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The St. Johns herald., 1889-09-19

no longer put on the harness to enter upon any work of reform with the alacrity of earlier days. It seems to me now so difficult to get people at large to look beyond the pressing need of the hour, and to get them to represent to themselves with sufficient vividness the evil consequences that certain courses of conduct are about to entail upon the coming race, that 1 feel more and more the futility of any effort on my part to give the current a new direction. The motto of most people is that of Madame Tampa dour, "Apres nous le deluge."
 Nature seems to have set her face against much success in tree cul- ture on the plains if We depart from her example in planting aught save cottonwoods. l have planted good many trees since coming to Colorado in 1870. At first with much hope, but yearly with vanish ing faith in anything but the cot tonwood. With other kinds great care must be exercised and often the failure to get water at the right time annuls the work and care of years.
 By the way, for the two years preceding the last season it seemed that even the cotton-woods would have to succumb to the attacks of a kind of caterpillar. But the re- sources of the cottonwood seem equal to all emergencies. I have seen the stump of a cottonwood carried down by the flood and left upward in shallow water, send forth numerous vigorous shoots from the roots. The root can throw out bud like branch, or branch form root whenever an emergency de- mands. It is here on these bleak plains a monument of the "Survi- val of the fttest in the struggle for existence. ."-David Boyd.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-09-19
AttOrney-General MIIler's Opinion.

The Tombstone Epitaph claims to have in it's possession the annex ed opinion, which speaks for itself
 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
 Washington, July Is, 1889. To the Honorable, the Secretary of the Interior: Sir-I have exam ined with care the letter of Cover nor Wolfey, of Arizona, dated June 26th, and the letter of the Secretary of Arizona Territory, Mr. N. O.. Murphy, dated 2d, both of which seem to have been referred by you to Assist Attorney-G General Shields and have been by him brought to me for consideration and an Opin- ion. 1 am unable to find in either, any question of law which is not covered by the opinions of this De- partment, rendered to you under dates of March 18th, May 29th, and June 19, 1889. The first of these opinions was to the effect that, un- der the Act of Congress, which is the Organic law of the Territory, the session of the Legislature of Arizona is limited to sixty consecu- tive days, The corollary of this conclusion seems clear that any at tempted legislation after that time would be nugatory. The second opinion was to the effect that under the Organic law of Arizona Terri tory the Governor has no power to call an extra session of the Legis- lature. And the third opinion was to the effect that the Legislature of Arizona Territory, properly in ses- sion. has the power to pass law providing for the calling of con stitutional convention. Upon the wisdom of such legislation no opin- ion is expressed, and in discussing the power it is, of course, assumed that the legislation takes place with in the sixty days allowed by law for the session. If, upon an exam ination you are of the opinion that there is any question involved in either of these papers, or connected with them, upon which you wish an opinion from this Department, if you will be good enough to state the same Twill be glad to rcconsid CT the question and furnish such opinion.
 I return herewith the two letters.
 Respectfully yours,
 W. H. H. MILLER,
 Attorney-General.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-09-19

The Louisville Courier-Jeurnal is never pleased at anything that is not political. It says that the ob- jection to a large watermelon crop lies in the fact that the rinds are scattered about the street and make work for the garbage man, and ap- peals to Secretary of Agriculture Rusk to develop new type Of mel on which may be eaten rind and all.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-09-19

Whoever believes that knavery, cruelty, hypocrisy or any other vice can. under any circumstances. pro- mote even the temporal happiness of him who practices itis but su- perfcial observer and a shallow req soner. In the worlds parlance, men who acquire wealth and influence by unwarrantable means are called prosperous. But what is prosperity in the true and legitimate sense of the word? Webster tells us "Ad- vances or gain ill anything good" No man can be deemed truly pros porous whose conscience is i'll at ease, and whoever enriches himself at the expense of justice, duty and honor plunges his soul, even here, into a state of diversity which no indulgence of the senses, no adula- tion of time-servers and parasites, nothing that money can buy or power command will efectually or permanently relieye.-Ex.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-09-19

marvel of Christendom, and the real leaders of its pacific progress have been and are its inventive me- chanics-men of the Edison stamp. IN. I. Tribune.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-09-19
Forest Reform.

