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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-03-06

Looking at this needful measure
from another standpoint, the
amount OF lands seems large, but it
is wise TO look forward to the grow
ing wants of our city and to esti-
mate the element of time and per-
manence, besides this, every asso-
citation, religious or benevolent,
will need ample plots in the new
grounds which the city can dispose
Of at good advantage, and while
the sum seems large to invest in
lands for this purpose, every dollar
will come back to the Golfers OF the
city.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-03-06

Mayor Paschal, who has actively
encouraged this measure, has
proven his determination to favor
measures that will bring back re-
turn to the city of the public ex-
penditures; a policy that COM
mends itself to the taxpayers of
our city.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-03-06

1t will be years before the old
graveyards will disappear, but
once closed they will become harm
less, and gradually the dust Of all
those, who have living friends,will
be transferred to the new grounds,
to await the final awakening.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-03-06
;OERNE HOTEL Bueme, Tex J, 7, CT

provided with Accommodations Tor visitors
n summer and
cldu Winter Fined drives, fishing
SEEKERS MECCA
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-03-06

The time has come when our city
has outgrown it's primitive condi-
tions, and what was once a remote
section has become populous one,
and, like all old towns, we must
move our graveyard further out.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-03-06

The site selected is in every way
the most suitable within the whole
range of territory about our city,
the tract consists of some $50 acres,
assuring permanence, so that there
is no reason to expect that the dead
will ever be disturbed by the ad-
vance of the city, a consideration
OF the first Importance. 1t is the
history of all old cities that their
graveyards have been kept on the
move. 1t will be great consola-
ton to the living that permanent
resting place has been secured.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-03-06

The selection of the heights east
of the city as a cemetery was an
unfortunate one, the soil was un-
suitable, while its proximity to the
heart of the city endangered the
general health. Within the past
few years it has a become a sus.
picion that the cemeteries being
in direct course of the summer
winds was the cause of sickness at
the United States government post,
most important institution to
the city, but this suspicion was
quoted.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-03-06
SHORT STOPS.
What the People are Saying

The purchase Of land for city
cemetery by the city is one of the
most pressing and important meas
ures brought before the city gov
eminent for the past twenty-five
years.
Our present cemeteries have
proven to be inadequate but more
than that the living have become
mixed up with the dead the dwell
ings of our citizens have been
pushed through the cemeteries and
beyond and around them, until it
has become a menace to the health
of the entire city.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-03-06
TO ABOLISH AN OFFICE.

Alderman Daugherty intro
duced an ordinance abolishing the
office of city sexton, and giving the
work now done by the city sexton,
to the clerk of the health de-
partment. The ordinance was
read and laid over under the rules
to be submitted to the city attor-
ney, at the suggestion of Mr..
Daugherty.
Alderman Joe Beckmann read a
resolution annulling the franchise
of the Crosstown railway company
and as the matter was being dis
GUESSED, Alderman Albert Beck
mann became hungry and made a
motion to adjourn. Alderman
Hoefling readily seconded the mo-
ton and it was carried.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-03-06

The graveyards are full, and an
actual necessity exists for new
ground. The present city adj
ministration has risen to the full
measure of the occasion by secur-
ing a permanent and ample home
for the dead, situated three miles
west of the center of the city.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-15
RINGS IN TREES.
The Non-Uniformity of Additions OF Diff
fereat Years.

