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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-05
NEST EGGS.
Keep the premises clean.

Keep the premises clean.
Cholera is one thing, other ailments
are something else.
Always have liberal supply OF grit
within easy reach OF the flock.
Don't let the young hens become too
fat. They are poor layers if overfed.
Pullets and yearling hens are the ones
to put your dependence upon for a sure
profit.
The combination hennery- machine
house order OF things has not entirely
gone out of date yet.
You can have egg OF good, bad or in
different flavor according to what you
may have for your hens to eat.
Don't be afraid OF reducing the price
of eggs yet awhile by showing special
favors to the old speckled hen.
Never have high roosts for heavy
fowls. 1t is the comfort of the fowl
hloV, oIhel CpiSlueIdtlOllS alIeIWdIu.
Cling to the practice OF marketing
your eggs when strictly fresh and you
will attact special customers upon every
hand.
Throw dry leaves on ground floor and
scatter grains OF wheat among them and
you will thus get your fowls to exercise
in bad weather.
Inbreeding among farm flocks is
usually permitted to run riot. 1t is all
wrong. 1t weakens the constitution
and invites disease.
Poultry and farm journals with the
aid of the special breeders and fanciers
are bringing the poultry interest up to
the high standard where it belongs.
The poultry interest should not be
made very large one on an ordinary
farm. But for the money and labor in
vested in it it can be made to return a
snug profit.
The incubator OF the present day is
perhaps thing still in its infancy, but,
to say the very least, it has many points
of superiority over the average old hen
as 2 reliable "sitter."
The poultryman is or should be fell
low who can see further ahead than to
the end OF his nose. Conditions con-
tinually change with the seasons, and
they must be met by being anticipated
If the flock is to be kept in hourishing
condition.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-05
AWAY with Ugly Mourning.

Why do we still continue to wear mourn
ing? The custom is Outworn; it is an
anachronism in the Nineteenth century.
1t is unchrstian; it clouds the spiritual
significance of the resurrection with the
ever present expression of temporal loss
1t is cruel; it forces helpless and innocent
people into action which entails a priva-
ton and unnecessary suffering. 1t is I'M
truthful; it makes false outward show of
changes in sentiment. And it is essential
ly' vulgar, for it presses private affairs
upon public notice; it thrusts claims of
fashion and frivolity upon time which
most greatly moves the heights and depths
of being, and it forces its superficial world
illness into the fercest throes which can
ever rend human nature.-Mary L. Blake
in North American Review.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-05
TO TRY A HORSE.

Don't buy horse in harness. Un-
hitch him and take everything off but
his halter and lead him around. II he
has corn or is stiff or has any other
failing, You can see it. Let him go by
himself way, and if he slaves right
into anything you know he is blind. No
matter how clear and bright his eyes
are he can't see any more than a bat.
Back him too.
Some horses show their weakness OF
tricks in that way when they don't in
any other. But be as smart as YOU ca n
you'll get caught sometimes. Even an
expert gets stuck. A horse may look
ever so nice and 90 at great pace and
yet have fits. There isn't man who
could tell it until something happens.
Or ne may have a weak back. Give him
the whip, and off he goes for mile or
two, then all of sudden he stops on
the road. After rest he starts again,
but he soon stops for good, and nothing
but derrick can start him.
The weak points OF horse can be
better discovered while standing than
while moving. If he is sound he will
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-05

In making inquiry of the oldest in
habitants in this portion OF Florida as
to the time the COW pea was first intro
duced here, no one was able to recall the
time when it was not known and es-
teemed for its food qualities. SIT is the
easiest crop We raise" said an octogena-
rian lady at Fort Christmas, requiring
the least outlay OF labor of anything
grown on the farm and bringing in the
most satisfactory results" Blooms and
green and ripe COW peas can always be
found on the growing vines. Toward
the period when they begin to cease
bearing the vines are frequently turned
under for humas. At least two crops
can be grown in this latitude, and III a
favorable season three crops can be
planted and harvested.
Some farmers cut off the exhausted
vines OF first planting to force another
crop from new growth OF vines, but the
surest plan is to make regular planting
in properly prepared ground. Other
than bad seasons there are two enemies
that confront the farmer who plants the
COW pea-root knot and pea weevil. The
root knot can be avoided by changing
the location of the field to be planted.
If the weevil does not attack the pods
before they are gathered, they can be
kept out by scattering leaf tobacco
through the pods aRd not Smelling them
until wanted for use. While all the
varieties OF peas and beans that are sue
cessfnlly cultivated in the northern por-
tions Of the United States do well in this
latitude, it is strange that the COW pea
has not found it way into these regions
as field crop.-R0bert 4. Mills, Chuluota,
ORANGE Co., Fla.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-05
The Rise of the Umbrella.

