The Lebanon Journal from Lebanon, Kansas • 7

FARM AND GARDEN. ABOUT THE 0AMPFIRE taken ttom the field and put to work on the house. One day a friendly conversation took place between Epps and Bass on the right of ont man's holding another in bondage. In answer to a remark made by Epps, to the effect that a "nigjpr" was no more than a bright baboon, Bass said; "If they are baboons, or stand no Wgher in the scale of intelligence then such animals, you and men like you will have to answer for it There is a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation that will not go unpunished forever. There will be a reckoning yet Yes, Epps, there's a day coming that will burn as an oven.

It may be sooner or it. may be later, but it's coming as sure as the Lord is just" National Tribune. as such a yield was not expected. No potatoes were planted on the ground irrigatod, and the result was that a certain proportion of the stuff went to waste because it was not adapted to the needs of the local market. The yield of cabbage was from a measured fourth of an acre or at the rate of $040 per acre.

None weighed less than seven pounds, several weighed over fourteen pounds, and all were of the finest quality, crisp and solid. The cash value of the half acre's product will supply Mr. Cramblett's family with groceries for an entire year, and as the product was net, there being no extra in wheat, the profit equaled that of eighty acres of wheat in an average year at the present price. Next year Mr. Cramblett expects to irrigate with the same plant, an acre, and will devote it more exclusively to marketable vegetables and it can not be doubted from his success this year that his living is insured from that irrigated acre.

Number two is Mr. V. D. Billings, living one mile north of Kinsley. He used an eight-inch cylinder pump with a twelve-foot geared mill.

The plant Yellow FoitalL Of this plant the South Pakota station says: The botanical came is Setaria Glauca. Stems erect, from an annual root, simple or branched at the base, 1H to 23 feet high; leaves flat, long, roughish ornearly smooth; spike erect, rigid, cylindrical, 2 to 4 inches long, tawny yellow; bristles six to ten in a cluster, longer than the epikelets; flowering glume transversely wrinkled. This is a native of the Old World. It has been introduced into a large part of South Dakota. Its tawny-yellow spikes serve to distinguish it from the other species of the genus.

Like the Green Foxtail it is a troublesome weed, though it may be made to render some service as a forage plant. Though an annual, it produces many Beeds, and is such a vigorous grower that it is difficult to rid a field of it when once well started. It is, perhaps, most troublesome as a weed in small grains and grasses raised for seed. Care should be taken in buying grass seed, particularly timothy, as foxtail is often present in greater or less quantities. A specimen analyzed as follows air dry KANSAS.

MATTERS. Cherokee county spent $918 fo Jurors during the month of January. A devotee of solitaire in Abilene has quit the game until after, the grand jury meets. Snow has been on the ground of Western Central Kansas coitinuously since Christmas. When only five tramps sleep in the Arkansas City jail the hobo trade is considered dull.

Mr. Model, who advised the people of Hiawatha to talk less and do more, squared his name. To be a real sport in Coffeyville you must not bet dollars, doughnuts' or cigars, but baby buggies. "Tacky parties" are becoming so popular in Western Kansas that they are used for wedding receptions. Baxter Springs has.

a new opera house and is ready for anything from 'Alvin Joslyn" to Beerbohm Tree. Railroad Commissioner T. Howe, has an article giving facts and figures against resubmission in the Agora. "We Never Speak as We Pass By," was among the "war songs" illustrated at a Topeka entertainment recently. Mrs.

John J. Ingalls is said, by the Globe to be one of the best cooks in Atchison. But John doesn't show it under his vest Washington people captured quite a number of first prizes at the Republic county poultry club exhibit in Belleville recently. There is a photographer's war in Abilene and a lot of the prettiest girls in the world should form a corps to relieve the wounded. Citizens of Independence want the legislature to pass an enabling act so that the city may purchase and run the water works plant.

