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A Kentucky paper says it must be
borne in mind that the most profitable
system Of keeping fowls involves four
things, viz -. Crowding IN winter
tor the sake of warmth. 2. Plenty OF
room or fewer fowls in summer. 8.
Very early Matched pullets for winter
layers. 4 Constant attention as to
regularity of food, cleanliness, pure
water, the dust bath, etc. People who
have hens must be distinguished from
those who keep fowls. Most of what
is written is intended tor the latter class
and these are encouraged to become
fanciers-a poor plan as = rule. The
beginner should learn to keep fowls
with profit, then he may adopt breed
which he likes and becoma a fancier.
but In nine cases out of ten there will
be no profit in it. Our supply Of eggs
In winter is very limited, and it may be
safely predicted that the demand for
fresh eggs will be Unsuitable for years
to come. The people who raise eggs
In winter are those who make the
money out Of the poultry business
Ex,
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rhe Oldest Dynasty in the world.


The present reigning dynasty Of
Japan is the Oldest in the world. 1t
dates back a,546 years, and its records
are accurately preserved for that time.
During this period the reigning houses
OF China have several times been
changed, and all the nations now call
ed civilized, without exception, have
had their beginning. 1t is sometimes
marvellous 10 reflect that any house
could preserve its integrity and occupy
the throne for such a period Of time.
This fact of the persistency of family
holds true of others than the reigning
family, though to less extent. The
Oldest son is necessarily his fathers
successor, and heIrlooms are handed
down from father to son with the great
est veneratlon and reverence. Swords,
spears, beautiful garments, and heI-
NETS. bronze. lacquer, and carved
wooden ware, are held sacred in a
family for ages. One young man, the
Oldest son of well to do father, told
me that he had twenty swords, some
of the finest workmanship. and in an
swer to my inevitable Yankee question.
he SAID "Itis worth about 900 yen"
~ Correspondent Chicago Times.
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The Moons Influence ON Vegetation.


Although many believe that the idea
held BY many Others that the moon
governs and affects meat and vegeta.
ton, it would be hard to make great
many believe who have experimental
upon the theories held, that the moor
does not exercise decided influence
upon vegetation. The old idea that
still prevails is that all things that grow
and bear above ground should be plant
ed on the increase and just on the full
of the moon. They generally come
up better, grow off quicker and mature
sooner, and things that grow under
ground, such as turnips, potatoes, etc.,
generally do the best planted after full
moon and on until new moon in what
is generally called dark nights. There
are many old farmers who are always
governed by the stage of the moon in
planting and nothing can or will shake
their convictions or belief that such is
the true plan. 1t is also believed that
if hogs are killed in the full of the
moon the meat will not shrink in cook
ing, to boil it will increase in size, but
will not let out much oil or grease. To
kill and cure on the decrease OF the
moon the meat will shrlvel, draw up
and lose in size in boiling 1t, but will
give considerable oil or grease in cook
ing to grease the vegetables that may
be boiled or cooked with the meat
Any one can easily try this experiment
as well as the time of planting. Any
one who has cooked much pork knows
that some meat increases in size while
being boiled and that some pork fries
away to lard, while some gives but
little fat in cooking.-San Haneisec
Chy0niels.
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Notwithstanding all that has been
written in agricultural papers on the
subject of butter making. farmers and
their wives will insist on retaining the
dash churn and thus giving themselves
extra trouble besides damaging the
quality of butter. Once more we say,
fire out every kind and quality Of churn
that has dasher, paddle or anything else
inside Use a box or barrel churn
only. Use a thermometer and learn
by experiment to use it right. Don't
let your cream get too old. Chu,n
until the butter begins to come, about
IS minutes if you have everything,
right, and then put in cold well water
to reduce the temperature, then churn
very slowly till the butter gathers.
Then run off your buttermilk and wash
the butter in the churn. Itsheuld not
be in a great mass. but in granules
like mustard seed or small wheat
grains. After you have thus washed
1t take it out on a lever butter worker
and salt to suit your taste and put
away without further working, in cool
clean place till you DIRE ready to mar
ket it. Then work enough to incor-
porare the salt evenly, without any
streaks and no more. By doing this
you will be able to command full
prices and save yourself lots of grief
and modification.
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The scrnb!Cows Media ton.

