davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-09
A SUCCESSFUL BURGLAR.
HE TELLS IT

Mother and the girls were quite in
ecstasies over the new house. The
masculine members of the family were
inclined to be dubious as to its advan-
tages. The chief objection which we
had to it was that it was one of a row
of eight, all exactly alike, and it was eX-
tremely dILcClt to be sure of the right
door.
A weeks practice, however, made
that all right; ours was the fourth house
from the south end of the row; as l
walked from the office along the street
Immediately south of us, | soon became
accustomed to taking the exact number
of steps, after turning the corner, which
would bring me to the door.
Besides, the hour at which / came
home Il am a proofreader on a morning
paper and my duties usually keep me at
the Office until near . \. NJ made it
necessary for me to carry a latchkey.
While | knew that of course our neigh
borS had exactly the same conveniences
which we enjoyed, and looked for light
to windows in the same portion of eX-
actly similar rooms, and experienced the
annoyance of smoky chimneys when the
which affected ours. l did not dream
that the houses were so precisely the
same that the key of one would unlock
another.
We had lived here about a week when
the street-car line near by began running
owl cars This was boon toI me, as it
saved me walk of some length. The
car lines ran within half square of the
house, being on the next street north of
us.
The first night that 1 rode home l was
so sleepy when I got out of the car that
/ scarcely knew what 1 was doing.
Hitherto the exercise OF walking had
kept me wide awake until got into my
own room. 1 managed to unlock the
front door, however, and get upstairs
habit making my movements noiseless,
as l knew that my mother was easily
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-09
Foot Rot in Cattle.

There are many forms of foot rot in
cattle, but in nearly all cases the mineral
acids are at least beneficial when used
as a dressing for the sores. In simple
foot rot, sulphuric acid diluted with
three or tour parts of water, has long
been recommended by veterinarians for
dressing the raw places or sores on the
feet. We should think that pure
muriatic acid would be a rather severe
remedy, although it may be eticacious.
We should prefer to dilute it with
water. as our veterinarians advise.
Carboic acid is also an excellent remedy
for contagious foot rot as well as the
more simple and common form of the
disease. -NeD York Sun.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-09
Feeding on the Ground.

1t is waste of feed of any kind to
give to stock upon the ground, and
especially any kind of grain. There is
always more or less loss that with good
management could very readily have
been avoided, and that would in a very
short time pay for the expense of provid-
ing suitable places for feeding. Even
the hogs ought to have a tight floor
upon which tier corn can be ted, rather
than upon the ground. / oUgh feed
given to cattle, sheep or horses, if fed
upon the ground, is certain to have more
or less of it trampled down and left.
Tight floors, upon which the grain fed
to hogs can be thrown, and feeding
troughs or boxes to feed grain to the
other kinds of stock, with racks or
managers for all kinds of feed, will pre-
vent such loss. If all the stock are kept
upon the farm that the feed raised will
keep in good, thrifty condition, it will
pay to feed so as to avoid waste as much
as pos>ib e. And where considerable
number of stock are kept, it will make a
difference in the amount Of feed we'll
worth saving.
1t is well 10 provide these early in the
fall. More or less stock will require to
be fed at almost any time now, and the
arrangements for feeding should be
made as soon as possible Take a little
time and plan to arrange conveniently.
1t will often make considerable diff
ference in the time required to properly
feed and care for the stock, how the ar
rangements for feeding are made A
due regard to the making and handling
of the manure should also be considered.
The making, saving and applying of all
the manure possible should always be
made an item, and in planning the feed
ing arrangements this should always be
considered. The feeding arrangements
need not be expensive; they should,
however, be convenient, stroUg and
tight, so as to save time ana feed. =
Prairie Farmer.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-09

