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The Forrest City times., 1891-09-04
ONLY A SPIDER.
Yet II Brought Ruin and Defeat to tn
 Dutch Nation.

Dutch Nation.
 When the French quartermaster, Disjonval was confined in prison by the Dutch at Utrecht he sought to be- guile the tedium of his prison lifo by attentively studying tho habits of tho spiders which flequented his cell. and eight years of Imprisonment gave him leisure to be well vcrsed in tkoir ways. In December of lT9l the French army, on whose victory over the Dutch de- pended Disjonvars restoration to lb- crty. were in Holland. and the victory seemed certain if the frost which was then of unprecedented severity, con- tinued.
 The Dutch envoys had failed to ne- gotiate peace, and Holland was de- spairing when the frost suddenly broke. The Dutch were now exulting, and the French generals prepared to retreat; but the spiders of Disjonvars 5 cell forewarned him that tho thaw would be of short duration, and he knew that his little insect weather monitor never deceived him. Accord ingly he contrived to communicates his weather knowledge to the army of his countryman. and its generals. who duly estimated his (Disjonvars) character. relied upon his assurance that within a few days the waters would again be frozen so as to be passable to tho French troops. They delayed their retreat; within twelve days sharp freeze set in. and the French army tri- umphed. Disjonval was released. and a spider had brought ruin to the Dutch nation. St Louis Republic.
The Forrest City times., 1891-09-04
Purehaslng Naill Feed.

Nearly every farmer uses ton or more of mill feed annually. and when he depends upon the local miller fol his supply sometimes he has diff. culty in getting it, if he waits until he needs 1t most. Also he must pay the highest price for it then. During the summer when the demand is light, bran and shipstuffs accumulate in the average mill in large quantities. and the miller is glad to sell them at lower prices than he can get for them later. Therefore, it is well for the farmer to lay in his supply just before harvest, If he can spare the cash for the invest ment and he has a suitable place to store it in.
 If it is bought just before the new wheat crop is delivered it will be very dry and keep without difficulty in dry apartment We have some bran that was bought year ago and it is quite as good as when it was taken from the mill. It cost us $s per ton less than it would if bought January l. It is rarely that one is enabled to save 66 per cent by investing at the right time; yet this was the gain on single ton of bran by buying in June instead of January. The hauling was done easier at that time because of good roads and this with the certainty of getting what was wanted without de- lay was considerable item.
 Those who have bin for this pur- pose can conveniently store their mill feed now. There is scarcely anything more desirable in well l-managed barn than bran bin, yet those who have not got one can do as we did with the surplus last summer. There were a number of empty fertilizer bags which were filled and laid in q dry corner. as the contents of the bin were drawn out 1t was retilled from the bags. All mill feed is quoted higher than it was this time last year, but the indications are that tho prices will be fully as high next winter and perhaps higher; hence. there will be scarcely any risk in buying a ton or more of mill feed before harvest. J. L., in National StOckman
The Forrest City times., 1891-09-04
\ Disyusted Soldier.

An lrishman serving in the United States army in Texas. and belonging to the infantry. was in tho habit of standing with his toes pointing inward. to remedy which the sergeant con tinually addressed him while on pa rade with: Stick out your toes. Patrick" It took Patrick years to ac- quire the habit of sticking his toes out Just about the time he had succeeded he was transferred to the cavalry. where his habit of sticking out his toes interfercd much with his usefulness as U horseman. Tho sergeant was con. tinually calling to him: Stick in those toes, Patrick" much to his dis gust and he exclaimed with some emphasis: ''Divil take such service. For five years 1t was nothing but Stick out your toes Patrick There is no plazin' the blackguards. ."-Texas Sift- inpS
The Forrest City times., 1891-09-04
No nread.

