Alvarado Weekly Bulletin. (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, August 2, 1889 Page: 4 of 4
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. AGRICULTURE,
Horticulture and Architecture — 1 Model Farm and
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SOMETHING NEW IN THE WAY OF A WAGON JACK
rtously. depriving his family of a decent
home and various comforts, in order to
purchase more acres. Possessed with the
insane idea that he must “own all the land
that joins him” or much thereof as possi-
ble, he governs himself accordingly. To
accomplish this selfish purpose he lives in
the old house long after it is unfit for oc-
cupancy, makes slaves of himself and fam- ■
ily and neglects, the proper education of
I his children. Were he to Invest the money
Frotection for a Farm Gate—A Home-.,, . . ,
made Fruse Dryer - The rami, thus hoarded
open sheds on the south side and east end.
The closed sheds are furnished with
stanchions along the outer walls, also with
gates for partitioning them off. The loft
is all one open area, extending over the
main building and sheds, and is closely
laid with straight-edged planks. The de-
sign of the ground plan and loft will be
better understood from the following dia-
“THE EARTHQUAKE.
Cow—Superfluous Horses.
Protection for a Farm Gate.
A constant source of annoyance on the
farm Is the destruction of gates by care-
gram: The joists over the stalls are seven
, feet in the clear; the joists over the shed
to buy more land (which he six feet in the clear at the outer end. The
does not need) upon his farm—his rural loft of the barn is closely laid with planks,
. : home and its occupants—himself and fami- yith the exception of a 5-foot opening
Ax would soon be the gainers in both pros- through which hay is to be taken up. The
/ per ty and happiness. By expending his hay loft will hold 102 loads of clover bay.
hard-earned and miserly kept surplus in The hay for the horses and stock in the-
__improving histfarm stock, etc. and making barn yard is all thrown down on the barn
and home comfortable and attractive, he would floor, thus saving waste; the hay for the
less drivers. Let a new gate be put up
some one is sure to injure or completely not only be,quite •» prosperous, but enjoy stock in the closed shed is thrown down
break it down sooner or later. The device Hite far better and keep his children from through a 2-foot opening left all around
suggested by W. T. Whitsett, Guilford leaving the roof-tree, disgusted with a the outer edge of the left right over the1
county, N. C., and illustrated above, slavish, miserly mode of farming, to seek stanchions and rack. The barn floor is
although simple, will save much vexation other and uncertain employments. [Herald, fully large enough to contain bedding for
4A&NG0000J A Reversible Wagon Jack. the horses, W to hold ambing ewes on
M 111ALLA 410 Probably no implement id common use sleety nights. It will be seen that the
ITH NAOAPA I i on the farm has called out more inventive Mfighting or master calves can be stanch-
IA99-10L € ingenuity, or assumed a greater variety of iomed, and the others left free, so that
111/1) h i forms, than the wagon jack. The one nearly twice the number can be housed in
urodt: illustrated herewith was designed by E. A he sate space. There is a drop of one or
IIL 2000 • MI Harrison, Ontario, Canada. The base is a two feet where the lean-to joins the main
J 01-scantling, four inches wide, three inches building. This is a conffortable and con-
S - 1thick, and two feet long. The two ups tentent barn, for a farm where
ri-ht L__i ,__, 100 acres are annually cultivated.. Any
_ and repa. ring. The damage is generally thieh nieces fare of hard mood boards an mechan ie can readily make out a van for
done by the wagon hubs striking the frame | meh thick, four inches wide and two feet, the lumber.
high. The lower ends are let into then .
life far better and keep his children
of the gate, often getting caught behind
the cross braces of the frame; and by a :
sudden jerk before the wagon can be Near t e top are
base and firmly nailed or screwed to it
three half inch holes in
HORTICULTURE
stopped. On every gate, bolt or nail firmly
a plank twelve or fourteen’ inches wide
and not less than one inch thick, dressed
on the outside, the entire length of the
gate. . 1” ___the plank is arranged
, to be the same height as the hubs of an
ordinary wagon wheel When the axle
\ strikes this plank it meets no obstruction
and is free to move on. Although simple
and easily arranged by any farmer, this
little contrivance will save many a good
farm gate.
A Homemade Fruit Dryer.
Our illustration Represents a cheap and
effective fruit dryer, which )may be set
upon the kitchen stove. It is made of
inch lumber, with a base of sheet iron
four inches wide to protect it from burn-
ing. The slats which are nailed luside to
support the trays, are two inches apart.
The dryer may be made of any desired
height, from two to four feet, the capacity
increasing with the height The trays
upon which the fruit is spread are mere
frames of wood, far enough apart to ad-
mit hot air and hold the fruit from falling
through. Galvanized wire netting would
be better but more costly. The dryer hM
an opening in the top for the escape of
the vpor-la ten hot air, and a handle on
A SERVICEABLE FRUIT DRYER.
each side for lifting it The door has-two
transverse cleats firmly screwed on the
outside, to prevent warping. Such a
dryer may be made by anyone who can.
use tools with a very small! outlay for ma-
terials... 1
A Model Farm,
A writer gives the following as his-
method of managing his 100-acre farm:
each, for the bolt to support the lever. Renovating Run-out" erehards—The Yau-
pon, a New Shrub, Its Properties”
and Medicinal Value. ’ *
-CONVENIENT WAGON JACK.
