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The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-10-03
PITH AND POINT.

Some people are never satisfied.
Show them how to live happily on o
small income and they will want you to
furnish the income.-M o. Ricayune.
-Tw white tramps have been sent to
tho chsin gang for throwing kisses at
the young ladies of Georgia SEM
mary. The privileges Of the American
citizen seem 10 be getting very limited
indeed.-M. Y. Commercial advertiser.
DIR. Chalmers used to say that when
one is in the act of tipping his hat to q
lady whom he supposes to be an ac-
quaintance it requires good deal Of
tact to make believe that he is only
scratching his forehead when he finds
she is stranger.
-"My dear Polly, am surprised at
your taste in wearing another woman's
hair on your head, said Mr.. Smith to
his wife. "My dearest Joe, am
equally astonished that you persist in
wearing another sleeps wool on your
back. ."--Boston Post.
One fellow might hang around
surf swimming place for weeks and
never have chance to rescue a rich
mans daughter from q watery grave.
Another would grapple a millionheiress
the very first day and be invited to her
house to dinner. 1t is all luck.-M o.
Picayune.
"A lady subscriber wants to know
how to catch husband. We have had
no experience in this kind of sport per-
sonallv, but we have known husband
TO be caught by his wife as he was
leaving bar-room. When she got him
home, we believe she caught him by the
hair of his head-and the husband. well,
he caught particular Jcsse.-Detroit
Post.
in new light. 81 have been with
YOU now three MONTHS" said the Junior
clerk, and think l ought to have q
salary something nearly commensurate
to my services. "H'mr' replied the
employer; "well, times haven't been
very good; you haven't had very much
to do, you know. Couldn't think Of
giving you more than fifty dollars q
month" Clerk-"Beg pardon, sir,
am not to blame because you haven't
done business enough to keep me busy.
expect to get paid for what l know,
not for what 1 do" Employer-"Oh!
That puts the matter in a new light.
shall give you five dollars month
hereafter. IN Y Graphic.
81 tell you. pard," said old Jimmy
Cannon, a guide, "the West has lost its
romance. Only little while ago, it
seems to me, where once there was
nothing but the whoop of the Indian
and the song Of the six-shooter, now
there are railroads and churches and
commercial men and high schools and
three-card monte men and lecturers and
daily newspapers. and every little while
; natural death. Why within two
: months, II the blasted papers tell the
truth, several men have died in Wyom
ing Of disease. tell you, II looks a:
though us old timers would have tc
move away. When we have to wait fol
: lingering disease to snuff us out it's time
to light out for the frontier. ."-Larami,
! Boomerang. -"
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-10-03
The Disappearance Of Game.

Mr.. Felix l.. Oswald writes to the Gin
cinnati Enquirer: "The swifth growth
Of our cities is not nearly as unparal-
leled as the rapid disappearance Of our
game animals. One hundred years ago
Eastern North America was the finest
game-country in the world. This val
ley is a hunters paradise, says Colonel
Boone in his account of the expedition
to the mouth of the Kentucky River.
Our dogs started three troops of deer
in less than half an hour; on the river
we saw tracks of elk, bears and buffalo,
and the thickets along the slope were
full of turkey and mountain-pheasants.
From the cliffs above the junction our
guide showed us the wigwams of the
Mamis. About eight miles to the north
west we could see the smokes of their
camp-iires rising from the foot of a
rocky bluff, but the hill-country in the
east and the great plains in the west,
north and northeast resembled bound
less ocean of undulating woodlands
s"Northwest of the Blue Ridge buf-
faloes grazed in countless herds. Dur
ing the heat Of the midsummer months
they used to retreat to the highlands,
and followed the ridges in, the south
ward migration, as the approach Of win
ter gradually crowned the heights with
snow. Along the backbones of all the
main chains Of the sunken Alleghenies
these trails can still be distinctly traced
for hundreds of miles. Buffalo Springs,
Buffalo Cap and scores of similar
names still attest the presence
of the American bison in local
tiles that are now fully 1000 miles from
the next buffalo range. The center OF
our buffalo population is moving north
west at an alarming rate. Herds, in
the old-time sense of the word, can now
be found only in British North America,
and here and there along the frontier Of
our Northwestern Territories. In cold
winter small troops of fifteen or twenty
are occasionally seen in the Texas Pan
handle, in Western Utah, and in the
valley Of the Upper Arkansas, but no
where on this side of the Mississippi.
Their days are numbered. They can
not hide, and their defensive weapon:
are useless against mounted riiiemen
Pot-hunters follow them to their fal
northern retreats; the Internationa
Railroad will soon carry swarm o
sportsmen to their Mexican reservations
and in fifty years from now their happ.
pasture grounds will probably be re
duced to the inclosed grass plots Of ;
few geological gardens. -.t
"Panthers are still found in twenty
six or twenty-seven States, but chief,
at the two opposite ends of our territor,
lin Florida and Oregon. In the South
ern Alleghenies they are still frequen
enough to make the Government bount,
source of income to the hunters o
several highland counties. Wolves still
defy civilization in some Of the large
prairie States, and in the wild borde
country between North Carolina an,
East Tennessee. But, unlike panthers
they do not confine themselves to
special locality. Hunger makes ther
peripatehc, and in cold winters thei
occasional visits can be looked for in a.
most any mountain valley betweel
Southern Kentucky and Alabama" ="
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-10-03
The Cormantown (pa 1s,eorn,,

