker. Milk Vein. Good milkers will almost Invarhibly show a well-devolopcd milk vein. This big vein which carries the blood from the hag or udder to the heart for purl liciitlnu should constitute considerable of a network on the udder itself and should then continue well forward mi the belly and disappear in the region of the heart. Mitijn Kiiunnn Wlient Ylcliln. The banner yield of wheat lu Kansas Is said to be that of Joseph (3. Ort, In Gove county, who thrashed 'JU'8 bush els of O'J-ponnd wheat from three acres of an old corral, and -l.ri(i.'f bushels (ele vator weight i from a 100-ucro field, Tho .seed was Turkey red, one bushel to the acre. The throe-acre piece had been heavily fertilized for vegetables, and after these were gone he again fer tilized and plowed it four Inches Uecu. During 10011 Boston received OO.MKJ, 070 pounds of hutjer.