davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14

tongue and feeling my pulse, the Judge
concluded that was better and left me.
Polly, the negro woman servant came
in with tub Of water and a cloth to
cleanse the floos
"Marse Guv.kNe remarked, ''you
amt mighty siS3s1fs you? Master he
says you has had ct, and she laughed
as she looked at me-
"What do you think, Polly" l asked.
"Why, Mas Gus, seed Miss Nancy
when she creeped up and hit you with
dat switch yesterday, and seed you
jump up and turn over de table with all
dem books what you were readin', and
you and Miss Nancy runnin' round de
house; and ! seed you when you catch
Der on your bed Just as the old folks
coined home. You must hab been tuken
sick mighty quick. And Yesterday when
Miss Nancy was maxim dat tea, she
laughed fit to kill herself. ] spects she's
been foolin' you. Shes mighty bad dat
way"
Make haste, said the Judge, as he
came in, the doctor will be here soon,
and don't want this floor wet when he
comes"
"Howdo you feel now my boy? Nancy
is raving about your biting her. ! tell
heryou didn't know what you was about.
Amt you subject to fits, Gus Nancy
says it was all sham, but tell her that
is all nonsense. You wouldn't bit her
so on purpose, / know"
In short time the doctor came, and
my case was explicitly laid before him,
especially the wonderful pulses and the
fit. The Judge was called away, when /
asked the doctor if he would, upon bis
honor, promise never to speak of it, /
wonld tell him secret. He promised,
and told him the whole story-for /
felt ] could not stand any more physic.
He laughed until he cried, and many
times since have we laughed heartily
over it.
We met, after many years separation,
in New York, in 1884, at the conference
which divided the Methodist church, and
spent day together pleasantly, recall
ing the memories of the past, and this
especial one, when [ threatened to give
the story to the pubic.
If you please" he said, edo not do
it while | live l promised, and we
parted for the last time. / have a dear
memory of the kind hearted and gener-
Gus old man that will only perish with
my life, which is now wasting its lasts
sands in our dear old native land. With
his wife he lies buried at Oxford, Mis-
sissippi, near the home of his two chill.
dren, one the wife of the distinguished
L. @. G. Lamar, and the other the wife
of DR.. Henry Branham. Y. NJ. g.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14
Power of Half a Sovereign.

Mr.. Chauncey Depew lately told the
full story of the Edinburgh guard !:
sit was when was in Europe four years
ago, related Mr.. Depew 81 had been
in Edinburgh several days, and had put
off my visit to the old castle until the
last afternoon. Just as [ reached the
castle / saw the guards going away. /
found that the hours for visitors were
over, but / was going to get in, for it
was my last chance. One of the old fell
lows was near me, and l called out, Say,
hellol / want to go in.
"'But you can't, sir, for the grounds
are closed
"'Well, that doesn't make any differ
ence to me. They can be opened. came
all the way from New York to see this
castle, and | am going to see it.
Well, l don't see how you are going
to see it this afternoon. It's too late for
me to take any fee, and l am going
home"
But must see it this afternoon, for
l leave tomorrow morning at nine, and
you don't open until eleven. You can
show. me through that gate, can t you, and
let me see the outside grounds and look
over tne ramparts.
"'Yes, perhaps
"Then took the guard along with me
to the gate, and he had the soldier let us
IN. We walked around, and | looked
around and over the ramparts and saw
the guns, and all the while the guard
kept tagging along with me- Finally
we reached a place to which he pointed
and said, ''Ihere, see that. There's
where they keep the crown jewels.
: Well, are you going to let me in to
see them
can't, sir; the door is locked
We'll. can't door be opened
mo, sir; no, SIR. Not all the power
IN Edinburgh could get that door open
now after hours.
Wouldn't sovereign do itg'
sThe Scotchman threw up his hands
in nstonishment, and called out with
surprise, The half OF il would, The
half OF it. SIR
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14

