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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18
Early Rising.

IL is not necessary in this age IF the world
for the farmer to rise in the middle of the night
aud begin his work. This getting mp 50 early
in the morning, is a relic of barbaris,n. II has
made hundreds of thousands of young men curse
the business. There is no need for getting up at
three OF four o'clock in the winter mornings
The farmer who persists in dragging his wife
and children from their beds Onght to lie visited
10y missionary. Ii is time enough to rise after
the sun has set the example. For what PURPOSE
do you get npi To feed the cattle! Why not
feed them more the nigh: befoTci II is a waste
Of life. In the old times they used to get MP
about ; o'clock in the morning. and go to work
long before the sun had risen with healing mp
ON his wing and rs just punishment they all
had the asue; and they ought TO have it now.
The man who cannot get living upon Kansas
soil without rising before daylight, Ought to
staryc. Eight hours a day is enough for any
farmer to work except in harvest time. When
You rise at four and work till dark. what is life
WORTH of what use is all the Improved machn-
cry, unless it tends to give the farmer a little
more lesure' What is harvesting now cnnpar-
ed TO what it was in the old time Think of
the days of reaping, of grading, of raking and
binding and moving. Think of threshing with
the fail and winnowing with the wind. And
now think of the redpers and mowers, the bind
ers and threshing machines, the plnws ami cul-
tivators upon which the farmer rides protected
from the sun. If, with all these advantages.
You cannot make n living without rising
in the middle of the night, go into some other
business. You should not rob your family of
sleep. Sleep is the best medicine in the world
There is no sEch thing as health without sleep.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18
Keeping Ice Without Ice-Housss.

Ice has passed from the list of luxures to that
of the necessities of farm life. Whoever lives
where ice is formed, and so near To body of
water that the hauling will not be too costly,
should have an iee-house. Ice keeps best in
large masses, and in building it will be found
that a house to hold enough for two years will
cost but little more than one for single years
stock. Occasionally, As last winter, the ice
crop fails over the greater part of the country.
mild winter will cause no anxiety to one who
has a supply of ice left over. If one has an
abundance of ice, but no house, and has straw
in plenty, it may he worth while to stack up
lot, though il can hardly be expected to last all
summer The ice stack is especially useful
when the ice-house is not large enough to hold
n full supply il the ice is freely used. An icc-
stack to be drawn upon during the early part of
summer, will allow the store in the house to be
a long time undisturbed. Ii the stack can be
made in a shady place, all the better; select 4
spot where the water will drain off, and lay
down tier of rails foot or apart; on these
put a layer of brush, and. upon the brush straw
to the thickness of foot. If possible set u
strong pole in the centre. Now stack up the
ice as IN an ice-house, taking care that the mass
does not incline to ono side. The covering
for the sides may be straw, salt hay, swale hay,
or even leaves, but the latter will need to he
held in place by boards. A foot in thickness of
protecting materials will do, but thicker will do
better; old boards. with braces to press them
against the straw, etc, may he used if needed !:
the stack is to he finished by roof of straw,
put on with pins and ropes, rs in finishing OF n
hay-stack. On grain farms, where straw is
abundant, the mass of ice may be covered with
a great thickness of straw, by building stack
over the ice. In using from such a stack the
lee should he taken off on all sides regularly,
and care taken to properly replace the covering.
The larger such stack the better-a cube of
ice II feet on each side.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18
Pruning and Pruning Tools.

