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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-23
FARM AND HOUSE.
Farm Experiments suggested.


Practical knowledge is only to be ac-
CURED by actual experiments, and is the
only kind of real value. If all soils were
exactly alike, having the same exposure
and protection, subject to the same eli
mate, and the same amount of rainfall at
exactly the same dates, farming would at
once rise to the dignity of an exact
science. One set of experiments any-
where would be the foundation for all
farm operations of the same kind every
where. The vast body of farmers, so far
as concerned their own avocation, would
become mere machines, or even less in
the social scale. Brains would be of no
value, and the fool of the family would
do as well as the genius on the form.
Fortunately, however, the soil is vari-
GUS and must be treated with brains or it
tails to produce. Business men never
trust any one until inquiries have been
made into his standing and his ability to
fulfill his promises. Farmers, however.
never think of enqulring into the charac-
ter of the land they are going to trust
their seed tc. They say to themselves,
ssThat's land, and this is seed, let's try
tUCM lOScLueI.
1t has been asserted that fertilizers
are all washed down into. the subsoiI by
rains, and are lost-lf so, why is the sub.
soil always poora An experiment, easiIv
made, would settle this question for ever.
1t Is the practice with many to put on
too much lime, hoping to create plenty
OF plant food. But they create too much.
and the crop goes to stems and leaves at
the expense of the grain. Experiment
would teach valuable lesson here. The
question of deep or shallow blowing and
cultivation is yet debatable one; why
not experiment, prove thet which is good
and hold fast to it, Light and heavy seed
ing; early and late sowing; home grown
toreign-grown seed; seed grown north or
south of us; seed gathered when half-ripe
or when wholly mature; subsoiline, and
even whether it pays to feed starving
fields as well as to keep stock ALWAYS
growing, are all open questions.
Why is this SO? Why have six thou
sand years of ceaseless tillage taught us
nothing? And are we to 20 on six thou
sand years more in the same style. As
every farm is, in a measure, SUI qeneris,
so must every farmer be its genius loci.
Don't trust man till you know him,
Don't trust your land I'LL you know it.
Experiment, dig. pry. enquire at every
possible opportunity; don't quarrel with
q family you are not acquainted with,
and, above all things, don't bury money
In hole without bottom.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-23
Why New Workers Wear Out E arly.

Burleigh's Letter to Boston journal.
Several of our leading doctors give it
as their opinion that 20 man who takes
his own life is in his right mind. It is
also agreed that the style of living in
New York, and the style of doing bust
ness. predisposes man to that morbid
condition that induces him to take his
life. The rush, the drive and excltment
are almost continuous. Men who are
good for anything have their hands full
and their heads full. The brain is like a
hot-box on a railroad train-only men
hold up on the train, and they don't on
the street. There's hardly prominent
man doing business in the Stock Ex-
change who has not work enough on
hand for half dozen men. As an illus
tration: The President at one of our
leading banks has been under the doc
tors care for over a year. He comes
down to the bank every morning at 20
o'clock, and remains till O'clock D. m.
Besides the immense business eff his own
institution, at II o'clock he goes down
to Wall street, where he is silent part
ner in a stock house. At l o'clock he Is
back again at the bank. His private Of
flee is crowded with the prominent bust
ness men Of New York. He has at least
six institutions in which he is manager,
director or president. These institu-
tons represent every variety of invest
ments. Besides this, he is at the head of
an immense denomination, financially.
and gave last year $4,000 to help the
educational interests Of his church out of
. hard place. The differ emit societies
that he represents keep him without q
moments leisure through the day, and
his evenings are all consumed in business.
j heard him say last week that he never
slept until after o'clock in the morn
Ing. How such man lives with such q
pressure upon him is marvellous. He, Of
course, won't live out half his days. He's
specimen of New York business life.
Our city is full of premature old men
older at 80 than their fathers at CO.;
prematurely gray, prematurely bald,
lmplng around with canes, with their
UNDERMINING knocked out; unable to
relish their food unless it is covered with
the most fragrant spices, or washed down
with deluge of liquor. One OF our
most eminent physicians said the other
day: 'Nine- tenths of our citizens who
GO to the insane asylum go there for want
of sleep and want of nutritious food"
Considering the style of our living and of
our business, it's not at all marvel
that we have so many suicides!
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-23
Feeding Hens for Eggs in Winter.

