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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-04-30
POULTRY AS FARM STOCK.

How many farrtdtieerrs might obtain
plenty Of new accommodations for
poultry by simply making use of the
buildings they already possess, and
how many farmers consider fowls I'M
worthy of consideration, because Of
some supposed difficulty Of expense in
! erecting suitable houses.
And worse than this, how many far
mers try to make poultry pay without
any result beyond continual vexations,
merely from lack Of ingenuity in bring
ing ordinary appliances into play.
"Why bother" they ask, ''about rails
ing chickens in COW sheds and out
buildings, when you can get out as
many coops as you like on the grass
of a paddock, the gravel of a stable
yard, or upon the scattered rick7yard
straw 2" Because, generally speaking,
half your chickens die under Gle COM
mon farm-yard treatment. They get
wet feet and die of cramp; they drink
the high colored soak water of manure
heaps, of straw-yard drains and other
filthy Stops, and consequently sicken
and die by dozens.
/ We have a troop Of adult breeding
fowls loose IN the farm yard; fhey pick
up large part Of their living there.
But they do not thrive SO well and
keep so healthy as other troops of
breeding stock which we have station
ed at houses prfposely erected in grass
fields far from the home stead. For
very small sum you may erect square
board house, tarred outside, lime-wash.
ed inside, and covered with asphalted
felt. Each of the four sides is in sep
arate piece, the roof CT of gamble
form) in two pieces, all knocked to
gether at the corners with staples and
pins. So a house, say six feet or seven
feet cubic, can be popped into a cart,
and temporarily set up in pasture, or
on stubb1e, or whenever there may
be a good picking for the fowls A
couple of perches, few nests, and a
drinking pan for the furniture, while
the ground covered in by the house
for there is no woo den fioor) is spread
over with loose earth, ashes, ard NOR
tar. Such is the home for one cock
and eigh or ten hens and pullets dur
ing the breeding season, OF the home
of double this number of half; grown
chickens. The house should be placed
against hedge, or in cornor where
two hedges meet, so that few poles or
Eposts protect it against cattle.
There can be no good reason, again
st grazing fowl as well as other ':ani--
mails" and the farmer who tries 1t for
I the first time will be surprised at the
amount of "grub" Qiterally perhaps
which the active scratchers and pickers
will find in grass field, in and under
the dropings of sheep and cattle,
among hedgeposts, upon ditch sides,
and so on only small amount of grain
being necessary twice day. We
+ wish that many farmers would take
our advice-procure what hardy sort
you most fancy, Coohin OF Brahma,
that endure close quarters; game that
are strong old English birds; Dorkings
that like dry chalk and gravel coun-
tries OF, if you are in low Or wet
neighborhood, on tenacious soil, put
a Cochin cock to Dorking females (no
cross breeds allowed for parents, mind,
but get good blood and pure breeds)
and you will have hardihood in your
chicks, as we'll as weight and quality in
your couples fol. market
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-04-30

A well dressed, matoronly looking
lady walked into a saloon in Oswego the
other day, laid her nuff on the counter,
and lookout a pair of spectacles, when
thesbar tender promptly informed her
that no bible~reading would be in
order there. Reaching down into her
dress pocket, the woman produced a
flat bottle and cody called for a pine
of whiskey. She doesn't know yet
what that bar tender was alarmed
about
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-04-30
METHOD IN MARRIAGES.

-
1t appeared to me that there must be
a certain Connection between the
marriage l had just witnessed, the
young widows srory, and the existence
of this couple. was confirmed still
more in the idea by the successive dis
coveries | made, from which / learned
after two OF three days investigation,
that three Or four persons of my ac-
quaintance had been married, as it
were, by chance, and through the
friendly and disinterested intervention
of the same lady. What threw me out
OF my reckoning was. that every one
assured me the lady had acted without
any motive of interest, and that it was
with the utmost difficulty she had been
prevailed upon to accept a cheap
artistic souvenir: i seemed to me
very strange that lady who ostensib-
ly had no fortune, and whose husband
had no place, could afford to spend her
time in making people happy, and that
the consciousness Of having performed
that good action could take the place
of income and salary.
At last, by thinking the matter over
| came by degrees to the conclusion
that the Lady in question belonged to
the pretty numerous category Of in
termediaries employed by matrimonial
agents in France to realize their com
binations, and / Immediately resolved
to clear up my doubts. To that end
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-04-30

