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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-13
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

A small mixer is often good butter
maker.
Feed two or three times, but feed
enough.
Keep all boards and sticks out of the
feed lots.
Cooking the food makes it easier to
masticate.
The barn owl is death on rats. Give
him roost.
The poorest butter fat is that which
separates last.
Your pigs should be kept not only
warm, but dry.
One must utilize and save all that
gets to the barn.
Straw is better than leaves for cover
ing strawberries.
When COWS have access to salt they
will not eat too much.
Much of the losses on the farm
comes from small leaks.
1t is poor economy to allow the
teams to run down now.
Apples are good for mich COWS.
Begin to feed moderately.
The wheat straw can nearly always
be worked into good manure.
Careful feeding produces good
growth and healthy condition.
Success is not made in farming now
without more or less planning ahead.
Now is good time to apply dress
ing of stable manure to the meadows.
Milk may be deficient in solids with
out having water added to it by the
milkman.
If farmers want to make butter
making profitable, they must make a
good article.
Too long for the cream to rise and
too long without stirring will make
white specs in the butter.
With thoroughly good COW we can
always afford to give plenty of feed
in exchange for plenty of butter.
While feed has much to do with the
quality of the milk, the breed of the
COW has much more to do with it.
A poor COW will give poor milk with
the richest feed, while good COW will
give good milk even on poor feed
The most prof able COW is the best
mother, and tie mother function
should be fostered as much as posi-
BILE.
Under average conditions milk sell
ing at three cents per quart is equiva-
lent to butter at twenty five cents per
pound
You have right to make butter as
you please, but the folks that want to
purchase have right to price it as they
please.
| There is considerable danger in
overcrowding good COW by attempt
ing to make her give milk beyond her
capacity.
| 1t is claimed that it costs more to
make milk from old cows than it does
from young ones having the same milk
capacity.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-13
The nfanniss Girl.

She begins innocently enough. She
mas troop Of brothers, perhaps, and
is drawn into their sports In spite OF
herself. She catches their contempt
of girls; cuts off her hair like Maggie
Tulliyer; takes pleasure in riding
habit and its odd accouterments.
Horses and dogs are her fayorite com
panions.
So she falls out OF sympathy wlrh
her sex. She loses its delicacy; she
is reckless of its conventions. That
is always the peril OF the maunlsh
girl. But the fact that woman in
body, she tries to be man in mind,
exposes her to the animadyersions Of
the ribald.
As she mingles with the world,
she feeds kind OF vanity by being
mannish. To talk slang. to smoke
cigarettes, to ride to hounds, com.
mend her, in measure, to her male
companions. They declare her to be
jolly, fetching, stunning. They cul-
tiyate her syciety. They take her
yachting when they leave her COM
panions at home. They love to chat
with her In box at the horse show.
They even prop sc surreptitious
visit TO the Arior ball.
But they rarely marry her.
That is where the maidenly girl
has her full revenge. When 1t comes
to taking a wife--a wife who shall
adorn his table; wife who shall en-,
terrain his friends-a man seldom
thinks of The mann sh girl. He knows
, that the arts by which she attracted
him will be just as at ractiye tc
others. He knows that the lack Of
refinement, which has a kind OF zesi
In the girl OF twenty. will turn t.
hopeless vulgarity 10 matron o.
forty.
Then what is the end OF the man
nish girl? Eternal spinsterhood Oh
the divorce court If no man will
have her she gets mole acidulatet
: month by month. Her mind turn.
to bitterness. She has nothing but
III to say OF her neighbors. She pur
veys wretched gossip for the socia
columns OF the newsp irers, and wher
a woman does that she has set tn
tombstone on her career and on he
reputation
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-13
Milk Condensed in Every Cline,

Th> condensir >of milk is becoming
very promiEa-e and successful in
dustry in AZ countries where milk in
any form is u general use. In Eu-
rope, Switzerland probably leads in
this industry, but there are large es-
adjustments in other countries of
northern Europe, for the demand for
condensed milk is increasing rapidly,
not only where fresh milk is to be OBJ
taiLed, but in others, especially in the
tropical regions of the South and East,
Even the Chinese are beginning to APP
preciate milk in this form. 1t does,
however, seem rather strange that the
people in the great csttle-raising re-
gions % our Western States and Terri
tories shoufd send East for nearly all
the butter, cheese and milk used on
their tables, New York San.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-13

