Lawrence Daily Kansas Tribune (Newspaper) - October 19, 1882, Lawrence, Kansas VOLUME Any a subscriber or 10 takes the paper ier directed to his name or r It responsible for the pay THE LIAR IN ed for and for On and on lake throughout hud with a llv a v with a bait But for his fume hes 11 liar in There nre liars in and liars in bo talk in seems wonderful I tho have done Hlit they relate ftr a man resents with And with buch small Shis Mar in And hed 1 in H to mak II a Northern annt IKI captured ali this liar In To his oner he IS the for hr Tin y or IB nowhere compared with ibis liar in Tim liar in numbers catch UK inns place know pacu Iui you o relate Ion re this liar in CATTLE Mow IM g and the in A representative the Tribune an interesting conversation with who is in the from his ranch in Wyoming Territory with a ol and learning the facts which will he of interest to the His ranch is is mi the in Carbon forty miles of the union Pacific Railroad and miles west of and the The run is more or in and is used in common by sonic eleven or who own an of about of then with live in log cabins more or less capacious and in of thq i and mot of them a earden an The watched b mounted herders or at will over the living on the though a sorry in ol an found to be for their The winters a r and u large amount of snow fall It dry and blows oi mid the cattle subsist on the dry which greatly resembles hay in In the spring all the ranchmen wit assemble and go over th entire range for the of brandin the About cattle are drive together each day and Th corral is a large fenced in will pine logs put together very am capable of resisting any com mo ion whici may arise among Each ranch man then brands the calf which is follow ing a cow bearing his It is takei for granted that the calf is his property and if a calf bearing another man brand is found following the cow th matter is remedied by the owner of tin brand handing over an calf which is thereupon branded with thi first mans and the matter is set Kadi man consults his own fancy as t his and a large variety hi including knives Each has also an by which li distinguishes his cattle when the winter coat of hair renders brand The va riety is seen earmarks as in brands some men slitting each or cutting oi the while the severing of one oa close to head is notan The branding is done with u hot generally placed well forward oi the left about six inches from tlu Jn this way the whole is gone over until the branding is fin the men living in tents and sub sisting on beef and what game comes in their The cattle are active and run A stampede is a occurrence and upt to be if not properly man The stumbling of a horse or any unusual noise may cause and the cat tle once started will run until turning aside for nothing and demolish ing anything which be in their When a stampede the herdsman immediately rides to the side of the herd near the and turns the cattle eventually bringing them to the point at which they up the process until the herd b exhausted and Even when turned in this manner the cattle fre run from ten to twenty miles before The cattle usually shipped to mar ket in the at which time the round up In as in the nil the each man fur his quota of The pro portion is about one herder to 500 The latter are gathered in immense herds and the cattle destined for ship ment picked A man mounted on a trained horse rides into the drove and picks out a The horse then fol lows the turning it to the right or left and keeping it headed for the outside ofthe When the cat tle for shipment are collected they are driven in one large herd to the and are guarded day and night by mounted About twenty are put in a and the freight is per about per head to feed them on the and the trip consumes seven The use of dogs is forbidden by und the herdsman relies entirely upon himself and ids to do the The horses used are Indian and are valuable in proportion to their knowledge of the They are OCTOBER NUMBER and day camp and drives morning at 4 them into the fast and frequently traveling and seventy miles in a A and well trained pony worth and they range in price from that amount down to Each Bun has from four to six and on the average half a day two In the roundup a F Jit 1 U QJ herders being in the saddle by Many of the ponies are and will unseat the most skillful a man who is able to stick on au adept bucker being exceedingly A bueker jumps up six feet or so into the land ing his fore and repeats the operation so rapidly that the jumps can hardly be until the rider is unseated nnd flung The herders are paid from to 2o per according to their skill with the It is of the lassoer as it of the Almost any man can learn to lasso a steer by the horns or throw the loop over a horses but only a man born to the Business can catch a steer by the horse and steer on the dead When the lasso is thrown the cowboy coils the end around the pommel of his the braces and when the rope tightens the steer usually measures his length upon the The cow are a hardworking set of at least in the locality described verv decent Denisons boys is a graduate of and intends to practice No arms are carried and there Cattle shipped to market when three years old but calves are worth at on the The proportion of cows in the herd is about and the natural increase is therefore large and are often seen on the buying up cattle and shipping them to market but the length of time consumed in petting tlie cattle to their destination makes the risk con In the legitimate business the risk ia probably less than in any other mode of investing There is no disease as no and the very severe winter is only one which tlie cattle men much The cattle men in a large during all seasons of the year upon which is present in great variety and abundance at this Antelope form