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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-07
FARM AND eARpEs NOTES.


''Plow deep while sluggards sleep"
Raise plenty of carrots for the horses
Keep the poultry house and yard dry.
Make good seed bed before planting
Don't put implicit faith in novelties.
All food for plants must be soluble to
be available
Do not remove the mulch from trees
and plants too early.
Don't get plants or seeds from neg
lectful neighbors or from old ranches
Don't plant largely for anything that
demands greatest attention when farm
work is most pressing.
Cream can be kept sweet until wanted
for churning by keeping it at low tenn
perature, but it must be stirred twice
day.
Little grains of butter do not absorb
brine, but each grain becomes coated
with a film of brine, which salts II suf-
ficiently to suit most tastes
When the claims of honey, both as
food and medicine, are set forth, the peo-
pie are glad to hear and believe them
They test them and are satisfied.
On warm, still days, when honey is
coming in, the bees are as gentle as house
flies, but as there are times when they
might sting, smoker is a necessity.
Feed regularly and in variety Hide
the grains in chaff or leaves, and let the
fowls hunt and scratch them out Never
throw hHge masses of food before them if
You wish them to do we'll
When boys and men climb into
Yong and thrifty fruit tree in the grow
ing season they should not wear heavy
boots with nails in them Rubber shoes
or slippers, or even the bare feet, are
much safer than coarse boots
How mauy of us are starting the COM
ing season keeping strictly business set
of accountsf How many will content
themselves when the season il over bv
guessing that they have done about thus
and SO, or that bee keeping don't pay,
No person can be a really accomplished
driver who does not know a good deal
about the natural disposition of horse
why he obeys and when he will be
liable to disobey, how to educate him,
and how to take advantage of that educa-
ton.
When setting out the bees on their
summer stands arrange them so they will
present neat appearance. Have every
fhinu about 4,a oniorv That ,,.;il
look nice and inviting. Some may Say
that this is book Bookkeeping, but it is
business.
One of the very best articles for mulch.
ing is salt hay 1t is tough in texture,
lies close, is not easily disturbed by the
wind, and, if stacked or sheltered after
the crop is gathered, will last three sea
sons. In addition, it has no seeds to
grow and disseminate.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-07

Loring G. Parmalee, the nunismatist
of Boston, a former resident of Whining
ton, Vt, has sold his valuable and unique
collection of American coins to New
York persons, who are to sell them at
public auction. The collection comprises
about 5000 pieces, many of which are
uncirculated, and is thought the most
valuable single collection of United
States coinage in the world and is 9slued
at SIS, 900 Mr. Parmaiee has been
about twenty years securing this collec-
ton, which includes the rare 1904 dol.
lar, for which he paid $3.50, although it
has since nearly doubled in value, and
specimen of every gold coin from 1875
down TO the present date, the best as.ort-
ment known. Some of the rare pieces of
colonial coinage in this cabinet are val.
ued as high as $1,000 each. An unsuc-
cessful effort was made to secure these
coins for the Government, 1t being a
more nearly complete collection even than
the one in the Philadelphia Mint
Springfield Republican.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-07
DATA OF TOMATOES.

So largely has consumption of tomatoes
increased that their yield in New Jersey
is now of equal value with that of wheat,
and exceeded only by hay, Indian corn
and potatoes. A useful table from the
New Jersey Experiment Station shows
that tomatoes remove from the soil much
more potash than any other ordinary
crop, excepting timothy hay; about the
same amount of phosphorie acid as rye,
wheat and oats; twice as much as pota-
toes and half as much as corn or timo-
thy. For supplying for tomato crop
nitrogen additional to what was available
In the soil of a msrket-garden in Middle
sex County-sandy loan, level and in
good ondition-nitrate of soda was
used When used in small quantity, or
in divided applications, it both increased
the yield and the earliness of maturity,
otherwise only the yield-this favoring
growth for eanneries, but not the profits
of grower for market; 100 pounds of
nitrate per acre, used alone, produced
$40. Is more net gain than double that
amount 1920 pounds, or S14.4S more
when divided into two applications May
z and June ~ But used with the sd-
dltion of potash (muriate) and phosphoric
acid (superphosphatel the larger quantity
produced most net gain, namely, $40. II,
when applied all at once or S48 when
used IN two applications. -NeU York
Tribune.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-07
WENT TO CUT TrMREs.

