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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07
The Manure Pile.

Nothing adds more to the riches OF
the farmer than the manure pile, says
the Farm and Fireside; for without
manure the crops can grow but feebly,
and the fertility of the farm is not in
creased. 1t should be the object Of
every farmer to increase, in every pos
sible manner, the bulk of his manure
pile, and thereby increase the fertility
of the farm, and consequently, the dol
lars in his pockets.
Some of our best farmers, every fall,
buy up lot of stock for fattening,
enough animals, in fact, to eat up all
the grain and coarse feed they produce
on the farm, and thus market their
grain in the form of meat, from time
to time, until late spring. Usually,
considerably more is realized in this
way than selling the grain, and when
merely the sum is obtained for the fat
cattle, only enough to pay for the food
and care, there is still fair profit for
the farmer, in the shape of lots of rich
manure, and just on the farm where 1t
is needed. Manure is the basis of good
farming, and he who uses the most OF
it, judiciously, is sure to make it paw.
While but few persons seem to real
ize it, manure from granted animals
is worth fully twice as much as that
from animals sparingly fed on it; 1t is
richer i'll the elements of plant growth:
Nearly every farm has some woodland
attached, and in that woodland an
nually goes to waste much that can
and should be utilized as fertiliZing
matter. We refer to leaves, which SO
few farmers make any use of. The OIL
days and parts of days when there is
not much else to do i'll the winter, can
be protitably employed in gathering
up the leaves and hauling them to the
barn yard, where they can be used as
bedding for the horses, COWS, pigs, Nc.,
as we'll us spread thickly in the barn
yard to absorb the liquid portions of
the manure, which would other
wise be wasted by evaporation and
drainage. This work gives profitable
employment for both horses and men,
at time when the regular farm work
is at stand still on account of severe
ly cold or inclement weather.
If there be muck or mari on the
place, this should be dug out in the
winter, especially the muck, SO the
frost can disintegrate it, and thus put
it in better condition for plant food.
This muck is useful, when it has been
separated well by frost, as an absorb
emt, and is used mixed with the ma
nurc, or is spread in the barn yard, or
it can be spread alone over clayey
lands, which it lightens, or over any
soil which is deficient in vegetable
matter, which many of our old South
ern farms are.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07
Early Pasturage.

Cattle, especially milch cows, kept
on dry food the entire winter and
early spring (and most of our farm
stock subsists principally Oh fodder
during the season when there is no
grass) come out in the spring looking
rather rough, while they naturally
have not done as we'll, either in flesh
or milk and butter, for their owners.
as they would have done if fed differ
entity, and on more palatable and nour-
ishing food. The liberal use of car
fots. bects, turnips, etc., in conjunction
with meal and bran, help materially
III Keeping up good flow of milk,
and are very good substitute for a
lack OF grass during our rather long
northern winters. f..g,zi5-. -
w lille root crops are now more gen.
orally grown as winter food for
stock than they were formerly, there
are many who never think of doing SO.
By the exercise of little forethought,
care and labor, very many farmers
might readily arrange their farms so
as to afford their cows much late as
we'll as early pasturage, thus greltly
shortening the time the animals have
to depend principally OH the dry corn
fodder for their subsistence. All
practica well-informed farmers we'll
know that it is not good policy to
turn their stock on the regular pasture
fields to early in the spring, we'll
knowing how injurious such a prac-
tice would be to the grass in many
ways; and keeping the stock off until
the grass gets a good start lengthens
the time they have to be kept confined
in stables and barnyanls. --''5t-
hor 60,
lots within their confines, and right
here is where the late and early grass
can be had. Select the southern or
warm side of tho woods, and clear I'D
a good-si<ed piece, taking out enough
of the large and small trees, and all
the underbrush, to give the sun a
chance to warm the soil. Rake off all
the leaves, and cart them to the BARN. |
yard OF stables for bedding for the |
stock and for manure, and sow the
piece we'll with grass seed. After the |
first season there will be fair show
Of grass, and after that you can gencr-
ally depend on having quite little |
woods field of grass which will afford |
your cows considerable pasturage |
when the other has been killed by the !
frosts and cold, while it will often
start three or four weeks ahead of the |
grass in the fields, thus giving the
stock an opportunity TO have green
food much sooner than anywhere else.
This is worth remembering, and we
think it is worth putting into pIac-
tice.-[ Farm and Fireside.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07
Concerning Cyclones.

