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The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1884-08-28

should not be hindered or imperiled
by social questions: therefore,
Resolved, That the General Con
ferance hereby confirms and reatfirms
the opinion previously expressed
that sscolor is no bar to any right or
privilege Of Office or membership in
the Methodist Episcopal Church."
but we recognize the propriety Of
such administration as will hereaf-
ter, as heretofore, secure the largest
concession to individual preferences
on all questions involving merely
the social relations of it's members.
We are in duty bound to provide
for and to secure to every class OF
our embe.ship, as far as possible,
q fair and equal opportunity in
Church and school accommodations.
And in so far as this is done our
duty is performed, and the equal
rights justly demanded Of us thus
fairly and fully conceded.
Mixed congregations and mixed
schools may. in many places, be
most desirable and best for all con
cerned. In other places, one class
or the other, or both, may prefer
separate congregations and separate
schools.
Equal rights to the best facilities
for intellectual and spiritual cultures;
equal rights in the eligibility to ev-
cry position Of honor and trust, and
equal rights in the exercise Of free
and unconstrained choice IN all So
cial relations, is principle at once
American, Methodistic, and Scrip
tural. Therefore,
Resolved, /. That we most sin
cerely rejoice in the progress made
in the work of education among our
cololed people in the South, and
pledge ourselves to stand by and as
sist them IN the further prosecution
OF this work, to the extent OF their
need in this direction.
2. That we heartily sympathize
with our white membership in the
South in their efforts to provide
adequate educational facilities
among themselves, and assure them
of such co operation and assistance
as we may be able to render.
3. That the question of separate
or mixed schools we consider one OF
expediency and right, which is TO be
left to the choice and administration
| of those on the ground and more I'm
medlately concerned; provided, there
shall be no interference with the
rights set forth in this preamble
and these resolutions.
4. That the entire educational
work in the Southern States should
be under the direction of ole socle-
ty.
5. That, in view of the great sue
cess OF the Freedmen's Aid Society
during the past four years in carry
ing forward the educational work in
the South, this Society ought to have
the full charge Of this work in that
section.
6. That the pastors, in presenting
the claims of this Society in making
appeals for funds. should state plain
lly that the work is among both races,
and that all contributors should be
allowed, whenever they may desire
TO do so, to designate where their
gifts shall go.
j. G. HARTzELL. Chairman.
JIG. EVANS, Secretary.
We the undersigned certify that
the above is correct copy OF the re-
port as j. T. Hendrickson has
shown us.
lsigned,
G. W. HARKEY, p. G. c. G.
i. M. OzMENT,
II. Il. MANN.
j. T. HENDRIcKsoN.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1884-08-28
A strong case --Swcitzer kale.

DO you wish beautiful complex
ION. Then use Ayers Sarsaparilla.
~ cleanses and purifies the blood,
and thereby removes blotches and
plmples from the skin, making il
smooth and clear, and giving 1t Il
bright and healthy appearance.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1884-08-28

The best medical authorities ac-
knowledge the.great value OF Ayers
Cathartic Pills, and frequently pre-
scribe their use with the utmost
confidence, we'll knowing that they
are the most effectual remedy ever
devised for diseases caused by de-
rangcments of the stomach, liver and
bowels.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1884-08-28

Grover Cleveland and Thomas Al.
Hendricks. / suppose few people
take much stock in the South Amer
lean commission to investigate and
report upon trade relations with the
nations Of South America. So long
as the republican policy is dominant
and the republican party is In pow
err. we need expect no foreign trade
of consequence.
JAMES SNrTH.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1884-08-28
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Landoflicc at Dardanelle, Ark, Aug s. 1884.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has fled notice OF his in entioD
and that said proof viii be made before the
County Judge of Pope county. at Dover, Ark,
on Sept IL. 1884, viz
VIM. G.. Howard, Hid entry. No. 13,27l, for the
bse u sec 81, tip 10 n 21 west.
lie names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon. and cultiva-
tion of, said land. viz:
John II. Humphreys and S. IL. Rye, Of slick.
Ark. w. J. Sherrell and w. l.. Crow, OF Ca
glesyille, Ark.
Sept 11-5t "A. q. LEMlNG, Register.
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HANOVER, O., Feb. I3, 1884.
After having lung fever and pnue.
moDia ] had dreadful cough and
could not sleep at night The doc
tors told me / bad Consumption aud
would die. have taken six bottles
Piso's Cure and my cough is entirely
gone and ! am we'll as ever.
EMELINE FoRD.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
The Profits of Eggs.

