Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 29, 1890, Page 5

| ? s ~=much better to have the cities built in the "THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELER, Real Meaning of the ! Familiar Phrase “Only One Per Oont.” THE ROMANCE:OF A QUEER CHARACTER. Blany Peonliaritios Explained Afier His - Death—Various Teasons for Businessef's Admiration for Himself. Bad debts are Inevitable wherever business fs conducted upon the credit system, says the merican Grocer. That system may, in ime, be overthrown in the retail trade, but the chances are thatit will exist long after Yhe present readers of trade joarnals are reud. ‘There are many points fn its favor, hut the one which finds expression at the hiead of this article must not b considered. Yet there are thousands of retailers who are coutvntad with thelrsystem of credits because Josses from buddebts “aro only 1 per cent.” We are frequently asked if this is too large, tnd unnesitatingly reply—Yes! It is fully one-cighth of the net profit of a weli conduct- ed retail business, and is a burdensome tax arnings. Many are contented so as the year's showing indi- no greater loss, congratu- Jatirig themselves that only $1 out of every $100 credited is lost. If rotaflers would figuro the per cont of loss on the net earnings rather than on the volume of credits, they would find that their loss of **only 1 per cent” has increased to 10 or 15 per cent of the roeward of their year's labor. Tuke, for instauce, a business of $30,000 per Bunum, with gross protits equivatent to16 per cent on the cost of the goods, This would yesult in a net profit of about §%,000, provided store oxpenses were not over § per cent. A Yoss of “‘only i por cent” means 15 per cent of the net profit. Is not this, then, a serious mattort In our conversation with tradesmen we hear frequent complaints about the amount ticd up in credits. All mention a cluss Who, to give ono dealer’s expression, ‘‘pay on account and trade $10.” ' There s a fear which almost amounts to com- mercial cowardice, that if such an account is checked or stopped 4t involves a loss of the ntire credit. Rather than take that risk, ‘om, Dick and Harry are permitted to trade and pay on_account, doing itina m that keeps the balances steadily g Jarger, It is the exception when such an ac- ount is desivable, Sooner or later the most of such customers leave the retailer in the Jurch. As a goneral rule no such credit Bhould be extenaed, unless to a party of re- sponsibility and holding title to real estato, Know your customers thoroughly before extending an account, and, far *belter, find ut all about them before granting -credit. tender bills promptly and make it the rule that all accounts shall bo settled at least bnce a month, and in case ot _delay close the gccount. Better loso a few customers through being over careful than to pass to profit and loss n consider- able sum, A credit business should be kept as closc as possible to the.line of sharp cash. Caterto the good payers and weed out the slow and. riskcy patrons. Do not lositdte hrough fear of giving offense. Money is a 1, and if tied up in accounts lessons the eMMcioncy of the merchant, robs him of oppor- tunities for bargains and desirable purchases, lessens his powers of expansion, robs him of confidence in himself, sets him to shunning t.nd making excuses with his creditors, That a great deal of mischief for ouly “1 por cent" to accomplish, and excuse enough for our opinion that such an annual leak is too great for the permanoncy of & well regulated Yetall store. “To My Ow tate." He was the queerest specimen I ever met o all the years I have traveled, and as imper- lous to influences that effect ordinary humanity as a duck’s coat Is to water, said a knight or the road in speaking of the recent deathof a fellow drummer. Murders and socidents occurred; great calamities startlod the world and yet ho was not shaken; that which excited most men produced no percep- tible effect on him. He was of good habits ond friendly with all ho met; yes, he formed 0 close friendships and no man was the yecipioat of his closo secrets. He changed often and very frequently I found him pot only with anew house but an entirely new line of goods. It was not incapacity that led to these froquent changes, for he was the very contrary of incompetency. It may have been that with him, variety was the curtain that shut out memorios of long ago. His eyes seemed open toall the E:}:tlcs of nature and tho noble things of fo; yot ho saw with the sight of the sonam- t,and no deep impressions were made by the beautiful and grand. He might have been likened to the flint found on_the sea shore, showing no marks of the violence that has