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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-04-24

THE Knoxville Republicans have
nominated Henri Gibson for Chancel-
lor. Henri is a glib talker and made
pretty fair editor, but his success in the
judges chair is problem. If he can't
make a better decree than he can
ap, rty platform, it wouldn't be wise
to elect him.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-04-24

Buy Buist's garden seed, sold on this
market for many years, to the entire
satisfaction to buyers.
LoCKERT & REYNOLDS.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-06-10
Gold from a Kitchen Stove.

Il know man. said cable car pas
senger, who came to Chicago three
years ago when he was just of age, with
out a dollar. He hired out tv butch =
er and deliyered meat from basket
which he carried on his shoulder. 1t
was hard work, apd the young country
man didn't get fat on it. but he kept
his eyes open and resolved to improve
the first opportunity to better his con-
ditlon. AS butcher boy he went much
into alleys and back yards. and there
noticed that the ash piles which came
from the house stoves had good deal
of coal in them. He bought hand
cart with his savings, resigned from
the butcher shop, and went around and
made arrangements with house holders
to draw their ashes away. His charges
were surprisingly low, and by hard
work he managed to earn dollar and
half in this way. But this was only
half his earnings. He rugged up a
sieve through which he screened all Cle
ashes he hauled, and the coal thus Sc
cured was worth about dollar and a
half more. He then went into the bus
iness on a larger scale, hiring laborers
and furnishing them carts and rigging
up large screen where load after load
could be dumped. He has boys to pick
out the cinders and clinkers and wag.
ons TO haul the coal away and sell it.
He now hauls unsifted ashes away for
nothing, but charges for removing sitt-
ed ashes. A good many people who
used TO sift their ashes don't do it now
saving themselves the trouble and get
ting the refnse hauled away for moth
ing. That butcher boy is making a.
bout $4,000 year.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-06-10
A Peninsula.

The remnants of half.forgotten stud /.
les are sometimes brought to light in a
strangely dilapidated condition. So il
proved in the following dialogue over
heard at a country railway station. The
speakers were father and son, tho lat
ter a middle-aged man.
1t seems that the father had been WIS.,
iting an adjoining town, and, having
there heard loud praises Of Florida as a
residence, was wildly enthusiastic over
the advantages TO be gained in moving
South. The son, more cautious than
the older man, was inclined to scoff at
the credulty of the latter.
why, the circulars say there ain't
no sich place anywhere = declared the
father, his words almost stumbling
over one another in their eagerness to
escape.
Circulars! passle o. lies y said the
son, deftly piling milk-cans in his wa
Son, you don't mean TO sWaller every
thing that's printed, do you p
We'll. but they say i: you buy IA lot
of orange trees that's pooty wei! alo,.g,
you can set right down side of 'em an
fold your arms, an they'll make your
fortune quicker'n no time
"A heap they will ! Look here, dad,
you clear the stones out o. the four
acre lot, aud plant Eaters there, an
you'll be better ont than il you had a
million orange trees =
AN the climate! the airs as clear
Clear where 'teint all thick with
shelters big as your thumb, an grass
hoppers like wharf rats y
The sea. coast amt many miles a.
way from any p'int,as take it, an the
mountains -
This was too much. The young
mans long-unused knowledge of geog-
raphy came to his rescue; he had found
q flaw which could not fail in proving
the vaunted circulars false.
Mountains y he cried, triumphant
Mountains ! Why, man, Florida's a
peninsula y
The father said no more, but it was
evident that his disappointment in find
ing his castle shattered was tempered
by his pride in his sons superior knowl.
edre
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-06-10
MIR. Gould'S Manner Of Exer-
cising.

