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DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-25
"GROWN OLD"

TrEt noble deeds we meant to do
When, in our long lost childhood's days,
We planned how We would travel through
Life's tangled maze.
How very great we meant to bel
The whole wide world would hear US;
And to our fame would all agree
Unanimous! ~
And we would be so very good;
All who were suffering or opprest,
Would find their sorrow understood, 4.
Their wrongs redrest.
, And never should we know the need
OF loving word or tender touch, i,
Till we should love all men indeed,
Since loved so much!
Now one by one the years have passed,
We are no longer glad and young,
We fold our hands for rest at last,
Our songs unsung.
We look back. while our hearts are bowed
The noble deeds are still undone-
Glad TO have helped, amidst the crowd,
here and there one.
Love parted. from us unayares
The fame and glory never came,
we lnahA God II some, in their prayers,
Still breathe our name.
Violet M. King, in Once Week.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-25
GROWTH OF INDIGO.
One OF the Most Profitable Industries of
Central and sOnth Amerlch.

One of the Most Profitable Industries of
Central and South America.
The portion Of the Nicaragua wbtrh
stretches to the northeast from the
shores of Lake Managua is known as
one OF the best indigo-growing districts
of the world. The climate is cooler
than that of the plain of Leon, and con-
tInues growing so as one gradually as
cends the grade until he finds himself
on the plateau of Segovia, where the
days are always pleasant and the nights
cold enough for fires
But few leagues from Leon, on every
side of the trail and as far as the eye
can reach, a rich green underground
covers every cleared space, which much
resembles the tender sprouts of the
locust tree, and is what the natives call
"jiquilitc," or the indigo plant
In planting it the richest soil is care
fully cleared and burned over, trenches
are dug two or three inches deep and
about foot apart, into which the seed
Is thrown and lightly covered with
earth. The planting is done in May, at
the close of the dry season, and the
shrub is ready to be cut in August
The young bushes have to be care
fully weeded to prevent any other
plants from springing up and mixing
with them, which would injure the quail
ity of the indigo. About the middle of
August the leaves present a rough sur
face and appear as if covered with a
green sand, when the stalk is cut off by
the gatherers few inches above the
ground, leaving few sprouts remaining,
which produce second crop that is
gathered about two months later
The first years result is usually
small, that OF the second year much
greater and the third years immense,
after which the crop diminishes again
until the seventh year, whom the fields
have again to be cleared and planted.
The cut plants are tied in bundles,
like wheat in the United States, and
carried to the fermentation vat, where
enough water is allowed to run in to
cover it; then the swelling mass is
weighted down to steep and ferment.
The only skill required in the manu-
facture is to be able to check the fer
mentation at the proper moment and
natives competent to do so receive
very good pay. When the solu-
ton of indigo has a peculiar green
color it is drawn off into another vat,
where it is necessarily agitated and
beaten by revolving fans until it
changes from its original green color to
a dark blue, and the coloring matter
commences to precipitate.
The water is then drawn off, leaving
granulated, soft blue clay which is
drained in bags, then dried in the sun,
carefully selected as to quality and
packed for export in packages of ono
hundred and fifty pounds each, or
''ceroonS
Forty or fifty years ago Nicaragua
produced from nine thousand to ten
thousand ''ceroons" of indigo per an
mum, but now it may be doubted if the
total annual product exceeds two thou
sand,
Most of the fine 'haCtendas" Of the
high country are now commencing to
Craze cattle, and, though many sill re-
main where labor is cheap the indigo
farms are gradually disappearing, and
cattle, coffee and cacao fields are taking
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-25
MINNEAPOLIS MILLS.
The Largest and Most Complete Fioering
EStabiIshLaen In the World.


