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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-11
GORMAN'S
GRAND DEPOT.
BL, ACK
DRESS GOODS

Black Dress Goods always seem a
difficult thing to advertise mot many
shades to refer to, but we can say this,
that our Black Goods are just as relia-
bic and just as black as heretofore, al
ways fashionable, always serNiceaDle.
The manufacturers have lately turned
their attention to pOpularizing novel
ties in the Black Goods line, and we
are prepared to show yen besides the
staple lines of Henriettas, Cashmeres,
Serges etc, CrepOns, Brocades, Figures
and many designs not heretofore shown
in Black Goods.
We have qualities and varieties and
the prices to suit all.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-11

drew II good-sized audience on We'd
nesday evening at Grand Army of the
Republican hall, Stroudsburg. The
company is an exceedingly strong one
and every member is an artist. The hit
of the evening was A. j. McWatters
original song, entitled "Oh! Child of
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-11
J. Scott lnglis
4Is LIckAwAhNA AVENUE.
OLD FORGE.

Richard Gray will organize Veteran
castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle,
ut brakes hall on Wednesday even
ing, Feb. 10.
James Shanahan died at his home on
Wednesday night.
Miss ella Drake attended the Kir-
mess on Wednesday evening.
l.. b. Warner has filed nomination
papers for supervisor.
The several breakers were idle on
Friday on account of the snow storm
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-11

At less than til, cost o. the yarn in It. We've
gathered tog ,ther so dozens OF all sorts and
sizes IRON Goodman's stock. They're odds and
ends of 10 sular numlers, and we'ra not u TX
ing half what they cost for your choice.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-11
Mothers! N;o,hers.! Mothers

WOthcrS, WOtEcrs,! MOthcrs :.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for over ilfty years by mil.
lions of mothers for their children whllo
teethlng. with perfect success. 1t soothes
the child, softens the gums, allays all
pain: cures wind collie. and is the best
remedy for diarrhea. Sold by druggists
In every part of the world. BE sure and
ask for Mrs. Winsow's Soothing Syrup"
and take no other kind Twenty-Five cents
a bottle.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-11
Al This Season
We invite your special attention
to our magnificent display of
Carpets, DRAPERIES
AND Wall Paper

We will give you full benefit of the
recent decline in the price Of Carpets.
Price is always great object, and in
this matter we are not only determined
to hold our own but to outdO all COM
petitOrs. Come and see us.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09

and when ice is wanted they are
opened, one outward, the other in
ward. Often a stairway leads from
outside down under the bottom of the
icehouse, where milk, butter, etc., are
kept. When the framework and board
ed-up sides of the house are completed,
the earth excRvated is graded up around
the house, so that the water from the
roof fallD well out upon the earth, and
runs away outside. The mound is
sodded, and when such a house and
mound are well constructed, they are
an ornamental object in the back yard.
Ice slowed in such house keeps well;
a ladder is used to enter when the ice
gets too low to step in upon it.
Such a house will last many years.
With greater expense in using woods
that will not readily decay, such as
cypress, the house is good for lifetime.
A sketch is shown in the cut. All doors
must fit tightly by being rubber or cloth
lined. If dry sawdust or powdered
charcoal can be obtained with which
TO fill the air space in the wall and roof,
so much the better. However, if the
walls of the house are made tight, so
that the air between has no circulation,
they are good non-conductor. Shade
trees growing on the south side of the
icehouse assist it. Such house is
somewhat expensive at first, but in the
long run will be found cheap. It ought
to work we'll in the dry, well-drained
soils of the Panhandle of Texas. The
ice should be cut in blocks, and stacked
in solid, like bricks, to be pried apart as
wanted.-T. V. Munson, in Rural New
Yorker
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09

added with profit to those houses
which are fitted for the growing of
frame cucumbers or tomatoes. Grow
ers for profit, however, will do we'll to
go slowly. The great difficulty in
making melons profitable is the usual
ly very light yield, a plant producing
only two or three melons. Unless the
price obtained is very high one such a
yield does not pay. Much depends
also on the season. To mature melons
we need sunshine, and this is often a
scarce article during the earlier part of
the winter. Last year, during October,
November and December, we had plenty
of it.
The melon vines are usually trained
on wires. The melons have to be sup
ported in some way. Prof. Bailey's
way is shown in the accompanying pic
ture.
The gardener at the station in Geneva
supports his melons on little pieces of
thin board, about five by six inches,
which are hung up on the cross wires
by strings. The latter plan is perhaps
slightly referable.-American Garden
ing.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

