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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-07-02
Agricultural Notes.

1t is poor economy not to keep the
buildings we'll painted, for the moist.
ure that paint would stop soon causes
rotten boards and timbers.
A mulch of two inches of short ma
nure on the surface around spring
planted trees will help them more
than anything else to withstand the
drouths Of summer.
Small chickens should never be
kept or fed with old ones. They are
apt to be injured. Have two or three
yards and separate them according tt
size and strength.
The free use of clover seed and
keeping of farm stock enables farmers
to maintain land in good condition fol
ordinary cropping without purchas
ing commercial manures.
Small fruit culture will always BE-
most successful on the intense plan
Plant only small area at time and
give that the best culture possible
Better raise 800 bushels on one acre
than that amount on five or six.
Whenever rhubarb throws out q
great many leaves and the stalks are
small and worthless the roots should
be dug up and transplanted, dividing
them, SO that only one thrifty bud il
left to each peace of root. ThiI
should be done early in the spring, az
soon as the newly formed buds arr
ready to push through the soil.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-07-02
Progress of the Rye-Wheat Plant.

The Developments Of the RuruFs rye
wheat hybrids is far more curious and
interesting this season than in any
previous year. Those plants which
"most resembled rye," as we have de-
signated them, have hitherto varied
to trifling extent as compared with
the others, which resembled wheat
more than rye. We selected the best
heads of the former, as already stated,
and planted them in plot of about
one-twentieth of an acre. The heads
in shape were rather narrow, tapering,
half-bearded, the tops of the stalks of
all were downy. 1t is a matter of
very great surprise to US that In this
plot there is such variety Of heads
that if evidence were suddenly placed
before us that all of the varieties of
wheat in cultivation sprang from ac-
cidental cross between rye and wheat,
We should accept it as in harmony
with the appearance of these plants.
The down does not appear upon culms
OF some, while others are covered more
thickly than the parent stems. Some
of the heads are beardless, others as
much bearded as barley. Some heads
are of the shape of Clawson, or the
female parent, Armstrong; Others are
club headed, with and without boards
Our readers must remember that
this twentieth of an acre of plants, sc
strangely dissimilar, all originated
from a single seed-one of the ter
kernels which, four years ago, was the
result of crossing rye upon wheat
The three-quarters rye-wheat plants
(the cross made last year by again US
ing rye pollen upon these hybrids) al
differ from one another There are
fourteen plants. We shall select some
of the best heads, and again attemp
to cross it with rye, which, if success
full, will make the progeny seven
eighths rye. If, as judged by appear
ances, we were finally to produce rye
plants by the continued use of rye pol
len, would this prove that wheat an(
rye were of the same origin.-Rura
New Yorkers.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-07-02
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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-07-02
farmers' Column.
Give fools their gold q knaves their power
Let fortunes bubbles rise and fail;
Who sows a field trains n HOwer,
Or plants tree. is more than all.
Thinning Fruit.

When planted in good soil, good,
thrifty fruits will near y always over
load themselves; and in order to Sc
cure the best, smoothest and largest
fruit, considerable thinning must be
done. This is especially the case with
grapes and tree fruits.
Choice apples, peaches. pears, quin
ces-in fact the best of all kinds OF
truit-command the best prices and
always sell. Outlines the market be-
comes glutted with poor fruits, and
the prices realized are really below
what it costs to produce them, and
sometimes they cannot be sold at any
price, while at the same time the
choicest and best are selling at pro-
ftable price.
Too many fall into the error Of
thinking that by thinning they lessen
the quantity so much that they pre-
fer to let all the fruit remain. This
is a mistake, as we'll as to think that
by thinning they lessen the profit on
the fruit. When a tree is heavily
loaded, the fruit must necessarily be
small, and this will lessen the guam
tity; that the fruit being small will
sell for a less price, and really cost
more to sell, and you really lose than
by not thinning. Then, in addition,
when a tree or vine is allowed to over
load and mature the fruit, it is strain
upon the vitality of the tree, so much
that rest must be had, and the next
year the tree will fail to bear.
Whenever tried judiciously, thin
ming fruit always pays; but it requires
considerable courage when the trees
are laden with young fruit to go over
and pull off and throw away con-
siderable portion Of the fruit. To
one who has never tried it, at first it
would seem like a waste; yet it has
been tested sufficiently to prove its
value.
The work, of course, should be done
early, as soon after the fruit has set as
possible. The longer the fruit grows
after setting, the more waste of vital
ity of the tree that should go to the
other fruit that is left upon the tree
to mature. 1t should be done as even
ly as possible all over the tree; thin SO
as to give each specimen left as much
room as possible. Close crowding is
what often makes ill-shaped fruit. If
you have never been IN the habit of
thinning, try a few trees first to see
the effect, and in majority of cases
You will conclude that it is beneficial.
IN. J. SHEPHERD, IN "-Hichigan H0r
tculturist."
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-07-02
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Having been established in business in Balti-
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by fair dealing, courtesy and attention to the
wants of customers; We think it will be to the
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with US. Samples will be sent ts select from
when We receive plain and explicit directions
o! what is probably wanted.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-07-02

