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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20
Magnitude OF Agriculture.


As far back as 1880 the value Of the
farms of the United States exceeded ten
thousand million dollars. To the unre-
hitting industry of their owners these
farms yielded an aggregate annual value
Of nearly four thousand million dollars,
in the production of which vast popu-
lation of nearly eight million toilers
utilized nearly half billion worth Of
farm implements The value Of live
stock on farms, estimated in the last
census to be worth over one thousand
1--WE hundred million of dollars, is shown
by the reliable statistics collected by the
Department Of Agriculture to be to-day
two thousand five and seven million
dollars A low estimate Of the number
Of farmers and farm laborers employed
On our five million farms places it at
nearly pen million persons. representing
thirty million people, or nearly one-hah
Of our present population. Secretary
Rusk adds that upon the productive
ness Of our agriculture and the prosper
ity Of our farmers the entire wealth and
prusperity Of the whole nation depend
Ths trade and commerce Of this vast
country, of which We 20 proudly boast
the great transportation facilities 20
greatly developed during the past quar-
Ter Of . century, are all possible only
because the underlying industry Of them
N, agriculture, has called them into b.
ime. Even tho product Of our mines b
only valuable because Of the commerce
n IL
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20
Removing Stumps.

j. S. Ziegler, Norfolk county, Virginia,
says; mo substance that will act chem
ically in fastening the decay of stumps
is sold cheaply enough to permit of prac-
teal use. The quickest method of clear
ing out stumps is to use dynamite cart
ridges. With more time. they may be
saturated with crude petroleum and
then burnt out. To accomplish this bore
two-inch hole in the top, fill it with
the oil, and let it stand until absorbed.
Then fire it during dry time.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20

THE OLD SPANISH CABILDO.
Upon landing from the steamer, if You
reach the city by that means, you pass first
through what is known as the Old Town.
This is the original site of the city, and it
stands to day the chosen stronghold of those
habits so strange and so little known that
made New Orleans city unlike all Others.
French town lies almost within the quad
rilateral formed by the four great streets that
were originally lines Of defence from savage
and foreign ATTACK; and Canal street, the great
thoroughfare of the city, is to-day half re-
cognized boundary between the French and
American cities. In this quarter the houses
are dingy and weather-beaten, and make a
quaint and picturesque picture. Many OF
them jut out with overhanging balconies,
and through the high arched windows you
can catch glimpse ofrough- paved rectangu-
lar courts. The greater number Of these old
houses date from the days of French and
Spanish possession, and the whole atmos-
where of the quarter has thoroughly for
eign effect. There is nothing in the appear
ance of the place nor of the people you meet
to relieve the feeling that you have suddenly
dropped in some old French or Italian town.
Here at one glimpse you have some of the
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20

JACKSON B TRIAL.
antiquities that speak mutely of the past.
and he does not take kindly to the busy and
original life of America, so different from
thS stored monuments of Europe. But there
is, at least, one city that will satisfy his crav-
ing for the things that have been, and a tour
ofAmerica is incomplete without a visit to 1t.
One hundred miles from the mouth OF the
Mississippi, and partly on the banks OF Lake
Ponchartrain, he will find New Orleans, a
French, Spanish, American, Creole city. The
French portion is nearly half; the SPAN sh
is small, and the rest is American, German
and Creole. You can walk four miles IN
New Orleans in thoroughly American city;
then you cross a wide street ana lind your
self in a thoroughly French one, in build
ings, manners customs and speech. Con-
vents, churches, cafes, theatres and shops
are all French 1t is as if only the width of
= street divided New York from Paris, or as
If one could with hop. skip and jump
step out of Philadelphia into the French
capital. The city with all its massive build
ings rests upon plane of soft alluvium of
unknown depth. Dig hole two feet deep,
and it Immediately fills with water. Drive
down pile, and the farther it gees theeasier
it can be driven, until it sinks down by its
own weight and disappears. OF course there
are no cellars. The cisterns are all above
ground, and the very graves are built above
the surface.
Sunday is kept in f. n IN like no other
American city. Before the town was in
vaded by SO many Americans the day was
kept in true continental style-as a religious
holiday. The Creoles have not changed
their old customs in any considerable extent.
They 60 to massand also go to market, which
is, on Sunday morning, more crowded,
more noisy and fuller of Creole and negro
gaiety than any other day of the week.
There are also military parades on Sunday
morning and the theaters are kept open in
the evening, as in Paris. When Americans
first commenced going to New Orleans they
were shocked at the dissertation of the Sab
bath. but they did not fail to initiate and ex
coed II, 30 that the American side of the city
is now far more nosier on Sunday than the
French. We go to extremes in everything,
and when the Sabbath was once broken it
was broken into very small pieces.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20
me ages d Aains1s sad Their 0siss n
Wei8hE.