If worms are eating the grape leaves
a solution of white hellebore will stop
them.
THE shoots of asparagus should al
ways be allowed to grow three or four
inches high before cutting.
In eating grapes do not swallow the
seed. Might as well swallow pebbles.
The human stomach onght not to be
made to play the part of that of an os-
trich.
LIZ weed is allowed to go to seed it
will multiply itself many times next
year. Nothing is so economical on the
farm as preventing weeds from going to
seed.
WILL tomatoes from seed sovvn in the
open ground do as well as if sown under
glass and transplant? we are asked.
Yes, and sometimes better under favor
able conditions.
One of our subscribers complains
that though his plum trees bloom we'll
they do not fruit. Probably they arr
not fertilized. 1T is always desirable to
set plums of different kinds in an or
chard to insure fertilization
WATER can often be applied to the
garden without much trouble. A wind
mill, tank and hose viii do the work
and if the soil is of the proper kind, and
the garden il for market purposes, il
may pay to irrigate. But If the sol
balSes under irrigation. But if the sol
harm than good. Farmers Voice.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09
SOME VALUABLE HINTS.
How to Raise Peach and Plum Trees
from the Pits.

How to Raise Peach and Plum Trees
from the Pits.
A. j. Keller, Crawford county, o.,
writes to the National Stockman:
Please inform me through the columns
of your valuable paper how to raise
plum and peach trees from the pits;
how to treat the pits and when to plant
them: and when to transplant the trees,
and how to treat them to make them
bear fruit.
Reply: The pits do better not to dry
out. As soon as possible after they
are taken from the fruit they should
be put in damp earth or sand and kept
moderately damp-not water-soaked
until planted. They are less trouble
when planted in the fall as soon as the
ground can be got ready. Covered with
about two inches of soil, the exposure
to the frost will crack the shells and
the kernels will be ready to grow with
the approach of spring.
If not convenient to plant in the fall,
they can be kept covered with few
inches of soil in a corner of the gar
den where water will not stand per.
manently. But they must be looked
after very early in spring in order to
pick out the ones that have opened and
plant them.
This tendency to start early before
the ground is ready to receive them
has induced some to bury them below
the action of frost-two or two and a
half feet-and when ready for them in
spring, take them up and crack by hand
a somewhat tedious process.
In planting the seeds, in either case
they should be pretty thick in the rows
as they Will not all grow. The rows
may be about four feet apart, and with
cultivation every ten days or so during
the growing season they will make nice
trees by fall.
1t Will be understood, of course, that
| all these will vary more or less from
the present varieties, and that their
sole value-except where seedlings OF
a certain sort are specially desired by
way of experiment-will be as stocks
| on which to bud the choice varieties.
When the budding has been success
full the buds treated according to in
structions will have grown to be four
| or more feet high by the end of the sec
ond summer and may be set out in the
orchard. But peach, plum and cherry
do better transplanted in the spring.
AS to the bearing, much depends on
the varieties, some being more certain
than others; and all must take the
| chances of unfayorable seasons.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09
selfish Landowners.

