The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1886 Page: 3 of 12
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MOTHER.
WaeaHfe reea; a worts see a
Saraeseias: ever? oMmcv
"She deareGt word saoac the ftwr
Ea eof Ur 1 jsped fc) otwr.
tftad Brother's oye. Mirror fccfefcts
KeSecta ear mi oc pteatwe; .
.aad ever to
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trtMBrS
Tis mother poothM the troubled heart.
Ami. sneaks a jrind to-morrow:
So oaeoks the tear-drop at its start
And lightes very Borrow. - -
Bat ties roll as retn eoroe apeee
Behind to left tvtnc efeHdaood.
.And ret actiearer sewnd ire irate
Inxrfty or la wiW-vood.
Wbate'er our life where'er -we roscb
Ker lore forsakes tie sever.
Bereft of see. the light of boae
Is wrapped la eioud forever. -
7s ebUdbooa1 route or later age
If etekBesb oonee to grieve ur.
Wo tern to her vrhoee words aseu&g
Aad eoothlBgiy relieve us.
Ah. so! there never oooet a time
We noed uot ber oareseios.
If gar or sad. in every dime.
We yearn still for ber bteeta
So whether ire are old or yottaf
.From one age to snot ber.
?bo sweetest word in every toarve
lteinains unchanging mother.
Clara JL U. Jduh. in Waiattmm
WAIT FOR THE MORNING.
"Wait for the moraine It will oome indeed
.Ab fiureiy &e the night Imtk given seed.
The years Ing-eyre at laet will strain their
sight.
Ho more uaaaswerea by tee sorsinjr light;
2fo longer will tliey vainly strive through
tear
To pieree the darkness of thy doubts and
foars.
Slut bathed in balmy dews and rays of daVn
3ill smile with rapture o'er the darkness
gone.
Wait lor the raorninir. O thou smitten oblld
Scorned scourped and persecuted sad re-
viled. JUhlrst and fafnishlnr. none pitying- thee
Crowned with the twisted thorns of atrony
2o fa! a tost Kleuta of suuliiriit through tbo
doesc
Infinity or gloom to lead thee thence
Wait thou for morning it wit! oomc Indeed
.As surety tu the iiurht hath given need.
James WhUcomJ' ItUcn in IndiattapulU Jour-
nal 1 THE MIDDLE WEST.
Story of LHe in the Great
Mississippi Valley.
BY ALVA fcWLTOH KERR.
jCoFTRianT iMM r tok ATlCKtiQCO
NEWSPArER OOMPAXY.l
cnAPTSR xrr. contisobo-
PrefJontly the sun began to go down
sinking in a great lire at thelar-off end
-of the valley through which the river
went into the west and flooding the
long many-colored hollow with a mel-
low lovely light. While hs ws look-
ing at this a. girl rkiiBg a milk-white
pony came around one of the valley's
flexures following the gray road to-
"ward the tow.n with the rosy'light about
her much as if she "had ridden out of
the sunset. When she came nearer he
saw that it was Maun Woodman. As
she passed in an easy canter uncon-
scious of the silent watcher above her
lie paw how she sat her horse in a kind
of willowy ease with a long and taper-
ing waist and a dark face rich with
r olor.
He turned to follow her With his eye
when .she had passed and saw almost
with surprise the silent book-keeper
oming quietly along the road toward
the sunset lie was looking at the
ground as he walked and when he
looked up and saw the girl he gave a
start but took off his hat and do wed
politely as she passed him with &
smile and a salute from her riding-
whip. When he came by below John
SarHn he seemed flushed and was
muttering something to himself.
Then he stopped and watched the girl
entil she had gone out of sight and
turned and walked muttering on into
the gathering shadows.
John Earling's retrospective aad in-
trospective mood being thus broken
into his practicaliiy returned as he
went toward the town and the chock
as & .factor in his fortunes began to
orb jabout in his mind. He was aot
wont to be long in ' making a decision
on any head his aim seeming so abso-
lute hnd clear but this question strik-
ing his mind imraedTSIeiydiv4dedL into
two feasible and about "equally t all nr
ing halves. Should he spend it' in go-
ing away to school? or hoard it until
being admitted to practice in the
courts he should need it to fit up an
office and get himself a library? He
picked on the latter course and wisely
perhaps much as he desired the other
3or only .those who have gone over the
cruel road know how thorny the pro-
fessional way is when entered without
a penny. His mind too was not bad-
ly equipped since" with & keen dispo-
sition to master the espanse he had
read himself with & retentive hold in
every direction over the sea of litera-
ture and had filled all the interstices
sndjlittle crannies of Ids time with ob--atorvtatioa
and study. Indeed b had
opiae to be better educated in the
primary sense perhaps through the
sappy union of inclination ana neces-
sity; than thousands dawdling away a
quarter of a century of school.
