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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1892)
OUR FARM DEPARTMENT. . Beeords of the pact help to sell the hone of today. It Is quite as well to piling into the flood of success by breeding in the fashion as to wait for something to develope. John . Maddens 3-year-old, Elec tioneer, full brother to Express, 251, by Electioneer, went a quarter on the Lexington track, last week, in 34 seconds. Pilot Medium now leads all stallions of his age. At 22 years old he has to his credit twenty-nine, with records tanging from 2:124 to 2:30, among them two 2-year-olds and rive 3-year bids. Guy Wilkes 2:15m. foaled 1S79, is ire to six trotters and two pacers with records of 2:20 and better. This showing lias never been equalled by any horse of his age in the 2:20 list. 1 Three yearlings out of the live that have beaten 2:30 trace to the great sire fetrathmore, The record-holders, Frou 'Frou, 2:25 trotting and Fausta, 2:tl pacing, through their sire, Sidney; and Athadon, 2-28, through Ilia dam. : The latest equine wonder is a colt that, wbeu only 4 months and 7 days old trotted a quarter to halter in 41 seconds. This precocious trottes is by 'Governor Stanford (son of Electioneer 'and barnes, by Whipple's Ilirableto nian,)dam by Kentucky l'rlr.c. I McKinney is now resting oa his well learned laurels, lie went through the season without suffering a dcteat, and crowned his glorious campaign u re Hiring with a record of 2:li', which 'is the world's record for a 4-year-old 'stallion. It is Durfee's preseut in tention to take McKinney east next jear aud enter hira in the free-for-all classes. The greatest son of Alcyone should make a remarkable campaign. His wonderful staying qualities make him a dangerous factor in a race with the best free-for all horses in the laud Farm Note. , Use plenty of bedding for the stock. Flan todo away with all unnecessary fencing. ' Good grade stock has the advantage of scrubs in every way. Blue grass is one of the best seeds that can be sown for pastorage alone. There is nothing that so insures des patch in farm work as good teams ' In feeding the first purposes is to make the animal do the best that it will : The liquids are more valuable than the solids in the manure: anantre to ,smvelt all uei seea corn irom some variety mat has given good results in th section it 4s grow. When oats or wheat fall down before they mature, the land needs potash; apply ashes. The more thoroughly the work is planned out ahead, the score curtain It can be done in season ; Improved breeds of stock have in creased out wealth and made farming mora desirable. Sod land can often be plowed when it would be entirely too wet to plow almost any other kind of ground. Plan to secure good yields. Letter a less acreage and a larger yield per aero, than a large acreage and a light yield. It is enough to make any human man's heart ache to note how the aveiage farmer raises his calves; not one calf in a hundred has a fair chance for Itself, says Hoard's Dairyman. The burning sun on their tender, thin skins tormented with Hies, given no food whatever that their baby stomachs can digest and jwsiinilate, they adver tise the stupid inhumanity of the owner Eggs are nearly universally sold by the dozen but the variation in their weight makes this rule an unfair one. A medium sized egg weighs two ounces, making the weight of a dozen of eggs pounds. A dozen of Minorca eggs weigh over pounds. When eggs are high a difference of a half pound in the amount of food is a considerable item. Tb Solid u riuidi In Cora. We all know our common Indian com and what a quantity of food for man and beast it furnishes. Take a large plant of fully matured corn; make it into a compact shape and weigh it Then put it into an oven and dry it thoroughly, as a chemist would in his drying bath. Now weigh It again and you will find the weight of the water it has lost and will be surprised to note the amount which - this mature corn contained. Now take the dried corn plant and burn it slowly so that no part of the ashes can be Menu away; continue the burning util the aches are left perfectly white, gathering the ashes in a cru efble for this purpose. We will find that these whit ashes weigh very little when compared with the weight of the great stalks, ear and foliage we ' Wirt has gone with all the rest aww that we bar but a handful of aOstP The Are has destroyed it, yoa nf. IT, weoannnot destroy anything. teniae only changed the form of Cetlant The things which made up C greater nart of the corn still exist, but they have gone back to the air from wheuce the pUnt nrst got them. The pile of ashes in our hand U about one-twentieth of the original weight of the dry plant, and