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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-07
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
In the Senate.

18th DAY-A warm debate occurred over
aproposition made by Mr.. Teller to recommit
the bill requiring the Superintendent OF the
Census TO ascertain what percentage of peo-
pie own their own farms, the number of
farms under mort gage and the amount there
of. Mr.. Blair's bill was put the order
Of unfinished business"
26TH DAY.-Mr. Vest presented the creden-
tials OF ". A. Clark and Martin Maginnis as
Senators elect from the State Of Montana
They were read and referred on Mr. Vests
motion, to the Committee on Privileges and
Elections. On his motion also the four gen.
tlemen claiming TO be Senators elect were
admitted pending the contest. to the privE~
legts of the floor. The concurrent resolf-
ton heretofore offered by Mr. Chandler for
the investigation by the immigration Com
mittees of both Houses of matters connected
with immigration was taken up and agreed
to. -. A bill was passed authorizing the Secre-
tary of War TO procure and present suitable
medals to the survivors of the ''forlorn hope
storming party" of Port Hudson. Mr.. In
gals spoke for two hours on Mr.. Buffers bill
for the emigration of colored people TO Africa.
9TH DAY.-Ihere was long debate over
the Chandler resolution concerning the re
cent hanging in effigy of Secretary Proctor
at Aberdeen, Miss. The House bill to SIM
plify the laws in relation to the coll
lection of customs revenue was presented
to the Senate, and on motion of Mr.
Morrill, was ordered to be printed and
referred to the Finance Committee
=. Mr.. Chandler presented a minority re-
port upon the Hale bill, authorizing the con-
struction of eight battleshIps and certain
other vessels. Among the bills introduced
and referred were the following: By Mr..
Hale-To require the Superintendent of Cen
sus to ascertain the number of people who
own their farms and homes, and the
amount of mortgage indebtedness thereon.
By Mr.. PascO-To reimburse the several
States for the interest paid by them on money
raised for war expenses in the late war. By
Mr.. Cockrell-TO repeal the silver coinage
act of February %, 1878. and to require the
purchase and coinage of S., 900, 600 month
in standard silver dollars. =. On motion of
Mr.. Call the adverse report heretofore made
from the Committee on Foreign Relations 10
regard to the establishment of a republic in
Cuba was placed on the calendar.
28TH DAY.-The Direct Tax Bill was passed
....O On motion of Mr.. Sherman, the Senate
bill to relieve the Treasurer of the United
States from the amount now chaged to him,
and deposited with the several States, was
taken from the calendar and passed. =.
Bills were introduced: By Mr.. Paddock-Pro-
viding that soldiers entitled to 100 acres of
land under section 23O4, Revised Statutes,
n1ny take an extra 100 acres without improve
ment or residence, and by Mr.. Cameron
Providing for the organization and rate of
pay of a veterinary corps in the United
States Army.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-07

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they have no time to wait for results.
Some women will take a dose or so of
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and
expect to feel we'll Immediately. True,
some do find marvelously speedy effects
from its use, but chronic, or lingering,
diseases, which have had possession of
the system for years, cannot generally
be cured in day. Such maladies are
generally slow in their inception, slow
in their progress, and must be cured,
if at all, by slow degrees and regular
stages. Perseverance in the use of the
"Favorite Prescription for a reasona-
BILE length of time will cure all those
chronic weaknesses, Irregularities and
distressing arrangements with which so
many females are afflicted. But the
use of this world-famed medicine must
be persisted in for a considerable time
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-07
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
CARROTS FOR HORSES.

ANY horse worth wintering should
have some green food IN winter to keep
its bowels open. 1t is dry and concen-
trated food that carries fevers by consti-
pating the bowels, making the hair
rough. The good effect of oil meal con-
sists in the fact, not that it directly
makes fat, but that it enables the stom-
ach to digest food more perfectly. Car
rots have the same effect. A few given
daily enable the owner of horse to di-
minish the grain ration and keep the an
imal in better order at less expense
Americnn Culticdtor.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-07
Why, l promised

in long standing, complicated and OBJ
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your own, and when you have decided
to seek cure of your malady through
the medium of this wonderful medi-
cine, show a little will power and
tenacity of purpose, and you will, in
due time, rejoice in the complete res
toration of your health and strength.
The "Favorite Prescription is the
only medicine for wOman's peculiar ills
guaranteed to give satisfaction in every
case, or money refunded.
A large Treatise l60 pages, illus
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their Cure, sent in plain, sealed envel-
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Address, WORLDS DISPRNsARY MED
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Buffalo, N. Y.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-07
LONG KEEPING OF APPLIES.

