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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
Had Forgotten His Name

An amusing incident occurred a,
Senator Morrill's reception of Mon.
day night. 1t was the occasion Of
his S0th birthday. Although the
president does not usually appear at
any but cabinet houses, he departed
from the custom in this instance ~
an especial mark oil respect to the
gentleman in whose honor the recep.
ton was given. Mrs. Harrison was
also present and in the early part OF
the evening they stood near the host.
Later they moved into the second
drawing-room. While there the pres.
idcnt noticed a lady smiling at him.
as if she expected some mark of rec
ognition. After awhile she came
toward him, still with the same look
of expectancy. When quite near, the
president gave her his hand md said:
Good evening, madame, am
glad to see you."
She looked at him delightedly and
snid: ~ just felt sure when saw
you entering the room that had
met or known you, but will you en-
cuse me if l ask you your name. 1t
has slipped my memory"
The people who heard it enjoyed
the twinkle in the eye and the half
humorous gravity on the presidents
face as he courteously gave the de.
sired information. In another min.
ute the episode was being retailel all
over the house. New York Tribune.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
The Coming Man.

/ imagine that when we look back
from our home in the unseen universe
ages hence we shall see, without much
doubt, race OF men differing from
those OF o.day much as the man OF
to-day differs from his simious, per.
haps simian, ancestors. The brain
will be developed to meet the moro
complex and serious taxation Of
more complex ind trying civilization;
the vital powers will be intensified;
the man, reducing the powers DINA
ture still more completely to his ser
vice, will depend less on the exertions
ofhis muscles, and they will be CORES.
pondingly and comparatively less
powerful, though they will probably,
nevertheless. imagine, continue to
grow somewhat in size, as they I'm.
,auestionably have grown since the
Middle Ages; the lungs must supply
aeratiOn to larger and more rapidly
circulated volume Of blood richer in
the phosphate elements especially
needed for the building up OF brain
and nerve; the digestion must supply
it's nutriment in similarly increased
amount and altered character and
composition; tho whole system must
becapable gilmore rapid, more thror-
ough and more manageable CONVEX.
sion of the energies OF the natura!
forces to the uses OF the intellect and
the soul which inhabits it.-PrOfessor
vhurston in North American Review.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
How to Keep Young.

"Don't allow yourself to grow OLD
too soon," says q writer; 'keep a
juvenile heart and join the young
folks in their amusements Us much
aspossible." That's right. Suppose
you are sixty-five or seventy, with
rheumatism in both knees, don't let
that stand in the way Of your pla "
ing leap frog with the boys on the
green" Even threescore years and
ten should not prevent you pla wing
baseball, or leaping six barred gates,
or running foot race. 1t is because
old men neglect these exercises that
they lose their jnvenility. By join-
ing the boys on the street in their
simple demonstrating q hand occas-
ionally at an election bonfire, or ring
ing door bells mischievously when
some holiday is on, a man might re-
tain his youthful feelings until he
reached q hundred. But ifyou don't
care to remain young. why that set
ties it.-Texas' Siftings.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
Men Growing Shorter,

4 French statisticinn, says the
Philadelphia Times, who has been
studying the military and other rec
ords with a view of determining the
height ofmen Of different periods, has
reached some wonderful results. He
has not only solved some perplexing
problemsi in regard to the past of the
human race, but also is enabled to
calculate its future and to determine
the exact period when man will dis
appear from the earth.
The recorded facts extend over
nearly three centuries. 1t is found
that in 1910 the average height OF
man in Europe was 5 feet 8 inches.
In 1870 it was 5 feet 6 inches. In
1920 it was S feet inches and :,
fraction. At the present time it il 5
feet 3X inches. 1t is easy to deduct
from these figures a rate CT regular
and gradual decline in human stat
ure. and then to apply this, working
backward and forward, to the past
and to the future.
By this calculation it is determined
that the stature of the first man at
tain the surprising average of Is feet
8 inches. Truly there were giants on
the earth in those days. The race
had already deteriorated in the days
ofOg, and Goliath was n quite degen-
crate offspring of the ginnts. Com
ing down to later times, we find that
at the beginning of our era the aver
age height of man was 8 feet, and in
the time of Charlemagne it was s feet
8 inches, q TACT quite sufficient to nc
count for the heroic deeds of the
Palndins.
But the most astonishing results
OF this scientific study comes from
the application of the same inexor-
able law OF diminution to the future.
The calculation shows that by the
year 1000 A. d. the stature Of the
average man will be reduced to Is
inches. At that epoch there will be
only Lilliputians on the earth. And
the conclusion OF the learned statis-
tician is irresistible, that "the end of
the world will certainly arrive, for the
inhabitants will have become so small
that they will finally disappear
Finish by disappearing" as the
French idiom expresses it, "from tho
terrestrial globe"
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
An Indians Exciting Experi-
onC0.

