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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-18
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WITH VIOLENT CATHARTICs THAT RACK AND
TEAR AND WEAKEN THE UNFORTUNATE IN
VALID, BUT TONE THE STOMACH, RELIEVE
THE BOWELS, REGULATE THE LIVER, AND RE
FRESH THE NERVES WITH Tarrant'S Ef-
fervescent Settler Aperlent WHEN
THE FIRST SYMPTOMS OF ILLNESS APPEAR.
MORE DELIGHTFUL EFFERYESCENT
DRAUGHT IS NOT TO BE FOUND, ANDA MORE
POTENT REMEDY FOR DYSPEPSIA, BILIOUS
NESS CONSTIPATION, NERVOUS HEADACHE,
collie AND GENERAL DEBILITY, DOES NOT EX-
Isr. SOLD by ALL DRUGGISTS.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-18
Welcome Gnests.

CINCINNATI, oct. 1.-THE Com
mercial club to-day is entertaining
Boston, Chicago and st. Louis Com
mercial clubs.
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EsTRAY NOTICE.

Fstrayed by B. G. Booth, before Fritz Tege-
ner, j. p, on September IS, 1888, the following
described animal. tO-wit: One dun mare,
branded Or o on left thigh, and thus, on
left shoulder. One sorrel mare mule, branded
dRO&VY on left thigh.
Given under my hand September 90, 1888.
aug4-w3t FRANK BROWN, Clerk.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-18

T1OR SALE AT A BARGAIN Shelves, coun-
u tiers, drawers and show window; cheap
Rp-Town Pharmacy, i4Oi Layaca street
oc10d2tw1t
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INSURE YOUR GINS.-We represent frs
l. class companies and will take pleasure in
giving rates, ETC., etc. ZIMPELMAN q Der
GAN, Austin. Tex. aug7-d&-w6t
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HOME, FARM AND RANCH.
TEMpERArURE FOR CHURNING.

TEMPERATURE FOR CHUhNING.
Churning is usually done at about
sixty-two degrees Fahrenheit. Yet a
Western farmer says he knows a sue
cessful dairyman who always churns
at lifty-four degrees, and he heard one
declare at the National Butter. Cheese
and Egg convention, held at Milwau-
kee last December, that he churned at
fifty-eight degrees. We may infer
from this that different temperatures
are required for different conditions.
In one instance, ut least. different
temperature was demanded for sweet
cream. John Gould, agricultural edi-
tor of the Cleveland Herald, relates
the case of neighboring creamery in
which the buttermilk was churned In
order to get all the butter.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-26
The Use Of Coal Ashes.
Germantown Telegraph.

Germantown Telegraph.
We see the question often asked
"What is the use of coal ashes The
question has never been satisfactor.
lily answered" This is q mistake. II
has. As manurial agent they are Of
no perceptible value. As an agent in
loosening heavy soil they are of value.
We have experimental with them for
a number of years, and that is about all
that we can make of them. We ap
piled some years ago, about two inches
of the ashes all over the garden, the
soil of which was rather heavy, and
they had direct tendency to make it
more friable. Their presence was OBJ
servable for several years but that
they acted in any degree as fertilizer
we could not discern, nor do we believe
they did. The best use to make of coal
ashes is to construct with them good
garden walks and carriage ways, plac-
ing all the rough, coarse at the bottom,
and roll them well. There is nothing
better, or so good, for these purposes.
They are dry five minutes after rain,
and never become actually soft, even
in a thaw, which causes gravel way
TO yield SO freely to horses and vehicles.
They resist very much also the growth
Of grass and weeds, and garden walks
surfaced with them and thoroughly
rolled will not require half as much
cleaning as those where either gravel or
earth is used
We see coal ashes recommended for
q great many purposes, where it is to
act as a manure, as a protector against
insects, and so on but we do not be-
lieve they have any more effect than
so much road dust or any fine dry
soil.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-26
How Accidents Run in Streaks.
New york World.

