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Fifiy-Iwo Dividends
The INDEpENDEAT

OF Scw York, IL .eknovledg, d to be VIVA, the Ps
Nal Gatctir. ~ Lohjon. saws n Is, zone Of the
hbtEi veskite IN exisiencs.r II occupies two
beds-- rel etun ard literary.
II puhls Ies erchueek from Twenty-Five 10
Thirty ihrpe PER recent more reading master thEu
Auy Of y, spui .iupVlAres. with the exception of
It's ,nluuu n "S.iCctiuuH.n every lire "a every
Issue Is Sew, q iEiaai Mater, written expressly
for N. II ~ " uIurt ,Arh week for literary mat
ter thar ANY thrte oft contemporaries put togeth
er. II has : largest and BEST corps Or cOntribn-
tors OF any periodical ia fhe world. Il is unde-
nOninAii6Bai Ia religion. aud uusurpassd1 IN 1T
er4ry ability. Its reviews OF books unezreiled
In Journalism. las Edit rHIE are fearless. Its de-
partucnfs OF Science and Biblical Research give
valuable Information unObtaIned elsewhere. It's
MARI cts and Finauclsl Reports and commercial
Articles eaerriy aougit for ny those wanting
correct Information upon those subjects. Its De-
partments for '.oid and young "a Oiled with
stories and articles in prose and poetry.
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Rats.

For number of years l was very
much troubled with rats about the
barn and stable. AS we were using a
great deal Of grain, it was an attractive
place for them. All the remedies which
are usually recommended were tried,
and to little purpose in reducing the
numbers. We tried poison in va,ious
forms, but were unable to put it in such
a shape as to induce them TO eat it.
Everything showed that they had come
10 stay.
AT last man who was at work for
me told of a remedv which had been
successful with him, which was to take
a bunch of matches and soak off the
preparation on the ends in little hot
water, and make dough of meal with
this water, which would be about half
teacupful when made. We put this in
places trequensed by the rats at night:
The next morning We saw seven dead
rats how many got out of sight to die
I do not know. We repeated this few
times, and did not see a rat for six
months anywhere about the premises.
when we see any about the buildings,
wefeeo them with this mixture and
that ends it. Rats are very fond OF
phosphorus, and eat this mixture
greedily. Many fires occur from rats
and mice gnawing matches. When this
mixture is fed to rats, 1t should be
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Eskimo Candy.

TLieGt. Fred. ScIwatka-
1t wonld seem very strange, ard per-
haps not very pleasant, to our young
readers to hears tallow candle or the
shin-bone of a reindeer called candy.
And yet these things may really be con
sidered Eskimo candy because they
would delight the children of the cold
in precisely the same way that a box
ofbon-bons would delight you.
There is a certain kind of water. fowl
in Arctic countries known as the dove.
kite. It's about the size of duck, IS
quite black, has a prominent white
stripe on its wings, and its webbed feet
are of a brilliant red. When sitting in
lows on the edge of greenish rocks.
these little red feet are very conspicu-
Gus, Sometimes, when the men have
billed number of doye-ktIes, the
Eskimo women cut off the bright red
feet, draw out the bones, and Blowing
INTO the skins, distend them as
much as possible so as TO form pouch
es. When these pouches are thorough.
ly dried they are filed with reindeer
tallow, and the bright red packages.
which I assure you look much nicer
than they taste, are little Boreas's can
dy. In very cold weather lie Eskimo
children eat great quantities of fat and
blu Der; and this fatty food, which
seems to us as so uninviting, helps to
keep them warm and well.
ssThe only other kind of candy the
Eskimo children have, is the marrow
from the long leg or shin bone OF the
slaughtered reindeer. OF this, also,
they are very fond. Whenever a rein
deer is killed and the meat mas been
stripped from the bones of the legs,
these bones are placed on the floor of
the tgI00 and cracked with hatcret
until the marrow is exposed. The
bones are then forced apart with the
hands, and the marrow is dug
out of the ends with long, sharp, and
narrow spoon made from a walrus's
tusk. have eaten this reindeer mar
row frozen and cooked; ard after one
becomes accustomed to eating frozen
meat raw, It is really an acceptable
tid-bit; while cooked and nicely served
it would be dellcacy anywhere.
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Bitter Nllk-Cause and Prevention

