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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-09-30

in q word, he was of no use to him
self or any other living being.
Mary would have told you that
he was the best companion she had
ever met; at all times her beau
ideal of a gentleman ; well educat-
ed, gentle-mannered; possessed a
good taste, very unselfish /; and
with a temper that nothing could
ruGe.
Fred answering for himself,
would have answered that he was
equal in all respects, to the average
young man of society. His family
were among the best; he had a
comfortable fortune he had gradu-
ated at Harvard.
But, with all these things in his
favor, DR.. Burgess did not think
him worthy of his neice and ward,
Mary Ellison.
"You say you love him ~ he con,
tinued.
eyes, sir"
.And what do you know about
him Z"
at Is not necessary to go into
that uncle. / have learned to love
him, and have nearly told him So
; "But, my dear, am sure he il
unworthy Of you as I am that an
sitting here"
"Have you any grounds for tha
opinion 7"
, '"I have grounds for it in m.
knowledge Of human nature. Yo'
fancy him a well-educated, brillian
, man because he can talk in q gil
, manner of the thousand and on
r nothings that make up society talk
: but l can see that his five years O
r college have left him no real know
8 ledge, and that he has nothing !
d his head but froth."
9 'T don't think you understand
s or do him justice"
d 81 am sure that do him mo-
d than justice"
~ cannot see 1t as you do, unci
I find his habits are good, his ian
d lily equal to ours
Of IA fg for his family" broke
IN the doctor. al care nothing 4
rs any such nonsense rs family.
, never yet knew family to provi'
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Frcd's Probation.

"And you believe in that dandyf'
al believe in him."
"well, you are as big q fool as
he is"
"Thank You, sir"
She did not finch under her
guardians scornful gaze but look
ed at him as serenely as If her do
ing so was necessary to show that
her faith was strong. C
Mary Ellison was not a girl tc
give her faith lightly, as her guard
ian, DIR. Burgess, well knew; and
IL was this knowledge that made
the present intelligence all the more
aggravating. He had brought he'
to swampscott against her inclina
ton, had rejoiced when he saw he
enjoying herself among the youni
people; and had even been gla'
when Fred Seward began to devot
himself to her. Yet here he wa
now in o fury with himself an
every one because Fred had aske
for Mary's hand.
What was there against Fredi
Everything, the doctor woul
have told you; he was the idlest
all idle young men; he was foppis
4 in his manner of dressing; he wi
somewhst loud In bis conversation
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WIZ cash all approved checks ON
Detroit, Ne,o York and Bos-
ton, at par, and gice
drafts at par, TO all
their customers.
Alpena, April IS, 1872. 90
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True Friends.
I'm sitting alone in my chamber now,
And the moons rising red from the sea;
look at the glorious sight, and think
OF my friends-are they thinking OF mol
How sweet 10 think over the many true hearts,
Loved, loving, unselfsh and kind;
Not all have the exquisite beauty OF face,
But some have the beauty Of mind.
There are many, who, passing along day oy Day
Would hardly be seen by the crowd,
Who would look way beyond them, right over
their heads;
OF such little friends am proud.
When they come to me laughing, 50 rosy and
sweet,
And climb on my shoulder OF knee,
know that they mean every word that they say
When they tell me they dearly love me.
Baby hands, little hearts brimming over with love
sheet lips, and an innocent kiss
Such sly little secrets, all whispered IN fun'
Why, what can be sweeter than this
Thank God for such friends, for the gift OF suci
love,
So free from all doubling or fear;
let us giye TO our Father this same loving trust,
And close to his footstool draw near.
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r.. H. DYER,
LAND HUNTER,

Pine lands examined and carefully estimated.
10000 acres OF Farming Lands for
sale, from one TO twenty-five miles from Alpena,
and payments from one to Ave years time. Pro.
duce, tanbark, posts ETC., taken in payment. Best
of references given.
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ADvEarrsrse RATS.

