The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, September 24, 1896, Image 9
.{ mm • Mr. Somers Somerset, the new os Won on the licensing laws, is the son fiot only of the well known Lady Hen Vy Somerset, but also of Lord Henry Somerset, who is still very much alive although people are apt to forget the fact Owing to certain scandals of an unseemly type in which Lord Henry was implicated, his wife separated from him, and he found it convenient .to live abroad—chiefly in Italy. He may often be seen at the La Scala opera house at Milan. Those newspa pers which refer to Mr. Somerset as the aetual heir tothedukedom of Beau fort, forget that after Lord Worcester , and any children that he may have, comes Lord Henry Somerset, and there fore the son’s claim ia very remote.— St, James Gazette. i . I ■' } f i. | i s The Veins of Lltenry History. Literary history belongs to the do main of fact just as much as geography does, and the ability on the part of a child to reel off the names of authors and their dates is just as useless as his ability to tell the capital of Bolivia or to draw a map of Afghanistan. A cer tain amount of literary history is use ful,—the amount given in Mr. Stop ford Brooke’s and Prof. Bichardson’s primers and in Mr. Brander Mathews’ volume on American literature,—but not a bit more, for as intellectual ' training literary history is not so effi cient as another study. -^September Atlantia t The Western Han't Ideal. - i' The United States is unique in the extent, to which the individual has been given an open field, unchecked by restraints of an old social order, or of scientific administration of govern ment. The self-made man was the Western man’s ideal, was the kind of man that all men might become. Out of his wilderness experience, out of the freedom of his opportunities, he fash ioned a formula of social regeneration, —the freedom of the indvidual to seek his own. He did not consider that his conditions were exceptional and tear porary.—September Atlantia How to Mend a Silk Waist. A dressmaker lays down three rules for mending a silk waist: Use ravel ings when you can. Sew from the un der side. £)o not turn over edges, but darn flat and trust to Careful pressing. If a bone begins to show through, do not mend but cut off the bone an inch. If the silk wears off around the hooks and eyes, move them along ever so lit tle. Make a virtue of worn out seams *y applying black feather stitching; and remember that a silk waist is good as long as the upper part of the sleeve remains. Plastron, choker, lace, cuffs and careful mending make a new waist for you. Admitted Error Too Soon. It is very hard to go about with a bullet and an ache in /our head. Still harder is it when your doctor disbe lieves the headache. and bultpt and shuts you up ns a lunatic. This hap pened to a young Hamburg confec tioner, and for some years he lived in a lunatic asylum. Finally he signed a paper that the headache was a fancy and the bullet a mere idea, and that he had got them both out of his head. 'And now have come the remorseless X trays, which have disclosed the bullet in the man's skull. Ought he to be glad or sorry?—London World. It the Baby Is Cutting Teetn. Bssurs and use that old and well-tried remedy, w— Vuslow’s Soothing STEUr tor Children Teething. A Novel Pneumatic Tube. t. Pneumatic tubes have many uses, but one of the latest is attracting a great deal of attention from its novel-) ty. This is the tube for stacking hay. It is built in sections, and is controlled by metal straps, pivots and arms. 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EERBOHM, of London, says: Con tinued small ship ments to Europe, and a consequent further reduction In the quantity afloat, have helped to counterbalance the usually de pressing effects of first supplies of new wheat, and in a general way it may be said that the trade le begin ning to feel the effects of the paucity of foreign wheat in view, aB manifested in the quantity afloat for the United Kingdom, which is now little over 12,000,000 bu, against 24,800,000 bu last year, and which means that sup plies of foreign wheat must be mod erate for some time to come, a fact which English farmers with their new wheat in excellent condition will not be slow to take note of. There are, in deed, several sufficient reasons why the ■immediate future of wheat should be regarded with less discouragement than was the case a month ago. First and foremost, it is becoming evident from the various reports received that the American crop is not likely to be as large as was expected, and. Indeed, will fall rather considerably below last year’s total, a poor spring wheat crop much more than counterbalancing an improved wipter wheat crop. In the second place it is now tolerably clear that