The Germantown Pa.) Telegraph
notes the. fact that, as the Western
States are steadily coming into formida-
BILE competition with each other in the
production of tobacco, fruit, cheese.
butter, vegetables, etc., the East is COM
ing back to wheat-growing, and urges
the seaboard farmers to jump in, raise
all the wheat they can, export the sur,
plus to Europe, and thus arrest what is
called "the drain of the agricultural
districts to supply emigrants TO the
West. In fact, " IL says, 1.-THE Eastern
farmers have suffered in many ways
from a policy wholly adverse to their
interests, which has built up tho West
at their expense"
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-10-03

A New York broker who reached a
village in Ohio the other evening was
interviewed, soon after placing his name
on the register, by farmer, who said;
"a Just wish you had arrived here
this afternoon
"Any excitementP" replied the
broker. lt
"Well should say so. My son, Dan
iel, was convicted of stealing seven
sheep, and has been held to the higher
court. You ought to have been here"
"Whypn a9 .,r
"Why; I'd have had you on the jury,
and you could have cleared Daniel
slick as grease. Our folks here don't
look at things as you New Workers do"
Wall Street NetOs. '1t Ua
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-10-03
Undertaking.

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large as well as valuable, 1t is doubt.
ful if there are many fields that it will
pay to underdrain for the purpose OF
growing Indian corn or small grains,
but for orchards, small fruits or garden
vegetables, there are large tracts that it
will no doubt pay to underdrain: For
grass, when only profits are sought for
most OF land can be drained with open
bitches to the best advantage; It Is true
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-10-03

Captain Clishy Of the whaling
schooner Era, which recently arrived
at st. Johns, is Of tho opinion that last
winter was very severe in the arctic
regions. His belief is founded on the
fact that he has just escaped from an
imprisonment of seventeen months in
an ice pack. He thinks the Greeley re-
lief expedition will meet with many
obstacles in reaching point from
which assistance can reach the party
now so long imprisoned at Lady Frank
lin Bay.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-10-03
Photographing Letters.

"The oldest customer" said the pho
tographer, II ever had, was a Tennes-
sean who came in and had himself taken
with sign across his chest, on which
was printed, in large letters;
'J.C.K'
r. The father of thirty.four childrcn.'
"He was in sober earnest, and want
ed fifty copies. He was dumb-fouhded
when, by way Of joke, I showed
him the negative, on which the sign
read:
l t1tu a TX. III,
nerdlihc ruof-ytriht forehtaf chit"
l.N -Cincinndii Ei,dttirer.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-10-03

Tears follow close on smiles and
sorrow on joy in this life, but it is often
a marriage feast furnishes forth the
funeral baked meats" in the same
issues OF the New York papers, one day
recently there were contained notices
of a wedding and the death of the
bride. Monday Miss Sara Brewster
was married TO DR.. S. Willard-two
DAYS later the bride was dead. 1t was
one of those solemn ceremonies, a
death-bsd marriage, the young lady
being a victim Of e0Dsump'ioN.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-10-03

