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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1892-05-26

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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1892-05-26
Castoria.

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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1892-05-26
Castoria.

astoria Is an excellent medicine for chill
,4rn Mothers have repeatedly told me OF its
good effect upon their children"
Dr. @. c. OsSoop,
lowell Mass
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1892-05-26

"Css,oria Is the best remedy for children OF
which 1 am acquainted. hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest % their children, and use Castoria in
stead Of the variousquack nostrums which are
DESTROYING their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine. soothing syrup and other hurtful
AGENTS down their thrOats, thereby sending
them 10 premature graves"
Dr. J. r. KIScHKLoE,
Conway, Ark.
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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
In Hot Weather.

1t is not necessary to go to Europe or
even to the mountains or the seashore
in order to be tolerably well and happy
Go to one or all of these if you can and
want to, for they can give you a health
full change, but if you cannot, do not
fret your health and spirits away be-
cause you cannot.
Use little mind cure to begin, re-
solving that you will stay cool in your
head, whatever happens, then proceed
TO make yourself comfortable in the
midst of your everyday work.
First give as little thought to the dis
comfort of the heat as possible. So shall
you become superior to it. Keep Jolly,
cheerful. Then look after your food,
surroundings and habits. In cold wea-
Their we require food both to keep up
our strength and animal heat In hot
weather we have already more heat than
we want, therefore drop down about
half in the amount Of food. Eat fruits
of all kinds, and rice and bread, with
the lighter vegetables. Drink lemonade
and buttermilk. The agreeable and hy-
gienic qualities Of buttermilk are not
half understood. Shun all drinks con-
tanning that fire spirit, alcohol.
Get all the fresh air you can, wear
light, thin clothing, change it often and
take bath every day. 1t is the fellows
who wear heavy clothing, not often
changing it, who guzzle beer and whisky
and never take bath, that die of sun
stroke.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
A BOttOmless Pot.

An East Side dealer in New York was
lately made the object of swindle that
was rather novel and original. A mid
die aged woman came into his store one
day carrying on her arm large basket,
in which was pot with a lid. She
placed the basket on the floor, made
numerous purchases, had her bill count
ed up, and then carefully put all her
articles into the pot and replaced the
lid with the greatest caution. She next
asked permission of the store keeper to
leave the articles in his care, as she
wished to do little more shopping in
the neighborhood, promising to return
in the course of an hour.
This request was willingly acceded to,
and lifting the pot out of the basket she
carried it carefully to a corner, where
it would be out of the way, set it down,
and again slipping the basket under her
arm, left the store, after profusely
thanking the man for his kindness.
Hours went by, but the woman failed
to call for her precious pot. At last.
when closing time came, salesman
went over to the corner for the purpose
of placing the earthen ware in safer
place, and quickly discovered that. like
a certain locality to which sinners are
supposed to be consigned after death, it
was bottomless. The mere mention of
pot is now sufficient reason to cause
the vlctlmized dealer to go into convul:
s1ons.-House Furnishing Review.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
"Father Said"

You know him, the person who is al
ways telling the people what his father
said. Next to the person who talks al
ways about his own glory and greatness
the most intensified bore is the individ-
ual who talks about the glory and great
ness of his ancestors, particularly the
wisdom of the things his father said.
If you speak of bridge disaster, a
cloudburst, railway collision, you are
told that father always predicted just
this thing. If you have mot man full
of wisdom and eloquence, and in your
enthusiasm recount some of the truths
that fall from his lips, the bore cannot
wait, but interrupts you in his eagerness
to begin, eyes, father always said,"
etc. Whatever topic of conversation is
suggested, it is only the peg upon which
to hang pictures of the bore's own fami-
ly and ancestors. To him even the vul-
gar superstitions of his father are greater
truths than the wisdom of Huxley or
Darwin. -
This person is usually the provincial
bore. He has lived SO long in one little
spot Of the earth that the infinitely lit
tie has become to him the all important.
Better the life of even the Wandering
Jew than this distortion. 1t is better
never to have any home at all than to be
rooted to one miserable little spot till
you measure all the events of this great
swinging earth simply by what "father
said."
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
Lost Opportunities.

