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VOL. V.-NO. 46.
<;ENEI{AL NEWS.
Tin: Virginia peanut crop is rotting on
the vine.
Vicksbvbg, Miss., is soon to have
water-works.
The Mississippi lunatic asylum has 157
inmates.
Or Virginia’s 5,587 schools, over 1,500
are colored.
Hot Springs, Auk., will To lighted by
electric light.
Lrrrij Book Auk., is soon to have an
electric light.
Home, Ga., with her suburbs has a
population o' 9,(00.
Corn, sugar, cotton an I rice crops of
Louisiana arc all doing well.
The genuim' army worm has made its
npjtearauce in Hide county, Ala.
A barbee- shop in Atlanta run by wo
juen is doing ti flourishing business.
One man in Louis county*, Ky., has
gathered 1,000 pounds of ginsing this
seas >n.
Nearly >i million acres of land in Lou
isiana have bcm sold recently to a Kan
sas speculator.
Twenty tli usand pounds of zinc were
shippe 1< no day hist week from Knox
ville to Ci n lecticutt.
Abjit 4)5,010 cjeiannt frees havo
been planted on the keys near Key West
Fla., in Hi ■ lasi two years.
The new 1 ank of Nashville, Tenn.,
will start ivith a capital of half a million
dollars. Cel. E. W. Cole heads (he list
with $100,009.
There a o f< uml to ex’st three chan
nels outside Ui ! jetties below New Or
leans, and buoys ar? needed to clearly
mark these channels.
Tin: Stat’s that brew no beer are Ar
kansas. Florida, Mivne, Mississippi and
Vernu nt. T <>st year Alabama produced
only eight barrels an i North Carolina
•thirty-one.
I’he City Council of Alexandria, La ,
has decide 1 to exempt from taxation all
manufacturing for ten years. Many
other tov.ns in the South have done the
Same thing.
The Southern Telegraph Company are
pushing their hues rapidly through the
Smith. 1 hey will extend to New Orleans
and have, in all, 2,700 miles of wire in
two ma n hues, coast and inland.
Ihe Richmond, Va., nail works find it
impossible to supply the demand fn in
the South. Six hundred kegs arc rolled
out in twenly-four hours; or 3,600 a week,
and yet tho dem ml is greater.
An alligator caught a title six-year-old
ghl, d ii; liter of Mr. Strange, of Calhoun
county, Fla. A little nine-year-old sister
beat the reptile ch. He was afterwards
killed and measured eight feet.
An Indiana land corporation has
bought over 1,000 acres of land at Wil
sonville, in Obion county, Tenn., and
will invest several hundred thousand
dollars in that and other localities in the
State.
Alabama newspapers report that tho
price of common labor in that state has
increased twenty-live cents per day as
Uie result of the recent growth in manu
actuns, th" building ( ,f railroads and
the wonderful mineral developments.
. A negro was killed at O. L. Cloud’s,
ycDufleo, Ga„ a few days ago by a
iioken spike reb. unding while feeding a
11 ; "i, the spike striking him in the
7,. 1 and passing on through the top
o tl H‘ skull. He died in a few hours
afterward.
J. E. Krj miho, ~f n, mOj Olk 11118
rm ' ‘ aZe land Cro ikor.
k n? 1 ' I ''? ' l7l t? CXCeI a eat or dog for
its prev."' " hiCh H eUt!,tho throat of
exnen ir ' , e,ll ' K ‘ r hist there has been
Os th ' V-' ” tlle leVeeß 011 the <>aHt bauk
—mt the eJ °7; -* SO0 ’ 000 ’ Os " hiHl
000 p v lC 1 IKb ’ lct furnished $225.
ed ti..., * 4tl ’ (n,Vl ’ r nment furnish
' most of the money.
d hr 1,1 Jack Hon count y> Ga - are
2 from hydropho-
their m.v *L ' >u ' tJlil! S that comes in
the swim. ’o' 10 fu-mers have had all
Theh ■ > ! 1CU ’ pl;lcc “ thus alllk-ted.
