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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-09-06
COOP FARMERS GARDEN.

Last fall two gentlemen from a city
were being entertained at the farm Sup
posing it their habit TO sleep late, they
were left undisturbed, while we farmer
folk went to the barn to milk the cows.
Coming back to the house, | met them
returning from stroll through the
garden, with hands full of purple clusters
literally taking their fruit as the first
course. They expressed much surprise
at finding garden in such good order
and productiveness on farm, 1t was ex-
planned that the garden is both a necessity
and luxury. Living, as most farmers
do, many miles from a market, we must
grow our fruit and vegetables or go with
out. We showed that the plot was laid
out twice as long as wide; that all the
varieties of small fruit and vegetables,
except the asparagus bed, are kept in
rows the entire length of the garden. If
the row was too long for some variety,
two or more kinds were planted in the
same row About once week two men
with horse, cultivator and hoe work
from one to two hours, giving the soil
a thorough stirring. A weed found in
an effort to go to seed is destroyed with
about the same energy with which a
housekeeper searches her domain for fly
or cobweb. The garden is in full sight
of kitchen door, the entrance ten feet
from it. No estimate has been made of
the profit from this little piece of land
about sixty rods-bllt I am snre If tho
whole farm were as productive, it would
be source of good income. While
many farmers tables are supplied with
potatoes, turnips and cabbage, compare
lively few enjoy a variety of the fine and
more delicate vegetables, or succession
of the delicious small uits.-New York
Tribune.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-09-06
WORK AND WORKERS.

THERE is much dissatisfaction among the
lockers at Southampton, England, and
great strike is imminent.
c. 5. WHEATON, President of the lnde-
pendent order Of Railway Conductors, has
resigned his position. IIcis to engage in other
business.
THE Executive Board of the knights OF
Labor decided 10 call out every man on the
New York Central Railroad who owed allie
glance 10 The Order.
NEARLY all the yardmcn employed by the
Delaware and Hudson Railroad Company, at
Green Island New York, have gone on strike
The men refused to handle New York Cen
trail freight at that point.
The fremen and engineers of the Union
StOckyards Switching Association, in Chicago,
have modified their demand for an advance
III wages. They now ask 29 cents an hour for
engineers and eighteen cents for hremen.
The demand is under consideration by tne
roads
A DELEGATION Of Illinois Central trainmen
called upon General Manager Beck with the
new schedule of wages they asked. Mr..
Beck promised to give them an answer
ten days hence. The scale provides for an
increase of wages all along the line of from
five to thirty per cent
AMONG the passengers on the steamer City
OF Picking which sailed from San Francisco,
was AN attorney "who goes to China to secure
SOo0 Chinese laborers, who will be employed
IN the construction of raiiroad across the
lsthmus Of Tehuantepec. The road is to be
built by English capital, and work has been
let TO Mexican contractors"
A PAPER is being circulated among the
mill lneD in Fall Run, Massachusetts, bind
ing those who sign it to sell no print cloths
under 3 5l6 cents during September Over
three fourth OF the mill men have signed it.
This was considered the only chance for bet
terlng the market except by cut down or
shut down.
7. M.AErHUE, Chief Engineer Of the Broth
erhood OF Locomotive Engineers, has written
letter IN winch he says that when the pres
ent trouble on the New York Central fir t
occurred he ordered the engineers to abstain
from AL participation in il, and to attend
strictly IT, their own business. lie holds that
they are justified IN occupying ii neutral po
sltion Whea others are engaged ia Il vomhci
Win their employers
The joint conference ufihe Mine Workers
Association, representing l2,OOG miners of
Blair, Cambria, Cieariield, Centre. Hunting.
don, jefferson and Carbon counties, and the
operators in those counties held in Altoona
IA, adjourned without agreement. The op-
orators claim that the scale was unreasonable
And they could not accept without loss. The
mlners are hrm and a general strike may be
The maj result. Another meeting will be
held on September II.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-09-06
CABLE SPARKS.

