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The Osceola times., 1884-09-20
The Possibilities Of Irrigation.
Trenton Times

Mr.. A. y Cole, of Wellsvlile, n. Y.
the veteran ex-edtor, has made discov-
cries in the matter OF irrigation, and Sc
cured patent therefor, which seem des-
tined to work great revolution in the
value of lands. BY his system he grows
Strawberries to the size of a peach, and
increases t he size, beauty aud perfection
of all fruits TO a degree to defy credence.
He says in letter in the Weilsville
Free Press:
81 grow such turnips, beets, cabbages
and cauliBowers as have never been seen
on the Atlantic coast A full bushel of
tomatoes to the plant can be grown, and
that, too, of marvellous size and beauty
As stated in previous articles, 900 BUSH
els of peapods can he grown to he acre.
All forms, in short. of vegetable growth
are so developed as to do away with fun
gus, deadliest enemy of plant life, secur-
ing stalk, bud, blossom and fruit in COM
pletess perfection. This is done by hang.
ing up on our hillsides in succession of
trenches, deep dug into the hardpan, ag-
gregations of water to be held in reserve
till they find their way by the laws of
gravity, in even and uniform currents Of
subterranean flow, to the streams in the
valleys, securing such perfection of irri-
CATION in their track as TO give plant life
inspiration sucn as has never before
been 20 much - approximated.'
The Osceola times., 1884-09-20
he Aueciote.
just in tim
Bill Nye.


Out of every one thousand people
born into this world of sin and sorrow
nine hundred and ninety nine either dc
not know good story when they hear
it, forget it after they have heard il, do
not know how to repeat it themselves
or haven't good Judgment about when to
introduce it. | lay down this grand
principle, as am laying down all my
grand prircipl this season, without
ear of successful contradiction.
| listened te a very fair amateur cam
paien SPEECH the other evening-veiy
fair with one exception. The anecdotes
were not made to illustrate the speech
but the speech hao been distorted to lit
the anecdotes. You know an artist
sometimes strikes good idea in picture
and somebody writes up to the illustra-
tion instead of writing good thing and
then having il illustrated incidentally.
That's the way it was with that speech
To discriminate between good story
and poor one, to remember the good
ones and forget the poor ones, to bring
in the right one at the right moment
and to do it as naturally as the startled
mud turtle seeks the bosom of the rolling
deep, requires sang froid. naivete, chic,
pro bono publico and horse sense. These
qualities are rarely united in one indi-
yidual. Chic is useless without PR
The Osceola times., 1884-09-20

bono publico and both are N. G. witbor,
what Herbert Spencer has so charminc.
ly characterized as horse sense.
The world is peopled with denizens
who are constantly telling anecdotes
that claim to be facetious, but do MOI
seem TO get there. How often is the low.
GUS group thrown into spasms bv tho
scrap book story-teller, who is always a
century behind the patent insides, and
who joyously sows the seeds of hvpo.
chondria everywhere.
Some men can never take hint Thev
go through life telling the same gloom.
environed funny stories, cheerfully show
ing their bantllngs of The alleged brain
under the hoses of law-abiding citizens
inviting scorn and contumely, brayely
laughing at their own salt rheum humor
and never acquiring the moral courage to
take grand North American tumble IN
themselves.
Most people dislike TO give needless
pain. Unless man is cruel and devil
ish in his disposition, he will not twice
in the same manner wound the feelings
of his friend ; and yet we are constantly
running across the man who has again
and again grieved and saddened the
hearts of his friends with the same de-
pressing tale, resurrected from the hu.
morous catacombs of the almanac to
poison the pure air with its pestilential
breath.
One thing is absolutely certain to me.
feel it as strongly as ever our forefath-
ers felt the first throb of freedom, and
wonder that neither political larty has
embodied the principle in its platform.
This can never be peaceful, prosper.
Gus and progressive people, morally and
physically free, until the strong hand of
the law shall reveal itself like a club
flush and quarantine the effete, pestiftr-
Gus, ,.miasmatic, fungus anecdote of our
boasted American institutions, which,
like the large red picnic ant has planted
itself between tie shoulder-badcs of lib
erty and defies the civil, the military
and the naval forces of the nation 10
dislodge it, Heart-broken sobs.
The Osceola times., 1884-09-20
Antidote for Champagne.
Long Banch Letter.