American Agrlcuiturist.
There are several causes for bitter
milk. The most prevalent IS the pres
ence ofragweed or other bitter weeds in
the hay. This is almost always the case
when rowen or,,aftermath hay is fed,
and at times when corn fodder from a
weedy field is used. The favor of rag
weed is so persistent that it appears in
the cream and butter and spoils the
latter for use. This is to be expected.
because the flavor of ragweed and
other plants allied to it is due to an es-
sential oil which,,w naturally combine
with the cream and ruin the butter
The flavor of it also affects the butte,
in the fall from COWS pasturing in.
meadows. The only remedy for the
defect Is to AVOID the cause. Another
case in which all seem to agree is that
in certain conditions the milk Of far
row COWS will be bitter The peculiar
flavor is perhaps caused by some
change in the character of the milk
which indicates that the secretion is
not pure, and that milking should
cease. Other opinions are to the eff
feet that the cow is not in good health
and the products Of some disorder are
being discharged in the milk: an &C.
currence which frequently happens,
and which shows how necessary 1t is
to guard against any injurious use of
the milk OF diseased COWS. Cows suf-
fering from tuberculosis, or consum.
phon. of the lungs, will continue to give
milk copiousiy. but its favor is exceed
ingly disagreeable. and nauseous at
times. being mawkish and bitter, and
quite unfit tor use.
1t is certain that milk is made bit.
ter by Premature decomposition caused
by the remains OF stale milk in the
pans. In all these cases remedies or
means of prevention are obvious. No
wooden utensil should be used in
milking or setting milk. Wood absorbs
the milk INTO It's pores, and when the
pail is scalded the mi TX becomes coag-
ulated, ferments and decomposes, and
will surely injnre the milk, by lnflict-
ing It with eaven of putridity. Tin
pals and pans should first be washed
with cold water, and then with hot
water and soap to remove the grease,
then rinsed. and finally scaled with
boiling hot water, wiped with clean dry
fowls, and afterwards placed out of
doors to air in the sunshine.
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Watering Horses

Horses should never be kept so
long without water that they drink
largely when they get II. Give il to
them often, and they will never lnjure
themselves with it. Nothing is more
common than to hitch team to n
wagon or sleigh and make them work
half day without drop. What man
would submit to such treatment If a
team is started by seven in the morn
ing. water should be given before ten
Even il half an hour is consumed.
more work viii be done in day. The
objection that horses on the road
should not be loaded with water. is
L 1t valid. A horse weighing 1900
will not be much encountered by
twenty pounds of water, while the
distention will give HIM additional
strength. Every farmer knows that
when he himself undertakes to lift
large log or heavy stone he can do
more by first initiating himself with air.
and not unfrexuentIy he loses but
ton or two from his pantaloons in the
operation. Some degree of imitation
of water will ado to horses strength
in similar manner In driving
horse on the road at natural gate of
nine or ten miles an hour, we have
frequently had occasion to observe
that he vas laboring with perspiration
until we let him drink freely when he
ceased 20 sweat and evidently travelled
more freely. Don't be afraid to give
your horses water the danger is in
making them abstain too long, in which
case care Is needed.
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EXECUTRlX' NOTICE.

