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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-14
EXERCISING COWS.
A Decided Improvement Noticeable Al
Along the Lines.

i n DeCiueu imprOVemenC NOt1CeaDle AL
Along the Lines.
| There is good deal of progress being
made among dairymen on the subject OF
| exercise for cows that are in milk. SEN
timent says give them beautiful pastures
| in summer and warm sheds in winter to
stroll about in, and some people write
as though they thought it proper if the
cows refused to ''stroll' to get dog or
club after them to keep them moving.
In early days this exercise" idea was
so strong in the average dairyman that
he kept the cows out not only in sum-
mer but winter also, that they might
keep warm by hustling each other
around straw stacks, and must keep
moving most of the time in order to not
freeze to death.
While that practice is not altogether
obsolete in even the best and coldest
dairy districts, yet we do find a decided
improvement on this subject in the
columns of the agricultural papers. Now
it is conceded by all respectable authori-
ties that COWS can profitably be kept in
the stable most of the time winter and
summer. We are climbing, however,
higher up the mount of knowledge until
we find herds being let out of the stable
shorter and shorter periods as the cour-
age of their owners find from practice
that not only does it do the cows no
injury to confine them, but the moro
they are kept in the stable the better
they seem to like it and the more milk
they give. This of course only goes
with herds that are kept clean, warm,
well-fed and watered, and are generally
well taken care of.
The Havemeyer herd of over two
hundred registered Jerseys in milk get
only from two to four hours out of doors
in the twenty-four, and would probably
do better if they did not get that,
though an average of nearly nineteen
pounds of milk day the year round is
quite good enough. 1t must indicate,
being Jersey milk, nearly 3G5 pounds of
butter year per head.
In Wisconsin Farmers Institute
Bulletin, among the discussions we find
Mr.. Goodrich, successful dairyman,
asked: "How much Importance do you
attach to exercise in a dairy herd?" He
answered.: "The calf and the heifer
ought to have exercise to develop their
muscles, but after the COW comes to CIV
ing milk i am we'll satisfied they need
but very little exercise. / tried that
year ago last winter. l had one COW
that had a notion of milking herself. 1
kept her in the stanchion. She would
be let out before the rest twice day;
he would walk about sixty feet to the
tank, and being alone, would walk right
back and put her head in the stanchion.
She wasn't out to exceed ten or fifteen
minutes day." Here is cow kept in
the stanchion all the time and would not
stay out when she could. Further on,
Mr.. Goodrich said that cow dropped
fine calf in the spring and was doing
well.
This is practical question for all
and should be answered in
practical way. We are yet to hear from
the man who has had any injury come to
his cows from confining them to the
stable. 1t would be sad and narrowing
job to record the miseries that cows
suffer every winter from the advocates
of exercises. es.-American Dairyman,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-14
THE DAIRY.