l 0 ? 1 tweu Mour hours ..iter
./ u ked, unless k lied
*'ew ■
than \ 6 * low a deeper harbor
t'liion ]j r( , "bite Star and
above tup, not load their vessels
knest, : '• HIX feet ’ while the French
New ()., ' ' '' feet. At
of w J l ' r KSeI * ,hrt ' vin « twenty-six
»getti n , { ‘ iaveu <> difficulty or delay
Oaltora
An* experiment has been recently made
in scouring wool at Fort Worth, Tex.,
mid tho clean product forwarded to Hes
ton for inspection. Thirty or forty mil-
J lion pounds will be exported from Texas
this year in an unscoured condition. An
allowance of fifty per cent for dirt and
grease is said to obtain.
A RUEIKR of silk in New Orleans, who
lias hitherto employed some nineteen
hands, propene* to go into the manu
facture of silk fabrics, and to organize a
joint stock company for that purpose.
He has already reeled 1,500 pounds of
silk and has an’m lortation of cocoons on
the way from France of 1,200 pounds.
It is found best to ship from the Si nth
only file pick of a crop of any fruit, and
evaporate the rest, or such as permits of
evaporation. The improved process of
evaporating gives the fruit a value of
throe el' four times that done by the old
method of sun-drying. It is mentioned
on p< ss.mt, that the demand for dessiea
ied fruits and vegetables for use at sin
alone has never been fully met.
Augusta Chronicle 1 California and
Florida people are inventing ways of de
stroying gophers by poison. They hail
better substitute go} he? soup for ham
and bacon. Epicures consider soup made
from gopher superior to that made from
green or Soft-shell turtle. Properly ad
vertised and introduced, there is no
son why every Florida gopher shipped to
New York should not sell for five dollars.
The North Carolina Mining and De
veloping Company, with a capital of $2,-
000,000, has been formed, and the
papers recorded with the Secretary of
that State. The following gentlemen
are the officers: David E. Aiken, Presi
dent; Theodore Conkling, YTee-Presi
dent; 1). L. Wing, Treasurer, and Char
es E. Lockwood, Secretary. The com
pany, in their properties eml race twen
,ty-two gold mines, varying in their
assays from $25 to SSOO per ton.
There arc said to be at Overton and
Fentress counties, Tenn., thirty-seven
oil springs and two in Clay county. An
inspection of all these old wells and be
rinys has been undert-'keu by a party o.
Pennsylvania, gentlemen, who think oil
can be produced there fifty cents a barrel
cheaper than in Pennsylvania. They
have the proper machinery with them,
and have commenced work with a view
of testing the oil fields of Tennessee. If
the inspection is satisfactory, a pipe line
will be run to Sparta.
Bishop Kean, now traveling in the
Holy Land, has selected a corner-stone
in Gethsemane for the proposed new
cathedral in Bichmond, Va. In a letter
he says it was cut from ihe rock of the
Garden of Gethsemane, the most sacred
spot on the Mount of Olives, quite el< s?
to the scene of the blessed Savior’s agony,
he having previously }»riK ured the neces
sary permission for the work. The Bish
op says he saw the stone, txvcnty inches
long and fifteen inches square, and be
fore it is shipped for this country the
Franciscan seal of the Holy Land will be
put upon it as authentication.
Waldo (Fla.) Advertiser: B. W. Camp
bell, of our town, has just purchased the
famed Fort Harley tree. This tree was
planted sixty-iive years ago, and is to
day the largest orange in the world. Its
complete dimensions are: Height thirty
four feet, spread of branches from tip to
tip fifty-eight feet, and girth one foot
•above base of trunk nine feet and two
inches. It has borne more than twelve
thousand oranges in one season. It
stood the c< Id Friday of 1835, which
proved so destructive to vegetation, and
to-day stands the noblest and grandest of
a'l orange ■ trees, monarch of the citrus
family.
Charleston News and Courier: Lieut.
