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Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27

What an Exchange Thinks About 1t
The city council Of Council Bluffs
has fixed the saloon license at $500,
and much kicking Is the result, the
saloon men declaring they will not
pay 1t. So far it seems TO have a pro-
hibitory effect on the liquor traffic, a
number of the doggeries having sue
oumbed to the Inevitable. Give us
high license In preference to free
whisky, every time.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27

Meeting OF Trades Assembly.
A special messing of the Central
Trades Assembly will be held this af.
ternosn at 4 o'clock, to transact i'm.
portant business.
JOHN s. B. CoasHALL, president,
M MCWoRKMAN, secretary.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27
DIED '

DIED
LENNARD.-In Council Bluffs yester.
day morning. Mrs. .AmeliA Leonard, Of
Eldora, Hardin county, in her 65th year.
Mrs. Leonard was here visiting her son
and daughters when the last fatal illness
attacked her. The disease that caused or
death was that old ensmy-oonsumption.
She wal q member Of the M. L. church for
many years. This morning her body will
be taken to Eldora for interment,
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27

II you are not married, write the Mar.
Rage Fund and Mutual Trust Associa-
tioa, Ceda. Rapids, Iowa. for circulars
erplsining the plan. ib-Sm.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27

Young man or woman, II you want big
money Tor . small amount, insure In the
Marriage Find and Mutual Trust Associ.
alton, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. fo-Sm.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-04-12

dead by proposing until decent inter-
val had passed. The year ended, and
he laid his heart again at the little feet
of Violet. She heard him quietly, and
quietly remarked: "My dear Peterkin.
am sorry to disappoint you again, but
for the last six months have been en-
gagged to DR.. Jones. 1t was hard to
make up my mind between him and his
friend the handsome Lawyer Bright.
but DR.. Jones was so good to me while
| was sick in the winter after my hus-
bands death, that promised him |
would be his at the end of the year.
So poor Peterkin retired once more,
the widow Latham became Mrs. DR..
Jones, and so remained, while the dis
comfited Peterkin wished the doctor
might take enough of his own pills to
make an end of him.
Time passed on. Peterkin was walk
ing down Broadway one day, while not
very far ahead of him he saw two men,
one of whom he knew to be this hated
DR.. Jones. A large fiat stone was be-
ing hoisted to the coping of new build
ing; the rope gave way; it fell and in
stantly killed the two men. Peterkin
rose to the emergency of the moment
For the dead he could be of no avail
His thoughts were on the widow. He
turned; he ran, he flew, to her abode.
When she entered the room where he
awaited her he began:
''My dear Mrs. Jones, I bring you
dreadful news. / was walking on the
street, when [ saw stone fall frO1n u
house upon your poor husband, and ne
is dead; but you must let me comfort
you. l beg you now. to be mine, my
Violet, at last
''Dear Mr.. Peterkin, am so sor1y:
but when DR.. Jones and Mr.. Bright
were both begging me to marry, took
the doctor, and promised Mr.. Bright, ii
anything happened to Jones, would
certainly be his. SO you see l am en-
gagged. l am sorry, for l do think &
great deal of you,' my dear Peterkin. -"
Petcrkin was very calm and self-con-
tanned. He said: '.And will you prom
Use to be mine when that lawyer is no
I more?'
Certainly will, with all my heart
and SOUL
Then come to my arms, my Violet,
for the same stone that killed the doctor
was the death of Bright, and you are
mine at last.-Harper's Magazine.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-04-12
Deep Flowing Useful and Injurious.