New york World.
Accidents, like murders, suicide and
crimes of all sorts, run in streaks. The
phenomenon is as easily demonstrated
by experience as it is apparently i'm
possible of explanation, except on the
philosophers theory that there Is in all
things appertaining to life wave-like
motion, like the regular swinging of
the pendulum ofa clock, which in itself
is one of the unfathomable mysteries
of existence, dimly discovered but be-
yond the firm grasp of the human in.
tellect.
In the case of suicide and violent
crimes the unconscious imitativeness of
diseased minds has been held TO furnish
an explanation, but it can be applied to
accidents as little as to fires, which ex-
bibit the same gregarious tendency. ut
never rains but it pours," is the state.
ment of an experience common to all
times.
Steamship accidents furnish a nota-
BILE illustration. Everybody remem
bers the series of mishaps that befell
the steamers of French transatlantic
line some eight or ten years ago with
out fault of management, and the sub
sequent streaks Of i'll luck that over
took German and English steamers
after periods of absolute security on the
ocean ferry. What New Yorker has
forgotten the summer of the Seawaha
ka's burning, with its amazing record
of sound steamers wrecked by fire OF
accident
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-26
Cured with Snake Venom.
A RArTLEsNAKE's FANGs DRAWN UPON
TO BAFFLE A CASE OF LoCKJAw.

The last number ofthe Philadelphia
Medical Neaos contains a recital of a
successful experiment with snake ven-
ON as . curative for tetanus by DR.. A.
O. Ameden, of Glens Falls, N. Y.
Being in locality in which the rattle.
snakes were fearfully numerous, and
having previously given some thought
to the subject, DR.. Ameden resolved to
make the test.
"Availing myself of the services of
an experienced snake catcher" he says,
81 soon obtained venom fresh from the
fangs of one of the reptiles with this l
moistened the point of hypodermic
syringe and inserted it beneath the Gu
ticle in the upper dorsal region near the
spine. Symptoms of snake poisoning
rapidly followed, with decided ameli-
oration of the tetanic spasms and rigid
ity, which entirely ceased at the end of
ten hours, and the patient enjoyed a
quiet sleep of six hours duration.
Twenty hours after the insertion of the
poison, however, rigidity with slight
spasms again came on. A second in
PRODUCTION of the venom was made as
before, and no further trouble with te.
tanus was experienced, and the patient
made fairly rapid recovery. But ex-
treme prostration followed the last in
PRODUCTION of venom, which necessita.
ted active alcoholic stimulation as in
all cases of accidental snake poisoning.
There was no diffuse Inflammation from
the wounds, as frequently happens
when persons are bitten in the limbs
by these snakes, and no other results
that would deter me making second
experiment in the same manner. am
of the opinion that the second in
sertion OF the venom was too much,
and might have been withheld. be-
lieve that this snake venom, which has
been propererly called 'crotaline,' can
be used with comparative safety,
and may yet prove to be a valuable
remedial agent in tetanus, and possibly
in some other spasmodic diseases"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-26

POTATo PANCAKEs.-They make a
most excellent dish for supper Serve
with the same embellishments in the
way of pickles, sauces as you would do
were the dish you were offering fried
oysters. Crate dozen medium sized
potatoes, after peeling them and wash
ing thoroughly. Add the yolks of
three eggs, a .heaping teaspoonful of
flour, and if they seem too dry, little
milk will do to thin them, with large
teaspoonful of salt, and lastly the whites
of the three eggs beaten stiff, and
thoroughly beaten in with the potatoes.
Heat your griddle and put butter and
lard in equal proportions on it, and fry
the cakes in it until they"are brown.
Make them third larger than the or.
dinary size of the pancake.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-26
Household Aids.
To prevent door from creaking ap-
ply a little soap in the hinges.

