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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-22
FARM NOTES.

The cherry, after being fairly started
in growth, rarely needs any pruning.
One advantage with low, branching
fruit trees is that the fruit hangs so near
the ground that it will receive less injury
if it falls.
In the orchardlng as well as the farm
ing of the future what will count more
than the buying OF land is the taking
care OF what is already unused.
Pruning as principle in itself, tend
ing to impair rather than increase vital
ity, applies more strongly to young,
vigorous trees than to bearing ones.
Ii limbs get broken off by high winds
and leave jagged surface, they should
be smoothed over with sharp knife and
the wound covered with grating wax.
On small places in many cases where
nothing else can be grown to good ad-
vantage, good grapes can. Even one or
two vines will furnish considerable fruit.
1t is often the case that raspberries
send up more canes than the roots can
we'll support. A good rule is to remoy e
81 in excess OF Jour or five to each hill.
A good wash for cherry trees is pail
OF common whitewash, one pint OF soft
soap, with one pound OF sulphur, all
mixed up together and applied with a
brush.
In transplanting, pruning is necessary
to restore the balance after the partial
loss OF roots in taking up. Generally
the better plan is to do this in the
spring.
Natures plan is to build UP the tree
and get it well established before she
sets TO work to secure its reproduction
by seed. 1t is positive dstriment tc
allow tree to bear fruit too young.
The Siberian and transcendent crab:
are about the incest OF the various kind:
OF fruit trees to plant on the lawn. They
are ornamental in flowers, the appear,
ance OF the fruit and the shape OF the
tree.
While the planting can only know ap,
proximately what varieties will suit il
his locality best, at the same time there
are mum Der of standard varieties tha
seem adapted to wide difference in bott
soil and climate.
One advantage with small trees foi
transplanting is that larger proportion
OF the roots can be preserved when dig
ging up, while in addition, if they are t,
90 any distance the transportation
charges will be much less.
One disadvantage with grass in tn,
orchard is that it makes too great de
mand on the moisture and forms a swarC
that is injurious to the trees, Will,
clover will not grow rank under the tree
and does not injure them.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-22
A DEFENSE OF IdE LIAR.
The Position In Society, Politics and Com
merce of the Prevaricator.

The POSITION In society 'N
merce of the Prevaricator.
For many years the wise men have in
sisted upon the Importance and beauty
Of truth. We read that all the glorious
and lovely productions of the arts de-
pend upon the truth as upon a solid and
enduring foundation. We read that
poetry and beauty rest upon the con-
genial substance of truth as a statue
upon its pedestal. But the man has not
As vet arisen who has given the other
side of the question justice or yielded due
praise to the efforts and worth of liars.
We respect and revere the truth. We
adhere to it in theory and in practice-a
thing rare in the adherents of mere
opinions-but we believe in justice
though the heavens fall, and in all the
good, old fashioned axioms. In all
truth, however, to speak paradoxically,
the liar, as an element of practical adj
vancement, has been too long ignored.
1t is time that the pen and the brush
should do him homage.
Who sets the great enterprises atioat!
Who is the originator of vast invest
ments and the instigator of magnificent
projects?
The liar.
Who is it that floats the bonds, dis
counts corporations and consultations?
Who is it that has settled the wild
lands of the west and made Uncle Sam
no longer freeholder?
The liar.
Who is it that originates ''booms" and
distributes capital from the unwary to
the wise?
Who is it that makes wildcat mines
successful and sets prize upon human
ingenuity?
Who is it that gives the impulse to pol
itics and the trend to political economy?
The liar.
The liar has as many guises as Porteus.
Anon he wishes to make your fortune,
and again he wants to borrow dollar.
But he is always pleasant, affable,
agreeable, whether engaged in the solic-
ting of millions in world stirring plans
or in attempting to secure free lunch
The truthful man will affront you with
rude candor and hold up your faults
brutally to your notice. But the liar
he will do nothing of the sort. He will
make you comfortable and happy. He
will put you at peace with the world and
with destiny.
Whether he is in commerce, in politics
or in the show business, whether he is
offering you position or asking favor,
let his merit berecognized. Minneapolis
Commercial.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-22

