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A Chapter ou Heese.
I was ont on a Jersey farm, spending
ray vacation. The farmer had s big
flock of geese, and he was eternally
throwtug the most hefty kind of Jersey
words at them. Oce day I eat on the
farmer's piazza talking with him. The
geese were placidly cropping grass
down along the road, a great big gander
leading them on. Teace, tranquility
and contentment spoke In every move
ment the law des troying "bipeds made.
"There wasn't a cloud in the sky.
The farmer's men were working with
out much apparent vim at raking and
loading hay down in a meadow not far
away. Suddenly the old gander poked
up his bead, gave voice to a peculiar
squawk, lifted his wings and started
oil on a run as fast as his big webb feet
would let him go. All the geese poked
up their necks at the sound of the gan
der's voice,lifted their wings, and with
a chorus of noises that only a flocfc of
geese can produce, started after the
gander as tight as they could wabble.
The gander ran mayba twenty yards,
an then, with a wild shriek, he took
wing and flew In the direction of a
pond a short distance from the road.
The geese raised and flew after him,
filling the air with their discordant
cries. Gander and geese alighted in
the pond, where they all gathered in a
bunch, held a consultation or congrat
ulatory confab in a subdued chorus of
cackles, and went through all sorts of
maneuvers on the pond for a time,
wb?n they sparated and swam about as
placidly as they had been feeding a few
minutes before.
"At the first movement of the gander
when he broke the tranquility of tne
feeding flock, my friend, the farmer,
arose quickly to his feet, and as he
turned toward the meadow, said :
M 'There's them bands workin' as If
they had all the rest o' the year to get
that hay in, an' here we're goin' to be
ketched in a tearin' ojd shower in lessen
an hour, or elso there hain't no use in
keepin' geese.'
"The farmer hurried down to the
meadow, spurred up the men, and lent
a hearty hand himself at the hay. Be
fore many minutes bad passed I saw
clouds bankiDg themselves in the hor
izon, and presently the mutter of dis
tant thunder was heard among them.
The farmer was rigM. In an hour's
time one of the hardest thunder storms
I ever saw was raging over that part of
New Jersey, and it caught the last load
of the old man's hay in transit. After
supper that night I questioned my host
on the geese, and found that the reason
he kepi them was to keep him poatiucn
the weather.
" 'They r-ain't never failed me yet,'
he 'aid. 'When I get up in the meru
it! and see them geesa out on the pond
a divin' an' a dressm' down their feath
ters as if they was gettin' ready to go to
some purty or other, I know that we're
sure of clear, warm, dry weather, an' I
make my calc'lations 'cardin'ly. If
they bain' a dressin of themselves,
much, but act kinder as if it was't o' a
much account a "prucin up, than I
keep my eye on 'em. That's a warnin'
that we're in danger of a spell o' weath
er. It the geese quits the poud an'
don't go back much through the day I
know the danger holds, an' I get ready
for a set rain of a day or so. If they
feed along awhile and waddle back to
the pond kinder chipper like, un' go to
dres:.n' themselves and divm' then I'm
pooty sartln' that Ihry won't be no set
rain commencin' that day. It the
geese gits up all of a eud.leut au' tears
around tike ye see 'em this afternoon,
then there's a shower comin,' an' it's a
a comin' fast, ye can bet.'
"S j you need never wonder wj.y
some farmers keep geese around and
still wish they were in Halifax. They
are their weather prognosticator, and
they believe in 'em as firmly as they do
in the making of Bppie jack. This
farmer told me anotfcer funny thing
about these geese weather signal. II-)
said that when tlify prophesy a storm
the sounds they mako ate not like their
crits at any other time. Consequently
the farm r s are never fooled by the
cries of a flock of gef se that may rise iu
the air from a place where they were
out of sight, if the rise has been caused
by any fright the geese may have been
subjected to. An expert reader cf
goose signa's can tell toe frightened cry
from the prophetic shriek as far as be
cac hear it.
'Never saw a goose plucking, hey ?
Well, 'it isn't a siht thai would give
you much pleasure. On the day net for
tripping geese of their feathers they
are enticed into some airtight outhouse.
The pickers, who are always women, go
among the geese with their heads and
faces entirely covered with hoods fas
tened around the neck with a shirr
string. There are holes for the eyes
and also little holes at the nose for
lresh air. From the neck down the
r-icker is covered with a glazed muslin
garment, to which no feathers or down
will adhere. The pickers sit on low
stools around a large and perfectly dry
tub. There is generally a man or boy
In the neighborhood who is an expert at
getting the goose ready for picking.
