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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-02-01
THE TRAINS.
SUNDAY.

The west bound u. p. passenger
was on time, with eleven Cheyenne
and thirty-one through passengers.
The east bound passenger was %
hours late, with five Cheyenne and
seventeen through passengers. The
west bound emigrant train WAS on
time, with three full coaches.
The ID. +. passenger was on time,
bringing twenty, and taking out
seventeen passengers. 7
YESTERDAY.
All trains on time. The west
bound q. p. passenger brought ten
Cheyenne and fourteen through pas
sengers. The east b und passenge
brought eight Cheyenne and eighteen
through passengers and two coaches
containing fifty emigrants. The west
bound emigrant brought two full
coaches.
The d. +. passenger brought fifteen
and took out len passengers.
Don't fail to notice the new and
snowy double column advertisement
of Geo. q. Masten's wholesale liquor
and tobacco house, which will be
found en- this page. Mr.. Masten car
ries a large stock of choice and pure
liquors, and a fine assortmentof cigars,
tobacco and smokers articles, and is,
withnl, a gentleman whom we take
pleasure in recommending to the pat
roIage of the public.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27
Ice Stacks,

These are q necessity in many places where
there exists no ice-house. For forming a stack OF
ice in the best manner possible, one good plan is
to prepare circular elevated platform a foot OF
so above the level of the ground, upon which the
ice and snow are laid in a circular FORM during
hard frost, and add little water as the BALD
ing goes on. Over this cone wheaton or other
straw is laid to the thickness of twelve or fifteen
inches over this stratum of fagot wood or heath
then another stratum of straw of any sort The
other coat or covering should be of good thick.
ness, and be well secured and fastened down
with straw ropes, similar to the ay of securing
thatch ON wheat or hay stacks. Over the whole
coat of turf may be put. In this simple way
ice will keep all the summer well. As matter
of course, when ice is required, and the stack is
opened for the purpose, it shonld be exposed ONLY
for as short time IS possible. We were once
walking through the grounds of Coleshill Park.
the residence of the Earl of Radnor near Shriv-
enham In Berks, when we cameson an ice-stack,
made up in the midst of large group of trees
1t was constructed in a homely manner. lint IL
suited the purpose for which 1t was tended ex
ceedingly well. In the winter when the ice
stack was formed, a foundation was made of a
bed of leaves, and over this was placed a LAYER
of clean wheat straw, and then heap of ice was
heaped up, being well beaten to pieces as the
building proceeded. When the bean was COM
pleted, and made as solid as possible it was then
covered with straw, and leaves were heaped nm
over the straw to the depth of eight inches or a
foot, and finally covered over with fapots II
was q very hot summers day as we came upon
the heap, and it was uncovered and the ice
found TO be as firm and hard if it were January.
and the thermometer nearly down to zero.-Spirit
Of the Times.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27
HarHaMina Wheat

Narrowing of wheat in the Spring has moi
been much practiced by farmers in this country
while in England it is narrowed or hoed If II
is favorably practiced there, why will it not nav
here 7 Some that have tested it here have given
favorable reports. Some say it will give one
fourth more when it is well narrowed as early
IN the Spring as the ground is dry. We have
frequently done so, and concluded that il well
paid Some object, and say it is tearing the
wheat too much. Where wheat is sown with
the drill, very few plants will be destroyed if il
is narrowed leDgthwise of the drills If the
wheat is sown broadcast, very few plants will
be drawn from the ground.
Another advantage in narrowing is that the
clover seed will take much better. The way we
have pursued is to take thirty tooth square
barrow, not heavy one. Go over the field, on
common yellow soil, once and a half lap of the
harrow. lift is clay loan soil, give whole
lap OF the harrow. In SO doing, the ground must
be well broken, and in few days the wheat will
show where the harrow has been. If narrowing
will give one bushel more to tho acre, il win
well pay for the time. If any one doubts the
advantage Of narrowing wheat, let him harrow
in one or two acres and set of the same amount
not narrowed, and when he comes to harvest
and thresh the two lots, he will find it has we'll
paid for the narrowing; and he will find his clo-
yer to more than pay. We, as farmers, go on
the guess principle too much, and are willing to
do as our neighbOrs are doing. We want more
tests to see which is the best. If one blowing is
better than three, then something is saved. To
come at the fact of the matter, two piats of
ground in the same condition should be selected
and fairly tested, and the result given. If SO
done, We should have facts to govern us, instead
OF mere guess work.-AReriodR Farmer.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27


