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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-08-05
WEDNESDAY.

Language Lessons, by Prof Foulk
ably handled under the following
heads
Primary series
1. Writing words and sentences.
=. Copying maxims. proverbs, star.
zas of poetry, etc.
3. Writing sentences dictated by the
teacher and memorized by pupil.
4. Writing sentences containing one
or more words.
S. Writing sentences expressing
facts observed.
s. Writing stories which pupils
have learned to tell well.
b Secondary series
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-06-09
THE USE OF HEN MANURE.

Hen manure, mixed with dry earth,
and shoveled over few times, to secure
its pulvcrization, makes an excellent
dressing for the lawn. 1t promotes re.
markable growth of grass, making it
thick, and giving it q deep, rich color.
As quick starter for crops, it is
valuable, but its force is quickly ex-
haustcd. While it will help start a crop
OF corn, assisting in its early maturity
the wise farmer relics upon some other
fertilizer. Good stable manure, plowed
in, with little hen manure in the hill,
to start the growth, insures heavy and
early-maturing crop.-American Agri-
culturist.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-06-09
Professor Lanyley's Flying Fish.

1t is stated that Professor Samuel
Pierpont Langley, of the Smithsonian
Institution Mt Washington, has devel-
ope1 flying machine which he believes
is practicable.
1t is not intended to carry passengers.
In conf suaration the body portion close
ly Stimulates a macIcrel. The frame
work is fifteen feet long and is made of
aluminium and steel, and IS of great
strength. The engines are of the double
oscilating type. They weigh sixty
ounces and develop one horse power, the
iightest of That power ever made.
There are four boilers of thinly ham,
mercd copper, weighing a little more
than seven pounds each, and they &C.
cupy the middle portion of the fish. In-
stead of water, Il very volatile hydro
carbon is employed, the exact nature of
which is matter of secrecy, but which
vaporizcs at a comparatively low teir-
perature. Tine fuel used is refined gas
oline, and the extreme end of the tail of
the fish is utilized for storage tank
with capacity of one quart.
Before passing to the boilers the gaso,
line is volatized by going through a
heated coil. There are twin screw pro.
peilers which would be made adjustable
to different angles to provide for the
steering. Screws of various pitches have
been experimental with, but it is not
determined which shall be adopted for
trill.
With the smallest the engines develop
speed of 100 revolutions a minute.
With the largest ones the speed is some
what decreased. A thin jacket of as
bestos covers the upper portion of the
body of the fish. The wings, or aero
planes, are sector shaped and consist of
light frames of tubular aluminium steel,
covered with China silk. The front one
is forty-tw inches wide in the widest
part and has an extreme length OF forty
feet from tip to tip.-New York Com.
mercial Advertiser.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-06-09
Princely Pomp in Lushailand.

The correspondent of an Indian jour-
nal describes the manner In which Lal-
luova, the Lushai Chief who has recently
been an ally of ours, moved his residence
from one village to another recently.
The procession moved out in Indian file,
led by the chiefs heir, boy of twelve
years of age, wearing quaint, gray, tall
hat, the symbol of his fathers rank, and
loin-cloth. In one hand he carried q
bottle of the liquor of the country, and
with the other led yellow dog. Next
came "a maid of honor, bearing huge
basket of household goods and chattels,
and smoking the everlasting pipe of
peace the while" She was followed by
the Prime Minister leading the chiefs
pig, to whom succeeded the chiefs wife,
clad in n divided shirt of kulli blue
cloth, and wearing the Royal amber
necklace. The chief himself came next.
lie wore a red helmet, two flannel shirts,
az evening dress coat and waistcoat-the
latter being arranged outside the coat
and garment of Lushai cloth. The
trousers belonging to the dress suit were
gracefully thrown over the left shout
der, pair of gray socks, unlaced am.
munition boots, and flagon OF liquor
completed the chiefs travelling costume.
Last OF all came gentleman in wait
ing," who carried the Royal bedding in
! a bundle. london Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-06-09
Declaration Of Independence Stolen.