NoTE-Brlef articles and communica- tions upon forestry subjects of impor- tance to the Rocky mountain region, are solicited by Edgar T. Ensign, Forest Commissioner, Colorado Springs, Colo, who will endeavor to supply, in part at least, local demands for printed inform ation of this nature.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-09-19
Notes and Comments.

Chicago is beginning her subscrip- |, tion list for the fair in the right wav-with the millionaires.
 The community at large to the worlds fair wranglers-"Put up or shut p."-Philadelphia Inquirer.
 The fool killers club is too short, He let another inexperienced "aero- naut" get by him at Utica last week.
 Nearly everybody appears to be taking vacation except the cut throats and other criminals.-Buf- falo Courier.
 The "seal of secrecy" concerning which so much has been said, was on board one of the British vessels which the Rush failed to capture.
 European governments are adopt ing the smokeless powder. What this country longs for is the smoke less cigarette.-New York World.
 If Ifeverybody will stop grumbling and put his shoulder to the wheel and push hard, there will be a good fall llbusiness.-Philadelphia Call.
 Ifelectrocution could be practiced on all the gum-chewers of this country even the representative electricians would doubtless ap- plaud.-Buffalo Courier.
 An exchange says: "Gentlemen's dress this fall will be in subdued styles" It might have added that the Indiana and Illinois miners will wear last years styles.
 If there is not otherwise room for industrial training in the school, throw out what is impracticable, useless, and introduce the practical and the useful St. Paul Dispatch.
 The Russian novelist Tschernis- chewski has been sentenced to twenty-five years hard labor in the Siberian mines. Properly subdivid- ed his name would make two sen- tences of that length.
 The standing army of this free country is in the nature of a dis grade when it's chief work is the production and maintenance of the petty tyrants in shoulder straps St. Louis Post-Dfspatch.
 The new Constitution of the State of Montana is said to be ten times as long as the Constitution of the United States. Well, that is about the way Montana looks to a Mon- tana man.-Syracuse Herald.
 Despise not the day of small things. The arrest of two lovers in New York for kissing each other on the street may prevent that city's having the worlds fair. There are a good many lovers In the land.
 Technical schools do no neces- Sarily turn out mechanics, but are to lay a broad practical for the majority off ca- reers open to men-and women.- Cincinnati Commmerial Gazette.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-09-19

Seal skins have long been pro- life cause of domestic trouble in the United States, but never before of foreign disturbances.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-09-19
General Intelligence.

'
 New York has but one murderer in stock for the gallows, but the number of candidates for the cleo trical chair is large.
 MT. Looney, of Ohio, has been arrested on the charge of forging notes and mortgages. His name suggests a defense which is sure to acquit him.
 Neither tEe revenue cutter Rush nor the gunboat Bear will wear jew elry. One allowed the Black Dia- mond and the other the Sapphire to get away from it.
 The newest coin-in- -the-sl0t de- vice furnishes glass of ice water for cent. A contrivance furnish ing Jamaica ginger for S1 would be paying investment if set near the ice water machine.
 It is now worth $1O00 to capture highwayman who has "held up" the United States mail. No pro- vision is made for the surviving rel atives of those who try to earn the reward and do not succeed.
 The summer season now closing has given the death blow to the hot weather ascendancy of the "biled" shirt. Another year will see peo- pie so sensible that the starch fac tories may shut down June 1.
 The United States has a lawyer to every 900 of its population, ,male and adult, while in Germany one lawyer does the work of about 1000 persons. There is more law in this country, too, such as it is.
 A New York saleswoman has just received $6,500 by the will of crotchety old woman whom she had treated politely. Now let all sales women, and salesmen, for that mat ter try civility on speculation.
 The people of the United States spend $25,000,OO0 yearly for baking powder-so says an official report promulgated at Washington. Re turns as to the sum annually spent for dyspepsia medicine have not come in.
 The bottom fell out of we'll be- ing dug at Rome, Ga, this week and opened the way into an i'm mense cave. The cave should be carefully explored to find suita- ble place of sepulchre for the ram- pant grotto fakir.
 A Pittsburg man, tired of life, on Friday last stabbed himself to the heart with a lead-pencll and died, Many men have killed themselves with their pens, but we now know that the pencil is mightier than the dagger.
 Dr. Talmage says he has been de- ceived and defrauded by many peo- pie, but that no newspaper man ever broke professional faith with him. The estate will "size up" with many which make far greater pre- tensions and shout much louder in "meetin.' ,"
 The proprietor of boarding house at Cheyenne kicked one of his boarders to death. Thus time, which makes all things even, has brought revenge in the person of this unfortunate man for all the kicking" of generations of board CTS.
 Granny Boston, not the city in Massachusetts. but a woman of Murphy, N. C., is dead at the age of 121 years. She does not remem- Der to have ever encountered the Father of His Country, which gives an appearance of credibility to an otherwise improbable yarn.
 When the Captain of the Alba trocc tbo 1-occo1 opoOlOUad bU tho |
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-04-25
The Transvaal Republic.

