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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1890.
AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS
METHODS Or DESTROYING THE COT-
TON LEAF WORM.
Remedies for Poi»on Nceiled—Management
of Seed Cotton—Horticultural
—Poultry Notes—Other
Items.
Altiioneh the new crop of cotton has
only fairly commenced to ir,ovo, coropiRint
Is already made of the inferior quality of
the bagging with which the bales are cov-
ered. The interior gins furnish bagging
and ties and ttin the staple for about $3 50
per bale. Many of them are using the
cheapest quality of bagging, and by the
time the cotton gets to its destination on
the other side of the water it will be au un-
recognizable maes.
* * *
In view of the fact that vast quantities of
london purple and paris green are being
used in the state for the purpose of killing
the cotton worms. The News would bo
pleased to receive from physicians and
chemists a statement of the best antidotes
lor counteracting the effects of the§e poisons
on the human system—m t only remedies
ior its effects internally, but also for its
operation on the skin, nostrils, etc., of the
parties applying it to the crops, many of
whom have been affected.
* * #
The Mississippi experiment station, dur-
ing the seasons of 1888 and 1889 made a
cumber of tests in order to determine the
cheapest and most effective method of de-
stroying the cotton leaf worm. Pans green
proved to bo a perfect protector, when
even dusted over the leaves very lightly.
The following plan is recommended as be-
ing an expeditious and effective one:
"Mako two sacks of heavy cloth, each
About ten inches long and four in diameter,
opon the whole length of one side and firm-
23' sewed at tbe ends. Wo have found eight
ounce osnaberg the best cloth for the pur*
pose. Take a strip of oak or other strong
wood about one and a half by two inches
Rud five feet long, and bo.e a one inch hole
live inches from each end. Tack one of the
Backs to each end of the pole, fastening one
of the edges of the opening to each of the
narrow sides of the pole.
'•The sacks can be filled by pouring the
poison th.oug'u a funnel inserted in the
holes through the pole and distributed
by riding on horseback through the cotton
rows, dnstinu two rowa at a time. A little
practice will enable otia to do this work
very evenly, and care ni^ist be taken not to
nllow the sacks to touch the leaves when
wet, or the poison will not pass through.
When the sacks are freshly filled a very
eliglit jarring will shake out a sufficient
amount of the poison, but ^rhen neirly
empty the polo should be frequently ami
sharply struck with a short stictt, or spaces
in the rows wi'l be misted. When
utsil in this way we have found
It best to uso tlio poison without
any admixture of flour, and if flour is to
be added lighter clo'h is to bo used in mak-
ing the s:icks. By this method one man
and a mule can poison Irom fificen to twen-
ty acres per day. as soon ar, the worm
makes its appearance it spreads very rapid-
ly, and it is important that the whole field
should be dusted at once. There are ma-
chines made for distributing the poison,
and when they are used the station recom-
mends the poison ba mixed with flour at
the rate of three pounds to one of poison.
It Is also considered best to distribute
the poison in the evening or early mo-ning,
when the dew is on. as it adheres better and
is consequently more effective and lasting.
As flour under these conditions has a ten-
dency to make it stick to tho leaves, per-
haps it would be economy to use flour al-
ways rather than paris green alone. When
the pole and sacks arc tired, the workman
should be careful to keep tbe roisou from
blowiug over himself more than can
be avoided, and when the work
Is done he should shake his
clothes thoroughly and take a
balb. A few buckets of wate,'should also
be poured over the mule. With these pre-
cautions we havo never known cither sick-
ness or injury to ..follow the use of the
poison. Whatever plan may be adopted lor
destroying the wo-ms, it should be deter-
mined upon and prepared for in advance.
"A liberal supply of the poison should be
purchased and the apparatus for distribut-
ing it ail ready for worlr. as 'time is
money' in dealing with cotton worme,
and a delay of a day in applying the
poison may make a difference of hundreds
of dollars'in the crop. The fields should
be closely watched and work commenced
on the very day when the worms make their
first appearance. A single application of
the poison, if not followed too soon by rain,
Is usually all thai, is necessary to fully pro-
tect the crop, and the expense of this need
not be more than 50 cents per acre. In
dealing with the worms, more than in
almost any other faun work, promptness
and care are essential to success, and wjth
these there need be but lit tle fear of lo-s
Irom what has been tho most troublesome
enemy of che cotton crop."
* * #
Tlte Alabama alliance proposes tne estab-
lishment of co-operative ginneries, and
agents have already offered to set them up
in working order on the payment of one-
third cash. Each member of the alliance
binds himself to patronize the gin and pay
the usual prire. At the end of the season,
■ays a write:- in the Southern Cultivator,
every patron will reccive a certificate of
stock according to tho number of bales
ginned, at f2 per bale (the ustal price), and
at the expiration of three years the prop-
erty will be in the hands of til farmers,
■who have paid out only tee usual amount.
The idea is eminently practical, and with
good management is certain to succced.
* * *
Concerning the management of seed cot-
ton, John M. Castle of Mount Sylvan, Tex.,
writes as follows to the Southern Culti-
vator: Cotton should be picked out with-
in a .-try short time after opening, and
packed tightly in a close room or house.
