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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-29

Mrs. Mary A. Judkins, who died re-
Gently in Portland, Me-, was native OF
the state in VIII Oh she died, and WAS born
III years and seven months ago,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-29

Mrs. Cleveland has taken up'' Mrs.
Hawley, who WAS lately nurse in the
Philadelphia hospital.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-29
DIR. T. G. HAMMER

VIII be In Dallas only one month longer, and
then he will leave the state for year OF
io7ger. Those who have friends suffering with
the disease of drunkenness should lose 40 time
in bringing them TO DIR. Hammer, who is the
lively and permanently cure drunkanness.
There are Thousands Of men n the United
States, now good citizens, respected by all who
owe their hnarci success and their position
In society to DR.. Hammers Sill. II you want
your friend saved you should bring them to the
Do tor. This opportunity extends 10 May 6,
and until that time DIR, Hammer may be found
at the st. Janss Hotel, Dallas, where he treats
alone In person
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-29


"come ou." in.society. Sac Is brought
out, and is never seen without her mothe Ell
or some other respectable and watchful
chsperone. Everything, to the last min
Hde of dress, is planned and managed fol
her. She Is not supposed to have will
or Judgment of her own, least of all, in
the matter of her marriage. I am speak
ing, of course, OF the average French girl
of society. I have known some excep-
tons outside OF Madame Greville's novels
some remarkably intelligent girls whose
hearts chose for them, and whose hands
were allowed TO go with their hearts.
But Ethe average m,demoiselle, modest
and docile, usually accepts the choice OF
ner parents, without much ado
sometimes with siacrity. He,
tho elect man, is profoundly
unknown, but that fact gives to him the
vague charm OF mystery. Watched end
restricted IS she has been since her
school-days ended, she gees In marriage
come new name, new digeity, q "chez
mop and coupe Of her OWN. Aud when
she is married, how she blossoms cut !
How che revels in emancipation She
who the season before could go nowhere
Wy hCfsclty SOuAu NV even scc LICK uC-
trothed for five minutes alone, can drive
about uuquessioned, visit and be visited,
csn Inc ulge in her likings aud csprices,
even when they take In her own husband.
II is not till after her marriage that q
French woman Is really brilliant,
for 1t Is not until then that
she is unconstrained; SO, many
q man finds that all "unbeknownst" TO
himself he has won q clever and charming
woman. It is strange how often those
made-up. hsp-haE,rd marriages prove
happy and Harmonious. I know they
ought not TO, hut "the imp Of the per-
verse" manages 30 that they do, while
many . union Of poetry and passion drsgs
. tangled web Of scandal, intrigue and
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-11-24
May aAlc Conn ming Croe

New Industries are springiDg up
all over our State, and gradually
the farmers arc getting out of the old
rats made by. their loreiathers. Cot
ton is no longer King, lue to judge
from the diversity of crops the
Southern !armer~now finds his soil
adapted to and the cultivation OF
which he finds to he profitable, it
seems that cotton is to be shorn OF
his Eingiy power, and that the
same is to be divided up among u
number OF less potential rulers.
Among these new industries none,
perhaps, are foregoing to the front
with more rapid strides than the
hay industry. 1t has been asccr.
tained that Louisiana soil ranks
among the best for profitable grass
growing, and far exceeds in
alaptabiIity aud productiveness that
of many States, where hay making
is one Of tie leading industries. Our
people, though late in finding this
cut. have q: last made the discovery.
not, however, until it was pointed
ont to them by the thrifty and
wide awake Western and Northern
men who have settled in our State
during the past eight or ten years ;
and ere many years more the now
ins machine and hay press will be
witnessed On nearly every farm that
is run by an energetic, progressive
man.-Rustan Laligraph.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-11-24
The *zan<gRy g.ass-.

The Sunday Law, the offspring Of
New England pGrltanism, which has
infltrated itself into our manners
and customs, is FAST dying away. In
the country parishes no efforts are
made to prolong lis cphcmeral life,
and the thing is dying a natural
death. in New Orleans an attempt
was made to galvaniZc it by admin,
lstcring some stiinulants which has
brought about q crisis that will pro-
badly res1lt iu q violent death.
Jurors have declared that under no
circumstances would they convict
any one for violation of this law,
and in late case they have shown
the sincerity OF their intention by
acquitting party clearly proven to
be guilty Of having violated the
letter and spirit OF the law. st.
Martin Reyeille.
Commenting on the above the City
Item says: The Reveillc aud other
country papers should insist on the
modification, if not repeal, Of a
statute which tresspasses On personal
liberty, incites oppression in Office,
makes hypocrites and deceiyers Of
otherwise honest men, and crippies
the resources OF hard working snal!
tradesmen who can i'll afford the loss.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-11-24
Keeping Sweet POTATOES.

