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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-04-29

sY- Reports received by the agricultur-
al department up to Saturday last show
a very hopeful prospect for food crops IN
the South. There is general increase in
the acreage of winter and spring wheat
and oats, and slight decrease in that OF
cotton. The increase of food crop is as
follows: Tennessee, 80 per cent. in wheat
and 40 per cent. in oats; North Carolina,
wheat % per cent, oats 80 per cent. :;
South Carolina, wheat % per cent, oats
50 per cent. Arkansas, wheat ~ per
cent, oats IL per cent. In all OF thesc
States there is reported decrease in the
purchase of commercial fertilizers, a.
mounting in the estimated aggregate to
81, 900, coo. Alabama reports that owing
to the very short crop of corn produced
last year on account of drouth, the plant
Ing Of winter wheat and oats WAS fully
80 per cent. greater than ever before,
while the preparations for corn are III,
creased in as great ratio, with good
season the food crop will be enough for
two years supply. The decrease in cot
ton, owing to Hoods, is estimated Mt 25O,-
900 to 100000 bales.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-04-29

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COLLARS AND NECKWEAR.
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The Penn's Grove record., 1882-06-17
Tonsorial Agony.

You can always tell a boy whose
mother cuts his hair. Not because the
edges of it look as II it had been chaw-
ed off by an absent-minded horse or
by mice; but you tell it by the way
he stops on the street and wiggles his
shoulders. When a fond mother has
to cut her boys hair, she is careful to
guard against any annoyance and
muss by laying a sheet on the carpet.
1t has never occurred to her to sit
him over a bare f oor and put the sheet
around his neck. Then she draws
the front hair over his eyes and leaves
1t there while she cuts that which Is
at the back the hair which lies over
his eyes appears to be surcharged with
electric netGlts, and that which is
silently dropping down under his
shirt band appears to be on fire. When
the boy is undergoing this ordeal she
unconsciously continues to push his
head until his O = presses his breast
and is too busy to notice the snufiing
sound that is becoming alarmingly
frequent. In the meantime he is
seized with an irresistible desire to
blow his nose, but recollects that his
handkerchief is in the other room.
Then a fly lights on his nose, and does
so Unexpectedly that he involuntarily
lodges and catches the point Of the
shears on his left ear. At this time
he commences to cry and wish he was
a man. She merely hits him en- the
other ear to inspire him with 70 f.
dence, and goes to work. Then she
holds his jacket collar back from his
neck and with her mouth blows the
short bits Of hair from the top Of his
head down his back, and tells him
he's all right. He calls her attention
to this fact, but she looks and asks
him why he didn't use his handker-
chief. Then he takes his awfully dis.
figured head to the mirror and looks
at 1t, and young q he is, shoulders IS
he thinks Of what the boys on the
street will say when they see him.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-06-17
The Values of Vegetables.

All vegetables have an effect on the
chemistry OF the body, so that we can
not speak too highly of their impor-
lance at table. We will mention q
few Of these matters first, and dispose
OF this aspect of the subject, go as not
to seem to mix pharmacopeia with
the kitchen. Asparagus ia q strong
diuretic, and forms part of the cure
for rheumatic patients at such health
resorts as AK les-Bains. Sorrel is
cooling, and forms the staple of that
soupe au4 her6es which q French lady
will order for herself after a long ard
firing journey. Carrots, as containing
q quantity of sugar, are avoided by
some people, while others complain
Of them as indigestible. With regard
to the latter accusation, it may be re-
marked In passing, that it is the yell
low ore of the carrot that Is difficult
of digestion, the outer, a red layer, is
tender enough. In Savoy, the peas
ants have to an infusion Of
carrots as q specific for jaundice.
The large, sweet onion is very rich
in those alaline elements which coun-
teract the poison of rheumatic govt.
II slowly stewed in weak broth, and
eaten with a little Nepaul pepper, it
will be found to be an admirable arti.
Gle Of diet for patients Of studious and
sedentary habits. The stalks Of cauli-
flower have the same sort of value,
only too often the stalk of caulifiower
is 80 ill-beiled and unpalatable that
few persons would thank you for pro-
posing to make part Of their meal con-
sist of so uninviting an article. Tur-
nips, in the same way, are often
thought to be indigestiole, and better
suited for cows and sheep than for
delicate people; but here the fault
lies with the cook quite as much rs
with the root. The cock boils the
turnip badly, and then pours some
butter over it, and the eater of such a
dish is sure to be the worse for it. Try
a better way. Half boil your turnip, |
and cut 1t in slices like half crowns.
Butter a pie dish, put In the slices,
moisten with a little milk and we X
broth, dust once with bread-crumbs
and pepper and salt, and bake In the
oven till 1t gainsa bright golden brown.
This dish, which Is the Piedmontese
fashion of eating turnips, is quite I'M
suited to cows, and ought to be popu.
lar. What shall be said about our
lettuces? The plant has a slight mar
cotic action, of which q French cid
woman, like a French doctor, well
knows the value, and when properly
cookedr4t is really very easy of diges-
ton. But In our country, though
lettuces are duly grown In every gar
den, you often hear the remark, II
can't eat a salad" and as few cooks
know how to use the vegetable which
has been refused In its raw state, the
lettuces are all wasted, and 80 is the
ground in which they were grown.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-06-17
A Most Ingenious Cook.

