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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12

or passing from the milky to the hard
state. the cane is ready to cut for the
mill. If long delayed, the juice in the
bottom joints will lose its sweetness, and
suckers will appear at the top joints,
which also rob the cane of saccharine
strength. And if sugar is desired, the
granulations will be much the most sue
cessful from the first cuttings. For sew
eral seasons the amber cane has been
ready to commence grinding by the LIST
of September. This gives from seventy
five to ninety days to handle the crop,
and affords ample time before freezing
weather to make it up. An outfit capa-
BILE of grinding at the rate of two acres
per day could thus handle, at least, one
hundred and fifty acres.
The cane should be stripped before it
is cut. This is best done by using a lath,
and striking down between the stalks in
each hill. A stout boy will easily strip
an acre per day. The fodder is very
valuable-nearly as much so as corn
blades; but unless labor is cheap and
plentiful, like corn-fodder, which is
rarely saved, it will not pay to save the
cane-leaves-atl least, not until hay and
oat-straw become q great deal dearer
than they now are.
A good corn-knife is also the right i'm
plement for the canefield. In cutting
the cane gather the hill with the left
arm, cut off the stalks, usually with one
blow, above the first joint next to the
ground. Then tnrn so as to bring the
seed ends over the place where pile of
seed is desired, and top the cane below
the first upper joint. This part of the
operation should be carefully performed,
as any seed left attached to the cane
spoils the taste of the syrup. After
topping lay the cane across the rows,
the butt ends on one row, the top ends
on the next, so as to enable the loader to
pass his arm readily around the canes.
Put as many canes in each pile as will
make q good armful. In this way tho
seed will all be in piles, and can DO
hauled at any time before the snow falls,
and will be found very desirable food for
cattle after the winter feed begins to get
scarce. The cane will all be in arm
fulls, convenient to load, and the cutter
will get along very fast-will cut an acre
per day. The cane should be piled in
ranks, like cordwood, near the mill, and
under shelter, if possible, unless it is to
be ground Immediately.
A frost will not injure standing cane.
On the contrary; light frost will FREE
quently increase the quantity and quality
of the yield. But freeze will spoil the
cane-as soon as it thaws it will turn
sour. In Louisiana it is usual when
freezing weather is expected, ordinarily
about the middle of November, to win
row the cane. This is done by cutting
the cane, unstripped, and laying it down
in the furrow between the rows in such
a way that the leaves on the tops pro-
tect the cane from the effects of pretty
severe freezes. The same plan could be
pursued here, but a better plan, which
the earlier ripening of the northern cane
permits, is to commence in season and
get through before freezing weather. It
is tedious job to lift the cane out of the
strip the leaves, and top the
stalks one by one.-Cor. Chicago Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12

The anti-French agitation in Italy
has aroused the somewhat astOnished
attention of Frenchmen to the great
number of Italians inhabiting France.
The floating population of Italians in
Paris amounts to the large total of 5O,-
600. The other cities in which they
swarm are Lyons, Marseilles. Toulon,
Mines and Bessancou. One sees little
of them in other places. but where Ital-
ians assemble they cluster thick and
live together.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12

start on very rapidly. AS soon as pos
sible, the hoes should be used to DESTROY
any weeds or grass in the hills, and the
crop be quito stand of six or seven
plants in a hill. If less than this num-
Der, the cane will sucker good DEALT
more, the cane will not attain its aver
age size and sweetness. If this first
working is properly performed, and in
good time, the crop may be considered
safe. 1t will hardly get so weedy as to
require a second hoeing, unless the
ground had previously become. by neg
ligent farming, very foul. The after
cultivation should all be done by the
corn-plow, killing up the cane as much
as possible at each blowing. After the
crop gets two or three feet high, let it
alone; you will do it little or no good by
late cultivation. 1t is peculiarly of
this plant that is growth is very slow at
first, but very rapid finally.
The result sought to be attained in the
cultivation of cane is the same as for
corn-keep the ground stirred, and the
weeds and grass down. In cane, If pos
sible, more than in corn, this result is
a necessity. and if you would have .
good crop you must never let General
Green" get the start of you, much less
ever think of surrendering to him. The
method OF preparing the ground, plant
ing, and cultivation herein recommend
ed will produce that result with as much
certainty and as little labor as possible.
and, Is far as the work is concerned, will
insure good crop.
As soon as the seed is sin the dough, -
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-23

