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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-26

THE TINES Anniversary Edition may
ov had in any number at THE TIMES
business ofI1ce.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-16
Truck Farming

This industry, according to a bulle-
tim recently issued by the census Office
at Washington, has assumed surpris-
ing proportions. Thuck farming is
considered 10y the >stahistician as dis
tinct from market gardening. The
former is carried on in favored locali-
ties at distance from market, water
and rail transportation being neces-
sary, while the latter is conducted
near local markets, the grower ofvege-
tables using his own team for tran
sporting his products direct to either
the retailer OF consumer. Upward of
$lOO, OOO,O are investad in this in
dustry in the United States, the an
nual products reaching q value of
$40, 5l5155 on thefarms after paw.
ing freights and commissions, realized
upon 534,440 acres of land. There
are employed in this industry gle, 765
men, 9,254 women. and Ii, s74 chill
dren, aided by 1896 horses and
mules and $s,97l,2O6 20 worth Of
Implements. Ilss5G
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-16
Depth Of Good Soil.

The opinions OF farmers differ,
though not more widely than the
facts on which they are based, as to
the depth that soil may be profit
ably cultivated. In the best soils
plant food is found deeper than the
pillow can ever go. This, however, is
mainly mineral. Vegetable matters
collect near the surface. If they are
deep, as they sometimes are, the low
er portions are generally filled with
stagnant water. Some settlers on
black muck soil in the west thought
they had secured land OF inexhausti-
BILE fertility, mainly because it was
black to great depth. They found
after a while that however deep
their muck, beds, only the part that
could be thoroughly dried during
the growing season was of any use
to them. What such land needs most
is thorough drainage. AS soon as it
gets this, however, the muck bed be-
comes thinner, as it's carbon burns by
exposure to sun and air. Then Comes
the severest test. If the original soil
is deficit in mineral plant food the
lacking elements must soon be sup
piled. But whether poor or rich in
mineral plant food, supplies of potash
and phosphate will be needed. How
ever poor the vegetable matter may
be, its decomposition. win liberate
ammonia enough togo long way to-
ward supplying grain crops, provided
phosphate is furnished. But where
ever the :subsoil is sandy, potash is
also probably needed. Wood ashes
aremearly always beneficial to muck
lands, as the'caustic potash they con-
tain hastens decomposition of vege-
table food, besides making phosphate
also more available. Correspondent
New York Tribune. - -
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-16
The Missing Information.

First Lady: "Well, Emma, what is
1t you are looking for so anxiously in
your cookery-book?" .... .
Second ditto (newly marrieO:"Ach,
our silly cook is stopping out SO late,
and my husband says he would like
to eat some radishes-but I can not
ind IN the wholebook any directions
now to cook theln!n'' -Creuznacher
AnZeiger. f-..
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-16
No Spare Hours.

Mr.. Hayseed (arriving at city hoteD
~ s'pose I kin hear the gong here
when it rings for dinner, can't I?
Cerk-We have no gong. We have
breakfast from 6 to IL, dinner from
u to s, supper from 6 to IL.
Mr.. Hayseed-J ehoshaphat! How
AMI to git time to see the city?-N.
\. Weekly.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-16

