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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-06-28
PIPsEY P0TTs.ON HOBBIES.

I dread people who have hobbies,
worse than those who have contagious
diseases.
There's old Byron Fisher and his
wife, who live over ON the ridge. Now
they think that nm ointment they call
"Newton's grease" will cure everything
no matter what it is.
Why, 1 heard old brother Fisher say
once, night in covenant meeting, that
he owed his life to Newton's grease and
the Lord!
went over there the other evening
to get some pink-roots, and they asked
me how my catarrh was; told them
it was about the same, sometimes very
bad, then again hardly felt it; that I
experienced the most trouble from my
asthma. Even then was wheeling
like dilapidated old bellows, from
my walk up hill.
"You can be cured of both, and it
won't cost morn quarter" said he,
sitting down, leaning back and stick
ing his feet up on aline with our faces.
Positively I would have given our
last years files of the Baptist Banner
to have seen the hind legs of his chair
slip and let him down suddenly, the
low-bred backsliaer!
"All you have to do" said he, " is
to take about three spoonfuls of New
toms grease, melt it, and snuff it up
your nose as hot as you can bear it.
For the sake Of gettin' well you could
stand it pretty hot, you know; and for
the asthma would advise you to rub
it on we'll all over yor1l breast and throat
and up under your ears, and take about
tablespoonful inwardly three times
a day"
That riled me up, and I said: BROTH
er Fisher, do you suppose I hate no
feelings at all? I'd hug my eatxrrh,
anl rejoice and gloat over my asthma,
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Toms Wife.

Toms Wife.
We had just finished breakfast. Tom
laid down the egg-spoon he had been
using, and looked across at mother.
"Aunt Anne, I think I'll take a
wife," he said, exactly as he might have
said, (" I think Ill take another cup Of
coffee"
Take wife {" repeated mother, by
no means receiving the information as
TRANQUILITY as it had been given. "What
for?"
Well, I don't know" answered
Tom, thoughtfully, It's notion I've
got into my head somehow"
"All nonsense" said mother sharply.
"Do you think so q asked Tom, ap-
parently doubtful, but not in the least
put out.
Think so? I know it. What in
the world can you want of wife. AZ
ter all these years we have lived SO COM
fortably together, to bring home some
body to turn the house upside down!
And then, what's to become of that
poor child?"
The poor child"-That was red
dcned ut being brought into the argu-
ment in this way, was about to speak
for herself, when Tom intcrposed
warmly.
II am sure May knows I would nev-
er have any wife who would make it less
home for her-don't you May?"
"Of course" said I.
And I'm sure she knows nothing of
the Sort" persisted mother, "nor you
either, Tom Dean. How can you an
swer for what wife may take it into
her head to do, once you get her fixed
here? You can't expect her to forget,
as you do, that May has no real claim
on YOU"
"Th..t have no real claim on her,
1 suppose you mean, MAJ am, Tom put
in for the second time, just as I was
getting thoroughly uncomfortable, "but
for all that, I intend to keep her-that
u.s." added Tom, with one of his short
sighted blinks sideways at me, as long
as she will stay with mech, May?
And whoever has anything to say
against that arrangement will have to
60 out of my house to say it-not that 1
am afraid of any such result in this case
and, on the whole, Aunt Anne, I
would like to try the experiment.
Mother smiled grimly, but Tom was
so evidently bent on his experiment" &"
as he called it, that she gave up the AZ
gument.
you con dance, if you're ready to
pay the piper" she said shortly. "And
pray how soon do you mean to be mar
ried ?"
Toms face fell little at this ques-
ton.
" Well" said he, II can't exactly
say. suppose we shall have to be en-
gagged first"
WHAT! said mother. opening her
eyes; "why you never mean to say.
Tom, you haven't spoke to her yet?'
" Not yet" answered Tom, cheer
fully. "Time enough for that, you
know, after I had spoken to you."
Mother, as minister's widow was not
given to idle nirth that is as the crack
ing OF thorns under pot, but now she
leaned back and laughed till the tears
stood in her eyes.
Well" she said, eff it was any
body else should say he was cracked;
out you never were like other people,
ana you never will be, Tom Dean.
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WHOLE NO. $50:

and feel rich in their possession before
I'd treat my sensitive mortal frame with
such indignity! I, woman in good
standing in the church? Never"
"I don't insist on it." said he; It's
none of my business; but here it is be-
fore you, life and health and strength,
or a poor, patched-up old frame. not
able to stand anything, a-wheezin'
around this wayr' o.
I smiled, and turned the subject,
though I felt as if my eyes snapped
fire.
Sister Fisher sat combing her hair;
it was long and even, and I couldn't
help adniring it. I, said, +" Your hair
is very beautiful for woman of your
age. I don't see how you keep it look
ing SO glossy and bright" .:.
She laughed little embarrassed
sniff, and said she took good care Of it.
"Well, tell the whole truth" said
he, looking as though I was his victim.
" she never dyes her hair, just uses New
toms grease pretty freely; that answers
the same as dye, with none of its bad
effects, and perfumes it agreeably, be-
sides," and he looked at my thin,
scraggy hair.
just as we came out of Tie garden
with the pink-roots, Dick and Sam came
home from school.
"Our, Sam was sick in school to-day"
said Dick.
"What 'peared to be the matter?"
said old Byron. Frightening up with the
prospect of case.
"Oh, JUS sick, and didn't want to
play, nor nothin'." ...
The father laid his hand roughly ON
the child's foretop, and turned his head
back, bringing the little wan pinched
face up into full view, and said, oh,
it's wor-rums, I know by the white about
his mouth-nothing but wor-rums; come
in son, I'll cure you in no time"
The child put up his lip pitifully,
and clung to the mothers skirts.
"Come right along; none o your
sniAin', Or I'll tend to you in q way
that'll quicken yer paces," said old
Blue Beard.
"Oh, 1 don't want to take any more
O Newton's grease. I don't want to
father! oh-ohw
Yes, you will, too! Sammy! come
here this. minute, or I'll whip you like
q sack p said the inhuman father,
I hurried away. As I closed the
gate it creaked on its rude wooden
hinges with adoleful squall. I couldn't
help it, really; hailed out, " Brother
Fisher; no! Brother Fisher! your gate
needs dose of Newton's greasep
Oh, but the old fellow did cast
vengeful glance at me. He looked as
if-had he not been member of the
Pottsville church, he would have told
me with iufnite relish, togo to some
place not half as comfortable as home.
1t is strange to what extremes some
people do 60 with their particular
whims. Home Magazine.
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a.. The interesting rumor diffuses It
self that owing to circumstances over
which she has no control fascinating
Nilsson is about to retire for q brief
season from the field Of her professions
al triumphs.
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~ The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue states that during the last year
the importation Of coffee into the Uni
ted States has been forty,fve millions
pounds less than during the previous
year.
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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

The Medical Record, (London,) of August 9
says: "The outbreak Of typoid fever, to which
attention has this week been drawn in Mayfair
and Marylebone, is one Of the most remarkable
and severe outbreaks with which we are &c
quainted. great number Of families have been
attacked, and eminent medical men have largely
suffered. We acquainted thus far with
about hundred and seventy-five cases in
forty-seven families. The cause of this severe
epidemic was at first very mysterious; hit a clew
has been suggested. The consideration of the
character of two outbreaks in his nursery led DR.
Murchison to suspect his milk supply berg
the vehicle of the poison. The suspicion once
started, the source of milk supply in the forty.
seven families reported by medical men suffer
ing from invasons of typhoid WAS investigated
and it was found that, although living i'm differ
ent parts of the town, forty out of the fortysev-
families were supplied iron the same dairy.
We have said that circumstances point very
strongly TO the milk supply being the source of
the poison; and so much is this the case that
Sir William Jenner and DIR. Murchison, who had
been called to see number of patients, have
Thought it their duty TO represent the urgent ma
ture of the emergency to the vendors of the milk,
and to suspend their trade. A joint committee
of inquirers proceeded, on Monday evening, to the
farms whence the supply was drawn, in order
to investigate the possibilities of foreign
of infection to the milk at these FARMS"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18
seed Wheat.

