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The Grenada gazette., 1886-07-24
WILD OATS,

sown in the -pring time of the fairest lives,
To fall, pcrrnanCe on fallOw land or void,
The ira tru! seed, NO culture needs, and
thrlvvS,
And gives to him who sows an hundred
told.
All other grains, when sown, require our
care,
THIS only needs the.sowing, and no more !;
And whether winds be warm or foul or Tair,
The harN est surely will Increase the store.
The sower Of all other croos may reap or no;
This one must garnered be when it is
grown,
The law is fixed, we must reap what we sow,
And each must gather what himself hath
Accused seedl and since the fall Of man
Its banelul fruit has poisoned countless
years;
we SOW it recklessly, and know We can
But garner It with bitter, Scaiding tears.
-Faiter Cooper, IN N. Y Ledger.
The Grenada gazette., 1886-07-24
BIRD SONG.
A Charming Prose Poem on the Hedge
SparrOw's Marble.

A Charming Prose Poem on the Hedge
sparrows Marble.
1t is sweet On awakening in the early
morn to listen to the small bird singing
on the tree. No sound of voice OF flute
is like to the birds song; there is
something in it distinct and separate
from all other notes. The throat of
woman gives forth more perfect
music, and the organ is the glory Of
mans soul. The bird upon the tree
utters the meaning of the wind-a
voice of the grass and wild flower.
words of the green leaf; it speaks
through that slender tone. Sweetness
of dew and riffs of sunshine, the dark
hawthorn touched with breadths of open
bud, the odor of the air, the color of
the daffodil-all that is delicious and
beloved of spring time are expressed
in his song. Genius is nature, and his
lay, like the sap in the bough from
which he springs, rises without thought.
Nor is it necessary that it should be a
song; few short notes in the sharp
spring morning are sufficient to stir
the heart. But yesterday the least OF
them all came to a bough by my win.
dow, and in his call | heard the sweet
briar wind rushing over the young
grass. Refulgent fall the golden rays
of the sun; minute only, the clouds
cover him and the hedge is dark. The
bloom of the gorse is shut like book,
but is there--a few hours of warmth
and the covers will fall open. The
meadow is bare, but in little while
the heart-shaped celandine leaves will
come in their accustomed place. On
the pollard willows the long wands are
yellow-i,lidy in the passing CLEAN OF
sunshine, the first color OF spring ap-
pears in their bark The delicious wind
rushes among them and they bow and
rise; 1t touches the top of the dark pine
that looks in the sun and the same now
as in summer; it lifts and swings tho
arching trail of bramble; it dries and
crumbles the earth in its fingers; the |
hedge-sparrow's feathers are futtered |
as he sings on the bush. --Lo'sgman's
Magasine.
The Grenada gazette., 1886-07-24

on the flower vase made no ansv,,
this last remark, but they each though,
that it was impossible for Cleopatra to
look worse than she did.
The maid came in just then, and
showed aside the curtains TO open tho
window before she began tie weekly
sweeping.
"As sure as I'm aloivs, here's that
baste Of a doll. wish it vas burnt
It's enough to give body bad dhrames
to look at it,"
'Do you know, Molly, that Miss Mid.
get niver cared for that doll as she did
for the little one with the china head
and calico dress?" said the footman.
"Do yez not know why? shure, its
because it was so dressed up there was
no comfort in playing with it. She
tould them she'd muss her up so that
the mistress would not keep tellin' her
to be careful" 4"
"Molly, Molly, have you seen Cleo
patraP" said Midget, dancing into the
room, with very plain and quiet
looking doll, with china head, on her
arm.
"Here she is, MISS" said Molly,
picking Cleopatra from the floor.
II do not want her any more, Molly.
She looks unpleasant. You may put
her in the ash-barrel."
II will be glad to, miss. l do not
think ye loved her very much, ever,
MISS"
mo, not as much I do Comfort"
and she hugged the doll in her arms
closer to her; when Cleopatra was
new she was so stiff and SO dressed up
that she never made any fun. And
then, when she got mussed ever 50
little, she looked old and homeT.
Mamma says she did not wear we'll
Please put her in the ash-barrel, Molly"
ITO think of my being thrown aside
for q doll with china face, and who
wears q calico dress! OF course ! was
stiff. She could not expect SO fine =
doll as me to be any thing but dlgni-
fied-she said stiff She wears ging-
ham dress sometimes herself, and I
never should have belonged to such q
family. How elegant l looked in the
l. ~
ciated me. An ash barrel, indeedl
Some passer-by will recognize my true
elegance, and rescue me-" were the
last words heard by the Japanese lady
and gentleman as Molly carried Caso-
patra off.
"Hie there. Billy! Do ye mind the
scarecrow,' and a bootblack took
Cleopatra by her torn skirt out of the
barrel. ''D'ye want her for yer little
sister?'
NAV! She got a cleau whole
one"
"But hers rag doll, Billy
Il know it. But isn't clean, whole
rag doll, with the loveliest smile on its
face, bettern that one with the ugly
scowl between its eyes, and a dirty
silk dress?'
And Cleopatra was dropped into the
barrel, where she lay until an Italian
rag-picker tore off her silk dress and
put the pieces in his pocket for his lit
tie girl, and ripped open the body,
shook out the sawdust and putt in his
bag. That was the last of Cleopatra.
Christian Union.
The Grenada gazette., 1886-07-24
A COWS ADVENTURE.
She Visits and Causes Disturbance in
tho Sunday-SchOol.

