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THE DODGE CITY TIMES
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Subscripting per year, in advance.
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KICKOLAS B. KLAINE. EDITOR.
Tin: r.niTotvB wager.
The editor wit lu his t lixir alone
A bus er person then? never was known
When In vune a farmer, n Jollv oM soul,
VV hos name for Ionr rears had been borne on
the roll
Of pytyint subcrilrs. Ha bad como Into
town
To briny hi icood wife mid some farm produce
do n.
And bating a miimrntwIffM hamuli spare
1 lad nui In um uul, in Itrtnir In a share
Of hi own luwaM sunsblmi to IwbUn tho
-lmi
Of the man of the pre and his dull cheerless
nnn.
The editor's smile, a ho lifted hi eies
And mw who wiu there, was of Joyful sur-
im-.
Ami h-k'n-cted bis Irlrnd with a ileal of glal
lest,
fora inn-lthat with him was like taklnga
rest.
whin at kmrih, tho oM farmer sot ready to
bale,
lie said, w ith n sly little laugh In his sleeve:
"31? dear frii li'l, th( relsi.iiutblng'I Just want
In far
Xow. plea, don'l s:ct xvxed, fori ou knowlt'a
nijr waj
Hut what makes yuu put In each )a(er jou
print
ho niutn that is worthless do you lake tho
bluf
Will in ity mlfo.tun'S and little misdeeds
And bits of smalt matter that noliody read
The i-lltor bioked at him square In the face.
.It first with a frown, then a smilo took its
place.
My dear frl nd." bo replied, " I'm surprised
V mi don't know
Hii-ry line in th" pajrls read but It's so:
And now, If you wlu, I mil inaku my words
Hn1,
And pro what I sav.asevery mm should.
I II put In the tiry next hoi ra Une
Or twoalioiu you In coare print or.flne,
Whichever oti chooso, and Jut where you
may say.
And If jou ibai't Ilndnn the very next itay
'ibat niir licfchlioni all read it, 1 promise to
Rive
l"roe suliscrlptlons to you as lone n j-sii live."
"Ayniil." sal I tho farmer, " you shall slntr a
new song;
lut it rlifhl In the middle of one of those
Ion jr
rine-tjlw advrtlimonts I uexcr Jitkncw
Any j rsen of M-no to read one of those
Ihrouirli:
If X biar from It twin, 1 will bring down to
you
Theltost load of fnrdtn auce loxerirrew.
Thin the "iron I days" were med, and the
firmer went our.
And Iho eitltor ljughid to I lmolf without
il.nilil.
As be thiiuvht of his wsjfcr and Iiow it would
enl.
And the nice little Joke be would bavo on hi
tilind:
Thinh" wrote Jn-t two line, nod he ordered
them set
In the sirallen of ij i thinking: - fit win
Ib.tli. I '
And be pUtied tbein blmtelf, toliuuro andnot
fail.
Inth uinUtof n doenjrate real-tate sale.
Vor. to la Ittr t-mveed In bl Utile destirci.
HeMs lectiil a lilaj whern ti jut the' llnea
Anil hale them connlvtej with what folio' ed.
and niako
A sentnee comploto in Ilelf, Without break,
lueae the lines that be wrote: 'Our old friend
(fond James True.
Who is one of the liefcl mi-n tho world cicr
knew, , w
Of the well known IIopo Kanu" that was all
that h siM
About Janioa, but tho next line below these two
read
Wlllt-e sild cry i hea!" then went onto
unfuM
The beauties and bounds of tho estato b !
Tbeierwa printed. Tho nextilor but one.
Tbelarnierenlue In, with his v est till of fun;
You bare won," he liejran, jU3t as sure as
iiu'm lMini;
AVhy, before 1 d not Iinakfat at Jestcrday
morn.
Twoorlhree nelahlMealleil, purfWwe tosee
v hat that meant iu ths SMiirr thejr fraw about
me.
(I hadu't seen It yet.) Taen, durinir the day,
Kiery neighbor ttiat met mo liud hemethiu? to
sar
About my lieins; sold. I won sold verv cheap,
Andou did it well, too; ll was too 'good to
keep:
SoIotoIJ the wholo story, and came with all
?p,"ed
To brine yon the parden saitee, as I ai,Teed.
