Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News September 2, 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003775 June 7, 2006, 8:27 pm The Lamar News September 2, 1886 Microfilm Ref Call #373 Microfilm Order #M1992.4466 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, SEPTEMBER 2, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 44 HOPE – Poem – [Siftings] THE DOWN HILL ROAD – Short Story – [Rena Riverton] LIFE IN PERSIA Through Persia moves a little, it is one of the most unprogressive empires. It had no postal system until 1870. It has but one wagon road of any considerable length. No railroads have been built, as the Shah will not incur the financial risk, nor make an investment of foreign capital secure. The telegraph now connects the capital with provincial capitals. The cost of living has greatly increased in the last few years. Most of the Persians are very poor, the tenants or agriculturists forming the poorest class. A merchant with $50,000 is considered very rich. The social life of Persia has not changed perceptibly. “The Persian of the genuine type and old school hardly thinks himself in a condition to be seen until his hair and beard have been dyed and his finger nails stained, if not his fingers also. He rises at the early dawn, and repeats the usual prayer; and having drunk a cup of tea, if he be rich enough to afford it, goes to the field or to his shop. At 10 o’clock he sits down in his place of business to eat a breakfast of bread and sour milk which has been brought upon a tray and set before him. The hours of midday, in summer, are passed in sleep. Labor, when resumed, is continued until sunset. The principal meal of the day – and the best he can afford – of meat, rice and savory dishes, is partaken of in company with the members of his family, and after nightfall, and in the open court of the house, or upon the roof. If inclined to drink wine and arak, the most approved custom is to indulge at this hour. He satiates his thirst, if that be possible, by drunkenness, having first taken the precaution of locking the doors and going to bed.” – [Cincinnati Commercial] HINDOO CRAFTSMEN The supple, delicate fingers of the craftsmen are as remarkable as those of the Japanese, although their hands are much larger. But one thing must very forcibly strikes the visitor who watches these clever workmen and who observes the primitiveness of their appliances – the sad fact that the march of civilization has deprived us western nations of the use of our toes. To be able to use four hands instead of two in art work must obviously be an enormous advantage, and the long, prehensile toe of the Hindoo craftsman is even more remarkable than that of his Japanese brother. To see the ivory– worker turning his lathe with his upper hands, while he guides it and holds the ivory in his lower ones, is quite and education in possibilities of development of what to us are really almost rudimentary organs –daily, in fact, becoming more so under the operation of the fashionable bootmaker. A DESPERATE MOVE “John” she said to the young man who had been courting her for five long years. “John, I sat for my photograph today. I suppose you want one?” “Oh, yes, indeed.” “By the way, John, I had them taken especially for some friends in California, and they want my autograph on the cards. Now, John, I don’t know whether to sign my maiden name or wait a few months until after I am married. I suppose you do intend to get married in a few months, don'’ you John." It was a desperate move, but she won, and in two months both will be made one. – [Philadelphia Herald] WORDS VERSUS FIGURES He was looking for a rich wife and thought he was on the trail. “I love you,” he said to her in rich warm tones,” more than I can tell you in words.” “You’d better try figures,” she replied coldly, for she was not so green as she looked. – [Washington Critic] THE WILY MUSKRAT – How the Little Animal is Trapped by Night – The Muskrat’s Haunts and Habits and Use to Which His skin is Put. – [New York Rail and Express] RAM FIGHTING IN THE ORIENT The Persians have their own peculiar pastimes, and that some of them correspond very nearly with our own. Strolling down towards the Shah Abbas bazaar in Teheran the same evening after talking with Mr. B ---, my attention is attracted by a small crowd of Teherains of the lower and commercial class congregated in an alley-way, writes Thomas Stevens in Outing. From the excitement and the dull thud of objects striking against each other, it is apparent that rival owners of fighting rams are permitting their champions to struggle for the mastery. These little contests around quiet corners are of almost hourly occurrence, and a stroll of fifteen minutes about the streets of the Persian capital is impossible without encountering mild-eyed “sports” leading their pet rams tenderly along by a string. The necks of the rams are encased in broad leathern collars, gaily ornamented with beads and cowries, and from which are suspended amulets to ward off the evil eye, and a clear-toned bell. This bell, dangling from the collar and jingling merrily as he walks along, announces the approach of a fighting ram and his owner or attendant. Sometimes one meets a procession of several, each one in charge of a separate attendant; these engage in a regular tournament for the entertainment of his guests. The fighting rams of Teheran are of the big-tailed variety. The breed is gentleness impersonate, and their contests are comparatively tame performances. The owners bet freely on the prowess of their respective champions, wagering anything from a dinner of bazaar-kabobs to a stake of several tomans; and plenty of Teherani sports depend entirely upon their ram for a living. Harassed with no hair-splitting niceties nor worrying definitions between amateurism and professionalism, he sallies forth and fights his ran for the wager of a breakfast for himself and a steed of barley for his pet. Like knight-errands of old, the Persian sport and his fighting ram wander the streets, seeking battle everywhere, winning a few kerans today and losing them again tomorrow; true soldiers of fortune these, often having to battle for their breakfast before eating it. Many of the smaller merchants own fighting rams, keeping them tied up in front of their shop. When business gets dull, they send challenges to rival merchants, and fights take place daily, sometimes purely for amusement and sometimes for a wager. SMALL ARTS It is quite wonderful to think how strangely forgotten and lost the small arts are in England. In some countries the very children can carve in woods, in others they can make artistic pottery; in Egypt they embroider, inlay, and work in jewelry; but in this country our people can do nothing, and have learned nothing outside their trade. The agricultural laborer, it is true, possesses a very considerable and varied amount of knowledge – he is skilled in many ways; but the mechanic, the factory hand, the shop man, knows nothing and can do nothing outside his trade, and, which is worse, he considers every kind of handiwork as a trade in itself, to learn which would be leaning another craft, after taking all the trouble in the world to acquire one. Shall he who has learned to make shoes also learn to make cabinets? And shall the goldsmith also become a stonecutter? And is the evening as well as the solid day to be given up to labor? And is it right to invade another man’s trade territory? - [Art Journal] NOT HIGH ENOUGH FOR THAT “Oh, papa,” exclaimed a little boy passenger with his face to the window, “what a great high hill that is!” “Yes, my son, said the man, with a weary look in his face and crape on his hat, “it is very high. That is a mountain, Arthur.” “Shall we get off the cars and go and climb up the high mountain, papa?” “Oh, no. Why should we do that, Arthur?” “Cause, pa, I didn’t know by maybe we might climb to the top and then look up and see mamma. Do you think we could?” – [Chicago Herald] HE WANTED A REMNANT “I understand you