/
To prevent a door from creaking ap
ply a little soap in the hinges.
To clean steel. rub the article with a
piece of wash-leather dipped in kero-
| some oil.
The luster of morocco is restored by
vanishing it with the white of an egg.
Apply with sponge.
When tins are much blackened by
the fire they should be secured with
soap, water aud fine sand.
IL brooms are wetted in hot suds once
week they will last much longer, and
always sweep like new broom.
Kid shoes can be kept soft and free
from cracks by rubbing them once
a week with pure glycerine or castor
oil.
A little saltpeter or carbonate of soda
mixed with the water in which lowers
are placed will keep them fresh for two
weeks.
To remove egg stains from silver
spoons take little common salt be-
tween the thumb and finger and rub
the stain briskly. Then wash in hot
suds.
To cure felons, mix one ounce of
Venice turpentine with one ounce of
water, stir with rough stick until
thick then wrap good coating of it
around the finger with cloth. Anoth-
er method is to wrap the part affected
with a linen cloth dipped in tincture
of lobella.
To polish marble cut the surface with
piece of fine sandstone, using fine
sand and water. When the whole sur.
face has been equally gone over take a
piece of felt or old hat wrapped around
a weight, dip it in fine emery powder
and rub the marble until all the marks
left by the former process are worked
out. Afterwards finish the polish with
putty, powder and fine rags.
To make black Japan varnish mix
together burnt umber, eight ounces
true asphaltum, three ounces boiled
linseed oil, one gallon grind the UNI
Der with little of the oil add the
asphaltum, previously dissolved in a
small quantity of the oil by heat mix,
add tho remainder of the oil, boil, cool
and thin with sufficient quantity of
oil of turpentine.
To make crystal varnish take gen.
uine pale Canada balsam and rectified
oil of turpentine, equal parts mix,
place the bottles in warm water, agi-
tate well, set it inside in a moderately
warm place, and in week pour off the
clear. 1t is used for maps. prints,
drawings and other articles of paper
also to prepare tracing paper and to
transfer engravings.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-26
Feeding Turnips.

The Dairy.
Feeding turnips TO milking cows is
objected TO on account of the i'll flavor
communicated to the milk, and which
spoils it for any good use, but il is not
necessary that this i'll flavor should be
given to the milk. IL is caused by the
very volatile odor of the roots, which
is absorbed by the stomach, and then
by the blood, and lastly by the milk.
A large part of it is carried off by the
perspiration through the skin and a
large part through the kidneys. The
reason of the rapidity of this effect of
feeding turnlps is the large proportion
of water which they contain, and that
the water is very quickly absorbed by
the blood and dispersed through the
system, and as quickly got rid of
through the skin and the kidneys 1t
is precisely the same with onions, gar
lie and other strong favored weeds,
and also with impure water. But this
very rapid Transportation of the water
gives clue to ready means of avoid
ing the Objectionable effect referred to-
If turnips are fed Immediately after
milking, night and morning, the odor
passes off and does not affect the next
morning. 1t is not safe to feed them
before milking, unless done immediate
ly before, as water is absorbed from the
stomach into the blood with great rapi-
dity, and the odor would begin to reach
the milk in a few minutes. The odor
of garlic may be prevented-it is said
in somewhat the same manner, bat
we have not personally tried the effect
for want of the garlic. But it is so re-
ported by the dairyman who says he
was troubled with the smell of garlic
or wild onion in his milk. To obviate
this he put the cows in the stable at
about three o'clock each afternoon, and
fed on hay and gave them hay as usual.
The result was all he anticipated;
rest of three hours allowed the scent to
pass off in the other secretions, though
previously it very strongly favored
both milk and butter. The same course,
he suggests, would probably be an ad-
vantage when the milk tastes of other
foul weeds in the pasture, and he is
probably right
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-26
AN AND DEMOCRAT, BT00MsBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA


How TO FERTiLIzE FRUIT TREES. -
Here and there on all farms and in
most fruit gardens will be seen an oc
cassional tree or grapevine, which
seems to lack vigor---does not grow
well, and yet seems TO have no parti
cular disease. The probabilities are
that the tree is dying of starvation and
needs supply of food. When you
give it this ration, do not pile load of
manure around the trunk of the tree
or the body of grapevine. That is
just the place where it will do the
least good. Nearest the trunk of the
tree, the roots are all large The Il
brous roots-the feeders, are further
off near the ends of the roots These
only can take up the nutriment. 1t is
always safe to assume that the roots
extend as far from the trunk in every
direction rs do the limbs of the tree,
and to properly fertilize, spread the ma
nure all over that area. Then fork it
in and you have done good work and
done it we'll II some disease has be.
gun its work on the tree, you will put
the tree in a healthy, vigorous condi-
ton, the better enabling it TO success.
fully contend against its enemies. We
have seen numerous old pear and ap.
pie trees, bearing poor and gnarled
fruit, which the owners consider of no
value, but which such treatment as
we have outlined above would restore
to their original usefulness. Orange
County Farmer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-26
Somewhat Mixed.

