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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-12-25

KEEPING VEGETABLEs.-We observe
that some writers on vegetable gardening
speak Of the difficulty of keeping succulent
vegetables. like beets, turnips, and par
ships, from willing when placed i'll cellars,
and recommend packing them in sand, or
burying them in thea earth of the cellar
bottom. This mode Is necessarily cumbsr-
some and inconyenlent. An easier and
more perfect way is to pack them in damp
sawdust, placed in barrels of moderate
size, Or in boxes of not more than two
feet in width. Place a layer of sawdust
in the bottom, then a layer of the roots,
then fill in all the interstices with another
layer, and 80 on till the box is full, leay
ing no crevices.eWe have taken beets out
of such boxes after remaining in them a
full year. so fresh in appearance that no
external difference could be seen between
them and fresh roots. Nurserymen's moss
is neater than sawdust where it can be
had, and serves an excellent purpose for
packingjwinter cabbage in large boxes
Country Gentleman.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-12-25
FARM AND PRESIDE.

Cost OF BARRELING APPLEs.-The
cost of barrel of apples on the average,
is about as follows: barrel, thirty cents;
picking, seven cents; sorting and barrel
ing, seven cents; hauling TO market, six
cents; total, fifty cents. The price we get.
ranges from one dollar, to one dollar and
seventy-five cents per barrel. The average
being about one dollar and twenty-five
cents. 1t makes great difference in the
profits, whether we got one dollar. or one
dollar and seventy-fve cents. After de-
Quoting fifty cents for barrel and labor.
we make just as much on two barrels at
one dollar and seventy-f five cents, as we do
on five at one dollar each. The fact is,
that the best apples are the cheapest, and
are in greatest demand. Last year my ap-
pies were sent to Scotland, and presume
will 60 there again this year. It would be
q good thing for US, if we could stop send
ing poor fruit to market. both at home
and abroad. Better send all the inferior
fruit to the dry-house or the vinegar
factory, and I believe farmers are perfect.
ly willing to do this, if apple buyers would
pay fair price for good apples, and re-
fuse to buy inferior fruit at any price.
The buyers can bring about the desired
change, if they will unite. Last year the
buyers wanted apples packed in large bar
rels, and the farmers almost to man
this year, complied with their request.
There are no ''pony" barrels used this
year. The farmers complied because they
felt that the buyers were right. Now let
the buyers be equally firm and united ID
regard to buying inferior fruit.-Joseph
Harris, IN American Agrtcuzturist.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-12-25
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A Sad Parting.

"A SaQ EaIGng.
The time has come and we must part
The teardrop dims mine eye.
How oft I've clasped thee to my heart
With joy in days gone by!
When first saw thee was sure
Thou earnest to me to stay,
But nothing earthly doth endure
All things must pass away.
How oft in days. forever past,
My form thou hast embracedi
Another takes thy place at last
And clasps me round the waist.
But such Is ife-we meet to part,
In midst OF change we dwell,
clasp another to my breast
Old corset, fare thee well!
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-02
Imaginative Diseases.
Philadelphia Times.