Garlic fed once or twice week is excellent
for colds
See that plenty of pure water is within easy
reach OF your chickens on frosty mornings. Also
feed early.
Pulverized charcoal given occasionally is q
preventive of putrid affections, to which fowls
are very subject.
Feed your poultry raw onions, chopped fine,
mixtd with other food, about twice a week. 1t
Is better than dozen cures for chicken cholera.
PuIverlzed chalk administered with soft feed,
Will cure diarrhea. This disorder is caused by
want of variety in the food, or by too much
green food.
Close up all cracks in poultry houses near the
roostlng poles. Fowls very much dislike air
which reaches them through cracks and crevices
Fowls exposed to dampness are apt to be
troubled with catarrh, which will run to Group
II not attended to. Red pepper mixed with soft
Iced, led several times week, will relieve the
cold.
The place where the young chickens retire to
ought to have dry floor, and be kept scrupu-
lously clean, and as the floor is the coolest part
OF room, their roOsting box ought not to lie
more than twelve inches high, and to be slant
ing, which will keep the warm air in the roost
Setting hens can be cured by putting water in
vessel to the depth of one inch, putting the
hen INTO 1t and covering the top of the vessel for
about twenty-four hours. The vessel should be
aeep enough to allow the fowl to stand up. This
Is the best remedy have ever tried.
Earth worms are greatly relished by confined
i0"ls. lake spade once day and turn over
the ground for your hens. They will soon run
after you when they see you with the spade, and
VIII amply reward you for the extra trouble to
accommodate them, by an increased supply of
eggs.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27

As to the quinine business, if you won't tell
anybody, will give you a bit of my experience
Twenty-Five years ago We lived in malarial dis
trict, and had "chills" every season the bottle
| of btters stood in the cupboard, and every morn
| ing we took our dram. As soon as any of the
family got the "shakes," We sent for the doctor,
and he dosed down the quinine. This usually
checked them for the space of two weeks, but
the trouble was they always came back. One
season had them myself all summer and all
winter-in fact for over year; that is, / "chill-
| ed, say two weeks, then stopped two weeks,
then "chilled" again, and took quinine all the
time This kept the doctor in a patient, and
paid him well. By-and-by met with "crazy
| fanatic" who told me secret Said he. "Tom
there is no use of all this nonsense you are fee
ing the doctors, and getting the worst of it your
self; You fOoli don't you know that thing is
tradef The chills would not kill you, if you
never did anything for it; and by -aud-by it
would wear itself out. But here you are swal-
lowing yonr drugs, and every time You do il Won
make a new disease for your family doctor
fou have been getting deaf these two years, and
You've got the ague cake so bad that your liver
and spleen are hard as a mud turtles back
Your skin looks like You had eaten yellow squash
for three years, and believe you've had the sick
headache every two weeks for the last six
months or more Why, you are walking apoth-
ecary shop, and you keep yourself poor by nav
ing big doctors bill every six MONTHS
Good heavens! said l, edo stop; you've drawn
horrld picture of me. But do tell me how Won
cure chillsP
swell" said he, "there are several ways of do
ing 1t. If am at home when am taken sick
my wife gives me a warm wet sheet pack when
the fever is on, and a good pour bath when
come out of it; then she gives me a good rub
bling over the liver and spleen; or if am strong
enough do it myself She allows me nothing
to eat until the fever is gone and then only some
bread and fruit, and very little of that, and the
sourer the fruit the better. Next moring take
the juice OF lemon half an hour before break
fast To make short of a long story, battle, d.
ct, and rub most thoroughly, and in little time
the chills are all gone; my skin is as clear as can
De, and am ready for work, and, with my wife
and four children, l have not paid doctors bill
in five years."
follow this fellows directions, and, strange
as 1t may seem, have scarcely had the "chills"
lor any other disease) for twenty years; and if
do have them, soon get rid of them 1 have
long since come to the conclusion that the drugs
used to swallow were the cause of nearly all my
s.-Correspondence 81. Louis Globe Democrat
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27

