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Morris tribune., 1881-03-17
Matters of Fact,

Many old towns in New England do not
change much in their population. There
are 466 voters in the town of Seybrook. N,
H., and $50 of them bear only 16 different
family names. .. .-.
The following figures show the total i'm
migration from British and Irish ports to
Canada for the eleven months ending No
vember last: British, II, 1927; Scotch, 1921 :;
Irish, 1854. Total of British origin, 90
412; foreigners, S,414. Nationalities not
distinguished, 4; making a grand total of
Is, $50, as against 81 ,972 for the eleven
months of the previous year.
Judge Goddard, of Portland, Me-, lately
asserted that there has been an increase of
crime in that state under prohibition. One
of the friends of the law, coming to it's de-
Tense, makes the singular assertion that
prohibition was practically dead letter
last year and some other year ought to have
been taken for the comparison.
A tender little trait of Dickens is men
toned in a story of the rehearsal of an adap-
ton of the ''Christmas Carol" In order
to make Tiny Tina pretty child-more
| effective, Mr.. Stirling had ordered set of
irons and bandages for the supposed weak
leg. "No, Stirling no" said Dickens, "this
won do; remember how painful it would
DE 10 many OF tne auolence having crippled
| children"
There are at present about 800 Cherokee
Indians in North Carolina, owning $4,000
acres of land and $4,000 in cash, which
the government holds in trust for them.
Ambassadors from the Cherokee nation
have just been visiting them for the pur-
pose of inducing them to emigrate to the
tribe reservation in the Indian Territory,
and it is believed the various branches of
this nation will soon be reunited
1t has been practically decided to sell the
present church property now owned and
occupied by the Christian Church in Wash
ington, of which President Garfield
is member. 1t is valued at $40, 900, and
will probably be purchased for that sum by
church of another denomination. The
subscription list for the new building is
growing apace, and large fund is assured.
Morris tribune., 1881-03-17
JOHNNY SKAE'S BIG CHANCE.
Worth $4,000, 900 Two Years Ago, To-da
WnrkinD for G. Good TiyinD

Worth $4,000, 900 Two Years Ago, To-day
Working for Good Living.
From the Carson City Appeal. I"
A little more than two years since john
NY Skae, whom everybody knows, would
visit Carson several times a month, and as he
passed down the street from the railroad
depot, with an Independent swagger, and
more independent look in his eye, men
would obviously gaze after him and express
their convictions that he would soon out
strip any single member of the Bonanza
firm in the possession of millions This
was when Sierra Nevada and Union were
selling a from $3.50 to $500 per share and
Skae was supposed to hold SO, 600 shares
of the stock of those two mines. At that
period he would have had no difficulty
in realizing $4,000, 600 in cool gold coin
for his stock; but no, he was ambitious and
desired no longer to play second fiddle
even to such a colossal financial
power as the Bonanza firm. He
fancied that the prospective dividends,
of the Sierra Nevada and Union con-
solidated mines would be greater by tenfold
than those paid by the California and con-
solidated mines. Johnny was oversanguine;
he imagined himself 100 millionaire, whose
millions were safely deposited in the bowels
of the earth. Of that he felt certain. In
the meantime he entertained his friends in
regal style. He invited them from San
Francisco to participate in princely fish and
champagne banquets, which were spread
near the reservoir of the Virginia and Gold
Hill water works, from which the lucious
trout were taken, and in various other ways
extended his hospitality to friends in such a
manner that they privately called him
Prince John" In the midst of this how
ever, he did one prudent thing, and that
was in settling $780, 600 in bonds upon his
wife. Believing that the stock of the mines
Of which he was SO heavy holder was sure
to reach at least 81, 600 per share, he ny
pothecated the same to the Nevada
Bank, and purchased several thousand
shares on a margin. Soon thereafter the
market crushed and it was not long before
his stock were quoted at $50 and $50 per
share. OF course that nearly ruined Skae;
but being a man of nerve and DESTROYS of
retrieving his last opportunity, he came on
have placed him in an enviable independent
position, until he lost all that he had saved
from the first blow; and it is even said that
the $3.50, 900 which he settled upon his wife
went the way of the rest. Now Johnny
Skae is in Arizona, in place of living in lux
ury and superlative elegance, seeking
bonanza which he probably will never find.
1t is only once in a lifetime that one man in
a million is SO enchantingly smiled upon by
fortune as Johnny Skae was two and half
years ago. rh
Morris tribune., 1881-03-17
A Singular Story.
from the Pittsfield Mass Sun.

