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The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-25
Fancy Work.

We can make great many pretty
little things for our rooms if we i'm
prove our time. The afternoons are
already getting longer, and we can find
many minutes in which to do fancy
work if we get something started. 1
have made tides of fine knitting-yarn
which is only eight cents ball, and
knits a number of small ones. / have
also made little lamp-mats of No. s
spool cotton, and they are lovely and
will wash nicely. l am going to col
lect materials very soon to commence
fancy articles for a tree next Christ
mas. We women can make the pres
ents, and have them cost but little, if
we commence in season. We must do
up our summer sewing now, and then
we can get time to prepare for Christ
mas. There are so many lovely things
one can make to adorn house foot
rests, slipper-cases, collar-boxes, glove
boxes, wall-pockets, brackets, mottoes,
take courage mothers,
if the times are hard and money scarce
the dear ones need not go without
presents if we commence now. House
work is monotonous enough, we all
know, and some of Us 60 out very lit
tie; but with our reading, sewing and
fancy work, we need never be dull or
There is no better pam
acea for dull spirits than bit of some
thing pretty to do when we get tired
Of everything else. Try it, tired moth
ara.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-25
Sound Advice to Breeders.

A writer in the Mark Lane Express
of late date is so eminently sound that
we recommend his remarks as an es-
pecial study to breeders:
"Finally, then, select; if you can, of
the breed that is acclimatized in your
district. Strengthen it by an infusion
of what blood you find on study to
suit best; or, if you be imaginative,
calculate cross for yourself Keep
pairing within a narrow circle SO long
as no symptoms of physical infrmity
show themselves. Select continually
the best specimens developed, and
keep wedding out the weak; so, with
ordinary luck, you will do as other
distinguished improvers of stock have
done before you, you will justly win
a name, you win supply the market
with new stuff, and you will fill up
your pockets with money-at least, if
you cannot thus, you will in no other
way. But, in the first instance, do
not 60 too far aield; to begin with
get as high as you can upon the shoul-
ders of the generation before you.
Then be plucky, persevering and pru-
ient.n
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-25
Difficult Churnilg.


Pro. l.. B. Arnold, in New York
Tribune, says: "Cream grows more
difficult to churn as distance from the
time of calving increases, and the diff
ficulty is enhanced by feeding late-cut
or ripe fodder. If enrly-cut hay and
roots are used for winter food, there
will be no trouble with churning in
the winter though it will require lit
tie more time than when cows live on
grass and are nearer the time of COM
ing in. The ease of churning cream
depends chiefly on the size of the fat
globules of which the cream is COM
posed. These are largest in the early
part of the milking season, and grow
smaller as the period of milk-giving
is prolonged. Other circumstances
being equal, the fat globules are lsrg-
est when the COW has food rich in fat,
such as cotton-seed meal, oil cake,
green grass or corn meal. They are
small when cows are kept on straw,
oesd-ripe corn stalks, late-cut hay,
etc., especially when they have been
in milk long time"
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-25
Sheop-Growing in the Great American Desert.

A writer in Wilkes Spirit of the
Times, who is ventilating his opinion
of the capacity of the plains as a great
sheep range, opens on the subject in
the following strain:
From all | can gather, the "Great
American Desert" is the natural home
of the sheep. West of the Missouri
there are 1000, 100000 acres of land on
which sheep can be grazed better and
to more advantage than any other
country in the world. Commencing
at Grand Island, on the Union Pacific
railroad, $50 miles west of Omaha, the
grazing belt, 800 miles wide, extends
west over 1000 miles. On this enor-
nous tract of land all the sheep in the
world might be placed, and still there
would be room for more.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-25
Sweet Potatoes.