Feeding Hens FOR Eggs in Winter.
1t man has comfortable place in
which to keep his hens, he can keep
them laying through the winter, if he
chooses to give them the necessary care
and attention in the preparation and va
riety of food. As to variety of food,
though either corn or buckwheat, as well
as other sorts of grain, are excellent feed
for poultry, still neither corn nor buck
wheat alone, meets the requirements for
egg production, but either or both of
them with the addition of other food of
different kinds, to make variety suited
to the birds wants, will answer the pur-
pose, and produce supply of eggs which
will well repay the expense and labor in
yolved. j have had excellent results
from feeding mainly with buckwheat,
giving daily, in addition, some kind of
cooked food warm, as, for instance, q
pudding of corn-meai, or some small
potatoes baked, and occasionally season
ing the mess we'll with cayenne pepper.
An occasional feeding of scraps of
meat or something of that kind, is also
necessary in the winter when the fowls
are confined to the house and there are
no insects or anything of that nature
which they can pEocure-at any rate If
this Is not necessity it will be found q
very beneficial addition to their diet. A
supply of bones or oyster shells burned
and powdered, or in some other way
rendered fire; or some other material
containing lime for the formation of the
shells, should always be kept within
each of the hens. They should also have
access to the earth in some manner, or
quantity of gravel should be kept in the
poultry house, as it is necessary to
the health of fowls that they be able to
obtain something of this nature to aid in
the progress of digestion.
Perhaps it may be unnecessary for me
to say anything of the necessity of sup
ply of water always being accessible to
them, but have seen fowls kept where
they could obtain no water in the winter
except by eating snow, and though they
may live through that bleak season de-
spite such treatment, still no one who
treats hens with such neglect deserves, or
will receive, anything from them during
the winter months to pay for the food
consumed by them. Now, let any one
who wants supply Of eggs this winter,
follow the mode of treatment here sug-
gested, and I think they will be satisfied
with the results.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-23
Sermon from a Pair Of Boots.

There lived, forty years ago, in Berlin.
shoemaker who had habit of speaking
ha1shly of all his neighbors who did not
feel exactly as he did about religion. The
old pastor Of the parish in which the
shoemaker lived heard of this, and felt
that he must give him lesson.
He did 1t in his way. He sent for the
shoemaker one morning, and when he
come in said to him:
"Master, take my measure for q pair of
boots"
"With pleasure, your reverence" an
swered the shoemaker; "please take off
your boot"
The clergyman did 50, and the shoe
maker measured his foot from toe to heel
and over the lnstep, noted all down in
his pocket-book, and then prepared to
leave the room. But as he was putting
up the measure, the pastor said to him:
Master, my son also requires a pair of
boots"
II will make them with pleasure, your
reverence. Can take the young mans
measured"
SIT is not necessary" said the pastor
ssthe lad is fourteen. but you can make
my boots and his from the same LAST
"Your reverence, that will never do p
said the shoemaker, with smile of sur
prise.
II tell you, sir, to make my sons on
the same last"
mo, your reverence, I cannot do it."
sit must be-on the same last"
"But your reverence, it is not possible,
if the boots are to fit," said the shoe
maker, thinking to himself that the old
pastors wits were leaving him.
"Ah then, master shoemaker" said the
clergyman, 'eYery pal; of boots must be
made on their own last, if they are to fit;
and yet you think that God is to form all
Christians exactly according to your own
last, of the same measure and growth
in religion as yourself. That will not
do, either"
The shoemaker was abashed. Then he
said:
81 thank your reverence for this ser
mon, and I will try to remember it, and
to judge my neighbors less harshly
the future"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-23
Her Own Little Room.
By HARRIEr M,RwEy KmRAI1

bI HARRIET n EVEN KIMBALL.
Here is my own little room;
Fair as lily in bloom
That is what mother dear said,
just see how lovely it looksi
Here are my desk and books,
Here is my own little bed.
Thistle my sewing-chair;
That is my work-box there,
Everything / shall use:
Thimble and scissors and thread.
Stocking ball-darning dread!-
Emery, needles to choose.
Soon as / learned to sew,
Mend my own linen, you know,
Take all the care for my own,
busting and making my bed,
Mother always has said.
Sister shall room all alone"
Not that the children may
Not be allowed here to play
Sometimes when they are good;
But when Pm reading you know,
Romping and shouting they go;
Then want solitude,
Here I shall often sit,
mother can read or knit!)
Resting my book on this shelf;
Here my birdie will swing
Right overhead, the dear thing.
Singing away to himself.
Pictures? Q yes, forget!
This is "St. Margaret,
None of them costly, but dear
This is "Aurora" and this
This is "The Playmate's Kiss,n
And Jesus and Nary here.
Hero in the winter time
shall have ivies to climb:
And my Hermosa rose,
Al through the winter in bloom
How 1t Will brighten my room!
l shall forget that it SHOWS.
This pretty student-lamp's mine;
may sit up until nine,
But l shall join mother dear
Till / come up for the night,
So my candle shall light
Unless she sits with me here.
Sometimes, my friends will come in:
Very soon shall begin
Asking them duty to come.
Here mean to ''receive;"
0, you may laugh, but believe!
For this is my home in my home!
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-23
How the Parson Broke the Sabbath.