Near, in the opinion Of the Greek
poet Euphron, are the poet and the
cook. Both, he says, attain by an in
genious sudacity the apex of their art.
And to show the intellectual daring
OF the cock, he tells the following
story: Nicomedes, the great king Of
Bithynia, being once on a time some
twelve days. journey from the sea,
had q sudden longing for a loaeh.
Some lexicographers-expla the word
used by Euphon as ''smelt," but the
general concensus Ia in favor of the
former Interpretation. His cook served
him up in twenty minutes this very
fish. Every body wondered, for the
season, to add to the difficulty of the
exploit, CHANGED to be midwinter. It
is said that once while Selden sat In
the assembly Of Divines at Westmin-
ster, a warm debate arose about the
distance from Jericho to Jerusalem.
Those who commended for the longer
distance were about to yield to the ar
gument Of their adversaries that fishes
were carried from one city to the other
when the celebrated lawyer cried out,
Perhaps the fishes were sailed"
upon which the dispute was renewed
with increased vigor. But the loach
in the present case was quite fresh.
How then was 1t procured7
French cooks can, 1t is well known,
make q delicious soup out Of an old
shoe, but the curious device of the
cook Of Nlcomedes, will be found
equally clever. He took a turnip, and
cut 1t into the figure Of a loach. He
then boiled 1t gently over a slow fire,
added = certain quantity of oil and
salt-not that indefinite amount ia
miliar to US In modern cookery books
as a "pinch," but measured with ex-
act and learned observation-disclosures
completed the dish by the sprinkling
offs dozen grains Of black pepper.
Nicomedes, devouring the disguised
turnip with a good appetite, told his
friends that 1t was the finest loach he
wei ate in hislife. 1t is surely but a
just reward of merit that cooks posses
sed Of such powers as these should
receive those high salaries we read of
in the records of Imperial Rome.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-06-17
NUMBER As.
Arctic Explorations.

The English Government have re-
solved to cooperate with the other ma.
tons in establishing q chain ofcircum-
polar msgnetical and meteorological
observstories. The locality selected
for q British station is Fort Rae, In
the north of Canada, and the general
superintendence Of the work will be
intrusted to a committee of the Royal
Society, the Royal Geographical
Society being asked to cooper
ate 70 far as regards the promo
ton Of their special studies. The per-
sonnet of the expedition has not yet
been selected. The Swedes have
CHOSEN Wyde Bay in West spitzber-
gen for the site Of their station, which
will be manned by thirteen attendants
and - established at the cost OF Mr..
L.. o. Smith, a merchant, who has
placed 80, 900 crowns at the disposal of
the Academy of Science for the pur-
pose.
The Danish station has been changed
from Upernavik, as frst proposed, to
q mere %southerly point at Godshaab,
on the west coast of Greenland, 80 an
to be at q greater distance from the
American station at Lady franklin
Bay and the Austrian at Jan Mayer.
The expedition, which is well fitted
out at Government expense, was to sail
from Copenhagen about May Goth and
is expected to reach Godshaab at the
end Of June. It is to remain there
until September, 1888. The Dutch
propose to establish their station ut
Dicksonshavn, at the mouth the river
Yenisei, unless the ice prevents their
reaching it, in which case they will
go to the northeast point of Novaya
Zemlya. Funds have been supplied
for this purpose partly by the Govern.
ment and partly by pubic subscrip-
tions. The party will be about twelve
in number, and will take with them
all the instruments and apparatus
specified by the International Polar
besides other instruments
and a wooden house. 1t is hoped that
an ascent of the Yenisei can be made
in q steam launch.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-06-17
Boys and Thimbles.

