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Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-11

of an institution of learning, which, under their
influence grew to be college, giving equal privi-
leges to men an women. Mrs. Stones instruc-
tions always tended to develop the moral as well
as the intellectual powers of pu Pill. Her life and
teachings have been an inspiration to hundre DIS Of
young men and women, who are now in every
State Of the Union. In 1885 reunion of old
pupils and teachers was held at Kalamazoo, VIII en-
nearly 800 pupils were present, many Ing
thousands of miles. 1t was one of Mrs. Stones
early pupils whose petition for admission OPP ened
the doors of Michigan University to women
Mrs. Stone has assisted in forming in various
States women's literary, historical and art clubs,
and library associations. For nearly fifty years
she has been a regular newspaper correspondent;
her many letters from the Old World are very val
liable. She has also given hundreds of lectures
on various subjects She has recently received
we'll merited honor, the degree of Pb. D. having
been conferred upon her by the regents of Michi-
gan University.
Mrs. Stone finds divine illumination in nearly
everything, and she always seeks to make her
friends particpators Of the truth that comes within
her SOULS vision. She has always been an ardent
equal suffragist. Her LIES evening is full Of sweet
memories and great anticpations for tour dear
Mrs. Stone believes in growing forever. She
hopes to see our State University take one more
forward step, by establishing within its walls
woman's professorshp chair of Social Science
and Social Ethics. Her vision is broad; cher eye
is not DIM if this is not accomplished while Mrs.
Stone is with us in the body, it will surely come,
and she, Madonna-lke, watching over US, will say,
1.-THE half has not been told.'-S. NJ Skinner, in
Woman's Sphere Detroit, for September.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-11
Sketch of Mrs. L. H. Stone.

"The handsomest lady at the Michigan Woman's
Press Association was the one who is undoubtedly
the Oldest" wrote reporter Of Michigan pa
per. This "handsomest LADY, will be seventy-six
years of age, September 80, and is none other
than Mrs. L. H. Stone.
Where is the woman, or man, whose life has
been better lived than that of this gifted large
soued enthusiastic wife, mother teacher, traveller,
lecturer, writer and philanthropist? Her reputa-
ton is by no means local; she has travelled nearly
the wide world over, six times taking with
her to the Old World classes of ladies for study of
history and art.
Lucinda Hinsdale was born in Hinesburg, VT.
she received her early education at this place, at
Middlebury and at Burlington, and afterwards
taught in all three places. At Hnesburg she pre-
pared for college, taking full courses In Greek and
Latin, although she knew she could not be adj
mitted to college, because she was not boy. No
woman has done more to effect the revolution and
the evolution of ideas about co-education than
Mrs. Stone
She was married in 1910, to DR.. ]. A. B. Stone;
they came to Kalamazoo in 1843, and took charge
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-11

low but you are following in their footsteps, and
the greater the height the greater the fall.
To become like that creature ugh! you shud-
der; but that creature may be far less to blame
than you, who have been taught what it is to be
pure and true. She or he may not have been.
Girls and boys, life is too short, experience too
bitter to think lightly Of it, or to do that to make
you blush in after years.
Think always, am my fathers daughter, or my
mothers son.
Bring your pride and sef-respect to the rescue
Think if you can afford to do this thing, remem-
bering that if you are lady Or gentleman in the
truest sense of the word, actions tending to throw
slur upon your character and mar your after
life, will be an impossibilty.
''Thus far and no farther" is good motto to
follow, and those only Of your equals, and Of
whom you know.
It is not to dampen your youthful ardor, nor
darken your sunshine, boys and girls, that have
written this, for I know your kind hearts teen
with resolutions for good, and that 'into all lives
the rain-drops fall" You too, will have your sun
shine and shadow, but needless thorns may not
pierce your lender feet If a kindly hand plucks
them from the way. EMERITUS.
Cincinnati, 0.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-11
A Wife's Legal Independence.


