davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-11-30

Entered at the Jackson Postonice as Second
Glass Matter.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-11-30

Corner Main and Broadway Streets.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11
Kansas Praising 1T.

"While was in Topeka last winter" said
the Hon. Arthur Edgington, 81 had pretty
rough time of it, | got bad cold and then,
that not being sufficiently severe, l was also
attacked with rheumatism. Tie pain was in
my left shoulder. At times l almost writhed
in agony. tell you sir, that the pain could
not have been greater had my shoulder been
screwed up in wise. | was utterly helpless,
and felt like was destined to remain in that
condition indefinitely. Ny friends and a ply
stefan were generous in INTERPRETATIONS and
my room soon became miniature apothecary
shop. But nothing did me any good. One
day some one told me ! was enduring great
deal OF needless pain when could invest fifty
cents in a bottle of st. Jacobs Oil and be cured.
invested In a bottle Of the Oil, rubbed it on
my shoulder twice, and in two days forgot
that | ever had rheumatism. Yes, that is a
great remedy and no mistake. They can't
say too much in favor of its healing power"
The above was uttered by Mr. Edgington
while sitting in the porch of the La Gonda
House, at Columbus, the other evening, and
was overheard by an escaped reporter who is
travelling over the country incog. Inquiry de-
yeloped the fact that Mr.. Edgington is one of
the most widely known men in Kansas, figur-
ing prominently in politics, and acting as the
responsible agent of the Bradstreet CONNER
cial Agency. Upon subsequently making Mr..
Edgington's acquaintance the reporter was
assured that all he had heard was true, and he
was at liberty to use it in the papers, Spego
(Kan.) Democrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11
Borrowing Farmers.

A writer in the Country Gentleman
says: "A good thing may be carried to
a bad extreme, and little useful ac-
commodation among neighbors may run
into excessive annoyance. 1t is an old
saying that he that goes borrowing
goes a sorrowing,' but find the inverse
more emphatically true: He that goes a
lending goes asorrowing.' A neighbor
who keeps an unusually complete sup
ply of tools Cor who attempts to keep
them), has informed me that several
have entirely disappeared, through the
agency of borrowers, beyond the posi-
bility of his tracing them, and these
tools cost him many dollars. Some years
ago my several poorer neighbors seemed
to think that as | was well supplied, it
was my duty to lend them whenever they
wanted. The question which they asked
was, Are you going to use your wagon
to-dayT And if the answer was mega
tive | had no further voice in the mat
ter; the wagon was to be taken, of
course. Some of them even went so far
as toregard my right to any of the tools
as second to theirs, and one of them Dos
itively refused to return a machine till
he had done with it, although | was in
equal need. lent tool costing twenty
dollars to a neighbor, which he kept
several months until had forgotten who
took it. After inquiring for many miles
i traced it out The borrower was NOR
titled; he told his hired man to return it,
instead of which he had put it in an out
of-the-way place; but it would probably
have come home sooner if drawing
twenty-five cents day all this time. /
have succeeded in partly breaking up
this borrowing and lending, and / be-
lieve my neighbors like me all the better
for it. / began with the harrow, which
had been lent to SO many that several
teeth were missing. When l discovered
this loss, told the next applicant that
each borrower must add TOOTH Some
complied, and others would not take it.
| am aware that poorer neighbors may
think hard of richer ones who will not
lend everything, but he who would please
all will find no limit to the yearly widen
ing circle of borrowers Accommodate
where he reasonably can, and there stop.
They will like him none the less in the
end Fixed prices for hiring out would
be an excellent remedy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11
Met Metz in 1882.