The oft told tale of the introduction of
the umbrella into England is one of tho
least features of its interesting story Mr.
Jonas Hanway, the distinguished philap.
thropist and founder of hospitals, was the
chosen instrument of fortune. In his early
days he was great traveller, and visited
not only the principal sights of Eurone
but pushed his way far into Asia, voyaginp
through India and Persia to the confines If
Chinese Tartary. 1t was of course there.
fore impossible that he should have escaped
being impressed by the Importance at
tached to the umbrella in the far orient
and doubtless enjoyed the comfort of one
In the lands where it was common.
1t was about the year 1850 that he made
his memorable sally into Cheapside with
the outlandish continuance which brought
upon him the derision of the populace
and upon that eventful occasion it proved
quite as useful in warding off defunct
lellnes, overripe eggs and assorted vegeta.
Dies IN diverting the shower which it was
opened against. Had Hanway been other
than man of character the Christian
world might have waited another half
century for the priceless boon bestowed
upon 1t, but, as it was. he stuck to that
umbrella for thirty years, finally dying in
l.e0 full of honors and with the satisfac.
tion OF leaving his cherished fad master of
the situation.
A small street near the British museum
now bears his name.-Clothier
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-05
MOTHERS ROOM.

I'm awfully sorry for poor Jack Roe
He's that boy that lives with his aunt, Won
know;
And he says his house is filled with gloom
Because 1t has got no mothers room"
tell you what, it is fine enough
To talk Of "boudoirs" and such fancy stuff,
But the room of rooms that seems best to ME
The room where I'd always rather be,
Is mothers room, where fellow can rest
And talk of tine things his heart loves best.
What if | do get dirt about,
And sometimes startle my aunt with a shout7
1t is mothers room, and, il she don't mind.
10 the hints Of others I'm always blind.
Maybe | lose my things-what then?
In mothers room find them again.
And I've never denied that litter the floor
With marbles and tops and many things mere:
But tell you. for boys with tired head,
1t is jolly to rest ON mothers bed
Now poor Jack Roe, when he visits me-
| take him to mothers room, you see
Because it's the incest place to go
When fellows spirits are getting low
And mother, she's always kind and sweet,
And there's always a smile poor Jack to greet:
And somehow the sunbeams seem to glow
More brightly in mothers room, know
Than anywhere else, and you'll never And
gloom
Or any old shadow in mothers room.
New York World.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-05
An Interesting Story.

Here is curiosity well worthy place
in such works as Disraeli's "Curiosities of
Literature" 1t is simple story, of course,
but wonder nevertheless, especially when
we consider the fact that it is entirely
made up of the titles Of one authors works:
"Oliver Twist" who had some very
Hard Times in the Battle of Life" and
having been Saved from the Wreck of the
Golden Mary" by Our Mutual Friend"
Nicholas Nickleby," had just finished
reading "a Tale of Two Cities to MAR
tin Chuzzlewit," during which time 1.-The
Cricket Chirped Merrily on the Hearth"
while 1.-The Chimes" from an adjacent
steeple were heard, when Seven Poor
Travellers" commenced to sing "A Christ
mas Carol" "Barnaby Rudge," who had
just arrived from 1.-The Old Curiosity
Shop with Some Pictures from Italy"
and Sketches by Boz" to show to Little
Dorrt," was busy with THE Pickwick
Papers," when David Copperfeld," who
was taking Some American Notes." en-
tered and informed the company that the
Great Expectations" of "Dombey and
Som regarding Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy"
had not been realized. He also said that he
had seen Boots" at the Holly Tree Inn"
taking Somebody's Luggage" to Mrs.
| Lirriper's Lodgings" in street that is
No Thoroughfare, opposite BLEAK
House" This latter named place is also
thought to he the same building in which
"The Haunted Man" gave Zone of DR.
Marigold's Prescriptions" to AN Uncom-
mercial Traveller" the object being to cure
him of mania brought on through brood
ing over "rhe Mystery of Edwin brood. y
Philadelphia Times
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-05
New York Evening Sun.
Discovery of IA Great Secret.

