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THE ALLIANCE PUB. CO.
LINCOLN,
NEBRASKA.
NEBEASKA NEWS.
A Big Monopoly.
Omaha special: Tnesday at noon a
big deal was consmnated -whereby the
Omaha Motor company's franchises,
rights, etc., pass into the possession of
the 0maha Street Railway company.
The stockholders of the Motor com
pany receive as a consideration all the
money they have invested in the build
ings and equipping of the road, namely
$5,000,000, and in addition one-fifth of
all the stock in the new consolidated
company. '
AM Over the Starr.
At the congressional convention at
Hastings the Hon. G. L. Laws was
nominated on the twenty -second ballot.
The following is the vote : Laws 170,
Harlan 29, Webster 10, Jensen 14 and
Hastings 23.
Several farms near Odell have been
sold recently for $25 per acre.
The old soldiers' ticket in Gage
county has been withdrawn from the
contest.
S. O. Smith of Beatrice has been
mentioned a3 a probable republican
candidate for governor.
An organization for the advancement
of the temperance cause ha3 been ef
fected in Sargent.
North Platte has voted $150,000 in
bonds for the new Missouri River,
North Platte & Denver railroad.
Three graduates have just been
turned out upon a cold world by the
Beatrice normal and business college.
The family of J. Smith, colored, o
Syracuse were poisoned by eating can
ned beef. All concerned will recover.
Mice and matches destroyed the
farm house of John Zimmerer, situated
near Seward. Loss,$l,400, insurance,
$1,000.
Fire destroyed 125 bushels of wheat,
four stacks of straw and a threshing
machine on the farm of M. S. Farr in
Perkins county.
Over 900 tons of broom corn have
been bought in Phelps county this fall,
at an average price of $45 per ton,
thus spreading $3G,000 in cash among
the farmers.
Farmers in Seward county have lost
hundreds of young pigs by plundering
wolves, and they are very anxious that
a bounty be offered for the scalps of
the varmints.
The new Masonic temple recently
completed and dedicated at St. Paul is
said to be one of the finest in the state.
The building is 44x100 feet, two stories
high and cost $15,000,
Kearney's board of trade is besieged
by letters from manufacturers desirous
of locating in the city, each one asking
for a liberal bonus. The day for sub
sidies in Kearney has expired.
While Horace Coatant and Harry
Alpierce of Scotia were returning from
a drive their horses took fright and
spilled both out by the wayside,
Neither was seriously hurt, but the
horse enc ed his mad career and life by
dashing into a moving freight train.
A band of Brule Indians passed
through Norden with the body of their
chief, "Whirling Hawk, who, somewhere
on his travels during the annual fall
hunt, had secured a bottle of whisky
and swallowed so much that he died.
The body was hauled in the bottom of
a lumber wagon and had been four
days on the road.
William Crawford of Omaha, has the
best sheep-skinning time on record,
having two sheep carcasses hung up,
dressed and scored one carcass and re
moved the entrals of the other in two
minutes.
The Tecumseh canning factory has
closed for; the season, having put up
205,000 cans of tomatoes and 85,000
cans of corn, valued at $23,000.
The thirteenth annual session of the
medical officers of the institution for
the idiotic and feeble-minded will be
held at the asylum for imbeciles in
Beatrice, commencing Wednesday,
October 16.
Thcmas H. Ensor, one of Omaha's
physicians, has sued J. W. McMenamy
for $25,000 because a certain article thf
defendant caused: to be published was
derogatory to the character of the
plaintiff.
October 31, the Odd Fellows' hall at
Cortland will be dedicated by the usual
ceremonies of the order. The structure
is an imposing one, and extensive pre
parations are being made for the dedi
cation. Robert Mitchell, a young farm hand
working two miles west oC Springfield,
was struck and instantly killed by light
ning last Friday. Mitchell is eighteen
years old and his parents live near
Oneida, 111.
A Fairbury stock dealer intended
having his Texas cattle dehorned, but
found the ordinary chutes used for
that purpose too small for the horns,
and after dehorning a few they looked
so small beside the others, being
chiefly horns, that he concluded the
decrease in weight by the removal of
the horns could never be made up in
feeding and he abandoned the job.
J ames Conoughy of Hastings, started
to Wyoming somt. weeks ago. where
he expected to find work. Last Mon
day his clothing, consisting of a coat,
pants, underclothing, shirt and shoes,
and a package of letters and photo
graphs were foung near Colorado Junc
tion, Wyo., all in good condition.
