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Washing Machines; the aBOEZZiIImM Standard Rotary Shuttle Seeing Machine, 2")00 stiches per the No. ~ American sewing machine. :t l' so n P er a,, d Empress; agr cultural implements and I Mising farm wagons; New ESunshine & Howard ranges, K O kkfwat'r M Sloves, table and pocket J U ■ cutlery, hanging lamps; BM manulacturer of tinware, tin jm roofing and spouting a spec ialty; the Johnston mowers, reaper and steel frame binder, Warren ready mixed paint, warrented; screen doors and windows, refrigerators and lawn mowers. No better place in the city to trade. Come and see my large store room full of goods, loCi ieet long. WHERE A CHILD CAN BUY AS CHEAP AS A MAN STOCK ENTIRELY NEWI Fine Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware and Spectacles At lowest cash prices at J. R. G K I K B ' N No. 125 X. Main St., - Duffy Block. Sign of Electric Bell and Clock. rgh, Pa. ' l r, 1 I l an , d ir, e " ol^V.' B,ltu . tion 1,u . 8 an :' 'bou-sanas Of yoim* men and wfiineu /..rllie JjVUcM?ou. p!»W WBI " practical education, circulars will be ,eut on THE BUTLER CITIZEN. WHAT MY CLOCK SAYS. Hold fast, dreamer—do not fret? Everything will come ripht yet. Life fcolud nothlac worth regret- Let the "in rise—let It set. I hare seen the young prow old; Seen the fond turn stern and cold; Se»a the selQsh, vain and proud. Feed the worm and crease the shroud. Do not cry, Do not figli; All Will come right by and by. Pearls, and gems, ur.d jewels Cne, Fished from sea or dug from mine. Silken raiment, filmy lac-\ Vnn?sh all. and leave no trace. Those who walk and those who ride Yet must lie down, sida by side. When their cruel master. Death. Seals the eyes and steals the breath. Do not sigh. Do not cry; All will come right by and by. I have seen the high brought low, Seen the seasons come and go; Fields of bloom and wastes cf snow, Sunny skies and winds that blow— And I mark out ail the hours Whether there arc frosts or flowers- Night and day and day and night Feeling sorrow nor delight. Do not cry. Do not sicU; All will come right by and by. Seme days come, and shadows br.ng; Then come joys—but they take wing; Nothing matter here, to me; Time drifts to eternity. And like streams that southward run. Mingling In the sna as one. So tend all things—every way— To oblivion and decay. Do not sigh. Do not cry; All will come right by and by. I have seen the pure and sweet Smirched with mire from the street i Seen Sin and her daughter Vice Lock as chaste and cold as ice; Seen the hungry and the poor Beg for bread from door to door: Vet—for all th«j rich man's load- God widens not the Narrow Road. Do not sigh. Do not cry; All will come right by and by. Nothing matters! Nothing can In tho destiny of man. Vain, alas! all tears and sighs; Vain, reproaches—vain, replies. Silence and decay must fall Like a shadow on you all; And Ho who mado your life a span Will Judge as never Judges man. Do not sigh. Do not cry; All will come right by and by. —Nelly Marshall McAfee, in Century Magazine fiaggfe J f.iat attention ~y~ WjBBMk I has already been called in the daily -—to certain cu rious features of the astronomical dis cussion between Prof. Macadam, of Joplin university, aud Prof. Morgan, of tho samo Institution, but newspaper comment has related only to the. scien tific aspect of tho case, lacking all ref erences to the origin of the debate and to the inevitable woman and the ro mance. As a matter of fact, the discus sion which has set the scientific world, or at least'the astronomical part of it, by the ears, had its ineeption in a love affair and terminated with that affair's symmetrical development. It has seemed to me that something more than the dry husks of the story should be given to the public and that a great many people might be quito as much interested in the romance as in the mathematical conclusions reached. That i.i wliy I toil the tale in full. ilod Prof. Macadam never owiffcd a daughter, or had the one appertaining to him been plain Instead of charming, young Prof. Morgan would never have broken a metaphoric lance with the crusty senior educator. Isut Prof. Mac&datu did have a daughter, Lee— odd i...iuc for a girl - and she was about as pretty as a girl may grow to be, aDd sometimes they grow that way amaz ingly. She was clever, too, and good, and Prof. Morgan had not known her for half a year when it was all up with him. It became essential for his per manent welfare, mental, moral and physical, that I his particular young woman should be his, to have and to hold, and he did not deny the fact to himself at all. Without going into de tail, it may be added that he did not deny the fact to her. eithor, and so ex erted himself and improved his oppor tunities that before much time elapsed he had secured a strong ally in his de signs. This ally was the young lady herself, and it will he admitted that l'rof. Morgan had thus made a fair be ginning. But ail was not to be easy tnl' 1 Mi fe, ft ft ■ A , ' / v T 3^i* " FIOURES