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Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06
PROSPEROUS HOMES.
Found on Every Farm Where Improve
ment Is the watchword.

From all sections of the country
comes an earnest expression of de-
sire for improvement along all lines of
effort. This desire is the logical result
Of the improved condition of the farm
crs produced by their wise action last
year in making their supplies at home.
The home is the surfing point for adj
vancement and progress. Make the
home self-sustaining and its inmates
comfortable and happy, and it is easier
then to establish the community and
country on higher plane of prosperity.
The essential thing is to get the home
in prosperous condition, and no home
can be prosperous unless the owners
live there-live in the true meaning Of
the word, and not simply exist there.
The farm is the farmers world and the
home the heart and center of that
world. In conducting the farm on
sound business principles it is vitality
important that provision must first be
made for the sustenance of the family
and live stock necessary to conduct
operations on the farm. With this as
basis, decreasing expenditures, the
money crop will be surplus one, and
the producer will be, to certain extent,
independent,
The Expression of a general desire
for improvement is an omen of better
times. 1t is prophetic of still greater
improvement of the condition of the
farmer, of the soil he cultivates, in his
system of cultivation. and in the ham
ding of the products of the farm. Let
improvement be the watchword.-
Southern Cultivator.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06
RESTORING PASTURES.
Narrowing in clover Seed IL ssven as an
ExceIlent Plan.

The maintenance of pasture lands has
become one of the important problems
in connection with farm management.
Our system of CLOSE grazing, followed
by periods of prolonged drought inevita-
bly, leads TO weakened vitality of grass
plants, resulting in deficient stand and
reduced productiveness. One of the
best plans of renovation, says the Mas
sachusetts Plowman, Is to harrow in
some clover seed. From experiments
at the Iowa station IT appeared that
clover seed disced into blue grass pas
ture at the rate of ten quarts per acre in
Gcreased the yield 65 per cent, the equiv
alent of 1,500 pounds of cured hay per
acre. Good, fine bRnnyard manure ap.
piled to blue grass pasture at the rate
OF 90 tons per acre increased the yield "a
per cent, equivale@t ITO 100 pounds Of
cured hay per acre.
The addition of 30 pounds of grass
seed per acre, together with the discing
end narrowing, Increased the yield Of
grass 1915 per cent or the equivalent OF
500 pounds of hay per acre.
a top-dressing OF liquid manure, 500
gallons TO the acre, without grass or
clover seed, increased the yield only 26.5
per cent.
The pasture used for the test was
stated to be rather poor, shallow, grav-
ely soil, with fairly good neutral
stand of grass.
The results show that clover seed
gave twice as much increase as grass
seed, and more than twice as much as
that produced by liquid manure.
In the practice of treating pastures
with clover seed and the disc, the work
can be very much reduced by applying
the seed early while the ground is soft
in order that part of it may be covered
by the tramping of stock, and the disc
ing and narrowing should also be done
at time when the surface will be most
readily loosened. With many pastures
the rocks prevent the use of the disc ma
chine, and in such cases considerable
can be accomplished with the old-style
tooth-harrow. But disk harrow should
be used in the clear places.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06
PIGPEN POINTERS.

A NANCY pig is an Improbable. ami
NAL.
As rule it does not pay to breed All
animal with bad disposition.
Grease or oil when thoroughly APP
piled will rid the hogs of lice.
Hasty and careless feeding is often
the cause of disease getting a start
among the hogs.
Some arrangement should be made
in every feeding place for supply of
salt and ashes.
A thriving pig should make growth
of pound day. The pig should there
fore be ready for market when six
months old.
II is generally best TO have the pigs q
little hungry so that they will come 10
their feed with good appetite, rather
than to have them lazy and Indifferent.
Some skill is required to feed grain to
hogs economically. Many men waste
grain and money by overlooking, de-
feating the very end that they try TO
accomplish.
Variety. is essential to the SOW, and if
she be loose with big range of pasture
and woodland she will find it. If con-
fined you must furnish it if you expect
the best results.
Hogs need great deal of water, es-
pecially in hot weather or if they are
eating corn. II they do not have it in
abundance, and pure in quality, then
look out for disease among them
Rural World.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06
FEEDING YOUNG PIGS.
Best Ration Is u Mixture of Oatmeal and
Sweet Skim MIX.

