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The Mineral argus., 1884-05-15
The Short Rows.

A Vermont daiTyman says a young
calf should be fed three times a day.
Overlooking at long intervals, and es-
pecially with cold food, kills a good
many valuable calves.
A writer in Hygiene Pratique states
that boots and shoes may be rendered
waterproof by soaking them for some
hours in thick soap water. The COM
pound forms a fatty acid within the
leather, and makes it impervious to
water.
Don't forget the dust bath for the
poultry. This is made by mailing to-
gether four boards in the form of n
square. No bottom is needed. Place
in a sunny corner and fill with dry loan
or road dust, with IN extra barrel full
to use when needed. There is nothing
equal to a good dust bath to keep the
hens free from lice. If they are very
lousy a bushel of wood ashes may be
added to the bath.
In windy localities, says J. J. Thorn
as, good screens of evergreens on the
exposed sides of the cattle yards
have the three-fold advantage of orna-
ment, comfort to the cattle, and econ
Omy in feed and in saving flesh. This
kind of protection from wintry winds,
with its great saving and little cost, is
so important that there appears TO be
no excuse for its commission by any
farmer.
A correspondent says that young
horses should never have shoes imposed
upon them until it is well proved that
they cannot do without them. He pre-
1icts that the day is not far off when
some humane benefactor of his kind
and hoTse-kind will produce a breed of
horses having such firm, tough feet in
addition to all other good qualities.
The negroes of Sumter county, Ala,
have a farmers club in successful oper-
alton, with some very practical features
worthy the consideration of white folks.
If any member fails to attend properly
TO his team, Orkeep his fences in repair
he is fined from 81 to $40, and the
money is collected out of the first pro-
reeds of his crop. Membership in such
aclub would prove expensive to a good
many white farmers.
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or, as its name suggests, a mushroom
shade.
Judge Dickey, of the Illinois Supreme
Court, shed tears when on the Shiloh
battlefield a few days ago. He told the
three hundred Union veterans around
him how the husband of his daughter
General Wallace. was killed near the
spot then under foot. During the bat
tie Mrs. Wallace, approaching to join
her husband, met a messenger, who
told her of the Generals fall.
At a station in Montana the other
day a Boston girl stuck her head out of
a Northern Pacific car and exclaimed
"The bewildering womance which
cwowns this twanscendental scenewy
with such indescwibable ~facinatiOn and
tinges its evewy featuh with such over
pow'mg interest quite bweaks me Upi"
And a number of members of the local
vigilance committee standing on the
platform look grimly into each others
faces and muttered, "Oh, if it was only
u man."
The Montreal CAM Witness says:
"Among other worthy deeds, the late
Joseph Mackay left $4,000 for a Pro-
fessorship in Montreal Presbyterian
College. His surviving bryther, Ed
ward, supplemented this by a gift of
$40, 900 and called the professorship af-
ter his brother. At his death the late
Edward Mackay left $40, 900 to found a
chair in the college. Now his three
nephews have added $40 900, and call
the pr~ofessorship after their uncle.
"The Indian girl of Eureka, Nev.,"
says the San Francisco Chronicle, "who
had been given all the benefits of civil
i%zation, including dresses of the latest
style, and who recently cast them aside
and went to live in a wickiup with a
Piute buck, has repented of her passion
for savage life. Recently, after drink
ing bad whiskey all night, he arose in
the morning and began to beat and kick
her. She escaped to town and has once
more donned the garb of civilization.
Perhaps it would be a good thing to
send her east as a lecturer on the beau
ties of savage life.
The present wife of the emperor of
Germany was not his first choice. The
lady whom he wanted to marry was the
Princess Elizabeth Radziwill, The lat
ter returned his love 10 the highest de-
gree, but she was much too noble
minded to accept the sacrifice of his
hand, and, in a last interview with the
she besought him to release her.
She went into a nunnery, and Wilhelm
welded Augusta, but their married life
was not for many years a very happy
one. 1t is only since the different at
on the emperor's life that their
have become warmer, and on
occasions the empress always
spent many hours daily near the bed
side of her husband.
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Home Matters.

