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The Republican journal., 1877-05-17
Farm. Garden and Household,
Effects OF Cold Storms on Poultry.

Each season Of the year brings its
special work and care, demanding the at
tenton OF the keepers OF poultry. En-
crpting the first bleak autumn storms.
no period of the wear is 50 trying to the
constitution of fowls as cold, spring rain
storms. Birds that have stood the severity
Of winter without any apparent signs of
disease, often succunb to the effects of a
chilly rain-storm. The germs of disease,
however are sometimes contracted dur
ing confinement in winter, and the sudden
change of weather, experienced during a
cold rain. will develop the malady. which
is likely to become contagious. Fowls
that have been highly fed and kept warm
to induce laying, will like a forced plant,
he TOO tender to stand neglect during the
early, drenching rains that penetrate TO
their very skins.
The danger need not be feared, how
ever, by those who will take little extra
care of their stock during such weather.
rs soon as the earth sottens under the
first mild breath ot spring. fowls are all
awake to the prospect Ot getting worms
and other insects from the ground. They
viii then be oft. proWling about before it
IS light enough even to see their prey, but
as they evidently know that the early
bird catches the worm, they are on the
ground betimes. Perhaps the next day
there is a severe change in the weather,
with sleet OF rain. and You will see the
birds hunting about, in hopes Of finding
insects, till they get soaking wet through
their feathers. and ii not we'll cared for,
this often proves fatal
The Republican journal., 1877-05-17
Stay Where You Are.

An exchange very Justly remarks that
hard times btgrt unrest, dissatisfaction
and desire of change Without stopping
To realize that the same elements occa-
smljug dull times in Maine or Vermont
aGr in full operation in Ohio and Illinois,
the discontentpd man feels certain that
any location is to be preferred to his
present abode We advise all who are
earning Il living To stop where they are
Dull times are always followed 10y periods
of activity, and one is better prepared to
secure the advantages of Il revival in
business where ne is known than among
strangers. Again, moving about is de
mOrallZIng i'll It's tendency, expensive and
destructive. Seldom do We hear Of the
removal of Il man from Il village or neigh
borhood in which he is interested, active
and public spirited. Nothing 50 Weds a
man to a cause as working for it spend
ing his time in sacrificing something for
Ii. You may be assured that the fault
lies partly at Your own door, when the
desire to leave a familiar ncighborhood ST
lenccs Your better Judgment and prompts
the sundering IF the ties of early associa-
lion Resolve to-day. all ye discontented
To take hold With viii, and sustain your
farmers clubs and grangr clubs, to dis
cusS and compare important practical
matters With your neighbors, to feel an
interest in Whatever shall benefit Your
village, Your kinsmen, your family and
Yourself, to cultivate spirit of content
nent, Improvement and 60 operation.
Vermont journal
The Republican journal., 1877-05-17

When manures are left over Il season to
decompusc, alsorbents of the ammonia in
them are aiNays beneficial. Plaster is
decidedly the best absorbent Of the gases
in a manure pile that is known To exist,
and il may be sprinkled among the ma
mrc when the pile is made-not much,
say a barrel Of plaster to what manure
ten head Of cattle VIII make in Il season.
Lime has tendency to set the gases
,Immona) free; and ii should never be
used in Il compost heap. except when
much coarse matter is to be decompUsed.
Nor are ashes amy benefit to the heap,
oFer thrir value When used alone. Swamp
muck is good. if placed in alternate layers
of manure and muck throughout the heap
and left Il season to decOmpOSc and unite.
All compost heaps should be made with
thcil tops fiat, or little concavc, to catch
the rains to keep the heaps moist. In
England the system of composing is ear
lied to perfection. They pack their ma
nure in oblong heaps, and shovel them
over two or three times during the sum-
mcr to hasten decomposition, and apply
such fine manures to their lands the next
season Here we cannot 50 well afford
the labor of composing i'll that manner ;
consequently many farmers apply all their
stable dung to their land fresh and un-
decOmpOsrd. Some crops, however, re
quire WclI-rotted manure to grow in per
lection, and every farmer may protitabiy
have small compost heap to supply him
with fine manure when it is needed. New
York World
The Republican journal., 1877-05-17
The Telephone.
From the Boston Sunday Herald

