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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30
RAILROADS IN CHINA.
The Growth of Modern improvements in
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| The Growth of Modern improvements in
| the Celestial Empire.
The news from Peking is that the EN-
| peror of China has issued an edict which
authorizes the building of the projected
railroad between Peking and Hankow.
| A previous edict of recent date had given
authority for the construction of another
line, and there are number of other
railroad projects that are now awaiting
the imperial sanction. 1t is reported
that the well-known promoter, Chang
Chi Tung, will carry out the Peking-
Hankow scheme, and that the Marquis
Tseng has been appointed General Di-
rector of all railroads in China.
These edicts indicate the triumph Of
| Viceroy Ii and the other progressive
leaders who, amid many discourage
ments, have striven to establish policy
by which the Chinese empire may be
provided with comprehensive railroad
system, against the protests and conjura-
tions of the censors and astrologers.
These powerful persons have carried on
q desperate struggle against this policy,
on the ground that its adoption would
mark the beginning of an era in which
the ancient institutions and customs Of
China must be wholly destroyed. 1t was
reported from PelSing last January that
the conservative leader, the uncle of
the young Emperor, Kwang Hsu, had
obtained full control of the whole busi-
ness, and the imperial action at that
time appeared to give confirmation to
this report. But the recent reversal of
that action shows that by some means
the great Viceroy Ii has regained his
former ascendancy in the palace. He
has maintained for many years that the
establishment of railway system is
necessary to the development of Chinese
resources and the advancement of Chi
nese prosperity; and the victory he has
won over the censors and astrologers
gives evidence that practical statesman
ship may yet overcome the greatest OBJ
stacles in China.
Not long ago Ii overcame the con-
servative opposition to the introduction
of the telegraph system, which is now
growing so rapidly that many thousands
of miles of wire are already radiating
through the Chinese empire. The evils
which, as the astrologers predicted, were
to be created by the use of electricity,
have not been realized, and the ad-
vantages it has conferred are palpable
even to the official mind.
The aged Viceroy Ii has always pre-
dicted the success of his railroad policy,
and he has freely given his opinion that
it would bring about an industrial trans
formation of Importance to the whole
world. Within half a decade the prog
ress of China in the use of machinery
and in the adoption of modern methods
of manufacturing has added largely to
the previous productive force of the 8OO,-
100000 of her populations; and now
again, through the service of the tele-
graph and the railroad there is assurance
of it's further increase to an extent that
can not be computed.-N Y. Sun.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

poles, small ends on bolster, two inches
from the standard and fit in cross-piece
as shown, to go through the goose neck.
After shaping it to the holes in the poles
pin it closely. Put small round in the
two holes which are near the tips of the
poles.
The first piece inserted should be
strong, as by it the improvised sled is to
be drawn. A round should also be put
in through the holes at the thick end Of
the poles. The poles should be boarded
from this round up five or six feet to-
ward the small end to prevent stubs or
stumps from catching the fodder which
is to be thrown across the poles for
hauling. This is convenient for fodder
and other bulky and heavy materials
like apple barrels, cider barrels, etc.
The poles resting on the front bolster
make it handy to turn, and the entire
arrangement is drawn from the reach
and king-pin the same as a wagon.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30
SAVE YOUR BACK.
A Simple but Excellent Device for DR.
ing Fodder.

Simple but Excellent Device for Draw.
ing Fodder.
In most localities, says a writer in
Farm and Home, people are looking for
something on which to draw their
fodder corn to their silos and feeding
lots at this time of the year. 1 have
tried all devices, and good sled upon
the snow can hardly be improved upon,
but this is a poor thing upon bare
ground, and wagon is too hard on the
back in lifting the green stover on and
off. l prefer an arrangement like that
shown in the drawing. Two straight
poles sixteen feet long and four inches
thick at the butt should be bored in
three places; first two feet from the
butt end, second at the small end and a
third time short distance from the
small end.
The front wheels should be taken off
a heavy wagon and the reach should be
removed. Next put in short reach or
a piece of scantling which will extend
back about one foot. Bore three-quar-
ter inch hole near the end of this and
pin 1t to goose neck. Next lay the
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30
FARM AND GARDEN.
vEnr,LATlNc DAIRY BARNS.


