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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-12-28

Given under the hand and Seal
Of ONCE Of the Register aforesaid
3r at Wilmington, In New Castle
county aforesaid, the day and
49, year above written.
j. WILKINS COOCH. Register
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10
PAINTING WAGON WHEELS.

1t is asserted by those who have tested
the matter, says the Farm Journal, that
painting wagon wheels once in two years
answers as we'll as soaking in boiling oil
to keep them in shape and avoid the ex
pense Of resetting tires. A quart of raw
linseed oil and ten cents worth of cheap
paint, and you have the cash expense.
Take off the wheels and lay them on a
bench and paint the upper side, allowing
the paint to work in between felioe and
tire. By the time all four are treated,
the first will be dry enough to turn over
for painting on the other side. Laying
them down is much better than painting
with the wheel on the wagon.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10
PROFIT FROM KEEPING GEESE.

If geese are allowed to run every
where. as used to be the general prac-
tice, they speedily become nuisance and
destroy more than they are worth. But
they pay for care and feeding as well as
any other farm stock. They may be
plucHed every six weeks through the sea-
son, beginning with the first warm
weather in spring, when a portion of the
feathers become loose and will fall out
of themselves. One-third of a pound of
feathers may be taken from full grown
goose at each picking, and if we'll fed af-
terward no injury results from plucking
one each six weeks until cold weather
Iuts stop to this work. Watch for the
times when the feathers appear to come
easily. They are then said to be ''ripe. :"
If this goes by, it will be hard to make
a satisfactory picking through the year.
Besides the crop of feathers, each female
goose should hatch out a dozen or more
young, which will pay their keep by
their growth of feathers, and be a cash
article in the poultry market during the
holiday season. A flock of geese gives
in feathers, eggs and increase a greater
proportionate profit than most kinds of
farm stock.-BostOn Cultioator.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10
LINED AND UNLIMED POTATOES.

1t is quite often recommended to dust
potatoes with lime when storing them
away in the fall, as a protection against
rot. To determine the effect of this
treatment, with more than the ordinary
degree of exactness, trial was made at
the Hatch Experiment Station Of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College last
season.
From pile of potatoes found to be
rotting badly after being dug, four sam
pies of a bushel each of apparently sound
tubers were selected. These were placed
in bushel baskets and two baskets were
put into dry cellar and two into we'll
lighted and dry granary. The tubers
put into one basket in each lot were
thoroughly sprinkled with air slaked
lime as they were put in, the other basket
was untreated. This was done on Sep
TENDER II, and the tubers remained I'M
disturbed until December 3, when they
were carefully examined.
From the results as shown in a table
with careful exactness it appears that the
differences in the amount of rot were very
small. In the case Of the cellar samples
the tubers untreated kept slightly better
than those which were lined; in the
granary samples the difference was in
favor of the lining. 1t thus appears
that the experiment was not sufficiently
decisive to justify pronouncing either for
or against the treatment. 1t is, however,
thought that the quantity OF lime used
(six pounds for the cellar and four for
the granary sample) may have been too
small, and when the opportunity offers
the experiment will be repeated with
varying amounts of the substance.-Neto
York World.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10
Ukase Cities.

When Peter the Great conscriptcd
twenty thousand peasants to carry gravel
in sacks to his building camp on TIE
Neva, the Muscovite wits referred 10 his
capital as the "Ukase city''-the town
built by order of the autocrat. That
cities really can thus be made to grow in
defiance of natures veto is proved by the
last census of Northern Europe. St.
Petersburg has doubled its population
since 1850; and Berlin, on the sand
fields of the Spree, now claims 1,512,-
900 inhabitants. A few hundred years
ago the absence of sea harbors or large
rivers was a fatal object to the COM
mercial development of city, but after
three or four railway lines have once been
finished to an arbitrary centre of popula-
ton their ramifi cations almost equal the
functions of the best system Of water
ways. But though an imperial fiat
can remove many Typographical Difficult
ties, it cannot quite countervail the dis
advantages Of climate; and even outside
of Southern Russia many politicians stick
to the belief that Peter the Great would
have done better to locate his metropolis
on the Shores of the Black Sea, where,
at more than one point, fine forest clad
mountains APPROACH good harbors of an
almost winter.ess coast.-Betord.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10
Snail Change.

