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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10
What is Good Grape Culturep

A friend joyfully told us, a few days ago, of
his anticipations in the grape way. He had
bought little place in the vicinity, and had
made up his mind TO have things right. His
maxim was, that what was worth doing at all
was worth doing well, and he meant to do it.
He had done il. He had dug ont tine dirt three
feet into the clay, and had filled it with light,
rich compost, through which the roots might
push their way in ease and comfort, and live on
the fat of the land. He had spent considerable
money in doing the job well. He intended TO
get only the best vines, and felt sure such an
penditure would result in magnificent grapes,
and plenty of them. He had done his work well.
Ii is strange that such course as this should
ever have been recommended by horticultural
writers, but il is 4 fact that they have. Grapes
are now soyeasily and cheaply grown-fruit Of
ten four and five cents per pound-that we had
well nigh forgotten that this the standard
produced it in black and white, from the pages
which he had chosen as au authority, and then
we knew how it was in the olden time.
Now, our readers, at least, would know that
instead of such a proceeding this being an
evidence of doing it well for. the grape, il is
simply an act of folly. The grape root needs to
be warm and dry, but tins deep well in the clay,
encouraging the collection of water from all
around it, has Just the contrary effect. The
roots are damp and cool, and not warm and dry.
Indeed, it is only Of late years, when people
have given up all this expensive foolery, that
grape culture has become n tolerable success
Under the old plan, we had failure after failure,
until We came To be believe only those varieties
which were little removed from the wild fox, or
the frost grapes, could he grown. But now we
have the finer kinds getting quite common. As
soon as we gave up this deep-trenching non
sense, grape culture-real grape culture-took
fresh start and this real culture consists in little
more than planting vine in good earth, of less
depth than we would any ordinary tree, and see
that it does not suffer for want of food This is
good grape culture in a nut shell.-GermaRtorR
Telegraph.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

One of the most familiar hymns of the English
language is that whose initial line is given
above. Ii came from the pen of the Rev. Rob
ert Robinson, who was born in Cambridge, Eng
land, in LBS. His conversion occurred while
yet a lad, under the preaching of Whitefield !;
and he entered at once into the ministry, young
though he was, with wonderful success and
blessings crowned his work
But il is probable that the wiser and better
course would have been for him 10 have studied
longer before entering upon such sacred call
ing, for he seems to have known comparatively
study and years progressed, changes followed
one after another in his mind, until he nearly
completed the round of the various Protestant
faiths of his day, becoming Mt last an avOwed
SOcinian, and, it is said, gloomy, unhappy
man.
1t was in his youth, when filed with all the
ecstatic hope and delight of the young convert,
that the belief within him welled up from his
heart, and found speech in the beautiful hymn
which has carried his name and memory down
to us, and which will still keep them fresh, long
years to come.
A touching story is told of n chance meeting
which occurred between the author of this hymn,
when after years had robbed him of his first
fresh faith and the child of his early convictions
itself. In stage-coach, lady was earnestly
studying the verses, and applied to a fellow
passenger for his opinion of them. He i'm vain
attempted TO avoid the subject, aud at last hum
bly, acknowledged their authorship, and express
ed sOrrowful regret that he was unable to see
the light then. as he had done in the years that
were gOne.-BOstOn NHsicdl Record
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10
Napoleon Bonaparte.

The doubt about the year of Napoleon's birth
is explained by the fact that he falsiied the date
to gain admission TO the military school of
Brienne. Having passed the age of ten, he was
obliged TO represent himself as a year younger
than he really He was born in l76S, and
not in 1863, as his biographies represent, and in
stead of being the second son, was in reality the
eldest. of this curious fact there is no lack of
evidence some of which is taken from his own
declarations. In the registry of his first mar
riage he gave the date Of his birth rs February
4, l76s. and in letter he wrote to Paoli in 1889
he said Il was born when my country perish
ed. Thirty thousand Frenchmen vomted upon
our shores-such was the odious spectacle which
my eyes first beheld. The cries of the dying,
the groans of the oppressed, and the tears of des
pair surrounded my cradle from the moment Of
my birth" These words can only apply TO the
condition of Corsica, at the time of the French
invasion in l76s. The name Napoleon did not,
it seems fairly get its French photography until
long after its owner became famous Jung finds
it written in no fewer than four ways during
Bonaparte's early life-Nabulione, Napoleone,
Napolaeone, and Napolione-the latter form be-
ing used in act of marriage with Josephine,
while in the Vendome Column it appeared as
Neapolio, an evident attempt to give it Greek
origin,
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10
Msrful aud Curious.
Rurus and Scalds-