This ruler is currently imagined to al
low his ministers to do all his work,
while he himself lives life of luxurious
Incidence. The very reverse is the rule.
The one man in all the Turkish domin-
ions who works morning, noon and
night, whose mind never rests from eff
fort to carry his people through the diff
fculties which beset bad system and
lack of means, is the monarch. The min
listers work little, the sultan necessarily.
Not only is this well known, but an init
mate of mine is an aid-de-campin daily
attendance upon his majesty, and my
ideas cleaned from him have given me a
hearty respect for the personality of the
present bearer of the crescent.
Since his accession he has scarcely left
his palace. Here he labors with honest
fidelity to effect the impossible, for the
bad Turkish customs are like the laws of
the Modes and Persians. The system is
as rotten as the people are hard to teach.
Moreover, the sultan is the simplest and
most plainly dressed man in his domin-
ions. The unpretentious courtesy of his
personal bearing, his apparent lack of
egotism, his rather pale, nervous, ia
tigued looking face, are dignity itself.
| have never seen more patriarchal
ceremony or one of higher tone than the
quiet procession of Selamlik. -Harper's
Magazine.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-22

alyses-one claiming that soil and plant
analyses are of no benefit to the farmer,
but that actual tests by himself, are the
plans suitable to go by; while the other
claims that to fertilze inteligently
farmer should know what plant food his
soil contains, and the formation OF the
underlying soil as regards drainage, etc,
and if irrigation is practiced what plant
food is carried in the water also, what
plant food is removed from the soil by
the growth of the plant and fruit, and
the source from which such plant food is
the cheapest and best obtained.
Humus or organic matter is absolutely
necessary in fertile soil, and it is also
necessary that the supply OF humus
must be kept up, either by supplying
farm-yard manure, or by growing green
crops and ploughing them under. In
growing green crops in orchards one
should aim to grow such crops as will
draw the greatest amount OF nitrogen
from the air at the least expense OF the
soil. One OF the best plants to grow is
cowpeas, and plough them under while
green and rank. In old and large
orchards, particularly orange and lemon
orchards, green crops will not grow to
any extent on account OF the dense
shade.
Farm-yard manures alone can post
pone but cannot .prevent the ultimate
exhaustion of the soil, neither can the
use of mineral fertilizers alone prevent
the exhaustion of the soil if the supply
of humus is not kept up in some way.
Alone, organic manures or mineral fer
tilizers are insufficient, but the two
properly com bined are the true complete
fertilizers.
As regards soil and plant analyses, it
is far better for farmer to know at the
beginning, not only what he needs to
grow his trees and crops, but also what
he has plenty OF and to spare in his soils
and irrigation water, than to spend his
time and money in needless expert
menting, and then find he is wrong.
The generality OF farmers have to
farm for what money there is in ito
raise the greatest quantity OF substance
on the smallest extent OF ground in the
shortest time, and at the least expense
possible.
1t is the duty OF the State to under
take such experiments at the expert
mental stations, under the guidance OF
thoroughly competent and scientific
men.
The cleverest OF farmers have done
very little OF value to others in making
such experiments, and OF course with
little profit to themselves.
As regards special fertilizers for special
farms and special crops, any farmer can
get any information from the State
chemist that manufacturer can; be-
sides, the chemist, in advising farmer,
can take into consideration that par
ticular farmer and farm, while a manu-
iacturer has to follow more general con-
siderations.-W. II. D.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-22

Mrs. Grumpps-There are thousands
of occupations in which men have places
which women should fill. Why shouldn't
women be druggists? Answer me that.
Mr. Grumpps-This cottage pudding
isn't good at all. How did you make it?
Mrs. Grumpps-l took few handfuls
of flour and some milk and few eggs,
forget how many, and some sugar.
think, and believe added some salt,
and maybe A'me baking powder, don't
know how much. never measure.
MIR. Grumpps That's why. New
York Weekly.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-22

In the new pharmacoppia now in
course of preparation the metric weights
and measures will be adopted through
out, to the entire exclusion of the Eng.
lish weights and measures hitherto used.
1t is considered by many that this is but
the thin edge of the wedge, and that
sooner or later the metric weights and
measures will be adopted for all pur-
poses in the United States.
In all the states of South America this
system and none other is in use, and
there is growing feeling that an inter
national system of weights and measures
will do much to simplify and develop
the commercial intercourse of the ma
tons in question as well as those who
have adopted the metric system i'll Eu-
rope.-Cor. London News.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-22
Helen Virginia.