Every one should know what . cy-
clone is, but the general ideas of the
subject arc rather vague. Take a small
butter-pot, and set it down OH your
largest map of the world at about 20
degrees North Latitude, anywhere in
the Atlantic between two continents,
say east of the West Indies. Then,
with piece of whalebone twice as
long as from the butter-pot to the
North Pole, bent into a parabola, with
one end at the Pole, the other at the
butter-pot, mark out thus the cyclone.
The apex Of the bent whalebone will
be somewhere in the Western United
States. Imagine your butter-pot to
be revolving in its own centre in the
direction of the hands Of q watch, at
the rate of hundred miles an hour.
Its northwestern edge will be the dan
gerous storm-rim, blowing hnrri-
cane, lashing the seas, and precipita-
ting the rain; the other edges will be
breezy, but not 50 stormy, as they con-
tain less moist air. The centre will
be the low barometer and calm area,
because here the air has less weight.
and is flowing upward. Now move
your butter-pot slowly along the par
abola, still supposing it to be turning.
By the time you reach the centre of
the United States, exchange the pot for
a saucer, with the same supposed con-
ditions, only by this time, if wintry, .
snow-storm will take the place of the
rain. Keep it moving circularly, and
northwards also along the parabola,
and about Hudson's Bay change to .
breakfast-plate, and in Greenland to .
dinner-p plate, and about the 8Oth de-
gree North, before the storm reaches
the size of buggy-wheel, it breaks
up. Thus you zee the space over
which thx storms travel cnlarges as
it passes North, the winds blow around
its rim, and the calm centre moves with
it. Mariners now carry what is called
a horn-card, q transparent piece OF fiat
cows'-horn, with circle on it, inside
which are several smaller circles, with
arrows pointing rs . watch's hands
travel. Whenever the barometer
changes, and clouds scud by, this horn
card is placed OH the chartat the ships
position. knowing the winds direc-
ton and the weight of the air, the
horn-cards tells whereabouts in the
cyclone the ship is, and from this is
reasoned how to sail to avoid the cy-
clone or, if unavoidable, how to man
age in it. Not many decades ago,
ships were driven thousands of miles
from their course by not having mas
ters possessed of this knowledge. Now
adays, meteorological information is
as necessary to the navigator as his
sextant. In South Latitudes storms
pass in tho same way toward the
South Pole, by way of a western bend,
only the circular motion is reversed,
and the southwestern is the stormy
edge.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07
He Got Something FriSky.

"Got something frisky?" he asked,
as he walked into the stable and called
for q saddle horse, something that
will prance around lively, and wake Il
fellow out of his lethargy. l used to
ride the trick mule in circus, and l
reckon 1 can back anything that wears
hair" They brought him out cali
co-colored beast with a vicious eye,
and he mounted it. Before he had
gone two blocks the animal bucked,
crashed through a high board fence and
plunged into a cellar, tossing his rider
over the top OF an adjacent woodshed
and landing him OH the ragged edge
of lawn-mower. They bore him
home, Strengthened him out, and three
surgeons called in and reduced his dis
locations and plastered him up with
raw beef A few weeks later he called
ut the stable and said if they had a
gentle saw-horse with an affcctionate
disposition, bride with curb bit
and martingales, and saddle with
two horns and crupper to it, he be-
lieved he would go up i'll the haymow
and gnllop around little, where it
was soft, and it wouldn't hurt him if
he went to sleep and fell off, as he did
the other day.-[Baltimore Bulletin.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07