Here is a new statute of New York relating to
married women enacted at the last session Of the
Legislature:
married shall have right of action for injuries to
property injuries her person character and injuries
arising out Of the marital relation In all which an un
married woman or husband now has right OF action by
law,
husband shall not be liable in damages his wfes
wrongful torous acts injuries person. property
the marital relations caused by the acts OF his wife, unless
the said done by actual coercion nsgaton of
the husband such coercion ntgaon be proved
in other required be proved
all embraced this section the wife shall per-
sonally liable for her wrongful or tortous acts.
That statute is but another step toward the full
emancipation of married woman from the servlle
condition imposed upon her by the old common
law Under that law a wife was a legal nonentity
as person. She had no rights, no remedies for
her wrongs She was simply chattel of the hus-
band. For injuries to her person, property or
character the law gave him, not her, right Of
action, just as it gave him right Of action for an
injury to his horse. And so he was liable for any
wrongful injury done by her, just as he was liable
for an injury done by his servant or his dog
The new law of this State is declaration Of a
wife's legal independence in this respect. 1t puts
her on footing with an unmarried woman, as well
as with her husband. She is empowered to sue for
injuries to herself and is made responsible for any
wrong or injuries done by her.
There is no reason why a married woman should
not be as independent in law as her husband,
Modern legislation is headed toward that end, and
every year brings the goal nearer.-N. Y. Herald
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-11
Wild Oats.

One Of the serious hindrances with which young
men are confronted upon the threshold of life is
the maxim concerning "Wild Oats" Thomas
Hughes ('Tom Brown at Oxford"), says Of it:
"In all the wild range of accepted British maxims
there is none take it for all in all, more thoroughly
abomnable than this one as to the sowing Of wild
oats Look at it on what side you will, and you
can make nothing but devils maxim of it. What
a man-be he young DID, or middle-aged-
that and nothing else, shall he reap. The one
only thing to do with wild oats, is to put them
carefully into the hottest part of the fire. and get
them burnt to dust, every seed of them. II you
SOW them, no matter in what ground up they will
come, with long tough roots like crouchgrass, and
luxurant stalks and leaves as sure as a sun in
heaven-a crop which it turns ones heart sick to
think Of The devil too whose special crop they
are, will see that they thrive, and you and no.
body else, will have to reap them, and no common
reaping will get them out of the SOIL which must
be dug down deep again and again. Well for you
il with all your care you can make the ground
sweet again by your dying day. Boys will be
boys is not much better, but that has a true side
to it but this encouragement to the sowing Of
wild oats is simply devilish, for it means that a
young mar is to give way to the temptations and
follow the lusts of his age. What are we to do
with the wild oats of manhood and old age-with
ambition, oyer-reachng, false weights, hardness,
suspicion, avarice-if the wild oats of youth are
to be sown, and not burnt? What possible distinc-
ton can we draw between them? If we may SOW
the one, why not the other?"
None but the evil-minded would tolerate the
though Of 'sowipg wild oats" by the young mans
ubr ebo In fo.1a Tod 70 tho
man himself? 1t is indeed an abominabe teaching,
and it should be the mission of the White Cross
to overcome and dlspel 1.-THE Philanthropst.
Life is like an ocean some souls, like the great
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-11

man should never tell tales Of himself to
his own disadvantage.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-11

Life is like an ocean some souls, like the great
waves, bear heavy burdens and carry treasures to
far-of lands others, like the foam, sparkle for
moment in the sunlight and then are cast upon the
rocks or dissolved in empty ark.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-14

The editor OF the Southern Horticul-
cural Journal has lately interviewed Mr..
f. A. Mabee, successful cabbage
grower of Paris, Tex. Mr.. Mabee says
late cabbage can be as successfully
grown in Northern Texas as in any other
state, provided proper management is
extended to the crop. He has ten acres
to late cabbage this year. Late fiat
Dutch is the variety invariably planted
by him. The seed is sown in hills where
the plants are TO grow, sometime in
June, as transplanting at that season
would staud good chance of proving a
failure. The rows are marked off three
and half feet apart and then checked
two feet apart. Only q few seeds need be
dropped in each check. Four dollars
and twenty-fiv cents worth of seeds
will plant ten acres. Reasonably low
bottom land should be used-he would
not recommend this plan for up lands
without irrigation. He stated that Mr..
Crow, five miles east of Paris, cleared
last year over $500 per acre on cabbage.
There IS probably one important thing
connected with the planting that Mr..
Mabee neglected to mention-he dou 6t-
less, after sowing and lightly covering
the seed, firms the soil over 1t. without
this the chahces for getting good stand
at time when there is no rain would
certainly not be good, even on bottom
land. Stepping heavily upon the hill
after covering would be amply sufficient.
Another thing Mr.. Mabee said, is that
he sells his products on the ground or in
person in the foreign markets. He VIII
sell to a commission man on the ground
for cash, but never consigns. This it
seems is a far more reasonable way than
to send products to market to the man
that makes the greatest show in printers
ink, and sends you regularly high and
tempting quotations.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-14

