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The free press., 1894-09-27
PICKING OUT LAYERS.

How many poultrymen can pick out
good laying hen from strange
flock? Not many can do it; yet it can
easily be done after short study of
makeup and characteristics. There
goes hen with thick neck, large
head, ill-shaped, walks listlessly about.
seemingly with no intention or pur-
pose in view. She does not care to
scratch, but hangs around the hen
house, evidently waiting for her next
feed. She gets up late in the morn
ing and goes to bed early in the even
ing. That hen may be put down as a
very poor layer. The eggs of some of
the other hens go to help pay her
keep. Here comes another. She
walks briskly and there is an elasticity
in her movements which shows she has
something in view. She is neat and
natty in appearance, small head,
with thin neck, nicely arched
and curved. She forages or
scratches all day long and may be
too busy to come for her evening
meal. She is at the door in the morn
ing waiting to be let out. She snatches
a few mouthfuls of feed and is off to
the meadow, looking for insects. Be-
fore she gets out in the morning she
generally deposits her daily egg in the
nest, or returns after short forage.
She is neat, clean and tidy, with a
brightness and a freshness pleasant to
the eye. That is the hen that pays
for her feed and gives good profit
all the year round. The writer has
noticed these traits since hoyhood and
knows that they are infallible. By
studying these traits any man may, in
few years, have fine flock of hens.
Northwest Farmer.
The free press., 1894-09-27
In a Third Class,

A story is current that Lord Rose
berry when he went to see the queen at
Windsor on Saturday was driven from
tirst-class carriage by the inconven-
lent attentions of some ill-mannered
people who wanted the honor of ira.
Yelling with the prime minister, and
that he took refuge in a third-class
compartment, in which were seated q
workman, footman and two others.
1t is to be hoped that the tale is true,
for it is far too good to be spoiled by
contradiction. The only indication
afforded by the occupants of the third
class carriage that they recognized
their distinguished companion was
when one of them, having to answer q
simple question, replied: eyes, my
lord. ="
The workingman comes so we'll out
of this story that one delights to think
of the prime minister of England 60
ing to visit the queen in his company
in third-class carriage. A demo.
cratic age and democratic premier,
truly. The incident reminds one of o
story of the late Lord Shaftesbury,
who, on one occasion, by stress of cir
cumstances, found himself in the un.
wonted atmosphere of a somewhat
crowded third class carriage. The
good earl Improved the occasion" by
entering into instructive conversation
with his companions, and with such
acceptability that before he left one Of
them addressed him in words to this
effect: "Well, you seem good sort
of bloke, SO I'll put you up to wrin.
kle. Whenever you buy new at put
a piece of blotting paper inside the
lining. I'm an after, and so L know,
The at will last you twice as long,
Ashton Reporter.
The free press., 1894-09-27
A Royal Wedding Comes High.

That royal wedding is an expen.
sive luxury for more than the chiei
personages concerned is shown by re-
cent statistics. The various illustri.
GUS guests who attended the marriage
of the Grand Duke and Duchess oi
Hesse left, after their departure from
Coburg, the very respectable sum oi
$S, 750 to be divided as trinkgeld, and
this does not include the many valu.
able gifts bestowed, amounting IN
value to over 81, 500 more. The mon
ey has yet to be distributed, and as
the number of those entitled to q
share is large, and each grade of SER
vice has to be carefully considered,
the officials have no easy or pleasant
task before them. Detroit Free Press.
The free press., 1894-09-27
FARM AND GARDEN.
CULTIvATING AFTER SHOWERS.

There is no time better to cultivate
the soil than after light rainfall, by
which we mean any shower in which
enough water does not fail to make
the soil sticky. There are scores of
times when such rain falls during the
summer. In this is to be included
times when the corn leaves are wet
with dew in the morning, so that hit
ting the whif1ietree on the leaf causes
the drops of dew to fall to the ground.
This dew is always rich in ammonia in
summer, but unless it is cultivated
into the soil very quickly it is evap-
GRATED and entirely lost. Every culti-
vation of the soil, while it's surface is
wet, imprisons some moisture under
the turned surface, and this condition
is undoubtedly favorable to nitrifica-
ton of the air, even if no ammonia were
in the rain water in the first place.
Cultivation after crust has formed
on the surface prevents the radiation
OF heat and the evaporation of mois-
ture, and it does all the more good if
the soil turned up by the cultivator is
less moist than that which it turns
under. Boston Cultivator.
The free press., 1894-09-27

