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Ellsworth American., 1875-11-25
Littell's Living Age.

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wHrme~t support at tIe be$t men and Journals
ot tnr country, aud hts me xuh constantly ,p
crea .inS sicc5ss. Having rerccttv absHri,p,I H..
younger cbnpctItor Every Saturday "I,.
now withont rtva! IN Its -ptciti neld.
weeNiy Magazine Of six y-tour pages, it
gives more than
THREE AND 4 QUARTER THO USAND
double-colua.n octave pages of reading-mAtie
yearly. forming four large volumes. IL Presents
in an expensive form, considering its gre, +
amouut OF matter, with freshness, owing to il,
weekly issue and with a satlstac tors conn lee
ness aitemp led by No other publication, thr t,>f
Essays. Reviews. Criticisms, Tales, Sketches OF
Travel aud Discovery, Poetry, Scientific, Blugra-
phical, Historical and Political intoiIuation
rom the entire body ofForeign Periodical Liter.
a
Daring the coming year. the serial and shor,
stOgies Of tau
Ellsworth American., 1875-11-25
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Ellsworth American., 1875-11-25

That, my hearers. is a true story but 10
Is not fair illustration of Gods relation
to his children, for he never hated them;
he has never been proud. or stubborn. or
harsh, but always merciful. and with q
warm welcome for returning wanderers"
As the preacher closed, he exte' ded his
right arm to enjoin silence that was un.
broken by rustic. Then In q moment a
low, soft music rose from the organ, and
the singss sang tsndsrly:
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Pruning Trees.

Set green hand to pruDe trees where limbs Of
any side are to be removed, and the chances are,
ten to one, that he will commence at the top and
saw through the limb until it falls by its own
weight; tearing down the bark and wood, inflict-
ing great, ugly wound, which may require
years to heal, and which, ifnot carefully protect
ed from the weather, will cause such decay as to
destroy the tree. The method commonly recon-
mended to prevent such injury is, to begin at the
bottom and cut half way through, and then fin
ish from the top, or, with very large limbs, to
have them supported by crOtched pole or pitch
fork held by an assistant below; but we have
found better plan, and quite easy, to be to
make two cuts, the first at a convenient distance,
say foot, from the point where we wish the
Limb removed. This short stump can, except in
the case of very large limbs, be easily held in
one hand, while the final cut is made with the
other.
After large limb has been sawed off, the sur
face should be pared smooth; and, for this pur-
pose we have frequently found common car
penter's chisel, about two inches wide, much
more convenient than a pruning knife. To pre-
vent decay, there is nothing better than one or
two coats of good oil paint, and it should be as
near the color of the bark as possible, so as not
should be of the best quality and as sharp as
possible; it is poor economy to use any others.
Limbs are sometimes cut too close; but for every
such there are ahundred not cut close enough.
Every cut, large or small, should be made in a
smooth, clean, workman-like manner; q poor
workman is soon known by hacking off limb
with dull knife, leaving as many facets as on q
multiplying glass.-COr. HortcHltuist.
Now is good time to prune trees in this lati-
tude. The great secret in pruning is, to prune
but little at time
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-01
Cua This Ont.

Every person should know how to treat flesh
wound. Every one is liable to be placed in cir
cumstances away from surgical and veterinary
aid, where he may have to save his own life,
the life Of friend or q beast, simply from the
exercise of little common sense. In the first
place, close the lips of the wound within the
hands and hold them firmly together to check
the flow of the blood until several stitches can
be taken and bandage applied. Then battle
the wound for a long time in cold water.
SHOULD it be painful" correspondent says,
take painful of burning Goals and sprinkle upon
them common brown sugar, aud hold the wound
part in the smoke. In minute or two the pain
will be allayed, and the recovery proceeds rapid
ly. In my case rusty nail had made a bad
wound in my foot. The pain and nervous irri-
tation were severe. This was all removed by
holding it in smoke fifteen minutes, and 1 was
able to resume my reading in comfort. We have
often recommended it to others with like result.
Last week one of my men had q fnger-nail torn
out by pair of ice-tongs. 1t became very pain
ful, as was to be expected. Held in sugar smoke
twenty minutes, pain ceased and promised speedy
recovery.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-01
Ethan Allen.

