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pounds of honey or syrup November 1st,
per colony, to pass the winter in safety.
The more fine days in winter that bees
will fly the more stores they will con-
sumo. Protection of any kind has q
tendency to lessen the consumption OF
food.
Mr.. P. A. Larsen, of Norway, recon-
mends as preventive of ants, the use OF
the intestines of fish. He puts some OF
it into the nest, and insists that the ants
always leave if this remedy is used once
or twice. Another gentleman, Mr. c:
Omberg, recommends the use OF
powdered lime. He puts some of it
around the hives with the same good
effect
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Death of nm Improyident Freak.

General Tom Pounce," a dwarf
known in connection with Tom Thumb
all over the world. has died in poverty
on Green street. in Cleveland, Ohio.
He was only trife larger than Tom
Thumb. He was brought here from
Saxe-Welmar BY his parents in 1872,
when scarcelya year old, and from the
first was exhibited as an infan,ie
curiosity. He had earned more than
500, 900 in his life, but spent it freely,
and ceasing to be an attraction after the
loss of his health, came here four years
ago to live with his brother. Two years
ago the brother died and the dwarf in
vested all he possessed in little cigar
store. He had no business capacity,
however, and was nearly starving when,
three weeks ago, John Widmann took
him and cared for him until he died.
All the goods poor Pounce possessed
were q small diamond ring and gold
watch. He had saved them in order to
have enough to pay for decent burial.
He was inferred in a child's coffin.
clothed in the dress suitin which housed
to appear on the stage. HIS name was
Ernest Geyer- Chicago Herald.
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Cleansing Feathers.

Where feathers need deodorizing, it is
best to have it done by persons who
make feather-renovating business and
have the appliances for doing it in the
best manner, which families have not:
This is done by steaming, and afterward
drying and sitting out the dirt and
broken particles, so that the feathers are
not only deodorized but are livened up
in such manner as to appear almost as
good as new. New feathers need TO
treatment except drying sufficiently to
take out the moisture they contain after
being plucked from the geese. Owing
to their extreme lightness they can rarely
be spread out, but should be dried in a
closed room where if possible, the sun
can shine on them through the windows,
or in thin sacks to prevent them from
flying about Wien laid on scaffold out
of doors in the sun. Feather beds and
pillows should be thoroughly aired and
exposed to the sun quite often, and If
properly cared for will last long time
without any necessity Tor sending them
to q renovator. York World.
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Points in Butter-Makinr.

In every 100 pounds of milk. besides
eighty-siX or eighty seven pounds of
weter, there are four pounds of sugar
and four pounds of cheesy matter in
which there arc An enormous number of
small round globules which contain the
butter fat. Such fluid is particularly
liable to lerment and decompose. Conse-
ouently the whole system of butter
making must be directed to keeping the
globules in a state of the utmost purity,
otherwise the butter will not be pure or
likely TO keep. Cleanliness and pure
sir in the stables are indispensable, also
pure water and proper food.
Neither roots, linseed cake, cotton
cake or grain should be given in too
large quantities to cows whose milk is to
be made into butter. The quantity of
food supplied should be regulated some
what BY the quantity of milk received.
In other words, the cow that gave the
smallest quantity should not be fed as
literally as the one that produced
considerably more. : The dairy.room
should be free from the slightest smell.
The cows should lie kept comfortable
and not be annoyed by dogs or driven
rapidly, or forced 10 walk long distances.
The utmost cleanliness in milking should
be observed. shallow pans were the
most common for setting, but in winter
deep setting was better. For large
quantities the mechanical separator pro-
duced the best results. The process of
ripening the cream should stop short of
souring. Butter colorcd with carrots
could not be expected to keep. From
forty to fifty revolutions per minute in
the churn ale enough. The buttermilk
should be run through strainer, and
pure cold water poured into the churn.
The utter should be taken out with 8
wooden scoop and not with the hands.
In working and sailing the grain Of the
butter should not be broken.-Ne~ Hurd
World.
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Paste That Will Keep.