Letters OF administration upon the estate Of
lh0n mas y. Smith deceased, were granted 10 tile
undersigned, Oh me 2ith, dag of pr. 1875 by me
PROBATE court Of Adar county. Az persons hav-
ing CLAIMS against said estate are required to eN-
hibit them for allowance. 70 the adil!nistrgtrlx
WITHIN one year after the date OF said letters or
they mAy be precluded from any benefit Of smell
estate: and ifsuch claims be not exhibited within
Two years from the date OF said letters, they viii
be forever barred.
This 18Th day ofMay. 1855.
ZANTyPPEE SMITH,
EXecutriy.
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GODY'S LADY'S BOOK,
P. 0. Lock BoIHH,
giIiladelDh.s. E1
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Letters OF administration with will annexed up
on the estate OF W. L. Conner. deceased were
granted TO the undersigned the 81 day OF March.
1855, by the Probate court OF Adair county All
persona having claims against said estate are re-
CURED TO exhibit them for allowance to the admin
istrator, within one year after the ate said let.
tiers, or they may be precluded from any benefit ni
such estate: and II sucn claims be not exhibited
within two years from the date OF said letters they
will be forever barred.
This 9th day OF March, 1885.
WASHINGTON GOMEZ.
Adminstratorfwith the will annexed
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Notice is hereby given that letters OF adminIstra-
non upon The estate of Andrew Roberts, sen. late
OF Adair county, deceased, have been granted To
to the undersigned John II. Roberts by the p -
pate court of The co lnty OF Adar bearing date the
4ih Gay OF April. \. ID. 1885. All persons having
claims against said estate required 10 exhibit
Them !" me for allowance within one year after the
hate OF SAID letters they may he preciuded from
any beneaf oil -Tch estate and II such caims he not
eIhiDited within two years IrOaI the time OF the
publication OF this notice they will be forever bar
red. Holm n RnHI-p'rS
Administrator Andrew ROBBERS, ser, Deceased
April lgIh, 4. d., Iss5.
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Dissolution.

Notice is hereby given that the copartner
ship heretofore existing between the VIII
lard Bros. has this day been dissolved by
mutual consent, the books and accounts will
be found in the hands of j. a. Willard, at the
old stand. Parties owing Us please call at
once. ". d. WILLARD,
j. 4. WILLARD.
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placed where other animals can not get
it, as it is exceedingly poisonous. BY u.s.
ing a little care to keep 1t away from
other animals, it win be found a safe,
cheap, simple and efficacious remedy
Ger. CORrfp Gentleman.
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THE FARMER

IN search of new home, where ne can Sc
cure better returns for his labor, should re.
member that the Wabash is the mos. direct
route to Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska,
and all points South, West and Northwest,
and that round-trip land-explorers' tickets
ticket Offices. Descriptive advertising mat
ter of Arkansas and Texas sent free to all
applicants by addressing the General Pas
sengcr Agent
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A western farmer gives his remedy
for the killing OF sheep by dogs: Moth
ing provokes man SO much as to kill
his dog. Whenever a sheep of nine is
killed in the pasture consider for the
sake of peace that it is wolves that did
It, | leave my dead sheep where l
find it and place lot of strychnine
N Ii in order to catch the wolves when
they return. BY some accident find
large number OF my neignbor's dogs
lying dead upon the premises. My
lose their dogs and regret
that their good honest dogs should be
eating poisored mutton that l had
placed in my pasture for wolves. The
treatment has made wonderful reform
IN dogs in my neighborhood.
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Born and raised on farm" Any
boy should thank God Tor being so for
tunate as to be born on farm. There
lf no place on this green earth so well
adapted TO perfectly develop mind,
muscle and manhood, as a farm :;
there boy has the purest air, the
freshest and healthiest food, plenty Of
unrestricted exercise, the brightest
sunshine and the soundest sleep the
very condition necessary for the high
est development. Nlne.tenths of all
the men who have made their mark
in any business, profession or pursuit
have been born and raised on farm;
that not so much because there is
better blood on the farm as because
the surroundings of farm life are BET
ter calculated to call out what there is
in boy, and develop a full grown,
healthy, perfectly, self-reliant man.
Otis Tinkham In CITY and Country.
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When you give the calf all the milk
aud all the creau-and letting the cali
run with the COW is the same thing
the calf uses $23 orth of cream the
first season, on basis of So 50 per
month for cream for the first nine
months Ittakes then $52 worth Of
feed and pasture to put him on the
market as three year old fat steer,
making the cost ofsteer SIS. If you
sell your cream for nine months each
year for S2.5o per month from the
COW and compound interest monthly
1t will amount to SIC 62. Add TO this
SIS each for three calves at weaving
time, and S. per year for milk fed to
hogs, with SIMPLE interest and we have
as the product OF the COW SI,42.S2.
This is reckoned on basis of the poor
est Of mich COWS. Any COW that is
fit to keep viii double this cream pro-
duct, which would run this amount up
to $I8I.I3. No calculation is allowed
for the labor of milking, yet ne have a
margin of Io6.I3 to play on, which
will handsomely pay for the labor and
food IF the COW. To this might be
added Is per cent for improvement on
land over the grain system of farming.
Ram or shine the dairy farmer is hap
! Ply, for cream viii come wherever grass
will grow, and when grass don't grow
nothing else grows. This is some food
fer re lection for our farmers who are
working and worrying themselves to
dea.h trying to raise grain where God
only intended grass should grow
Tame Press.
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THE TOURIST