WILI. NOT LTE, SIR!" for tho pair, however faithful or re solved they were. College professors generally are not much addicted to either the accumula tion or the love of money, but Prof. Macadam was rather an exception to the rule. Sixty years of ago, noted ai a great mathematician and astronomer, ho had long had a good income from his teaching and books, had hoarded and made good investments and was a rich man. Lee, being- an only child, was in a lair way some day of coming into a fortune, end her father was re solved that it should not go to any poor man lie had often expressed his opinion on this subject; it was well known to tho lovers, but this did not prevent Prof. Morgan, who was just beginning and had only a fair salary with no surplus, from asking tho old man for his daughter. The interview was not a long one, but there was a good deal of low barometer and high temperature to it, meteorologically speaking. I'rof. Macadam fumed anil said something about fortune hunters and flatly de clined to consider tho subject of such an alliance. "It is absurd!" ho said. "What would you live on?" I'rof. Morgan intimated that two people might m - tain themselves la a njodest way on the salary ho was get ting. "Nonsense, sir! Nonsense!" was the retort. "My daughter has been accus tomed to a better style of living than you could afford her and I decline to consider the proposition for a moment. You're in no condition to support a wife, sir! Figures do not lie, sir! Fig arcs do not lie!" Frof. Morgan suggested that figures sometimes did give a wrong impres sion. "Then it is because they are used by an incompetent person! I am surprised that you. sir, assistant professor of as tronomy iu a great in titulion of learn ing, should ifisert that any mathemati cal fact i-. >t .1 actual one. Prove to nil- that figures lio and you can hove my daughter! liut this is only uun ■cnsc. You una and BUTLMR. PA., FRIDAY, >sO\ KMBKIt (>. 1891. something of an as.-, sir: Uoort aay, sirl" When Prof. Morjran imparted to his sweetheart the result at 'his interest ing interview they were both some what cast down. It was t>he who first recovered. "And so papa said I could have you, did ho. if you could prove to him that figures ever lied?" "Yes. he said that, though I don't suppose he meant it. It was simply a Bort of defiance lie blurted out in his anger. lUit what difference does it make? llow could I prove an impossi bility in any event, even if such a gro tesque challenge were accepted in earnest? When 1 said to him that fig ures might give wrong impressions, it was only to convey the idea that peo plo who cared very much for each other miffht get along with very little money and that the ordinary estimates for necessary income did not apply." "Yon don't know papa! Ile'll keep his word, cron one uttered in excite ment. lie has almost a superstition regarding the literal observance of any promise made, though it might be ac cidental and really meaning nothing. You are very clever —as great a math ematician as papa is. You must prove to him that figures sometimes really lie, oven where computations are all correct. Surely there must be some way of doing that?" "I'm afraid not, dear. The moon isn't made of preen cheese." "Hut there must be some way and you must find it. You shall be like a knight of old who is to gain a maiden's hand by the accomplishment of some great deed of derring-do. Am I not worth it, sir?" and she stood before him jauntily, with her pretty elbows out. lie looked down into a face so fair aud so full of all fealty and promise of sweet wifehood that he resolved in an in stant that, if it lay in human power to meet the terms of the old man's gro tesque challenge, the thing should ho accomplished. He said as much and what he said was punctuated labially. Reing a professor, it would never have done for him to neglect his punctua tion. It was not three months after the stormy Mac ad am-Morgan interview that Prof. Morgan's great book on "Eclipses, Past and to Come"' mado its appearance. And it was not three weeks after that great work's appear ance when all the scientific world was in a turmoiL Prof. Macadam had, for a season after the interview between him and Prof. Morpan, maintained a cold and formal air in all his intercourse with the latter gentleman, but after a time this wore away and the old relations, never very familiar, were resumed. Indeed, it seemed at length that Prof. Macadam had forgotten all about the affair or, if he remembered it at all. did so only as an exhibition of fool ishness which lii 3 own force and wis dom had cheeked forever. When,there fore, Prof. Morgan's book appeared It was read at once with interest as the word of a scientist who, though not a veteran, was of undeniable ability and good repute. Hut when tho book had been considered, there was a literary earthquake! Prof. Macadam reviewed it and sought to tear it, figuratively, limb from limb! He was ably sup ported by other pundits everywhere. The point upon which the debate hlnped