Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' The ancestral home of the Washing ton family in Northamptonshire, Eng land, is to be sold. The estate contains 220 acres, and was granted to Lawrence Washington in lota. His son, Law rence, emigrated to Virginia, and was General George Washington's ancestor. It is alleged that recently in Nagpore, India, a boy of sixteen was offered a sacrifice to the gods, in a< cordance with a superstition that human sacrifices caused a bountiful harvest. The head was severed from tbo bid/ and offered to a goddess, while the body w\is ten dered to a god. Pasteur, the hydrophobia specialist, is known as “C'anicide the First’’ in Paris just now, her,nine his recommenda tions inspired the Prefect of the Police to make strict regulations about dogs All the animals must be held by a string while on the street, and wandering canines are promptly impounded and suffocated with coal gas. Shah The railway from Teheran to Abdul-Azim has bee i opened in pres ence of the Persian authorities and amid a great concourse of people. The en thusiasm was indescribable. The work ing of the line war commenced imme diately. The line wais constructed and is worked by a llelgiau company. Pail- roads had until recently been a novelty in Persia. Railroad men say that lightning occa sionally strikes locomotives when they run through thunder stouns, but it hoe never been known to liann them or the I hcir cubs. The electricity thim reads all over the engine, run- p.' wheels and along the tracks -^.leaves the machinery. ,The impressiStis that Cl# locomotives are lightniugflBchcrs and ntlra t tire bolts at oth> rwjA might *^t,e cars. iH^pi es o&locu- to tli*V-4eriir,’\ ac- ieagO .V> rj^havc tjeen lie Printir by mem- .far threap o men out a ning o’ when INDIAN NATION. A GLIMPSE AT LIFE ON THE RED MAN'S RESERVATION. Through Forests anil Jungles that Swarm with Chickasaws and Seminole*—A Territorial Deputy Marshal. A New York Sun correspondent re cently accepted the invitation of Colonel Lliai iioud not, the most famous of all the Indian Teriitory's c li ens, to drive hun as lar into the country as a iourney by daylight would take him. Colonel IJcudinot is nn Indian. His lather war one of the iriginal < hcrokces w ho wee transported to the Territory in President Ja kson s time, when that usually wise old patriot said they would be undis turbed while grass grew and water ran. The Colonel’s mother was a New Eng land woman. His father was massacred whde the Colonel was a boy. The Colonel ordered a team harnc-sed up, a- d diove through the town to the Poteau River. On its near bank he »P ‘ tend a shrill trousers stepped out of the biush on the further bank, leaped into a scow that rested on the mud. and, catching hold of a rope stretched across the river, nulled the fiat boat o er in front of the noofs of the Colonel’s horses. They were driven on the boat, and it was pulled over into the Territory. Then began a never-to-be-forgotten ride. Thesod was black bottom land between the Aikan- sas and Poteau, richer than we know of on the Atlantic Coast. The air was laden with the odor of the wild grape and the scent of a thousand wild flowers. It was filled with flying feathers, like snowl'akts, from the cottonwood tiecs that reared their immense trunks on every side. Scattered among these forest giants were hackberry, pecan, walnut and willow trees, and the road was em bowered by them. In the blue sky over the open fieldr groat buz/.ards flew in lazy circles, and among the boughs were a myriad of songbirds. The wild grape vines hung in loops as thick as a man’s arm from the lowest boughs of the trees, flowers blossomed by the roadside, and the foliage and brush were wondrously find that full-breed Indian boy« who rould not understand any English could read it by the page and entirely correct ly. But the race is fading. Worthless and greedy white men sec the chance the Territory offers. Here is rich land that pays no taxes to be had for the marrying of an Indian girl, and they seize the chance to get it.” • ne delightful adventure awaited the colonel and his charge on the journey. The Arkansas was to be crossed. It wa» c.catly swollen and running rapidly. The bank was rea hed at the ferry by Colonel Watts’s house. No rope could l;c used there becauee steamboats navi-I gate the stream. The t’atboat with it* ( bent rods of iron at the side, curving | over a rude fencing or narrow boards, was seen moored in the mud a quarter of a mile aw ay on the farther shore. Again -r'L V -V. ."frV clspi )ed one hand to his mouth and ut cry A man in shirt and /ML. More tlilp^i \ milli flrents relating cording t" tin ordered of thr bers of Congrcs that number a _ copies <#the Pres^^it's UM'd fo lion ear. and mil'll f are mess:i^^ to be jtnip.nn gn^p i es hjp^emo epnlilieaus alikii. The rest lolivcifiWav variout^&rn- | JWhw irinrcii times'the hum I ber ever ordered before during a single I session. crats an are spece: The condition < f the slave trade h Africa may be estimat’d wh .1 it i learned that Cardinal 1 avigirio, Audi bishop of Algiers and Carthige. In- felt it to be his duty to go to Europe to d<’ nounce its continuation. lie ha. la el delivered most impa doned li n an . tie.