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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1885-07-18

1T is reported that John H. Dennis
will soon start a Democratic paper in
Carson to be run in the interest of Fair.
1t is also stated that Fair will open a
bank in Carson. There is wisdom in
this, for il will take bank to keep a
Democratic paper up in O'm>by county.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1885-07-18
r. q a. M.

VALLEY LODGE NO. 0. F. IA NJ, hold
vstated 'mmunications on the seco d Mon
day evening of each month. At odd Fellows'
Tall Dayton, Nevada Visiting brethren are
cordislly invited to attend.
@. Z. JAeCA, Secretary.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1885-07-18
pOsTPONEMENT.

The delinquent day of the above assess.
ment is h sreby postponed to the 30th day Of
July, 1885. and the sale day of delinquent
stock IN II thursday. August goth, 1895.
BY order of the Board of Direct RS.
J SC0VILLE, Secretary.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1885-07-18
INV THIS WEEK.
r. Won DACK,
Wa.shnaks. & jsVsIsr
MAIN STREET,
Dayton, Nevada.

have opened shop in the Fish
Building and arm prepared to do all
kinds Of repairing at reasonable rates.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-30

that earlier or later develop into
suffering if not eliminating in death.
And this because OF ignorance or
neglect on single point. The pave
ments or hard surfaces of city streets,
the brick walls and even the wooden
ones of the compact dwellings, absorb
heat during the day and retain ii
up to midnight, partially until morn
ing. This heat radiates slowly from
such surfaces, and air currents, OBJ
structed by the buildings. do not
For this reason city people can sit ON
the porcheS or verandas, or in rooms
with windows all open, until a late
hour, without any marked chilliness.
But in the country, the soil and vegeta-
ton quickly radiate into the air the
days accumulation of warmth. ard
before the sun touches the horizon the
temperature of the atmosphere is
rapidly falling. Hence those who
carry city habits to the country, sitting
outdoors or before open windows in
the evening, neglecting to put on
additional clothing at shutdown, and
more at a later hour if needed. are
pretty sure to lay the foundation of
eatarrhs, colds, and lung complaints,
or other diseases, that largely
counterfeit, if not entirely overbalance.
the benefit derived. Attention TO this
one item will in most cases, in con-
nection with the other advantages
named above, make a few months,
weeks, or days even, spent in the
country, of inestimable value to every
dweller in any densely populated city.
American Agriculturist.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-30

ofhis experiment, he and his hired men
found every piece of potato covered
with bugs. The men killed this crop,
and at night another crop was killed,
though not so large, and in a week not
a bug could be seen, and his trouble
with bugs at er this was comparatively
small
Violet cultivation in Germany bids
fair to rival the famous floral industry
of Southern France Most of the Ger
man violets are grown at Potsdam,
where several gardeners can furnish
daily during the winter some hundred
dozen blossoms, while the remainder
come chiefly from Berlin, Charlotten-
burg and Leipsic. BY great care the
Teutonic florists have managed to pro-
duce a small violet-tree about 81 inches
high. They prevent the plant from
poisoning for several years, and re-
move the lower leaves and shoots, so
that it grows upright, and assumes
palm-like form.
II was for long time on the fence
on the silo question. says Pennsylva-
MIA correspondent OF the Tribune, but
think | know which side / shall get
down on. There is something in the
silo for places where corn and hay do
not grow well as they do here. / do
not deny merit in it even here, but
there is not enough in it to make it a
paying Investments our average farm
er, and the average Bucks county
farmer is not Il bad one either.
There are over sixty corn canning
establishments in the State of Maine,
and the number of cans of corn annu-
ally put up is nearly twelve millions.
The farmers are paid about three
cents per can for the corn, the tin and
solder cost about three cents. and the
remaining four or five cents 90 to the
manufacturer for putting up and mar
keting.
An authority says: 1T may be re-
garded as an established fact that APP
pies win keep better in moist or damp
cellars than in dry ones. But that
I depends altogether on how many sma
/ boys there are in the the family. 1t
/ isn't so much in the humidity of the
cellar rs in the capacity of the boy.
| All black varieties of chickens are
/ poorly suited for market poultry. They
/ show the pin-feathers, and are not so
/ salable as white or hght-colored fowls
Those with yellow legs and skin are
more salable than blue or white-lcgged
] ones.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-30
A Talk with Jelr. Davis.

