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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-03-19
A CONFEDERATE SPY
MO PLAYED The PART or A DEAF
AND DUMB MAN.

Arrested and Carried On tn the Guard
Hou.e-ILe ordeal Undergone at the
os;.,, of the Provost Nar>hal-Some
Surprising Tests-Turned Loose
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28
Things to Do and to Know.

Kerosene oil put upon the heads and under
the wings of chickens will kill them
Do not try to fatten very old cows or
sheep. 1t will not pay You can't make
them fat
Have oatmeal porridge and cream for
breakfast The oatmeal makes bone, brain
and muscle.
Fall pigs will thrive handsomely if patch
of rye has been planted to furnish them green
food during the fall and winter
Never plant pea for home use that isn't
wrinkled. The buckshot varieties may be
had few hours earlier, but they are only
lit to sell
In setting out trees let them lean toward
The south, This preve' sun scalding at
first The trse will gradually pull itself
back upright.
II you have grape vines weak, feeble or
nearly dead cut them on near the ground,
and let new sprouts spring up from the roots
but do not let over two of them grow.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28
FARM AND GARDEN,


Henry Combs, of Cre,ton, Ia, thinks hog
hole is caused by mn unnatural growth OF
ii tie b ack teeth in the hogs mouth, causing
frver, and II the teeth are pulled the ho1 will
get we'll. He thinks it so strongly that he
performs the operation ut twenty-five cents
head. He claims that he never fails The
editor OF The Homestead strikes at Combs
and his tooth pulling nonsense like this: "Of
course they will find black teeth. II their
own stomachs are badly out Of order their
teeth will be black. This gentleman is doing
a thriving business pulling hogs teeth out at
twenty five cents per head He or some
other benevolent chap offered to pull the
teeth out of our hogs last summer for fifteen
cents per head. The hog dentist has raised
his price ten cents. He pulled the teeth out
of ne of our neighbours hogs at that figure
They all died
why do we notice such foolishness as
thisi Simply because the state is chuck
full and running over with just such ut err
bosh and nonsense Half the farmers in the
state think that il they will drive their hogs
when they have the cholera they will get
well. Others believe they will get well if
fed salt and ashes, others lime. others cop
peras, carbolic acid, walnut hulls, or walnut
bark tea, sulphuric acid, nitric acid, etc
One of these remedies for cholera is Just as
good as another Except the teeth pulling
business they are all good if your hogs don't
have the cholera. But if they have the
genuine cholera, and you can tell that by
opening them, the best cure Is a club on all
pigs under six months With proper diet
and food about half the old sows will get
well.-Country Home
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28
Sneezing Catarrh.

The distressing -sncrzc, sneez', the acrid,
watery discharges from the eyes and nose, the
painful inflammation extending to the throat,
the swelling OF the mucous lining, causing
choking sensations, cough, ringing noises in
the head and splitting headaches, how IA
miliar these symptoms are to thousands who
suffer periodically from head colds or intluen-
Ia, and who live in ignorance of the fact that
Il single application Of SANFoRD's RADICAL
CURE FOR CATARRH will afford instantaneous
relief.
But this treatment in cases simple Catarrh
gives but a faint idea of what this remedy
will do n the chronic forms, where the breath
ing is INSTRUCTED by choking, putrd mucous
accommodations, the hearing affected. smell
and taste gone, throat liberated and hacking
cough gradually fastening itself upon the de-
bilitated system. Then it is that the murvel-
Gus curative power of SANFORD'S RADICAL
CURE manlf"sts itself in instantaneous and
or 'telul relief. Cule begins from the first
application. 1t is rapid, radical, permanent,
economical, safe.
SANFORD'S RADICAL CURE consists of one
bottle of the RADICAL CURE, one box OF CAT
ARRHAL SOLVENT, and one lMPROv ID ISHAL-
Err; Sl.0o.
POTTER DRUG l. CHEMICAL Co., Boston.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28

