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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-04
CURING HAY.

Glover not thoroughly dried may be
safely put in barns with tight siding, so
that air cannot come in at the sides.
But if very green it must be entirely free
from water, either Of dews or rain, which
carries bacteria to the hay, and creates
more violent fermentation than is pos
sible with the juices of the clover alone.
The heat of fermentation dries up these
juices 80 that they make 8 sweet, gummy
substance that is really preseryatiye. II
no air can get in, then such hay would
keep, as preserves are kept in closed jars
But the mixture of old hay or straw with
new prevents all danger of loss. A farmer
remarked that some years ago he had a
stack of hay so poor that cattle ate only
q little of it, and he purchased grain
and fed straw with it instead. Next
haying time he made stack of new hay,
drawing clover almost as soon as cut, and
putting on first layer of old hay, then
of grass, until the stack was completed.
The mixture made excellent hay. The
old and the new were eaten with equal
greediness. de believed that the same
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-04
HOW TO CATCH A FOWL.

Few persons know how to secure q
fowl to advantage. Never seize fowl
by the tail, if a fine bird, nor touch the
back, but grasp both legs at once, with
firm, tight, quick hold, and then raise
free from the ground or perch and hang
the body down clear of any obstacle
This method does not ruff1e the plumage
or turn feather, which in a fine bird
must be avoided. When the web of the
feathers is once broken it can never be
united again, and where much handled
this often occurs, giving to the bird a
ragged appearance. 1t is the source of
much annoyance to a nice, clean, smooth
bird to have the plumage rutfled. Their
bodily covering is regarded with the ut
most care, and the lustre and beauty of
it indicate the health and strength of the
fowl.-HanSu8 Farmer.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-04

result would hare followed alternating
green hay with straw, excepting that the
straw has u lower nutritive value. Part.
however, of the defective nutrition of
straw is due to its lack of attractive
flavor. In so far as it can be given the
aroma OF new clover hay, its diges:ibility
Is increased. Whatever Is eaten with a
relish does more good than when forced
down. Straw can thus be improved as
feed, besides helping to secure hay in
better condition than would otherwise be
possible. This plan IS best suited to out
door stacks. Few farmers have enough
barn room TO stack lluch straw.-Bost0a
Cnltirator.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-04
NOT UNDERSTOOD.

Not understood. We move along as,1nder,
Our paths grow wider as the seasons creep
Along the years, we marvel and we wonder
Why life is life, and then we fall asleep.
Not understood.
Not understood. We gather false impress
sions,
And hug them closer as the years go by,
Till viz tues often seem to us transgress1ons,
And thus men rise and fall, and live and
die,
Not understood.
Not understood. Poor souls with stunted
vision
Oft measure giants by their narrow
gauge;
The poisoned shafts of falsehood and deri-
sion
Are oft impelled 'gainst those who mould
the age.
Not understood.
Not understood. The secret springs of &C.
ton,
Which lie beneath the surface and the
show
Are disregarded; with seIf-satisfaction
We judge our neighbors, and they often
go,
Not understood.
Not understood. How trihes often change
US!
The thoughtless sentence and the fancied
slight
Destroy long years of friendship and
estrange us,
And on our souls there falls a freezing
blight;
Not understood.
Not understood. How many hearts are
aching
For lack of sympathy All! day by day;
How many cherries. lonely hearts are
breaking!
How many uobe spirits pass away
Not understood.
o God! that men would see little clearer,
Or judge less harshiy when they cannot
see
. God! that men would draw little nearer
To one another! they'd be nearer Thee,
And understood.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-04
PLANTS THAT GATHER NITROGEN.