The exact time at WHICH timber should
be feiled for durability is one of the
things each man can best find out for
himself. The quality Of timber depends
greatly on the treatment it receives after
telling and the uses to which it is put.
1t is quite generally admitted that timber
trees should not be cut when filled with
sap, and the usual custom is to do it in the
dormant season, but whether early or late
In the winter is not well determined. and
most people choose the time without much
regard total OF winter. Where the tim
Der is to lie exposed and unseasoned in
the long winter climate of the North,
prefer March to December. For the
South midwinter would probably be pre-
terable, but to insure durability for farm
purposes ] believe as much or more de-
ponds on the care taken in seasoning it
as on the time when it is felled. -Nso
Yorb World.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-07

A middle-aged woman, dressed in an
olive green cloth Newmarket, and carry
ing a skye terrier, tried to gain admis-
sion into the smoking car of the Pough-
keepsie train which left the Grand Cen
trail depot the other morning. The con-
ductor said "No dogs are admitted
there. That is the smoking car, madam. -
Please let me in, :" she pleaded, and she
appealed to the conductor so earnestly
that he allowed her to enter.
Rapidly walking up the centre of the
smoking car the woman took vacant
seat next to smooth shaver, stout, but
somewhat seedy looking man, and kissed
him. The man was hsndcuffed to two
others who sat on the opposite seat, one
Of whom was colored man. They were
.convicts on their way to Sing Sing TO
work out Their sentences. The stout man
was the woman's husband The little
SKYE terrier was 50 glad to see his former
master that he literally licked away the
Tears that trickled down the prisoners
cheeks
The man and woman eonversed ear
nestly in an undertone, and as soon as
the train was in motion the woman pulled
out thick roll of greenbacks and drew
the mans attention to them, as though
to assure him that she was not unpro-
giCled for
Then the train peddler came along and
he woman bought six of the very best
cigars he had, and forced them upon the
short man, who gave couple apiece TO
ais fellow prisoners. The scene was 50
pathetic that more than one passenger
soughed and wiped his nose theoretically
10 conceal his emotion. The prisoner
was George Wilson, who will serve three
and 4 half years for burglary Men York
Nsses.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-07

There are few uses to which land can
be put that will, under favoriug circum-
stances, pay larger money return per
acre than in growing onions from seed.
Yields of from five hundred to eight
hundred bushels are sometimes harvested
from i single acre, and in former
years one dollar per bushel has not been
infrequently obtained The knowledge
of such possibilities has often tempted
farmers into the cultivation of this crop
without due preparation and without
proper knowledge of the requirements
essential to success. The result has been
not only money loss, but such dis
ooHagement as has precluded further
ventures. Onions are an expensive crop
to grow. and during their early stages
demand great amount of steady and
hard work that is most unpleasant to re-
member when the effort has resulted only
in failure. Among the drawbacks to
success which beginners will encounter,
are:
First, the effort to do too much. It
seems, on paper, as if anyone shonld be
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-07
TO CONSTRUCT A cHKAr ICE rorsE.

TO CONSTRUCT A CHEAP ICE HOUSE.
1t Is not at all necessary that family
ice house should be an expensive struc-
ture, but, quite to the contrary; one
which will serve the purpose excellently
and add to the attractions of a home
stead even may be cheap built. "A
building II feet square and or Q feet
high Is sufficient for the want of the most
exacting family. 1t may be a frame
building entirely above the surface of
the ground, and better if elevated on
posts few inches high, to be certain of
good drainage. Built of ioists 2x3
inches, with an outer boarding, having
inside another series of uprights, also
boarded, from six to ten inches removed
from the outer shell, with solid floor
of plank, the space between the two
walls filed with bark, saw-dust, OF
chatt, and a roof of good pitch, the ice
house is complete. A drain for water
should be made from the floor. and the
pitch of the roof filed with straw, hav.
or some similar dry, porous material. On
the roof should be ventilator, the top
defended from rain OF snow The ice
should be packed in one solid mass,
allowing space all around of from six
to twelve inches from the inner walls
The top of the ice should be covered
with straw, and double doors made, one
on the outer and the other in the inner
wall Plant some climbing VINE around
the building, training them to creep
over the walls and roof as an additional
defense against the fervid, summer sun.
Such an ice-house would prove con-
venlent as refrigerator, preserving
foods and the products of the dairy
Courier ,Ion1nol
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-07

