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Arizona silver belt., 1883-09-01

In the vicinity of Watkins ranch.
rains have been frequent and copious
grass abundant--cattle and horses
seal fat. Frank Thornton and D. B.
McGee who are prospecting in that
neighborhood reported to j. B. Walk
ms the grass in many places in the
hills as reaching their shoulders when
upon horseback. Tall grass, certain
ly, but nevertheless entitled to Gre
dence. Watkins, who knows whereof
he speaks, says Thornton and Melee
are never without their little hatchets
and that to report otherwise than that
the grass is as tall as they represent
it would be to make sinner of one s
memory.
Arizona silver belt., 1883-09-01
Treasurer's Notice.

GLOBE, A. r.. SEPT. /, 1883, NOTICE
" is hereby given that there is funds on
hand to pay all warrants on the County
General Fund up to and including No. 653.
and that interest will cease on said war
rants from this date.
ID. b. LACEY, County Treasurer.
Cas-. VAN WAGENEN. Deputy.
Arizona silver belt., 1883-09-01
For Sale.

NOTICE.-CASIi PAID FOR COPPER
~ and Copper Silver ores Rates on APP
.pI'cations ", Il. NrvEHENl'N.
Dee. ..H-tG
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-29
"Nein, nein; it is my heart !"
Accidental Discoveries.

Accidental discoveries have supplied
some of the most valuable processes of
the industrial arts. It is said that the
rolling of cold iron was first suggested
by the fact that Il workman who was
placing a piece of hot iron in the rolls
carelessly permitted his tongs to be
drawn in. He noticed that they were
rolled, and not broken. He called the
attention of the superintendent to the
occurrence, and this led to inyestiga-
ton and experiment and the discovery
that cold rolled iron is equal to steel
for shafting purposes. The process OF
rolling iron cold was soon patented,
and millions of dollars have been made
out of the patent.
There are many similar instances
where observing Workmen have called
attention to valuable processes A
signal one was in the early period of
the cotton manufacture, when a good
deal of trouble was caused by the cot
ton sticking to the bobbins. All the
workmen in the mill were delayed by
the necessity of stopping work. to clean
the bobbins. AT last n workman
found a way to obviate the trouble.
He, and he alone in all the mill, had
clean bobbins. For a long time he
kept his secret to himself. He finally
revealed it on the promise of a pint of
beer a day for life. His secret was to
etchalk the bobbins." This little scrap
ing Of salt on the bobbins saved mil
lions of dollars a year, and the observ-
ing workman got not only his beer,
but a competence.
Each extension of modern enterprise
and skill brings with it a train of in
yentions. The railway, the telegraph,
the steamboat, the development of
iron. electricity and petroleum, have
each produced a long line Of inventors
more or less successful, SO that each of
these industries might have a credita-
BILE exhibition by itself.-Neso York
| San.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-29
FOR THE FARM AND HOME.
Whence Come the Weedss

A writer has this to say about the
source of weeds, thousands of which
oftentimes suddenly appear as II their
seeds had been sown during the pre-
ceding season: ga hundred years ago.
when an English farmer introduced an
iron pillow, his Workmen threw it aside
and said it brought in the weeds. And
it was true. An old neighbor says
'they're NATAL to the sile." And
that is true. And I say manure them
in, too. And that is true. The fact
is the soil is so stocked with weeds
from the surface down to bed rock
that any better kind of cultivation
encourages the weeds to grow, and
with better crops we have still more
abundant weeds, in the precise ratio
that it is easier to grow weeds than
crops. And so weeds are natural to
the soil; for the soil is full OF the
seeds, and the better blowing we do,
with the better plows we have, the
more the weeds grow; and the more
we cultivate the soil the more new, or
old, seeds we bring up, and the more
manure we use the stronger is the
growth. 1t is very disceuraging. The
more a farmer works and the better he
does his work, the more he is pestered
with difficulties of all kinds. The
more crops,t the more insects, and the
richer the soil, the more weeds. There
is no escape from the old curse, and
the brow must sweat or the bread will
not be earned, and June is the month
when the curse falls the heaviest. No
doubt at the time this curse of endless
labor fell upon mankind the materials
the seed Of weeds--began to fall and
stock the ground, and have accumulat-
ed ever since, and no one knows how
deep they lie in the ground, everlast-
ing and neyer-dying, but waiting their
turn to be brought up to the surface
and to terminate. Some years ago /
dug a well eighty feet deep and the
soil was left in a heap near by for
future use in filing a road. The next
year the heap was green with weeds
and when the road was made it was
soon covered with a mat of them,
principally shepherds purse, sorre].
mustard, white clover, and the familiar
"pusley." Probably those weeds were
| swept down with the soil when the
food which followed the glacial period
changed the surface of the ground and
deposited this mass Of earth which we
call the drift. And there they lie
still living, an instance of how poor
and weak and short-liVed a man is as
compared with an invisible pusley seed
in the soil and the persistence with
| which it retains its life for ages.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-29
SON Of ass African King.

