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Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-11-16
sAMRoIs PEACEFUL RESI-.
Queer illustration OF Negroes Marvellous
Sleeping Qualities.

Queer illustration OF u Negroes Marvellous
Sleeping Qualities.
l saw queer illustration of the
sleeping qualities of negro the other
day. Every one knows that genuine,
unadulterated negro can sleep on a
board with his face to the sun and with
out covering Tor mis- eyes on the hottest
July day-and he sleeps as peacefully
as n white man on the softest cot in the
darkest room. 1t has been said that
he could sleep under the mouth Of a
cannon in operation, and believe tt
or, at least, l believe the one of which
l shall speak could. In going down to
Augusta few days ago on the regular
day passenger we were few miles be-
low Union Point when the train sud-
denly stopped. The fireman jumped
from the engine and ran back by the
passenger coach. saying: There's a
dead nigger behind" Every one
looked out, and sure enough just be-
hind the rear coach, with his head rest
ing on the crossties, was what was sup
posed to be a dead negro man. Two
or three train-hands and a number OF
negroes ran back to see if the train had
struck him.
'Dat niger amt dead. He's er
sno'in," said one of the negroes, and he
ierked and kicked him until the Sleep
ing negro awoke, arose, and walked of,
followed by kick from the brake.
man.
The wheels of the engine and cars
had passed within few inches OF the
negro's head, and had not even affected
his snoring. Atlanta Constitution
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-11-16
eRANDMA's EYES.

They wonder why love her so;
Thoy marvel where the magic lies
That knots me TO her, they who know
That Gladys has her Grandma's eyesl
They say she's but thoughtless tot;
They say It's true she never tries
To pleasure me-but try or not,
She can't but please with Grandma's eyes.
They say her sisters are as sweet;
II may be so, as they surmise,
But who but Gladys comes to greet
Me gayly with her Grandma's oyesf
She'd have the Moons I'd give the suni
What wonder that my heart denies
No draft that's made on IL by one
Who always asks with Grandma's eyesi
She lights up all this world OF woe,
She silences cen sorrows cries;
She follows me where'er go,
Forever with her Grandma's eyes.
All, who that knows what powers proceed
From simple things, ia what strange guise,
Can doubt u little child may lead
An old man with her Grandma's eyesl
With Gladys grow young again!
I, who am gray-so fast times files
Am young, yet how my heart aches when
She looks at me with Grandmas eyesl
My Child Wife smiles once more on me,
Glad tears within mine own arise.
As with my Grandchild on my knee
Tgaze into her Grandmas eyes.
Mary Norton Bradford, in Boston Globe.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-11-16
The IIatchet Cure.

Cholera, roup and chicken pox arc
three dreaded diseases We never
had case OF the FIRST or last men-
toned, but have had a plentiful supply
of the roup. After repeated expcri-
ments at doctoring, we found tho
hatchet the best cure. A cock or
cockeral sick with roup, and after
wards (apparently) cured, is never
himself again. So it is with either Of
the other diseases. Most all Of the
other ills fowl flesh is heir to arc
readily handled by light remedies.
but it does not pay to fuss much over
contagion, as the danger OF it spread
ing is too great.-GermautOwn Tele-
graph.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-11-16
THE FOOD OF MAN.
How Cooking Alters the Chemical Com
position of Foods

How Cooking Alters the Chemical Com
position of FOOds
The lower mammals can live and
flourish with comparatively little
change of diet; not so man. He de-
mands food not only dissimilar in its
actual grosser nature, but differently
prepared. In word, for the different
nervous impulses, on which the digestive
processes depend, to be properly sup
piled, it has become necessary that u
variety off different impulses (through
the eye, ear, nose, palate) reach the
nervous center, attuning them to har-
mony, so that they shall act yet not
interfere with one another.
Cooking greatly alters the chemical
composition, the mechanical condition.
and, in consequence, the flavor, the di-
gestibility and nutritive value OF foods.
To illustrates: meat in its raw condi-
tion would present mechanical difficult
ties, the digestive fluids permeating it
less completely; an obstacle, however,
of far greater magnitude in the case Of
most vegetable foods. By cooking,
certain chemical compounds are re-
placed by others, while some may be
wholly removed. AS rule, boiling is
not a good form of preparing meat, be-
cause it withdraws not only salts Of
Importance, but proteids and the ex-
tractives-nit -nitrogenous and other Beef
tea is valuable chiefly because of these
extractives, though it also contains q
little gelatin, albumin and fats Salt
meat furnishes less nutriment, largo
part having been removed by the brine;
Notwithstanding, all persons at times,
and some frequently, find such food
highly beneficial, the effect being doub:-
less not confined to the alimentary
tract.
Meat, according to the heat en-
ployed. may be so cooked as to retain
the greater part of its juices within it,
or the reverse. With a high temper
ature (sixty-tive degrees to seventy-Gve
degrees c. the outside in roasting may
be so quickly hardened as to retain the
juices. Wesley Mills. M. d., in Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-11-16
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL
Tho Primitive MethodIsts held theii
first National conference in Pittsburgh,