The pruner who consults economy, either for
himself or his trees, will prune every season. 1t
is certainly less labor TO cut of a few sprouts
this year, than great many two or three years
hence; and it is far less wasteful to the vitality
of the tree TO remove small shoots than large
branches. A yearling shoot when removed,
scarcely leaves a scar, and is practically no in
jury to the tree, whereas branch the size of the
thumb wrist rarely if ever heals over before
decay commences. If limb larger than the
thumb needs to be removed, ii is evidence either
that the work of pruning has been delayed too
long, OF that it had been improperly done.
The rules for pruning are very simple. Prune
small trees to develop symmetrical form, bear
ing in mind that cutting off n terminal shoot
stimulates the growth of branches, and that Sc
rerely pruning one side of the tree encourages
the growth in the opposite side The number
of branches shOuld be allowed to grow that is
desired in the bearing tree and no more In large
trees remove dead limbs, thin branches where
too thick, aud when two branches crowd eacn
other, remove one, always bearing i'll mind that
cutting off live wood is directly damage to the
tree. Thinning should also commence at the
outer branches and proceed toward the centre of
the tree. All cuts should be made as smooth as
possible and ut point Just above the swelling
about the base of the branch
The ease and the neatncss with which pTun-
ing may be accomplished, depends much upon
the tools used. If one is obliged to do the whole
work with the common hand-saw, it will prove
Il great task and cannot be well done. Ii many
trees are pruncd, the labor that may be saved by
the more improved pruning tools will pay their
cost in Il single season.
The best pruning saw that have sera has
teeth on both edges and tapers almost to point,
50 that it may he inserted between two branch
cs that are very close together, and will cut at
either or both edges. The pruning shears are
useful for emitting of small shoots aud in prnn-
ing small trees We think, however, that the
pole shears is the most valuable tool of all. This
enables one to do the greater part of the pEnning
in moderate sized tree while standing upon
the larger branches, upon the ground. 1t is
particularly valuable in thinning out the outer
ends Of branches. This tool will cut of with
a twig the size of the finger. Unfortunate
~. it is often constructed little too light, 81
that one is afraid to it to its full capacity.
The latter part of the winter or early in the
spring is n very good time for pruning, and for
the farmer is usually the most convenient time.
Ii has often been recommended to paint the
wound made when a large branch is severed,
bnt in experience il is rarely necessary to re-
move large limbs, except when they dead,
and then decay will usually quickly ensae, even
if the wound is painted.
Those who consult ncatneSS will certainly re-
move brush from about the trees after the Prun-
lug is finished
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18
She Didn't Dare Do 1t.

The other day man and woman came TO a
sudden halt on Grand River Street, and the wO-
man dropped basket she was carrying, and
called out:
"a will! will: I'll not live with you an
other day"
lyon will leave me, will you'" he calmly
asked.
Eyes, j will y
'.Whenlr
Moonlight Off-this minute"
you'll go awayr
"Tes, sir"
81 wouldn't, if / were you"
"But | will, and defy you TO prevent me
] have suffered at your hands as long as can
put mp with it,"
''Oh, shan't try 20 stop yOu," he quietly re-
piled. "fll simply report TO the police that my
wife has mysteriously disappeared. They will
want yOur description, and shall give it. YOu
wear No. shoes; yOu have an extra large
mouth; you walk stiff in your knees; your nose
turns up Mt the end hair the color of a brick
terra Gotta, the newest in fashion; eyes rather
the squint; voice partakes Of"
wretch! yOu wouldn't dare do thatw she
screamed.
~ certainly will, and the desert ption will 90
into all the papers"
They giared at each other for minute like
cats
Then he walked on. She looked up and down
the street, gritted her teeth together, and then
picked up the basket and followed after. He
had what they call the dead wood on her.-Fret
Prees.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18

How TO HUsK CogN.-In last weeks EdT1aer,
f. W. Brown tells MS how to husk an ear of
corn, requesting if any had a better way,
that they should make it known. As | think /
have a better way, l will give mine:
Catch the ear with the left hand thumb to-
wards the butt, and the little finger about oppo-
site the tip of the corn mot the husk). Insert
the hnskIng peg 50 rs to take not less than one
half the husks, bring down with quick motion.
giving them sharp pull at the butt; close the
left hand around the remainder of the husks. at
the same time grasping the ear with the right
hand, thumb toward the tip and the little finger
near the butt, and brcak off by pressing the tip
of the ear from you with the thumb and at the
same time bring the butt towards you by a
short, quick jerk with the fingers, still holding
to the husk with the left hand.
Ii takes fewer motions by this method than
the other, and every motion takes time. 4 per
son unaccustomed to this way, may at first find
II difficult to bring the ont clear of husks
but by carefully following the above directions
and a little practice, there will he no trouble
that way. Let Mr.. Brown try this way Ion.
enough to get the chang of it, and report
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18
Franklin's Religious Belief.
BosToS, Jan. 20, Isl
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To the Editor Of the Boston Journal
There have been some paragraphs in your pa
per. recently, relative TO the religious opinions
Of Benjamin Franklin. He has expressed him
self clearly on the subject in letter to Ezra
Stiles, dated 9th March, 1870. See Sparkss
Franklin, vol. 10, page i22:
lyon desire to know something of my relig-
ion. II is the first time have been questioned
upon it," Here is my creed.
| believe in one God, the creator of the uni
verse. That He ought TO be worshipped. That
the most acceptable service we can render Him
is doing good to His other children. That the
soul of man is immortal, and will be treated
with Justice in another life respecting its con-
duct in this As to Jesus of Naza-
reth, my opinion of whom you particularly de-
sire, ! think His system of morals and His relg-
ion. as He left them TO us, the best the world
ever saw. or is like to see; but / apprehend il
has received various corrupting changes, and
have with most of the Dissenters in England,
some doubts as to His divinity; though it is a
question do not dogmatize upon, having never
studied it, and think il needless to busy myself
about it now, when expect so soon an oppor-
tunity of knowing the truth with less trouble.
I see no harm, however. in its being believed, If
that belief has the good consequence, as proba-
bly, it has. of making His doctrines more re-
spected and observed
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18

