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The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-11-07


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The Southern Christian Advocate SAYS
'Bishop Galloway will spend Sunday be
fore Conference on Pend!cton Circuit will
Gev. $. II. Timmcrnan. He will preach
at Clemson College and Sandy Springs
and will lecture at the College ut night
This is Il new way and an excellent one
1t is well for the church that one of on
bishops is to preach at Clemson. where h
will he heard not only b. MrtbodiSts, bu
by young men of'nll churches, and from
all over the State And it is well for
stranger bishop to see our circuit work ~
well us Ollr city stations. We sympa hizt
with other places which desired to have
onr bishop on this open unday, but be
hcvc they will agree with us that this ncv
departure of Bishop Galloway j. wise a,iC
viii do good. Besides, hc will see tn
Girls Industrial College at Rock IIiIl, "u
ought also to see that for the boys at al
hotln's old home. His plans will enaUl
hi IN to do this"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07

Science Is being resorted to generally
to help political reform. AS the con-
cealed stenographer furnished for Chi
cago convicting evidence Of John Pow
ers' solicitation Of bride Of $4,000
from cigarette company, the camera
is furnishing proof of lawlessness In
Brooklyn. Mayor SchIeren has been
dallylng with the ordinance closing sa-
looms on Sunday, which is also required
under n State law, A Law Enforce
ment Society has been organized to see
that the saloons are closed and they
have adopted the camera as the means
Of accomplishing their object "Snap
shots" were taken at many resorts last
Sunday, showing that the Mayor Is
either In collision with violators of the
law or that the Brooklyn police are not
carrying out his orders. A concealed
camera Is capable Of as dire mischief
as concealed stenographer. Rogues
who do not fear the Lord gan be
brought into comparative dread Of the
law by reason Of their fear of what
science may accomplish in behalf Of
both the law and the Lord
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07
Feeding Corn Fodder.

In q recent bulletin of the Maryland
Experiment Station attention is called
to the fact that the butts of the corn
fodder are very nearly as digestible as
the tops and leaves. The waste in
feeding long fodder is considerable,
but the idea that only the tops and
leaves were valuable has been eX-
ploded by the experiments at this and
other stations. At this time of the year
when fodder is valuable, it is quite i'm
portant that farmers should realize the
real value Of every part of the corn
stalks. The cutting Of fodder Is in
tended to save waste more than to
make it more digestible, although the
latter process may also be somewhat
helped by the operation. In bulletin
1914, of the North Carolina Station, the
loss occasioned by pulling corn fodder
and leaving the stalks to rot in the
field Is treated at considerable length.
The simplest way it says, to get the
most food out Of the corn plant, is to
cut close to the ground. AS far back as
March, 1893, the Maryland Station
published Il bulletin on the same sub
ject, in which it says that "an ordinary
corn crop produces more dry matter
and more digestible matter from an
acre than n good crop of clover or tim
othy hay, the digestible matter in the
fodder alone being found to be equal 10
the digestible matter in two tons OF
either clover or timothy hay. The corn
fodder from one acre is worth more for
feeding purposes, when properly pre-
pared than the corn ears from one
moro
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07
STOCK AND FARM.