Certain plants OF the leguminous fami-
ly-such as the clovers, peas and many
others belonging to that class-are not
only valuable for their own products, but
also for the effects following their cult
walton upon crops of other varieties that
succeed them. This was know to farm
ers in their practical experience in the
rotation of crops, before scientists had
discovered the source from which the
most important constituent of the leg
umes is largely derived.
The mineral constituents of plants,
such as phosphoric acid, potash and
lime, are derived solely and entirely from
the soil. Nitrogen, on the other hand,
may be taken into the plant from the
air or from the soil, and nitrogen is the
most valuable constituent of manures,
and by far the costliest ingredient of
commercial fertilizers. It now seems
certain, from experiments and analyses
made both in Europe and this country,
that many of the so called legumes, es-
pecially the clovers and peas, have the
power of gathering part of their nitro
gen IN the form of protein.
The protein compounds form blood,
muscle, tendon, bones and other nitro
genous tissues. This makes plants Of
this class especially valuable as folders
in supplying the protein in which many
of our most common fodder plants are
lacking. When they are plowed under,
or are fed to stock and the manure is
returned to the ground, they also supply
the nitrogen which other crops-such as
wheat, rye, oats, grapes and root crops
are unable to acquire for themselves,
except through the medium of the soil.
1t has thus become quite generally under
stood among farmers that, whether Gull
tivation for the sake of their own prod
ucts may be profitable or not, there are
but few soils where they can be ignored
in the rotation of crops without leading
eventually to Improvement York
World.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-04
The Bombay ParseeS.

Professor Jackson, of Columbia Col
lege, is one of the two men in America
Professor Lanman, of Harvard, being
the other-who are honored by occa-
sional autograph letters from the high
priests of the Parsees in Bombay. The
Parsees are the descendants of the exiled
fire worshipers of ancient Persia, and
they are reduced now in numbers to
about 100, 900, but they remain the most
moral and intellectual people of Asia.
The high priests interest in the Ameri-
can professors is the result of their re-
searches into the ancient language and
literature of the Persians. Chicago
Times.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-04
TAKEN UPON TRIAL.

BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
cit is true as taxes" said Deacon
Prout.
"What's as true as taxes?" asked Ezra
Elton, who lived on the farm across the
creek.
''Why. that one-half the world is
bound nilly-willy to bear the burdens of
the other half!' sighed the deacon.
Ezra shifted his tobacco from one side
of his face to the other.
"Wal, as gin'ral thing" said he, 81
calculate you're right. But I don't see
how it fits your particular case"
"Don't ye?" The deacon gave a sig
nifcant sniff. "Here have I lived q
bachelor life all my days, because I was
partial to peace and quietness, and didn't
want no extra care nor trouble, and jest
when l want to be peaceablest there
comes one O. these new-fangled telegraph
dispatches from York city that my broth
er John and his wife are both dead, and
that my three nieces would take it very
kind if they could come out here and
live with me-"
''P'raps they've got means to live on"
''No, they hain't," said the deacon.
&'Not red cent"
"Wal, swami" calculated Mr.. Elton.
'Jest what think myself" said the
deacon, ruefully.
''Aln't goin' to consent, be yea"
The deacon established himself more
firmly on the old stone wall which inter-
posed between the highway and patch
of spring woods, all gay with dogwood
blossoms and fresh young leaves.
''Well, yes, be and 1 amt Sounds
like parallels, don't it? But I'm talkin'
sober sense. I've writ to the lawyer
that's windin' up brother Johns affairs,
and told him to send the girls on.
writ that I'd take EN- for a months
eide which of the three to keep. The
other two must scratch for themselves.
Amt no sense in my supporting three
grown women in idleness. I can make
one useful in keepin' house for me. But
I don't see my way clear to supportin'
the three of en-"
can what be you goin' to do with
Jemima Willett?" asked Elton.
"She's goin' to the new factory to
work. Her brother is cutter there, and
he's told her of a vacancy in the ironin'
ROOM"
Goals is nuisance" observed Ezra,
trimming off fresh piece of tobacco
with his pocket knife.
81 guess you're about right" said the
deacon.
And while Deacon Prout, in the bland
sunshine of the Ohio spring, was lament
ing his evil fate, Brother Johns" three
daughters down in New York we've
harping on the same string.
"The country" sighed Mamie Prout
''And I always hated the country"
Gan old bachelor, too," said Isabel.
''Papa Away called him an Original
detest originals, don't you3"
Hester screwed her bonny pink and
white face into dimpled knot.
sit will be a grand joke" said she.
81 can get no end of material for the
novel I'm going to write. shall make
a especially of Western dialect"
81 suppose we must co." said Isabel.
And Mamie dolorously remarked that
1'they did not seem to have much choice
left"
eff dear papa had only lived to see
that last Investment through" said Hes
fer. 'we should have been heiressesi"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-04
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

