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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30
FEEDING WORK HORSES.

The system used in feeding horses
by large establishments keeping, as in
some cases, several hundred head at
constant work, may be of interest to
managers of farm horses, writes G. f.
Curtiss. The horses at work in Swift
e. Co. S establishment, of Chicago, are
uniformly in excellent condition for
service. The teams entered in the re-
cent cart-horse competition were taken
from their regular work. and their
general good appearance was matter
of extended comment. Mr.. Shaw.
Superintendent of Swift & Go. IS horse
department, in explaining the man
agement Of these horses, stated that
they feed nothing during the week
but the best timothy hay and No.
white oats, and bran mash and hay on
Sunday. No fiycl rules are followed
as to quantity, the amount being reg
ulated by the requirements of the
horse, which generally ranged from
two to eight quarts per feed. The
bran mash on Sunday, he stated, is n
necessity TO prevent what is known rs
Monday morning disease, or spinal
meningitis, which is due TO oyerfeed-
ing during enforced confinement fol
lowing period of active work Ii
was stated that Ii full grain feed was
given on Sunday large percentage OF
their horses would be uuht for str
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30
Businesslike B0Otblacks.

Probably the smartest young busi-
ness men in New York are the Italian
bootblacks about Broadway and Canal
street. They aecost the passerby with
the usual "Shine, shine, sir?"
When one refuses to recognize their
solicitations, they become confden-
tial, and following their victim ex-
plain: "Nice-a shine, boss, nice-a
shine-only three cents" (holding up
three fingers).
If this appeal does not produce the
proper effects the anxious bootblack
makes ''coup." Plucking the mans
sleeve he cries out:
''Two centa, boss! Only two centa,
first-a class-a shine, boss, only two
centa !"
The bootblack has learned that the
average mans heart is not large
enough to resist such plea, and he
succeeds, in nine cases out of ten, in
inveigling the passerby to stand up
against wall and have his shoes
blacked for ''only two centa, boss !"-
New York Recorder.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30

Do not manure against the roots in
planting.
Never prune grapes when the
ground is frozen.
The best crops of strawberries are
grown with clean culture.
Lime and wood ashes make good
fertilizer for old orchards.
The peach tree is avery rapid grower
if planted in n very rich soil.
1t is better not to breed at all than
to breed to n common stallion.
Without sound, well-balanced feet
there is no excellence in horse
Well-mulched trees will not start to
grow quite so early in the spring.
Newly planted grape vines should
be allowed to grow only one shoot.
The man who Injuries his horse by
overwork is blind to his own interests.
Manure from the hog pen is one of
the best that can be used on peach
trees.
At the present low prices of feeding
stulfs it does not pay to starve the
colts.
If currants are given decent treat.
ment in the way of maintaining and
cnltivatlng properly, no plants are
satisfactory croppers.
One mistake often made in the
garden is planting in too close and in
too short rows SO that all the work
must be done by hand rather than
with the cultivator.
In pruning trees of all kinds it is
better to have one strong branch or
limb than two or three weak ones.
Keep the heads low and let the sun IS
rays all through the trees
All superfluous shoots on stalks that
have been grated or budded should
he removed as soon as they start. If
neglected, n more or less serious check
would follow to the graft
More trees die from neglect than
from any other one cause. One thing
that is often overlooked is mulchinp
or keeping the soil stirred so as to
retain moisture near the surface.
When tree first leans it is easily
righted up, and may be held in its
place by u stake or prop, or. If small,
by earth or sods weighted with stones.
surer way of keeping it straight is
to carefully stake and tic when it is
set out,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Birds with long legs have short
tails.
The pitcher plant snares insects and
swallows them, but does not digest
them.
Snakeproof aluminium boots have
been tried in Florida swamps and are
success.
A French surgeon removed bullet
from the eye of child without de-
stroying the sight of the optic.
III we'll could be dug to depth of
forty-six miles the air at the bottom
would be as dense as quicksilver.
In the northwestern part of Colorado
there is region several hundred
square miles i'll extent which is vast
deposit of petrified fish.
The ''tartar" ON human teeth is
filled with animalcule, which are de-
stroyed by vinegar. Vinegar itself
contains eel-like insects.
A writer on elephants declares that
when very hot the elephant will insert
his trunk into his throat, draw up
water and sprinkle it over his back.
The cause of the superstition con-
cerning the opal is found in the fact
that this gem is very liable to split,
and consequently to become worth
less.
There have been more remains of
mastodons and other extinct NAM
moths found in Ichtucknee River,
Florida, than any other stream in the
world.
A. III. Savage Landor, grandson of
the poet Landor, has recently returned
from prolonged sojourn among the
hairy Anus of Yezo, Japan. The aver
age height of these people is 62A inches
for men and 5S4 inches for women.
The arts of collecting provisions,
storing and preserving food, domesti-
eating and managing focks and cap
turing slaves are quite as well under
stood by animals and insects as by man
in the earlier stages of his civilization.
The California woodpecker is an in
sect eater. Yet in view of the ap-
proach of winter, it prepares store
of food of wholly different character
and arranges this with as much care
as an epicure might devote to the
storage of his wine in a cellar.
A grower of pineapples claims valua-
BILE medicinal properties for the juice
of that fruit, confidently asserting
that it will cure Indigestion, no matter
how severe, and has proven itself to
contain wonderful tonic and restora-
tive qualities for weak stomach. 1t
relieves, and, so to speak, warns and
nurses the distressed organ.
A red. hot wire of platinum has for
many years past been used for cutting
various organic substantances, but it
is stated in the London Chemical News
that Mr.. Warren has discovered new
use for this method and employs wire
heated by an electric current to saw
the hardest kinds of wood At first the
wire would break, but he remedied this
by using steel core platinum plated
by solution of platinic chloride in
either.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30