Hay tea is good for the calf. 1t con.
tains the essence Of the nutritive ele.
ments in the Western Rural.
Letting COWS run all over creation
at night is not the best way to save the
item.
SEQ that you have the right tempera-
ture, in every movement, from the time
the COW enters the stable until the but
ter is ready for the market.
DO not try to run dairy without a
thermometer. Just as we'll try to tell
the time of day, accurately, without a
time-piece. Neither is successful
Orange Judd Farmer.
High prices for dairy products do
not always signify that we are making
more money than we do with lower
prices. High prices are sometimes the
result of high priced food.
Choice butter is the desideratum of
every true housewife, and to have such,
its making requires first consideration
and that in detail. No second place
should be allotted buttor-maiing.
-Agood milker must be good feeder,
but an apparently good feeder is not al
ways good milker. A COW must have
the faculty" of turning food into milk,
or she has no business in the dairy.
We do wish that while legisla-
lures are engaged in passing legisla-
tion providing for the coloring Of oleo-
margarine so that it may be told from
pure butter at a glance, that they would
provide for putting some sort of a stamp
upon the people who make both bogus
butter and bogus cheese so that they
can be told from honest producers
Wpstern Rural
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-14
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Il
| AN Austrian sculptor hns discovered
. process for molding marble lluid pre-
cisely as bronze is nodded.
French scien lists fave analysed a
quart of water taken from n typhoid in
fected district, and found 15,O00,000 to
| 90,000,000 typhoid germs thorein.
DR.. Charles NJ. Cresson, of Philadel'
phia, states that he has moro than once
found the typhoid bacilli in the Juice
that he has squeezed out of celery grown
near Philadelphia of Hygiene.
Last year there were received in
New York 5,747,5 cans OF milk. AS
each was q 40-gallon can, New York re-
ceived more than 100000, 900 gallons OF
| milk, in addition 4,l6o, 900 gallons OF
cream and largo quantity of condensed
milk.
The trade of electrician, one of the
very newest, begins to be crowded. In
Philadelphia there are 200 graduates of
o polytechnic institute on record as hav-
ing offered to work as electricians for so
cents per day.
Those Interested in astronomy will
have an opportunity to observe total
eclipse of the sun, under favorable con-
ditions, in the year 1900. 1t will occur
in the early morning of May 27th and
will be visible from Virginia to Louisi-
ana.
DR.. Dixon, professor of hygiene at
the University of Pennsylvania, has
been making some experiments with air
and dust obtained in street cars. He
has found in them the germs of many
diseases, contagious and otherwise.
Winds occurring in the vicinity Of
largo rivers partake of the good quail
ties of sea. breezes, but do not contain so
much ozone or saline matter These
brcezes are said to be rarely higher than
four hundred feet above the surface.
"A new wooden pulley has been con-
trived, the center being of cast iron and
the rim of wood, the device being in two
parts. 1t is claimed that by its use
better bell friction is obtained and a
saving in power is realized, the spokes
being formed in such manner as to
offer but very slight resistance to the
motion; keys and set screws are entirely
done away, and the grip upon the shaft
ing is said to be perfect.
In monographs, graphophones and
made of cylinders covered with tinfoil
or wax, for receiving. as the cylinders
revolve, the impression made by the
scribers. A new sound-recording appar-
atus operates on an entirely different
principle. Tho cylinder is replaced by
u fiat surface, which is made to oscillate
and move downward at regular intervals
by special mechanism.
-"The Importance of placing COM
pressed air as q motive power within
easy reach of the small manufacturer
has been recognized at birmingham"
says a London exchange. "a local
company obtained an act OF Parliament
in 1884 by which they were authorized
to lay pipes throughout tho public
thoroughfares to convey compressed air
at forty-five pressure for the use of
subscribers. The first installation has
now been pade and there are some four
and quarter miles of main already
laid, the whole being controlled from
central station, at which there is power
full machinery. No less than twenty
six consumers are said to be taking the
air and using it for working engines,
iapanninp, ETC."
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-14
A NIGHT OF HORROR.
Imprisoned Miners Watch Wall
Water Creep Upon Them.

Imprisoned Miners Watch Wall o
Water Creep Upon Them.
The Egypt coal mine, near Egypt Sta,
ton, n. c., is the only coal mine in
North Carolina and has usually forty
laborers employed in it.
The pit is $50 feet deep, and thcre is
only one cage used to draw out tho men.
During one afternoon this cage was
caught by slight cavern about mid.
way between the top and bottom of the
only shaft, thus rendering useless the
only means by which the laborers could
get out.
At first nobody knew what to do.
Wives, mothers and children of the i'm
prisoned men gathered about the mine,
and their cries Of agony could be heard
a mile away.
1t was known that the water rose very
rapidly in the mine, and with the ma
chincry blocked there was no way pos
sible to pump it out. The miners would,
therefore, soon drown if not rescued
No voice could penetrate the depths. and
no sound could be heard from below.
Night came on, but there were no
prospects of rescue. At last Samuel A.
ienzsey, the president Of the coal mine
company, got some men to work, and
throughout the long hours while they
tried to loosen the machinery mothers
walked up and down weeping and carry
ing babies in their arms.
Midnight came, but nobody thought
of sleeping. just before daybreak some
men were lowered down TO the fastened
cage and cut a hole iu it.
Tho glad tidings were sent up that the
men were alive. Soon ropes were lot
down, and one by one they were pulled
out All were alive, but had the resc:.u
been delayed few hours all would have
been drowned, as the water in the mine
had risen four feet and would have soon
covered the head of every man. They
were all wet, cold and half-starved.
''We did not expect to be rescued at
ALL" remarked an old man. "We felt
sure that the mine had caved in at the
top, and not man of us ever expected
to be taken out OF that pit alive. We
buddled close together, and spent the
time in singing and praying.
1--WE knew at the rate the water was
rising on us that 1t would only be mat.
ter Of few hours before we would all
drown" he added, 'and 1t required lot
OF talk and persuasion to keep some of
the men from lying down in the water
and drowning before the water was
three feet deep. We then made a bar
gain to stand on our feet just as long as
we could, and when we could stand no
longer we had agreed to all lie down in
the water at the same time and die. 1t
was an awful time, and / think we all
suffered the horrors OF u hundred Deaths"
IN. Y. Morning Journal.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-14