The following, from Mr.. Holmes recent "hdA-
nal Of Surgery has the merit of giving much
useful information in n concise form: At the
time of the accident the main indications are to
exclude the air from the burned sarfIce, TO allay
pain by opiates and to give stimulants in sueh
quantities as may be necessary. The aPpliea-
tons which are in use for burns are too numcr-
Gus to mention, and the choice II one or other of
them, will depend in a grat measure on the
depth of the burn A mere superficial scorch Ii
best treated by some warm solution applied on
thick rag and kept continually moist. Goulard
water, with laudanun, is perhaps as grateful as
anything. Painting the surface with ink soon
relieves the pain of a small superficial burn, or
covering il with whitewash, or some other SINH
lar substance, which will ernst over 1t and COM
pletely exclude the air from it. Common flour
thickly dredged On the part is very good and
handy application. But such crusts should not
be applied burned surfaces of the second
degree, since their removal would soon become
necessary, and this would drag of the epidermis
The bulle should be pricked the epidermis gen.
tly smoothed down, and some simple ointment
put next the skin, some oily substance which
will not stick when it is necessary TO change it.
A very favorte application to these burns and
to others of greater depth is the Carron oil, made
by mixing lime .sater and Hnseed oil in equal
parts and deriving its name from having come
into extensive at the great Carron foundry
in the numerous burns occurring there. Oil Of
turpentine is very good application to burns
in which the surface of the skin is quite destroy
ed. But for the first few days doubt whether
anything is better than simply swathing the
parts in thick layers of cotton wool, which is
prevented from sticking to the burned surface by
some simple ointment (cerat, calamine is gen.
orally used,) spread on thin soft linen or cam
brio, and covering the whole burned surface.
When, after a few days, the discharge becomes
foul, this dressing should be changed for some
deodorizing antiseptie, oily application, the
latter may he used from the first but all the
antiseptics have yet seen used have been slim
uating, and for the first few days it is desirable
think, to avoid any local stimulation. The
earbolzed oil answers every Indication better
than any other substance know of, bnt il should
not be used too strong; for it may both prove too
stimulating, and thus increase the discharge, and
it may be absorbed, producing a black condition
of the. urine, and other symptoms of incipent
poison 1t is well, then, TO begin with very
weak solution (about one to twelve,) and if this
does not correct the fetor its strength may be
gradually increased, or stronger solution of car
bOlic acid may be placed over the dressings.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10
THE cHIMNEY'S SONG.
III BRET HAkTE-

Over the chimney the night wind sang
And chantes u melody one knew;
And the stopped her babe she tossed
And thought Of the one she had long since lost
And said her tearslrups back she forced
Il hate the wind In the chimney"
Over the chimney the night wind sang,
And chantct a melody one knew:
And the children said Is they closer drew,
IT'S witch that is ceaying the black night through
lis a fairy just then that blew,
And We fear the wind in the chimney"
Over the chimney the night wind sang,
And chantcd a melody one knew;
And the man, : he sat ON his hearth below,
Said 10 himself: 1t will surely SHOW,
And fuel is dear and wages are low
And II stop the leak in the chimney.
Over the chimney the night wind sang.
And chanted a melody one knew;
But the poet listened and smiled, for he
Was man. and woman, and ehild-all three
And be said 1T is God s own harmony.
The wind that sings i'm the chimney.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10
Crib-Ritinp-

