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Connecticut western news., 1892-12-15
The Cranberry Season.

The cranberry picking season on Cape Cod is now at its height, and thousands of the poorer people have been profting by the opportunity to make money. Of late years, however, it has bean found that the native workers are insufficient. and foreigners have been introduced. An average picker gathers from twenty to thirty measures per day. A fast picker can easily earn five dollars per day. The working hours are short. as the heavy autumn dew does not dry of until about Q a. m. and begins to fall again about 6p, m,--Nsw York Tribune
Connecticut western news., 1892-12-15

NVH"0V'FN"t H@fNotVfE 1"N"Ns HARTFORD, Dec. 8.--The six Connecticut Democratic electors of president and vice president met at the capitol aud adjourned Q Monday, Jan. 9, to comply with the state aw's provisions.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10
A Gigantic Marine Monster.

Not long since the people of Achill,
or Eagle Island, lying off the coast of
Ireland, in County Mayo, were accorded
privilege rare in the annals of the
human race-uothing less than the I'M
common sightot stranded "devil- fish. D,
When first washed ashore at the entrance
of Blacksod Bay the villagers took it to
be the carcass OF some gigantic and I'M
known species of whale. After couple
or three weeks, however, when it had
been tossed further inland by a terrific
gale, the true character of the uncom-'
mon visitor was made known. To what
species OF the Gmmcstrcphes the monster
belonged could not be ascertained, the
creature being too far gone in decay.
The sucker and the horny rings had
fallen off before it reached the strand.
the parrot-like beak peculiar to
this animal being also miss
ing. The animal, although Wis
IDLY shrunken and distorted, measured!
rs follows: Length of tcntaclcs, or long
arms, thirty feet each; circumference of
body, sixty feet; circumference OF ten
tacles near body, four feet each. Only
four other instances of the appearances
OF this strange monster in British waters
have been recorded. 1t is often asked
why such things IRE not preserved in-
museums, easily accessible to curious
sight-seers. Do you know that it would
take glass vessel as large as the hull OF
the Great Eastern to show off such
monster to any degree of perfection
whateverG
Curious tales are often told by mariners
about this most gigantic of water mon
stcrs. Its enormous tcntacles are armed,
with formidable suckers, nearly as large
as the average washtub, besides hooks
and spikes, each set with vicious looking
teeth, all pointing Inward. Some natu-
ralists believe that glimpses of the devil
tish's arms have given rise to the off
repeated sea-serpent stories. st. Louis,
Republic
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10

Gay three mine cars were hcaped full OF
dead rats that were gathered from tho
tunnel floors, and the two tons of car
cases were carted to the outside and
buried in one great pit dug for the pur-
pose. Operations were then resumed.
the rats left being on peace footing.'f
las general thing miner will not
harm mine rat. Some miners. especi-
ally OF the old school, would almost as
soon think of killing their children as
mine rat except on such occasions Us I
have mentioned. These miners regard
the rats as safeguards and infallible pre-.
sagers of danger ina mine. They have
an instinct, the miners say, that warns
them of pending fall of roof or similar
disaster, and when they are seen scurry-
ing away from one section of mine to
another the workmen know that the
rats are giving them q danger signal,
and they hurry away in response to it.
The chances are ten to one that there
Will soon be cave-in more or less seri-
GUS in the part of the mine thus aban-
doned by the rats, as long experience and
observation have amply proved. The
superstitious miner believes that the mine
rat gives warning OF this by some super
natural it possesses, but the practical
man explains it by the theory that when
mine begins to work, as the quiet
settling of one preparatory to cave-in
is called, the rats are disturbed in their
hiding places, and they hurry away to
seek places Of safety.
"The mine rat is ordinarily as big as
two of the common house rat, aud is
possessed of amazing intelligence. To
be called as smart rs mine rat is to re-
ceive the highest compliment in the
mining regions. 1t is no infrcqueut thing
for miner and some particular rat to
form strong attachment for each other,
and have often seen q miner and big,
bright-eyed mine rat lunching together
like two old cronies, quarter of mile
down in the black depths of the earth"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10
Vision Applied to Smoking.

