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The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-05-18

Andy Feterage, . ferryman, was summoned to
appear before the United States court and give his
testimony in of ballot box stealing. The old
fellow had never seen higher judicial functionary
than q justice of the peace and was much aston
ished to find that the Judge did not weigh at least
five hundred pounds.
"You will please tell the jury what you know
about this case" said the Judge.
''Yes, sub, but lemme tell you what l thought
about this case, jedge. l lowed that as the cleo
drap."
the jury what you know"
"Well Pll tell you why | thought 30. We air
all gittin' along putty we'll now-everyt thing has
quieted down-an' don't use in stirrin' up
hornets jest fur the fun nv seein' em swarm, fur
the fack is, somebody mout git stung"
care you going to tell the jury what you know
about this case1"
"Jedge, lemme tell you suthin' Ken l turn
states evidence right here2"
Eyes, United States evidence"
wall Pll do it. l breve lobe Parker stole the
box"
What has that to do with turning"
"0h, well, now, never mind Tobe's the man."
"That can hardly be when it was proved yester-
day that Parker out of the state at the time"
al don't kere where he was, jedge, he's the man. !"
"But how do you known"
WALL Pll tell you. That man Parker toted
jug NV Ticker through q Prohibition districk an
didn't pull out the corn-cob stopper an, jedge,
man what1l do that will steal-steal ballot box,
or hoss."
The Jury convicted Mr.. Parker.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-05-18
A WISE MAN.

al neber did see sicher town ez dis yere in my
life," said an old negro, standing street corner
in Chicago, rubbing one of his eyes,
whats the natter" policeman asked.
"W'y, sab, standin' right yere jes' now, an, bip
suthin got in my eye, an is bout ter put it out"
"Why don't you keep your eye shut2"
"Whut, in dis yere white mans town. Keep my
eye shet yere2 Dat woan do, sab, dat woan do er
tall. Err man KANT ertord ter shet eye in dis
town. Ell you's got ten eyes you better keep em all
open. l come yere one time an had jest money
ernuff ter pay my way home, an shet one eye
jest sorter wunk it little-an' blame eff didn't
halter walk home Oh, no, sab, l amt gwine shet
none o. my eyes in dis yere white mans town."
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-05-18
PLANTATION PHILOSOPHY.

Beauty goes wild de necessities o. life. Eben do
pertater top has got er flower on it.
Oar amt nobody dat's gentler den de man dat
has jest got well o. er drunken spree.
1t some time pear like natur' is mighty kline tel
de raskil. De hawks got er heap keener eye der
de chicken has.
De 'oman dat has come mighty nigh yieldin' tel
de temptation amt got ez much sympathy fur do
'oman dat yields ez de oman has dat wuz neber
tempted.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-05-18
THE COUNTRY CORRESPONDENT

Ii is universally conceded, even by men who
worship the past and who look with dolorous
eye upon the present, that journalism is constantly
improving but there is one man connected with
the newspaper who never improves-the country
correspondent. From the days when the newspa-
per had its largest circulation in the coffee houses
of LONDON down to the mammoth edition OF last
Sundays great sheet, the country correspondent
has stood in his barn yard, noting with keen
chances the happenings of his neighborhood-no
influenced by progress, and unmindful of the fact
that the world does not care whether or not lobe
Allison has sold fine heifer or whether Anthony
Boyle attended court at Benchville last Saturday
The country correspondent is older than the pro-
essonal dramatic critic older than the "dead set"
editorial writer. Indeed, he is nearly old the
wooden hand press. The following extracts typi-
cal of the matter furnished by the country CORES
pondent, written by the first great master of
'unvulgared" English-Joseph Addison
"By my last advices from Knights Bridge hear
that horse was clapped into the pound on the Sd
instant, and not released when the letters came
away"
ave are informed from Pankridge that dozen
weddings were lately celebrated in the mother
church of that place. but referred to their next
letters for names of parties concerned"
"Letters from Brompton advise that the widow
Blight has received several letters from John Mil
dew, which affords great matter of speculation in
these parts"
"By fisherman which lately touched at Ham,
mersmith, there is advice from Putney that a GER
tain person, well known in that place. Is likely to
lose his election for church warden but this being
boat news, we cannot give entire credit to it."
"Letters from Psddington bring little more than
that William Squeak, the sow-gelder, passed
through that place the fifth instant"
"They advise from Fulham, that things remain
there in the state they were. They had intel
ligence, just as the letters came away, OF q tub of
excellent ale just set a-broach at Parsons Green
but this wanted confirmation"
Could anything, taken from this weeks Hickory
Forks Sentinel, better illustrate the work of the
country correspondent? Let us take few para
graphs from the Sentinel:
"John Mabrey has returned from Cold creek
where he went to visit his aunt"
"Uncle Jesse Mayfeld cut down q board tree last
week five feet and three inches through"
"Aunt Hester Pile is suffering from bad cold"
"James Baker, who has just come from Mt.
Pleasant, says it's mighty dry up there"
The worst country correspondent is the young
lawyer. He puts his crop notes in law phrase
ology and, in five lines disposes of q murder that
he may devote q column to hog stealing case In
which he has been professionally employed.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-05-18