- from the pulpit of t. Suljure. Pars He says that the evt Jcncc is tliat t 000 alavcs are annually su'd <n tl African shores, and that, taking ut' account those kille I in eapt irtng th n and the death* from barbarous Hea ment, the slave trade counts 2,00 kOv’t victims every year. The Queen of Sweden, who is afflicted with nerves, has beeu ordered by her physicians to rise early, make her own bed and sweep and dust her room. The Bwedish mrdh al profession may be lack ing in science, observes the Chicago HertiUI, but it is certainly not deficient in good sense. The woman who gets up nnd makes the fire, hustles around and gets breakfii't is seldom neivous. while his sweet and ' slumber during her matutinal activity tends to jinujerve the nerves of her hti-diuad. The trouble from insect pests, says the Norristown Jlnhl, is due in part at lca-t to the destruction of the fnredsand the consequent diminution in the num- lier of insectivorous birds. What re main are too often the prey of thought less men and hoys, who seour every grove and orchard in pursuit of their hapless victims. Something has been done in the way of UgUktion to cheek the destruction of such birds, but these laws are enforced very feebly. More stringent measures should he adopted. ■v Two clans of families in the Pre fecture of Yung-How, iu Hunan, ( hina, recently fought for the |>os-esaion of a certain hill, ami twenty-seven were killed. The government thought stu b a proceeding irregular, nnd .sentenced the leader of the victorious par y and fourteen of his followers, with the one <>l the defeated who fired the first shot, to decapitation. Several members of the two qlaas, who took no active part in the row, but encouraged it, were sen tenced to receive one hundred blows each, and the elders of both families were sentenced to eighty blows each, on general principles, for not having pre rented the fight. The fantastic talc that young Emperor William’s hatred of England, and every thing English, espet Lilly his mother, is inspired by an English doctor's respon sibility for his withered arm, is brushed aside by a writer in London Truth, who says: “The left arm is not de formed, but w ithered, or rather dwarfed; the nerves which vitalize it were sub jected to great and prolonged pressure duriag birth, so that their conducting power was destroyed. Hence the mus cles of the arm were paralyzed, and be came waster! from want of use, and the limb did not grow with the rest of the body. The responsibility of this rests with the German doctors who officiated on the occasion, a fact which partly ex plains the Emperor Victoria’s distrust of native talent. .“he insisted on Hr. a choctawc’Aiuy. green The mud of the road was black, and the horses disturbed many of tho razor backed pigs and hogs that seemed ns common and wild as the birds and tho trees. Presently cultivated fields came in view. They were cotton plantations, with the young plants in close tows, and suggesting garden beans in appearance. Tho fields were always on the left hand side, the Arkansas River on the right, gleaming through the forest and jungle between it and the road. At times the passengers saw cabins on the wooded side - the most crazy, gaping, shabby, tumble down places imaginable. One of them had a wooden chimney,and, in spite of that, the smoke of the house hold tire was pouring out of the door. Each time a cabin was seen the reporter asked the Colonel who lived in it. These were his answers; 0/, at least, a few of them: “A squatter, poor white;” “a negro family, with a lot of children that make a dollar or two a day in the cotton picking season;’’ “an Irishman, farm hand for some one who leaser one of these bottom farms;” “a vagrant colored family.” By and by a tidy cabin, characteristie of the Arkansas country on the other side of the river was passed, then another, and then another. “Those ire the houses of men who work these fat ms. Borne lease the farms and others are hired by the lewees.” Miles were passed in this way. At one time a tent was seen on the river bank. “That is a fisherman’s home,” said the Colonel. Again people began fo be passed on the road, men and women on horseback joing toward or coming fiom Fort •mith. They were white people. “For goodness’ sake I” we exclaimed, "are there no Indians in Indian Terri tory ?” “Not so very many,” the Colonel re plied. “I think 1 see an Indian’s house over there aeioss the river. ’Iherc are Indian houses every here and there, thi*ighjiist here this ftoftom land is so valuable that the whites are even more lumcious than elsewhere. In the good IS CRossrso the Arkansas. the colonel clapped a hand to his mouth and shouted. Again a man dived out of the brush to the deck of the fiatboat. Another followed him. Tho two poled the big boat off and then polled it slowly up the stn am in the direction tho sw ift current was flowing. They kept close to the shore, so as to avoid the worst of the current. It was a bla/ing 1 hot day and the labor required was ex- I ccssive. I’p