The open rail pen admits loo much light
and evaporation commences on tbe day
the cotton boll opens. Cotton should re-
main packed securely for a considerable
time; the longer the better the oil in the
Bee'i distributes itself through the lint,
thereby increasing the sample weights and
turnout of the lint. The gaiu and
Troliis upon this method is suf-
Bcietit If properly managed to
pay for the picking. There <s more profit
oa the first cotton or first few bales of each
crop gathered. b.*cause the picking occurs
beforo there is so much evaporation. Cot-
ton picked after October seldom pays any
profit: it seems that after fio.-t there is au
Increased amount of evaporation, mil the
oil which tbe lint contains, as well as the
seed, soon disappears.
U iien cotton is ginned immediately after
picking, tbe ginner is placed In an embar-
rassing condition: lad turnout is the certain
result. Cotton picked early has plenty of
oil Id both seed and lint tn t>ick dewn weil
in a room, the cli
If you will put il
c .vercd with bet
plank should be
bouse for sprea
sboald not be pac
high coloring wo
SIU,
ser anil darker the bctt<
in pens, keep it close
ry sheet*. A t-caffold
provided at tne cott<
l.ng wet cotton, for
:ed down wet: if it thou!
id be tho re-ult. Cott<
:ed ic tbe fields until la
r.
upon your small children to tramp your
seed cotton down, but put your heaviest
hands at it, and do not be in loo big a hurry
to have it ginned. While lying in the case
tramped down it will more than pay for tho
picking and interest upon vour steward ac-
count. If ginned in cloudy weather there
will be an additional gain. Forty years' ex-
perienco in farming sustains this. NVlien
you try it pltase advise me bow you like it.
W * vr
Mr. A. S. Fuller, agricultural editor of
tho New York Sun, finds that tho following
treatments deters the cabbage worm: Two
quarts of coal tar are put into an open
vessel, which is set in the bottom of a bar-
rel, and the barrel is filled with water. in
fortyseight hours tho water is impregnated
with the odor of the tar, although tar is not
dissolved in it. The water is then sprinkled
abundantly on tha cabbages, aud the odor
penetrates every portion of tho head, killing
or driving away the worms. As the water
evaporates no stain or odor remains on the
cabbage. The same quantity of coal tar can
be made to impregnate several successive
barrels of water.
* * *
J. Luther Bowers of llerndon, Va., after
considerable experience makeu the follow-*
ing estimate of the strength of solutionis of
loudon purple which different trees and
shrubs cau endure while in bloom without
injury: Plums, Knglish varieties, 1 pound
of london purple to 160 gallons of water;
apples and raspberries, tho same propor-
tions; aprJco's, 1 pound to x!00 gallons; cher-
ries, 1 pound to 250 gallon*; peaches, 1
pound to 800 gallons. M ": Bowers further
states that iie has discarded naris green and
will always use london purple in future.
* 4r *
The Cincinnati Price Current furnishes
the following: "A careful survey of tho
promise of leading food crops this season
appears to justify the following estimates
in comparison with 1880:
1800.
40o,0J0,030
l,f)UG,000,i 00
57\UO >,0 hi
^7,0 0,(00
5d.000,1 co
150,000.0 JO
J £89.
'WO,00 ),'00
2,ir<3,OOO,Oi'0
7 .1,000,000
80,000,000
evKfl.ooo
11)5,000,000
Wheat, bushels
Corn, bushels ..
Oats, bushels
Hye, bushels
Barley, bushels
Potatoes, bushels
Totals 2,816,010,000 3,644,000,000
For five years previous to 1889 the annual
average production of these crops was 3,100,-
000,000 bushels, equivalent to an average of
51 bushels per capita of population yearly.
Tho production in 1859 was equivalent to an
average of 50 bushels per capita. Tne indi-
cated production iu 1800 is 42 bushels per
capita, or 75 per cent in comparison with
1889. For tho two rears together, 1880 And
1890, the production averages 40 bushels per
capita. Tho hay crop, au important factor
as feeding material for animals, is larger
this season than ever beforo and of superior
quality. The savings of corn and the un*
usually good condition of the wheat
and oats straw, with economies usu-
ally incident to a recognized shortage in
production, will materially aid in overcom-
ing the general deficiency in feeding crops.
Tho season's production of fruits and gar-
den vegetables has fallen largely 3hort of
la3t yonr.
rour.TKY.
A ftubscriber in Kentucky writes tho
Rural Home that his experience with incu-
bators his not been very favorable. No
doubt all he says is true, for failures attend
everv branch of industiy at times. I)tit
there is no reason for impposing that suc-
cess is lacking, as hundreds of incubators
are successfully operated every yca»\ Tho
fact is that the incubator is not used in
place of hens in one respect. The incuba-
tor is inteu led to hatch early chic'cs,
so «s to get tho high prices. The hem do
not be . in to incubate until too late, and or.?
