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, 1889-08-23
STRUCK THE RIGHT SPOT

The best quality of cod liver oil comes
from Norway. 1t is much clearer and
whittier than the American oil. 1t is put
up in tin casks holding thirty gallons
each, inclosed in wooden barrels. The
claim is made that no livers except those
of the Goldfish are used in its anu
f~acture, but American manufacturers
strongly suspect that it owes its remark
able clearness to its having been mixed
with seal oil. Twenty dollars per gal
lon is considered a low price for this oil,
and it sometimes goes a high as S2s.
America is the largest buyer of Norwe-
gian oil.
Newfoundland cod liver oil ranks next
to the Norwegian oil. 1t is made en-
tirely of the livers of young cod caught
off the Labrador coast. Portland has a
cod liver oil factory that produces 500
barrels a year-300 barrels of refined oil
for medicinal purposes and 200 barrels
of Curriers' OIL"
Cod liver oil has long been recognized
as a valuable remedial agent, but it is
not generally known hat sometimes
when the oil fails to effect a cure the
steam arising from the trying out vat
will succeed.
A consumptive here, in almost the last
stages of the disease, happening to pass
through a cod liver oil factory, stopped,
inhaled large draughts of the usually
offensive vapors as though they were
the sweets of a flower garden, remark
ing: There is something here that seems
to strike the right spot" and, although
a wealthy man, obtained permission to
work in the factory. At the end of a
month he had gained thirty pounds, had
greatly improved in appearance and
feeling, his appetite had returned, his
cough was gone, and finally he COM
pletely recovered. Singers also some
times resort to cod liver oil factories to
inhale the fumes arising from the watts.
They assert that their voices are there
by strengthened and cleared.-Portland
(Me.) Letter.
, 1889-08-23

All kinds Of Job Printing neatly and
promptly executed at the leader office.
, 1889-08-23

The estate of the late Simon Cam.
eron is valued at 81, zoo, 900.
, 1889-08-23

Courtesy of Hyo. Archives & Hist
, 1889-08-23

Job Printing at the Leaaer office.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-05-18

selves. On Tuesday evenings special service is
held in this room and is conducted by the various
ministers of the city, who are interested in this
philanthropy. large cottage organ in the library
and a handsome square piano in the paror minis
tiers to the musical tastes of the inmates
A girl desiring to enter the home must be over
IA years DID, must be employed OR seeking en-
ployment, and must, when possible, give written
testimonial of character. Her application, which
may be made to the matron or through some mem
Der of the board of managers, is considered by
the admission committee, and she may be dis
missed by the same committee if it be found that
her conduct or influence be prejudical to the best
interests of the home In certain cases where
girls are known to be worthy, board is furnished
for limited time free of cost, or the amount is
credited to her until such time as she may be able
to pay the debt out of her earnings.
Through the last annual report we learned that
the amount of charity work for the year foots up
over $780, There are clerks, nurses, stenog-
raphers, music teachers, school teachers, kinder
garten teachers, students, dressmakers, miliners,
seamstresses, telephone operatives, canvassers,
dentists and bookkeepers here finding home.
Many women coming to the city on business or
for short stay make this their stopping place, and
in spring and fall the home is always crowded,
while many are turned away The ladies hope
soon to enlarge their building sufficiently to enable
them to accommodate 100.
The association publishes monthly sprightly,
newsy little paper called "The Home Record"
through which the public is kept informed of its
various branches of work including the home.
We hope the Record is an exchange of The CHRoN-
ICLE. f. l..
ST. Louis, May 49, 1885,
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-05-18
Woman's Christian Home of st. Louis.