Philadelphia Times.
GA great deal of what passes for heart
disease is mild dyspepsia" said a young
physician yesterday. Nervousness is
an aristocratic name for irritability and
bad temper and two-thirds of the So
called malaria is nothing but laziness.
A fellow practitioner once told me of
an old lady he knew of in Newburyport,
Mass. She had kept her bed for three
years and in spite of her physlcian's
assurances, she believed herself help
Iessly paralyzed. One night her grand
son got up a ghost to scare her and the
old lady ran half o mile before they
could catch her.
"The longer an hallucination is in
dulged the more deeply rooted in be-
comes In many cases it ultimately
developes into monomania or delusional
insanity. DIR. S. Weir Mitchell per-
forms many of his most remarkable
cures of so-called nervous diseases
simply by his wonderful success in
persuading patients that nothing on
ELI ~ dLlS ClSu. LEW p1lyblClduS
have the ability to do this and still
fewer have the decretion to adopt a
course of treatment adapted to the
mental pecularities of each particular
case. Sometimes persuasion is neces-
sary, but frequently a little tonic com
bined with a good scolding produces
the desired result.
when q delusion is harmless it is
often the best plan to humor it. A rel
alive of mine, who was o clergyman,
lived for several years in my family.
He firmly believed that he could not
sleep after preaching on Sunday night
unless he was put under the influence
of an opiate. Time and again I have
seen him doze off as soundly as a tired
child after taking q ~teaspoonful of
sweetened water, which 1 prescribed as
smorphia.' Without this harmless lit
tie dose, however, he would toss about
restlessly for hours.
"The negroes indulge in some very
funny superstitions about diseases and
their cures. One of the things
of which they have a peculiar
horror is the common difficulty known as
elongation of the palate. When I was
practising as a newly-ledged student
in Virginia an old negress called on me
one evening. Her hair was pulled back
from her forehead and knotted with q
cord in a tight bunch on the crown of
her head. She was evidently suffering
from o bad cold.
"'Mars' DOCTOR she said, Use afraid
Use got fallin' Of the palate. Use done
tied up my harr' as hard as I can, but it
don't pear to make it no better, an T
'specks mebby I need some pills
II examined her throat and found
nothing the matter but slight infamma-
ton. L don't think you need any pills,
a%untie,' said l. If you can only get
your hair tied up a little closer for a day
or two 1 have no doubt your palate
will shorten up all right She came
in again in a few days and told me she
was much better, but her ole man had
tied her hair so hard that she had had
to steep with her eyes open, "cause she
couldn't even make a wink"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-02
d. or.m.n.l ca1.na,r.

rH.Ru
All dance ten miles north of Athens, Tex, q
desperate named Gracey was killed and John
Brown, c young farmer, seriously wounded.
Policeman Machowsli, Of Chicago, being in
formed that his wife. who was iii, could not re-
cover, went out and killed himself. HIS wife
expired . few minutes later.
The report taat Jonas Nelson, of Frontier
county, Neb was lynched and shot by q mob
to avenge this cold-5loodei murder Of Eugene
Sherwood, is confirmed, but no further par
hculas - are received.
At Atlanta, Ga, Mrs. Gates invited Miss
Jackson, q beautiful girl, to spend The night
with her. Early in the morning Gustayus
8Penninger of Chicago, a friend Of the Gates,
entered the room and outraged her at the point
Of 9 revolver. He has been arrested.
The federal authorities OF Chicago, arrested
William Gallagher on the charge of illegal yot-
ing at the election of 1883. Gallagher WINS ar
rested only q few days ago forbelng concerned
in the Eighteenth ward election frauds, but
was released on bail. His second arrest was
caused by q fear that he intended toleave tho
city.
A gentleman arrived in Omaha from Nance
county, the scene of last September's quadru-
pie tragedy, resulting in the death of William
Perceval, his wife, Baird and MAR. 1t was
learned from this gentleman that new facts
brought to light prove not only that Furnival,
the suspected party, was tho murderer, but al
30 that he had accomplices. The impression
generally prevails that tho murder was COM
mitted for hire for certain unknown parties
who may some day inherit Perciyal's prospec-
tive fortune.
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Personal POINTS

Chief Justice Waite, of the United States SUI
preme court, IL getting better.
Capt {. ". Folger, son of the late secretary,
has been taken from Alexandria by his friends
to his home in Geneva, N. Y. Heis very i'll, and
there il but little hope of his recovery.
Col. Alex B. Beattie, a prominent business
marl of Helena, Mont. died at that city from
the effects of the wounds received in the army.
Col Beattie was one Of tho pioneers of Mon
tana, and took a lively interest in the Develop
ment of ito resources.
Sister Theresa, a sistor of st. Mary's con-
vent, Wilkesbaf-e, Pa, is lying dangerously i'll
in Boston. She ia the niece Of James G. Blaine,
Sister Theresa returned home from Washing
ton, whore she met Mr.. Blaine. During her
stay in the NATIONAL capitol she contracted q se-
we're cold. Her physicians gave her up.
Miss. Mary8G. Caldwell, who, at the session
Of the plenary council at Baltimore, made An
offer Of . gift Of $500, 600 for tho founding Of
9 national Catholic university, ia an orphan.
She resides with an only sister in IN apartment
house, corner OF Thirtieth street and MIDI son
New York. The sisters are said to be
possessed Of Az estate valued at IS, 0oo,00u.
w. ". Brooks, a life. long democrat, died at
Geneva, Pa hs other day. His win was found
TO contain The provision that when 4 democratic
president was elected, il ever, a h.eko ~ pole
should be erected over his grave. aud that n
United States dag should bs fastened O n top OF
the polo, and that ihiy p lie should remain
stsnatYg oyer his grave until it fell Of its own
ssxsrl
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-02
Within Hoosac Tunnel.