One peculiar trait of persons who are
blind is that there is scarcely any smok-.
ers among them. Soldiers and sailors.
who lose their sight while in action
sometimes continue to smoke for short
time after that great calamity overtakes.
them, but, as rule, they soon give up
the habit altogether. They say that it
gives them no pleasure when they cannot
see the smoke, and some have even went
so far as to declare that smoke cannot be
tasted unless the vision beholds it. This
Old theory has been demonstrated time.
and again by blindfolding man and
leading him into room full of tobacco.
smoke and then putting lighted and
unliShted cigar in his mouth by turns.
Not one man in a thousand can distin-
euish between the "dead" cigar and the
one that is in full blast.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10
THE TOUCH OF THE yAsp.


Before my love and had met,
The budding larch was clad with green;
No bitter wind awoke to fret
Tho gold locks OF the gardens queen:
The chestnut from his kingly throne
Reigned Ger the dewv lawn, and yet
Their grace they had not wholly shown
Before my love and had met.
Before my love and had met
The skies were soft as now they be;
The breeze that kissed the violet
Shook white snow from tho hawthorn Tree
With breath Of lilacs freshly blown
My heart was lifted up. and yet
There was u sweetness all unknown
Until my love and had met.
Before my love and l had met,
The whispers of the pines l heard;
Low warblings paid the shelter-debt
Where leaves concealed happy bird;
The river rippled DER the stone.
The air was thrilled with gladncss, yet 4.
Music has gained deeper tone
Now that my love and have met. :,
Before my love and had met,
The earth was good, the fields were fair,
The lnnd where suns shall never set,
Can Gods own hand be palmer there?
All JOY of earth in joys unknown
Is gathered up, but we had yet
One hope the less before the Throne,
If and thou had never met.
William Watetfield, in the COSMOPOLITAN.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10


The Louisville Courier-Journal states !:
'"Thc old Kentucky feuds are dying out.
and those who participated in them are
finding their way TO the prison OF
the grave or to the oblivion of
peaceful life. The Yellow-creekers
of Bell County scattered like frost be.
fore the sun when the builders of
Middlcsborough and the new Pincyille
appeared. The leaders of the old fac.
tons sold their farms at n good figure
and became capitalists or moved away.
Craig Tollivcr's name has almost ceased
to fy,ghtcn timid children in Rowan
County, and Craig's old antagonist,
Boone Logan. has moved away from the
atown in which he led the battle that cx
Terminated the Tolliver gang. The
&rench- Eversolc clans are awaiting trial at
Winchester for their crimes in Perry
County. The leading Evcrsolc is dead.
French has moved away from Perry
County to Winchester and the gangs
have fallen apart The Harlan County
war was over. when WilsnHowara fell
into the hands of the law. The followers
of the Turners and those of the Towards
have dtopped into peaceful ways or fled
the county,. The Hatfelds and McCovs
HAYS beenN hanged or imprisoned. And
/ the gsauilins out of Jerry Titles life the
Il other day by sawlog, while engaged
an building aFesidencc for himself, was
!, the first 'eminQer the public has had in a
y long whih on Me now almost forgotten
strong-Li'tlc fsud that once gave SC
much trouble in freathitt County"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10
The Desert Flora of E,Ynt.

The Rev. George Henslow, q famous
botanist of the Old World, has recently
made u critical examination of the desert
flora of Egypt, and finds many special
points of general interest. The prevail
ing tints of blue-gray color is feature
similar to what we find on the American
desert, with the same adaptation by deep
roofing to sustain the vegetation during
the long continued heat and drought
the surface sand often indicating a tenn
perature of lao degrees. There is not a.
drop of RAIN during ten months, and
plants with curiously knobby roots pre-
vail. A felt-like hair clothed many
leaves, and the cuticlcs of all
are thickened. Calcium chloride, n
powerful absorbent, is found in many OF
the species. Usually the flowers are not
snowy, and many species are sclf-fer-;
tilizing. Chicilwecd, which abounds in
England and the long -settlcl portions of.
America, abounds in Egypt, but has
there learned to do without the little
white flower which it bears with US, he,
probably meaning that it is apetalous.i
Professor Henslow repeated what has be-!
fore been stated in this department that
the mummy wheat" is fraud in which.
the Egyptians are adopts. They can man.
age by sleight of hand to take it out of
the mummy before your eyes. No num-,
my wheat that is genuine, says the pro-.
lessor, can possibly grow. AS for "mum-.
my peas, the professor declares that the.
Egyptians were in utter ignorance of any
form of pea when the mummies were
prepared.-New York Independent.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10

The Car of Russia plans return TO
serfdom for portion of his people.
Many village communities have SO in
creased that the land of the commune,
which they hold in common, will not
support them. These are to be colonized
on the vast plains still unoccupied aud
started in farming OF their crops ono
third is to be used by their community,
one-third goes to the State to pay for the
debt incurred and third is for taxes.
The peasant is bound to remain there,
and under conditions that make him q
scrf.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10
THE BARNARD.