Three times in succession she ordered
the waiter to bring her champagne
cup, and she quafled the third with as
steady hani and unfinished cheek az
if it had been water.
Dessert, amp said the waiter.
"You may bring me few almonds,
nothing else" said the lady, and when
the nuts were brought she ate good
handful, feed the waiter and left the
table.
Champagne cup" you know, it com.
posed of champagne, various liquors,
lemon juice and other piquaDt and ex-
hilarating drinks. II takes pretty
strong head to stand much of it, and
when at supper the same night the
same lady empted pint bottle of
Mumm's extra dry into a goblet Of chop
ped ice and slowly slipped it | marveled.
Later on saw her munching almonds
on the veranda while she chatted with
some friends, and then il occurred to me
that there must be some connection be-
tween nuts and wine beyond their mutual
pleasantness to the palate that did not
understand.
Since then | have noticed that the
ladies most partial TO wine parties are
in the habit Of carrying shelled
almonds in their dress pockets or en-
broidered hand bags, and to-day | was
told that these are the latest known
antidotes for lavish libations, it having
been discovered by professional wine
faster that nothing else so effeclually
kept the head clear and palate keen OF
taste
The Osceola times., 1884-09-20
Keep Your Dwellings Dry.

A warm and dry atmosphere is not un-
wholesome, but when cloudy or rainy
weather brings a sultrv air which lamp
ems everything around us, the atnlos-
phere may be loaded with the germs Of
disease, and the warmth from fire is
needed to destroy them. The walls, the
ceilings and floors of apartments should
never be allowed TO become damp.
Sometimes when the warmth OF he air
is oppressive, fire is more necessary TO
preserve health than it is at another sea-
son to protect us from the cold of winter;
and the rooms of dwelling should never
be left without the means of warning and
drying.
Investigation has shown that some of
the most fatal diseases are caused by the
germs of vegetable and animal hfc, and
that humid atmosphere is most iavora-
BILE to their propagation. Ii is, therefore,
neglecting not to avail ourselves of the
great discoveries of the age, and failing
to protect ourselves from scourges which
so fearfully affect families, when we ig-
more the dangers around us. Apart
ments exposed to the full action of the
sun, may be less comfortable in hot
weather than those from which the suns
rays are excluded, but they are more
wholesome, and when contagious diseases
prevail in closely built cities, it is found
that the inmates of houses on that side
of the street exposed TO the sun, are less
liable to be attacked; while the greatest
number of sick are always found where
there is the least exposure 10 the great
est disinfector-the sun.
The Osceola times., 1884-09-20
MUNICIPALITIES.

The future Queen of the Netherlands
will be the richest woman in Europe, be-
ing heiress to the four million dollars of
her late brother, and the vast private
possessions of her father, The present
king
Christine Nilsson, who has got socially
| higher than any other prima donna of
| her time, is to spend week as the fell
low guest of the King of Sweden at Tay-
mouth Castle, the seat of Lady Broada!-
bane.
Madame Ninette de Bousignac, the
married daughter of the late Judah 2.
Benjamin, inherits the principal part of
her fathers personal estate, which
amounts to more than three hundred
thousand dollars.
OF the four original proprietors of the
London Daily Telegraph, paper that
now nets profit of ten thousand dollars
weekly, the sole survivor is now the
owner of a country weekly, and another
died in poor-house.
Franklin was married at twenty. one,
Mozart at twenty-five, Byron, Washing.
ton, Wellington, and Bonaparte at twen-
ty-seven, Peel at thirty.two, Wadsworth
at tbirty-three, Wilberforce at thirty
eight, Luther at forty-two, Addison at
forty-four, and old Parr, for the third
time, at one hundred and two.
The New York World recently pub
lished list of persons in New York who
are assessed over 100000 in real estate
Among the newspaper fraternity James
| (.nrlnt, p,p, InaIo r.-ith I,,,I
ings assessed at 81 Jos, 600, not half their
value, it is said; Oswald Ottendorler, OF
the Staats-Zeitung, $925,000 George
Jones, ofthe Times, s666 900; and Charles
A. Dana, of the Sun 100000.
The current impression that JEFF Davis
is in aiiiucnt circumstances is contradict.
ed by Georgia newspaper, which pub
fishes letter from lady who has Just
visited the ex-Confederate President, in
which she reports that lr very poor
The plantation which DaNl, received at
a legacy from female sympathizer il
covered with water at the present time
Davis has been disappointed also in the
return from his book, THE Rise anC
Fall of the Confederate states," VIII cl
has never been IN deuand since tn,
first feeling of curiosity was satisfied A
popular subscription of the South is sug
gested, OF such proportions as will enabl,
Davis to spend his remaining days il
pecuniary comfort.
"Julia Jackson, the only child o.
'Stonewall Jackson. is here" writes an
Old Point correspondent of the Louis
vile Courier-Journal and adds: "She j,
slight, blue eyed girl, with fair hair
dark eyebrows, and long lashes, which
give strength and character to her mo
bile, changing face. She is quite an ac
complished young lady, swlms like :
fish, shoots like rifleman, and ride
like Kentucky belle, in her gray Con
federate uniform trimmed with big bras
buttons. 1t is very pretty to see thu
Difference paid the widow and only chile
of their lost leader by all the othe
Southern men aud women who may
chance to meet them. Mrs. Jackson il
a modest little lady, with charming man
ners and sweet voice"
The Osceola times., 1884-09-20
What He Could spare hest

