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The Columbus journal., 1880-10-20

"You are now one," said the min
ister to the happy pair he had just
tied together with knot they could
never undo with their teeth. (which
one?' asked the bride. You. will
have to settle that for Yourself" said
the dominic. Ii was subsequently
settled with o broomstick.
The Columbus journal., 1880-10-20
JOB WORK

or all kinds neatly and quickly
done, st fair prices. This species
of printing is nearly always want
ed in a hurry, and, knowing this
fact, We have so provided for il
that we can furnish envelopes, let
ter heads, bill heads, circulars,
posters, ETC., etc., on very short
notice, and promptly on time as
we promise.
The Columbus journal., 1880-10-20

a Park policeman seeing a yellow
dog near two handsomely dressed
women, approaches respectfully and
says: Does this beautiful creach-
ure belong to you ladies 2" "Mercy,
nor Park policeman lifting his
cane-"Get out o here, you beast"
The Columbus journal., 1880-10-20
SO COLUMBUs, NER.
THE NEBRASKA FARMER.
h00A WEEK in your own town,

h00 A WEEK in your own town.
Xhn and no capital risked. You
UOO can give the business a trial
without expense. The best
opportunity ever offered for those will
ing to work. YOu shouId trv nothing
else until YOU see for yourself what you
can do at the business we offer Ne room
tc explain here. You can devote all
your time or only your spare time to tue
business, and make great pay for every
hour that you work. Women make as
much as men. Send for special private
terms and particulars, which we mail
free. s. Outfit free. Don't complain of
hard times while you have such a
chance. Address n. HALLETT & CO.,
Portland, Maine. 4sI-y
The Columbus journal., 1880-10-20
FAMILY NEWSPAPER,
ADVERTISING

In its columns always brings its
reward. Business is business. and
those who wish to reach the solid
people OF Central Nebraska will
find the columns of the JOURNAL
splendid medium.
The Columbus journal., 1880-10-20

Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific
r. K. Lands for sale st from S3.00to $1,000
per acre for cash, or on five or ten years
time, in annual payments to suit pur-
chasers. We have also a large and
choice lot of other lands, improved and
unimproved. for sale at low price and
on reasonable terms. Also business and
residence lots in the city. We keep q
complete abstract of title to all real es-
tate in Platte County.
The Columbus journal., 1880-10-20
TO ETERNAL INFAMY

[applausel how would the men
who starved our brave boys there
vote il they were in Illinois now?
Every one Of them would hurrah for
Hancock.
Let Us be honest. We are reaping
the reward of all these great and
glorious actions, and every good
man who has ever lived in the coun-
try, no matter whether he has been
prosecuted or not, has made the
world better.
The other night | happened to no.
tice sunset. The sun went down
and the west was full of light and
fire, and said: There, there is the
perfect death Of a great man that
sun, dying. leaves legacy OF glory
even TO the ones who prosecuted
him, and the world is glorious only
because there have been men great
enough and grand enough TO die for
the right" Applause. Will any
man, can any man afford to die for
this country? Then we can afford
to vote for it. If a man can afford
to fight for it and die for it, can af-
ford to speak for it.
And now beg OF you, every man
end woman, no matter in what
country born,--if you are an Irish
man recolleet that this country has
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23