Americans are the greatest butter
eating people in the world. This Is one
reason why the export of butter does
not increase SO rapidly as its manu-.
facture, and why the price is maintained
80 high as it is, -Chicago Tribune.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-10-03

1t has been decided by the Austrian
Railway Administration to employ
women as road guards on the same
terms as men.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-11-13

How TO Do THINGs.-Take cup OF
cream off the milk pans every morning
when you make bread; it will make the
bread moist, white and delicate, and you
will hardly miss it from the cream.
A merino cashmere dress may be mended
neatly by wetting piece of court-plaster
of exactly the same shade as the goods,
and putting it on tue wrong side, pressing
down every frayed edge and every thread,
and laying weight on it until it is thor
oughly dry.
Take coach varnish and renew all your
oil-cloths. Wash them clean, wipe dry.
and apply coach of varnish. Be careful
not to step on them until they are dry. If
this is done once a year the oil-cloths will
last twice as long as they will without it.
For the top of your formidable that
must reflect your face use the following
polish. Take one ounce of yellow rosin
and pint of law linseed oil; melt the
rosin in pipkin, and add to it by degrees
one-half of the oil; when thoroughly in
corporated, add by degrees the remainder.
Before using the polish, it will be best to
wash the table with warm water and rub it
quite dry.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-11-13
The "Why" in Vegetable Cookery.


Why should beans never be put into
cold water to soak, as is often recommend
ed? Because all the nutritious portion OF
the bean is extracted by the process. They
should be washed in warm water, then in
cold, be tied loosely in cloth, be put into
boiling water, with spoonful of dripping
and little salt in it, and be kept boiling
for four hours. They are then excellent il
served with gravy, and not with melted
butter. They serve as garnish around
roast mutton or beef, and are excellent eat
ing served whole or as puree. To make
the latter, when the beans are done throw
them instantly into cold water, when the
skins will slip off. Rub the beans through,
a collander, and mix a lump of butter will
them. A little stock, or milk, or cream i,
excellent mixed in.
Why should plenty of fast boiling water
be used in boiling vegetables, potatoes ex
cepted? Because the greater the body OF
boiling water the greater the heat. If onl,
little water is used the whole affair sool
cools, and the vegetables become tough, ST
much SO that no length of time will rende'
them otherwise. Broccoli sprouts IN April
if properly cooked by boiling them. for eight
minutes in boiling water, will be tender al
marrow; but, if not properly done, hour
will not cook them.
Why should onions be always cut il
round and very thin rings? Because thu
fiber is thus cut across, and in so cutting
them, whether for frying or for making
sauce, they are rendered very tender whel
cooked. With turnips and carrots it is jus
the same neither of the these should be
or cut in any other way.
Why should parsley never be boiled with
soda-only boiling water and salt? Be
cause parsley, having no oil in 1t, would be
spoiled with soda and all flavor would b.
extracted. All parsley should Ebe pickeo
free from the stem, be put into plenty o.
boiling water with salt and in summer b.
boiled only one minute, and in winter two
minutes, and be strained and chopped OF
the back of plate. If only little water
is used in boiling it, the water become
brown and the parsley tough and ill-favor
ed.
Why should vinegar for picking witt
never be boiled? Because boiling takes al
the strength from it. Whatever vegetable.
are to be picked should first be inside sof
with boiling water strong with salt and vim
egar poured over.
Why should two ounces of salt and hi
of washing soda always be put in the waite
to boil greens in? Because the salt crisp
the green and tlavors them, and the sod
extracts the OIL which is greatly injurious
to the digestion. Germantown (PG.) Tele-
graph.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-11-13