A Lawrence young man who once went away and remained six j'ears without letting anyone know where be was is again missing. The Presbyterian church in Hutchinson has among cho members of its ladies' society four sisters whose aggregate age is 243 years. One of the boarders in the Lvon MATTERS OF INTEREST AGRICULTURISTS. TO Borne t'p to Date Hints Abont Cultivation of the Soil and Yields Thereof Horticulture, Viticulture aud Floriculture. Hone Radish.

A New Jersey correspondent of the Practical Farmer writes as follows: We always use our best land, that has been brought up to the market garden standard fertility. Horse radish is a second crop, always following early, cabbage and early beets. We plant early cabbages in rows thirty inches apart. From May 1 to May 15 we plant our radishes between the rows of cabbage or beets as the case may be. The horse radish sets are the rootlets broken from the main plant A man with a light crowbar walks between the rows of cabbage, and in the center between the plant rows, makes holes with the bar, twelve or fifteen inches apart.

A boy with a basket of sets follows and drops one set in each hole. The set must be two or three inches below the surface. It will then not come up too quickly. After dropping the set, the boy puts some soil on the set with his foot, and passes on to the next hole until the work is done. Now, we take good care of the cabbage, but don't think anything about the radish and cultivate the cabbages, and help them along all we can, in order to get them off the ground as Boon as possible.

By July 5 we try to have the ground clear of all cabbages. Now we look after the radish. It may be two to four inches high by this time. Of course it has often been cut off with a hoe before the cabbage is out of the way. This does not discourage the radish, as it should make its growth during August and September.

All we do now is to run the cultivator through the radish and stir the ground as deep as possible. To cultivate three times is all the work needed. It grows fast and beautifully. Last season our radish was five feet high, and so thick it was difficult to walk through it. Good land, good radish; poor land, poor radish.

Horse radish must be gathered and marketed the same year. After it is one year old it is of little value. A friend came to us and told ns that he had plenty of horse radish growing all over his farm. We gave him a card to a commission man in New York, who was selling our radish for seven cents a pound. Our friend sent one barrel, and when he got his returns they wero 50 cents for the barrel.

The season for selling horse radish is from Oct. 1 to April 15 with us. We dig the radish With grubbing hoe, taking out several bushels at a time, and take it to the work house, where we let a boy break off all the small roots from the main root. Those that are from one eighth to one half inch in diameter are used for sets. They are cut about six inches long and the lower end cut slanting.

In planting this end is put down. When the sets are trimmed they are tied in bundles of twenty-five and packed in bushel crates, 1,000 in a crate, first a layer of sets and then a layer of sand, so they won't heat. The crates are placed in a cool, dry place, where they remain until wanted in spring for planting or for sale at $4.00 per thousand. The main root of a good radish will average three fourths of a pound. This we sell not by commission but from our own wagon, that goes every day with vegetables.

The radish is first washed in a large tub; then the outside is scraped off until it is clean and free from black spots. We use a Douglas grater, and with this a boy can grate sixty gallons in ten hours. To the grated radish we add a small quantity of vinegar, and then put it in bot-les and cork it, using mostly six ounces, horse radish bottles, and selling for 10 cents each, or to stores at $1 per dozen; one quart, 25 cents; one pound, 7 cents in the root. This is our second year growing horse radish, and we are much pleased with the crop. It is the only crop not affected this year by dry weather.

We are sure it will average 8050 per acre at the rate we 6ell it. We have one third of an acre and will sell $225 worth this year. Wind Mill Irrigation. At the last irrigation convention in Kansas one of the speakers gave two illustrations of what may be done by wind mills in irrigation. said: The first is that of Mr.

J. M. Cram-blett living twenty miles southwest of Kinsley. His plant consists of an ordinary stock pump with three inch cylinder and a direct stroke wooden wind milL The lift is twenty-eight feet. In addition to the irrigating that was done, the pump supplied water for over 100 head of stock.

He irrigated a half acre, the soil of which is very sandy, so much so that in dry weather it shows a strong tendency to drift, but the subsoil is well adapted to irrigation. He used the furrow system entirely and the actual work of irrigation was done by a girl 12 years old. The water accumulated in two large stock tanks and the irrigation was done early in the morning and late in the evening. Mr. Cramblett had had no previous experience in irrigation and his success justifies the belief that every intelligent farmer who possesses a wind mill may insure his family against crop failure if he will follow this example.