TRAINING FRUIT TREEs-The Hortic1ltaris
makes some interesting suggestions about train
ing frnit trees in the shape of o fan. Now is the
best time in the season to. attend to it. The ed
itor says: While we do not advise the CONNER.
cial ruit-grower to expend time in giving varie.
ty OF form to his fruit trees by other means than
the best practical use of the knife, yet do like
occasionally to see diversity of form produced by
artificial methods, exhibiting skill and control ot
plant life in grounds of amateurs. Trees in fan
shape bordering walks, with spreading fiat tops.
almost umbrella forms, on lawns, or some points
or places where space is part of the scenery.
and elevation not admissible. This month ia n
good time TO train and tie the branches, Just be-
fore or about the time of forming the terminal
binds. Many sorts of trees, those especially of q
struggling habit of growth, can be not only i'm
proved in forms, but their bearing surfaces often
enlarged and increased or improved in character.
Gardeners and amateurs can often, with little
labor and care, give additional interest and di-
versity to small extent of grounds by attention
10 this Item of fancy form in training trees
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27
ParleF JuEgling---luserest AnsseDent
for Winter Evenings.

These things are not only healthy. but perfect
ly sure in their results.
THE FLYING HEN.-Select a large, well fed
ben, the color immaterisl, though black is the
best and place her in q sitting position on some
surface. Then place over her pastebOard box,
eighteen OF twenty inches high Pound smartly
on the box with a bone handled table knife tor
three minutes, then suddenly raise il, when the
hen will Immediately fiy away. This trick can
be performed by any person of average intelli-
gence who gives his whoie mind to it.
TIE CABLE.-Take a piece of tarred cable
about twelve inches in length, cut it carefully in
two with sharp knife, and then try to chew the
ends together. You can try as long as you like.
THE MAGIC EGGs.-Put twelve fresh eggs care
fully into green wOrsted bag. Swing the bag
rapidly about your head, hitting it each time
against the door post. Then ask the company If
they will have them boiled, scrambled or fred
It will make no difference which they choose
THE SPITrooN TRICK.-Take two half-gallon
spittoons, white ones are the best; then select a
strong red cord, worsted one il possible; then
pass the cord through the two holes of the spit-
tOons, and give the two ends to lady and gen.
tlenian to hold. Now let the lady seize the spit
toOns and sliding each to the opposite ends of the
cord, bring them together smartly, when thew
will break in pieces and fall on the floor. This
trick is easily performed, and excites consider
able applause.
THE MAGIC STIcK.-To do this trick properly.
You will need pearl handled knife and hard.
wood stick, some three inches in length. Sharp
en- the two ends of the stick, and then try TO
crush it endways, either between YOUR fingers or
by setting upon it. This to your astonisbment
you will find impossible to do
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27
Msefnl aud Curious.
THE sCARLRr FRvRR.