A great Englishman used to say that
his best speeches were always made in
the cab going home after the meeting
was all over. Wendell Phillips was &C
customed to say that he never made a
speech in his life that he did not forget
and leave out the best part of it. This
experience has doubtless been that of
everybody who ever tried to speak in
public. After all was over he thought
of the brilliant things he ought to have
said but did not think Of This is true
not only Of speechmaking, but of every
affair of life. Just the right thing is
seldom thought of till the crisis is over.
Depression, gloom and despair fill the
mans soul over his failure, as he sup
poses, and he curses himself for fool
for losing the opportunity of his lifetime,
either for the acquisition of wealth or
for whatever other object he had set his
heart on.
But it is not lost opportunity. Man
LIN ioe'ih oHiy ny eApeIleuCe. Inc
wisdom gathered from mans first fail
ure would not have come to him if he
had not failed. Through that failure
he will know exactly what to do next
time. And this let him remember
next time will always come. There
will always come an occasion when the
unspoken speech can be made, the bril-
liant financial stroke taken advantage
of. If we remember and profit by the
experience gained as we go along, there
will be no such thing as really lost
opportunity.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
Utilizing Corncobs.

s. j. H. Gregory, the well known
Massachusetts, seedman, in letter to
Country Gentleman, writes that he util-
ICES his corncobs in three ways-by
grinding with the grain, by using as alb
sorbers of urine and by kindling fires.
The experiment stations have shown
that cobmeal, when fed to cattle, is
fully as valuable, measure for measure,
as clear meal, owing, it is presumed, to
the fact that the cob so separates the
particles of grain that the digestive
secretions of the animal can more thor
oughly act on them. Mr.. Gregory says
To use cobs as an absorbent | drop
them into an excavation which receives
the liquid from the barnyard. Here
they rot in few months and are shov-
eled out and used as manure. also
kindle my coal fires with them. By
dropping in a few chips or paper and then
filling up the stove with cobs, and when
these are we'll on fire adding few more,
and on these Immediately pouring the
hod of coal, have no trouble in kin,
ding the hardest of hard coal. | use
more or less also in my open fireplace,
where they make heat more intense
than any hard wood fire. | have on hand
some cords Of cobs, left from the shell.
ing of my seed sweet corn; these pro.
pose to have ground up with the com.
mon yellow corn of the market, and SC
practically change it into meal value,
bulk for bulk. Corncobs are enormous.
ly rich in potash, their ashes containing
over 90 per cent, but it takes vast pile
of cobs to make very small pile OF
ashes.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08

Famine is this year not confined to
Russia. There is dearth bordering on
famine in few districts of Germany
and Italy. In the East Indies and some
parts of North Africa famine is severe
and widespread. And now report is
received from an Italian, DR.. Leo Ira
versi, upon a terrible desolation wrought
by famine in Shoa, the territory of King
Menelek II in Abyssinia. Prices are
very high, chicken, for instance, being
as high in price as calf is in normal
times. The military expeditions in
which King Meuelek is engaged all the
time have for months pas. all ended in
disaster because the men died in crowds
from starvation. One host, says DR..
Traversi, left in its line of march "a
procession of skeletons" At one SPOT
near the Italian settlement the doctor,
without changing his position, counted
fourteen skeletons. The population of
the kingdom has this year been reduced
by an incredible umber.-Exchange
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
A City Of r,sa,...

