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The Somerset reporter., 1890-05-15

The May Wide Awake opens with portrait
Of Miss Charlotte NJ. Yonge, the author and
Oscar Fay Adams describes his visits with her
at Otterbourne. Louise Stockton, the sister Of
Frank Stockton contributes humorous story
Under the title "A Long Horror" Mr.. Fremont
has a powerful true story of French count and
his wife. The two serials are concluded, the
illustrated articles are very interesting, and the
departments are entertaining and instructive
usual
The Somerset reporter., 1890-05-15

The MAY issue Of the Jenness-A MILLER Maya
zine is not one whit behind its predecessors in
literary excellence and artistic merit. Its fashion
department is for beauty of designs and
originality Of suggestions uuequaled at the
present time. Its talks on physical culture sus-
tain the reputation they have already won OF
being the best papers on this subject ever publish
ed. No woman who values shspeiiness OF neck
ard beauty Of throat should fail TO read the
suggestions given in the talks on Voice in the
present issue Of the maganine.
The Somerset reporter., 1890-05-15

See the completeness # the dem n>tra-
tion i'll Mississippi I The economic law
that Protective tariff especially benefits
farmers. Will benehrlnS the labor and
capital employed IN manufactures.
The Somerset reporter., 1890-05-15

The Russian government, it is sta'ed.
has announced its intention to begin
operations soon on the great railway
across Siberia. Work will begin at Vlad-
ivostok and at the present eastern termi-
nus of the Russian railway system at the
same time. The total length of the line
is to be 4,3,5 miles.
The Somerset reporter., 1890-05-15

DR.. Bissell, of Limestone, NY. Gin
the coil Regions y, writes: 81 have
been using ANGLERS PEIRO-
LEUM EMULSION with Hypo.
phosphites for the last six years with
the Fest of success in incipient and
advanced CONSUMPTION and
CHRONIC BRONCHITIS.
It is palatable, IS well tolerated by the
stomach, and depend upon it to ac-
complish all that anything cam"
Obtain it Of your druggist or
the Angler CHEMICAL CO., Bos1oA,
SOC. and 800 bottle. Pamphlet free.
The Somerset reporter., 1890-05-15

&C n'.iA il. -.,. ,-io,e sios. descend
H.. oH ri-,-' 'r.ni -. idlel 10 'r.r:bg
The Somerset reporter., 1890-05-15

fr-e-Trsde Tsbds to Specialization Of In
dustry Free Raw Materials Would he
ADVANTAGE.
The Somerset reporter., 1890-05-15

Look forward and not backward,
has made itself a watchword of life.
Mr.. Hale is among the very foremost
educators in America, ranking with
England's best and wisest, as Samuel
Smiles and Sir Arthur Helps.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-02-13
KING OF ALL TREES.
A. Sseqnoia Gigantia One Hundred a
-SexeHtS-Six Feet Around.

A&seqaola Gisantia. One Hundred and
seventy DIX Feet Around.
freo ", elongh' weii-known en-
gineer OF the oomstoek' mas been spend
ing some weeks In the WIGS OF the oler-
ras' about tne heaa=waters OF thea ha7
weah river, Ioiare County, oal. lie was
accompanied IN ms wanaerlngs by
w estley warren, an ola Comstocker,
VINO ( now reslues IN !ulare valley.
ABOUT the heao-Waters Oh the haWeah
they got INTO an unexplored ana almost
Ffmpenetrabie region: In one place they
were Obliged to cut traIl Tor nearly
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IDEAL BUTTER-MAkiNG.
A Few Words About the Next Great Nee,
in Dairy Operations.