Oo ooocIVeu ny Juggling DOWN d lew
inches in the spaces between rows. It
will be found that while the plants are
still young, and before the tubers have
formed or grown to any size, the hori-
zontal roots have met and crossed
each other between and in the three
foot spaces. By killing the plants.
the earth must be scraped or plowe
away from these spaces, and the hol
zontal roots cut off or laid bare. This
treatment will necessarily reduce the
growth OF the tubers, which although
near the center of the hill, are fed BY
the roots.
The experiment is we'll worth trying.
Select three or four more, and let the
soil be well cultivated and kept mel
low and flat. Count the bushels of
each when dug, and it will be found
that those from the flat rows have
from ten to twenty per cent more pc,
tatoes. Ir~.
There may sometimes be very pc
culiar conditions OF the soil-shallow
soil or rocky, or otherwise which may
modify the result; but for common
ground, plowed at a good depth and
planted deep enough. there is but one
result. We observe that the Michigan
station has modified this test by
placing manure between the rows,
where the long horizontal roots could
feed from it with better returns than
by manuring in, under or over the
hill.-Albany Cultivator.
Plants That Flavor Butter.
A grass which should be the dairy
mans favorite, owing to the sweet
scented fragrance it communicates to
the milk, is the Vernal grass (anthox-
anthum odoratum). 1t springs up
early in the spring, flowers and scents
the air with it's fragrance. AS q grass
for exclusive feeding it will not rank
high, but when mixed properly with
the other more nutritious grasses it
gives a fragrance to the whole mass
which is very delightful.
No grass probably favors milk,
cream and butter so directly and
noticeably as this sweet scented Yer
nal grass. and where it is found in
abundance in the fields growing along
with the other varieties, the butter
made from that section has distin-
gushing and exquisite taste. When
this grass is moved and slowed away
in the silo with other grasses it
gives a splendid milk food tor winter
feeding. On large dairy farms it is
we'll worth the trouble to scatter some
OF the seeds OF the Vernal grass in the
pastures. The result in the flavor OF
the milk and butter will soon be MOTTO
able: Where fancy butter is made a
speciality this grass is an essential to
the pastures. -".
The fragrance of the grass is due to
the presence of gum benzo1n or benzo-
ic acid, which can be dissolved in cold
water. Butter washed in water in
which the grasses have been soaking
will lose it's rancidity to a large ex-
tent. Ensilage butter is often desti-
tute of true flavor, and it can only be
favored by artificial methods or by
adding some such fragrant grass to
the silo which will impart its sweet
ness to the milk before it leaves .the
cows.--E. P. Smith. in American Guilt.
vatOr.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-16
Wanted REVENGE,

Tradesman, to old gentleman who
has purchased lawn mower: Eyes,
sir, I'll oil it, and send it over imm-''
Customer, imperatively: "No, no,
mott mustn't be oiled! / won't have
it oiled! Mind that! I want noisel And
look here-pick me out nice. rusty
one. My neighbours children boot
and yell till ten O'Clock every night,
so''-viciously-'I mean to cut nv
grass from four till six every morn.
ing!''
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-16
Loves ldyl.

Both sat on garden seat, and the
expression of his face plainly said, II
am done fort" He first broke silence
by saying:- I'LL
"Will you be mine?" and tried to
draw her little closer. r.
She stiffened and refused to bulge
II mean to reform and give up all
my bad habits!" he urged.
No answer.
"Ill never taste another drop of
iquor!" he continued.
: The object of his adoration.was in
exorable.
..And abandon smoking'
No response.
.1And leave off card playing!'
, Frigid silence as before.
'l'll never go out OF doors without
your
She only shook her head. s
and present you with a diamond
ring tomorrow
Then the sweet innocent lifted her
doWn-cast eyes up to meet his gaze,
and, resting her little head on his
shoulder, she falteringly whispered in
his ear
"Oh! Emile, how kind you arel''
And there they .sat-dreaming, pom
derlng, thinking, she about the dia-
mond ring, and Remembering where
on earth he should stump up the
money to buy one!-Kleeblatt
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-16
Killing Potatoes,

Exl eriments made by us, 20 years
ago and more, showed that the com
mon and almost universal practice of
drawing the earth up in small hills
around potato plants was attended
with considerable loss. The practice
was founded on the erroneous suppo-
sition that all the roots and tubers
were confined within a narrow space
of comparatively few inches around
each plant, and that deep bed Of
earth IN a narrow hillock was lust
what was wanted. On riding through
the country most of the potato fields
and gardens are seen still to continue
the practice. 81 "A. ss4.
The great mistake thus made may
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-16
Didn't Want a Muss,

The Reckless Sutton: IF you don't
accept me my death will lie at your
door, for'I shall shoot myself here be-
fore you'll
The Cool and Collected Girl: "Please
40 it in the nextroo instead, Mr..
Simpson. The carpet in this one is
Just new, and mamma will scold ter.
ribly ii it is spoiled"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-16
When in Doubt Fresh DeaV

Result of recent political events in
Bulgaria: revival OF the bastonnade.
Asoldier condemned to receive twenty
five strokes with a whip, is handed
over to a couple of comrades who
have orders to strike alternately. A
dispute arises at the eleventh stroke.
''That makes ten," said one.
r. "Twelve!' replies the other.
"Ten!"
'"Twelve!p
II say, let us start afresh!"-La
Monde Il1ustre.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-16