They tell a story in his Office about
Mr.. Gould's resolving, on the advice
Of his physician two years ago, to
exercise.
Il don It wish you to exercise vio-
lently." said the doctor all you
need to do is to practice mild calisth-
enics an hour every day.
'All right said Gould /; show me
exactly what to do.
Thereupon the medical man in
structed the millionaire in variety of
movements, such as fexing and ex-
tend the arms and legs, initiating the
lungs slowly excluding the air. beat
ing the chest with the hands, and
bending the body sideways and back
ward. Next day, when his brokerage
partners, Connor and Morosini, look
ed into his private Office, where ne
sat at his desk reading letters from
the mornings mail, they were as
founded at the sight. Gould was go.
ing through series of contortions
that indicated nothing less than raw
ing madness. His eyes were on the
manuscript of long epistle, and ne
seemed intently perus ing it but his
puny physique was undergoing the
strangest motion-his arms and legs
extending one after another in all di-
rections and his body doing more
genuhections than were ever coneeiv-
ed of O ritualist. Was he having q
fit No; his calm face indicated no
agony or illness. Had he gone
crazy {? That was likely, the two
partners thought.
"What is the matter, Mr.. Gould n
said Conner, approaching rather cau-
tiously.
is there something bad in that let
ter p said .Morosini.
No, no. replied Gould, setting en-
arm revolving like wheel with one
spoke and no rim Pm exercising
! without loss of time
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-06-10
BOX OR COX.

The Brunswick Hotel is no more
the Water Oni,c than the HI gh
School building is the City Hall. but
there are people who are determined
not to understand this. an average
of half dozen per day walk into the
Office of the hotel, plank their money
down on the counter and call out: +:
i want to pay the water tax on
No. 25i Blank street.
When the alfable clerks inform
them that they have made mistake,
which is cnly what an affable clerk
should do there is a feeling on the
part of these people that they have
somehow been abused and they go off
mad.
Two or three weeks ago a very
stern-faced man, carrying himse If very
rigidly, entered the hotel, raped on
the counter with his knuckles, and
icily observed
III never pay it-never 7
What p asked Clerk Brown
That internal water tax !! You can
sue and be hanged y
This is not the Water Office
1T isn't p
No, sir; you'll have to go down
four DOORS
But if this is not the Water Office
what do you have the sign up for p
We have no such sign
'Well, it looks like the place.
Not at all, sir. Please call four
doors below
III be burned if l do Why didn't
you tell me when first came in that
this was a hotel p
Il supposed you knew it.
'Oh, well, perhaps you will make
some thing by this and perhaps you
won't
A week later the stern faced man
entered the Water Office one morning,
reached his hand through the window
to one of the clerks, ana said
Shake, old boy, | was out of tenn
per that morning, and have been very
sorry for it. Odd wasn't it, that |
came into this hotel instead of the
Water Office ? You treated me like
a gentleman, and l beg your par
don =
II don't understand, replied the
clerk.
why, l came into this hotel one
morning not long ago, and
But this is no hotel. This is the
Water Office
But why don't you put up a
sign p
There's one at the door, sir p
And where's the hotel p
please call four doors above
Il won do it No, sir-never.
See you hung first | Good morning
sir-neyer will l pay that internal
tax if | die for it !'-Detroit Free
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-06-10
MILLHEIM, PA, THURSDAY. JUNE 10, 1886

with Il certail autonaicness ii | may
so term it. Those Of you who expect
10 reach Newgate to phgiari2a my
flieLd Ar;emus Ward will SEQ the
philosophy of this.
To tie tickettaker at llammersmith
said
Il have Travelled from Charing Cross
here. have no ticket except the PEN
ny one that let me on the train How
much do owe you =
He named the sum mime pence, |
think.
Il have no money. If you send n
porter with me to my rooms | will pay
the fare and also make it square with
him.
The porter came along with me, and
so ended my day of poverty.
Thus it is that ] agree with MIR.
Hammerton-that the Inconvenience
of poverty are not exactly favorable to
intellectual life.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-06-10