WHAT MAKES Bow-LEGs.-Bow-legs aud knock
knees among the commonest deformites of
humanity, and wise mothers assert that the
crookedness in either arises from the atilic-
ted one having been put upon his or her feet too
early in babyhood. Bnt Manchester (Ensland)
physician, DIR. Crompton, who has watched for
the true causc, thinks differently. He attributes
the aforementioned distortion to n habit some
youngsters delight in. of rubbing the sole of one
foot against that of the other; some will 20 TO
sleep with the soles together. They appear TO
enjoy the contact only when the feet naked;
they don't attempt to make it when they are
socked or slppered. So the remedy is obvious;
keep the baby's soles covered. Knock the
Doctor ascribes to a different childish habit,
that of sleeping on the side, with one knee tuck
ed under the hollow behind the other. He has
found that where one leg has been bowed in
ward more than the other, the patient has al
ways slept on one side. and the uppernOst mem-
her has been the most deiormed. Here the pre-
ventive is tn pad the inside of the knees, 50 rs
to keep them apart, and let the limbs grow free
~ their own way. All of which Is commended
to mothers who desire the physical nprightneSs
of their progency.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18

Two WRISKLEs.-Very often Il screw hole gets
so worn that the will not stay in. Where
glue is handy, the regular carpenter makes the
hole larger and CLUES in large plug, making
nest for an entire new screw hole But this is
not always the ease, and people without tools,
and in emergency, often have to fix the thing
at once. Generally leather is used. hut this is
so hard that it does not hold well. The best of
all things is 10 cut narrow strips of cork, and
I'LL the hole completely. Then force the screw
in. This will make as tight job a. if driven
into an entirely new hole.
Another hint of a similar character may he
useful. One often desires TO put staple into
block of stone. The hole is made, the staple in
serted, aud lead melted aud run in. But unless
the hole is made with the bottom larger than
the top, the lead will i'm time work out, if there
is much jar strain on the iron. A much bet
ter article is sulphur. II this be melted and
poured in around the staple instead of lead, II
makes much more durable job. Besides, it is
often more easy to procure sulphur than lead, as
every store keeps it that deals in a general va
riety.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18
AEI.

Look not long on the face Of the dead
Leave the Past in the Past, they said
Dig some grave for the old despair;
Bury il far ont of sight and sound
The year brings nothing but sysTuw and care
Bury the last ere the next comes round
Or the burden will grow too great to bear
| said not yea and said not nay,
But wept when they carried the corpse away
flung to the winds the flowers that were dead
I covered their places with newturned mold;
watched and watered the empty bed
Thro' the dark AID the dearth and the biting co&-
But, 10! no other came up instead.
| locked the door on the unused stair;
| broke in pieces the vacant chair;
looked not back as the DAYS went by;
let the grass grow over the Past
could not smile. and would not sigh
thought that should forget at last
would not believe that wished to die,
Till behold one day awoke to find
That the whole Of my life was left behind;
That walked alone IN a world Of air,
A world Of all sound and speech bereft-
The Past may hold but a song Of despair
But take il away, and there's nothing lett
Only silence everywhere.
l wandered back TO the desolate place;
| looked again TN the dear. dead face.
counted the sorrOws the years hs< uun:
kissed them, and gathered them inss my hcart=
And felt they were mine, my all my own;
That and my Past could never part.
Flesh Of my flesh and bone Of my bone.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18
Chr fun Of the Ching.
AVE WIGGINS,
ny J.E- BARRETT.

