The Huntingdon Journal, gym, and The Proper Care of Stock. Sheep want sheltering from the wind and rain, and the closer they are placed in the sheep barn—al ways providing proper ventilation— the better they will winter. They should be carefully graded—the strong from the weak, the ewes and wethers from the lambs; the rams from all. It pays in wool as well'as in mutton to feed grain every day. There is no morepernicious practice than to allow sheep, or, in fact, any other animal to become poor and weak, and then to attempt to raise. them up in the Springby extra feed. It is one of the fruitful scources of their dropping their wool unseason ably, because the very act of in creasing the condition sunddenly of any animal, if poor, causes it to shed its coat, if near the proper season for doing so. Ifyour stables for horses have plank floors, they should be constantly covered with some ab sorbent—in the absence of plenty of straw—as a dry muck, or other soils containing plenty of humus. Many of the joint and hoof diseases of horses may be distinctly traced to standing upon hard floors during the season of comparative idleness. Let your stables be well ventilated, and nearly as light as an ordinary house. It is not safe to risk blind ness in an animal on whosegood eyesight so much depends. Many of the accidents and runaways, from the use of horses are primarily in duced by defective sight, which is in many cases occasioned by stand ing in dark, damp, and impure because ill-ventilated, stables. There I are but few good farmers nowa days who do not groom their horses tolerably well. This very act of grooming, however, renders the skin more sensitive to cold, especi ally during the time of stalling. The horse when allowed to run at large during the winter, acquires a heavy coat of hair, filled at the roots with dandruff, which protects it in a measure from the inclemencies of the season. The act of grooming not only cleanses the skin from the dirt, but reduces the coat of hair; and therefore it is not only condu cive.to health, but at the same time profitable to add a blanket in cold weather. If to a properly ventila ted and well-lighted stable we must insist upon a soft: and elastic bed for the horse to stand on, and ordinarily good care in feeding, watering and cleaning, we shall have given .our faithful servant and companion in the field, all that the most exacting philanthropist could wish, and there is no animal kept on the farm that so well pays for good care as the horse. Cattle Feeding in Winter. The question is sometimes raised as to whether or not, cattle designed far farm work should or shouldnot, be fed during the winter season on concentrated food, such a; corn. meal, oil cake and the like. As an illustration on the subject, on alim ited scale, we will state a simple fact in the management of working oxen during a singlewinter. There were two yoke of these about the same age and phy . sica! power. Both were stabled during the night, and, sub- jected to equal labor during the day. Vne yoke had, besides a plentiful supply of good hay, a peck of In dian meal during the twenty-four hours. The other yoke, in addition, to the hay, had a feed f pumpkins, cut up, as long as the stock held out, which was about the close of Dz cember. After that, hay alone. In the Spring, those to which meal was given were in fine condi tion—in fact, fit for the slaughter house, while the others were In what is called fair working order. When the Spring plowing was commenced, there was found a marked difference in the operative force of the two teams. The yoke fed on corn meal did not lack strength, but were de void of the endurance which char acterize the hay and pumpkin fed animals. In a word the corn fed ones wilted down under the influ ence of the Spring heat, while the others seemed indifferent to it.— American Farmer. Go and Come. "If you *ant business done," says the proverb, "go and do it; if you don't want it done send some one else." An indolent gentleman had a free hold estate, producing about five hundred a year. Becoming in volved in debt, he sold half the es tate, and let the remainder to an in dustrious farmer for twenty years. About the end of the term, the farmer called to pay his rent, and asked the owner if he would sell his farm. "Will you buy it asked the owner surprised. "Yes, provided we can agree about the price." "That is exceedingly strange," observed the gentleman ; "pray tell me how it happens that while I could not live upon twice as much land, for which I paid no rent, you are regularly paying me two hun dred a year, and are able in a few years to purchase it." "The reason is plain," was the re ply; you sat still and said go ! I got up and said come ! You lay in bed and enjoyed your estate; I rose in the morning and minded my business." Couon ix HOBSES.