The yield from the half acre, actual measurement, was, tomatoes 100 bushels, worth $40, cabbage 8,000 pounds worth $100, and lettuce, onions, parsnips, beets and other vegetable, ntfficlent to Bupply the entire neighborhood. No particular attention was paid to raising vegetables especially for market, TRUTHFUL TALES TOLD THE VETERANS. BY The Johnny Who Wanted to See Ills Girl Major General MoCook and the Scout Our Battle Flans Lincoln's Joke ou Seward A Lost Sword. A Truthfnl Southerner. "A funny war incident occurred down there," said John W.

Woodruff, pointing-downward from the Forsyth street bridge to the track running between the bridge and the National hotel. "When Forrest captured Colonel Streight's raiders at Rome they were brought to Atlanta in box cars and were switched off on that track. As Forrest's men had to return to Rome, a detail from Major Leyden's artillery, then in camp here, was 6ent down to guard the prisoners. I was a member of the company, and the facts in the case are fresh in my recollection yet. The doors on one side of the cars remained locked, and the doors on the other side were open.

In front of each of these doors one of Leyden's men stood on guard. "Everything went on smoothly until the relief came around after dark. The officer in charge of the relief squad found, to his astonishment, that one of the cars was guarded by a Yankee with a musket" "Hello! What does this mean?" asked thejofficer. "Oh, it's all right," replied the Yankee; "the young man on duty here wanted to go and see his girl, and he promised me his rations if I would take his place till he came back." We took Mr. Yank's musket from him and made him enter the car, and stationed one of our men at the door.

The fellow had told the truth, as wa found out when the absent guard relumed. The youngster was fresh and knew nothing about soldiering. He saw no harm in slipping off to see his girl, and as luck would have it, he had picked out a prisoner who was a of his word. "Our comrade would have been severely punished if his case had been reported, but the boys enjoyed the joke so much that they kept it from Major Leyden until it was safe to let it be known. wouldn't that Yankee and his friend, the Confederate, have a jolly xime li tney could meet at some re union oi the blue and gray? If they are Dotn living they ought to get to- gemer.

Atlanta Constitution. General McCook and the Scout. Several months ago General McCook paid a visit to Santa Fe with some railway officials. On arriving- at San lane jus nrsi inquiry was for one Lucian Stewart He was told that Stewart was in the hospital awaiting aeatn irom old age. "Then he may die to-nip-ht.

and will see him first," the general quietly remarked. And then, with his aid, he went directly to the hnsnit.n.1 and was quickly by the cot of the old man. "Stewart, don't vou know me1)" ha inquired in a tender way, at the same nme extending his hand. Stewart did not reply for fully one minute, an tne time holding the gen-eral's hand and scanning his fpatnma At last a ray of light broke over his countenance, and with a smile he said: "Yes. I remember von v.

are the younsr lieutenant who smoked before breakfast." 1 Here the two broke into a laugh, the heartiest laugh, perhaps, the old invalid had enjoyed for a decade. Stewart had been the chief of scouts when, forty years ago, McCook was fighting Apaches on the frontier. The general had not seen him since that war, but showed his deep regard for his old friends by remembering so humble a comrade. The remark of the old scout referred to a time when McCook, then a lieu tenant, and a detail under Colonel St. Vrain were chasing the Apaches.

They had 6truck a hot trail, and had been on it thirty-six hours without food. Fearing to wait to prepare a meal, for every minute was then precious, so close was the trail, Colonel St. Vrain determined to keep on the march. Realizing the condition of his men and officers, he had given permission for the men to partake of such rations as they could in the saddle, and turning to his lieutenant he remarked: "McCook, have a cigar?" "No, thank you, sir," was the quick response. "I never smoke before breakfast." Harper's Weekly.

