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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-09-21
Jones' Chill.

He was dry-hadn't been 50 dry since
the strike, but there was no saloon close
by, and he had passed the last drug store
He knew Mrs. J. had little old Hen
messy about the house that she put in
buildings and pies, and he sat down on
the door steps and wondered how he could
save it from being wasted in such fixings,
as economy was his motto.
He looked up at the dog star, the alioth
and the milk maids path, but they were
silent and tending strictly to business.
A scheme finally dawned upon him, and
he opened the door and felt his way back
to the ice-cooler, got up in a chair and
fished out a piece of ice, buttoned uphis
coat and turned up the collar. Then he
staggered up stairs, ice in hand, and met
Mrs. Jones.
What's the matter, Jones-been drill
lingo NO." said Jones, with a sigh
and a shiver Caucus?' ono, no
caucus" Another strike?' No
chill, said Jones, as he sank into chair
and slipped the ice into his coat pocket.
Z" Feel that hand" "Oh, my % and she
shuddered. Then she got blanket and
put over him, and said she would make
him some hot tea. As she started for
the kitchen Jones called her back, and,
with sigh, suggested if there was a
little alcohol about the house it would be
better. There wasn't a bit, but she had
little brandy for cooking purposes.
Jones gave shake, and said it would
answer if she had little hcs water and
sugar to make it palatable. They were
on hand in two minutes, and while she
pulled off his boots and wrapped the
blanket around his feet, Jones mixed his
toddy and shivered. He felt better af-
forwards, though he made up a terrible
face when be emptied the bottle, and
told Mrs. Jones that she had saved his
life. He retired fifteen minutes after
wards singing,
"There's land that is fairer than day"
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two years at least, using no fancltul styles
or trimmings, but better materials than
she had been accustomed to use, 50 that
S s3res said a she es was quite termined to do
this. and see if she could not rid her
mind of clothes. And a young married
friendshad, with the consent of her hus-
band, agreed to keep her in countenance
by doing exactly the same. This is
little bit of true heroism which girl is
working out for herself in an eastern
village, where, by the way, 1t is much
more difficult to doit than in a great city,
where few know or care for you.
She does hot know that not only the
more sensible and Intelligent of the great
and growing army of professional women
do the same thing, but the highest DANES
of France-France thatsupplies the world
with ideas in fashion. II one will stOI, to
think for a moment it will be seen that
the dress of grand dame is as restricted
in one way as the dress of a working girl
in another. The skirt must be long, the
sleeves and neck must afford an OppOr-
tunity for the display of lace and Jewels,
because they are her permanent means
of adomment; they are not bought every
day, or every week, or every month, or
every year-not more than once or twice
in a liietime--and her dress must subor-
dinate itself to them. People who only
buy cheap ornaments change them often,
but all lace and real gold, and real gems,
are for q generation, and perhaps more
than one. They are evidences or past
claims to social position.
At the railway-station of village a
few miles out of Paris | saw, few wekes
10 snI IL
husband and a long procession of friends.
They were evidently wellto-do people,
belonging to the bOurgeOise class. They
had come out by the train to celebrate
the event by a little excursion into the
country. According to custom, the bride
dressed in white satin shoes, but no COW
ering on her head or shoulders; the other
ladies of the party, in gray, black or
lavender silk, made with demi-trains and
basques, but perfectly plain skirts, evil
IDENTIFY for best, most Of them, years
before, and kept strictly for occasions of
ceremony. One, | remember, was a Law
ender MORE antique, of date at least
fifteen or twenty years ago. Yet the
wearer had on pretty black lace fichu,
and all the party wore white kid gloves
and very handsome hats and bonnets. A
bride OF such rank never buys her we'd
didg dress (Which Is always the tradi-
tional white silk or satin, and orange
blossoms). Shehires it for the day, hav-
ing no use for it afteTward, and there is
a French superstition against the bride
keeping her wedding dress and saving it
away; it is considered unlucky Yet it
must not be supposed that these people
are very poor, and could not afford to
buy a dress The bride of whom ] have
spoken brought her husband a dot of TO-
600 francs, and was going straight to
housekeeping in well-furnished etage
above her husbands shop. In fact, they
are often in possession of five times as
much real wealth as we who ret up grand
display weddings and pay $500 for a
Ee85l1y .EfHe
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AGRICULTURAL.
Fatfeniux Poultry,

