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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-19

something About the Best Nut PrOUuceU
by the North American Forests.
Popular Science Mohthly.1
1t is favorite pas,ime of our country
population during the long winter even
ings to gather round the fire and crack
and eat hick ory-nuts 1t is an amusement,
too, peculiarly American, and for the sim
pie reason that in this country alone are
the nuts to be had in any abundance. Per-
haps, where almonds or English walnuts
are equally common, cracking hickory
nuts is superseded by a resort to these
other fruits They, however, are much
easier to open than the hickory nut and
with thinner shells are readily cracked at
the table. But in America, in those dis
tricts where the peanut does not take the
place of other nuts, the cracking of the
hickory still continues. Whether it
be the pecan of Texas and Illinois, or the
shell-bark or mocker-nut of the Central or
same. They are the best nuts the forests
of North America produce, and some of
them are thought to be superior in flavor
to the much-esteemed English walnut.
Year after year have hundreds and thou
sands Of bushels of the she'll barks, vhe
hickory-nuts par excellence, been gathered
in various parts of the country. Among
these, few can have failed to notice the
many differences they present. Some are
small and nearly round; some are long,
narrow and angular; some have thick
shells, and some thin ones as any one who
has cracked his fingers along with the shell
can bear witness.
According to evolutionary doctrines,
variability in an important feature is an
indication either of low tate of develop
ment, or that the organism is in state of
advancement. Various facts show the lat
ter to be the case with the shell-bark hick-
Dry. The first stages of the onward march
must be sought far back in prehistoric
times, for it boasts an ancient if not an
honorod lineage. Before the hairy mann
moth roamed the forests of the Ohio val
lay; before the soil of Louisiana was yet
ABOVE the oceans waters; before the Ohio
had become tributary to the mighty Mis-
sissippi; before even the Rocky mountain
range had been elevated above the waste
of waters, the ancestors of this hickory
f1OuriShed in the land
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-19
POULTRY TALK.
Selection for Qualify of as Much Impt
lance as Selection for Breed.

Selection for Qualify of as Much Impor-
lance as Selection for Breed.
The main object in keeping or rails
ing any kind of livestock on farm is
profit. How much this has been over
looked at different times during manias
for certain breeds of poultry and other
animals is matter of history. A few
years ago Jersey cattle were much adj
mired for form and beauty, while too
little regard was paid to their milking
qualifications. Many animals realized
high prices on pedigree alone; now the
butter or milk test is taking the lead.
1t is high time that more attention
should be given to individual fowls re-
garding their laying capabilities. 1t is
not enough that breed should be en-
tirely relied upon for its productiveness;
individual hens, known as better lay
crs than others of the flock, can always
be picked out by an intelligent poultry
breeder on a farm, or by fancier.
Much more benefit would be derived
by selecting such hens to breed from,
than by sacrificing such excellent quail
tiles for the markings of feathers This
is especially so with the farmer who
makes profit from eggs, not from the
sale of birds. The fancier can select
such hens from his best pens, but the
fact is, we hear of nothing of the
kind being done, as he pays more
attention to markings. That there
is very great difference in birds of
any particular breed | am sure from
long experience Take Light Brahmas,
for instance; Ihave known some hocks
where the hens laid but very few
eggs and then wanted to SIT, spending
most of their time eating or sitting,
while another mans fowls of the same
breed kept on laying all winter In
one instance of this kind the flock of
hens were shut up in a garnet in the
business part of New York City In
another case, q friend kept popular
breed that proved very poor layers; he
changed for several different strains of
the same breed with no better results;
yet this same breed have done we'll
with other people. 1t was not the
care, but only the character Of the
birds that made the difference. 1t can
be easily seen that selection for quality
among the birds in any flock is of as
much Importance as the selection of
breed that is supposed to possess said
quality, and of far more Importance
than selection for feathers. If every
farmers wife or children who take
charge of the poultry will notice which
hens lay the most and largest eggs, no
matter what the breed, if good varie-
ties, set their eggs and select the pullets
for keeping if this is done for several
years, the result will be fine, prolific
lot of poultry that could not be OBJ
tanned by any other means. -RuraI
Ne2n Yorker
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town on purpose. 1t must be here some
where,n and he began cropping over the
ground.