tlie main us they nam in herds of from to and other large game are abun but arc more timid and harder to Tiie country is quiet and the popu lation From tlie very nature of things there is no attraction for the loafer and the Every man works and works and with proper energy and care theres millions in The Population of the The Lacquer Trees of The the wellknown lacquer tree of is met with all oyer the main and also in smaller quantities in but it is from northward that it princi pally growing freely on moun tains as well as in the indica ting that moderate climate suite the tree better than a very warm Since early days the cultivation ofthe tree has been encouraged by the and as the lacquer industry increased plantations were made in every province and Tiie lacquer tree can be propagated by seed at the end of and allowing for some twenty days of during which the sap cannot be the season is brought to a close by the end of When the full number of incisions has been the workman gives an extra long cut under all the initial notches on each tree to obtain the sap which has collected and another above the uppermost cut of each These incisions are called The sap obtained from the first five cuts above each notch is as it a large proportion of water the middle January or the beginning of The first year the seedlings reach a height of from ten inches to one The following spring the young trees are transplanted about six feet and in ten years an average tree should be ten feet the diameter of its trunk two and a half inches to three and its yield of lacquer sufficient to fill athree ounce A more speedy method generally The roots of a vigorous young tree arc and pieces six inches long and the thickness of a finger are planted out in n slanting direction a few inches one inch being left exposed above the This takes place at the end of February and through according to the climate of the These cuttings throw a strong shoot off from eighteen to twenty inches the first are likewise planted out the equally favorable circumstances these trees would in ten years lie nearly twentyfive per cent larger in some two or three feet and would yield nearly half as much more sap than the trees raised from It has not hitherto been the custom to bestow any special care on the trees after Ranting them but in cases where leaf or other manure has been applied I from they are much Of late years hill sides and waste grounds alone have been used for lacquer owing to the rise in the price of cereals and farm it does not pay the armors to have their land Those that have been hitherto Jan ted along the borders of the fields are being rapidly used and where mulberry trees planted with a view to rearing silk as a good work nan is expected during tho to tup in average of trees ten snd as the province of alone fifteen cuts produce the best and the sap obtained from the last five incisions is the sap obtained from the Urame baek Tome finishing cuts is verv and dries ssp from the first twentyfive cuts is mixed and sold but the and Tome sap always mixed and sold sep The operations above described kill the tree in one but frequently the tree is made to last two years or more by giving only half the number of in and reserving the and Tome cuts for the final The sap obtained the second and following years of an inferior and this only resorted to by pri vate individuals who tap their own trees luring of Ordi a wholesale dealer in buys so many thousand trees from the ind as a matter of extracts the The sun shall not smite thee by day nor the moon by This Terse expresses the common in ancient that the moon exercises a upon those Exposed to her direct In modern times the pernicious influence of moon has been doubted and even But whatever the influence of the moon in the temperate within the tropics it is very injurious to sleep exposed to its especially when at the On a voyage to the when near the a Maltese who was a most comical slept for some hours on the boom with his face towards the full On awaking in thp the muscles of the right side of his face were so that every attempt to was attended with the most ludi Feeling sure that something was seriously he spoke to another supposing that as usual he was at his burst out into Oil he went to with exactly the same The poor fellow now got into a thereby add ing not a little to Judiciousness of sap with as little delay as mak ing a contract for the purpose with pro A firstrate workman will receive over 100 yen at the present low rate of to nearly for tlie and can collect four and a half tubs equivalent to eighteen gallons but the average receive 75 and collect proportionately The j present price per tub of lacquer I from W to 100 After tho sap lias i been the exhausted which remains the property of the is cut him and used for for building or for making the After a the truth dawned upon the captain and officers of the The doctor gave him some the muscles gradually nnd in the course of a week our Maltese friend was well Some five or six years when sailing from Tahiti to a little loy of in perfect was thoughtlessly placed by his ae s nurse in his the beams of the moon falling on his Next morning he was feverish and and it was two or three days before he was him self On the the island of Aitutaki a native woman was watching night after night for the return of her husband from the island of Whilst doing so one 1 1 1 i The Cats of night she fell pouring her the moons rays On awaking she felt and her eyes were on one ends out tappers yearly to he various lacquer ft will be In the new edition of Behm and that an production annual ners der the total y takes by population the globe is estimated at i tlie demand for cheap lacquered articles 1 It is only two years since j It should also be mentioned that the last issue