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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-12-26

causes for discOntentment and gloom
Nevertheless cheerfnlness can be cultiva-
ted; the gloom can be thrown Oh. and il
you will only look around you when you
are sick, with desire to extract some
sweet from the bitter, and to see the sill.
yer lining OF the cloud, yOu will be snre
to discover something that will promote
cheerfulness. The proprietors Of one Of
our large newspapers sent ont = reporter
10 interview some aged people and learn
the secret Of their long lives. One old
woman-her years reaching nearly up to
a century ascribed her hearty old age to
the habit, as she said, ''of taking the
world just as it comes aud looking always
at the bright side 81 things" And why
not? Note the old people Of your ac-
quaintance. think YOU will find, as a
rule, that they have never barred ont the
sunshine from their hearts. There are
troubles enough in life to make it sad.
but do not let the sadness develop into
chronic moodiness. Mr.. Beecher once
said that God smiled and said ''that's
good" when he put humor into man.
And it is good. It smOothes many rough
| way and preserves the heart in pristine
| freshness.
AS appropriate to the thought Of this
occasion / quote the following verses
from Whittier's THE Eternal Goodness:
= Yet, in the maddeninig maze of things.
And tossed by storm and flood.
/ TO one fixed stake my spirit cings:
| know that God is COOL.
| long for household voices gone,
/ For vanished smiles long.
i But God hath led my dear ones on,
And He can do no wrsng.
know not what the future hath
Ofmarxcl Or surprise.
i Assured alone that life and death
His mercy unde-lies.
And il my heart and flesh are weak.
To bear an untried pain,
The bruised reed He win not break,
But strengthen and sustain.
And 50 beside the Silent Sea
wait the mnfHed OIL,
No harm nom Him can come to me
On ocean or on shore.
know not where His islands lih
Their f.onded palms In AR;
only know cannot DRIFT
Beyond His love and care.
! Lastly: Our friend said to me that cher
religious profession had been too much
mingled with vor|dliness," and that i
she had her life TO live over again, she
would order il differently. Whether bel
, self-depreciation be just or not it's certain
that her religious faith was great helE
and comfort to her during her prolonged
/ illness. 1t was truly her victory ovel
death. A religious faith, friends, is no
! for the time OF meath alone-Dot simpl,
! for the days Of sunshine and peace, bu
/ for the dark and stormy days, and for th.
/ nights OF wrestling and pain. Let sucl
!. be our faith, and rs We 60 on through
!, these years let rs purge 1t Of worldliness
! making it clearer and brighter; thel
|. when the night cometh il shall be on
!. everlasting victory.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-12-26

Why continue the use Of irritating
powders, snuffs or liquids. Ely's
Cream Balm, pleasant Of application
and a sure cure for catarrh and cold
in head, can be had for Soc. 1t is ca
SHY applied Into tho nostrils. is safe
and pleasant, and is curing the most
obstinate cases. It gives relief at
once. 1Gt2
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-12-26

The politicians tell the people that
the tariff is the only issue before the
people. AT their recent big banquet
and convention held ut Kansas City,
their president said that one OF the
most important questions OF the day
was, how to gat rid OF the greenback
government currency, 40 that banks
,wouid have the sole control Of the
circulating medium. -Lsborers' Tr:-
khune, Washington, Ind.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-12-26

The proprietors Of Ely's Cream
Balm do not claim it to be cure-all,
but sure remedy for catarrh, colds
in the head and hay fever. 1t is not
q liquid OF 9 snuff, hut il easily az
piled into the nostrils, It gives re-
lief mt once. l2t2
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-12-26
Lime Springs Correspondence.

Lime Springs Correspondence.
Mr.. d. s. Williams is here visiting
his parents and friends.
James keppel is here on q visit.
There was q Xmas entertainment
given by the Baptist Sabbath school
Tuesday evening.
school is out for vacation of two
weeks.
BoRN.-To Mr.. and Mrs. Wood, q
daughter, Friday, Dec. 20.
EURIPIDNSE.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-12-26
Consumption Surely Cured

To THE EDIYDs-=tiease inform your read
crs that have q positive remedy tor tho above
named disease. By its timely uae Thousands Of
hopeless cases have been permanently cured
dy FREE to any of your readers who have con-
sumption IL they will send me their express
and posi- Office address. Respectfully.
t. a. ELOCCM. M. c.. ISL Pearl st.. New York
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-12-26
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
EPPS'SC0C0A
BREAKFAST.