How many farmers and others, too,
whose places are destitute of fruit and
shade trees? Again, how many rented
places are devoid of trees of all kinds !?
Has the landowner ever stopped to con-
slider that a small orchard, a few yard
trees around every tenement house, will
greatly enhance the value, attract and
hold better class of tenants, make life
more enjoyable and that, too, at prac-
tically no cost? We tell you, there is a
great deal of selfishness; we look
abroad and see how stingy and selfish
many are with their tenants, and often
times perchance some good farmer
rents his farm and moves away, and is
so selfish as to reserve all, yes, all the
fruit produced, denying even this to
the tenant Landowners owe their ten
ants and public generally duty by
planting at least moderate quantity
of trees. This is a wise public policy
C. r. Robards, in Ornamental Tree
Growing.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09

the fumes are then given off in great
abundance. Our practice has been to
put the sulphur in a shallow pan and
then set it over an oil stove, having the
flame turned just high enough to keep
the sulphur in a melted condition. AL
most continuous watching was neces-
sary 10 prevent the material from TAX
ing fire, for if this should occur it would
prove almost instantly fatal to all the
plants which might be reached by the
gas. The difficulty was in a great
measure overcome by an assistant, who
suggested the use of a sand bath as a
means of modifying the intensity of the
heat. Our present outfit consists of
two pans placed on an oil stove. The
lower pan is half filled with clear,
coarse sand, and the upper one contains
the sulphur. By its use our houses
have been kept remarkably free from
m4ftlew, even under very adverse cir
cumstances. But there is constant
danger that the sulphur will become
heated to the burning point, and then
the entire stock of plants in the house
is lost This use of sulphur is often
very convenient, but the work should
be placed in the hands of most trust
worthy person. If a house should be
thoroughly treated in this manner
every week or two, scarcely any mildew
could develop.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09
a Plaint from New Jersey.

A sample of the way road money is
wasted has been shown on Monmouth
street during the past week. There
were some holes in the roadbed and
they were filed up with clay and gravel.
Then men were set at work shoyeling
the sand and dirt out of the cutters,
and the sod and grass that had grown
there, and this was thrown on top of the
clay and gravel If a sand road is
wanted there's no use of going to the
expense of putting clay and gravel on
it, for the foundation of the road is
sand, before any top-dressing is put on
it; but it's a double waste of money to
cover up the sand with clay and gravel,
and then cover up the clay and gravel
with more sand.-Red Bank Register.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09
Success in Melon Growing.

The Watermelon Bulletin gives the
following directions for growing the
largest melon: Select your hill or hills
that you want to try for largest mel
ons in your deepest and clearest sand,
that has been well fortified to begin
with, not allowing more than two
plants TO the hill; one is better. Now
perforate the ground with holes, such
as broom handle would make, from
near the hill to three or four feet in
circumference, then with a liquid fer
tilizer from stable or COW pen fill in
these perforations, rake the surface
and repeat once or twice more during
the progress of vines to cover the
ground. Give for your largest melons
the form, or young melons, with the
largest and stockiest stem, as indicat-
ing it's capacity to draw on the parent
vine.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09
THE FARMING WORLD.
STABLE GAZE OF COWS.

sum and Air Are as Essential to Health rs
Good Feed.
The change from wet to dry or from
grass to dry feed should be made grad
ual. One dry feed day and that at
night should be given. Housing
should commence as soon as the nights
are frosty. In the morning feed a
liberal ration of grain. After eight or
ten days give dry feed only, adding
as a ration some potatoes, apples,
mangles or turnips, to keep up the
juices and better the digestion of the
dry food.
Glover hay should always be provided
for mich cows, early cut when just in
the blossom. All kinds of grasses, to
get best results, should be cut when
In the full blossom; if cut later their
value for feeding purposes is very much
diminished. The woody fiber is of no
value for nutriment. Plenty of sweet
clover hay that has been properly cured
by cutting it after the dew is off and
put in the cock before dew falls and
cured for two days and put in the NOW
direct from the bunch with little
slack lime sown on each load viii sweat
cut nice and be sweet and succulent-
as good as any feed have ever used.
A little corn meal will add to the
value of a ration for milk No animal
should be housed or stabbed without
good clean bed. The man that
starves his cows for food or bedding
is unjust to himself and cruel to the
cow that does her best to return all
she can in the way of production.
Kindness consists in the feeding as
well as the treatment. /. will pay to
give each one a good carding, or better
use brush. Give ample exercise and
out-of-door rest from the stable. An
imals become diseased by being kept
| in too much confinement, as their
whole system is thus disorganized.
Sun and air are as much requisite
as the comfortable stable to health and
vigor. Regularity in feeding and exer-
else is quite as essential as in milking.
It will not be a necessity to dehorn
cattle when they are properly treated.
1t is the disposition of the animal to
be irritable when she suffers in any
way. Provide in season everything
for it's seasonable use, and if there is
o lack in one element supplant it by
that which approximates to it the
nearest.-Gilbert Jaffrey, in Farm and
| Home.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09
WHY THE SILo PAYS.