Has long since chosen the Wabash as the
fayOrite route TO all the summer resorts of
the East, North and west, and winter re-
Sorts Of the South, as the Company has for
years provided better accommodations and
more attractions than any of its competitors
3or this class OF travel Tourist Tickets can
be had at reduced rates at all principal
offices of the Comnanv
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VIM. Mason, Hopkinsville, KY, says:
"Burks' White Pine Balsam Is the best
medicine ever used for cough. colds
and asthma"
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REINFORCEMENT

u family newspaper OF the frst-cIass. aud IL
cogni .ed OF the great educators of .he land
Every one who wishes to be well informed upon
great variety OF subj cts should subscribe for IT,
that Its subscribers should have stories by the very
best living authors, has published contributions
New Thing etc.: J. Dale. author Of .Guerndale, ,
THE crime OF Henry Vane.' etc: Julia schzyer au-
thor OF Tiger Lily and Other Stories: Sir Samuel
W Baker. the celebrated Egyptian Explorer; Mrs
J. Il. Riddell. author OF The senior partner
etc; Thomas Hardy, author Of a Pair OF Blue
Hale author Of Ten Times One Ia Ten etc; James
Payu, the celebrated English Novelist; Lucy c.
Lille, " Robinson, Fred ID Storey, Henry w
Lucy, Harriet Prescott Spofford. Rebeccs harding
Davis, Sarah Orue Jewett, Frank 4 Stockton, II u
poyese n, Ivan Tourgenef and others.
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w. a. Bradney, Quincy, H., says:
81 have had a cough every winter for
thirty year, Burks' White Pine Bal
sam has dC le me more good than any
other
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BRING on your work and never mind
What's SAID about this shop of mine
VIII do.your Job always on time
W hen ERE tits promised rain or shine
And il plow you want to choose
In the Winona you'll never lose,
Your conhdence--if you'll Just use
1t all the year, and just refuse
10 buy some other plow, that can
be used.
Respectfully.
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THE INDEPENDENT

has twenty. two distinct departments, edited b.
twenty-five specialists, which includes Biblical
Reseaches Sanitary, fine Arts. Music, Scihucas
PEBBLES. Personalities, Ministerial Register, Hymn
Notes School aud college Literature. Religions
Intelligence, Mission. Sunday school, yews OF th9
week, Finance. Commerce, ins rance. stories,
Puzzles. st lrctious and Agriculture. Thirty-tvo
ma in
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0HIO-INDIANA-MICHlGAN
WABASH
RC)lJT 7 E
THE BUSINESS MAN

When he travels wants to go quick, wants to
be comfortable, wants TO arrive at destina-
ton on time, IN fact, wants strictly bust
ness, trip, and consequently takes the
popular Wabash Route, feeling that he is
tn Y,rn ba
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Very few Americans have yet learn.
ed how little land is required for fur
nlshlng food to a human being avear
provided that little is well cultivated
and the crops well chosen. A woman
IN the Hudson River Valley, who calf.
Yates only SIX acres, supplies her fami.
ly with all that a garden will Weld,
keeps COW and horse, and sells be-
side six hundred dollars to seven
hundred dollars worth of fruit and
garden truck each year. 1t is needless to
add that she raises more than one crop
In year and allows no waste places.
There Is something soft and tender
II the fall of a single snow flake, but it
always reminds US to LOOK after our
bottle of Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup-our
oh stand by in the days of coughs and
;ohs-for we have always found it re-
able.
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And tt wagon yon would buy
| know that massy will please your eye
If Won will look before you buy
Wheu harvest comes Just bear in mind
The Woods Machine wod't be behind
a twlr e binder will >aveyou precious
time.
If You make your order ia ample time
Five doors west of Savings Bunk.
NJ NJ. e. =. BEE ,sT'r AN g. CO..
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CoLoRED FRbyTlsP1EcEs

