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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21
A Good Corn Ground.

Indian corn is the greatest cereal crop of the
northern United States, and il is important to
know what are the conditions most favorable for
its growth. The extensive experiments made
under the direction of Professor Atwater teach
us, already, some lessons as 10 the best condi-
tions for the growth of the corn plant. Ii is
evident that the plant mnst have an abundance
of food, and that this food must he in the most
acceptable form. We do not know to certainty
how much Of any one element of food is the
proper amount, and rs vet we fail to discover the
best form for them all to be presented to the
plant. But we do know some general principles,
and should apply them rs far rs possible TO the
culture of the CROP 1t is known that corn has n
semi-tropical nature-it loves the warm months
and therefore its season of growth must he
limited. '.About complaining time Is when
settled weather comes, and the soil is beginning
to warm up with the heat of long days and a
warm sun. With the short season before il, the
grain should be in the soil just soon as it will
grow vigorously. The good corn ground is then
one that is warm early. This will depend some
what upon the season, and very largely upon the
location and the soil. Passing season and loca-
ton as beyond control, the soil should be made
as warm as it can be by thorough undertaking,
and the best of tillage. While il is very impor-
tant to have the soil deep, warm, moist, and
mellow that is not all-it must be rich. The
soil is not simply the place where the grains of
corn are planted where they may grow-a mere
inactive seed -bed-but the substance from which
the young corn plants mnst derive large part
of their food, from the time they terminate until
the corn is ripe in theear. If this food ispresent
and in an available form, there is good reason TO
hope for q crop. Such a soil is n good corn
ground" This definition does not include any
previous crop; it does not say turned sod is
the ground for corn. In many systems of corn
rotation it may follow best after grass, and do
better there than any of the other crops in the
rotation, but thousands of Experiments show that
corn follows corn with success, provided You
have the essential elements of food present, and
the condition right for their being used at once.
--imeriodn 4gricultsrist.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21
Simon cameron,s First Geography

Yesterday, an old gentleman who knows much
of his early history, gave me one incident a
specimen of how he began life. General Cam
eron's MOTHER said this old friend, .was great
woman. She labored for her children with a
zeal and energy of which few beings are capa-
BILE, and it was her teaching and example, as
well native mental force, which marked the
life Of her boys with those strong characteristics
which have enabled them to make their mark
in life" The old stOrekeeper in Maytown, the
little hamlet in Lancaster Co., where General
Cameron was born. said my informant, often
told of his struggle for his first book in geogra-
ply. He was only eight or nine years old when
he became far enough advanced in elementary
education to study geography, and he approach
ed his teacher with the desire of his heart. The
teacher promised if he could get book to put
him in the class but how to get that book was
the question. II cost dollar, and even pennies
were scarce in his home. He consulted his
mother, and they together planned for the seog-
raphy. She entered heartily into her sons am
bition.
After three months of efforts, enough of the
odds and ends of the family economy left from
the daily demand for bread was saved up. These
were carried TO the country store by the boy
who has since written strongly upon the pa
ges of his country's political history. When
they were weighed and counted, the merchant
shook his head and said: There is only "a
cents worth. Simon, and the book costs dol
lar As the boy thought of the struggle he had
made to accumulate what he had brought, and
still the prize was far away, the tears sprang to
his eyes. The merchant relented, and, taking
him by the shoulder, said: ''SimOn, you are a
good boy; You can have the book, and you can
pay me the other q cents when you get it." He
not only lived long enough, said his friend, to
pay the a cents, but to do the man who thus
served his childish ambition many n kindness
PkilQdelDkia Prrss
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21
Willing to Accommodate.