The farmer would do well before selecting his
wheat for sowing, to confer with his neghbOrs
aud others, on soils similar to his own, for the
purpose of ascertaining from their combined ex-
periepce which is the best variety for his soil and
climate. Having settled this point, let him in
sist upon clean sample of the kind he is to sow,
having no mixture of rye oats other seeds
1t should be wheat that was nearly ripe when
cut, that stood in the field little later than
the best time for harvesting to grind into hour
and that cut in good weather and secured
without heating.
If a large extent is to be sOwn, it is well worth
while to place q counted number of the kernels
into moist soil, and ascertain whether all will
terminate, and if not all, what portion. Wheat
will sometimes look well, when it is unfit to SOW
owing to having been heated at harvest time.
The trial suggested viii show in what degree
its vitality remains unframed, or to what extent
it may have been injured; aud it is but little
trouble and no expense, to make trial of seed be-
fore putting il in the ground. As good seed is
one of the least costly requisites for good crop,
it is unwise not to make sure of its being good
Since wheat is liable to have some of its grains
affected by fungi, it is well to soak it n short
time before sowing, in tepid water, and then dry
it off in quick-lime recently water-slaked This,
it is believed by many, prevents the conimunica-
tiOn of the disease to the future crop.
As regards the quantity of seed per acre. we
believe, that if the soil is rich and well prepared
and wrought into nice seed bed, that one bushel
sOwn evenly and covered To nearly an equal
depth, is as good as more.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18
sevi.. Gr,.. seea 4. an, Fam.

The Rural Horid replied thus to the inquiry OF
young farmer, "can grass seed be, sown in the
fall" If land is put in good condition, We have
no doubt it is better time to sow grass seed in
the fall than in the spring Fail is the season
when nature sows most of her seeds, and they
vegetate finely, as We all know. We have known
of some instances where timothy aud herds grass
have been sown in the fall with the best of sue
cess and have never heard of failure. We pre-
sumo clover seed is well or better adapted to
fall seeding than the grasses as it is encased in
a very hard covering. We have known clover
seed to keep in the ground ten years. A crop Of
clover, when ripe, was turned under deeply in
the fall, and the field was sown to wheat and
seeded to timothy. Ten years after a deep plow-
ing was given to the field-the clover seed was
brought to the surface, and the ground was COW
cred with young plants. This 0uly shows how
wisely the God of Nature has provided for the
preservation of seed.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18
HOW TO RAISE FALL WHEAT IN X AN
HAs.

In our issue of the 14th inst, we advocated
deep blowing and thorough pulverizing of the
soil, providing there is sufficient mulching to
retain moisture, and also catch and retain the
snow. Farmers in this country are slow to learn
the value of good mulching. Its powers to re-
tain moisture and Keep the ground in condition
has been much overlooked by the farmers. Any
kind of litter put upon the ground thick enough
to counterfeit the frost and retain the snow drift
will ordinarily insure a crop of fall wheat. There
Is usually enough straw and manure about every
farmers barn and stock yard to protect from five
to ten acres of fall wheat. Let the barn and
stock yard he thoroughly emptied and their con-
tents spread carefully on your fall wheat. Do
il just before winter sets in and you will be am
ply repaid at harvest for all your trouble and
labor.
Farmers are beginning to learn that wheat
must have protection, and hence they are resort
ing to the very slovenly practice of putting
their wheat in the standing corn, practice that
is but poor makeshift for correct farming No
good farmer wOuld contend that he can raise as
good wheat in the stalks as he can OH deeply
plowed, wei, pulverized land, with the same pro-
lection against the winter that the stalks give.
The ground is always but slightly plowed, and
quite large portion of the seed i1ust be lost by
falling in the bills of corn. Yet, not withstand
ing this indifferent blowing and waste of seei;
frequently much as thirty bushels to the acre
have been raised in this way. If, then, that
yield can be had with so indifferent and slovenly
a manner, what could be reasonably expected
with good culture and reasonable winter protec-
toni No doubt thirty-fye or forty bushels per
acre would be the result.
Our farmers must learn to do better farming
it will pay better in every way and be more sat
sfactery. Try thorough protection on small
piece of wheat this fail, and report your success
at harvest. 1t is worth trial.-KdRsds Reporter.
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for the farlaer.
HAsvEsF.NG poTAToEs.

