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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-07-17
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OFFICIAL PAPnR.

During the recent freshet in Connection,
Waterbury editor telegraphed another at
the scene of action, "Send me frll particu
lars Of the flood The answer came, "You
will fine them in Genesis"
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-07-17
BUsrMHDs CARDS.
BLYTHE l. STODOARD,
WAGON MANUFACTURERS,

MANUFACTURE all kinds of Wagons,
1'l Carriages, Sulkie,, Skeletons. Farm and
express Wagons, 10. Every description Of ~
pairing done at short notice. Particulss atten-
non paid to manufacturing to ord r.
may26dly. wv
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
The Feeding Of Animals.

THERE are number of considerations,
varying very greatly, by which the feed
ing of animals should be regulated. To a
certain extent the objects designed to be
answered by food are the same, all food
being intended to meet the demands of
respiration and nutrition, but it Is for the
intelligent stock owner to select and ad-
minister those best suited to his particular
purpose both in quality and quantity. The
very young animal for the formation of
bone requires the phosphate of lime in
large quantities which is yielded in larger
proportions in milk than from any other
food, hence the young destined for maturi-
ty should be supplied with milk from the
dam until d steady growth can be main
tanned by the substitution of grain, roots,
hay or grass. The growing animal in adj
ditiOn to bone wants muscle, as also GER
tain amount of fat to sustain their forma-
ton, and these are procured from the grain
and grass in their seasonable state. Fill
ling to repletion or stuffing should only be
resorted to with the animal intended for
the butcher. Allen remarks: "An animal
should never be fat but ONCE" adding that
alternately improving and falling back is
injurious to all animals, and that as much
as starving is to be deprecated; the preju-
dicial effects of repletion are still greater.
No practice is more impolitic than to bare.
IL sustain the stock through the winter or
part of the year, as is the case in too
many instances, and allow them to i'm
prove only when turned on grass in..sum-
mer. Besides subjecting them to the risk
of disease consequent upon their privation
of food, nearly half of the year is lost in
their use, or in maturing them for profita-
BILE disposal: when if one third of the
stock had been sold the remainder would
have been kept in a rapidly improving
condition, and at the age Of three years
they would probably be of equal value as
otherwise at five or six. 1t is true that
breed has much to do with this rapid ad-
yancenient but breed is useless without
food to develop and mature it.-American
Stock Journal
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
Social Culture Among Boys.

1t is the great trouble among boys wheI
they get old enough to go out into com
pany, that they don't know how
to behave when they get there. So they
sit sheepishly around on any handy cor
ner they can find, and wish they were In
their shirt sleeves, out ain the ri1owin
lot" or in the shop" OF anywhere else
than In that "pesky parlOf"
There Is nothing to rub off this rust but
contact with society. The only way to
feel at home in the parlor is to be familiar
with it. Here mothers are often greatly
a. fault The "best room" is kept shut
and darkened, and the intruder who
strayed into it would be quickly warned
out. Children who are accustomed to
little gatherings at home or at a neigh
boris in holiday and birthday times, sci
dom feel this painful difidence. 1t is
natural for youth to love such assem-.
blages, and they are very essential part Of
their education.
But if young man finds himself in thi.
uncomfortable plight, he must do the best
he can to remedy the neglect of his early
social culture. He must muster courage
and plunge into the best society he can
gain access to. If he is uniformly polite
and obliging, without any troublesome of
ficiousness, he will very soon be favor.
ite After that, all will be smooth sailing
He should not think it too much trouble
after a days work to take thorough bath
and change his working clothes and then
walk over to neighbours for an hours
social chat. This sociability would tend
to produce good feeling in neighborhoods
and would elevate and improve all parties
Add to this an hours reading every day
of some profitable book, and you will at
the years end have attained much higher
culture than your neighbor who spends
his evening lounging on the counter OF
the village store, or sluggishly sitting
down to doze before the fire-Erchdnge
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
For Cholera, Diarrhea, Etc.

