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The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
Something of Modern Greco.

From the Contemporary Review.
Greece, including the area ceded
1881, comprises about 25, 900 soma,
miles OF territory, inhabited by abons
100000 people. The population /,
thus only about eighty to the souas
mile. OF the total area one-haf NAV
be treated as uncultivated, ftbou,a
much of it is capable of cultivation
consisting of pasture lands and NOM,
tains; one-seventh consists OF forast.
while the balance, ivefomrteenths q
the whole, is cultivated. Tobacco az
ton, vines, cereals and olives form a.
principal crops. There are no mann.
features of any Importance, and tbs
prosperity of the country may there.
fore be said to be wholly dependant
on agriculture-that is, on TIA
fneness of the season and TIA
maintenance of the prince of produce.
Last year, for instance, the currant
crop, which is exported to All average
value of nearly 42, 100000, was ruin.
ed by excessive rain, and the actual
export is said to have been less than
the average by nearly one-haif. OEiys
oil Is exported to the average value Of
f250,000 and the only other exports
OF Importance are wine, zinc and lead.
The average gross value of imports
and exports amount, roughly speaking.
TO $4,000, 600 and 60. 900, 900 re-
spectively. Sixty-two per cent. OF the
whole population are engaged eitherin
agriculture or in the care Of aocks and
herds; but the inhabitants are too few
to extend the area OF cultivation and
too poor to make the most even
OF theland occupied. The soil, whicha
rich in many parts, would easily SUP.
port double or treble the present mum.
Der if the methods of agriculture were
improved and more capitalput intothe
land. Between 1870 and 1879 the
population increased at the rate Of
1.6a per cent. per annum but the In.
crease took place principally in the
towns, and / understand that the in.
crease In the interior has been signif.
can't. Nor is it likely to be otherwise
until the means of internal communi'
cation have been considerably aug
mented. 1t has been conclusively
proved, if proof OF such self-evident
truth were needed, that given a popu'
lation mainly dependent On agricul'
ture, nothing is so certain to improve
its condition as the development Of
roads and railways. But until the
last few years this axiom was unrecog
nized in Greece. There was only one
line of railway-from the PsT@rs e
Athens-and roads were practically
nonresident. The tracks that did
duty for roads were in SO execrable 9
condition that Edmond About de,
clared, in his "Roi des Montagnes,"
that the brigrand had to spend a por'
of their plumber to maintain them, g
as to render it at all possible for PEG
pie to travel and be yictimized.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17

MNN
Dissolve two tablespoons satin gloss
starch in cupful of water, add one or
two drops If liquid blue, pour over one
quart or more ofboliing water, stirring
constantly. Add a little dissolved white
soap, or a few shavings of hard soap
and a bit of butter the size of q hazel
nut and boil a minute. Dip the pieces
to be starched into the scalding starch,
and when cool enough wringthemfrom
it. They should previously havepass-
ed through the last rinsewater. Dry
them thoroughly. Dissolve q teaspoon
full of starch IN a quart of cold water,
add half a teaspoonful of pulverized
borax, wiring the starched clothes from
this and rob up; the collars and cuffs
should be laid between dry towels. Let
lie cover night, or only one or two hours,
as is convenient. Rub the hot irons
over a piece of waxed paper and then
on q clean cloth. Have everything
the iron-holder, the irons,sthe ironing
sheet, the apron you have on-perfect-
Iy clean. When the firstironingis done,
lay the pieces one by one on a smooth
board with a single thickness o fmuslin
on it, pass q moist cloth over thepart
to be polished, and rub it with . pol.
ishing IRON, which can be boughtat any
hardware store for rs cents or 81
Practice first on some old bosom.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17