Establishments In the " Orld.
Minneapolis has become the head
quarters of four-milling because Of her
great water power, her situation with
reference to the spring-wheat lands OF
the Northwest, the entc -rrse Of her
capitalists, and the extraordinary skill
and inyentiveness OF her operative
mil!ers and machiniStS An account OF
the inventions male here - milling ap-
paratuS and methods woul@ form most
interesting chapter in LEGAL history.
There are now standing thirty-seyen
mills, capable of producing 81, $50 bar.
rels of -four daily. The actual output OF
the last calendar year was G, 0S3, 865 bar
rels, as against So coo barrels in 1850
193 600 in 1870, 2, O5l, $40 in 1880 About
one-thiri of the current product is eX
ported, being billod directfrom the mill
door to Liverpool and Glasgow The
first shipment Of flour from the falls
was in 1858, when few barrels were
consigned to New Hampshire, because
bill of exchange could not be OBJ
tanned to meet an Eastern obligation.
An order for a hundred barrels was the
immed ate result, although the cost OF
freight was 50. 25 per barrel.
beginning with the little Government
MILL with its single run Of granite
stones, the tendency in mill building
has been constantly toward enlarge
ment Whether the economic limit has
bcen reached in the great "Plllsbury
A" mill can only be conjectured This
immense blishmcnt, erected in 1881,
covering with its six stories an area
Of 90 900 square feet mot counting
that of five accessory structures OF no
small size), having 220 pairs of rolls,
1870 purifiers, 81 cleaning machines SOC
bolting reels, SO scalpers % bran dust
ers, and in all $50 separate machines,
has actually produced 7,l9S barrels OF
flour in twenty-four consecutive hours
Twenty-Five thousand bushels of wheat
are needed for the ordinary daily run;
250 men are employed, and the force
furnished by the two immense turbine
NLLtl- WuttIo ID ONtI - VOV-HOI oC pONNL'
The ingenious and equitable system Of
protit-sharing carried on by this con.
rern, beneficial alike to capital and Ia
bor has been frequently described in
economic journals.
Within the last year the great "a"
mill and two others belonging to the
Pillsbury firm have been transferred tc
q syndicate Of American and English
capitalists. The same combination is
obtaining control, by transfer or lease,
of other mills, in all Of eight establish
monts, capable of turning out 22,50C
barrels a day. The management OF
this immense aggregation is reposed in
the hands of Charles 4, Pillsbury the
successful and experienced miller here
tofore at the head Of the Pillsbury firm.
Opinions differ as to the desira ability Of
such agencies of production being large
ly owned by non-residents, Some see
in it a desirable addition of capital to
be managed by persons locally interest
ed; others remark on the circumstance
that the profits will be mostly spent
elsewhere. In the face of actual expert
ment it is necessary to indulge in con-
lecture A decade or two will tell the
story New England Magazine
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-25

Perhaps 1t ks.-Trivvct Speak
of Il visit to Chicago)-"Ihe bIuest of
blood runs through Miss Chostnuts
ve.ns." Dccr-"Not runs. You seem
to forget that Miss Chestnut is a Phila.
3elphian. Chicago Intor Ocean
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-25

The compositor on burlington
newspaper who transformed the name
OF the song, 81 Kissed Her Under the
Rose" to II Kissed Her Under the
Nose" is a genius in his way.-Phtla'
delphia Press
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-25

"A traveller who had very large feet
asked waiter to bring him bootjacli.
What fore" "To take of my boots, "
Why, sir, you'll have to go to the forkg
Of the road to get them off
The Forrest City times., 1890-04-05
WINGED mrsslLss.


 Patti retains her passion for billiards and spends much of her lesiure in playing with Nicolini. An inventor up at Minneapolis thinks no has solved tho problem of securing neat from electricity.
 Five large wagon-loads of silver plate belonging to tho ox-empcror of Brazil were deposited recently at the mint at fio de Janeiro
 James Gilbert, eight feet tall welded MISS Williams, four feet high, in Scraton Pa Gilbert will be obliged to call his wife his ''bctter one.third.'
 Miss Bisland. the young woman who went around the world in sevcnty-eight days, has been made literary editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine.
 Bismarck's retirement from public lilo is generally about as effective in it's peculiar way as Jay Goulds abandonment of ousi- ness or Paths farewell tours.
 The duchess of Albany. widow of Prince Leopold, has received her diploma as a hospital nurse, after taking tho regular course and standing the usual examination.
 A Mrs. Marshall, of Dubuque, Iowa, laughed so immoderatciy at joke sho heard that her jaw became set and doc tor had to break the bone to got hcr mouth closed.
The Forrest City times., 1890-04-05
The old Kitchen Clock.