The reuppro . . .
An Olive street florist has a specimen of
the yaupon among the shrubs and foliage
plants ornamenting his doorway. The
name is the aboriginal one for the ilex cas-
sine, the North American shrub deriving
its specific name from cassena.It is a
slender, shrub, reaching, at Its best the
The lever is of hard wood an inch and a height of 15 feet. The leaves are small,
quarter thick, four- feet long and five seldom over 1 inch long, and oval in shape
inches wide at one end, tapering to a and thick and shining. The flowers and
handle at the other. A long slot is cut fruit are scarlet, resembling the holly. It
through its center with notches on either was always highly esteemed by the In-
side. At the 'large end of the lever is a dians, and was an article of traffic between
round notch on either side, for the side of them in colonial times. An infusion of
the wheel to rest in. A half-inch bolt #
supports the lever, the holes in the upright 1
bars allowing it to be shifted up or down
for wheels of different sizes. An iron rod,
four feet long, its bent through the slot in
the lever, and each end is fastened by an *
eye to a bolt through the standards, seven
inches from the base. As will be seen by
the dotted lines the lever may be reversed
when desired.
Supernuous Horses.,
It is comparatively few farmers who can-
accomplish all that they expert They
lay out plans that requires more men and .
team help than they can command. Of
late years it is increasingly difficult to hire
reliable farm help; but horses are always
lobe had for the money, if the farmer
wants to purchase them. It is in this way
that' many overstock themselves with
horses. The evil is the worst for the fact
that an idle horses in the stable is, a
temptation to the owner or to his family to
drive around the country instead of attend-
THE YAUPON.
the slightly roasted leaves produces effects
similar to those of the Paraguay tea, being
exhilarating when taken moderately, but
ing strictly to their business. We believe
acting as a powerful emetic when drank in
excess. The Creek Indians especially used
that farmers do well to visit, each,other it under the name of “black drink” in
and learn different and improved methods
of farming; but the season for this is
mainly in winter, when farm work, t, not
pressing. It is hardly possible for a farmer
to leave work for anything to be growing
season without loss.—Farmer. - , it
“My farm contains about 100 acres of-
farming land, most of which is limestone
soil, the balance sandy loam. I have it
fenced in four equal tracts, nearly M pos-
7 sible. For convenience, at the corner
where they all join I have a good well,
arranged to furnish stock water for each
field. I manage to keep fifty acres in
cultivation, fifty in clover, each year, as
Hollows: Twenty-five in corn, twenty-five
% wheat When the corn is cut off I seed
this field to wheat and following spring to
clover. 1 aim to take a crop of corn, then
a crop of wheat then back to the clover in
two years, and I find this as long as clover
. should stand to be profitable. By this
method I manage to keep the land in a
high state of cultivation without the use
of commercial fertilizers.
“I raise stock enough to eat up all the
. surplus corn, hay, etc. I stack the straw
and feed around the stack. Toward
spring I throw it down. In thia condition
it rots much faster, and is ready to haul
out sooner. This manure I spread in the
poorest places when I have leisure and it
is good hauling. By doing thia I keep
nearly everything on the farm except the
surplus wheat, which I market as soon as
threshed, while it is in the sacks. This
J saves a large per cent on shrinkage, be-
1 sides extra handling, and yen have the use
of your money.
, . The Family Cow. -
Except by those who have had experi-
ence in the rich- milk-giving qualities of
the Jersey as a family cow, and her gentle,.
ARCHITECTURE.
Perspective View and Floor Plans of a
Neat, Cheap Frame Cottage —-Plans
; for a Substantial Barn.
WHEELOCK PIANOS
A Baseless Charge.
A London journal asks if it was Gov.
Hill’s “appreciation of the value of
so loving, to patient, so self sacrificing—can
you net trust him: I think there are many
under the influence of the spirit of God who
are saying: “I will trust him if you will
only tell me how:” and the great question
asked by thousands is: “How; bow!” And
while I answer your question I look up and
niter the prayer which Rowland Hill so
often uttered in the midst of his sermons:
“Master, help!" How are you to trust in
Christ! Just as you trust any one. You
trust your partner to business with impor-
tant things. If a commercial house gives - - --------—_ -------- „ --ucc
you a note payable three months hence, you on the ground that the United States
expert the payment of that note at the end A .P ,2
of three months. You have perfect confi- Constitution only contemplates
Do dence in their word and in their ability. Or “charge" of crime as the basis of in-
you not feel the chill! Do you not heir the again, you go home expecting there will be
groans of those incarcerated ones who for toad onhe ariesk You have confidence in
ten years have not seen the sunlight, and confidence” in theLord Jesus Christ,
the deep sigh of the woman who remember : He says: “You believe I take away
their father’s house and mourn over their your sins, and they
wasted estate! Listen again. It is the away." "What! you
cough of a consumptive, or the struggle of
one in the nightmare of a great horror. * more!" Yes, this
You listen again and hour a culprit, h’s all your heart and you
chains rattling as he rolls over in his Christ is only waiting
dreams, and you say. “God pity the prison-
er.” But tnere is another sound in that
Dr. Taimage’s Discourse at St.
Paul.