The Music Hall experiments of Friday showed
the practical qualities Of the Bell Telephone, and
the still more striking tests promised for Monday
and Tuesday evenings will doubtless put its merits
beyond question The leading idea in the mind Of
the inventor is to rent the telephone like gas me
tcrs at much a year or, better vet Ike the
District Telegraph machines, at rate by the
month, with d fee for the OF the wire, in adj
dition. Every house-every room for that mat
tercan have one, and It will not need to be q box
like these shown at Music Hall That which hears
and speaks is merely plate of sheet iron four or
five inches across, and il can be set in the wall Of
Il room flush with the surface, and perhaps color
ed so as to be indistInguishable at first glance
from the sold wall around it, Some Of the best
effects obtained by Professor Bell have been with
plate exposed i'll this way, without a mouthpece
and with no box around the magnet. Neither is
1t certain that the plate must be large us five
inches III diameter There is good reason to think
that two or three inches will be large enough and
perhaps the whole affair will be brought down to
the limits of watch case. Behind the plate thus
set IN the wall will be the magnet, from each pole
Of which the wires run, one OF them going to the
ground. or the nearest gas pipe and the other to
the telegraph line. AT some convenient point will
be placed central telephone office, where the
wires will be gathered upon switchboard, some
thing as the Music Hall audiences see them In a
city as large as Boston there may be half Il dozen
OF these central offices, connecting with each other
Then when Wlggn of State street wants to tell his
wife that he will bring friend to dinner, he wheels
round in his chair, asks an innocent looking
settle on the wall to connect him No. 796: Com
monWealth avenue, and impalt the desired inor-
nation, receiving response expressive of great
pleasure the part of Mrs W., together with Ger
tam minor remarks which only the most shame
less of telephones would reveal The same system
would apply i'll any case of greater distance. State
street wishing to hail all street would get the aid
of the central office in Boston and New York and
in few seconds establish through connection.
How far the idea can be carried is not at all Ger
The Republican journal., 1877-05-17
Kerosene for Squash Bugs.

A correspondent says in relation to us
ing kerosene oil to eXtcrminate squash
bugs: Give Years ago had fine lot
of Hubbard squash vines in my garden,
and was anticipating handsome yield.
when suddenly, observed here and there
patches in which the leaves began to
turn yellow and then brown. and on ex-
animation | found them covered with this
most annoying pest Immediately be-
gan trying plaster, then ashes, then gas
lime, but to no purpose. They were too
numerous and the vines TOO luXurant to
tempt their destruction by hand. | was
about giving up the battle, when it oc-
CURED to me that would try what virtue
there was in kerosene. took a pan OF
ashes (holding perhaps six quarts), and
scizing the lamp-tiller, poured on enough
OF that fluid to moisten the ashes and fill
them with a strong perfume, but not to
convert them into paste, | threw several
handtulls into each spot where the enemy
was at work. OF course watched the
result, curlouSly and anXiously After
day or two observed that there was no
increase Of the leprous blotches in the
squash bed. | made Il careful inspection
and found that the miscrcants had re-
treated. After that | kept up the treat
ment whenever saw Indications of new
attack. But had no occasion for severe
exercise Oh this account. The result was
that from piece OF ground about 25X35
feet had over 100 nice squashes. Last
summer did the same thing with sim
liar bed of Niarblehead squashes, and with
even better success, because began earl
ier So think the remedy may be relied
on
The Republican journal., 1877-05-17
The Black Hills.

