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The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-29
FOUND HIS MATCH,
Why the Portly Gentleman Condescended
to Compromise . Difficulty.

Why h Portly Gentleman Condescended
to Compromise q Difficulty.
A gentleman of some weight 1.-TWO
hundred pounds) and dignity was rid
ing on a a a few days ago.
"Fare, please"
The digniied individual ceased con-
versing with his friends long enough to
hand over a quarter.
Cant take that for twenty-five
cents, SIR" said the conductor.
"You can't, eh? Well you'll take it
all the same"
Its quite smooth. I'll take it for
twenty cents"
you'll take it for twenty-five cents
or nothin'."
"Then I'll have to put you off,"
"Just let me tell you something, my
friend. wouldn't like you to go into
this contract without knowing some
thing about Inc. Iweigh two hundred
pounds, and l don't propose to be put
off. You hear me-"
The conductor left, and in a minute
or two there came up to the digniied
and weighty gentleman a very muscu-
lar and solid officer.
"Yonr fare, if you please"
Once again the quarter came out
The weighty individual took in his
man.
81 guess you'll have to let this 90 at
twenty cents. I guess you'd better let
this go at twenty cents" said the new
conner, persuasively.
Certainly, certainly. Don't men.
ton it," and the two-hundred pound
er took his change very meekly. His
friends are chuckling yet.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-29
THE RUG MANIA.
The Terrible Disease with Which Buffalo
Women Are Afflicted,

II Terrible Disease with Which Buffalo
Women Are Afflicted.
A woman who has once been inocu.
lated with the rug virus will sell of
her husbands clothing, mortgage tho
piano and confiscatc the children's
bank account, in order to feed the ter
rible and irresistible craving of which
she is the slave. Some women are
afraid to ask their husbands for money
to buy more rugs, and 50 get what
they want by private arrangement
with the rug people, paving for them
in weekly installments of fifty cents
or a dollar. We heard of one woman
in this city who pawned her first two
wedding-rings in order to buy a
wretched little ~two-by-four patch
called "prayer-rug." Another
woman who died recently was popu-
larry supposed to be in very straitened
circumstances; and had drawn aid
from the city for many years; yet
after her funeral a few Of her female
neighbors who had caught the scent,
made a careful search and unearthed
eighty-four rugs Of all sizes and
values, boarded in various parts Of
her ouse.-Bufah Commercial Ad-
veyttSsr,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-29
PERTINENT TRUTHS:
Why Farmers Can Not Afford to Raise
Poor Livestock.

Why Farmers Can Not Afford to Raise
Poor Livestock.
Stock-raising and farming arc the
same in a certain sense. No farmer
a keep stock unless he grows grain
and grass, and no farm can be kept to
a standard of fertility unless contain
ing stock: Every farmer aims to i'm.
prove his farm with his stock, and en-
deavors to secure the greatest yields
possible per acre, using the latest i'm
proved methods for that purpose.
All farmers are quick in pointing out
the mistakes Of their neighbors and as
sisting them to avoid such in future.
But in stock-raising the conditions
seem to be changed. The farmer who
spends time and labor to secure a large
crop Of wheat or corn, resorting to the
best seed and the most available ma
chinery, allows his crops to be wasted
by inferior stock. We use the term
wasted for the reason that any portion
of the food consumed that does not
contribute to the production of some
other article is wasted. True, it is in
the manure, but a waste of time re-
suits, as the benefit from the manure
can only be gained later.
The Importance of the stock being
of the best can not be too strongly
urged. Labor, shelter, time and mon
cy are factors in stock-raising, and the
better the stock the cheaper the cost.
There is no necessity for using ten
bushels Of feed where five bushels will
accomplish the same results, to say
nothing of the fact that the expense
of handling the smaller quantity is also
lessened. How is this saving to be ef-
fected, may be asked. 1t is simply to
such stock as will digest and assimilate
the greatest amount of food in the
shortest time. We do not mean the
animal that eats the largest quantity,
but the n that digests the food and
converts it into a more salable product.
Can the farmer regulate the matter?
He can by using those breeds adapted
to the objects desired by him. As he
is careful to grow wheat on soil best
adapted for such a crop, so should he
use care in tho use of stock designed
for special purposes.
All breeds have their characteristics
and merits. They are different in
many respects. Though some of them
are Improbable when used for other
purposes than those for which they are
intended, yet their places a not be
filled in some other respects. As differ
the crops SO do the animals, and the
farmer should govern his management
accordingly National St0cknan.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-29
Grasses for Rotation.

