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The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23

The reign of Queen Victoria, which
now has been longer than that of any
other sovereign of Great Britain and its
dependencies. spans by far the most in
teresting period of the same duration in
the history of humanity. Its striking
events include most of those which
have substantially revolutionized the
business and social life of the civilized
world 1t should be matter OF PRIDE
10 those concerned that by far the
greater number of discoveries and adj
vances that have contributed toward
this result have been the work of rep
resentatives of the two great English
speaking natiOns-Great Britain and
the United States. While claiming cred
it for showing the world the way to
greatness under a republican form of
government, we of the model republic
may rightfully regard Victoria as the
model constitutional monarch.
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23

pie at large, and Il meeting was at Oncl
called that this might be done. After
considerable debate a committee was
appointed to wait upon the dignified
justice and request him to adjourn his
court sine die.
The members of the committee, which
consisted of ]. H. Whitlock, chairman,
Dr. Vaughan, John Bass, Dr. Lewis
and Hiram Walker, walked into the
court and the chairman thus address
ed the worthy magistrate:
MAY it please your Honor, 1 have
been instructed by the people of this
camp to say to you that we can find
no precedent in law by which the de-
fendant in a civil suit can be COM
PEELED to give security either for costs
or damages in advance Of judgment"
"Have you finished, sir?" demanded
Bonner, adding, in a towering rage:
''This court would like to know whom
you represent in this case, sir?"
II represent the people," coolly re-
sponded the spokesman of the miners.
'The people have nothing to do with
the case,' shouted Bonner. my rul-
ing must be complied with or the par
ties will be bound over in contempt of
court"
'If this court chooses to place itself
in contempt of the people," answered
the miners champion, sit must take
the consequences. In the name of the
people now command you to adjourn
this court and not to convene it again."
The uproar which followed was ter
rifle and long continued In fact, it
was nearly supper time before some
thing like order was restored. Then
the Justices voice was heard above the
roar of the crowd ordering an adjourn
ment until 10 o'clock the following
morning.
During the night, however, Bonner
evidently came to the conclusion that
discretion was the better part of valor,
| for long before the hour fixed for the
resumption of the trial the careful
judge was seen ascending the noun
tain, his legs dangling on either side of
a patient pack mule.
He had a seat of justice in Onion
dIIcy, LHduy lttC HlSHeI Ill lue dlI
than the river, and this he called his
''higher court" where he sat to hear
appeals from his own decisions in the
lower tribunals.
Here he continued the case without
the presence of the defendant, and
gave Judgment, but was unable to EN-
force it or to collect the desired costs.
At another time Bonner undertook
to hold court at Rock Bar, but he there
so infuriated the miners that he was
obliged to even more hastily adjourn
proceedings to his higher court in On
ion Valley.
Bonner sent his constable, Tom
Schooley, to Rich Bar in 1852, to serve
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23
A Dreadful Father.

The young man had called on the
father Of the loved one to ask his con-
sent.
Il came to see you on a matter of bus
iness," said the young man.
What business?' inquired the faith
er.
Il love your daughter, SIR" banged
away the young man, though he wasn't
half ready.
"Ah!' smiled the father.
Eyes, SIR said the young man.
"Indeed?" continued the father.
''Yes, sir" repeated the young man.
"Is that so, reallyY went on the
father.
"Yes, sir" still insisted the young
man.
The father remained silent so long
that the young chap thought he would
explode if the old one didn't say some
thing pretty soon.
"Um-er," began the old gent, 'did
understand you to say you love my
daughter?'
'sYes, sir" blurted out the young man,
emphatically.
"Ahv'
''Yes, sir"
'Indeed ?'
Eyes, sir"
''Is that so, reany -
eyes, sir"
The young man wondered how long
this kind of thing would continue.
"Uh-er," hesitated the old gentle
man, $50 you love my daughter?'
yes" began the young man, and
stopped. 81 beg your pardon, SIR but
have told you that before"
''Told me what?" said the father, as
sweetly as an angel might talk.
''Told you that 1 loved your daugh-
ter"
"Ahr exclaimed the old gentleman,
softly.
"Yes, sir
'Indeedf"
The young man saw what was COM
ing, and got hot in the gills.
mo, SIR" he said, sharply.
The old gentleman looked at him in
panied surprise.
II thought you said you did," he said.
did what" asked the young man,
not exactly knowing what he was say
ing.
Loved my daughter"
Il do, SIR" quickly put in the youth.
"Ahr' smiled the father.
Eyes, SIR
"Indeed?" followed the father. as be-
fore.
1t was too much for the poor young
man.
81 beg your pardon, sir" he said, 'but
think you are cruel, SIR" and he back
ed out and left, while the old gentleman
settled back in his easy chair and snort
ed q loud and emotional snort Of tri-
umph, short-lived though it may be-
Washington Star
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23
Crops that Fatten the Soil

