Funding for the digitization of this title was provided by R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation.
About Schley County enterprise. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1886-1??? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1886)
TALK WITH A TAMER. How Wild Animals are Brought Under Subjugation. An Occupation of Extrema Danger and Requiring Groat Nerve. “Do you meau to say, Mr. Atherton,” asked a London Pall MM Ornette repor¬ ters of the lion tamer, “that if I were to bring you to-morrow a man-eating tiger just fresh brought over from an Indiau jungle, that you would undertake to train it to leap through hoops and over whips, and to ki-s you, and all the rest of it, in two months ?” “In two months from the timo that the animal was delivered to me I would be able to put him through the perform¬ ance which you say. There is nothing which you cannot do with animals if they have got intellect and you have got patience.” “But is it not frightfully dangerous?’- “Dangerous? Yes, if you have not nerve, and do not know how to handle an animal; but if you have nerve and keep your eye on his, and go the right way about it, you never need fear any¬ thing. I would not hesitate to enter the room in which the wildest animal ever brought to this country was at large. I have again and again entered a cage in which a lion or tiger has been unchained which had never been broken in before. A wild animal that has not been broken for the show business never flies at you. When vou enter the cage it will show its teeth and growl, and, perhaps, strike at you with its claws; but if you keep your eye upon it and take care that it docs not attack you from behind you are safe. Nodoubt it will claw you, as these chee- tahs clawed me many times; but here is a wrinkle if ever you happen to be tete- a-tetc with a cheetah or any animal of the cat tribe: When you are clawed, and vou feel the animal’s hooked talons enter your flesh, don’t jump back, but go for- ward. If you jump back the claw tears away the flesh; whereas if you go for- ward thc animal’s claws only make a * k „ j )r c “How do you explain the fact that these ferocious carnivora do not spring at you in a room as they would spring at you in a jungle?” “Well, in the first case, most wild ani- mals arc bred in caytivity, and as much accustomed to the sight of a man as a dog or a cat. But take the case of a wild tiger trapped in a jungle. Well, the tiger is ferocious chiefly whon the tiger is hungry. If a man lias got a full-grown tiger and sends it home from India, he is not such a fool as to allow the tiger to go fasting all the way. The tiger is a marketable commodity, which will fetch £150 in the market. If you have got £150 in an animal, you take care it docs not want its dinner. On tho contrary, you will give it as much as it will eat, in order to improve its condition so that it will fetch a bettor price. The consequence is by the time the tiger has arrived in London from Calcutta he has g it fat and lazy. He gets his meals regular, and has no dispo- sition to make a meal off you; henoe you can approach him, and if you are patient and study him and humor him and bo firm with him and never take your eye off his or let your back be turned, you can do what you like with him. Animals are all alike; there is no animals so fero- cious but can be overcome by kindness and patience.” “How is it that every now and then you hear of a lion tamer being killed?” “Drink, sir,” said Mr. Atherton, drink. The performer gets a glass too much some day; enters thc cage; fails to.see that the floor is wet and slippery; he makes a false step and is down on his back before he knows where he is. The lion or tiger, as the case may be, is on his chest; and then good-by. As long as you are erect, have your senses about you and keep your nerve, you may do anything xvith the beast; but if once your nerve is shaken, your eye unsteady, and you slip, the game is up.” The Throe-toed Horse. Prof. Marsh has illustrated the gradual changes of the horse family from thc three or four-toed eoliippus of the eocene basin of Green river to oguus of the quaternary and recent. Between these the fossil rema’ns of about forty species have been discovered, ranging from the size of a fox to a much larger animal than now exists. If classic history can be trusted, specimens of the ho se xvith three or five toes have been known in comparatively modern times. In the life of Julius Caesar, by Sutanius, occurs the following paragraph concerning his fa¬ mous horse: “He rode a very remarkable horse—with feet almost like those of a man, the hoofs being divided in such a manner as to have some resemblance to toes. This horse he had bred himself, and the soothsayers having interpreted these circumstances into an omen that its owner would be master of the world, he brought him up xvith particular care and broke him in himself, as the horse would suffer no one else to mount him. A statue of this horse xvas afterward erected by Cmsur’s order before the tem¬ ple of Venus Genitrix .”