tor there seems to have been some fear
that the underlined duties of his office
might give rise to dissatisfaction and oc-
caslon embarrassment. Hamilton was
apprehensive that ga fondness for power
and Importance, natural to every man,
might lead him to wish for more extern
sive prerogatives in his department than
j; would be for the good of the service
to grant" Yet Hamilton considered the
Baron ga valuable man." and thought
that he ought to be treated with all
the Difference which good policy might
warrant" At times Steuben was very
much discontented, and almost resolved
to quit the service. He was particularly
hampered by Lee and Miffiin, or he
thought so but the matter was patched
up by sending him to Rhode Island.
The Republic undoubtedly owed the
services of Baron Steuben to French in
fiuences. He came to this country
partly through the persuasion of st.
Germain. Perhaps, as soldier, lie was
ready for service in any honorable cause;
but he liked the United States well
enough to remain in them for the rest
of his life. He gave us tie benefit of
his great knowledge and military ex-
perience; and it is paying to his men,
ory no doubtful compliment to say that
he was precisely the man wanted at the
moment when he lent us his sword.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-23
SpeechIess.

Where was it somebody was telling
the Jester about the good old preacher
somewhere down in Ohio, who loved
his pipe and cigar far better than he
did the man who always keeps awake
through the hymns and goes to sleep
during the sermon? One day the COM
mittee of brethren came to demonstrate
with the parson for about the hundredth
time, beseeching and commanding him
to abandon thewicked and filthy habit of
smoking. ST." they told him, ''you
can give us one passage of Scripture,
one line from the Bible that iustifies
you in the use of tobacco, we will let
you smoke in peace and never approach
You on the subject again.
Him." said the old man, ''you mean
that, do you?"
'Tndeed, we do mean it, and We will
abide by what we say" said the COM
mittee.
"Then," said the parson, frightening
ND. .'how does Revelation XXI, IL. strike
you-'He which is filthy, let him be fiji.
thy still ?" And they turned away and
were speechless.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-23

The following is a list OF the descend
ents of Baron Steuhen of Revolutionary
fame, now the guest of the Nation at
Yorktown Arndt Won Steuben, aged
fifty-six, colonel of the Seventy ninth In
fantry, stationed at Hildesheim, and
chief of the mission. Fritz Won Steuben,
aged forty-five, captain of the Fourth
Royal Guard Infantry, stationed at
Spandau, brother of the Colonel. Kuno
Won Steuben, aged twenty six, lieutenant
of the Thirty-ninth Infantry, stationed
at Duesseldorf, a son of Colonel Steu-
ben. Berndt Won Steuben, aged twenty
four, lieutenant and adjutant of the
Twenty-third Line. stationed at Rastadt,
another of the Colonel's sons. Anton
Won Steuben, aged twenty-three, lieu
tenant in the Seventy-ninth Infantry,
still another of the Colonel's SONS, and
stationed with his father at Hildesheim.
Richard Won Steuben, aged fifty-four,
royal chief forester and captain of the
Landwehr national militia, from Falsen-
berg. Eugen Won Steuben, captain in
Ninety-eight Infantry, from Branden-
burg, his brother. With the exception
of Berndt and Anton Won Steuben, young
men of twenty-three and twenty four,
they are all married.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-23

In the days gone by Detroit Sheriff
who had made close shave of being
elected. had the i'll luck to lose a pris-
oner from the jail. The fellow made
good his escape TO the country, but the
Sheriff overhauled him about eight miles
out and drove him under barn. The
prisoner was captured and yet he was
not. If he could not get out the Sheriff
could not get in, and threats had nc
effect on him. In this emergency the
officer called out:
"Say, jim.
"Yes."
"You know had mighty close shave
getting this Office"
ssYou did that"
s'WeE I'm laying my pipes for sec
ond term. If I lose you 1 might as
well hang up. TIE opposition will hold
it up in letters four feet high, and hum
dreds of men in my own party will sllf
my name. Do you hear mee'
81 do"
"Well, ask you to come out, not cA
actly as a prisoner going back to jail
but more as a patriot bound to stand b!
his party. Come, Jim.
sI1l be hanged if don'tp' replied th'
prisoner. The judge was agin me, m.
Isentence was unjust, and 1 hate you
,ail. but if it's going to help the part!
and crush the hydra-headed opposition
lout I come!"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-23
Blockaded by BuffalOes.

