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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08
Living by Rule.

A gentleman of somewhat eccentric
tendencies had placards of rules placed
in every room of his home for the guild
ance of his family, servants and guests,
with penalties for violation of such
rules 1t would be far from pleasant to
visit at such house, but some of the
rules prescribed were good ones, and
ought TO be borne in mind in all homes.
We copy few of them, as follows:
In the hall the following rules were
posted, the placard being wedged in
the creyice of .he mirror in the hat
rack:
please hang your hat up.
"Please wipe your feet.
"Please do not take away our umbrel-
las.
"Please put your umbrella in the
rack"
In the parlor was a placard hanging
from a chandelier. Among other re-
quests upon it, were these:
'Please DO not soil the photograph al
bum.
''Please do rot finger the oil paintings
to see if they are genuine, for they are.
''Please do not touch the mineral spec
linens on the side-table.
"Please close the piano after using it
and put the music where you found it.
If you found it out of its place, put il
where it belongs.
"No visitors entertained in this pariol
after 10:30 p. m.
In the dining-room was the following
business-like poster:
"Please take your time in eating.
"Please replace the different articles
in the castors.
''Please do not place your elbows on
the table
s'Please sit upright in your chair.
"Please eat with your fork"
| The young ladies of the family were
expected to obey the following rules:
''My daughters will restrain from
using cosmetics, paint, powder and such
stuff on every occasion.
stTight-lacing is prohibited.
No conspicuous jewelry must b.
worn.
"Rose-water is the only perfumer,
permitted.
ssThe teeth and nails must be brushed
at least twice day.
'sThe bureau drawers must be kept il
prime order.
mo high-heeled or tight-ftting shoe:
| allowed.
ssNo garments should be thrown hap
hazard on the chairs.
sThe lights in this room must be ex
tinguished at IL p. m, promptly.
| '.It is unnecessary to add that my
daughters will say their prayers before
retiring at night, and after rising in the
morning.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08
Meal Worms for Birds.

.srhere are quite a number of men IN
Now York who make living at catch
;ng meal worms and selling them to
onr trade. . said the proprietor OF bird
s,lra 10 q reporter of the Mail and EE-
press recently.
..You laugh. but il is fact Inere
Is a man who has furnished me with
these worms for the last five years Step
this way and I'll show you how they
The reporter followed the bird dealer
into a hack room, where on the she'll
stood a row of small Tin boxes The
dealer took down box and opened
sha i'd. The can was half full OF small
crnstaceous worms of yellow and brown
They measured about an eighth OF an
;..h - thickness and an inch and q
half in length.
hold about a thousand worms and cost
at tins season of the year II per box
Most of the meal worms are caught IN
the bio grain warehouses on the riveI
front IN fiour mills and old feed stores.
4 GOOD man at the business can make
| s1f5 per week. They catch them with
fha;r hands or use sieve A greaI
many worms are consumed in the course
- ! year. Mocking birds and nearly
ali the birds with soft bills are very
martial TO them Besides they ars
healthy. It i said that meal worms
are good eating and taste ike shrimp
but I never tried them --Aee1 1or'
Nail
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08
A Mining Anecdote.