was a remarkable one. As already indicated. Prof. Morgan's standing as an astronomer was undis puted, and Prof. Macadam did not question the accuracy of his reasoning, so far as mere computations went It is known, even to the non-scientific, that eclipses of the moon can be fore told with the utmost accuracy, and not only thjs, but that astronomers can readily determine, by the same meth ods reversed, when eclipses of tho moon have occurred at any time in the past It was to one of Prof. Morgan's past eclipses that Prof. Macadam ob jected. In a recent issue of a great foreign review, M. Camille Flammarion, tho French astronomer, advanced the view that this globe has been inhabited twenty-two million of years, which is accepted by other scientists as a fair estimato. It is also admitted that the moon was at one time part of the earth and was hurled off into space be fore tho crust upon this body h#d fair ly cooled. Of courso there is no way of fixing the exact dato of this inter esting event, but for the sake of con venience, it is put at about one hun dred million of years ago. It may havo been a little earl er or a little later. Hut that does not matter. In the table of dates of past eclipses in Prof. Morgan's hook ho referred to a certain eclipse of the nsoou which occurred about two hundred millions of years 1!. C., and not a flaw could bo discovered in his figuring. But Prof. Macadam did not he-iitata to make a charge. Ho asserted with great vehe mence that, as there was no moon two hundred millions of years B. C., there could have been no eclipse of the moon. Had there been an eclipse of the moon, then, he admitted that the eclipse would have taken place at just the time Prof. Morgan's table indicat ed, but, as the case v.-as, he referred to such an event contemptuously as "an Irish eclipse," and was extremely scathing in his language. His review closed with an expression of regret that an educator connected with the great Joplin university could have been guilty of such an error, not of figures but of logic. Prof. Morgan replied to all his crit ics, Prof. Macadam included, in a mas terly article in which he declared that he was responsible only for his mathe matics, not fur the degree of cohesion of the earth's mucky mass, hundreds of millions of years ago, and that the eclipse he had calculated must stand. Prof. Macadam came to the charge once more, briefly but savagely. He again admitted the correctness of the computation but ridiculed Prof. Mor gan's attitude on the subject. "His fig ures," he concluded, "simply lie." The day following the appearance of Prof. Macadam's final article, he was called upon, in his study, by Prof. Mor gan. The younger man did not present the appearance of a crushed controver sialist. On the contrary, his air was pluasantly expectant. "I called," said he, "to learn how soon yon expected "I CAME TO SEE ABOUT OtTH MARRIAGE." my marriage with your daughter to I take place?" The older man started in his teat: "What do yon mean, sir?" lie de- i saaiided. "Why, I called simply to discuss my marriage with yoitr daughter. Oa the occasion when you refused my first proposition you said that if I proved | that figures would lie, vaur consent \rottld bo forthcoming. X Uave i>rored to you that fipuros sometimes lie. I hare not only your own admission, bat your assertion to that effect, made pub lic in the columns of a pre at quarterly. 1 know you to be a man of your word. I have come to talk about my mar riage." l'rof. Macadam did not at once reply, llis face became very red. "I must talk with my daughter," he said finally. That afternoon Prof. Macadam and his daughter had an interview. The young lady proved very firm. She would listen to no equivocation and no protest She had thought her father to be a man of honor —that was all she bad to saj. She touched the old gen tleman upon his weak point He yielded, not gracefully, but that was of no moment. She and Prof. Morgan, just then, had grace enough for an en tire family—in their hearts. And so they were married. And so you know the origin of one of the most exciting scientific discussions of the period.—Stanley Waterloo, in Chicago Graphic. PRACTICAL EDUCATION. Tho Kiml That Br»t Fit* a Man to Make a Living. In order to be successful in active life a man mu>-t have a working knowl edge of three things: First—Human nature. Second The practices in vogue among his neighbors. Third —Logic. Whatever study or mental exercise or discipline teaches him the most re garding these matters is the best practi cal education. This practical educa tion must be supplemented by special training in the prerequisites of that particular vocation in life which he is to follow. Other things being equal, a large school or college affords a better edu cation than a small one. for the reason that It gives to each student a larger opportunity to observe human nature and the customs of his neighbors. The mere information obtained by studying text-books is in itself ordinarily of very little value compared