The passengers on a recent train from
the Yellowstone had an experience ex-
ceedingly rare. When about two miles
from Sentinel Butte, the dividing line
between Montana and Dakota, herd of
sixteen buffalo were seen a short dis
tance ahead within easy rifle range.
There were several soldiers on board
with army rifles, and numerous small
revolvers were also pointed toward the
excited bison. Aperfect volley of lead
was poured into the herd, but to no
effect. They bounded away over the
divide, and were soon lost to sight. The
passengers had no sooner begun the
discussion of what they had seen in years
gone by when a danger signal from the
locomotive brought every one to tine
lookout. A herd of twenty or thirty
buffalo were making directly for the
train, and fearing the engine would
strike them and be thrown from the
track, the air-brakes were set and the
train brought nearly to a standstill, 4,
while the buffalo crossed the track few
feet ahead. Every gun was again level
ed. Such excitement can not be de-
scribe6. Bullets flew in every direction.
some striking the ground as near as ten
feet from the train, others raising the
dust mile distant. The train moved
ON slowly, and the volleys of lead con-
.nued to pour from the guns of the ex-
cited passengers. Finally the smoke
cleared away, and the buffalo could be
seen about half mile away, tr0ting
along as unconcerned as though they
had never seen railroad train. The
disgusted passengers drew in their
weapons, and spent the rest of the day
arguing as to the probable amount of
lead that buffalo will carry before he
will weaken. Pictures of railroad trains
passing through herds of buffalo are nu-
merous, but the ctualexperience Is one
of which the passengers may feel proud.
They were probably but struggling
bands from the main herd, which is
forty or fifty miles north of the track.
From Sentinel Butte east to Pleasant
Valley Dickinson) at least 500 antelope
were seen, which is but a daily occur
renee. Verify, the Nothern Pacific is
the spor tsman's paradise.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-23
Damascus Blades.

All old work has disappeared Qrom
Damascus) and anything really good in
brass, steel or silk is as rare as it is
valuable. The manufacture of the
peculiar heavy silks of shot colors has
now died out, not being able to survive
the competition of third-rate goods from
European looms. The Damascus sword
blade has passed into the category Of
things we often read about, but seldom
see, and the brass-workers seem to have
lost their cunning. Their present pro-
ductions are rude in the extreme, and of
no artistic merit whatever. At first it
may be matter of surprise that more
relics of past should not come
into the market, but this must be ac-
counted for by the supposition that there
are foreign agents always on the watch
to buy for Cairene trade. In no other
way can We explain the notorious fact
that, while year or two of residence in
Damascus will not be likely to produce
respectable purchase in brass or silk
beautiful specimens of both these
branches of extinct art are always on
view in Egypt, and are replaced as soon
as sold. The silversmiths are also poor
workers, and their bazaar is disappoint-
ing, containing little that is tempting,
except, perhaps, some Bedouin girls
massive silver necklace, which in spite
of its resemblance to a dog-colIar, we
have seen worn by an English woman
with good effect. As a rule, however,
barbaric ornaments do not become
Europeans, since they show only to full
advantage on their rightful owners.
For bright keda We want an Arabs
face and eye, and every one knows how
different clumsy silver bracelet looks
on white arm compared to the same on {
feilahah's brown skin.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-23
The White Man.

Among the Seminole Indians there Is
singular tradition regarding the white
mans origin and superiority. They say
when the Great Spirit made the earth
he also made three men, all of whom
were fair complexioned, and after max
ing them he led them to .he margin of
small lake. and bade them Jump in
and wash. One obeyed, and came out
purer and fairer than before; the second
hel.ated moment, during which time
the water, agitated by the first, had be-
come muddied, and when he bathed he
came out copper-colored; the third did
not leap until the water became black
with mud, and he came out with his
own Color Then the Great Spirit laid
before them three packages, and out OF
pity for his misfortune in color, gave
the black man the first choice. Hetook
hold of each of the packages, and having
felt the weight, chose the heaviest /; the
copper-colored man chose the next
heaviest, leaving the white man the
lightest. When the packages were
opened, the first was found to contain
spades, hoes and all the implements of
labor; the second unwrapped hunting,
fishing, and warlike apparatus; the
third gave the white lnan pens, ink and
paper, the engine, of the human mind
the means of mutual, mental improve
ment. the social link of humanity the
foundation of the white mans superb
OritY.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-23
4 BAD Case.

A more shocking spectacle e1claim-
ed the indignant old lady, 81 never be-
held" The simple fact was that she
had surprised Julia's lover in the act OF
depositing his head upon Julia's should
er, proceeding to which the young
lady was making no visible resistance.
Mrs. Marrowfat has very strict notions
Of propriety and went on to say: "Tha,
q daughter of mine should be capable OF
permitting such liberty almost freezes
my blood to think of. How do you sx.
plain it, Julia?" Julia suffers her parent
to cool off a little and then, with q
countenance as undaunted as that of the
bronze gladiator on the mantelpiece
haughtily saws: ''Mother, you do botl
Frank and me an injustice. We weren't
making love at all. had complained
of pain in my chest and he was only
-ounding my lungs"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-23
Apply Within.

