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Milford chronicle., 1883-07-06
IMPORTANT TO FARMERS
CONTINUED REDUCED PRICES OF
SHELL LIME
6 Cents per BusheI

until further notice. The superior excellence
ind eheapness Of Shell Lime for agricultural
purposes can be attested by hundreds Of the
best farmers Of Delaware and Maryland, and
the steadily increasing demand is the best
proof of its merits. Now is the time to im-
nrove lands AT small eoaf
Milford chronicle., 1883-07-06

For weak lungs, splitting of blood, weak
stomach nightsweats, and the early stages of
Consumption, Golden Medical Discovery is
specific. BY druggists.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-02-08

er died. Her sweet ways, her kind
smile are fresh If my remembrance.
What would / give for that smile to be
the light of our house to-day! 1t
would draw me home like n magnet.
Now they call me restless, rowing, q
home hater. Can one be drawn TO a
home where there is a dearth of love?
1t is love that makes the home. So
much is said about making home at.
Notwithstanding 1t with flowers
and pictures. This is all very well, but
the chief attraction of home must still
he love and sympathy. Home is
where the heart Is, says the sweet old
song. With love to season it, dinner
of herbs is better than stalled OK with
hatred says the royal Hebrew; and
with this same love to warm it, howell
is more inviting than palace without
affection. If kind sympathy is absent,
if the home inmates are cold and cross
or grimly pious, boy or young man
can find 10 delight in his home. If
his attempts at affection are met with
sneers, If the Young friends he brings
AltAiO WIN ullil hlt NIlltltN WIFE lHul1-
ferent looks and inhospitable insinua-
tons, if every aspiration that may es-
cape him is nipped by contemptuous
words, if his sisters are preoccupied and
cold, and an austere spirit, miscalled
piety, forbids all games and amuse-
ments, will not home seem dreary
place, and the young man be driven
from it, to find friends and diversions
away from the parental roof? 1t is
hard to lure him back when once he
has taken a distaste to it. Club rooms
and the homes of his more fortunate
friends will be his resort. 1t is a chance
II he does not drift into dark paths and
haunt bar-rooms and places of low
amusement. A little pains to make
home pleasant, n little love and kind
ness would have saved him. Such a
young man is apt to become soured.
He does not look forward to marriage
and home of his own. He could not
picture such home in any rosy colors,
for his experience does not furnish
them"
folded the paper musingly, under
standing the restless, wistful look | had
seen in the eyes of the youthful writer
| could see him now from the window
taking his way over the hills to his
"home. Selected
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-02-08
A YOUNG HERO.
Ale shoots and NortaiIy wounds am
Enemy of kkis Parents.

A singular shooting case occurred at
Moark, Clay County Arkansas, in which
a COY and Zulu shot gun PLAYED an
important part. A man by the name
OF Doc Anderson, living az Mosrk, be-
ing angry with one of his neigh bOrs.
went to his house, and, finding the man
absent, he assailed his wife, striking
and kicki ng her several times. After
Anderson left, the woman and her son,
aged Ia, started for Corning on foot,
distant six miles, the boy carrying his
single-harreled Zulu, which he had
loaded with buckshot after Anderson's
departure. At Corning the woman
found her husband. "A warrant for the
arrest of Anderson was sworn out. and
at night in company with sheriff Nc
Neil; the trio returned to Mosrk on
the north bound train. Just rs they
stepped on he platform, Anderson who
seemed to be waiting for the return of
the party, sprang upon the platform,
and with an oath hurled bottle at the
head of the husband. Then TO the sur
prise of all, the boy instantly raised his
Zulu" and fired at Anderson. The
shot was at close range and took OBJECT
in Anderson's right side, few inches
below the armpit. The wounded man
surrendered to the officer immediate
ly, said that he was mortaly wounded,
and asked TO be helped to house.
Nosurgeon was present and the wound
was not examined. He bled slightly
at the nose and mouth and the officer
thought that he could not recover.
The boy was taken in custody aud
brought back to Corning, he and the
officers walked the distance the same
night. The boy, though pale, delicate
and small for his age, exhibited no
| trace of excitement, and by his simple
demeaner won the sympathy of all
The officer says that it is the strangest
occurrence of his Official life, Though
he had noticed the boy with the gun
the idea of his shooting any one had
never entered his head.
After the shooting the parents were
gretly excited, and when told that the
boy would have to be taken in custody
could not restrain their grief, but the
boy, without word or look of protest
left his parents and stepping to the
side ofthe officer signifed his readiness
to follow him. As he stood in the
Pickering glare of the candle he seemed
the furthest possible remove from the
average murderer. Matted hair, pale
face, and solemn eyes-dressed in ar
old coat OF his fathers which reached &c
his heels and hid HIS hands, he was 8
queer looking object. When asked
why he did not ehoot Anderson wher
he assaulted his mother, he replied thai
his gun was not loaded.
Anderson was too badly hurt to tel
his bide of the story, but denied havin,
made any assault upon the woman. He
is regarded dangerous man when AN
cry or intoxicated.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-02-08
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
a Contradiction OF the Superstition
That the BritOns are Drifting Away
from the state Religion.