A Strong City cattle man, j. @. Far.
rington, has shipped eight cars of cattle
in a weeks time, to the Kansas City
market.
Kansas continues to send some very
handsome beeves to market James Blu
chanan, Of Reno county was at Kansas
City, Kan, with seventy fine exporters
of his own feeding. They we're ripe and
smooth. They averaged 1,5O1 pounds
and we're sold by the Kansas City Live
Stock Commission company, at SIS the
highest price of the day. They were
fed 10 days, and made gain Of over
three pounds per day, and sold at an ad.
vance of $1.1O@135 per cwt over their
cost price here as feeders last Septem-
Der.
The way hogs come to the Kansas
City, Kan, yards is surprising to every
one. 1t has been the general impress
sion OF late that the shippers, since the
first of the year, have been reporting all
fat hogs run. Notwithstanding this
the receipts were nearly 10000 in one
day, the largest January receipts since
1891. To be sure the quality of many
is poor, but there are still good
many good hogs coming, notwith-
standing the failure of the corp crop
and scarcity and high price OF that
grain.
From Great Bend: Amos johnson,
one of Barton county's successful farm
ers, living five miles east of Great Bend,
has put in a large irrigation plant. He
has a large reservoir, which will be fed
by two eight-inch cylinder pumps, OPP
Grated by twelve-foot aermotor on a
forty-foot tower. incidentally the wind
mill will also she'll and grind corn. Mr..
Johnson owns large farm, well-stocked,
has a magnificent orchard and is other
wise well situated, all from the profits
Of his farm. He believes in farming on
a farm, not in politics.-'Che recent snow
was we'll distributed over the county,
and wheat will make good yield.
H. G. Marvin, of Chetopa, is shipping
a great many horses to Louisiana.
A Miami county farmer who made an
examination of the peach buds this week
asserts that they are still in good con-
dition.
Citizens of Cheyenne county are taking
great interest just now in an irriga.
ton we'll which A. G. Trlckett has just
completed on his farm. The we'll is
224 feet deep with IL feet Of water. 1t
cost only $500 and Mr.. Trickett thinks
he will have no difficulty in keeping
fifteen acres wet.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07

DR.. Barthou and Mr.. Jaurcs are mem
bers Of the French Chamber of Depu-
ties, the latter being socialist and the
former ministerialist. In the course
of debate in the chamber, which be-
came somewhat animated and person
al, Mr. Jaures asserted that the minis
tiers had attempted to protect gang
of railroad eXploiters of unsavory rep
utation. "You lie! was the prompt
intersection of DR.. Barthou, resulting,
of course, in challenge The duel
was fought, with the usual result that
nobody was hurt. A French duel ap-
pears to be a very appropriate way of
celebrating sunrise.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07

AT last an important fact comes out
about Hetty Green. She has break
tasted on crackers, not because she was
parslmonious and crackers were cheap.
she has preferred an egg fried by her
self to n sumptuous repast not on ac-
count Of the difference in the price. She
thought some one wanted to poison her.
1t would be hard to put poison inside
of an egg, and If she bought the egg
and broke the shell herself, and was
her own cook, that was one thing she
could eat with confidence. If she
bought crackers at the casual grocery
store, she might be safe. Dick and
Harry, with just enough money to buy
a good dinner, have gone on revealing
In roast beef and roast turkey and
corned beef and hash, having no end
of comfort in it all, and the richest wom-
an In America has never enjoyed that
plain little delight. And now will rise
before her n worse specter still than
that Of death in the dish. Now may
come up commission de lunatico, etc,
for all this may be halluclnation. 1t is
a common form of insane delusion. 1t
will also invalldate her will. Poor
Hetty!
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07

winter. Moreover. where cattle or
horses are watered at such a pump,
they oftentimes set their noses into
such contact with the spout that ones
pleasure in drawing drinking water
from the same channel is lessened, to
say the least. Such house as is shown
in the illustration, which is reproduced
from the American Agriculturist, is in
expensive, but capable of serving its
purpose admirably. 1t is just large
enough to inclose the platform of the
pump, and is constructed of matched
boarding, nailed upon light frame,
two-by-two stuff being sufficiently stout
for this purpose. A trough is located
outside, which keeps the pump, and the
platform of the pump, entirely out of
reach of cattle or horses.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07