Sweet Skim MIX.
Few feeders believe in giving extra
food to sucking pigs before they are
four weeks old. Thesize of the litter, of
course. requires earlier feeding when
the dam is young or deficient in her
milk secretion. The danger of indiges-
ton in the youngsters warrants one in
being tardy in mixing milk with the
natural ration.
The first and best ration is a mixture
of pure oatmeal (same as used or your
own table) with sweet skimmilk, and it
should be cooked to suit your own taste
and relish. Then thin the same with
milk which has been heated and allowed
to cool. For three days OF week this
mixture should be the only slop given
the youngsters. Then, If expense is too
great, the oatmeal can be replaced by
wheat shorts or "middlings." If clear
oatmeal is out of the question to begin
with, the shorts may be substituted.
If the dam is grazing on good blue
grass, or clover, the pigs may be given
ground oats with the hulls, mixed with
the shorts after the fifth week of their
age, and bit of corn meal for variety
may be used. Coarse bran should be
withheld until after the age of four
months, if possible, except where a
chronic, costive condition Of the bowels
exists.
! While grazing the weaned pigs up to
four months of age will do well on slop
made of equal parts of corn meal, oats
ground and shorts, given morning and
evening. A few grains, to each, of
soaked shelled corn at noon time will do
no harm. when they should also have
sweet milk and water mixed, or clear
water, as suits convenience.-Farm,
Field and Fireside.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06
DANGEROUS GLUE HERON.
Hunters Havc Been Hurt Trying 60 Cap
ture n Wounded Bird

ture q Wounded Bird
"Some of these days." said the long
shore hunter TO q New York Sun man,
II expect TO open my daily paper and
see headline something like this:
Killed by Blue Heron and I'll tell
you why. The blue heron is big,
powerful bird, which has already dis.
figured the faces of several men. The
men have wounded bird, and then,
thinking to capture IL alive, they went
up to 1t. Why, I'd as soon try to kiss
wounded grizzly. The birds grow as
tall as siN feet and have necks like a
fish rod and just the kind of muscles
to move it quickest with the most
strength. They could drive their bill
points through a quarter-inch panel.
1.-THE hunter goes up to bird and
sees 1t lying there looking as inno-
cent as a robin, with only wing broken.
What a fine pet it would make the
fool hunter thinks. Then he picks the
bird up and starts for home in a wagon
or a boat, with the bird between his
knees. The birds neck is drawn back
like a letter 81 All of n sudden the
bill shoots up and gives the man cash
alongside the eye three inches long
That is what always has happened. The
wounded bird has missed its aim, but
some time, and you want to remember
it, this feathered spearman will drive
its bill into an enemy's eye, and, like @
steel umbrella stick, the point of the
bill will penetrate the mans brain.
guess the birds aim has always beer
spoiled by the pain of its wounds, and
so many q human life has been saved.
don't monkey with wounded bitterns.ol
cranes-well, scarcely"
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

galvanized wire is now exceedingly
cheap. 1t is just the material TO use in
making repairs upon board fences. Sc
cure the end of the wire to the top of the
then bind it about the post and the ends
of the boards in the manner shown,
making it fast at the bottom. Such re-
pairing is easy, and, best of all, it is
effective and lasting. Such wire may
also be used in binding pole fences TO
the stakes which support them.-N. Y.
Tribune.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06
best Mode of Tetherlng.

This is the time of year when it is
quite common to tether animals out TO
grass. A decided Improvement upon
the usual method of doing this is to at
tach to the halter strap three or four
feet long with ring in the end This
ring is slipped over a wire, which is.
stretched across the grass plot and
fastened down near the ground az both
ends. A No. o wire Is sufficient. and IL
should, of course. be stretched taut and
we'll stobbed at each end. BY this
arrangement the animal can browse full
length of the wire, without the danger
always attending the use of the long
rope-that of its winding and tangiing
around his feet.--G. w. Waters, In jour
nal OF Agriculture.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06
sunllower Seed COR Poultry.