No man can, like the writer, live
sixty years without often wishing he
had learned to use a sewing thimble
well in his eaily boyhood, especially
ifhe has gone about the world much.
Buttons will come off, stitches will
break, and how handy it Is for boys 1t
school-otten at home-to be able to
whip on a button, stop 3 starting rend
and do many other little servings, with
out calling on a woman, or perchance
sending for a tailor. One seldom, IL
ever, learns to use a thimble, II this
part Of his education has been me-
elected In small boyhood. The writer
has travelled q good deal, and ct q
rough guess he has broken threads at
least five hundred times in attempting
to work q needle through . button or
garment without . thimble. BOYS
take our advice, and every ONE of you
learn to use a thimble well before you
grow up.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-06-17
LINES.

Fair as the light OF auroras' irst beam,
AS It comes blushinE red Ger the sea;
Bright as the pictures OF poets fond dreara
Dear maiden, lie thy prese1cs TO me.
It cheers me when pressed with life's many
cares,
1t brightsns my pathway with sladness
and light;
When the hours grow dark and day disap-
pears.
1t makes all the world seem beautiful and
bright
Nav uauvht e'er rise to break the fond tie
That binds our souls together In love;
Or cause In our bosom to withsr and die
feeIing having Its origin above.
Dear one, may not q sorrow or lingering re-
greet
Fer disturb thy tranquil young breast:
MAY any chance care on thy bros lightly set,
Nor cause thee one moment OF bitter unrest.
As softly you glide down life's tran auil streami
The ocean Of eternity before thee,
May the hours OF thy life be as q joy-Eiving
dream.
And peace her sweet mantle spread Ger
thee.
And O., that l too might share thy dear boat,
And with thee 1oat oceanward and dream
And dreaming thus and loving thee, forever
there float
TIL heavens bright shore before as should
gleami
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-06-17
PENIS GROVE. SALEM COUNTY. N. J.. SATURDAY. JUNE IT, 1882.

5RANA NPOA AhCbA INV ACaSAtA aG
INJURED
Poor, innocent child, love has II,
meaning for her save that which
gratitude dictates"
Then he placed the letter anC
flowers next his heart, and went forth
to take up life again with q new bur
ben and a broken heart.
-Four years later, one evening, 1
party OF gentlemen were standing Ii
the lobby of a theatre in a Southern
city. Suddenly a song, clear and soft
came out to them then 1t sank as the
dying breath of the zephyr, gently
mingled with the musical chirp ol
some waking bird in a far away
thicket; then all of the woodland
warblers gathered to take up the song
and pour it out in q wonderful mel.
odE, and with 1t came the cry Of the
whippoorwili Leslie had heard years
before in Glen Elder.
With q rapidly beating heart and
misty eyes he forced his way in with
the crowd, TO see standing before the
foetlights a tall, sylph-like form clad
in shimmering white, while upon the
soft pink arms and about the lovely
throat sparkled diamonds. The beau
tiful, dark, hslf-Spanish face, the
olive cheeks with tint of the pome-
granate be could not be mistaken in,
and Leslie knew that before him stood
Lola, the song bird of Glen Elder.
Hastily penning a note and placing
therein the withered spray Of arbutus,
he found a messenger and dispatched
it to the green room.
Presently the girl app AIRED again,
and 10! his little remembrance of
other days rested above her beating
heart, and as she glanced up their eyes
met and he noticed the glitter Of tear
drops upon the long lashes.
At that momeat his messenger re-
turned and handed him q card. He
arose b~ewildered, was too happy to
remain quiet, and so walked off
beneath the stars. When the opera
was finished he found his way to the
hotel where Lola was staying, and
when admitted to her presence she
stood before him with eager eyes and
ROSY face while he bent over breathing
into her willing ears a torrent of
words that told of his mighty love.
For reply she took from her bosom
and kissed the faded flowers. Then
lifted a smiling and deeply blushing
face, and said:
Lovely Glen Elder! In all my
wanderiDgs / have never found any
thing dearer than the graves / LETT
there, or a truer, dearer friend than be
who gave me merited chastisement,
and who, with other lessons, taught
that of love-"
In an instant she was weeping upon
his hear, and he was whispering in
ner ears words we have no business to
know, save that among the pet names
that came so readily to the lips OF a
lover he called her his "sweet song
bird of Glen Elder.u
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-06-17
Agricultural.
Asparagus Cultsr The Soil a. d Its
Preparation.