In reply TO Oh inquiry as to how
to keep sweet potatoes for family
nse, we would say dry for three or
four days in bright sunshine. Do
not let the night dews come upon
them. Put in barrels after thus
being dried, with dry sawdust. In a
good cellar they will keep first
rate in this way. The correspondent
who makes this inquiry says: Il
live in Michigan in section that has
never grown any sweet potatoes.
But this year I have tried it, and
succeeded, and believe that sweet
potatoes can be grown further North
than is generally supposed" There
is no great difficulty in growing
sweet potatoes in many sections
where they arc not grown, for fami.
ly use. But for complete success
the extreme North does not present
the conditions. In growing fruit or
vegetables for the family we be-
Iicye in growing what will do even
moderately we'll. Michigan has q
good deal of soil and good deal of
climate that are favorable to sweet
potato growing. Western Rural.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-11-24
E'Iie African zsuaser Ess;txas-

An English gentleman, who lived
for some years in South Africa. chat-
ting with a New York Telegram
reporter, said:
Wait Till trade gets lively between
this country aud Africa, and the
Orange country dairymeD will have
something besides o!comargarine to
fight. There is butter plant over
there that turns out regular premium
butter. It grows wild in the coun.
fry around the equator; twig OF
the tree when in leaf looks not IN.
like a twig broken from the Scotch
pine, only instead OF the bunch OF
needles at the end, a bunch Of long
narrow lea -es spring out. The froit
is like an olive. The kernels are
dried IN the sun, and then boiled in
water, and out Of them the natives
make butter as firm and sweet as
any Orange county butter you ever
saw; it Is white, though, not yellow
It does not have to be salted, and it
viii keep for q year. It's nanu'ac-
fure is a big industry in Africa, In
India, too, where different species OF
the plant grow, the butter making is
largely carried on. Some OF the
trees there are grown il plautations
on the coast, others grow on the
mountains, and are Fifty feet Or more
in height. They say the butter is
good for rheumatism and all sorts Of
the muscles. and they use it for lamp
oil and for soap.
The wood is valuable, also, and,
altogether. the butter tree is not q
bad thing to have around. One of
the species, though, sort Of mixes
things; it is a dairy and distiIlery
all in one; butter is made from the
seeds, and a strong Intoxicating
liquor from the flowers. When
Africa is fairly opened. there viii be
lots OF queer things brought to the
American market.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-11-24
Shooting as E4TOHsss

Says the Ruston Caligraph Of last
week: There is considerable dan.
ger in the kind Of a hunt Brother
Phipps went on last week. y
Never shoot lion with & popgan,"
the word lion 10 the above evidently
referring to the Rev. j. ~. Parker.
Bro. Pearce seems to be in a
strange mental condition. He is
reputed to be a man Of strict sobriety
and temperance. We have heard of
men who, through confined and
excessive use Of strong drink, could
at times see snakes, Lizards and
frogs; but to see lions in Lincoln
parish certainly shows the worst
case of this kind We. have heard Of.
Accidents are lia able to happen with
the best Of men. But Huston is a
prohibition town. and we are told
they drink there By the keg and jug
full. This may account for the lions
seen in Linco'n. Homer Guardian.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-11-24
The Girl Who HELPS Mother.

There is a girl love to think of.
She is. the girl who helps mother. In
her own home she is a blessed little
saint and comforter. She takes un-
finished tasks from the tired, stiff
fingers, is a staff upon which the
gray-haired, while7faced mother leans
and is rested. She helps mother
with the spring sewing, with the
weeks mcnding, with a cheerful con.
versation and congenial companion,
ship that some girls do not think
worth wasting on "only mother"
Aud when there comes day when
she must bend over the body of her
mother, hands folded, disquiet
merged in rest, the girl who helped
mother will find bencdiction Of
peace upon her head and in her
heart. Would it not be a good plan
to devote some time and attention
to the humane education Of these
precepts to the children in our pub
lie schools ?-Ex.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-11-24
The Responsibility.