are offering some remnants for sale,” said an Arkansaw man to a dry goods clerk. “Yes, sir, we have some choice remnants, which we are offering very cheap.” “Wal, I want a remnant for my dog.” “For your dog?” “Yas, you see, some feller’s cut my dog’s tail off, an’ I thought eff yer had a remnant of a yaller hull dog I mout find a piece ‘at’d fit.” – [Goodall’s Sun] THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE G. – POEM – [Harper’s Bazaar] HUMOROUS All flesh isn’t grass, because dog meat is often Indian meal. The dentists are said to be pulling through these hard times. “What is the latest?” was asked of a wit. “Twelve p.m.” was the curt reply. The queen of Servia understands how to sew on buttons, and she isn’t a bachelor, either. As a general thing, when schoolboys go on strike the urbane professor comes in with the last lick. A collector of curiosities wants to get the original brush with which the signs of the times were pained. Little boy – Pa, why does the world move? Pa (thinking of something else) – Because it finds it cheaper than to pay rent. An exchange says: “Monopolies are reaching out further with alarming rapidity.” The same may be said of bustles. “Do make yourself at home, ladies,” said Mrs. Smith to her visitors; “I am at home myself, and sincerely wish you all were.” A gushing correspondent says of a literary celebrity that “his conversation in full of light.: Poor fellow! He must be lantern-jawed. Andrew Lang’s novel, “The Mark of Cain,” has just been published. It is supposed the hero has struck with a walking-stick. A new English dictionary is coming out with 24,000 words. People who are ever bent on having the last word should subscribe at once. According to an ear witness, the Boston girl doesn’t say, “Let’s skip the gutter.” She remarks, “Let us suddenly overleap the marginal depression of the public thoroughfare.” BASE BALLS A fair estimate of the number of balls made for the present season is said to be 5,000,000 or one for every ten of the population of the entire country. The hard unyielding base balls that are now used by professional ballplayers are very different articles from those which were in vogue a quarter of a century ago. In fact they differ as greatly as the present game of baseball does from that which was played in those days. “Dead” or professional baseballs are made entirely by hand. According to rules laid down by the league they must weigh within five and a quarter ounces. A little rubber ball, weighing two ounces, is used as the foundation for two ounces of woolen yarn that is wound around the ball, and permits of it coming within the regulation size, weight, and shape. The limit in size is nine inches in circumference. The yarn used makes the circumference of the ball considerably more than this, but it is corrected by undergoing a hammering process, after which the little sphere are turned over to the coverers, who invest them with a casing of horse hide, sewn with linen thread. Non-professional balls are made by machinery. To show the difference in the speed, care and cost of manufacture of base balls it may be stated that a certain factory near New York can turn out 48,000 machine-made balls in a day, while the limit of manufacturer for “dead” balls in the same time is eighteen.” – [New York Main and Empress] PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY AUGUST SEPT 2, 1886 RATES OF ADVERTISING One inch, one insertion $1.00 One inch, each subsequent insertion .50 One inch, twelve months 10.00 One inch, six months 7.00 One inch, three months 5.00 Two inches twelve months 15.00 Two inches, six months 10.00 Quarter column 12 months 35.00 Half Column 12 months 60.00 One column 12 months 100.00 Professional card $10. Special advertisements in local columns will be charged double rates. All advertisements collectable after first insertion. Local notices 10 cents per line. Obituaries, tributes of respect, etc. making over ten lines, 5 cents per line. A young lady who shook hands with the president the other day proposes to have the glove she wore stuffed. Mr. Logan is still quiet. Probably he thinks that Jeems will have enough rope to divide after he gets through handing himself. Cutting don’t like it because he didn’t fan up a little war breeze. Cutting ought to melt into a little lump of gratitude when he recalls that there is still a head on those broad shoulders of his. Four homing pigeons released in New York reached New Haven, eighty-seven miles distant, in sixty-seven minutes. THE ANARCHISTS FOUND GUILTY The trial of the Anarchists at Chicago is over and the penalty imposed on seven out of eight is death. The tragic and shameful end of these lives is the outcome of dangerous doctrines that defy law and order. There is no real nor desirable success to be hoped for or attained in any struggle which attempts to overthrow the law. All reformers or would be reformers should take to heart this solemn lesson that the more peaceful the struggle, the more conservative the organization of societies that would effect changes, or set aright wrongs or supposed wrongs, the surer the accomplishment of purposes. THE AGONY OVER The release of Cutting is in perfect accordance with Secretary Bayard’s view of the case all along. The war fever that has rolled like a tidal wave over the country for the past thirty days originated more from the exaggerated reports of the affair than from any well founded belief that there was any reasonable probability of war, and now that the thing is about settled, grim visaged war sill have but very little trouble in smoothing his wrinkled font. There has been entirely too much red tape about the affair on the parts of the Mexican government and too much delay on the part of ours, but barring these two features and a few mistakes in the conduct of negotiations for Cutting’s release there’s not much to be said about the late Mexican imbroglio. The public will congratulate itself on being no longer bored by the newspaper accounts of the affair and the newspaper editor on the other hand will scratch his head and wonder where he will strike the next bonanza in the shape of something suitable to re-produce his old chestnuts about Editor Cutting and the part he played while pitted against the Mexican Greaser. WRONG TACTICS Mr. Blaines’ speech delivered Tuesday at Segnabone Lake, Maine, will be regarded by the country in the nature of a disappointment. There was a great deal of interest attached to this looked-for speech, as it was long ago, voted the first gun of any importance that the Mulligan statesmen would fire as a signal for the campaign in 1888. Its explosion has made by the little noise throughout the country, and the ammunition with which it was hourly loaded was not of the character to endanger the target at which the instrument was aimed. Instead of confining himself to the alleged blunders of a Democratic administration, and availing himself of the opportunity to magnify the few mistakes that Mr. Cleveland may have made during his brief administration, he goes back and rakes up the same old hobbles he rode to death in his desperate effort to boost himself in the White House three years ago. True he did casually criticize the “defects: of the administration, paying some attention to the fishery troubles and the Mexican affair, but the burden of his speech was a rehash of the old issues involved in the last campaign and that were met and refuted then on every stump from Maine to California. If Mr. Blaine really wants to again lead the grand old party to another inglorious in a national campaign his speech on Tuesday may be considered opportune and well calculated to realize for him his dearest hopes; but if he is really impressed with the belief that he has any sort of a showing in the approaching presidential campaign, he must immediately proceed to revise the tactics with which he has set out to win. – [Montgomery Dispatch] THE CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION The Congressional Convention meets today at Fayette