2 «u net mate them sit, but the incubator
always ready. Tbe hen is bolter after
April and the incubator is better from No-
vember to April. One is for winter work
and the other f><r summer work. If any
person knows how to make a lurgo lot of
hens hatch out. efcickn iu January and
February then such a per.ion ue3ds no in^
cub.itor, but until that discovery is ninda
the only wav to get early chicks in market
is to use the incubator.
* * *
If you.* neighbor permits his chicks to
roost l:i tho hog or sheep pen for want of a
better place doa't bo the first to pattern
after him. Build a house uud treat your
fowls kindly.
Tint strbb'.e field below the barn is just
the place for your fowls to pra/.o in. It is
surprising how cleat, they will clear tip the
loose grain that fell on the ground during
harvt;;i,in \ Tho wheat anu oats ilelds arc
tho best in which to turn them.
During moult it is a good plan to wash
tho crests of polish ar.d houdans with a
*oft sponge and carbolic soap with plenty
of lather, and allow it to uotk into the
head. It freshens them up and does them
good. Don't let the suds get into their
eycH. Few insects will remuiu where car-
bolic soap is properly used.
It is astonishing how rauldly the Minorca
fowl bus been introduced iu four years, the
time of its first introduction to American
breeders. TIeing a irraud layer accounts for
its popularity « nd rapid growth a3 a favor-
ite breed with the fancier and fArmer alike,
if jon have ncjvcr kept tLern buy a few to
try next season.
The freshest ejrgs nro the heaviest, And
when placed in water will sink to the bot-
tom at once—old eggs will sink partly to
the bottom, while stale eggs iloat ou top.
better make it a rub to set all eggs that
show tho least sign of being old to one side.
Never send Any but fresh eetfs to customers,
the others can i»e destroyed or sold for other
th«u culinary purposes.
Tho results shown by the full blood and
grade, o? scrub poultry, are so mArked in
favor of the thoroughbred fowl that it is
somewhat surprising that anything else is
kept. They are better layers And their eggs
are larger and more numerous. First class
varieties for market produce chicks of uni-
form size, with yellow le^s. and their bodies
are preferable to the common breeds, which
bring chicks of all sizes, and ileaii of a great
variety of shadts. Full blood pcultry is
also more pleasing to the eye. and their dis-
tinct colors make them very ornamental in
any yard or lawn. Again, they sell for
more money to thoso who wish to purchase.
[Southern Cultivator.
TIIE DAIRY,
The Woodvillo Creamery company. Wood-
vilie, O., issues a circular to its patrons
which contains some valuable.pointers and
should be read with interest by creamery
patrons in general. Below will be found a
few of the suggestions offered:
1. Keep cans ^n tanks well filled with
water, changed at least twice a day. Three
times—morciug, noon and ni^'ht—would be
heUer. The tank should be kept clean and
scrubbed out once a week at least.
2. Cr;ara shooid noi be allowed to re-
main on the milk more than twenty-four
huurs at the very longest. A better way
however, and one followed tor some of oar
intelligent farmers, is to skim at twelve
hours; that is skim the morning's milk in
the evening ana the evening's milk in the
morning, and if you are not satisfied that
the cream is all out, let the can* remain
another twelve hours r.nd skim aga a.
2L Keep tbe cream io tue water tank, or,
if possible, in a still cooler place, but al-
ways in cold water.
By observing the above rules the cream i
can be kept thin and most of it tweet.
On many dairy^farois the milk and butter
produced is sold to private customers in the 1
city. These customers would buy many '
other things besides dairy products, pro- |
vided they were of the very best quality; j
fruit, poultry and rggs tnav be grown and »
sold at an extra prk.\ and tbeir production !
and sale need not interfere with tue dairy j
States and territories is computed to be 15,-
298,6J5, valued at 1306,238,876, «ud tlie an-
nual production cf milk 5,000,000,000 of
gallons, and the value o! tUo dairy pr.duct
(1888) more than C-500,000,000.
HORTICULTURAL.
Budded roses require watching to keep
down the sprouts from tho stock which
would rob tho bud. With this in mind
one need not he afr.iid to plant budded
roses. Two-year-old plants of Anna de
Diesbach, La France, Mabel, Morrison and
some others, set out last spring (with tho
poiut of junction about two inches below
surface) have produced Home nice flower.)
the present season. Only a few, however,
were allowed to mature, as it is better to
obtain grow.th Instead of flowers the lirst
season.
* * #
Enow white, the new white gladiolus in-
troduced last spring, is not perfectly white,
having occasional faint markings of lilac-
rose. The petals also are rather too sharp-
pointed to bo elegant, lint the flowers are
well arranged, all facing the same way on a
well-formed-pike of medium length or a
little less.