—Pacific Science Monthly. Knew the Fen lie Wanted. A serious looking young man went Into a book store and called for some pens. After he had spent much time in examin.ng them the store keeper said: “Is there any particular pen you wish?” “Yes, but I don’t know that I’d know it if I were to sec it.” “Do you know the name? “Yes, I think so,” taking a newspaper clipping out of his pi cket aid scanning it. “Tliis says that Col. Baxter always writes w.th a trenchant pen, so let me see some trenchant pens, please.”-i~Ar- kansaw Traveler. FOR THE FARM AND IIOWE. llrmeily for Scour* In a Calf. Scours, or diarrhea is always caused by indigestion. This disorder in yonng calves is almost always produced by over¬ feeding. The milk given to a calf should always be sweet ; sour milk is injurious, ns may be known by the horrible smell of the excrements of the buttermllk-fed calves. One does not realize how much the future health and thrift of animals depend upon the manner in which they are fed when young. But this is true and should ba considered. Calves should have no more than three quarts of milk at a meal until they are two months old, when four or five quarts may be given. Warmed skimmed milk is cx- ccllent and wholesome food for calves. When from oversight or neglect a calf becomes scoured the best remedy is one quart of new milk warmed, with an egg beatca up in it, and given every three hours. When meal is given to calves it should not be mixed with the milk, but given dry so that it is eaten, and not given at all until the calf is a month old and will lick a little from the hand first. New York Times. slop* for tue l During the spring and early summer, :nan y farmers tiud 5t <lifficult to secure the “eeessary slops for their growing P 1 * 9 ’ On account of the demand, mill feed is usuall y hi * h a,,d 9carce - and the bran is cut 80 cloie that U wil1 sc:,rcel >' color wntcr whon 80aked over ni 8 ht ’ Nevertheless, bran contains the desired P ro P ertios for the pigs, but it lacks body, Mix oil mea ' ( ohl P rocess > w,th thc hran ' one P ound t0 four or ,ive - antl when fced - in « P ut t0 8oak tlle re, P ,irefl 1 uantit y to make a fecd ’ In other words ’ fced out each timc what y ou have P re P ared ’ alld P ut to soak enough for next feed. Add to this the skim milk and kitchon S,0 P 8 ’ and nothin S outsidc of milk wil1 bfiat Fecd this durin S tho 8ummer and fal1 ’ and y ou have a frn,ne and constitution to **imilate corn. If fed corn all su.n- mcr > when thn new cr0 P comc * the y are P artial .'y ,mrned out ’ and if disoasc is in the neighborhood they too easily fall a P r ”y‘ oit - Thrift is what we want, and P orfect health to resist the P revalcnt <1h ' ease ’ Push the P«» and scl1 y 0 ’ 1 "* thereb y rcduc ing the chances of loss. When there are three crops of pigs on tbe farm - and tbo P ,a S" e catches tbc raort ^c thc farm is not lifted.- ^ ur Country Horn,.. Amount of Seed Per Acre. When a single grain plant has plenty of room ami rich soil, it will often tiller so surprisingly as to astonish any one who sees it. We have seen occasional oat plants in corn or barley, where twen¬ ty or raorc stalks, each bearing its pani¬ cle of grain, came evidently fiom a single seed. Farmers who make a practice of sowing a bushel and a half of oafs, or one bushel of wheat per acre, get as good crops as those who sow twice as mueu. Yet other farmers who have sown a larger quantity find their crops diminishe l when they suddenly reduce it. This suggests the idea that the tendency to tiller in grain is partly hercidtarv, and seed from grain in which the habit was w 41 os- tablished should bo much more prolific than that continusouslv grown from thick seeding. It may be indeed that we shall yet grow seed grain in hills, giving each plant abundance of room, and then sow- ing the seed thus grown in the usual man- ner, only a les3 heavily per acre. Sup¬ pose, for example, that Indian corn had always been grown by broaden-1 seeding, and that we depended for seed on chance nubbins of ears grown by this method. Would not the plan of growing see l corn in hill be regarded as au immense im¬ provement. Who cun say that an equal gain is not to be mule in wheat seed by a like change iu method of growing ?