1'verybody can't do that. The wings
of the goose have to be locked together
ty a peculiar arrangement of the two
near the shoulders, and while they are
not tied or fastened in any other way.
i ne iock is eucn mat no goose can un
lock it without aid. The feet are tied
together with broad batds of soft mus
lin. When a goose is thus made help
less it is taken on the picker's lap. and
she plucks the feathers out rapidly but
xti'.h such skill that she tteidoui breaks
the skin or causes biocd to follow. Th
air is kept full of feathers during the
process, all of which settle in the bij?
tub at last. Uefore beginning a goose
the picker Mushes the feathers back the
wrong way, so tl at sh can se the
ekin. An expert can tell at a glance,
by the color of the skin, whether she
musi, exercise more than ordinary care
In plucking it, or whether it U not bet
ter to let the goose go without pluckirg
at that time. In every case the picker
must be careful and not pluck the
feathers too c'.ostj under the wing. If
a goc-!e has been improperly picked in
that respect the wings will drop and
dr i on the ground.
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A Hill That Shakes.
DuriDg the natural gas craze which
swept over Indiana and which Laa, to
some exteut, abated ic this a immediate
isection sajs a Cambridge City (lad.)
letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer, fre
quent mention is made of tbe feasibili
ty and probable results of boring for the
iDfLnnmable fluid on "Shaky Hill."
There are many who are positiTe in their
belief that gas can be found there, and
in abundance, too. There are others
who claim that it would be the last
place iu tbe world for gas or oil, but it
is certain that the locality or hill" is
attended with very mysterious phenom
ena. The bill In quesion Is a part of a low
ridge of land running ease and west
some two miles south, the bill compris
ing -about twelve acres, being south
west, two aid one-half miles, in the
northeastern corner of Fayette county.
Tbe land was entered in 1S1G by Thom
as Reagan, whose son "Wiley Reagan,
settled upon the hill in 1822. Your
correspondent met to day two gentle
men who probably know more about tbe
circumstances surrounding the peculiar
actions of the bill, or rather plateau,
thau any others. One, the son-in-law
of Wiley Reagan, said :
"The land on which it is situated
was bought about sixty-fire, yeais ago
by Wiley Reagan, my father in-law, an
early settler who improved the farm and
built a loz bonse on the highest part of
it, the part lying east of a small creek,
soon after the family occupied tba bouse
they discovered that at intervals there
wee a pronounced disturbance of the
bill,- as if moved or shaken by an earth
quake this, too, while other eectious
of the country were undisturbed. This
continued for several years, and Inally
increased and became so marked that
the Reagan family became alarmed and
built a new cabin on the west part of
the farm across the creek. This was
done because they feared some dire
calamity would befall them should they
remain on the hill, not that they were
superstitious, as had been said, but be
cause they were afraid the land would
sink or break up, at least they thought
It safer on more stable ground. The
cabin was removed and there has been
no dwelling very near the hill since.
The character of tbe disturbance re
sembles the sensation produced by an
earthquake, perceptibly "staking the
house, various articles of Turniture, and
especially the cupboard and its contents
of dishes, etc ; shaking the clothesline,
something causing it to fall, with its
load of washing. The disturbances, as
far as known, have not occurred as fre
quently as formeily ; but as the locality
has for a lone time been a part of a
large open Geld, the chances for otse r
Vation have been limited, and it may
have shaken many times without hav
ing been felt by persons.
"On a number of occasions the bouse
nearest the hill, to the northeast, was
affected in a similar manner, and at one
time the cellar wall of this house was
badly cracked and rendered usele?s
Tbe peculiarity of this hill that it has
repeatedly shaken, and the phenomena
stated actually took place is authenti
cated by many of Reagan's nearest
neighbors.
"There is nothing peculiar or differ
ent from the ordinary in this or adjoin
ing lands to point to anything strange,
excepting a large sulphur spriDg at the
foot of tbe bill, in a quagmire that
seems to Lave no bottom."
In bis last statement the gentleman
euggests a theory to account for the
strange behavior of the bill. It ia prob
able tha; the elevation has for its foun
dation a thin stratum of Niagara rock
renting on this bog. A slight disturb
ance would cause this rock to vibrate,
and this motion transferred to tbe bill
v.ould produce a decided shock.