Winter apples of the best keeping
sorts may be kept until summer apples
are available. OF course, perfectly sound
apples must be selected-a small bruise
or decayed spot cannot be allowed. A
temperature just above the freezing
point, and equable, is essential. Fruits do
not keep SO we'll in a warm temperature,
and fluctuations are even more to be
avoided
This should be observed in keeping
apples for use during winter and early
spring; and for this reason l. IS best to
have the fruit-room disconnected from
the cellar, or at least separated from the
rest of the cellar by partition. If
brick partition cannot be afforded, one
of matched boards will answer Sliding
sash will enable one to regulate the tenn
perature. The fruit should always
contain a reliable thermometer.
Select the apples for long keeping in
the late fall or early winter, and wrap
tissue paper around each apple. Bought
in quantity this paper is cheap, and sew
eral bushels can be wrapped in an hour.
Place the apples on shelves, stems up.
Or, what is perhaps a better plan, pack
the apples down in fire dried sawdust or
bran, chaff or land plaster. The fruit
may be packed in either kegs, barrels or
boxes. First make layer of cRatf, or
whatever is used, an inch thick; then
layer OF apples, stems up; fill all the
spaces with the chaff, and then layer OF
chaf1' and SO on. Apples SO packed will
Keep nlcel ' IN an clubhouse with three nor
dOur 1eet of straw thrown over therQ.
The barrels or boxes should rest on thu
ground.
Inc apples to be kept late should be
assorted out in the early spring and
placed IN room that can be kept COOL
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-07
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

A woman can aid in caring for poultry,
and her suggestions are worth consider
ing, for nearly every woman is thought
full guide in the care of such stock, and
should be given an opportunity to use
her judgment.
The stalks from old asparagus beds
should be burned, and good dressing
of manure spread over the ground. Any
good, rich garden soil is suitable for as
paragus. Newly set plants should be
lightly covered during winter.
Many a crop of fruit is lost, and many
a fruit tree dies from the unsupported
cause of injury to the roots by hard freez-
ing. Protect them by trapping the
snow hard, and covering with long man
ure In the case of peach trees this will
tend to prevent early bloom, and loss of
fruit by late frosts.
A practical test will convince the
dairvman that his COWS are capable of
consuming and digesting much more
food than the usual allowance. Expert
ment VIII soon denote which of the COWS
pay best, by noting whether the excess
of food is converted into increased guam
tity of milk or into flesh.
The amount of honey to expect from
hive cannot be estimated from the
number 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.
When chicks of different ages are run
ming together and older birds are about
the food for the little ones should be
thrown under Slated coops into which
only such can enter. This will save the
Youngest and the delicate from being
trampled upon and crowded out, and
viii give them chance to eat their fill at
their leisure. They viii soon find out
what il means and more often than not
will be found waiting in the pens for the
food to he thrown to tden.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-07
SELECTING STOCK FOR BREEDING.

The special fitness of pure-bred stock
to the farmer is in its ability to improve
the common stock by breeding. One of
its special valuable points is the Inherited
ability to transmit its special qualiica-
tons which have been acquired during
years of feeding and selections of the
best for reproduction. And this ability
has been proved so conspicuously and SO
generally that any farmer who retains the
prejudice referred to may be understood
to mean that he has had no experience il
the matter or has made the great mistake
above mentioned In the breeding of
cows for the dairy it is unquestionable
that the use Of pure-bred bull, selected
and provided with good COWS, may be
made worth $500 to any dairyman who
will rear the calves judiciously, if his
herd numbers no more than ten COWS,
and this within five years. But it should
not be forgotten that the better the COWS
the greater the progress made in this i'm
provement. The use of such bull will
easily double the product of the herd in
the five years mentioned, which is equiv
alent to the doubling of the area of the
farm or the halving of the cost OF work.
ing it. But equal dependence must be
placed on the feeding and care of the
herd as on the breeding of the sire.-Neao
York Times.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-07
FARMERS FOWLS.