How to prevent paste from turning
sour is a question often asked. The fol-
lowing method will make paste that
will last year. Dissolve teaspoon of
alum in q quart of water; when cold stir
in as much flour as will give it the con-
sistency of thick cream; stir until all
the Jumps are moved; add as much
powdered resin as will lie on dime,
and half dozen cloves. Have ready q
teacup of boiling water, pour the flour
mixture into it, stirring we'll at the time.
In very few minutes it will be of the
consistency of mush; let it cool; cover it
and setin a cool place; when needed for
use take out portion and soften it with
warm water.-Det70,t Free Press.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Exterminates Cockroaches.

A housekeeper who was recommended
to try cucumber peel as q remedy for
cockroaches, strewed the floor with
pieces of the peel, cut not very thin, and
watched the sequel. The pest covered
the peel within short time so that it
could not be seen, so voraciously were
they engaged in sucking the poisonous
moisture from it. The second night that
this was tried the number of cock
reaches was reduced to quarter, and
none were left alive on the third night.
-Baltimore american.
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Known anil used by Physicians oil over the
world. SCoTT's EMULSION not only gives lesh
and strength by virtue of its pwn nutritious
properties, but creates an appetite, for food
that builds up The wasted body. ~ have been
using Scott's Emulsion for several years, and
am pleased wi h its action. My patients say 1t
is pleasant and palatable and all grow 81 rong-
er and gain flesh from the use Of it. luse it in
all cases of Wasting Diseases, and it IS special
ly useful for children when nutrient medica-
tion is needed. rs in Marasmus."-T w.
PIERCE, MD, Knoxville, Ala.
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who secured from buckwheat or other
fall honey plants enough honey at least
to winter his bees. Last summer l
planted the Japanese buckwheat-half
the field early in June; the remainder
July l. Both parts did equally well. l
had to pay 50 bushel for seed, but am
not sorry did so. The size of berry
ard proliticness of this variety are sur
prising. The bees also worked on the
flowers all day; usually they do not
work on buckwhcat after noon; the
flowers Go not seem to secrete nectar ex-
cept early in the day. 1 expect the
buckwheat cakes from this variety will
be, at least, up to the standard:-Pro-
tessor i. j. Coo:;, in Mw Yvrk 1riJune.
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Tho Excitement Not Over.

The rush on the druggists still continues and
daily scores of people call for bottle OF
Kernp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs for
the cure of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis
and Consumption. Kemp's Balsam, the STAN
dard family remedy,is sold on guarantee and
never fails to give entire satisfaction. Price
5Oc and 81. Trial size free.
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A Novel ImDlement.

A Novel Implement.
It occurred to me last spring that
steel rail would be an efficient implement
to spread manure, and I borrowed one
from the Canada Atlantic Railroad Com
nauy with which to make the expert
ment. The manure, large portion OF 1t
night soil, had been deposited on four
acre field. I hitched two heavy teams TO
the rail, about four feet from each end,
and started them, taking sweep OF
thirty feet each time. 1t worked admira-
bly. The field was level, and after go
ing over it four times with the rail,
which was done more quickly than once
with harrow, had the satisfaction OF
seeing the manure not only evenly
spread, but we'll incorporated with the
surface soil. In half day. with two
men and two teams, I had spread as
much manure rs twenty men could have
done in the same time with forks and
shovels.
In the adjoining field had dug drain
several bundled yards long and filled 1t
twenty inches deep with stone After
having covered the stone with coarse lit
ter. it occurred TO me that could make
the horses fill in the earth with the steel
rail. placed team on each side OF the
ditch and had the rail drawn on an angle.
The clay was thrown in by the raj as
fast as the horses could walk, and in an
hour had covered as much drain as
would have have taken my whole force
full day to do with shovels.
After harvesting my corn last fall Ut
had been cultivated on the ridge system)
decided that would try to level the
ridges and root out the corn stubble be-
fore plowing. The corn had grown SO
strong that the stalks had TO be cut with
a brush scythe, and the stubble was as
thick as stakes. A three. horse team on
each end of the steel rail leveled the
ridges nicely and uprooted and scattered
the corr stubble so thoroughly that the
soil "a stiff, black clay loam) plowed as
| easily as summer fallow.
tried the rail as leveler on rough
field plowed out of grass, found 1t too
! heavy job for four horses and worked
it with two three horse teams, drawing
the raj lengthwise with the burrows. |
hardly expected it to work well, but /
was surprised at the result. After
going over the ground twice with the
furrow and twice on an angle with the
furrow, the rail left the field as level as
billiard table, and packed the sod so
firmly that it is now. three weeks after,
we'll rotted and will cross-p plow as easily
as stubble.
/ kept a summer fallow free from
weeds, destroying a heavy crop of
thistles and couch grass during that
season with one plowlng in June and
one in September. Before I could turn
the plows into it in the spring the weeds
and grass had formed a heavy crop at
least fifteen inches high. They were
turned under by fastening chain to the
plow beam. narrowed the field with
an Acme harrow and then allowed it to
stand until the second crop of weeks be.
gan to show up. 1t was then worked
with the steel rail two or three times
during the summer, and the young
weeds. torn up by the roots, fell back
over the rail and withered in short
time IN the hot sun. The result is 8
thoroughly clean field with the least
possible outlay of time and labor
Rural NeU Yorker.
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Recipes.