Try thorough knowledge OF the natural
laws which govern the operations OF di9esttcn
and nutrition. and by careful application Of
the fine properties OF we'll seleeteQ COCOA. Mr..
delicately Favored beverage which may save VI
many heavy doctors bills II 10 by the judic-
tols use OF such articles OF diet that conStitu-
ton may be gradually built up until strong en-
ough to resist Every tendency to disease. Hun
dreds OF subtle maladies are floating aroun0 Es
ready TO attack Nheiaper theirs ID G>weak point
We may escape many q fatal shaft by Keeping
ourselves well fortified with pure blood and q
properly nolrished frame "--Ciyil Service Ca
zctte. Made simply With boiling water or milk
Sold only In hali-pound uns, BY 0rocers, label
led thus: JAMES EpPS b Co., Homeopathic
Chemists, London. England. sA
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-12-26

When Greenbackers talk about is
suing more legal tender paper money
in order to relieve distress and supply
the channels Of trade, the money
sharks cry out, 20, the greenback
was q forced loan. and issued to put
down the rebellion" They shuddey
at the very thought OF forced loans;
but forced borrowing meets with
their unanimous appreciation. How
about the go, 900, 600 Of public funds
which was forced" from the people
that 1t might be stuffed into national
banks without interest? Any .'forced
loan' about that?-Iowa Tribune,
Des Moines, Iowa,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-12-26

IN coriunctionn with the Erie SygteW oper-
atss baiiy Past Hsstinuled 9rslps 70 the Ses-
Board. You may travel in tho most Elegant
and Complete Pullman vestibulsd Trains
ever constructed. and save 81. 0to New York
Buffalo and Niagara Falls, 30 10 Albany
and Troy, and 50 70 Boston and New Eng.
land cities.
No riual line offers the advantages
Of a system OF through first and Sec
ond-cldss Pullman TestiJule day
coaches and dining cars, Chicago to
New l0rA.
II Is the only line operating Pull
man cars to Boston and NeiC Eng
land rin albany.
Entire train is lighted Jy gas,
heated By steam. Pullman dining
cars run through in either direction.
These luxurious trains are open
to all classes Of ;fGpel. NJ extra
charge for fast time and unsurpassed
dccon Oddt;Ons.
For detailed information. tickets and reaer-
yations IN Pullman cars apply to your local
tick It agent or the agency Of connecting lines
Of railway. or to City Ticket Offices, 1Os Clark
St.: Grand Pacific Hotel; Palmer House; Dear
born Station. or address,
6. n BEACH. F.c. DONALD,
General Manager. Gen, Pass. Agt.
CHICAGO.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-12-26
The aasilitia are increasing

The militia are increasing.
The volume Of money is contract
ling.
Tramps are multiplying.
Destitution, misery and crime grows
/. m25e common. National View.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-12-26

during the recent installation OF
officers Of King Solomon's Chapter
No. 81, Of Masons, at DEBORAH, Rev.
J. N. Ferris gave the following beau
tiful translation of the cabalistic let.
tiers OF the keystone-H. T. w. 8. 8
T. X. g.:
Happy the man whose life will bear
Tho rigid test u the MaAsers square;
Who the path Of duty well has trod.
Serving his Maker and his God:
Strong through acts of charity and love,
To gain admission TO the Lodge above.
Knowing that stone in the rubbish cast
Shall cover hls masters mark at last,
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The POLICE GAZETTE will be mailed, Sc
CHrely wrapped, to any address In the United
States for three months on receipt OF
ONE DOLLAR.
Liberal discount allowed to postmaster
agents and clubs. Sample copies mailed free.
Address all orders to
RICHARD K FOX.
FRANKLIN SoT1ARR. n r.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-08-28

Any method of irrigation is expensive,
but the Marsh system will be found to
pay fully as wellin Florida as the methods
OF surface irrigation of California, Italy,
Spain and other countries where they are
in use, and which can not be employed in
Florida for reasons given. With the
Marsh method some crop can be kept
growing on the land continuously, four
crops of Irish potatoes having been grown
in one year, none of which we're in the
ground to exceed eighty-eigh days.
And when we consider that the irrigat-
ed tract is entirely independent OF the
climate for moisture and the increased
quantity of fertilizing substances that
can be supplied, as there is water in
abundance to carry it into differentiation
of the crop for assimilation, we may
consider with less impatience the state
ment OF an enthusiastic owner of a Marsh
garden on the East Coast: '"That one
acre of land irrigated by the Marsh sys-
TEN will produce more in one year than
ten acres of the same quality ofland with
out irrigation" JAS. CARNELL.
Ormond, Volusia County, Fla.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-08-28

