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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-07-21
THE TRUE RELIEF.
MALARIA IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS.
EENER Ann AGILE

There is not a remedial agent In the world thatwi!
cure Fever and ARue and all other Malarons, hii, III
ious Scarlet and other Fcvcrs (adoi by RADWAl'S
PILLS. so quick as RAILWAYS READY RELIEF.
Price Eifly CcnIs. Sold by DrnRglaLa.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28
Guineas on the Farm.

Guineas are profitable for the reason
that they cost almost nothing to raise.
They prefer to seek their own food in
the fields, and seldom come home for
food as long as they can find supply
themselves. As rule they mate, and
it is best, therefore, to have sexes equal.
The hen steals her nest, but cannot re-
frain from making noise when she
comes off, which betrays her to the
wrathful farmer. Guineas are valuable
on farms where the range is wide, as
they destroy very large number of in
sects and do not scratch up seeds. In
fact, flock of twenty guineas will con-
sumo a number of insects so large as to
almost appear incredible, as they are
active and always searching. They also
consume grass and young weeds, as well
AS the seeds of undesirable plants and
grasses The hen lays about 125 eggs q
year, especially if they are taken from
her before she begins to set. The flesh
of the guinea is rather dark, but Juicy
and of 'gamy" flavor. They may be
raised to remain near the house by
placing the eggs under hens, and add a
few chicks TO the brood when the young
guineas are Matched. They will learn
from the chicks, and soon become tame
and accustomed to the same habits as
the chicks, growing up with them. The
eggs require four weeks for incubation,
and are usually Matched under hens in
the poultry house.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28
Business Methods in Farming.

1t is not possible for any one. writes
w. j. Barton of Rome, Tenn, to the
Nashville American, to handle money
successfully in any business who is lack
ing in the Art of creating capital.
Nineteen-twentieths of the Young men
in osrr knowledge who first ventured
into business on borrowed capital came
TO grief. They lacked knowledge Of the
principles OF their business which comes
Of experience and close, hard thinking.
William Fl. Vanderbilt mortgaged his
little island farm for 5000 and spent
the greater part of the money on it and
came out successful. He was trained in
the house of his father and knew the
art OF turning the penny. Where we
find one coming out so successful as he
did fifty others will go to the wall under
a mortgage. In our opinion nothing
would result SO disastrorsly to our agri.
cultural interests as allowing farmers q
free run on the banks under the mort
gage system. A temporary show OF
prosperity might be made in erecting
new buildings and dressing up the
farms; but the inevitable result in the
majority Of the cases would be foreclos
ures and transfer of property to tho
banks. The money lender, whether be
De farmer or other business man, is usu
My q financial success, while constant
b>rrowef is as certainly financial fail
49,. Sowe would say to the farmer
&<o0k ~ your business for money to run
rs. Gfeate your own capital out Of YOU
surplus products. Keep what is no,
actually needed to run you invested
1oar3Gd oF III hepk Spend sparinOlv arr
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28
Painting Tin Roofs.

Tin ON house top should be well
painted once in four years. For roofs,
light, cool colors are preferable, because
they reflect the warm rays of light, and
thereby lessen the expansion and con-
tractiolsof the metal and the shrinking
of the boards underneath, and so lesson
the liability of the tin to crack in the
seams. The temperature of attic rooms
in summer will be materially lower if
the roof be painted with a light rather
than a dark color. The writer has
learned from long experience that the
finest French ochre is the most econom-
ical pigment that can be used for that
purpose. If, as il sometimes the case in
country houses, where the roof is con-
spicuous object in the architecture of
the buiiking, a dark color is indispensa-
Bile, the use of pure Venetian red dark
ened with lampblack is recommended
as the most durable and economical. If
by some process the oil used in roof
painting could be prevented from becom-
ing hard and brittle, it would be great
gain. The poorest oil paint, however.
is better than neglect; and the best
economy consists in keeping tin entirely
and thoroughly protected from the cor
roding influence OF dampness. Old paint,
which has become fatty" from expo
sure to the atmosphere, is better than
new for roof painting. Not drop of
turpentine should be used for such
work.-The Metal Worker.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28
The Girl Who can Never Grow Old
[St. Louis Magazine. ]


