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Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-05-21
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g. What exercises special and ordinary sensibity?
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household ass. a goat or two, or perhaps
sheep, and to the poultry of the house
mother.
In a place built, like Bethlehem, in
many cases, against the soft lime
stone rock, it often happens that the
existence of a cave. where the house
was to be, was great attraction, since
it offered ready made, dry, above
ground cellar. as we'll as specially suit
able spot for the household animals and
for storeroom. 1t would seem that
Joseph was at last able to get room in
some such back portion of house, and
there, we are told Mary bore her divine
Son. A cave, below the high altar of
the Church of the Nativity, is now
shown as the very place where this au.
gust event TRANSFERRED "a little recess,
shaped like clam shell, it's floor of
marble wrought ia star in the centre,
bearing in Latin the words, Here Jesus
Christ was born of the Virgin Mary" A
row OF lamps hang around the outer
edge, the right to attend to them being
jealousy watched matter; each of the
ancient churches. the Greek, the Latin,
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HORSES,

1t we would succeed intelligentIy we
must go to some trouble and expense to
get the use of the best sires, and we
must not stand on few dollars extra
for their use.
The general purpose horse is nearly
worthless in the markets of the great
cities. They are too light for any draft
work, not fast enough for roadsters, not
large enough for coschers.
Horses, as we'll as other stock. will
relish an occasional meal of roots with
their dry winter rations. Carrots are
especially beneficial. and supply should
be stored where they may be easily
drawn upon. Especially is such called
for where there is no supply OF ensilage
Roadsters fill the bill for general use
better than any other breed. The larg-
or ones are strong enough for any use of
the farmer; they walk fast. are quick in
all their movements. and will get to town
or to the field speedily; in fact, in most
points they are suited to the needs of al
most any man who needs horse.
Cows milk, in it's natural state, is too
rich for colts. 1t is safer to dilute with
one-third water and sweeten with sugar
of milk. dram to every quart. Young
colts require pint about every four
hours, and as they grow older will need
more and can go longer time between
feeds. This statement is in reply to
question many times asked.
French breeders pay attention to the
breeding of long distance trottsrs which
can keep their gait for many miles at a
stretch. Even in our road horse we are
not breeding very fast to distinctive
purpose. Next to draft horses there is
no class for which there is a better de-
mand at paying prices than for good
roadster. Horses which easily tire do
not fill the bill.
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that on the north side of it. to the up.
ward slope, to be called, ages after. the
Hill of the Shepherds, as famous for the
vision of angels, on the Christmas that
saw the birth of the Saviour. Or he
may have strayed up the sides of the
hills, toward the then Jebusite town of
Jerusalem. or. on the south, down the
long drawn glen that leads towards Heb
ron; the flowers, the birds, and the but
terflies pleasing the child as we'll then
as they do his successors of sim liar age
today. To see these little Bethlehem
ties at play. before the Church of the
Nativity, carried back my thoughts to
the time when the boys of Jesse we're
happy, on the same spot. with the same
childish lightheartedness. amidst the
same landscape; they so long vanished.
it the same as when they were busy
with their boyish games!
But the time was to come when
greater than David, though sprung from
his root" was to make Bethlehem
sacred for ever by his birth within it's
humble bounds. The exact time of
the nativity of Christ can never be
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Dickens's Imbeciles.

Charles Dickens's Partially for por-
traying characters of weak or impaired
intellect was truly remarkable. Turn
over in your mind the names of his
works. and nearly every one will be
found to contain person in some way
mentally affected. First and foremost
is Barnaby Rudge. undeniably "full-
blown" idiot, if one may use the express
sion. Then Mr.. Dick in David Copper
field" Smike in Nicholas Nickleby,"
Mr.. Toots in "Dombey and Son." Miss
Elite in BLEAK House, Mr.. F's Aunt in
Little Dorrit," all are. to use another
vulgarism, only "half baked" Again,
Monsieur Manette in "a Tale of Two
Cities" and Mrs. Gargery in "Great Elk.
pectations" latter the murderous as
sault by Orlick). both labored under
partial obfuscation. In "Pickwick" we
have the celebrated "mad mans story"
Old Chuffy in Martin Chuzzlewit," was
not quite bright; and NelPsgrandfather,
in The Old Curiosity Shop" was de-
cidedly "dotty."
1t is worthy of note that Mr.. Thomas
Hardy has similar leaning towards the
half-witted. But for the most striking
example of an author holding a brief
for these unfortunates, commend US to
the Russian writer. Fedor Dostoieffsky,
who had the courage to publish a long
novel bearing the simple but appalling
title of "The Idiot!
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SWINE.

