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The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-11-06
THE HOME ADVOCATE
FARA1ERVILLE, LOUISIANA.
FRIDAY November 6
FRIDAY
GOOD GROOMING.
November 6

A good many people who exact
plenty of hard work from their
horses will, nevertheless, begrulge
them careful grooming, apparently
regarding that as Il luxury merely,
which can be spared just as well as
extra fine clothes. This is a great
mistake. Grooming does not nee.
essarily mean plating the nane
aud shining up the hoofs; it means
keeping the animals hair and coat
clean and well brashcd. Good
grooming will not only add to tic
animals comfort but to its health
fitness. 1t is as essential in this
respect as cleanliness and care 70:
children. Moreover, it tends to
render the horse d0ci'e and to i'll
spire in him affection for his master
10 succeed with horses a man must
be ever watchfal Of them; he must
get to know them and 10 love them.
Their health and comfort must be
his constant care, and grooming
must he a labor Of love, and not
a tiresome duty. Especially do
horses need care after a spell Of
hard work, and every humane mas
ter will at such a time wipe them
dry Of perspiration, taking off the
harness if possible, to do so, even
if he has to put it Oh again imme-
diate}y. Let the legs, from the
knees aud hooks down, be well
hand-rubbed, and if fevered from
overdriving, they should be band
aged with wet cloths, to take away
the heat, Attention to these little
matters will not only stimulate the
horses affection and gratitude. but
will preserve him i'll good health
and prolOng his years of usefulness.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-11-06

The Couriar-Journal is the acknOwl-
edged Representative Newspaper of the
South, is Democratic in Politics, and
first, last and ali the time is for reduc-
ton of the war taxes, as levied on the
neople by the tariff now in force.
The Weekly Cou1iex-Jou.nal
Is without Il superior i'll the world as Il
great family and political newspaper, and
during tie year 1885 it will strive more
zealOusly and hopefully than ever for it's
political faith, not neglecting, however
The infinite variety of choice miscellany
that causes it to be so great n favorte in
the family circle. The return to power Of
the Democratic party will make 1855 a
year marked in the history of the United
States. and no family should be without
the COurier-J Ournal who desire to keep
thoroughly posted On passing events.
The Weekly Courier-Journal has the
LARGEST DEM. CIRCULATION
of any Newspaper in America. If you
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scriber to it as to its merit as great fam
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| ing matter it leads the newspaper press OF
the United States. IT money, industry
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1t contains, each week, the most complete
summary of the news of the world, and
It's editorial columns Henry Watterson,
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The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-11-06
CURED BY FAITH.

A telegram from Hot Springs,
Ark, gives an account ola won-
derful cure by ''faith." The patient
was the son of the Rev. DR.. With
ers, pastor of the Methodist Church
in that place. The special says:
ellis sick son had sunk beneath
four long weeks Of terrible disease,
the medical treatment had been all
that human skill could afford, and
tho patient was internally ulcera-
ted from his mouth to the extre NJ
ity Of his bowels, consciousness had
fled, physicians had given him up
to die and ceased remedial app!i-
cations; his family were told the
last. moments had come and the
patient could live but a few NOM
ents longer. The limbs were cold
and clammy to the knees and
elbows, the pulse was $50 per min
ute,- while tue heart beat was bare
~ perceptible. Life was barely
perceptible, aud in the light of
science recovery was hopeless. The
old minister had been praying and
his faith was strong. any son. he
said, "will recover. l feel a con-
seriousness Of it in my heart" He
gathered as many Christians to-
gether as he could hastily, and
anointed the sick with oil in their
presence with Scripture reading,
and prayed@ before God for tie
recovery Of his boy. Very soon
thereafter the cold limbs grew
warm, the heart beat stronger, and
the pulse fell to 95. The assemb-
led people beheld these changes
I with WONDER. a little later the
sick man who had been unconsci
GUS for two weeks opened his eyes
ard was rational; in less than two
hours he spoke to those around bis
bid and called for food, the lirs,
he had eaten for three weeks. Tha
has been more than a week ago
and he has continued to grow
stronger and without medicines o.
medical treatment. The congrega
ton was much affected by the ser
mon and the narration of thi.
strange recovery. DR.. Wither,
said he believed it cure effected
BY Divine aid in answer to pra yer. !
The following carpenters bill wa.
recently sent to farmer in thi.
state. ITO hanging two barn doors
and myself seven hours, one dollar
and q Aalf.n
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-11-06

