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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1881-01-27
SMALL FRUIT CULTURE.
Editor Journal.

Perhaps nine-tenths Of your readers
sigh for the luscious wild fruits that
grew SO plentiful within easy reach of
their old homes. The great majority
of your reader once possessed cultured
varieties of small fruits, and know
their value in their season, when
weary mortals can enjoy dish 50 fit.
ted to refresh and give tone to the sys-
tenn. Do our tastes change when we
come to Central Kansas? Why Is 1t
that SO few of our people cultivate
small fruits? II corn or wheat should
fail for one season, men do not cease to
SOW and plant. As manner of max
ing money there il no COMPARISON be-
tween corn and berries. Just think
of paying Is cents for a quart of black
berries, and IS cents for Jushet of
corn.
was pleased to see the JOURNAL
offer q premium Of good book to cash
paying subscribers. But then would
much prefer to see an announcement
that the JOURNAL would give six
raspberry iplants, or six blackberry
bushes, or one dozen strawberry plants
to every cash paying subscriber, with
the promise that a coisnn would be
opened I'm the JOURNAL for infOrma-
ton on small fruits. The great want
of this Western land Is homes. Too
many of our people are only staying.
There seems 10 be no effort to make
home pleasant, to make the children
realize that Kansas Is to be their home,
and among the greatest neglect is the
want of small fruits. There certainly
should be an effort upon the part Of
some enterprising journalist to create
an interest among our people in regard
to the growing of small fruits. There
is no reason why we in Saline county
cannot have fruit on our tables from
the 10Th of May on through July-Of
our own raising Sweet, luscious, rich
fruits that will make us forget the ex-
pense and the labor of cultivation. 1t
will be a great gain for all our people
when our vendors of fruit sees berries
just from the gardens of our own c0un-
ty, and not withered fruit freighted
from the East. There Is another view
of raising these fruits that I wish to
impress upon your readers-the pleas
ure of growing fruit 1t Is almost rest
ing-tO cultivate, to hoe and trim the
rapid growing plants. I am aware Of
the fact that TO some parties there is
no pleasure In this work, and there Is
q reason for the complete failure. The
plants are left to fight their own way
with Kansas weeds. The battle Is .
short one. Nothing can contend with
the weeds Of our soil and succeed, ex-
cept 1t be a well-sharpened hoe.
write this article, wishing to call
out some Of our people who have some
experience in raising small fruits.
The season Is here when the people
should arrange to get plants for spring
planting, and If desired, will furnish
u short article for next week.
An AMATEUR.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1881-01-27

EFFA MARTIN, . nonresident Of the State OF
II kansas. and . resident Of ST. Joseph county,
Martin Of Saline county and State Of Kansas did.
on the 2snd day Of January. A. D., lssl file his pc
ton in the district court Of said county Of Saline
state Of Kansas, against the said Eta Martin. de-
PENDANT, . nd that she must answer the petition
filed by said plaintiff on before the 18th day OF
March, A. D., ISL. the petition will be taken ~
true and Judgment rendered accordingly, the na-
ture Of which will be . decree divorcing the said
John F. Martin FROM the said Eta Martin.
LOvITT WILSON
sS-3w Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1881-01-27

THE CINCINNATI WEEKLY TIMES
The Danser weekly eT the west. an
eight page paper only doilsr a year, and q
magnificent engraving two feet vide and almost
three feet long free and postage paid TO every sub
eln NATL, OhlO.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1881-01-27
Road Notice.

sf rarsI GP 81 k s.SSs Once of County .rl
January 18th, ISL.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23
Curbolic Acid for Insects.

