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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-09-15
CnrnnrIny YYentworth.

NEW YoaK, Sep. l2-The grand jury
filed their indictment against W. II Went
worth, the ab7conding ca,hier OF the Vic,
toria Hotel. As soon as Wentworth is ex.
tradited from Jersey City he will be
brought before Judge Fitzgerald 70 plead
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-09-15
Terre Haute Affairs.

NEW YORK, Sep l2-Word was received
at the Office in tins city OF the Evansville
apd Terrs Haute railroad that President
Grammer Dad resigned, by request OF the
directors. lie will be succeeded, il is said,
by d. ]. Mackey, President Of the Board OF
D..actDrs
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-09-15

Il could keep nothing on my
stomach, and got so poor my
friends hardly knew me. | suf-
fered with severe headaches,
dizziness, faintness, backache,
and the blues.
Thanks to Lydia Z. Pink
hams Uegeta6k Compound, |
am now as fat as ever, and
have no female troubles.
If you use my letter | hope
it may be the means of saving
some other poor mothers life
as it did mine" Mrs. Ella
Van Buren,, Brazil, Ind.
All druggists sell il. Address in confidence,
LYDIA T.. PIskHAM MED. Co, LYNN, MAss.
Ii vsr Pills rs cents.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-09-15

WASHINGTON, Sep. l2.-The Navy De
partment has directed the commander of
the Detroit to sail from Norfolk for Rio
on Thursday, and il is not unlikely that
the Newark will lie ready to sail in com.
pany with her.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-09-15
WORLDS FAIR EXCURsIONA
Eighty Thousand Passengers Carried o
Special Trains

NEW YORK, Sep. l2.-The Worlds Fair
trains will be continued until Oct. %.
Since the Trunk lines started these special
trains, some six weeks ago, charging one
fare for the round trip to Chicago. they
have carried so, 600 passengers. Beginning
next week six trains instead of eight will
he run weekly. The business OF the Trunk
lines to Chicago in July and August was
five times as great as in the same months
last year and the business in August was
30 per cent. greater than in July.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-09-15
Eish's Funeral.

GARRISON. Sep l2.-The funeral of eS-
Secretary Of State Hamilton Fish, took
place yesterday A very large number OF
people. including the Society OF the Gin
cinnati, were present.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-22
What Is Anthrax?

This definition Is given i'll bulletin No.
1O OF the Delaware experiment station:
Anthrax is disease which affects all
domestic animals. Carnivora or flesh
eaters-dogs, for instance-enjoy, it is
true, n high degree of protection against
it, but at times they, too, succumb. Man
himself is quito susceptible, and sheep,
goats, horned cattle and horses are espe-
cially liable to contract it, The result
depends upon the portion of the body
that is affected.
IT the poison passes through the stom-
ach and develops in the intestines, death
follows. If, in the case of man, wound
on the hand or leg gives the poison en-
trance into the body, then malignant
postules form. Oftentimes such patients
possibly one in five may die.
The same can be said Of horned stock,
but sheep and goats, with one or two
curious exceptions, have little or no re-
sisting powers, and anthrax once in a
flock oftentimes claims one-half as vic
tins.
The cause of this disease is Il plant too
small by far to be seen by the naked eye.
Under the microscope it looks like rod
possibly five times as long as it is thick
Five thousand of these rods put end to
end might measure one inch in length.
This rodlike plant goes to seed under
certain circumstances point to be re-
membered-for it is this popularity
which gives to it almost unlimited pow
er for causing losses, for these seeds can
stand both heat and cold and can lie
for years i'll a dry place without loss of
vitality. A combination of heat, mois-
ture and food, such as the animal BODY
offers, may cause the seed to terminate
and develop an epidemic anew.
Once within the animal body, anthrax
plants multiply without seed formation
and if they cause the death of the ami
NAL and it is buried without dissection
or mutilation, which would allow air to
come into contact with the blood, then
in short time the plant dies, and moth
ing remains to generate future trouble.
Almost invariably, however, Immediate
ly after death blood exudes from all the
natural openings of the carcass of an
anthrax victim. Such blood does not
coagulate. 1t may sink readily into the
soil or may spread over it in broad pools,
Offering ample opportunity for aeration
and for seed formation within rela-
lively few hours.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-22
Getting Rid of Rats.