This very unpleasant habit is not so serious
defect as many writers and practitioners would
have us believe. The producing causes of crib
biting are various. Ii is often the result of im-
tating companion standing in the adjacent
stall who has acquired the habit. In many in-
stances it is in consequence of keeping the ami
nal standing in his stall from day To day. The
highly bred and spirited horse, when fed liberal
quantities of succulent and nourishing food,
must be in some mischief, when his time is not
employed. Ii is caused in some instances in
young colts by partial starvation, or by not
keeping sufficient prOvender before the animal
when confined in the stable, TO allow him to pick
it over ut will. In consequence of tins neglect
in his stable management, he acquires the habit
of cribbing on the manager 1t is also the result
of feeding unsound and consequently unpalata-
bile diet which no horse will eat unless forced To
it from starvation. Lastly, it is occasionally
eansed by the groom dressing his spirited charg-
er in his stall or other narrow compartment con-
nected with his stable, where he can at will bite
on the partition walls located either side of
him; and this biting at anything within reach,
may often be observed in n spirited and nervous
horse when the brush or rubbing cloth is applied
70 his body or legs by the groom. In the early
stage of the acquired habit of crib-biting, rub
bling common yellow bar-soap on the top of the
manger-rail daily, will often prove efiicacious
remedy, or mailing a fresh sheepskin, flesh side
up, on the top and outside edge of the manger,
Will have the same effect. But when the ac-
quired habit of crib-biting is firmly established
there is no radical cure for it. All that can he
accomplished, is to prevent it, which can he
done in either of the following ways: First,
buckle a strap, one inch wide, right round the
neck; this will compress the windpipe, and pre-
vent the possibility of its action, which is re-
quired before the horse can exercise his acquired
habit of cribbing. But the strap, to he effective,
must he constantly worn, and its constant pres
sure upon the windpipe is very liable TO produce
n worse affection, viz: an active irritation in
the last-named organ, which evidently must ter
inmate in roaring; second, by removing the
manager entirely, and letting the animal pick his
provender off the floor, feeding him his grain
food out of a nose-bag, mailing sheet iron the
full width on the four sides of his stall, COM
mencing two and half feet from the floor, and
letting it extend upward: third, by placing on
him n bar-muZzle made of strong wire with the
bars sufficiently wide apart to allow him to pick
his hay, but not to crib. This should lie worn
constantly, when standing, except when re-
moved to place the nOse-bag on his head.-N y.
UOrld.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10
CHI Fun Of the Ching.
TcBIAs-so TO SPEAK.

Yes his fr0at name is Tobias,
And he isn't oycF-piug;s.
And his eyes are oa the bias,
50 TO speak
And his only aim and bent is
NObby clothing-for this gent il
Just BIT non oOiapos HleSsfig
Like, and weak
And this fcaiher-wei2hted gent, he
Though not over one and twenty
Has Of knowlfisc quite plenty,
50 to speak!
For he'd rather be = praarin-
And kicking at a dancing,
Tlgau his stock Of vii enhancing,
Learning Greek-
Though he apes the drawi and stammer,
When he dons his sleek claw hammer,
Yet Tobias shoJis his grammar,
so to speak
And he questions yery rarely
$50 his clothes arr hanging fairly
II his brain Is fashioned squarcly
Or Oblique.
No, he has no education.
And his beauty took vacation
'IIout the time Of his creation,
So to speak
And, upon mature reflection,
Taking each distinct dissection,
I've decided his e0mplsNions
Rather weak.
Though his shirt has not rimple,
Nor his beandless chin dimple,
Yet he boasts q chronic pimple
On his beak;
And his voice Il not reliant
For at times il is defiant,
And a times Il il a plant
Little squeak.
Now, II seems 10 me so funny.
That this half-demeutsd sonny
Should be loaded down with money.
So TO speak:
While the writer Of this ditty,
Who you see l. rather witty,
Has To scrub about the city,
On his cheek
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10
Oar Strap Cook.
A NEW FOREST BALLAD.
TT CHARLES KINGSLEY.


