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sPRlNe-soWN OATS.
No Seed Safe without a Suitable Cover
ing of Soil.

No Seed Safe without a Suitable Cover
ing of Soil
Science is valuable to the practical
man because it teaches him the princi-
pies of things, explains causes and
effects, and shows him how to produce
desired results. In regard to the SOW
ing of seed, for instance, the best man
ner of doing this is learned by knowing
how plants grow and feed, and the rela-
ton of their parts to each other; the
functions of the roots, and their man
ner of gathering food from the soil and
supporting the plant in it. And when
this is known, we find that the proper
place for the seed is in the soil, and not
on the surface of it. So that when any
person, although he may be able to
write very readable article upon the
subject of sowing oats upon the frozen
ground and leaving the seed to
take care of itself, advise farmers to
follow this practice, reader who knows
how roots grow and gather the food for
the plant, will not be misled into the
following very bad advice, to SOW any
seed whatever without giving it suffi-
cient and safe covering of soil.
It is common assumption-it can not
be said belief or opinion-that oats do
not need covering, and will grow any
how if only sown on the ground. They
will grow to some extent, and the seed
will terminate if the weather is moist
and keeps so, but if frost or dry
wind should happen, the tender rootlets
are killed at once and the seed perishes.
This also occurs when the seed has not
covering enough to keep it moist, and
protect the young spire and roots from
frost, and although the seed, that is
sown in frozen ground, may fall intC
the cracks, or if sown upon mud may
sink in it, the covering thus secured i.
not sufficient, and will not protect the
seed.
Oats are one of the best useful crops,
and deserves the best treatment. +
/ should be sown early, on land prepared
/ in the best manner and well MANFRED
The seed should be thoroughly har
| rowed in and well covered; three inches
is the best depth to secure abundan
roots firmly set in the soil, and protec
ton from late frosts. And with this
treatment yield of fifty to seventy-fiv,
bushels per acre may be reasonahl!
looked for, and exemption from rust anG
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-05-22
RAISING CANE.
You C an Not Have the Ground Too Rich
Nor Too Clean.

You C an Not Have the Ground Too Rich
Nor Too Clean.
Sugar cane requires a deep, rich.
moist loan. 1t is impossible to have
land too rich for cane. Bed up the land
in rows five or six feet apart in jam.
airy. Early in February open out tbs
water furrow and scatter in the same
mixture of
Acid phosphate ;..............,..... 600 %
Cotton SEED meal so D.
KANT. .-............'....-....,. z5o rs
Total. ............... ........,......-...200 %
at the rate of one thousand pounds 70
the acre, unless the soil is very rich. Il
would be better to divide the fer
tilizer into three portions, apply
ing one-third in each the opening
and listing burrows. Throw four
burrows on the middle furrow. Tbs
ground is now ready to plant, and the
sooner it is planted the better. Open
the list or bed last made by running tac
or three times with long, wide saoTal.
Cut the cane in lengths Of three to hfs
joints each, and place the cut pieces
about six inches apart. Cover with two
burrows of turn shovel so as to form I
ridge over the row. In about three
weeks run a harrow over this ridge g
as to kill all the weeds and reduce the
thickness of the covering. As soon O.
the plants begin to appear side with
small scooters so as to cover the weeds
that may be among the young PLANS
and pillow out the middles close and deep.
After cultivation should be frequent ana
shallow Southern Cultivator.
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smut, which mostly attack tbs va.A
plants. But these may be entirely =.
capped if the seed is stepped in solr
ton of four ounces of sulphate Of conns,
to the gallon of water, as is usual with
wheat.-Practieal Farmer.
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Debt, the Demoralizer.

Debt-there is no worse demoralizer
of character. The sad records of de-
faulting, embezzling and dishonest fall
ure which we meet with so constantly
in the daily press are often, indeed most
frequently, the result of the democrat
ization of debt, and consequent desper-
alto efforts at extrication. The financial
props have given way. The little debt,
which was at first as small as a grain Of
mustard seed, like the rolling SNOWFALL,
has gathered weight and multiplied
itself thousand-fold. And still 1t
grows, and like the fabulous hydra
which Hercules was sent to kill, you no
sooner strike off one head than two
shoot up in its place. The struggle is
severe, but in the end decisive; either
confession is made of hopeless bank
ruptcy which might and should have
been avoided, or integrity is sacrificed
to the temptation of the moment. Debt
ruins as many households and destroys
as many fine characters as rum; it is tho
devils mortgage on the soul, and he is
always ready to foreclose. Be indebted
for nothing but love, and even that be
sure you pay in kind, and that your pay
ments are frequently lmage, in n. Y.
Observer.
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PLEASURE from eyil-doing is often
greater in anticipation than in realiza-
ton; but not so with the pain that fol-
lows evil-doing. The temptation to do
wrong usually comes with a prefer Of
largo enjoyment and with suggestion
of possible slight regret to follow it.
Afterward it is found that there is less
in the enjoyment than what was looked
for, but never that there is less in tho
bad consequences of the action. No
man ever yet understood in advance
how much he would be the loser by a
single act of wrong-doing. It would be
well to have this thought in mind while
dallying with soma temptation to evil,
IS. S. Times
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-02
raL- GoLnBERG CASE.