FIRE destroyed the town of Tokay, in Hun
gary.
CHOLERA is spreading in the city of Toledo
Spain.
HENRY NJ, STANLEY, the explorer, is re.
ported as far from being restored to perfec'
health.
THE strike Of coal miners in the Borinage
district of Belgium continues to spread, 4,5U
more men having quit work.
PRoGREssIsT newspapers in Lisbon say
that the Anglo-Portugese agreement will ruin
Porugal's colonial interests.
Mr. LINCOLN, the United States minister
to Great Britain, strongly denies the report
that he is about to resign his office.
MoUssA BEY, lately Governor of Armenia,
who was banished TO Mecca by the Sultan OF
Turkey, has disappeared from Constantinople.
OWING to the increase of cholera, the Egyp-
tian government has established second
quarantine station at Rasmallag, on the Gulf
OF Sucz,
In THE province of Pernambuco, Brazil,
1909 cases of smallpox are reported, and
there is an average OF twenty deaths daily
from the disease.
THE Duke of Cambridge unveiled the me-
mortal erected ia the kvere Cemetery, Brus-
sells, to the British soldiers who we're slain at
the battle of Waterloo.
THE Emin relief committee has formally
thanked DR.. Peters for the devotion, perseyer-
ance, courage aud foresight shown by him as
head of the relief expedition.
AT A meeting of the Irish National League,
at Dublin, Timothy llealy, referring 10 the
potato blight in that country, said that moth
ing stood between the people and starvation
the coming winter.
DURING the maneuvers of the Italian army
at Monticheari, smOkeless powder was used,
and so successful were the experiments with
IL that the batteries of artillery fired half an
hour without their presence being discovered.
THE Russian government is about TO APP
point commission to prepare scheme 10
open trade routes to Central Asia by connect
ing the ANU Daria river with the Caspian
sea, or by Il railway from Orenburg to lash
kend.
THE MombSsa and Nyanza Railway in
Africa wss inaugurated in the presence of the
British and other foreign consuls Admiral
Fremantle, of the British navy, and large
number OF other Europeans.
DURING a storm at NASSAU, Austria, light
ming struck twenty freight ears on the Franz
Joseph Railway throwing them down an EN-
bankment and smashing them. The guards
on the train were knocked senSeless by the
shock.
THE Vienna Tageblatt says that the Gar
has refused to give his consent to the proposal
made by Emperor William that the forces OF
Russia, Austria and Germany stationed aleng
the boundary lines between the three cOur.
tries be Withdrawn.
IL THE ocean race from New York to
Queenstown, Ireland, between the Inman Line
steamship City of New York and the White
Star steamship Teutonic, the City of New
York was the first to arrive on the other side
of the Atlantic.
THE Moniteur de Rome, one of the Official
organs of the Vatican, says that if the rate al
which converts have been made for the last
half century to the Catholic Church in Eng
land is maintained that religion will be dom
inant in England a century hence.
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Modern Use of an Ancient Vegetable

Candy is the only form in which the
ancient vegetable, angelica, is now used
by cooks. The tenderstems of the stout
angelica herb were formerly cooked and
served on the table; but strong aromatic
favor-to most people nauseous one
would not.be tolerated on the table to-
day. Although it was very popular
dish in cruder times, before the present
variety of vegetables had been produced
by cultivation of wild plants, it has gone
entirely out of use as vegetable. Large
quantities of angelica, however, are yearly
candied by confectioners in France, and
it is imported to this city and sold chiefly
to French cooks at 81 pound for deco
rating candied ices, cakes, and other
sweet dishes. In the process of candy
ing, angelica loses much of its strong
flavor, and it takes on the most beautiful
green known to the decorator in candied
fruits. The green lime gives very
much paler color and the green
prune (the only other green fruit is dull
In color, and of value chiefly for its
flavor. On the red of candied cherries
and the green of angelica the expert
decorator of sweets relics for his color
Nep York Tribune.
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ably large. for the fact that the seed was