Oh. she tripped oveT OckneH Plain,
And down by Bradley Water;
And the faifest maid Of the forest side
Was Jane, the keepers daughter.
She went and went Through the broad gray lawns.
As down the r-d sun sank
Ind chill As the scent Of a new made grave
The mist snelt cold and dank-
"A token, q tokeni ~ the fair maid cried,
token that bo.ie- me soFruw:
Foe they that smell the grave by night
VIII s-e the eoIpse tomorrow.
Ny own true love in Burnley Walk
Does hunt to night. fear
And II he meet my father stern,
His game may cost him dear.
"Ah, here's a curse On hare and CRUISE
curse on hart and hind;
And health To the Squire In all England
Leaves never = head behind"
Her true love shot a mighty hart
Among the standing rye
When On him leapt that keeper old
From the fern where he did lie.
The forest laws were sharp and stern
The forest blOod was keen;
They dashed together for life and death,
Beneath the bollies green.
The metal good and the walnut wood
Did soon in flinders flee;
They tozt the Orts frUm south 10 north,
And grsppled knee To knee.
They wresrlsd up, they vrestled down,
They wrestled still and sore;
Beneath their feet the myrtle sweet
Was stamped TO mud and gore
All! cold pale moon. thou cruel pale moon.
That starest with never q frvwn
On all the grim and the CHASTITY things
That are wrought in thorpe and town;
And yet cold pale moon, thou cruel pale noon
That night had st never the grace
To tighten two dying Christian men
To sec one another's face.
They wrestled up. they wrestlcd down,
They wrestlei sore and still;
The fisnd who blinds the eyes Of men
That night he had his will.
Like stays full spent among the bent
They stopped awhile 10 rest;
When the young man drove his staying knife
Deep in the old mans breast
The old man drove his gunstOck down
Upon the young mans head:
And side by side. by the water brown
Those yeOnen twain lay dead.
They dug three graves in Lyndhurst yard:
They dug them side by side;
Two yeom-n lie there and a maiden fair
ILL
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10

Why THE LANDLORD RAISED THE RENT.-Old
Bob keywOrth is one Of the hardest landlords in
Galveston. Jim GrOce lives in one of Keyworth's
houses, and is very good tenant, while the land
lord has never yet had dollars worth of repairs
done 20 the house. Not long since Jim went to
KeywOrth and told him: Il want you to have
and You ought TO have it done KeywOrth re-
fused. so Groce had it done at his own expense.
As soon as the painting was over, old KeywOrth
raised the rent to So a month. "Why do Won
raise the rentf asked Jim. 'On account of the
improvement" replied the old man; "yOu know
the house has just been painted, and newly
painted house is always worth S. more month
than shabby-looking one.'-GalrestOR (Teras)
Ners
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10
THE DYING WIFE.


Lay the gem upon my bosom,
Let me feel her sweet, warm breath I;
For strange chill Der me passes,
And know that il Il death
would gaze upon the treasure
Feel her rosy. dimpled fingers
Wander DER my cheek OF snow.
am passing through the waters,
But blessed shore appears;
kne-l beside me, husband, dearest
Let me kiss away thy tears
Wrestle with thy grief my husband;
II may leave an angels blessing.
When II vanishes away.
Lay the gem upon mt bosom
lis not long she can be there;
See! how TO my heart she nestles.
lis the pearl love TO wear.
II, in after years, beside thee
Thoughiher voice be sweeter music.
And her face than mine more fair
II n cherub calls thee Father"
Far more beautiful than this.
Love thy first-born. ., my husband!
Turn not from the mOtherless.
Toll her sometimes of her mother;
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10

ArRoPos of Georges birthday: Mrs. Washing
ton, the mother of George, was going to make
soap. George said his father arranged a large
cask with some straw in the bottom of it, and
on top of the straw they put some ashes, and
then leached them. Mrs. Washington got her
soap-grease all ready, and in a short time the
house was filled with that beautiful odor that be-
tokens that the process of sOap-bOiling is going
on. With all her skill she could not make the
soap come. On investigation it was discovered
that some of the ashes used were from the wood
of the cherry tree George cut down, and no I've
could be produced even from them. This shows
the power of MISUNDERSTANDING Mass. }
Tribune
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10
AT THE WINDOW.

/ heard the woodpecker picking.
The blue-birl tenderiy sing;
] turned and looked out Of the window,
And 10, Ii was Spring!
A breath from tropical borders,
Just q ripple, flowed into my room.
And washed my face clean Of its sadness,
Blew my heart into bloom
The loves have kept for lifetime,
Sweet buds l have shielded from snow.
Break forth into full leaf and tassel,
When Spring winds do blow.
For the sap Of my life goes upward,
Obeying the same sweet law
That waters the heart of the maple,
After q thaw.
] forget my old age, and grow youthful.
Bathing in xind-tides Of Spring.
When hear the woodpeeker peeking.
The first blne-birl sing.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10
MARCH.
Br Mks. NJ A. kIDDER.