Among the citizens Of this republic
there is at least one undoubted son of
royalty, says the New York Tribune,
in the person of the Rev. William j.
Barnet, pastor Of the Shiloh (colored)
Baptist church, Wi1liamsport, Penn.
He is the son Of a once powerful Afri-
can king, Durnba by name. He early
came to the conclusion that a trusty
trade is d valuable adjunct even to roy
atty, SO he became a river and coast
pilot at Sierra Leone, and while thus
engaged was converted 30 Christianity
and was baptized in the Atlantic
ocean. Then he was kidnapped, and
was being brought to New Orleans as
a slave when he contrived to escape at
Liverpool. From there he went to
California, and then backt to Liverpool.
On his second visit to England Lord
Carney became interested in him and
had him well educated. In 1862 he
visited New York and Philadelphia,
and was sent to Sierra Leone as a Bap-
list missionary. Returning to this
country after year he became pastor
successfully of churches in Brooklyn,
Newport and New Haven. After the
war he went to Richmond, and found
ed q strong church on Navy Hill, the
site of the old slave market. After
that he preached at Greenbrier, White
Sulphur Springs, Lexington, staunton,
Charlottesville, Gordonsville. North
Danyille and Louisa Court House. In
all these Virginian towns he built up
strong and prosperous churches. He
has been in Williamsport three years,
and has enjoyed remarkable success.
He snow only forty-three years OF
are.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-29

they sprang up in his heart, the active
hands would drop their knitting, and
the glittering needles lay quiet in the
lap of the busy housewife.
So time went by, and the little lad
was sent up to one of the great city
Conservatives to follow his calling.
He had not been idle; even the dull
lest parts of his studies were a pleas
ure, and day after day he worked away
through very love of his art, and that
the dear old burgomaster might see
his kindness had not been misplaced.
Thus Carl grew, until when, at
length, having wrought out all the
themes of the great master, he babe
the place adieu, carrying with him
only the black fiddle.
OF how he went from city to city and
land to land, swaying with his magic
touch of the bow the throngs who came
to hear, [ cannot tell you.
Yet to-day there is not a crowned
head in Europe who has not listened
to the little peasants playing, and
showered upon him gifts and medals.
Through it all, Carls heart is true tothe
memory of the white-haired old man
in far-off Germany who calls him son,
and who, almost as much as the lad
himself, prizes the old black fiddle
which has won for him all this honor.
As there comes to him in loving Ian
guage news OF each fresh triumph, tears
dim his eyes, and his mind recalls the
time when the toWns-folk had said the
stranger lad must part with his fiddle,
and he, clasping it the closer. cried
out:
"Nein, nein;i it is my heart !"
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-29

of science, walking into my kitchen
yesterday, chow to know that your
fruit-can is certainly air-tight?" Il
was that moment contemplating a can
which had a little nick on the upper
edge, and it was hard to judge whether
the rubber would effectually keep the
air out. The man lighted a bit OF
paper, put it into the can, slipped the
rubber ring over, and put the glass
cover on. The burning paper eX-
hausted the air, and behold the cover
was with difficulty removed.-Nep
York EUening Post.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-29
Tg.e Whirlpool.