1t Is safe TO say that three-fourths Of
those who deal in mining stocks through
the medium of the boards never saw a
mine, and that less than one-half have
any knowledge of how a mine IS work
ed. That people should make serious
mistakes in their speculatiOns through
Ignorance of these matters is not TO be
wondered at.
Perhaps the greatest blunder on re-
cord was made by a gentleman of de-
eided Teutonic origin, who visited my
Office one day and asked. point blank.
''Haf dey schtruek dot vinze?" "Whaf
winze do you refer to2" said l. dot
vinze in der Oonion Consolidated
mine. " was the ready response. There
no Wine in the Union Consolidated
mine that they are likely to strike at
present" | answered, and then, think
ing the man might be a little confused
in his mining knowledge, l asked:
What do you mean by winse2 What
do you suppose a winze is?" "A
vinze?' he shouted. with a knowing
smile, ''oh. vinze is body of ore. !"
No. it isn't, said /, and. taking pen
ell, drew him a little sketch of winze.
and explained to him that it was a
small shaft sunk from one level to an
other, generally for the purpose Of ven
| tilation.
rs dot vinze?' he fairly yelled, in
the most astonished manner; .'den, by
gracious, | lose me tousands und tou-
sands of dollars ON dose vines. Every
| time / see dey have started a vinze. or
schtruck vinze, buy der schtocks and
every time dey go down right away. It
always vas wonder to me why de
Comstocks didn't pay more dividends
and levy fewer assessments ven dere
vas so many hundred vines IN der
mines. He walked out, leaving the
door open. and could hear him repeat
at every third step. as he went down
the stairs: ~Oh. dose vines, Oh, dose
vinzes.''-San Francisco 4rgossauk
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08
The Curse of Cigarette Smoking,

'If / were a preacher, said a promi-
nent business man of New Orleans, the
other day, ''instead of hammering away
trying to reconcile the doctrines of free
viii and predestination and going on ev-
erlasting pilgrimages hunting up the
lost tribes Of Israel, and all that kind OF
thing nobody is going to find out, and
wouldn't be any better off if they did,
would Just preach to the boys about the
use Of cigarette smoking. You may
think | am putting it strongly, but it's
not half as strong as the smell of smoke
about half the lads around town. Look
there" he continued as fine-looking
wide-awake, intelligent young fellow OF
Is or II passed us, There's an example
in point for you. That is one of the
most promising boys in the city He is
already a good accountant; is accurate,
reliable, and up in business methods
and bids fair to be in time one of the
merchant princes of New Orleans, if he
doesn't kill himself smoking cigarettes
Why, sir, you would be amazed at the
tender age at which the boys fall victims
to this craze Little fellows who ought
not to have thought beyond their mar
DACo anu bOpng AafC bhNAA iAhNAO ib$CIc
stained to the second joint by the nico-
tine of cheap cigarettes, made of heaven
only knows what refuse of the factories
and poisonous adulterants.
"What does it do for them? Murders
them, by sapping their strength, injur-
ing the organs of the mouth and throat
and lungs, weakens their nerves, but
by such insidious degrees that when
we call in the family doctor he says
malaria, or bronchitis, or some of the
other platitudes of his profession, while
all the time the boy is dying of cigarette
poison.
"There is a great deal of nonsense
talked nowadays about the physical in
capacity of women, but mark my word,
out of every hundred average girls in
New Orleans below the age of maturity,
the proportion of well-grown, vigorous
healthily developed girls will be in ex-
cess of the same number of boys-many
of whom are already weak, withered
premature old men the victims OF
cigarette smoking.-N. O. Picayune.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08
Geological Conditions of North
America.


