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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11
Western Stories OutdoHe.

NEWSPAPERS in the West and South
have of late enjoyed . monopoly of re-.
1asskse1s q; stories g zaskss aPs athsE
That the North may not be left behind
in this respect, let us consider the moral
teachings which are presented by the
Summer Boarder and the Freshwater
Clam. Three years ago the boarder in
question, while straying along the bed
of stream that had been left partially
bare by excessive drought, discovered,
lying upon the sand, conchifsrous,
bivalvular mollusk-Uulg. clam-which
seemed to be in the last gasp from ex-
hanstion and thirst. The kind hearted
stranger, pitying the sore strait of the
unhappy bivalve, at once took it up and
cast it into deep part of the stream
and then went his way, speedily forget
ting the incident. A week ago, how
ever, as he was enjoying his vacation,
and sitting near the spot where the
above described event took place, he
perceived a clam laboriously climbing
out of the water and dragging itself
over the sand. Arrived. with much ex-
ertion, at the feet of the amazed OBJ
server, the clam opened its shell and
disclosed a pearl as large as a hazel
nut. which the gentleman did not hesi-
tate to appropriate. Thereupon the
clam, smiling clear way around to its
back hinge, returned to the water and
disappeared with a gurgle of satisfac-
ton. This affecting incident, besides
showing that even the humblest works
of creation are capable of noble emo
tions, teaches us the fine moral that we
should always be kind to animals. in
which respect it is much to be pre-
ferred to the Southern and Western
warns referred to, which seem devised
simply to entertain the minds of the
frivolous, and convey no edifying lesson
at all.-B0sto,s Journal
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11
A Prusslan View Of the English Army.

The correspondent of the Cologne
Gazette at Ramleh expresses surprise at
the GOODNESS of the British troops.
They show" he says, .'none of the
excitement and eagerness which dis
tinguish the Continental nations when
they fight for existence, or at least for
a national idea This Egyptian war,
like most wars in which England is en-
gagged, is treated entirely as matter of
business; if the object of the under
taking had been to make railway or a
canal it could hardly have been entered
upon more quietly. Deeds of
extraordinary energy and courage. as is
to be expected in wars carried on in
this way, are much more rare than in
the national wars of Continental Eu-
rope. 1t is true that the feeling of
national solidarity is as strong as, if
MOT stronger, among the English, than
AmQng other nations and there Is no
hack Of manliness in a race of such
consunimate physical development; but
the cause for which they fight does not
elicit the enthusiasm which prompts
men to do more than their duty. More
over. the English, however practical,
are deficient in foresight. 1t will
scarcely be believed in Germany that
tu0r0 are QOJ more bnan TWO OF Inrc e
trustworthy maps of Lower Egypt in
the whole of the English camp. Even
most of the staff officers have to use
maps which are not much better t-.an
those in Baecekers Guide Book. And
yet there would have been plen.y of
time to get few hundreds of copies of
the Arabian map of Mahmud Bey, with
the names of the places printed in
Roman characters. At the same time.
it is not to be denied that the English
army, Notwithstanding its singular and
antiquated organization according to
Continental notions, is well adapted for
q war of this kind. The admirable
physique of the men, the wise and busi-
ness-like way in which they are He'd.
and the strongly developed love of
sport, whether military or otherwise,
which is the national characteristic, are
immense advantages in struggle with
a half-civilized adversary. The dis
cipline of the army, toe. seems very
strict; for have not seen any drunken
soldiers since I arrived y"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

an article on "Cotton Mills, North and
South" says the Southern mills now
boast 1927, 400 spindles, and that the
consumption of cotton this year will reach
400, 900 bales, or one quarter of the
amount used North. This fact is the
more natable because two years ago the
amount of cotton manufactured in the
South wss scarce worthy of mention.
The largest individual sheep owner in
Texas is a woman, well known all over
the State as the "Widow Callahan"
Her sheep, more than 80, 900 in number,
wander over the ranges of Uva]de and
Bandera counties, in the southwestern
part of the State. Their grade is cross
between the hardy Mexican sheep and
the Vermont merino. They are divided
into focks of 1000 head each. with
ssbossero" and two "pastoras' in charge
of each flock.
A North Carolina correspondent of
the Atlanta Constitution writes: ssI
suppose Morehead City is the only city
in the world without wheel in it. I
do not think that there is wagon or
buggy horse in town and very few in
the country. Everything is done in
boats. There is not house in the
county that boat cannot get within
mile of. Not a doctor or lawyer in
the county owns horse they practice
in boats. The people go to funerals in
boats, and when they arrest man they
carry him to Jail in boat.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11
A Partisan Artists Revenge.