From the appearance of the find it is
presumed that Conoughy wandered out
on the prairie, removed his clothing
and continued to wander. He was said
to be a hard drinker and his friends
believe he has perished.
A French poodle dog belonging to
Mrs. A. T.J Babbitt escaped from a
Burlington baggage car near Omaha a
lew days ago, and Mrs. Babbitt
promptly .offered a reward of $75 for
its return. The Burlington added $25,
secured a negative of the dog and
printed andistributed 2,0J0 pictures.
Detectives located the pet in Omaha
and the officer having the hunt in
charge enlisted 300 newsboys and
bootblacks, but the search was without
avail. The company will spend $5D0
in tha hunt for the dog.
if'-
A company has been formed by
prominent men of Central City with
the title of the North Nebraska Dehorn
ing association. "They have the dis
posal ot patent rights which will be
sold throughout the northern part of
the state.
Prof. W. B. Backus, superintendent
of the Genoa Indian school, has gone
to the Wind River agency in Wyoming
with sir, Indian children- who were
taken sickat school, and it was found
necessary to send them to their homes.
Almosiahe entire half of Sioux
county lying south of the Running
Water has been burned over by prairie
fires, supposed to have been started
by emigrants who were crossing the
county. Several hundred tons of hay
were burned-besides the great loss of
pasturage and the killiner enect upon
the grass roots. ,..'.,
The nine year old son of Andy , Rich
ardson, who lives southwest of Chad
ron, found a joaded dynamite cartridge
while playing at the B. & M. tunnel,
and stnkingit upon a rocK to una one
what it was, a fearful explosion oc
curred which completely shattered
one hand, necessitating amputation,
and tearing away all but one finger and
a thumb of the other hand.
The great fine stock sale of the sea
son is announced by the Leonard Bros.,
of Missouri, to take place at the Check
ered barn at Lineolr. Neb., on Friday,
Nov, 15, when about sixty head of the
famous "Scotch Doddies" or Angus,
and Galloway cattle will be sold with
out reserve. This will be the best op
portunity afforded this season of buy
ing at your own price of these : deser
vedly popularibreed of beef cattle, said
to mature more quickly) fatten on less
food, sell for higher prices, are more
docile, having no horns, are all of the
same color, jet black, hence the most
beautiful breed in existence and are
properly named "the breed that beats
the record." The Leonard Bros, have
done more to introduce these cattle in
thi3 country than anyone else in the
Union, as they imported from Scotland
about 1,500 head during 1883-4-5.
Don't fail to attend this sale and send
for catalogue to The Nebraska Farmer,
Lincoln, Neb., or Leonard Bros., Mt.
Leonard, Mo.
Hon, G. Li Laws.
The following concerning Hon. G. L.
Laws, the nominee oi the congres
sional convention of the second
district will be read with some inter
est: - -,;.'''
Mr. Laws is fifty-one years old, and
was born in Wilmington, N. C. Nearly
forty years ago his family removed to
Wisconsin, where he was a young lum
berman in summer and a student in the
common school in the winter. He
ompletecF his education at Milton col
leges in that state. In 1861 he en
listed in the Fifth Wisconsin infantry,
commanded by Col, Amasa Cobb, now
supreme judge of Nebraska. Just
about a year after he entered the ser
vice he lost a foot at the battle of Wil
liamsburgh and being discharged from
the service on account of the disability
returned : to his home, was elected
county clerk and served six years. He
was then appointed postmaster at Rich
mond Center, and held that place until
be resigned to remove to Nebraska in
1876. He located at Orleans, Harlan
county, and started a newspaper, the
Republican Valley Sentinel. He was
appointed register of the land office at
McCook in 1883, and held the place
until removed by Mr. Cleveland as an
"offensive partisan," in 1886. He was
elected that fall secretary of state by
the republicans, and was re-elected
last fall for a second term. Mr. Laws
is not a public speaker, but a very ac
tive and energetic business man, and
will ma ke his mark as an (earnest and
untiring worker in congress.
The McUoofc Keunion.
McCook Special : The number of
veterans a Camp McCook still increases
every train coming in with well filled
coaches. Among the arrivals Thurs
day were Adjutant General Cole, Col.