* * *
Ground foe setting out new fruit gardens
should be well prepared early in autumn by
the necessary plowinz, pulverization and
intermixture of compost or old manure. It
will be In better condition for remaining a
few months, and the manure will be moro
perfectly diffused through the soil than if
prepared just before planting time. If the
ground is intended strictly for a fruit gal-
den, to bo planted either with dwarf3 or
with small or moderate-sized trees, the
roots of which in a few years will extend
through every part, the whole surface
should be thoroughly nlowed, euriched and
prepared, lint for large orchards, where
tho whole ground will not be occupied for
several years, the preparation of scrips by
plowing eight or ten feet wide will be suffi-
cient for tho present. Unless the land has
a steep slope these Bt-rips should be plowed
so as to extend directly down hill, and thus
assist in effecting good drainage. Theriuan-
tity of manure to be applied to orchard
giound must be judged according to cir"-
cuinstances. In some places it is already
rich enough; but more lrequently a greater
or less degree of artificial enriching is im-
portant. As a general rule, the leadiuir
shoots of young orchards should itrowfrcin
two to three feet annually; if much ksj
than two feet we may ho sure that tho soil
and cultivation are not good enough; if the
growth is moro thau threo feet the wood
will be too succulent, and be liable to win-
ter killing. It should ba remembered that
heavy manuring in orchards should never
be mail;- a substitute for good,constant and
clean cultivation—tha latter tending to a
mere perfect and healthy ripening of tho
wood that can bn effected ou any laud by
manure alone. [Exchange.
* * #
M. Li. Baloham says that tho effect of
transplanting on tho growth and habits of
some kinds of vegotation is remarkable,
and needs to bo better understood by liorli-
cuhurista. It is peculiarly noticeable in the
form and growth of yonng evergreen trees
in the nursery, causing a more stocky and.
symmetrical habit. Florists also find it of
benefit to tho form and (lowering of many
plants. Various vegetables, an let'.nee,
cabbage ami celery, are especially benefited
by one or two removals when yorng. it is,
ho declares, hardly possible to have the
largest and finest beads of lettuce if the
plants are allowed to grow without trans-
plenf lug, even though otherwise well culs
I i vi, ted.
* "r *
To secure fine specimens of fruit a French
horticulturalisi, perceiving that whenever
fruit, a pear for inatrtti'je, rests upon some
i ranch or oth^r support beneath it, that
Ihe fruit always tjrows to a largo siz«, gives
t'uo r,elected fruit tho necessary artificial
mpporr. Thin p^rmita tho saji vessels of
them to remain oj>»*n, and tha fruit receive*
abundant uourishmeut.
THE CZAR'S NEWS.
It is VTell Filtered He fore It Itcacbcs His
IVIh.Ji sty's Kjr«#,
At present, says the liondon Telegraph,
the czar eschews all Russian newspapers;
tiieir puyins and tbeir lamentations never
reach bis ears. Among the many departs
mente of tho ministry of the interior tberj
is one called tho "department of his majes-
ty's journal," which is charged with pre-
paring day by day a carefully worded
resume of eomo mild articles an«i items of
intelligence meant for tho emperor's eye.
A tschinovnik of the censure rises from
his bed in the gray of the errly morning
and hurras olT to the department, where
advance s jeets of the journals come in
damp from the pross. These he rea ls o7er,
marking with red pencil ail tho passages
the interest of which is no*; mat red by
injudiciousness. There a^e certain events
as well as numerous words and phrases
which a Russian ticperor, like a French
hint?, must never be allowed to hear.
"Fe i le Hoi d'Eh pas tic!" (the late king of
Spain). "What does feu mean?" naked a
Frencn kin/* once indignantly. "Oh, it is
a title, your majesty, taken by the kin# of
Spain after the lapse of a certain time."
The marked passages are then cut out,
pasted together ou sheets and handed over
to th.* director of the department, who,
after fully considering and, if needs be,
curtailing them, signifies his approval. Tho
extracts are then copied caligraphically on
the finest description of paper, forty or fifty
words to the page, and the journal in this
state is given to the minister of the interior
or his adjuuet. If this dignity is satisfied
it is passed on to Jie general-in-waiting,
who deposits il on his majesty's tuble about
4 o'clock tbe following day. The news that
slowly dribbles through thin oftici-d fiite** is
seldom of a nature to ditcompoeo tho feel-
ings of tho czar or disturb his sleep.
THE SULPHUR SPRINGS.
'DAB" VISITS THE BALMY SOUTH-
LAND'S NOTED SUMMER PARADISE.
Tho Soft, Brown - Kyed and Ilo«y - Ited
Lipped Southern Bulla'* Opinion of
the "Lords of Creation" — Tho
Southern Girl's Nature.
HYMENEAL.
FISTIER-freelaxd.
San Astoxio, Tex., Aug. 31.—Mr. Thomas
Freeland, the local agent of tbe Crescent
News company, left to-day forXcw Orleans,
where he will be married on tbe 17th to
Miss Mary W. Fisher, daughter of Mr. J.
K. Fisher, a prominent citizen of tha cres-
cent city. ^
Matters at Waeldsrv
VTaELDER, Tex., Ang. 31. -The liabilities
of F. H. Tippe, who assigned here last
Monday, will reach about $35,000 and the
assets are abont tSo.OOO.
Cotton is generally late in this section.
About 370 bales liaye been received and
shipped to date.
The pnblic school building has been en-
tirely relltted and Professor Smith, late of
Alabama, will open tho school to morrow.
Good rains have fallen In our vicinity
during the past week.
■houl'l ue spnnKltd rtry 1
before packing down :c
fiefore ginning, and this m
•«-d cotton in case for 6i> i
tribute itse'.f throasb tin
Letter sample, better turno
inir of the roll lo fflna'.ue.