Ably large, for the fact that the seed was
taken from several varieties which grew
side by side, for mongrel crop of eth
err pumpkins or squashes, if but one step
removed from it parents, will yield
heavier than did either of the parents.
This is on the same principal whereby a
grade COW will usually do better than the
average of the two pure-bred parents Of
which she is a cross Now does the
pumpkin play any part in the farm econ
omy that would make it profitable to
raise them2 find in my experience as
milk producer that there is period
between the coming of the first frost suf-
ficiently severe to destroy fodder corn
and the date when we open our siIo
where there is blank in green fodder;
this blank the pumpkin will fill. The
objections sometimes made to feeding
the seed is not always we'll taken, but il
the COWS are observed to urinate more
freely after being fed with seed and all,
then the bulk of the seed should be re-
moved, otherwise as this contains fan
richer nutriment than the flesh, indeed
are especially rich when that is deficient,
l advise feeding them.
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evidence OF insanity.
An old lawyer Of distinction delighted

An old lawyer of distinction delighted
to tell the following story:
Many years ago. | was defending q
prisoner for horse-stealing, aud, seeing
no other means of defending him in the
circumstances, / set up the plea OF in
sanity. l argued it at length. read
many extracts from works on medical
jurisprudence, and had the patient at
tention Of the court. The prosecuting
counsel did not attempt to reply 10 my
argument or controyert my authorities
/ seemed to have things my own way,
and whispered to the prisoner that he
needn't be uneasy. Then came the
Judges charge, in which he reminded
the jury there was no dispute between
counsel as to the facts of the case. In
deed, ii are could not have been, for
several witnesses had sworn positively
that they saw my client steal the horse.
But concluded the Court, the
plea of insanity had been set up. and
charge you, gentlemen of the jury, that
il should receive your very grave and
serious elaboration; but l mast be
allowed to say, gentlemen, that, upon a
review of the whole case, can discover
no evidence of insanity on the part Of
the prisoner, except, perhaps, In the
selection OF his counsel.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-09-06
PUMPKINS

Farmers whose experience with the
pumpkin has been confined to what ii
will yield when planted among corn
would be surprised to see the crop that
can be grown when raised by itself, with
a liberal application of the kind OF
manure best adapted to it. James ]. H.
Gregory, Marblehead, Mass, in the Neu
England Farmer, says: The kind OF
manure best for the corn crop is not the
kind which is tie best for the pumpkin
crop. Corn requires loan rich in phos-
phoric acid and potash, and certainly but
a small per cent. of nitrogen. The vine
class, such as pumpkins, squashes and
melons require, on the contrary, loan
that shall be especially rich in nitrogen,
and the quantity of the crop is almost in
proportion to the liberahty of the use OF
this element. While it might not pay to
purchase the high-priced forms of nitro
gen for this crop, yet where the farmer
has access to that very cheap source, fish
waste, if he has a dairy it may be made
to pay well.
of fair loan that had been mauured at
about the equivalent of six cords to the
acre for the four years it had been re-
claimed for pasture; to this was applied
four cords of barn manure in which
rather over a ton of fish had been well
mixed. The piece was planted toward
the close of May with the Michigan
mammoth pumpkin, in hills twelve by
twelve, the vines being finally reduced to
two to each hill. They had three cult
vations, though at one period of their
growth the weeds got the start, and there
had to be some hard pulling In the
fall, after the leaves of the vines had
mostly died down, the field, coy
cred with its huge fruit, weigh
ing from twenty to forty pounds
each, and almost every one
of the richest orange color, was certainly
very striking sight. One load being
weighed, and the quantity of the rest Of
the loads being estimated from that
weight, we found the entire crop, in
Guiding two loads not fully ripe, was
rising ten tons. It's not necessary that
farmer should plant this variety to get
twenty tons to the acre. / have known
crop at the rate of twenty-five tons to
the acre to be raised from pumpkins
whose average weight was not over
ight pounds. This crop was remark
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DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.