Tho Primitive Methodists held theil
first National conference in Pittsburgh,
Pa
One In twenty OF tho students III
FIVE Of the leading government school'
in Japan is Christian, but only one
in 1,50O of the general population.
The annual reunion of the Luther.
ans Of Maryland. West Virginia and
Pennsylvania was held the other day al
Penmar, Md, 10000 people present
The soul needs to be cultured as
we'll as body and mind. The knowl-
edge necessary to its development can
be learned only in the school Of Christ
The Lutheran colleges founded and
endowed by the Baltic Germans in the
Baltic province of Livonia have, in ac-
cordanee with the order OF the Russian
tyranny, ceased to exist
in looking around for Christian
work. do not conclude that 1t must bo
just such as is done by some one elsc
Our individual traits and faculties must
be consulted, and what our own hands
find to do--what they are especially
fitted to do-that must indicate our
duty.
The appropriations ofthe American
Baptist Missionary Union for the year
ending March 81, 1890. amounted tc
$4O2, 1851. Much new work is pro
vided for, and the schedule is more
clearly in accordance with the esti-
mates from the missionaries than for
many years
The teaching of subjects relating
TO public health is now undertaken at
several OF the medical schools in Great
Britain, and students are there pre-.
pared for examination for the several
diplomas in Sanitary Science, and for
holding the appointment of medical Of
ficer of health
Tho Methodist alliance convention
Of North Ohio conference, at its recent
session, pledged itself to bring about
the union Of all the societies within the
conference accepted the name Epworth
league, and passed resolutions looking
toward the organization Of presiding
elders district leagues as soon as pos
sible.
1t renews ones hope in the future
OF American manhood to learn that nc
smoking-cars were called for on the
trains which bore to Philadelphia the
delegates to the late National Convep-
tion OF the Societies of Christian En-
deavor One train that contained
nearly thousand delegates, hundreds
of them young men, had not single
smoker on board, 'even in the bag
gage-car."
In the China Inland Mission Hos
pital and Dispensary at Chefoo, 5,53s
out-patients have been relieved, PIT
surgical operations performed, 96 in.
patients treated and brought under
spiritual influences. not few of whom
are believed to have accepted Christ as
their Saviour; and all this work is done
at the small cost of f143. One OF the
most encouraging signs of the mission
ary work in China is the hold the Cos
pei is gaining on the hearts Of the wom-
en-. One lady has from forty to fifty
present at a women's meeting each
Sunday.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-11-16