The usual custom is to set the plants in the
open ground in spring, and on the approach
OF frost take up and pot in the most approved
manner In the course of a few DAYS the
leaves turn yellow and die, leaving your
plants with long, leafless branches, if they
do not die outright. Those that survive in
the course of time begin to grow from the
end of branches. and very few flowers are
produced.
My flower loving friends, if you would
have nice, symmetrical pants and plenty of
bloom. follow the advice given, and begin
operations now Take cuttings Of all
varieties intended for winter towering at
once. Pot as soon as rooted in small florists
pots, and repot soon as the roots become
matted around the ball of earth within the
pot. Care must he taken to stop the hole in
the bottom of the pot. As soon as the dam
ger from frost is over plunge the pots in the
open ground and repot as often as necessary.
Remove the flower buds as often as they APP
pear until the middle of August, and when
cool weather approaches remove to the win
dow and your plants will receive no check
and plenty of bloom will reward you for
your trouble If from any cause you desire
to save any of those planted out in the open
ground the plants must be pruned back
severely Water once thoroughly and then
sparingly until growth begins. Also keep
in cool place.
This treatment, given for geraniums, is
suitable for roses, chrysanthemums, hello
trope, etc. In fact, it is almost impossible
to lift heliotrope and keep alive
You will also need some soil for next
winters use, and now is the proper time to
begin its preparation. Take rich sods from
some old pasture or roadside, pile up and
mix with some manure, and give the heap the
benefit of your soap suds on wash days, and
ii turned occasionally you will have soil
suitable for all kinds of plants
The following are excellent varieties OF
the double geraniums: Asa Gray, color
salmon; Mrs. E. G. Hill, white tinted pink
Remarkable, violet crimson, very fine
Richard Brett, orange scarlet; Zenobia,
cherry, and Gen. Grant immense truss OF
light scarlet-Orange County Farmer.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28
Honoripg Simon Cameron.

During the period of his active career no
public man ever encountered more constant
or more violent opposition than Simon
Cameron, of Pennsylvania; yet, now that he
has retired, to spend his green and vigorous
old age among his neighbors, no one is more
honored, more oonfided in, or more beloved
than he Not merely the members OF his
own party gather at his call, but the NOM
bers of every party, and man Of mark in
every line of life, rejoice in hs bounteous
hospitality dispensed at his country home at
Donegal, IN Lancaster county, A party
of more than thirty gentlemen were
enter tanned there recently, including a
dozen senators, such us Morrill,, Of
Vermont Beck and Blackburn. of Ken
lucky; Gray, OF Delaware; Logan, Of illinois;
Hale, of Maine; Butler of South Carolina,
and Hearst, of California, with Samuel j.
Randall of Philadelphia; Governor Pattison,
and John Arnot, OF Now York, bssides a
number of conspicuous railroad mon, jour
nalists, lawy.. I. and manufacturer II was
delightful occasion, and for years Wa ave
not seen Gen Cameron in such strength or
such spirits New York Bun.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28
A HORSE PALACE

Within this horse palace are vehicles of
all kinds. man never looks SO stingy or
so selfish as when he drives off by himself
in one of those spidery little singles seated
trotting wagons Here are all the worlds
wives and young ones dying to take a ride
in the fresh air, and Mr. Horse Fancier
tucks his duster about him and drives out
before their eyes, all to himself, behind a
horse that would be all the better for haul
ing at least two persons, or four, counting
the little children.
Mr.. Works stables are supplied with these
single-seated trotting wagons, There are
also barouches, closed carriages, etc, at
pleasure The ceiling is more beautiful and
elaborate than very many church ediaces
outside the large cities can boast of. The
dark polished oak rafters shine in the gas
light that CLEANS from lights brilliant
enough to illuminate ballroom. Around
the ceiling, at the top of the walls, the
decoration are very elaborate.
The stable is so fine and costly that 1t Is
visited ar a curiosity by thousands of per-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28
How to Hang n Griudsto ne,

To hang grindstone on its axle and to
keep it from wabbling from side to side re-
quires great skill The hole should lie at
least three-eighths or one-half inch larger
than tn axle. and both axle and hole square;
then make double wedges for each OF the four
sides of the square, all alike and thin enough
SO that one wedge from each side will reach
clear through the hole Drive the wedges
from each side. If the hole through the stone
is true, the wedges will tighten the stone
true; if the hole is not at right angles to the
plane of the stone, it must be made so. or the
wedge must he correspondingly altered in
the taper to meet the irregularity of the hole
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28
Ex-President Arthur's Children.