McKeighari, Captian Murdock, the
Beatrice company of the Nebraska
guards, Col. Harry Phillips in com
mand, also the Juniata and Nelson
companies, and Wymore battery. Af
ter guard mount the organization by
states was proceeded with, with
niinois in the lead. The exhibition
drill between the Sons of Veterans,
state militia and cavalry attracted
much attention. Four uniformed
bands are on the ground, and fully
seven thousand people witnessed to
day's programme. Fifty more tents
arrived and will be erected tonight.
General McCook, Colonel Hutchkins
and Hon. Thomas Majors? and Colonel
McKeighan were the leaders of the
camp fire last evening. The grand
military parade will take place to
morrow, also the sham battle, the vet
erans and sons of veterans supporting
the battery and the Nebraska National
guaids attacking. The knights of the
grip are here iu full force and will take
part in tomorrow's programme.
THE MARKETS.
Lincoln, Neb.
CATTLE Butchers' steers.
Co we.
.$2 50
. 1 50
. 3 30
- 00
(S2 00
3 50
. (a3 25
(b3 05
(a 65
HOGS Fat
Shockers
SHEEP
WHEAT No. 2 spring.
OATS No. 2
RYE No. 2.....
COK.N No. new
FLAXSEED. ,
POr'ATOE3........ ,
APPLES per bbi . . . . i .
HAY Prairie, bulk. ........
CO
00
60
10
25
13
02
18
15
u2
19
(4
20
25
.vl
1 1
5 00 6 00
Omaha, Nkb.
CATTLE ..$3 20 4 40
Cows 1 80 i 60
HOGS Faisr to heavy 3 90 i 00
Mixed........... 3 9J 4 00
V Kansas City, Mo.
CATTLE Corn fed 2 90 4 35
Feeders ,. 1 60 (3 15
HOGS Good to choice 3 80 4 IS
Mixed ... 3 60 4 00
Chicago, III.
CA1 TLE Prime steers .. . .
Stookers and feeders. . . . .
HOGS-Packinff...
PHfcEP Natives
VBET '... , . . .
CORN.......
.$3 50 4 85
2 00
(3)2 00
3 90
3 53
4 05
5 00
STORY OF OLD SHORT.
Away back in the decade which
preceded the war there lived, down
among the - pine hiils of Southern
Mississippi, near a little town called
Union Spring, in Jefferson county;
character known far and wido as
"Old Short." Precisely how he re
ceived his sobriquet is not known
and is not explainable on any known
principles. It was not on account of
his age, says a writer in the Globe
Democrat, since he had been known
as Old Short ever since anybody
could remember, and it could have
had no possible reference to his
stature except upon the rule of con.
traries, as he stood six . feet four in
his stocking -feet and was "built in
proportion." Provincial sarcasm
may have given him the designation
or Short may have been his family
name. Certain it is he was never
called anything else, and so inti
mately did the name become associ
ated with his personality, and so
widely and well did his characteris
tics become known that to simply
mention Old Short in any crowd
within a radius of four or five coun
ties .was proi'ocation ot hilarity, and
always reminded everybody present
of an anecdote or two illustrative of
the jrentlem an's peculiarities. Old
Short was a practical joker, and it
was his success and pertinacity in
this direction which made him fam
ous wherever he was known. He
was none ot your monotonous, every
day practical jokers. He never
loaded a cigar in his life to see it
blow some fellow's eye out of his
head, and if he had been thrown in the
ccmpanyof the president he would not
have slapped him on the back, called
him "Old Fel," and asked him how
it was at "Washington. Old Short
was a gentleman in. his way; was
wealthy, as wealth went where he
lived; kept open house where every
body was welcome; paid a debt, and
never whipped his slaves, ot which he
had a goodly number. He was
always "putting up jobs" on people,
as it would be described in these days,
but they were never chestnuts. He
would go any length and spend any
amount of money to work a trick,
but it was always something new;
the more dangerous, the better he
liked it, and it was generaly marked
bj originality. It was this quality
that made him, in a certain sense,
feared. One never knew exactly
what was going to happen when Old
Short was around. The neighbors
never rested easily in their beds, and
were, as a rule' tolerably well satis
fied if a week passed without some
thing unusual befalling them. If a
man's well-rope was reduced to a
mere strand, so that some morning
when he let his bucket down in the
well it staid there, he knew Old Short
had passed during the night, and he
knew equally well that a n?w rope
would be mysteriously on hand
in a day or two, as it was a recogni
zed principle with the joker that his
pranks should not cost his victims
anything permanently.
