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The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-06-21
Preserving the Peace.

President Cleveland is to be con.
graduated upon his determination to
take no public notice of the approach
Of the commonweal army toward
Washington. 1t would he investing
this absurd movement with alt =
geuher too much Importance to call
upon the military to deal with it, or
to aim proclamation at it. II any
disturbance arises, it can uudOu btedly
be handled by the police authorities.
1t will fall upon the commissioners
Of the District OF Columbia to inform
the army that there $ no work for it
to do there, and that it W II do we'll
to disperse forthwith. That ought
to meet the crisis. -EOStOn Herald.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-06-21
IMPROVING FARM HELP.
Farmers Should Retain the Services Of
Their Sons.

Farmers Should Retain the Services Of
Their Sons.
One o. the greatest difficulties in
successful farming, says the American
CultivatOr, Is to secure faithful and
intelligent workers. It did not usec
to be So when it was a common oc.
currence for sons of farmers when
coming Of age to hire their services
either to tLeir father or TO some
neighbOrinx farmer until they earned
money enough to purchase farms Of
their own
Farmers are in part responsible for
the decadence OF this good custom.
The wages OF farm labor are always
low in comparison with those of more
or less skilled employees working in
cities But they are not so much
lower, as mere comparison OF the sums
paid and received would lead any one
To infer. What ought to have been
done was for the farmer fortunate
enough to have sons to offer them
wages high enough to make 1t their
interest to remain at home A Young
man trained to farm work, used to
caring for the stock. can earn and
ought to get higher wages than an
entire stranger, though In the field
the other might have equal physical
strength and ability to do as large !
days work.
When we were engaged in practical
farming it was always our rule that
hi ed help on the farm were to be
treated respectful and encouraged
to feel an interest in the success of
farm operations They ALWAYS ate
with the family. II hired man IS
not tit for such associations he is not
a proper person to employ on the
farm. We also expressed and felt an
interest in the moral and intellectual
welfare OF those employed, encourage
ing them to 20 to church on Sunday
and to read books that are helpfully.
morally and stimulating intellect
ualIy. In return there was never any
unwillingneSs to work little later
than usual when such work was
necessary to save crop from injury.
1t is true such extra labor was always
paid for; but it is not common that
help which is generally treated il
literally will work extra. even though
they know they will get extra pay for
doing So
Almost always the best farm help
will be found married men who can
only be induced to accept farm work
when they can have house and plot
OF ground to work on their own &C
count. 1t is true, this home work
will take some time and occasionally
an entire day. But ii the man tie a
practical farmer be will be more
liable to be on hand when wanted
than the young unmarried man,
who will waste more time at
parties and dances than the
married man will give in caring for
his family and the piece of ground
that he has TO cultivate for his garden.
II the tenant garden is we'll stocked
with fruit the value of its product
will often aStUnish the owner of the
farms and give him some suggestive
ideas now he can make his larger
acreage more profitable.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-06-21
Attitude Of Shooting stars.

Very careful observations have
been made from time to time vita .
view to ascertain:ng the height of
shooting stars above the earth at
their appearance aud disappearance.
Perhaps the most successful attempt
of this kind was that made in this
country on the occasion of the
meteoric shower ia November. 1867.
The lightnin9like rapidtty with
which the meteors darted through
their courses rendered it impossible
to observe them with astronomical
precision. but the general conclusion
arrived at was that they we're first
seen at an average height Of seventy
five miles and disappeared at height
of flfty-1ve miles There was no
positive evidence that anv meteor
commenced at height much greater
than 100 miles Eagle
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-06-21
No Danger OF a Salt Famine.

Tie amount of salt in the sea
waters OF the globe, if extracted,
would he z eater in mass than the
land, so far as it appears above the
surface The seas cover - per cent
OF the earth's surface, estimated at
.. 2oO. COZ Germany square miles The
sea is the same at all depths. AS
Stunning that the average depth Of
the sea is bali Germany mile, there
are then J, 400, 900 cubic miles of sea
water contains on the average about
% Kilograms OF salt The :, 400, 900
cubic miles Of sea water would there
forth contain IS, O0O miles OF distilled
pure salt.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-06-21
Pounded Glass for Poultry.