"Look here said grocery keeper to
hillside farmer in Kentucky, 'you owe
me twenty dollars and want my mon
ey."
"Haint got durn cent, mister" was
the confident answer.
"Well, III swoop down on your miser-
able little garden patch and take it out
of what you own"
"Haint got nothin' thar ats wuffa
dang"
you've lot COW, haven't you, and
three or four pigs and Il mulep'
Eyes, thar's The frame work of a COW,
and them pigs look like pork barls with
the slaves kicked outen 'em, and the
mules so thin the buzzards turn thef
noses up at him.
well, ! won't be hard on you, but,
I'm bound to have soTething. what
can YOU spare bestY'
"Lemme see mint. Thar's the COW
and them pigs and the mule and-and-,
the old woman. You jis' SEN round an
,it the ole woman. A man in my. fix
amt got no use fur sich lugshury as a
wife nohow."
The Osceola times., 1884-09-20

ments thither, and brought the singers
voice and words SO clearly that Jim de-
layed, with whip in air, to catch the old
familiar strain;
"sing. then, and unto my soul 1t shall seem
womanhood's years have been only dream,
Never hereafter to wake or TO weep
Rock me to sleep. mother rock me to sleep!''
Mrs. Piatt half rose from her place.
"That-oh, that voice sounds like my
poor dead daughter's" !" And as the
coach lurched away, she hid Ler face on
George Locke's shoulder, with an out
burst of tears that were the first she had
shed in her sad, sorrowful sojourn there.
San Fancsco Argonant.
The Osceola times., 1884-09-20
Eastern OpinIOns Not Popular

An eastern man made a trip to the fai
west and at one point he waited IN hour
or two for delayed train, enjoying the
interval by walking up and down the
platform giving his opinion on western
customs.
II tell you what it is" he said to q
strapping big fellow in slouch hat who
had Just arrived, "you western people
want more of the civilization Of the east
and you want more of the eastern peo.
pie among you"
"That's whut anoher duiler from Moo
York said when he landed hyar'
"Well, he was right"
ave uns didn't somehow think so,
stranger"
"Of course you didn't, and that'swhat's
the matter with you"
"Thet's whut the other feller said"
"Pd like to see that nan and shake his
hand once for the sake of progress
"Yei cont do it, stranger; he's in town
yit, but he's ready to 90 when the en-
CINE pulls out. He's on his way bac'; to
the slartin' pint"
"You didn't scare him away, did your
Not cxac'ly, stranger"
Where is he? want 70 see him and
brace him mp"
'All right, stranger, jes' 90 in the dcepo
thar, an ak the boss to let ye see the
man in the long wooden box. Mebbe
ye can see him, mebbe ye can't; least
wise taint goin' TO hurt ye to try. Ef
We can brace him up it's more'n the doc
tors could do after Long-Legged Jim pull
ed on him for swearin' that in ther civ
erlised east thar was five aces in the
deck"
The eastern mans train came along
just in time.
The Osceola times., 1884-09-20
Racing Horses In Texas.

"Yaas," said an old settler, I'VE ran
hosses in Texas"
"Then you take an interest in the no
BILE sport?" asked the stranger
81 was engaged in hoss race some
years ago in which | took right smart
interest"
Running race"
"Hit war"
mile or halfmile track2"
"Iit war fifty-mile track, stranger
Texas is big State" :,
"A fifty-mila track! | never heard OF
such thing And did You VIM"
You bet"
"How much did you wiuY"
Il won the hOss, stranger"
The Osceola times., 1884-09-20
saving Seed Corn.

