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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01
CARE YOU GOING UP THE RryER?"


81 am poet" he said. 81 am sacrificing
every thing for my love of tho divine
art which we find in verse. You are the
only educated man that has ever visited
the laboratory of my muse. What is
your name?"
John Parks"
"What is your trade in life?"
"I am writer. >
"What sort Of writer?"
sob, write stories and sketches"
Cadmus' eyes frightened. He spread
out the manuscript His visitors coun-
5enance fell. "Listen," said Cladmus,
i'and tell me what you think of this
tell me the truth"
C,dmus read page after page of verses.
"What do you think of it?"
''Woll, it is surely passionate"
"But is 1t good?"
"There are some good features about
1t. Who is the young lady whose beauty
you praise?
"She lives in the village When be-
some great poet l shall ask her to
marry me.'
"How do you expect to become great
poet? You have no books. To be great
,Yot must study"
~ study my own soul"
"That is not sufficient. You don't
understand versifcation."
"But understand truth"
"Truth alone can be rough and brutal.
,soetry must be beautiful and tender"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01
BEE CULTURE.

Some Pertinent Inquiries Answered-Tho
Best Time to Transfer Boes.
A subscriber asks the following ques-
tions: Can he take bees in old box
hives, that have occupied the same for
ten or fifteen years, and transfer them
to frame hives and Italianize them sue
cessfully, at a less cost than to buy
Italian bees already in frame hives?
Also, at what time of the year is 1t best
to start in either case?
We think it much cheaper, says the
Ohio Farmer in answer to the above
inquiries, to invest in Italian bees in
good frame hives. In quite good
many instances we can purchase such
ae q very reasonable figure. If the
box hives OF bees can be had at a
mere trifle, it may be cheaper to use
them. The experience and knowledge
gained by thus going through the work
of transferring and Italianizing is of
much value to the amateur, and such a
one would do we'll to thus commence,
but an experienced apiarist need not be
told which of these plans is the cheap
est and best The great trouble that
arises from transferring is that we can
oOiuoui obpdli u oCu VI COinDo OhdO NO Cdh
handle with satisfaction. Old combs,
when used, are more or less crooked and
uneven, so that it is troublesome to get
them in and out of the hive. There is
much of the old comb that is not fit to
use on this account, and after transfer
ring all the brood combs we would not
use any comb that is not straight and
nice, but would fill up the remaining
space with foundation comb The work
of transferring and Italianizing is all
right, if we are successful in getting
straight combs so that we can handle
them to an advantage.
The best time of the year to transfer
bees is during the early spring months,
and after warm weather has come. Dur
ing fruit blossoms is considered the best
time to transfer bees; in fact it is almost
impossible to transfer later, as during
the honey season the combs are so full
of honey and so very tender that we
could not do it successfully. Hence
early in the spring, when the combs are
light and but few bees in the, hives, is
much the best time for this operation.
During spring time is also the best
time to buy bees. 1t is true they cost
more, but you do not run the risk of
wintering and your investment is sure
to pay you we'll. 1t is cheaper to pur-
chase the best and strongest colonies IL
they do cost more. The first Of April is
a very good time to procure them if
they are in good condition, but many
times bees at this season are not in good
condition, and often they die at this
period. Colonies that have been affect
ed with dysentery badly during the
winter often die out in April and con-
tinue to do so until May, or until nice
warm weather has made its appearance.
If the season is very backward it is soon
enough to start with bees in May.
To get the best results bees should be
fed daily during spring, at all times, un-
less they are gathering honey. This
feeding should be continued up to the
commencement of the honey harvest.
BY this means we have strong colonies,
and large forco of bees to store honey,
which makes all the difference in the
world in the honey crop.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01
THE FARMING WORLD.
HOMEMADE HYoRoMETER.