by fire in California, and the non-ar-
rival Of my semi-annual dividend Of
$500, 600 from my diamond pasture in
Africa was hard up and secretly
using stove-polish on my shoes in place
OF the regular luxury.
"But you don't doubt meP' he asked.
"Never! ! would die first"
But he went away grieved and mad
and next day when / met him a. the
post-ofiice and attempted to link my
arm in his in brotherly way he re-
pulsed me and said / ought to be ar
rested on my looks.
The next caller found me down Oh
the sands, where l was trying the ef
fects OF a sunbath on a boil which
wanted to monopolize all my leg. He
was a fine-looking man, tall and
straight. and no had on black suit
and spoke seven different languages.
l didn't hear but one, but boy further
back on the beach said he used the other
six in walking the first fifty feet away
from me. He introduced himself as
Prof Langley. OF Harvard, and ex-
planned that his great speciality was
mathematics. We shook. We liked
each other from the first look. Some
people hold you of. you know, until
they can ascertain whether your great
grandfather was the confidential ad-
wiser OF William the Conqueror, or only
foremast hand on the Mayflower, but
we were not that way. When we had
talked bit he said:
Being as / have read all the
speeches you havo made in the Senate
and being as my friend, the President.
warned me not to neglect to call on
you while here, have taken this lib
erty. Have presumed too muchm
Oh, no! he hadn't. He hadn't pre-.
sumed even ten per cent. I'd have
been too glad to get up at midnight to
receive him, and If he had brought
Harvard College along I'd have shaken
hands twice around.
The professor and l talked astrono.
my, geometry, navigation, addition.
division and lots OF other things, but
alas! the moment came when we must
bid each other adieu. Our emotions
were betrayed by our faces. A woman
who was looking down on us from the
sidewalk supposed that each of us had
lost step-mother.
"Old boy, farowell!" finally exclaimed
the professor as he kicked my boil and
rose up.
well, old man, it's tuff
at is, indeed, and shall never for
get this hour"
"Nor /, either"
'I-pve got check her for five
hundred he went on, his voice being
much broken, 'but am not to present
it until tomorrow. If you could let
me have about twenty dollars until
nine o'clock in the morning would
esteem it a great favor"
l had to tell him that had just been
robbed of q cool $4,000, and my
treasurer at home had just absconded
with $75 900 and that the proceeds OF
the sale of my 1000 fat Texas steers
would not reach me for three or four
days yet and he went away as the
others had done, wonde ring at man s
to man. ] saw him few
days after on a street car. and when |
called him prof" in friendly way
and asked him to go fishing with me,
he angrily retorted:
Young man, don't try any Of your
tricks on me! I'm right on to you for
a con. mau"-M Quad in Detroit Free
Prnss
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-11-16
its fullest capacity. ra:a nothing should
be sold on the farm until ( has been
utilized by the machines. lnoe y.
Baird, in Southern Cultivator



The Northern newspapers which de-
light In saying that white Southern
men won't work, viii relish the follow
ing figures, showing how they have
and what they have accomplished By
it: The value Of the South's agrienlt-
ural products for 1888 was about f8oQ,-
900, 900. against &571, 100000 in 1879.
while 1889 will probably show $780,
900, 900 to $3.50. 100000. The value Of
the South's livestock is now s575, 000.-
600, while in 1879 It was $S91. 600, 600.
The production Of grain rose Rom
4S1, ,074. $50 bushels in 1880 to 6Sz, Bo6.-
600 bushels in 1888. and this year VIII
probably show over sO.OOO,O 600 bush.
els, an increase Of nearly $50 0OO,0 600
bushels. Rural World.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-11-16

Beams Island, an uninhabited piece
OF land lying in Frenchman's Bay, off
the coast of Maine, would be a para
disc for cats. 1t is infested with rats,
and how they reached there no one can
tell 1t is the general supposition that
some years ago a coasting schooner
must have been wrecked in the bay,
and that it had rats among the other
valuable portions of its cargo The ro-
dents are there by thousands, and they
fairly swarm over the island. Any one
who is not fond of them does well in
giving the place wide berth, for they
know no fear and make it interesting
for visitors. Much OF tho island is
low and flat, and is so perforated with
their holes that it resembles vast
sieve. How they live is a mystery.
No one knows OF any fresh water upon
tho island, so the rats must have been
.he sole discoVererS OF some hidden
spring.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-11-16

An insane colored girl with razor
walked into camp meeting at Gooch-
land. Va, looking for the devil. The
congregation arose at her appearance
and took to the woods
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26
THE DAIRY.

