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The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06

II is desirable particularly for So
cial intercourse, as your neighbors
and friends are much more apt to call
and much better opportunity is afford
ed in sending to town for mails OF
groceries when inexpedient to go
yourself and a neighbor passes by.
II might be argued that tramps are
less liable to trouble when such build
ing are further back, but experience
teaches us that such is not the case, al
frequent passers-by are a menac to
such visitors and they seldom make
their calls disrespectful. We are
aware that if "a farm be quite rectsn-
gular, with a narrow 'front.' TO the road,
il might be less convenient to build
adjacent TO the roadside than IL the
long side lay there, yet we would
prefer to build there if site a salts
factory, and if possible let our fields
reach the full length of the farm, il
not too large.
OF course there are farms where il
is perfectly impracticable to build
upon the roadside, other than for a
mere residence. The writer was
raised on just such n farm where the
buildings are almost in the center.
This made it very handy for farm pur-
poses, in haulinC and passing TO and
from work. Still there was a certain
amount of social freedom that was
always absent, which | find now living
by the roadside. In fact, L would
rather put up with many i%nconven-
fences than to be moved back from the
road, especially if q macadamized one
ran besides my farm, for then, with
my buildings on ii it would be handy
at any season of the year to go to town
or TO market.
l think IT has a better effect on ones
children to be thrown into the pos
session of certain freedom and privi-
leges that remoteness from the high
way cannot afford them. Mostly our
schoolhouses are situated along the
road, rsequently our children find
less Inconvenience in attending school.
AS a rule, our highways pass some we'll
located spot that will prove a satisfac-
tory location for our buildings, which
will prove an incentive to us to i'm
prove their surroundings much more
than If set too far back from the road.
Yes, by all means G. H., build upon
the roadside or sufficiently close to be
practically convenient to it.-Ohio
Farmer.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06

The fireplace is the wsrmest place in
the house in two senses. 1t is SO bright
aud cheerful with n good fire cracking
in it aud lighting up the whole o
with its rosy glow. IL warns the hands
that are outspread TO il. II warns the
hearts of those who sit beside il and con-
template its beauties, for there is an ever
changing panorama of them castles
Redeemed as with setting suns aud deep,
glowing caves and queer fantastic fig
ures. There is no spot quite so much Of
an Jingle nook" rs a picturesque hall
fireplace, aud one which is quotable is OF
red brick, with a projecting hood shin
gled with silver-gray shingles.
This hood is held by two heavy
wooden brackets on either side, while a
pretty and convenient shelf for china or
bric-a- srac. Around the fireplace itself,
which is low and broad, there are two
rows Of blue and white tiles. The very
ample hearth. which is slightly raised
from the floor, is OF red
brick aud is enclosed 10y two
oaken settles, broad aud ample enough
to seat half n dozen people. What songs
could be here sung, what stories told
during long winter evenings, what con.
tidences exchanged. what vows regis
tered, il needs but small Imagination to
conjecture.
An open fire 10 one of Cupid's most
seductive aids il is friendships JOY, and
il is even a boon TO the bored, since its
fantasies give something to talk about.
In a country house, not a thousand
miles from Chicago, AN architect has
carried out the novel idea OF Introducing
an outdoor fireplace on the veranda. II
is wonderfully suggestive of comfort on
"A cool autumual afternoon To sec the red
shine of the freight, and IL has become,
naturally enough. the rallying place of
the family.
The invalid in her wraps comfortably
toasts her feet ON the hearth. The chill
dren roast apples and chcstnuts and are
supremacy happy in the inside %out-of-
door ness. And the clders-wcll, the
elders sip their tea aud remark on how
much more salubrious the fall Of the
year is than it used to be before they got
this thrice blessed fireplace. Chicago
Post.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06
BrlstIes.