There is not much of a boom at pres
cnt for growing sunfiowers, but the
time will come when they will be lnrge-
Is grown here, as they are in Russia, TO
press into oil. Even now few should
be planted every year to grow for poul.
try during winter. They are excellenf
for moulting fowls, because of the oil
they contain, but when fowls are not
rnoultlng the sunfiower seed should ba
fed sparingly, so as not to fatten them.
They arc better feed for laying fowls
than Is corn.---Rural World.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06
METAL CAP.

shown in the accompanying cut; and
on this smaller upper end get your
timer to fit loose cap made of gall
vanlzed iron, say six inches deep. Put
any heavy article that may come handy,
as sand, shot, ETC., into this cap, in
quantity sufficient TO just balance the
door, and you will have an arrange
nlent that works like charm.-G. w.
Waters, in st. Louis Journal of 'Agri-
culture
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06
Spectacles.

Roger Bacon was the first TO suggest
the use OF spectacles. When they came
into use in Italy, about the year 1885, on
the recommendation of Alessandro di
Spina, monk of Pisa, women were
forbidden to wear them, because it was
thought that such facial ornamental
tons would make them vain.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06
Listen for Angel NInsio.

The children at Bethlehem are told
by their mothers that on Christmas eve
a choir of angels sings above the place
where Christ was born. Travellers say
that on this evening scores. and some
times hundreds, of children may be seen
in the open air, looking up into the sky,
waiting to hear the angels sing.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06
Al About western Farm Lands.

The Corn Belt" is the name Of an illus
trated monthly newspaper published by the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy H. X. 1t
aims TO give information in an interesting
way about the farm lands of the west. Send
p cents in postage stamps TO the Corn Belt,
200 Adams ST., Chicago, and the paper Will
be sent TO your address for one year,
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06
A Free Press in Austria.

Austria's new ministry has sent
circular to all public prosecutors re-
Ipinding them that the freedom Of the
press is guaranteed by the constitution,
md warning them that the illegal prac-
tice of confiscating newspapers. on the
ground that they incite to hatred and
contempt, will no longer be tolerated.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06
THE FARMING WORLD.
REPAIRING FENCES.
stout Galvanized Wire Ia Far Better for
MendinE Than Nails.

stout Galvanized Wire ID Far BETTER for
MendinE Than Nails.
Mending pasture fences is often a
prominent element in the regular sum-
mer work of the farm. The boards used
in pasture fencing are usually of
cheap quality, and either decay rapidly
or warp and twist out of shape, either
Of which evils has tendency to free the
ends of the boards from the posts. To
again nail these ends to the posts is but
10 temporize. They will soon be o1s
again. A much better way to mend
such breaks is by using the plan shown
in the accompanying illustration. Stout
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

bhereln-Wlll per-
nit, the most con-
venient door, the
one least in the
way, is a door hung
by weights, to slip
up and down, in
stead of swinging
back on hinges, or
sliding sideways on
guides or rollers.
This style is espe-
cially desirable for
partition doors, as
il occupies so little
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06
That JoYfnl Feeling

With the exhilarating sense of renewed
health and strength and in crnal cleanli-
ness, which follows the use of Syrup of
Figs, is unknown TO the few who have not
progressed beyond the od-timc medicines
and the cheap substitutes sometimes of
fered but never accepted by the well-in-
formed
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06
Ancient Makers OF Shoes.