All hail great Virgins Prophet Of the storm.
Canada and seer. and Nennors rival
Who paints the coming temPest's awful fern,
And doth predict the date Of its arrival;
Out Of whose cunning and farreaehing brain
Doth spring much appalling Information
WHO plainly The iBcipieDt hurricane.
conspiring for its work Of desOlatiOn.
Say o. Virgins VIII the wild Atlantic
Spare in It's wrath great SecOr Eobeson's shipping
When billOw and cloud in furious battle frantic
The seams and sails and keels Of ships ripping
Our model navy TO our land Is dear;
II staggers TO think how much IL cost us
And thou shOuldst have n medal every year,
For warning of the way it may be lost Us.
Thou shouIdst be saiaried = the nations wizard,
To tell Of storms likewise Of crimes political
That is provided thy prophetic gizzard
Can read the minds Of Statesmen hyPocrificsL
What would this nation be without its navy
And thou hast saved 1t from the angry ocean
FrUm going to spluters in great Neptunes gravy
Amid mneh Wild upsetting and oommotion-
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18

CHILDREN IN COLD WEaTHER.-The Society
to Protect Children from Cruelty does not, as
yet arrest those fashionable mothers who dress
their children cruelly; Int, perhaps they might
consider it. When a shiyering little lad in
handsome knickerbockers, trots down street he
side his warmly dressed parent, it does not oc-
eur to the grown man to examine the coverings
of that small boys legs and compare them to
his own comfortable suitings. From the knee
to the ankle, in bitterest weather, the boy has
either thin wooden stocking, or deceptive
dark cotton one, as the sole shelter between his
skin and the sharp wind. The upper part of his
body is probably well wrapped in a heavy coat,
Int still he is shivering and is unaecountably
s.delcatcr
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18
LEARNIN' TO GANG.
ny TIE REV. III. }. r. RASkIN.

Babie mann haze done wi creepin',
She mann learn to gang;
There's nae harvest worth the reapin
YOnder field amang;
There's nae treasure worth the kscpin,
Without tuggin lang
TN her tiny footie stan her.
On her timber linn;
Pace about! yOu maun comman her.
Never min her within!
You'll misgive you, il You scan her,
Tottrin on the brim.
There she toddles, haltin', droopin',
Just about TO ia;
Mither hands her, downward stOopin,
Runnin' to her ca;
Daddie STAINS therr, becknin', whoOpin
Boist' rous are they a.
Now. at last. the trips completed.
Wi its storms and Gains;
In her daddie's lap she's seated.
Nestlin' in his arms:
Wi a hundred kisses greeted,
Brow, and cheeks, and palms.
Rack and forth, between { hem headin.
Like a freighted craft
Colors fiyin'. arms outspreadin,
How at her they laughed!
soft, as though on thistles treadin
You'd haze thought them daft.
You'd haze thought them adllr-headed-
Checks a red wi fame;
Nc'cr sich joy had they twa welded,
Since the toddler came;
While, like shuttle wi love threaded.
Babie made them game.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18

CURE FOR FELoN.-As soon as discovered
take some spirits of turpentine in cup, dip the
finger in it, then hold the hand near hot fire
till dry then dip it in again, and repeat for fifteen
minutes, or until the pain ceases. The next day.
with sharp knife, pare of the thick skin, and
YOU will find something like honey comb filed
with clear water; open the cells and the felon is
gone. If the felon is too far advanced for tur-
pentine, oil of origanum used in the same way,
will cure. Iftoo far advanced for either to cure,
the felon will still be benefited. as il will be
less painful. Never draw it.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18

loUNG HoGs.-It is profitable TO make pork
from young pigs. bushel of corn will produce
more pounds of increased weight when fed to
pigs three months old. The cost of producing a
given weight of pork increases with the age of
the animal. IL il is desired to produce an in
crease of one ton of pork, by feeding 100 vine,
that increase will be more cheaply obtained by
feeding pigs under six months Of age, than 10y
feeding those which are year old, or older
ones. The man who allows his young pigs TO
have scanty allowance of food, permits the OPP
portuuity for profitable feeding to slip by, and
is obliged to produce his pork at an increased
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18