Antoinette de Bourbon, the mother of the Guises. had. in addition to her other fine qualities, good sense. One example of the discipline to which she subjected the young Guises indicates that had there been more mothers like her in her class there would have been less of ruthless extravaganza on the part of the royalty and nobility of France. The young nobles wore out hunting and rode through fields which had been sown with corn. The duchess heard of it. That evening. according to the tradition preserved at Joinville.
 there was no bread on the supper table The princes at once asked for bread. astonished at such negligence in this well-0rdered household. My children" replied Antoinette. 'it is necessary to economize flour. since you have destroyed the future harvest T
The Forrest City times., 1891-09-04
HALF 4 CHANCE MEN.
Some or Our ramous People Cot . Rs start In lIlA.

start In life.
 How many men have succeeded in life to whom not q single circumstance was kind? asks the Detroit Free Press. How often we hear pt c say of some worthless fellow: An. well, f uevcf had half . chance" But there are plenty of boys who have come 10 the front in life's battle who never had even . quarter of chance.
 Take Thomas Ball. the sculptor. for instance. He was but 12 years old when his father died. The poor widow -Thcmas' mother, young herself and far from strong. had five young chil- dren. There was no more school for Thomas after his fathers death. He must go to work and help to support the rest He got a place in a grocery store where they gave him xl week.
 Not much that--but what a differ ence it made to the poor little family!
 From the time he was l2 young Ball had always to work for the others. un- til they were all grown up.
 He had little instruction, even in his art, and he never had that little until after he had earned the money to pay for it. But--he succeeded.
 Then there was that other sculptor. Hiram Powers Hiram was the eighth of nine children. and he was very small boy when his father died; and like Ball. he had to go to work for the family. He had been born in Yer mont but his parents had moved out to Ohio in that way poor people have of roaming hither and yon after better luck.
 It was in Ohio that the father died and in Ohio that Hiram fought his youthful battle. For seven years he had charge of the wax figures in Gin cinnati museum and it was while there that he felt an impulse toward his fu- turc art and tried his prentice hand at modelling in clay.
 But 1t was not until he was 80 years old that he was permitted to strike out for himself. and he was 32 before he had money enough to go to Italy. Yet he was to he the sculptor of the Crock Slave.
 Peter Cooper who founded the Cooper institute, had still greater struggle, because as boy his health was the frailcst. He vent to school but one year of his life. and during that year he could only 20 every other day But when he was 5 years old he was earning his living by pulling hair from the skins of rabbits his father shot to make hat pulp
 He had not .ialf S chance It seemed almost literally that he had no chance at all. He went to New York when he was : years old to make his fortune. He walked the streets for days before he got q place, and then apprenticed himself to q carriage maker for five years for his board and $2 a month.
 He had neither time nor money for what people call pleasures but he had the pleasure of hope. While he was working for 90 cents week he said to himself: If l ever get rich 1 will build place where the poor boys and girls of New York may have an education free'-and he did it.
 William Hunt the painter, used to say; Don't talk of what you want to do-do it."
The Forrest City times., 1891-09-04
Among the Poultry.

Keep the laying hens away from the manure pile
 Feed the moulting hens light feed of linseed meal daily.
 If picked regularly, geese will furnish four crops of feathers regularly.
 Provide some convenient nesting places or the hens will hide their nests out.
 A little raw salt pork is a good remedy to give to hens that have got into the habit of pulling feathers.
 To secure a good laying strain sslect bullets from hens that have upon fair trial proved themselves good layers.
 A fence feet high is sufficient for all of the larger breeds of ducks, and house lox20 feet is big enough for twenty five ducks
 If provided with comfortable shelter ducks will begin laying in February and keep 1t up regularly until September. They are better for eggs than hens.
The Forrest City times., 1891-09-04
Usc of the Roller.