aaoabtless should have yielded entire
Iy TO the sin of profanity if | had at
tempted to walk it.
Go 20 my house and stay tonight
Mr. Marsh" said the landlord II can
'Stvs you some venison pie and q pot Of
b<ssr S0r your supper, and IA nice shake
down before the kitchen fire."
--Pray, sir,n said sweet voice at
tsriggs' elbow, ''is there no way to go on
to Naybury?'
-'Ne1 tonight, my dear" said Griggs,
sofnning. as the light of his lantern
shons over the pretty face of q young
girl Mbom | had scarcely seen before,
ssss Gaving been an inside passenger.
'.g guess you'll have to take up wish
sscb accommodations as my house Of
fcns. shouldn't wonder If Sally-that's
sMy daiyer, miss-will let you have half
of her bed, seeing as you've Leen un-
fortunate"
j must go on" she said, earnestly
~ have been some months from homo,
aDd nave bcen summoned thither by
riln illness of my father. Indeed, sir,
';an net delay here, for the dispatch
said my father was dying
There we're tears in her voice. but 1t
was 100 dark to see whether they
d,m'ned ner eyes.
ITS too bad" sad Griggs; "but !
sso1Idn't let Digby go on any account;
ssecause, you see, If Mrs. Griggs shouid
be took she'd die afore we could git DR..
n.Trnston here on foot You see. when
shc has these spells sho's awful. Hello.
Wlio's coming now!"
a close carriage drawn by two dark
horses had come up and halted by the
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-14

Not All ~ Bed of Roses.

A man who writes for newspaper is
of few years and lots of grief, says an
exchange. He riseth in the morning
and knoweth not what day may bring
forth. If he telleth all the news he
runneth great risk OF having tin ear
put on him, and II he telleth not the
news the people say ne is n. g., and
there is no JOY it. The crafty man ca
joleth him into giving him fifty-cent
puff for five-cent cigar, and fond moth
ers frown on him II he fails to Hatter
their frecklo-faced broods And all his
ways are ways of woe, and his days are
fun OF sorrow. The life insurance man
trackc:h snares for him, and ON the
whole he hath deuce Of timo.-Ger-
nantown pa, Telegraph.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-14
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-Cholly Peachblow-"Ow! say, bah
bah, that razor pulls" Barber ICON
temptuously) what?"-N. Y.
Sun.
She (after coniugal tiff)-"I won-
der if there are any men in lIeaven?"
He -"It is sad to think, dear, that this
will always be matter of conjecture
with you. ."-Philadelphia Press
-"You may charge this" said Jay
smith, indicating a watch he had se-
lected. "You seem to mistake it for
gum" replied the jeweler, as he placed
it back in the case.-Judge.
alphabetically great men
have smoked, my dear" She with ami
mation)-"O, If you will only swear ofF
until you are great, L shall be quite con-
tent"
Wife (reading)-"Here it tells about
man ninety-two years old who brings
up all the coal and chops all the wood
used in the family. What do you think
of that?" Husband (contemptuously)-
"Well, he must bo a fool.'-Loweu
Citizen.
AT the boarding house.-Miss Bet
terdaies- Mamma, wish Mr.. Margin
would not help himself with his fork"
Mrs. Betterdaies (consolingly)-"Don't
mind it, dear; he never eats with it,
Detroit Free Press.
-Stager-"The critics have been very
complimentary to me. They all say
that in my last performance deserve
word of praise" Gall--"Ycs. so / see;
but notice that none of them give it to
you. "-Boston Transcript.
-Lady-"Sir you should introduce a
little change in your style OF dancing"
Gent-"How do you mean, Mademoi-
selle?" Lady-"You might occasionally
step on my left foot; the right one has
had enou London lid Bits.
AT Soirce. Miss Gushlere-"How
torturing how fearful the thought must
be for a great singer to know that she
has lost her voice." Mr.. Praclere-"It
is much more torturing when she doesn't
know it."-Harvard Lampoon.
Physician (refectively)-"H'm The
case is one, think, that will yield to
mild stimulant. Let me see your
tongue, madam, If you please" Hus-
band of patient( tily)-"Doctor, her
tongue doesn't need any stimulating"
Chicago Tribune.
Miss Euborder-''I believe / will
work nice motto and present it to Mrs
Hashcroft to hang up in the dining.
room. Can't you suggest something, Mr..
Billings?" Billings" your mouth
and shut your eyes. "-Terre Haute Ex-
press.
II will be a sister to you," she said.
NO" he replied sadly; "I've got one
sister who wears my neckties, borrows
car-fare, loses my hair brush, puts tides
all over the furniture in my room, and
expects me to take her to the theater
twice a week. / think I'll go out into
the world and forget you" Washington
Post.
MIR. Scribbleton, have compli-
ment for YOU" "Indeed?" "Yes; a
friend of mine, Miss Belle Pepperton,
says thatyou are developing very marked
literary tastes" 80, indeed" said Scrib-
bleton, with sad smile; ''it wasn't
more than an hour since that told Miss
Pepperton that / hadn't written any
thing for over a month";"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-14
ABOUT LETTER-WRITiNG.
Tile Model Correspondent Is IIo Who Car
FAY Much In - Few Words.