The geological history of North Amer
ica, like that of Europe, indicates that
from a very remote period there have
been changes of climate; ancient periods
of cold as well as of warmth. 1t is
urged that these are due not so much to
variations in the supply of heatf N the
sun, or to changes, secular or periodic,
in the relative position of the earth as to
geographical alterations on its surface.
Paleontologlcal and biological evidence
has next to be considered. This also, on
the whole, is favorable to the view al
ready expressed. Recent Investigations
tend to show that to the majority of
marine animals the greater depths of
the sea are as impossible rs the land
itself Where many species of inverte-
brata are common TO the opposite
shores of great ocean, it may be in
ferred that these have made their way
along coast-lines past or present Now,
of the existing molluska of Europe and
Canada 81 per cent of the shallow wa
ter forms and about 50 per cent of the
deeper sea forms are common, and the
same holds of other marine inyerte-
brates. This fact suggests that COM
paratively shallow water, and some
times even land, must formerly have
divided the Atlantic from the Arctic
basin. Their separation is no modern
| feature, for from the Cambrian age on
ward we find ION the two sides of the
ocean many species of invertebrate ami
mails which were either identical or so
closely allied as to be possibly 'Yarietaf
| forms. In like manner the early plants
of the upper siiurian, Deyonian, and
carboniferous present many identical
species; but this identity becomes less
marked in the vegetation of the more
modern times. This might be held to
| indicate that the European and North
American continents had become more
and more widely separated; but it is
pointed out that the earlier flora con-
sisted mainly of cryptogamous plants,
the spores of which in modern times
have proved capable of transmission
| for great distances. Some, indeed.
were actually fitted for flotation. Yet
another argument is advanced from the
! biological side: while MANY plants
and marine invertebrates are common
to the two sides of the Atlantic, it is diff
| ferent with land animals. and especially
vertebrates. | do not know that any
fossil insects, or land snails, or millipe-
des of Europe aud America are specifi-
cally identical. and of the numerous
| species of batrachians of the carbonifer-
Gus and reptiles of the mesozole all
seem to be distinct on the two sides
The same appears to be the case with
the tertiary mammals. until, in the lat
ter stages of that great period, we lind
such genera as the horse, the camel.
and the elephant appearing on the two
sides of the Atlantic; but even then the
species seem different, except in the case
of few northern forms. Sir w. Dda0'
son Before the British association.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08
She Might Have Known Better.

The story is told of good Methodist
brother, an intenerant, who sought shell
ter for the night at certain farmhouse.
The woman demurred, but there had
been a long drought, and when the min
lister suggested that his prayers might
move the Lord to send the rain she con-
sented to let him stay. During the
night the floods came, and when the
good woman came down in the morning
and found her fences and chicken eoops
had sailed off for parts unknown she
was much cast down. II might have
known better" said the poor woman, as
she cast a rueful glance out Of the win
dow; II might have known better than
to let a Methodist come into my house,
for they always 60 into everything with
all their might, and / don't want any
of 'em to pray any more for rain for my
beneft-no, never-if the land dries up
till it cracks open. -Harper's Bazar.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08
FARM AND GARDEN.
CLEhsONS WAY or BEGINNING
A COLTS EDUCATION.

Constitution for a Farmers Club-Dry-
ing seed Coru--How to Keep Apples
sound Year-Professor Sanborn-To
Keep Grapes.
oscar Il. Gleason, the famous horse
educator, gives a colt some first lessons
lu training n follows:
Turn him loose, either in "A box stall
1r carriage house, and, with the whip in
the right hand, slowly approach him and
arack The whip. The colt VIII run away
from gou and generally go into the cor
ner. Follow him up. however, and keep
cracking he whip until he turns his head
toward you. The moment ne does this,
step right up 90 him and caress him on
the point If the shoulder. If lac should,
ass you approach him, whirl around and
E.ek az yOu keep your eyes open and
quickly give him a sharp cut on his hind
legs with the whip. BY following this
mp carefully in a very short time he
a#u learn 20 his sorrow that when he
turns away from you and attempts to let
bis heels tiy he receives punishment, and
that when hc looks you in the face he is
treated wen and rewarded.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08

s. horse examines strange objects by
smelling them. Therefore let the colt
smell the halter before you put it upon
Hm Let him examine it, all over, then
put I'D quietly upon his neck. Always be
calm and quiet in your manner toward
Mm. Don't yawp and yen at him II
he pulls back, take common clothes
line rope and make a large slip loop knot
around Che body, back of the f0relegs,
drawing Dc moderately tight. and pass the
end up between the fore legs through the
halter. This cunfuses the colt. He can
mot understand how anything can pun
the hind part of his body and his head at
the same time, and ou feeling the strain
behind hc win go forward, and thus you
viii accomplish your object without
being compelled to use force
Then hc is taught by pulling on the
rope 90 the word of command to obey the
order "Come here After he has learned
that. hitch him to post with the same
rope. the one between his forelees, and
open and shut umbrellas, draw baby
carriages and all manner Of scarey
Things around him. and make hideous
noises II hc pulls back. he viii feel the
rope Uup.c8s8utly about his body, and
viii stop trying to get away.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08
Waste in the Kitchen.

