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The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-09
The Country Paragrapher.

SOme 0ay snail puOilSn d DOOF not original. except so far as fail : and facile swing of the shears may go, but it will be a good book, ;
 readable, entertaining book, a book
 composed entirely of wise, witty
 and pithy sentences clipped from
 rural exchanges, the work of the
 country paragrapher.
 During a brilliant and checquer. ed career as newspaper man, never journalist,-representingal all positions in the craft, from 'ad' so- licitor clear up to managing editor of one-horse weekly, 1 have been thrown much in contact with the writer of the prize squash editorial and the cord wood subscription procurer. I have learned to know him, to love him. I say that, hid den away in the cramped and mus ty offices in the villages of the Uni ted States, there is as much indus try, as much strength, and as much brain as you will find in the employ of the daily blanket sheets.
 These men are held down in a majority of instances by shrivel- ed localism. They go through life unknown, and when they die the column rules of their little paper are turned, and nobody else ever hears of it. But they have the abil- ity all the same. I have often thought that it would pay manag- ing editors, who are supposed to stand ever on tip-toe OH the watch for good men, to cast an occasion al glance at the long-primer ex- changes which pour in by every mail.
 1 have not used the hebdomadal and potent 'we' for a long time, but I have never lost my sympathy for the lonely jerker of the w.; s lington hand-press. Speaking for Texas, with the press of which State I am acquainted, I can say that I find more witty, more pointed, and in every way better paragraphing in its country papers than New York dailies can show. This may seem strange statement, but it can be proved at any time by comparison of clippings made.
 During my connection with jour nals which appeared regulary 365 time a year, I have often noticed that the acknowledged funny man of the paper to which 1 was at the time attached, was much better on certain days than during the rest of the week. Tuesday, say, his column of mirth would make a pro- fessional optimist damn the earth by quarter sections. The following Thursday his department would literally bubble with iollity, and all things brilliant, jocose and kind. Investigation has never failed to re- veal that the pride of our staff al- ways did his best work immediately after the arrival of the Bungtown Bugle and the Jefferson County Star-Vindicator.
 When my volume of collections appears, it will contain due credit for everything printed. That is it's object, to make these humble work CTS known. In many quarters it will be greeted with the extremely forcible cry of 'Chestnutp for the best things in it will seem old but only because they have been stolen by humoristic vampires, who run in debt on S75 dollars week, from men far from railroad and telegraph who starve to death for glory and because they connot help the m- selves.-H. s. Garfield.
 Exploring Expedition.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-09

The Florence Enterprise states that Jesse Hardesty, formerly of Florence, is now deputy district at. torney of Los Angeles county.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-09
The Adams DiggIags.

AnS hOo AuSClto lLlCo hSlo li VI cles on the search for the Adams Diggings which the Gallup News Register takes to task. Without being presumptuous, and with due difference to our worthy cnntempo raries, we will chip in and make il three-handcd
 There are patrons of the Jeme ez Guide who will, we fear, drop de Id wllen the Adams diggings are real ly founc, and it comes within our province to put all parties in the controversy to rights, in so far as We are able so to do.
 Adams is Adams and old man Patterson is his prophet'-this much we swear to. Old man Pat terson is the head and front of the search, but if any one thinks Pat tarson is looking for it on the Nav aio Reservation he is losing his time. We don't believe Patterson's vote would be challenged in this precinct so much does he live in it.
 Mr. P. is well aware that every move he makes in the JemeZ coun- try is shadowed, and he gives it out on the outside that he is stuck on Ahe Navajo reservation, and with great ostentation departs for there, but invariably a few days afterward he is found snooping around on the headwaters of the Rio Jemez. Pat terson will find the Adams dig gings, and the Jemcz men will find him.
 Adams had made arrangements with the Navajos to allow him to work the diggings and he paid them literally for the privilege. He came into Fort Wingate with a large amount of gold to deposit, and started in a northcasterly direction for the diggings with a more com plete outfit. When he,had depart ed the excitement consequent upon the display of so much gold in duced the forming of another par ty to follow him, and the Navajos, fearing a general invasion, killed off the entire party.
 -Four days journey from Fort Wingate, with pack animals, in northeasterly direction, in the land of the Navajos, with no large wa ters to cross, in box canon, having a large spring of water"
 Such is the legend of the Adams diggings that has been followed so assiduously all these long years by the searchers for the lost placers. The Jemez country was the land of the Navajos at the time the Adams party were massacred. The Maya jos have been moved westward to their present reservation since their return from Bosque Redondo after surrender at the close of the Navajo war.
 Any mountainous country is sub- ject to great changes in the lapse of years, and it is probable that all traces of the original workings are covered deep with soil from the wash of the surrounding hills.
 What has served to keep the ex- citement alive is the fact that gold is found in the beds of all the run ming streams in the Jemez country, and prospectors on a still hunt for the lost placers are kept in the ex- pectation of immediately running on to 1t.
 There may be great mineral de- posits on the Navajo reservation,
  and there probably is. Prospecting is dangerous work there, and would | have to be done in force, if at all. | Several prospectors have been kill ed by the Indians. But the Adams diggings are not on the Navajo res ervation.
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The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-09
Stock and Range.