The farmer who will cure choice
young pork will make a double profit.
Home cured hams and breakfast bacon
are much like home made butter-al-
ways in demand.
Pigs grown from old and mature dams
have proved to have much greater vital.
ity, and will better resist disease. He
who observes this plan will seldom have
cholera among his hogs. and this is GER
tainly one of the reasons therefor.
The keeping of all the pigs can be the
same up to five or six months old, as the
chief object to be sought is muscular
development, At this age those to be
kept for breeders can be separated from
those to be fed for the market. By all
means put the secondary animals in the
fattening pen, for il sold as breeders
they soon kill breeders trade.
There is encouragement in the gener-
al acquiescence in the policy of giving
swine range-plenty of grass and clover.
and less OF the everlasting corn diet,
We no longer aim at masses of living
lard. The better methods are giving US
pork which is fit for use, and is largely
increasing the demand for the products
of this profitable animal. Give the hog
a chance, and he will do his best for US.
As soon as whey begins to sour, the
sugar, the only really valuable part,
turns to Tactic acid, leaving only about
one pound of food to each 100 pounds of
whey. If the whey is fed sweet and in
combination with mixed meal it has it's
feeding value more than doubled At
best, as food, fed against wheat mid
dlings at SO ton. whey has a value of
only about 81 ton, and this only when
fed as sweet whey. 1t is not much
more than good com bination in slop.
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CHRISTMAS AT BETHLEHEM.
BY DIR. CUNNINGHAM GEIKIE.

