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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
PERPETUAL Ice i'm Virginia.

Tt was not long ago reported that a
natural icehouse on grand scale had
been discovered under singular cir
cumstances on the north side OF Stone
Mountain, six miles from the mouth
of Stony Creek, in Scott County, VIZ
ginia. As the story goes, 1t appears
that one of the old settlers first DIS
cover ed it about 1880, but owing to
the fact that the land on which 1T was
situated could not be bought he re-
fused to tell its whereabouts and
would only take ice from it in case OF
sickness. He died without revealing
the secret even to his own family, and
but for party of seng digge1s enter
ing the region it might have remained
a secret for generations, as 1t IS STU
ated in an unfrequented part OF the
mountain. The ice was only protected
from the rays of the sun by a thick
growth of moss, resembling that seen
dangling from the oaks of Louisiana
and Texas. It's formation was after
the fashion of coal vein, being few
inches thick in some places, while sew
eral feet in others. The formation in
dicates that it had been spread over
the surface in liquid state and then
CONCEALED. By what process it freezes
or was frozen is a matter of conJec-
ture. Some think that it was formed
in the winter and had been protected
since by a dense growth of moss
which covers it, while the more plaus-
ible theory is that beneath the bed is
situated a great natural laboratory
whose function is formation of ether,
and the process of freezing goes stead
lily on through the heat as well as the
cold The bed covers one acre.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

The Breeders Gazette is of opinion
breeding is inevitable.
A sound horse stands firm and square
and quiet upon his legs, and they are
plump, muscular and without blemish
or scars.
When you buy horse, take off his
harness and let him walk by himself.
If he runs into anything you will
know he is blind.
If horse is bad tempered, he is apt
to keep his ears thrown back. If he is
kicker, his legs will be Scared. If
his skin is rough, his digestion is not
good.
The bicycle has cut down the bust
ness of city livery stables fully half.
This must be remembered in the
breeding of common little scrub
horses.
All animal fats are mixture of
three MISUNDERSTANDING, stearlne aud
palmatine. The fat of men and dogs
contains most palmatine; that of
horses and COWS most stearine; fish,
most olein.
The exact temperature of loosening
the hair from the skin of pig at
butchering is $50. The pig should re-
main full minute in the water at this
temperature to give time for the hair
to be loosened.
A pig is pig till it is year old.
Then it becomes hog. In classified
ton for fairs, however, when pre-
MUM is offered for SOW and pigs, it
is understood that the pigs are to be
under six months old.
Where hens are allowed to roam
over the barnyard and fields they pick
up many waste substances, even in
winter, but in cold weather they should
have at least one pint of shelled corn
twice day for every twelve hens.
AS soon as the lambs come in they
must have plenty of milk. Each eve
and her lamb must be observed. If
nourishment is lacking the lamb will
not thrive. Ground oats make the
best food for young lambs that are
eating at the trough.
When F. COW dies suddenly from I'M
known causes open her stomach, and
you will sometimes find therein not
less than a pound OF nails, tacks and
bits of wire. Sho has swallowed them
along with the ground feed, bran,
grain, middlings, ETC., that you have
been giving her for several years. At
last the mess has killed her.
Il has been ascertained by all e1-
tended series of experiments that rye
and winter wheat will terminate in
soil the temperature Of which is as low
as thirtytwo degrees. Barley, oats,
fax, clover and peas will sprout at
thirty-fve degrees. The turnip is as
cold-blooded as the rye and winter
wheat, but the carrot needs thirty
eight degrees and the bean forty de.
grees before they will make the initial
effort to send the life shoot in search
CT air and light.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08