Heaven bless the girl at the front gate
with peach blossom on her cheeks and
love light in her eyes. She can never
grow old TO those who have been with
her. Years may come and go, but the
music of the low voice will not be
stilled, and the memory of the cherry
lips we kissed will hold out faithful to
the end. What if the old gate does sag,
and its hinges rattle, and its latch refuse
to hold it shut? What if the posts are
shaky and some of its pickets gone? We
love the dear old relic STILL We love it
for the sake of the girl. who used to
stand out there by it with roses on her
cheeks and nectar on her lips. We
counted the stars and bid goodbye, and
then counted the stars again. How
many times was goodbye said? How
many times did lips meet DER the old
dear gate? And what became of the
girl? All, mel She married another.
She forgot her VOWS, and married a
richer and handsomer man. And II
Well, | went off to another front gate
where there were other peach bloom
cheeks and other lips as sweet and as
many stars to count. And now / have q
front gate of my own, and girl of my
own who counts the stars with the boy
of the girl whose VOWS made with me
were broken. But he is true, good
boy, and my girl is good, true girl. and
heaven bless them both as they stand to-
night at the old front gate
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28
Don't Work Too Hard.

Farmers wives, as a general thing,
work entirely too hard. Let them mod.
crate their labors to the proportion OF
their strength, and even if help has to
be obtained to make up the deficit, il
were surely better than to wear out pre-
rlaturely from exposure and overwork
and leave your children at tender age
without mothers care. A good woman
with good husband, can be happier
nowhere than on farm; but let not a
sense of duty in the one, nor a false
economy in the other, deprive the wife
of all needed assistance. 1t is far better
to enjoy life in old age with your chill
dren than to have shaved through life to
leave them a fortune, while you lay
down in a premature grave, ere lifes
grea: tasks be fully DONE Let the
duties and responsibilities usually de
volved upon farmers wives be lessened
and furnish abundant help for the worl
to be done.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28
The Workingmen's Friend.

The observance of the day of rest by
abstaining from the ordinary labors of
life, and turning the mind expressly to
the teaching of religion and the care OF
the spiritual nature, is one of the pr.
mary teachings OF christianity. And
upon it hangs the best interests of socie
ty, while it is deeply related to home
life and personal character.
The Sabbath is the workingman's
friend. 1t was made for man for a
world of toilers. 1t is also the friend OF
the capitalist He will receive higher
and better work from men who rest up
on the Sabbath day and appropriately
use it. The right observance of it, il
need hardly be said, tends to healthful
ness. industry, intelligence, and sound
morality.
On the score of social economy-not
to speak of the higher plane of spiritual
life-it becomes of inestimable import
ance for employers to secure for theil
workingmen the full enjoyment of the
Sabbath, and TO set them the example
of the right use of it, and for the work
ingmen rightly to guard and use theil
day of rest. The Sabbath keeping will
have more true comfort and self-respeci
and enjoyment of life. Here as else
where, obedience to the law of God is
the surest way to healthiest living, to
soundest secular prosperity. Rev. Joseph
Few Smith, ID. ID.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28
Possibilities of Agriculture.

Belgium has $50 inhabitants pei
square mile. This is an average of three
persons to each four acres. If the
United States were equally crowded they
would contain population of 1850, 000,
900. 1t is hardly possible that this will
ever happen-since, first, the agricul
ture o. Belgium does not support this
population; and second, the United
States contain relatively more waste
land than Belgium. Nevertheless, the
immense population country may be
made to support, through high farming
is interesting, and may point relatively
to what tho resources of the United
States eventually may be. 1t is inter.
esting also to know that the inhabitants
of Belgium seem happy and contented
people. We hear little of distress there
for this reason: They are frugal and
temperate people, who make everything
tell in the production of value. Farm
ing in that country is of the highest or
der, cultivation the minute possible, and
all means possible are used to hold the
integrity of the soil.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28