with the whet ting which it gives ko the mind, and when the mind is once sharpened it should be so turned as to lean from the world of to-day, If the student wishes to be in the world and of tho world. Should In. show a fondness for study ing politics and a wish to enter public life, a comprehension of American democracy is of more value to him than a knowledge of Athenian democ racy. Should he decide to enter busi ness, knowledge of human nature and business practices is of equal conse quence with logical nicety of calcula tion—an important result of studying the classics —however valuable this last may be. This fact explains why it is that those valedictorians who do not join in the general life of their collogo class and who devote themselves en tirely to the are frequently outstripped in public life, law and business by classmates who stood a grade or two lower in seholarshipi These latter give a portion of time to observing their environment, while valedictorians of the kind mentioned take all their views from books, and are consequently less frjlf-reliant—N. Y. Ledger. A CURIOUS BULLET. The Queer Missile Found In an Old Sol dier's I.eR. A curious missile was recently cut out of the limb of a prominent citizen of Mount Sterling, who was wounded in that member in the first battle of Manassas, says a letter in the Philadel phia Times. This citizen, Maj. James Morrison, has buffered from periodical breaking out of the wound, which was situated in the calf, but, though probed for several times, all attempts to find the ball proved unsuccessful. However, the doctors succeeded in recovering and removing the irritating body, when it was found to be no bullet, but a small gold button. This was cleaned and was found to be inscribed with the legend: "E. to It. Mizpah," in small German lettering. The button was perfectly round and about the size of a buckshot, having a small link attached, by which it was caught to a garment or watch chain, on which it was in all probability worn as a charm. In all likelihood it was hastily crammed into the owner's musket when out of ammunition and in an emergency. Maj. Morrison naturally prizes this memento which he has car ried thirty-one years, but says he will return it to the mau who fired it if ho still lives and can relate the circum stances under which he made use of it, which circumstances were such as to impress the major, and cannot have failed to have remained in the mind of his assailant. The button was in all probability the loving gift of some fair young sweet heart or faithful wife to her beloved boy in blue, who will IK glad to recover the pretty trifle, which is none the worse for its long hiding in the major's leg, though the latter is decidedly bet ter for its removal, and is rapidly heal ing since the operation. THE MOURNFUL MUSE. Poems Whose Titlc.i SuKgent Sorrow, Klgli* ami Trar». The editors of the periodicals at the present time have undoubtedly the dis agreeable task of reading much poetry which is not only "unavailable," but utterly without merit; still, as the taste of the majority of readers in this gen eration is for that which is cheerful in poetry as well as in prose, it is not like ly that any editor to-day would have such a depressing list of rejected con tributions as the one printed in a mag azine which bears a date over fifty years ago. "My Wife's Grave," "Midnight," "Lament Over the Grave of a Wife," the "Poet's Doom." "Reflections," "On Hearing the Eulogy of a New Friend," "Let Me Weep," "The Poetry of Teirs," and "Alone." Such are the titles of these unavailable poems. It appears that the articles accepted were of much the same character, al though they displayed marks of genius which induced the afflicted editor to ac cept them: "Autumn Musings," "The Last Song Bird," "The Mourner," "The Bereaved," "Shadows of tho Past," "Solitude," and "Passing Away." If any poems of a more cheerful order were received, they were certain ly not considered worthy of any notice in that number of the magazine. A Nihilistic Trlrk. The Odessa police force was put in great commotion recently by a singular incident Before the house of the Natchalnik of thti city, the chief of tho police, was a big ffun, fired every day at noon. The gun was fastened with a heavy chain to th» granite base of a pillar before the house of the official. When the artillerymen came to fire tho gun they did not find it. A search was immediately instituted, but nothing could be discovered. One week later parts of the gun ind of the heavy chain were found 1.-fore the residences of the highest officials in town. It is supposed that the revolutionists or nihilists re moved the (run to show the government officials their power and craft. Thero is no doubt but that many persons must have labored at tlii3 feat. Still, not a trace of the perpetrators can be discov ered. Muslrul Item. "I want the music of O'Reilly and the Four Hundred," said a little boy enter ing a New York music store. "F,.r singing or for the piano?" "I don't want it for either. I want it formv histvr."