When he came to the office of Bower
A Woodman the law partners had
rone home and he lit the gas without
thinking of his supper and went to
work. When the big olock over is
the court-house dome droned out the
J0r of elevefT he went through the
4elfcte star light to his humble lodg-
ing? in the outskirt of the town with
his hat in his hand cooling his forehe&d
against the soft night wind. On &
SBorrow he had himself a sleeping-room
gtted up at the top of the brick block
in which the ofiioe of Bower & Wood
man lay and through the next two
jedrs was well nigh as little seen in
Siblic places as the still book-keeper.
ejgot'forwxrtHn the law at esae--fhfag
like an asftasinr paos m old
Woodman often said in sebstsaes to
ibej fudge following the sUlesaeet
whbn h partner was not looking wit
$m of ak "hair" pantomimes.
sessionary at the judge i iaritstioft
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i
Mka jjarflag wo3d go hoots with Mi
t tea saVd give nioaaslf am houz
e two of Msceatfon by talking With
Mrs. Bower or sitting an the swsdg
aader the cool trees. But the elder
wjm w ie Bra zur su hu gin
aadoHriotts sdmiratioa o? th'eyouti
- - - f a&5- & m. ta i .iLL-if
waacsaryoz nissoireesies.' He no
invited him to his house nor indeed
any young people but had an aidrt
and brusque sort of kindness for him
Which John Earling found pleagajnt
aad unfailing. Under the guise of ex-
plaining some pointhe would talk tq the
young man by the hoar when; Jrjdjge
Bower was out giving him a historyfof
cases in his own experience and eluci-
dating intricate passages and situations
in law. John Earling with his head
bent down a little would fasten bis
dear eyes apon the amber-colored orbs
that looked out from under the old
lawyer's shaggy brows and follow this
thought until their minds seemed some-
times one. Often the old lawyer would
stop and say: "Now you have the .sit
uation xoiiowiBg ibis iine oi action
how would you come out?" And w
his young auditor sometimes divii
the outcome which often could hai
be found with any thing short of irapl-j
leg with intinite relish and exofUitn:
"By snum! you struck it! " j
When the winter had gone following
upon the autumn in which he received
the check from Joel John -Eurling
gathered from the old lawver's remjarks
to his partner that he had sent the
willful Maun away to agister's ilcad-
emy in an Eastern town to which in-
formation Judge Bower had Bhook his
head and closed his lips very tiight
opening them with the remark: ''That
ho didn't believe it would wprk."
Thereafter the old attorney somod
less alert and less talkative through the
summer and in the fall John Eliding
gathered again from their habit oj: con-
versing while ho worked that Maun
had come home without consulting
the pleasure of any one beyonci her-
self and rofusod to return. The old
lawyer had laughed with the ricital
and his partner had said with a fa-
miliar drawl: "Well it seems to nte.
Woodman that you will either hive' to
rive her no rein at all or put the
lines entirely into ner hands xou're
too soft on one side and too hard on
the other; you pen her up to be
sure
pen.
but she runs things inside the
You betU'r make a party and
bring
her
out and
let her feel that she is a
woman.
!
But the old lawyer shook his head
and was siient. Deep in his heart
there lay a jealous dread of the inevi-
table day when this one and only being
that he loved should take her heart in
great part from him and vield i to an-
other. He often felt with he impetuous
"kisses on his lips and other childlike
exhibitions of a wild kind of fo ldness
that he never could bear it. So he de-
layed acting upon the judge's sugges
tion and time ran on with Maun (
studying at home under the tutelage of
her father and a lady from the KnL
Once or twice thereafter Joljn Earl-
ing saw her cantering her white pony
o er the swelling slopes and fir dnys
tlc pretty picture lingered in his mind.
As the "autumn fell away into the
winter after the coming home of Maun
the old lawyer seamed fresher hearted
and resumed his curious convejrsations
with John Earling. Upon one of these
occasions when in the midst of an' in
tricate demonstration with
fixed intently upon his eager
1 is eves
auditor.
something in the matter undei
dissec-
'tion seemed suddenly to sugge it a pre-
viously considered question for he
stopped short and said:
"What was the reason yoi wasn't
satisQcd in Joel's store?"
