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YOL. VI.
" SEED SOWINC.
St-'?? the seed of soothing kindness,
To dispel the gloom and pain;
Bow bright words of warmth and welcome,
That o’er earth good will may reign;
Sow upon a soil prolific,
That shall bear an hundredfold,
Choking Turning out weeds the thorns a'nd briers,
to stalks of gold.
Bcorn thou not, to i
sow, moreover,
On the Helds less rich in loam;
Should it bear not many measures
It will have its harvest home.
If the sower will but harken.
He will Lear what God will keep—
Whether good or whether evil—
What ye sow that ye shall reap.
Though And tho soil be scant and sandy.
the rocks be thick and keen,
With the hand of faith sow broadly—
Some stray soil may He unseen;
This may nourish seed sufficient
To bring harvest time around;
And the hand or thrift may garner
From the uninviting ground.
What though wayside fowls fly over,
You can cover well the seed;
What through tares by satan scattered
Should arise in evil greed.
Wait, if must be, till the harvest
Then Ripens grain and tares in turn;
the grain thou mayest gather,
And the tares may’st bind and burn.
Cow the seeds otWve and mercy,
• Worthy work fir angel hands!
Sympathy Fitting and truth and justice—
themo for heavenly bandsl
Bow good will among thy neighbors.
On Reap reward for thee in store;
the sower that is faithful
Blessings be forever more.
—Virgil A. Pinkley, in Brooklyn Eagie.
I The Sixth
V: $ Commandment
S^seiSsfeieieseieieieieieiei
m < S it nothing to you
r. M l that happiness your mercy? my lies whole Am at
'■5SS m _j I only one more
■J! EM jj* j have of the flirted many with, you
ww’v and then smiled
<Cr M U u \p-' Sy> aside as if they
■were children? Ah! God never
created any creature more cruel than
a beautiful coquette without heart! Do
not deny it! You have used every charm
you possess to make me love you, and
have succeeded. You shall listen to
me now*. I love you! I love you! I
love you! Nay, do not speak. I will
not take your final answer to-day. To¬
morrow I will come for it. Ah! if it
is ‘Yes, ’ I swear that you shall never
regret it. If it is ‘No,’ then you will
have sent one more man'to ‘hell!’ ” and
without another word Jack Armstrong
turned on his heel and left abruptly.
Hilda Phare lookedjafter his retreating
figure with a vogue sense of shame.
She had won the love of the “woman
hater, ’ but the victory was leaving a
sting in even her hardened coquette
conscience, herself though she tried to feel
aggrieved at his outburst.
‘As if I can help men falling in love
with me. I cannot marry them all. I
certainly but do liko Captain Armstrong,
I don’t like matrimony, I want
to keep my freedom a little longer first.
A pretty girl can at any time easily get
gaged, but it requires an ugly girl
to easily get disengaged, so that even
beauty cluded, has its drawbacks,” she con¬
with a little soft laugh. Then,
with the unconfessed desire to drive
the recent interview from her mind,
she took up a society paper and soon
forgot all the crumpled rose leaves of
her happy, careless life in the pleas¬
ure of reading a description of the
dress the “beautiful Miss Phare wore
at the Quean’s ball, where,'asjthe belle
of the season, she was the cynosure of
all eyes. ”
dreadful “My dear Hilda, have you heard the
news?” The girl look up
from tho comfortable wicker chair
where she was reclining lazily under
the shade of the old oak on the lawn.
“No, what news?” she asked, indif¬
ferently, looked for her portly aunt’s face
she more important than horrified,
as stood by her niece’s side, hold¬
ing a large white and green lined sun¬
shade over her bare head.
“Mrs. Chester shot her husband
and that pretty Miss Dene yesterday
afternoon, and then killed herself.”
“Ob, how dreadful I WhaU made
her do it?” exclaimed Hilda, thor¬
oughly roused now, as she sat bolt
upright in her chair.
“Well, it appears that she caught
him kissing this Miss Dene, to whom
he had been engaged before he mar¬
ried his wife for her money. Fancy
shooting both of them like that!”
“What a wicked, cruel woman, Mrs.
