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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-20

reason 10 believe actually occurred, the
long lie Of ~ little creature is only
ons Of tie interestisg pQipts. 1t Is
very rsmsfksblV that e retained to It's
starting point after sixty years. How
far it had roamed during that long in.
.teryal, what sights it had seen. and
what thoughts It had thought. are ts.
yond guessing. Bot back it csme,
after an average lifetime, TO see in bis
old age the person by whom in his boy
hood 1t had been marked for life. d
There are some few other specimens
of land tortoise in this country. There
Ii, one on the western prairies cOnsid-
cradle larger than ours. And in the
South shere ia very large one, known
as the gopher turtle. This creature has
shell nearly fifteen inches long, and
isso strung chat it ;canslnoyeFpndcr =
weight Of two hundred pounds so that
il might easily carry q man on its back.
1t lives in under ground burrows in
sandy forests, and does its providing by
night, often making havoc in the sweet
potato and melon patches of the inhab.
itanis. So the good people OF the Gull
States do. not altogether relish the
gopher. y 1'''
is the water.turtles, the terrapins
If our fresh waters and The greS SEES
turtles which are the delight of epicures.
OF the fresh water species we have sew
cral varieties, from little fellow of the
waters of Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey not four inches long, to the great
and fierce snapping-tartle witha shell
nine inches and more in length. 1t is
said TO have been taken of four feet in
total length, from snout to end Of tail.
To kill this creature does not kill its
swapping prOpensities; the head will
live for hours after being cut oft, aud
has been known to snap boys finger
or the leg of an investigating hen hours
after it ought to have been dead. 1t is
not safe thing TO throw the head If !
snapper in the grass as a trap forsprowL
Ing chickens or curious boys.
There is one other odd peculiarly Of
stortoises and some other reptiles with
which we may conclude. If we want
to breathe freely. we open our mouth
to do so; but If. the mouth of, q tortoise
or toad be kept open BY inserting a
stick between its jaws, it will soon suf.
focate for want of breath.
This may seem impossible. yet IL may
be easily explained. AiiSthe higher
animals breathe by pumping the air
into and out Of their lungs. We do
our air-pumping by means Of the dia-
phragu, a broad membrane below the
lungs which Jnioyes up aud down al
every breath, and opens and closes the
lungs successfully. In the tortoise the
mouth is the pump. 1t takes in q
mouthful of air. Then it closes its
lips, contracts the. cavity of the mouth,
and drives the air down into its lungs.
If the mouth be- kept open, this pump
will not work, since the air will rush
outw ard instead of downward.
THIS is one Of the odd facts Of nature.
AsImany fish can be drowned by being
fastened under water and not allowed
10 come to the surface, so many air.
breathers can be suffocated by being
placed in an ocean of air with theil
mouths wide open. - Charles Morris,
in Ha,per's Young People,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-20
EDUCATION.


Its success Dependent upon strict Attsn.
ticn to Details.
If we are to make any proper est.
mate Of the effect Of education
best eduoation-upon success we must
carefully make a distinction which is
constantly overlooked. Some years
ago, the son Of college professor
came out of college at the age Of
twenty. The father found the boy a
place, in a wholesale and retail coal
business. The boy began life as yard
clerk. He, stood at the gate and
checked off the wagon loads as they
passed out. IN had risen at the end of
five years to the best salary and most
trusted Office in large business. Why
did he ,succeedP A great deal must be
set down to the credit of the boys
character He was not ashamed
to fill the lowest place; he filled il
we'll He was industrious, persistent,
courageous. Something else entered
into the account His father set him
up in business with some good advice.
He said to his boy: Remember that
You are to learn the coal business from
the beginning to the end of It. Not
simply how this or that detail is man.
aged, but how every detail is managed.
Not simply details but general facts. /
have given you a general education;
60 to work and get special educa.
ton. believe l have qualified you
to learn the coal business. Learn tt
all of it. When you have gotten the
business by heart you will have 9
fortune in your head. Money will
seek your alliance. You win be in do
mand."
The point of this incident is plain
enough. The general education needs
in every case to be supplemented BY
special education. After the mental
and moral drill Of the college comes
the special drill of calling. 1t mat
ters little what the calling lie. Muoh
unwise writing is extant to- confuse
young men about the Importance Of q
choice Of pursuits. The average man
need spend no long time in this choos.
ing. No matter what be chooses. he
will succeed if he thoroughly masters
it, and he will not succeed unless he
masters it. There are all sorts Of ex
ceptions; but this is the rule. II amau
is to do anything well he must learn t.
do it, thoroughly master its principles
and method.--Christiaa at Work. a,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-20