Brissles are only obtained from hogs,
aud, strange as il may seem, the United
States, which is the largest hog produc-
ing country, is n very small bristle pro-
Queer. The statement is made in the
Pharmaceutical Era that for all bristles
used by piuctical workmen in painting,
decorating, whitewashing, vanishing,
where satisfactory results are required,
We are obliged TO 90 TO other countries
for our supply. American bristlcs are
short, crooked, and only used for the
cheapest kinds of brushes, very largely
In household brushes of low price, and
small brushes where finished, attractive
results arc not required. They are short
because the hogs are killed young, be
fore the bristles have time TO grow
longer. pork being the article sought by
the growers, and bristles only an insig-
ni6cant by product. They are gathered In
this country at the various large packing
establishments by contractors who buy
the privilege Of having men grab what
bristles they can % the hogs pass along
ia being cleaned after killing. A stated
amount is paid per hog. The hair from
the ridge Of the animals back, being the
best, il secured first. and saved for
brush-maker's use. The side hair Is
kept separate aud used TO mix in cheap
grades Of curlcd hair for upholsterers.
Nearly all American bristles are gray,
which makes them sell for less than they
would IL white.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06

siberia No Longer To he Used an .
Penal Colony


Penal Colony
The Emperor Of Russia has decfeed
that Siberia is to cease as a Russian penal
colony. A new place Of exile, known
as the "Hell of Saghalin," has been
found. People who are not students Of
geography do not know the Island of
Saghalin or Ssraki, but it 10 not entirely
unknown to the criminal" world of
Russia, for before now exiles have been
transported thither, whose hopes of re-
turning to their country prac.ic ally
ended when they landed on its shores.
Saghalin, however, will soon be q
name familiar to the world, as il is to
become the future home of the exiles.
The climate. according to authentic
writers, il more severe thar any part OF
Siberia. The island is known among
Siberians as the Hell of Saghalin,"
an expression which says volumes in the
mouth of an expatriatcd Russian who
knows the tcrrors Of the far East. Up
to the present time only criminals with
the worst records have been sent TO Sag
halin. From no place do so many try
To escape, but few have ever succeeded.
The runaways are known as "Brodja-
Htu. btSDthO WIZ uttouuto VI tCI-
rible suffering and hardship
brought back by unsuccessful fugi-
tives. the Saghalin ''Brodjagsn' in
crease in numbers every year. The
hardships of Siberian fugitives are de-
scribed rs mild in comparison. Sur
rounded on all sides by tho ocean, with
the nearest land hundreds of miles
distant, escape from the place is almost
impossible.
But despite all this the unfortunate
men are willing to risk quick death in
the waves rather than the terrors of the
island. As a rule the "Brodjagans" try
to escape in bands, numbering from
three to ten. Those who try to get
away in the summer ms u rule take up
their abode in the Tajga, an almost
impcnctrablc forest. As long as their
clothing and provisions last they ara
comparatively happy there despite their
trials. But when the clothing Is torn to
shreds, when the provisions are gone,
and when hunger and the bites Of pois-
onous insects have weakened the poor
fugitives, they soon die. A few reach the
coast, where most OF them are recaptured
and taken back TO the places OF torture
and tormcnt Those who choose the
winter for flight fare probably the worst
of all. In December the channel is
frozen, and this fact lures many to
destruction. They travel only by night,
conocaling themselves In deep Ice holes
in the daytime, In u temperature which
cannot be described. But words fail to
picture the terror aud misery and suffer
ing of these unfortunate Russian fugi-
tiycs.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06

The most important person in the Gov
eminent of Madagascar Is the Primo
Minister. lie Is, in truth. the power be
hind the throne. The Queen Is some
times consulted, but her opinion outs
little figure. She fills n place in the
heart Of the people, who must have
something tangible to worship. She Is
very correct in her habits of life and
carefully observes all the old customs.
Her example as TO morality is not imi-
tatcd as closely by the people as II might
DO. While it cannot be said that the
Malagasys arc immoral, il must be nc.
knowlcdgcd that they are not easily
shocked. The leading trait of the Mala-
gasy character IL avsricc, and for money
they would do anything, though person
ally | found them honest, truthful, obedi-
ent and grateful. Occasionally one OF
the boys. given to me by tho Prime Min
lister for an escort, would take some Of
ways returned them. The wearer did
not bother himself TO tell me that he was
going to take them, but he regarded II
simply as n loan.
The Prime Minister, who ~rcjoices in
the simple and c%upbonious name OF Rain
ilaiarivony, is not of royal blood. lie h
a shrewd old fellow, more than sixty
years Of age, and very wide awake. He
rose 20 power by assassinating his prede-
cessor during the reign Of the previous
Queen. Rainilaiarivony was, at that time,
the COMMANDMENT Chief Of the Army,
and he profitcd by his rivals fall, aud
has always since his own accession kept
the important place Of General Of the
Army in his own hands. lie is u man Of
striking appearance, tall and thin, with
a high, massive forehead and gray hair.
Which he keeps carefully dyed black.
He always appears in public in a fault
less dress suit. -San Francisco Chron-
I'll.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06
A POINT IN BUTTER MAKING.