A well-to-do citizen of San Francisco, happen
ing, few days since, to be short Of servant
girls, was requested by his wife to call on
Young lady who had expressed her willingness
TO engage for a consideration, to spend poT-
tion of her time in highly respectable family,
references exchanged, &c. He called on tine IN
teresting female, and found her all his fancy
nanted her, and more too, a masterpiece OF the
milliner's hair dresser's, jewellers, painters,
plasterers, and chemists art and airy As red
wood palace with cloth and papered wallis on
Telegraph Hill. few minutes conversation
satisfied him that he had opened the negotiations
on r wrong basis, and, in fact, he was the party
to be engaged, not the high-tOned lady before
him, who answered no questions at all, and ques-
toned him with all the nOnchalance of prac-
ticed horse buyer cheapening three-legged nag
follows:
FemaIe-.'wbere do you liver
Citizen-"Well, out pretty near the Mission
Dolores
Female-(with n doubtful shake of the head)
THAT is long way from Montgomery street;
almost too far, I'm afraid. How many children
have you in tie familyr'
Citizen-''We have four, madam"
Female-"Four! That is n great deal too
many"
Citizen-(abashed and humbled, taking his
hat in his hand neryOusly)-"Well, madam, do
You think You could get along with one or two
childreni"
Female-'I suppose / might, but you say you
have FOUR
Citizen-(edging toward the door)-"Yes, mad
am did say four, but rather than give you Of
fence, and risk failure of the negotiation, did
not know but that my wife might he prevailed
on TO drouR tirO or three Of them
With look of insulted dignity, the female
rose and waved her hand, much to say,
''You won't do Get from my sight" and the
citizen went out of her presence feeling, as he
avOws, at least thousand per cent meaner and
more contemplate in his own opinion than he
had ever felt or had cause to feel before. He
says he is entirely satisfied with his experience
in the line of hiring servant girls, and don't
want to try his hand at the business again.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21
.Nn@o~

An old coffee drinker tells an exchange some
thing about his beverage. Shall / give you q
long-tried receipt say for two personsf We
will buy our coffee of grocer that we can rely
upon to give us pure Java, and fresh Drowned.
We will only buy a small quantity-not over
two pounds-so as to keep it fresh, have it
ground, sent home, and immediately put into
our tightly closed canister. Now we are ready
for some boiling water, which first use to scald
out the coffee-pot we are to use in making it,
and see that it is perfectly clean; then dip into
a bowl two tablespoons full Of your coffee from
your canister; break an egg, take one-fourth of
both yolk and white carefully with a teaspoon
for, if the egg is put in cool place. it will serve
several times; add the egg to the coffee, stir il,
pouring in little cold water, until you can beat
il thoroughly; then have three or four cups Of
water boiling in the coffee-pot, and stir your
mixture of egg and and coffee into it, setting it
on where it is hot, but only let it boil mp two
minutes, then set it where it will keep hot, but
not boil, and pour ont half cup of the coffee to
clear the nozzle of the pot, and throw it in again,
which will settle it; and when your breakfast is
dished up, You will have beverage fit to set be-
n kim ~ Y Tina
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21
APRIL TESTING.

heard two robins singing in the wood,
One April day:
And what they said my heart we'll understood.
That April day:
oh love 10 sweet through all the busy dzy.ti
Oh love In true in Winter and in ay.timor
But then you know the hour Folly play time
Twas April day.
And l. 10 keep In tone the merry BIRDS
That April day,
Sang with them thoughtlrssly some foolish words
Twas April day;
my love 10 fair I could not help but chose him;
Ny love 10 good could not bear TO lose him
Ny love Ia wise; oh ! what could refuse him,
This April dayi
Yet should he hear me sing. let him BEWARE
lis April day:
And II / say, love him, have no carr
lis April day.
The token that he sends-oh, yes, ] kiss it,
And II he sends it not, sorely miss it,;
But promise, song kiss, now pray what 10 u.
On April day.
Singing and laughing through the wood came.
That April day,
Until . clear. strong voice sang hack again:
oh. April day!
This girl of smiles and tears. this little rover.
With pleasant jesting does her heart discover;
Thy mirth il Wisdom her happy lover:
Thou, April May"
He elasped my hand, and through the wood we went,
That April day.
Singing like robins in our glad content
That April day.
q. golden sunshine. and. D. silver raining!
d, earnest testing. and, u, sweet complainingi
Two happy hearts stood watching dzylights waning
That April day.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21
REST.
BY FATHER RYAN.