other hand. 1.-The virus OF SWINE plague
is generally if not always taken into
the lungs with the inhaled air" The
first effect of cholera is believed to be
upon the intestines, with secondary
invasion of the lungs, but the first
effect of plague is believed to be upon
the lungs, and the invasion of the in
testines a subsequent process.
One or both of these diseases gener-
ally are at work among hogs, espec-
ially the young ones. They are esti-
mated to cause the loss of so, 900, 600
to S25, 200, 900 worth of hogs per year
in the United States. 1t is understood
that this fall the trouble is more prev
alent than ordinary, and this fact is
cited by some to explain the pheno-
menal activity with which hogs have
been marketed in the last two months.
with the accompanying decrease of
not far from ten per cent. in the aver
age weight of the animal sent to
market. The hogs have not been kept
to fatten so long as usual, but 1t is
only fair to say that this may be in
considerable part due to scarcity of
feed on account of the paucity of the
corn crop in nearly all the Northern
States except Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio. Nevertheless, the suspected
prevalence Of one or both these mala-
dies renders it of interest that the fol-
lowing remedy should be known by
every farmer who is a hog grower,
since it is recommended by the depart
ment as the most efficacious formula
which has been tried: Wood charcoal,
sulphur, sodium sulphate and anti
mony sulphide, one pound of each,
and sodium chloride, sodium bicar-
Donate and sodium hyposulphate, two
pounds of each These are to be COM
pletely pulverized and we'll mixed.
The dose Is large tablespoonful for
each 900 pounds weight OF hog treated
and given only once per day, being
stirred into q soft feed made by mix
ing bran and middlings, CT middlinga
and cornmcal, or ground oats and
corn, or crushed wheat with hot
water.
A great recommendation for this re-
medy is the fact that hogs are fond of
it, and when once they taste of food
with which it has been mixed they
will eat it. though nothing else would
tempt them. They should be drenched
with it in hot water if too sick to eat,
and most of those so treated will begin
to eat soon after. The report recon-
mends the medicine for use rs a pre-
ventive of those diseases, for which
purpose it ought to be put into the
feed of the whole herd, presumably in
much smaller quantity than above
stated for sick animals. 1t is said to
be an excellent appetizer and stimu-
liant for the processes Of digestion and
assimilation so that it causes the ami
mails to take flesh rapidly and assume
thrifty appearance. - OF course
isolation should be attended TO in cases
where infection from other animals is
feared.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
Monster of Former Ages

l.. W. Stacy, who Is III from ,,
der River roundup, tells of II. J..
ing of the carcass of >o,.r ,,.-
monster whose remains arr a, a.,
but unlike the mastodou. VIZ 49,
says il was on the east fork ~
Powder River that Il number ~ ~
were out when one of them !,>c,v..
an immense spinal column IA tie q,
equal in size to that OF tho msy,o3.
The head of the animal is co,.
there remains, including the "a
thirty feet of the vertrhrno and ,
bones.
1t was at first SUPPOSED taa
bones found were Of some mon.
serpent, but on closer rNam.nat.
was found that the romarus Of .
were buried in the ground to
depth of seven fect.-l,.,os
Journal
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
A ROSE PIT.
Have any of YOU ever tr

Have any of you ever tried growing
lose cuttings in pit? asks a CORE
spondent of tie Detroit Free Press. |
am making my first trial with one.
Some lady recommended this plan last
year, but l lost the paper containing
her directions and am working by
guess mostly. 1 had d pit dug two feet
deep and just wide enough to be
covered with a large sash. l had
about six inches of rich dirt spread in
the pit and packed down. The cut
tings were stuck in this soil in rows
four inches apart, and we'll watered.
Then the sash was put over them,
resting on the surface of the ground
and banked around with earth to keep
the water from running in. We have
had hard weather for Middle Alabama,
but up to date the young roses are
looking green and I hope have taken
root. They we're planted in Novem-
Der. I don't know how it will turn
out, but SO far am well pleased with
this new method of planting cuttings.
I presume it will be equally good for
other plants.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
A BRIGHT STAR.
A SKETCH OF THE MAN WHO LED
MARY ANDERSON TO FAME.
Also Played Leading Roles With boeth,
(Fron1 the st. Louis Chronic1e.)