The professor Of botany and hort.
culture in the Agriculture College OF
Colorado, in his experiments on grass.
es, found the earliest cultivated grasses
to vegetate in that vicinity last year to
be meadow ~foxtail, English rye, tall
oats, alfalfa and orchard grass. These
grasses afforded excellent feed there
early in May, and were followed by
meadow ~fescue, blue grass, red top
and timothy, in regular order, SO that
with the five ~clovcrs animals were pre-
sented with a succession Of food-piants
throughout the season. The five Glow
ers are mammoth and medium red
clover, alfalfa, alsike and white clover.
Chicago Tribune.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-29
the rosy face, ssili vet With t..r.. ,le.,
10 Katie's own

ING tosy = wes VIVID tears, elo..
70 Katie's own
where is tAe blanketp" Va, y.
next question.
.Never mind the carriage-robe. d..,
child" said Mrs. Hudson; chow cou,s
you think to do such a brave thins%
she asked, as she pressed the baby 81,
closer.
'.Hal said: Think quick and act in .
hurry" replied Katie, family, ..but :
hadn't time to think"
hadn't time TO thinkr' repea,.,
Mrs. Hudson; 1.-THE wisest head in ths
world could not have done better. :
saw il al, Katie; how a / thank yon
for saving my bsbyaf and with a flood
of tears Mrs. Hudson kissed tbs psls
face of the nurse girl.
''Hursah for Katie" shouted Hal
who until now had stood regarding her
with profound astonishment. "A bow
couldn't have done better; but you are
indebted to me for an idea, aren't youp
The masculine mind is the original
one, after all" s.,
"Georgie, Katie has answered your
question" said Mrs. Hudson, and
when she pictured the consequences
that would have followed a different
course Of action on Katie's part George
had no difficulty in understanding the
d~esirablencss OF cultivating habits Of
decision and promptness that, brought
In exercise, people are wont to call
presence Of mind.-Esther Converse, in
Congregationalist.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-29
CAT AND BIRD.
Tho Bitter Enmity That Existed Between
Them.

Tho Bittsr Enmity That Existed Between
Them.
They were bitter enemies. although
they lived in the same house.
Polly had been there a week, and be-
gan to think she owned every thing.
She gave her orders in the most anus
ing way. In the morning the first
thing would be: IA cup Of coffee,
Mary, quick!" Then: "Now I'll walk
out want to walk out" And if she
was not attended to at once she would
exhibit a frightful temper, or utter the
most pathetic %reproaches.
Her self-pity was quite moving.
poor Polly, poor Polly's so hungry!
Polly's sick. Nobody loves Polly"
One day a handsome black cat was
given to mt. manned him Jim Grow.
l took him in to visit Polly, as I knew
they would soc a good deal of each
other.
Jim Grow glared at Polly out of his
green eyes till they looked like balls of
fire, Then he uttered a dreadful M
e-e-o-w, that was a challenge in
itself.
Polly rulled up her feathers, tossed
her head, and screamed out: ..You
black nigger!" What Jim Crow would
have called her, if he could talk, l can
only imagine. But all hope of making
friends between them was at an end.
Jim would look at her for an hour at
a time, and pour forth a torrent of
abuse in cat language.
Polly's favorite retort would always
come in time. How she knew the cat
was black will ever be a puzzle. They
kept up their quarrel for some months.
. One day Jim came home in a sad
plight. He had been shot, and I feared
he would die. / washed and bandaged
his wound, but he grew worse every
moment.
Polly had been looking on with
much interest. Suddenly she flew
down from her perch to his side.
poor Jim! poor Jim!' she said.
Then she began to cry as only a parrot
can. In the midst of her grief she
broke into a wicked laugh, and ended
with her usual taunt: "You black
nigger!"
But poor Jim Crow could not flash
his eyes at her again. He breathed his
last in a few moments, and we carried
Polly to his funeral. Mrs. Il. D. Bell,
in Our YOung Folks.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-29
S S THE SOUNDS.

