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The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
Farming cur Chief Factor.

The position which the United States
holds among the nations of the world is
clearly shown by the wonderful fact that
one-fifth Of the wealth of the seventeen
principal countries Of the globe is credit
ed to this Republic, which has only just
entered upon the second century Of its
existence. The wealth of the United
States equals the combined valuation of
Italy, Spain, Portugal, India, South
America, Turkey, Egypt, Sweden, Nor
way, Canada, Australia, Denmark and
South Africa. II exceeds the wealth of
Great Britain, Canada and Australia
Agriculture has been the main factor
in this marvellous increase of natural
wealth.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
Chiidren's spending Money.
Ihe Household.

A lady of my acquaintance gives an
allowance to each of her children. from
the eldest girl of eighteen who has S. a
month out of which she pays all ex-
penses for her clothing etc, consulting
with her mother Of course, and she is
well and tastefnlly clad, down to the
little fellow of six, who has his two
cents week for spending money. and
three If he is very good. This mas ef-
fectually broken up his old habit of beg
q z daily for pennies to spend. He has
his incop and no more, unless he earns
more by doing errands; for his mother
believes in teaching children early TO be
industrious, and to think il no disgrace,
but rather honorable to earn money for
themselve, and for others. And so well
have lessons of prudence, economy and
industry been learned that he and his
little brother next older have purchased
. new cr0quet set out of their savings.
1t was intirely their own plan.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
Coed for Baby,

Here is something for the young moth.
er who must tend baby and sew: Make
II large square pillow and for this hens
feathers will answer if the feathers of
the goose are too expensive; cover it
with bright colored calico or hits Of ere
tonne; when completed lay it on the
floor and put baby on il on his stomach.
He will amuse himself in many ways,
and often learns his first lesson in creep
ing here. He will lie and pull or kick at
the flowers on the carpet, and kick and
roll and gain strength in his limbs and
an occasional accident caused by his get
ting too near The edge will not alright a
baby who has proper spirit and deter
mination
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
A HAPPY ENDING.
How "a Policeman Made Peace between
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
Shortly before o'clock yesterday
morning milk wagon with red wheels
turned into Charlotte avenue from
Woodward. At the same moment a
milk wagon with view Of the Yosemite
on the cover turned into Charlotte from
Park.
They met.
The driver of one had long nose and
= melancholy look. The driver of the
other had fat face and was minus two
front teeth.
They stopped.
The driver of one turned red and
green, and his eyes flashed, and his hair
stood up, and there was murder in his
eye. The driver of the other seemed TO
sink down into his boots, and he looked
wildly around for a club.
"You hyena p yelled the first.
"You calfT was the prompt reply.
At that moment policeman came up
ami remarked that il ,hcrc was any row
going on he wanted to take hand in.
"I'll crush him ~ howled the one with
the long nose.
II defy your whooped the one with
the missing teeth.
Then the melancholy driver of the
milk wagon with red wheels told story
He had courted girl in the suburbs foi
FIVE years. They loved and were en-.
gagged. They were to have been married
this fall, but he with the Yosemite land
scape came along wearing new brand
of paper collar, smoking seventy-fivt
cent pipe, and using real hair oil on his
locks, and he won the girls admiration
and affection. She had left the old love
for the new.
"And I'll pulverize himp howled tn,
rejected.
"And I'll leave him corpse !" chirpec
the accepted.
By and by they agreed to leave the
settlement of the case to the officer ano
both made solemn promise to abide
his decision.
"Well,' said the officer, after deliber
ating awhile, "a girl should marry who
she loves. She evidently prefers a mar
with two teeth gone to one with a long
nose. Still, the rejected has taken hel
on two excursions, given her fifty-cent
fan, and bought more or less candy. He
should have some damages"
"I'll give him three quarts of milk,
announced the lucky man.
"And I'll never take it," said Melan
choly.
MY decision is that you must allow
him nine quarts" remarked the officer
81 figure his actual damages at SO, but
knock off twenty shillings for the com
fort he has taken in sparkling the girl"
There was war of words over the de
cision, but the one finally gave in, anC
the other accepted, and the milk changed
cans, and the men shook hands.
"That's what | like to see," observed
the officer. "Why should two men fght
over woman, when little candid tall
and nine quarts Of milk will bring abou
happy arrangement? Drive on, my
children, and may the dream of happi
ness attend your
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
Rural Berevitles.

