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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-07

lean.
David G. Baillie Is, as his name would make
him appear. Scotchman but he knows the
ms and outs Of New York journalism in a
vera guide" way. He reels of several
York papers pay largely by space, this trial
has probably made a generous addition to
his bank account. Mr.. H. T. Smith, the
artist of the World, has had his initials
tucked away in the corners of some Of the
best drawings that have appeared In any of
the New York newspapers of recent years
He sends over a number Of sketches every
day, SO that readers OF the New York World
have no excuse If they do not know what
the inside Of the Washington court room
looks like, together with the faces Of the
prominent actors Of this drama
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-07

% the last few years He is a shorthand
man. and has the advantage, with all morn
ing paper men. Of having plenty OF time to
write out full report after the court ad-
5ourns IN the afternoon. With him Is ASSOC
ciated 9lr. " de Lipman. the artist whose
name Is familiar to every one who hes
watched the development Of newspaper
illustration Some Of the best outline work
mat has appeared in the Herald has been
from bis pen Several OF hIs drawings NAT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-07
What He Rested On.

From Truth.
Willie Gust home from school and very
much excited)-"What do you think. pa
Johnny Smith, one OF the big boys. had
an argument with the teacher about q
question in grammar"
His father-"What position did he taker'
willie-"His last position was across she
chair, face down"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-07

The local papers are, Of course, well rep
resented by reporters at the trial. The Post
has had one man there. Mr.. Ernest Walk
er; the News two men, Mr.. Ingale and Mr.
Smith, while The Stars reports have been
made by three men. working two Mt a time.
The Star reporters have occupied their usual
seats beside the clerk of the court, where
they have sat for many years. In addition
TO these writers. The Star has had an artist
at court every day, whose work has gone
FAR to give a good idea of the scenes in the
court room to the many who have been un-
able 10 secure admission
The Correspondents.
The out-of-town papers have also devoted
q great deal OF attention to their reports of
the trial. and. in addition to the service
nom the regular press associations, many of
the leading papers Of the country have lad
their special writers at court from the be-
ginning Of the case. All the developmsnts
Of the trial have attracted interest not only
In neighboring cities. but especially In the
west. through Ohio and Kentucky, where
many Of the incidents on which the suit is
based have occurred during the past ten
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-07

II you desire a luxuriant growth Of healthy
hair OF natural color, natures crownng orna-
nent OF both se1es, only Halls Vegetable
Sictltan Hair Rsuswsr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-07

These two papers are by no means the
only out-of-town journals that have gone
into the work OF illustrating the trial Dur
ing the early stages OF the case the Cincin-
natl Enquirer contained a picture of the
court room and the people, which was al
legged TO have been drawn in Cincinnati from
a telegraphic description of the scene. This
Is enterprise, of course. but the picture it
self was a curious looking object. Probably
the telegraph operators were not much in
the artistic way. In the picture Judge Brad
ley. the well-groomed and aristocratic gen
tleman, was given the heavy black mus
tache, the oily hair and the diamond stud
that caricaturists usually give to ward poll
ticians and the police justices In the big
city on Staten Island.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-07
EXPERTS IN WHIST
Many E1ponents of This Famous
Game in This City.
A MARKED FEATURE OF CLUB LIFE
The Victories Of the Capita Bicycle
Club Team.
AN ALL WASHINGTON CLUB

Written Exclusively for The Evening Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-07

The Baltimore American has had as its
representative Mr.. Mckee Barclay, who has
played the unusual role Of artist and report
er both. His drawings can hardly be said to
rank among the best. though they are GER
tatnly not at the foot of the list. The Phil
adeiphia North American had a picture of
Mr., Breckenridge that looked like a COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-07

Two Of the New York papers have sent
over star writers" who have been vyinx
with the local men in the extent of their re-
ports. The New York Herald has sent over
Mr.. r. s. Yard who is regarded as one OF
the cleverest special writers in Gotham, and
who has done some particularly bright work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-07

FRO" hecOruer, SUN.
The newspaper men make a jolly little
coterta, a. they hang together well. Every
day they take luncheon together in little
groups at neighboring restaurants, and
there. and on their way back to the news
paper offices and newspaper row, they dis
cuss the details of the case In a manner
that shows that from frequent attendance
AZ court they have gained more than Il mere
s1nattertng Of the law and a knowledge Of
the value OF evidence.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-03-31
Soil Exhaustion.