The Brooklyn>Divine takes for his sub-
ject “The Earthquake," and he took for his
text: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved.” Acts xvi, 31. |
The sermon was as follows:
Jails are dull, damp, loathsome places
the Irish vote” which “influenced his
decision” in his refusal to surrender
Moroney and McDonald, the alleged
suspects in the Cronin case, to the
Chicago officers. A New York news.
even now: but they were a morse in the
Apostolic times. 1 imagine to-day we are
standing in the Philfpian dungeon. "-
paper criticises the Governor’s refusal
terstate surrender, and argues that in
to have the same such a case there is “no question of
are all taken
say, “before I
I read my Bible
Before 1 cry - over my sins any
- 414n moment. Believe with
are saved. Why,
—.-----—, ,——s to get from you
what you give to scores of people every
day. What is that! Confidence. If these
people whom you trust day by day are
prison. It is a song of joy and gladness, more worthy than Christ, if they are more
What a place to sing in! The music comes ! faithful than Christ, if they have, done
winding through the corndors of the prison, more.than.Christueve% didithen Kivethem
and in all the dark wards the whisper is
heard: What’s that! W hat’s thate
the preference: but if you really think that
Christ is as trustworthy as they are, then
deal with him as fairly. “Oh," says some
one in a light way. “I believe that Christ
It is the song of Paul and Silas. They ! t ____________
cannot sleep. ‘1 hey have been whipped; 1 was born in Bethlehem, and I believe that
very badly whipped. The on- sashes on Caimiogour Hoda on sourp a/N Tlm 5
their backs are bleeding yet. They lie flat lustrate the difference. You are in your
on the cold ground, their feet fast in wood-
en sockets, and of course they cannot sleep.
But they can sing. Jailer what are you
doing with these people: Why have they
been put in here' Oh, they have been try-
ing to make the world better. Is that all?
asylum, as in the case of a citizen of a
foreign country, but only the question
of enabling a state to enforce its'crim-
inal laws, by reaching beyond its own
borders to arrest a fugitive from jus-
tice.”
The men sent from Chicago failed to
identify Moroney and McDonald as the
"persons who rented and furnished the 1
Carlson cottage where Dr. Cronin was
assassinated. This proves the trump-
ery character of the charge , made
against these men and. fully vindi-
cates the Governor’s action.
But the London writer forgets that
the Irish in America are divided on
the questions supposed to be involved
in the Cronin crime, and that every
That is all. A pit for Joseph. A lion’s cave
for Daniel. A blazing furnace for Shadrach.
Clubs for John ■ esley. An anathema for
Philip Melanetbon. A dungeon for Paul
and Silas. But while wel are standing in
the gloom of the Philipian dungeon, and we
hear the mingling voices of sob and groan
and blasphemy and hallelujah, suddenly an
earthqlake! The iron bars of they prison
Twist, the pillars crack oil, the solid mason
ry begins to heave and all the doors swing
open. The jailer, feeling himself responsi-
ble for these prisoners, and believing, in
his pagan ignorance, suicide to be bon
orable-since Brutus killed himself, and
Cato killed himself, and Cassius killed
himself— puts his sword to his own heart,
proposing with one strong, keen thrust lo
put an end to his excitement and agitation
But Paul cries out: “Stop! Stop. Do thy-
self no harm. We are all here.” Then I
see the jailer running, through the dust and
amid the ruin of that prison, and 1 see him
throwing him self down at the feet of these
prisoners, trying out: "What shall | dofy
What shall 1 do!" Did Paul answer:
"Get -out of this place before there is
another earthquake: put handcuffs and
.1 hopples on these other prisoners, lest they
I get away! ’ No word of that Kind. His
I compact, thrilling, tremendous answer an-
I swer memorable all through earth and
I heaven, was: “Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shall be saved.” Well
1 we have all real of the earthquake in
I Lisbon, in Lima, in Aleppo land in Carac- •
licas but we live in a latitude where severe
I volcanie disturbances are rare. And yet we
I have seen fifty earthquakes." Here is a
I man who has been building up a large for-
1 tune His bid on the money market was
I felt in all the cities. He thinks he has got
beyond all annoying rivalries in trade, and
hesavs to himself. “Now f am free and
l safe from all possible perturbation.” But
1 in I8N7, or in. 1857, or in 1873 a national
j panic strikes the foundations of the
I commercial world, and crash! goes all
I that magnificent business establishment,
I Herd is a man who has built up a very
I beautiful home. His daughters have just
I come from the seminary with diplomas of
I graduation. His sons have started in life
I honest, temperate and pure, W hen the
evening lights are struck, there is a happy
j and unbroken family circle. But there has
I been an accident at Long Branch. The
| FOusg man ventured too far out in the surf
I The telegraph hurled 4he terror up to the
city.. An earthquake struck under the
I foundations of that beautiful home. The
piano closed, the curtains dropped: the
laughter hushed. Crash go all these do-
mestic hopes and poparts a nd ex three ta-
tons. So, my friends, we have all felt the
shaking down of sodic “great trouble, and
there was a time wine d are as much ex
cited as this man of the text and we cried
outaste did, "What shall I do! What shall
1 do!The same reply that the apostle
made to him is appropriate to us: “Helieve
I on tor Jesus Chirist and thou shalt be
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lustrate the difference. You are in your
own house In the morning you open a
newspaper and you read how Capt. Barve-
heart on the sea risked his life for the sal
vationt of his passengers. You say,
"What a grand fellow he must have been! reputable Irishman here desires the
t-fatouffor-enYN*/th * ATE punishment of every man implicated
down at the table, and, perhaps do not 1 in that crime. The New York writer
toitoMfaHL incident asain. That is his overlooks''the fact that the constitu-
But now you are on the sea, and it is tional provision relates to fugitives
night, and you are asleep, and you ate from justice escaping from their own
awakened by the shriek of “Fire!" You Ar s.5 , .