You didn't know that our Declaration
of Independence was stolen years ago by
an emissary of the British Government,
did youa Well, it was. They did not
take the paper, but they took the ink,
which was just as bad.
Years ago, when James Monroe was
President aud John Quincy Adams Sec
rotary of State, an ingenious English
cngraver obtained permission of the two
diSnitarics mentioned to take the Dec
laration of Independence and engrave it
in facsimile on copper. lie carried the
precious document to the printing Office
OF one Peter Force. When everything
was in readiness he placed it upon the
imposing stone and laid sheet of India
paper of the same size upon it. This
India paper was next moistened with
water in which gum arabic had been
dissolved. Il heavy proof roller with a
weight hanging from each end was then
rolled several times over the historic doc
ument. When the India paper was re-
moved from the face of the instrument
it took with it at least one half Of the
ink used in writing and signing the
uOCuiucul.
What dastardly act of sacrilegel 1t
is pity that everyone connected with
the infamous plot, from the cngraver up
to the President OF the United States,
the Secretary of State and the British
sovereign, were not punished for 1t, or
at least made to give reasons why such a
thing was allowed or permitted. The
document is less than u century aud q
quarter years old, and with proper care
should be almost as legible as it was on
the fifth day of July, 1776. AS it is,
only eleven signatures out of the fifty
three can be read without glass, and
some of them have disappeared beyond
recall. To my way of. looking at this
matter even though it has been time and
again declared that the Government at
London was mot cognizant of the en-.
graver's shrewd tricky this stealing OF
the ink from our Magma Charta was one
of the capital crimes of this century,
St. Louis Republic.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-06-09
TIE BEST BREED OF COWS.

If the cost of food fed COW and cost
value of her products be, as we believe
they arc, the chief factors in successful
dairying, then the best breed still re-
mains practically unknown to US. This
breed is the Kerry. They arc the
original Irish mountain COW, improved
by careful breeding. They are very
small, but the English esteem them very
highly as milkers. At the recent Lon.
don dairy show they carried off all tho
prizes, giving the largest yield of milk
and butter fat, in proportion to weight,
of any breed tested. They are credited
for the past few years with always carry
ing off first honors in every public con-
test against the special milk breeds. We
remember COW of this breed in our
youth that belonged in Saratoga County
and her milk was always reserved for the
use of the family that owned her. Our
memory recalls her as a great butter
maker, her milk being, IN the language
of the women folks, as erich us cream.
American Dairyman.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-06-09
CLOVER BEST FOR HOGS.

Glover is the best crop that a ,nan
can raise, and to handle hogs on farm
with profit you should have plenty of
clover. The clover pasture should be SO
arranged with fences SO as to be in small
pastures, so rs not to have too many
hogs together and that the hogs can eat
down one field; then turn them into
fresh field and let the first field rest.
This will pay for all the extra fencing.
rs hogs will not need high or stronn
fence when well cared for.
would suggest, says i. p. Pressler.
of Curran, Ill.,, portable fence, such as
rails. A pasture of twenty acres or
more of clover in one field and hoes
enough to cat it will waste and run over
good deal OF it, where twenty acres in
iour fields OF live ncres each will feed
twice as many hogs and do better, and
give man chance 10 sort his hogs &C.
cording to age and size. A bunch of
hogs of all ages and size running in the
same pasture docs not look so we'll cs
when graded. I regard clover as the
king of all grass for hogs and for money
making. have now one hundred acre.
on my farm that sowed last Fcbruar7
In wheat, got good stand and cut and
threshed 2077 bushels of good wheat.
and pastured fifty head of horses and
cattle three months.
l knov OF one man here that cut a
crop OF clover after crop of wheat, and
made two bushels per acre and sold it
for Se per buslicl last October. AS for
fertilizer, clover cannot be equalicd. The
..-:eld cf corn in this country has baen
increased twenty bushels per acre by its
use. If man can't make clover and
hoSa pay he has missed his calling, but
you must give bath your attention; il
you cat the clover field too bare and
leave no sSubble to protect the roots
your clover will winter kill, and if you
let your sows have their pigs in ctraw
stacks. brush piles and h:llsides you will
soon BIO ct your road's end.
The poorest land sown to clover, AMI
a few good Chester White sows we'll
cared for, will build up the land, raise
your family and buy you good home.
If should try to raise hogs without
clover would want an interest in mill.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-06-09
Japanese Carpenters at the Fair.