Andrew Jackson has lost in moral
character by living so many years in
Washington. The other day he was
charged with stealing 1920 bricks from
the Board of Public Works in that
city.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-04-30

Mrs: Anarews, of Vermont, said she
didn't care darn whether dinner suit
ed her husband or not, ard justice
fined her seven dollars.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-04-30
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Advertisements for three months longer viii
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-04-30
LOVE MATCHES IN FRANCE.

Some six weeks ago I met lady
acquaintance of mine, rich,ugly witty
widow. "Did you amusc yourself
much during the carnival?" 1 asked.
'No," she answered, S'during the Car
nival I danced, and I am now of an
age when dancing IS more of a toll
than pleasure. It is since Lent be-
gan that I have been amused" ''You
follow the sermons them mo, but
watch the marching past of the pre-
tenders, and have nearly as many as
the throne Of France"
Perceiving my establishment she
went on: 81 see you are surprised, SO
1 will explain the mystery for you. I
am free, still young, too ugly not to
be aimable, and ain mistress of an
income of $4,000. The emptiness of
the pleasures of the Carnival made me
turn my attention to domestic joys, and
after having consulted my tastes and
my reason, I determined to think OF
matrimouy. Twas impudent enough
to mention the matter to a friend, the
wife of an ex high functionary of the
Empire; she seized on the idea, and
since then not day passes, whether I
90 out OF stay at home, whether 1 go
to tie theatre or return from prone
made, without my friend introducing to
me some pretender who seems to have
dropped from the clouds. All tongues,
ages and escutcheons have already
passed before me. The things amnses
me enormously, but SO far, to the deep
despair of my friend, no one of the
gentlemen she has introduced to me
has pleased me well enongh for me to
permit him to pay me his address.
laughed at the story, and left her with
a wish that she might be more fortu
nate in the future.
Ihad forgotten that conversation
when, few days after, having received
an invitation TO a wedding, I there me-
| the wife of the ex high functionary o,
whom the young widow had spoken te
me. sit is that lady said one of the
relatives Of the bride to ME, who made
the match; it is she who introduced
the bridegroom to my cousins family.
| l there upon recalled to mind the con
vefsation with the widow, and othel
circumstances struck me. / knew thai
the lady who had made the match wa'
left at Che fall of the Empire withou
the resources which her husbands office
brought in. I knew that neither she
nor her husband had any private for
tune, and that Che latter had no place
on the income Of which they could live
Yet + saw them everywhere. I knew
that their house was we'll ordered, thei
table well supplied, their servants vel
organized, and I saw them dressed ii
such style an allowed of their making
a good figure in the world 7-
METHOD IN MARRIAGES. F
1t appeared to me that there must b.
a certain Connection between thu
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-04-30
gnttirat.s
TIE MEMORY OF DAVID RoDEFFER

The MEMORY OF DAVID RoDEFFEF
SO 1fs4 ----i j igd siaaY "
8Ah ~ By A SON. "a E9bi boo
y aisny ei.u e.lf voe
Thou art gone, dearest Father, !, .4s.-es
To the Mansions of the blest. t
No more will care or sorrow 81 .lfi 5tfgl
E'era again disturb thy rest.
Thou art basking in the light
e. OF o new and happy land ,ert -.
In the presence of thy God,
" "a AND ANGHLs ROUND THKE STAND. e.
d We miss the dearest Father IN
At morning. noon and night, s'A -
And all around is sadness, tsfa{ fagrs.
t,,e,.. Where once was pure delight
But though we miss thee, Father, jH.
t' Nor relief can we obtain,
~ We know that OUR earthly loss
Is YOUR ETERNAL GAIa. lt ls@
Brothers, Sisters, let us strive
To meet that Father there, ."
30 Day by day improve the hours .-l-. -. =.
That God allots us here
Oh, blessed thought, oh ! hope divine, j..
When our earthly cares are DER,
= & We'll moet that dear, good Father,
On THAT BRIGHT AND HAPPY SHORE.
go Our meeting will be joyous, ''.i-T +
~ Around the throne above;
Wen bask beneath the sunshine
Of his never dying love. sd.
And Father, there, will know us,
And clasp us to his breast,
And welcome-yes, thrice welcome us
To an eternal rest.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-11-20