&1k0AAs = y III
Preparation.
The beet soil for asparagus is q light,
well-drained, sandy loan. 1t should
be deeply and thoroughly pulverized
and well manured with old, rotted
barnyard manure, carefully worked
into the soil. This Is better than
chemical fertilizers, where it can be
obtained, though they will be found
good for top-dressing. The old pro-
cess o. "trenching" with q spade Is q
slow and laborious one. and our best
market gardeners are substituting
some such method as the following.
After laying out the bed, mark of a
piece along the side about three feet
wide, and from it remove the surface
soil to the depth of a foot or 20. Then
owe this open space with NJ -lnches
of good, rich manure or old leaf mold,
mixing 1t well with the subsoil by
using a spade. Spread from four to
six inches of manure over the undis-
turbed portion Of the bed, lay or
another piece three feet wide, and
throw its top soil into the trench"
previously made, and SO proceed until
the bed is completed, when the last
opening may be filled with the sur
face soil taken from the first. 1t will
be een that this process differs from
"trenchingn proper In that the sur
face soil is not replaced by subsoil.
Such preparation of the ground is more
essential in the bed in which the
plants are to be set than in the seed
bed, though thorough working" OF
the soil there will be repaired.
Sewing and Tr~ansplanting.
The seed should be sown as early In
the spring ss the soil can be worked,
say early In April in most localities In
this latitude. Sow In drills, about a
foot apart and two inches deep, and
drop the seeds about half an inch
apart In rows. After the young plants
come up, the hoe should be used fire.
quently between the rows, to keep
down the weeds and pulverixe the
soil, and handwriting Of the plants
will, doubtless, be found necessary.
The point lie to get q good growth the
first season, so that the plants may be
large enough to transplant the follow
ing spring. The general impression
that asparagus should not be set out
until the second or third year is erro-
neous, providing they are carefully
tended and "forced" the irst season.
Asparagus may be transplaDted
either in the fall or In the srring, and
it is q good plan to prepare the beds In
the fall, even II the planting Is not
done till spring. There 10 q diversity
of opinion ss to the distsnce apart at
which to plant: but, for garden cul-
ture, the rows should be about two
| feet apart, and the plants about o foot
and a half apart in the rows. Fol-
large-growing kinds of asparagus these
| distances should be increased six OF
| eight inches. In field culture, make
| the rows at least three feet apart.
The method most commonly pur'
sued In planting Is to open q trench
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-06-17
Unique Dinner Cards.

At q recent dinner-party In New
York, some odd dinner cards were
used. They were exact limitations Of
square soda crackers made of pale
silk, filled with down and sachet pow
der. The edges were slightly colored,
a. q cracker Is Drowned in the baking.
and the print of the cutting-stamp
was copied by the elk being stitched
together In places. In the centre,
where the name OF the manufacturer
usually is. was the name Of the guest.
AS they lay upon the pure white linen
by the plates they looked like such
fresh, good soda crackers that 1t was .
disappointment to find that they
would not break and crumble into
brittle mouthfuls.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-06-17