The Gamma is popular foliage plant.
Oxalls needs little water after it has
| finished Towering.
Heliotropes should be kept shapely by
frequent cutting back.
By supplying good variety of food
the necessity for feeding condiments is
largely avoided.
Young poultry should not be allowed
to go on the roosts too early; it causes
deformed breasts.
Hens should never be fed so we'll that
when they are given a good range they
will not forage a good portion of the
time.
One advantage with stone, drinking ves-
sells is that they will keep the water cool
much longer, while they are easily kept
clean.
Summer pruning of the vine, when
done al all, is usually overdone, and it Is
but little practiced by successful grape
growers.
If the poultry are confined now good
plan is to feed soft food in the morning,
green food at noon, and whole grain
at night.
In selecting out the roosters to keep
for next seasons breeding, take those
that are compact, of medium size and
very active.
A good nest egg can be made by max
ing hole in the large end, letting the
yolk run out and filling the shell with
plaster of paris.
To hatch out late chickens, the best
place to make the nests is upon the
ground. A more even heat and moisture
will be secured.
In nearly all cases chickens should be
separated from the old hens whenever
they are full-feathered. Separate them
and let the hens go to laying.
One of the easiest and best ways of
curing setting hen is to put her in
box or cage with nothing to sit on or
amuse herself with but boards.
Store away the sorghum seed, some
millet and sunfower seed, a good bunch
of clover hay, as we'll as corn, oats and
wheat, to feed the poultry during the
winter.
If the poultry are to be fed economi-
cally during the winter care must be
taken during the summer to secure and
store away sufficient amount of food
for them.
Sheep do not like tall grass, but pre-
fer that which is short. They will pick
up quite large share of their food on
fields that are but scantily covered, and
in wheat stubble they will eat down all
young weeds as fast as they appear.
Sheep are excellent scavengers.
Dairymen should remember that les
sening the cost in producing milk is
quite as short a cut to the profits, and
equally as certain, as an advance in price
per gallon. Improvement in the cow,
the feed and the management will insure
the first condition, and viii most likely
be followed 81 the second.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-04

DEATH TO BUTTERFLY EGGS.

A woman gardener says she repealed
the butterflies that lay eggs that hatch
into green worms by busting cabbage
when wet with dew with -four, turning
the crank of a common sitter just
enough to let little fall on each head
repeating the application once, later in
the season. 1.-The moths would fy
around over the plants but would not
shght on them" ,-Neo York Tribune.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22

There is growing class in this country,
which will have to be sQuelched by the peo-
pie or they will ere long become strong
enough to sQuelch the people, in fact in
many places they have almost succeeded in
doing it already. The class referred to is
the professional Office holder; and the news
papers OF the country..are largely responsible
for the power exercised by this class. Ac.
cording to the argument of the average ed
itOr the longer man holds Office the longer
he ought to hold Office, and carried to it's
logical conclusion it would give us an Office
holding aristocracy that would eventually
become as powerful as the mobiles of Europe
were in feudal times. Out upon such logic;
it is un-American and directly contrary to
the ideas of the founders of this govern
ment. There is no man to-day holding a
public Office, high or low, whose removal
would in the slightest degree injure the in
terests of the country; on the contrary. there
are many in Office whose removal would be
a positive and direct benefit. In govern
ment of the people, as this was intended to
be. rotation in Office means everything that
a healthy circulation of the blood does to
the individual human being.-Red Wing
Republican.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22
MODERN MEDICINE.