The time has almost come again when
"the little busy bugs" will open up their
summer campaign and dispute with the
"fruits of the earth" Allow me thus
early to call attention to an article, the
merits of which everybody knows, but
which many dare not use-I refer to
carbolic acid. Prepared as indicated it
cannot, [ think, hurt the most delicate
house plants, and it is sure to kill in
sect life. My plan OF preparing is as
follows; Iobtain crude carbolic acid 1
use it in this form because it is stronger
and betterfor the purpose and costs but
very little (about twenty-five cents per
gallon, think.) Ipour quantity of
this dark crude acid into quantity of
good strong domestic soft soap stir
we'll together and allow to stand for a
few hours. I then test the compound
by mixing little of it with soft water.
Iftoo much acid has been added, oily par
ticles of carbolic acid will be observed
floating on the surface. This shows
that more acid has been put in than the
soap will incorporate or ''cut," ana more
soap should be added to balance the ex-
be given, as so much depends on the
strength of the soap. Two or three
tablespoonfuls of the acid to quart of
soap may be first tried. prefer to make
as strong with acid as the soap will per-
fectly cut. A very little practice will
enable any one to compound it correct
ly. The refined acid may be used when
the crude is not at hand. When pre-
pared as above make a moderately strong
suds and apply with syringe or sponge.
In using on very delicate plants, should
any fear be felt for the plants, they can
be rinsed off after few minutes. Ny
first and eminently successful use of this
| compound was some years since on a
block of young cherry trees some fifty
thousand in number. The black aphis
"came down like the wolf on the fold"
only "they came not as single spies, but
in whole battalions." 1t soon became an
interesting question as to who was the
proprietor OF this particular block of
trees-myself or the "bug Ethiopian
A disinterested observer of judicial turn
of mind, judging from the general ap-
pearance of things and the very sat
home" air assumed by the bugs, would
have said they had the best case. He
would, at least have been compelled to
admit they had "nine points of the law
| (possession) in their favor. 1 never saw
the like before. The trees were alive
with aphis. The only scarce things on
the trees were leaves, there being hard
ly enough to afford standing room" fol
all the dusky guests. However, not
being a convert to the doc rine OF
'squatter sovereignty" l declared war,
and failing to decrease the number by
ordinary means I compounded soft soap
and carbolic acid, and with single ap,
plication exterminated the enemy.-T
T. s., IN Gardeners Monthly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23
Raising the Wind,

The men of Hilliard, small Wyom-
ing mining town on the Union Pacific
railroad, were spelling for spree, but
lacked the money to pay forit At this
iuncture the passengers on train were
Mortified at the sight of a rough-looking
man bound fast to q telegraph pole,
while party of miners were suspending
a moose from branch of tree. The
prisoner begged the travellers to rescue
him, but the miners said that he was a
thief, and had justly been condemned
to death. 1t was intimated, however,
that the payment of 500, the amount
he had stolen, would secure his liber-
alton. The money was hastily con-
tributed, and the train went on, carry
ing the rescued man along; but he
jumped off at the next station, and got
back to Hilliard in time to take part in
he rave1rv
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23
Spnre the Calves.

AS spring is now here we would
again caution farmers against the indis-
criminate slaughter of these innocents.
The considerations advanced by some
farmers in favor of this practice are
purely of mercenary character, and if
generally adopted would soon put an
end to one of the most important
branches of rural husbandry, and could
be hkened to the fable of the foolish
man who killed the goose that lay the
golden egg.
1t requires but very little trouble to
raise a spring calf, and what little
trouble there is is confined to the first
few weeks of its life. The better way
is to put the calf in some convenient
grass lot separate from the COW, and
allow it to suck its mother every morn
ing and evening, gradually diminishing
its allowance as the grass makes its APP
pearance and which it will soon learn to
eat. At the end of five or SIX weeks it
can be easily taught to drink out of a
bucket, when skinned milk, mixed with
little corn md oats ground together,
and little faxseed boiled to jelly, can
be substituted for its usual diet of new
milk. Calves fed in this way seldom
get the 'scours,' but should a case of
the kind occur it can easily be stopped
by giving the calf little boiled fresh
milk, and mixing Herewith table
spoonful or so of powdered chalk.
When the calf is some three months
old and the grass well up, it may be
turned out to some good pasture where
there is plenty of water, but not within
reach or hearing of the COW. The
trouble is then all over, as the calf will
shift for itself.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23
Benefit of Quick Work.