DIR. A. Y. p. Garnett, a physician of
this city, while on a recent trip to the
South, visited Jefferson Davis, with
whom he has had a long and intimate
acquaintance. The Star this after
noon publishes an interview with DR..
Garnett, in which the views of Mr..
Davis are given on the political sit
uation and other matters. DR.. Garnett
says:
''In the course of our conversation
Mr.. Davis referred to the political con-
dition of the country by saying that he
knew nothing of the present executive,
and that he had not yet progressed far
enough with the administration for him
to form an opinion of it. He seemed
satisfied with the members of the cabi-
net selected from the South, but not dis
posed, | thought, to entertain very
hopeful view of our future, as he said
that respect, love, and veneration for
the constitution, which animated the
citizens of the United States before the
war, had now departed from our
people, and that the system of govern
ment erected by our forefathers existed
only in name; that there were elements
of disintegration and disruption at
work in our midst which could only be
restrained and held in check by force;
that the underlying and fundamental
principles upon which our system of
government was erected. and upon
which the constitution, as it was be-
fore the war rested. are fast becoming
obsolete, forgotten by the old men, and
never learned by the young; that under
the rule of Republicanism during the
war and subsequent to it the constitu-
ton was made a rope of sand, and that
while this party of so-called liberal
ideas was proclaiming universal free
dom and equality on the one hand,
they were tearing down and blotting
out the very safeguards and defences
which alone. under our form OF govern
mept. could secure it to them.
"Did YOU refer to the report that a
eress in his behalf?" asked the reporter.
Il asked him if it were true, re-
sponded the doctor. that he had
authorized any petition to be presented
to the Federal authorities to have his
disabilities removed. He replied, very
emphatically, in the negative, and add
ed that he had written an open letter
to the author of that petition, calling
his attention to that fact. He said that
he had at all times been perfectly will
ing to undergo a trial if the dovern-
ment thought proper to bring on such
an issue, provided he was to be tried
strictly under the provisions of the
constitution.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-30
ReIclnthes nfpaner.

A paper-making firm in New Jersey
has for several weeks been turning out
counter-panes and pillow cases of paper.
No. l MANILA paper is used, two large
sheets being held together by slender
Irvine at intervals of three or four
inches; the Irvine is gummed so as to
hold the sheets firmly together where
it lies. 4 hem is placed on the coun-
terpane to keep it from tearing; the
safety edge is composed of twine. Or
namental designs are stamped on the
outer surfaces of the covers and pillow
cases, giving them neat attractive
appearance.
When these counterpanes and pillow
cases become wriukled from use, they
can easily be smoothed out with hot
fat-iron. The counter-panes can be
left on the bed when it is occupied, and
in cold weather will be found a warm
covering, paper preventing the escape
of heat. The new paper bed-elothing
is Is cents per set, and will probably
become very popular Paper Maker.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-30

Wash the sea-weed well in fresh
water to remove the sticky sadness
which pervades it; then take plate or
shallow vessel, and having cut paper
card to the size required, place it under
the specimen, and while under the wa
ter spread out the plant as naturally as
may be, either with the fingers or a
camel 's-hair brush. Raise the paper
carefully into slanting position to
drain off the water. Have at hand a
piece of board, or a very thick paste
board, lay two or three sheets of blot
ting-paper on it, upon which place the
specimen, putting smoothly over it a
piece of cambria or linen; then more
blotting paper, another paste board,
and so on alternately till all your speci-
mems are arranged. Place on the up
permost board a weight. The blotting
paper and cambria will require to be
removed and dried every day or two,
as much moisture exudes. When quite
dry the specimens can be arranged in
q book according to the taste of the
collector, with the names, date of find
ing, and locality written clearly below.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-30
They Are Children.