RICE CRoouETrEs.-Roll one.half pint
Of rice in a quart Of sweet milk or water
with little salt until soft, add half q
cup of butter, two beaten eggs and 9
little corn-meal, cut any shape desired
and drop into hot lard, or fry with
small quantity of butter OF lard.
GINGER SNAPs.-One pound Of -four,
half a pound of treacle, half a pound OF
sugar, o quarter of pound of butter,
half an ounce ground ginger. sixteen
drops of essence oflemon, half teaspoon
full of soda dissolved in two teaspoonfuls
of hot water. Roll out and cut into
shape.
HoMINY WUFFrNs.-One large cup OF
white -four. two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, two teaspoonfuls salt, mix to.
gcther d,y. Add two cups of cold boiled
hominy beaten smooth, three eggs, one
half cup of melted butter, two table
spoonruls white sugar, and sweet milk
enough to maze thick batter.
ORANGE CAKE.--Two cups OF sugar
and half cup OF butter stirred to q
cream: one cup of sweet milk, three
eggs we'll beaten, three cups of -four,
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Fol
the frosting take the whites of two eggs;
save out enough to frost the top; add to
the rest the Juice and grated rind of an
orange and spread between the layers.
PorATo SALAD.-Cold boiled potatoes
sliced very thin, three hard boiled eggs,
one small onion chopped fine; season
with salt and pepper and pour over
dressing made of the yolk Of one egg
stirred into q half teaspoon made mus
tard and one teaspoon strong vinegar
beat in by drops three tablespoons OF
sweet cream and the white OF one egg
beaten to o froth.
FIG PUDDING. -Three-quarters OF q
pound of grated stale bread, half pound
of best figs. six ounces of suet, SIX
ounces of moist sugar, teacup OF sweet
milk, a little nutmeg. The figs and
suet must be chopped very fine. Mix
the bread and suet first, then the figs,
sugar and nutmeg, one egg well beaten,
and lastly the milk. Boil in mold
four hours; to he eaten with cream and
sugar containing little nutmeg.
SpICED BEEf.-Take from 1our TO SIX
pounds of beef, wash and cut off any
part OF the skin which is not sweet and
clean, pick off all fragments of bone and
cut meat into several pieces; cover with
boiling water; skim carefully as it bolls,
and then simmer until the meat falls to
pieces and the liquor is reduced to half
pint. Remove the meat, season the
liquor highly with salt, pepper, sage ana
thyme; add it to the meat and mix with
fork until the meat is all broken.
Pack in BRICK loaf pan and when cold
cut in slices.
DRIED YEAsT.-Peel six good sized
potatoes and boil till tender; have ready
in stone crock three pints of flour;
while the potatoes are hot rub them
through cnlander into the dry flour ;
boil large handful of hops fifteen min.
utes in three pints of water, strain out
the hops, add the water to the flour and
potatoes, mix we'll and when almost cold
add cold water enough to make it as
thin as bread sponge; have half a pint of
dry yeast soaked soft and stir it in; let
the yeast rise, stirring it down several
times, then add to it three quarts OF
sifted corn meal, mix thoroughly, roll,
cut into cakes and dry quickly.
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. p,d;coI Cure for Epileptic Fits.

