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Year: 1876

u pIoaucsisI, or from TWO TO, TWO ana a half
If drilled. Many farmers sow even ais light
as two bushels per acre broadcast. But
thick seeding tends to evenness il rinening
IN all cereal grain with barley this is essen
tial. We should prefer three ana half
bushels of seed per acre. or two and a half
bushels drilled on clean, rich land, to a less
quantity. We might show where live bush
els have been sown broadcast with the re-
suit Of fifty bushels per acre; but fully as
good results will be obtained with three
bushels per acre. Either the common two
Or four rowed varieties may be used. A'sl3


The principal objection with many to the
cultivation Of barley, is the trouble iii har-
vesting and curing. It is not pleasant
crop to handle, especially when it is to be
bound. This, however, we should never do.
We should let the crop get sufficiently rip,e
50 the straw would cure easily; divide it
into moderate sized gavels when reaplng
turn once with a barley fork set it in the
windows like buckWheat, and thresh i'm
mediately from the field, il sufficient space
were available in the barn to air and season
oIiS b d4He Wy SdSLiIS ~ lIOIll Slu0 tO Sluc LII
this plan be not available it may, econo,ni-
cally be aired with d tanning mill. !, t.S@


If It cannot be stacked Immediately from
the field, stack it in fair weather, covering
the top and sides Of the stack with slough
hay, or other material that will surely shed
water, and thresl in about u month or six
weeks, or as soon as the stacks have under
gone the usual sweat. s,ss5'


The really difficult thing about barley is
harvesting and securing the. crop in good
condition. II allowed to get too ripe, it
looks weather beaten when threshed, even
If the weather is fine for curing 1t. If cut
too green, it gets weather beaten from dews,
and perhaps rain in curing, and weather
beaten barley never brings the top price,
however sound it may be. II barn room IS
available. barley should ia every case be
slowed there in preference to any other crop,
even clover hay tor the barley once thresh-
ed, the barn may then be filled will, the hay
before the season is so far advanced as to
injure it much from rains, Nevertheless, ii
may be securely y rel stacked, we have shown,
especially if care be taken to keep the butts
Of the gavels to the outside Of the stack,
and the middle sufficiently high. Western
Farm Journal.
Year: 1876

1t is an old saying that the "pen is might
Ter than she sword put this issue of the
STAR proof that pair of scissors will beat
the pen two to one, and then have copy"
left for next week
Year: 1876

Our friend Gardner Kellogg is now alone
in his drug busines at Seattle. His enter
prise and push. AS well as courtesy and skill
will ever cause him to receive n large amount
of patronage from onr citizens.
Year: 1876

The speech OF General Nichols, governor
elect of Louisiana, which viii be found in
another column, may be taken as an index OF


the policy which Is to characterize his admin
istrati5n, and Of his determination, come
what may, to b. governor in fact as well as
in name. General Nichols may be relied
upon for all he ays, for to a courage unques-
toned he unites discretion that is in largest
part the basis Of the confidence the people
Year: 1876

GENERAL NJ. c. BUTLER, the United
States senator elect rom South Carolina, is a
gentleman every way worthy the position to
which he has been called by the Legislature
of his State. Ii permitted by the Radical
majority in the senate to take his seat, he
will prove himself all that his friends claim
that be Is as conservative, prudent and
able senator
Year: 1876

IT WILL be seen from what we publish un-
der the head "Cru- -taceous" that the Repub-
hcans axe doing all they can to stir up trouble
and bring about body collision, in which
we believe they viii fail. The Democrats
north and south know the value of peace and
will maintain n
Year: 1876

We publish on the second page Of this
issue Of the APPEAL the full report of the
opening o. the Tennessee, crowded out OF our
issue Of Yesterday by the pressure on our ad-
HPrfisinr columns.
Year: 1876

matter before tho great council. and the
Indians themselves desired to 60 to
Washington and see the great father, and
also wished n copy of everything said
here given to them, so that they might
take it to Washington, in order that there
might be no mistake.


Col Boone said the commission had
no right to change the papers presented
them. He was glad they had shown an
interest in the half breed children, aud q
full copy of all said should be given them
and the paper presented for them to sign
as soon AS the secretary could make 1t
out.


Bishop Whipple said for them to Sc
Iect the Indians they wished to sign the
treaty, and it would be presented to them
! in the afternoon. In the metntime pro
visions for feast would be given them.