0JO0s
There had been some illegal whisky
selling going on around the Black
foot country and finally Bill Hamil-
ton, a deputy marshal, got after the
guilty parties.
A young Indian named Two
Wolves got mixed up in the affair
and Bill arrested him as q witness
and brought him to Helena, Mon
tana. Howey was marshal here at
that time and / was a deputy.
When Bill arrived in town with his
Indian he called on Howley and me
to help take care of him. Well, on
that day that Bill and his prisoner
arrived there was some sort of q
show going on in an old hall up on
Bridge street. We all wanted to go
but didn't know what to do with the
Indian. Finally Bill said: "We will
take him with us, which we agreed
to do.
Neither Bill nor the Indian had
ever seen a show before. Well, we
went up in the hall and got seats in
the gallery. the Indian being seated
between Bill and me. forgot what
the play was, but it was one of the
old.fashioned kind, where the whole
company was killed off before the
show was over.
We got interested in the perform.
ance and forgot all about the In
dian. He kept quiet until the kill
ing began. When the actors began
firing pistols and showing knives the
Indian got nervous and finally. when
the people on the stage began falling
thick and fast, he could stand the
show no longer.
Suddenly he made jump from the
seat and before Bill and l could stop
him that Indian had jumped clean
through n window near by and got
onto sort OF platform.
He got down to the ground, stole
a horse somewhere and rode twenty
five miles bareback down to the val
ley. There he stole a saddle and
went home again to his friends in the
tribe.
Bill never caught him, but we heard
afterward that the Indian said the
reason he left was because the white
folks in Helena were killing each
other on platform in one end Of the
room and the rest of the people were
sitting around and laughing at the
business.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
Nearly Lost His Tongue.

A curious accident happened in Bah
timore last week, according to a spe-
cial from there to The Cincinnati En-
quirer. John Deutsch, ID years old
is employed at a basket factory, aud
during dinner hour, while taking
pull Mt his coffee flask, his tongue was
drawn into the nozzle by suction so
that, try as he would, he could not
get it out. 1t WINS drawn further and
further in until the flask was forced
into his mouth. The tongue to
make matters worse, began to swell.
and, after vainlv trying to get 1t
loose himself, he hurried to the hos
pital. DR.. Warfield, after some diff
guilty, released the dis6g1red membsss
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
A HEATHEN'S REVENGE.

ROM the rough
little red W God
cabin under the
hot hillside,
sounded a Curl
GUS wild wailing.
Now harsh and
shrll as q tri-
umph, now low
and sorrowful as
if brooding over
defeat, it rose
and fell like a
savage incanta-
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
The Age Of the Spinster.

There ID no period OF life that deuee~
mines old maidhood; the habit of
each individual IL to move the figure
along the scale of years as time goes
on 30 that o girl OF 16, who considers
% cold and hopeless age for a spin
ster, is certain tO change her mind
and fix upon ~ MS the year OF desola-
tiOn when rs has been reached. Thus,
by degrees, 81 ia come upon with some
color Of complacency and hope
Chatter.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
A Peculiar Ballot Box.

Probably the most extraordinary
system of yptinS was in Hungary,
where the ballot boxes were immense
casks and the ballot poles from four
to six feet long, which the citicen
carried an deposited for his fhvorlte
candidate with peculiar rride.-De-
troit News.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
IT CURED HIM.

He had favorite phrase, each day
Into our ears he'd din it,
What'er was talked about he'd say
He wasn't in it,
tfsomeone wished to hear yarn,
And he was asked to spin it,
He'd answer with surly darn
'He wasn't in it,"
One day, while gazing on the ses
And watching it's OmmOtion,
A wave came: overheard went he
And in mid ocean.
And as a score of frantic men
Cried, keep nfloat a minute!'
He eyed the sea, but said not then
He wasn't in it,"
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-04-30
Value of Wood Ashes.