One of the most eminent painters of
Paris was lately commissioned to paint
the portrait of lady who was some
years ago a famous beauty. but who is
now nearer her fiftieth than her fortieth
year. She wished the portrait to be ex-
hibited in this years Salon, and gave
the artist endless trouble over its de-
tails. When it was finished. however,
she was far from contented, and de-
clared that she could not recognize her
own likeness in his conscientious piece
Of Work The PAINTER said thats-sha
need not have the picture if she did not
think it to be a faithful one, and it re-
NAMED in his atelier as his own unsold
property. Meanwhile he was deter
mined to have his revenge for the insult
done to his pride as an artist and the
loss to his pocket as one who lived by
hls art. In order that the picture should
not remain piece or dead capital. he
resolved TO transform it from portrait
into subiee6 4 few days before the
private eNf0eiSH he lady in question
was infg ell-instructed friend
that til Wroduced number
of accessories : aer portrait which
were likely TO I'm mise her reputa-
tion. She drove III great haste to
the painters studio and asked to see the
picture. The wish was promptly graft
fed. There she stood upon the canvas,
life-like and life-size; but the cruel artist
had thinned her iair to semi-baldness.
and in one of her hands she held two
, long tresses of false hair. Upon the
table at her side, which he had changed
into toilet-tabie, were ranged num-
Der of bottles, labeled respectively with
the words: - Milk of Lilies. g Beauty
Water" Elixir against Wrinkles -
"GoIden-hair Dye The lady cried
out that such treatment was infamous.
"You have really no complaint.
| madame" said the artist. You have
already declared that the picture is in
! no sense portrait of yourself. l accept
your opinion. and, as cannot afford to
. lose so much hard work, have treated
it as fantasie piece, and as such / shall
/ introduce it to the public 1 mean te
call it ssThe Coquette of Fifty Years. u
"Whatr' exclaimed she. ''You NEAR
to exhibit it?'' The lady Immediately
begged him to accept the stipulated
sum for the portrait and, after she haG
seen the compromising accessories OBJ
liberated in her presence, took out hel
check-book and bought the picture OF
the spot.-London Echo.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11
Hogs.

If you have hogs running in your pas
lures, now is the time, when the grass
is low and the heat oppressive, to feed
generously, once or twice day with
corn, wheat and oats screenings; with
bran, shorts, rotten or fallen apples, and
other fruits. jointly or separately made
by boiling into a mush, or even a swill.
It costs something and it causes some
labor and trouble. but all will be well
repaid in the quantity that before Christ
mas will go into the lard tubs and pork
barrels. It is perfect nonsense to raise
pork on the old plan if you wish to raise
it for less than twelve or fifteen cents
pound. If you follow the old plan,
which was turning out shoats at 'tkill-
ing time,n and starving them all win
ter until clover comes, and then say,
..root hog or die" until with dogs and
negroes you hunt them down and place
them in pen for fattening. after they
have worried you all the year as out
laws, breaking in the fields of corn or
other grain at night, and next day run
almost to death and torn by dogs, until
they escape through their holes in the
fence, and man or more has lost a
half a day to drive them out and stop
the hole, for the same thing to be re-
peated the next day--you Will have pork
at a cost far beyond what you can buy
it for in the market But if you can get
a good breed. keep the hogs dry and
warm in winter, give good pasture in
summer, plenty OF water and food the
year round. with rotten wood. ashes,
salt and sulphur, you can raise pork
costing not half what you should receive
for it should you choose to SELL The
hog is naturally lazy. and if well sup
piled with food he viii not wander far
from the swill-tub or food-trough. Like
the poor. lazy drunkard he will stick to
the tavern that gives him his food and
drink in the largest quantity for the
least exertion on his part. But stop his
meat and drink, and no idle vagabond
or ruined roue viii turn maranding
rover, or sneak thief, bold highwayman
or chicken-stealer as will the hog.
whether he be high -brod or common
] steck. k.-MarylG,ad Farmer.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11
Causes Of Typhoid Fever.