Trifles have often formed the turning
point IN great events, and if, as they say,
the English owe Waterloo to Il horseshoe
we need not wonder to find Europe under
obligations for its porcelain to wig.
LOOK at your neat rose punched Gun and
reflect that if John Frederic Bottcher (tbat
very young Saxon who tried to find the
philosophers stone for Augustus of Polandl
hadn't found his peruke too heavy one
warm day you might still be taking YOUR
tea from brown jug. What did he do
but mix that hair powder with the clay as
matter of habit probably, for when one
Is hired by the year to experiment for
King IL becomes sort of duty to mix
everything you can bring together
Imagine the result of that firipr-.t,ue
porcelain for the first time in Euvope,
They say John tore wigless to the king,
suffering out his discovery as best he
could The king, not having his fayorite
horseshoe handy to break, is said to have
deported a neat crack across a malacbite
taoie with that famous fist of his to show
ms JOY The long looked for ingredient to
turn pottery into porcelain was found. and
near at home, too, and the precious kaolin
was no longer scooped from the hills TO
masquerade in as hair powder but was re-
moved secretly in casks by dumb men
Jeaiously guarded, and the secret so curi-
ously discovered was kept for 100 wears. the
King himself being required to take the
o o. on visiting the factory. Chicago
Tribune.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-05
A SOIL RESTORER AND STOCK
FEED.

The COW pea is a twining pulse plant,
native OF tropical Asia and Africa, the
cultivation OF which has extended into
all the warm temperate climates of the
world. 1t has been grown as a staple
crop in the southern portion of the
United States for an indefinite period
and comprises one Of the most valued
articles of food for both man and beast
that is raised in the area named, and
second only to the ubiquitous sweet
potato. 1t takes precedence to rice,
which is said to supply the principal food
of one-third of the human family.
Dolichos, or COW pea, belongs to the
natural order leguminose. The genus
includes almost 1000 known species
over all parts of the globe, but their
number is greatest in tropical and sub
tropical regions.
Soy bean (Soia hispida) is legumin-
GUS plant of the same natural order, so
nearly allied to the COW pea as to be
oiteh coniounded With it. The japanese
prepare from them substance called
misc, which they use as butter. Vepe-
table casein is present in most legumin-
Gus plants, notably in the COW pea,
which IN all its essential properties cor
responds with the casein in milk. After
being well soaked in hot water, then re-
duced to pulp and mixed with con.
siderable quantity of water, it is precipi-
tated from its solutions by rennet, acetic
acid or alcohol. 1t is not coagulated by
boiling, but as in the case of milk the
of heat occasions the forma-
ton of a pellicle on the surface. The
affinity OF the two kinds of casein is
shown by the fact that the Chinese make
cheese from peas and beans.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-05

a southern writer, who views the pro-
nunciation of his section with disfavor,
says: 1--WE sin, and sin unequivocally, over
large class of words. With us ON spells
avn coffee becomes cavity long be-
comes 'lawng;' swamp 'swawmp;' cross
craws;' Boston, Bawston;' john
'Jawn; gone GAVIN and so on without
end. There is another class whose pro-
nunciation is equally marked and more
widely prevalent, being by no means con-
fined to the south, though worse here than
elsewhere. Thus dear or deer becomes
'dyear,' or, more exactly, 'dyeah; hear or
here 'hyeah;' fear 'fyeah;' near
'nyeah;' care, 'cyare;' ear often, but not
always, yeah Thirty years ago there
were plenty of old people who said 'gyar-
den,' 'cyars,' etc.--errors which even no
half educated person would now think of
committing. That is to say, this form of
speech is passing away
There is still another class of words
which have undergone no little change. A
decade ago hog was pronounced 'hawg.'
log lawg;' fog 'fawg,' a great deal
more commonly than now. But there is
one word at which we still draw the line
No well regulated southerner could posi-.
bly, say dog 'da~g' being by tacit con
sent regarded as the shibboleth of south
ernism. The northern, or rather the New
England, pronunciation 'darr-g, or some
thing very near it-makes our flesh creep
like walking on broken glass. So we avoid
even the appearance of evil and say 'dawg'
with vengeance. In fact the letter r
the implacable foe of euphony the world
over-is the southerner's abomination, I'm
less 1t stands at the beginning of word Oh
a syllable. "-3oston Advertiser.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-05

