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The Springdale news., 1888-07-27
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
Hints for Sheep Farmers.

Some men like to raise sheep, and usually such succeed better than oth- CTS.
 A sheep that is full Of good, sweet food, and is otherwise comfortable, will grow wool and lay on flesh every hour in the three hundred and sixty five days and six hours of the year, and such sheep seldom have grub in the especially Merino sheep-nor any other kind of disease.
 A thin, peverty-stricken sheep always keeps its owner hating sheep, complaining of low prices, wanting q dog law, a higher tariff on wool. want ing to know what is good for this and for that disease; or he thinks some new disease has appeared in his flock. He always thinks he has had bad luck. Poverty is, indeed, hard on sheep. It is an embargo against all improve ment Good breeding helps good feed ing, and without good feeding all good breeding is failure The poorest scrubs come from wel-bred sheep neglected
 The best mutton of England comes from the black faces of the mountains of Wales. When taken to the agri- cultural lands and fed on the farm, the rich, juicy qualities are gone. The native mountain grasses give the nut ton its highest claims of excellence.
 The same differences will he found in this country. A friend sent some mutton chops to our hotel last week, to be prepared expressly as a test of North Carolina mountain sheep, fat tened on ehestnuts. It was most de- licious eating. There was simply no comparison with the common mutton.
 Some farms and some farmers are suited to raising sheep for mutton and some are not. Farms and farmers must be alike suited to the business or there will he failure To raise wool as some do, there may be a short sup ply of food and water occasionally, which spells the animal, and flinders that symmetrical development so cs- scntial to good butchers sheep.
 Some sheep, as with cattle, are suited to one purpose better than an- other. Therefore it is important to decide these purposes and the fitness of each breed to those ends we wish to attain. Some regions are suited to one purpose and not to another Kan sas, for instance, has been d choice wool-growing country. Now it k d good place to feed and fatten sheep. The arid regions may protitably send sheep to the grain-growing sections to he fitted for the market. Thus the cheap corn, oats and hay can be fed on the farms at better profit than crowded upon the market The manure will he a profit in keeping up the fertility of the soil. Lands are too high in some grain-rais- ing sections 10 keep as pastures, and the uncertainty of prices of grain would favor the feeding of sheep in- stead of hogs, which are more liable to disease. or even cattle. since the profits of feeding sheep are more cer- tain, fl not so large.
 High priced sheep do not always give the best per cent. on the inyest- ment.
 Large careasses are not most accept able to the butcher, for the reason that quality, to the consumer, is most inn portant -F'arm and FireSidc.
The Springdale news., 1888-07-27
PERSONAL AND LITERARY,

-Baroness Gripenberg, of Finland, Is editor for a magazine for children.
 Boulanger's book appears to have fallen flat and is already drug in the market.
 MT. William Black is said to have written a book every year for the last twenty-five years.
 A copy of Pickwick" in the original parts has just been sold in London for $250. It was the first from the press, and was presented by Dick ems to Mary Hogarth
 It has been an open secret that "Octave Thanct," name signed to many excellent magazine stories. is a pseudonym The true name is said to he Alice French, the daughter of Judge French. of Davenport, Ia.
 The cause of the dying out of the Indian races has at last been ascer- tained A prominent dime novel writer has made list of the number he has killed-on paper-since he be- gan to write, and computes it at lit- tie less than 18,000, GOO Indians
 Laurence Oiphant, the author of 'Irene Macgilicuddy" interviewed on the subject of novels, confessed that "oi all the older writers of fiction Charles Reade stands at the head He prefers the writings of Dickens to Thackeray, but of the men he cared most for the latter.
 A Jewish Publication Society has been organized in Philadelphia, repre- senting all phases of Judaistie be- lief It's object is to issue from time to time publications designed to foster a knowledge of Jewish essentials, litera- ture and history among the Jews of the United States.
 Count Tolstoi is the title ard name of two distinguished Russians, and it is well to know that fact in view of sus- spicions of attempted violence to one of them. The confusion between Count l.. N. Tolstoi, the novelist and philan- thropist. and his cousin. Count Tolstoi, the narrow-minded Minister of Educa- ton, is very commonly made. The name of Tostoi Is found more than once in the history of Russian litcra- ture.
 A man may be intelligent, emil nent indeed in literature and philoso- phy, and yet exhibit very little com mon sense in the use of money. Dan- iel Webster and Horace Greeley would Use money foolishly and recklessly, even when they greatly needed it for their own legitimate purposes. The late Matthew Arnold left an estate worth but 5000. The bulk Of his ac- cumulations, it seems, was used to pay other people debts.-U Uaited Pres. bytertdH:
 Prof. Thurston says in an article in the Forum that the world is await ing the appearance Of three inventors greater than any who have gone be fore. The first k he who will show Us how. by the combustion Of fuel, direct lY to produce the electric current; the second is the man who will teach us to reproduce the beautiful light of the glowworm and the firefy, light without heat, the production of which means the utilization Of energy with out waste still more serious than the thermo-dynamic waste; while the third is the inventor who is to give Us the first practically successful air-ship.
The Springdale news., 1888-07-27
Fruit Going to Waste.