Chester must have been. It was only
yesterday Hall morning I rode over to Hill
to see her new Paris dress. It is
quite horrible to think that I have
touched the hand of a murderess, ” and
the girl gave a shudder.
£i“Yes, it is, indeed! I am so very
sorry for their poor little daughter, but,
of course, I can never allow Jessie and
Pussie to play with her again. I must
go now, for I want to write and tell
your Aunt Mary all about it. She
will bo so interested—shocked, I
mean,” and she returned to the house
with that feeling of pleasurable impor¬
tance we all experience when we are
the first to tell the news of some
calamity that has befallen our friends.
Left to herself Hilda sank back in
the wicker chair and tried by reading
to distract her thoughts once more,
but this time from thinking of the
tragedy at Hill Hall. The heat, how¬
ever, made her drowsy, and the paper
soon dropped on the grass from the
nerveless fingers, and the lids soon
drooped over the beautiful eyes.
Suddenly a choking sensation
caught the sleeper’s throat. She tried
to move, but could not. Was she dy¬
ing—dying out there alone on the
lawn? She felt her breath coming
quicker and quicker, her strength
ebbing faster and faster. Then she
seemed to lose all consciousness.
“Where was she now? Who were
those?” she asked one standing besid#
her.
“They the souls of the (lend ___
are
1 L HE RECORD
waiting till the day dawns and the
golden gates are opened.”
“Then I must be dead, and those
must be the gates of heaven, that
beautiful place I used to like reading
about when a child. I will join tlio
throng and go in with them.”
And when the day dawned she also
pressed forward towards those golden
gates, guarded by angels, but though
many passed through, more were
turned away. At last only Hilda and
another were left. That other was a
broken hearted woman, and the girl
shrank back with loathing when she
saw it was Mrs. Chester! As she re¬
coiled an angel beckoned to the weep¬
ing woman, and she fJeheld her no
more. But now the gates were clos¬
ing. Hilda sprang forward aud
stretched out her hands to those
white robed guardians.
“You have forgotten me.”
“There is no forgetting here,” came
the answer.
“Then why do you not let mo
through?”
“Your sins expel you.”
“My sins! My sins! What sins
have I committed? What commaud
ment have I broken?” questioned tho
girl, with the surprise of self-con¬
vinced innocence.
“The sixth commandment. ‘Thou
shalt do no murder.’ «
Hilda shrank back in horror, amaze¬
ment, anger.
“I commit murder! I, who could
never bear to see oven a bird shot.”
“Yes, you are a murderess,” an¬
swered the angel, sternly. “Yon
who recoiled from that woman are
muoh more guilty. She, in great
temptation, in great provocation killed
but mortal bodies; you, in mero vani¬
ty, in mere idleness, have killed im¬
mortal souls! Thinkest thou there is
no margin to a commandment. Know
you not that though tho text be brief,
yet does it overflow beyond the limits
of words on the broad margin of mean¬
ing labeling unwritten sins, and you
have broken a marginal command¬
ment, ‘Thou shalt do no murder. > t!
“But I have committed no murder,”
reiterated tho trembling girl.
“Behold and see,” and tho angel
passed his hand over the eyes of tho
belle of the London season.
“Yes, she knows that young face
again. He had been one of her boy¬
ish suitors, whom slio had flirted with
and then laughed at. He is holding
a dicebox now in his shaking hand, and
on that dicebox is written one word—
‘Hilda.’ Ah! who is that drunken
man glaring at her with bloodshot
eyes? He lifts a glass of spirits, and
on that glass is engraved one word—
‘Hilda. * >>
Ah 1 poor wife of a loveless marriage,
made by the husband in a moment
pique. Her tears as they fall
one word—“Hilda.” ' -
Yet another face she sees—the face
of a last year’s flirtation. It is pale
with the anguish of death, and on the
pistol by his side is stamped one word
—“Hilda.”
Then the girl falls at the feet of tho
angel with an exceeding bitter cry.
“I am indeed a murderess.”
Her own bitter cry awakens Hilda,
and she starts up trembling in every
limb, to find that the lace scarf arouncr
her throat had caught in the wickmx
chair, which perhaps accounted for
the choking sensation of her dream.
The next day the bell of the season
said “Yes” to Jack Armstrong, and
sealed with two loving lips the death
warrant of the heartless coquette.