The electric light is not without its
dangers. Some time ago a red-hot
morsel of carbon dropped from one
of the lamps at the British Museum to
a table usually occupied by readers.-
Measures were at once taken to pre-
vent the occurrence of such an acci-
dent, but not with complete success,
for few days later a similar piece of
red-hot carbon fell from the center
lamp to the table of the superintend-
ent of the reading room, upon a piece
Of loose paper, which began to kindle
into flame. This, however, was speed
lily extinguished. 1t is conceivable
that single spark might do irretriev-
able damage to some unique manu-
script or other priceless example of
literary production. Large transpa-
rent glass or tale saucers have been
suspended below each lamp, SO as to
intercept any stray piece of carbon
which may happen to fall in the flu
ture. 1t is even proposed to try the
experiment of lighting the room from
outside, in which case the glass of the
central part of the dome would offer
. most effectual protection. hsi,ss
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07
The Bows Pride in His Father.

The Rockland Courier is responsible
for the following: ''There were two
men got into a fight in front of the
store to-day" said north-end man At
the supper table, "and can tell you
it looked pretty hard for one of them.
The biggest one grabbed q cart-stake
and drew it back. thought sure he
was going to knock the others brains
out, and jumped in between them.''
The family had listened with rapt
attention, and as the head paused in
his narrative, the young heir, whose
respect for his fathers bravery was
immeasurablc, proudly remarked:
"He couldn't knock any brains out
of you, could he, father2"
The head Of the family gazed long
and earnestly At the heir, as if to de-
tect evidence of a dawnisg humorist;
but, as the youth continued with
great innocence to MUNICH his fourth
tart, he gasped and resumed his sup.
Der
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07
Any Letters for the Wattses J

A lantern -jawed young man stopped
at the post-office last Saturday, and
yelled out:
"Anything for the Wattses?"
George Poteet, our polite postmas.
ter. replied, "No, there is not"
Anything for Jane Watts2" sH4
'Nothing." Esar
Anything for Ace Watts?" a.,
"No."
Anything for Bill Watts2" s'o'''
''NO, SIR" al
"Anything for Tom Watts2.
mo, nothing" --s..
"Anything for Fool joe Watts?''
"No; nor for Dick Watts, nor Jim
Watts, nor Sweet Watts, nor any 9TH
er Watts, dead, living, unborn, native,
foreign, civilized or uncivilizcd, black,
franchised or disfranchiscd, natural
lied, or otherwise. No, there is posi-
lively nothing for any of the Wattses,
either Individually, severally, jointly,
now and forever, one and insepAra-
ble." zifsi
The boy looked at the postmaster in
astOnishment, and said:
"Please look if there is any thing for
John Thomas Watts?" -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07
AnecdOte Of Cromwell.