4 Better WAY.

In oucient days tho young were wont,
With rosy Earlands crowned,
To slng their haechaualIan songs
The festive board around.
While wine iniiamed their fathers hearts,
And reused their senseless mlrth,
And left them vller than the brutes
Z That crawl upon the earth.
But we have found q better way
] To give our pareuts JOY:
We spuru the wLie 0hp from our lips
II charms but to destroy.
What though II seem SO clear and bright,
- 30 fair and sweet u thingY
1t hath at last a serpeut's bite,
The deadly adder's sting.
It turns the rudy bloom Of youth
To blight and foul decay:
Aud, what is worse, 1t takes the glow
Of Innocence away.
Obi give us but the crystal springs,
The air and sunlight free.
With love and truth, and who will then
v Be happier than wee
u. n. Hood. in temperance Bdnner.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-20
BOXED vp.
Something About Very Curious Litti
Animal and Its Habitatior. yi

something About = Very Curious Little
Animal and Its Habitation. gdt
II any of my readers have eyer seen
the boys Of the ''CSdatry Week" re-
turning from their weeks run and roll
in the green fields, they will have seen
an amusing sight, These poor little
waits, born in the slums Of the city,
and most Of whom have never seen the
verdant meadows or heard the CUR
Cling brooks. come back not only full
of delightful memories, but most OF
them bringing some prize from the
treaspre-box of the country paradise.
And the most valued Of all prizes seems
to be land turtle Every little urchin
who has been lucky enough to secure
one of these queer creatures eling to il
as proudly as If it was one Of King
Soloman's jewels, while his less fort
innate companions gather around him
with curious and enviouseyes.
Boys like turtles; that may be set
down as an axiom Whether turtles
like boys is another question. A turtle
is not much of a thinker. Give him
something TO eat. and let him alone
and nc will get along almost any
where, And If distur,cd too much he
can shut himself upsin his she'll like q
''jack-in-a-box" and iaugh at his tor
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-02-05
The Farm.
FARM MISCELLANY.
Michigan Agricultural College.

Commencement week last year, end
ins Aug. I'D, was noteworthy one in
TINS pioneer among agricultural col
lu es. ln his inaugeral address the
new President gave concise view of
the past and present Of the college, and
also rhe .laus for the future. In speak
Ing of WHAT the college has done, he
said. IN part: Nearly 1000 students
have b e. educated Of whom 368 have
graduated from the full course ofstudy,
aud all whether they have stayed
months or years, have gone forth with
q purpose ennobled by their associations
here and the larger proportion Of them
have in the following years adopted ag
ricuiture as profession. Of the grad
yates, over 50 per cent. Of them are
farmers or in kindred pursuits. Six
teen are professors or instructors in ag
ric cultural colleges, north and south, east
and west One is the president of an
agricultural college. Another has al
most from its foundation been mem
Der Of the illinois University, and is
now president of the board. There is
not professional school, either of law
or medicine, in the country, which can
show larger percentage of graduates
who finally follow the profession therein
taught. AMI THIS notwithstanding the
fact thai many have entered the Agri-
cultural Col eye with the avowed inten-
ton of not following agriculture as
life pursuit. The doors have not been
barred against such, for the reason that
even these in their respective spheres
of life, will be instinct with agricultural
tendencies, and will be active promoters
of agricultural science everywhere.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-02-05
Soils and Fertilizers.