Some of the recent investigations in
vegetable physiology are of extreme inn
portapce to agriculture. | have before
referred to the growing knowledge of
plants that do not rob the soil. 1t is a
fact that some growths actually enrich
the soil. Corn and wheat and tobacco
deplete it of such constituents as are
not easy to be had, but, on the other
hand, leguminous plants and clovers
make it more fertile. Prof. Paul Wag-
ner, at one of the German research sta
tions, puts plants in two classes. In the
first are wheat, rye, oats, barley, pota-
toes, turnips, tobacco, vines, chicory,
buckwheat. mustard, cabbage-all of
which use up nitrogenous material and
cannot help themselves to more from
the air. On the other hand, he shows
that there is class that does not de-
nend on the nitrogen in ths soil. but
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23
| MONG the early Institutions of

A MONG the early institutions of
~ Plumas County was the migra-
Il Atory court of his Honor, Squire
Bonner
In the summer of 1852 an apprecia-
tive public elected Thomas Bonner
Justice of the peace in Quartz town
ship.
He was not the only earlyday JUS
tice in the county, for the records of
Butte show that Edwin Fitch in 1851
]. B. McGee in 1852, and William Rob
ertson in 1858, all qualified as magis-
trates in Quartz township, while S. S.
Horton, Samuel Carpenter, D. F. H.
Low, Lewis Stark and H. NJ. Galley
did the same in Mineral township dur
ing the corresponding period.
Squire Bonner, however, seems to
have been tie only one of the lot who
made any special effort to discharge
the duties of his office.
Justice, as he impersonated her, was
not merely blind goddess, standing
with balances and sword, by her altar
ready to hear the plants of the affiict
ed.
Far from it.
She was rather lynx-eyed detective
or, more properly speaking, a knight
errant, going from place to place seek
ing for an opportunity to apply tue
balances and use the sword.
Realizing that but little business
would come to him at Holmes Hole,
on Rush Creek, where he resided,
Squire Bonner put his Justice shop
on wheels, metaphorically speaking,
and travelled from camp to camp in
search of controversies upon which to
adjudicate and collect the fees.
Many are the tales that the old-tim
ers love to recount of this worthy JUS
tice and his pioneer methods of dis
pensing ''gilt-ed ed'' law to the guile
less miner.
On one occasion, fully equipped, he
made his appearance at Nelson Point
and announced himself as prepared to
deal out justice with a liberal hand to
all who felt themselves in need of the
commodity.
Before his Honor promptly appeared
one RamShire, who wished to sue for
a writ of restitution and the recovery
of $500 damages, the defendant being
an individual who held adverse pos
session of mining claim to which the
plaintiff felt himself entitled
The arrival of the wandering 81. p"
at the particular time in question serv-
ed TO prevent a personal encounter be-
tween the rival claimants, for they
were on the point of setting the ques-
ton of ownership on the field of honor
when Bonner made his appearance on
the scene.
The two men then wisely decided to
let the law take it's course and the suit
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23

a summons and attachment on miner
living there.
After considerable difficulty Schooley
found his man, and having made
known his business, proceeded to read
his papers.
The defendant was surrounded at
the time by number of fellow min
ers. who one and all, laid down their
implements and listened to the read
ing. When it was finished they told
the constable, in the expressive Ian
guage of the miners, to git"
After some hesitation he accepted
the advice, but, as he started away,
was foolish enough to drop some Of
fensive remark Instantly the miners
started for him with sticks and stones,
and it is asserted, even to the present
day, that the very best record of a trip
up Rich Bar hill was that there and
then made by Tom Schooley.
The trials and tribulations attend
ant upon his services in Squire Bon
ner'S behalf proved too great for the
valiant constable and he soon resigned.
Soon after he made his way to Vic
toria, where he became involved in
difficulty with an English sailor, whom
he killed, being in due time hanged
for the crime
Squire Bonner's own official career
was brought to an abrupt end upon
the formal organization of Plumas
County.
Then he took to literature, and in 1856
wrote history Of the life of James
Beckworth, the noted mountaineer and
trapper of early days, the volume
abounding with stories of mountain
life and adventure. Soon after pub
fishing this book Bonner left for the
southern portion Of the State, and in
that congenial cline passed the rest of
his eventful life in peace and quiet
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23