rush out on the deck. You hear amid the state into another state. There was a
wringing of hands and the. fainting, the I question of “asylum” in the case of
lostshoAO me are wit, “A Moroney and McDonald, who are citi-
fire, the ropes make a burning ladder in the zens of New York, not of Illinois, and
night heavens, the spirit of wrecks hisses entities tos orotic of 4
in the wave, and on the hurricane deck en tirled to the protection of the gov-
shakes out its banner of smoke and dark- ernor of their state. They would have
the capRown-pown trend febontrenoaies been demed their rights under the
People rush into hem. Th • boats are about I constitution of their own state if th ey
areseedorm on int genloEATEC maphad been deprived of their liberty
M ho shall it be: You or the crptain" The I and surrendered Without “due process
captain, says, “You.” You jump and are law % -
saved: He stands there and dies Now. 1 3
you believe thatCapt. Braveheart sacrificed
himself for his passengers, but you believe"
it with love, with tears, with hot and long
continued exclamations, with grief at his
loss, and joy at your deliverance. That is
saving faith. Inother words, what you be-
lieve with all the heart, ant believe in re
imrd to yourself; On' thisdiinge turns my
sermon: aye, the salvation of your immor-
talisoul. You often go across a bridge you
wow nothing about. You do not know
who built the bridge, you do not know what
material it is made bf; but you come to it
and walk over it and ask no questions. And
here is an arched bridge blasted from the
"Rock of Age." And built by the architect
of the whole universe, spanning the dark
gulf between, sin and righteousness, and all
Gol asks you is to walk across it; and you
start, and you come to it, and ’you step, and
you go aclittle way on and you stop, and you
fall back, and you experiment. You say,
"How do I know that bridge will hold me ri
instead of marching on with firm step, ask-
ing no questions, but feeling that the
strength of the eternal God is under you.
Oh, was there ever a prize proffered so
cheap as pardon and heaven-are offered to 1
you? For how much! A million dollars? mences with a gradient of 32 per cent.
It is certainly worth more than that. But 1 —1-1 2 - “------------ . ,.
cheaper than that you can have it. Ten
thousand dollars: less than that Five
Thousand do Tars!" Less than that One
dollar! Less than that One farthing? Less
than that "Without money and, without
price." No money to pay. Nojournd” to take,-
No penance to suffer. Only just one decisive
action of. the soul: Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.”
Shall 1 try to tell you what it is to be saved!
1 cannot tell you. No man, no angel can
tell you.. But 1 can hint at it For my text
brings me up to this point. “Thou shalt be
saved.” It means a happy life here, and a
peaceful death and a blissful eternity. It is
a grand thing to go to sleep at night and to
get up in the morning, and to do business
all day feeling that it is all right, between
my heart and Gol. No accident, no sick | estimated at 25 per cent.—New York
ness. no persecution, no peril, no sword can 1 „ 1 F
do me any permanent damage. I am a for- I Sun.
given child of Ged, and He is bound to see 1 1 • 1.----T
me through. The mountains may depart, 1 %′ Cars Run with Sails.
the earth may burn, the light of the stars . T
may be blown out bythe blast of the judg- 1 4 Washington correspondent of the
ment hurricane; but life and death, things Philadelphia Telegraph was, recently
present and things to come, are mine. Yea, : * 5 "3
further than that—it means a peaceful looking, at some models in the National
death. Mrs. Hemans, Mrs. Sigourney, Dr I Museum of curious cars used In the
1 oung, and almost all the poeta have said 1 1 . % : Al
handsome things aboutdeath. , There early days of railroading in this coun-
is nothing beautiful about it.’ When we 1 try, when Mr. Watkins, thecurator,
£ teslas. "^'El, fvtrnesadf pointed out one particular one that .
swering pressure of the hand and no re- | had a mast and sail. Experiments with
aydody senzing arouna Mont unotiattr such cars were made on the Baltimore..
IS loathsomeness, and aunauunigun, anu me
wringing of the heart until the tendrils
snap and curl in the torture, unless Chirist
shall le with ua. 1 confess to you an infin-
ite fear, a consuming horror of death, un-
less Christ shall be with me. 1 would
rather go down into a cave of, wild beasts
or a jungle of reptiles than into the grave,
unless Christ goes with me. Will you tell
me that I am, to be, carried out from my
bright home and put away in the darkness:
1 cannot bear darkness. . At the first corn
ing of the evening 1 must have the gas
lighted, and the further on in life I get the
more 1 like to have my friends round about
me. . 1.