! This was no laughing matter. Their mo-
| tions attracted the attention of the whole
family, each member proffering help in the
! search. Was there ever such an awkward
climax to love affair! Their engagement
had not yet been openly announced, and
here the youngest child had to hear the
story how Sanford Stiles had bought a ring
for Mollie and lost it!
Don't believe he ever had a ring,m said
her cousin Sam, who wanted her himself.
'He's just pretending to get out of buying
one.n
"TI make him eat his wordsl" retorted
the irate lover, stopping long enough to
glare at his rival
'Was it dimont wing~ asked the
youngest tot of the tribe.
Father and mother joined in the search.
Mollie, red and distressed, at last gave itup.
"It's such bad luckp' she suggested to
her mother, in fearful voice.
Very good people are given to supersti-
ton, and there are few who will not SYM
pathlze with the lovers who are so unfort-
innate as to lose their engagement-ring.
! 'Its a goner" said Mollie's brother Bob,
a horrid boy of ten. ''When give my girl
a ring / amt a-goin' inter no ten-acre lot to
dew it. Eff you'd had emmy sense, Mol,
you'd have grabbed it quick.'
Poor MollieI She was just ready to cry,
and she disapr Jared from the scene, and
her lover went home when he had, as Bob
expressed it, "grubbed" over the whole
| farm.
81 dare say it's right here under bit of
grass or the leaves somewhere. 1t didn't
have wings Bob, I'll give you silver
dollar if you'll find it,"
| "Done," said Bob, with a wicked look.
''Please describe it."
''Why, you amt expecting to find har-
vest of rings, air ye!" asked his father.
''How can | tell if it's his? l amt goin'
to find no strange rings. Meow, is it gold
or brass, Mister Stiles!n
cts plain, wide gold band, and It's got
Mollie-Mollie'-
$50 on" prompted Bob, as the unhappy
lover came to full stop.
'Mollie, darlingp and with that he
waited not upon the order OF his going, but
went at once, leaving Bob doubled up with
| commissions of uncanny laughter.
'Pay in advance" called the graceless
youngster after the retreating lover
| But, to do Bob justice, he really did
search every inch of the ground over, and
found no end of things-a disabled lady
bug, four-leaved clover, rusty jack
knife lost months previous-but no sign of
any engagement-ring
TOLD you so! He didn't hev emmy, Shoe
Mollie, I'll get youa ring with sapphiras
and rubbes in it if yen jest say So" said
her cousin Sam.
But Mollie scorned him and his offer, and
that night she cried herself to Sleep
week passed, and Thanksgiving Day
came 1t was day of days. Farmer Hart
ner came of good Puritan stock, and the
| fires of patriotism burned in his soul. He
had given one son to his country, and he
would have given ten if he had them,
and the country needed them. In a family
with such head, National Holiday means
| something more than an observance of the
letter of the feast; it means the whole
spirit. The best turkeys, the fairest chick
ems, the tenderest ducks, were laid on the
sacrificial altar. Friends and neighbors
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Belle A. Doneugh is the name of a

Belle A. Doncugh is the name of a
drug-clerk in New Jersey town.
Mrs. Frelinghuysen, widow of the
late Secretary of State, has bought a
site for home in Lenox, Mass.
Augustus Jessup is the richest
man in Philadelphia. He is twenty
four years old and has an annual in
come of between $50. 900 and S7O,0
twenty-five per cent. of the new
books brought out last month were
written by women. They also wrote
thirty-three per cent. of the poems. -
Boston Globe.
The historian, Bancroft, may be met
almost every day walking with his
granddaughter in Washington, says
for the past ten years.
Chief-Justice Waite is persistent
pedestrian. He never waits for the
street-cars or hires a cab, b1t daily
walks both ways from his home in the
west end to the Capitol. L. Washington
Post
Mr.. Gladstone calls his study the
tsTemple of Peace There are three
writing desks there At one Mr. Glad
stone does his political writing, at
another his literary work, and the
third belongs to Mrs. Gladstone.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont at the
age of sixty preserves all the strong in
tellectual tastes of her youth, together
with her great physical courage and
love of stirring adventure and travel
rare traits in Woman.-M Y. Irib-
me.