Ny feet are wsarird, and my hands are tirrd-
Ny soul oppressed;
And with desirc have long desired
Rsst-only rest.
lis hard to toll, when toll ID almost vain.
In barren ways !;
It's hard to SOW. and never garner gr,in.
In harvest days.
The burden Of my days 10 hard to bear.
But God knows best !;
Ard have prayed-but vain has besn my prayer
For rest-sveet rest
lis hard to plant in Spring. and never reap
The Autumn yield |;
lis hard to till, and when It's TILED, 10 weep
Der fruitless field.
And 20 cry, weak and human cry.
So he.rtoppressed;
And 20 sigh. . weak and human sigh,
For rest. sweet rest
Ny way has wound srross the desert years,
And cares infest
Ny path; and through the flowing q hot team.
Ipine for rest
It's slways 80: when still child. I laid
On mothers breast
Ny vesried little bead, cen then prayed,
As nov, for rest
And Am restless stiIl; twill soon be Ger.
For. down the vest
LIES sun Is setting and see the shore.
Where shan rest-
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21
Our Strap Book.
THE UNLucKY LOVERS



A child Of the grra: Tycoon;
She wore her head bald and her clothes vera made
Hall petfieoat half psntsloon;
Her lace WAS the color Of ienonpcel
Ana the shape OF tabae spoon
And he wore paper mnsn clothes;
He glossy bisek hair I'm the top OF bis head
N the iofm OF sho--brash rsri
ms y IS asntel ooSnvzrd, Hs II some chap
h~h sssAseiy pulled MS nose
And WIEN N ne usual sfyie
ne poPPsd, shs pinsned snsh deep orange ttnse
1ou nave tnDnght she 700 much Die
Ii mann pcen ior her sianteyed glance.
Anu hef charming siae-inonihrd smile
Dsd thsse httie pagans Stray
AZ ounn ~ sp.es elgos he themseiNes
suFuy SspAnose way
she hoShns song 70 one strnged iufe,
IN Nnien sue 1"ush' she could pay.
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anu iuirly tneir VS., ,,..
a. nc seSl On Ms he-a. ANU izhnrsi nimsei,
"mhe sne uaIAhetsi MN on Der hose;
or else shs Nohin get IN picketub,
Ana Oe heked around on ms toes
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21
CHE Fun Of the Ching.
FAREWELL.

Farewell. farewell TO thee. fend Of the FROST
Oar back is TO the Winter. face Ia the Summer.
Thy memory green viii keep TO our cost.
And shnddering whisper, "A ba' to the plumber
By pavement uproated, by doors ridded through
By bills which grow glummer and GUNNER,
Thou firId OF the frost hid thee adieu,
Forever. il may be, th"n terrible plumber
By hours Of delay charged at treble their worth,
By boys and by men carh dumber and dumher,
By torment that banisbeih peace from the sarth,
= Farewell ha farewell, thou nsatiste plumber!
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21

BOTTLE Your TEARs.-In Persia, they bottle
up their tears, of old. This is done in the fol-
lowing manner: As the mourners are sitting
around and weeping, the master of ceremonies
presents each one with piece of cotton wool,
with which he wipes of his tears. This cotton
is afterwards squeezed into bottle, and the
tears are preserved powerful and efficacious
remedy for reviving dying man, after every
other means has failed. 1t is also employed as a
charm against evil Influences. THIS custom is
probably alluded to in Psalms Wi, {, "Put thou
my tears into bottle" The practice was once
universal as is found by the tear bottles which
are found in almost every ancient tomb, for the
ancients buried them with their dead, as proof
of their affection
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21
UNpKR THE vIoLIrs
u OLIVER WENDELL HoLnRs.

Her hands are cold her face In y bite;
No more her pulses come anc go;
Her eyes are shut to life and light;
Fold the white yesture. snow on snow,
And lay her where the violets blow.
But not beneath the craven stone.
To plead for team with alien eyes:
A slender cross Of wood alone
Shall say that here . maiden lies
In peace beneath the peaceful skies-
A gray old tree Of hugcst limb
Shah wheel their circling shadows round.
To make the scorching sunlight dim.
That drinks the greenness from the ground
And Drop their dead leaves On her mound
When DER their boughs the squirrels run.
And through their leaves the robins cal.
And, rip1ning in the Autumn sun.
The seorns and the ehestnuts fall.
Doubt not that she will heed them all.
For her the morning choir shall sing
Its mathis from the branches high,
And every minstrel voice Of Spring
That trills benesth the April sky.
Shall greet her with its earliest cry.
When, turning round their dial track,
Eastward the lrngthening shadows pas.
Her little mourners clad in black,
The erickets aiding through the grass,
Shall pipe for her an evening mass-
Az last, the rootlets Of the trees
Shall and the prison where she lies,
And bear the buried dust they seize.
In leaves and blossoms to the skies:
So may the soul that warm'd IL risei
II any born Of kindlier blood
Should ask. what msiden lies belowi''
Say only this: "A tender bud,
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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21
AT FIFTY.