It was one hundred years ago on the 10th OF
May that Ethan Allen, with the assurance char,
acteristic of the frst-class Yankee, demanded OF
the British officer in command of Fort IIconder-
oga the surrender of the garrison and all its san
culinary paraphernalia. He was polite enough
to say that the request was made ION the au-
thority of the Great Jehovah and the Continent
al Congress" and upon those papers he took pos.
session. This Centenary business has brought
ont a good many anecdotes of Allen, some oil
which were supposed to be planted beyond res
direction. Here is one:
Allen was in church one Sunday with O num-
Der of friends listening to a very high Calyanis-
tic minister, (exact stature not recorded). The
text chosen was, "Many shall strive to enter in
but shall not be sble,p snd the preacher promised
his remarks by observing thst the grace Of God
was certainly sufficient % tncIade one person
out of ten. "Secondlyp disclosed the fact that
not one in twenty would 'attempt to avail him.
self of salvation. At 'tthirdlyD it came out that
but one man in fifty was really an object of Di.
vine solicitude "Fourtfiyu was announced, and
the estimate of the elect now reduced to greater
correctness, the sad conclusion was being drawn
that only one out of eighty-wheni Allen seized
his hat and evacuated the pew, exclaiming, "Pm
of, boys; any one of you may take my chance
-Editor's Drdrer, On Harper's Magazine for July
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Comparison Of Breed. ofPoy,,r,.

Isaac Lynde, of Ohio, wrote to the PoHltr,
Hortd, year ago, that on the LIST of September
he took ten pullets each of five breeds, each
within week of being six months old. and MA.
ced them in yards forty feet square and comfort
able houses. For the next six months he ken,
an account of their food and egg prodnetiop
with the following results:
The Dark Brahmas ate 2O9 1-2 quarts of corn.
oats and wheat screenings laid sos eggs and
weighed 90 pounds.
The Buff Cochins ate 406 quarts, laid 59I eggs
and weighed 7S pounds.
Ehe Gray DorkiDgs ate 800 i-2 quarts, laid 524
eggs and weighed 50 1-2 pounds.
The Houdans ate pa 1-2 quarts, laid 7s3 eggs
and weighed IS 1-2 pounds.
The Leghorns ate 231 1-2 quarts, laid sO7 eggs
and weighed sc 1-2 pounds
1t will be seen that the Leghorns laid the
greatest number Of eggs with the smallest
weight.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-01
She Had n Plan,

A gaunt woman jumped into the central sta
tion yesterday, says the Free Press, bonnet askev
and eyes blazing, and as she reached the ser
geant's DESK she exclaimed:
fIm the Widow Coon.D
"Ahp remarked the sergeant.
"And want to know if my Landlord ian raise
the rent on met" she went on.
~ guess so-iandlords can do most anything
"But Pm widow"
$50 you said"
from having the rent raisedP
'Never heard of one"
"And / haven't any more rights than mar
ried womaniD
"Not oner
VERY well, she said, shutting her teeth to.
gether and striking the desk; 'if q widow hasn't
any rights, I'll marry somebody afore sundown-
Won hear me noww
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-01
CurtinrGrn..RnrIr-

have been watching grass field since las
July, part of which was cut early with mower
and the rest left three weeks later. The square
block of two or three acres in the centre of tn,
field which was cut last, seemed almost killed
all the Fall. The grass was timothy, and very
little afterward appeared, while the outside o.
the field cut first was bright and green. The
same result appears again this Spring, and
judge the middle of the field will not yield hall
ton of hay per acre, while the outside may go up
to ton and a half The meadow is past its best
and If the owner is wise, be will pillow it up and
plant it this Spring preparatory to re-seeding.
Even here the lack of growth last Fall must
make this part of the sod less valuable, even for
blowing under. Add to this that the early cut
grass was best for hay, and it makes strong
case Tor early cutting. 1t is equally important
for clover, and indeed unless clover is kept very
closely cut or pastured the second, SO rs to pre-
vent Its seeding, it is rarely worth keeping for
grass the third year.-Ex
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-01
Asefal aud Curious.
Fruit DryinR.


Whenever fruit is dried in the sun-says an
exchange-it is exposed to insects, who deposit
more or less eggs on it. If the climate be calm,
as in the Atlantic States, the cold weather sets
in so early that these eggs are not Matched Gus
in the Autumn, and the fruit is usually eonsum-
ed before the following Spring, the consumer ig-
norant OF the fact of having eaten with it mil
lions OF insect eggs, which become animated
with life as soon as warm weather approaches,
if any fruit remains. In California and in all
semi-fropical ATTITUDES, these hatch out before
the approach of Autumn, and often destroy the
fruit before it is required for consumption, and
always iniure it. Much sun dried has been ship
ped to foreign ports, and has been ruined before
reaching its destination and when sold nearer
home has been returned to the farmer. There
fore, oven dried fruit is the most reliable cleanly
and wholesome and healthy. Economy and pol
icy all require that the old method of drying
fruit be abandoned, unless it can be subjected to
some process by which the insect may be
destroyed. Frnit dried by artificial means, if
carefully watched, is always more wholesome
and palatable, and when it is designed to thus
prepare it for the home or foreign markets, pat
ent ovens for the purpose should be used, which
may be so arranged as to prevent burning, and
which will cause the juices of the fruit to dry
rapidly, and thereby impart finer and more
natural taste, since the process of drying is
quickly accomplished.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-01