1t would almost seem as if our globe
were always trying to escape from the
thraldom of the sun, who, knowing how
fatal to us such an escape would be, in
cessantly interferes to prevent it. II only
the sun were to withhold that attractive
power by which the earth IS maintained
in the course at present followed, dire
calamity must result This globe of
ours is now hurrying along at a pace
of eighteen miles a second, and if the
suns attraction no longer restrained us
we should not continue to revolve in
circle, but would at once start off in a
straight line through space, Every min
ute would take us more than thousand
miles, and by the time hundred days
had elapsed we should be twice as far
from the sun as we are at present. His
light and his heat would be reduced to
one-fourth part of what we now enjoy.
With every successive minute the suns
influence would still further abate. and
il is almost needless to add that all
known forms of life must vanish from the
globe. 1t is, therefore, satisfactory to
know that we possess every security that
the suns attraction will never decline
from what it is at the present moment,
and therefore there is no ground for any
apprehension that life shall be chased
from this globe by dissolution of the
bond of attraction between the earth and
the sun. Good Words.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-07

moan that the human voice can utter rose
from that heap of agony. and the cries Of
'Water' For the love OF God, waterl
DOCTOR A doctorr never ceased.
After war has wrought such cruelties,
how glad we will be to have the Old Monster
himself die Lst his dying couch be spread
in some dismantIed fortress, through which
the stormy winds howl. Give him for a pill
low battered shield, AMI let his bad be hard
with the rusted bayonsts of the slain Cover
him with the coarsest blanket that picket
ever wore, and LET his only cup be the
bleached bone of one of his war chargers, and
the last tapsr by his bsisids expire as the
midnight blast signs into his ear tine can
die Of the wicked shall be put out
Tonight against the sky of the glorious
future | sea great blazs- 1t is 8 foundry
in full blast. The workmen have stirred tas
fires anti the furnaces ara ssven times
heated. The last wagon load of the worlds
swords has been hauled into the foundry.
and they are tumoied into the furnaces ara
they begin to glow and re1den and melt and
in kissing and sparkling liquid they roll on
down through the crevice of rock until they
fall into a mold shaped like the iron foot of a
pillow. Then the liquid cools of into hard
metal. and, brought out on an anvil, it is
beaten and pounded aa1 fas lioned, stroke
after stroke, until that which was weapon
10 reap hargests of men becomes an nipple
ment turning the soil for harvests of corn.
the sword having become the plowshare.
Officers and comrades of the Thirteenth
Regiment of State Militia After another
year of pleasant acquaintance | hail you
with a Sanitation all made up of good
wishes and prayers Honored with resi-
dencs iii the best city of the best land
under the sun, let Us dedicate ourselves anew
to God and country and homei In the Eng
lish conflict calle1 The War of the Roses, y
a white rose was the badge of the houss
of York, and the red rose the ba ige of the
house of Lancaster, AMI with thsss two col
ors they opposed each other in battle. To
enlist you in the Holy War for all that is
good against all that is wrong, pin over
your heart two badges, the one suggestive
of the blood shed for our redemption, AMI
the other symbolic of a soul made whits and
clean--the Rose of Sharon aud the Lily of
the Valley. Be these henceforth our regi-
mental symbols Rose and Lily, Lily and
RoSel
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-07
POPULAR SCIENCE.