Ten Reasons Which Should Appeal to the
Good Sense of Readers.
Until every farmer has silo, it is in
order to preach the silo, SO we beg those
who have siIos to bear with US if we
seem to repeat self-evident truths. Re-
member what an awful lot of preaching
it takes to save few sinners, and have
patience; or do better, help us spread
the truth.
1. The silo stores away corn more
safely and more permanently than any
other plan. Silage is practically fire
proof, and will keep in the silo indef-
nitely.
2. Corn can be made into silage at less
other form.
8. The silo preserves absolutely al
but the roots of the corn.
4. Silage can be made in the sun
shine or in rain. Unlike hay, it is in
dependent of the weather.
5. When corn is ready for the silo
there is but little farm work pressing.
6. Corn is worth more to the dairy as
silage than in any other way.
z. At least one-third more corn pei
acre may be fed on silage than on dried
corn, stalks or fodder.
s. Corn is fed more conveniently as
silage than in any other form.
9. Silage is of most value when fed
in combination with other food richer
in protein. 1t is not complete food.
10. Owing to its succulence and
bulkiness, siIage is the best known sub
stitute for green grass, and is therefore
especially valuable as winter food
Jersey Bulletin.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09
Ayaluable Object Lesson

The easiest way to convert man to
the good roads" proposition is to per-
suade him to mount the festive bicycle,
master it's curves and wheel the instru-
ment out where the roads are travestiee
upon the name and where bumps are
the most conspicuous thing in evidence.
A few repetitions of an experience like
this will make the experimenter an en-
thusiastic petitioner for the best that
can be had in the line of roads. Heaven
will take on an additional charm for
this man when he is reminded Of the
perfect pavements that are a feature Of
the final abode of the rightccgs.-Los
Angeles Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09
The Best Part Rises First.

Prof. Arnold says that cream will
continue to rise till the milk gets
thick, be that time short or long. The
best part first rises first. If milk is
SKINNED every IL hours and the
cream of each period churned separate
1y, the product of the first period will
be the highest favored and the highest
colored, and the color, quantity and
flavor of each successive slximming will
diminish to the last, but the keeping
qualities win grow better. The fourth
and fifth sldmmings will be quite pale
and insipid. Where a high-colored
article is desired, it is not advisable to
continue the process of Dreaming too
long. What will rise in 4S hours at 60
degrees on milk inches deep, is all
that is generally profitable to separate.
What comes up after that is so white
and tasteless as to do more injury, by
depressing the flavor and color, than
it can do good By increasing quantity.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09
STORING POTATOES.