Best American steers are selling in the English markets at I21c pc pound, estimated dressed weight. Exports from New York fast weei included 3,7OO live cattle, 2,OO( sheep, and 10.100 quarters of beef.
 The Berry Cattle Company vii bring in 5000 head of steers this season from Tucson, Arizona Yellowstone Journal.
 It is reported that Goodnight & Moore of the Panhandle have sold about 6,000 steers at $15.5O per head for two-year-olds and $2O per head for threes, delivered at the railroad pens. The purchasers being D. H Clark & Co.,, of Rapid City, Dako- ta.-Fort Worth Journal.
 The Southern Pacific is making preparations to ship 4,000 cattle from Pierce's pens. commencing on the 10th of April. Kountz Bros. will also commence soon after the 10th to ship 4,OOO from El Campo. These go to the Territory to account of the frm.-Victoria (Tex. Ad- vocate.
 Some of the cattlemen complain that the luxuriant growth of grass is causing the death of good many cattle. They over-eat of the growth of alfileria and it causes bloat, which results in their death.-Mo- have Miner.
 According to the Montana Live Stock Journal there is a disposi- tion on the part of cattlemen in Texas to refrain from shipping beef cattle to eastern markets until the supply of winter fed cattle has in a measure been exhausted.
 The Southern Pacific railway which has held shipping rates at an excessive point in the estimation of cattlemen, has recently modified its tariff and is now giving a car rate of $32S0 to Deming. It is thought this wis! result in the road moving 10000 head of steers.-Las Vegas Stock Grower.
 We met Mir. J. B. Kincaid, after hls return from San Antonio, and from him we learned that he had contracted to deliver to MT. George Miller a train load of steers at an early day, and received fair figures for them. A buyer came out with him from San Antonio, and is out now looking for 4,000 head of steer cattle. Mr. Kincaid thinks there will be a number of buyers in this spring. The country west of the Pecos is being cleared of steers, and then they will have to seek other fields.-Uyalde News.
 w. E. Weeks, the Idaho cattle man, spent the early part of the week in Las Vegas. MT. Weeks has returned to Boston after having ar ranged for the shipment ot the 7 ,000 head of steers purchased of Capt. Lea, which are to be matured on his ip Idaho and Wyoming MT. Weeks believes that the range cattle business for some years at least will be satisfactory to the pro- ducers.-Stock Grower.
 The application of John Shaw and number of Santa Fe business men to have a receiver appointed to take charge of W. H. McBroom's ranch property came up for argu- ment before Judge Long in cham Ders at Las Vegas last evening. The is valued at about $20O,- poo, and if a little time is given would serve to pay off all indebted ness and leave it's owner a cool S100,000 New Mexican.
 Lowndes county, Georgia, pro- luces little COW which is indeed
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-26