meelgx course and dotermined its place in the ‘world. This man who was always changing seemod unchangablo himself, Never grave or £ never nlleddln‘g a tear or vent to m n{, tever enthusiastic or excited, his ac- quaintances pronounced him ' “queer,” and ofton wondered ‘what mauner of man is this.” Finally, ina faraway south- ern city he sickened ' and died—died very much as he had lived, There was no raging delirium or agony of pain, simply a fading of faculty after mcuu{’, until strange hands folded his across his breast and strange men invoiced his effects. A lifo insurance policy was found made payable to ‘‘my own estate,” and when to this was added a little lock of nut-brown hair and a bundlo of oft-read and time-yellowed love letters, the inventory was complete and the life secret of this “queer” traveling man has been eloquently told. The Journal of Ivan Businesseff. December 4—Yosterday at 1 o'clock 1 left Podunk, the metropolis, and came here into the country for my vacation. The ride in the cars was incontestably desirable, but in- excusably tivesome, It is strange the country 1s always so far from the city. It would be country, o one would not have so far to go. T am stopping with a farmer—an honest. man and well-to-do. The house has but one story, small with a large and ill-kept garaen. Cows and horses are in the barn. A road runs past the houso in the front, I have been amusing myself by talking to tho people who go along the ruad. Ouo very tall, raw:boned fellow had @& quoer looking thing on his head. What should have been the rim was hrosd and ir- regularly droopiyg in different parts, and what was in the place'of a crown was pointed ot thetop. It was made of straw and I sang out, “Where did you vet that hat!” But the fellow looked at me sullenly and stalked along in silence, never saying a word. There was another arrivala hittlo while #go—a dude from Philadelphia, He brought & rod ana a fish basket with him and he wears glasses. He is said to be stupid, but ho con- verses on two subject, the opera and the dress, He don't know much about business affairs, romised myself I would be silent on this subject, fearing to embarras him. But at dinner I forgot myself, 1 had my new tennis blazer on and 1 felt particularly well, Tspoke about tho recent rise in stocks, the flurry in Wall street, the break in the 'west ~hound freights, and the rOS pec- tive earnings 'of the railroads for the year, ~ I ~ mentioned the suc- cess of the English syndicates in buying up good American industries, the wonderful rwnu of the telephone companies, and out- ned I a fow choice sentences the course of our South American trade during the past fow years. ‘1 touched upon the Flnporl.uum of Ml?m\'lly with Cauada and the desira- bility of ocean cables i the Pacifie, the sawe A8 mow exist in the Atlantie, I figures of our exports of petroloum to China and Japan, aud incidentally praised the Standard oll company as being hr unmised blessing to humanity in general and to the people of the far east in particular. In aue kwer to a question put to me by th local doctor, qwlm hlp‘;-“ w llapy Ml: gave the today, [ wsald 1 thought boys of the present day knew a groat deal more than the men of a previous generation. He looked s tnough ho would have arguod the point with me, but I did not propose to give him any advaniage, and 8o I continued without pause, I explained why agriculture does not pay as well ns it did formerly, and showed why the clties are gaining in populatiom at a much moro rapid rate than the country dis- tricts, In similar manner [ demonstrated the principles of 1ife insurance and endow- ments nml";mmml out tho difference between local savings banks and national bullding as- sociations, All were charmed with my talk and lis- tened mostattentively. The honest old farmer, who sat at the table in his shirtsleeves, made herole efforts to conceal his pride in me and his admiration for my blazer, which is more showy than any garments he ever wore, His wife cried out that I was aston- ishing and that there was nothing inthe world of which I could not speak and no sub- ject of conversation where T was not at my ease, and f0_young, too—only a litue past fif- teen years, and only in business a short time, When she had sald this 1 felt the greatest admiration for myseif. Prominent clergymen, physicians and all classes of citizens ‘are unanimous in the en- dorsoment of Salvation Oll, the greatest cure of rheumatism, Nogreater guarantee of the excellence of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup could be furnished than that it is recommended by all the lead- ing drugglsts. A DANG i — LROUS TRIO, Their Arrest Prevents a Wholesale Raid on Omaba Safes, Frank Rogers, John