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The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
Grape Vine Treatment.

Whether you raise vines from gratis
or young vines, let only one or two sprouts
grow the first year or two; nip off all suck
ers that sprout out at the leaves or joints,
but never nip the end of the main stem
or vine. BE on your guard for caterpi!-
lars, or they will nip them for you. 1t
is folly to let any more than one or tw"
sprouts grow on a young vine the first
year OF two, as you will have grape
bush, and moi a fruit-bearing vine if you
do. Spare not the pruning knife: the
old wood produces no fruit. Raise strong
thrifty vines, until they arc ready to bear
which will be the third or fourth year if
the proper attention has been bestowed
upon them. Then let them have as many
sprouts as their strength will warrant,
and an abundant supply of fine grapes
will be your reward. Grape vines are
strong feeders, and any small animals
that may die can be utilized as fertil-
izer by being buried down by the roots,
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
Washings of Roads.

The washings from the public roads
that accumulate in bitches and pools into
which they lead, contain a very large
amount of fertilizing material. They
contain, among other valuable material,
the solid and liquid droppings of animals,
the foliage and stalks of plants, the leaves
of trees, and earth of various sorts that
has been reduced to great degree OF
iineness by the feet Of animals and the
wheels of carriages. The value of the
first named substances is ackno owledged
by all farmers. Many are unacquainted
with the use of finely pulverized earth,
but those who have employed it speak OF
it in the highest terms. The sweeplngs
Of the streets of most European cities
and towns are disposed Of for more than
enough to pay for collecting them. They
are difficult to handle as they are liable
to he blown about by the wind. When
applied as top-dressing to grass land they
produce remarkably good results. The
ltkc Is UluC vi tliSli ttSS oh hN'N''
The loose materials on road beds are car
ried by rains into bitches where they
accumulate or are conveyed. if the land
is descending into hollows. There they
accumulate, and after the water has
passed out Of them by drainage or evapo-
ration, they assume compact form.
The consistency of the material allows
it to be lifted by the shovel into carts
very readily. 1t may be spread over
grass land where it will disintegrate by
the action of rain; or it may be applied
to soil that is devoted to any cultivated
crops. The value of the fine pulverized
soil as fertilizcd is admitted by all who
have experimental with it, and its en-
ployment will be general in the aSricul-
ture of the future.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
A Queer Scene.

There was 4 queer scene nj one Of the
churches last Sunday, says the Milwaukee
wis S,H. II seems that during the vaca-
ton the seals had been newly vanished,
and somehow the varnish was not right, as
it was terribly sticky. You know when you
pull anything OFF of sticky varnish it cracks.
Well, the audience had all got seated, when
the minister got up to give out the hymn,
and as the basement of his trousers let loose
of the varnsh of his chair there was noise
like killing a fly on the wall with a palm
leaf fan. The minister looked around at
the chair TO see if he was all present, and
that no guilty man. pants had escaped, and
read the hymn. The choir rose with sound
of revelry, and after the tenor had swal-
lowed a lozenge, and the bass had cOughed
up piece of frog and the alto had hemmed,
and the soprano had shook out her polonaise
TO see if the varnish showed on the south
side, the audience began to rise. One or
two of the deacons got up first, with sounds
like picket firing in the distance on the eve
of battle, and then a few more got up. and
the rattling of the unyielding varnish sound
ed as though the fight was becoming more
animated, and then the whole audience rot
on its feet at once with Il sound of rattling
musketry. The choir then sang Hold the
Fort" When the orchestr had concluded,
the people sat down gingerly, the services
were short, and all went home praying for
the man that painted the seats.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
The Culture of Sunach.

