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Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-09
Charmipc the SQUIRRELS.

In Central park, New York city, girl
was observed, some months ago, gong
among the trees and even where the pub
lie were prohibited from walking. When
the policemen warned her that she must
not 90 on the lawn, she laughed, and
sometimes sung, and seemed not to I'M
derstand. But she was SO harmless and
innocent with it all that the park police
men relaxed their rule, and let her go
where she wished
A strange thing was noticed about her;
wherever she went the squirrels and
birds seemed to assemble. She would
go among the trees and call or whistle,
and Immediately the squirrels and the
SDarrowS would come Scamperlng and
futtering about her.
The SQUIRRELS would come into her lap,
and the birds would light on her shout
ders without fear; and yet she was not not
seen to feed them. Indeed, she did not
seem to have enough to eat on her own
account. She was manifestly very poor.
She came to be known to the police
men and others as the 'little squirrel
charmer," for there seemed to be some
thing mysterious in her power over the
animals, exercised as it was without
feeding or other indulgence.
She was regarded as not of sound
mind, and ere long, in fact, she began to
annoy passers-by in the park with talk
and strange actions: so that at length it
was necessary to take her before a mag
istrate to examine into her mental condi-
ton.
1t is not unusual to find insane per-
sons that have a certain influence over
animals not often possessed by those in
sound mind. The problem of animal
charming" is a peculiar one; for al
though it generally means no more than
care, patience and kindness in dealing
with dumb creatures, there are undoubt-
eddy persons that possess a special gift
of this kind. which renders animals sim
gularly submissive to them almost with
out acquaintance.-Yout Companion.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-09
Easter.

The limits of Easter are March % and
April 25, period of thirty-ive days.
One would naturally suppose that in a
very long PERIOD the festival would oc-
cur about equally on all the days. But
it is not so. From the year 1883, the
one following the reformation of the cal
endar by Gregory, for period of 1850
years, the Irregularities are very great
The average number is fifty in the above
period The first three days and the last
three fall far behind the average 1t oc-
ours on April % sixteen times only, and
on the "a and 25 each twenty-five times
On March % it occurs eleven times;
March %, fourteen times; March "a. ten
times-being the least number. Tt occurs
more frequently as follows: April 10,
seventy three times; April 10, seventy
two times: April 5, seventy-one times:
April Is. seventy times: April IL, sixty
nine times: April 10, sixty-eight times,
and on March 30 and 81. each sixty
seven times. Since the earliest date
above referred to, Easter has come on
March %. five times-in a period of 1872
years; in the following 1863 years it will
occur but six times. 1t last took place
in 1874; the next time will be in the year
1885, In the distant future there will
be another long period in which Easter
will not occur on the 22d of March for
1855 years. viz. from 2506 TO 2971 inclu-
civo
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-09
Sir Andrew and the Maniac.

Sir Andrew Clarke is said to have
saved his own life once by his presence
of mind. While travelling in Italy he
assembled a high tower one evening and
found at the top another tourist, an Eng
lishman, who engaged the physician in
conversation. They chatted pleasantly
for a few minutes. when suddenly the
stranger seized Sir Andrew by the shout
ders and with a wicked CLEAN in his
eyes, said quietly:
81 am going to throw you over"
The man was a maniac. The physi-
clan had only moment in which to
gather his thoughts, but that moment
saved him.
POOH he replied unconcernedly to
the mailman, anybody can throw "a
man off the tower. If we were on the
ground you coul not throw me up. That
would be too difficult
eyes / could" retorted the maniac.
81 could easily throw you up here from
the ground. Let US go down and will
do it."
The descent was accordingly made,
during which Sir Arthur managed to
secure help and release himself from his
nprilOua SitI1atiOn
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14
PEOPLE.