The Poultry World thinks it more
profitable to raise eggs than chickens
This is what it says: We make no allu-
sion to those large establishments where
raising chickens as chickens for a near
city market is undoubtedly paving
business. But we address the common
poultry raiser, living perhaps a consider
able distance from market, who wishes
to make the most of his stock. And to
such we say raise every pullet your premi-
ses will accommodate. Treat them in
such manner that they will lay early
and constantly through the winter, and
you will make more money than you can
by raising chickens to sell for broilers
unless at the fancy prices that such things
bring in cities. Most country breeders
have no such market for what they
chance to have to sell, and the small
prices they obtain at country hotel or
the house of the wealthy citizen, by no
means pays for the extra trouble and care
that early chickens cost. OF course, if
you have large number of fowls, there
would necessarily be cockerels and old
hens to fatten for sale, but do not make
it your business to sell dead stock instead
of making live hens give you hundreds
of eggs every year of their lives"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
SELECT SETTINGS.

Cows are still used to drag the pillow
in Central Germany.
There rs said to be three cents worth
Of gold in every ton of sea-water.
The game of draw-poker was invented
about 1916 or 1Si7 by noted Tennessee
turfman named Kirkman.
The English sent all their fine goods
to be dyed in Holland until the seven
teenth century, when the art was brought
to them.
Faustus, the professor of magic, on
whose traditional adventures Goethe
founded his poem, lived about the end
of the fifteenth century.
Amber is fossil resin, and is now
known to be the resinous emulation from
several species of extinct coniferous
trees. Most of the amber of commerce
is obtained from the shores of the Baltic.
In early times the method of executing
criminals in Holland was to confne them
solely to the use of bread in which no
salt was contained, and which ultimately
occasioned death by engendering fatal
form of disease.
The word m eerschaum is German
compound, and means sea-foam. 1t is a
mineral, and resembles chalk. 1t is
found in Turkey, Greece, and Spain,
where it is usually found in veins, as
other minerals are.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
Household Hint. and Recipe,,

To make corn bread, take two cups OF
Indian meal, one teaspoonful of salt, two
teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one cup
of molasses, one quart of sweet milk, two
eggs; stir with wheat flour about as stiff
as for cake and bake in deep dish.
Lemon cookies are made of one large
cup of sugar, little more than half a
cup of butter, half teaspoonful of soda
dissolved in two teaspOonfuls of hot
water; flavor with lemon, and use Just
flour enough so that you can roll the
cookies out thin; bake in quick oven.
An old fashioned and toothsome spice
cake is made of three pounds of seedless
raisins, one and half pounds of citron,
two and half coffee cups OF sugar, two
cups of sweet milk, four cups of flour,
six eggs, two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, three teaspoonfuls of cinnamon
and two of mace.
1t is not generally known that when
coffee beans are placed upon hot Goals
or upon n hot plate the flavor arising is
one of the most effective and at the
same time agreeable disinfectants. If nc
heat is obtainable, even the spreading
of ground coffee on the object to be
disinfected is most satisfactory.
For ham and eggs on toast, chop fine
cold boiled or baked ham. Toast and
butter slices of stale bread; crush the
crust with napkin to soften it. Spread
with the ham and set in oven for three Oh
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
Cold Winters.

The following statistics of the cold
winters are curious: In 401 the Black
sea was frozen over. In 76S, not only
the Black sea, but the straits of Darda-
nclles, was frozen over; the snow in
some places rose fifty feet high In
1872, the great rivers of Europe-the
Danube, the Elbe, etc.-were so hard
frozen as to bear heavy wagons for q
month. In 1860, the Adriatic was
frozen. In 091, everything was frozen
the crops totally failed, and famine and
pestilence closed the year. In 1867,
the most of the travellers in Germany
were frozen to death on the roads. In
1888, the Pc was frozen from Cremona
to the sea; the wine casks were burst,
and even the trees split by the action OF
the frost with immense noise. In 1896,
the Danube was frozen to the bottom,
and remained long in that state. In 1916,
the crop wholly failed in Germany
wheat, which some years before sold in
England at shillings the quarter, rose
to go. In 1889, the crops failed in Scot
land, and such famine ensued that the
poor were reduced to feed on grass, and
many persisted miserably in the fields.
The successive winters of 1882 '33 IA
were uncOmmonly severe. 1t once showed
forty days without interruption. In 1913,
wine distributed to the soldiers in Elan
ders was cut with hatchets. In 1854,
the winter was excessively cold Most OF
the hollies were killed. Coaches drove
along the Thames, the ice of which was
eleven inches thick. In 1909 occurred
the cold winter. The frost penetrated
three yards into the ground. In 1716,
booths were erected and fairs held on
the Thames. In 1744 and 1745 the
strongest ale in England, exposed to
the air, was covered in less than fifteen
minutes with ice an eighth of an inch
thick. In 1909, and again in 1912, the
winters were remarkably cold. In 1914
there was fair on the frozen Thames. -
Scientific american.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
The Value of Green HIanure,,