least one horse and few implements paiC
for. You had better work for wages unit
you can do this. 1t ought not to require
more than twelve months to do this. 1t i,
true you cannot buy three or five hundred
acres, but cant you buy as much MS you car
cultivate? That is all you want at that OF
any subsequent period Of your life. Sup.
pose you take fifty acres, knock up a cabin
run fence around, and pitch into il with 8
will and free from debt. The chances are
that ut the end OF the year you will have the
money to add fifty or one hundred acres
more to it. and sec your way clear for hir-
ing farm hand or two. But don't go too
far: don't buy for the glory Of owning big
farm.
There is comprehensive expression in
Texas describing people as Gland poor"
That is they own so much it keeps them poor,
dead broke all the time in money, and ever
lastingly harrassed raising money to pay
taxes, Remember we have to buy our lands
from the government, county ana state every
fifteen years, and the chances are, most de-
cidedly, that we will never receive a quit
claim deed from these insatate parties.
1t is far better TO get few hundred acres
OF good land and concentrate every energy
and all energies to their improvement. Let
the cabin be supplemented by comfortable,
well furnished house, with plenty
of books and papers for your chill
dren, the stable filled with horses
of pure blood, plant the vineyard and the
garden and the orchard, build the dairy, make
the dsh-pond, plant the shade tree and the
rose bushes and the ornamental vine. There
is room enough on two or three hundred
acres of ground, and still leave enough Tor
ample field crops to support them, and more
too. Farming is one calling, ranohing quite
another. The two will not work well to-
gether. "lou cannot serve two masters"
In the Northern States three hundred acres
are regarded as a large farm, and quite ample
to become absolutely independent. The
trouble with us is, we try to do too much
and fail to do anything we'll We try to run
big farms with force and capital only stuff
Gent to run small ones properly. We get
overcropted, go in debt to pull through, and
the moment the farmer begins to pay inter
est, that moment he begins to ring the bell
for the sheriff
True economy teaches us to do that well
which we have to do, or, more graphically
stated, anything worth doing at all is worth
doing well. And thus do we find those per-
feet masters of farming. the Dutch of Penn
sylvania, making more in their fence corners
than many of us do in the open field. Which
is the easiest task, the raising of ten bales of
cotton on ten acres, or ten upon twenty +?
Which can you do easiest, walk ten miles or
twenty2 To state the proposition is to an
swer it. Happiness in this life consists in
utilizing properly that which Heaven sees fit
to give us; to always and under all circum-
stances accept the present situation, not for
getting, however, to exercise eternal vigilance
for better. Even the restless Vanderbilt
was forced to acknowledge that all the wages
he got were victuals and clothes.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23
DOctOring n Horse

There are many elements in the horse like
those OF man. Veterinary surgeons are
agreed that their diseases are precisely SINH.
lar, saying that the horse has pneumo.
mis-, chills, fevers, consumption, and all
the ailments Of bowels and lungs. head and
heart that we do. And their treatment
Of their patients is also on the order of tho
family doctor making bis daily rounds-,,sine
the same stimulants, aperients and linaments.
obtaining them from the same bottles and
Jars at the drugstores the alapath physician
does. II is only within the last quarter of a
century all these facts have become well ca.
tsblished In the minds of horse doctors. The
public at large, especially ignorant jackasses,
who never gave the subject an hours study
and who can talk learned horse without
knowing a single point about the animal,
deny all this and without being able to sug.
gest. even respectable superstition in lieu
of the solved problems of men who have
gone through regular course of study as
thorough as the medical college of Philadel-
phia. The governments of Europe have
veterinary colleges as regular attachment to
their military systems and their GRADUATES are
va regularly upon duty in camp and post as
any other doctors. But m CHS
country every fourth man You meet
counts himself q superior horse doctor. And
have seen ten of them around q sick ami.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23
Job Printing.

For the past few weeks the HERALD jon
OFFICE has added largely to its extensive
stock of Job material. Several new fonts of
book type, together with forty fonts of latest
style display type, six presses, all run by
steam, render the HERALD JOB OFFICE the
most complete in all its appointments in
Northern Texas, and without superior in
the entire State. Our workmen are all men
of experience, which is a guarantee that the
work is executed in an artistic manner. Our
friends and tho public generally are invited
to ca and examine specimens and to hand in
their orders. Prices moderate and work
done at she rtest uotice.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23

