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Show s ' hard FACTS. K'E NEW?. ifc - tjy r depre. ed looking kind of ho was formerly one of the r?.'J rn went into of j.r oilmens of a joiiug lawyer and ' Au-ti- u, live very unhappily with my -J I come to vou for relief. !e young lawyer thought he was fee in a divorce g to ret a big t hO he said, gleefully I think I can get you a "i t S- c 'Jj tree, which will mitigate your f cu. ,f dont care to put you to all that quarter to eibie. Jus1 lenJ me uu af-1- my woes. h e me forget amicably adjcstfd. o you mean to call me a liar? d oue rival railroad man of man, during a dispute they w on business. lo, colonel, I don t mean to call !' liar. On the contrary, Isay anoth-J-j-r-- ai are the only man in town who the truth all the time, but Im ip dol-i- h e ing a reward of twenty-fivman to other a chrome and any me w hen I say "says he believes never lie, was the response. Im glad you took it back, 1 v foil,the other party, as the tiger-cd of ferocity faded out of his look : 'ires, and he lookod around for the i' saloon. FOREIGN INTELMCTNCr. fe- - lie eimith wero Austin in an restaurant, rg about the war in Europe? pjhooly and of (Jus ll'.j tilts. s;tuation is very alarming, al-- ; just now everything is in statu re bed Gilhooly. t ia; te of the most intelligent citizens got up from an adjoining ;yj, aad approaching Gilhooly, askh bo M-- ' n j.u-fi- you be kind enough to tell ( tfbTu that, ho sS n state is? it stale? A h St I believe you called it. foreign parts sir. Much obliged. quo, t I3 in t Af 'DERATE COLORED MAN. C' I'lipped the egg gently with his 6, and it popped, and people all h bouse began to examine the ! ffN' ,rned oil. i jtb doesnt eg it marked - .rt p, tin window. i U p, if.i I dat egg wasnt all right, waiter. ' on didnt you tell me so? i sab, I wasn't quite sure ob 1se always willing to gib a ' benelit ob de doubt. ' told me the egg was por- ; that it was laid yester- - 1 v 1 1 Gilhooly. 1 V ,1 seem to bo quite Gilhooly', having the colored i r pro- - d ' Ie 31 to see if the gas was s .ti t ; i t ih. t i de t i ! ' i VH .it! t e; - f p H ni ' 3 ' ft, iu ; :u , i l ' ' ,1 H 1 B, needing several, but Im great deal to do with it. Cleveland has made his i' '.I can have my pick of 'd applicants who will be hire for nothing but their t to get out into the coun- .i lilL p lyb I ' a ' lit WI - j ;i,a ' ; L r ; ; ' ' - n j,c ith my surroundings. agruph or a portion of it is o found in four out of every received from the country', matter which should be iu-- e Our statesmen and jour- philanthropists are continu-I- ! ug agriculture as a vocation, a that the farmer is inde- -' a . u Tex-- J t Talks with the Boys. farmers son and am not a )1j.I industry of western ing from the tardiness of b nt. Texas Siftings. .1 j, re- - ap-js;- j;l i,r all the shephreds you U jf r HOLDERS. ait uutil the President has npointments. is that got to do with herd-- t t ,j I didnt in soiling ed Folsom Bowser. . f 0 E e . man, named Folsom Bow- I to a wealthy Austin stock- i position on his staff to go i herd sheep at $10 a month, Inian said ho was not liir-!y to herd sheep, i J e f VT TO ' j lf!: nrevious-lik- .o. i J . ver dat bekase too e find happy prevails in i ral life. i,,s dissatisfied farmers j.1 - i. that so j.y many of them : " every e sons? want J ' 0 farm for any work which i!t ' t them a living? In most lj. m t (rouble will be found with yi . r instead of his son. ap urious position in which an f ted farmer and his son are f i he old man is content with ju! ; rovements on the ideas of ' s ago. lie cant see why any want anything better than j P Windsor chairs and cow-f- l ( f He would as soon go to ' f without a collar as with one. ' er likes the music of an Pi, bn if he buys an organ he 5ike building that addition ; I i n. He cant really see how r ( sit down and getinterested i i(l . : nd why Henry and William real cloth collars and Jf ' a ',eep conundrum. AVhen 8 ies he gets ready for bed, (j ow tle bvs and girls ' ' r company who keep them J " i 10The farm is conduct-tj- f fashion of a quarter of the r The house may be painted Jc : j years, but the chances are A ;u-allowed to go ten. The ' G" 'nailed t ii repairs for years t . it s cheaper to lose a ton of leaks than to buv new . The fences are .rotting down, . ' J- ,;i i 1 10 . 1 - f 1 1 J - 1 ' - 3 ( ''eg----.