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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
George Vanderbilt is among the

George Vanderbilt is among the
number; he has already u lot of pea.
cocks of the breed curIously called
'Japanned"-perbaps because their
feathers have metallic, lacquer like
elittering. They are often wrongly
spoken of rs the japanese or Japan
peacock. Theodore Havemeyer has
recently imported n lot OF pheasant
eggs of the choicest breed. He sent
them to his model farm, .Mahwak, n.
j.. and then invited company of ban,
tam hens to hatch out the young
birds.
Peacocks, although not common
sight in this country, are occasionally
seen; pheasants are even more rare
but, as already said, n demand has
arisen for them and a lucrative bu Il.
ness should be carried on in dealt 10
with both the eggs and the birds.
In Suffolk. England. there is o
pheasant news upon one estate where
more than 100, 600 eggs are sold IA
nnally. To visit Warwick Castle is to
see peacocks in all their glory; IN.
deed, the place is famous for these
birds, OF which the handsomest are
white.
Having become possessed of paii
OF peafowls, they require very little
management, but must be carefully
fed. If kept in confinement they pick
mp pretty substantial living them
selves; it must be seen to that they
have plenty of water and grain and
occasionally fresh vegetables. In win.
ter they must have sheltered home.
In summer they avail themselves OF
the sheltered trees, and in some Sc
c!uded nook the nest is made. The
hen should be left to her own media.
tons and not interfered with wh,lo
she is on the nest Matching the eggs.
A peafowl allowed to make her own
nest in a hedge always brings out u
stronger and better brood than one
that has n nest in n house. When
patched the young brood should not
be removed until the next day, feed,
ing not beng required. The first
food should bo egg and milk, equal
parts. beaten together and heate ]
until 1T gets into n soft mess. This is
given with a little millet or wheat.
When one adds sufficiently to ones
stock to sell eggs as we'll as birds, ones
bank account should assume healthy
proportions.
Bringing up pheasants by hand is
an extensive industry in England, and
there is no reason it shonld not thrive
here; the eggs are collected from
birds kept in II new and are placed
under domestic hens. Care on the
part OF the keeper must be exercised
after the brood is old enough to wan
der about, lest, falling victims to
heredit", they wander off and take to
wild life. Indeed, they can only be
kept from wandering in every direc,
tion by being plen!ifully supplied
with food, which must he scattered in
the places where it Is desired they
should stay. Boston Globe.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
TO WASH BLANKETS AND rLAy,;E1s.

Take hot breezy day for it. Half
fill your tubs with water, barely luke.
warm. and dissolve in each half
pound OF good borax; then make tie
water into lather with borax soap.
Put in the fiannels few at a time,
squeeze and leave them about then
pass them into the second tub, and
repeat the process. When all have
gone through both su Is, rinse twice in
water of the same temperature. Never
let either soap or hot or cold water
touch any washable woolens. Soap
Gnakes them yellow, hot water shrink,
and cold water makes them harsh.
Above all, never pass them from hot
water into cold, nor vice vera. Do
not wiring them hard, and hang where
they will dry quickly. An iron should
mover touch them--so hang them as
smooth rs possible.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
INOCULATING WITT MANunE.

M, 60 -,
Inc i'cT mas ior some years been
WEI. es.HoIisnGSt 'haI cloVer ana other
i if8!I pants Gecompo:e AIR IL
'no sun HHuer certain conditions by
lieanS 0 ,r, hoouteS growing on tAeir
iootS' lneSe no 'u'eS 90 not appear
IN 'ne e"r'{ growing OF the pant but
nt'er 'hey lorm th'y increase through
It's growth ana are most active late in
s SUM, E t we sou ana air are
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
SIDE DITCH ENTRANCES.

A large outlet ditch or canal is cas-
lily injured by the deposition of silt
from the mouths of laterals, whether
open bitches or tile. Not only is the
fall OF the ditch injured by the earth,
but~weeds grow readily hen the ditch
is empty and act as nets to catch much
refuse material, during high water.
which would otherwise be washed out.
10 prevent washing from tile laterals,
enclose the last half dozen or dozen
tile in rectangular box made of
boards which correspond in width to
tito outside diameter of the tile. A
similar Arrangement can be used for
open ditch latornls. These board
boxes will last for number of wears.
if made of hard wood. 1t IS much
easier and cheaper to replace them
than it is tc clean out the main ditch.
New England Homestead.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
ONE GUN AGAINST DOZENS.
How Evangelical Mills Became Famous
in the Black Hills.