l remember sitting on one of the old
marble pillars lying now. for who knows
how many centuries, on the open ground
beside the Church of the Nativity at
Bethlehem. and letting my thoughts
wander back till the haze of millenniums
sent them home to me again, like Noah's
dove, wearied with vain attempts to find
anything. in those dim regions, on which
to alight. The horizon must have been
very much the same ever since the age
when the soft white chalky limestone
which once covered all Palestine, from
Leba 1on to the Southern Desert, fell in
a snow-like shower of microscopic parti-
cles. through the waters of the then su-
perincumbent ocean. and, in the course
of untold thousands of years, heaped up
the strata which gave Lebanon its name
the White Mountains and sealed all
Palestine besides, under the same pure
windiog. sheet.
Since then the chalky sandstone Of the
coast plain has been deposited. and the
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An old lesson, not yet we'll learned, is
to have good ventilation in the milk
rom, clean floors and walls, and to har-
Dor nothing which will produce bad
odors.
For cream. milk should be set as
quickly as possible after milking, and
the temperature reduced at once to pre-
vent the formation of fibrin. To this
end all the improved methods tend.
In any dairy which produces a dairy
average of 200 pounds OF milk Baby
separation" ought to pay. If you do not
handle that much, perhaps it would pay
to increase the szs of the dairy up to
the separator standard.
Any exposure to winter weather will
increase the amount of food consumed
by the cows, and decrease the value OF
the product from them. The only way
to run winter dairy successfully is to
stable the cows in clean, warm and well
ventilated barns.
No interest has profted more from
the institutes in the past than the dairy
but there is yet much more to learn J
Let dairy farmers give these meetings
their most hearty encouragement and
support. and make a greater effort to
put the dairy at the front of our whole
agricultural system.
There is a reason why so much poor
cheese is on the market. and why it is
of no greater value. Perfect cleanliness
from the stable to the curing room is as
necessary, with all the concomitants of
good air, pure water and wholesome food
for the COW. as for making first class
butter. 1t is evident that, at best, we
regard cheese making as an art of no
great Importance. We are both thought
less and careless.
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world; the victorious sun of Righteous
ness, rising on world long sunk in
darkness. to restore spiritual day to
mankind. 1t could hardly have been at
that season, however, for such time
would surely not have been chosen by
the authorities for public enrolment,
which necessitated the population trav-
cling from all parts to their natal dis
tricts; storm and rain making journeys
both unsafe and unpleasant in winter,
except in specially favorable years Snow
is not at all uncommon at Jerusalem in
the winter months, and l have even
known it so deep that people lost their
way outside the gates; and Bethlehem
lies even higher than the Holy City.
Then there is no provision for heating
houses in Palestine, and the suffering
from cold is, in proportion. great; es-
pecially to population accustomed to
great heat for most of the year. One
knows how wretched even Rome is in
winter, and Palestine is much worse
during hard weather. Nor is it likely
that shepherds would lie out through
the night, except during unseasonably
fue weather.
But it matters little on what precise
day the Saviour was born; the great
thing is to commemorate the amazing
event on some day accepted by Chris
tians at large. Mary's journey from
Nazareth was long one, and must have
been made easier, we may suppose, as
such family journeys are still. by the
services of an ass-the general riding
beast of Palestine since the earliest
times. Simple food. of bread, with figs,
and perhaps the soft cheese of the coun-
try, would be enough; water sufficing
for drink, except where hospitality Of
fered a cup of wine then made by near.
ly all households. We must not. more
over, think of Joseph seeking out an
inn at Bethlehem, for inns were I'M
known among the jews, and indeed use.
less, where the only accommodation u.s.
udlly I6quiEou was lodf0 W bloop Ou TUG
floor, or on ones own mat brought with
him-as in the khans we still find over
the East. 1t was a sacred obligation on
every Jew to give shelter to his country
man when on journey; and hence in
stead of IAN inn." the real sense of the
Gospel is. that there was no room in
any house for the weary Nazarene ito
loosen" the girth of the ass, and make
his stay there. A Hebrew house in
those days would be like a peasants
house now: living room of four walls
and bare floor. which served for sleep
ing on at night and for eating on by
day. No one sits in the house except in
bad weather. so that the open air serves
for gossiping-place; the ground being
the usual seat of cross-legged Oriental
to this day. Behind the living part of
the house there is a somewhat lower
floor. also of mud; this part of the es-
tablishment being given over to the
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A farmer. living on poor country
road 10 miles from town, is farther away
from the market than il he were 200
miles distant by rail.
Usually the tenants only interest is to
get as much from the soil as possible.
Therefore system of cropping on the
shares is not good one, as rule, for
the land.
Fifty bushels of sunfower seeds to the
acre is fair yield. and this will produce
80 gallons of oil worth 81 gallon. When
mixed with other grains they are rel
ished by all farm animals. and are espec.
tally good for fowls.
There are farmers who always have
something to sell when they go to town,
and such are Invariably prosperous; but
to have things to sell means to first get
them and prepare them for market. To
keep ones head above water in great
degree lies in searching out and saving
the littlee.
Ii you cannot put the manure upon
the land as fast as made, and have no
covered barnyard or shed in which to
store it, waste can be effectually pre-
vented by pilipg up and covering with
earth. Whatever volatile matter is CIV
en- off by the heating of the pile will be
absorbed by the earth; neither will it's
virtues be washed out to any extent by
the rains.
In order to be successful in general
farming it is necessary. above all things,
that we obtain good stand of grass in
our rotation of crops, whatever the ro-
tation may be, which should not be
more than three or four years apart;
that is to say. we should have a good
sod to turn under every three or four
years. Without it the soil becomes too
compact.
Rotation is not fad of the age, and
no man has patent upon it. Nature
began it long ago. When the forest oaks
and hickories have been removed thick
growth of evergreens appears; in New
England, where the white pine forests
have been cut away. the maple. chestnut
and oak have sprung up. A similar vol
untary succession is found in the tim
othy meadow, followed by blue grass.
Few men have ever become rich by
selling hay. oats and corn. The appar-
emit profit was derived by robbing the
soil of plant food which went away with
each load sold. By feeding these pro-
ducts an extra profit would be procured,
and the plant food would remain upon
the farm, where it belongs. 1t behooves
us to look to it that we are not selling a
part of the farm every time we haul
load of produce to the market. Too
many do this-never know it.
Why should not permanent planta.
tions of the various timber trees be
made upon our fair grounds. so as to il.
lustrate the methods of planting and
cultivatiog, and the rapidity of growth
OF the different sorts? Most of our
grounds are too desolate. anyway. Lay
out avenues and plant double rows Of
naples, ash. oak, walnut, linden, or other
varieties, with perfect record kept of
time and care. Ifnot enough room, buy
a few more acres. 1t will make a park.
in itself attractive.
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Yawning Fish.