A cere-ous misunderstanding.
"How's your wheat?''
Intend to before long,
Intend to what?"
House my wheat
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-16
Preferred Fe-Mail BAGS,

A lady member of a female organi-
zation recently agitated the subject of
starting weekly newspaper '.conduc-
ted wholly by women without the as
slstance of male man." fl. - +.
The paper was launched on the al
ready troubled waters, and hundreds
OF copies made ready for 'tentered, at
the post-ofice as matter OF the second
class" '1 T~ @s1 ..
The enterprising lady called upon
Postmaster Sexton for bags wherein
to transmit the papers to the govern
ment building.
She was required to sign the neces-
sary blanks for bags, and an order
was issued to grant her four mail
bags. - ".@ 3.
She read it through very carefully
before signing it, and her hesitation
was observed by the postmaster who
informed her that 'sit was only form
adopted by the department to keep
track of the bags 49,
ooh, that does not trouble me in
the least replied the lady, '.but can
you not alter the reading OF the blank,
or preface the letters ''fe'' to male so
that 1T would read female bag. instead
OF male bag. as our paper is SO thor
ougly devoted to women that we de-
sire to be distinctly independent OF a
male character"
Male bags in that office are nailed
up IN the wood box.-National Week
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-16
Prohibition Statistics.

Whose beer is this?" asked arather
shabby looking man OF a New York
barkeeper, as he blew the foam off the
top of schooner.
4. fits Lemp's beer" replied the bar
keeper.
All, it's :Ll-emp's is it? lmust have
some more oft"
Another schooner disappeared.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-16
\ LITTLE BIT OF NONSENSE
FUNNY STORIES, FROM a vARl-
ETY. OF SOURCES,
Averting Tragedy--Preferred Fee
Mail Bags--Prohibition Statis-
tics--What the Father Meant
Everybody Could Be
Happy--O
r. Orders.
Avertlng a Tragedy.

So far as casual observer could
see, the crowd coming over a Hoboken
ferry-boat the other afternoon was
sober and good-natured, and many
were, therefore, surprised to hear q
man suddenly call out:
"Sir! you have insulted me, and I'll
knock your head OFF,
The speaker was a big man with
bushy hair and q fat face, and he had
cataract in his left eye. The man
shouted at was rather understood and
humble-looking.
ayes, sir-I'll knock your head off,"
continued the big man, as he flourish
ed his fists about. ,-a
elbow did insult your" demanded
the other.
"You have kept your eyes on me
ever since I got on the boat! It's my
misfortune to have a bad eye, but I
don't want to be stared at as if I were
a gorillaV :1a
"Who stared at your"
'"You have, and if it wasn't for rails
ing a row in public, I'd make your
heels crack'
II never even saw you'll" retorted
the little man, growing very spuhky
at once. 49, ,.E*l '-s..A- A. -
"What! Wasn't I sitting right here,
and you over there, and didn't you
have your eyes on me all the timer"
"No sir! I was reading that sign to
the left of your head!", .-.. -
'"Don't talk SOL. .s.t IT,. ~
"Hold on!" interrupted passenger
who had pushed mselfforward otis
just as the man says, and there's
no occasion for hard feelings. Gentle
men, the little man is cross-eyed! Be-
tween the big man being blind in one
eye and the little man being cross
eyed, they got things mixed, and ought
to shake hands and be friends" Z
III I'm wrong I beg your PARDON"
said the big man. ..,-. -. 49,. .. Z
s'You jumped. on me with both feet,
but it was through mistake, and l
don't hold no grudge,'' replied the lit.
tie man. ~. -. ,a..4 . '
Then they shook hands, the crowd
gave them a cheer and everybody said
1T was al ways the best way to be sure
you're right before going ahead.-N.
Y. World - -F %
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-16
Whose beer did l understand you