They should have warm house; it
can built Of matched boards; the roof of
the same, and shingled only when it be-
gins to leak; a ground door; window
in the south side, not too large, and we'll
barred; the roosts il one end; the nest
box in a corner; two or three on the
ground, with several above these, dis
posed irregularly; covers may be ar
ranged, so that the hen may creep in and
out and be as secluded as she likes. In
another corner place a vessel for milk and
one for water; along the side dust box;
straw the floor; throw the grain on the
straw and let them scratch for it; feed
all your grain screenings to your fowls.
Sloppy food is not good for them,
especially in cold weather. In the morn
ing feed screenings, scraps from the
table, warmed skirmilk Ohe very best
egg food); fill the water vessel with
water slightly warmed and the dust box
with coal ashes.
lie afternoon give feed of corn, an
other dish Of milk and another supply of
water, if necessary; gather the eggs;
then, if the fowls are all in, shut them up
for the night; allow them to run out
every day, except in stormy weather, or
when the snow is too deep; but do not
allow one to make nest outside; in this
way they will supply themselves with
what you do not furnish them. On
pleasant days, when they are all out, dust
the house thoroughly by throwing the
coal ashes high upon the roosts, and do
other cleaning, if necessary. Keep few
old fowls; market the old with the young
in the fall, keeping the finest pullets; in
deed you should have no fowls over two
years old. The farmer need spend no
more time or labor with his fowls than
this. Ee will have eggs in winter and
vigorous, healthy fowls in spring.-Nea0
York Tribune.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-07
In the House

18th DAY.-The Speaker was sustained in
decision upon point of order raised by
Mr.. Holman. "A number of bills were
passed, among them the Oklahoma Town
Site bill.
26TH DAY-A bill concerning national
bank circulation reported and recon-
mitted. The Smth-Jac contested cleo
ton case was reported. In Committee of
the Whole fourteen sections of the Admins
trative Tariff bill were passed.
9th DAY.-The House, in Committee of
the Whole, disposed of five sections of the
Administrative Tariff bill, leaving ten sec
lions to be passed. Most of the day was de-
voted to debate on Sections Is and 10 and
amendments thereto.
28TH DAY.-The Customs Administrative
bill was reported from Committee of the
Whole and passed, by vote of 13S to 121.
The bill, it finally passed, is left substanti-
ally as it came from the Committee on Ways
and Means. Its object is to simplify the ex-
isting laws for the collection of revenue
duties.
10Th DAY.-A bill was passed. placing
duty of fifty per cent. on silk ribbons. Mr..
McCreary offered resolution, which was re-
ferred, cOngratulating the people Of Brazil in
their just and peaceful assumption of the
powers, duties and responsibilities of self
government as shown by their assumption of
self-gOvernment; declaring that the United
States of Brazil is recognized by the United
States of America a free, sover-
eign and independent Republic, and pro-
viding that the President shall give proper
notice of this recognition to the Presi-
dent of the United States of Brazil
Among the bills introduced and referred
were the following: By Mr.. Covert-To in
crease the efficiency of the military. By
Mr.. DEMONSTRATING the United States ar
senal at Augusta, Ga, an arsenal of manu-
facture, construction and repair; also to re-
fund the cotton tax. By Mr.. Mason-Appro-
priating 81 0O0 900 for postoffice at Chicago.
By Mr.. Struble-For the appointment of
Commissioner of Immigration; also, prohih-
iting the transportation of Intoxicating
liquors from one State or Territory to an
other State or Territory in violation of the
laws thereof. By Mr.. Kelley-To pension
the widows and orphans of people killed for
political purposes since the close Of the late
war. By Mr.. Burrows-For the erection Of
a monument to Isabella of Spain. In Com
mittee of the Whole, the House proceeded to
consider the bill appropriating 81, 500, 600 for
the erection of three United States prisons
and for the imprisonment of Unite States
prisoners.
Both DAY.-Mr. Dorsey called up his
National Bank Circulation bill, and it was
debated at some length, but finally went
over. "A bill was passed providing that in
cases of pension claims of dependent parents
it shall be necessary only to show the Pension
Office that the parents are without other
means of support than manual labor.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-07

one that can be opened up to admit the
cool night air and closed tight during
the heat of the day.-American AgricuL-
tuTiSt.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-07