A good story is told upon a Washing
ton woman who now makes her home in
Colorado. With evidently no thought
as to the curious sound of the combina-
uon II spoken quickly, she has called her
oldest child Helen Virginia. Not long
ago upon visit to this city she proudly
brought her young daughter in to see an
old friend. What have you called your
daughters? queried the visitor Helen
Virginia" was the complacent reply.
"Ah, and what do you call her in Col
eradof was the unexpected but very
natural response, Kate Fields Wash.
ington,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-22
DA.
PIOCHE,
A MEMORY OF LOIS.

The day when Lois walked with me
September skies were blue.
The woodbiEe on the waysde wall
Had found its autumn hue.
In gown Of changing green and rose,
With undersleeves of white,
With skirt in loose and flowing folds
And bodice trim and tight.
Her low combed hair was just the shade
OF fallen chestnut burrs.
The cheeks of mellow astrakhans
Are not more ripe than hers.
1t seemed the mushrooms showed their
caps
To win her eyes of brown,
And for one look into their depths
The orchard boughs bent down.
a blossom of the early fall
That later days would chill
Dear girl, somewhere those eyes must
wear
A CLEAN of summer still.
The rank weeds choke the orchard way
Where once we went and came,
And MOSES make the marble gray
That long has borne her name.
But with such still September days
As Lois walked with me,
She fits before my vision now,
A happy memory.
Cora A. Matson in Springfield Republican.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-22
The Age of Maturity.

Statistics are said to show that Young
men do not on an average attain full
physical maturity until they arrive at
the age of % years Professor Scheiller
OF Harvard asserts, as the result of his OBJ
servations, that young men do not attain
to the full measure of their mental facul.
nes before 25 years of age A shrewd
observer has said that most men are
boys until they are 30 and little bows nm.
III they are %. and this accords with the
standard of manhood which was fixed
at ~ among the ancient Hebrews and
other races. -Jenness Miller Monthly
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-22
4 husbands Signature Void.

A very curious case in which hus
band executed a will which had been
prepared for his wife. and the wife exc
cuted a will which had been prepared
for her husband, has recently been de-
cided by the general term of the supreme
court of this state. John and Jane Nell
son, being husband and wife, wanted to
make wills each in favor of the other,
and employed William Cowie to pre-
pare the instrument, which he did in
due form.
The wills were read and placed upon
the table for signature Each then
signed one of the wills, made the re-
luisite declaration as to the character
Of the instrument and asked the sub
scribing witnesses to sign. After exc
cution the wills were sealed up in an en-
velope, which was not opened until after
the husbands death, when it was dis
covered for the first time that each had
by mistake signed the will intended for
the other. The wife brought suit in
the supreme court to correct her hus-
bands mistake in signing the wrong
Will by reforming the language OF the
will which he did actually execute, so
as TO make il conform TO that which he
certainly intended to execute.
Her complaint was dismissed at the
special term, however, and the appellate
branch Of the supreme court holds that
the dismissal was right. Mr.. Justice
Martin, in the opinion of the general
term, says in substance that there is no
will to correct, because the husband did
not make any will at all The instru-
ment that he executed was his wife's
will, and of no more legal significance
than if it had been blank piece of pa
per. No precisely similar case is re-
ported in this state, but there are Eng
lish and Pennsylvania decisions in point
adverse to the position of the wife.-Al-
bany Argus
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-22
Thirty-three Years without Food.