nearly, if not all, the other counties of
North Texas.
We appreciate the difficulties in the way of
concerted action. If farmers would only
meet together and indicate the number Of
hands they would hire and intimate the
wages they could pay and the permanency cf
the work, and have this action published at
home and in the newspapers OF other states,
that is all they could do, and perhaps all that
would be necessary. And let them write nu-
merous letters back to their old homes in
other states and state what they want. 1t is
an unwrtten law that wherever there is de-
mand there is supply. Unfortunately our
ent or utterly unwilling to do
a single thing to induce
immigration to Texas. 1t throws cold water
upon every scheme OF the kind, and the rail
road companies which, few years since,
took such lively interest in the matter have
abandoned all efforts of the kind and thus
is the work of populating the state left TO
take care of itself The people, therefore,
must act if there is any action at all. There
is not day in the whole year but 100000
people in the United States are looking for
new homes, and greedily devouring every
scrap of information they can get their hands
upon concerning western and southwestern
countries Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Da-
kota, Wyoming and Idaho, quickly and freely
respond to them, and lay before them tho
most attering pictures of those states and
territories. They have departments of immi-
graft n and agriculture, with heads and clerks
regularly paid for this purpose. They do
this work so thoroughly and so well that they
are not only capturing all the surplus but
actually inducing people to leave the sunny
plains of Texas to go to those frozen, sterile
regions. And what is Texas doing! Moth
ing; absolutely nothing, as body corporate,
and next to nothing Individually.
The labor question is looming up before
us in daily increasing proportions and press
ing for solution. We must act quickly if we
would husband the rich products nature has
given and is giving us this season. Millions
of tons of hay and fodder are being lost now
for want ofreapers to take care Of them And
few weeks hence cotton will be equally and q
great deal more pressing.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23
The Cotton CrOp ofIssO

The Cotton Planters and Manufacturers
journal, of Little Rock, has been making
some interesting figures upon the crop of
1880. 1t places the increased acreage at 8
per cent, and makes mistake in putting
down that of Texas at 10 per cent. over last
year. 1t is all OF Is. Says the Journal :.
"The American cotton crop for the past five
years, with the exception of the year 1877
was considerably above an average. An sv.
erage Of from 166 to 1853 pounds to the acre
for the entire crop of the Southern states is
considered fair average. In 1875 the aver
age was III pounds, in 1876, III; in 1877,
l7S pounds in 1878, $50 pounds and for
1879, according to the best estimates that are
attainable, the crop will probably exceed 1893
pounds to the acre, being an excess of the
1870 crop of about two pounds per acre"
And again: "As before stated we estimate
the acreage in cotton in 1880 about 8 per
cent. above the crop of 1879 This estimate
will make the acreage for 1880 at about IA
100000 acres, and taking our figures, 1853
pounds, as an average for this years crop.
would make about 5,230,0OO bales of 450
pounds net weight, and for the Weld per
acre to equal the 1879 crop, it will produce
100000 bales, $50 pounds each, and for the
yield to fall as low as the 1874 crop, which
only averaged 154 pounds to the acre the
crop would barely reach 100000. These
are within the range of possibilities. To re-
cspitulate the yield of 1874 would produce
only 100000 bales. An average Weld
would produce $3.50 900; but, to equal the
1879 crop average, it would produce fully g.
100000 of $50 pounds EACH"
The Journal admits that the news from
the crop throughout the South is so far very
favorable and points to yield equal to 1879.
But from the day it is planted until picked it
is liable to multitude of calsmities, every
one OF which cuts down the gross product
by the hundred thousand bales. Up to this.
June 23d. not single misfortune of any
character has occurred worthy o. mention.
Seed, labor, sun and rain have all been most
favorable in every cotton county in the
Southesn states. 1t, however, has twelve
weeks to pass through and therefore ample
time for drouth, worms and every other
enemy to prey fatally upon it.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23
The Watermelon