of the work and then the to remedy the of the was showing an mid in view of the apparent decrease in two years of almost I rise which has taken place in This at first seems j the price of several companies especially as the recent censuses of all i arc being projected to plant waste lands the great countries show an increase of with A which over the previous some five years ago cost from one The apparent discrepancy is accounted to two now costs ten which lor by the fact that the editors of the i allowing even for the depreciation in the on a careful revision of j value of the paper shows a rise all the information as tothe population about 500 per The best trans parent lacquer comes from the districts of there are some districts the ob from which is best for certain kinds of is not so well adapted for The kind which is used for of have come to the conclusion that their former estimate was far to and instead of that vast em pire having a population of over not with all its independent There lias thus been an actual increase of about in the population of the which must transparent lacquer is mixed in tubs to insure uniform ami being allowed to stand for some time be spread over ten as of tho i a week or ten best por censuses are For Enj which is ordinarily seventy per of the skimmed This is used for and rupe the present population is rated at showing an increase about over this previous by the operation of hi making allowance for the readjustment if the population of there has been an increase of the present population being set down at Of this the Indian Empire while all the vast of in Asia supports a population of only about fourteen and a half millions The Central Asian possessions of Kussi a population of only five millions With regard to liave estimated at various figure from seven to sixteen Delim and Wagner give eight and a hal millions as the Tlu of Persia they have reduced on the basis of recent ght am a half millions to little more than seven and James a half France and The who since their defeat in 870 payed great attention to co extention and have annexed Tunis and the New arebe to be provoking a war in Madagas Their Consul Baudais las so irritated the Queen that she lias out to Europe to complain ut the Consul refuses to allow it to If the French Government is ient on Madagascar is a mosl as it is twice as large as contains most fertile provinces ol good and fine and full of It a great that any European power should interfere in for he the dominant a apparently exhibit a narked tendency to develop an original they would resist the French would be compelled o rely on the a decidedly in It is hat the French Government he project of which the Consul sua little too large Queen Rana a person of remarkable as fair the coast districts f the island are very and a conquest would occupy at least The Princess of now in her IU is described as looking a day older than on March nineteen years she stood at the Itar by the ride of her yonng do advancing years save to deepen and the regard and in which sneis held by the peo le of By common consent she is placed beyond the region of What does ia the topic of free or blame a score of clubs and in Bui the good taste of the ii nera for a moment ioto while the used for making inferior such as Almost all the various classes uf lacquer similarly dealt with to insure uni as some qualities dry much quicker and arc better than and the qualities would other wise remain The whole coun try produces at on an average from to tubs per each being about four gallons ca Some seventy or eighty per of this total amount is produced from Tokio Nearly onehalf of the produced is sent to the Osaka where it is prepared as required and resold all over the western and southern the remaining portion used up lucally and iT The usual age at which a tree i tapped is sixteen but in cases a tree is tapped when only three o four years The best lacquer fo transparent varnish is obtained fron trees from 100 to 200 years as thei sap has more and is more glu The first tapping takes place about the beginning of Th standard of trees allotted to tapper for the season is them to be about ten years old the size of the small about SOO of the size of the and so lew and less according to the size of the Having cleared away the grass from the the workman makes the round of his allotted marking each with small notches about half an The first of these notches is about six indies from the bottom of the tree on the side the next one hand stretch higher up on the left hand side the next one hand stretch higher on the and so alterr as far as tlie workman can These preliminary which are to determine all the preliminary places for subsequent take fully four tlie rate of 250 treesa The tapper then goes round provided with the bark the ordinary scraping the Summer and 1 the curiosities amateur branch of the Humane fur the especial benefit of poor A curious legacy was some years ago left by a wealthy burgher to enlarge the perma net income of the condition of his nourishing cherishing all the unclaimed in Like most ho must have shared the feeling which made the Prophet cut off the wide sleeve of his sooner than disturb a favorite cat who had fallen asleep Consequently large courtyard has been devoted to their spe cial benefit and here the furry lie and bask in the and are fed jit stated and altogether have a very good time of It a curious although daily additions arc made to this lanre feline the inmates amount well Considerable interest was felt b the islanders in her her eyes were These facts the injury done to human beings by the moon in the Vet I I never heard of insanity or death result ing from this It is weil in tropical countries that the moons occasion the rapid of and A number of having been caught one