Painted and stained floors are grow
ing in popularity.
japanese screens and panels are much
used for decorative purposes.
The finest plain white damask is CON
ing in fashion again for the table.
A buttermilk bath for widowed arti-
cles, afterwards placing them in the sun,
is recommended.
Old-fashioned rag-carpet is to be seen
on the floors of some Of the kitchens in
some of our fashionable houses.
Brass poles are used for stair-rods.
They look effective over a handsome
carpet, but are difficult to keep clean.
Sweet Omelettes, which are only the
plain omelette jelly or jam spread over
it before it is rolled, should be busted
with fine sugar at the moment of serv-
ing.
HOME CAKE.-Rub well into a pound
of flour half-pound of good beef drip
ping; add o~ne-quarter pound of sugar
and one-quarter pound of currants
then n tablespoonful of brewers yeast.
Mix as bread, but do not knead; let it
rise till light. and bake in a quick oven.
To make the ebony stain for furni-
ture or mantels, use tube oil, blue-black
for staining u~nvarnished wood. The
dull tint gives the surface required, and
is very different from the shining and
vanished effect of jet black paint. If
the color sinks i'm very mich. as If will
on soft woods, repeat the process.
The cheap palm-leaf fans are very
much for screens, being covered with
drawn plush, satin, or cretonne to form
a bag, finished off with small pompons
round the edge at small intervals, and
a large satin bow at the base of the
handle. They are sometimes hung up
the wall by the side of the fire
place, handle upward, and hold a half
opened Japanese fan fire-screen, or any
odds and ends.
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Early Pig Pasture.

What is it best to SOW for an early
pasture for pigs, the coming summer,
on a prairie soil newly broken?
Ans.-It is not advisable to pasture
some grasses at all, or to pasture very
early, the same season the seeds sown
but the best you can do is to SOW four
pounds of Orchard Grass, six pounds
White Glover, four pounds Kentucky
Blue Grass and II pounds Red clover
seed to the acre. To this you might
add three pounds of Northern Red Top.
The White Glover is very early and is
closely followed by Kentucky Blue
Grass and Orchard Grass. Harrow
the ground well and brush in the seeds.
If you ear do this just before a rain all
the better. All the seeds mentioned
may be sown togetherin the early spring.
You might sow a patch of rye for pas
ture to ease the grass, but the success
of this you can best determine for your
self.-Rural New Yorker.
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i, Caution in Regard to seea.oorn.

d. S., Ionia County, Mich, writes;
"For 10 years there has not been a sea-
son so bad for ripening corr as that of
1888. tits estimated that $50, 600 bush
els of seed-corn will be needed in the
State of Wisconsin alone, owing to the
failure of the corr to ripen. Similar
conditions prevail in all corn-growing
states, and probably not one farmer in
fifty has saved corn that is fit for seed.
Every n should to-day test his seed
corn by placing several average samples
between folds of moistened flannel and
# it does not terminate then look sharp
for corn that will grow or the result
will be hundreds and thousands of dol
lars of loss to the farmers and millions
to the country. Look sharp, too, for
corn of the best varieties which ripened
in 1888. So far as l can learn there was
only n variety that ripened perfectly
III THE state the past season. Also pro-
cure a pure, fixed, and distinct variety
which has been thoroughly tested, and
which is an extra early and not a hard,
finty corn.
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A Northwestern Bishop.

Bishop Paddock, (EpiscopaD of Wash
ington Territory, will return to his mis-
%sionary diocese at the close of this
month. He has been occupied during
the winter in raising money for a second
school at Tacoma. Nh. Wright, of Phil
adelphia, offered two years ago to give
the land and an endowment fund of
$50, 600 for each of two church schools.
n for girls and the other for
boys, provided the Bishop would fur
nish a building fund of $25 900 in
each instance. The cornerstone for
n of the schools was laid last
year, the building fund having been Sc
cured. The Bishop has succeeded in
raising $15 900 for the second school,
and is confident that the remainder will
be in hand in time to secure the second
endowment of $4,000. He has also
opened a hospital on the coast, and
placed a third school at Walla Walla on
a self-supporting basis. These four in
situations will give the religious body
which he represents great influence in
the rapidly growing Territory, soon to
become a State. The Bishops daughter,
who was married in Brooklyn last
October to Lieutenant Mills, Z. S. A,
is now at Fort Cour d'Alene, on the
border of her fathers diocese.
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Personal Gossip.