The richest soils in the world, if
badly used, will produce but few crops,
after which they become less and less
productive, until in the end the fields
are left barren or TO weeds, says 'In-
dian Agriculturist." This has hap
pened in the most fertile places, where
wheat-growing has been followed with
persistency that may well be termed
heroic, the result being that any one
who now desires to make living on
one of these WORKOUT" farms must
undertake a settled course of improve
ment of the land. Fortunately, the
soil is really inexhaustible. 1t may be
misused and reduced in natural fertility
in part, but only so far as the pillow has
penetrated hitherto. Below this will
be found the virgin soil, cold and coy
it may be, but yet susceptible of
awakening into the warmth of vigor-
Gus life and of becoming as productive
as the upper soil which preceded it.
1t is common belief that land regains
fertility by rest, and especially il the
fallows be well stirred. This is as old
rs the ancient Romans, whose writers,
taking as eager an interest in agri-
culture as we do at this day, ofteL
referred to the land resting, and be-
ing improved by the rest. And this is
true, for the soil is made up of earthly
particles that are slowly soluble, and,
as time passes, the water and the air
together cause these to decay, and let
loose the fertility they have held
locked up. But this is not q civilized
way to manage the land. and neither
is it the most profitable. 1t is an
aboriginal method, and not scientific
one. The exhaustion of the land is
more economically prevented by the
action of vegetable growth upon it.
This may be weeds only, but this Is
natures course, which she enforces
when man neglects his duty and leaves
it to slow recovery; the better way is
to cultivate and sow it, and make it
produce something profitable while it
Is recovering. 1t has come to this,
that il farmers can not grow wheat,
except by bare following, then wheat
growing will have to be given up after
the virgin land has been cropped a
few times, for the simple reason that
the cost of maintaining fertility by
this process is greater than the crops
produced will pay for.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-03-31
Condition OF Our Soils.

The Minnesota Experiment Station
has published bulletin thirty, contain.
ing the results of their investigations
as to the deterioration of our common
soils under the present unsystematiC
methods of cropping. The summary
Of the bulletin is as follows:
/. The continued cropping of soils to
grain crops only without any system
of rotation or other treatment is tell
ing severely upon the original stock
of half decomposed animal and
vegetable matters and nitrogen. Soils
which have produced grain crops, eX-
clusivcly, for ten or fifteen years con-
tain from third to half less humus
and nitrogen than adjoining soils that
have never been plowed.
2. Soils which have been cropped
until the organic matters and humus
have been materially decreased, retain
less water and dry out more readily
than when there is a larger amount of
organic matter present in the soil
3. Soils which are rich in humus
contain a larger amount of phosphates
associated with them in availa BILE
forms than the soils that are poor in
humus.
Soils which are rich in humus
and organic matters produce larger
amount of carbon dioXide that acts as
solvent upon the soil particles and
aids the roots in procuring food.
5. One-half of sandy knoll, heavily
MANFRED with we'll rotted manure,
contained nearly a quarter more water
during six weeks drought than the
other half that received no manure.
s. The supply of organic matter in
the soil must be kept up because it
takes such an important part, indi-
rcctly, in keeping up the fertility of
the soil. A good system of rotation,
including sod crops and well prepared
farm manures, will do this, and will
avoid the introduction aud use of COM
mercial fertilizers which are now cost
ing the farmers of the United States
over thirty-fve million dollars an
nually. 1t will not do to wait until
this question forces itself upon us.
Z. A rotation of crops will soon be
necessary on account of the peculiar
composition of some of the soils and
the corresponding subsoils, especially
those IN which the surface soils are
richer in phosphates and nitrogen
while the subsoils are richer in potash
and lime. BY means of rotation the
full benefits of the strong points of
both the top soils and the subsoil will
be secured.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-03-31

above the ground they should De ex-
posed to the sun as much as possible.
When the proper time has ar
rived for transplanting, prepare
your hills, cut the strings
around the cans and you will find the
earth in a compact mass ready for
transplanting. The potatoes will
grow right along without noticing the
change and you will have early pota-
toes for your own table, and nice ones
too, il you have attended to them
properly. This may not he practicable
In raising early potatoes to sell. but
for home use we can recommend 1t,
and at this date, while the ground is
covered with snow, we have new pota'
toes we'll under way.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-03-31