"Why sir' replied the you lg man
with some surprise "you may rcm6m-
ber when I came to you I intimated
that things were not pleasant to me at
Mr. Whitney's; besides. I wished to
enter the law you know."
"Was it for the reason thnt things
did not go as honestly as you liked at
Whitney's?"
"Frankly sir that was the asc'
"Do you expect to follow the law
honestly?"
"I do in the finest sense of the
term."
The old attornoy spit in a slow
doubtful way and perhaps the first
time in his life beat his pencil on "the
table by which he was sitting for a
moment looked at the youth much as
if he doubted his sanity or w w sadly
disappointed in his shrewdness and
said: "Snum me! if I ever heard of
"Why sir" said John Earl
ns.
with
a smile "I was not aware that such a
statement contained any thins surpris-
ing.
isn i it nossioior
Why no boy thunder and light
nm nos Why we re all a sq
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of
ras-
old cals didn't yon know it?"
The
man struck the table in the oamostness
ef his accusation.
"O-no no" said John
T?otirt r.
quickly "I beg your pardon tout your
4.n&iu
estimate must certainly be (elective.
There is no nobler occupation than the
law as I conceive it Think of the
fineness of it; it gives justice rights
wrong protects the innocer t shields
the helpless and broods ove : us like
the silent atmosphere here : nd there
polluted but nevertheless sweet be-
neficent and not to be lived without.
It ap not behat men are nc t or can
not be as honest in the conveyance of
this supreme principle as tin handler
of coarser commoner things. '
The old man crossed his ar ais on the
table before him leaned forv ard over
them shook: his head compassionately
and groaned. "Why boy" he broke
out "don't; you know that he whole
system is to defeat and lam iach other
about with?"
John Earling smiled but said in his
open fearless way: "That is n at my con-
ception of it. It may be i sed 'more
commonly than I am awa o of as a
hurtful weapon but that is not its le-
gitimate purpose. It appeals to me as
a thing not so much to beat and break
with as to help and heal Iti province
may often be to restrain but that need
not make it cruel; it may convey a
merited punishment but it is lomething
else than law when made a savage in-
strument of torture. In ts whole
scope aim and intent I c i see no
terminal reason why the man who
andles it should not; b ho lest and
indeed the more upright fn m contact
with it" i
Tha old attorney looked ah him side
wise frosjr where a safe. "Tcang
Btaa1' h said "under your doctrine
of the law where do yosTthinkyoa will
soBte out"
3? John Earling smiled a?rain. "I ex-
pect to come out an houest man. I
nave heard it intimated that no out-
Tcoae is of a fines kind than that."
You don't gd iu to win then?"
MYes sir when in the line of justice-;
otherwise T would not care to.
"Suppose a man comes to you who
is guilty and offers you money to de-
fend him what would you do in such
a case?"
"If satisfied that He was guilty I
would not nnder any circumstances
touch his money or his case."
The old man sighed. "Well then
suppose the man caused you to believe
him innocent and when tha evidence
was given in eourlr you should become
convinced that hs was truiltv I sup
pose you would simply help the other
liows get a veraict? '
'- " I should certainlv not make an ap
peal before the jury in the- guilty per
av a uwuuro. II Jl. U. UIU UUUU
Earling got up and walked about in !
his sad passionate way "it should not j
be a lawyer's business to defeat the
law. It is absurd nay mora than
that it is criminal! How can a man
respect himself or hold himself
blameless who. by shrewdnoss.
chicaner)' eloquence or by any other
use of his best or meanest gifts suc-
ceeds in restraining the law which
through him should be helped to suc-
cessful operation and thus turn loose
again a thief or a murderer to prey
upon his fellows? By what light shall
a man look into the eyes of liis own
conscience and ieem worthy of its ap-
proval who succeeds in beating back
one who is Ulying to get justice or
fastens a wrotjg upon one who is at-
tempting to thrpw it off? In my opin-
ion rn consideration of dollars and
cents can make it right norshould any
tenderness for name famt1 friends or
prosju'cts icrstjadc a man from putting
hi3 foot -Minareh upon it."
The old lawyer shoqk his head.
"You'J sop nd up! wipe as out!" he
laughed. "Wliy there would soon bo
nothing for ns to do! We have to keep
the pot hot and full of confusion boy!