One intelligent. practical farmer will
tell you his experience has shown con-
clusively that deep culture of the soil is
important and highly profitable.
Another, of equal intelligence and eX-
perience, will assert that he positively
knows deep blowing to be very injurious.
Both may be right. The agricultural
journals have abounded in such state
ments during thirty years past. An ex-
animation of the why and wherefore
will afford useful lesson.
How do plants get the materials that
increase their bulk? Mainly from the
air. A loan made up almost wholly of
sand and clay, after growing two or
three tons per acre of clover, for exam
pie. will contain more vegetable or or
ganic matter than before bearing the
crop. The leaves have upon their sur
face vast number of very small
mouths or openings, often over a hum
dred thousand upon single square inch
as shown by the microscope. Through
these carbOnic acid and other gases are
absorbed and decOmpOsed, part being
retained as plant food. Remove the
leaves from any plant, and it ceases to
grow. The fine rOotlets and root hairs
doubtless absorb little food from fer
tilizers and organic matter in the soil,
especially nitrogen and the minerals OF
the ashes.
Without discussing the question how
much comes from each source, we know
that the sap conveys the food both from
leaves and roots, and deposits it here
and there and everywhere through the
plant-iust as ne blood gathers mate
rails from the digested food passing
through the alimentary canal of our
bodies, and deposits the atoms that
nourish and strengthen the muscles.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-04-12
One Acre More Of Corn.

During the war, when labor was
scarce and the consumption large by
reason of the immense army in the field,
Horace Greeley appealed to farmers to
plant lone more acre OF corn That
may seem small, and to each farmer it
is SO, but what would it be in the az
gregate? There were in the United
States in 1880, 4,OOS. 9O7 farms, embrace
ing 2S4, III ,O42 acres of improved land.
Suppose there should be equal to lone
acre more planted in corn to each
farm, the result would be, at forty BUSH
els to the acre, 100, 100000 bushels.
These figures serve to show what farm
ers are, by little extra effort. capable
of accomplishing.
This country is great in resources and
varied in climate, and few facts from
the census show that we have not over
rated the agricultural interests in their
relations to the wealth and industry of
the nation. Here are the figures:
Number of farms. 4OOs.9O7
Improved lands. Observation-Disclosures. 24,1ll,O42
Value OF farms. SlO, ~. Gb,..6
Value of implements. 4O6 2n,, ~,
Value OF i've stock. ..........-..- l-GU4b4,O3
Value of farm products. ......... 2.213, E,54
There are milliOnaireS in cities and
rich merchants and manufacturers. but
the great wealth, and that which does
not Shift much and is reliable, lies in
our farms, and these, as we have al
ready said, are the basis Of all our in
dustries 1t is business. too. that IS
not likely to be overdone, and never
had farmers better prospect ahead or
greater inducements to plant one acre
more, than this year, 1888. Ct"csn'tats
Commercial Gazette.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-04-12
THE ALL-GOLDEN.

Through every happy line sing
feel the tonic Of the spring.
The day is like an old-time face
That CLEANS across some grassy place
An old-time face-an old-time chum,
Who rises from the grave to come
And lure me back along the ways
OF Times all-golden yesterdays.
Sweet Day! to thus remind me of
The truant boy used to love
TO set, once more. his finger tips
Against the blossom of his lips,
And pipe for me the signal known
BY none but he and alone!
see across the schoOl-room floor,
The shadow of the open door,
And dancing dust and sunshine blent,
Slantlng the way the morning went,
And reckoning my thoughts afar
Where reeds and running waters are;
Where amber-colored bayous glass
The half-drOwne6 weeds and wisps Of grass;
Where sprawling frogs. in loveless key,
Sing on and on necessarily.
Against the dim woods green expanse
The cat-tail tits its tufted lance,
While on its tip-One might declare
The white "snake-feeder' blOssOmed there.
I catch my breath, as children do
In woodland swings, when life is new,
And all the blood is warm as wine
And tingles with Il tang divine.
My soul scars up the atmosphere
And sings aloud where God can hear,
And all my being leans intent
To mark his smiling WOnderment
o, gracious dream and gracious time.
And gracious theme, and gracious rhyme
When buds of Spring begin to blow
In blossoms that we used to know
And lure us back along the ways
OF Times all-gOlden yesterdays!
james WhitcOnab Riley, IN Indianapolis Jour
nal.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-04-12
Peterkin'S Suit.