Wife (of Chicago newspaper man, to husband)-
"Come, get up, want you to go to church with
me to-day"
Husband greatly surprised) -"To church,"
"Yes"
"What for 2"
"Why, this Is the centennial"
gall right, (resignedly) PHI 60. l guess l can
stand 1t once In q hundred years"
There is an expert carpenter out in Michigan
who has recently constructed settee out Of m
ordinary hen.-Erchange.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-07

cows comfortable; the next to feed judi
ciously and literally.
There is never-failing market for
poultry and eggs on the farmers own
table, and no farmer can do better than
to keep this well supplied.
In churning, stop the churn when the
butter is in small granules, wash with
brine or clear water, and salt with brine
or dry salt as you may prefer
Cracked corn is good food when newly
ground 1t will become musty sooner
than the whole kernel 1t is best when
the meal is left in and when scalded tc
swell the mass,
We are glad to notice that there are
dairywomen who are not afraid to ex-
hibit their butter at dairy shows Coed
home made butter will never be crowded
out of the market by factory butter. The
poor will.
Soak tobacco stems in water to make a
strong liquid, then evaporate it on the
steam or hot water pipes for keeping of
green fly in the greenhouse. Stems cut
tine, dampened, and laid about the plants
will be preferable for the house, as the
vapor and smell is somewhat offensive il
evaporated on the stove or register.
A practical test will convince the dairy.
man that his cows are capable Of consum,
ing and digesting much larger amount
of food than the usual allowance. Elk
periments of this kind will soon denot.
which of the COWS pay the best by noting
whether the excess of food is converted
into increased quantity of milk or flesh.
Cooking cornmeal does increase its di.
gestibility for fsttening hogs, but the
increase in food value is not sufficient
with only a few hogs, to pay the expense
Yet, in feeding on large scale, the cos,
of cooking the cornmeal, with proper
apparatus and mixing in little cut clover
hay, will be amply paid for in the result
The most convenient and the easiest
way to feed fall pigs is to give them
| whole new corn While this is true, il
is a most hazardous way to start them,
for they are liable TO come to winter
quarters burned ont, lacking in vigor
and digestive powers, which makes il
exceedingly probable that they will sc
through the winter without a paying
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-07
Window Attractions.

David Crawford, show window dresser,
says in the Chicago Tribune | have
been engaged in dressing show windows
for fifteen years. Ii is business within
itself. A man TO be success in it ought
to be good judge of how to blend colors.
/ have tossed about in bed many night
wondering what would make the best at
traction. In my opinion the best at
traction ever put into window is some
sort of machinery. Every man and
woman is sort of natural mechanic.
People will block up sidewalk to gaze
at some diminutive mechanical operation
in window where they wouldn't look at
window of the costliest fabrics and the
most precious stones. Since electricity
has become SO general it is easy to put
some sort of mechanical continuance into
operation in window. There is bar
Der on Dearborn street who gets up con-
trivances with jackknife and pair of
scissors. He is always tinkering with
something of the kind when he isn't at
work in his chair. If you are around on
Dearborn street any time YOU will see a
crowd of men, women and children hover
ing about the BARRIERS window, attracted
there by some contrivance that is being
worked by that silent motor-electricity
| stood opposite that window thirty min
utes the other day and counted the num-
Der of people who stopped and looked at
couple of pasteboard blacksmiths that
were being worked by electricity. l
counted sixty -four. That viii give you
some idea of the popularity of machinery.
If you 60 to the exposition you will find
the crowds in Mechanics Hall. went
over to st. Joe, Mich, on a boat not long
ago, and noticed that the crowd lowered
about the engine-room like children.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-07
HOW TREES GROW.