it now. Lucky, Nancy, wasn't itl''
every" said Nancy, with sly leer and
wink at me, "nothing like good pur.
gative to reduce these violent attacks. ;"
''Do you feel like you could eat some
thing, my boyl" asked the considerate
Judge. eyes, sir, | answered emphati-
cally, 81 am very hungry" "a very
good sign, my boy; but you must be
careful lest you have a relapse, and that
might get you into trouble, and might,
he added, "be fatal. These attacks, you
should know, Nancy, are sometimes
very dangerous with young people, with
older ones they are not so frequent or
so dangerous, and the scriptures say the
second condition of man under such
circumstances is always worse than the
first. Nancy, you have him some chicken
broth made, and he must take very
sparingly of it. A youth subject to these
inhammatory attacks, must be depleted
and should he have return of it, blood
letting may be eeessary-scarcely any
thing else will SO soon reduce such
pulse as he had yesterday"
Nancy, all this while was behind her
father, making every demonstration of
mirth she could, not to be seen or heard
by him, yet openly to me. was twenty
four hours without food, had been Sc
verely sick from the SIENNA, but now re-
lieved from this l could have eaten q cat
or dog, or anything which promised re-
lief to the terrible cravings of my appe-
tite. 1t was fully three hours before the
Judge and my tormentor returned.
When they came Nancy carried a large
blue bowl with at least half a gallon of
thin chicken water. 1t was meagre diet
but it was abundant, and there was in
the savory broth just one half of an old
rooster with one leg lifted far above the
broth, as if to ask to be lifted out of the
reeking liquid. This was placed on a
small table, and drawn close up to the
bed. A spoon and saucer were placed
near it by Nancy, who took occasion to
say you must be careful not to eat the
chicken. "YQu should not have brought
the fowl with the broth, said her father
'It may tempt him, and temptation to
inexperienced young people is very
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14
Farm and Garden Notes.

Sheep need a little grain in winter.
Warmth saves food in keeping live
stock.
The fodder cutter is an economical
machine.
Roup in chickens is caused by expos
ure to dampness and draughts.
Watch for eggs of tent-caterpiIlar on
tree and cut off and burn them
The farm tool room or repair shop
should be patronized at this season.
In feeding turnips do not give too
many. Skim milk for calves should be
fed warm and sweet.
Supply poultry with plenty of sharp
gravel when the ground is frozen hard.
They must have something to grind their
food.
Good food, pure water, not too cold,
and warm stables, are the three great
agents in milk production. says Hodrd's
Dairynan.
P. H. Jacobs thinks that the ventila-
ton hole in the top of the poultry house
roof kills more fowls in winter than any
other cause.
Cold and lack of food may check the
growth of WOOL and when it grows
again bad place in the fibre often marks
the point of stopping and beginning
again.
Don't throw feed of any kind in the
mud or in the dust. Have an elevated
flooring to feed hogs on and keep it
clean. The dust in hog pens is said to
be prolific cause of sickness.
f. d. Curtis saws that farmers can
make cheaper and better pork by stint
ing hogs to half the amount of grain
they would eat, and then giving them all
the rutabaga leaves they will eat
Shut up the cracks with tar paper or
other material. 1t will keep out the
frost and cold winds that are prevalent
at this season of the year. A general
cleaning up and repairing should be
done now before change in the weather
arrives, and when it will not be so
pleasant to work about as it is now
Peas have been found an exceedingly
effective food for producing milk. In
the feeding test Of noted jersey cow.
in which an average of seven pounds OF
butter daily was gwen Tor week, six.
teen pounds of pea meal was fed per
day, with sixteen pounds of oat meal
and twenty -four pounds Of corn meal.
If the end of a fresh egg be applied to
the tongue, it feels cold; that Of stale
egg feels warm. This is due to the white
of the fresh egg being in contact with
the shell, and abstracting the heat from
the tongue more rapidly than does the
air bubble in the stale one. Fresh eggs
are most transparent in the centre, stale
ones at the end
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14

trees, perhaps. will thrive with remark
able vigor on such land, and the farmer
should accept the indication, and plant
it to apple trees until he has all he can
take care of. A man in East Winthrop,
Me-, had n farm Of that character. 1t
was of little value for tillage, but he
found that the Eoxbury russell throve
remarkably well, and produced excellent
fruit. He "took the hint, . and set his
farm largely to Roxbury russell trees
until nearly thirty acres were covered.
Now, in some years. he sells 1000
worth of fruit. He has made a rocky
and almost worthless farm one Of the most
valuable in town, simply because he
used it for the purpose to which it was
best adapted This is what the farmer
should try to do--study the capabilities
of his farm, and then try so to manage
it that he will draw out of it the best
that it is capable of afiording. 1t will
not do to manage farms all in one way,
on account of the great diversity in soils
and physical conditions. DR.. H. Rey-
notds, in Eaaminer.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14