In the report of the New Jersey
Board of Agriculture, some interesting
facts are given by Prof. Atwater, show.
ing the varying results Of different fer
tlizers on unlike soil, the substance OF
which we give below.
At Basking Ridge, in Somerset coun
ty, experiments were made with super
phosphate, nitrogen and potash, the re-
suits Of which were compared with un
MANFRED land aud with each other.
The muriate of potash increased the
growth of clover, corn and oats, very
slightly, in most cases hardly tenth,
its effect being similar on all these three
crops Nitrogen Gin nitrate of soda J
produced like small. effect on clover
and corn, but decided increase in the
growth of oats, or about double that on
the two other crops. But with 35U
pounds of super-phosphate the increase
far exceeded that of al 1.-The other fertl
izers, adding ten fold to the growth OF
clover, and doubling that of oats and
corn-these results being taken in dit
ferent years.
The experiments made at South
Branch, in the same county, gave very
different results, and were made on corn
alone. Superphosphate gave no in
crease; nitrate of soda added moderately
to the growth; but muriate of potash
doubled the product, ano in some in
stances even more. This great differ
ence in the action of the fertilizers in
the two localities shows the dlfferenc.
in the soils. At Basking Ridge potash
and nitrogen had little effect, but ali
the crops responded largely to phos-
phoric acid. At South Branch the
soil did not want phosphoric acid, bu'
was greatly helped wherever potash was
applied. In both localities, yard ma
nure gave the largest returns of all.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-02-05
Agricultural Experiments.

Among the many experiments con-
Quoted by Sir John Lawes, of Rotham-
:ated, England, for the benefit of agri-
cultural science is one that has now
been continued for 40 years in growing
wheat in succession on the same tract
OF land. On portion of the tract no
manure was used, and here are the re.
suits: The average yield for the first
four years was Ia bushels. for the next
four years Ia bushels, the next l4a,
the next l23. the next 1877, the next
lOs, the next 81, and the last four
years ia bushels. The general aver
age for the A years was 4 bushels per
acre; the highest yield was in lS45, 234
bushels, and the lowest in 1879 Al
bushels. Excluding the very bad sea-
sons, the decline in yield, due to the
gradual exhaustion oftertility was from
one-fourth to one half bashel per acre
per aunum. This is less than we would
have supposed. The small decline was
doubtless due to the fact that the soil
was put in the best possible filth each
year, and drew bountilul supplies of nj
trogen from the atmosphere. On an ad-
joining plot IA tons of barnyard ma
nure were regularly applied each year,
and with the following results: The
average yields for eight four-year.
periods were sos bushels, So, 372, 34},
3sB, 3l3, %, 34s; average of 80 years
1928 bushels. The highest yield was in
1868, A bushels, and the lowest in
1879, 16 bushels. This last was the
year Of the lowests yield on the unfer-
tilted land. The average yield of the
MANFRED ground it will be noticed was
very nearly double that of the uumanur-
ed tract. The Increase in yield was only
at the rate of about one-eighth of
bushel per acre, and this increase was
made in the first half of the period;
during the latter halfthere was slight
falling off, showing that the land re-
quired some other fertilizer than farm
yard manure.
On tract where mixed mineral
fertilizers alone were used it was found
that after about half the period there
was a decline in fertility, and the
average yield was only l5t bushels or
1t bushels only ADORE the yield of the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-02-05
The Use of Sunfowers.

This plant is vigorous grower and
has been extolled as preventive of
malarial diseases. The seed affords ex .
cellent food for hens and also for
horses. 1t is said that there is no kind
of feed that will keep horses in health
give them sleek appearance and
make them lively and spirited like the
seed of the snowAower, feeding half
pint night and morning. 1t is partic-
ularly recommended for giving horse
power of endurance, being fed half a
pint night and morning with other feed
The stalks and heads, after the seed is
worked out, also make good material
for fires, and are especially convenien,
in summer, when quick fire is desired
and an enduring heat is not wanted. In
their growth they make a snowy ap,
pearance about dwellings and give an
agreeable fragrance to the air. The
latest direction in the line of utilization
of the sunhower is the planting of
seed in place at the proper distance,
so that the stalks as they grow will
serve as bean.poles. We have seen
them started in this way this season
and asssthey grow the leaves are re.
moved, thus forming an excellent stalk
for the beans, but what the effect will
be upon them remains to be seen. The
roots must tax the feeding capacity of
the soil quite heavily.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-02-05
A Wonderful Discovery.

