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The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-11-22
miscellaneous. 3
THE NEW AGRICULTURAL
EDITOR.

tingly and remarked that he had
expected to meet the proprietor,
with whom he had an appointment
to discuss ensilage.
81 am in charge of the Journal" !"
said Dyke.
"ob, you are. Well, you seem
to have a pretty Office here
EYES," replied Dyke. "But
about the ensilage. Ensilage is
pretty good breed, inst it,"
Breed" exclaimed the farmer,
"Why-"
81 mean it's a sure crop, some
thing that you can reply"
"Crop! Why it isn't crop at
ALL"
'sYes, yes | know it isn't crop"
said Dyke, prespiring until his col
lar began to melt away down the
back of his neck but you can do
better and cleaner with good
sharp ensilage on stubby ground,
than
"Take it for a stubby plow, do
you7"
..No, no." said Dyke. ''You
don't seem to understand me.
Now, if farmer builds an enailage
on low ground"
Guilds an ensilage! You seem
to have got the thing mixed up
with some kind of grainary."
"Pshaw, no." continued Dyke.
'I must make myself palmer. You
see this ensilage properly mixed
with one part guano and three
parts hYpophosphate of antimony,
with the addition of a little bran
and tanbark, and the whole favored
with chloride of lime, makes top
dressing for strawberry beds
which"
"Why ensilage isn't no manure"
mo, certainly not" said Dyke.
II know it is not often used in that
way. You don't catch my drift.
When I said top dressing I meant
turkey dressing stufing you know
for Thanksgiving"
"Great heavens, man! Ensilage
isn't human food
''No, not a human food exactly"
said poor Dyke, grinning like an
almshouse idiot, ''it isn't food at
all in the true sense Of the word.
My plan has always been to lasso
the hog with trace chain, and
after pinning his ears back with q
clothespin, put the ensilage into
his nose with a pair Of tweezers. "
sMy good lands! You don't use
ensilage to ring hogs?'
The farmer slowly rose, and
with some evidence of rheumatic
wings in his legs.
"Young man, he said solemnly,
you are long ways from home
amt your
eyes," replied Dyke, dropping
bis eyes beneath the stern glances
of the farmer. ."In my ancestral
halls in England sad eyed retain
ers YEARLY watch and wait for my
return"
$50 home, young man, go home
to your feudal castle, and while on
your way across the rolling deep
muse on the fact that eDsilage is
simply cannedfood for live stack
put up expressly for family use in a
silo, which is nothing less than an
air tight pit where corn stalks,
grass, millet, clover, alfalfa and
other green truck is preserved for
winter use, as green and verdant as
the sub editor of The Farmers
Friend and CuItivtorS' Champion" )"
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The man who cannot write his
name often indulges in ''cross" ex-
aminations.
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CHRONIC DISEASES CURED.

Nov paths marked cct By thae
rnoat popEla. book On E11gnAxe
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health and disease, SY DH. e.
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sold In the Uaitsa Esstes, England,
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DR. RgtOTE,S HaRde
Book ~ Health HinSe
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Lar 10 In al seRscra and recipea
fcs care Of COMMON silnnents--
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The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-26
Insulting an Agent.

When a Detroiter moved to Denver
eight or ten years ago and went into the
grocery business he naturally bethought
him of insurance. One morning he
called at the office of the "Great Con-
solidated Insurance Companies" and
asked of dapper little man who sat
reading paper, if the president was
! in.
"Yes, l am the man." was the reply.
sand is the secretary here?"
"I am the man, also"
perhaps you are likewise the treas
urer?"
81 am sir. And TO prevent further
loss of time will add that 1 ain also
the board of directors, actuary adjuster
and cashier"
"Then you are the whole company "
Certainly, sir. We have tried it both
ways and we find that these western
people want some one to shout at when
an insurance company doesn't toe up.
BY consolidating everything into one
man it makes great saving of ammu-
milton"
"What are your assets and liabili-
tiesP"
"Whatw
The question was repeated.
"See here, stranger" SAID the aston
ished agent, "you must be tender
foot! When it is known all over Colo
RADIO that | am raking in about $1,000
per week from my three saloons and
two poker rooms, the idea of asking
about liabilities is all insult. l don't
want your risk, sir! Good-day, sirr"-
Detroit Free Press.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-26
Lightning Freaks.