Doctors and lawyers are most'in clover
vou know when other are in trouble.
No no; we ctjn't turn saviors of men
unless our ranks get thinner than they
awe now." i
Well I prcjsme a number could be
spared and the world uot find it a
catastrophe" paid John Earling dryly.
"Right you are right you are" said
the old lawyer getting up and begin-
ning to put on k great coat to go
home. John Earling helped him with
it and the old man said as he thrust
his grizzly chhi up in the air to fasten
the throat-button: "Well my experi-
ence has simply been; that tbo law is a
mill to grind fools-in. A kind of dev
ilish perpetual motion you know; in -
visible buzx-sjiw; slow but sure stran- j
gulatlon or something like that Don t
think a man yould conduct a case sue- !
coss fully witli a hymn in his heart and j
a Bible in hij hand. A man might be
honest at it perhaps but he would be '
such an unspeakable wonder that i
lightnin' woiild'nt go near him much i
!--. I
less a man witn a case-
John Earli ig langhed- He knew the
' . " i
' k .
old lawyer's mental habits too well to
think that Ik had exposed more than
one side of his sentiments. The young
man's face kept its midampened glow
as he said: "I suspicion that the color
of the law d spends very much upon tho
high or low altitude frou. which one
views it: rfrmy own; part if I can not
be manly generous and just if I can
not be lionet and uprigLt and of un-
questioned wn'ice to my ie'lows I
shall quit th 3 law and go- to tillhr tho
ground. A man. can certainly be Ko.-
est behind i plow?"
"Snum re e! but I doubt ft!" said the
old lawyer as he went out
John Ear ing lit the gas with a smile
on his face and sat down and went to
work and the old attorney passing
down the cold street in the gathering
shadows with his head very low in the
great collar of his coat muttered: "It's
hair and no mistake but snum me if
it ain't as 1 ne as a spider's beard I"
CHAPTER XT.
Thereaft ?rthe old lawyer's eyes were
wont to lig it upon John Earling curi-
ously wheije the yonth sat with his line
head bent jjver his work and often at
the end of lone of these misty stares he
would nod! his great grizzly cranium
as if in affjmative response to some in-
ternal query. But whatever the color
of bis cogitating the decisions which
ho seemedj to arrive at were evidently
slow in hardening into action for tho
snow spatjkled off and the year blos-
somed again with the nebulous some-
thing still uncrystalized.
With the advent of the leaves John
Earling began to make pilgrimages to
the veranda of Absalom Heater again
and twice while there he had seen the
willowy Maun canteringher milk-white
pony dovra one of the many shady
roads that slashed the great woodland
with its Streams meadows fields and
farmsteads. Once too on a Sabbath
when rambling along an old lane
where a half-rotten rail fonce ziznged
forward under a load of squirming
vines and blossoming briers he stopped
and was listening to a thrush's song
when he Isaw Maun riding down the
main roiad and waving her whip to
some one that he could not sec. .Pres-
ently asihe walked onward after that
he came "upon a little isle of grass in a
swarm ef hazels and looking about
him saw the silent book-keeper sitting
upon a fallen tree trunk with his head
bent down almost between his .knees
and a finger pressed on the arteries on
either sitse of his neck as if to stay the
blood from passing up into his brain.
John Earling turned aside and went
onward toward tho town; for him tho
sweetness of the wood and the open
clearness of the sky were blurred and
lost in the still picture of this human
being's hidden and unknown struggle.
On one of these midsummer days the
current i of John Earling's life which
was flowing evenly onward to his pre-
sentation at the bar in the autumn set
suddenly forward with a new feeling.
It came; about by the thing taking
shape which through all tho winter
aad spring had lain uneasily in the old
lawyer's mind now starting into sub-
stance and now again dissolving as if
he could not bear to view it m any
form more tangible than a purpose. In
fcb.9 evening of the day la qaestf.oa Ike
sat for a long tisae looking at ta
bowed head of the youag maa who
was reading and when the room was
filling with shadows and he presently
got up to go home he stopped by Jobs
Earling. who was bending closely over
his book and stood looking silently
down upon him. Disturbed by this
unusual movement the young mas
looked up quickly and a little thrill ran
through him from the strange look i
the old man's eves.
"Como home with me- I want Maua
to know you" said the old attorney
and his voice seemed husky and from
far down in his throat. John Earling
stood up and looked him in the face in
a questioning surprised way. The old
man put out his hand with an appeal-
ing gesture. "Lad" he said "did you
ever love anybody hotter than jou
loved your own " soul? No no of
course you can't understand how hard
this is and ho .turned away toward
the door.