Some twenty years ago-I do not
know how many exactly, but it was
some time during the war-I heard a
story which soldier was reading in a
newspaper to a little group around him,
to their great enjoyment. l shall tell
it only in brief, though, | remember
well, the filling in was a good part of
it, which will be missing in my re-
cital.
Mr.. S. c. Peterkin was prosperous
youngish man of business who got
ahead in spite of his constitutional
modesty. This was in his way in So
ciety more than in trade: he was afraid
of women more than men, For long,
long time he had set his heart upon a
lovely young lady, whose sweetness
was like her name, which was Violet.
H, had often called upon her, and re-
solved again and again that he would
make her an offer of his heart and hand,
but as often that heart failed him.
Through the whole of the evening he
would sit and
"GaZe upon her as a star
Whose purity and distance made it fair"
and come away without making anv
progress in his suit. At last he became
alarmed by the fact that the dashing
Captain Latham, of one of the Sound
steamers. was often at the house when
he called to see his charmer. the charm
ing Violet. At last he could not bear
the suspense any longer. and he vent
ured, with much hesitancy and awk-
wardness, but with do-or-die determine
ton, to ask her if she would he his.
With remarkable GOODNESS. she replied:
You should have spoken long ago.
Mr.. Peterkin: have been engaged to
Captain Latham for some time past,
and we are to be married very shortly.
! am sorry to disappoint you. but we
will be as good friends as ever, and YOU
must come to see me Just the same.
The Captain will always be glad to have
your company.
Peterkin went away sorrowful But
a brighter'day soon dawned. for within
three months after they were married.
the Captain fell off the steamer in foo
on the Sound and was drowned Now
Peterkin took heart. He would have
the widow. v7ir-y
A year of mourning wore slowly away.
He kept his eye on the widow, but
would not insult the memory of the
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-04-12

nerves, bones and all other organs. The
sap is to the plant what the blood is to
the body. This sap comes mainly from
moisture in the soil.
The sun S warmth greatly assists the
preparation of the food material
collected by the leaves. adapting it for
plant nOurishment We speak of warm
growing weather. But while the
hot sun rapidly increases the prepara-
ton of plant food, it dries off the sap
faster from the leaves, and also the
moisture from the surface soil, so that
the roots can not get full supply. In
both these ways the sap-the life blood
of the plants diminished. and for
want of this the food distribution or
growth is lessened, and frequently is
stopped altogether. The leaves curl,
the plants droop, often dying out after
few hot days. This is especially the
case on shallow soils, and on prairie
land which, by reason of its dark color,
absOrbs more of the suns heat than
those of lighter color. Owing to the
loose texture of such soils they bringup
moisture from below much less rapidly
than fine. compact loans and clay.
Is it not plain then, that if soil is
plowed deep and made fine. so that air
will penetrate deeply, and the plant
roots be thus invited well below the sur
face, out of the suns reach even in q
drouth, which seldom dries more than
two to four inches deep, the plants hav-
ing such roots will be always supplied
with the needed sap, and the growth
will proceed rapidly even in the dryest
days. Hence, as a rule, deep blowing
and working of the soil are highly adj
vantageOuS.
But not always. The porous prairie
soils are usually in fair condition a foot
deep or more; the air has circulated
through them, destroying deleterious
acids, poisonous salts, etc. On heavier
soils, so compact that the air has never
circulated below the immediate surface,
the subsoil may be actually filled with
poisonous substances. We know that
earth brought up in digging wells and
deep bitches will seldom support vege-
table life, for year or two at least.
To run pillow down into such soil
three or four inches below the previous
ly stirred surface, and turn up heavy
layer of it, may actually kill the first
crop sown or planted.
The right way, with such soils. is to
90 down an inch or two annually, and
bring up little new soil each time, but
not enough to materially harm the
growing crops. In this way we may in
time secure "a healthful, porous, aerated,
deep plant bed, that will furnish album
dant moisture in the hottest season,
besides providing new supplies of inor-
ganic food needed for the best growth
of crops. Orange Judd, IN american
Agriculturist.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-04-12
How to Plant Indian Corn.