The fact that ex- President Arthur seems to
be slowly going out Of life invests him and
his belongings with interest During the
time of his residence in the White House it
was known that he was widower with two
children, Nellie and Allan Mr.. Arthur's
wife, Commodore Herndon's daughter, died
in January 1881, after her husband had been
elected vice president
Young Allan Arthur is good deal Of a
dude and dandy. He has never shown any
very marked mental peculiarities, one way
or the other His only claim to dis
tinction, so far as known, is that
he broke a marriage engagement with
pretty girl while his father president
He was then about 10 years old Up to this
new ones
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28

Profit in farming consists in devotiug most
OF your land to grass and stock; in making
large quantities Of manure, and applying it
to small portion of cultivated land, giving
high cultivation In this way more grain,
roots, etc, will be raised one year with an
other than can be raised on the whole farm
by the usual skimming and half cultivating
process. Here is success in nutshell; your
farm and pocket will grow fat no mistake
about i'll
Profit in stock raising comes from giving
the best care and shelter with full feed from
the beginning. In breeding use only thor.
oughbred males; half-breds produce only
mongrels and scrubs One pound of sulphur
to twenty Of salt will prevent disease. and
keep your animals healthy. Always salt the
hay in the NOW. One is apt to neglect Civ
ing salt in winter. Add sulphur, as it pre-
vents hay from moldng and keeps it sweet
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28

The manner OF calling swine is as varied rs
the number OF states The Pennsvlvanian
requests the presence of his herd with pig
pig, pig pig-gia. 'ig-gie" The North Caro-
linian halloo', "Pig-i. pig-i," dwelling on the
",' each time The Hooser calls "Whoo-ee,
whoo-ee," and his p gs come on the jump
from every direction A Buckeye farmer
reasons with his big, easy-going, wel-fed
porker, and coaxinglv cries, $500, soo-soo,
500, 500" The Kentucky farmer causes the
hills to reverberate with his heavy bass voice,
"Poohe poohe." a Dakotian brings his pigs
with n shrill whistle And thus each state
has its own peculiar manner Of calling the
syina
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28

bushel of rutabagas per day. He substi-
iuted nm additionaI 2'4 pounds of corn meal
for tho roots, fed and waterad ali they
wou take, as before and found the animals
all gained faster and the cows gave more
and better milk He made up his mind that
raising a bushel of rutabagas for the cost
of "a pounds of corn meal was pretty poor
business; about two cents per bushel II
would be
This reminds us OF tho remark of that
dry old joker, Charley r Beach, OF Wis
consin, who, when asked if he advocated
feeding cows rutabagas as much as he did
in former years, replied: mo; I have a
wind mill now, and it answers the same
purpose. American Dairyman
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28
A HORSE PALACE.
THE FINEST PRIVATE STABLE IN
THE UNITED STATES.

Mr. Frank Works New York "Barn,"
That Cost s14O,OOo-His Famous Trot-
ting Team, Edward and Dick swiveler.
Natural Trotters.
or course natures best gift to mankind Is
good horse. But one is not certain whether
there are not men who overdo the horse
business There are private stables in New
York city which have had money enough
spent on each one of them to found colony
with model homes for working people. 1t
really makes a thoughtful person melancholy
to think of the money squandered on mere
show and amusement in the great city by the
SEQ 1t shows at once what vast wealth
there is in New York and how little rational
idea the owners have of spending it. Hap
less human beings are dying like sheep in
reeking tenement houses, and these fortunate
men Of wealth will spend $500, 900 on a stable
and horses, or $500, 600 on a yacht, without a
thought of the starving ones of their own
kind. The rich men and women of New
York alone have it in their power to do away
with the tenement house system of that city
in six months time. Do they ever think Of
It'll Not they.
Mr.. Frank Work is rich man, GO years
old. He has been horse owner and speeder
forty-five years
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28