Mr.. f. Martin Smith, Delhi, N. Y,
has had forty years of successful hus-
bandry, from report of which in 0. c.
Farmer we CLEAN the appended items of
practice tested by time: "He hauls out
the manure daily and spreads it on top
of the snow in winter, which plan he
thinks gives best results. Places stress
on the advantage of running pigs in
orchards, producing strong, healthy
growth of pigs, and at the same time
beneGting the trees. Has frequently saved
considerable sums by the practice of
keeping cash account in connection
with his diary, in the way of avoiding
the repayment of small accounts once
paid, where credit had failed to be given.
Condemns the drawing off of small
stones so closely as is sometimes done.
Believes that on his land they are an adj
vantage in retaining heat and moisture
in the soil. Would not remove these
small stones from any land except such
as might be termed stony land. Thinks
it might pay on sidehills when blowing
the last time preparatory to seeding
down, to follow after the pillow and
throw them in the furrow and thus leave
them below the surface. Has practised
this some during the past few years, and
is pleased with the result.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14

a judge, and divine of emf
nence. Was the President of
three colleges, and eminent as a
teacher and trainer of youth. Yet
when the fame he earned in each and all
of these vacations shall have passed from
the pwblic's mind his Georgia Scenes
wild preserve his name in undimmed
splendor.
In the conclusion of this chapter,
must relate one of his Georgia scenes,
known to but few, and which was by
HIM narrated to me now fifty-seven
years ago.
was admitted to the bar fifty-seven
years ago, in Washington, Wilkes coun-
ty, Georgia. 1t was on Sunday proceed
ing the meeting of the Superior Court
FOR Wilkes county that / rode with
Judge Longstreet from Greensborough,
the village of his residence, to Washing
top, Wilkes county.
We had both received our legal edu-
cation at the law school conducted by
those eminent jurists, Tapping Reeves,
the brother-in-law of Aaron Burr, and
James Gould, Mt Litchfield, Connecticut.
l had but just returned, after having
completed my course, and was on my
way to apply for permission toplead and
practice law. We were on horseback,
and the distance was short and we rode
leisurely, talking over our student ex-
periences, and enjoying many joke con-
nected with names then eminent, who
had been educated legally at Litchfeld
all of whom have long since passed
away. Of all the Georgians there edu-
Gated in the law know of but one, save
myself, now left in the State, the venera-
BILE James Clark, of Atlanta, now more
than eighty years of age.
AS we journeyed we were, about noon,
passing farm house, which was not
very far from the highway, when rein
ing up his horse, "Old Planter" chow
well remember the noble old sorrel he
asked me if was hungry. Being an
swered in the affirmative, he continued,
pointing to the house:
"Yonder lives WE'LL TODD man. His
wife is an old friend of mine, and have
a capital story to tell you, after we have
got our dinner, in relation to our early
acquaintance. But remember, it is to be
kept a profound secret. l liketo tell a
good story, even if it is at the expense
of appearing ridiculous myself"
just as we turned from the road to
go up to the house, We met servant,
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14
LOVE.