'1 he ed.tor kHiliiNltrom hi win'biw andKdwr
1 Its f rtond bad brought in all his bor- could
draw
AH fir him; be declined to accept It, but
foun 1
That his tricn I wnuU nst listen, and was off
with a Nwind,
Paying, cheerily, as he wept out: ln your
uext
Just say JunTrue's. pmuhltur, and this is his
text
There Is naiutht in the psper f rnlt, riower or
weeds
2ot a line Ictho paper thut noldr reads,"
'rmvltUu t (It. 1 1 Jebrnal.
A Itocvut I'rtnch Comiuet in Cochin
(hitu.
TLo Tunl-liti pine U I'cing n.'ieattHl
lir Franco in a nuarjVT of tho globe so
litant 33to!ittrsc;'but little attention.
llfwntiy cin tlie news' frgitL Ilonp
Kon that the Krvpch ItaJ captorcil
Hamuli nflrr'two hours' liombnrdnient
1 or tie nocsnii! time the French are In
IoR4(ion f tho ipita! i( Tonijnin,
ap.J tins time- they will Unilonbteilly
ttav Toibjuin. or Tkinj" Kinjr, 1 one
of tlm thrve l'nivino's ot the Knipira tf
.uara. 01 C nia I'ituia, whicli slrtitcbca
aSon"; the China Sea, with the Celctial
Kmpiro to the nortn, anil tlie Kinsilom
I of biam to the west. Tonqnin is the
' most northerly of lhee jtnrrincc, ami
I lav alon tlo) Gulf of Tonijuin. llio
cuinate.is subject to .severe beat and
cohl, anil there are frequent ami In-avy
fall of rain, which cau-e ili-astrom in
iiuil'itions. lint for ail that the climate
U holefome, anil the hole region U
one of great fertility. It contains mag
nificent forests of line wooil; jinMiieei
cnilles crops of rice, cotton, ginger.
Imlian corn, "sugar-cane ami tea; and
embrace xat plantation of mul
lierry for the rearing of Rilk-vorm,
proilucing the finest article of silk;
while the earth contains rjch de
posits of gold, cilver, cojipcr ami iron.
Adjacent to Tonqnin is the French
colony of Cambodia, and for Feveral
years past the French hate lieen moving
slowly, but deliberalely. in the direction
of annexation. They bate had an ex
cuse for interfering in tho operations ol
pirates in the adjacent t-ea, and the e
jieditioii which was lilted out la-tjear
for the ostensible supjires-ion of the
pirates is about resulting, as was ex
pected, iu tho annexation of the whole
province to the French dominion in
Farther India. Hannoi, the city which
has just fallen into French hands, i the
capital of Tonqnin, and is situated on
Sank-Koi Itiver, 100 miles northwest
from its confluence with the (Julf of
Tonqnin. It is a poorly-built town of
1.W.OIJ0 inhabitants, most of tin- houses
being made of lumber and mud. lint it
i already the center of a valuable com
merce, which admits of x at det elop
ment at the hands' of the French. In
1870 31. Gamier, at the head of only
180 men, captured the citadel of Han
noi, and with two colleages practically
annexed tho whole province to the
French dominions. 31. Gamier and his
officers were assassinated, but his uc-ces-or
had almost secured the formal
ces-ion of Tonquin vv hen the arrival ot
a new Governor, 31. l'hilastre, led to a
.sudden reversal of the font ardpolicy.ani!
France contented her-elf with a treaty
with the King of Anam, signed the I6tli
of 3Iareh, IbTi, which recognized her
sovereignty over the si; province-, ul
Iower Cochin China, and established a
sort of protectorate over Anam it-elf. -This
nominal ptotectorate, however,
lias not satisfied the coloni-ts and thn-t
nt home who were interested in the
trade of Cochin China, and now the op
erations of thos convenient pirates
which hive for years dominated the
whole country aliove Hannoi have giv
en a plausible" excuse for a protectorate
that will lie found more substantial.
Tho annexation of Tonquin will place
in the possession of France the whole
eastern I'O.ist of the China Sea. which
I has many good harbors and several
' outlets for the commerce of- the region.
The 3rcikone or Cambodia, the Saigon
and the Sung-Koi are magnificent
river-. In lb-73 a French merchant
named Duptiis succeeded in ascending
tha last named stream to a point within
tho Yuntial boundary. He showed that
it was perfectly navigable, and that the
only obstacles to traversing it wen;
caused by the disturbed state of the;
country on its banks. The French will,
of cotir-e. remedy this difficulty w hen
they obtain full possession of the conn-ry-Lonilon
1'iiper. '
liltlie3IincKun campaigu of 1RC.1
Lieutenant C A. Longfellow fell, shot
f through the body, at tho side of General
,T. T. Taylor. The General left him fot
dead on the field, and for vears hai)
supposed he was dead. Hut in the ac
count of the funeral of the poet Ixingl
fellow, he noticed among the names o
tho present C. A. Iingfellovv list
WTote asking if this C. A. lngfelIo
could possibly be his old comrade of th
31ine ltun campaign. C. A. I-ongfellow
is none other than the Lieutenant Ixingj
fellow- shot dow n in a Virginia coqil
April 27, and he proposes, moreov eS
when the bitterness of his present atllio
tion shall have passed, lo visit the Ge:
cral "to talk over with his comrade tin
olden dajsof the cavalry- corps."
