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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-05-05
Athanasia.

Sh'CSt AAoih 4 AihSs
The withered body of a girl was
brought
Dead ere the worlds glad youth had
touched its prime,
And seen by lonely Arabs lying hid
In the dim womb Of some black pyra
mid.
But when they had embossed the linen
band
Which swathed the Egyptian's
bodv,-lo! was found
Closed in the wasted hollow of her
hand
4 little seed, which sown in English
ground
Did wondrous snow of starry bios
SONS bear,
And spread rich odors through the
springtide air
With such strange arts this flower
did allure
That all forgotten was the asphodel
And the brown bee, the lily's para
II'uIs
Forsook the cup where he was wont
TO dwell,
For not thing Of earth it seemed to
be,
But stolen from some heavenly Ar
cady.
In vain The sad narcissus, wan and
white
At its own beauty, hung across the
stream,
The purple dragon-fy had no delight
With its gold dust to make his
wings CLEAN.
All! 10 delight the jasmine bloom
10 kiss,
Or brush the rain-pearls from the
eucharis.
For love Of it the passionate nightin-
gale
Forgot the hills Of Thrace, the cruel
king.
And the pale dove no longer cared to
sail
Through the wet woods at time Of
blossoming,
But round this flower of Egypt sought
to float,
With silvered wing and amethystine
throat
While the hot sun blazed in his tower
of blue
A cooling wind crept from the land
of SHOWS,
And the warm south with tender tears
of dew
Drenched its white leaves when
Hesperos uprose
Amid those sea green meadows of the
sky
% which the scarlet bars OF sunset
lie
But when Ger wastes of lily-haunted
field
The tired birds had stayed their
amorous tune,
And broad and glitteIing like an ar
SShS
High in the sapphire heavens hung
the moon,
Did no strange dream or evil memory
make
Each tremulous petal Of it's blossoms
shake?
All no! to this bright flower thous.
and years
Seemed but the lingering Of Sum-
mer's day,
1t never knew the tide of cankering
fears
Which turn boys gold hair to
withered gray,
The dread desire OF death it never
knew,
Or how all folk that they were born
must rue.
For we TO death with pipe and dancing
go,
Nor would we pass the ivory gate
again,
As some SAD river wearied of its flow
Through the dull plains, the haunts
of common men.
Leaps lover-li like into the terrible sea!
And counts it gain TO die go glori
ously
We mar our lordly strength in barren
strife
With the worlds legioas led by
clamOrous care, :,
1t never feels decay but gathers life
From the pure sunlight and the SUI
preme air,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-05-05

b + silver 6Gl
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-02
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

A few acres seeded to rye will fur
nish an early and late succulent bite
for the cows in milk.
See that your early pullets are in
their winter quarters and fed nourish-
ing food that they get at their winters
work in good season.
Better wait month or more yet be-
fore having the COW served, so as to
bring the calf later in the season. It
pays better to have the COWS calf in
the fall months, when milk and butter
are not SO plentifnl as in May and
June.
This is good year for the stock
feeder, for while the price OF grain is
low, the supply Of feeding stock is not
great enough to depress the market
below fair prices. If you can secure
stock to fed, by all means keep your
grain and turn into meat.
Securing in calves usually indicates
indigestion and is to be prevented by
rational feeding and good care. 1t
may be checked by a teaspoonful OF
lime water in each feed. Regular at
tendance and attention to all the wants
of the animal lie at the foundation of
successful stock management.
When celery first began to be gen
orally used there was II great demand
for the large or "giant" varieties. 1t
was soon found, however, that some of
the smaller kinds of celery had de-
licious nutty flavor, and were so much
superior as to compensate for their
deficiency in size. AS celery is at best
luxury, it IS quality rather than
quantity that will most affect its
price.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-02
RAISING Oy HORSES.