By request, We again publish the following
remedy for this fatal disease. 1t appeared il
the ViHdioatOr of April Sd, 1874. Hear what 6
correspondent says about it:
81 have used kerosene oil with marked success
as a remedy for chicken cholera. / had q pullet
which was actually on its last legs, not able OF
willing to feed any MORE My better half took
some grits mixed with it enough kerosene to
make it into pills, and crammed the pills down
its throat. The effect was, l may say, instanta-
neous. At the next regular feeding of the fowls
it appeared and ate; since then it has got we'll
i have now made it a rule to feed corn, thus
mixed with kerosene, three times q week, and
since adopting this mode have had no new cases
of cholera.
Another remedy friend gave us, is to use
grits and bones. Each are parched quite black
and the bones reduced to powder; then mix to-
gether with sufficient water to make it into q
paste, and give it to the chickens. He assures
us since he has adopted this remedy he has lost
none.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-01
Vinegar Making,

If the barrels are placed in damp, ill venti
lated cellar, where mould and moisture speedily
cover everything, the transformation from cider
to vinegar never properly takes place; indeed,
have known instances of this character where
the cider always kept perfectly sweet until the
next season, without any kind of doctoring what.
ever, and the only way the owner could procure
cider was to place his barrels in a warm
dry apartment until the transformation had ia
ken place. On the other hand, if perfectly dry
and moderately warm cellar is obtainable, and
she cider made early in the season, nothing pos
sible can stop cider from forming. We need no
foreign substance to assist the acetous fermenta-
ton; all patent nostrums for this purpose should
be strictly avoided. In these progressive days
to purchase pure vinegar at the stores, every
owner of few apple trees should make suffi-
cient vinegar to supply the demands of his own
table at least and as it is an article that will
keep well for years, VIC may readily lay in a suf-
ficient supply when apples are plenty to bridge
over years when crops are short.-JOsiah Hooper.
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CouIdn,t be RIuned.

couple of hOrsemen coming into the city the
other day from the Interior overlook an old man
and his wife seated in the bottom of mule cart
Feeling in high spirits, one of the men called
out:
"Hello, uncle, how much will you take for
your wife, cash DOWN."
"Oh, dunno" he slowly replied.
"Well, name your pricep
GLOW much'll We give :" he asked.
"Ten dollars"
stake her !n"
The horseman didR't know what to say, and
was gathering up the reins, when the old woman
jumped to the ground and exclaimed:
"Pass over the ducats, mister! ! like the old
man, and he likes me, but we are family which
can't be buffed by no man on horseback
The "bluffers" got out of the scrape by riding
of at full speed.-Picksburg, Miss, Herald.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-01

SUNSHINE AND SLEEP.-Sleepless persons
should court the sun. The very worst soporifc
is laudanum and the very best, sunshine. There
fore it is very plain that poor seepers should
pass as many hours as possible in the sunshine,
and as few as possible in the shade. Many wo.
men are martyrs, and yet they do not know it.
They shut the sunshine out Of their hearts, they
wear wells, they carry parasols, they do all pos
sible to keep off the most potent influence which
is intended to give them strength and beauty
and chaerfulness. Is it not time to change all
this and get color and roses in our pale cheeks
strength in our weak backs, and courage in our
timid soulsi The women of America are pale
and delicate, but with the aid of sunlight they
may be blooming and strong.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-01

STRAWBERRY SHoRTcAKE-As Strawberries
are now in season, receipt to make the palata
BILE dish known as strawberry shortcake will not
be amiss. Rub piece of butter the size of an
egg into little -four, pour into it two cups OF
sour cream, one teaspOonful of baking Soda and
little salt. Mix into dough and roll in cakes
about one-half inch thick, and ten inches in di.
ameter. Prick with fork, and bake in a quick
oven. When done split them open with knife
and spread with nice butter, lay the bottom
piece on plate, and cover it with Strawberries
sprinkled With sugar q few hours before they
are put into the cake, with the crust side down
and a layer of straw berries again. Over this lay
the bottom piece of another cake and more Der.
ries, and put on the top piece right side up
Serve with sweet cream.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-01

ed, of course-relates that an American gentle
man who had at an early day gone the overland
route to California told him this: ave crossed
the sand hills near the scene of the Indian mail
robbery and massacre of 1856, wherein the driver
and conductor persisted, and also all the passen-
gers but one. But this must have been a mis-.
take for at different times afterward, on the Pa
cifc coast, was personally acquainted with a
hundred and thirty-three or four people who
were wounded during that massacre, and barely
escaped with their lives. There was no doubt
of the truth of i'll had it from their own lips
And one of the parties told me that he kept com.
ing across arrotoheads for nearly seren years aftes
the massGcre.-EditOr's DraWer in Harper's Maya,
sine for ,Julv
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How 70 Control the Circumference.