Consumptives and all who suffer from any
affection of the Throat and Lungs, can find
certain cure in DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption. Thousand of permanent
cures verify the truth of this statement No
medicine car show such record of wonder.
cures, Thousar ds of once hopeless sufferers
now gratefully proclaim they owe their lives
to this New Discovery. II will cost you
nothing to give it trial. Free Tria b OF.
tie at DR.. L. Kinks Drug Store. Large
size, 800 2
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-02-05

unfertilized land, an amount too small
to pay the cost Of the fertilizers.
Such experiments as these are usefu
as showing how little we really know
about the subject of fertilizers. They
will help stimulate to still further it,.
vestigation, until definite results are at
tanned
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-02-05

J. P. Bradshaw, Esq, Darlington, Pa,
says in the years 1882 and 1888 he used Pow
elPs Prepared Chemicals for wheat, with
other fertilizers costing more money, and
found the Chemicals all that was claimed OF
them. Write for descriptive phamphlet to
the manufacture, Brown Chemical Co.,
Baltimore, Nd.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-02-05
The Grange.
Rough on Legislators

AS the winter begins to touch Us
with it, cold breath, there is one thing
that always grows warmer. 1t is the
heart of the toal road manager, who sits
in his cushioned chair and pensive'y
thinks of the poor legislator who will
soon pack his grip and start for the state
capital what can | do to relieve
the legislator from the stringency OF his
poverty and to show him that IN this
nj irritable world there are hearts
eatin warmly for him?" asks the gen.
erous ,ilroad man, and he soon answers
-wn question by forwarding the
poor fellow free pass on the road. He
writes nothing to accompany the gift
but the recipient may read across the
iace of the free ticket, without specta
cles. if he wishes to, something like the
following: Honorable Pauper:-My
road has heard that you have been
elected to the legislature and, feeling
that you would appreciate being consid
cred dead head, | forward you Thu,
pass. My road takes this method of dis
pensing its charities and finds it very
satisfactory. We carry ordinary pau
pers at half price and ordinary deao
beats we refuse to carry ct all. But
our policy is different with extraordi.
nary paupers and honorable dead beats
You can have the best we possess, an
rice in the same coaches in which those
ride who have money and decency
enough to pay their fare. P. S-If
the grangers attempt to secure any leg.
islation unfavorable to our road, We
would esteem it favor if you would
see thst no injustice is done US. We
only ask for justice and feel assured
that, 'hough too poor to pay your fare
GU love justice and will not object to
return favor.
And the man who receives the pass
may be depended upon to advocate just
>uch justice as the roads appreciate.
He will watch the interests of the cor
poration that has bought him with vigi
ance that nobody can complain of ex
cept the constituency that has elected
him to represent them. When a Haines
shakes his finger at the legislative crowd
and threatens to tell something that
will cut, if it does not wheel into line
according to his wishes, the entire free
pass brigade feel the free passes in
their pocket nudging them and they
break forth into songs, "freedom forever;
hurrah, boys, hurrah" Freedom! A gal
ley slave was never less free than is the
legislator with railroad pass in his
pocket. Freed ON! The ticket of leave
man knows more of freedom. He dare
look anybody in the face as long as he
behaves himself. The legislator with
both pass and conciencc dare not
look anybody in the face Western Ru-
raj.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-02-05
Candy Making at Home.

The new and revised edition of this
valuable book has just been issued. 1t
contains $50 receipts, telling exactly in
plain terms how to make all kinds of
plain and fancy candies. Many of
these receipts have been until now
trade secrets, known only to confect-
toner's, and many fortunes have been
made out of some choice receipts here
given. With this book all the candies
for Christmas or other festive occasions
can be made at small cost, and what
is better, they will be pure, while most
of the candy sold is adulterated and un-
wholesome.
Price of book so cents. Send orders to
his office.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-11-18
Wonderful Growth of this Coun-