France will not have the abun dant crop once looked for, enough be ing known of the threshing results in the south, southwest, center and. east of France to warrant the statement that only an ordinary average crop has been obtained in these districts. In the north and northwest, where the harvest is now drawing to a close, the results are relatively better, but the best informed authorities affirm that the total crop will not exceed and will probably not equal that of last year, so that, as we pointed out in our last review, as the stocks of old wheat have been practically exhausted in the ab sence of any important supply of for eign wheat in the past season, France will in all probability import consid erably more foreign wheat in 1896-7 than she has in 1895-6. The Paris Bul letin des Halles, we may add, deduces from the recent official crop report that the total crop this year will be about 118,750,000 hectolitres, against 119,500, 000 hectolitres last year. So far, how ever, purchases of foreign wheat in France are difficult, owing to its rela tively high price; Danubian wheat, for instance, sells at Dunkirk or Calais at equal to 33s 6d per 480 lbs, duty paid, while at Lille new home-grown wheat <s offered at 31s to 32s per 480 lbs. Another reason why the trade should be less despondent is to be found in the latest official Russian crop report, and according to which neither the Ghirka wheat nor the Azlma wheat crop is likely to be an average, although the former is regarded as promising bet ter than the latter. Wheat buyers gen erally have apparently become so ex tremely cautious that they need not be reminded of the fact that early crop estimates, specially in America and Russia, are apt to be misleading, but under the present extraordinary cir cumstance* in regard to the statisti cal position, any marked deterioration in the general crop outlook might find ! them napping. The Foar-Hondred Pound Cow* The possibilities of butter production in matter of yield per cow per season is one of great Interest, writes F. W. Moseley in Nebraska Farmer. Other things being equal, the smaller the herd the easier great results can be obtained. Some of the beet results are shown when but one cow is kept. Yet no one will deny such results can be approximated when a greater number of cows are kept, but in such cases the cows to start with must be eauallv good and each must have the same at tention given to the one cow. “But,” says some reader, “that would not pay." If results such as are given be low could be obtained It would pay. Mr. John Pritchard, Castleton, Rut land county, Vt., has a cow with a rec ord worthy of emulation. In reply to an inquiry made by the writer last spring some facts were given and are quoted as follows: “Our cow Is six years old. Is three fourths Jersey, and is of good size. She calved the 25th of February, went dry six weeks, had no grain while dry, but plenty of hay and corn fodder and a good warm stable. After she calved we began to feed her and gradually in creased it to two quarts gluten meal ! and two quarts of middlings in the morning and the same at evening, with a peck of cut potatoes per day and a good ration of hay—all she would eat ! clean. She has made three pounds ! three ounces of butter per day some weeks and we use all the milk and cream needed for our family of two and some visitors. We do not claim to U6e a great deal, but just all we want. We raise our cream In a portable creamery —the Occident. Last year our cow made 378 pounds of butter, and we had a family of live for over two months—a. grandchild taking three pints of new milk every day during that time.” It will be seen that as the cow had gone dry six weeks of the year and that 378 pounds of butter were made, the yield per week (forty-six weeks) was nearly eight and one-fifth pounds per week. Had none of the milk or cream been taken for other uses the butter produet would have been considerably greater. That it would have been more than four hundred (400) pounds for the year no one can doubt—but call It Just that and you have a standard worth working to reach. No one can deny— even at present low prices of butter— there is a good profit In keeping a 400' pound cow. Beat Height for Ground Water. F. H. Storer, ln*hla work on "Agri culture,” speaking of the height to which ground-water should rise in or der to do the most good, says:' “The height of the ground-water may be ascertained In any special case by noting that of the surface of a well, or any open ditch 01 hole In which the water is standing. But It is to be ob served that the water in such ditch or well is usually a little lower than that of the wafei: in the soil. It must be re membered /also that the foregoing statement would rarely be true for a stiff clay soil. In clay