MARCH AND April. March and April
are two of the most unfavorable
months in the year for poultry that
are not carefully attended to, as there
will be frequent cold rain storms.
Roup prevails in the early spring
months more than in winter, owing to
dampness, and the hens will venture
forth on moderately warm days, seek
ing a change of food, when they
should be kept inside. Care and at
tention must be bestowed until the
season sets in warm and all risk of ex-
posture to cold rains has passed, and
the hens will then be better prepared
for laying.-Ex.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-03-31

SURFACE CULTIvATIoN.-The whole
theory of modern cultivation is that
crops do better when they are given
surface cultivation throughout the
season. This process is much easier
than the old-fashioned deep cultiva-
ton, and 1t can be done in half the
time. BY it the surface soil is kept
loose and moist all through the season,
and this keeps the moisture near the
roots of the plants. The loose top soil
acts as a mulch to the plants, and is
invaluable in dry seasons. More and
more every season are farmers coming
to see that fiheness of surface soil en-
courages moisture and consequently
notification, by capillary attraction,
which largely increases the crops in
dry weather, and as there is scarcely a
summer without dry spells, it is adj
visable to prepare for these as early in
the season as possible. Elk.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-03-31
Early Potatoes.

Western Plowman gives this pan
to secure early potatoes: We take a
lot of old tin cans and put them in the
stove long enough to unsolder them.
This leaves only the rim of the can.
This rim is filled with good rich dirt,
and part or n whole of potato
planted in IL. Keep the rim together
by tying string around 1t and place
the cans where they will be kept warm,
watering them with lukewarm water
frequently. When the sprouts appeal
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-03-31

GROWING CABBAGE.-No vegetable
does well on stiff or clayey subsoil.
Pulverize the soil we'll with a plow and
harrow. Many prefer spading, but for
me, not much. Too much work, and
besides can do better work with q
good pillow and team of horses. l am
satisfied that it is good plan to pillow
the cabbage ground In the fall, If not,
in fact, all the garden. 1t turns the
soil up to be pulverized by the action
OF the frost and also turns up many in
sec3s (the eggs and larv@) to be des-
troyed by the same agent. Manure
thoroughly and evenly about two or
three inches deep. Cow and horse ma.
uure mixed and well rotted can not
be beat. Horse manure alone is not
what is wanted, as it heats so violently.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-03-31
PATRIOTIC.

How'd O'Shaughnessy come to give
up his job on the police forcep"
1.-THE captain assigned him to beat
in the park with instructions to see
that people didn't wear away the grass
by walking on it."
"What was wrong with an assign
ment like that? 1t strikes me as being
dead easy"
"Oh, it was easy enough, but
O'Shaughnessy was too much of an
Irishman to keep anybody from wear
inc of the green "-Roston Transcript
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-03-31
Aaritulture.

WATERIN Soils. 1t has been demon
strated that 100 pounds of sand will
absorb rs pounds of water; 100 pounds
of loan, 40 pounds; 100 pounds clay
loan, so pounds; 100 pounds of clay,
20 pounds. This explains why some
soils always appear drier than others,
and why after shower some soils be-
come like thick paste, while others
are only comparatively damp.-Ex.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-03-31
A QUESTION OF ECONOMY.

Cholly lat the Samoan village)-Ii
you give that fellow cents he'll rub
two sticks of wood together till they
make fire.
Fweddy-Five cents? It9 wascally
swindle. Five cents will buy two
hawkes. of matches, bah Jove.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-03-31

Hoods Pills act easily, yet promptly and
efficiently, on the liver and bowels. CSC.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-03-31
Hoods s;s;s;;sin' Cures

medicine in the house, rs we think 1t is the best
on earth. We say to others, have faith in Hoods
and it will cure you" V. C. HEDGES, Hopes
ton. Illinois. Get HOOD'S.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-01-11
AN INCIDENT or Travel.
The I,plite Young RIan HTeeta u RIoderR
Yonng Woman of Muacia