\ physician of Ocosta, Wash, while
botanizing in the woods near that place
recently, stumbled across a big black bear,
which got annoyed at his presence and
chased him. The railroad was few Yards
away, and the doctor took the track and
sprinted along it, few yards ahead of the
beast, until long trestle was reached.
when the bear halted and squatted down
to watch the doctor hop along the ties.
When he was third of the way across, a
freight train appeared at the other end.
Out on high trestle, with bear waiting
Tor MN at one end and a freight train
coming Tor him from the other, the doctor
felt that the situation was embarrassing,
lie dropped to supporting beam, hung
from the end of it while the train passed
overhead, and then continued his wav
home by another BROOKLYN Cit.
izen.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-05
THOSE FEELINGS OF HIS.
1t Was Heartless, but He Had to Realize
on Them.

1t Was Heartless, but He Had to Realize
on Them.
While Michigan avenue grocer was
standing in his door the other day, for
lorn looking old chap turned in on him
from side street, with plaintive expires
sion working away on his chin The min
ute the grocer got sight of him he called
out:
"Now you go on. or I'll have you run inr'
''What am | doin?" plaintively inquired
the old man.
II know your game, and you can't play
1t on me! just move right along, or I'll
have you arrestedw
81 hain't got no game to play on you or
anybody else. If feel sad and heartbroken,
l can't help it, can II What's them tur-
nips wuth9 | never see turnips without
thinkin how my wife got choked to death on
one. Poor critterl She was cut right down
in the prime of life. That was the begin
min of my runnin down hill. She hadn't
bin dead two weeks"--
Are you going to move on?" demanded
the grocer.
"Purty soon, my friend-purty soon," re-
piled the old man as he leaned up against a
post and wiped his eyes. She was good
wife, ,.nd the reculec}ioA of her death sad
dens me w. = =, yrrs oeIln at today"
The grocer was looking around for an
officer and didn't reply.
II never see taters without thinkin of
my son Bill. Bill was an awful good boy
too good for this world. sent him to town
with 10 bags of taters, and in liftn them
out of the wagon he busted a blood vessel
and was brought home a corpse. ! kin
never think of it without weepin.'
He leaned heavily on the post and wept,
while the grocer walked down to the corner
to extend his search.
81 see you've got red onions" continued
the old man as the grocer returned They
are alters sad, sad sight to me. sold my
farm after Bill's death and was goin down
to Florida to raise red onions fur this mar
ket when | was throwed out of a wagon
and broke my leg, and somebody stole every
dollar had, Red onions is only red onions
to other folks, but to me they call up some
awful recollections. wish'-
''See here, old man." interrupted the gro
Ger, will you take 10 cents and 20 ony"
II don't want no 10 cents, but yet if you
object to my givin away to my feeln's"-
Il do object. If | could find an officer,
I'd have you run in, but as | can't I'll buy
you off this once. Take this money and
60"
ut seems heartless to sell my feelin's
this way, but | don't want to make you
any trouble. | see you have some cabbages
there. never see cabbages without thinkin
how
But the grocer turned him around, head
ed him across the street, and after two
kicks he got away and was soon lost to
sight detroit Free Press.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-05