-A cough is rather a symptom than a disease. It is often caused by the irritability of *he air passage, occasioned by previous disease. A chronic cough in horses is often occasioned by m disretion in the treatment of influ enza, distemper, and disease of the respiratory apparatus. It is also one of the effects of liver disease, and sometimes for worms. Too much dry fodder, especially , chaff, often aggravates a cough. Carrots and other roots and green feed may be advantageously used. Give your horses a warm stall, with bedding a foot deep, with moist cut feed, a lit tle laxative medicine and not much hard work. dintational. Roll of Honor. Below we give the names of the pupils in our Borough Public Schools, who have been neither absent nor tardy in attend ance for the past school month, ending January 12th. In the white schools there are five hundred and seven pupils in at tendance. There has been a great im provement in the regularity of attendance, but thero are yet a great many who are very irregular. Parents that keep their children regularly at school, keep them off the streets at night, and have them prop erly improve their time at home, are never heard to complain of their children not making satisfactory improvement. At the close of the next school mouth we will give the names of all perfect in attend ance, and the percentage of attendance for each grade. We wish to see the schools of Huntingdon an honor to the town and the pride of our citizens. HIGH SCHOOL. Sadie T. McCoy, Fannie Simpson, Ella Buchanan, ; Maggie Miller, ..I"..,nnie Shaver. MALES. F. F. Fetterhoff, Samuel Miller, FEMALES. Carrie Shaffer, Bella Africa, :I,IOOL, NO. 1. John Shaffer, John Grey, Win. Bice, Win. O'Mara, Joshua Grey. CHOOL, xo 2. GRAMMAR Willie Graffius, Charlie Bricker, Irivin Hoffman, Bennie Hamlin, Orman Shaver, GRAMMAB. FEMALES. Ida Ferat, Maggie King, Grace Rohm. SCHOOL, NO. 1. Jane Glenny, Minnie Burchinell, Annie Lamp, Alice Port, Ella Madigan, Ella sash, Nellie Bricker, Annie Killinger, Louisa Schafer, Grace Picket, Annie Conrad, Annie Hatfield, Jennie Hatfield, Alice Hazard, Laura Baker. SCHOOL, NO. 2. MALES, Edward Bice, Thomas Magness, Willie Langdon. INTERMEDIATE MALES. John Snyder, Charles Armitage, George Black, John King, Harry Focht, Harry Leister, Wm. Morningstar, George Barnes, Charles Barrick. FEMALES. Estella Africa, Lizzie Shaffer, Susie Moyer, Annie Fetterhoff, INTERMEDIATE FEMALES. Mary Bales, Ida Dunsworth, Mary Decker, Ada Friedly, Clara Feaster, Mary Geissenger, Janie Harry, Ada Miller, Maggie Mitchell, Mary Shaffer, Ada Williams. HOOL, NO. 1. MALES. Robert Hawn, Harry Brown, Elmer Freidly, George Garlock, William'Jegar, Harry Isenburg, Rivard ,i'Cabe, Harry Port, John - Smitli PRIMARY MALES, John Colon, Bennie Houstein, Oliver Peightal, Willie Tenter. FEMALES. Bella Gettys, Grace M'Cabe, Callie Moebus, Minnie Richter, Mary Wise, Nannie Strickler. !HOU, NO. 2. Robbie Glenney, 'Robbie Robley. PRIIVARY BQI MALES. Willie Shoemaker, Tussey Helfright, John Rahm, Davie Lamp, Jesse' Miller, George Mochns, Jakie Africa, Gilbert Watson, FEMALES. Sudie Africa, Narcissa Rupe, Flora Mingle, DiancbeHouseholder Mary Hoitein. Cavi1.14%7 Education. The advocates of compulsory education are evidently increasing both in numbers and earnestness. They urge it as an im perative necessity. Social order and civil security are threatened by an army of ig rnorance, which is largely recruited from the host of children and youth, whO are growing up in open contempt of school ad vantages. These unschooled thousand large ly fill our alms-houses, jails, and prisons, and their care, prosecution, and punishment burden the public treasury. The soxereign remedy for this great evil is compulsory school attendance. As "Progress' urged in our December issue, the State must reach out the strong arm of the law, and compel parents to send their children to school. This, in a few words, is the argument for a compulsory system. Respecting the soundness of at least two of the facts on which it is based, we have not the shadow of a doubt. Universal education is a social and civil necessity, and the State has the right to secure universal education by com pelling school attendance. The right to tax A to school B's children, involves the right to compel B to send his children to school. All