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■tteb cow* in tbe United
Stricken With Paralysis.
ATraisoX. Kas , Aug. 31.—[Special]— Alf
H. Martin, brother of tbe late ex-Uorernor
John A. Martin, and nntil the ex-gorer-
nor's death, a year ago, business manager
of the Atchison Champion, was stricken
with paralysis at bis residence at S o'clock
last night and will die. For several months
past ho has been engaged in business at
Wyandotte and came home last nlgbt to
spend Sutulsj with his family.
Escape of Prisoners.
Rtcnifoffo, Tex., Aug. 31—There was a
jail delivery here this day at noon which
resulted in the escape of two prisoner* con- |
fined for petty offeacev Tbe escape was
made by means of knocking an opening ;nVbT»'waT?
through tbe brick wall. As they were only
confined In a run-around this was com-
paratively easy. Deputies are now oat In
search of tbe escaped prisoners.
Grfenbrikh White Sulphur Prr.iUGS,
W. Va., Aug. 25, 1&90.—"But I don't thiuk
our men would like it." Two soft brown
eyes ure looking up into yours, and these
words are coming out from two rosy red
lips. It'd the bello of tlio White Sulphur
Springs giving you her opinion as to what
"our men like." From her youth up
brother has been trained to wait on her;
but also from her youth up sho has been
trained to give the pretty little thank yon,
the affectionate little nod, ihe caressing
word that is so delightful to tho heart of
man, and which taakes r.U the difference
between the woman and the shirt front.
HOW Tnr. SOUTHERN I1ELLE LOOKS.
It is Uioshirt front that she thir.Ks "onr
men" wouldu't like much. Tho shirt front
ill all Its glory and grandeur -stiff and im-
maculate. And to ho a little bit subtle, she
is deploring in it tho influence of tlio white
linen. She stands up, and with hands be-
hind her, like the picture of Dorothy Teu-
nant, says, "How would I look iu a shirt
and jacket?" Well, it's a funny thing, but
you don't conjure up a picture of how she
would look in a shirt and coat, but you see
instead how she does look in a white mull
frock, a broad sash about her waist, a bodice
that is V-shaped at the throat both back and
front, and gives you a tantalizing glimnse
of a white throat, a head crowned with
soft brown hair, and a half French, half
American face glowing at you.
magnificently appai1elled womrv.
She has a happy time of it—this bello of
the White Sulphcr springs—for lifo here is
a series of (lances, mint juleps and admira-
tion. S.,o can dance until her satin slipper
is worn threadbare and doesn't, tire. She
does not drink so many juleps, but sho
manages to imbibe them a:t a bird might,
her pretty face showing above the bunch of
green like the flower that it is. Sho is
adored by young and old. and the secret of
her popularity lies in this fact, that she'll
give up a dance with tho man whosa heart
is all her own to hobble through ouo with
old Tom Gordon, who will persist in danc-
inf, though he lias a wooden leg, but
who fought along side of paptv and
once saved hiin from being killed during
tho wur. She has a feminine interest in (rills
anil frivols, but like her Euglish cousin,
rather inclines to cotton frocks and to wear
her best gown oil one occasion and tho one
that whs now lust summer on another,
while the "real old ono" frequently do
scribes the limits of her wardrobe. Of
course there nro aro women here who dress
superbly, much more maguiticently than at
lu.uiy of tlio northern watering places, but
they ar« the w ves either of tobacco kings
or railroad capitalists. The soft southern
speech and thw pretty southern gal-
lantry is infectious, and bard-hearted,
cross grained old brokers iind them-
selves saying polite nothings and mak-
ing awkward but weil meant bows to wuo-
cvt r may have attracted their admiration.
The northern man is as wax iu the hands
of the south in woman, and if she had
fought the war she'd have wou it, for she
never wonld havo given up \. bile there had
been a man t.i compliment. Sho do.-sn't
iticht her fou with fierce weapons of sarcasm
• and wit, but with tho pitiful request to he
I old all about something, because "you
know so much" and the coquettish Ir.cjuirj:
"Now stop thinking about all tbe problems
that are in vour mind and tell m« how you
think Ilook?" Undoubtedly iu the south
the feminine element is the stronger, and
iu the bunds of its women licth salvation.
bornikkn woman is proud cf womanly
wouit.
In the first place tiiey are not ashamed to
do honest, womanly work, and iu the next
place tho neighbor who does not havo to
work recognizes the gentility (that's a good
old-fashioned worill) of the woiker, and
• he girl who saves tho money to get her
mull gown by selling the early strawberries
or raising n bed of violets and sending
them to some northern florist to be coined
into gold is not less respected because of it,
but i3 applauded by having people say,
" What a clever girl Jim Gordon's Nannie
is." You can't but admire this regard for
the wo. ker and you can not i ut think that
to work for v.omanly belongings aim in a
womanly way is the best method of en-
couraging men io work.
supporting worthless men.