Ten years hence the fate OF he
Beers will have been decided. En-
glishmen already talk of the annexa-
ton Of the Transvaal Republic by the
Cape Colony, and in their dreams see
the union jack floating from the Cape
of Good Hope to the equator, and from
the Fuegos to the mouth of the Congo.
But the problem may be solved in a
very different, aud. TO an American, "A
much more satisfactory manner. There
is no reason to suppose that the Eu-
rOpean settlers in the Transvaal are
hostile TO the present form Of govern
ment Like most new communities
they are intensely Democratic, and
the probabilities rather point to
the establishment of republic,
not upon the antique and semi-feudal
system of the Beers, but upon the
lines OF the American constitution.
An Anglo-Saxon people, s-ifTened by
a strain of BOer tenacity. courage and
puritanism, living under free institu-
tions. and in a country and continent
OF vast possibilities. would be more
likely to annex or absorb the monarch
ical colonies. ard perhaps repeat in
Africa, upon a smaller scale and under
somewhat different conditions, the
history of the United States on the
American continenG-N Y. sun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-04-25
SHE WAS COMMENTED.
4 Travelling Clock Tinker Meets a Decided'
w Peculiar Customer.

y
Nv Peculiar Customer.
Perhaps the occupation of the travel
ing clock -mender is not entirely gone:
at any rate he is seen far less frequent
" than he used to be seeking a Job in
country regions. One such wandering
mechanic says that, by the aid of a
persuasive tongue, he could usually
obtain permission TO exercise his skill.
In one case, however. the owner of the
patient proved to be so well satisfied
with a bad time-keeper that she re-
manned quite Obdurate TO his clo-
quence.
She was a placid-looking 'old lady.
aud she sat pairing apples in her kitchen
when the clock-mender arrived.
why. ma'am,n said he in a shocked
tone, as he stepped up the open door,
''did you know your clock was wrong?"
"Oh. yes" said she. pleasantly.
CHANGING up at his deceptive face. 1T
alays gains an hour or SO in the
mOrnin'.'
Now, how lucky it is happened to
come along this way! | can fix that
clock for you double quick"
NO. l guess | won't have it med
died with, - replied she, still amiably,
but with decision. II set it by the
sun at noontime, and in the afternoon
it don't make any great difference
whether | know what time it is or
not
But how are you going to set it on
cloudy days?'
We're not very busy when it
storms. and so VIC don't mind if it
amt set.
IL hope you're not afraid | should
hurt it?" continued the repairer.
mo. not exactly afraid. said the old
lady, prudently, '.but Hiram and me
had that clock when we was married.
and / guess we won't have il touched.
As the travelling tinker was about TO
leave. he made one more effort
why. ma'am,n said he, you won't
even know when its meal times unless
you give me a chance at that clock.
The old lady looked at him with a
twinkle in her eye.
Young man." said she, when
you're as old as be, may be you'll
have sense enough to cat when you're
hungry. Jewellers Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-04-25