Now, when the sumach is coloring the
hills from the lakes to the Gulf of Mexico
with its rich crimson. is the time to draw
the attention of our agriculturists to the
scheme of the Agricultural Bureau for
making it source of real profit to the
country. The leaves of the sumach are
used, as our readers know, for purposes
of tanning; and the varieties spontane-
ously produced in the United States,
while not so valuable for this use as the
Sicilian, are hardy, and bear the changes
impossible to acclimate either Sicilian,
French, or Spanish sumach in this coun-
try. The importation Of foreign sumach
averages 5000 tons annually, outside of
an immense amount smuggled into the
country; the imported article being worth
so per ton more than the native. Our
wild sumach imparts a yellow tinge to
the leather, and fails to give it the snowy
delicacy to which the fannie obtained
from the Sicilian bleaches it. Mr.. Mac
Murtrie, who has published an official
report on this matter, states that this
difficulty can be obviated by gathering
the sumach leaves in June, if they are
required for tanning white OF very light
leather: the tannin then present being
smaller in quantity, but of purer quality,
and the value of the ground leaves being
equal to the Sicilian.
"There is no reason, says the Depart
ment very justly, why the S1,O00,00
in gold paid yearly for foreign sumach
should not be kept at home" The plant
grows like weed on every stretch of
poor ground or mountain range, and it
requires but little culture and skill in
harvesting to add it to our profitable
lesser crops. 1t requires to be free from
weeds: the crop should be gathered the
year after planting, by breaking off all
the leaves: after that year, in Sicily, the
tree is either stripped Of all leaf: bearing
branches and pruned down to straight
stalk, or else. which is best, and-picked
three times year. At present the crop
of American sumach is reaped almost
exclusively by negroes and poor whites,
especially in Virginia. About 5000 tons
are brought annually to the Virginia
mills. carelessly gathered and cured, and
consequently worth about half the value
Of the imported article.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10

But nothing of the kind can he reasona-
bly, expected If a loaf of bread-with
flour at about seven dollars barrel, the
most that any bakers now pay, and more
than the cost averages to the many-will
return double the amount invested, al
lowing fifty per cent. for wages and cost
Of baking, it might strike any, however
deficient in knowledge of political econo-
my. that the protective increase of nearly
one third in the price of IA loaf is extor-
ton. out of every evil, however, it is
said 4 corresponding good arises. and in
this instance it seems that the inevitable
result of an unsubstantial loaf at the ad
vance proposed, will highly stimulate the
use of the domestic oven, give us more
palatable adjunct to our breakfast in
wholesome bread to save us, in the future
from that train of evils that is best rep
resented by additional doctors bills.
Wiser. by far, than we. our ancestors in
America in 1862, by law ordained the ex-
act weight of bread whether of whiten,
wheaton or household -four" graded by
the price of wheat, in default of which
to be coniiscated as butter was when it
fell short.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
You Are no Gentleman.

DO you call yourself gentleman"
is the commonest and most whitening
form of sarcasm in use, not only among
snobS, but amorg costermongers, coal
beavers and the like. To persons of ad-
mitted pretensions to gentility the ques-
tion is frequently put, and perhaps mega
lively answered by the questioner when
the superior person declines to recog-
nize false or exorbitant claim. Thus
not long ago | was asked if called my
self u gentleman by ''young lady " at
a railway refreshment bar because de-
INJURED at paying her sovereign for not
having run away with purse that | had
inadvertently left on the counter for five
minutes. And two of her friends de-
clased that was 'no gentleman" with
out leaving any doubt in the matter. |
have been called "no gentleman for
not paying cabnan three times his fare.
and for objecting to pay in furnished
lodgings for articles which ! had neither
ordered OF consumed. A loafer in the
street has sometimes picked up glove
before l could pick it up for myself, OF
told me that my handkerchief was hang
ing out of my pocket. In any other
country than England the commonest
man paying such attentions as these
would be insulted by the offer of re-
7
freely called mo gentleman - for not ell
couraging the lowest kind Of what is vul-
carly called "cadging.' 1t seems, in
deed, that to be gentleman in the eyes
of large classes of the community you
must pay whatever may be demanded of
you upon any pretext, and ask no ques-
tions.
Socially. the term gentleman has
become almost vulgar. 1t is certainly
less employed by gentlemen than by in
ferior persons. The one speaks of "a
man know" the other of "a gentleman
| know" In the one case the gentleman
is taken for granted. in the other it seems
to need specification. Again, as regards
the term lady" 1t is quite in accord
ancc with the usages of society to speak
of your acquaintance the duchess as "a
very nice person. People who would
say very nice lady" are not generally
of u social class which has much to do
with duchesses; and if you speak of one
of these as Il person you will soon be
made to feel your mistake.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
WHIRS: WISE HND WITTY.