The gentleman further stated : "In
more recent years persons living imme
diately west cf the hill have noticed an
odor of coal-tar ic damp weather, when
the wind blew from the east. Also,
that in digging cellars and wells large
fissures were found partly filled with
substances closely resembling cinders,
ashes, etc."
At one time a laborer was hired to
dig a well near th bouse, but after
going down some twenty feet tbe tools
caused such hol!ow sounds the man
came up instanter, declaring he would
not tinish it. as he was afraid tbe "bot
tom would fall out."
Mr. Eyram Baldwin, who owns the
farm, states to bis certain knowledge
the bill has been "shaky" for over firty
seven years. He has experienced the
peculiar sensations, and only about two
months ago his wife and hired hand
felt a violent jar about 4 o'clock in the
morning. Their dwelling is abcut
three eigths of a mile from the hill. Of
a large apple-oichard set out by Mr.
Reagan only one tree remains, tbe rest
having died or were cut down. One
day '.n the fall of 1SS3 nearly all the ripe
apples were shaken from the trees by
the quaking of the earth. Mr. Bald
win says that while driving near the
bill one Saturday night with bis wife
they were staitled by three flashes of
light, produced by balls of fire, which
shot np into tbe air one hundred feet,
much like a sky rocket. It is said on
good authority that this is of frequent
occurrence, and It is no doubt cacsed
by tbe combustion of light carburetted
hydrogen, commonly ca'led marsh gas,
or "jack-o-lantern."
Acother peculiar feature of this place
is that the needle of tbe compass will
not point to tbe magnetic pole, but in
clines to the east. Tbe temperature,
too, i? unlike that of the surrounding
region. The same thermometer will
show a change of several degrees in
going from different parts of the farm
to tbe hill not always cooler, not al
ways warmer, but never the same.
Altogether this is a very singular
and peculiar natural phenomenon and
an investigation m'ght prove interest
ing. 4 bemlat'a Idea of Wine.
We bave hoard a great deal of the supe
rior excellence of Speer's X., J. Wine, and
of its being adopted tn European hospitals
in preference to theit own wines. The most
scioetifie inen of this country arid liquor
assay ers appointed by State governoient
pronounce It a most valuable article for
sickness. We caunot write more on this
subject now, out publish the following card,
which speaks for itself :
Tortlasd, Feb. 1.
Tbe undersigned, having become practi
cally acquainted with the Wine produced
by Alfred Speer of New Je rspy, wonld say
t bat he considers it a superior article, and
far preferabld to the quality of Tort wine
geoera'ly furnished in this maiket.
II. T. Cummings. M. D.;
Cbeuiist to the State cf Maine.
Dairying on Small Farm.
Dairying and pasturing have bpen so
long considered as one and the same oc
cupation that but few farmers will ven
ture to engage in tbe former without
first devoting a large portion of the
farm to grass upon which tbe cow may
be allowed to graza during the day.
When this method is changed for that
of feeding at the barn yard it is termed
"soiling" the cows. Even those who
do not believe soiling can be done prof
itably involuntarily practice tbe soiling
method to a certain extent during the
winter season, for at that time the snow
covers the pasture ground and compels
the dairyman to prepare the" food for
the cows ana give his attention in the
barnyard. The principal objection to
soiling is that it requires a large outlay
for extra labor, yet there is a? much
profit derived from the winter dairying
as there is during the summer. The real
benefit is in the saving of manure,
which is the most important ocenpation
on tbe farm, and the expense of provid
ing long fences is done away with.
Practical experiments show that by the
aid of manure saved wherJ soiling a suf
ficiency of green food can be grown on
a email plat to feed quite a number of
cows, as well as to provide a better va
riety of food and secure greater yields
of milk and butter. Professor Stewart,
in bis bock on feeding animals, men
tions bow he fed four horses and seyen
cows for fifteen days on the food grown
upon forty rods of ground ; and he has
estimated that forty rods of ground
will produce enougn to equal the eura
mer feeding of one cow, but sets aside
half an acre in clover as tbe allowance
for a cow during the summer. This re
sult is not the experiment of a single
beason, but the work of fourteen years
devoted to soiling, by which metLcd
the cows give 20 per cent, more milk
than when kept on pasture ; and rve,
clover, orcherd grass, timothy, green
oats and fodder corn, with ground food
when required, compose the daily diet.
