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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-01-13
Hogs in Winter.

There is domestic animal that suffers 50
much from exposure to cold and wet as the hog.
He is a native of mild climate, and should be
treated rs his nature demands, if we would turn
his peculiarities to our advantage. And during
winter he should be provided with warm. dry
quarters, plenty of warm. clean bedding, and
an abundant supply of nutritious, fat and heat
producing food. For this purpose there is moth
ing equal to corn, owing to the large amount of
carbon in its composition, which the hog apprO-
PIRATES in producing fat and heat, TO warm his
system-the same as our stoves consume carbon,
in the form of wood and coal. to warm our
rooms. The colder and more exposed they are,
the more fuel we must use to make them COM
Portable. Just so with the hog; the less care is
expended in making his quarters comfortable,
the more corn he must consume, TO keep up the
animal heat, and if not supplied with the neces-
sary amount of food, his system has To fall back
the carbon it has stored in the form of fat and
he must necessarily lose in weight at his
thoughtless or careless owners expense
Hogs should also have a good supply of water,
as il is impossible for them TO digest their food
without water to dissolve il and convey it into
the blood. They should he kept constantly
supplied with salt, coal, and ashes. Sah is a
valuable stimulator of the appetite and digest
i've organs.
During warm days, in winter, the feed should
be regulated according TO the temperature just
we would regulate the fuel, according to the
demands of the weather When the weather
suddenly becomes warm, animals lose their ap-
petites, and are liable to become STALLED"
Some cooling, succulent food, as slop, or vegeta-
bles of some kind, should be substituted for the
more heating food or grain.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-01-13
Cover the Hills With Trees.

In our article in a late issue, with the above
caption, We gave some facts showing the value
of proper tree planting, on our Western treeless
plains. We sat down, Immediately after, TO
give oar views on how to plant for the best re-
suits, and 10 give the dangers of planting IN q
certain way, but found, before had got
through that We Were writing material enough
for book, instead of short editorial. We'll,
TO try again, the one particular point that We
wish TO clearly impress upon the minds of all
tree planters, who intend planting either for
shade, ornament, shelter, windbTeaks, or timber,
Is, not to plant one species Of tree alone but to
plant great variety of species, the more the
better. Plant every species that YOU know will
do well in your region, and mix them all up pro-
miscuously. ifpossihle, plant 50 as not TO have
two trees of the same species contiguous To each
other, or, in other words, plant a maple, then an
elm, box elder, pine, an oak, cottonwood,
etc, before planting another maple. There are
the best reasons in the world for planting in this
way, but space will not admit Of giving them all
in detail, nor of giving the more prominent ones
Therefore, We will at present state only few
prominent facts. In all tracts of land planted
exclusively with species of tree, the trees
are liable, at any time to be utterly destroyed
from many causes, simply because it is entirely
made of one species. Among these destructive
causes, the more prominent are fire and destruc-
tive insects, such a. are exceedingly destructive
when once introduced, but which have bat very
limited means of travelling. Noracious insects
that can travel swiftly and far, in great swarins
and are gregarious and cryptogamous parasites
such as leaf blights, twig and bark blghts
rusts, moldS, etc. Where trees planted
closely together, and all of one species, these
things can spread from tree to tree. Each tree
is its appropriate food, for it is fact that near
ly all nOxiOns insects and vegetable parasites
can only feed one two species Planta-
tons, especially large ones, all of one Species
attract these things. Mixed plantations do not
in nearly great a degree; nor can they repro
duce and spread so readily.-Prdirie Farmer.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-01-13
Winterinp Cattle.