the stream the fiatboat was poled, and then it was pushed out into the current. Great oars made of w hole boards were seized, and the two men towed with dc<pcratc force and energy. They miscalculated the swiftness of the current, and landed a quarter of a in do from the colonel’s team. “What are they going to charge for all this?” the reporter asked. “A quarter.” the colonel replied, that’s the fare.” “Allow me to pay it,”said tha re porter. “I have never hud $10 worth fora quarter, and want to realize how it feels.” “You have not seen the worst,” the colonel replied. “We have not started yet, and when we get over the river we have got to come back." The boatmen poled tediously up to the bar, in front of which the carriage was standing, and with great effort got the lx>at in position to receive its freight. “Now Bill,” said the chief ferryman, “let’s get out and th? biwf down sUrMfcwwway* till we think she'll fettfh about right on the other shore.” Bill did not get out. He was an odd hand, and had an air of neatness the way he wore and kept bis rough clothes that stamped him as “above his business.” The ferryman lcai>ed into the river, put the drag rope over one shoulder, bent over, leaned one hand on the end of the boat, and toiled along. Rill poled be hind. Both did more and harder work getting that fiatboat down the atrcain brought about a condition in which the whiter do the work and take a large share of the profit and give the Indians the rest. I'ndct the law no Indian can sell or rent his property, but he evades the law very easily. He turns Irs prop erty over to a white man by pretending to hire him as a farm laborer. Tho •white man, to all intents and purposes, becomes the farmer and manages the farm, and yet is registered under the Indian law as a mere farm hand hired by the land holder. The plan of renting is called the third and fourth system, the | white tnau paying the Indian one-third of the yield of corn or a fourth of iire ; yield of cotton. “This evadun of the 1 tw that brings j whites in to operate the farms, the in- ! termarriageof whites among the Indians j by which the whites become entitled to a full citizen’s share of the laud as if J they were Indians.are all weakening the Indian hold upon his own territory, and , tending to bring the present system to ; an end. What thenf That is a serious j and peculiar question. An evil of great j magnitudes has lieen allowed to gp'W up in the Territory. Enterprising In dians, half-creeds, and whites who got full rights by m crying squaws, have done what you or 1 would do under the law—accumulated large, holdings. Many, have eight thousand to ten thousand even twenty thousand acres in their slattns. Tho law says that a man be longing to any of the nations may pre empt a quartet of a mile around his sabin. The enterprising man takes tnat quarter of a mile, goes a quatter of a mile lurther on and takesanother claim, FARM AND GARDEN. Ettractins Honey. I have beqp a careful observer and find that when bees are at work best inboxes there will be s arcely a pound of honey in the body of the hive, if the hive ins the right size of brood chamber, which is one having a capacity of about 1503 cubic inches. If a hive holding 2200 cubic inches is used, as was formerly rec ommended. of course some honey will be stored in the brood chamber, but not. to crowd the queen of any account during the earlv honey harvest, but later on they muv. Even with this size of hive I would think it a doubtful experiment to use the extractor on the Combs below, and believe that if any one expects to get a large yield of comb honey and use the extractor on the brood combs at the same time, they will not iodize their ex pectations. After the bees get thoroughly at work in the boxes let the brood combs alone, ami you need have no fears of the queen’s being crowded. If honey accu mulates in the comb before the bees get fairly in the boxes, have no fears, for as soon as they get to work in the boxes they will carry it up into the sections, and make abundant room for the queen. Tor instance, I have repeatedly hived swarms on nine Gallup frames well tilled - , with honey, all rapped over, putting on " the boxes at once, and in from fourteen to eighteen days (if honey is to be had in the fields) had every bit of it put in tho boxes. — (J. M. Doolittle, in Rural Home. The level with the surface. the soil firmlv leaves stand great point is to press v around the roots and not merely around the upper part of the stem. A good man ought to set out two acres a day. But, of course, much depends on the condi tion of the land. On thoroughly pre- l>ared, mellow, moist soil, it is easier to set out two acres, than half an acre on dry, lumpy, hard land. it is a good plan before setting out the plants, to drop a tablespooaful of com- qaercial fertilizer or handful of pulver ized hen manure where each plant is to be set. The after management of the crop con sists merely in keeping the land clean and mellow by constant use of tbe cul tivator and hoe. Simple as this is, it is where many cabbage growers fail. In two 01 three days after the cabbage plants are set out. it is well to run a cul tivator between the tows, and follow with a hoe and break the crust round the wilted plants and draw a little fine fresh ?oil loundthem. If any of the plants are deail, set out others in the r place. In two or three days cultivate again, and keep on cultivating until the cab- bage leaves cover the ground. It is one af the great secrets of success. Ashes thrown upon the plants will keep off tho most common insect enemy.