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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-09-27

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St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-08
THE FENCE QUESTION.
How to Do Away with the Immense Out
lay for Fencing.

How to Do Away With the Immense Out
lay for Fencing.
The fences in this. country have cost
the farmers more than enough to pay
off the national debt, and yet there has
not been devised, as yet, any method
for abolishing them. Since the intro
duction of barbed wire, fences have
been cheapened in cost, and also rem
dered more effectual. Hedges are GO
ing out of favor, as they require atten-
ton at the time of the year when it is
not always convenient to bestoW it.
Great advance has been made of late
years in some localities by the adoption
of what is known as the stno-fence" law.
This law compels each farmer to fence
in his stock, or rather it permits farmers
to dispense with fences altogether il
they wish, compelling each to avoid
trespassing on each other with stock.
Formerly the custom was that a person
owning large farms was bound by the
State to keep lawful fence all around
his farm, in order to keep his neighbours
stock out, while the neigh0or had the
privilege of turning his stock upon the
highway to wander and trespass
over the public domain at viii. 1t is
strange this custom was not abandoned
years ago, for it inflicted heavy loss
annually upon all, as it was apparent
that he who could not provide for his
stock on his own farm should not be en-
titled to the benefit of that which could
be derived from his neighbor.
A cheaper method must yet be adop-
ted, and we believe it will result in the
hurdling system. 1t may be slow COM
ing, but it grew as practice in England,
and as the system progressed the land
became more fertile and the profits per
acre larger. As the population of CHS
country increases the farms will become
more limited in size, and they will be
improved by having the stock confined
over limited areas for that purpose. We
have been favored ~ our inventors with
many good plans for fences, while we
have the use of a large variety Of hedge
plants, but the desire now is how to so
conduct farm as to do away with the
annual outlay for the support of fences,
which, as we have stated, amounts to so
large a sum as to be almost beyond
computation. Farm, Field and Stock
man.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-08
Honesty is the Best Policy.

Mr.. Black, the eminent and wealthy
coal-dealer, called one of his oldest
drivers into the Office the other morning
and rendered him quite large sum OF
money.
''What is this for?n asked the aston.
ished driver.
Merely a token of appreciation for
services rendered, " replied Mr.. Black,
kindly.
"But, sir, you've always paid me well
for my services, and that was apprecia-
ton enough"
"There is really more than that in it.,
John, continued the gentleman, II
really owe you the money!
Il don't understand. y
''Let me tell you,' and he dropped
his voice toa whisper, ''you have been
with me for twenty years, working three
hundred days every year. and averaging
three loads a day; that makes eighteen
thousand loads. You weigh about $50
pounds, John, and we have never failed
to weigh you in with every load of our
superior coal; that makes 100000
pounds, or 1850 tons. This at $3.50
per ton, John, represents $4,725. The
package you hold in your hand contains
$472.50 or ten per cent, which we think
is yours by right. We are honest men,
John, and don't desire to defraud any
man out of what is justly his
John bowed in humble submission,
and is now waning for the next divi-
dend. Merchant Traveter.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-08

able advantage in having the stalks in
single line in the row, one after the other,
about equi,distant. This affords more
open space, and admits of a little closer
putting Of the rows. To put the stalks
foot apart in line in the rows. and
the rows four feet apart, is equiva-
lent to four stalks in hill
with check-planting, affording a
greater yield both of fod-
der and grain than with hill planting,
which will probably not be denied.
There will be a greater number of ears,
and larger side growth, the latter in
particular, the more open space favor
ing development and giving a chance
for sun and air-an absolute necessity.
Icould cite many cases in endorsement
OF this, and have my own experience to
corroborate it.
Farmers, generally, are 10th to expert.
ment, or they conduct their experiments
injudiciously and without sufficient care,
not understanding all that relates to the
test. The quality and the uniform
character of the soil must be considered,
and allowance made for the difference
in corn: particularly must the size be
kept in view, as also the disposition to
sucker, as these effect the shade, which,
if carried too far, lessons the ear growth,
and with farther croWding results infod-
der corn. The point to be aimed ats the
greatest development to the ear, with
out an excess of space, and it must not
be forgotten that the best development
of the ear means also the soundest and
fullest growth of the stalk which sun
and air effect. This, of course, can be
accomplished only with thorough, clean
culture, as crowd of weeds seriously
arrests development and materially les
sens the yield. I have insisted upon
the necessity of more space in and
above the ground, as it is an indispensi-
BILE requirement too little heeded.-F.
G. an Country Gentleman.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-08
LARGE WAISTS.
Compressure Sin Against Humanity and
Its Maker.