C. H. There exists an intense suppressed excitement all over the district in regard to the convention. And it is with no little anxiety that we await the result. The deliberations of that body should be conducted in a spirit of fairness; and a readiness to yield the first choice and to take the second choice of their constituents ins a plain and imperative duty of each delegate, it matters not from what county he comes. It is to be hoped that the delegates who represent the people is that convention will lay aside all that part of likes and dislikes personal to themselves and represent the interest of their constituents. It will be no place for the paying of political debts, or the avenging of past slights. The delegates in that convention it is hoped will remember that they represent the wishes of thirty thousand voters who have as much right to their personal preferences as the ninety-seven who compose the convention. And we admonish them to remember, that notwithstanding a majority of them can take it is their hands and nominate whom they please, that when the election comes that each voter in the district has equal right to this preferences and to over rider the sentiment of the people is a dangerous thing. The preferences of his constituents and hot his own, is the only thing that will win, and should be the rule of action to guide each delegate. Fayette Journal Friday morning while JAS. And GEO. SANDERS and MILAS HARRIS were at work in a field on the VICK place, 12 miles south of town, pulling fodder, some one, unknown to the men, rode up to the fence and burst to caps. The men in the field were not sure who the man in ambush was, or what his purpose was, and did not leave the field until 12 o’clock. Harris told a neighbor that some one had made an attempt to take his life, and inquired of him if he had seen a certain man pass his house that morning. Why Harris thought an attempt had been made to take his life, or why he enquired about one man only, our informant did not know. After dinner the three men returned to work, as if nothing had happened, little dreaming that one of their number would soon be launched into eternity. Some time near the middle of the evening a gun shot was heard, the report coming from the fence, and Harris was seen fall. He called to his companions to see who had shot him. Two more shots were fired after Harris fell. The men at work with Harris left (as was stated at the Coroner’s inquest) as soon as the first shot was fired, and ran off about 100 yards and halted. They saw a man climb the fence and go to where Harris fell. He had his hat drawn down over his face so that they not tell who he was. When he saw that Harris was dead he seemed satisfied, recrossed the fence and disappeared to the woods. The deceased is said to have been an honest hard-working man, and at present his assassination is a mystery. Carlisle D. Graham, who a short time since went safely through the Niagara rapid in a barrel, has again performed his dangerous feat. This time so arranged as to leave his head protruding above the top. The crank, however, called lustily for help before he got out, and when he finally got the soles of both feet on terra firma and recovered his breath, he announced that this was positively his last performance. ITEMS OF INTEREST The recent Etowah grand jury found 63 true bills. Bingham carried Macon, Lowndes, and Green counties. A Fayette County post-master will have to appear before the U. S. Court at Huntsville, this winter to answer a charge of embezzlement. Col. Jno. J. Altman, of Livingston, will about the 15th of September open a law office in Birmingham. He will also continue to practice in Sumter. Eight members of congress have died during the present administration. President Cleveland sent 2,450 appointments to the Senate during the recent session. A. K. Cutting, the man who has so nearly plunged the United States in a war with Mexico has been released. The family of Rasures, the Texan recently murdered by Mexicans, will put in a claim of $100,000 damages against the Mexican government. A war with Mexico would cost the nation from $500,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 and made about 100,000 widows and orphans. It costs $20,000 on the average to build a mile of Railroad in Great Britain, and only $64,000 in the United States. The Republican campaign was formally opened at Sebago Lake, Me., on the 24th, by James C. Blaine, and Congressman Reid of that state. Acting Secretary Thompson, of the Democratic National Committee at Washington says that the next house will be Democratic by fully as large a majority as the present house is. The old world wouldn’t be happy if it didn’t have some little squabble to fool with all the time. It is true than an occasional terrible, brutal wrong is done to a convict in Alabama. It is also true that the great wrong lies in the existence of a system which makes such horrors possible. The recent elections in Hinds County, Mississippi, resulted in a victory for prohibition. Thus the capital city of Mississippi joins those of Georgia and North Carolina. It is hinted among the friends of Miss Laura C. Holloway, of Crooklyn, that she is to be associated with Miss Rose Cleveland in the editorial management of the magazine at Chicago, called Literary late. Mrs. Holloway has long been the intimate friend of Miss Cleveland. The New Orleans States holds that it is not safe to plunge headlong into Kansas journalism, for the reason that an editor not long ago invited an esteemed contemporary in a distant portion of the state to keep his shirt one, was horrified to find that his contemporary was a woman. A calf was born on the place of Mr. W. S. Taylor, at Langley, Fairfax County, Va. on last Friday night, with a large double head, two distinct mouths, three eyes and no ears. Each mouth was perfect and contained a tongue and full set of teeth. There was an eye on each side of the head and one in the middle of the forehead. The calf was dead. PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT Regular Term, July 12, 1886 It was endorsed by the Court that W. R. BROWN be allowed for stationery 3.18 J. C. BROWN ‘’ ‘’ ‘’ ‘’ pauper 13.00 KATE JONES ‘’ ‘’ ‘’ ‘’ 25.00 R. W. COBB ‘’ ‘’ stationery 5.83 S. F PENNINGTON – repair court house 10.00 J. W. DRAPER for pauper 15.00 W. W. PURNELL “ “ 96.29 SAMUEL LOGGAINS - as commissioner 6.50 R. W. YOUNG “ 6.50 ALBERT WILSON “ 7.95 W. M. MOLLOY “ 8.00 ALEXANDER COBB “ 6.00 W. Y. ALLEN “ 4.00 W. Y. ALLEN stationery 1.25 Order of Review granted for a new road from Moulton Road to Fayette County line. Order of Review granted for a new road from Columbus & Fayette Road to Fayette line now W. K. DAVIS” in Stern’s Beat ALSO AUGUST 9TH 1886 It was ordered by the court that: J. F. SANDERS be allowed for bridge lumber 2.10 J. E. CUNNINGHAM for mile boards 1.00 G. B. SPRINGFIELD for feeding prisoners 4.03 JAMES P. YOUNG for registering voters .85 JAMES P. YOUNG for bridge lumber 3.24 WM. MCCULLOUGH for registering voters .85 J. E. SISSOM “ “ 1.00 J. I. BURKSDALE for bridge lumber 11.10 LEON NALL for 5 trees for bridge sills 1.30 MARSHALL & BRUCE for stationery 9.31 J. I. BURKSDALE for hauling lumber for bridge 2.75 MCADAMS & PHILLIPS cost for arresting prisoner &c. 3.20 A. J. PARSONS, lumber for bridge 15.00 W. W. PURNELL, for care of paupers 24.20 W. G. RICHARDS & SON, nails for bridge 1.00 HALEY & DENMAN “ “ 4.76 A. A. WALL, for election notice 14.00 E. J. MCNATT, for public printing 4.00 SANDERS & WHEELER for lumber and nails for bridge 22.25 JAMES MIDDLETON, registering voters 2.50 ALEXANDER COBB for registering copies of election 25.00 JAMES MIDDLETON for ex-officio fee as clerk 125.00 ALEXANDER COBB for ex-officio fee as probate judge 125.00 ALEXANDER COBB fee for road services 90.00 S. F. PENNINGTON ex-officio fee as sheriff 200.00 Mrs. MCGILL for pauper 12.50 ALBERT WILSON as commissioner 4.95 W. M. MOLLOY “ “ 4.95 R. W. YOUNG “ “ 3.90 SAMUEL LOGGAINS “ “ 3.90 W. Y. ALLEN “ “ 3.90 ALEXANDER COBB “ “ 3.90 The above is a copy of the orders and disbursements at said courts. ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate MASONIC: Vernon Lodge, No. 588, A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 pm each month. – T.W. SPRINGFIELD, W. M. W. L. MORTON, S. W. JNO. ROBERTSON, J. W. R. W. COBB, Treasurer, M. W. MORTON, Secretary Vernon Lodge, NO 45, I. O. G. F. Meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. each month. J. D. MCCLUCKEY, N. G. R. L. BRADLEY, V. G. E. J. MCNATT, Treas’r M. W. MORTON, Sec. WANTED: To know the whereabouts of SYLVESTER ALONZO BOX. It will be to his material interest to correspond with W. Y. ALLEN, Vernon, Ala. or W. L. HARRILL, Okolona, Miss. Ad for Pianos and Organs – (picture of organ) Mr. J. Garrison, of Cullman, Ala who handles bur first class pianos and organs. PHOTOGRAPHS – R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss. Price list: Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00 Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00 Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00 Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00 Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00 Satisfaction given or money returned. RESTAURANT, Aberdeen, Mississippi. Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to call on Mrs. L. M. KUPFER, who keeps Restaurant, Family Groceries, Bakery and Confectionery, toys, tobacco, and cigars. Also coffee and sugar. Special attention paid to ladies ATTORNEYS SMITH & YOUNG, Attorneys-At-Law Vernon, Alabama– W. R. SMITH, Fayette, C. H., Ala. W. A. YOUNG, Vernon, Ala. We have this day, entered into a partnership for the purpose of doing a general law practice in the county of Lamar, and to any business, intrusted to us we will both give our earnest personal attention. – Oct. 13, 1884. S. J. SHIELDS – Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in Chancery. Vernon, Alabama. Will practice in the Courts of Lamar and the counties of the District. Special attention given to collection of claims. PHYSICIANS – DENTISTS M. W. MORTON. W. L. MORTON. DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons. Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala. Tender their professional services to the citizens of Lamar and adjacent country. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we hope to merit a respectable share in the future. Drug Store. Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, I hope to receive a liberal share in the future. The Coleman House (Formerly West House). W. S. COLEMAN, Pro. Main St. Columbus, Miss. Is now open for the entertainment of guests, and will be kept clean and comfortable, the table being supplied with the best the market affords. Rates per day…$1.50, Rates for lodging and 2 meals….$1.25, Rates for single meals…...$0.50, Rates for single lodging…..$0.50. call and try us. LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE. J. D. GUYTON, Prop’r., Columbus, Mississippi. (picture of horse and buggy) J. B. MACE, Jeweler, Vernon, Alabama. (Picture of watch) Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry and spectacles. Makes a specialty of repairing. Will furnish any style of timepiece, on short notice, and at the very lowest price. Our stock of Furnishing is full and complete in every respect. (Elaborate drawing of goods sold) Largest Cheapest best stock of dress goods, dress trimmings, ladies & misses jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, boots, shoes, & hats, tin ware, etc., etc., at rock bottom figures at A. COBB & SONS’S Barber Shop. For a clean shave or Shampoo call on G. W. BENSON, in rear Dr. Burn’s office. Vernon, Ala WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama. Board and Lodging can be had at the above House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor. ERVIN & BILLUPS, Columbus, Miss. Wholesale and retail dealers in pure drugs, paints, oils, paten Medicines, tobacco & cigars. Pure goods! Low prices! Call and examine our large stock. Go to ECHARD’S PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY, Columbus, Mississippi, when you want a fine photograph or ferrotype of any size or style. No extra charge made for persons standing. Family group and old pictures enlarged to any size. All the work is done in his gallery and not sent North to be done. Has a handsome and cheap line of Picture Frames on hand. Call at his Gallery and see his work when in Columbus. MORGAN, ROBERTSON & CO., Columbus, Mississippi. General dealers in staple dry goods, boots, & shoes, groceries, bagging, ties, etc. etc. Always a full stock of goods on hand at Bottom prices. Don’t fail to call on them when you go to Columbus. Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment…(too small to read). B. A. Fahnestock’s Vermifuge….(too small to read) PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY SEPT. 2, 1886 (Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, Alabama, as second-class matter.) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One copy one year $1.00 One copy, six months .60 All subscriptions payable in advance LOCAL DIRECTORY CHANCERY COURT THOMAS COBBS Chancellor JAS. M. MORTON Register CIRCUIT COURT S. H. SPROTT Circuit Judge THOS. W. COLEMAN Solicitor COUNTY OFFICERS ALEX. COBB Probate Judge JAMES MIDDLETON Circuit Clerk S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor D. J. LACY Tax Collector B. F. REED Co. Supt. of Education Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALBERT WILSON CITY OFFICERS L. M. WIMBERLY – Mayor and Treasurer G. W. BENSON – Marshall Board of Aldermen – T. B. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS MIDDLETON, W A BROWN, R. W. COBB RELIGIOUS FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each month, 7 p.m. MISSIONARY BAPTIST – Pastor J. E. COX. Services second Sabbath in each month at 11 am. METHODIST – Pastor – G. L. HEWITT. Services fourth Sabbath in each month. 11 a.m. SABBATH SCHOOLS UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m. JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt. METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 9 o’clock a.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt. MAIL DIRECTORY VERNON AND COLUMBUS - Arrives every evening and leaves ever morning except Sunday, by way of Caledonia. VERNON AND BROCKTON – Arrives and departs every Saturday by way of Jewell. VERNON AND MONTCALM – Arrives and departs every Friday. VERNON AND PIKEVILLE – Arrives and (sic) Pikeville every Tuesday and Friday by way of Moscow and Beaverton. VERNON AND KENNEDY – Arrives and departs every Wednesday and Saturday. VERNON AND ANRO – Leaves Vernon every Tuesday and Friday and returns every Wednesday and Saturday. LOCAL BREVITIES Who will be our next Congressman? We regret to learn of the illness of Miss MAGGIE MORTON. The heavy rain Sunday evening prevented any Union Sabbath School. Mr. GREEN BANKHEAD and family are visiting relatives in town. Wanted: 10000 bricks 1st of Oct. – W. A. YOUNG. Mrs. MCLAIN, who has been quite sick for some time, we ape pleased to learn is convalescent. Col. MARTIN and Capt. BANKHEAD made eloquent speeches at the Court House last Saturday. It is thought that the Petit Jurors for the first week of court will be discharged today. The attendance on Circuit Court Tuesday was large. Many coming to hear the charge of the Judge. The Methodist Church was filled to overflowing on last Sabbath, to hear the funeral sermon of Mr. W. Y. RUSH, delivered by Rev. D. W. WARD, former pastor of this circuit. There seems to be a kind of timidity existing among the attorneys. On Tuesday considerable trouble was had in getting cases ready for trial. After court we will give “roll of honor’ giving names of all renewals and new subscribers to News received during court. Hon. THOS. W. COLEMAN solicitor of the 6th Circuit, looks to be in perfect health. His relation to the office of solicitor is generally conceded. Hon. B. H. WILLIAMS of Tuskaloosa was in town Tuesday. Judge Williams is well and favorably known here