Shoemakers were at first called SAN
dal-malers. and there is little doubt
that sandals and rough buskins, or
socks covering the legs like gaiters),
were the first specimen of shoes.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

ated. Have the
weight cast some
where about half
the average weight
of the doors "a little
less rather than
more), and insist
on having them
slightly smaller at
fha MINER end. us
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06
STRANGER is holy Walter Scott

"ARE you choss players" asked the
landlord OF prospective tenant. II much
prefer To have my houses occupied by chess
players" "No, am not chess player,
and can't account for such singular
preference" at Is simple enough,l Chess
players move so seldom, and ony after
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

"MAUDE, your father says he cannot af'
ford TO dress you as n summer girl this sea-
son." 'All right, NANNY. Get me tailor
gown and bloomcr suit and I'll star as an
athletic rl."-Detroit Free Press.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

room, and never comes in the way.
The only practical difficulty in its
construction is that of getting tho
weights adjusted to the weight of the
door, but this may easily be obvi-
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

Satan. Purity warm admitted the newly
arrived Oldest inhabitant, "but remember
some 10 years ago, when II was 80 durn hot
that" The attendant imps, Ut signal,
seized him and showed HIN down seven
stories nearer the bottom which isn't ,ncro.
= indianapolis journal.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

"DAu's a good deal dependin' on de way
er man applies lis inergies," said Uncle
Eben. "De bass drummer often uses up
mob muscle on one chunc dan dc fust
fiddler does on half u dozen. Nv ashington
Star.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

BILzIM-'I've found one good way to get
around the high hat nuisance when 60 to
the theater." Jabzin-''YOu havef Let's
hear it.n Bilzim-'.Why, buy q seat in the
front row, of course. "-Roxbury Gazette.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

Swiss PEAsANr.--''I was highly pleased
with the conduct of my city boarders last
year. The baron sawed ten cords of wood
Tor me, the baroness MIXED the COW and
their children took care OF the geese, -
Fliegende Blaettcr,
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

PAT's LEAPYEAR QuEsTIoN.-At q festive
gathering on February 20 a true son OF
Erin asked; "Has II occurred 20 any Of ye
that it will be eight solid years before wc
again sec this day twelvcmonthl ''--Tt-Bits.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

"BUT, Bertha, il was only last month tina,
/ paid a dressmaller's bill of 49,, and here
Is another one for this month of 940.'
''Well. dear Edgar, YOU see that shows that
am beginning 10 spend less. "-Tit-Bits.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

THESE songs of May would touch tie eal
With sentiment more true,
II with their coming every year
Our taxes were not due.
Washington star.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

BRowN-"I am going 10 challenge that
man who ran of with my wife" Jones
"Why, that was six months ago" Brown
~ know it, but he has sent her back
N. Y, World.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
Tor any case Of Catarrh that can not be
cured BY Halls Catarrh Cure.
#. ]. CHENEY a. Co., Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known r. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable In all business
transactions and financially able TO carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
WEST e. TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, To-
ledo, 0.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimo malls
free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
TIE chef makes no pretensions as a sharp
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

"WnEN err man has is own way" said
Uncle Ebcn, 'he's liable ter find fault ies'
de same, case folks didn't grab i'm an hold
i'm ter keep i'm out'n trouble, Washing
ton Star
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

Mrs. PRosY-"Reading is quite passion
with my husband" Mrs. Dresscr--'So IL
is with mine when he reads my milliner's
billsr-.London Fun.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

Books are the immortal sons deifyinG
their sres.-Plato.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06
ABOUT BARN DOORS.

Those Hung by Weights Are the Best. for
| Many Reasons.
Where the structure of the barn-or,
perhaps we should say, the position
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

The chef makes no pretensions as a sharp
shooter, bnt he can hold his own at the
ranRe-Elmira Gazette.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

beauty deceives womei, in making
them establish on an ephei ieral power
the prctensions Of a whole hfe.--Simon
de Bigipcourt-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-06-22
TRIO WE'RE rRAMPING.
Their Awful Crime Induced by B
ing Short of Funds.