weight.
The daily gain IN weight of animals
intended for beef varies according to the
breed, the vigor and the manner of feed
ing but there is period arrived at when
the gain is very little The nearer the
animal approaches maturity the more it
consumes porportionately and the less
weight gained, due to the demands of
the animal for bodily support the
smaller the body the less loss of food in
that direction. The testing of the live
and slaughtered animals at the stock
shows that have been held for several
years past explains that, while certain
breeds of cattle are better adapted for
producing the greatest weight of beef to
maturity, no particular breed enjoys a
monopoly in that respect. even the grades
and crosses Of the several breeds COM
peting with advantage.
In a comparison of breeds at the recent
Fat Stock Show the calves under / year
old make remarkable daily gains The
daily gain of the grades and crosses was
2-78 pounds, the Shorthorns 2. GA pounds
and the Herefords 2.4S pounds, or an
average of 2.62 pounds. As the calf
weighs something at birth, this added to
its daily gain for 365 days, brings the
young animal to a weight quite respect
able before it becomes even a yearling.
The average gain of the yearlings was
2.07 pounds; of the year-olds, LIT
pounds, and of the 3-year-olds, 1.53
pounds. There is, therefore, great diff
ference in the gain of an animal during
its first year compared with its gain the
two years following. As this showing is
the result of a comparison of more than
100 animals, it becomes a plain fact that
farmers should consider. If they can,
by the use of pure breeds and grades,
combined with liberal feeding, secure
gains approaching those of the young
steers experimental with, the breeding
of cattle can be made POTABLE.
While the grades and crosses made the
greater gain the first year the pure
breeds gradually asserted their superior
ity, and after the second year made
larger daily gains than the grades. This
is very creditable showing in favor of
the pure breeds, and destroys the claim
that grades and crosses are superior to
the pure bred animals but it shows that
the grade is nearly equal to the pure
bred until the marketable age is reached
and encourages the claim that farmers
may improve their stock at small cost
with advantage. The scrub could not
compare with the grades in any respect
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20
HOUSE WHERE LOUIS PHIL 1prE STOPPED N

HOUSE WHERE LOUIS PHIL IPPE STOPPED IN
17aS.
most singular features of this most singular
city. A bright and busy scene, thronged
with French, Creoles, half breeds, mulattoes,
Americans, and negroes, in one ever moving
mass. vocal with Spanish expletives and Mex.
lean patois, French exclamation and loud
voiced American; bright with gaudy ban.
dannas, tied round the heads of rotund and
grinning negresses, in a strange and graceful
turban, or crossed over their ample busts.
Every one is busy with chaffering and cheap
ening. Shr;ll accents of satisfac ion and dull
EFunts Of dissent greet the ear and over all
the quick clicking sound of "gumbo French. 4"
that nondescript tongue of the French mu
iatto of the coast. Nowhere in the whoi.
South docs the negro show so markedly all
his distinctive traits as in this French market
Scarce in any other place can you see tho
peculiar turban of the woman, a souvenir oil
the old days of slavery and discarded by the
younger growth of the fifteenth amendment.
Nearly the whole of the old levee is devoted
70 market uses. Two things strike the
stranger particularly an walk through this
market. One is the jolly unctuous aspect Of
the negroes, especially the women, for they
seem to live habitually ON the "possum fat
of song, and display their rounded figures in
scant drapery topped by the unique turban.
The other noticeable feature is the peculiar
voices of the people of the lower orders.
Sharp. high, or loud as they may speak, the
voice IL seldom an unmusical one and never
naml, and the laughter that seems q second
nature to them is delightful to hear. Doubt
leB the climate causes the change. for We can
note il in those who have lived for q long
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20

ping-and that other Tar more reaching and
powerful-showing their toilettes. Every
bright day the broad street is thronged with
ladies and men of every age and color. No
women in America dress better than the
Creoles, and all New Orleans dresses hike the
Creoles. At night this throng goes drifting
to the theaters, which are of the very high
est class. You find them everywhere, jam
med against churches, in the midst OF the
fashionable quarter, in the poorest OF the
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20
Dxeinr sheep-Skine.

