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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-04-21

Lucinda Leroy. the colored woman who
was charged with cruelty beating little
Mary Catherine Whitley. was before
Magistrate Lewis yesterday and was
discharged The child is stIl held by
Commonwealth 's-Attorney Sands. the
woman having signed her over 10 him.
aud the Court will finally dispose OF her
either Tuesday or Wednesday next. Sc
veTal ladies have indicated their Will
lngness 10 adopt the bright little girl.
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23

two or three years have gathered
enough moisture so that it will begin
to mold, or if it is of nature which
prevents it's molding it will neverthe
less be moist, and in this condition it
has partly lost it's non-conducting
properties, and it ought to be re-
newed. It is therefore essential to
have small doors at convenient places
in the outside shell near the ground,
through which the packing can be re-
moved, and others near the top,
through which it can be renewed.
The space is large enough to admit
person to tramp it together. The
ice house here represented opens into
the creamery, and in this case no
special ante-room is therefore needed;
but if the entrance is from the outside
an ante-room is essential, in order that
the warm air may be excluded from
the ice house on entering.
In the cross section, the letters HH
the chaff which is packed in
between the double walls. M M are
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23
DAIRY SUGGESTIONS.

NEVER use wooden packages Sec
ond time for packing butter.
NEVER handle butter with the hands.
Use wooden scoop and ladle.
IN is rare that butter can be sold to
the best advantage at the country
store.
NOTHING but good butter makes a
profit to anybody. Poor butter is a loss
to every body.
IF there is a contagious disease in
the home be careful that the milk is
not exposed to it and then consumed
by the well members of the family.
GOOD butter cannot be made on the
farm unless there are facilities for
making good butter. We might as
well recognize that fact first as last.
Is THE cream exposed to odors? Is
there any attempt to regulate the
temperature? Is the cream kept until
it is rotten? If yes, then good butter
is out OF the question. Farmers
Voice.
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23

strangeness of it all, the impenetra-
bleness of the cloud of snow, the dane
ing light of the lanterns, the whirl of
the flakes in the red light which
streamed from the barn door, and the
brisk, excited talk of the men.
Teams went by with wood, the
shouting drivers sitting on the leeward
side of their load, leaving the horses
to find the road. just as we were
about starting for the house a team
drove into the yard containing three
persons.
us this John Bartle's?" called a
voice through the darkness.
mo; it's Robert Graham's; but you're
just as welcome. You're Arson Bond,
take it?"
Eyes. What do you think of this?
Can we ever cross Wind prairie?"
81 should say not. You just get out
and stay all night. They amt man
Twin can find his way across that
stretch O. prairie such a night as this
Drive your sleigh to the door and put
your woman in the house and then
come back and put up your team"
They were neighbors who had set
tied farther on to the north and across
a stretch of prairie to cross which in
such a storm would be almost certain
death. They wisely took fathers adj
vice and soon we closed the barn and
went to the house to eat hot supper,
over which the men told stories of
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23

doors through which the ice house is
to be filed and L L are doors used for
the renewal of the chaff The letter
T represents layer of peat on which
the ice rests. 1t will be noticed that
the layer of chaff extends over the ice
as well as up the sides of the building.
The ice is removed through the shute
tand falls into the box K. from which
it is removed as wanted during
the day. Entrance to this ice
house is gained at V, under the ceiling,
where there also is a window to admit
some light. In the ground plan, the
letters L and M represent the OPEN
ings, the same as in the section. X is
the box into which the ice is thrown,
D d are drains which carry off the wa
ter as the ice melts and the line A B
represents the point at which the cross
section is drawn.-Farm and Home.
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23

storms (the word blizzard" was not
common them, to which we boys lis
tened with consuming interest. Dur
ing the remainder of the evening we
joked and sang and played games, our
merriment intensified by the commo-
ton outside.
But when we went to bed at ten
o'clock, for one trembled with awe.
I had a premon1tlon that this was to
be something unparalleled. 1t ap-
peared to me as one of those frightful
disturbances in the orderliness of ma
ture which makes man to feel himself
the insect he really is 1t did not
shape itself into these words, but an
awed silenceSSame upon me. The cold
began to make itself felt, and the
winds voice began to send thrill of
terror to the listeners heart, striking
as it did through our little house,
freezing our food within few feet of
the stove.
1 thought the wind at that hour had
attained it's utmost fury, but when I
awoke in the feeble light Of the next
morning I realized how mistaken I
had been. No words of mine can de-
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23