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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-07-02

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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-07-02

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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-07-02
Catarrh of the Bladder

Singing, irritation. Inflammation. all Kidney
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Paiba-" 81.
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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-07-02

The Hope of the Nation.
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and delicate, use Wells Health Remover
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-30
The Advocate Protests.

Under the Dow liquor law pass
ed by the Ohio Legislature, the
rural districts of this State are
helpless. The brewers can plant
as many saloons as they please
along side of country churches and
school houses, and there is no
legal redress. All that the ennis
saries of evil have to do is to pay
the tax, and then the whole power
of the State of Ohio is pledged to
uphold them in their nefarious
business. How do our farmers
like this ? ". G. Advocate.
We are glad the journals that
speak for the great body of Metho-
dists have no word Of apology for
the ubiquitous Pond-Scott-Dow
liquor com promise act.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-30
ADDRESS BY MIR. CAMP
BELL.
To the Voters Of Marion Co., W. Va.

The undersigned most earnestly
asks your candid attention to the
following pleas. We appeal to you
in the name of God, and on behalf
of suffering humanity. We appeal
to you irrespective of party,
nationality or creed, rich or poor,
high or low, to join US in this
glorious work of Prohibition. We
appeal to you on behalf of the
widow and the orphan and the
children of our land, to save them
from the almshouse ard a drunk
ards grave. We appeal to you,
fathers, mothers, brothers and
sisters, to ask yourselves the ques-
ton, is the liquor traffic right or
wrong? There are only two sides to
this all-important issue; you are
for or against. We appeal to
the members of every denomina-
ton to come out openly and show
by their work they are opposed to
the accursed traffic of rum in all
its forms. Do not preach against the
evil at your fresides, at your
prayer meetings and in your society
halls, and call the traffic in whisky
the greatest curse upon the earth
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-30
The DistributabIe School
Fund.

The clerks in the Auditors and
State Superintendent's Office have
just completed making the annual
distribution for the benefit of the
free schools. The amount this
year is 1867, 724.96, or S151 for
each pupil il the State. Last
year the amount was $167,534.30,
or about 70 cents per pupil,
This will give every school dis
trict in the State more than twice
as much money, for the same num-
ber Of pupils, as last year. This
will enable many Of the counties
that have only been having four
months school to increase the term
TO six months, if the authorities do
their duty.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-30
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 80, 1886.
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.
Their Notions and Ours.

AS we expected, the day is at
hand when we would be glad to
"take off our flesh and sit round in
our bones" under the shade of a
big elm Wetael Democrat.
Don't do it, Bro. Michael Downey.
Barnum would gobble you up for
another Jumbo skeleton, and then
what would the world do for q
WetzeI Democrat?
Prohibition seems to have had
the desired effect at Milton-peace
abounds in abundance there
Huntington Republican.
So it is always; as the Liquor
Traffic leaves, Peace returns.
Wherefore, The saloon must go.
If the Republicans had hired
their worst enemy to fix up some
thing that the Prohibitionists
could slaughter them for, and no
mortal could defend, that enemy
couldn't have provided them any
thing worse than the Dow law
j. G. Fernald, IN Neau Era.
Mr.. Fernald is frequent and
able correspondent Of the Journal
and Messenger. AS our readers will
see, he has no apology for the
Ubiquitous Dow Law.
Rev. Harvey Johnson, one of the
ablest of the colored ministers of
Maryland, has announced himself
a third party Prohibitionist,-
Baltimore Methodist.
Yes, We heard him so announce
in one of the best speeches of the
Maryland Prohibition Convention
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-30