]. l. Weaver. Bnncombe county, N.
c., gives the following recipe: To color
the wool on dressed sheepskins make q
paste of equal parts Of finely powdered
unslaked lime and litharge in water, and
amply to the wool with brush. One
application will give light buff, and
repeated applications deepen the shade
to q dark brown. For orange use q 80
luton Of picric acid in warm water.
Let the skin soak in It over night, then
set the color with alcohol For magenta
use magenta crystals in place of -picric
acid, dissolve in boiling water, then add
lukewarm water enough to cover the
skins. Set with alcohol or vinegar d.
luted with warm water.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20

en-. Fear is entertained that the in
creased demands made upon tho mental
activity of our girls may impair their
constitutions. Would they not find in
smoking just that which would counter
act this danger? Might it not be well tc
introduce the use of cigars into our col
leges for girls? Would they not be a.
beneficial at Wellesley and Vassar as at
Harvard and Yale?
8. 1t is maintained that smoking Is
agreeable. Probably more men smoke
because they like to smoke than for all
other reasons taken together. But wom-
en- no less than men like to do what they
like to do. 1t may, perhaps, be objected,
however, that women do not like to
smoke. Well, admit that Englishwomen
do not yet, as rule, like to smoke, still
this is not true of all women, many Rus
sian and italian women, for example,
enjoy smoking intensity. The question
is, could not, and should not English
women learn to like smoking? Is there
not as much reason why they as why
men should learn to like it? For men
have to learn to like it, and many men
always dislike it. In fact, most men dis
like it at first, rs anyone may infer from
the aspect of a youth smoking his virgin
cigar. Observe the expression on his
pallid face as he staggers to bed after his
FIRST attempt to practice this manly habit,
and any impartial person will say that
he does not look as if he liked it. We all
ro,<vJ,< - 1oor,, r. liz vv,crv <L:r~- v,L:.L
ut first and in themselves are disagree
able. The question is simply this: Is the
soathing of tobacco the healthy aversion
81 every pure, unperverted human be-
ing-an instinct which is not overcome
without mourning physical and moral
damage? Or is it mere foolish preju-
dice, which men and women alike should
train themselves to conquer7
Besides these reasons, which are the
chief ones usually adduced in favor Of
mems smoking, there are some reasons
why the habit d even more fitting in
women than in men,
1. Smoking requires but little physical
strength. Il can be prosecuted assid-
uously without violent exertion. It i
thus peculiarly suited to the weaker sex.
The fseblsst girl can Lie ON lounge or in
. hammock and puff cigars. No weekly.
anxious mother or medical theorist need
have tho slightest dread that she win
thereby either overstrain her muscles q
overtax her brain. She incurs no dam
ger Of becoming by this means either
drudge on blue stocking. Having once
learned the art she can smoke as easily Is
she can breathe.
2. Smoking is private enjoyment,
and is thus peculiarly adapted to the pri-
vate and domestic life led BY the vast
majority Of women. In social aud buak
ness circles the pleasure may be often IN
tsTupted; it can never be 30 thoroughly
and keenly and continuously relished -
In solitude or in q small circle Of con-
genial participants. And in this respect
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20
POULTRY TARD.

To keep eggs Tor Matching purposes
place them in a location of the cellar to
prevent freezing and turn them half
round twice a week.
Chicken feathers, if properly treated,
will make pill1vs which are almost as
light as those of geese. Use only the
downy, entire feather, stripping all of
the others from their shafts. To kill the
rancid odor, wash through a warm water
to which you have added chloride Of
lime-a spoonful to gallon of water
and dry in an open oven--l Rural New
Yorker.
The estimates or the bureau of stats.
tics place the value of the poultry pro-
ducts of last year at $500, 000,O With
this enormous value of products there
were g, 500, 900 worth of eggs imported,
ana for the last four years this sum rep
resents about the average value of the
imports, which ranged in price from Is
to Is cents per dozen. These figures
would seem to show to thinking mind
that there is yet chance for ambitious
poultrymen to indulge their tastes at q
profit
The cattle, horse, sheep, and swine
raisers are unanimous in the assertion
that warmth is one of the essentials to
successful stock raising in winter. The
same is equally true with poultry; in
fact. it is one of the branches of stock
raising, and their comfort should be
looked after and guarded as carefully a.
that of the larger and more costly ami
mails. There is money in comfortable
poultry-house.
Ducks begin to lay early, and if given
. warm. dry place at night, well Uttered
with leaves or straw. will do better than
II given no attendance.
If you can not procure meat for your
fowls, buy them some cotton-seed meal
II fed daily, one pint to . mess OF soft
food for 200 hens is sufficient Milk b
also an excellent substitute for meat and,
in fact, Is considered preferable by some
poultry keepeFn No matter how we'll
balanced their ration may be, change il
often. A variety Of food gives sest to
the appetite and stimulates digestion.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20
How to FIJI the Ne..-Bo1s. with Ee<..

When warm quarters and feed, plenty
of exercise. whole grain, oyster shells,
and good care in general fail to fill the
nest-boxes with eggs during the winter
months, Clarissa Potter recommends to
give the hens green pine-boughs. Fill q
corner of the hennery with armfuls of
freshly cut, spicy, green branches, when
all vegetation to which hens have access
is deeply buried under snow, and see
how greedily the biddies will pick the
green spines. and how decided an increase
in eggs results therefrOm.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20
A Sasacious Customer.

