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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1889-01-01
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

The depth for drilling seed, such
as wheat, can be regulated on the drill,
and this should be carefully attended
to, in order TO avoid getting The seed
in too deep.
The principal advantage in keep
ing careful farm accounts is that they
enable you to determine what products
of the farm are profitable and to dis
continue every thing that docs not pay.
Lime broalcasted over the soil is
never wasted. If not appropriated by
one crop 1t will be taken up by anoth-
er. 1t acts on the soil, and thereby
increases the supply Of plant food.
Pecan, walnut, chestnut, buttornut
aud hiclSorynut are the most desirable
nut trees for planting. The hickory
ON account of its tap root, is the most
difficult to transplant, but with care
any of these can be transplanted at two
years old,
Land plaster is slightly soluble in
water, and therefore gives Immediate
results on the crops that feed largely
on lime, such as clover, beans, peas,
and other legumes. About 100 pounds of
plaster per acre on young clover is
sufficient, and II used in connection
with wood ashes, it is one ofthe cheap
est fertilizers known for grass crops.
Economy with the corn crop means
l,,t gl,n f,1,1.,, slptr11 hn rtnpa1 II 1nr
cover, and not left standing in the
fields. rs is often practiced. Good
fodder is valuable and highly relished
by all classes of stock. but it can be in
jurcd by exposure as easily rs hay. No
matter how much care is taken the
shocks will blow over in winter, by
which means large share of fodder is
ruined by being on the ground. If cat
tie are turned in on il they will trample
n portion also. The barn IL the proper
place for it.
Bad poultry management shows
itself in making poultry-houses un-
suited to the wants Of the fowls; it
shows in the buying of poor stock to
save few paltry dollars; it shows in
keeping old stock beyond their use
fulness; it shows in not raising early
pullets to take the place OF old hens;
it shows in not selling of the surplus
stock at the proper season; it shows in
not culling out all faulty birds; it shows
in improper mating Of the breeding
fowls. and it shows in not providing
suitable food etc, for the wants of
this poultry stock.
Farmers don't begin feeding hogs
so early as they should, us n rule, says
u spondent Of the Indiana Farmer.
Tho fall months are the best part OF
the year to feed In. The corn is In the
best condition, More pounds of meat
TO the bushcl, with less labor, can be
made in the fall better than at any
other season. The farmer does not get
the very best of pork who puts OFF
feeding until corn natures and then
feeds on all dry corn diet, Green food
should be provided as late in the season
as possible. A late planting of ever
green corn comes in and lasts up till
cold weather sets in. For later green
food resort must be had TO roots.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1889-01-01
EVE SUGGESTIONS.

Facts in Farming Thnt Seem to Be En-
titled to some Cons deration'
A horse that would balk and kick
terribly before the piow cured at once
by simply binding him with cloth
for hail an hour AT quite long inter-
walls this would have TO be repeated
nave very unruiy leilow now 'llat 1
can only keep ihsi1e ah ordinary renee
ny fastening hoou over ms eyes when
turned out 10 pasture l tninh utmost
any paihlng horse couiu oe iil''ue 10
pun oy Simply covering MS eyes lor a
snort lihe'
= IL may hot oe known 10 an that
hogs' oven so"s WIN pigs 40 very
wen On soou P"s'ure Az summer long'
ioWaru iall III aU orciiaru "neh apples
DeEln 10 urOp lney VIII 10 exceedingly
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1889-01-01
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PRESIDENT KRUGER.
a Glimpie of the Chief Magistrate OF tn
rransvaal Republic.

rransvaai Republic.
Pretoria, the most picturesque town
In South Africa, even when compared
with beautiful villages like George and
Somerset East, nesting beneath the
hills in bower OF vegetation, looks
the last place in the world to be the
home of political intrigue and race an
imosity. The growth of its young
neighbor, Johannisberg, it is to be
feared, will injure the peaceful aspect
of the little capital. Until lately the
only discordant objects were the Dutch
church and the gallows, but from u
distance the church tower looks almost
imposing, while the gallows, nearly as
conspicuous, has quaint rather than
an offensive appea. auce among the
green trees of an old walled garden
The prosperity of the gold fields has
already produced hideous post-oiiice
of the London suburban school
of architecture, and on the other
side of the chief square the
clusters of trees and the
thatched roof Of the Volksraadzaal are
said to be doomed. In rural street
shaded with leaves President Kruger
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1889-01-01
STRONG-MlNDED WOMEN.


