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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-27
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-27

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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-27

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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-27

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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
SuperstitiOns of Yuma Indians.

Yuma superstitions are many; the
few following will serve as fair exam
pies: With rare exceptions they siren
uously object to being photographed,
for they believe the accuracy of the
pictures due to something taken from
them whose loss will soon cause death.
Many will not allow themselves to be
viewed through field glasses. as they
imagine their nakedness is exposed
notwithstanding their clothes. If a
dead person had in life been accus-
toned to share the food of his rela-
tives the latter, during feasts and other
ceremonials, set apart a portion for
burning. for fear the deceased would
otherwise upbraid them in dreams for
their selfishness. The smoke of the
sacrifice is consumed by the dead.
For the same reason death and kindred
subjects are seldom mentioned and the
names of the departed pass the lips
under no circumstances. The wood
pecker is never killed, because the
slayer will Immediately be stricken
with blindness. Children are often
frightened into good behavior by al
lusions to blrd-like ghost resembling
a monstrous owl, called Toh-kah- lot,
capable of infiicting awful calamities
upon the disobedient. The dead some-
times communicate with the living
through an OWLS hooting. The bird
itself is the pulse or heart-beats trans
ferred temporarily, and comes at night
to convey good or bad news. What
soever happens, whether natural or
accidental, must soon be duplicated.
For instance. if an Indian dies, two
more will follow, if it rains, two rainy
days may be expected; and should Me
wind blow hard, there will be two days
of storm. On seeing an eclipse, they
believe the planet sick and trying to
sleep. Should it not awake, the Colo
RADIO river would dry up and bring
sickness and death upon them, and so
the tribe assemblies to clap hands,
shake rattles, and shout, to assist it,
and Indirectly themselves, out of a
predicament. Shooting stars are mes
sages from Coh-coh-mak. communicate
ing to the Indians the death of one or
more white men.-OUGrlGnd
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
Comparative Value of Manure.

1t is only manufacturers or dealers
in commercial fertilizers that will un.
derrate the real value of farm ma
nures. Science recognizes its worth
at all times, and the following from
the report of the Geneva IN. " Sta
ton is clear statement of the mat.
ter:
''It is true many experiments have
been made which seem to prove, il
they prove anything. that the appli-
cation of stable manure was not only
useless, but even harmful to the crop
under trial; still, does not one believe
that taking two farms regarded as
equal in fertility, and treating one
with the carefully husbanded manure
produced upon it for a series of years,
while the other should sell off crops
and manure for a like period, the
former would maintain or, perhaps.
increase its original fertility, while
the other would, sooner or later, show
evidence of exhaustion in diminished
cropsP"
1t is the height of folly for anyone
to claim from any experiment in which
manure appeared to produce no favor.
able effect to claim that it possesses
no value. Such result can usually
be traceable to some peculiar cOndi.
ton of soil or climate, and is no differ
ent from that obtained from CONNER
cial fertilizers. How often has The
trial been made with the principal ele.
ments of fertility, when liberal use
of one seemed to diminish the yield
from that where nothing was used.
We have used dissolved bone-black
upon corn when given amount pro-
duced excellent results, and doubling
the quantity actually reduced the yield
of grain, being apparently a result
consequent to an increased growth OF
fodder. 1t is plain to be seen that
farming must be studied 20 be fully or
even partially understood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
Why She Felt Sad.

Even the children in Boston look
upon life from a sober and elderly
point of view. A Beacon street little
girl, the other night, was observed by
her mother to be crying quietly by her.
self for nearly two hours, from supper
until bedtime. When the moment for
retiring came. Mrs. A insisted up
on being informed concerning the ma
ture of the grief which seemed to prey
upon her small daughters mind.
You must really tell me, my dar-
ling" she said, "what it is that is
troubling YOU"
mo, mamma" replied 8-year-old,
sobbingly, as her little garments were
unbuttoned. "There are some pain
full thoughts, you know, which one
cannot share even with ones parents. +"
81 will not at all assent to that, my
pet. Any way, shall not go down.
stairs now until you conide this mat
ter to me-"
"Well, mamma. if / must tell, it is
simply this: l was looking at you and
papa at the suDper-table, when it sud-
denly came to my mind that neither
papa nor yourself had any mamma or
papa of your own. The more I
thought of it the more sad it seemed
to me that you should both be
orphans, like the children from the
asylum who walk two by two on the
streets Sundays, and so / could not
help crying about it, seeing that 1 love
you both very much. That was all,
dear mamma"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
Darning by Machine.