Bayou lioeuf. I have an old book entitled "Twelve Years a Slave," narrative of Solomon Northup, a colored citizen of New York, who was kidnaped in Washington, D. in 1841, and was rescued in 1853 from a cotton plantation on Bayou Boeuf (pronounced Byo Bef), La. Soon after the war I met a number of returned soldiers who were with Bangs on his Red river expedition, who told me of having read the book at the time it was published (in 1854), and who had visited the plantation of Edwin Epps, where Northup, or Piatt, as he was known as a slave, passed years of his life. They told of seeing and talking with his former slave comrades, whose names were Uncle Abram, Wiley, Aunt Phoebe, Patsy, Bob, Henry and Edward.

A man by the name of Bass, one of the characters in the book, the one who, by the way, was instrumental in Northup's obtaining his freedom, in talking with Epps uttered a prophecy which was fulfilled sooner than anyone at that time realized it would be. Bass was a carpenter, who was at work on Epps' new house, and as "Piatt" was handy with tools he was Lincoln's Joke on Seward. The First corps, commanded by General Reynolds, was reviewed by the president on a beautiful plain at the north of Potomac creek, about eight miles from Hooker's headquarters. We rode thither in an ambulance over a rough corduroy road; and, as we passed over some of the more difficult portions of the jolting way, the ambulance driver, who sat well in front, occasionally let fly a volley of suppressed oaths at his wild team of six mules. Finally, Mr.

Lincoln, leaning forward, touched the man on the shoulder, and said; "Excuse me, my friend, are you an Episcopalian?" The man, greatly startled, looked around and replied: "No, Mr. President; I am a Methodist" "Well," said Lincoln, "I thought you must be an Episcopalian, because you swear just like Governor Seward, who is a church-warden." The driver swore no more-. Cen- tury. Cur Battle Flags. Nothtn? but flags but simple flags.

Tattered and torn, hangin? In rags: We walk beneath with careless tread, Nor think of hosts of mighty dead Who've trod beneath in days gone by, With burnin? cheek and eajer eye. And bathed the folds in life's red tide, And dying blessed, and blessing, died. Nothing but fla-js they're bathed in tears; They tell of triumphs, hopes and fears. Of mother's prayers for boy away, That he return some coming day. Silent, they spoak, and tears will start; We see them now with aching heart, And think of those whrf re ne'er forgot: Their flags came home why come they not? Nothing but We hold our breath And view with awe those types of death.

Nothing but flags, yet thoughts will come, Tho hert matt pray, though lips be dumb! Thoy're Sacred, pure wc sea no stain On those loved flags, come home again; Baptized in blood, our pursst, best, Tattered and torn, they're now at rest The 13th Mich. Battery. In January, 1S04, at Grand Rapids, this battery was organized to serve three years. Callahan H. O'Ri-ordan was chosen captain.

He resigned June 10 of the same year. Charles Dupont succeeded him and was in command at muster out July, 1805. On February 7. the regiment left the state, going to Washington, D. where it was stationed until May 14, when it was ordered to Fort Slemmer, D.

C. It took part in the battle of Fort Stevens, and assisted in suppressing the guerrillas in Maryland. Two of the conspirators engaged in the assassination of Lincoln were arrested by this battery. No men from this battery were killed in action, but several died of disease. Drummer Hoy Israel Trask.

A Boston man has discovered that a big rock at Castine marks the historic achievement of an' ancestor. It is the rock behind which Drummer Boy Israel Trask stood and beat the rat-a-plan when the homespun American army swept up the cliff under the guns of old Fort George. Trask's captain leaped upon the rock and fell dead beside the bov. Dierced hv a British bullet Still the rattle of the drum went courageously on. The Boston man, who has discovered that Israel Trask was his ancestor, has had the big rock photographed from every point of observation, spends his summers at Castine and sits upon the bowlder for hours every day.