— Cultivator. Celery Culture. Of late years the culture of celery has peeome greatly simplified, so that now every farmer may have at least a suf¬ ficient crop for home consumption with no more trouble than is experienced in many other vegetables. The plants started fi'om seed sown in April and May in the open ground, are transplanted in June and July. Small gr iwcrs do well to buy their plants, taking care to secur: stocky one and refuse tall, spindling specimens. Celery is often groxvn as a second crop after an early crop of onions, cabbages, and the like; this is a good plan, for then the land is already rich enough for the celery. In this section the plants are transplanted in June or July. Plough and harrow thc groan 1, xvork off in rows threefeet apart, and set the plant six inches apart in the row. Ba sure and press the soil firmly about the plants. This compacting of the soil is always necessary; and especially so if the weather be dry at the time of transplant¬ ing, The celery ones planted, there is little to do from six to eight weeks except running between the rows with the culti¬ vator or keep'ng the plants free from weeds with a hoe. In August the earthing-up process necessary for bleaching the stocks begins. The first operations is termed by gar¬ deners “nandling,” which moans, after the soil has been drawn up to tho plants with a hoe, the operator then takes his hands and presses it still closer about the plants, so as to keep the 1 uves in an upright position. When autumn frosts are imminent the soil min be banked up with a spade .—New York I V rid. Farm and Ciarcien IVote*. The use of Paris green on potatoes and other things kills many b es and insects that are useful, and also destroys many small birds. A Pennsylvania fruit grower prevents the ravages of the borer by hilling the earth about the tree ten inches iu May, as the Lor .r appears in June. It is said that pyretbrum, mixed with fire tinus its bulk of plaster, and dusted into the centre of the leaves with a pair of bellows, will deuroy cabbage worms. It requires more timo to spread ma¬ nure over two acres than over one, and hence the aim should bo to concentrate tho labor on the smallest space that can be made profitable. For the best egg production in heavy fowls oats are as good feed ns any. They give bulk, while the nutriment they con- tain is of the kind which goes to make eggs rit her than fat. Regarding the dehorning of cattle a Western paper says that experience teahes that tho growth of the horn can bo Stopped by applying a red-hot iron to the horn germ in calves. Into a pound of soft soap dissolve one ounce of carbolic acid crystals, and it becomes an excellent remedy for lice on animals when they are washed in warm water with tho aid of the soap. Permanent pasture lands are thc main anchor of agriculture, and tho farmers of this country will find this out after a while, as thoy already have in England, and will commence seeding their land with permanent grasses. The cherry is about the only fruit tree which can be recommended for shade in pasture along roadsides, as the hardy va- rieties of cherries are not affected by the tramping of stock or passing of vehicles, which won! 1 prove injurious to most other fruit trees. An experienced horticulturist thus de¬ scribes his mode of planting fruit trees: He makes holes eighteen inches deep and threo feet in diameter fills in four inches of strong, short horse manure, then two or three inches of street dirt, sets the trees and fills in with earth. A spring of water is better than a well for farm use, because it is always accessi¬ ble, and water from it may be conveyed readily to other points. Then, if drain¬ age suitably regulated will support con - slant flow, it establishes provision better than a well for watering farm animals. For erect growing trees the head should be formed at about three feet from thc ground; but spreading trees should have the head five feet high. A tree with a low head is less likely to be broken down with the xvind, and the branchcs will then be able to keep off tho scorching rays of the sun from tho trunks. It is a mistake to place the roosting poles nt different heights rising from the front, beeause all will strive to get on the highest one, and the weaker ones are crowded off and frequently fall to tho ground, only to repeat the process, or, if injured, to remain on tho ground all night. Place all the poles at the same elevation Potatoes do well on corn land that has been manured for the corn crop. Good sod , land , ; can also i , be used. ,i A * deep .i. „ mel- mp i low seed bed should bo secured by deep ploughing and thorough pulverizing. Manure ami moisture are essentials. Old manure can bo ploughed 1 f. in. Some of ie cs . cl0 P i ale ra . sc V1 ...