Never in the history of the State was there so abundant d crop of fruit of every variety. Peaches, apples, pears, plums, grapes. strawberries, raspber- ries and blackberries every where. The majority of our people, how ever, are in the same fix the Texas man WAS the year of the great mast: He had no hogs to eat the aeorns; if he just had the hogs he would be rich. Only a few evaporators and fewer cannerics Thousands Of dol lars worth of fruit will rot on the ground. Why did we not prepare to save this fruit before it was too late Me knew six weeks ago if WAS com ing. II was then safc-.4rh. Farmer aud StocknaH
The Springdale news., 1888-07-27
Chufas.

A correspondent says that chuias are the same as the ordinary nut-grass of the South Has he ever seen the two plants? The common nut-grass is a native of the South, we believe. At all events, it has been growing here since the time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. It has been known on the South Atlantic coast for the past hundred years, cer- tainly, and has gradually extended, or been carried, into the interior. It is rightly feared as one of the greatest pests in the shape of grass that farm CT can have on his place, as it actually operates to appreciate the value of the land by really taking possession of it. When it has once taken possession of tract of land, we do not believe that there k any practical means Of getting rid of it. The roots ramify in every direction, and with the small knots, or nuts, extend very deep. Now chufas and nut grass, while somewhat similar in appearance and manner of growth. are really very different things. The nuts are certainly three or four times as large as those on nut grass, and the roots do not take pos session of the land or work it any in- jury, and arc easily eradicated when- ever their eradication is desired. We have planted them considerably, and have never had any cause for dissatis- faction with them. They arc indi- genous to Spain, and have been grown in the South for many years, and we have never heard before that they were introduced by the Department of Agriculture. They are well known to be a very ex- celent food for the purpose of fatten- ing hogs, being SO prolific that one
 are is capable of keeping twenty hogs
 fat fo; a month. We do not personal ly like the fat or flesh made by chufas,
 as both are apt to be soft and nabby;
 but this may he only matter of taste, and many farmers in She South would not agree with Us in this opinion In any event, even if this be q general re- suit, it may be rectified by penning the hogs and feeding them for ten days on corn It is the custom to plant the nuts in drills, opened about two and half feet apart, drop ping them ten inches apa.o in the drills. While growing they are cultivated regularly, as corn or any other crop, until midsummer, when they shade the rows so that no other weed or grass can grow. In the fall, when tho tops have been killed by frost, the hogs are turned upon them. and they and the turkeys scratch and root them up and thrive upon them. They re- quire good land, and do not amount to much on poor soil On good land the yield per acre is very large. and they certainly afford a very useful food for hogs and poultry.-A. P. F, tn Farm and FireStde
The Springdale news., 1888-07-27
HERE AND THERE.

