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Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10

attacks of hawks, crows or rats, as they
are quick to give the alarm IN loud,
shrill cry, most unpleasant to the I'M
welcome intruder The only objections
to be urged against these birds are their
noise and quarrelsome habits In the
poultry yard they are spiteful (espe-
cially the cocks to young chicks, and
are, generally speaking, of very pug
nacious disposition.
The young can easily be trained to
run with hens, and when so reared
will not be so apt to quarrel with
them, When first Matched they are
quite wild, but when kindly treated
and often fed, they will become sufi-
GENTLY tame to eat from the hand, and
will not wander far from home. The
white variety are more tame than the
speckled.
1t is advisable to start keeping guinea
fowls by either purchasing eggs and
Matching them under domestic hens,
or procuring them when young, when
they are more likely to localize them
selves to their owners wish than il
purchased az older birds. II adult
birds be purchased they will require
boxing up for three weeks or month
and feeding carefully to tame them
otherwise they are liable to wander of
at their own sweet will, possibly never
TO return.
But in spite of these disadvantages
as semi-domesticated bird, Il is very
profitable upon a farm or anywhere
where it can have free range anC
plenty of liberty, clearing the ground
of myriads of insect life, and being 8
small feeder in comparison with ordi
nary poultry.-N. Y. World.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10

After calves have had milk for four
weeks they will eat grain finely ground
and little hay or grass. When they
are three weeks old they may be
taught to take little mixed oat and
linseed meal from. the hand, and in
two or three days will eat it from a
feed box. A good substitute for the
milk is oats, peas and bran in equa!
parts, with onefourth part of linseed,
ground together. This is mixed with
boiling water or with cold water and
then boiled, adding teaspoonful OF
salt to feed of four quarts To begin
with this the feeding should com.
mence some days before the milk i,
taken from them, and the grain
preparation mixed with the milk
which is gradually lessened until it i,
wholly withheld. If the calves have
pasture this food may be gradually re
duced until it is displaced by water
when the grain is given dry. Sal
should be given regularly. One tea
spoonful is enough for one week a
! first
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10
SOME SHORT BURROWS.

He is always slave who lives be,
yond his means.
1t is an easy thing for lazy man to
overwork himself.
A shady fence corner is an irresisti.
BILE temptation to some men,
Inever thought that man cou&l
ride heave inward on sore.bacled
horse.
never enjoy mans theories about
the government who cannot manage a
ten-acre patch.
If every man were to get rich who
believes he knows how, we would
have no paupers.
The worm in the whisky distillery
will do more damage to the farmer
this summer than the cutworm.
1t seems to be much easier thing tc
set down and formulate system OF
national finance than it is to go tc
work and earn ali honest dollar Hon
est dollars are made only by hard
work. Agriculturist
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10
HANDLING POTATOES.
Judioious Marketing Fully as Important
as the Raising.


as the Raising.
The profit or loss in the crop depends
fully as much on the way it is cared for
and marketed as upon its successful
production. AS rule it does not take
the same amount of care and ingenuity
to produce a good crop as it does to
care for 1t and market 1t to the best
advantage and at the least cost
A great many products are injured
by too much handling, and with tho
crude methods used it can hardly be
avoided. What is needed Is an improve
ment in methods. The usual methods
for handling potatoes, for instance,
practiced by majority of producers,
is to pick them up in baskets and empty
them into pits or into the wagon box,
when they have to be handled again
by hand or with fork or shovel, and
either spend good deal of time in
picking them up by hand or injure
them and start decay by bruising them
with shovel or fork. T. B. Terry, in his
"a B of Potato Culture" tells us a
better way.
For several years have been using
bushel boxes for marketing early pota-
toes while the skins slip, and for
handling the crop in the field all
through the season. This is one Of the
ways in which the potato specialist
can get ahead of the small raiser. l
think we handle our crop for less than
half of what 1t used to cost us before
we got these boxes made. Our boxes
are IS inches by 16 and 10 deep, all in
side measures. They were made a
little deeper, to allow for shrinkage.
The sides and bottoms are made OF
three-eighths stuff and the ends Of FIVE.
eighths, Hand holes are cut in the
ends.
The upper corners are bound with
galvanized hoop-iron to make them
strong. The price paid for them was
from $25 to $50 hundred at box fac.
tory Some light wood should be used
of course, so as to make them as light
as possible. They need not weigh
more than six or seven pounds. Early
in the season, while the skins slip, our
potatoes are dug and laid mot thrown,
into these boxes, and the boxes are
covered as fast as filed. They are
then safe from sun and rain till want
ed for market. The covers are simply
pieces of boards cut about 15xls inches
Dug one day and taken to market the
next and set of on the boxes at the
grocer's and then set by him into hi
delivery wagon and taken to his Gus
toners the consumer gets them just al
nice and fresh as though he raised
them himself. OF course, these boxe
filled with potatoes should be carried
on spring wagon and covered by can
vas from sun and rain.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10
To Make Good Pork Cheauly.