evening near the line by friend of the spoil was hung up in the rigging of the and was thus exposed to the moon his wore dark with coat and modern silk M did his at None wore hats in meeting save the venerable Friend who seemed t preside on the mens asd he laic his off during Just as the silence was becoming painful Friend Phoebe of rose in high seats on the womens side and spoke a few partly of founded upon the Saviors presence al the marriage in Soon after 11 oclock and with it the supreme trial of nerve and self At a signal from a Gummere stood up tendering his hand to Miss she rose more and they stood facing the whole In a even voice he pronounced the solemn formula settled upon by imme usage In tlie presence of the Lord and this assembly I take Amelia Smith Mott to be iny I with the Divine to be unto her a loving and faithful husband until death shall sepa rate There was a but the col herself and looking up as if for strength and said reverently in a clear and beautiful voice In the presence of the Lord and of this I take Francis Barton to be my with the Divine to be unto liim a loving and faithful wife until death shall separate Their part of the though yet admirably was and the newly wedded pair seated them selves Another pause and Friend John Garrett rose and delivered a mild through the Next morning it was cooked for Symptoms of poi ing were exhibited by all who partook of it their heads swelling to a great Emetics were promptly and happily no one The natives of the Smith Pacific are care ful expose fish a constant ar ticle of diet in many islands to the moons rays by They often sleep by the seashore after but to more than This in the absence of sausage machines is a remarkable I suppose that a candidate for the of Cadi has to produce a medi cal certificate to prove that he is not troubled with that unconquerable aversion to dear old Puss with which so many of the masculine The said aversion was one day turned to excellent account by one of our mutual whose next neighbor in chambers made himself odious by prac tising on or big or some such instrument of in spite of the civil entreaties of our who was nearly wild with At exasperated beyond he sallied forth and invested in large packet of which he sprinkled on the low roofs below the Of in half an hour all the cats in the never with the face The of Australia do the same as s they can with their fishing A lire answers the same May not the injurious influence of the moon in addition to her beamy and util ity account for the almost universal worship of that orb throughout the heathen at A Quaker Weddin Francis Barton last year instructor of Eng lish literature at Harvard ami just appointed head master of the new Swain Free at New was united in marriage to Amelia Smith daughter of Kichard at the Friends in Bur Ninth The though it had all the essentials of the Quaker marriage oddly but prettily combined the accesso had crazy j ries which are usually regarded as pecu witli issued cards of invitation to all their and very soon of each more mad than its were dancing and lighting and the barbarian musical carrack was tearing his in a frenzy nearly as wild as the liar to church There were bridesmaids and groomsmen and The antique meetinghouse on Mail of could not be at but the gay of the world who came in from friendship o partly relieved its grim plain as J Is grim plain His neighbor was so delighted at the sue The general public may not know cess of his that his headache I that in addition to first day Meanwhile a of rain j friends always hold one inthe the pot to hold the first smoothing the and bark where gives one cut above and one cut below the two lower and one cut above the remainder of the other the cut being in each case about one arid a half inches vine die cut the instrument is reversed ana the knife is ran along the incision to in sure the bark being entirely cut this process is repeated every four each being made a little longer han the preceding np to the fifth after which the re are made of same At each when all the requisite incisions have been made on the the workman gathers the sap which has exuded with the beginning on to he uppermost nww he the each 100 Twentyfive is oon cuta washed the valerian into the courtyard of the answering to the Friday o Then everyone who walked j other midweek services of other across the court brought in particles except that it is held in tin thereof on the soles of his feet and the It is at this time that mar are usually In Bur lington the day is By oclock an unwonted many in cats found their way upstairs by even into the chambers of the on the was very fairly They seem to have the same affection for very young and come and lie down und roll on it in the most vating Speaking of is it not to hear that the cats of Lon real household to number three hundred without any sort of calculation for houseless whoso nasal yells disturb nocturnal peace amount annually spent on purchasing horseflesh from the cats meat men of London is said to be according to should be a proof of the folly of who are generally sup posed to have a monopoly of feline The great cat show held in Lon don a few years betrayed a very different state of domestic tlie male exhibitors being so numerous and so successful that they carried ofi thirtytwo prizes fifteen were secured by cat loving while to the old maids there were only awarded four Without Any The king of Spain sent an astonished the venerable Friend who has charge of the but who saw himself superseded by the youthful As the doors were open to strangers filled the uncomfortable scats in the wooden but al observed the proprieties of the place The etiquette if the such occasions wipes out temporarily the line between the mens and womens sides of the and they sit to gether Scats are re