In the shade of the headland, a span from the
shore,
The whirlpool lies cooled in sleep
Who could guess that the slumbering brow
ever bore
A trown that is crafty and deep2
Yet It's here IN the blast OF the hurricanes
breath g.
That the soul.laden ship finds a doom;
To the musical moan OF this circle of death
Do they pass to their iathomless tomb.
Youth in its bloom.
Age in its gloom,
Mother and father, The maid and her
mate,
Master and slave
Finding a grave
In this mad magic circle, the whirlpool
o siate.
In the heart of the city, in turmoil and din,
The whirlpool doth fearlessly ride;
In its merciless torrents are virtue and sin
The palson and thief side by side;
Here the hand of The peasant is gripped by the
glove
Of the gallant who lives but to lie;
And the maiden to-day who is learning to love,
On the morrow has learnt how TO die!
Vice with its amt,
Crime with its faint,
Cradle and coffin, the lowly and great;
Billows OF blood
Cresting the flood
Of this MAD magic circles, the Whirlpool
of fate!
Arthur w. Pinero.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-29
Ras,srod Bread.

AS a curious souvenir of the war,
Albert Ross has preserved in a glass
case a piece of what was known in the
confederate army a ramrod bread. It
was made by stringing out a piece Of
dough and twisting it around a ramrod
and then baked BY suspending on two
forked sticks. The piece preserved by
Mai Ross was baked in 1864 in East
Tennessee.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-29

How many (says an exchange) know
that a horse gets up before and a cow
gets up behind, and the COW eats from
her and the horseleats to him. How
many know that a surveyors mark
upon a tree never gets any higher
from the ground. or what trees bear
fruit without bloom?
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-29
Frances Population.

From the complete returns Of the
last French census it appears that
the female sex exceeds The male by
122,254-thus, males 18,656,5Ia,
females 18, TT. OF the males
I0,n0,601 are unmarried and I,025,.
ISL WidoWers; willis Of the females
a2aD,s62 are summarized md 1864:
557 widows The total MaIabeT 81
Inhabitants Is 37,4uas0.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-29

The Mormons are recruiting their
forces so much that they are medltat-
ing the establishment of a colony in
the Mexican state of Sonora, as a sort
of experiment, and negotiations Tor
the lands are now pending. The peo-
pie there, however are not disposed to
contemplate the movement with favor,
judging by a strong remonstrance in
in the latest received Merican Ftn0n-
cier, published at the capital, which
says: "The United States has been
too lenient with them, and, in conse-
quence, it has now a serious problem
to solve. Mexico should profit by the
example of that country and assure
the Mormons that their room is better
than their company, enforcing the
words by barring the door against
their coming"
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-29
Wood Ashes for Pastures.

Wood ashes, whenever they al be
obtained, are excellent for top-dressing
pastures. Grasses are greatly bene-
flied by ashes, which contain a large
amount of salts which are promotive
of a luxuriant growth. An expert
enced farmer says of ashes: Nothing
in the whole catalogue of manures
compares with them on my land. The
soil was a thin, clayey loan, and where
the ashes were sown there was a crop
of excellent clover, where for years the
land had been almost nnproductiye."
Many farmers have found by expert
ence that one bushel of unleached
hard wood ashes is nearly equal totwo
bushels of plaster a atop dressing for
dry grass lands. According to Profes-
sor Liebig every ITO pounds of un-
leached ashes of the common birch
tree, spread on the soil, furnish as
much phosphate as five hundred and
seven pounds of the richest manures.
In n case where thirty bushels Of
leached ashes were used on three
fourths of an acre the crop was in
creased more than three-fold. The
effect Of ashes continues for years,
and, as they are not very bulky, they
are well adapted to applying to pas
lures. Ground bones are also good for
top-dressing pastures where cows have
run. The bones restore in part the
phosphates which have been removed
in the milk.-NeD England Farmer.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-29
MATTERS.