One of the good uses of clover is to
make pasture for pigs by which the
cheapest meat may be made and of the
best quality. This will also improve
the land at the same time. Turn the
pigs in such pasture, but divide it so
that part only may be fed down at
one time and change made, which
will afford fresh feed, and economize
the feeding and make it go a fourth
further at least. In this pasture give
the SKINNED milk and stir 1t in half q
pound of bran for each pig daily. Add
tablespoonful of salt for each pig IN
this feed. Continue this until the corn
Is about ready for cutting; then gather
the soft ears and feed these to the pigs
The only food that will count as cost
will be the clover and the bran, and
the clover will be fully paid for by the
manure, as the land will be much en-
riched by the milk and the bran. Pork
may be made in this way for under
two cents a pound, not counting the
benefit of the land.-Rural World.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10
FARM AND GARDEN.
THE GUINEA FOWL.
Birds Which Deserve More Attention Than
They Now Receive.

Birds Which Deserve More Attention Than
They Now Receive.
There good many varieties Of this
bird, all Of which are supposed to have
originated in Africa. The two kinds
most generally known are the speckled,
or pearl, and the white, the former be-
Ing the more common variety. They
are prolific layers during the summer
season; they mature early, and their
flesh is fine and tender. The meat of
the white Guinea is white, the skin be-
ing yellow; the speckled have dark
flesh; both have gamey flavor
The birds mate in pairs. They usu-
ally commence to lay In May or June.
The eggs, though small, are rich in
flavor, The shell is very hard, and If
the eggs are set under hen, the nest
should be filled with dirt and set in a
cool, moist place. The period of incu-
baton Is twenty-six days. When
young they are delicate, like turkeys,
and continue so until they change their
coat of soft down for one of feathers.
They should be fed and managed like
young turkeys, and, like them. will be
inclined to seek high roosts, but should
not be permitted to do SO.
Guinea fowls are very useful ss pro-
tectors of other young fowls from the
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10
TO CARELESS GIRLS.
Wise Hint to BE Wisely and Practical,
Applied.

N " INC iiht W Dt hIStiy anu
Applied.
Many of us know the girl who, hast
aning to class or lecture, leaves at home
an Untitled room, open-lidded boxes,
bureau drawers suggestive of com
pressed earthquake, bookcase doors
swinging, in imminent risk of demoli-
tion--who filters hall stand and vesti-
bule with discarded gloves and crump
led memoranda, whose belongings are
distributed indiscriminately through
every room, regardless of ownership
She evidently waits to help" but is
she preparing herself, meanwhile, for
the prospective service?
Many of us know the patient mother
who moves along in the track of this
household hurricane to remove the
debris, rearlange the Surroundings,
close box smooth a glove, clear stand
and table of encumbranccs, and make
fast the door that endangers the prec-
ous volumes it is supposed to guard, as
we'll as the physical safety of some
junior member of the family.
! like to tell young people of simple
rule my mother enforced, the helpful.
ness of which it took me years to real
ize: "Never leave a room without no
ticing whether there is not something
there which belongs or is likely to be
needed in another part of the house
and will eventually have to be carried
there"
1t is astonishing how rarely you fine
yourself going from room to room
empty-handed if you observe this rule
and how many steps you save some
body who needs to have steps saved
Donahoe's Magazine.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10