During the season when luxury smiles in our
meadows, and the sources of pasturage are
great, live stock are very easily managed, pro-
vided proper attention he paid in not overstOck-
ing the land. But when cold nights arrest na-
ture in its bounties. and winter puts its drea-
ry garment, depriving the agricultutist of the
advantage of pasturage, and rendering him de-
pendent on the store which his foreknowledge
dictates to him TO heap up for the winter, it is
then that he finds practical information not only
how TO manage the stock in the best possible
manner.
For young, growing stock, comfortable sheds,
with convenient attached yards, should be used.
rs nothing contributes more to their health and
strength, than giving them their liberty, and
suffering them to range while young; but in do
ing which, care should be taken To keep them in
condition, as by being reduced in flesh at any
season of the year it Injuries both their growth
and constitution. The kind of food given TO an
finals should be suited TO their several ages. In
the habit of very Young animals, there abounds,
and seems necessary for their welfare great
proportion of fluid, and therefore more succnlcnt
food may he preferable for them; but when they
are more advanced and vigorous. the digestive
powers being stronger, and time being requisite
for the process of growth, provision less nutri-
tious, or Of a cOarser quality may suffice dry
kind of food agrees better with all animals, in
winter, when the perspiratiOn is less than in
summer, during which season moister provisions
seem more suitable. When fed on dry food and
more especially, if the quality is coarse, the
stock should be well supplied with water. 10
promote IFS digestion in the stomach
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-01-13
As His Mother Used to Do.

At last she completely cured him. For months
she patiently endured the pangs 80 many thou
sands of young wives are compelled 10 suffer.
Almost every morning at breakfast the heartless
husband expressed the hope that he might live
10 see the day when he should get such coffee as
he used TO have at home. Or such corn bread as
his mother was wont to make and bake. At
dinner, the meat was Overbaked in the range.
To be sure his mother used to roast the meat in
an old-fashioncd Dutch tin oven, and the piece
was always done to a turn-the last turn of the
revolving. spit. Those days were forever gone.
But he might and ought to get such green APP
pie pie with new cheese his mother used TO
give him. At length the long suffering wife
arose in her wrath, upset the table, sending the
dishes and their contents crashing TO the carpet,
strided over 10 the astOunded husband, gave
him box on the ear which knocked him off his
chair, and remarked: There's clip over the
head for you, such as your mother used to give
you when you was a boy, gol dern yer.r There
after there was domestic peace and quiet in that
house, with never even an allusiOn 10 the ma
ternsl cookery and comforts of the bygone DAYS.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-01-13
CONCERNING DIPHTHERIA.
Concise Statement What the Dread
Disease Is.

The New York Times publishes an article,
written by DR.. Kerr, of Pittsburg,' concerning
the true nature of diphtheria. The pith of the
paper is condensed in n Times editorial, from
which the following is taken:
Whatever may be the nature of the disease
floating germ in the air, OF even the formation
of false membrane in the throat-in its early
stage the disorder is purely local. The men,
brane, which is ordinarily spoken of rs fungus,
can be removed by local application. Dr. Kerr
suggests rather powerful lotion of hydro-chlo-
ric acid and glycerine. But the moment the
membrane forms, the patient is threatened with
another and far more dangerous malady. While
this process in the tOnsils is going on, viruent
poison is distilled in the neighborhood. This secre
tiOn an insignificant amount of which Is sutf-
cient to impregnate the system, passes from the
throat into the stomach, producing acute gas
tritis, and thence into the circulation. The
system becomes much depressed; the action
of the heart and brain is lowered, ordinarily, to
the verge, and sometimes TO the worst condi-
ton, of paralysis, and the patient dies, not, is
supposed, from asphyxia, caused by the stop
page of the air passage, but from the presence of
a virulent poison in the blood, which impedes
the bodily functions, and quenches the activity
of the vital organs. The patient is in this add
tional plight, that his system cannot with proper
treatment receive reinforcement in the way of
new tissue, for the stomach, being greatly in
famed, is unable to assimilate food for the re-
plenisiment Of the waste that has taken place.
or restore energy to throw off the poison. But
the morbid conditions once thoroughly under
stood, treatment to correspond should not be
hard 10 find, and DIR. Kerr meets the symptoms
with appropriate remedies. lie detaches the
false membrane by using the wash above
named; puts into the stomach simple chemical
preparation, calcined magnesia, to combine
with and neutralize the diphtheretic poison, and
gently remove il through the natural channels.
This prevents it passing into the circulation.
Meanwhile he supports the patient upon nutri-
Fri he N
the disorder is reached, when wine, OF, if neces-
sary, whskey and brandy, are copiOusly admin
istcred TO aid in eliminating the impurities and
throwing off the clutch that threatens to choke
the life out Of heart and brain, and with care
and attention the tone returns. the poison is
eliminated, the functions are naturally dis
charged, the membrane ceases to form, and the
poisonous secretion is no longer provided.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-01-13
Hehrex Rnots and Persimmons.