.E If our Maker thought it wrong for
Adam to remain single when there was no
woman on earth how criminally wrong
are the old bachelors with the world full
of pretty girls?
6. a wag, in what he knows about
farming" gives very good plan to re-
move widows weeds. He says good
looking man has only to say "wilt thou"
and they wilt.
.@''I am afraid you will come to want"
said an old lady to a young gentleman.
Il have come to want already" was the
reply; Il want your daughter
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-11-20

are additional reasons for giving attention
to this matter. The weight of evidence and
the majority Of physicists and foresters
incline to the belief that fruits are great
factor in preserving humidity IN the air,
not only by the exhalation through the
leaves of water drawn from the earth, but
by influencing precipitation. Article OF
a treatise on Forest MeteorOlOgy," lately
published in Bavaria, and one of the most
important contributions on the subject,
reads: In elevated regions, and during
the summer-halt of the year, woods tend
to increase the precipitation
The question which the member Of the
Farmers Club have opened is of an i'm
portance which the citizen as we'll as the
farmer will appreciate. Apples are our
national fruit, and their importance in do
mestic economy is too CREATOR us to see
their steady decay and increasing scarcity
without a protest. In the markets apples,
and imperfect ones, sell for SO a barrel.
while on the fruit stands they bring two
cents a piece. The consequence is that
for the poor this fruit is as great luxury
as oranges from Mcssina, bananas from the
West Indies, and California pears, when
from sanitary reason alone it should be
abundantly supplied them.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-11-20
The Best Medicine for Trouble.

Don't try to quenCh your sorrow in rum
or narcotics. IfYou begin this, YOU must
keep right on with it, till it leads YOU to
ruin; or il YOU try 10 pause, you must add
physical pain and degradation to the s"r
row vou seek to escape. OF all Wrctchcd
men. his condition is the most pititul who,
having sought to drown his grief in drink
awakcs from his debauCh with shattered
nerves, aching head and depressed mind,
to face the trouble again. That which
was at first painful to contemplate, will,
after drink, seem mnhearable. Ten to one
the fatal drink will be again sought till
its victim sinks hopeless, pititul wreck.
Work is your true remedy. If misfortune
hits YOU hard, hit you something else
hard pitch into something with will
There's nothing like good, solid, absorb
inc. cXhauSting work to cure trouble. If
YOU have met with losses, You don't want
to lie awake, thinking about them You
want sweet. calm, sound sleep, and to eat
Your dinner with appetite. But You cant
unless YOU work. If you say YOU don't
feel like work, and loating all day to tell
Dick and Harry the story of your woes,
vou'll lie awake and keep your wife awake
bv tossing. and spoil her temper and your
own break fast next morning, and begin to-
morrow by feeling ten times worse than
you do to-day.
There are some great troubles that only
time can heal, and perhaps some that nev-
er Will be healed at all but all can be
helped 10y the great panaCca, work. Try
it, you Who are afflicted. 1t is not a pat
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-11-20
A Good One.

\ gentleman in the bcnevolence Of his
heart. dispatched his negro servant with
n fine pig in a basket, as a present to his
minister On his way was 4 grocery, at
which Jack called to refresh his spirits,
setting down his basket outdoors, and
while he was attending his whiskey, some
rude and wicked fellows took from his
basket the pig, and placed in its stead a
Young puppy. Jack, unconscious Of the
change. made rapid strides to the house Of
the worthy minister, and handed him the
basket. saying here is pig massa send
YOU to eat. The minister, uncovering the
animal, finds the contents of the basket
not at all acceptable, and returned the
basket to the servant with the message; !;
Tell your master that | don't eat puppies
"Puppy," says Jack, me thot he pig
On his return he again stopped at the
same grocery for refreshment, and the
same persons took from his basket the
puppy, and replaced the pig, and Jack in
haste returned to his master. On his
arrival, he handed the basket to his master,
giving at the same time the message of the
minister "Massa. massa, minister say he
no eat puppy" The gentleman raising
the covering. finds the pig he sent, return
ed in good order, and says to his servant,
puppy, Jack, what do you mean? this is
a pig" Jack looks at the animal with the
utmost ast0nishmcnt, me never see sich a
creature-he pig when he mind to be, and
he puppy when he mind to be-"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-11-20