| An Engllsh merchant-Shlp was cap
tured during period of profound
peace with France, by vessel of that
nation and carried into st. Malo,
where she was condemned, and sold
for the benefit of the captors, upon
some frivolous and groundless pre-
tence. The master of the merchant
man, who happened to be an honest
Quaker, Immediately on his return to
England, presented q petition. com
| planning of this grievance, and pray
ing for redress, to the Protector in
| council. On hearing the case, Crom-
| we'll informed the council that he
| would take the affair into his own
hands, and ordered the master to at
tend him the next morning. After q
strict examination into the particulars
of the case, finding the master to be
plain, honest man, who had been en-
barked in no illegal traffic, he asked
him if he would be the bearer of 4 let
ter to Paris. The man asserting, he
desired him to prepare for the journey
without delay, and wait on him again
the following morning.
On the next morning he gave the
master letter to Cardinal Mazarin,
with directions not to wait longer
than three days for an answer. This
answer, he informed him. was to be
nothing less than the full value of
what he might have made of his shin
and cargo; desiring him to tell the
cardinal that If it was not paid in
three days, he had strict orders from
him to return home. The honest
Quaker appears to have followed the
injunction of the Protector to the very
letter, and meeting with the usual
shuffiing cyasions, common among di-
plomatists, took his leave OH the third
day, and returned without accom-
plishing the object of his mission,
"Well, friend" demanded the Protec-
tor, OH seeing him, "have you obtained
yonr money!" Being answered in the
negative, he told the Quaker to leave
his address with his secretary, promis-
ing to let him hear from him shortly,
Without involving himself in the de-
lays, trickeries and evasions OF diplo-
matte egotiations-without the emp
ty parade of protocols and conferences,
which too often waste time without
leading to satisfactory results-with-
out even deigning to repeat his de-
mand or explain the ground Of his
man issued orders to seize every French
ship which his cruisers fell in with
and bring them into port.
an pursuance of these orders several
captures were made, and their cargoes
ordered by the Protector to be imme-
diatcly sold. Out Of the produce of
these sales lie paid the Quaker the full |
value of his ship and cargo; and send
ing for the French ambassador, then
resident in London, he acquainted him
with the steps he had taken, and the
reason of his doing SO, informing him
at the same time that there was bal
ance out of the sales, which should be
paid to him if he pleased, for the pur-
pose of returning it to the French
owners. This promptness had the de-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07
"
Unrest
NJ ELLA WHEELER.


Like . thorn in the flesh. like . ny in the
mesh,
Like . boat that is chained to shore,
The wild unrest Of the heart in my breast,
Tortures me more and more.
know not why it should wall and cry,
Like child that IL lost At night;
For 1t knows grief but has found relief,
And IL il net touched with blight.
It has had Of pleasure full many . measure:
1t has thrilled with loves red wine;
1t has hope and health and youths rare
wealth.
q rich 10 this heart Of minei
Yet is not glad-it is wild and mad,
Like billow before it breaks;
And its cesselcss pain is worse than vain,
Since it knows not only it aches.
It longs to be like the waves of the sea,
That break from coutroi, and beat,
And dash, and lungc. and hurry. and plunge.
And die at the gray rocks feet.
1t wearies of life, and it sickens Of strife;
And it tires of rest.
Oh, know not why il should ache and cry
IT'S = trou ublesome heart at best.
Tho not understood, 1 think tits good
And God-like discomfort.
1t springs from the soul that longs for its
goal -.,f
The source from which it was sent.
Then surge, o breast! with thy wild unrest
Cry, heart! like child at night -'
Till the mystic shore of the Evermore, -
Shall dawn on the souls glad sight. .--
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07

A landscape painter is making a
sketch of u peasants house-usual bit
of tree, and old roof sunk in little.
The peasant comes to- look over the
artists shoulder. "You're getting
along WE'LL" he says; "that's my
house to the life. There's the big
stone chimney-Fd know it any
where" Artist continues his labor.
Peasant-''Oh, L say, if l were you L
wouldn't put in the other chimney.
1t isn't worth the trouble. 1t smokes
abominably.'
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07

A well-known beauty in London
society occupied stage box at thea
ter i'll the Strand. Her white furs and
diamonds were the admiration of the
house. Shortly after the beauty's de-
parture, an attendant found q star of
brilliants in the box, and, like an hon
est woman, gave the treasure-trove in
to the hands of the management. No
inquiries were made next day at the
theater about the lost star, but ulti-
mately it found its way into the right
full owners hand. The oldest part of
the story remains to be told. Tie dia-
monds were false
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07

! Isaac Smith was, at Is, still wonder
fully strong and courageous. Two
highwaymen attacked him, at Brad
dock, Pa, four years ago, and he
fought them SO vigorously that, to es-
cape, they pounded him OIL the head
with clubs until he was insensible.
The blows caused paralysis, from
which he has just died.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07