— Wiftjngs. GREAT TRAVELERS. Ttaa Chliioss in America Continu ally oa the 00. They Aro as Mnch »t Homo In » Third* i inn* Vat h« If Lolling at Ease Vntler th© W*shh«u«e Table. The Chinese are gTeat travelers. So proficient have the celestials become in the use of our language and the knowl edge of our ways that the Southern Pa cific railroad ht.s found it no lonjrer nec essary to maintain its old Chinese agency at Sacramento, and it has just bceu abolished. The Chinese are al ways <>n the go. So it seems, at least, to a writer in the San Francisco Chron icle. What the emigant trains would do, he writes, for a full complement of passengers unless they hail a carload or so of Mongolians it would bo difficult to say. When one goes about on the rail and sees the steady tides of outgo ing and incoming pagans he wonders how they manage to earn money enough to pay so much railroad fare. No one for a moment will question the truth of the assertion that in proportion to their percentage of the population they are much greater travelers than the white people of this country, leaving aside all consideration of their big journeys across the Pacific. When the San Francisco Chinatown resident gets money enough together to take atrip to Los Angeles, Omaha, Chi cago or New York ho generally begins to think of traveling. It matters not what he may be doing here; if hctliinks Kansas City needs a new washhouse he buys a ticket for that town and away he goes. In the matter of ticket i ir chasing he has a great advantage er white persons. If he is at all slu vd, and he generally is. lie can buy an li (Trant ti.-ket at a cut rate of fn m uve to fifteen dollars cheaper th:m any white man can buy it This fact, curi ously enough, is wholly dne to tho white man's utter lack of confidence in Lira as an oath-observer "We can sell a Chinaman a ticket cheaper than anybody else,'' hays a Cal ifornia ticket agent the other day. "for the reason that there is no danger of anybody in the railroad pool catching us cutting rates. All tes timony as to rate-cutting before the pool commissioner must be by affidavit, and as Chinamen's affida vits are not admissible as evidence, of course we can always steer clear of a fino when we cut a rate for them." When John travels he invariably car ries a stuffy-looking carpet sack in his hand and a lot of nondescript bundles over his shoulder, generally tied to gether with a heavy cord or a piece of hayrope. Where they get all the car pet sacks is a mystery. They are cer tainly not an Asiatic article of luggage, but they cannot be dissociated from the idea of Mongolian travel in this country. Approaching the Oakland ferry, aftei buying his ticket up-town, John casts a wary eye about him for the poll-tax gatherer, who haunts the landing aud keeps close watch over all the newcom ers as well as outgoers. He is a very lucky John if he can manage to run the gantlet of those keen optics. As soon as tho attack begins the Mongolian clutches with mighty grasp the handle of his carpet sack, for he knows that this is fie first point of advantage which the seeucr for his two dollars will try to gain. The poll-tix mau knows the trick of loosening the heathen's hold. Having ser.ured the carpet sack he will not let it go until the tax has been paid. No Chinaman was ever known to pay his poll-tax cheerfully, and this John is no exception. lie shakes his head, jabbers and raves and tries to convince the tax man that he has not the slightest notion in the world of what he is after. That dodge will not work, however, for it is an old one and the tax gatherer, sitting serenely on the stuffy carpet sack, wins the day, unless John values his two dollars more than he does his cheap luggage and flees for the boat; in which event the tax man wins a two-bit "jumper," a pair of wornout overalls, some mysterious-looking provender and a pair of cork-sole d shoes with turned up toes. Once aboard his train John sits be side a countryman of his, who is sure to turn out either a cousin or a cousin of a friend of his. They make a few remarks about the weather, the state of the labor market and the chances of getting rich in a few weeks at the places whither thary are bound. None of these remarks are of a lively nature. In fact, John on the rail is the same stolid, lethargic John that he is any where else. He folds his loosely-draped arms and takes little heed of anything, dozing away the long hours on the train as contentedly as if he was lotling at ease under the washhouse table. In fact, a carload of Chinese is as much like a carload of mummies as it is like anything. The nomadic instinct is so deeply rooted in the Mongolian that he feels al most as much at home while scurrying around the country as he does vinder his own roof tree. The intense desire to travel is without any douot a Tartar heritage, most of the forces of working Chinese who have come to this country being gathered from the great plains of the eastern part of the empire, whera