John Earling put on his hat and
without having uttered a word went
with him. It was enoegh for him that
thb snarled old lawyer had been his
bcrst frend and had bidden him to his
home A 'knowledge of what the ap
parent trouble was that lay upon the
old man's heart ho would not even ask
in the trueness of his fealty. They
walked silently out a street'running
northward through the town. As they
passed Joel's big house which was
coming to completion on the knoll the
old lawyer glanced up at it and mut-
tered: "Gingerbread!" This was all
that was said until they came to Wood-
man's house which stood at the north-
most extreme of the town where the
prairie began to undulate away in that
gigantic green wedge: then the old man
said: "That's Maun" and John Earling
looking up saw hersitting on theporch
of a pleasant briek house before whieh
they were passing.
When they entered the gata she
came forward to meet them and John
Earling saw that she was taller than
most girls with so soft and lithe a
movement that it seemed much as if
an inlinitely little wind breathed down-
ward over her draperies at every step.
Her motion touched the young man
like soundless music. She had a low
forehead retreating slightly; a nose.
Greek at the base but from "that a very
delicate brow; a mouth rather large
but curved and seeming to suck itself
into a sensuous llowcr-Iike pout with
eyes cut long and of a dusky amber
line. A touch perhaps of Indian blood
was there refined and strained through
many white men's hearts and joined
with fluid from old Spanish arteries.
.. mwnnnt Law -& wnnf .I"t1n
' timidly before John Eafling's and tho
faint color in her dark face deepened
as she extended her hand and mur-
mured a welcome. But suddenly she
was easy and lending them into tho
parlor which
right hand of
was entered from tho
the hall she -proflercd
the young man
an easv chair and
. -
stepping across the hall brought in a
eliair with a wooden bottom and stilt
back for her father explaining with a
smile that he would never under any
circumstance allow himself tt sit upon
any thing more luxurious. Then siio
J seated herself in a low rocking chair
..
bv the window and with one of her
suss hands lying upon the other in her
lap began talking in a smooth mellow
tone lifting her eyes slowly now and
then to the young man's face. The
old lawyer seemed iLl at ease and ex
euseil himself bluntly in a moment
fTO BK CONTINUED.
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WHY MILK SOURS.
A Froeet Inn to nn Invisible Vegetable
Sulwtanco or Fungui.
By observing taking note of the phe-
. omena and occurrences of life and
stiu ng or inquiring into their causes
we gaiii. knowledge. Most people have
a kind of Y."aQ notion that milk sours
from nn inhere 'it tendency in its nature
or composition or In other words
from natural depravity; but this is a
mistake. Were there no external
causes of change and decay there is
no reason why milk should not keep
sweet for an indefinite period. Others
suppose its souring and decay 13 caused
by the atmosphere; but there is noth-
ing in the pure unadulterated atmos-
phere to cause any thing to decompose
and decay. The atmosphere pervades
all nature and is the great !ustaincr
of life. Milk is a perfect food con-
taining all ihe materials for the devel-
opment of all the various organs and
compounds of a young animal. Let
us see wnat it is composed of: 100
parts of fresh cow's milk contain
water 88.30; caseine 4.82; milk sugar
3.39; butter. 8.00; salts 0.49. By
standing the globules of butter en-
veloped in a thin membrane of case-
ine rise to the surface forming the
cream but there is no reason;
why the water sugar caseine and'
salts should not remain pure forever
in contact with pure air only. Whence)
comes then the insidious foe that
brings decay and putrefaction to thiaj
life-sustaining compound? It comes
from the air but it is not of it It ia
vegetable substance a fungus whosq
minute invisible seeds or spores are
floating in the atmosphere. Some ol
these enter the milk probably ca soon
as drawn from the cow. and the
warmth from the milk and the pres-
ence Of nitrogen in the caseine furnish
the necessary conditions for the growth
of these gorms or ferments and fer1-
mentation ensues. The fermentation
causes the disarrangement of the con-
stituents of the sugar changing it into
alcohol and lactic acid and this is sour
milk. That it ia the absorption of
spores from the atmosphere which
causes the milk to sour mavbe proved
by heating the milk to boiling point
thus killing the germs and thon can-
ning it excluding the air when it will
keep frr an indefinite period. That it
is the fungus spores floating in the air
and not the air itself that causes the
souring of tho milk has been proved
by connecting a long rube filled with
cotton with the canned milk. The
air will find its way through the cotton
and enter the milk but the spores will
te arresten and tho mils rsmaa
awect Toronto Globe.