Ewes that have weaned their lambs may be fattened very easily if given two meals a day of grain with plenty Of grass in tho pasture.
 -A fruit-grower who draped q plum tree with mosquito net to keep otl the eureulio, obtained twenty-two quarts Of fine fruit Another covered single branch with equal saccessi
 Keep squashes and pumpkins away from the cantaloupes and watermelons. In fact, it is best to grow no pumpkins on farm where melons are raised, as the bees carry pollen from one plant to another.
 About the surest remedy for the hordes of army worms that devastatc meadows and grain fields is to ditch against their progress and mash them as they accumulate in the ditch.
 A fruit tree that is kept healthy and in good condition is far less liable to the attacks of insects than one which has been allowed to suffer from neglect, just as a healthy animal is better able to withstand disease than feeble one. Keep both animals and trees in good condition by care and judieious feed ing.
 If any one in the world has a right to have choice berries, vegetables ol fruit upon his table it is the farmer. Carelessncss is generally the reason t,-l, d. 'I'bot- aha1fa1t. far better and much more wholesome than the strong bacon and coarse dict too often found upon the tables of the tillers of the soil.
 A writer in tho Mirror aud Farm- CT declares that farmers are governed too much by acres and not enough by bushels They decide to plant so many acres, and they make their manure go over it, and it is apt to be pretty thin. The rule should he to put on all the manure the crop can use, and stop when the manure k gone.
 Don't forget to give your breeding stock, cattle, hogs, mares and colts plenty of salt. The grass is. in con sequence of so much rain, very wa tcry and stock need more salt than usual.
 The copious rains have aused the grass to grow very rapidly, and the pastures as well as the range are fine. The grass is long, tender and luxu- riant rhe visible ereet is Il cattle and hogs. Stock of all kind lock well.
 Many good apple oreha,d has been injured because a few worthless wild cherry trees were permitted te grow and provide headquarters for the caterpillar. In every community where the authorities have enterprise enough to demand the destruction of weeds, the roadmaster should be made to destroy all wild cherry trees.
 If you have cut your first crop oi clover, put on about one hundred pounds of gypsum to the acre. Go carly in the morning while the dew is on. or just after shower of rain. and scatter broadcast It will nearly. il not quite, double the second crop
 Make hole about six inches square in the lot fence, near the house; place d small trough inside, and feed all the spare skim or butternilk to the young pigs; also all the kitchen slops and scraps of cold victuals. Enough is wasted about nearly every farmers kitchen to raise meat for the table,
The Springdale news., 1888-07-27
DECLARED OFF.

We've plighted troth; the day is set; There is no fairer bride than she. Than no fonder lover. yet
 That match is destined not to be. An awful bar is in the way,
 For though I've wealth in goodly store And can not fear raIny day,
 Her name IS Rich, and my names Poor! Why did never think of this
 To save her from so dire fate And from lifelong wretChedness, For she was reared in high estate How very dreadful would 1t be
 For one so gentle to endure The taunts of those who'd say that she. Who once was Rich, had welded Poor! Then "A Poor Rich Affair" we'd see In every paper, and the wits Would set to punning busfly,
 The public laughing at their hits, I'll call the invitations in,
 However much l must deplore, I'd rather, just 10 save the din,
 Shed still be Rich and I'd be Poor.
 A. II. Be{iG1r, in DetroH Free PTess
The Springdale news., 1888-07-27
They Never Fail.
No 3 FULTON MARKEN NEW YORK CITY, !
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NO. FULTON MARKE < NEW YORK CITY,
 Jfhuary 26 1884.
 have been using BRANpRETH' s PILLS for the last ten years. They are q wonderful medicine. There is thing equal to them as Blood Purifiers and Liver Regulators But l wish to state how remarkably tlsey cure rheumatism, and how easily, was affected by rheumatism of the legs. My business Wholesale fish dealerl naturally leads me to damp places. was so bad could not walk, and at night suffered fear. fully; l tried Balsams, Sarsanarillas and all kinds of tinetares, but they did mo no good and was afraid of being a cripple. finally commenced using BRANpRETHs PILLS. l took two every night for ten nights, then I began to improve I con tinued taking them for forty days and got entirely well. Now, whenever sick, take BRANDR-TH's PILLS. They never fail.
 J. N HARRIS
The Springdale news., 1888-07-27


 Shall I read you a pretty story, Lucy9' Has il got a moral in it?" "Yes. dear " Then I'd rather not. A story with a moral is like jam with powder in it..
 Bolton-"You Jones is generous with his cigars, isn't he?' Wolton- Yes puf0; but think he would (puG) be kinder to his friends if he smoked them himself. N-LYe.
 Mrs. Holyoke (who has not asked him, and does not want him) -''I m sorry you cant stay to tea with us. " Captain Whiffet (equal to the oceasion) I'm awfully glad that I'm sorry I've got to go. ''-Judge.
 If ever there was a victim of mis- placed confidence in this self-seeking world it is the man who imagines that he is making the congregation believe that he is wide awake while he is talk. ing little nap in church. -iSomeruiNt Journal.
 Mrs. Lenox Hill, Jr.-" Err doesn't it seem to you. Henry, as if there was something I had forgotten in making this pound-cake?' Mr. LenoX Hill ,Jr. Critically )-'We yes; fl 1t only had a handle, you know, ii would be easier to pound with. Puck.
 Fond Father" John, read in the paper that your baseball nine lit on the opposing pitcher and pounded him all over the field hope you had no part in the disgraceful affair John. '91 (sadly)-"No, father, l did not hit him once "-Harpard Lam poon.
 Mrs. Matchmaker-"E Edith if you ever expect to catch Mir Richley, you must say fewer sharp things Skir- mishing drives the men away. A little more tact and little less tactics, my dear" Edith-''You good mamma! your tact is so much better than your tactics. Don't you know that every engagement is preceded by a skir. mish ?"- The Idca.
 Deacon (to divinity student) If you were called now, what would you do? Student Somewhat absent minded) Why, show down my hand, of cour-I-I I-that is-l-" Deacon That's right; always show down your hand. Don't pull a gun. The other fellow might get drop on you" Philadelphia CdH.
 Young Man (to editor) Here is a little poem of a pathetic nature. sir. l showed it to my mother, and she actually cried over it. V Editor (after reading the poem) You say your mother cried?" Young Man-"Yes, sir - Editor Well, you go home and promise your mother never to write any more poetry, and l think the old lady win dry her eyes. o-Harper's B0zar-
The Springdale news., 1888-07-27
TO CORRESPONDENT