the roving' instinct is strong' and where many tribes are almost constantly on the go. Western China is more a coun try of homes, and it has sent us the quiet merchant, the cigarmakcr and the steady-going sewing machine oper ator. Even these, however, are yeat patrons of the railroad. They have "cousins" living at Yreka, Yuba or Yuma that must be visited now and again, and this k#eps them on the move for days at a time. Charity of Ei-Kmpreii Eugenie. When cx-Kmpress Eugenie was in Paris a few weeks ago she gave a very handsome contribution to the fund for the benefit of the poor of the city, and now the prefect has sent a most courteous acknowledgment of the gift* couched in official language, but neces sarily addressed to "Mmc. Comtcsse dc Pierre fonda." Effntlfel; T«ld. Servant—Oh, miss, that Mr. Borein do be comin' hero again. There's no use tellin' him y'r not at home, fur he'll just push past me an' say he'll wait till yez do come back. Miss Beanti—Then, for mercy's sake, tell him plainly that I'm engaged. Do it in such a way that he'll conclude to leave. Servant—Yis, mum. Mr. Borein (a minute later) —Is Miss Beauti at home? Servant— Yes, sor, but she do be in paged; an' the felly she's ingaged to do be waitiu' in th' parler fur yez wid a club. —N. Y. Weekly. A Hint to Philanthropist*. A systematic Man. observing that his Apples sometimes Froze in Winter, out of pure Kindness of Heart emptied several bottles of Hair Renewer over them, in the Hope that they might grow fine Coats of Fur to keep them selves Warm in the Cold Weather. However, he found that the Apples remained us Bald as Before; and. More over, were Unfit for Eating. Charity injudiciously Applied leaves its Object worse off than Before.—Puck. A Serious Case. Young Mother-- Wake up! Quick! Quick! You must run for the doctor Young Father— Eh? What's the mat ter? Young Mother—Baby has stopped smiling ia her^loep.—N. V Weekly. AN EXCELLENT PLAN. Benefit* Incidental to Keopinf a YaritCj of IJre Stock. One of the benefits derived " from keeping a variety of stock in that farm products can be used to lietter advan tage. In growing the necessary grain more or less straw and fodder will bo secure. 1, which, if properly managed, will make a cheap food, and where a system of rotation is carried on more or less grass for loth pasture and hay will bo grown. With good shelter young cattle, horses or mules can l>e kept In a good condition during the winter with very little grain if they can have plenty of fodder, and during the summer grass in tho pasture can be made nearly or quite their whole feed. While hogs will make a fair growth with good pas turage it is generally profitable to feed them some grain even during the sum mer. C'attlo can be pastured during the summer and fed largely upon fod der during the winter until they are three years old, and if comfortably sheltered will need but little grain. With good pasturage they will be in a fair marketable condition in the fall when they are three years old. Horses, mules and sheep can be kept in tho same way and can l>e made ready for market with very little grain. Hogs, however, must be fat tened largely upon grain, and more or less grain is needed by the work teams and milk cows. In raising grain for them more hay and fodder than will be needed will be secured, and by pur chasing mill feed to go with them all can be used to a good advantage. This plan admits of having a considerable acreage seeded down to grass for pasture.-, and meadows and lessens the labor considerably, lly feeding all of the products out on the farm, with the exception of the wheat and buying wore or less mill feed to use in connec tion with the grain and fodder will make a great saving, and applying all of the manure possible the fertility of the soil can be kept up Of course everything that can be used for feed should be saved and every advantage be taken to secure all of tho food i>os9ible, and then feed out to the best advantage in order to realize the largest profit—Prairie Farmer. THE HIDEBOUND HORSE. How an Animal Afflicted with the Ail ment Can Be Cured. This disease occurs often with the horse an if sometimes with the dog. The animal as a rule is always hungry and thin, the skin sticking to the ribs, fitted to the bones almost as tight as a drum. The disease is caused generally by poor feed, or by tho animal being a greedy feeder and not digesting its food. A farmer who feeds poor, smut ty food, and not very often, will get his horse into the habit of plungiug his head into the manger and gulping food as if he were going to catch a train. In a little while the horse be gins to look thin and docs not act as lively as usual and the owner doses him with condition powders, but with out avail, and it is not long before his horse is run down. First says a writer in New York Tribune, give the animal a dose of some good purgative, and at the same time give him a rest Then I would give about every three days in his evening feed a tea-spoonful of powder composed as follows: Gen tian root three drachms; sulphate of iron, two drachms; which can be ob tained of any reliable druggist When 1 say evening feed I mean a feed com posed not of oats aud hay but of some thing in the style of bran, fine feed or urddlings. When you have given about five of these doses I would discontinue them for about three weeks and then give him three or four more. I tried this on a very bad case and the animal in less than a month was a new horse, it having put flesh on her and life and soul Into her. When she was sick I think she was one of the greediest feeders I ever saw eat but now she is quite calm when tho feed 1b brought to her and cats with ease and digests every bit of It so that everything that passes her lips is of benefit to the sys tem. High ItooAta an Abomination. High roosts are an abomination. The large, heavy hens can only reach the high roosts with difficulty, and they are llablo to be dislodged from their posi tion, thrown off and injured by the fall. Make the roosts low —a foot from the floor being sufficiently high—and have ail the roosts on a level, instead of making them step-like; that is, one higher than the other. Bumble foot lameness of the joints and other ail tnents arc often due to high roosts, and it is to their seeking lofty perches that young turkeys are usually affected with swollen feet and legs It is really doubtful if roosts are at all necessary in a poultry house, a-s thoso who have tried the plan of providing litter for tho liens, and cleaning it away dally, report that the hens keep in much bet ter condition, being less liable to draughts of air, and are seldom lamo. It is an experiment worthy of a trial, as the removal of the roosts will ren der the interior of a poultry house more roomy and convenient —Farm and Fire side. Hints About Tile Draining. In tile draining a good main or out let is essential 1 use cither five or six-incli, according to amount of water to be carried. Lay the main with the natural flow, if practicable, and a foot decpci than the laterals, so as to make the connection perfect on top of the main, giving a free flow. Make the connections perfect so there will bo no _. oarth working ~ J through. Tho *""* *""5 accompanying 'A177~ ■. HJ- > cut shows tho arrangement; a is the main, b tho connecting urm and c tho lateral. A flat stono will close tho top of the arm all right 1 place laterals about two feet deep, more or less, according to soil, etc., and place them three to seven rods apart, «and if possible, across the natural flow, there by cutting off surface water more quickly. —J. F. Jamicson, In Ohio Farmer. Snttably Represented It. "Hero is my boggage, sir," said the dusty tourist in tho long-frescoed linen ulster, handing a lean, consumptive valise over the counter. "I am the ad vance agent of a celebrated theatrical attraction." "What is the name of the attraction?" asked the hotel clerk in a dry, hard, pay-in-advance tone. " 'Cheek,' " responded tho dusty trav eler, folding his arms with dignity.— —Chicago Tribuno. very Acnrtu. FIRST PAY. Mistress (to new cook) —Now, Bridg et divide the meal equally—so. This half scald for corn bread, for dinner. W'itli this half make mush, for tea. SECOXP PAV. Mistress—Bridget, why don't you get dinner? You were standing just as you now are, half an hour ago as I passed through the kitchen. Bridget—l divided the male jist ea yez tould me yestiddy, main, and for the life of me I can't inako up me mind which half It was yez said for to scald. —Jwy- _________ Matrimonial Item. Molly—So you have got married since I saw you last- Sadie—Yes. I have been two months. "But you always said you would never sacrifice your freedom for any man." "Neither have 1- It is my husband who dpes all tfcto sacrificing-"—feX* NO.l SIMPLE MILK TESTER. Vtiaiblo information ft ojn Prof- J. It* fin: ton, of <. onneeUcnt. One of the prime elements nt sueecta in dairying at the present day is a knowledge of the commercial value of the mi lit handled. It is generally con ceded that the valuo of milk for near ly every purpose is in proportion to its percentage of fat, tnd many attempts have been mude to devise a satisfactory method of testing milk on the basis of the fat contained. To be of popular use such a method must be rapid and simpie, as well as accurate and com* parativelv inexpensive. Tho principal methods that have been tried are lack* ing in one or more of these require ments. The machine and method here de» scribed are the result of an effort to cheapen and simplify still further the iLr ~ FtG. I.