A correspondent of the st. Louis Reput-
Hcan, who signs himself Benz. Ames, gives
the following information: "A weak lye
made from good wood ashes, about as
strong as common tea, put in bottles
Drink after each meal about half wine
glass full of the above water, which will
guarantee to be q complete preventive
against cholera, cholera morbus, or dys-
pepsia. This can be given to an infant
without injury. Whenever the bowels
become changed, lye-water should be used
freely.
"in the year 1S49 I passed up the river
on the steamer Robert Campbell, William
Eads, captain, Two men died out of the
cabin from 4 o'clock id the afternoon to 10
o'clock next morning. consulted with
Captain Eads, and advised that he should
put wood ashes in the drinking water, 30
that all the passengers should have to
drink from it. He did 30. This happened
at Wackapaw Prairie on the Missouri river.
He had not another sick or complaining
passenger from there to Council Bluffs,
and have conyefsed with him frequently
since, and he told me that he had always
adopted that plan, and never had any sick
ness on his boat during the California emil
grafton.
"This simple medicine is within the
reach of everybody. When made and put
in bottles, it will last good a year. For
the sake of humanity, I beg all the papers
(both English and Germany to copy this.
Cut this out and put it where you can see
itn
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
A Romantic Incident.

SOME years ago (says the New Orleans
Pcayune) gentleman named Paul Escott,
a resident of New Orleans, but formerly
living in France, lost his son, a lad of ten
years of age, from vessel off the Canary
Islands. twas night at the time, although
every possible exertion was made to rescue
the boy, yet were they unsuccessful, and
the little fellow was given up fof lost.
Shortly afterward the family came to New
Orleans, and in time the grief of the pa
rents for the loss of their son became only
a sorrow living in their memories. He
was dead, they thought, and grief could
not Bring him back to life: But be was
not dead. He had got possession of one 6f
the planks thrown out to him, and al
though missing his friends was picked up
the next day by ian English vessel In
this ship he made the voyage to China,
and failing to communicate with his family
on his return, continued in the employ
ment of the vessel for several years. 1t
last, learning the whereabouts of his
family, he reached this city in quest of
them few days since. Their JOY at
the appearance of one they had long con-
sidered as dead can, as the novelists say,
be more easily imagined than described.
1t was like one risen from the grave, and
discloses series of incidents as fruitful of
romance as often engages the pen of the
novelist and essayist;
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
Scarlet Fever.

A writer in the Philadelphia Press gives
the following as recipe for the treatment
of scarlet fever. 1t was furnished him
some years since by physician of twenty
five years practice, who stated that scar
let fever "may be called skin disease.
In other words, nature in its efforts to
throw off the disease closes the pores OF
the skin. If those pores are not kept
open the disease, settles upon soitie Of the
vital organs; and death frequently results
theretrom
Take one quart of hot water, one gill Of
alcohol or whisky; and one lump of wash
ing soda the size of walnut, and with
this simple preparation while hot, with
sponge or napkin, battle the patient, either
standing or sitting, beginning at the top of
the head and bathing down to the soles of
the feet; five minutes will be sufficient
time; then wrap in blanket; in, say,
twenty minutes, it will be found that the
fever will have dried the moisture left upon
the body by the bath; then put on dry
clothing If the case is very severe, the
bath should be repeated in three hours if
not, two or three times day. Medicine Is
unnecessary, unless the bowels are consti-
pated. Having practiced the above with
my four children, and with success, re-
spectfully submit it:
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
Treatment Of Horses.

"A merciful man is merciful to his
beast says the Scriptures, and judged by
that rule there are many unmerciful
farmers The horse is the most useful and
docile of all servants, and if mercy to the
brute creation did not prompt man to
treat his horses kindly, interest should.
There are some men too mean to keep
their horses in decent condition, and whose
teams always look as if the crows had a
mortgage upon them soon to be fOreclosed !;
but this class, for the honor of our profess
sion, am glad to say is small. These
men reckon all that can be saved in feeding
their horses as so much clear gain, work
them constantly upon insufficient food, and
as a consequence their horses wear out
young.
There is another class of men who con-
slider themselves too poor to keep their
team sleek and smooth, and you will see
them dragging along with horses looking
like specimen of gothic architecture, very
angular. Such men ought to know thst If
it pays to keep horse it pays to keep it
well, and that one stout well fed horse is
worth more for work or for sale than two
half starved ones. But it is not alone in
stintilg feeding that horses are treated un-
mercifully They are often compelled to
stand in cold, damp or i'll ventilated stables,
and sometimes when driven home from the
fields heated with work, thrust into the
stable without embarrassing, and left to
stand thus for half q day because forsooth
the farmer may need them again before
night" Animals that appear restless or
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
Cooperation in Canada.