Don't expect too much of them; it
has taken you forty years it may be, to
make you what you are, with all your
lessons of experience, and | will dare
say you are faulty being at best.
Above all, don't expect judgment in a
child or patience under trial. Sympa-
thize in their mistakes and troubles;
don t ridicule them Remember not to
measure a child's trial by your stand
ard. LAS one whom his mother COM
forteth, says the inspired writer, and
beautifully does he convey to us the
deep faithful love that ought to be
found in every woman's heart, the I'M
falling sympathy with all her children :
griefs. Let the memories of their child
hood be as bright as you can make
them. Grant them every innocent
pleasure in your power. We have Of
ten felt our temper rise to see how
carelessly their little plans We're
thwarted by older persons, when a lit
tie trouble on their part would have
given the child pleasure, the memory
of which would last lifetime. Last
ly, don't think child hopeless because
it betrays some very bad habits. We
have known children that seemed to
have been born thieves and liars, so
early did they display these undesirable
traits, yet we have lived to see those
same children become noble men and
women and ornaments TO society. We
must confess they had wise, affectionate
parents. Aud whatever else You may
be compelled to deny your child by
your circumstances in life, give it what
it most values, plenty of love.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-30
Onions as Medicine.

If there were any way of avoiding
the long continued smell of onions af-
ter eating them, the consumption of
the vegetable would be vastly increased,
great as it is at present. In addition
to the universal fondness for them
(Which in some European nations has
become PASSION, they have always
been highly esteemed for their medical
properties. There is not in the whole
vegetable world, more effective anti
sc0rbutic Sailors at sea are protect
ed against scurvy when having plenty
of onions, and scurvy is driven away
when they come upon them. One who
ought to know, says: Taken regular
ly, they greatly promote tie health of
the lungs and the digestive organs.
An extract made by boiling down the
JUICE of onions to a syrup, and taking
it as medicine, answers the purpose
very well, but fried. roasted, or boiled
onions are better" But, oh! if we
could obtain some antidote to the odor
when our neighbor sees fit to indulge
in them!
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-30
THE WITCH MAIDENS.


The moonlight lies on Loeb Naver
And the night is strange and still;
And the stars are twinkling coldly
Above the Clebrig hill.
And there by the side of the water,
o what strange shapes are these.
O these are the wild witch maidens,
Down from the northern seas.
And they stand in a magic circle,
Pale in the moonlight sheen;
And each has over her forehead
A star of golden green.
o what is their songs OF sailors
That never again shall sail;
And the music sounds like the sobbing,
And signing that brings gale.
But who is she that comes yonderl
And all in white is she;
And her eyes are open, hut nothing
OF the outward world can she see.
o haste you back, Minnie, haste you,
And haste to your bed again;
For these are the wild witch maidens
Down from the northern main.
They open the magic circle;
They draw her into the ring;
They lneel before her and slowly
A strange sad song they sing;
A strange, sad song, as of sailors
That never again shall sail;
And the music sounds like the sObbing
And signing that brings gale,
o haste you back, Minnie, haste you,
And taste to your bed again;
For these are the wild witch maidens
Down from the northern main.
so come with us, rose white Minnie,
To our sea hills draped with green;
O come with us, rose white Minnie,
And be our rose white queen
"And you shall have robes of splendor,
With shells and pearls between;
And a sceptre olden and golden,
And rose white coral throne.
"Aud by day you viii hear the music
OF the ocean come higher and higher;
And by night you viii see your palace
Ablaze with phosphor fire.
20 come with us, rose white Minnie,
To our sea halls draped with green;
o come with us, rose white Minnie,
And be our rose white queen!
But Clebrig heard, and the thunder
Down from his iron hand sped;
And the band of the wild witch maidens
One swift shrek uttered and fled
And Minnie awoke, and terror,
And wonder were in her eyes;
And she looked at the moon-white valley
And she looked to the star-lit skies.
o haste you back, Minnie, haste you,
And haste to your bed again,
For these are the wild witch maidenS,
Down from the northern main.
O hear you not yet their singing
Come family back an the breeze,
The song of the wild witch sisters
AS they fly to the iceland seas
o bark It's a sound like the sobbing
And signing that brings a gale;
A low, sad song, as of sailors
That never again shall sail
Hdrper'S Bdsar.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-30
Farm Items.

