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The Forrest City times., 1891-07-17
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
MINERAL FERTILIZER MUST BE
 APPLIED.
MsnurrnE tho Soil With Clover Is Not Enough-Uncheck Your Horses When You Can-Farm Notes
 and Household Hints.
Make the Most of Man uro.

In farming, as in every other busi- ness, success depends upon the use made of capital. If used as it should oe to get quick returns, the business pays it's way; or if it does not. the farmer quickly discovers the fact and changes his practice accordingly. The fact that part of the manure applied to crops is not immediately used by them, but remains for future years, confuses farmers about their business moro than anything else, says the American Cultivator. It is not always possible to tell whether combining the immediate and the ultimate benefit the manure applied is profitable or other wise. Usually, however, if the crop does not at once pay. there Is some change at once needed. either in crop, manure or methods of cultivation.
 There need be no fear that trying to make manure as immediately effective as possible will tend to exhaustion of the soil. Exhaustion comes rather from neglect of great restorative agen- cies, like clover and grass, which help to save what would otherwise be lost. Grow as largo crops of grain as farmer may, his land is not exhausted if he sows clover with every grain crop, and allows it to grow so as to fill the soil with roots, feeding the clover hay to stock and returning ma- nure to the soil. Using the commer- eial fertilizers thus grows more clover and grass and the mineral clements in the fertilizer return to the soil all that the grain sold from the farm re- moves, and usually something besides. The system of blowing under clover every other year and sowing wheat will, in time, make the land incapable of producing more clover unless other fertilizers are applied. but this need not be feared where clover is cut and fed to stock, and mineral fertilizers are used to restore what the grain re- moves. Excepting for its mineral fertility land can be kept in good con- dition by liberal seeding with clover, and tbe careful use of fertilizers made on the farm. But enough mineral fertilizer must be applied to enable crops to use all the nitrogenous ele- ments in the soil. else some of these are certain to be wasted lily balanced manures for crops are nearly if not quite as wasteful us poorly balanced rations for stock
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-17
Tips For the Table.

PicELEp OYsTERs.-Bring quart of oysters to boil in their own liquor. Scald pint of vinegar and sprinkle salt and pepper over the oysters when taken from the stove, then pour the vinegar over them and serve.
 CORN PIE.-With sharp knife slice the grains from fiveears of corn. Beat this in with three eggs, pint of milk, tablespoonful oi butter, and salt and pepper to taste. Pour into pudding dish, and bake twenty five minutes.
 APPLE GRippLE CAKEs.--Make a bat ter of flour and milk and eggs; stir in- to 1t enough chopped apple to have the fruit we'll represented in each cake; fry on griddle and eat with maple syrup.
 A good tea cake that dyspeptic can eat without injury if cold. One cup of sugar, one egg, a half cupful of sour cream, the same of sweet milk, a. small teaspoonfnl of soda, a little salt and nutmeg bake an hour before tea time, so that the cake may have time to cool.
 COOKING CTESsILs.-They ought to be put where they will be at once con- venient and open to the air and light. The whole kitchen and all its acces- sory apartments, pantries, closets, etc, should be flooded with light, and so arranged that they can be thorough ly ventilated, |
 BOILED DRIED BEEF.-For a piece of dried beef weighing two pounds, al- low two hours steady boiling Re- move from the fire and allow the beef to stand ill the water until cold. This beef, cut In thin slices, will be found very nice for luncheon or light sup pers.
 BAKED SHRrMPs. Boil, for twenty minutes. in well salted water, one plate of shrimps. Drain, peel, and chop very fine. Add three eggs, table spoonful of butter, saltspo onful each of black pepper and ground celery; stir together and pour in to a greased pan. Cover with bread crumbs, and bake fifteen minutes. This is delic- ious.
 MoLAssEs CAKE--Three cups of flour, one cupful of brown sugar, one third of cupful of butter; cut the butter up into four, then add tho sugar and mix well with the hands; then add one cuptul of New Orleans molasses, one cupfui of boiling water, and a teasponful of soda dissolved in little vinegar. Stir until perfectlms smooth, and then bake in .6rss shallow pan for three-qus hour, in . moderate ovel
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-17

but they have just been having genu- inc Pennsylvania quarrel with labor, terminating at length in riot Now, however, there will be peace. It has just been announced that, sThe pres ence of militia, it is thought, will pre- vent any further bloodshed.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-17
ABOUT THE WOMEN FOLKS.
INTERESTING GOSSIP FOR THE
 WOMEN FOLKS.
What to Wear--A Piucky Woman Coming of Crinoline-- Matrons as Horoines In FiCtion--The
 Girl on a Wheel.
What to Wear.