There is rarely sufficient room near any
tree for all the seeds it produces TO
terminate or for the seedlings to develop
into fully grown individuals. Nature is
lavish in sowing seeds that the succession
of the plant may be insured. Most trees
are gregarious, therefore, in extreme
youth, from habit transmitted through
many generations. They love company,
and really thrive only when closely sur
rounded. Close planting is essential,
therefore, to insure the best results As
the trees grow, the weaker are pushed
aside and finally destroyed by the more
vigorous, and the plantation is gradually
thinned. This is the operation which is
always going on in the forest when man
does not intervene. 1t is slow and ex-
pensive operation, however, and the result
is attained by a vast expenditure of
energy and of good material The
strongest trees come out victorious in the
end, but they bear the scars of the con-
test through life.
The long, bare trunk and the small
and misshappen head--the only form of
a mature tree found in the virgin forest
tell of years or of centuries of struggle,
in which hundreds cf weaker individuals
may have persisted that one giant may
survive. But man can intervene, and by
judicious and systematic thinning help
the strong to destroy the weak more
quickly and with less expenditure OF vital
. rrrf
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-07

this very thing, They thresh in some re-
mote corner and leave the straw ON the
ground, have often counted from i've
TO eight Of these straw stacks ON single
farm, says writer in the Philadelphia
Press, each containing one years crop of
straw, Good, bright wheat or DAT straw
has considerably more than half the feed
ing value of an average hay, and either
horses or cattle may be wintered in good
condition with no other rough feed, with
q moderate increase of the grain ration.
1t is best that this increase shall be Of
bran, oats aud oil meal rather than corn,
| have neighbors who bore auger holes in
the floor OF their horse stall to allow the
urine to run through, and yet leave stacks
of old straw in the fields, ! do not only
bed literally in the stable, but cover my
barnyard so that il is never muddy and
no liquid runs from ii, Weeds, corn.
stalks, potato vines, clover straw, etc,
are all packed into the barnyard, We
have Just cut and raked up all our wheat
stubble for this purpose, From part of
the field we got full two horse load to
the acre. Eight acres of our wheat that
had been sown 10 timothy had made quite
growth, and as the spring was very dry
the clover was poor, Consequently fox
tail and ragweed made a vigorous start,
but we moved il early aud there will not
be foul seed ON the field, while the
weeds and stubbles will help to keep
the bamyard clean and save the urine,
The last week in August visited neigh
Dor who is successful wheat grower and
found him spreading straw on field
which was plowed and narrowed ready
for the drill, He burns this straw and
! tells me that many years experience
shows him that it pays as well as to ma
nure an equal area. His land is strong
and rich.in humus, and while this with
out doubt is good practice for him on
thin land it will probably pay better &c
pillow under straw than to burn it.
would always, however, if possible, burr
stubbe on fields where there has beer
chinch bugs. 1t is we'll on such fields tt
set the machine to cut high so as to leav,
enough stubble to burn readily | have
seen excellent effects from burning stub
BILE on land to be plowed for wheat, the
wheat in few weeks after it came W
showing to foot where the stubble haG
been burned by its strong growth snc
healthy color.
It is a fact, perhaps not known to all
that one pound of the urine of horst
has fertilizing power equal to 81,
pounds of the droppings, and the onl!
way we are likely to. save this is by fret
use of absorbents. With good manage
ment every farm will furnish enough o
these, and it is wise to make tight stabl'
floors and bed freely, Even cornstalk
make an excellent absorbent and viii
decay more quickly than straw II cut t.
lengths of from six inches to foot the,
make excellent bedding for horses, The
crush easily, and the pith of the stall
takes up the liquid better than straw.
scatter the waste of twenty acres of corr
fodder over my small barnyard each win
ter to be tramped and mixed with tn
straw and manure BY April 1st tn
manure is in good shape for Speeding
and only very close inspection would dis
cover corustalk in it,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-07
THRIFT In SMALL THINGS.