The Non-Uniformity of Additions OF Diff
fereat Years.
1t goes without further saying that
the annual rings in exogenous (outside
growers) stems vary in age from the
youngest upon the outside to the oldest
at the center. The point for us to de
termine is the lack of uniformity in the
wood and why that lack is somewhat
regular. In other words, the woody
tissue of stem is heterogeneous only
within certain limits. Thus in one
wood there are thirty-nine rings, and
the tree for our purpose may be con-
sidered forty years old in round num-
bers. Twenty of these rings, or the
older half, show marked color, being
much darker than the super-imposed
twenty. years of annual deposits. Sew
eral other things are shown by this
section. and we can well dwell upon
this specimen, as it iliu strates facts
that are common to nearly all trans
verse cuts of wood. The rings. for ex-
ample, are not all of the same width,
those formed while the tree was pass
ing from its fifth to the twentieth sea-
son being the largest, but even among
these there is wide variation. Thus,
ring fifteen from the center is narrow
one, followed by one of unusual width.
For the last ten years the rings have
been more uniform and much thinner
than twenty years earlier. There may
be one or more of many reasons for a
ring being unusually thin, as, for ex-
ample short season, one lacking in
moisture or having an excess of it, in
jury from frost, fires. insects, or para
site fungi. The decrease in thickness
toward the outside of the pawpaw may
be due to insufficient nutrition, ap-
preaching old age, etc, bat in this con-
nection it must not be overlooked that
the amount of actual wood deposited
may be more in a thin ring at the for
tieth year than in comparatively
thick one at the tenth year, the surface
covered being so much more extensive.
1t is likely that the root and leaf sur
face may not increase in the same
ratio rs that of the clm5ium or grow
ing layer.-Prof. Byron ID. IEalsted, ir
Popular Science Monthly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-15


In the present Corean war the weap-
ons used are almost as old as those of
the Thlinklits or the Quichias or the
Patagonians, consisting of clubs and
other missiles, bow and arrows, wooden
spears and wooden cannon, showing
that the improved ornaments of the
modern period have yet considerable
spaces of the world to conquer. The
one advantageous thing about these
weapons is that given number OF
soldiers will GO farther with them and
last longer many times over than with
the improved variety. Chinese COM
manders and armies until recently re-
lied a great deal upon noise in warfare
and upon the exposition of large
dragons of teakwood and pasteboard,
but have feared by experience against
foreign invaders to distrust the efficacy
of both and have adopted the arms of
their enemies. The Coreans have SINH
lar lessons to learn; that their bows
and arrows and wooden guns are what
are known as back numbers, and if
they wish to shine in arms and con-
quest they must import the improved
varlety.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-15
AN TENTED SUCCESS.

that q woman can succeed.
PERUsE and ponder the following
items:
Miss MARY E. CUTLER lives In Hills
ton, Mass.
AFTER her fathers death ten years
ago she became sole manager of sixty
eight acres of land.
AT that time school teacher, she
quit directing the shooting Of young
minds and then went to farming 1t.
FRIENDS and neighbors shook their
heads and said: Don't you do 1t,
Mary" Bnt Mary said, with plucky
and decided air that she would and she
did.
FRUITS and vegetables are the chief
crops. She supervises all the work her
self and sells the products Of her skill
and industry direct to consumers, the
surplus going to canneries-
THE peach orchard numbers fourteen
hundred vigorous, bearing trees, and
when it is stated that not failure has
this 'wide-awake woman scored In
seven years in raising successful crops
Of peaches, you will admit it is not all
chance.
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cions, indeed, must be perfectly dor
mant. Good cions, however, often do
better when inserted into wood after
growth Is started than at any other
period. The trees to be operated on
might have been head down in autumn
or during early winter. We have usu-
ally employed the ordinary graft meth
cd. The accompanying illustration
(reduced from Garden work. repre-
sents at the left grated limb, tied
and waxed. The wax or clay is spread
on the amputated part (A) of the
stock, on the wound (E) at the juno
ton of the cion with the stock, and on
top of the cut cion TO-. The terminal
bud (U) is not covered, nor the embed
ded bud (Y) in the incision.
Bark or rind grating, as shown at
the right of illustration, is usually as
successful as cleft grating and often
more convenient, and perhaps better
for the. future health of the tree. If
the stock is large, a number of cions
cut to resemble the specimen shown
at the extreme right may be inserted.
To avoid irregular splits in the bark,
q longitudinal incision (D) may be
made in the bark. This will not only
facilitate the sliding of the cion (O),
but also permit the others to be at
ease. After tying the crown of the
stock, top of cions and front and
back on the bark of the stock, may be
waxed or clayed. Clay and fresh cow
manure, well mixed together and made
soft like putty, is often used in Europe
in place of wax for covering gratis
American Gardening.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-15
THE FARMING WORLD
A NEW INSECTICIDES.
Thought to Be More Effective and DesI
able Than Paris Grean