Peter Henderson says the best known
fertilizers of commerce are Peruvian
guano and bone dust. Whatever kind
of concentrated fertilizer is used, he
finds it well repays the labor to prepare
it as follows before it is applied to the
land: To every bushel Of guano or bone
dust add three bushels of leaf mould,
well pulverized dry muck, yard scrap
ings, well decomposed stable manure,
or, if neither OF these can be obtained,
any loamy soil, but in every case the
material mixed with the fertilizer must
be fairly dry, as it is used as a temper
airy absorbent for the fertilizer.
A farmer near Troy has adopted a
newsremedy for potato-Dugs. He pro-
cured a number of boards and placed
them here and Their among his potatoes,
and on these boards were placed raw po-
tatoes sliced. At noon, on the first day
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-30
The Philosophy of Eating.

In consideration of the mighty evils
of indigestion. the domestic bette noir
of the age, the outgrowth of poor
cooking or unwise eating. and the
difference these things make in the
physical and moral tone, the mothers
Of the land may well say: I'VE care
not who breaches sermons to our
children, provided we can give them
good bread. To warrant such a
claim. She mothers must be wise enough
to know that the food which they give
their families means one of two things,
as they shall elect by the manner of its
choice and preparation. Either joy
Gus, buoyant energy and sweetness OF
nature which is, undoubtedly, the nor
NAL condition by which is half the
secret of success and virtue; or a
peevish. perverse and suffering habit
OF life which sets US at cross purposes
with all its more satisfactory ends
There has been little thought given to
this in times past that one of the prob
lens of ills and feeblenesses that flesh
has become heir to in a long course Of
eating as an exact science.
Housekeeping.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-30
Keeping Rust from TOOLS.

The simple preparation employed by
Professor Olmstead, of Yale College, for
the preservation of scientific apparatus,
and which he long ago published for
the general good, declining to have it
patented, is made by the slow melting
together of six or eight parts of lard to
one of resin, stirring till cool. This
remains semi-fluid, always ready for
use, the resin preventing rancidity and
supplying an air-tight film. Rubbed on
a bright surface ever so thinly, it pro-
tects and preserves the polish effectual-
", and it can be wiped off nearly clean,
if ever desired, as from knife blade;
or it may be thinned with coal-oil or
benzine. If oxidation has begun, no
matter in how slight a degree, il will go
on under a coating; it is therefore es-
sential that the steel surface be both
bright and dry when painted over.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-30

the scale The actions at Belmont,
Fort Henry and Dopelson brought out
the fact that although his perception
might be slow in personal affairs, in
military matters it was in the highest
degree comprehensive and acute. Alb
sent when the fray began at Donelson,
he reached the scene to find it one of con-
asion and disaster. Quietly he declares:
eve must retake that position,' '-one
from which they had been driven. At
Shiloh, when the prospect was darkest,
he cheerfullv SAYS: II don despair of
whipping them YETI Before Vicks-
burg. when tainted by rebel woman
about the delay in taking the city,
he replies: II came here to capture
Vicksburg, and | mean to do it if it
takes thirty years = That fond wife,
whose faith in him never wavered
through fair or evil report said: MIR.
Grant is very obstinate man" And
everywhere that quality is seen pre-
dominating To a persistency of pur-
pose. then, must fall large measure
of the success attending his plans.
Many Of these plans assert Grants
right to be classed among the greatest
strategiSt the world has ever produced,
and afford the second of
THE sTEPPING-sTONEs
whereby he rose to such pre-eminence.
4 third may be found in his strict adj
herence to duty He might suggest to
his superior, but if ordered directly to
the contrary obeyed as promptly and
chcerfully as though carrying out the
movements based on his own judy
ment. Add to these the most unSwerv-
ing personal integrity. maynanimious
forbearance toward those who. on
occasion, bitterly assaulted him,
a long-suifering patience when
practically disgraced by Hallecks as
suming command after Shiloh, pro-
found faith that the calm lights of the
future would vindicate where vindica-
ton was needed, and the elements of
all his success are in review. There
have been able writers who contepded
that Grant was merely fortunate, that
he absorbed credit due particularly TO
Sherman and Sheridan, but it must
appear to the unbiased mind that while
theirs was the credit Of special incidents
in the working out of the problem his
" as inc 9idHu pidH oI NnlCH tileS were
a part. Aggressivencss of character
might possibly be distorted into ac-
counting for Donelson and Shiloh, but
the tactics of Lookout Mountain, Chat
tanooga valley and Missionary Ridge
are without a blemish. Criticism hos
tile to his generalship must needs be
abashed before a record that, covering
a period of four years, is one of I'M
varying success.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-30