The question as to what particular
method of planting corn. so far as re-
lates to the arrangement of stalks, is
best, has long been discussed, and there
is to-day quite as wide difference of
opinion as there was twenty years ago.
While some believe in planting in hills
others believe it best to plant in rows,
and while some believe in planting the
hills two and One-half feet apart with
three or four stalks in hill others be-
lieve it best to plant four feet apart each
way, with five stalks in hill; others
who plant in rows differ as to the dis
lance the rows should be from each 9TH
er, varying from three and one-half feet
to five or six feet. Each claim to have
the best way.
In deciding the best method it is well
TO keep in view the fact that the best
way is that which will produce the corn
the cheapest. Because more corn can
be grown by any particular arrange
ment of stalks, it by no means follows
that it is best. Some years since a
great variety of ways was tried to test
the question as to what arrangement
WOuNt pIouuSC tIC llIOSC Will w tHC
acre; the result was that where single
kernels were planted one foot apart
each way there was the most corn; but
the additional labor was more than the
value of the increased product. When
planted in hills at equal distances each
way, it very much reduces the labor of
CIVILIZATIONS; if the right system be
adopted very little hand work is needed
to keep the field perfectly clean. After
many experiments the following has
been adopted as the best method by one
who hires all the labor, and grows corn
at less than fifty cents per bushel. AS
soon as the corn is up so it can be seen
in rows, a small hOrse-plow is run
through the field turning the earth from
the corn on each side of every row; in
this condition the corn should stand ten
days, when the field should be plowed
the other way turning from the corn as
before, thus leaving each hill of corn
standing on small square hill where it
receives the heat of the sun at season
when most needed Nothing more is
done to the field until near the first of
July, when, if the weather be hot, the
corn will have got heat enough; as soon
as this is evident cultivatOr should be
run through the rows both ways, and
the ground made level; thus all of the
soil will be stirred except what is in the
hill. All of the hand work necessary is
to pull the weeds out of the hills. BY
this method corn can not only be grown
with very little labor but a larger crop
can be grown than by the ordinary
methods of cultivation.
Careful experiments indicate that
twenty-five hills to the rod and four to
five stalks in hill is about right
massachusetts, ROughn1an.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-04-12
Dummy Money.

The dummy money in the window
of brokers' office on Kearney street is
proving dear advertisement to the
proprietor. A fortnight since two en-
terprising young thieves smashed the
plate-glass window with a brick and
grabbed a lot of counterfeit greenbackS,
under the impression that they were
good money. Yesterday AFTERNOON a
glazier charged Mr.. Anthony something
like seventy dollars for putting in a
new pane Of glass. The job was finished
last evening, and at 7:45 young thief
named. James Neary, alias Nealy, alias
Ryan, demolished it with cobble slung
in a pocket-handkerchief. Through
the aperture thus created he grabbed a
pile of neatly-turned brass discs of the
size of twenty-dollar pieces, the top one
being a bona-tide double eagle. As he
thrust his hand in he toppled the pile
over, losing the twenty dollars and oaly
securing twenty-three of the brass
counterfeits.-San Francisco Chroni.te.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-04-12

The daughter Of George Francis
Train saws she is now the only one with
whom he viii speak. Formerly he re-
fused to shake hands with people. but
now he will not even speak.-N.J. San.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-04-12

Have no secrets from your wife. A
New London man, hoping to teach his
mountaineering neighbor alesson, loaded
a stick with an effective charge of pow
der. left it on the wood pile, and the
next mornings breakfast was preceded
by crash of thunder sound in the
kitchen and general distribution of
stove and provisions over the contigl-
Gus territory The New London man
had not told his wife of the lesson he
had prepared for his neighbor, but she
found it out herself. the sequel showing
that women will finally discover every
thing somehow or other.-New Haren
Register.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-04-12

After the Newhall Hotel fire. III
Milwaukee, Mrs. T. Wilson, of New
York, could not sleep for fear of being
burned, but finally in troubled dream
she invented tire-escape, which She
has perfected and put to use. There is
an iron platform with a movable railing
attached to the window-sill and also an
iron ladder. all of which folds up and
forms an ornamental piece of furniture.
Several heavy New Workers have walked
up and down the escape, pronounced it
good. and think Mrs. Wilson will coin
her dream into money.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-03
COuFLUENCE TENS.
No frost vet.