Fresh Air a Necessity, and One Way OF
Obtaining 1t.
In order to produce pure article all
of the ingredients must be pure and
the processes of change they undergo
must, says the Orange Judd Farmer,
be free from foreign influences. In
seeing that the water and food are
pure, the stalls we'll cleaned and
bedded and the animals kept warm,
one very important consideration is apt
to be overwhelmingly, pure air.
Where the atmosphere is not kept
pure the effect upon the system soon
asserts itself in one way or another;
the milk may not show it directly at
first, bat the quality of the products Is
liable to be influenced. When this is
the case 1t is generally good plan to
look well to the ventilation of the
barn and increase it according to cir
cumstances.
A too common way is to leave open the
hay shoot; but this spoils the hay for a
considerable distance on all sides, be-
sides generally giving either too much
or too little circulation. The best plan
is not to postpone this matter until cold
weather approaches. but to look it up at
once and make such alterations as are
necessary, as time permits-a splendid
job for rainy days. In the accompany
ing illustration the principle is shown
to good advantage, which may of course
be varied as circumstances require. The
ventilator leading to the cupola is six
by eight inches with regulator at the
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control.
When this is not practicable the open
ing may be made in the wall at the up
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30
Plan For SILO.

are placed inside; they can be either
halved together or simply placed with
ends butting up to each corner. On the
tops of these sills are spiked in regu-
lar courses six-inch wide plank two
and one-half inches thick, one-half the
ends of one course projecting over the
course next below it, as appears in the
foregoing sketch. This building up is
continued until the desired height is
reached; in ours it was carried up twenty
feet from the bottom of sill to top of last
course, on which the rafters are placed
and all rooted in.
To build on this plan requires little
more lumber than to erect a balloon
frame, and plank both the outside and
inside of the same. But no frame build
ing can be put together that will resist
the pressure of inclosed contents, and
be as easily made air-tight as one built
after this plan. Witness the immense
grain elevators that stand throughout
the Northwest, some of them holding
their millions of bushels of grain in
bins located away up hundred feet
from the bottom of their walls, which
are built up with inch boards placed fiat
sides together, one above the other.
The silo walls are lined on the inside
with tarred paper, over which one-inch
boards placed perpendicularly are
nailed, making perfectly air-tight wall.
If the builder had any fears of frost en-
tering such wall, after taclsing on the
building-paper let him nail on inch
strips to which to nail the inside boards.
Do the farmers of the South know the
value of sorghum as fodder plant for
nearly all stock? Has any grower found
out that it can be cut twice, and possi-
bly, thrice, in season? If the tame
grasses do not thrive in this warm cli-
mate, here is a plant that will, together
with little bran and corn meal, furnish
a suitable ration, and more of it than
any other with which / am familior. 1t
can be cut twice (that we know, and
used in it's green state; it can be sliced,
and will furnish an excellent ration for
milch COWS during the winter and early
spring months. Feed it to young horses
once day; hogs thrive on it, and sheep
love il dearly.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

A Wonderfully Made Fish.

One of the most wonderful of fishes is
the one bearing the name of chiasmodon
niger, or the great swallower. The body
is elongated, of nearly uniform thick
ness most of the length of the fish. The
jaws are very long and fitted with sharp
teeth, some of which seem to be reversi-
BILE. The manner of feeding is to grasp
fish by the tail and proceed to climb
over it with his jaws. AS the captive is
taken in, the stomach and integument
stretch out; the distended belly appears
as great bag. The fish will swallow
another one six or twelve times his own
size. This rapacity proves his own de-
struction sometimes, as the gas formed
in the process of digestion makes bal
loon of his stomach that brings the fish
to the surface. AS his habitat is sup
posed to be 1, 800 feet below the surface,
this is the only way he came to be in
troduced to the public through the three
specimens now on exhibition in muse
I'M s.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30
FARM HINTS.

THE leaves of corn fodder, If good, sup
ply an excellent change of diet for sheep
Western Rural.
IT will pay to grind grain for stock
The digestive machinery does its work
more efficiently with meal than with
whole grain.-Western Rural.
II will not require near the feed for a
sheltered animal that it will for one that
has to stand out all winter and buffet
the pitiless storms, and shelter is less
expensive than feed, for once prepared
you have it for term of years.
THE farmer and his family can arrange
systematic course of study for the win
ter. Study and discuss what you find in
your farm paper. Select certain books
to read and discuss. Such course will
not only be useful, but it will become
very entertaining.
If the food is diminished and animals
become poor the amount of food re-
quired to get them in good condition
will be greater than the amount of food
served in an attempt to economize. Keep
the stock always in the best condition,
and the cost of maintenance will be les
sened.
1T is not necessary that playhouse
should not freeze, but it is necessary
that the air should be free from damp
ness and the chilliness which is con-
nected with a cellar or warm, damp
place. Hogs are very susceptible to
colds, both inward and outward, and to
rheumatism.
THE Mirror and Farmer calls atten-
tion to the fact that geese can do
good work on any location over
run with weeds, when the weeds are
young. Many kinds of young weeds are
preferred to grass by geese, and espe-
cially plantain and purslane. Geese go
right down to the roots for the plants,
and effectually keep them down if the
flock is large one.
The amount of honey to expect from
a hive can not be estimated by the num-
Der of bees in the colony, but upon the
advantages possessed by the bees for
working. During long spells of wet
weather the bees can do no work, nor
can they fill the combs unless they have
ample opportunity upon which to work.
There must be bloom of some kind or
there will be but little honey.
IT is an easy matter to farm profitably
on rich soil, ample capital and with all
the necessary appliances, but the farmer
who expects TO succeed with limited ia
cilities will find it Improbable to ad-
here too rigidly to customs of the past.
1t is essential that the farmer advance
carefully but no farmer can expect to
obtain the full benefit of his labor un-
less he is willing to accept the results
of experiments, and to endeavor to i'm
prove his opportunities.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30
A Weekly Magazine