At the coal dealers.
Customer-Send that coal up in two
horse wagon.
Dealer-I was going to send it in q
cart.
Customer-I want it sent in a wagon.
Dealer-But. my dear sir, I'd like to
have my own way.
CustOmer-Of course you want your
own weigh, but Pm tired of paying for
coal on that basis, and you'll do it my
weigh or none.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20
Tho Woman Question.
After the railroad accident.

After the railroad accident.
Husband (extricating himself from the
wreck EMILY. thank God you are safe.
Heavens! isn't this awful?
Wife-Dreadful! Hear the poor people
groan! Dearest?
Husband-What is it love?
Wife-Is my hat on straight?
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20
SHALL WOMEN sNoKE.
INCREASE OF THE HABfr Thai
CHEERS AND sOOTHES.

Bright String Of Excellent Reasons WIN
Women Should Indulge In the Weed
Nave They Not tie Same Right Thels
fathers and Brothers Have.
Especial Boston Correspondence
Tobacco smoking Is on the increasa
among all classes in America. The habit
pervades all classea It d by no mean.
confined to the ranks of the unemployed,
who march the streets with their pipes
rather than bread in their mouths. It u
very common among those who are tha
rulers and the teachers of the people.
The clergy arc not exempt from it, and
It may be questioned whether it is not
growing among them. There must be.
it whould seem, some good reason for
this widespread practice. There ought
to be presumption in favor of a habit
INDUCED in by 80 many men, and gain.
ing ground among those who are sup
posed to mould public sentiment and con.
duct in the right direction. Smoking ia
either an advantage or a disadvantage,
reasonable or unreasonable, a good or an
evil. II, now, men do not smoke with.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20
Then 1t Il Blew Enough.

Kentuckian-Oh, pshaw! You don't
have blue grass in Kansas; so what's the
use saying you have?
Kansan-NO blew gruss! You ought
to see a Kansas medder after cyclone
has struck it.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20
4 CURIOUS OLD TOWN.
rHE CHEAT CITY OF NEW ORLEANS
As SEEN BIZ A STRANGER

Bono Peculiar Features Of Life Among
the Creoles and In the Colored Quarter
Historical Relics and Incidents-Scene
On the Wharves.
One of the greatest failings of the United
States in the eyes Of the European traveller is
the absence OF everything that reminds one
Of the past. Fresh from the ancient cities of
the Old World. he complains that every,
thing is almost painfully new; that all the
cities are built after the same stereo yped
model. and that there is not enough Of ira
dition or romance about their history TO
make It of interest TO the student. All his
life he has been surrounded with ruins and
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20
GLOBE IRON WORKS,
Wichita, Kansas.

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the Southwest; manufacturers Of Kimbls Patent
Engine; also. Of Boilers, Tank and Sheet-Iroa
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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20

DlCHESl II you desire them NO no fool
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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20

out adequate reason, ought not women
also to bear their part in this progressive
movement?
In order to be able to answer this
question correctly the chief reasons given
for mems smoking should be thought
fully considered:
l. 1t is said that smoking is soothing
to the nerves. Tobacco. some affirm,
quiets the system when it has been over
taxed physically and mentally. The ex-
element of modern life makes some
such sedative influence peculiarly help
full. But modern life wears upon the
nerves of women even more than upon
those of men, and the nervous system OF
women is more highly and delicately
strung than that of man. Whosenerves
are overtaxed more than those of the
mother of family? Who requires the
soothing effects of a good cigar more
than she? Our women are every year
in increasing numbers succumbing to
nervous disorders; ought they not with
out delay to seek relief in the calming
virtues of tobacco?
2. Again, it is said, on the other hand,
that smoking stimulates the nerves, that
it acts as a tonic, and is especially fitted
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20
DR. PERCES PELLETS ;ss!s7 f1 assi S:
Unequaled as a LIVER PHI

anes CheaPes Easiest q
n arrangements Of the
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-02-20

to quicken tho
system when
exhausted by
pr o tr te d
mental effort.
II this is true
Of men, it is
equally true Of
women, especi-
ally Of highly
educated vom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-17

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Wanted in This CITY.

Inspector Swindells has received information
of the arrest of Lewis Grosholtz i'll Allegheny
City, Pa, for the authorities here. where he is
wanted on charge of ENLIGHTENMENT. He was
general travelling agent for the firm of
Mccormick Il Co., of Baltimore, and it is
alleged that he collected certain moneys for the
firm here and Incorporated the same.
Some weeks ago complaint was made to In
spectOr Swindells, and the case assigned TO
Detectives Wheeler and Mattngly. An indict-
ment was procured and bench warrant gong
out his arrest was secured. He will be brought
here and answer in a few days
Word has also been received of the arrest at
Camden, NJ. of a colored man named VIM.
Bryan, indicted here for an assault with intent
to kill Howard Johnson at Auacostia some
months ago, and he will be brought here in a
few DAYS.