Meriden appreciates the change in tho
time table of tho Loavenworth road as
1t enables its people to run down to To
peka for an evenings entertainment.
The policy OF the Santa Fe receivers
does not suit Wellington. Within the
last year the quarters OF eleven train
crews have been transferred from that
city to other points.
Capital; The state board OF railroad
commissioners dismissed the Usage City
freight rate case that has been before
the board for several months. The pc
titioners, mayor and city council OF
Usage City, requested the commissions
ers to make distance rate, which would
give them the same rate on coal ship
ments whether the distance of the ship
ment was one mile or 100 miles.
The special police officers OF the Santa
Fe Railway company and the city po-
lice Of Kansas City, Kan, received notice
that a car containing merchandise was
opened and robbed between that city
Holiday. The robbery was not discov-
cred until the train reached Holiday, as
that is the first stopping place A case
of derby hats was taken by the bur-
glars and box Of hardware was opened
and several articles taken out.
Land Commissioner John II. Frost, OF
the Santa Fe, has received from Thomas
Best, manager Of the Medicine Lodge
Sugar works, statement concerning
the success Of subsoiling in raising sor-
ghum. Mr.. Best shows the products
for the years 1892, 1898 and 1894 upon
ground that was SUBSIDIZED and upon
that which was not treated to any
methods Of improvement. The produc-
ton of sorghum on ground subsoiled was
as follows; 1892, IA tons; 1898, IL tons;
1894, 8 tons. On the land not subsoiled
the yield was in 1892 8 tons; 1898, 7
tons; 1894, A to 5 tons.
Several important changes have been
made in the passenger department OF
the Santa Fe. The position of assistant
passenger traffic manager, heretofore
held by John j. Byrne, was abolished
and Mr.. Byrne has been appointed gen
eral passenger agent of the Atlantic &
Pacific and also of the Southern Cali
fornia railway. His headquarters will
be in Los Angeles. H. G. Thomson,
who has heretofore been with the South
ern California has been appointed as
sistant to Traffic Manager White, and
will remove to Chicago. George II.
Nicholson, Of Topeka, will act as general
passenger agent Of the Santa Fe sys-
tenn, with headquarters in Chicago. All
these changes will be effective Febru-
arY /.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07
An "Ex."

1t is rather hard to believe thisstory of
II Boston child of years, but it is re-
lated on good authority. The child,
who Is little girl named Dorothy, had
been behaving very badly, as even
Boston children have been known to
do; and her mother said to her, child
ingly:
Dorothy, really, l cannot be your
mamma any more!'
The child made no reply, but gave her
mother a quick and very arch look, BY
and by, after half hour of silent and
well-behaved play, she came with her
hat in her hand to her mother, and said
soberly:
MY dear eX-mamma, do you think
I'VE been good enough so could go out
nOwY
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07
To Make Reeswax.

After the combs have been put
through an extractor or crushed and
strained through n thin cloth, the wax
is put in copper or porcelaln-l lined
kettle with cold water enough to cover
1t, and boiled for half an hour or long
er, II 1t seems necessary. When the
wax is taken from the stove II is strain
ed and poured In vessel previously
dipped in cold water. TO make round
cake Of beeswaX, pour the melted wax
in a bowl that has been DIPPED in cold
wdter. When cold it may be easily
removed If the bowl was dipped in
cold water. TO make wax sheets, use
board three-eighths Of an inch thick,
dampened with warm water, then
dipped in the melted wax two or three
times. The board is next put In water
to cool little while, after which it IS
taken out, the edges trimmed with II
sharp knife and two sheets of wax
peeled off. TO make these wax sheets
the wax must not be too hot, or 1t will
crack.-Ladies' Home Journal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07
wintering Idle Horses.

There are a great many horses that
have little to do this winter. With
most men who keep a horse this will
be regarded as a condition when poor,
innutritious food that will barely sus-
tain life may be given without loss.
This is a double mistake. The idle
horse ought to be exercised daily, if he
is brought out and driven a mile or
two and back for nothing else than the
exercise. Then he must have the kind
of feed that will make muscle. 1t is
impossible to save muscle through the
winter Inaction makes it not merely
1abby, but also wastes some Of its
substance. Two or three weeks feed
ing and exercise after a winter of lazi
ness will not fit either horse or man to
do good work in the spring.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07

Dover, N. H., one Of the prettiest of
the smaller cities Of New England, is
one Of the largest consumers of snuff
among all the cities of the country. The
population is something like 10000,
and last year more than five tons of this
form of tobacco was used there. The
habit of snuff dipping is not usual in
New England, and 1t was brought to
Dover, so it is said, by soldiers just af-
ter the war, and has increased to its
present proportions.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07
Notes.