soils the wells are commonly 'Over-shot Wells/ aS the term is; that is; they are mere pits to receive and hold the' surface' water, w uiuii iiuwB intu mem si me top. me i proper height s! which ground-water should Stand In order best to conduce to the prosperity of the growing plant is a question of no little complexity. There are numberless swamp plants which prefer to have their roots con stantly Immersed in ground-water. Rice, also, and the cranberry and rib bon-grass, and a few other useful grasses, flourish with their roots ac tually wet. But as a general rule the plants of cultivation cannot bear such an excess of this kind of moisture. It Is with them much as it is with the greenhouse plants, there must be a hole in the bottom of the pot or the plants will drown. Many plants hav ing powerful roots do indeed send'some of them down to ground-water. There' are Innumerable examples on record, for that matter, of the choking of drains by the roots of various kinds of clover, and of turnips, grape-vines and the like. It is possible to grow a great variety of plants in mere water. But in spite of all this, it' is notorious that plants flourish best in soils where the ground-water is several feet from the surface of the soil. In the cultivation of moors and bogs in Europe, it Is held as one essential condition of success that the grcpind-water must be kept at least three feet below the surface of the land in summer, and as muchas two feet below the surface in winter. v . Notes on Small Fro It. For largest yield of perfect berrleB, two favorable seasons are necessary. The first to perfect the root, the plant and the fruit bud. The root is the foundation on which future success de pends. The tint of flower and perfec tion of fruit proceeds from the root Its best development requires fine, rich soil, plenty of moisture and frequent cultivation. With good roots, vigorous plants and canes may be expected. Vigorous canes well pruned, free from weeds and grass and having sufficient room to grow, will form many strong vigorous buds for next season’s fruit. These fruit buds are promises of fu ture payment and the first season’s work is not done until they are card-'' fully prepared for their long winter sleep. The second season is a repeti tion of the first, as the same care that matures this year's plant also matures fruit on last year’s cane. The fruit grower should then remember that in preparing the soil, in selecting plants, in hoeing, cultivating, pruning, thinning of fruit, protection, and in every little detail, he is performing an Important part in the quality and quantity of his fruit one or two years hence. Neglect the work but a single week, and like an ugly thread woven into a beautiful pattern, it shows imperfection ever af ter. The eternal now is the time to grow good fruit. In many parts of the northwest, strawberries have been al most a failure because of imperfect root growth last year. In many cases even stamlnate varieties were so weak and pollen so impotent, they could not fer tilize their own blossoms. Lack of pol lenlzatlon is the direct cause of failure. This weakness of root growth extends to new setting this year, and great care will be necessary even under favor able circumstances, to place new beds In good condition for next year’s fruit* ing.—M. A. Thayer. nm«N of Soil Important. Prof. Milton Whitney, of Johns Hop kins university, has determined that, In an ordinary wheat soil, there are at least 10,000 million soil grains in a gram (about a pint), and in some of the finest soils this number has reached 24,000 millions. In coarse or sandy soils, the particles, by reason of greater weight, take a closer arrangement; hence there is less air space. The more soils are divided up and made fine, like dust, the more air space, and for same reason, the more surface in a given bulk. To illustrate: A cubic foot of hard granite has only six square! feet of surface exposed to air or water. If ground to fineness of a good wheat soil, then a cubic foot will have over two acres of surface, and in the finest lime stone soil of Maryland the exposed sur face of all the soil grains in a cubic foot exceed three acres in extent. The amount of surface is important, as the water in the soil adheres to these sur faces, and the roots occupy the spaces between in search of food. The more fine spaces there are the more fine root lets there will be, and the more food the plant can gather from the soil. Wet Lands Waste Manure.