served for the contracting parties on the womens immediately at the foot of those elevated benches on which the leaders of the meeting confronting Prt l I to the a young man of high with a special The informed that a special envoy of the king of Spain demanded an imagined that he would received an aged minister covered with vener white Instead of which in walked with light elastic steps quite a foung Haughty and the Pope looked and at last said Are all the old diplomatists in Spain that the King sends us wu V WV without even a leune lomme said the indignant if the my had that honor m a he would sent you a and not a like Temple ranks as the banner County of the United VM the To these when all the wedding party entered through the open the ushers leading the No march pealed forth on this nor was there any parade of flowers and When the brides father and the grooms mother sat side accompanied by a and u sisterin law to represent the deceased Tlie bridesmaids and groomsmen sat the small table on which certificate was to be signed being The lovely bride who serve as a painters ideal of the refined Quaker maiden at her best sat quietly with downcast but very in spite of nave always been noted indulgence in rich and she was no her dress being of the finest cream v with long train and cut at the with point applique and a bunch af natural flowers at the She wore a small bonnet of white trimmed with white but without veil or this forming the main departure from the conventional wedding Her hands were cov ered with long white kid and she carried a swansdown The brides maids were more simply dressed in com bination costumes of white em broidery and The who is tall an in with full look older than of knelt upon the side and it fervent or all good gifts to those int me ceremony ng of the which in this form of marriage is done by the parties selves and witnessed by so many of present as which includes all he relatives and thus admitted a pleasant nnd lasting participation in he Both sides of Professor and on a roomy sheet of were nearly covered with first it is to be read to the Dut arises and tin folds it ns follows OP namini with their res idence and parentage declared intentions of with each other before a monthly of tho religious society of at according to the pood order used unions having consent of their surviving their Bald proposal of was allowed of by the said these arc to whom it may that for tho full accomplish day if the ninth the year Lord The said Francis find Smith Motl appeared in a the said held nt und tho said by the on this solemn publicly de he took tho said to be his with Divine to until hum I is tlie said and she the of her as a further continuation there then and to sot their And names urc hereunto lit Iho ol the said and have us witnesses then to sot our hands this dity year above ISot much chance for mistakes of iden tity or clandestine marriages about this At the of an aged Friend the bridal procession was allowed to depart it but in reverse and the others then rose and slowly many to prepare for the which an hour later at the residence of Locust Timber The locust and eucalyptus grow to be magnificent trees in this and each possesses a fine grained tex that recommends these woods for use in the manufacture of wagons and agricultural In early days a great many locust trees were planted in Napa and which have at fine proportions and straight The wood of each of these trees is free from worms and the rot But the locust as possesses many qualities that recommend it for displacing the hickory and oak im It seasons without and is springy in the young wood and finer grained than For wagon hubs it is better than the timber now and one Sacramento wagon maker uses no other timber for the hubs of the vehicles he turns In this dry climate other timber used for such pur poses seem to check on being and for such season the locust is found desir able for purposes where the wagon mate rial is alternately subjected to being wet ted and The locust isa very rapid grower on good soils if not planted too thickly to the nnd has no superior for fuel purposes when creating a hot fire and burning without Tho problem of hard woods of production solved by putting down plantations of locust and which in from fifteen to twentyfive years would be in good marketable con Many trees planted twenty yean ago in this vicinity are now two feet in and had they been planted for other than for shade trees along avenues of they might lie turned to profitable account manufacture into wagon SECRET Friday at Thursday at their ball In Lawrence every Tuesday evening A 7 at tho hall Mi Henry JOUN Lodge every at 7 in thf oii the Court All of good are cordially to Tho Lawrence of the Aid meets Thursday nt Mil lerB All in arc cordially to A trood literary every President Cast Grocery House LARGEST STOCK FINEST GOODS At Bottom Prices Comer nud reii made happy who deals al the ENDSLEY PIANOS Am WHITE and Hale Timing anil Attended Bute la Urge BOOK CAMPAIGN ff INTER AND 188t work from human just requires good treat and the finer the quality and the greater the quantity of the work the larger must be the Build facto ries that pure and the em will produce more but they will ask for more because they will con sume more food and cannot live on low A donkey can exist on of and give a donkey return but l cannot be placed on the same fare with profit to Indt Country Gentleman correspondent rom avers that he lad a hen in 1879 which he is positive aid two eggs in one He hadnt much to do then and watched his hens and kept a The ben had laid every day for some on the double egg day she laid just after sunrise and again just before GREW ft An to field 7JudgeBoydiOf Cir cuit notified the Common Coun cil of that a long ho oula send the body to lail in ft