Chicago Inter Ocran.
The ltcv. 31r. Strettel. rector of St
3Iartin' s.Canterbury. JCngland. although
born in that country, is a lineal d-
Ljcendant of liobert Strettel, vv ho wis
3Iayor of Philadelphia about the yeir
17.V). He is now searching in "tlis
country for traces of tho family lint,
and, although he has found no kiiismai
bearing his name, he has brought to
' light i me cur.ous and interesting
documents relating to his ancestors aa!
1 the early h.story of rhihde'ph.a.
1'Inntin? Seeds Too lcj.
llany small seeds fail to germinate,
because they are planted too dtei
Kveu experienced farmers very often
make the mistake of eov ering seeds so
deeji that the plants fail to make a vig
orous growth while small, while large
numbers, who give no particular atten
tion to tho cultivation of the soil, ex
cept to plant a small garden, plant
most of their small seeds so deep that
but a x cry small jiortion, if any, germi
nate. This they do year after year,
without susjiccting the cau-c of the fail
ure, but attribute It to bad seed. If by
chance it is proved to them the seed
was good, then they fall back on the
weather, from which there is no appeal,
it being easy for them to prov e that they
planted a few days before a heavy rain,
or a very dry period, so the seed is sup-jiosc-il
to have rotted or dried up, while
their sucees-fiil neighbors arc supposed
to have planted at just the right time to
have all of the seed germinate. We are
Satisfied that if all of the facts could be
known, that ten small seeds fail to
germinate because of being planted too
deep, to one that fails to grow because
of poor quality.
When the vv cathcr is just right a seed
will find its way to the surface from a
much greater depth than vv hen it is cold
and w et, so that in a favorable season
there is not so much complaint of bad
seed as in an unfavorable season. The
gardener who plants his small seeds
veryear the surface, rarely ever fails
to have them germinate, whatever may
be the stale ot the weather.
We ought never to lo-e sight of the
fact that nature, when left to herself,
plants very near the surface. From
this it would seem that the nearer a eed
is to the surface, and obtains moisture
enough to cau-e it to grow', the more
natural is the condition. This as a rule
will secure a more healthy, if not a
more vigorous growth. A plant that
has to struggle through several inches
of earth before it finds its way to the
snrf.tic, begins life In the open air iu a
very exhausted condition, from which
it frequently takes many days to re
cov er.
One who has never tried the experi
ment will bo surprised to see the ihfTer
ence between plants from small seed-,
that are planted just deep enough toget
sufficient moisture to germinate, and
those that are planted so deep that they
have just now er enough to reach tho
surface. Ju nacliusctls lloughman.
lYhat Constitutes GooJ Fannin;.
j Formerly it was thought that eduea-
l tion was not necessiry lor a fanner
! ability to swing an ax, hold a plow,
handle a hoe, and swing a scythe lieing
all tint w as required in a good fanner.
. This opinion has given way to a more
enlightened one. At the present day it
'is conceded that a well directed use of
' brains is worth more to the fanner than
j undirected physical labor. Itoth tom-
I bined are stiH"more e3ective where the
' greatest profit is expected.
One of the many elements of success
! in farming is in keeping posted up with
I the tlnie. This in a great mca-ure mav
be obtained by reading our best agri
cultural journals, and he w ho is a elo-o
student can learn much that he can use
' to his own advantage, and at niall cost.
The habitual carelessness w Inch one
I meets with among farmers, e-pecially in
, tho matter of null things, is to be ilep
' recatcd. 3Iany things aro allotted to
go to waste tor want ot proper care.
The fanning tools are left w here last
used, expoed tothe changes of weather,
and sooner or later become Useless from
nist and decay. The natural wear is
quite an annua! tax, even vv here proper
ly cared for. Some who are looked
ujion as good practical fanners do not
give the needed aliention lo small
things, anil as a consequence a loss is
sustained. This in p-irt is ovvinj- to the
laxity in system and order which is so
essential in all kind of business.