On the city side of the gate German
sentry PAGES up and down, personifying
that force which Prince Bismarck de-
clared made right. The names of the
streets have been changed-the German
aappellation is painted up under the
French one on white board at each
corner. The shopkeepers have declined
to ticket up their goods in German
money, while the conquerer is left to do
ms own little sum of exchange, convert
ing his iron currency into that of the
vanquished. Metz is truly a town in the
occupation of the enemy. One would
think that the horrors of a long siege
had been endured, and that the inhabi-
tants had still shut themselves up to
their own houses. The fact is that two
thirds of the people of Metz quilted the
town when the Germans established
themselves there, and at one moment
the population fell from fifty-five thou
sand to eighteen thousand; while the
Germans, like locusts, came down to re-
place them, opening the closed shops,
and receiving subsidies from their own
government, so that the garrison might
not be totally demoralized by frigidity
which met them from a people who had
lost their nationality and would not be
eomforted. The garrison has not suf-
heed to populate the town; the heavy,
measured tread of the German soldiers,
the noise of the butt-end of the rifles as
they are grounded, the gathering of the
long sabers over the stones, the dull beat
le& the drum, the shrill sounds of the
life, sud the occasional roll of musketry
heard y the moats of the Notifications,
seem tobe the only noises which break
the dreadful silence. The line of de-
marcatioa has been sharply drawn be-
tween the two people. They do not as
sociate, and many woman will step off
the pavement to avoid any contact with
the uniformed official or soldier, while
more than enc officer saunters along as
If he were convinced that he was playing
an unworthy part Being quartered in
Metz cannot be very enviable position
for any of the fifteen thousand lieuten-
ants Germany IS said TO delight in, for
the people have turned their backs on
them, and no hmily will admit them
into its midst.-LondOn Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11
THE DAIRY.

The membership of the New YORK
butter and cheese exchange is growing
so rapidly that larger quarters are nee
essary The membership will soon
number eight hundred, and the initiation
fee will be raised to $500.
The Society of Public Analysis OF
Great Britain has adopted a standard
for the poorest milk of nine per cent. OF
solids and twenty-five per cent. of fats.
Professor Cameron states that examna-
tions of the milk of forty-two
short horn cows, during the winter
of 1880, gave go per cent. of solids
and APO per cent. of fats in the poorest
milk, the COWS being housed and well
fed. The average yield per day was
III quarts per COW. In every instance
more milk was given in the morning
than in the evening. The quality OF
milk improved in each case as the time
for calving drew near. The older COWS
were found to give both more and better
milk than the younger ones.
Science and best practice would seem
to be on the side of churning cream
sweet. DIR. Voelcker, chemist to the
Royal Agricultural Society OF England,
has recently taken strong grounds
against churning cream sour. He lays
as much stress upon having cream sweet
when it is churned as he does upon hay
ing it clean. Common sense would
seem to coincide with DIR. Voelcker.
That milk, when it has turned sour, is
started on the road to decomposition, is
not questioned by anybody, even tho
advocates Of souring cream. What adj
vantage it can be to the stability of
butter fats to hold them for a time, either
long or short, mingled with mass of
decomposing animal matter, in what
ever stage of decomposition it may be,
common sense is unable to understand.
National LiCe- Stock Journal.
-Foot-rot in COWS is caused by blood
disease similar to that which produces
"salt rheum in persons. The foot be-
tween the claws of the hoof becomes in
famed, and breaks out with blisters;
these run together and form raw spots,
which discharge a yellow serum. In
bad cases the hoof separates at the coro-
net, and in time drops off. The treat
DICHJ 10 W give Viz COWS VI OAGH a pOuIlu
of EPSON salts, followed by one ounce of
hyposulphite of soda daily. The feet
should be washed with solution of one
dram of sulphate of zinc in quart of
water, and should be cleaned and dressed
thoroughly betweeA the hoofs. Then
dress the parts with an ointment made
of one pound of lard, two ounces of tur-
pentine, and one ounce of finely pow
dered verdigris acetate of copper. 1t is
caused by impure air of close stables, by
the absorption of filth through the skin
of the feet as well as by the irritation
produced by standing too long upon hard
plank floors. 1t is not contagious ex-
cepting when it becomes very bad and
the feet suppurate, when the poisonous
matter will produce the disease in other
cattle. But when it appears in herd it
generally goes through it, because all
are subject to the conditions which pro-
duce it.-N. Y Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11
Some Uses OF Gas Tar.