Bold March. the stern trumpeteT, comes,
And he blows in his fury-like zeal,
Till he makes the stout oaks sway and bend,
And trees Of the forest all reel
He busters. and 6usters, and raves,
And frightens the children at play;
He chases and scatters the dust
About In q terrible way.
But the sweet little flowers know his voice,
The crocus and violet, too,
And look frum their beds in the vale,
To the sun in the heavens 80 blue
They know, when the March-winds prevail,
That beautiful Spring. time is nigh,
And they hasten To greet the fair maid,
As she I'm her joy passes by.
Then, blow. oh stern trumpeter. blow!
And rave in your clustering way
Thy blasts, Rs they sway the proud oaks
But herald the breezes of May
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10

CRYsTALIzED WISDows.-This is very easy to
do; all that is requisite to be done is to dissolve
any kind of salt in hot water, 50 as to make
saturated solution-that is, to have it as strong
as possible, then wash it, while hot, with a
brush; il will soon cool, and deposit the salt in
crystalline form, upon the glass, and when the
water has evaporated, the window will be bean
tifnlly frosted. You may use for this purpose,
Glsuber's salts, Epson salts, or blue stone but
you should not use any of the salts which are ant
to dissolve in a damp atmosphere
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10

A CONFERENCE.-The Cincinnati papers are
telling the following story: "A little girl of this
city had spine disease, so that her head hung
on one side. Her mother gave some bread and
COTE TO a starving tramp, and he rubbed the
childs neck while he muttered some incOherent
words. The child was cured. The tramp dis
appeared" Something similar to this occurred
recently in Chicago. A little boy had the diph-
iberia. His mother gave some bread and coffee
to tramp. Just then the boys father came
along and balanced the tramp on the toe of his
boot. The boy got well. The tramp has spinal
disease
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10
Selert goetrp.
RollE.

HOME
Paint me no picture. artist.
VI landscapes. birds or flowers:
Paint me no twilight scenes Of yore,
Nor grand nor massive towers
Paint me no Alpine scenery,
Neither Italian skies.
But paint me. instead. pray thee,
The blue Of my fathers eyes
Paint me no sanity Mad0nnas.
Paint me no wumanly grace;
But paint me. oh paint me. artist,
The lines u my mothers face
And paint me, in New England,
Beneath the dropping trees,
In shade Of the murnuring forests,
In sound Of the mountain breeze,
A low brick house, and humble.
And there right beside its door.
The sweet, old fashioned white roses,
And the weodbine climbing DER.
The door;yard smooth and grassy,
tn. ApPle-trees all In blow,
And the dear, quaint, wide old garden,
With its seed beds in 4 row,
And paint 1t true, good artist,
All, paint We il strictly true;
Put ON the trees NO brighter green,
On the flowers no deeper hue.
Sing me no songs oh, masters,
That ye find in time-worn books;
But sing me the songs everlasting,
Of the glad and joyous brooks
And ripple them over the meadows,
Follow them under the hill.
Blend them with signs Of the pine-tree,
And the wild, wild. birds trill
And soften them, good master,
With the patter Of the rain,
As IL fell In days Of childhood,
So son on my window pane.
Then, frum the dim old forest,
Catch an echo deep and long,
To weave with thine other fancies,
Oh, master. into my song
And when the sun Is sinking,
Way beyond the purple hills,
And the my site cloud Of twilight
My heart and memory fills,
III sing them DER, good master.
While the stars their vigils keep,
Til j fall way into dreamland
And murinur them on in my sleep
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10

How To GET FAT.-A pint Of milk, taken be-
fore retiring at night, will cover the scrawniest
bones. There are many lean and lank females
who sigh for the fashionable measure of plump
ness, and who would he vastly improved in
health, could their figures be rounded with good,
solid flesh. Nothing is more coveted by thin
women than full figure, and nothing provokcs
the scandal of one of the "elipper builds rs the
consciousness of plumpness in a rival. In cases
of fever aud summer complaints, milk is now
given with excellent results. The idea that
milk is feverish has exploded. 1t is great mis-
take to scrimp the milk-piteher.-Drasgist Cir
rnlor
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10

A FRENCH chemist is reported to have given a
striking proof of domestic affection. He con-
densed the body of his deceased wife into the
space of an ordinary seal, and had her highly
polished and set in a ring. He made a nice in
come by betting with lapidaries and others that
they could not tell the material of the seal in
three guesses, and after pocketing the money
would burst into tears, and say: at is my dear,
dear wife,