Mss Angelo Seligman, daughter
of the New York banker, drew a rich
prize in the matrimonial lottery.
Among her wedding presents were
four checks one for $50. 900, another
for 500, 900 and two for $1,000.-M Y.
Mail.
Mrs. Sarah Bush Lincoln, the step
mother of Abraham Lincoln, once said:
Il had son John who was raised
with Abe. Both were good boys, but
must say, both now being dead, that
Abe was the best boy ever saw O. ex-
pect to see. '-Det1oH Free Press.
Rev N Van Alstine, of Raymer-
WV Ii, AeChooCldCl SOuuUy, WHO IeCenb-
ly celebrated his semi-centennial as a
Christian minister. stated in his me-
mortal sermon that his pastoral rela-
ton had never been suspended for a
single Sunday during the entire fifty
years of service. He had never taken
a vacation nor had he ever ceased from
care or work except during few
brief seasons of sickness. - Troy en-
" Times.
Wallace P. Reed, of the Atlanta
Constitution, says that if you will sit
down and stay down you will live for
ever. He practices what he breaches.
The Constitution says that for twelve
hours every day he sits at his desk;
four hours he sits at home. 1t takes
twelve minutes to walk three hundred
yards four times each day. He sleeps
seven and half hours His health is
perfect. His appetite is keen, his
brain is clear and his capacity for
work remarkable. He is never sick a
day or an hour or minute. He is
genial, fresh, bright, and does not age
shade.
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must be made as uncomfortable as possible.
He could only telegraph with his eyes, but
he did that to such good effect that Mollie
! put sugar on her turkey and salt into her
coffee, and would never have known it but
for that scamp Bob. And then, as bad
luck would have it, Granther Hartner, who
is quite deaf, began to ask questions.
"Seen We outen the garding a-huntin' for
somethin' t'other day, Bob; seen all hands,
in fact. Lost any thin'.'
This was Bob's opportunity. He bawled
"Yes, granp', Moll lost her ring! Stop
maxim faces at me, SAM Stilesl l amt
scarf of you.''
"a ring-what ringa hey-was it goldsn
inquired the old man.
Talking of gold," began Uncle Dan'l,
sin '49, when was in Californyn-
But terrific shrek from Bob at that
moment stopped alike the discourse and the
dinner That youth was shut up like a
jack-knife, and his face distorted in some
kind of agony.
''He's swallowed the wish-bone,n sug-
gested Sam.
1.-THE dear child's choking to death p
cried his mother.
Mollie alone was equal to the occasion
Without moments hesitation she threw a
pitcher of water over him. He gasped and
sputtered.
'Oh, won't pay you for that!' he ex-
claimed, as soon as he got his breath.
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were invited in. Old "Gran'ther Hart
ner," who "titn in the war of Mexico, was
present 'to shoulder his crutch and show
how fields were WOMB "Uncle Dan'l -
who had the California fever, and began
every speech with: 'In 40, SIR" was al
ways an invited guest, and the long extern
sion-table in the eating room was eked out
with side auXiliaries until it resembled the
banquet-board of a grove convention. And
when the company sat down to their
Thanksgiving dinner, there wasn't q hands
space Of the white table-cloth visible. 1t
was completely covered with what, in mod
ern parlance, we would call ''edibles,' but
which the farmer designated ''as good,
hullsome vittles."
And every body was happy, not except
ing the three lovers. For Sanford Stiles
had decided that even if he had stupidity
lost the ring, he still had the girl, and Sam
Hartner had made up his mind that he
didn't want to marry cousin, and he
was going that very evening to pro-
pose to Ella Dunlap, the Wayne County
heart-smasher, who had signifed that
"Barkis was willin'.n And Mollie-but
what had come to Mollie?