Few Words About the Next Great Need
Ez-in Dairy Operations.
Though of late years many improve
ments have been made in butter max
ing, and much has been learned as to-
how the milk should be set, the time in
which the cream should raise and the
temperature at which it should be
churned; the indications now are that
the next great need will be practical
invention whereby the cream from each
COW can be kept and churned by itself.
AS a rule man can govern, in matters
of time, -speed and temperature, and
bring these into working harInonysbet-
ter than he can bring about that exact
uniformity in the butter making quail
ties required in dairy cows, for the best
possible results in butter making under
the present methods of setting and
,4churning,
In other words allow the milk of each
COW to vary at times as it may from its
own average standard, or from the aver
age of the herd, but give us practical
method OF getting from. the milk of each
the most and the best butter it is capa-
BILE of producing. When we have this
we will be as far advanced in profitable
dairying as the enthusiast expects to be
when he has a herd SO carefully bred
that the milk of all the cows is exactly
alike; requiring q uniform treatment
throughout from the setting of the milk
to the final taking of the butter from
the churn.--Phil Thrifton, in Farm,
Field and Stockman.
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70 stag there However, II rs better
there than anywhere else NE could 20,
and w6 had TO stay. Our provisions
were All uncooikeds and shout noon We
Clipped on splinters enough to make .
little FIRE to boil our coffee and fry some
bacon Just before dark i measured the
vster and found 1t three feet and half
deep and still rising.
I'VE spent the night ON the platform.
and next morning the water was less
than two feet below the top Of it. Wen,
you can imagine how we lived, and how
we wondered when we were going to
get away, or whether the water would
remain high till we were starved out.
But little after noon that day we heard
a distant shout, and You may depend
we were ,r, net sl2M, ia AtasskAs>
heard it again and again, always COM
ing nearer. and kept answering 1t, and
before long boat came in sight. 1t was
our own skiff and my two girls in it
When the water rose 50 high they were
afraid we would be drowned, and they
took the big boat and rowed up the
canal till they came to the little boat
Then they left -the-big- boat and took
10 the skif, and had not much trouble
u.s. because =slss=fsads girdlea=
good many trees as We came along,
and the marks were fresh.
The water staid UP that time about
three weeks, and If the girls had not
come after us we'd have had our choice
between starving and drowning. But
we don't get caught that way nowadays,
because we know how TO read the signs
better. This girl? Oh, no, she's not one
Of the girls; but she's the daughter Of
one of them. William Drysdale, in n.
" I,;.u1n
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statistical and historical Posnts.o Of Every
day Interest

Statistical and historical Points 81 ksexy
Day INTEREST
There are 3. 80 languages
Watches were first made In i476.
A barrel of rice weighs 600 pounds.
The average human life Is 81 years.
A barrel Of -four weighs 19e pounds.
A barrel OF pork weighs 200 pounds.
The first steel pen was made in 1850.
A. hurricane moves so miles per hour
The value of,a ton OF silver is ss7, so4.-
81
The first lucifer match was made in
The first iron steamship was built in
,sa.lN aasrn needles hrsl can't. ipaB asee< in
1545.
Coaches were Hrst built in England in
1869.
The first horse railroad was built in
1s26-27.
Telegraph wires have TO be renewed
every FIVE or seven years.
Gone million dollars of gold coin
weighs s.6s5 pounds ayoirdupois.
One million dollars Of silver coin
Weighs IS go o pounds axoirdnpoisss=
Until 1916 cotton-spinning was per-
formed by the hand-spinning wheel.
Albert Durer gave the world a proph-
ecy OF future wood engraving in 1927.
Glass windows were first introduced
into England in the eighth century.
The first complete. sewing-machine
was patented by Elias Howe in 1916.
Measure 200 feet on each side, and you
will have a square acre within an inch.
-Worthington' Annual.
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Home Butter-Makinr in w,nts..

Milk should be warmed at this season
of the year until steam appears to rise,
then strain it two or three times and set
it immediately for cream. When the
temperature is going up cream rises but
little, but comes. up rapidly when the
temperature is falling. When milk gets
cold the moisture in the air condenses
on the surface. and this is the time
when cream will absorb bad odors. 1
never put to-day's cream in the cream
pail to be churned tomorrow. 1t is not
ripe enough, and a, great share of it
goes Into bnttermilk. When Scream is
ready to be churned I set the pail in hot
water mot boiling) and stir constantly
until the temperature is about On de-
grees; there is then no trouble in bring
ing butter. When the butter is fairly
gathered in large grannles, let It
stand few moments till the butter
milk settles. Then draw OF, wash
two or three times and salt according to
your customers taste. Mrs. ]. M. Morse.
In Farm and Home
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Expenses 81 Keeplnr PouItrv.