! First colored basting thread was
run by hand on each side of the rent
for guide, to indicate how far the
| stitching should extend and to secure
uniformity of outline. The material
was placed under the presser-foot with
the needle close to the guide thread
and row of stitching run directly
across the tear as far as the guide
thread on the opposite side, holding
the material firm and slightly stretched
with both hands that it might not
quicker. Then by touching the wheel
the machine was stopped with the
needle down, the presser-foot raised,
the goods turned half-around, and an
other line OF stitching run close to and
parallel with the first, stopping at the
first guide thread. The wheel was
again checked with the needle down,
presser-foot raised, towel turned back
to first position, and a third parallel
line of stitching run. When the en-
tire rent had been stitched over back
wards and forwards in this manner it
was crossed in the opposite direction,
| although the darning was even then so
firm as to render the cross-stitching
unnecessary except in the center
where the hole had been.
had always supposed that if ma
chine were run over an open space
without any material under it that the
threads would pucker and knot, and
perhaps break the needle, but to
my surprise, it ran on. the threads
winding around each other and filling
In the hole in the strongest and most
substantial manner. There were only
two precautions to be observed, which
also apply to hand darning, viz: that
the tension on the thread used be a
little loose, and that the darn be made
large enough to reach the strong part
of the material, otherwise a new hole
will soon be found alongside the darn
caused by the strength of the repaired
portion drawing upon the weak threads
surrounding it.
In this manner the holes in the best
tablecloths and towels were mended,
and the thin weak places stitched
over, and it would have delighted the
eye of any good housekeeper to have
seen this pile of linen when it returned
from the laundry; the towels were al
most as strong as new ones, and the
GOlu pldCeS Ill Ino CdUle llu6u were SO
smooth that the darn was scarcely
perceptibe.
| found that this method of repair
ing was capable of application to
many other articles than plain table
linen or towels. Where the ends of
neck-bands or Wristbands of shirts
had become parted from the body,
they were again firmly and smoothly
attached in this way, and even the
worn buttonholes and the weak parts
around them were made whole in the
same manner.
There are some things. however,
that cannot be darned by the machine
without an extra attachment, as for
instance hosiery, and this, as well as
rents in dresses, is best repaired by
hand.-GOOd Housekeeping.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
A Pertinent Inquiry.

A four-year-old miss created a good
deal of CONSERVATION, not unmixed
with amusement, in a small social cir
Gle up town. She had been on visit
to her grandfather, and while there
was in the habit of playing with him
as he lay, half asleep, on the sofa.
One day as her chubby fingers glided
caressingly over the old gentIeman's
scant locks he murmured drowsily, in
reply to some infantile remark: Eyes,
I'm your poor old bald-headed grand
father" One evening not long after
ward a young-old bachelor was max
ing call on the family, toward a
certain member of which, only eigh-
teen and decidedly pretty, he inclined
with very tender feelings. Into the
pleasant circle where the bachelor sat
flashing bright nothings of society talk
entered the four-year-old. Unseen by
the gentleman she sauntered around
the room inspecting him, and gazed
with especial interest on his polished
scalp, which cleaned in the light of
the chandelier Suddenly. with a burst
of ingenious sociability, she said:
"Wbose poor old bald-headed grand
father are S0n1erUitLe Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
The Heart of the Rose.

Faint is the tint of my rose
And delicate sweet, like the color that shows
On the palest of shells of the sea.
Ah, my rose, you are dearest to mel
For all tenderly hued like the beautiful face
Of my lady, and crowned with wonderful
grace
That is hers, little rosebud. you are,
And as fair and as pure as the first shining
star
That apart and above, through the twilight
agleam,
Like my lady doth SEEM"
sOnly, say to the rose,
sDeep down in the heart of my lady there
glows
A great faith and a passion of love
That doth place her so far and above
Your pale self that you seem a cold, colorless
thing"
And so speaking I raise it, and idly wing
From my lips to its petals a breeze;
And they tremble and open-the pallld, fair
leaves!
Lo! red like the sunset their partfngs dis
In the heart of my rose.
This then 1 said to the bud
"Oh, never again will thoughtlessly Judge
Aught alike, but will seek first to know
Of the secrets in hiding below,
For L mind me twas only wind breath of
fate
That Enclosed me the heart of my lady, a.
freight
With such wealth of the purest and best
That God gives in his loving, God gives to his
Thus it is lies meaning more deep than one
knows
In the heart of my rose.
e. II. r. in indianapolis Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
Curing Hay.