anomalous sounds. now dim and fur
now near and all surrounding, produc
ing an effect of mystery and infinite
reach as though the house were q
helpless ship tossing on a limitless
angry sea.
Looking out there was nothing to
be seen save the flashing of the wind
and snow. When we attempted to
| face it and go to the rescue of the
poor cattle, we found that the charac-
ter of the storm had completely
changed. 1t was no longer showing,
but the air was filed with an impene-
trable cloud of flying snow, fine as
powder and mixed with the dirt
caught up from the plowed fields by
the relentless blast which had now at
tanned the inconceivable velocity of
ninety miles an hour. 1t was impos-
sible to see twenty feet save at long
intervals-indeed one could not see at
all facing the storm; the eyes would
have been destroyed. AS we stepped
out into the wind the face was coated
with ice and dirt as if by dash Of
mud, mask which blinded the eyes
and froze the cheek in few seconds.
Such was the force of the wind that
a strong man could not breathe with
his mouth unprotected The mouth
being once open the breath seemed
swept away and the power of the
lungs to inhale lost.
That day we mainly spent in keep
ing warm and feeding the stock in the
barn, which we reached by desperate
dashes during some momentary re-
lenting in the tempest. We attempted
to water the horses and cows, but the
wind blew the water from the pail
and froze it instantly on everything it
touched. In the house it became more
and more difficult to put cheerful
construction upon the outlook, not
withstanding we had fuel in album
dance.
Oh. that terrible day! Hour after
hour we listened to that prodigious,
ferocious wind All day we
moved restlesslv to and fro asking
each other: "Will it ever end?" We had
the same sensations which the sailor
has when the reused ocean seems too
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23
Sunfiowers In the Silo.

Some experiments have been made
by one of the Canadian experiment
stations with ,sunfowers mixed in the
silo with corn and other fodder plants.
The heads only were used. The ex-
pertinent was successful and quite sat
isfactory, showing that there is place
for this plant as feeding crop in our
agriculture. 1t is substitute for the
oil meals and other fatty foods, having
twenty-five per cent. of an excellent
oil, s.vecs digeatible, and devoid of
any objectionable quality. The prod
uct of an acre is from thirty to eighty
or eren more, bushels of thirty-three
pounds. The leaves may be gathered
as those of corn are for fodder, and
arm acceptable and nutritious
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23
PROFITS IN PEcANs.
A Texans Experience in This New an
Rapidly-Growing Industry.

A Texans Experience in This New and
Rapidly-Growing Industry.
A Texas man who has pecan or
chard in bearing has the following to
say about it:
II am more than satisfied with my
investment in pecans in this section,
along the valley of the Pecan bayou,
in Brown county, and were it possible
for me to put in double the amount of
land 1 now have (which is 400 acres,
with 1900 trees on same), l would
certainly embark in a similar >.nter.
pese. AS to the amount of the trade
In Texas / am not prepared TO give
you any definite information, but can
say there was one year here ar Brown
wood alone that there was shipped
out $55, 900 worth of pecans in sea-
Son. l will present some figures to
show the profits that can be obtained
from an acre of trees when they come
into full bearing.
"Twenty-sevent trees can be grown in
one acre. When they come into full
bearing these trees will each yield an
nually about s bushels (some bear as
much as II bushels). This makes 216
bushels to the acre. Extra large nuts
bring from 81 to Sc Esr bushel while
small nuts bring from $1.5O to IS
Suppose we estimate the value at 81.
This would give You for one years
crop 1864. The costof gathering would
be, nominal, say $64, as patent sweep
could be constructed to sweep them off
the ground after the first frost, which
opens the burrs This leaves a net
amount of $500 per acre. Suppose we
take off $500 for contingencies, and
we have $500 income from one acre. L
would rather have pecan farm than
stock in anv bank"
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23