Little Wound said the commissioners
had said nothing aboutthe S25. 900 prom.
ised them for hunting rights; to which
Judge Gaylord replied that the president
had tried to get it for them last winter,
but could not The commissioners would
do all they could to secure them that
money, but could not promise them any
money certain.


The Indians were then informed that
the commissioners wanted n chief and
two head men of each band selected to
sign the treaty at 3 clock this afternoon.
Year: 1876

toes he puts out in August grow and
mature as we'll as those planted in
March or April. The thermometer
and barometer however convey a
clearer idea of climate than can be OBJ
tanned from any other source and we
therefore give below the authentic fig
ures showing
Year: 1876

aud We are going to bring the whole
force into the field and rout the enemy.
Gentlemen. ] will detain you no longer.
lCries Of Go on. 90 on. ! have too
much sense Of p=opriety 10 trespass upon
the time Of the many excellent gentle
men behind me. thank you for your
attention
Year: 1876

A Buffalo man dreamed that ho was
going over the Falls, and he had his wife
by the throat when he woke up. Next
night she had a dream, and broke his
nose as she struck At an Indian.
Year: 1876

and all public speakers who have been greatly
embarrassed by their Teeth dropping at the
most inopportune times, can now get set OF
Teeth which will remain firmly in place under
all circumstances.
Year: 1876

uoUsE.KEErEEs should be careful
aud not stand over hot ashes when
pouring water on them, as the
steam generated IS very dangerous.
We heard of a lady, in tho vicinity
who was severely scalded a few
days since in this manner, and has
not been able to attend family de-
yotions with becoming humility
since.
Year: 1876

A social soireo took place at DR..
Miller's last night, and good time
had-eyery thing was lovely and
all that soit Of things, but owing
to severe attack OF business on
ragomonts we were unable to put
in our appearance.
Year: 1876

AS illustrating the character of some
OF the recent settlers in this county. and
showing what energy and pluck will ac-
complish, we give the result of the labors
of one who has located i'm town 81. 8
west. lie commenced clearing his land
last March. and succeeded in getting
enough land cleared to plant three acres
OIL buckwheat and patch of potatoes.
His crop of buckwheat, if we can Judge
from specimen shown us, cannot be ex-
celled for quality by any portion of the
state. He says he has 300 bushels of as
nice potatoes as ever grew. During the
season he has cleared nineteen acres of
land, and now has eleven acres of winter
wheat in. Others in that town have
done equally well, and soon what was
wilderness will be teeming with we'll
cultivated crops, and adorned with COM
Portable farm houses and all the appur-
tenances of a we'll conducted farming
community. Nor is this an exception to
other portions of the county. Settle
ments are being made i'm almost every
direction, and it will not be many years
before the agricultural interests, the
backbone of any country. will rank
among the principal interests of our
county. Every possible encouragement
should be given to these enterprising SET
tiers, by opening up roads by which
they can reach market easily, and do
ing everything that can be done to aid
them in their pioneer life.
Year: 1876

There is a photograph of one whom
everybody recognizes at glance, but who
manages to get through the world with an
amount of esteem and affection which
would do any quantity of better men good
service, while it is hopelessly wasted upon
his utter worthlessness, the Good Fellow.


The feature of the Good Fellows case
which makes it nigh hopeless, is, that he
thinks he is good fellow, that his pliable
disposition, his readiness to do other good
fellows a service, and his jolly ways atone
for all his faults, quite unaware that his
good fellowship is the result Of his makeup;
quite unaware that his sacrifice of honor,
and the honor and peace of his family for
the sake of outside praise, is the offspring
of the most heartless selishness; quite
unaware that his disregard of the interests
and feelings of those who are bound to
him by the closest ties of blood, is the
demonstration Of his utterly unprincipled
character; he carries an unruf1led or a
jovial front, while hearts bleed or break
around him. OF all the scamps society
knows, the traditional good fellow is the
most despicable. A man who for the sake
of his own selfish delights, or the sake of
the praise of careless or unprinoipled
friends, makes his home scene of anxiety
and torture, and degrades and disgraces all
who are associated with him in home life,
is, whether he knows it or not, brute.
If man cannot be loyal to his home and
those who love him, he cannot be loyal to
anything that is good. There is something
mean beyond description in any man who
cares moro for anything in this world than
the honor, the confidence and love of his
family. There is something radically
wrong in such a man, and the quicker and
more thoroughly he realizes it, in humilia-
ton which hurlos him to the earth in
| shame and confusion, the better for him.
The traditional good fellow is a bad fellow
| from the crown of his head to the sole of
his foot. He is as weak as a baby, vain as
a peacock, selfish as pig, and as unprin-
cipled as thief. He has not one redeem.
ing trait upon which a reasonable self
respect can be built upon and braced.