fHtfar" 49, Lsr7r I- H...|
10 discover = sprinkle OF gray In your beard,
AND q thinness Of crop whore the upland 10
cleared;
10 note how you take your slippers and
gown,
And hug to the fire when you get home from
Alb, that's what it is to be forty.
TO find that your shadow has portlier crown.
That your voice has a practical, business.ike
tone;
That your vision 10 tricky, which once was 90
bright,
Ant q hint of q wrinkle Is coming to light
An. that's what 1t is to be forty.
To fnd all the dreams o, -FOUR boyhood dis.
PEELED;
And that you have toiled vainly whore others
excelled;
That your fortune is scanty where others
abounds,
That you're only worth pence where you
should be worth pounds
Ah, that's what 1t is to be forty.
A sleigh ride, a party, a dance or a dine;
Why, OF course you'll be present, you never
decline;
But, alas, there's no invite; you're not "young
~ w $50.
You're no longer q peach, but Q crab-apple
tree
All. that's what it ID to be forty.
Adaughter that grows like q lily, a queen,
And that blooms like q rose in a garden of
green,
Adapper young clerk in an ice-cream saloon,
Doth a dude and a Ounce, Is 10 carry of soon;
And a boy that is ten, and the pride of your
eye,
Is caught smoking vile cigarettes on the sly
All, that's what it is to be forty.
Al twenty a man dreams Of power and fame;
At thirty his fire has a soberer flame;
At forty his dreams and his visions are DER,
And he knows, and he feels, as he ne'er did
before,
That a man is afool till he's forty.
All, we're young anS we're old, and we're
green and we're gray,
And the law of our living is change and de.
cay;
Come, see the lone spot in the Valley of
Tears,
Where your baby lies low in the cradle of
years,
When no longer on earth he Is forty.
Philadelphia Press.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-29
KEEPING HIS WORD,

A Thirty Thousand Dollar Job-A Young
Man T"at Could BE depended Upon.
The head clerk of a large firm in
Charlestown promised an old customer
one day half a bale of Russian duck, to
be on ha>d at one o'clock, when the
man was to leave town with his goods.
The firm was out of dvck, and the
clerk went over to Boston to buy some.
Not finding a truckman, he hired u
man to take it over on his wheelbar-
row.. Finishing other business, on his
return to Charlcstown the clerk found
the man not half way over the bridge,
sitting on his barrow, half dead with
tho heat. What was to be donep 1t
was then 1890, and the goods were
promised at one. There was not a
moment 70 lose. In spite of the heat,
the dust andhis fine clothes, the young
man seized the wheelbarrow and
pushed on. Pretty soon a rich mer-
chant, whom the young man knew
very well, riding on horseback, over
took him. Whist" said he, "Mr.
Wilder turned tr1ckman?" "Yes,"
answered the clerk. ''The goods are
promised at one o'clock, and my man
has given out; but you see 7 am deter
mined to be good as my word" Good,
good!' said the gentleman, and started
on.
Calling at the store where the young
was employed. he told his en-
ployer what he had seen. "And I
want to tell him. said the gentleman,
''that when he goes into business for
himself my name is at his service for
S3o, OOO.' Reaching the store, which
did in time. the high price set on his
conduct made amend for the heat, anx.
iety and fatigue Of the. job. Keeping
word-you see how important it is
regarded. 1t is one Of the best kinds
Of capital a business man can have. To
be worth much to anybody, q boy must
form Q character for reliability. He
must be depended upon. And you
would like to know, perhaps, that this
young man became q Of the most
eminent merchants Of his day, and
Known far and wide, both In Europe
md this country. His name is s. VS..
Wilder, the first president Of the Amer
can Tract Society. Kind Words.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-29
poRrAsLe FENCE.