\ queer story, and one which readers
would do well to thoroughly salt give
it more than the proverbial grain) before
swallowing. comes with first class rec
concentration all the way from Eng
land. Thirty-three years ago, in 1850,
member of the Chaplin family died at
Blankney, Lincolnshire, and was laid in
the family tomb. This particular Chap
lin was naturalist, and among his
other pets had large gray bat. That
bat was permitted to enter the tomb and
was sealed up alive along with the corpse
of his dead master. In 1866 the vault
was opened, and to the surprise of all
the bat was alive and fat. On four diff
ferent occasions since the Chaplins have
looked after the welfare of their dead
relatives pet, and each time it has been
reported that the bat was still in the
land of the living, although occupying
quarters with the dead. He was last
seen in 1S92.-St. Louis Republic.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-22

Michael Angelo, while painting The
Last Judgment" fell from his scaffold
and received painful injury in the leg
de shut himself up and would not see
any one. Bacio Rontini, a celebrated
physician, came by accident to see him
He found all the doors closed. No one
responding, he went into the cellar and
came up stairs. He found Michael An
gelo In his room, resolved to die. His
friend the physician would not leave
him. He brought him out of the pecul.
lar frame Of mind into which he had
fallen. New York Times,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-22

A new method of producing steel has
zen suggested to NJ. Jules GARNER by
NJ. Moissan's diamond making expert
ments. He claims that it is successful.
The steel is instantaneously made by
placing bar of iron and a stick of char
coal together in parallel direction in
IN electrical friedrich furnace of tenn
perature of 1000 degrees and subjectiug
them to strong current. NJ. Jules Gar
bier expects that his discovery will revo-
lutionize the steel industry. Exchange,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-22

While enjoying the comfortable pref
tlness OF a tea gown tho social dame or
aemoiselle now incases her feet in vel.
yet shoes. They are to be had in all art
'naues' and fancy may choose from rare
'ives, rich sapphires, bronzes. old blues.
porcelain pinks, sunbeam tints and leaf
iones,-New York Press.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-22
bany Argus

Peter Mckeever, restaurant keeper,
is in the detention hospital on complaint
of his wife and a friend, George ".
Couch. At the hospital straight jacket
is necessary to prevent McKeever from
tearing off his clothes and doing injury
to himself McKeever is an American,
forty-five years old. For the last two or
three years." his wife said, "he has taken
scarcely any solid food, but has subsisted
almost entirely upon coffee. Although
we tried to persuade him to change his
method of living and abstain from cof-
fee, for we saw that it was impairing
his mind, we were unsuccessful. Chi
cago Times.
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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-09-21

The democratic caucus held in the A.
o. u. w. building, yesterday, for Willow
Grove precinct, resulted in an easy vic
tory for the Bryan fellows, the free sill
~yerites, and the following delegates were
selected, 48 votes being cast: A.. ]. Rlt,
tenhouse, Harry B~arbazette, AT. Moore
l.. II. Rooney. George Hennings, w. M.
Lewis, c. J. Ryan, J.H. Bennett, Charles
Hine, Patrick Walsh, Jacob Steinmetz.
Arthur Shaffer, A. J. Clute, James Nc
Adams, Daniel Kraft, George Ebert, H
Kapke, J. H. O'Neil, J. S. McBrayer
Martin Wager, Darius Kendall, Fred Dey
Joseph Menard, Michael Houlihan ant
Charles Lehn. The significance of thi!
primary is that no county ticket will bs
placed in nomination, Saturday, ant
that nothing but a state delegation viii
be elected.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-09-21
SHERIFF'S SALE.

By virtue of an order of sale directed to me
from the district court of Red Willow county.
Nebraska, on a judgment obtained before
Hon. ID. T.. Welty, judge of the district court
OF He'd Willow county, Nebraska, on the 18th
day of September, 1898. in favor of J. Coolidge
Hills as plaintiff, and against AlonZO Jay ct
al. as defendants. for the sum of six hundred
fifty nine tS659 dollars and fOrty-six (46) cents
and costs taxed at $A6 08, and accruing costs.
and co-defenda1ts Burton & Harvey on their
cross petition obtained Il decree for the sum
of S22.S 80, / have levied upon the following
real estate taken as the property of said de-
PENDANTS TO satisfy said judgments, tO-wit:
the east half of the southeast quarter of sec
ton six, and the north west quarter of the
southwest quarter OF section 5. in township
4. north. range %, west of tine 9th P. NJ. in
Red Willow county, Nebraska. And will offer
the same for sale to the highest bidder. for
cash in hand, on the Goth day of August, Al u.
1884, in front of the south door of the court
house, in Indianola, Nebraska. that being the
building wherein the last term court was
held, at the hour of one o'clock D. m, of said
day, when and where due attendance will be
given by the undersigned.
Dated July 10Th. 1894. f.. r.. BANKS,
W.. S. MORLAN, Sheriff OF said county.
est. Attorney.
AZ The above sale was continued thirty
days for want of bidders. f. X. BANKS,
Sheriff.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-09-21
DANBURY