The chic of new gowns lies in the bodice, as skirts are uniformly plain. The fancy of the moment is for bodices with jacket fronts, short and jaunty Zouaves, or Figaros cut in new and varied ways. The top of the jacket is sometimes shaped in two square corners above the armholes, with lap ping stitched edges falling on a full vest-a pretty fashion for snowflake wools or fine mohairs. Other jacket fronts are formed entirely of wide moire sash ribbon over crepon bod ice; lace Zouaves are on crepe de Chine gowns; very square revers or gathered jabot revers edge other Souaves; and an entire jacket of crepon (sleeveless. of course) is worn over bodice of India silk.
 Another fancy considered extremely stylish Is that of putting a vest of black mousseine do sole in wool gowns of very light colors. Thus a Newport dress of pinkish-mauve yelling has round bodice, with short Figaro front turned back in little revers from a full gathered vest of black silk muslin, this vest IS set under a short square yoke and collar of white Irish lace of very open pattern, and is gathered in at the waist line under a girdle of the lace, which IS quite narrow there, but widens gradually on the sides to form a broad corselst in the back; a little coat irill of the lace Is set on just in the middle of the back. The high col lar is a strc ight puff of the black mousseline, with bit of fthe white lace above 1t, fastened in the back upper a small bow of mousseline. The skirt. with bias seam down the back, is cut slightly longer. A lovely house gown of yellow crepon-the design woven in boyadere stripes-has similar vest of black chiffon, with yoke, corselet, and collar of white guipure lace studd- ed with let cabochons.
 White dotted lawns have designs of fruits and leaves, one especially gay having clusters of red cherries with their dark green leaves. Otherlawns, with China blue inch stripes alternat- ing with pink stripes, are trimmed with white point d'esprit lace used as bretelles on the bodice and as inser- tions in ruffles that form a coat irill and fiounces on the skirt.
 Vatican designs of baskets of flow CTS rival the familiar bow-knot pat terms on new India silks, gauges, and nets-piece nets and laces for founces as well. Baskets of roses and forget me-nots are overturned on cream white silks, the flowers strewing the light ground; vtolets and carnations are heaped in yellowish baskets on black India silks. Jetted baskets em- broidered in tine-cut beads are on thin meshed black nets, while heavier nets have the basket design wovenin them.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-17
The Importancs of Che Dairy.

The dairy industry has developed
 and grown in this country during the
 last two decades until it now chal-
 lenges attention as one of the first if
 not the most important of our agricul-
 tural interests It is safe to say that those engaged in it are among the
 most progressive aud intelligent of our people and that it has received more attention in the way of studying and urging improved methods from the best authorities in both practical and scientific lines, and in urging Legislation favorable to its interests during the recent year, than any other branch of our agriculture. A reason for this is found in the fact that it em- braces a wider range of labor and more accurate knowledge to insure profitable returns says the Stockman and Farmer. The manufacture of good butter and cheese is coming to be recognized as among the fine arts of agriculture; and while we trust that those most directly interested will make progress toward such similarity of manufacture as will secure greater uniformity in products, we just as sin cerely hope that there will be no dis position to bow down to that spirit of narrowness and prejudice that meas ures material or mental products by the methods of the producer. If the product is good, if it stands the test of an exacting market and meets the favor of the consumer then the pro- ducer is entitled to his credit as pro- ducer in his line. Quality in product is not dependent entirely on exact uni formity in method. That method is good which results in product of the first quality. Quality is the measure of skill. What we want is dairymen whose butter and cheese attest to their of their business.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-17
A. PROMINENT manufacturer ot