Clark aud John Cabe ave booked at the police station as suspicious characters, T'his charge covers a multitude of sins, In this case the prisoners belong to a notorious gang of *'strong-box” men and are among the most dangerous safe blowers in the country. They have just beey released from the Jeffer- son City, Mo, penitentiary, where they served @ term of two yearsand a half for blowing a safe 1 St. Joe. Jack Scott, alias “Sketck the fourth member of the gang, died in prison at Jefferson City about a mounth ago, The prisoners are not unknown to the Omaha police, who have had some ex- citing tussles with them on former occasions. During fair week, in September, 1556, Rogers, who has been arrested here under the aliases of Krank Williams and Frank Adams, and a partner named Taylor, at- tempted to rob a man in broad daylight at the corner of Tenth and Leavenworth, Detective Haze, who was then the patrolman on that beat, attempted to arrest them, when both drew their guns and ovened firo, They were captured, however, and bound over to the district court. The prosecuting witness failed to appear and they were discharged by ajury. They were rearrested and were each flued $50 and scutenced to sixty days in jail for carrying concealed weapons, but their at- torney got them out on a writ of error. The gang keptout of sight until the follow- ing Juulary, when Captain Mos- tyn and Sergeant Ormsby ar- rested Rogers, Yorkle _ Carroll and Clark, whose right name is Johnny Murray, in a wine room Lew Hibven's place. Shooting irons were drawn, but the oflicers got the drop, and the crooks again went be- hind the bars for a short time, Shortly after their rolease they burglarized and blew the safe st 1 s' steam laundry, Beal & Behrus' store at Tenth and Dodge and a hide store at Twelfth and Jackson. The night following the blowing of Beal & Bebrns' safe Captain Cormack arrested Scott at the foot of Bnuglt\s street, No weapon was found on bim and the officer started with the pris- oner for the station. Scott had a revolver slipped up his sleeve, and on going & couple of blocks opened tire on his captor. One bul- let passed through Cormack’s ers and another cut & _ hole through his coat. Ho returned the fire and Scott ran toward the river and escaped. It was subsequently learned that he was shot through the leg, and he was har- bored by Victoria Howell, a colored woman, until he recovered. The three men were arrcsted yesterday morning by Detectives Harrigan and Ellis, and were found at a place kept by the Howell woman at 1217 Vinton strest, where they were keeping out of sight as much as po's sible. They arrived in the city last Monday and were planning a wholesaleraid on Omaha strong boxes. So far as known they had not commenced operations, and tho alertness of the police has frustrated their schemes. At the time of his arrest in 1887, Rogers made an attempt to escape wom the old city jail at Sixtcenth and Farnam. The ceiling was of twodinch hard pine, and he had cut, a ten-inch hole through it when discovered by the jailer, who at that time was Sargeant Sigwart. The tool with whichhe did the cutting was a small penknife, The authorities will not allow the gunf to stay in Omaha unless it is in Jail, and if no charge will hold them they will be railroaded to other tields. trous- I L Burdock Blood Bitters taken after eating will relieve any feeliug of weight or over full- ness of the stomach. Sold everywhere, —_—— Dr.Birney. nose andthroat.Bee bldg, e No New City will be started during the next quartor of a century offering such grand oppor- tuuities for investments as Aransas Harbor, Texas, il bl +Under the Motor Wheels, Thomas Smilos, who resides at the corner of Eleventh and Leavenworth, met with a painful accident yesterday afternoon while alighting from a car at tho corner of Twenty- second and Leavenworth, His foot caught on the step and he was thrown violently to the ground, and the wheels of the trailor passed over his foot. He was removed to his home and a surgeon dressed the wound, He will not loso the use of the injured member. pdac oMbl Mrs, Winslow's soothing syrup reduces in- flammation while children aro tecthing, 2 cents a bottle. LR DA Dr.Birney. noseand throat. Beebldg. e Through coaches—Puliman palace sleepers, dining cars, free reclining chair cars to Chicago and intervening points via the great Rock 1sland route. 