A few incidents selected out of a
great number remembered by the writ
er will illustrate how Old Shortmade
fun for himself by putting his friends
to inconvenice. Biding home one
cold night at a very late hour, he had
to pass the house of Uncle Johnny
McLane, the venerable blacksmith of
the neighborhood. Stopping at the
gate, lie hailed and was answered by
the blacksmith, who appeared on the
por?h in extremely abbreviated gar
ments, thinking, perhaps, that some
body was dead or very ill. -
"Good-night, Uncle Johnny," said
Old Short in his most cordial tones.
"Well, what do you want?" shiver
ed the old man.
"1 was just passing this way Uncle
Johnny, and thought I would call
and see what you would charge to
make a four-horse wagon?"
"This is a dickens of a time of night
to talk business," said McLane, while
the wind howled around his legs and
sent cold shivers up his back. Still
he was not blind to the fact that Old
Short was a good customer, so he
told him what a wagon would cost.
Old Short objected to the price, hag
gled about details, insisted on going
into specifications, and, after keeping
the blacksmith out about an hour,
he quietly remarked as lierodeaway:
"All right, Uncle Johnny, if I see
anybody who wants a waon of that
sort I will know what to tell him
about the price."
The old blacksmith got the order
all right, 'though, in a lew days.
Like all country districts, the neigh
borhood of Union Springs had its dog
nuisance. The offender was a savage
brute belonging to Bill Middleton, a
farmer. The dog was large of size,
brindle in color, was reputed to have
mastiff blood in him, had bitten a
number of people, and was the terror
of the community. His owner con
sequently held him ihtho lofty esteem
in which animals ot his kind are usu
ally regarded by those who own
them. Old Short passed the place
one day, and, seeing the big dog in
the front yard, was seized with a sud
den fancy; and, alighting from his
horee, he opened the gate, got down
on "all fours," and sounded his chal
lenge to all hostile dogdom by as
good an imitation ot growls and
barks as he was capable of. Brindle
needed no second invitation when an
affair of honor was on, and came to
the fray with all the vigor and fero
city of his nature. The family heard
the noise and rushed in terror to the
ssene, and on arriving they caw a
very curious sight. Short was very
courageous and an unusually pow
erful man, and, grappling the dog,
he fought him "dog fashion"
for all he wa s worth . Fastening both
hands on Brindle's tlivo.it, Le closed
them like a vise and soon had him.
down, and, throwing all his weight
on him, he fastened his teeth in the
dog's ear and with, nneatthly growls
chewed and bit and shook - with all
his might. Brindle was at first as
tonished, then frightened, and finally
breaking away, he tucked his tail,
leaped tnefence, and fled. Old Short
had merely gratified his taste for the
whimsical but Brindle was never
worth his salt aftei-ward.
In Old Short's days railroads had
not penetrated the region in which
he lived, and the 3rearly marketing of
the crop, consisting mostly of cotton,
was done at Natchez, some fifty miles
away. The staple was conveyed in
old-tashioned ox wagons. Under this
state of things ox-driving was some
what prominent as an art, and a
man's proficiency in manipulating
the long whips used in driving was
often a recommendation to him in
securing him employment. Among
Old Short's neighbors was a young
fellow named Joshua Quimby, who
was quite an adept with the whip.
In fact, if his opinion of himself were
expressed in the idiom of to
day it would- be that be was
a "dandy." Josh was frequently
called upon to exercise his art in the
service of Old Short, ana m vne mil
of one year along the '50s he was en
gaged to haul a load of, cotton to'
NatcheK for the old man. Now, Josh
had never been away from his native
hills before, and while being excep
tionally handy with his whip, was
lamentably wanting in knowledge of
the world. So when Old Short began
to enlighten him concerning the evil
ways of city folks he listened with
both ears, and mentally fortified him
self against being taken in. On the
way to town Old Short regaled his
young friend especially with stories
of the utter depravity of everybody
jonnected with the cotton business
hi the city. "Why," said he, "you
won't be on the street five minutes
until some bold villain or other will
dart out of a store, run to the wag
on, and before your very eyes wiil
run a hook into a bale of cotton,
jerk out a pound orso, andrun away
with it. So keep your eyes peeled."
"I'll fix 'era," said Josh, as he looked
admiringly from his brawny arm to
the stout whipstock bearing at its
end, the long, snake-like rawhide
"four-plait" whip, and remembered
that in t he vernacular of his region he
"could jist make it talk." Well, Nat
chez was reached a t last, and as they
drove through streets leading to the
cotton mart Josh kept watch and
ward over his load of cotton, deter
mined that when the thief did appear
he would teach him a lasting lesson.