Grant smokes a medium strength CT
gaEs which he imports from Cuba. He
talks while smoking, never lets a cigar
go out, and smokes the stub on a wood
en- toothpick. Sherman smokes nerv-
ously, and is always relighting his cigar.
Sheridan enjoys a quiet smoke, but
can't do anything else while he is smok-
ing. Butler rarely lights a cigar, but
carries the wrong end in his mouth.
Logan smokes only at long intervals,
but when he smokes at all, tits inces-
sanity.
1t is well to be posted in the French
anne of some of the brand new shades
which fashion has introduced; "Gris"
Is a steeley drab shade. "Shauvette. ("
a shade of drab beige. "Armande.n a
delicate salmon yellow. "Isard," an
ashes of rose or pinkish, beige shade.
"Champignon" is a yellowish soft drab.
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Management of Swine.

How can we best manage IL present
crop of hogs during spring and early
summer, and how can we get the earliest
green feed for them, as corr is scarce
and dear?
ANs.-Hogs which have been winter
ed, will not only live, but thrive ON
grass or clover pasture. They can be
kept along On such pasture without
other food until spring grain is ripe.
Peas are the best feed for hogs, and
these will be ready in about % months
after sowing. Barley is next best of the
spring grains, and will mature sooner
than the peas. Early sweet corn can be
utilized to good advantage to be followed
by later varieties, and fed stalks and
all, and the hogs will eat it with great
relish. There are more fattening prop-
critics in sweet corn-stalks than most
people suppose. With the above aux
i~liaries hogs may be kept growing
through the summer, and be fattened
without any corn. Young pigs, how
ever, will require something more
than pasture. Wheat middlings, or
ground oats with the hulls sifted out.
and slightly fermented, Will make the
best kind of food for pigs. The bulls
of the oats are excellent for the calves
or COWS. If sows are su ckling pigs,
they will require additional food until
the peas Oh barley are ready for them.
The hogs may be turned into the peas.
and thus harvesting and grinding will
be unnecessary. Wheat might take the
place of corn, and if ground entire in
small quantities it will be ecxellentfoo
for swine.-Rural New Yorker.
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Window Boxes

Among the numerous plans for the com
ing summer made by the great army of
flower lovers all over the broad land, /
hope many have included one, two or
more window boxes. 1t can be said in
their favor that they offer one of the
easiest methods of gardening, and one
Of the prettiest forms of outdoor decor
alton; and to the large class, who,
through i'll health or many cares, are
lebarred from the ordinary flower gar
den, they are especially suitable. They
give also rare chances for richness of
tone and harmony of color, and an
artists work may be as plainly visible in
q well-filled window box as in many
more pretentious things.
/ was especially struck with this lat
ter fact, one day, last summer, when
before the windows of an old farm house
[ saw so beautiful a combination of
form and color that L stopped and
begged permission to examine closely.
The brackets that held the window box
es were fastened in place with large
screws; and could be easily removed,
and the boxes made of implanted pine
nailed together. Up each side of the
window was a rustic ladder, made by
fastening a slender cedar stick about
tour feet long in each corner of the box,
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Growing Celery,

From the Western Rural.
We are asked to give directions for
the cultivation of celery. Sow the seed
in the open ground as soon as the
ground is fit to work. The ground
should be level and the soil mellow and
rich, and it is better when it is being
thoroughly pulyerised, which it ought
to be, to mix it with short stable manure
Sow in rows eight inches apart. using
n ounce of seed to every twenty feet
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A gentleman living at Aiken, S. G

A gentleman living at Aiken, S. c.,
according to a local newspaper, owned
a pair of ponies which the family had
driven for years. Recently the roads
became so bad that he sent the ponies
out to his plantation to pasture, and
bought a team Of stout horses. When
the ponies went to the farm the old
coach-dog, which had run with them
for years, accompanied them. They had
been there a week when the dog trotted
back to town to see his master. He
lowered around the new horses for a
few minutes, and then put of briskly for
the farm. In an hour he came back,
followed by the two faithful old ponies
whose places had been usurped by the
horses
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When to Sow Glover.