The scrub COW looked over the fence
that divided the raw prairie from the
clover patch and her mouth watered
as she saw the improved, aristocratic
COW In clover six inches high, eating a
bran mush and some choice pumpkins
CHOPPED fine and made palatable with
corn meal. sit seems to me-" she
said, that things are not going right
in this world of late. Here am I, the
standby of this family for years, fur.
nishing healthy calf each year for
the last FIVE, and last year two, keep.
ing the family in milk and cream, and
helping to keep down the grocery bills
with butter, left to feed on this miser.
able, dry prairie grass in October,
while this upstart. with her fine pedi.
grees, as they call it, and blue blood,
gets the incest young clover and all
the other good things the farm can
afford. And then we shall hear abou,
her astonishing milk records. Give
me that feed and will make a record
that will count.
But then I'm only a scrub and it is
not fashionable to speak of the merits
Of scrubs. And that is why it seems
to me the world is going all wrong.
Even the black man has his defenders
who would die for him and every boy
will fighf for his yellow dog; but there
is nc man. even though his children
were raised on her milk, that will figh,
the hard battles of the scrub COW.
Possibly when / am dead and gone,
when the race of scrub COWS is nearly
extin ct, somebody will experiment BY
giving the scrub COW the same feed
and care with the improved COW, and
find out that, whilst she is not much
for beef she fills the pail.
Then he will give her new name
the Jersey Red with the crumpled
horn" perhaps, and time will bring it.
revenge. But that does not make this
October prairie grass taste any bet.
ter."-I7omeske1d.
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The Most UnbearabIe Emotion.

What is shame? Well in its most
pronounced and active form it is very
painful condition of the faculty of APP
probativeness over that peculiar quail
ity of mans nature. by which the good
opinion and the praise of his fellow
med are very pleasurable, and the con-
trary disfavor and disapprobation of
his fellow-men are very painful. When
we are ASHAMED of anything" in com
mon language, we mean we shrink
from it because the perception of what
will cause shame to us leads US to
avoid it The thing itself, philosophic.
ally considered, is one OF the most pun
gent and unbearable OF all. There
are great many griefs, sprnging from
various fountains of the human soul,
but that by which men feel that they
are brought under the derision and
contempt of their fellow-men is the
most acute and most unbearable of any
emotion of the mind.-[Henry Ward
Beecher.
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face like so many needles; her bare
hands are blue and stiff and her feet
are numb. But do you think she feels
on her forehead the frozen air which
presently melts into a binding rain, a.
she sits far forward on the seat and
mges the old horse alonga
A mule rabbit, with long. pointed
ears and glistening coat Of fur, gathers
himself up at the side of the road pre-.
pared to speed away. but aware Of her
unseeing eye, settles himself comfort
ably in his bed of dried grass and
stares out at her; couple Of deer,
tawny and sleek, lying in the shelter Of
a hollow, lift their heads and drop
them again as she goes by. The few
horsemen she meets pass her without
the customary salutation, awed into
silence by the remoeness Of her gaze;
yet turn to look afterward, remember
ing the joyous smile upon her lips.
And night tails and those awful
Phantoms are somewhere yelling their
faces |!
The next day is we'll worn when she
crosses the low fiat and ascends the
hill at the foot OF which nestles the
town. 1t is still cold, but the clouds
have broken and a sudden food OF
light battles the valley and turns the
windows to copper gold. A bird
somewhere IN the distance as the jaded
old horse breaks into stumbling trot,
throws out upon the frosty air sue.
cession ofjoyous notes that are caught
up and answered by another still furth-
er off. She pushes back her bonnie,
and draws long, restful breath. All,
there is the big stone school.house
and the snug little cottages on either
side of the street, and there is the low
log-house so full last summer of merry
laughter and music and light and
why, what crowd about the jail door!
Oh, yes, they are there to welcome the
boys, why, Of course, and how kind
Only she longed to be the first to NEE,
him.
The old horse slackens his pace and
creeps on; she leans out eagerly let.
ting the lines fall, and clasping her
hands. while the color comes and goes
on her pale cheek. She does not see
them But then her eyes are dim.
med no doubt by the wind and rain
and cold. Stand aside here, gentle.
men do you not understands
She is lifted gentle down and her fal
terlng steps are supported as she
moves blindly forward. The plttyine
crowd parts, two or three men rise
hurriedly from beside the thing thai
lie white and stark and rigid upon the
ground.
Wella Well, the meeting is over.
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The husks upon which the ProdIgal
Son fed are not, as the reader is apt to
imagine, the husks of maize, that IS, of
Indian corn. They are the fruit of the
Kharub tree. and are from their shape
called in the Greek little horns. From
the popular notion that they were the
food of John the Baptist they are call.
ed St. Johns bread. DR.. Thompson
describes them as "feshy pods, some
what like those of the honey locust
tree, from SIX to ten inches long and
one broad, lined inside with gela-
tinous substance, not wholly unpleas.
an. to the taste when thoroughly ripe.
l have seen large orchards of the
Kh arub in Cyprus. where it is still the
food which the swine do eat ~
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Four Distinct Climates in Mexico.