- . i but next winter will be a good time to split rails. There are half a dozen panes of glass needed about the house, but if the broken lights were renewed The they might be smashed again. democrat wagon has been about worn out for the last live years, and thats the excuse for not having it painted. The harnesses will hardly hold together, but they must answer for another year. The boys are held to serve their time, like so many slaves or convicts, and the amount of cash finding its way into their pockets yearly would not keep a bootblack in stock to do business. Is the picture overdrawn? I can add twentv per cent, to the strength of each assertion and then not exceed the truth. And now wliat is the matter with boys? They live in a new world the father in an old one. No matter how little schooling they have had, they are better educated than he is. Nc matter if the father refuses to do more than subscribe to a weekly paper, his boys are fairly posted ou the daily happenings all over the world. He wants to farm after old ideas they after new ones. He got along without knowing whether England was east or west of the United States without grammar, orthography or being able to more than write his name without ccllam or cuffs or neckties without books or papers or amusements, and he is quite certain that the boys can do the same. The number cf farmers scr.s who are leaving home, cither with a halfhearted consent, or running away, is greater than you dream of. They lloek to the towns and cities to learn trades; to accept of menial positions; to take any work which will pay' their wray and prevent the necessity of returning to farm work. The farmer who realizes this must ask himself w'here the blame lies, and then seek a remedy. Is there a remedy? Let us sec. In the first place, farmers sons are overworked. There is no doubt? that the farmer is, too, but that doesnt alter the case. When you rout a boy of 11, 16 or 18 out of bed at 4:30 or o oclock in the morning, and work him till 7 or you are making a whito slave of him. You not only peril his health, but you deform his body. Thats the cause of so many sons of farmers being d or otherwise deformed, and the origin can be traced to overexertion while growing. There isnt a farm in this country on which the hours of labor couidnt be shortened to ten hours without causing a loss of $23 per year. If ten hours is r it is all that enough for a a farmers son should bo called upon to endure. If there are two hours between 6 oclock and darkness on a summers evening the boy can take up a book or paper, or put it to good use in some other way'. As it is now, he know's ho is expected to slave from daylight till dark, and when night comes he is weary in body and aggravated in spirit. And the remedy is not altogether in shortening the hours of work. The boys must have things to interest and amuse them. They want books, magazines and newspapers. If theres a chance to fix up a bowling alley let the boys go ahead and make one. The game of bowls is a healthy exercise, and furnishes plenty' of sport. If one of the boys lias a taste for music help him on with it. Let him have a fiddle, accordion, organ, or ivhatever instrument he feels He can bring music out of. Both boys and girls should be encouraged to sing. To this end they should be encouraged to get up singing classes, which might meet around from House to house. A young peoples social club, to meet in the same manner, would prove very interesting. The farm can be made pleasanter e the than the work-shoas full of comfort and happiness as any home in the city'. When thi3 takes place the larmers sou will not be the young man he is. He will bo He jovial, content, and emhusiastic. will be able to appear well in any society, to converse with any one ou the topics of the day, and he will have some future outside of the day in and day out toil which is crooking his spine and thickening up his brains. JU. Quad, in Detroit Free Press. Would Not Crowd Them. The other day, down in Desha countv, a little negro man with an old time aspect was arraigned before a colored justice of the peace, having been charged with deadly assault. The testimony was so direct that the justice was compelled to pronounce sentence. Jedge, said the little negro when the magistrate had concluded, dis heah is awful. Putty bad, sah. Haftcr go ter dat jail fuF six farmers half-pas- t, bow-backe- ditch-digge- p monts? tarm-hous- Dats whut 1 said. Wy, jedge, lse been hqah too laung ter be treated dat way'. Yas, I knows yers been lieah too laung. Dats de reason yerd better be tuck erway fur erwhile. Jedge, I doan like dis. Nor, sah, Ipersumes not I doan hab no fonness lur dat jail. , Nor, sah. Da coops er pusson up an doan gin him ernuff ter eat. Yas, sah. FARM AM) UAUbES. The Production ff hyrrUes for the Family lories. Supplies for the Familv. generation ago, says Ike Chicago Times, nearly every farmer in the to produce nearly country endeavored food that was required of article every for his family and help, lie purchased at the grocery little except tea, coffee, pepper, salt, andof 6pices. He raised all the varieties grain required to make bread, pastry, and puddings, took them to a custom mill, where they were converted into onrt meal, and shorts, which grits, hominy, bran,and were carried home The garden was made to produce all the vegetables wanted for immediate use, and an abundance for perservation. Every family' made