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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-13
IN TENNESSEE.

CHATTANOOGA, Dec. l2,-Laura
Sdyens, a seven year girl, was as
saulted in the woods yesterday by a
white man, VIII Cardine-a posse
caught him last night and after identi-
ficatiOn. lYnched him.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-13
IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TOO.

Los ANGELES, Dec. 12.-The heavi-
est continued rain for years set in
early last evening and fell steadily
through last night and to-day and
there are still no signs of clear
weather. From o'clock yesterday
till IL this morning there was fall
Of nearly three inches. The streets
are badly damaged on the hillsides
and cable lines are stopped by water
flooding the power house. More
serious injury is expected before the
storm is over.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-13
HIGH WATER IN CALIFORNIA;.

CoLUsA. CAL, Dec. 12.-The Sacra-
ments river is 81 feet 7 inches above
low water mark to-day, which is eight
inches higher then ever before known.
1t is still rising slowly but there is no
prospect of any more rain. The
levees on the east side of the river are
broken in a score of places and the
territory north and east of here is all
under water. A number of ranchers
have moved their families and stocks
into town for safety.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-13
TELBGRAPHIC.
Specials to The Ast0rian.

WASHINGTON, Dec. I'm the house
to-day Butterworth brought up the
famous Ohio ballot box contract which
figured so conspicuously ID the last
campaign by offering resolution re-
citing that of the persons whose names
appear on said paper, all except one
were at the time of said publication
and except S. S. Cox, deceased, are
still members of the house or senate,
and that a committee of five be ap-
pointed to investigate. The resolu-
ton further said that If the contracts
were genuine the signers were unfit TO
sit IN congress.
The resolution was adopted, and the
report OF the Silcott committee was
presented to the house.
The report of the committee gives a
detailed statement OF the assets and
liabilities of the office. The Decem-
Der shortage is placed at S7O,70S.96.
The committee has not yet made suf-
ficient investigation of the matter OF
discounts and notes Many OF the
notes the committee believe were
forged to cover defalcation already ex-
isting. The report says: The com
mittee cannot too severely condemn
the manner in which the sergeant-at-
arms conducted the affairs of the
office" The resolution was adopted
extending power to select committee
to report to the house its conclusions
as to the effect, If any, of the deficiency
of cash in the Office Of the sergeant.
alarms office. Adjourned till Mon
day.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-13

City and County Official Paper.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-13
THE GIBBS TRIAL.

PORTLAND, Dec. I2.-Argument IN
the Gibbs murder trial closed at 4:30
o'clock yesterday afternoon, when
Judge Stearns began to charge the
jury which he finished soon after 5
o'clock. At 8 o'clock the jury an
nounced that they had found YER
dict. This fact flashed into the street
with strange rapidity, and before the
clerk, Church had time to read the
verdict the court room was again
densely filled. The verdict found
Gibbs guilty of murder in the second
degree, which means Imprisonment for
life.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-13
IN THE SENATE.

( WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-After some
unimportant routine business the in
PRODUCTION of bills was resumed in the
senate. Butler introduced bill pro-
viding for the emigration OF persons
of color from the southern states.
And Stewart presented free coinage
bill. After a brief executive session
and some uuimportant routine bust
ness, the senate adjourned till Mon
day.
The senate has confirmed the nom
ination of Green B. Raum, of Illinois,
as commissioner Of pensions.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-28

trampled, and the protecting growth
above fed down. One-half the pasture
is allowed an uninterrupted growth of
several days while the other is being
fed. This in turn will offer fresh feed
while the first is getting rest, and so,
alternately through the growing seas on.
The expense of thus separating the
pasture into parts is slight indeed COM
pared with the benefits realized. 1t is
supposed that the pasture is already
surrounded with fence All that is re-
CURED to make the division is to run
fence across the pasture. This fence
may usually be of a rather light, tenn
porary character, as there is moth
ing on either side to tempt
stock to make a breach, and no
great damage to be done if they do.
Movable panels may be staked in place,
or three wires strung to form the divi-
sion. The cost of this improvement in
ten-acre pasture would not be over
eight or ten dollars, while the gain in
single season will treble this amount
american AQriculturist
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-28
DESPAIR.
BY Ida LEWIS WATSON.