SOEnpFeSSure q 9ln Against humanity anu
Its Maker.
Women who have the livings to earn
must encounter severe competition, and
they will never receive consideration be-
cause they are women. They must ex-
eel in order to besuccessful. Excellence
implies strength-uot spasmodic, nerV-
Gus strength, which makes an effort
once in a while, under extraordinary
pressure, but the strength which can
turn off daily work without excessive
fatigue the strength which leaves the
eye still bright and the step elastic after
a long day behind. the counter, over the
sewing machine, at the desk, at the
easel, in the kitchen, in the school-room.
Such strength as this does not go with
small waist. From the nature OF
things, it can never-unless it has been
pointed out in exceptional cases-be
found in women with small waists.
Strong back and abdominal muscles
muscles which can do their work with
out the deadly props Of steel and whale
bone now so universally Worn-a large
digestive capacity, rapid and utterly
unobstructed flow of the blood in the
veins and the arteries these are some
of the requirements of health and
strength. And these things take up
room. In most women God has given.
room for these organs and their pro.
cesses, but it is reduced and contracted
in order to make the waist appear
small. Inthe name of honorable labor;
of healthy and happy infancy and child.
hood; of intelligent, high-minded wo-
manhood; of everything that is beautiful
and worth having for women in this
world, we plead for the scorned, the
condemned large waist. Give your
body room. It is a sin against humani-
ty and its Maker to compress your waist.
Philadelphia Press.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-08
BIG MONKEYS.
A Good Story on Adam Forepaugh-A Chip
of the Old Block.

A Good Story on Adam Forepaugh-A Chip
of the Old Block.
The boys tell good many jokes on
Uncle Adam Forepaugh, the circus man.
Adam is an old Pennsylvania Dutch
man, rich, but a little 'snear." That
is, he looks after the dollars pretty well,
and wants ever dollar to go as far as
can. His son, young Adam, or 'Addy, :"
as the bows call him, is chip of the old
block, or in other words there is a good
deal of the old Adam in the young Adam.
The old man has great confidence in
"Addv,n who is one of the greatest
trainers of Wild animals in the world,
but the young man is full of jokes, and
the old man comes in for his share,
though he never believes that he is be-
ing made game of until it is all over.
Last year .'Addy' was in Europe look
ing up curiosities, and one day his father
received cablegram saying, Il have
bought two monkeys that weigh nine
hundred pounds each. Gable me TWEEN
ty-fYe hundred dollars" Adam read
the message and handed it to his mana
ger, saying:
II told you dot boy find something in
Europe dot make you hair stand up
straight. Dem is the biggest monkeys
ever vos.
but, Mr.. Forepaugh, y said the man
ager, '.you are not going to send the
money, are you? There are no such
monkeys. weighing as much as horse.
There is some mistake"
II send de money! said Adam.
'sDot boy has struck lead of monkeys
and don't you forget it. You can't tell
vot kind of monkeys dey get from the
interior of Africa, Ven we get dere
small monkeys, We get just in de edge of
Africa. Now dey get clear in de inside
of Africa dey get monkeys de full size.
You wouldn't believe it ven deY got
gorillas first, neider," and old Adam be-
gan to arrange to cable the money to
Addy.
'.Well. if Addy has got a nine-hun-
bred pound monkey, I will eat him, y
said the manager. 1t is unreasonable,
and I wouldn't pay the money till I saw
the monkeys, if was you.
''Vell, Vat's de use my seeing 'em, y
said the old man little vexed. t.Addy,
he seen 'em, and dat settles it. If dat
boy cable me he got dwarf eighteen
feet high, he got him, dots all. You
can't fool dot boy on monkeys. He
knows more about monkeys dan all de
other showmen. Vot do we know about
big monkeys tree four tousand miles
away? Dere might be monkeys big as
elephants for all we know I send de
money tonight, y and he did. The next
day the old man got a cable from
.sAddy'' as follows:
Money received monkeys dead.
Old Adam was pondering over the
message when the manager came in. He
handed the message to the manager and
said:
''Vot you tink?"
The manager said he knew all the
time there was no such monkeys, and ii
was his opinion Addy wanted some
money pretty bad, and took that way to
deceive his poor old trusting father, and
get the money. The old man thought a
minute and then said
"Vell, vot Is it your business? Yot
you kicking about? Addy want de
money, and he got it, amt it. Dot DOS
ny boy,n and he went out laughing and
slapping his sides at the joke Addy had
played on him. -Peck's San.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-08
CORN PLANTING.
Unreasonable, but the Hints are worth
Considering For Next Season.