Tho price OF horses has of late been
so reduced th05 farmers are discour-
aged in horse raising. The low prices
now prevailing are due to want OF
demand, on account OF the electric
Car system, which has been so gener-
ally established throughout the cities
and some parts OF tho country for
rapid transportation This is, no
doubt, in some part the cause of the
weak demand for horses in the markets.
phelo is, however, another cause,
which will be found in over produc-
tion. A few years ago the horse craze,
rs it may be called, prevailed among
farmers, and there was scarcely any
one who was not breeding either first
class roadsters or blooded drivers.
For these Tor few years tirst-class
prices were obtained, and the demand
which was at the time fictitious one,
produced by sort Of boom in horse
flesh, produced an oversupply, and
now there are too many horses for tho
market, which has for the tine been
somewhat diminished by the electric
car lines
But good horses are always desira-
bic, and will in the near future bring
better prices than now. Farmers will
understand what they need, and for a
while, perhaps, the supply will be
short OF the demand, but the price
will again settle TO fair compensa-
ton for tho trouble and risk in rais-
ing good horses. Good family horses
will always be in demand in the cities
and i'll the prosperous villages. Cars
may carry men to business, and wo-
men to do their shopping, but there is
II demand, i'll hours not spent i'll busi-
ness, for carriage horse to supply u
need, felt by almost every well-to-do
family, that may have restful airing
in the country or in the parks and
suburbs of tho city. Farmers would
do well TO turn their attention to rais-
ing horses to supply this want. Horses
should be raised of the best blood,
not for the turf, but for the carriage,
and as much care should be taken in
their training tor this purpose, as is
necessary to produce good condi-
toned, quiet, trasty horses suited to
driving through all the hustle and
noises of the city.
This will require time and care in
the trainer, but such horses will al
ways have good sale, and can be
protitably raised.
Give us good family horses and tho
demand will DC sufficient to pay the
producer good profit. Farm News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-02

From the present until breeding
time brood sows should be allowed the
pleasure of large pasturage and COM
Portable sleeping apartments. She
should have no grain. Her nutritive
system should have rest. She should
be reduced in fat if not already SO re-
duced. The reduction should progress
until she is lean and lank and able TO
stand good chase. Such training as
this rests up the fat and flesh forming
functions of the body and gives the
blood opportunity to fully absorb all
ei1ete matters in the system, provided
proper sanitary relations are observed.
both as to food, drink and breath. A
SOW whose age or i'll treatment will
prevent her going through such IL
training and coming ont Ms fresh and
vigorous as young gilt is not n fit
progenitor for the next crop of pigs.
The fat of the brood SOW should in
crease little daily from the date of
population until farrowing time, at
which time she should be comfortably
fat. A clumsy condition at fNrrowing
time is dangerous. II also detracts
from the vitality and development of
the pig. 1t does not pay either for
breeder of feeding stock to use lame,
logy or decrepit sows. Hereditary
tendencies may be great or small, but
certain it is that, with the animal as
with the plants, nothing but perfect
forms imbued with strongest vitality
can produce desirable and profitable
offspring. The boar should be at the
lowest state of flesh now, and should
begin to fatten and so continue until
the breeding period begins. Rural
Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-02
CATTLE AND WASTE OF FODDER,

Professor G. G. Georgeson in writ
ing to the Prairie Farmer says: "The
immense proportions of the live stock
interest in this country, which on
January l, 1891, was valued Mt s., 40, =
0OO, 900, and the many millions Of
people who are directly interested
therein, combine to make the simple
question of how to feed and what to
feed and the proper saving of food one
OF the most important economic quas-
tions in the whole realm of our indus.
trial activity. This may appear like
startling proposition, but its truth
will be granted when We take full
view of the interests involved. 1t is,
l think, acknowledged that an extra
ordinary waste of food takes place on
American farms, especially in the
West. Let him who doubts it watch
our corn fields in winter, where two
fifths of the food raised still remains
to he destroyed by the clements; let
him watch our burning straw stacks
and our wasteful methods OF feeding !;
the waste of manure, the waste by in
iudicious use of foods, md the conse-
quent failure to get the best returns
III meat and milk. Where a sum like
the above is involved the proper or
improper use OF food may make the
difference of hundreds Of millions OF
dollars annually"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-02
no Attract Custom.