A severe outbreak of typhoid fever
which occurred last year at Nahant,
rocky peninsula near Boston, inhabited
during the summer by small number
of very rich cottage owners, was fol-
lowed by an investigation. of which the
results are made public in an article by
Mr.. E. w. Bowditch, in the .Boston
Medical and Surgical Journal. In such
uaasas.-caat atazaineti tians6- q 1ekis1ir Eotcr
Is usually the pfSncipal cause Of The
spread of the disease, and the wells and
cisterns which supply the houses were
first examined. Water was taken from
one hundred and ninety of these and
analysed. Eight of the samples we're
pronounced s'excellent,n and seventy
one others sspermissible,' or ssgood. :"
One hundred and eleven were ciassed as
suspicious" ssvery suspicious or
ssbad.'' About eighty cases of fever
occurred, nearly all of which could be
accounted for by the actual condition of
the drinking water used in the houses
inhabited by the -patientsl In few
others the filthy surroundings furnished
probable source of infection, although
the water appeared pure, as, in one in
stance, where analysis failed to detect
any serious pollution in water taken
from a we'll situated within ten feet of
one teaching cesspool and fifteen feet of
another, both overfowiEg, and of
course ready to furnish an occasional
supply to the well during dry seasons
or under other circumstances. One or
two more were probably explained by
the fact that the ice used in the house,
hold was brought from a foul pond in
the vicinity; and only one seemed quite
inexplicable, unless perhaps the infec-
ton might have been brought by milk
contained in cans which had been rinsed
in foul water. Mr.. Bowditch's suspi-
cion, that the infection was commune
Gated in certain cases by contaminated
ice, is strengthened by the fact that a
very severe and fatal epidemic of ty-
phoid fever was unquestionably caused
in this way not long ago at a seashore
hotel in New England; and it is worth
asking whether the public authority
might not be employed with advantage
in exercising some sort of surveillance
over the collection and saleof an article
which may become, and perhaps already
Is, far more dangerous than the trichi-
nous pork or immature veal against
which so many precautions are taken. In
one place that we know of, says the Amer.
scGu Architect, thousands of tons of ice
are annually gathered at the very edge
of an extensive and well-filled cemetery
which slopes somewhat rapidly toward
the water; and we have seen the winter
product of a little pool formed by ths
overflow of what was practically tht
drain of cluster of squalid house.
regularly sold to customers. Scientif
american.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11
Lice ON Cattle.

The suggestion was recently made in
this paper that our National and State
entomologists could not do a better
thing than to investigate the subject of
the external parasites of cattle and TO
devise means that will insure their de-
struction. Every person is presumed to
know louise when he sees it, but very
few can identity the different varieties
of this numerous family of insects, or
can tell whether the kind that is found
on one class of animals or fowls will live
and thrive on another. Comparati, ely
few know how to destroy them without
injuring the creature they moiest. An
Iowa farmer thinks that he has found a
remedy that is at once harmless to the
animal and harmful 20 the parasites. In
communication to The Homestead he
gives it:
s.Take common larkspur seed and
steep it, and wash thoroughly every part
of the body. have known one appli-
cation to destroy every insect and egg.
Two will suffice if done thoroughly.
give in addition two remedies that con
slider more efficacious than the other
mercurial ointment. kerosene and lard,
| tobacco smoke, wash of tobacco. or sui
phur in salt. These all will sometime;
injure the stock. A good remedy is dry
dust gathered from the road. and sifted
and put in a box for winter, (nature' s
remedy); rub it well in. and as they
hatch repeat. Also pulverized charcoa
mixed with dust is still better. / have
heard that fine Indian meal or short:
were good, used in the same way.
know they are good to apply inside
| When an animal is affected it should be
| Immediately removed from the Other
stock and thoroughly treated. and no
allowed to run until the whole herd il
covered. The old-fashioned ]arkspur i
the best. as it bears the most seed and i
perennial. A small patch will supply
all the seed you viii or ought to need. =
| Cbica0o Times.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11
NUN MBER 30.