FORTY houses were washed away in Jaurez
Texas, by cloudburst. Two persons were
IroGned.
SMALLPOX prevails to an alarming extent
m Waco, Texas. Sanitary guards are taking
charge Of the patients.
Mrs J. III. WILSON and Mrs. Charles Jacobs
Eere injured by runaway accident at Rock
Island, Illinois, the former so badly that she
died Iii few hours.
\ BoGLERin Lie. Whites Touring and saw
miil ut Pike S Peak, Indiana, exploded fatally
lnluring Thomas Miller Homer White, Frank
Long and Frank Mayheld. Seven others were
badly hurt.
CONSERVATIVE railroad men estimate the
prospective loss to the Old Colony Railroad
Company by the Quincy accident, aside from
ne damage to rolling stock, at half million
dollars
JoHN LAKE and James Dorsey were struck
by New York Central train at Poughkeep-
'ie New ork and thrown distance ofthirty
leet. Lake was killed, but Dorsey escaped
with slight injuries.
HE Canadian Deputy Minister of Agri-
culture declares that Asiatic cholera will GER
talnly visit Canada next year, and that in
0rqcrto check its advance he proposes to estab-
hShe quarantine stations in british Column.
bia, on the same system as that at Grasse Isle.
JOIN J.. SMITH, aged II years, and boy
named ilutchnS died in Knoxville, Teunes-
see, from dose of morphine Three other
children were made sick by an overdose The
drug was administered in mistake iorquinine.
The mistake wds made by druggist in filling
the bottle
II. \. SMITH, farmer, was killed by mad
horse near Mulvaney, kansa He was tying
up the animal when it turned on him, seized
MN by the shoulder and threw him down.
just then the barn door closed, shutting off all
means of escape and the horse attacked the
man, biting, paving and kicking, until Smith
SC zel a cub and with it killed the animal.
lie was 50 bad eNhausted that he died shortly
after being discovered, when ne had iust
strength enough to tel Of the fight.
\ DISPATCH from Lynchburg, Va, says a
wreck occurred on the n. and W. Railroad.
near Browns Siding. An extra freight train
struck COW and derailed the engine and ten
d-r, killing Engineer Cook instantly. The car
next the engine was thrown down an EN-.
Dinkment on top Of an Italian shanty, pin
hng the occupants to the floor. One escaped
lron the building only to be killed BY fall
~" gondola ear. One of those pinned to the
Moor was Ruled, one injured internally and
VIII probably die, while seven received only
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Turkish Pnnislmsnts.

In Turkey twenty years ago men
were hanged for trifies; tradesmen who
sold short weight might be nailed by
the ear to their own doorposts, and
petty thieves. as well as men who were
impertinent to officials or who refused
to pay their taxes twice over, were
bastinadoed on the soles of the feet.
This last punishment, by the way, was
light or cruel according as the patient
was accustomed to go barefooted or to
spend his life in babouches. The water
carriers. porters, street fruit sellers,
and peasants generally, whose soles
We're like horn, cared little for twenty
five cuts with bamboo; but to trades
men, clerks, and women the stripes
were excruciatingly painful and
brought weeks of lameness.
The present Sultan has abolished
the bainado in the European part Of
his dominions, and practically done
away with capital punishment, except
for brigandage and for attempts of as
sassina.ing high officials. Even brig
ands, however, are only hanged when
they have laid hands on foreigners and
caused an cutlery in the European
press. Genuine Turks seldom find
their way into Jail, saving for murder
or inability to pay taxes, and the muir
ders are often committed under the in
fuence of religious fanaticism, when
the Mussulman, driven mad by the fast
of the Ramadan or by the rejoicings Of
the Bairam holidays, runs amuck with
o knife among a crowd of Giaours.
Such offenders, however, are always
leniently dealt with by the Pashas, I'M
less, of course, they happen to kill a
foreign Christian having an Amtassa-
dore to avenge him.
In Turkish prisons the Mussulmans
and Christians are kept apart, and the
former grave and gentleman-like
looking set of men, bask in the sun
most of the day. smoking, and the per
form frequent ablutions at the trickling
fountain in the middle of their airing
yard They give no trouble, and wait
with the utmost patience until it shall
please Allah to open the prison doors
for them. The Christians, herd of
Greeks, Bulgarians, and Macedonians,
with the most villainous faces, morals,
and manners imaginable, have to be
ruled with a tight hand to be keft
from strangling one another. When it
becomes necessary to hang one Of these
gentry the Greek goes to his punish
ment struggling and bowling; the
Turk makes no more ado shout the
matter than if he were going to have
his head shaved. As the Turkish Ex-
che1uer provides no hangman or ropes
for executions, some curious things
occa ionaily happen. Not long ago
Turk, who had to be hanged at Kird-
ioli. walked about The town for an hour
with two soldiers who had been ordered
to execute him. These soldiers did not
mean to buy rope with their owp
money, and they failed to borrow one.
Eventually, they broke into a stable,
stole rope. and hanged their man
from nail over the door.-1emph
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Memphis Express West and Mail train East
run daily between Harrisburg and EIagerstown
On Sunday train leaves Harrisburg at 1:20 p. m,
running one hour later than advertised time of
Harrisburg Accommodation, arriyingat Hagers-
town 1905 p m. Train will leave Hagerstown
at 7:l5 a. m, on Sunday running one hour later
than train No. 1, arriving at Harrisburg at
$3.50 a. m.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars on trains Nos.
and between Phladelphiaan New Orleans.
Pullman Palace Cars ON trains Nos and ,,
between New York and Memphis.
Through Coaches to and from Philadelphia on
trains Nos. II and East and and West.
II. A. RIDDLE, j. f. BOYD,
Gen' Pass. Agent. Superintendent,
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IN A RUNAWAY CAR.
Many Per ons Seriously Injurcd-A
Broken Brake the CRusr