itused t9 tick away the years upon the psricr when first wc vent kccpin' house. Belindy An thar fer morc'n twenty year. it scemcd to be content To serve tho hours In rropcr timc, an bc m ornament An you'd or thought t was almost made to regerlate tho sun So stiddy. round an round each day, tho wheels an pinters run. But when the girls growcd up. ye eco, they had some strange ideas. They didn't consult ms much. bout things nor dropan If you please" But went a bustlin' things around. an chang An nothln' had the same old place less twas the kitchen broom. I didn't much mind the goin's on but shan't forRit the shock It gin me, when they busted out that good old faithful clock. An then little bronze concern was got to i'll With dragons crawlin up it's sides, an just A gal they cali "Terpsichorc'' is scttln' in a chair An playin' on harp-althoush never heard the air. An when it strikes tho half hours out, you'd think q fairy sighed. Or that a little mouse had gin faint squeak fore ho died. Then 1t sort O stlrs my conscience. when tho old clock strikes the time With q kind O ringing music, In its dear old honest chime; For 1t seems to be sayin' in solemn sort O way.
 for dayp An onct weat right out thar an says l, "Old clock see here. You're wuth Il dozen fancy clocks with com plicatcd gcarl'' Though taken as an ornament tas things go nowadaysl. Mebbe that tothcr ono deserves n passln' word praise But when 1t gifts a balky turn-d determined not to go l think it's bout like folks I've seen--a sort O holler show: An strikes me when clock, or friend. Is faith. full out an out, 'Taint best 10 change for suthin' that you don't know nothin' bout.
 IsOnd HnnsnkeeninG
The Forrest City times., 1890-04-05
DlsCRAcEfUL OsATn RITES.
The Ghastiy Merrimcnt That Prevails At
 Many English Funerals.

It has been asserted with tedious ir. ritation that the English people take their pleasures sadly. says the London Rsftree. No one will deny the truth Of the indictment, but it is seldom urged that in revenge we take our sadness pleasantly, Nevertheless, an English funeral is often merry making. jovial excuse for dance and song and the pass ing of the flowing bowl To go to 3 funeral is with some of us equivalent to going out for n festive holiday.
 Let any one who is anxious to study the manners and customs of the En' glish nourners spend an afternoon Monday afternoon for choice--in tho neighhorhood of public house near g cemetery. I'll warrant me he'll come away with all his preeonceived notion, of going to funeral" knocked into the cockedest of cooked hats.
 The other day it was my good or evil
 fortune to have an hour 10 spare in northern suburb of London. I had driven some distance, and wanted te give my horse rest, and so l put ur for an hour and then wandered away to 8 public house in the neighborhood, io which was attracted by large number of empty hearses and mourn. ing coaches drawn up in picturesque confusion around it. Outside the un. dertakers' men were chatting together. with their hands in their pockets, and were smoking short clays. and passing the pewter along. Inside the bar was crowded with mon and women dressed in deep mourning. I explored the house and found mourncrs in the coifee-room, mourners in the smoke room. It was q case of uourners g. mourners everywhere, and-I ean't finish the quotation. for there certainly was drop to drink. The mourners in the coifee-room were more subdued than the mourrers in the bar. but they were merry, Here was widow, who had inst left the dear departed up the road, smiling at d story which another lady monrner was telling about ''old Jones'" There was young man with black band mp to the top of his hat coaxing girl mourner to have another whisky. l looked round the room for tears. and I saw but few. One or two eyes were red, but smiles were in the ascendant. and, altogether, the various belonging to the healse out side seemed disposed to have pleasant hour at the pub before they went home
The Forrest City times., 1890-04-05
An Interesting Time in Maine.

The skunk Is mighty He always is for that matter, but just now be rules three or four villages in tho vicinity ef Bangor with an irresistible and odorif- erous rule. Hampden has been over ridden of late with herd of active and strong-breathcd skunks who have made things interesting for folks who sentured out at night A whole prayer-m meeting was dcmornlixed by them recently when the worshipers were returning home. That was the only nice thing about it. Had tho attack been made on the way to praycr-meeting 1t k doubtful if the exhortations would have been delivered in the same spirit of good will and peace. They might have been more earnest and fersent though. The ur-riyer towns have had similar experience. X fellow and his girl go- ing 10 a ball met . skunk and didnt 70. The fellow sworv and the girl cried. aud then they went home and put their clothes in pickle. Tho skunk can be spared. He Is unnice. n Bnngoy Nsps.
The Forrest City times., 1890-04-05
hicis Is the skin and practice required

