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grass by one kind of stock does not
make the grass less palatable for other
kinds, and stock thrives quite as well
when promiscuously grazing together as
when the different kinds are kept in
separate pastures, provided the females
that are near the time of dropping their
young are placed by themselves until
their young have acquired sufficient
strength to get out of the way of the
different kinds of stock associated with
them. Sheep, unlike most other kind
of stock, will make friends with any
animal that will be kind to them. If
sheep are left in the pasture at night,
cattle should be left with them, as a.
protection against dogs, as sheep are
rarely injured by dogs when in the
company of cattle. But few stock rails
ers of the present make a speciality of
any one kind of stock, for experience
has taught that variety of live stock,
as well as variety of crops, is a surer
source of wealth, and, as it would be ex-
pensive to provide separate facilities
Tor the different kinds of stock, there
fore we would separate and dispose of
all that are vicious among the different
herds, and turn all well-disposed stock
together. Different varieties of stock
appropriate to themselves the part and
kind of grass most relished by their
kind, and between them they consume
it ALL
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LIVING SHADOW.
REMARKAELE TRANSFORMA-
TION OF A NORTH CARO-
LIMA MAN.
Strange, but True, Story from the Lum-
Der Regions of q Southern state.


From the Greenville, N. c., Refractory
The following interview has just been
given our reporter by Mr.. G. A. Baker,
the overseer at the farm of Col. Isaac A.
Sugg of Greenville, n. G. 1t will inter-
est any one who has ever had typhoid
fever. Mr.. Baker said in part:
Il was living in Beaufort county, and
on the I'd day of October, 1893, 1 was
stricken down with typhoid fever. I
had the best physicians to attend me
and on the 18th day of January, 1894.
was allowed to get up. was emaciated,
weak and had no appetite. I could only
drag along for short distance and
would be compelled to sit down and
rest. This continued for some time and
l began to give up hope of ever getting
well. l lost my position in Beaufort
county and having secured one in Pitt
county, clerking in a store, undertook
II, but was so weak / could not do the
work and had to give it up. Tie disease
settled in my knees, legs and feet. !
was taking first one kind of medicine
and then another but nothing did me
any good. 1 was mighty low-spirited.
1 moved out to Col. Sugg's about four
or five months ago and commenced TAX
ing DR.. Williams Pills. / took three
day for about three months. l began to
regain my appetite in weeks time,
and then my weakness began to disap-
pear. and hope sprung up with bless
edness that is beyond all telling. At the
expiration of three months l was entire
ly cured and could take my AK and goin
the woods and do as good a days work
as any man. l was troubled with dys-
pepsia and that has disappeared. 1t is
also a splendid tonic for weak people.
l say, Mr.. Editor, God bless DR.. Will
Jams may he live for a long time, 1
know he will go up yonder to reap his
reward. Tell everybody that asks you
about DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People that if they will CO ne to me 1
can certainly satisfy them as to their
merits. 1 always carry a box of pills
with me and when ever feel bad take
one"
We were forcibly struck with the
earnestness of Mr. Baker and his state
ments may be relied on.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain in q
condensed form all the elements neces-
sary to give new life and richness to the
blood and restore shattered nerves.
They are an unfailing specific for such
diseases as locomotoc ataXia, partial
paralysis, st. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neu-
ralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache,
the after effects of la grippe, palpitation
OF the heart. pale and Sallow complex
ions, all forms of weakness either in
male or female, and all diseases result
ing from Vitiated humors in the blood.
Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will
be sent postpaid ON receipt of price. go
cents box, or six boxes for $500 by
addressing DR.. Williams Medicine Co.,
Schenectady, N. Y.
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A MODERN oRPHEUS.
The Effect of Violin Music Upon the
Beasts at the Zoo.