onv two lrhr'ei ioul .ihI'sI siS zone
w'k w'ks " ks " 'ks mo's NOS N'fI
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
'FINTE = = = 'FH,Ft ~
'Balky Horses e

The Society for the, prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals, puts forth a set Of
rules for the treatment Of balky horses.
l. Pat the horse upon the neck ex-
anime the harness carefully, first on
one side and then on the other, speak
ing encouragingly while doing SO; then
jump into the wagon and give the word
60; generally he will obey.
2. A teamster in Maine says he can
start the worst oalky horse By taking
him out Of the shafts and making him
60 round in a circle till he is yiddy.
If the first dance Of this sort doesn't :
cure him, the second will.
3. To cure balky horse, simply
place your hand over the horses nose
and shut off his wind until he wants to
60.
t. The brain Of horse seems to en-.
tertain but one idea at time; there
fore continued whipping only confirms
his stubborn resolve. If you can, by
any means, give him new subject to
think OF, you will generally have no
trouble in starting him. A simple
remedy is to take couple Of turns of
stout twine around the toreleg, just be-
low the knee, tight enough for the horse
to feel, and tie in bow knot. At the
first check he will generally go dancing
off, and after going short distance you
can get out and remove the string, to
prevent injury to the tendon in your
further drive.
5. Take the tail Of the horse between
the hind legs, and tie it by a cord to
the saddle girth.
6. Tie string around the horses
ear, close to his head.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
=ts3' - .
How to Pluck Fowls.

| have known persons on market day
to 60 out and kill twelve or fifteen fowls,
and to bring them into a room where
there would be half:a-dozen women and
boys pulling few feathers at time,
between the thumb and forefnger, to
prevent tearing them. Now for the
benefit Of such, l give our plan Hang
the fowl by the feet by small cord !;
then with suaI! knite give one cut
across the upper jaw, opposite the cor
ners Of the mouth after the blood has
stopped running stream, place the
point Of the knife in the groove in the
upper part Of the mouth. :un the blade
up into the back part of the head /,
which will cause quiverins and twitcl-
Ing Of the muscles. Now is your time,
for every feather yields as if by magic,
and there is no danger Of tearing the
most tender chick. Before he attempts
to tap, you can have him as bare as the
DAY he came out Of the egy-Jouynal
Of Horticulture.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
Salt as Manure.

Various experiments, says the Jour-
nal Of Horticulture, have been made by
NJ. Peligot and others, to test the value
Of salt as manure. The following
summing up seems to have been arrived
at: Salt should never be applied other
than in pulverous state: and never EN-
ployed on impervious, cold and humid
soils. The best manner to use it is to
combine it with other manures, dose
Of TWO hundred wei ght to the acre be-
ing sufficient. When selected to des-
troy insects, it should be applied before
sunrise. In the case of cereals, salt
strengthens the stems and causes the
ears to fill better, and fayors the dis
solution and assimilation Of the phos-
phate and silicates. It acts vigorously
on potatoes, and can be detected in
their ashes to the extent Of one.half or
one per cent. Asparagus is veritable
glutton in the presence Of salt. A
dose Of three cwt. per acre acts without
fail on beets, injuring its value for su.
gar purposes, but enhancing it for feed.
ing of cattle. Cola has as marked a
prediction for salt as asparagus; and
in Holland, where the culture of peas is
so extensive, salt is something like a
necessity. Mized with hay in the pro-
portion Of 4 ounces to 100 weight, the
fodder is more appetising; but the best
way to feed it to animals is to allow
them to enjoy it in the form Of rock
salt.-Scientyic american.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
Bugs.

It is said that chemical firm in In
dianapolis has recently advertised for
100 tbs. Of potato bugs. The insects
are stated to possess qualities which
render them a good substitute for the
Spanish fly. This is interesting but,
unfortunately, not authenticated. The
man, however, who does discover a
mode Of utilizing the potato bug may
rest assured that his fortune is made.
Another "shaky" item. which is
travelling the rounds Of the press is
about an insect which eats up iron pill
lars. This remarkable bug is about
the size Of common house fly, and
finds no difficulty in boring its way into
solid iron, ejecting the chips from the
place Of its entrance. ,..
Speaking Of bugs reminds us of a
pleasant little annecdote told Of Canon
Kingsley, the celebrated English au-
thor, who has been lecturing through
the country. While at Colorado
Springs, in the midst Of the delivery Of
discourse, bug, of some species Of
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
Alcohol and the Farmer.