Thousands OF people have waited for the
the opening to settlement or that portion %
the Indian Territory known as Oklahoma,
only to be disappointed. There are in
Oklahoma less than 1900 quarter sections
OF land to be occupied, and more than 20
COO people have been waiting for months on
the border for the opportunity to cross the
line and take DOsst sslon- The whole OF the
land will have been occupied within forty
eight hours Of the date set for the opening
of that portion of the territory, consequent
" thousands of intending settlers Viii have
to seek elsewhere for homes.
The two new states OF South and North
Dakota will reap a benefit from this general
than Dakota exists. Hundreds Of thou
sands OF ocres of the best Government land
are still open for free settlement in Dakota.
Cities, towns and Villages furnish near
and ready market for the products Of the
country. Railways innumerabie traverse
Dakota in all directions and provide une-
qualled transportation facilities Schools
and churches atound every here. Dakota
is a new counS-y no longer. The climate IS
excellent Tie soil is highly productive
The population is mostly Of the best class
of American citizens who have gone thither
from the older Eastern, Middle and W estern
States Every inducement exists for the
farmer and mechanic to make new home
at trifing cost, while the. capitalist can Sc
cure greater and quicker returns for hnan-
cial investment in DakO.a than II any
other state CT the Union.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Pail
way TO, which has lines Of its own in both
South and North Dakota, has Just Issued an
illustrated pamphlet entitled plain FACTS
ABOUT DAEoT4.' containing numerous let
ters from formers and others which ere
well 6 orth reading. as they show the results
OF each writer's personal experience IN the
Northwest, and convey great deal Of val
Eafla and reliable Information which VIII
3 OF benefit for those seeking new homes
IN South and North Dakota.
Sor q free copy OF this pamphlet address
A y II Carr enter, General Passenger
Agent, Milwaukee, Wis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-04-25
CURE FOR INSOMNIA.
\ swedish Home Treatment Which Does
Its Work Every Time.

4 swedish Home Treatment Which Does
Its Work Every Time.
There is a young woman in Brook
field Conn, who is robust, perfectly
healthy. aud full Of spirit, but for sew
eral months she has been troubled with
insomnia. Try with all her power
and with her mind fixed on it, she has
been unable to sleep, at least to any
extent She has cOnsuleed all the old
women in the neighbOrhood, taken the
advice of each one. and followed il
carefully aud with great patience. but
could not find relief She mad taken
all the soporifics of the native pharma-
copRia without stint; eaten crackers
ia bed: counted thousands upon thou
sards; fixed her mind upon some sub
ject intently and kept it there, but with
no avail. She would not resort to
drugs. but tried walking 10 tire her
self until she got a reputation as n
pedestrian. anG her cheeks were as
red. her form as perfect, end her
muscle as Well developed as that of an
athletic member OF the New York
Athletic Club.
Recently there came to work in the
family a swedish woman. who, hear
ing Of the young woman's trouble, told
her Of a pratice of the people in her
country who are similar afflicted. Il
was to ta<e a napkin, dip it in ice-cold
water, wiring it slightly, and lay it
across her eyes The plan was fol-
lowed and it worked like a charm
The first night the girl slept four hours
without awakening, something SIZE had
not done before for several months.
At the end Of thai time the napkin had
become dry. BY wefting it again she
at once went to sleep and il required
considerable force 70 rouse her in the
morning. N. Y. sun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-04-25
A Common-Sense Letter.