The I'ulIte Young Man RTeeta u R1odern
Young Woman OF Muscle
"In railroad car the other day."
said traveller, ''I saw sitting by a
window a handsome young woman
who had the vacRnt part of the seat
next the aisle filed with banIles
Sitting direct1y back of her was 3
we'll dressed, rather pertyoung man
one of those young men who have
great confidence in themselves. and
who are ever ready to help a lady in
distr So The young woman laid one
hand upon the window catch and the
other upon the finger hold upon the
lower part of the sash; she desired to
raise the window. The young man
was prompt; he was on his feet in all
instant
"'Permit me, madam he said, lean
ing forward and laying his own hands
upon the window, which had now
been surrendered by the young
woman: and he was about to toss it
up, but it didn't toss; in fact, it stuck
"'I shall have to come around there,
the young man said, and he came, With
confidence undimmed. and I'd fresh,
firm hold upon the widow nd :" led
again, but he cov4dn't bulge i:
Things were beginning to get just
little bit complicated. The young
man poun aed the window sash all
around, and tried again; couldn't
move it hair. Precipitation dotted
his brow md color mantled his cheek
I'm afraid Well have TO give it up
he said, and retired with su,h G~acs
as he could command. AS he swept
past the bundles and around into his
own seat again he saw the young wo
man standing once more at the win
dow as she had done only few br;ot
seconds before. She laid her hands
upon it, and as the young man settled
back in his seat she threw up the
window without apparent effort
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-01-11
LOTS OF FISHING.
8ut she Name of the Place Was Not
suggestive of Sport

8ut tho Name of the Place Was Not
suggestive of Sport
When one goes to the mountains he
thinks Of fishing and hunting, even X
ne does not indulge in those pursuits
Are there any fish about here?"
said to the gentlemanly and urb@ne
hotel clerK.
Eyes, plenty out there in the ice
box" said he with a laugh that made
his large and elegant diamond rattle
In its sash until tho putty almost
loosened.
Don't get gay" said I, hurting a
look of intense scorn at him. us theEs
any fishing about here?'
Plenty down in the Bull Pasture
'aid he.
"What do you catch thereP" said /.
bull cats and buffaloes or cattle and
clover blossoms7" Then 1 laughed 9
bovine laugh.
''No, said he, "trout and bass"
"Co.ne off," said 1, whoever heard
of trout and bass living il bull pas
ture?"
1t was now his turn to laugh again.
and he called it.
II reckon you don't know geog-
raphy," he said; ''that pleasant little
river you see winding like stream of
light through the valley and past
Goshen is the Bull Pasture river"
''Ye gods" 1 cried. whats in a
Aame?" and the clerk said there were
two words in this one.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-01-11
A Portentous Noise.

the bridegroom, departing with his
bride for their honeymoon, is dis
turbed by continual tapping on the
floor of the post-cha Sc. 1t begins to
bother him exceedingly. What the
deuce is that noise?' at last he NUT
terra at is nothing, darling" answers
the BRIDE, sweetly; at is only my
wooden leg" Only that and nothing
Tore. She had got accustomed to it
f-om long use; but the inform ltioa
put him out exceedingly and caused a
eoolness which was permanent.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-01-11
WEDDINGS AND THE WELDED.

In all countries more marriages
take place in June than in any other
month.
Engel considers that CHI Id of ten
years Represents IS an out ay OF S400; a
youth of fifteen 500
Seventeen children in less than ten
years is the record made by Mrs. Ellis
worth Miller of Cold s. r ngs, y. Y.
The recent marriage in PniladeI-
phia of Mr.. Tarr and Miss Feathers
is said to form the most harmoni Gus
union OF tar and feathers known to
history.
According TO a report By the French
minister OF finance I4S families in
France have claimed exem otio1 from
certain taxes recently voted by the
parl on account of having
seven or more children.
Miss Eleanor Munger of Ne
Haven. who has rece tIy married
Philip P. Wells of Boston, wore at her
marriage a gown les years old. 1t
had been worn as wedding dress by
her mother and her grandmother.
A Backs county, Pa couple crossed
the delaware the oLher oay 10 aVal1
themselves of the easy marriage laws
of New Jersey. The groom was Bart
lett A. Downs AMI the bride Miss Eiiz-
aheth Ups, and their runaway we'd
ding moved rural poet to sing:
In n-trimony's happy st .te.
ThroI II Cupid's SIn..o, an frown5,
We ii ii in life however str.ii mt,
There y Ill be Ups .LL1 Do Tls.
Fro II Ire and comes an account of a
wedding where the bride was at
tended by no less than ten b ides-
ma ds. nine OF whom were her sisters.
The earl and countess Of Beimore hlve
ten daug ughters, and the family spell
that has bound them together was
broken for the first time when Lady
Florence Lowry Cory became the
wife of Colonel Eden.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-01-11
Largest silver and Gold Coins.