______. e re , i - fertilizers. . Professor Cook says the following mix- ture will not only vanquish the apple tree louse, but keep off the borers as well. It is to heat to the boiling point one quart of softsoap in two gallons of water, and j while still hot thoroughly stir into the mixture one pint of crude carbolic acid. He thinks the best way to apply it is to rub it on thoroughly with a heavy cloth, using the hands also during the opera- tion. Household Hints* If the oven is too hot when baking place a small dish of cold water in it. When sponge cake become dry it is nice to cut in thin slices and toast. Whitewashed walls can be papered by first washing with vinegar to “kill” the lime. Iron rust cau be removed from clothes by rubbing xvith lemou juice and laying in the sun. Sunshine on mirrors will injure their lustre, therefore do not hang opposite a door or window. Hot alum is the best insect dcstoyer known. Put it in hot water and let it boil until all the alum is dissolved. Ap- ; p i y hot, with a brush, and all creeping things are instantly destroyed. Reecipes. Boiled Salt Mackerel. —Soak, boil, lay on a platter, and pour over a cream g rav y- To Prepare Crumbs for Fish.— Dry tiie bread iu the oven, roll, and sift; | will keep nice for a month, Roast Land). —Sometimes the quarter of lamb or yo ing mutton will be found to be of strong flavor. This fault will not be discovered until the loin chops have been broiled. To overcome the defect, before baking the log parboil it. When nearly cooked remove it from the water, dredge it with flour and bake it until done. A Nice Tea Disk .—Make a short, sweetened pie crust, roll thin, and partly bake in sheets; before it is quite done take from the oven, cut in squares of four inches or so, take up two diagonal cor- ners and pinch together, which makes them basket-shaped, now fill with whipped cream or white of egg, or both, well sweetened and flavored, and to the oven for a few minutes. Chrrot Soup .—Bod some carrots in salted water; when thoroughly done, drain them and pass them through a hair sieve; mix the pulp thus obtained with as muc h stock as will make it of the de- j | g j re d consistency; add pepper and salt, an d a pinch of sugar. Having melted about an ounce of h itter, mix it with a taidospoonful of flour, then gradually add thc carr t puree; let it come to the boil, skim off superfluous fat, and serve ; with dice of bread fried in butter. CLIPPINGS FOR THE LTJUOUS. Barkless dogs exist in Australia. Frederick the Great fled in terror from his first battle. In order to count a billion, supposing you count two hundrod a minute, it j would take you 0513 years, According to gastronomic authority no ' lobster is tit for food which is not at least ten and a half inches in length, j The national dish in Russia is mush¬ rooms. Peasants arc never without them and they are hungup to dry in cottages to form a greatly esteemed relish to all sorts of dishes, Attention is called to two races of men w hich must soon become extinct—the Maoris of New Zealand, now reduced to less than 45,000, and the Laplanders, who number 30,000. If tho 9,000,000 soldiers of the Euro¬ pean powers were drawn up in line, the distance from right to left would be 0000 miles, and thc reviewing officer would require an express train for several days to go from one end of the line to the I other. The skilled operator who runs the vacuum kettles in which milk is con- densed is governed entirely by sound, and although to inexperienced ears the j pan and its contents are noiseless, tho operator can tell the exact state of tho milk at any moment. Angle worms, fish, etc., are often caught up into the clouds by revolving i storms, and then dropped again many miles from the place where they were they were taken up. Small fish have often been found in puddles of water in 5 village streets, to the astonishment of people who were unacquainted with the phenomenon. A common mode of manumission in the Middle Ages was for the master to lead the slave with a torch around tho altar, and the earnest words of liberation were spoken. One form uttered these words: “For fear of Almighty God, and for the care of my soul, I liberate thee, and may the angel of our Lord Jesus Christ deem me worthy of a place among His saints.” Rough Sport. Every nation has its own peculiar games, which, to a certain extent, indi- , catc thc ruling character or disposition of the people. A recent traveller in Russian Central Asia thus describes a j game i which ho witnessed near the frontiers of China: As approached . . _ Yany-Kurgan, r T _ we we j saw what looke<1 id the distance like a i company of Cossacks exercising, but on nearer approach, proved to be a hundred , of natlves !a thplr fav0,itc ° r more P y 1D S , | Kok-Ban, wolf. It game of or gray was market day, and on such occasions, when horsemen congregate, a gout or a g00 * d-naturedly seized upon, 1 ’. be- , longing . to one who , has had , . some piece of d fortuno and the anim£ d is kjl(ef ,_ The president of the game then takes bls P 0Slt ... ; 0 "’ lf P 083lbIe , ’ some «*°P , 1 or elevated place, and hands the goat to j a horseman, who dashes down the slope j at the risk of breaking his neck, and is }mmediately pursuc(1 by th , (ield) each of whom tries to snatch away the goat before the man can bring it back to the president. Men of various ages ^ were on the ground, and some had mounted their boys before them