The verdict of the CorOper's jury in the
Goldberg case will surprise people at first,
as it does not appear that Goldberg was
armed or that he attempted or threatened
any violence; but II can be understood IN
the light of recent events. A mania seems
to have set in for coupling murder with sui
eide notion appears to be ginning ground
that man ma take the life ef his vile or
his sweetheart if inccntinently afterward
he takes his own. Within the past year
there have been quite number Of cases in
which murders have been followed by the
suicide Of the murderer. Generally it is the
man who, in frenzy of rage from Jealousy
or unrequited affection, kills the woman he
loves, and then with the same revolver
blows cut his own brains. In the Fladung
case, if the verdict of the jury is accepted as
just, it was the wife who shot her husband,
happily not killing him. and then fired
ball with fatal effect into her own brain.
Miss Panhorst may reasonably have feared
that Goldberg intended to shoot her and
then himself. Her case was the old story.
Goldberg had wronged the girl he loved, and
yet refused to marry her on account of their
difference in religion Both she and her
father demanded that he should make to her
the only reparatiOn possible, he refused.
The recent fashion of coupling murder
with suicide is distressing; the more so be-
cause there appears to be no way in which
the law can be invoked to check it. In point
of morality the murderer aggravated his
guilt by adding the crime OF self-des truction.
He may escape the sentence OF court OF
law, but his offense against society is doubled,
and, if lie elieves in future life in which
sins committed on earth are punished he
insures a double portion of future suffering.
This is subject on which the public need
education. The other day woman who
was prevented by force from committing
suiciue cried 10 her rescuers: My life is my
own, an / may do what please with it."
That is deluSiOn. No ones life is his own.
Every one owes TO some one else-il he has
no relations or friends, then 10 society at
large -some duty which implies the posses
sion of. life. 1t is in every ones power, no
matter bow poor or humble or afflicted, to
render some service to some one, ii 1t b,
only to set an example of forIitude under
suffering and patient endurance of ills. As
to the rank and file Of mankind, the adult,
able-bodied and semi-intelligent class which
furnishes most of our suicides, every oae of
them has countless opportunities Of doing
good in some small way and demonstrating
some small measure of usefulness. We are
ali of uS partners in the community and
me mberS of the State. To deprive our asso-
ciates Of our share of the Joint duties which
deyolve upon the whole is TO do them
wrong. Leaving out of view the religious
aspect of the case, The suicide must be pro-
nounced by tue mofalist coward and
fraUj
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NOT WITHOUT CAUSE.

Ex-senator Warner Miller says that one
Of the most marked features of the political
conditions of the present day is the cohtemp!
with which modern legislative bodies ale
held, as compared with the respectful con
sideratiGn they received at the beginning of
the present century. The change which Mr.
Miller speaks of is not without cause.
While q portion Of both houses of Congress
have held themselves above reproach, others
have -walTowed in the mire of corruption.
A small minority of legislative body may
cast cloud upon the reputation Of body
as whole. When the fact is known that a
measure is backed with money, all who vote
for it are in public estimation implicated in
the transaction. 1t must be admitted that
the honest members of legislative bodies
have not taken proper pains to segregate the
members they know to be corrupt Personal
considerations have had something to do with
their indifference, and possibly apprehensions
have been entertained that combination
of corruptionists, bound together by-a COM
mon canse, might prove fatal to measures
which the honest member wished to succeed.
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HORACE DAVIS.


:. The Fourth Congressional District delega-
9tion is reported as having decided to make
the best nomination in their power tc make.
The standing eff Horace Davis in this COM
niunityeis such that the fact Of his candidacy
only needs to be mentioned. Everybody
knows who Horace Davis is. He has lived
in this. city considerably more than thirty
years. : AT an early period in the history of
the State: he. began. to convert wheat into
-four; thus establishing an industry which
has greatly. added 70 the value OF our ex-
ports. Being Independent of politicians,
MIR. Davis has taken. an active part in public
affairs emily when the public needed his
service. Fourteen years ago he was elected
TO Congress ffem the Fourth District and at
the expiration of bis term reelected. In
1856 a combination between the Democrats
and the: w orklngmen elected General Rose
Grams. zone of the heroes of the war. The
famous MOIey letter contributed to that re-
suit, Though tie record: Of Mr.. Davis as a
persistent and effective advocate of Chinese
exclusion should have raised him above the
little Democratic tidal wave that that letter
caused 10 SET this way: The CALL urged
denomination of Mr.. Morrow partly on
the ground of personal fitness and partly on
Inc q 0uHu IreNptrltnce.:r MI. DaNlS -N9uiu
never have contested. the nomination with
Mr.. Morrow, but since Mr.. Morrow has
declined. Mr. Davis has listened to the ap-
peals:of the best men in both parties, with
the result now recorded. Since THE CALL
mentioned the name of Mr. Davis as the
one man the Republicans could certainly
elect, the only question has been if Mr..
Davis would accept the nomination. The
voters of the city Will now have an opportu-
nifty ofelecting to Congress a man with a
national reputation, who will rank at once
among the leaders of the House. His
ability, experience ard family connections
viii enable Mr.. Davis to do more for The
State than any other man the district could
have nominated ::
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-02
TIE TARIFF BILL.