A correspondent OF Popular Gardening
associating the colors of flowers In a
boquet, but she has her secrets. Take
the wild flowers for instance, the mo-
ment we transfer them from their wild
wood home TO our drawing room, the
charm is broken. Nature gives US the
following hints: Don t crowd your flow
ers. Flowers have their affinities and
indlvidualties, and we must respect
them. For example, spike of brilliant
scarlet gladioius, with feathery bunch
of asparagus and dot of white fever
Jews here and there, will light shady
corner like q torch. But smother YOUR
stately blossoms with verbenas, phlox,
geraniums and a host of floral beauties,
and you will only weaken the effect. Put
your scarlets, crimsOns and puppies in
separate clumps. Use white to blend
them, and you cannot fail to pro-
duce a good effect. Yellow is the
sunshine of q boquet, but you must
use it sparingly or it will produce a
glare. But wise choice of this color
always lends cheerfulness. In making
saucer boquets you can use flowers very
choice or with stems so short you would
lose them in other boquets. Rose geran-
ium leaves alternating with tulips make
beautiful edge about any shallow dish;
then lay in balsams, pausies, u tea rose
or any dainty blossom You have, being
careful to have plenty of sweet elyssum
or some ane white flower to blend and
you will be charmed with the result. A
low glass dish filed with damp moss,
edged with geranIum leaves and filled IN
with sweet alyssum for ground work,
then psnsies set starlike against the
wilderness, makes the lovliest center
table ornament l ever saw. By sprink-
ling every morning 1t will keep its fresh
ness much longer than ordinary bo-
Quets. A large shell filled with sand
and smilax, kenilworth ivy or any fine
oreeper falling over the edge, few
purple verbenas, come golden caliopsis
and dash of white, will throw CLEAN
of brightness from bracket shelf.
Select roses of delicate white or creamy
neutral tint, for the flowers should be
the point of color.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-14
stantly going on around them in conse-

stantly going on around them in conse-
quence.
Such is the case on the farm, esps-
clally; very few farmers are given to con-
sidering how much these little things
amount TO in the course OF year. Al
though quite Insignificant, when con-
sidered individually, these trifies count
up amazingly, directly and Indirectly,
in twelve month.
little mouse hole in the grain bin is
not particularly alarming, and the
farmer thinks that, in his hurry. 1t is
hardly worth noticing, but before the
year has closed several dollars may have
cTept out there. little leak in the
roof Is so common, and of itself such
triting affair, that it very seldom gets
proper attention in the way of repairs,
yet the constant dropping of water upon
the plastering below may cost several
dollars worth of work to be expended in
repairs. when a few minutes OF time on
the roof would have prevented it.
Whatever it is, and however trit1ing it
may appear, it will surely save much
after loss and vexation to attend to any
little matters, about the farm, similar to
the ones above ment ioned. If not at
tended to they will absorb the profits, or
perhaps prevent any from accruing.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-14
Texas Has Everything,