Out of the barnyard are the issues of
crops. Some farmers have no barn
yards, and they are the ones who COM
plain of hard times. The no barnyard
system of farming will answer only in
those places where the soil is still rich
with the virgin fertility, und they ore
getting, like the bison,. to be u rare
thing in this country. Save the manure.
Waste your swill, and let the apples de-
cay upon the ground, if you will, but
save the manure. Let us look into n
mans barnyard in winter, and there will
be no trouble in determining about the
size and fullness of the granary, and
how the daily table is supplied with
food. Build the whole farm upon the
barnyard. --American Agriculturist.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10

among corn, as now. 1t is of tropical
origin, and fourishes best in sunshine,
rs is shown by the finest specimens grow
ing around the edges OF the field. Wien
planting alone on rich soil, to which a
little phosphate has been added, enor-
nous crops may be obtained. A curl
Gus fact in its history is the presence of
, its now useless tendrils, proving that in
it's native haunts the pumpkin vine was
more aspiring in its habits of growth.
This vine is so prolific and its fruit SO.
immense with little attention that there
has been no necessity of improving the
original "pic pumpkin" indeed, it is
good enough for most people after hav-
ing been manipulated by dainty cook.
Many of the pumpkins grown are not of
this variety, being either worthless crosses
with squashes, which have little or
no food value and arc dangerous for
stock on account of their horney rinds,
OF the variety with shiny, bright orange
colored skins.
The latter are greatly inferior to the
pie variety, in not having US thick, fine
grained, we'll favored flesh, and in not
being as good keepers. The pie variety
may always be recognized by its dull
saluon-yellow rind with IL bloom. Tho
pumpkin mikes readily with the squash,
producing useless mongrels, hence seeds
of both grown in the same patch are
worthless. Many dairymen think highly
of pumpkins as food for mich cows. Fed
Immediately after milking they do not
impart flavor to the milk, are thought
to impress its color and to increase the
flow. There is n long standing prcju-
dice against feeding the seeds to mich
COWS, but it is doubtful if they do harm;
they may have been conioundcd with
watermelon seeds iu their effect, which
is diuretic; however, the matter has not
been sufficiently investigated. The pie
pumpkin will keep into January if care
fully handled and stored in dry, cool,
frostproof place. New York Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10
The "Boss" White Oak Tree.

The largest pieces of white oak that
were ever probably sawed to order and
shipped to this market have been re.
ccIved by Messrs. Roberts Is Case, of
New York City. This piece of timber
was thirty inches square and fifty feet
long, and measured $3.50 feet board
measure. 1t weighed %, 500 pounds,
railroad standard weight for green oak
timber. The tree measured over 81
feet in diameter fifty feet from the
ground. Mr.. Case says he has handled
ship timber FOR thirty years in this mar
ket, and this is the largest piece of white
oak sawed to size he ever received. An
other piece was also received at the same
time which was 20x24 and sixty feet
long. The two pieces made 615O feet
and were all that was shipped in two
cars, which came from Ohio. New
York Recorder.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10
Gothnm's Obelisk in Danger.