First, by spring wagons to neighboring
towns or cities Baskets are the best
and cheapest packages; and now that
they are made so cheaply by machinery,
il is hardly necessary to require of pur-
chasers the return of the baskets. They
are commonly of some use to the con-
sumers, who thus obtain them st the
low price by the thousand at which the
Ship ers buy them. If returned, they
are apt to be more or less soiled, and pur-
chasers prefer new and clean packages.
Secondly, shipping by express. \ arly
the same rules apply; and for all soft or
perishable fruit. as peaches, cherries,
strawberries, raspbeTries and grapes
baskets only should be employed-they
will naturally be lifted with the large
handle by the railway men and not
tumbIed on their sides like boxes
Square or cubical boxes will be sure to
be pitched in upside down, in spite of
any this side up" with which they are
distinctly marked.
Hard fruit, like winter apples, or like
autumn or winter pears which are put up
a week or more before they soften, may
be packed in kegs, half barrels, and
barrels by the mode generally under
stood by fruit men; and if the freight
IIalDS are KNOWN 10 uITeCllS 10 LlclT
destination or to make direct counec-
tons, these barrels and half-barrelS may
be sent in the third method, as freight,
much more cheaply than by express.
The importance of thus packing and
sending in kegs and barrels hard fruit
only. should be we'll understood by men
who put them up. A single instance
will explain this Importance. New
hands were employed to pack Bartlett
pears in half barrels, week in advance
of the softening of the fruit. Care was
taken not to admit any bad specimens;
but among others a very fine yellow pear
was so attractive that lust this single
ripe one" was included. The usual
pressure of about one inch was given,
and the contents were pronounced safe
and solid. But the Earring in transit
caused the surrounding hard pears to
indent the ripe one; this produced
rafting, and rafting made larger and
increasing dents; then the rest of the
pears began to rattle, and by the time
the package reached the market the
whole contents were bruised, delaced
and spoiled.
Shippers of fruit may be divided into
two classes those who succeed, and
those who fail The former, by good
cultivation, careful picking and honest
asserting, place none but the best fruit
in market, with their names on every
package. In few years their brand
becomes well known to consumers, who
are willing to pay we'll, because they
know they are receiving their moneys
worth. The other class raise poor fruit,
put the worst in the centre of the pack
age, get rid of it at slow sale as they
can, and fail to sell even at a low price
in future when they become known, for
both wholesale dealers and consumers
will try to avoid them. - Country Gentle
man.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-09
Farm and Garden Notes.

The surplus and inferior grapes make
capital vinegar.
Clean culture destroys many hiding
places of INJURIOUS insects.
Shade sheds should be provided in
treeless pastures for the cattle.
A tendril is an abortive fruit bunch
a bunch of fruit productive tendril.
Every leaf has bud at the base, and
either branch or tendril opposite it.
Clean out the droppings from a
poultry house frequently. 1t is a neces-
sary course to adopt to get rid of lice.
Some men are naturally good mixers.
They have firm yet gentle hand and
a way of winning the cows confidence.
Look for certain forms of the bot or
breeze-fies this month; the adults of
some species are now ready to deposit
eggs.
Take heed how cattle are driven to
and from pasture. Many fine mich
cows are ruined by hurry and excite
ment.
If there is plenty eff green food at the
disposal of poultry it will not be neces-
sary to get them meat at this season of
the year.
lick up and destroy fallen fruit under
plum, apple and peach trees, and by 50
do ng destroy hosts of curculio and
codling- moth larvc.
Beets are said by a New York dairy
man, when fed at the rate of two bushels
daily to the COWS, to be better milk
producer than ensilage.
Cut-worms are killed by digging them
from their hiding places; also by fall.
blowing, which exposes them TO the
action of frost and to the attack Of
birds.
Wood peckers are great enemies of the
borers; they never make a mistake about
the place In which to dig. Pity men do
not allow them the freedom of the
orchards.
The fowls and chicks should be fed
together. Feeding coops for the young
stock that are light and easily cleaned
out are indispensable articles about the
poultry yard.
Butter contracts during cold weather,
forcing the brine to the surface, and the
water, evaporating, lea es the salt that
was in the brine in fakes on the out
side of the butter.
Don't go into the poultry business
from sudden fancy or impulse. but con-
slider well what you propose to do, and
plan particularly how you are gong to
do it before you begin.
Dissolve a pound of alum in three
quarts of water and put it in your white
wash; it will not only improve the white
wash, but it will kill Vermin in the
poultry house when the whitewash shall
be applied.
Don't try to raise turkeys with chicken
hens unless you wish more trouble than
the young ones are worth. Let their
natural mother 30 the sitting, and keep
her cooped up two weeks after the
hatchirg.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-09
WISE WORDS.