Garlington, the gallant young South Car
o’inian who will command the party
going to the relief of Lieut. Greely, who
was left at Lady Franklin Bay in 1881,
has distinguished himself as an indian
tighter in the Northwest. Greely is
probably safe enough. He himself cal
culated on the failure of tho ex}>edition
i f 1882, ami gave instructions that pre
visions should be left as far North as the
relief vessel could go. This was done,
and-provisions were left within 300 miles
|of Lady Franklin Bay. Gariington will
[probably sail to look for Greely on the
20th.
i : .
Editorial Notes.
| .
When asked in court whether her bus
band hud ever founded her before, a
Washi gt >n huly a*isft<r>d: “Yes, he
has slapped me, but that is natural for
husband and wife.
1 Brigham Young Jk., is of opinion
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1883.
that Mormon missionaries will send 20,-
000 converts to the West this year. The
Apostles are now buying land in Colo
rado for colonization purposes.
The people of Fi'mce, by a jiopulaf
subscription, have raised the money re
quired for the Bartholdi statue of “Lib
erty. Enlightening the World,” and it hrs
been given to the peo}>le of America to
b? placed at the entrance of the New
York harbor. It is now proposed to raise
bv f>o]>ular subscription throughout tho
United States a fund to erect the pedes
tal. New Y’ork has subscribed about
SIIO,OOO, ilnd Committees all over the
country are preparing to obtain the re
mainder.
A French story.
Tho Adveiitiiros of n Japonese Vano mid
the Terrible Trouble it Caused.
On New Year’s Eve Baron C. took
one of his visiting cards, penciled a few
words on it, and put it in an envelope,
which he carefully sealed. Then he
went to Boissier’s candy shop. On his
Way his thoughts ran thus: “My Nin
ish is very fond of candies. She adores
them. Therefore, besides the diamond
necklace which I have just sent her, I
will buy her some candies. Here is
Boissier’s. ”
The Baron entered the shop, selected
a costly old Japanese vase, put his card
at the very bottom as a final surprise,
and had it filled with the best candies.
He ieii « ;?:! '••hove H shved 1 be sent,
and then retired quite contented with
himself.
Two hours later Mlle. Ninish was con
versing in her boudoir with a young actor,
Adalbert. Her maid entered with a
Japanese vase in her hands.
“More candies, madame,” she said.
“Who sends that?”
“No card, madame.”
“Put it anywhere,” said Ninish, care
lessly. The young actor looked at the
vase.
“What a beautiful vase,” he said.
“If you like it, take it.”
“Well, if you give it to me as a sou
venir ”
In an hour Adalbert was entering the
room of a singer.
“Adelaide, I have brought you a sur
prise, some candies,” cried Adalbert,
opening the door.
“Well, leave them here.”
In a few minutes Adalbert left.
■ “I will give them to Justine,” said
Adelaide.
“Who is talking about me,” cried a
silvery voice.
“Here is my Justine.”
“Ah, what a fine vase I”
“It is for you.”
“Thanks, thanks. I will give it to my
professor, who has promised to arrange
my debut.”
On the next day, the beautiful Justine,
after her music lesson, said to Senor Fa
diezini:
“That is for you.” She handed him
Ihe vase. “My debut shall be soon?
Yes ?”
“Yes, soon.”
Senor Fadiczini went home inahappv
mood.
“That is just in time,” thought he “I
have no money to buy a gilt for my wife.
How glad she will be ! Times are hard,
the lessons pay badly; coal is dear.”
The wife of Senor Fadiczini, professor
of singing and elocution, formerly basso
cantante of the theatres of Milan and
Turin, was indeed glad. But she was a
practical woman.
“Guiseppo,” she said, “I am sure you
did not buy these candies and the vase.
That would be madness. Don’t reply, I
know you. Somebody gave them to
yon, and you have brought them to me.
That is very kind of you. But xve must
make a good use of them. Take them
to Dime. Bondurin, the wife of the Chief
of the Department of Arts. lie may
appoint you as a rehearser to the Acad
emy of Music.”
