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Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-11-06
DAIRY SUGGESTIONS.

WATCH that failing pasture and sup
plement it with grain.
DRAIN the barn yards. When barn
is lake of water, it is no place for
cows or man.
CHEAP cows are the highest priced
cows that are ever sold. People are
not giving away good cows.
SELL the butter just as soon as it is
made. This the general rule. Butter
does not improve by keeping, and much
of it is badly injured by keeping.
GENTLENEss with the cows, cleanli-
ness in the dairy operations and a
thorough familiarity with the modern
processes of dairying lead to success.
BRAN is an excellent element in the
cows ration If we have the con-
veniences for keeping bran in good
condition, the mills have plenty of it to
sell just at this time.
A MAN cannot do everything equally
well. Some men will learn to milk a
COW well, and if you have such a man
better let him sit on the fence while
you do the milking yourself
IT is not too early to endeavor to i'm
press upon the mind that if the cows
are turned into the stalk fields this
fall, without the utmost care, the us
ual number of dead cows will be the
result
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-11-06
NUMBER 5.
LIFTING A MORTGAGE.
Sound Advice for DaIrymen Who Are In
Financial Trouble.

Financial Trouble.
Many farmers are heavily in debt
and cannot atfoId to buy pure bred
stock or large amount of grain to
feed their cattle. Money is scarce
article and they are looking for way
to get more Possibly they are in the
dairy business and want to get some
better stock to grade up, but they can
not raise dollar to buy another ami
NAL. Sell some of your poorer cows
for what they will bring and the hay
that would keep them until spring.
Take this money and buy some grain
with it, say equal parts of bran or oats,
cottonseed or linseed meal. Begin to
feed each COW or pounds of grain a
day with clover hay, corn fodder and
straw AS soon as your cows calve in.
crease the ration gradually until each
COW has all the grain that she can mak<
good use of, say IL pounds day. The
extra amount of milk will give YOU
money to buy some more and will pay
twice what the grain costs Raise the
heifer calves out of your best cows and
get some others. Go to some neighbor
who has been grading up with Jerseys,
Guernseys, Holsteins or whatever you
want and procure from him some of his
heifer calves out of his best native
cows, He will probably have all the
high grades that he wants and be glad
to let you have the half bloods. You
can get these for about $3 apiece when
week old. You may also be able to
get bull calf, but take nothing but
pure bred, no matter if he has not
gilt edge pedigree he will be better
than high grade. Next year get some
more heifer calves the same way and
the third year you WIN have some OF
your own.
Feed your calves 10 to IA pounds
day of whole milk until they are
week old, when it may be partly
skinned. When month old they may
be given all skim milk and about q
quarts day, Warm the milk to blood
heat and give it to them three times
day. Fixa rack so you can put in some
clover hay where the calves can pick
at it and put up a box where you can
feed them grain. Do not turn them out
in bare field or orchard but give them
little milk as long as you have it and
keep them in small yard with clean
shed or stable where they can getaway
from the flies and hot sun if it is in the
summer. Handle your calves to make
them gentle and you will have no
trouble with them when they are cows.
Keep them growing and feed a little
grain all the while and breed them
when IS to 16 months old. Use the best
aged bull that you can find and one
that has by his heifers proved himself
to be good one. There is hardly any
one that is SO situated that he can
not do this. 1t won't cost you any
money to speak of and you will be
making lots more in a short time AS
you improve your dairy you will inn
prove yourself, and the more you learn
the more you will desire to know. You
will soon begin to read more, to
think more and find out for your
self other ways of Improvement. Farm
and Home.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-11-06

of fruit room and shows the ven-
tilation. The dotted lines and arrows
show the entrance of the cold air at a
side window, and the escape of the
warmer air into vertical chimney in
which some upward current is kept by
a stove above or by the ventilator cap
at the top. This window is closed as
soon as enough air is admitted. The
air space beneath the Slated floor re-
ceives the warmth of the earth during
cold weather in the winter. This fig
ure more particularly represents a
fruit room in the dwelling; the floor is
double to prevent the passage of heat.
Fig. 2 is the cross-section of a fruit
house built wholly above ground. The
under pinning is double, with an air
space as non-conductor of heat, and
with free connection with the earth
below through board registers or
through Slated work. The ventilator
is readily controlled by the hanging
buttons. The piles of fruit boxes are
filed with fruit and, being placed one
above another, operate as separate
covers for each other, and whenever
asserting is necessary for removing
decayed specimens, they are success
sively lifted off and new piles thus
formed, Country Gentleman.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-11-06
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