s'The reason for the change is that
for some years past we have been
fighting against a gradual falling of
from the fine flavor which for long
time enabled us to make very salts
factory maket of a superior produce.
For quarter of century, viz. /: from
1856 to 1881, we were on the ascend
ing scale, both in the quantity and
quality of the cheese which the farm
produced. But deterioration in flavor
set in, against which the greatest care
has been only partially successful.
"Those who are acquainted with the
cheese trade know what difference in
price there is between very fine dairy,
which like Cesar's wife, lis above sus
picion,' and dairy which is only
good, or at most very good. The in.
fuence of food upon milk on this
farm is not only directly traceable to
the food upon which the COWS have
been lately fed. but also indirectly to
the continuous use of large amount
of artificial food and manure which
has entirely altered the herbage of the
farm.
"No one could have been more re-
luctant than myself to acknowledge
that high farming, which OF course
greatly increases its quantity, has an
adverse influence on the quality of
cheese which given farm produces.
The system of making which I have
followed is called the Derby system,
and is identical with that by which
the finest Leicester cheese is produced.
Perhaps, as cheese-maker, have
no great reason to complain, for dur
ing the whole series of thirty-seven
years there has not been one year in
which the seasons make has been bad.
But the decided declension from fine
to very good and good is, in my judg-
ment, distinctly owing to the infu-
ence of food on milk, such influence
having been gradually brought about
by high farming"
The free press., 1894-09-27
The Squeaking of Snails.

OF the squeaking of snails, cor
respondent writes as follows to Science
Gossip: 81 had heard of snails emit
ting a noise, which apparently betokens
pain, but l had not hitherto actually
heard the sound myself When day
or two ago L was planting some roots
in my garden, 1 came across the first
snail had seen there this year. ]
dropped it into an aquarium that was
near at hand, and In ten minutes, oD
looking at it, | found it had crawled
up the side out of the water, and was
standing on the edge with horns ex-
tended. / did not wish it to escape,
so took it by the shell to put it away
1t Immediately gave that shrill squeak
which has been noticed, and which
seems to resemble the whistle of 10.
comotive in the far distance. This
squeak" is emitted but once. But it
was followed by series of noises
which in tone appeared to be midway
between hum and low whistle, The
cause of the latter sound was the air
escaping from inside the shell, between
it and the foot. as was shown by the
change which it soon made to kissing
noise, caused by the bubbles which
followed. 1t may, of course, have
taken some water in during its INNER
sion in it's unwonted bath, and this
would account for the bubbles.
The free press., 1894-09-27
Full of Beauty.

;. .bs beauty of the meadows stretching
far and far away,
:, tbe tinkling of the dewdrops on the
daisies every day.
,bo sup is growing brighter as it streams
from east to west,
~ tbe heart is growing lighter, and the love
is growing best!
r,as the singing of the mockingbirds why
when the day amt bright
\ teep their yellow music, and they sing
to you at night
a tbe groves become all-glorious, and the
hills assume a light
r.,t is splendid for the singing, OF the mock
ingbirds at night!
here's the greening of the naples, with their
twinkling. tinkling leaves,
,d the siIk-worm with the beauty and the
wonder that he weavesl
nd ..bere's your ladys dresses" and the
spider webs, like milk,
\, the whole world is in purple, and in
scarlet, and in silk
Dh, the world is growing brighter, no matter
how it rolls.
kbe sunshines streaming whittier through a
million, trillion souls!
nd there's nothing like the present, and
there's nothing like the past,
its all so mighty pleasant that we wish
that life would last
F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
The free press., 1894-09-27
IRRIGATION AND TREE CULTURE.