Richmond county, Ga Of which the city
OF Augusta is the capital, is the greatest
watermelon county on the North American
continent. This may sound as an empty
boast, yet it is true for all that, and admitted
and so recorded in the agricultural bureau
at Washington. Up to the beginning of the
war IL was like the rest of the country
around 1t, an almost exclusively cotton Sec
tion. In 1862 the planters began raising them
Cor export. The yield was enormous and the
profits SO far greater than cotton the
melon distanced the old king and
has kept him down ever since. They usually
begin to ripen and reach the market BY the
10th OF June. A month later or in July,
the writer counted flfty-four wagon loads at
the market house one morning in Augusta.
After supplying the local market, they are sold
so regular dealers, who load them in refriger-
ating cars and send them to Bangor, Maine,
Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis
and to all intervening points, arriving at
these points as cool anc as fresh rs the morn
ing they were pulled. With the exception of
the cotton mills of the city, the largest rev.
enue Of that people is derived from that
source.
There is but one variety Of seed planted in
Vie entire county the striped, or rattlesnake
The rind is not thicker than silver quarter.
The meat is blood-red and average weight
forty pounds.
La the cultivation there is nothing peculiar,
unless we call special attention to the crop
something singular. The ground is most
thoroughly broken up and heavily MANFRED
IN hills fifteen feet apart, the grass kept down
and nature left to do the rest. The ground
cannot DO too rioh and scarcely too moist.
Low and level lands are preferable and stable
manure an excellent article to use. Half a
bushe to the hill is none too much, provided
you have plenty of moisture, which is the
great question to be determined by your
Judgment If your lsud is thin, then YOU
should use muck, or rich black earth of any
kind. There is in the melon, as in almost
everything else, man not excepted, precious
little in the seed. 1t is all in the soil and eli
mate ami cultivation-the last footing up as
per cent of the problem.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23
The Best ROute

To the North and East is by way of Mem
phis and Louisville, over the Louisville and
Great Southern railroad line. From the
principal points of Texas to Louisville it is
over one hundred and fifty miles shorter
and many hours quicker than any route via
81. Louis. 1t is also shorter and quicker to
Cincinnati and all points East. 1t is the
only route by which we can take in the great
Mammoth Cave, of Kentucky, and its
through arrangement of Pullman Palace
Sleeping Cars is unsurpassed.
Mr.. j. +. Thompson, the passenger agent,
OF Dallas, solicits the patronage of the travel
ing public, and takes pleasure in answering
all correspondence, and furnishes maps, time
schedules, etc.
Let's try the Louisville route.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23
The Hog and His Bath

The Western Rural explains WHY hog
should have its bath. "Some provision" L
says, SHOULD also DO made for it to wsilow,
Very often the belief prevails that il is the
love of the hog for filth that induces It to
seek the mud. Never was there greater
mistake made. The hog does not love 9th (;
1t is, in fact, one of the cleanest animals in
existence, if it has chance to be. The
reason that the hog seems filthy is because
the owner is filthy. The animal is kept and
ted in dirt, and to expect it to shun it when
1t cannot get away from it is an absurditv,
and is laying the blame where il does not
belong. But mud in the strict meaning of
Che term is not filth; and when used by the
hog is the animals method of taking bath.
The skin becomes hot and itchy, and is fire.
quenty covered with dandruff.like substance.
La wallowing, the mul acts incidentally, ard
when dried and rubbed off either by scratch.
ing or lying down, the skins surface is
cleansed." And the Rural mi hit have in
cluded every other domestic animal in these
remarks, for there is hardly any of them
which does not require its daily bath.
especially birds, every one of which will
have it If it has to fly twenty miles to find
water.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23
The Question of LabOr-How Shall
this Cotton Crop be Pickedc

The time is rapidly approaching when cot
ton will be ready to pick and corn to gather.
And the time is even now at hand when farm.
ers should begin to think seriously and 10
make arrangements for their necessary help
in securing their crops. 1t is serious mat
ter, for if the cotton crop natures according
to present prospects, not one extra hand can
be secured where five will be required.
We cannot get this help in Texas, for it is
not here to get. The new railways building
have absorbed the surplus, and at wages
farmers cannot afford to pay, and even their
contractors have not been able 10 secure
much over half the force they would take.
We must look beyond the state for relief, and,
beginning now, the necessary supply will get
here none too soon. 1t is not an exsggera-
ton to say five hundred farm laborers could
to-day find situations in Dallas county alone,
and pro missed work until next winter, at least
if not for twelve months. And it is thus in
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23
To Meas urc Hay i'm the stack

Five hundred cubic feet of timothy hav
will weigh ton. To estimate the contents
Of round stack, measure the diameter at
the middle of the upright part and the
height from the bottom to the caves and half
the height from the caves to the peak. Add
these two heights and multiply them BY the
diameter, and this product by the diameter
second time, which will be the same as tax.
ing the square of the diameter. Then take
three.quarters of the final product, which
will give, approximately, the cubic feet in
tho stack. 1t may be made clearer by tho
diagram here given:
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23
He took six nauseatinC pills for constina

He took six nauseating pills for constipa-
ton. They paiaei, sickened and griped him
all mkt day. He lost his appetite, lost day
from business and was left quite feeble. His
neighbor, who was also suffering from consti-
patton, took one dose of Baley's Saline Ape
rient. 1t cooled and cleansed his stomach,
moved his bowels gently, and the next
morning he felt bright and happy.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23
A Card.