A young woasa of Ithaca N. Y.
bca nearly one tnousanosilK worms
suspended in natter cones; and ail sm&
imng&w&v inausi
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M2oasv
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HOT
Ia uuntmy.
Way tfce JPrfaeftJal Steal ? Site Say lavsW
fee ?&&; mcfe a Beseeri.
Many houssk p3rsi look upon all des-
sert 1 the light of Injuries; others draw
the line at d"me3 that call Is? eggs.
Now some dissert dish if proporly
mads should fc cm a part of every din-
ner if fruit is i ot to be served. Even
with fruit som a people require sugar.
Whom no dessert is provided a greater
quantity of m at and vegetables must
be eaten to sa isfy the demands of na-
ture. For son e this is all right but for
tho majority oi folk a certain amount of'
sugai and star ;h is necessary. Children
should not bo deprived of this kind of
foot!. Even for thje oor it is econom-
ical to provide a simple dessert
In arr&og'ng foil dinner plan a
light dessert wlien i the resr of the meal
is to be sub?tai it alj. On the other hand
when the raair part of the dinner is to
be light let th a dessert be hot and sub-
stantial. For example if the first part
of tins meal consists of cold meat and
vegetables or a hash and one vegeta
ble serve a he t apple pudding for des
sert A good
one can be made of a pint
of Hour prept red as for crenm-of-tartar
b'scutt rolled thin and filled with pared
and quartered apples then steamed for
two hours anil served with molasses or
sugar sauce. Or the apples may be
pu? into a ste rpan with a little water
and sugar or a little molasses stewed
for a few mi: mtes covered with the
biscuit dough and cooked for abonfi
twenty minut 3S Ipnger. No sauce will
be seeded wit h tl is pudding. Nothing
coulu be cnealper.janu it will oe very
palatable and
Apples mr
wholesome.
V be: added to boiled sago
or lanioca w
th a pleasing result bosk
a cupful of
either tapioca or sago in
three cmifuls
then cook it in a Rouble boiler for half
oi cow water over mgnc:
an nour. At
d to the contents of the
infill of sugar half n tea-
boNer one cl
sptionful of s ;lt and two quarts of pared
and quarien d apples. Bake in a pud-
ding dish fc r an hour and a quarter.
Cool slightly awl serve with or without
sugar and cr nm or milk. These pu l-
dings are so simjple that they will not
hnrt even an? invalid. Gootl House-
i ieipinq.
Q-Sii--i-
FEEDING NEW CORN.
A Convcn!eni
and! Under Certain
Adibable Fraotlce.
Cendi.
tlORKl
tth the great p rk-prodacing States it
ISi
common anf a convenient practico
td
feed corn to h gs as it is drawn from
tl
e new. I ne corn neeu noi oo iiuskou
e i t I " I. 1 I
sq clean as when it is to be cribbed for
i
s4me month an I all the labo? and e-
nunse of cribbin r is saved. I have fed
a
new corn in this wav to my hog.
o pcciallv tl oe being fattened for mar-
k i quite I. irgely lor & score of years
aidhavo nrver ibeen able- to discover
tiie bad effe its which some claim follow
f om feedin j thej new corn. I have had
no di-eae unoiig ray swine for nine-
t sen vears ilthtmgh at some time with
in eleven ol tho-o years swine disease
felilf J YK?h J JIT lilt f--'.47V
olea tl in my neighborhood
i adjoin ing farms have "died
1 as raged v
and ho?a oh
ke flies." 1 summer my. hogs on red
lover; anil asi tlie clover laiis m ine
an anu i ogin ieowing corn x nee oiu
orn f 11 i he I hog havo come to full
coding. Then) I change gradually to
hew corn a id feed it altogether until
within ten
tint
k of marketing when I
revert to olll edrn. At all times I am
particular to si
pplv my hogs regularly
with salt. :md
ontmuously wiwt asiios
and charcoal:
but when feeding new
born I am ill t
e more articular about
I tlo not feed tlie new
ithosc suppl :es.
corn until t hi
s ripened almost enough
to allow of its
feeing cribbed. Feeding
new corn i ? so
convenient that I think
e practice and if the
it an advfeal)
feeding is
judiciously done I believe it
to be perfect
safe. Another ami
often a very mi
Ltorial gain derived from
feeding niwcprn
is that there is no
loss from the
epredations of rats and
rtik'R. wiifch dan hardly bo prevented
when the
r.fW
lms t- y k1
41
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American Agriculturist.