The paragraph going the rounds of the
papers stating that the old pirate who made
Aaron Burr's daughter Theodosia walk
the plank" has died again, recalls story
told some twenty-five years ago by vener-
able gentleman, now deceased, who passed
his youth in southern Berkshire. 1t was to
the effect that in one of the earlier years of
the century fine looking, middle aged wo
man, came to one of the towns near Stock
bridge and purchased small cottage. She
appeared worn with distress of some kind,
and although seeming to have abundant
means, she neither sought nor accepted any
society, save that of the poor and unfortun-
ate, with whom she mingled as rule, only
to relieve their distress. There was one
exception, however, in an unfortunate wo-
man who had been betrayed in her youth.
This outcast she took to her home, where
she was her companion and finally her
nurse, until the benefactress died, leaving
her poor friend what remained of herprop-
erty This woman in order to make good
her claim to the gifts, which was not IN
formal bequest stated in confidence to a
magistrate that the giver was no other than
Theodosia Burr.Allston, and that she had
revealed to her under strict injunction OF
secrecy that her melancholy and singular
seclusion was due to the fact that she had
been compelled to live for two or three
years with the pirate captain, and that when
she was at last released, with some money
in her possession, she was so overwhelmed
with shame that she determined never to
let the world in which she once moved
know of her existence, but to spend the re-
mainder of her days in deeds of charity.
She selected Stockbridge atfrst as a place
of residence, from a family tradition of its
seclusion-her grandfather. Rev. Johh Ed
wards, having been an early pastor there.
but she found intercourse between that
town and New York had become altogether
too frequent for her purpose, and she re-
tired to smaller town.
Can any of our correspondents in South
Berkshire throw any further light upon this
tradition?
Morris tribune., 1881-03-17
HOUSE AND FARM.
Short and Pithy Farm Notes.

Warm and airy stables, cleanliness with
the animal and her products, judicious
feeding of cows and care of pastures, are
the indispensable means to supply good
milk, 0s .....- o. fat. ..r.'I ..',.' =. ...
"A poor farmer cannot conceal the fact
that he is poor farmer. All his surround
ings proclaim the verdict against him.
The farmer should patronize home indus
try and thus save cost of transportation.
That is he should live mainly on the pro-
duce of his own farm.
It is wrong practice to make calves live
on fodder without grain during the winter.
1t is wasteful practice. 1t is inhuman too,
for the calf that is expected to keep warm
and produce bone, muscle and tissue from
rough fodder alone has too heavy q tax laid
on him. He is remarkable tough one,
too, if he does not give up the struggle be-
fore grass comes.
We have frequently published recipes
for corning beef, but as you may not have
been subscriber when they appeared in our
columns we give one for your benefit: For
every hundred pounds of beef use six
pounds of SALT eight ounces of saltpetre,
eight ounces of saleratus, two pounds of
brown sugar, and one quart of molasses, in
water sufficient to cover the meat. Some
use little more salt where the beef is to
be kept through the hot weather in sum-
mer. .... ,.... ...... ....
Not only the beginning of agriculture,
but the invention of the pillow itself, is pre-
historic. The pillow was known to the an
Gent Egyptians and Babylonians, and the
very existence of these nations points to
previous thousands Of years of agricultural
life, which alone could have produced such
dense, settled, and civilized populations.
1t was with the sense of what the pillow had
done for them that the Egyptians ascribed
it's invention to Osiris, and the Vedic bards
said the Acvins taught its use to Manu-, the
first man.
The champion bee keeper lives, very ap-
propriately, in Beeton, CAL, and bears the
not unfamiliar name of JONES' In the year
| 1879. from 800 colonies of bees he obtained
| 5000 pounds of honey, and in 1880: from
400 colonies he obtained $1,000 pounds
worth $4,000, and the latter was bad yeal
for honey. During the latter year he OBJ
tanned 600 new colonies from the 400, and
commences 1881 with / 1000 colonies of bees
valued at 81 600 independent of the hives
Mr.. Jones says he will clearat least 5000
this year unless some unforeseen accident
occurs.
MIR. L. B. Arnold, in a recent letter tc
the Farmers Advocate, claims that milh
may set in any temperature between forty
and sixty degrees with equally satisfactory
results, provided the depth is varied accord
ing to the temperature. At forty degrees
he would have the milk sixteen to eighteec
inches deep, that it may not cool too quick,
ly, while at sixty degrees he would have il
not more than two and half or three in
ches deep. This probably agrees with the
experience of butter makers generally
Deep cans and large pans save great amour
of labor in skimming and washing.
Morris tribune., 1881-03-17
Woes Of the Reporter.
Leaf From His Dia,