Small change, says the London Graphic,
is evidently much appreciated in South
western France. A farmer in the Dauph.
my Alps recently sold some sucking
pigs for one hundred and fifteen francs,
and stipulated that he should be paid in
centimes. The buyer assented, treating
the demand as joke. When, later, lie
offered to pay the money in ordinary
cash, however, the farmer held to his
bargain, and summoned the other before
a magistrate, who decided that the exact
terms of the agreement must be observed.
The purchaser, therefore, had to count
out eleven thousand five hund red single
centime pieces for his debt of one hun
dred and fifteen francs.-The Ledger.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10

it is actually injurious. Many cases of
the 'heaves" are caused by feeding
musty hay, and even more serious all
ments may be traced to the use of dam
aged grain. There are also many cases
of disease resulting from the improper
use of good materials. While a few
farmers feed too little hay, there are
many who give their horses altogether
too large a quantity. They fill the
managers, or racks, and when the animals
have disposed or what they received,
new supply is given. In this way, when
the horses are in the barn most of the
time, they are, as far as quantity is con-
cerned, greatly overfed. When these
horses are required for work, and really
need food more than when they are COM
paratively idle, they receive a much
smaller quantity. The safe way to do
in this matter is to feed the horse regu-
larly, giving him an abundant quantity,
but not overlooking him. When work
is required, grain should be added to the
hay IN proportion to the work required.
Even when the horse is iole, small guam
titles of grain fed with his hay will be
better for him and will be more profita,.
bic for the owner than the use of hay
alone. But, even if the grain is omitted,
regular feeding with proper limitations
as to the quantity of hay supplied will
be a great deal better than the constant
stuffing to which so many farm horses
are subjected. -American D0irynaan.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10
SHEEP BITING THEIR WOOL.

When sheep are found biting their
wool or nibbling the skin they should be
examined at once. The cause may be
that they are infested with ticks or chat
the skin is irritated and infamed as the
consequence of dry feeding or lying
upon damp beds or upon manure. If the
ticks cause the trouble, the sheep should
be dressed with a strong decoction of to-
bacco, one pound IN gallon of boiling
water (but not boiled), adding two ounces
of flowers of sulphur, and stirring fre-
quently until the heat is reduced to 100
degrees. The liquid is then poured along
the back. and guided down under the
wool along the sides. Buttermilk used
IN the same way has been found useful.
If no ticks are found or any vermin give
the sheep two drains of hyposulphite of
soda daily in some scalded bran, feed
some sliced potatoes or turnips, and use
no musty hay, which often causes this
trouble. When sheep are ted upon clover
hay, which is mighty heterogeneous, they
are frequently thus troubled, and some
oily or starchy food as linseed meal or
potatoes will be found useful. -Neoo
York Times.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Set all the hens possible now.
Castor-oil is remedy for warts.
Whitewash is better than paint in the
poultry house.
Geese need a good pasture and plenty
of water to thrive we'll.
When currying the horse do not rub
too hard, for it is painful.
The aIl-the-year-round cow is the one
that generally best fills the bill.
If your neighbor succeeds better thar
you do, find out how he does it.
Never break off limb on a valuabls
tree; always make smooth cut.
Some one asks: care we going to tbs
dogs9" No; but the sheep are.
Don't be satisfied with merely raising
a few hogs, but raise good ones.
A bushel of potatoes often commands
as high price as bushel of wheat.
A good farmer will drive bis work in
stead of having his work drive him.
The farmer has heretofore scattered
his energies over too large a surface.
In Judging wool, the rest of the fleece
is compared with that on the shoulder.
1t pays to grind grain for the stock !;
aud it pays to feed it with cut fodder.
The older the tree the more difficult to
transplant and the more uncertain of sue
cess.
The farmer that has eggs, poultrJ and
good butter to sell does not need to go
into debt at the stores for the little
necessary running expenses. But, of
course, good management is necessary.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10
BRAN For FEEDING.