.at. lItaal nnha tn.
Mr. phi; who rvol for some ti,ne
:, ,l,a Ca,,o,oon ,.onion Wet Africo
IN, - I,;,,lI,, .,,,oos.,s,I Woron,s
piahtS movamant Will aoo in the
AI1nnn t.iho iurstrotinr tho fact that
,rhon ron'on vno,imomslv assent
thamso,vo. in savage Innds ne well as
a1sowhoro ,boy ,r, a nr,,t nower In the
oonmnni,v In ,b,t banigbted rogion
,ro,,,on aro rot sunnosad IN have. anv
,ic,h4s Uhan oi,J 10 tbirteen or
to,,,.toon ,,.,o,,s old sbo 10 sold IN onv-
hodv who bos nronertv o,ough IN nav
,ho nrico bor fatber . i,ss for her and
thereofter she worries like n slave for
har hoard ord Iodging and ia subiect
IN all the conrices of her lord and mas
Ton Eyon tho bondsmon in the conn
,,,,,,i,,, bo,,, mona r,iviloga tbo, ,ho
freo woman. and soma of them in
time ore ahle IN sunport rather exlen-
Give boro,ns of tbnir ovp
II bonno,od tbot thar, we,a soma
strorg-mindod womap among the
Akono noonlo and tbev ,iftad I'm their
voices in pnblic nloces in favor of some
radical social reforms that would make
The lot of womonlind rather more en-
dprablo They were ieered at ne wo-
men reformers have been in some other
lands and wore odvised hv the sumo
rior sex IN keen on diocinc in the fields
and noundipg monioc rc cot and thank
fortune that their lot was not less toll
eroble Reform was evfdentlv not tn
ho secprad hv anv cmonpt of feminine
nrotest and 90 these strong-mindod
women nut their lonp heads tooetber
and decided unon radical and far-reacb-
ing measures
The tribe Is n small o,e Nearly all
tho od,It fenoIes in n enlisted undor
tbo hammer of womon,s rights One
d,,, tta,, ,,,s nm o.,o,.,nous q ,pmotion
IN tbot li,,Io cow,nnnitv Itwos almost
wholIv contirod 10 tbo maIa nonplation
.tho fact boing tb,t tboro wos bordIy n
woman ,bore to share tbe excitement.
Tbo mothors and wives in = most nm.
ovnoctod md bo,rtless nopnar had
srddorly d,onne5 tbc;,. i'm nIemants of
drrdgory and with tboir chiIdren in
arms and interchangeable daughters had
bied them tbrou@h tba forests 70 the
tnrritory of onotbor tribo wbara ot n
5istance NJ oigbt m. ton milos from
thoir o,r, rordor notobos thoy woro
,,,,,,,o,,al e., ,,,,,,, ,,a,,otio,io,s ,,i,h do
Ill, ohans tbor h.d Ioft hoh;rd thor,
Th,,, -, iato,,atnn5 ,ho. +,o,,
,ro,,ld moot With hosnitoblo rocen-
,;on IN ,ho tr;ha u,i,h uhich thoy tool,
- 7. hanronad u,o. tLis tniho
-, r., ,I,,,,, a., Al.orn ord ala ro+
al thau, ran, roll md II tiol,Iod
e., hnI, 90 doo,,, 20 COO ,ho niol,Io an
,rhioh ,ha Akona mon suddenlv found
,homsoIyos Tho ,yopor COZ them.
sa,yos 20 uor,, oarninr their daiIv
hnooa and vni,oa withon, hit ~ Inn.
nationco Tow an embassy from home
/, yos NOT lone, l,afo,a tho en,,ossv nut
In an ,nnooronc.
Tho Akoro triho w,s or tho on;r;o,
tbot tboy could not continue In husi-
noss Yri,ho,t ,,o for,oIo ,ror,hors
rho,oof and thov ,vantod tho women
80 - ho,,,a Tho ,a,,;o,1on,,,
-. ,,i,a,5 anol,as,,o, 81 tha -
800 eta sho n,as r,od to 1oorn a. Lost
81 tho ,nor,o, ~ ,hoi,, tr;h, ,,oro ro-
oa,,dod os dos;rohIo element NJ tho
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-03-28
PEDIGREE.

1888 Frfvateer
by oupg Bash
MambnO
of
AIexanders Abdallo);
OF
2yeaod record %
3yearod the
world Flight % fourth heat Apex yeaod record @ public
record Transit 3yearold
the
of
uckaho Tuckahoo 9Th dam by LET
anmeter Dion d. Grand
by imported Messenger The dam o. PRIV
by Marion Manbrno
Pilot Pilot Gand
of wallace,
Sold Leaf 3-yearod record
of Lightfoot u also cam OF
Green's Bshaws dam was e ny
dam Oh
Hambleonlan SOD Oh
dOneE cont of imported Messenger.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-03-28
storey schools.