Leaf From His Diary
Well, another week has gone by in about
the same old way. I've been wondering
lately why some people don't know any
more than they do: why they will persist in
talking shop" to one of us fellows every
time they meet us in society. Now, am
not ashamed of my business, which, I
think, requires considerable amount of
brains. The other night went out for a
little while to a sort Of social gathering, and
/ hadn't got into the parlor before young
lady simpered, ooh, Mr.. you amt
going to put us in the paper are your" had
a big notion to say something bad, but 1
didn't. Then 60 to some public exhibit
ton, and every acquaintance I meet says,
well, are you getting al DOWN." or Got
something to write up, haven't your" IT
s'pose you fellows get into all these shows
for nothing, or some other equally fiat re-
mark. Everywhere it is the same way. Go
to church--which some reporters do be-
cause they enjoy it-and you are met with
the facetious remark, well, you have to
be pious once in while, don't your" Meet
q man on the street car and he asks you if
there's any sensation afoat. People don't
seem to think that we fellows know any
Morris tribune., 1881-03-17
How to,Produce Strawberries.

Nine out of ten persons who cultivate
strawberries allow runners to grow for the
purpose of getting plants the following year.
This is wrong If plants are desired they
should be taken from patch selected for
that purpose. 1t is impossible to getsfrst
class fruit from vines that have produced
runners, as the effort at doubles sspro-
duction (plants and berries) weakens the
vine and prevents it from producing good
fruit. To get nice, large, we'll favored
strawberries the vines should be kept free
from runners, not even allowing them to get
away from the parent at the start This
can be done by having piece of stove pipe
fixed to a stick for handle, to use for
cutter. Place the pipe over the plant ond
press upon it. This cuts off the runners.
When the runners have all been cut follow
with the hoe and clear them away. When
the plants blossom all the blossoms should
be cut off except few of the forward ones
on each plant. This looks like destruction,
but trial will show that such treatment
will give larger berries, of better flavor, and
easier to pick. The crop, the ugh lacking
in numbers, will compensate In bulk Is well
as realizing the highest price in market.
AS soon as the crop is removed weed the
plants again, and sprinkle around each one,
under the leaves, some well-rotted manure,
and in the fall let them be mulched. On
removing the mulch early in the spring
again give each plant aeesprinAling, but this
time of mixture of equal parts of super
phosphate, sulphate of potash double guam
tity of unleached hardwood ashes may be
substltuted), guano and plaster By thus
81 ring them good care and cultivation they
will pay as well if not better than any one
of the small fruits, but if neglected they
occasion loss.
Morris tribune., 1881-03-17
COUNTRY LIFE.

Not what We would, but what we must
Makes up the sum of living;
Heaven is both more and less than just
In taking and in giving. -.
Swords cleave to hands that sought the pillow,
And laurels miss the soldiers brow.
Me, whom the city holds, whose feet
Have worn the stony highways,
Familiar with the loneliest street
Its ways are never my ways.
My cradle was beside the sea,
And there, hope, my grave will be. -
Old homestead! In that old gray town,
The vane is seward blowing,
Thy slip of garden stretches down
To where the tide is flowing
Below they lie, their sails all furled,
The ships that 60 about the world.
Dearer that little country house,
Inland, with pines beside 1t;
Some peach trees, with unfruitful boughs,
we'll with weeds to hide it:
No flower-or only such as rise
Self-sown, poor things, which all dispise
Dear country home! Can forget
The least of thy sweet trit1es?
The window vines, which clammer yet,
Whose blossoms the bee shll rifles?
The roadside blackberries, growing ripe,
Anu III tuc WOOtlS
Happy the man who tills the field,
Content with rustic labor;
Earth does to him her fullness yield,
Hap what may to his neighbor.
Well days, sound nights-ol', can there be
A life more rational and free?
Dear country life of child and man!
For both the best, the strongest,
That with the earliest race began,
And has outlived the longest.
Their cities persisted long ago;
Who the first farmers were we know.
Perhaps our Babels, too, will fall;
If 80, no lamentations,
For mother Earth will shelter all
And feed the unborn nations;
Yes, and the words that menace now
Will then be beaten by the pillow.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Morris tribune., 1881-03-17
The Poison Habit.
From physical Education" by DR.. Fell
Oswald, in Popular Science Monthly.