vast and too ungovernable to ever
again be spoken into quiet even by the
Creator Himself. It aid not seem to
me that God could control that storm,
for my imagination could not conceive
| of a power greater than this war OF
| wind and snow. r
On the third day we rose with weari-
| ness and looked into each others faces
with sort of Mortified surprise. Not
the invincible heart of father nor the
CHEEKY good nature of our guests could
keep a gloomy silence from settling
down upon us. Conversation was
seanty, and / do not remember that
anyone ughed during the whole of
that day, as we listened anxiously to
the wind tearing at the shingles, beat
ing at the door and shrieking around
the caves.
The frost upon the windows thick
ened and the room was dusk at midi
day. It grew dark at three o'clock
and the lamps were lighted. The
women sat with awed faces and wide-
open musing eyes, full of unshed tears,
their sympathy going out to the poor
travellers on the wild prairie or foun-
dering in the deep drifts of the gullies.
That night, so disturbed had we be-
come, we lay awake till nearly mid
night listening, praying that the
storm might cease. waiting for some
sign to tell that the wind had reached
it's height.
Shortly after midnight / noticed
that the roar was no longer so relent-
less, steady and high-keyed. There
were moments of lull, distinct easing
away, and though it returned to its
attack almost Immediately, it's fury
was plainly becoming spasmodic. ]
heard an exultant voice from below
cry out: 'The storm is over!'' and then
everybody sank into deep sleep from
sheer relief.
1t is impossible to express the Joy
with which we melted the ice from the
windows the next morning and looked
out on the familiar landscape, peace
full, dazzling under the brilliant sun
and sky. We greeted it with sort of
frenzy as if we had given it up for lost
The wide plain ridged with drifts and
UhO luA O1uO 1lAO VI VlLu OCE lOOhGu Ia
miliar but desolate. The neighboring
cottages sent up a cheerful column Of
smoke as if to tell us the people were
alive, but the sound of the wind
seemed with US still, so long and so
continuously had it Lowled in our
ears, that even in perfect calm the
imagination was constrained to sup
ply its loss with fainter fancied roar
ing.
AS long as live shall never forget
those days, aud the sound of that wind
will never leave me. What it must
been on the open plain was awful to
think Of. Those prairies so bright
and beautiful in the summer that YOU
seem adrift on a howery sea, under
skies of perpetual blue-those wide
wastes when the norther was abroad
in his wrath, were as pitiless and de-
structive as the Northern ocean. Moth
ing lived there unhoused-all was at
the mercy of the north wind, whom
only the great Lord Sun could tame
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23
Fastest Time Ever Made from Chicago to
jacksonville, Fla.

The Monon Route e., N. A. & c. R'y) has
placed in effect the fastest schedule ever
made between Chicago and Jacksonville,
Fla. Train leaves Chicago at 8:32 p. M, ar
irving at Jacksonville, Fla. at 55 a. m. the
second morning, making direct connection
at that point with the morning departures
of all diverging lines, and arrives at Interior
and Southern Florida Points by Daylight;
ST. Augustine and Palatka before noon;
Ocala, Orlando, Sanford, Winter Park, Bar
tow and Tampa early in the afternoon; Titus
vile and Rockledge before supper, and Lake
Worth before bedtime. Tie trains are YES
tibuled, Pintsch lighted and steam heated,
with the finest Dining and Sleeping Car
Service in the world.
For further information regarding Rates,
Pamphlets and Through Sleeping Car
Tickets, address FRANK j. REED, G. P. A,
Chicago.
Mrs. S1TrP-"Why, you are home quite
early, for a change" Mr.. Situp-''Yes, my
throat's swollen SO can't swallow any
thing. "-Puck.
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23

sa the wind sported with it. Darkness
came on almost instantly and the wind
constantly increased in power. We
now felt it's seriousness and hurried to
finish the chores.
When the men returned about FIVE
o'clock, the familiar faces Of the horses
were lost in their thick coating of ice
and snow. Icicles of frozen foam hung
from their lips, their names and tails
were clumsy mass of half-melted
snow. The load of wood was noun
tain of stainless snow pillars, and fa-
Their in his greatcoat looked like a
polar bear. We thought it could not
last, coming from that quarter.
AS we were rubbing the ice from the
fetloclSs of the tired horses. the men
predicted that we were in for an ALI
night storm. The hired man said he
never'd seen it snow so fast but once
before We youngsters enjoyed the
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23
A DANISH ICE HOUSE.
Plan and Section of One Built In Conneo-
ton with Creamery.