Cooperative BODYBUILDING has been
tried during the past year in Montreal
with great success, and the following &C.
count is given of the operations of the
association: In 1867 the necessity of in.
creasing the number of houses of moder
ate rent attracted the attention of gentle.
men interested in the subject, and build.
ing association was formed, chartered and
Organized. The stock of the association
was issued in shares of $50, payable 81 a
share per month, or in advance if the
stockholders so preferred, interest being
allowed on all advance payments; One
yeaf ago, $75;00O of the stock had beef
taken, ground was chosen in suitable
situation, and eleven houses were built
and sold, and are now occupied. In build
ing the houses the wishes of applicants
are consulted the houses are sold at an
advance of ten per cent. on the cost OF
land and building, to cover interest, in
surance and other expenses, while the
houses are building; and the payments,
with six per cent. interest, are made in
monthly or quarterly installments. ex-
tending over a period of ten years, OF
less, at the option of the purchaser.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
Rouse the System.

1t is q sad thing to pass through life only half
alive Yet there are thousands whose habitual con-
dition is one of languor and debility. They COM
plain of specific disease they suffer no positive
pain but they have no relish for anything which
affords mental or sensuous pleasure to their more
robust and energetic felow-beings.
In nine out Of ten this state OF lasstude and
torpor arises from a morbid stomach. Indigestion
destroys the energy of both mind and body. When
the waste Of nature X not supplied by due and
regular assimilation Of the food. every organ Is
starved every function Interrupted
Now, what does common sense suggest under
these circumstances of depressiohi The system
needs rousing and strenotheninq not merely for an
hour or two, TO sink aterward into more pittable
condition than ever, Gas it assuredly would do if an
ordinary alcoholic stimulant were resorted to but
radically and permanently.
How Il this desirable object to be Accomplishment
The snswer to this question, founded on the unva-
ryng experiences offs quarter Of century is easily
given. fnfuse new Viggr into the digestive organs
BY a course of HOSTETTERS STOMACH BIT
TIERS Do not waste time in administering tempo
rary remedies but toate TIE svsteR up by reeupera
ing the fountan-head of physical strength and
energy, the great organ upon which all the other or
gans depend for their nurture and support.
BY the time that q dozen doses of the great vege-
table tonic and invgorant have been taken the
feeble frame of the dyspeptc will begin to feel its
benign influence. Appetite will be created, and
with appetite the capacity to digest what II Graves
Persevere until the cure is complete-unti health
bone and nerve and brain, flows through the chan
nels Of circulation instead Of the watery pabulum
w..h which they have heretofore been imperfecty
uourisheG
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
Wedding.

The destruction of weeds is q matter of
such importance that too much attention
cannot be given to it. 1t is impossible to
grow crop of weeds and crop of vege-
tables at the same time, and In the same
soil. Weeds not only absorb the ingredi-
ents from the soil which are necessary for
sustaining the growth of cultivated plants,
but they also intercept rain, dew and sun
shine, and deprive vegetables, etc, of the
benefits which they should derive from
these sources. 1t was to facilitate wedding
that vegetables were grown in rows. The
drill system was first commenced in gar
dens, and the benefit derived from it being
apparent, it was adopted in the field with
the most satisfactory results.
Weeds are often introduced in gardens
in manure. A careful gardener is very
cautious about using fresh stable manure,
for he knows that it contains seeds of clio;
yer, grass and weeds. Well-rotted barn.
yard manure in which the seeds of weeds,
etc, have been killed by the strong heat
caused by fermentation, Is the safest and
best appliance for the garden. On this &C
count the remains of old hot beds are very
suitable for almost any garden crop. Late
in the season, weeds spring up among pc.
rennial vegetables, such as rhubarb, as
paragus, etc, and not unfrequently are
allowed to remain until they have ripened
and disseminated their seeds. This evil
should be guarded against. No weed
should be permitted to grow in any part
of the garden, early or late in the season.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
Care Of Working Oxen In Summer.

ALL farmers who are accustomed to
keeping oxen for farm work are aware of
their value, but large number of them
do not treat the poor animal with that
care and kindness that his patience and
labor justly entitle him to. A very good
days work may be obtained from pair of
oxen in the warmest weather if they are
put to it at the right hotirs. They should
be put to work at four o'clock in the motif:
ing and taken off at ten. From that time
until four o'clock in the afternoon they
should be permitted to rest and feed in a
shaded, airy place. If fed on grass, it
should Be cut and brought to them so
that they need not be compelled to Craze
In the sun. They may then be. worked
from four until seven OF eight o'clock in
the evening, which will make nine or ten
working hours day, leaving them eight
hours to feed and rest at night.
By dividing their time in this way they
may be worked every day, and if proper
lK fed and ,watered, will keep in good con-
dition. This affahgsffient Of Tune may
not suit the taste or convenience of the man
or boy who has to work with them, as he
would like to lay in bed two or three hours
longer in the morning and he can stand
the heat of the sun better than the oxen !;
but the arrangement would be as good for
him as them. The only difficulty to be
overcome is the habit of morning nap |;
and this ought to be gracefully yielded to
for hpinanity's sake-Americdn Stock
Journal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
How to Break Steers.