this is clear; and yet we are obliged to confess a doubt respecting the present practicability of compulsory educa tion in this country. The "strong arm" of the law in a free government is a public sentiment demanding its execution. With out such public support, the law becomes a dead letter, as witnesseth much legislation designed to enforce moral reforms. In this case an unexecuted law would, we fear, be a hindrance rather than a help. But, whatever may be true of a general compulsory system, there can be no doubt respecting the value of a law to prevent truancy and vagrancy. Many of the ab sentees from our schools are such in spite of the wishes of parents. They have bro ken through parental control. An officer, charged with the duty of arresting all ab sentees from school without leave, would be welcomed by hundreds of parents, and the mere existence of such an officer, in easy communication with parents and teach ers, would prevent most of the present ca ses of truancy, as is fully shown by the ex perience of thosv, States which have tried the system. There is another class of absentees from our schools, who are moral orphans. Their parents, criminally neglectful of the highest parental duty, have given them over to the dominion of their own evil natures. They spend their time in the streets, and fast ri pen into criminals. It is not only the right, but it is the bounden duty of the civil pow er, to interfere in behalf of these neglected children. They should be rescued from ruin, and prepared for lives of honor and usefulness. The well-being of society and the security of thd State alike demand this. It is far better to multiply industrial and reform schools than to build jails and prisons. A law dealing wisely with these two classes of absentees would be sustained by public sentiment. It would not be cbnox- ions to the intelligent advocates of the vol untary principle, and, without invading the much-defended "rights of parents," it would secure childhood in the God-given rights of instruction and control. Moreover. what a stream of juvenile vice and crime such a beneficent law would dry up ! What a sum of manhood it would save from hope less ruin !— , Ohio Ed. Monthly. TEACHERS and School Officers of Hun tingdon county, are requested to furnish us with any educational intelligence that may be of general interest. We desire to make this column profitable and interest ing to all of the readers of the "JOURNAL," especially to those more closely connected with the schools. ;I; ballannuo. Old Maids. Fanny Fern writes about the old maid of the period. It is all a mistake in the date, Fanny. There are no old maids in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy. According to the recent census, no married women were fund over twenty-six; no single over twenty. The years have drifted gloriously up the river of time, and we have found, where our foremothers have overlooked it, the foun tain of perpetual youth, the elixir of life. There are no old women any more. There used to be a silver-haired grandmother sit ting on the cosy side of the hearthstone with a smile on her face like a ray of gloiy slanting oat from the beautiful land. We can almost hear the click of her knitting-needles now as we think of the days of our childhood. But the good old grandmother is gone. In her place is a young woman, whose sunken cjieeks have been renewed with the wonderful touches of art, the color of her face is as fresh as a maiden, the placid brow is cov ered with youthful frizzes, the silvery locks that sail for our reverence are con cealed by luxuriant tresses of tow, such as the old-fashioned grandmother used to pin and weave. Old maids, maiden aunts belonging to the neighborhood to be gener ally useful, are extinct. In their stead are vivacious, sprightly, piquant girls, whose cosmopolitan ease of•manner in any and every circumstance would cause the old maid of the ancient time to look askance at them and gather up her unruffled robes in fear. The wheels of the chariot of time are blocked, and perpetual youth sits beside the old scythe-bearer. No more old maids. The girls are blessed forever! Good Advice. Spurgeon sententiously expresses antuu ber of thoughts "worth remembering" in the following appropriatesentences, which he publishes as "advice gratis" : Nobody is more like an honest man than a thorough rouge. When you see a man with a good deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. Do not chop e your friend by his looks; handsome shoes often pinch the feet. Do not .be fond of compliments; re member,