a COW died recently at Cape Cir
ardeau, Mo-, at the age OF thirty-five
wears. She furnished milk for General
Grants coffee when he was at that
place in 1871. .pl.....ll
More butter is injured by keeping
the cream too long before churning
than in any other manner. The churn-
ing should be performed as soon as the
the cream is ready, even If there Is
only small quantity to churn.
Prof. Arnold once said that a
"cow going into stable filled with
odor of solid and liquid e1crements
will carry it into her milk in fifteen
minutes" His remedy was a thorough
ventilation of the stable at all times.
AS the grass decreases give hay to
the COWS, thus gradually making the
change from green food to dry food.
If the change is made suddenly the
COWS will fall off in milk. rs an as
sistant to the green food lwhlch VIII
soon become scarce) give sliced tur-
nips, beets or carrots.
"A cali at one InOnbu Oiu hiuy ooSih
to have grain food, one ounce twice a
day at first, doubling every day until
four ounces are given at a meal the
second month. and after that gradually
increasing up to a ration of one pound
daily, with good pasture and u regular
supply of sweet skinned milk
"A successful dairyman says: ANY
COW that will not pay in the extra yield
of butter for four quarts of corn meal
daily, given in two meals, should be
discarded from the herd. There are
some good COWS, however. that will
pro6tably repay the cost of half this
quantity of food, and are unable to
digest more than that, that might be
excepted from the general rule.
IF calf is at all dainty about its
food do not keep it for COW. No
pedigree can Offset the disadvantage
of poor appetite and poor digestion.
Giving the calf as great variety OF food
as possible is the best plan we know
of to make it a hearty eater, The
greater the variety the more food can
be eaten, and this, if continued, means
increased digestive powers, on which
in an animal, man not excepted, future
usefulness must depend.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26
How to Keep Cows Healthy.

With good COWS to begin with, good
food, good shelter, clean surroundings,
and plenty OF clean water and pure air.
the Michigan Farmer says that the
dairy might safely defy all ordinary
disease, and leave physic to the dogs.
There are certain things incident to
maternity that should be carefully pro-
vided for, and the animal treated ac-
cordingly. Many of the troubles with
the uddar have their foundation laid
when the cow is dried off. Great care
should be taken, therefore, that no in
iammation or obstruction, caused by
failure or absorption OF the lingering
secretions OF milk, is permitted to come
on with its painful consequences. Study
in every way to preserve the health OF
your COWS. and you will have little
cause to seek remedies Tor disease. DO
not expect them TO maintain perfect
health in an atmosphere In which
you could not live yourself with entire
safety. = -
80
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26

Sylvia! Sylvia" There was lady
painting at an easel, but she did not
answer. Sylvia, darling, don't you
see have come back t. your
This did not reach Mr.. Walters ears.
But he did hear bittor cry as II OF
pain, and then sound Of stiaed sobs;
it was a strange greeting to pass be-
tween long severed, still hopeful low
ers.
He stood painfully drumming on the
window for awhile, until he heard q
hasty rush of feet across the landing
and down the stairs. The heavy front
door opened with q jerk and closed
with bang, and he saw his late visitor,
with pale, stricken face, hurry across
the street and enter the house oppo-
site. Then he thought the best thing
he could do was to take his hat and go
to the British Museum without disturb
ing the ladies.
I'm so extremely sorry" he said
that evening at dinner, glancing from
his wife, who had evidently been cry
ing, to Gwen, who was quieter than
usual, I'm really very sorry that Gwen
had not kinder welcome to give to
her old FREUD. He seemed to me a
good sort of man, and [ was much in
terested in what he told me of his love
story. He was so sure you would be
glad to see him. Can't you think it
over little, Gwen, and give him diff
ferent answer tomorrow? L really
liked him. I'd go and call on him with
pleasure. Shall l, Gwen? Will you
not let him come again, Gwon9"
"He didn't come for Gwen at all, "
sobbed out Sylvia, desperately. II
ought to have told you about it. only l
didn't like to. Gwen wouldn't have
thrown him over il she had made all
the promises | did"
Mr. Walters looked again from Syl-
via to Gwen, and from Gwen to Sylvia.
GLOW terribly sadw he murmured.
Perhaps she regrets"
perhaps she does,'' said Gwen; "but
it is great deal worse for Prince
Charming. Poor Prince Charming!"-
All the Year Around.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26
WILL BE HEN-PECKED.