--e--
REST I SWEET JIEST.
therjjin-L
How a 31
Law Won the Kepeet
ot Iter
fwHchter'n Hatband.
A great
mariv stories have been told
about men
wao had no use for their
mothers-in-law hence an exception to
tlie genera
I rule is very refreshing.
ttyn
want to hear or readanv
i x
thin;
dls-
araamg- t mothers-in-law.
said Judg j Peterby to. his young friend
Hostetter McGinn is.
"What makps you; talk in that eccen-
tric sort c f a way. Judge?"
"I'll tjll W wiry. My wife has
jawed me almost to death ever since we
were married. Last week I invited her
mother tt come-and live with us."
1r allfO Wtv irnn Iruif- vrir
.... ......v. M W TVM VUW I Wt...
senses
?"
"Not nuclL
I
Yon see they don't
agree. 1 hey
fight each' other all day
long anjd I
am enjoying a season ot
heavenly rest
My wifo is so tired quar-
reling all dr
v long witn her mother.
that when I c
me home there is nothing
iav Whv that mother-in-
loft over for i
law of m ne i ; a lightning-rod.
perfectly safir as long as she is
I feol
is m tno
house. " She is a treasure. The next
man I he ar abasing mothers-in-law has
got me to fight Ji only wish I had
three or
.omr I of them in the house.
Then I
feel perfectly sale." Tout:
StJZtngs
To wash; lace curtains use tepid
rain vratr sufficient to cover the cur
tains. Soap them thoroughly. Use no
pcarliDcjor any washing powder. Let
them U for one or two days gently
squeezir g th fkm in the water from time
to time. W ringfwith a wringer if you
have on . if pot gently press the dirty
water outKinse in two blue waters.
Use boillsd i tarch. Instead of ironing
them si thej edges oareluiiy to sheets.
laid down id
an unused room ana you
-sffll be delighted wit
the result Tkt
thnstteld.
f
---
A (Tolumbus
(O.) wifo wanted a
divorce
beJausc her husbaad had a
habit o ' yawning before company. The
judge i 3 formed her that the company
would lavej to stand it or kjecp away
and th: it he often caught himself doing
the ssi je tbiag.
WMe& SSees SSseefe-s&i&esv Sefibr.
& the making o. Inciter matches th
of the wood suitably dried aad
split arc dipped into a as$o composed
of phosphorus and chlorate Or nitrate
of potash. Of coarse there are th
dangers of explosion and accidental
burns from these chemicals; in addition
the employes chiefly women anu chil-
dren are poisoned by fumes o phos-
phorus. Almost all of them are palo
and badly nourished complain of "pains
ia the stomach and Jyspensia whila
many of them have a catarrh of tha
stomach lung dseases especially
catarrhs and consumlption are fre-
quent Some match manufacturers say
that the workmen btcorae dull and
stupid and have no energy or "heart in
their work." j
The most striking effect of long con-
tinued phosphorus poion'ng is ;to pro-
duce death of portions of bones particu-
larly that of the lower jaw. This dis-
ease appears aft or four or five! years
employment in this badness andjten or
twelve per cent of tile old hands be-
come thus efiected. Toothache $ gen-
erally tho first thing Wrong that! is no-
ticed" then pains m tpie face spelling
and tendorness of tlty gums enlarged
glands etc Then sn absccsfj form
which discharges ofleasive matter and
sooner or later it is discovered ' that a
part of the bone is death When tho
upper jaw is affected the diacaselis slow
in its progress; in the lower one) it runs
a shorter courso and is attended by
more suffering. If the dead bone is re-
moved bv surgical operation recovery
is the rule while thirty-live to thirty-
eight per cent Of thofencglected die.
To prevent this painful andl some-
times fatal diaoaso the most complete
ventilation of the working rooms par-
ticularly near tho floor whero the heavy
vrfpors sink for a time should be en-
forced. As the fonr-thousandth part of
the vapor of oil of turpentine in the air
prevents the giving on" of phosphorus
vapors at ord nary temperature dishes
containing this substance should be
freely distributed about the floors of the
rooms. The English- workmen carry
small tin boxes containing thisjoil sus-
I ponded from thoir necks in order to
prevent inhaling the poisonous vapors.