The following remarks in the New
York Sun, in respect to the culture OF
the sweet potato are ssasonsble and
sensible:
"Frequent stirring Of the soil about
the young plants will materially as
sist their growth. A cultivator or
small harrow may be used for keep
ing the weeds down between the
rows; but some hard work will al
ways be necessary close about the
plants. AS the vines begin to cover
the ground more care will be -requir-
ed in cultivation, as they will have to
be occasionally moved about to pre-
vent their taking root their whole
length, for, when this occurs, small
tubers are produced all along the
vines, much to the detriment Of the
main crop. Where the land is very
sandy and dry the stems do not pro-
duce roots as freely as upon moist
soils, where there are frequent show
ers during the months of August and
September; some attention is always
required to prevent the distribution
of the plants among many small root
lets and tubers. In hoeing at this
season, the vines may be carefully
pulled to one side or wound loosely
about the hill, but not packed or fold
ed over in any way that will smother
portion of the leaves and cause the
vines to decay"
The directions given for STORM g and
keeping is also pertinent
In warm climates very little diff
Guilty is experienced in keeping the
tubers sound until the next planting
time, but where the winters are cold
and the air moist, decay win follow
very slight exposure. Warmth with
dryness are the requisite conditions,
and it makes little difference how
these are secured, whether by storing
tho tubers in barrels of dry chat, sand
saw dust, o. between layers of straw
piled up in close warm room or cell
lar. We have at this time sweet po-
tatoes as sound and fresh as when
first taken from the ground last fall,
which were packed in dry sawdust,
and the boxes set in the furnace room
of our green house. There is little
danger of keeping the tubers too
warm, provided they do not get damp,
as this would cause them to sprout.
None but sound, fully matured tubers
should be selected for keeping over
winter; and then, if they are put in
light barrels or boxes, and all the in
terstices between the potatoes are
filled with kiln-dried sand or very
dry chat, they will keep well in al
most any dry, warm place."
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-25
The Farmers Life.

In a certsin book published in New
York sometime in the year 1871, emit
tied "What l know about farming"
occur the following remarks which
are worth reading and thinking about.
Of farming it says:
"There is no other business in
which success is so nearly certain as
in this. OF one hundred men who
embark in trade, careful observer
reports that ninety-fiye fail; and while
| think this proportion too large, am
sure that large majority do, and
must fail, because competition is SO
eager and traffic so enormously over
done. If ten men endeavor to support
families by merchandise in township
which affords adequate business for
but three it is certain that majority
must fail, no matter how judicious
their management or how frugal their
living. But you may double the num-
Der of farmers in any agricultural
country | ever traversed without nee
essarily booming one to failure or even
abridging his gains.
If half of the traders and profession
al men in this country were to betake
themselves TO farming tomorrow they
would not render that pursuit one
whit less profitable, while they would
largely increase the comfort and
wealth OF the entire community; and,
while good merchant, lawyer or
doctor may be starved out of any
township, simply because the work
he could do well is confded to others,
| naver heard yet of a temperate, in
dustrious, intelligent, frugal and en-
ergetic farmer who failed to get liv-
ing, or who, unless Frustrated by dis
ease or disabled by casualty, was pre-
cluded from securing moderate in
before age and decrepi-
tude Invested him of the ability to
labor -
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-25
Hints fer Heusekeepers.

To brighten stove zines, rub with
kerosene.
Powdered potash viii drive away
rats.
Kitchen floors when oiled win not
show grease.
Hang up brooms or stand them on
the end of the handle. They will last
much longer.
Do not put nice handled knives in
hot water.
A piece of rag soaked in a solution
of cayenne, is capital thing to put
into rat or mouse hole. They will
They will not attempt to eat it.
Trach the boys and girlr how to use
the irons as soon as they are old
enough, though never allowing them
to continue their work until they are
tired of it. As they grow older they
will often relieve your aching back
and tired hands.
Substitute lemonade, strawberries,
and the like fruits in their season, for
salts, sulphur, .sassafras tea, and the
like popular physic, to purify the
blood. Partake of fruits without
stint, and "throw physic to the dogs"
Dingy dresses can be bleached and
made into something serviceable and
pretty. Now that the season of soap
making draws nigh, it would be well
to have faded dresses ready to scald
in I've. Let them be washed, and boil
ed in hot suds until all the color pos
sible is extracted, then finish the job
by scalding in I've and washing with
suds, and laying on the first young
grass. Good prints end other articles
of dress are frequently cast aside be-
cause they are faded, but they may be
made to render good service by this
mode of bleaahing.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-25
For the EAGLE.
What Nell Thinks About II.
THURSDAY, March %, 1877