The value of petty savings cannot BE-
too highly estimated. The consideration.
habit of saving everything that can b.
turned to any account, fitting the object,
however small, into its right place, is
habit in itself enough to insure thrift.
There are so many things about the
household which are thrown aside which
by careful thought may be turned 70 use.
Wise providers buy only goods of genu
Inc value which may be used to the last
shred. This is true OF market buying,
of shopping of everything that may be
purchased There is good brand of
-four and a make-shift brand; cloth
firm and well made of wool,
and cloth to take its place, cheap
and fimsy, of cotton wool. In all these
cases the genuine cloth is the cheapest in
the end; the good brand flour will give
the best and most nourishing bread,
The well-made cloth may be washed or
cleansed again and again, and be made
over until nothing is left of it. A great
deal may be saved even in buttons,
thread and pins and needles, little min
utiae of which we seldom think. 1t is
in the sedulous care that every article
shall be used, that every bit of cloth
shall be turned and made over till it has
passed usefulness, that consists the
chance of the average family for an order
ly well-fed well-clothed home. Lavish
ness is the worst of providers. 1t is
the systematic, steady hand, careful of
minutiae that provides a.home and table
where genuine comfort and good cheer
prevail. Simple spending of money can
not accomplish the same result that care
can. The children of poor men, brought
up to habits of thrift, usually enjoy
more actual luxury than the children of a
spendthrift, who varies from feast to
famine, from rags to velvet with the reg
ularity of clock pendulum. Extrsva-
gance should be looked upon as sin, a
trust to use honestly the goods God has
given us, not considered in the light,
trivial way it is, as something the indi-
vidual alone would suffer from.-Meo
York Tribune.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-07

In the former days it took twelve to
fourteen men to make a pin-that Is,
there were twelve to fourteen processes
In its manufacture, each of which was
performed separately and by different
hand. Now single machine turns out
stream of pins at the rate of 200 a
minute, all ready to be finished.
The wire is prepared by drawing it
from a large coil on revolving drum
through a hole the size of the pin wanted.
The coil, wound on another drum, is
then suspended at the end of machine.
The wire passes into the machine through
hole and series of iron pegs which
keep it in place and straighten it.
A pair of pincers, moving back and
forth, pull it along and thrust the end
through hole in small iron plate, on
the further side of which little hammer
beats a tattoo on the end of the wire and
so forms the head of the pin. Next
knife descends and cuts off tie pin TO
the proper length. The pin falls through
a groove or slot through which the heads
cannot pass, and is thus suspended so
that the lower or point end is exposed to
the action OF a cylindrical file, which has
both revolving and lateral motion.
BY the time the pin has passed this file
it has smooth, sharp point, and is
complete pin so far as shape is concerned.
These processes are all performed with
such rapidlty that the pins fall IN a con
slant stream from the end of the machine.
They are next put in quantities into re-
yolving barrels which are turned till the
pins are secured and cleaned. Next
they are boiled in an acid in which fue
powder of tin has been put, and they
emerge from this bath white and shining
with their new tin coat. They are then
dried in sawdust, again shaken in bar
rels. and busted. The machine which
sticks the pins upon the papers on which
they are sold is very ingenious and simple
in its detail, but too complicated for
brief description. The machine crimps
the paper and holds it while the pins are
brought up in long rows, whole row
being stuck at one push of lever
Good Houskeepsr.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-07
pAIN AND srRAM rosErurn.

Those who feed oats to cattle can save
expense of threshing by giving neat cat
tie their ration Of oats and straw to-
eether. For this reason it is well TO
leave unthreshed such stacks as have best
and shortest straw. One year we put the
unthreshed oats in the barn, but mice
played mischief with them, so that this
plan is not to be recommended unless
one knows how to circumvent the TO-
dents. Since then we have either carried
from stack to stable as wanted, or trans
ferred stack OF more into the barn by
way of the cutting-box. Mice or rats
cannot burrow in the chopped stuff. So
far as we can discover the grain is as
thoroughly digested by cows when eaten
from the bundle as when the whole is
chopped. The advantage of choppins
comes from having less waste than when
daily carried from the stack, having the
fodder under cover and consequent con-
venience in feeding. The economy lies
in saving the expense of threshing and
grinding, for when eaten in the straw
there is no bolting-so to speak--of the
grain, but nearly all is remasticated and
assimilated. farm, Stock and Home.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-07
CELERY.