BY Ida LEWIS WATSON.
Who says Despair goes forth as woman in her
grief
With clasped hands, in freuzy such as seemeth
cannot be?
With eyes still capable Of tears, and wild with
late regret;
With heart aflame, but that cannot forget,
Tha tburneth on and on forever with the years,
An feeds upon the ache that must make moan
or die,
aching cannot die tho moan be turned to
prayer;
Who sayetn this, forsooth can be Despair?
I tell we such she never was; I've looked on her
Most like statue wrought in marble, white and
cold,
And void of supplication as tn Egyptian
sphinx
In everlasting watch aud woe;
The marble eyellds never droop in sleep,
And never tears do moist the stony gaze
Whence hope hath Quenched its light forever
more,
That looks upon the smile of day and sees but
night,
Nor knoweth when that sun do rise and set
And knows not hours from centuries that pass;
And so doth time t eternity move on
And so the heart that eIst did throb with Gods
own warmth,
Before the sorrow laid her touch thereon
Turned Into marble, cold as dead hearts be-
Yea. colder than these eer become,
Still keepeth watch and ward thro' time that
seems eternity,
Nor knoweth desOlation's surcease, while the
heavens are dumb
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-28
William and the Whistler.
From the New York World.

While Bill Nye was in Paris he prom
ised to attend reception and assist
Mrs. Shaw to entertain the company.
Something happened to prevent our
William from going and when Mrs
Shaw met him here she chided him for
his negligence. 81 had to take care of
your share of the entertainment as we'll
as my own," she said. land I shall
retaliate some time by asking you to en-
terrain somebody for me-"
II will do it with pleasure" respond
ed the gallant William. 81 assure YOU
l have often whistled for Queen.''
"Ah, then you held three" promptly
replied la belle siffleuse. "I'm some
thing of poker PLAYER MYSELF
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-28
FARM AND HOME.


There is no song like an old song
That we have not heard for years;
Each simple note appears to throng
With shapes that SWIM in tears
1t may have been cheerful strain,
But twas so long ago
That glee, grown old, has turned to pain,
And mirth has turned to woe.
There is no friend like an old friend,
Whose life-path mates our own,
NhOse dawn and noon, whose eve and end,
Have known what We have known.
1t may be when we read his face
We note trace of care;
lis well that friends IN life's last grace
Share signs as smiles they share.
There Is no love like an old love,
lost, may be, or dead,
Whose place, since she has gone above,
No other fits instead.
1t is not we'll ne'er love anew,
For life were drear If So
Eut that first love had roots that grew
Where others cannot grow.
There are no days like old days.
When we, not they, were young;
When all life's rays we're golden rays
And wrong had never stung.
Dear Heart II now our steps could pass
Through paths OF childhood's morn,
And the dew of youth lie OH the grass
Which Times tell scythe has shorn!
Old song, old friend. old love, old days;
Old things, yet never old;
A stream that's dark till sunshine plays
And changes it to gold:
Through all winds memory's river on,
Mid banks of sore regret,
But CLEANS Oh the peaks of long agOne
That softens sadness yet.
-TrnDSLdted from the German
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-28

800 to 200 eggs. Unless you are very
watchful some of the old beetles will
escape, and their eggs and the young
grubs newly Matched will be found q
few weeks later on the potato plants,
and then should commence the usual
mode of destroying them by busting
the potatoes with Paris green mixed
with plaster-of-par1s or common flour.
One pound of the poison mixed
with thirty of -four will be sutfi-
GENTLY strong to kill either the
grubs or full-grown beetles feeding
upon the plants. Should another brood
OF beetles appear, apply more poison,
and continue to use it on the plants as
long as any insects are found on them.
If your neighbors will practice the same
warfare on the insects lew or none at
all will be seen the following year. But
IN almost every neighborhoodt there will
be one or more farmers who will neg
lect applying poison to their potatoes,
and as a result thousands of these in
sects escape and infest the grounds of
the vigilaDt and painstaking cultivators
of the soil.-N. 7. Sun.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-28
Fine Flavor in Fruit