On the Mississippi Kiver.
The first vessels that over entered
the Mississippi from the sea were the
French frigates Benommee and Gir
onde, January 6th, 1700. These ves¬
sels proceeded as far as the Tenesas,
which they reached April 12. The
first vessel built on the banks of toe
Mississippi by white men was deatb^Jff launchfe
in 1541, shortly after the
burial of De Soto. The boatm a
early navigators long in danger of the from present Indijys* cSTtury
were resoBC^ and
pirates. A notorious " hese
was Crows’ Nest or Stock Isl Mand
many flatboats and crews were sacrificed
there nntil these pests were exter/
minated by mob law, in 1809. F <Je
the five years following 1822, howe^f,
the destruction by snags on the ofll
and Mississippi amounted to $1,362,-
500, but'$381,000 though the next five years showed
loss from the same cause.
In 1842 there were 450 steamboats oa
the Mississippi and its tributaries,
with an average burden of 200 tons
and an aggregate value of $7,200,000.
In operating these boats about 35,-
750 persons were employed. The
average value of the products carried
each season was something-JJ^e $200,
000, or an aggregate of $90,000,000 up
to 1842.
Previous to the adoption of steam
navigation the whole commerce from
New Orleans to the upper tweW country
was carried in about barges,
averaging 100 tons each and
but one trip a year., There we» ned
over 150 keel boats thirtjfcms oWhe JRTgRW,
carrying about each
making the trim.fflsmPittsburg to
Louisville and in two months, or
about three voyages a season. From
1811 to 1850 676 boats were lost,
valued^at over $7,000,000. In 233
cfflBsw^he gated 1660. killed The and wounded aggre¬
average age of all
the boats lost was five years. From
1816 to 1871 there were 89 explosions,
involving a loss of life in each varying
from 1 to 1649.—Pittsburg Dispgjah,
New York’s First Water Supply.
In 1798 the best drinking water was
procured well at the Tea Water well. This
received its name from the fact
that it was the best to use in making
tea. It was twenty feet deep and four
feet in diameter. The average daily
supply weather was 14,300 gallons. In hot
as many as 28,080 ions a
were Bom* ■k
Herald,
DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF JOHNSON COUNTY" AND MIDDLE GEORGIA.
WRIGTHSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 1898,
THE GOLDBIJG
4
CLAIMS THAT WAGES
RISING VOLUNTARILY.
On the Contrary Heavy Redactions
Reneral—The Dingley BUI Does
In the Least Chock Gold
Tendencies.
A gold standard advocate, the
do Blade, publishes the following
torial, under the heading “Wages
ing Voluntarily”:
“Wages are the price of labor.
bor Is a commodity, and like all
its price depends primarily upon
mand as related to supply, The
vival of industry, consequent upon
victory for honest money at the
last fall, and the restoration of
conditions which provide a sound
for our industries by the enactment
the Dingley tariff law, is now
its logical result—an increase of
without strikes or the employment
brute force in any other form.”
This is the general claim made
the gold press without specifying
ticular instances. The reverse is
truth. Wages are being reduced
over the country, even in those
tries especially favored by the
ley tariff. Following Is a portion
the record as printed in the news
umn of the same papers that are
torially advertising McKinley
Ity:
Cotton manufacturers operating
thirds of the spindles of New
shire reduced the wages of their
ployes about 10 per cent January
At leqst 20,000 operatives are
The Cotton Manufacturer’s
tion, of Fall River, has reduced
10 per cent in all the mills of the
The reduction affects 25,000
Amoskeag corporation, of
ter, N. H., employing 9,000, and
China, Pembroke and Webster mills
Suncook, employing 1,500,
wages 10 per cent commencing
ary 1.
The Housesmiths’ and
union of New York made a
surrender to the firm of J. B. & J.
Cornell Monday, but quit work
Induced to do so by threats of
sion from their unions.
The weavers at the Bridgeton, N.
woolen mills went on a strike
The Fishdale mills of
have notified their employes of a
duction of 10 per cent, About
persons are employed.
The Millbury cotton mills of
Mass., have posted a notice of
cut of 10 per cent.