Unreasonable, but the Hints are worth
Considering For Next Season.
The chief difficulty in raising corn is
close planting, and it is a practice hard
to overcome, SO thoroughly has habit
established it. It extends to the grains
also, but its greatest harm is with corn,
reducing its yield, often largely, and in
some cases more than half, on all kinds
of soil, whether good or poor, but more
on good soil.
Shade is the cause of this effect of close
planting, which extends to both the
stalk and the ear; but its chief harm is
with the latter We find the same effect
in orchards, where the admission of sun
light among the branches is necessary
to the health of the tree and develop
ment Of fruit.
Take corn of medium size, and three
and one-half to four feet space between
the rows, and the stalks twelve inches
apart in the row, and the best success
will be obtained, one year with another,
on rood, but not tie best soil. With
rich land, in good condition, full four
feet between the rows is required, and
something more with the largest kind of
corn, particularly if disposed to sucker
much, the suckers or side-stalks, if the
season is favorable to ripening, adding
considerably to the amount of the grain,
and much more largely and oSincreased
quality to the slower, There IS consider
St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-08
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


Owners of large farms in Oregon
are selling off tracts and declare them
selves believers in "a little farm well
TILED"
A writer in Ticks Magazine says
dozen sets of perennial larkspur plants,
in row alongside of his potato field,
will actually kill off the potato beetles.
AT least two-thirds of the orchards
that are reported dying from old age
are actually starving to death, and
might be brought back to fair state
of health aud vigor by generous sys-
tenn of feeding the soil,
Fried Salt Pork.-Cut in thin slices
and freshen, roll in flour and crisp,
drain off most of the grease from the
frying pan, stir in while hot one or two
tablespoonful of flour, one-half pint of
milk and q little pepper; let it boil, then
pour over the pork and serve.
The reply of breeder to shiftless
intending purchaser, don't buy, for pow
erty and bad care will disgrace any
breed, is worthy of record. The stand
ard of practical value and profit in any
animal is the feeding and common
sense care use.
Cleveland Leader: If there is any
one luxury the farmers family should
enjoy, it is comfortable carriage. A
pleasant ride is dispeller of weari-
ness from hard labor. Don't go truud-
ling around in lumber wagon, scrimp-
ing to add more acres to your already
too large farm.
1t is said that the flavor of beets,
turnips or cabbages in milk can be over
come by dissolving half a teaspoonful of
salpetre in teacup of water, and pour
ing it into the churn with the cream at
churning time. Cabbages may be fed
at night after milking without fiavoring
milk.
1t is said that Paris green applied
to rosebushes and grapeVines infested
with rose-bRgs, will kill the insects as
surely as it does the potato-bug, when
used on potato plants. The applica-
ton can be dry, mixed with flour
or land plaster, or in liquid form, mixed
with water, and sprinkled on, in the
same manner as for the potato-bug.
The potato and tomato, being both
members of the same family, may be
grated into each other with success, SO
far as growth is concerned. A gardener
who tried grating the tomato on po-
tato plant had crop of tomatoes above
ground, and one of potatoes underneath.
The latter, however, were not good, as
potato leaves were needed to give char
acter and maturity to the crop.
In greenhouses the plants are
sometimes infested with red spider dur
ing summer. Its presence may be de-
tected by the broWnish appearance of
the leaves. These insects cannot exist
in moisture, and the best method of
checking their progress is to syringe the
plants about sunset or later, so that
they will be wet all night. This is more
effective than Swinging during the day,
when the moisture soon dries up.
The dust from moldy hair and grain
causes unpleasant sensations and some
times blind staggers and death in ami
mails and men. Rust and black mold ON
wheat affect threshers disagreeably al
ways, and sometimes injuriously. An
exchange mentions that California
vine-dresser had been badly poisoned by
grating vines when the cuttings were
diseased with a black fungus. Care
should be exercised in these respects.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-08