Lewis-ton Journal. A Conruslou of Terms. I notice the soldier boys often write of little incidents that occurred dur ing the war. While officer of the guard and going the rounds one dark night while on duty in the Shenandoah valley under General Phil Sheridan, the orders were very strict and the countersign was not used, but everyone passing was required to be recognized. On advancing to the outer posts we were accosted and ordered to halt, advance and be 'Tecon-ciled." The good Irish soldier on guard got the words "recognized" and "reconciled" somewhat mixed.

We were only too glad, under the circumstances, to become "reconciled" and sro in peace. A Lost Sworit Wanted. I. C. Nelson, Captain, Co.

89th Ohio, 554 Montrose Boulevard, Chicago, 111., writes: "At the battle of Chickamauga on the 20th of September, 1863, my sword, temporarily in use of my Second Lieutenant John V. Baird, was, with him, captured at the battle of Mission Ridge. Two months after the sword was recaptured, and for a time was in the possession of some member of the G5th Ohio. I made an effort to recover it, but have failed. The mark on one of the bands of the scabbard was: 'I.

C. Nelson, Co. 89th I would be very much obliged to any comrade putting me in the way of recovering it." South America has the largest un broken extent of level surface of any country in the world. The llanos of the Orinoco are so flat that the motion of the rivers can scarcely be detected over an area of 200,000 square miles. This is a sign out on Sedp-wick street, Chicago: "Clothing made to fit YELLOW FOXTAIL.

FROM FARMERS' REVIEW, county jail was so unpopular that his fellow prisoners offered to work extra to get him out sooner. They claim that actresses who go to Topeka go to sleep before the curtain rises and do their tvtrus as. sonn-nambulists. Kansas. City Star.

It is stated that there is to be a double wedding in Lawrence in April, The proprieties should be observed by making it the first of April. While the men of Great Bsnd stood around looking at the clouds the women put on their hats and got up a show that gave $40 to the needy. The people of Abilene are the only people on earth who publish cards the newspapers announcing that they have withdrawn from the church. Atchison has some bogus Nebraska sufferers who bring in and sell by the wagonload for cash goods that have been contributed by charitable people for their relief. The Abilene high school gets oat a better printed, better written, more L-aremuy edited than comes from any other educational institution in Kansas.

Ed Howe says: "Why is it wrong for a boy to go swimming on a hot Sunday afternoon in summer? Because his mother, who does not want to go swimming, says so." Doniphan county farmers believe there is an organized effort being made to spread hog cholera in the vicinity, and are actively searching for the scoundrel engaged in it. A soldier at Fort Riley while sandpapering a gun barrel got some of the tilings in his eye. He is very proud of it because it gives him the "steel gray eye" soldiers have in novels. Salina has decided to have a biff agricultural fair this fall, and repre sentativa business men have taken hold of the arrangements with the. determination to make it a great success.

A college of Emporia vouna- man is gathering statistics for' a lecture on Young Women." ne will find mor people who have experiential data on the subject than people who care to ten it. A Salina society girl, who belongs to the "Magazine club," spurned with scorn a literary snob from Abilene who affected to think that she didn't know that Mr. Benjamin Bolt wrote "Trilby." Farm property seems to be in good demand in the vicinity of MorrilL Several sales were "made lately, among them a thirty-acre place for 81,800, and another of thirty-eight acres for $3,000. One postal clerk running on the Santa Fe from Independence to Kansas City, says that he himself handled 1,000 letters last week addressed to Edna Brown, the canceled stamp crank of Kaneville, 111. Baxter Springs shipped out 1,742 cars of grain, hay and stock over one road alone during 1894, and the business men think they are certainly entitled to better shipping facilities than are now furnished them.

The dead body of Tell HilL a former citizen of Severy, was found in a lake in Minnesota not loner asro. He had been camping near there. The affair Is shrouded in mystery, but it is believed he was murdered and thrown Into the lake. The Kansas house of representa tives has had three speakers younger than LobdelL P. B.