The treasurers of the Lowell
mills, at a meeting held at
Masai, Friday, voted to reduce
wages’of their employes from
17. ecA jtfbout 15,000 operatives will be
fe
Tire remic' ions In wages have
a great dej. of trouble in the mills
Fa^jflku Mass., managing and the labor
ere the case
tTOqjrorKThgmen, have submitted a
iflfiaiSatti'oposition Bfc^that to the
proposition has been all
rejecrelR^What the labor unions
gest is arbitration by the state
but that proposition has been
poohed. It has been further
by the toilers that the agreement
posed be deferred until next
so far as Its operation is
The representations of the men
they are at present degraded by
wage scale below the standard of
ilization is amply confirmed by
pendent investigation. - Many of
mill hands have been compelled
support their families on seven
lars k week. So poor are the
tbht ^(Jt %eir children were forced to
* ttl medical attendance during
r gttopidemic a<Sists declare of that diphtheria. they
are
Nng the highest wages they can
d, a truly astonishing statement
w of the high protection they
Joying who under do their the shopping Dingley
lose in
partment stores of the large
^^gstify prices from charged personal
a for the
ucts of the Fall River mills were
so high. The grades of goods
moreover, deteriorated In quality.
the-, men whose toil produces
commodities have been forced to
mit to a reduction of their pay
they are at the point of starvation.
ganized The Worjji traces has canvassed the
of New York, and
™ Iabor ’
fn t hat c lty OUt i of f i total of 297
oral , f ,08t f °" c man ‘ n ever y thrc
™e only trades showing increases
« In number employed are
^ding be trades confe ® sed and that cigarmakers. in New
-J ylzed 7®, gold as , ! n standard England, is, to the
. • And this up date,
J a n ure - is the year of
5jWd 1808 ' when may we
®YP e ct prosperity?
Until very recently wages in
Rocky mountains have been held up.
$4 per day, but McKinley prosperity
having a disastroun effect there.
Pueblo (Col.) Courier days:
week the management of the
works imported a large number
negroes. At the low wages paid,-$
per day, white men cannot be found
endure the hard labor to be
In these works. Cheaper labor
to be the motto of Supt.
whether the employes can live on
earnings or not. The nearer we
get to poverty and slavery the
some men are suited who have It
th^lf head that the majority of
beings are only fit to make profits for
some one other than themselves.”
Still we are happy to be able to state
that there is genuine prosperity in cer¬
tain portions of the country, as the
following telegram from St. Louis
proves;
‘‘MISS ANITA CRAWFORD, OF
WESTMINSTER PLACE, HAS HAD
THE EARS OF HER PET CAT
PIERCED AND LARGE DIAMOND
EAR-.RINGS they PLACED THERE.
spa rkle beautifully
against the black FUR.”
The dispatch does not state whether
Miss Anita is a relative of D. Craw¬
ford, the St. Louis merchant prince
who discharged those of his employes
who refused to abandon their free sil¬
ver ideas.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Monopoly in all its forms is the tax¬
ation of the industrious for the sup¬
port of indolence, if not of plunder.—
John Stuart Mill.
I very positively can inform you the
considerablest part of the misery of
the world comes of the tricks of un¬
just taxation.—Rqjkin.
What the people use most, the peo¬
ple should own.—Cicero.
He who has a right to live has a
right to food by which to live and land
by which to live.—Washington Glad¬
den, Pastor First Congregational
church, Columbus, Ohio.
It we want beautiful men and wom¬
en we must have beautiful conditions.
—Ben Tibet.
The social revolution Is bound to
come. It will either come in full
panoply of law, and surrounded with
all the blessings of peace, provided the
people have the wisdom to handle and
introduce it betimes; or it may break
in upon us unexpectedly, amidsball the
convulsions of violence, with wild, dis¬
heveled locks, and shod in iron san
dais. Come it must, in one way or the
other. When I withdraw myself from
the turmoil of the day and dive into
history, I hear distinctly its approach¬
ing tread.—Lassalle.
No Bonds Without Bondage.
What would bonds be worth if they
did not bind anybody? How could
there be bonds without bondage sorne
where? asks the Appeal to Reason.