in it are the materials that the plant got from the soil The nine-tenths that have dis appeared in the air show bow large a part of all plants comes from the air. The ashes are in the mineral part aud got into the plant by being eompletel y dissolved in the soil water, which It took up iu making its growth. W. F. Massey, in Home and farm. Good Coring Ham. After the animal is grown and the hams cut, the very important question of curing them must be considered. Many hams, like cider vinegar, are spoilt in curing. A good brine for curing them may be made as follows: Five pounds of sugar to 100 pounds of meat, one ounce of saltpetre to 20 pour ds of meat; one ounce of salt to every pound of meat, and water to cover ail the hams packed in this brine. It should be understood that the lower the temperature the longer it takes to to cure the hams and iu very cold winters the temperature in the cellars for ordinary pork-curing is so slow that considerable time for the curing is required. If the hams have been iu the brine they should be smoked lor three days, and if cut then, and it is found that the pickle has not reached all the way through them, the brine should be boiled over and skimmed. Pack the hams away again in a tem perature of about 40 decrees. They should then be returned to the smoke- Louse for a day, but they should not be hung here until the brine has dried oil them. A b.tter taste will be given to them if hung in the smoke-house wet with the brine. To give them the rich brown color so well known iu market hams they should be hung near a stove for several days and then be rubbed over thoroughly with cotton cloth. Fine looking and nicely flavored ham will thus be secured. American Cultivator. W hen more food is taken than can disposed of healthfully, there is a double loss; the food is wasted and the animal is weakened by d isease. Ex. Farmers who should become prosper ous should plant alfalfa where it is scarce, and increase their milk or feediug herd3. Ex. Cattle should not be allowed the range of the farm late in the autumn. It is bad for the farm and useless to the cat tle.-Fx. Fact and Fig-tires Only one couple tn ll,S0O live to cele brate their diamond wedding. Kennebunk, Me, claims the young est grandfather in the state iu the per son of David, who is only thirty-six years of age. The overseers of Harvard college have decided that the Australian sys tern of voting shall be used iu future elections of members of the board of overseers. The name Bridget is from the Celtic, meaning strength; the name is found in the French, Spanish aud Italian as well as the English language; though vary ing from the common Irish form. A story from Parkersbujg, W. V, re lates that recently John Hall, a boy sev enteen years old, met, attacked and slew a bear with a small pocket knife, and es caped himself with only a few slight scratches. A large rat committed suicide lately by leaping from one of the windows in the Tribune building in Xew York, and came with a tremendous crash through the skylight of the Sun composing room causing great consternation to the com positors. Gen. Joubert, commander in-chief in the Transvaal, said the other day, in an address on education, that he was eight- jcu j ears uiu ueiure ne naa seen a newspaper, and his whole education had cost less than that of two weeks' schooling for his youngest child. A Lincoln county (Oregon) judge has been severely rebuked by the state su preme court for reading a newspaper eating candy and otherwise conducting nimseii in an unuignined and unbe coming manner during the progress be fore him of an important murder trial. How to Give Niter. Sweet spirit of niter is one of the most popular domestic medicines. The dose for an adult is from one half to one teaspoonful well diluted with water. When using it in fevers it is best to give small doses at long in tervals, One-half a teaspoonful in a tumberfulofcold water, drink a little at a time through the night, will be more effectivA In 7 OT BUU fringing on perspiration than a whole MHiepuuuiui ieii at once. Hall's Journal of Health. A "Woman Ileal Estate Dealer. The only licensed woman real estate dealer in Washington is Miss Grace Thomas. A year ago she secured her first license, and when she had paid the regular fee of fifty dollars she had a capital of sixty-fire centa left with which to begin operations. 8he hA however, a good business training in that special line as well as plenty of mvmyumm, uuu MUM BOa grit. This year, after paring again the rorern. meat tithe ah KuTa Zn? iTElAIS Letter'1 -"l mTWlfffc TALMACE'S SERMON. Preached from the ominous words Jeremiah xiviii., 16: "This year thou shalt die." Jeremiah, accustomed to saying bold things, addresses Hananian in uieae words. They prove true. In sixty days Hauaniah had departed this life. This is the first Sabbath of the year. It is a time for review and for anticipa tion, A man must be a genius at stupidity who does not think now. The old year died in giving birth to the new, as the life ot Jane Seymour, the Eng lish queen, departed w hen that of her . . ... . 