Some time since l saw the question
asked through the Farmer, if there was
hot sor.e better way of breaking steers
than yoking them, and whipping end
pounding them until they were broken
in ambition, constitution, and every
thing that goes to make a good work OK.
Now, / propose to give a method that /
have practiced for thirty-five years. In
the fist place, make yard forty feet
square, with a straight fence, and so high
that the widest steer will not think of get
ting out. Now, put two or four steers into
the yard then take SOME corn, and cord,
and pet them until they are not afraid of
you. Then take your whip; stalk five
or six fee: long, with lash three or four
feet long, and start one of the steers. He
will go next to the fence; when he comes
to the corner, put out your whip and cry,
whoa He must stop, for his head is
against the fence: Now, pet him little; ;
then drop your lash lightly on bis left ear.
and gay, "Haw |" which he has to do if
he goes along. Keep on in this way, and
in short time you can "Haw" him
around under the whip. Now, ace"
him around in the same way, till you can
"haw" and "gee" at will. Then, step
off few feet, and call one by name, and
with motion of your whip bring him to
you. Then, step a little further of, and
continue to do so until you can fetch him
to you anywhere in the yard.
While at work with one, if he gets ex-
cited, leave him and take another. Then
take your yoke !; take out the hear bow,
and tie rope fifteen or twenty feet long
in the near bow-hOle; put the yoke
on him, and keep hold of the rope, so that
he shall not hurt himself or the others.
If he is afraid of it, let him work with it
till he gets over it. Then put it on an
other, and let them draw each other
around. Let them all have turn at it.
Then, yoke them together; fetch them to
you to yoke yoke and unyoke, and yoke
on either side; drive them in the yard
until you can back, gee and haw them at
will-which you can do, if you keep cool,
and cork mildly, with light blows, till he
knO,cs ,chat goa ,oant. Then, if you have
an old yoke of oxen, bring them into the
yard; hitch them together, and drive
them around the yard few times; then
open your gate, and take them out. They
may bound little at first, but will soon
mind you as well out Of as in the yard.
Try it, farmers, and my word for it, if
you want a yoke of gentle, quick, lively
cattle Gf you are mid, and follow the di-
rections), you are sure to have them.-W
@. Ball, in Kansas Former
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20

stupid are beat and kicked by thoughtless
men and boys who seem ignorant of the
fact that they are injuring both themselves
and their horses without benefting either.
These things are all wrong, more than
that they are improbable. Horses and all
other animals will pay for reasonable
amount of care and attention-they should
never under any provocation receive other
than kind treatment. A horse should at
least be kept in dry stable from which
the manure is occasionally removed, and
supplied with clean bedding daily. Light
and ventilation should be furnished, but
draughts of air at the same time avoided
A stable that does not fulfil these condi-
tiOns is unfit for the habitation of horse
No farmer should stable his horses with
out removing their harness, and if very
sweaty their breasts should be washed
with cold water. They should have at all
seasons enough good wholesome food to
keep them looking nice and smooth any
thing less than this viii not pay.-Ameri-
can Stock Journal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
How to XIII Canada Thistles.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural World
in speaking of this pest, and the way tc
dispose of it, says:
Many methods are employed; summer
following the soil infected, is successful
remedy; when thus treated, two plowings
are necessary, with thorough narrowing
thereafter, great care being taken that
every leaf is turned under-for they are
considered the lungs of the plant, and
without their aid the plant soon perishes
Heavy seeding and early moving are Other
agents, the right performance of which
eradicates thistles from the soil-seed II
thickly with grass. A good, strong growth
of grass, besides reducing the amount OF
thisties, at once decreases their vitality,
and thereby retards their maturity until a
later period than that at which the grass
is ripe enough for haying. If, then, the
crop is cut in season, the slender stumps
of the thistles are exposed to the damag-
ing effects ofthe weather, and no fear need
be apprehended of their spreading by root
or seed. Should, however, the cutting be
unavoidably delayed, little danger need be
entertained from seeding, as it is a rare
occurrence to find seed having vitality
among grass in the latter case, thick and
heavy seeding should be practiced. II
possible, take two crops of seed from the
land the first moving. Keep them from
seeding; time and patient determination
are necessary to final success.