EIn the East the locusts have been dreaded
more than war or pestilence; but there the peo-
pie catch and cook them; the Egyptians strip off
their wings and legs and bake them; the Arabs
dry them, pound them to u -four, and use them
in making bread, and so try to prevent the in
crease of an enemy they are powerless to deal
with when let loose on their fields in full force
But for many years the Western farmers have
shot grouse, wild turkeys, and similar birds by
the million clearing them out of whole States,
thus leaving the fields to the mercy of all kinds
of yermin, and now the grasshoppers is the re-
coil of the gun. The only adequate antidote for
these pests is a stock of fowls that will keep
them down, and a stringent law prohibiting the
wanton destruction of birds in season and out of
season for the next twenty years. Locusts may
be considered very good eating, but the civilized
stomach prefers TO eat the bird that ate the
worm.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-01

MY WAY OF CANNING STRAwBERRIEs.-TC
have them retain their color as much as possible
l first fill the can with fine ripe berries adding
little sugar but 10 water. Then set the can
into kettle of water and boil until the berries
are heated through. When done have ready
some more heated in like manner, to fill up with
as in the process of heating they will settle near.
ly one third. This has been my plan for years,
and have never had any trouble with my Der.
ries, and thus canned, have always found them
very fine indeed.
What will cure my COW of giving bad or lumpy
milkf have tried poke-root, which 1 always
thought perfect cure, but it has failed to rem
edy the difficulty. LERATHY.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-01

Two UGLY MEN.-It was on the edge of the
wood. They had come thither from different
points in pursuit of the seasonable partridge;
but in the shrubbery one startled hunter discov-
cred that the other had drawn bead on him.
Don't shoot" he said; 81 am not a partridge"
II must shoot" was the response, "for have
sworn that if ever found q man homelier than
am, would kill him." The intended victim
gazed curiously for q moment, and then said
placidly: Fire away; if am homelier than
You are, even wish that were dead" They
adjourned to get statement from competent
witness
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PREPARING CuHRAETs FOR WINTER UsEs.-Tc
prepare currants for mince pies and other Win
ter uses, add one pound of sugar to four of fruit
picked from the stems; cook few minutes;
spread on plates or tins, and dry in the oven,
which must not be hot enough to scorch them.
when sufficiently dried away, pack in stone jars,
and put layer of sugar over the top. This
method Is superior to all others for preserving
the havor of fruit (t even adds to the richness of
cherr1esG no fermentation takes place if stored
IN a cool place, and it will keep unchanged for
years. Heating little sugar and water with
several spoonfus of the fruit makes dish of pre-
serves in few minutes
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Jhe fnu Of the Ching.
SUMMING UP.

Waste not, want not's,
The maxim / would teach:
Always 60 to Plymouth Church,
And practice what they preach.
Stnen up your upper lip.
And keep weather eye
You'll never miss the water
Til the well goes dry,
Sing song O. sixpenee,
Pocket fall Of rye
Go across the river then,
Put il in your eye.
Ii you think you saw q thing,
Say you do not know;
For it's Father dear, oh! Father dear,
I'm feeling just 80, 50.
Marmaduke Of Caxdor,
Henry the eigth and more;
Francis First Of Mutuals,
And another score
Jingle up and jingle up,
Turn and twist and lie;
You'll never miss the water
Till the well goes dry.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-01

The Detroit Free Press says of newly invent.
ed out door game they play at Troy, that 'it is a
cross between base ball and croquet, and you
nave chance to put your arm around a girl.'
That base ball offers no such chance is the chief
reason why We have persistently refused to
adopt it professor.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-01

A young lady was yesterday standing on the
wharf at the foot of Second street, waving her
handkerchief at q schooner lying in the stream.
know anybody aboardp queried her compan-
ion as be came along. no, Il don't, but they
are waving their handkerchief at me-" she re-
Piled. Hand (haD ker (hoo) chiefsn he ex-
claimed, dropping his basket and leaning against
a ood-pile, "why them's the mems shirts hung
up to dry" She waved into q warehouse.-De.
tToit Free Press
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-01

AT an auction of household goods on Harrison
avanue yesterday, when woman made bid on
an old bureau worth about 81, boy slipped
around to another woman and whispered: "You
see that woman over there with blue bow on n
"Yes." "Well, she says no woman with q red
nose can buy anything at this sale % The wo.
man with red nose pushed her way into the
crowd, and ran the price of the bureau up to $12,
and, as it was knocked down to her, she remark
ed: 81 may have q red nose, but no cross-eyed
woman with blue bow on can bluff me!"-De-
trOit Free Press.