The first official Year Book of the
Church of England, prepared in con-
formity with q resolution of convoca-
ton passed in 1881, has Just been pub
lished by the Society Tor Promoting
Christian knowledge, and will naturally
create very great interest among both
the friends and the enemies of the
church. The book includes both the
Irish, Scotch, Colonial, and American
chu.ches-in fact, all the branches OF
the Anglo-Catholic communion which
constitutes the third great division of
Catholic Christendom.
A glance through this volume, we
think, will astonish many people who
had complacently come to the conclu-
sion that the population of this country
was fast drifting away from the church,
and that the days of the establishment
were numbered. 1t shows us the whole
country covered over with network
Of institutions, all directed to the extern
sion of the church's influence, and at
tracing to themselves every year a
larger amount of public sympathy.
This is surely not the mark OF falling
church. II seems rather to denote that
the Younger generation of Englishmen
are beginning to rally round the Church
of England, and to promise that ere an
other one has grown up she will have
gone long way toward the recovery of
her lost ground. Ii her onward pro-
gress continues for another fifty FEARS at
the rate of which it has proceeded dur
ing the last fifty, the battle will have
been won, unless her own internal dis
sensions prevent her from reaping the
full benefit OF her reyiving popularity.
One thing at least, made abundantly
clear by the contents of the official year
book, is that whatever else the church
may have to fear, the indifference of
the laity is not among the number of
her dangers. We hear good deal Of
the stream of magnifcence being frozen
by popular dislike of ritualism, of ra-
tionalism, or what not, by which the
church of England is infected. But to
Judge from the evidence now before us,
these must be mere party statements,
for such feelings certainly seemed to
have had very little influence in the
parts of England We have mentioned
We should prefer to believe that the
more sensible part of the laity arc be.
ginning to estimate these matters at
their true value, and to understand at
the same time that, if the church of
England is to remain the national
church, it can only by the same means
that made her so-the liberal endow-
ments, namely, of sincere churchmen
which gave her her churches and cath
edrals, her schools and universities, and
the means and appliances for address
ing herself to the whole nation. What
our ancestors did for the population of
their own day their defendants must
do for the population of ours; and it is
not the least gratifying feature of the
official Year Book that it affords con-
elusive evidence of the gradual growth
of this conviction in the public mind
To)}1o) SJ093dq93
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-02-08
Trees and Health,

Everybody knows that trees take the
carbonic acid thrown out in the breath
Of men and animals, separate it into its
component parts, carbon and oxygen,
give back the latter 10 be used over
again, and work up the former into
wood and fruits.
1t IL also coming TO be generally IN
derst0od that forest trees do important
service in promoting rain-falls, a1d in
helping to retain the surtace-water for
springs, streams, and general use.
1t is also Anown that certain species,
planted in malarisl localities, help to
render the latter healthy by somehow
using up the deadly miasma.
Il would now appear that trees grow
ing near drains carry of the sewage
water.
A gentleman, whose cesg-drain was
constructed Just ike his neighbors' and
in the same kind Of soil, had found il
to clean it out, while the
others had to be cleaned out frequently.
An examination showed that three
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-02-08
TIE cANKER WORM

