Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 46, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 March 1896 — Page 7

THE NICARAGUAN REVOLT, icoardlag to Dtipatcb** BcmItm Tkroofh Print* Chwaneb, Mach low Kertoas than R« ported, th* Government Ceoeerahlp PermUtlnc Nothing of a Nature Unfavorable to Ua Government to be Seat Abroad by the Mean Correepoadeat*. !ivr York, March 23.—The revolution ia Nicaragua, according to infeelli- j genee received through private chan- I nels, ia more serious than* the dispatches from that country would indi- j cate. The strict press censorship es<tablished by President Zelaya, renders'] it impossible for news of any eharac- ; ter except what is favorable to the j government, from being made pnblic. j Two facts, however, in the opinion j of those thoroughly familiar with ex- j istmg conditions, seem to be well es- j tablished. First, that Zelaya is not i •oppressing the rebellion, and second j that the Honduran troops which ar- ; rived in Nicaragua on Friday last as • tb,e supposed allies of Zelaya are quite ’ as likely to aid the rebels as to act in concert with the government troops. The first of these facts is based upon i the almost certain knowledge that the j revolutionists have not lost ground; i that they are confident of success ■ since, In every engagement they have ' been the aggressors; that they have j thfe moral and material support of the ; great majority of the liberal party, which placed Zelayh in power, and that the government forces hav*maintained from the beginning, a purely defensive attitude. The Honduran troops are now in Nicaragua at a point midway between Leon and Corinto. in thb territory oo cupied by the rebels. .Their present attitude is one of strict neutrality, but it is regarded as not improbable that their aid may in the end be given to Baca, the provisional president of th» Insurgent -government.. Color is given to this Jielief by ths intimate relations that have long ex iiited between lien. Orteiz. the com tuander of the insurgents, and President Bonilla of Honduras, wh >,in poin^ of facWowes his present elevation tes the services rendered in his behal* several years ago by Orteiz. If Honduras espouses- Baca's cause the latter.will, it is believed, becomt. victorious, since his troops are armed \yith modern guns and animated by sentiments of the loftiest patriotism, inasmuch as they are fighting for constitutional liberty and to prevent ths alleged dictatorship of Zelaya. Without Honduras' aid the result is lik«*ly to be in doubt for several months at least. Another element of uncertainty is the influence.which the Salvadorean peace commission,-may exert upon the contending factions. That their efforts will result in failure, is believed to be probable. Baca ,and those associated with him are determined upon the overthrow of Zelaya.while Zelaya, on the oth^r hand, is equally deter0 mined upon the suppression of the rebellion. neither side being willing to concede any advantage to the other. Shrewd observers of political events in Central America believe that before the present troubles end all five of the republics may become embroiled unless a peaceable solution is reached within a few weeks.

A TYPICAL MINING BOOM. ■ k 1 • ‘ Activity on the Street* of June*a-Mur-dered for Her Gold Duet. Pobt Townsend. Wash.. March 23.— Officers of the steamer Aiki, which arrived from Alaska^*aturday afternoon, report that the streets of Juneau present the appearance of a typical boom mining outlet. Every business house and dwelling is occupied, and hundreds of miners are camping in the struts waiting for the time for going to the Yukon. It is now apparent that scores, of men who have gone north from California and Puget Sound will never reach the mining district on account of lack of fund’s. Many are alreadystranded at Juneau and Sitka, and tan get no further. 1 • The Atki brought news of the brutal murder of a squaw and her two half- # breed children on Douglas island, just before the steamer left Juneau. The husband of the woman was a white man and had been in the Y’uken since last spring. A short time ago he sent her a tag of gol$ dust, and robbery was undoubtedly the motive of the murder, Wl LLIAM MU R PH Y Taken from Jail by a Mob and Handed t« ■ ‘ , a-Tree. Hi'UTSvhxe. Tenn., March 23.—A mob of 30 determined men obtained William Murphy from the Scott county Jail Satunl ay eight by stratagem and hanged him, pleading and praying, to a locust tree in the public square, not one hundred feet from jail. i The pr.sooer was in jail awaiting trial for shooting Bill Bowlin, a mi|ier at Pioneer, three- weeks ago. Circuit court was in pn»gress at the time, but Murphy's case had not been reached* The Lynchers, with the exception of tht leader, who was unknown to the officers. wore handkerchiefs about the lower part of their faces. The mob did their work so noiselessly that the villagers Were not appraised of the bloody deed until morning when they beheld the ghastly night- The helpless wretch asked the mob not to choke him to death. Not a word was spoken and the murderer was given no opportunity to make a confession,.for the crime he committed was seen by several personal wit nesses. ’ « EX-PRSIDE ENT HARRISON Ha* HU Portrait Pain tod a* a Praam* for HU Comiajc Ilrtde. Chicago. March 23.—An Indianapolis special says: Artist John Colin Forbes. R. C. A., has Wen a guest of ex-Presi-dent Harrison all the week and ha* had daily sittings from Mr. Harrison. Mr. Forbes will return to New Y ork to-morrow with his painting all bat finished and has Gen. Harrison’s permission to display the painting ic bchaus' art gallery. New York. It Is a three-fourths view and is intended at a present for the comiag* bride.