A PROMINENT manufacturer of tin ware says that the increase of prices for tin plate, caused by the passage of the Mckinley law, amounted up to July l to $7,00o. 900. On that date the Me kinley duty took effect, and during the first year of it's existence it may be safely said that this Mckinley tax will cost the consumer at least SI5, ,OOO, GOO.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-17
Farm Notea


 The best assimilAted food is that whiaa the animal craves. aa. A light feed twice day is better than s heavy feed once.
 More horses are injured by underfeed. ing than hard work.
 One of the principal advantages with sorghum as n soiling crop is that 1t stands drouth better.
 It is poor economy to compel . COW to walk all day in the pastures to secure enough to eat.
 In breeding to improve. with all kinds of stock, the animal must be well devel. oped as well as matured.
 Cutting meadows early will thicken up the meadows much better than to allow the plants to mature seed.
 With all crops it is m item to store so as to save labor again in feeding out; this is an item whether of hay or grain.
 Oats cut before they are fully ripe, we'll cured, and then run through cutting box makes good feed for the work teams. Let the time for laying by the corn be determined by the season, the condition of the soil and the growth and thrift of the plants.
 No matter how good the quality of the milk or cream, if care is not taken in the manufacture the quality of the butter will be spoiled.
 While it is an item to reduce the cost as much as possible, it should not be done at the expense of the crop, especially in giv- ing the cultivations.
 Properly fed no class of animals dress to better advantage than hogs of the bet ter breeds. Some only lose as much as twelve per cent of offal
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-17
Househ old Hints.

Patient rubbing with chloroform will remove paint from black silk or any other material.
 The molasses to be used for ginger bread is greatly improved by being first boiled, then skinned
 The oftener carpets are shaken tho longer they wear; the dust cuts the fiber of woven goods.
 Damp salt will take off the discolora- tions on cups and saucers caused by tea and careless washing.
 To brighten carpets wipe them with warm water in which has been poured Q few drops of ammonia.
 Galy anized iron pails for drinking water should not be used. The zinc coating is readily acted upon by the water, forming poisonous oxide of zinc
 When large flower pots are used, there will be more leaves than flowers. Often plants do not bloom because, having so much space, their strength is expended in forming roots and leaves.
 It is best to soak all onions for an hour or two in cold water. This removes their greenncss, and if baked afterward they are more delicate. Boiling seems to con. centrate the odor of tho onion.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-17

LIKE good general the COW always fights flies successfully by many flank movements.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-17
Athletic Gowns.

In these days when lawn tennis has become national pastime, habi- makers give special attention to devising pretty, suitable costumes for players.
 This tennis dress, from Redfern, is of thin tennis serge, in delicate shade of shrimp pink. The skirt is plain, but the loose bodice is made of a goods striped with twin hair lines separated by spaces of about two inches. Plain material is introduced in front, and the cuffs and collar, which are ornamented with embroid- cry, complete the bodice.
 The great value of gymnastic exer- cises is beginning to be fully apprecat- ed by our schools for girls. The girls in classes of this kind undergo a thorough training. In English schools, a medical examination of the lungs, heart and spine, to ascertain what exercises will be most beneficial to the scholar, is part of the training. and is an excellent precaution against over or iniudic- ious training. As a rule, gymnastic dresses are exceedingly ugly, and the majority of those students who take the training content themselves with dress of navy blue flannel. simply brightening it with little white braid. Such gown is not conspicu- ous for its pronounced ugliness, be cause 1t can never bevery conspicuous.
 This dress is an attractive one, be- cause 1t is departure from conven- tional gymnastic suits. It is of soft cream-white flannel, trimmed with rows Of broad vieux-rose braid, with row of narrower braid put on in Q curled pattern over it. A soft russet shoe with a perfectly flexible sole is
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-17
A Plucky Woman.