-r-Wet lands waste the manure, by not allow ing ready absorption, the valuable parts of the manure frequently pass off in vapor and are carried by the winds to enrich your neighbor's soil, who, by underdrainage, reaps the bene fit of your labor as well ..as his own. Good feeding should not be governed by the price of dairy products. Neither should the enthusiasm of the dairy men fluctuate with like mUMt. Con stancy is needed in both cases. Condolence. A Detroit man recently bought him self one of the suits of tow that have (rained a (Treat deal of popularity for summer wear. The colored man who does odd chores around his home looked at it, turned away and heaved a tre mendous sigh. “What's the matter, Augustus? Don’t you approve of this outtlt?” “ ”1 aint fer me ter ’apress no 'pinion. But I wants ter say dat ef wus comes ter de , wus, I's redy ter stick by de fam’ly eben it I has ter take leas wages” “You seem to think this suit is con nected with hard timea’’ “Yassin But I didn't ’m&glne dey wue ez hahd ez all dia Hit doan mek so much differ'nce ter cullnd folks W’en I wah livin’ down souf l’sc raised liul fam'lies ob pikerninnies dat ud tak’ er coffee sack an’ cut hoi’s foh den arius an' male' it pass fer co’t vest an' breeches But much ez I’ve hyurd 'bout dese huhd times, I nebber dldn' spelt ter see er sho nuff white gen’le man have ter go ’roun in Jute clo's."— Detroit Free Press. Iowa farms for sale on crop pay menta 10 per cent cash, balance hi crop yearly until paid for. J. MUL HALL, Waukegan, 111. , HI* Month Made Trouble. A few years ago two men were con victed of horse stealing in a district court in Montana. They deserved a sentence of ten years imprisonment, hut the judge let them off with three. The worse man of the two, supposing that the sentence once pronounced was past revision, addressed the court. “I just want to say,” he told the judge, “that when I get out you will be the first one I will come here to kill.” “Oh, Well,” said the judge, “in that case I’ll make it ten yearn Then you won’t trouble me so soon.” Having said this , he turned to the other man and said: “Is there anything you would like to say?” “Not a blessed word,’’answered the prisoner. The man who said noth ing is now out. While his partner is still behind the bars. For lung and chest diseases, Piso's Cure is the best medicine we have used.—Mrs. J. U Northcott, Windsor, Ont., Canada. ” Remembering Manses, . v There is a Boston society woman who cannot remember names, neither 'can her daughter. One day they met a Mrs. Howe, and afterward the daugh ter remarked: “Howe invented the Bewing machine didn’t he? Well, just think of machines and we will be sure to get her name.” The two ladies went to tea a few days afterward, and Mrs. Howe was there. Up sailed the moth er with her sweetest smile and ex claimed: “My dear Mrs. Singer, how delighted I am to see you again!" Soon afterward the daughter appeared, and, with equal charm of manner, said: “My dear Mrs. Wilcox, how are you?” -FITS ntoi>p»« free and permanently cured. No Ots after Oral iiayV uw of Dr. Kllne*atireu Nerve Restorer, Free 91 trial bottle and treatise. Send to Da. Kuss, 931 arch at., Philadelphia, Fa. Emerson's Prayer. In the August issue of the Arena the editor contributes the following signifi cant anecdote concerning Whittier and Emerson: The two were taking a drive together when they passed a small, nnpainted house by the road side. “There,” said Emerson, point ing out the house, “Hves an old. Cal vanist, and she prays for me every'day. I am glad she does. I pray for myself.” “Does she?” said Whittier. “What does thee pray for, friend Emerson.” “Well, when I first open my eyes on the beautiful world, I thank God that I am alive and live so near Boston. ” What you need is something to cure you. Get Dr. Kay’s Renovator. See ad. In the number of Harper'b Bazar is sued on October 3d there will be given the flrstchapter of “FrancesWaldeaux,” a brilliant serial story from the pen of Rebecca Harding Davis. The story is original in treatment, and has for its motif the absorbing love of a mother for her only son. It will occupy eight consecutive numbers of the Bazar and be finely illustrated. “Autumn Fash ions for Men” will be fully treated in the next issue of the Bazar. Diplomacy. Mra Hendricks (proudly walking ont of the sewing room)—“Well, Percy, how do you like my bloomers?” Mr. Hendricks—“Oh, they do very well, but- dear me, how much older than usual they make you look.” • On the following day a neat package intended for the far away heathen, was forwarded from the Hendricks home— Cleveland leader. Gladness Comes With a better understanding of tlie transient nature of the many phys ical ills, which vanish before proper ef forts—gentle efforts—pleasant efforts— rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge, that so many forms of sickness are not due to any uctual dis ease, but simply to a constipated condi tion of the system, which tne pleasant family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt ly removes. 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