Thought to Be More Effective and Desir-
able Than Paris Green.
A new and important discovery in
Tho domain of pomology has been made
by f. c. Moulton, of the gypsy moth
commission, Maiden, Mass. Arsenate
Of lead was the substance used which
was prepared by dissolving II ounces
of acetate of lead and ounces of arsen-
ate OF soda in $50 gallons of water.
These substances quickly dissolve
and form arsenate of lead. q fine
white powder which is lighter than
paris green and while being fully as
effective in its operation in destroying
insect life is far preferable for several
reasons II by any means the mixture
happens to be used stronger than
necessary to destroy insect life, even
three or four times the necessary
strength, 1t in no wise Injuries the foli-
age OF the plants upon which it is
sprayed. This is a great thing in its
favor, for frequently in using paris
green for potato beetle larvae and for
the Goblin worms, as much injury re-
suits from the poison burning the foil
age as would result from the insect II
let alone.
This is a better insecticide than paris
green under all circumstances and for
all insects, says Prof. Fernald. 1t has
the advantage of being readily seen on
the leaves, SO that one can tell at a
glance which have and have not been
sprayed, which is often of great con-
Veuipnce ReiuO 1fUhsar than noria
green, it does not settle SO quickly,
and, as result, can be distributed
more evenly over the foliage. A great
objection to the use of paris green is
the liability of using an overdose, and
thereby injuring the foliage of the
plants sprayed. With the arsenate Of
lead, 1t can be used. If necessary, in
the proportion of 20 pounds to $50 gal
Ions of water without injury to the
foliage. Prot Fernald advises the adj
dition of quarts of glucose, or if that
cannot be obtained quarts of molas-
ses to each $50 gallons of water, used
Tor the purpose of causing the insecti-
eide to adhere to the leaves. He says
the experiments last season show that
the insecticide will remain on the trees
for a long time, even after quite heavy
rains, and we infer, prove effective.
The cost of these chemicals is given at
cents per pound for arsenate of soda
and IA cents for acetate of lead, at
wholesale. 1t should be borne in mind
that these substances are all poison
GUS, aud should be used with as great
care as paris green.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-15
INVENTION AND DISCOVERY.

PORCELAIN Is to Be substituted for
gold In filling teeth.
An extension ladder for upper bertha
Of sleeping cars has been devised.
WATCHES were originally made In
shapes to initiate pears, gourds, acorns
and birds skulls.
FRENCH railroad companies are con-
templating the substitution Of the tel
ephone for the telegraph.
FROM grain Of sand, barely visible
to the naked eye, one thousand miles
Of quartz thread may be spun.
An English curio collector has an old
time watch which Is shaped like cows
horn. At the end Of every hour 1t dis
charges tiny pistol.
A LONDON chemist who analysed q
sample of ''heir restorer'' selling at
fifty cents for two-ounce bottle,
found It to contain common water with
traces of salt and sage extract.
THE Scientific American has figured
1t out that the energy exerted by rail-
road train travelling seventy-ave miles
an hour is nearly twice that Of two
thousand-pound shot fred from one
hundred-ton Armstrong gun.
A LLIpUTIAN electric light has been
invented for the benefit Of newspaper
reporters. 1t is fastened to the end OF
pencil so that the reporter may carry
his own light with him and be able ia
make his notes even in the darkness.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-15
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

For fine flavor, the Alpine bush straw
berry is hard to beat.
WHY don't you try the high bush
blueberry (huckleberry)? 1t submits
easily to cultivation.
NEVER weary of welldoing and spray
ing, at least not until the fruit is out
of danger from insects and disease.
SAwDUsT is not bad mulching ma
terial for fruit trees and small fruits,
especially after it has been used for
bedding horses.
FoB smut in sweet corn there Is no
known preventive except the removal
and destruction of every smutty plant,
and the use of uninfected soil and
manure.
Our favorite radishes are the quick
growing turnip-shaped sorts. Char
tiers, called by Gardening the best OF
radishes, has never given us satisfac.
tory results. We sometimes have had
radishes on our table that were grown
from seed sown In open ground less
than twenty days before.
For wood lice in frames Garden Work
gives the following remedy: Wrap q
little dry hay loosely around boiled
potato and place it In small flower
pot, lay the pot on its side within the
frame at night, and in the morning
the wood lice win be found hidden in
the hay. Shake them out into boiling
water. A number of these bats, and
perseverance in settling them, win
soon dear the frame,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-15
FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