(From the ST. Louis Chronicle)
One of the most conspicuous figures in the
Stageland of America to-day is John W. Nor
ton Born in the seventh ward of New York
City forty-sX years ago, the friends OF his
youth were Thomas W. Keene and Frank
Chanfrau. We find Keene a star at the age
of 25 and Norton in the flower of early man
hood tho leading man for Edwin Booth at
the famous Winter Garden Theatre. He
was starred with Lawrence Barrett early in
the 7Os, and alteTnated the leading roles
with Charles Thorne at the Variety Theatre
in New Orleans. Early in the Centennial
year, in Louisville, Norton met our Mary
Anderson, then fair young girl who aspired
for stage fame, took her under his guidance
and, as everybody knows, led her to fame.
Mr.. Norton is now the proprietor of the
Grand Opera House in ST. Louis, the Du
Quesne Theatre, Pittsburg. and one of the
stockholders in the American Extravaganza
Company.
One afternoon early in June he hobbled
into his New York Office on Broadway and
encountered his business manager. George
McManus, who had also been rheumatic SUI
ferer for two years. Norton was surprised
that McManus had discarded his cane. Who
piled McMan1s, with DR.. Williams Pink
Pills
~ was encouraged by Mr.. McNlanus' cure
and as a last resort tried the Pink Pills my
SELF said Mr.. Norton to a Chronicle re-
porter. ''You have known me for five years
and know how / have suffered. Why, dur
ing the summer of 1893 was on my back at
| tho Mullanpby Hospital, in this city, four
| weeks. l was put on the old system Of diet
| ing, with a view to clearing those acidulous
| properties in my blood that medical theorists
| say is the cause of my rheumatism. l left
| the Hospital feeling stronger. but the first
| damp weather brought with it those excru-
! ciating pains in the legs and back. 1t was
| the same old trouble. After sitting down
| for stretch of five minutes the pains
screwed my legs into a knot when I arose
| and l hobbled as painfully as ever. After
| had taken my first box of Pink Pills it struck
| me that the pains were less troublesome.
| tried another box, and l began almost IN
! consciously to have faith in the Pink Pills
| Improved SO rapidly that l could rise after
sitting at my desk for an hour and the
| twinges of rheumatism that accompanied my
rising were so mild that I scarcely noticed
them. During the past two weeks we have
had much rainy weather in st. Louis. But
| the dampness has not had the slightest effect
| in bringing back the rheumatism, which
consider sufficient and reliable test of thu
| efficacy of Pink Pills. I may also say tina
the Pink Pills have acted as tonic on my
stomach, which thought was well nigh de
stroyed by the thousand and one ALLEGED
remedies consumed in the past Ave years.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08

so many women owe their beauty to DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription? Because
beauty of form and face radiate from the
common center-health The best bodily
condition results from good food fresh air
and exercise coupled with the judicious use
of the Prescription"
If there be headache, pain in the back,
bearing down sensations, or general de-
bility, or if there be nervous disturbance,
nervous prostration, and sleeplessness the
Prescription - reaches the origin of the
trouble and corrects it. 1t dispels aches
and pains, corrects displacements and cures
catarrhal Inflammation of the lining men,
branes, falling of the womb, liberation, IL
Irregularities and kindred ma1adies.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
THE ART OF FEEDING.