Eggs IN WINTER.-The knack Of getting a
supply of eggs, summer and winter. is to keep
the pullets of the early spring and summer
match Feed them all they will eat clean, of the
hest and most nutritious and erc-produciug
food, with such simple condiments as pepper.
ginger and mustard, to stimulate them. Kill off
the hens before they molt in their second year,
aud keep none but yonng hens Of course I'M
der the system OF forcing for egg production and
flesh. there is valid objection. as il is not in.
tended thar their eggs should be set
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18
selert goetrp.
THE SITTING OF PETER.
rr HExKr ". uoxerErIow.

Ri HESgY W. LoSefEiLow.
In st. LIKES gospel We are told
How Peter in ie days Of old,
Was sifted.
All, now. though ages interviews,
Sin is the same while time and srrne
Are shifted.
Satan desires US, great and small
As wheat to sift us and We all
Are tempted;
No one however rich or great,
Is by his station or estate
Exempted.
No house 50 safely guarded is.
But he, by some device OF his,
Can enter;
No heart hath arIn0r 80 complete,
But he can pierce with arrows neet
It's centre.
For al al last the cock viii crow.
Who hear the warning voice, but 90
Embedding.
Til thrice and more they have denied
The Man OF Sorrows erucihed
And bleeding.
One look at that pale, suffering face,
VIII make Us feel the deep disgrace
OF weakness:
We shall be sifted- till the strength
OF selfconceit be changed at length
To meesness-
Wounds Of the soul. though healed, will ache.
The reddening scars remain, and make
Confession;
Lost innocence returns no more;
We are not what We were before
Transgression-
But noble souls, through dust and heat.
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger,
And. conscious still of the divine
Wit in them. lie On earth supine
No longer.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18
THE WORLDS KINGS.

Their homes are not in palaces,
With garden stretching wide;
They tread no velvet covered foors-
No princely steeds they ride.
No stars they wear. no feathers rare,
No crest-engraven rings,
Mid royal thrODgs where pomp belongs
But they are the worlds Kings.
They walk abroad. and no 0ne starr---
With no escorting train;
No sounding chronicles are theirs
No titles high and vain
Little they own; they die unknown,
The wind their death-march sings
No marble high tells where they lie
But they are the worlds King.
Their homes are on the mountain side.
And down the lonely glen;
They own no false ancestral pride.
Yet they are noble men.
With cunning skill, their dauntless viii
From earth it, treasures brings
Their sfalwart power rears bridge and towe
O, they are the worlds Kings.
With shade and pen they move the earth,
Their charter is Of God:
They paw their homage in their sweat
Their birthricht i the sod
Come, land me thrn earth's toiling men;
Each head Of grain that swings
Allegiance bows TO labors ploughs,
Ard honors the worlds kings
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18

PRAIRIE CHICKEN.-If the wild favor of
prairie chickens is disliked, they may he soaked
over night in salt water, two or three hours
in soda water. Scald and skin, ent off the breast
and cut the rest up in joints, being careful TO
remove all shot; put in hot water all except the
breast (Which will be tender enough without
parboiling) and boil till it can be pierced with
fork; take ont, rub over salt, pepper and butter,
and broil with breast over n brisk fire; place
lump of butter on each piece, and set all in the
oven for a few minutes. They are very nice gar
nshed with sliced oranges
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18
PLAIN
TRUTHS

The blood is the foundation Of
life, it circulates through every part
of the body, and unless it is pure
and rich, good health is impossible.
If disease has entered the system
the eniy sure and quick way to drive
ii out is to purify and enrich the
blood.
These simple facts are well
known, and the highest medical
authorities agree that r0liiHg but
iron will restore the blood to its
natural condition; and also that
all the iron preparations hitherto
made blacken the teeth, cause head
ache, and are otherwise injurious.
Browns IRON BITIERswill thor
oughly and quickly assimilate with
the blood, purifying and strengthen
ing it, and thus drive disease from
any part of the system, and it will
NOT blacken the teeth, cause head
ache or constipation, and is posi-
lively not injurious.