IT'S said that such thing as love- true love;
IT'S said its glorifed essence dwells above;
But that here through earth its rivers run
And simmer and CLEAN meath moon and sun,
And gladden. and water yea, every one
This beautiful river of love.
wonder if have heard the song it sings?
I've heard, know, but my best loved ones took
wings!
Yet earth and sky, and bird, and song,
Teach me to love though they are gone,
For everything in the world is borne
Over the river of love.
But love of lore. delightfully."- new and strange,
IL that which fastens two hearts, nor knows
change.
The years they come and the years they go;
The tides they ebb, and the tides they flow;
Yet this love increasing, doth stronger grow
o wonderful river of lovel
wonder who shall love as we'll as this?
Whose heart shall teach my heart to thrill with
bliss?
Wonder and wonder, for know well
That loves sweet waters within me swell,
And my heart shall yet with some others dwell
Beside the river of love.
. where does he live? What is his name? NV
love!
o when shall see his manly form? My love!
1 should love him now if knew him mine;
And weave his name in my homely rhyme,
And flowers of beauty plant and Irvine
Over the river of love.
Come, love of mine! My heart awaits thy
touch.
Thy lips, thy voice, must first awake lis blush
The flowers and blossoms vigil keep
Waiting alone the breath to leap
And adorn W it'll blossoms, and bud, and leaf
The glorious river of love.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14
MEN OF GREAT MEMORIES.
Freight Conductors Who Can Tell
the Number of Every Car in
Train.

AS an Illustration of how the memory
may be cultivated in retaining a long
list of numbers, one has only to observe
the freight conductors, and very often
remarkable examples of retentive men,
cries will be found.
l have been on the road as a freight
conductor for fourteen years and in that
time my memory has had a careful
training in the particular line of retain
ing the numbers ON the cars. | start
out on run and know the numbers of
all the cars with which the train is made
up, and while some cars will be left at
stations along the road and other cars
will be taken up, yet, at the end of our
run if an officer asks me whether have
q car number so-and so, / can invariably
tell him without referring to my book.
Now, when it is remembered that the
train may be made up of forty cars, and
that the numbers run all the way from
the hundreds to the twenty-five and
thirty thousands, and that dozen cars
may be taken off and another dozen
taken on along the road my statement
undoubtedly seems incredible to those
not familiarly acquainted with this par
ticular department. of railroading. But
it is fact nevertheless, and / have
known quite number of freight con
ductors who have memories of equal
retentiveness.
Noting the numbers of the cars daily
for years a conductor becomes so familiar
with the work that his memory holds
these large numbers with but little diff
Guilty. The style and peculiar finish of
the cars from differentApads are also
learned, and conductoFat glance can
tell the road to which car belongs as
far as he can see it.-St. Louis Globe
IeIJl0erHi
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14
Butter Making.

During the late session of the Dairy
mems Association of New York Mr.. w.
II. Gilbert read paper on ''Butter
Making He said, as reported in the
Orange County Faimtr, that when he
went into butter making he made up his
mind that he wanted butter cow From
information and reading lie further made
UP his mind that the Jersey was the
best. He began by buying registered
Jersey bull and bred from .he best cows
on his place. During the past season he
made in June one pound of butter from
1887 pounds of milk; in August, from
17.15 pounds; in September, from 1881
pounds in October, from 1S.43, and in
November, from 1913. He has about
100 cows in milk, from two to ten years
of age, their average weight being about
$50 pounds. He likes his cows to come in
during the fall and early winter. In sum-
mcr they Craze in the day and are in
yard at night. About July he begins to
feed green clover and continues unit!
August; then feeds green corn fodder,
two hills of corn night and morning. lie
uses twelve to fifteen tons of plaster il,
winter in the stable, and feeds silage and
grain morning end evening. In summer
he milks the cows at 6 a. NJ. and L.
NJ, in winter at & 4. NJ. and 5 30 p NJ
The milk is set in submerged cans as
soon as possible after milking. After the
cream is SKINNED it is raised to tenn
perature of sixty-two in summer aud
sixty five in winter to ripen, which gen
orally takes about twentyfour hours.
During this process it is frequently
stirred, the aim being to keep it at
uniform temperature. He churns it at a
temperature of sixty-two to sixty-fonr in
summer and in winter from sixty-four
to sixty-seven. lie uses a revolving box
churn, and churns on an average about
forty minutes As soon as the butter is
well granulated stop churning, draw off
the buttermilk and then wash the butter
with weak brine. The butter is then
taken out, salted-one ounce salt to u
pound worked, put up in one pound
prints and sold.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14

who, to our inquiry, informed us that
the family were absent. We turned and
pursued our way to Warrington.
"Now, for the story" / remarked, sit
will answer for dinner
81 suppose so" he replied, ''if the old
saw is truthful, which says, laugh and
grow fat. +"
When | was fitting for college, my
father felt there was no man in Georgia
SO competent to the task as Father
Cummings, Presbyterian minister UP
here. And then could find cheap
board in the country, and be away from
influences about Augusta, our home
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14

HAVE perhaps
been prolix in this
chapter. 1 could
not do justice to
the memory of my
friends of after
days by saying
less.
Judge Augustus
B. Longstreet was
peculiarly a hu-
morist. He was a
distinguished law
yer equally so as
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14
FARM AND GARDEN.
The Capacity of Cisterns.

