Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-07-24

SHEEP RAIsING.-All the indications
are that sheep raising in this country,
after numerous struggles and disasters
in the past, has now come to stay; and
the universally Of the movement Sc
cures us from the dangers with which
IL has heretofore been beset by the tink-
ering at the tariff By unwise or preju-
diced politicians of the John Randolph
stamp, who deemed il high merit OF
which to boast that he "would 60 out
of his way at any time TO kick sheep"
The fact that we are sending abroad
many millions yearly for an article to
supply establishments, employing thou
sands of people in profitable pursuit.
whilst the product thereof could be fur
nished from almost every county in our
widely expanded country, and furnish
ing one of the most pleasant and profit
able branches of husbandry-is now be-
ing so indellibly impressed upon the
people of these states that we think that
at least for years to come no statesman
who has any pretentiOns to future popu-
larity, will dare attempt the same game
which, within our memory, has ruined
this pursuit. The great object OF the
farmer is how to discriminate as to the
suitableness of his position for the rear
ing of sheep-whether for lambs, NUT
ton or woodland to procure the breed
ers suitable for his purpose. AS re-
marked by that able journal, the Ma
tional Lire Stock Journal, "the road to
successful sheep husbandry passes
through no 1abyrinths of mystery. In
the foremost rank of those who travel
therein will be found the practical men
who undertook this as they would any
other serious business venture-eXpect-
ing reasonable returns for prudent in
vestment and intelligent manipulation.
The successful flock master Is the prac-
ticle man who has few theories to work
out. He is the man who knows that no
infusion Of blood, no touching up with
popular pedigrees, will compensate for
the mistake of a scantily-filled feed
trough or an overstocked pasture. He
is the man who realizes that every oh
stacle to comfort and unerring thrift is
heavy draft against the profits from
the flock when the harvest comes in.
He is the man who leaves to others the
field Of experiment, content with hav-
ing the best of stocks, and striving to
give this the best of care. He is the
man whom no emergency finds unpre-
pared, who halts at no expense, shrinks
from no labor. omits no supervision that
experience has taught him is necessary
to the thrift, and profit of his sheep.
Knowing as well as any one that sheep
will live without so much care and lib
erality on the part of the shepherd, he
further knows that the largest returns
come only to him who has earned them
by intelligent effort and expenditure.
In short the man who has first learned
what to do, and how to do it, and then
does it., is the man who makes sheep
husbandry pay by reaping profit when
less practical men find disappointment
and disaster"
BAD AIR.-When a person has re-
malned for an hour or more i'm a crowded
and poorly ventilated room or railroad
car, the system is already contaminated
to greater or less extent by breathing
air, Initiated by exhaltation from the
lungs, bodies and clothing Of the Occu-
pants. The immediate effect of these
poisons is TO debilitate, to lower vitality,
and to impair the natural power Of the
system to resist disease. Hence it is
that persons who are attacked by in
fammatory diseases, as pneumonia or
rheumatism, can generally trace the be-
ginning of the disease to a chill felt on
coming out of a crowded room into the
cold or damp air, wearing perhaps thin
shoes and insufficient clothing. If
these facts were generally understood
and acted upon, thousands of lives
might be saved every year.
1t is a well-known fact that men who
scamp out" sleeping on the ground at
all seasons of the year, seldom have
pneumonia, and that rheumatism, with
them, comes, as rule, only from I'M
warrantable imprudences.
There are two facts that should be
learned by every person capable of ap-
preciating them, and they should never
be los. sight of for moment. One Is
that exhaltations from the lungs-the
breath-is deadly poison, containing
in the form of carbonic acid gas, and
ifa person were compelled to reinhale
it unmixed with the oxygen of the air,
1t would prove destructive to human life
as the fumes of charcoal. This is an
enemy that is always present, in force,
in assemblies of people, and only con-
slant and free infusion of fresh air pre-
vents it from doing mischief that would
be Immediately apparent.
The other fact is that pure air is the
antidote to this poison. The oxygen of
the air is the greatest of all purifiers.
Rapid streams Of water that pass
through large cities, receive the sewage,
become pure again through the action
of the air after running a few miles.
Air is the best of all "blood purifiers"
Combined with all vigorous exercise to
make it effective. it will cure any cura-
BILE case of consumption.-HaNs Journal
Of Health.
A lady writes: al have used Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla In my family for many wears. and could