mud-hole [ soon concluded that in
stead of going to the expense of putting
water on the garden, would put the gar
den on the water This mud-hOle was
drained by cutting ditch from it to a
lake. There was only fall enough to take
off the water, but not enough to take it
out of the soil. After some calculation,
taking the bottom of the drain for the
water level, | soon found that by eXcava-
ting a little more than half the surface
two feet or little more below the water
line the balance of the surface, nearly the
hail. would be raised two and half feet
above the water level. Assoon as the dry
season came in May shovelers were set to
work to execute the plan. 1t took one
and sometimes two men with buckets to
keep the water bailed out, so as not to
interfere with the shoveling. Dry land
soon began to appear.
The garden beds were made about eight
feet wide; the water bitches or beds about
nine to ten feet wide, running east and
west across the sink. The width of both
beds and bitches vary according to the
natural depth of the sink-where shallow
earth was more plentiful each bed
was made the same width the whole
length, SO that the rows of plants could
all run the whole length. Conduits or
pipes were made OF heart pine boards
two boards four inches wide and two six
inches wide, making a four by four inch
pipe. These were laid under the beds
to connect the bitches; thus all bitches
are connected with the outlet. The land
at both ends of the beds being too low,
was raised by scraping in the earth that
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-08-28

cation. The question was. how can this
drainage and irrigation be satisfactorily
accomplished? The plan of open bitches
for drainage surface irrigation showed
too many objections to be practical.
What then? The only feasible plan was
system of pipes laid in the ground, so as
to serve for orbothdrainage and irrigation.
But how about suitable pipe? Evident
ly the pipe must be kept open throughout
it's extent and yet must permit the water
to pass at frequent intervals in or out.
Such pipe, If laid from twelve to four
teen inches deep and six to eight feet
apart and connected up with main,
would by filing it with water under a
small pressure distribute with sufficient
uniformity for irrigation, or by opening
the main to an outletditch secure quick
and effective drainage And if it can be
made to work effectively up to the plan,
will ensure the gardener against the
drouth and wet, and with supply DIVA
ter will enable him to make his own sea-
sons at very small working cost. / will
leave for those who wish to figure it out
what they could do with piece of land
so improved, or what the result would be
if such pipe were laid say six feet off on
each side of a row of orange trees and
supplied with water, and return to the
possibility of making the thing work and
the cost of it.
The possibility depends upon obtaining
a tile of suitable quality and sizes at
practical cost. This part OF the business
l have been studying and working on for
three or four years and hope that / am
Offering encouragement to many in being
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-08-28

lay hack and above the garden level.
measured the surface of the beds and
margin land after the work was done and
found | had fully three-quarters of an
acre of first-class sub-irrigated land. In
dry or medium wet weather all plants
grow most luxuriantly twelve months in
the year, but in very wet weather not
quite SO we'll. ! think, therefore, that
three feet above water level would be bet
ter for the garden than two and half
feet. J. r. HURST.
Lake Helen, Volusia County, Fla.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-08-28
For THE FLoRIdA AGRICULTURIsT.
Sub-Irrigation by Means Of Tile.

AS the subject of irrigation is coming
strongly to the front now, wish to offer
something which | hope may be of bene-
fit. have been a citizen of Florida six
years, and came here intending to go
into the truck business. bought piece
of low hammock land that had been
cleared for the purpose and commenced
operations. I had been raised farmer,
but / soon found out that knew nothing
about farming in Florida, and that had
it all to learn. / did not know when to
plant, what to plant or how to cultivate.
l soon learned one thing, however, that
I had better go slow.
The first years ex periments showed me
that my land was too wet sometimes and
too dry at other times, and although it
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-08-28
FoR THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT.
The Trench System of Irrigating.