Celery should be banked soon. Some
gardeners are following the practice of
tying the tops of each root together be-
fore banking Ii may take little more
time to tie it first and bank it later than
to have one man handle while two others
do the banking, but it has the advantage
of keeping the earth out of the centre
of the bunch more thoroughly, and there
are less stalks broken off in the digging
and putting in the pit. 1t also will pack
much closer in the pit. More of the
earth can be put up against it with a
plow, leaving less to be moved with the
shovel, 1t should not be handled when
wet, as this causes rust.
Before there is any chance of the
temperature falling below twenty de-
grees it should be packed as closely as
possible, standing upright, and with
boards across once in eight or ten rows
to prevent any danger of falling over, as
If it does not stand upright, it will heat
aud rot
The pit should be so covered as to ef-
fectually keep out the rain, and have a
drainage which will take off any water
which may soak in. 1t should also be
-ar+;lotaa hv nnnninns ,~1a~ tho .,A"i- ~
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-07
RECIPES.

Wheat Gems-One pint of -four, one
pint of milk, three eggs, one teaspoon of
baking powder, twelve teaspoons Of salt;
bake in gem pans in not oven.
Lemon Pie-Juice and grated ,y Of
four lemons, four beaten eggs, one. BE-
spoonful of butter, one-half cup of
bake with an under crust only.
Ounce Marmalade-Pare and C
little squares; take equal weight of sugar
and ounces, add two pints of water to
each pound of fruit. Boil one half hour.
Light Cake--Half- cup of butter, half
cup of sugar, three eggs beaten separately,
one cup of sweet milk, three cups of
-four, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder
sifted through the flour.
Fried Hsre--Dress, lay lengthwise on
meat board and cut in inch pieces; let
stand in slightly salted water over night;
rinse well in cold water, roll in corn
meal and fry slowly till well done
Boiled Cauliflower-R the green
leaves, open the flower little in places
and let stand, head down, in salt water
for two hours, put into boiling water and
boil twenty minutes; take up, drain, put
in dish, season and pour over drawn
butter.
Lamb Scallop-One cup of cold lamb
chopped fine, one cup of stewed toma-
toes, one cup of fine bread crumbs !,
arrange all in layers in buttered dish,
having the crumbs at the top season with
salt and pepper, put bits of butter on top
and bake.
Apple Batter Pudding-Fare and core
six ripe apples, place in DISH make a
batter of one pint of sweet milk, two
eggs, four tablespoonful of -four, little
SALT pour over the apples; bake half an
hour. To be eaten with sauce or sweet
ened cream.
Cucumber Pickles-Three dozen good
sized cucumbers, pared and sliced very
thin. One dozen onions, chopped fine.
Mix and add half pint salt. Let them
stand over night, then squeeze out the
brine and add one quarter of pound
of white mustard seed, and cloves and
cinnamon, if liked One ounce black
pepper and cover with cold vinegar.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-07
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
roIIsnINe nAnpwoop rLoons.


10 make good polishing mixture put
into a bowl three-quarters of pound OF
yellow beeswax, two ounces Of powdered
rosin and half pint of turpentine
Stand this bowl in good-sized basin OF
hot water and stir the mixture over the
fire until thoroughly amalgamated, Re-
member that the ingredients are very in
fiammable, and you must be exceedingly
careful OF they will take fire; the large
basin of water is to guard against this.
Keep your bowl in the center Stand
the polish aside to cool, and, If when
cool il is thicker than cosmoline, add a
little more turpentine until it reaches
that consistency. Now for the applics'
ton. See that the floor is perfectly free
from dust and dry, then apply small
quantity OF the polish with soft piece
of flannel or wooden cloth, rubbing it In
well with the grain of the wood. After
the whole floor has been treated thus,
polish well by hard rubbing with pol,
| ish brush, Then, with piece Of soft
green baize, give light, final polish. A
floor thus treated will keep in good con
dition for three or four weeks, providing
the polishing brush is used twice 6
week.
Softwood stained floors are best sized
and vanished Yankee Blade.