The freaks Of lightning are certainly
wonderful when they are told by west
ern newspapers. For example, 1t Is now
asserted that in 1853 a Congregational
meeting house in Lockport was struck
by lightning during divine service, and
doubtless at the very time that the choir
was executing an anthem in seven sim-
ultaneOus keys. One of the young
ladies of the choir was stunned, and on
regaining consciousness was found to
have lost her watch and chain. She
remained Ill for several months, during
which she suffered from a pain in her
side, but IN time the pain ceased. A
short time ago the young lady-who
appears to have grown no older in
thirty years-noticed swelling on her
arm. The swelling increased and
worked downward, and it has just been
discovered that the missing watch and
three feet of cham were safely embed
ded IN the arm. The lightning Obvi-
ously drove the watch and chain into
the young lady's side, and for thirty
years the lost articles have meandered
through her system until they have
finall reached the surface.
Strange as this story may seem, 1t
can be matched by the experience of
Mr.. Josiah Fl. Stringly, who. forty years
ago. was leaning on his ox-cart in front
of the Baptist Westinghouse Of Osh-
kosh. when the steeple was struck by
lightning. Mr.. Stringly was stunned,
his oxen we're killed, and the cart was
apparently annlhilated. After recov-
erng from the effects of the lightning
Mr.. Stringly became book agent and
practiced that calling until about a
week ago, when an indurated swelling
on his right cheek attracted his atten-
tion. He found that it was caused by
link of an ox-chain, and on trying to
pull the link out of the cheek, twelve
feet of heavy ox-chain and the missing
ox-cart were recovered-the latter in
perfect condition,with the exception of
one CT the tires. which was slightly cor
roded. This story teaches us that we
should never play with lightning and
should always tell the truth.-New
York Times.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-26
Afterglow.

To ono abstruce conundrum much serious
thought gave;
Why is it that the good men die, and all the
bad ones live?
Or, why is 1t that we never know our neigh.
boris rare pertections?
Till his last will md testament is read to his
connections?
All. then the daily papers spread his vii tues
all abroad
They say he was tan honest man-the no
blest work of God;''
How good he was, how wise he was, how
honest in his dealing;
What tenderness OF heart LIE had, and what q
depth of feelingi
Perhaps the man was one of those, ah, would
that they were fewer.
Who all his life ground hard and close the
faces of the poor;
Who drove his debtors to despair by prema-
ture foreclosure,
Then paid his pew rent in advance, with in.
finite composure.
Perhaps he was the lordly head of some un.
happy place
Called home. by use of courtesy, but lacking
all 1t grace,
Who held his children criminals for every
trifing error;
Who pinched his household half to death
and kept his life in terror.
Perhaps he was lawyer deep, whose quib.
bling tricks and words
Helped base executors to rob widows OF their
thirds;
Perhaps thrifty grocer man, whose wheed.
ling false palaver,
Sold toughest steak for porterhouse, and
chieory tor Java.
Any of these he might have been the type
are nowise rare
But when he dies. behold, we passed an an
gel unaware!
Since type and tongue proclaim his worth,
what cynic shall dispute tlemI
"Many there be who met the gods," we read
"but few salute them"
Why don't the papers say fine things of men
before they die,
And indicate these sanity souls ere yet they
soar on high?
Then we might recognize them ere grim
death and cold obstruction
Have made 1t quite impossible to get an In.
PRODUCTION.
All, well, perhaps. when at last beneath my
burden faint,
I, too. shall win the titles of a paragon and
Saint
And be, when deaths cold breath has blown
aside life's dust and soiling,
grain of that superior salt which keeps the
world from spelling.
From the Century.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-26
Phantom Baskets.


Take piece of old cotton cloth or
sheeting (which is better, as 1t ravels
more easily, and tear into strips about
a yard and quarter in length and
half an inch in width; ravel each side,
leaving three threads in the center,
then twist, turning one end to the
right and the other to the lift. After
sou have about seventy OF these strips
take piece of wire (hoopskirt wire is
the besD twenty-four inches in length,
join the ends together and wind with
cloth; then take three Of the strips and
fasten an end of each at equal dis
tance apart on the circle of the wire,te
the loose ends together aud suspend it
by these; then hang all your raveled
pieces over the wire. letting the ends
hang down at equal lengths. Gather
these together about eight inches from
the top forming basket shape) and
tie tightly. Form come Of the rayeings
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-26
Taking in a Fair.