A nice lunch afield about =. NJ.
Midsummer past-Autumn coming.
Defer going to town to "see man."
Hurdle fences are useful institutions.
Don't continue welded to old notions.
Never let your gates sag and fall down.
" nv not feed windiall fruit to pork ers
Never ego to law" you can arbitrate.
Don't neglect to give attention to de-
tails.
Don't "let up on insects and evil
weeds.
A firkin of butter weighs Sc lbs, IA tub
81.
Keep tools, fences and buildings in
repair.
Army worm rayaging in Lancaster Co,
Pa.
Straw culture for potatoes is gaining
favor.
Remember small things are often i'm
portant.
Keep your stock from neighboring
premises.
Take extra care of the equines these
hot days.
Poor show for the Canada hop crop
reported.
Head work often pays better than
hand work.
Don't crowd your men and teams at
midday.
Sorry you didn't make and fill an ice
house.
Ohio's annual chestnut crop is worth
100000.
Men are dredging the South Carolina
rivers for phosphates.
1t is wonderful how many politicians
(otlice seekers) are becoming horney-
handed tillers of the soil.
How many of your iamily-including
wife and young folks-are to exhibit, as
well as observe, at the fair
The Father of His Country" is credit
ed with having introduced the mule into
agricultural employment III America.
Mr.. George W. Harris, Wethersfeld,
Ct, has imported twenty head of cattle
within the past six months.
The officers of the Department of Ag-
riculture say that hog-cholera is prac-
tically exterminated.
New York City consumes, on an aver
age, 4,200 Dales of hay per day, or nearly
100000 tons per annum.
The widow of DR.. Glenn, the great
California farmer, will realize this year
$1,000 from the grain crop.
Hens will not lay freely when infested
with lice. Keep them in clean quarters
with plenty of fresh wafer.
Many New Hampshire and Vermont
farmers along the Connecticut river gave
up this year the culture OF tobacco.
In Georgia the area devoted TO Irish
potatoes is 100 per cent greater this year
than last, and the area in water melons |
is zoo per cent greater.
Wasps will seldom attack strong colo
MES of bees, but II weak swarm is near |
a place frequented by wasps they will |
annoy the bees considerably.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
A Chain Tether Best.

A New England farmer has found from
long experience that small chain tether
twenty TO twenty five feet in length, is
every way preferable to rope. "One end
is toggled around the neck of the animal,
and the other, with ring in it, is pinned
to the ground with short, sharp-pointed
fat-headed iron bar. The chain should
have q swivel, and two or three heavy
links about two feet from the neck end,
in order TO keep the animal from snarl-
ing up. The chain grows brighter with
use, and will last years, rain or shine"
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
RURAL REALMS.
From Tiilage To Pastursge.

A marked feature Of rural life in Eng.
land at the present day is the substitu-
ton of permanent past'lrage for tillage.
Year by year the 'disproportion between
titled and untitled land becomes greater.
In the whole Of England there are up
wark of 81, 100000 acres. and of these in
1870 upwards 100000 acres were laid
out in permanent pasturage. In lssothe
untitled land had increased to ii 100000
acres, and the increase is now maintained
at the rate of 100000 acres per year.
Taking the whole Of Great Britain the
increase is even higher, l2,073,000 acres
only being untitled in 1870, as compared
with l4,S21 900 in 1882, whilst in Ireland
the change is still more marked. This is
owing to foreign competition in The
cereal crops
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
The Daughter of Cctewayo.
Providence Journal

1t may not be generally known to the
majority of our intelligent fellow-citizens
that the Princess Amazula, daughter OF
the late King Cetewayo, resides in our
midst, as it were, with very few marks
of reverence for her royal state. Such,
however, is fact. the Princess being
denizen of Christian Hill. The Princess
joined an Uncle Toms Cabin troupe at
Cape Town, and thus she came to reach
America. At present she earns an hon
est but modest livlihood by letting lodg-
ings and doing washing and ironing for
the surrounding white trash. On being
informed of the tragic death of her royal
father in So nth Africa the Prilcess ANA,
zula manifested no very poignant grief
and will assume no other court mourning
than that which nature has provided
her.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
Converted by Lightning.