]. ID. Hazen, of Leona, Doniphan
County, is said to be the largest grower
of apples in Northern Kansas. From
an orchard of eighty acres he sold
16.52O bushels Of apples this year for
$6,940
In keeping apples the thermometer
should be used. Heat destroys more
than does cold. The cellar Should be
kept as near 80 degrees as possible.
The object should be to avOl1 alter
nate freezing and thawing, as changes
cause more damage than anything
else.
An artery of the horse can usually be
felt where it crosses the curve Of the
lower Jaw, or in the bony ridge above
the eye. 1t should beat forty times a
minute. If more rapid, hard ami full.
it indicates fever or Inflammation; if
slow, brain disease; if irregular, heart
trouble.
There is a wide range between good
dairy COWS and the average. The aver
age cows in the United States make
1870 pounds of butter per year, while
the good dairy COW yields from $50 to
400 pounds There are whole dairy
herds that make 400 pounds per COW
annually.
The horse trots faster with q pneu'
mats tire, not only because he has less
weight to draw, but because there is
lost that vibration which is usually
carried along the shafts to the horses
body, These vibrations weary his
muscles and hamper his movements to
a considerable extent.
The Government of the United
States took a hand in road building Tor
the first forty years of its existence.
The Cumberland pike, crossing the
States of Maryland, Virginia, Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Indiana, and extending
to Illinois, costing over $G000,OO0. was
the work Of the general Government
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07
sprnying Apple Trees,

The so-called applescab is one of the
serious pests of American orchards, not
only because it causes misshapen and
undeveloped fruit, but because the
affected trees suffer from defective foil
age. When it is remembered that the
fruit-buds of one year are all started
the year before, the necessity for
healthy foliage every year is apparent,
and it is plain that the fungus should
be kept from trees on the off years, as
we'll as on the bearing years. We have
often given accounts of the effective
ness of the Bordeaux mixture against
this disease, but it is matter which
every one ought to understand. Some
late experiments made at the Agricul-
tural College Of Missouri seem to show
that the weaker solutions were about
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07
The Chicago Herald recently printed

The Chicago Herald recently printed
sketch of the proposed apartment
house to be built in New York to ac-
commodate $500 families. 1t is ex-
pected to house in the one structure
under single roof 10000 people. The
sketch looks like block of segments
of honeycOmb with space between
them for light and q little air. There
is nothing new under the sun. Ran
delier the archaeologist who has stu
died with so excellent effect the ruins
of New Mexico, can point out Just such
dwellings among the pueblos. There
is one such apartment house of stone
at Pecos. 1t has, as its ruins show, a
circuit of 1.4S0 feet. 1t is five stories
high. 1t was once town and shelter.
ed all the inhabitants. There is a
honeycomb dwelling on the Rio Checos,
1,716 feet in circuit. 1t housed 5000
persons. Each of these ancient honey
combs constitute n village, being also
a single house built around a court
The plaza around which some of these
hOneycomb dwellings faced was often
large enough for all sorts of games,
equestrian as well as pedestrian
Gotham architects must have exhaust
ed thir power to invent ideas when
they propose to so back to the abor-
igines for styles of habitation.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07

Professor Langleys flying machine
on the trial trip flew 200 feet and drop
ped. Whereupon the critics are inclin-
ed to poke fun at the ship and the in
yentor. But before the hilarlty pro-
ceds further perhaps 1t would be well
to remember that when the first At
lantic cable was laid 1t worked for a
few minutes and then went on a strike
and quit work for many months, while
the scientific world called it fiat fail
ure and a chlmerical scheme.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07
He Wanted the Earth.