The best time for this work, as every
one is aware, is in spring, just as the
youngplants are beginning theirgrowth.
Next to this in the season is immedi-
ately after fruiting, while the plants
are in a partly dormant state, and be-
fore they fully cover from the ex-
haustion of bearing; but more care is
then required. Most of the old leaves
should be removed, the fine mellow
earth pressed on the spread roots, and
If the soil is dry they should be well
watered, and a mulching OF manure
given an inch or two in thickness.
This mulching will prevent the ground
from crusting or baking, if a second
watering becomes necessary. Setting
ported plants late in the summer sue
ceeds well, bus the operation, first and
last, is attended with considerable
labor, and it is only adapted to limit
ed garden beds. An easier, and quite
as successful a mode, where elephants
til be set out are near at hand
or in the same garden, is to take
up blocks of earth with the plants by
using a spade, and to set them with
their mass of earth into openings pre-
viously cut with the spade where they
are to remain. Wehavenow June 20l
q long bed Of the Cumberland and an
other of the James Wick, both in full
and abundant bearing, set in this way
dttring the latter part of last August.
The plants were scarcely checked in
growth by removal. With dry, light
soil the work would be difficult, as it
would readily crumble from the roots,
unlesst the plants were carried n at q
time on the spade; but with q strong
loan sufficiently moist, two o three
dozen may be taken up in compact
blocks, and carried on a wheelbarrow
to the place for planting. 1t is hardly
necessary to remark that last-autumn
rooted runners must be selected If the
work is donenow, but later in the sea-
son thenew plants ofthe present years
growth may be chosen.-Country GEN
tleman.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
Sam Patch,s Last Leap.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette, who describes
himself rs an eye witness OF Sam
Patch's last two jumps, writes as fol-
lows: "Sam Patch, the famous cata-
act leaper, who asserted that some
things could be done as well as others
took his final, eternal and Ills fatal
leap as a local poet expresedit 1.-THE
time, on a gloomy day in November
in the year 1929. He had jumped
the Genesee Falls at Rochester, their
natural height, one week before, and was
induced by the gamblers and roughs
who were grooming and managing
and living off him to repeat thefeat on
thefatal occasion. They erected a sort
of scatfold on the iutting rock whence
he had taken his departure on the pre-
vious occasion, makingit % feet above
the rock, or 100 feet in all, from the
scaffold floor to the surface of the
river at the foot of the falls. Ascend
ing to the scaffold with some difficulty,
considerably inebriated, and by a
steep ladder, the unfortunate demon
rdUOF SCFalSIlIenSu up WlUn d JERK,
bowed awkwardly on all sides to the
vitnessingthousands, and then pushed
a pet bear off he had with him and in
stantly leaped forward himself. His
person 'canted over on the left side and
struck the water forcibly, no doubt
bruising him and forcing the breath
fromhis body. Nothing more was seen
of him till the next March, when his
corpse was discovered among some
bushes at the mouth oftheriver, seven
miles below, very much mutilated, but
recognizable by a handkerchief tied
around the body. Patch, beginning on
the schooner yardarms at Paterson, N.
j., was aspecialleaperfor twenty years
or more, jumped from amazing heights
at Niagara twice before he tried the
Genesee rapids, and challenged the in
spection OF admiring thousands to the
realities of his feats. If yet living he
would be about 90 years Of age, but
who knows if he had not tackled John
Alkohol, his bear, and a great leap at
one and the same time he might not be
jumping YETI"
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
How to XIII Grasshoppers.

Frederick Fisher, an extensive farmer
of Creighton, Konx county, Neb., gives
the following remedy for disposing of
thepests; "Ihave an infallible remedy,
which | have tried for many years up
on my farm. After tryingmany meth
DDS for driving away or killing the
grasshoppers / finally tried sulphur
smoke and it proved adecided success.
The remedy is simply this: Take hay,
straw, or rubbish, and dump it off in
forkfuls about a rod apart over the
field on the windward side. Next
sprinkle from one-forth to half a
pound of sulphur on each pile
and in tx evening set the con-
tents on fire. About shutdown the
air being sufficiently heavy to keep the
smoke down close to the ground, the
wind viii roll it all over the field. The
smoke will scent everything growing
upon the field to such an extent that
grasshoppers viii never come there
again during the season that the sui
phur is applied. / tried this method
for three seasons in succession when
the grasshoppers sWarmed in myriads
from the Rocky Mountains, and it al
ways proved successful. The fourth
time ! applied the sulphur smcNce the
troublesome insects had been Matched
upon the field and nad cut off thecrop
OF wheat clear to the roots, but after
being smoked they disturbed nothing
further. For about eighty acres of
land, from forty to fifty pounds of
sulphur Ire required"
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
A Crisis i'm Denmark.
m the New York Evening Post.