Buy the November number for the chill
dren. 1t costs only % cents, and all book and
news dealers sell it. The subscril ton price
is sS0O year, and now is just the time to
subscribe
A free specimen COPY Of ST. NICHOLAS will
be sent on request. Mention this paper.
The CENTURY Co. New-York, NY
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T you Want Good Plow Point we oanPut il c

ANY AND ALL KINDS OF WOOD WORK ON SHORT NOTICE.
NIX e. T. SNOW known all over Northeast Missouri PIOW
WORKMAN will have charge of that line.
We have for sale the Celebrated Wmona Pows Massey
Spring Wagons Also Agents Walter A. Woods Harvesting
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

April 24th, 1885.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-03-26

THUMB-NAIL DRAWINGs.-1n cOllec-
tions, centuries old, to be seen in China and
Japan, are specimens of a very peculiar and
striking style of drawing done with the
thumb-nail, which is allowed to grow very
long, then dipped into ink, and in spirited
outline presently appears the figure of an
animal, Buddhist pilgrim, or perchance
a bactrian camel; a man, perhaps with i'm
plements of handicraft hanging from arms
and shoulders, or it may be a wayfarer or
bold touches from the hand of master in
this department of "high art" are life
size, and are sketched by few sweeps of
the artists arm. Like the simple pen-and-
ink sketches of that country, many of these
thumb-nail treasures are mounted and roll
ed up like scrolls.
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THE SUN.-The sun is more than one hun

THE SUN.-The sun is more than one hum
dred times the diameter of the earth. The
combined planets, many of them many
times larger than the earth, are as nothing
to it. 1t seems ball of fire; upon it are
seen spots, around it are perceived strange
lights, yet we have little idea of the nature
of what we see. The sun is mystery yet.
What is man to the earth he lives on? What
is the earth to the solar system But what,
again, is the solar system to the universe l?
Every star we see is a sun, perhaps as large
or larger than our own, perhaps surrounded
by system of planets more or less like those
the names of which are familiar to us.
Above us, across the blue heavens, stretches
a faint white belt, like unto the first faint
forming of cloud. Astronomers tell US
that this milky way is congeries of distant
stars; that the stars we see are but portion
of the galaxy nearest to US, that the sun is
one of these stars, and that the solar system,
with all the other stars, is probably rotating
around some central point which we are as
yet in ignorance of. Yet man, the tiny hab-
liant of this tiny globe, believes himself the
object for which the universe exists Phil
ddeiphid Record.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-03-26

THE MONROE DOCTRINE.-PeOple often
read about "the Monroe doctrine" without
knowing exactly what the phrase means.
The following extract from President Mon
rOe's seventh annual message, delivered to
Congress December 2, 1928, gave rise to the
phrase:
1.-THE citizens of the United States cherish
sentiments the most friendly in favor of the
liberty and happiness of their fellow-men
on that side of the Atlantic. In the wars of
the European powers, in matters relating
to themselves, we have never taken any
part, nor does it comport with our policy to
do so. 1t is only when our rights are invad-
ed or seriously menaced that we resent in
iuries or make preparations for our defence.
With the movements Of this hemisphere we
are of necessity more Immediately concern
ed, and by causes which must be obvious to
all enlightened and impartial observers.
The political system of the allied powers is
essentially different in that respect from
that of America. This difference proceeds
from that which exists in their respective
governments. And to the defence of our
own, which have been achieved by the loss
of so much blood and treasure and matured
by the wisdom of their most enlightened
citizens, and under which we have enjoyed
uneXampled felicity, this whole nation. is
ueFOteu. we owe ~, tlieleloIe, W Cahuoi
and to the amicable relations existing be-
tween the United States and those powers
to declare that we should consider any at
tempt on their part to extend their system
to any portion of this hemisphere as danger
Gus to our peace and safety. With the ex-
isting colonies or dependencies of any Euro
pean power we have not interfered and shall
not interfere. But with the governments
which have declared their independence we
have, on great consideration and just prin-
ciples, acknowledged we could not view any
interposition for the purpose Of depressing
them, or controlling in any other manner
their destiny, by any European power, in
any other light than as the manifestation of
an unfriendly disposition toward the United
StateSV