The SaAitortam tells "What Alcohol
Will Do" thus :" 1t may seem strange,
but it is nevertheless true, that alcohol
regularly applied to a thrifty farmers
stomach will remove the boards from
the fence; let cattle into his crops; kill
his fruit trees mortgage his farm and
SOW his fields with wild oats and thistles.
1t will take the paint off his building.
break the glass out of the windows and
fill them with rags. It will take the
gloss from his manners, subdue his rea-
son, arouse his passions, bring sorrow
and disgrace upon his family and topple
himiuto drunkard's grave. It will do
this to the artisan and the capitalist,
the matron and the maiden, as we'll as
to the farmer for in its deadly enmity
to the human race alcohol is no respector
of PERSONS ...., ...- t...., .
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
Tender-FOOted Horses,

An old man who had had much ex-
perience in handling and dealing in
horses for more than half century,
said 70 ne recently he had never known
a horse to get tender-footed that was
kept loose in shed or yard. or in a
boxed STALL That turning around and
treading With their forward feet in the
manure keep them constantly moist and
soft. His theory appeared perfectly
reasonable to me. Il have no box
stalls, but used shavings for bedding,
and every morning, with large shovel,
I moved the wet shavings under the
horses toward feet, and then the last
thing at night covered these with dry
shavings for him to lie on" He also
remarked that he never knew fat
footed horse but what was good
WORKER World.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23

To DETERMINE THE SEX OF EGGS,
A writer in the Prairie Farmer after
describing the various rules that have
been given for determining tie sex Of
eggs, lays down this rule of his own,
which We have no doubt is as good as
any Of the others "My rule, SO simple
and easy Of application that any one
living within the regions Of civilization
can have the means Of practising it, was
given me by good old lady, who was
famous in her day as a successful chick
en-raiser. [ am so well satisfied With it
thatI never trouble myself any more
by testing the theories of others on this
subject: Ny mind is, perfectly at rest
on this point, at least in the manage
ment of poultry, and now my chief
study is to produce the finest specimens
Of the breed Of my choice, be they eth
or cockerels or pallets. The rule u.s.,
after you have picked ont the eggs TO
be set, BY whatever other rule You may
fancy, carry them to the nest in / hat If
you desire cookerels, or in a,sun-bonnet
if you wish to obtain pullets."
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
Tools for Farmers.

Don't buy a chest filed with tools
ready for work. If you had have good
deal Of experience, and know what you
want, make chest and select the tools
yourself, but if you get one which some
one else has furnished: you may, to be
sure, get good set of tools, but there
will be many for which you will find
but little use. Even regular mechanics
have different ways of using tools, and
an ingenious amateur will often make
shift to do without certain tools which
carpenter or blacksmith considers indis-
pensable. Here are. some some sug-
gestions which we clip from the Agricul
tsrsst: :: Every farmer should have a
small room, tight and. warm, which he
can lock, and where he can keep his
small tools. Then he wants good
solid workbench, with an iron vice
on one side, and wooden one on the
other. For iron working, he wants
solid piece of iron for an anvil, a seven
pound steel-face hammer, a riveting
hammer, one large and one small cold
chisel, two or three punches from / to
! inch, rimmer and countersink, to
be used with bit-stock, screw-plate
that will cut screw from 1 to 5 inch;
then with round iron of the various
sizes, and ready-made nuts, he can make
any bolt he wishes. For carpenter
work he wants square, a shaving horse,
drawing knife, set Of planes, auger
from J to 2 inches, a fine hand-saw with
coarse cross-cut and rip-saw, large CROSS
cut saw for logs, and grindstone."
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
- Let the Horses Roll.

