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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-13
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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26
Growing Corn After Corn.

AS usually practiced, successive
corn growing is very wasteful. 1t
leaves the land naked through the
winter, to be blown by winds and
washed away by floods. The grain,
too, is usually sold in the places where
corn is the main money crop, and as
for the stalks, they are left in the
field to be plowed under in the spring,
when dried and likely to do more
harm than good. But there are other
and better ways of growing corn, and
under certain circumstances it may
be probably grown for TWO or three
years on the same land. These are
where the farmer has good stock to
eat the corn, and where both grain
and fodder are made the most Of. If
corn is to succeed corn the following
wear, it should be sown with rye in
the fall, and the rye top dressed in
winter or spring with all the manure
the corn and stalks will make. This
makes the land light and rich on the
surface, but after year or two the
subsoil will become too compact, and
a two years growth of clover will
best renoyate that.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26

will do this will do more. she will
cheerfully make her expenditures
meet the situation. If she has an
extravaganza she will lop it OF; she
will look we'll to the ways Of her
household and take cheerful inter-
est in practicing wise economies. But
there comes place where mems and
women's ways may part. A glance
over the newspapers shows that when
men are troubled in their affairs the
mill is shut down, the works are
closed. the employe is discharged.
The interests of women are not 50
involved. The wise woman will not
swell the ranks of the unemployed.
She will not discharge the faithful
nurse. the cock, the waitress; she
will turn her dress for new fall cos
tune and put a new bow on her hon.
net: she will gather her household
about her and bending low all will In
time weather the storm.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26
Origin of the Polka.

Sixty years ago, an Austrian cook,
finding herself dull in her kitchen,
sang and danced in there for her own
amusement. The cooks mistress
having surprised her during the i'm
promptu dance, she was requested to
dance and sing in the presence of the
composer, Joseph Neruda, who took
notes of the performance The polka
passed into Prague. then to Mienna,
and plenty Of animated music was
soon written.
But the real polka mania did not
break out in Paris till the year 1914,
when it was danced with great Sue
cess by select few at the Sale
Valentino, in the premises which in
due course were occupied by the Nou-
veau Cirque. Crowds used to assemble
round the dancers to admire the diff
ferent pretty figures which composed
the true polka. which was then &C
quired with difficulty, and was not
the simple, close, and ru shing dance
at present known by that name.
SO popular was the polka in Paris
nearly half century ago that the
dancing masters had for clients ladies'
and gentlemen Of all classes, and
even judges, lawyers. and doctors did
not disdain to take lessons in what
was then considered as one of the
greatest requirements for a ballroom
dancer
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26
The Leonard.

DR.. Kircher's theory regarding the
leopard was undoubtedly in accord
ancc with the general opinion of his
time DR.. John Anderson, one of
our best. but not best-known, natur-
alists. writes thus in hook published
by him in 1888: 1.-The Felis pardus
like the lion and tiger, was we'll
known to the ancient who had
curious superstition regarding it that
survives more or less to the present
day and gives to frequent discussions
as to the supposed difference between
the panther, or pard, and the leopard.
1t was thought not to be actually the
same animal as the panther, or pard,
but to be a mOngrel or hybrid be-
tween the male pard and the lioness;
hence 1t was called the liOn-panther
of leOparduS. This error, as Arch
bishop Trench tells us, has la sted into
modern times. Thus Fuller says that
leopards and mules are properly no
creatures. "
In reality, however, the names
pard, panther, and leopard have ref
erencc to one and the same animal.
l believe that all scientific biologists
are of the same opinion as DIR. An
derson. But in India there are some
English sportsmen who still imagine
that there is a difference between a
panther and leopard. In Madras
and Bombay the animal is almost in
variably called a panther. The Ben
gal Presidency, in its military juris-
diction, is so extensive, reaching
from the borders OF Afghanistan to
the Eastern limits of Assam, that it
would be unsafe to predict that the
name panther is not recognized in
any part of Bengal, but in the prov
ince known as Lower Bengal the
name leopard is almost Invariably
used by English sportsmen.
1t would be of little use to discuss
the names applied by the natives of
each province to the leopard or
panther According to my own ex-
perience, the natives adopt the name
which they think most suitable to the
colloquial proficiency of their master.
They would sometimes call it a little
tiger and sometimes spotted tiger
In speaking to their master; while
among themselves, owing to their
superstitious notions they would not
venture to talk of the animal by its
proper name Thus l have heard
them use the word 'Jackal" as ap-
plicable to both a leopard and a tiger.
This superstition is curious, but al
most universal. The strict Mobam-
medans, from their aversion to the
unclean animal, the hog, do not speak
OF it as the bOor, name familiar to
every Englishman, but they call it
the kala HARM. or black deer, as a
conscience saving euphemism. =
Longman's Magazine
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26
Where Farming Is Not Dull.