From the New York Evening Post.
Denmark, being a small country, is
trying to be revolutionary on a small
scale. The f~olkething, or lower house,
has always had a great animosity to
the army, and has repeatedly refused
tovote the money required for its sup
port. Now, it has resolved upon a
still more radical course, and in or
der to emphasize its disapproval
of the ministry Estrup, has cut
down the cSSoial budget by some o.
100000 krcner. The government has
endeavored to persuade the house to
pass q provisional budget, but this re-
quest has naturally been refused. A
complete deadlock is the result. The
King is afraid of the leaders ofthe Left
or Liberal party, and does not dare to
intrust the reins OF government to any
one who questions the divine right of
monarchs. So he prefers to keep In
power q ministry which has but seven
teen followers in the folkething (even
some of these being uncertain) and
which is d~etestedby thegreat majority
of the people. Toaccountf for this sim
gular situation, it must be remember
ed that the Danish Left, since it made
common cause with the extreme Rad
icals, with Socialistic p~rocliyities, has
lost the confidence OF the more con-
sentative middle class; and it is posi-
bly, this consciousness on the part of
the party leaders berg and Boisen)
that they have lost more than they
havegained by the coalition, which has
occasioned the recent split Of the Left
in two camps, tie Danish party and
the Europeans. Theformer constitute
the more conservative wing, and adj
here to national methods and a pro-
gressive national development, while
the latter have declared war against
Christianity and the whole existing
social order. The two Jews, George
and Edward Brandes 1.-THE former a
well known man of letters) are the
most conspicuous men of this ultra
radical faction.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
ere of the Teeth.

The teeth, number sixteen in each
jaw. Atooth consists ofenamel, which
covers the dentine. The part below,
where the gums end, is covered by a
yellow cementum. The dark central
cell is the pulp cavity into which the
nerves and blood vessels penetrate,
and from which the TOOTH nourished.
The child's set consists oftwenty teeth.
Brush them gently twice daily, using
a soft brush with hristles of uneven
length. The object of brushing is to re.
move particles of food, and the deposit
of saliva from between the
teeth, and out of the hollows.
Therefore, brush the upper teeth
downward and the lower teeth upward.
Have the hard yellow deposit (tarterl
removed by a dentist, otherwise it
crowds the gums away from the teeth,
exposing the root, and inviting decay.
Never file or scrape the teeth with a
metallic instrument. Do not have
teeth pulled ifyoucanpreventit. Save
them by filling and care. Unless chill.
dren's first teeth ache constantly, do
not pull them out, as thejaw contracts
and the second teeth may be crooked.
The second teeth will force the useless
first teeth out. Baby teeth number
ten on each jaw; any abovethat mum.
Der belong to the permanent set and
should not be removed.-Warner's
Annual.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
Waste Products of the Flour Mills.

The reports of the Missouri agricul-
tural Experiment Station under Prof.
Sanborn's skillful's conduct have fur
nished some interesting evidence in re-
gard to the value of the waste pro.
ducts of the flour mills:
In relating his experiments in feeding
pigs, Prof. Sanborn says: "a pound
of shipstuff has made more growth
than as much corn. Themanurefrom
shipstuff is worth over twice as much
as from corn, and, therefore, shipstutf
should be fed at homerather than sent
to enrich foreign countries. Less than
4 pounds of shipstuf viii make a
pound of pig, or about is pounds OF
pig for the weight of a bushel OF corn,
whereas the farmer expects but 10
pounds from a bushel of whole corn.
The shipstuf gives a much larger pro-
portion of lean pork, and will tend to
make pork a much more desirable and
a healthier food. The vital organs, so
far as tested, weighed more when pigs
were fed shipstuff, and hence this fact
is likely to have some relation to
health" Finally, he says, Il repeat
what | have said for years from other
experience, that the German tables
and the theories upon which they are
founded need important moditica-
ton"
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
The Kind they Raise at Yale.