AS the period for the ripening of large
fruits is approaching, it may be we'll to
remind inexperienced cultivators of the
importance of high culture for the de-
velOpment of the finest quality. Some
years ago two st. Ghislain pear trees
bore fruit SO unlike that they would not
be recognized as the same variety.
There was almost no similarity in flavor.
One tree bearing poor fruit stood in a
thick grass sod; the other with excel
lent pears, was kept well cultivated.
Early pears, as well as early peaches, on
crowded trees, which ripen first on the
tree, are much inferior in flavor to those
which come later. The first are grown
SO thickly on the branches that they
which ripen later, after the early por-
plenty of space to develop their fine
quality. Hence the great advantage of
early thinning. Take the Summer
Doyenne pear, for instance. Those
which are first ripe on densely
crowded limbs are about half the
size of those which ripen last, and
strlkingly inferior to them in quality.
80 with early peaches; the last scattered
ones on the tree are commonly observed
to be greatly superior in flavor to the
first which ripen. These facts teach the
Importance Of good cultivation, and of
thinning the fruit on crowded trees,
both Of which operations will always re-
pay the grower in large, beautiful and
excellent fruit, instead of small, knotty
and f1avorless specimens Col-
tlUUtOr
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-28
FOR THE HOUSEKEEPER

Soak over night one cup of tapioca in
SIX cups OF water. Next morning add
one cup Of sugar, one egg and beat we'll
together. Then pare, core and chop
fine SIX or more apples and stir, with
the tapioca in a pudding dish, and bake
slowly.
SCALLOPED POTATOES.
Pare the potatoes, cover the bottom of
a baking dish with bread crumbs, then
add layer of sliced potatoes, then bits
of butter, salt and pepper; fill the dish
with the alternate layers, wet the whole
with milk, and bake the whole tor an
hour and half.
CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM.
Take quart of cream, half pound of
ch ocolate, one tablespoonful OF extract
of vanilla and enc pound of sugar, and
put on to boil; stir and beat smooth,
strain and add quart of raw cream;
cool and freeze. Set aside for one hour
to mellow.
FRUIT CAKE.
One cup each of molasses, sugar, but
ter and sour milk, four and one-half
cups of -four, three eggs, one table
spoonful each of allspice, cassia and
cloves, one nutmeg, one teaspoonful of
soda, one-half pound each of raisins and
currants, or, If preferred, one pound of
ORANGE CREAM SPONGE CAKE.
Mix, by sitting, three teaspoonfuls of
baking powder with one and a half cups
of flour. In Sc parate dish beat three
eggs Until light, add one and half cups
Of white sugar, one-half cup of hot wa
ter and the grated rind of half an Or
ange. Beat all together and pour into
the flour. Stir thoroughly and bake in
layers.
TO PICKLE PEACHES.
Take as much vinegar as will cover
the quantity of peaches you have.
After it has boiled sufficiently, sWeeten
it to your taste, put in your spices,
cloves. cinnamon or mace. Boil to-
gether for little while, then put in
your peaches (peeled or with the skins
on as you prefer. Boil for fifteen min
utes, or until they are tender. Take
them out and boil the vinegar down
until it is strong enough to keep
he m. Keep them in cool place.
FRIED TOMATOES.
Select medium-sized, smooth, f1eshy
tomatoes. and cut them in round slices
an inch thick; dip them in beaten egg,
and then in bread crumbs, fry in hotbut-
ter or lard on both sides, and serve with
flour smoothly with pint of milk, adj
ding one ounce of butter creamed,
whisking it well with the milk; one
beaten egg, little salt, pepper and
mace. Place the stew-pan on the range
and simmer till thick. Put the tomatoes
in the middle of warm dish, pour the
sauce around them and serve
PUREE OF PEASE.
Shell half a peck Of green peas, wash
the shells end put them in the soup
Kettle with plenty of cold water; boil
them until tender; strain and throw
away the pods. In this water put your
peas, with a tablespoonful of sugar and
a sprig of mint; boil them half an hour
and press them through colander into
your soup, of which there should be
three pints. Rub together one table,
spoonful of butter and two of flour, and
stir them into the boiling soup; add
salt and pepper to taste. and wheIl ready
to serve pour in cupful of rich new
milk
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-28
When to Cut Timhar