“You are right. You always foresee
everything. Put my card on it, but not
t e one containing the price of lessons.”
Kime. Bondurin said to her husband:
“Here is a beautiful vase. Please take
it to my mother.’’
“But—but I think it would be better
to giie it to the sister of my chief, xvho
could promote me.”
“You are right, monsieur.”
The sister of the chief of M. Bondurin
asked her brother:
“Have yon prepared a present for
Madame the Baroness C.? Yon have
dined at the Baron’s, and it would be
impolite not to send something to the
madame, particularly in view of the fact
that the Baron is a Dimuty and an iultu
ential member of the Left Centre.”
“Ah, I had forgotten all about it. I
will go and buy ”
“It is not necessary. Take this vase,
which I have just received from M. Bon
durin, who serves under you as a chief
of department.”
An hour later the Baroness C. sent for
her husband. She was pale, and trem
bling with anger. The Japanese vase
stood before her empty. She had emp
tied the candies into a big basket which
was intended for an orphan asylum of
which she was n patroness. In one hand
she held a visiting card of Baron C.,
whereon was written:
“Happy new year, my Ninish.”
The Baroness sued for divorce. The
Japanese vase figured as evidence in
court, and the Baroness’s lawyer found
it necessary to relate the adventures ot
the vase.
Czardine says, “I don’t want my son,
Henrv, to learn type settin’. for the
boys would call him a ‘settin’ Hen.’ ’
THE CENSUS RETURNS.
Some lutercstiiiK Figures From the First
The first volume of the compendium
of the census of 1880 is out. Tho popu
lation of the United States is thus Clas
sified :
Mak525,518.820
Fema1e521.636,963
Native 43.175,810
Foreign 6,679,943
White 43.402,970
Colored 6,580,793
Chinese 105,465
Japanese 148
Indians 66,307
T0ta150,155,783
Our population of 1880 was more than
double that of 1850, or 50,155,783,
against 23,191,870, The tendency of
piqutlation to centre in tile cities becomes
more marked as the Union grows older.
The total number of inhabitants in the
cities has about quadrupled since 1850—
11,318,547, against 2,897,586.
The total male pojnilation of voting
age in the States and Territories was 12,-
830,349, made up of 8,270,518 native,
3,072,487 foreign born, and 1,487,314
colored, among ivhom, besides Africans,
Chinese, Japanese, and Indians are in
cluded.
The total number of people pursuing
gainful occupations was 17,392,099, be
ing 34.68 per cent, of the entire popula
tion, and 47.31 per cent, of the popula
tion of 10 years of age and upward. Os these
14,744,942 were males, and 2,647,157
were females, engaged according to gen
eral classification thus:
Total. Afa’e. Female.
Agriculture7,67o,493 7,075,983 594,510
Pre l ’ oa «’n’l and per-
sonal se. ires.. .4,074,238 2,712,943 1,361,295
'Brad© and trans-
portationl,Blo,2ss 1,750,892 59,364
Manufct'ring, me-
ch’iiicLt niin’g.3,837,112 3,205,124 631,988
The total population of ten years and
over having been 36,761,607, there were,
therefore, 19,369,508 of these not engaged
in the gainful occupations, 2,991,038 be
ing males, and 15,378,470 females. Os
these 2,550,927 arc males, and 5,980,200
females between the ages of 10 and 15,
the total of which figures substantially
equals the number of children attending
school, who do not through any consid
erable portion of the year, pursue any
gainful occupation. Invalid children,
vagrants, and inmates of charitable and
correctional institutions must also be
ei}>hered out. Os males between 16 and
59 only 921,333 are unaccounted for.
Those are students, the infirm in body
and mind, and the criminals and paupers.
“The number of men at this period of
life, not disabled, who are not returned
I as of some occupation by reason of in
herited wealth or of having retired from
business, i<s hardly important enough in
this country,” says the report, “to be
mentioned.” Os females between the
ages of 16 and 59, however, the number
not accounted for is vastly larger, for ob
vious reasons—ll,o93,Bß7. In that total
are included the students, the disabled,
the criminals, and the paupers; but it is
made up in chief part of wives, mothers,
and grown daughters who are keeping
house for then - families, or living at home
without any special occupation. Os
those of 60 and over without occupation,
the totals are 518,778 males and 1,304,-
383 females. Ir is obvious why these
arc imemployed. Finally, of course,
•inly reputable occupations are included.