An ingenious device for attracting
custom was that of fruiterer in
Midland town. Instead OF the ordinary
plate glass, a large number of rough
magnifying glasses formed the WINDOW.
Seen through one of these panes an
orange looked as large as Il pumpkin,
and cherries as large as apples. a great
was the fact that at the distance of Il
few yards from the window 1t was quite
impossible to see into the shop. Ev-
erybody knows that you must hold
magnifying glass close to the eyes to
see anything through 1t. Nevertheless,
prising proprietor did a rushing trade
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-02
SIXTEEN SHEEP ON AN ACRE.

An experiment is being conducted
by Professor Shaw, at the experiment
farm, says the Northwestern Farmer,
which certainly meansa good deal, not
only to the Northwest, but to all the
United States. He has undertaken to
pasture six sheep and ten lambs on au
acre of land. The experiment is sue
ceediug beyond his expectations. The
food is ut the present time nearly two
months ahead OF the sheep. They are
doing splendidly on the food, and
have kept in perfect health from the
first.
Ills plan is to SOW succession Of
foods, so there will always be come
thing for the sheep on one or the other
of the plots. The acre is divided into
four plots, and the sheep are pastured
on these in succession. The harrow is
generally used on each plot after il
has been pasturcd, and i'll some in
stances fresh seed is sown. The sea-
son has, of course, been very fayora-
BILE, but to Offset that, in part at least,
the land is not so good as the average
prairie soil, and it has not been
manured for several years
Professor Shaw says he hNs not ex-
hausted all the resources in this line.
and he is hopeful that as large mum
Der of sheep and lambs can be kept
on an acre OF well prepared land in q
dry year, Let it be borne i'll mind that
the sheep are pastured-none of the
food is cut for them. A bulletin will
be issued giving all the particulars at
the close OF the pasturing season.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-02

Arthur Wegg, resident of New
York, who engaged as farm hand
last june on farm between Bingham
ton, N. Y, and Susquehanna, Penn,
met with an exciting adventure which
will lay him up for some time and
which nearly cost him his life. The
rocky hills of Northern Pennsylvania
abound in snakes of all kinds, promi-
nent among them being the rattler
and blacksnake. When Wegg ap-
peared the farm boys began their
sport by filling him up with snake
stories.
Some of the reptilian anecdotes told
by them would have sent blush to
the checks of Ananias, but the country
youths kept their faces straight and
their victim for time accepted the
tales rs gospel truth AS time went
on and the largest reptile that met
Wegg's eye was a grass snake, he came
to doubt the veracity of his inform
ants, and when they told him of a
black chaser which had been seen in
the fields he laughed and said it had
probably crawled out of the bung hole
of the molasses barrel at the corner
grocery.
Recently tho men were at work in a
field when one OF them dropped his
scythe and started ON gallop toward
the fence shouting "chaser, black
chaser" The other laborers with the
exception of Wegg understood the cry
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-02

and scattered in all directions. The
black chaser is a species of blacksnake
that is very puguacious and will chase
it's victim with incredible rapidity,
and, when within reaching distance,
strike and coil itself about the arms,
legs or body with crushing force.
Wegg had been warned of the ex-
istence of this species of reptile in this
section, but set the story down as u
fable, and when his companions
shouted ''black chaser" and ran, ho
smiled to himself and said "This is
trap to fool me, and I will turn the
tables on them" AZ one of the men
dashed past Wegg saw black streak
coming th, ough the grass toward him
at rapid rate, and before he had
time to realize the situation, the rep
tile was coied about his legs aud
winding itself around his body.
Screaming for aid, he fruitlessly
struggled to free himself from the
ever-tightening folds.
Gradually the breath was being
squeezed out OF his body. His shouts
IOF Ul(l beelleu 10 HIN W COule lTOu
some one at distance, while q horrid
odor that emanated from tho snake
was choking him. At last, with dull
roaring in his ears and millions OF
lights dancing before his eyes, he fell
to the ground.
Two of his companions who saw his
dilemma came to the rescue with a
scythe anl sickle The folds of the
serpent were rapidly cut from the
body of the unconscious mau and he
was carried to the farm? house, where
it was found the bones OF his left leg
were badly crushed and two ribs frac-
tured. The lower portion of the
body was swollen to twice the natural
size and turned black aud blue.
Around The thighs and waist were
huge ridges resembling the welts of
mammoth whip. Considerable nausea
and vomiting followed his return to
consciousness, and the physicians
stated that had Wegg remained auoth-
er moment in tha folds OF the snake
he would have inevitably been crushed
to death.
The reptile was the largest OF the
kind ever seen IN this section. When
its decimated folds wer3 joined IL was
found to measure six feet four inches.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-02
Treasures Dug Up IN Greece.