A stranger who was hanging around
the state fair grounds acted in man.
ner to attract the attention of police
man, who proceed to make some i'll
quiries touching his business.
"It's all right, officer-all right" re-
piled the man, as he rested his back
against the fence. my names White
Jim White. OF Isabella county
That's satisfactory"
"And l reached here only two hours
ago, after walking most of the way.
I'm here to take this thing all in."
"Last time | was here to the fair /
only had $12, and pick-pocket got SO
of that. This time I've got $22 and
nobody gets accent. There's "a in each
boot, SO in my undershlrt pocket, and
the rest is sort O scattered around pro-
miscuously in my various pockets"
Il guess you are SAFE"
"You bet! Last time l WAS here 1t
cost all my cash to buy fodder. See
that bag2 Well, I've four loaves of
bread, ten pounds of meat and thirty
two boiled eggs in there for fodder,
saying nothing of pickles and crackers.
| don't reckon any restaurant will get
ahead of me-"
"You are we'll fixed, indeed"
"Thpre's a man from our county got
a big calf mere. The three of us are
going to sleep together in the stall, and
that will save lodgings. I've got my
watch tied in my pocket, neither dust
nor wet can hurt my clothes, and II
anybody goes for me I've got lot of
pepper to throw in his eyes,"
swell, welI.''
"I'm going to beat my way in as
preacher" continued the man, "and
I'm going to get a seat on the grand
stand by claiming that am member
of the legislature. Once in, don't come
out till the last hog is Shipped home.
I'm going to begin with the Jersey
calf and take in everything clear back
to the windmills, and if you hear Gov.
Begole inquiring il Jim White, of old
Isabella, has shown up. you can assure
him that I'm on deck and chuck full of
boiling hot enthusiasm.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-26
Fine Art in the Boundless
West.

Miss Honora Daubigne has just COM
pleted a portrait of her father 10 oil.
1t wonld have looked more like him,
had she worked the portrait in whis-
key. Still, as a work of art 1t a very
valuable painting; thirteen dollars
worth of tube colors were used in its
construction and the frame alone cost
forty-fiye dollars. The hair wart on
Mr.. Daublgne's cheek is omitted in
the portrait, and the right ear. which
was bit off in fight down on the red
bridge ten years ago, has been restored
by the magical touch of the accom-
plished artist. The nose of the subject
also has been toned down, being treated
in pole lakes instead of vermilion. To
get at the true soulfulness. the toute
ensemble, the immortal intellectual
chiaro oscuro of Mr.. Daubign's nose 1t
would have to be treated in a lake of
birthstone, If there is such color. AS
a work of art, however, the portrait is
one of which our city may well be
pround. 1t can be recognized by
glance at the name of the subject,
which was neatly lettered on the frame
by Stepladder, the sign painter.-Bur-
lington Hawk Eye.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-26
CHLORIDE SOCORRO COUNTY, M FRIDAY OCTOBER 26 1888

seed is s0wn in the fall-spread broad
cast over rich and well prepared plant
beds, similar to those which Missouri
raisers prepare for their tobacco seeds.
The young wheat comes up thick. rank
and strong in the fall, and remains so
all winter, forming mat on the ground.
In the spring the ground is thoroughly
prepared by deep ploughing and har-
rowing, after which it is marked off in
drills ten inches to one foot apart, one
way. The wheat plants are then pull
de up from the bed in bunches, and
carefully picked apart, one at a time,
and dropped at distances of four to six
inches in the drills in the field. After
the dropper follows the planter, who,
with a trowel OF thin paddle, makes
holes in the drills at the proper DIS
tances, and sets out the separate plants
in the same manner as the strawberry,
tomato, or tobacco plants are set out.
When the work is done there is a
wheat field planted in drills one foot
apart, and with the plant six inches
apart in the drills. 1t is a tedious and
particular process. But on the small
five-acre Belgium farm, worth $500 to
$500 an acre, 1t amply pays for the
trouble. The Belgian wheat fields, af-
ter being planted, are carefully cuIti-
waited between the rows by hand until
the plants are too high to admit Of fur
ther work. The plants branch into
stools, from each of which shoot up
stalks bearing heavy heads of grain
and when the harvest comes the yield
is 100 to $50 bushels of grain to the
acre.-Indiana Farmer.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-26
NO. 29.