Mm=. Jules Tavrc. the widow of the
Politician who negotiated with Prince
Bismarck for the ca~pitu!ation of Paris.
Is dead. For 20 years she had been at
the Lead of the Ecole Normale for
Women at Sevres.
It IS declared by English psychologists
that 4 monument in Il church in East
Sutton, Kent, K the second wife of
Laurence Washington proves the lat
ter's descent from the founder OF Ballot
college at OZford. and the brother of
john Baliol, king of Scotland.
ET-Conrrcssccan I~Iarter. who CON-
mitted suicide recently. once described
himself as "a .Teffersonian. whose in
Guencc politically is conservative, for
safe measures and against radical. uE-
sound and Eeddlesome legislation, n
quiet Ia in manners. q plain maj in
dress and Il stud;cus mar by habit"
Norris VI. White. of Cincinnati, and
Francis T. White. of New York. broth
ers. ard graduates of Earlham college.
4 Quaker institution in Richmond, Ind,
have given the college $4,000, to be
added to the endowment fund and TO be
known as the John T. White memorial
fund, in honor of theirfathcr.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14

Henry Furriss, whose political carl
catu-cs have hitherto been drawn from
the conservative point of view, is now
making pictures of parliament for the
liberal Daily News.
Large deposits of platinum have been
discovered at Fitfield. in New South
Wales. One bed of platiniferous lead
ore is 4 mile long and from 60 to $50
feet wide. The crude metal contains
about IS per cent. of platinum and sells
IN the field for sin dollars an ounce.
y Druidical dolmen has been trans
ported from Brittany and erected again
in its original form over the grave of an
"rch2eo!ogist named Piketty at Meu-
don, outside OF Paris. 1t is called the
dolmen of kerhan, comes from the
neighborhood Ct Lochmariaqucr and
c.or"iet" q: II blocks of granite.
DR.. Weldon, head E.@,ter of Harrow
school, makes a plea in the Church
Monthly for the severance of sport
from gambling. He describes horse
racing as the sport of kings. the
Eoblcst exercise of the physical pow
crs CT the noblest of animals" and as
scrtS that in ancient Greece no one
made d bet at the OlvmDian games.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14
LIVE STOCK r

The Dorset or the Shropshire are eN-
cellent for early lambs. Lambs that can
be marketed by the middle of February
are the stock that brings in big money.
\ writer says that it is the food and
not the breed that gives quality to the
lamb. Oh, come off, brother. All the
feed in creation cannot make n Merinu
lamb equal to a lamb of the mutton
breeds. 1t requires both breed and
feed to do the Observation-Disclosures
Voice.
We think the best way to feed rs tG
cut it up, corn and stalks together, and
feed in the manager i'll the stable. a
great deal of good fodder is wasted by
feeding out of doors scattered in a yard
and allowing the stock to tramp on it.
IT, silo is another good way TO save the
corn and it makes fine feed.
4 wise choice of methods of pre-.
Earring and feeding the food has much
to do in determining profit or loss. The
cheapest production of flesh by horse,
c.,w or sheep. or of milk, is where all or
the larger part of the food is secured ~
the animal grazing in a good pasture.
Simple methods of preparation are best
as a rule.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14
Come to Texas

The"Lone Star" is wa ring-the flag Of the free;
Then strike for Texas. II men you would be-
No fdlerS are wanted, the thrifty and wise,
To wealth and high station can equally rise
Where corn, oats and cotton; the richest Of
loan.
Which yields to the settlers provisions and
home.
Trees of every description arise on each hand,
From alluTial soil to the rich table md
Here springs are exhaustleSs and streams
never dry,
In the season from winter to autumn's bright
SKY
A wide panorama Of prairie is seen:
OF grasses of all kinds perennially green
Here millions OF cattle, sheep. horses and goats
Grow fat as il stabilized or fattened on oats.
No poverty is found in the mighty domain,
To the man who eXerts either finger or brain.
Here are homes for the millions, the rich and
the poor,
While Texas opens wide her hospitable door.
She has thousands Of acreS-yes, millionS-to
sell,
Yet can point without cost to where pre-
emptorS can dwell.
Her terms will be easy with those whom she
deals.
While security, all. in their title can feel
Buy land while It's cheap. and the finest select,
Twill. young man, prove Z fortune when least
you expect.
Old man, for your children buy, file it away
AGodsend twill prove on some rainy day.
Fora pamphlet fully describing this wonder
ful country address CASTOR MeSlier, General
Passenger and Ticket Agent Texas and Pacific
Railway, Dallas. Texas.
LOw-rate Home Seekers Excursion Tickets
will be sold to all points in Texas on April .,
April 81 and May ). Take advantage Of this
great opportunity.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14
POULTRY
Keeps Hens on the Move Until They Give
In an E~n