gotten the story of the past. They
forget that it was not enthusiasm
alone which gave birth to their
party. 1t was deeper spirit than
mere enthusiasm which stirred the
hearts of Wendell Phillips,
Charles Sumner, VIM. Lloyd Gar
rison and a score of other great and
good men in the dark days of hu-
man slavery, to acts of so noble a
nature, that the world stood back
in awe at their daring heroism in
their protest that no human being
should be chained to an aristocra-
cy of race. Those men strove to
an end, and although that end may
have appeared far distant, and to
many, as the downfall of Alcohol
appears to-day, like an illusion,
yet they lost none Of their spirit of
determination to uork, fight and
pray ) and history now proves their
work not to have been in vain. So
with the rum power; its over
throw through the efforts of the
Prohibition party may be very
soon or it may be delayed; but re-
member, ye men and women who
are working and praying for its
overthrow, the day IS coming! The
army of the Lord is marching on
and who shall stay it?. Anti-sla-
very, like anti-liquor, had its foun-
dation on a moral idea. It was
moralized until patience and regu-
lation ceased and then it became a
political idea yes, the leading po-
litical idea of the day. 1t enter
ed the realm of politics, and, we
ask, what and where are the re-
mains of human slavery?
History repeats itself; retribu
ton is followed by retribution, and
the Republican party, which now so
derides and belittles the work of
the Prohibition party; the Repub-
lican party whose birth dates from
the abolition Of slavery, has sown
the seeds of self destruction. Its
former friends are ranouncing and
denouncing it as representing no
moral idea, but as being for sale and
open to intrigues from any quarter.
Its only desire seems to be to re-
gain it's lost supremacy at any
cost, the attaining to which is so
far distant, that the youngest per-
son now living will never see it.
Men are beginning to think the
good seed of Prohibition is being
sown more broadcast than is real
lied, and the prohi bition party is
making greater strides towards the
realization of all that is and has
been hoped for than it's most san
guine leaders and friends ever an
ticipated or hoped for. Newspa-
pers and periodicals advocating
the good cause, are springing up
on every side. The people are in
earnest; they trust that somehow,
good will be the final goal of ILL.,"
We must admit this to be a pro-
gressive age in thought and in &C.
ton, and the individual or party
whose aim is the benefaction of
mankind, sooner or later, will at
tract to itself the respect and ale
glance which it truly merits.
Let US then as men and freenaea,
arise in our manhood and by our
lives, and what is better, by our
votes, show to the people of Marion
county and to the people of West
Virginia, that we are freenaem in all
that the name implies, and through
the good offices of the Prohibition
party, let US drive the Liquor Traf-
fc with it's baIeful curses from
among us, and from the land.
O. jerks, Jr.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-30

THIS is MARION COUNTY'o
FREEMAN SPECIALLY, AND
EVERY-BODY'S GENERALLY
1T is FULL OF GOOD READ
ING INSIDE AND OUT, AND
ON EVERY PAGE, FOR AN y
BODY THAT'S SEEKING The
TRUTH.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-30

News from the grand w. C. L.
U. Convention at Wellsburg; look
tor it In other columns.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-30

PROHIBITION STATE EXECUTIVE COM
MITTEE'S ADDRESS IN THIS FREEMAN. READ
AND STUDY IT.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-30

LAW AND ORDER ASSOCIATION
KANAwHA CoUNTY-sEE LAST PAGE,
THIS SIDE OF THE FREEMAN.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-30

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Parkersburg, w. y

ALWA vs. In Orittng about subscrip-
ttoTls, alUdys give p o. at Ohieh you receiUe the
paper. This OiU sase u.s. much trouble.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-30

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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-09
Size and Value of Pearls.