"Just as a big wave came curling to-
ward the lost vessel, Gunner Raehn re-
quested the men to join in singing the
national anthem. They grasped one
anOther's hands. and with their voices
mingling with the bowling of the storm,
they went down to death in the sea-"
So reads the closing paragraph in the
account of the recent loss of the Ger
man gunboat Iltis, in the Orient. BRAY
cry born of patriotism does not need
the stimulus of an enemy of flesh and
blood. These German sailors died for
their country as bravely and as truly as
though they had met death in battle.
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23
THE FARM AND HOME
MATTERS OFINTEREST FARM.
Err AND HOUSEWIFE.
Best Way to Care for Sweet Corn
Cooking Grain for Stock = Hedges
Are Soil Robbers-The Farm Work
shop a Valuable Building.
Caring for Seed Corn.

l like to shuck my seed corn in the
held to judge the stalk, says a corre-
respondent Of the Indiana Farmer"
This year l gathered it about fair time,
and spread it out on a hay loft. 1t will
keep well in a house loft which a pipe
goes through, or fairly we'll in grain
sacks, not shelled in a shop. The sack
Is some protection. But l am going to
try this winter plan given by pro-
gressive farmer at Winchester Insti-
tute. After corn is quite dry he puts it
in cracker barrels mixed well with dry
threshed oats, the corn still on the cob,
and places them in dry place. This
protects the grain much as nature does
from sudden changes of moisture and
temperature. He says his corn always
shows great vitality. 1t is not enough
that corn may grow" it should grow
with vigor.
The loft Of a workshop is a typical
place. l once bought seed that had
been corded under the ceiling of a dry
cellar. 1t was swelled tight on the
cob, but was good seed. l never like to
shell seed that shows a crumpled or
blistered face. You all know what that
is. 1t should be glossy and bright,
clean and smooth. used to keep q
knife handy and examine the germ of
most every ear, but have now become
so accustomed to the ''feeP' of the grain
that l seldom need a knife. If it shells
off tho ooh q LITTLE tOuoh and leaves lit
tie white points broken off of the grain
and left sticking in the cob, l reject
that ear at once. If any mold shows
anywhere on the ear, it is cast aside. II
it Is a good ear and shells rattling dry
and the grains are bright, glossy and
fiat and broad and deep, so as to drill
one at time and avoid thinning, i
passes. Very much extra thinning is
caused by planting slim grains, "rat-
TOOTH" SO that two are often dropped
at once
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23
Golden Wax Beans,

The Golden Wax beans, from the
tenderness of their pods and absence OF
strings, are much the most popular
bean for use when green. But no:
many know that next to the Lima bean
che Golden Wax is also best for use in
IT'S dry state. 1t has richer flavor, re-
calling the Lima when it is cooked dry.
There is, however, such a demand for
wax beans for seed in spring that not
many of them can be afforded for eat
ing purposes. Probably If the superior
ity of the wax bean was understood
more would be grown and used dry.
The only drawback on growing the wax
bean largely is the difficulty of shell
liug it, The waXy condition of the
pods keeps the beans from drying out,
as most other beans will do, and I'M
less shelled by hand some beans will
he left IN the pod
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23

1t will probably be long time before
electricity is used as motive power by
railroads generally, if steam is ever
entirely displaced for such service; but
IL Buffalo inventor has patented an cleo
trio device that seems to point the way
to an application of electticity as an
auxiliary of the locomotive for the
drawing of trains on heavy grades The
idea upon which the inventor worked
is that moving trains could be made to
automatically generate sufficient cleo
tricity while running down grades to
help the locomotives to overcome the
resistance encountered on steep grades.
He has made some experiments, and is
satisfied that dynamo operated auto
matically by car can send enough
energy into a storage battery to over
come the resistance at an adverse grade
equal in length to the down grade upon
which the electricity is generated. In
operating this contrivance, the train
hands would have to use the dynamo
as generator whenever the trains are
on down grades. and switch the current
DICK through the uy ud mo anu use the
latter as motor when there Is any
climbing of grades to be done. If this
contrivance will do all that its inventor
claims for it. the electrical apparatus
will probably be used by railroads that
have heavy grades on their lines. The
supplemental force would reduce the
wear and tear on the engine and also
cause a reductiOnn in the amount OF
fuel consumed. These items of cost are
important, and if any economy could
be wrought in regard to them the rail
roads would gladly avail themselves of
it. 1t would seem as though the move
ment of a train could be utilized to the
extent at least of providing safe light,
by the means of storage batteries.
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23
Poor Squirrel