A scheme to build new railroad in
Florida, for which money had been full
ly subscribed, has fallen through. One
man put his name down for $500, but
when called on for the cash he demand
ed a life pass for his family, free freight
for his oranges, spur to his grove,
with town site laid out on his land, he
to have the proceeds of the sale Of lots,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07
Pat Obeyed Orders

While in front of Petersburg, General
Butler received word that his favorite
horse, Almond Eye, had been acciden-
tally killed by falling into ravine. Up
on the departure of his informant, he
ordered an Irish servant to go and skin
him. "What! is Almond Eye dead"
asked Pat, whats that to you? Do
as | bid you, and ask no questions. {"
Pat went about his business, and in an
hour or two returned. "Well, PAT,
where have you been all this timer"
stcrnly demanded the general. "Skin-
ming the horse, your honor" "Does it
take nearly two hours to perform such
an operations" "No, your honor; but
then, you see, it tuck bout half an hour
To catch him." replied Pat.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07
For Winter Brend.Rnlsing.

There are few housekeepers in the
colder ATTITUDES who have not expert
enced much trouble in securing a pro
per rising in yeast bread on cold nights.
The usual resource is place for the
dough behind the sitting room stove. If
the fire is quite warm the raising pro-
cess is either unduly fastened or a
tough crust is formed over the dough,
while If the fire goes out, as 1t frequent
ly does, the dough is found in the morn
ing entirely unrisen. A device for Sc
curing a constant and even heat about
the dough is shown in the illustration,
which represents box, one side of
which is a closely fitting door, within
which is a shelf and perpendicular
partition, with an open space both
above and below it. In one side are
placed the dishes containing dough
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07
What He Was AT,

A boy in st, Louis was recently pre-
sented with a jack-knife, with which,
boy-llke, he cut and marked everything
that came in his way, from the dining
room table to the cats tail. A few
days after he had become the happy
possessor of the knife, his father was
startled by seeing two men bring home
the young hopeful in very dilapi-
dated condition. His face seemed to
be cut and bruised and covered with
blood. The father, of course was very
much alarmed, and inquired Of the boy
who had hit him. Nothing didn't nit
me-" the boy answered between his
sobs; ut was only mule kicked me in
the eye" "a mule kicked you in the
eye, ehI' echoed the father. Haven't
told you thousand times or more
that mules and gunpowder were not
fit things for boys to fool with? What
were you doing to the mule?' II
wasn't foolin' with him at ALL" said
the boy; 81 was only trying to cut my
name on his back"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07
BarIpgs, when II failed in 1890, owed

Barings, when it failed in 1890, owed
in all $140000,000 This whole sum
has been liquidated by the combination
headed by the Bank of England, and
only 81 100000 Is now left of these vast
liabilities, which have been taken up
by strong hands. There has never
been more signal proof that co-opera-
ton is necessary to save the greater
interests Of society when competition
has brought them to the verge OF ruin.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07
At 1enst ono Pound a DAY.

A good butter cow should produce at
least one pound Of butter per day.
There are hundreds Of cows which pro-
duce double the quantity, but where n
farmer has herd he can just as easily
procure a pound of butter from each
cow as not, provided he will raise. his
calves and breed for butter producing
qualities. Breeders of pure-bred stock
would not keep a COW in the herd that
even produced so small quantity Of
butter as a pound day.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07

James Whltcomb Riley has been hon
Ored by brand of cigars named for
him. And yet England sneeringly says
that this country does not appreciate
genius or fittingly reward literary
lights,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07

as effective as the stronger ones, and
that the first spraying should be given
very early, and be followed by at least
three others. The second crop Of scab,
which appears on late apples, like the
Jennetlngs, seems in this case to have
been entirely prevented by spraying
Garden and Forest.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-07

and then sends its influence in the form
Of a ferment throughout the whole
structure above the point attacked.
Black knot is a fungous disease that
is spreading rapidly throughout the
country, and fruit growers should be-
gin to take active measures toward
graduating it. All twigs and branches
Of cherry and plum trees which are
affected should be cut off and burned
as soon as these knots are discovered.
Trees that have been neglected until
badly infested should be cut down and
burned at once.