On the grave of ParsOn Williams
The grass is brown and bleached. t
1t is more than fifty winters
Since he lived and laughed and preached
But his memory in New England
NO winter snow can kill;
OF his goodness and his drollness
Countless legends linger still.
And among those treasured legends
| hold this one a boon,
How he got in De aeon Crosby's hay
On 8 Sunday afternoon.
He was midway in a sermon,
Most Orthodox, on grace,
When the sound of distant thunder
Broke the quiet OF the place. 4
Now the meadow of the Crowsbvs
Lay full within his sight.
AS he glanced from out the window
Which stood open on his right.
And the green and fragrant haycocks
BY the acre there did stand; so
Not meadow like the Deacon's
Far and near in all the land.
Quick and loud the claps of thunder
Went rolling through the skies,
And the ParsOn saw his Deacon
Looking out with anxious eyes.
'Now, my BRETHREN" called the Parson,
And he called with might and main,
we must get in Brother Crosby's hay,
It's our duty now most plainn
And he shut the great red Bible,
And he tossed his sermon down,
Not man could run more swiftly
Than the Parson in that town. u
And he ran now to the meadow,
With all his strength and speed;
And the congregation followed,
AL be 1ildered in his lead.
With viii they worked and shouted,
And cleared the field apace,
And the Parson lead the singing,
While the sweat rolled down his face,
And it Numbered fercer, louder;
And dark grew east aud west;
But the hay was under cover, ~.
And the Parson had worked best,
And again in pew and pulpit
Their places took composed;
And the Parson preached his sermon
To . fftheenthly," where it closed.
Il. H., in the v. 7. Independent.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-23
4 Good Story by Judge Black.

Judge Black, Of Pennsylvania, tells q
comical story of trial in which German
doctor appeared for the defence in case
for damages brought against client of
his by the object of his assault. The
eminent jurist soon recognized in his
witness, who was produced as medical
expert, q laboring man, who some years
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-23

It is not true that Bertha Won Hillern
has paralysis of the Il. Now, before we
complete the word let US reflect. If we
go on and say legs" some awfully par
ticular folks will stop their subscriptions,
and if we say limbs" the other crowd
will accuse US Of mock modesty. Guess
We won't finish the sentence. ANYHOW
she hasn't got paralysis.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-23

Ball and evening shoes must be trimmed
with flower or bouquet, but it must be very
small and hat.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-24

The building known as the Mem
phis Meater, on Jefferson street, be.
tween Third and Fourth, was sold at
public Outcry. by order of the
ChaReew Court, in front of the
court houses at noon to-day, to
Leubrle Bros. for $40, 100. The
structure was completed expressly for
a theater, and was opened to the pub
lie in 1853, since which time it haa
been the leading theater Of our city.
During last year ita Fental was $4,000,
and il has rented as high as $4,000 per
spRum within the past ten
years. The building Is we'll
adapted for the purposes designed,
The sale was for one-fourth cash,
aud the balance on six, twelve and
eighteen months credit. Very little
spirit was manifested BY the bidders,
an advance Of a hundred dollars al a
time following after $4,000 vas an.
nounced, except with one or two OK.
ceptions. II is understood that there
will be no change in the damage
ment under the new ownership,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-24
LEDGER LINES.