Gen. Forsy the, of Sheridan's staff, found
humorist during his recent tour of inspec-
ton among the military posts of the ex-
treme Western frontier. Away up in the
foothills along Green River, he came upon
a station-keeper, who lived in hut con-
tanning four stalls for animals, and a CON-
bination parlor, kitchen, and sleeping
apartment, six by ten feet in size. Over
the door, outside, in huge character letters,
'sriotel de Starvation, 1000 miles from hay
and grain, seventy miles from wood, fif-
teen miles from water, and only twelve
inches from HI" The walls of the room
are decorated with pictures cut from police
publications. Over the door, inside, in char.
Goa, letters foot in length, are the words,
''God bless our home" and in another
place the notice, "Wanted-a nice young
girl for general housework. Apply with
in"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-23
Musical.

Musical instruments which are thought
to throw important light on the history
of music have been found in the royal
palace at Potsdam. Three early Silber-
man pianos, discovered there by Mr..
Hipkins, have been identified with those
ON which John Sebastian Bach impro-
vised before Frederick the Great. All
are copies OF the instruments invented
by Christofari, the Italian, and this fact
is thought to dispose of the claims made
for Silberman as the inventor of the
piano. Another piano, also found there,
is believed to be one of STEMS, Mozart's
Augsburg friend. Two Schudi harpsi-
chords, one of " hich is dated 1866 has
silver keys, have turned up in the same
place. Mr.. Hipkin's is to write about
them for Groves Dictionary of Music
and the 'sEncyclopedia Britannica"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-23
4 New Craze

There are indications of new archaic.
aesthetic and dyspeptic development
which may affect not only our busines
and our bosoms, but our stomachs as
well. Somebody in England has dis
covered, and will shortly publish, a
series of cooking receipts and bills Of
fare of the fifteenth century That date
is about two centuries before Queen
Anne: and whoever would be utterly
utter Ill serving a dinner, according to
the correct date and style, must go back
two hundred years or so, in the dining
room furnishing, and substitute wooden
bowls and pewter platters for 'keramics. ;
And, as to the forks, not even in the
palace in England were they known till
the sixteenth century. Bluff Harry. the
much married, who died in 1547, never
used fork. The great Queen Bess had
several presented to her, but used the
article only on state occasions, probably
when the foreign Ambassadors were
present who had brought her the ''es-
thetic" article, as gift fit for sove-
reign. High breeding, in those days,
consisted in skill in so using the fingers
that the hand should not be smeareds
quite to the wrists. This accomplish
ment, by the way, might be useful now,
at picnics or with travellers who regale
themselves in the railway cars.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-23
The Snake River Falls.

For two or three miles above Shoshone
Falls the river flows through immense
chasms, with walls on either side hun
dreds of feet high. The river is full of
rapids Tor miles, the descent being so
great. At the upper Shoshone Falls,
known as Twin or Little Falls, the river
is divided by an island, and the two
streams rush over the precipice and fall
INFO the pool i72 feet below, As viewed
from the bluffs, hundreds of feet above,
the sight is grand, and from below there
is still more to admire and to awe the
visitor. Some four or five miles down
the river and We come to the great falls,
where the entire river descends in one
sheet 210 feet. We remember roaming
around Niagara Falls. the rapids and
other places of interest for several days
once, and with all that there is to admire
and excite our wonder, there is as mitch
If not more, to interest the visitor to this
portion of Snake River, and should this
PAdOC NC COllACtiCb y
outside world this viii become a great
resort for travellers. Some thirty or forty
miles down stream is Solomon Falls, ex-
tending quite distance. The greatest
of these falls Is only about twenty feet,
but the forms a d the great number of
the falls and cascades mace it very beau
tiful But short distance above these
falls is the most remarkable sight We
have ever seen. In the high bluffs along
there issue numerous great springs, the
waters of which fall over the rocks and
are lashed to silvery streams and spray
in their descent The first of these pours
over cliff in semi-circular form and
falls over $50 feet. As seen from the
opposite side of the river it is very beau
tiful. Further down the river it is
much erander sight. A stream of water
equal to that of a river pours out of the
bank and falls over the rocks in silvery
streams of almost every conceivable
shape and form. while the spaces be-
tween are lined with green moss and
shrubs, so that it presents an appearance
of an immense grotto. These falls cover
a space of over 100 feet in height and
several hundred feet in width. Further
down the stream for over one mile other
similar springs issue, and each possesses
its own features of beauty. Where this
vast body of water comes IRON is ques-
ton that will probably never be solved.
Lost River enters the Snake River VAL
ley at point up stream over 100 miles
distant, and there sinks out of sight in
the lava. Other streams along the west
ern and northern borders of this vast
lava plain for distance of nearly 200
miles come i'll from the mountains and
sink. These united streams would pro-
baby furnish as much water as pours
out of these springs, but no single one
of these streams would supply any of
t:de larger springs, so it is only specula-
lion to assume that the source of supply
comes from any particular stream.