A turbot's mouth is twisted on one
side, rather as if it had belonged to
round fish which some one had accident
ally trod on and squashed half fiat. The
yawn begins at the lips, which opens as
if to suck in water. Then the Jaws be-
CONS distended, and it is seen that this
is going to be real, genuine fish's yawn.
But the yawn goes on. works through
the back of it's head. distending the
plates Of the skull. and comes out at the
gills, which open, show the red inside.
are inflated for moment, and then, with
a kind of stretching shiver Of its back
the fish flattens out again.
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POULTRY.

BY making a small start with poultry
in the autumn one becomes accustomed
to their needs and to the best methods
of handling them before the real serious
work of setting and Matching begins.
Let the turkeys run until 10 days be-
fore marketing them, and then shut
them up close and give them fattening
food. They will rapidly increase in
weight and improve in quality.
With turkeys, as with all other kinds
of live stock, the best profit will be found
in the improved breeds. and especially
in the bronze varieties. Ysarling bronze
turkeys can easily be made to weigh %
pounds.
If grain is fed in trough fowls will
simply stand up and gorge themselves.
Scatter it we'll and compel them to take
some exercise with their meals. Feed
only such food thus as would be other
wise wasted.
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THE CHRISTMAS OFFERING.

We come not with costly store,
o Lord, like them of OLD,
The masters of the starry lore,
From Ophir's shore of gold
No weepings of the incense Tree
Are with the gifts we bring;
No odorous myrrh of Araby
Blends with our offering.
But still our love would bring its best,
A spirit keenly tried
BY fierce Affections fiery test,
And seven times purified
The fragrant graces of the mind,
The virtues that delight
To give their perfume out, will hnd
Acceptance in thy sight.
Rev William Croswell, DID.
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cross will be hornless. They mature
very early.
good quality of wool cannot be OBJ
tanned from sheep which are allowed to
grow poor two or three times year, and
are in good condition only when the sea-
son is favorable; in fact, failure is the
price of neglect mere often than we
think.
Build up the flock by retaining the
best ewes and breeding to a full blood
ram of good breed, always; get one
which is best adapted to your locality
and to the purpose for which you are
keeping sheep. Persist in the selection
OF the ewes, and buy a new ram at least
every two years, in order to infuse new
blood.
A sheep may be fed for one seventh of
the feed an OK requires, and will make
growth of nearly three-quarters of q
pound day for the first year of it's life,s
and will net good price at the farm.
For the next year it will net about half
a pound if we'll cared for. Such sheep,
too, having large carcass, will have a
proportionately large fleece; but there
is always more profit in the mutton than
in the wool
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known, for it has been disputed from
the earliest ages of the Church. The
25th day of December. which was at
last accepted as the date on which it
should be celebrated, has little in its
favor beyond the fact that it was the
day on which, in antiquity. the return of
the sun from it's winter absence was
kept-such festivity, as it we'll ap-
peared, suiting the feast of the nativity
of Him who was to be the light of the
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SHEEP,

The size of the carcass and value of
the fleece of our fine wooded sheep may
both be increased by keeping them in
small hocks and giving good care and
feeding.
Turnips are natural feed for sheep,
and may safely be pastured, permitting
the animals to eat all they desire; in
fact. root crops are always good for any
of our farm animals.
If we wish to make specially of very
early lambs for market, we can do no
better than TO uss cross of Southdown
upon the Dorset. The lambs Of this