Give us that fellow who sticks to his
own, who stands by his personal and family
honor, who does not treat" his friends
while his home is in need of the money he
wastes, and who gives himself no indul-
gence of good fellowship at the expense of
duty A man with whom the approving
smile of wife, mother or sister, does
not weigh more than a thousand crazy
bravos of boon companions, is just no
man at all. Sound, is it not DR. Holland.
Year: 1876

EVERY DAY RELIGIoN.-We must come
back to our point, which is, not to urge all
ofyou to give yourself up to missien work,
but to serve God more and more in connsc
ton with your daily calling. have heard
that woman who has mission makes a
poor wife and bad mother; this is very
possible, and at the same time very lament.
able; but the mission would urge is not
of this sort. Dirty rooms slatternly gowns,
and children with unwashed faces are swift
witnesses against the sincerity of those
who keep others vineyards and neglect
their own. have no faith in that woman
who tells of grace and glory abroad, and
uses no soap and water at home. Let the
buttons be on the shirts, let the children's
socks be mendod, let the roast mutton be
done to a turn, let the house be as neat as
new pin, ard the home be as happy as a
home can be. Serve God by doing com.
mon actions in heavenly spirit, and then,
if your daily calling only leaves you cracks
and crevicies Of time fill these up with holy
eryice.--iSprgeon.
Year: 1876

Drifting away from each other
Silently drifting apart;
Nothing between but the words cold-screen.
Nothing to lose but a heart
Only two lives dividing


More and more every day;
Only one soul from another soul,
Steadily drifting away
Only mans heart striving


Bitterly hard with its doom;
Only hand, tender and bland.
Slipping away in the gloom.
Nothing of doubt or wrong,


Nothing that either can cure;
Nothing to shame, nothing to blame,
Nothing to do but endure
The world cannot stand still,


Tides ebb, and women change;
Nothing here that is worth tear,
One love less-nothing strange.
Drifting away from each other,
Steadily drifting apart
No wrong to each other that world can reach.
Nothing lost but a heart
Year: 1876

An aged widow sat alone


Beside her narrow hearth;
Her silent cottage never heard
The ringing laugh of mirth.
Six children had sported there;
But now the churchyard snow
Fell softly on five little graves
Turt-covered long ago.
She mourned them all with patient love;
But since, her eyes had shed
Far bitterer tears than those which dewed
The faces of the dead.
The child which had been spared to her,
Her darling and her pride,
The woeful mother lived to wish
That she had also died.
These little ones beneath the snow,
Not lost, but gone before,
Faith taught her all was well with them;
And then the pang was DER.
But when she thought where Katie was
She saw the city's glare,
The painted mask of bitter joy
Which need gives sin to wear.
Without, the snow was thick and white,
No step had fallen there;
Within, she sat beside the fire,
Each thought silent prayer
When suddenly. behind her seat,
Unwonted sounds she heard,
As though a hesitating hand


The rustic latch had stirred.
She turned and there the wanderer stood,
With snow-aakes in her hair
faded woman, wild and worn,
The ghost of something fair.
And then upon the mothers check
The withered brow was laid
Can God and you forgive me all?
For have sinned, she said.
The widow dropped upon her knees
Before the fading fire.
And thanked the Lord, whose loving hand
Had granted her desire.
The daughter keeled beside her too,
Tears streaming from her eyes,
And prayed, God help me to be good
To mother ere she dies"
They did not talk about the sin,


The shame, the bitter woe
They spoke about those little graves
And things of long ago.
And then the daughter raised her eyes,
And said, in tender tone,
why didyou keep your door unbarred,
When you were quite alone?'


MY child y the widow said, and smiled,
A smile Of love and pain,


81 kept itso. lest you should come,
And turn away again.