She Visits and Causes 4 Disturbance in
the Sunday-SchooL
1t was pretty church, and all
about IT were fields of daisies, and
sweet-smelling clover. Now when
Buttercup went to this church, she did
not go to the regular service, but to
Sunday-school. Buttercup was large,
yellow cow, who belonged in a field
next to the church, in which she ought
to have staid.v There was plenty Of
nice grass there for her breakfast din
ner and supper. But Buttercup, like
good many people, wanted a change,
and when she saw all the boys and
girls going into the church door, she
thought she would like to 60. She
tried all the rails of the fence till she
found one that was loose. Then she
jerked her head up and down, till she
unfastened it so she could crawl
through on her knees.
The Sunday-school had begun by
this time, but Buttercnp did not mind
that. She walked into the church
quietly, and rs the children and their
teachers were all singing, no one
noticed her at first. The children
were sitting in the pews nearest the
chancel, SO Buttercup got half way up
the aisle before any one saw her.
Then one little boy turned his head.
He was SO frightened his hymnal fell
on the floor; and he cried out: "Oh,
see the cow!" Then it seemed az if
every body screamed. One OF the
teachers got on top of the little cabinet
organ, and two or three stood up on
the seats.
Buttercup, however, paid no atten-
ton to them. She saw nice red apple
sticking out of boys pocket, and she
thought she would like to have it. The
boy, who was Jack Nichols, did not
know what she wanted, so when she
came near he jumped over into the
next pew and knocked little Daisy
Finlay's hat off, and that made Daisy
cry.
What Buttercup would have done
next l don't know; so many people
cried: "Shoo!' and there was so much
noise, she might have got frightened
herself, and a frightened COW can do
great deal of damage in a church; but
Miss Lloyd, who was the superinten-
dent called to every one to be quiet
Then two or three of the bigger boys
said if they had stick they thought
they could get her out But Miss
Lloyd spoke again:
"If there is any boy here whom the
cow knows" she said, II think she
would follow him out, and that would
be better than trying to drive her."
"she's my grandfather's cow said
Bruce Smith, land l guess she will
follow me,' So he went in front of
her and called "Buttercup, Butter
cup!" and. sure enough, she went after
him.
Now the vestry door was open, and
just opposite that was another door
opening out on the grass. AS soon as
Buttercup caught sight Of the nice
grass, she ran out and began to nibble
the fresh bits around the doorstep
Then, as much as to say goodbye"
she kicked up her feet, tossed her head
and trotted off to her own field-Littte
Men dnd Women.
The Grenada gazette., 1886-07-24
Entirely Too Argumentative.
Say, Gregg, I've had my salary
raiaad -

'"Say, Gregg, I've had my salary
raised"
Stockton, how did you manage
itp"
"By argument. He was giving you
thirty dollars q week aud myself but
twenty dollars. ! convinced him OF
the injustice, and he's going to pay me
five dollars more. That was liberal,
wasn't itp II equalizes things, you
see"
Eyes, Stockton, and that's precisely
what object to. ! wish you had been
less argumentative. He took five dol
lars q week off my salary In order to
add IL to yours. "--Philadslphia 0oA.
The Grenada gazette., 1886-07-24

Are you enjoying your dinner3'
asked Bobby of the minister, who was
taking Sunday dinner with the fami-
ly. "Yes, Bobby responded the min
ister, pleasantly. Mamma said this
morning that she thought you would,
as she didn't suppose that with your
small salary and big family you got
much to eat from one weeks end to
another. "--E1change.
The Grenada gazette., 1886-07-24
A STRAWBERRY FARM.
A Description Of the Largest One
in the World.
Where Nirth and Industry Go Hand III
Hand and There IL No Discriml-
nation Between Male ana
Female Labor.