having been Judge of Probate when this was part of Fayette County. Any time from full moon in August to the ides of November, is a good time to sow advertisements for fall and winter trade. If you wish to harvest sell, don’t forget this important matter. The visiting attorney in attendance on the court are Hon. W. R. SMITH, DAINEL COLLIER, J. H. MCGUIRE, J. R. SANDFORD, and J. J. RAY of Fayette C. H. All return to the convention today. Our blacksmiths are kept busy this week shoing (sic) horses. We would be pleased to have all that can, call in and settle their indebtedness to News. There are twenty-five lots in Millport advertised for sale in this issue, to satisfy a certain mortgage. There is likely to be an independent candidate in the field for Congressional honors. With regret we chronicle the death of Mr. STEPHEN HARRISON, who died at the age of 76 years at his home five miles south of Vernon on last Friday. A dog belonging to Mr. SUMMERS, which was thought to have hydrophobia, caused some little excitement on Monday last. The dog, however, quit living. We have sadly neglected the News for the past two weeks endeavoring to be able to issue the books on the “Wonderful Girl” during court. We hope to get them out latter part of next week. Orders solicited. Price fifty cents. The fine clay-bank horse of “Uncle” PETER SHAW (col) was killed by lightening on Monday the 23rd inst. The lightning struck a tree near where the horse was grazing in a pasture, and the horse ran about fifty years and fell dead. Circuit Court convened here on Tuesday, Judge SPROTT presiding. Judge Sprott succeeds himself for another term and if he grows in popularity in the next six years as he has in the past three he will have a tenure at will on the office. This section was quite sensibly jarred by an earthquake on Tuesday night at about 9 o’clock. One of our visiting attorneys, speaking on the subject said: “People may make sport of the “Wonderful Little Girl,” but they need not of the earthquake.” We have received during the past months quite a number of renewals and new subscriptions, for which we thank our friends and also for the kind words which so many add. In the dull season we doubly appreciate money, and while receipts are less expenses are no lighter. We will give “roll of honor’ after court. A FEW CORRECTIONS In the news of Aug 12th, T. W. SPRINGFIELD refers to my letter in the News in a very unbecoming manner. Especially since we remember it was not addressed to him and had no kind of reference to him. I will not deign to notice it further than to correct him, except in one single point. 1st – My letter was not addressed to J. R. BLACK. 2nd – There was no intended “fling of sarcasm” at the good people of Vernon. 3rd. – I am proud of the compliment paid me: Sanford is to Almon as I am to him is what he means. As to the “natural death” of the schools I will only say that schools cannot succeed without good patrons. And while I cherish the memory of my good patrons of Vernon, and there is no exception on that point. Mr. Springfield quit my school the first month because I charged him tuition rates, although I made a reduction. J. S. TOMLIN. LIST OF JURORS The following is a list of the Grand and Petit Jurors drawn for the fall term of the Circuit Court commencing Tuesday, August 31, 1886. GRAND JURORS M. W. MORTON B. H. JACKSON J. E. GRAVES W. M. MOLLOY VINCENT WEBB J. W. PAUL J. T. JAGGERS ISAAC HILL A. J. PENNINGTON T. M. SAVAGE D. G. HOLCOMB T. G. GENTRY T. J. ALEXANDER W. W. DUNN F. M. COBB PETIT JURORS – FIRST WEEK A. K. GREEN J. J. WHEELER G. H. TURNER T. J. SHAW R. A. TRIM REUBEN GUYTON T. L. CREW A. MORROW KIT DUKE CRAVE HARRIS W. J. SANDLIN J. L. MARCHBANKS ALEX BELL W. H. HILL SILAS WALDROP W. P. SMITH ROBERT IRWIN ANDY CLINE J. R. SHIELDS L. J. HAYS J. M. BEASLEY J. R. GOODMAN J. W. SHELTON J. R. ROBERSON PETIT JURORS – SECOND WEEK W. B MATTHEWS G. B. TAYLOR ABNER PENNINTON W. R. CUNNINGHAM MOSES COLLIER L. R. GUIN R. P. BOLIN J. H. SHAFER J. W. JOHNSON J. H. CARR A. J. LOWRY JNO. HOLLADAY A. YU. HOLLIS W. W. MIZE MARTIN LAWRENCE R. L. RICHARDS J. M. DAVIS C. M. HYDRICK F. M. GARTMAN RAZ UIN S. E. ROWLAMB STEPHEN CASH J. M. USSERY STRIVE ON – Poem FERNBANK ITEMS Fernbank Ala. Aug 22, 1886 Mr. Editor: Please allow us to give you and your readers a few dots from Fernbank. The health of our town is good, whooping caugh (sic) excepted. An infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. KEMP, died in our town a few days ago; also an infant child of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. SOUTH, died near her last week. Old Aunt PADDIE MCREYNOLDS, mother of G. C. and LANCY MCREYNOLDS of Olinda, died a few days ago near Hudson. “Aunt Paddie” passed her three score and ten years, and she tried to walk in the foot prints of the meek and lowly Jesus for more than 50 years of her life. We mourn not for her as those who have no hope, but we are consoled with the thought of “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.” Mrs. G. C. MCREYNOLDS and her little daughter LAVINIA of Olinda, were in town last night visiting relatives. Rev. W. T. RICKMAN and Mr. GEORGE STANFORDD are weather-boarding the Union Church House and Masonic Hall. Those gentlemen say they think they can complete the building within the next 5 weeks. Mr. NEAL S. PARTAIN one of our best county men has recently become a citizen of our town. We would gladly welcome many more such NEALS in our town. One evening last week a train of cars on the Georgia Pacific Railroad ran over the only cow Mrs. MARTHA MCNEES had giving milk. Mrs. McNees is a widow lady and the railroad authorities will doubtless pay the good woman for her cow. The whooping cough is epidemic in our community in consequence of which our school under the efficient tutorship of Prof. JOHN R. GUIN is comparatively small, and yet the Prof. has his hands full. We have predicted heretofore that Fernbank would be in the near future one of the best places for a good school in the hill counties, and from present indications, we are forced to make a re-prediction to the same effect. If any one doubts that we have sufficient cause for making such predictions concerning our Fernbank school let him come and carefully examine for himself the number of students, and the “maglus opera di” of both teacher and students. The time will soon come when none but First Grade teachers need apply for even an assistant’s position in our school. The doctrine of “any body is able to teach my children” will soon be only an expression of the past to the people of Fernbank and vicinity. The “vax populi” should soon begin to cry out to applicants,’ If you have not studied and qualifies yourselves you shall not teach for us.” If we mistake not, the scripture says, “He that does not work must not eat,” and the people might say with equal proprieties, “He that does not work or study shall not teach our children.” It is to be hoped that our present Representative elected Bradley will labor to make some needful changes in our present school law when he goes down to Montgomery next winter. As we are satisfied the Dr. knows what they are, it is unnecessary for us to suggest any of the needful changes. Deputy Sheriff JERRY PENNINGTON, was in town last week summoning the boys to attend court. B. H. WILKERSON, our Co. Supt. Ed. Elect resumed his school six miles north of here a few days ago. He anticipates moving to Vernon between now and the 1st of October. With many wishes for the happiness and success of all who may see these lines we subscribe ourselves faithfully for the Hon. J. H. Bankhead for the next Congressman of the 6th Congressional District. - WARWICK Do the girls know that rings are going out of fashion? – [San Francisco Report] No, but the politicians and bosses are beginning to learn something of the kind. SALE OF LOTS By virtue of a mortgage executed in the undersigned by R. R. BAGLE and wife on the 23rd of August, 1886 to secure the sum of $500.00 due the 20th of August, 1886. I will sell for cash at Millport