Her cheeks were redder than any dog
rose that ever bloomed. The dimples
twinkled like sister stars, and her eyes
were filled with suppressed laughter, and
such wicked, knowing Look, that Bob
asked several times:
"What be you a-gigglin' at, Moll9"
The older ones were too much absorbed
in admiration of the viands to do much
talking. There was that great brown,
odoriferous turkey bursting with it's own
richness, and sending out whiffs Of sage
and onions every time the iron entered its
soul. And there was a great steaming
chiclen-pie, with rose on the top made of
the crust. And several brace of roasted
duck; and bowls of cranberry sauce; and
mince and pumpkin pies; and toothsome
doughnuts. And trays of bread cut in gem
erous slices; bread that was made with
care and 'salt-risin,n and, oh dear! could
not give an inventory of all the good things
If | tried to-, or describe the varied qualities
that made the occasion one to be
remembered. But there was one incident
that was of moment to at least two per-
sons present. Sanford Stiles was seated
opposite Mollie. He did not get there until
dinner was on the table, or he would have
been down at the far end among the boys,
and remote from Mollie, on the principle
existing nearly every where-that lovers
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HINTS ON FLOWING.
Subsoiling valuable Addition to til
Preparation of the Soil.

subsoiling valuable Addition to the
Preparation of the Soil.
1t is not many years since the theory
of trench-plowing was generally advo-
Gated by theorists, and not until the
practical demonstration showed gthe
fallacy of the idea as a renovator of
the soil was it generally discarded. A
very little consideration would have
shown, except in special soils for GER
tain special crops, whose roots ramfy
deep, that trench-plowing is a fallacy.
We have come to know that five
inches, measured against the land side,
is deep blowing for average crops, and
that eight inches would be considered
deep blowing for any crop ordinarily
cultivated on the farm.
But while ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS a
sub-furrow completely on the top of
the first furrow-is not good practice
as rule, there is no objection to sub
soiling following in the furrow with
a subsoil pillow which simply lifts, say,
six inches of the subsoil and drops it
back into the furrow, thus pulverizing
the whole mass. This is a valuable
addition to the preparation of the soil
for many crops But to ; the best
results in this way, the soil, if not nat
urally well drained, should first be
tile-drained. The reason is that stiff
clays are liable to be water-so aked at
particular seasons. When this occurs,
the water not being able to escape
quickly below, the soil to the whole
depth becomes like mortar-bed and
upon drying becomes hard. But if un-
derdrained the water percolates easily
to the tile and the soil remains dry and
friable because porous.
Mr.. John Lemmax, of Ohio, states
his experience in respect to deep plow-
ing, and also upon another point not
generally known in respect to blowing
hillsides. He says:
''lt does not pay 80 plow too deep
for all grain crops, as they do not all
require the same depth to root. | have
noticed ever since | had any thing
to do with blowing that land for wheat
or oats, where the furrow was turned
uphill, always produced a better crop
of grain than that portion of the land
that was turned down-hill, asit was
plowed deeper. Turning up the cold
clay was not congenial to the growth
of the small grain. For coin or pota-
toes it is different, as they require
deeper culture, and the old-fashioned
way of marking for corn, with single
shovel, placed the corn down so that
the roots came in contact with top of
soil turned under. and deep blowing
in dry weather would furnish more
moisture for crop; the same with pota-
oes. y Chicago Tribune.
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SOILS FOR SHEEP.
The Different Portions of the United
States Adapted to Sheep Raising.

Ine DlHcrenG POFtlOOS OF the united
States Adapted to Sheep Raising.
The soil areas adapted to sheep in
the United States, under modern sys-
TENS of cultivation, is, without doubt,
greater according to area than in any
other country on the globe; for the last
ten years has shown that the great
plains region and the Rocky Mountain
Valley regions, as well as the great
Basin and those portions of California,
Oregon and Washington Territory once
thought almost worthless for grazing,
are quite well adapted thereto.