MADE SANE BY FIIIAI. AFFECTIoN.-A
special dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio,
says: 1.-TWO years ago an cid German wo
man settled at Independence, in this coun-
ty, with her husband. A year ago they
sent money by. which their son, Andrew
Witch, age twenty, could come to Ameri-
ca. Hearing nothing from him and learn
ing that he had long since left Germany,
they concluded that their boy had been lost
at sea. A few days ago the mother saw in
a German paper that the sheriff had gone
to Sandusky for one Andrew Witch, a
crazy German lad Of twenty-one. The
thought came to her that this might be her
lost boy. She came to Cleveland and asked
to see the lad. Witch had been very vio-
lent and was in a nude state, as no article
of clothing could be kept on him. A blan-
ket was got about him, and the woman
was called into the corridor When the lit
tie old woman stepped UP to the cell door
and said Andrew he became gentle as a
child and said, 'Mutter' She recognized
him, and he pressed his face close to the
bars and talked to her long and nationally.
He told her how he arrived in this country,
and that he remembered reaching Cleve-
land, but all the rest was blank When
she retired the son was again a raving ma
MAC. His case is pronounced incurable."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-11-13

c. & y. Main-Llne trains run by ashington
time; Lexington Division by Columbus time.
Nos | and 8, daily except sunday 10 not
run between clifton Forge and huntington.
Nos. and 5, daily between Clifton torge and
Ashland, Ky No 2, daily exeept Sal urday,
Clifton Forge To Richmond; Except Sunday
Richmond 10 Old Point. No s. except Sunday,
Old Point TO Clifton Forge
Nos. and 4 Washington. Louisville aud
Cincinnati FAST LINE run daily between Lou
isviite, Cincinnati. Washing ton. and Rich
mond, Va Do not stop for ICca business, ex-
cept that No. stops oetwt en Richmond and
Charlottesville
No Louisville and Cincinnati Fast Line
and No 4, Washington Fas6 Line equipped
with Pullman new Drawing Room. Smok ing
Saloon, and Sleeping-tals. ana sofia Trains
between Louisville. Lexington, and Washing
ton. u. q. Pullman New Sleeptng-Cars be-
tween tincinEati. White Sulphur, and RicI-
mOnd; D&y-Coach between Cincinnati and
Richmond
c. & o Sleeping Cars on trains Nos and
between Richmond and Clifton Forge
No. T. daily except sunday leave annellton
$40 a M, arrive Huntington ILLS a. M
No & dairy except sunday, leave Hun;ing-
ton 3:l5 y 10 arrive Canneltdn $40 D. IN,
Gid Dominion Line Steamers will leave either
from Norfolk or NewpGrt News for New York
on Monday Tuesday, Wednesday, or Satur-
day. at 500 .. m.
For Rates, Tickets. Baggage Checks, apply to
any Office of G. q o. R'y; or Depot or Ticket
Office of connecting lines.
a. W. FULLER,
c. W. SMITH, Genl Pass'r Agent.
Gan'I T.,t2O
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-11-13
Stock and Poultry.