Up an Egg.
From England comes the news of a
new and ingenious way to make hens
lay. The plan has only Just been put
into operation, but already it has been
attended with some measure of success.
It's inventor is a young man named
Herbert Demands, of South TOtten-
ham, II of the districts of London,
who was driven to hatch this device
out of his fruitful mind because of the
worr.ment his hens caused him. Day
after day they would not lay, and they
tiouted and they secuted him by walk
ing around and taking things very
easily, much to his financial less. So
he put his wits together and made these
domestic bipcds walk the t~rnadnliIl"
until they laid.
His machinery, al elaborate bit Os
carP"ntcring, consisted OF what is
called in England a hen rum which
was Il sort of Midway PIaisance for
poultry. 1t was a beautifully working
miniature treadmiIl. y hen who had
done her full duty was allowed the full
privileges of the run" Il hen who had
not, and from whom Mr.. Demands con-
sidered an egg to be due, was placed,
in spite of ali her fiuttering, upon the
%treadmill, and made to walk it until
she evcned up her score and delivered
an egg. The weight of the ''new laid
would act upon Il spring and the hen
would then be liberated to the enjoy
ment of the run"
Not quite all the details have come to
hand as yet. but this much is Known,
that the poultry %treadmili was Il great
success, and n sure shot to get eggs
on demand. The only thing a hen
could do, once placed within. was to go
up and up until she got over her sulks
and was ready to deliver the egg
Had it not been for a most unpleasant
misadventure on Mr.. Bernands' part,
he might be celebrated among poultry
inventors to-day. Instead of thai he
is now doing "A months hard" in the
local workhOUsa, where most of his
time is taken up II walking III" TIA?
mill himself. For, lacking the lumber
TO build his hen rum" and his cx-
cheGucr being slightly low in consa-
quencc of the ingratitude of his pouI-
try, he appropriated his building ma
terialS from a stock of wood that had
been stored in the immediate vicinity
10 b" used as flooring for some heyT
houses. The theft was not DISCOVERED
until after the poultry run" Was COM
pleted, but when it was found out the
owners of the lumber were exceedingly
wro:h, and, refusing to recognize lud-
ding genius, they put the case ir Il mag
istrate's hands 1t once.
So the treadmill for featkered bipeds
has 10Y been torn up. and the hens are
pursuing their life of ease in tie ordi-
mary manner Mr.. Demands VIII soon
he nj of Jail, however. and will then
cons ruct Il run" OF even Il larger scale
than before, taking care this time TO Sc
cure his lumber iegitinlateiy.- y. Y.
journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14
bread as a Cattle Food.

An English farmer who is feeding
bread to stock apparently finds it Il
cheap as well as a satisfactory ration.
1t would be interesting TO know if others
Of his class are doing likewise. The
fact would seem less strange if the
farmer were feeding his own wheat
crop, but inquiry has elected the state
ment that the farmer buys the wheat
and has it ground all one way and
baked in an ordinary manner, using the
bread for his own table as well as for
cattle. His plan of feeding is 20 con
mence with about four pounds per day
for each feeding beast, gradually in
creasiag the allowance till, when finish
ing off, eight pounds per day are Civ
an. The bread is sliced up with Il long
slicing knife, similar to that used on
small farms for slicing turnips by
hand. The farmer speaks of the bread
N the highest terms as 4 cattle food.
saying. that all cattle are particularly
fond of it and grow and feed on it in q
most satisfactory manner.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14

ZIG. 3-END VIEw ~ETGHT-PEN HOG HOUSE.
along rafters from c to \ is not
shcathed, so there is Tcry little "a OBJ
struct the sGnbcams. The rates to the
several pens ere placed along the hall
way. and should be just four feet
reach across and close the hallway,
which will be found Il great cnnyCn-
fence in handling pigs, as it enables onc
person unaidcd to sort out and separate
q number, and arranee them as lie MAJ
wish.
AZ 10 the floors for pig pens. there
ore divergent opinions. That the dirt
floor is the healthier | have no doubt,
Int it is far more troublesome to keep
in good order. If board floors are used.
they should not he nailed down, hut
50 put in chat they may he taken out.
Great carc also should be had that a
crack in the iiour does not admit Il
draught OF air.
Again. serious objections are raised
against building "a lot of pens under
one roof. some breeders favoring iTdi-
viduaI pens that can he moved from
place 10 place. For brood soXs at far
rowing time Il single pen is far pref
cradle. For wintering a lot of hogs
tie larger one is better. As many as
90 to 100 pigs can be arranged in the
ei@ht-pen shed above described. and
still there need be no trouble. Use
disinfectants freely. Sprinkle with
carboiic acid. Use mercurial ointment
30 keep pens free from lice. Change
the bedding frequently. Give the pigs
the run of the pastures on pleasant
days. With this kind of care your
cluster of pig pens will be all right
q. W. Waters. in st. Louis Journal OF
Agriculture.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14