Europeans are unable to live in the
close sitting houses of the natives
and have devised a kind of residence
known as the bungalow. The win,
dows are furnished with shutters for
excluding the sunlight and the kitch-
en- is separated from the house, with
which it is connected by covered
passageway.
Throughout the peninsula the soil is
red and fertile and adapted TO coffee
raising, business followed by Eu-
ropeans Many cultivate sage and
rattan. Pneapples, mangos and ba-
nanas grow wild. The most remark.
able fruit indigenous to the country
is the DURAN. This tree grows to
height of sixty feet, spreading like an
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-13
SWEET CREAM BUTTER.

The tendency of advanced butter
making, and of the popular demand, is
towards the finer quality of butter,
writes s. Henry in the American
Agriculturist. With refinement of
living, tastes become more delicate,
and strong favors are undesirable.
Thus sweet cream butter which reaches
the consumer in Just the right con-
dltlon to suit refined taste is now in
increasing demand. But this sweet
cream is different from that of time
past. 1t is not the raw cream taken
directly from the milk and made into
butter and sent to market, with q con-
81 cradle quantity of buttermilk in it.
that, soon decomposing, becomes sour
end nauseous, but the cream taken
FIR m the sweet milk by setting it in
t.eep pals in cold water, or separating
it by the machine used for this pur-
pose, ripened by fermentive process
akin to that by which the brewer in
,oculates his wort in such a manner
Tint the desired results are reached.
This ripening of the cream is done by
a similar incubation of germs, now
being studied, the effects of which are
approximately known, under certain
conditions of temperature and time.
Thus the making of sweet cream butter
is a scientific process by which the
same results are generally secured, and
tne butter comes from the churn in
ouch condition, that the lapse of the
two or three days between the churn-
ing and the use of the butter is pre-
,cisely the time needed to develop the
flavor and aroma which is most desir-
Cole. And to make this butter, every
refinement made possible by science
is practiced in the dairy.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-13

The Waknwiroboas, a tribe OF semi
sayages, who inhabit Kabara, village
situated in Central Africa, not far from
Victoria Nyanza Lake, raise bees in
a very original manner. SirJ. Thomp-
son found a hive in nearly every hut.
The hive is nothing more than a hol-
low piece of wood built into the wall of
the house, with an outer exit for the
bees. The thick fumes and smoke of
the interior of the hut impart to the
honey perfectly black color and
very disagreeable taste. But this state
of affairs does not seem to disturb the
bees nor the Wakawiroboss. who seem
to enjoy their sable delicacy. st Louis
Post Dispatch.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-13

The following is summary of some
experiments with wheat made in the
season of 1S9I-1S92 at the Agricultural
Experiment Station of the University
of Illinois ON fertile dark eolored
prairie soil, which had grown a CROP %
oats in 1891: The land WAS pIowed
IN August, was disked twice, narrowed
and rolled before seeding. The wheat
made but feeble growth in tie autumn.
TIE growth of straw in the spring was
heavy. Much of the wheat lodged
badly.
Sixty varieties were sown on one
tenth acre plats. Fifty-six plats, re-
presenting forty-eight varieties, gave
al average yield of twer.y-nine bushels
per acre; largest yield 81 the rate of
B5.A bushels; the smallest, 16. bushels.
sJf the red bearded varieties the fell
lowing gave yields of thirty Sus!.els or
more an acre, averaging over thirty
three bushels; Hinduism, Diehl. Medi-
teiranean, Deitz, Tuscan islam |, L. high,
Clare, Tesnanian rel, velvet >has, n,g-
Rer, golden cross, nrw lopgtsrr,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-13