its own pickles, preserves, and jellies. Butter and cheese wore made in every farmers W'ith very rare exceptions house. families made their own soap, candles, and vinegar. All the meat consumed by the family was raised ou the farm, cured in the house, and preserved iu the cellar or garret. In the fall or early' part of the winter a supply of smoked and dried meats was prepared sufficient to last a year. Every farmer raised fruit, a considerable portion of which was dried or preserved for use during the winter. The first object of eyery farmer was to supply his family with food produced on the place he occupied. He was regarded as very unthrifty if he aid not do this. During the past few years matters have changed greatly in this respect. In many parts of the country farmers are as dependent on the grocer and butcher for food as mechanics and traders in a largo city are. They raise cattle, hogs, and sometimes sheep, but the practice is to sell them on the hoof. They procure the meat they consume from the butcher, paying at least twice as much for it as they get for that they sell, liaising largo holds of grain, they buy their hour, meal, and other breadstufts. They are, if they' have the means to do it, liberal purchasers of dried, canned, and preserved fruits and pickles. Some buy the garden vegetables they use, but the larger number go without them. Farmers who have good credit employ it for their disadvantage. They obtain most that they purchase on credit. In the fall they dispose of nearly' all the grain and stock they have raised A 11 eon-ume- d. to obtain money to fcieet their obligations. They then commence to run up new bills for supplies fortheir families. A farmer in Lee county, Illinois, in a communication to an eastern paper, shows the way in which families are suplied with food. He writes: Sheep are very much neglected here, and with the present low prices are not likely to rise in favor. And y et I have found no stock more profitable they are so healthy, 60 cheaply raised, such fertilezers of the farm, and furnish such excellent food. The demand for mutton with our local butchers is in excess of the supply, and they have to send to Chicago for it, getting it here for 9 cents per pound, dressed. We also get our bacon from there at 14 cents, our potatoes from Michigan at 70 cents, and most of our apples from that state. Our flour is manufactured here from Dakota wheat at $1.15 to d $1.30 the sack, while bran is 90 cents per one hundred pounds. Farm houses are no longer victualed as ior a siege, most of the supplies being bought weekly in town, and s are getting to be as rare as spinning-wheelA generation ago there was a greater necessity for producing all or nearly all the articles of food required for a family than there is at present. There was a poor market for many of the products of the farm. Especially was this the case with those that were heavy or bulky. The means of transportation were very poor in most parts of the country. Farmers living near the ocean, a large lake, or a navigable river enjoyed great advantages over those living in the interior of the country. There was no way of transporting heavy articles economically, except by boats. As farmers remote from w'atcr communication could not dispose of their products for cash, there was very little money in circulation. Most of the local trade was carried on without the employment of money. Articles brought from a distance commanded a high price' on account of the great cost of transportation. The farmer accordingly found it to his advantage to produce w'hat was required to supply the wants of his family. If he desired to live well, and at the same time to live cheaply, ho and his family raised a large number of articles of food, and took great pains m preserving them for future use. The curing of meat, the drying of fruit, the making of pickles and preserves received great attention in every A farmer was not dependent on the grocer and fifty-poun- smoke-house- s, well-regailat- farm-hous- e. butcher for fooi. Farmers of the present age are In a much better condition to purchase articles of food than were those who lived a generation ago. Railroads have produced' a cash market for ail their products fa almost every town. It is no longer necessary to have a farm located near navigable water in order to have an accessible market for what is raised on a farm. larmers now sell their products for cash, a.s manufacturers do. Money is in cirdolculation in every part of the country ten ruther Jedge, Id gin jer lars den ter go dar. where crops, eggs, butter, cheese, Whars yer ten dollars? wool, and domesticated animals are for a farmer to heah. produced. It is policy Right a as well as producer. It a be trader Wall, gm me de money. Dat jail's full, nohow. Doan blebe its right is obvious, however, that most farmter crowd prisoners. ArkanscCw ers are doing more trading