the thing is worth more than he asks
for it, but the buyer sees at a glance
that it is a valuable old work of art,
gleefullv pays tn half crown. and
hurries or with it. Where in point of
principle is the essential difference
between the act of bearing off that
picture from the man who has parted
with it merely because he was unaware
of its value, and the act of the cabman
who knowingly pockets sovereign
which his fare has handed to him in
the belief that it was a shilling In
point of strict principle, if there is any
difference. the cabman 5 act is the more
defensible of the two, because the
mistake of his fare must have been due
to sheer carelessness; whereas the mis-
take of the man who sells for half n
crown a picture worth 100 guineas is
due to unavoidable ignorance. The
vendor ignorance has, indeed, some
times been urged as the justification of
the buyer. '.If says the buyer, 'by
study and long practice and experience,
| have acquired knowledge and a
cultivated eve aud sou judgment,
am to have no advantage as compared
with this ignoramuS. who has never
taken the smallest pains to be able TO
distinguish the daub of a sign painter
from a Reynolds or Gainsborough?"
That argument, however, will not
clearly hold sNater. 1t can not be
seriously maintained that it is any part.
of the legitimate purpose of artistic
culture to be able to take advantage Of
the ignorance of the uninstructed. In
Just the same way man who is par
ticularly careful ALWAYS to examine and
count his change might ask, ''Am to
have no advantage over the careless
noodle who always pockets money
without looking at it, and deals it out
in so loose and slipshod manner as to
be always making mistakes? The
buyers of bargains from those who are
ignorant of the value of what they sell
can not be justified at all; it must be on
the broad principle that buyer and
seller must each be left to-act on his
knowledge, because on no other plan
would it be practicable to carry on
business However fine moral prin-
ciple may be, if the business of life can
not be based upon it. it must. at any
rate to certain extent, be disregarded.
For wise man to use his wisdom for
benefit of the ignorant is excellent; but
as a general rule of life even the wisest
of men mnst assume that a man knows
his own business best. When to act
upon this rule and when to make eX
ceptions to it, are matters which must
be left to the individual conscience,
and the application of the rule or the
making of the exception to it are often
thp little circumstances which mark
the man of honor and conscience.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-30
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
what the Mother saws.

Yes, kr ow there are STAINS on my carpet
The traces Of small muddy boots;
And | see your fair tapestry glow ng,
And spotless with blossoms and ruits!
And ] know that my walls are distigured
With prints of small fingers and hands;
And that your own household most truly
In immaculate purity stands.
And know that my parlor is Uttered
With many old treasures and toys;
While your own is in dam 6iest order,
Unframed by the presence of boys!
And know that my room is invaded
Quite boldly all hours of the day;
While you sit in yours unmolested,
And dream the sweet quiet away
Yes, l know there are four little bedsides
Where | must stand watchful each night
While you go out in your carriage,
And flash in your dresses SO bright.
Now | think I'm neat little woman;
like my house orderly, too;
And I'm fond of all dainty belongings:
Yet would not change places with you
Mo- keep your fair home with its order,
It's freedom from bother and noise;
And keep your own fanciful leisure,
But give me my four splendid boys!