into the shape of large egg, place just
under where you have tied il, and then
tie again. Strips Of any bright colored
merino prepared in the same way as
the sheeting and hung in festoons
around the basket add greatly to the
effect. They are easily and quickly
made, and look very pretty hanging
over windows or in the center of the
room.-Detroit Free Press.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-26
How Wheat is Raised in Bel
gium.

Belgium is the most carefully and
elaborately cultivated country in Eur
ope, andthe Belgian farmers raise larger
crops per acre in their small, unfenced,
and finely lined farms than are raised
anywhere else.
Farming there partakes of the Ma
tnre of gardening, indeed. it would be
called gardening elsewhere. Wheat is
the important crop, and the manage
ment of 1t is particular to what other
people would call an extreme. The
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-26
The Consumption of Gold.

The consumption of gold for other
than monetary purposes in Europe.
America and Australia has more than
quadrupled in thirty years, and has
quite trebled in twenty years. 1t Is
more than five times what it was half
a century ago. The great mass of gold
which has flowed from the mines has
been absorbed in the same opulence
and luxury of the times which have
swallowed up the food of gems, great
in volume beyond any former prece-
dent, from the diamond fields of South
Africa, and increasing prices will be
quiteas likely to whet ths appetite for
both as to check it. Five.sixths of the
current production of gold is absorbed
IN the arts and the manufactures in the
western world and in British India. A
part of the remaining sixth Is lost IN
wear of COINS and by fires, shipwrecks
and forgotten boards. What is left TO
increase the stock of gold money in
proportion to the increase Of popula-
tiOn, exchanges and the wealth of the
world.-North American Review.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-26

Five or six couple had been invited
in to play cards and listen to music, and
peaches had been passed with other re-
treshments. The party was just ready
to break up when the terror of the
family entered the parlor and called
out: There. pa. what did ma tell you'll"
The governor probably knew what
was coming, but before he could get
the youngster out of the way he shot
off the other barrel with: "Ma said if
we bought clingstone peaches we'd save
1t least half, and We hayef'
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INK IN SALT:
& COOPER MANITOWOC.

Our stove department represents all
the leading, most popular, and largest
manufacturers of the country-manufac-
turers that have had almost generation
of experience-manufa that have
made it a life's study to turn out A. No.
l stoves in every particular. In purchas-
ing we were very careful to observe the
following points:-quaity, style, utility,
economy an use of fuel, p, ice, and lastly
elegance Of beauty and design, and we
feel assured that we havn't missed our
aim in getting stock; every stove of
which is a scientific success, and our
stock being SO large and varied, cannot
help but adapt itself to the wants of our
people, be it in the city or country.
We solicit an examination of our stock
by all contemplating purchases, and in
the future as in the past. can assure our
customers of our best attentions.
WAGNER & RAND HARDWARE Co.
Stores both sides of the river.
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Chairman of Elk. Com.

"THE GREAT LOTTERY WAR."-A
greedy, INSCRIPTIONS, grasping, mon
opoly OF Lottery Company, instead of
giving ticket holders chance to win the
prize, is spending their money by paying
newspapers throughout the United States
for advertising mean, untruthful articles
aimed to injure the Great Commonwealth
Distribution Co., of Ky. The Common
wealth Co. is above such practices to
secure business, and prefers to obtain
patronage by honorable means and by
honestly conducting their business.
The American people love fair play and
will pay no attention to such lies emanat-
ing from such source, but will, as usual
send their orders for tickets for the next
popular monthly drawing in Louisville,
KY, June Both, 1888. $4,000 for only
50; S112, 400 in prizes. Tickets 81 each !;
half tickets 81. Address r. M. Board
man, Louisville, Ky.
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PLUMB & NELSON.
A BLESSING In DISGUISE,
404 ADELPHI ST., BROOKLYN, N. Y.
March 29th, 1881,