On the wooden island in tho lagoon
that separates the horticultural Building
from the ugly structure that will hold
the official exhibits of the United States
Government there will be cluster OF
Japanese houses, erected by japanese mr..
tisans for the commissioners of tho land
of the chrysanthemum. When these
very attractive looking houses are en-
tirely finished they will be viewed with
great interest aud curiosity by the visi-
tors to the fair, for in many regards they
will be very different from anything that
the very great majority ever saw before.
But the process of building was even
more interesting than the finished houses
will be. When the snow was over foot
deep this winter, and visitors to the
works were very scarce on account of the
cold, there was still always something of
crowd about the wire rope that was
put up to keep visitors away from the
japanese carpenters and joincrs who were
erecting the houses in the island village:
The wire rope did not keep back the
more adventuresomc of the sight scers,
nor were those who invaded tho forbid
den ground ordered out after they had
gone where they had no business to 90.
Even japanese artisan, though clothed
with authority, is too gentle and kindly
and courteous in his nature to resent any
friendly encroachmcnt upon his rights.
Those who went within the ropes saw
unmoiested all that was to be seen, and
every question that was asked was an
swercd ms fully rs the limited English
vocabulary OF the workmen permitted.
Aud what bright and nimblc fellows
these workmcn wcrcl 1t may be that
they were picked men, selected for their
skill and intelligence. If they represent
the average of Japanese artisans, then
the average must be very high indeed.
1t seems almost n pity that these carpen-
tiers could not be kept at work all during
the fair; such an exhibit would he as
popular as anything within the grounds.
After noting the nimbleness of the
workmen and the intelligent expression
of their faces, together with the pic
turesqueness Of their dress, which seems
to western eyes something like uniform,
the visitor looks mt the work itself, aud
is ut ouco struck by its neatncss. Even
the temporary scafTolding is neatly and
strongly Pat up, and the lumber of which
it is made is injured as little as possible.
Instead of being nailed together, this
scafIolding is dashed with cords. This
is done with skill that would make
even sailor man turn green with envy.
But though the Japanese workmen do
many things in way opposite to that
employed by Europeans, they do not go
so far rs to build the roofs of their
houses before making the foundations.
At least SUCH was not the method en-
ploycd ut Chicago in making the build
ings there, for when the houses were very
nearly completed the roofs had not yet
been put on. -Larpcr's Weekly.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-06-09
4 TULIP BED.

There are few things more attractive
tkan mass of glowing, nodding tulips.
To have these at their best, they should
not be moved every year, but allowed to
remain undisturbed, season after season.
Treated in this way, they grow strong
and thrifty and send up long stalks with
large symmetrical blooms. Where one
has abundance of space, it is unwise to
move hardy bulbs, unless absolutely
necessary.
There is great pleasure in a we'll man :.
aged bed of bulbs of any sort, and they
require so little care that it is a wonder
that more people do not make a specially
OF them. 1t is only necessary to prepare
bed of rich earth in September and
plant them out, covering the earth above
them with litter, in which is consider.
able amount of straw. Light sticks,
brush or the trimmings from orchard
trees may be laid over the litter to pre-
vent its blowing away. This in the
spring should be ralSed of alter DANCER
OF frost is over.
Care must be taken in raking that the
little tips of the stalks are not broken, as
they frequently start very early and push
UP through the ground often before one
suspects them.
Tulips, dafTodils. narcissus, the old
fashioned stately white lily, the crown
imperial and japanese lilies of various
kinds, with the crocus and drop,
make most attractive early spring gar
dens, and are well worth the triiline ex.
pen:e and care necessary to keep them
at their best.-New York Ledger.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-06-09
Air Reduced to Liquid or a Solid.