in Lamar county at the stat (sic) on house the following described lots situated in said place, to wit: Blocks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22,24, 26, 282, 60,33, 34,,37 39 and 40, and all blocks of lots numbered 39, 11, 21 and 31, lying west of lands owned by RANDOLPH in Section 23, Township 17, and Range 15 West, containing twenty-five acres of unsold lots, formerly the property of J. A. DARR, and of which the Georgia Pacific owns an undivided half interest, and situated in the town of Millport, Lamar County, Alabama embraced ins aid Mortgage to WM. V. EZELL, for cash to the highest bidder on Monday the 11th of October, 1886. Apply to D. C. HODO, Carrollton, Ala – WM. V. EZELL, Mortgagee THE ANTIQUITY OF MASSAGE At the recent festive gathering of the club called “Odd Volumes: one of the members gave a curious account of massage as a mode of treatment. It is certainly very popular at the present moment, and people want to hear something clear and definite about it. The gentleman assured his listeners that there was reason to think that massage had been known to the Chinese from time immemorial and it was dated that the process was fully described din a MSS. called “Kong Fun” the date of which was 3000 BC. The word itself was derived, according to some authorities from the Greek “massein,” to rub. While others referred it to the Arabic word “mass” to press softly. In a primitive form it was known both to the Greeks and the Romans, who resorted to it after a bath, a custom which prevails among the Orientals to the prevent day. After the struggles of the circus it was employed to dissipate the resulting contusions and extravagations, and to restore pliability to the bruised and stiffened joints. Among the Sandwich Islanders it is frequently practiced under the name of “lomi-lomi” and the process was fully described in the works of Emerson and Nordhoff. This, however, was a crude and primitive form, having very little in common with the elaborate scientific system now resorted to in this country. There was reason to think that the true massage was used in France in the early part of this century, an opinion that was to some extent confirmed by the fact that all the terms employed to designate the various branches of the art were French in origin. The literature of massage was now very extensive, and during the last en years over 100 works had appeared on the subject. – [Court Journal] CITY CATS HUNGRY FOR CATNIP A thin, prim, little elderly woman, with her arms full of white and yellow daisies, and a big bundle of green leaves dangling by a string from her wrist, went down a quiet street ahead of me one evening. The dust of country roads was on her skirt and she walked wearily. She was followed by a dozen cats, at least, tramp and vagabond felines that trotted along with waving tails, sniffing at the bundle of leaves, one of the boldest even trying to reach tem with its teeth. The little woman finally halted and cast a couple of handfuls of the leaves to her followers. Immediately they began to devour them, to play with them or roll over them, while she went on. “It’s catnip” she explained to me, who had stopped to watch the performance. “I always bring some home for my cats when I go to the country, and the poor things smell it as I pass by. They’d follow me all the way home if I didn’t give them some. Look at that old black tom. He won’t leave me till I go into the house. He was following her when she passed from my sight. – [Alfred Trumble in New York News] WHERE OUR SENATORS WERE BORN Out of a total of seventy-six senators thirty-four have been born in the states they represent. All the New England senators have been born in their respective states, with the exception of Chase, of Rhode Island, and Haley, of Connecticut, the latter having made a jump from North Carolina. Only one New York senator, Miller, was born in the Empire State. Evarts having first seen light in Boston, mass. Both of the senators from Maryland, from Pennsylvania, South Carolina, North Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee were born in the states they represent. The remaining senators that are certified representatives of the states that gave them birth are Blackburn, Corkrell, Colquitt, Curtis, Logan, Palmer, and Sherman – [Philadelphia Times] SENSATIONS OF VISION Sensations of vision require a definite time of exposure of the retina, which time Mr. J. M. Cattell of the University of Leipsie finds to be considerably dependent on the nature of the object and the intensity of the light. It varies with the several colors. Orange gives the quickest impression of the eye and yellow closely follows it; then comes blue, red, and green; while the retina is least sensitive to violet light time, which is from two to three times as long as for orange. B lamplight the eye works more slowly than by daylight and the longer of perceiving colors is changed to orange, red, yellow, violet, and blue. – [Chicago News] FLIPPING THE TOAD Flipping the toad was formerly a common and cruel diversion for boys in England. They placed a board, two or three feet long, at right angles over a transverse piece two or three inches thick, and then after placing the toad at one end of the board, the other end was truck by a bat or large stick, which threw the poor toad forty or fifty feet perpendicularly from the earth, and the fall generally killed it. – [Boston Budget] THE PERSIAN HOUSE OF LORDS The Prussian House of Lords numbers nominally 313 members, ninety-seven of whom are hereditary, while 216 are appointed for life. However, while thirty- four Prussian cities are entitled to seats in the House, some of them practically never avail themselves of the privilege. Thus Konigsberg has been without a representative for nearly twelve years – [Detroit Free Press] AUTOGRAPHS OF CONGRESSMEN The pages of the National House of Representatives conduct a fair business procuring the autographs of members. They charge the autograph hunter $10 for the signature of the whole house. In the Senate the charge is only $5 because of the fewer members – [Washington Letter] AS IN THE TOWER OF BABEL The great Tower of Babel is being gutted by the Arabs, who dig its brick for building purposes. It is the quarry of Hillah, but is not fruitful of antiquities. – [Library Magazine] Ad for Peruna THE VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, Under the Principalship of J. R. BLACK, will open October 5, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of Tuition as follows: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Composition, and U. S. History; per month $2.00 ADVANCED: Embracing Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, and Latin, per month $3.00 Incidental fee 20 cts, per quarter. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention given to those who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7 per month. Tuition due at the end of each quarter. For further information, address: J. R. BLACK, Principal, Vernon, Ala State Normal School. Florence, Alabama. T. J. MITCHELL, A. M. President. Established by the State for the purpose of training Teachers, Male and Female. Graduater teaches in the Public Schools without further examination. The Course of study embraces all of the branches ------ taught in high schools and colleges. TUITION To normal pupils Free To other pupils, per session $7 to $12 Incidental fee to all $2.00 Music, per session $5 to $10 Board, per Month $10 to $12 President Mitchell is a distinguished Normal an institute worker. The single success of all his institutes, as well as the strong endorsements Dr. Curry and others, mark him as peculiarly fitted for the place. Fall term opens Sept 6, ’86. For further particulars apply to the President, or to Robert McFarland, President of the Board of Directors. Ad for Marriage Guide Ad for Extra Light Draft Two Mule Sulky Plow – The Bluegrass. (picture of plow) Ad for Avery Sewing Machine (picture of Sewing Machine) Ad for New Home Sewing Machine (picture of sewing