From physical Education" by DR.. Fell L.
Oswald, in Popular Science Monthly.
But, under all circumstances, make a firm
stand against the poison habit. 1t is best to
call things by their right names. The eff
fects upon the animal economy of every
stimulant is strictly that of poison, and
every poison may become a stimulant
There is no bane in the South American
swamps, no virulent compound in the North
American drug ore-chemistry knows no
deadliest poison-whose gradual and per-
sistent obtruson on the human organism
will not create an unnatural craving after
repetition of the lethal dose, a morbid ap-
potency in every way analogous to the hank
ering of the topper after his favorite tipple.
Swallow tablespoonful of laudanum or a
few grains of arsenious acid every night
At first your physical conscience protests
by every means in its power; nausea, gripes,
gastric spasms, and nervous headache warn
you again and again; the struggle of the
digestive organs against the fell intruder
convulses your whole system. Butyou con-
tinue the dose, and Nature, true to her
highest law to preserve life at any price,
finally adapts herself to an abnormal condi-
tion-adapts your system to the poison at
whatever cost of health, strength and hap
p1uCoo' 4ott1 OouN DCCc1uCo oil opluh Lld
chine, an arsenic mill, a physiologic en-
CINE moved by poison and performing it's
vital functions only under the spur of the
unnatural stimulus. But by and by the
jaded system fails to respond to the spur,
your strength gives way, and, alarmed
at the symptoms of rapid diliquium, you
resolve to remedy the evil by removing the
cause. You try to renounce stimulation.
and rely once more on the unaided strength
of the vis ritie. But the strength is al
most exhausted. The oil that should have
fed the flame of life has been wasted on a
health consuming fire. Before you can re-
gain strength and happiness, your system
must readapt itself to the normal condi-
ton, and the difficulty of that rearrange-
ment will be proportioned to the degree of
the present disarrangement; the further you
have strayed from nature, the longer it will
take YOU to retrace your steps.
Morris tribune., 1881-03-17
Kindness to Animals,

1t is fact beyond dispute, as any observ-
ing naturalist will affirm, that the closer re-
lation between animals and man the more
intelligent and docile will the animals be-
come. Upon the farm there is every reason
why animals. and especially horses should
be treated, not as ''dumb beasts, but AZ in
telligent creations of the same Being who
made their master. The Arabs, who are the
most successful horse trainers in the world,
appreciate the value of kindness, and by
making their horses equals in one sense
dwelling with them in the same tent, be-
slowing upon them. almost the same love
and caresses as are bestowed upon their
children. who are allowed the colts for
playmates, the Arabian horse has be-
come the most intelligent and easily con-
trolled of its race. 1t is not enough to feed
an animal and give it comfortable bed; it
has feeling as well as its master and can
appreciate kindness. 1t must be uniform
kindness, however; pet to-day and q kick
tomorrow amounting very nearly to con-
inued abuse-at least, SO far as the horses
temper is concerned. Many horse has
in the care of a half grown boy, whose only
seemed to be Jerking at the reins and yell
ing. Unfeeling or impatient hired help,
also, do much toward making ugly or
tricky" horses. An animal treated with
unvarying kindness will soon learn to have
confidence in its master, and is therefore
more readily trained. In Belgium, horses
are SO we'll trained that they are guided al
most wholly by word of mouth, the driver
relying upon the intelligence of his horse
rather than upon the bit. A Belgian plow-
horse in an awkward situation will obey
readily as many as FIVE distinct orders, the
single check-rein meanwhile remaining at
tached to the pillow handle, leaving the dri-
vers hand free for the harder task of guild
ing the pillow. This certainly illustrates the
economy of having trained animals for farm
work. There is much in finding out the
peculiarities of o horses disposition; he
may have some whims that it will pay to
occasionally indulge. Make him feel your
Morris tribune., 1881-03-17
GarfieId's Last Sunday at Mentor.