As the result of experiments in roll ing land at the Wisconsin station, Prof. King concludes:
 l. Rolling makes the temperature ct one and a halt inches below the surface from to deg, Fah., warmer than similar unrolled ground in the same locality, and at three inches 1 to $ deg. warmer ?. Rolling land by firming the soil increases it's power of drawing water to the surface from be- low. and this influence has been ob- served to extend to depth of three feet 8. The evaporation of moisture is more rapid from rolled than from unrolled ground. unless the surface soil is very wet. and then the reverse is true and the drying effect of rolling has been to extend to depth of four feet 4. In cases of broadcast seeding, germination is more complete on rolled than on unrolled. It was 68 per cent greater on rolled. Greatest in dry and least in wet weather. and weighed
The Forrest City times., 1891-09-04
ALONE.
4S Me puts forth to sec alone;
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S Me puts forth to sec alone;
 The skies are dark above, All round hear the gray waters moan Alas for vanished love! 70 lonely life that presseth on
 Across these waters of years, Where are the guiding pilots gone Whose is the hand that steersl' The pilots they are left behind
 Upon yon golden strand; We drift before the driving wind;
 We cannot miss the land That land to which we hurry on,
 Across the angry years; Hope being dead, and sweet love gone, There is no hand that steers.
The Forrest City times., 1891-09-04
Among the Flow~r~.

An eccentric New Yorker. much given to hospitality has concealed among the flowers on his dinner table an artificial mocking- bird, which. as the pressure of an electric wire by his foot flutters and gives a musical chirp Strangers are amused by tho ingenius toy. but his family and friends under stand that the bird only flies and sings when subject is broached which is likely to prove offensive or painful to one of the guests.
The Forrest City times., 1891-09-04
 Chickens Under Glass -Gap~s.

My experience with hot bed" chickens was successful. says writer to the Ohio Farmer, and l wcs aSle Co put the first chickens on the Newark market April 22d, at Si per dozen. They were matched Jan. 2oth and raised under glass in an old hot bed It was simply hole two feet deep in the ground, with board sides earth bottom and glass top There was no manure used. I kept the bottom lit- tered with straw, which 1 changed frequently. The chicks never felt the cold, and had light and full benefit of sunshine. On pleasant days they were taken out short time and the bed we'll aired. never had to cover the glass but would have to sweep of snow when it fell. They grew and were perfectly well and happy; were fed on cracked corn, milk and always water. The expense of the bed is trifiing and was extremely well pleased. It requires considerable resolution to reserve the bullets when selling. but they will pay in being early layers and setters in the fall. My later matched chicks sold for s. 60 The money is in the early bird.
 Now about those fatal gapes. If had every little sufferer in Ohio and the owners of tilem under my care short time would convince them that the remedy is simple and sure. It is the horse hair. and little practice will enable you to cure one chick a minute instead of letting them suffer and die by the thousand as they have this season. cured my own and also had them brought in by neighbors for treatment and sent them home rejoic- ing. How l wish you would try 1t and try it right. Take long. coarse hair from tho tail and double and twist it 50 that there is loop left open at the end. Put the loop end down the wind pipe (you will see 1t right at the base of the tongue; it will open and shut as the chick breathes). It must go down at least two inches. and then twist the hair two or three times and draw il out. If you have done the job proper ly you will find one or moro worms on the hair, and your chick will live even though it may gape and sueeze for q | while
The Forrest City times., 1891-09-04
Certainly Domestic.

Uncle Hiram Cat postotlioe window) Whats the postage on two-ounce letter. captainp"
 Clerk--"Foreign or domesticp"
 Uncle Hiram, Domestic. It's to my wife Judge.
The Forrest City times., 1891-09-04
THE FART AND HOn.
TNB HOGS OPINION OF THE
 WAY HE IS TREATED,
Experience Proves That Early Chlckens Tay-Whsn to 0uy Min Teed--- FarA Notes and DOmes-
 tic Dots.
A Tie's SOlitOQuy.