CouFLUENCE TENS.
No frost yet.
The apple crop is a full average yield.
The corn crop is much better than was
expected.
The buckwheat crop is Wqch batteF than
last year.
The potato rot has not done as much dam
age as was supposed before farmers began to
dig their potatoes. 1t is principally confin-
ed to the early varieties.
A great many squirrels have been killed in
this neighborhood by sportsmen from differ
cut sections of the country. There are also
great many wild turkeys on the river
hills
The BALTIC. and Ohio Railroad Company
is building large boarding shanty in this
place, for the accommodation of their en-
ployes engaged in grading for an additional
track.
Confluence, September %, lss3. Y
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-03

Excited thousands all over the land are
going into ecstacies over DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption. Their unlocked
for recovery by the timely use of this great
remedy, causes them to go near
ly wild in its praise. It is guaranteed to
positively cure severe coughs, colds, asthma,
bay fever, bronchitis, hoarseness, loss of
voice. or any affection of the throat and
lungs. Trial bottles free at C. n. Boyd's
drug store Large size Sl00.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-03

Messrs. Keller & Sanner, the well known
grocers and confeetioners of this town have
added -four and feed to their business, and
propose 70 push il vigorously. They have
The Celebrated Vienna Flour in barrels and
sacks, as well as a choice brand made by
Brinker & Mullin, by the gradual reduction
roller process. Corn, oats and chop always
in stock Their stock of groceries is new,
fresh and full. Mocha, Java, and all other
grades of fine coffee a speciality. The purest
and best confectionery in the market. Best
brands of tobacco and cigars always on
hand.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-03

GET REDY FOR THE FAIR.--Remember the
Somerset Agricultural and Mechanical Fair
is on the 2nd, 3rd ond 18th of October. If you
believe in home protection" helpto en-
courage your own county's interest by COM
ing and bringing TO the Fair everything that
is interesting, where you can get ten times
the value of your expenses, to say nothing
of the recreation and enjoyment, and the
of having done your duty.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-03

Farmers, look at this We again offer
for fall seeding, Baugh & Sons Double Ea-
gle Phosphate, which contains Il to 20 per
cent Of bone, at $50 per ton, our warehouse
or track Somerset station, and will say that
we know of no other article made from
animal bone base, sold under such guarantee
at the same price, and it is eminently wor-
thy of your attention.
Respectfully,
Cook & BEERITs.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-03

CHANCE OF Books IN TowYsHIP-Raub 5
headers have been adopted by the School
Board of Somerset township, and are now
offered for sale and exchange by c. n. Boyd.
Bring in your old readers at once and get
them exchanged before the schools open and
take advantage of the very low prices.
School supplies of ali kinds in stock.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-03

Mr.. A. 4. Stutzmsn, agent for the Ameri-
can Fruit Eyaporator, wishes to inform the
public that he will have one of the EyapO-
rators on exhibition at the County Fair,
when and where he will be glad TO have all
interested examine it, and have its workings
explained. Wagon loads of fruit will be
eyaporated by this machine during the three
days of the fair. He has already sold quite
number OF these machines, invaluable 10
the farmer or fruit grower, and is daily re-
ceying orders for others. Mr.. Stutzman
will also have on exhibition at the same
time one of 4. II. Reid's celebrated cream
cries. which takes first rank among the
creamcries now in the market. Don't fail
to see both fthese labor saving and money
making machines, while at the fair.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-03

To CoNTRAcToRs.-B direction of the
Board of School Directors of Somerset Bor-
ough, will receive until Wednesday, octo-
Der 10th, sealed proposals for putting up an
iron fence around the Academy lot. specifi-
cations can be had from the undersigned.
w. II. WELELEY.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-03

We can say positively, without fear of
contradiction, that we haye the largest stock
of clothing in Somerset, that is new and of
the latest styles. Our overcoats are all new
and very cheap. Call and see them before
buying J. b. SNYDER Il Go.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-03

G. w. Fuller called at the house of Jacob
d. Schmucker, one mile west of this place
on visit on the 18th inst The following
day he took sick and in spite of the best Of
medical skill he grew rapidly worse, and
died on The 10Th inst Deceased was un-
married, and aged about 20 year.
Frank Miller, who lives one mile south
OF here, completed a fine residence during
The preparations for the literary enter
tainment to be held at this place on the 18th
and 18th of October are still going on, and il
bids fair to surpass anything of the kind
ever held here. PATTY Downs.
Mt. Moriah, Sept. %, 1883.