Woman'S Christian Home of st. Louis.
EDITOR OF WoMAN's CHRONICLE: Since coming
to this great city the writer had 50 often heard of
the Woman's Christian Home, that | determined
to visit the institution and gather such facts con-
corning it as might be interesting and instructive,
not only to myself, but possibly to some Arkansas
sisters, for have in mind a day. not so very far
in the future, when those Chritan homes shall be
found in every American city of any considerable
size. Visionary, do l hear you say? We shall
see The term emancipation of woman has
higher and holier significance than many of us
have been wont to ascribe to it. Who shall tell
the possibilities of an awakened and redeemed
womanhood?
Taking the Washington avenue street car we
soon found ourselves at 1914 on that street, the
address of the home, large threcstory brick with
basement built in 1876 Being admitted we were
conducted into pleasant office adjoining the Ii
brary, the folding doors of which were open, re-
vealing the plain but home-like arrangements of
the room. We were kindly received by the NATION
who has served the association in her present ca
pacity the space of three years, and were by her
conducted over the principal parts of the building.
Just now the home comfortably accommodates
eighty three and is nearly always full though the
number for that day was seventy -two, some having
just departed Board is furnished at from So 25 to
So per week. All fale alike at the table, which is
good one, the difference in price being in size,
location and appointments of the ROOM The
pretty parlors furnished by the Second Presby-
terrain and Pilgrim Congregational churches. Sev-
eral of the churches have endowed rooms, the
cosiest of all we thought to be that of st. Johns
M. Il. Church, South. The guest chamber is sus-
tanned by the Second Baptist, and will be soon re-
furnished throughout All the bedrooms are car
peted and the appointments comfortable; conve-
nient bathrooms and closets are located on each
floor, and the arrangements so far as examined,
such as are conducive to real home comfort with
out any attempt at uxuriousness.
AS suggested by its name, the object of this
home is to provide for industrial girls such shelter
as shall offer the protection and restraining nHu
ence of well regulated home; and how much this
home is appreciated was proved in one instance of
teacher, whose room we were shown, who had
boarded in the home for twelve years.
The library contains about 400 volumes and is
well patronized by the inmates. Here, every night,
the matron gathers her large family for evening
worship, to which all are affectonatey invited and
from which, we were told, few absented them
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-05-18
CLIMPsEs OF NATURE AND WOMEN,
AS They Appear From the Tops of the Him
alayas to a Tourist Correspondent
of the PoSt-Dispatch.

The plains of India send up moisture TO the
Himalayas which gives them thousand clouds
where the Alps have one, and here you see clouds
of all kinds and shapes chasing each other over the
hills below you. You see them crawling up the
steep sides of the valleys and climbing to your
very feet when they envclop you and for ten min
utes the mist is so thick that you can not see the
horse on which you are riding. moment later
the cloud has passed and it floats onward toward
the SHOWS above. AT times there are clouds above
and below you. You see
GHOSTLY MASSES
of vapor resting in little hollows in the sides of the
mountains as though they had squatted down there
for siesta.
In the morning the sun gilds them so that they
are masses of fire and at night the amorous moon
throws her bright tropical rays around them. The
cloud effects and the snow effects of the Himaaya
mountains are indescrbably grand. They are
different from anything have seen in travels of
hundreds of miles through the Alps and they are
in many respects more interesting.
Man here is fully as interesting as nature, and
we have servants and guides who are more like the
people of Thbet than India There is no seclu-
sion of women here and great strappng girls
dressed in the gaudest of colors 90 about with flat
plates of gold hanging to their ears, each of -rhch
is as big as trade dollar. They have gold on
their ankles and bracelets of silver running all the
way from their wrists to their elbows. Their COM
pexions, originally as yellow as those of the China
men, are bronzed by the crisp mountain air until
they have now the rich copper Of the American
Indian. Both men and women look not unlike our
Indians. They have the same high cheek bones,
the same semi-Aat noses and long, straight, black
hair If you will take the prettiest squaw you
have ever seen you may have a fair type of the
mountains She wears two pounds of jewelry to
the ounce of the sqUaw, however, and her eyes are
brighter, and she is far more intelligent. She works
just as hard and the woman of the IIlmalayas does
much of the work of the mountains. Isee women
digging in the fields, working on the roads, and
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-05-18