Wabash and Lebanon. OF red bald
varieties Poole, Currell's prolific, long,
berry and improved rice gave yields of
thirty to thirty-two bushels an acre.
OF white bald varieties golden prolific
gave thirty bushels, and of the white
bearded Democrat gave the same yield.
These plats were drilled at the rate of
six pecks an acre, from September %
to September 80
Seeding at the rate of four pecks an
acre gave yields of "a. Z bushels an acre;
five pecks, twenty-nine bushels; six,
twenty-eight bushels; eight 27.8
bushels. In series of years seeding
at the rate of from five to six pecks an
acre has given the best results.
Wheat sown September gave yield
of twenty mine bushels; September ii,
28.5; September 90, 2S.7; October g.,
27.2; October 10, 21.7. The yield of
straw steadily decreased from earliest
to latest sowing. In trials for several
years no material difference has been
found in the yields of wheat sown any
time in September.
Little difference in yield was found
when the wheat was covered one inch
or three inches. That covered five
inches yielded considerably less.
Application of stable manures, bone
meal and blood and bone fertilizers
gave little or no increase in yield of
wheat on the station grounds. In
trials in Southern Illinois all the ma
nures produced marked effect and
the other fertilizers sufficient yields to
make further trials advisable.
Harvesting at !ifferent stages of ripe
ness showed constant increase in both
yield and size of berry from earliest up
to the latest AT the latest date the
wheat was dead ripe.-New York
| World.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-13
CABLE SPARKS.

The strikers in the Dundee jute mills now
number $4,000.
THE King of Dohomey has submitted to
French authority.
The beirothal of the Duke of York and
Princess May 10 announced.
The dock strike at Hull has caused heavy
decline in the shipping trade of the port.
THE bill fixing eight hours as a days work
for coal miners passed second reading in the
House of CoGmons.
Tue British steamsh p Khiva was burned
off the Carolina coast. and many Mohamme-
dan pilgrims persisted.
The Goyernor-General of Cuba has pro-
claimed amnesty to revolutionists who will
surrender within eight days.
E1aHT hundred London brokers marched
to union meeting at the Guild Hall to ex-
press their opposit on to home rule.
LADY SOMERSET was reelected president OF
the Womans Christian Temperance Assocla-
lion, causing split in the organization.
The Union dock laborers of Bristol have
gene on strike against non-union men, and
the shipping trade ofthe port is blocked.
Dr.. CHARLES TANNER, the noted Irish ma
tionalist leader and Member OF Parliament
for Middle Cork, is critically ill in London
Ii is said that IT'S branches of the British
Women's Temperance Association will secede
because OF the election of Lady Somerset as
president.
The centre party has rejected the compro-
mise on the German army bill, but will allow
its members to vote according to individual
convictions.
The project OF Marseilles has suspended
for one month four deputy mayors, who,
Will wearing their insignia of Office, par
sicipated in the May Day demonstration.
The British steamer City of Khios, from
Calcutta, colided with an unknown schooner
off BAachyhead, and ii Is feared that the
schooner went down with all on board.
IL the lower house of the Prussian Diet the
government bill regulating the elementary
sci ooIs was rejected by the combined vote OF
the conservative and the centre parties.
COUNSEL for the Dowager Duchess Of
Sutherland will apply to eourJ for her release
from the London jail because Of her ill-health.
The Duchess was imprisoned for destroying
q court document. .
The veteran Marshal Mcmahon, ex Presi-
dent of the French republic, is sick with in
duenEa and, owing to bis advanced age, he
being nearly eighty-1ye years old, much anx-
iety is felt as to the result Of his illness.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has signed reserips
dissolying the Reichstag, but is awaiting the
y1te or the army bill before promulgating 1t.
The debate IN the Reichstag over the bill was
exc ting and foreshadows its defeat The
Fre.sinniye party, which controls sixty-siy
votes. will vote solidIy against the bill
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-13
EDUCATION OF WOMEN.
Countries In Which They Arc Admitted to
the Universities.