'I‘)lc::ket office 1602, Sixteenth and Farnam. e e e A Much-Named Family, There is a family living near the fair grounds in Athens, Ga., consisting of seven children. The parents seem to like a superfluity of names, The first child, according to the Ledger, is named Mary Magalina Mandy ' Mectum Elizabeth Betsy Polly Mack Barrett, The second child is named Georgia Ann Yorena Barrett, The third child is named Mattie Francis Anna Tranna Barrett, The fourth child is named Emory Seper Walker Buster Barrott. he fifth child is named Tilo Cory Coston Estelle Liniment .Ettie Isiduler Barrett. The sixth child is Cinicar Barrett. The seventh child 1s named Efice Bozma Mondenay Virginia Barrett. Beebldg. Alice named Monitine SR Dr.Birney, nose and throat, e ki i Goorgla R-lios, Mr, Thomas Gresham has left at this office a couple of relics that have been handed down for 200 years, says the Amoricus Recorder. One s o small hatchet, resembling the one George Washington used, that was given him by his mother, who died sixteen years ago at the age of sighty-six. It was glven her by her grandmother when she was quite young. The other is a pint flask that is known to be 125 years old, as it has been in his father’s family that long. It is a queer looking, short round flask, with the face of George Washing- ton biown in the sides, He will now give these relics to his children. i ‘The best and surest dye to color the beard brown or black, us may bo desired, Is Buck- | :n bam's dye for tho whiskers. It never THE NEW THEORY, Rev. N. M. Mann's Sermon at Unity Church Yesterday. Tt used to be sald that man bogan his career in a paradise. The opposite view is now fast coming futo accoptance; that the human be- ginnings were very rude indecd, ina world that was no paradise at all; that the first man was of the earth most decidedly earthy, and that only by slow and unsteady steps has the race come forward to be as we find it—by no means perfect, but measurabiy civilized, quite immeasurably refined and ennobled, in fact, compared with what it once was. Instead of a fall of man there has been an advanco of man from the utterly brutish conditions in which he started to an_order of life which in its best forms is high and admirable. "The foolish prejudice is sometimes appealed to that there is disgrace in tracing one's origin to a low order of creature, just rising above the brute. Surely the agreeableness or disagreeableness of an opinion is not to put forward as & test of Its truth, but if it were, it scems to me the modern view would lose nothing on the score. To my mind there@is no advantage in having o highly exalted first ancester whose excel- lencles can never bo approached, This be- ginning high and ending Jow is of all concep- tions the most abhorent. It is the upward tendency that delights and inspires, however low the heginning.* Small matter is it where you start from, if ‘your aim is high and your achievement good. As you squeeze the luscious orange you do mot object to the sources from which its julces came. With- out disgust your thoughts go to the roots of the tree, where nature, marvelous alchemist, is busy all the year sucking up the vile, ma- lodorous compost to mix with dew and'sun- shine and pour out as wine into that yellow cup. The result of the process is good, no matter how it began, There is delight and satisfaction in all pro- gressive, upward moving courses, and it is o conceiving and executing meas- ures of improvement that the chief glory of life consists. ature's process is evolution, growth; and goodness reached in that way is infinitely better than goodness produced by supernatural fiat, Still every theory must at last stand not on its agreeablencss, but on its truth. Is it true that the human race had a low origint Cer- taiuly the evidences now ail point that way. History itself, as far as it goes, is an indica- tion, It isa record of progress. Tho forward movement has not always gone on at the present rate; it has at times been arrested, turned back even, but always to be resumed again; so0 that progress has been a distin- guishing reature of mankina in the large view. Marking time by long ods, man is unmistakably a lower order of creature the farthter back we can trace him, Archweologists determinoe the age of ancient implements by their ruden and the fgnorance and im- potence shown in the choice of material and in the manufacture. All this points to an original man of very slight faculty and very poor quality. And this view is supported by the whole testimony of geplogy in respect to animal life, Iver the observed rule is that the lower order has preceded the higher. First, the ple, and afterward the complex, with'mighty inferval of progress between, Geology has helped us to an intel ligent notion of “how the earth has been shaped by just disclosing to us the operation of causes now at work. So present human progress, going on before our eyes, opens the secret of the past and the future, bringing us vy irresistable inferenze to some faint per- ception of the loathsome objects who were