Up in Houston county there is young
man who has heretofore borne the repu-
tation of being the wickedest fellow in
the section where he lived. A very in
teresting revival took place not long ago
and much interest was manifested. One
of the ministers approached the young
man and asked if he had bible and he
replied negatively. The good man adj
vised him to buy one and take 1t home
and read it. He said he had no money
to throw away on bibles. Then the min
lister offered TO give him one and he re-
fused TO take it. He went home and re-
paired to his farm. While in the field
an angry rain cloud came, and soon vivid
flashes of lightning began to play around
in the neighborhood ofthe wicked young
man. Soon bol. came along and
knocked him winding over the cotton
rows. The falling rain-drops in his face
revived him after a few minutes, and he
proceeded toward the house, but just be-
fore entering the gate he received anoth-
er shock which laid him PROSTATE and
helpless on the ground Reviving again,
he went into the house, and related to
his wife the ordeal he had Just passed
through and how near he had APP
preached death. Next day he went to
town, bought a bible, attended church
during the gracious revival, and en-
braced religion. This is one instance
where a man got religion by electricity
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
Getting Information Under Difficuities.

Ex.
81 do not see any popularity in your
people," said an Eastern Judge address.
ing his travelling companion, well
known Arkansas lawyer. 81 have trav-
eled quite extensively in this State, and
/ have not as yet found that eccentricity
of action and prevarication ofreply that
has often amused me in the newspa-
pers."
"You have done most of your travelling
by rail-" the lawyer repli ed. This |
your first trip away from the main roads
is it not?"
"Yes."
"Well, III show you some of our genu
inc natives. Yonder is house. Call the
landlord and hold conversation with
him."
"Hallo!" called the judge.
"Comin'l" the man replied, depositing
a child in the doorway and advancing.
"How's all the folks2"
"Children's hearty; wife's not well.
Amt what you might call bed sick bu'
Jest sorter stretchy."
"Got anything to eat in the house?'
"Ef I had it anywhar I'd have 1t in
the house" or
GLOW many children have you?"
"Many as | want"
"How many did you want"
want hankerin' srtcr a powerful
chance. but I'm satisfied"
"How long have you been living
here?"
"To) long"
"How many years.
Been here ever since my oldest son
was born"
"What year was he born?"
"The.year come here"
"How old is your boy?"
"Ff he had lived he would have been
the oldest Wit; but, as he died Jims the
Oldest"
"He amt as old as the one what died.
"Well, how old is the one that diedf"
"He was older than jim"
what do you do for living"
Eat"
"How do you get anything to eat?'
"The best way we kin"
How DO you spenu your '"''""y''
"Like the week days"
"How do you spend them?'
"Like Sundays"
is that your daughter yonderP
"No sir, she amt my daughter yonder
nor nowhar' else"
as she relative of yours
"No sir; no kim"
kin to your Wa, s,'ppose."
"No kin to my wife hut she is kin tn
my children"
"How do you make that out?"
"she's my wife?"
"How far is it to the next honse!'
at is called three miles, but the man
what calls 1t that il liar
awe got enough" said the judge turn
ing 10 the lawyer. "Drivc on. ! pity
the man who depends on this man for
information"
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
Protect the Birds.

Regarding the value of birds TO the
farmer, Prof Stearns, in paper read be-
fore the Connecticut State Board of Agri-
culture, states that young robin in the
nest requires daily supply of food more
than equivalent to its own weight. The
swallows ARE the natural enemies of the
midges and similar smaller insects that
prey on grain. II is estimated that the
nestlings of a single pair Of swallows will
in three weeks consume half a million
insects. The king bird is strictly insec-
tivorous and great protector. The wrens
would be induced to remain near houses
II suitable bones are provided, and they
war without ceasing upon caterpillars.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
Sorghum for Feed.

The Kansas Report says that good
method of growing sorghum for feed is
to prepare your ground by plowing fine
and deep, Immediately after harvest.
Plant with a corn planter as fast as you
plow, until you have the number of acres
you intend TO put to this use. About the
lst of August the sorghum is nicely up;
then harrow it thoroughly lengthwise Of
rows. BY the 18th of August the sor-
ghum will probably be from six to eight
inches high, at which time proceed to
seed the field with rye. Drill one and
one-half bushels per acre; then, when
the cold weather comes. turn your stock
in upon 1t, and You have an excellent
pasture.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
Notes.