THURSDAY, March %, 1873.
Ed. EAGLE:-I read in your paper
last week letter from S. X. and am
glad to know there is one woman who
considers it an honor to be farmers
wife, and is happy and contented with
her lot. Oh! how wish there were
more of us like her. /, too, am far
mer's wife, but can't say am content
cd, or would from choice pass my life
on farm. / have tried to like it;
tried to cultivate taste for it, but
there is longing for society, and a
feeling of loneliness that is impossible
to overcome. And i consider the far
mer's wife who was intimately &C.
quainted with her husband before she
married him very fortunate woman,
for he would never find time after he
commenced farming. IT'S true our
husbands come in to their meals and
sleep. land that is done in hurry,
then if we want TO go TO town they
haven't time: the horses are too tired,
and they are farming; but they can
take half day every day Saturday to
play base bail. Then ask them to take
you to lyceum, Friday night why,
they can't stand it to be out so late
nights, they are farming now. But
the very next Monday night the horse
thief brigade, vigilance committee, or
some unheard of Institution, meets,
and the way they hustle around then
is q caution to sinners-throw their
old boots in one corner and their over
alls in another, then take the precau-
ton to tell You they will be home ear
ly, and when they get home it is early
in the morning, about one O'Clock, and
the first thing they will ask If you are
asleep, just as if you could sleep, at
home alone and nearly frightened to
death. l don't see where farmers
wife has much independence,
NELL.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-25
Dent Tamper With Dads Dollar.

We call the attention of some of our
eastern brethren who have such a ha-
tired of the silver dollar, to the read
ing of the law against marring the
coin. Don't go to toning down the
eagles wings, and trimming his tail
feathers, or pairing down the nose of
the goddess, or boring holes in her
head. The fine for each such offenso is
not less than $1,000. Western sinew
has been expended for the silver dol
lar, and by the memory OF our dad
dies, that "E Pluribus Unum" and
bald-headed eagle must be let alone.
or theTe'll be trouble.-Inter- Ocean,
9Th
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-25

The advantages of raising alfalfa
may be shown by q practical example.
r. w. Browning has twenty acres of
alfalfa. Upon ten acres Of the home
place he cut an average of ten tons to
the acre, for which he received six
hundred and fifty dollars. He has al
so ten acres of alfalfa on the Ogburn
place, which melted him 1000 clean
coin off twenty acres, besides some
forty tons of hay put up for his own
use.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-25

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21-1y
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-25

e Our House is located near the Depot, avoid
ing the transfer Of baggage and bus fare.
All baggage transferred free.
Good stables with the House. Free corral for
our patrons.
Farmers trade n speciality.
The tables are furnished with the best the mar
ket affords, the beds excellent, and the propre-
tors always found trying to please at the low rate
Of 81. so per day.
Richey Bros. Propristors.
Wichita, Kansas, November 80, 1916. 35-n
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LANDS.

Have 500 FARMS in the counties OF Sedgwick,
Sumner, Butler and Cowley, in all varieties Of
soil, timber, water and stages Of improvement.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-25
PEN NSYLVANIA, r. r.


SWS NV S0S@Sse S@~AS S0&>ys
On Arrival of Trains from the East and South.
DAYLIGHT EXPRESS-Leaves the Union De-
pot, 81. Louis, every morning. and being q asst
Express, stops only at principal stations. IL has
Pullman PaIice Sleeping Cars fer Columbu Pitts
burg, Philadelphia and New York without change
and but one change to Boston, Baltimore and
Washington. 1t arrives in New York early the
next evening, only one night ont, and gives
day light view Of the far-famed scenery Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
FAST LINE EXPRESS-Leaves Union Depot,
st. Louis, every evening, stopping only at prln-
cipal stations, with
Pullman Palace Cars for Louisville & Cincinnati,
Palace Sleeping Cars for Chicago, and the
favorite Pioneer Line of Pullman
Palace Drawing Room
Sleeping Cars.
Fer Columbus, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and
New York without change.
E-Being the Only Line practically under one
management between st. Louis and New York,
passengers are assured of through connections,
snd are not subject to delays ut tntermediat
points Incidental to other lines.
cities.
LrThs Quickest Time is regularly made by
this Line, and fare always as low as by other
routes.
u-Tictets for sale at all Ticket Offices in the
West and South.
L. P. FARMER, General Passenger agent.
W. L. OBRIEN, General Passenger agent, Pan
Handle Route Columbus, Ohio.
CHAS. +. FOLLETT, General Passenger agent.
Vandslis Line, st. Louis, FLY
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-13
STEAM NAVIGATION.
Meeting of the National Board
Al. .E.;IJ,1 - I,
Their Views on Registry and Enroll
msnt of Foreign Vessels.