In 0 quaint old geography which I
onoe had the good fortune 10 own, tho
western coast Of South America was
decorated with tiny figures Of men and
women, among whom meandered the
words, "The Land Of the Pigmies."
More modern maps make no mention Of
such people, and I had forgotten that
ever believed in their existence, when
happened lately to come upon them
again.
A few months ago, perched on the
summit of one Of the highest Of the
Peruvian Andes, were discovered the
ruins Of a wonderful pigmy city, the
home of o race of dwarfs, and some Of
Its most interesting relics-all that were
transportable-are now on their way
northward, to find resting place in our
national museum at the Smithsonian
institution in Washington.
From these discoveries 1t appears that
the old belief In tiny race inhabiting
the lowlands on the Pacific coast was
well founded. There the little people
lived unmolested, so far as we know,
for an indefinite time, till they were at
last driven back upon the mountains by
larger and stronger race. Then they
built and occupied tho deserted city
which today excites our wonder
Youths Companion.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
Call 1t Columbia,

So says Mr.. Edward A. Oldham. He
sees in the coming 400th anniversary of
the discovery Of the western world
great opportunity to right grievous
wrong, simply by the nations uniting in
a common agreement henceforth to drop
the name of America as applied to this
continent and substituting that of Co
lumbia.
Mr.. Oldham declares that thorough
examination of the historical writings
of the time of Americas Vespucius fail
to show one scintilla of evidence that he
was the discoverer of our side of the
world, while these writings do establish
beyond a doubt that Columbus was the
real finder of the mainland of South
America, just as much as he was of the
West Indies islands.
Columbus right Of discovery was not
disputed during his lifetime, nor for
many years after his death. The al
legged voyages of Vespucius to Brazil in
1901 and 1903 are exploded myths. But
Americas was an intimate of publishers
and printers, and therefore had the
"pull," to use profane modern slang.
He used it with publisher in Lorraine.
and so got the glory in print in 1907.
But not till 1860 was the name America
used to any extent. Finally, the lead
ing historians of modern times are dead
against Vespucius and in favor of Co
lumbus.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
Thin ShelIed Eggs.

Some hens lay thin shelled eggs. This
is especially true of certain breeds, no
tably the Leghorns. The Poultry Yard
explains this as follows: The supply is
so abundant during the spring and sum-
mer, and the relative size of the egg is
so great, that it is no small matter to
find covers for them. They do not in
their ordinary food obtain sufficient
lime to make good firm shells for SO
many eggs. AS their remarkable pro-
ductiveness is an artificial trait formed
by man, under domestication, so the
supply of shell forming material must
be artiiicially provided. We know of
nothing better for this purpose than
crushed bones and oyster shells, The
poultryman can obtain one or the other
of these cheap in nearly every part of
the country, since they are both articles
of commerce and are sold at low rates
He can save expense by crushing them
himself with an old az and stone when
no better means are available. The
coarse particles may be placed in box
where the fowls can have access to them
at al! times. The iine dust or -four may
be fed in the soft food. A tablespoonful
to ten or twelve fowls will be sufficient. y
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08

The trucking industry assumes con,
stantly greater proportions in the south,
Here some wise agricultuvists are be-
ginning to make up what they lost ON
cotton, The south is to be the garden
of the country for early vegetables, par
ticularly after those hundred mile an
hour trains are started. Under present
transportation arrangements one firm in
New Berne, N, c., has already shipped
this spring $4,000 worth of cabbages,
One cabbage head makes small show
ing financially, but half million cab
bage heads count up large. The truck
ing industry, moreover, is not yet nearly
developed in the south, There is room
in it still for thousands of families to
make good living at tAe same time
that they make wholesome vegetables
cheaper for tho jewellers in cities. But
the want at presents better and cheaper
distribution facilities, so that the man
who raises the cabbage head will get
at least as much money for it as the
man who sells it wholesale.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
Cultural Notes for the Garden.