About 1000, 900 tons of water goes
ever Niagara every minute.
Statistics seem to show that in most
countries insanity is on the increase.
Gearing for electric railways made out
of rawhide is preferred to metal, as it
makes far less noise and wears better.
Duplex telephony, it is now thought,
will play an extremely important part in
the solution of the difficulties in connec-
ton with long distance telephoning,
Austrian petroleum refners buy crude
American oil, mix itwith much inferior
petroleum from the Russian wells and
sell the mixture as genuine American
kerosene
Since certain sections of the tobacco
growing district in the South have been
lighted by electricity, the ravages of the
tobacco worm are said to have been
greatly reduced.
At a recent meeting Of committee
of the Royal Horticultural Society,
plant was exhibited, proving that dis
tinct step has been made in the cultiva-
ton of the deep-blue primrose
The Germans. are said TO be much in,
terested in NJ. Paul Giffard's repeating
air rife, well named 1.-the miracle gun. J"
1t uses steel cartridge about foot long
and as thick as mans thumb, which is
charged with liqueied air and contains
three hundred shots The shots are ex-
PEELED with great force and accuracy, and
without flash or smoke. The weapon Is
very inexpensive
A recent invention consists of fender
for street railway cars run by electricity.
1t presents platform capacious
enough to receive victim so unfor
tunate as to be caught upon the track be-
fore a car At slope before 1t is a
heavy four-ply rubber betting, pliable
enough to pass over paving stones and
similar objects, but sufficiently rigid to
prevent an arm or leg from being drawn
under the fender.
In some experiments lately made in
England to test the merit of electric
welding, a one and a half inch iron bar
was welded both by mems of electricity
and by hand The former stood strain
of 81 8 per cent. of the strength of the
metal itself and the latter 1913 per cent.
The electric weld, however, showed
cracks when bent cold at an angle of
sixty-six degrees, whereas the hand made
joint stood 13S degrees Of bend.
The rolling of pipe iron by hydraulic
machinery has proved successful at
Wheatland, Penn. Huge slabs of iron,
weighing hundreds of pounds are pulled
from the furnace, placed on long iron
bed, which moves forward, upward,
downward and literally. pushing the
mass through rolls, with result III every
respect satisfactory The whole opera
ton requires the attendance Of but one
or two employees, who control the ma
chinery by few simple levers 1t is
the only machine of the kind in the
world
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-07

A little girl not long since wrote TO
the New York Ncos to know where she
could get a new head for her dolie,
which she dearly loved She was fur
nished with the information through the
"Answers to Correspondents column.
The reporter, thinking that there might
be many other little girls whose dolls
needed hospital treatment, made some
investigation about the subject. He
found that dolls could be furnished, be-
sides heads, with new arms, legs. wigs
and eyes, and the latter, when they TO
fused to close when bedtime came, could
be made to do 50.
Heads for French dolls with real hair
may be had for from 81 so to S. while
those for German dolls are worth from
thirty five cents to $3.50. The eyes of
French dolls are stationary, but when
the movable eyes of the German dolls get
out of order they can be mended at a
cost of from thirty-fve cents to 81 The
heads of both classes of dolls are Of
bisque, but the French heads are much
Gner, being nearly transparent, and the
faces much more beautifully nodded.
Sometimes these heads are furnished
with ear rings. Wigs of real hair cost
from fifty cents TO 81.
The German dolls are the finest that
are made, and range in price from few
dollars TO 500, or even more when ac-
eompanied, as they sometimes are, by an
extensive wardrobe.
What are known in the trade as tone
dolls, that is, those who say papa aud
mamma" are of German manufacture
When they become dumb they can have
speech restored by proper treatment 1t
costs from fifty cents upward If doll
loses its arm or leg it can obtoin new
one for from fifty cents to 81
No operation has yet been performed
on the latest novelties in the doll line,
those that recite Little Bo- Peep, Two
Little Blaokbirds Sat on a Hill, "Jack
and Gill, etc, but doubtless some
specialist win take the matter up.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-07
CALLS BY HARNESS

When the harness rubs the skin, il
should be softened ~ a good soaking
with hot water and then well oiled with
castor oil. A piece Of sheep skin with
the wool on it should be fastened on the
tugs where they press on the skin. This
gals may be busted with calomel, which
IS the best application that can be made.
1t may be applied by means of puff
made OF cotton batting. Collar gals may
be prevented by sottening the collar As
above suggested, and by washing the
horses neck every evening with salt
water. Pads are Objectionable, as they
produce sweating, which causes the skin
to be chsfed--Nem York Times.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-07
A Clearer idea Manfpd.