Does the legend of Orpheus. the won
drous music of whose Tyre enthralled
the wild beasts of the forest, rest upon
fact? Not long ago Mr.. Cornish went
to the London Zoo to ascertain by ex-
pertinent what effect music would have
upon the creatures there in captivity.
He took with him a musical friend,
who played on the violin to insects, rep
tiles, birds, and beasts, and 10, the
fancy of the classic poets who ages ago
sung about Orpheus and his Tyre is
turned into scientific fact The New
York Tribune, in a review of wild Ami
mails in Captivity" the book wherein
MIR. Cornish tells of his musical expert
ments, says: The tarantulas listened,
or did not listen, unmoved and sulky.
They whose bite is said in fable to
make others dance, refused to dance
themselves. Not so the SCORPIONS
After few notes had been played they
became agitated, and writhed and
danced unanimously, their excitement
increasing with every crescendo and de-
creaslng with each diminuendo. In the
reptiles more marked effects were SEEN
The monitor lizard listened and swayed
Its head in time with the music. Black
snakes were attentive, and started up
and Kissed at every sudden discord. A
boa crept as close as possible to the in
strument and seemed enraptured. But
OF all snakes, the cobra is reputed to be
most susceptible to music, and the one
experimental upon at the Zoo did not
pene It's fame. On hearing the violin it
raised itself in the traditional attitude
on its tail. spread its hood, and gently
swayed to and fro. With every change
In the character of the music its attitude
ana expression changed. At a tremolo
passage 1t puffed it's body out. At a
bagpipe "drone' its hood was expanded
TO the utmost, and at every sharp dis
cord it fiinched as if it had been struck
with stick. The first quadrupeds to
"nlch TINS modern Orpheus played were
polar and grizzley bears, which mani
rested much pleasure, stood up at the
front of the cage to listen and ainched
at diScord.
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however, by means OF the composite
sample the quality of the yield OF sew
eral days or a week be estimated it is
usually found that there are less wide
variations than are found from day to
day.
For the past three years we have
analysed the milk of each individual
cow OF the Vermont experiment sta
ton herd twice month, each sample
being made up from eight consecutive
milkings. 1t has been found that the
milk given when the cow is four
months along in lactation is very near
ly the average quality of the milk given
by the COW in the course of the year;
that If two analyses are made at this
time. fifteen days apart, upon compos-
lite samples, the result will probably
be within tenth of one per cent of
the actual average,
The extremes of fluctuations in the
quality of the milk of COW are fire.
quently noted in the records of tests,
public and private. Some of these are
almost beyond belief, yet many are ap-
parently authentic
The greatest change in quality of
milk from day to day that has come
under my personal observation, was
that made by a registered Ayrshire
owned by L. S. Drew of Burlington,
being 2.6S per cent. fat change in two
days. This is probably the most vio-
lent change on record where the test
was controlled by chemical analysis.
Has the COW a fixed quality of milk
which she gives throughout life? Does
heifer in her first lactation, indicate
truly her milking qualities, or may we
expect gain or loss in years to come?
Our records indicate in eight COMPARE
sons Of heifers of our own raising, less
than 20 per cent. gain in per cent. of
fat during the second milking period
Apparently the same general character
OF the milk is maintained throughout
life, although the quantity may be in
creased or diminished. Minor varia-
lions in quality may be expected but
large ones seldom occur.
Mixed Stock in Pasture.
G. A. Howland The cropping of
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VARYING Quality of MIX