our first ancestors, and pointing us a-down the far future to the perfect man dwelling in a veritable paradise, Int view of things there is room for all enthusiasms. We see that it is not a lost, bankrupt world, condemned and under sus- pension of sentence, but a world that is steadily acquiring moral as well as material capital, a world in which every good stroke of work helps to build the real Eden. It is faith in this idea that the eyes of all the best teachers turned” to the future; that inspired the lorious visions of the second Isaiab; that filled the breast of Jesus with such confident hope of & coming heavenly kingdom. To them the good things were mnot behind, but before, and this faith it is, however it is dis- guised by strange creeds half believed, that gives the impulse to every blossed work of human advancement. Itis not to restore a lost paradise that the lovers of their ruce are now laboring, but to create one which no ancient bard or seer'could have dreamed of, and whose pattern is not yet fully disclosed, Littlo by little old errors ‘and wrongs are put aside, and the heavenly vision comes to view. el i dah CATCHING COLD MEANS HEAT. e Sitting in Stuffy Air Far More Danger- ous Than Drafts. At this time of the year nothing is more important than an answer to the question, What do we mean when we say we have taken cold? In a literal sense, we have done no such thing; and a modern writer has suggested that what is called ‘“‘catching cold” would be bet~ ter expressed by the phrase catching heat, ‘What actually takes place is some- thing as follows, says the New York Morning Journal: We expose some part of the body toa draft; the surface be- come uhlfiu\l, and the circulation, to somo extent, is arrested; the blood and other fluids are sent in another direc- tion. What should have been thrown out through the surface is turned in on the mucous membranes, and, as these parts become congested, sneezing takes place; there is an abnormal quantity of tluids thrown upon the mucous surfaces, and the system makes an effort to get rid of it. This “taking cold” may be caused by sitting for u fow moments in a strong current of cool air, It may be the back of the neck that is exposed, or it may be some other past of the body. Holding the hands in very cold water for a con- siderable length of time will cause one to take cold. Or sitting with cold feet will do the same thing, es- }w(‘lnlly if the general circulation is eeble. Clothing one part of the body too much and another part too little will frequently give one a cold, Anything that arrests the free circulation of the blood and sends it in on the mucous sur- face may produce this effect. The most frequent cause of all, per- haps, of taking cold is the one stated, that of ‘“catching heat.” Sitiing for hours in a room where the temperature is 80 degrees or upward and then going out into a colder atmosphere frequently produces a cold; this is particularly the case where the air isnot only hot but impure. In fact, we tnink the impurity has more todo with it than the heat, and the two combined will rarely fail to cause an influenza or a sore throat, sometimes o. full fledged pneumonia. By exposing one’s solf to hot, foul air the whole skin is for the time debilitated, and on reaching a cooler atmosphere the blood is driven from the surtace, and congestion from the mucous membranes will almost certainly follow; either there is *'cold on the lungs” or a sore throat, or there is an attack of acute catarrh, Make a Fortune. Don’t fail to visit the auction sale of city lots at Aransas Harbor January 7 and 8. Bonnets in the Time of Henry VIIL Inspeaking of Milan bonnets, so named from the duchy in which they, were first made and which were also 80 fashion- able in England in the reign of Henry VIII, Hall says: “They were worn by both sexes and were composed of the costliest stuffs, cloth of gold and silver, velvet and satin, slashed and pufted like dresses and decorated with a profusion of jewels, spangles, aylets and other pendent ornaments,” s — Don't Forget it, The great auction saleof city lots takes place at Aransas Harbor, Tex., Junuary 7 and 8. The Latest Mourning Fad. Of all the fashionable fadsof this great metropolis that accentuation of bomestio grief which showsitself in a black shirt, black collar and cuffs and white studs, white ouff buttons and white nookt{s 1o abodt the most ridicudous, says o q{ Yotk letter to_the Pittshurg Dispate! Fashionable New York will soon be dine ing at Delmonico’s anfl promenading Broadway with miftinture coffins for jewelry and artifislal“tears painted on tho cheeks, It is ' doubtful whother suoh people could really shed any other kind gonuine hand-painted tears, women put