New York Evening Post: A mile
east of North Adams station, in a deep
rock-cut, n approaches the gloomy
western portal. A few yards from the
entrance is a tall signal station with
men in it watching the little Indicator,
which tells when a train enters or
leaves the tunnel. The block system is
in use here. Nothing is allowed to
enter while a passenger train is within
on the same track, and freight trains
may follow one another only under q
caution signal. A strong granite arch
forms the opening, bearing on its face
the simple legend "Hoosac, 1874"
Looking in we see in the darkness
bright lights dancing and sparkling
and are told by the Waterman that they
are the torches of a gang of workmen
repairing the brick arch a quarter of a
mile in; so we enter, making the dane
ing points of fire our goal. 1t is dark,
damp, gloomy, sulphurous-one com
PoiSo "1ou lHS aeoCeIU lutO IlbOSS,
only the flight of the spirits was vastly
easier than is our progress, for the
space between the ties is filled with
"ballast." small pieces of broken stone,
and the wayfarer finds them indeed,
"stones of stumbling" At the other
end. five miles distant, q freight train
has just entered, and the ear is strained
to catch its approaching III A bats
wing brushes the face in a ghostly way;
water drips aud splashes from the roof,
strange echoes and s%ulphurous smells
fill the space. AS you go on you calcu-
late in a dreamy fashion how many
thousand tons of earth and rock may
be above you by this time; meanwhile
the lights draw steadily nearer and
nearer, until at last they are beside
you. What strange, Plutonian scene!
A score of men, black and grimy, are
lighted by flaming kerosene torches,
the black smoke from which gives a
truly A%vernian turn to the atmosphere.
Looking around by the dim light, we
found that the workmen had "bnnched"
several construction and observation
cars on the track, had taken down a
5O-foot section OF the brick arch. prop
ping the roof with iron supports, and
were o from the cars ~relaying the
arch.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-02

The proposed pension which Gen.
Grant declined in advance the other
day amounted Il. 81, 600 8 year. His
yearly pay as . retired general Of the
army, if his friends should succeed in
restoring him TO the rank he held when
he resigned to be president. and in putt
ting him on the retired list, would
amount u $10,125, and the back pay
for sixteen years, from the date of his
resignation, March 1863, would
amount TO 4162. OOO-a sum sufficient to
payof the Judgment which MI. Van
derblt p~rocuredson Tuesday last and
aiAaye the general something over &c.,
900 Il pocket. He is probably wise in
taking the chances of the success Of .
bill for restoration rather than Of one
tor q pension, for wen 6 Democratic
house, would hardly like to put itself
on record a. opposing such q measure
iii should be brought squarely to vote.
GEN. Grants only income at present is
understood to be derived from the $3.50,
600 fund which was raised for him by
friends In New York
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-02
A st. Petersburg Home in Winter.

Temple Bar, in describing the homes
of st. Petersburg in winter, says that
after depositing the outer garment in an
ante room a visitor is conducted through
the reception rooms, which often seem
interminable, eight or nine in number
generally opening one into another.
The lnlaid parquets of the room are Oft
en- very beautiful--the floor polisher
is an important institution in Russia:
one rooms are richly carpeted and do
Justice to the looms of Turkey and
Persia. The silk and damask curtains.
wall hangers and coverings for the Of
tomans are superb. All is luxurious;
vases of lapis lazuli, porphyry and mall
achite, pictures and objects of art in
general are in profusion. The RUSSIANS
are very fond of ~promenading through
their suits of apartments, and ample
space Is left for this purpose. The win.
ter being SO long every conceivable
means is used to shed around the charms
OF warmer climates :trelllses, along which
various creapers arc trained, are intro
duced pretty baskets of plants (tulips,
hyacinths and camellias in full bloom.
while winter is raging outside the con-
slant warm temperature indoors being
favorable to their cultivation.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-02
How the World Advances.