—Farm, | Field srid Stockm m. ; THE HAPPY farmer. At last, at last, the evening shadow’) And wearily but happily I Lie 1 While in my heart I hear the wt>!c That bids me from the hit hearthside come. O parting day, tliat brings the j O dusky sha le, when higher lights j I weleomo thee, w ith heart and carol fw I welcome thee, blest hour, when (oiel h welcome me! How lolteringly the burning day goetl How heavily the hours impose their ' of pain! But comes at length the lenient eve To bend with rest- an I coolne throbbing brain. O tender eve, that bring’st from toil lease! O holy night, with broo ling wingvof p I hail thy sha le, that ho:n.-war.| becko I welcotn v thee, blest hour, when fond | welcome me! —22. C, L, lit oivne. fa ttorton Tram UUMOR OF THE DAY. ft A > A) lv» A Gream presiding at all subsequent cerc- monies of the same kind, and outraged j often their parents send othe._ L„ Teutons have never forgiven\jher (or this jndian is a quick and an apt scholar. AN INDIAN WOMAN. fanning country along the railroads and in tho villages the conditions are about as you sec them hetc. The whites work the Indian lands cither because they have married Indians, or are lessees, or are hired hands. The pure Indians, who do not take kindly to education or labor, or intermarriage with the whites, arc to be found in the interior living by them selves in the woods and up tho crceka. ” During tho long ride the only Indians who were seen were some lada on horse- la- k, and a man ami woman alsocn horseback, the latter with her baby on her knee. Tho reporter would never have known these were Indians had not the Colonel told him so. “In five out of seven cases," said the Colonel, “the educated young Ihdian eecs that land is the basis of wealth. He notes how high it is in the States, and how prosperous are those who till it wisely in the Territory. He flatms a piece, gets some stock and a nice horse or two, and marries an Indian girl who has been to school in tbe States, or a white girl in St. Louri, Little Rock, or some other p'ace Tho Indians have good schools, nnd from these schools the smartest boys and girls are sent to in stitutions for learning in tho Btatca. r». The I*' affront to German “science.” j When I taught school I was amazed to AM. FOR TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. than all the ferry hands in New York performed tliat day, all put together. Finally the ferryman leaped aboatd and poled tbe boat out into the stream. Then both seized their oars, the great scow shot up the stream, and they in clined its course toward the further shore. When the landing was made the entire operation had consumed just half an hour. On the way back there was a sound of crunching sticks and pattering hoofs, and suddenly into full vx<w around a turn in the road came a deputy marshal in full regalia. Great rose spurs were upon his boot heels. A belt of < artridees encircled his waist, with its holster showing the butt of a big Colt’s revolver. A carbine was swung, stock upward, on one side of the horse's neck, and near it hung the coiled lariat of a cowboy. He was one of the thirty or forty deputies in the em ploy of the court, and was bound to make an arrest. Thetc are 2 '.OOO Cherokee’, 5000 Choc taws, 500U t hickasaw-, and from 2”00 to 3000 Seminoles in the Territory. The Creeks number 8000 to 111,tJOO souls, but it is thought about half ot these are negroes. Owing to prejudice among the ( hcrokces and Choctaws there are fewer negroes in those nations. The Territory has more railroads than any who have not studied the subject would believe. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas, part of Gould’s Missouri 1’acilie line, runs through the northeast corner, through the Cherokee Cri ck, Choctaw, and part of the ( hiekasaw Nation*. There is a fifty-mile bit of road from Fort Smith, Ark., to Moskogre in the Creek Nation, entirely traversing the Cherokee country. The Atlantic and I’aeific road has got the right of way, and has made its survey straight across the Territory. A branch of the Rock Island system crosses tho Territory, and a branch of the Southern Kansas route runs across the northeast corner. Diagonally across the State is projected the Dennison and Wa liita Valley road, part of the ’Fri co system. This last Congress has paistd hills giv ing the right of way to six or seven other toads. An official who has spent the best years of his life in dealing with tho crimes and the people of Indian Tern tory talked freely about tho condition of things there, lie said: “I he end of the present political con dition of the Indian Territory is not far off. I look for it within