Ed Sherwood killed four bears near
his place up the Sultan River last
Saturday evening and Sunday. Sat-
urday evening Mr.. Sherwood's atten.,
tion was attracted by violent COM
motion in his calf pasture, and upon
investigation he discovered a huge
bear in the act of tearing a calf to
pieces Mr. Sherwood yelled Justify,
and attempted to drive the brute
away with club, but bruin was not
to be robbed of his supper of fresh
veal, and he advanced threateningly
toward the disturber Of his repast.
Mr.. Sherwood was unarmed and did
not stand upon the order of his going,
but trusted to the lghtness of his
heels to increase the distance between
bruin and himself in as short a time
as possible. He procured his rifle
and returned to the pasture, and with
a few well directed shots the bear-a
very large male-was quickly dis
patched. The calf was so badly torn
that it had to be killed. Mr.. Sher-
wood swOre vengeance on the whole
bear tribe, and Sunday morning he
went out and before he came back he
bagged no less than three. female
and her two cubs-Sultan City
wash Journal.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26
Fear Orchard

The pear is one of the finest fruits
that we have and when picked at the
proper time and we'll ripened is de-
liciOus mOrsel. Were it not for the
blight to which many varieties are
subject it would be planted more
largely than it is The pear should
never be allowed to ripen on the tree,
but should be picked several days be-
fore ripening and sent Immediately
to market. II retained a few days
they soon begin to soften and are liza
BILE to bruise in carrying to market,
marring their appearance ana iniur-
ing their sale. In order to obtain
the top price for pears send them in
nice clean crates OF one bushel in each
crate, wrap each pear in thin, clean
white paper and pack close together.
National Stockman.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26

The original intention in regard to
women seems that they should be
creatures OF ornament and consola-
tiOn. This has not been wholly car
ried out; they have had many other
things to do beside being pretty and
consoling. But for both Of these they
have had large opportunities. In
times like the present. when men are
harassed and troubled over their
affairs, women can do much that no
one else can do. They can refrain
from troubling on their own part;
they can put aside their own annoy
ances; they can see that the house is
cool and comfortable. that the table
Is we'll and not extravagantly served;
they can present cheerful front and
soOthe or divert as the indications
may he read on the page which it
should have been the business of their
lives to understand at q glance. They
may speak or be SILENT as the case
seems to require. The woman who
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26


MANY farmers and small breeders
of horses complain that they cannot
compete with the wealthy man who
keeps stud farm simply as side
show to his other and main business,
and who does not have to make
money at it, We believe that the
farmer. a part OF whose business it is,
can raise horses at profit that if
generally followed, would make the
horse fancier seasicK, and he would
drop the horse-farm like hot stove
lift Doing business in earnest and
The latter would he too costly in
such a case to be funny.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26

MORE hard coal has been mined so
far this year than ever before in a
corresponding period. The market
prices of almost all other staple pro-
ducts have fallen with the coming of
financial troubles, ont coal is still
held at the old rates People must
have fuel next winter and the rail-
road companies which control the
mines know this and act accordingly.
If the Governor of PENNSYLVANIA
wants to do something of the most
vital interest to the poor let him look
up the anthracite coal business and
see whether anything can be done to
cheaper that necessary Of life.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26

w. II. VANDERBILT, some time
prior to his death, spoke OF himself as
goner, ana said: "All this money
isn't wortha rap. would give it all
for your health" to which Il friend,
half-laughingly and half-seriously, re.
piled; swell, too much money is IA
nuisance. The happicst time in my
life was when l was worth $500, 600. "
And the happiest time in my life, "
rejoined Vanderbilt, "was when
was working on my Staten Island
farm"
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26

business conditions this summer is
the great increase in traffic on the
Erie Canal and the corresponding i'm
prOvement in the condition of the
boatmen. Nearly twice as much
grain has gone to the seaboard by the
canal route as was shipped in that
way in the corresponding part OF last
year. and the freights have been by
no means remarkably low. This
shows now valuable the canal still is
as safeguard against high rates on
the railways Letween the lakes and
the sea, for il the water route had
been closed this summer grain freights
from Buffalo to New York would
surely have been heavy burden to
producers OF very cheap cereals.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26
Wheat After HOed Crons.