Mexican women get old at so.
American women don't get 30 until old.
Lies crushed to earth will rise again
when political campaign commences.
When the weather is bad people
growl; when it is pleasant they growI be-
cause it is too good to last
The clam has a larger mouth. in pro-
portion to its size, than a human being,
yet clam never talks about its neigh
Dor.
Wendell Phillips will not venture
near Philadelphia again. He has heard
that a woman has been arrested here as a
common scold.
"A Boston girl is so esthetic that she
married an old torer because the hue of
his nose harmonized so nicely with her
favorte color.
The tongue of the tlatterer maketh
many friends and emptieth many pocket
books. The fellows don't deal out soft
soap for nothing.
A farm is nice place to spend a va
cation, only just as you get used to get
ting up at o'clock in the morning it is
time to come home.
The true way for woman to drive a
nail is to aim the blow square at her
thumb. Then she'll at least avoid hit
tinp har fhumh ANYWAY
-"Yes," said the Vermont man. 'I'm
going TO take supper at the charity festi-
val tonight, and give them the benefit of
my fifty cents, and l won't eat any din
ner, so that can have big appetite for
the SUPPER
-Professor-Which is the more deli
cate of the sense? Sophomore-The touch.
Prof.-Prove it. Soph.-When you sit
on tack You can't hear it; you can't
see it: you can't taste it: you can't smell
it, but it's there.
kentucky has produced mule with
eight legs. If the Irish skirmishers want
to ship something more terrible than an
internal machine to England let them
buy that critter before the United States
army secures it as Gattling gun.
-" Whew" said the minister, as the
barber put the bay rum on tender face.
Powerful, amt it?' 'Well,' said
Moses, 81 just put it on for an expert
ment.'' How so?' quoth the parson.
"You see,' said Nose. 81 put some on a
chap the other day and he yelled out:
'Damnation! that would make minister
swear So thought I'd try it.
Two Irishmen were pouring over the
news in one Of on! city papers, and COM
ing to the heading --latest and imne-
diately following it every Latest, one
said to the other. can sure, Tim, will ye
afther explainin what this means"
" Arrah bedad," said Tim, San its me-
self that can explain that ye. Sure the
latest is what comes in time TO be printed
and the very latest is what comes atther
the paper is out.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
THE BREAD QUESTION.

Bread is so far . the staff of life that
the term is Synonymous with food, which
in Holy Writ it comprehensively implies.
In primitive days. when professional
bakers were comparatively unknown, the
mistress of the household, with her own
hands, from an ample store of purest
-four, superintendent its preparation.
Even two generations ago, the daughters
of these admirable women were declared
unfit to enter into the responsibilities of
matrimony, unless they We're both able
and willing to "brew and bake" "The
advance of civilization" as fine writer's
call it, is in many respects but the pro-
gress of idleness, involved by luxurious
ease, and although there are a proportion
of good housekeepers remaining, who
stand, as it We're as bright examples Of
past earlier and more industrious days.
the majority of the wives of the present
are about as unlearncd in the mysteries
of this comparatively lost art, as they
are of many other things conducive to
home comfort and happiness. AS IN ma
ture 4 demand ever creates a supply, SO
the professional baker in time was evolv-
ell to fill the gap between hunger, and
starvation. At present lie is collectively
the master of the situation. There are
several grades and vary from he who ac-
complishes palatahlc leaf, downwards
to the unsrrupulouS many who mix one
condemned article. and, by means of the
diScoverers of modern science. deftly
compels drugs to hide Deficiencies, and
perhaps ignorantly, slowly poisons his
customers by the gradual process of dys-
pepSia. which the consumption of his
loaves involves. Taking a fair estimate
based upon experiment, one pound
of good family flour. costing four cents
at retail, will. properly manipulated, at
home, produce ut least the substance of
two five cent bakers luaveS, in Il more
palatable and wholesome form. When
we consider that bakers generally pur-
chase by wholesale. and seldom, if ever
use the same grades preferred by house
keepers, relative idea of the enormous
profit that awaits those who supply from
day to day their many customers, may be
reached. This statement is timely and
made in view of the proposed combina-
ton of the bakers for an advance of two
cents per loaf, based upon their allega-
tions that there has been risc of one
dollar and a quarter per barrel in flour.
If when grain decreased in price there
ever had been corresponding increase
in the quantity, to say nothing of the
quality OF bread, there might be some
palliation for the impending outrage on
the stomachs and pockets of the people.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
Curiosities of KleptomanIa.