A correspondent Of the Texas Farm
ard Ranch writes to that paper to
contradict an assertion that pounded
glass would prove fatal to chickens,
saying: -Four years ago a lady friend
Of mine remarked to me that she
gave her chickens pounded gias, to
cure cholera and prevent disease. l
had much the finest flock Of chickens
in the community. but they were dy-
ing with the cholera. l went home
and pounded up a lot of window glass
out in the poultry yard. My chickens
came around and picked up every
particle of the broken glass, from the
size Of grain of wheat down to the
finest dust. have kept up the treat
ment, pounding up big lot of glass
every four or five days ever since,
with splendid results. A neighbor
Of mine owned a large flock Of tur-
keys. He remarked to me:
"My turkeys are dying at the rate
of two and three per day. What do
you do for them?"
1 said:
"Take rock and hammer and
pound up a lot OF glass Tor them.
A few weeks later he said:
swell, l thought you were crazy,
but went to work and pounded up a
lot Of glass in my turkey yard, and I
haven't lost a turkey since"
The glass cuts the food up in the
crop and prepares it for the gizzard,
then it grinds the food as fine as
powder, furnishes silicic acid for
digestion, and cleans the gizzard out
perfectly clean. The best thing
have ever tried for grit and egg-shell
production is pounded crockery and
china ware.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-06-21
FROM LETHE'S BANKS.
Written for This Paper by Henry Herman.



The house Of God was filled with the
dim. purple twilight which streamed
through the stained-gla windows and
hathed ting gray Norman masonry and
the darkly glowing oak panelling
With q glory OF warm, subdued colors.
1ts fairy touch made the old Tudor
granite floor into one sheet Of softly
lustrOus amethyst, with here and there
. narrow golden band where the last
rays Of the orb Of day pierced the rich
amber translucence of the Oriels'
brighter bordering.
The dulcet Opalescence OF the church
vibrated with melody, weird. strange,
get harmonious and tuneful: erratic,
wandering from one key to another
with easy and scholarly graduation; now
tripping and playful. then Gliding.
sonorous, grand, as the Organist s
fingers half unconsciously wandered
over the keys and called forth the
ghosts OF treasured harmonies, some
nigh forgotten, others nearer and dear
or to memory, one to melt into the
other, one to chase the lther, with the
hearts longings that prompted them
He was alone in tho church-that
old man at the o.gan alone, his
thoughts and the great instrument Of
sweetness and passion his only COM
paniOn>. His thoughts led him far
away, across the green meadows and
smiling fields of England. across the
vast billowy deep, past city and forest
and prairie and mountain, to his boy
who had left him to go to America,
now nearly twelve years ago Some
three Or four letters, brimming with
impatient, boistorous hopefulness, had
been as songs Of tho Isaimist to the
anxious father. Then Il silence like
unto that of the grave, never again to
BE- broken. The years hal passed, but
no word Of his boy had reachel the Or
ganists home.
The old mans face was wrinkled and
and in the big brown ewes, beneath the
bushy white brows, glowed tho soft
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-06-21

heavier than their pockets. Gold. you
see, isn't to be found just like Goals, all
over the place. You may dig or wash
here ard find fortune, and your noigh-
Dor mayn't get enough to pay for his
board. It's all chance, and it takes q
keen eye to 81 OF it.
He glance arc nd the room uneasily
as he spoke, and the musician thought
he had heard tho noise of a movement,
like that of tho sudden orening of {
door AID the shutting of it again.
ITO BE CONTINUED
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-06-21
A Fine Curric MUM.