An Ingenious and Simple Little Device
for Forecasting the Weather.
Most means by which the weather is
forecast are visionary and unreliable.
Seldom, indeed, do we find any positive
guide by which the temperature of the
future may be known to a certainty. /
herewith present an engraving of hy.
grometer, homemade, and so cheap and
simple is its construction that there is
no necessity for being caught by frost
any longer. 1t is so unfailing in its
action that we can tell to nicety in
the latter part of the day or evening
what the lowest temperature will be
the ensuing night.
1t consists first of a large glass bottle
A, and a thermometer G inside of it. In
the cork ID ale inserted two glass tubes
e and f, one (E) simply communicating
with the outer air, the other (F) reach.
| ing from the bottom of the instrument
to the outside and ending at right an.
| gle. The tube can be bent very easily
by holding it in a gas flame and giving
it an easy bend. A small rubber hose
@, ending in a mouthpiece, is attached
to the end. The bottle contains guam
tity of ether, which, however, must not
reach the bulb of the thermometer
When we wish to know the temper.
ature of the coming night we simply
blow into the mouthpiece attached to
the end of our hose, in consequence OF
which the air vaporizes quantity of
the ether, which in it's turn will absorb
an immense amount of heat. Keep on
blowing for q moment or two, and you
will find moisture deposit on the out
side of your bottle; then quickly read
your thermometer on the inside, and
you have the lowest temperature of the
ensuing night. This point is called the
dew point" and when that is reached
the temperature will not go any lower
Now word with regard to the
philosophy of this valuable little in
strument. Dew forms in consequence
of warm air coming in contact with
colder earth and plants, thus being
forced to part with its latent Tor in.
sensible) heat. In so doing, however,
it must precipitate, or free, the moisture
it held in suspension. Now, when you
blow into the ether contained in your
hygrometer, quantity of it, becoming
vaporized, abstracts a great amount of
heat from the inside of the instrument.
The result is, the warm air coming in
contact with the cold glass parts with
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01
Jones' Self-RestraiDt.

She-Mr. Jones, look at that impudent
man on the other side of the street. He
has been following us for the last ten
blocks.
Jones-Why didn't you Tell me so be-
fore' I'll teach the impudent puppy a
lesson.
Walking boldly across the street Jones
says to she man: ''Look here, Snip,
am very sorry I've not got the money to
pay you for that last suit, but you ought
not to follow me up and dun mo when
I'm trying to capture that girl. She has
got lots of money, and if succeed you
will not only get your money, but also
an order for a wedding suit"
Snip goes off satisfied.
Returning to the young lady Jones
says: II am glad you called my atten-
tion to that cowardly scoundrel. don't
thing he will ever stare at you again.
had great difficulty in restraining my
self. f."-TeXas Siftings.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01
CHATTER II.

Two days later Cadmus was standing
on tho village street, when he saw
Parks and Nil Spencer drive past in a
buggy. The girl did not look at the
poet. He turned away, sought his
home and did not come to She village
again for moro than two months. Then
he saw Parks and Nil drive past, and he
heard somo one say: "They are to be
married soon" The poet went back to
his cabin. He took up the poem which
he had red to Parks and wrote upon it
tho following:
"Nil Spencer, died November 10th"
Then, going half way down the steps,
he wadded up the paper and threw it
into the river.
Weeks passed, but tho poet of the
cabin did not go to the village. Cold
weather had come, and tho dead and
mourning fragments of the vines clung
to the outer walls of the rude log house.
One morning, the first day of tho
New Year, Cadmus was walking along
the frozen river when he heard some
one call; and, looking about him, he
saw man attempting to get out of the
river through hole in the ice. 1t was
Parks.
"What are you doing?"
"Merciful heavens, help me or L am
gone"
GLOW did you get imp"
81 was skating and fell in. Help mo
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01
POULTRY HINTS.