"One of my ancestors won a battle
during the crusades by his skill in han.
ding his artillery" said the baron.
But my dear baron" said his friend
lat the time of the crusade gunpowder
had not yet been discovered"
81 know that as well as you do, and
so did my ancestors"
How did he win the battle, then?'
HE brought his artillery to bear on
the Saracens and the stupid fools, see
ing the guns, supposed that powder had
at last been discovered, and fed in dis
may."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-05
sleeping in Lighted Rooms.

among the most pernicious habits of
ao1ilShIy tender mothers is that of keeping
iishC IN the room in which little chill,
ureh are supposed to be trying to 20 to
sleep for the night. 1t is true that there
may re now and then an abnormally timid
or nervous child, for whom a light at sucb
'ime Is necessity, but the vast majority
OF infants are readily accustomed to going
TO sleep in the dark, and the habit once
formed need not be broken over unless i'll.
ness ihtervenes to overthrow all rules and
routine. Exchange. ''''N
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-05
A Valuable Manuscript,

The "Alexandran Codex," often re-
ferred to in Scriptural studies, is one of
the most valuable and important manu-
scripts of sacr"1 writ known to be in ex-
lstence. 1t is written in Greek on parch-
ment in finely formed uncial letters and
Is without accents marks of aspiration or
spaces between the words. Its probable
date is the latter part of the sixth century.
AS early as 1908 it is known to have been
in the library of the patriarch of Alexan
dria 1t was sent to England as present
to Charles by Cyrillus Lycaris in 1928
and is now in the British museum.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-05
SYMPTOMS AND CAUSES OF
CHAMBERS.

w. J. M. asks for the symptoms and
! treatment of CHAMBERS. Chambers and
farcy are one and the same disease, it
being called CHAMBERS when the disease
attacks the internal organs-lungs and
air tubes principally-and farcy when
its kchief manifestation is on the skin,
| but even then, internal LESSONS always
exist. 1t is a contagious constitutional
disease common to the horse, ass and
mule, and may be easily communicated
to man, sheep, goats, dogs, cats, rabbits,
Guinea pigs, etc. The course OF the
malady is variable and it is character
lied by the formation of tubercles which
degenerate into ulcers having peculiar
discharge. The amount of fever present
varies with the severity and duration of
the attack
In acute CHAMBERS there is rapid out
break OF tubercles in the respiratory
track. These are at first small, red and
i, hard, and consist of new connective
tissue. They soon soften and become
yellow. The yellow spots break and
form small ulcer with dirty gray bot
tom and ragged edges which pours from
its surface viscous, oily, irritating dis
charge. The eruption OF the ulcers and
the discharge soon cause irritation and
inflammation OF the ymphatics, and
the glands in the intermediary space
become first soft and tedematous, then
very hard and nodular, like a bunch of
grapes, firmly adherent to the base of
the tongue and to the skin.
There is usually present cough, Sc
we're or not according to the amount of
local eruption. Swellings over the sur
face of the body are soon followed by
farcy Lbuds which in turn break and
form ulcers. The lymphatics may be
felt as enlarged and indurated cords.
Sudden swelling OF the testacles or of
hind leg or bleeding from the nose is
apt to occur before an acute eruption of
CHAMBERS.
The main symptoms to be remembered
are first, the presence OF ulcers III the
nose; second, the very sticky character
OF the discharge; third, the character of
the swelling between the Jaws. In
chronic cases the same symptoms are
present but in modified form. Such
chronic cases of CHAMBERS and farcy may
live until the animal dies from anemia
and general emaciation, but in most
cases, sudden exposure develops acute
pneumonia, which starts up the latent
disease, and the animal dies from acute
CHAMBERS.
Chambers is contagious but not an
infections disease. By this we mean
that the disease can only be commune
Gated from animal to animal by actual
incubation of the virus and that a sound
horse breathing the expired air from a
glandered horse would not contract the
malady. The most common carriers OF
the virus are horses affected with chronic
glanders, stable hands, buckets, hay or
straw soiled by the discharges of sick
animals, currycombs, brides, halters,
sponges, etc. Treatment should not be
attempted on account of the great dan
ger to attendants and to other animals.
Any suspected animal should be shut
away from all others until it can be ex-
amined by an expert, and if glandered
should be killed and the body burned OF
deeply buried.