1 Tk. 1 4 son, Edward l, aawueu. juc um year was a queen. The new shall be a king. The grave of the one and tlie cradle of the other are side by side. We can hardly guess what the child will be It is only two days old, but I prophesy for It an eventful future. Year of mirth aud madness! Year of pageant and conflagration! It will laugh; it will sinir: it will groan: it Will die. The text will probaidy prove true ot' some of us. The probability is aug mented by t fact that all of us who are over 35 ye . a of age have gone be vondthe averaee of human liie. The note is more than due. It is only by sufferance that it is not collected. We are like a debtor who is taking the 'three days' grace" of the banks. Our, raceitarted with MM years for a life time. We read of but one ante-deluvian youth whose early death disappointed the hopes of his parents by his dying at 777 years of age. The world then may hove been ahe id of what it is now for men had so long a time in which to study, and invent, and plan. If an artist or a phiiosohpher has forty years for work, he makes great achievements; but what must the artists and phil osophers have done who had !KK) years before them ? In the nearly 2,000 years be fore the llood, considering the longevity of the inhabitants, there may have been nearly .is many people as there are now. The flood was not a freshet that washed a few people off a planet, but a disaster that may have swept away 1,000,000,000. If the Atlantic ocean, by a lurch of the earth tonight, should drown this hemi sphere, and the Pacific ocean, by a sud den lurch of the earth, should down the other hemisphere, leaving about as many beings as could be got in one or two ocean steamers, it would give you an idea of what the ancient flood was. At that time God started the race' with a shorter allowance of life. Tho (100 years were hewn down until, iu the time of Vespasian, a census was taken, only 124persous were found 100 years old, and three or four persons 140 years old. Now a man who has come to 100 years ot age is a curi osity and we go miles to see him. The vast majority of the race pass off bef jre twenty years. The character of our occupations adds to the probability. Those who are in the professions are undergoing a sapping of the brain and nerve fouuda tions. Literary men in this country are driven with whip and spur to their topmost speed. Not one brain-worker out of a hundred observes any modera tion. There is something so stimulat ing in our climate that, if John Brown, the essayist of Edinburgh, had lived here he would have broken down at 35 Instead of 55, and Charles Dickens would have dropped at 40. There is something in all our occuputious which predisposes to disease. If we be stout, to disorders ranging from fever to apoplexy. If we be frail, to diseases ranging from consumption to paralysis Printers rarely reach 50 years. Watch makers, in marking the time for others, shorten their own. Chemists breathe death iu their laboratories, aud potters absorb paralysis. Painters fall under their own brush. Foundrymen take death in with the filings. Shoemakers pound away their own lives on the last. Overdriven merchants measure off their own lives with the yard-stick. Millers grind their own lives with the grist. Masons dig their graves with the trowel And in all our occupations and profes sions there are the elements of peril. In view of this, I advise that you have your temporal matters adjusted. Do not leave your worldy affairs at the mercy of administrators. Have your receipts properly pasted, and your let ters filed, and your books balanced. If you have "trust funds," see that they are rightly deposited and accounted for. Let no widow or orphan scratch on your tombstone, "Thisman wronged me of my inheritadce." Many a man has died, leaving a competency, whose property has, through bis own careless ness, afterward been divided between the administrators, the surrogate, the lawyers, and the sheriffs. I charge you before many days have gone, as far as possible, have all your worldly matters made straight, for "this year thou shalt die." I advise also that you be busy in Christian work. How many Sabbaths in the year? Fifty-two. If the text be true of you, it does not say at what Urns you may go, and therefore, it Is unsafe to count on all of the fifty-two Sundays. Ar you are as likely to to In the first half of the year as in the