An anti-squirrel convention has been
held in the State of Washington, and
resolutions have been adopted serious
Iy calling upon the lawmakers of the
State to take action for the ''eradica-
ton of the squirrel pest"
Yet the subject of this agitation is
the cheerful little creature that was a
welcome denizen of the woods through
out most of the world long before the
old-time humorous and tolerant poet
sang:
The squirrel is pretty bird;
He wears a bushy TAIL
He steals Old Grimes Indian corn
And eats it on rail-
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23
&l6Iz1lEiB;ARYta5> 5 hi
So IS ll5T 1Il|EBj1S
Mrs. Humphry Wards "Sir George
Tressaday" exhausted the first edition
In London within a month.

Mrs. Humphry Wards "Sir George
Tressaday" exhausted the first edition
IN London within a month.
Edward S. Ellis, producer of juvenile
stories, has condensed 'Plutarch's
Lives into single small volume
Rudyard Kipling is enjoying himself
at Torquay and announces his inten-
ton of remaining at that snug Devon,
shire seaport until the early spring.
William Allen White, editor of the
EmpOria (Kan.) Gazette, is the author
of book of Kansas stories entitled
'The Real Issue"
Anthony Hopes next novel will be
called 'Simon Dale" and will be is
sued serialiy in McClure's, beginning in
June, 1897. 1t is partly historical, the
scenes being laid in the time of Nell
Gwynn. The same authors "Phroso,' -
which has awakened wide interest, will
appear in book form in January.
Mr.. Barrie has been visiting Boston
and has also made a pilgrimage to the
home of Miss Wilkins. Apropos of the
rejection of the Macmonnies Bac-
chante by the trustees of the Boston
Public Library some wag has suggest
ed that Boston will not lack for art,
since the notary will always have
plenty of Barrie-leaves.
The Sawny Bean legend on which
Crockett's THE Gray Man" is founded
comes from the oldest extant "chap
book" of which Mr.. Crockett has a
copy dated 1850. But the most reliable
source of this historical romance is
1.-The Historic of the Kennedys." The
author declares he has stuck close to
facts.
The new edition of the works and
letters of Lord Byron, edited by w. q.
Henley, is now on the point of appear
ance. 1t will consist of twelve vol
umes. The letters, diaries, and speech
es are to be contained in four volumes
and the verse in eight. The edition de
luxe, at six guineas net, is for sale in
England only.
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23

The report of the Third Assistant
Postmaster General for the year ending
June 80, 1896, shows total of postal
expenditures for the year amounting in
round numbers TO ninety million dol
lars. The receipts fell a little more
than eight million dollars short of
meeting the expenditures. This de-
ticiency is less by sixteen hundred
thousand dollars than that for the pre-
ceding year. As the volume of mai.
matter constitutes kind of barometer
of business conditions, it is interesting
TO notice that there was an increase OF
about seven per cent. in the receipts for
postage over the current fiscal year.
The first quarter of the current fiscal
year showed falling off i'm receipts.
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23

The commercial community of Chi
cago is made up largely of young and
forceful men. From all parts of the
country have come vigorous recruits to
her business community. The fact of
their going away from comfOrta BILE
surroundings and familiar scenes at
tests the aggressive spirit of the young
men who have swarmed to Chicago
from every section of the country.
Meeting together upon common
ground, where from the outset they
We're at no disadvantage as compared
with the natives, the latter being in a
hopeless minority. it has been easy for
these men to fuse their energies and
aspirations, and to create that fine pub
lie spirit which has been the chief fac
tor in the upbuilding of the city.
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23

The overbearing and often brutal
conduct of the officers of the German
army toward inoffensive civilians has
of late been the subject of much COM
ment. The German army, as fighting
machine taken from the people, has
come to be naturally looked upon as
something distinct from the rest of the
nation. The Emperor himself has told
his recruits that when he gives the
order they must shoot down the enc
mics of the Government, even if they
should be their own fathers and broth
ers; and so down to the privates they
have been surrounded with an atmos-
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23
Natural WaddIng.