piece of hard wood inches square and
81 feet long by making little mortise
to fit the welded part boring hole
and boiling fast.
The top and bottom ones should be
about feet apart and middle one
should be half way between. Bore
two holes in the 2x2 stick and put in
two pins for handles. Run the wires
through the two holes and the ma
chine Is ready for work. The wire
can be crossed or given full twist, as
desired, and this is all that it will
stand and retain It's full strength.
Make tension by passing good
strong bolt through three pieces OF
1]1x4-inch hard wood at each pair OF
wires and claiming fast to post The
tension is regulated by the bolts,-F
NJ. Mitchell, in Farm and Home.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10
A MERE WOMAN,


But She Made Most Important Dis
cOvery.
Did you know that a woman-a mere
woman-made the wonderful anatom-
ical discovery of the reason why a
woman has a soprano voice and man
sings in lower register. Eliza Arch
ard Conner tells the story--it is a Ger
man one. 1t seems that Mrs Emma
Seller, native of Wurtzburg, when
left widow with two children to sup
port, resolved to become a teacher of
singing, but suddenly lost her voice.
Then she determined to find out why
also to discover if possible the correct
method of singing, so that others
might not lose their voices. For this
purpose she studied anatomy. Sur
rounded. however as she was by the
idiots and bigots who would cut off all
intellectual pursuits from women, she
was obliged to study in secret
She dissectcd larynx after larynx
and spent years in her search, trying
to find for one thing wig women's head
tones could reach high c, while men
had no soprano tones.
Az length her search was rewarded.
She discovered under the microscope
one day two small wedge-shaped car
tilages, whose action produces the
highest tones of the human voice. She
made her discovery public.
1t excited great attention among
scientists. But so crGel was the preiu'
dice of her time that she did not dare
let the world know woman made the
discovery and wrote an account of it
Her own brother, a physician, praised
the treatise in the highest terms till
he found that his own sister had writ
ten it. Then he dashed it down, say
ing, in a rage, that she would be bet
ter attending to her homework.
Nine. Sellers portrait, "a marble re
lief, is in the possession of the Amer
lean Philosophical society, of Philadel
phia, of which she was member
Here is a Ease for the paraphrase of al
old saying: Put not your trust il
brothers. Chicago Post,
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10

II is claimed that the theory of inoc-
ulation as a cure for diphtheria has
been thoroughly and successfully test
ed. The process is by injecting some
of the blood of an animal that has been
inoculated with weak culture of the
diphtheria bacteria, only strong enough
to slightly affect the animal. On re-
peated occasions of late it is claimed
that sufferers from diphtheria have
been treated in this manner, both in
Berlin and London hospitals, and in
every case prompt cures have been
wrought. This, if true, proves one Of
the greatest medical triumphs of the
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10
A Comfortable Gown.

For general wear, including outings,
she piping, travelling, etc, a black serge
is a JOY forever. It should have one of
the new short blazers with a godet
back and immense gigot leg
Of mutton-Sleeves, all lined with
surah or MORE percaline-either to be
really fast black, unless you prefer a
bright silk lining, with a waist to
match. The godet skirt should be
lightly lined, and trimmed with bias
band of black MORE. This latter ma
terial also serves as a turnover collar,
short, wide revers and a crush
Or plain belt. With this wear a
double-breasted vest of white or col.
bred pique or duck, "tailor-made'
shirt, cotton or silk waist,
In all cases De Joinville tie is worn,
and with the vest chemisette and
collar of linen if the vest is low in the
neck. By removing the blazer one can
be very cool, and at any time it is a pref
ty wrap. Some of the skirts to such
suits are unlined, but they never hang
as well as when lined in the usual man
ner and finished with canvas ten inches
deep and a binding of bias velvetoen OIL
corduroy. Now add straw hat
black veil and tan kid gloves, with &
black sun umbrella and one is ready
for pleasant time, well-knowing thai
she is comfortably, becomingly ant
suitably attircd.-Ladies' Home Jour
nal
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10
A Summer Gown.