The colony Of Jewish refugees from
Russia established three years ago on
LOO acres Of land near Vineland, N. r.,
purchased by the Hebrew Immigration
Society of New York and the Jewish
Society of London, has outlived the
hardships of its first years, and is begin
ming to be prosperous community.
Scattered here and there among the hills
and hollows of the tract the sixty frame
shanties in which the colonists live are
hardly noticeable. There are no streets,
no churches, no stores, mills or faeto-
ries nor any other indication except the
scattered houses that 800 people are
here.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-08

There are many novel ways of max
ing dime, but the last just inaugura-
ted by the Mexican boys of Yuma caps
the climax. 1t is the selling of smoke in
old tin cans from the burning of weed
called .hediondia. They go from
house to house and offer to furnish
enough smoke to drive the mosquitoes
away for the small sum of ten cents
San Francisco AttQ.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-08

"A Boston statistician says'that 81
will buy as much of the necessaries OF
to-day as $3.50 in 1875, $1.32 in 1866,
81 cents in 1916, and $1.19 in 1925. In
other words, the purchasing power OF
Sis 10 per cent. greater than it was in
1855 A dollar will buy more to-day
than in most previous periods in the his
tory Of the nation.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-08

i'm harness man has lifted $500
pounds, this result having been achieved
only by allowing every muscle to act
simultaneously to its fullest capacity,
and under the most advantageous cir
cumstances.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-08

est has anything to do with this account.
The reason for this will be plain, if we
consider why these accounts are entered
into. We keep an account with a crop
that we may ascertain whether that par
ticular crop pays or not The transac-
ton is exactly similar to one in trade or
manufacture. The price of the land is
represented by the cost of raw material
to the manufacturer, and the wholesale
cost of the traders goods. The means
taken to arrive at a profit in either case
are exactly similar. Again, the profit
on crop depends more upon the seed,
manure and labor used, than upon the
value of the land; we may so use the
land that it will return no profit what
ever. If we own the land, the land,
seed and manure represent our capital
invested; and the profit represents the
percentage made upon the capital. If
we hire the land, our capital is repre-.
sented by seed and manure only; there
fore the rent represents that share of
the profit which belongs to the owner OF
the land, and should be deducted from
the profit, and not added to the cost.
If money is borrowed to purchase seed
and manure, it is clear we can have no
capital, and therefore no profit. If
there does appear a profit, it is false; ii
is not profit, but wages. Here is the
cause of hard times among the tenant
farmers. They do not consider enough
the relation between capital, wages and
profit. Cor. Country Gentleman.
Smyrna times., 1885-07-29
HARD TIMES FOR THE RICH.