He had not long to wait. The vic
tim was ready. An innocent and
dapper young man in his "shirt
sleeves," after the manner of his clime
and his calling, sallied out of a mer
cantile house, noted the new wagon,
and made a dive for it, hook in hand.
The supreme moment of Josh's life
had arrived. His eyes glistened with
anger as the clerk approached. The
great knotted biceps of his right
arm swelled and hardened. Still the
clerk came on, all unsuspecting of
the fate in store. Dashing the hook
into a bale he gave his arm a nerv
ous twitch, and was' about to ex
tract his sample, when to the best of
his knowledge and belief he was
struck by lightning. Joshua had
thrown his great weapon in the air,
whirled it round his head twice, exe
cuted high in the air the feet techni
cally known as the "double pop,"
sounding like nothing so much as a
whole bunch of firecrackers exploded
at once, with the power of a giant
and the skill of an expert he landed
the stroke of his life on the clerk's
shoulders and back, splitting his
shirt and peeling the hide from
shoulder to hip. There was commo
tion on the street, a tall, elderly gen
tleman on the corner was seen to
hold his sides and chuckle, and an of
ficer marched Joshua to the station.
Old Short paid his fine the nextmorn
ing and sapped a f 10-bill in his hand
to pay him for his loyalty, and
thought his joke cheap as dirt.
Old Shot used to say that he had
met but one man in his life who got
the best of him, and he hugely enjoy
ed relating the story on himself after
the novelty of his experience had
worn off. According to his account
of the affair, a Kentucky horse-trader
arrived at his house one night
with a drove of horses, and, by per
mission, remained all night. There
were no white persons on the place
except Old Short and his wife. Soon
after supper the good lady retired to
her own room, leaving host and guest
Fossessionof theparlorfor theevening.
b was not long until Old Short's brain
had evolved a scheme whereby a vast
amount of amusement could be had
at the Kentuckian's expense, and
proceeded topu t i t i n to execution. He
began by asking the stranger if he
was fond of music, adding that he
had a "nigger fiddler" who could
"pull a powerful bow." Certainly
the guest would be delighted to heat
him, and Black Steve was sent for.
Several good old tunes were given in
excellent style and then Old Short
asked the horse-trader if he could
dance.
"Too old for that now," said Ken
tucky. ;
"Oh, I guess not," said Short;
"you are a migh ty likely looking man,
and 1 have a great fancy to see you
wing a little. Play us something
lively, Steve."
Steve quickened his motion, and
the stranirer looked surprised, but
again demurred.
Going to a sideboard, Old Short
pulled out a drawer, and, tak
ing from it a ? murderous-looking,
pistol, he again expressed an intense
desire to see the Kentuekian "wing."
The latter reconciled himself to his
fate, and proceeded to execute such
pedal responses to Steve's music as
his memory could recall. He soon
got tired, but renewed requsts from
Old Short, still pistol in hand, were
always honored, until, at the end of
a couple of hours, the host declared
the show at an end, threw the pistol
back in its drawer, and stepped to
the porch for r. drink of water. The
Kentuckiah's blood was up by this
time, so he went to the drawer and
got the pistol. He detected in c.
second that it wasnot loaded, but
.saw ammunition in the drawer,
Hastily putting on a brand-new per
cussion cap it was an old-fashioned
pistol he waited Short's return
THOMAS ALVA EDISOX.
Tb Great InTentor.
Edison first saw the light in Milan
Erie County, Ohio; February 11,
1847, so that he is still a young man-
The number of patents already
granted him approaches two hun
dred. He is of mixed Hollander ami
English blood, his grandfather hav-
who settled
t-L- K JT nml who innrrieu
into the Ogdens, a family of English
rfpsoPTif. TVlisnn becran Ins worKin
life as a news boy when only about
?ight vears old, .at Jort iiuron,
Mich. Vive years afterwards, he suc
ceeded in procuring a contract for
the exclusive sale of newspapers on
the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada,
to which fact is due the' report that
he is a Canadian. His business grew
rapidly under his clever and energet
ic management, and was supple
mented by an essay in journalism,
the Grand Trunk Herald, which
he printed tvith his own type and his
own hands. The progress of the war
at this time assisted his paper, which
had at one time 450 subscribers.