Farm, Field and 5tockman.1
The general supposition Is that thooe
who live in the country enjoy lnxnriea
beyond the province Of those who live
in the cities. True, the farmer has an
advantage in many respects, such as the
ability to secure that which Is fresh and
paiatable as compared with his city
brothers. His milk is unadulterated,
the butter used on his table In sweet
and pure, the eggs are new, and the
vegetables are daily gathered as re-
quired.
But we allude to the comforts and
enjoyments that the farmer should pos
sess. What are the facts? Do farmers
really enjoy The luxaries to be obtained
on the farm? Do farmers wives enjoy
life equally as well as those ladies who
live in the cities? We fear not How
| many farmers know the importance of
a garden? But very small proportion,
we may claim. They deny themselves
have if they would. Hundreds of them
live on sameness of food that would
be rejected by persons living in cities,
and yet it is the farmer to whom all are
indebted for many of the comforts that
are enjoyed. With the farmer it is work
from early dawn to sunset, and every
member of his family must share some
portion of the tedious labor. The far
mers' wives grow prematurely old, and
| the younger generations have a dislike
TO the occupation which is, above all
the best that could be followed
Can we suggest remedy for the anael
ioration of the condition of farmers
families? We do not lay claim TO that
honor, but we can suggest better
method of conducting farm operation:
so as to render farm life more enjoyable
| In the first place, give the wife a choice
location for garden, and work it under
her direction. Let it be well stocked
with all the choicest varieties of small
fruits and vegetables. Give her some
thing to anticipate, to hope for, to real
ize and tn enjoy. Let her be interested
| i'm q manner that the care and attention
she is to bestow will be a source Of
pleasure. Give the young members al
interest in some department, from which
they may expect to derive pecuniary
benefit, and in which the labor required
will be performed with pleasure. LIE
the farmer resolve to first produce al
of those things that will add to his owl
comfort before he sells dollars worth
of produce. The choicest beef, the bes
butter, the freshest eggs, should be useC
at home. Variety is the spice of life
even on the farm.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28
When TO Water Horses.

The est time TO water horse is an
hour before or an hour and half after
eating If watered Immediately before
eating, the temperature of the stomach
is lowered beyond the digestive point
and the food is not acted upon till the
temperature gets back to where it ought
to be- Suppose his master takes him to
the watering trough Immediately after
eating, and his stomach is full of food
and he drinks pail or two pals OF
water. The consequences is that a por-
ton of the food is forced out of the
stomach and is swept along into the
larger intestines without assimilation.
In France some years ago | saw some
horses that were going to be killed.
They were fed coarse beans, and imme-
diately after they were allowed to drink
ali the water they would, and were then
killed and dissected, and some of these
beans we're found twenty six feet distant
from the stomach itself in the intestines.
Secretary Russell
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28

" kesp noId Hun r11fnE - cnIS1r
a pfckIe1. sd : table poonfnl Is ground
horzeradish 40 every quart
a small piece Of charcoal placed in
your meat larder will keep the articles
sweet and wholesome as well as ice
Charcoal Is . great diElnfectant.
To prevent meat from scorching dur
ing the roasting process, keep basin OF
water in the oven- The steam generated
prevents scorching and makes the meal
cook better.
You can get bottle or barrel of OF
out of any carpet or wooden stuff by ap
plying buckwheat plentifully and faith
fully. Never put water to such a grease
spot, or liquid of any kind.
Knives, after using, should be wiped
with soft paper, removing the grease
ETC., then placed in a deep can or vessel
keeping the handles above water, luke
warm, until washed clean, then thor
oughly dried.
To remove fruit stains, let the spotted
part of the cloth imbibe little waite
without dipping it, and hold the par
over two or three lighted brimston,
matches at proper distance. The sui
phurous gas which is discharged soor
causes the spots to disappear.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28
Sow Fodder Corn.