Wheat bran is a concentrated food and
possesses considerable nutritive value.
1t contains rather au excess of ash, and
for this reason it is good to feed to young
or growing stock, as it develops bone
and muscle. It is splendid feed to use
in connection with poor bulky feeds,
like straw, fodder and roots; fed with
them it will aid materially to make up a
complete ration. By using it, the OBJ
lection to selling grain, rather than to
feed out to stock, is largely overcome,
Wheat and potatoes can be grown and
sold off the farm if bran is purchased
and used in connection with other mate
rials, as bran retains a large proportion
of the mineral elements.
In feeding, the animals take out GER
tain parts that contain animal nutrition
and leave considerable plant food that is
saved in the manure and can be added to
the soil to retain it's fertility.
During the winter it can be mixed
with corn-meal, weight for weight, to
good advantage, lessening the cost of
feeding and at the same time adding to
the fertility of the farm. 1t is desirable,
to large extent at least, if the fertility
of the soil is to be kept up, to plan and
carry out good system of rotation, and
in doing this there will be more or less
products that ought to be marketed to
good advantage. But in doing this
something else should be used to take
the place of what is marketed. if this
is not done, nearly or quite everything
that is grown should be fed out to
vigorous, thrifty stock and the manure
be saved. If any is sold a sufficient
quantity of other materials should be
purchased to take its place; bran and oil
meal are the two principal materials that
can be used in this way, and where this
is done good supply of coarse rough
feed can be purchased and used, even if
it is necessary to sell portion of the
grain.
This is especially the case in feeding
growing stock, and with milk cows, if
fed in connection with corn meal and oil
meals, it will aid to increase both the
quality and the quantity of the milk.
One Of the best rations that can be
made up for the milk COWS during the
winter is Grover or millet hay with corn
and oil meal and wheat bran. Roots
can be added when they can be had con-
veniently, and in doing this have the
! manure increased.
At the price bran can usually be
secured at, can be used at least through
the winter to a good advantage and more
stock be kept in proportion to the grain
than would otherwise be possible
Farm, Field and IStockmdn.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10

The brusque and fussy i'm
pulse of these days Of false
impression would rate down
all as worthless because one
is unworthy.
AS if there were no notes
in sunbeams
Or comets among stars
Or cataracts in peaceful
rivers!
Because one remedy pro-
fesses to do what it never
was adapted to do, are all
remedies worthless?
Because one doctor lets his
patient die, are all humbugs !?
1t requires a fine eye and
a finer brain to discriminate
to draw the diferential line.
They say" that DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery and
DIR. Pierce S FaVOr1te PreSCrlp-
ton have cured thousands.
They say for weak sys-
tenn there's nothing better than
the Discovery" and that the
Favorite Prescription " is the
hope of debilitated, feeble
women who need a restora-
tive tonic and bracing nervine.
And here's the proof
Try one or both. If they
don't help you, tell the Worlds
Dispensary Medical Associa-
ton SO, and you get your
money back again.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10

There is more catarrh in this section Of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to
be incurable. For great many years doctors
pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
durable. Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure,
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the
market. 1t is taken internally in doses from
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer 500 for any case it fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials. Address
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0.
E Sold by Druggists, 75c.
SPAN as a unit of measurement is 1918
iT1oh in
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10

CULTURE OF vIoLETs.

A New York correspondent writes to
the Florists Exchange that light soil is
most suitable to violets, which ought to
be planted in ground that has a feir
drainage. He planted them where they
will receive the benefit of rain, dew and
sun; keeps them warm and grows them
in a place quite by themselves. He
says: "Violets do not care for company
and half the failures come from placing
them with other plants"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10
PROPER FOOD FOR FARM HORSES.

A great many farm horses are injured,
and some of them are utterly spoiled, by
improper feeding. In many cases the
material used is not specially adapted TO
the needs of the animals, while in others
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10
IS august
Flower

How does he feel7-He feels
blue, deep, dark, unfading, dyed
in-the-wool, eternal blue, and he
makes everybody feel the same way
August Flower the Remedy.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10

Five cents saved on soap; five dollars lost on
rotted clothes. Is tint ecInofny5 There Is not
cents difference between the cost or par OF
the poorest soap made and the best, which Is as
all know, DObbinSS Electric.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10

Congress costs the people about $780,
900 day.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10

How does he feel?-He feels a
violent hiccoughing or jumping of
the stomach after a meal, raising
bitter-tasting matter or what he has
eaten or drunk-August Flower
the Remedy.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10

feel it my duty to inform others Of my sue
cess plating spoons, casters. jewelry, etc. The
first week l cleared $27.5O, and in three weeks
Englewood, Ill, you can get circulars. Six
months ago l was poor, i now have a nice home
and bank account all the product of So in
vested in Platter. READER.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10

LEATHER chair seats may be cleaned by
rubbing with white Of egg, well beaten.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10

How does he feel Pie feels
the gradual decay of vital power !;
he feels miserable, melancholy,
hopeless, and longs for death and
peace-August Flower the Rem
edy.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10

If afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac ThOmp-
sons Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25cp per bottle
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10
Prevents Pneumonia.