ent medicine. 1t has proved its efficacy
since first Adam and Eve left Paradise be-
hind them weeping for their beautiful
Eden. 1t is an official remedy. All good
physicians in regular standing prescribe
it in case of mental and moral disease.
It operates kindly and well, leaving no
disagreeable sequela, and we assure you
that we have taken large quantity of it
with most beneficial effects. 1t will cure
more complaints than any nostrum in the
materia medica, and comes nearer to be-
ing cure all'' than any drug or COM
pound of drugs in the market. And
it will not sicken you, if you do not take
it sugarcoated.-Scientjfc american.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-11-20

Branch of Nos ) and John Street, New York
With an experience of fifty years, and facili-
tics unequallcd by any other establishment, we
may justly claim 10 he the FIRST DYEING
AND CLEANING EST Establishment IN TIE
COUNTRY.
DRESS GOODS DYED in the piece or made
up in garments Also RIBBONS. FRINiES
&c. LACE CT RTAINS bCauti-
fully cleaned. Ladies Dresses CIoaks, Man
tiias, &c, in AL fabrics, cleaned without rip
ping. Gentlemen Coats, OvercoatS, Pants
Vests. &C., Dyed or Cleaned without ripping.
Goods received and returned by express.
BARRETT, NEPHEWS & CO,
No. 10 West Baltimore St,
BALTIMORE.
y. B.--No other office III this city. o23-ly Y
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-11-20

Our correspondent does injustice, We
think, to our Commissioners in supVosing
they are overlooking or ncglectirg the
great fishing interests the shai fisheries
Of our State. Their first object, We be
icyc was their protection and improve
mcnt: but with the insufficient appropria-
tion nj command they found themselves
unable to move step. Nothing could be
accomplished, they thought, except by the
use Of Seth Green's Matching boxes, and
the royalty the inventor cNacts for the use
of these is a sum larger than the amount
at the disposal of the Commission for an
entire year. This being the case, attcn-
tion was directed to other and perhaps
subordinate intcrcsts.-EHS. im. Far.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-11-20

Don't KNOW HIM.--Had you been in
Washington few weeks ago you might
have had hearty laugh at the expense of
Captain Goldman. In the last hours of the
late Congress the Captain came tun.bling
down stairs in hot search of some one to
carry from the committee room Of Com
merce patent fog-horn intrusted to his
care by an ingenious Yankee acquaintance.
At the foot of the stairway he encountered
a colered man sauntering along, pulling
away at huge cigar.
My good fellow cried the Captain,
I'll give you dollar to carry down my
fog horn -
"Who de debbil do You take me fuh 2"
responded the African, drawing himself
up in dignitied wrath.
"An bodied man willing to make
dollar" responded Goldman.
Den you don't know me, sah."
mo, sir. and have no time to seek an
introduction. Who are you anyhow?''
ME sab? Use the honorable MI. Cain,
member of Congress"
You don't say So" remarked the cap
tain, thoughtfnlly. We'll, Mr.. Cain am
sorry, for you have probably lost the only
you will ever have of making
an honest dollar"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-11-20

"How is it, my dear, that you have never
kindled flame in the bosom Of man 2"
said an old lady to her pretty niece, who
was portionless. "The reason, dear aunt"
replied the young lady, "is as you know
well, that am not good match.'
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-11-20
Eelerten Misrellany.
From the Now York World.
Deterioration O. Apple Orchards.