Lady-"I sit for a picture"
Artist shall be very glad paint you if you will wait
week, until finish the one L am at work now"
Lady," Oh my couldn't wait that long. Why, promised
to be home at dinner five oclock!"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-07

Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers.
Mild, eQuable climate, certain and abundant
crops. Best fruit. grain, grass and stock coun-
try in the world. Full Information free: Ad-
dress Oregon Im'igrat'n Board. Portland, Ore
II afflicted with sore eyes DR.. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-03

An inpoitrnI AMI highly suggestive article
+, contributed to the October number -! " III"
North Amri:,in ncvicW' by the Hon. .Nndlcw
- White. ia rotation TO the future al American
r,l,cu,, and universities ENlrc,idrnt Whites
un,ition =. IN educator and Il, man Of affairs
icudS vc,rni AMI value to Vlul II" has + -ay
an suhlr.t oG rnr greatest ini"I..t 10 the ii
uc,icd class, ami o,iccialIy 10 iIIo>" wh" are
.uyaq.d in educational work in lis higher
forms. It is c,i,lon; that h" has gwen The
matter attentive IA uGhi and CONSIDERATION,
and that the ,chcn' which he outlines = not
, chance ,ucer,,on but III" result oi rcliS of
study and or the accumulated LnnNl dye which
has come Ia i'm from TN" examination of our
,ru od,nalioI,rl methods and tie comparison
IF them wit! tho>c which prevail abroad.
Mr. White starts With IT." statement mad"
in late report %! the Bureau of Education at
Washington that there arr in this country four
hundred institutions claiming t. Il, unlvrr,i!>
work. and proc""'> 20 point ont that this
,oa.> Of tcachng and leaning bodies is as vt
mainly in chans and ;iva"lln2 tho evolution Of
something better" This chao. clibpl"> higher
education here and tends to bring rilicu"
upon it at home ard abroad. wc.adiu-tcd
y.tcm of instruction. ha says, embraces gen.
cral publc-school system. then IN intermediate
college system, and finally universities and
| spcci:l training schools. From our tumble Of
| institutions which ou.ht t, b" college,, with
institutions which ought t. be- universities
| !:r shows thrt lhcr" result financial vast"
waste of effort moral waste and iHt"Il"cu'll
| waste H. ;hcn plnpnunl> his pron' >"'. change
| Of system. whereby thr great .naj"uiN of the
| ,ollr.ia," Institutions which now claim to do
| university vui,, .huuI h.cou" aNnw"diy in
| i,rrcdalr coll. $685. cIrr'-p n!n2 To the gym
n;.>ia in Germany and f. institutions like lron
and Eugb, in EnxtSAl. ~ ~ the universities
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-03
PERSONAL.