-Nasturtium Salad.-Shred nastur-
tium flowers and head of lettuce, mix
with hard boiled eggs chopped fine,
put in layer of dressing, then a layer
of the mixture, and cover with the
dressing.-Ohio Farmer.
Charlotte Russo Cake.-One and
one-half pints of cold, rich cream.
sweeten and flavor with vanilla to
taste Beat until quite stiff, then add
one-quarter of box of Cox's gelatine
dissolved in little water, and con-
tinue beating until it is stiff enough to
ppt between layers OF. sponge cake.-
Boston Budget.
Lemon Float.-Beat the yolks OF
four eggs with the juice and grated
rind of two lemons, add half-a pound of
powdered sugar, stir over a moderate
fire until heated, take DIP, let cool.
Beat the whites of six eggs to stiff
froth, add carefully to the lemon mix
ture. Set on ice until very cold and
serve in glasses with sponge cake
Home.
Frosted Currants.-Whites of two
eggs, four tablespoonfuls water. pow
dered sugar at discretion. Select large
fine lunches of currants, dip each in
the egg and water, and then roll In the
sugar. Lay on waxei paper to dry.
When all have been treated in this way,
give the currants second dip in the
sugar. -Harper's Bazaar.
Dundee CalSe.-In making Dundee
cake, sift one poln1 of flour and rub in
one-half pound of butter; add one-half
pound of sugar, one-haf pound of cur
rants, few cut up almonds AMI one
fourth p ound of peel; mix with half a
cup of milk: add the yolks and whites
of three eggs beaten separately. Bake
in a Moderate oven for an hour.-Chris-
tian Inquirer.
"A few hints for those who have to
provide luncheons for travellers: Tastes
differ, bat one tires of sweets after the
first meal. Spicy gingerbread, ginger
snaps or cocoanut cookies will BE- rel
ished. In the line of mats. ham, dried
beef, etc. taste well. but cause thirst,
and the drinking of ice water is to be
avoided by travellers who regard health.
Pressed chicken, beef or veal loaf are
good meats for luncheon.
Veal Curry.-Slightly brown six
onions in two ounces of batter. Put
two dessert sp oonfnls of cnrry powder
over one and ole-half pounds of veal
outlets aud fry them in two ounces Of
butter: add the fried onions, pint of
milk previously heate l, pinch of salt
and two or three cloves. Stew gently
until the liquor is reduced to ons-third
of the quantity. Thicker the gravy
witha little -four and add, just before
serving, the juice of half lemon.
Good Housekeeping.
Baked Lobster. Meat of two lob
sters, half can of tomatoes, or pint
of fresh tomatoes stewe1. a cup of
crumbs, salt, cayenne pepper and onion
to season, butter the size of an egg.
Rub baking dish with al onion, melt
little OF, TIE butter in thu bottom,
thenadd the other ingrelientsi in layers.
Finish with layer of crambs dotted
with butter Bake brown AMI serve
hot. If any is lsft over pat in smaller
dish and brown again. La lies Hons
Journal
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-15
HOMEMADE CHEESE.
Simple Method by which It May Be Pro-
duced On the Farm.

Simple Method by Which 1t May Be Pro-
duced On the Farm.
To make cheese at home get tin
man to solder a faucet near the bot
tom at one end of an ordinary tin
wash-boiler, which will hold five or
six pailfuls, says writer in Hoard's
Dairyman. Fit a movable tin screen
inside about three inches from the
faucet and extending about the same
distance above it, which shall hold the
curd away from the sfaucet. This,
with long, wooden paddle, is all you
need order especially for the W ork, ex-
cept cheese-cloth, rennet and cheese
press. Six pailfuls of sweet milk with
the cream all in it will make about if
teen pounds of cheese. 1t need not be
Of one milking II it is perfectly sweet.
Put the milk in the boiler on the stove
and heat it to eighty degrees. Re-
move from the stove and add the rem
net.
When the milk has coagulated,
which will take place in ten minutes
the boiler each way, making about two
inch squares. They will begin to start
almost at once. Sink a small dipper
into it slowly and the whey may be re-
moved gradually until two quarts or
more have been collected. Heat over
the curd, stirring it carefully. When
at one hundred degrees open the lancet
and allow the whey to drain out, dip
ping it out from the top. When
drained, sprinkle half teacupful Of
fine dairy salt upon the curd and crum-
BILE and mix in thoroughly with the
hands. :
Have a square of strong, loosely
woven cloth wet and placed in the
cheese hoop, which should be the size
of a peck measure. Press 'the curd
into the hoop, adjust the cover after
the cloth has been folded on top of the
curd, and submit the cheese to gentle
pressure. Prepare bandage of cheese
cloth large enough to go around the
cheese and wide enough to nearly COW
err the ends. Lay on the ends another
piece and sew 1t to the piece around
the cheese. Keep at seventy degrees
IN dry room. Too much salt or too
much scalding when heating the curd
hardens the cheese, while careless
stirring starts the white whey" and
allows much of the butter fats to es-
cape.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-15
To Get Rid of Elies.