SUCCESS waits on industry.
THE profitable hen is ahappy one.
THE tool shed is poor place for u
chicken roast.
A FIRE-PRooF brooder would fill a
'longfelt want"
THE hen that lays in winter does not
breakfast, dine and sup on cold corn
and ice-water.
THE light, airy coops so convenient
for shipping breeding fowls by express.
are not adapted Tor cold weather. They
should be replaced by substantial boxes
of light lumber closed on all hut one
side.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01

blouses, more or
less Russian in Of
fect--wearing them
at dinner and also
to the theater and
opera. These arc
silk-wrought, gal
l 90 n-trimmed, o r
laid in soft diagonal
folds oss t h o
front, with a V plas-
tron in the neck,
covered with a gold
or silver passemen-
terie. Some of the
new blouses are
shaped with a deep
ly-pointed yoke and
pointed girdle made
of a solid network
of gold and silver
galloon. These are
made for day wear.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01


ing an old man whose hair has long been
white sings weird song as he bats his
trout line. Up the river, few miles
from the village, there lived peculiar
man-tall, handsome, and with long
brown hair, softlysad of counteDance
and gentle in every movement This
man, known as sort of hermit, lived in
a cabin built upon a bench that jutted
out from bluff. In summer his house
was covered with green vines, and in
winter their dead and mourning frag-
ments still clung to the walls. His name
was Cadmus Black.
"What does that peculiar man do for
living?" a stranger asked, addressing
a native of the village.
sit would be pretty hard to tell, ex-
actly. He's got right smart patch of
ground up back of his house, and he
raises a good deal of fruit, first and last,
but aside from that nobody knows how
he lives. He comes down to the village
about three times week, but not to
buy any thing. He takes his stand over
there on the corner and watches that
house up there. 1t has been said that
he is in love with Nil Spencer. Yander
she is now In the yard.
''She is strikingly handsome, must
say"
eyes, and about as good girl as
there is anywhere; but / don't think
she cares any thing for Cadmus. And
it amt to be expected, neither, for 1
don't see why she should want to throw
herself away on such peculiar fellow
as he is"
81 WONDER" said the stranger, as he
noticed Cadmus going down toward his
boat, "if he would let me go up to his
house with him."
''Don't know; you might ask"
just as Cadmus was making ready to
shove off the stranger, approaching HIM
cautiously, asked:
''Are you going up the river?"
"Yes."
''May go with you?"
eyes"
The stranger stepped in. Glow far
do you go?" he asked when Cadmus had
showed out into the stream.
Home"
elbow far is it?"
''Two miles. How far do you want to
go?"
81 want to go home with you"
Cadmus dropped his oars what do
you want to go homo with me for?"
because have become interested in
you"
Cadmus took up his oars. "You won't
find much at my house."
''But what find there will doubtless
be interesting"
A peculiar light shone in Cadmus'
eyes. "Iwish might dare to hope So"
"Why?"
because take you to be an educated
man"
''What difference does that make?"
''You shall see."
A flight of rude stone steps led up to
the cabin. The stranger appeared to be
pleased with the vines and flowers out
side, but inside he found nothing to in
terest him. There were two chairs, q
pine table and an old tin dish safe. The
stranger sat down. Cadmus went to the
safe and took out roll of manuscript.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01
Keen No Drones.

Many farmers are now making prepar-
ations to winter stock which is ready to
sell for beef because the price is not sat
isfactory, or will keep stock which Is
bringing in no income simply to con-
sumo the hay and grain produced upon
the farm. Now, this will not pay. just
sit down and reckon whatit costs to keep
an animal through the winter months at
tho cost price of the food, and then see
what you have to show for it in the spring
In many cases it will hardly pay for a
months keeping, and in the spring the
farmer comes out behindhand and Won
ders why farming does not pay any bet
ter. We can not afford to run our farms
on any such principle. There should be
no drones even among our cattle. Each
animal should be kept for definite
purpose, with some paying object in
view. We can not afford to keep an an
imal ready for the slaughter-house for
three months simply to get twenty-five
or fifty cents per one hundred pounds
more for it. Farmers must take more
account of what seems to them the lit
tie things, for in this way.only can farm
ing be made to pay. No business house
would think of standing such leak
as this without going to the wall.
Why SO many farmers are complaining
OF hard times is because they do not
stop the leaks, and this, in many places,
is big one. just look over your neigh
borhood and see how many are farming
on this nciple.-Earm and Home.
iai m mo
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01
He Went Hor Ono Better.