ton with Creamery.
The figure shows the plan and SEQ
ton of an ice house of modern con-
struction, built in connection with a
creamery. Both the outside and in
side walls are in this case of wood, but
they are also frequently built of
brick. The plan shows that the out
side studding is boarded up on both
Sides On the outside ordinary wealth
erboarding is used, but on the inside
it should be made as tight as posi-
BILE. Inside of this shell, and feet
from it all around. is another set Of
studding which is also boarded up on
both sides, the boards being fitted
nicely together
The 2-foot space between these two
walls. is filed with some non-heat-
conducting material, chaffed straw or
hay being the most common. Any ma
terial thus used will in the course of
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23
1900 FOE A NAME,

This is the sum we hear the Salzer
Seed Co. offer for suitable name for
their wonderful new oats. The United
States department of agriculture says
Salzer's oats is the best of 300 varieties
tested. A great many farmers report
test yield of 200 bushels per acre last
year, and are sure this can be grown
and even more during 1895. Another
farmer writes us he cropped liz BUSH
els of Salzer's Marvel Spring wheat on
two and one-half acres. At such yield
wheat pays at Boo per blu. One thing
we know and that is that Salzer is the
largest Farm Seed grower in the world
and sells potatoes at $3.50 per barrel
If YOU WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND 1T
with 1Oc postage to the John A. Salzer
Seed Co.. Lacrosse, Wis, you get free
his mammoth catalogue and a pack
age of above $500 PRIZE OATS. Xxi
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23

scribe the steady, solemn, implacable
roar of that storm. Imagine all the
roarings of the lions Of Africa, the
Kissing OF a wilderness of serpents,
the lashings of great trees and the
walls of a hundred women, all COM
mingled in one cease1ess, unfaltering,
rushing, diffusive, all-surrounding roar,
and you may rise half way to the real
ity of that voice. 1t benumbed the brain,
it appalled, the heart as no other force
have ever met could have done. The
sea itself in its mightiest moments
could not be more absolutely horrify-
ing.
The house shook and snapped; the
snow beat in muffied rhythmic pulsa-
tions against the walls, or swirled
and dashed upon the roof, like the
snarl Of the ocean on gravelly beach,
while the hurting streams of snow
gave rise to strange multitudinous,
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23
Roads That lead 70 Poyerty.

The low prices of which the farmer
often complains. and which he is in
the habit of attributing to other
causes, are in large part due to his in
ability to market his produce other
wise than during the great rush, in
which all are anxious to sell, this being
because the roads which connect his
farm with the railroads are at other
times impossible for loaded wag ons.-
Chicago Tribune.
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23
5000 to California

Is price Of double berth in Tourist Sleeping
Car from Minneapolis on the famous
s.Phillips- Rock Island Tourist Excursions. %
Through cars on fast trains leave Minneap-
oils Tuesdays via Kansas City, Ft. Worth
Write for particulars to A PHILLIPS & Co.,
1888 Guaranty Loan Bldg, Minneapolis.
1854 JOHN SEBASTIAN, G.. P. A., Chicago.
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23
That Old Reaper,

Father Time, who ''reaps the bearded grain
at a breath, and the flowers that grow be-
tween" spares for green and hale old age
those who counterfeit the infirmities Incl
dent to increasing years with Hosaetter's
Stomach Bitters. For rheumatism, lum bago,
poverty of the blood, dyspepsia, neuralgia
and torpidity of the liver, use the great
tonic and health preserver methodi.ally.
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach
thediseased portion of the ear. There isonly
one way to cure Deafness, and that is bycon-
stitutional remedies. Deafness iscaused by
an inhamed condition of the mucous lining
of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube
gets infamed you have a rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely
closed Deafness Is the result, and unless the
inflammation can be taken out and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hearing viii
be destroyed forever; nine cases out Of ten
are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but
an infamei condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness Caused by catarrh) that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
~ Sold by Druggists, 75c.
HALLS Family Pills Is cents.
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23
4 q OIIL-NEI % ONIs3 4O1OS2Uf y
G3Y Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills, 25 cents.