From the Cleveland Leader.
81 have another card story" ON
tinued Major Calkins, sand Senator
Jones, Of Nevada, is my authority fof
it. He says the incident actually hap
pened in one Of the little mining towns
OF his State. One night at the leading
saloon Of this little town q party q
half i dozen were playing poker.
Among the players was q very Iies
young fellow, q graduate OF Yale 2
Iege, and q man who had been quits
successful at mining, and had at the
same time made himself popular
with his fellows. Another menses
of the party was q one-eyed
stranger, and the rest was made up q
other honest miners about the camp.
The play went on from earlyin tna
evening until about midnight, n all
this time the one-eyed man seemed 70
get all the good hands. Several times
the college graduate thought ne saw
that the man was cheating, but ne did
not appear to notice it.
cat midnight tho college graduata
3 up and quietly said: 'Gentlemen,
we are all tired playing, and some oIus
are about broke. Ipropose Q NAV
we take q recess, and have some oys.
tiers and champagne. After we arg
through we win throw cardS,
get d new deck, and see If our luck
don't change. We will set out to play
q square game, and there he looked
hard at the one-eyed stranger as na
put his hand on the revolver at ~
belt) sand the first man wecatch cneao
ING we will shoot out his other eye.
Well, the motion was carried, the oys'
terswere eaten, and the luck did chango
The one-eyed man lost every cent q
winnings, and as daylight broke
through the dirty panes Of the saloon
windows he arose declaring hlnase''
dead broke"
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ter all, the invalids are the oDas {
ed for long life, and the weak svos
ones T provided with perfect infsps uny
organs; Let more autopsies b I ba1s
upon dead athletes, and the tr ~ nsld
known, Perhaps, however, the tra q
DIE is that organs unsound undas
surgeons knife were well after en- l4ss
that strong men live to a hale ANY
hearty old age without susnaet;ne aau
horrible truth that their kidnevs sas
full OF cysts and theirlungs oftuberpI ~
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
Are Strong Men Unsound?
the Cleveland Leader.

From the Cleveland Leader.
The autopsy on the body of Robert
e. 0dlum, the man who leaped into the
East river, from the Brooklyn bridge,
not only showed that the fall had
crushed nearly all his vital organs, but
also disclosed the fact that, in spite Of
his magnificent muscular development
and stalwart physique, his body was
far from sound. There was atuberUI-
lar deposit at the apex Of the left lung,
his liver had been ruptured years be-
fore and healed again, and one kidney
showed fatty degeneration while the
other was full of cystic degeneration.
That is to say, he was likely Il become
q consumptive or to die of kindey
disease, and yet 0dlum was a
man of fine physique and rugged
appearance. When Garfield died, the
surgeons learned that bis digestive
organs were not in good condition,
though he was q remarkably strong;
healthy man. 1t was the same way
with one of the athletic, hardy despe-
radoes killed in the fight near Shelby,
o., q year or 80 ago. In fact, ii seems
as If the doctors could discover some
thing wrong in the body Of almost ev-
cry strong healthy man they get b
chance to cut up. Are we all unsound2
is q man who looks like q model Of
physical perfection always a shell, a
fraud upon tho eyesightf Perhaps, af-
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17

From the 81. Louis Republican.
There is one thing to be said about
Commissioner Colman of the agricul-
turai bureau; he is a positive and de-
termined enemy of oleomargarine. He
regards the dairy interests of the west
az one of the most important branch
IS Of our agriculture, and his active eff
forts In securing the establishment OF
crEameries in Missouri are generally
recognized. The manufacture of oleo-
margarine, a counterfeit, out of boiled
suet and milk. at one time seriously
Threatened the dairy interest by sub
stituting a cheap and not unpalatable
article in it's place. But the severe
Missouri Law against the counterfeit
has nearly expelled it from this state,
and now Commissioner Colman pro-
poses TO ask Congress to adopt a SINH
lar prohibition for the whole country.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
A Good Word for the Parsnip.

The parsnip is far from being pop
ularized, though much older than the
potato. 1t is aprime cattlefood, good
for beef and milk andgreedily eaten by
swine. Potatoes are everywhere; they
will grow about as plenty rs corn and
wheat. But the parsnip is the excep-
ton rather than the rule, even on the
farmer table. Asmall patch is raised,
of a bushel or two, if raised at all, to
be dug in the early spring for a change
of diet. tisawholesome and appetiz-
ing vegetable, and could be usedto adj
vantage for half the year. We begin
to use them fresh dug from the bed in
October; and before the ground freezes
them in, lay in a store of several BUSH
els for winter use. In the spring we
dig the reserve, and have parsnips I'M
TIL June. They are adainty dish stew
ed, andstill better partially boiled, and
then fried down in long slices. Agood
crop can be had sown any time before
June.-Anerican Agrieulturist.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17

