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The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
What Is A EArmerS

A farmer is a feeder. he feeds every thing on his farm-the horses, cattle sheep hogs, poultry. wife, children, help. all the rats, cats and dogs, mos- quitoes and all the vermin, and finally the farm itself. Unfortunately he too often forgets the farm. He knows that if ne don't feed the live stock. as per catalogue above, they will die on his hands. He doesn't seem to know that if he don't feed the farm it will die on his hands too, and that when it dies all the rest will die. How curious it is that man should forget or neglect to feed his land or his crops, and as a consequence be totally unable to feed his stock. This is case of absence of mind but if a man never had any mind. how could he suffer from it's ab- sence2
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Hints for uousekeepers.

There is more typhoid fever in the coun- try than in the city. Wells and privieY are too near together.
 The juice of half lemon in a teacup of strong black coffee, without sugar, will often cure a sick headache,
 Do not salt beef before or while cook ing, and it draws out the juices, which, in boiling especially are thereby lost
 An earthen flower pot half filled with powdered charcoal and fine sand to the depth of four inches added is a cheap water filter
 In making custard, pumpkin or lemon pies it is better to partly bake the crust before adding the mixture, so that 1t may not be absorbed by the paste
 To clean gold jewelry with the stones in, wash in warm studs made of fine soap, with ten or fifteen drops of salvolatile in 1t. This makes jewelry very brilliant
 If a little cornstarch is put in the salt for the table it will keep it from Jumping, and the pretty little shakers will not have so hard scolding in damp weather
 Instead of using a whole egg to clear coffee, save the shells from cake, omeletes, etc, and put little cold water into the cup with the shell and the white that al ways remains. It clears the coffee just as we'll
 To clean and restore the elasticity of clne chair bottoms, couches, etc, turn out fl 1t can be, and wash with hot water and sponge. Should it be soiled much, add soap. Let dry in the air. and yon will find it as tight and firm as new.
 When the ankle has been severely sprained immerse 1t immediately in hot water. keeping it there for fifteen or twenty minutes After it has been taken out of the water keep it bandaged with cloths wrung out of hot water
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Beet Sugar.

Under the stimulous of the. sugar bounty it is to be expected that within the next few years large number of attempts will be made to produce beet sugar. The experiments made at the agricultural department stations show that many states can proiitably grow sugar beets. The difficulty will be to get established that combination be- tween grower and manufacturer which is necessary for the economical pro- duction of sugar The old habits of farming will not produce sugar beets. The ground must be prepared careful ly and thoroughly, and no farmer who has not improved tools and who cannot devote considerable amount of atten- tion to the work need expect to grow beets at a profit. Then, too, the fac tory for producing the sugar must be constructed with care and it's opera tions must be conducted with economy. The bounty will help those who help themselves; but it will not allow care lessness or waste.
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HOW WOOD CLOTH IS MADE.
And Yet Again Has Mnd Triumphed
 Over Matter.

Over Natter
 Mitscherlich has applied the bisul- phite process for reducing wood to the production of fibre from wood which can be spun into cloth. Thin boards or laths, free from knots, but of any desired width are cut into strips in a direction parallel to the grain and are then boiled in boiler containing a solution of sulphuric or bisulphite acid. After boiling the wood it is dried in the open air or in specially constructed drying rooms. By being thus dried, the fibre, which is original ly very weak and likely to break at the slightest strain, becomes comparatively strong, and does not resume it's very breakable condition on the addition of water. The operations carried out in fitting this wonderful production for the spinning wheel and the loom are as follows says the St. Louis Republic:
 The damp mass of pulp described above is dumped from the frame of the mixer onto travelling endless cloth, which carries the pulp to pair of rollers, which are sometimes plain and sometimes provided with corruga- tions in the direction of their length, the ribs or cogs of one roller being made so as to gear into the recesses of the other, whereby they effect sim- ultaneous strong bending and squeez- ing power. The cutting of the mate rial in passing through the corrugated rollers is avoided by causing the end less cloth to pass over the lower roller, and by placing canvass covering around the upper one. The pressed mass falls from this first set of rollers onto another endless cloth, which con veys it to second pair of rollers, from which, in turn, it is conveyed to third pair, and so on. until it has passed down six endless cloths and through six pairs of rollers. By con- tinued treatment of the wood pulp with the bisulphite the flores at length become as pliable and isolated from each other as so many strands of cot ton or wollen yarn. and is said to make a strong and splendid thread for use in all textiles where a coarse iilament is required.
 The separation of the extractable matter is usually done after the fibre has been spun into threads or woven into cloth. Prof. Wayman says that with this process it is possible for a woodman to fell large tree in the morning and wear it as suit of clothes or walk on it as carpet by evening.
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
USE FENSES TO KEEP OUT THE
 HOO CHOLERA.
Medicine May be Beneficial if Given With Cnderstanding-AbleH Hints From An Old Man-Notes and
 Household Hints.
Fence Out Hog Cholera.