hicle is the skill and practice required to manage 1t, and 1t is only available on a comparatively level surface. To meet these objections. at the same tune to in. crease speed in the use of the bicycle to an extraordinary degree. would make the following suggestions;
 '.In the first place have constructed . line of two heavy wires, ons above the other, about ten feet apart. As repre- scnted in the sketch. These wires are
 adjusted to poles and both are held in an exact high tension, ascertained by an accurate measured force. The bicycles are to run on these wircs-are construct cd with grooved wheels. the couplet of wheels for the upper wire being grooved tho deeper to securely hold the vehicle in a direct line and to favor reverfing it.
 For travel on wires two kinds of mo- tors are used. The one the rider him. self and the other electricity-the cleo tric power taken from the upper wire
 If deemed necessary, both vehicles carry electric lights.
 "The construction of these bicycles
 varies from those used on the ground
 On the wire the guiding rod Is fixed
 and not used for guiding purposes, but simply for the r,der to hold ou to. In
 the cross piece receiving the piece sup | porting the drive wheel is joint to TO.
 verse the machine to run 1t the opposite | waN
 The electro bicycle has peculiar | construction of its own. The straddle seat Is entirely omitted and in its place a single or narrow double seat placed In | front of the drive wheel The seat is | arranged to secure ease and security to | the rider. The elcc,ric.motor is placed under the scat The place to mount these bicycles or to reverse their action is usually at one of the poles, by step. | ping on the lower arm, which may be but q few feet from the ground. It may I be readily seen the electro bicycle ix | well adapted for the accommodation of | lady, and without the electric power | can be pushed ahead by the rider | Tt may be good arrangement to 1 have the third wire--the electric wire | strung foot or two above the upper
 one. Give it the same tension. but let | 1t carry but little weight. It will then
 not alone bc m electric wire but will
 serve besides as means of positive
 safety In case of break of either of the | other two.
 These wires could be so adjusted as
 to utilize them for tclegraphic and tele- | phonic purposes, or the present overland 1 telegraphic poles at many places could
 be ased for airtraveing. Such an ad. l junct to railroads might serve advan- tageously in many ways.
The Forrest City times., 1890-04-05
Carried Money in His Ear.

A middle aged colored man entered Brooklyn car the other evening with basket containing wine in his hand, evidently sent to make delivery, says the N. |. Herald. He seemed ie havs sampled 1t freely before starting out for he was ia excellent humor Hu managed to get . seat, and when the conductor came around to collect his faro he never bothered about pockets or pockethooks, but simply placed his hand on one of his capacious ears and drew forth the shining nickel. To say that conductor and the passengers were surprised puts il mildly. The conduc- tor on recovering himself thcreupon re- marked, Why do you carry your money there. cap,aina" saCause it's handy, sir replied tho son of Ham, and then the passengers all laughed at the wrinkle in money pouches. It was observed that he carried another nickel in the other ear
The Forrest City times., 1890-04-05

We intended to return Tuesday morn ing. but In this country man proposes and mules and other things buck against him. The internal, lop-eared. stiff legged. pig headed. limb -spavned beast wh ch we rodc-a fit counterpart of our contemporary down the street--threw us nine times in going thirteen miles. and we arrived at the Bend badly used up. We hadn't yet raked in dollar when Lew Smith. plug ugly whom we assisted 10 run out of our town four weeks sgo. sounded his war cry and be- gan to encourage the Benders to hang us. Most of 'em were on drunk that day and the proposition at once found favor.
 Under the pretense that we. as editor. publisher, proprietor and city editor of the greatest weekly in the West and which runs as an annex. but under the same roof, grocery, bucket shop, feed store shoe store, hardware and cutlery, had been seeking to break down the social barriers of the mighty West, they hunt. ed up rope and selected tree. We appealed, but IL only added to their de- ttits ft tAttQ ib uthutr Dht tHtl wouldn't have it. Our editorial person was laid hold Of and hustled along to q rope dangling from a limb. and as VIC looked over the crowd and failed to catch sympathetic eye, we felt that our time had come.
 The boys were white about one thing. Drunk as they were. they had sense enough 10 realize that great editor could not wind up his earthly affairs in a satisfactory manner under fifteen min utes. and on motion of half-breed who once succeeded in borrowing half a dol lar of us. the time was increased to twenty. We wanted to argue the case but IL was go- We started in on a speech. but they hooped us down. By the time we got down 70 business five Of our twenty minutes had fed.
 During our editorial career we have assisted at several amateur executions. We had always supposed that if tho crowd were satisfied the victim was bound 10 be. IL never seemed much of sn csfort for him 10 let 20 Of earthly matters and we hayc sometimes won dered why more of them. didn't come forward and ask to be palled up to B hmh. Our idaas underwent great change as we sat on a meat.box under q dangling rope, while the minntes hur- ried away like a iackass rabbit taking the lead of prairie fire on windy day. Any man who believes he can do business under such circumstances is mistaken. He feels restless and unset. tied, ani his mind seems to be dislribut. eG over lcres of space.
 II was only after we had lost twelve minutes of our time fooling around that ws started in on our last will and testa- ment. and VIC hadn't written three lines of that before VIC suddenly reeollected that we were without blood relative on earth. As 10 leaving the Kicker and it's annex to any galoot in tow n was not 10 be thought of. and we finally made out bill of sale to that individual known as William of tho Hill, who has several times appeared n our town and attempted to run the city government with broncho and two reyoivcfs
 When time was up the moose was
The Forrest City times., 1890-04-05
AERIAL TRAVELLING.