4 wlsconslA Farmers simple and vsrS
tssfaI Contrivsnces
Who win be the first to build that
light. cheap, portable fence. which
farmers have been looking for sd
mafy tearsp Many patents have been
taken out to Protect the inventors Of
this kind Of fence. As far as l know.
these patents were all unnecessary, for
10 farmer would ever build one of those
patent fences, unless some smooth
tongued agent talked him out of his
senses. One idea n through the
heads of all these inventors, however
much they may differ in regard to de-
tails there must be no post or stake
driven into the ground. They throw
out Of the account labor, lumber and
distance: Ihaye seen a cut Of a patent
fence that would weigh five hundred
pounds to the rod, and take a man half
a day to build it, and then it was built
zigzag in order to make it stand with
out posts in the ground, thus greatly
increasing the distance. They gain on
one point, but lose on three.
Last sprihg l had forty fods Of fencs
to build On rented land. To build d
permanent fence was unnecessary. as I
would want to remove it at the expira-
ton of my lease. To pattern after any
fence l had vel seen or heard of was
equally absurd. At first I fell into the
old error of building with braces. This
l found would require too much labor,
and it could not be loaded on a sled or
wagon without taking apart. l hit
upon a plan hat suited me. l built
two rods and was disguised with it.
Finally I bought boards Is feet long
and s inches wide, and 2x4 scant-
lings ~ feet long. The scant-
lings were sawed in the middle, sharp
ened and driven into the ground nearly
16 feet apart. Four boards were nailed to
cleats with steel nails and these were
clinched, Three rleats are sufficient
for I'M panel. Those at the end should
be long enough to rest on the ground
when the lower board is about six
inches above. Then 1 fastened the
panels I'd the scantlings with q single
bolt. If the stakes are driven so that
the panels lap four inches, the bolt
will 60 through both. In winter these
bolts may be taken out and the fence
carried on a sled wherever it may be
wanted. This fence requires less labor
han any other kind I ever built. If in
a windy place stakes may be driven in
the middle and fastened together with
wire.
While not perfect, such a fence is
very convenient to move a great dis
lance once in two or three years. To
move a few rods every day, | use a
small pen with two wheels Cor.
Country Gentleman.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-29
A PRINTING


4 Wcndarfdl Electrical Mschins That
Sends . Message sdd Keeps 4 CoIy.
A number Of bankers, lawyers, scien-
lists and journalists gathered the other
afternoon at the office Of the 1nterna-
tional Printing Telegraph Company to
witness a practical test Of an electrical!
invention which, it is claimed, will
largely supplant the telephone This
Is the printing telegraph. The instru-
ment looks very much like q type
writer, but il has this advantage over
. typewriter, that while it prints one
copy, or manifold copies if desired,
right before the operators eyes, it
prints exac. duplicate copies at the
other end of telegraph wire, hundreds
or thousands Of miles away. Among
other advantages which 1t possesses
over She ordinary telegraph OF tele-
phone system is that it gives the send.
er an exact copy of every tiessage he
sends and places every word fight
before his eyes, so that any mistake
will be at once detected. 1t can be OPP
Grated by any child who can read
and can be operated as fast as . type
writer, which is considerably faster
than the Morse telegraph system. As
showing the advantages that the print
ing telegraph possesses over any thing
now in use, it is claimed that a mes
sage a be transmitted to the posses.
sor of an instrument in his absence
from his Office and he will find it re-
corded. The recording of the message
at both points Of ssnding and receiv-
ing prevents disputes as to the con.
tents of the message. 1t is impossible
to read by sound or to intercept a mes.
sage by tapping the wires, thus render
ing secrecy complete. Its absolute ac.
curacy renders it invaluable in com.
mercial orfnancial transactions, espe-
cially for bankers. merchants, railroads
and all other persons requiring minute
accuracy. 1t can be used as q stock
indicators It will duplicate the same
message at any number of points, and
can give any number of reproductions
of an original message in transfer. Its
use for newspapers is invaluable. A
correspondent in Boston, for example, /
can call up offices in New York, Phila.
delphia, Baltimore and Cincinnati and
produce his copy in the office of news
papers in each place ready for imme-
date use in the composing-room. The
instrument is both a receiver and trans
Mitter.
At the exhibition all that has been
claimed for the printing telegraph was
apparently justified. There were two
instruments in the room, but they were
practically about one hundred and
thirty miles apart, for the wire that
connected them ran from one instru.
ment to the city of Reading and then
back to the other instrument and the
same messages were printed on both
instruments simultaneously. That is
to say the operator touched a
key like the key of a type-writ-
er and a letter was printed on
the paper on the instrument before
him, and at the same instant the same
letter appeared on the paper on the
other instrument at the other end Of
the wire, overa hundred miles long. 1t
would have been the same if the wire
had been a thousand miles long
Philadelphia Times.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-29