The Republic of Mexico contains ar
area Of 74I.6oo square miles, or 474,.
GA 900 square acres, and a popula.
ton ofover II,ooo. 900 souls, and en-
joys four distinct climates
The tropical, from the coast to the
foothills.
The semiuopical, from the foothills
to the wide, level plateau.
The temperate, from the PLATEAU to
the higher plans, such as the plateau
of Anahuac, Toluca, Durango and
Chichahua.
The cold, among the mountain val.
leys of the States of the interior, where
hailstorms are frequent, and where the
inhabitants require artificial warmth
during the night.
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

Notice Is hereby given that letters Of ADMINISTERS
ton upon the estate Of John II. Paden late of
Adair county, deceased, have been granted to the
Zacharia johnson. by the probate
court OF the county OF Adar bearing date the 24th
day ofSept. 1884, All persons having claims against
said estate are requested TO exhibit Them for
allowance within one year after the date OF said let
ter or they may be precluded from any benefit Of
such estate, and II such claims be not exhibited
within two years from the tine OF the publication
of tbis notice they will be forever barred.
ZACHARIAH JOHNSON.
Administrator o John T. Pad en- deceaed
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EXECUTORS NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that letters testamentsry
upon hi estate of Danial T. Truitt late OF Adair
county, deceased. have been granted to the un-
dersigued John A. Truitt by the probate court OF
Adair county. bearing date goth day Of Sept 1884.
All persons having claims against said estate are
required to exhibit them for allowance within one
year after the date of said letters or they may be
precluded from any benefit of such estate and II
such claims be exhibited within two years from
lifetime of the publication ofthis notice they viii
beforever barred. JOHN A. TRUITT.
Oct. E:I.or }: D,le, L, r,,I,sI
I'D, 1884.
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A New Grocery and Restaurant.

Hasjust been opened by Mrs. A: E.
Kirkpatrick, one door north of Smiths
Furniture store. Country produce
wanted. A lunch counter in connec-
tion with the store. Give me q call.
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Chicken Salad.

'Do not buy veal for dinner to
day."
"Why, my dear?"
"Oh, it hangs on so long, and it is
insipid the second time cold"
"But, my love, you forget we are to
have company to supper Tomorrow
night and we can get along without
chicken salad"
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NICHoLAs%'
The magazine, during its eleven happy
years of existence, under the editorial charge
of
MARY MAPEs DODGE,
has grown familiar to hundreds of thousands
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"His One Fault serial story for boys,
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Personally Conducted" illustrated papers
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Historic Girls" a com panion series to
Historic Boys" By z. 8. Brooks.
Ready for Business suggestions to boys
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BY CD Manson.
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"Talks for Young Folks,n series Of popu-
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''Davy and the Goblin" very funny serial
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Short stories by Louisa N. Alcott.
'The Progress Of Invention: From Palan-
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TALES of Two Continents: stores OF ad-
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Special Papers by chosen writers, including
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ST. NICHOLAS.
YOUNG FOLKS.
Attractions for 1875.

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of
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looking back. Her slender form was
sharply defined against the early NOM
ing sky for a moment--I can see it
yet! Then she sank back into her
seat, and presently she had passed
out OF sight.
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coLoRED FRoNTlsPIEcEs.

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A free specimen copy Of ST. NICHOLAS viii
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PROF. GUILMETTE'S
French Kidney Pads

WHICH CURES BY ABSORPTION
Ask your druggist for Prof. GuiImette's French
Kidney Cad, and take 10 her. Ii he has not got
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turn mall
TESTIMONIALS FROM THE PEOPLE.
JUDGE BUCHANAN, Lawyer. Toledo. Ohio,
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Pads cured me OF Lumbago In three weeks time.
My case had been given by the best doctors
incu rable. During all this time suffered untold
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GEORGE VETTER,J J. P, Toledo, o., SAYS:
II suffered for three years with sciatics and KID
ney Disease, and often had 20 about on crutches
was entirely and permanently cured after
weeks"
SQUIRE N. C. SCOTT, sylyania. o. saws:
VI have been great sufferer for IS years with
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IL. Is. GREEN, Wholesale Grocer. Findlay, o.,
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81 wore one OF the first ones we had and receiv-
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A NEW NOVEL BY W. .. HowRLIs,