last half, I think we had better divide the flfty-twe into halves, and calculate only twenty-six Sabbaths. Come, Christian men, Christian men, Christian women, whatoan you do in twenty-six Sab bathsf Divide the 886 days Into two partsiwhat can you do in ltt days' wuar, py ue way or saving your family ef-TBjsjaaf te world? You will in heaven, get over the dtaaenor and outrage of going into glory, and bavinc helped none up toll same place. will be found that many a Sabbath school teejher has taken Into neaveo . . . i v ;l llufc mr her whole class; mai x.... the evangelist, took thousands into that Doddridge has taken in hundreds of thousands; that Paul took iu a hundred million, in view of the probabilities men r luiviae all the men and women ...... a .tmitv i o iret ready. If UUl v J o " the text be true you have no time to talk about nonessentials, asking why f i u Sin rnme into the world; or whether the book of Jonah is inspired; or who Mercbisedec was, or what about v. h.twi If vou are near I iic r i !. .. , . . otpmitvassome of you seem to be, there is no time for anything but the question. What must I do to be saved ? n, j.,rnin. man when a nlank is luc uivniiit'K - thrown him, stops not to ask what sawmill made it, or whether it is oak or cedar oa who threw it. The moment it is thrown he clutches it. If this vear you are to die there is no time for anything but immediately laying hold on Cod. It is high time to get out of your sins. You say, "I have committed no great transgressions." But are you not aware that your life has been sinful? The snow comes down on the All flake by flake, and it is so light you may hold it on the tip of your finger without feeling any weight. Let me announce that Christ, the Lord, stands ready to save any man who wants to be saved. He waited ior you last year, and all your life. He lias waited for you with blood on his fcrow, and tears in his eye and two out stretched mangled bands of love. You come home some night and find the mark of mnddy feet on your front steps. You hasten in aud find au ex cited group around your child. He fell into a pond, aud had it not been for a brave lad, who plunged in and brought him out, and carried him home to be resuscitated, you would hive been childless. You feci that you can not do enough for the rescuer. You throw your arms around him. You offer him any compensation. You say to him, "Anything that you want shall be yours. I will never cease to be grateful." But my Lord Jesus sees your soul sinking, and attempts to bring it ashore and you not only refuse him thanks, but stand on the beach and say, "Drop tint soul! If I want it saved 1 will save it Tnyself." A great plague came in Marseilles. The doctors held a consultation and decided that a corpse must be dissected or they would never know how to stop the plague. A Dr. Guy on said, "Tomorrow morning I will procede to a dissection." He made bis will; prepared for death; went into the hospital; dissected a body; wrote out the results of the dissection and died In twelve hours. Beautiful self-sacrifice you say. Our Lord Jesus looked out from heaven and saw a plague-stricken race. Sin must be dissected. He made his will giving everything to his people. He comes down Into the reek iug hospital of earth. He lays his hand to work. Under our plague he dies the healthy for the sick, the pure for the polluted the innocent for the guilty. Behold the love! Behold the sacrifice! Behold the rescue! Decide, on this first Sabbath of the year, whether or not you will have Jesus. He will not stand forever begging for your love. With some here his plea ends right speedily. "This year thou shalt die." This great salvation of the gospel I now offer to every man woman and child. You cannot buy it. You cannot earn it. I am coming to the close of my sermon. I sought for a text appropriate for the occasion. I thought of taking one in Job. "My days fly as a weaver's shuttle;" of a text in the Psalms. "So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom:" of the prayer of the vine dresser. "Lord, let it alone this year also;" but pressed upon my attention, first of all and last of all, and above all were the words "This year thou shalt die Perhaps it may mean me. Thou in perfect health now, it does not take God one week to bring down the strongest pnysicai constitution. I do not want to die this year. We have plans and projects on foot that I want to see completed; but God knows best and he has a thousand better men than I to do the work yet undone. I have a hope that, not-withstanding all my sins and wanderings, I shall through the Infinite mercy of my Savior, come out at the right place. I have nothing to brag of by way of Christian experience but two things I have learned-my utter helplessness before God, and the all-abounding grace of the Lord Jesus, if the text means some of you, my hearers I do not want you to be caught unprepared. I would like to nave vou either through money you have laid up or a "life Insurance." be able to leave the world feeling that your family need not become paupers. But if you haye done your best and you leave not one dollar' worth ot estate you may confidently trust the Lord who hath promised to care for the widow and the fatherless. 