Kirkland's shirts,
Six for 50.
Partisan diamonds at L4vigne's.
The sanitarians have begun their
operations.
To morrow is the first Sunday after
Ascension day,
Cotton fell lc on all grades in this
market at noon to-day.
The Colored Zouayes, Captain
Brown, paraded last night.
Elmwood lots attended to by Male
4 Lamb, florists, 1856 Main street.
The time between sunrise and sun
set Is now more than fourteen hours.
The moon gives light, though in
scant supply, until a quarter after ten
tonight.
The temperature opened out at "a
this morning at sunrise, The highest
yesterday was S9' and the lowest 74o.
On June 18th the Louisiana Lottery
will distribute a large number of prizes
for the benefit Of their ticket holders.
Tickets $40, and coupons in proportion.
The steamer CATS music band was
out serenadiag tho newspapers about
o'clock this morning Il was nice,
not naughty as some wOnld have .us
think.
Religious confirmation will be ex.
tended to fourteen young communi.
cants in the Hebrew synagogue. They
have been examined and are ready (oI
the ceremony.
The Presbyterian ladies' of German.
town are making efforts to have a din.
uer there on the 10Th inst. to rails,
money to repair their church. II,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-24
PUBLIC LEDGER.
Omus, Is Madison Street
TIE CENTS Pc We E X.
THE CITY.
sa.uraay EvenLnE. May p, Isss.
DIYine NerYIees TO-lIorrow.

Divine Services TO-SaOrrOW.
st. Mary's eatheiral-Services 7 and II
I'm. and 8 pm.
Central n, f. Church, Union street
Services at II am, and SPIN, by the
pastor, W. j. Harris.
Lauderdale street Presbyterian Church.
Preaching at II am. and 8 pm. by DIR.
Waddsl. Sabbath-schOol ata30.
Central Baptist Church-Service at II
am. BY DR.. LandFnm, and s pm. by T
j. Rowan. Sunjay-schOOl at $50 am.
First Presbyterian Church, corner Third
and Poplar streets-Services at II am.
and 8 pm. Rev. Eugene Daniel, pastor.
German Lutheran Church, Washington
treet-Sunday-school at $50 am; SER
vices at 1890 am. Rev. II, Sleek, pastor.
Sixth Street NJ. f. church. corner OF
Jackson and Sixth streets Services
at II am. and 1870 pm. Sunday-school
2SOp.m.
Saffarans Street Methodist church
Preaching at II an. and S pm, by the
pastor, Rev. f. c. Holmes. Sunday-school
at $50 am.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
Court street. Preaching by Rev. II. A.
Jones, of McMinnyille, Tenn, at II am.
and 8 pm.
Grace Church-Rey. DR.. Dalzell, rec
tor. Services and holy communion at II
O'Clock. Sunday-sehool and evening ser
vice at $3.50 pm.
First Methodist Church on Second
street, near Poplar-Seryices at II am.
and s pm. Sabbath school at $50 am.
Rev. K. H. Mahon, pastor.
Linden street Christian Church-Sun-
day-school at 9 am. Lords supper at
1880 am, preaching at IL am. and s
pm. j. NJ. Tribe, pastor.
fernando street Methodist church, cor
ner of Linden and Hernando-Service ICES at
II am, and 7;sO PM Sunday-school at
am. J.. G. Hooks, pastor.
Second Presbyterian Church, corner o.
Main and BeaI treets.-Seryices at II
am. and sI5 pm.
St. Johns " z. church, corner Of
Vance and I~Aaisuiale streels-Services
every sabbath II an. ARd 3 pm. Sunday
school 3p. Pnyer-meeting every Thurs.
day s pm. B. 2. Tillsr. pastor.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-24

Daily services in the Second Presby-
terrain Church, corner of Main and
Beal streets, at $50 am. and 8 pm,
conducted by Rev. j. w. Hoyt, d. D.,
of Nashville.
The North American Review for
June and all the leading magazines
for June, as well as a full supply Of
late illustrated weekly and daily pa.
pers, can be had at Billy Lieben's news
stand, 236! Main street. Billy keeps
open on Sunday until noon to accom-.
modate the reading public.
Mack Hammitt, a prominent com
mission and forwarding merchant Of
Pine Bluff, Ark, and agent at that
point of the Memphis and Arkansas
River United States Mail Packet
Company, arrived in the city this
morning on the John B. Maude. and
is the guest of Major Hardin, super
intendent Of the Memphis and Ar
kansas River Mail Line.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-24
B%ONDHoLDERs AT WORK.
They viii Press Their Railroad Suits.