First they pumped him full of virus from some~
mediocre COW,
Lest the smallpox might assail him and leave
pitmarks on his brow;
Then one day bulldog bit him-he was cunning
down at Quogue-
And they filed his veins in Paris with an extract
of mad dog;
Then he caught tuberculosis, so they took him to
Berlin
And injected half gallon of bacillae into him;
Well his friends were all delighted with the
quickness Of the cure,
Till he caught the typhoid fever, and speedy
death was sure;
Then the doctors with some sewage did inoculata
hen.
And injected half its gastric Juice into his abdo.
But as soon as he recovered. as of course he had
to do,
There came along rattlesnake and bit his thumb
in two;
Once again his veins were opened to receive
about a gill
OF some serpentine solution with the venom in it
still;
To prepare him for a voyage in an Asatic sea,
New blood was pumped into him from lep'rous
old Chinee;
Soon his appetite had vanished and he could not
eat at all,
So the virus of dyspepsia was injected in the fall;
But his blood was SO diluted with the remedies
he'd taken
That one day he laid him down and died and
never did awaken;
With the Brown.Sequard elexir though they tried
resusctatiOn,
He never showed a symptom of reviving ANNA.
ton;
Yet his doctor still could save him Che persist.
emily maintains)
If he only could inject little life into his veins.
e. Frank Lntaber in Puck.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22

Puck is always abreast of the times. The
centre cartoon by Keppler. in the issue of
January 21st. entitled: Consistency. "is one
OF those pictures without words" which
have made Puck famous throughout the
land. Such pictures as the one under con.
sideration do not need any explanation;
they speak for themselves. There is no
question but what Uncle Sans treatment
OF the Indians, from first to last, has been a
grlevious mistake. While this free and en-
lightened nation contributes generously to
relieve the oppressed in other countries.
when the Indian has grievance. the pistol
and the bayonet are considered the proper
means through which relief should be ad
ministered to him.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22

lions. He should be made to feel as tree
to discharge prisoner. the justice of whose
conviction is not apparent, as to convict one
known to be guilty. While our States At
torneys are. as class, of high character
and would not. am glad to believe, weigh
grains of silver against ounces of blood. yet
there is. it seems to me- something un-
worthy of the policy of great State thus to
seek to put before prosecutor any motive.
however small. other than the desire to
faithfully discharge public duty.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22
How to BE a Poet.

A friend writes to know what one should
do to fit oneself for poet. The writer, in
endeavoring to solve this conundrum, feels
compelled to acknowledge that personally.
he is not camping on the trail of the tunefuT
Nine. but some of the plain rules of the
profession he has at odd times made note
of, and cheerfully yields up. If you are
female friend you should cut your hair off
If male friend let it grow out and look
like colts name that a calf has been
chewing. You would also be in duty bound
to have row with your welded partner
and subsequently HE from your present hab-
itation and live in New York. If your am
bition is to be poet of the Edgar A. Poe
stripe, you must drink absinthe, rock. and
rye. New England rum and horse liniment,
and also eat at infrequent intervals, making
your diet as far as possible consist of mnce
pie. Limburger cheese, fried oysters and
pepper sauce. This regimen will give you
not only balmy springtime sort of breath,
but fiery imagination. If followed for
three months it will produce "midnight
dreary." when the ghost of an unburied jag.
will tie your long locks into hard knots and
rub in rheumatism till not only the raven
will crOak ''NevermOre," but you will go to-,
ravin' yourself and mayhap crOak likewise.
But it in the love of nature you would
''hOld communion with her visible fOrms,''
if in fancy you would rather rear ducks
than commune with ravens. raw turnips,
are the stuff-raw turnips and garden sass
of cooling and soothing types-with walk
around the block and glass of Lake Phalen
water unstrained before breakfast. Don't
be too ambitious. Try something easy first.
Don't take the risk of total collapse by try
ing to find rhyme for ''month"-unless
you lisp. The collicky and coltish antics
of young spring poet are gladstone to the
hearts of the aged, so never let your spirits
remain pent up in your bosom-let 'em
flicker, cost what it may. If your ambition
runs in the direction of what some people
call ''verses of society,"" we can't help you,
for that kind of stuff isn't poetry at all.
You'd better write to Oscar Wilde if that's
your lay.-PiOneer Press.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22