The rapid worker has not time to get
disgusted with his work-it is out of
his hands long before it grows weari-
some. Disgust is the product of david
ling effort. If the work be somewhat
varied, the pleasure in connection with
its completion is varied too. Hence,
perhaps, the reason why the total and
sudden giving up of work is often at
tended with evil results The transition
from life full of activity and rich in
the enjoyment of successful labor, to a
life of utter idleness, with no such vivid
enjoyment, has often proved fatal.
There is too little activity in the new
life, and too little of the pleasure of
activity. Idleness without the excite
ment and pleasure of work, becomes
depressing. The vital forces droop and
decay. On the other hand, to the busy
worker rest and recreation have a
double relish. No holiday is so re-
freshing as that in which he runs away
from his labors, and enjoys himself in
quite different sense. If his life were
succession of holidays, it would soon
grow burdensome.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23
A Remarkable Connie.

In Montreal, in January, 1883, Michael
Gannue and Melissa Gamer were mar
ried. He was seventeen, she was four
teen. In 1901 they removed to Scots
burg, now Scottsville, N. Y. There they
lived together for seventy-eight years.
On the fifth of December, 1879, Mrs.
Gannue died, at the age Of 103 years,
after married life of eighty mine years.
Her husband is still living, 108 years
old. He lives with his son-in-law,
George Muir, at Rochester, N. Y. He
is sound mentally. With the exception
of being a cripple from q fall he had
sixteen years ago, his physical condition
is excellent. He became blind in his
ninetieth year. He was blind six years,
when his sight gradually returned.
When his wife was dying he stood by
her bedside. When she no longer could
speak to him he became so affected that
his eyesight failed again. On the day
of her burial he ives escorted to her
coffin to fake his last look at his vener-
able companion. He could not see her
face. He exclaimed bitterly: cit is
hard, after living nearly ninety years
with her, that she must be taken away
without my being able to see her
again |" He had never been known to
weep before. Mr.. Gannue is basket
maker. He has not worked at his trade
since he became cripple. He is an
inveterate user of tobacco, but never
drank intoxicating liquors. His wife
bore him sixteen children. Eight
three sons and five daughters-are still
living. There are living besides thirty
eight grandchildren, twenty-three great
grandchildren, thirteen great-great-
grandchildren and thirteen more dis
tant grandchildren. A few months age
his eYesiglt WAS once more restored.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23

"ELY's CREAM BALM Co., Owego, n. ":
Please send us at once two gross ELY's CREAM
BALM. We take pleasure in congratulating
YOU on the success you are having with the
Cream Balm Catafrh and Hay Fever cure;
Its sale is steadily increasing with wonderful
rapidity, as you can see by our frequent orders.
1t is evidently an article of great merit Very
truly, Johnston, Holloway 4 Co., COZ Arch
street, Philadelphia, March 10, 1881"
"Ely's Cream Balm has cured me OF CatarrlI
of several years standing. l have recovered
my sense of taste and smell by its use, and can
truthfully say the Balm has no equal as cure
for this terrible disease. Frank c. Ogden,
Elizabeth, N. j., August II, 1873" Price, %
cents On receipt of 80 cents will mail a pack
age. Send for circular.
ELY CREAM BALM Co., Owego, n. Y.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


II remember right, DR.. Horne some
where stated that there is no way of ex-
pelling bots from horse. / have been
in the habit of giving horses strong
decoction of sage, well sweetened, which
had the effect of expelling the bots. Ii
was supposed, when was boy, that
sage tea acted rs a cathartic, and that
the bots were fond of sweet, and would
let go to take sip of tea, and while sip
ping tea, would be carried along the
intestinal canals and the horse would be
relieved. A few ashes help them along.
I write from experience; no guess-work
about it.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23
jefferson Davis, Account of His CAPTURE.