An Ohio farmer, writing to The Amer
lean Agriculturist, says: On the barn
floor Iplacet. SO gallon kettle filled half
full of rye. a plank feet long led from
the floor to the top of the kettle. The
rye was left in the kettle for about a
fortnight, until the rats had become
thoroughly familiar with the kettle and
were making it the headquarters for
their nightly revels with seeming conf
dence that no harm was intended. when,
very treacherously, one evening water
was substituted for the grain, and a half
inch of chaif from the barn floor con-
cealed the water. The result was that
81 drowned rats We're forked out the first
morning and 62 within week, and aft
CT that no rats were seen for year.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-22

The Rural New Yorker has often adj
vocated the burning of bones as cheap
and easy way of reducing them to q
proper condition for use as fertilizer.
There are cases where burning is advis-
able chiefly because this is about the
only way some farmers can get them into
fine meal or powder. AS between a
whole bone and bone ash. the latter is
preferable, but if the whole bone could
be crushed or ground into fine meal
without burning it would be worth far
more for fertilizing.
1t is fact that bone ash is very
slowly soluble as compared with SUI
perphosphate of fine raw bone. Take
two similar bones-burn one to ashes
and grind the other to fine meal and
then apply heat in the form of steam.
The steamed bone will be twice as valu-
able as the bone ash for immediate use.
At the same time there are cases where
bone burning is economical because of
the great cost of crushing bones with
ordinary tools.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-22
FATreNlNe AND CURING BEEF.

How to Make and Keep Beef For homo
Use In Winter.
Mrs, Charles writes in The Rural New
Yorker:
l have just been interviewing Mr..
Charles, my better and larger half, in
regard to the young steer be has been
stall feeding for several weeks and was
glad to hear that he would soon be in
good condition for killing, weather per-
uniting, and know ho will make deli
ciouS eating.
He was selected from n herd of 40
steers bought in Buffalo last Juno and
was pasture fed till about six weeks ago.
Since then he has been kept constantly
in the stable, fed OH diet of pumpkins,
cornmeal, bran and clover hay. We
killed two such animals last winter and
certainly never had such superior beef
in the house-rich, juicy and tender as
young chicken. The manner in which
we disposed of our beeves last winter
proved so satisfactory that will de-
scribe it, thinking others may find some
suggestions which will prove helpful to
them.
As soon as we are likely to have steady
cold weather the steer will be slaughter
ed. One fore quarter and one hind quar-
ter will be sold to neighboring farm
ers, who are always glad to avail them
selves of an opportunity to get such
choice meat at so much lower than re-
tail prices. The fore quarter reserved
for ourselves, after hanging q week or
two, we shall cut up and pack in 20
gallon crock for corning. Each piece is
thoroughly rubbed with the following
mixture and then packed as solidly as
possible in the large crock or jar: Four
quarts of rock salt, pounds of brown
sugar, 4 ounces of saltpeter to 100 pounds
of beef.
These jars are far superior to barrels
for this purpose, as they can be kept
much sweeter, and the jar cannot absorb
the juices Of the meat as barrel would.
No water is needed, as the beef juices
will prove sufficient after few days
standing. A 90 gallon jar will hold
about $50 pounds of meat Corn beef
prepared in this way will keep several
months in cool weather, though think
the meat fibers are hardened and tough
ened after, say, two months.
canned corned beef in glass fruit jars
last winter very successfully, opening
them in midsummer. The remaining
hind quarter is hung in the large, airy
garnet over the woodshed, where it gen
orally freezes. A steak or roast is cut
off rs desired. In favorable weather the
meat will keep two months if desirable,
improving i'll quality every day.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-22
Flotsan and Jetsan,.

Professor Cooke is quoted as saying
that ordinary skimmilk is worth II
cents per 100 pounds just to pour on the
ground as fertilizer. In other words,
q can of skimmilk contains all the fer
tility there is in five pounds of the high
est grade fertilizer.
The Vermont experiment station tried
mixing molasses with the bordeaux mix
ture on potatoes. 1t caused the mixture
to stick to the vines, but the practice is
condemned because the molasses at
tracts bees to the poisonous mixture.
With the single exception of potatoes,
all English crops are extremely unsatis-
factory. The hop crop is very short and
the grain crops below the average in the
three kingdoms.
During the month of June 1888 tons
of hay were sent from this country to
England against ga tons for June, 1892.
Holland did better yet, sending England
1861 tons against 1, 7O6 for June, 1892.
at the Vermont station for two con-
secutive seasons the bordeaux mixture
proved an effective remedy for tho blight
and rot, the tests being made both at the
experiment station and in the fields of
several potato growers about the state.
Dat smut can be entirely prevented by
aoaking the seed oats in hot water.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-22
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HOMEMADE FERTILIZERS.
virginian's Common Sense Talk on 6
Subject of Practical Interest.