An Ohio man, who had visited Goth
am and got many new ideas, returned
home and re marked most of his goods,
so that he could say the price of this
and that was so much, with SO much
off. Everything seemed to work pref.
ty well for week or so, when one OF
the clerks said he needed little more
posting.
"For instance" he exclaimed, "we
are giving twenty off on all wooden.
ware 7"
eyes,
sand pals are twenty cents apiece''
"Yes."
"Then every time a man wants q
pail he gets it for nothing, and if he
takes two give him twenty cents 7"
"James, are you born fool 7" de-
manded the merchant.
"No, sir + was the prompt reply
"I've got rid of the eight dozen pals
we had stored up stairs in less than q
week, and have promised five dozer
more. If you have a clerk who
pleases customers more than do tro1
him out"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-26
Naming a La ke.

Years ago it was discovered that a
certain lake which had long been con-
sidered the head of the Mississippi,
had no claim to that honor. The ex-
plorers found new and smaller lake
from which the river took its rise. A
discussion arose rs to what name
would be appropriate for it. The sto-
ry is that it was decided in this way
'Lets make a new name by coming
word" said an old voyager "Some
of you learned ones tell me what is
Latin for true"
"Veritas, 4" answered a scholar.
swell, now, what is the Latin for
head?"
"Caput."
snow write the two words together
by syllables."
The scholar wrote on strip Of
birch-bark "yeritas caput."
"Read it,"
The five syllables were read.
snow drop the first and last sylla
bles and you'll have good name for
this lake" And "Itasca it was.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-26
A Paying Poultry Farm.

A poultry farm of 5000 Plymouth
Rocks is owned and carried on by A. G.
Hawkins at Lancaster, near Boston,
Massachusetts. He calculates to have
about 5000 fowls every fall and carries
over about $500 laying hens through
the winter. AT the present time he
has $4,000 including all sizes. His
farm contains twenty-five acres, and
his poultry buildings occupy an acre
and halt. They are situated on the
south slope of hill, and comprise six
or seven sheds 200 feetin length. Each
shed is divided into apartments of IL
by 20 feet, and about twenty five hens
are kept in each division. A yard is
made in front of each apartment, so
that the members of each are by them
selves. Mr.. Hawkins believes that if
confined poultry have all their wants
attended to, they will do as we'll in egg
production as if allowed free range.
He bases this belief upon several tests.
In Matching time he sets 200 hens on
one day, and puts 500 eggs in an incu-
bator, which is due to hatch on the
same day, the chickens from which
will be distributed among the 200 hens.
Boston is one of the best markets for
fancy prices for eggs and poultry, and
his sales of fowls and eggs for hatch.
at fancy prices are large, about ninety
per cent. being profit. He also has a
standing order for sixty to ninety
dozens of eggs daily, for which he gets
the highest market price. Mr.. Haw-
kins began at the age of twenty one
with 100 hens, and by careful manage
ment and economy his business has en-
larged, so that at the age of twenty
nine he has very handsome income.
The manure from the poultry is quite
an item f; he sold last year 500 barrels
at $3.50 barrrel.-CultioatOr.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-26
Bald Headed Suggestions.