The thousands of New York's citizens
who have looked with interest and pride
upon the old Egyptian obclisk in Central
Park will easily recall the excitement
caused eighteen months ago by the re-
port that it was dislntegrating. Unlor-
tunateiy the concern and interest were
apparently only ephemeral, and the rec
concentrations OF the specialists who
examined the condition of the monu-
ment to insure its preservation for future
generations have been disregardcd up to
the present time. But naturally, there
has been no change for the better in
the condition of the Obelisk in the wears
that have passed by. On the contrary,
it is the opinion of experts that prompt
action for the preservation of the monu-
ment is imperative, if its American ex-
istence is to be at all comparable in point
Of years to the hundreds of decades
which it passed in the land of the Nile.
The people of New York will never
cease to regret the treatment, or lack of
treatment, to which the Obclisk was sub
jected after its arrival in New York. For
four years, in the belief that it was as
safe in the hard climate of America as in
the softer one of Egypt, nothing was
done to protect it from the effects of
nature and its own natural tendency to
decay. Great blocks of the valuable
stone were lost or crumbled away. And
the "scrapings" which it received when
the first coat of paratfiue was applied to
it, years ago, onlyaddcd to the substance
lost In fact il is snid that mora tbon
700 pounds of stone have fallen, or been
taken from the Obelisk, since its cree
ton in New York.-New York Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10

Mrs. Clara b. Colby gave at the
Woman Suffrage Convention in Wash
ington recently, an admirable paper on
the good results of equal suffrage in
Wyoming, as shown by the census. The
statistics of Wyoming in regard TO crime,
insanity, divorce, ETC., as compared with
surrounding States and with the rest of
the country, are cheering and really re-
markable. Nothing more interesting and
encouraging than these statistics has been
brought to light for a long time.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10

81 RThS Boston Cultivator makes this fore
cast: The West India Islands are rap
idly drifting away from their foreign
connections, and especially since the
conclusion of reciprocity treaties they
recognize themselves MS commercial de-
pendcnces of the United States. There
ID in the British West Indies n strong
and growing feeling against the mother
country. 1t refuses local government
given to other and larger colonies, while
it fails to supply adequate Government
OF its own. 1t is likely that some of
these islands will in few years be ask
ing admission to the United States
Federal Union.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10

Tho first book issued by the Tnstitu-
non for Savings in Newburyport, Mass. !,
on the first day the bank was opened,
Ap.il 5, 1920, was received at the bank
ing rooms recently to have the interest
added. The original deposit was 500,
and no more deposits were made. The
interest to date amounted to SS9S.
Only think Of it, exclaims the New York
Witness. This deposit has been multi
piled again and again until every dollar
of the original sum is worth S45 And
all by the simple process of adding in
terest to it, presumably ut n rate not
greater than four per cent. And this
tremendous increase has been realized
within the lifetime of one person. If the
money should be left in the bank for
seventy-two years more at the same rate
of interest it would be worth $40, 600,
and in n third period of seventy. two
years it would amount to 81 500, 900.
These figures give food for reflection. If
SO small sum as $50 placed in n savings
bank will accumulate an enormous for
tune in the shape of interest in three
generations of reasonably long lived per-
sons, what power may be exercised in
the future at the expense of little self
denial in the present.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10
SPRAYING IN uoRr1cr1rurr

Spraying to destroy injurious insects
and fungi has now come to be neces-
sity in fruit growing and vegetable gar
dening. Much of Its success, however,
depends upon the operator. On this sub
jcct the Horticulturist of the Cornell
IN. " station recommends, above all
things, to be ready and begin to spray
the moment the first injury is seen or
even before. Study the question during
winter and buy the materials before
spring opens. Always use the finest and
most forcible spray which will reach the
desired height.
There are two leading insecticides
the arsenites and kerosene emulsion. The
arsenitcs are Paris green and London
purple. One pound to 200 gallons of
water is q good proportion for apples,
pears, potatoes, etc.; one pound of Paris
green to 300 or $50 gallons of water
should be used on peaches. Says the
same authority, never use London purple
alone on peaches. For apple worm, be-
gin to spray just as soon as the blossoms
fall.
Kerosene emulsion is the weapon to
use against all kinds of plant lice out of
doors. The formula given is: Soft soap,
one quart; kerosene, one pint; hot water,
two quarts. Churn the materials by
pumping back into the pail for several
minutes. Dilute two or three times.
There are two leading fungicides-
ammoniacal carbonate of copper and
Bordeaux mixture. For Bordeaux mix
turc use six pounds sulphate copper.
four pounds lime, twenty-five gallons
water. The only successful combination
of insecticides and fungicidcs yet found
is made of the arsenites and Bordeaux
mixture. When arsenites and ammoni-
acal carbonate of copper are combined
the foliage is usually seriously injured.
New York World.
STUDY OF pJTNfpErNs
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10
THE QUALITY OF HAY.