The rose grows among the thorns.
Where content is, there is feast.
Steal the goose and give the giblets in
aims.
When the head is sick the whole body
is sick.
The envious mans face grows sharp
and his eyes big.
Necessity is the argument of tyrants,
it is the creed of slaves.
By the very constitution of our nature,
moral evil is its own curse.
He who throws himself under the
bcnch will be left to lie there.
He who wishes to secure the good of
others has already secured his own.
The place honors not the man tits the
man who gives honor to the place.
The doctor who prescribes gratui-
tously gives worthless prescription.
The thief who finds no opportunity to
steal considers himself an honest man.
Thy friend has a friend, and thy
friends friend has friend; be discreet.
Man sees the mote in his neighbours
eye, but knows not the beam in his own.
If a word spoken in its time is worth
one piece of money, silence in its time
is worth two.
When thou art the only purchaser,
then buy; when other buyers are present
be thou nobody.
For people to live happy together the
great secret is that they should not live
too much together.
AS the old man grows more and more
laundering, if he will grow more careful.
it will go far to counterbalance that in
trinity.
Repent the day before thy death.
Consider every day as possibly your
last, and be ever prepared through
penitence).
1t is worth while to expose our ignor-
ance to others, that we may learn it our
selves. This is many times the only way
we shall ever learn it.
A good name when deserved gives q
strength and mild courage, quiet bold
ness and modest assurance, which are
worth all that they cost.
1t is not very strange that a man
should mistake in point of duty; short,
sighted, crook-sighted, blurred and de-
fective, what else could be expected?
1t is no great matter to live lovingly
with good natured, humble and meek
persons; but he who can do so with the
froward, wilful, ignorant, peevish and
perverse hath true charity.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-09
George WashingtOn's Advertisement


The origin of advertising is lost in
antiquity, but 1T has been discovered that
in u Gorge Washington's day the art was
practised even by that great and good
statesman. In the first issue of the
Maryland J0urRAl, August >, 1913, Wash
ington inserted an advertisement at that
historic farm now known to all the
world as Mount Vernon. This is the
''ad :"
MOUNT VERNON, IN VIRGINIA, July Is
I113.-The subscriber having obtained
patents for upwards of 20,UOJ acres of land
on the Ohio and Great kanawha 1000 of
which are situated on the banks of the first
mentioned river, between the mouths of the
twp Kanawhas, and the remainder on the
Great Kanawha, or New River, from the
mouth, or near 1t, upwards in one continued
survey proposes to divide the same into any
sized tenements that may be desired
and lease them UPON moderate terms, allow
ing reasonable number of years rent free
provided, within the space of three years
from next October, three acres of every fifty
contained in each lot and proportionably for
a lesser quantity, shall be cleared, fenced and
Titled; and that, by and before the time linn
tied for the commencement of the first rent
five acres of every hundred, and proportion
ably, as above, shall be enclosed and LAID
down in good grass for meadow: and, more
over, that at least fifty good fruit trees fol
every like quantity of land shall be planted
on the premises Any person inclinable tt
settle on these lands may be more fully in
formed OF these terms by apply to the sub
scriber. near Alexandria or. in his absence
to Mr.. Lund Washington; and would do vel
in communicating their intentions before the
first of October next, in order that sufficient
number of lots may be laid off to answer the
demand.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-09
FARM AND GARDEN.
a Government Receipt.

Here Is the receipt for harness dressing
adopted by the United States Govern
ment: One gallon Keats foot oil, two
pounds bay-berry tallow, two pounds
beeswax. Put the above in pan over
a moderate fire. When thoroughly dis
solved. add two quarts of castor oil;
then while on the fire stir in one ounce
of Iampblack. Mix well, and strain
through a fine cloth to remove sediment
let it cool. and keep it in tin cans.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-09
Shipping Fruit to Market.