Query: Is there any thing in the study of He
brew roots as a speciality in life that affects the
person 50 engagedf We recall the idiOsyncrasy
Of the Rev Professor Packard of 1.-THE School of
the Prophets" the Theological Seminary of the
Episcopal Church in Virginia. He had but just
come from New England and had never before
seen the persimmOn grow. Those acquainted with
the singular fruit know well that it attains
bright orange color some time before 1t Is ripe,
and that at this time il is astringent to degree
The doctor was taking walk, and the glowing
persimmons looked very tempting; so he thought
he must for the first time taste the fruit It's ef
feet upon the good mans mouth was very aston
ishing. and he became Convinced that he had
been eating the apples of SOdOm, or some other
very poisonous thing. At this moment two 9th
er professors of the seminary fell in with the
good man, and were made quite sOlicitous by
had been swallowing by accident some of his
own formidable roots. One yentured to ask:
doctor, what have you been takingf
With manifest effort to untwist his badly
puckered mouth, the poor professor calculated.
'Do-o-On't speak 10 me; but let Inc 20 home
and die in the bosom of my family!"
1t is painful to reflect that the incident was
often made the occasion of merriment among the
young theologues, and il is even said that one of
them, having a slight symptom of stomach-ache,
asked the President of the faculty for permission
to go home. When farther questioned why he
desired TO go home, he said that he had bad
pucker in his mouth and stomach, and, besides,
didn't feel well and would like Ia be allowed TO
die in the bosom of my family.
Of the complete discontinue which befell the
gravity Of the President il is not possible TO tell.
--EdifOr'S DrdlreT, ia HdFpeI's Ndgd-iRc.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-01-13
How to Treat Frost Bites

If any part cfthe body gets frozen, the very
worst thing to do is TO apply heat directly.
Keep away from the fire. Use snow, if you can
get it if not, the coolest possible water. Last
winter our little boy of five years froze his feet
while out coasting at considerable distance
from the house. lie cried all the way home, and
the seemed pretty bad. l brought big
pan full of snow, and put his feet into it. rub
hing them with snow. But my hands could not
stand the cold. / was alarmed to see him keep
his feet in the snow so long, but he could not
bear them ont of it. 1t was half an hour before
he would take them out, and then the pain was
all gone, and when had wiped them dry, and
rubbed them little, he was entirely cOmforta-
bic, put on his stockings and shoes, and went
out TO play. He never afterwards had any
trouble with his feet on account of this freezing
His sister got her feet extremely cold, and put
them at once to the fire. Her at first was
not so bad as her brothers, bnt the result was
much worse. Her feet were very tender all win
ter, and suffered from ehilblains. Her toes had
a swollen, purple look, and she had to take q
larger size of shoes.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-01-13
Feeding Bees in Winter.

After an unpropitious season, bees are apt TO
go into winter quarters lily provided with
stores. Weil-informed and cautious apiarists
aware of this lack, feed weak colonies, during
the winter, sufficient TO supply the need.
IL is never desirable 10 feed liquid stores
neither honey nor syrup, and not well to feed at
all, unless positively demanded. The best way
20 feed, if we must, is TO put candy. made of
graduated sugar, on the frames, just above the
cluster. This can be kept warm, and can be Ia
ken, and will disturb the bees little that if it
must be done, it will generally succeed. II the
bees can pass the winter until Mareh-and the
stores needed during the cold weather are very
light, compared with those consumed later. after
hrood-rearing commences-thcn We may feed
either honey or syrup. Then the bees can fly,
occasionally, and will receive no harm fiom
liquid food. This food, too, will stimulate
brood-rearing, and thus work n double benefit
The fender will need to be so constructed as to
keep the food near the cluster, or the bees win
not appropriate it, because of the cold.
No one should fail to use division board in
winter and spring. Keep the bees crowded on
to SO few frames that all will be covered, and
spring dwindling will do but little harm-4 T.
Cook
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-01-13
WHEN MEMORY LOOKS BACK "
BY JOHN BowRING.