From climatic point of view again,
all that region adapted to the cultiva-
ton of the grape is found to be con-
genial to sheep. SO far as the United
States is concerned, as to the very best
zone, it will be, as TO the northern
limits, a line extending from Boston,
on the Atlantic, to the Pacific, through
Northern CGlfGrnia, and south from
the Carolinas west to the Mississippi,
and thence southwest and west to
Southern California. including all the
elevated portion of Texas, but extend
ing both north and south according to
circumstances; so that, in a modified
sense. much of the territory lying south
of the mouth of the st. Lawrence, due
westto the Rocky mountains, and thence
northwesterly to the Pacific, may be
made available to the keeping OF sheep
for their wool. The wild sheep of the
Rocky mountains (OUts Montand), in
fact, is found from the Mackenzie river
to Northern Mexico. The latitude OF
Virginia west may be regarded as the
central line in the United States
where, in the keeping of sheep, fine
woods may be reared at the least ex-
pense in feeding and shelter, for Stats
ties show that the most excellent of the
fine woods are produced where the an
nual temperature is about fifty eight
degrees Fahrenheit. So amean annual
temperature of forty-five degrees may
be regarded as the northern limit of
temperature of profitable sheep-breed-
ing.-Breeder's Gazette.
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The Liquor-Men's Good Work.

The insolence of the liquor men is
one of the encouraging features of the
war on the saloon. 1t is to be hoped
it will increase, for though it will cause
trouble here and there and result in in
dividual loss and suffering, the final
effect will be to intensity the feeling
that the "saloon must 90" A Baptist
church burnt in one place because its
members were fighting the drunkard-
makers, men threatened and assaulted
because they are foremost in resisting
the traffic, politics controlled by dram
sellers and money subscribed by the
thousands of dollars to influence Legis-
latures-all these are but signs of the
growing storm. They will help hurry
on the reformation that is coming.
Though details OF Temperance senti-
ment present many sharp differences,
there is a growing agreement in the
belief that the public sale of liquor, be-
cause it is public offense and cause of
Generalization, can no longer be toll
Grated. The rum-sellers are doing all
they can to help this belief. = United
Presbyterian.
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Nere close at the mother's knee

But the little brown house by the road
is lonely now and still,
For Robin is dead, and Alice is wed,
And Louie must bide at the mill;
Father is gray and silent,
And the mothers foot is slow,
And you hear the clock, with its faint tick-toclI
AS you could not long ago.
The little brown house by the road
From the swift train flashing by,
watch il stand in the quiet land,
Under the quiet sky;
From the time Of the golden dais les
TO the hour of the falling leaves
From the time of seed to the waving mead,
And the flush of the ripened sheaves.
The little brown house by the road,
When passed it yester cen,
Sudden and sweet it laughed to greet
My eyes with dazzling sheen;
There were lamps in the twinklihg windows
knew as l ratified past
That the fire was bright on the hearth alght,
And the children home at last
TO the little brown house by the road
Had come Thanksgiving Day,
And the wintry air il they felt it there,
Had the tender warmth Of May.
The fathers tongue was loosened,
And the mothers laugh was clear,
For the chrism of love was poured above
The home in the waning year.
The little brown house by the road
OH mother, old and gray,
Honest and true they return TO you,
The children who went away;
And Rex, who is off in the army,
And Archie, afar on the sea,
Never forget the tasks they were set,
At home, by the mothers knee.
From little brown homes by the road,
The strength of our land is brought
Paying their way from day to day,
Simple and pure in thought.
The chord Of grand Thanksgiving
From homes like this ascends
To the glory Of One beyond the sun,
Whose kingdom never ends
-Adrgdret H. SdaGster, in Democrats Monthly.
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An Ancient Burial Chamber.

In the neighborhood of Stonehenge.
England, mound exists which anti
quarians had long suspected to be a
barrow A trench has now been cut
through the center of it, laying bare,
at depth of four feet, large slab.
This stone formed the cover of burial
chamber, the sides and ends of which
were composed of smaller stones set
on edge. The interior was filled with
black loan, surrounding the skeleton
of man, who must have been six feet
in height. At the right hand of the
remains a sword and aspear-head were
found, while the bones of the left hand
grasped a shield, the convex side of
which is incised with characters unde-
cipherable through age. On further
examination it was found that the
knee-joints of the skeleton were sur
rounded by osseous growths uniting
the upper and lower parts of the leg
into one continuous limb.--M z. Post.