Chicago Telegram.
A bald-headed man is refined, and he
always shows his skull sure.
1t has never been decided what cans
es bald heads, hut most people think il
is dan'd rough.
A good novel for bald heads to read
--"rhe Lost Heir"
What does bald.headed man say
to his comb 7 We meet TO part no
more.
Motto for bald-head-Bare and fur
bare.
However high a position a bald.
headed man holds, he will never comb
iown in the world.
The bald-headed nan never dyes.
Advice to bald. .headers-Join the
Indians, who are the only successful
hair.raisers.
What does every bald headed man
put on his headf HIS hat.
You never saw bald-headed man
with low forehead.
Shakspear says-There is divinity
that shapes our ends.
Bald men are considered the coolest.
headed men in the world.
1t was perfectly bear.berous in the
forty wicked children to salute the
white.pated Elijah with the taunting
remark, "Go up, thou bald-head."
A bald head is eloquently suggestive
OF premature piety.
Ice cream and chocolate caramels are
the leading precedents of incipient
badness.
Bald headed eagles are natives of
the Bald mountains.
Never go after a man, or woman
either in perfectly bald-headed fash
ion."
The bald are always truly good.
This accounts tor Ben Butler having
demonstrated himself such an exempla-
ry Governor.
The venerable bald head who has 80
long been the target for the wit of the
gallery gods as he sat in front row
enjoying the ballet will rejoice to know
that the day of his deliverance is at
hand. The Telegram has heard of
party who has invented q wonderful
hair restorative, warranted to cover the
baldest head with thick growth of
glossy hair in only seventy-two hours.
The remedy is said to be extracted
from the inner bark of the mesquite
tree. The restorative produces differ
ent shades of bair. In order TO avoid
answering numerous queries, we real
ize the pertinence Of saying that we do
not know the name of this preparation,
or the address of its inventor.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-26

"What's that thingi" asked dairy
man, as chrome peddler held up a
picture in which all the hues of the
rainbow were displayed in reckless
profusion, without regard to harmony
or correctness.
ga cow replied the smiling art con.
noisseur, with show of pride.
"a cow!' gasped the milk handler,
"Well, that's the first time / ever saw
green COW browsing on salmon-col-
ored grass. Here John !" he yelled to
the hired man "bring me the gun !"
But the chrome fiend climbed the
fence and made break for the woods.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-26
How to tell Good Butter.

Mr.. Robert Hall, an Ohio butter in
spector, says that where butter is pro-
perly churned, both as to time and to
temperature, il becomes firm with very
little working, and it is tenacious but
its most desirable state is waxy, when
it is easily modelled into any shape, and
may be drawn out a considerable
length without breaking. 1t is then
styled gilt-edge. II is only in this
state butter possesses that rich nutty
flavor and smell, and shows up a rich
golden yellow color which imparts so
high degree of pleasure in eating it,
and which increases its value many
fold. 1t is not always necessary. when
it smells sweet, TO taste butter in judg-
ing it, The smooth unctuous feel in
rubbing little between the finger and
thumb expresses at once its rich quality
the nutty smell and rich aroma indicate
a similar taste and the bright golden
glistening cream-colored surface shows
its height of cleanliness. 1t may be
necessary at times to use the trier, OF
even use it until you become an expert
in testing by taste, smell and rub
bing.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-26

CIDER JELLY.-Delicious jelly can be
made of cider. To one pint of clear,
sweet cider allow one pint of cold water,
two pounds of sugar, one package of
gelatine, one large pint of boiling
water. Soak the gelatine until it Is en-
tirely dissolved in the cold water then
add to this the sugar, a spoonful Of
cinnamon, the juice of two lemons, the
grated rind of two, then the galatine
Add the cider last then put all in a
thick flannel bag and let it drain. Do
not squeeze it at all. Put it in FOWLS
or glasses and set it away to cool. Sher-
ry or Madeira wine may be substituted
for the cider.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-26

SHUT Up.-Smiler Colfax peeps from
under his load of Credit Mobiler scan.
dal long enough to say that "the Re-
publicans will elect their candidate,
not so much on account OF the strength
as it seems to be predestined that the
Democrats shall remain ont of power" !"
He is not the first Professionalism who
has had the wind knocked out of him.
His political theology will unquestion-
ably get bad shaking up in 1884, and
he will know of oertainty that the
Republican party must 60, Just as he
had to get out of public life and for
the same reason-robbing the Treas
urY
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-26

CHICKEN SoUP.-A delicious chicken
soup is made by cutting up one chick
en- and putting it in your kettle with
nearly two quarts of water, teaspoon
full of salt and little pepper. When
about half done add two teaspoonfuls
of barley or of rice. When this is done
remove the chicken from the soup. tear
or cut part of the breast into small
pieces, add to the soup with cup of
cream. The rest of the chicken may
be reserved for salad or for chicken cro-
Quettes,