When memory looks back on the record Of years
Ere reason and feeling decay:
Ere the footsteps leave in this valley of tears
Are swept TO oblivion away:
lis sweet, when delight has been sober'd BY age
To glance on its mirrors again;
To glide DER the clouds Of aayerstys page
They seem not 50 desolate then
As the tempest brings calm tn. hoar frost that sprn
At the dawnng. disperses in day..
So the sun through the shade Of vicisstude filings
A beautiful light way;
And passion and rapture when tempered by thought
No trace of unhappiness leave;
Even grief. when remembered has tranquility Taught
How vain, how ungrsteful TO griVe!
LIES brieTs and rose--its gladness and gloom
Do they vanish togethert0h! no!
The flow rets we pluck, and eondense their perfume
The weeds to the desert We throw
Like the bee, thoughts y the field Of the past
Finding sweets wheresoever they roam;
They wander through sunshine and storm and At last
Store nought but their honey at home.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-01-13
Antidote in Choral

Professor Huseman, of Gottingen, has made
some interesting Investigations relating to the
antagonistic and sntidOtal action of certain
drugs, and especially in respect to choral n.y.
drate. lie confirms what was previously known
Of the latter, namely, that it is an antidote to
strychnine, lessening the spasm, and even pre-
venting death. He finds that il has . similar
action in the case of the mixture of striehnine
bases sold under the name of brucin, and also
against the opium alkaloid, thebaia, which sim
ultaneously Ietanizes and lessons sensibility.
The spasms produced by chloride of ammonium
diminish under the employment of non-fatal
doses of choral hydrate, aud can, indeed, be
completely stopped. Nevertheless, death occurs,
probably from the paralyzing effect of both SUBJ
stances on the respiratory centre. But the
autidotal effect of choral on the action of poi
sons which cause commissions by their action
on the brain. is not the same for all these sub
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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-01-13
CHE Fun Of the Ching.
DEATH OF LEAP YEAR.


Oh girls. they say that leap years goaei
can't believe IL true
fear we've wasted precious time;
] know have have you'll
The fact i this-so many sweets
To Gull from. dazes one;
And we're such modest, tender things
So bsshfal, every me
That when we ven tur,.d over far,
Like roses In IN. sun.
with sweet words trembling On onr lips
And askings just begunl
We blushed, aud trembled and Iooksd down
Aad left one-hzlf unsaid.
And futtered of. for very fright.
With all our sweets uusheaL
So time has slipped away and now
Old Leap Yezrs dead and gone;
Cone, let plant willows e'eE his grave,
And hang our bSrpz upon.
Oh dreadful. diref1l eighty-One
We've no kind word Tor you;
But we've a longing lingering love.
For dear old slightly. BOohoS-booi
And. ladies. are ye glad its gone.
This harvest Of the fair,
No more sweet-soenied billst-douI
Shall fret your etassre-
No pretty little batting now,
With hooks but ihinly clad
For blne-eyed VIII, or blsek-ryed Phil
Or any other lad.
We know you II miss US Overnueh
Its lonely you'll allow:
Bat we can't help the fight Of time,
Or turn IL backward now,
There's something sweet we'd like to tel
You Freds and Seds and more
We cannot now II il too late;
Just wait till eighty four.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-01-13
For Burns or Scalds-

For burns or scalds, nothing is more soothing
over the wound Ii is softer, q varnish for
a burn, than collodion, and being always at
hand can be applied Immediately. 1t is also
more cooling than the "sweet oil and cotton
which was formerly supposed TO he the surest
contact with the air which gives the extreme
discomfort experienced from ordinary accidents
of this kind; and anything which excludes the
ala and prevents inflammation is the thing to be
at once applied The egg is also considered one
of the best remedies for dysentery. Beaten up
slightly with or without sugar, and swallowed
at a gulp, it tends by its emollient qualities to
lessen the Inflammation or the stomach and in
testines, and by forming transient coating of
these organs to enable nature TO resume her nat
ural sway over the deceased body.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-01-13
WERE I BUT HIS OWN WIFE.

Were hut his own wife. To guard and to guide him
lis little of soruw should fall nv dear;
I'd chant my low love verses stealing beside him,
SO faint and 80 tender his heart would but hear;
I'd pull the wild blossoms from valley and highland
And there at his feet / would lay them all down;
I'd sing him the songs of our poor stricken Island.
Till his heart fire with a love like my own.
There's by his dwelling-Id tend the lone
That he might have flowers when the Summer woul
come:
There's harp in his hail. wond wake its
For he must have music TO brighten his home.
Were but his wife, to guide and 10 guard him,
lis little Of sorrow should fall o nv dear;
For kind glance nv whole life would award him
In sickness I'd soOthe. and in sadness I'D cheer.
Ny heart is n fOunt welng up for
When think Of my true love by night or by day.
That heart keeps its faith like fast flowing river
Which guahes forever. and sings on its way.
have thoughts full of peace for his soul TO repo-e in
Were but his own wife In win and to WOO
Oh sweet if the night Of misfortune closing,
To rise like the morning star, darling. YOU
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-01-13
Cur Strap 3ook.
! GEN FOR EVERY n1oNrH.