to sec the fun, which i was in some respects not unlike a game of football. The race goes ou till the j | carcass is torn in pieces, whereupon it I j , ‘goes to pot, ” and is boiled for a feast, i Then the company is ready to seize another goat and commence ag «in. ! ---- ~ —“—= How Horses are Trained. In an interview with a trainer of hor- ses, he said to the reporter: “As for Rarey, thc most of his busi- ness xvas trickery done by locusting and loading. Horses aie awfully fond of locusts and carrots, and they will do almost anything for them; but loading is the great trick.” “What is loading?” “Loading is slipping about an ounce weight of lead down the ear of the hors -. You slip a load, to xvliich a small piece of string xvas attached, down the horse’s ears, and no matter hoxv vicious the beast may be it becomes dazed and stupid when the load plugs its ears. The horse does not understand xvhat has hap¬ pened to the world xvlien he cannot hear well, and he becomes as docile as you could wish. When a horse is loaded you l can yoke him or do anything with him - and he will not object. It is a thousand times more merciful and far more effec- I tive than thc horrible plan of putting a twitch upon the ear or upon the nostril, a practice still indulged in by tome horse coupers. Leaden weights are made for the purpose. Any small xveight will do, I but it is better to have one made to fit.” ; Chicago Herald. I ) The Difference. “Well, I wonder xvhat you are think I ing about noxv,” snapped Mrs. Fangio, at j her husband bad been maintaining a I rigid silence during a long curtain lec¬ ture. j “I was just thinking of the difference | betweeu a woman and an umbrella,” re- j plied Fangle. “And what is it?” asked his wife, very ! unwisely. “You can shut an umbrella up.”— Tid-Bits. Sounds Better. “Well, John,” said the judge to apig- ! tailed Celestial. “What can I do for you?” “Want to getee name changed.” “What’s your name now?” “Sing Sing. No goodee. Two ! muchee Aldelmnn. Gctce otan S .<l <• - Walble Twicee.” i “To Warble Twice?” 1 “Yep. Alice samee Sing Sir.g .”—New York Times. DOWN THE STREAM . A maiden stood upon a shore, And heard a lightly-dipping oar. The morning light was flushing clear, A thrash was loudly warbling near. A boat came gliding down the stream, With ripple soft and splash and gleam. She ne’er had seen the youth before, He ne’er had touched upon that shore; But when she saw him np the stream, Fresh from the mountain’s early gleam, The old, old wonder-working spell Around them both like magic foil, And ere his boat had driftod by A change came over wood and sky; Tho old, familiar stream and shore Took on a hue unknown before. He lightly drew his boat to land, Ho lightly reached to her his hand. And, leaving all that they had known, Tho two went down the slream alono. Tho boatman's arm was good and strong, The boatman’s oar was tough and long. Tho maiden’s face was sweet and fair; 8ho felt no faintest fear or care. She smiled upon her boatman true, And said, “I trust my lifo to you." The thruHli sang on tho bank alone; The maiden down the stream had gone. —EUm IP. Carey FIREMAN STICKNEV’S NEW ARM _ Patiently Huill np by Skin-drafting During Aian.v Aiomhs. Springfield, Mass.—The night of October 17, 1884, was a remarkably dis¬ astrous one to several local railroad men. That night the Boston and Albany train due here at 12.30, struck a pile of rails and ties placed on the track near Kin- derhook, N. Y., and the forward part of the train became a total wreck. The engine turned on its side and plunged into tho bank, tbe light express car leaped over the tender on to it, and the tender was rolled over and smashed into it by the express car. The whole formed a cage in which were penned Engineer Isaac L. Davee of this city, and Fireman Henry F. Stickney of West Springfield, their with broken steam pipes hissing scalding contents and hot over them. scoured The steam water away the sand at one edge of the .cab, and through this opening Stickney made his way out, and blinded, scalded, but heedless of his own suffering, hastened for help for Davee. When they took hold of Davee’s hand to help him out the flesh and skin came off in the grasp. The poor fellow was taken out only to die in a few minutes. Then Stickney fcll, exhausted, and it was found how »«. w w„„„d. in, n,b. hand and arm were burned down to the muscles, except a little diamond-shaped piece of skin in the ilexture of the elbow, and the finger nails and skin of tho hand came on when the yarn jacket was reU ] 0ve d. The left hand and wrist, the face, neck and head, except the hair j covered by his cap and his right side j d ™ ^ j , him that night thought the arm would j have to be amputated to second save his life, but it was feared that the shock ; might be fatal, and his case was looked | the a P on system 88 ratber from ^Pclcss. healing up The so