Active operations, it is stated, have
been commenced in Eastern cities by
holders Of Tennessee State bonds
against the several railroads within
the State, to which aid was issued in
the form of State Endorsement on
their construction bonds. The suits
begun here and at Nashville, in the
name of C. ArmOry Stevens, some
months ago, are to be pressed vigor-
Ously. A circular has been issued in
New York within the past few days
by Eugene Kelley, the chairman of
the b~ondholders committee, setting
forth the leading points in which they
expect to win their cause, and offer
ing to let all persons interested share
in the result on payment of five dol
lars and a deposit of one past due
coupon from each bond, with a guar
antee that no other assessment will be
made or liability incurred. Charles
O'Conor and II. L. Andrews, of New
York, and Judge Hoadly, of Cincin-
natl, are counsel for the suitors. In
relation to this matter the New York
Tribune, of Tuesday last, says.
Charles 0'Conor had given an opinion
that the bonds issued under the internal
improvement acts were a first mortgage
lien on the railroads. The Kelly COM
mittee has decided to adopt these suits
with the approval of Brown Brothers &
Co, Maitland, Phelps & Co, Ward.
Campbell q Co, and other large holders
Of bonds in this city, and in Baltimore,
Philadelphia and Chicago. The circular
gives a list of roads on which the bonds
are first mortgage liens and the amount of
bonds outstanding against each road.
These bonds amount to ST., 647,0 900. and
with accrued interest to $14,325. 7lO.
Funding bonds issued in payment of in
terest Hnder the funding acts of 1865, 1868
and 1873 are not included in the amount,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-24
An Undertaken I'm the Coal Bust.
ness.

An Undertaken I'm the Coal Bust.
ness.
Gintlemin, me business is so dis.
Increasingly dull hal I've had to 90
into the coal business to find imploy-
ment for the summer for me horses
and wagons, and to make an honist
living. So please put in this adver-
tisemint of me coal Office at 23O
Second street, and if any of ye want
to lay in a winters supply of coal,
that's the place to get it chape." The
speaker was Mr.. Jack Walsh, the
county undertaken, and a maj that We
have always found square in business
matters, and who will, no doubt, carry
out his promises in regard TO coal or
anything else, He was in the LEDGER
counting-room, aud his card appears
elsewhere. We commend him to the
trade as one who deserves we'll at the
hands of Memphis people. When a
leading undertaken has to 50 into
other business to make living it is
pretty good evidence, as the doctors
would say, that Memphis is distress
ingly healthy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-24
Floral Decoration.

Tomorrow the Old Bluff City
Grays, those who did warrior service
when war ragged, will decorate the
graves Of their departed comrades
(twenty-slx in number) at Elmwood
Cemetery. The orator of the day is
to be Colonel NJ, G. Galloway, of the
Appeal. The colonel served in con-
junction with the Grays under Gen,
Forrest during a portion of the strug-
gle. The Grays Rrst entered the in
fantry service and belonged TO the
One Hundred and Fify-foWrth Senior
Tennessee regiment but later were
mounted aud transferred To FORESTS
cavalry regiment, They saw rough
service and were IN many a bard
fought hattie,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-24

Of my earnest thanks and highest appre-
citation. Let me contribute to your hap
plneSs and relieve my embarrassment hv
directing the music 10 sound and the
dance to be resumed.
MAY 60 TO CONGRESS.
AS the music struck up a dozen
voices were heard. who said Captain
Bob Wise couldn't make a speech ~
Another was heard to remark that he
could beat a congressman all hollow.
"Whyhe'dmakea misrepresentation
of marine interests at the halls of
congress now than either Milt Sayler,
Tom or Casey Young, Let's have
him nominated and send him there"
and thohilarity that followed bore proof
of the joy and good feeling prevailing
in all hearts.
END OF THE TRIP.
1t vas about the midnight hour
when the steamer rounded to and
landed at the cotton slide, on the site
of the old navy yard, or where the
Happy Hollow of tradition is known
to have existed. The young lady and
gentlemen guests, many of them,
trudged off in pairs and sought their
homes in various parts Of the city,
a number remaining and keeping up
the festivities until towards morning.
When the boat had taken on some
eight hundred bales of cotton she
moved to the lower landing, and the
remaining guests, weary and surfeited
with the pleasures of the occasion, bid
good bye and went ashore, none need
ing to be rocked to sleep when they
sought their touches of rest. Every
individual on the excursion left the
steamer CAT with the wish, " Long
may she wave!'
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-24
Summer HATS.

A full line of straw and wool hats, en-
bracing all the latest styles and best
makes, can be found at the hat store of
Martin Cohen, 2l9 Main street, under
Worsham House. His stock is all new,
and is sold at the lowest figures hats were
ever offered before in this market.