The Enterprise, in an editorial on
the public schools, closes as fol-
lows:
"We would not have been aston
ished to hear OF the Superintendent
making inquiry why so many of
the young boys aspired only to be
niger Ministries and so many OF
the young misses actresses. This
suggests that balls and entertain
ments-so-called literary gather
ings and High School excursions
should be curtailed in the interests
of a good practical education, and
because they are burdens that the
taxpayers do not feel like support
ing from the school fund.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-03-28
MRS. HARRIET BEECREHs
STOWE

The dispatches bring the sad in
tslIigence that the author of Uncle
Toms Cabin is nearing the end
and that Ler mind has suffered g
complete collapse.
No other woman ever seemed tc
have accomplished so much with
her per as she. She began hei
great book with no idea of the
great political change it was des-
tined to work upon this continent,
and Abraham Lincoln wrote the
sequel to the story when be penned
the Emancipation Proclamation and
told four millions of blacks that
they should forever cease to wear
the shackels of slavery.
Men who had been Indifferent to
the curse of slavery, read the pages
of Uncle Toms Cabin and their
blood began to beat faster, until it
boiled with indignation at the
thought of the tremendous wrong
that had attained such foothold in
a country founded upon the corner
stone of individual freedom.
Her book made the negro stand
upright on his feet like a free man,
and say that the auction block
should not take his wife and child
rem from his arms; it caused the
brutal slave drivers whip to disap-
pear, and made the red-jawed
blood hound sink back to his ken
mel. Men in the South no longer
rain blows upon the backs of bonds
men in order to till the soil. and
the pen of this gifted woman has
reversed the decision that ga negro
had no rights that white man was
bound to respect" and obliterated
it from the Statute Books.
The author Of Uncle Toms Cab
in is about to pass to her long home,
and if the colored population of the
United States do not 90 into mourn
ing when she dies, then indeed
there is no gratitude in the heart of
the black race.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-03-28
Fish Commissioner Mills

Fish Commissioner Mills and
his deputy, Ernest Harris, went out
to Washoe Lake a few days ago to
exasine the dam built at the foot
Of the lake by Theodore Winters to
hold the water back among the
tules. They say the way the mat
ter nov stands is much better than
before, for now all the water that
runs into the big lake stays there.
The little lake IS filling up, and the
water will have to rise but two or
three inches before 1T will rua over
the new dam and into the big lake.
The flooding OF the tule land will
make the hunting better at that end
OF the lake, and what fish there are
IN the little lake have better
CHARGE to thrive now than ever.
MIR. Winters does not wish to spoil
any of the sport around the lake.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-03-28
Lieutenant Governor Davis.

Lieutenant Governor Davis,
Controller Hallock and Treasurer
Tufly were out Tuesday locking for
water up Kings Canyon for irrigat-
ing the Capitol and Orphans Home
grounds, but did not End enough.
WHY don't the Commissioners make
arrangements with the Virginia
Water Company to tap their pipe at
or near Lake View?
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-03-28
This paralyzer is projected a

This paralyzer is projected at
us from Stockton :-stDo you want
a frst-rate tailor and cutter 10
Lundy?" Let's all go out doors
and split wide open with laughter.
We answer this unsophisticated
goose-pusher that we need no fine
clothes in this camp. II he can
sew ole sacks and cut wood he
might get an outside job as swamp
er on a dump. 1t would require a
bold man to tramp up this canyon
in tailor-built toggery,-Homer
Index.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-03-28
-AIPH A.

make
Is fine
to
nh MS dhavego % a record1n orr
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-03-28
PEDIGREE.

Triumph by Prompter
lived Mel Clement
Racing Horse Breeder Association in
OF
to-day Tumphs
and rot in 40 day in the
lin
ST.
old cord2 l6 fastest record
Ibaye OF rae on
Fas-
month as nave
fine There IS me
break
good o
allowed the premises
JOHN P, SWEENY. Propr,
CARSON
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-03-28
TRIUMPH.


He
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Terms. %
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-03-28
SAGE.BRUSH
rzettins Nu';se<;x
HONE O.
.215. GIBRALTAR. 2 225.
PEDIGREE.

HambIeonan;
goodma horses with records
OF
lin and
agreatpr
ltrottes a
Smyrna times., 1889-03-13
TOT ne SmyTnd Times.
PRAYING and Doing.