The Amerscan Artisan has been doing
considerable figuring lately, and has
tabulated the following: A tank ten
inches deep will hold, according to di-
ameter, as follows:
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14
Apple Culture.

We know that In the early settlement
of the country to plant fruit tree was
all there was to be sure of certain CT op
of perfect, smooth, beautiful fruit, re-
marks the Farm and Gardea. Varieties
that we cannot grow now, were then
very fine and abundant Wormy fruit
Vas hardly known, and trees were long
lived, healthy and vigorous. Why is it
not so nowl Why is it so difficult to
grow fine fruit2 Our land is richer. We
can grow better crops of grain, why not
of fruitg There is reason for this, as
there is for other things. 1t cannot be
climate, for that is about the same as it
always was. The secret is insects.
They have multiplied and spread since
the early settlement of the country until
they infest every orchard and spread
ruin far and wide.
Some are busy at the roots, sapping
vitality from them; some at the trunk,
boring it full of holes; some at the bark.
living to destroy. The branches are full
of them. The leaves are infested and
eaten by multitudes of them. The tree
survives their attacks, but does not
prosper This is the cause of failure of
many orchards. We must combat them.
if we expect to grow fine fruit. We
have illustrated many of the most harm
full insects, and told our readers how to
subdue them. They who fight insects
most viii grow the best fruits of all
kinds.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14
An Unpublished Chapter of
Georgia Scenes.
A FRAGMENT.

From the forthcoming second volume of eth
Memories of Fifty Years"
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14
study the Capacity of the Farm.

Every farmer should study the capaci-
of his farm, so as to be able to turn its
resources to the best account. Some
farms are naturally adapted to grass pro-
duction, and can be made to produce
heavy crops of hay yearly for long
time. Other farms soon run out when
seeded to grass, but are good for crop
ping. On such farms large area should
be ploughed yearly, cropped and ierta-
lied, and seeded down. For few years
good crops of grass can be obtained, and
then the land needs reseeding. The aim
on such farms should be TO have from
one third to onc-haif of the tillagc under
the plough all the time, so that the
grass land viii all be ewiy-seeded, and
the farmer will be able to re-plough as
soon as the grass begins to run ont.
ILen there are farms thar are rocky and
rough Tie soils stony and fertile, bof
Is not adapted to cultivatioa. Apris-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-14
Every Seven Years.

1t is a we'll known fact that a ten
dency to madness among dogs break
out in an nnaccountable manner at
intervals, nor is it confined to periods
of great heat. 1t appears to be COM
mon all over the country and OBJ
servers claim that its visitation is in
the early summer. a New York ply
sician asserts that it is an epidemic
and appears regularly every seven
years. The present season has been
announced for its arrival and however
we may account for it, the fact remains
beyond question that 1888 has already
furnished more cases of hydrophobia III
the United States than have been re
corded in the previous five years. This
is the most frightful of all diseases and
whatever may he thought of the epi-
demic theory, nothing can be lost by
reasonable precaution.-Sheridan Lake
Courier.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-14

The annual school meetings i'll Kan
sas this year will be held on Thursday,
June 2Sth. Upon the result of these
meetings will, in great measure, de-
pend the success of the schools for the
next year. Good judgment should be
used by the residents of each district
in selecting men for members of school
boards who will take sufficient interest
in school matters to see that competent
teachers are hired; suitable improve
nents made, and the affairs of the dis
trict kept in plain and business-like
manner by the clerk. The success of
Kansas schools is world wide, and this
success is brought about by each and
every individual in each and every dis
trict taking hand in seeing that good
men are put at the helm.