404 ADELPHI ST., BROOKLYN, NY,
March 29th, 1881.
No family should be without ALLoooK's
Porous PLAsTERs; their healing powers
are wonderful and their efficacy far reach
ing and lasting. For years past I have
seen and known them to cure and relieve
the most obstinate and distressing cases
of rheumatism, kidney complaint, bron-
chitis, neuralgia, lumbago, inflammation
of the lungs and throat, paralysi asthma,
spinal weakness, and coughs and colds.
In my own case they have afforded me
almost instant and permanent relief. My
friends consider them an invaluable and
speedy remedy for all kinds of aches and
pains. They are blessing in disguise;
and no wife or mother should be without
them if she values her peace and comfort
and freedom from nervous exhaustion
and other ailments. As Strengthening
plaster, also for backaches and weakness
es, they have no equal. I have never
yet found a plaster SO efficacious and
stimulating, or to give so much general
satisfaction. Used in connection with
BRANDRETH's universal life-giving and
life-healing Pulls, no one need despair
of speedy restoration to good sound
health. Mrs. E. ToMPKINs.
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MEME.

Pete Dickup is building one of the
finest and most costly residences in the
county. 1t is of brick and will be fitted
out with all the modern improvements.
Mrs. O'Grady of this vicinity has been
dangerously il. for the past few days.
Owing to the timely services of DR.. Muth
OF Sheboygan she is now rapidly recover
ing.
Pete Hoffman gave picnic yesterday.
The day was not very well adapted for
the business.
August Kolwey is getting made to
order one of the neatest open buggies in
the state. Jake Hensen of School Hill
is the manufacturer.
Those who give ''public readings are
now studying hard so as to be understood
at the next public entertainment.
For neat and tasty divine edifce look
at the Catholic church near HEIRS. Its
interior can not well be surpassed for
neatness of arrangement, beauty of de-
design and artistic finish.
Ex-Sheriff Murphy and Jere Daley
men wvo are always welcome, paid Meme
a visit on Thursday.
Peter Boersch will give a picnic on
Sunday next at which all who choose can
''join hands and circle to the left" A
young man from Liberty, called Mr..
Klark, is hired to ''call off,"
John O'Neil. father of Tom O'Neil the
well known school teacher and telegraph
operator died on Sunday. He was one
of the early pioneers.
Several very religious people are trying
hard to get to heaven for half fare. Who
can tell if they will succeed?
Jim Murphy, very successful peda-
gogue, has gone to Colorado for his
health. Every one who knows him hopes
that he will not seek in vain.
Why don't teachers nowadays wind up
their terms with spelling schools" as in
the days of yore? One who knows says
that it is because the modern teacher is
not worth cuss to spell and hence don't
like to expose his ignorance. Truly a
very good excuse. EYE OPENER.
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NEW QUARTERS.

We have this week moved into our new
and commodious quarters on Eighth
street, south side between the bridge and
postofice. Our location and accommo-
dations will enable us to carry a larger
and more varied stock of goods than here
tofore and we shall do all in our power
to deserve the larger patronage for which
we have worked.
We carry large stock of ready made
boots and shoes, suited to all classes of
people, slippers and all things in our
line OF business. Our custom depart
ment is well equipped and we guarantee
satisfaction. Give us trial and we will
not only assure you against complaint
but give you reason to be we'll satisfied.
EGaERT & Howard.
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SILK CTOAKSi

During the continued cold and dis
agreeable weather, the manufacturers of
Summer garments found that there was
not near as great demand for their
goods as they had anticipated, conse-
quently they offered us our pick from
their stock for about one third off from
regular prices and we stock them in. /"
The next thing for us to do was to mark
down those we had, and we have done 80.
Now is your time to get bargain. No
further reductions, can be made In these
goods this season.
j. SCHUETTE & Bros.
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FRED HORN has rather lengthy article
on Hon. Jos. Rankin in which he stoutly
defends that gentleman for being true to
his friends. He says Rankin is fully as
competent to judge of the qualifications
of his appointee to West Point as a lot
of schoolmasters could be. Fred oandidly
admits that he himself deserves no con-
sideration from the congressman from
the 9Th because he did not favor his
nomination and that Rankin would show
ingratitude if he did not chose the cadet
from among his friends instead of his
enemies, other things being equal.