Children should not be permittcjd toon-
gago in such employment and jail esn-
ployes who have imperfect teeth should
oe rejecieu ior uie poison jxuijuuumj
gains entrance to the bone of the jaw
through a defective tooth. The so-
called "red phoph us'' only sjiould bo
allowed in the manufacture of matches.
This is much more eixpentve than tho
ordinary form but U is not poisonous.
The matches made from it require to
bo manufactured in a little more care-
fill manner but the use of the
ardinary?
white phosphorus
prohibitetl by law.
J)eimcr(U.
should be strictly
SL Lou's Glebe
jJls$
WHAT Gl
READ.
One Thoasand I5iones From Toting
I.uiIIp Attendiegj KnglUh School.
In the course of an art'cie vrhicli Mr.
E. G. Salmon contributed to the Nine-
teenth Century on the subject of "Book
for Girls" there i an interesting list
showing what books they dor las r mat-
ter of fact most aifect The data vere
procured by Mr. Charles Welsh tho
publisher who- collected replies from
various schools. A thousand school-
"girls responded to ilio question: "Who-
i your lavonto auinor. ami. rejecting;
all names which an not mentioned fivo
times. Mr. Salmon tabulates Umj result
as follows:
Charles Dlckena. ...sj
Bunyr..n.....
It
Sir Walter bcott....tSMlH9-Braddnn lie
C. KinKsley ..... ... !
Mrs. IL Ik Stowe.. 11
C. M. Yonne. ....-
31189 Wortiolse
bhakenpoare. . . . . . 3;
H. Alnawortu......
Lord Tennyson....
MIm Montgomery..
It. I). lUnckinore...
W. BlacTT.r..P
lK'foe.t.-...........
Mark j.3'n.
IS
i
a
S
8
i
C
r.
ft
5
5
&
ft
&
5.
E. Wtherel! M
Mrs. Henry Wood.. W
George Knot.... 41
Lord Lytton .. !
Loncieiiow. ........ si
Jm ktm U !! JB
Andersen....-
a i Jsracdley.. .......
Ik-sbaStretton
iBt'arlyle....
Canon Karrar... "X Ma Edgcjwortbw.
Grace Agullar 21 Miss Have i gal....
(irlmmi V John Kuskln
Thackeirnv IS Lewis CajroM
Mra. Walton - 17 It. M. Ballantyne..
Whvte Melville 17 C. Itr.nteL...
W. lr. G Kingston... IfrMrs. Gasket!
Jules Verne......- W.Mra ilemmw
Mrs.CnUk 14 Mrs. E. Marshal!..
Mai-nnlxv l.lCaDtaln MarrvaS..
Mlsa.Vlcott UK. Ansteyi S
"This analysis of the voting as it
may be called suggests" says Mr. Sal-
mon "some curious reflections to those
who have at all studied 'girls' litera-
ture. Hardly oc of the frecogni'cd
writers for girls is mentioned. Mr.
Welsh is. doubtless correct) when het
surmises that much of the popularity
from the publishers' point 6f view of
books for girls' is due to the fact that;
they are bought by parents jand friend
for presents. If girls werd to choose
their own booKs in other woros. tney
wmld make a
vcrvl different
choice for
themselves
from that which
ther
elders make
Budget.
for them."
-Pall
Judging Live-Stock
Coropeteney to judge young or un
developod'stock is not as some persons
seem to suppose it a mysterious gift
coming no one not even the professor
knows how. It is a power gained by
observation and cultivated by experi-
ence. The intelligent breeflerl keeping
his eves opon observes certain appear-
I an ccs in some of his young stock and
other appearaaces in th remainder
when all am iu low condition. These
turnout well those not so! well; re-
peating his observation as experience
increases year after year. in generation
after generation of hfs stock he sees in
each charge of the animal during
growth some of those sinsi which he
has learned to associatel with future
inferiority or with medjtiiri develop-
ment and he knows accordingly how to
classify his young animals asigood bad
or indifferent Irish FaAnex Gazette.
The objection to the) incandescent
light in mines that it gave no indica-
tion of fire-daaip has been removed by
placing two together onel a colored and
the other a clear light A mprourycon-
fcsct subject to the pressure from diffu-
sion in an unglazea porcelain pot al-
lows the clear light to burn! in a clear
atmosphere but lights the colored os
in flre-dampw Ckicaao JqurnoL
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