Dropping his publication,. he began
the study of chemistry, prosecuting
it in connection with his newspaper
business. When his experiments on
the train had resulted in his setting
fire to a car by the ignition ofphos-
phorus, he was forced to abandon it.
He next pursued telegraphy as a
means of livelihood and became ex
traodinarily apt as an operator. In
1867, while living in Cincinnati, he
began experimenting with the view
to send two messengers at once over
one wire, and succeeded in doing this
in Boston not long afterwards. This
was the first of the many inventions
which have earned for him and his
rountry, immortal honor. His
phonograph first attracted the at
tention of the leading scientific men
of Europe by reason of its exhibition
at the French Institute in 1878. No
better idea of the multiplicity and al
aeof his inventions can begiventhan
by mentioningthe leadingfeatures of
his exhibit in Paris at the Electrical
Exhibition, 1881, where his was the
largest, most limportant and most
raried of the many exhibits. It in
cluded his system of electric lighting
by incandescence, his disc dynamo-
slectric machine, his mierotasimeter;
which measures the smallest changes
in temperature: his odoroscope,
which renders visible the presence of
certain escential oils and hydrocar
bon vapors, and also registers their
action; his electromotograph, which
reproduces thehuman voice at a dis
tance, like the telephone, but with a
greater intensity, and so lorth. Mr.
Edison's career as an inventor, brill
iant though it is,will probably prove ,
but a portion of the obligation which
tne world will owe him for some of
the most delicate as well as service
able application of electrical science.
The Koine of the Earthquake.
Although earthquakes are common
in Japan they are seldom violent.
As many as eighty-seven vibrations
have been noted in a single day. A
month seldom passes without shocks
in some part of the country, but they
attract little attention. There are,
however, authentic records of several
severe and destructive earthqnakes
In 679 A. D. the island ot Kiu-Siu
was visited by a heavy shock, which
rent the earth in fissures, one of which
is said to have been four miles long
and twenty feet wide. Kiu-Siu was
the scene of the recent calamity, and
it is noticeable that the -same phen
omenon of the opening of the earth
occurred in this instance. Kiu-Siu is
far less subject to frequent shocks
than the main island of Niphon, but
they seem to make up for their in
frequency by their severity. In 1702
the walls of the castle of Yedo were
thrown down and a great tidal wave
accompanied the convulsion of the
earth, InlSoithe towns of Shimoda
and Osaka were destroved, and in
the following year 14,000 dwellings
and 1,600 storehouses were pros
trated in Y?do. San Francisco
Bulletin.
Eastern Beggars,
Beggary throughout the East is a
thriving profession. There are guilds
of beggars, besides the numerous
communities of dervishes who are
semi-religious . mendicants. Many
families have been beggars for gener
ations, and are mendicants from
choice. Some of these professional
beggars are actually wealthy. Four-nnd-twenty
years ajro the writer well
remembers a case. The Chief Beggar
(the title wasnot conferred in de
rision) gave his daughterin marriage
to a substantial farmer. The girl's
dowry consisted of two freehold
houses, the rooms of which were en
tirely filled with dry pieces of bread,
and the sales of these begged crusts
subsequently realized a considerable
sum, being disposed of as food ' for
cattle. It must be remembered that
in the East there is no organized
charity, that most Mussulmans are
exceedingly charitable,' many giving
away a fifth and some even - a third
of their income. Under such circum
stances it is not to be wondered at
that the professional beggar thrives.
Good Words.
VOli THE FARMER.
$ . Farm
rRoi&mteris better forhouso plant
than either well or spring water.
Coal hshes spread under fruit trees
are helpful both ns a mulch and as a
preventive to weeds.
The object of saying what we have
said is to induce, if possible, a great
3r d2gree of self-reliance.
The Secretary, of "Wyoming esti
mates the number of sheep in that
Territory at about 1,000,000.
If the reports of murderous assaults
by bulls continue to multiply as they
have lately, the cause of dehorning
will get an immense impetus.
There are few methods by which the
small farmer can more easily increase
the profit derived from the farm than.
by keeping sheep.
Cleanliness is an all important
matter in the management of your
foul-house, and experience shows
that poultry are injuriously affected
by the emanations from filthy quar
ters. Irrigation does not mean simply
the flooding of a plot with water, but
it includes thorough under drainage.
Prolonged rainfall is as injurious as
well as prolonged drouth. It is the
undrained fields that become dry the
soonest.
A writer says that the salt in the
butter does not preserve the butter.