a Virginian's Common Sense Talk q
Subject of Practical Interest.
a fertile soil is one that contains in o
soluble and available form all the needed
elements of plant food. OF all these pot
ash, phosphoric and sulphuric acids, sill
lea, nitrogen and carbon are the SOON
est exhausted by cultivation, and there
fore the most necessary to be supplied
by artificial means. If the farmer will
take good care to return adequate sup
plies of these in his soils, nature will in
almost every case furnish an abundance
OF the others. The art of maintaining
soil fertile lies in returning toit annually
enough at least of humus, potash and
phosphoric acid to make up for the loss
OF these elements occasioned by cultiva-
ton and cropping.
The farmer can do much for his soils
by several economic methods, and n Vir-
ginia correspondent of The American
Agriculturist tells what some of these
are. He says: Humus, or decaying and
decayed organic matter, is most readily
and cheaply supplied by growing upon
the soil and turning under such green
crops as clover and field peas. Every
farmer knows the value of these, but it
is not every one that utilities them to tho
extent that he should. In place of the
green crops, or as an adjunct thereto, let
him also make liberal use of forest mold
and litter. These should form the bulk
of every compost heap and the bedding
for all his live stock.
Of potash and phosphoric acid. the
best and richest home source is wood
ashes. Only apply moderate dressing
of ashes about once every 10 years, and
any soil, other things being favorable,
will remain fertile. Any farmer, if he
will, can obtain by home means enough
unleached ashes to top dress at least one
field annually, and so rotate around I'M
til finally all are thus treated. Wher-
ever there are logs and dead timber and
turf, sods and rubbish generally upon
farm, there are the materials for the ash
supply. 1t is II fact not as we'll known
as 1T should be that burned and smoke
lmpregnated soil, turf, peat, clay or
muck is of itself valuable and lasting
fertilizer.
During the leisure spells, when the
woods are not so dry as to render the
escape of fire probable, the farmer should
be burning the waste material of the
farm in order to increase tho stock of
ashes. After the logs and large timber
are we'll on fire let him throw on what
ever turf, sods or leaves may he conven-
lent to the pile, making the fires with
that end i'll view. OF course this burned
dirt substitute for ashes is not as good n
fertilizer as pure ashes, but mixed with
ashes it is good and lasting manure,
and it increases the bulk If ashes. ell
abling the farmer to get CROUCH an
nually to top dress at least one field.
This form of ashes makes a capital top
dressing for clover, grass, small fruits,
vineyards, orchards and fields of grail,
on any soil needing potash.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-22
1.-Two Stock POinta.

Fall planted rye for the winter and
spring pasture of the lambs is one of the
most satisfactory and paying of crops.
Now is the time to set the broiling
machines, otherwise incubators, going.
Colonel F. D. Coburn says there is no
necessity for boar's being n sluggish.
stupid, half idiotic, chuckle headed
chump. A boar can be tractable and
still have abundant life and activity.
Use gumption in your feeding meth
DDS. Get rid Of the old superstition that
it Is wicked to feed wheat to stock.
When wheat Is only 40 cents q bushel,
pork 8 cents, and butter rs cents a
pound, turn wheat into pork and butter
instead Of selling it at 40 cents.
Wheat is excellent as concentrated
food for all live stock.
The Breeders Gazette is down on the
"well nigh obsolete" score card as used
by judges at fairs. The Gazette OBJ
serves that it has not been used in the
cattle ring of western show yard in 10
years, and that swine breeders have re-
covered thoroughly from the score card
fever. 1t wisely shows up the "folly of
attempting to apply mathematics to the
judging of life."
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-22