\ lady WAS affected with this mona,
mania so strongly that, upon her trial for
theft. she stated that she had such 4 mad
longing to possess herself of everything
She saw. that if she We're at church she
could not refrain from stealing from the
altar. DIR. Rush says that woman ho
was exemplary in her obedience to the
moral law-eXcept the eighth command
ment--was so addicted to larceny that
when she could take nothing more valrl-
Bile, she would often. at the table of
friend, secretly fill her prrhetS with
bread. l.avatcr also states that a doctor
of medicine could not leave his patients
rooms without taking something away
unobservel: and his wife searched his
pockets and returned to their owners the
knives. thimblcS. scissors. etc. which her
husband abstracted The wife of an
other physician had ST. strong 4 propen-
sity to steal that. on making purchases.
she endeavOred to take something away
that did not belong to her: and two Ger
man countesses appear to have been
guilty Of the same vice. The almoner of
a regiment of Prussian cuirassiers. well
educated man, frequently or parade stole
the handkerchiefS of the officers: and
one unfortunate man was so far under
the influence of klcptomania that, being
nigh unto death, he actually secreted the
snuff box of his confessor,
AS to modern instances of this species
of insanity, we knew parish clergyman
who stole every article he could lay his
hands on. If out at dinner. he pock-
eted scraps of bread. table napkins, or
any thing. When lodging at hotels he
carried off pieces of soap and the ends
of candles from his bed room. His lar
cenies became So notorious that he was
ultimately brought before the church
courts and turned out of his living,
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
$500 Reward
LAME BACK

iAMi BACK
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LADIES, if You are suffering from Female
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The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10

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seeded to n 0f
Inv t1e
pounds oil ock One width OF the
was without was no ohe
seeding On this wheat
NATHAN b. McNEI.
WALTER McNEI
I,1>e Sun, July - 1881,
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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-15
PILEsl PILEsl PILRsi
A Sure Cure Found at Last. No On
Need Suffer.

A Sure Cure Found at Last. No One
Need Suffer.
A sure cure for the Blind, Bleeding,
Itching and liberated Piles has been
discovered by DR.. Williams ian Indian
remedy, called DR.. Williams Indian
Ointment. A single box has cured the
worst chronic cases of twenty-five and
thirty years. standing. No one need
suffer five minutes after applying this
wonderful soothing medicine. Lotions,
instruments and electuaries do more
harm than good. Williams Ointment
absorbs the tumors, allays the intense
itching particularly at night after get
ting warm in bed), acts as q peultice,
gives instant and painless ralief, and is
prepared only for the piles, itching of
the private parts, and nothing else.
Read what the Hon. j. NJ. Cofinber-
ry, of Cleveland, says about DR.. Will
liams' Indian Pile Ointment: 1 have
used scores of pile cures, and it affords
me pleasure to say that I have never
found anything which gave such imme-
date and permanent relief as DR..
Willinms' Indian Pile Ointment.
For sale by all Druggists, or mailed
on receipt of price.
FRANK S. HENRY, & Co., Props,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Be sure and ask for Williams Pile
Ointment, and take no other.
For sale by Addoms s. Glover.
m~ay7-daw1y
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-15