ten yeats. The ■ ailroads, the great number of white men, and the |>cculiar conditions exist ing there are ha-tening a solution of the problem. I find on talking with the principal men among the Indians that they agree with me. The railroade get no grant, but the employes are allowed to settle on the right of way. The towns aro full of white men without rights, and in such mimbeis as to be uudti- turbed, and to possess privileges that no one disputes. "The manner in which the soil is worked is most |ieculiar, and forms one of the greatest abuses and one of the strongest a cnciet for the overthrow of the Indian supremacy. The la t that the land is r ch and valuable, taken in conjunction with the fact tliat the In* A DEPl’TY MARSH At,, nnd so gets all the land that he could improve and till. There are large hold ings of this kind all through the Five Nations, and this condition will lie used to work a great injustice to the poor In dian, who has hot been so greedy. When the change comes and the land is divided it will not do to give these incu these thousands of acres, leaving little or none for the rest. They will not expect it. But suppose the plan that obtains when the Territory shall change this form should he tho wisest one. That would be to give every Indian (or white man possessing an Indian’s right by marriage 1 a home stead lot of lot) acres, and then to sell all the rest and create a fund, the inter est of which would go to support the Indian schools, the sick and the needy. These men who have been getting rich on large farms will, when that time comes, pick out the best parts of their farms and demand pay for the improve ments they have made 01 the rest. They will want as much money as there is in the whole fund coming from the sale o? the extra lands. They will rob the poor Indian of every dollar if they can. Tme friends of the Indian, of which .Iiideft Parker is one, foresee this juncture very plainly, and will make a hard fight against any such injustice being done. When the time comes they will argue that all that the present large holders will be entitled to shall be th • right to choose whichever 100 ncres of their pres ent holding they prefer to keep. It will be argued that they are not entitled to a cent for the improvements they hive made on the rest of the land, because it is fair to presume that they In e made the improvements in order to make money, and the profits .-hould satisfy them.” Proper Care of Farm Tools. The mam cause of failure of many farmer’, as well as of men in other pur suits, is simply bad management, or lather uo management ut all, having no matured plans ahead and using tools in ferior for the ivtrpose, doing twice the labor thi .t should be done to perform the job. How often we see men who work hard and constantly with their hands al ways behind and in hot water, work always driv ing them. Another great secret to nuo ess is the taking care of tools, keeping thrm well housed when not in use. 1 do not allow my wagons, plows, harrow*, cultivators, mowers, harvesters, s.jeders, etc., to lie out, even ovir Sunday or over night in catching and showery weather when it can be avoided. Machinery and farm utensils of every kind lying out from time to time and year to year is terrible manage ment. and thrift is impossible with all these leaks of care and cultivation, and these same men condemn their occupa tion and sliow a coolness toward their neighbor who succeeds without seem ing effort. To sum up, get tools suita ble for the work, keep them housed al ways, keep your wagons and machinery well oiled, watch closely the burrs and keep them up snugly. A safe way to prevent danger of burrs coming off and breaking ma hinery, I have found, is to upset slightly with a light riveting hammer every bolt to hold the burr snug in its place, and always keep tools in the field ready fo- these little emcrgenc es. j To have a set of harvest hands waiting while some one runs to the house or j barn to get a wrench or hammer Is costly . business. Whenever you see your har- ( ness giving way don’t wait until it breaks down in the field and stops team and hands. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.— Virginia Farm Journal. Cabbaee Growing. The growing of cabbage is fast passing from the truck gardener to the farmer, or rather, cabbages ate now labcd on so large a scale, that they may be called a farm crop as much as potatoes. As I md becomes more valuable near the large cities, the growing of cabbages will be more and more done by farmers. Al ready they aro shipped hundreds of miles by rail. Where winter cabbages are raised for market, the soft heads and outside leaves may be used for fodder for stork, so there ia no waste, l arge quantities are used every year for sour kraut. • Farm and Garden Notes. Bee that pigs in the pasture do not Fnre Water as a Tonic. A thin, tall man got up early the other morning at the fifth Avenue Hotel and coming downstairs ordeted two glasses cf water at the liqu d refreshment counter. The trained bartender ftniled, but handed out two largo glasses full of jmre cold water. The man smacked lus