And am I to bep ut off for thousands of
years in a dark plire with no one to speak
to: When the holidays come and the gifts
are distributed, shall I add no joy to the
“Merry Christmas," or the “Happy New
Year! Ah, do not point down to the hole
in the ground, the, grave, and call it a
beautiful place. . Unless there be some su-
pernatural illumination ! shudder back from
it My whole nature revolts at it. But now
this glorious lamp is lifted above the grave,
and all the darkness is gone, and the way
is clear." J look into it now without single
shudder. Now my anxiety is not about
death: my anxiety is that 1 may live aright,
for’l know that if my life is consistent
when | come to the last hour, and this voice
is silent and these eyes are closed, and
these hands with which I beg for your eter
nal salvation to day are folded over the still
heart, that then I shall only begin’ to live.
What power is there in anything to chill
me the last hour if Christ wraps around
me in the skirt of his own garment! What
darkness ran fall upon my eyelids then
amid the heavenly, daybreak? O Death, I
will not fear thee then. Back to thy 1
cavern of darkness, thou robber of all the
earth. Fly! thou despoiler of families.
With this battle ax 1 hew thee in twain 1
from helmet to sandal, the voice of Christ 1
sounding all over the earth and through the
heavens: "O Death, I will be thy plague. ]
O Grave. I will be thy destruction.”
To be saved is to wake up in the presence
of Christ You know when Jesus was upon
earth how happy he made every house he 1
went into, and when he brings us up to his 1
house in heaven bow great will be our glee.
His voice has more music in it than is to be 1
beard in all the oratorios of eternity.
Talk not about banks dashed with efflor- 1
escense. Jesus is the chief blood of heaven.
Me shall see the very face that beamed
sympathy-in Bethany, and take the very
i ham that dropped its blood from the short 1
l‘ am-of the cross. Oh! 1 want to stand in 1
eternity with him. Toward that harbor I 1
steer Toward that goal 1 run. I shall be 1
satisfied when I awake in his likeness.
Oh,roken hearted men anu women, bow
sweet it will be in that good land to pour 1
all your hardships and bereavements and
losses into t he loving ear of Christ, and then
have hin explain why it was best for you 1
to be widowed, and why it was best for you
to be persecuted, and why it was best for.
you to be tried, and have him point to an
. elevation proportionate to your disquietude,
saving: You suffered with me ou < arth,
come up now and be glorified with me in 1
heaven.” Some one went into a house
where there had been a good deal of 1
trouble, and said to the woman there: '
• You seem to be lonely.” “Yes,” she.
taid, 1 am lonely.” “How many in
He family?" “Only myself.” “Have.
You had any children!” “I had seven chil- 1
dren.” “Where are they!” -All gone! 1
"All.” “Alldead: “All.” Then she
breathed a long sigh into the loneliness, and I
said: “Oh, sir, I have been a good mother 1
to the grave.” And so there are hearts here
that are" utterly broken dowa by the be-
reavements of life. 1 point you today to
t he eternal bairn of heaven. Are there'any
here that I am missing this morning! Oh,
you poor waiting inaid ! your heart's sorrow
3 Gov. Hill did his duty in the matter
firmly and well.—New York World.
An Extraordinary Railroad.
One of the most interesting achieve-
ments in modern engineering is the.
electric mountain railway, recently ■
opened to the public at the Burgenstock,
near Lucerne. The rails describe one
grand curve formed up on an angle of
112 degrees, and the system is snch
that, the journey is made as steadily and
smoothly as upon any of the straight
funicular lines. The Burgenstock is
almost perpendicular—from the shore
of Lake Lucerne‘to the Burgenstock is
1,830 feet, and it is 2,860 feet above
the level of the sea. The total length
of the line is 938 metres, and it com
which is increased to 58 per cent after
the first 400 metres, this being main-
tained for the rest of ths journey. A
single pair of rails is used throughout,
and the motive power, electricity, is
generated by two dynamos’each of
twenty-five horse power, which are
worked by a water wheel of nominally
125 power, erected upon the river Aar
at its mouth at Buochs, three miles
away, the electric current being con-
ducted by means of insulated copper
wires. The loss in transmission is
733 and $34 MAIN STREET
DALLAS, TEXAS,
I. H. BENTLEY
Spot Cash Grocer,
WEST SIDE SQUARE, ALVARADO, e
-DEALER IN-
Staple and Fancy Groceries and Country Produce.
His stock is new and fresh and the public are cordially invited
to call and examine before purchasing- elsewhere. He guarantees
first class goods and prices as low as the lowest.
Farm
Read Illis Twice.
There is probably no progressive farmer m Texas who has not seen and 'read a copy of TRK AS
Th/' on A aY MmitNSF EN IILUSTRATED AGRICULTURAL aid FAMILY PAPER M
Dollar a year which it costs, places it within the reach of all. It is published semi-monthly at Dallas, Texas
i$ 16 pages, 64 columns of good, home reading matter, especially st ited to the Southern farmer. It ha,
. 1 de par ments, under the direction of practical and experienced editors, devoted to FARM and STOCK,
COKKESPONBENCE, POULTRY, THE HOUSEHOLD, FARM MACHINERY (with illustrations of new and im. -
proved machines), ORCHARD and GARDEN, TEXAS NEWS, YOUNG, FOLKS and the various experiments
J here are some documents of so little im.
I portance that you do not care to put any
I more than your last name under them, or
j even your initials; but there are some doc-
■ uments of so great importance that you
| write out your full panic. So the Saviour
in some parts of the Bible is called 1.ord
and in other parts of the Bible he is called
a "Christ: but that there might be no mis
I take about this passage, all three names
I come together-The Lord JesusChrist."