There are three principal ways for
sending fruit to market, requiring cor
respondent treatment and packing
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-09
a DREAM OF HOME.

All this is the home I rememberl
All others that 1 have known
Have been as tents by the wayside-
They never were all my own,
Here L first worshipped the sunshine,
Here my first violets grew,
And from fairyland's open borders
Winged thoughts AMI fancie5 flew:
And here when the magic of night
Has It's spell upon me thrown,
With dreamer's strange delight
have come unto my own.
Hark. was it a leaf that Huttered
Or a whispering voice that uttered
A dream within a dreaml
Beloved joy to meet thee
Where we parted so long ago;
Can the angels above, devotion
More sweet than our child-love knowi
Let us hasten, for while we linger,
They call Lne-the river and woods
The tall pines tremble with welcome
As we enter their solitudes.
Messy and green and still
Is the path to the wildwood dell,
At my touch the violets thrill,
They, too, remember well.
But why do the branches bend
And whisper as friend to friend,
A dream within a dream
Still on where the brook breaks lightly
Into broader an swifter flow;
only, of all who have listened,
That song and its meaning know.
To my childhood's ear it warbed
o! sweeter than fairy Tyre,
1--WE are coming, coming, coming,
The day of our hearts desire,
Dear brook, believe you still,
wait and have waited long,
Some bright hour must fulfil
The promise of Natures song.
It is not the river nor sky
That breathes the foreboding sigh
A dream within dream.
Now softly, past shadowing naples,
The path to my home we trace;
From hearthside or window surely
Will smile remembered face.
Yonder the willows were planted
And there the lone cedar tree,
And here was the terrace of roses
All Araby's gardens to me.
have wandered long and far,
Home coming is late, SO late
But heavens door seems a Jar
As L open the garden gate.
That haunting voice. all clearer
1t murmurs- hovers nearer
A dream within dream.
Keep close to my side, beloved
Behold! where the home-lights shine,
Strange shadows fit, and / tremble
Lest your hand be Ioosed from mine.
So long have onr ways been parted,
The silence SO deep and drear,
That feel, in this wondrous meeting,
1t is but your phantom near.
For L heard in some vanished gloom,
That you slept as my childhood sleep
part of the hillside bloom,
Where the river so gently creeps.
speak! chilG-friend, child-lover,
Is it thou saying over and over
A dream within dream?
Yes; now know [ was dreaming:
With the dead 1 have wandered far;
Farewell, dear vanishing presence,
Called home by the morning star.
L must bind on my pilgrim sandals,
And onward in shade and sun,
Still seek for the land of morning
Where the promise of life is won.
The vision shadows the truth,
The beautiful days will come,
The rapture and glory of youth
Be mine in that last, true home.
There never when joy beats high
Will lips that are dearest reply
A dream within a dream.
- - -Frnnc7S r. 1nce
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-09

Prince Eugene, youngest son of the
King of Sweden, is studying art in
Paris.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-13
Az OUTRAGE

The beauties Of police commission and
its police force becomes svery day more ap
parent. Mr. r. Nash. Taxpayer IN both
city and county, who has for foartesn
years been hauling corn into this city, was
ordered OF the street b. enc Of tbess de-
lightlGl underzIrappers, over whom ouE
clty Authorities have 10 control Mr..
Nash was thre4tensd with immediate ar
rest and fine When be answered that be
only desired 20 sell bis corn. he WA an
sxered IL made 10 difersne-. OF cour~e
be was indignant and Justly % Until w-
caa Re privileged To run cur osvn town it
might - a good thing for the city council
% provide son9e plaee where farmers would
i,e allowed 10 halt their teams long enough
70 sell their Commodities In tas mean
time we are sorry for ar. Sash. who called
70 ind gnansly protess, but our city author
it8ss s-e utterly po~sYssss u do anything
or 70 restrain or control posice force ;as
most 0f whom would ran over dozen
iaw cef.srs 70 Satch some in1oce5t uzn
ike MT Nash
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-13
WAS HE ROBBED?