Poor Philip Welch, the humorist, who died literally with a jest upon his lips, toiling manfully at writing funny items tomakc what provision he could for his family even while the shadow of an awful death by cancer was upon him, has left a widow as plucky as himself. Mrs Welch was left with four small children, the youngest only about year old. She kept her home and family together, and is maintaining them by journalis- tic work, to which she was almost unaccustomed when she was forced to take it up, but for which she shows q decided gift. She conducts depart ment upon a Brooklyn paper, and the Sunday column and half in the Times of New York entitled Her Point of View" which is from her pen, and is one of the best journalistic specialties ever developed in New York
 Mrs. Welch tried joke-writing herself at first, but found serious work more in her vein. MT Welch always attrib- uted to her the chief credit of his delic- iously funny series on the Tailor made Girl
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-17
Matrons As Heroines in Fiction.

If the married woman is to be the heroine of the coming novel it must turn on something besides love-mak- ing It must be the story of her career; of her profession or political success; of her painful accession through toilsome decades to the front rank of the doctors; of the money she made and what she did with it. American women are very much alive in these days. There is no special difficulty about writing interesting books about them without using men at all except as puppets or lay figures. -Scribner.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-17
Coming q CrlnolInc.

There are again awful and still loud CT rumors that crinoline ii not the hideous hoop-skirt proper, is loom ing up on fashions horizon. It is certain that skirts are being made by leading ruling ateliers with accentu- ated fullnessat the foot, produced by means of Y gores in the fount ain skirt, and also by full rose puchings. or fan-insertions of silk or lace let in at the lower edge of gowns. while others are fcstooned with tlounces at the hem, or battlemented" or yandyked at the bottom with Il silk pleating beneath Skirts so distended have in times past led by degrees to further increase m volume until there was q elimination in the ugly, grotesque wire cage, devoid of eithergrace or utility New York Eve ninv Post.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-17

A very even distribution of the cut pods should be made over the silo. and heavy pressure given when the ensi. lage is covered" '
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-17
The Girl On a Wheel.

Two conditions are needed for girls perfect bicycle costume, says The La dies Home Journal; looseness, to per init free actions to the muscles, and a dark color. A plain skirt is matter of course-no reeds or tournure being used. The under or foundation skirt should never be less than two and a half yards wide. An excellent plan is to face this skirt with velveteen Also to cut from four to six slts, an eighth of a yard up, making what dressmak- CTS term give" these preventing the dress from drawing around the feet. The front of the drop-skirt may be plaited but do not use accordeon plaits. The back should be shirred across the top very full A blouse waist Is not absolutely necessary; un- less it is especially becoming it looks mannish, or else slovenly on a rider when at full speed, Of course you ride in very loose corsets or q corset waist, which is better. Then make the body of your bicycle suit to con form to your figure but just as easy fitting as you can have it yet fit we'll. Have very, very loose sleeves, Buy enough material for second pair for they will go soon enough. A high col lar is an abomination. So are linen cuffs. Have rolling collar, use a natty silk tie under 1t, fasten the ends securely with stick pin" and leave all other lewelry at home. Sake Biar- rits gloves are best, and russet shoes are in place on a bicycle. The venti- lated shoe with rubber soles in use in the ladies gymnasiums has everything to recommend it to Il girl rider. Many riders like. as an undergarment, the divided skirt. Still others veto it. It is matter of perssnal comfort or discomfort. Dress warmly and yet beware of getting overloaded.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-01-28

There was famous cat Mt Christ
church. This was the common room
cat. This room was of course sacred
to dons, but when man took his
bachelors, his tutor generally asked
him to wine in the common room.
There, if he were lucky, he might hear
Osborne Gordon come out with some
of his wit and wisdom. He might also
view n process which attested both the
agility of the cat and the agility of the
human subject. Above the fireplace
was mantelpiece, and above the man
telpiece n bust of the venerable DIR
Busby and above the bust n bracket
on the wall. The don would stand be-
fore the fireplace, and with dexterous
jerk would toss mp biscuit which,
would alight on the bracket.
Pussy would boUId to the manteI.
piece, then to the bald head of the ven
cradle Busby, and finally to the brack-
ct. 1t was cleverly done. both by cat
and don, but the chief credit of the
gymnastic feat was supposed TO remain
with the cat. There was one man of
long standing who was very fond of
mice, which used to reside in his poe,z-
cts and run freely about his clothes.
ANY person in the pursuit of natural
history would be pardoned in the col.
lege which owned Frank auckland rs n
student, whose remarkable perform.
nnces that way will long be a tradition
ut Oxford. Temple Bar.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-01-28
senomn.. sercn NIoons.