A letter on this subject, by Henry
Eliot, Washington county, Ohio, fur
nishes some interesting items in relation
to the examining process practiced by
French and English feeders in this coun-
try, who go on the principle of giving
fowls not only all the food they would
naturally eat, but forcing an extra
amount, which makes them dull and
sleepy, and thus increases the tendency
to fatten. The feeders especially esteem
buckwheat for this purpose also employ
oat and corn meal, mixing it rather stiff,
and rolling it into what are termed,
"crams ~. e. masses two inches long,
of the thickness of mans little finger.
The Grams, dipped into milk or water,
are pushed into the mouth and throat of
the fowl until the crop is full. the opera
tion being repeated two or three times a
day. In raising poultry for the table,
the farmer, said Mr. Eliot, should not
forget that the chicken must be kept
growing from the time they are Matched,
or their framework becomes stunted and
fixed, and prevents their afterwards OBJ
tanning large size. The best food after
chickens are put up in fattening ooops is
oats and corn meal, fixed with scalded
milk or water; the Writer adds a low
grade of -four, baked and wet little
AS soon as his chickens are sufficiently
fat they are killed at once, before the
flesh becomes hard and coarse; they are
not fed the last day, as food in the crop
and intestines ferments, and detracts
from the flavor of the meat.
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THE CHINESE COMPLAINT.

The Chinese merchants of California, in
their remonstrance which they have placed
in the hands of Senator Morton, to be pre-
sented to congress, claim to represent one
hundred and twenty thousand laborers
in that state and the whole Chinese en-
pire of four hundred million souls. They
profess to desire that Chinese immigra-
tioE be stopped, and ask protection for
their countrymen now here. One-third
of all the Cinnamon in this country,
they say, would gladly return to China
if free passage could be had Meanwhile
great portion of the white population
of California is making strenuous efforts
to drive Chinese workmen from all EN-.
pigments. Every family and every
factory is requested to discharge them,
and the factories have agreed to their
dismissal. Poor John is subjected to the
greatest injustice on all hands on account
of his multiplicity and cheapness, and it
may be that congress can do him no bet
ter service than to send him back to his
own uncompromising country.-CotTier-
Journal.
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Cheese vs.. Meat.

A writer in the Scientific Farmer says
1t is little singular that, in these hard
times, when every one is trying to econ
emile, that more cheese is not eaten. So
much has been said and written by
chemists about the relative of cheese and
meat that we all must have seen some COM
parison of their value as food, with the
balance always on the side of cheese,
when each is reckoned at its usual
market quotation. Another argument
in favor of cheese is that it..requires no
cooking or other preparation. but is al
ways ready for food. Bread is termed
the staff of life. Most properly, it seems
to me, we might add to it I'd cheese and
milk. 1t might be useful, to confirm
what chemistry declares, if some one in
terested were to try the experiment of
diet composed largely of those, in some
of cur charitable institutions, reform
schools, or poor-houses. We have them
all around US to support, and if we could
maintain them equally well, or perhaps
better, by some changes of this nature,
would it not be an object to do so? If
our taxes were a little lighter could we
not bear it comfortably When a poer,
unfortunate beggar calls at our door for
food. give him bread and cheese. He
msnifests many thanks for this, and l
have.repeatedly heard him remark, :" No
body gives me cheese
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Awful Carnage in Iowa.