The readings of the Babcock test at
Chicago, IL the dairy test, and the
actual results of the churn, Indicate
at the close of sixty-fve days that, had
il been possible to make separators
and churns and other things to work
to perfection, the Jerseys would have
had ninety-eight, the Guernseys ninety
two, the Shorthorns, ninety-three
pounds each more butter 10 their
credit, and this with the most perfect
mechanism ever devised in butter
making and controlled by the best ex-
perts obtainable. Now if with separa-
tors and best churns, over ninety
pounds OF butter is lost in about $500
pounds, what is the loss in the usual
farm house, where butter is being
made in primitive ways, so TO speak?
his shows a loss of about one pound
{ butter In forty of original fat,
Vile ordinary making shows about
oe pound in four is lost between pan
All butter crock, or mt least ten times
mre. Prairie Farmer.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06
FREDTSG A CALyING cow.

The feeding of n COW Dol 10 calve
is An important matter as regards the
welfare of the animal. and by neglect
or mistake many cows are injured
when in this condition. 1t is safe to
avoid all grain feeding for at least one
month before the calf is expected, but
any kind or vegetables or roots may
be given with safety and advantage.
The principle on which such lows are
to be fed is that the bowels should be
kept in q free condition, and all food
that may unduly stimulate the system
is to be avoided. After the calf APP
pears. stronger food is given gradually
during two OF three weeks following.
The COW may be MIXED a few hours
after the calf is born. II is TO he kept
from sucking, which is generally ad-
visable, out the milking must depend
wholly oil the condition of the COW.
Some copious mixers may need milk
ing before the calf comes. New York
Times.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06
BoRSE NOTES.

Ran makes more bone than oats.
kauty and speed combined will al
way sell.
Bed il TO Tx the type and out to
strestheu the constitution.
Htses kindly treated AMI we'll
grooed require less feed than those
whichre not well cared for.
Theorse breeder should know how
to hane his horse intelligently, treat
1T humely and feed it scientifically.
The rise is a dainty feeder and will
eat mo heartily and with better
relish the food is not kept con
stantly fore them.
WhenGerman coach horses are
crossed, ven upon common mares,
the coltsroduced are remarkable for
size. bonspd action.
Young rises for roadsters and driv-
ing purpos need to be fed properly
and upon 9 grain foods adapted to
their needsnd future development.
Every iher should include a colt
or two amo his live stock. If they
are the prer kind, they will pay
better than most any other kind of
stock.
Iurn the is out every day to ex-
ercise at win a paddock. IL kept
in the stall cir spirits and health
suffer AMI tn are apt to form bad
habits.
In order bring a good price
young troSteimust he trained. If
the breeder cabt afford to do this he
eau sometimes .ange with a trainer
for developmenn "shares."
IL horse mesbuld be made popu-
lar ~ an article diet, it would be a
boon to those pile who have been
foolish enough freed inferior hor SEES
which are not table for road or
drsught purpose
The produce oacing dams train
more easily and Selop more rapidly
than animals IN VIII that element is
wanting, and the aanation of this is
that the fast pacs older than the
fast trot and the iinct more firmly
fixed.
Moderate exercio light cart and
on a smooth road Crack during the
coming winter is le,pt to prove in
furious to last sprin5oals than is the
ld-fsshioned prsctbf turning them
ont together IN 70, or icy yards,
when more or less ity is SIRE TO re-
suit from their New York
World.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06
POULTRY NOTES.