I've waited for you all the while
A mOtbers1ove is true;


Yet it is but the shadowy type
OF His trhO died for you."
Year: 1876

The INGENUITY OF SURGERY.-An artificial
nose was manufactured recently for man
in Illinois, whose nose had been bitten off
IN the following manner: After he was
placed under the influence Of chloroform
the pattern, two and half by three and
three-quarters inches at its widest parts,
was laid upon the forhead and outlined
with iodine. The skin inside this area was
taken out, left fast at the lower end. be-
tween the eyebrows. This was then pul.
led down, turned upon itself, shaped into
the form of nose, nostrils being cut, and a
piece was brought down to make the divis-
ion between them, and grated, as it were
IN the upper lip. In the meantime the
sides, where the nose was to grow, had
been freshenod by cutting. The stitching
was done, the place in the forehead where
the skin was removed attended to, and the
operation was complete. At last accounts
the operation gave every premise of sue
cess.
Year: 1876

LET Your NErGHBoRs ALoNE.-What
is it to you if your nsighbor does
bring home brown paper package and a
covered basket2 You will live just as long
if you never know what they contain. 1t
is none of your business. And if your
Aighty neighbor, Mrs. Lightfoot, indulges
herself in her new bonnet, while her de.
voted husband wears patched boots, you
need not fret about it--he is the only suf-
ferer, not you no need of making a hue
and cry over her supposed extravaganza.
What if the minister does call on Ann
Smith twice week7 Why exercise your
brain for it? Let him court away. Sup.
pose she has an awful temper and powders
her face, as you say she docs, her temper
will not trouble you. What if they do
have three pairs ofstockings over at Squire
Hills. Haven't they got a right to9 As
long as you don't do the washing, il need
not trouble you at ALL What right have
you to watch their clothes liner Itmay be
perfectly trus that dashing Mrs. Gay sig.
nails to young DR., Wilde from her back
windows but who gave you the privilege
Of watching lady in her own home, where,
if at any place, her privacy should be
sacredG Her disgrace is nothing to you.
Year: 1876

The miser tolls for riches, the hero for
fame, the scholar that his name may be
known to coming ages. How much higher
and nobler the aim of the Christian who is
living for eternity-toilng for crown of
everlasting life?
Year: 1876

10 remove grease spots-from carpets
spread the spot over very literally with dry
buckwheat -four. In a few hours brush
off. If the spot has not entirely disappear
ed second application will do it, Or a
brush, common brown soap and cold water
will remove the spots, but hot water should
never be applied.
Year: 1876

To REMOVE Rust FROM SrEEL.-Rub it in
sweet oil and let it lie twcnty-fou hours:
then rub again well with sweet oil, and rub
it off with dry unslacked lime. Then take
dry cloth and rub with lime a second
time. Another way, liked better by somc
is to rub the steel well with pearl ash, using
a buckshin cloth, and polishing of with
sweet oil and rotten stone.
Year: 1876

That was good though rather severe
pun which was made by a student in one
of our theological seminaries land he was
not one Of the brightest of the class, ether
when he asked, "Why is Professor--the
greatest revivalist of the age?" and on all
giving 1t up, said" "Because at the close Of
the sermon there is a great awakcning."'
Year: 1876

AT the recent meeting of the British As
sociation the anatomical and physiological
section was occupied with most interest
ing discussion upon what we ought to drink
and what to eat. Professor Wanklvn, the
well-known analy teal chemist, opened the
controversy by reading paper on the eff.
fectS Of the mineral substance in drinking
water on the health of the community.
He commenced with some statistics which
ought to strike horror into the heart even
of Good Templar. The professor tells us
that an adult male daily imbibes from half
gallon to a gallon of fluid in some shane
or other, and, however small may be the
percentage of salts contained even in the
purest well water, it yet stands to reason
that six gallons of well water contain an
appreciable amount of solid matter. Pro
fessor Wanklyn, indeed, shows that there
is even more mineral matter in ordinary
drinking water than in household bread.
II, In other words, loaf of bread is burned
to ashes a very small residue of mineral
matter is left, while if, on the other hand,
a gallon of drinking water is evaporated its
mineral contents will be found much
larger than might have been supposed.
There are, we learn, two kinds of drinking
water-the hard and the soft-and a man
who is accustomed to the one cannot with
out risk suddenly adapt himself to the
other. Nor is this all; for even those who
object to water for drinking purposes can
not help taking it in various shapes. Beer,
for instance is made with water, and so is
tea, and water is daily consumed by manv
people in combination with alcoholic
liquors. There is an old story of an Irish
squire who said that upon a principle he
never touched drop of water, but he liked
his cup of tea in the morning and his
tumbler of grog at night. Now, according
to Prof. Wanklyn, it makes all the differ
ence in the world to man what are the
precise mineral constituents that enter into
the water with which his tea is made and
his grog is mixed. Lime, for instance, is
an essential element of the human BODY.
1t enters into the bones and into the ena.
mel of the teeth, and without a steady sup.
ply OF it in some shape or another, and in
districts where only soft water can be pro-
cured, the children are apt to suffer from
what is commonly called rickets--a pain
ful .and distressing malady, believed by
medical men to be due to a deficiency of
lime in the organism. Upon the diseases
which are the result of drinking impure
water we need hardly dwell.