machine) Ad for Collins Ague Cure Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ (picture of Organ) PAGE 4 FOR THE FARM AND HOME SAVE YOUR ASHES An Indiana farmer says: A ton of wood ashes contains a larger proportion of mineral matter than many may suppose. Every 100 pounds of wood ashes contain at least seven pounds of pure potash and thirty-two pounds of lime in the very best possible condition for the soil. It is deficient in nothing but nitrogen, which substance is lost during the combustion. There are about two pounds of phosphoric ashes in wood ashes, in the shape of a finely powdered phosphate of line, and soda is also present as well as over four pounds of magnesia. In making this estimate, I will state that the correctness of the figures depends partly upon the kind of wood from which the ashes are derived, but are as near the exact proportions as cab be estimated. If I estimate for a ton, I find 640 pounds of line, 140 pounds of potash, 80 pounds magnesia, and 40 pounds phosphoric acid, making the ashes far more valuable than some commercial fertilizers. Corn cobs contain about 25 per cent of potash, or 500 pounds of potash per ton of ash, and they should therefore, be carefully saved. MANURING VINES IN THE HILL There is sound reason in the old practice of putting a shovelful of manure in the hills for melons and cucumbers. The manure should be finely rotted and thoroughly mixed with the soil. If left in a heap it will firefange in a dry season and do more harm than good. If it is to be mixed with the soil why not have the manure distributed through the whole surface? One reason against this is not generally appreciated. What we want on vines in not merely exuberant foliage but fruit. If length of vine only were desired, make all the ground a bed of manure. When the manure is concentrated in a hill, as soon as vine roots reach poorer soil outside their growth is checked and the energies of the vine are turned to producing fruit. This is one reason why the best and earliest melons are grown on sandy soil, which is nearly always sterile unless recently manured. In a very dry season lack of moisture checks the exuberance of the vines, so that good crops are grown on the richest land. But with plenty of moisture vines often grow and grow, without proportionate show of fruit, and the better the soil the greater danger from this evil. – [Cultivator] IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF SEED CORN A bulletin from Dr. Sturtevant reports that trials made with the kiln drying of seed corn resulted, as similar trials have previously done, increasing greatly its value and certainty for seed purposes. These trials have also indicated the greater vigor of the plant which is grown from the kiln dried seed. Dr. Sturdevant feels, therefore, justified in advising farmers to select their seed corn by taking the best ears, and, after shelling it, to put it in a warmer place and allow it to thoroughly dry before using. Seed corn when planted too early is often destroyed in the ground. This destruction does not come from the cold, as often assumed, but from other conditions, the most important of which is the slow germination of the seed and a vitality which cannot endure this circumstance, and also the action of mould, which grows rapidly at a lower temperature than will suffice for the corn. It, therefore, holds good in practice that to those who plant early and the very best of seed is of great importance, and what adds value to this reflection is that early planted corn will usually yield a larger crop than will the same variety planted at a late period. - {New York Word] PARIS GREEN FOR CODLING WORM It has now been several years since we have used Paris green for spraying bearing apple trees early in summer for destroying the codling worm with marked success. The last report of the New York Experiment Station reports, with the additional accuracy of counting the trials made with this poison on several trees, alternate trees being left unsprayed to observe the difference. Some thousands in all of the apples were counted, and it was found that on the sprayed trees the average per cent of wormy specimens was thirteen and a half, and on the unsprayed trees thirty-five per cent. It appears that only one effective spaying was given, the first having been done with an imperfect instrument. The fruit was about the size of cherries when the work was performed. We prefer at least three good sprayings. The operation may have deterred to some extent the moths from laying their eggs, and, being used on adjacent trees, many have driven them from all alike to other orchards. Whatever may have been the cause, we have found a much larger proportion of wormy specimens in orchards where no spraying was given. Spraying with kerosene emulsion did not good. At the rate saved by the Paris green, one hundred barrels picked from the sprayed trees would have given twenty-two barrels more of sound fruit than unsprayed ones. – [Country Gentleman] PRESERVING FODDER Mr. L. T. Hazen, Hazen’s Mills, N. H., informs the New England Farmer that he has been very successful in putting in and keeping corn ensilage for his large heard of dairy stock, some 120 in number, fed for butter-making. His figures and estimates show about 500 tons of green corn grown last year, 350 of which was put in the silo, the remainder being fed in the fall while in the fresh state. The total cost of the ensilage put into the silo and weighted down was a fraction less than 70 cents per ton. He has fed ensilage in connection with dry fodder, about half of each, the dry fodder being half hay and half green oats cured for hay. For this crop the seed was sown at the rate of five bushels of oats per acre, giving a fine soft quality of fodder, fully equal to ordinary hay. A larger silo will be built the present season, the supply of ensilage having been exhausted some weeks ago. The relative value of the ensilage having been exhausted some weeks ago. The relative value of ensilage, as compared to dry fodder, was illustrated by the yield of butter before and after the change was made to dry feed. The ensilage was exhausted at the end of a week. Monday and Wednesday following, five good Jerseys were added to the herd of fifty-six which were in milk, but notwithstanding this increase of the herd, the butter yield fell off twelve pounds the first week. While the ensilage lasted, it saved the feeding of 150 tons of hay, which in Mr. Hazen’s locality is worth $12 per ton, or $1,800. He filled his silo slowly, let the contents acquire a high degree of heat, and thinks he has as good a quality of ensilage as he has ever seen. Before building his silo he bought and read all the best authorities on ensilage. GRAFTING TREES A statement was recently made in these columns that the American Pomological Society since its organization had ruled out some six hundred varieties of fruit as being unworthy of a place in the list of fruits desirable for cultivation. The list might be reduced still more, but the unprofitable trees would still remain to bear occasional crops of inferior fruit, unless tree owners saw fit to abide by the judgment of the fruit committee, and improve their trees be regrafting to better varieties. Time and money may be wasted or foolishly spent in grafting old trees. It is often better to cut down or dig out and begin anew on fresh land and with young trees of the most desirable sorts. But there are many young healthy trees recently come into bearing which are not true to the name given them by the nurserymen or their agents, and which it may pay to graft over to better varieties. Any thrifty, vigorous tree that it s not too large will pay for grafting if the present variety is unworthy of cultivation, and the tree is wanted at all. Our advice is to dig out every worthless old fruit tree on the farm or in the garden, and convert it into firewood. If allowed to stand it is sure to make a breeding ground for injurious insects whose progeny will prey upon the fruits of better