drain large on a ! burned surface was dangerous, and the cicatnces would naturally make the arm j a deformed and useless member should ; ho recover. Stickney rallied and wished to save I 1 is arm if possible. Knowing that his i family physician, Dr. U. 11. Flagg, ot in West Springfield, had had experience him. The i skin grafting, decided he sent for doctor to begin as soon as pos- sible, and believed he could save the i arm. Some valuable time was lost , while Stickney remained at Kinderhook, I but when he Sprin-rfield was removed to his home 1 in W ® 8t the grafting was carried on regularly, and replacing the | j 03t cu ticlc was thc patient and faithful work of six months. In that lime 248 little wedge-shaped pieces of skin were taken from his thigh a few each morn- befng heldln*pS by plastw until they took root. The grafting was begun at the hand and continued up the arm. The back was similarly treated, and only one graft out of the whole number failed to grow. During oil this time about three pints of sweet and were used daily to keep the skin flesh in proper condition. The arm iav (luring the pro¬ cess in a padded box suffered without ends. The patient, of couise, a good deal, and part of the time he was blind from the scalding. He lost ail his hair, and the sand driven into his face and neck by the steam had to be slowly dug out. Had be not protected his face and mouth with his arm he must have breathed tho hot steam and died, as did ’ Davee. In ten months new veins and tissues were formed an i a new thin skin had ; grown over all the wounds. The arm was much wasted, but as the new skin grew the i atient gained strength. Just a year and a day from the date of the accident light task Stickney where he was did able to have take up a j not to use his arm much. He could write and hold things firmly with that hand. The arm has since gained in size and strength, and rotation of the hand and forearm is clench nearly naturally. perfect, The while the fingers sk n i? nearly normal, and only has to be oiled anil | kept Stickney warm. now feels able to resume a place iu the cab, and will do so within a week, not, however, as fireman, but as and engineer. Albany It is the policy of the Boston Company to promote its firemen and Stickney’s recent experience has as travelling been engine inspector, which he for several months past, gives him special fitness for the post. His case has excited considerable in¬ terest and he has been asked bv promi¬ nent surgeons to appear befo-e their classes as a lecture subject. Stickney is 37 years old. While a emeus was parading in Kingston, Canada, recently, a xvagon containing the a den ot lions was overturn;: 1 j and top of the den knocked off. A fire xx as built around the cage to keep ; the lions in until repairs were made, and then the wagon xvas raised by the aid of two elephants When we Demoralize the Stomach By excesses or imprudence in eating, we can¬ not hope to escape the consequences for any foolish enough to enfeebfe the stomach Vthe | SS‘aiiSd ^sws!Sgs! r 3iefKiKWIiSSUf - ss 3 , .i 5 ass 2 ! SS-i-ss »aS 8 R»ffrS&,*I* SSS.SU#SJtSll!SK suss** 5 &SfJ Paroxysms ot’ Sense. “Those who use our goods are very much attached to them, ” is what a porous- plaster company advertises. An Illinois man recently sneezed so hard that he fractured one of his ribs, lie was evidently not quite up to snuff. Canada would be wiser to establish a three-mile limit for American defaulters rather than for American fishermen. Can’t something be done to civil-eyes the tribe of young savagss who stare at all our pretty young ladies on our streets! A stoky entitled “The Penniless Maiden” has just been issued. It will have very little interest for the modern youth. We see a lengthy article going the rounds of the papers headed “How to Manage a Wife.” We didn’t read it; no use. No man appreciates more tho irrosisti- ble power of the press than the unlucky wretch who has just got his fingers caught in the machinery. A yotjkg man has a scrap book con¬ taining the marriage notices of all tho women that lie has loved, and he sits out in the moonlight and reads it and cries. Salicylic suet is used in the German I army as a remedy for footsores, etc., in¬ stead of the salicylic, powder formerly employe. It is composed acid and of ninety-eight two parts of pure salicylic suet. parts of the best mutton A newly-maruied man complains of . (he hi f:l price of “ducks ” He says his j wife recently paid for three of them—a j duck of a bonnet, a duck of a dress, and | a duck of a parasol. He says such “deal¬ | ings in poultry” will ruin him. Standard Facts. Sound moves 743 miles per hour. j Envelopes were first used in 1839. j Telescopes were invented in 1590. j A square mile contains 640 acres. i Light moves, 173,000 miles per hour. j A barrel of rice weighs 600 pounds. A barrel of flour weighs 190 pounds. A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds. A firkin of butter weighs 56 pounds. The first steel pen xvas made in 1830. Slow rivers flow four miles per hour. A span is ten and seven -eights inches. A hand (horse measure) is four inches. A rifle ball moves 1,000 miles per hour. Watches were first constructed in 1476. Rapid rivers flow seven miles per hour. The editor of Ore Oorsdcarra, Tex, Observer, Mr. G. P. Millar, hut.il a .never; atta-fc of rheu- ‘vatism in Mi kaef, which bo.’