Jefferson Davis Account of His Capture.
Jefferson Davis, in his book, "The
Rise and Fall of the Confederate Gov,
ernment," gives the following accoun!
of his capture by the Federals:
proper were saddled preparatory to q
start, when one of my staff, who had
ridden into neighboring village, re-
turned and told me that he had heard
that marauding party intended to
attack the camp that night. This de-
cided me to wait long enough to see
whether there was any truth in the
rumor, which 1 supposed would be
ascertained in a few hours. My horse
remained saddled and my pistols in the
hosters, and l lay down, fully blessed,
to rest. Nothing occurred to rouse M
until just before dawn, when my coach
man, free colored man, who faithfully
clung to our fortunes, came and told
me there was firing over the branch,
just behind our encampment. Istepped
out of my wifes tent and saw some
horsemen, whom [ Immediately recog-
nized as cavalry, deploying around the
encampment. 1 turned back and told
my wife these were not the expected
marauders, but regular troopers. She
implored me to leave her at once. /
hesitated from unwillingness to do so,
and lost few precious moments before
yielding to her importantly. My horse
and arms were near the road which /
expected to leave, and down which the
cavalry approached. 1t was therefore
impracticable to reach them. l was
compelled to start in an opposite direc-
ton.
As it was quite dark in the tent,
picked up what 1 supposed to be my
"raglan"-a waterproof Light overcoat
without sleeves. 1t was subsequently
found to be my wifes so very like my own
as to be mistaken for it. AS 1 started,
my wife thoughtfully threw over my
head and shoulders shawl. ! had
gone perhaps fifteen or twenty yards
when a trooper galloped up and Or
dered me to halt and surrender, to
which 1 gave a defiant answer, and
dropping the shawl and raglan from my
shoulders advanced toward him. He
leveled his carbine at me, but 1 ex-
pected if he fired he would miss me,
and my intention was in that event to
put my hand under his foot and tumble
him off on the other side, spring into
his saddle, and attempt to escape. My
wife. who had been watching, when she
saw the soldier aim his carbine at me,
ran forward and threw her arms around
me. Success depended upon instan-
taneous action, and recognizing that the
opportunity had been lost l turned
back, and the morning being damp and
chilly, passed on to fire beyond the
tent.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23
Art i'm Home Decoration,

Hanging lamp screens have plush
borders and are mounted on holders
which come for this purpose.
"A bed should look like white
flower" says an authority, and recon-
mends quilted borders for shams and
coverlets, quilted in diamonds to give
the proper appearance.
A novelty in mantle-hangings-if one
believes in utilizing lace and velvet for
the purpose of decorating fireplace
is wheels of tatting in Macrame thread,
put together in large points over red
velvet.
Among the new designs for embroid-
cred mantel lambrequins, is one OF
black satin with wild roses; crimson
plush in water lilies olive cloth with
daisies and golden wheat (; and bronze
satin covered with modern point lace
Spangles enter very largely into the
decoration of table covers and lambre-
quins. They are generally introduced
at the end of the long stitches in point
run embroidery, where they are caught
down with amber, crimson or steel
beads.
Instead of ivory and pearl inlaid
desks, rosewood or ebony boxes, there
are rich satin and plush or velvet arti,
cleL ither ornamented with embossed
figures, such as metal insects, birds
palms and animals, or with satin EN-
bossed subjects that are very effective
Decorations for halls are the new
faience vass, initiating japanese lacquer
and bronze. They are of rich brown
like tho matal and OTnamantel with
colored subjects of great minutenes'
and always Asiatic. The shades o.
floral decoration are rich and soft, being
blended from dark grounds to bright
brick, salmon, and sombre moss tints
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23
Recipes.

EGGLEss COOKIES. Two cups sugar,
one cup sweet milk, one cup butter, one
half teaspoonful soda. Flour enough
to roll. Use vanilla, lemon or nutmeg
for seasoning. They are very nice.
EGGLEss CAKE.-One and one-half
cups sugar, one cup sour milk, three
Level cups flour, one-half cup butter,
one teaspoonful soda, half teaspoon
full cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful graf
ed nutmeg, teacup of chopped raisins
TnDEN CAKE.-One heaping coffee
cup sugar [; one-half teacup butter, one
and one-half teacups sour milk one
teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves
and nutmeg one cup fruit one teaspoon
full soda. Stir in flour until it will Just
drop from the spoon.
SALT RISING BREAD.-The earlier in
the morning it is set the better. Almost
convenient hour is 6 o'clock. Take one
pint of water, one-half teaspoonful of
salt and one teaspoonful of sugar !;
stir to the thickness of pancake bat
ter. The water used should be as
warm as the hand can bear. Place the
vessel containing this batter into water
Oh une temperature VI Ildt ulsI uSeu,
and let it stand for three hours. In
that time water will arise to the sur
face; then thicken with -four until the
batter is as thick as it was in the COM
mencement. Let it stand three hours
longer when it will again rise, making a
total standing of six hours. Then get
what -four you need for your baking,
scald about one pint of it, and after it is
cool mix the rising together with warm
water and mix to stiffness to knead on
a warm board. A great deal of knead-
ing is required. Place the dough in
your baking pan, set aside until it rises
to twice its original size and then bake
in quick oven. If you are successful,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23