Methods Must Vary According to Climatic
Conditions.
Methods of storing potatoes intended
for market vary according to climatic
conditions in the several sections of the
country, says an exchange. In the
south, especially in the northern belt
of southern states and in the southern
belt of northern states, potatoes are
not stored freely in the house cellars
as in the north. Indeed, cellars do not
prevail, except in the folm of half I'M
foreground structures built near the
house on dry spots. The portions
above the surface soil are banked up
and the roof is covered with soil. Into
these doorway enters on the end. The
dangers that Turk in decaying vegeta-
bles are thus removed from the house
hold. In sections where the climate is
warmer than New England potatoes are
stored in the field when early sales are
to be made. At first straw is put over
them in such way as to lap and throw
the water off. Piles are made either
round or long. Then a dry place is Sc
cured, the ground is plowed out to a
light depth and dirt thrown out, form
ing a trench. After cold weather sets
in the dirt is used to throw over the POI
tatoes. Vent spots are made along the
pile. The chief point to be secured is
a cool atmosphere, not over-moist.
Moisture and warmth are fatal to the
keeping quality of potstoes. Many
farmers place them on TIE dirt floor of
the cellar, but it is better to elevate
them on floor that permits current
of air to circulate beneath them. Mr..
Terry, who is quoted on questions per-
tanning to potatoes as an authority.
houses his in bushel boxes laid over
each other in tier fashion. This al
lows of a movement of air through the
mass of boxes and to some extent
among the potatoes. It is opposed to
ready heating and sweating and the
conditions that further the rotting of
potatoes. In these days of the univer-
sal discussion of bacteria, germs and
microbes, it is needless to say that
moisture and warmth are coadiutors
in the development of these destruc-
tive forms of plant life. Warmth, too,
is inimica1 to the germ vitality of the
potato. especially where or when it is
alternated with cold, inducing the start
of the germ or sprouts in case of the po.
tato and their certain breaking when
handled and the consequent loss of a
part of the food nourisnment of the
mother plant.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09
A Cur,ous ROAD Termination.

The highway or road authorities at
Martha's Vineyard, a town in Massa-
chusetts, found, in building macadam-
lied roads, that upon loose, sandy soil,
much stone is wasted by being driven
into the sand. In such cases gravel,
when accessible, has been placed upon
the sand to a depth of three or four
inches and the stone laid on this. By
so doing the cost is greatly reduced.
There being no gravel at Martha
Vineyard, cheap cotton cloth has re-
Gently been spread upon the sand, and
over that the stone. 1t has been found
that the sand does not then work up
through the stone, and much less stone
is required. Layers of tarred paper
were tried, but without success, as the
stone pressed through them. This is
probably the first road foundation ever
made with cloth. The following mate
rails have in various places been used
as road material, namely: Cork, COM
pressed hay, marble, pins, India rub
Der, oyster and other shells, lead, iron
and steel.-Tit-Bits.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09
Reeard to Milking.

If cows teats become sore, as they
are apt to in the fall, little fresh lard
or vaseline applied at milking time and
rubbed into the skin of the teat dur
ing the operation of milking win gen
orally effect cure after three or four
applications. Where this remedy fails
a good family salve will probably prove
efficacious. In such cases tender hand
ling and cleanliness are important. In
the process of milking the keeping of
the teats well cleansed while milking
and the avoidance of permitting any
dirt, dust, hairs or other impurities to
fall into the pail are points which
scarcely need to be enforced upon the
attention of dairymen of judgment and
taste.-Farmer's Voice.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09
FOR WARM COUNTRIES.
House for Keeping Ice In Texas and other
Southern Localities.

House for Keeping Ice In Texas and Other
Southern Localities.
I can think of better method for keep
ing ice in Texas than that generally
used in parts of Kentucky, Tennessee,
Virginia and other warmer states. 4
circular hole IL, Is or 20 feet according
to the capacity wanted) in diameter,
like a very large well, is excavated in Q
high, dry piece of ground, to the depth
of to 10 feet, and where 1t can be
drained at the bottom into pervious
strata of sand or gravel below, or by
sewer, pump or siphon pipe to lower
ground. When the excavation is conf
pleted, strong, double-walled wooden
framework is put in, the outer boards
resting against the earth and prevent
ing caving in; the inner boards are
nailed on the inside of the frame, SO as
to leave an air space of, say, 4 or 6
inches all around. This framework is
extended several feet above the COM
mon surface of the ground. then drawn
in conically all around, and rooted over
with conically roof. Double doors are
made in one side of the conical roof;
through these the house is filed.
When filled, they are closed tightly,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-09

Every cow of dairy herd should be
examined through a Babcock tester.
The milk should be weighed and tested
so that the Improbable cow should be
known and weeded out from the herd.
Farmers can't afford to keep COWS for
dairy purposes which do not yield
quantities Of butter or cheese pretty
well up to standard record. Both Ia
Dor and feed must be wasted il the
COWS which give less than average
quantity of butter fat or casein are not
turned over to the butcher.