It has long been known that hog cholera was contagious and now it is understood that all such diseases are caused by a specific germ or bacteria. This germ is not carried by the air, but is carried as we might carry feed. Healthy hogs 100 feet from diseased ones could not contract the epizootio unless the microbes causing it were carried by dogs, rats or birds, or by the attendants clothes boots. etc. or in feed. This being true l claim that the dirty, omnivorous dog, does more to spread hog cholera than any other agent. Then to insure hogs against this plague fence in the hog lots and pastures with picket fence that will turn dogs. With such fence sheep can be kept, hogs are safer and all stock are less liable to hydrophobia. The slats for such fence may be split by some farmers and woven with Garret or Little Giant fence machine. Dog proof fences would save the coun- try many thousands. yes millions of dollars. To keep swine disease away. be careful not to introduce sick hogs among healthy ones; burn all that die of disease. When herd is infected the diseased ones should be taken out as soon as noticed. and treated. or bet ter and cheaper still, killed and burned. Medicines that are said to prevent cholera are humbugs yet medicine may be beneficial, if given with understanding; however, far more depends on feed and water Those fed exclusively on corn, are more suscepti- ble to disease. and larger per cent die. An infected pen should not be used for six months after the sick hogs are removed. The department has ex- perimented on the vitality of the virus in soil, and think it would be safe after six months. The department also recommends the use of lime as a disinfect for hog cholera virus. l would also caution hog raisers to be- ware of infected water courses. - Journal of Agriculture.
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Dumb CourtShip.

A Hungarian woman thirty-one years old was n passenger in canal boat that reached Brooklyn from Kensing- ton. When the boat was made fast she and the boats commander. aged siSty-six, went arm in arm to q police court and were married. Neither could speak the others language; so the ceremony. like the counting, had to be performed with tho aid of an in. terpreter.
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Farm Notes.

It takes considerable horse sense to edu- cate nervous and high-lived colt to steady ways, and many are ruined hy lack of it in their trainers -
 There is no food that will produce a more liberal supply of eggs than the scraps gathered from the table; so instead of throwing them away just throw them to your fowls.
 Hoard's Dairyman says: Creamery butter is that made from the milk or cream of two or more herds of cows. Dairy put ter is that made from the milk or crean, of single herd.
 The income from the COWS furnishes the farmer cash receipts steadily throughout tho entire year, which cannot be said oi any other branch of farming, excepting perhaps the poultry.
 Ask the boys opinions in regard to mak- ing up teams, breeding. etc, if you wan, them to become interested in horses. Their judgment may be better than yours, though you have had more experience than they
 w. H. Rudd, at farmers meeting iri Boston said; "An energetic man could dc better with 400 than with 600 fowls and save the food of the other 200. No one man could take care of 900 and make them pay Sl profit
 No nation can grow more healthy pork than the Americans should grow from the products of the farm, fed in cleanly and sensible way. The filth that is too often allowed to enter ipto this branch of meal production is the hurtful feature.
 Punishment is rarely necessary for q horse unless he Is vicicts In that case you may have long fight before you, against odds of superior strength and eu durance. Kindness and patience will ac. complish much more than harsh treat ment.
 The Jersey Bulletin says: 'sThe art ol breeding is very much like the constitu ton of England-one of the grandesl things known, indeed, but just precisely what it is, no man has yet written down It is unwritten law. So again, the art oi breeding is somewhat like religion; to dc you any good you must get 1t by 0xperi euce.''
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BY WIlolesmle.