Some years ago city missionsry was
esoelng one or the parks In New York on
ere you doing hero breasing the Lords dayi
Xou ought TO bs at Church and worshipping
God instsad OF breaking the Sabbath in this
way" Tho poor lad in his rags looked up
10 very easy for you to talk that way; but
9od Knows that we poor chaps amt got no
The sentiment ssems to be growing that In
s'ths poor chaps don't have no ohancan
Therc is some truth IN ik The poor are
not shut out from making livelihood, but
ehe gu1 between Riches and poverty con-
sassy e lss
business competition decreases the chances
for accumulating wealth by ordinary busi.
ness methods.
the chanoes for great success to those who
can strike out in now paths, can furnish
something to the world that others cannot.
True merit, In commodity or ability, will
country, IL the masses can be Induced to
recognize IL. This recognition can only be
accomplished by what ars sometimes sueer-
fngly alluded to as advertising methods.
What marvellous success has attended the
merits OF that wonderful remedy for kidney
diseese-Werner's Safe Cure Hon. II.
Il Warner first came to know Of its curative
power py DeinS restored 70 noalen from what
the doctors pronounced q fatal kidney trouble
He concluded the world ought to know Of IL
and in the ten years since no began its manu-.
facture he has spent millions OF dollars in ad-
vertising the Safc euro.
His methods have been ingenious--some.
Times, perhaps, open to criticism, but they
bad a purpose, which has been accomplished.
But mark he never would have secured q
four fold return Of the vast sums thus ex.
pended II the real merit OF tho remedy had
not been fully proven to the millions Of peo-
pie reached by his advertisements.
Safe Cure is due, frat. to intelligent and
pleasing advertising. by which the people
were made acquainted with the remedy. Sec
pnd TO the true worth or the remedy, proved
By actual experience, showing IL to be tao
snly specific for kidney disease, aud all dis
sases growing out OF kidney arrangements.
= Mr. Warner Inns something the people
want, tolls them so, then proves 1t to their
satisfoction-success follows as O matter Of
course.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-26
The Atlantic Record.

The steamships have not yet done
with the Atlantic record. But the
proof of the pudding is not more in
actual sailing or steaming. Vessels
built, 30 far as appeared, exactly alike
have shown wide difference in speed.
The newer craft will illustrate the
question of the double screw. The
principle has been successful in its ap-
plication to smaller boats on rivers and
in harbors. If it works we'll in rough
water it will largely revolutionize ma
rine construction" So, as far as the
romance of the wet sheet" and the
Flowing sea" and the "wind that fol-
lows fast" sinks below the ocean hori-
zon, science renews the charm and mys-
Eagle.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-26
Value OF Forest Ranges.

The value of forest range for feed
ing cattle is not well understood, even
in the South, where large areas of forest
are put to the purpose or ranging stock
in the summer, and which thus provides
the cheapest pasture for six months in
the year. There the forest is burned
over, with the wasteful sacrifice of mil.
lions of dollars worth of the costliest
plant food in the form of organic nitro
gen, and of many millions worth of tim
Der, and for the sake of the sparse growth
of grass. At the same time the leaves of
the young growth are worth per acre
more than twice as much as any other
forage except timothy grass, and arc
worth one half more than this. And vet
Southern forest lands covered with the
finest timber and of the richest soil, but
little incumbered with rock, can be pro-
cured for less than the taxes on the ma
jority of grass and clover fields in the
North. This being tho case, the present
popular desire to 'preserve the forests"
should bo especially needed by the
Southern farmers, who hold on an aver
age several hundred acres each. h.-M,o
York Times.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-26

A dAoReIA physician writes to the
Constitution, of Atlanta, that the solution
used in the hand grenades now offered
so extensively for sale is easily and
cheaply made by taking twenty pounds
of common salt, ten pounds of sal am
moniac (muriate OF ammonia, to be had
of any druggist, and dissolving in seven
gallons of water. When it is dis
solved it can be bottled and kept
in ech room in the house. In case
of fire, one or two bottles should be
thrown with force into the burning place,
hard enough to break them, and the fire
will certainly be extinguished.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-26
Value of Ashes.