The Lick Observatory at San
Francisco has ordered q set of instru.
ments for automatically registering
earthquake shocks,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-29

Any breed is better than no breed
for the good farmer, and no breed is
letter than any breed for the poor
farmer.-MoAtrea! WStness,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-29

james Chalmers, Of Dundee, Scot
land, was the first person who gummed
Postage-stamps,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-29

q 1atler tenderness.
There were tears in the bright eyes
when she looked up. For the second
time within a few hours Jack forgot
her m%anliness, and vas crying. But
the tears and the bushes gave q soft
ness and charm to her face that made
it wonderfully attractive to Malcolm
Boyd, the young minister; and she
looked so sweet and lovable and
womanly that he felt an almost ire.
sistible inclination to take her to his
heart.
"She will be a woman worth the
having he thought; and then and
there resolved to win her for his own.
Jack had meant to make some
pretty speech to the minister, to thank
him for helping her; but she only re.
membered now how she had felt bis
arms around her in the starlight, and
blushing, she hung her head in silence.
That was two months ago. She smiles
now when she thinks oft for she is
no longer shy with the minister. Can
you guess whyp MI. Doran is build.
ing a beautiful little parsonage close
by the village church, and Rumor says
that, when it is completed, Jack will
60 there as the minister's bride. Per.
haps it is so; for she is growing SC
quiet and womanly that her happy
mother (who is renewing her owr
youth in beautiful Glenside) says thai
God has doubly blessed Jacks venture,
N Y. Ledger.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1886-07-14
WHOLE NO. 1868.
A Trains Fast Trim.

Lew Silence is one of the veteran pas
senger conductors on the New York d.
vision of the Pennsylvania railroad. Ho
runs the 730 o'clock train from Phila-
delphia to New York every morning.
The other day he pulled little note
book out of his pocket and, turning to
June 13, said:
/ made that memorandum six years
ago. That was the fastest run ever made
on the New York division of the Penn,
sylvania railroad from Philadelphia to
New York-ninety-two miles in ninety
three minutes. The train made three
stops and seven slow-ups. There was
only one car and an engine. The car
was filled with passengers from the West,
and l ran the train. There had been q
storm up in the State the night before,
and on the middle division of the main
line, between Harrisburg and Altoona,
big tree blew across the track. think
it was in the Lewiston narrows. The fast
line, as the train was called, was four
hours and thirty-one minutes late when
it got to Philadelphia. l got orders to
take those passengers to New York as
quick as an engine could pull car. The
whole road was cleared for my train. We
went so fast that telegraph poles looked
like toothpicks and houses like soap
boxes. One mile was made in forty-six
seconds, another mile in forty-scven Sec
onds and third mile in forty mine Sec
onds. When we went down the hill at
Menlo Park, We travelled three miles at
the rate of scventy-eight miles an hour
around curves and on the straight track.
If man had put his head out of win
dow he would have lost his breath.
That's the history Of the fastest run ever
made on the New York division. I've
been on some pretty fast trains, but that
beats them all. l often see stories in the
newspapers about fast runs made on
Western roads, but when you come to
ride nine'y-two miles in nincty-three min
utcs, through thickly settled country
like that between this city and New York,
why, it's fast riding, because an engineer
has to slow up going through every big
town. Still, we went through Elizabeth
that day running flfty-eight miles an
hour.