Seven Massachusetts sewing machine
agents and fourteen book agents invaded
this county one day.last week.
The governor was Immediately urged
20 send troops, but he said he had no
military at his command, but he would
send down couple of lightning-rod men
and a chrome man, who would talk the
invaders to death.
Then Burlington just got up and went
over the river and hid in the woods unit
the sounds of the carnage died away.
And as the pale moon rose up slowly
and calmly she looked down and saw the
pale corpses of seven sewing machine
agents and two lightning rod men, while
the only living creature that roamed the
awful field was deaf chrome man, in the
wild, fierce delirium of the Iock-iaw.-
Burlington HdUkeye.
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Treatment of Pigs.

The commissioner of agriculture of the
state of Georgia, in Manual on the
Hog" says, among other things:
Success in raising hogs depends in
great measure upon the attesltion given
pigs for the first few monthyof their ex-
istence, and if proper attention is given
them it may be stated as a maxim that
increase of pigs is increase of pork
The future usefulness of every animal,
man included, depends, in an eminent
degree, upon the treatment received
while young, and in none more than in
the pig. Pigs that are allowed to become
poor or diseased seldom so entirely re-
cover as to attain equal development
with those that receive no check to health
or growth during the formative period
1t is, therefore, of prime Importance to
keep pigs, from their birth, in thriving,
healthy condition. As soon as thew can
be induced to eat, they should be pro-
vided with shallow trough in the sow's
pen, but inaccessible to her, to which
they can resort to at pleasure Com
mence by giving them a small quantity
of milk, several times day, Icing care
full to feed at regular hours, so that they
will expect it at those hours, and sleep
quietly during the intervals. Increase
the quantity and give little grain as
they grow older, being careful to clean
out the trough each time before feeding.
If the pigs have been we'll fed, and the
SOW is much reduced, they may be
weaned at six weeks cid, but if the SOW
is still in good condition, and strong
enough to bear the drain upon her con-
stitution, they may remain with her ten
or twelve weeks, if there is time to pre-
pare for the next litter When only
few weeks old the boar pigs should be
altered and marked, and the SOW spayed
about two weeks before they are weaned,
that they may have the mothers milk
until recovered from its effects. If the
pigs are castrated at this tender age.
there is less risk, ON account of the
greater ease with thich they can be held
IN their position, and the small develop
ment of the parts. If allowed to run
three or four months, as is too often the
case, the parts become more sensitive,
and hemorrnage, swelling snd stiffening
OF the parts are apt to follow. When
the pigs are operated upon the sow
should be removed to safe distance
from the pen not to be excited by the |
crles OF her young, since there will be
risk OF her eating her pigs If she smells
blood upon them when she is excited.
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Practical Notes.

EGGs with pointed ends produce males;
those nearly rouud, females.
CHLORIDE of lime is an antidote to
mildew, especially on clothing.
WHEN horses eat earth and cattle chew
rotton wood, it is an indication of acidity
Of the stomach.
IN giving salt to cowN the morning is
said to be the best time, Is shown by the
increased flow of milk,
The mornings milking is said to be
the best for butter, the evenings for
cheese.
FIGS for fattening hogs and a growth
of rye for milch cows, are two recent
novelties in farm economy.
CEDAR twigs, chopped fine, and mixed
with their grain will act as a speedy cure
for a cough in horses
GREEN feed, immature corn or grass,
will cause cows to yield milk abundantly,
but viii not prove to be very nutritious
WHEN but one kind of feed is to be
used, and that dry, what better can be
found, than early cut, well cured, not
dried, English grass.
Is your land clayey, put on sand and
vegetable mould is it sandy, apply clay;
is it peaty, put on ashes. A little bone
dust on all kinds of soil can do no harm.
TOMATOES, as food for cows, improves
both the quantity and quality of the
milk, and gives the Greg and butter
rich, golden color.
IT Is not what single crop will be most
valuable to feed to stock, but what com
bination OF crops viii produce the most
milk, or beet or pork, as circumstances
may require.
SUGAR CURED hams are luxury that
few farmers appreciate, as they follow
the old practice of sailing to excess and
smoking with burning cobs, pitch-pine
and birch bark.
For sprains and bruises in horses dis
solve an ounce of camphor in eight
ounces of spirits of wine; then add one
ounce spirits of turpentine, one ounce
spirits of sal ammonia, half an ounce of
oil of origanum, and tablespoonful of
laudanum. Rub in aquarter of an hour
with the hand, four times day.
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FEARS FOR THE HAYDEN SURVEY
PARTY.