Farmers have an exceedingly made
quate idea of the value of green manures.
One who will SOW his seed and wait pa
tiently for the crop will be too impatient
to grow a crop of rye or corn or clover to
be plowed under to enrich the soil, and
return its rich harvest another year.
Another will spend hundreds of dollars
Tor purchased manure or fertilizers, but
Will not spend tens i'll growing IA crop
to pillow into the soil for the same pur-
pose. And there are farmers who have
determined to pillow under a clover sod
and have top-dressed in the fall or win
A.. ter with this intention, but who have
lost heart when they have seen a luxuriant
growth on the ground, which seemed to
be "a waste of good fodder, " as they have
said and so they have waited and have
either pastured it or moved it off
and robbed the soil of food which il
sorely needed This would seem quite diff
ferent if farmers would think of their
soil as something to be fed and supported
to enable it to yield its produce, as much
as COW that yields milk or sheep that
yields wool. There are some close
analogies between our fields and our ami
mails. An animal is a machine-if we
like to call it so-by which we make
salable products from raw materials. It
Is inexhaustible for its term of life so
long as it is fed; but it is really mex
haustible in fact, because, before its use
full life ends, it reproduces itself several
times and simply becomes link in a
chain which we may draw out indet-
nitely without reaching the end of it.
So that in this view of it even an animal
Is inexhaustible so long as it is fed.
And so is the soil, and no more and nc
longer, and, indeed, if it is not fed, a
aeld will be mere dead, useless matter lust
IS starved cow or sheep will be. The
farmer must learn to think of his land in
tbs way or he gets wrong idea of it.
he must not neglect to study up the
science OF feeding his fields as he reads
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08

four minutes. Beat six eggs with half
cupful of milk, little pepper and salt.
Put this in a saucepan and stir over the
fire until it begins to thicken. Take off,
beat well for a moment, spread over the
ham on toast serve hot Immediately.
To clean stained woodwork which is
also vanished, an old housewife recon-
mcnds the saving of tea-leaves from the
teapot for few days. Drain them and
when you have a sufficient quantity put
them in clean, soft water; let them
simmer for half an hour. When almost
cold, strain them out, and, dipping a
flannel cloth in the water, wipe off the
paint, driving it with another flannel
cloth. One cup of tea leaves to one
quart of water is the due allowance.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08

up that Of feeding his live stock.
He must become acquainted
with feeding tables and rations and kinds
of food for the land as well as for animals,
and must provide them literally. And
as clover is accounted an excellent food
for stock so it is an excellent food for
land. But, at the same time, as there
are other folders which can be used
along with clover, or as a substitute
when helped out by more stimulating
food, so there are other crops beside
clover which may be made to serve as
food for the soil Indeed, the soil is not
very exacting in this respect, although it
will never give something for nothing,
and always returns freely in exact pro
portion to what it receives and no more
but it is omnivorous and has an exceed
ingly strong digestion. So that the
farmer cannot go astray if he will always
provide something for it. 1t may be
weeds and no more, but it is better if it
is crop of buckwheat and better still
if it is rye or corn or even turnips or
rape, but best of all if we can give it
rich clover which goes down deeply and
draws food from the Subsoil and opens
its broad leaves to the air and gathers
from that source too, as well as others
which other plants cannot reach, and so
gives the farmer hundred fold in re-
turn for the seed and labor he has ex-
pended. There are other ways of manur-
ing the soil, but among them blowing in
of green crops has no superior.
York Times
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
sand for a clay soil.

Twenty-four years ago, says writer in
an exchange, we had three or four inches
of sand carted on part of garden, the
soil of which was too clayey for the sue
cessful or convenient raising of garden
vegetables. When this sand was well
worked in, the whole became an excel
lent sandy loan, just the soil for agree
able working. The labor of drawing on
the sand was considerable; but it
was done in winter, when there was lit
tie else for the man and team to do, and
the fine condition of the soil remains as
good as at first, and probably will for a
century to come, as the sand does not
evaporate, wash away or become con-
sumed in the growth of plants as will
manure.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
A japanese Funeral.