Plant shade trees in front of your
property this fail, and you will feel
pr0us! of it in the summer.
Some Geoi sia farmer, keep GogS
instead OF sheep. 1t is consider
able trouble 10 shear sheep ana
send the wool to market. -picaSiie.
Since 1850 the product Of wheat
in this country has increased twice
as fast as the 20 ulat!on, aud last
years crop was five times rs large
as that of 1859.
\ gentleman says that after los
ing 1G0 chickens by tie cholera, he
found that a table spoonful of soda
mixed with Quart OF milk and
giyei: with the food was 4 cure.
The President Of the Rio Eranae
IN. j. Sorghum Sugar Company,
who has had more extended cXpe-
rience than any other person III
,Le United States as TO TIE feeding
yaIae of sorghum, last year tattcn-
ed 800 head oi'swine apon the seed,
and he says that he considers Sor-
chum seed more valuable than corn
for feeding.
The prospective yield of corn the
present season is estimated as
reaching the unparalleled amount
of 1900, 900, 900 bushels, and estl-
mating its value for feeding swine
even at the too low rate of twenty
cents per bushel, it far exceeds I'D
the aggregate the value of either
the cotton or the wheat crop.
Sorghum yields e crop OF seed
equal in quantity to corn. The
largest growers Of this crop last
year in the comfy averaged
twenty five bushels Of seed per
acre. and the method AMI expense
Of growing so! shum is practically
the s,me as in growing corn. Anal.
ysis Of sorghum seed shows it to
be practically identical in compost
ton with corn. It contains a little
more starch than corn, and starch
is one of the most valuable nntri-
tive constituents of the cereals.
Hen manure il almost exactly
identical in quality and effect with
guano, and may be used i'll the
same manner. Except on very rich
soil it should not be used in larger
quantities than $50 or 800 pounds
per acre, as it would only stimulate
q strong growth which could not
be kept up in vigor. The best way
to preserve it is to keep it dry or
mix il with earth. Its value if free
from foreign matter and dry, is
$50 a ton.
A lady who has a mandy man in
her employ asked him to make
hen coop for some temporary use.
Iii about five minutes he came
round and said he had made one.
And so he had. He had taken the
hoops all off the end of an empty
flour barrel, which had already lost
the head from the same end. Then
putting the strongest of these hoops
inside the slaves, and straining
them apart until the ends of the
hoop merely tapped, he put tack
through the lap and the staye, and
with two or three other tackS,
through the hoop in other places
he had u good airy coop ready TO,
use.
!; A friend Of ours told us the other
day how his wife cures; hens OF sit
ting, and as it is very novel way
we will repeat it for the benefit O.
others who are bothered with invet
crate old settlers: This lady took &
hen that wasbound to sit-the lady
was bound she should not. Sht
) would shut up the old hen one day
1>o.1~ II, r
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-11-06
4).sul5 for fatmers.

Give fools their gold AMI knaveS then
power,
Let fortunes bubbles rise and fall;
W:.o suws n field or trains 4 flower
-, ,t!l.s ,.'.t : more h..n all.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02
s.CurIY LNckSO