The young fellow had been at COL
lege for three months and was at
home on a short holiday. There he
met a visiting minister who was ask
Ing him about his school
II know that college very slightly"
he said: ''wnat kind OF a curriculum
have you:"
'Oh." was the astonishing reply,
Eve haven't any now, but a wealthy
man has promised to build one for Us
as the as any in the country. when
ever We win the football champion
ship"
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-06-21

anoSher occasion. Lamb Mas invited
t. party where the room was crowd
ed With children. There noise and
tricks plagued him not . little, aud
at supper, when toaSts were flying to
and fro he rose to propose the health
OF the 'm-much ca.ca-calumiateI So
good King HerOd.''
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-06-21

The education of Iceland Is entire
ly domestic There is no public
school in the country. except col
lege ia the capital The laws aud
customs Of the country merely re-.
luire that the parents Or guardians.
under di. ect.0n Of the parish pastor,
shall teach the children reading,
writing, and arithmetic
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-06-21
Lambs Sarcasm.

An old lady who was fond of her
dissenting minister once wearied
Lamb by the length Of her praises.
Il speak because know him WE'LL"
said she. ''Well, l DON'T DON'T
but damn him, at a venture" On
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-06-21

THE more elaborate the refresh.
ments are at pasty, the worse man
feels next day
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-06-21

'LEAsT said. soonest mended."
does not apply TO the lazy housewives
needle.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-02-09
WORK AND WORKERS.

OPERATIONS have been resumed In three
butt-nills at the Middletown, (Pa.) tube
works, giving employment to 5 10 men.
The works of the Lakeside Nail Company,
1T Hammond. Ind, employing 5O) men and
boy wi resume operations this week.
THE Saxonvile Mass Wooen Mills, which
closed FIR an indefinite period in December,
throwing about 25O operatives out Of en-
ploym, Mt, starte up again.
The Spuns Steel and Iron Company Of
Plttsburg stated up with full force and
sufficient orders for q steady run OF several
weeks Two hundred and fifty men are
employed.
The shops OF Orr Painter & Co., stove
manufacturers, Reading, Pa, resumed full
handed, after an idleness OF several weeks
and working on partial time for some time.
Over 400 men went to work.
FIVE hundred miners at Corona, Ala, who
went out on strike two weeks ago on ac-
count Of difference between them and the
company relative TO the Irice for house
rents material, & =, returned to work, the
differences having been adjusted.
FIVE Of the II hat manufacturers at Dan
bury, Conn, who are endeayoring to con-
duct their shops independentlywerc running
with about 20 per cent. OF their old help.
The other seven have not a sufficient num-
Der with which to start up their shops.
AFTER number OF months of idleness,
caused by the condition Of business, some OF
the operatives of the Bigelow Carpet Com
pany, Clinton, Mass, returned to work.
The department in which work was resumed
is that devoted to the weaving of Brussels
carpets.
The Curtis Manufacturing Company, OF
New Worcester, Mass, which closed both
its wo)len and satinette mills last Auo ust,
started up the latter mill on full time. The
mills were closed because there was no mar
ket for the output The sat nette mill was
not started
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-02-09