It only arrests the fermentation or
decay of the buttermilk! Well, that
is a distinction without a difference.
The salt will prevent decay, as far as
it goes, but so little is used that it
does not go far.
The depth to which the plow should
be run in preparing tho soil for seed
ing, depends upon the character of
the soil and the kind ot crop to be
grown. The stiffest and poorest soils
require more working than good
land. Wheat and beans need a deep
er range of feeding than barley.
The best time to prune is when there
can be the least loss ot sap; at a time
when the wound will cease bleeding
most readily and heal over the soon
est. If the cut is covered with graft
ing wax, shelac-varnish, or boiled
linseed oil as soon as made, there will
be bift little evaporation from the
wound. .
The breed of Shetland ponies is al
most extinct in the Shetland Islands.
None are bred there, and there are
fewer specimens in these islands than
in man y other places. Bred as they
are under widely differentconditions.
the old shaggy -coati'd Shetiand pony
is a thing of the past. The small,
smooth-coated ponies now in fashion
are the improved Shetlands bred in
milder climates.
The apple-bud worm makes its
entrance generally at 'the bud, and
follows the heart of the twig down-
ward to three or four joints; the
twig dies ns far as it is bored. The
worm is about the size of a large pin
and from one-fourth to one-half an
inch iu length, with a black head and
an opaque body, ranging in color
from white to brown. Spraying with
any effective insecticide will extermi
nate them.
Most hens will lay eggs, more or
less, at certain seasons of tho vear.
But while they . are engaged in this
work, we must not forget that we
can assist them materially by giving
them good nourishing, varied grains
and vegetable feed that will go to
aid in creating eggs more abundant
ly than will the erroneous and care
less mode ot feeding that some per
sons adopt, by stuffing them with a
dry, hard substance that has no pe
culiar ingredients in its composition
such as is neccessary to help produce
the things which we desire.
The flocks of sheep should be care.
fully sorted says an exchange. Much
of the success of keeping sheep de
pends on keeping them so graded
that the weaker ones will get a fair
chance to rustle .A yearling or two
year old with imperfect teeth for
grazing stands a poor show if kept
along with mature animals, and the
old ones, which often have disease of
some kind, threaten the health of the
entire flock. There are three or four
grades of 6heep on every farm where
breeding is followed. These grades
should be separated and each given
the care suited to its condition.
There is plenty of time between now
and winter to put all the sheep
in the country in,the best condition
for Winter if flock-masters would
only give attention to the matter.
A rather irritable farmer annoyed
by the fowls on his grain mows, pick
ed up a club and slaughted a dozen
of the hens. To his wife's remons
trance he declared that the fowls
were a groat damage and of so little
value as to be of no account at all.
The woman was however, able to
show in reply a goodly roll of bills
she had stowed away as the receipts
from the poultry and eggs she had
sold. Chickens, as a rule, are wasted
to a great extent lor want ofthecare
that might easily be given to them,
and as regards the little food they
may steal, this is not one-tenth as
much as is stolen by rats and mice
without any complaint or notice.
Moreover, the waste of small grain
and other food that might be turned
into products, is sufficient to amount
to a very pleasant sum of money
every year.
There are over 2,000,000,000 in
vested in dairying in this country,
an amount almost double the money
invested in banking and commercial
industries. It requires 15,000,000
cows to supply the demand for milk
and its products in the United States.
To feed these cows 60,000,000 acres
of land are under cultivation. The
agriculture and dairy machinery and
implements in use are worth over
200,000,000. The men employed
in the bupiness number 7r0,000,
ind the horses oyer.1,000,000, Tl:t
sows iand horses- consume annual! v
30,000,000 tons of hay' nenrlv IHV
000,000 bushels of comment, abou t
the'8ame amount of oatmeal, J 7." -000,000
bushels of oats; 2,000 ()0(
bushels of bran and .'10.000,000 bu.di
?Is of corn, to say nothing of t he
brewery grains, sprouts nnd olhor
questionable feed of various kind
that are used to a great extent. It
:osts .$420,000,000 to feed those
:)ws and horses.
Except the lightest sandy soils, all
level land will be benefited by fall
plowing. When well plowed, and to
a proper depth, the plowed ground
will not wash even by tho heavy
Southern winter rains. Thattheland
will leach nnd lose its fertility is a
mistake. ..Nothing will be lost in nny
case except tho nitrogen, which exut
in the form of nitric acid or the most
soluble nitric waits, and, asarul,
there is no danger of this becauso of"
tho almost entire absence of this form
of nitrogen in the land. On tije con
trary, it is for the purpose ot devel
oping thi3 scarce plnnt-tood in the
soil that fall plowing is desirable.