The Idea of Texas rhysiclan Which
 Threatens to RevoIationlse Travel.
 The accompanying illustration ls from suggestion by Dr, c. r. Hachcnberg of Austin. Tex. The doctor describes his plan at some length In ncommunica- tion. The idea is an original one. and. given passenger who is not afflicted with dizziness. is not to be classed as imprscticable. The details of construc. ton are fairly well shown in our artists sketch. made from . rough drawing sent in by the author. and good idea is given of what might bc expected should the schetnc ever be put in use The illustration differs slightly from the description In some minor details. Tho doctor writes;
 When the bicycle was introduced much was gained In the WAY of rapid and speedy travel without tho uss of stcam and the hone
 Tho obleetioa V tAs use ef thal VI
The Forrest City times., 1890-04-05
\ Lady Arehisees.

Minerva Parker. architect and de- slgncr." Is a striking sign on South Broad street. Philadelphia Miss Parker Is the only architect of her sex in tho Quaker City and one of worry few in the country. She Is pretty young woman with dark hair and oyes and handsome teeth Sho says: Fl know ef only two other ladies engaged in tho profession. They are located at Rochester, N. Y.. and have large clientagc. which nets them handsome incomes. l don't like notoriety and have persistently avoided 1t, preferring that my work should be my advertise menL am now engaged upon tho plans for railroad bridge. mum Der of small dwellings and stable. l am in love with my profession and can say that it has proved one Of profit and plcasurc,n
The Forrest City times., 1890-04-05

WE CAN JUST CRAWL ABOUT
 placed over our head and frightened under our chin, and IL sdmonished us to observe the apparent enjoyment of the crowd. They seemed to feel in as good spirits as an army horse turned out to buffalo grass, and their impatience to make pendulum of our body was another queer feature of tho convention. We had just been drawn on our feet. and our editorial ideas were becoming rather mixed. when lot of passing COW. drivers happened along and broke up the candy pull on the ground that they were waiting to hang us tho first time we came up there We were saved to be hung al Ph9nix--if VIC ever show up there
 We arc just able 10 crawl around. We have chills. sore throat. pains in the back. headache and general feeling that we don't care a copper which party elects the next President We apolo' gize for the appearance of things this week, and promise not to be ynched again If in our power to avoid It. Dssrois E'rse pr<ss 2
The Forrest City times., 1890-04-05
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
oIrFlcUL TIES IN THE PATH OF WILD
 WESTERN JOURNALISM.
The Editor Is Held Personally Reopen


 sIbic for Few Utt.rancss of His Nsws- paper.
 We extract the follow from the last issue of the Arizona Kicker. which was suly half sheet, and which seemed to have been printed on \ cheese press: ExrLANAToRY.-We owe our readers an'apology for the shape and appear. ance of the Kicker this week. and shall proceed to give it. Last Sunday we went over to Silver Bend to sec the boys and rake in few subscriptions. Our office was left in charge of a chap just from tho East. who claimed to be George Alfred Townsend. As we had nev CT met George we did not feel like calling the stranger liar.