Watch closely, mildew, the greatest
enemy of the grape grower. Apply SC =
phur with bellows en a still day.
The most prolific cause of disea
among fowls is uncleanliness of the /,
quarters and runs.
See that your fowls are not infested
with vermin. Hens will not lay freely
if they are annoyed by lice.
Never feed your fowls damaged grains
or tainted food. See that the water they
drink is clean and good.
DIR. A. W. Chapman. a Southern
authority in matters pertaining TO botany,
says that Bermuda grass develops its
seed in south Florida.
Mr.. J. A. Hill, Chanute, Kan, is raising
peppermint and making the oil. and ex-
poets an annual return from ii Of S25 to
$40 per acre.
Some California bee-men are saying
that this years honey-crop of that State
will be less than half the average.
Cotton-seed meal is remarkable for the
amount of protein and fat it contains.
This fact should always be kept in view
in using cotton-seed meal as feed.
Weedy pastures make poor and bitter
butter. Whena pasture is in foul con-
dition II should be ploughed and planted
with some hoed crop.
Three Colorado creameries are doing a
rousing business; sending out among
them, three tons of butter a day. They
are situated at Brighton, Eyerton and
Fort Collins.
The Lewiston Journal says: "The far
mer who expects to thrive by doing his
work with borrowed tools had better
give up farming, hire ont and make a
new start.
Amherst college is exciting the ire of
surrounding farmers by raising and sell
ing fruits and vegetables at prices far be-
low the market rates.
A Nevada stallion chased man on
horseback, took him from the saddle,
shook him, and dropped him, galloping
off apparently satisfied with his feat
Mr.. N. J. Shepherd tolls the Prairie
Farmer that bagasse used as mulch for
muskmelons gave very good results also
about tomato plants.
Mr.. Joel Champion, Starkville, n. Y,
is quoted as having practiced with very
satisfactory results for eight or ten wears
thick seeding for grass-two bushels per
acre.
The small green worm eating of the
heads of wheat in Berks county, Pa, is,
the old farmers say, the same that played
havoc there 25 years ago.
Mr.. w. F. Bassett, Hammonton. n. j..
has expectations of the Atlantic" a
chance Seeding strawberry found six
years ago, and successfully fruited four
seasons.
A California family were dangerously
poisoned short time since by eating the
roots of Lima beans, which they happen
ed to discover are very palatable.
Statistician J. X. Dodge says so many
n a million acres of winter-killed wheat
are sometimes plowed up in the spring
of bad year for substitution of other
crops.
A dog gained access to Kansas corral
of 800 sheep one night and bit one
third of them about the head and face.
Within eleven days 800 of them died of
hydrophobia.
The cost of transporting a barrel of
-four from Minneapolis to Boston is 81.
The freight on the same barrel from
Minneapolis to Glasgow, Scotland, is but
81 20.
A writer in the Toronto Globe reminds
those who think there is profit in incu-
hator chickens that it is very difficult to
raise them. They often die after they
have become featheed."
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
A Change of Sentiment
Detroit Free Pre-, S

The newspaper editor who has been
yexing his soul over the way the youth
of the land gulps down dime novels of
the blood and thlnder sort can feel bet
ter. A change of sentiment has already
BETRAYED itself, and there is reason to
hope that zone Eyed Dick" and Dead
Shot Jim,' will soon be out of print.
Yesterday a lad Of II, who has dcvourcd
about thousand five and ten cent nov
els during the last year, entered Wood
ward avenue news store, and when the
clerk handed him down "The Black De-
mon of the Prairies" and other late pub
lications of the sort he turned away with
sigh and remarked:
81 don't care for 'em any more"
"Wky, what's the matter?"
"Well, read 1niun stories and run
away to become an Injun slayer. Dad
brought me back and whaled me half to
death. read pirate stories and shipped
on schooner for Buffalo and almost died
of sea-sickness. ! read hunting stories,
but there's nothing to hunt around here
except cats. I'yc tried to be trapper,
but the only game ever caught was the
milkman, and he's laying out for me yet
kinder wanted to be a train-robber, but
the trains wouldn't stop to be robbed,
and when | read of heroes and looked
around to save rich girls in runaway
coupe or old men from the river there
was never any chance. I'm going to
change and read something else"
"Well, what shall it be?"
81 want something about boy who
began low down and worked up. He
mustn't rush into any burning houses,
save any stores from being robbed, dis
cover any plots to blow up steamboats,
or save any old woman from mad dogs.
He must be just like the rest Of us
have headaches, get licked, hate to get
out of bed fight his brothers and steal
sugar and take it to bed to eat
The dealer couldn't find such book
and the lad went ont with the remark
that nobody seemed to care to write any
thing for boys, and that he guessed he'll
have to get pair Of bones and start out
as a song and dance man. Who can
write a boys book which will reflect the
characteristics and adventures of mod
ern boy?
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
Don't Feed Mustx Meal.