Curly Locks. Curly Locks. wilt thou be nine9
Thou shalt not wash the dishes, nor yet feed the
swine,
But sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam,
And feast upon Strawberries, sugar and cream
Curly Locks. Curly Locks! wilt thou be mine'
The throb of my heart is in every line.
And the pulse of a passion as airy and glad
In its musical beat as the little boy had!
swine,-
O., I'll dapple thy hands with these kisses of mine
ill the pink of the nail of each finger shall be
AS a little pet blush in full blossom for me.
But sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam,
And thou shalt have fabric as fair as a dream,-
The red OF my veins, and the white of my love,
And the gold of my joy for the braiding thereof.
And feast upon Strawberries, sugar and cream
From a service of silver with jewels agleam,-
At thy feet will l bide. at thy beck will l rise,
And twinkle my soul in the night of thine eyes!
Curly Locks! Curly Locks! wilt thou be minea
Thou shalt not wash the dishes, nor yet feed the
swine,
But sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam,
And feast Upon Strawberries, sugar and cream!'
james Whitcomb Riley.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02
GRANT M THE COLORED PEOPLE.
His Name Greater to Them than Lincoln's-
Incident of "a North Carolina Election.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
Mr.. 7. Thomas Fortune, editor of The Free
man, a colored mans paper, said this morning:
"Of all the names on earth, the grandest to the
colored n IN, and particularly in the South, is
Grant. at first it was Lincoln. The slaves re-
garded him as the great savior. His sad death
turned their attention to Grant. They realized,
after the war, that it was Grant that gave Lin,
coin the power Of issuing the proclamation de-
claring the colored race free. Grants name in
the South is the synonym, among even the most
ignorant colo:ed people, of all that is grand and
great. There will be spontaneous demonstra-
ton here by the colored people, | am sure, and l
have been invited to attend a big memorial
meeting at Washington"
Mr. j. c.. Price, professor in a college for col
ored men at Salisbury, \. c., said this morn
ing: 1.-The sorrow caused by the death of General
Grant is genuine and deep among the colored
people Of the South. The most ignorant colored
man in North Carolina knows the name, and re-
CARDS it as more than that of mere man. For
instance. in our county we have a Republican
majority of about 500. Some time ago there was
an election for sheriff. One man ran on the Re
publican and one on the Democratic ticket. The
~iatter's name was Grant, and Notwithstanding
all we could do, and all the explanations We
made, the Democrat named Grant was elected
by one of the largest votes ever cast in the coun-
". There will be memorial services all over the
South ir a short time. The great luminary OF
the colored man is dead, and whom shall We
have noWF'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02
"Let Us Have Peace"

His name was a sword and shield,
His words We're armed men,
He moved his foemen as a field
Of wheat is mowed-and then
Set his strong hand to make the shorn earth smile
again.
Not in the whirlwind of his fight,
The unbroken line of war,
Did he best battle for the right
His victory was more
Peace was his triumph, greater far than all before.
Who in the spirit and love Of peace,
Takes sadly up the blade,
Makes war on war, that wars may cease
He striveth undismayed,
And in the eternal strength his mortal strength is
stayed.
Peace that he conquered for our sake,
This is his honor, dead.
We saw the clouds of battle break
To glory DER his head
But brighter shone the light about his dying bed.
Dead is thy warrior, King Of Life,
Take thou his spirit flown,
The prayer of them that knew his strife
Goes upward to thy throne
Peace be to him who fought-and fought for peace
alone.
H. G. Bunner, in Puck.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02
Blood Brotherhood.

Stanley's Book on the Congo.
Generally the first day of acquaintance with
the Congo river tribes is devoted TO chatting,
sounding one another's principles, and getting at
one another's IDEAS. The chief entertains his guest
with gifts of food, goats, beer, fish, etc, then on
the next day commences business and reciprocal
exchange of gifts. So it was at Irebu. Man
gombo gave four hairy thin-tailed sheep. ten
glorious punches of bananas, two great pots of
beer, and the usual Accomplishments of NAL
stores. The next day we made blood brother
hood. The fetish man pricked each of our right
arms, pressed the blood out, then, with a
pinch of scrapings from my gunstock, a little
salt, d few dusty scrapings from a long pod,
dropped over the wounded arms, and the black
and white arms were mutually rubbed together.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02

The SOn-in-Law of Coal-Oil Payne Buys q
Home Instead of Renting.