The late proposition to put dollars
worth of silver in the coin of that
denomination reminds me that An
nam, French pretectorate in Asia,
has silver coin that weighs as much
as fifteen United States "buzzard''
dollars. The largest gold coin in cir.
culation is the loot" which also be-
longs to the Oriental French colony
mentioned above. This monster gold
disk will weigh as much as 325 Ameri
can gold dollars, and. although
weighty and awkwardly large, arr
considered valuable property. The
gold piece which comes next in size 10
the 'loof' is the ''obang" of Japan, y
coin containing about SAT worth Of
pure gold.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-01-11
STILL IN BUSINESS.

We congratulate Colorado on
the splendid record made by her
mines last year. Acc riding t. the
smelter AMI mint reports pub
lishei by the Denver papers, the
ate mines produced S6,971 more
ounces of gold and 262, 2,I94 more
ounces of silver last year than in
1892, There WAS slight falling
off iu Iaa,l, but an increase of $685.
033 pounds in copper. In coal
and iron, too, there was large
increase per cent in coal and
over 81 per cent in iron. AS 10
values, the large gain In gold pro-
duction almost made up for the
loss to silver occa stoned by the
decline in the market price fJr the
white metal.
Taken as a whole the mining
industry Of Colorado was pro-
ductiye of more material and OF
m IRE revenue in in 1893 than in
any previous year Of the states
history. And Notwithstanding
the stoppage Of silver purchases
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-01-11
INoIANs Aa sLAvEa
Or. BERNARD q steInor's Htstori saI Far
per AS6us Connections.

Or. BERNARD n steIner's Historical Far
per AS0ut Connecticut.
DIR. Bernard c. Steiner, librarian OF
the Enoch Pratt Free library, in-Bal-
timore, has completed monograph on
Slavery in Connecticut, which will
be published in the John Hopkins
university studies in historical and
political science.
Among the interesting facts in tha
work Is the statement that the FIRST
slaves in Connecticut were not ne
groes, but Indians, being of the Pc
quot tribe, which was overthrown by
the settlers in 1888. The first law
against the slave trade, too. was
passed in 1715 against the i'm portAtio
of the Tuscarora Indians, who had
been captured by the Carolinians in
war. The first idea of slavery in Con-
necticut was then that captives in war
were slaves Soon after the founda-
tion of the colony negroes were intro
ducea, few at a time, chiefly from
the West Indies and not from Africa.
They were owned for the most part
as household servants, and the Con-
necticut notion of slavery was the
to the family of the master differed
from apprentices only in being bound
to service for life.
Slavery was tolerated everywhere in
Connecticut throughout the colonial
period, but with the coming of the
revolution came the idea that it was
unrighteous to hold men in bondage
This feeling LED to the act of 1774, pro
hibiting the foreign slave trade, and
that of 1884, providing that all there
after born as slaves should be free on
reaching their twenty fifth year.
This age was afterward lessened to
21. Connecticut Is remarkable as be-
ing a state which succeeded in gradual
Emancipation. When slavery was fin
ally abolished there, IN 1s4s, fewer
than twenty slaves were in the state,
4one of whom were under Ga years ST
Ige.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-01-11

by the e vernment, this product
iveness belonged as much to the
secon as to the first hclf Of the
year.
However mu h the Populist
leaders assembled at Denver may
weep and wall over the condition
If affJirs, the mines AMI smelters
of Colorado show that state to
have prospered as very few other
states of the UnIon did last y ar
EX.