is really what THE YoUTH's COMPANION is
1t publishes each year as much matter as
the four-dollar monthlies, and is illustrated
by the same artists. 1t is an educator in
every home, and always an entertaining
and wholesome companion. 1t has unique
place in American family life. If you do
not know it, you will be surprised to see
of s1.75 year. The price sent now will en-
title you to the paper to January, 1891. Ad-
dress, THE YoUTH's COMPANION, Boston,
Mass
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30
PLAN FOR slLo.
Directions for Constructing It-valus Of
Sorghum.

DhoOeio"o 'Or COuStructtng lb-NHtuo Vh
Sorghum.
Let me give you the plan of silo, says
writer in the Country Gentleman,
which we have recently built, and as team
be followed with ease by any one, even
those not skilled in carpenter work, 1t
may be suited to the wants Of large
class of farmers who have not the neces-
sary mechanical skill, or the ready
money to hire carpenter to lay out,
frame and erect wooden building suit
able for the desired purpose. The site
chosen for the silo is on hillside close
by one on which we shall build row of
stables where we will feed and house
our herd of Holstein cattle the coming
winter.
An excavation 22x22 feet and four feet
deep on the side next to the bank was
first made. A ditch in which were laid
three-inch tile was then dug close to
bank on three sides, thus insuring dry
bottom-the slope of bank being such,
that on the fourth side the grade of bot
tom runs out level with top of ground.
The sills (sx10 sticks twenty feet long)
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30
South AmerIea,s LlyIng Lanterns.

south American fire-fies have been
called living diamonds. In the same
part of the world is also found pale
gray or particularly disagreeable look
ing moth which may be called a living
lantern. Kept inclosed in a box for
twenty-four hours, it will be found when
the box is opened that the body of the
moth is giving forth sufficient light to
enable one to read plainly any ordinary
type. A number of glass-fronted boxes
containing these moths--Futgarfa can
fernarid, naturalists call them when
placed around room afford nearly a.
much light aB 30 many wax candlei.-
American Agriculturist
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30
Progress.

1t is very important in this age of vast
material progress that remedy be pleas
taken, acceptable to the stomach and
healthy in its nature and effects. Possess
ing these qualities, Syrup of Figs is the one
perfect laxative and most gentle diuretic
I'm
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30
Consumption Surely Cured.

To THE ToR:-Please inform your
readers that have a positive remedy for
the above named disease By its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured. / shall be glad to send
two bottles of my remedy FREE TO any of
your readers who have consumption if they
will send me their express and post-office
address. Respectfully, I. A. SLocUM, NJ. c.,
ISL Pearl street, New York.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30
Living on Bread and Milk.

You never will find in all your travels
a character more unique or interesting
than the subject of this sketch, DIR. Isaac
Bartlett, of Hope, Me. n y Here
is man who has nearly lived his three
score years and ten, medical doctor,
too, on one particular diet, namely,
bread and milk, not perhaps from any
particular virtue in his own right, but
more properly speaking because he
was born with liking for bread
and milk, and taste, or appetite,
with slight exceptions, for no other kind
of food; man who has never eaten an
ounce of meat in all his life, who has
never taken a teaspoonful ofintoXicatinq
liquors of any kind, who has never used
tobacco, tea or coffee, except in the case
of coffee once or twice, but very weak,
and man, too, who is hale and hearty,
bright and active for man of his age,
ard who tips the beam at 240 pounds.
Camden (Me.) Cor. Boston Globe.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30
CATARRH.
Catarrhal Deafness-Hay Fever-A New
Home Treatment.