Now who is this being that you want me
I to trust in and believe in: Men sometimes
I come to me with credentials and certificates
I ot good character, but I cannot trust them.
There is some dishonest y in their looks that
makes me know 1 shall be cheated if 1 coni
I fide in them. You cannot put your heart’s
confide nee in a man until you know what
stuff he is made of, and am I unreasonable
I to day when 1 slop to ask you who this is
that you want me to trust in ‘ "No man would
think of venturing his life on a vessel going
out to sea that had never been inspected
No you must have the certificate hung
amigships, telling how many tons it car
ries, and how long ago it was built, and
who built it, and all about it. And you
cannot expect me to risk the cargo of my
immortal interests on board any craft till
u I you tell me what it is made of and where
land on the farm was expected to give but it was made and what it is, when, there
- * 14 413- * 4* - T ask you who this is you want me to trust
I in, you tell me he was a very attractive
I person. Contemporary writers describe
I his whole appearance as being resplendent.
There was no need for Christ to tell the
I children to come to him, “Suffer little
| children to come unto me,” was not spoken
■ to the children: it was spoken to the dis:
j ciples. The children came readily enough
I without any invitation No sooner did
| Jesuspppear than the little ones jumped
| from their mother’s arms, an avalanche of
| beauty and love, into his lap Christ did
not ask John to put his head down on his
I bosom; Jotin could not help but put his
1 head there. I suppose to look at Christ
was to love him. Uh, how attractive his
manner Why, when they saw Christ
■ coming along the street they ran into their
houses, and they wrapped up their in
livalids as quick as they could, and brought
them out that he might look at them. There
j was something so pleasant, so inviting so
I cheering in everything he did, in his very
j look. . W hen these sick ones were brought;
J out, did he say: “Do not, bring me these
sores: do not trouble me with these lepro.
sies!" Np, no; there was a kind look,
I there was a gentle word, there was a heal-
I ing touch. They could not keep away from
I In addition to this softness of character
I there was a fiery momentum. How the
I kings of the earth turned pale. Here is a
I plain man with a few sailors at his back.
I coming off the sea of Galilee, going up to
I the palace of the Carsars, making that pal
I ace quake to the foundations, and uttering
1 a word of mercy and kindness which throbs
I through all the earth, and through all the
heavens, and through all ages. Oh, he was
• loving Christ. But it was not effeminacy
I or insipidity of character: it was accompa-
■ nied with majesty, infinite and omnipotent.
■ Lest the world should not realize his car
j nestness, this Christ mounts the cross.
IYou say: "If Christ has to die, why not
let him take some deadly, potion and lie on a
I couch in some bright and beautiful home ?
I If He must die, let Him expire amid all
kindly intentions.” No, the world must
hear the hammers on the heads of the spikes.
The world must listen to the death rattle of
the sufferer. The world must feel his warm
blood dropping on each cheek, while it looks
up into the face of his anguish. And so the
cross must be lifted and a hole is dug on
the top of Calvary. It must be dug three
feet deep-ed then the cross is laid on the
ground, and the sufferer is strecthed upon
H and the nails are pounded through
nerve and muscle and bone, through 1
the right hand, through the left
hand, and then they shake his right hand
to see if it is fast, and they heave up the : . .coms- wo ve K
wood, ha If a dozen shoulders under the said, 1 am lonely.”
weight and they put the end of the cross in I e family?” “Onl
the mouth of the hole, and they plunge it in, -
all the weight of his body coining down for
the first time on the spikes; and while some
hold the cross upright others throw in the
dirt and trample it down, and trample it
hard. Oh, plant that tree well and thor
oughly, for it is to bear fruit such as no oth
er tree ever bore. Why aid-Christ endure
it! He could have taken those rocks and
with them crushed his crucitiers. He could
have reached up and and grasped the sword , .„„ moos -...,...../....„..: your nearvs sorrow
of the omnipotentGod, with one clean poured in no human ear, lonely and sad!
cut have tumbled them into perdition But how glad you will Be when Christ shall dis
no: he was to die. He must die. His life band all your sorrows and crown you queen
for your life. In * European city a young unto God and the Lamb forever! Aged
man died on the scaffold for the crime of i men and women, fed by his
murder. Some time after the mother of 4 and warmed by his grace for three,
this young man was dying, and the priest score years and ten!. will not your
came and she made confession to the decrepitude change for the leap of a hart
priest that she was the murderer and not 1 when you come to look face to face upon
her son in * moment of anger she had limes whom having not seen vou lover That
struck her husband a blow that slew him will be the Good Shepherd, not out in the
The son came suddenly into the room, and night and watching to keep off the wolves,
was washing away the wounds and trying but with the lamp reclining on the sunlit
to resuscitate his father, when some one hill. That will be the captain of our saiva.
looked through the window and saw him, tion, not amid the roar and crash and boom
and supposed him to be the criminal That of battle, but amid his disbanded troops
young man 2 died for his own mother. You keebing victorious s’ festi vity. Thatwil 1 be
say: It was wonderful that he never ex the Bridegroom of the Church coming from
posed her." But I tell you of * grander ! afar, the bride leaning upon his arm while
thing. Christ, the Son of God, died not for he looks down into her face, and says: pel
his mother, nor for his father, but for his 1 hold, thou art fair, my love! Behold, thou
sworn enemies. O, such a Christ as that- 1 art fair, 21 220
their solemn ceremonies. A strong infu-
sion being made on such occasions, the
braves alone partook of it, the one longest
resisting its emetic powers being regarded
Man evidence of superiority. In North
| Carolina the whites at one time used it to
purify the brakish water, a few leaves
boiled in the water a moment improving
it. The yaupon grows best near the coast,
! but will not stand severe winter weather.
rested. ..... cauuea.