The turning over of the soil aids in
the change of tho abundant inert
nitrogen, which is mostly combined
with the carbonaceous organic mat
ter in tho soil, into soluble nitrates,
nnd this process goes on slowly dur
ing the fall and eaily spring, and
where the ground is not frozen even
during the winter. Consequently tho
land is brought into a more fertilo
condition by the fall plowing, nnd be
sides this gain, there is another ot
much importance, viz.: tho spring
work is forwarded so much anil tho
crops may be put in so much earlier.
Cnro for Iuflamuintory Ilhciunatlsm.
New York World. '
The pathetic story of Mrs. Jair.os
G. Blaine, Jr., and tho suffering she
has endured from inflammatory
rheumatism, ns told in the World
recently, aroused tho sympathy o
Charles Halperin, an engineer living
at 139 Monroe Street. He came to
the World office to inako public a
remedy for the malady for winch he
says ho suffered tortures for four
years.
"It costs only a few cents," said
he, "and will cure the worst ease of
rheumatism that can bo imagined.
Let the affected part be exposed to
the heat of the stove, until the skin
begins to redden and smart. Then
rub the spot with tho hand until tho
heat is distributed over a larco Mir
face. Continue to do this tor five
minutes, and bearing ns 'much heat
as possible without blistering. Have
ready at hand a mixture composed
of one tublespoonful of finely pulver
ized table salt, thoroughly mixed
with one tablespoonful of molasses
golden syrnp. Apply this mixture
as a salve to the atlected part after
the skin has been well reddened and
rubbed with the hand. No matter
how long the inflammatory rheuma
tism may have existed, almost in
stant relief will be felt. Continue the
treatment every day, and at tho end"
of a week a permanent euro will be
effected. Meanwhile the patient
should take internally four tiniM a
day a mixture composed of two
drains of wine of colchicuni, two
drams of iodide of potash ami one
pint of water. The dose is one table
spoonful before meals and on going
to bed. It is uotabsolutely essential
that the internal remedy should be
taken, but it helps. I was on crutch
es four years, and cured my.clt in
:even days.
"If young Mrs. Blaine will try this
I am sure she will experience relief .
and cure." ' "
An" Obi Story,
An Irishman, recently landed was
traveling along a road in the Cat
skills where he saw a pair of jack
asses in tho field.
"What's them? said Pat to a Wag,
who leaned over tho fence at his side.
"Them's jackasses," said the na
tive. "And where do they get thim?"
"Out of those crooked yellow things
lying in the field," replied ttie wag.
pointing to the largest pumpkin iu
sight.
"Arrah, you don't tell me that."
"Why, yes, Pat, take that big
pumpkin home and sit on it for
three weeks, nnd you will find a fine
young jackass will come out of it.'.'
"That I will, for I'd like to have
one o thim long-eared little horses."
So Pat'took the pumpkin home,
sat on it patiently for three weeks,
but there was no sign of the un
fledged hammering on his prison
house. In disgust Pat carried
the pumpkin out of the field
and, raising it above his head, dash
ed it into a thousand pieces on the
stump of an old tree. A timid jack
rabbit, who had been snoozing with
one eye open on the opposite side of
the stump, started across the field as
fast as his leirs could carry him.
"tomo buck, ye young devil
yelied Pat, "don't ye know I'm
father!"
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Easily Duped.
Albany Journal.
A well-dressed young man matte
his appearance in the village of Bath
a short time ago, and neatly suc
ceeded in earning a few dollars at
the expense of gullible women. Ho
presented himself at the home of the
Misses I)e Forest on Broadway, and
offered to sell a number of sealed
packages of note paper. Notwith
standing the fact that he was told
the parties wanted no paper, his ora
tory was too much for them, nnd .
they purchased twenty -four packages
at $4. He opened one package and
extrafted a $100 bill, and explained
that one among the number pur
chased by them contained alikesum.
The packages contnined the name,
"Tho Great Western Stationary
Company agents wanted. The
agent explained that tho packages
must not be opened until tho next
day, and when they were opened
contained about 3 cents' worth of
paper. A number of other residents
m the village are also wailing over
tho los.s of money in the samevay.