Waste in the kitchen is often very
great from apparently trivial sources.
In cooking meats the water is thrown
Sut without removing the grease, or the
grease from the drippiDg-pan is thrown
away.
Scraps of meat are thrown away.
Cold potatoes are left to sour and
spoil.
Dried fruits are not looked after and
become wormy.
Vinegar and sauce are left standing
in tin.
Apples are left to decay for want of
Sorting over"
TIE tea-canister is left open.
Nictuals are left exposed to be eaten
by mice.
Bones of meat and the carcass of
turkey are thrown away, when they
could be used in making good soups.
Sugar. tea, coffee, and rice are care
lessly spilled in the handling.
Soap is left to dissolve and waste in
the water.
Dish-towels are used for dish-cloths.
Napkins are used for dish-towels.
Towels are used for holders.
Broomps ana mops are not hung up.
More coal Is DuTneU tHaii necessary bH
not arranging dampers when not using
the fire.
Lights are left burning when not
used.
Tin dishes are not properly cleansed
and dried.
Good new brooms are used In scrub
bing kitchen floors.
Silver spoons are used in scraping ket
ties.
Cream is left to mold and spoil.
Mustard is left to spoil in the cruise
etc.
Vinegar is left to stand until the tir
vessel becomes eorroded and spoiled.
Pickles become spoiled by the leaking
out or evaporation of the vinegar.
Pork spoils for want of salt, and beei
because the brine wants scalding.
Hams become tainted or filled witt
vermin for want of care.
Cheese molds and is eaten by mice
and vermin.
Tea and coffee pots are injured on the
stove.
Woodenware is unscalded and left tc
warp and crack.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08
Australia's Rabbit Plague.

The farmers of Australia seem to be
still troubled by rabbits, which breed
in that country at q most enormous
rate. One man has just accepted ten
der for wire netting which is to make
a rabbit-proof fence from Narromine to
Bourke. and will extend over distance
of 2O3 miles. If the unfortunate rab-
bits search along to find the end of the
obstruction they viii be bit weary be
fore they have arrived at their destina
ton. Ii is said that the work win cos
els. 600. and at that rate. if a man could
offer such figure, it proves that the
rabbit must be the most destructive ami
NAL i'm the antipodes- - Galignani''
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08

The Iowa Register prints an excellent
form of constitution for a farmer alh-
ouce or club. If there is no such Organi-
zatIun in your neighborheod, form one
this winter. Such societies aid farmers
10y increasing their intelligence and
brotherly spirit
The constitution alluded to is as fol-
lows:
Article 1. This society shall be called
the Farmers Alliance, of -- township
OF --- county name Of state).
Art. ,. The object Of this alliance shall
be to unite farmers to foster and protect
their interests, and by the exchange OF
Ideas and discussion of questions TO edu-
cate the old and young in more freedom
In deliberative assemblies. town meetings
or political caucuses. and thus be enabled
10 defend their rights. The subjects
mostly to engage the attention should be
the most approved methods of stock
breeding, raising, feeding and selling; the
most profitable plans of agriculture, as
We'll as preparing the minds Of farmers
Tor avoiding the many frauds and imposi-
tions practiced on them.
Art 3. This alliance shall be COM
posed of not less than seven members,
VINO shall be practical and operative farm
ers, and none others shall be members
Art 4. This alliance shall hold regular
meetings at least once month and not
OiVener than once a week, unless exigen-
cies seem to demand it. Five members
shall constitute quorum
Art. 5. The officers of this alliance
shall be president, vice president, secre-
tary and treasurer, who shall perform the
duties of such offices; and lecturer, who
shall open, or arrange for opening, DIS
eussions, and in the event of the forma-
ton of county alliance, an assistant
organizer; also an editor The officers
shall be elected annually mt the regular
meetings in March.
Art. g. There shall be a financial com
mittee of three members, to be named Dl
the president and subject to approval DJ
the alliance. who shall audit all bills be
fore they are paid, and shall examine tht
books of the treasurer and report as x
their condition ON the day or night ol
every election. When the finance com
mittee has indorsed bill favorably tns
treasurer shall pay it, unless objection \
made after the secretary has pupiici,
announced that such a bill was presentes
and approved In that case vote o. IN
alliance shall be taken upon it.
Art, 2. Any operative farmer may pe
come member by signing this ccnsti1u
tion and paying fee OF 81.
Art. 8. This alliance may discuss an
question OF interest to the farmer
Art. Q. All members OF this aiiianc
shall settle all their difficulties ana oille'
ences by arbitration.
ART 10. This constitution may be q
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08
To Be continued.