Grease of any kind is a preventive
| of scsbby legs.
1t is best to have the roosts low and
all on one level.
Don't keep too large 2 flock for the
accommodations you offer.
Too much food is as bad IA too little
for diminishing the egg supply.
Active breeds require more grain
than those which take on fat readily.
All grain should be scattered SO
that the hens are compelled TO search
for it.
Cut bones are we'll worth what they
cost. and every sarmer should own1s
cutter.
If you expect TO make money out of
your poultry you must give ii rational
treatment.
Bronze turkeys are a cross between
the pure American gobbler and a do
nestle turkey.
Mixed lots in the chicken market are
generally purchased at the price the
poorest are worth.
Give all the fowls a warm iced each
day, if possible, and avoid feeding any
musty or spoiled food.
A good wav to feed clover to poultry
is to run it through a cutting box and
then soak it over night.
By raising most of your roots and
vegetables the cost of keeping poultry
will be greatly diminished.
Light Brahmas are the largest Of
the Brshma family. They are good
birds where meat is desired.
The layers and the ~fattening fowls
require different systems of feeding,
and should be kept separate.
Most people are unsware that con-
sumption is ono of the many diseases
to which poultry are subject.
Inbreeding will improve the appear
ance of the birds, but if carried TO far
the health of the chickens will suffer.
Athree. vear-old gobbler is generally
esteemed better than a two year-old
one for the raising of healthy chicks.
The best "laying hens are tSe most
active. Keeping food constantly be-
fore them will spoil the best flock OF
layers.
Grass in runs is possible only when
they are sufficiently large TO allow each
hen from eighty TO 100 square feet OF
space.
You may be too far from market to
pay for raising poultry to send thither,
but why not raise a little for your own
family?
Why not feed your poultry q little
ensilage? What is good for milk pro-
duction should also be good for egg
production.
Fowls are supposed to have been in
troduced into Europe from Persia.
They are believed to have been first
domesticsted in Burmah.
Everybody knows that the sick
swallow liquids more readily than
solids, and as successful poultry keep
ing implies the employment Of COM
mon sense, give your sick poultry
their medicine in the drinking water.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06

The moustache was first worn in Spain.
After the evacuation of the peninsula
by the Moors the Christian and Moham-
medan population became so mixed that
they could not be distinguished. As
conflicts were frequent between the two
parties. the Christians sought 10 find
some sign by which at a glance they
might recognize each other for mutual
aid and defense in danger. They allowed
the hair to grow In a horizontal line on
the upper lip and In a perpendicular
tuft beneath the lower one, to represent
the sign Of the GROSS. Thus the nous
tsche vas the symbol OF brotherhood
fWorthington's Magazine.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06

extent Of intermarriage between mem
bers of European royal families, is that
every crowned head in Europe, with the
exception, of course, Of that of Turkey,
is descended from the two daughters Of
Duke Ludwig Rudolf, of Brunswick VOL
ienbuttel. who died about $50 years ago.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06

The author Of america" Rev. DIR.
Smith, is rounding out a hale and hearty
old age at Newton Centre, n station on
the Boston and Albany Railroad, eight
miles from Boston. The writer of "My
Country. It's Of Thee" lives in u wide,
brown frame dwelling OF two stories,
whose low, pillared porch is sfraded by
small pines and other trees that gro v in
"A terraced yard uufenced from the
street.
DIR. Smith is very short and compactly,
though not stoutly, built, and walks
erect, except for somewhat rounded
shoulders. which suggest the scholar
rather than age in one whose movements
are so quick and certain and whose
voice is yet round and full.
The composition OF the national hymn
happened thus: One day when DIR.
Smith was a student of theology at An
dover he was asked by DIR. Lowell Nilsson
to look through "A book OF German
hymns aud tunes, aud translate for DIR.
Mason's use in collections for American
schools and churches such hymns rs he
might choose; or, when he fanoied,
write new words TO fl the German
music. As the young man sat in his
broom on a gloomy February afternoon,
turning over the leaves Of this foreign
volume, he came upon n tune which
some people say belongs to the Queen Of
England, but which others claim was
only imported, just as her family was.
from Germany. He had never seen nor
heard Of IL before, but its movement in
spired him, aud within half an hour he
had written lines to fit it, which, because
Of their simplicity and vigor and the
need they filled, grew famous.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06
Vaccination Parties.