Opinions differ greatly as regards what
is the best food for poultry. Some peo-
pie swear by soft foods of various kinds,
whereas others patronize n grain diet
alone. All sorts of mealy doughs, how
ever,-are wholesome food for poultry
and result in producing more eggs than
feeding whole grain diet pure and SIM
pie, says The Feathered World, which
also AYERS that the ideal diet for poultry
should be neither too much soft nor too
much hard, but just the happy medium.
Several people feed soft foods alone in
every possible form-with and without
peppeE, with and without pot liquor,
with and without grease. Experiments
made with such feeding suddenly and
gradually in all weathers proved unfa-
vorable in every instance. Several good
birds died of diarrhea induced by such
feed, while the others suffered greatly
from sicknesses of various kinds.
A change of diet is essential to good
ondition-charcoal, burned bones, sand.
little salt, while onions, cabbage, no.
tatoes, beans, etc., are all good for
health, and hence lead to egg produc-
ton. All kinds of poultry are also very
fond of milk, and it appears to make no
difference to them if it is sour, thick or
clabbered. The waste from cheeserooms
or buttermilk from the churn is excel
lent food, especially if mixed with an
occasional meal feed.
To make hens lay well the authority
cited says: Put two or more quarts of
water and one large seed pepper into a
kettle and boil; now stir in coarse In
dian meal till thick; cook this one hour
and feed hot. Horse radish may be
chopped fine and stirred in, with the re-
suit that you will get eggs daily, instead
of none perhaps before feeding MANY
people complain that their hens won't
lay; to such we recommend cooked feeds.
fed hot, especially good egg bringers be-
ing boiled apple skins seasoned with red
pepper, or boiled potatoes spiced with
horse radish. Corn or wheat fed alone
tend to lay on fat and keep egg baskets
empty. a spoonful of sulphur stirred
in with cooked foods is n good thing for
hens; it frees them from vermin and
gives tone to the system.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-22
Symptoms of Foul Brood.

If you are aware of a bad odor on
opening bee hive and then find holes
in the center of the cappings over
brood, and on opening n cell find the
larva rotten, of dark color and of a
ropy character, SO that on thrusting into
it toothpick and then withdrawing it
the rotten brood will string out, then,
says The American Bee Journal, you will
do we'll to get out your bee books and
study up on foul brood. The symptoms
described are unmistakable-theym mean
foul brood.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-22
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THE HACKNEY FORM.
An Expert Gives Information In Regard
to Hackney Points.


to Hackney Points.
send you herewith diagram of the
points of n hackney horse which you
will perhaps find useful about this time.
The outline given, being that of stout
hackney, appeals more to lovers of the
hackney than if we gave the points on
the outline of the thoroughbred. You
will notice that the sketch gives the "pe-
culiar hackney lookout" tho ''upstand-
ing attitude" the clay of shoulder" the
"roundness Of turning" the "crest," the
'short back" the almost but not quite
horizontal Group" the position of dock, !"
the ''curve from dock to gaskin,' the
triangle from hip to dock and stifle,"
the "muscling of arms and thighs with
out cartiness, the construction of knees
and hooks" the "shortness of bone," the
"obliquity of pastern"
OF course in the sketch all this is given
in outline only, but the manner in which
the body is divided, think, will draw
attention to the points fairly we'll and
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-22

PRIZE ENGLISH HEREFORD HEIFER.
Few young animals could show more
beef to the square inch than she does.
The Herefords and Devons are the two
Oldest breeds of domesticated cattle in
existence so far as is known. The Here
fords are the standard beef breed of old
England. In this country they are more
common in the New England and mid
die states than in the west, though of
recent years this fine strain of blood has
been used to make tender the steaks of
the original Texas steer.
The Herefords make as good oxen as
the Devons except in one respect. and
that is they are not such fast walkers.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-22
Wart on "a Mares Iep

A correspondent asks the veterinarian
OF the Chicago Inter Ocean how to re-
move wart between the hoof and mas
tern joint of mares fore leg. The Wart
is as large as a mans fist. The vet re-
plies:
The simple removal of wart by tving
ligature around the base or cutting il
off close TO the skin with n knife does
does not always remove the origin Of the
morbid growth, which as a rule is To-
Gated deep seated in the simultaneous
tissue; hence the treatment seldom proves
successful unless it is promptly followed
mp by the application of some potent
caustlc-viz, the actual cautery care
fully applied at white heat, caustic
potash, etc. The scientific and efficient
means of treatment is to put the patient
under proper restraint. If necessary.
cast and properly secure the animal,
then with scalpel proceed to deliberate
~ dissect the wart out root and branch.
The resulting wound may be dressed
daily with some antiseptic, such as DOW
dered boracic acid, iodoform, etc. If dur
Ing the healing process the morbid growth
should manifest disposition to sprout.
the caustic should be promptly applied.
The probable location Of the wart calls
TO mind the necessity for some vigilance
on the part Of the operator. Ii is pos
sible that the base may be located in close
proximity to some of the important blood
vessels on the inside and outside of the
limb in the immediate vicinity of the
fetlock joint, and of course due care
should be taken so as not to injure them.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-22
Money In RomtIstcrs.