There is no time in the year when
stumps will not sprout if timber is cut,
but | have the least trouble when tim
Der is cut between July Is and Septem-
Der l. In other ATTITUDES good rule
would be to wait until the seasons
growth is all made and beginning to
harden for winter; then cut before
frosts kill any of the foliage. About the
middle OF the following growing season
apply handful of salt whenever any
scattering sprouts make their appear
ance, keeping all stock away from it
until the salt is all absorbed in damp
nights or rainy days. Afterward let
the stock have freedom to eat the salt
that is precipitated upon the surface in
dry days and they will finish the sprouts
if not otherwise sailed. When the
stock fail to get sufficient amount of
the precipitated salt, newly salt the
stock on the sprouts that were over
looked or escaped the former sailing.
In this way l have effectually killed
sprouts that grew on land previously
cut over two or three times with the
Only effect of increasing their num-
hers
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-28
The Wrong Elixir.
From the Binghampton Republican.

From the Binghampton Republican.
The Court Street doctor who has been
experimenting with the Brown Sequard
elixir is SO elated over the success of his
work that he has resolved to continue
it from day to day. His experiment
yesterday was not success, but he at
tributed its failure to the extraordinary
severity of the test made, and assured
those present that a compound might
possess marvellous rejuvenating qualities
and still fail In so exacting trial.
The doctor prepared quantity of the
liquid and injected it into store which
had not advertised for four months.
Those present watched for transforma-
ton with breathless interest. TIE
silence was Sc intense that one could
hear the interest accommodating on the
mortgages that covered the stock.
Hours passed, but no change took place.
The clerks continued listless and idle;
the proprietor remained respondent;
the dust did not leave the counters and
shelves and the suIging crowd outside
continued to pass by without SO much
as glance at the fy-decorated samples
in the windows.
The doctor sighed. "The elixir can do
wonders" he observed to a bystander,
but it cannot perform miracles. 1t
cannot lnfuse life into a place of bust
ness the public never hear off, and of
whose very existence it is therefore
presumably ignorant. There is but one
compound in the world that can make
those inactive statesmen busy, put the
glow Of conscious prosperity on the
brow of the proprietor, sweep away the
dust from counter and shelf, and divert
the stream of trafficking humanity into
it's portals"
''And that is? ' said the listener in
terrogatively.
Printers ink"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-28
What Kept the Boys at Home.

How do you keep your boys at home
was asked mother whose three half
grown sons always hurried home from
school instead of wandering off with
some playmates, and whose evenings
were usually spent somewhere near the
home roof. 81 don't keep them; they
keep themselves. NV only trouble is
to get them to go anywhere else," an
swered the mother, who perhaps
thought her boys were naturally little
different from some other boys. A
friend of the family thought if the
mother couldn't explain their love of
home he could. The boys always we're
anxious to get home because they
were interested in something there
One had his tools, another his
vegetable garden, which was all his
own with all he raised therein. One
had small menagerie of squirrels, rab-
bits, ETC., in shed chamber, and an
other whose tastes were more quiet, had
a study of his own, small chamber,
where his own writing table, bookcase,
paint-box, etc, were always waiting
for him. The individual tastes of each
boy were respected, each was ready to
give from his own particular stores to
another or to his parents. Moreover
each was always treated at home as
gentleman, and gentlemanly manners
had always been expected from him.
Does not the feeling of being of more
consequence elsewhere, the greater def
erence apparently paid to his tastes,
draw many a boy from home?-LeWistoE
Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-28

The last brood of the potato beetle,
which usual appears late in summer,
crawl into the ground or under rubbish
and remain there in semi-torpid state
through the winter AS soon as the
ground becomes warmed by the sun in
spring, these torpid beetles revive and
come out in search of food, and the fe-
males lay their eggs upon the first po-
tato leaf appearing above the ground.
By gathering the beetles as they.appear
and destroying them we are enabled to
check the increase in numbers of the
first or new breed of the season, for
every one of the old female beetles
that escapes destruction will lay from
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-28
Height of Great Sea Waves.