lips and said it was a healthful drink before breakfast, and one that he recom mended. “Youlook thin, sir?” “Ye*, I do. but if I had not drunk cold water before breakfast I might have been in my grave long ago. I am a phy sician, or rather wa* one before I retired, and have made a study of liquids. Water, drunk fieely before meals, has a very beneficial result, for it washe*away the mucous secreted during the intervals of repose. The membrane thus cleansed is in much better condition to receive food and convert it into soluble com pounds. In the morning the accumula tion of mucous is specially marked when the gastric walls are covered with a thick, tenacious layer. Now food entering the stomach at this time will become cov ered with th s tenacious coating, which for a time protects t from the action of gastric ferments and so retards digestion. Y’our man with a tubular eont acted stomach, with its puckered mucous lin ing and viscid contents, a normal condi tion in the morning before breakfast, ia not suitable to reieivc food. A glass of water washes out the stomach, giv>’8 tone, and prepaies the alimentary canal for the morning meal.”—New Yotk Mail and Ecvreu. Battle Between Eagles nnd Storks. A truly Homeric battle of birds is re ported to the Frankfurter Xeitun'j by an eye witness, in a letter from Sophia. “Early on Thursday morning,” he says, “we saw an unusually large number of eagles, probably about 200, taking their flight toward the mountains of the Jantra. A crowd of persons watched the spectacle, and the crowd greatly in creased a few hours later, when a num ber of storks, not fewer than 303, flew straight toward the regiment of eagles, evidently lient on war. In an instant cag es and storks were mingled in deadly affray. It was a feat ful combat. Every now and then a wounded or dead bird, stork or eagle, fell to the giottnd. The battle lasted for nearly an hour, when the two armies, apparently weary of fight, flew off in opposite directions. I poo a rough reckoning it was estimated that at least a third of the combatants fell in the severe struggle. The prefect sent some men up into the mountaii a to count the dead eagles and storks. Probably, as in many wars of unfeathered bipeds, the advantage lay on neither aide." Bnndsy-schools are increasing rapidly in tills country, bast year the American Burnley-school Union organized l?>02, d.au does not like to work, haa naturally | with «32« teachers and 51,13J scholar.*. Tree Borer*. A late bulletin issued from the Ohio Experiment Mation describes the round and flat headed apple tree boieri; gives a description of the beetles, the r habits and methods of propagating their spe- ees; also describes the well-known bark louse, concluding with the following ex tract, which we publish, as being equally efficacious in cheeking their ravages on the orange, tig, pea h. plum, etc. • Fortunately (says the writer) the in juries not only of both these borers, but also of the bark louse discussed, may be prevented by a s ngle, easily applied remedy. It consists simply in applying late in May or early in June, and again about three weeks later, a strong solu tion of soft soap, to wh ch has been added a little crude carbolic acid. This mixture may be conveniently made by mixing one quart of soft soap or about a pound of hard with two gallons of water, heating to boiling, amt then adding a pint of crude carbolic acid. The solu tion should be thoroughly applied (a scrub brush is excellent for the purpose) to the trunk and larger I ranches of the tree. If the bark of the tree is e*peeial- ly rough it should be scraped before the wash is applied, and the soil should be smoothed down about the base of the trunk, so that there will be no cracks for the insects to enter to deposit their eggs. Of course the obje t of this application is to prevent the laying of the eggs from which the grubs hatch. As aii addi tional precaution it is well to examine the trees during the late summer and early nutiimti months for eggs and young grulis, which are readily detected, and <aii be easily destroyed with a knife. In this w ay one man can go over an orchard of 5111 > or more young trees in a day. The soap and carbolic acid w ish can also be sue essfully used in freeing trees infested with the apple tree bark Ions.', w hose presence is detec ted by the pres ence of minute oyster diell shaped scales on the bark of the limbs. If one of these scales be raised early in spring there will lie found beneath it a ma s of yellowish or whitish eggs, which hatch about the middle of May into small lice, which appear ai mere specks to the naked eye. These move about over the bark a few days, when they fix them selves upon it, inserting the r tiny beaks far enough to rea h the sap. Here they continue to increase in size, and by the en;l of the season have secreted scaly coverings. As lias been ment oned a'mve the soap wash recommended for the pre ventiou cf borers also effectually de stroys this pest. The mode-and time of application for the two kinds of insects is the *ame. It is the custom for some of the most successful strawberry growcis to