If you don't know more about God
to-day than you did yesterday, the day
has been lost.-Ram's Horn.
The essential popularity of the
Christian life Is that it is the complete
harmony, the absolute synthesis, OF
both kinds of goodness. James Free
man Clarke.
President w, r. Harper has accept.
ed the principalship of the entire Chau-
tauqua system of study, Chancellor Vim
cent however, still remaining at the
head of affairs.
An experiment in the direction OF
Sunday observance has been made in
yrance, where the minister of public
works recently signed measure by
which the goods stations which have
been kept open until noon on Sundays
and holidays must be closed after ten
o'clock, except in the case of certain
specified merchandise.
An East African Scottish mission
has been projected on Presbyterian
lines, though it is independent of Pres
byterian churches, and it is to be in
dustrial as well as religious. The pro-
moters includes Sir w. Mackinnon, Mr..
A. L. Bruce (Dr. Livingstone's son-in-
law and Mr.. 7. Fowell Buxton These
gentlemen and FIVE others have SUBJ
scribed 8S, 500 towards the cost
No less than fifteen protestant
societies are at work in Spain, occupy
ing lis houses or rooms as chapels or
school buildings. The American board
has three missionaries and thirty-three
native helpers, eighteen churches with
84s members and 604 pupils in schools.
The American Baptists in Spain and
France together have eighteen mis-
sionaries and thirteen churches, with a
membership of 900
The latest translation of the Scrip
lures issued by the American Bible So
ciety is the work of colored man,
Rev. Mr.. Ousley, who was born a slave.
The translator and his wife were edu-
Gated at Oberlin. The language into
which he has rendered the synoptical
Gospels and the Acts is the Sheetswa,
cognate with the Zulu, and spoken by
some $50, 200 people in Southeastern
Africa San Francisco Pacific.
The recent geographical congress
at Berne decided to compile an inter-
national geographical pronouncing die
tionary Among other things, the con-
gress voted to use the English prime me-
ridian in all computations and besides
advising others to follow its example,
gave the credit of discovering the true
source of the Mississippi to Lieut. Allen
end Jean Nicollet, thus silencing the
pretensions of Capt Glazier, to whom
the honor was heretofore attributed
In these days of training schools
and industrial academies it is rather
surprising to hear Prof. Thomas
Gray, of the Rose Polytechnic school,
at Terre Haute, say that he deprecates
the teaching Of trade in a training
school. Frof. Gray is famous as one OF
the engineers who superintendent the
construction and laying of two Atlantic
cables. He says trade can be taught
far better in work shop, where the
learner has the benefit of actual prac.
| fice
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-11-06

shows a common, tight packing box,
with hinged lid and two or more COM
partments for various feeds salt, etc.
1t should be covered with old tin to
keep out mice and have hook to hold
the lid down against animals that
might break loose in the night, The
hook should be attached to the bin
and clasp into staple in the under
side of the lid. This fastening no
horse, however cunning, will open. At
A in the cut is shallow box which
can be slid back and forth on cleats at
the top of two compartments. 1t will
hold bags, cords, etc, or can be used
for a hundred weight of oil meal
The second illustration will give one
a fair idea of much better arrange
medt, but one that requires more labor,
expense and ingenuity for building.
The feed has to be lifted TO the second
story and emptied into small, tight
chutes holding two to three hundred
weight each. In the fronts of these
are strips of glass exposed one inch
wide to show as the feed lowers when
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-11-06
INGENIOUS ANGLING.
BOBBY Birds Compelled to Become Pur
veYOrs of Fish.