Did Ton ever see a strawberry larhi?
Not a straw berry bed nor a Wberry
patch. but farm of three or four hum
dra1 aero. ON which nothinc is cnlti-
.;,,,,,,I [,t ..ro,.,.rr;, No+ ,,,1os0
,I..,;. >.,...,.L,,,1
Fo" nav "cel' W fl"l '"' W '"'''e " ''04
along the southern Atlantic coast anu .
when YOU get as far up as Norfolk. Va, /
Won can not ONLY see a rreat mum ber Of
horr,- farms hnt ono of t4o acrns
"n'C'' ~ ''.c '"A 7'9' " US N+'-'' IL 'l'N
world, a. N"floiA l. lle greatest straw
berry shipping place in the world. Atar
of the delicious odor comes waited,
and Eftla closer -mind this is straw
hou,,, +f,,o A., o,,o,r +la n;o.rra,,,,a-
'',0 f'N,,,,.i~
ne's' ~le "oFh anu l''h are ''N'"i f'''S>''''
For nearly all the plGkerS are negroes,
and the e TO laughs, sings, shouts and
dances at ms work. 1t Is hne, clear
May day-tor the Norfolk straw berries
are IN their prime about the flrst week
IN May-and hall q mile from the straw
perry n''Ho one I1 c't'l i,"i n '''I slll -
I@'E n'el' 'nS ",p' - ,1e 1 VI 'tle l.ooi "a y
tii1 li9"' ~ SHUTS Va ~ =. =. - q wv
e"',II''o =. i!'"9 ""'t ''' "llI,.
Stappng Young 1eIloW or a comely
dusNy maiden have got a good handful
OF paft!-r"i9ryd liChets, they are pfetly
iol ; ' w ,,'', " J ,,' .aa ~. ,A0 ~ >o , iivn,
lng NaVuj"n ana engage IN Il ilFeiy
I,I.~, ! irt, tha ,i'," foyd tTa M snnnn Nm. "
fIr1. ,t..If T6n hot % Nav snnsbina
,.nrs dovr r,,nn brnJrnis of man
1,,,,,on anI chi.1ror noarIT al hIocL
71,a EalI lis j, Ifridoi ,n+n Io3T vows and
what onnrar, 70 be- hrdI5m is soon
fonmI ~ r.. really a wonderful system
nf or,I.r F,vorv thinC GOES bv thp
D,,rh If tho ,tr9vbnrr2 Farmer who
L,u,,y- ,n..n,.nnI,. 4, hen the gang.p,ank
vii h. l.4,..l IN of the Iio New York
steamer. pu,f;nr and steamino in her
dock mn tIn river her dark hull ont
lined Clearly qcain>t tbe wharvc, and
shining Of Norfolk who calculates to
second how long it will take the stall
wart oar-man to null the heavy light
er~, laden with strawberry crates high
Above their heads, upstream to the
Steamer He knows. too, that the in
stalt Il f.. flashed over the wires that the
New Jersey berries have touched GER
tan figure he can not ship another
ba~k't although he may have thousands
of them liIIrd with the luscious fruit
So, from the day he begins to ship until
The Grenada gazette., 1886-07-24

Upward Of twenty-eight thousand
persons registered as visitors to Bun.
ksr Hill Monument the past yeat,
The Grenada gazette., 1886-07-24

1T Is estimated that about two mill
ion acres in Kansas have been added
to the cultivated area during the pass
two years.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-10-13
NOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Wick says q spot for pansiss
should be selected where IL 10 = little
shady. at least In the middle of the
day. A place entirely shady is not de-
sirable. A light soil. made rich with
well-rotted stable manure. 10 the place
for them. --Gardner's Monthly.
Poultry farming doesn't take =
great deal Of land, but with good
management the harvest comes ,very
dav. and. though it is small, its mul.
duplication by all the days Of the year
makes . sum that compares fSvorably
with more pretentious venturea-M
Y. telegram.
Keep dairy salt and all other that
il to be used for human food in clean
packages and away from all foul odors.
for salt will absorb Impurities from
bad air. and afterward impart in to
food with which it comes in contact.
Serious losses have occurred from ignor-
ance Of this fact N Y. Examiner.
Gather up oil the machinery on the
farm and see that it is cleaned. the
iron parts oiled and the wood work
we'll painted. Much of the machinery.
like cultivatOrs, corn plows. reapers
and mowers will not be needed until
next spring. The sooner they are
under proper shelter the better. There
is always more or less cleaning up on
every farm that can be profitably done.
and that will add very materially to
the appearance as we'll as the value Of
the place. Montreal Witness
If farmers will grow field Of fod-
der corn, they will find that it requires
less labor in proportion to yield Of prod
uce than any other crop tina. can be
grown. 1t NAV be sown very thickly
in the rows, and should be harvested
Just when in the milky state. SO as to
arrest the nutritive matter in the stalk
as it passes on its way to the ears.
Such crop is quickly grown. needs no
hoeing, can be cultivated one way and
can be carried as soon as cut directly to
the barn for storage. Times
A writer in the Garden says one
good use of stones in the garden is in
layering. for we find that shoots and
branches of all shrubs and trees root
much more quickly il placed in the soil
and covered with large stone than il
pegged down in the usual way. Even
for many hardy plants we find this
plan OF stone laycring very successful.
A few good powders. half sunk in the
turf, make fine position for clumps
of yucca fiaccide. or of acanthus. If
carefully grouped and fringed with
any small-leaved, creeping forms Of
ivy, stones Yske<ery beautiful groups
and add variety toflat surfaces.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-10-13
A MOA'S SKELETON.
A Probably Extinct Bird which Attained
Height Of Fourteen Feet.