If 1t were evening you might see a
Japanese funeral procession, says letter
from Japan. The funerals here are al
ways conducted at sunset, in accordance
with a superstition that is rather beauti-
full than otherwise. The procession is
headed by priests and a company of
musicians, who play upon samisens and
beat on tomtoms. The coffin is a wooden
tub in which the deceased is squatting
as he has lived, with his feet tucked
under him. There is this difference.
however. The face of the dead man is
looking toward the north, whereas this
position is religiously avoided by the
living japanese. Indeed, the points of
the compass are frequently marked on
the ceilings of sleeping rooms, that the
sleeper may arrange his mats so as to
avoid this unfavorable position. The
wealthy class are buried in earthen jars
instead of wooden tubs. but the mode of
arrangement is the same. These peculiar
shaped collins do not take up the space
required by American baskets, and burial
lots need not be so large. One priest in
the procession carries an oblong table,
containing the dead name" of the de-
ceased, and another bears the precious
lotus blossom. lfyOu follow the cortege,
you will find your way into surprisingly
well-kept cemetery, with headstones all
erect, and fresh flowers strewn upon most
of the graves. Litanies are chanted and
the body is lowered into a shallow grave
lined with cement. Then a life-sized
pink lotus plant is placed upon the fresh
mound, lacquer tray of bowls of tea or
sake, beans and sweetmeats provided
near by, and you walk away from the
spot strongly moved by the solemn, I'M
familiar spectacle.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
Selr-CIeaning Cisterns.

Not one farmer in one hundred knows
how to manage cistern so as to keep the
water in 1t pure and wholesome. The
majority use the water so long as it can
be tolerated. Then when the odor be-
comes intolerable the cistern is cleaned
out.
The chief sources of impure water in
cisterns are the inflowing of filth from
the outside, gaseous contamination from
any sewer or cesspool near at hand and
decaying organic matter from the cutters
and water pipes. The remedies are OBJ
vious; construct the cistern so as to ex-
clude all outside contaminations and
keep the roofs and cutters, down which
the rain washes into the cistern, clean
and free from fallen leaves, etc.
Professor r. G. Kcdzie. of the Michigan
Agricultural college, has given the sub
ject of cisterns and their contents much
study and investigation. He says that
examination and analyses have proved
that the purest water is always at the top
and the foulest at the bottom of the els
tern, hence by keeping the receiving end
of the pump-pipe near the surface of the
water one may avoid most of these i'm
purities. The pipe may be kept near the
surface by attaching it to float. A two
gallon jug, closed with a good cork, well
waxed over, makes an efficient float.
Wire the end of the lead pipe to the
handle so that the jug will float with the
mouth down and keep the pipe within a
foot or two of the surface of the water
Professor Kedzie recommends, also,
that cisterns be made self -cleansing by
means of an overflow pipe to carry off
impurities from the bottom. The over
flow pipe may be of tin or galvanized iron
in the shape of the letter f, three inches
in diameter; the bottom of the reach
ing within two inches of the bottom of
the cistern and the upper part of the
tube passing water-tight through the
wall of the cistern up to the height it is
desired to limit the filling of the cistern.
When the cistern fills to the top of the
tube the excess of water will flow away
through the pipe, but all the water that
escapes must come from the bottom,
thereby removing foul water and accu-
mulated filth. A cistcrn constructed so
as to exclude vermin, made frost-tight,
with overflow pipe to carry off impuri-
ties from the bottom and the pump pipe
wired to jug-f1oat, so as to keep the re
ceiving end near to the surface, will keep
in good condition an indefinite length of
time and provide water that is whole
some. -New York World.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
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The noble mind may be clouded with
adversely, but cannot be wholly con-
cealed; for true merit shines by a light
of its own, and, glimmering through the
rents and crannies of indulgence, is per.
ceived, respected and honored by the
generous and the great.
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1t is a fair, even-handed, noble adjust
ment of things, that while there is infec-
ton in disease and sorrow, there is moth
ing in the world so irresistably contag-
ious as laughter and good humor.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08

The cellars under Philadelphia's new
city hall are the largest in America, their
area being four and half acres.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08

The churches Of New York cost
So, 900, 900 year; the theatres 81, 0Os,
900, it is said.
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ADVICE GRATIS.

State case carefully and inclose stamp to
insure reply.
At H. d. Maynard's Office, East Middle
bury, every Wednesday and Saturday from
9to $50.