Edward Atkinson, who is an indefat-
igable gatherer of statistics, says that
rs per cent, in point of numbers, of
wage-earners in this country are now
in continuous employment at as high
rates of wages as they ever before re-
ceived; that of the remainder Is per
cent. are at work at wages which have
not been reduced on an average 20 per
cent. of the highest previous rate; and
that 5 per cent. more are in partial en-
plOyment, which is about as much as
they ever had.
There is no reason to dispute the ac-
curacy of Mr.. Atkinson's figures, which
60 to show that only in two or three
cOngested arteries of trade are large
bodies of workmen out of en-
ployment. This means that wage
workers as a collective body are as
prosperous to-day as they ever were.
Yet there is a continuous cry of hard
times, and the question is whose corns
are pinched? 1t is evident that they
are those of capital, which is now ad-
justing itself to new conditions of the
relations of capital and labor, which
have arizen since the war.
These new conditions, Mr.. Atkinson
makes clear, are the abolition of slavery
here, with the consequent effective ap-
plicatiOn of free labor; the extension
and consolidation of railways; the
opening of the Suez Canal; the inven-
ton of the Bessemer and improved
process of rail and other steel and iron
manufactures vast improvements in
steam engineering; the extension of
the telegraph and use of the telephone
systems, and the restoration of specie
standards in countries which had for
many years been on paper basis.
All these changes, involving in some
cases a reduction of fifty per cent. in
quantity and cost of articles, have elm
mated cost chiefly by reduction in
prices. This has brought about for the
labOrer an increased share in an in
creased product and left capital with a
constantly decreasing share of capital
has borne heavily on accumulated
property or capital.
In fine, as Mr.. Atkinson says, the re-
cent period of depression has been the
the rich mans funeral. An illustra.
ton in proof of this theory is afforded
by last Springs sales of brown and
gray standard cOttOns, and in the i'm
mense sales of blankets and other
woOlens. They were sold at unprece-
dentedly low prices, such as would
barely pay cost of manufacture, and in
some cases not at all. The benefit o
these sales is seen in the low rates al
which consumers of the wage-earning
class can now buy the goods, while ii
is apparent that the scant margin o
profit on them leaves capital with les
accumulation than heretofore, and
where loss was made, even with
reduction of reserve capital.
f There is no reason, except thes
changes which have taken place, VIII.
r prosperity should not be universal
and when the final adjustment to tn
new order of things is made both capi
tai and labor will go, as they should
!. hand in hand along the path of une
qualled prosperity, which there is goo
, reason to believe is awaiting us.-Phil
., adelphia Daily Ne,Us.
Smyrna times., 1885-07-29

I0due Iile EeIudIk JlldJ ~ JOOh AOuA
years to find out that the bottom had
gone out" then everything CONNER
cial to come up. The railroad COM
pany had been reorganized and the
lands in Minnesota and Dakota had
risen to fair values and Duluth as a
wheat market commenced to assert her
claims and demanded of the boards of
trade in Chicago and milwaukee a full
membership and a quotation of her
own; which was granted in 1880, since
which time she has continued to in-
crease her storage capacity, and her
means of transportation by land and
water until her last years wheat opera
tiOns amounted to 15,235,675 bushels,
100000 bushels of barley and oats,
200,e0O,O0O feet of lumber produced,
and an aggregated commercial sum-
ming up of $156,00G,781 Their clear
ings house transactions amount to So
100000 a day, most of it in grain, lum-
Der and minerals. 1t is remarkable
that such large business transactions
are done in city of 1900 population.
wheat is handled by machinery and
done very rapidly. This is a very fine
cOaling station, and number of the
largest companies in the country, have
cOaling wharves at Duluth coal re-
ceipts, 420,575 tons. Marine shipping
tonnage 1884, 415, $40 tons; marine arri-
walls, 925 vessels. The Northern Pacific
Railroad brought from Montana for
shipment 22,216,4O pounds of silver
ore; bullion, 4,585,817 pounds; wool,
2,882,582 pounds. A large amount of
-four made here, and sent here for
shipment by mills further West, would
swell the amount of wheat if reduced to
bushels.
1t was our first visit to Duluth and
the figures seemed so large without any
excitement or initiation of property, or
fancy prices for corner lots that it is
worthy of note.
Duluth has shipping advantages that
it would seem must always give her
precedence over her rivals, in addition
to which there is small canal agitation
to connect the Red river with the lakes
which connected with the Erie canal
would be magnificent channel of COM
municatiOn, both length and cheap
ness. The Erie reports a delivery last
year of 100000 bushels, as against
29,OO0,OOO by rail to New York city.
The Zenith city is Il lake town,
whether it ever becomes canal town
or not, and we are glad to know that
she has so many advantages and SO
much property in good working order
and no fuss about it. The citizens
there now have had a hard rub of it
but the most of them are the old set
tiers and they seem to know what they
have got and they are working il
for all it is worth and intend to gel
rich off it. They lately had a direc
line opened to Milwaukee and last
year one to Chicago by rail, and other.
are going into Duluth as soon as posi-
bic. We found the trip quite a relic
from hot weather and too cool for com
fort on the boat except for White
clothing. RAMBLER.
Duluth, MINI, July 18Th, 1885.