A 9ommon-p place young girl;
A decidedly,rare young girl;
Stay at home night,
Do. what is right,
Help her old mother young girl.
A hard find young girl;
A reader of-fact young girl;
An extra poetical,
Anti 9sthetical,
Care nothing for novels young girl.
A minus her rouge young girl;
A show all,her-brains young girl;
With an unpowdered face,
One that don't lace,
A dress for her health young girl.
An up-in the morning young girl;
A help with the wash young girl;
One that can rub,
Not afraid of the tub,
A roll-up yourselves young girl.
A quiet and modest young girl;
A sweet and pure young girl;
An upright, ambitious,
Lovely, delicious,
A pride. of the home young girl.
A remarkably scarce young girl;
A very much wanted young girl;
A truly American,
Too-utter paragon,
The kind that.I,like young girl.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-05-18

Men are strange creatures They will spend an
hour hunting collar button instead of having an
extra supply and letting their wife find the missing
one. You never see woman look for a pin she
drops. Her husband finds it when he walks
around in his bare feet Wichita Republic.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-05-18
AN IDEAL YOUNG, GIRL.

THE following verses although not new will bear repeat
ing,-ED.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-05-18

Wormley--Iye at last discover the answer to
the question; 81 marriage failure" Wife
Have you, my dear? Why, that's very interesting.
Wormey When it takes place it's failure, and
when it doesn't, it's a success Epoch.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-02
LET Her Go, Gallagher :"

Here is another version of the origin OF
the expression, Let her go, Gallagher,
from Montgomery, Ala: Squire Ben
Screws is the genial and big-hearted magis-
trate of the city OF Montgomery. a CO!
ored lady having indulged in very much
'inhamed language toward another OF an
equally night shade of complexion, the
aggrieved one had her arrested and ar.
raigned for trial before the squire. one OF
the numerous witnesses was very severe IN
ner testimony against the accused, saying,
among other things, that tn; she used tax
no lady can 'spress This so aggravated
tie defendant that she went for the wit
ness regardless of Surroundings. Tom
G ala CHER, the Squires bailiff, tried to stop
the wool. pulling that ensued, and caught
hold of the defendants: arm, when the
Squire, who likes 10 see fair play, and
withal enjoys a good thing, shouted: Let
l.cr go. Gallagher. This became current
81 ring here, and ir time has become a cant
p:irase throughout the country. .'-Allwau-
h; e Journal
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-02
Something About Dyspepsia.

Chronic dyspepsia is a functional, not
an organic, disorder. If the eye could
look within the stomach, in the latter
case, it would see no explanation of the
trouble, as in the case of organic diseases.
At least five kinds of fluids cooperate
II the digestive -1,raae-s-so1iEa,-s -ssaat4;o
juice. bile. pancreatic fluid and intestinal
secretions. Indigestion, therefore, does
not necessarily have its seat in the
stomach.
Two forms of it are specially recognized
gastric that Of the stomach) and in
testinal. Each form has two prominent
varieties: one in which the food is really
diGested, while the person has a great
sense of discomfort; the other, in which
the food is not duly digested, while the
person has comparatively little suffering.
In the FIRST variety there is an abnormal
excitability of the nerves Of sensation.
This is known as nervous dyspepsia.
The more common causes of dyspepsia
arc excesses in eating, neglect of physical
exercise, protracted anxiety, change from
an active to sedentary life, insufficient
sleep, luxurious living. .
No treatment can here be described
suited to individual cases. The chief
thing is to find out and remove the cause.
An overworked stomach should be re-
lievcd By giving it only the work which
it can Go easily, and by furnishing to it
only that which is easily digested.
Everything should be done to improve
the general health. Change Of locality
and general surroundings is often help.
Youths Companion.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-02
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
= BATCH OF USEFUL AGRICULTURAL
INFORMATION.