A dog made himself useful in Vienna re-
Gently by falling through fssure in the
pavement before a half demolished Catholic
college The effort to rescue the animal led
to curious archaeological discovery. The
dog had, it was found, fallen into large
vault containing ninety collins The exist
ence of this underground burial place has
hitherto been quite unsuspected. The inscrip-
tons on the cof1ins date back TO the reign of
Maria Theresa, and the bodies are Of the
monks of that period and of the mobiles who
helped to support the monastery Foreign
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08
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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08

There is no better season to prune
grape vines than about Thanksgiving
time.
Professor Budd says that no seeding
apples from the stock of western Europe,
such as are found in the older states,
viii live in the northwest Only apples
from eastern Europe, notably from Rus
sia, viii do that.
In the northwest lay the whole grape
vine gently down fiat upon the ground in
November or early in December. and
cover it few inches with dirt.
Kill the roosters out of your flock as
fast as they are large enough TO eat
Watch when prices are best, and sell
them and the Improbable hens then.
J. NJ. Allen, of Fayette county, O., de-
clares absolutely that sulphurous acid
viii cure hog cholera. Administer it to
the hogs in small quantities Keep the
bottle tight with rubber cork, or seal
IL, as the gas in the acid is very volatile
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08
HARNESSING.

The next lesson, says Professor Glea-
son, TO be given to the colt should be
the harnessing. First, put on the open
bride with the straight bar bit, and run
the lines back through the thill straps.
Then teach the colt TO turn 10 the right
and 10 the left, and TO stop at the word
whoa These lessons should never be
longer than an hour each, and generally
only two a day Check reins | do not
approve of, as, in my Judgment, if a
horse is foaled without style you cannot
help the matter any by forcing him into
&c until you have thoroughly trained him
how 90 drive.
The illustrations here given are copied
from The American Agriculturist. Glea-
son tells us that n colt should be broken
when about n year old, but never worked
iu "a vehicle till he is at least 5 years
old. Many horses are ruined by being
worked too young.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08

A caller upon the president the other eve
ming found that gentleman reclining in an
easy chair wearing a black silk smoking cap
with long tassel reaching down to the center
of his back Around his figure was tied an
oriental hued dressing gown of some crazy
quilt pattern and a pair Of alligator skin
slippers We're on his feet. The Washington
gossips have it that his surrender is complete.
Washington Letter
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08
Naming a Newspaper.

1t is said that when the first number of
The Jimplecute, published at Jefferson, Tex,
was about to be printed. the proprietor, who
had not yet decided upon a name for his
paper, picked up handful of -'pi7 from the
imposing stone, and set the type thus taken at
random N his composing stick The result
was the word "jimplecute,n 2 which he adopted
as the name for the newspaper.-N. Y. Sun.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08
He Didn't Want Work.

Tramp-Look here, these potatoes amt
peeledt
Good Wornan-Well, goodness, can't you
do that muchs
Tramp with injured air)-I didn't ak fur
any work When get that low VIII run
for alderman. Texas Siftiugs-