Last evening Officer Green was ap-
preached on East Douglas by man who
asked his assistance in recovering his
friends from the hands of sharks Ac-
cording to his story this friend was George
Miltner from Edwards county. The two
had been in the city for several days doing
up the town in good shape. He being
the least intoxicated of the two Niltnsr
had entrusted to him the keeping of his
money, about $50. and valuable gold
watch. Last evening they met two men
one of them from Hutchinson who pro-
fessed great fondness for their company
Through the persuasion of one of them the
gentleman relating the circumstance was
compelled to give up to Miltner at the
Douglas Avenne hotel the watch and the
pocket book which he was keeping for
him (Miltneri. No sooner had this been
done than Miltner was forced into carriage
against the remonstrance and persuasion
of his friend and driven away The latter
tried TO get into the carriage bu; was kept
out by the two men. The gentleman be
lieved that his friend was taken to a dive
for the purpose Of being drugged and
robbed He had not, however, gotten
either the number of the hack or the de
scription of the two men sufficient 10 iden-
tify them and the police could give but
little assistance Nothing was heard Of
either Miltner or his anxious friend last
night and it was not knownj whether the
grave fears Of the latter proved reality or
not. The matter viii probably be ali
cleared up today.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-13
WICHITA FRkIGHTER COMPLAINS.

The interstate commerce commission is
in the main great humbug, without
doubt Mr.. Flagg, OF the Globe Iron
works of this city, had a lot of unfinished
machinery shipped from Wiliiamsport
Pa, on contract as a certain class al a
given rate for d sum total named The
classification was changed by pool agent
at Chicago which cost Mr.. Flagg roand
sum. He appealed to the railroad which
delivered the goods and they said they
dare not altar the figures of the pool com
missioner Mr.. Flagg made another ship
ment from the same place by another
route under written contract. The claSsi-
fication was again changed at the Mis-
sissippi river Mr.. Flagg then appealed
TO the United States interstate com
missioners at Washington, who in the
very first words of their answer announce
that the commission is a humbug and a
fraud in these words, to wit: 1T does
not necessarily follow because articles are
classified in a certain way in Pennsylvania
that they are 70 be classified in the same
way in Kansas"
AS classification covers the whole prob
lem of freight rates, the very idea of ''in-
JSI5ldlS ltllS 10 lIe L ne
letter of the commissioners is an insult TO
the intelligence of the average American
on its face. Mr.. Flagg writes us letter
comprehending the whole matter, in which
he transmits the letter OF the commission
ers, but we give the facts substantially
So far as Wichita, or any other city, is
concerned, after all, freight rates will be
controlled by the amount of the aggregate
tonnage of such city and the competition
of freight lines, and Mr.. Flagg, with the
rest of Us, will have to submit in patience
and wait until our rapidly increasing ton
mage and Importance shall command salts
factory rates
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-13
NEW CITIZENS

Mr. r. H johnson and family, of An
-ola, Ind. arrived il Wichita day or two
ago. They have come 70 stay and are now
tie guests Of Mr. and Mrs. !. r. Snively
We trust they viii find their new hume
both pleasant anu profitable. The follow
ing from the Steuben County Republican
shows that they were regarded with the
highest esteem and respect OF the citizens
Of their former town and county:
Mr.. aud Mrs r. II. Johnson and daugh-
ter Iva started yesterday morning for
Wichita. Kansas. where they expect TO
make their future home Their daughter
Dessa has been there for several months
and their son Carl VIII 20 at the close of
the present term of the Normal at which
he graduates. Last Sunday evening re
ceDtioQ was given them IN the Disciple
church parior. and large number OF their
friends were present Ii addition 20 the
many kind wishes expressed by all, Mr.
and AirS. johnson were presented with a
token Of esteem in the form of a sugar and
craamer set. Mr.. johnson has been ldenti-
fled with the interests OF the county for
several wears and as an officer was faithful
and efficient in the discharge OF MS duties,
and as a citizen was always TO he fo0nd on
the right side OF all questions involving
the interests OF society. They viii be
missed very much BY the people Of our
and the be>5 wishes OF al faI-
low them 10 their new hons