This plan is taken from a handsome lit-
the pamphlet entitled ‘Artistic Homes,”
A
Run-Out Orchards.
We often meet with an orchard of appar-
ently healthy trees, which Is practically
fruitless. The owner may tell us that it
formerly bore abundant crops, but of late
years the trees have “run out.” Why
have they “run ont?” They formerly
gave good crops of apples. All the other
one good crop, but this of the orchard was
made to give a crop of grain, or a crop of
midnight, and the | & Ohio road and on the South Carolina
road. It was then a serious question
whether the motive power on railroads
would be sail, horse or steam. The
steam locomotive was still looked up-
on as an experiment. Sail ‘cars
are used to-day on a-guano
railroad on the island of Malden,
Lin the south Pacific. They are, in fact,.
used nearer home than that for rail-
road men at Barnegat beach, when the-
, PERSPECTIVE VIEW. 4
The estimated cost of the completed
building is $600, and it is described as fol-
lows to the book of plans: First story,
LIVING
ROOM.
CHAMBER
SIT TING *
R0OM -
CHAMBER
FLOOR FLAKS.
grass or clover, to be taken off as hay. The
soil soon became tired of doing this double
duty. The trees “gave out” because they
were robbed of food; the first thing they
need is feeding. Of course if the soil needs
draining, lay the needed tiles at once, or as
soon as the soil will allow. Such orchards
are usually in grass; draw on a heavy
dressing of manure and spread it, and, as
soon as the soil to in proper condition, turn
over the sod and the manure with the
plow; with the hot weather the sod will
decay rapidly. When this is found to be
well rotted, give another plowing, and a
deep one. If ashes can be bad, spread#
heavy coating and harrow; in the absence
of ashes, harrow in a good dressing of lime.
If the trunk and larger branches are cov-
ered with loose scales of old bark upon
which lichens and mosses have a foot-hold,
scrape off the loose bark, using a blunt,
made from time to time on the TEXAS FALM MI RANCHEXPEKIMENTAL FARM. This
darm is situated about 30 miles from Dallas and comprises 228 acres. It is under the direction of a compe.
tent superintendent who personally conducts experiments with new and old plants, seeds, her e me.
hinery, etc., and who gives the results through the column* of TEXAS FARM AD RANCH. Tins de.
jartment alone is worth many times the subscription price to any farmer or stockman who believes in ■
roserom. progress and improved methods of agriculture. With TEX As a
at FRY AND RANCH and four county paper you are fully 0 2
Corlnaenswaoifykeemng abreast of the times. A sample copy Ago Geds
KOA or TEX as PA KM AND RANCHI will be sent you on application It IA.
to Texas Farm and Ranch Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas. —e-ehewC
We have made special arrangements with tife Texas Farm and
Ranch whereby we can send that.paper and the ALVARADO WEEK
LY BULLETIN for one year for the price of, the BULLETIN alone .
TWO ($2) DOLLARS. All remittances must be addressed to : 0
THE WEEKLY BULLETIN, ALVARADO, TEXAS. .
wind is favorable, frequently ride over :
the road on construction cars—sloop- •
riggid. “The wind has a good deal to
do with railroading even to-day,” Mr.
Watkins said." If you goto the bureau
of intelligence, at the Broad street
station, Philadeiptria, and ask whether
some train, say from New York, is
likely to be on time, you may be in-
formed that it is likely to. be
four or five minutes late, because
there is a strong wind from the west.
Winds make considerable difference in
the runn|ng time of trains
W. C. Pfaeffle,
DEALER IN
- Diamonds, Watches,
JEWELRY, CLOCKS, STERLING
' . SILVER AND SILVER
PLATED WARE
′ Frains in Demand.
M hear a gool many young fel-
lows,” said an old New York mer-
chant, recently, “growling nowadays
that the chances to make a fortune in
this city are all gone, that is, for men
whose only capital is their brains.
They look around at the great business
houses “already established and con-
sider the fierce competition in every
branch of trade, and their hearts fail
them. The truth is that there never
were such chances to make money as
now for young men of real ability in
this city. It is a hard place of course,
for men ofmere average talent to get
along in, but brains are needed here
as never before. ' Merchants who have
built up great trade? and want, to ‘let
up’ a little in their labors, must have
smart men to whom they can safely
entrust details. .':
FINE WATCH WORK and ENGRAVING
Coods Seat on Selection.
605 MAIN STREET.
FORT WORTH, TEX
short handled hoe as a scraper. Then in a
easy-going habits and docile and affection-9 .... —_ ... .u ccun, cenar. *
ate disposition, that seem almost imsepar. First story contains sitting room 15XT damp time wash the trees with soft soap,
bly associated with the race, but little idea feet; living room, 13x15, with pantry, made thin enough to apply with a brush,
can be formed of "the real luxury and solid Attic story contains two large bedrooms. Use home-made soft soap, made with lye
* comfort to be derived from this source of Cellar under living room,
necessary supply to the family needs.