Horses that are kept in the stable
during summer, should be given daily
the luxury Of a roll on the earth.
Rolling is the means given by nature
for the animal to rid itself Of vermin
and skin diseases, and it tends to make
the animal healthy. Some owners OBJ
!ect to allowing a horse to roll on the
pare earth because it gets dirt into the
hair and makes extra work to keep the
animal clean, but the extra work pays
II rightly understood. We allow our
horse to roll in the dirt when he is not
moist with perspiration, and then stand
an hour OF two with his coat full Of
dust before being cleaned up. Selected.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
coleopteyo new and strange to the speak

coleoptero new and strange to the speak
er, alighted on his manuscript, and at
once attracted his attention. Mr.. Bug
sat still for moment or two, during
which time Canon Kingsley-who is an
enthusiastic and very clever naturalist,
by the way-quietly proceeded to study
its form and structure; but while these
investigations were in progress, and his
language rolling forth to the delight of
his hearers, the insect began to expand
its wings as if to fly away The rever-
end speaker saw the motion, and deftly
caught the bug in his hand. Going
right on with his line Of argument he
continued his examination for several
moments. until, having settled every
thing to his own satisfaction, he let the
insect, ,buzz away about its own business.
To any ordinary man the presence Of
such an intruder would have resulted
in its being quickly brushed away but
the great English divine, trained to
such close habits Of observation and
thought, could not forego the opportu-
nifty, even in the midst of his lecture,
to study the points in new species Of
bug, his mental discipline enabling him
to carry on in his mind two trains Of
ideas at the same time.-Scientifc
AnoeracQM.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
Deep Flowing.

There were three things that Horace
Greeley believed in from the bottom of
his heart, viz: Universal Amnesty,
Impartial Suffrage, and-Deep Plow-
ing. This is what he has said of the
latter:
"When l became once more farm
er, in small way, on my present place,
I tried to have plowed deeply and thor
oughly so much land as ! had plowed
at all. My first summer here 1859
Was very dry one, and crops failed in
consequence around me and all over the
country; yet mine were at least fair;
and was largely indebted for them to
relatively deep plowing. I have since
suffered from frost on my low land, from
the rotting of seed in the ground, from
the ravages of insects, etc. !; but never
by drouth; and am entirely confident
that deep plowing has done me excel
lent service. My only trouble has been
to get it done; for there are apt to be
reasons-haste, lateness in the season,
ETC., for blowing shallowly for 'just
this time, with full intent henceforth
to do better.
I close this paper with a statement
made to me by an intelligent British
farmer living at Maidstone, south of
England He said "A few years ago,
there came into my hands field of
twelve acres, which had been an orchard,
but the trees were hopelessly in their
dotage. They must be cut down; then
their roots must be grubbed out; so I
resolved to make clean job Of: it, and
give the field a thorough trenching
Choosing a time in autumn or early
winter when labor was abundant and
cheap, ha6 it turned over three spits
(twenty-seven inches) deep; the first
being merely reversed, the second re-
versed and placed at the bottom, and
the third reversed and placed above
the second. The soil was strong and
deep, as that Of an orchard oug ght to be-;
l planted the field to garden peas, and
my first picking was very abundant.
About the time that peas usually begin
to wither. and die, the roots Of mine
struck the rich soil which has been the
first stratum, but was now the second,
and at once the stalks evinced new
life-'threw out new blossoms, which
were folloVed by pods and so kept on
blossoming and forming peas for weeks,
until this first crop far more than paid
the cost of trenching and cultivation. ,"
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
Raising Mixed Crops.