In the spring Of "A we found canker
worms spread over about 30 acres ofour
orchard. We wrote TO Prof Riley to
know if it would not DO 20 dissolve ar
senic by boiling and sprinkle the trees
with it. He advised me TO buy Paris
green, which | did, and failed on &C
count Of the adulteraiion OF the Paris
green with pulverizsd barytra, which
stopped the orifces in The sprinkler,
and also from the fact that the Paris
green Was heavier than the water, and
settled rapidly to the bottom, rendering
the solution too weak at the top of the
barrel To kill the insects and sufficiently
strong at the bottom to kill the fruit and
foliage. The next season we used the
arsenic solution as we had at frat in
tended and made clean sweep, not on
ly Of the canker worm, but also Of the
TENT CATERPILLER AND EUCULATRIX.
We did not think Of the coddling
moth at that time, bat at apple picking
we we're not able to find a single wormy
apple in the corner Of the orchard Dor
dering close TO an old orchard where
they mad previously mad a consider
able foothOld. | consider the arsenic
solution as complete q remedy for the
coddling moth as for the canker worm.
When the apples are from the size Of a
bird shot to the size of pea, If the or
chard is carefully sprinkled with areen.
ic water, at the rate Of one pound Of
white arsenic 20 two hundred gallons Of
water, it viii not leave canker-worm,
coddling moth, tent caterpiller, or bu
culatrix in the orchard In view Of
this
PERFECT AND INEXPENSIVE REMEDY,
we do not consider these insects as any
serious obstacle in the way Of succesB-
fnl apple growing, and We cannot see
any reason why the remedy might not
be successfully used on garden insects
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-02-08
Cecile.
Harmony White.


"Cecilew
Eyes, papa"
She arose--a brown-eyed, brown
haired girl, with rare grace and
sweetness in her manner and APP
preached. Pierceval Deadwood pushed
aside the macs Of papers that lay on
the desk before him and gazed steadi-
ly, almost tiercely, at his daughter.
she returned the gaze with a timid, hes
itating, May-corn look, while the rosy
bushes of maiden modesty chased
each other rapidly across her fair
young features and leaped outward in
to the great beyond.
"What brings young Frelinghuysen
here so often?" asked the old man.
"His feet, | suppose" was the an.
swer, in low, shrinking tones. 81 no.
ticed he had them with him the last
time he called, and the girl shrank in
stinctiyely against her hustle.
~ want no nonsense" replied the
father. II have called you here to
talk about your future. You must
make wealthy marriage"
"PapaW
do not interrupt me" he continued.
81 have spoken my piece, and have
only TO add that | am a Hard Man
from Waybsck."
Sobbing as if her heart would break,
Cecile went slowly to the sofa and sat
down with dull sickening thud.
She had broken her hustle.
Suddenly she arose. ~ love Harold
Frelinghuysen," she said, land / will
marry no other man"
Two minutes later she was doing up
her back hair
you are sure you love me?'
"Can you doubt met" asked Harold
ayes" replied the girl, 81 can, but
have decided not to"--and kissing him
warmly she went away.
Spring in Coshocton.
Piereval Deadwood is again seated
at his desk.
"You expect young Frelinghuysen
today he says to Cecile.
eyes, papa"
Even while. they are speaking the
door opens ard Harold enters.
"Have you come to redeem your
promise?" asks the old-man scorniuIly.
81 nave" is the reply, and Harold
places $4,000 in bonds on his desk.
"How did you get this money, and
where have been all winter
Drawing himself up proudly, Harold
answered, u am a retired aandbagger
from Chicago"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-02-08
BOYS at Home.

Sadiest Of all to miss a lovely home.
TO live in, kindly hearts to lean against
A true, good Mothers love and memory
To hope by when the world grows thick with sin
And we feel out for virtue"
1t was Saturday afternoon; the train
was bearing its burden OF city workers
out to their homes along the line Of
railway, dropping them here and there
10 front of embowered villas or snug
cottages with background of orchards
ana graperies, or fields fragrant with
ripe grain. Every face wore a look Of
restful content, every hand bore bas-
ket suggestive OF a Sunday dinner with
appetizing extras. Every home. conner
met welcoming faces in the porch or at
the gate often bouquet of beaming
countenance with the baby as central
bud.
Home sweet home, is tho Saturday
evening legend written on all the bust
ness worn faces Of our passengers l
said TO my young companion: 1T is
as true now as when poor Payne sung
THERE is no place ike home.
Nome so disagreeable," he said with
feeling
The response was a surprise. He
was young, with gentleness and anna
billty lndexed on his delicate, boyish
featufes-why should he dislike homer
lie colored as my eyes asked the ques-
ton, and said, There are homes and
homes. Howard Payne, though he
had no roof 10 shelter him when he
wrote the song, must have had the
memory OF true home. Here is
something | wrote to-day. 1t was
sad anniversary, and Thoughts kept
coming mp az / sat at my desk, till
stepped and scribed this - an outlet"
On the sheet of legal cap was writ
ten
Eleven years to-day since my moth
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-02-08
Beauty Of Old People