turn tiie vines under ns soon as the crop is harvested, and set out cabbage plants. The favorite vareties and the time of p anting vary considetahly in diffno 1 sections. I'rcmiuni Flat luitcli. Bridge port, lot tier s. and Short-rein Drum le ad are largely planted in this section. Tne usual time of planting these vani ties for Lite fall and winter me, rang':! from the 20th of June until tho lllthol July. Much, however, defends on tin land and season. When the soil and preparation are all that could be desired, these varieties can be frequently planted until the 20th of July, and occasionally until the 1st of August. In raising eatffiages as a farm crop, you can use the land from which you hav< lakea a crop of early potatoes or rye, it made rich by the free use of manure. We know one grower who puts them on land from which he has taken stiaw- lierries; tho fertilizer ho uses is forty loads of barn-yard manure and seventy- live bushels of wood ashes to the acie. For late fall or winter cabbages, the p’ants are set in rows three feet apart each way. This requires 4810 plant* for •Hi acre. Tbe lar d is marked out yrlth a comm n marker both ways, th ''vpts arc dropped where the two r,ix- niid u careful man set* them our',, are set deep enough to that t ' fl* lack water. “Dig early potatoes as soon as ripe” is the usual rule. A vicious Indl without horns is still S dangerous creature. ' Beware how you get Into debt. It is not so easy to get out of it. Clean) out and inspect sheep's feet to discover if rot is beginning. Fruit should be fu ly ripe and not in the least decayed when eaten. An old farmer says- “Don't have the eggs all in one basket.” Diversified farming is what pays. A crushed tomato leaf rubbed tip >h the part stung is now recommended as a remedy for a bee sting. The returns now show a total of 2,815,000 hogs packed iu the West since March 1st, against 2,825,000 W year ago. "Stand by tho sheep,” urges Rural Home. A sheep comes up every six months aud pays its bills; it does not die in debt. The report of the Ohio Experimental Station is that whole potatoes have in vrfriably given better results than cut ones. According to Professor II. C. Fci nald, the borer in quince is the same ns that in the apple tree, and should be destroyed in the same manner. If the pasture gives out make tip the definienev with feed. Milch cows and growing hogs will require a light feed of bran night and morning. Lambs should be weaned next month. Let them remain in the field in which they have been accustomed to rim and remove the mothers out of hearing. The farmers who shall establish the making of small cheese, for family use, of uniform excellent grade, not toe strong, will find a small fortune in the business. nu A boy’s sphere—A baseball. A summer resort—The drug siors, ’ Candid people seldom giveaway Tho pilot of a ship ought to wear 1 helm et. All the wards *81 a latch-key shouldt home-wards, A police miss npprchensiou*-Atre:lia the wrong girl. Flxtraction is an out-and out ren far the toothache. The spider ishaptyest when hi* life it hanging by »thread. The Czar receive l King Williamiuhii every day boiler iion shirt. Boston inebriates never sec snakce. Thev have ophidian hallucinations, Tbe man who gets left doesn’t believt j that “Whatever is, is light.”—fluf, There ought to he a law pasted that mil way restaurant keepers shall dat* their apple pies. We (tmsider this business of making I Inn of women who catch sight ot-1 mouse a hbller mockery. It is perfectly proper to carve out yo own fortune, but you should not chi* other people in doing it. “Is you pa huildiftg a cottage on the| shore!” “No; f heard him tell Would have to build it on tick." It is a curious tiling that on the r»i roads it is the frieght rather than steam that makes the cargo. — B nftr. I Women an* pleased when likeiisil birds, but hot to all kinds of birds, is 'dangerous to call a woman an 1 hen. Yeg'nls' wmthl it not lie funny If we should ever see The liark l**eoiiie viable nn 11 ff i/. And audible on a tree. - Pad Burlier (purely fmm force of hilii "Hate a customer—“Yes; three or four of th —I guess I’ve got that many left,"’ J'ldtJ . “Things That Never Dio” is the I of a now poem. And it docs not tion the chap who wants to know is hot enough for you, either.—Ud'i'l Chronicle. The Cause. -Gazzam—"Hello,CiitBsij you look entirely fugged out. Wl the matterf” Cmnso—"Oh, nothing! week’s rest will set me up. Justl from my vacutiou.”