veyOrs of Fish.
A number of interested spectators
were standing at the sea wall at North
Beach watching party of youngsters
who were angling for mud porgies
through holes bored in the planking.
The fish bit quite eagerly, and several
were pulled through the holes and laid
on the wharf in few minutes Final
ly one of the bystanders, turning to a
companion, said:
"The queerest way to catch fish that
l ever saw was on the African coast,
where the natives do it by proxy"
"How is that?" inquired the other
Didn't you ever hear it; no? Well,
I'll tell you. One day we were cruising
Just above Saint Paul de Loando, and
were quite close in shore, when the
mate, who had the glass screwed up to
his eye as he looked toward the land,
said: i wonder what those natives are
doing in those canoes, STRIP pointing to
couple of canoes two or three miles
off our lee bow.
81 took the glass, and, after looking
moment, said they were either fish
ing or catching boobies Making
boobies do their fishing, guess,
chimed in the second mate, | had
heard about the natives making use of
these stupid birds for such purpose,
but had never seen it, so motioned to
the man at the wheel to keep the ship
away, and we ran down toward the
canoes. 1t was a lovely day, and we
had just a light breeze from the north
ward and westward, with a sea a;
smooth as mill pond. We were soon
near enough to see the fishing opera
ton distinctly.
"There was flock of boobies hover.
ing around, and once in awhile one Of
them would dart into the water and
seize fish. As soon as he got to the
surface he would give it toss in the
air and as it came down catch it in his
open bill 1t would then be part way
down his throat, with half the body
and the tail sticking out. If left alone
the bird would gradually work it down
his gullet and dispose of it, but this he
was not permitted to do. The moment
he appeared on the top of the waite,
one of the canoes was alongside and
the poor BOBBY was seized and dragged
on board. One of the negroes would
catch him by the throat and, applying
pressure, compel HIM to disgorge hi:
prey, when he was at once released
with the request presume that is
what it was, for the rascals jabberet
something very fast-that he go ant
catch another.
"The natives had been quite success
| full. as each of the canoes was wei
| loaded with fish. After awhile | made
signs to them to come alongside, and
bought about a bushel of the fish, Civ.
ing them a ten pound chunk of sail
horse in return. The fish were mostly
sea bass, weighing four or five pounds
apiece, with afew pike among them. y
| San Francisco Examiner
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-11-06
A Remarkable Pig.

A newly married lady who recently
graduated from Vassar college, is not
we'll posted about household matters.
She said to her grocer not long since:
II bought three or four hams here a
couple of months ago, and they were
very fine. Have you any more like
them?"
eyes, ma'am," said the grocer, 'there
are ten of those hams hanging up
there"
Are you sure they are all Of the
same pig"
Eyes, ma'am."
Then I'll take three of them. -
Texas Siftings
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-11-06

paper as the rolls are successfully ap-
piled. The sawdust is omitted, as it is
liable to cause crevices by setting, and
to be attacked by rats and mice.
If this air space and the two covers
with boards and building-paper are not
sufficient % make good non-conduct-
ing wall, nail vertical strips on each lath
and add another covering of paper and
another boarding The roof is to be
made non-conducting in similar way,
and the room is to be protected with
double doors and double windows. The
natural heat from the earth floor, with
these protecting walls, will prevent
the room from freezing. Fig in il
lustration represents the cross-section
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-11-06

bed and you can come when you get
ready. If you are going to kick around
much you'd better sleep in the spare
room"
Now and then the tables are turned.
Mr.. Bowser comes home to lunch drag
ging his legs after him and looking pale
and scared.
whats the matter?" asks Mrs Bow
ser, as soon as he steps into the house.
Got sore throat and feel fever
ish. IL think I'm going to be sickr'
She doesn't call out that it's just as
she expected, and declare that no hus-
band in New York has sense enough to
look out for his health. She knows
that he was out in a draught IN his
shirt-s!ceves, but she doesn't even men
tion it. On the contrary, she remarks;
TRY and eat q little something and
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-11-06
Wit AND WISDOM.