A Baptist missionary tells of l.37l persons being baptized in one place, between the hours of 80 and 6 o'clock D. m., by three ministers. This is an average of more than one hundred to the hour for each officiating baptizer more than three in every two min- utes. That beats the record. They must have been decidedly muscular Christians to accomplish such feat.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
A Cows Cost.

No COW should cost less than $40 for her years's keep, and none should make less than $60 year. This leaves the smallest margin of profit that any man should be content with. It is quite possible to make a $40 q year COW bring in $50 year, which is the least that a dairyman should aim at
 And another aim which should be a steady one is "one COW to the acre.
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When to Chnrn.

| An English authority says the best 1 test for determining when cream is
 sufficiently ripe for churning is that afforded by the use of blue litmus paper. This paper can bs obtained of
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any chemist and the only thing re- quired to be done is to immerse little slip of it in the cream. If on its with drawal the color at once changes to . bright red. the cream is sufficiently ripe for churning; otherwise, not.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-11-24
A WELL HELPS OUT TIE BRIDGE
Water Pumped Over the Housetops-Tho
Cables Resume Work After u Recess.

Water Pumped Over the Houaetops-Tho
Cables Resume Work After " Recess.
Water failed at the Brooklyn bridge tanks
yesterday morning. This made it necessary
to rake out the fires ut tho cable plant. and at
$3.50 orders were given to stop the cable. Tho
little locomotives. which can pull two cars
each. we're set to work. and 1t was possible to
keep six two-car trains in operation at one
time. running every two and one-half minutes.
or 40 trains an hour This did very we'll In the
slow hours but was a bad substitute for 100
five-car trains an hour in the rush times.
OF ss Is street
s. hs s Eat ss
which is ied with water from an artesian we'll.
and that there was more water there than he
s %'tS Mr %obeussIl. spa saw that i IonE
to the engine room OF the cable plant it would
be possible to get almost as much water as
ear earl IN the day that hose Be run 70 the
81 9as for @ats OF
Ir. Martin applied 70 the Brooklyn Fire De-
for t. hose from
only '1 Sranied but tiiteen lremen from Engine
Company No; q in charge Of Assistant Chief
enough hose. After an hours work the fire.
men had run the pipe over the roofs of the in
se k 1sased
to IN
Sas s%s dns ase
as
ss u ssTss! 1T psssSs e
esstfis lIsSss we're Shining as brightly as il
Nj. Martin had expected; :, and ct $40 ocl1ck
were not to be Obtained this morning they
sSsS ns esas
for the water or for the use OF his pumps.
%ns n ast as sonns kspt
people from taking to the promenade at first.
and as result the. jam at the New YYork ter.
could not carry OF the people one-quarter as
fast as they came. Once caught in the crowd
waited fifteen or twenty minutes. and were
we'll wedged in. often decided to fight their
{rSsas IL T Ra d IF s ha s.Ps sa
who had become hopeiessiy entaneied in femi-
Msks the Ysls;%@ shouted one and then s,.
and tore women's skirts. A few screams in
Che crowd told OF trampled eorns; and then .
Thirty. additional patromen had been sta
toned along the promenade and at the New
York entrance. The men at the ticket offices
had orders to urge people to walk. and most Of
those who came from down. town did walk.
Several times the heavily laden trains we're
the terminus. but shrill whistle from the
powerless locomotive called another to its as
sistance and things moved On.
Between 5h and o'clock solid stream OF