Another marvellous transformation has
been effected in England by means of
the new scientific agency, inconceivable
cold. Air has been reduced not only to
a liquid but to q solid, two or three
times this week. Professor Dewar has
succeeded in producing in his laboratory
piece of solid air. He has not yet
tested the nature of the new solid, which
is almost rs clear as crystal. 1t may be
jelly of the solid nitrogen containing
liquid oxygen, much as calves foot jelly
contains water ditfused into gelatine, or
it may be a true ice of the liquid air in
which both oxygen and nitrogen exist
in solid form. A doubt arises from the
fact that Professor Dewar has not been
able by his utmost efforts to solidify pure
oxygen, which, unlike other gases, re-
sists the cold produced by its own
evaporation. Under the air pump nitro
gen, on the other hand, can be frozen
with comparative ease. 1t has already
been proved that in the evaporation of
liquid air nitrogen escapes first. Con-
sequently the liquid is continually be-
coming richer in that constituent which
has hitherto resisted qualification. 1t
thus becomes question whether cold
produced is sufficiently great to solidify
oxygen or whether its mixture with
nitrogen raises its freezing point, or
whether it is not really frozen at all, but
merely entangled among the particles Of
the cold nitrogen Chicago Herald.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-06-09
srEApFAsrNEss.

VI ~ I.
Waste not the present hour "a vain regret
:, For prizes forfeited in days gone by;
Itnaught avails for fair winds lost to sigh
Or mourn the glow of suns forever set;
Entomb thy past, bid memory forget
The fixed and changing years that rear
ward lie;
\ Charge but thy constant soul with pur-
pose high.
And life shall cede thee of its treasures yet.
The Now is thine, goodly battlefield
Whereon all past defeats redeemed may
be;
Fight bravely on and vanquishod foes will
yield
Thy valiant sword n path to victory,
Tis towards droop and moan, at might
have beenw
ut yet shall be-" the steadfast cry, and
-Donahoe's Magazine.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-06-09
cIsrERNs UNDER BARNS.

Every barn should have cistern
under 1t, and especially if the barn have
basement for wintering stock. With
suitable contrivances, supply of pure
water may be provided so that the water
is shut off automatically when the vessel
is filled to certain height. This is
done by wooden valve resting on the
water, and buoyed up by it so that the
water is shut off whenever it IS needed.
Such cisterns under barns have often
furnished the water promptly SO as to
save serious losses from tre.-Boston
Cultiyator.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-06-09
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

The smaller breeds, as rule, are the
best layers.
Well-fed early chickens make good
fall and winter layers.
To make the best flesh the fowls must
be well fed from the start.
Cooked vegetables are best fed to tho
poultry warm from the kettles.
If the older cockcrels cannot DO mar.
keted separately, send them to market
now.
The poultry keeper who looses inter
est in his business will soon lose his
profit also.
A first cross makes n desirable fowl,
but carried farther the results are rarely
satisfactory.
A good way of giving castor oil to
fowls is to pour it on the surface of the
drinking water.
Care should be taken not to use grease
or oil about a setting hen, as a creased
egg cannot hatch.
Where it is desired to secure as large
number of turkey eggs as possible, it
is nearly always best to put the first lay
ings under common hens.
In nearly all cases it is best to sci
guinea eggs under common hen. The
chickens will be gentler than if the guinea
is allowed to hatch them out.
Let all the hens nests be portable.
then if lice appear, as they most likely
will in warm weather, remove and burn
the infested ones and replaces with new.
The reason SO many flocks run down
and "run OUT" is that the selection of
the breeding stock is neglected. The
time to select is while the birds are grow
ing.
When the stock is on dry iced alone
warm wet mash of bran, oil, meat, and
either com meal or ground oats will be
found very beneficial if given once
week.
Careful feeders acknowledge that three
mouths is almost the extreme limit that
corn can be fed exclusively to hogs with
profit, on account of the risks of dis
eases.
Rsise that hen roost in which the
fowls do not thrive about four inches.
aud leave open around at the founda-
ton. Fowls want to be sheltered not
housed.
All kinds OF breeding animals will be
the better off week or ten days feeding
on bran and oil meal in connection with
their other rations before they are due to
come in.
If hens are allowed to range freely
around slaughterhouses the refuse meat
taints their eggs and makes them taste
rotten. This of course only happens
when the meat itself is decaying.
Catarrh, diptheria, and roup in their
incipient stages may be cured by fumiga-
ton with tar, carbolic acid and sulphur.
Put on hot Goals at night while fowls are
on the perches. Be careful not to suf-
focatc them.
Professor Cooke, of the Vermont Ey.
pertinent Station, says that by aeriatine
milk, odors which have been absorbed
since milking may be entirely driven out,
and that odors derived from the COW
may be partially removed.
A simple way Of testing the relative
quality of milk of herd is to take M
many glasses as there are COWS, keeping
the milk of each COW by itself, place
them on ice OF in very cold water, and
by capentor's rule, which marks six
teenths, you may ascertain very accurately
the percentage of fats in the milk.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-06-09