When we are asked if one can engage
in the poultry business and make it pay,
we find At impossible to give salts
factory reply, as thequestion is one that
permits of two constructions. Ifsit is
made a business, the poultryman, to
give it his whole attention, must do
enough business to at least pay for his
time Just how many hens@he=sheuld.
keep to do this depends on his necessi.
ties, but should he fail to keep suifi-
Gent number to occupy his whole time
he will lose, not through any lack of OPP
portunities of deriving profit from the
hens, but from emitting the most inn
portant matter, that of cheapening his
labor bySbestowing it to the best adj
vantage. Or, the other side, few hens
will pay because the labor given them
is not taken from any other pursuit The
large focks entail expense of labor,
while the small fiocks cost nothing in
that respect Farm and Fireside.
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SUCCESS IN DAIRYiNG.
Dairymen, Like Poets, Seem to Be Born,

Dairymen, Like Poets, Seem to BE Born,
=4=a==sR Not Made.
Not every one succeeds in dairying;
even with the same facilities not all are
alike successful. Dairymen, like poets,
seem to be born, not made. Some succeed
under any and all circumstances, while
others fail under the most favorable sur
roundings. Much of success in dairying
depends upon a wise selection of dairy
animals. There is as much difference
between a good COW and poor one as
there is between a slow pillow horse and
Maud s. Certain characteristics mark
good dairy cow. Any one of expert.
ence would not select for dairy COW an
animal bnilt like and resembling fat
Hereford steer. Such beast would not
be likely to prove a great mixer Or a
good butter COW. If one would know the
serve some of the best specimens of the
Jersey, Ayrshire, Guernsey and Holstein.
breed. ByEcareful observation the
dairyman ought to be able to soon learn
so that he can easily pick out the best
Cow in any herd, unless there are a num-
Der of nearly equal merit
Much of success depends upon the
management of herd of cows. A herd
maybe managed in-saeh- a-shiftless
manner as. to be of little profit. Irregu-.
larity in feeding and watering Injuries
the producing capacity of the animal.
Improper food and faulty combinations
are harmful. Sometimes cows are fed
too much rich food, which not only is
liable to injure the health of the animal,
but also fails to secure a profitable re-
turn, because some elements, being fed
in excess Of the quantity required, are
wasted. Pasture grass is good standard
by which to Judge of what is regained,
and this contains one part of protein or
heterogeneous food to five parts of carb-
hydrates, rich in starch and sugar If a
Cow has all she can eat of good pasture
grass. that is all she needs and she would
not do better by having more. Very
few cows, however, get all they can eat
Of good pasture grass, except, perhaps,
for few weeks in spring. If fed other
food the rule should be to make it as
good as pasture grass and no better.
The proper management Of the milk
and cream is another requisite to sue
cess. By proper care and cleanliness
any one ought to be able to produce
frst-class quality of butter. Butter max
ing is a purely mechanical process. and
any one who will give sufficient atten-
ton to the details of the process can
generally succeed Cheese-making in
wolves chemical processes and is more
complicated industry, requiring special
training to insure success. Most of the
sheese-making, however, is done in fac
tories.-I. Reynolds, NJ. D., in Farm
and Ham4a
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watches In card Gases.

Among the latest, novelties in the
way of card eases is very dainty little
one made Of very finely dressed leather.
In one corncrof the case is set a tiny
little watch The effect of this is very
pretty, and, besides this, the combina-
tion is very useful one. Ladies are often
put to agreat deal Of trou BILE in taking
out their watches when on the street.
Carrying this little time-piece set in
their card case or pocket-book saves
them all this trouble, and then, too,
when making calls they have a little
gentle reminder in their hands that
they must not overstay their welcome.
Watches set in this way in card cases
and pocket-books are much more popular
than the bracelet watch attachment.
The novelty was imported from Paris,
but is now being manufactured very
largely in this country. The cost Of
these card cases and pocket-books is
from seven dollars and fifty cents up
N. u. Mail and Express.
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AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