In New York City, out of a total popula
tion of 1,206,229, 513,377 were engaged
in gainful occupations, of whom 378,159
were males and 135,218 females.
The Growth of Our Manufactures.
The industrial growth of the United
States, as shown by the last census, is an
interesting study. The number of manu
facturing establishments in 1850 was
123,029. Ten years later they had in
creased to 140,433. In the next decade
the number advanced to 252,148, but be
tween 1870 and 1880 the increase was
hardly noticeable, the number in 1880
being 253,840.
A different rate of increase is shown in
the amount of capital employed. In
1850 it was $533,215,354, increasing to
$1,009,855,715 in 1860, and doubling
again between 1860 and 1870 to $2,118,-
208,769. Between 1870 and 1880 it in
creased to $2,790,223,506.
The shops and manufactories gave em
plovment in 1850 to 958,079 toilers, who
hail increased in number by the year
1860 to 1,311,246, and by 1870 to 2,053,-
996. In the next ten years the increase,
as in the other cases, was slow, for in
1880 the workers numbered only 2,738,-
750, an annual increase for the decade of
less than 69,000. In this army of work
ers there were 181,918 children, 531,753
females over 15 years, and 2,025,278
males over 16, < arning a total of $947,-
919,674, or a weekly wage for each man,
woman, or child of about $6.60. In 1850
the wages paid were $236,755,464; in
1860, $378,878,966, and in 1870, $775,-
584,313.
The materials consumed in manufac
ture were valued in 1880 at $3,394,340,-
029. Tho products increased from sl,-
019.10 ),616 in 18-50 to $5,369,067,706 in
1880.
In the payment of wages, all the
States show an increase excepting Ne
vada, Missouri, and Mississippi, Minne
sota and Texas doubled their annual pay
ment of wages in the bust census decade,
and California iucreasid from $21,000,-
000 to S3B 000,000.
Infernal machines are now made so j
small that they can I>e carried in a Ouat
tail pocket. The Detroit ’
let the job oat.
Agriculture
CLEANSING THE CANALS.
i
THE ANNUAL EVENT WHICH GOVERNS
j THE < HOI’S.
Forced Labor In Eitypl n» it Exist* Under
* the Khedive.
I Cleansing the 8,1)00 miles of fresh
I water canals that at present exist in
) Egypt is, next to the inundation of the
* Nile, the annual event ujion which hangs
j the success or failure of the crops. From
; the Pharaohs to the Khedive, canal
II dredging has been the special and anx
-11 ions care of the government, and for
■ over five thousand years no Egyptian
5 ruler has yet been able to get this vital
1 work done without resorting to forced
i labor, A few philanthropists have re
f ocntly remonstrated with Ismail Pacha
’ and the present Khedive for compelling
the reluctant fellah to work ; but when
! ever their pockets are touched Europeans
■ have always been most zealous to urge
I and encourage the most brutal nppliea
f' tion of Egyptian forced labor. For in-
■ stance, Ismail Pacha had to pay $8,0(X),-
> 000 in order to secure M. de Lvsseps’
I i consent to abolish that shameful clause
> in the Suez Canal contract which forced
■ : 20,000 fellaheen to be dragged every
I month in chains from their own fields to
II toil at M. de Lesseps’ canal, which has
[been the alpha and omega of all the
’ i plagues that have befallen Egypt during
• 1 the last fifteen years.