of turning over tho leaves of the book OF
fatea Let all true lovers guess for them
selves how the matter ended.
"But," Emily acknowledged in her
turn, 81 never was so frightened in all
my life as Mt first aud never SO happy as
/ was ut last"
And she never returned to town life.-
New York Mercury.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-06-09
now no raorEcr FLOWERS AGAINST HENS.

HOW TO P2oTEcT FLOWERS AGAINST HENS,
Every year have had unlimited trlb-
ulatlons, trying to make hens and
flowers thrive, side by side, amicably,
writes Sarah Rodney. But it has been
narrowing occupation, for, like oil aud
water, they do not mix we'll. l have
tried every device under the sun for pro
tecting the flowers, but hitherto it has
been in vain. Even if I succeeded in
keeping majority of the fowls in
yard, one good, mothcrly hen, with
thrifty brood, would in five minutes,
destroy months work and careful
watching of u precious pansy, phlox OIL
verbena bed.
AS I was not equal to banishing the
hens l struck happy inspiration and
banished the flowers; banished all tn,
ANIMALS to the vegetable garden. 1t was
not quite SO pretty or convenient, to
have the flowers so far out of sight, bul
it saved great deal of hard labor and
irritation, and there was an infinite
amount of satisfaction in the well-grow
specimens. have never grown flowers
with so much genuine satisfaction be-
fore, and have resolved to always, in the
future, plant them there. For even the
loveliest flower bed is not great at.
traction to lawn when it is turned bot.
tom side up, or covered with unsightly
sticks and branches.
did not attempt even geranium or
colcus bed, but procured quantities oil
large flower pots, painted several old
kettles that had seen their best days, and
an old butter bowl. A number of hol
low logs, witt. the bark on, made very
pretty rustic flower pots. They were ali
filled with loalny earth, aud planted with
geraniums, coleuses, nasturtiums, and
many kinds of plants, or creeping vines
with tendency to grow downward aud
cover the primitive pots. This motley
assortment of Flora's paraphernalia
was distributed around the house and
grounds. I never have had geranium,
do better or give greater satisfaction all
round. If any other nower-loving
friends and neighbors are addicted to
hens and are suffering from the Affections
thereof they will find relief In following
my plan.-American Agricultural.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-06-09
! A GENUINE SURPRISE.
by HARRY GAMING.

lie station Mt
S W m Ply Cor
ncrs was never n
pict u r cs gu C
spot, even in
the blue glow
of the sunnlest
June day. but
on this chill
October night,
with the first
snownukes of
| Ii C sea so II
cddying in the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-06-09

When the late Bishop Brooks was
commanded" as the phrase goes, to
speak before the Queen some one asked
him if he was afraid "No," he replied.
smiling, ~ have preached before my
mother"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-06-09

the other fellow to furnish the wheat
and l do the grinding, for to buy mill
feed out here in Illinois, bran at seventy
cents per hundred and shipstuffs at eighty
cents per hundred weight, 1 would not
want very many hogs if could not have
clover. And with good Chester White
sows and little corn and clover can
raise hogs with very little ble.-Col-
mans Rural World.