NEw YORK, December l2.-The Annual
convention Of the National Board Of Steam
Navigation closed its session to-day. The
next meeting will be at Cincinnati, in Sep
tember. 1879. A.Resolution was adopted
Congress 10 take measures for
removing snags and wrecks from all West
ern rivers, and asking the passage of a law
that ali wrecks lying in the paths of navi'
CATION lbs treated as abandpped property
after thirty days from the disaster.
A special committee reported resolu:
tions protesting against the admission Of
foreign vessels 10 American enrolment
and registry or any change in the naviga.
zion laws which permit such admission,
as jeopardizing the interests not only OF
owners and builders OF vessels, but also
the employment, of hundreds Of thou.
sands 81 skilled and unskilled working
+. Evans, 'ocf Buffalo, was elected
President; r. II. Wolfalk, OF Louisville,
vice. President. Among the Executive
Committee ARE: VIM. Livingston, ir, ioi
Detroit, ]. Z. Payne, Erie, Pa, Simpson
Homer, Pittsburgh, + w. Gould. St
Louis, Jno. n. Bofnger, st. Louis, w. G.
Hite, Louisville, Thos. Sherlock, Cincin.
natl and ]. T. Whiting, Detroit
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-13
TE1EGRAPHIo DROPS.

Gortschakofr has been received by the
Car, and has formally resumed direction
OF the Foreign Office. p"
The French Chamber Of Deputies has
adjourned sne die, after empowering Grevy
10 summon them to meet in any event oi
necessity.
John G. Lindley, ex-Treasurer Of Butler
county, Ohio, was seriously, II not fatally,
burned at Hamilton yesterday by the ex.
plosion OF q coal oil lamp.
The Ohio State Grange have memorial.
lied Congress to pass the bill now pending,
to prevent the importation and spread of
contagious diseases among farm stock.
The Russians have decided to leave 5O,.
900 men in Bulgaria, and concentrate all
the troops in excess OF that amber, at
Adrianople, until definite treaty is con-
cluded. ...,8t
S. II. starke, agent Of the Delaware,
Lackawana & Western Railroad, at Lack
awanna Junction, was charged with EN-.
bezz' ing large sum OF money from the
company. =
A Walla Walladispatch says the trial Of
the Indians charged with the murder oil
Coggins, near Pendleton,' Oregon, in the
late war. has been concluded at the latter
place. One O, them was found guilty and
sentenced to be hanged january 17th, and
the other two discharged. ~ t'it i
Those Tennesseeans, Smittery and Jer.
raids, white men, who last Saturday night
murdered Dennis Edwards, colored, and
his family, in Rutherford country, were
brought to Nashville last night TO prevent
the possibility OF mob violence, which
was seriously threatened. .....g-,- {,
The Committee appointed by the Georgia
legislature at the request OF Gov. Colquitt
in his ssperial r1essage- to investigate his
motives and conduct in signing the bonds
Of the Northeastern Railroad, made a
report. They completely ex:
onerated the Governor as being influenced
by unworthy motives. j.. sEaia ii
A meeting OF the American Electrical
Societfs esteriay, at Chicago, was re-
plete with'a variety OF interesting subjects,
speaking telephones, electric
lights, induction; multiple telegraphy and
electric phenomena. Resolutions OF re-
;pect to the memory OF the late President,
VIM. Orton, and to Prof. Henry, who were
honorary members, were adopted. r n
Geo. X. McGunigle, one of the pioneers
of st, Louis, died yesterday, at the ad.
vanced age Of 7S. Mr.. McGunigle went
o St. Louis from Meadyille, Pa, in 1925,
md was for many years very prominent
md successful merchant. He was also
Identified with the first telegraph line
ouilt from Louisville to st. Louis, being
President Of the company, and was large
v connected with the insurance interests
81 the West. ''.' .ia
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-13