THE FARMING WORLD. BRAIN AND MUSCLE. The 8vcc«Mfal Farmer of To-Day Ueea Both Hands and Head. The man who uses both brains and muscle will far outstrip in the race of life the man w ho uses only his muscles. This is true in every calling in which men engage, but especially is it true in farming. The farmers who are getting along the easiest, other things equal, are tlio^e who mix brains with their work; who plan and systematize their work; do everything in its season, and j in the most thorough manner possible, j The farmer who, for instance, does not j decide what crops he will plant till j planting time conies; or the one who j breaks his ground regardless of the con- i dition of the soil, plants untested or ; doubtful seed in poorly prepared soil, cannot be said to have "mixed enough brains with his work. There is no doubt that many farmers would have better profits if they would rest, recreate and read more and work fewer hours. There is such a thing as doing too xfiucii manual tabor. The farmers, as a class, certainly cannot be accused of being lazy. The majority of them work too hard, at least during some seasonf of the year. It is more than likely that many do not distribute J their work" well, and are. as a eonse- | quence, too busy at some seasons and ! have too much leisure at others. Here, ' again, is where the brains come in. The j w ork should be planned with a view to doing it most economically. This can be done bv a judicious distribution-of | w ork which will-keep hands and teams reasonably busy during all seasons of ’ the ye:*r, instead of hiring help and lushing at some seasons, and then tak- 1 ing it easy for a considerable spelt. There are times when even the most systematic farmer is thrown” behind with his work as a result of loner wet spells, or circumstances over which he has no-control, and in order to do work in its season it becomes necessary to rush a little and wor’c from sun to sun; but. as a rule, w here sufficient thought I is put into the work, eight or nine hours is enough for one day’s work. Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep and eight hours for rest, recreation, study and domestic pleasures , would be a good division of the day. With this division there would be am- j pie time for reading, thinking, planning and systematizing the work, and in addition to the increased pleasures of life on the farm, the profits would, if any difference, be^inereased. The cooperation of brain and muscle on the farm, however, means more than merely to improve methods of farming; it means cooperation with brother farmers, and organization for marketing to the best advantage, and for purchasing in a way to be independent, to an_extent, at least, of useless and extortionate middlemen and com- j bines. “Improved methods” at the j market end art; as necessary as in the , matter of production. There should j be sufficient mixture of brain and muscle to drive the gamblers from the j grain pits, arid restore normal markets, —St. Louis Journal of Agriculture.

AGRICULTURAL NOTES. After testing several varieties of flax j the Mississippi station concludes that I flax culture cannot be made profitable in that state. Experiments with oats in Germany show that varieties most productive on one kind of soil are most productive on , all kinds; but difference in food contents was found to be due to difference in soil and not to difference in variety. The Alabama station finds more than six times as much nitrogen in cowpea vines in the fall as in the same vines the next spring, after they had Iain on the, ground all winter. The clear inference is that the vines should be plowed under in th< fall rather than let them lie oc the surface till spring. Examinations by experiment stations show that American clover seed is clearer than European, and has equal ; vitality. Some European seed was found to be mixed with finely crushed quartz, colored to resemble clover seed and other samples proved to be old seed colored bright like the new.—Journal of Agriculture. USEFUL IMPLEMENT. gall Description of a Homemade Clod j / Crueller and Harrow. A very convenient homemade implement is shown, bottom up, in the accompanying illustration. It is made as i follows:. Bolt two 2x12 oak boards (aa) i. 8 feet long to two 4x4 crosspieces (b). On the front edge bolt a 2x4 (c). placed edgew ise. This wil! provide a 6-inch <

surface, whieh will strike the clods and prevent then) getting back on thecrusher. To the back edge of the crusher bolt another 2x4 oak (d) flatwise, and Itevrl the upper edge. To the beveled, surface bolt an old sickle bar. The guards will have slant enough to let trash escape, and yet will pulverise t hejgTound almost as well as a disk harrow. The hooks for attaching the team can be made by a blacksmith. Use four horses and let the driver ride on * the cr-isher.—W. B. Bolton, in Orange Judd Farmer. When to Sow Clover Seed. * l should advise everybody to sow clover seed early as they could, even on i .the snow, but 1 would advise to put it more than half an inch deep. The best crop l ever had, the man sowed right on the furrow, as it was left by the plow, | but 1 would advise a full inch, rather | than half an inch, and if some of it is too deep, it will c©me up next year. One of the best fanner* 1 know, who has raised 300 bushels a year, puts on the seed and harrows it in, >ust as he does bis oats or his wheat.—B. S. Hoxie, in Fanners’ Bericw.