Washington Post.
Secretary Whitney was driving over the hills
to the northwest of Georgetown some time ago.,
when his eye was attracted by an old fashioned,
rambling house, a little back from the road and
surrounded by large oak and walnut trees.
There's a place l should like to live in" said he
to his companion, 'if the owner would rent ttor
the summer" The services Of Major Armes, a
real estate dealer of this city, were called into
requisition, and the owner of the place, Mr..
Lewis d. Means, a prominent and wealthy cattle
dealer, was asked to name his rent. He pre-
ferred, however, to sell, and the Secretary being
willing to buy the property, a bargain was soon
made, and yesterday a deed recording the
transfer for $50, 900 was duly filed. TIL property
which has thus become Secretary Whitney's
Washington country-Seat is situated at the juno
ton of the Loughborough and Tunlaw roads,
Immediately north of the late Thomas l.. Humes
famous stock farm, ''Tunlaw." 1t contains about
one hundred acres, nearly all of which are IN a
tine state Of cultivation, and one of
hnest views obtainable within a circuit of many
miles around the district. 1t is situated on a
high hill, the Loughborough road being COM
monty known as the Ridge road" as it runs
along a high spur of land. Two miles to the
east, pointing upwards from the hollow in which
Washington is situated, the glittering white
monument can be seen rising into the air, while
nearer are the granite spires Of Georgetown
College. To the south, looking across the valley
Of the Potomac, the Virginia hills stretch away
into the distance. Westward the eye
follows the lndentatlon In the nils when
marks the bed of the Potomac, while to
the northwest can be een-an this is one of
the few places from which it is visible-the blue
dome of Suearloaf mountain, thirty-ive miles
distant, in Frederick county, Md, breaking the
contour of the horizon. The view is unbounded
for miles and miles, and embraces as pretty a
piece of country as one would wish to see. The
house is reached by broad avenues winding
beneath the trees, and is, as stated, an old
fashioned and substantial-looking country man
sion. Its walls of brick are of unusual thick
ness, cool in summer and warm in winter, and
there are broad and roomy porches everywhere.
The center of the house is two stories in height,
with a wide hallway running entirely through
the ground floor, and on each side are wings,
one story high. The rooms, seventeen in num-
Der, are large, light and we'll ventilated. Even
the stables are substantial and commodious
buildings. The Secretary will take possession
on the lst of August. 1t is said that he contem-
plates making numerous Improvements, but as
yet he has pot decided on any definite plans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02
Drunken Criminals Should BE Punished.

Plttsburg OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Drunk when he did it, " is being made a two
edged sword. There was a day when the courts
were firm in holding that drunkenness is no
excuse for crime; that the same punishment
should be meted out to a man who committed a
crime when drunk as if he were sober when the
crime was committed. There was no mistaken
sympathy for the drunkard then. Every man
was held responsible for his own acts, drunk or
sober. The man was held guilty, and not the
whisky. Whisky cannot be punished. Is there
anything gained by removing the moral conse-
quences of crime from the responsible to the
irresponsible perpetrator9 If men will drink,
let them drink at their peril. This palliation of
crime, because a man is voluntarily drunk when
he committed it, is becoming a public danger.
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THE STORY OF A FALSE EYE.
A More or Less Thrilling Accident that Is II
ported as Having Really Happened.

ported as Having Really Happened.
Bridgeport Conn Letter.
A young English lady has been visiting at the
residence of a prominent widow in Bridgeport.
The widow has a handsome son. He and the
English belle have become great friends. She is
the possessor of a glass eye, and so perfect is it
in fac smile Of a real one that none but the
young gentleman of the house had discovered
his young lady friends misfortune. Knowing
what a modification such a blemish must nat
urally be to its owner, he kept his own counsel,
with a manly determination never to let her or
anyone else suspect his knowledge.
A few days ago it became necessary for the
young lady TO submit to an operation on her
foot, she having injured it while playing lawn
tennis. For fear the operation would give pain.
it was decided that she should be placed under
the influence of ether. The doctors arrived,
proceeded upstairs to the young lady's
apartments, accompanied by the widow
and several assistants. The young gen.
hammock stretched across the broad veranda,
and as he swung and dreamed remembered
having read somewhere that when a patient
was under the influence of An an9sthetic the eye
was often touched to ascertain Inconsistencies"
He rushed frantically up the stairs and burst
into the room. To his dismay he observed the
doctor already trying the experiment of touching
the glass eye, and about to the
operation on the foot. BY wild gesticulations he
called the attention of the doctor away, and in
whispers begged him to touch the other eve.
This was done and the patient jumped with such
force that the false eye fell out. This catas-
trophe so alarmed the widow and the assistants
that they all ran away. The doctor at once took
in the situation, and, after administering more
ether, his patient became unconscious. The
young man CROPPED around on the Persian rug
for the lost eye while the doctor completed the
operation on the foot. Before the patient be-
came conscious the false eye was restored to it's
former position, and the young English belle has
returned to Great Britain ignorant of the fact
that her misfortune ever became known.
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What Kelley Is Doing.