Men and women make their own
beauty or their own ugliness. Lord
Lytton speaks in one Of his novels Of a
man who was uglier than he had any
business to be-" and, if ne could but
read it, every human being carries his
life in his face, and is good looking or
the reverse as that life has been good
or evil. On our features the fine chisel
Of thought and emotion are always at
work. Beauty is not the monopoly of
blooming young men and. of white-and-
pink maidens. There is slow growing
beauty which only comes to perfection
in old age Grace belongs to no period
Of life, and goodness improves the long
er it exists. Sweeter smiles have been
seen from a lip Of seventy than from a
lin of seventeen. There is the beauty
Of youth and the beauty Of holiness
beauty, much more seldom seen, and
more frequently found in the arm chair
by the fire, with grandchildren around
the knee, than in the ball room or pro-
menade. Husband and wife who have
fought the world side 10y side, who have
made common stock of JOY and sorrow,
and aged together, are not unfrequently
found curiously alike in personal APP
pearance, and in toAe Of voice-lust as
twin pebbles on the beach, exposed to
each tidal influences, are each etfer's
second self.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-02-08
TIE BARBER on PRIZE-FIGHTING.
tie IL nj last Led to Account Tor Bi~
Patience with nts TrOubIcsome A.
sistaut

rev DIRK run.
"If ! looked not like chendleman
80 much" the German barber near the
Cooper Institute said Yesterday.
~ wood been u br.ze fighter dermorrer
A man ny dis gundry makes Of him
self WOOL to work hart und sday boor,
ven he can a brize- fighter been, und
get rich mitout doing somedngs I'D all.
You dink vighting is bretty hart work.
Dots shoost der boint. Nit my gwick
dember, | hat dwice so much yightinp
done der lasd den years rs any brize-
vighter vot is ovid. / hat dwo gusdi-
mers licked ind Won lantlord vet al
reity. Dem brize-hghters ton'd fight;
dem all de vile dalk apoud fighting,
Dwice n year some leedle young fellers
yot got hired in some PLY McClory
blaze by der week, bunch each oder
der sduifng ovid but der brincibe vel.
ers like Mace und Sullivan und Ryan
und Gopurn tenn ton'd come togedder
in five years once alrelty. Und uf
dem did fight like Sullivan and Ryan,
nos Won gets a PACK nose or a ploody
eye ain'd il? But der dwo dergedder
got ehinniils und tiamonds nnd zeal.
Nhih tpho hliA .bpAhtNn Iull VI money.
"Py Chiminy Hooky, virst-glass
brize-6ghter vot can talk crate deal,
can such gwied life Leaf like clergy
man. Choost look at der bapers yes
terday. Dem der names printed Of
more as hundred brize fighters Won
half nit chinmillsl So many brize.
fights bav not been since dc yellers vas
porn. Oh, vat a bity peen 40 vine
looking ] got to sday by der parber
peezneBsl
Der monkey parber by der negst
shair got himselluf of once doc often
some voolishness. / am so mat ut MIN
! could bunch him in my eye. He
dold n right away in yrout Of feet.
deen.cout gusdimer dot he drinks dalk
more und traw more plood as any
brize-hght6r out Of chail.
Der reason vich | ton'd discharge
dot weller is BECAUSE his dying farder
promised me dot should dake care Of
him"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-02-08
Prince Krapotkin.