Philadelphia. The illheath OF Mr.. Swan
prevented him from ng the Ledger his
active personal super ision. Under these
circumstances Mr.. Abel notified MIR. Swain
Of his willingness to dispose OF ais interest
in the Ledger. ami in 1864 that paper was
sold to Mr.. Chids and Mr.. Anthony D.
Drexel.
On the Goth OF June 1867, the present Led
GER building at Sixth and Chestnut streets
WAC completed and formally opened. Inc
event was marked by a gathering Of news
paper men from all parts Of the country
The friendship which exist ed between Mr.
ChiIds and the late A. J. Drexel was closer
than that OF brother. Every Joy and every
sorrow. every success and every failure was
shared between them. Morning and evening
thew walked TO and fro from their home 10
their office and every noon they dined to-
gether for more than quarter OF century
Asa publisher and bookseller Mr.. Cbilds
became intimately acquainted with many
distinguished men in the world OF letters. ln
his "Remln scene s" he ecorjs iDoiGen's OF
his friendship with Nathaniel hawthorne,
Washington Irving. W. D. Tcknor, James
T. Fields. ex-Pres.dent Pierce, Henry W.
Longfelow, james Ru sell Lowell, OiiVer
Wendell Holmes, John Lothrop Motley, W.
n. Prescott, George Bancroft, G. Z. X.
lanes. T. Buchanan Read, Paul Du ChaiLu,
Thomas Hughes, Joaquin Miller, Wilkie Col
Inns Charles Dlckins, Edward Everett Hale,
Thomas H. Benton, Gen. Winfield Scott,
r. 8. Grant and others. At his home be en-
tertained at different times the Emperor ana
Empress OF Brazil, the Duke OF Buckingham
and other foreign visitors.
Mr. Childs habtually treated his employees
with kindness and consideration. He pre-
sented to the Typographical society OF Phila-
dephia printers cemetery, with liberal
sum of money, the interest on which was to
keep the grounds In good order. Mr.. Chiids
and Mr.. Drexel in 1886, gave $500 each to
the International Typographical Union
which formed the nucleus OF the building
fund of the Childs Drexel Home for Union
Printers, completed in 1892 at Colorado
Springs, in Colorado.
Mr.. Childs erected fountain 10 the men,
ory OF Shakespeare 10 the poets native town
of Stratford Avon, in England. Mr..
Childs placed memorial window 10 Milton
In St Margaret Church, Westminster n
window to Herbert and Cowper in Westmin-
ster Abbey, and monuments and memorial
tablets to Leigh Hunt, Edgar Allen Poe, the
astronomer Richard Proctor, and prayer
Book Cross" near San Francisco, to mark
the spot where Sir Francis Draks landed
and where the religious services in the Eng
lsh language were first held on the western
shores OF America.
The Drexel Institute, of which he was fret
yce-president and, since the death oi
.he fourder, president of the board of man.
ayers has received his constant help and
encouragement
The only public office that Mr.. Child'
could ever be induced 10 hold
was the honorary one OF president o
the board of visitors 10 the Military Acad
envy at West Point, which was conferred Oh
him by President Cleveland.
Mr.. Chids is survived by his wife, but left
no children
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-02-09
BUTCHERED BY BRIGANDS
Mexican Brigands Capture a Silver Train
on Its Way from the Mines,

The authorities at Durango, Mex, were
notified OF desperate murder aud robbery,
The perpetrators being land OF brigands
led by the notorious outlaw, Francisco Refs
eda. A mule train loaded with silver ore
from the Santa Maria Mines was on its way
10 the reducing works when the bandits
made an attack upon the guards, killing the
foreman, Jose vilareal, who attempted to
offer resistance. The other guards fled, leav-
ing the burros with their precious cargoes
In possession of the bandits, who drove the
animals to their rendezvous in themountains
A force OF troops will be sent In pursuit o.
the robbers.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-02-09
BEHEADRD AT 0AYBREAK,
Vaillan', the Anarchist, Meets His
Doom.

France is avenged. August valiant, the
Anarchist, who hurled a bomb into the
Chambers only few weeks ago, died at
daybreak on the guillotine.
Not in years has the French metropolis
witnessed such an execution. Thousands OF
the poor and ragged surged about the
scafEold of death, damning the justice
which sent desperate to his doom, yet
watching eagerly for the life's blood to flow
when his keen-edged knife should fall.
Four companies OF Gardes Republicalne
and squadron Of mounted gardes were on
duty about the Prison De la Roquette, and
were kept busy quelling small riots which
broke out now and then in almost every
quarter. There were hosts of "red-hag"
men in the motley crowds, but they content
ed themselves with mild words OF condemna-
tion directed against tho Republican author
Ties. The knife fell at 7. ID o'clock.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-02-09
HISTORICAL.