rise to considerable discussion among the
msmbers as to the cause. Various theo-
ries were put forth. Among them were
offered impoverished soil, the want OF
proper culture, the neglect of trult-gTow
crs, who preferred giving their attention
to better paving fruits and the prevalence
of curculio-aH Of which, without doubt.
have done their part - hasten the detcrl-
oration Of apple orchards, at least in the
Older portions Of the United States. One
member however, claimed that in what
was formerly one Of the finest apple pro
ducing districts Of Massachusetts, he had
seen orchards steadily decaying. although
kept under the highest state of cultivation,
unravaged 10y curculio. anl supplied with
all the appliances that science has made
known to the farmer. In his opinion. the
conditions under which apple orchards
had formerly flouri,hc,i were changed. In
what these changes consisted he VAS una
hle To state We are Inclined to think
that this opinion approached the truth.
and Inclined to hold the farmer directly
responsible tor these changes, which have
reacted against him. Il viii only be ne
ccssarv to refer 10 the y aolcsals dcstruc-
ti,n Of forests In al the older settled por-
tiuns uf the country, IN example which is
beng reCN3cS>iT inl!ow@'' III the more new
y settled portions. .ch are st present
secure in the passcSsi n Of vast traces II
timber. whose extent seems - warrant the
prodiUsIity. Unfortunately the farmers
mania for clearing las never been tenn
pcFed ly . knowledge OF the climate
changes elected hy the ieyc,ling OF forests,
nor has he ever appreciated them rs natu-
r.l larmDalTe-s e.! CX,teIts II tCWVtTa
f,1r.s nature, own conservative forces. ''
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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-11-20

.& A Sunday school scholar, being
asked what became of men who deceive
their fellow men, promptly exclaimed
They go to Europe!
The Osceola times., 1874-12-26
" What Shall We do With Our
Daughters

Mrs. Livermore has made tins
query the text TO one OF her tine
lectures. II is certainly an impor.
tant problem, but the. Davenport
Democrat thus sums up some scnsi
bic lessons which should carly be
Impressed upon them:
Teach them seii-rcliance.
Teach them To make bread.
Teach them TO make SHIRTS.
Teach them TO loot up store bills
each them not to wear false
hair.
Teach thcm TO wear thick, warm
shoes. -@ ~f aA#s
Bring them up in the way they
shonii go.
Teach them how to wash and
i, on clothes.
Teach them how TO make THEN
own dresses. -. .. .-- . ...-,.-
Teach them that a dollar is only
II hundred CENTS.
Teach them TO cook good mol
oi vlctuals.
Teach them how to darn stock
iGgs and sew on buttons.
Teach them every dag; dry hard
practical common sencc.
sf Teach them to say No, and mean
i; O. Yes, aud sticl, tot.
IeecH them 90 wear calico dresses
ianG ~ itilil." queo.s. .-. 'a I'd
Give them good, substantial
common school education.
Teach them that Il good rosy
rpmp is Ycrih fifty consump,ives
Teach them 10 regard the inordls
ard not the money of their beaux
Teach them all the mysteries ol
the Kitchen, dining-room, ano the
parlor. r..r.
Teach them that tho more one
lives within his Income the more he
will save. rr....
Teach them to have nothing IA
do with intcmporale and disolute
young men. "a
Teach them the further one lives
beyond his Income the nearer he
gets to the poor-house.
Rely upon 1t that upon your
teaching depends in great measure
the veal or woe OF their after life
Teach them that a good, steady
mechanic without Il cent is worth
dozen loaiers in broadcloth.
Teach them The accomplishments
music, painting, drawing, if you
have time and money to do 1t with
Trachthe m that God made them
in His owlf image, and no amoun,
of tight laci"g will improve the
model.
The Osceola times., 1874-12-26
Easily Stained,

A mans reputation is not IN his
own keeping, but lies at the mercy
OF the profligacy OF Others. Cal
umny requires no prosf The
showing out of malicious imputa.
lions against any character leaves
q stan which no after retutalion
can wipe out. To create an unia.
'vorabIe impression, il is not neces.
sary that certain thugs De true
they have been said. The rcputa.
ton is SO dolicsle jim texture tina,
eesn words s&oaAd it.Ji AfiAatt =