To the Editor-Please inform your readers
that have positive remedy for the above
named disease which Warrant to cure the
worst cases. SO strong is my faith in its VIZ;
tues that will send flee sample bottle and
valuable treatise to any sufferer who Will give
me his 2 D. and Express address. EespS
Best, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. soc.
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The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Gas and Oil
Company have struck rich lubricating
oil at depth of 1000 feet, in well dug
twenty miles west of that city.
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To Make a Cow Mother Two Calves

First put blanket IAN old gunny
sack will do on her own calf for n
couple of days; then take her calf away
at night out of her hearing if convenient
and keep it away until morning; then
take the blanket off the calf, and while
warm put it on the strange calf and give
the strange blanketed calf to the cow;
after night of believing she will own 1t
as soon as she sees the blanket and gets one
smell; she is satisfied that she has found
her own. After the COW has had her
new calf few hours trot ont her own
calf with no blanket on, and it is sport
10 see her smell first one calf then the
other. The old COW has now marched
off proudly with her twins" taking
both without any regard to age, size,
color or previous condition.-As~ YOrh
Herald
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN
Board Floors for Pig Pens.

A pigs foot is small in proportion to
its weight. If allowed to trample over
wet ground in its pen, it must inevitably
mire it up worse than other animals.
Some think the pig loves this condition
IF things. He does not, but he cannot
help it. By all means, give piggy. a
board floor over at least part of his
pen, and under cover. This he will keep
scrupulously clean and neat, going out
side in the coolest weather to void liquid
or solid excreta. Very young pigs
quickly learn this habit of neatness.-
american CulticGtW.
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wonderfuI Food and Medicine,

THE St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba
Railway now operates 32SU miles of road.
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RICE CRooUETrEs.-Roll one-half pint
of rice in a quart of sweet milk or water
with little salt until soft, add half q
cup of butter, two beaton eggs and
little corn-meal, cut any shape desired
and drop into hot lard, or fry with
small quantity of butter or lard.
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Cooed Maps Of each State and Territory in the United States
Also Maps Of every Country in the World.

The letter press gives the square miles of each State time of
settlement populaton chief cities temperatures salary
of officials principal posasters in the State number of
FARMS with their productions and the value thereof different
and number of employees etc. etc. Also the area
of each Foreign Country form of population
cpal products and their money value amount of trade regon
size of army miles of railroad and telegraph number of horses
CATTLE Sheep and amount of information valuable to all
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Schools AID Colleges.
BATES COLLEGE NOTES.

,rh, t,.+ ,i,i.io., u, ,,nI.. .,
clam on Wednesday evening Of this week.
mere VII pc three from each division put over
tof the r!lze DIVISION
X o.,,,I 1,.,r, 1n,..
iinn a. thn ~nI,inr III. H. tI ,'ttp ieEtp
Eon nnn ryanny Ia~ !" a III i,' ,itbap pa"pni"n y
III. r.'tt ,nti't', 'a' "tth. AltnouSH ~
ana cheerful inside and tile Seniors made mer
iy ilil ate hour.
The snort for the remairIar of tbo f,lI ,,;1I
be fuothali If is too rnIJ a. h,sa1ham ,,, II,
the rxrrr.r fan fnnt-Iail ,iIi ho ~ anu I
thin Tr boys nr ,,r,rtiin,, 'tlo 4
choosing team. Wponan 20 t,m@ry .rU .o9 -
ma Iirn,o ,n3 all f,' NJ r ~ -
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Simply Revolutionary.