"YoU say you made money in business?'
Certainly" replied the New York police
man. 'sWhat was your stock in trade?"
st wasn't stock in trade. 1t was trade
in stock. Washington Star.
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23

elbows YOUR infant soma" ssFirss rate
just like a STUDENT stHow so?, ssSleeps
in the daytime, kicks up row at night."-
Fliegende Batter.
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23

One OF BosToN's Observation-Disclosures
long spell of wearing rubbers, leaving them
off is as enjoyable as joke whispered to you
in prayer time at church. Transcript.
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23

APPLES often winter badly in the
cellar because they are stored there
too early. They should not be placed
in the cellar until real cold weather
comes.
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23

LIN 1878 the complete success of wa
ter gas as on illuminant was made aD-
parent
Morris tribune., 1895-01-23

TEAcHER-esCan any of you tell me why
flannel is comfortable in winters" Bright
hitch about and wriggle around, and the ex-
ercise keeps yeh warm. n-Good News.
The National tribune., 1895-10-31

was full of travellers who, like myself, had
been surprised by the storm. There were
some Spaniards, some merchants, and fair
number of spUrtsme1, and before we had
finished drying ourselves at the cracking
wood fire, supper was announced. We all sat
down together at long table. and the con-
versation naturally fell on the fearful storm
we had Just had. One man had been thrown
from his horse; another had been an hour
getting his caTt-wheels out OF regular bog /;
everyone had some adventure to relate, and
we all abused the weather heartily.
90 It's beastly,' exclaimed one.
ayes; and with such wind, too,' said
another; it's regular witches weather.
"There was nothing much in such an ex-
preston, but ii gave rise to strange remark
from another man, delivered in still stranger
and more peculiar tone.
"tWi,ches, aud indeed all kinds of super
natural visitors, prefer peaceful moonlight
night to such boisterous weather rs this
I'VE all looked in astonishmcnt at the man
who sIsoke. He was Spaniard, a regular gip-
sey-like-looking fellow, strong and swarthy,
with black hair and eyes, gold rings in his
ears. and he was dressed in a rough suit
leathern CATERS, and red cloak. lie had
spoken with such conviction that everyone
was taken aback, and there was silence Tor
minute, until 4 young man who was sitting
next me- and who had very frank, honest
expression, burst out laughing, and ex'
claimed:
"Well, that's good! Do you mean to say
though, that they have told you about then
habits and tastes-and is it really fact that
they object to getting wet and muddy -
He had not quite finished speaking
when the Spaniard turned on him fiercely,
saying:
"'Young man, I advise you not to speak
so lightly about things of which you know
nothing
"Do you mean to say that you want mt
to believe in spirits and -
"'I might, if / thought that you had
enough courage to even look at them, sup
posing they should appear to you =
"The young man sprang from his chair
furious aud crimson with Indignation, theI
The National tribune., 1895-10-31
On Fools.


An ancient manuscript thus classifes fools,
species now happily extinct:
There is the fool among men, who is the
angel OF God.
The righteous fool, who thinks to become
good by saying that he is bad, whereas he
thinks the contrary.
The cunning fool, who very subtly frames
all manner of devices to his own final con-
fusion.
The fool of sloth, whose task becomes
double that of other men.
The fool of love, who thinks the roses never
die, and forgets the Winter frosts.
The fool of science, who calls flower by
a new name.
The fool of charity, who gives to the un-
deserving
The fool of inquisitiveness, the fool of hate,
the fool Of modesty.
There is the fool of knowledge, who is a
great reader of books.
There is the fool of cruelty, who does i'll to
others without knowing it, and because he
will not look to see.
The fool of low thoughts, who measures
the world by his plate of cabbage.
The fool of sorrow, who makes sorrow for
himself
There is the common fool.
And the fool who only sees the folly of
nther men