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The Springdale news., 1888-07-27

lv that one which incites you to abandon fruitless medication for dyspepsia, kidney trouble, fever and agne and constipation, and adopt instead Hostetters Stomach Bit ters, which supplements the important ere dential of long and successful career, with the commendation of the medical profession. Give it a systematic trial.
 THERE are twn things that a woman will always jump at-a conclusion and mouse BmlfnQton Ffee Press
The Springdale news., 1888-07-27
A Good Jmpulse,

SOME girls are maidens all forlorn. while others are maidens all for lawn tennis. ptttSbtUph Chrontcls
The Springdale news., 1888-07-27
Corn and Pea Hay.

A severe drought has existed in Ten nessee. ipiuring the meadows and in-
The Springdale news., 1888-07-27
HUMOROUS.

-Wife-"What do you think, John, about my taking up Frcnch?' Hus- band (busy with his paper)-"A very good idea, my love, il you will only lay down English N + .Sua.
 "A lovers always partly blind
 This truth admits no doubt,
 Since always for the girl he loves
 Hes keeping an eye out
The Springdale news., 1888-07-27
THOSE Nuisances, Rheumatism and tho Gout, arc relieved by Genn's Sulphur Soap Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, 50c.

A pocroR's report would properly como under the head of the news of the weak.
The Springdale news., 1888-07-27

Toronto will try to get the next Pan-P Presbvterian council. in 1892.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-07

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 6.-Cattle-Receipts
1900; shipments 100; market strong ana active
choice heavy native steers 81 45d5 30; fair 10
good ma i've steers So 9OG4 20 =; butchers steers,
medium to prime, So 1904 % :stockers ana feed,
ers, fair to good, s. 00G3 80; rangers, ordinary
ments 6l5: market active and firm; ranging
from 81 95d5 30. Sheep-Receipts 500; snip
ments none; market higher; fair to fancy
So 81 as 60.
NEW YORK. March 6.-Beeyes-ReceIpts
eco, all consigned; no market for beeVes.
ID esBed firm at 81 65Ac, W tn general sales at
s.; exports 100 quarters of beef. Cable ad-
vi es from Liverpool to day quoted American
beef dull at Sc per o. Sheep-Receipls 1900 /;
prime sheep and at S. 2jG7 60 for lamps. No
extra or fancy off rings.
KANSAS CITY. NO.. March6 -Oattle-Receipte
2723; shipments sos; market rteady; good to
choice corn fed 81 50G5 90; comm to medium
So 25d4 25; stocker4 81 00G2 SO; feeding steer g
s. seas so; cows ST 6O93 so Hogs-Receipts
$500. shipments none; market steady to strong,
angling from S. 00G5 80. shtep-ReceiJts esq,
shipments none; market firm fos good TO choice
mutton at 81 60 90; common to medium dull
at 81 s. "A 90.
CHICAGO. ILL, March -Cattle-Receipt.
5000, shipments 5000. market weak and 11f
st ckeIs and feeders 81 1908 40; cows, bulls
and mixed 81 1913 60; Texas cattle g 3062 Soc
He gs-Rece ipts Is 600; market strong ,sutxedl
IS l565 IS; heavy s. S065 co; light S. O0G5 20,
sheep Receipts 40g; shi Jments 1909; market
strong and 10 to ]5c higher; natives S. 0OG5 65 &
western s. O0G5 62H; Texans 81 00d5 co; lAmAs
s. 25G6 %. London cAblegram quotes: Dsef
American cattle. Best American steers l51lc
per pound.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-07
SIBERIAN.