their toddling children in (lan mourning and rode in the park with thelr poodles decyed = with crape it seemed that this sort of thing ('qud ao no further, Now that men have taken to black shirts and sable handkerchiefs, however, the onus of tomfoolery is re- moved from the shoulders of ‘woman- kind. It is enough tomako the dead turn over in thoir graves and toar their shrouds to ribbons. —_— Dr.Birney, nose and throat. Beobldg. it e Paleologuas, In the parish church of Landulph, In the eastern extremity of Cornwall, is a small brass tablet fixed against the wall, with the following inseription: “'Here lyeth the body of Theodore Paleologus of Pesaro, " in Italy, de- sconded from the imperial® lyne of tho last Christian emperors’ of Greece, being tho sonne of Ca- mllio, the sonne of Prosper, the sonne of Theodore, the sanne of John, the sonne of Thomas, second brotherof Constantine Paleologus, the eighth of the name, and last of that lyne that rayned in Ci stantinople, until subdued by the Tur who married with Mary, the daughter of William Balls of Hadlye, in Suffolke, %'N\t., and had issue five children, Theo- dore, John, Ferdinando, Maria and Dorothy; and departed this life at Clyf- ton, the 21st of Jan., 1636,” Above the inseription are the imper- ial arms, an eagle displayed with two heads, the two legs resting upon two gates; the imperial crown over the whole, and between the gates a crescent for diffevence as second son. Clyfton was an anciens mansion of the Arhndel family in the parish of Landulph. flamtiuin bty Big Sale of City Lots. The largest auction sale of city lots ever held in _the south will take place at Aransas Harbor January 7 and ¢ proabutandi®niiesl 4 When Spectacles Were Invented. Dr. Johnson expressed surprise that such a benefactor to the human race as the discoverer of spectacles should have been regarded with indifference. Per- haps this may be owing to the unfortu- nate fact that we do not know with cer- tainty the name of our bensfactor. Popu- lar opinion has long ago pronounced in favor of a Florentine monk as the right- ful claimant, although some are in favor of Roger Bacon, M. Spoon, in his *Researches Curi ouses d’Antique,” fixes the date of the invention or discovery of spectacles be- tween the years of 1280 and 1811, and suys that Alexandre de Spind, having seen o pair made by some othar porson who was unwilling to communicate the secret of their construction, ordered a pair, discovered the sccret and forth- with made it public. Italian antiquarians say that the per- son to whom Spina was indebted for his information was Salvino, who died in 1318. and quotes from an ancient manu- script his epitaph, which says: *“Here lies Salvino Arnota de Armati of Flor- once, the inventor of spectacles. May God pardon his sins.” Pl A An Italian's Ingenuity. An_Italian on the river bank has solved the problem of giving the child- ren an outing with the least possible ex- ertion to himself, says the Springfield Republican. He places his three chil- dren in a baby carriage, to the handle of which a rope about twenty feet long is tied. The bank behind thehouse has a gentle decline, so that a brisk push from %ho father sends the carryall flying down the grade. When the water's edge is reached the vehiclo’s flight is checked by a cord. But the most re- markable part of the contrivance is the goat which draws the contrivance back up the inclined backyard. Tho animal is made to trot through a long hall from one end of the house to theother. Thus the man can sit inside the rear outside door of the hallway, away from the su rays, steer the goat by a well dir kick, while at the same time the little ones are enjoying a delightful toboggan slide amid the refreshing breeze wafted across the stream. —_— Fall Plowing. There are nearly as many differont opinions about the advisability of plow- ing land in the full for spring” crons as there are persons who write upon the subject, writes Galen Wilson in the National Stockman. Some say, “Plow all the ground you can in the fall, when work does not drive, for it will be so much gain in the busy spring and crops can go in so much earlier.” Others ob- ject to fall plowing “because it exposes a nude surface to the elements, which in a manner, beat the life out of it.” Both classes may be right and both wrong, according to the quality of the soil and to the weather subsequent to plowing. Hence fall,plowing isa matter entirely of guess work. It may be advantageous and it may not, consequently to go slow with this plowing would bo" a wise, con- servative course. Field after field oi sod ground within my observation was plowed for corn a year ago. The following spring was 80 wet that the ground ('nullfl not be