On Sunday President and wife attended
the diciples little church at Mentor. At
the close of the sermon. penitents were in
vited to come forward and make confession
Of their faith in Christ. Gen. Garfield
joined with the choir and congregation in
singing the invitation hymn. After partak-
ing of the Lords Supper Elder Jones Of
fered brief closing prayer, in which he in
voked the divine BLESSING on Brother and
Sister Garfield, by name. The services
concluded, the members of the church
gathered around Gen. and Mrs. Garfield,
shook hands and said good-by. Many kind
words were spoken in trembling tones, and
many eyes were dim with tears.
Morris tribune., 1881-03-17
Amputated by Electricity.


A very interesting operation was per-
formed in the Toronto general hospital at 2
o'clock on Saturday afternoon. 1t consist
ed of amputation, by means Of electricity,
of the left leg at the hip. The patient, a
young man, being reduced very much by
tho sloughing of an open wound on the out.
side of the leg, it was desirable that he
should lose as little blood as possible.
Having placed the pat lent under the intiu-
ence of ether, the customary flaps were
made, and then platinum wire, attached to
the two poles of galvanic battery, was en-
circled round the leg under the flaps. In a
moment this wire was brought to a white
heat. and began to cut its way through the
limb. By the great heat the ends of the
arteries were contracted, and only the lar
ger ones required to be tied. Many of the
leading surgeons of the city and a large
number of the students from both schoo
were present. ,
Morris tribune., 1881-03-17

thing but "shop." Why don't they ask a
lawyer out in society it he is looking for a
case, or doctor whether he expects some
body will be sick before he leaves, or a
bank cashier what the highest per cent. is
upon first mortgage loans? I can't under
stand it. We are just like other folks, and
there are times, rare, it is sadly true, when
we are not on duty and feel that we would
be glad to enjoy social life just as other
people do. But suppose it always was so,
and always will be, and am too tired and
sleepy to try aud understand why.
Morris tribune., 1881-03-17
AGE.
This flask of wine ia cova,

This flask of wine is covered thick with cob
webs,
Its gliding furnished with the mold of years, T
While on its grimy, torn and age stained label
The name or vintage scarcely now appears
Yet this same bottle once was bright and shin
ing
And there no dust upon its gold head lay;
But though with age the outside is declining,
The inside has grown better every day.
Just 80 should we in life's long weary battle,
When we with years are feeble, worn and gray,
Feel that our souls within are growing richer
And better for the coming festal day.
Morris tribune., 1881-03-17
IAssp,anr.ary,u Asparagus i. and Asparagus Beds

Agricultural Ed. N. J. Tribune. ,-~ --,
am firm in the belief that good culture
makes giant asparagus, and yet there is
much truth in the assertion that the seeds
must be gathered from fine strain. There
are good and poor varieties in asparagus,
just as there are good and poor cows and
horses. I do not like cultivating this escu
lent in beds, for the reason that I cannot
keep the hoe going nor can l stir the soil
with harrow. Plough the ground deeply,
and pulverize it well, haying previously
spread thereon thorough coat of first
quality old manure. perfer the autumn
for this, and then in spring draw shallow
burrows with light plough, say three feet
apart. Place the plants, which perfer to
have good and strong two year olds, about
eight or nine inches apart, and cover at
once, tramping the soil over them with the
foot, quite firmly. Do not let a weed grow,
and keep the surface continually stirred.
Every years growth is of the greatest i'm
portance to those who are waiting impatient
ly for crop of this delicious esculent. If
the plants grow vigorously, they will do to
cut in two years after planting, but be
generous and do not ruin your plants by
robbing them to soon. 1t is mistaken
notion to set the roots deep in the ground,
and then cut the shoots away down below
the surface SO as to have white base to
them, which, by the way, cannot be eaten.
Cut even with the surface of the soil and
there will be no waste
Morris tribune., 1881-03-17

Sir George Pomeroy Colley, reported
killed by the Boos in Africa, commander.
erin Chief in Natal, was born in 1885.
He served in the Kaffir war in 1858 and in
the China campaign in 1860, and was head
Of the transport department in the Gold
Cost expedition of 1874, being the colonel
of the Second Foot In 1876 he was ap-
pointed to the post Of military secretary to
Lord Lytton, late viceroy Of India, and in
Morris tribune., 1881-03-17
Carry the News.

Attleboro Chronicle
Mr.. John Etzensperger, manufacturing
Jeweler of North Attleborro', Mass, lately
communicated to Ills the following: I suf-
fered SO much with pains in my arm, that
at times was completely helpless. used
that incompatible remedy st. Jacobs Oil
and was completely cured as if by magic.