The agricultural editor of The
Register commenced his editorial career
hfty-four years ago. We propose a
problem for any scholars in schools, or
their teachers, to give q list of as many
inventions for lettering the condition OF
mankind and for advancing civilization
in the period from the commencement
OF the christian era up to 1880, as there
have been in the ffty-four years since.
At present we can give only a lin.
tied catalogue of the inventions in our
W day and recollection. The rail.
road, the steamship, the locomotive, the
telegraph, the telephone, the audi.
phone, the sewing machine. the photo.
graph, the typewriter, the cyiin-
der printing-press, acknowledgement
printing, the street-car system, elevator
hotels and other buildings, the cotton
gin, the spinning-jenney, the reaper,
mower, steam and horse thresh-
ers, the Bessemer plan Of making
steel, the application of chloroform
and ether to destroy pain, the
discovery Of coal oil, and the use of oil
and petroleum for cooking. oleomarga-
rine, the ocean cable, making ice in tor
rid climates, steel springs for carriages,
the cooking stove. In the period stat
ed there have been about three hundred
thousand patents for inventions in the
United States granted. And after
claiming a considerable degree ofinven.
tive genius to the United States, it is
reasonable to suppose all the world be.
sides have made as many more inven-
tions-making 100000. If all Of these,
or even a full list of all that were use
full to mankind were %tabulated, the bal.
ance of the worlds history could not
compare with it. It is good to have
lived in q period of the world when the
human race has made such a grand
march in all departments of art and sci
ence. If this advance is to continue
with an increased momentum for the
next thousand years, how near will man
be to what he was originally created p
God created mar in his own image
in the image of Gc2,reated he him.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-02
some 81 Che Eastern holders of that

Some Of the Eastern holders of that
class Of securities known as western
farm mortgages, are manifesting some
Apprehensions that the low price OF
wheat may affect their value. Referring
to this, . citizen Of Huron, Dakota
writes 70 Bradstreet We have been
loaning in the territory for the last six
years, and have been located at this
point for the last two and q half years,
Sand have invested several thousand dol
lars far eastern capitalists in first mort
gage loans on soriNeislixteen hundred diff
ferent farms. We have had four inter-
est payments come due and every dol
11r Of intarest has been paid and we
have not had one foreclosure. II il as
serted by qon potent authorities that
40, Observation-Disclosures farm mort
gsges are heldin New York city. It is
also we'll known thst large sums Of New
England capital. representing the life
savings d people, are invested
ii thass securities. Tie dealers in these
bonds have lately boast4d that the
shrinkages II their m6aket prize has been
les than ny bends listed on the New
York Stock E8shanga.
aTEG
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-02
Decrease of Dakota Spring wheat.

Mr.. T. r. Smith, manager of the Northern
Pacific Elevator company, of Fargo, while in
Minneapolis was asked as to the probable acre
age of spring wheat in Dakota next year, and
the outlook for a large crop. He said he had
given the matter a great deal of attention, and
from careful inquiry in all parts of Dakota he
is convinced that the decrease in acreage will
be fully 20 per cent. In Cass county, the
largest wheat growing county in the territory,
the decrease will be So per cent In the newly
settled portions there will be very little de-
cline, as the farmers in those localities are not
in condition to go into stock raising or buy
other grain for seed, and will be compelled to
grow wheat Ground broken for the first time
will be sown to wheat, but the decrease in the
older portions of the territory will much more
tl.an offset that. and the net decrease will be
as above stated
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-02
Dedication of Admiral Dupont. stasu.