Chow much are unleached hard wood
ashes worth per bushel to use on land
which is worth $50 per acre, aud when
hay is selling at $12 per tonl" asks a
reader in central Vermont of the Ns,o
Englnnd Farmer. and the following re-
ply is made: "Ashes vary greatly in
their actual value and in their selling
price according to the kind of wood
burned and their freedom from sand,
earth and charcoal. The best hard
wood ashes often contain nearly ten per
cent. of potash while those from some of
the softer woods may show less than
three per cent, though it is claimed by
some that soft-wood ashes are not so in
ferlor as many believe, but being lighter
than those from hard wood ashes they
are easily lost by being blown away
while burning. The ashes from small
twigs are much richer than those from
the trunk Of the trees. 1t is estimated
that average ashes will contain from four
to fve pounds of potash in knshel of
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-26
A Demand for Big Horses

Don't be afraid of breeding too large
horses, says the New York Herald. The
people of the present day want them.
The best farmers will have them, aud
the heavy freighters in the cities cannot
do without them. The size of the horse
of the future will fix its value The
boom is up for big ones, so don't neglect
to breed them, and afterwald to feed
them. A big pair of half-b breed Normans
that are well matched will bring $500 as
quickly as one silver dollar will bring
another. The best horse for the farmer
to rise is the draught horse. The 400
to 1900 pound dranght horse requires no
special experience or training to sell, and
the farmer has no need of professional
trainer. A ready market is constantly
open for the draught horse. The de-
mand far exceeds the supply. The
farmer can turn them into cash at their
real value more quickly than any other
class of horses. While cattle, sheen and
hogs have been so depressed the past year
or two, the draught horse breeders have
met an active demand at big prices; in
fact, they are masters of the situation,
and about the only class of breeders that
can set up their own price, and get it
too.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-26
Ungainiy Man.

Man is an ungainly creature at the
best. His head is an irregular spheroid; !;
his eyes are not alike or of equal eff
ficiency; his whiskers won't grow uni
formly. One shoulder is higher than
the other, one hand or foot larger than
the other-and this on opposite sides
his hips Gif he has any are unequal in
shape. The calves of his legs are not
twins in anything but age, and without
his tailor, halter, and bootmaker he is
very sorry-looking animal. AS for
women-well, this article is not writ
ten to discuss their physical crooked
ness. If it was it would not be half
the length that it is.-Sa,s Francisco
Chronicle. g
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-26
How to Prevent Vermin.

Prevention is better than cure, for the
reason, because it is easier When a
farmer finds his spring calves pining
away and looking miserable from the
attacks of lice. he will find it no easy
matter to save the calves and rid his
stables of the pests. But few hours
spent in efforts to prevent the mischief
would have saved weeks of worry and
work. To prevent the entrance of these
pests, oil fowls should he kept from
roosting in stables. Fowls will do no
harm if their house is kept clean and
the roosts are we'll soaked with kero-
Gene once month. But half a. dozen
lousy hens will infect all the stock in the
stables and give trouble through the
whole winter. For the stock, the best
way to keep them free from vermin is to
brush them we'll once day, using stiff
brush, to which little kerosene is ap-
piled by means of sponge, or the hair
may be rubbed with the oiled sponge
and then we'll brushed. This will keen
the animals free from lice and make
their coats smooth and glossy, but if
used too plentifully it will take off the
hair and blister tho skin.-American
AgrieultW'i,t.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-26
AGRICULTURAL.
rOPICs OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Onions for Poultry.

People who give their poultry finely
chopped onions. once or twice week
along with their other food, will find IL
an excellent preventive to various dis.
eases, especially where fowls are not al.
lowed to run at large and gather food
for themselves. When kept in the close
confinement of small ruus, much more
attention is Necessary in supplying them
with variety than where they have a
larger liberty, and for keeping them in
good health onions are among the best
things that can be given them. -Nen
York World.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-26
Best Food for Pigs.