the Universities.
The international character Of the
higher education of women is an in-
teressing fact which is brought out
in the numerous articles published
upon the subject in so many of the
European countries. Even in this
country the question is still being
sgitated, although we have 237 Co
educational colleges out of 357 col
legos OF liberal arts, and nine colleges
and universities for women ony
whose standards accord with those
that have been characteristic Of col
leges of liberal arts. One Of the most
striking foreign arguments in favor
of woman's higher education, says
the Boston Journal, is treati by
Helene Lange of Berlin, written to
encourage German women to keep
pace with their English ST ters.
Translated by L. r. Klemm, and ac-
.companied by comparative statistics
in d. Appleton & Co.'S international
educational series, the book makes a
clear presentation of the "Higher
Education of Women in Europe" ,n1
of the modern, progressive European
belief in regard to the reasons for
,woman's educational advancement
In England the first traces of the
woman's movement were found In the
last century, when in 1892 Mary Woll-
stonecraft published her ~Vindication
OF the Rights OF Women" The most
distinguished colleges for women in
that country are now Girton College,
near Cambridge, Newman College,
Lady Margaret Hall, and Sommerville
Hall, London University, Royal Hol-
loway College, opened in 1856, and
smaller colleges in Manchester, Car
diff, Bangor and other places A sur
vey of the nations in Europe shows
that generous provision for the
higher education of women is made
in most large universities. From 1866
to 1882 France conferred 100 academic
degrees upon women; Switzer and
opened her universities to women as
early as 1868; in Sweden, since 1873,
women have acquired the same de-
| grees in the arts and in medicine as
| are conferred upon men; Denmark
opened its university to women, with
the exception of the theological de-
partment, in 1875; in Italy the uni
yersity was opened about 1876; Rus
STA has extended university privileges
to women since 1878; in Holland
women have never been debarred from
admission to the university; since
1883 the admission OF wtmen to the
universities has become general.
There is no law in Spain and Portu.
gal to prevent women from studying
in the universities, though the Sonth-
ern women have not shown much in
clination to avail themselves of the
| privilege. Germany and Hungary
seem to be the most conservative ma.
tons of Europe, since they still ex
| ciude women from the universities
Even in these countries the @discon
tent OF the modern girl" has beer
working in favor Of enlarged educ u
tional opportunities. Women Obliged
to depend upon themselves for the.i
own support require education TO fl
them for their duties. The presenta
ton of the subject shows that EuroI
has been generous in granting oppor
tunities to women, which are more
| and more appreciated.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-13

The Ex1rasrdharY Nssu11 81 swnsfowing
IN Oraags sssa-Trsshseony Necessary.
Babies DO many queer things, but
2.year-old Joseph Virgins, Jr., Of
2o2e Mountain street, Philadelphia,
beat the record the other day when
he swallowed an orange seed
and at once proceeded to grow the
sprout OF fine Florida orange tree
in his throat. The Record says that
the experiment would have proved
disastrous for Baby Joseph but for
the kindly Intervention Of doctors
The little boys mother gave him an
orange after carefully preparing 1t
for him. Unfortunately, however,
one seed remained In the pulp and
this seed became lodged in the baby's
windpipe, causing slight difficulty
in breathing. Little attention was
paid to the matter, but next day the
child's breathing became more pain
full and was constantly accompanied
by a slight choking. Drs. H. r.
Wharton and j. P. Tunis were called
in and informed by the mother that
the trouble was caused BY some o.
the orange pulp. The usual remedies
were applied and some relief obtain
ed, but on the following night the
condition OF the child became serious.
After careful examination the ply
sicians decided that the only means
of saving the little sufferers life was
to perform tracheotomy. Next morn
ing this was undertaken, and long
incision was made in the neck, open
ing the windpipe. At the point
where the latter joined the lungs a
hard substance was detected deeply
imbedded in mucus When removed
itproved to be an extraordinarily large
orange seed. The wound was closed
up and dressed, and yesterday the
boy was on the road to recovery. The
seed was In particularly dangerous
position, and would undoubtedly have
caused suffocation in a very short
time. While lodged in the throat
the heat had caused it to open at one
end and TO sprout slightly. 1t was
also swollen greatly beyond the o.igi-
nally large size.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-13
nREEprNa or ANIMALs.