! The present Khedive has done away
I with forced labor, except for the work of
■ cleaning out the canals and strengthen
ing the embankments of the Nile and
the larger canals when there is danger
) of a Hood, and these exceptions are ab
solutely necessary to preserve the exist-
> cnce of Egypt. The Nile begins to sub-
I I side in October and begins to rise in
j T”ne. Tho work of cleaning out the
I canals be b l*? c ' in February, when the
. water is very low. The other qay I rede
out to a point on the Ismailia Canal,
I about ten miles from Cairo, where about
1,000 laborers were hard at work clean
i ing the canal. What I saw is a fair
, specimen of forced labor as it exists to
' day in Egypt, Moored near the bank of
[ the canal—which is 180 wide—a large
dredging machine was throwing up a
> continuous stream of vile mud upon the
[ towpath of the canal. About three hun
dred fellaheen—both men and women—
I were squatting down on their haunches,
I and with no other implements but their
’ | hands were scooping up the mud thrown
L . up by the dredging machine and throw-
I iug it into round, two-handed, flexible
. baskets. About seven hundred young
, [ boys and girls were carrying these
j baskets full of mud on their heads and
j “dumping” down their contents behind
I the canal embankment, about two hun
dred yards distant. A Greek engineer
was superintending the whole work, and
about twenty or thirty overseers—ex
' perienced fellahp, about forty years of
age—were walking about promiscuously,
seeing that nobody was lazy. These
overseers wore brown woolen fezes and
long, blue cotton shirts, and were bare
footed.
Each overseer had in his hand a short
stick, to the end of which was nailed a
long flat leather strap that might h ive
served in better days as a trunk strap.
These flat straps are a merciful substitute
for the famous courbash— an oiled strip
of hippopotamus hide alamt eight feet
long and twisted and stiffened with fine
brass wire. These flat straps would
occasionally come down with a loud
“ whack ” upon the back of some luck
less backslider, but as a rule there was
no undue cruelty. The laborers them
selves were taken from the neighboring
villages by requisition upon the respective
Sheiks-el-beled to provide so man y hands.
They sleep in their village, and at sun
rise say their prayers and cat a large pot
of baked beans, garlic and oil. They
commence scooping mud immediately
afterward and work away until noon.
They then pray again and receive from
the government a large flat round loaf of
bread. I have frequently seen young
boys and girls of ten or twelve years old
working away in the sun quite naked.
He Was a Gentleman.
Eli Perkins tells of a hotel porter he
met in Louisville, Ky.: I hesitated a
little about handing my portmanteau
to a seedy-looking menial to carry,
when the landlord said:
“Let him carry it, sah; He’s agen’lc
man. He’li take good care of it, sah.
Perfectly safe, sail.”
“Yes,” remarked the landlord, as we
walked up the hill, “that man carrying
▼our bag is a gcn’leman, sah. Why, sah,
lie was once worth $200,000 had fifty
niggers and seven hundred acres of the
best blue grass land in Kentucky.”
“Whatbecame of it, sir?” I asked.
“Drank it all up, sah. Fast horses
and fast women and whisky got away
with it all, sah. And poker had a heap
to do with it, too. That man lost $4,000
and a 2:20 horse in one night. Oh, sah,
he’s got gen’lemanly instincts; he has,
sure’s yer bo’ne. He’s jxair and ragged
and dirty, and bloated all over with
whisky—a perfect wreck mentally,
morally and physically, but he’s a gen’le
man, sah. He won’t steal your carpet
bag.”
V
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Doo Oil.—A Minnesota consumptive
went to North Carolina to spend the
winter. While there she met an old
negro woman who told her that dog oi /
was far better and less disagreeable to /
mke than eixl fiver oil. The lady thought -
n fat dog, had it kill»i and the tot rend- I
"red into oil. It agreed with her very
..,.11 was easier dieted than the other, /
nd ahe sava "b<? i" /
TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR
Points in Fattening Cattle.
Most animals eat in proportion to their
s weight, under average conditions of ace
temperature and fatness.
r 5,*‘ vc fanning cattle as much as thev
will eat, and oft times a day.
Never give rapid changes' of food, but
Ii change often.
a A good guide for a safe quantity of
e grain per day to maturing cattle is' one
» pound to each hundred weight; thus an
a animal weighing 1,060 pounds may re
-4 oeive 10 }>ounds of grain.