Digging and gathering potatoes is back-aching
work, the best way one can fix il, and an! plan
that will render il easier is worthy of eOmnends-
tion, especially where children, is often the
Indeed, when bog, we always preferred to pull
the vines and open the hills with hoe or, spade
(POtato diggers or even hooks and forks for Dig
ging were then unknowD), rather than to do the
harder work of picking into basket aud carry
ing il around. How to do this easily when no
potat" digger Is made Use of, propose To tell.
Commence with a steady team and pillow care
fully down the row, cutting a slice, only so wide
that the potatoes will be but slightly shown.
Pass back on the other side of the ridge, or row,
and proceed as before directed. until you have
rows enough plowed for the days work. Ii VIII
then be comparatively easy Ia throw the pota-
toes out with potato hook if in drills, or a hook
u IN hills, SO that they may be easily picked mp.
Then proceed as before directed with the alter
nate rows. This will be found very expedi-
tious method Of gathering the early crop, which
usually occurs from the middle Of July TO August,
or before the potatoes entirely ripe-fOr the
vines being still green the principal part OF the
potatoes may he pulled with the vines. Indeed,
if the potato fork be first thrust in and and the
vines gathered in the hand and bent down on
the handle of the fork, the entire hill may be
uncovered in most cases. with effort.
To dig the main crop in the fall when the
small potatoes are not saved when the price
received will not warrant extreme care, espe-
Stoiiy Wien VIC potdSocS thO 'cP " ~
ground, two light burrows may be plowed,
one on each side of each alternate row, as
before directed, and then the space left may
be plowed at just the depth at which the pOta-
toes lie, which will uncover the principal part,
which should be picked as clean as possible. The
field or any certain portion of it having been
thus gone over, the alternate rows may be plow-
ed and picked up, when q Thorough narrowing
will leave but very few potatoes in the ground
II the work has been carefully DONE not enough
will be left to pay for cleaning.
Another very good plan is to pillow as before
directed, but not as TO expose many of the
potatoes; these being picked up, run a long
shanked cultivatOr, or a horse hoe along the balE
left in blowing, pick again what are shown, aud
harrow as before instructed. Thus considerable
labor may be saved; but if the field is large a
potato digger will save its cost in very short
time, for well cultivated land, the vines being
dead, the crop will soon be SO uncovered thai
after picking after the machine, a narrowing will
leave bnt very few potatoes in the ground
Young Folks RRral.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18
A. Ho.erabIe Isi.ehing-Psst.

"Hallo, ye- fellow with the pail and frock,
beloved al .ristOcratic British officer, as he
brought his fiery steed to a stand in front of Gov
erner Chittenden's dwelling-"can yOn inform
me whether his Honor, the Governor of Vermont,
lives hereP
abe does" replied the man, still vending his
way 70 the pig-sty.
8 ais his Honor at homer continued the man Of
the spurs.
"Most certainly" replied the man Of the frock.
Here take my horse by the bit, then" said
the officer; have business to transact with your
MASTER
Without second bidding, the man did as re-
quested, and the officer alighted and made his
way up to the door and gave the panel several
hearty taps with the but-end of his whp-fOr be
it known, tina. in those days Of republican SIM
plicity, knockers, like servants, were hardly in
use.
The good dame of the house answered the sum-
mons in person; and having seated the officer
and ascertained his desire to see the Governor
departed to inform her husband of the guests ar.
rival; but on ascertaining that the officer had
made ktching-p post Of he husband she immedi.
ately returned and informed him that the GOV.
ernor was engaged in the yard, and could not
well wait upon his Honor and his horse at the
same time.
The predicament of the officer can better be
imagined than described.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18
Asthma i'm the Oil Rsxion..