The independent man is very often
in dependent circumstances. Texas
Siftings
Sincerity, truth, faithfulness come
into the very essence of friendship
Charming
No man can be much of e man who
doesen't have much of motive
Rams Horn.
Every one admires a man of push,
but nobody wants to be the person
pushed aside by the man.
Don't call a big man liar Get
some jealous friend to break the news
to him gently. Richmond Recorder.
"A man no sooner gets old enough
to know how to talk well than he also
learns the value of not talking at all. -
Mocker.
A man never fully realizes the wealth
of information he doesn't possess till
his first child begins to ask questions
Elmira Gazette.
"A mans reputation is what his
friends say about him. His character
is what his enemies say about him.
Galveston News.
Charity, in whatever guise she APP
pears, is the best natured and the best
complexioned thing in the world
Frederick Saunders.
Jones Gust reached fishing grounds)
What kind of luck are you having,
Brown? Brown-First rate. Been here
an hour and haven't fell in yet.
"A light head is very apt to contain
very timber tongue. The most loqua-
cious are usually not the most brainy
people A monkey can chatter for
hours.
There are women who sometimes
think on Sunday that they have re-
ligion, but when the clothes line breaks
down on Monday they find out that they
haven't Rams Horn.
Don't expect man to do anything
for you on account of something you
have already done for him, but if you
intend doing more for him, tell him
and get what you want in advance. -
Milwaukee Sentinel.
DO you think Mr.. Barlow is SER
ious, Alice?" questioned the fond moth.
er II think he must be-" replied the
girl; che even laughs at Tommy's
pranks and always listens to papa's war
stories."-N. Y. Herald.
The essence of the home is train
ing school, not only to fit the body by
proper management for its services and
uses in adult life, but to train unfold
ing character, and the love nature Of
the child Good Health.
The hardest thing is to keep cheer
full under the little stings that comes
from uncongenial surroundings, the
very insignificance of which adds to
their power to annoy, because they can
not be wrestled with and overcome, as
In the case of larger hurts. Some dis
agreeable habit in one to whom we
may owe respect and duty, and which
is constant irritation to our sense of
the fitness of things, may demand of us
a greater moral force to keep the spirit
serene than an absolute wrong COM
mitted against us In the one case en-
durance is all that IS possible, in the
other we may sometimes rightfully
| fight-dnd there is world of comfort
IN the powers of aetion.-0nee Week
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-11-06
ANOTHER LEAK STOPPED.


How to Prevent a Source of Considerable
Loss on Many Farms.
A source of waste on many farms is
the bags from which horses are fed
oats direct. These stand on the barn
floor or in the stable where they are
placed as brought from town, and
mice and rats pick up the spilled feed,
gnaw the bags, waste more and foul
the remainder, The horses are said to
be "off their feed" frequently. Loose
in the yard, cows, horses and fowls
get to the bags and help themselves to
an injurious extent oftentimes, GER
tainly to the detriment of the owner.
These losses would construct many
grain bin that would be safe against
all depredations of animals birds and
vermin and save the time and patience
of the owner The first illustration
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-11-06
THE POETS SORROWS.
He Felt Like Tackling Somebody witt
tie Fire Shovel,

He Felt Like TackIing Somebody with
tie Fire shovel.
An editor was sitting in his office one
day when man entered whose brow
was clothed with thunder. Fiercely
Selling a chair he slammed his hat on
table, hurled his UNI brella on the floor
and sat down.
"Are you the editor?" he asked.
"Yes"
Scan you read writing?"
"Of course
'Read that them" he said, thrusting
at the editor an envelope with an in.
scription on it.
"B-," said the editor, trying to spell
1t.
"Thats not B. it's an s." said the
man.
esp Oh, yes, see. Well, it looks
like Sal for Dinner or Souls of Sin.
ners,'" said the editor.
"No, sir" replied the man, nothing
of the sort. That's my name-Samuel
Brunner. KNEW you couldn't read.
called to see about that poem of mine
you printed the other day entitled 1.-THE
Surcease of Sorrow"
II don't remember it." said the ed
itor.
"Of course you don't, because it went
into the paper under the villainous title
of 'Smearcase Tomorrow.
IA blunder of the compositor, I sup.
pose"
Eyes sir; and that is what wanted
to see you about. The way in which
that poem was mutilated was simply
scapdalous. l haven't slept a night
since. 1t exposed me to derision. PEG.
pie think l am an ass THE editor
coughed) Let me show you. The first
line when l wrote it, read in this way
Lying by weeping willow, under
meath a gentle slope That is beautiful
and poetic. Now, how did your vile
sheet represent it to the public? Lying
to weeping widow, l induced her to
elope.' Weeping widow, mind you. A
widow! Oh, thunder and lightning,
this is too much! But look at the fourth
verse. That's worse yet Cast thy
pearls before swine, and lose them in
the dirt He makes 1t read in this
fashion: Cart thy pills before sunrise
and love them if they hurt Now isn't
that cold blooded outrage on mans
feelings? I'll leave IL to you if il
isn't"
cts hard, sir; very hard" said the
editor.
''Then take the fifth verse. In the
original manuscript 1t said, plain as
daylight: Take away the tinkling
money, it is only glittering dross.' In
the printed form you make me say
Take away the tingling money; pu
some flies in for the boss By George
feel like tackling somebody with your
fire shovel! But, oh, look at the sixth
verse. wrote: I'm weary of the toss
ing of the ocean as it heaves' When
opened your paper and saw the line
transformed into I'm wearing out my
trousers till they're open at the knees,
thought that was taking it an incl
too far. I fancy I have right to muir
der that compositor. Where is he?"
HE is out just now" said the editor
come in tomorrow"
81 WILL" said the poet" and l will
come armed. London Tid-Bits.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-11-06
MY SWEETHEART.