Let the mother become sick AMI helpless,
and the house is all in disorder. When both
father and mother are down, you may as
well close the shutters. Order is brought out
of chaos often very easily, and Mrs. John
NIalin, of South Butte, Mont, Feb. II, 1898,
found an easy way out of her difficulties, as
she writes thus ''My husband and took
very bad rheumatism from severe colds, and
my arms were so lame L could not raise them
to help myself. I sent at once for bottle of
st. Jacobs Oil, and before the bottle was half
empty, could go about my work. My hus
band became so lame he could not get out OF
bed. Two and half bottles completely cured
him. l will always praise st. Jacobs Oil and
YOU may use this as you see fit" This is
clear case OF what is best at the right mo-
ment, and how every household can be made
happy where pain abounds.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30
CNrOnets.

English nobiemen are the only ones
in Europe who ever wear coronets on
their heads, and the sole occasion
when they do so is at the coronation
of the sovereign. They hold them in
their hands through the ceremony.
and at the moment when the Arch
bishop of Canterbury places the crown
upon the monarch's head every peer
and peeress present dons his or her
coroDet.
Inaslnuch as nearly half of the House
of Lords is composed of peers created
by Queen Victoria, it is probable that
none OF them has taken the trouble to
provide himself with the silver coronet,
lined with crimson velvet, of his rank,
and were the Queen TO die and the
Prince OF Wales to- ascend the throne.
there would doubtless be run on the
court silversmIths for baubles of this
character.
The barons coronet, worn by the
poet, Lord Byron, Mt the coronation
of George ", and which was manu-
factured for the occasion, and Is now
in this country and was i'll the posses
sion of the late proprietor of the Phila-
delphia LEDGER, who converted 1t into
a chafing dish for the humble vege-
table known as the potato, having re-
moved the velvet cap from the inside
and turned il upside down, SO that the
four silver balls constitute the sup
port Of the chatting dish, Vogue.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30
FEEDING WHEAT TO SHEEP.

Moderate feeding of wheat to any
animal is not necessarily unwholesome.
Wheat is q rich food, on account of
the large quantity of gluten it con-
tains, and when fed in excess to any
animal this causes the masticated
grain to gather in masses in the stom-
ach, and thus interfere with the di-
gestion of it. Then, of course, trouble
follows, and sheep are more easily hurt
in this way than any other animal. If
wheat is to be fed, and its present low
price makes this desirable, it is safest
to grind it coarsely and mix it with
some cut hay, and thus avoid the usual
result of feeding it alone, New York
Times.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30
Strange Avenue of Trees.

A strange avenue of trees is owned
by the Duke of Argyll, and it is year
by year growing longer. Each of the
trees has been planted by some nota-
BILE person, and brass plate is fast.
ened to the iron fencing surrounding
the tree, signifying by whom it was
planted. Louis Republic.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30

There is more Catarrh in this section OF the
country than all other diseases put together,
aud until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For great many years doctors pro-
nounced it q locat disease, and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced IL lncurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be constitu-
tonal disease and therefore requires constitu-
tonal treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure, man
ufactured by F. T. Cheney IL Co., Toledo, Ohio,
is the only constitutional cure on the market.
1t is taken internally in doses from 11drops to
a teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars FIR any case it fails to
cure. Send for circulars and testimonials
free. Address
/ CurN.IN e Tnlnnn
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30
The Talismanic M09nst0ne.