Nina, delighted to think he preferred
her to all others. Il won't praise an
other gal tn yer. YUu don't want tu
get married anyhow. What's the use
of yer fooin' p
did the gal mean to SLY no Lnr,
women wns so queer he sOlIl0QuiZed,
and backed off, alarmed at Mimie's
manner, knocking. as he did so, against
and upsetting hornets nest, which so
enraged the inmates that they made a
grand attack upon him.
'Oh. Jemima Jemiml Jem take
'em off J, oh blazes, oh 7 and Before she
could realize The situation, he rushed
by like flying machine, beating his
limbs with his straw hat, his red hair
blazing in the sunlight.
There was no time for love or ro-
nance with poor Jim now-the situa-
tion was practical.
Bless my stars ! cried the terrified
Jemima, Jim Spooney has jist gone
mad. Stop, Jim ,stop,for the land sake,
stop =
Not knowing what course to pursue,
she stood locking in dismay after her
swiftly departing lover. AS he at
tempted to cross creek lie fell in, and
some Of his vicious enemies found a
watery grave. Others angrilY clung to
him. AS he mounted fence, and was
about clearing it,, an unmanrerly bull
doubtless attracted by his red waist
codt), gave him toss with his horns
sending him far into the meadow be-
yond. This last shot through the air,
rocket-like, was the final view .Jemima
had of her lover.
There poor James lay for some time.
smarting with pain, anger and disap-
pointment. When he reached home,
although rid OF his enemies. they had
left their traces behind them. His
head was swelIed to twice its size. one
eye was entirely closed, whilst his lips
were sight to behold.
'I'll not let Minnie go. III hang on
though if she should die l wouldn't try
agln to git another gal. It's too much
bother, but I'll be spunky this yer time,
see if I DON'T
Yer jist right. Jimmy said his fond
mother, to whom these confidential re-
marks were made, looking woefully at
her spectacle of son. Never give up.
Yer dad didn't when he came a court
in me, tell yer. I jist had to marry
him TO cit shut NV him. The next time
you 90 to see Minnie, don't 90 ashame d
like through the back yard, but go to
the from NV their house like man, and
as fur the gal that's the way big folks
do.'
So the next time he took his mothers
advice, and arranged matters SO salts
factorily with Jemlma that it is re.
ported they are to be married in the au-
tumn by Squire Bellows.
He took her to neighboring town
to circus short time ago, and they
were seen indulging in spruce beer and
eating ice-cream out of the same dish
in a loving manner.
They looked very happy as they walk
ed through the main street hand lin
hand-and i'm view of these extravagan-
ces, the report of their approaching
bliss is probably correct, and Miss Jen-
kins will be Mrs. Spooney.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-06-10

you ought to have your baby bap-
tized 'Rastus,' said a member of the
church to a colored father
Yes, sab, but | can not afford de
cost
1T doesen't cost anything
Il know it doesn't cost nuthin' fo' >
de mere act of baptism, sab /; but yo'
see owe de minister two dollars for
perfo'min' de weddin' cer'mony a
yeah ago, an he mought object, sab,
to baptizin' a baby that hadn't been
paid fo'.'
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-06-10
Eating Before Sleeping.

Among the novelties suggested by
certain physicians isa recommendation
to eat before retiring at night. At
first the sleep will be heavy and the
dreams disturbed ; but eventually, it is
claimed, full stomach will cause
drowsiness and the food will digest bet
ter. The blood, it is argued, being
drawn to the stomach, incites to slum-
Der, because the pressure upon the
brain is thereby relieved Actors, it
is said, eat heartily after performance
and find it advantageous to do so. Our
English progenitors, in past genera
tion, partook of late and hearty sup
pers, and lived quite as long as their
descendants. Late dinners are still The
custom in England, and then in hot
countries it is always the custom to
take siesta after heavy midday meal.
Animals generally sleep after eating.
1t IS doubtful, however, if these
theories will succeed in changing the
habits of the American people. Out
slds of the large cities, the midday
meal is the principal one, and the sup
per, or tea, Is plrtaken of several hours
before retiring. Man is a creature Of
habit, and he had better follow the Gus.
toms Of lifetime. Still, it is probably
true that persons suffering from indi'
gestion would advantage themselves if
they could take nap after heavy
meal
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-06-10

AWestern man applied for pension
on the ground that he was badly injur-
ed by a Confederate ''ram" during the
war. Investigation showed that he
was snlltr in TIE army, and while out
on ii foragine expedition with some of
the boys. was painfully busted through
a fence 6y an old sheep of the male per
suasion, the property of Confederate
officer.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-06-10
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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-06-10
NEWSPAPER LAWS

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newspapers the publishers may continue 70
send them until all arrcarages are paid.
II subscribers refuse ar neglect ln take their
newspapers from the office To- which ihry are sent
they are held responsible until they have settled
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semitic the formerPlace, theyarc responsible.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-04-30
Agricultural.
ChemicaI FertlIIsers.