AS soon as the early crops-onions,
radishes, lettuce, etc.-are harvested,
clear the soil and prepare it for second
crops. Keep the celery plants growing
by frequent cultivation, and be sure and
thin the plants as needed. On the thin
ming of the plants depends much of the
future success of this crop. Celery plants
are by no means the only ones that re-
quire thinning. Thin carrots, beets,
onions from seed, parsnips and satisfy.
Stir the surface of the soil as frequent
ly as possible among all the garden
crops. This cultivation keeps down the
weeds and conserves the moisture. Be
ready with your spraying apparatus for
the potato beetles and slugs. Don't for
get to plant some cucumbers, especially
for pickles, and also set some celery
plants for an early crop.
Thorough cultivation and frequent
hoeing will make the young bean plants
grow vigorously. Remember that the
limas call for high cultivation.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
The kindergarten system of education

The kindergarten system of education
is making its way slowly even in the
large cities of the east, always slow to
adopt new things. In few years it will
be part of the public school system in
all the leading cities. 1t ought to be.
Even if to inaugurate it meant the lop-
ping off of some of the ornamental
branches in the public high school, kim
dergartens for the youngest pupils would
pay well at the cost. Not more than
one school child in hundred goes to
the high school; every child goes to the
primary school. The kindergarten sys-
tenn of education means less book stuff
ing, better eyesight, better reasoning
power, trained observation of objects
in nature, the use of hand and eye to
an extent which seems marvellous to an
advocate of the old methods, and a
moral education which our present plan
of education, either in public or private
schools, fails to supply. Our schools
want moral education-the more of it
the better-not sectarian training.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
60 4,sERNmk.
FIELD Np GARDEN
STACKING HAY AND GRAIN.
Important Points to he Observed In tho
Construction of the stack,

Important Points to he Observed In tho
Construction of the Stack.
As between the two usual methods of
preserving hay and grain from damage,
after these have been harvested and
properly cured, storing in the shelter of
n good barn will result In the least loss,
1t is, however, often necessary to stack
a portion of one or both Of these crops
from the want of sufficient barn space.
In such cases it is highly important
that the stack be properly constructed.
The agricultural editor of the New York
World has the following to say on the
subject;
The safety of the grain or hay to be
stacked depends largely on the expert
ness of the man who builds the stack.
Any farm hand can pitch hay or sheaves
of grain from wagon, but unless the
stacker is man Of some experience in
the business and with good eye for
proportions and outlines the stack is
quite certain to be faulty in shape, and
probably so lopsided that one-half of it
will offer but little resistance to rain.
While the shape of stack is very i'm.
portant, the manner of laying on the hay
or sheaves while building it is equally
so. In all cases the center of the stack
should be kept the highest, 80 that the
incline of the sheaves or forkfuls of hay
as they are laid on shall be outward.
Again, hay should not be tramped down
on the stack in wads and rolls, but
should fall fiat from the fork so as to
make as compact and water resisting q
body as possible.
When stack has been properly topped
off and presents no rough or jagged out
lines from top to bottom, it affordsquite
a safe method for protecting either hay
or grain that cannot be cared for in a
barn.
Clover is more liable to damage and
harder to be protected from wet in stacks
than are the finer stemmed hay grasses,
and where there is only room for one
variety of hay in the barn it is best to
put the clover into the NOW,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
Cause of Panics.

Matthew Marshall, the veteran finan-
cial writer of the New York Sun, does
not believe that panics drop from the
moon or blow up suddenly like thunder
storm. They are the result of set of
causes that have been working steadily
for years to produce them. When these
eliminate the crash comes, and he de-
clares that no legislation one way or the
other can stop it. The causes of finan-
cial disaster lie deeper than legislation
and are to be found in human nature
itself, which is only another way Of say
ing that if mankind were honest, wise,
industrious and energetic they would
not need any financial laws of any kind,
but could go ahead and manage their
affairs on the strength of native gump-
ton.
What the chief causes of panics are
Mr.. Marshall sets forth as follows:
The most serious obstacles to financial pros
perity are not those which are the most talked
about and for the removal OF which legislative
remedies are the most loudly demanded, but
those of which little or no account is taken
and which can be overcome only by individual
effort The want of skill, enterprise and good
judgment; the taking of unwise risks In the
hope Of great and sudden profits, the giving OF
credit to men undeserving Of it and the ex-
pansion Of business upon borrowed money-all
these operate surely and steadily to bring
about the frequently recurring financial disas-
tiers wrongly attributed to legislation. Up to
hov haa tp-
eliminating from business affairs these agen-
cies Of evil, and until they are eliminated it is
vain to expect uninterrupted financial pros
perity.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
PASTURES.