If only an acre of fodder corn be
grown it will be found one of the best
crops that can be produced for the labor
and care bestowed upon it. Fodder corn
is crop that keeps well after it is made,
and is highly relished by horses, cattle
and sheep. 1t yields more per acre than
any forage crop that can be grown, and
only small space is required to produce
large quantity. The best time to har-
vest it is when it is in the roasting
ear" stage, or, rather when the corn is
milky The seed should be sown thick
ly in the rows, plenty of manure and
fertilizer used, and the crop kept thor
oughly cultivated until it fully covers
the ground. Although many feed it to
stock loose, yet the better plan 10 to pass
it through a cutter and no portion of il
will then be wasted Farm Field and
GAaaI-Uon
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28

How to keep the best cows in the best
way on the smallest area of ground is
the goal of judicious dairyman. Other
things being equal, one COW giving 600
gallons of milk every year, and requir-
ing the produce of J. acres to support
her, may be considered four times "a
profitable as a COW yielding 300 gallons
and requiring for her support the pro-
duce of three acres. Crop yield is just
az important az milk yield in dairy
farrninn
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28

RECEIPT FOR WtsHISG.-Put the
clothes to soak the night before in cold
water; take pound and a half of soap
and a half tea cup of kerosine oil ;
put them in pot of water and let 1t
boil; then put the clothes in and let
them boil briskly twenty minutes; take
them up and rinse them the usual way
and they will be clean.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28
HOlQe and garM.
---l------as---=s'4--s4a'---
TWO VIEWS OF IT.

An old farmhouse, with pastures wide,
Sweet with flowers on every side;
A restless lad who looks from out
The porch, with woodbine twined about,
Wishes thought from in his heart
o, il only could depart
From this dull place the world to see,
All me how happy / would be.
Amid the city's ceaseless din,
A man who round the world has been,
Who, mid the tumult and the throng,
Is thinking, wishing ali day long
o, could / only tread once more
The field-palh to the farm house door;
The old green meadows could / see,
All me how happy / would be.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28

ooE Glde Il STATE Sfreef heIone1ne - ~
Da~k1n.. Arply On rrsnissx -
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28

ByH1I2-
Female College,
HOTsVILLE, ALABAMA.

uyHIRTYsEvENTH SESSION BEGINS WE'D
i xEsDAY, skPrENBKR /, 1886. A desirable
school for your daughters in all Departments Oh
Female Education. Supplied with new lnsfrn-
ments fine Apparatus. and n fall Faculty Charges
reasonable. For Catalogues and terms, apply 70
A. B. JONES, D. D., LIZ D.,
iulx7 ,ss-2me Principal
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28
SHOES.

We claim that we can sell you the best
Shoe in the market for the least money,
and are ready to prove what we say.
BCome early while the Stock is all
| Fresh, and see what we can do for you.
We will take pleasure in showing you
through whether you are ready to buy or
not. Yours, truly,
NM yUIIInINN
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28
EMBROIDERY AND LAcEs /!

And can show you line which for Ele-
gance and Cheapness cannot be excelled.
Havn't space to mention prices, but will
say we can sell You Embroidery from Sc.
to 500 per yard, and prices all through
are JUST LITTLE OVER HALF what you
paid last Season.
UMBRELLAS, from 75c. to $1.5O.
UMBRELLAS, all Silk, $3.50.
LADIES UMBRELLAS and PAKAsoLs,
from 35c. to $1,000 each.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-12-09