If you can't srust man entirely, let
him ckip; this trying 60 Get "a Average
on honesty has always b6dp & failure
Josh Billings. s
1t is said cornell player in Berlin
hurst 9 blood vessel trying TO sound
WaeaQr7an double note. 1t IS comfort
ing to know that Wagner's is to be the
music of the fufure.zLoweH Citizen. -
Professor Huxley estimates the take
of herring in the North Sea at 5, 3,000,-
COG 900 Befoz ee1zineQu Hux1cysel
innate we would Ike to know whether
he saw the fish or took the statement of
the e6shermen.-Roston Post
Douglass Autz, of Norwich, fell un-
der a moving train he was trying to
board. When the train passed Douglass
arose, uniniured, with his cigar in his
mouth. And yet there are people who
claim smoking to be injurious.-Dan-
bury NeaOs.
"A new nurse-maid had been engaged
for the family of John Leech. On her
appearing in the nursery she was thus
addressed by Master Leech: "Nurse,
papa says [ am one of those children
that can be managed by kindness, and
I'll trouble you to fetch some sponge
cakes and oranges at once. ~ Chicago
Tribune.
"A salt mine has just been discovered
in Australia which is believed to be
more than two thousand years old. It's
a good thing it was salt mine, or it
wouldn't have kept half SO long. Now,
there are some silver mines in America,
for instance, that haven't lasted more
than three months after the assessments
gave out.-Burl;,sgton Hasokeye.
Some men have tact Said the
| bridegroom who didn't wish either
| to offend his bride or die of internal
disturbance: ssMy dear, this bread looks
| delicious; but it is the first you have
ever made. can not think of eating
| it, but will preserve it to show to our
| children in after years as q sample of
| their mothers skill and deftness. .'-Bos-
ton Post.
| Plantation philosophy-Remember,
| young man, dat de best frien' yer's got
on dis earth is better frien' ter himself
den he is ter you. Pay no attention ter
| man by de boasts what he makes.
! Thunder doan all de time tell OBJ COM
| in rain. Doan turn a man outen
de ranks of spectability case he's cow
| ard A hound dog amt much on de
| fight, but he's mighty useful animal.
/ =. While Nature was foolin' away
her time paintin' different colors an
stripes on de horns OBJ de Jack snappers
/ an odder bugs, I doan see why she
l-<lidn nst6on1xfveso Sons ea5l0f Wy 1df 9
t chife to cut teeth.-zrkarsds 4Tuueter.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

The woman sufraeiH movement
seems to be advancing infhe East. Says
the Massachusetts, Demo9ati platform
Equal rights, equal powSvs, equal bur
dens, equal privileges and e4ual protection
by law under the government for every cit
izen of the republic, wieH5nf limifation
of race. or sex. or propersI iiesA8isss,
whether It be by . tax on property or .
poll tax on persons.
Says the Republican platform of the
same State:
We invite intelligent and candid consid-
Grafton of all propositions in aid of tenn
perance and good order for equal rights of
suffrage irrespective of sex, and for the en-
enlargement of industry. frugality. con-
tentmenr, and prosperity among all the
people of our honored State.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

The Indiana Bureau of Statistics,
estimating the benefits to be derived
from tile drainage. show that land which
yielded an average of nine and half
bushels of wheat per acre for five years
before drainage, yielded nineteen and
one-haf bushels for five years after le-
ing drained. With corn the increase
was from thirty-one to seventy four
bushels per acre. During the same
period the numter of cases of malarial
sickness was diminished from 1,840
cases to 400 cases after drainage
Indiana State Sentinel
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

THE number of acres in rice in the
United States in 1880 was ia, 113; num-
ber of pounds produced, 10, 131, 1878
clean rice; an average product of 632
pounds per acre. Number of acres un-
der cultivation in 1881, nearly twenty
Thousand less than in 1880, and product
in 1881, eleven million pounds greater
than that of the previous year.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

MIR. GLADSTONE wears ready-made
clothing, and while crossing street
always acts on the principle that the
hypothenuse Of trianglei is less than the
two sides. In place of using the cross
walk, he cuts off the corners, or crosses
diagonally on the cobbles.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