The success of the ensilage system
has misled some farmers into a belief
that hay can be kept with much less
curing than is commonly supposed.
If air can be kept out entirely or near
ly so it might be possible TO preserve
hay without curing, only it would then
be silage and not hay. The condition
of the two articles is entirely different.
Hay in just the proportion that its
juices evaporate fills with air, not only
between the stems and leaves but in
the pores with which these are filled.
This air is, however, unlike air in the
silo, a preservative agent. If we could
have currents of air passing through
masses of hay it would not spoil. This
is TO some extent accomplished in
stacks by setting hay on platform
open beneath, and building it around
pole in the center, against which the
hay cannot be packed quite so close
". Then with waterproof cap over
the top to exclude rains, though the
hay NAV heat to some extent, it will
not spoil.
Rains or even dews are much more
destructive agents of lamentations
than the natural juices of the plant.
These. as they dry up by evaporation,
form gummy substance that has q
preventative effect. But mix this with
warm rain water and note how quickly
the matter is thrown into violent
fermentation. It is on this principle
that many farmers make hay nearly
altogether in cock. They pile it up as
SOON after cutting as they can, some
times leaving it out an entire day, but
never over night, because of dews.
With plenty of hay caps it is possible
for farmer to be almost independent
of the weather in having time. He
cannot work while rain is falling, but
except in delaying him it does little
other damage. Sometimes after a
rain the cocks will settle down to half
their original bulk, showing how the
heaps have compacted after slightly
heating. They may seem damp to the
touch, but may be put in the NOW
without danger of further heating.
If at any time grass or grain has
been put in the NOW too damp, the
best thing to be done is to cover twith
dry straw and ventilate freely by day
or while the air is warm, closing tight
as possible at night. The moisture of
the damp hay or grain rises and passes
off through the straw while the air is
warm. As soon as the outer air is
colder it condenses into water, which
the straw catches. If it were not for
the straw this water would form mold
on the top of the hay and wet down
considerable distance. This explains
why sometimes the tops of stacks are
wet when there has been no rain. The
moisture from the interior of the stacks
has risen up and condensed upon the
surface.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
The Value of Creameries.

In former years nearly all the coun-
try butter so highly priced by city
people was made by farmers or their
wives in the crude, old -fashioned way,
a few pounds at churning, and sent
to market in stone pots which held five
or ten pounds each. Every farmer
wife had an idea that none could APP
proach her in butter-making; that is,
if she had good luck and a thunder
storm didn't come up to sour the
cream. Dealers and consumers, how
ever, demanded more uniform arti-
Gle of butter than could be obtained of
the farmers themselves, whose churn-
ing did not run alike, and the atten-
ton of capitalists was turned toward
a cooperative system of manufacture
ing butter. The system of making
creamery butter has nowhere in the
country been worked out with better
results than in Connecticut, and at
present there are forty-fve associated
creameries in successful operation.
These butter-making concerns are To-
Gated where cows have access to sweet,
luxuriant pastures, with springs of
pure water, and the cattle are housed
and well fed during the winter. The
farmers try to Guido each other in i'm
proving their thoroughbred stock and
in cleanliness of keeping, and the re-
suit is a superior quality of butter, with
it rich New England flavor, which is
sought by New York people who are
willing to pay a good price.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
THE MODERN LITERARY SOCIETY.
A Demonstration of Culture in a Wash.
ingtOn Boudoir.