1 would like to have your soul tUd out for eternity, so that If any morning or noon, or evening r rrT "Q0Jr. oth should 'f8"""1 wyryou present but will But I must tUe this sermon. n" ii the last January to some who are You usveeutereu iu ji not clow It Within these tit i. ... i it twelve monttis your eye mu the lest sleep. Other hands w.ll plant the Christmas tree and give me ,e Year's congratulations. M a procla mation of jov to some, and as a matter of warning to others I leave in your ears these five words of one syllable each, This year thou shalt die!" The Ptti Hied Foret of A Hum From the Atlantic A Pacific railroad it is not hard to rwich one of the great est of natural curiosities-the pertrilied forests Arizona. Much the nearest point is the little station of Hillings, but there are the scantiest accommoda tions for the traveller. Only a mile south of the track, at that point, one may see a low. dark ridge, marked by a single cotton-wool tre'. Walking thither (over a valley so alive with Jack rabbit that there is some excuse for the cowboy declaration that "you can walk clear across ou their backs!") one soon reaches the northern edge of the forest which covers hundreds of square mile. Unless you are more hardened to wond erful sights than I am, you will almost fancy yourself in some enchanted spot Vou seem to stand on the glass of a gigantic kaleidoscope, over wnose sparkling surface the sun breaks in in lininte rainbows. You are ankle deep in such chips as I'll warrant you never saw from any other woodpile. nai do you think of chips from tree-stbat are mossagate, and amethyst, and smoky topaz, aidaate of every hue? Such are the marvellous splinters that cover the ground for miles here, around the huge prostrate trunks-some of them live feet through from which Time's patient axe has hewn them. I broke a specimen from the heat of a tre tliere years ago which had around ine stone pith a remarkable array of lurge and exquisite crystals; for on one side of the specimen which is not so large as my hand is a beautiful mass of crys tals of royal purple amethyst, and on the other an equally beautiful array of smoky topaz crystals. One can get also magnificent cross-sections ol a whole trunk, so thin as to be portable and showing every vein aud "year-ring, and even the bark. There is not a chip iu all those miles which is not worthy a place, just as it is, in proudest cabinet; and, when polished, I know no other rock so splendid, it is one of the hard est stones in the world, and takes and keeps an incomparable polish. Charles F. Luminis, in St. Nicholas. WOMEN'S DEPART Will Xot Cross a Fiiueral Cortege You may get some idea of how wide spread is the nuperatitious bolief that 'crossing a funeral procession" brings bad luck. If you will stand any day at the New York or Brooklyn entrance to the East river bridge and wait until a hearse and a long line of carriages ap pear. You won't nave to wait very long. So many mourners pass over the bridge that it is almost entitled to be called the "Bridge of Sighs." And when your patieuce is rewarded by the arrival of the cortege, if you are on either the Is'ew l'ork or the Brooklyn side you will observe that, though the horses are moving slowly and though there is plenty of room to pass between, the carriages, many men and women who have been walking rapidly halt suddenly aud wait until the last car riage hai gone by. Some do not stop but hurry on. Tney are the indifferent or the ignorant, or the reckless ones. Xew Vork Herald. Speed of Ocean Current. Tlie speed of ocean currents varies a good deal, and no very definite lnfrom atioo can be given on the subject It is true that bottles and other objects have very often been sot afloat with a view to obtaining exact data as to the rate at which different currents flew along, but it is never possible to tell exactly how long they have floated about near the shore with the ebb and flow of the tide before they have been found. The greater part of them, indeed, never are found, often, no doubt, because of the accumulation of barnacles, which have caused them to sink. Yankee Blade. Shoppl ng as a PToieiwion . Shopping has risen from a pastime to a profession. It is said tliere are several tbonsand women In Xew York city who live ou the percentage allowed them by the big shops In which they spend other people's money. In the rushing season-about holiday time, and just before the summer exodus begins some of them make as high as 200 a week. These lucky ones, though, usually have money of their own. They watch bargain sales carefully and manage generally to secure the cream of them. Then when an order comes hey are often able to fill it from their private stock and pocket the comfor, table difference betwixt the regular and the bargain prlce.iiew York Sun Sandwich Island Alphabet The Sandwich Island alphabet has 12 letteri; the Burmese, 19; Italian, 20; Bengalees, 81, Hebrew, Syrian, Chaldee and Samaritan. 