The necessity for tree culture is
equally imperative with irregation,
says Colman's Rural World, and the
arid lands question will never be salts
lactorily settled without the recogni-
ton of this principle in its solution.
America can ill afford to ignore the
experience of other nations in this re-
spect, and forestry should receive
equal consideration with irrigation.
It has been estimated that within
historic times some 1000, 900 of square
miles along the shores of the Mediter-
ranean, once highly fertile, have been
changed into worthless deserts, and
for nearly 1000 years the inhabitable
portion of the earth has decreased at
the average rate of $500 square miles.
This has been produced by the direct
agency of man-the evil being chiefly
due to river floods caused almost ex-
clusively by the destruction Of land
protecting forests.
1t is right that America should set
the example of reclaiming desert lands
and thus increase the earth's capacity
for supporting the human race. Irri-
cation and tree culture must go hand
and hand in this work.
The free press., 1894-09-27
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

1t will pay to have a rotation Of
crops, if only corn, oats and grass are
used.
A young and growing animal re-
quires different ration from a mature.
fat one.
No success succeeds like success. A
soil Is best for the crop that grows the
best upon it.
Fine peach tree seedlings may be
raised by sowing the stones in the fall
or spring, and are often superior to
selected kinds.
One has said that storage rooms out
of doors for farm tools are cheap in
the first instance, but mostly costly in
the final reckoning,
One decided advantage with the
raspberry is the certainty of its fruit.
ing under anything like fair cond1-
tions. 1t can nearly always be relied
upon.
The Sutton Beauty is winter apple
which is being used by many to sup
plant the Baldwin, the latter having
failed to produce good fruit in some
localities of late.
1t is generally considered labor lost
attempting to mend half-worn out
orchard by filling in the vacant places
with young trees. The more econom'
ical plan is to commence new or
chard in a new situation.
A woman makes the best poultry
keeper, because she has more pa
thence and better knack for the de.
tails of the business. But if you
leave it to your wife, let us advise you
to give her hand on the hard work,
for there is some hard work in it.
A farmer said before an Iowa insti-
tute: 1t has been proven that clover
sod is as good to produce corn as the
virgin soil. Farmers are just awaken
ing to the importance of sowing all
small grain fields to clover. 1t is the
only wholesale fertilizer yet discov.
cred.
Guard against worms in the young
pigs by giving constant access to
plenty of salt and wood ashes. A lit
tie asafetida in the slop twice a week
will act as a good tonic. Plenty OF
grass or vegetables are also good.
This is the advice given by an old
sswine grower.
Properly conducted pear culture is
most profitable branch of fruit.
growing. Aside from the chances of
blight, pear orchard once in bearing
will pay profit for many years. One
acre will yield as much of crop as is
ordinarily obtained from two acres Of
apples.
The free press., 1894-09-27
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Starfish eat oysters.
The smallest known microbe is that
of influenza.
Paper pneumatic tires are in pro-
cess of experiment.
Pneumatic tires have been found
very serviceable on hospital ambu
lances.
The moon is believed to be the only
member of the planetary system which
is without an atmosphere.
Moss grows thickest on the north
side of hills, and sun-exposed tree
has it's largest limbs on the south side
German civil engineers will erect a
monument in Berlin to the memory
of DR.. Warner Won Siemens, the fa-
nous electrician and inventor.
The largest mammoth found in Si.
IBERIA measured seventeen feet long
and ten feet in height. The tusks
weighed $50 pounds. The head with
out the tusks weighed Ala pounds.
Sand filtration of water similar to
the English plan has been tried in
Lawrence, Mass, where typhoid fever
has been very prevalent, with the re-
suit of general improvements in the
public health.
A course of lectures at the Royal
Institution which has created much
interest is that by Captain Abney, on
color blindness. Excessive tobacco
smoking has long been known to be
an important factor in color blindness
and Captain Abney indorses the truth
of this observation.
Hypodermic injection was discov.
cred by Majendie. Morphia is per-
haps the most familiar drug so used.
But the variety of drugs is very great;
and there are numerous cases in
which life would certainly be lost il
there was no way OF medicating the
patient except through the mouth.
The following represent the best
meats for children, in the order Of
their digestibility: Cold mutton,
mutton chops, venison, tenderloin,
| ,.1o ,, 81 -; .{o Iov, nhAv
roast beef, rabbit meat and chicken.
Veal, pork, turkey, goose and duck
should be excluded from the children's
bill of fare.
J. w. Swan exhibited before the
British Royal Society specimen OF
gold leaf .000004-inches thick. He
made it by electroplating a thin film
of gold on thin sheet of copper, and
then dissolving the copper with per-
chloride of iron. This is only one.
tenth the thickness of the finest film
ever hammered or rolled.
Potatoes can be preserved for an in
definite time by radically destroying
the shoots. These can be cut out
with the point of knife. They are
then immersed for ten hours in two
per cent solution of sulphuric acid and
taken out and dried. The solution
/, affects only the skin of the potato and
does not deteriorate it, as the sulphur
is driven off by heat.
The free press., 1894-09-27
The Path of Duty.