A court in Iyons, France, has zen
fenced Prince Krapotkin to five years
imprisonment for having excited an
archy among the miners OF Montceau-
lea. Mines. The prisoner is said to be
a man OF hign attainm ents, and claims
to be descendant of Rurik. But it
must be owned that his scientific writ
ings have not reached fame in western
Europe or this country, aud % for bis
descent that is a matter Of faith and
opinion. Ia Russia all sorts OF people
claim to be sons Of Rurik, Just as han
dreds Of chairs and tables in New Eng.
land are said TO have crossed the sea
in the Mayii1wer All that is really
known Of Krapotkin is that he enter
tains q very high opinion OF himself
and very low opinion Of all those
ia authority. Ii he bore any resem-
blance TO the great geographer, Elsee
RecIus, the world would be glad to
read bis books though if may regret
his absurd adventures. But it is diff
cult to think him great scholar and
reformer who tries to make the world
better by exciting mere mischiefamong
the miners Of a French village -Bos-
ton Advertioef.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-02-08
Glover as Manure

1T may seem TO some that frequent
cropping with clover and grain. instead
OF renovating the soil, will exhaust it.
Experience, however, groves the con-
trary. Clover it is believed, in some
way draws It's nitrogen from me air.
How this Is done is not well settled.
Some have held that the leaves had the
power to gather the nitrogen directly
from the air, while others have Thought
that 1t drew its nitrogen from the sub
soil. Ii Is probable, however. that the
leaves either absorb nitrogen from the
AIR, or else the surface soil, kent moist
by docaylng leaves, ahsorbs the nitro
gen or amonia from the air and i'm.
parts It to the plant. Experiments
have shown that soil on which clover
had beet grown contained more nitro
gen than II did before the growth of the
clover Notwithstanding the large
amounts removed ia the hay. Itscems
pretty well proved that the clover in
some way draws its nitrogen largely
from other sources than from the soil.
Prof Noelcker is one of the strongest
advocates tor clover in farm rotauoo,
and gives these rs his conclusions upon
its value and general character:
l. A good crop of clover removes
from the soil more potash, phosphoric
acid, lime and other mineral matters.
which enters into the composition of
the ashes of our cultivated crops, than
any other crop usually grown in this
country.
There is fully three times as much
nitrogen in q crop of clover rs in the
average product of the grain and straw
OF wheat per acre.
) Clover is an excellent preparatory
crop fer wheat
1. During the growth OF clover "A
large amount OF nitrogeuous matter ac-
camulates in the soil.
D. This accumulation, which is Great
est in the surface soil. is due to decay
ing leaves dropped during the growth
OF clover aud TO an abundance of roots.
containing, when dry, from II TO . per
cent. of nitrogen.
d. The clover roots are stronger and
more numerous. and more leaves fall
on the ground when clover is grown
Tor seed than when IT is mown 70. hay;
IN consequence, more nitrogen is left
after clover seed than after hay.
Z. This crop causes large accumu-
laton of heterogeneous matters, which
are gradually changed in the soil to
nitrates.
5. Glover not only provides an abund-
ance of ntrogenous food, but delivers
this food in a readily available form las
nitrates) more gradually and oontinu.
ously, and with more certainty of good
results, than = UGH food can be applied
to the land in the shape Of heterogeneous
spring top dressing Farm, Herd and
Home.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-02-08
Animal Railway Pass.

Among the rights guaranteed to an
Alabama man for his deed to right of
way for railroad was an annual pass
for "himself and family" His pass
read, accordingly, himself, wife and
children" But the man had a mother
in-law, and, i'll defiance of all tradition
and general custom, he pretended to
think more of her than be did of any
other member of his family. So he
wrote to the railroad president, COM
planning that the pass did not fulfill the
contract; that his mother was a mem
Der of his family and had been for
twelve years-lived with him under his
management and control, and entirely
dependent on him for her maintenance
and support. But he overdid the bust
ness. 1t was impossible to believe that
any man had his mother-in.law 'under
management and control" The suspic-
ion with his excessive zeal for a pass
excited in the breasts of the officials
led to an investigation, when it was
proved as might have been expected,
that she had him under her manage
ment and control, that she had plenty
of means, part Ct which went to the
support of her son-in.law, and that he
had applied under her orders to have
her included in the scope of the pass.
This should teach people to be moder-
ate in their sntruths, and they will be
mora likely to make something by ly-
ing. But when they lie so that no man
can possibly believe them, they defeat
their own ends.