To all who are suffering from the errors
and indiscretions of youth, nervous weak
ness, early decay, loss of manhood, etc.,
will send recipe that will cure yoa free Of
charge. This great remedy was discovered
by a missionary in South America. Send a
,eIf-addressed envelope to the Rev. Joseph
L. lnman. Station d, New York city.
n28d&W1y
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23

The beautiful crimson blush, the, bright,
sparkling eye, clear intellect--are so ofsen
wanting among our most lovely females, and
Why Because they are suffering from some
peculiar lingering female complaint. A sure,
safe aud,effectual remedy Ia English Female
Rittnrs
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23

Laxatives and purgatives are used by all
men and women, and by all physicians. One
that acts pleasantly and gives satisfaction is
much sought for. Bailey's Saline Aperient
Is active, pleasant and efficient.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23
16 feet.

Twelve and 6 are IS; multiply by 16 twice
equals 4,6O8; three-fourths of this is 1856; d.
vide by 500 gives nearly 7, which will be
the tons 10 round stack l6 feet wide and
Is feet to half the upper part. If the stack
is square, take the whole sum instead of three
quarters of il.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23
AGRICULTURAL.

THE FIELD, GARDEN AND STABLE
-----%nS----
Greatest ~.WatermeI On COHntysin the
United States-The Hog VIII Have
Bis Bath-The Horse, and How
He IL DOctOred, and His In
seIIigence-Measurin Hay
How To start u Texas
Farm what IN the
Army Worm?
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23
The HERALDAND COMMERCIAL
Agents ANO BRANCH OFFICES.

n,ne fonrwing parte are Agents and have
sharge Of branch offices of TUE HERALD
at the places named, to solicit snb-
3 erlptons and make contracts for ADVERTISE
rments for this paper and to collect and receipt
n, the a1te,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23

Atlas Portable Engine took blue ribbon
over twenty-five competitors at st. Louis
Fair, 1879.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23

G7-BEWARE! OF persons who may clsin
to be Agents for the sale ofPeers Colony Lanus,
and OF those who disparage their title anu y. =
other ways, only to defeat your choice ana pI. ~,
vent you buying them, in order to sell Oui''
lands toyou ~
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-23

What ~ Corn ?

Why everybody knows. Are you sure of
that Yes, it is this common article grown
in the field which we feed to stock and grind
into meal. And yet that is not corn. 1t is
maize-Indian maizc-indigenous to Amer
lea. Corn is the comprehensive name of
every grain used as food for man or beast.
This is what the books, the big dictionaries
and learned encyclopedias tell US, but as the
people in this country outside of classic
Boston are notch or two
higher in authority than books
however huge in size aud title, they will be-
mighty apt to continue saying corn, oats, rye,
barley and wheat and will perfectly under.
stand each other when doing SO.
I'm Texas of the Right Foot.
The greatest difficulty in farming in Texas
is getting the right start The right start is
an even start. That is to say begin farming
on your own hook with your land, and at
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-06-08

= poop PAN. ceI.lIsIss sra sr.ss,,r many s.s.'s
stiln manAssinsnf~ Lsrfs pxeAss uyi6nA ilpr -
tuvesnh nts ol " ~ e,oeca tcular Win GLis y
rsSSssds *: s'i'S y ss ~ s:'{ w. is n
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-06-08

W II Keep on ho,M all Kinds o. :
~ Bidnks sucltas Notes, Sums
n'onsss. lRayrs1Afs, Leases, Subpoe
nus, o., ~, asgmssa ,s
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-06-08
lEWrsT0WN DIVISION.

Tho Paclnti Exvress west can be Ragged n
VI NeStownnt " n. N. and the Atlantic Ex