Oeo1cat1o0 OF Admiral Oupont'6 Statue.
Last Saturday, a large number of persons
gathered at Dupont circle, in Washington, to
witness the ceremonies connected with the un-
yelling of the statue Of the late Admiral Dupont
After prayer by Rev. w. A. Leonard the statue
was unveiled, and Senator Bayard made an ad-
dress. After expressing his admiration of the
statue just unveiled said:
Our age is one of utility, and our lives in
this now and vast country are filed with cease
less activity in the creation and acquisition of
material wealth. So society needs other
and counteracting forces to free us from sor-
did influences, and lead us to higher and better
lives. Encouragement must be given to pur-
suits that have not wealth as their aim or re-
ward. There must be IN incentive to our
youth to scorn inactive and luxurious lives.
Public respect and recognition Of virtue ex-
hibited in the public welfare should be gener-
ously and gratefully bestowed. Nothing should
be omitted that can mould public opinion to
give honor and praise to those who have sery-
ed faithfully and deserve the palm of public
favor; The night before the battle Of
Aboukir Bay, Nelson said to his Off.
GERS. Before this time to- morrow I shall have
gained a peerage or Westminster abbey" Such
were the rewards his heroic spirit sought
Peerage officers of the United States are for
hidden to receive, nor have We az yet in our new
land a venerable repository for the ashes and
N"S WI 7 hts1lCu uCdI, Utll
there are public buildings fit to receive the
statues of those who have we'll served the pub.
tic in any calling, and no place is SO proper as
this city. the seat and center of the govern
ment of the United States. The erection
Of this statue is in the line of public justice
and a proper recognition of the unseltish devo.
ton Of an individual for the welfare of the
commonwealth. The approval of this public
act Of justice will be widespread in this
broad land, but nowhere 30 strong as in the
state in which the ashes of her heroic son are
deposited, and today the hearts of the people
of Delaware are filed with gratitude over this
act of recognition by the general government
of the life and acts of one who was SO proudly
cherished and beloved in life and mourned in
death as Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Dupont
At the conclusion of the address q rear ad-
miral's salute of thirteen guns was fired, and
tie ceremonies ended. Among the distinguished
persons present were President Arthur, Secre-
taries Frelinghusen, McCulloch, Lincoln and
Chandler, Generals Sheridan, Drum and Ter
ry, and the French Minister. The nephews of
Admiral Dupont, from Delaware witnessed
the unwilling.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-02

A late London letter 10 the New
York Times j Never since the
slose of ths civil war ii America have
there been 10 many impecunlous Amer
leans il London as now. The recent
tumble il securities, the consequent
5distrlst q new mining ventures, and
their heeyy losses on betting on Blaine
have al contributed to work havoc in
the colony, and the American who is
able to pass the week without . hope
tass loan TO : compatriot is fortunate.
One young man narnod Gould, of re-
putable p~arentage, after bringing most
3 fshis friends to grief, has sailed for
The Transvaal Is volunteer in the
BechuanalAnd expedition.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-02
Record Of Casualties.

Natural gas explosions have been playing
havoc nssWestern Pennsylvania
Fire 1t Martins Ferry, Ohio, destroyed the
buildings and chops OF the Hoyle 4 Jones
Manufacturing company. Loss, 100000
"A fire was discovered in the confectionery
and toy store OF George Dalton, on Main street,
La Crosse. The family lived in the same
building and only . portion Of the furniture
was saved The insurance nearly covers the
loss, which Is 1880.
Near Bremen, Ind, q fast express on the
I Baltimore and Ohio railroad struck q broken
rail or some similar imperfection in the track.
The engine and forward part OF the train pass
ed safely, but the dining car and two sleeping
coaches were derailed and overturned The
dining car took fire and was burned up, but
the sleeping coaches were saved from destruc-
ton. There we're sixteen persons in the sleep
ers, some of them in public life, and it appears
almost miraculous that none OF them were
killed or fatally hurt. Congressman Shiyely
OF South Bend, Ind. suffered painful, but not
dangerous bruises about the legs. Hon. Hiram
Y. Smith of Des Moines, Iowa, suffered la cera-
ton of the feet and legs, and Hon. o. S. Clifford
Of Canton, Oak, was hurt about the shoulders.
All the others were more or less shaken up.
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Attorney General Brswster's Regard for
Law.

In his communication to the house Of repre-
sentatives in response to the resolution of that
body inquirlng whether the eight-hour law is
applicable to letter carriers, the attorney gen
eral says, after reciting tho resolution: ITO
this | must reply that cannot furnish the legal
opinion required. The authority of the attor-
ney general to give his official opinion is limited
by laws which create and define his office, and
of either house of congress or congress itself,
but only to the president and heads of the ex-
ecntiye departments. Early in the govern
ment this was established, and suggested to
the house OF representatives by Attorney GEN.
eral Wirth. When the department of justice
changed. OF course it will be my wish to CON
form to any request the house OF represents
tives may make, butsuch wish I cannot comply
with without reversing the law and precedents
heretofore established.