1t is now generally recognized that
typhoid fever and cholera are almost en-.
tirely due to contaminated water supply.
The result has been that of late years eau
tious people have taken to boiling their
water in the hope of thereby destroying
all organic mater in it, and afterwards filter
ing throug charcoal filter, Such a pro-
cess, of course, thoroughly eliminates every
possible source of contagion. On the other
hand the water thus treated becomes soft,
and is altogether deficient in lime and those
mineral salts a certain supply of which is
| absolutely necessary for health.
Year: 1876

This is the delicious season when the
golden sunshine sleeps in the meshos of
the autumn haze; when the merry youth
and maiden HE them away to the gorgeous
ly appareled woods and eat enough chest
nut worms in one morning to keep flock
of yellowhammers for a week.
Year: 1876

A physician in the Island OF Jersey helps
Darwlnism by announcing the discovery
OF rudimentary tail on child. The tail
was only about quarter of an inch long,
to be sure, but it grew where tails belong to
tailed animals, and was altogether cncour-
aging to believers in monkey ancestry.
Year: 1876

and meantime that American friends Of bis entered
a proceeding would not be tolerated-a judge
who allowed himself TO be SO tampsred. with
would would be taboosd for ever, and and his verdict
10 objection In court OF law since he had violated
fundamental principle of sport by allowing unauthor
lied persons TO enter his box before announcing his
verdict We also 1nd that he placed at an eleva-
ton OF twenty live feet above The water which In itself
and the fact Of his being placed only adds further
testimony to tho clumsy and unsportsmanlike man
ner in which the regatta was arranged and carried out
But the backsst part OF The story Is st TO be told
The unpire's steamer did not keep up With the race
and was left 200 yards at loast in the Mr. Howell
hands to claim foul when Watkins collided with him
but the umpire, when appealed TO by London after
the race, dcned having seen any foul, either by
Watkins Beaverwyck against London II he
really did not any foul he could not give verdict
as to who was right or who was wrong in such col
bc shown distinctly that no foul had ever occurred to
order the raco to be rowsd over again This was the


ONLY COURSE OPEN TO HIM


Had ne done suspicion could attach TO his asser.
tion that no foul But since he took upon him.
sell 70 violate the nrst principles OF boat racing by de-
clining TO order renewal OF the race his conduct con-
vcts him at least Of utter ignorance OF tho duties Of an
umpire, II not Of something worse 1t that he
steamed away and refused TO listen to Londons claim.
Also, when London, In consequence OF his conduct.
declined, in justice to themselves, to row in any
races long no held Office he sill stuck cnaciousy
10 his post; nor do tho committee seem to have put
any pressure upon him 10 vacate his post In our own
country any umpire upon whose capacity bond
fdes such an imputstion had been cast by visitors
from distant land would at once have resigned.
The continuance Of this umpire in Office after such
reflection had been cast upon his conduct says little
for his sefrespect Tho Newcastle professionals


five years ago to the conclusion that they would
never again row at American United Statcsl re-
gatta after the treatment they bad received In 1871
The experiences OF the London Rowing Club should
suffice to deter all our carsmen, amateurs and profess
s.onals alike, from again trusting themselves 10
the tender merccs Of regatta In the States. Even
some of tho American press, notably Wtkes SPIRIT Of
the Times, confess themsevcs unable to understand
the conduct OF the regatta In the matter of this four
cared II thor press look with suspicion
upon tho conduct OF the regatta we may we'll be jos
iif0d In doing the same