A farmer, writing to the Prairie Farm
er says: Early saved seed will grow
quicker and stronger than gathered late,
and the crops will mature much earlier.
Choose a good variety of pure yellow or
pure white, having small red cob and
deep broad kernels. As soon as it begins
to dent, or before, if you like. 90 through
with sack, pick off earliest and best ears,
taking only those with straight rows and
good kernels, well filled at both ends;
strip OFT husks so as to braid together;
hang across wires, poles. or limbs of
trees; in wagon shed, on the side of IL e
building, under cover, or in open air, so
the air will strike it on all sides. have
had it hung in maple trees all winter,
and every kernel grew in spring Re-
collect the gas from the hog pen, stable,
wheat hin or hay NOW is sure death to IT.
Picked green, if laid on the floor, the I'M
der side will spoil 1t must be hung up
so as not to rest against anything to pre-
vent circulation of air on all sides. If
left in husks till it heats, even little,
seed corn is ruined. A farmer may take
large late variety and save the seed as
soon as out of milk. secure it rightly, and
in two years he may make it two weeks
earlier, but while green it must be care
fully handled In he loft of a black
smith shop is good place to cure it,
The coal smoke helps on the curing pro-
cess, and if well smoked squirrels and
vermin will not touch the kernels after
planting. A smoke-house is good place
The farmer who has few bushels thus
cured to spare in the spring, finds il will
always sell from 81 to 81 per husLel BE
slne 10 have the seed saved and dried
before freezing. Well ripened corn is
better for seed if left on the stalk all win
ter, than in the crib.
The Osceola times., 1884-09-20
wOODRUFFE.

Home . sacred nook, loves hallowed ground
where sweetest sight and softest sound
Meet watching eye and ear:
where footsteps fall with lightest tread.
AZ IN the chamber Of the dead,
Yet fullest life is here.
She. lying q her couch of pain,
Turns lifelong loss to daily gain,
Her heart the alchemiet;
From mystic heights by suffering won.
hsr ss1sE syss sss3 SoI sbs S.a mssea
God touched her in her cradle days,
And ~ her from the worlds rude ways
t4sevsrmore M spssrtji .r,i.r., mill
OF Woedruae, white and beautiful.
Are likest her sweet heart.
And well she loves the simple flower.
though to its neishboring woodland bower
In depth Of summers grass;
O'erhunG by summers full-leafed trees,
O'erblOWn by summers softest breeze,
Her feet may never pass.
And those who love her, love TO fnd
A oymbol Of her stainless mind
In this white woodland flower;
So frail and small, 90 fair and pure,
Yet full Of courage to endure
The dark and stormy hour.
Far from the highways dust and glare
The WoodruRe scents the forest air.
And lights the tender gloom;
beneath the shadow OF 6er croes.
She Rlads this quiet room.
And 10 her come the gay Of heart,
That she may take with them her part
And 70 her como sad souls opprest,
For God hath nlled her gentle breast
with sympathy divine.
The Osceola times., 1884-09-20

A fire at their corral disabled the stage
company's rolling stock, so that the out
going coach was not in readiness TO leave
until the lamps lighted in the "Continu-
al" saloon twinkled their reflections in
the rnalodorous pool above the dam.
The usual knot of loungers stood in
waiting as IL swung around to the post
office under the cottonwoods. Young
Daniel, standing despondently, near by,
spoke to the driver.
"Wait, Jim, George Locke will bring
YOU another passenger shortly"
Jim put out his under lip, in jealousy
of his importance.
That's all right ! know. Told me
he'd see the old lady down to the rail-
road. George is a good fellow-lor a
rebel that was
The crswd took up the word, old
lady" Carries mother" "Going back, 4"
"Jack, how did Locke settle that busi-
uess? He's kept it mighty mum"
"Ask him." said young Daniel briefly.
"Seems's If it's kind o. rough for Car
rie to have to play tonight" hazarded
one rugged prospector in overalls.
Rough nothing Business is busi-
ness" said pert, young accountant
"Wonder how the firm'll like the
lonesome kind of tunes she's giving MS
tonight"
"Go slow on that. Here's Locke and
the old lady"
As the pair settled back in their seats,
steady 6aw of wind Get for some mo-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-30
WHY NOT GIVE HIM 4 CHANCE.