"Mni,ter Phclp>' is the title which Democratic
paper in Denver give. TO ~ood-out Inserted IN
crlin dispatch printed in It's rolnin, relating ID tho
negotiation, for admitting American pork into German
marhcts. The picture. however. remotely re';"ors
a well.known law lecturer al Yale, and Suggests q
possibility that OFT in beaver nc c'tlo pi ir,'ltn.
Harrison President of the fniir HtairN wee ,ro'cr
tlcvcland ha- not yet become uiN"rNiiy Alo"i'
Professor NctschinkOw. eminent zoDlogi~t OF
Ode-.a ha- gone par, take charge OF the PaSteur
Institute there. under the direction oi lis ionner
a writer in "The American >tationcr' tells this
characteristic anecdOte OF Horace Greeley Ills Keen
intellect. rugged honesty. Intense PATRIOTISM anu Puto.
nlI-cln,h morally made lin powerful ana inhnchuh
leader, qualities which we're joined To nathre 30
simple and conldIng that the nnion seemed neon
grloi, and led many 10 believe II an ahcrtaton'
rhi, wa, unjust. An example OF this Characteristic
came under my nolrc during me fall OF DIT NJ
private dinner at which Mr.. Greeley was also eaese'
rhc talk Turned upon The issue, Of the winpasn'
and tlc conlauy qt charmed listeners TO HI, mastery
argument, in defence Of HI, course. Presently the
lo,t..., passed him "A pistr Of pineapple "lurt on
p,rrrIyns hat II Wa. lee returned 10 heT fctiafhthS
ugci;ctical.y Il can't 'cnI: they give me- tho
collie" and AT o,rc p',no"d'd with his arrncnt al
nncn:l-c ous Of the smile rs frank AMI rhilduKc
nvowal provoked. II This -ide Of I> nature whtn
Irn,h. AN In.l ha,tibl r.,,rce for the paraerapher
and ,irI0onet. and through which hi$ kinhls haIuN
vas often droplv wounded, for he was really h' a"s
# H. oWu simplicity
The French traveller. ". Crampel. who acquired
reputation by hi, expedition into the French Congo.
has planned n r'w journey through undi>""vereo
Africa He intcd- - 90 from Ibingi across mo
country ~ Upper >c!a-i ard Lake Tchad ann thence
aero, Salarl 10 Nccr or II that = mp ~'.OIo 70
q" boxer I3:Inw" ElI"r.
Apop9. o. Mr. B,ucrofts nincticth birthday. which
hi, Irl.ad, will eel To- ay. The Washington
Posi-" SAYS: Int for a muscular weakness gradual
inevitable loss Of muscular strength ard very gr%l'ial
f,,iir: Of h, powers of memory, Mr bancroft Nigh,
NOR. N.1uGr tlan re j. nc >'lIt
+ an ur..rry p. tf"- a:d keeps r"mark1N!y Wei up
IN rho ,hy,rr.d iouglit nf a." tiu">. ills memory
i -rlnl!y b'rl'nn- - fll h' r''n.''nn' u'' HWY
.i,iv !, r.t-,, -. IL rI!'': cA'"i.r.r;.
v,tor v,n W,,,a.a..i', lr-n book On his second
,f,r,,, cxpodrpn !, T. b. pgh-h"d at Frankio7t-on'
,lc ODER ~ Norcul "r /. k!"nC hcvaIcT' TUG
.idor. ,r... A. drawn the H>'atVns ~: H.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-03

,ro,or Mr. White thinks that There might be
pcrhaps twenty or thirty required 1or inc c'.'
fire country, and he would have thc'r WORK
strictly of the university order, using that terh'
in is proper and restricted sense
In ,hc intermediate colleges Mr. White would
b,vc ,hc freshman year begin two years earlier
than the freshman year IN most ., '"e "c''''
colleges ut present. and ron'ih'''u up I" '"0
point reached at the beginning Oh INC junior
yc,r. 4 boy would then enter c"'''Se "'
thirteen or fourteen and be grad''a'ch at seven.
teen or eighteen, so that after 'h'cc ''ar' u
advanced study at the university nc "'''" ie
rciye his second degree and be ready 70 ch'er
T., his professional career at twcnfy-ohe or
,vcn,v.tvo. It is probable that at TINS part
,,r ,ho scbcmc The arrows OF some OF Mr'
Whites critics will be especially ain"c"'
,ort,;,lv locks = little like the forcing pro-
ccSs" when it is proposed TO send boy I" wi,
l.,o NJ thirteen. bu it must be reine'""'''"
,h,t t,o proposal is to begin tho college co''rSc
,ho,t tho time that the ordinary boy begins %
:. ,,nna,c for college," The objections TO ms
Man growing ont Of the pride of those ihl''r,
c~,cl in the smaller colleges ana "i'', ''''
Mr. White considers with candor ana ine'i'"-
itv: but space will not permit us I''''he' :"
ou,Iin. his instructive essay
Thi, or.;clo &hond be rcld by every Amer'-
can cdncatnr. r. i: certainty Nati"ha us
crcdi, to bring the honorcd name of nlVe'>"'
INTO contempt, as has been done IN TINS co''"'
nv. Even if We cannot have the system pro-
posed President White. broad line .,
dem,rc,,ion can bc drawn between olir real
,,ri,or.;,;n. and orr colleges. If his cOntribl-
t;nn .crycs TO fastcn attention upon single
pha~c Of the subject, it Will accomplish "'l la
pOItant pull0,c.