The,value,of gas tar for many purposes
is not generally appreciated Its odor is
disagreeable to many and it is not of
lively color. AS paint for the interior
of poultry houses it can hardly be ex-
celled; its odor is so permanent that it
does not require to be renewed frequent
~ In stables it is said TO be no less effica-
cious, as flies will not congregate or rest
on surfaces that have been painted with
it. 1t is to be hoped that gas tar will
have thorough trial as an insecticide
the coming season, forit is not only a
safelremedy but a very cheap one. Mr..
r. S. Hart, Brighton, n, Y, has tested
for two years the efficacy Of gas tarwater
for pot%osbeetles with the most satisfac-
tory results. His method is to put two
quarts of tar into three gallon pail, fill
with water, stir well, allow to settle,
then sprinkle the beetles with the water.
This amount of tar viii serve for sea-
son provided the potato patch is not too
large. tits only necessary to refill the
pail with water as often as emptied and
stir and settle as at first. The point is
to thoroughly impregnate the water with
the tar; it kills the beetles and does not
injure the foliage. Mr.. Hart has tried
the gas tar water on currant bushes in
tested with worms with equally good
effect. Cor. NJ Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11
FARM AND PRESIDE.

Hens, as rule, lay about an equal
number of eggs in their first and second
seasons, after which the produce de-
creases.
There is no change or improvement
in the journalism of the last ten wears
that is more noteworthy than that in
creased attention which is everywhere
given to supplying agricultural and home
information for farmers and their fami-
lies. Chicago Herald.
In feeding, farmers should remem-
Der that the measure of the value of
food is in a great degree determined by
its price If hay is worth ten dollars per
ton and corn the same price, feed large
ly of corn, using only hay enough to dis
tend the stomachs of the animals.
in using baking-powder be sure not
to use too much. Besides being I'M
healthful, it spoils the delicate flavor of
cake and of biscuit; it is great temp
tation to put in a little more than that
given in arecipe to make sure of the de-
sired lightness, but it ought to be resist
ed. Hyou are not your own cake-maker
impress this fact upon your cook.
Hanging Baskets-What looks more
lovely than plant suspended from a
small rustic basket in the centre of the
upper part of the window? 1t interferes
with nothing and nothing interferes with
it. There's an element of beauty in that
simple fact Plants which have slender
branches, which naturally hang down,
are at home in this situation. The
mother-of-thousands, the wandering
Jew, with its pretty marked leaves; the
lobelias and some of the trailing cam
panulas or bell-flowers; the well-named
rat-tailed cactus, and the so-called ice
plants are more at home when suspended
than when grown in any other position.
Remedies for chilblains and cold
feet-Slice raw potatoes with the skins
on and sprinkle over them tea-spoonful
of fine salt, and as soon as a liquid is
drawn from them rub it upon the chill
blains with a bit of cotton wool. Some
times one application will heal them if
the skin is not broken; if it is, make a
salYe of equal parts Of mutton and beef
tallow and of grated carrot, simmered
together an hour with bit of camphor
gum and of boraX dissolved in it. Take
a piece the size of walnut to half a
pound of tallow. Rub this salve on a
linen cloth and apply nightly until healed.
1t will heal chapped lips and hands and
can be used every night with advantage
A tablespoonful of alcohol can be added
to it while soft, but nearly cold, to keep
it sweet through the summer. Every
night when going to bed put little cold
water into a bowl and dip the feet into it
and then rub them briskly with bath
ing towel. Do it several times and rub
the towel under the foot and across the
heel, so as to start the circulation. and
your feet will be warm and chilblains
will not annoy you.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11

The time will soon arrive for general
seed-sowing, and hint or two in regard
to it may not be out of place. Much
that is sown never appears, and the
scotsman is charged with selling old or
poor seeds Sometimes this may be so,
but very often it is the sewers own
fault. There is much more art in sew
ing seeds successfully than people sup
pose, and yet it is very simple when I'M
derstood. Many seeds are sown too
deep, and yet if not deep enough they
will dry up and not grow at all. The
depth must be determined by the size
of the seed and the character of the
soil. If the soil be light and sandy,
there is not so much danger of the
seeds rotting from deep sowing as if the
soil be stiff; and even if stiff soil the
depth will have to be determined by the
condition of the soil. Suppose we are
to sow piece of oats, in land that is
liable to become clotty, and this is the
distinction between light and heavy
land. If we can roll the land after SOW
ing it would not matter much about
sowing deep; but the seed would have to
be narrowed in pretty well if left in
clotty condition unrolled. Indeed, if
the seed were sown on ground simply
first narrowed and then rolled, in such
land as we have described, many more
seeds would do well than if narrowed
before rolling. In other words, shallow
sowing if the ground is well pulverized
and pressed firm, is more favorable than
deep planting with rough surface.
Finely pulverized soil, with we'll
pressed surface, is indeed the very best
conditions for success with all seeds;
and the shallowest kind of sowing, so
that the seeds be firmly imbedded in the
soil, is the essence of good seed growing.
Germantown Telegraph.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11
The Little Falls Cheese Market.