The Season for Making Manure--The
Farmers Best Bank is His Manure
Bank--Rome-1iade Manure.
(From the Southern Plahter.)
Now is the time for farmers to be
active and vigilant in their efforts to
secure good supply OF those msnures
for the use on the next years crops.
The order in which they may be
classed in respect to quantity may be
stated as follows: Farmyard, stable,
hogpen, ashbanks and house slops and
poultry house. If properly handled,
their merit in respect to fertilizins
properties will be reversed in the order
1amed. This is intended as mere sug-
gestive note, and we hope will be ac-
cepted as such. The subject is one OF
such importance that an attempt to
elaborate 1t would require more capacity
than we claim and more space than we
can now command. We may, however,
venture to impress these few facts:
Manure will compensate farmer for
all the labor and care he may devote to
its accumulation. The manure bank, as
has been quantity said, is the farmers
bank, and pays the best dividends. Ali
manure, as far as possible, should be
kept under shelter; as the piles are
added to by the changing of the stall
and pens, plaster ought to be used freely
to fix the nitrogen which is generated
by fermentation; dry bedding of straw,
leaves or other available materials ID
ample quantity should be supplied to
the animals and removed to the manure
pile as soon as it becomes foul; COM
posting with wood mould, scrapings
from fence corners, or swamp-muck, in
stead of simply piling. will increase bulk
and hold all the gasses and Suices Of the
animal deposits which have valuable
fert,lizing properties, and in this process
also plaster should be literally used:
hen manure especially should be kept
dry, and to insure this, the house ought to
have dry and hard clay hoor-a plank
one would be better-and the drop
pings snovelled or swept with a stlti
broom into corner every few days and
plaster sprinkled llberaliy over the pile
with eacn addition thereto; an ash bed
is necessity where all ashes on the
premises are to be deposited, as well a.
house and kitchen sweepings, bones and
slops, and TO furnish sufficient supply OF
absorbent material, it will be well to ado
Load or two Of occasionally. A meth.
odlcal system in all these respects vii!
astonisA farmer as to how much and
how valuable bis manures will be.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-02
Fattening Eogs.
lFron the swine Breeder.) }

The process Of converting grain into
pork by means of machine called hog
is by no means a difficult one. provided
tie machine is kept il running order.
1t is folly to suppose and expect that a
hog cau convert any and all kinds OF
food into pork. 1t is necessary that, If
we want porS, we must feed those foods
that will produce flesh and fat. When
hogs arrive at the proper age for fatten-
ing, see that every one is IN healthy
condition and is thriving. The system
must be in perfect order that the food
1lav not be wasted. Don'E throw in e
wagon load OF corn, reminding Eour
hogs that it i. ali they will get for a
week, but gradually and Systematically
work them up to ''Gull feea." Do not
change the diet too suddenly, and espe-
c;aily use care in changing from green
to solid food. Adopt regular hours for
feeding, and the animals will learn to
expect it about that time every DAY.
With old hogs, food twice a day is often
enough, but wish young shoats l would
advise feeding three times a day, as by
only feeding twice they overload their
stomach. The fooo should always be
gwen in a clean, wholesome condition,
and never allowed to sour. The barrels
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-02
4 Eroker,s First Er;cht.

81 have frequently been caught short
on the market and seen myself within an
ace of being ruined" said New street
broker to a reporter: '.but 1 was really
scared only once in my life. and that was
during my first day in the street. Ny
father got me place ilIthe Office of an
old friend of his, where l enjoyed the
full confidence of my employer. had
been working only few hours when he
handed me ten crisp 500 bills and told
me to deposit them in an uptown bank.
I-put the bills in my coat pocket until |
had finished writing up my books and
then took car going up town. When
I entered the bank and put my hand
il my pocket the bills were gone.
| can't describe my feelings, for
the simple reason that hadn't
any. l felt myself turned to stone.
Bc,h in mind and body I was stupefed.
When l had collected myself a little I
went out of the bank with the expressed
intention Of throwing myself into the
river. / knew not where went or what
l WAS doing, but found that I had re-
turned to the Office.
The broker was out when l got back.
was too numb to be agitated, and no
one noticed there was anything the mat
ter with lie as put on my Office coat
and began poring over the set of books.
1t was not until I saw the broker coming
in the door that I began to fully realize
my position. I ran my hand wildly
through my hair in a vain attempt to
calm myself, and then absent mindedly
put it in my pocket. The first thing I
felt was the roll of bills. had changed
my coat and forgotten all about it. The
broker chided me for not going to the
bank, but he never knew why the money
WASH deposited untu ta.~ -~~t dav. .
New York Evening Sun,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-02