"You will so enjoy our Literary So
ciety," said the Washington girl to her
friend from New York, who was pay
ing her visit. Tine society meets at
our house tomorrow, and you'll have
a chance to see the really intellectual
women of the city"
How delightfulp' said the New
York girl, with her mouthful of hair
pins. 1--WE have nothing like that in
our set. Mother is all taken up with
fashionable life and dresses, and so,
you see, | am obliged to live the life
of butterfly. just envy you.
you poor thing" said her friend,
heating slate pencil in the gas. 1T
is so hard to feel those longings for
the higher life and yet be changed to
the unsatisfying bodies of society.
Ma, you know, is regarded as intel
lectual, and she said she made up her
mind long ago not to turn me loose a
mere fashion plate" and the beautiful
girl, having finished her bangs, gave
an extra tweak to lacing cord and
grabbed up a lot of wire spirals en-
cased in pink cambria.
at must be lovely; but what do you
do at your club p"
"Ah! Everything. We write pa
pers on different subjects, criticism,
and reviews. We have instrumental
and vocal music. Then when its over
the hostess serves the loveIiest lunch.
Ma is perfect artistic, and can spring
more surprises at a feed than any one
I know. Pa says she lies awake nights
scheming out new dishes and decora-
tions. The lunch served at our last
meeting here fairly made the other
women green. o! mas up on spreads.
You ought to have seen her get away
with Mrs. ID. Vandick Smiths sugared
violets and lilac and heliotrope effort"
"What do you have tomorrow"
asked the New York girl, mincing up
and down before a swinging mirror
and kicking her skirts to see if they
hung right.
Mrs. james Ward Binghamnailor
will have paper on Italian art. You
ought 10 see her. She's too artistic
for anything. She has spent years
abroad and discusses the old masters
as you do gowns and things. Art is
her fad. Her voice will make you
tired, but her clothes are awfully
soothing. She promised to wear one
of her Greek gowns. 1t is a white
elinging dream, with a girdle of real
stones and embroidered with gold and
silver thread"
docs she write well on art?"
81 should remark, She knows all
about-O, what's his name?-Ralph;
no, Raphael, and-and-well, that other
old fellow-let me see-Van-Van-
o, yes; Vandyke. You'll like her
gowns, and her hair is lovely in
Psyche"
What else do you have? I'm so
interested"
WELL" said the Washington girl.
rubbing the powder off here and there
and touching up her eyebrows, '.Mrs.
Porter Cadwaliader will sing. Her
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
Lime and Ashes for Fruit Trees.

Lime and Ashes for Fruit Trees.
1t is we'll known that all varieties of
fruit do not flourish and mature equal
ly in all sections of the country. This
is mainly attributed to climate. Quite
frequently fruit-grower in one part
of the Middle States, hearing of the
quality of particular fruit, as grown
in another part of the country, has OBJ
tanned and fruited it. Upon not re-
spending to the pains bestowed upon
it by the grower it has been either
counted as a variety unsuited to the
climate or the first grower has been
put down as fraud. In many in
stances such judgment is erroneous.
Had an analysis of the soil in which
the particular variety was grown to
the knowledge thus obtained put to
practical use, the result would have
been very different Soil, think, will
be found to have more influence upon
our plants and trees than climate. The
latter has everything to do in hasten
ing orretarding the maturing of plants;
but the former influences the life and
success of the trees by supplying or
denying them the proper food. The
value of special manures is thus mani
tested.
Lime and its phosphates form COM
ponent part of all special manures for
fruit trees, and many old, WORKOUT
soils have been renewed by iudicious
application of lime, ashes, etc. In
nine cases out of ten, where a variety
of fruit which once flourished in a
given soil, has ceased to flourish and
perfect fine fruit there, the change is
due to the fact that the soil has become
destitute of the necessary mineral
manures. In nearly ali such cases the
plentiful application of wood ashes, or
wood ashes and lime, will restore the
healthy condition of the trees. OBJ
servations of the effects of the compo-
sition of soils within the last two or
three years, convince many that much
of what was attributed to the climate
was simply owing to the want of the
necessary inorganic or mineral ma
nures in the Soil The special lesson
which this should teach US is that, in
getting trees, plants, and shrubs from
another section of the country, they
should always be accompanied by an
analysis of the soil in which the par
ticular varieties reached perfection.
We could then see that the trees were
planted in the same kind of soil, and
success assured us. Nurserymen would
soon get accustomed to these orders, if
every farmer insisted upon it in his or
der, and | think complaints about GER
tain tirst-class varieties of fruits would
not be so general. George wilson, IN
Farm and Vjaeyard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29

The lower grades OF butter. which a
few years ago found ready sale, are
fast being driven out. There is a quick
demand for all first-class butter that
Is produced, and the farmer is fast
coming to the belief that he can get
more ready money from the cows than
from any other branch of agriculture.
In former times he took his homemade
butter to the village store and ex-
changed 1T for groceries and dry goods.
Now he Is on better footing, as cash
will buy provisions better than ex-
change, and, above all, a better article
of butter is made by the creameries
than can be made in an old dairy.
room. There is uniformity in the
quality of the product that can be Sc
cured only by uniform system. The
milk from the time it is drawn and the
cream from the milk are cared for
alike every day throughout the year.
Since the advent of the creamery there
has been a general clearing up of nom
producing acres. and they are cult
waited to the production of feed for
dairy purposes. More grain is fed to
cows than ever before, and farmers
are studying the best food rations for
producing special results of cream or
milk, the land is enriched, more grass
and grain are produced, and many
farms, which few years ago scarcely
brought a living to their owners, are
now profitable. -NeaO York SAM