Prof. Joseph Hills. director of the
Vermont experiment station, says:
The experiment on a large number
Of cows has shown that, as a rule, a
COW gives the most milk, but of the
poorest quality, in the first two months
OF her lactation; that during the first
six months of her lactation the quality
does not materially change, but in the
last half of the year Gf she calves
Tery year, the milk flow shrinks and
IS quality increases, the latter being
On the average an increase of about
one-quarter of the total fat 1t has
been found that COWS calving in the
spring change the quality of their milk
in the latter part of their lactation
more decidedly than those that calve
a the fall while farrow COWS, calying
either in spring or fall, hold to the
even quality of their milk more than
those that caive each year.
The variations from day to day Of
the milk from the same COW OF herd are
frequently extreme, and are often due
to causes which are not understood. II,
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and the ones that had died in transit
they paid half price for pretending
they were to be used as soap grease,
etc.. This statement of the old man
called the attention of western men
present, who were disposed to take is
sue with him on the fact In other
words, his veracity was assaulted, which
seemed to mortify him greatly, and he
publicly asserted that all that he had
said to me was true, and he thought he
could substantiate it in the city. l said
to the party of gentlemen present, if
this fact was known to our farmers
they would raise their own meat rather
than eat meat that had died or was sick
with cholera when butchered.
know from observation, that when a
hog dies of the cholera he turns per-
fectly red, and l further know that l
have taken large sides of bacon out 0he
boxes of bacon we buy that was pei
fectly red, which makes me believe
every word the old Iowa man said was
true, and such meat as described died
of cholera.
1 have diverged little from my
story: The old Iowa man was stirred
up considerably. In a short time he
came back to me with a gentleman of
his acquaintance, who said he had
bought thousands of hogs in Chicago
and that every word he said was true,
and intimated that the dead hogs
bought for soap grease went through
the same channel that the live ones did,
and eventually landed in the bacon
box with the others.
Now, l appeal to the farmers of Fort
Bend county to know if you are still
going to buy such bacon as 1 have de-
scribed when you have a country far
superior to the West to raise your own
meat in. We must wake up to our own
interest, and sell instead of buy bacon.
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Restless siava

A movement similar to that among
the Northern Slavs is beginning to at
tract attention in the Southern prov
inces of Austria. A short time ago the
Slovenian delegates in the reichsrath
demanded of the government the es-
adjustment of public schools at the
cost of the state for the benefit of the
Slavonians and Croatians resident in
Trieste. A demand is now made fer
the separation of the territory of
Trieste from the harbor and the intro
duction of a system of local self-gov-
eminent in the separate district. The
recent declaration of Emperor Frances
Joseph that he would never consent to
a division of Tyrol shows that there is
little prospect that the desire of the
Slavonian inhabitants of Trieste will
be attained, but it is noticeable that
both in Northern and Southern Austria
the efforts Of the Slavic elements are
directed to division of the monarchy.
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Pointers to SINNERS.

Keep pregnant stock at home.
Don't ship in any diseased, badly
bruised or emaciated stock.
Don't load your cars too heavily, es-
pecially of hogs or sheep, though in fact
of any class of live stock.
Watch out and don't ship in any
stock that has sores, assesses or other
indication of unsoundneSs or unwhole-
someness.
The government inspectors are "the
COLLINS that will get you if you don't
watch out and keep back unsound, dis
eased, or far advanced pregnant ami
mails.
Beware of the calves you ship in.
Anything on the Bob" or Deacon" or
der-that is, less than one week old or
weighing under IS pounds-is pretty
sure to be thrown out and find it's way
into the tank.
Don't ship any scabby sheep to mar
ket, as they are very liable to be con-
demned. Lamby ewes should also be
held back, as where they are pretty far
advanced they cannot be sold, under
the new inspection rules, and Will
either have to go back into the country
or De slaughtered, and in all probable
lty condemned here.
|
Disregard of this rule is being seen
every day in the number of dead hogs
suewn along the unloading chutes. AS
the weather gets warm hogs must he
loaded TO prevent crowding. AS high
as twenty dead hogs have been taken
from single car this week. because of
carelessness in loading. Give the hogs
room. Give them also some good clean
straw to lie in.
The government force began it's rigid
inspection May 1. They will throw out
all animals considered not fit for hui
man food. This will include calfy cows
piggy sows, and lamby ewes that are
pretty FAR advanced; scabby sheen
smelly Gamers, cholera pigs. lumpy.
Jaws, badly bruised stock of all kinds
thin, wasted sheep. busted pigs etc
Everything on this order will be held
out, passed upon by veterinarians. and
II not passed or condemned may be sent
back to the country. Condemned STOCK
will be at once tanked.-Live Stock Re.
port, Chicago.
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LIFE AND DEATH.
what Scientists Have Discovered in the
Study of ProtopIasm.