The law and a bill of sale were tho
bonds that took from the chattel slave
the results of his labor and gave it to
his master who held the bond. The
law and the parchment of the gov
ernment are the bonds that take the re¬
sults of the people's labor and hand
It over to the bondholder. The holders
of public bonds are as much opposed
to doing away with conditions by
which he profits as were the masters
of chattel slaves. There is no
ence between the two except in |h e
method. The results on those in
age is just the same so far as
concerned. When the people wake up
to the fact that they arc in bondage
that they are still suffering from on"4
of the many forms of slavery thathas
been the curse of the world-they
will make short work of the
That they submit is only because they
do not realize the nature of their con¬
dition. The present system is-one
form of slavery and the people ai'e fast
finding it out V- ' Jff
- Amerlcafr - -> + -/ ' :
The Sovereign.
found The in AmericaniiTja^reign all &m^«^unkingly can be
mjBpeaAo posi
tions. He does good royal
ad He v antageAgJ|j^tlf-s is noQftihcely helstands tai ved miner,
as with
doffed haf, 'shrinkWNuAi \ho>|olds tretpbHtig
before Ops master, in his
kingly He is not hand TOjWrrfftgTflWwhen the threat fcdischar; he
casts his kingly prerogatives, th&hallot,
ployer in herds, before with his the' fear jof I His ..hi3,em
eyes. soVer
elgnty is not apparent when penniless he tramps
the highways, hopeless, hangi„| and
hungry, or when like grim
death on the brake-beams beneath a
palace car. Alas for fallen royalty,
when he is arrested, chained and
placed on the rock-pile under the
scornful gaze of the public. Of what
benefit is his sovereignty when it fails
to preserve him from the conditions of
the most'abject slavery? More than
the mere title of “sovereign” is re
quired to secure even his manhood
Freedom, equality, Justice, are better
words to conjure happiness with than
royalty or sovereignty.—Labor Ex- ^
change Guide
Duty of a Reformer*
Are you doing anything, my brother,
in the way of assisting your friends
and neighbors to understand correct
principles of reform? A true reform¬
er never should be idle; should never
give up the fight. He may sometimes
become a little discouraged when he
men who need reform; who need
a cl gc for the better, who will con¬
;ue ti note Mayest against their own interest
of their country at
lai but iSls should not keep you
Mng Bjfhe your duty and all in your
triumph’oT powl ' right and for the final
our principles.—Woodbury
Messenger.
The Eccentric Mr. Simpson.
Mr. Simpson told his Detroit hearers
that under the Reed despotism all he
could do congress was to draw his
pay. Mr. Simpson is now on his way
to Washington to do all within his
power In congress.—Detroit Free Press.
Unlike some of his colleagues, Mr.
Simpson is satisfied with the govern¬
ment’s allowance, and does not hire out
to the corporaMowi a* w#JL— £ 4 .
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V m
Corn Cobs for Kindling.
Corn cobs are often used for kind¬
ling fires. But while they light easily,
the cob being solid does not create a
draught of air and the fire soon goes
out. better, Finely split kindling is much
as it gives more heat, and thus
sets fire to the heavier wood. But if
dipped in kerosene and placed under
the wood, the cob will furnish heat
enough to light dry wood in large
pieces without using any other kind¬
ling. It is the only way in which kero¬
sene oil can be used with safety in
lighting fires.
Utilizing-Incubator Eggs.
Eggs are expensive food for chick¬
ens, but when an incubator is used
the clear ones are sometimes given as
food, but usually cooked hard. This
is a mistake. The best mode of feed¬
ing eggs to chickens is to pour boil¬
ing water on the eggs, beat them, and
thicken the mess to a stiff dough with
corn meal. Fed in this manner con¬
stipation will be avoided, but they
should not be used oftener than every
other day, giving them at night.
Hard boiled eggs are excellent,
they are usually fed too liberally and
cause bowel disease.—Farm News.
Hogs in Small Lots.
It is neither profitable nor always
entirely safe to keep great numbers of
hogs together. Besides the liability
to disease gettiug among them, there
is always a certainty that the stronger
will crowd the weaker from their feed¬
ing places, so that inequality in size
will increase instead of decreasing.