Standing near a hog-yard one day last summer, l noticed a fine porker
 wallowing in filthy mud hole. grunt- ing away-as supposed with content
 ment-when suddenly the ears of my understanding were opened and this 10 the substance of the animals solilo- guy:
 Yes. here 1 am wallowing in the filth because no clean place is provid- cd, people curl up their shouts (noses they call 'em) and talk about hogs be-
 ing such nasty creatures, and plenty of them have decided that we arc not fit for food (wish they'd all come to that conclusion). l don't mind being
 eaten. but the injustice is what rifles me. Here we are shut up in this hot barren yard without water and there is no creature more sensitive to heat and cold. Nature demands that we have cool, wet place in summer to wallow in, but no one ever thinks of scooping out hollow in the earth and supplying water; no. we must tai = a
 nasty foul place like this and return to 1t day after day. But it is enough
 better than we get in winter; then we are all huddled into the dirtiest little pen where we have to lie all in pile to keep from freezing. People think
 we are only hogs, l suppose but wish they knew how much we need clean quarters and fresh straw beds. Now l don't think we are as dirty as some animals that nobody thinks of calling filthy. If I had my way would be clean.
 And then there is all this howl about trichinea, Who is to blame. wonder? One thing l do know. we don't hatch the creature whatever it is, ourselves, and if people took care of us we would not have it. Rats and mice they say are alive with them
 and so long as they build our pens so that they can come in and eat up our corn, we are bound to eat them up, so of course get the trichinae, and when people eat us they get it-seryes 'em right, too. Then if a sick hog or COW or anything of that kind dies they feed Us the diseased meat Anything is good enough for hog they say. and it makes me smile, knowing that we are fatted for their table. We are naturally hearty eaters, and our sus- ccptibility to cold makes us glad to eat anything to keep up heat in winter And then our drinks Oh mel the wash of everything and milk all spring from sick COW. They said the milk vast fit for anything but the hogs don't see why they mightn't as well drink it as to give it to us and then eat us only in one case they would have to blame themselves, in the other they can put il on-the hog. How often have 1 watched people caring for heie horses and thought of the differ cncs in their treatment and ours. Their house is cleaned and aired every day They have the cleanest water to drink. and the cleanast straw to lie on. and besides they axe combed of, curried, l think they call it. and some times washed. Now if hog had half such a chance as that he might be somebody too. We'll. well-W and then his swineship buried his nose in the miro and heard no more. Rob Robin, in Prairie Farmer.
The Forrest City times., 1891-09-04

A pair oi scissors, supposed to have osNn uesd by revolutionary soldiers, was unsSrthsd nsar Temple Hill. NY.
The Forrest City times., 1891-09-04

about two pounds DOT bushel the most
 Oats rolled yielded tri6e over two bushels more per acre than where the roller was not used. Rural World.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-20
WAR ON THE CHECK REIN.

The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals to Take it Up.
The Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
to Animals proposes to wage war this sum
mer on the check rein. The members claim
that it is the hight Of cruelty to have a
horse tightly checked at any time, but
more particularly during the warm season.
Many people have habit of letting horses
stand in front Of stores for half hour and
longer at a time with their heads checked
and this, the society says, will have to be
stopped. II these parties have not humanity
enough to losen their horses by persuasion
a little law will be tried. 1t is possible that
the society may ask the city council to frame
an ordinance on the check rein question.
A well-known member of the society said
yesterday that in the majority of runaways
the eau es could be traced to a tight check
rein. When the horses are moving the rein
does not worry them so much, but when
they are allowed to stand any length of
time, as a matter Of course, they try to
move their heads around. The rein irritates
them every time they move, and finally the
animal becomes excited and runs off IN the
vain hope of tearing loose the thing which
obstructs the movements of his head.
The society is in fouriShing condition,
aud has gained many accessions TO its ranks
SluOO no VI E6HlIdblOO. IL mas uO0o a vast
amount Of good, and several parties have
been punished, through its efforts, for ill
treating their dumb brute 1t is prosecut-
ing two negroes in the CITY court for cruelty
e. couple OF COWS One is Cuffy jenkins,
captain of the sloop in which the animals
were brought to the city from South Caro-
lima, and the other is Tobias Jones, a deck
hand. These men agreed to bring the cows
10 Savannah for colored woman and dis
pose OF them. They loaded the pair in the
hold of the slOop, which is hardly
large enough for man, being
only feet high and 6x7 feet
In diameter. One of the animals broke its
neck and the other its two forelegs near the
knee. The broken necked cow was skinned
and offered for sale to a butcher on the
arrival Of the sloop, but the ofiicars got
wind of it and stopped the sale. The other
cow was ordered killed by Mr. Hornlein of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, who also swore out warrants
against the negroes. They will probably be
tried this week.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-20
NOT GOING TO BRUNSWICK.