Out West the experience of farmers
with wild, uucultivated grasses has i'm
pressed them with the difference that
exists in quality of hay. But cultivation
is not the only course of difference. A
soil rich and dry produces better quail
ity OF hay, even though the nominal
variety be the same, than soil poor,
thin or filled with stagnant water. The
best grasses will not live where they
have wet feet most of the year. AS
they disappear the wild grasses of poorer
quality take their places. Boston Gull
tiyator.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10
been blaekea fur a week. p
Pretty

house .kcepin' that!
"When / told Jake Min Smith was
a-comin' to spend tho day he
was the pleasedcst fellow you
ever see. He begin to talk about what
q nice girl she was: how there want no
nonsense about her. Min was to come
a-Thursdny. That day Jake wore n col
lar to work an didn't put on no overalls,
but didn't say nothing. Min como
over abous nine o'clock all dressed to
kill. 1 made b'lieve to be in great
iustcr. said you'd been in an took
most all my better, so / had to churn
that day, an I'd promised Jake pot-pie
fur dinner, an didn't know which way
to turn. Min, she up and said, Let me
make the pot-pie for you, Mrs Quigley.'
That was just what was a-fshin' fur. [
was a-goin' to ask her to do it, if shc
hadn't offered, so 1 said 'twould help
me n sight if she'd do it. Cause /
want a-goin' to have that pot-pie good.
Jake, he was a-runnin' to the house fur
something or nuthcr all morniu'; it beat
all what sight of business he had at
the house, Him an Min KEEP up n
terrible laughin' an jokin'. Jake amt
much of hand to joke 'cept when he's
mighty pleased about something, SO 1
see he was pretty fur gone. Once when
him an Min was a-goin' it pretty high, 1
slipped into the pantry an emptied all
the baking powder out of the box an
put some -four in"
"Tliat was bright ideal"
Mrs. Quigley winked one eye know
ingly, and continued:
"When it come time to make thu
dumplings l got Min all the things. /
see her THROWN in the baking powder
she was bound to have them dumplin's
light. Pete (my husband) want home
that day, SO at twelve o'clock Jake came
to the house alone. heard him an Min
tnlkin' about the pot pic: What if it
shouldn't be good2' Min was sayin'.
That mint possible, said Jake, a-looi1-
in rs soft Us melted butter.
"Well. we are all sot down to the
table, an took the cover off'n the pot
pie. l declare fort / never see SUCH
dumplin's in nll my life!"
"They surpassed your widest hopes,
eh2"
"Thcy was the awfullcst dumplins, ;"
replied Mrs. Quigley. "Why they was
that tough you couldn't get your fork
through 'em. helped Min, an l declare
1 pitied the poor girl; she looked as if
she'd like to sink through the floor.
Then L helped Jake; he took bite, an 1
see him a-lookin' around fur some place
to put it. At last he swallowed it. l
didn't have much else fur dinner that day
a-purpose, an l guess that was the first
time Jake Quielcy, or any one else, ever
got up from my table hungry. When
Jake started to go to work he said
"You needn't wait supper for me,
mother, I've got to take load OF hay
over to Spring IIollcr. Then | l,now'd
it was all up with poor Min. Min didn't
stay long after dinner. l told her not
to be in q hurry, but she seemed in a
terrific hurry" said Mrs. Quigley, iuuo-
Gently.
"And your carpet is safe," said 1, ris-
ing TO go.
"And Jake, too. fur yet awhile, any
way" she replied, tossing her head de-
family.
As wendell my way homeward with
my butter, unused on the witness Of
mothers, and thought Mrs. Quieley's
rusc might be of use to other mothers
anxious for the welfare of their sons and
their carpet.-Thc Epoch.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-10
3 Z, + Ia that there are now 400 oc-
n 4. bopen to women, whose oppor-
4 stiSics in life are constantly widening.
4 tho two NIoftodist conferences Of

In the two Methodist conferences of
Maine last year seSehty-two churches,
with SRI, $50 worth Of property and
paying salaries aggregating $50, 77s,
gave $1505 to church bencvolences and
S195 for the support of superanuated
pastors, while the 1854 NIethodists in
the State contributed for the support of
veteran ministers the sum of S2791--a
fraction over eleven cents each.