JAxUART
Bv her who in this month is born.
No gen save Garncts should BE woTn;
They VII iEsGFe her eon.t2ncy.
TnIe friendship AMI fidelity.
FsiRrSEY.
The February born viii finl
Sincerity and peace Of mind
fresstom frufn passion and from care
II they the Amethyst will wear
Mach.
Hha GA tlsis ws'rld Of oars the eve,
In MlTsh frs; open shall be- wi--.
In dsys Of peril irn and brave.
And wssF Bio''d-tons to theft grave
APRIL
She wiio frum April dates h. years.
Diamonds shoula wea-, lest hit er tears
For vain Tep-ataAce How thi. ston.
Emblem Of inn'oeno- is known
NAT.
Who FRS; beholds the Ii.h. of dsy
In sPIiag'. swset nowery month Of NAY,
And wears an Emerald all her life
SsIail be = loved aud happy wife
ZINE.
Who cnIaes with Summer TO this earth
And owes to June her day Of birth.
With ring If A gate on her hand
al uNaAthi Ns-titu ION. III. cCt1fn20d.
JULY.
The glowing Rnby should aslorn
Those who in warm july are born:
Then will they be exempt and free
Fruin loves doubts and anxiety.
ArGrsT.
Wear Sardonyx. or for thee
No eonjugui felicity;
Tine August born, without this stone
lis said must live unlnvrd and lone
sEPTENBER.
maiden born when Autumn leaves
Are ru-tling in Scptembers breeze
Sapphire on her brow should bind
Twill cure = disease Of the mind.
oCToBEa
October's child is born for woe.
And life's yicissituiss must know:
Bat lay an Opal gu her breast
And hope vii iull those woe~ tn resi-
NOVEMBER.
W no first comes 10 this world below
With dre.sTy Noyembers fog and SHOW.
Should prize the Topaz amber hue
Enblsfns Of friends and lovers true.
pECENBER
IL cold December gave You birth
The month Of snow aud ioe and mirth-
Place ON your hand a TurI;oise blue:
Success will bless what er You do
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-01-13
Daniel wcbster's Carelessness in Pecuniary
Matters

The Oswego Palladium relates the following
anecdote, as never before given to the public. 1t
is good one, and characteristic, too:
few years ago. he took trip west, visiting
Milwaukee, Chicago, &c. As usnal, he was out
Of money, but his friends made up purse of
$1,000 for him, and one two of them went
along TO look little after financial matters.
The funds held out remarkably well. He reach
ed Albany on his return, with hundred dollar
bill in his pocket, and hopes were entertained
that this would enable him to reach home. Web
ster and his friends passed night in the city,
and when they were about TO proceed in the
morning, it was found that the Godlike's money
was all gone. where is the hundred dollar bill
You had when you reached the cityf- inquired
his friends. Thunder replied Webster, after
fishing for it awhile in his vest pockets; AZ gare
~ 10 the porter for backing my boots This morning
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-01-13
Watch the Children, Feet.

Lifelong discomfort or sudden death, often
comes to children through the inattention or
carelessDess of the. parents. A child should
never be allowed to 20 to sleep with cold feet /;
the thing to be last attended is to see that the
feet are dry aud warm. Neglect of this has often
resulted in dangerous attack Of Group. diph-
liberia, or fatal sore throat. Always on coming
from school, ON entering the honse from q visit
or errand in rainy, muddy or thawy weather,
the child should remove its shoes, and the moth
er herself should ascertain whether the stockings
are the least bit damp. IL they are they should
be taken off, the feet held before the fire till per-
feetly dry, and another pair of stockings and
another puir of shoes put on. The reserve shoes
and stockings should he kept where they are
good and dry, so rs to be ready at q minutes no.
tire