Sufferers are not generally aware that
these diseases are contagious, or that they
are due to the presence of living parasites
in the lining membrane of the nose and
eustachian tubes. Microscopic research,
however, has proved this to be a fact, and
the result of this discovery is that n simple
remedy has been formulated whereby
Catarrh, Hay Fever and Catarrhal Deafness
are permanently cured in from one to three
simple applications made at home by the
patient once in two weeks.
N B.-lThis treatment is not o snuff or an
ointment; both have been discarded by
reputable physicians as injurious, A pamph-
let explaining this new treatment Is sent on
receipt of three cents in stamps to pay
postage by A. II. Dixon & Son, cor. of John
and King Street, Toronto, Canada.-Chrts-
tidn Advocate.
Sufferers from Catarrhal troubles should
raraf,,ll,, rood ha oh
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

PLAN FOR vENTILATING DAIRY BARN.
per part of the stall, or in any conven-
lent place, where the desired effect will be
obtained. The plan of running it up
to the roof as indicated is very eco
nomical one and is being practiced more
every year. 1t creates constant draft
OF air, and when properly built can be
regulated to perfection, keeping the air
as pure as possible, and at the same time
not causing cold draft to strike the
animals, as is too often the case when
the openings are made down lower.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

MUST not be confounded with common cath
artic or purgative pills. Carter's Little Liv-
er Pills are entirely unlike them in every re-
spect. One trial will prove their superiority.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

If euery ,coman in this land knew for her.
self the actual quality of Dobbns' Electric
Millions do use 1t, but millions have never
tried it. Have UouF ASK your grocer for it.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

A BUSINESS engagement-Securin the
matrimonial promise of an heiress
chant Traveller.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

SOME of the compound Kalamazoo Greek
names suggested for the killing of murder
ers by electricity are more terrifying than
the thing itself Hartford Courant.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

If afflicted with Sore Eyes use Dr. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it, 25c
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

A 10c. CIGAR in quality, but only Be. ci
gar in price is "Tansill's Punch. "
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

DON'T heap Goals of fire upon your en-
emy's head. Remember that coal is six
dollars per ton. Economy is wealth.-Troy
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

THOSE who wish to practice economy
should buy Carter's Little Liver Pills.
Forty pills in vial; only one pill a dose.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

WHEN train is telescoped the passengers
are apt TO see stars.--Baltimore American.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

--"Do you happen to have cigarette
about youY said one travelling man to
another. "No, but my brother has six
shooter that he will doubtless loan you,
there's dynamite factory just out OF
the city limits, and drug store where
you can buy arsenic just round the cor
ner. Maybe you can find something
that would do just as well. Merchant
Traveller.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

GOVERNOR DTLLINGHAM, of Vermont, re-
Gently earned S2.25 by appearing as wit
ness in local lawsuit.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

Far more than the beauty OF yore.
But this beauty is seen too rarely. The
faces of most women lose the beauty of
youth too soon. Female disorders are like
frosts which come to nip the flowers which
betoken good health, without which there
can be no real beauty. If our American
the approach of the terrible disorders so
prevalent among them, by using DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription, their good
looks would be retained to "sweet old
age" This remedy is guaranteed cure for
all the distressing weaknesses and derange-
ments peculiar to women.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

THE Public Awards the Palm to Hale's
Honey of Horehound and Tar for coughs.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

IT takes us half our lives to learn that
mankind are fools; and the other half to be
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

For BRONCHIAL, Asthmatic and Pulmo
nary Complaints, "BrOpn' Bronchial
Iroches'' have remarkable curative proper
ties. Sold only in boreS.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

IT'S odd that the word "trust' should of
itself be enough to excite suspicion.-Wash-
ington Capital
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

ONE would think that jailer would be in
pain all the time with so many felons on his
hands.-Kcarney Enterprise.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

BEST, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. BY druggists. 25c.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

A SYNDICATE of cattlemen has perfec
right to water its stock.-Rochester Post
Express.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

WEEDS are not worn by widows,
because grass-widows are not so for lawn
as they ought to ben. Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

1T is estimated that the Paris Exposition
this year has caused nearly $50. .0o0,OOO OF
American money to be dropped in Europe
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

THE man who wears his heart on his
sleeve does not do it in order to beat his way
in life.-Kearney Enterprise.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers.
Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant
crops. Best fruit, grain, grass, stock country
IN the world. Full information free. Address
Oregon Immigration Board, Portland, Oregon
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

WHEN money is said to be close it is real
ly far away. This is authentic.-On City
Blizzard.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

DR.. Pierce's Pellets, one a dose. Cure
headache, constipation and indigestion.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

UPWARD of twenty-eight large bales of
human hair were brought to France in q
steamer that arrived the other day from the
Orient
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-30

Sufferers from Catarrhal troubles should
carefully read the above