Flies are the pest AMI worry of all
good housekeepers, and how to rid a
room OF them is an unsolved p- 'ble1n
to many. This is quite easily accom-
plished by taking advantage of the
flies habit of flying to the window or
place from which light is admitted.
and to accomplish this. darlxel all the
windows with heavy shaic. or any
material, cutting hole in one of the
shades. over which is firmly pinned a
sheet of the common transparent fly
paper, and, ifpossible, have this located
at one of the east, south or west win
dows, from which the most light may
be obtained Ii viii be but short
time erc the flies in the room will be
sticking to this paper in their effort to
b. near the light. This is far easier
and more clearly than placing paper
about the room for them to accidentally
light upon, or killing them with poi
soned liquid or pyrethrum powder
ST. Louis Globe-DelnocrSt
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TO MAKE A HAYRICK.
A Simple Contrivancc Which Saves Lot.
0f Labor.

"A Simple Contrivance Which Saves Lots
of Labor.
The cut represents how to make a
saving in labor at hay making. AAAA
are four poles SO feet long. They may
be made of AKA material and spliced.
BIB are AKA and feet long. DID are
two timbers AKA and 90 feet long, fas-
bolts IL inches long. A pulley for
inch rope is under B and F a trip block
for a Lay carrier. Any hay carrier
that will work on a AKA may be used.
About 100 feet of inch rope is required,
which should run from the top of the
poles IA to a stack X. 1t is unneces-
sary to dig holes for the poles; when
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moving the rigging, move but one pole
at o time.
The load of hay must be outside of
the poles under f, as shown in the cut.
To unload, from 20 to 80 tons of hay
must be put in rick or tons in q
stack. In the center of BIB round
groove is cut and yoke made Of three
quarter-inch rod passes over BIB and
down through the AKA d. This may be
put together on the ground and raised
with team of horses. When the der
rick is on the ground drive small stake
in the ground at the end of each pole
to prevent slipping when being raised.
NJ is stake with pulley for a rope to
run from pulley under B for the horse
to pull the hay up by. AA is fastened
at the top end with a bolt. b is fas-
tened to AA with bolts. :. have used
such a rigging for two years with
great success. Eddie Richardson, in
Farm and Home.
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THE ART OF GRATING.
Bark and Rind Grating and tho Cief
Method Explained.

Bark ana Kind 9Tafting ana tho Clo1s
Method Explained.
There is occasion for grating, now
and then, on almost any place, small
as we'll as large. We like to test fruits;
but we do not like to continue raising
poor varieties year after year. The
poor varieties, just as soon as their In
ferior character becomes known, must
give way to good ones, or to Others for
trial. We have hundreds OF varieties
of tree fruits. AS they come into bear
ing and are found to be worthless,
cions are to be inserted the very next
spring. Consequently there will be
need of this operation almost every
year for years to come. With grape
vines 1t is only different in so far as we
already know what we want to keep,
and what varieties we desire to ex-
change for better ones. We can do all
our grape grating in the spring and
have done with II almost forever.
Grating, of course, is the quickest
method of getting good tree or vine
In place of worthless one. At the
end of Nav for instance 1t Is rather
late for the operation, yet we can
succeed well enough provided we have
the cions, and these should not have
started far into growth. The grape