The Lincoln medal, struck In honor
of Abraham Lincoln, is described in o
catalogue by A. G. Zabriskie of New
York, celebrated student of numls-
matics. There have been 189 OF the
Lincoln medals struck, and no other
American except Washington has re-
ceived the honor.
The two houses of the Massachusetts,
LEGISLATURE were first established IN
1914. Previous to that time the gen.
eral assembly had constituted one
BODY, but an arrangement was now
made for the magistrates and the dep
uties to assemble separately, and the
measures agreed upon by one be sent
to the other, and the passage Of any
act depend upon the concurrence OF
both. From that date the present par
liamentary conduct was established.
THE first Boston woman to devote
herself to literary study was Miss
Hannah Adams. In 1884 she published
q learned but, it must be said, rather
stupid book, called the view Of Re
lieions." Later she published His
toYv of New England" and History
of the Jews" The former involved
her in q vigorous controversy. Rev.
Jedadiah Morse also published a New
England history, which Miss Adams
claimed to be an infringement Of an
abridgment of her own work, which
she had arranged as text book 1t is
said that the controversy was a lively
one, and extended over period of ten
wears. The place duT danes was not
especially recognized, and the lady
was compelled to assert her own right
of way, q task to which she appears to
have been fully equal.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-02-09
BERENICE ST.CYR.
A Story Of Love, Intrigue,
and Crime.
BY DWIGHT BALDWIN.
CHAPTER X-Continued.

CHAPTER A-COnunuods
SIn that view of the case, may ven-
ture to make him proposition.
Let US hear it.
"If he will promise upon this honor OF
his, in which you have such confidence.
that he will at once reveal the hldlng
place of the bonds, I'll permit you to go.
With whom?" asked Cole, eagerly.
I'm the carriage, and unattended. The
hackman will drive her home.
I'll do it'll"
But what is to become Of Cole?" que
ried the anxious girl.
IF his information turns out to be cor
rect, he will be set free"
"When?"
"As soon as we have an opportunity to
cash the bonds and find place OF safety
outside Chicago"
sVery we'll" replied Cole, after ex-
changing q look with the young lady.
"You promise, on your honor, to locate
them?"
Il promise, on my honor, to tell you
where placed them"
And where they still remain?"
For aught 1 have done to remove
lhem?"
Good enough. Remember, though,
ihst any treachery will cause you to for
felt your life!"
81 understand.
Take the young lady to her carriage,
Mart. and tell the coachman to drive her
home.
"All right, this way, miss.
Could our young friends have seen the
look that passed between the two desper-
ate men who were plotting for fortune,
they would have placed no confidence IN
their promises.
"Good-by," said Cole, extending his
hand.
"Good-bv." returned the girl, return
ing the pressure of his hand with fer
vor that bespoke palmer than words her
love and devotion.
The situation of our hero was desperate
in the extreme, yet his heart beat JOY
fully as he saw the fair girl disappear
from the room.
Not only had he secured her escape
from perils greater than death itself but
he knew now with what feelings she re-
garded him.
Now for your part, said Almon, i'm
peratively.
Wait moment.
For what?"
Until your partner returns.
And why?"
"He NAV be OBTAINING her outside"
why couldn't he deliver her to con-
feierate?" sneered Sears.
I'm not afraid of that. You're playing
too desperate game to have many conf
dants.
The entrance of Bloom put stop to
the discussion.
now, then, said the younger villain,
"the bonds"
Il placed them in my right bootleg"
The two men sprang forward together
and in an instant the article in question
was removed from the foot of the help
less prisoner.
A howl of rage went up from the two
desperate scbemers when they found the
boot to be empty.
"Duped!" shouted Bloom.
He shall die for it," cried Sears.
snatching q revolver from the table and
raising it thresteningly,
Hold on" warned Bloom.
What nOw?"
Look at these.
The burglar handed mis- accomplice
two fragments of paper that he had
picked up from the floor.
"The corners of two of the bonds,
cried the latter moment later.
Then he's told the truth?"
Beyond doubt"
And the bonds?"
Were pulled out and lost while we
were drawing and carrying him about.
That's it. We may find them In the
old building on Clark street. "
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-02-09
FARMERS IN BATTLE.
Iu Figh; on the Tennessee North Caro-
lima Border-Six We're Killed.

A terrible fight took ace on the Madison
County line nextto Tennessee between North
Carolina and Tennessee farmers who were
working a road.
Eight men were wounded and six were
killed. The cause OF the trouble is not
known. The scene OF the battle is twenty
miles from Greenyil e, Tenn.