Experiments have proved that musty
meal is not wholesome food for any of
the domestic animals. Disease and death
have been directly traced to its use.
When fed to poultry, chicken cholera or
some disease resembling that was the re-
suit. Cows TO which it was fed gave bit
ter milk, and ceased TO thrive as well as
well as those in the same pasture which
has no grain swine fed upon it failed to
grow or fatten; only horses were not in
jured by it, and they escaped because
they would not eat it.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
PERILOUS BALLOON VOYAGE.
Tossed About by the Air at Height OF a
Mile and a Half.

Tossed About by the Air at n Height Of
Mile and a Half.
Hnhdsle (Mcb.) Dispatch in n. y. sun.
Professor Hogan, who made balloon
ascension from this city on Saturday, re-
turned on Sunday morning. He said it
was the most varied and hazardous trip
of his life. At height of a mile and
half current of air caused his balloon to
roll from side to side and threw the valve
rope beyond HE reach, so that he lost
control. He took O scrap book and PEN
ell and wrote notes which he let fall to
the earth. of which he got occasional
glimpses through the clouds. AT the end
of ninety minutes he struck a current,
which carried him rapidly north in sight
of Saginaw City, and then another which
took him over Lake Huron. When near
Toledo the balloon veered in sbeh a
manner as to enable him to catch the
valve. When he looked for place to
land he began to descend, but found
himself in the midst Of a dense swamp.
Ascending. he made an attempt to strike
a large field, but was plunged to the bot
tom of the Maumee river, near Water
vile, Ohio.
Then the balloon rebounded to the top
of a tree and collapsed, the Professor
catching a limb. He thinks he must
have been at one time five miles above
the earth. He suffered greatly from
cold, and when at the greatest height 1t
was very difficult for him to breathe. He
had canteen of liquor, and an OCCASION
al swallow saved his life by keeping him
from going TO sleep, for the feeling OF
drowsiness was very strong, and at times
nearly overcome him. He believes he
travelled over POO miles in three hours,
as most of the time he was blown along
at frichtful speed.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
Sod from Bog Land,

In Ireland the sod cut on boggy ground
is piled up in heaps until dry, then
burned into species of charcoal. This
is then pulverized and mixed with well
rotted stable and hen house manure in
equal proportions. Placed in drills where
turnips or carrots are to be planted il is
said to make them attain monstrous size.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
A Great Food source.

The capacity of the Great Amencan
Desert to grow beef, if estimated at the
low average of twenty steers per square
mile of area, will exceed twenty millions
of cattle, which will furnish four or five
millions year for the market. What a
food supply and what commerce these
figures comprise The plains are the
great pasture fields Of the American ma
ton for all time to come.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
Draining nm Lands.

In Scotland, where much has been
done in the matter of draining hill lands,
practical engineers give the preference
to those drains hich run directly up and
down the slope. If irrigation is desired
the drains must be laid across the slope
to allow the water 10 soak through the
land, but for carrying the water OF The
land speedily they must lay up and down
the declivity.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
Keep Carbolic Acid.

A bottle Of carbolie acid should be
kept in every farm house, not merely as
q disinfec.ant, but as wash for wounds
and sores. For any purpose it should be
diluted with water. Itspower TO destroy
fungus growths renders carbolic acid in
valuable in pruning orchards of pear,
plum or peach, where blight or other dis
ease is suspected. The pruning shears
should be frequently dipped in carbolic
acid water.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
Clean Money.

The Atlanta Constitution truly says
that the money made by farming is the
cleanest, best money in the world. 1t is
made in accordance with Gods first law
under honest and genial influences
away from the taint of trade or the heat
of speculation. II fills the pockets of the
farmer at the expense of no other man.
His gain is no mans loss but the more
he makes the better for the world at
large. Prosperous farmers make pros
porous people. Whatever benefits our
agriculture benefits the commonwealth.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-25

pailful of corn meal mush, fed warm
once day, the corn to be of the yellow
variety, adding that it will increase the
milk and butter as well as give good
color. Butter makers who are in the
habit OF using commercial coloring mat
ter will do well to make nete of this
suggestion and give the mush trial.