/. Whose beer did I understand you
to say this wasp
Temps"
"Ah, it's really good" and the
1 = schooner promptly reinforced
the former.
d $50 it is Lemp's, is it,"
Yes; | told you SO twice"
. We'll, just mention to Lemp, when
you see him, that have had three
sschooners Of his Incompatible beer, ="
and he strolled out just in time to
miss being overtaken by the bung
starter.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-11

ter 10 political rolses the sternes
the most turbulent, the most unfor'
giving passions Of the human race.
Political action can never be justly
viewed from . near standpoint.
Time and distance are needed for a
ripe judgment; and the verdict Of
history is the only verdict worth re-
cording.
ITO state in language which
would seem to me to be adequate the
history of the achievmeutsof the
House would not be suitable to this
time or place. Mr. is it in the
least needful that | should here and
now rekindle old disputes or fan the
dying embers Of struggles asst aid
gone. Whether we have disposed OF
the questions of finance with the
wisdom of broad craftsmanship, time
will surely show. Whether in the
things we have done and the
things we have attempted for the
furtherance Of human liberty we
we've actuated by high and honorable
motives will be visible to all the
world at no distant day.
IF our deeds do not praise us,
our words cannot. Confident as l
am of the verdict of time on what We
have done, am still more confident
that the highest commentator will
be given us in the future, not for
what measures we have passed, val
liable as they are, but because we
have taken so long stride in the
direction Of responsible government.
Having demonstrated to the people
that those who have been elected to
do their will can do it, henceforth
excuses will not be taken for per-
Torrance and government by the
people will be stronger in the land.
Toward those who have opposed
what the majority Of the House de-
sired, we can have no unkindly or
personal feeling. Whoever offers
battle to old convictions and faiths
must expect battle, and the vigor Of
the resistance must always bear
some proportion to the vigor of tho
onset. 10 members on my left,
with whom am politically associat.
ed, beg to tender my most sincere
and heartfelt acknowledgements
No man ever received more un.
grudging and unflinching support OF
from band of men more patriotic
/ am proud to acknowledge in al
that has been done l have been bu
one in the multitude in the honor1
of the Fifty-6rst Congress belonging
to you. | now declare the House
to be adjourned without day."
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-11
A MANLY MAN.

THAT Thos. B. Reed the congress
man from Maine, and speaker of the
House, is one Of the manly men in
politics is clearly shown by his
speech on Wednesday last at the
close of the 5lst session of Congress.
1t was as follows:
"After two long and stormy SEES
siOns, in some respects unparalleled
in hundred years, the House Of
Representatives of the Fifty-frst
Congress will soon pass with COM
pleted record, into the history Of
the country, and its works will soon
follow it. What We have done is in
large measure political, Whatev.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-11

CARDINAL GIBBONS seems to be
level headed on the woman question.
Here is bit Of advice he gave them
IN a recent sermon: 81 said you
are the queen of the domestic king
e3om. If you would retain that en-
pire shun the political arena, avoid
The rostrum, beware of unsexing
yourselves. If you become embroil-
ed in political agitation the queenly
-aureola that eneircles your brow
will fade away and the reverence
that is paid to you will disappear.
If you have the vain ambition of
re'sning ia public life, your domes-
tic empire will be at an end"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-11
NASHVILLE BANNER,
Nashville Tenn.

The NASHVILLE WEEKLY BAN.
NER Is one of the best newspapers
published. 1t gives the news with
the utmost impartiality, and does
not color 1t for partisan effect
The BANNER Ia a bold, frank, indie.
pendent public journal, which en-.
deavors always to advocate the
right and condemn the wrong. II
is the champion Of reform and the
stout defender Of principle, yet &C
cording tn others the liberty Of
view It claims for itself.
The WEEKLY BANNER is an
eight page, tifty.six column paper,
containing all the news of the v eek
with much editorial and miscelian
eous reading. 1t is a scrupuously
clean paper which can be admitted
readily to the home circle.
TERMS.
DAILY BANNER-1 year $500;
months $3.50; 8 months, $l.3O;
month, so cents.
WEEKLY BANNER-1 year $l.0O;
6 months, SO cents; 8 months %
cents.
The TIMES and The Weekly Ban.
ner will be sent one year to any
address for $500; 6 months for 100
3 months for so cents.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-11

being built and equipped as rapidly
As possible at Minneapolis, Mimi;
at Eau Claire, Wis, ard At Sioux
Falls. South Dakota. So much for
one free trade prediction. Now,
for another. All during the last
campaign the working men were
told by democratic editors and ora
tors that the tariff on TN plates put
a tax upon his dipper and dinner
bucket, Notwithstanding they knew,
or should have known, that the tin
plate section Of the Mckinley bill
would not become a law until July
l. 1891. Now for the effect of that
law upon American industri' g..
Before its enactment not a pound OF
tin plate was made in the United
States, now American mills are
turning it out by the ton and more
than a dozen large mills are in pro-
cess of erection in various sections
of the country, and the tin mines in
this country are being for the first
time profitably worked, and, most
important of all, the price of tin
plate is to-day, in Chicago and New
York, twenty per cent less than it
was last September, and dealers are
predicting that it will be still cheap
CRATER the new mills get to work.
This isr't campaign buster, but it is
plain statement of hard, solid facts,
which can be fully proven.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-11