Fears are entertained fer the
safety of a division of the Hayden
survey, under the charge of Mr.. Bechtel.
This party was designated to survey an
area embracing the north fork of Snake
river as far as Henry Lake, and also Tigie
pass, near Henry lake. This is the i'm
mediate route over which Chief Joseph is
bound to PCS in order to reach the Vel
lowstone national park. 1t was in the
same region that excursion parties were
mentioned in Gen. Sherman's dispatches
of Yesterday. The bodies Of these MUIR
dered people were seen by an officer from
Fort Ellis. who was sent out on a scout.
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Zee Notes COZ septemher

One of the principal interests of the
present month is the care of surplus
honey. 1t should be kept in a cool drv
place. Box honey should be examined
occasionally, and if moth worms are
found, they should be picked off and de.
stroyed. Extracted honey may be stored
in tin or wooden watts or casks if wood
is used, it should first be coated with
wax, Hives that have cast swarms
should be examined to ascertain if they
have laying queens, as the young queen
will at times be lost when the hive con.
tains no brood from which thu bees nav
rear another. If hive should be found
without queen, one should be applied,
or brood given them, from which they
may rear queen. A hive that has been
queenless will often contain so much
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Money In sweet corn.

An Ohio farmer grows over five hum
dred acres of this crop annually. The
drying-heuse employs over fifty persons.
The fresh ears are steamed five minutes
to set the milk" the grain is then cut
off rapidly with cutters. having concave
faces; then spread on perforated zinc
tables, and heat applied four or five
hours from long furnaces, stirring con-
stantly then packed in barrels three
bushels each for shipment. Great care
is required to have the corn of the right
age, and TO have it dried enough to keep
well. Four bushels of corn on the cob
make one bushel dried, the wholesale
price of which is $50 to so per barrel
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The French as Bread-Eaters.

The French are great bread eaters,
writes Lucy Hooper, and it is an anus
ing sight watching the baker arranging
in high basket, in shape like a waste
paper basket, the great long clubs or
sticks in which the commoner kinds of
bread are baked. These clubs are thick
enough and hard enough to serve for Of
fensive or defensive weapons on occasion,
| should think At the commOner and
cheaper classes of French boarding
houses the palates of American boarders
are often painfully impressed by seeing
the daily bread in this guise stood up in
a corner with the umbrella, while an I'M
kempJ waiter is engaged in the task of
sweeping out the dining room. Or else
one sees stout old women going along
with their sticks OF bread tucked lightly
and compactly under one arm, which in
this hot weather is not altogether an APP
petizing sight. Generally, however, the
purchaser of single stick carries it over
his or her shoulder, like cane or an UNI
brella.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-09-21
Thaorv aorue Out by Fac,.

The theory that lack of vigor is the under.
living cause of disease is receiving dailv ~
frmation of the most positive kind in tba
cure of dyspepsia, liver disOrders,a aud kidnsr
bladder and uterine complaints by Hostetts:,s !,
Stomach Bitters, the ruling remedy for NAL
dies attributable to weakness, This supe.h
tonic is never employed without the most
beneficial effects. The liver, the bowels. ~
organs of urination, and indeed the ept;re
system acquires both vigor and regular;tv
through its action, since it gives a healtbfSI
impetus to every failing function. 1t Is An
incompatible specific for chills and feverand
other maladies of a malarial type, prevents
their attacks, is a reliab means of counter.
acting the effects of undue exposure to fatigue
and soothes as well as strengthens the ner.
vous organism.
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Welded.