22 each: rri. m. Greek 21; Latin, ; German, Dutch ad English, M taehi Spanish and If AraM "i Arabic, ;Peslan and Cowti B-rwTT : Balan, 41; UwmmtU, BaaWrtt 1 The practice of usin dangerous and olten ca.isej.2-,' A saive oi equal part? uf aalf aft-Ill r.fleil llf-i. Ill nr. felons. A good remedy for damp . four ounces of cologne to half J of belladonna, the hands tofcJl in this several times a day. Xew muslin curtiinsaredist' from those of last season by Uhea with a narrower heinstijy styles in these goods vary as tJ handkerchiefs. 3 It is believed that sweet oilajj thing to use iu removing an u ? the ear. This will int'ingleU they can be removed by treutj, J. ing with warm water. 0 In an ol.wtinate case of earis about the ear with laudanum j i been warmed by standing for a few minutes iu warm cover with CJtton batting. For chapped hands t ikeoal half ounces of spermaceti talk tuhVsnriftnflll fit nil fif ut.it- . . , .... v c,- aud itiree-quarters of an camphor gum. Heat until i burring consuiiiiir, uHii yK4 molds. The newest sofa pillotri cover 'jf India silk iraih-rd a frill on nil four sides, ui about with a broad ribbon i each way, and mndc into .is v bow iu the centre. A ery g J yellow pillows ore made in tta .j style, crossed with a deep oraf tied In an Km pi re knot ff I Tho greatest care is nemsarj-'J ing venison. Like all gaoiei'.) 3Tn.'.'. very hot The cold ptf ....i. .ii,.,. i., ii... jr cooked so that It loses all iu,; becomes dry nud flavorless, i; digestible as "devil's venison' according to Jr. Kitchener, stuffed with teupctiiiy n.i.U. For a lip salve dissolve i while sugar in a tcaspooiifs. water. Let it stand at ti.e li st ove to simmer slowly tabluspooniuis of niceolireiL piece of spermaceti the 7e oh Add a mere drop of cotliiuea; matter to turn it injo a lit! porcelain box kept for the ; It should be small enough to:, a few tablespoonful?. Horn VVtjrk 1 Young w omen of leisure are S enthusiastic and the most of amateur workers in thlifi. crusade of work, because r'-Jj eage ness and happy um:or&f they rush in where wiseiw would hardly dare to go, anife fashion to applaud their d ; out regard to results. i It was formerly the custom daughter to be the helper ani: Ion of the mother. Xow the 4" Is emancipated and the uiotbe If she is 111 and can afford or,t" ,: havt a trained nurse to Ut her, but otherwise there ai, inducement to protract illMi'j valescence. '1 here is, in fadJ the desire for work, a great '.-.?. real work done at home.-"!1 Her Own Hesources," by Jt&f- HU DM Kavaral Thlor ' fternoou M.s. ''J riaduatsof --1 claware, 0- On Saturday sftern West, a recent glad university, ut i.uinrf iir, v. gunning on her father's Lister farm, near Uuionville, withte er's shotgun, bird dog and rob! The result of her aflenioou i fourteen quails, three rabb-u bird dog's tail The latter " by the premature discliarp young lady's gun while she " ing through a wire fence. H r IU, triillel 4 le K 1 t of w 4 1.1. it . . J ... ..uIW n w lui-uuy noieu mm an tjnu" keeper, with a passion 1 vp? lure, and writes very pleafi" when she has time to lnduljt? In that direction. t .ir.cluustn fth Will Urn Around UK Mile. SalnKJmer, a Frw sixty-four years of agf, ranks of lady explorers, andg a tour around the world. W,I course south of and parallel equator. Her purpose data rirrliiir the liftt the training of children in tb(f; countries for the ueograpuw of Paris, tilie takes no 10J her, and expects to extend over a period of three veait already made a voyage v world, paying her own Parte Letter. . Urn, Unaptona t O" Much regret is felt in I'nf discovery of the neglected it Livinntone'a crave in Atria eten deroid of a headstone, doner Dr. Ifnnr has be1 t - - - uonea to sue no 10 un - luireraente in order to suite" ' 1 thegrav of the woman w ,1 life with the Illustrious cxp j Baltimore American. :" f A new fganliatioii of ' San Frandaeo ttyled U Daathtata. fcs devoted Utv! f the need of poor peopj5 Itstrtaa oa aeoodht ot UW. rall. Thar ire about n wua ma empom of Christian laughters with a followm