IA few years ago Twas a most inyot
Irate smoker" said Judge Tyner. thu
First Assistant General, a.
he strolled along the beach at Atlantic
City. AT that time l thought it moth.
Ing to get through ten cigars a day and
Dften l exceeded that number. The
practice played the mischief with NV
health. but, do what I could. tho habit
stuck to me. and 1 decided that it was
no good trying to be virtuaus whore
tobacco was concerned.
'.Well, l cured myself by a .,.ere &C
cident. One day. while crossing the
ocean. | had a severe spell OF a sick
ness. / went up on deck in tie hope
that the fresh air would act as a reviyer.
Mechanically, as was my habit, 1 took
put a cigar and Lit it. Before it was
half consumed the sickness came on
again. Ugh! it makes me pale to think
Of it even now Anyhow, overheard
went the cigar. and from that day TO
this a couple Of whiffs are enough to
turn me upside down. If you happen
10 know anybody who wants to let up
on the habit just advise him to take q
weed and q dose of s~ea-sickness TO-.
Eether and l warrant you he will be an
hnti-tobacco man ever afterward."-
Philadelphia Record.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-15
He Tended sax-Mill.

A physiognomist came to town tue
pther day, and gave an exhibition.
lie advertised to tell the occupation and
general characteristics Of any man in
lhe audience by simply studying the
lineaments of his face and feeling q
bump or two; The first man to mount
The platform had a sort Of rolling gait,
and the lecturer set him down at onco
Rs o sailor. You plough tho MAN,"
laid he. "Never ploughed in Maine in
my life." replied the man. dome q
little ~cultivating in Injianny. though"
The audience Uttered a little. but the
lecturer persisted. '.It's no use telling
no that you haven't spent some of your
life on the water. Answer me frankly,
have you notf' Eyes," answered the
man. ito tell the truth. I have" (The
lecturer glows triumphantly.) II used
10 tend saw-millr' The child of tho
rea and the storm slipped down and
put amid thunders Of applause.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-15
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Z Tia Work

- -
Agood story reaches Us from Belgium
says the Manchester E1amiaey, the
truth OF which Is guaranteed A bank
Dg-house at VerFiers recently received
q Letter from . bank It Bada-Pesth.
The recipients knew that It feisted 70 a
matter of great Importance, but, un-
fortunately they could not master the
contents ofthe missive. as it was written
In the Hungarian language. and there
was mo- q soul at Verviers who under
stood that tongue Accordingly, one
of the partners took q journey toBrussels
expecting TO find everything he wanted
at the capitol. but only 20 be disappoint-.
ed-nobody al the banks could read
Hungarian. There was, however, still
the Austro-Hungarian Embassy. whith.'
er the banker betook himself. to learn
that there was an attache who spoke
Hungarian. but he had gone TO Bar
ritz for some sea-bathing. Almost in
despair. the hero Of the story called up,
on the Burgomaster, with whom he
was acquainted. and related his troubles.
After some thought his worship, strik-
ing his forehead, exelaimed: !
latter all, sometimes our most fool
ish ideas prove the best" A.
With this enigmatical observation he
asked for the letter. The next day he
returned the original to the gentleman
from Veryiers. with a translation il
French, in a neat. feminine hand.
TO what Hungarian fairy do I ows
this good fortuneP" asked the deliglreG
banker. This is an affair inrolyinpl
,ome millions, and | shall be happy tcl
pay a handsome douceo' to the trans
lator who has enabled me 10 get at the
meaning Of the letter In time to con-
elude the affair"
81 take you at your word" replied!
the Burgomaster. Give me 10, 000f.
for the poor of Brussels. for the transit
lator is none other than the Queen. She
has experienced lively satisfaction in,
Employing her knowledge of the Hunt
Earian language to oblige one of heII
subjects"
The Queen of the Belgians is daugh-
ter Of the Archduke Joseph. whose,
beneicent rule of Hungary is still re-,
nembered by the people. and she was.
born in the capital city during her
father's palatine. I