Dr,v,Dg PARK Sold to tho Highest Bidder
Passenger Trails Collide.
Special to the Gazette.
SHERMAN, TEX, March 1.-TWO pas
seuger trains, the east bound cannon ball
and the west bound, containing California
excursionists, collided st the union de-
Dot this morning at O'Clock, resulting
in bSdly gripping the two engines, which
bsd TO be replaced with others before the
trains could move. No further damage
wss done and no one was seriously hurt.
The collision WAS caused from miss
placed switch on which the cannon ball
train stood when the other rAn into it.
Alta meeting OF the City Council last
night E Sutpnin, the water supply con-
tractor, was authorized to lay ten inch
mains as far out as six miles from the
CITY st 2 cost of $500 per mile if il be-
comes necessary to do so to procure
supply OF ], 900, 600 gallons Of water per
tWentY-fOur hours.
The Sherman Driving Park WAS sold
this evening by NJ Schneider, trustee for
the creditors The sale wss made to the
higt est bidder foI cash and the park was
purchased by L. F. Ely of this City and
Jot Gunter Of Dallas for SIC, 200.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-07

firm and unchanged; XX 81 2O12 30; XXX
S 1912 So; patents s. 1904 % Wheat opent
little weaker at - off bus growing firm soon
recovered yanced, closing &c higher
tn n yesterday; No. red, cash, sl%6s2 &c;
March slkc. MAY, s2'sas2zSc closing at s22{c;
juno S2l{c aske F.; July 795l 07915", closing al
1910 asked. Corn -Narstt OF ened "a &c off,
but advanced steady otiTg &c higher; cash,
46KG47c; Ap'il 462I S47c, closing al 47c May
E'a a Sc, closing 4T2Ic; July 4S2lG39c closing
at 1917. Oats-Essier CD, b, ;0LG30zsc; MAY
29sl G295s". Prov,sion we4k anu lower Pork
Sl4 co. Lard. 81 3c67 80. DRY salt meats boxed,
shoulder s. Is long clears S7I2Is :clear ribs 81 %
short clears s. 37I5G7 40. Bacon, boxed,
should rs Sc 566 371S long clears 81 70B7 10 !;
clear ribs 81 S al SIX short clears 81 95Gs IL.
Hama ate dy at so 1902 90. Afternoon board
Wheat easy March s17lc; May s!16c; July
79hc. orn loV err: March 1910; NAV 475{c;
jane 4sAc; July ASS Oats firm; May 29Xc
NEW YORK, March 6.-Cofee-Spot fair;
Ri1 nominal; options opened to 10 points
higher; closed easy; advance lost; sales 81 $50
bag=: March i G56l0 IS; April 10 5061O &C; May
10 306lO l5 June 10 2O6l0 80; july 9O6l0 90;
August 6569 20; September $50 8 ~; Octo-
Der 50d9 IS; November 9 6o69 IS; December
8 55d9 IS. Sugar quiet ard rather weak; fair
refining quoted TT l6:;centrifugal Sc test 55I.
Molasses grades 46lzS; refined quiet; molasses
d IL. Cotton seed oil quoted 35c. crude; 4lc re-
fined.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-07
The Big steel Gun.

PrTTsBURG, Pa, March 6-The big
steel gun wGs taken from the annesling
furnace at the Pistsburg Steel Casting
Company's works this morning, and WAS
found TO be still perfect. The finishing
touches will now be put on and the gun
shipped to Washington for final tests on
March 20 Superintendent Hamsworth
stated that if the gun is q success he will
offer to make steel gun in one casting
for the government the same size and Of
better quality than the great English Ill
ton built up gun for $4,000 The cost
Of the Epgli,h gun was S225,000.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-07
BONHAN.

Collision on the TraDscontineatal-AnA c-
complained Fcrger,
Special to the Gazette.
BONHAN, TEX, March Ga collision
occurred on the Transcontinentsl twenty
Eve miles west Of Bonham this morning
between the regular cannon-bsn and the
special from the main line of the Texas
and Pacific, which was compelled to come
this way on account Of serious washouts
on the main line. The engines were con-
siderably wrecked but none of the pas
sengers on either train we're injured be-
yond shaking up. The accident was
caused By misplaced switch.
The District court WAS occupied all
day yesterday and part Of today on the
case Of Sid Mason, charged with forgery
in two cases. The first ca7e was disposed
Of to-day, Mason receiving two years in
the penitentiary. The prisoner is sn &C.
compllshed artist in forgery and is want
ed in several states.