Every stall feeding in the fall will
r make the winter’s progress more certain
a by 30 per cent.
J Give as much water and salt at all
1 times as they will take.
- In using roots it is one guide to give
a just so much, in association with other
? things, so that the animal may not take
- any water.
» In buildings, have warmth, with com
e plete ventilation, without currents, but
- never under 40 degrees, nor over 70 de-
- grees Fahrenheit.
A cool, damp, airy temperature will
>' cause animals to consume more food
o without corresponding result in bone,
1 muscle,- flesh or fat, much being used to
y keep up warmth.
o Stall feeding is better for fat making
8 than box or yard management irrespec
t‘ five of health,
J The growing animal, intended for beef,
requires a little exercise daily, to pro-
Y mote muscle and strengt hos constitut ion;
f when ripe,only so much as to be able to
- walk to market.
1 Keep the temperature of the hotly
r about one hundred degrees; not nnder
- ninety-five degrees nor over one hundred
- and five degrees Fahrenheit.
Don’t forget that one animal's meat
i may be another animal’s poison.
3 It takes three days of good food to
a make up for one of bud food.
s The faster the fattening the more
, profits; less foyd, earlier returns and
t I letter flesh.
Get rid of every fattening cattle beast
r before it is three years old.
Every day an animal is kept after he
s ing prime is loss, exclusive of manure.
The external evidences of primeness
t ire full rumps, flanks, twist, shoulder,
3 [Hires, vein and eye.
A good cattle man means a difference
-of one-fourth. He should know the likes
. ami dislikes of every animal.
It pays to keep one man in constant
i attendance on 30 head of fattening
- cattle.
Immediately when an animal begins
I to fret for food, immediately it begins to
' lose flesh ; never check the fattening pro-
I c< ss.
1 No cattle whatever will pay for the
direct increase, to its weight from the
•onsumption of any kind or quantity of
I food the manure must be properly
valued.
Never begin fattening without definite
plan.
There is no loss in feeding cattle well
lor the sake of the manure alone.
Ou an average it costs, on charging
'■very possible item, 12 cents for every
ulilitiimal jiound added to the weight
>f a two er thrce-ycur-old fattening
beast.
In this country the market value of
dore cattle can be increased 36 per
• i,t. during six months of the fattening
finish.
“Dear Mother!”
In one of the county jails in Western
Pennsylvania a poor old man died lately
who had been a prisoner there for fifty
one years.
In 1831, William Standford, an English
farm-hand near tho village of Union
own, became violently insane and com
mitted a murder. He was tried and
sentenced to imprisonment for life, and
’ was chained to the floor of the jail for
eighteen years, according to the inhuman
i methods of that day.
Finding that he was harmless, the
; jailor at last took off his chains, but ho
I has remained in the prison ever since,
and was known as “ Crafty Billy, the
bugaboo of several generations of
children.
He was eighty one at the time of his
> death. During his whole life, and in all
i the ravings of madness, he never was
I known once to allude to his childhood,
or to his early days. When, however,
he lay dying on his pallet in the cell,
the old man suddenly checked Ins foolish
babblings, and lay still and silent f<»r a
few moments. Then he looked up with
a grave, tender smile, and said, “ Dear
mother!” He never s|x>ke again.
The thought of his mother who had
loved him, and whom he had loved, had
lain hidden in that poor crazed, foolish
brain for eighty long years, through all
his imbeeilitv and ferocity and madness; .
and woke at the last. All the misery
and cruelty he had suffered HbpM awa y
from him.'and like a little child he c«me
back to the “dear mother’ whom he
i:ad lost nearly a centurv ago, and who
had loved him best <>f all the world.
■ If tho happy mothers who, perhaps,
are reading this paper to their ehildren
fathered about their knees could only
understand how long their memory will
last with those children; how long after
they are dust their words and actions
will influence the Jives of their sons and
dmighters, how different those words
•mil actions would la' !
' There would be mi end then we tto»k.
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