There are political facts which
have added to produce President
CIeveland's defeat in his own State.
They are facts for which responsi,
bility does not abide at the doors of
the Eagle. 1t will he seen that
Gov. HiIls fine words in public,
that his supporters should prefer
the national ticket to his personal
fortunes, have been construed iu a
Pick wickian sense where he runs
ahead of the President. We hope
his Excellency was misrepresented
by his supporters when they made
his apparently sincere words the
sheaths in which they cased their
kaives. until they buried them i'll
the body of Cleveland. We are
aware that a partisan cannot be
truthfully always held responsible
for the action Of his followers, and
we trust that the Democracy of the
United States, in the inquest they
are certain to conduct, will ascer-
tain the facts before they rush to
UNJUST conclusions. An unhomogen-
oua associa ton Of national and
State tickets was q misfortune which
VIC leplorcd, as Il involved O danger
which we feared and which the
rcsn't has confirmed. We are free
10 Gcc|ara, however. and would be
just in saFtN@ ii. ;hat the alternative
20 not rennminaiing Mr.. Hill was a
very serious one. SO long as ne was
unwi Ming, tor tie sake Of success,
10 take himself on: of the field.
Had the Administration maciiined
the nomination of another Democrat
over HIN, interference would have
been plausibIy charged and resent
ment would have been aroused. The
right course would have been for
him to refuse denomination. instead
of efIccting one with the implied
obligation to see that thereby Mr..
Cleveland came 10 no harm, ana
that the Executive Of the State
would build up no wa!l Of benefits
for himself, founded Oh the slaugh.
ter and cemented by the blood Of
the President. The obliga ton has
not been met. 1t is to be desired
that the Governor will hc able to
show that the fault is not his. Ger
tain it is that, had he not insisted
on a third period in the Governor
ship, and had the nomination of a
man been secured whose atmosphere
and record would have correspond
ed with those Of the President, aud
whose friends would not have been
The Presidents enemies, the results
might have been dillereut.-From
the Brooklyn Eagle.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-11-24
RENE n,b.red i'm a Dream.

A prominent business man in
Waterbury was, until recently, in
the habit Of giving large sums of
money, which had been taken in
after banking hours, ;nto the hands
Of his wife for safekeeping. On the
Sth Of June he handed her $1,000 in
bills, and at the same time remarked
that he would deposit the money in
the bank in the morning. After
breakfast the bills were called for,
but the woman had forgotten where
they were secreted. A general search
was instituted. Bureau drawers were
upset, cupboards and closets ransack-
ed, even carpets taken up; but still
the missing money could not be
found. The irate husband stormed
and swore by note, but the result
remained the same. 1t was finally
believed that the money had been
stolen. The house was again put
in order, but the wife received no
more deposi,e for safe keeping. Sun :
dag night she had a yiyed dream,
in which was revealed the moneys
hiding place. Hastily arising from
be, couch she lifted the lid of an an
1ioRe chest aud unfolded pair Of
blankets, when the money rolled
out.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-11-24

One Of our sensible exchanges
gets off the following: "a friend
wants to know if we have ever seen
a bald.headed woman. No, we lever
did. Why should we? Nor we
never saw woman waItziag around
town in her shirt sleeves with q
cigar in between her teeth stepping
into every saloon she saw. We
never saw a woman 60 fishing in
the mountains with bottle in each
pocket, sit on the damp ground all
day and go home drunk at night.
Neither have We seen a woman
yank off her coat. spit in her hapds
ard sag she could lick any son Ola
gun in town. No. God bless her,
she amt hnilt that way"
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-11-24

4 reporter, in an article on the
destitute poor, spoke Of the grea.
number Of persons reduced to poverty
by the "mvsteriOus decrces Of Prov
dencc." His aste4 isl.ment may -
imagined wien lie saw he inte!li,
gent prin,a- lad altered it to "mys.
teriaus Qsoresss OF provisions.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-11-24

SAYS an exchange: Venus rose
from the sea to allow tie hired girl
10 make tie bed Of the ocean o
10. She rose from The sea % meet
tie swell .; TIC Gcea4.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-11-24
ADVERTISING RATES:

Tr,ns,e1,t aNvorfiEcWoNfs aTU0 pei
;,ah trst jnsertion. Each subseqent IL
'' Announcing , candidates for office $1,000
inadyancc. Ward Offices, 500 in advance:
" Death and marriage notices. when not
oy.rs;x lines. published free. ,uhitnarlcs;
resolutions OF respect, etc, VIII pe charged
Articles Of i personal nature, When al
missible. viii be charged double price.
NO No notice not taken of synonymous conlmn-
uicat;ors. II all eases We rcqulrg tue
yriter's name and address, not sSai1ly
,or publication, hut as Z guarantee ot
lood'faith. We viii unGcrtA l>a to pl es"TNe
or return rejected manusclIlS' IN no way
viii we be rcsnnnsible for tic views and
opillio,ls of our correspondents.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-11-24
- -

Ia claimed by physicians that
~ uea age killed by hard work.
.at il his any reason why the
p'Iysicia.s should rush to tie rescue2
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-07
IN THE RED RIVER VALLEY.
Improvement in Stock---The Nor
man the Favorite Horse---Ma-
chinery Left Out.

Improvement in StOck---The Nor
man the Favorite Horse---Ma-
chinery Left Out.
Special to the Globe.
ARTHUR, CaSs County, Dak., July g.
The cool, dry weather still continues,
and wheat, although short for the time
of year, is looking well. There has
been decided Improvement in horse
flesh in the valley during the past few
wears, and we Judge from the number
of blooded stations that are owned and
kept in use by the farmers that the or
binary plOw team OF the near future
will carry pedigree yard long. The
Norman seems to be the favOrite horse
in this vicinity, and for an all-purpose
horse think he ''takes the cake" In the
Norman horse we find action, combined
with strength and durability to a far
greater extent than in any other horse.
While this is fact regarding horses, we
have to quote scrub-cattle to great eX
tent. There may be some blooded cat.
tie in this vicinity, but they are certain
ly very few and far between. And
when found, we almost invariably find
the long end of the erosion the scrub
end of the COW. There is no doubt but
a closer attention to the stock of cattle
we are raising would pay almost, if not
quite as well as the present attention
given to horses. The same is also true
in regard to hogs. The farmer who
does not raise his meat is standing in
his own light" and spending
hard-earned money, that might
be used to good advantage in other ways.
There is one thing that always attracts
the notice of the traveller in this part of
valley, and that is the valuable ma
chinery left standing out in the weather.
And it seems strange that smart, act
i've, intelligent farmers, who are look
ing out for the ''dollar of their dads"
should overlook this item of loss. Bind
ers and plOws, mowers and rakes, seed
ers and drags, rollers, and, in some in
stances, even threshers, are lying scat
tered around without any regard to
their future worth. There are some
farmers who store their machinery up
somewhere out of the way. And we
are glad to note that some have pro-
vided suitable buildings to shelter their
machinery when not in use.
SANS O. LOT.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-07
A VISITORS OPINION.
That No Region Should Rely Ex-

That No Region Should Rely Ex-
clusiveIy Upon One Product.
The editor of the Chicago Western
Rural, in his account of the visit of the
agricultural editors to the hard wheat
belt, has these points:
From S. to 81 would seem to he the
figures which would give about the ex-
pense of growing an acre of wheat in
Dakota. Well. what is the average
yield? We desire to be careful in our
statement and we believe, it we say
twenty bushels, we shall be under
rather than over; and it is the best
wheat in the world.
But we believe this extensive produc-
tiOn of wheat as almost an exclusive
crop is not just the thing for either Min
nesota or Dakota farmers to do. A
mixed husbandry is just as practicable
and desirable in these sections as else
where. There is money in wheat if
everything is favorable; and perhaps
we are warranted in saying that wheat
growing in these sections is profitable it
things are half favorable. But any
man who pins his faith to a single crop
will occasionally get left; and while
oats and barley and potatoes will do
well in those sections through which
we passed, it is not wisdom to seed
whole farm to wheat: and while stock
raising can be made profitable, it ought
not to be neglected. Even corn can be
produced in Northern Dakota, and we
were shown splendid specimens of corn
that were grown there last year. But it
can hardly be said to be a corn country.
Still last year Dakota raised nearly 24,-
100000 bushels Of corn. But for wheat,
oats, barley, potatoes and stock it would
be hard to find superior advantages to
those offered bY Dakota,
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-07
FARM NOTES.
Points and Facts That May Be of
Value to the Tiller of the Soil.