NEw YoRx, December 12.-Cotton-Quiet at
sS-l6as 9-l6c. Flour-ln buyers' favor; su-
perfinc State and western s. 40a3 70; COM
mon. to good extra S I5a4 10; good to choice
81 l5ai so; white wheat extra 81 55a5 %; ex-
tra Ohio $ s5a5 90; St. Louis s. s0a5 rs;
Minnesota patent process s. 75as 90. Wheat
Higher; rejected spring 7Sc; No. 8 spring
eOc; ungraded spring Sscasl 90; nngraded red
81 DIAL "a; No. 5 do 81 0lal o.; No. 2do 81 90
al OF; No. / do 81 DIAL OK; ungraded amber
81 o5al 0s: No. 2 do 81 0S14al 0i1i: ungraded
white 81 05al o.: No. do, sales 1900 bush.
81 07Aal 0sk. Rye-Dull No. 2 western 5s
a59c. Barley Dull. Malt-Quiet and un-
changed. Corn-In fair demand; ungraded
45a47c; No. 5, 42c; steamer 45a45l!c; No. .,
4e9fai7c. oats-Quiet; No. 5 white SIC; No.
2, 30Ita30IIc; do white 3Ska331ic; mixed
western 295SaSlc; white western 32a34ltc.
Hsy-Quiet AZ o5aioc.' Hops-Dull: yoarlIngs
4a6c; eastern and western sal2c; New York
State 5a15c. Cofiee-Quiet and unchanged.
sugar-Easy; fair 10 good refining 81za65s
MolaSes- Dull New Orleans 2saI0e. Rice
Unchanged. WhiSky-Sl 0asked.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-13

CHICAGO, December l2--Flour-NOminally
unchanged. Wheat1AEtive, firm and higher; !;
No. 2 red winter SIC cash; s7Ilc December; ;
ss>Ec January; No. 8 Chicago spring 67a6s Nc;
No. 9 Chicago spring 81 xAs2c cash; s211as2aSc
January; SSHc February; rejected So Ilza52ac
Corn-Activc, firm and higher; Sic bid cash;
3Ika3i3Ec January; size February; rejected
263lc oats-Fairly active and shade higher;
eOc cash and January; 2SsIc February; reject
ed l6Hc. Rye-Steady and unchanged, n Nc.
Barley-Tn good demand and prices shade
higher at 9574c. Pork-strong and higher
and In good demand; % 90 cash; 81 76a7 u y
January; 81 SIX February. Lard-Activc,
firm and higher; IS 50a5 52k bid January;
IS 85a5 e7Iz February. Bulk Meats-In good
demand and prices q shade higher boxed
50 6oaS B5a3 50. Whisky-Steady and un.
changed at 81 06.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-13

CINCINNATI, December L. Cotton-Dull.
weak and lower at SIC. Flour-Steady and
unchanged, Wheat-Steady; red and white
Ssaa5c. Corn-Firmer and improved demand
at SEC cash; $50 seller January. .oats-2ia96c.
Rye-Quiet and firm At 81 jisa52c. Barley
Steady and In good demand: sample lots spring
6Sa72c. Pork-Dull; s. 90 asked. Lard
Good demand but at lowerrates; steam s. so
as IS cash; IS sax seller last ten days Of De
cember. Bulk Meats-Dull and prices a shade
s. IS fully cured short clear s. 95. Bacon
= Quiet; shoulders Sc; short rib scarce at nc;
short clear 41Sc. Butter-Quiet and unchang-
ell. Linseed oil-Quiet at 6Oallc. Whisky
Dull at 81 0i.
Hoos-Fair demand; common e 2Oa2 40;
light s. 50a2 G5; packing 81 6Oa2 10, butch.
en- q 75a9 30. Receipts l7,oes; shipments
sos. ltJlJ{L 4g8sJH4tg i}-s e. 5sl