—nrTTOX'B MILK TESTER. work of testing milk. The method, similar to thoso now in use, consists In mixing a measure of the milk to bo tested with enough alcohol and sul phuric acid, and rapidly whirling the mixture to separate the fat Fig. 1 represents only one of a number of very cheap and simple machines, which auyonc can make, and one way of attaching it. In this tho test bottles, while being whirled, are supported in a piece of 2x4-lnch 6cantling, fifteen inches long, centered on the upper end of the shaft. This is made of fivc eighths-inch rod iron, eight inches' long, with upper end squared and slightly tapered to fit into a square hole in tho center of tho whirler. The shaft turns in a block at the side and through a hole (with tin bearing) in the top of the table. A small pulley on the shaft is connected by a band with the wheel at the left, turning on a bolt through the leg of the table. One turn of the wheel makes about ten of the whirler, which should make about SOO per minute while testing. The capaci ty of the whirler is easily increased by making two crosspicees, and still further by a continuous wheeL The cost of the machine is about fifty cents. The work of making a test is brief ly as follows: Amyl alcohol is added to a test bottle (Fig. 8) to a depth of one- 3 fourth of an T Inch; the pip ette (Fig. 8) is f then filled with f the well-mixed Jil milk, c 1 its con- f \ tents delivered into the bottle. Strong sulphurio acid is added up to the neck of the bottle, a small V cork held firmly V l__ in the mouth, FIO. 3. FIO. 3. and the bottle shaken vigorously until the curd is dissolved, and the contents become a hot solution of a light brown color. Tho neck is tlicu nearly filled with weak acid (equal parts of strong acid and water), tho bottle placed in the whirler and whirled for about half a minute, or until nil the fat appears as a clear yellow oil within the gradua tions of the neck, from which its per centage is read at once. Tho time re quired to make a test is about two minutes, and the cost for chemicals about one-fourth of a cent Cream, skimmilk and buttermilk are tested in a similar way, if a fair sample can bo obtained with the pipette. For cream a pipette delivering 4-5 grains is used, and the reading multiplied by three for the per cent of fat Ono hundred tests require about one-half pound of alco hol and five pounds of acid, both of which may be obtained from any drug gist The pipetto costs twenty-flvo cents, the bottles fifty cents each. An accurate milk tester of some kind should be used by every farmer who has much milk to sell or butter to make. Its use will enable him to form an intelligent Idea of the dairy value of his cows. American Agriculturist DAIRY SUGGESTIONS. MII.K can be tested cheaply as it is received at the creamery and you Bbould Insist that it should be done. THE advice to supply salt whero the cows can get at it at will is often given but not universally adopted. But it is good advice nevertheless. Tun man who kicks the liveliest against the artificial coloring of butter is about as sure to select colored but ter for his own use us anybody else. DECEMBER, January and February are the throe months when the oows require the best of seed and care in or der to get the greatest profit from them. From now till then we should do all we can to prepare the cows for their winter's work. And now is the time to weed out the herd and sell the poor cows. ALWAYS be on the lookout for an ex tra good cow. There is such a vast dif ference between an extra good cow and an ordinary good ono. Sometimes tho difference is ono hundred per cent, but a fifty per cent gain is common. Some cows are good for six months some for eight and some all the year. It is the all-the-year cows we want Variations In Batter rat. At the Illinois experiment station tests have been made to determine the constancy of the amount of butter tat in milk, and It appears that though tho general law, that the amount of milk decreased and the percentage of butter fat increased as the period of lactation progressed held true, yet tbore were surprising variations of almost dally occurrence. The amount of butter fat might bo six per cent more In the morning and by night drop off three or four per cent. From these Investiga tions it is apparent that a single test for only a day or two can give no re liably correct idea of u cow's milk and butter-producing capacity. Ulrlnjc an Order tor Dinner. Cook—What will yez havo fur dinner the day, mum? Young Mistress —ls there any nioe fresh pork in the honse, Norahf "Yes, mum." "Then take some of it and oook a mess of nice smoked hum. Close the door as you go out Norab." —Chicago Tribune. He Know* Them Both. Teacher—Johnny Cumso, if your fa ther can do a piece of work in seven days, and your Uncle Ueorgo can do it in nine days, how long would it take both of them? Johnny—They'd never get it done. They'd sit around and swap fish stories. —Epoch ________ The Open Fireplace. Host— What do you think of my now open fireplace? Just see how merrily the flumes leap. Visitor— It's beautiful (teeth ohatter ing).£lmply beautiful. Host—lf you feel cold come down into tho kitchen and get warm.—Yankee Blade. Only One FaHebood. Pcnolope—He told mo you were not nearly so good looking ns I. Pcrdit- - Dear me. Ho told m* J®" were not nearly so good lookilnr I- Penelope —Then ho bus ribbed to both of us. 4 Pordita—Oh, no. Only to you, dear.— Life. -
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