In the descending scale of animal life
the relations between the organs are
less and less intimate, and the mislead-
ing suddenness of the arrest of the ma
chlnery fades away. The heart of a tur-
tie from which the brain has been re-
moved Will continue to beat for days.
n worm or starfish may be cut to
pieces, and each piece remains alive,
sometimes even reproducing the whole.
VINO snail name the point of death of
an oyster or of a sea-anemone? No
stoppage of a single organ causes sud-
den and conspicuous change in the
whole When protoplasmic death of a
part occurs, either the part is sloughed
away and replaced or the ripples of
destructive change spread slowly from
cell TO cell, each unaffected part re-
naming active to the last, says the
London Review. In the simplest ami
mails of all, organisms that consist each
of single cell, death may be seen at
its lowest terms. There is no composite
mult1cellular body, no bodily mechan-
ism to break down, no possibility of the
failure of one set of cells gradually
creeping upon others. Each organism
is alive or dead as its protoplasm is
alive or dead. Here, in their simplest
forms, are life and death; and here. ask
ing if death be inherent in living mat
ter, we find surprising answer Violence
of heat and cold, mechanical forces
and the assaults of chemical affinities
may destroy these single particles of
life; but it is not overthrow by rude
accident. and if provided with food and
drink, their protoplasm lives forever
Each particle feeds, until, outgrowing
convenient size, it cleaves asunder and
one life becomes two lives So far as
reason and observation can inform us
the living particles in the ponds and
seas of today have descended to a di-
rect continuity of living material from
the first dawn of life. No other solu-
ton is open. save the possibility of
spontaneous generation of living mat
ter so continual and so common that il
could not have eluded the search of sci
ence. This is that immortality of the
protozoa" limited at by Lancaster. n
England. blazoned into fame by Weis-
mann.
Whether or no the protopIasm of the
tissues of higher organism be potential
ly immortal can only be a matter of
inference. The reproductive cells, in
deed, form living chain, binding the
animals and plants of the remotest
past. This reproductive protoplasm is
immortal in precisely the same sense as
the protoplasm of single cells is inn
mortal, and there seems no reason to
believe with Weismann that the pro-
toplasm of the other tissues has ac-
quired mortality and is different in
kind. 1t dies, but only because il is part
of a complex structure.
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rs W@=-l

come down to Texas to take a look
at the sunny south, many of them with
a view to making it their future home
if they were pleased with the soil,
climate and people.
While there 1 fell into conversation
with man that l took for a preacher
from the state of Iowa. He told me
he was a farmer-fed hogs, cattle,
etc. l asked him what was the best
breed of hogs to raise. He said they
had tried all breeds, and that it was the
rule of his country to raise the hog that
would always keep fat. l asked him
his reason for that. He said: I'VE do
that because we have to ship and sell
to save ourselves as soon as the hog
cholera strikes them, or we would in
all probability lose all the hogs we have
or are feeding" l asked him if he
could find sale for herd of hogs that
had cholera. "Oh, yes" he said, "the
board of health of Chicago decided that
the meat of hogs that died of cholera
was all right" He said that the buy
ers would take every hog and pig that
was alive when they reached the mar
ket and pay the ruling prices for them,
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Facilities for Travellers.

The Nickel Plate road now oners
greater facilities to the travelling pub
lie than ever, the improved service hav-
ing been inaugurated May 18th. NO
change of cars between Chicago, New
York and Boston in either direction.
Superb dining cars between Chicago
and Buffalo in both directions. Trains
leave Chicago sos a. m. daily, except
Sunday; 1:30 and 900 p. m. daily for
Fort Wayne. Fostoria. Cleveland, Erie,
Buffalo, New York and Boston; 1:30 p.
m. train arrives New York $50 and
Boston 9 o'clock the following evening.
City ticket office, Ill Adams street.
Tel. Main $50. Depot, Twelfth and Clark
streets. Tel. Harrison 200.
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stroy a few, and keep lice in check.
than to get rid of them after they be-
gin to swarm in every crack and crew
ice, and on the walls, roosts and floors.
Every reader knows what the kerosene
emulsion is. Twice a week give the
poultry house a thorough saturation
with it until warm weather comes, and
the lice will then be about finished, and
as safeguard spray the house once
week thereafter An excellent pre-
ventive is lime. Scatter it freely on the
walls. Use the air-slacked lime, and ap-
ply it literally. Rub a little melted
lard well into the feathers of the heads
and necks occasionally. to destroy tho
large gray lice on the heads. By keep
ing down the pests that prey on the
hens the number of eggs will be more
than doubled.-Ex.
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Early Work ON IIcn.