Feeding is an art that deserves
much thought and experiment, writes
n. Sumner Perkins. It is not much
to throw down little grain and hay to
whatever stock may be kept, using
any kind of grain and fodder that
| comes most handy; but it is something
entirely different to have sufficient
knowledge of the character and com
| position as the various feedstuffs, to
be able to compound rations that
closely meet the needs of the classes of
farm animals, and at the same time
are most economical for the feeder.
1t is very obvious that each feeder
must first consider what articles of
| feed are cheapest for him, what he
can produce or buy at least expense.
There are many most excellent feed
stuffs the high prices of which, in some
sections of the country, forbid their
being used profitably by farmers in
those localities. 1t is very plain that
the best possible ration for a given
animal may be SO expensive as to en-
tirely preclude It's use. In such cases
a really inferior ration must be fed
in order to give the feeder any profit
Therefore the problem that confronts
each and every individual farmer is to
determine what articles of stock feed
he can obtain most readily and cheap
| ly, and to strike a combination of the
same that is we'll balanced, having due
proportions of heterogeneous and car
bonaceous elements.
1t must be always borne in mind
what the age of the animal is, and for
what purpose it is being fed A young
| animal requires a great deal of such
foods as form lean meat (muscle) ard
bone most rapidly. These are termed
heterogeneous, from the fact that they
contain considerable nitrogen. Among
the grains we find bran, oats, linseed,
cottonseed and gluten meals to be
highly heterogeneous in their compost,
ton. Clovers of all species are also
exceedingly rich in protein or nitro
geneous matter. For q carbonaceous
food, corn is found the cheapest and
best over the larger portions of the
area of our entire country Hence it
is that there is nothing like corn to
finish off (fatten) cattle, sheep and
swine.
There are few things for the feeder
to keep in mind. Other things being
equal, the stock receiving the largest
variety of foods will grow the best
and fatten the quickest Another
item is to give reasonable bulk to each
meal of the stock. Substances taken
into the stomach must be light, SO
that the digestive fluids may act upon
them with thoroughness, ease and fa-
cility. Otherwise, Indigestion and
arrangement of the alimentary canal,
| together with failure to assimilate tbs
food, will occur. Regularity is an.
other important essential. How ii
frets hungry man to wait for meal.
Therefore, how it must worry an ami
NAL also. This worry will always re-
suit in loss to the feeder. Ohio
Farmer.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
inypnting New Roses

Although roses have been guilty.
from time immemorian the on.
ton of new kinds seems e. have b
neglected until the beginning Of
century. The first systematic e.
to get improved roses from the
is recorded at the timy Of that .
Of roses, the Empress, Joseph
Dupont, her gardener, Wa among
foremost in this effort He
seedlings from nil til" choicest :
that could be obtained from the d
countries of Europe; vet ii
there were only 1872 varieties, v
in 1S47 there were 1900, uuIuow
name is legion. New York Post
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
500 Reward. 800.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con-
etitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system, thereby de;
strOying the foundation of the disease, and
giving the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The prOprietors have So much faith in
its curative powers that they offer One Hum
dred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials. Address
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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
Poverty a Prerequisite for Success.

] overheard conversation between
a little group of Boston men the other
evening. The subject OF discussion
was the youth of the rising genera
ton. All agreed that twenty years Of
poverty and struggle IN early life was
the sine qua non for success. All the
speakers were millionaires of National
repute for mercantile sagacity and
self made men. Boston Traveller.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
ADVANTAGE OF WARM FEED.

Giving warm feeds to young animals
not disposed to be thrifty will very
often have happy effect. These an
finals may suffer from weak digestion,
which in turn produces poor appe-
tite. The animal does not eat heartily,
and what it does eat is net well di-
gested. A hot mess some cold morn
ing sharpens the appetite and tones
up the digestion. Agricul.
turist.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
Made a Dramatic Exit.

Professor Vigo Anderson, a prominent
member of Theodore Thomass Orchestra,
made a dramatic ending to his life in Chi
cage. He called together many of his friends
and gave them musical entertainment.
Then he shot himself through the head, One
OF the invited guests was Miss Frances
Streigel. He killed himself virtually at her
feet. Many of his acquaintance declare An
derson was her fiance, but her friends deny
this.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
THE MARKET FOR FRUITS.

Will the markets for fruits be over
stocked? There is no probability of
it. Hardly a possibility. This all
cient habit of eating fruits, which has
grown with our race from the first,
when it is alleged that our first
parents threw away their home and
happiness for an apple, increases with
civilization. Flesh eating is a relic
of barbarism and savage life. Fruit
consumption is quite the reverse, and
is the outward sign Of high state of
cultivation, which-no one can deny,
Notwithstanding the scandals and
general wickedness that are IN
covered by the untiring and omni-
present reporters far ahead of any
other period in the history of the
world, and, as improvements once be-
gun go on forever, SO this adjunct of
it, fruit eating, will increase rather
than go back.
The farm orchards even are neglect
ed for the business plantations which
are managed by the most skillful ex-
perts. Every device of good nature
is made a mere matter of business,
and thus it is that the farmer will buy
his fruit more cheaplY than he can
grow it, while he may produce more
milk and butter, or potatoes, and sell
these to the fruit grower, who sup
plies him, in exchange for his needed
farm products. It is the same in
every industry. There are no more
the .oldfashioned jacks of all trades.
Special industries and products are the
rule, and with these the quality. and
the cheapness increase together, for
with constant experience and practice
come skill and excellence, and these
necessarily mean a greater cheapness
of production. New York Times.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
CURE FOP HOG CHOLERA,