well, sir, what is it p said the pro-
prietor of the store to the young man
who had entered his office.
ut Just occurred to me that large
proportion of my daily work consisted
in hollering cash."
"No doubt"
"And ~ week is the extent of my
income from this establishment ?"
Yes"
well, I wanted to know whether
you couldn't arrange it and give me a
little clearer idea Of what am talking
about during the course of my duties. ;"
- WaShin0 ton Post.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-07
NOTES AND COMMENTS

NJ AI0 fA1NO YIN tA1tts
BARON NoRpENsKJoLD, the Swedish
explorer, proposes to see whether he can
get nearer to the South Pole than any one
else has done. He has $50, 900 pledged
for the purposes of his expedition, and
he proposes to set out in 1891, during the
summer of the southern hemisphere. Ex-
plorers have never reached so high south
ern as northern attitudes, and their voy-
ages have never been very profitable from
either the commercial or the scientific
point of view The cold is more intense
in the Antarctic than in the Arctic region,
and less animal life has been found there.
1t is possible, but not at all probable,
that Baron Nordenskjold may find
southern seal fishery or something else of
commercial value It is almost certain
that whatever land may be found is GOV,
cred with mass of ice and almost in
capable of supporting animal life, while
any mineral treasures which may exist
there are buried beyond discovery. Tho
expedition is unquestionably destined to
undergo great hardships, with every
prospect of infnitesimal results, both
practical and scientific.
c. S. NICHOLS, editor OF the Salt Lake
Times, thinks tho Mormons are gradually
DESERVING Utah, and that before long
there will be only few of them left in
the Territory "The Mormons who want
to practice polygamy," he said recently,
"will be all out of our Territory before
long. They get away so quietly that we
don't miss them One syndicate has
State of chihuahua, Mexico, and thither
they go. Two years ago the Mormons
defeated us at the polls by $50 votes
This year we beat them by about 800 In
the two years our vote was increased BY
only sixty-fve. | believe that some 2,00e
Mormon families have left Utah within
the last two years. They found that the
Edmunds law would eventually stop the
practice of poiygsmy, and as they are
bound to that faith they will practice it.
If prohibited in Utah, they will go where
there is no restraint upon them"
THE French Government, admonished
by the comparative dearth of births, has
decided to give certain advantages to
lathers OF more IMAM seven chiiaren.
census mas Accordingly peeh taken, anu
the results are OF an interesting character.
IL appears there are 2,Voo, wv houscholds
where tnere mas oeen no chilo' ooo, Ooo
IN wnlcn .here was put one; 2,9oo,ooo,
Two chlioreni l,ooo ooo, three; about
1000, 900, four; $50, 600, FIVE; $50, 900,
,,r 80 60 e., 81 49,. $3.50; -, ,tt -
al ct a. Ia "a w ~eais A.
1870 800, i; Ira'an i"i A00 y Yin
a.i0N - PA'onS'
iHE German emperor having issued an
oroer suppreSsihg the use Oh all frencn
words IN the postal service, the Gar mas
entagonlzeo u by a circular winch de-
clafes that all letters, kilograms ana pack
F2onob "a tIa pm 'io " ,t IT, $50 II; m
No. he ,os ,, tar ~ 80 20
anv nail mattar tha a' .U ~ eta addr~aod
that Ianrnano If naol-nosos 80, 80 son.
abroad 1, ;S tLe Russian ' Ionas,aae mb;cb i
NOT n he succeed at tbere Is 9o Ln ,Ir
abere tbev would go 70 ~ ~ ----' "
80,
a FAIR 70 r9lSe money lot ciiaTitaole
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-07
Courtship Among the Esquimaux.

The eourtship of the Esquimaux is pc
culiar. The old folk get together and ar.
range the match. The question then
arises: as he able to support a wifelr
In order to answer this to the satisfac-
ton of all parties. he is required to go
out and kill Polar bear. As soon as he
has done this, he comes in sad sneaks
behind the door of his sweetheart's house,
and, when she comes out, he tries to
pounce upon her and carry her to his
dog-sledge- If she can get away, she
does 50, kicking, scratching and biting
like a perfect fury. He gives chase,
whereupon all the old women rush out
and beat her with frozen strips of seal
skin until she falls exhausted, lie then
rushes her TO She sle,ige, whips up the
dogs, and the marriage ceremonies aye all
over,