The Mckinley Tariff Bill has become
law. The opponents of the bill have
fought it in every way possible. They
have declared il unconstitutional, impracti-
cal and inn olitic. Carlisle, the champion of
free trade III the Senate, made a set speech
Just before the final vote IN which he made
the point that the reciprocity clause aud the
clause. giving bounty for sugar were IN
constitutional. The reciprocity provision.
Mr.. Calls said. delegated the power of
legisla ton to the President. This clause, as
we understand it, authorizes the President
to announce officially conditions which he
may find TO exist. The President does not
bring tie conditions about, nor does he con-
slider any Tt asures which may be adopted
in view oftLeir existence. He simply says
that certain conditions exist and upon this
official statement Of the fact certain con-
ditional legislation, made by Congress, goes
into effect. 1t is not left to the President to
say what articles Of import shall become
subject to duty when Ger, ain American prod
ucts are taxed in any foreign country, nor
the rate of the duty to be imposed. The
bill may be open TO other objections, but
hardly to that Mr.. Carlisle urges against
it. Mr.. Carlisle says that no part of the
sugar bounty will go to the grower OF beets,
sorghum or cane. 1t will all go to the sugar
manufacturer. Homemade sugar will sell
in the markets, MIR. Carlisle says, at the
same price as duty-paid refined sugar COM
ing from other countries. This argument is
on line with the other free-lrade argument
that the home manufacturer gets all the
benefit Of the duties on reign goods. OF
course, as the seller Of the goods. the manu-
fan rnceivpS into his haT no
between the price the homemade goods
command under tariff aid the price they
would command under free trade. But he
does not keep all he receives. His business
is conducted on the principle that he dis
tributes the proceeds of the sale Of his prod
ucis among his workmen and the producers
of raw material. If he is not disposed to
make this distribution competition forces
him to make il. The branch Of manufacture
in which he may be engaged is open to every
other man who may like to embark in it.
1t is not supposed that the grower Of sugar
beets win directly receive the bounty from
the Government. The bounty is for sugar,
not for sugar-beets. But tile man who buys
the beets and converts them into sugar re-
ceives the bounty and it enables him to paw
4 price for beets which he could not pay if
there We're no bounty. Under free trade our
sugar would be all imported. The manu-
facturer would buy the foreign raw material
in preference to homegrown beets for the
simple reason that the foreign raw material
would cost less. As the Mckinley bill takes
the duties off raw sugar, the bounty is
given 10 manufacturers who purchase raw
material produced at home. Believing that
it is quite possible TO produce our own sugar
THE CALL would have preferred to retain
the duties on foreign sugar, but Congress
has Willed otherwise.
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TIE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.