I see al inquiry in your paper as to
the time to sow clover seed. Twas glad
to see some one raise the discussion on
clover. L will give my experience Of
forty years, and what 1 have gathered
from others I have talked with. NV
facilities for knowing have been some
what better than those of most farmers,
as L have been selling a seed W for
the last ten years. From what / can
gather, about the 18th of April is the
best time, if the season is favorable; if
not, SOW later, when the ground is dry
and cracked, and before a rain. / don't
SOW on a snow or IN the moon, but on
the ground when out of the way of frost.
By this plan a man won't miss getting
a stand more than once in five or seven
years, but if he sows early and the seed
terminates he is a goner.-Indiana
Farmer.
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of row. After sowing roll or nat DOM,
with a spade. As soon as the nIonts
appear hoe lightly between the rows
and pull out the weeds as soon as tbev
are seen. As the plants advance =
growth cut off the tops-perhaps twice
before planting--as that process in.
duces a stocky growth and plants
treated thus suffer less in trans.
planting. 1t may be planted
any time from the middle of June 70
the middle of August, but little is gained
in planting before July. Prepare
ground, and plant on a level surface
with rows three feet apart and the
plants sixteen inches apart in the rows
if it is a dwarf variety, five feet apart
if of the large varieties. Firm the
soil about the plant, especially if it is
dry. After planting, nothing need be
done for six weeks, except to run be-
tween the rows with a c~ultivator and keen
the plants free from weeds. About the
middle of August begin to earth up to
blanch up what is wanted for use in
September, October and November.
Draw the soil up about the plant with a
hoe and firm it about it, so that the
leaves shall be in an upright position.
Then draw more dirt up about the row.
A pillow may be used for this purpose.
But the blanching processes completed
only when the soil is taken from be-
tween the rows and banked up to the
top of the plants on each side.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-30

Judges Of the Court had been con-
suited rs 10 The scs5e Of heir deci
sion in the case the c. & O. X. II. C..
vs. the Auditor Dc. and that the
Governors letter and circular nf the
Auditor bassesl Oh said decision had
been submitted to them. and they
hail examined, revised and approved
the same, while the IsfeiiigeRce,'
article hol'lIy states as facts that
the Supreme court of Appeals is Ia
he brought Ia the rescue in Il decision
affirming the cOnstitutionality of the
exemption act that This is in effect
what was promised 10y three Supreme
Court Judges Ia The Democratic can
Gus before the ORDER was ISSUED" that
"three Of lhe Judges of the Supreme
Court told The Democratic caucns
more than a year AGO 10 go ahead
and rely upon the backing OF the
Court. and that "the present under
standing is that the decision is Ia he
rendered before the meeting Of the
Democratic State Convention in order
to simplify the situation
Editor Hart, therefore, in his arti-
Gle asserts that the three Judges of
the Supreme Court before whom the
ease of the Auditor vs.. Buchanan was
then pending had, year, before the
controversy arose, promised the Dem
ocratic cancns TO decide this ease in
a particular way.
Neither Judge Snider nor Judge
Woods were on the bench when the
{. ~ O. r II. Co vs The Auditor
was decided, and could not have been
consulted rs TO the scope of their
decision in that case
And moreover, the Inteligeacer
| article does not profess To be founded
on the statement of the hdepenpent
or on information from any other
source than the personal knowledge
OF the editor.
1t could therefore have had no
foundation in the Independent article,
but was, according to the view of the
view Of the Court, false and reck
less libel on the Court. And that
Editor Hart, having committed a
contempt Of the Court was fined $500,
ond one of the other proprietors Of
the NteHigeneer was fined the nom
inal sum of S25.
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OurCandidate for County SUR