Mr.. Jackman Hattan-Oh, yes. It's a
pretty good-sized picture; but then, you
know, paintings don't sell by the yard.
Miss Packer (of Chicago)-I know
that but just think, it's all done with
those tiny little brushes, and Mr.. Brom-
ley uses only the very best of oil.
Mr.. Hattan-As to that, / have a
friend who paints water-colors, and he
uses exclusively imported Apollinaris.
Miss Packer-Ohl Isn't that lovely!-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01
All for n Free "Ad."

Wylie-What's the matter with you,
Kelley? Why so furious?
Reiley-Have you read this internal
article about me in the Evening Hash?
Wylie-Why don't you treat that with
silent contempt?
Reiley-So would if that scoundrei
reporter hadn't misspelled my name.--
puck
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01
At the Henderson Hop.

Miss Waite (who has been a wall
flower all the cvening)-A waltz? Mr.,
Henderson, you are too kind.
Mr.. Henderson (host of tho occasion)
Not at all, Miss Waite. You know the
performance of ono's duty is sometimes
sweeter than actual pleasure -Harper's
Bazaar.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01
How He Made His Money.

"Mr. Faber," said the old millionaire.
"Yes, SIR" answered his private Sec
retary.
Here are fifty begging letters. An
swer them all with a refusal"
Eyes, SIR"
Sand you will observe that every one
has two-cent stamp inclosed for re-
ply"
"Yes, SIR"
swell, answer them all on post
cards. ."-Tid-Bits.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01

"Go back to the village" said Cad
mus. "Yoa may understand the rhyme
of the world but you do not know the
poetry of the soul"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01
CITY and Country Houses.

Jinks-Winlss must be doing finely,
He tells me he has country house and
a city house.
Binks-He has. He takes care of my
country house in winter, and my city
house in summer.--N. Y. Weekly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01

THE big guns turned out by the En-
glish arsenals are now fitted with de-
vice to facilitate firing at night. The
ordinary sights are Illuminated by a
small incandescent lamp, the rays from
which, passing through lens, are con-
verged, so that only minute point or
line of sight, just sufficient to distin-
guish the sight, is obtained. BY means
of an adjustable resistance the light can
be modulated to suit the degree of dark
ness of the night or the eyo of the OBJ
server.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01

FIG. l. FIG. 2. are then neatly
Joined together, the inner bark of both
being in close contact on one side at
least The joint is then firmly wrapped
either with narrow strips of waxed
paper or cotton cloth, or with cotton
warp drawn through melted grating
wax, and are then packed away in sand
in cool cellar. They should be planted
in nursery rows in the spring, setting
them in the soil as deeply as shown in
Fig. 2. Handle them carefully.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01
THE POET OF THE CABIN.

ALT Eek Is q
village situated
in East Tennes-
see. 1t is aquiet
n N d romantic
place; no facto-
ry smoke blurs
its atmosphere
and no grating
cog-wheels dis
turb its noddir.g
mood. A sma :
river, blue as q
strip of cloud
less sky, muir
murs along in
contented dsolilo-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01

of the new, soft wool goods in heliotrope,
auburn or nuns gray, and worn over
plain, full skirts of the same fabric.
For early spring are being prepared
some very rich and stylish shoulder
capes of silk and velvet, overlaid with
superb passementeries in pointed trellis
patterns, made to match elegant dress
garnitures. Large epaulets of the same
are placed on the top of the sleeves, or
instead of these, where extra high
shoulders do not admit of epaulets, are
long, slender ornaments which reach
from the top of the armhole, down the
seam front and back, to the hem of the
cape. Long, ample Louis Quatorze
vests worn beneath polonaise gowns of
fine wool or velvet will be another
feature of spring gowns for visiting and
the promenade. Black and corn color
will be popular combination in even
ing toilets. Orange gold and copper
passementeries are in high vogue in
Paris and London, elaborate bands and
corsage pieces in these colors being used
in most capricious ways Handsome
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01