a. the ship It meant to rcpressnt
'srhen,' said little girl, 1.-THE people
began tn be afraid OF Indiana. They
built tower and kept light on Il,
calling It the Beacon. I have made
the Beacon" and she held up ciay
tower with o small lantern swinging
from 1t. Then boy took up the story.
''The town of Boston was built on three
hills, ind was called Trmountsin.
There were Bunker Hill, Breeds Hill
and Beacon Hill. The last was where
the Beacon light hung" and he held up
his m dol. showing tho formation Of
early Boston. Others followed W ia
representations OF the State House
and Perkins Institution and Bunker
Hill Monument, and at last the new
X ndergarten for the Blind.
The school has become SO large
that they have TO turn away every year
blind applicants. The Institution is Q
village in itself, in the heart Of the great
city. Besides its main buildings, so
large and conspicuous that they can be
seen for miles, it has cottages. work
shops. gallery, printing-house and
school-houses. So new house has
been built al Jamaica Plain, VIII ch will
be used for tho first time next year, as
kindergarten. This will gv room
for nearly as many more pupils in the
whole school. The Perkins school can
accommodate some three hundred
scholars, and the kindergarten will take
hundred or two more. 1t will take
them when they arc little, from out Of
their wretchednoss, and often from
squalor and misery, end fit them Tor
learning 10 study and to work; SO that
our little blind children need sit in dark
ness no longer, but have chance to
become good, useful and active citizens.
May God bless the work and its helpers.
But you must not think the work is
all confined to kindergarten ng. You
have heard of the famous Laura Bridg-
man. that sweet patient old lady, who
has but one sense out of live-the sense
of touchp Here she was taught tho
marvellous requirements which have
made her so distinguished. Here many
others were taught long before kinder
gartens came into fashion, but much
more slowly and laboriously. Hundreds
of blind people owe their ability to take
care of themselves and their enjoyment
of life to this school. Some of them
graduate and go forth to teach in other
schools for tho blind. Many of them
learn to tune pianos, and their musical
instinct is SO quick and true that our
blind p'ano-tuners are the best we have.
They learn music, instrumental and
vocal. They learn carpentering. broom
making, chair-seat'ng, basket weaving
and many other things, and their work
is always oonscient Gus.
Boys, if you ever have a chance. visit
this or sim lar school for tho blind,
and you will come away with new re-
spect for Gods unfortinates, full of
wonder mt their marvellous achievements
and full of gratitude for your own gift
of sight Helen NJ. Winsloso, in Es.s.
Tor.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-12-09

The reports made to the fifth annual
convention Of the Church Temperance
Society remind us of the change in the
situation, as regards practical Temper
ance work, within q very few years
past. For quite period before that
time variety of causes had combined
to concentrate attention of legal meth
ods of extirpating intemperance, in
place of the voluntary agencies that
had SO wonderfully improved the hab-
its and morals of this country in the
course of a generation or more of Tenn
perance agitation.
The Church Temperance Society is
one of the many results of a revival Of
voluntary efforts in behalf of the Tenn
perance cause, that soems to be grow
ing and spreading all over the coun-
try, with tho most encouraging indica-
tions of great results in the future.
One of tho most interesting features of
the Church temperance Society is that
which interests, enlists and organizes
the youths of from fourteen years to
twenty-one years of age, in the Order
of the Knights of Temperance. This
organization is admirably calculated
to inspire the best class Of boys with
the enthusiasm of their Temperance
convictions, and seems to be success
from the start. But the Church Tenn.
perance work gives scope for the ac-
tivity and cooperation Of the old and
young, of both sexes, and Is enkindling
greater and greater interest every
month. In few years 1t will be felt
rs one of the greatest of beneficent
powers in the society and in the State.
m Y. Mau and E1prcss.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-12-09
SATISFACTORY TRIALS.
Experiments With the New Eight Incl
rhirteen-r Ton Steel Gun.

Experiments with the New Eight-Ia
rhirteen-rO Steel Gun.
The Ordnance Department is much
pleased with the performances of the
new S-inch steel gun at Sandy Hook.
This gun. which weighs Is tons, and
whose length of bore u 80 calibers,
was manufac ctured at the West Point
foundry. The tube and JACKET were
obtained from Whitworth. and the
hoops and the breech mechanism forg.
ings from the Midvale Steel Company.
The gun was first tried with tho Ger
man brown prismatic powder. when
the following results were reached;
With charge or 100 pounds, and with
shot Weighing lS2 pounds. the
muzzle velocity was 2,145 feet, and tho
pressure 29.50O poun Is; with 4 1856
pound shot the velocity was l,942 feet,
and the pressure 81, $50 pounds; with
. shot Weighing 2s6 pounds tho velocity
was 1.795 feet. and the pressure 1878 20
pounds. The gun was next tried with
Du Points brown prismatic powder, the
charge being the same. The velocity
with 28l.pound shot was 1887 feet,
and the pressure 80. $50 pounds; with q
2s6-pound shot the velocity was 1890
feet. and the pressure S5,45O pounds.
The gun has bsen fired thirteen times.
and will now be turned ,ver to the test
ing board. Itis worthy Of remark hat
when this gun Wxs designed. the com
puted velocity with the 28C-pound shoi
was 825 feet, and the computed pres
sure 5000 pounds. This Is almost OK
actly verified BY the firing with the d,
Pont powder.-Army csd Nary G;g