1t is pleasant to note that dealers in
the centers report growing and active
demand for good roadsters, beyond any
thing seen during the past few years At
the same time one must regret that it
needs be recorded that there is great
trouble in finding what will please Gus
toners, says the Maine Farmer. Take
these statements, in connection with
what may be seen over the farms of
Maine, and the lesson is suggestive. TO
say the least. Must it be admitted that
something has been wrong with the
breeding or training of the past 10 years?
There are indications which point that
way, yet when one looks for the real
reason it will be found i'll the develop
ment rather than blood lines.
While there has been much that has
been experimental the troubles have
multiplied because a single object has
been in the mind of the breeder-that of
speed. With the training all centering
about this one thought, and that the
only measure of worth, it is not surpris-
ing that style and road qualities, if not
Size, have been sacrificed. 1t has been
one sided cultivation, and that always
such as arc wanted 90 not belong in this
class. Right here is where the leaders,
the active breeders have had ii great ad-
vantage i'll that they have held to the
rounded rather than the one sided stand
ard, while the man with single mare
Or the farmer with his many duties has
been swept off his feet by the thought of
speed values or the great price realized
by some fortunate neighbor.
This explains why SO many understood
horses are to be found, and if it be
trae it suggests the lesson which is en-
forced SO many times in our columns,
that of mating and breeding, of feeding
and developing with the thought of the
perfect whole, the horse for the road
first, last and all the while, leaving the
question of speed to special speed pro-
ducers. In this there is sure safe bust
ness basis on which to stand for all
time.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-22
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PICTURESQUE CATTLE.

These Were the Champion Beef Hercfords
at tho British Fairs.
There is something in these pictures of
prize beef cattle that reminds one Of the
British beef eater himself-sturdy,
strong and well rounded out. They are
"beef to the heels"
Can this heifer from the rich pasture
lands in southwest England be beaten
on the black loan prairies of Illinois,?
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-22
CITY DIRECTORY.
ofthe Principal 5usinssss Houses
of Roanoke, Va.

The following is p3 .blished daily for
the benefit Of stranegers and tho public
generally. 1t includes all trades and
professions and, cannot fail to prove of
interest to all who intend transactinp
business in Roanoke: ~
COURT sTENoGRAPIIER.
cLAS, E, GRAVES, COG Terry Building.
PLUMBING. {
ROANOKE !Sx SANITARY PLu@iBINa COM
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUtti KS, ETC
BowDRE SHOE CO., ITO South, Jefferson st.
FURNITURE, oARPE3rs. ETC.
Z. II. STEWART FURNITURE CO.
WIN. F. BAKER CARPET COZ
REAL EsTATE)
J. r. WINFIELD.
j. s. GROVES u co.
BUILDERS AND CoN,&RAoToRs.
F. j. AMwEG, Terry Building}
ARoHITEo3rs.
CHAs. C.. WILSON, Commercial Bank Building.
eRoCER$.
c. r. WERTZ, Commerce Street.
DRY Go13ps.
HEIRONIMUS & BRUGHt Commerce Street.
RosENBAUM BROS, Sal Fem Avcnnc.
G G o : s.;ass AND s aE1Ts' FUHN1sHEEs
DUGGAN a. SAUL EN, JEFFERSON Street.
PIANOS s. ,RKeANs.
HOBBIESMUSIC co.
HOTELS.
HOTEL LEE, EUROPEAN, Commerce Street.
HOTEL ALEXANDRIA, Chicago.
PRINTINGIAND BOOK BINDING.
STONE PRINTING CO., Opposite Hotel Roe.
noke.
ROOFING AND METAL CORNICEs.
ROANOKE ROOFING AND METAL CoRNICR
COMPANY.
IRON WORKS.
CUSHMAN IRON COMPANY.
MARBLE WORKS.
JARRETT & BROWN, Camp ell Avenue.
DRUGGISTS.
MASSIE & MARTIN, Commerce Street