We have recommended, repeatedly, the
sowing Of mixed crops, particularly bar
ley and oats. Though this may seem
to be an uneven crop, yet it does well,
as we have abundantly experienced.
If you wish to feed the crop, perhaps
nothing is better. Corn will yield more,
if the best attention be given it, but it
is only superior for fattening pur-
poses. Barley and oats mixed will do
for any kind Of stock, horses, cattle,
sheep, particularly young stock. But
it is superior as young horse feed; it is
better than corn for milk COWS. Sow
equal quantities, and SOW pretty thick.
This will give first crop of barley, a
fair stand without being crowded: sun
and air have good effect. Then comes
the oats, overtopping the barley, and
there will be field of oats, good stand ;
it will seem to be oats only, as first it
seemed barley alone. When the oats
begin to turn, the tips ripen, just ad
:vanced enough to cut, lay the crop in
swarths. These swarths, if the soil is
good will be winrows, loose, open to the
air, and readily cured. The barley will
be fully ripe, but still bright and un-
hurt. The crop will lodg ge less than
when grains are sown SEPARATE con-
siderable advantage. And another
thing; though the crowd of the grain
would seem to be shaken, smothering,
yet grass seed or clover sown will do
well.r Among our best seeding were
such crops. You get more from an acre
both grain and straw than where oats
alone are grown. Try a little. It is
done here to considerable extent. OF
course. the better the land is prepared
the heavier the crop. And the land
should not be too poor, as il has more
to carry than single crop, especially if
seeded down. So barley and peas, Of oats
and peas, may be grown together, the
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
grain supporting the peas, thus prevent
ing mildew and rot on the ground
Correspondent Utica Herald.
Household Hints.

The following receipts have, most of
them appeared in this paper, but to the
English Farmer is due the credit of
printing them in the following order
If you have been picking or handling
acid fruit and have stained your hands,
wash them in clear water, wipe them
lightly and, while they are yet moist,
strike 4 match and shut your hand
around it 50 as to catch the smoke. and
the Stain will disappear.
Wet she spot OF iron rust on muslin
or white dress goods thoroughly with
lemon juice, then lay it in the sun to dry.
Repeat the same if the color is not re-
moved by one application. When dry,
rinse in clear, cold water Lemon Juice
cannot be used on colored goods, as it
will take out printed colors as we'll as
stains twill remove all kinds of stains
from white goods.
Dusting articles of steel, after they
have been thoroughly cleaned, with un-
Stacked lime, will preserve them from rust.
The coils Of piano wires thus sprinkled
will keep from rust many years. Table
knives which are not in constant use
ought to be put in case in which sifted
quicklime is placed, about eight inches
deep. They should be plunged to the
top Of the blades, but the lime should
not touch the handles.
To remove mildew, make very weak
solution Of cloride of lime in water
(about Il heaping teaspoonful to quart
Of water), strain it carefully, and dip
the spot on the garment into it; and if
the mildew does not disappear immedi-
ately, lay it in the sun for few minutes,
or dip it again into the lime water.
The work is effectually and speedily
done, and the cloride Of lime neither
rots the cloth nor removes delicate COL
ors, when sufficiently diluted, and the
article rinsed afterwards in clear waters
The white Of egg has proved, of late,
the most eficacious remedy for burns.
Seven or eight successive application.
of this substance soothe pain: and effect
ually exclude the burn from the air.
This simple remedy seems preferable to
collodlon or even cotton Extraordi-
nary stories are told of the healing pro-
perties Of new oil, which is easily made
from the yolks Of hens eggs. The eggs
are first boiled hard, and the yolks are
then removed, crushed, and placed over
the tire, when they are carefully stirred
until the wholes ubstance is just on the
point of catching on fire, when the yolk
will yield nearly two ,teaspoonfuls of oil.
1t is in general use among the colonists
OF South Russia as a means of curing
cuts, bruises, and scratches.
AT this season of the year. it is i'm
portant for all housekeepers to be on
their guard against the insidious at
tcmpts OF the various species of ants and
the .detestable cockroaches to invade the
kitchen and pantries or store rooms.
Sprigs Of wintergreen will make the
small red ant leave their cherished
haunts. Borax powdered and put into
crevices where cockroaches abide will
finally cause them to disappear but we
found concentrated lye, melted into a
sort Of paste and applied with knife.
more expeditions mode Of destroying
these noxious insects Scalding alum
water is also certain death to cock
reaches