worked until after the grass had grown up between the furrows so much that to look across them the fields appeared nearly like meadows. Some of these fields were planted at last, but with all the working that could be given them the grass could not be thoroughly sub- dued and the crop was meager. Those who plowed in the spring got their planting done earlier and had bettor crops. Certainly this-fall plowing was not a help. Had a snow come ou soon after plowing and remained until spring, and after it went off there had been rnate freezing and thawing, without 'y rains, then the fall plowing would have been advantageous. Others of these fall plowed sod fields were allowed to re- main until the inverted sod decayed, and then were turned over and sown in buck- wheat. I have scen stiff clay fallow land turned in the fall that the elements in winter might pulverize and render it friable, aud the clemants had the con- trary effect, for the henvy rains fused it 80 it ran together ifke molten lead and came to plow it agaih in the spring it was lumpier than @éver before: and I have seen this samb s0il turned iu the fall and the next spring was “mellow as an ash heep.” Notably three years ago a field, part of 1t heavy clay and the rest sandy loam, the clay portion turned up 50 lumpy that the lumps could not be re- duced. Winter wheat was sown with- out the expection of getting half a crop on the lumpy part; but the winter hap- pened to be just right to pulverize the lumps, and on that portion of the field the crop was full 50 per cent the better. Sometimes there is the advantage of fall-plowing that land can be worked qarlier in spring; but this is not always 80, If the soil was loam, I would risk fall-plowing for early potatoes, but not for late. Were I ta grow both oats and barley, I would also risk plowing for the latter, but not for the former, on tho principle that it is no'safetoca y too many eggs in one baskel. I do not MONDAY.. DECEMBER 29, 1890. helleve that ralns wash the 1fe of sofl it there is m compact subsoll. What roally ocours is a \;oruon of the soluble fortility 1s carried down as decp e plowed, or nearly so. This in a measurs takes it out 6f the reach of surface-grow- ing plants, as oats and barley, hence freahly plowed land is better for them, Fall plowing is an uncertainty—n lot- tery. If one could foretell the weather until planting time he could tell exactly whethor to plow or not. This subject can be placed with the insurance sched- ule as | extra hazardous,” —e A Remarkable Crop of Potatoes. Nearly one thousand bushels of pota- toes, or, to ba exact, 974 bushels and forty-eight pounds, have been grown on ono acre of land in Johnson county, Wyo- minfi. the past season. This crop wins the first prize of several hundred dollars offered by the American Agriculturist for the largest yield of potatoes on one exact acre, It was grown on virgin soll, without mauure or fertilizer, but the land was rich in potash, and the copious irrigation was of water also rich in saline matorial, There were 22,800 hills on one aocre and 1,560 pounds of sets, containing one, two and throe oyes were planted of the Early Vermont and Manhattan varicties, Tho profit on the crop acre was $714, ox- clusive of 8500 in prizes. Another large crop was that of R. A. Chisolm of Del Norte, Colo., ot 8474 bushels on 1,000 pounds of fertilizer. There wus a great interest in the competition in the famous potato rowing county of Aroostook, northern Maine, where the crops secured range from 450 10746 bushels per acre. These crops largely exceed those grown ina similar competition last year, when 738% bush- ols of potatoos in Aroostock county took the grand prize of $1,100. Other prize crops last year were—135 bushels of oats on one acre, 80 bushels of wheat and 255 bushels of sheiled corn. It appoars from the results of the contest that the aver- ago wostern potato crop on virgin soil is hardlyup to that under ordinary culture in the east, while intelligent fertilization seems equally profitable in bothsections, The wonderful operation of the myster- ious labroratory of the soil is emphasized by the evidence in this competition that crops were increased 50 to 100 per cont by the application of actually pure plant food at the rate of only ono pound to 100 or 200 square feet of land. The superior- ity of fertizers or chermical manuresover stable manure for potatoes is also em- phasized by the two years' contest, WA St She Wanted to a “Pig-Sticker.” There’s a true story about the Princess Engelichieft fresh from the fair city, s the New York World, Nat long ago that beautiful Russian lady attended a reception given at the Calumetclub. 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