1t is the first work of the season that
saves labor later on. Lice do not come
spontaneously. They are living Great
ures that multiply. and unless there is
a source from which they can come
there will be no lice. They do not in
crease very rapidly while the weather
Is cold, but Just as soon as the warm
season opens they become millions in
! short time. 1t is much easier to de-
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Wrinkles in Clothing.

When clothing becomes wrinkled,
either from packing or travelling in
crowded cars, the wrinkles may be
taken out by hanging the garments over
night in heated room. The kitchen
or laundry will do, providing all dis
agreeable odors of cooking have es-
capped. Hang the garments on line or
clothes-horse. stretched to their utmost
width.
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Little Willowdean, walking with her
mother, stumbled several times over
the rough pavement. Her mother
said, "What is the matter. daughter"
"Nothing's the matter with me-, she
Indignantly replied Its the ground
Advertiser
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May 18th the Nickel Plate road in
augurated a new train service The new
summer schedule affords the same num-
Der OF trains as before. including
through service between Chicago.
Cleveland, Buffalo. New York and Bos-
ton. The improvements also embrace
the shortening of time of trains be-
tween all of the above cities. City Ticket
office, Ill Adams street Tel. Main 3s9
Depot, Twelfth and Clark streets. Tel
Harrison 200
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Crossing of Breeds.

When two distinct breeds are crossed
1T is matter of certainty that there
VIII be no regularity of type in the
herd. The prepotency of every individ-
ual animal in the herd will have been
greatly weakened, and the produce of
such animals is sure to revert to the
type of the original parents. This might
not of itself be deemed so Objectionable
but it is a singular physiological fact
that this throwing back generally pro-
duces the worst rather than the best
characteristics of the original parents.
In word, cross-bred herd deterior-
ates much more rapidly than a distinct
breed.
This is easily eXplainable. The whole
secret of improving a herd depends on
the prepotency of the sires and dams
used, and it has for more than a century
been known to breeders that prepo-
tency can only be secured by breeding
strictly in the same breed for n long
series of years, hence the establishment
of herd, stud and flock books. In the
wild denizens of the forests we see pre-
potency in its greatest perfection.
Lions, tigers, kangaroos and other wild
animals breed strictly to type because
they have never been crossed. By the
crossing of two breeds prepotency. or
the power to produce their like. is in
large measure lost, and the further the
crossing is pursued the more prepo-
tency disappears. Guide.
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Wanted 9 Fairy story.

Little Johnny-Tell us a story. un-
Gle.
Uncle Wayback, from the West-An
right, children. You want true story,
I s'pose-
Little Johnny-No. tell us one of
those fairy stories about cyclones, and
grasshoppers and things you were tell
ing the company last evening.
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The small boy was playing cowboy,
more TO his own satisfaction than
that Of his nervous father. 81 am the
Wild Wolf of Bitter Creek" he yelled,
"And this is your night to howl" said
the eXasperated parent, appearing
with a strap. And Willie howled.-
Cincinnati Tribune.
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Riding Third Class.

The growing habit on the part of
the British public to discard first and
second class carriages and take to the
third-class carriages is said to have
had perceptible influence on the
manners of the working classes. The
old third-class passengers have grown
much more polite and quiet Nothing
is said, though, of the effect OF the
change on the former first-class pas
sapr,orS