A traveller in Norway says that the
horses in that country have very SEN
sibe way of taking their food. which.
perhaps, might be benificially followed
here. They have bucket of water put
down beside their allowance of hay.
1t is interesting to see with what relish
they take a sip of one and mouthful
of the other alternately. sometimes only
moistening their mouths, as rational
of such dry food. A broken-winded
horse is scarcely ever seen in Norway,
and the question is if the mode of feed
ing has not something to do with the
preservation of the animals respiratory
organs.
A Western journal thinks that buck
wheat is useful crop to plant on worm
out land to aid in recuperating it, but
that under these circumstances it should
not be expected to get money revenue
from the crop at the same time. 1t is of
less value than clover for this purpose
on land that will produce the latter,
not; hence on the poorest soil it is of
value in getting it to degree of fertil-
ity, when it will grow something else.
The plant also has the power of reduc-
ing hard, heavy soil or tough sod,
and makes it loose and friable.
j. G. Johnson, Pembina county, Da-
kota, reports the following weights OF
few fieeces from his flock of Cotswolds:
One eve, thirteen pounds; one two
year-old eve, sixteen and one-half
pounds; a one-year-old. thirteen and
one-half pounds: and a year-old ram,
fifteen and one-half pounds. He also
reports carcasses of excellent mutton
weighing 125 pounds each. Although
that is the extreme north of Dakota, he
regards it as we'll adapted to sheep.
Reports from Northern Texas say that
the crops in that region are fine, that
wheat harvest is now under way, the
acreage the largest ever planted in the
state, and handsome yield per acre is
promised.
AS to food, the horse, like man,
Graves variety, and does better with it
than when confined to one article of
food.
Overchurning is the cause to very
great extent of butter not keeping, in
the opinion of correspondent of the
Mark Lane Express. Although ceasing
to churn as soon as the butter has ap-
peared in granular form has been adj
vocated for years by the best authori-
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-07
A SHEEP|SH NARRATIVE.
Six Years Experience in the Sheep Bus
mess in Central Dakota
WITH LUCRATIVE RESULTS.
A Better and Safer Region Than the
East for This Pro-
ducti0n.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
HURON, OAK, June 29.-Some six
years ago A. NJ. Beebe and son came to
this county and located on tract of
land about six miles northeast of the
city. They brought with them from
their Michigan home a flock of $50
sheep. They arrived here in the winter,
and soon after unloading the sheep from
the cars snow storm set in and more
than half the flock died. With proba-
bly, seventy-five head Mr.. Beebe started
in business on his farm. The first year
he expended considerable money in
building sheds and fencing pastures.
The second and third years it became
necessary to enlarge the accOmmOda-
tions, because of the increase in the
flock. Each year he sold some WOO! and
little mutton. Year by year his flock
has gradually increased, and, not
withstanding the fact that some
of the sheep have died from
exposure in winter, and wolves
and dogs have frequently raided the
fiocks, Mr.. Beebe on Monday be-
gan shearing his flock of 700 head.
Three years ago he sold about $500
worth of wool, last year over a $1,000
worth, and the present clip will bring
him not less than S1.500. Mr.. Beebe
says that Oh ar average the fleece will
weight from eleven to twelve pounds,
the total clip reaching probably 5000
pounds. He finds ready sale for the
WOOL AT GOOD PRICES
right at his door. His experience in
the sheep and wool business in Dakota
has been very satisfactory. He was
engaged in the same line for more than
forty years in New York and Michigan,
but prefers Dakota to either of those
states for sheep raising. He says that
sheep stand the winter here
nicely, and require little, if any
grain. He feeds only wild hay
and bluejoint in winter-grainS
old ewes and lambs. The cost of win
tering 100 head of sheep here is
LESS THAN ONE-FOURTH
as much as is required to winter the
same number in New York or Michigan
and the labor is no greater here than
there. Mr.. Beebe is confident that
within very few years sheep raising
will be carried on to an enormous eX-
tent in this part of Dakota: each year
farmers are giving more attention to
this industry, and many are expert
menting this season who never before
gave any thought to it. There is always
ready sale for wool and mutton, and at
a profit. and there is nothing in the
line of farming or stock raising that
will bring greater returns in the same
length of time as sheep.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-07

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