-xm.s -a ,, OM of sl _ Jac0& » oil, tka raiaearircWdisar- peart Land the knee assmmjd its normal pra- portions, The Baltimore Herald says: The vicinity of Niagara Falls would be a very suitable spot for the establishment and maintenance of an internat ional lunatic asylum just now. 'there are enough institution barrel cranks fine in the neighborhood to give the a start. Summer coughs and colds generally ctme to stay, but the use of Red Star Cough cure in •variably drives them away. Safe, prompt, sure. The Rural New Yorker condemns thc prac¬ tice of Fcraping the trunks of fruit trees, as some people do. We never heard of anj r thing so small as that. We have known farmers so mean that they sold off nil the fruit, leaving none at all for tho family to eat at home. The farmers, in tlie : r ssvamps, sro’re sure. Could And tho roots ana plants that cure; If by their knowledge they only know For just the disease each oao grow. Take courage now and ’’Swamp-Root" try— (for kidney, 1 veruml bladder complaints!, As on this remedy you can rely, pretty goo.i evidence ot (lie excellence and popularity otthe books they offer to sell through uieir agents. Th sis a reliable house, and any ca “ deeead ou ---- The purest, sweetest and best Cod Liver Oil In the world, manufactured from fresh, livers, upon the seashore. It is .absolutely pure V?ef,rifio 'al 1 1 othera.^Ph^sic i amf cuieil it superior to any of the other oils in market. Made by Caswell, Hazard & Co.. New York. C«wX^rd&^Slw^rk^ CnArPKn nAN DS -fa C „-pi mp i^- and rongh ^ p,,,UMle y Prevent crooked boots and blistered heels by wearing Lyon’s Patent Heel Stiffeners. An EiUtor's Testimonial. A. M. Vaughan, editor of (he “Greenwich Review,” Greenwich, O., writes: “Last January I met with a very severe accident, caused by a runaway wounds," hor.se. I used almo t every kind of salve to heal the which turned to running sores, but found nothing to do me any good till I was rocommended Henry’s Carbolic Salvk. I bought a box, and It helped me at once, and at the end of two months I wai com¬ pletely well. 1 1 is the best salve in the market, and i never fail of telling my friends about It, and urge them to use it whenever In need.’* Relief is immediate, and a cure sure. Piso’s HemedyjoeCatarr^ ~---- 1 S El h 1| g Ba l£ H I" B At this season nearly every one needs to use________ some sort of tonic. I RON enters those into who almost every phy¬ sician’s prescription for need building up. BROWN 5 m ■if 0o *«'T t r m iz n St i-- —THE BEST TONIC IlnerKT, For Wrnknrae, il HAS LaHwIIadr, NO EQUAL, Lack and of tlm only Iron etc., medicine that injurious. la is not It System, Enrich™ Restores the Appetite, Blood, Inviaorntem Aids Digestion the It does produce not blacken constipation or injure the teeth, cause head¬ ache or rp —other Iron medicines do Mr, J. D. Burke, It) generally High St., Montgomery, Ala.., Bays: “ My system was igued debilitated and the slightest Iron exertion short fat timo 1 regained mo. After using Brown’s Bitters a my appetite and Mrs. Geo. XV. Case, 26 Chestnut 8t„ Macon, Ga„ says: "Iused Brown’s Iron Bitters for a constant feeling of weariness ami lassitude with the moBt sat¬ isfactory results. feeble It gives me much pleasure to rec¬ ommend it to all women as a complete strength- • Genuine has ab ove Trade Mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. ItltOWN C HEMICAL CO.. HALTIMOUL. MU. Don’t buy a watch until you / And out about the latest Improve- / ments. Send for new illustrated ' prioe catalogue and list. J. P. Stevens. Jeweler, 47 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Ga. ®HSTOH’SS’lTGOTH powder *•«»*“* Teeth Perfect and Gum* Healthy Pensions n Tirf s Tha Frsn BBAITD 8LTCK.ER 1* U l a ■’M.f’J tba h ardest atonn. The new MMKL 8LIC covcrp. tha entire saddle. Bewa iro of imitation ■■mhSmmhoes IHrami’’ tradc-ittark. IU ustrat ed Catalogue h Mack (*r»y or lluck aanrty Ingham’* beards dye are for colored the whisker* brown nr uy Ayer's Lj. One bottle of Ague Cure will ei *" cole malarial poison*from the system. Alter all. this world is a (lanotroui place- very few ever get out of it alive. CATA RRH « 0 WTO BSE P®>rELY'S,TJl Hw&tMBMKa CREAM BALM Place* partioUof tho Balm into each amici and draw Inn* btcatle, „ through the note. It hlU 1 he atworbod and begin * it* work of and healing the dineoa*,] membrane. It allays j n „ ikSy flamms&ion and p re . vent* freeli coldti. | Not a Liquid or Snuff . HAY-FEVER No poisououn tfrugg, r offensive u odor. A particle in applied into each nostril and in agreeable Swotar. * ]Ky BK« , »Tfc!EHB. O |^w5^0w^K.