That the Chinese in America do eat
rats and cats is a belief that has all
the force Of a popular superstition.
But DR.. Charles Kammerer has done a
great deal towards making it a scien-
tifc fact. He reports to the New York
health department that he saw a num-
Der of Cinnamon in that city prepar-
ing a dinner of rats and cats which
were lying about the yard. The doc
tors chief objection to this perform
ance was that the Cinnamon left the
skins and refuse in the yard to putre-
g.,
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-29

The interdict which the German gov
eminent has placed upon the importa-
ton of American pork appears to have
caused great alarm among a large class
of German manufacturers, who fear
that the American government will
adopt some damaging measures in re-
prisal. There is especially a report
current in the German papers that an
import duty Of sixty per cent. ad yalo-
rem is to be placed upon German
stockings and wooden knit goods, the
manufacture of which is an important
industry in Germany. During the
year 1882 wares of this description to
the amount of over 100000 were
exported from the district of Chemnitz
alone to the United States. Whole
villages are occupied almost exclusive
" with their manufacture. 1t is
feared that as Germany is the only
country prohibiting American pork,
which is admitted without question to
all other countries, this expected tax
of sixty per cent. upon imported knit
goods will be imposed only upon such
wares as are of German manufacture,
thereby rendering competition in the
American market with similar goods
of Swiss or English manufacture ut
terly impossible in the future. Compe-
tition in these fabrics between the
English and German manufacturers is
very keen, and such a tax would de-
stroy the American market for the
German factories entirely. 1t would
have a disastrous effect in Germany,
creating havoc in some districts of the
country, and reducing whole commu-
mites TO restitution. German news
| papers inform their readers that the
| American Congress will reconvene in
the fall, and to that time and to the
measures that Congress will adopt
they look forward with anxiety.
War against the sparroWs has bro
ken out in Washington. Major Ly-
decker, one of the three commissioners
of the District of Columbia, desires to
exterminate them, and the well-knoWn
~ornithologist, Professor Elliott Coues,
who is convinced that these little birds
are a nuisance, has undertaken to show
him how the work of determination
can be successfully carried on. He
advises. first, that a part of the game
law that forbids the killing of any
sparrow, under a penalty of 80, shall
be repealed; second, that the killing of
sparroWs within the city limits, except
by the use of firearms, shall be per-
mitted; third, that a bounty Of two
cents a head shall be offered for dead
sparrows; fourth, that sparroWs' heads
shall be receivable for taxes at the
same rate, and, fifth, that it shall be
the duty of those who care for the pub.
lie streets and parks to destroy spar.
rows nests, young sparrows, and spar.
rows eggs. Professor Coues believes
that if the commissioner shall adopt
these suggestions he will win the last.
ing gratitude of the citizens of Wash.
ington. The sparrow is, in his opin.
ion, a nuisance that should be abated
and he says that he does not know Of
ga single ornithologist, entomologist
or botanist, whose knowledge of the
case entities his opinion to considera
ton, who does not take substantially
the same yieW."
How many (savs an axch knou
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-05-30