Editor Florida AgriculturiSt:
The chief value of unleached wood ashes
is due to the pressure of potash, which
being mainly in the form of soluble car
Donate is readily leached out by the &C
ton of water. Hence ashes have lost the
greater part of their value after being per-
mitted to lie ieexposed to the rains Leached
ashes, however, are still valuable, as the
ordinary process of running down lye
does not extract all the potash, neither
will rain water dissolve it all. But water
impregnated with carbonic orother acids
of the soil, will gradually dissolve all the
potash Besides the potash, wood ashes
contain a very large percentage of lime
in q very finely divided state, which readi-
ly becomes available, and acts in the
same way as slaked lime. In fact there
is more OF lime in hard wood ashes than
any other ingredient. Then there are
notable quantities OF phosphoric acid,
sulphuric acid, magnesia, etc., in ashes,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-04-30

Editor Florida Agricu1turist:
Why don't you keep COW? Go to
some old settler and buy one right out of
the woods She will look as though there
were only about ten pounds of meat on her
bones, but remember that during her long
life Gor he will want to sell you the Oldest
one he has) she has not had enough to
eat a single day. You will have to teach
her to eat. Give her green food in a pail
or box, and when she learns to eat sprin-
kle bran over part of it. All you need
is patience and weeks time. When she
learns to eat, feed her a quart OF cotton
seed meal twice day and as much bran
as you can afford, and she will come home
more readily for her feed than she would
for her calf Never feed more than two
quarts OF cotton seed meal q day, for it is
so rich that it will injure her, but it will
make the best milk and butter Of any feed
you can get If you feed her we'll you can
make just as good butter as you can any
where, and it will betirm and we'll grained
even in hot weather-if you churn in the
cool OF the morning. Hyou feed her four
quarts of bran and aquartof cotton seed
meal at a time twice a day she will eat
about dollars worth of feed week and
will give about four or five quarts of rich
milk day. Il. e. STARBUCK.
Chuluota, Florida.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-04-30
Remedy for Sore Combs.
or Florida AgricuIturfst::

Editor Florida AgricuIturst:
+ A few months ago [ noticed hen
whose comb was swelled to the size of a
persons thumb. 1t went round without
eating and acted like snake. Mamma
told me to cut it's head off, but papa told
me to cut it's comb off below the diseased
part. took some powdered blue vitrol
and caught the hen, cut the tumor off
and let the blood flow until it looked
healthy; then 1 sprinkled the vitrol over
the part that bled. The next day I
opened a swelled part thatI had failed to
open the day before. The comb is about
we'll and it is over a month since the op-
GRAFTON was performed.
WILLIE POWERS.
Lawtey, Florida.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-04-30
DeLand, Fla, Wednesday. April 30. 1890.

all Of which, especially phosphoric acid,
are valuable helps to plant growth.
There is no better application to fruit
trees, grape vines, and all kinds OF vege-
tables, especially melons and running
vines, than ashes. 1t behooves all farm
ers and gardeners then, to save, under
cover, all the ashes. Mix them with the
sweepings OF the yard, fallen leaves, rich
cotton seed, as the strong carbonate of
lime, and potash in ashes, will be apt to
dissipate the valuable ammonia which
arises from decomposition of such Or
ganic nitrogenous materials as cotton
seed and stable manure. **
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-04-30
Making HAY.
Law tey, Florida.

Editor Florida A AgricuIturist:
About the first OF June I plow my land
where I want to make hay; if the crab
grass is not we'll set, SOW a few cow
peas, and give the ground a good har-
rowing. In my barn have scaffolds put
up, two feet apart, in the loft, and on
these put one by three inch strips Ihaul
the crab grass and COW peas in from the
field as soon as cut and they will cure in
four days. have never lost pound of
hay treated in this way, and have only
bought one bail of hay in four years.
Maiden cane makes good hay if cut be-
fore it gets too old. j. [. WILSON.
Haines City, Florida.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-04-30

young, cut them into "rings' about a
quarter of an inch thick spread the
'rings" on clean boards and place them
in the sun and let them remain there
until thoroughly dry, then with a needle
and thread string them, and hang on the
wall until wanted. tits asgood this way
as in the green state, and much more
convenient. B. j.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-04-30
'Eurpentine as an Ensecticide.