4 Penobscot County man tells an
amusing boyish experience in the Lew
iston Journal He and young friend
went cunning one fine fall day. They
had old-fashioned, muzzle-loadng guns,
and wadding was necessary part of
the outfit.
We came across a big hornets nest
in tree, says the narrator, and boy
like climbed up and pulled it down for
wadding. We talked about the merits
of different kinds of wadding. and de-
cided that hornets nests, a material
provided by nature, was the best. We
concluded to lay in good stock of it,
and began to break it up.
From the inside of the nest we shook
out a quantity of the biggest hornets l
ever saw, the ferociOus kind that have
black bands around long brown body:
but they were stiff, as if frozen, and
we didn't mind them at all. We turn
ed them all out, and sat down to rest
and make our new wadding into nice
little rolls.
We sat talking in merry good humor
for while, when all of a sudden Fred
screamed like wild Indian and jump
ell as much as three feet from the
ground Ee gave another yell and,
striking to right and left ON his thighs,
started on a wild run for home.
1t was the hornets. He had CHANGED
to sit down where a number of them
fell, and they warmed up from contact
with his body, and he, it seems, warm
ed up from contact with theirs. Wad.
ding was sore subject with him for a
long time.
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23

The servant question has many as
poets and suggests varied possibilities.
An English religious paper has this
advertisement: ITO Christians. Will
any lady take a tiresome village girl of
seventeen years as an under servant,
and try to train her into steadier waysT'
The very frank and rather amusing
proposal, considering the difficulty and
uncertainty of the task, was perhaps
consistently addressed to Christians.
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23
DehOrninG.

An expert will dehorn an animal very
quickly either with saw or clippers.
Sharp clippers with a shear cut will
take horns off very nicely and quickly.
A good operator will take off both horns
in ten seconds, either with a saw or
clippers. Calves can be dehOrned when
one or two weeks old by touching the
embryo horn with stick of lunar cauS-
tic or a hot iron By the exercise of
proper care and applying some healing
mixture afterwards the calves suffer
but little.
Dehorning can be done at any time,
except during hot weather, when the
wound is apt to be fly blown, unless
pine tar is applied daily to prevent 1t.
Young cattle are best dehorned when
about a year old. If dehorned when
much younger the horn is more liable
to grow again. They suffer but little,
and only for an instant during the Op-
Grafton. They almost invariably begin
eating as soon as liberated, which they
certainly would not do if the pain con-
tinued. AS rule they do not bleed so
much as to make it necessary to apply
anything to stop it, The older the ami
NAL the less they bleed usually. They
should always be kept stabbed until the
bleeding ceases. The quieter they are
kept the less will be the danger.
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23

Sultan Abdul Hamid'S cleverness is
extraordinary. There is only one per-
son by whom the Sultan can be legally
depOsed-namely, the Sheik-ul-Islam,
who is the secular head of the MOham-
medan hierarchy-and the far-seeing
Abdul Hamid holds the Sheik prison
er in Yildiz Kiosk. Let the Ambassa-
dOrs rave With the Sheik-ul-Islam
under lock and key the Sultan can defy
his would-be deposers. What avails
Western sagacity against Oriental
wiles?
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23

helps itself from the air freely. In this
class he places peas, vetches, beans'
lentils, clOvers. These assimilate nitro
gen from the air. and the more the
roots and stubble become Incorporated
with the soil the richer it is in nitrogen
for other plants AS nitrogen is an eX-
pensive manure to purchase, this dis
covery is of vast Importance. If you
wish to restore wheat and corn land
sow peas or clover or plant beans for
Il few years.-The Independent
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23

Venezuela now finds friend in Ger
many. The bond of amity between
nations is often the more enduring
when it is cemented by the ties of a
common hate of another nation. There
is a great deal of human nature in gov
ernmentS,
The Winslow mail., 1897-01-23

According TO the London Times cor
respondent at COnstantinOple, the Sui
tan has issued an trade extending re-
form to the whole empire. What this
amounts to will presently be seen. We
shall doubtless soon hear of a celebra-
ton of the trade by the massacre of n
few thousand more ArmenianS.