Broken Brake the Cause.
AT Joliet, ILL.,, an lectric car became IN.
coupled and sped down hill at a terrible speed.
The car was crowded with men. women and
children who were going to the grounds where
the labor demonstration was held. Many
ieaped of, and a number were severely hurt
but 1t is thought none fatally. The severely
hurt are: Miss Josie Caul, ugly cuts and
bruises on head, neck and back: Mary Caul,
serious injuries on arms, body and legs; Mrs
Henry Beck, internal injuries and Commissions
on shoulder and side: August Bischman,
wrist and arm badly sprained and head cut;
ii. b. Clark, wrist and shoulder hurt. 9th.
ers were badly scratched.
Mrs Beck had her baby in her arms when
she jumped off, but the child was not hurt.
The Caul sisters are most seriously hurt The
curve where the car ran off is but one street
back of the bluff. Had the car not stopped
by crashing into the gutter and upon the side
walk, 1t might have gone over the bluff and
Killed all on board. The street car officials
say broken brake was the cause of the acei-
dent.
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Tho Tru. Home Spirit.

The love and reverence Of children
for their parents, the perfect love that
casts out fear, aud which can never lie
enjoyed by fathers aud mothers who
have been harsh and hasty or selfish ;
the friendship between brothers and
sisters which makes each happy in the
others company; the pleasant free
and-easy intercourse in which every
one can speak his or her own mind
without giving offense these are the
things which go to make all feel that,
BE it ever so humble, there's no place
like home. '.Neic York Ledger.
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the consumptive who's not be
reft of Judgment and good sense
He's taking DR.. Pierce's Golden
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SOME ambitious French aeronauts are to at.
tempt to cross Central Europe in a balloon.
The French Minister of War has decided tc
send a military officer along to see how things
60 The bailoonists will attempt to make
maps OF the currents of air The ascent will
be made at Nancy and the descent some
where in Russia or Norway.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
now TO WAIVER cucuMBER PLANTS

now TO WATER CUCUMBER PLANTS.
Water for cucumbers should always be-
warmed to blood heat, and even if hotter
will do no injury. Do not pour the
water on the surface 1t will only crust
it and make the ground less open to rain.
Remove little of the surface earth, max.
ing a basin around the roots. As the
water sinks down replace the dry earth.
Do this at night and the surface will be
all damp before morning. Cult
rdtor.
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40 snor for The Arsn,.

Agent don't think I'll succeed as q
book agent.
Employer-Why not?
AT the first house tried / showed
the lady the book, and"
%Then what?"
@She showed me the door"