To fulfill my promise, | will submit the
following plan OF sub-irrigation now in
successful operation on my farm. After
varied success and failure in gardening on
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-08-28

sufficient quantity of water for pan
22O feet in length during the most ex-
tended drouths perfectly irrigating
16x22O feet of soil Some may beinclined
to think this not sufficient quantity of
water for the perfection of full crops.
One-fourth Of an inch of water at a veloc-
ity of two inches per hour will furnish
two and one-fourth quarts per minute;
$40 gallons per day for each bed, thirteen
beds per acre, gives 3,79O,8OO gallons
3O,326, 400 pounds per acre per year, all of
which is available. AS it is applied below
the surface it is held from sinking into
the sub-soil by the atmospheric evapora-
alton, until it has passed and nourished
the roots of the crop.
Supposing two crops of three months
each be raised on the same land each
year, there would be available for the
crop during it's season of growth (six
months) Is, ,183,2 200 pounds of water,
which by theapplication Of Laws expert
ment, giving 200 pounds of water for
each pound OF dry matter produced and
allowing 200 pounds for each busheA of
wheat harvested, including the straw and
roots, we find we supply water enough
for the production of 379 bushels of
wheat per acre.
Cheap concrete is probably the best
material of which to construct the pans,
which can be made in the following pro-
portions: To one pound Portland cement
and one-half pound stone lime add five
pounds sharp sand and five pounds fine
shell; mix as thin as mortar and spread
one inch thick for both bottom and sides
of pan, which when dry needs to be
skinned with thin cement wash-twO
coats applied to the whole inside surface
of pan, both bottom and sides, with white
wash brush to make water tight
The water supply where artesian water
can be obtained is comparatively simple,
as one three inch we'll, diseharging sixty
gallons per minute, willirrigate five acres
of land if properly distributed, giving
each bed, 16x210feet, gallons per day
and making an allowance of 33 per cent.
for loss from friction caused by carrying
water greater distance in mains, as the
first calculation was for one acre platt.
Where flowing wells can not be had,
pumping machinery ofsome kind would be
necessary to furnish the water supply, and
is problem that can only be worked out
when all the factsconnected with the tract
to be irrigated are ascertained.
But what we desire to point out is that
small areas, from the family garden of a
few rods in extent and supplied with wa
ter by hand pump, to the truck patch OF
say one acre, can be irrigated with much
less water than is commonly supposed,
which can be elevated with windmills
where the water is convenient and abund-
ant, as is the case on the shores OF the in
Vulnerable fresh water lakes on our high
pine lands, where flowing wells cannot be
had.
A Leffell wind engine with twelve feet
arms, making forty revolutions permm-
ute, with five inch pump, will elevate
twenty and one-half gallons per minute
twenty-five feet in height, which in twelve
hours gives II, 1903 gallons, after making
an allowance Of 90 per cent. for friction
loss. This will irrigate one acre, which
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-08-28
SN@EAeE
FIG. 4. sUB-IRRIGATED PAN.

~.
inches hgh three feet wde inside MEASURE.
tight three feet wde four inches deep
Stats ttrs, showing open water way between
tier of Stats.
c. Matts prevent soil from cloggng Stats.
d. Soil showing soil below water level s5
E. Water level.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-08-28

emily as rich
as it could be
In vegetable
humus it was
so u + a n d
spotted and
not satisfac-
torilyproduc-
tive, and 1
soon settled
upon thecon-
viction til a t
Florida land
W ould not
pay to truck
on without
both drain
age and irli-
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-08-28

the pine land,
IsOOn learned
TIL at W a ter
was an abso-
lutte necessity
to success.
Some dis
tance east OF
the h o u S G
there W as a
"sink" or low
place W here,
in wet times,
water stood s
sometimes to
a adepth OF two
feet; in dry
times it was
an often sive
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1889-02-02
Pocomoke News.