"Deacon Wilder, want you to tell me how
you kept yourself and family so well the past
season. when all the rest of us have been sick
so much, and have had the doctors running to
us 80 long2"
"Dro Taylor, the answer is very easy. I
used HoP B1TTERs in time and kept my family
well and saved large doctor bills. Three dol
lars worth of it kept us all well and able to
work all the time and will warrant IL has cost
you and most of the neighbors one to two hun
dred dollars apiece to keep sick the same time.
guess you'll take my medicine hereafter" See
other column.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23

Close confinement, careful attention to all
factory work, gives the operatives pallid faces,
poor appetite, languid miserable feelings poor
blood, inactive liver, kidneys and urinary
troubles, and all the physicians and medicine
in the world cannot help them unless they get
out doors or use Hop BITTERs, made Of the
purest and best remedies, and especially fol
such cases, having abundance Of health, sun,
shine ard rosy cheeks in them. None need
suffer if they will use them freely. They cos
but q trifle. See another column.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23

There are people who claim that q
husband that stays out late at night has
no respect for the feelings of his wife.
Evidently there are people in the world
who never saw said husband climbing
the rear stairs at 130 A. NJ. with his
boots in his hand and his heart in his
hroat. YOnkers Statesman.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23
EnhnnlihN Snrrnmndinps,

occupations conducive to heal'h h and long life
are the privileges of the minority. The ma
jority must dwell wherever their lot is cast
however insalubrious the locality may be, and
work at the craft assigned to them, however
destructive to health and vigor. Medical
science has, however, come to the aid of the
latter. In Hostetter's Stomach Bitters they
have land have had for the last twenty-five
vears) the best defense against the morbid in
fiucnces which create and foster disease that
the vegetable kingdom car supply. Its in
gradients are among the finest botanic specifics
which research has yet revealed to man. As a
preventive of and remedy for the diseases
generated by swamps, miasma, the foul air OF
factories, excessive heat, over-eXertion Of body
or mind, unwholesome water, or any othr
morbifc cause, Hostetter's Stomach Btters
bear away the palm from all medicines of the
Drcsent day
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23

and careful following of these direc-
tions will make you SO, you have the
most delicious bread that has ever en-
tered mortal's mouth. If you have a
large baking the ingredients are to be
proportionately increased.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23
Let no one suppose that by acting

Let no one suppose that by acting q
good part through life he will escape
scandal. There will be those even who
will hate them for the very qualities
that ought to procure esteem. Thel e
are folks in the world who are not will
ing. that others should be better than
themselves.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23

A woman in the fourth ward has just
completed bedquilt which illustrates
how fine point economy may be car
ried to. 1t is made from the linen facings
of paper collars, and the fancy edges are
composed entirely of the backs of
porous plasters. -NeWark Sunday Gail.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23
HENRY,s CARROLIC SAVE

Is the BEST sALyE for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers
Salt Rheum letter Chapped Hands, Chilblains.
Coms and all kinds of Skin Eruptions, Freckles and
Pimples Got HENRY's CARBoLIC sALyE. as al
others are counterfeits. Price 25 cents
DIR. GREENS OXYGENATED BITTERS
Is the best Remedy for Dyspepsia Biliousness. Ma
laria Indigestion and Diseases of the Blood, Kid
neys, Liver Skin, etc.
DEMONS BALSAM cures Coughs Colds Rheu-
matism, Kidney Troubles, etc. Can be used exter-
nally as plaster.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23

This is a description of London
toilet: Flame -colored sheeting, shot with
gold, trimmed with scarlet and gold
bead fringe, and sleeves trimmed with
scarlet and gold lace. The bonnet was
covered with beads and lace to match,
and it wasn't worn at fancy dress OF
masnnerade ball either
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-23

One Remedy for One Dollar-there is but one
way to cure badness, and that is by using CAR
BoLINE, deodorized extract of petroleum, the
natural petroleum hairrenewer. twill positive
y do hework and it is the only article that will.