You can now plan, If not pillow, for tho
next years crop. - : :
WITH something definite ahead. the
average boy will remain on the-~farm
when most needed
EDUCATE the whole, mantle head,
the heart, the body; the head to think,
the heart to feel, the body to act.
If you noticed break in any of the
machinery when you put it away, now is
the time to repair it. Don't wait till
ready to use.
THIS is good time to clean up the
woodwork of tho tools and give them a
coat of paint, if naeded. If you can not
do this without going in debt, give them
coat of oil-even kerosene will be bet
ter than none.
THE rich black liquid that flows off the
barn-yard contains the wealth of the
farm. Use absorbent material and save
it. The loss of liquid manure is great,
and if saved would not only add fertiliz-
ing matter to the farm but increase the
value of the solids.
PRESIDENT CHAMBERLAIN, OF Iowa, in
the Ohio Farmer, says: "Ghange brings
expense and loss in all things, especially
in farming, and should never be made
without clear proof of a net advantage
to be gained. 1t will cost a thrifty
farmer far more than 81, 900 to move. to
another State and get started as we'll
again, and another 81, 900 to learn new
methods. for soil and climate. VIII it
pay to change? Take the two States Of.
Ohio and Iowa grand States. My ad.
vice to nearly all the farmers in both
States would be to stay right where they
are and do the best they can there.V
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4
Oat meal Is grand food for the COW.
II she has plenty Of snch food as cat
meal and bran, she viii not need oil
meal which we 50 often recommend
Keep the outside Of the udder clean,
II you do not keep the rest Of the COW 90.
Milk from filthy udder can mot be kept
slean.-Western Rural.
Corn meal Stops with little salt
added VIII make cows drink more water.
Some dairymen put pound Of oil meal
or bran with a little salt into the drink
ing water. In winter the water drank
can be considerably increased by warm
ing 1t. Cows will drink more warm
water than cold.
The Qhia Experiments Ssssasiaas sass4
cludes that beets are better calculated
for milk production than ensilage is. In
our humble opinion the man who has
roots to feed need not lose sleep because
he has no ensilage, That has always
boon our opinion. But people at large
will not grow roots.-Western Rural.
If fifty per cent. Of the cows in this
country should be butchered in the next
six months Tor three would be better) it
would great y add to the prof Is Of the
dairy business. If any of our readers
have worthless cows, they can begin the
reform. 1t is a work that will pay
every one who takes part in it.
The following hints we find going
the rounds credited to DAIRY Rules"
Mich cows ought to be we'll fed and
treated with the utmost gentteness. All
sudden changes in the feed, temperature
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FORGOT HIS BRIDE.

An Amusing Anecdote About Edison's
Queer Absent Mindedness.
doubt the story Of Thomas A.
Edison's first marriage has ever been
told in print. AS every body knows,
Edison is q very absentsminded man
when once he becomes thoroughly abb
sorbcd in subject. He married his
first wife after brief courtship.
Shortly after the nuptial knot had
been tied Edison began thinking of
soine intricate mechanical or electrical
problems. Without saying word to
his bride or the wedding guests he went
INTO his laboratory and began work.
Mrs. Edison knew her husbands ec-
centricities and accepted the situation
philosophically y. ----.~=.------
She went to the bridal chamber and
prepared AvtoSwait up for her better
half. Finally becoming very sleepy,
She retired. When she awoke in the
morning. her husband was still absent
Mr.. Edison did not appear all Of that
day or the following night 1t was just
forty-eight hours after the marriage
had been performed that Mrs. Edisoa,
into her husbands workshop.
When she entered the room she saw
the inventor lying on his work bench
sleeping peacefully. OF course she gave
a little shrek, womanlike, you know,
but the PROSTATE form, with boots on
and toes turned heavenward, never
budged.
Upon closer examination by Mrs. Edi-
son, who had noted the regular breath
ing of her -..huhhie,,3 she-discopered
that his wedding clothes were covered
with oils and chemicals. She then be
Game reaEapgr and walking uxer-to the
bench where her husband lay shook him
roughly.
''Go away from me, he shouted not
Knowing where he was. eco way
from me, | say; can't you see I'm think.
ing2o
Il should say You were. Tommy re.
piled his wife. Now, don't you think
it is about time You took off the think
ing cap of yours and gave me a little at
tention?'
well, I'll think about it as you re-
quest, responded the inventor. Now,
please let me alone, or fear | shall be
forced to set tho new double back-action
self-propelling fire hose all-all-''
AT this luncture Edison suddenly
came to and, jumping up exclaimed:
WHO am ], where am |, and who are
your
When his wife told him who and
where he was and who she was, TO use a
term Uncommon parlance, you could
have bought him for cont, he felt SO
cheap.
4 had forgotten all about my mar
riage," he said
well. 1 hope, responded his wife,
you won't let this occur again" and
am inclined to believe that he didn't
n. " Press
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How Horses should Be Fed.