Dr. Hoxsie's Certain Group Cure positively
prevents pneumonia, diphtheria and mem.
gists or will be mailed on receipt of so cts. Ad-
dress A p HOxsie. Buffalo n, Y.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10

SI.V
Or for DoStd2s sta sfn7s Ir:tcls at the price
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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10

How does he feel?-He feels a
headache, generally dull and con-
slant, but sometimes excruciating-
August Flower the Remedy.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10

NERVE REsToREK. No ftsafter first days use
Marvellous cures. Treatise and 81 trial bottle
free. DR.. Kline, 931 Arch ST., Phila., Pa.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10
Chance to Make Money.

A SPAN as a unit of measurement is 10 7-S
inches in length.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10

How does he feel?-He feels so
full after eating a meal that he can
hardly walk-August Flower the
Remedy. %
G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer,
Woodbury., New Jersey, U. S. A.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10

600 or 81 900 Carefully Invested tere N0o
Il HOU IA bring ANNUALLY from TWENTY To SS ,
Test ns. TACOMA NTESfNEaT CO.. TACCi-A. WASH.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10
Ny y U-12
-VASELINE-

FOR A OSE-DOLLAR BILL sent Us oy mail
we will deliver, free all charges to any person n
the United states. all OF the IolowIn ARTICLES cArS
fully packel:
One twO-ouuce bottle OF Pure Vaselne 10 ctS
One two-ounce bottle OF Easeline Pomade IS
One Jar OF NaSeliEe Cold Cream, IS
One Cake OF NaseIiue Cam pnor ice, ~ :"
One Cake of Naselinc soap uuScentet ID
one Cake OF Nasellne Soap, eXqusitely scented,A ="
one Iwo-Ounce bottle OF White NaSeIlne. - -
The record-union., 1891-04-19
The Napoleon Family.

Prince Napoleon ("Plon Plon'O who
died lately, was a son Of Jerome, a
brother of Napoleon l. That is to say,
"Plon Plon" was nephew of the great
Corsican. "Plon Plon'' has two sons
living and Louisiana a daugh-
ter and a sister The daughter is
Letitia, and is the widow of Amadeus, an
eX-King of Spain. The sister is Ma
thilde, who is the widow of Prince
Demidoff of Russia. These, as init
mated are the descendants of .Je-
rome, one of Napoleon Is brothers. One
other brother Of Napoleon 1. (Lucien) has
living descendants, the most important
of whom is the Cardinal Bona
parte. These are the only living mem
bers Of the Bonaparte family whom the
general reader will ever be likely to hear
anything about except the ex-Empress
Eugene, the widow of Napoleon III,
who lost his throne in the Franco-G Ger
man war of 1901, and who died in exile
in England two or three years later. The
Prince Napoleon who was killed by the
Zulus in 1879 was called the Prince I'M
perial. He was the son Of Napoleon III.
and Eugene.
The record-union., 1891-04-19
The Mare Island Navy Yard the
Next Scene of Operations.
POLITICS WILL BE ENTIRELY DIS
REGARDED.
Each Applicant Receiving a Stated Per
Cent. When Examined by the Gov
ernment Board VIII be Placed Upon
the Eligible List, to be Appointed
as Vacancies May Occur.
Special to the SUNDAY UNION.

special to the SUNDAY UNION.
WASHINGTON, April 18. Secretary
Tracy will next apply his civil service
methods to the Mare Island Navy-yard.
He will reach that point with his new
policy within sixty days. AS soon as
everything is in smooth working order
at the New York and Norfolk yards, he
viii turn his attention to the Pacific
Coast.
A board consisting of five reliable Off
GERS will be appointed to carry out the
policy he has inaugurated. They will
be given regulation instructions, with
such additions as may be required by the
conditions at the Mare Island yard. The
board TO be created to carry out the new
policy will disregard politics entirely in
the consideration of appointments for
positions in all skilled labor departments.
American citizens, however, will be
given preference in all cases.
The examinations will be held at stated
times, the details to be made to conform
as nearly to the best interests Of appli-
cants as possible, The first come will be
first served, and all who apply will be
examined and placed in an eligible list,
II their standing is satisfactory. The
list viii be composed of those who make
a showing above certain per cent.
Those who fall below this per cent. will
not be eligible to an appointment, but
can have an opportunity of applying at
other examinations.
Each board in choosing employees for
Its yard will give its own applicants a
preference over the eligible list at other
points, but in the event that the board at
Mare Island is unable at any time to
get wOrkmen as efficient as desired the
difficulty will be overcome by seeking
relief at other yards.