The Buffalo Courier wants to know
now the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
would do as the Republican candidate
Tor president. He would not do at ALL The Re-
publican party is practically unit in favor OF
protection, and Mr.. Beecher is free trader.
Although he does not seem to know whether he
convention in the event of the nomination of o
tionists labor under no doubt as to what their
drop him like a hot potatoe.
Mr.. Beecher is gradually leaving the pulpit
for politics. Since the uterance of his here
sizes, and his proclamation of his unbelief in
the scriptures he seemed to be loosing his
relish for pulpit labors. He is understood
to be ambitious to be delegate to
the Chicago June convention.
He has no really fixed political
principles. He really has seemed not to know
whether he will vote for the Republican OF
Democratic presidential nominee. Never
the less, being on sliding political scale, he
is just the man for the Republicans to put in
nomination, for, like the Procrustian expedi-
ent, he can easily be adjusted to any plat
form, and that is the kind of candidate the
ssgrand old party'' wants. His diluted reli-
gious views would not interfere
with the shambling, eccentric political
views necessary to make first class Repub-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-30
YESTERDAY,S MI RKETs.

There was little more activity observable on
change yesterday, in coarse grains and mill
stutfs; wheat was inactive. At Chicago the
markets were tlactuating and unsteady; wheat
closing B@Kc lower; corn also went back 1s "a
&c; while oats were steady. Pork was some
what unsettled, but closed steady. At Milwau-
kee wheat was dull and heavy, closing about &c
higher than on Friday. The stock market at
New York was dull but strong, and prices advanced
bc@A per cent, but afterwards weakened and
went back about the same amount. The market
closed dull and inactive without any special
feature. Government and railroad bonds were
strong, and states quiet Money was easy at
1902 per cent, and exchange steady and un-
changed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-30

HIGH license, so far as the city of Chicago
is concerned, is defeated by a decision of the
Illinois supreme court. Immediately before
the high license law took effect the saloon
keepers took out licenses at the fixed sum of
$1O3. The minimum license under the new
law was fixed at $3.50. After that law became
operative test suits were brought, and now
after a tedious period the supreme court
holds that the payment of the SOB license
entirely relieved all who paid it from liability
under the high license law. The difference
between the two rates of license leaves the
city treasury minus more than million dol
lars, which had the high license act applied
would have been turned into the municipal
Golfers.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-30

The stockholders of the Pacific National
Bank of Boston have been asked to sign a
petition asking for congressional investiga-
ton into the affairs of the bank, and of the
conduct of the government officers connec-
ted with it. One of the charges is that Con-
troller Knox knowing the bank was insolv-
ent, issued to the bank and to the
directors a certificate permitting and
authorizing an Illegal increase of the capital.
The N. Y. Tribune says:
Bank Examiner Needham is charged, in collu-
sion with President Coleman and Director Will
liam j. Best and other directors, with inducing
the shareholders to vote the 100 per cent.
ment, by falsely representing that they would
save all the amount so paid in and from 25 to so
per cent. Of the par value of their shares. 1t is
charged that Controller Knox and Examiner
NeeGham permitted the bank to resume bust
ness in March, 1882, it being represented that
the bank was perfectly solvent; yet in two
months the bank again suspended. The petition
will be presented to the house in few weeks by
Congressm Morse
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-30

MINISTER SARGENT shows his American
spunk. by declining the Russian Missisn and
resigning the German Mission. The ruse of
the president and state department to get rid
of Sargent, was played fine and won. Bis
marck carried his point, and seems to be
able to do a considerable share in running
the American government. He kicks the
American hog out of the Empire, he refuses
to receive resolutions from the American
congress and he forces the resignation of the
American Minister at Kaiser Williams court.
He is Il power in the world not to be scoffed
of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-30

THE st. Paul & Manitoba road begin new
train tomorrow between st. Paul and Min
neapolis, which will greatly accommodate the
public. Heretofore there has been late
train from Minneapolis to St. Paul, but none
returning. Commencing tomorrow train
will leave Minneapolis every week day night
at O3O and reach st. Paul at II p. m. Re-
turning the train will leave st. Paul for Min
neapolis at 11:15 P. m, and arrive there at
1:45.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-30
R4SHINGTON BUREAU.

The Washington News Bureau of the st. Paul
GLOBE is located at 1924 New York avenue.
Residents of the northwest visiting Washington
and having matters of local interest to give the
public will receive prompt and courteous atten-
ton by calling at or addressing the above num-
Der. All letters so addressed to give the name
and Washington address of the sender, to ensure
attention.
The GLOBE can be found on sale at the follow
ing news stands in Washington:
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