There have been many explanations
offered in times past rs to why the
name of Scnom; was given to this val
ley by the native tribes of Indians who
upon tile advent of the VIII. lnan over
100 years ago, peopled this section by
thousands. OF course we all know that
Sonoma valley in aborginee means
Valley of the Moon" but Just why
that name was bestowed upon it Is an
other question, and one, too, which we
believe has never been satisfactorily
answered.
Recently in talking to an aged Indian
who has resided on the old Nick CARR
gan ranch for many years. and was AN
old man wien Gen. Vallejo settled in
Sonoma fifty years ago, and must now
be something over 100 years of age, he
stated the reason the valley was called
Sonoma was because it had ''hcep
Inuchee moon" translated into good
English, many moons).
Further inquiry developed the fact
that between the town of Sonoma and
the Bella Vista vineyards, u distance OF
four or five miles, the moon when it is
full can be seen by the traveller to rise
seven times il succession over the
mountains in the east, owing to their pc.
culiar formation. This phenomenon has
been witnessed by many old resident
III the early evening at the rising of the
full moon. This, no doubt, had been
observed by the Indians and hence the
name Valley of the Moon. "-Sonoma
lndeX-Tribune
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-01-28
Why Some People Walk STRAIGHT.

The negroes of the southern states
and i'll the West Indies, where the men
and women are in the habit of carry
ing heavy burdens balanced on their
heads, have the shoulders of gods and
goddcsses, and they walk erect, with a
graceful swing straight from the hips.
and not from the knees, rs so many
hurryinS. worrying city folk do. Their
heads are well up, their arms are nat
urally disposed of, and are not a nuts
ance to them.
The society people have seen the dig
nifty of labor in this particular, and
many girls are put through a similar
course of training in order to cure them
OF round shoulders, and give them a
commanding carriage, and teach them
to walk and not waddle or shuttle into
n drawing room. Some of the hauteur
of New York's 400 may also be thus
hcreditarily accounted for. Their
noses are held so far above the heads
OF the plebeian masses because a gen.
Grafton ago their ancestors were carry
ing bricks, and the habit of looking
skyward has been transmitted. Detroit
Free Press.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-01-28
The PuIpit ami NJ 49,.

Nev. F. NJ. Shrout, Pastor United
brethren Church. Blue Monnd, Kan,
says; 81 feel it my duty TO tell what
wonders DIR. Kings New Discovery has
done for me. My Lungs were badly
diseased, and my parishiopers thought
1 could live only few weeks. took
five bottles of DIR. Kings New Discovery
and am sound and well, gaining 20 lbs.
in weight"
arthur Love, Manager Loves Funny
Folks Combination, writes: cater a
thorough trial aud convincing evidence,
am confident DIR. Kings New Discov.
cry for Consumption beats 'em all. and
cures when everything else fails. The
greatest kindness 1 can do NV many
thousand friends is to urge them to try
it." Free trial bottles at A. C. Van
elders Drug Store. Regular sizes soc.
and SI.OO.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-01-28
The a;rt,eysweot Vine.

The bittcrsweet vine is n strong
growing vif.e. scrambling over trees
and fences, with dark green and album
dant foliage. The clustered berries
which are bright yellow outxardly. are
round and smooth at first. then the
shell opens in three pieces and turns
back, showing the scarlet seeds; and
now, brighter than before, they light
mp tho stumps, fences and the scraggv
trees along the roadside for nearly all
of the winter. Not many woody vines
are to be preferred to tho bittersweet !:
its growth is rapid and its shade is deem
The berries retain form and color in
doors when perfectly dry. Detroit
Free Press.