The white people of Mississippi are ap-
parently in favor OF repeating the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Federal Constitution,
which declares that ''lhe right of citizens of
the United States TO vote shall not be de-
MED or abridged by the United States, or
by any State, on account Of race, color or
previous condition Of servitude." This is
the provision of the Constitution which
stands in the way of legislation by certain
of the Southern States to take the fran
ehise from the colored people. The Miss
issippi Convention says that "the races,
though friendly and homogeneous for all
business and industrial purposes, are widely
separated by race instincts and prejudices
in all political and social matters, and there
is no well-founded hope Of change" In
general terms the convention sees no other
solution of the race problem than the as
sumption by the white race of the right and
power to govern. While the colored race
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have vutes, tie races viii be solid apart.
result of this would be that in States where
the colored race predominant in numbers
they viii assume C, ntroi OF the government
1t is quite frankly admitted IN the South
that negro supremacy has been prevented
by ''persuading" the colored voters not to
vote. Persuasion has taken various forms,
and the small vote recorded in several
Southern States in proportion to their popu-
lation indicates that it has been effective.
The Mississippi Convention asks for the
right to do legally what has been done ille-
gally. There is a certain force in the South
ern claim that the North cannot legislate for
a condition of things Northern people know
nothing about. Admitting that the people
of the South should be better able han the
North to solve the race problem. it is mat
ter for regret that they do not see some
other way than TO take from the colored
people privii ges the organic law of the
land has once conferred upon them. To
withhold privileges is one thing; to take
privileges away, quite another.
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OF the Chinese aboard the China, which
arrived here on Tuesday, 10 are for this
city. 10 for Panama, for Havana and 3l5 were
for Hor olulu. but were not allowed to land
there, having shipped from an infected port
SiXty-egnt Of the Chinese are females,
twelve OF whom want to land at this port
One-half of those bound for this port have
papers, but they have not yet been exam
iued. The six Chinese dodgers in the County
Jail of Alameda for delivery to the officers
of the Gaelic. which sailed yesterday after
noon. were put aboard; but the two Chinese
women were allowed to stay, Judge Hoff-
man having granted a stay of proceedings
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crime. If the English cling to privileges for
which there is no present justification, they
cannot be surprised that their usurpation
should provoke resistance, and violent re-
sistance.
The true inwardncss of the British pre-
tension is rather an objection TO the japanese
tariff than to tn, If courts Of law. Under the
tariff Which was mpos ed on Japan in 1854,
the total revenue from customs is only
about $3.50, Geo. British goods paying an
average Of about Tel cent. Ii Is TO Prevent
the alteration of this tal IF that the English.
Germans and French stand in the-way of the
con ple;e restoration Of japanese sovereignty.
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SIGNAL SERVICE q. s. ARMY,
"a =. = Division OF THE PAciFIc,
. p. san FRASCIsco October l, 1880.
:. 5 r. A.-Pacifc time.
= Synopsis for tile Past Twenty-four Hours.
:: The baron eter is highest the northwest coast
of California and lowest in Southeastern California;
thetemperature has faenfn Oregon Washington
and Southern California; elsewhere has risen; light
rains have fallen throughout Oregon Washington,
Northern Nevada and. the northern portion of
Northern, California; elsewhere fair weather has
prevailed.
= ~; Forecast Tin's p. NJ. Thursday.
: For Northern California-Fair weather, except
light rain at Eureka; south to west winds; nearly
stationary temperature. except warmer In the Sac
ramento. and San Joaquin valleys. and cooler at
: Eureka, and warmer in Northern Nevada.
: For Southern Galifornia-FsIr weather. south to
west winds; cooler in the western portion nearly
stationary temperature in the eastern portion.
y. For oregGn-Fair weather, except light rains at
Rosebprg. Portland aud walla wala; variable
winds, generally southern; cooler.
:: For Washington-Local rains; winds generally
seutheraly; cooler. JOHN p. FINLEY,
Lieutenant Signal Corps lin chsrge).
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Mrs. Margaret Powers of Oakland came to
this city on Monday to visit her sister and
brother, who live in the Mission. Late in
the afternoon she left their house to return
streets until long after dark. Her friends
next saw her in tile city Morgue dead. She
was the old lady whom a grocer found lying
cold in death on the sidewalk at the corner
of San Jose avenue and Twenty-frst street.
Natural causes" was given by the Coroner
as the cause of her death.
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.NoTlCE!
OCTOBER, 1890.

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O'Clock p. N. BRANCH ~oFFICEs:. .7IO Market
street near Kearly, open until - O'Clock midnight;
'sse Hayes street, open:nRtll $50 O'Clock; SOB
IaIkih street open until $3.50 o'foe&i and 25ls
Mission street. open until g O'Clock 7. N.
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Another Mt.nsed Child.

S. Akimoto, a japanese, who manages an
acrobatic troop of his countrymen at the
Orpheum, was arrested yesterday on a
charge of using child as an acrobat. The
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children is prosecuting the case.
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7 Sf,I.ris1,IiiN Etrr.s.

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rnail losTaAd: 5cehts per week OF 81 cents per
calendar month through carriers. pAiLY CALL, i've
copies three months, So. %. SUNDAY CALL twelve
pages)r 81 80 per, year. postpaid. SUNDAY CALL
nld WEEKLY GAIL 81 81 per year. postpaid
MEEhlf:CA1L leiGhE n3ges); 81 26;per year post
kala ll1bS ef1en lsenf 10 one addressl. SlO.
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PALACE BATHs.-Wmm salt water. Large
swimming tank. Pore lam TUBS. Elegantly re-
fitted. Now open. 715 FilbeIt street.
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NEGLIGENT JURoR.-A. L. Bancroft failed
TO appear as a taIesmsp in Judge Hunts depart
meDt yesterday morning and fine OF $40 was
recorded against him, and an order OF attach
ment issued for his arrest.
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DAMAGES FOR sLANDER.-Suit for alleged
Islander was Instituted yesterday by Benjamin
Wolley against Charles Okell, aud $4,000 asked
as salye for his Damaged reputation.