|f|' ... ’ , 'tJ&z.a 4 Ofiots. D BUYS A HORSE A SSWSBaWSWKsf Bill Do not run the risk of Icmlup your Horse, f ot want of Knowledge to cure him, whi n Me. wi) jp a » for a Treatise liny one and Inform yourself Itemedle* for all Hor*e Diseases. 1‘lates showins how to Tell the Age of Hones. Sent postpaid fos *5 cente In etamps. N. Y. HORSE BOOK CO.. 134 Leonard St, N Y , City. _ JONES PAYS the FREICHT Tare Bmu aid Hmn Bvx ag ^ Fxery 860 . tile 8c*>*. For frtt pr1 r « Hu ’k. * ' a»(?niioi a tlii« paper tut! add rea . .i aa t The earthquake did not surprint) me more than the lount l saved m quality and price of tbe Engine, Saw-Mill, . * Grist-Mill, Cotton- Gin, Feeder, Con¬ i.v denser, Machine Oil Cane-Mill, and ■ oth*y Machinery, by writing to TIIO.1I ASCAMF, Covinifion, tin. c . ILMER'S <?For§5f “Jones! What are o you talliinjr body about?” What every talks about. I)mease, aytnatforRrlgrhfc,’ Kidney, Liver I llludder complaints, or $1P° remedy has this K It right no equal.” UTerepared jroc* to Pr. Sj»o t. DR. Rt Kilmer’s Z5t, Disr’KNHAiiY.BinjrbuutDH.N.Y. Guido Letters to of Ilcaith intjuirv (Seat Rngwered. Free). Salve COKES DRUNKENNESS *9 «ot* for tho Alcohol that ftnblr send and tfce bottles. Highly dare* to trial •gL toul endorsed by the med- profession and prepared by wed- known New York physicians. Send *25T •t'-iups Addross for circulars and reference* “SALVO RKMEDY,” »» No. 2 West I4th St., New York. ERMAN ™! CD *30 FOR ONE DOLLAR. A first class Dictionary gotten out at small price Language. to encourage the Kuglish study of the German German It gives Gorman words with with tbe iefinltions. equivalents, and words Send $1.00 Kndlsb NOOK PUB. A very cheap book. to \ City* IIOUSK, 13 i Leonard St., N. . and get one of these books by return mail. The Greatest Mira Nature. Th. Xlrelran (ten rrrrt Ion Plant, apparmt- ly (lead, when placed In water soon comes 10 llle, •how,nq ell the tints of th. rainbow, g! to gl per dav ead y ma to. as It sella to four out of five per- •on, at »i ;bt. Send 25c. for 3, or We. for 7 sample* (sell for i£io. each). Low prices by the 100and 1.0W. A v-nr's subscription to one of sU papers glv en Order to first. 5).;. order from each county and to first inehtloatnc this paper. II. Bl.EnsOK, 313 M a in Stre ets For t Won li, Texas. be all >pe<i by any hor**». Sample -w Halter to any part of U. 8. free, on jfiM recelptoffi. gSJM Sold by all Saddlery, O. LIGHT HOUSE, TV Itochc»!er* N. Y. jVi W I LSON'S ARRESTER CHAMPION SPARK J Best open draught arrester in \T M- : / | I burned world. from No eufffpe more ftparks. sin Iioiism Hold a AVrile Lire* ou guarantee. lor far. T. T. W INDSOKA illedgevlllejG®* 4 0 .,No*. U&'-’RftRponaible 2 m & 26 W’oyneht.,31 wanted of Amttrr A touts tor sale CONSUMPTION. have aboved!«eafo;of It* I u positive remedy for the Bie.thonsauils of ceseo ol the worst kind and of ion# BtaOdlTjghavo been cured. I ji(leed.>o»tronFl* rorfftHb In Its efficacy,that K will tend TWO BOTTLE8 FRKI. together with a VA L9A BLJ(TBIATJSJ8 on tbl (SIMM# b»Aaj sufferer. GWo express and P O. addr«M. i)H. T. A. SLOCUM, 111 Feeriat.. hew Tort. FACE, HANDS, FEET, *urf *11 their Imperfection*, including * Deeeloperaent, Superfluou* Hair, Birth i ®l»ck Wo, “» I Wart Unde. », fWr*. Moth, jr^kle*, end their NoM Pitline WOODBURY, *• raarlSL Dr • JOKN H - Alba.,, K. T. EOV4 1IT0. Send 10e. !<(*•» OMAN’S Snre.t and EXTRACT Safest Regulator COSSYPIUM BELLAMY'S Doett mend it. >A FREE Send BUSINESS to MOORE'S Atlanta* UNIVERSITY, Ga. For Circular. A liveaciual Business Schw $ 7 oo to $2500 be made working for us. Agents preferred whocftD rural** 1 their own horses and *ive their whole tfw<« the business. Spare moments may be profitably e® A 16 w vacancies in towns and cities. B. * JOHNSON & QO„ 1 QI 8 Alain St., Hitnraouti.™ ntSTHMA CURED foots to p« 5 German A*ihina Cure never coffi’l S Sfortable ® * immediate relief iu the worst cases. Insures rail’ sleep; effects on re* where ait others convince* thc most skeptical. Price ftO FKKfi *1 S$i.OO, gstamp. of Dlt. Druggists NCHl^KM or bv mall AN. Sample P«*ul« Mlnw- K. Bt. raonial# rupture free. Addre.a O. are®?! False. ]£i Broadway, W. 1 BUrtPHa.'SBKSSr Oral Box tol.OOi round, 50 ct«*___ Lines to $8 u day. Rumples worth feet. not under the horse’s HoH Mll g Brkwstkr*h Safiety Rein Holder, y» SCENTS WANT! D in every town. IBporw*. PATENTS I ESS& D. C. ham. Patent Lawyer, Washington, ^_j th«sal« « nas t»k«v *f the cl»»« J Corea 1* ^ f I TO 6 DATB. "“WHYZM’jU ar&ntead net ia mih fltrietare. vrt.^TTyu, TUI ChiBieel C*. ciawefth* oildom. . Olnolna.ti.Hfc At A Ohio. Best, Pino’s Eaeieat Kemedv Use, for Catarrh ami Cheap™ l»JJ* 1 - I lo A i&SU a/nTIT ............