1t is as unnecessary for child 10 die of scarlet
fever, says Good Health, as it is that it should be
blind with cataract. Let us see: At any time
before the body has finished its Intellectual strug-
gle we are able to help it, not by wonderful med
icines, but by the knowledge of anatomy and the
application Of common sense. We consult the
sympathetic nerve, and do what it commands us
to do. We must give this child salt when it
wants it; we must give it acid when it has fever;
not vinegar, but lemon-juce, because the FIRST
coaguiates albumen, aud the latter does not, on
account of the surplus of oxygen which it con-
tains. To initiate the soothing mucous in the in
testiDes, which is now wanting, and to give some
respiratory food at the same time, We add some
gnm-arabic. To restore and relieve the injured
nerve we apply warmth. In practice we can full
fill all this with the following simple manipula-
tions: Undress the child and bring it to bed at
the very first sign of sickness. Give it, if it has
already fever, nothing but warm sourish lemon
ade, with some gum-arabc in it. Then cover its
abdomen with some dry flannel. Take we'll
folded bed-sh and put it in boiling hot water;
wiring >out dry by means of dry towels, and
put this over the flannel on the child's abdomen.
Then cover the whole, and wait. The hot cloths
will perhaps require repeated heat. According
to the severity of the case and its stage of pro-
gress, perspiration will commence in the child in
from ten minutes to two hours. The child then
is saved; it soon falls to sleep. Soon after the
child awakes it shows slight symptoms of return
ing inclination for food; help its bowels, if
essary, with injections of oil, soap, and water,
and its recovery will be as steady as the growth
OF green house plant, if well treated. 0fcourse,
If the child was already dying, nothing could save
1t, or If it has illusions in the lining of the heart
or brain, it is much better that it should die.
But if the above is applied in due time under the
eyes and direction of a competent physician, l
will guarantee that not one in hundred chill
dren will ever die of scarlet fever. know this
will startle some of my readers, especially those
who have lost children already, but shall go
still further. maintain that a child will never
get scarlet fever if properly treated. If child
has correctly mixed blood, it will not catch the
disorder if put in bed with sick child. This is
still more startling, but nothing is easier of
proof.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27
All Right, Bat-And They Put a Paper Over
that TPnnsDm,

A stranger registered at one of the hotels in
this city the other day, and took room. few
days after lady called and asked to be shown
to the same room. Some of the chambermaids,
seeing her 60 in, of course thought something
was wrong, and kept an eye open. The lady
passed out and in several times during the after
noon, the maids watching every movement close
ly. The last time the lady went into the room,
the more curious of the girls went into an adjoin-
ing room, and after things became quiet, two Of
them softly peeped over the transom, but quick
ly lodged back. They had seen enough. The
proprietor was notified, and when the man and
woman came down to supper, they were asked
for their bills. They were surprised, and when
they asked the reason, the proprietor told them
what the girls had seen. "Well," the stranger
replied, that is all right, she's my wife," Pa
per is now placed over that transom.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27

Cough IN A HoRsE.-Q.-My horse is afflicted
with acough-will you give me remedy through
your pspeTi A.-Cough may be occasioned by
several different diseases; in the several cases OF
which, the diseases themselves must be removed
When from simple cold, slippery elm or fax-seed
nursing is the great remedy. Feed succuleni
food only-if in Winter, moisteued cut feed il
in Summer, juicy grass clover. Work very
lightly or not at all; never sweat the animal.
Blanket, where there is the least cold or chilli
ness. Attend to strict comfort, and the horse
will doubtless gradually recover. Reject ali the
numerous prescriptions of kind neighIors there
lis often enough powerful medicine recommended
in such cases to kill any well horse.-Counfry
Gentleman.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27

AFARMER boy in Ohio observing a small flock
of quail in his fathers corn-feld, resolved to
watch their motions. They pursued a very reg
ular course in their foraging, commencing on one
side of the field, taking about five rows, and fol
lowing them uniformly to the opposite end, re.
turning in the same manner over the next five
rows They continued in this course until they
had explored the greater portion of the field
The lad, suspicious that they were pulling uI
corn, fired into the flock, killing but one of them
and he proceeded 10 examine the ground. II
the whole space over which they travelled, he
found but one stalk of corn disturbed. This was
nearly scratched out of the ground, but the earth
still adhered to it. In the craw of the quail, be
found one cut-worm, twenty-One vine bugs and
one hundred chinch bugs, but not a single grain
of corn.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27

To CURE HAMs.-For one hundred pounds OF
meat take five pounds of sugar, two ounces
of pulverized saltpeter and seven pints OF
salt. Rub the hams first with saltpeter and
then with the sugar; then pack them in a
meat-tub and let them remain one week
rub salt into them and pack them again in
the same tub. They will be ready for the
smoke-house in from four to six weeks, depend
ing upon the size of the ham. The position of
the hams onght to be changed several times so
that all will be eanally sailed
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27