3Iany fanners are greatly in error in
i trying to work too great a quantity of
j laud." having more than they can prop
erly improv e and cultivate. All lands
that do not y ie'd sufficient to pay for la
bor, interest and taxes, and are incapa
ble of improv cment w ith the means of
the owner (except woodland enough to
, supply the xvants of tha farm), should
j be disposed of at some price or even
j given away rather than be held at a
yearly loss, which has to como out of
the profits of the farm. This loss is
greater in most caes than the increa
ing value of the land.
leaks that should be looked to; "n con
stant dropping soon filUthe ca-k."
Large crops are'simply thercsult'of ap
plying manure, which every fanner
knows, Imt many of them fail to give it
that attention its importance demands.
Kvcn 'where latul is good, manure large
ly increases the crop. This can bo ob
tained by different methods on the farm
without resorting to costly commercial
fertilizers. All the waste"of the hou-e-hold
should he put into a vat or heap,
and deoderized by the Use of road dust,
which is cheap. "The manure from the
hen-house and privy should bo com.
posted, tho hog-ien should have vats
into which is put a liberal supply of
muck (which is found on most farms)
together with leaves and other refuse
matter to absorb the excess of liquid.
This makes a most valuable manure for
all kinds of crops, especially com. In
the cow- stable, muck is valuable as an
absorbent, and should, be used without
stint.
Prof. Slew art ays muck may be com
posted thus: Forty bushels or one
wagon load of dry muck, live bushels
of unlcached ashes, one hundred pounds
of bone Hour, one hundred pounds of
plaster, can be thrown into a heapthreo
months before uing, and fermentation
will take place. As a fertilizer he says
this is worth double that of cow ma
nure. It may alo be composted as
above, leaving out the lione Hour, and
substituting live bushels of unslaked
lime. The lime and ashes decompose
the vegetable matter, liberate the salts,
expel the acids, fitting it for plant food.
One pint or more in a hill giv es a v ig
orotis start to corn or potatoes. A few
bushels of hen manure added increase
its value, as I hav e known, for I hav o
witnessed its good effects. This extra
quantity of manure can be applied to
some tMior knolly and weedy pasture,
the sod turned over, leveled "and pul-
venzed. and tlie land cultivated in lioeil
crops till well subdued, then seeded
down. The same ground which pro
duced little or nothing is now y ielding
from livetotcn dollars per acre, above
cost. This plan strictly carried out for
a few years converts the non-paying
land into a profitable fami. Thissurplus
profit the owner can use at discretion
(if out of debt) in making improvements
or ornamenting and beautifying his
grounds, and rendering the home mora
cheerful and attractive. Cor. Country
Gcnthman.
Male an Asparagus I!cd.
Asparagus is as easily raised as any
thing that grows in the garden, and yet
it is comparatively rare to find it upon
the farmer's table. The reason may be
that much nonsense has been published
about the difficulties of raising it, and
that we have to wait two or three years
for the full maturity of tho plant. " It is
tnie that a full crop will not be given
in less than three years, but when the
bed is once made, the job is done for a
doren or twenty year.. If made this
spring, there will be one xear the less
to wait. Any good, well-drained soil
that vv ill bear com is suitable for aspar
agus, mi m a naii-coni ot manure to
every four square rods of gronnd.
Work it in thoroughly. Sot out one-year-old
plants, in rows four feet apart,
and two lect in the row. They can bo
kept clean then with the harrow or cul
tiv ator. It should hav e cultivation once
in two weeks, through the growing sea
son. Cover the beds with manure in
the fall, and fork it under in the spring.
Cultivate thoroughly through the second
season and top-dress as before. Tlie
second se.ton a few stalks may be cut in
April and 3Iay, but there should be no
close cutting" until the third year, and
this should not be continued later than
the middle of June. The plants must
have time to grow, and recuperate in
midsummer, or the bed will soon fail.
The secret of large, line asparagus is
abundant manure, applied in the fall
every sea-on, thorough cultivation until
the tons prevent, and stopping the cut
ting liy the middle of June. The
blanched asparagus that is so popular
in some markets, is secured by cover
ing the beds with sea-weed, straw or
other mulch. It is poor stuff in oom
parison with the long, green, tender
shoots that have had the full lienefit of
the sunlight on a rich soil. American
AyncuUuniL
Not long before the death of Di.
Holland he wrote to a young correspon
dent: "A literary life "is a hard and dif
ficult one: look w til before ton choose-
There are other, a life so full of difficulty."
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