The eystem is one that permits of the
gradual accumulation of wealth in the
annual' increased fertility of the soil,
and though extra labor may be neces
sary, jet it is more effectual in opera
tion, as it is net distributed over a
large space, consequently there is econ
omizing in hauling loads to great dis
tances over the field". Soiling may not
be profitable to those who have plenty
of pasture and large tracts of land, but
it will enable those having limited arts
to engage in dairying, when, by tLe
proper application of labor, they may
realize larger piefits than those who de
vote more land to dairying but adhere
to the pasturage system.
A 3Iost rriniilive People.
The natives of Xew Britain are the
most primitive people I have ever seen.
Their huts are 6mall and filthy, and
little wonder is it that there is much
sickness among them. At niVht they
build a fire in the center of the hut and
huddle aiound it for warmth, with no
covering over them and nothing under
them eave a course mat. The women
are, with a few exceptions, the ugliest
specimens of the human race imagina
ble, and a sight of them will go far to
convert one to the Darwinian theory.
These creatures seldom wash themselves,
and, as they are employed from one
year's eDd to the other in hard labor,
their appearance is anything but entic
ing. The men pass their days in fibhing
or idling away their time smoking or
chewing be!el nut.
Botb men and women are keen trad
ers, and ever eager to acquire divara,or
native money, consisting of very small
shells strung upon a thread, and which
is counted by the fathom. Every of
fense of every nature can be atoned for
by the payment of this currency, which
is boarded np in houses especially built
for the purpose. These houses are un
der the "Taboo," and are so sacred that
they are even secure from robbers, the
renalty for violation of the "Taboo"'
being instant death.
The Chair Suited at Last.
A furniture dealer tells a little story
that shows how some people are consti
tuted. A lady ordered an elegant easy
chair of a peculiar kind. It was made
and sent to her borne. She examiLed
it carefully aud critically, finally re
maiking that it suited her exactly with
one exception it was too soft. She
bad tbe man take the chair back to be
made a trifle harder. The chair was re
turned to the store and put aside.
Nothing was done to it. After the
lapse of about a week the chair was bent
out again. Tbe woman again examin
ed it and this time the chair was too
hard. She was sorry, but when she
paid so much to get au article for ber
own comfort she wanted it about right,
so she sent it back to the store for an
other change. The chair was again
put aside for a week or ten days, and
sent out for the third time without
having a particle of change made. This
time it was just right. She took the
chair and paid for it, and was very
sorry it had not suited her at first. The
poor woman never knew that the chair
had not been changed a particle.
Row to Choose UeeL
If possible, buy the meat of a butch
er peisinally known to te an honest
man. If tbe meat has a reasonable
proportiou of fat upon tbe back and
running in little lines through the lean,
and if tne color is fiesh and not very
dark red, the meat is good ; if the
butcher has kept it properly for a week
or ten days it may be supposed to
be reasonably tender. Most butchers
are willing to keep the right length of
time for customers, if they take'it at its
first weight ; it loses a little weight by
keping. When this is the intention,
bave some of the bene trimmed off,
and the fa which ia. not needed for
cooking, and let these trimmings be
sent home with the day's marketing,
the bones for tbe soup pot and tba fat
to be fried out to use In tbe form ot
drippings. After the meat is trimmtd
let it be bung in tbe butcher's refriger
ator until be pronounces it tender, but
not long enough to spoil.
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A Cold Day.
ffsorga A. Cardan, who is connected
with the fiipnul ofli2 in ('hic-ipo, has
honor of having recorded the lowest
temperature ever noted in a ciyilizoil
country. "Temperature 02 1" bHow
mo," was tri message he nt from
Polar Kiver, Montano Territory, on
New year's morning, lKg.,. "The sta
tion." you must understand, said Mr.
Carden, "was simply a cabin 10 ty 12
made of Cottonwood lojs pinned togeth
er, the chinks Deing plastered witl
mud. The roof also was mud, and U,
floor was formed of cotton wood boards,
which having beon put down green,
had shrunk till they left cracks whi:h
would eassly swallow up the legs of the
only chair in the station. The only
thing that made the room habitable we
the fact that tl hut had banked u;
with dirt that reached up half-way -,
the roof.
"Iu that little room I went lb bed :
the night of December 31. lAf. T;-"
bed was within arm's length of a bi;
drum-stove, large enough to receive
four-foot cordwood, as we dare not get
out in the cold to Keep up the Gre. I
had begun observations at the place a
year before, December 17, 1S83, ana wn.,
not much surpir9ed on retiring the la-:
night of IKSi to and tbe epirit in tL
official thermometer down in the neigh
borhoo3 of 50- below. I had orcen re
corded 50 below before, but I thought
that night before tetiiing that a pretty
low temperature would1 De reached, a
the air was painfully still", and the stars
looked brighter and nearer than ever.