Artistic draping is a marked peculiar
ity of the gowns this summer, even
when worn by conservative women.
few days since saw gown of beau
tiful blue-gray crepon, trimmed with
Venetian guipure. underlaid with black
satin. The undcrsllirt was of silk, fin.
shed around the bottom with three
narrow bias rutfies; the ovcrskirt was
Of the Eastbourue style of crepon, cut
in circle shape, and had a seam IN the
back, Any tive-gorcd model, like the
Gilbert" or the merlin" will 10 fol
the underslirt, The corsage is a
"Linville" crepon, slightly frilled over
a fitted lining; the yoke in the back is
straight across the bottom, and no
opening is visible, as it fastens on the
left shoulder and under the arm. Some.
times one fabric is used, the underSllirt
being faced up with the gown stuff; in
such cases care must be used to make
the facing so deep that the wind vii
not betray the deceit,-N. Y. Adver
! tiSpr
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10
DARkENED SLEEPING ROOMS
A Physicians Suggestion and How to Car
ny II Out.

ny II Out.
II is claimed Ivy some physicians tina,
the brain can not rest perfectly unless
all light is excluded from the sleeping
room, and whether in going to bed al
night or simply lying down for half
hours rest in the middle of the day
this piccaution should be taken. Where
house has an eastern or southern ex
posture the rooms will be filed with
light long before it is time to get up
and unless some means be taken to
prevent, the morning rest will be more
or less broken. Especially is this true
In the case of little children, and it is
well to accustom them from the first tC
sleep in the dark
In the absence of outside blinds there
Is no better way to secure this pleasant
twilight so conducive to rest than by
the use of inside shades made of the
darkest green holland, and they have a
great advantage over either inside or
outside blinds in that they are so east,
ly adjusted
They supplement but do not take the
place of the ordinary shades, but are
set somewhat inside so as not to inter
fere with them, and are rolled up and
quite out of the way when not in use.
The best grades of this goods are dur
able, and with reasonable care will last
for years, and from her own experience
the writer can recommend them as a
most desirable investment.
If the bedroom windows have upper
panels of stained glass in which sc
many modern houses abound, the
green shades should be set so as t.
cover these also, as an exceedingly UNI
pleasant glare pours down from them
very trying to eyes which are trained
to sleep in a darkness as complete as
possible. -Harper's Bazaar.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10

IT appears that NJ. Casimir- Perier
was elected for the full term of seven
years and not, as might naturally be
supposed, to fill out the unexpired
term of President Carnot. Within
three days of the death of the presi-
dent and with scarcely a ripple in pol
itics, without single nominating con-
vention, stump speech or even band
wagon, new administration is fixed
up and set running on a seven years
lease and France goes about her bust
ness as though nothing had happened.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoLERIDGE was
the only person who ever had the honor
sitting with the justices of the supreme
court of the United States during an
argument. In the stately robing rooms
of the supreme court hangs picture
of Justice Coleridge, and on the bot
tom of the frame is the inscription.
Respectfully presented to the Judges
of the Supreme Court at Washington
by the Lord Chief Justice of England
in grateful memory of the honor con-
ferred on the 10th oil October, 1888"
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10
The Best Always Sells.

A ready market always exists for the
best. When a farmer produces 5et-
ter article than the market cono$ins
he will not only secure a good price
therefor, but the market will seek him
the next season. The amount of fruit
and vegetables, butter, cheese and
poor animals shipped to the large cities
is enormous, and prices fall because
such articles cannot be sold. Aim TO
get good prices by selling nothing but
what is in demand and Of the highest
quality.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10

THE old town of Appomattox, in Vir-
ginia, is almost entirely deserted.
There are five negro families and one
white family still there, but they have
indicated their purpose of migrating
before next spring. The streets are
choked up with weeds and grass, and
the houses are falling to pieces.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10
FEEDING BY MACHINERY.
Simple Combination of an Alarm CIoeS
and a Few Batteries.