Whenever play on the old guitar
The songs that my sweetheart taught me-
MY thoughts go back to the summer time
When first in her tolls she caught me
AID once again can hear the sound
VI her gleeIul voice blown over
ahe meadow, sweet with the scent OF THYME,
And pink with the bloom OF clover.
The faded ribbon is hanging still
Where her dimp,ed fingers tied it
used to envy 1t stealing round
Her neck, for she did not chide It.;
Ana the inlaid pearl that her ringlets touched
AS she leaned above 1t lightly
CLOVIS even now with hint of gold
That 1t once reflected brightly.
Whether her eyes were blue as the skies
On MONDAY In September
Or brown like those of startled fawn,
can't for the world remember;
But when she lifted them up to mine
know that my young heart tingled
In time to the gentle tune she sang
And the airy chords she jingled.
Yet now, though sweep the dusty strings
BY her girlish spirit haunted,
Till out of the old guitar there trips
melody, blithe, enchanted,
My pulses keep on their even way
And my heart has ceased its dancing
For somebody else sits under the spell
OF the songs and sidelong glancing.
M. e. Wardwell in Century.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-11-06
1yYHEN Mr.. Bowser comes home
1ERH and finds his wife lying down

1yYHEN Mr.. Bowser comes home
1LS and finds his wife lying down
CSS with her head tied up he is real
sorry for her, of course-just as sorry
as any husband could be. And, like
any other husband, he standsa nd sur
veys her for moment and then blunt
ly says:
81 expected it! Finally got fat down,
eh?"
otis nothing" she family replies.
30, it isn't. Nothing for wife to
flop down and upset the whole house,
I suppose! Well, I've been looking
for it the last three months, and so I'm
not much surprised. Mrs. Bowser, it's
wonder to me that you or any other
woman in New York is out of you cof-
fin!''
cts only--only headache, dear"
eyes, only headache; but what do
headaches lead to? If you are not a
dead woman before Saturday night
you may consider yourself lucky.
Didn't / warn you not to sit in a
draught-not to wear thin shoes-not
to eat too much in warm weather? Little
good it does to talk to woman!"
"You can't help ailing occasionally"
she replied, as she got up to wet the
bandage around her head
MRS. Bowser, look at me!' he said,
as he struck an attitude and held one
hand aloft "When am / ever ailing?
When do you hear me complain?
Never! And why is it? Because, Mrs.
Bowser - because / don't cram my
stomach with watermelon, buttermilk,
gum drops, custard pie, sweet cake,
ginger alc and all that! Because don't
go around with my feet sopping wet!
Because | know enough to come in
when it rains! Because | exercise a
little common sense in taking care of
myselfp
"Your dinner is ready"
"And I'm ready for dinner. A
healthy, happy person always is ready
for his meals. You won't try to get
up, suppose"
mot now"
"Well, you have only yourself to
blame. You may learn in time, but l
doubt it, I'd like to find one woman
with about two ounces of horse sense
in her head before die, but don't ex-
pect to do it. Well, it can't be helped,
suppose. The Lord made you that way,
and it's no use to argue"
Mr.. Bowser eats his dinner, smokes
his cigar and sings and whistles as if
the slightest noise didn't go through
her aching head like bullet Itnever
occurs to him to fan her, wet the band
age, or ask if she can't sip cup of tea.
1t does occur to him, however, to say
about bedtime:
Pm sorry, of course, but then you
must have more sense. I'll go up to