or vats in which thefood is mixed should
be cleaned after each feeding, and all
surplus food removed. The main OBJ
ject should be to keep your hogs with
good healthful appetites. Hogs fatten
best when not disturbed or excited.
Never allow your pigs to run with the
fattening hogs, as their running about
excites the older ones. The important
thing now is to promote idleness and
sleep l will urge systematic course
in feeding, using cooked or steamed
foods, and having the greatest variety Of
foods. There is no doubt that hos s csn
be fattened quicker and With less food if
provided with good warm houses and the
food given in troughs. Use libcrally OF
salt AID wood ashes, cinderS, refuse coal,
Stacked lime, brimstoDe and charcoal
about once week, each in small quanti-
ties. Above all things see that your
hogs have unfailing appet;tss and are in
good condition physically.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-02
Breeding for Sex.

Mr.. G. T. Rankin, of Linesville,
Penn, thus expresses himself in the Jer-
sey Bulletin on this vexed question:
"My theory is that every other ovum
dropped by the cow is OF opposite SIX.
If the last calf was bull, the first oVum
deposited, if impregnated, will be a
heifer; and quite frequently the COW will
receive service at from nine to twelve
days after calving, but will show no
signs Of being in heat. Sometimes COWS
are in heat when in calf, and al these
things must be considered, as an ovum
is deposited every time a cow is in heat.
I know by quite an experience that when
the theory IS properly observed VIC can
breed sex at will"
Mr.. Sanders Spencer, in lengthy
paper read before the Institute of Agri-
culture of London, England, fully dis
cusses the influencing of the sex Of of
spring." and We transfer to the Guilt
vator two paragraphs from his interest
ing essay:
The system OF attempting to regulate
the sex by mating the female with the
male as soon as the state Of heat COM
mences, with the view to the production
of female, and at later period for pro-
ducing male, has large number OF
adhererts. Many apparently most care
fully conducted trials have been given in
the American agricultural papers, while
some few of our own courtrymen have
given us the result of their experiments.
Mr. John Slater, of Cordell Hall, relst S
in prize essay, written by him In 1871,
that in herd of twenty COWS he had for
the last seven years been able to obtain
a heifer or bull calf as desired, except
With Attorney COWS. The reason Of the
failure with these he stated to be that
they "were timid and afraid of big
bull" Che used shorthorn), $50 that be
could not be sure of detecting when they
first came into season.
In proc of this system q very inter
estiDg report was written by a NJ. 6.
Couraz, in which he states that il twen-
ty-two successive cases he eDdeavored to
obtain heller calves from Swiss COWS BY
shor.horn bull, and in every cese he
obtaiustl the sex desired. He afterwards
bought pure bred Southern cow, and
vas anxicus to breed from her bull
calf; this time the COW was served at the
latter period of the heat and bull calf
was the result Nj. Couraz also tried to
breed six half-bred calves for conversion
into working oxen aud was successful;
in fact, had no failures. I could give
several other similar cases..
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-02
Color in Drcs; il, New York.

When we come to the question Of color
in dress, as i: appears relatively to the
decorative tendencies of the New York
street. we must look for its handspring.
in scclc degree, to American social con-
ditions. American women, as rule,
make more display Of magnificence in
the street than the women of any other
nation. To them the street means a
show. parade. in which they play an
important part. In adopting the modern
English aesthetic idea of color in dress,
American woGlen have applied it exten-
brilliant reds in street gowns and hats
having spread throughout Europe IS
no~y natioaalized on American soil, and
adds cheerfulness to life and landscape.
The approaching change in the costumes
of men Is likely to result in a freer use
of color. The English movement against
the monotony of male attire is finding
followers in this country, and already
many men are beginning to appear IN
public in colors that were until recently
tabooed. Art Review.