Fay Much In - Few Words.
The man who writes agreeable let.
tors about matters that are OF no conse.
quence to anybody, is usually looked
upon as genius: nor can it be denied
that the ability to invest nothing with
transitory interest is peculiar gift.
But the elaborator of triAes is seldom
good at any thing else. Bid him dos
can't on a weighty subject, and he
breaks down. His phrases lack points;
his arguments backbone lie may make
l. sentimental lady sigh, but he will
never make a stout disputant VINCE
Truth, to him, wears the guise OF but
terfy in q garden, and, though con-
tinually chasing it through labyrinth
of flowers, he Is rarely fortunate enough
to put his hat upon it.
: Our idea of moa 81 lctter-writer IL
very different from this. Give us the
correspondent who can compress much
thought into small compass-whose
rnntences. like the sledge-hnmmer
blows delivered in Yerii's Anvil Chorus,
have a nervous ring about them. The
hammer-men of Thoughts forges. the
men who shape and mold great enter
prises, never write long, rambling,
poiDt-no-point letters. They have no
notion that pen ink and paper were given
us 10 dilute our mother tongue, or that
mental gold is all the better for being
beaten out thin.
Pit one of your elegant scribblers.
vino boasts that he can manufacture a
delightful epistle without material,
against one of the Samson" OF the
"world OF letters and whare S he? A
sentence OF half dozen !iras doubles
him up.-N- Y. Ledger.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-14
THE MAIDEN AND THE BIRD.
OHIO

A bird sat singing carol clear
On the bough of q budding tree:
Oh life is rare, and the world is fair,
And sweet is my life to mel
Oh life is sweet and the world complete,
And dear is my love to me-"
And an angel near smiled down to hear
That song so glad and free.
A maiden fair came singing there
AS she passed meath the blossoming tree
NOh the world is fair beyond compare,
Aud sweet is my life to mel
Oh love is sweet and the world complete
And dear is my love to me"
But the angel smiled not, though well he heard
The witching melody.
For the maiden was dcclscd with the self
same bird
That had sung on the bossomlng trcel
To please her pride, the bird had died,
And hushcd was its ecstasy!
And she never heard u low, sad note
From lone bird on q tree:
"Oh life was sweet-with love to greet
And dear as thy love to thee
Was the mutc by my side whom. to please
thy prido
Thy love hath torn from me"
Agnes NJ. Machar, in Santa &laus
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-14
A scapegoat.

"We had monkey at our house for a
pet, but pa gave him away, an I'm aw-
fully sOrry!" said Jimmy to his new
friend.
"Did you love the monkeys" asked
his companion.
"Nah," said Jimmy; "but the monkey
used to get blamed for every thing that
went wrong, and now ! o."--Harper's
Young People.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-14
He Conld Go ont nnt Onoe.