Bearing in mind that the stomach of
horse is small in proportion to the size
of his Frame he requires feeding often,
and, though three times day is sllff;-
cient, four times is better. Unlike
human beings, horses should drink be-
fore they eat, because, owing to the CON
formation of ~the horse, water does not
remain in the stomach, but passes
through into a large intestine called the
cacu.n. ia horse be fed first, the water
passing through the stomach would be
likely to carry with it PARTICLES of food,
and thus bring about collie. Whatever
a groom may say, let a horse drink just
as much as he likes. If he, BIO watered
four times day he will never take very
much, or too much. A horse, it must
be remembered, Is fed on dry food, and
this, with the strong work done, pro-
duces feverishness which sufliciency
Of water tends to allsy. The American
Breeder.
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IN THE FIRELIoHT.


There Il sunlight for the worker.
There II moonlight for the lover,
\ There h gasifght for the beauty, win her gem
tiaspcd neck and arms
And for me. when day il over,
And troop OF fancies beyer,
There's the tender, fiickcring freight With lis
ower-varying charms. 6
When before its shrine I'm kneeIine,
Soft hame-dngers upward stealing
wrap me In rosy garment, and o'erfiow the
Mllenl rQJtq
Then withdrawing, lingering, dying,
All the vacant space outlying EsX.
Seems trystingpiace for shadows, gliding
from the deeper gIooya. "
At my touch again upsprfngng
Listen 10 the rhythmic singing,
Three-fold melody It's weaving, song Of brook
y and bee and bird.
Yet with these there blends another,
Strangely swcet--af long lost brother,
ffs the hHppy, careless cadence that in child
hoods days. / heard ...,=s,.,z=
Scenes my constant breast remembers
Pictured lie upon the embers--
Faces that no other where may greet my long.
ing eyes;
Blessed hour OF fre-lit dreaming,
All I've lost Is mine in seeming,
When the spell Of thine enehantment opes the
gates Of Paradise
---.-----HcIen Weld, in Transcript Monthly
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FIG. .. BOX FOR rRoueIle.

their droppings when they jump on rne
box and make roost Of it, which they
are. certain to do.
Feed at one time only as much as they
will eat up clean, and keep the trough
well washed out. Nothing is more pro-.
ductive OF mouth, throat and bowel dis
eases in chicks than soured and musty
food, or filthy feed-trough. Fig. Isl
wooden trough for feeding grain and
other dry food to grown fowls, -or-for
placing bone, gravel, she'll, etc, in. 1t
is hung about eight inches above the
floor, upon two large nails driven into
the wall of the poultry-house or other
building. The wire bars in the cover
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are three inches apart, bent, driven into
the strips andelinched, same as in the
other box. The cover is hinged so that
it-can- be raised when the trough needs
cleaning out. 1t inclines at such an
acute angle that the fowls can not make
a roost of it, and the food is kept per-
fectly free from all impurities. It is
about four inches wide and can be made
of any desired length. This trough
takes up very little room, and is especi-
ally useful for keeping graduated bone,
gravel, she'll, ETC., in. No poultry-house
is complete without three or four OF
them.-American Agriculturists
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An important feature Of the work is its
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