—Time. Whether tall men or short men an betftj Ur bald or molest and stiy nun, I can't say; but this l protest: All the fair sex are in favor of Hymen, | —Omaha We notice from a perusal of the psp that “the fiat has gone forth” this 1 We are glad of this. It would list awfully ione*oine year in which the I did not go forthing. Bn'on Tran The busy hou ew.fe now get* up Shade is a necessity for animal* at pasture. If theie arc no trees in the field put up a light shed with branches of trees* for a roof if yon can afford nothing 1 etter. The American Agriculturitt suggests that a weedy field may have a crop ot buckwheat, and this, before there is danger of frosd, should be turned under is a green manure. Mary farmers lay shingles on the ground among cucumbers and squash vines, and in the morning destroy th* bugs that have gathered on the under side by clapping the shingles together. In laying out your work for the season give the garden a liberal share of atten tion. It may not be the labor which will bting great returns in money, but it is certain to do so in family health and comfort. The whitewash brush should be used vigorously this month, or you may have lots of trouble later on. Remember that nits make lit e, and that an ounce of pre vention is worth a pound of c ite. Car bolic acid in the lime does lot* of good. Many successful potato growers rarely use poison for potato bugs, says Amen- '•an Cu ti'aUrr. They begin when the first bit;* makes its appearance, keep up hand picking a week or two, and then rely on cultivation and insect enemies to do the rest. Tiie farmer who waits until haying- time to get his barns and harvesting ma ! hinery in order, will begin his h iving late in the season, bis hay will be* al lowed to get ripe and lose its most vain able quaHt e*; he will lie behind in har vesting and all the year. Dr. Collier, of the New York station, knows of no remedy for pear blight beetle except to cutoff the infe-ted twig* t little below l.ha injury and burn them tieSore the beetle escapes during the latter part of June or tho beginning of July, depositing its eggs during August. of eighty-eight species of weeds do scribed by Mr. 1.. H. Patntncl, of St. Loui*, as grow ing in South we*tern Wis consin and South-eastern Missouri,forty- tix aie of Europe m and thirty of Ameri can origin. One-third of the latter cbis* and nearly one fourth of th ’ entire list ire composites. “I have seen a difference of nearly ter aushels per acre in the yield of <• ghi teres of corn planted with a bushel ol ♦elected seed over that of the remsindci >f the field or any portion of it planted with corn of the same variety taken frorr he crib.” So says W. W. Tracy it inswer to Rural Nme F'l'dvn’.z question “Does it pay to save seed?” I'cep all kinds ot young stock in t thrifty, growing condition. It ne.ei pays to economize inthe fe«dingof\ouiit inimals. Once stunted they never re cover from the elect* of tho neglect During the hot weather see to it that they not only have | lenty of water, but plenty of good water. Don’t cotnpei them to drink out of a stagnant pool. The reports of the officers of the Afghan boundary say that the Indian •oldie s are so much larger then the 11*'1 in Cossacks that it wouvd take !».<) 13 of tho latter to contend with 50, ..am. Mr Ami jams tier black M-pborne*, And jellies all her currants red. And cans re! sour cherries . — Damcill" hrzswl City Young Lady (to farinerj- kind of a tree is thul!” Farmer—“111 is a beech tree.' 1 “How singular! didn't suppose beech tree* gryvjw; where except at the seaside.’ Sifiingr. Feline Sagacity—''Bridget, has J< nie come home from school yet?” ” sorr.” “Have you seen him.’' ,l sorr.” “Then bow do you kmw home?” “’Cause the cat’s h.dii’ #■ the stove, sorr.”—Time. the (at a garden party—“Isn’t young Professor Brainfog coining t* way, Mr. PeBappyr" He—“Ya’sflr Maude. Bhall 1 present him?” “Oh, dear, no. 1 think young men ' brains, Mr. De Bappy, are such a —Epoch. A young Englishman is said to written to his fond uncle the lollos encouraging letter: “Dear l ncle- have often said that you eoulddiel if I could pas* the final examination! the Bar successfully. ' oU „ c happy. Your dutiful nephew.” 1 admit, dear ( harle*, 1 told Mi* i really did not like you - Perhane the meaning o? my words Doth not yet fully strike you. Bo hear me »weirby all the stars A twinkling now above you, The reason why 1 like you not lathis: because Hove you. - Harper't Bo* An English journalist, on 1 the paper of the defeat of the tie'’* mue by the Cincinnati boys, sto 1 short at the headline: “Cleveland 1 by the Reds,” and fabled lioot* account of an “Atrocious a'suult o* President of the United States by* of hostile Indians that infest thsl of Columbia,—Fow York Sun. Tramp—“I know it, always out of work, but its my* Woman—“How is that, poor Tramp — “It’s this way. maani. winter I feel like mowing lawns, the summer I just actually shovel snow, and nature coi balks me. Have y^-u such a 'h™. pie in the house.” —Il’rjtn ’« /jo. i '. Y’outh—“I’ve got some like to have you look over. Fwl “Y’cs, sir. Have you got your with you?” Youth- "My Editor—“Yes; your poetic Y’outh—“No n-no. I didn’t kuo to have one. ” Editor— 0 ne ovir any poetry without first poet’s license. Good-day.’-"”* Chinese Banking Manchooria. China, appear* to 19 parndifle of bunker**. Wealthy and merchants, desirous of the r wealth from their '+ make deposit* with banker^ ta .ing receipts, and rather the loss of capital so becoming known to the ernmunt. to whom probably ^ rightly belongs, no inicrcs*_ rom such deposits, e cept 1 he banker's own investment*. Icaih of a depositor b’J uo.v tha* 10 .0 0 tne*- m'>re e dfqtO'd’cd iu some bank 3 10 u mi h cau ei,’» 4 these rain o i .qc \e.y licit. —G hi • •— . • ina'a tu; •antit) In