According to their size, said a dealer
the other day, pearls receive various
names. Those of extraordinary size are
called paragon pearls when the size
of cherry, cherry pearls medium are
called piece pearls smallest, dust
pearls The oval and long are termed
pear pearls while badly-formed speci-
mems are known as 'baroques.'
rs there any standard value?"
"Wel, the piece Seed and dust
grades have always market price,
which varies, of couse, with the quality
and general color. The cherry and par
agon' are sold on an entirely different
basis. If many fine ones are on the mar
ket at a time they may be had at reason
able rates. Some years they bring al
most any price. The last two years,
especially, there has been great scar
city of fine pearls, although there is no
falling off in the supply of the small
stuff. When a pearl exceeds one carat
in weight it is sold separately. Under
that weight they are sold in parcels and
become less valuable as they become
smaller. The smallest dust pearls col
lected average about 5000 to the troy
ounce and are at present rated at about
So per ounce. If, on the contrary, one
paragon weighing an ounce Tor $50
carats) was on sale it would bring any
amount from $50, 900 to $500, 600, accord
ing to quahty.-Chicago News Inter
view
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-09
The Yucca, or Newspapers Plant"

1t seems that in certain far-away ter
ritories called New Mexico and Arizona,
there are great tracts of desolate desert
lands, where the very hills seem des-
titute of life and beauty, and where the
earth is shFiveled from centuries of ter
rible heat And in these desert-tracts
grew a curious, mishapen, grotesque and
twisted plant that seems more like a
goblin tree than real one.
OF all the trees in the world, you would
imagine this to be the most outoast and
worthless-so meager a living does it OBJ
tain from the waste of sand and gravel
in which it grows. And yet this goblin
tree is now being sought after and
utilized in one of the worlds greatest in
dustries-an industry that affects the
daily needs of civilization, Those wise
folks, the botanists, call our goblin tree
by its odd Indian name of the Yucca"
palm.
This plant of the desert for long
time was considered valueless. But not
long ago it was discovered that the fiber
of the Yucca could be made into an ex-
cs@lent paper. And now one of the
great English dailies, The London Tele-
graph, is printed upon paper made from
this goblin tree. Indeed, The Telegraph
has purchased a large plantation in
Arizona, merely for the purpose of cult
waiting this tree, and manufacturing
paper from it. SO, you see. the Yucca is
now newspaper plant.-St. Nicholas.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-09

The best place to study the ear is in a
street car, There is the chance to oh
serve in almost one sweep of the eye I'M
calmly ears, musical and unmusicaI ears,
and graceful curves and symmetrical
proportions in ears As a rule, must
clans, having intelligent minds and re-
fined natures, viii have the most per-
fectly formed ears. Hence the ear has
three-fold meaning: 1t is a useful organ,
an object of beauty, and sign of char
acter. Men and women of very strong
and active passions are apt to have ears
in full blossom the year Troublesome
thing like an old toper's nose. In iudg-
ing character from the color of the ear,
however, due allowance must be made
for the natural complexion of the per-
son. II the hair is red or auburn and the
face ford, why the ear will naturally be
of the same color. A little observation
and critical discrimination will enable
any one to distinguish between ears of
healthy color and those made red by
the indulgence and excitements of
ance must also be made for
very sensitive and blushing people, be-
cause some blush in their ears, as well as
III tIiSit races, anu II you were 70 Judge
of them by the color of their ears at that
moment, you would do them an in Justice
1t is the general color you must be guided
by, and it must always be remembered
that the ears Of some persons have too
much color and others too little Very
large ears may indicate a large-hearted,
generous nature or proclaim human
donkey.
Small ears, as a rule. belong to people
of feeble minds mot idiotic), foolish or
small and mean in nature, as well as in
mental powers. But in Judging from
the ear, the face and head should be
taken into considerable with it, and
especially should the shape, thickness
and color of the ear be considered in con-
nectiOn with its size. One thing IS GER
tain, and that is, the well rounded ear is
associated with love for music, and the
more finely formed the ear, the more re-
fined the nature of the person, and con-
seqUently, the more artistical its musical
taste, sense and perception. Baltimore
American