trees. In these days of harmful insects, never let a tree stand because it is not thought worth cutting down. It is worth destroying, if for no other object than to check the increase of borers, caterpillars and other creeping and flying things. Having cleaned out everything not worthy of keeping than graft the inferior varieties to the best kinds known. Grafting is a very simple operation for any [person with mechanical ingenuity enough to whittle a cider tap that will fill a smooth, round hole, or who can sharpen a jack-knife to a good edge. The tools needed are a fine saw, a strong knife and hammer for splitting the stock, a keen-edged knife for shaping the cions, and some grafting wax for covering the cut surfaces to keep out air and water till the parts have had time to unite and heal over. For wax there is probably nothing better than that recently recommended by Dr. Shurtleff, the formula being 4 1-2 pounds white resin, one pound pure beeswax and one pint linseed oil, all to be melted together, and after cooling in cold water, to be worked to a uniform consistency. – [N. E. Farmer] HOUSEHOLD HINTS If meat bakes to fast cover with buttered paper. Unslacked lime near meat preserves it by keeping the air dry. A cup of strong coffee will remove the odor of onions from the breath. Ham dries less quickly if it remains in the water in which it is boiled until cold. Parboil old potatoes, putting them on in their skins in salted boiling water for ten minutes, and then finish them by baking in a hot oven for ten minutes more, or until they show mealy when one is broken apart. RECIPES BREAKFAST ROLLS WITHOUT SODA – Two eggs, 1 ½ cupfuls of sweet milk, a teaspoonful of salt, and flour enough to make a thick butter. These must be baked in an iron gem pan to be a success, and a quick oven is desirable. BEEF SOUP – Take a shank of beef with plenty of beef upon it, put over in cold water, and boil five or six hours the day before using. The next day skim off the grease, put the jelly in soup kettle, and one hour before serving add turnips, carrots, onions, cabbage and potatoes, chopped fine, in quantity desired; a few tomatoes and a little celery improve it. Season with salt and pepper, and drop in a few noodles. HENS AND HUMORISTS A certain chord of sympathy exists between these two species, the hen and the humorist. Columns of laughable articles have been written by the latter upon the former’s prediction to produce on a falling market, and stop the production when the price of her commodity was going up. But beneath the wit and sarcasm the observing reader will have noted a strong undercurrent of admiration on the part of the humorist for the sagacity of the American hen in endeavoring to bull or bear the market as she saw fit. Then, again, when her attempts at hatching out doorknobs, firebrick, and brownstone fronts have been referred to, there is the same undertone indicative of the writer’s respect for the patience of that hen. That humorists love hen there is no doubt. Now there is George Peck, for example. For years he has devoted the best of his genius to his Henery, and he carries his love so far that he will never taste chicken soup until he has been assured that the fowl of which it is composed was a member of the masculine persuasion. Bob Burdette is superstitious in the matter of hens. To see a pure white hen, acts like inspiration upon Bob, and it is said that” The Rise and Fall of the Mustache” was evolved on that day when a white hen strayed into his kitchen. A jet black rooster is his Nemesis, and no power on earth could make him start on a journey or ascend the platform the day he has passed done with hits head pointed toward him. Even rough Bill Nye is the everlasting friend of the hen. He owes his start in life to a pair of barnyard fowls whom he caught scratching up his garden “sass.” This made Bill mad. Swearing a plaintive swear, and seizing his double-barreled persuader, he got a bead on then. But ere he fired his educated eye caught the glimpse of something bright. Approaching the spot he discovered that the fowls had laid bare a soil laden with god dust. Now, any one wishing a through ticket to eternity by the wild Western humor router had better speak disparagingly of the hen in the presence of Bill Nye. G. Whitaker, it is said, saves all the tid-bits from his table for superannuated hen which has made her home in his back yard. Mark Twain points with pride to the portrait of a hen, now dead, which he captured in the act of scratching up the resting place of seven sleepers. And I have accidentally overheard that a certain Philadelphia humorist has the call on this brethern with a pet hen which sleeps on the headboard of his bed, and will never go to roost until its master has come home. We admire while we pity that hen. These and many more cases that could be cited, prove the assertion that humorists love hens. Now let us see what there is in common between them. A hen is very tender and freshly when first hatched. So is the humorist; but they both become hardened and toughened with age and experience. Hens scratch for their living; where is the humorist who has not had to scratch mighty hard at that? The hen pecks; the humorist is very often henpecked. A hen watches over her brood with a mother’s eye. A humorist with fatherly pride, watches his young as they are wafted about through the columns of friendly publications, and it makes him sad and wary to see one of this most promising creations passed off as original by the Grab-all Gazette. The hen cackles when she has laid an egg. The humorist cries out in ecstasy when he has written an article which meets with public favor. Whereas hens lay, humorists lie. Whoever has read the writings of Eli Perkins will bear the writer out in this statement. Finally hens die unregretted, and their memory is shrouded in oblivion. Ha snot this been the case in a great many instances with the humorist? - [Chicago Ledger] GRAPE AND CANISTER Open-air concerts – played out. Kitchen scene – a maid, a can, the fire of kero-sene. Go to the bottom of the well and bore up, and you will know the end from the beginning. The dog has better sense than the man. When they both go into the saloon together, he comes out as rich and as sober as he went in. We have figured out clearly that we have saved enough by not using tobacco to pay our debts, but we cannot draw the money and don’t know where it is. The anarchists claim the right to take what they need. The most of them need a bath first of all. Lawyers are employed to settle disputes, or dispute settlements. A plug of tobacco turned aside the bullet aimed to destroy a man’s life. Has this fact a moral? Two things never eaten for supper – breakfast and dinner. How to raise a cyclone: No married men need telling and no other should be told. There are a few things which only the married should know. A correspondent inquires if freckles are cured by kissing. We’d raise no objection to a trial if some girl will bring the freckles – none in our family. The season of circuses has come again, and the small boy stands on his head and wonders when he will become a festive circusman. “What breed did you say your dog is, little boy?” “He’s part terrier and part setter.” “How’d that” “Why, he tears around for bones and sets to gnaw then.” The latest craze among window gardeners favors the pansy. By and by it will be buckwheat cakes and honey. CONDENSED WISDOM IN B – Poem During a visit to the seaside, Sarah Bernhardt saw a madwoman daily casting pieces of bread upon the waves. The poor creature explained that she was feeding the fishes so that they would not in their hunger devour the body of her son, who had been drowned at sea. The actress made a note of the case, and has now illustrated it to a marble group. Double the world’s pleasures and “thank You “ is often forgotten, but attempt a division of your sorrows with it, and the world will get not in a second – make a fool of itself and you too. 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