RUMoR has it that the wedding of Mr..
Chester A. Arthur, jr., and Miss Crow
ley, has been appointed for the early
part of October. The bride and groom
elect are extremely young, their COM
bined ages not exceeding thirty-six.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

The Queen of Madagascar has ordered
that a prohibitory law shall be framed,
prohibiting the manufacture of brandy
or its importation into her territories.
The penalty is the forfeiture of ten oxen
and fine of SO.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

THE Washington Critic says: Star
Route juryman John B. Mccarthy, who
voted for conviction all the way through,
has been appointed to position at the
Government Asylum for the Insane.
Mr.. Mccarthy was simply an honest
cobbler before he got on the jury"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

Mr. J. G.. BIGEnow, the counsel for
Sergeant Mason, states that when he
visited the Albany Penitentiary few
days ago, to obtain the execution OF the
petition of writ of habeas corpus, Mason
aged They have him engaged in MAX
ino shoes
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

The London Truth says that specu-
lator in New York has resolved to tempt
Prof. Huxley to cross the Atlantic by
the offer of el00 per lecture for a series
of 200 discourses on popular science, to
be delivered during 1883 and 1884.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

BAcsN that used to sell in the South for
from five to eight cents per pound is now
worth from fourteen to seventeen cents
per pound. Cotton has deprecated
largely, and it does not pay to raise cot
ton to buy pork with. The Southern
farmers are beginning to find this out.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

EACH Of Garibaldi's children is to
get 50, 900 year for life from the Italian
Government Yet their late father was
in 1884 on iemned by grandfather of the
present King of Italy to be shot.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

The Agricultural Colleges of the
various States that have farm attached
should begin a systematic and continu-
GUS effort to develop new and different
kinds of fruits, and by interchanging
find out what sorts have the most ex-
tended field of usefulness; one new
sort of any kind of fruit, especially
the apple, win alone pay the expenses
million fold.-St. Lossis Globe.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

The fruit crop in Scotland has been
complete failure. It is the worst season
for the last fifty years. At one well
known orchard in the Carse OF Gowrie,
which is rented at GOO, the crop eonsjsts
Of one barrel Of apples.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

A WEALTHY bachelor of Oregon. whose
death lately occurred in the East, while
on visit, has given the most valuable
farm in the cove to school for young
ladies. The buildings for the school will
be erected soon. This farm contains
"a 900 prune an plum trees. and the pro-
ceeds from the sale of fruit are some
$40, 900 year.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

PRoF. Boss, of the Dudley Observa-
tory, at Albany, says the comet was 49,
600, 900 miles from the sun September
II, and 20, 900, 600 on the 21st. On the
former date it was 103. 900. 600 miles
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

from the earth. and on tie latter 1o7,-
100000. It is thus goi1E away both
from the sun and the eartk It is plainly
visible in the early moaning in the
Eastern sky, and is Beautifully brilliant.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

THE great Newburgh poker game has
at last been settled, by Hedges and
Scott refunding to their victim, Weed,
$40, 200. This makes Weeds loss, in
round figures, $40, 600.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11
The London Truth ridicules Ger

The London Truth ridicules Gen.
Wolseley's dispatches from Egypt as
Sentimental twaddle," and attention is
called to his account of an engagement
in which there was heavy firing for
several hours" the troops behaving
admirably under hail of bullets" and
the result was one man killed and twelve
wounded.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

CINCINNATI is organizing swell cav
airy company, to be known as the Gin
cinnati Horse Guards It takes $500 and
''passable'' moral character to become
q member.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

A GENTLEMAN who has made recent
observations in Utah claims to have
discovered internal dissensions in the
Mormon Church which may work its
r1,ir
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

IT WILL cost over 800, 900 to replace
she bridges swept away by the recent
floods at Elizabeth, New Jersey.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

The corn acherage is greater this year
than ever before owing. to the tooth-pick
,oed boots.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

SEVEN citizens of Delaware were pub
icly whipped a few days ago, and three
more stood an hour in the pillory.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

OREGON is now called the Webfoot
State.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-11

PRINCE BISMARCK has been..in the Prus-
sian Ministry twenty years.