Editor Times: In your last issua q
correspondence w. Bnrke-assic,ra o I"
tye reasons why high license is not
advisable, and one why it is not Meth.
odistic. l will not attempt to argna
the question of high license. as there
are so many conflicting opinions enter
tanned by our best thinking neonle
On this question / am like the giri
who wanted to get married: it is aHy.
thing, good Lord, that will curtail The
business. ''''i 'iie
On the question as relative to the
Methodist Episcopal denomination ,,
agree with the writer, so far as disc;-
pine Is concerned, but no farther. tba
numbers OF the Methodist Church - 49,
any other Church-live nm IN tba;r
professions in this matter; if they did
we would have no liquor traffic in our
state. 1t church members of ali
churches would come out before tba
primary meetings as christian men
should, and say emphatically we will
vote iOr no man who, does NOT favor
temperance legislation, regardless of
party, then we would have Ptobibit;on
without doubt. But so lone "a ve
are cursed with a lot of chronic ofiice
seekers, who are partizan because Of
Inls chronic disease, just so long will
we have license. "'i
Ia regard to the Methodist denom.
ihation" generally, cannot sneak
hut of the Methodist Church IF Nj
gIeIoWn u l can speak whereof / know.
mere party draws the line and tenn
perahce or rum makes no difference:
Ohe worthy brethren vote their own
POhucal ticket regardless. Aud often
running over in my minds eye the diff
lerent members, think / am safe in
saying that one half, possibly a major.
lty, vote the whiskey ticket. I have
seen men on their knees, and heard
them pray for the success Of the tenn
perance work, and at the next election
vote for drunkards, whiskey sellers
and men who sign for license. And
strange TO say, sometimes q member
will sign for license. And tks man. he
he member or non member is looked
upon as bad fellow IL he hapDens ~
remind these brethren Of their short
cOmings. Now this may not be the
case where brother Burke lives ~.
deed ! trust it is not, for such bvnoc-
risy is inexcusable, and these canting
niypoerites, though they may hold
themselves up as shining lights and
think they are not as other men are.
yet Of their righteousness God will
judge And may we not be excused If
We apply the words Of the good book
and say, by their fruits shall thew III
known. j. X TTo,s,.,,s,,' DS
M'ddfeto'on, Del, March 8, 1889.
Smyrna times., 1889-03-13
For the smyrna Time
"reminiscences.

My thoughts to-day have reverted 10
the many past and curious events that
occurred during a period of a little
more than thirty years, during MY res
lhfnce IN what now is known as the
" Delaware House," in Smyrna. It is
impossible for me to give the exact
Iates. The sad loss ! have sustained
m the death Of my sister Mary often
ieeI, whose memory vas so remarkable
that she could tell the year and dav of
the month of all extraordinary occur-
renccs. The falling stars " in 1833
as they We're called, I remember very
well, and it was IA sublime sight. Ii
appeared as if the whole canopy of
Heaven was discharging its numerou.
consultations upon the earth. and
many people were frightened almost TO
death. have never seen anything to
compare to it since.
There were some strange family
qnarrels that took place in our house
more than fifty years ago which ia
never been made public. 1t il moi
worth while to accuse women any more
u not being able to keep a secret
ihere were four women in our family
who knew it and never revealed it,
mere was certain family that were
well educated and had seen a good
Zeal of the world and moved in the
"est society we bad here, but for some
cause were at variance with each other.
Ihey met at our honse whether from
accident or appointment, l do not re
member. Such charges and counter
charges as they made against each
other was not pleasant to themselves
nor our family to hear. When they
got through they comforted themselves
by saying they were glad the Quarrel
happened where it did, as they would
not be exposed. This was the FIRST
cyclone we had in our house. After n
while a second one happened by anoth-
er family quarrel which took place ac-
cidentall " at our house. Il was very
marsh while it lasted, and we after.
wards heard that one of the ladies wa.
very much mortified that we Witnessed
Il. But we did not expose either ol
men, SARAH p. MASON.
Smyrna times., 1889-03-13
That Ticket.