diuretic, pectoral and nutrtive propertu-.
is uneQualed, not only as a remedy for con-
sumption Of the lungs, bat for all chronic
diseases OF the liver, blood, kidneys and
lungs. Golden Medical Discovery cures oil
humors, from the worst ecrofula TO com
mon blotch, pimple or eruption. Erysipe-
las, salt-rheum, feYer-sores, scaly or rough
skin, IN short, all diseases caused by disease
germs IN the blood, are conquered by this
powerful purifying and invigorating medi-
cine. Great eating ulcers rapidly heal under
its benign influences. Especially has II
manifested its potency in curing letter, rose
rash, boils, carbuncles, sore eyes, scrofulous
sores and swellings, white swellings, goitre
or thick neck, and enlarged glands.
"The blood is the life" Thoroughly
CLEANSE this fountain of health by using
Golden Medical Discovery, and good diges.
ton, fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital
strength and soundness of constitution are
established
For weak lungs, 'pitting Of blood, short
breath, consumptive night-sweats and kin
dred affections, IL is a sovereign remedy. In
the cure of bronchitis, severe coughs and
consumption, il has astonished the medical
faculty, and eminent physicians pronounce
Il the greatest medical discovery of the age.
The nutritive properties possessed by cod
liver oil are trifing when compared with
those of the Golden Medical Discovery. IL
rapidly builds up the system and increase
the flesh and weight OF those reduced belo 8
the usual standard of health by wasting dis
eases.
The reader will pardon the foregoing di-
gression, prompted by our admiration for q
remedy that performs such marvellous cures,
and permit us TO say that when the admiral
returned TO his home in New York the only
cloud cast upon the happiness of the reunion
with his family was CAUSED by the continued
illness of his eldest son, n young man of
tW Wenty-four, whose disease, when the ad-
Iniral sailed from Montevedio, had been re-
ported ms succumbing 90 the treatment of
the family doctor. But his father thought 1t
otherwise; the unfortunate young man was
suffering severely from chronic disease of
the kidneys and bladder. Before leaving
Boston the admiral had purchased n copy of
DIR. Pierces book, "The Peoples Common
Sense Medical Adviser" He read this val
uab.e book thoroughly, and upon his arrival
home had made up his mind as 20 the future
treatment for his son. The latter was sent
TO the famous Invalids' Hotel, at Buffalo, N.
Y, conducted by DIR. r. V. Pierce, and his
competent staff of specialists, where, under
skillful treatment, the sufferer soon found
relief and n permanent cure.
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MILL Cow. Need stnhles.

If the stable is not so close as to
make the cows uncomfortable, and is
well ventilated and kept clean, and as
good food given as that obtained
by grazing, the same COWS will give
more milk in a season if kept up than
they would If running at large, unless
the grazing is done under unusually
favorable conditions. Cows in milk
require but little exercise to maintain
good health. What they get beyond
this requirement when grazing. which
is generally considerable, tends to
diminish their milk. Exposure to hot
sunshine, to storms, and to annoyance
by flies, tends to depreciate both
quantity and quality, and to give a
balance in favor of stabling. The
more travelling COWS do, the more
cheesy matter do they develop in their
milk, while to support the increased
respiration occasioned by theincreased
exercise, more fat is burned up and
less appears in the milk. The quieter
they remain, the richer their milk in
butter Upon the varying conditions
which may accompany the two modes
OF feeding, will depend the preference
IN richness and quality of milk. 1t is
believed to be generally on the side of
housing when properly attended to-
LtOe Stock Journal.
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The first thing to be done with a
pasture incumbered with stone is TO
remove this incumbrance. If there
Is a low spot, a ditch should be dug
there with an outlet to carry off the
water and the stone gathered into it
and covered a foot deep. Large rocks
should be buried where they lie. Then
the surface can be improved by har-
rowing, fresh seeding, and the use of
plaster, superphosphate of lime, nitrate
of soda, or other useful fertilizers.
Permanent pasture is very desirable
and easily attainable if the right means
are used. The chief of these is the
seed. A mixture of grasses is neces-
sary. and the varieties chosen should
be those having running roots and
coming to maturity in succession.
Meadow fescue, tall oat-grasses, fowl
meadow-grass, orchard-grass, timothy,
and red-top will altogether make a
thick, permanent sod, and if a little
white clover is added it might be an
advantage. -Four pounds of each
would be enough to the acre.-Nel0
York Times.
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THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


An experienced gardener says: Salt
Is sometimes applied to gravel walks
and roads in liquid state. or in the
form Of strong brine used quite hot.
or rs near the boiling point as posi-.
bic. This is said to be very effectual
IN preventing the growth of weeds.
Sundry other solutions are also recon-
mendedfor the purpose; but | know
OF nothing more effectual than a lib
eral dressing of dry salt, sufficient to
whiten the entire surface of the
gravel. A slight sprinklng is of little
use, and may even increase rather
than diminish the evil which it is in
tended to cure. In applying such a
dressing as has just been recon-
mended, it is Of course necessary to
exercise caution, in order to prevent
the salt coming in contact Nth the
grass, box or other plants, which may
form an edging to the road or walk
operated on. In my garden last year
some walks which were salted early
In the season have been free from
weeds all summer