We have seen a letter written at Dead
wood, on the 18th Of April, 10y Mr.. L. ID.
Mills and received by his father Capt. ".
II. Mills, Of this city, last Saturday The
writer gives a very discouraging report of
the condition Of things in the Black Hills.
He says the weather was the worst he
ever saw. 1t was q rain storm one day
and Il snow storm the next. On the night
of the I7th two feet Of snow fell. There
was SO much water that the claims in the
creek could not be worked. The Indians,
too, We're very troublesome On Sunday
the 18th, they attacked Il party coming
in from Sidney, killed twenty-five men
and ran off the mules. On Monday night,
the 10th they killed two miners three
miles out of DeadwOod, and they had
driven the miners all in from the gulches
two or three miles out of the town. The
writer's party came in from Cheyenne
with tour-mule team, at an expense of
twenty dollars, each providing their own
food They We're tWenty-one days on the
way. Concerning the Smith claims, of
which it had been reported that the own
ers were taking out $40 per day for each
man, the writer says that he had been out
to that claim and was told by Mr. Clough
(Mr. Smiths partner) that he had worked
the claim but two days since Mr.. Smith
came and then took out only SI5 in both
days Mr.. Mills says that if he should
stay at DeadWood ten years he wouldn't
get a days work-that there are a hun
dred men to one job, and they are still
coming by hundreds. He says there is
no work to be had, except on the roads,
at Sl.5O per day, when one can get Job.
There are, he says, three thousand men
who are "brolle" and cannot GET work.
Mr.. Mills was designing to leave as soon
as he could get away, and out of a party
of eighteen who went out together, six
teen were coming home. Rockland Ga
Zette.
THE HUMAN FACE. The countenance
of every nation defines the characteristics
of its people. Every human face indi-
Gates the moral training us well rs the
temperament and ruling traits of its
owner, just as much as every human
form indicates the quality and amount of
its physical exercise This is proven by
the variety OF human faces everywhere
visible. Those whose lives have been
given to physical labor, unbrightened by
an education Of ideas, have always a
stolid, stupid expression, even while their
limbs and muscles are splendidly deyel-
oped. The more savage the people, the
ugller they are in facial development.
The very feature Of their faces are dis
figured by violent and ungoverned pas
siGnS.
People whose employments are intel
lectual have invariably large, clear
gaze, a bright, outraying expression, as
if from an inward light shining through
vase. When fine organization and a
deep sensibility accompany the practice
Of intellectual pursuits, often the features
take on q transparent, luminous look.
Persons endowed with powerful sensibili-
ty, however plain their features, always
have movements of absolute beauty.
The Republican journal., 1877-05-17

GIVE IS OUR WOLVES AGAIN" The
feeling against dogs which is rapidly
strengthening here is not confined to this
side Of the Atlantic. John Bull is be
coming disgusted with the sheep worry
ing and hydrophoba for which the ca
nine race is responsible. An English
journal Of recent date remarks under the
above heading This aspiration, which,
in hall earnest, Sydney Smith made use
of i'll Il Wcll-knoWn passage, is no moro
than Il good many persons would serious
ly utter it, by the re-importation of wolves,
they could be rid of the present terrors
from dogs. At all events the wolves would
keep themselves to the better wooded dis
tricts, and would prowl mainly by night.
The dogs roam unchecked everywhere
and at all hours. They jostle us off the
payemcnts OF the street, spring out upon
us in our country walks, are bigger, tierc-
en-, less reverential towards human beings
than any European wolves, and they go
mad II is quite true that to have big
dog at his heels is as necessary to male
contentment as to have the plumage of
a bird over head is to female vanity. |
see that Il correspondent recommends
taxing dogs in proportion to their size.
should prefer Il high general tax per
head, with an abatement III all cases
where service of value can be proved.
Is there no bishop OF archdeacon, at
least, who will get hydrophoba for the
general good, that the present mania for
turning wild beasts loose upon the COM
munity at large may be restrained within
limits ?"
The Republican journal., 1877-05-17

An elderly Christian of san Antonio
had been listening for some time to u
discussion between few muscular young
gentlemen as to the comparative merits
of certain amateur bruisers of the period
At length the elderly Christian became
impatient and broke out dsdaintulv:
"You youngsters don't know anything
about tightin' and fighters You'd orto
been in these parts thirty years ago, be
fore the big revival had tanned the boys
down. I'd be willin to put up even that
Deacon Dan'l Brown, unrestrained by
grace, can like any man in Texas to-day
The Republican journal., 1877-05-17
Turkish Battle Song.