The best wuy to make a lazy man a busy
one is to force him to realize that the women
of the family have no idea whatever of
earning his trousers for him, but while
things look dark aro willing to d® the best
for tlienisolves and children. If he is a
strong, capable man lie cau get his own
belonging.!. Hut unfortunately the south-
ern women who have made moooy hive
lavished it too many times ou worthless,
lazy men. A woman said to lUij the other
day; "Did you ever Know a successul south-
ern business woman who did uot have
three or four other people to keep?"
I bad to confcss I did not, and 1
added that as long as they were old
women or little children it was all
right; but when it came to being big, lazy,
handsome men I wanted to rise up in my
recently acquired English flesh and knock
down every mau who wasn't old enough to
be put in au aged men's home who let a
woman take carc of him. Invalids and
drunkards would of course be debarred
from his combat, for women have been tak-
ing care of drunkards ever since the world
began, and probably will continue to do so
as long as the world lasts. I really believe
tbe average women wonld rather nurse a
man through an attack of delirium tremens
—a bad, human man, than take care of a
saint through an attack of low fever.
summer beverages in tiie southland.
But to return io what's going on here.
If anything the juleps am slightly sweeter,
the whisky used in them has a more oily
taste-1 mean this in a complimentary
sense, for tbe whisky tbat rasps the turoat
is not conducive to the joy of a julep. It
tr.ust go down in a slow sort of toboggan
fashion, and all tbe while you ai » smelling
tbe spicy flavor of mint and wondering
who lint discovered it, and who made tho
first combination of whisky, mint and sugar,
gave It its title and mado it one of the
irre.it seductions of tbe sonth. You may go
declaring you do not like them; you may
have an English preference for brandy and
soda; you may announce tbat the cham-
pagne cup seems to touch your heart in a
Jascinatlng way, but once your foot is on the
native heath of the southern girl yen meek-
ly bow down to juleps, accept tbe one
tbat is sent to you after tbe morning
dance and wonder how you ever
thought anything else worth drinking.
Next to the jolep comes tbo consumption
of chicken, anl tbe ugh you think
chicken a good thing In its way. and un-
donbtedlv healthy, it does seem surprising
to sae these southern women take it meal
afer meal and prefer it to tbe juclest steak,
tha most anderaone bit of roast beef tbat waa
ever served. Do they hope to become angels
Are the feathers growing out
body has less than four children, and most
people run thirteen and fifteen. At a wed-
ding given near this place not very long ago
the great desire of the brido was to keep an
old dnrky, named Aunt Lizzie Howard,
away from her, because sho possessed a
mystic power knotrn as "the laying on of
hands," and whicli insured to the happy
couple a handsome and healthy pair of
babies before tho \ear was over.
a widow's picture of maidens.
Everybody—that is, everybody that is in
the swim, is having hei* photograph taken
by the amateur, the resnlt being more inter-
esting than artistic. If the artist lias uuy
feeling of tenderness toward bis object tho
picture will be a positive failure; for ill his
desire to touch her foot, place each hand
just so, to turn her face jnst as ho thinks it
ought to ba—which requires an immense
amount of labor—tho result is usually one
where there is a blurred mass of femininity
and a lot of ruitles shown. But just take a
jolly party who are in for a good time, and
sauey Miss Pert—who, between youand inc.
is a Yankee—leans ngainst tall Torn Ueverly,
whose rebel father was killed in the last
war, in the position of tho Huguenot lov-
ers. Because John Millais fell in love with
his wife when he painted that-picture It
almost goes without sayiug that beforo a
week's over the lieverleys will be regarding
Miss I'ertan a "nice litt.e thing," Jack will
be adoring her, an 1 the old story will be
worked out with the photograph machine.
Commonplace, isn't it? Do you thiuk it
is? Never while the world goes rouud.
There is a saucy widow here who thought
she'd show some of the girls how tbov
looked when they drank a little loo much,
so she posed in a hammock as heinu in a
drunken slumber with h French uovel in
her lap and a lot of empty bottles on tho
ground about lier feet—that photograph is
equal to fifty temperance lectures, and it
ought to be bought up tlia W. C. T. U. (an 1
the rest of t.ie alphabet) and disseminated
as a warning to the joting women of tbo
land. A woman who is a noted housekeeper
didn't propose to ha left out of the photo-
graphic cra/e, so while the amateurs
were at work elie sent out, borne by
the blackest of llebes, a tray covered
with glasses of foamy egg-nogg; this
was too good to be lost, so one
of the girls was quickly popped into the
hammock, and behind her stood the dusky
servitor with her snowy beverages. It is
unnecessary to say that this came out beau-
tifully, and tha effect of it was such that
the work stopped, and the people had time
to look at each other from some other than
the standpoint of the camera. For pure
outrageous leva making I would commend
the general youth to photographic appara-
tus; his opportunities are many, and lie has
littln wit if ho does not know how to make
the best of them.
wan's admiration for ou1! southern sis-
ters.
Hut here everything returns to woman-
she is sunretne. And I will tell you why
men liko southern women.
Because they nre affectionate; they never
lose an opportunity to give a iiss, say a
pleasant word, or to do a kindly deed for
tbe man who rules their hearts.