eome quick and bitter words we said.
And then We parted How the sun
Swan through a sullen sea OF graz
A chill fell on the summer day
Lies best and h1ppieSt heurs We done,
Eriendship was dead.
How proud we went our separate ways,
And spake no word and made no moan
She braided up her flowing hair,
That had always called 80 lair,
AS though she seorDed my loving tome
My word of praise.
And /? i watched her scorn with scorn,
hated her with all my heart,
Until-we CHANGED TO meet one day;
j saw two pretty tear-drops staIt,
Loi Love was born
Come fond, rependng word l seid;
She answered only with sigh
But when took her hand IN mine,
A radiant glory, half divine,
Flooded the earth and filled the sky
Now we are wed.
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An FxDer,ment I'm Grape CuIInre.

An Experiment In Grape CuItnre.
The Prairie Farmer has communica-
ton on this subject from a corresponds Mt
who says:
Seven years ago, in grubbing up Ca
.aba vineyard, the writer left one row OF
the vines. The stalks had been taken
away, and as a lot of apple tree trim-
INNINGS were convenient, quantity
were placed on each side of cle vines to
run on, just keeping them off the ground;
but scarcely more than a foot from 1t IN
any place.
The experiment has been completely
successful. The last three years have
been excessively wet, and both rot and
grape.curculio have run riot among the
Coneords, while these vines are al
together exempt. This year, hot, steamy
weather would occur Immediately after
severe showers. The result has been
widespread, blight among pGar, apple
and other trees, and grapes could be seen
TO mildew while observing them; but
these vines, close to the ground, have
been kept shaded all the time, and were
also much cooler. In no case do they
show any evidence of atmospheric in
sect injury of any sort.
Experiments like these are recon-
mended in localities where mildew is
common, and where choice sorts, like the
Catawba, do not usually prosper. The
mode of culture has many merits. 1t
costs little or nothing to care forthem,
only placing brush or rough forks under
them to keep the vines from contact with
the earth. In winter the snow, leaves
and other sheltering cover, sifU in among
the branches and remain there, prevent
ing injury from severity of the climate.
Last and most important of all, the fruit
is of a superior quality without any i'm
projections in any part, even while re-
quiring no care
Have any of our readers ever tried
this method of grape culture. If they
have, it would be instructive to hear
from them, whether they succeeded or
failed
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LEN. F. A. WALkER,s article

GEN. F. A. WALKERS article in The
International Recie'o, just published,upon the
display of goods and wares at the Philadel-
phia Worlds Fair, last year, points out the
gratifying fact that in several prominent me-
ehanical specialties the long established SUI
premacy of this country is easily shown to
be unimpaIred. In reapers, locks. sofas and
sewing machines America leads the world,
while in scales for commercial use, Gen.
Walker says that time and recentinvention
have not impaired the superiority of Ameri-
can goods. The great house which was
founded at ST. Johnsbury forty years ago, not
only maintains the positive merit of its pros
ductions, but ships its goods to every quar-
ter of the globe"
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No word has been received from Mr..
Bechtel since he left for Fort Hall, in
Idaho, on his way to the survey OF this
river. Efforts are being made to obtain
some information as to the safety Of this
party Washington cor. Courier Journal.
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ENLARGEMENT of the spleen or agua.
cake can be prevented or dissipated by usin q
HOME STOMACH BITTERs its tonic-altera.
tive powers being specially adapted to All n
arrangements of the portal system. Prepared
bv the Home Bitters CO., st. Louis, No.
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five years, many leading physicians acknow-
edge that the GrGefenberg WarshaIPs Uterine
C1thOlicon is the only known certain remedy
for diseases to which women are subject. The
Gyaeten5erg Vegetable Pills, the most popular
remedy of the day for billiousness, headache,
liver complaint and diseases of digestion.
Sold by ali druggists. Send for almanacs.
Graefenberg Co. New York.