humanity poured over the promenade toward
Brooklyn. There was little rain. but the wind
WAS hlownp n gale and hOwled among the
cables and crosspieces. Hats took flying trips
into the darkness and skirts would not be-
have modestly. The wind was so strong that
one seemed to feel tho heavy steel structure
swing to 1t.
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Been sun beside tSsm a aitstnp e , sIso
phone message was sent to the Spring Creek
gate house TO turn on the voter. Befe,e rats
carry an inspector through the conduit was
tsr1ssh Sy shss lie water would carry
II through. but although the water came the
,spSsS Co ro TsS 81 so
the Ss1 70 sGue asks
b9 Rss ct sauss ososi When the water
from Spring Greek began K show Itself In the
about S sss ~ feet AFTER That Il lowed s.sadlly
actiy 1--WE feet Of water in the well in the Ridge
Ed abS s5s %s IN he nsa s's
KS sSGS sst & T ts four Fsan Rs
Soad Be s%ent fa%y
T wa water was Kept shallow In the conduit IN
0Ifsa g . tSs xss.s
hnS rsps Il o' ssSss
Of 81 ina ds ss Fhsls
Is there.
Those in charge OF the repairing Of the
break seemed to understand that this was q
dangerous spot, and concentrated all their
force. al ter cleaning out the conduit In IN
effort to get the. pile Of sand away, before an
Hauled into service and at i'd o'clock the sand.
q quarter OF o ton at q time. was being re-
moved. .
Chief En- gineer Van Buren, said at II o'clock
that there need be no further fear OF q water
I'VE are oil right now" he said. and can
give the city all the water 1t needs. OF course.
toll what might happen. and It will be we'll to
preserve economy. but as matters now look
we shall be. square on our feet again In u very
few hours"
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TRANS, the water being ankle deep. Between
this village and Mclean barn was unroofed;
mhf te e o the yseTery Of
impossible by washouts 81
Canandaigua. Palmyra, Geneseo. Havana. and
other points in this portion Of western New
wnd sor o. e e
tornado. and demolished houses and barns
oyer a tract enc nile long and half mile wide.
$50 tonight. According to the report at the
region has experienced since e the SUSPENSION
Bridge was blown down four years ago.
Tas rtsas s"Fss
81 communication with most outside places:
bsps store
damage has been done to shipping in the har-
The velocity Of the wind is increasing. At g
O'clock there was hardly any wind. but at $50
hoa Jumped 13 he sse to had sfty ren %s
,, During the performance at the Academy Of
wire and left the house in total darkness: Re-
ports from every police precinct n the city say
It is dificult to Obtain information Of the eI.
PiT1ss y NOV; 2s,.Heavy rains "a. and gales
fell and buried a woman beneath it.
In the east end of the city great damage is
reported Finley's Bun. which flows into the
Allegheny River at Brilliant Station. was trans
formed from an insignificant stream into a
raging torrent, and several houses near its
mouth were either carried away or were shift
cd from their foundations
At Shady Side in the Twentieth ward the
streets several feet deep with mud and water.
and bursting the sewers in several instances.
At Soho the water rushed down Second av-
enue in such volume as to stop the electric
cars. and In the lower part OF the city business
was entirely suspended.
In Allegheny City great alarm was felt, and
persons living in the vicinity Of Butchers Run.
the scene of the disaster OF 1874. when twenty
or more persons were drowned. began moving
their household effects
Up to 2 o'clock. however. no damage had
been caused in that vicinity. although in the
and communication was possible along River
street only in boats. The neighborhood Of
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In the Biz Hotels.