acres HAT certainly looked immense.
a hard wood plank 81. feet long and ~
inches wide has Il square cut out about
thecenter and two pieces OF wood Ia and
b. are fitted with knives, whatever size
desired for the cots intended to be cut,
and bolted on the bench. Four legs Tor
it to stand on having been inserted. L
piece of hard wood (a) is cut to cone
down on the edge of the knives and this
is fastened to a board or handle (c) at
tacheG to the stool part by hinge. a
short fork is used to catch: a root and
place it in the hopper. But one motion
and one stroke are required for each
root cut. Ii can be done very quickly.
The knives can be put in to cut slices of
any thickness, as Mt DIV. c. Gibson.
Farm Superintendent National Home,
Wiconsin, in Farm and Home.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14
WHERE DID YOU GET THIS CoFFEEe

Had the Ladies' Aid Society of our
Church out for tea, forty of them, and
all pronounced the German C~offeeberry
equal to Rio! Salzer's catalogue tells
You all about it! IS packages Earliest
vegetable seeds S1.OO.
If o WILL CIT THIS OUT AND SEND
with 15c. stamps to John A. Salzcr Seed
Co., La Crosse, Wis, you will get free a
package of above great coffee seed and
our las page catalogue! Catalogue
alone sc. postage. (K)
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that can not be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
We, the undersigned, have known F. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially apte to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
WEST & TRCAx, Wholesale Druggists, To-
ledo, o.
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls CGtarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of The system. Price Toe. per bot
tie Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
free.
Halls Famil- Pills are the best.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14
ZIG. 2-EIGHT-rEN HOG House, GLASS
WINDOWS.

elevation, see y a A in Fig. .. is si>;
feet, there being one window in tn"
same Tor each pen. The second eleva-
ton at b Il 3 is fOur feet, the windows
placed in it admitting plenty of sun-
light into the back row of pens.
I:G. } is an end view of the same
building. The r~aftcrs, \ to u, are
Il feet 5 inches long. and joined with
the 1G-foot rafters b i at II feet 5
inches from the cave. The short piece
!. c is attached to point of long %raftcr,
Cud 70 short raftcr at c. The SPACE
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14

same wooden bolt that fastens the
door when closed may by a very simple
arrangement be made to secure the
door to the rafters out of the way. The
openings E E f let the pigs out to be
fed on the floor in front, which floor
may, if required, be divided b. portable
panels ut Il a.
When q more expensive hog house IS
wanted, a double row of pens may be
constructed, that will admit sunshine
to all the pens through glass. l have
noticed several built after the style
shown in the annexed drawing. The
size for eight pens is q feet long by 2n
feet wide, which makes the pens six
by eight feet, with a four-foot hail run
mig between their two rows. The main
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14
THE OLD Estate OF PIKE"
Once Extended 20 the Pacific Ocean!-Site
of the Largest Nursery in Tic World.