The Little Falls Journal Courier pub
fishes table showing the number Of
boxes of factory and farm and dairy
cheese sold on the Little Falls market
during the year 1881, and also the
amount of butter during the same time
on the same market. The facts presented
show that Little Falls is the largest inte-
rior dairy market on the continent, and
probably in the world The whole num-
Der of boxes of cheese sold at Little Falls
in 1881 was 2S9,96 and the number sold
at Utica, according to the recent report
of the Secretary OF the Utica Board of
Trade, was 240, 746. This gives Little
Falls an excess over Utica of 1926
boxes, amounting to 295, 356 pounds, OF
twenty per cent. more than Utica. The
value of cheese and butter on the Little
Falls market during the year will amount,
at the rates for which they are sold to
about two millions of dollars. This does
not include large amount of butter and
cheese sold for home consumption, or for
the milk sold for town and city consump-
ton, as well as that taken to supply the
cOndensing factories at Little Falls, Fort
Plain and st. townsville.
The farm dairy cheese sold at Little
Falls comes wholly from Herkimer Coun-
ty, and is delivered on Mondays, the
amount for the year being %, 211 boxes,
or 1926 pounds. This is mostly
used for the home trade, and not unfre-
quently the best brands sell at price
slightly in advance of factory. Nearly
all the factory cheese sold on this market
goes abroad-English shippers giving
orders in advance for certain well known
factories.
The Little Falls market has an i'm
mense influence on the trade, and, with
the Utica market, may be said to have
controlling power over the cheese trade
of America. The prices received at these
markets are watched by dairymen and
dealers in all parts of the country and
are taken as a guide in transactions; and
well may this be so, for the annual sales
OF cheese at these markets, and at Rome,
N. T., will probably amount to upward
of four millions of dollars.
The bulk of cheese sold on the Little
Falls market is made in Herkimer, Mont
gomery, Fulton and Otsego Counties.
According to the last census (1S80) the
number of gallons of milk sold or sent to
the factory in Herkimer County for the
year was 1868, 1913. The amount Of
farm dairy cheese, or cheese made on the
farm and not in the factory, was 2, $685.
1874 pounds, and the butter made on the
farm amounted to /, 402, 122 pounds.
On the assumption that a gallon Of
milk will make pound of cheese, the
milk sold and delivered to the factory
would produce 6,63S, 733 pounds, and
If to this be added the farm dairy cheese,
we shall total of 10, 1851, S77 pounds of
cheese, as the product of Herkimer
County alone, besides butter, amounting
to 1,4O2,122 pounds.
"A county having such record in dairy
produce may well be noted as having
within its borders the largest dairy mar
ket in the world where cheese is sold
from first hands. Country Gentleman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11

William J. Coughlan, of Somerville, Mass,
says: "In the fall of 1876 l was taken with a
violent bleedingof he lungs, followed bya severe
cough. was admitted to the City Hospital
While there the doctors said had hole in my
left lung as big as half dollar. Igave up hope,
but friend told me of DR.. VIM. HALLS BAL
SAM FOR THE LUNGS. l got bottle, when to
my surprise commenced to feel better, and to-
day feel in better spirits than have the past
three years. Iwrite this hopingthat every one
afflicted with Diseased Lungs will take DIR. VIM.
HALLS BALsAM FOR THE LUNGS and be con-
vinced that CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED"
Also asure remedy for Colds, Coughs, and all
Chest and Lung Diseases. Sold by druggists.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11

The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution thinks
that, under an ineXorable pressure that
is beyond the reach of influence or argu-
ment, the plantations will split into
small farms, and small farmers will take
the place of large planters. The same
causes that sliced nearly seventy thous-
and farms from the Georgia plantation
in the ten years preceding 1880 win cut
Of as many more between now and 1890.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11