simple Combination of an Alarm Clock
and Few Batteries.
An electric horse feeder is new ia
ventlon brought out by Mr.. Anderson,
Of Chesterfield, for securing the regu-
lar feeding of horses during the alb
sence from any cause of the stableman
or groom. The apparatus is described
as being very simple, the law of gravi-
tation being depended upon to accom-
plish most of the work. The first
requisite is an alarm clock, which
should be good enough not to stop
casually, but need not be expensive,
The electrical plant is that needed for
an ordinary electric bell, four cells OF
tho Leclanche type of battery being
sufficient for any distance up to two
hundred yards. The third portion OF
the apparatus is the feeder-that Is to
say, the vessel holding the corn or corn
and ohatf, as the case may be. The
clock, which is the prime mover of the
whole concern, may be in the house,
the harness-room or anywhere, but II
1t be more than two hundred yards
away from the feeder more powerful
battery will be required.
To use the feeder the first thing Is
to set the alarm of the clock at the
hour at which it is desired that the
horse should be fed The food is Their
placed in Unlike biscuit box, which
is turned upside down and placed in
the proper compartment of the shoot
when the lid of the box is drawn out
the corn then resting upon the floor O.
trap-lilSe arrangement, held in its
place by simple contrivance, Wher
the alarm goes off button is pressed
and the circuit is completed. A weigh
falls, the bottom of the feed box Is re
leased, and the corn falls out into tn,
manger.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10

SINCE Timothy Pickering, at the
close Of the last century, held success
sively the offices of postmaster general,
secretary of war, and Secretary OF
state, Judge Gresham is the only man
who has held three cabinet positions.
President Arthur made him postmaster
general in 1883, and a year later, on
Folgers death, nominated him for sec
rotary of the treasury.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10

The question. Is a man the owner of
his own teeth? has come before a Ger
man court at Gera. A man made up
his mind to have an aching tooth taken
out. When it was drawn 1t was of such
curious shape that the dentist declared
he would keep it as curiosity. His
patient however, thought he would
like to keep it himself, and claimed it;
but the dentist, on the ground that a
tooth, when drawn with 'ke free con-
sent of the patient, is ownerless prop
erty as soon as it leaves the jaw, re-
fused to give it up. The patient at
once entered an action against tho dem
list
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10

EXPERIMENTS are being conducted in
the armory at Springfield, Mass, in the
use of aluminium for the bayonet scab-
bards for the new rifle. While the
metal works well in bending and is
about fifty per cent. lighter than the
steel scabbard, no satisfactory method
has been devised for soldering the
edges together.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10

A SUSPENDED city has been discovered
off Glacier bay, Alaska, by a party of
excursionists. This curious phenom-
non is seen regularly after full moon
in June, and in no other time. 1t is
said to be beautiful mirage of seine
unknown city suspended directly over
the bay. A photographer has taken
pictures of it four times, but no one has
been able to identify one of the ghostly
buildings outlined.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10
torian.

The Countess Alesio, of Turin, Italy,
who has celebrated her one hundredth
birthday, accompanied her husband
through all the hardships of the Mos
COW campaign, while she was bride
of eighteen, She is in full possession
of her faculties, and spends several
hours day in piano practice.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10
CHEAP FENCING MACHINE.
IL Costs One Dollar and VIII Make wirt
and Picket Fence.

b costs One Dollar ana VIII Make wiz
and Picket Fence.
This machine will make wire and
picket fence and can be made for about
dollar. Get a blacksmith to weld
together two s-inch pieces of buggy
tire for two inches and leave the other
ends about half an inch apart the
whole 6 inches. A hole should be
drilled in both ends. Another similar
one should be made 81 inches long
with a hole in one end for bolt and
two holes ~ inches apart in the
other for the wires. Put the enc
with one hole between the two 6-inch
parts of the other and pass a bolt
through so that the middle piece will
swing freely, This for one pair OF
wires. Each pair needs one of these.
Fasten these at the welded part to a
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-10

CONVINCED that his trotting horse
Mustapha was suffering from indiges
ton because he couldn't chew his feed,
Fond du Lac turfman induced dem
fist to make false set of horse teeth.
They were substituted for the natural
teeth, which were extracted. The ex.
pertinent has not been success. Every
time Mustapha snorts he drops his
teeth in the road, and his owner loses
valuable time picking them up.