Professor Craig, of the Wisconsin
experimental farm, says that the indis-
criminate breeding and crossing of
breeds in COWS has never been produc-
tive of improvement. The American
trotting horse, the draft horse, and the
dairy COW have all been produced by
selecting the animals nearest to the
desired purpose and steadily repro
ducing the same purpose by the same
breed lines. -Chicago Times.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-13

From One | Knew the Best of
all" Frances Hodgson Burnett writes
Of the memory Of child, as follows:
In those days, | think, the Chill
dren's Century had not begun. Chill
dren were not regarded as embryo
intellects, whose growth it is the,
pleasure and duty of intelligent ma
turity to foster and protect. Morals.
and manners were attended to, des-,
perate efforts were made to conquer
their natural dissemination to wash
their hands and faces, it vas time
honored custom TO tell them to make
less no Sc" and l think everybody
kneit down in his night-gown and
said his prayers every night and
morning. l wish knew who was the
originator of the nursery verse, which
was kind OF creed:
speak when you're spoken to,
Come when you're called.
Shut the door after you,
And do as you're told"
The rhyme and meter were, per-
haps, not faultless, but the senti-
ments were without a flaw.
A perfectly normal child knew
what happened in his own nursery
and the nurseries of its cousins and
juvenile friends; it knew som ething
OF the romances Of Mrs. Barbauld and
Misc Edgeworth and the adventures
related in Peter Parley's annual. :"
Religious aunts possibly gave it hor-.
rlbls little books containing memoirs
of dreadful children who died early
OF complicated seases, whose linger-
ing developments they enlivened by
giving unlimited moral advice and
instruction to their parents and inn
mediate relatives, seeming, flgur-
atively speaking, to implore them to
$50 and do likewise" and perishing
TO appropriate texts. The Small Per-,
son suffered keen private pangs of
conscience and thought she was
wicked child, because she did not like
those books and had vague feeling
of disbelief in the children. Itseem-
ed probable that she might be sent
to perdition and devoured by fire and
birthstone because of this irreligIous
Indifference, but she could not over
come 1t. But | am afraid the Small
Person was not normal child Still
she really could not help it, and she
has been sufficiently punished, poor
thing, even while she has been I'M
duly rewarded. She happened to be
born, as clever but revoltingly can.
did and practical medical man once
told her, with cerebral tumor of
Imagination. -Scribner's Magazine
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-13
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet.
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
he needs of physical being, will attest
The value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
It's excellence is due to its presenting
in tae form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties Of n perfect lax
alive; efEectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
l. has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
news, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup OF Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-13

oak and taking seven years to ma.
ture. After the seventh year it bears
once a year. The fruit, which is
large and of light-green color, grows
on the trunk of the tree and takes
nine months to mature. 1t has
strawberry flavor but is unpalatablc
to noyices. Another peculiar kind Of
fruit is the soursopp, which resembles
the pineapple In size and shape. 1t
grows in the forks of the branches OF
the trees.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-13

The Rev. W. Tuckwell, in Tongues
in Trees and Sermons in Stones, ="
George Allen, 1884, says, Page IS:
''The Oldest living tree in the world is
said to be the Soma cypress of Lom-
oardy. II was tree forty years
before the birth of Christ" But Al
phonse Karr, in his Voyage autour de
mon Jardin," (Warne & Co, transla-
ton edited by the Rev. J. G. Wood,
says, Page 80, of the baobeb, adam
sonia digitats:) 1T is asserted that
some exist in Senegal that are 5000
years old. Notes and Queries-
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Not a Failure.

Johnny Gibbs is youthful philos-
opher. He believes that life would
be simplitied if people would be con.
tent to do one thing at time.
The other day Johnny was hard al
work with paper and pencil. His
mother looked over his shoulder.
"Why, Johnny" she exclaimed,
4your spelling is perfectly dreadful
Look at that's sitting in a chare. I'm
ashamed of your
"But, mamma said the little boy,
reassuringly. "this isn't a spelling
lesson. It's a composition"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-13
LIFE IN MALAY

Rendered Almost UaendurabIe by Heat
DampDcss.
Life for Europeans in the Malay
Peninsula, East India, is rendered
Almost uncomfortable by the excessive
heat and dampness. All the year
round the thermometer ranges from
80 to 100 degrees, and malarial fever,
thereby induced, never ceases in its
ravages. White people seldom leave
their houses between he hours of IL
and 3. At Singapore, which is with
In one degree of the equator, it is
daylight at 6 in the morning and
dark at at night the year around.