Editor Florida A AgriculturiSt:
| used potash and whale oil soap for
scale, and the more / used the more [
had to. l had occasion to tie up trees,
and used as a cushion between the stake,
string and tree, grass, pine straw or any
thing that would serve as a protection
from chatting. noticed that where pine
straw was used there was no scale, while
there was around where other articles
were used. That gave me the hint; that
scale did not like turpentine. prepared
a wash as follows, and have used it five
years: Water two gallons, sal soda one
half pound; when dissolved add one gill
OF spirits OF turpentine. Keep it well
stirred while using. l never had to
make a second application. In govern
ment reports for 1887 they had best re-
suits from a preparation of rosin, but
did not follow it up or they would have
found the turpentine mixture. DIR. Fl.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-04-30
Irish Potato Culture.
ditor Florida Agricu1turist:

Editor Florida A Agriculturist:
Four years ago planted Irish pota-
toes in April, last of the month, on new
ground. Used pig pen compost and
ashes. Potatoes came up and grew for
about week and ripened off. Next year
planted last of March some ground,
some compost, done a little better. ''No
3" planted in February some land (black
sandy loan with hardpan eighteen inches
DOWN used same fertilizer, and three
months from planting, dug hills with
fifteen sizable eating potatoes therein.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-04-30

Seed of the Rose variety, cut with from
one to three eyes to the piece and two
pieces il the hill, planted in rows three
feet apart and twenty inches in row,
dropped four inches under surface and
compost A shovel full put on seed and
covered level then slightly up hilled and
only hoed once. A. E.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-04-30
Succession of Eriss, Potatoes.

Editor Florida AgricuturiSt:
First crop: Plant the first crop on
high pine land the first week in January,
large Early Rose tubers quartered Use
good commercial fertilizer in the bottom
of fu1row four inches deep, 500 pounds to
the acre. Drop ten inches apart on the
fertilizer. Cover an inch with soil. Fill
the furrow level with well rotted stable
manure. Run light furrow with one
horse turning plow, on each side, cover
ing the manure. The middle or last of
March dig $50 to 275 bushels of good
potatoes. Second crop: First of March
plant in bay land-muck not less than
one foot, sweet and well pulverized- lin
same way as above, emitting stable
manure and using 800 pounds "Swift
Sure or other good fertilizer, and dig
last of May 800 bushels per acre. Third
crop: The middle or last of September,
plant as above on high pine and on bay
land, and dig on the high pine IT'S to
$50 to the acre, according to the season.
Substitute high hammock fer pine land if
you. have it and do better. w. B. LYNCH q
Lake Mary, Florida.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-04-30
A New Method of Planting Irish Po-
tatOeS.

tatOes.
Editor Florida a griculturiSt:
You desire practical articles; will give
you little realistic experience in regard
to planting Irish potatoes, to grow
which successfully in South Florida is OF
more Importance than the expected crop
of tourists that does not come
Having a plat OF high pine and black
jack land near the edge ola pond, though
several feet above water, in preparation
for a permanent garden, [ concluded to
try Irish potatoes for a first crop and
have planted them to-day. The first
work was to cut the side hill down to a
level, and in the process the soil and the
subsoil was mixed to depth of two feet
over the larger part of the plat. Trench
es were then dug one foot wide and eight
inches deep and filed with raw muck,
which was treated to sprinkling of lime.
Holes were then dug six inches deep in
the muck and the seed potatoes, cut TO
two eyes and wrapped snugly in apiece of
spoghnum (the moss that grows i'll low
places) and put into the holes. On and
around each bunch of moss a handful of
cotton seed meal and two tablespoonfuls
ofpotash were scattered. This was cover
ed with couple of inches OF the muck, and
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PRIZES THIS MONTH.

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award of prizes this month on account of the
large number of communications of almost equal
merit However we have awarded the prizes i'm
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and terseness OF expression. The prizes are
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an Insecticide, - first prize $3.
To "S" for article, When you settle in Florida
buy a Cow, second prize, 81.
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raise Radshes, - third prize, AGRICULTURIsT bind
er.
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Drying Okra.

Editor Florida Agriculturist:
Ifyou have a surplus OF ckra do not
allow it to waste. Gather the pods when