The Titusville Herald says that asthma is o
very rare occurrence in the oil regions, and tina
the cause of such exemption is found in the fac
that the atmosphere there is strongly impreg
mated with vapors of petroleum, which act al
most as a specific for the relief of asthma and
the same time as preventive Of consumption
1t adds:
Let any one who is afflicted with asthma, ani
fesls q particular difficult spell of breathing
coming on, go in the vicinity of a producing
well, where petroleum vapor hovers in the
neighborhood, and he vii find great relief and
continued presence in such a neig hhorhood will
be the best means of permanent cure. we look
forward to the time when physicians all over the
United States will recommend to their asthma &c
patients journey to the oil regions, and we
hope some suitable preparation will he made for
their entertainment and diversion. The prospect
of and infirmary for such subjects has been seri-
ously discussed by many of our citizens, but has
not yet taken definite shape.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18
RaIins Passion s.ronx in De.,b.

An old farmer, up to all methods for making q
good bargain, was very ill., and friends were ex-
Pecting an early demise. His nephew and a man
hired for the occasion had butchered steer which
had been fattened; and when the job was com.
pleted the nephew entered the sick room, where
few friends were assembled when to the aston
ishment of all, the old man opened his eyes, and
turning his head slightly, said, in full voice,
drawing out the words:
What have you been doingi"
"Killing the steer" was the reply.
"What did you do with the hideE"
LEFT it in the barn; going to sell it by and
by"
Let the boys drag it around the yard a couple
of times; it will make it weigh heavier"
And the good old man was gathered unto his
fathers
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MsrfaI aud Curious.
Dryinx Sweet Corn.


There are various ways of doing this, and of
course, woman-like, We think our way is the
hest. We have tried both ways-Of cutting il
from the cob and drying it in the sun without
scalding, and of first scading it few minutes
and then cutting it closely as is possible with
out shaving the cob-and can safely assert that
the latter method is far superior. SO this season
we shall put ON the biggest kettle that Will ht
the stove, and fill it up with ears of sweet corn
IN the height OF their sweetness and juice, and
letting them scald for five minutes shall then
skiui them out into pan, and with a cOrn-cutter
scrape off each ear. Then spread the corn npon
large plates and set them in the tin oven back
of a Stewart stove, not having that, they
could be placed in the stove-oven when it is part
ly cooled down. When the corn has shrunk up
SO that the plates can be emptied into one, it can
be placed in the sun and covered with piece of
mosquito netting, which will keep off the flies,
&c; and when thoroughly dried, it can he kept
IN paper bag and hung mp in the store-room.
Then next winter We shall have succotash fire.
qnently, as we shall have plenty Of dry lima and
butter beans.
To use the corn, first wash it in cold water,
letting all the hills he raised to the top and be
poured of. Then turn on warm water enough
to cover il, and let it soak all night in warm
place. Next day half an hours boiling will
make it soft aud tender.
Soak the beans in the same manner, and turn
them together when they are ready to be boiled,
straining out all the water from the beans, bnt
leaving IL ON the corn, as-it VIII De sweet and
milky. Add enough water to boil both corn and
beans. Then turn in large cup of milk Or
cream, and boil fifteen minutes. Season with
salt, pepper and butter.
1t stands to reason if the corn is first scalded
it retains the sugar of milk, which produces its
sweetness but if il is cut off in the green state,
this dries away upon the plates. And again, it
is needful to dry it rapidly at first TO preserve
this flavor in the corn, which would be more apt
TO evapOrate if dried slowly in the sun. But we
must take care not to dry it so quickly as to
scoreh the kernels, for then they would be ruin
ed. Sweet corn is sometimes put down in salt.
Cut off the corn after first scalding it few min
utes; then place layer of it in stone jar, and
scatter thin layer of fine salt over it, and fill
up the jar in this manner. Keep it in n cool
place, tightly covered. and when desired for use,
soak it over night, first washing it in several
waters TO take out the salt Then boil il in milk
and water, with without adding the beans. A
tablespoonful of sugar will improve its favor.