Last week not being furnished
with the facts and figures in the ease
we could not give the record of Mr.
Gass which we finnish below
The subject of this notice is son
of VIM. Gass, q Blacksmith by trade
and now living ia Whiteday town
ship Greene county, PA. but formerly
of Washington county from which
place he removed To Carmichacls
where he resided about - years.
During this time the person first men
toned received a very liberal educa-
ton at "Old Greene Academy" In
1878 he received professional Ger
tificate from IIoge, the then Supt. Of
schools in Greene county. and taught
several successful terms during which
practice IF Civil Engineering and
surveying, a profession in which he
is now an acknowledged expert In
1881 he came to Blacksville w Va
to engage as clerk IN the merehan-
tile business with X. 5. Lants a pc
sition which he still holds when not
engaged in surveying. In the fall of
'S2 he took unto himself a wife in
the person Of Miss Belle Bowlbv, n
daughter of Coleman Bowlby and
purchased the Calvert property in
BlacksviIe where he has since
resided. As a surveyor he is
provided with one of Gnrley's best
and latest improved transits and has
built up and enjoys a reputation that
speaks volumes for his ability in his
profession.
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tlenents of less than ten thousand
inhabitants.
70. The establishment of sta
tons. switches. telegraph and cx
press offices. As soon a warranted,
at points from watch present IA
cilitirs can not be utilized.
-. Increased train facilities as
rapidly as the growth of population
Will justify.
"Other special Inducements may
be given manufacturing corpora
tons. land and building associations
and individuals contemplating the
expenditure of considerable
sums in construction. TO which end
correspondence should be address,
ed to the I'd Vice President of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany
Applications should be made
on printed blank. which will be
supplied by this Company to any
individual OF association which may
be organized under this circular.
This Company reserves the right
to reject any application for the
foregoing privileges.
Application for these privileges
on the Main Stem. Parkersburg.
Washington. Alexandria. Metro
politan Frederick. Washington
County and the Harper's Ferry and
Valley Branches, and the Valley
Railroad. should be addressed 10
Mr.. 5. Spencer. I'd Vice President
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Bal
timore; to the Wheeling and Pitts
burgh Division, Pittsburgh and
Connellsville Railroad pittsburgh
Division, Salisbury, Berlin, Som
erset and Cambria, Mt Pleasant
and Fayette County Branches, to
Mr.. Thomas M. King, General
Superintendent, Pittsburgh; to the
Central Ohio, Lake Erie. Straits
vile and Chicago Divisions and
Branches, TO Mr. @ ]. Foreacre,
General Manager, Newark, Ohio :
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Our Generasion'- Changes.

There are thousands of people liy
in. in this country to-day who never
expected slavery and other fixed in
situations 10 he brought To an end in
their day and generation. Those
wrongs To a down trodlen race deem
ell invincible, hat yet one generation
has seen them hloited out, and now
the present one sees just as great
evils confronted with an army just
rs strong rs any that ever waged war
for HE henetit of HE oppressed.
Change is written everywhere. The
ills and woes of mankind are claim
lug attention. and the coming eener-
alton can erect the monument over
many Of the iinurisliing evils Of 10
day In n, profession is there more
advancement being made than IN the
science Of medicine Physicians are
learning Ia ptaetiee common sense NJ
well as medicine. They are begin
nine 10 prescribe Pcrnna aud Mana
lin for large nnnlrr of lhe com
plants Of mankind, and with aston
ished SUGGEST They keep ON III the
good work and the cnd is assured
Send for the book on the Hills Of Life.
aud for hottie of Peruna. to DIR. :.
Hartman u Co. Coumbs, Ohio.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-30
CRAFTSMANSHIP.
Is What is Exemplihed in Gov
ernor Clevelands's Letter.

The letter of acceptance of Gov
ernor Cleveland 10 the Democratic
notification committee cannot but
commend itself TO the intelligence
of every honest citizen of the
United States. 1t is tersc con
densed. and yet so broad in its
reach as to touch almost every
point in our governmental economy.
1t is such a document of pure
craftsmanship as deserves to and
will go down the ages preserved as
an exemplary condemnation Of
present political tendencies and
suggestion of their betterment. 1t
is honest in its ring, straightfor-
ward and plain in every statement.
Let everyman read it. and think
upon it, 1t promises light for
darkness. honesty for profligacy.
Let the reader note the next Pres
ident's sense of his responsibility.
his duty. what should be his term
of Office and why. his remarks on
the necessity of parties. the cor
ruption Of suffrage, official corrup
ton, the dignity and claims OF la
Dor, pauper immigration, the kinds
of laws which are wise, commerce
and transportation. and as TO the
Government employers earning
their salary instead ofreceiving pay
and doing nothing Read it. then
read Mr.. Blaines obscure puzzle
letter and you will not long hest
tate in deciding for the reform Gov
ernor. -(TsHfus