1t is not because wheat is so profit
able, cut rather because it is desira.
BILE to have short rotations, that the
practice Is growing of sowing wheat
the same fall that corn and potatoes
are got off the land. The field is
thus kept with some sort of cover
ing continuously. The wheat in the
fall uses up fertility that would other.
wise be washed away In winter. In
this way, too, the land is seeded with
clover the spring after clover sod
has been plowed under and when the
soil is full of the fertility that the
decayinR clover has left. II wheat
Is to be sown after hoed crops no
blowing Is necessary. Cut the corn
very low and the stubs can be turned
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26

A CONVICT in the Ohio Pcniten-
tlary disfgured a fellow convict Cor
life by throwing vitrol in his face.
1t seems strange that nc did not
then draw a revolver, shoot the
guards, take bunch Of keys from
his pocket, unlock the gates, climb
into a waiting carriage, and escape.
Or is vitrol the only one OF the sup
plies commonly furnished to the iu-
mates OF the Ohio Penitentiary?
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26
EDISON AND THE BEAR.
The Unexpected Visit Paid to the Sanctum
of the Inventor.

Tho Unexpected Visit Paid to the sanctum
of the Inventor.
Thomas A. Edison's father, on one
of his visits to Menlo. Park, brought
with him q surprise to his sOn-a
tame bear that he had captured with
his own hands.
It was very late when he arrived,
and finding that his son was on one
of his usual midnight experimental
'spreeS" he determined not to
bother him, and went to bed. after
first carefully locking the cub IN the
cellar.
The experiment on which the
:'wiZard" was at work were the final
ones in the Invention of the phono-
graph.
Mr. Edison was kneeling on the
floor listening to the reproduction OF
an old song, and his assistants were
punched behind him, with every
nerve strained to catch the far-Off.
curious sounds So intent were they
That the stumbling OF heavy foot
steps up the stairs and the opening
OF the laboratory door were unnoticed.
and it was only when q heavy ''wOOf"
drowned the imitation song that the
little group became aware that a
stranger was among them.
The next instant the laboratory
shelves bore. instead of bottles, half
dozen of the worst scared scientists
in history.
Seeing the lack of disposition to
show him the hospitalities OF the
place the bear started on a tour of
inspection Of his own. He used his
paws as the farmer from ''Wayback"
used his umbrella in art galleries, and
soon had the well-arranged workshop
in compound disorder. The shelved
scientists were wishing every minute
that he would seize high-vOltage
circuit which would give him tenn
porary trance. But lie was too wise
for that, and it began to look as If
the greatest problem Edison would
have TO solve that night was how to
e: cape the clutches of bear.
The beast was having veritable
picnic in the electrical sanctum when
Mr. Edison, ST., stalked into the
room.
Explanations were soon made, the
bear was led down stairs, and the
electricians descended from their
percbes, but not in just the proper
shape to continue their experiments
that night Louis Post Dispatch.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26
No Stunted Sows for breeding.

Fall-bred pigs do not make good
breeders The reason is that in
northern climates it is almost inpos-
sible to get fall pig through the
winter without having it stunted in
krowth. This Injuries digestion, and
if the pig be SOW, it will never be a
good mother or have vigorous. healthy
pigs. Yet fall pigs are the ones most
often set to breeding when they are
year cid. IT spring pigs are desired
from sow. which Is itself spring
pig, it cannot be very we'll bred until
1T is sixteen or twenty months old.
BY this time it should have made
large growth and be fit to give at
least two litters of pigs per year.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26

THE town Of Schneidermuhl in 20.
sen, Prussia, has suffered a peculiar
yet terrible misfortune. The wells
which supplied its people with water
having given out resort was had to
irrigation. No solid rock was en-
countered and at depth of 200 feet
water came up with great force.
With much difficulty a pipe was put
in the well supposed to be large
enough to convey all the water. But
the people found to their consterna-
tion that water began to force itself
upward outside the pipe as well as in
1t. The water came in such volumes
that it was with great difficulty got
ten rid OF. Soon there began to dc a
severe subsistence Of the earth with
deep cracks that extended to portions
still apparently firm. Seventeen
houses have settled in the chasm,
and the village has been depopulated,
nobody knowing when their residence
may crumble into ruins. Such effect
from artesian wells can hardly be ex.
pected except in localities where
water is reached in large quantities
without going through rock forma-
tion. There are few such places and
the drilling of artesian wells is there
fore not serious danger anywhere.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26