The superin tendent Of the New Hampshire
college farm, Prof. @. H. Whitcher, advises
farm ers to buy chemical fertilizers and mix
the m for themselves, directions for which be
has prepared and distributed in printed cir
cular. Having the phosphoric acid in the
form Of dissolved bone black the potash in
muriate or sulphate Of potash, and the nitro
gen in sulphate Of ammonia, we have the
three essential ingredients of all complete
fertilizers and il is no more work to mix
them, he says, than to mix shorts, corn meal
aud middlings for feeding cattle nor does it
require any greater precaution. In upwards
Of so separate tests, 81 invested in chemicals
averaged to increase the value Of the corn
crop 81 rs, while 81 in the best prepared
brands gave an increase Of only 81 .43, max
ing difference OF s 33 in favor Of the chem
icals. This perhaps proves little too much
for the chem Gals, either unmixed or mixed
as in the prepared fertilizers but on very
poor land where the crop was almost wholly
dependent on the fertilizer, dollars worth
of chemicals might have increased the crop
as stated, or even more, without having made
it paying crop. When, however, one dol
lars worth OF phosphorlc acid, sulphate OF
potash, or nitrate of soda, will average to in
crease the value Of the crop $2.75 on land
previously in fair condition, the millennium
of agriculture is near at hand. With prop
er understanding of the chemicals suited to
his land, Mr. whitcher thinks that a farmer
can buy them for about half what they cost
in the average commercial phosphate He
recommends, for experimental plats, dividing
an acre into 20 equal strips and applying the
chemicals separately, in combination each
with the other and each with the other two in
varying proportions, keeping the cost for each
plat the same.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-04-30

A great many farmers abuse themselves ty
excessive labor-too many hours and close
application 10 field tasks when there are un-
favorable conditions of weather. Good health
is dependent upon good care of the physical
powers. So, when man exposes himself
needlessly to Influences that endanger health,
he incurs risks that may result in great loss
for which there can be no recovery. There
are times, it is true, when all resources must
be mployed-times when farmers must work
beyond REASONABLE hours but these should be
followed always by seasons of rest prolonged
until full recuperation is had. While health
is one of the choicest blessings, it is hardly
less important that mental powers should be
ed 10 direct physical force. The farmer who
works without thinking is not much more
likely to make profit from his labor than
other who thinks without working. So it ia
necessary that physical and mental forces be
wisely conserved in order that labor may be
endured without waste, and that it may lead
to full rewards. Excessive labor in any en-
ployment duls the faculties of mind to such
an extent often that the laborer becomes I'M
fitted for anything except manual employ
ment and for this be is worth not so much
as his fellow who employs mind wisely to di-
rect ply steal forces aud to show when the
proper limit Of endurance is reached. Farm
ers, more than any other men, are apt to
waste strength through excuses of labor,
forgetting that they invite severe penalties
sure to come, sooner or later. if the hurtful
practice is continued. -HuSbdndmGH
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-04-30