Chief Salmon, of the Bureau of An
mai Industry, in an officially published
article cn hog cholera and swine
pleague, does not uphold the theory
that these diseases are caused solely
by germs il the food or drink. He
says swine will contract hog cholera
in this way, but also 10y inhaling the
virus with the air, AMI less frequently
ty its gaining entrance through the
surface of fresh wound. On the
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
COnaress Cant Do Ii,

There is a general hope and belief through
out the country that Congress will do some
thing finally for the distress and suffering Of
so many hapess people. 1t is to be hoped
business will start up AMI give employment
to thousands. But there are certain kinds
OF suffering which Congress can do nothing
TO relieve. There ls pain and misery always
which no legislat on can cure. Just think
of mon crippled for life with the tOrtures OF
sciatica. And such should know that st.
Jacobs Oil Is certain cure, which can be
brought about promptly without any aid
from Congress.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
Remarkable Second Sight.

A remarkable incident of Second
sight occurred in the Scotland min
ing district of Benhar on New Years
Day. A miner named Donald McFar-
lane disappeared Sunday, leaving no
trace of his whereabouts. After two
days search Robert Halbert, an old
man who had the reputation of possess
ing second sight and was brother in
lew of McFarlanc, fell asleep and
dreamed he saw the missing man in a
particular part of Almond Water.
Mentioning this to neighbors, they
went to the place and saw the foot
prints of the missing man in the snow.
Eventually they found the man him
self standing upright i'll the water
with the ice frozen around hin. He
WAS dead. Trenton IL. j. American.
Women us lOtei caShIcrs and honL.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
Largest Landowner in the World.

The largest landowner in the world
is the Gar of all the Russias. He has
one estate which covers over 100, O00,
900 acres, and which is, in fact, moro
than three times as large as England;
and he has another estate more than
twice the size of Scotland. Atlanta
Constitution.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08

Samples Of rich gold and silver ores have
caused hundreds Of prospectors to flock to
the Wichita Mountains in the Kiowa and
Comanche reservation in Indian Territory.
Troops have been ordered from Fort Reno to
eject them and serious trouble is looked for,
as the prospectOrs declare that they will not
leave as they have a right in the mountains
Under the mining laws.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
Shifting Waters Enrich sauatters.

The shifting of the Missouri River has
thrown about 1000 acres of land into Buchan-
an County. Missouri. and the owners of ad-
Joining tracts will sue for possession. The
squatters who hold possession have built
houses and improved the land, which is the
richest in the Missouri valley.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08

Siam has sent consulting engineer
to India to inspect the irrigation and
water works with view to inaugu-
rating system at home.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
An Important difference.

To make 1t apparent to thousands, who think
themselves ill., that they are not affected with
any disease, but that the system simply needs
cleansing, is to bring comfort home to their
hearts, as a costive condition is easily cured by
using Syrup of Figs. Manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
10 60 TO Madagascar.

For the Madagascar expedition France Is
constructing as fast as possible a fOtilla of
light-drausht gunboat5 and barges. Eight
of the gunboats draw only sixteen inches OF
water and are eighty-tive feet long by sev
enteel feet beam. Four others are some
what larger. with draught of twenty-four
inches. Engines and boilers are on deck,
and can produce speed of six and a half
knots. Each gunbOat is armed with two l y
inch rapid-fce guns, protected by armor
plating.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-08
Death of a Sword SwaIlower.

At Nu,kecon. Mich. Albert Heiling. who
swallowed an eighteen-inch sword while
practicing for an amateur entertainment died
il terrible agony. His intense suffering
turned his hair from dark brown to light
grey.