In every litter there are always one or
two weaklings that were born runts,
■ and unless given a better chance than
their fellows, they will always remain
runts. The best way to manage this
is when the pigs are seven or eight
weeks old, take out the stronger ones
and wean them, giving them plenty of
the best food that can be got to make
growth. Then'the runts left to suckle
the. sow alone will in two or three
weeks more take a start that may
make them as good as the others, so
that in, later life all can be fed to¬
gether. No other feed, without the
sow’s milk, vwfl do this, .though such
other feed encoffrSged s^uld be given^ind the
pigs he to eat alRhey can
ma( ^ e to eat -
Providing winter Cows,
Many farmeis who would like to breed
cows so as to have them fan-ow iu the
fal1 ai ' e unable to do so - because
“ * s difficult to S et a cow tvhieli is
giving milk to come in heat at this
8 ' ea8on ‘ It does not pay to dry off
,, he cow,in .... which case she . would ., come
ter way is to feed extra with oats,
wheat bran and middlings mixed with
ground rye. If this rye has got some
ergot in it there will be no trouble
about the cow coming in heat. Rye
in any form has the effect of increasing
prolificacy in all animals that wiii eat
it. There are many advantages in
having cal es dropped in the fall, pro
Tided there ..re warm quarters for
them the urst winter. They will
make dm best winter cows, as they
Will naturally come m heat when a lit
tie more than a y ar o d, and may be
*»ed then Spring calves also coming
in heat in the spring make cows which
will give the hulk of their milk during
the summer, when milk and all dairy
products are cheapest.— Boston Culti
vator.
-
The Sex o f Egg*.
the mi There^s .ha«ig many of eggs-i. theories e. regarding the sex.
Some claim that round smooth eggs
Wl11 Produce pullets; others that the
P osition of ail- s l lace bas mucb to do
with tbo sex > cto - 5 but tbese are
merl y theories—nqt a fact iu ihe lot.
^ ue tbese theories might soem to
*P V0 8 oot t results one season, only to
be 1 ' over8ed the next.
There is room for much experiment
Oil this line. The male bird has much
to do with it—cockerels mated with
two-year old hens and cocks mated
with yearling hens. In our opinion
the individuality of the male bird is
all important. The stronger this in¬
dividuality be the more male birds will
the result. In special matings or
double matings for show birds this
has ofteu been commentedjipon. We
believe that this question will novel -
bo settled, for the simple reason that
heus have as strong individual quali¬
ties as cocks, and while a strong cock
might influence a majority of bis get,
yet the minority, due to strong indiv¬
idual hens, will always be present.
While experiments along this line will
bo profitable, yet it is idle for the
average pon! try men to thus employ
himself. Wo do not believe we will
ever be able to mate so as to produce
either all pullets or all cockerels.—
Agricultural Epitomists.
Siiccesawith Home Made
For nearly 40 years I liavo been tbe
occupant of a rough, sideTiill New
England dairy farm, writes “A Vet
eran.” I ran in debt almost wholly
for it, having hardly means to stock it
and buy the necessary teams au4 tools,
And after all these years, I must say
one of the greatest sources of pleasure
has been in clearing land of stones
and hushes, and increasing Its pro¬
duction fourfold. I well remember
the pleasure given me by the first
crop of hay taken from a nine-acre
field of 24 good two-horse loads, this
from a rough hilltop pasture without
commercial fertilizer, and it is to¬
day a productive field, adding much
to the beauty of the landscape. This
is but oue of a number of fields that
have responded bountifully to the ap¬
plication of homemade fertilizers, I
recollect one crop of corn producing
over 200 bushel of ears per acre with
homemade fertilizer, with a very little
phosphate applied in the hill and
clover turned under.
For composting manure, I have
found nothing equal to dry soil, often
taken from the roadside, where it has
washed from the road bed, and is of
little value to use again as road ma¬
terial. A friend of mine made a prac¬
tice of storing a large quantity in the
dry season and using it as an absor¬
bent behind his cows during the stab¬
ling season. The results were in two
heavy crops of grass and rowen one
season.
I use horse manure, sawdust aud
dry waste material in the trenches
behind the cows, as absorbents of the
urine. This greatly increases the
quantity of manure, with good results.