For a time reaching back into the
misty past people have been trying to
find some use for the sunflower, but
without much success. They bowed 1t
up as the yielder, in its seeds, OF fine
poultry feed. After good deal of
training mixed in with more or less
starvation poultry could be led into eat
ing the seeds, but it was soon found that
to produce by culture a bushel of sun
flower seeds would cost about as much as
to produce ten bushels of corn. Failing
at this point they tried to get the plant
on the list as marvellous preventive to
malaria. They held up to public view
that a few sunflower plants growing
about the house would cause malaria to
fight shy of those particular premises,
and that thing took rather well for a
time. II there were sunfiowers on the
place, ana the people living there didn't
happen to get the "chills,'' they
promptly gave the sunflowers credit for
having kept the "chills' away. If they
got the "chiils'' despite the war made
upon them by the suufiowers they con-
cluded the "chills'' were contracted at
some time while out of the protecting in
fiuence of the plants, and so kept their
faith. Finally it became pretty generally
known that the regular suDfiower was
wild weed in Texas and grew in greatest
profusion in those regions where malaria
did most abound, consequently, on this
account, the malaria preventing theory
had to go by the board.
But now it comes to pass that the sun
flower has suddenly popped to the sur
face as one of the most useful plants We
have. 1t is to fill long-felt want, aud
Texas is to get credit for having made
the discovery.
After q few years worry over what we
should 90 to be saved from the jute bag
ging trust, in the course of which time
all manner of plants were put through
the mills in search of fibre that would
work as substitute for jute, some one
has bethought him of testing the wild
sunfiower, making yellow every gully in
the prairies of Texas. Mirable dictu! EI-
rekdi The sunfiower yields fibre in
great abundance that will I'LL the place
of jute to T. And now the star of the
sunflower is up. Arrangements for
working 1t are being rapidly made. We
understand that q factory in Fort Worth
will be making suntiower fibre in
short time, and shipping it to bagging
weavers in other sections, and 1t is more
than probable that large quantities of it
will be worked here. The jute problem
seems to have been solved at last.
Moral: If you people of any other
state need anything that you can't find
at home come over and LOOK for it in
Texas.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-14

horticulture, there is no denying the fact
that in some things California has little
the bulge on us just at present. Wen
soon be entirely abreast and apast, how
ever, and therefore we are not now ask
ing California any odds; still while we
are pulling up it may afford US kind of
recreation to study, in q moment OF
leisure, how California is managing it.
a contributor to the latest issue of the
American Agriculturist, New York
says the California culturists are near ell
running speclalties. He is himself a
resident of California, and he lately
took it upon himself to make a note of
the occupation for livelihood pursued
by all his nearest neighbors. 4 raised
onions and winter potatoes, giving at
tention to no other crop; B had straw
berry farm; had an orchard of cherries
and peaches; grew only sugar beets for
nelghborins factory; f made his living
out OF early peas; staid by alfalfa and
cattle, and pinned his faith TO corn and
hogs; II had a market garden, while 1 =,
J and X were trying the whole gamut of
the high class orchard, from apricots to
grapes.
1t is q common thing to find agricul-
tural writer's advocating diversified farm
ing. "Raise little of everything, -
they say. Well, that may be q safe
way, hence we have nothing to offer
against it. Still, it need not be denied
that the man with q specially stands
better chance of carrying that specially
to a high degree of perfection than be
would have of carrying to perfection half
a dozen different things upon which ne
cessity called for division OF his
thoughts
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-14
HOMEGROWN Seeds.