The excavations which are carrying
out near Athens by the Greek Arch
geological Society have recently
yielded some exceedingly important
results. In one we'll preserved tomb
tine workmen recently came across the
skeleton of woman with n great as
sortment of iewelry, together with
Egyptian scarab@i and porcelain
statue of the goddess Isis. The relics,
it is believed, prove that many OF the
important religious rites of the Greek
have been borrowed from tho Egyp-
tians, which has for years been a dis.
puted point.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-02
MEASURING HAY IN THE STACK.

We are often asked how to measure
hay, and while we have had some ex-
perience, we prefer to adopt that of
others to our own. The Northwestern
Agriculturist on this subject very cor
rectly says that measuring is very
crude, unsatisfactory method of esti-
mating the weight of hay. There are
times, however, when 1t is imprGc-
ticabe to use the scales, and close
approximation to the true weight will
answer all purposes. Then, by taking
into consideration that fine, soft hay
will pack more closely than coarser,
sitter quality, that when cut early in
the season it will become more solid
and stiff than late cut hay, that the
degree of dryness when stacked will
affect the weight, that the compact
ness of the lower part of the sack or
load is affected by the height, the
time it has stood, or the distance and
kind of road it has travelled over, it is
quite possible for person of ordinary
experience and Judgment to make an
estimate of the quantity in load or
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-02
A Strange Case Rccallcd.

Tn the paper of last Saturday, says
the Cincinnati Enquirer, appeared an
account of strange accident in which
n man was killed by the discharge of
Il gun while lying asleep on II lounge
in his room, the weapon being dis
charged by reflected rays of the sun
falling upon the cartridge chamber Of
the frearm.
Since the publication of the story q
correspondent from York, Penn,
writes concerning tho accident, and
refers to similar case, in which,
through tho efforts of clever Gin
cinnati lawyer named G. G. Wallis,
the persen accused of murder and sen.
fenced to be hanged was set at liberty,
the circumstantial evidence on which
he was convicted being entirely ex-
ploaed by witnessed demonstration
rs to how the accident really occurred.
The York correspondent referred to
volume 13 of the Criminal Law Maya
zine, page COZ, on which full account
Of the casa appears. The case was
that of the State of Tennessee against
Avery, tried in Henry County, that
State, and is one of the most remark
able in the history of criminal iurls-
prudence.
In June, 1887, Charles Ensley, the
cousin of man OF the name of Avery,
was killed in his room while lying on
lounge, about 3 o'clock in the after
noon. The weapon which caused
death was II small rife, sending a
thirty-two. .caliber ball through Ems.
ley's brain. No one wns in the house
at the time but Easley. An empty
rifle was found lying on rack on u
wall of the room in which the killing
occurred, and the bullet fitted tho
tube.
Avery was arreste for the crime, as
he was the only living close relative
to Ensley, and by his death proftel |
TO the amount OF about $780, 900.
Avery was tried, plealol not Guilty,
but was convicted of murder in the
first degree and sentenced to be hanged.
He appealed to the Supreme Court,
and engaged Mr.. Wallis to defend
him. The Supreme Court remanded
the case back to the Circuit Court on
technical errors. Two mistrinls were
brought about, and then came the
strangest part Of the story. The brill
liant Wallis struck the keynote to the
mystery. In August, 1891, he had
the rifle loaded and hung on the wall
A white sheet, with the form of man
marked on it, was placed in exactly
the position occupied by Avery when
lying asleep, and heavy cut glass
pitcher of water like the one found in
the room was placed on the shelf above.
The temperature was ninety degrees
in the shade, one of the hottest days
of the year.
The pitcher acted as sun glass and
the hot rays of the sun shining through
the water were refracted directly on
the cartridge chamber of the rifle.
Eight witnesses were in the room,
and q few minutes after 3 o'clock n
puff and report occurred and the
ball struck tho outlined form back OF
the ear, in the exact location where
Ensley was shot, and the theory oil
circumstantial evidence went to pieces.
The incident being witnessed and
sworn to, readily explained itself to
| tbe iury
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-02
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-02
WOMAN's ENEMY.
PERIToNIrIs SELDOM SPARES ITS
VICTIMS.
When 1T Does She is But Yreck---chy-
sicians Have Long Been rowerless
1.-The Experience of a Balt,-
more Woman.