We do not know who WAS the author Of these lines
e pity man who at only fifty years Of age, has BE-
played-out, sour and dyspeptic to indulge in
hininy.l
The passions tears, the hopes and fears,
And all the dreams Of early years,
Forever gone;
Clouds are upon the sky; the light
Has gone before the stsrless night,
That knows no dawn.
Two aeore and ten decade more,
And on the sluggish river shore.
l. shivering. stand,
To plunge within its wave: the beach
Shelves steeply of-when shall / reach
The thither landf
No matter. 1 have drunk the draught
Which otbers In their turn have quahed.
And more will drink:
II Thinking gives such pangs IS these.
They stand the better chance for ease,
Who never think.
The passions Of my early youth.
Ny trust in woman and her truth
All these have led;
The ardent hope had to be
The maker Of my destiny
All this 10 dead.
Instead, . sense Of utter ios..
No crown succeeding to the cross;
Lonely and old.
Hopeless to get yet all to gain:
Past all desire and wish and pain.
The heart A-cold-
This. then, Ia death: for that 10 life
Which carries with it wish for strife.
And power To strivei
And l. who suffer all to 60.
With dull, namelesa aiinless woe.
Am not alive.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21
THE SWEETEST SONGS.

The sweetest songs that were ever sung
And those that please the best
Through sorrow and grief and tears are wrung
Frvm some o'erb1rdened breast;
Though the words breathe only Of mirth and bloou
And the strains arc the giAddest and hghtsst,
Remember that after night Of gloom,
The r.ys Of the sun are brightest
The rain must fan ere the Spring time grass
Gows tender and green and sweet:
Through the pangs Of travail . soul must pass.
Ere . song u born complete
Amer Winter Of storm and snow,
Blossom the buds in our bowers;
Amer . seaaon Of t-ars and Voc,
Blossom the poets nlowers-
Thsre are few Who give the poet thought,
When they read the pleasing strain;
There arc few Who know that poem 10 wrought
Throagh sorrov and tears and pain
Tho merrisst song and the blithest lay,
And those that are sweetest and glsddest
Arr woven I'm gloomy and eheeriess my.
when the poets heart IL saadsst-
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21

THE declaration Of the Legislature of Arkan-
sas, respecting the pronunciation of the name of
that State, has instigated the Richmond Wa
State to be prodigal Of information, as follows:
Texas is properly pronounced Tay-has, and is
derived from the Spanish, meaning roof. The
certain vowels. For example, Mexico is indif-
ferently spelled ''Mexico," "Mejico," and ''Megi-
CO.. and pronounced May-he-co, with the accent
on the antepenult. In Louisiana, Tensas Parish
is called TeR-sas by the English-speaking people,
and Ten-sdr by the French
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21

He RESISTED THE DEvIL--A cOlOrcd brother
whose eyes were watery, and who had evidently
been imbibng experience whiskey, was telling
his young friend George that he ought to jine
too. Said George, Il would, but de temptation
to do wrong is too strong for me-" 'Whars yer
backbone, dat We can't rose up and stand tempt
atiOnf exclaimed Brother Peter 81 was dat
way myself once. Right in dis we're town had
chance to steal pair of bOOts-mighty fine
ones, too. Nobody was dar to see me, and
reached out my hand, and de debbil said take
lem. Den, good spirit whispered for me to let
dem boots alone AN you didn't take 'em r
'INo, sah-nOt much. / took par o. cheap
shoes off de shelf, an left dem boots alOner'-
Richmond Whig.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21

To DETECT SULPHURIc ACID IN VINEGAR
The following process is said to be effective, and
simple: Boil few grains Of starch with an
minutes in glass vessel: when il has become
cold, add a drop of tincture of iodine. II the
vinegar contains no sulphuric acid, a beautiful
blue color will be produced by the reaction Of
the iodine on the starch. But if q small quaint.
ty of sulphuric acid be present, no color will he
developed, for the acid will have changed the
starch to dextrin, which is not colored by iodine.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21