Varieties Of Poult9y.-The Plymouth
Rocks are desirable market chickens, be-
ng meaty, round and plump. They are
not so heavy as the Cochins and Asiatics,
but are considered less coarse.
GrGUel for housekeeping them well sup
lied with gravel and you will prevent
hem from having many diseases. Too
mary farmers think that a hen is glad to
supply her own system with everything.
Variety IN Feeding.-Fowls, are as fond
f change in their diet as people are
live chopped onions, with little red pep
per sprinkled on, once a week. An Occa
s,onal feed of suniower seeds will give a
smooth, glossy piumage
Fltten3nq Sh- ep.-The English feed for
iattening sheep consists of cotton seed and
rurnips. They claim that it will put on
the most fat, in the safest feed, makes the
best mutton at 4 less cost and produces the
best and strongest manure.
Bedding Cattle. Pass the material to be
used for bedding through the cutter This
not only adds to the comfort of the animal,
ut on account of its greater power of alb
sorption aids greatly N the matter ofclean-
illness. 1t also mixes more readily with the
manure and thus increases its value.
To Glenn Bee Com,bs-A writer in the
Bee Journal says that the best way to have
bees clean combs is to put them into a SUI
per, or upper story, and place this over
strong colony just at.night, if IN times Of
honey dearth and in four to twelve hours
the combs will be all clean, and the super
can be removed in tine usual way.
Lamps Fell an Goes Teats.-This is
caused, says the Mirror ard Farmer by
impure circulation of the blood. Give the
following tartar, four drains:
iodide of potassium, four drains; mixed and
divided into eight powders. Give one
night and morning in bran. Do not feed
any corn meal or vegetables.
Gdngrene in Poultry Poultry are sub
iect under some circumstances to disease
In which gangrene of the comb is the most
prominent symptom. 1t is Il disease of the
blood and appears to be Contagious, as it
spreads from farm to farm. The only rem
edy is prevention by keeping the fowls
clean and not feeding SO much corn Every
sick fowl should be killed and buried in
distant place as soon as ii is found diseased
Spd0in.-1n the early stages the SPAWN,
says the Mirror and Farmer, is not clearly
developed, but afterward it is so well mark
ed that SPAWN may be pronounced to ex-
ist without an examination of the joint.
Treatment should be directed to the abate-
ment Of the inflammation, which gives rise
to pain, and also tc promote absorption of
the new growth Apply fracture of iodine
daily over the joint with brush.
GGpeS IN Chickens "A correspondent of
an English exchange says: ''On the first
appearance of gapes make quart of oat
meal porridge, stir into it tallow candle,
and administer it warm to the chicks; re-
peat in about two hours. Sometimes used
two or three tablespoonfuls of drippings
when had no tallow ca die in the house.
and with equal success. The extreme sim
plicity of this remedy renders it at least
worth trial. l have never lost chick
from gapes after administering this rene
dy"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-11-13

RULES FOR MAKING GOOD BREAD.-Witl
good -four, good oven, and good, sensi
BILE, interested cook, we can be pretty sure
of good, wholesome bread. Yeast bread i.
considered the standard bread and is, per
haps, more generally found on every table
than any other kind. Hence it is impor
tant 10 know how to make good, sweet,
wholesome yeast bread. Good -four is III.
first indispensable; then good, lively yeast.
either yeast cakes or bottled; the former il
preferable in all respects. Then, Of curse,
there must be the proper materials to work
with. A bread bowl or pan the pan is
easiest kept clean; stone or earthern lar
for setting the sponge; a sieve-four shoulC
always be sifted before making bread OF
any kind; first be sure that it is perfectly
clean; secondly, sitting enlivens and aerates
the -four, and makes both mixing and ris-
ing easier and quicker; a clean, white cloth
to cover the dough, and a WOODEN blank t
to keep the dough of even temperature
while rising; baking pans, large and shall
low, large, strong spoon for stirring, and
a little melted suet or fresh butter for oiling
the pans; never use poor butter. If you
want shortening, rich milk or cream scald
ed and cooled will answer the purpose, and
be most wholesome. But thorough knead
ing is better still, and should always be
done effectualy. Scalding portion of the
flour makes a sweeter bread and speeds the
work. Water milk or butter-rnilk NAV
be poured boiling hot on a quart or two of
the floor, stirring well, and cooling to a
moderate temperature befure adding the
yeast-this makes the sponge. Scalded
flour always makes little darker bread.
unless we use buttermilk, which makes a
rich, creamy, white bread. Yeast is fer
mented -four ormeal-the first stages of de-
composition or decay.
Understanding this, every baker will
comprehend the necessity Of regulating the
extent of the fermentation with the greatest
care; for sponge or bread fermented or
''Taised'' too long is decomposing, spelling
actually rotting! This is the language Of
an experienced English baker to US only a
few days ago; during talk about the del
icate, foamy loaves 'tyeasted TO death"
which go mauy families are eating and call
ing ''the staff of ife," quite discarding the
firm, sweet, substantial, homemade loaf
which our mothers and grand-mothers
kneaded with their own skilled hands,
Breadmaking should stand at the head of
domestic accomplishments, since the health
and happiness of the family depend meal
culably upon good bread; there comes a time
in every true, thoughtful woman's expert
ence, when she is glad she can make nice,
sweet loaves, free from soda, alum, and
other injurious ingredients, Or an earnest
regret that she neglected or was so unfortu-
nate as not to have been taught at least
what are the requisites of good bread-mak-
ing.-Ne1c York San.