To THE EDITOR: / see that newspaper
articles are again making their appearance
calling attention to matters pertaining TO
health as well as TO the means whereby dis
ease may be removed and good health pre-
served. ] am thereby reminded that have
received from time TO time, pamphlet publ
cations issued by the wellknOwn firm of II.
H.Warner's & Co., which swell upon the his
tory and growth of kidney diseases; show
ing how such IS the cause Of consumption,
heart, brain and nervous disorders, which
can only be successfully treated by remov-
ing the primary disease from the kidneys.
At the same time care Is taken to remind
the reader that Warmers Safe Cure is the
only means whereby the physician or the in
diyidual can successfully prevent and cure
this class of disease
Whilst have personal cause to feel CRATE
full to Warmers Safe Cure, for the benefit
which derived from it when suffering from
kidney troubles last spring, I can not see,
since that remedy is already so well known
in every household, why the parties inter
ested in its manufacture should continue to
expend money in calling attention to what
the public Already knows so well l am
aware, Mr.. Editor, that the members of the
medical profession are seldom disposed TO
give due credit to proprietary medicines,
but public confidence is likely to be even
more shaken in those learned gentlemen
since the startling disclosures in the Robin
son poisoning cases were made in Somer-
vile, Mass.
Here il was discovered, through tho eff
forts of an insurance company, that eight
cases Of death from arsenical poisoning had
occurred-sevcn OF them in one family, and
within five years and the other that of a
relative-wherein tine true cause OF death
had not been even suspected by prominent
physicians VINO were in attendance, but who
treated the cases for other causes, aud
finally, when death occurred, issued certii-
Gates for such causes as pneumonia, typhoid
fever, meningitis, etc.
After such an evidence of the utter in
competency of those physicians who were
regarded as experts in their profession, j
can not conceive why it will be longer nee
essary for further advertising TO be done in
behalf of Warmers Safe Cure, since / deem
the SomervilIe disclosure to be the best pos
sible endorsement Of the good sense mani
tested by those who take matters of health
in their own hands and use a remedy which
experience has shown TO be fully adapted
for the purposes intended, instead of trust
ing themselves in experimental hands.
EXPERIENCE.
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SPRING FARM WORK.
Why Agriculture Can Not BE Conducted
Set Rules.

on SeL huless
The farmer who starts out in the
spring without his WORK all planned
out, just how and where each part of
the work will be done. will most as
suredly meet with failure. The man
who follows the same plan of planting
and cultivating. irrespective of the sea-
son, as the conditions under which he
is working, will fail to meet with the
best success.
1t is good economy TO plan ahead, to
outline the general plan of work, but
much of the details must of necessity
be kept and be determined as the work
progresses.
What would be the better plan one
year would be nearly the worst to be
followed the next, because the condi-
plenty of farmers who follow
the same course year after year
aud put in the best part of their spare
time complaining that farming does
lot pay. 1t is an item TO prepare the
soil and plant the crops in good sea-
son. With grass and oats and some Of
the garden crops this implies doing
he work at the very first opportunity
in the spring With flax and potatoes
uhe work should be done a little later.
But corn, beans and sorghum and
arge class of garden crops should not
be planted until the soil is reasonably
well warmed up so that quick GER
minatiOn OF the seed and a vigorous
start to grow can be secured.
But there will be considerable
variation in the time that this can be
done and any attempt to follow a set
rule would certainly prove unsatis
factory.
This applies also to all kinds Of
work, as well as tho manner OF doing.
II the soil is warm and dry corn
should be planted and covered much
deeper than if tho soil is wet and cold.
If the soil can be prepared in a good
thrifty condition before the seed is
planted, the harrow is the best imple-
nent to commence the cultivation, but
if rough and cIoddy, aud as is some
times the case, wet. the one-hOrse
diamond pillow will prove the most sat
isfactory. One season one or two har-
rowings and three or four civilizations
with riding or walking cultivators is
all that will be necessary to keep the
soil in good filth and the crop free
of weeds. Another year the diamond
pillow will have to be used all during
the season in order 10 afford sufficient
drainage and to keep down the weeds,
while in a dry year it will be neces- /
sary 10 stir the surface Of the soil
to the depth of two or three
inches in order TO maintain a good
growth, so that the man who attempts
to raise a good crop Of corn By using
the diamond pillow every year, running
the bar of the plow to the corn each
way and then throwing the earth to
the corn each way and laying by the
corn by running out the burrows, will
occasionally fail.
IL the best success is secured, farm
work must be done according to the
season. and have such implements used
as are necessary to do the kind of work
the crop requires, the pillow, harrow
eultivator and other implements Iced
ed in the preparation, planting aud
cultivation of the crops, so that the
work can be properly done in good sea
son and economically j. Miller
in Western Plowman