Up. wearers Of fczzes Up. owners of turbans
You dwellers in StambouL YOU Pera suburbans:
Prepare to take part in the battles coucussions.
And walk like red thunderbolts, into these Rus
SLAMS
Wave high the standard-the Shirt of the Prophet :
All least, to speak properly. all that's left of it,
SO, your swords by your sides, and your hands on
their handles.
Come from the mosque cutting short genuilcxion
Come from the slave girls awaiting inspection;
Come from the coffee house leave the tobacconists
FIRST put your pipes ont, and then antagonists !
Come from the bath, where the grim grinnng ng
Scrapes off Your skin at Il very low figure:
Quit, now the harem. with its smiles and its cush
ions
And make up your minds to astonish these Roosh
!anS
The Republican journal., 1877-05-17

How did it happen that all the survv-
ors of the famous six hundred" who
made the charge at Balaklava came to
America? Can anybody explain that ?
We know they did, because more than
the number who were supposed to have
escaped have already died in this country,
and they eepdyingever week. Herald
The Republican journal., 1877-05-17
Success.

The successful farmer is he who is al
ways careful in selecting his seeds; uses
good judgment in breeding stock: keeps
his farm free from weeds; always has his
fences in good order, and takes good care
of his tools; keeps out Of debt and has q
contented mind; sends his children to
school and takes one ormore good papers,
devoted in whole or in part to farm and
stock interests The farmer who never
reads is like Il machine that is never oiled
it wears. He wears himself out, cN-
hausts his land and dies poor. One good
suggestion found III a paper or book is
worth to men more than half a life of
trials when not made intelligently. Don't
he afraid to read and acknowledge that
You can learn from others. No one knows
il all. Somebody knows something YOU
don't Let your aim be to acquire every
thing any one can teach YOU, and it will
he money III Your purse, bralns IN Your
head and influence i'll your presence.
The Republican journal., 1877-05-17
A Reminiscence of Libby Prison

Washington Letter i'll Cincinnati Commercial.
The wife of General Ricketts, has Just rctururd
from Be ston, where she has been making It visit
Mrs. Ricketts, beside being tine clrvcrr>t and one
of the handSomcst of our society leaders. is the
heroine of IL SERIES of such spirited adventures
that ! cannot refrain from giving few uf thrm
rs heard them from her husband lips.
Vt the breaking ont 81 he war Captain Ricketts,
was ordered To Washington, whence ne proceeded
almost immediately to the front His command
one of the few that stood by their guus during
the Bull Run disaster until the gray wave of bat
tie, with its crest of smoke and blood, dashed mp
the little height on which this battery placed.
overwhelming the gInners with death, and turn
ng the still hot cannon on the retrcating soldiers.
The captains horse was killed. and at The, same
moment Il ball struck his right leg breaking it,
aud obligiug him to fan helplcsSlv with the horse
the broken limb bearing the weight of the dead
animal. As matter OF course he wgS captured
and as they dragged him along TO an ambulance,
his spurs canght 1T every step la tn" gra>S and
earth Jerking the wounded log and causing cNQui
site agony. Finally, he groancd aloud, and a yonn4
lieutenant looscd the spurs aud took them of. and
he taintcd, waking up some time after to- find him
self in Libby prison. confined in small. cIu~r
room with fourteen other uuortunatr~. There he
lay day after day his wound undrcSSrd, himself
unWaShcd, unkcpt uucarrd for HStlrSsly Watching
the light creep out at night through the window
bars, and scarcely caring whether he it return
next morning. for death seemed the only r,.lclS,
from this living grave, until one morning he heard
little hustle at the door and Il few minutes after
his nane called i'll Il voice he had ceased hoping
to hear again. and then his wife threw herself ou
the floor beside him, and gave way t" uncontrol
able emotion for It few minutes.
But like the brave woman she is. She saw that
tears would not holp the caSc and drviIly her eyes
she set about making him more contartahlr ln
rolling a heavy travelling shawl she spread il
some straw and with the help of two or three of
her husbands fellow sufferers laid him omit Then
She unpackcd Il bundle and took ont some clean
The Republican journal., 1877-05-17