Country pastor-You have 10 idea
how hard it is for me to perform my
duties here.
Visiting bishop-What are some OF
your difficulties?
Country pastor-Take this week, for
instance. just as the piece of swamp
they allow me for garden got dry
enough to make my potatoes thrive,
the congregation requested me to pray
for rain. Puck.
The free press., 1894-09-27
THE FLAVOR OF MILK.

''On my farm / have had an unin-
terrupted experience in cheese making
for 81 years, but have now aban-
doned the making of cheese and ar
ranged to sell my milk" says I. G.
Smith, in the Live Stock Journal Al
manac.
The free press., 1894-09-27

comically grave looks and say that
they are disconsolate at the thought
of having their eldest daughter taken
from them.
But then I am going only next
door.-New York journal.
The free press., 1894-09-27
THE OTHER DOOR.

At last everything is put in order,
/ nd we are established in our new
bOme Dear me, try as L will, 1 find
\ impossible to become used to it.
| You see, we, that is, father, mother,
lister and 1, have always lived in the
little village of B. Father had been
preacher there long before ever l
as born. All my friends, pleasures,
b fact, all things concerning me, were
Entered in that dearly beloved vii
|ge
All of sudden father is offered a
bore lucrative position in New York
bd without hesitation we pack up our
ngs and leave the home of our
ldhood, with many vain sighs and
hrs, on my part, at least.
The weather has been so 1nclement
bee We have lived in the city, and
day has been one of those days that
hta damper on the brightest of
frits.
| hsve been standing for some time
stching the drizzling rain. Eunice,
sister, who is more fortunate than
in being able to entertain herself,
comfortably lounging in an arm
halr reading away, with placid ex-
ession on her face, which is highly
Ovoking to me. l can stand it no
nger. put on my hat and mackin-
sA and tell Eunice l am going to the
pre- to purchase some floss for my
pcy work.
Alter shouting at her several times,
ucceed in rousing her from her book,
q she tells me in dreamy manner
Is too late to be out on the street
poe. She does not, however, offer
accompany me.
put do not mind, for 1 am per-
NY confident that I know the way,
brave the drizzling rain and the
sy atmosphere in better spirits than
ave experienced all day.
reach the store, my floss is soon
cnased and l trudge back again to-
- home. Why, it is quite dark,
'his only serves to make me feel
nef adventursome and I hasten
ng as best I can.
y course, this is O little difficult,
an not used to so many people
70 being showed about from side
ae' do believe I have said "beg
u0n at least twenty times, but no.
ever says it to me, and 1 am not
one who is doing the pushing,
er
" here's our street and here's our
'e; there's a light in the hall for
why, the door is openl I am
iciosed it when I left. Well,
'pS Eunlce came to look for me
.ei' IL open. 1 run in and bang
uoor to, for I am glad to be once
sheltered from the rain. 1 take
ny macintosh and rubbers, and
'ne dining-room door opens and
eoody stalks into the hall whistl-
through the dim light my aston
yves see man who seems quite
'' II Is not papa, for papa is
30 tall as this person. Who can it
WY the man turns up the gas,
40 sees me, and we both stare at
other.
'A'' say: "Who are you, and
are you doing here?"
'uilles: through all my astonish-
"uu Indignation 1 noticed it is
y pleasant smile.
40 says Il beg your pardon.
The free press., 1894-09-27

The private fortune of the new
French President is variously estima-
ted at from $4,000, 900 to $25, ,OOO,-
600,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-18
By r. F. Knox, Auctioneer.

DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST,
I'D being dated on the Both day of October,
1891, from John Fl. Strider and wife, and
recorded in the land records of Alexandria
CITY, Va, in liber No. 27, page %, and at the
request of the creditor secured, the under.
signed, trustee therein, will sell at public
auction, in front of the Market House on
Royal street, at - o'clock M, ON
SATURDAY,
the Goth day of October, 1894,
the following described real estate in the city
Of Alexandria, Va, to-wit:
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND with the
buildings and improvements thereon, in the
city of Alexandria, Va, and bounded as fol-
lows: Beginning at the intersection of the
north side of Prince street with the east side
of Lee street. and running thence east on
Prince street % feet: thence north and paral-
lei with Lee street 24 feet 61a inches; thence
west and parallel with Prince street 23 feet
to Lee street, and thence south on Lee street
to the beginning and all the rights and ap-
purtenances thereto belonging or in any way
appertaining.
Terms of sale: Cash 5000, the residue in
one, two and three years. Title to be retain
ed until all the purchase money is paid. Con.
veyancing at the cost of the purchaser,
J.K. NJ. NORTON,
sep24 is Trustee.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-18
By O'Ncal s. Lunt. Auctioners.
GALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.

By virtue of deed of trust dated the ID
day of June, 1891, and duly recorded In the
Clerks office of the Corporation Court of the
city of Alexandria, in deed book No. 26, page
%, and at the request of the person thereby
secured, the undersigned, trustee therein
named, will, at ID o'clock m. on
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1894,
in front of the Market House, on Royal street,
offer for sale at public auction the following
property to wit
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND lying and
being in the city of Alexandria, Virginia,
bounded and described as follows: Beginning
on the south side of Duke street at the dis
tance of ] 8 feet 3 inches west of the corner
of Royal street and at the east line of ten
feet alley, and running thence east on Duke
street 90 feet q inches to the outside of the
west wall of the dwelling house lately occu-
pied by Major w. W. Herbert; thence south
along said west wall ITO feet parallel to
Roy street; thence west parallel to Duke
street 80 feet inches to the east line of said
alley; thence with the east line of eaid alley
north no feet to the beginning together
with all of the buildings and improvements
thereon and the use of said alley in common
with others entitled thereto, and all rights
and appurtenances to the said ground belong
ing or in anywise appertaining
Terms of sale: Three thousand four hun
dred dollars to be paid in cash on tho day of
sale, to cover the amount secured by said
deed, the interest thereon and the expenses
of executing the trust the residue, if any, to
be made payable in two equal parts at six
and twelve months from the day of sale, evil
denced by the bonds of the purchaser with
good persoiisl security bearing interest from
the day Of sale, and retention of the title
Al. = ~ l.
money in cash at the option of the pur-
chaser. COnveyancing at the cost Of the pur-
chaser w. F. LAMBERT,
oct2 I'd Trustee.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-18

MARRIED TO ESCAPE His CREDITORS.
A few days ago James McEwen, who is
a ston ecutter of Hamilton, o., had his
wages garrisheed by Hamilton bust
ness man, and had to pay up. He call
ed on Squire McGreevy next after
noon, and asked if a married man could
be garnisheel. The Squire replied in
the negative, whereupon McEwep
handed him 50 as retainer fee, and
told him to call at the corner of Bur-
nett and Water streets next evening
and there would be woman there for
the ceremony, The same night the
agreed upon. The fair one-Annie
Harrson-was on hand, and in less
time than it takes to tell, the Squire
made them man and wife. McEwen
was so happy in the fact that he can no
longer be garnisheed that he handed the
squire S3 more for his trouble: Inc
groom IS twenty-seven years old, and
the bride thirteen years his senior.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-18
AUCTION SALES.
BY z. E. Knox Anctinneer


PY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST
- dated August 20th 1891, and recorded
in deed book 26, page 350 one of the land
records of the city of Alexandria, Va, from
Ellen Murphy and P ]. Murphy to me, and
at the request of the holder of the notes So.
cured thereby, I will sell st public auction on
the the premises at 10 o'clock a. m., on
SATURDAY,
October 18th. 1894, the following prop
ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND
in the city of Alexandra, Virginia, situated
at the southeast intersection of Prince street
with West street, fronting on Prince one hum
dred feet, more or less, and extending back
south with equal width and parallel with
West street to the middle of the square,
2. THE FOLLOWINGPE PERSONAL PROP
ERTY viz: One engine and boiler, one cart,
one Fairbanks Standard Scale, one franc
shed and all the equipments of the Wood
Yard at the above described lot.
Terms of Sale Cash.
CO. SIPPLE,
sep13 is Trustee.
PoSTPONED-The above sale has been
postponed until SATURDAY, October 27,
1894, at the same hour and place.
oct13 is