* ARTICHOKES FOR HOGS. 4a Excellent Foocl »n4 a Reliable Pro* ▼entire of Cbolcra. Hitherto the growing’ of this valuable tuberous-rooted perennial,, illustrated herewith, has been almost wholly neglected} and greatly misunderstood. But their great value as a cheap, handy, healthy hog food has been so thoroughly aired the past three years, in the press of the country, by men who have had practical experience with them, that an enormous demand has been created- for them. As a hog food they cannot be excelled. A good plan is to plant all your J lots with artichoke's about May 1, when j your hogs are turned on pasture. Then [ when your pasture plays out 1n the fall j —or about September 15 to October 1— j you will have fine food in your lots for your hogs, where they can root at in- j tervals, whenever the ground is not j frozen, until the following "Hay, when they will have received as much ben- - efit from one acre of artichokes as from ) ten acres of corn. They will also have j

left enough tubers in your lots to reseed the ground for the next crop. It is a hog’s nature to root, in fact, ! his hog-ship is never happier than when j he is rooting, and an artichoke can truly be called a hog's drug store. * A wealthy hog raiser of the writer's acquaintance, w ho has made 4S0 acres j of $10® land out of hog raising for the pork market, says he would not be without a big patch of the tame artichokes. as he has had no hog diseases in his herds since they have been al- j lowed to eat artichoke tubers. A sow- will not eat her pigs if she has been allowed previously ta-eat artichokes, and hogs do not root up pastures in the spring when they have ! previously been allowed to root in the artichoke patch to their hearts’ can- j tent, i A hog's object in rooting is to obtain roots, which ,as I. said before, serves , the same purpose ' him as does the ; drug store to the human being. After he has eaten a goodly portion of arti- j chokes, the rooting notion will be almost entirely out of his head, so sav i extensive stock raisers, who have grown and fed the artiehoke. But there are artichokes and artichokes, in many parts of North America, rhe “vWld” artichoke is a native. It is merely a bad weed, a dangerous pest, which produces very few aud small tubers, and is very difficult to exterminate. Many farmers who have seen it growing understand that there is a difference—a vast difference—in the wild and “tame,” or domesticated sorts. In fact, they are as different os is “wild'* and tame rve. During the past few years the “tame” or domesticated sorts have been imported from Europe and are in some parts of the United States being extensively grown as a heg and stock food. The artichokes can be, as easily grown as corn or potatoes, and on land that will produce 50 bushels of corn, you can easily raise 500 bushels of chokes.The writer frequently does this and has grown over 000 bushels per acre on ground that had never been manured. Cut the tubers, plant and cultivate precisely same as potatoes. They are a great soil enricher, and can be easily exterminated by plowing the young plants under when they are about a fdot high, as the old tubers have rotted, and the, young ones have not yet formed at that time. I would not think of farming without them. The improved white French is the only variety worthy of culture aad it is a purse comforter. Six bushehs will plant one acre. Again I say grow- the artichokes and you will have a fine, healthy swine food and no cholera.—J. P. Yissering, in Western Rurai.

! - A COMMERCIAL VIEW. Why Country Slmbutt Should Spread the (ioexi Head* Gospel. It should not require a very acute mental vision for merchants in country tow ns, who are almost entirely dependent on the fa rimers for their trade, to see that it is to their interests to assist in the work of improving' the highways leading to their town.*. A spider with no web wherewith to catch hies is ho worse off than a town with no roads radiating from it. Every mile of good road adds .so much more trea to a town's territory of trade. Every steep place, every muddy place, every sandy stretch is a barrier that the farmers will avoid by going to some trade center mofe easily reached. If the merchants in a slow-going town would organize their clerk? into a road improvement corps and go out in the highways and by yays mendir.g the roads it would attract more customers than to cut off two per cent, from their sealing price.—Good lioads. A Dan E® to Bertiwper*. Spraying fruit trves when in bloom is considered of paramount importance nearly everywhere, and in some states laws make it obligatory. It is so general in many western sections that apiarists complain bitterly. Where there is an abundance of clover and other blossoms furnishing sweets, bees get along all right; but w here they depend in large part upon flowering orchards, the question of partial or complete destruction of the tioom , through t pray uur is a serious oo»