For the Second Time in His Life an Old
Nnn Loses His Liberty.
The hour was growing late; the pas
sengers in the sleeper had all gone to
bed. A porter approached GLOVER 6"
and, jerking the curtains apart num-
bled something. whats the matter"
demanded rather oldIooking man,
getting out and following the porter.
who had stepped back few PAGES.
'I say, sab, that / am sorry to tell
you. but you'll have to change cars"
What forp" the old fellow thun-
dered.
You want to go to St Louis, don't
you?'
Yes"
"Well, but this sleeper goes to Kan
sas City"
"Why in thunder didn't you tell me
so, hah?"
~ didn't know myself till just now."
why didn't the conductor tell mep"
he roared.
Il don't know, sab"
Where is your pumpkin-headed
conductor?"
Back in the smoking department.
The old man went into the smoking
department and thus addressed the
conductor:
Didn't you know wanted TO go to
St. LOUISE"
mot until I happened to look at your
ticket just now" r'
'.And now I've got to change cars at
the next stationp"
'Yes. If you want to go to st. Louis" f"
"This is an Internal outrage. Listen:
For six years have been courting the
Widow Hennipin. Sometimes my
chances would be up and sometimes
they would be down. 1t rocked along
this way till last week and then mar.
| ried her. and now we are on our we'd
ding tour. Look here my dear sir, for
the love OF humanity please let this car
go on to St. Louis, for 1t won't do to pull
my wife out of bed at this time OF night
and make her change cars. Shell
swear / didn't have sense enough tt
know where wanted to go and al
through life she'll hold me down. My
dear sir. II you believe in the liberty o
man let this car so to ST Louis; dom
help to hen-peck me. II you don come
to my aid that woman will always be
lieve that ] am wcak-she never viii
have any more confidence In evil
hold me down and ride over me, tel
YOU"
1--WE have about reached your station
Hurry up" Nv. ,.a.,s =, l,Fr
But can't you help meP"
"I can not" t4l Y'
"Then i am lcst--lost and hen
pecked for the second time in life. y
! Artansaw Traveller.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26
DAIRY MANAGEMENT.
An Industry That Requires Constant and
Painstaking Attention.

An Industry That Requires Constant ana
Painstaling Attention.
II might as well be understood first
as last that butter-making can not be
made profitable unless there is sufficient
time given to it, and unless the work
is done at the proper time. 1t must
now be pretty we'll understood that
profitable butter-making means good
article of butter. But that can not be
made unless every thing is done prop
erly and promptly. If, as writer OF
note remarks, woman has the care OF
family of children, does the cooking,
mending, sweeping and thousand things
that devolve upon mother, she can
not be good dairy maid, or If she is,
it is more than one woman ought to be.
As rule people are not rapid enough
in execution to greatly multiply duties.
Once in a great while we find a man or
woman who can do the work OF half
dozen people, and seem to do it easily.
But such people are the exceptions.
1t is not wise. therefore, to expect
that the wife with all her other duties
to perform, can give attention to much
of dairy, and. therefore, at the very
beginning enough help should be pro,
vided. There is great deal of hard
work in the dairy, and it must be done
at lust such time. 1t is mistake to
suppose that dairying is easy. In fact
it is a mistake to suppose that any work
or occupation is easy, if it is honest:
We must devote close attention to
any business if we expect to make 1t
successful. The dairy particularly re-
uuires close attention and steady work.
The COWS must be MIXED and ought to
be MIXED regularly and carefully; and
we can not be too particular to see that
the help we employ attend to those
things. There is so much carelessness
upon the part of some mixers. as
shown in their roughness toward the
cow, or their neglect to milk thorough
ly, that in any considerable herd
some mixers will do more damage
| in season than their wages
will amount to. The process OF
milking, therefore, should be carefully
overseen by the owner. In walking
through city streets we always see
foreman-a boss of street gangs of men.
This foreman watches closely the work
of the men, and yet if they did not
sweep clean or otherwise neglected
their duty. no irreparable damage
could be done. Yet dairymen fire.
quently give no attention to the matter
of milking their cows by the help, and
if damage is done there it can not be
repaired. The mixer should be q
cleanly person. Since milking has
been entrusted SO largely to men, there
is not always that degree OF cleanliness
that is absolutely necessary in we'll
conducted dairy, and the lack often
gives rise to the wish for the return ol
the neat dairy maid, who was not al
ways the sole creation OF the poets
After the milking comes the care o.
the milk. If the mixer has mixed
with the milk dirt of various descrip
tions the milk is spoiled; no aftercare
however great, can restore it to prime
excellence. The dirt may be got out
perhaps, but the straining can not re
move the odors that may have come
from the dirt. Western Rural.