sicians Have Long Been roweriess
THE Experience of Balti-
more Woman.
From the HcraH. Baltimore. Nd
Mrs. ]. P. Grove, Il marriel laly with
grandchildren, lives At Pinkuey Place.
Baltimore. She would easily pass for "a
woman of half her age, and owes her present
state of good health and probably her life to
the use of Dr. Williams Pink Pills. A HeraH
reporter called at the house u few days ago
and was informed that Mrs. Grove had COMO
out for a walk and would soon be back. Tho
scribe was usherod into the parlor to await
her arrival. The room gave every evidence
of refinement aud the care and attention of
n good housewife. Choice books lay around
giving proof of the Intelligence of the family,
and tho walls were decorated with many rare
articles of virtu aud bric-a-brac from South
America, Japan, and other countries. Whom
Mrs. Grove was announced tho reporter was
astonished to find her such n young looking
and healthy woman. She is we'll educated, and
is n fluent talkcr and interesting to listen to.
She, however, declined at first TO speak of
the results she hal experienced from taking
the Pink Pills as. she sad, she did not like
to have her name appear in print in any way.
"However," she added. after some little heSi-
tation, "tho pills did me so much good that
] might be doing wrong by not letting somo
other sufferer know what they did for me-"
Then she said, "Dr. Williams Pink Pills arc
certainly all the propretors represent them
to be. ] never had such relief from nuy
other medicine. short time ago ] had an
attack Of peritontis which left me in such IL
prostratel and nervous condition that de-
SPARED OF recovery. I could neither sleep,
eat or read with any degree of peace or sat
siaction, and life was absolutely burden.
Having heard that others had been cured of
the same troublcsh by D.. Williams Pink Pills,
| secured several boxes and began to take
them. As il by magic l at once began TO
improve. They cured me, and now [ have
no symptoms OF nervousness or of the disease
which 80 pros!rated me. NowthGt's enough"
said Mrs Grove, in reply to another ques-
ton. She walked 10 the door rs lightly as II
young girl aud with pleasant gooi morn
ing to the reporter, disappeared within the
portals OF her happy home with Il little
grandchili clnging 10 her skirts.
DIR. Williams Pink Pills contain, in con-
densed form, all the clements necessary to
give new life and richness to tho blood and
restore shattered nerves. Pink Pills are sold
by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on
receipt of price ESQ cents n box, or SIX boxes
for -. 50-they are never sold in bulk or by
1909, by addressing DR.. Williams Medicine
Company, Schenectady, N. Y,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-02
IIrniEeTS.

No set Of men in the world moro aplly IL
lustrate n certain important point than
prize fighters. The point is with regard to
tho punishment they give aud have to take.
Whether victors or vanquishoj, they como
out of II contest bruised from head to foot.
That such men should be seen with all the
blue spots cured seems marvellous. until we
know that they have usel st. Jacobs Oil.
Every one knows tho virtue OF the great
remedy and that it will cure bruises and the
moral is, all can profit by the example. If
the fighter knows he can be so easily cured,
it is a lesson to all subject to hurts; tn-y will
lose no time from work ii they use it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-02
Spilled 12o Tons of Molten Glass.

Spilled 120 Tons of Molten Glass.
A costly accident occurred the other
morning at the Marion, Ind, fruit jar
works. The bottom of a large tank sud.
denly fell out, spilllng and running a
mass of molten glass Weighing 12O
tons. Since the accident four streams
of water have been playing constantly
upon the molten mass, thus preventing
what might have been a disastrous fire
The factory was compelled to shut
down two weeks,