than is Traveler. beneficial to them. They soli too many things and buy too many. Their greatest mistake is in bm nig back, in a diflerent form, the articles thev dispose of. The difference between the price they receive and that they pay is generally very large, and is invariable against them. An article is not sold from a farm, taken to a city, disposed of several times, and then brought back w ithout having its price greatly increased, if not doubled. This sort of trade, which has increased, wonderfully during the past few ears, has been highly beneficial to transportation companies, packers, and traders, but ruinous to farmers. A return, in a somewhat modified form, to the practices that prevailed before railroads revolutionized farming and trade, would result in great benelit to farmers. o readily that one cubio inch of charcoal will absorb nearly 100 inclie of gaseous ammonia. While pasture should contain a vame ulows should not. riety of gras-.es- , Coniine each meadow to butone grass. The various gras-e- s do not ripen at the same time. This fact mates a o variety in the desirable, but there may be a succession throughout the season, but is just the very reason hy there should not be a variety in the meadow, as when one grass is ready to be cut the others will not be. Spending valuable time aiid labor in cultivating poor land is one of the most serious mistakes ever made by tillers of the soil. After preparing the soil and putting out the plants we must see that they are kept growing without hindrance of any kind. All Minor Topics. our small fruits, except the grape, do best in a comparatively cool, moist Radish tops choped fine make exand in a situation that is somesoil, cellent green matter to mix with the what sheltered and not exposed to the soft food for the chicks. of the sun. llants are hinfull 'oung chicks should be fed, for deredglaro in their growth in various ways morning feed, for the first week, chop- as by weeds, drought, and the want of boiled hard ped up eggs. air at the roots. Allowing weeds to Soot is a valuable fertilizer on farm, grow among our plauts to rob them of flower bed, and should food and moisture, is almost as unwise garden and to go to waste. never be allow-eas cultivating poor soil. In the colder latitudes of Europe Off on a Tour. the Guinea fowl is very rare, and selHi! hi! veiled a boy in an alley off dom, if ever, seen iu Sweden, NorClifford street yesterday. way or Northern Russia. 'A second boy, who stood on the Willows should never be planted near underdrains, as their roots will crosswalk, meandered down ani askinvariably enter the drains and in ed r;h?t wac- van ted. Put your eye to this knot-hol- e and course of time choke them up. tell me what jou sec. A rich sand' soil is best for beets. Nothin but a man siltin out in The long red beet grows larger and the back yard. is makes the heaviest crops; it preferDont you read the papers? red to others for feeding cows and Course 1 do. hogs. Didnt you see in the papers three Sow grass seed over the thin places or four days ago that this feller got in your lawns and rake it in, or better, married? Names John Blank. s throw an eight of an inch of line Oh, yes. over it and let the rain do the And it said the happy couple had work. started on a bridal tour to Omaha. Potatoes should be got out of the Yes. Just went as far as Chicago, and pits or bins and exposed to the light for a while before being planted. The headed back fur home. Got here in careful observance of this is of much the night and walked up to the house to escape observation. That happy importance. In weaning calves, the change from couple has got to put in about ten whole milk' to skim milk should bo days around here with the front door down, and gradual to prevent danger of scours. locked and the curtains It is also well to add comment gradu- some morning youll see a great stir and learn that they' have just returned ally to the skim milk. after an enjoyable trip. Say, Jim. The manure from fowls is very valYes. is too to used be but uable, strong Dont get married. alone; it should be collected with dry Never! muck, plaster or road dust, then If you ever do, dont try to Omaha spread broadcast and harrowed in. the public. The ground should be well preparI wont. Cause truth is mighty, and must ed, plowed deep and thoroughly pulverized for raising sugar beets. The prevail, and deception must sooner or roots require a deep soil, and the por- later go to grass. Detroit Free Press . tion grown under ground contains the most saccharine matter. Biography Writing. have attained a measure who Those beof A hill raspberry plants after of reputation which justifies a biogtrimmed the should in have spring ing are entitled to treatment of a only three or four canes, about three raphy, and discriminating kind. reasonable feet and high, and nearly one inch in diameter at the base, each It is not