Every family requires milk and cream, and
in cities and towns in .almost every section
feet high in the clear, cellar, 6 feet
made thin enough to apply with a brush.
• A Virginia -Barn.
or potash. Mix the soap with enough
water to work readily, go over the scraped
The accompanying plan represents the
. . . . ground floor of a Virginia barn constructed
of the country the universal cry goes up by a young farmer “out of his own head.”
condemning the quality of these articles M Following is the description: The main
furnished by the average dairyman; hence, building is 24x88 feet, with 15-foot posts
those whose surroundings and eircum- | (her posts ought to have been 20 reet),
stances are fafprable adopt the more satis- with a 12-foot lean to all around. ,
factory plan of obtaining the supply from 0
their own family cow. There is no animal I
so well and so thoroughly adapted for this
purpose as the Jersey.—The Argus.
Invest on the Home Farm.
Many a farmer would greatly augment
his prosperity by devoting more means to
- permanent and other improvements upon
his farmstead. Somebody has said, and
we think sensibly, that one of the greatest-
leaks on a farm is the practice of robbing
it to get money to put into a savings bank.
In such a bank or deposit four or five per
: cent interest may be secured (if the cashier
don’t happen to be operating in Wall street
or speculating elsewhere) while the same
money put back on the farm in the way of
Improved stock, machinery, better build-
fug, underdraining, fences, orchards, etc.
would, after a few years, return dividends
of fifty per cent. Money in the bank don’t
usually show until it comes up in the ad-
ministrator’s hands, but in good stock
and well cultivated farms it will give re-
turns speedily and with certainty. There
to another way in which some, if not
many, farmers "miss it by investing to
the wrong place. For example, many a
* grasping and ambitious farmer lives penu-
portions with it, and leave the rain to finish
the work. In due time the bark will be
found beautifully smooth and deprived of
all foreign growth. The soap that has
been washed into the soil will act as a use-
ful fertilizer.
Call to Prayer.
“The complaint that the ‘bosses’ re-
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DEAL IN THE BEST AND PUREST
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a child to born, the call to prayer
should be sounded to his right ear. It is
at once a recognition of the fact, recog-
nized alike by Jew, Christian and Moham-
medan, that “man’s chief end is to glorify
God,” and a call to the child to fulfil that
end of his being. And just here the
Mohammedan might read some. Christians
a lesson. There are Christian families
where the call to prayer is never sounded
in the ear of the children.
Be Able to Say “No!”
Many a boy has entered che downward
path merely because he lacked courage to
refuse his companionship to those who had
already taken that road. Mrs Bottome
says: “It takes character to say No?
The threw Hebrew children said, We will
latives are put over the heads of the
more deserving clerks is not true.
That scheme is playing out and will
not work. No wise man will risk his
business in the hands of an incompe-
'tent son or nephew if he can get a bet-
ter and more faithful employe to at-
tend to it It would pay him better to
pension the relative. These men get
salaries that were unheard of in my
day, and although the prices of land
have risen greatly since then, the op-
portunities for a young fellow to se-
cure a home of his own, were, never
better that they are in New York to-
day.—New York Tribune.
Exclusively, to be found in the Market, which they sell at Lowest
. • Living Prices.
COMPOUNDING PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY.
A Large Stock of Stationery, Books and Wall Paper
waTa os max. . "
Ir. King’s Royal Germateur.
The capacity of this - barn is eight stalls not serve thy God;’ and there they rested,
for horses, four of them are roomy for har- They had nothing to do with the results,
messing work horses, and four smaller for If the king threw them into the fiery fur-
horses, or colts, that are not worked” The nace, that was his business; and it was
sheds, which are planked “up or down” on Cod’s business to look after the fire when
the north or west sides, will hold fifty they were thrown in. They simply said
calves aud 100 sheep. The cows find and acted, ‘No, we will not.’ Dare to say,
ample shelter and protection under the ’No!’”
Both Going to Dinner.
Business man—“I had two urgent
engagements to make to-day, one with
an Englishman and one with an Ameri-
can."1 5.M
‘Friend —“Yes.”
Business man——"The Englishman
told me he would meet ine at 8 o'clock
this evening, allot he had dined, the
hour for which was 5 o’clock.” ?
Friend— “And the American?"
Business man—“Oh, he said: I'll
meet you in ten minutes—as soon as
I've had dinner.' "+Chicago Globe.
--SOLD IN ALVARADO BY R. P. SANSOM,
Read the testimonials of some of our citizens who have used
the Royal Germateur.
This is to certify that my wife has not been able to walk across
the house for twelve months on account of Rheumatism until she.
used KING’S ROYAL GERMATLUR. Ehe is now able to do bee
honse.work, &e., having used one gallon of the Germatenr.
Barnesville, Texas, May 19, 1889. W. A. MCDONALD.
Judge Woodsoy says.—"Had it not been for one jug of GEBA
MATEUR he believes he would have been in his grave,”
This is to state that I her „used over a gallon of GERMATEUR 1
including myself and family, G tun very willingly recommend it lot
Dyspepsia. I also consider it a good appeti-er. . I deem it well
worth a trial. - , H. U. PURDOM
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