THE DEMOCRATIC POLICY OUTLINED Hl MILLS
OF TENAS.
Congress man Mills of Texas, the author of
the tariff bill bearing his name and the leader
Of the Democratic minority in Congress, is re-
ported as follows in recent interview:
1--WE do not propose that the Republican ma
J0rlty VIII pass z single measure without our
consent. For instance, you may depend upon
it that the rules of the House will not be
changed by the Republican majority in any
essential feature. We do not propose 10 per-
nit them TO be changed, as is desired by Mr..
Reed and others, in any particular feature
Nor will we permit any Of tie proposed legis-
lation looking to control by Congress of the
elections for we see very plainly what the pur-
pose of that is. The same can be said of the
contest that will come up before Con
grcss. We do not propose to let the Repubi-
can majority to be further increased ad ibitum,
by throwing out Democratic members. as seems
to be the purpose. In other words, we pro-
pose to exercise control of the House Just as
though we We're still in the majority, because
we know our minority is strong enough to
make Us the virtual rulers
This is simply revolutionary. 1t is to be
taken for granted that Mr.. Mills speaks by au-
thority and correctly represents the position of
the party of which he is the spokesman. Such
talk from person of less consequence would
be regarded as incredible, and it would be as
tude of the party in this matter prepared the
way for Mr.. Mie's announcement. The foun-
daton stone of the republican form of govern
nent is majority rule. If the foundation is to
be blown out thus by dynamite, the super
structure falls. A majority of one or three or
five should be as much respected as a majority
of many. TO be sure, minority government
is much in vogue in Mr.. MiVs section, but that
is no reason why it should be tolerated in
national affairs. The excuse be gives for this
revolutionary proceeding is that the Repub-
cans would make use Of the changed House
rules TO increase their majority by throwing
out Democratic members. That is mere as
sumption, which does not in the least Justify
subversion of the main principle of popular
government. The constitution provides that
each house shall be judge of the elections and
qualifications of its own members. Mr. Mills
undertakes to overthrow the constitution by
saying that the lower branch shall not be Judge
of the elections of its own members. 1t Is a
position which the Democratic party cannot
afford to take. The country will not long en-
dure such abuse. If the minority in the House
unwisely pursues the Mills policy Of obstruc-
ton and prevents Congress from equipping it.
self with rational rules for the despatch of
public business, there WILL ere long, arise II
tide of public sentiment that will overwhelm
the obstructionsts. Portland Advertiser
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Maine Matters.
NEWS ANn GOSSIP FROM ALL OVER THE STATE


THE SP0RTSMAN'S SEASON.
Mr.. Kennedy Smith, proprietor of the camps
at Round Mountain Lake, says in a recent letter
| | think there is 10 better location for large
! and small game in bc Dead river region than
| near my camps at this lake and in Alder stream
| valley | have cut good trails to several smai
| ponds where it i good hunting. The woods
! in all directions from my camps are full of
| deer. In all of my backwood's experience
never saw deer AS plenty they are now. Per
! tridges are very plenty. One party of four
here last week shot and brought into camp SO
| partridgcs. If person had a bird dog to run
| into tie brush and bark and drive then. up he
could get all the birds he could carry.
Boothbay CORES spondent writes: Deer are
very numerous in that section. A lady going
out to the well after a pail of water, found two
standing near by. and they We're very tame. A
man saw drove of fourteen not long ago, and
still another party some time ago. while row.
ing acrcS> the river, overlook a buck which
they held by the horns till his feet touched
bottom. when he shock OFF his captors like flies
and departed.
The greatest deer story of the season comes
from WhitneVville, where it is related that VIM
Carney shou!dered his rifle oct 1s. and tray ell
Ell less than one mile from his own door when
he sighted three deer, fired, and Killed them all
at one Shot.
Two elderly people of CormviIle had their
dinner brought into the house to them by their
eat (John I'D one day last week, in the form
Of pump partridge, all fresh and good,
caught by the eat.
Partrid-rs are 50 very nunlcrou, around
Ea>tport that the woods overflow with them
and they invade the business streets Of the
town.
Deer are said to be numerous in the upper
Machias country. Sportsmen are arriving al
most daily from out OF the State.
THE NEW STEAMER PORTLAND.
The Portland launched at Bath Oct. II is a
The Republican journal., 1889-10-24
Tempering Copper.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIE JOURNAL: | have
recently learned a fact that may, if generally
known, lead to the temperng of copper. A
man at work on the telegraph wires here had
hold of copper wire with nippers on one line
trying to make short circuit when the handle
of his nippers touched the other copper wire,
and instantly piece Of his nippers was melted
off and piece of copper had formed on the
point Of the nippers, and on trying to file OF
this copper he found it was tempered to >uch a
hardness that the nle would not cut it. My
brother, 5. 9. Griffin, tried to file it to make
sure that j; was really tempered The ancient>
knew low to temper copper, but no modern
genius has been able to temper IT, A, copper
is a finer metal than iron. if it could only be
tempered it would make edge tools vastly >u-
perior to anything we now have, hence the i'm
port;nce of the discovery if once made pract-
cal. c. $. GRIFFIN.