~ nv N"ii'N " i''iii 'iitouSn
~ 'ooi' o'Iit llloHllo ldlcl' III pIodu
daNll9nt, With her uncle S consent, given
with a certain inadycrtpncr as from q
mind orcunind with b;r},nI +ba,ooo hnt
Nm ~ ,,ti..I "
sum ''iocli. W NictHGl 1t "olilu udN
Deen 50 easily accorded had not the OPP
perfume and enurOSSinO discovery Of the
tola,,bo,o o,.o,,|7ro1 ;,9+ +ha,, 11
III i;,-: - - 49, 1iIon' W iicT" icy
n.y. Ailttilt' beltiid ilftu oioSsollieu IKE
rose IN the 1ull radiance OF married
happiness She needs no blue GLASS now
INF III. old tin1a.,' eal-o C,nrJon bo,, h.,
49,, l:4., y, ~
olo iltlic 'dilt inserted III tlldl NiltloN OF
nef nOuuol1 where she IS wont to sit ana
watch for his home cOminU nj sunset
Rartba nronnsal i,,s+nal .1, ,lla,,,+;.,1
1,; 'i'''' '1'' -
"e9l9n' Will tht ltSeilu' Love iduSnS I'LL
medicine, bat Gordon was firm, and
there to this day shines the nlan bluo
n,rn to ,r;+no,,, =, ,;, +,.,,+l, ,f +bic +,,,.,~
TtI,, ~ - = 60 - ''i'' ''oi
iidi Pei bdAaI-
Stolen Jewels That Enriched Fifth Ave
nue. Palace.
ms, x.,.
r ~ Ei1 nI''! IJ"Il Io'otil 1t DIat'lG ~ ~
I T. VII ii'n"' nnn y Nlitt tc o"NheSS "l NeNe-
th, ~ -'o0 -" "N,''i vi i'Iliily s'Iiie' MAS more
i i''' w '''n't l't' ~ hi9t"i.. -AlnolS tlieSc,
IN nrt tjnn
of the crime still lives in thc Incunr Of many nli
New Workers The chief actors in tbe cosa ara
lour since dead but descendants Of thr nriucipal
in crime are living in GOOD STYLE in New Y ort To-
dav The matter alluded to- in brief is the once
famous robbery Of the princess of ORANGES Jewels
by which over 81 On0 600 worth of prrrjous stones
were carried off at one fen swoop
A. ,,,, ,,,,>.r>-, ~ - -. ,oan
''+ >' VIZ 7' l. ~ ''-''
me lhe prince and princess OF orange were alb
sent from Their castle ut ferveurcn 1t was discov
cred that the large Jewel caSkct ct the princess
had bcen torclbly broken open AMI carried oil.
Ar robbers had elected the II entrance by break
ING Il pane ot CLASS from door opening on the
terrace an" which, upon beng unlocked gave
free access to SUITE OF rooms leading to the bon
doIr where the Jewels were kept. The diamantIcre
III winch the Jewels were preserved was q large
caHk"t ol SILVER Win glass top, unGer which the
larger Jewels and the key wnch opeaed the lower
apartment We're lhiS Top had been broken, the
Key ahstrct"d ana the low n portions OF the 'lla
The Republican journal., 1877-05-17

This pretty story comes from Paris
A necklace that was last seen on the neck
of a charming lady was the object of adj
miration. Some time ago Il gentleman
took this necklace to the late Mr.. Moalll
asking him to buy it, and to substitute
false diamonds i'll their place. His wife,
he said, would never know the differences
Mr. Moiana, who was friend of the Wife'S
family, asked twenty -four hourSto reflect
In that time he went and told the story
to the lady's grandmother, Who gave
Moiana t2OO0 for the husband, telling
him to give back the real necklace. but
not to mention the truth. This was done
Some months later it was the wife who
took the necklet to Moiana, asking him to
buy it and to substitute false diamonds i'm
the place of the real ones. "My husband
will never know the differences" she said
Again visit to the grandmother, who
again gave 10000 to keep the diamonds
in the family, and as both husband and
wife still think that the diamonds are
false there is no fear of the necklace be
ing reSold.
The Republican journal., 1877-05-17

James Z. Frank, Samuel Wilber, Hiram
Randall, Horace Merrill, Eben Patterson,
Charles Marston, Herbert Suule, NJ. Y. b.
Jordcn, James Cushing, and Amanda
Randall, all of Freeport, all good farmers,
and all men who know whereof they affirm,
say the MEADOW KING is the machine
fOr use and service.