and thereafter went her peerless way alone.
But if so, before she left him she had him SO
well trained that he would not talk.
DR.. Mary Walker has been ever since the
war one of the curiosities of the capital, like
the Washington monument and the United
States senate This is because she wears
trousers and mans frock coat, and hat
half male and half female. She does not
look bad in this costume On the contrary,
with her small feet and delicate features she
really looks right cute; but the average herd
of humanity doesn't see that sort of thing
every day, therefore it arches its back and
bowls.
DR.. Mary did good and unseltish work in
the army hospitals during the war, work for
which she has not been paid to this day The
newspapers that have been guying and cat
hauling the slim, nervous little woman for
the past twenty-five years have been in rather
small business.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28

He owns what he considers the best
double trotting team in the world They
are called Edward and Dick Swiveler
They have made a mile in 2:16M The fast
est time a d, uble team have ever done was
made by AL, inc and Maud s., that did
their mile in 2:l5l5
Il built this barn two years ago, and it
cost me about O,0OO' said Mr.. Work.
al suppose the lot is worth nearly as much
more, but of course the public does not care
shout that"
1t is pretty steep for stable that, $40
600 Mr.. Work is SO fond of his stable that
he spends much of his time there like a
hostler But he has had three magnificent
rooms fitted up for himself on the second
floor, The sitting room is the one seen in
che illustration He also has another home
somewhere else in the city, where his
family live.
Mr.. Work, speaking Of the bree ding up
OK trotters, says that when he first came to
New York in 1899 three minute trotter
was more of a rarity than $50 horse is
now. The gorgeous stable is on Fifty-sixth
street near Seventh avenue. Its ceiling Is
OF polished oak, and the floor is covered
with heavy mating. There was certain
woman in the city few years ago who
had her horses managers silver plated Mr..
Work does not go to quite that extent,
Slough no common wood is good enough for
his high steppers.
There are other stables nearly as elegant
as Mr. Works Bonners, with Maud S.
within, is not far away The Vanderbilt
stables are very splendid. So is that OF
Rockefeller of Standard Oil company fame
He ought to name his fastest trotter Coal
Oil
When New York horse fancier speaks of
athe road" he means st, Nicholas avenue,
out beyond Central park through which the
fast horses are generally driven The famous
horses belonging to private owners may be
seen here of any fine afternoon Here is
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28

sons from various pnrts Of the country.
The different arrangements of the building
for the comfort and convenience of both
horses and grooms are costly and luxurious,
such as would make the barn won er in
Europe 1t is considered to be the most per-
fectly appointed stable in the country
Mr.. Work is the horses friend He says
that the great thing in matching q pair Of
trotters is to have their mouths right and
then have confidenc, that they will not
break. He never sells a horse that suits
him. After an animal gets too old for SER
vice 1t is taken care of as long as 1t lives
That is better than people always fare.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28
Inoculating for Hog Cholera.

The Oskaloosa Herald says: DR.. Schermer-
horn, of jefferson, Ia, very worthy man
and one who is constantly experimenting in
a practical way. thinks that he has dis
covered cure for hog cholera He has
followed out Pastour's theory as applied to
hydrophobia and other diseases, and pre-
vents the disease from spreading by inocula-
ton 1t Is said that out of a herd Of l0C
which had been exposed, fifty were treated
by incubation and fifty were not so treated.
or the former but one died, while in the
latter the cholera ran its COURSE
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28
Making Changes.

Every change that is proposed on the farm
should, if possible, be acc mpli,hed with
Especially should this be the
case when it is determined to make radical
change in the management of the dairy,
such rs changing from summer to winter
butter making, from pasturing to soiling
Begin the change slowly, and try to learn
the hard places as you go along
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28

All mineral manures should be left on or
very near the surface. They are never
bulky, and to plow them in is to bury them
where roots of crops will find them so late
as to receive little benefit theretrom The
decomposition Of barnyard manure under
the furrow gives both warmth and fertility
to the roots. But potash or phosphales
buried so deeply are either soon washed away
or become in,oluble and of no value to crops.
Especially is this the case in soils having lit
tie vegetable mold
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28

The Toronto Nal says: Hoven the result
Of eating too much green clover in pasture
is easily prevented. Have good straw stack
accessible TO CATTLE and they will always eat
sufficient Of the dry stuff to neutralize the
evil effect Of clover. If one has no stack
then give a small ration Of dry hay or straw
each day. If the trouble appears admin
lister to the affected animal, as soon as dis
covered five or six tabespoonfuls of spirits
OF turpentine. Unless the sub ject is too far
gone to stand, this will give relief.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28
Queen bee.