The remarkable popularity of the
moonstone is, that while in all other
gems internal seams are called flaws,
and detract from their value, i'll the
moonstone they are called ''magic
mirrors" because those favored mortals
who are gifted with the illumination
of the astral light can, by its aid, read
en- those surfaces of milky white re-
Elections of the past and the promise
of the future. II Detroit Free Press.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30

216 Bus. = Lbs. Oats From One Bus. seed.
This remarkable. almost unheard-of, yiel
was reported to the John A. Salzer Seed Co.,
La Crosse, Wis, by Frank Winter of Mon
tana, who planted one bushel of Great North
ern Oats, carefully titled and irrigated same
and believes that in 1891 he can grow from
bushel of Great Northern Oats three hundred
bushels. It's wonderful oat. If YOU WILL
CIT THIS OUT AND SEND IT with Sc postage to
the above firm you will receive sample package
of above oats and their mammoth farm seed
catalogue. A
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than Others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
II has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak.
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in soc and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being we'll informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30

Mrs. Mary Hallen, of Portland, Me-,
has in her savings bank book an inter
esting proof of the value of putting
money in bank and leaving it there.
In 1864 she received $500, for which
she had no immediate use, SO she de-
posted it and has not since disturbed
the account. 1t now stands at almost
$1,000. st. Louis Republic.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30

For thirteen years Ferdinand Halt
zenland, q German veteran, living in
Reading, Penn, has not tasted water.
Wounds received in battle compel To-
tai abstinence from drink Of all kinds
except milk and coffee.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30
F. J. CHENEY e Co, Toledo, Q.
eag- Sold by Druggists, 75c.

Smile and save money. Mail your orders for
anything in drug line to +. A. Hall, Charles
ton, :. G. Free catalogues. Vests Nerve and
Brain Treatment, &c. Liver Pills, 12c. Hat
Dye, l0c:; "29o5,'' Best Worm Powders, 12c
Porous Plasters, l2c.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30

William Smith, of Concord, N. H.,
claims to have fired the shot that sunk
the Alabama. He was boatswain on
the Kearsarge and has many relics of
his old ship.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30

DIR. Kilmer's SWAMP Roof cures
all Kidney and Bladder troubles.
Pamphlet and Consultation free.
Laboratory BinphamtOn n Y,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30

A $500 fellowship in painting has been es-
tabIished at Syracuse On. Y.) University.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30

A SLIGHT COLD, if neglected, often attacks
the lungs. "BrOlCH'S bronchial I3Oches - give
sure and immediate relief. Sold OHly III b0UeS.
Price p cents
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30

The houses of Rome are valued at
$a25 per inhabitant.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30

THE first line of railroad in Norway was
opened in 1855.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30

Dr. Hoxsie's Certain Croup Cure
VIII check an ugly cough at once and preve nj
a cold from going to the lungs. so cts. A. L
HoXsie. Buffalo. \. Y. M'fr.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30

Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup takes right
hold. Sold everywhere. p cents.
Beechams Pills are better than mineral wa
tiers. Beecham's-no others. 25 cents box.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-30

Japanese Tooth Powder, Genuine.
A large box mailed for ID cents. Lapp Drug
Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-05-25
A Gang OF Bank Robbers.

At 8 O'Clock Thursday afternoon seven
men armed with Winchesters and re-
volvers rode into Southwest City, Mo-,
and robbed the bank, getting all the
money it contained, between $4,000 and
$4,000 They evidently came from the
territory and we're experts. They did
the job in businesslike manner. Two
were stationed on the sidewalk, one en-
tered the bank with a sack and the
others guarded the horses. About loo
shots were fred by the robbers, and -four
prominent citizens we're badly wounded
The robbers were about 10 minutes going
through the bank. Afterward they
mounted horses and started for the ma
ton at gallop. As they we're leavins
the outskirts come one fired several shotl
at them, killing horse and wounding {
robber. He Immediately secured an
other from a farmer who WAS passini
and followed his pals. No resistance va
offered by the citizens. The wounded
men were shot while standing on thu
sidewalk. A posse was made up an
have started in pursuit, but the rohber
have a good start and will probably &c
away.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-05-25
A PANIC.sTRICKEN CROWD.
Burning Benxine Over the Heads of
Large Number of People.

Burning Benxine Over the Heads OF a
Large Number of People.
The barrel.house at Emery's refinery
in Braddock, Pa, took fire Sunday by
spontaneous combustion and was de-
stroyed. The loading racks and FIVE
tank cars, standing on the eide track OF
the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg rail-
road, were also burned. The fire was a
fierce one and attracted an immense
crowd of people. While the 6remen were
making q final stand and thousands Of
people were watching there was tre-
mendous explosion. A tank car holding
4l0O gallons of benzine exploded with a
mighty roar. The explosion was followed
by q panic that cannot be described.
The blind, unressoning, pitiless instinct
OF elf-preservation show ed itself, and the
weak went down before the strong in
multitudes OF cases in the frantic rush to
escape from what seemed horrible
death. In the stampede men as we'll as
women and children were thrown down
and trodden on by the fleeing masses
that surged up from behind. Thirty-ive
Of the fremen were burned. The skin
peeled off their faces and hands, and the
hair was sirged off their heads and faces
OF the many others who was slightly
burned, there was no record, and the
total numb of those burned and injured
in the stampede will reach 100 persons
The property loss will exceed $4,000.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-05-25
"Did up" the Landlord.