Experiment appears to have proven
the benefit of supplying such a proper
ton of heterogeneous food with maize for
pigs as will render the feeding fully nu
tritious and healthfuL The effects OF
such feeding have been that the growth
of bone was larger. the vital organs
the heart, lungs, liver and spleen were
heavier and more vigorous, while, as
might be expected from tins better de-
was heavier and the proportion of lean
meat to fat was larger than on exclusive
maize feeding. 1t may be sufficient to
point out these facts to lead feeders OF
pigs to make use of such nitroRenous
food as bran, milk and linseed cake meal
along with maize, so as to avoid disease
and secure more and better meat, greater
profit in feeding and exemption from
losses by disease. York Herald.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-26
Narrowing.

Both in the preparation of the soil for
the crops before planting and in giving
the earlier cultivation afterward, the
harrow can be used with profit to a
more or less extent. For fining the sur
face of the soil it is one of the very best
implements we have, and, with the large
number of different kinds sold under
this name, we can secure an implement
adapted to almost any kind of work and
in almost any kind of soil. The i'm
provements made upon the old A harrow,
are giving us the square, Scotch, vibrat.
ing, flexible, and smoothing harrows, to
which may be added quite list Of
spring, disc and cutting or slicing har-
rows. In this line of implements there
would certainly seem to be full supply,
so that no matter what kind of soil the
farm is composed of, a harrow can be
used with profit on nearly or quite every
farm. But with the spring, disc and
ter work with some soils than with
others. One will be best in one kind of
soil, and the other in u different soil.
Some are better for some kinds OF work,
and some for others.
1t is best to have the soil prepared in q
thoroughly fine condition before planting
the seed, and to keep the soil in good
tIlth until the plants have made sufIi-
cient growth to be able to commence
using the cultivators. Weeds are much
moro easily destroyed when young than
after they get good start to grow, and
if the soil is p.spared in good tilth be-
fore planting the seed, in majority of
cases the harrow will be found the
cheapest and best implement to use in
destroying the weeds.
The disc, spring or cutting harrows
are good implements to prepare the soil
in good tilth for seeding oats, grass or
other small grain; or wlen oats arc sown
on corn-stubble or land that has been
planted in the fall. They are good I'M
plements to cover the seed, sowing the
seed broadcast and then covering the m
with the disc or cutting harrow. The
same applies to sowing wheat in the fall.
They will fine the surface and prepare in
n good tilth for sowing the seed with
the drill or seed-sower. And the work
can be done so much more economically
that in many cases these can be made
very profitable implements. Prairie
Farmer.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-26
Birth Of New Plant species.

The plants recently collected from
Christmas island by the English Ad-
miralty prove to be closely allied to
those Of Java Yet their isolation has
had the effect of making them mostly
unlike their Java congeners, though
not sufficiently different to be specifi-
cally distinguished. In this gradual
alteration Mr.. w. T. Thiselton Dyer
sees "a manifest case Of nascent spe-
cies. -
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-26
You Need # Now

At no other season doez the human sys EN- 20
much need the aid OF o reliable me licIno like
Hoods Ssr,ararilla now Tho imro serished con-
dition OF the blood. the weakening effects OF the
long cold winter the lost appetite. and tn h,t tired
feeling. all make good spring medicine absolutely
necessary. Hoops Ssrs parills is culiarly
adapted for this purpose, ana increases in popular
ity every year. Give IL . trial
"Hood's sars,parils 80 the cheapest medicine
hxrv ~ n Rrrnvr Rsllavills
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-26
Rose Insects.

The insects most harmful to roses are
the green fly, red spider, rose hopper or
thrips, and the rose bug and the black
slug. Now, though these insects In.
volve some little trouble. yet success
will attend all persistent efforts. The
green fly, the thrips and the black slug
can all be kept under by Swinging the
plants with a solution of whale oil soap.
One pound of soap is sufficient for eight
gallons of water. Throw the water in a
tine spray on the under as we'll as the
upper side of the leaves. A syringe with
bent nozzle is the best instrument with
which to apply the liquid to the lower
side of the leaves. The red spider can
be held in check by Swinging the leaves
with clear water; in dry times this should
be done every day. If the rose bug
(melolotha subspinosa) makes its appear.
ance, which is not very often, it can be
destroyed by the insect extermiuator.-
Viek's Magazine.