I tossed about all nijht, trying to keep
warm. The big stove I kept nearly red
hot, but still the little room would cot
get warai. It seemed' as cold as the
outer air. Upon me I had piled cover
ing equivalent to twenty thicknesses ol
blankets. Army coats everything i:.
the ehape of xrotection, was hear ;
upon my little bed, yet still I shivere i
under it all. No one can form an id-a
of the cold that uight. I had to weir
tbe heaviest mittens and my sealek :;
cap pulled down over my ears. Onee .
reached my bare hand out of the bed to
throw another 6tick of wood on the fir?,
and before I could get the wood in 1 y
hand was so benumed that I had to dn.p
the stick. Mind you, all this time ILr
fire was roaring and crackilcg.
'"Well, at last the night wore away
and about 8 o'clock, I guess it was,
got up. I didn't have to dreps, tboup?
but just slipped on mv big-buffalo shcr
and made for the minimum thermome
ter. There the alcohol spirit was ::
the one-tenth line below the C2 7 ma.;
When I saw that my heart jumped T. :
enough to warm me up a little, as i
knew no other thermometer but miu
had ever gone so low except in artic 1 .
ploration. That remarkable degree
cold was reached just about sunnse.
never saw tbe air so clear as it wast;
morning. The atmosphere itself see. .
ed frozen, and my eye could see fartl. ;
down the white snow-glistening prair
than it ever had before. There was 1
a sound to break the stillness, and I U :.
like the artic explorer who stands in ti r
silence of the eternal f.Dows. The or .
ching that bound me to civilization v..--the
smoke that came up frooa the d. -tant
army post, for United States trorj s
are stationed there to watch the Indi
ans. That day the tempeiatura rose 1
about 30 below, and four days later sp
rained. In those four days the rang
was luO". the greatest range ever r -corded.
" A lower temperature wasueverl -.
fore recorded," continued the you- .
man. "excepting in the artie regioL
L'eut. Greely re corded It only niu--tenths
of a degree colder than miLc.
Mount Washington, which is consider.. :
the coldest place in the United State?,
has only recorded as low as 42.2-.''
ail These to the Darn Dor.
If the iron wedge will not draw, bu
a fire of chips and beat it.
Heap up and tramp down solidly tLt
Blow around the young fruit trees.
Water, green food and meat, lovsl
must have to prosper during ihe winter.
Watch the outlets of tbe tile drains,
that they do Dot become closed with ice.
There is one part of the farm that is
not biutfited by drainage : the manure
heap.
Politeness pays in the cow stable. A
gentle man gets more milk than a harst
man.
Straw and corn-fodder are best worked
into manure by putting them throug1.
good animals.
The best preventive of trouble f.
lambing time is daily exercise for tl.
ewes during winter.
Take the bridles with you when yo
go to breakfast, and put them near tt.
stove while you ear.
Separate the weaker animals ; tb- .
need extra feed, whereas with tl
stronger they get scant feed.
I'rcGt in farming comes from the max
imum crops, the products of wmtei
thought and summer work.
If the chain pump is clogged up witl.
ice do not give the crank a jerk. Iotl
wheel and chain break more ea.'ily whe:.
very cold.
Every farmer may be tbe architect cr
his own fortunes, aDd it poor policy t .
let tbe job out to luck.
Harness bung in the stable is damage '
as much by the gases and dampness tteu
as it is worn by use.
When green wood is used for fuel ra''
of the heat is absorbed to convert tl t
water in the fuel into vapor.
If you do not wish cloddy and lifelt
ground in the sprinii keep the cattle c'4
tbe tield when the soil is soft.
Drive your horses a little to one sic
when you stop with a load on the slec
This makes it easier to start the load.
A fire burns better in a hot than in u
cold furnace ; it is equally true that a',
animal well wintered is half summerei'
If open, outdoor feed troughs ara turn
ed over at night they will not be fil!tfil
with snow and ice in the morning.
If you place the ax near the stove for
tirteen minutes it will cut better aud
not be so apt to break aloDg the edge.
The flavor of the fuel used tor smok
ing meat is somewhat imported to tb'
meat ; hence the luel should be selectee
eart-fully.
You hav6 no right to feed a dog i
long as you bave not the n oa-y to pro
vide your family with good papers and
books.
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