Pastures Permanent aud Pastures In Ro.
tailon- Pasture Grasses.
A farmer who thinks that in this coun
try permanent pasture cannot he sus
tanned except in certain favored local.
ties, expresses himself IA follows in The
Farm and Fir,sde;
There are natural pasture lands where
the grass never runs out, and in such
places fields may DO set apart and
used for pasturing indefinitely. But
most of us cannot depend upon the nu
tritious grasses retaining the mastery in
ihe fight against those plants we call
weeds, and so we must adapt our sys.
lem OF farming to bring the pastures
into the crop rotation; either this or to
seed down field for pasture and then
pillow and reseed when it fails to be
profitable for that purpose
The number of grasses that we can
depend upon for pasture are few, but
two or three of them are very good
namely, Kentucky blue grass, redtop
and orchard grass. These three may be
sown and timothy and red clover at the
same time, the two latter disappearing
in few years. The ground should be
heavily seeded, so as to give good
stand at once, and if II be seeded early
in the fall it can be pastured the next
spring, but if seeded in the spring it
could not be used for heavy stock until
late in the season. When pastures are
made from meadows the kinds of seed
we can SOW will be reduced in number,
because the kinds named do not ripen
together, and while that is all right for
pasture it is all wrong for meadow
But in seeding down for meadow to be
used eventually for pasture, we can
add Kentucky blue grass and redtop to
the generally sown timothy and red
clover; these two grasses will not make
much show in the meadow for two
years, and so will not interfere with the
quality of the hay if it is to be sold, and
after the meadow has been cut the Sec
0nd year 1t should then be pastured, and
will answer for that purpose for a
longer or shorter time, according to the
fertility of the soil and the climate in
which it is located.
There is this to be said in favor of
keeping field long in pasture, that the
fencing bills are reduced as compared
with those farms where the pasture field
is, changed every few years, but a good
wire fence can be taken down and be
put up again without much cost of time
and labor. In favor of the meadow sys-
tenn of supplying pasture, 1t may be said
that fewer acres will be required than
where permanent pasture is had. for
the grass will grow ranker and make
much more feed to the acre; grass in old
pastures is much finer and shorter than
that in new meadows, the soil becoming
more compact and the grass not so thrifty.
1t is claimed that this fine grass is more
nutritious than that of ranker growth in
the meadow, but have never noticed
that the cows did any better, if so well,
on old seeded fields as on new.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
The Barrel Com.

Everybody knows what a nuisance it
is to have hen in common barrel
coop, and there is possibility that the
chicks do not think much more of it
than we do There are dangers with the
round barrel. If not looked after, es-
pecially when there is a high wind,
there is likelihood that the breeze will
try to use the coop as football. Again
the excrement of the hen and chicks
gathers in the barrel, and with the straw
that is usually thrown mo it forms a
fine breeding place for vermin, from
which they can go forth in armies to
conquer their incubators, the chicks.
But barrels may be made into coops that
will prove efficient.
Each barrel should be divided into
two coops, saving the barrel lengthwise.
To do this is an easy matter. Take a
pencil or piece of chalk and mark the
hoops just where you propose to cut
them, which should of course be where
two slaves meet. Care should be taken
also to cut the barrel the right way of
the head so that the saw will have to be
used only to cut the hoops. Now it is
desirable that the hoops should remain
to keep the slaves in place, and to do
this some mailing will be necessary be.
fore the hoops are cut. Having marked
where the hoops are to be cut, nail the
hoops to the slaves on either side of the
mark. 1t may be necessary to nail into
some of the other slaves to insure firm