Mr.. Afford H. Copeland of Springfield,
Mass. says it is claimed by many that
foreign is better than American seed and
that home-grow seed cannot be as good !,
as 1t is impossible to grow it here as well
as in France. Germany or England. Let
us consider this matter q little and see If
it is really SO. The fact seems to be that
in these countries there are specialists
who grow but very few varieties, and
who devote their attention to nothing
else. They make study Of these kinds
and carefully select and allow to seed
only those which are typical of the vari-
cites grown, so of course the seed Is
good. Ii American seed-growers did
the same, there would not seem to be
any good reason why results should not
be the same.
Americans are clogged in their efforts
to run such specialties by our Wholesale
condemnation of homegrown seed and
the landing of foreign by the large ma
jority of retailers. II they would be a
little more judicious in their remarks of
this kind and give our specialists some
inducement we would have all the good
seed that could be used.
As an Illustration of how these retail
ers act the writer narrates a little eX-
perience of his own had with them.
Having some pansy seed to sell he visited
various dealers with them. He was met
with an invariable question: "Was the
seed imported?' In receiving an
answer in the negative they refused to
take or even look at them. Finally one
of them happened to see them and took
the whole lot. Now these very same re-
tailers wish to have plants for next sea-
son from the same strain of seed. The
grower has become discouraged and en-
gagged in other branches so it cannot be
procured.
1t has long been a settled point in our
own opinion that America ought to grow
all her own seeds-they would be better
than imported seeds on account of being
acclimated. We go even further to the
extent of taking the position that each
section of this country should grow Its
own seeds as far as possible. The people
are beginning to find out for themselves
the advantages of such a course. Twenty
wears ago all the seed corn and seed Irish
potatoes used in the Southern states was
brought from tine North, but now home
grown seed in these lines is used almost
exclusively in most of our states. 1t has
been established that the homegrown
seed gives much the best results.
In an article of some weeks ago we
stated that so soon as plant from other
sections was introduced into Texas ne
ture at once fell to work in an effort to
Texauize it; that is. make it some
what different in variety from what it
was IN the region whence it was brought.
This work of nature is 3 waste of energy,
30 to speak, hence the plant cannot do
its best until it is so far naturallzed that
nature can turn her whole powers to-
wards Its development. The same po-
sitiou may be taken to argue in favor of
native-grown seeds for Texas. Being
more ct home they would undoubtedly
give better results than seeds from some
distant section. We fully believe that
Texas ought to raise all her seeds. There
is not a thing, whatever, in the way to
prevent her doing 1t.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-14
Alfalfa Seed Wanted.

noticed in Sundays GAZETTE a communica-
ton from o. C. VIM of Waco, and a reply
from you with reference to growing alfalfa.
am much interested in the subject myself and
fully believe that alfalfa would do well in this
part of Texas; am willing to risk it if / can get
the seed. Please let me know where can get
the seed and at what price, also the best time
to SOW. think this land will grow anything
that the climate will admit of. ". A. AsH.
Vernon. Texas.
We have had several letters on the
same subject Do not at present know
where the seed could be had, nor what
the price would be. Suppose any Cali
fornia seed dealer might supply you.
Late fall or early winter is the time most
commonly recommended for sowing al
falfa.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-14
TWO ROADS.


l must do rs you do? Your way own,
Is very good way, and still
There are sometimes two straight roads to town.
One over, one under the hill.
You are treading the safe ana well-worn way
That the prudent choose each time.
You think me reckless and rash to-day,
Because / prefer to climb.
Your path is the right one. SO is minei
We are not, like peas in poo,
Compelled to lie in a certain line,
Or else to be scattered abrO adj.
'Twere a dull old world, methinks, my friend.
II we all wenu just one way.
Yet our paths will meet, no doubt, at the end,
Though they lead apart to-day.
You like the shade, like the sun;
You like an even pace,
like to mix with the strong and run,
And then rest after the race.
l like danger storm and strife,
You like peaceful time:
like the passion and surge of life,
You like gentle rhyme.
You like buttercups dewy and sweet,
And croCuses framed in snow;
l like the roses born or the heat,
and the red Carnation' glow.
1 must live my life, not yours, my friend,
For so il was written down.
We must follow our own gwen paths to the end
But hope we shall meet in town.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-14
The Pecan on High Land.

Do you think the pecan tree would do well
enough on our high prairie lands to in tify one
in putting out a grove Several ueighbOrs are
waiting for your opinion. FARMER.
Navarro county, Texas.
1t would depend good deal upon cir
cumstances. If your land has an under
lie of rock at a short distance beneath
the surface, as much of the high prairie
lands nave, we would not recommend the
planting of pecan trees upon it. But if
there is no regular bed of rock nearer the
surface than fifteen or twenty feet, then
doubtless pecan trees would do very well
for you.
The pecan tree must have clear sailing
for putting down long tap root TO make
il a first-class success. Bottom lands al
ways suit the pecan best, still we d plant
on upland if we had no bottom land con-
venient, and there was not q bed of rocks
too near the surface. Loose or detached
rocks might do no harm, but regular
stratum of rock near the surface would
certainly be against the pecan.