SroNEwALL JACKSON, one of his staff officers
told Gath, always had his wagons backed off the
roads, at halt, and left with the poles at right
angles to the thoroughfsre. The result of this
small, simple precaution, for whose neglect
jackson never hesitated to order an officer I'M
der arrest, that If the direction of the march
was suddenly changed, not . wagon in the train
had TO be turned. Each could start in either
direction at. . moments notice.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21

TIE word ''rotgut" is not an Americanisn,
but was used by Addison n hundred years before
the American drink so called was put upon the
market in certain parts of this republic. In
England, the word was applied to bad beer or
wine, but in this country il is used to point ont
a kind Of whisky, one drop of which would pois-
healthy stomach, if fired Mt it from the dis
tance of 80 yards, Dollymount rules to govern.
TIL RETAILER
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21
THE HYW ARRIVAL.

There come 70 part, last Sunday night,
Ths quserest hrfie crafx,
Wifbolt n inch of rfsging o.
Ilsoksd. nd looked, nd lsughed;
II VS. - singular that she
Shouh ersss the Cniou water,
Ard Door herself night In my ruon-
Ny dsashssr. Oh. ny daughter!
Yea by thsse presents WITNESS I'll,
She's veacuoo my timea.
Ard coDes eonaigned 10 Hope and Love.
Ard co0no1 -mseks rhynss-
She has - manifest but this;
Ne rag hsass Ger the water;
Sbsis too neu fsr the British L,syds-
!. Ny daughter. Oh, my daughter!
Ring out, Wild bells-a1d tame ones, too
Ring cut The lovers moon;
Ring cut the little wofstsd socka,
Ring In ths bib md spoon;
Ring oaf the nnss. mig IN the nurse,
Ring In the milk nd vafsr;
Away with paper, pen ssd Ink
Ny daughter. Oh, ny daughter.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21

END OF NovEL--''Seizing the gigantic In
dian around the waist, the brave boy lifted him
headlong down the chasm. Painting the boy
stood and watched the Indians body fall from
crag to crag until it disappeared in the darkness
below. Just at that moment7-the father of the
boy who was reading this trash came along lift
ed the youngster by the ear, and in the wood
shed matinee that followed, the boy had no
thought of tiinging the old man down a chasm.
There was no chasm handy.-BrooklyR Eagle.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21

An OLD VET.-When Gen. Sherman arrived in
Auburn on Tuesday 10 attend Gen. Emory Up
tons funeral, he was accosted by an old veteran
who stepped up TO the General and extended his
hand, saying:
Let me shake hands with you, General, was
with You in the Shenandoah
''Ies," said the Geneaal, THAT'S all right, but
! wasn't there
The veteran subsidized, and slid out of sight
as fast possible.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21

TAILEYRAND had a confidential servant ex-
cessvely devoted to his interests, but withal SUI
perlatiyely inqusitive. Having one day entrust-
ed him with letter, the prince watched his
faithful valet from the window of his apartment,
and, with some surprise, observed him reading
the letter. On the next day, similar commits
sion was confided to the servant and to the sec
ond letter was added postscript cOuched in the
following terms:-"YOu may send n verbal an
swer by the bearer; lie is perfectly acquainted
with the whole affair, having taken the precau-
ton to read this previously to its delivery"
such q postscript must have been more effective
than the seVerest reproaches.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21

YOUNG man in n suburban town sent OFF his
first postal card. After writing a message on
the back he enclosed it in an envelope, clapped
on three cent stamp and dropped it into the
postoffce, remarking that il was a very handy
arrangement, and should have been introduced
years ago.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-04-21

LITTLE JEANNE has has a sister, year married
Last week this sister became the mother of a
pretty babe. "Look, mademoiselle,r said the
nurse, showing the newborn to its little aunt,
isn't it the prettiest dolly you ever sawfn
Jeanne danced with delight. Then she approach
ed to take it from the nurses arms. A cry of
disgust arose. '.PoOhw screamed Jeanne ..its
nothing but n meat babyr