Because they do not gossip very much,
home, children and husbands usually form-
ing a world big enough for them.
Because, while they nro intelligent
women, they don't quite like some of the
latter day books, they don't understand the >
mystery of Dorian Gray, and they adore a
love story.
It's love, love, lovo that makes the south-
ern girl go round—every girl expects to get
a husb and and to love him, and she's sel-
dom disappointed. Hike Lady Amanda
sho crief:, "gracious heavens!" and throws
herself into tho armsef Lord Mortimer,anil
wrj down south in Dixie Lord Mortimer is
alwnys ready to receive her. Aud ho ought
to be, oughtn't he? Bab.
SAVED BY A L'ZAP.D.
Caraa wuua voa watt—fraataa • J«4-Ak*>''
of their ahouldera, or do tbey think some
special virtue Ilea In it that will make them
young forever?
If one were honestly a«ked what is the
chiaf industry of the south out wouM hon-
•ally have to reply tbe Infant one, for not
A Sleeping Minor Warned of tlie Presence
of it Kittle snake.
An item headed "Saved by a Cnokatoo"
inn recent number of tho Detroit Free Press
reminds me of an incident pq ually as strange
that happened ill the summer of 18S2.
A mau named Anderson and myself wero
prospecting in California. In those days
th; re who no railroads ou the Pacific coast,
and miners generally shouldered their
blankets shovels, picks and puns and
tramped, as tiiey called it, from one
section of the mining country to another,
lying down on the groui_d when night over-
took tr.em, their blanket! being their only
bedding. For some time I followed this
kind of liic, and ono day, after walk-
ing pretty lively until noon, wo stopped
in the shads of a Ir.rire tree to cook and eat
our dinner, smoke our pipes and take a
rest. The day being pretty warm, after
taking a smoko wa lay down on our blan-
kets an 1 soon fell asleep. We had not been
resting long wli n I was partially conscious
of something flitting across my face, fc'oon
I le t it again, and a kind of chattering
uo:s= to aroused me that I o euoil luy
eyes, but did uot move. Very shortly it.
came again, when 1 saw It was ono of the
California swifts, a spccioi of the
lizard, common in that part of the coun-
try. They ar-about six inches In length,
of a reddish color, and quite harmless.
They are also possessed of some Intelli-
gence, as the sequel will show. As the
lizird pnswd over iny face the third
time I raised to a sitting position, ful.y
aware of some impoudiug danger. Look-
1112 around, i saw on ons side of me, near
by, the little swift, intently watching my
movements, atid on the other side, not six
feet distant, a large rattlesnake, lazi y
moving toward me. As 1 spraug to my
f<et Lis rattles gave tbe signal of danger,
co often heard in that, section of the coun-
try during the dry season. I looked for
my little rescuer—for tue sttift had, no
doubt sr.v d my life—but hu had disap-
peared in tho grass. The snake I despatched
with my Fix-shooter. He bad nine rattles,
and measured two feet three inches iu
length.
I never shall forgt-t the light eyes of the
swift as ho watched me after his mission
of merer, and why he should warn me of
the coming danger is one of the mysteries
of my life.
A Great Tannel.
A recent number of the Iron Ago tells of
a remarkable pieca of railroading about to
l>e undertaken by the Colorado Midland
Railroad company, goon after leaving
Leadvilie the road leads around the moun-
tains for a distauce of twelve miles, reach-
ing Busk at a height o? lO.iKK) feet. From
this point the road zigzags up tho face of
the mouutaia for a distance of five miles to
reach a point 500 feet above Busk. On this
part of the trip long lines of snow sheds
are erected to protect the traok, aud in
these drifted snow lies the year round. The
old tunnel here pierces the continental
divide at an elevation of 11,5:28 feet. This
tnonsl is a«*> feet long. The length of new
line required is 3.25 miles, and this replaces
10.!!< miles cf old line, effacting a saving of
6.K3 miles. The section of tho tunnel is 15
feet wide and SIH feet high.
WACO IN THE LEAD.
Eighty-five Branch Offices and Sample
Rooms of Northern Manufacturers and Iin-
pcrters have been opened in Waco by W. S.
Blacksheor & Co.
At last Texas retailers can buy at manu-
facturers' prices, and select from samples
in Waco, without going to New York, of
the following lines: Stationery, Holiday
Goods, Druggists Sundries, Glassware,
Oueensware. Tinware, Silverware, Pinsti
and Metal Goods, etc., etc.. as W. S. Black-
sheor A- Co. have over WOO Samples in their
immens-e house, and are shipping direct
from manufacturers'to their trsde. thereby
doing away with reliandling and job'*.*rs'
profit. Any man of bnsinc-a sense cau sea
how they can sell goods cheape- than
jobbers, as they work on brokerage plau
entirely. No wimples aent out on toe road,
buvers" cau go lo Wacoat a small expense
and select what they want for Xmas. No
orders taken for Holiday Goods after No-
vember lo. Prices ou Staple Goods fiir-
A SOCIAL LION.
The Serious Charges Mude Against an
Austrian Huron.
Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 27.—Quite a sensa-
tion was caused in financial aud social
circles by the filing of suils by the Alle-
gheny national and Keystone national
banks, the former for ilO.OCO and the latter
for JTUJU, against Baron .J. F. LnugerfolV,
who bas been associated with Max Scbam-
berg, the Austrian consu'au.l weil knowu
banker. Tbe papers fi'ed make very serious
charges against Baron LunRerfelt, who thev
say is now iu Europe, tiiey believe, to avoid
these suits.
In tho suit of tho Keystone bank tho alle»
gatious are that Barcn Laugcrfeit, on July
1(1 last, borrowed £700.) from tho Keystone
bank and gave as collateral 200shares of the
capital stock of the Jefferson ironworks, of
Steubenviile, Ohio, of the par value of $100
caoli, which shares ho represented to bo
goo.1, valid and subsisting shares of stock
of tho company, standing in his name ou
the books of tbu company.
J he bank, relying ou his statement*,
loaned hi in tha sum of *7000, taking the 2(H)
shares of stock ks collateral. They further
claim that smco then tho plaintiffs liavo
discovered that the certificate for 200
shares of stock is not genuine, but that it is
a forgery, uud that defendant iins not 300
shares or auy other number of sh ires in the
Jefferson iron works, and that tlie certifi-
cate is no security for the loan.
Iu the tuit of the Allegheny national
liink defendant is charged with obtaining
$10,000 Upon a certificate for 400 shares ol
the capital stock of tha Jefferson iron,
works of Steubenville, which he also
claimed vr..s good and valid stock standing
in his uamo ou the hooks of tuo .company,
but which turnod out to be a forgery. Tbo
ciiurt allowed an attachment to issue where-
by the effects and tho property of Baron
Langerfelt aro to be seized, anil fixed the
bail in one case at *14,000, and in the other
at *20,000.
The Jefferson ironworks to-dapub-
lished the fact that, it having come to tlio
knowledge of the board of directors of the
company that fraudulent certificates of
stock of the company had been circulated,
the public were warned not to purchase
any stock without first submitting it for
inspection at tho olnco of the company.
Ihe baron left for Europe on a pleasure trip
some threo weeks ngj. His frieads claim
that there is some mistake about the
matter.
His family are wealthy antl staud very
high. The biiroa has always had the es-
teem and confidcnco of the people in this
vicinity and his reputation for honesty and
fair dealing has never been questioned. He
some years ago was married to the daughter
of Mr. Doty, one of tho largest stockhold-
ers in the Jefferson ironworks. It is said
by the Jefferson Iron company people that
the baron had a large number of blank cer-
tificates printed. These he filled up in ht«
own name and signed the names of the
company's officials. Tho seR! used is also
said to be f.audulent. Baron Laugerfelt
was a tall and extremely fine looking man
and was quite a social lion here.
GAMBUN3 IN! FRANCE.
The Paris Mutual Tux Said to ho Used r.a a
Corruption Fund.
M. Albert Wolff points, says the Paris
Figaro, with great ability to all tho evil
effoctii that rfiutual betting has already had,
and foresees the thorough demoralization
of the French lower classes through it. He
knows very well that it is impossible to pre-
vent people from risking their money on
horses or cards, but he points out that, in-
stead of being checked as far as possible,
gambling on races is, in reality, uot only
placed within the reach of almost every one
in FraucA, but also receives official sanction
and encouragement by ils regulation by
government and by the 2 percent levied on
all stakes for the benefit cf the poor.
Within the last year this 3 per cent baa
amounted to several millions cf francs,
which, iu accordance with the decree, have
been placed iu the hands of the minister of
the interior. Up to tho present time the
minister has had absolute control of the
fund, and is, by his political opponents, ac-
cused of using it for political purposes. lie
has, they say, employed a portion of it in
subventions to charltab'e institutions in
towns where he imagined such gifts would
further tho political interests of tho gov-
ernment.
It appears that the minister promised
tbat two thirds of the money derived from
tho mutual betting should go to the poor of
Paris, and as M. CoustRUS failed to hand
over that sum the municipal council were
thioking of taking legal proceedings to
compel hiui to do so. When tho mutual
betting was last week discussed in the
chamber, M. Constans, in reply to an inter-
pellat'on, declared that he found the re-
sponsibility of having to dispose cf so many
millions too great, especially as there
was absolutely no parliamentary con-
trol over tho money. The chamber was
asked to decide what, for tho future, should
be dona with that pari mutual fund, which
had grown to infinitely larger proportions
than was ever anticipated when created by
M. Go let's decree two years ago. The dep-
uties did not care to decide tbe matter off-
haul, so the 3,000,(>00 or 4,000,000 francs of
which it is composed a?s to be allowed to
go on accumulating at the rate of half a
million or more a month. During ono
month of the present year tho 2 per cent on
the stakes e.ir.ouuted to over 1,000,000 francs.
What Worries the Oy3ter.
With the approach of September the
oyster Is beginning to turn uneasily in his
little bed. He is not troubled so much
because he will soon have to go where all
good oysters go as ho i-i at the thought
that in a few days about a thousand editors,
more or .e»u. will refer to hiui as a "luu-
c:ous bivalve."
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