SIX or eight inches deep and q TOO
wide, and spread out the roots on tbs
bottom carefully. The crowns of the
plants should be SIX inches beneath
the surface of the ground. Fill the
trench about halt way up with soil at
first, and when the plants r well
above ground the filling may be COM
pleted. 1t is not generally calculated
to cut much asparagus until the third
season after planting, and it is still
better to wait a year or two later than
that. AS an asparagus bed, with
proper care and fertilization, may be
counted on to yield abundansly for
fifteen or twenty years, the plants
should not be "stunted" by too early
or too frequent cuttings.
Sheep.
American shepherds have yet much
to learn in regard to the manage
ment Of their flocks. For example,
the sheep in Silesia are never exposed
to much rain. MOI are they exposed
to dust, for that Is known to be injuri-
GUS to the fleece. The greatest possible
care Ia taken in the breeding. Men Of
experience are employed 10 go from
farm to farm to examine the sheep
and select the best rams that can be
found. The rams are closely exam
ined as to their fleece bearing proper
ties, and all but the very best are sold
OF. The whole economy of the sheep
farm is as perfect as intelligence and
industry can make 1t. A ton of wool
Is worth $3.50 at s5 cents a pound, or
$500 at Is cents. A ton of wheat is
worth about $50, and of corn about s16.
The freight is about the same for each,
and ia thus twenty-five times more for
wheat, and nearly hfty times more for
corn than wool. This is worth con
sidering, and shows how much better
it is to turn corn into wool tha1 to |
sell 1t.
Cello in Hsrsss'
This disease always comes ON sud-
denly and is very dangerous. It is Is
likely to attack the animal away from
home, on the road, and where RENE
dies cannot be had, a. at home. AMI
mails while In harness, say hauling
grain to market, il attacked get down
and not unfrequently die.
1 have had soms experience in such
cases, have never used any kind of
medicine, and have never had a fatal
case, nor one that has lasted over half
an hour. While the horse is down
(and If he does mt lie down get him
on bis side, rs BOOB as possible
get behind him and begin vigorously
10 knead his stomach between the
short ribs and the hind leg with the
double fists, exactly rs If k~neading
bread, and dig in pretty hard.
Almost instantly it will give him
relief, in most cases air will pass from
the bowels, and in five minutes or
less the horse will get up cured.
have used this plan with my own
stock, and have recommended it to
and once saved the life Of an
animal entirely given up by the owner
and his neighbors. I happened to
to his house just rs they were
about to leave the animal to die, and
In twenty minutes he was on his feet
grass. The people thought /
was a wizard.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-06-17
Statistical.

A Venetian glass manufacturer is
making q great success Of ladies' glass
bonnets.
There has been some talk of dredg-
ing the Rhine 50 that Cologne may be
made q seaport.
The annual cost of school books to
users Is estimated at IS, 200, 900.
The average pay of the st. Louis
school teacher IL $61S. 81.
A list Of the streets of Paris shows
that there are $3.50 Of them, with .
total length of about 600 miles.
The New Orleans schools have an
average daily attendance OF. 1885,
about forty pupils to each teacher.
Chicago employs 972 teachers.
There are So .o97 names on the school
list, the average daily attendance be-
ing $3.50.
On the authority of NJ. Smirnof, 1t
is stated that the vineyards Of Turkes-
tan are devastated by the parasitical
fungus called Erysiple.
During the year 1891 less foreign
wine was imported into Switzerland
than in 1880, bat the quantity Of
spirits supported greatly increased.
sheep In Australia.
Omcial returns show how vast are
the Jocks OF sheep owned in the Aus.
tralasian colonies: The New Zealand
and Australian Land Company owns
100000 sheep; Mr.. Robert Campbell,
$50. 900 sheep;Mr. George Henry Moore
90, 900 sh eep /; Eessrs. Clifford & Weld
$4,000 sheep; Sir Dillon Bell. 50. 900
sheep the Hon. William Robinson,
So 900 sheep; Messrs. Dalgetty & Co.,
206. 600 sheep; Sir Cracroft Wilson
As, 900 sheep; Mr.. Kitchen, $4,000
sheep; and Mr.. Allan Mclean, 600.-
600 sheep.
Cows, Euttsr and Cheese.
IT may interest some persons to
learn that the entire butter production
Of this country for 1880 was n thou
sand million pounds, and the cheese
three hundred million Of pounds. The
quantity of butter exported during the
same year was forty million Of
pounds, valued at 500, 900, 900, and
cheese one hundred and thirty mil
lion Of pounds. One cheese made In
Iowa, and which was shipped to Eng
land, weighing more than three
fourths ola ton, and took the prize, .
silver medal, at the great cattle and
dairy show at Birmingham. Great
Britain and Ireland have three mil
liens, seven hundred thousand milct
COWS; France, four millions and 9
half Germany, nearly nine millions,
and the United States thirteen mil
lions. or forty. Ave per cent. more than
any one Of the dairy countries.