Waldo r.. Brown, in the Country
Gentleman thus sums up the merits Of
bluegrass:
"First-It improves with age, and
never needs reseeding; a pasture fifty
years old is in perfection. Second-It
will do to pasture q full month earlier
than clover, and about as much later
In the fall, titus greatly lepgtheningthe
grazing season. To favorable seasons
haze pdstured eight consecutive
months on it. THRIFT makes the
best Of winter pastures, apd where al
lowed to grow up for this purpose, the
cattle Will thriveson it whenever it is
not covered with snow. .Fourth-Itis
not injured by tramping as are
other grasses, sc itforms q very dense
sward. Fsf6h--It Is fattehing, and
not washy In its earliest. stages of
growth, ard q bullock 9fll bitten on it
faster than On corn. Sixtlf~-it grows
on rolling lands and thin soils, and is
net injured by shade, and SO produces
profitable plants IN timber plantations
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
THE FARM AND PRESIDE
Farmers Items.

Blue grass grows very slowly and re-
quires three years to make agoOd sod.
It should therefore be sown with a
transient grass, as timothy, or with
clover, which soon gives place to it as
it spreads and crowds these weaker
kinds out or as they fail naturally.
It should be remembered that clover
serves q number of purposes in addi-
tion to adding vegetable material to
the soil. We can get as much or
weight of green manure from n fod-
der, but it has not nearly the same
value for blowing under. The long
roots of clover reaching into the sub
soil, and in their decay exposing it to
the air and warmth, perform a service
which no other plant can rival.
Whether plowed under, moved orpas-
tured, this benefit to the soil is newt
able. Too close pasturing, however,
stints the plant and thus checks the
extension of the roots downward.
Many farmers think that as soon as
wagon-felloes begint to shrink, they must
go at once to a blacksmith-shop and
get the tire set. Instead of doing that
(which is often a damage to the wheels,
causing them to dish, if they will get
somelinseed oil and heat it boiling hot
and give the felloes all the oil they can
take, it will fill them up to their usual
Sue and tighten to keep them from
shrinking and also to keep out the
water.
Goslings should be fed for a fewdays
on soft food, as boiled oat and corn
mealmush, broken DO iledpotatoes, and
crushed wheat. They will soon begin
to eat grass, and a short sweet pasture
is the best feed for them after they are
a week old. After that timesome cold
mush will be useful and should be Civ
en-, as the young birds should beready
for sale at least by September or
November. A fat young goose should
weigh 10 or II pounds when 6 months
old.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17

who wrote us for advice in re-
gard to blowing up his FAN
wheat, let it stand, as we suggested, and
wrote afterward that he was very fa'
vorably disappointed at the result,
The writer has so often experienced
the same gratifying disappointment
that a poorlooking field, however
wretched it may appear, is never
plowed, bit is seeded thickly with
grass and is either narrowed or
brushed, and although the grain may
be thin the grass always does so much
better as to restore the balance. Grass
follows wheat as a rude, and a hall
a crop of wheat with a good catch OF
grass is far better than disturbing the
rotation by blowing up the wheat.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
The transfer Of West virginia's cap

The transfer Of West Virginia's cap.
ital from Wheeling to Charleston, on
the Kanawha, ends d somewhat bitter
contest Of factions. When West Vir-
ginia became q state, Wheeling was
made the capital; but after the war
Charleston became the seat Of govern.
ment. IN 1875 the legislature made
Wheeling again the capital, and the
citizens donated the state q building
for the capitol. In 1879 the legisla-
ture ordered d general VOTE onthecap-
ital question, the decision0to be q con
elusive one. Clarksburg, Martinsburg
and Charleston were to be voted on,
and Charleston received the Largest
number 81 votes. It Is understood
that there Will never be a change.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17

and on steep hillsides sloping to the
south, where any other grasses would
be killed out by the freezing and thaw-
ing of winter. Seventh-Drouth never
kills it, no matter how thin the soil, or
how utterly burned by the droutn OF
summer; it starts into vigorous growth
again with the first rain, and soon
clothes the field with verdure, All 9th
err grasses and farm crops fail at times
but blue grass never. In all localities
where it hourishes, it should find a
place on every farm, and on broken
lands, if three-fourths Of the farm was
seeded down to it, it would be found
profitable"