The Clarendon. at Washington and johnson
streets was the only one OF the big hotels In
Brooklyn much Inconvenience by the scarcity
OF water. The elevators were stopped and gas
was used instead Of electric lights during the
afternoon. but in the evening steam was got
up again. No work was done in the laundry
and the baths could not be used. The stop
page OF the elevators compelled many OF the
guests to climb six stories At the Clarendon
water was used as sparingly as possible in tho
restaurant and for other necessary purposes.
The water used there yesterday came from
tank on the roof which had been filled Sunday.
thing was running yesterday at the 81. George
as usual Capt. Tnmbridge, the proprietor :
enough for two days; In three tanks on the
were kept running all day, and the electric
light plant was also In working order:
" II It should be necessary" said he. we
would stop tho electric lights before we stop
the elevators, The hotel is nine stories high.
and 1t would be a great Inconvenience for our
guests to have to climb to their rooms"
The scarcity of water was not felt at the
Plerrepont, where there is q big artesian we'll.
At the Mansion House the laundry and the
baths were closed. In tank on the roof was
enough water for O day.
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AND Il FIRE OCCURS.
Nevertheless Hose II Run Into an Artosian
Well and 1t Is Put Out.

While the scarcity OF water was beginning to
be felt In Brooklyn. yesterday morning, fire
occurred on the third floor Of the four-story
brown stone house. 237 Carroll street, occu-
pied by Shipbuilder Edward Downing. 1t is
supposed to have been started by some OF Mr..
Downing's grandchildren in the nursery play
ing with matches. Two Of the children were
caught in the smoke. and were with difficulty
rescued by Mr.. Downing. who ran to Court and
Carroll streets and sent out an alarm.
When Engine Company arrived from
its station IN Degraw, street and attached
the hose pipes to the neighhsorng ny,
OF water was MT suficlent for use on the fire.
Chief Engineer Nevins extended the, hose line
to the Planet Mills close by. where there is a
and also to the Gowanus Canal. During the
delay In procuring water the upper part OF the
building was enveloped In flames. but In few
minutes after the engines got to work with
the water from the new sources the fire was
contents was but $4,000.
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ST BARTHoLoMLW's PARISH HOUSE.
DIR. Depew and Bishop Potter speak Mt tho
Opening Cere monies.


Tho formal opening OF st. Bartholomew
Parish House took place last evening in the
beautiful new building In Forty-second street.
Just east Of Third avenue. before n largo
audience. After a prayer by the Rev. Dr.
Grier. the rector OF st. Bartholomew's Bishop
Potter delivered brief address,
Chauncey NJ. Depew said 1t gavs him great
pleasure to make an address on the occasion
Of the opening OF the parish house, Possibly
reputation was that he was not In the habit OF
making speeches without the customary fee Of
q dinner.
He spoke Of the great good mission Of this
kind would do. DIR. Depew and the Bishop
both praised the generosity OF the Vanderbilts
in giving the money to found SO needful an in
stitution., DR.. Greer spoke briefly, and after
for Inspection, Among those present were:
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Elliott F.
Webb, Mr: George KRspR, the Misses Knapp.
who has entire charge OF the building.
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SHORT RATIoNs ON GoHERNoR's1 ISLAND
They Expected Last Night That They
Would Have 10 buy Water To-day.

The residents on Governors Island had to
get along on very small and carefully dealt
out allowance OF water yesterday. and unless
the damage to the Brooklyn conduit Is re-
paired this morning they will probably have
to 60 even shorter to-day. The island is en-
tirely dependent on Brooklyn for all OF its regu-
lar water supply. and Capt. Barnett. the Quar-
termastor. said that doubtless but for the
timely warning tho Sun reporter gave him on
Sunday night the island would have been
very dry spot indeed yesterday. except on the
outside. Capt. Barnett looked out at the down.
pour Of rain that was threatening to wash the
piles Of cannon and shot of the island into the
rivor. and remarked ruefully:
"Theres great plenty OF water around
here just now fresh and salt. but it does not
do us any good. We have no provision. for
storing rain water. and not much for storing
any at all"
The old tank in Fort Columbus. usually
empty. was filed Sunday night. ana this with
the few cisterns and domestic rcceptacles Of
all kinds hurriedly filed at the same time
yesterday na The usual daily consumption is
and was instructed to observe the most rigid
closely observed. The supply may help