This pest is the young of an American
moth by some regarded as a native of the
North Atlantic states, but is now widely dis
tributed over almost all parts of the CONT
nent. Originally feeding upon the wild cher
ry it was rst recognized AZ a noxious insect
of the apple at least. about 100 years ago.
1t also feeds upon the plum, thorn and few
other trees at times. The latter part of June
or July the female deposits her eggs in cus
tiers of 200 or 300 arranged in regular order
like a ring or band around the small twigs
with coat of vernish, and the Larvae devel-
OPP within the eggs, where they remain until
the next spring, when they hatch as the leaves
begin to grow. Their first food after hatch
ing is the gum or varnish with which the egg
clusters are covered, and then they soon be-
gin their work of destruction among the
leaves.
Their common name indicates their habit,
which is soon to begin constructing silken
shelter or tent, which is enlarged as they
grow. Their custom is to live socially in
this, except when they go forth in regular
procession TO feed usually twice day, once
in the middle of the forenoon and again in
the afternoon. The caterpillar attains its
growth in 80 or 40 days, when it is nearly
two inches long, is covered with hair, and
has a white stripe along the centre of the
back, and other interrupted, yellowish lines
on each side of this
Thousands coming from cluster of eggs,
having lived socially up to that time, scatter,
aud each finding for itself a secluded nook
on a fence or elsewhere, spins cocoon and
changes to a pupa, which remains in this
condition for 10 or 20 days, when it comes
forth an adult moth. These are reddish
brown, with two oblique parallel bands across
the wings, and the space between this is of
ten of a paler color. The female is the larg-
er, measuring about inches across the
wing. The adults eat nothing, soon perform
the reproductive function and die, leaving
their eggs, from which a new generation will
hatch the following spring.
The effects of the attacks of this and the
canker worm upon the trees are very similar
The first crop of leaves being removed, the
trees are taxed to put forth a second. Their
energy is exhausted and they are rendered
unfruitful besides becoming prematurely old
and if severely infested from year to year, die
These troublesome and destructive pests may
be destroyed by spraying the trees with a so
luton of Paris green similar 10 the method
of destroying canker worms. The egg clus
ters may be sought out during the winter
when they can be easily seen like small
swellings upon the twigs. Nests and worml
may be destroyed as soon as their presence
can be detected, and before they have don,
much harm to the foliage. Report Connect
cut State Board
The tent caterpillar is easily destroyet
without recourse to Paris green. If it wer
not, the remedy would be worse than the dis
ease.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-04-30
Cnnnrnni.e Rreeh..

American breeders have been seeking in
the last few years with greater diligence than
ever before for breeds of stock of a compro-
mise chaTacter-i. e., those seeming to pos
sess as nearly as possible the general pur-
pose idea. 1t is the avowed opinion of the
best stockmen that the idea can never be
carried out-for the reason that an equilibrium
of good qualities pIecludes rare excellence in
any-yet there is undoubtedly a constant
reaching out for some thing of this kind, even
among highly practical men. And il is also
clear that these efforts are receiving very ia
vorable consideration at the hands of farm
ers, very many of whom are looking for stock
which can fill the various offices of its species
moderately well rather than excel in any
specially. There are all kinds of tastes to
satisfy and demands to meet and while there
is constant inquiry for breeds of special de-
velopement, there is as constant call for some
thing approaching to the general purpose
conception. Thus it happens that those
breeding draft horses and those breeding road
sters now find themselves supplemented by q
comparatively new class of breeders for this
Countrywide handlers of the English and
French coach varieties. The straight fine
wool breeds of sheep and the straight muttor
breeds no longer have the field to themselves
but find competition in efforts to squalize the
speoialtes for which they are working. AND
the same thing is noticeable in all kinds o.
stock. Some of these compromises seem Il
be highly practicable, while others are onlI
within the line of uncertain experiment
However, all Of them merit attention, anC
are characteristic of the practical tendenc,
of the times -StOckmdR.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-04-30
SAFE Tn.ec,,c,,Ie.

The kerosene and soap emulsion recon-
mended by Professor G. v Riley, entomolo.
gist of the department of agriculture, as a
most effectual and safe inseo.icide, promises
success, when properly applied, against the
apple worm. Take kerosene, two gallons ;
common soap or whale-oil soap, one half
pound water, one gallon. Heat the solu-
ton of soap and. add it boiling hot to the
kerosene. Ohurn the mixture by means of
force pump and spray nozzle for five or tt n
minutes, The emulsion, if perfect, forms a
cream, which thickens on cooling and should
adhere without oiliness to the surface of glass.
Dilute, before using, one part Of the emul-
sion with nine parts of cold water. The
above formula gives three gallons of emul-
sion, which make, when diluted, thirty gal
Ions of wash" When the emulsion forms
'it comes" suddenly like b1tter, resembling
thick cream. The temperature should be
about blood heat. When properly applied il
has been found effective against a great va.
riety of insects and is harmless to vegetation