The imposture which has longest
detied exposure and which has exer.
cised the greatest influence on the
course OF history may fairly be de-
scribed as the most successful. The
South Sea Bubble and John Laws
Mississippi Scheme were impostures.
and very successful, but they were
soon found out and their effects,
though great for the time being,
were transient. They will, there
fore, not compare for moment with
the forgery OF the 1sidOrian Decretals,
an lmposture fabricated by an I'M
known Gallo monk in the name of
lsidore. about the beginning Of the
year l845. These fOrgeries were of
the most clumsy and impudent de-
scription: they pretended to be the
DEGREES OF the early POpes, and were
interspersed with acts of synOds
which were never uttered. So grossly
did the author trade on the credulity
OF his times that he made POpes use
a form of Latin not in vogue till two
or three centuries after their death,
and set bishops corresponding who
did not live within two centuries of
each other. The object of the De-
cretals was to prove that the papal
authority was derived direct from
Christ and the Apostles. and that
therefore. all other sees were SUBJ
ordinate to THAT of. Rome. This for
gerry, as Draper says, produced an i'm
mense extension Of the papal power;
it displaced the primitive system of
church government, Invested it Of
the republican attributes it had po-
sessed. and transformed it inJo an
absolute monarchy. 1t brought the
bishops into subsection to Rome and
made the pOntiff the supreme judge
of the clergy Of the whole Christian
world. AS it was not finally exposed
until the sixteenth century it is i'm
possible to over-estimate the tremend-
GUS effects produced by this impos-
ture on the destiny OF Europe.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26
AN ingenious German has invented

AN ingenious German has invented
a process for removing the element of
smoke from the combustion of coal,
and that by an entirely different
principle from any of those before
known. The tests are said to have
been very satisfactory, and contracts
have been entered into with several
large manufacturing concerns The
coal is drst finely powdered by special
machinery, and is then injected into
the furnace by an automatically
regulated current OF air. The carbon
is entirely consumed, and there is no
smoke, and no ash is precipitated.
The fire is under perfect control, and
can be started or cut of at a mo-
ment's notice.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26

PITTSBURGH, the great manufac-
turing center once known as the
'smoky city," has set for other cities
much-needed example Over Il
year ago the City Council OF Pitts
burgh passed an ordinance establish
ing district in which a fine of from
$40 to $50 a day was imposed on any
who after September should allow
'smoke from bituminous coal to es.
cape from any stack or chimney in
connection with stationary boilers. ="
The prescribed area included a con-
siderable part Of the business section
OF the city and large residence dis
trict with cable railway power houses,
electric light stations, asphalt paving
works, and one OF the city's water
works stations inside its limits, and
the steel and iron works and oil re-
tineries outside OF them. The ordi-
nance was taken in good faith and
understanding devices have been
generally adopted since last Septem-
Der. so that not one of the establish
ments within the prohibited district
that were formerly so Objectionable
is now without smoke consumers
The whole east end of the city has
been emancipated from the smoke
nuisance, except as it is affected by
the manufactures outside the limits.
What has been done in Pittsburgh
can he done in every large city in
the country.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26
Clocks That Need Little Winding.

Herr Noll. mechanician of Ber-
langen. Germany has constructed a
clock warranted to run for 5000 years
without winding. d. L. Golf, in this
country, has in his hall an old fash
Toned clock which, SO long as the
house Is occupied, never runs down.
Whenever the front door is opened or
closed the wi2ding arrangements of
the clock, which are connected with
the door by rod with gearing at
tachments, are gwen turn. so that
persons entering and leaving the
house keep the clock constantly
wound up. I. G. Farrer of Fresno,
Cal, invented clock. the only mo.
tive power Of which, he alleges. is
the gravitatiOn of the earth, which
keeps the clock running forever with
out winding. This clock consists of
plate glass dial suspended from the
ceiling, and all the parts of it that
are visible are the two hands, the
pivot on which they swing and the
dial. In 1910 J. Smith. Leeds, Eng
land. constructed clock, the sole
motor of which was electricity. He
lived to see this clock 60 for nifty
years. Clocks are now made to run
tive years with one winding up. There
Is clock In the church of St Quen.
tin, Mayence, Which is said to have
stopped only onoa during a period Of
500 years. -Brooldyn Eagle
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26
Time to Purchase stock.

The fall is an excellent time for
purchasing pure-bred stock, as the
prices are then lower than at any
other season, for the reason that the
breeders are reducing stock before
the winter cts In, and are willing to
make a reduction in price. The
money expended for pure bred ami
mails is one of the best investments
that can be made, and gains COM
t5(alnd interest in short time.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-26

CurraCt is and gooseherries are read
lily propagated from cuttings, and
will make large growth when even
small piece OF root is attached.
With plenty of root we have known
few lunches Of currants to be rip
ened on plants set out the previous
fall or early in the spring. But if
the plant is to be layered and new
wood made it is not best to leave any
fruit on it.