of the Target Nursery in the World.
From the 81. Louis Republic
The county of Pike is older than the State
of Missouri itself, having been laid out in
1919. The town OF Louisiana was laid out
in the same year, so that Louisiana. Mo-,
and the estate Of Pike" came into history
at the same time.
When the Territorial Government estab-
lished Pike County its southern boundary
was the northern line of st. Charles COun-
ty. Tho western line was along the divide
between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers,
to tile extreme northern line of the Terri
tory Of Upper Louisiana, and. extended
to the Pacific Ocean on the west and to the
forty-ninth degree of north latitude
One OF the biggest institutions in Louisi-
ana, No. is the Stark Bros. Nurseries
Eighty years ago there came from Kentucky
to Pike County the late Judge Stark. then a
young man fresh from Old HickOry's New
Orleans campaign. he started the nursery
and planted the first grated orchard in the
State, having brought the scions on horse
back from Kentucky.
The business has descended from father
to son, and is now conducted by the third
generation, assisted by the fourth. This
firm has more than l.GOJ statesmen and wants
Go IildlN IlDEcs OuSllltSS HCU. PROFESSIONAL
men, mechanics, farmers ami others. how
ever inexperienced, are taught the business
and work the wear round receiving good
pay weekly. the company employs more
people in its offices than WOuld be necessary
torun Il large manufacturing concern. The
extensive packing-hOuses are connected
with the railroad by special track, whence
hundreds of car loads OF trees are shipped
annually. The nursery grounds embrace a
number of farms convenient to the city. and
even extend TO Rockport, Ill, where there
is Il plant of several million trees.
y popularity Of the concern is the estab-
iiSEmcnt OF large orchards. These orchards,
in 2l states, aggregate nearly 20, W0 acres,
3.JO1,oO trees, on the partnership plan. The
firm is also interested il nearly as many
more trees on the cooperative arrange
meut The Nurseries have been bene-
fetal not only to their home. but Missouri
owes no little of her prestige as a fruit
growing region TO the progress and work Of
development of this firm.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14
Don't BE Too Late for the Steamer,

And don't omit when you are packing up
YOUR effects preparatory for the voyage to
include among them a supply of HOstetter's
Stomach Bitters, the great remedy for sea
sickness. Travellers for pleasure or bust
ness seeking foreign climes. or who loco
mote by steamboat or train, besides Yacht
men and mariners. testify to the remedial
and preventive efficacyOf the Bitters. which
is Incompatible for nausea. headache. dvs-
pcpsia. biliousncss, rheumatism, nervous
and kidney trouble.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14
(K)

The biggest coward is not always the
man who refuses to fight. 1t takes
more courage sometimes to turn away
from a brawl than to plunge into it
Rev. Washington GLADDEN., Congrega-
tionalist, Columbus, O.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14

Whether on pleasure bent, or business, take
acts most pleasantly aud ~ctTectually on the
kidneys. liver, and bowels, preventing fe-
vcrs, headaches. and other forms of sick
ness. For sale in 10 cent and 81 bottles by
all leading druggists. Manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Company only.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14
SIMPLE ROOT CUTTER.

Z DcV:cc WINCH has Been Used IN "rot-
land for Many Years.
The root cutter portrayed below was
in use in Scotland 30 years ago and the
past summer l made a trip Of tw"
months and found this same root cut
ter still in use ever where they were tut
ting up o for - head of winter feed
ers (steers). Turnips are what they
use there chiefly in the way of roots,
but the climate there is very favorable
TO their growth and | saw fields Of 30
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14

By u%pholding the sacredness of the
Sabbath we are advancing the Holy
Fathers work in bringing about Chris
tan unity the world over.-Rev.
Father Malone, Catholic, Brooklyn,
n. Y.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14
AGRICULTURALHINTS
CONVENIENT PIGGERY.
Description and Illustrations Of Chea
Hnn IInr.n md Dan,

Description and Illustrations of Cheap
Hog House and Pens.
These pens may be either single ami
movable. or built more cheaply, two or
more together. The usual size of Il far
towing pen is SIX by seven teet. The
walls, which are double. face the south.
IN the accompanying Fig. I, the front
walls, d u d, are three fcer high. and
the openings above three by six feet.
Each opening may be closed with Il
swing door, b, as shown in pen one. To
open this door for ventilation and Iighr.
ar other purposes, swing it back as
shown at c in pen adjoining, and the
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14

FITS stopped free by DR.. Hines Great
Nerve Restorer. Motifs ter first days use.
Marvellous cures. Treatise ana So trial bot
Tic free. DR.. Kline, 81 Arch St, phila., Pa.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14

If you have coal ashes, sift them, anu
ipread the siftings over the floor of the
sheep stables. 1t is next best to plaster.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14

The space around the entrance to the
hives should be kept so clean that deai
9ees can readily be seen.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14

"YoC told me YOU and Harry loved at
first sight" Yes, but we quarreled on ac-
quain1ance truth
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14

| HAVE found Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton an unfalling medicine. +. Il. LORI,
100 Scott st. CUvington, Ky, Oct. l, 1884.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14

THE Grip of Pneumonia may be warded of
Pike ToOtnachc Drops Cure in one minute