A well.dressed man, passing along
Delaney street, says the New York
World, saw woman sitting on the steps
of No. 252. She had baby in her arms
and was crying. The stranger got boy
to interpret for him, and learned that the
woman had been put out of her apart
ments. She owed three months rent,
$36.
"Send for your landlord" said the
stranger. "l'll pay your rent"
The landlord, q grocer ON Northfolk
street, came and the stranger told him to
give the woman receipts for four months
rent, including one month in advance.
The landlord brought the receipts and
the stranger gave him 800 bill The
landlord didn't have the change, but the
stranger said carelessly tnst he looked
honest and he would trust him to take
the bill away and return the change.
In few minutes the landlord brought
back $52. The stranger gave the woman
81, and put $50 in his pocket and de-
parted with the blessings of q large
crowd of sympathizing neighbors who
had witnessed the charitable act.
Capt. Devery told this story last night.
Then he added: 1T took that landlord
just one hour to learn that the 500 bill
was counterfeit. When he rushed up
here to tell me about it he had pulled
half his whiskers out in his rage. He
can't put the woman out, however. She's
got her receipts"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-05-25

Five states-Iowa, Vermont, Michi-
gan, Wisconsin and Illinois-have no
interest bearing debt, and there are six
or seven other states whose bonded debts
are mere bagatelles. Among the num-
Der are New Jersey, Nebraska, Ken
lucky, Oregon and California. To for
eigner, or any one else not familiar with
the facts, this would convey the impress
sion that the Americans bear An ex-
tremely light burden of debt. Such an
idea would be somewhat modified, how
ever, by the knowledge that the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe raiload pays in
terest on $500 900, 900 or more, the
annual interest charge exceeding $685.
000, 0O0-almost as much % the entire
charge Of the federal government. The
Southern states have bonded indebted
ness Of $l44, 0OO,O 900 in round numbers.
The total bonded indebtedness of all the
states in 1880 was 1924, 600 900, on which
the annual interest charge was$ 10, 600 900
The total bonded debt Of the states ID
about one-third Of the national interest
bearing debt.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-05-25
FRENCH INTRIGUE.
The Sad Fate of Deserted Partisan
Beauty and Musician.

The Sad Fate of n Deserted Partisan
Beauty and Musician.
London Special to St. Louis GlobeD amocrat.
Paris has her usual budget OF pecu-
liar sensations for the week: The sui
eide of Mile. Pinsrd Doges, a young and
beautiful composer of high talent, is the
tragedy all society is discussing. 1t
proves that she had been for some years
the mistress of M. Dide, ex-senator, ex-
clergyman and leader in the crusade
against impurities in Partisan life. The
Young woman became his companion on
his promising to secure divorce from
his wife and marry her. He secured a
divorce. but married rich woman. Mile
Pinard Doges did not discover his decep
ton until the other day, when she wen
to the magnificent salon of the ex-senator
and denounced him before his wife anc
large dinner party. She then returned
home, arrayed herself in bridal robes
wrote some letters of farewell and Lighted
a charcoal stove. She was found dead
few hours later.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-05-25
A Little Too rorehAnded.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
"a man can occasionally be just little
too forehanded where ne ought not to
be-" WAS Myron Mylice's comment on
the frailty Of human nature. "A few
months ago man, my neighbor in San
Lucas county, Cal, found that his father
was very i'll, and called In physician,
who pronounced the case hopeless one
and intimated that the patient had but a
few DAYS to live. This grisved the son
very much, but, Of course, it was tribu-
lation that had to be borne. The next
day the son started for the neighboring
county seat, some eighteen miles, to buy
farm necessities. While there he specu-
lated upon many things, and among 9TH
ers upon the approaching death OF bis
father. Then he argued with himself
that, since his father must die anyhow
and seeing that the journey from his
home to the town was q long and hard
one, he thought it would not be much
harm to buy his fathers coffin and TAXI
along. After numerous qua1ms OF con
science on that score he finally conquered
his feelings and secured the coffin. Thei
came the journey home, and John storet
the coffin in the garnet and resigned.
awaited his fathers death. This much
expected event did not come to pass
however, and my friend was left witt
! the coffin on his hands. Being yer
close in the matter Of money and nc