frObobty Extinct BIRD which Attatne0
. Height Of Fourteen Feet.
Among the New Zealand exhibits at
the Colinderies in London is the skele-
ton Of q moA The moa was q ts~'
much larger than the ostrich, attain.
ing height Of fourteen feet, and but
recently extinct Indeed, it is held by
some that living specimens may still
exist in the interior of New Zealand.
though there is not much ground for
hope in this respect II is supposed
by naturalists that the bird lived large
ly on the roots of ferns so numerous in
the islands of Australasia, its legs and
claws being Of wonderful strength and
specially adapted for scratching. In
the new red sandstone of the COnnecti-
cut river valley in Massachusetts, i'm.
prints of the feet of large birds have
been found which are of character to
indicate that the moa. or bird very
nearly like it, once existed on this con-
tinent Here, however, it disappeared
at an early stage. The skeleton in the
Colinderies exhibition is ten feet high,
which, with two smaller specimens,
have been lent by the Canterbury (New
Zealand Museum. Exhibited with
The birds is the only moa's egg in ex.
istence. 1t was discovered in the Kai.
koura peninsula, and is about the size
of two ostrich eggs. Chicago Tribune.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-10-13
NOT A CANDIDATE.
A Man Who Has Not the Least Ambition
for Political Prefer ment.

n man VINO Haas NOT the Least AmDittOn
for Political Preferment.
'.Say!" he called out, as he ran up
stairs and entered the first Office to the
right. lis it true?"
"What?' calmly inquired the occu-
pant.
"That you have declined to allow
your name TO be used in the Congress
sional race?"
"Well-ahem-you-"
"Then it is true, and / have won new
hat! But, say, what on earth could
have possessed you TO decline, when
the nomination would have been mere
form, and the election q certainty"
But, as l was going to remark.
p
'Oh, certainly-private business
hOnOrs enOugh-an eye on the Cover
norship. and all that, but your friends
will be disappointed all the same. We
wanted man the peer of any one in
that august body. Too bsd-really too
badw
"Yes-ahem." coughed the other,
who couldn't come within forty miles
Of declining = nomination, "you spoke
to me the other day about-lets
see?"
"Oh. yes, did want loan of twenty
five, dollars but skirmished around
and
Certainly, you can have it, and
double the amount If you wish. and il
you don't happen to be flush at the
end of thirty DAYS take sixty. Yes, my
private business is very pressing-yes
-ahem-talk with you again. DE
tr0ts Free Press.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-10-13
Commercial Foresight.

Nose Schaumburg was in = bad
humor yesterday. When he came
down to his place of business, his head
clerk, Ike Silverstone, said:
Have you heard already dot Parker
& Fizzle in San Antonio has failedp"
Ssh dot so? Veil, veil, dey owes
me six hundred tollars for goots vot |
sold 'em. How much on tollar does
dey bay?"
"Terventy cents"
"Terventy cents! WAS glad to hear
dot Ven sold 'em dose goots fig
ured on fifteen cent on tollar fail
ure. Ven dey bay terventy cents, den
l makes profit of fifty per cent on
dot bill Of goots. "-Teras SiJlings.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-10-13
MELON CULTURE.
Fall Preparation and Fertilization OF the
Soil Necessary to Success.