FRANCE is patterning after this
country as fast as its law makers
know how and will have a protect
i've tariff in short time.
The Supreme Court Of this State
concluded its labors at Nashville
last Thursday, having made clean
sweep Of every case on the docket.
A PARTY Of revenue officers made
. ten days raid through west Flori-
da, ending up last week with the
relics OF twenty six stills and thirty
men.
THE remains Of Emma Abbott the
great singer, were secretly cremated
at Pittsburg a short time ago. II
was done in accordance with her re-
quest.
JAY GOULD, is but q common
mortal after all. A New York city
Judge recently fined him $3.50 for
contempt of Court in disobeying a
summons to sit as a juror.
SPECTATORS have induced large
number Of the colored people of the
South to 60 to Oklahoma. During
the recent cold snap most of the
emigrants suffered terribly. After
getting there they could find moth.
ing to do and had no money to get
away. Many are being shipped GU,
and others helped temporarily by
the authorities. Officers are look.
ing out for the organizers of the
movement and if they are caugh,
they will be punished for swindling
THE Canadian election held las
week for members of parliament re-
suited in a loss to the Conservatiy,
or English party of nearly one hal
of their former membership in tina
body. They now have bare work
ing majority and the new liberal
will be a thorn in the political sid,
of Governor General Mcdonald
The conservative party hoped t,
!, wipe out all fears Of annexation t,
the United States in this election
making that the issue. The result
has been very unsatisfactory to tn,
reigning element as the idea of an
nexation seems to have grown YER,
rapidly in the last year or two.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-11

How many people know that the
present silver law is practically free
eoinage Of all silver produced by
american mines, that is to say, that
the 4, 100000 ounces of silver bull
ion which the Treasury Department
is compelled by law to buy each
mcnta is more than the average
amount produced by all Of the
American mines? That shows how
unfriendly the republican party is
sp silver doesn't it?
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-11
We desire to specially call the at

We desire to specially call the at
sention Of our democratic free trade
friends to few solid facts, which
like AL other facts present the only
convincing argument known to poor
weak doubling human nature:
When the Mckinley bill was pend
ing, and indeed after it had become
law, you insisted. that 1t was alb
surd to put a tariff on linen, because
chs country could not build and
successfully operate linen mills.
TIE tariff was put. on linen, and the
result is, that three linen mills are
z!rsady in operation in the New
Easland States while others are
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-11

ARE the Farmers Alliance and
Knights of Labor fully committed to
Woman Suffrage? One would nat
urally suppose 50 from some Of the
epeeches made at the National Wo.
mans Suffrage convention recently
AelS at Washington. This question
lis asked in no spirit Of captious op-
position, but from an honest desire
for information.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-11
ANNA DICKINSON.

The failure of Miss Anna Dickin-
sons health will be heard of with
regret by many thousands Of Ameri-
can citizens, who will remember
how this talented woman spoke for
freedom with a tongue of fire in the
days when when human slavery had
more friends and universal freedom
millions more Of enemies that it has
now. We sincerely hope she may
be restored to health.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-11

Mr.. CLEVELAND mas not written
a letter for nearly month, but
perhaps he thought it wise to let up
for awhile after perusing last
one. He should write one more, ad-
dressed Jointly to David B. Hill, Of
New York, and Henry Watterson,
of Kentucky.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-11

TIE burglars and other thieves Of
che State of Connectict are unani-
mously in favor of the nomination
of Gov. Hill by the democrats next
year, on the comprehensive plat
form stand by your friends. :"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-11

In ONE thing at least the last
session ofthe Fifty-6rst Congress
did not disappoint the republicans
Of the country-it died on the day
at was expected to die. For that
gnuch thanks.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-11

No wonder the conservative dem
socrats are becoming alarmed at the
theories advanced and the demands
made by some of the members of the
Fitty-second Congress.