Vaccination mstinecs have become the
fashion in Paris. Persons belonging TO
fashionable society cooperate in arrang-
ing to have a doctor and a COW at an
afternoon tea. The company arc all
vaccinated from the COW. In some OF
the large houses on the Champs Elysees
the COW is taken up In the elevator and
Is temporarily installed In the dining
room. The cards issued bear the words:
son vacciners."-tNew York Times.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06
EARLY rlrrENNa or HOGS.

II costs much less to make a pound
of pork early than it does late, though
il corn alone be fed too much of it
while the weather is warn is apt to in
jure digestion. The great advantage
of early fsttening is that it is done
while there If usually plenty of waste
vegetables, small potatoes, beets and
small apples, more or less of which go
10 the pigpen and vary the diet of the
fsttening hogs. After these are all
stored in. the cellar IT is very rare that
any are taken out, and then fattening
hogs soon cloy on their ration of corn
without anything to makeit more easy
of digestion. -American Cultlyator.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06
FARN BUIf.s

In answer to thequiry Of &C.
h" Clinton County 10, regarding
the best and proper loon for build.
ings on . farm that iieholly on one
ssde OF the ROAD, 4 aid say that
where at oil practical. , by far best
10 place them near t~hoad.ide, for
potent reasons
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06

In North New Zealand harvesting ex-
tends from November to January. Ia
the south Il extends from December TO
March.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-01-06

African ostriches are the ones from
which mos, OF tie ostrich feathers In use
in this country ais derived.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-25
AFTER TRAIN sTEALERs.
Troops Ordered From Fort KeOgh to
Seize HOgan's Army.

ST. PAUL. Mimi, April 25.-Hogan's
army of CoXeyites from Butte. Mont. that
left Livingstone, Mont, last night, reached
Columbus, fifty miles this side of Living
stone, and went into camp, spending the
night there. The United States marshal
with large force of deputies, started after
the runaways yesterday and when the
Hoganites were at Livingstone the officers
were only 1 hour and II minutes behind
them. The special train bearing the off,
GERS made fast time and overlook the
stolen train at Columbus today.
When the seventy-five deputies discovered
the 500 Coxeyites, who are mostly hardy
miners, reckless of consequences and de-
termined to proceed, they found their
authority was as little regarded as their
force was insufficient. The Northern Pa
cific officials were advised of the situation
and they ordered that no attempt be made
to stop the train at Columbus and it again
started from there coming this way.
General Manager Kendrick of the Nor
thern Pacific was meanwhile closeted in ST
Paul with Col Swayne, commanding this
department of the United States army and
it was decided to attempt to stop the train
and seize the men before reaching Miles
City.
Fort Keogh is near that city and troops
have been ordered to seize the train on its
arrival there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-25
WILL BE CONTESTED.
Attorney General OIney's Ruling Re-
GardinR Chinese Merchants.


garding Chinese Merchants.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 25-According
to the new ruling at the Treasury Depart
ment Chinese merchants claiming to be
merchants cannot be landed on their re-
turn from China unless they conduct their
business either in their own name or in
the firms name, in which their own names
appear, as they are written in the certifi-
Gates under which they attempt to land.
Collector Wise of the port of San Francisco
has been instructed to enforce this order
and, as a result 200 Chinese claiming to
be merchants are now detained here on the
steamer Peru. The incoming steamer China
will probably bring as many more who can
not be landed under the order.
peculiar fact in connection with this
order of the Treasury Department is that
in this city probably not one Chinese mer-
chant in fifty does business under his own
name Whether the business be that of a
corporation or an individual Chinese 1t is
usually conducted under some lucky
name which the Chinese selects for his bus
mess. The order of the Treasury DEPART
ment under the ruling of Attorney General
Olney practically excludes all Chinese mer-
chants now out of the United States from
coming back. However. there will be a gen.
eral resort to habeas corpus proceedings to
test the ruling.