Their Awful Crime Induced by Be
ing Short Of Funds.
The trio Of thugs and murderers who
killed Jacob Hayes and Edward Paul
and attempted to kill DR.. Burnside
Foster at Wyoming early Saturday
morning are in fair way Of getting
their deserts. One of the gang is dead,
and the other two are at present In
the county Jail at Saltwater for safe
keeping.
The thugs, after killing Hayes and
Paul, and leaving DR.. Foster for dead,
left wyoming and struck north on the
Duluth track. They travelled about ten
miles and then camped in the brush
a few hundred feet from the railroad
Here they remained all day Saturday
and on Saturday night started again
on their way north. Arriving at
North Branch, d small town about
fourteen miles from the scene Of their
murderous exploits, they stopped and
commenced business operations again.
The house Of ex- Mayor Frank Smith,
of North Branch. was entered by the
lesperadoes, who were evidently all
around men. as the uolice would cal
them, and did night work, day work
,r murder just as the opportunity Of
ered. After ransacking the house o.
Ir. Smith, the trio gathered up what
they wanted In the shape Of clothing
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-06-22

ham had each a ten and fve-dollar bill,
beside three or four dollars in silver.
Wilson, the dead thug was about thir-
ty years old, and on stripping the body
1t was seen that he had a wound, evil
IDENTIFY made by bullet, in his right
arm. The wound apparently was of re-
cent date.
Kelly, who, according to the state
ment of Cunningham, was the leader of
the gang, is desperate-looking fellow,
about thirty-five years old. He has a
most repulsive countenance, and his
actions after being taken in custody
would indicate he was an old hand at
the business.
The news Of the capture of the muir
derers spread through the surrounding
country as though there was telegraph
ic communication with every house and
farm. A crowd began to assemble and
the sheriff concluded that 1t would be
best for the prisoners to have them
taken to a place much more secure
than the building which does duty for
jail at North Branch. The limited
train on the Duluth road does not as a
rule stop at North Branch, but 1t did
yesterday afternoon, on orders and the
two criminals were taken on board and
started for Saltwater. The news. that
the two remaining members of the gang
were on the train and would pass
through Wyoming, caused a crowd of
seven hundred people to gather at the
station and await the arrival Of the
train. So large was the crowd and so
determined were they to have look at
the men that it was with difficulty that
the train could pull into the station
There was bowling mob surrounding
the car in which the sheriff and his
prisoners were seated, but through it
all Kelly never blinked his eye, and
seemed the most composed one of the
the party. Cunningham was badly
scared and did not regain his compo-
sure until after the train had pulled
out from the scene Of the murder.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-06-22
POSTMASTER VAUGHAN TELLS
The Story of the battle In the
Swamp.

M. F. Vaughan, the postmaster at
North Branch was member of the
party which surrounded the despera-
does in the woods near North Branch
and his story as told to the Clio e
last evening, is a thrilling one He
said: After the marshall and his
companions hailed the robbers on the
railroad North of town, they returned
to the village and gave the alarm. Soon
we made UP a party, chased them into
the swamp West Of the track, after
which they doubled on the track, and
recrossed into the swamp of the East
side of the track, a distance of six
miles, should judge. The first notice
that we had that we were up to them
was a volley of shots into our midst.
The pursuers then fired In return.
blfndly at first The robbers were not
visible, being down In hole, but from
the motion Of the grass where the
men were lying, their location could
be made out with more or less def1n-
iteness, and several volleys were ex-
changed, I should say ten. When Will
son was killed, he had his pistol cooked
and in his hand, ready for another
aim. The man Cunningham was also
wounded, and he and Kelley surrend-
cred. The posse then carried Wilson'S 8
house, where a rig was hitched up to
carry him into the village.
Not all of the original party followed
the trail to the final roundup, only II
being in the final ring That none of
them were hurt is miraculous and
seems almost a Judgment of providence
in the punishment of the crime. They
came upon the thugs unawares. and
while after the first shot, they sought
cover before beginning operations, that
first volley found them absolutely in
the open.
The place where the conflict occurred
was on hardwood island, which the
fugitives had evidently chosen as a
resting place after their hard journey
through the swamp. The place was
about mile from the nearest human
habitatfon, and 1t was evidently the
idea Of the men that they would there
be free from observation. However,
they were proved to have been mis-
taken, If this was their theory, as the
results Of that last battle show.