The New York Commercial Adrer-
tiser has collected some interesting
statistics which show the wonderful
rapidity with which the population OF
our country is increasing: 1t seems
but short time since lSS0-the year
in which Garfield was eleuted-and yet
in that brief space new nation oil
nearly 100000 souls has been
added to that which called him its
head. This is an accession equal to
the combined population of Greece,
Seryla, Switzerland and Denmark.
And to go back ten years further, GU.
new population since 1870, a dat.
still in easy memory of most of us
equals the entire population of Spain
and Portugal combined, twice exceeds
that OF Brazil, and nearly equals that
OF Austria proper, or of the entire
Ottoman empire. To take another
base line, the year of the war, 1860,
the population of the country has in.
creased from that time 27, 1000, 600
Side by side with this increase we need
simply give the population ofthe lead.
ing great powers of Europe: The
united kingdom, "a, $50, 900; France,
81, 43O, 900; Germany, 100000;
Russia, 81, 100000; Austro- Hungary.
81, $4,000 Italy, 2S,OoO,OoO. Our
increase of 81, 200, 900 equals the en-.
tire population of Portugal, Belgium,
Holland, Denmark, Sweden. Norway,
Switzerland, Greece and Servia. The
population of the whole of South
America is $4,000, O0O.''
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-11-18
furious Murder Case in Iowa.

AtDecorah. Ia, Clifford Beaman who was
arrested for the murder of John Hebberly
at Cresco, made a full confession TO Coro-
ner Clemmer and Sheriff Axtei. He
stated that he and John Wentworth,
in company with their victim, were
drinking together, when words were in
terchanged between Wentworth and Heb.
berry, which lead to Wentworth striking
Hebberly with a bludgeon, which evidently
killed him instantly. They then took the
body to a clump Of brush near Creseo and
secluded it. This was on the night of June
10, and was q mystery until recently, when
the body was discovered in an entirely de-
composed state by a boy who was out hunt
ing. Wentworth, whom the prisoner ac-
cuses OF administering the fatal blow was
killed by a train on the Milwaukee
road near Creseo, nine days alter the
murder and it is thought he too met
with foul play or else he committed
suicide. The parties connected with the
crime were OF highly respected families. 1t
Is reported that the grand jury has indict-
ed Beaman for murder. There has been
come talk of lynching Beaman. but the
sheriff anticipates no such work, but Is
fully prepared to meet an attack il made.
Coroner Clemmer is investigating. Hebber-
~ and bis assailants were about twenty.
two PEARS OF age.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-11-18
How to Have White Hands.

little ammonia or borax in the
water you wash your hands with, and
that water just lukewarm, says the
Popular Science News, will keep the
skin clean and soft. A little oatmeal
mixed with the water will whiten the
hands. Many people use giycerine on
their hands when they go to bed, wear
ing gloves to keep the bedding clean;
but gIycerine does not agree with
every one. 1t makes some skins harsh
and red. These people should rub
their hands with dry oatmeal and
wear gloves in bed. A good prepare.
ton for the hands at night is white OF
egg, with a grain of alum dissolved In
it. "The Roman toilet paste" is
merely white OF egg, barley-hour, and
honey. They say it was used by the
Romans in olden times. 1t is a first
rate thing, but it does not do the
work any better than oatmeal. The
toughest and hardest hands can be
made soft and white in months
time by doctoring them little at bed
time; and all the tools you need are a
nail brush, bottle of ammonia, a
box of powdered borax, and a little
fine, white sand to rub the stains OIL,
or a cut OF lemon, which will do even
better, for the acid of the lemon will
clean anything.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-11-18

Clover should always be cut when in
full blossom. This means, when the
most OF the buds are in blossom and
not when the last of them are blown
out. All grain should be cut for hay
before the growing state is over. After
this is past the juices rapidly undergo
chemical changes which unfit them for
food, and the fiberpart otthe plant be-
comes absolutely indigestible and OF
no use as food. Nothing can be
distracted from it by the gastric
Juices of the stomach. 1t is wood
and nothing more. The stems OF
the clover, however coarse, if cut in
a green state, make food; and the finer
portions of the plant make food not
excelled by anything for the most
healthful kind of nutrition. 1t is the
nearest perte .tion of any OF the forage
plants, or of all of the grains. Clover
hay is the farmers best crop, all in
all, if well cured and cut in its best
state. 1t is reduced in value very
fast when left after it reaches the
proper condition; and it will generally
pay to let other work 90 and attend
to the clover. The more clover the
more stock, and the more stock fed
on the farm the more crops.-Country
Home.