Author of venetian Days. "a Modern In.
stance. etc. This story deals with the rise OF
an American business man. A novel by
Henry James, novelette, by Grace DEMO
Liehfieli, and short stories by Uncle Re-
A. Janvier, e. H., Julian Hawthorne, and
other equally well-known writer's will APP
pear at various times.
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MIsCELLANEoUs FEATUREs.

Under this heading may be included q
series of papers on the Cities OF Italy by W..
d. Howells, the illustrations being reproduc-
tons of etchings and drawings by Joseph
Pennell; q series on
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THE NEW NoRra-wEsr.

being an interesting group of papers by e.
V. Smalley. Lieut.. Schwatka, Principal Grant
(of Kingston, Ontario). and others, descrip-
tive Of little-known regions; papers on
French and American art-seulpture and
with some exquisite Illustrations;
nm
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aAe wiz "SSnS !" A'6 away ASuAo ILL
with face still turned upward to the
long. narrow window. patient, quiet,
fixed, the child always beside her,
mute and motionless as herself. Some
times a second pair of hands grasped
the bars.
THAT'S Jin's younger BROTHER" they
told me. "It's nigh about SIX years
sence they dropped Their man, and
t'wan't in a cool-blooded murder
neither. They've trailed about God
knows now and He only know when
keepin' out'n the sheriff's way, and
wherever they've went she's went too,
and sence they've been here she comes
in every little while and stays round
like this here. Jim's her husband, you
know" All, as if didn't know!
My heard ached for her and l used
to long, yet dread. to see her face. But
never did. though she once removed
the faded sunbonnet as she passed me
in the dim twilight, going down to the
camp IN the edge of the thicket.
where she and the child slept at night
under the dark sky with its solemn
stars. But it was so late that l could
see only a lonely pallor and sunken
eyes that seemed not to see.
One morning, at last, i saw her climb
into Q rickety open buggy, drawn by
the meagre gray horse that had been
s.aked near her camp. ! saw her set
tie the child in her lap, grasp the reins
and drive slowly up the long hill that
leads out of town. AT the top of it she
paused and stood up in the buggy,
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bond had been signed. Tomorrow
they would be set free-for a time at
least-and respite meant everything.
No need now to beyond the over
whelming gladness of the one thought
that tomorrow, they-he-would be
free, and she would be there to receive
them once more into light and air and
life!
Fifty miles away. why, that is moth.
ing
Across long ami lonely reaches of
trough" where the old horse plows
his way painfully through heavy sand,
stumbling every now and then upon
the shin-oak roots that twist their loose
ugly knots over the road, through bits
of brown, dreary prairie, where the
uncertain wheels creak over great
clods of black earth, Jumped by the
cold into sharp masses as hard as rock
down into ravines deep-washed-out,
where the shadows lie heavily. and
where wild things, with eyes that shine
and creep stealthily from crevice; over
soggy bottom-lands, strewn with
wrecks of overloaded freighters where
the crows cav on the big cotton
woods and discuss angrily the pale
passer-by.
Fifty miles, why, that is nothing
tits cold and the wind stings her
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-09
City Personals.

Col. A. J. Smith, of the Home. went to
Boston, yesterday.
Mr.. Z. l.. Warren, formerly ofthe Journal,
WAS in town yesterday.
Mr.. James Fellows and child, Of Boston,
arrived in the city last night.
Mr.. John p. Ryan and Mr.. B. S. Wood
and family, departed for Norfolk. Va, yes
terday forenoon.
Miss Della Halves. of Philbrook & Leigh
tons dry goods store, is spending short
vacation at her home in Vassalboro.
S. L. Boardmsn, Esq, of the Home Farm,
went to Fairfield yesterday. Last evening
he delivered a well written and scholarly ad-
dress at Fairfield Centre, before large meet
ing of grangers and agriculturists OF that
section.
At the meeting of the New England Agri.
cultural Society. held in Boston, Tuesday
Mr.. d. A. Cony, this city. was elected one Of
the trustees from Maine. There is . strong
feeling among the members of the society In
favor of holding the next fair in Maine.