The Knights of Pythias to Hold Their
Grand Lodge Somewhere Else.
The Knights Of Pythias are discussing the
change in the place of meeting of the grand
lodge. 1t was to have met in Brunswick,
and the Savannah Knights were expecting
to go down in force.
The trouble which resulted in the
change in location is the failure
of Grand Chancellor CARING of Macon
to secure rates from the railroads. The
chancellor has decided that he will not
waste any more time in dickering
with the railroads, and that the
meeting of the grand lodge may as
we'll be held elsewhere as at Brunswick.
He has written the officers of the grand
lodge, w. I. Leopold, grand vice chancel-
lor, and James Naylor. grand keeper Of the
records and seals, of Savannah: William
Haygood. grand prelate, and II. Cronheim,
grand master Of the exchequer, OF Atlanta,
and Robert H. Hunt, grand master-of-arms,
of Augusta, informing them Of his decision,
and instructing them to signify their pref
erence for Augusta, Macon or Atlanta as
the place for holding the meeting.
The chancellor could have made the
selection on his own authority but decided
that he would leave it to the officers named
Macon expects to get it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-20
Street Paving urning Up Soil.

Editor Morning Ne,os: What is true at
one stage Of existence Is not necessarily true
at another. A change of condition pro-
duces like change as to effect The old
idea, and correct under certain conditions,
was, to turn I'D the soil in summer was dam
gerous to health. 50 it is, if there are no
neutralizing properties or affinities some
where. All soil with a rich vegetable loan
when turned up is unhealthy, and danger
ously unhealthy after August. A knowledge
OF the laws of nature will tell one where
| there is danger and when there is safety.
IL is the want of close observation, times
and surroundings which leads into error and
false ideas. Savannah Of to-day is not the
Savannah of fifty or 100 years ago, with her
swamps and rich vegetable loan. AS every
| one knows, new country is unhealthy
when first settled. Cause easily understood.
The cutting down of trees, the turning up
OF rich loan, the decaying vegetable mat
ter, all go to produce disease. Why? For
this reason: Vegetable fiber contains SO per
cent. of carbon, when partially decayed 81
per cent, when black with decay SO per
cent. Turn carbonic acid gas loose
in the fall by turning up the
soil and disease and death follow. Why?
Because the trees have ceased to absorb the
carbonic acid gas necessary to their life aud
existence. Our trees to-day are purifying
disease. Trees are the health of country.
All growing vegetable matter creates health
Why? Because trees and flowers absorb the
carbonic acid generated by the lungs
of animals, putrid substances and other
noxious exhalatons. Trees and flowers re-
store to the air the oxygen which man and
other animals inhale. Thus to-day and
until July our trees, flowers, ETC., will keep
the atmosphere pure. But as soon as the
leaves cease to absorb, then the atmosphere
begins to be over-impregnated with carbonic
acid gas, which produces fevers, etc.
AS city grows, soil drained and rich
vegetable mold or loan ceased to be pro-
duced, swamps cleared up and made dry,
health is the natural consequnce. Old Sa-
vannah has no rich loan she need fear that
will do the city any harm for the next four
months II turned up some two or three feet.
The physicians of the years 80, 40 and 80
saw the city and its surroundings of those
days; but not city of As, 600 citizens, with
swamps pretty well drained for several
miles around. The more trees, flowers and
shrubbery city has, the more health.
God does not talk to US with a tongue
and never did. He speaks daily to us through
the laws of nature, and says use your
eyes; use your reasoning faculties; take
note OF your experience; see how / work
and speak to you through unchanging and
iuvariable laws" The Jews were very
close observers of the laws OF nature, and
hence claimed close acquaintanceship with
God. As a country is cleared up it gets
warmer; the fall is longer, for the earth is
longer In throwing of its heat. The soil of
old Savannah has completely changed in the
Last thirty years, and what was feared then
need not be feared now The fall is the
time to be watchful and careful
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