The live farmer who enjoys his calling
with eyes open, will discover sources
of supply to increase the manure pile
in fallen leaves, in the wild ferns in
pastures, in swamp grass to be gath¬
ered and used for bedding for cattle,
horses and swine. Much fertilizer is
lost by allowing the waste from farm
building to run in the same channels
year after year, which should be
turned in new channels, thus enrich¬
ing new parts of the fields.—New
England Homestead.
Poultry Notes.
Good laying hens are neither hun¬
gry nor too fat.
The large breeds, as a rule are tCe
best for the table.
Reduce the "winter stock of poultry
to layers as much as possible.
Use carbolic acid occasionally in
the dust bath, to destroy the lice.
Tho best plan is to give a good va¬
riety of both cooked/nd dry food.
Paralysis in chickens is often due
to overfeeding and lack of exercise.
Wheat, corn and buckwhat fed/.o
fattening fowls will whiten the fj/sli.
It is often a good plan to feed corn
on the cob aud let the fowls do the
shelling.
So far as possible in feeding,scatter
hold the grain equal so that th\ whole flock will
an
Well fed fow flWrarely becomo over
fat when they are compelled to scratch
among litter for their grain.
The winter care of M fowls is an easier
ttel . tllan the 8Umnier because
Hens will not lay when their combs
ale fj° A s dry ted. quarters ibis is one reason why
’ varl are necessary,
Never try to stimulate egg produe
tion with irritating condiments, as
they usually do more harm than good,
Hardiness, vitality and vigor of
constitution are of move importance
in poultry for profit than all other
qualities combined,
it i 8 unreasonable to expect hens to
Iay ^ iu wiutev un der advefte condi
u na Xhey require more food’-fhan
a t other times because a large per
ceut s toward supplying physical ant
llial heat to keep up their
C0JQC ]jii 0 n \ A
•
Poultry myards . would ., give . better
returns than if on a range if properly
managed, but to give a small flock
the proper attention would cost too
much labor This is not counted when
the flock is ice ^ Be for pleasure, but on
the lnrm the c is different.
It is found that when charcoal is
added to the food of fattening turkeys
they crowded, gain more rapidly, When
a portion of che food is In¬
able to ferment in the gizzard. Char
coal absorbs gases and relieves acid
ity, and to this property of the char
coal tlio benefits are due.
Herd! 113: Sheep Good for ( onsumpiiveg.
Another class of men who watch
sheep are those who do it for their
health. Dozens of men claim to have
been cured of consumption sim^jy by
putting in several months at watching
sheep. Tho work gives what is most
required in the deadly disease—plenty
of l'resh air, moderate exercise, and
employment that is not wearing on the
brain, but is still enough to keep it
occupied and prevent nervousness,
Of course, if a man has plenty of
money,ho cau got these without herd
iug sheep, but there are many men
who need them badly who have no
uioney, and all who have taken advan
tage of this knowledge have surely
been benefited. A number of men
who have taken up sheep herding
have becomo so fascinated with it that
they have stuck to trouble.—Providence it long after they
got over the
Journal.
Captain Brown of the British ship
Windward has spent forty years sail
iug in the Arctic seas. He began on
a whaler when twelve years old, and
ha* been in the polav seas ol'tenex
Probably than any other man.
3.
It is
Hot Strange
—t
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confidence in Medicines that havs
been palmed off on the public as
“cures” for every disease with
which the human race is afflicted
and frequently persons refuse to
believe anything they hear about
a reliable remedy.
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The Great Blood Purifier
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Baying By Sample.
A certain gentleman in this town Is
the proud possessor of a remarkably
red nose, The term proud is used
advisedly, as the owner is continually
relating stories having a bearing on
lh e brilliant hue of his nasal treasure,
The following is one o£ them. He
was in Exeter one afternoon, and hav
l n S completed his business, was amus "
* n S himself by an inspection cf the
shop windows.
While admiring some ties in a cer
J^ 11 window, and considering whether
should speculate or not, a little girl
came out of the establishment, and
finally caught him by the sleeve. .
“Please will you come into the shop
with me, only for a minute. she ask
ed -
( Certainly,” answered the gentleman,
following her at once. Arrived at the
counter, the little one astonished
everybody by remarking: Theer,
miss, muvver wants a ribbon the same
color as this gentlemans nose,
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