First Woman-You ought to got your
husband to take you to the - Theater.
There is an excellent play there.
Second Woman-Is 1t four-tct play?
First Woman-No; only two.
Second Woman-Thon he Nouldn't
&c. --Munsy's Weekly.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-14


scarce, so was glad to get any thing
to do, especially as / had an aged moth
er depending upon me for support.
One dark, drizzly November night
and nearly all November nights are
dark-tho stage for Raybury broke down
bopelessly, fifteen miles from it's desti-
nation. OF course, the accident hap
pened in just the worst part of the
road, where it was next TO impossible
TO get 4 carriage of any kind, and where
the only place of entertainment was
rude log house, dignitied by the name of
the Jefferson Inn.
Nr. Griggs, the landlord of the tav-
ern, was soon on the spot, and gave it as
his opinion that the passengers had bet
ter 30 to his house for the night. but as
some half dozen OF them were deter
mined to go on, there was no alterna-
tive but to get out an cid express wagon,
which was stacked away in a remote
shed. and dispatch them on their way.
The stage horses were made available,
and the passengers piled in with selfish
haste; and long before | could get my
valse ou: of the ruins of the stage and
reach the wagon, it had rumbled off and
left me, with half-dozen more, behind.
IT. was absolutely necessary that ]
Should be in Rayhury that night else /
should cause serious inconvenience at
the bank the next morning. And as !
had been so often congratulated on my
promptitudo III my business / felt very
10th to be behindhand now. spoke to
Mr.. Griggs about it, and asked if it
were not possible for him to let me have
a horse for Raybury. | would pay him
literally and return the animal in good
condition the next day But he only
shook his head. He had only one horse
N his stable, he said, and Mrs. Griggs
was subject to dreadful spells of the
coljc, and might be taken at any hour,
and he made 1t u rule of his life never to
let Digby 20 out of the stable for fear
Mrs Griggs might be seized and die be-
fore the doctor could be brought.
Under the circumstances, of course
could mot urge my request for the use
OF Digby, and there was no ch ance for
me TO get TO Raybury until the eleven
O'Clock stage next day, unless | footed
it, and that / should not for moment
have hesitated to do, had it not been for
the fact that the road TO Raybury was
the vilest in the country. | always felt
Axe swearing when / rode over IL, and
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-14
& NIGHT ADVENTURE.
How / Won a Wife and a Posi-
ton in I ife.

U r | \ G. the
year 1869, | was
G m p l Dyed by
the B II k of
Raybury to ex-
change money
between it and
the Bank of Alu-
t IL a | Redemp-
on, with which
.ey did business
Ie city. 1t was
very interesting
ent, a IL d on c
ave me but a
:, but just then
dull and work
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-10-04
A Naturalist and His Snake.

speaking of snakes said an am
ateur naturalist 10 New York Sun
writer. but for mans insane prejudice
against them they would be found TO
be not only intelligent. but extremity
sociable. When was boy | lived ut
Sheppard's Park. Rockland county.
and near by was good stream well
stocked with fish. Whenever caught
mess which was very often-my
father used To insist that | clean and
scale them NJ distance from the
house. and my habit was to thus prepare
the days catch ON the banks OF tho
stream before returning home. One
day while thus engaged large black
snake appeared from under huge
rock near by, and. approaching me.
made deliberate meal on the discard
ed portions of the fish. He then re-
tired. The next day he came again,
and after that he fell into the habit Of
waiting for me. The spot whore
moorcd the dingy from which anglod
was the one selected by me for clean
ing the fish. and after few days OF
familiar friendship Mr.. Blacksnake
ventured into the dingy and went n
fishing with me. After that he became
my regular companion. but many gen
erations OF oppression had made him
suspicious of my race. and ii ! made a
violent motion he was over the side in
second and swimming ashore for
dear life like an animated corkscrew.
On such occasions | invariably found
him waiting for me with an appetite
sharnpnpd by his bath
IL do not know how intimate we
might have become but for the sad
sequel which cut short his earthly ca
reer. One day was called away, and
during my absence two ncighbors re-
paired to The bank Of the stream with
the intention OF doing little fishing
from the dingy. As they approached
it large blacksnake wrigglcd up to
them in a confidential manner. While
one OF them was nearly paralyzed with
fear the other raised "a heavy stone
and letting it fall, my harmless COM
panion was no more. am an old
man now. but | never priced n friend
ship moro than that. and TO this day
have not forgiven the man who killed
my friend
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-10-04

Louis c. Wilson. travelling for 81.
Louis house, arrived IN Denver few days
ago on visit 10 his mother. who resides at
Aryado, suburban village. lie confessed
10 her that he had lost Sl0,O 900 In grain specu-
lation and had borrowed the money OF his
II. Louis friends. lie asked her TO loan him
that amount with which 10 repay them but
she declined 10 do so. Nothing more was
said about the matter He went 10 his room
and few minutes later two pistol shots
were heard. His mother and the servant
rushed To bis room aud found him lying on
the floor dead, with u bullet through his
heart and one through his brain.