Fall Preparation and rtilizatieh OF the
Soil Necessary to Success.
The proper time to begin watermelon
culture is the year before the crop is to
be raised. Asward is the best possible
land, since it is comparatively free
from insects and at the same time rich
in the natural constituents of growth
1t should be plowed ms early in the au
tumn as possible. II this is done many
insects will be killed and the soil will
be SO far rotten by the time the melons
are to be planted, whether they be
water or muskmelOns. that the soil
may be brought into perfect condition
for the subsequent cultivation.
As to this and the fertilization. the
sol for watermelOns and cantalOupes
should be very light, and although the
crop does best when the showers are
frequent. yet nothing is SO injurious as
to attempt to keep them too damp. A
wet soil is very unfavorable, and as the
roots grow as fast as the tops. too much
working around the plants will not an
swer. On heavy lands where the at
tempt is made to grow them, provided
the season is long enough, deep hole
is dug, stones or chips put in, and well
rotted manure placed over them. The
manure is then covered with a few
inches of rich dirt and the seed planted.
This gives thorough undertaking,
provided the ground is also drained
otherwise and permits of the air and
heat entering, the cold moisture being
either evaporated or allowed to pa -
below. The plants should be well
worked until they begin to run. Then
only the ground before the running
vines should be worked, but the grass
and weeds should be pulled out 1t
has been claimed that by pinching back
the vines after the fruit has set the
melons will be better and larger, but
such has not always proved true. The
best fertilizer is plenty of well rotted
manure, with . handful of mixture
of ashes and superphosphate around
the ground over which tho plants run,
about the time of the ripening Of the
fruit Form, Field and Stock,nan.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-10-13
APPLES FOR COWS.
A Beneficial Food Provided It IL Fed In
Moderate Quantities.

A Beneficial Food Provided It IL Fed in
Moderate Quantities
Apples are not only not objections
BILE, but are beneficial to the health Of
the COW, and improve the flavor Of her
milk-with the qualification that they
are properly fed. The apple is very
poor in albuminoids, having in its fresh
state only .2l to 81 of one per
cent. The Baldwin has 145O per cent.
OF car bo-hydrates, including fat, and
the Russet has 1880. This gives the
extremely low nutritive ratio of to
80. This is poorer than the straw of
any of our grains. The carbohydrates
contain little or no starch, but pectose
and pectin, and about 8 per cent of
sugar Pectose contains digester for
other food, and this is what gives ex-
coptional value to turnips and other
roots.
There is no doubt that moderate
quantity of apples, say six to eight
quarts to COW per day, will assist in
the digestion of her other food. and
their flavoring will improve the taste
OF milk. But an excessive amount of
apples might be an injury from the
amount of seeds they contain. Apple
seeds in considerable quantity operate
on the urinary organs. and this is what
has led some to suppose that apples
dry cows up. The writer has often fed
the small quantity of apples mentioned
to cows with decided benefit One
need have no fears in feeding apples
in this moderate way. 1t is better that
they should be fed with heterogeneous
food. A. apples are very deficient in ale
bumino,ds. Physicians often recon.
mend apples as an aid to human diges
tion.-Ceuntry GsntIenaa1
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-10-13

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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-10-13

A man was recently fined five dol
lars in the Denver police court for fast
driving, and a man who was run over
by him and made the complaint was
tined the same amount for using pro
<ne language in the encounter.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-10-13

Cornelius Vanderbilt scorns crests
and notices. &c. "" simply is
painted on his carriage IN Y. Nail
New-York tribune., 1886-05-09
COURT LIFE ~ RUSSIA.
From The koln,sehe Zeituno.


The Court festivities at ST. Petersburg have
besn more brilliant during the reign OF the present
Emperor tDey for years past urdcr
Alox,ler H. This Is cpofy due Ia tho Empress. Car
Alexander H. fond II pOnp AMI show. Oat his VIE
Wa, broken down by Ill health aud troubles, aud had
been brOugnI up In stIot orthodoxy. Tho WoNent
Empress tue other ma. Is bUtu Ia her appearance
AMI ali IDEAS, the highest type o bIight hv"y
woman. adorod by all WHO know her. aud even exempt
from the gossip ~ caluniuihors. In Nihstlc pagers
sue sometimes been called the Russian Mair An
tom ,tte has indeed many o ,racteristos which
invite "a comparison between her and the unhappy
Pruces Sui Is without Tho great female weaknesses
OF the martyr Of tho French Revolution. Tue Empress
Ia the uspirug OF the Court festivities, than
which nothing be conceived more gay anh brilliant
Tue nrst bail Of too to whiob some 5000
Issued. surprisrd everybody at euoing
tim" by its great splendor rh~ro Ne e~
prncsly rrsdeuo~o Ia wuich could be compared
u thu Winter Palace for spacioussss and beauty aud
the impression Is still deepeped by fhs strange
ur forms and cOssumss hall European MALI Asiac, and