Quite Il painful ant! probably a very
serious accident. caused by the explosion
Of gun powder, hcicll The little seven. year.
old son of Mr.. Lawrence Mills. here on
saturday Mrs Mills was II the bedside
Of her p''ing mother. in Newark. this com.
~. nv ,f,ime and the little f'ilow had
be- u in the care ni his father. who had
II d work leaving him home with scv.
II J,thcr small children. The hoy found
gathers power flask in its accustomed
&c and picking il up walked over Ia
lsiove aud threw some in or on il. An
ilosion followed and the little fellow
1. badly burned about the face and eyes
4. lis feared he will never regain his eye.
g'Ch,. The neighbors heard the children
Ming and the screams of the suffering
SIC and made haste Ia procure doctor.
fhis should serve rs u lesson Ia parents
who are in the half, of leaving dangerous
combus,ibles or explosives within the
reach Of children.
Mr.. Thomas Williams. nm unmarried
gent lehman. well known in and around Po-
comoke, died Thursday night after long
and trying illness Of consumption. ii,
bore his sickness with patience and was
simply waiting for many weeks for The
great Gaihcrcr Of the Harvest to garner
him in We sympaihize with the grief.
stricken relatives.
Miss Carrie Rcvcl. of Paramount, is Wis
iiing Rev. Mrs Melvin.
Mrs Priscilla Barnes. formerly of thi,
place. but now residing in Salisbury. i.
visiting friends aud relatives in our city
Her old friends are delighted 10 see hei
aud we hope she will remain with us fol
some time.
Mrs \. j Morse. of lloiiman's Wharf
Va. is visiting her brother, Captain ]. y
Veascy
Mr.. Vim. Cathcll. our popular barber
took unto himself n wife on Tuesday even
ing Of last week Miss Maggie Smith, o
Fruiiland. was the fair lady and Rev. Mr.
Day tied the knot The wedding was wit
messed b, u large number of the bride ant
groom's friends and relatives, all of whom
wished them II bon coy,ge Ger lifes irou
bcl sea. They came 10 Pocomoke immc.
diatcly after the ceremony. CRY.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1889-02-02
Encounter with a Worcester
County Bear.

SALISBURY. Mn, Jan. 30-A colore,i
man named Jacob johnson. living alone
in the Cypress swamp which borders on
the P0comokc river, had desperate en-
counter With u bear one day last week.
johnson was seen by the Sun correspond
cni in Salisbury, and he bears the marks
Of III. combat johnson claims that ON
Tuesday of last week. while he was en-.
gagged cutting timber, he was attacked by
bear Of extra dimensions, and for sew
cral MINUTES he thought he would have To
give u tne struggle and succumb to the
terrible fate of being squeezed To death.
lie says that lac has been living in the
swamps for forty years, an,l that when he
first went there lac used Ia see bears quite
Frequently. hut for the past twenty years
he hal not seen one until Tuesday. lie
asserted that after harl fight he succeed
ed in cleavins the heal ofbruin with an
axe. There ARE many who dlscrcdit John.
sons statement. and say M bears have
been in Pocomokc swamp for many years,
hut Johnson says IL is the truth. AMI
claims that the marks upon his head aud
face we've made by the CLAWS Of the ami
NAL. Baltimore Sun.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1889-02-02
No Ice Yet.

The peach growers are not the only
people who are anxious about prospective
crops rs the ice dealers are beginning 10
feel blue" over their prospects for n plcn.
iiiul supply OF ice for The coming summer
months and they are daily looking for the
arrival Of cold wave which shall con.
time long enough To allow nj least II par
iial ice crop 10 I've harvested. As matters
now stand, there has no, been any ice out
on the kcnncbec river, the chief source
Of supply, while in this vicinity there has
been but little indication that winter is nj
hand. The weather has been so mild and
spring like that the trees begin 10 show
signs Of budding. Even in Boston they
are finding difficulty to &c, the ihcrmom.
etcr to go down 10 freezing point. If the
Maine crop should fail and the supply
would have TO come from Canada big
prices can he expected as the shipments
would mostly be by rail and the freighis
alone would enhance the value OF the ice
To exorbi,ani figures.
In New York. the Wholesale ice dealers
have formed an ice trust. They say that
they have lost money tor several seasons
by cutting rates aud they now propose 10
make some profits this season. Al their
last meeting they agreed to der ,ha, such
a trust has been formed The i, Vision of
Judge Barrett in annulling the d Ttcr Of
the North River Refining Conf y be.
cause Of lis membership in TIL Egar
Trust, explains the desire of the ID Zeal
ers TO keep the combine u secret.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1889-02-02
Salisbury Sports.

some young sports very often hire u
good team aud go nut driving. get some
jis water. ar perhaps beer. drive fast, are
arrested. pay fine, perhaps locked up
until their fines are paid. Now in Sails.
bury Md. the young bloods are at the
head III the class. Two or more club to-
gcther, hire team, ar, perhaps one of the
parties own the team. they take account
of their wealth. then 90 To- the Mayor on
Chief Burgess. pay the fast driving III
drunken fine In advance. In this way they
always avoid & ring TO Jail, tii they have
enough cash let, To get full on ailcr pay
Ing their fine Some people pretend land
say that eastern shoremcn are slow. hui
IL any such wish To catch on or keep up
they had better travel and learn some
thing -Frankcnfelds B,nd Messenger.