sports and Pastimes. An immense bald eaglet, measuring ■even feet from tip to tip of its wings, was captured alive near Middlefork, Ind., a few days ago: Dr. Sheepshanks, bishop of Norwich, is an enth usiastic cyclist, and even rides on Sunday from one part of his diocese to another. ] Lorin If. Deland, Tfrho is now head* coach of the Harvard football team, and Walter Camp, who is head of the Yale team, are collaborating on a book on football. *■ ' ji It will be unlawful to kill quail in ■Kentucky! for the ensuing two years, except in November and December, an act to that effect haring passed the Kentucky legislature. A rattlesnake measuring eight inches in circumference and four feet six inches in length, and having 13 rattles and a button, was killed near Phoenix, Arizona, last week. ■■ It was the largest rattlesnake ever seen in that region. The Argentine Republic is going to send a team of polo players to England next summer, and much interest is expressed to see their ponies, which are said to comprise specimens of every kind bred in South America. In three rabbit drives this season in Cassia county, ldahd,some 8,000 rabbits hav% been killed. The animals are astonishingly numerous and a very serious nusianee. A round-up hunt i» to be held eaery week in the hope of ex term inaiing the pest, f English pheasantshre being raised by a syndicate of sportsmen at Lebanon, N. jR. Some time tjhis year the birds will be liberated with the expectation that, under proper protection, they will multiply and furnish an excelent addition to the supply of game in that region. ELECTRICAL FLASHES. It is expected that the electric light o? the future will be obtained by tbe utilizing of broken or alternate currents. ‘ Electricity is now applied to the typewriter. A recent invention provides means for moving the carriage and roller of the machine by electricity. If all the telegraph lines of the world were combimri and stretched in one straight line they would reach SS1,Q00 miles, or erough to encircle the earth 33 times. The process of electro-zincing is being preferred in England to galvanizing. especially for the tubes of boilers for marine work. The adhesion of the zinc to the iron is considered superior to that obtained bv the old process. Tis well your heaviest wraps to wear When you a-skating go. E'en though for frost you do not care; They break the fall, you know. ■ " —Washington Star. Explosions of Coughing are stopped by Hale's Homy of Horeuound and Tar. Pike's Tootliiache Drops Cure in one minute. A Disnsctiox.—“Didn’t you tell me that Hiss Desig i was an artist?" “Oh, no; I told youahe* painted. ”—Detroit Free Press. No 8jiPei: oi: more; Erricaciovs Remkdt can be liad for Coughs, or any trouble of the throat, tha;;: “fi'omi’a Branchial Trucked” Let them obey that know not how to role. —Shakespeare. . | Th ■ f THE MARKETS. ^ Nkw York. March 23.18ML CATTLE—Native Steers..-....* 3 8k m 4 50 COTTON—Miditlliigk... 7Vd 8 FLOUR—Winter VYheat. 3 75 © *45 WHEAT—No. I Hard. © 7tS» COHN--No. £., . d 37 Oats—No. a. as © ' a* PORK-New Mess.... 9 75 <t& 10 35 ST. LOU IS. COTTON—Middling. .. .... © 7% UEEVES—Fancy steers. 4 01 © 4 70 Medium.. 3p.-i © 4 30 HOGS Fair to Select.. 3 eO ©3 90 SHEEP—Fair to Choice ...... 2 @ 350 FLOUK—Patents... 3 55 ©, 3 65 Fancy to Extra da.. 3 75 © 3 4-' WHEAT-No. 2 Hed Winter. © COKN--N0.2 Mixed.... © 26H OATS- No. 2 . © 19 KVE—No. 2..,. 77‘U 40 TOBACCO—Lars.. 3 00 © 9 00 Lest Burley. 4 M 12 JO HAY— Clear Timothy. 9 50 ©13 0* BUTTER—Choice Dairy. 13 © 17 EGGS—Fresh... © 8* Pv/ACK—Standard Mess (New). 9 15 © 9 BACON—dear Rih § 4.%© 604*© 64*© LARD— Prime Steam......... CHICAGU CATT LE—Sh i ppi n*. 3 75 HpoS -Eair to Choice. 3 65 SHEEP- Fa; r te Choice . 3 U0 FLOU R—\JTittter Pateuts. 3 >0 Sac log Patuata.. 3 H) WHEAT—No 2 -priu*... No. 2 Red.,. CORN-No. 2.. OATS—No. 2.. '» FORK-Mes* tnew)...... 9 00 ©„ - I . ' KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Slipping Steers.... 3 25 © HOGS—AUGrades. 3 50 © WHEAT—No 2 Red. 72 © DATs*—No. 2.. t... !«*© •OKN—Na2... © NEW ORLEANS FLQU K—Htsrh Grade. 3 » © CORN-No. 2. 33* © OATS—Western..... .. K © HAY-Choice.. 1*5/ © PORK— New Mess.....-. © BaCCN—sides ........1-. .... © COTTON—Middling. © , ‘LOUISVILLE WHEAT-So. 2 Red. ... 71 © , 72 CORN—Na 2 Mixed. 30 © 3k OATS—No. 2 Mixed.. 22 © POiU- . 9 75 © id tfj BACON -Clear Rit>. **© • H COTTON—Mutdiin*... U 71a

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