Plumb in '67, who was 29, Jake Stotler, in '65, who was 31, and Josiah Kellogg, who was elected to his second term at 32. Since Denman Thompson has ceased playing "Uncle Josh Whitcomb," and has practically left the stage, the public generally will be delighted to earn that the Doniphan dramatic club has jumped into the breach and the good work will go on. They tried "Uncle Josh" on Severance and got tway without personal injury. A new hardware establishment. With a floor space Of ll.OOO snnarn feet and a stock equal to any in Kan Bas, together with preparations fo the erection of a big brick livery barn, and other projected improve ments are among the evidences that teud to confirm Junction City in th was not installed till the 9th day of June, after his crop had begun to suffer for water.

There was no time to make a pond, as the immediate need of the water was too great to waste in puddling a pond. Ho was compelled to irrigate directly from the pump.but his soil is rather stiff and well adapted to irrigation by the furrow system which he used. It is perhaps too early to say that winter irrigation will be a success in Kansas, but it is certain that in his case the soil required three times the amount of water that would have been necessary if he could have flooded it early before his crop was in. He was only able to irrigate about one acre and a quarter, which was planted to potatoes and cabbage, and he was greatly hampered in his operations by frequent breakages in his mill and pump, two of which, occurring at the most critical time, shortened his yield considerably. From this acre and a quarter he has sold $300 worth of potatoes, $100 worth of cabbage, besides a full supply for his own family.

The cost of his plant was $150. Owing to the condition of the soil, the late hour at which he began, and delays from breaking down, he came nearer failure than any of our irrigators, but yet he has paid for his plant and has more cash to show for his summer work than any dry farmer in the country, no matter how large his operations may be. America has many educational institutions of which she may be proud. Prominent among them, and probably the leader of them all, is Harvard. Its steady growth continues to keep it at the head of the list.

In the college there are now 1,667 students, in the scientific school 308, in the graduated school 258, in the divinity school 50, in the law school 404, in the medical school 454, in the dental school 80, in the school of veterinary medicine 62, in the Bussey institution 12. In the whole university there were last year 3,156 students; this year there are 3,290. In these numbers the students in the summer school are not included. There were of them last year 346; this year 493. With the increase in the number of students there is also an increase in the number of teachers.

Last year there were 332 teachers; this year there are 337. substance: Water, 8.17; ash, 13.40; ether extract, 1.88; crude 31.25; crude protein, 10.53; nitrogen free extract, 34.77; total nitrogen, 1.69; al buminoid nitrogen, 1. 11. Census statistics show that in Michigan, at the date of the investigation into the subject of ownership and debt, 17.01 per cent of the farm families hired and 82.99 per cent owned the farms cultivated by them, and that 39.45 per cent of the farm owning families owned subject to incumbrance, and 50.65 per cent owned free incumbrance. On the owned farms there were liens amounting to which was 33.38 per cent of their value, and this debt bore interest at the average rate of 7.10 per cent, making the average annual interest charge $63 to each family.

Each owned and incumbered farm, on the average, was worth $3,748, and was subject to a debt of $890. The corresponding facts for homes were that 49.51 per cent of the home families hired and 50.49 per cent owned their homes, and that of the home owning families 67.75 per cent owned free of incumbrance and 32.25 per cent with incumbrance. The debt on owned homes aggregated or 34. 50 per cent of their value, and bore interest at the rate of 7.18 cent. The annual interest for each home averaged $46.

Diversified Fabmino. It is a great 1 gain that the attention of the twnnla in all parts of the country is being called to the absurd results of their failure to diversify agricultural industry. The state of Washington, it is said, paid out last year $6,500,000 for pork and $6,000,000 for dairy products brought into the state from outside. Oregon paid out a great deal more for imports of the same commodities. In the south they are changing their system rapidly, considering the slowness of new ideas to make their way in that section as a rule.

South Carolina doubled her corn crop this year, and the gain in Mississippi was 10,000,000 bushels, in Arkansas 6,000,000 and in Texas 8,000,000 bushels. All these are instances of a beginning of the attempt to adapt production to the needs of the immediate market. It is the most extraordinary thing in the world, explicable only by the absence of general information, that this was Bpji done tears ago. Ex. lean people, same as if they wu fat" ue no i pm things are looking up..