Carefully repeated experiments made
by an experienced English navigator
at Santander, on the north coast of
Spain, showed the crest of the sea
waves in prolonged and heavy gale of
wind to be ~ feet high; and allowing
the same for the depth between the
waves, would make a height 81 feet
from crest to base. The length from
crest to crest was found to be 3S6 feet.
Other estimates of the waves in the
South Atlantic during great storms give
a height of so feet for the crests and
400 feet for length. In the North Sea
the height of crest seldom exceeds 10
feet and the length $50 feet.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-28
Preventing Potato Rot.


A bulletin of the Tennessee expert
ment station tells how to prevent pota-
to rot as follows:
If we can prevent the spores from
terminating on the tops there will be
little danger Of the disease reaching the
tubers. That We can do this
by the proper applications of
certain fungicldes there can he
little question. The experiments
which have been made with prepare
tons Of sulphate Of copper, having
this object in view, all point one way
and render it nearly certain that the rot
may be prevented by spraying the tops
upon the first sign of the malady. with
the Bordeaux mixture Or some of the
other well-known preparations of cop
per sulphate. The Bordeaux mixture
is prepared as follows:
dissolve eight pounds Of sulphate of
copper (pure, in crystals) in twenty
gallons of water; in another vessel
slake ten pounds of fresh lime in five
gallons Of water; when the lime mix
ture has cooled to the temperature of
the air, pour it slowly into the cooper
solution, taking care to mix the fluids
thoroughly by constant stirring. This
should be prepared some days before
required for use."
It often happens that the greatest loss
from rot occurs after the potatoes are
dug, and one cannot be over careful in
the matter of storage if he would pre-
serve his crop from loss. They should
be kept at paratively low and
even temperature, and especially where
no dampness will collect about them
busting the potatoes with dry, air.
slaked lime, at the rate of one bushel
oil the latter to twenty-five of the former,
will help to keep their surface dry and
materially aid in their preservation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-28
A Good Story.
From the Chicago Tribune.

It was dinner-time on Lake Superior
steamer India. The boat was crowded,
and the colored walters were busily en-
gagged in caring for the passengers. AS
the steamer came around Whitefsh
Point she got little too close to land
and struck hidden rock a slanting
blow that careened her slightly, but she
continued on her course uniniured.
The passengers waited in vain for the
changes in courses. Not waiter was
to be found. Steward and captain be-
gan search for the missing
At last every colored waiter on the
steamer was found slowed away in the
life-boats. It took an hour of coaxing
before they came down and went to
work again.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-28
Change of Pastnre.

1t is too common practice for land
devoted to the pasture to be given to
the stock in a body, over which they
have continuous and unrestricted range.
That this is not good policy is apparent.
The whole pasture surface is kept con-
stantly fouled and trod down. No por-
ton of it is allowed to freshen
up during the grazing season.
Actual test has proven that
two fve-acre pastures, fed alter
nately, are worth much more than
one ten-acre field fed continuously. The
grass roots have much better chance
in the former, especially in the dry
time. They are not then constantly
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-28
Very Nice, Indeed.
From a Paris Letter.

At M. Tirard's reception Munkacsy
was presented to the Shah by ii. E.
This" said Ell. E., ''is the famous art
ist whose picture Of Christ before Plate
made such a glorious success +"
"Ah, yes," said the Shah to Munkacsy,
cb knf% yours your b @Hp taken doWp d be
cross-sticks in the gallery at Antwerp.
And very nice it is." Munkascy went
out to the buffet to recover.