grounds of Lyons satin of pale or neu-
trail tint. For those who prefer striped
goods to brocades, there are rich benga-
line grounds with velvet stripes, and
upon many of these rich floral effects
are shown. Single detached flowers,
such as gold buds or Marguerites, have
velvet leaves on satin ground; and
dark green velvet foliage, outlined rose
pink, over silver silk, show in fine con-
trast to patterns in golden olive satin,
sprayed with trailing clusters of wild
jasmine. For more general wear are
fronts of satin-striped faille in black,
with black satin backs bordered at the
foot with black feather trimming. The
dividing line between the two fabrics is
on the shoulder and under-arm seams of
the Princesse dress. Next in populari-
ty are the fabrics in plaided stripes, cut
everywhere on the bias with little or no
fullness on the skirt front, and many
folds massed at the back.
Stylish young ladies are still making
great use of fancy shirt-w waists and silk
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01
ROOT .GRAFTlNG.
Best Method of Performing - Tho Best
Time to Insure Success.


Time to Insure Success.
Root-grafting, says writer in Farm
and Fireside, may be performed from
January to April with success, and
have root-grafted as lato as May. 1t is
best to have the work done by the first
of March. The stocks or roots used are
grown from seed for the purpose.
Thrifty, one-year roots are better and
more easily worked that two-year roots.
Do not use crab roots except fon crab
trees, for they make the large-growing
kind dwarfish in habit. The roots
should be dug and the scions cut in the
fall and should be kept dormant,
buried in sawdust or moss in very cold
cellar or pit. The method of union is
known as whip-grafting, and consists
mainly in fitting the two parts so closely
together as to insure union of inner
bark of both graft and stock. Pieces of
the root are sometimes used to graft on,
but the whole root is much the best
The cuts are made and put together as
shown in Fig 1.
The stocks are washed to take off the grit
that it may not dull the thin, sharp knife
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01


green armure silk, covered half it's depth
with black silk passementerie in deep
Gothic devices pointing upward. Silver
blue camel's hair tailor gowns for recep-
tions and calls are made up with Gre
clan drapings and trimmed with gold
and silver galloons, and exquisitely fine
India wool diagonal costumes of mig
nonette green, Parma violet, olive gray
and auburn, are made with plain velvet
skirts and Russian polonaises of tho
wool fabric elegantly braided in elabo-
rate devices with Russian soutache of a
deeper shade. Others of Venetian cloth
in two beautiful shades of gray, braided
with gold and sIiver cord, are both ele-
giant and artistic in effect. Toques and
incroyable shoulder capes to match are
very usually added. C. DE
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01

POULTRY raising on paper is far more
profitable than it is on poultry farm.
peware OF wild estimates.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01
FASHION LETTER.
Now Models in Drossy Gowns-Styles for
Early Spring.
Especial New York Corrospondoncc.l

The newest models in dressy gowns
are made with clinring Princesse fronts,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01

CAREFULLY hand-pick the garden seeds
you saved last season, saving only the
perfect ones
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01

necessary for this
operation. Their
tap roots are
shortened a n d
the tops are re-
moved at the col
lar of the root
with a smooth,
sloping, upward
cut; in the center
a downward d cut
leaves a tongue.
Inc scion IS cut
on its lower end
with q sloping,
downward C IL t,
and a tongue is
made on it to fit
the tongue on the
CORES p onding
cut on the root
The two parts
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01

either of striped
or brocaded ma
Serial, with demi-
trai ined Prin-
cesse backs of
wholly different
ia brio, this of q
plain, rich textile
like velvet, roy
al armure or 81
cilienne. Dinner
gowns in this
fashion S h o w
the fronts of
broad and mar
row S tripe s,
sometimes in ter
mixed with vel
vet. Exquisite
velvet figures in
soft rich Persian
devices appear
also upon back
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-01

broche and Persian
embroide IS are
also used to trim
new costumes of In
dia camePs hair
and Venetian cloth.
The foundation is
closely woven silk
canvas and the love-
ly d vices are
wrought in slack
twisted silk and fine
gold and copper
threads. The styl-
ish and effective
fancy still prevails
of using black with
colors, both in util-
ity and dress cos
tunes, as, for eX-
ample, a lime-leaf
redingote of faced
cloth with trim
mings of black os-
trich feather-bands