Joe Cass' baby is very i'll at this
writing.
The plasterers r at work OF
the church, this week.
J. 7. belong and family have
returned from their eastern visit.
Mrs. G. p. Underwood is visit
ing with relatives and friends in
Illinois.
DR.. Mcclure Of Cedar Bluffs,
was a Danbury visitor, Monday Of
last week.
The corn shelters expect to get
through with the corn at this place,
this week.
Rev. Myers preached his fare
well sermon, last Sabbath, his
subject being, "What is Man"
I. Pugh shipped three car loads
Of sheep to the South Omaha
market, this week, Clinton Pugh
accompanying them.
Enoch Matson and n. Brooks.
with their families, expect to start
for Greeley, Colorado, this week,
Mr.. Matson intends to remain, but
Mr.. Brooks will return the coming
spring.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-09-21
McKeighan's Speeches.

Congressman McKeighan delivered
two campaign speeches in u city, yes.
terday. The afternoon speech was list
ened to by about 200 people Of the three
parties. He spoke on the tariff, money
and pension questions. There wassa
conspicuous lack of oldtime enthusiasm
although the speech was all right from
a populist point of view.
In the evening Richard was more him
self, and spoke at length on the money
question to a larger audience Of some
enthusiasm.
All in all, however, the meeting was a
painful contrast to other rallies Nickel
CHAN has addressed here.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-09-21

Fancy silk waists will continue
their unexampled popularity, and
be worn with silk skirts for dressy
occasions, and with tailor gowns
when it is desirable to remove the
coats. They are made Of every
sort of silk; but the bright plaids
and checks have the greatest vogue
at the present moment, and are
likely to continue in use through
out the winter. Indeed, plaid silk
has the first place for many uses
just now, being seen in almost all
capes, in many coats, and ever in
petticoats and dress Innings From
"Review Of Fashions" Demorest's
Magazine for October.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-09-21

ACCORDING to a very interesting
paper read at the social science
gathering at Saratoga, by F. B
Sanborn, there are about 1000
millionaires in this country. In
New York he estimates there are
1000 and in Chicago between 200
and 300. He thinks the million
aires of the country r not aware
Of the responsibility to the public
hat their wealth implies. He does
not like Pullman and he handled
him without gloves"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-09-21

Mrs. Peter Groves and Miss Rose Baer
were both injured in a runaway, Wednes-
day. They were coming to town from
Coleman precinct in a cart drawn by a
pony. At Mr.. Volbrecht's the pony
stopped, commenced kicking and ran
away, throwing both ladies to the ground
with great violence and rendering them
insensible. The injured ladies were re-
moved to c. S. Squire's and Dr.. Gage
summoned. He reports Mrs. Groves as
suffering with two or three fractured ribs
and Miss Baer as having injuries about
the face not of a severe nature
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-09-21

The democrats are not without
pride Of ancestry or hope Of pos
terity, in this district, it would
seem, and the nomination of a con-
g~ressional candidate may now be
expected.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-09-21
WHERE HEALING WATERS FLOW.

Hot Springs. South Dakota, is a place that
everyone should visit.
It's a health resort; the best in the west.
It's a charming place where pure ar ana
healing waters put sickness to flight and
make anything but perfect health w~eil-nlgh
an lmpossibility.
Invalids. no matter what their ailmeDt,
should give Hot Springs a trial. It's sure to
benefit them. more than likely to cure.
How to get there ? Why. by the burlington
Route, of course. It's the line. Ask the local
agent for full information or write to the un-
dersigned for a beautifully illustrated pam
phlet. j.
q. p st. A.. Omaha, Neb.