Speakers should be careful in giving
leading questions, especially to chill
dren. A teacher asked his school !:
"With what remarkable weapon did
Samson at one time slay number of
Philistines?" For awhile there was
no answer; and the teacher, to assist
the children a little, commenced tap
ping his jaw with the tip of his finger,
at the same time crying, "What's this?
what's this?' Quick as thought, one
little fellow innocently replied. 'The
jaw-bOne of an ass, sir"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07

The Religious Herald, of Richmond,
gives rather questionable consolation.
A Virginia subscriber writes as fol-
lows: "You are publishing the obitu-
aries of the Georgia and Alabama
preachers, but seem to have no space
for ours" The editor replies: "Bear
with us. Your turn will come soon,
we hope"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07
BARGAINS
IN
FURNITURE!
AND TN
CROCK cry!

that will pay you equally as
well. We shall also continue
our bargains in the
Best Extension Library Lamp
at $3.50;
The Cleveland Non-Explo-
slve Student Lamp, Nickel
Plated, at S4,5O.
A fine large Lamp with Por-
celain Shade, at 81, 90.
Lamps at 25c, Soc, 4Oc, SOC,
6Oc, and 75c.
Fine quality of Feather Pill
lows, 3 lbs. each, at $500.
Greater variety Of all arti-
cles in our line than ever be-
fore, and new goods arriving
daily. s..l -fawnur5
1t will pay you to visit the
old Furniture and Crockcry
Stand at Ravenna. eAe
GEO. E. FAIRCHILD,
Proprietor.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07

sEve never had silk dress in her
life" She had no use for one. There
were no Ferguson girls across the way
for her to paralyze with envy when
she went out shopping. -s5esalis eli
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07

Shortly after daybreak lately .
coastguard at Teynmouth, England,
found lady sitting on the beach in
the water. She proved . somnambu-
list. -sss sls4aas.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07

The salary allowed the governor Of
Michigan is 81 900 year.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-02-11

No man, however uncIeanIy, would drink
muddy, dirty water. A party which oc
cupies room for hours, breathing the same
air, might be compared to a party of bsthers
drinking the water in which they battle.
The patient must keep the window of his
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out daylight Ia close, crowded rooms, the
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Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgatve
Pellets. fully 6ne-half of the cases OF lung
complaints would be cured in six months
For cough and irritation OF the lungs do not
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and If consumption has already become
deeply eeated 10 the system, this is the most
efficient course of treatment that can te
pursued outside of any institution that pro-
vides special facilities for the treatment Of
this disease. DR.. Pierce's celebrated Inva-
lids Hotel is such an institution. Send
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also complete treatise upon consumption,
explaining its causes, nature and the best
methods OF treating it, together with valua-
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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-02-11
SHINING the Land.

There is class of farmers, and numer-
Gus class it is, who hold il to be better
economy to exhaust than improve lands,
and then seek virgin wilds elsewhere. Their
westward way may be traced by the worn
out fields and dilapidsted homestsads they
leave behind them. Some of these are what
we call the bold, hardy pioneers moving in
the vanguard of civilization. and they are
looked upon with a sort of romantic inter
est, in which, we make bold to say, we do
not partake.
To destroy the fertility Of tract OF land
here, and then move elsewhere to repeat the
process, is IF more than doubtful morality,
and the tendency OF the practice is to
weaken these local ait achments that love of
home upon which is based that patriotism,
without which no nation can be truly great.
We are but the stewards of posterity, and
when we exhaust the fruitfulness of the
land. and leave the labor of its regeneration
to that posierity. we are false in our mis-
sion.
II is the duty, as ii is the interest, of the
farmer to improve the land upon which his
lot has been cast. Let him hold on to the
old homestead where his children we're born,
as a sacred Mecca to which they may turn
wherever they may roam. and as they grow to
man and woman hood let them become the
pioneers as better fitted to endure the hard
ships the life entails, and rot their parent,
who should remain "the old folks at home"