1t it n well known fact that a colony cannot
long exist without queen. and she must be
such one as has met drone and become
fertilized in order to lay eggs that will pro
ducs working bees; these are essential to the
welfare Of the whole colony. The queen, if
prolific, is capable of laying 1000 or 5000
eggs daily during the honey harvest Just
in the same ratio as the eggs are deposited in
the cell Ivy the queen, 30 they will hatch out
and become full-grown bees in twenty one
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28

After all the good wife and the boys and
girls are the best things ON the farm. Don't
forget this when you find yourself given up
night and day to thinking about and caring
for those pigs and calves If the pig or calf
goes wrong it can be replaced with money,
bat not so with helpmate wrecked with
overwork, or a boy a girl gone astray
The best type of farmer is the one who
thinks of his family first; not that he thinks
less of his farm and its belongings, but more
of Betsy and the babies. Indicator.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28
new ones,

Allan lives with his father in the house on
Lexington avenue. Ex- President Arthur has
not had very jolly time of 1t in the last six
years, and his painful, lingering illness at
present is no improvement on the rest Of his
luck But throughout there has been one
steady ray OF sunshine to his life. That is
his little daughter Nellie. She was about II
years old when her father became president,
an innocent, lovely, sweet little girl She is
now approaching womanhood She ressm-
bes her father in face and features far more
than her brother, and seems to be the best
bow of the two
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28
The English Preacher spurgeon

The famous spurgson has tho govt, or,
rather the govt has the famous Spurseon
'Tis an honest malsdy, and yet it should
spare preachers. Probably Mr.. Spurgeon is
expiating the sans of some thirsty and
porty ancestor who lived in the days when
port was fit to drink and men were fit to
drink it 1t Is a consolation to any English
man to feel that, il he must have a disease,
he has an hereditary one Besides, the govt
has a fondness for great company.
The nighticst monarch awful TO his foes
Must howl When grim Arthritis nj ps his toes
New York Sun
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28


doctor, the other Is
how old she is. The
latter, Of course, is
private, and no
b o d Us business,
but the first is
so m Q t ing diff
ferent.
Somewhere late
ly a newspaper re-
marked that the
lady's mother had
just died, aged 81
There is a ira
dition, too, that
she was born in
New York STATE.
There is another
tradition w h / C b
Ap e ople whisper
with bated breath
1t is that once,
some time in the
remote and shad-
-owy past, DR.. Mary
b a d a husband,
whom she tried a
while, and finding
he was not agree
a b lie, repudiated
-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28
Destroying May Bugs.

The burning of rubbish heaps, which always
occurs after spring CLEANING, should he done
Mt night, and when warm weather has en-
ticed the May bugs to venture out. Many
Of thsse will be attracted by the light and
destroyed Few like the May bug in any
state but before he assumed his present
active condition Ne was one OF the different
families of white and black grubs so de-
structive to Strawberries. corn and cabbage.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28

Here we have the most useless OF all varie-
ties of poultry flesh, the Game, good only for
fighting. The cock is as plucky us a bull
dog, and will fight as long as there is piece
of him left He will allow no other rooster in
the yard along with him. The len lays only a
moderate number of eggs, which are richly
favored, and the cock temper is very bad.
The Games have been bred till there is not
much meat left ON them Their long, sharp
Legs and beaks are very prominent
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28
DIR. Mary Walker,

There are two things about this noted
little woman that no fellow can find out
Nobody ever did find out vet, and the pros
pect is the doctor will go down to the
grave keeping her mouth shut on these two
important matters. Who says no woman
but Becky Jones can keep a secretl
One of the things nobody can ascertain
about DIR. Mary is where she got the title of