necessary and it is not proper cane having a few side spurs about that their private papers should be ransacked for piquant details of their ten inches long. intercourse with friends and acquaintOn good land, with the same culthat all the flippant and deture as corn, artichokes will produce ances, or observations of envious rogatory from 300 to 600 bushels per acre. It is should be repeated against asserted that they yield more hog food them. have a right to justice thou any other crop, and that forty not onlv,They also to a certain degree but hogs may be kept on an acre of artiof charity. By the act of becoming chokes without any other food. noted, they do not authorize ready To make a good water, air and rat liberty to bo taken with their personal proof floor first grade the floor and records. It is the duty of the biogracover with a concrete of coarse gravel pher to sift all the facts carefully, and and hydraulic lime. Melt ashnhult and exercise a sound discretion as to what saturate the concrete with it, leaving belongs to the public and what is none a thin coat of hot asphalt on the surof the publics business, and this duty face, then scatter hot sand over this lie owes not less to his audience than to his subject. The best biographios and beat it firmly. which go into minute It is of no use attempting to keep are not those follow the theory that and to. particulars, fowls unless they are well attended should be told, leaving the Many farmers who complain that their everything reader to do his own discriminating poultry is not paying them, should and to pass his own judgments. Te consider whether they have given their fowls the same attention so generally tell the story of a great mans life in a bestowed upon horses and cattle, or fair, correct and impressive manner, it is quite as essential to leave certain swine. things out as it is to put certain things of the account statical The producSt. Louis in. tion of wool throughout the civilized word shows that in 1830 it was Canoeing as an Exercise. pounds, iu 1871 it was nearly Canoeing pronrses to be a favorite 2,000,000,000 pounds, while in 1883, in pastime this season among young men the United States alone, the production of wool was 320,000,000 pounds, or as who are fond of athletic exercise. Pad-It recreation. much as was produced in the whole is a capital form of sides of the body, dling develops both world in 1830 and hardens all chest the strengthens It is all very well to break the colt the muscles. It a much more and exercise him gently when two social manner ofis, too, over the getting misbe a great years old, but it will You face the than water rowing. take to put him at bard work until prow, see the view ahead instead of two years later. Fast road service is behind and have nono of that more injurious than farm work. While machine-lik- you, moe k the muscles and bones are vet tender tion which Philadelinvolves. rowing injuries are easily incurred which no phia llullctin. after care will remove. IIorse-Fles- li in Butchers Stalls. Nearly every spring on most farms, a portion of the farm horses that have A local government inquiry was held lain idle during the winter need to be recently in Manchester, Eng., to inrebroken. For the first few daysonly quire among other things Into an aplight work should be given them, anil plication of the corporation to impose great care should be taken not regulations on the sale of horse-flesto nroduce galls on the shoulders, Evidence was that horseare very flesh was largely given once started, which, sold in the poorer hard to heal without stopping neighborhoods of the city, dressed like work altogether. beef, cut up into steaks, and sold at 6 Animals which have only that food pence per pound. Much of the horsewhich is given them should be fed flesh sold was unsound. The corporathree times a day. Regularity in feedtion, who were supported by the as be should them also, Butchers Association, desired to impracticed ing as as well to disease are subject they pose regulations on the sale. ourselves. The allowance of food for each meal should be the same each Nigh Unto Death. where cases in and varied And yet there are some people whom only day, the condition of the animal demands the graveyard impresses. 1 heard a it. tot telling a story to an older campan-io- n for other is valuable Charcoal that seemed, on the face of things many to bo improbable. purposes than that of fuel. Strewn Are you sure that is the truth? over heaps of decomposed pelts or asked the companion. over dead animals it will prevent unYes, indeed, with an injured air. pleasant odors. Foulinwater is purified shallow if You dont think Id tell a lie in and trays it, placed by Pittsburgh around apartments it will sweeten of- a cemetery, do you ? Chronicle, fensive air. It absorbs and condenses gaes fre-- h pa-tur- d - com-pot- lf Globe-Democr- 320,-000,0- forward-and-bac- h. |