The editor of tho Record objects TO
an item which appeared in the TIMES
last week as disiugenuous to him,
and dictated by spirit OF wilful ig-
norance." The editor of the TINES
had accepted all he had said about
non-partizan town election as candidly
spoken, and has no desire TO do him an
injustice. Having, however, accepted
in full what was said editorially in the
Record about the way it ought to be
done, we must confess to a genuine
surprise at the way it Wds done. Nor
did we know the practice was so diff
ferent from the sermon of the week
before in getting out a partisan ticket
until the close of the day, when the
polls were being read out. Every in
quiry as TO who got out this thorough
ly partisan ticket was answered by
the editor of the Record" The ed
itOr even admits it while finding fault
with our publishing the circumstances,
but gives the himsy excuse that the
ticket of the morning had mostly Re
publicans on it. Didn't the editor
know that the commissioners voted in
this year must necessarily he Republi-
can to give US a nOn-partisan board,
viz: four Democrats and three Repub-
licans-the Democrats always being
conceded the larger number? Did he
know that if his ticket had succeeded,
the board of commissioners this year
would have had only one Republican
IN it while there would have been six
Democrats Other Democrats knew
it and voted this ticket that had on il
mostly Republicans because it was the
only lCdy to constitute board of com
missioners without the semblance OF
partizanship. The next time the edi
tor gives us a homily for moral or po-
litical guidance be will do well to have
closer connections and not leave such
wide space between where he goes
in and where he comes out. 1t is
shrewdly limited by some who have
watched the course Of the past two or
three elections that he had another
object besides that on the face of the
movement, but we say again we took
his editorial for an expression of his
honest convictions.
Smyrna times., 1889-03-13
F0F ne smyrna Times.
Easter Sunday.

Editor Times:-There seems to he
hereabouts much diversity of oninion
concerning this great feast of the
Ohurch, Its most curious phase being
each year an entirely different date.
As movable feast Easter SUNDAY To-
Gates IN their proper places all other
movable feasts preceding and following
~. The manner that this is accom-
phshed IS of sufficient Importance To
be, It not borne in mind. to at least he
preserved for future reference.
Easter Sunday Invariably occurs ON
me hrst Sunday after the first fuIL moon.
after the 2lSt Of March Now the first
Inii moon may occur so that Easter
Sunday may fall on the 22d of March.
This is its earliest date. Again. the
hrst Sunday after the first full moon
after the 2lst OF March may occur on
the 10Th Of April; this is its latest
Phase Between then, the DIST of
March and the 25th Of April, is the
minimum and maximum dates for the
sliding scale of Easter Sunday. II
therefore regulates the coming of the
other prominent days Of Lent, as all
are calculated from Easter Sunday.
Thus, we have for 1889 Easter Sunday
falling on April 2lst Septuagesima. or
seventy days preceding Easter sun
day Sexagesima, or sixty DAYS pre-
viousi Quinquagesima, fifty davs
Ash Wednesday, forty days. Ali Of
these days with their dates are caleu-
lated from and invariably precede
Easter Sunday on scale correspond.
ing from the 22d of March 10 the 25tb
OF April. Hence, their curious appear-
Unce. and which too often is most ner.
picking to those who have not been in.
formed correctly. Generally the davs
OF Advent are given for Septuapesi9a
Sunday until the Sunday preeedinc
Ash Wednesday. The vestments an5 |
colors used in the services are mil |
Easter Sunday always purple. All |
are taken down, the babil- |
iments Of woe are donned and = !.
not until Easter SUNDAY. when erols =
millions Of throats leap the glad shov,
10, He IS risen, y does anv apnears,a5, l',,ga.,
q JOY aud gladness take place ~
5hat as Christianity dates from Eastoo ~
sunday, 50 also the movable feasts ''5,Ss arc
regulated BY It. are
smyrna, March II, 1889 " /
Smyrna times., 1889-03-13

ers, who have been thronging the
White House and the Departments
since the hour of the Inauguration.
1t was in the course of some en-
phatic remarks which Harrison adj
dressed to the Cabinet that he used
the expression quoted above. He
said, in substance, that he meant every
word Of what he said about the civil
service in his inaugural address. and
that be felt sure his Cabinet agreed
with him. For the present, of course.
no changes at all would be made ex-
cept in the higher officers and those in
the diplomatic and consular service.
But" he said, 1--WE must go slow; for
Cleveland has set a high standard in
his higher appointments, and we can
not afford to fall below it," Elaborat-
ing this idea, he said that a change
was not TO be made solely for the sake
of change, but chiefly for the improve
ment of the public service.
He said that the Republican party
could not afford to spend it's strength
and lose its advantage over the Gues-
tion of patronage. 1t must remember
that i. is still on trial and must prove
its right to a renewed lease of power
by the excellence ofits administration.
civil service reform" he is quoted as
saying, "has come to stay, and must be
observed by this Administration in
spirit as well as in letter"
All the members Of the Cabinet, it is
said, Blaine included, expressed con-
currence in this opinion. The news
that the Administration has thus stiff
fened its backbone against them has
somewhat depressed the exuberant
oilice-seekers. Nevertheless. there are
a score of applicants for every place
under the Government. The mails of
all the Republicans in the Senate and
House are increasing, and all their
letters relate chiefly to Offices.