THIS is a good time to go to Kansas. It's
nearness to the gold mines is causing many
farmers to sell out, and try their luck in the
mines. Others are dissatisfied with the tenn
perance law. Those contemplating going to
Kansas will do well TO see or write toGREENR
* BARTELL, whose card is in this paper.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11
SAMARITAN MERvlNE

Cures Alcoholism, Drunkenness and the habit or
Opium Eating These degrading habits by far he
orst evils that have nefaen suffering humanity,
Thousa nds die annually from these noxous drugs
The drunkard drinks liquor not because likes it. but
for the pleasure of drinking and treating his friends
Opium Eater, he first the drug in small quantities
as harmless antdote The soothing influence of tEe
drug takes strong hold upon Its victim leading him
to his own destruction The habits of Opium Edtins
and Liquor Drinking precisely what eating Is ali
mentiveness over-eatlng a. st nAames the
which redoubes It's cravings until u pareyzes both the
stomach and appetite SO every drink of liquor dose
of opium instead of satisfying only adde to Its ieTce
fires, until consumes the Vital force and then sel
Like The guttonous tape wOrIn IL cries Give give.
givei but enough until It's rapacity devouFe
Itself. Samaritan Heryne gives instant relief in all
such Ii produces sleep quiets the nerves. builds
Up tho nervous system and restores body and mind to
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11

The St. Paul (Minn.) Globe, observes:
Things had gone wrong with him. and he
wanted to die; yet he had the whole house
darting around mighty lively, SO we heard,
hunting for the st. Jacobs Oil bottle, when
the first twinge of rheumatism gathered him
Mn
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11

RECENTLY the wife of one of our friends re-
turning home rang at her own door. Nobody
coming, she rang again. Still nobody Final
ly at a louder longer ring, the valet con-
Guided to show himself. "Pray, are you
deaf! said the lady. 81 beg rardon mad
anne, said the valet, TRANQUILITY, "but heard
only the third ring.'i-Le Figaro.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11

HER mistake: "Why do you suppose John
son Reed. is always driving over to Smith
yinein asked one Austin gentleman of an
other. ''His wife says he goes over to admire
Eyes, but does his wife know the beauty of
the place is a young widow .''-TeraS SiftiNaS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11

DIR. r. V. PIERcE: Dear Si---Iast fan my
daughter was in decline and everybody
thought she was going into the consumption
got her bottle of your ''Favorite Prescrp-
tion,n and it cured her Mrs MANY HINsoN,
OF all druggists. Montrose, Kan
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11

WEAK lungs, splitting of blood, consumption
and kindred affections cured without physician.
Address for treatise, with two stamps, WoRLD's
DlsPENsARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo,
NY. t1
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11

IT is said the only obstacle in the way of
transporting live hogs from this country to
England is the difficulty of feeding them on
the passage. Why not feed them from the
trough of the sea !-Somer0ille Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11

IT will be advisable for such as have any
fears of badness to7quit INDUCING in, white
white grub eats off the roots just below the
crown-Home Sentinel. r-rf
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11

Now WE'LL spring pun on you Lookout
If you speak of "a place where ships tie up"
your remark is equivalent to a statement in
writing, because it's dock you meant. We
now swear off on puns for year.-Boston Post
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11

A YOUNG girl with blonde eyes and blue hair
wants to know If a court in banc" is any
thing like flirting with bank clerk when she
gets check cashed, She's Innocence per
sonified-all but. NorriSto0n Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11

CHURCH organists in the Pine Tree State
are very mercenary. They are always looking
after the Maine chants.-BostO1. Score. We
Will inchoir into this. --Steube,tgiHe Herald. See
one OF them, and ask hymn uSicd Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11

MAMMA, is the old hen going to be sent
away for the summer!'' mo, Charlie, but
why do you asl1!n "Well, l heard papa tell
the new governess that they would have a fine
time when they sent the old hen away for the
summer'' Mamma put little Charlotte bed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11

The doctor tolda Vermont woman whose
husband was sick that a certain medicine
wouldn't keep, and as she didn't give it all to
him, she took it herself, SO as not to have 1T
wasted. Vermont folks are not disgustingly
wastefll ... --... ~