RECIPE FOR CURING HAMs.-Mr Nathan White
of Montgomery County, Md, has presented the
editor of the Washington Republic with the rec.
ipe by which the prize ham at the late fair at
Rockville was cured. 1t is as follows:
The pork should be perfectly cold before being
cut up. The hams should be sailed with bloom
salt, with q portion Of red pepper, and a about a
gill of molasses to each ham. Let them remain
in salt five weeks; then hang them up, and
smoke with hickory wood for FIVE or six weeks
About the first of April take them down, and wet
them with cold water, and let them be well rub
bed with unleached ashes. Let them remain in
bulk for several days; and then hang them in
the loft again for use
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27

Sow EATING HER PIGs-A SOW that has this
habit should be given an ounce of gunpowder
occasionally in her food. The charcoal, sulphur,
and nitro of the powder are all useful, and in
this manner may be conveniently given Or In
the place of this a few hardwood Goals may be
auenched in water, and then given with spoon
full of sulphur and half as much saltpetre in the
food. This mixture or the guupowder should be
given for 9 week or two before the SOW farrows,
and continued q week or two afterward. When
sows are shut up in pens they are more subject
TO the vice than when running at large in field
-zmsyiodH AdTicaltgrist.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27

AT first, when she read in the morning paper
that man of her husbands name and age en-
p1oyed in the same factory, had been eaueht in a
belt and struck against beam in the roof 200
times In minute and nine seconds, she felt sure
that she was widow, and wondered how she'd
look in black, and if the proprietors would COM
promise the suit; but when she came to the part
where it said: "The brains were protruding in
several places" she babe farewell to every fear
and wiped her weeping eyes, reInarking: Brains
protrnding. ehf Twasn't William, then Chi
cdqo Tribune
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27

The Binghampton Repsblicdn is responsible for
the following: During q recent examination of
class of youngsters in one of the Chemung County
schools, the teacher asked: "What is monarchyfi'
and was Immediately answered by bright little
King" "Who would rule if the King should
diet" "The Queen" sand if the Queen should
die, who then would be rulerf" "The Jack.D
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27

HE had made q hearty meal at a restaurant,
and, raising up, he said to the cashier: al de-
clare, if l haven't forgotten my wallet The
cashier fired up, and hurled big words at him for
full three minutes before pausing for breath.
when chance came, the stranger continued /:
=" But have fifty dollars here in my vest pock-
et.D The cashier couldn't smile to save himself.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27

CHICAGO Evening Jouynal.r"I suppose there
are plenty of saw-mills over in your State,n said
a Chicago man to party from Michigan the 9th.
er night. "Wsl, shud say there WIZ replied
the Michigsuder. "Why, sir, Michigan is gettin'
SO dern full nv saw-mills that you can hardly
meet . man over there with more'n two fingers
on hand" And sticking up paw on which
dwelt q lone digit as proof of his assertion, he
quietly continued: "Pve shook hands with um
mvselfD
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27

ONE who has tried, communicates the follow
ing about curing sore threats: Let each one of
your readers buy at any drug store one ounce of
camphorated oil and five cents worth of chlorate
Of potash. Whenever any soreness appears in
the throat, put the potash in half tumbler of
water, and with it eargle the throat thoroughly,
then rub the neck thoroughly with the camphor-
ated oil at night before going to bed, and also
pin around the throat a small strip of wooden
flannel
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27

WELL, my good fellow" said victorious gen,
eral to brave son of Erin, after battle, "and
what did you do to help MS to gain this victory p
" Dol" replied Mike; "may it phase your honor,
L walked up boldly to won of the inimy, and cut
of his feet" "Cut off his feet! and why did not
you cut off his headi" said the general. "Ah, an
faith, that was off already - said Mike
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-01-27

He set in q railway car. His head was thick
ly covered with mass of red hair. Behind him
in a seat sat q man with hardly any hair on his
head. He said to him: al guess you wasn't
around when they dealt out hair" "Oh, yes, !
was" replied bald head, "but they offered me 8
lot of red hair, and told them to throw it into
the ash hin -