washington Special.
Kelley, our pseudo minister to Austria, still
fingers il Paris, under instructions from the
State Department to stay there and have a good
time. Minister Francis only leaves Vienna this
week, and the legation will then be left in charge
of the secretary. Kelley cannot be drawing any
salary, as the thirty days allowed for reaching
his post has long since expired, and the charge
appear. Mr.. Bayard would give something to
see his way out of this Kelley affair, but Kelley
objects to coming home. Vienna will be very
disagreeable to him. and any other court in
Europe would consider it an affront to have him
and Austria. He might be sent TO Corea, where
his Papist ideas and Jewish wife would offend
no one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02
The Old Guard Medals.
18th Chaurcey l. Filley.

Interview with ChauIcey L. Filley.
"What is the true history of the 306 medalsF
"Well, all there is about them is: One morn
irg after the convention of 1880, Senator Don
Cameron and myself went out for a stroll on
State street, in Chicago. While we were seated
ON a dry goods box somewhere along the street,
be suggested the idea of some perpetuation of
the fight which had been so united and persist
ent, and had become so famous through the
thlrty-slX votes ard the BOG, and then started to
marx a design of a medal on the box. l took his
idea and before we left enlarged upon it. He
placed tee whole matter in my hands and said
be would, AS he did, pay tho whole expepse,
That IS al there is Of the medal business
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dying of WEAKNESS, that he expected to rest in
lying in the Jap of his dear wife, Mary" This
poetic fancy made its impression on the mind of
a worthy minister, who had recently married a
second wife. Being called to preach a funeral
sermon, his new but second wife being present,
he gave his ideas of the rest and bliss of heaven,
and warming up with his theme, he exclaimed,
II expect. in the language of the lamented
Bishop Haven, to spend my first thousand years
in heaven with my head on the lap of my first
wife" What occurred when the funeral was
over, and the parsonage doors closed, has not
been revealed.
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discerning the unknowable he insisted upon an
explation of the distinction which permitted
druggists to sell drugs on that day and forbade
them to dispense the more delicious and soothing
soda water and caramels, He was instructed
that the sale of medicine was n necessity, for the
reason that people were taken sick on Sunday
just as on any other day, and that for this pur-
pose it was proper that the druggists should
keep their shops open; whereas good people did
not buy or sell other'things on Sunday.
But good people don't die on Sunday, do
they9" asked the philosophical infant.
Certainly they do" he was tod.
"Welll" was his conclusion, Il don't s'pose
heaven keeps open, anyways"
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What a '.yVillipus-Willopus" Is.

st. Louis Post Dispatch.
When Mr.. Jones said: II tell you when the
willipus willopus of Christianity passes over
humanity it levels all things off" DR.. Lewis
asked:
Brother Jones, what do you mean by a Wilt
pus-willopus?'
WHY" said the evangelist with some surprise,
don't you know what that thing isl Down in
Nashville they have p big machine to crush
rocks on the street and they call it q w~illipus-
willopus. Don't you have any up herel' and he
didn't seem to think that he had been speaking in
an unknown tongue.
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The fetish man took the long pod in his hand
and slightly touched our necks, our heads, our
arms and our legs. muttering rapidly his litany
OF nominations. What was left Of the medicine
banana leaf and we bore it reverently between
US to a banana grove close by and buried the
dust out of sight. Mangombo, now my brothers
by solemn interchange Of blood, consecrated tai
my service as | was devoted in the sacred fetish
pond to his service, revealed his trouble and inn
plored my aid.