they are not there for existing
among the inmates. But we do not believe
Capt. Davis is such terror as he is painted
Warden Hatch has been made the victim of
a hot political contest and all kinds of i'm
probable stories have been invented by the
Jealous opposition to bring disfavor on the
late state administration. AS near as we
have been able to learn Warden Hatch
made the Michigan state prison one of the
best disciplined prisons in the United States.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22

Capt. d. f. Hatch has been succeeded
by Capt. Geo. Davis in the wardenship of
the state prison at Jackson, Michigan.
Warden Hatch believed that reformation
should be the central object of prison dis
cipline. Some OF the Michigan newspapers
make the new warden out bowling terror
that will make the convicts wish they had
never been borne land he is quoted as saying
that he will make the convicts understand
that they are there for punishment and not
amusement. Now we expect that the new
warden will find the same sentiment-that
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22
TO THE PUBLIC.

THE PRISON MIRROR is a weekly paper pub.
Mshed in the Minnesota state prison. All matter
published in its columns is contributed by the
inmates. except that properly credited. Its sup
port must come from the outside every inmate
IL given paper without cost. 1t is published in
the interest of the prison library and after paying
for the printing outfit contributed $3.50 to the
library fund the first year. It's objects are to en-
courage individual intellectual effort, provide a
healthy journal for the inmates of this and other
prisons. and above all, to acquaint the outside
world with the needs of the prison by rejecting
its inner life and thus aid the cause Of moral ad.
vsncement and prison reform.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22

kalakaua, king of the Hawaiian Islands,
died at the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
on the Goth inst. He died of. Brights dis
ease of the kidneys and uramia. He came
to this country on account of his failing
health. His remains will be returned to
Honolulu by the ship Charleston which
leaves San Francisco on Jan. q. He will
be succeeded by his sister, Princess Lelino-
kalani.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22

A bill is before the Michigan legislature
for the adjustment Of the state board of
corrections and charities and the state board
of health. We do not know whether this
means that the people of Michigan have ar.
rived at state OF moral and physical per-
lection and can dispense with their doctors
or that they have lost faith in their skill
and want to try some new treatment.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22

Since the stringent laws prohibiting the
publishing of lottery advertisements went
into effect several newspapers have become
so scrupulously careful they will not insert
marriage advertisements. because marriage
is lOttery.-Lake Breeze.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22

George Bancroft, the eminent American
historian, died at his home in Washington
Jan. II. aged ninetyOne years. His end
was quiet and peaceful, his death being the
result of old age. His history of the
United States will make his name endure
while the world remembers this age.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22

The poet Whittier has received. as birth
day present. a barrel OF pitch-pine kindlings'
from the Whittier ColOred School at Tus-
caloOsa, Ala. When the venerable man
lights these at his ireside he may see in the
Goals thereof pleasant pictures of the good
his tongue and pen have wrought for the
poor and oppressed everywhere.-N. Y.
World.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22

Lots of newspaper space is being wasted
in explaining the how. why. and wherefore
of the killing of the late Sitting Bull. Red
Wing Argus.
Quite right TITS dead subject. Graphic
Sentinel.
Wrong. He is good subject now.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22

Our physical wants increase as we sink
into materialism; they decrease as we rise
spiritually. Abnormal physical desires
produce the hades Of mankind. -UniversaF
Republic.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22

An exchange asks, Are gOphers good to
eat?" If the inquirer had ever seen one
gopher corn in the hill he would not ask
such question.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22

Convicts are reflections of criminals high
in power.-Universal Republic.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22

ALI pardons should be made conditional,
except those in remission of an unjust pen
atty.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-22

He Is a good subject now.