LOW ENonEcitst n Ills Became r. otuOus
in the Black HilIs.
Out at Central City in the Black HilL
3. Fay Mills fame as an evangelist l.
overshadowed by his reputation as
man OF nerve.
Mills went there as a newspaper cor.
respondent before the Sioux reserva
ton was opened to settlers. lie tooS
observations OF the situation and the
Characters" OF the place and crys al
Lied these In some readable articles
for an Eastern syndicate. They met
the approval OF readers In New York
clubs and in Philadelphia boudoirs, for
they had the touch OF novelty and the
SAVIOR OF adventure. Not so with the
iannel-shirted population OF Central
City. The community did not enjoy
having Its little pecularities brou sht
under the glare OF public observation
and 1t resolved to run the perpetrator
or such outrages out OF town.
The citizens resolved to besiege him
in his log castle on the hill and to re
solve with the Black Hills pioneers vas
TO do. II was not a half hour after
these summary proceedings were sug-
Gested before the coming evangelist
saw the entire population of Central
City filing up the hill, evidently bent
upon paying him visit. He was new
to the country, but he had studied the
idlosyncrasles of it's inhabitants long
enough to know what such formnlities
Portended. He barred the door. loaded
his repeating rife and waited.
The commander of the visiting forces
called upon him to surrender. The
only answer was the appearance of the
cold muzzle OF n rifle ut knot hole In
the door. The crowd fired few times
in sportive manner but grew tired OF
wasting its ammunition and II conclud-
ed to wait for developments. There
were none. The cold muZzle never left
the knot hole. The crowd got tired.
This state Of siege lasted three days.
Then the last man left his post and
Mills was free man as far as his own
premises were concerned, but he wisely
refrained from making himself visible
down town until n couple more days
had cooled the excitement. When he
did go, he found that his journalistic
piracies had been forgotten in n new.
all-absorbing topic. Miles away in an
almost inaccessible part of the noun
tain mine had "caved in" rescu-
ing party must be sent to the relief OF
the imprisoned and dying miners. But
the way led through a forest that had
not even an Indian path as guide. 1t
was bitterly cold and danger was to be
apprehended from Indians. Who would
lead the rescuing party? The bravest
of the deniZens of Central City were
mute. Il will co." said quiet voice
that has since stirred thousands from
the pulpit The slender young fellow
who had writ them lies" stepped into
the open. They couldn't XIII him then
His services might prove valuable.
He led the party through the woods,
saved the miners from an awful death
and won imperishable lnurels as "thG
neryiest man anywhere about"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
COOKING SMELLS.

The smell OF cooking ascend ing
from the kitchen to other parts of the
house is most unpleasant, and even
with the greatest care this can not
always be prevented. 1t is well,
therefore, to have a box, similar to
the common salt boxes, hung near
the stove, with cedar powder in it,
scatter little OF this on the top of
the stove and it will instantly kill I'M
pleasant odors.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01

Airs. Arthur Sewall, wife of the Dem.
ocratic candidate for Vice President, is
daughter of the late Charles Crookey
OF Bath, Me. She was educated. In Ips.
witch, and afterward travelled eXtens,
lively In this country and Europe. She
Is wide reader, proficient student.
and well-versed French scholar; but,
especially, she has an artistic tempera,
ment. a large collection of water col,
ors and landscape photographs made
by her in her travels testify to this: and
she Eas received diplomas for her work
as an expert amateur photographer in
Paris, New York and Boston. While
she Is in no sense an invalid, Mrs. Sew,
ais health has not been good for some
time; and she has been compelled 10
forego social duties to considerable
extent for the last few years.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
HOW TO nnANcu VEGETABLES.

B'anching vegetable is accom-
plished by giving it boiling bath.
1T Is common process in Frenc 1
kitchens, where care in preparatio l
of food for the cooking process is mor ,
minute than in others. a measur :
ofspinach, after being carefully picked
over and washed, is immersed in a
large wooden or earthenware bowl
filled with boiling sailed water, and
left for five Minutes. The salt voter
is then poured OF and cold WI ter
turned over it, after which it is re
fully dried, minced and cooked, to be
served with butter, salt and pepper
and bit of boiled egg.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
Sympathy and Truth

If man cannot be really loyal To
truth without sympathy, neither can, he
be truly kind and generous without
truthfulness. For, If he weakly yields
TO every one, right or wrong. and Is
what Emerson calls "a mush of con-
cession," he is not really helping or
strengthening or elcvating any one; no
is only INDUCING his own case by civ
Ing some one n cheap. unwholcsome
and transitory pleasure. The courage
of truthfulncss Is one of the most inn.
portant elements In all social inter-
course. and one of the Grmest founda.
tions of all worthy friendship.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
A FRIEND OF the BISON.
Austin Corbin Had the Finest Herd
of RuHaloes In America.


The late Austin Corbin, the railroad
magnate who met such a shocking
death not long ago. was warm friend
OF the American bison. He was a
struggling young man in Iowa when
the wanton and ruthless destruction OF
North Americas most distinctive beast
was at its height. and as frequent
witness on the Western prairics OF this
cruel and purely reckless slaughter of
magnificent species he had formed
a plan, many years before he had ac.
q lired the means for carrying il out.
TO prevent the utter extinction OF tho
buffalo tribe in America. When his
easy conquest over apparently insn.
perable difficulties had furnished him
with the money he wasted no time In
putting the scheme into operation.
Several years ago he commissioned
ranchmen in all the country from Brit
lsh. Columbia to Southern Colorado,
and from Western Nebraska to the
Yellowstone, TO capture for him the
best specimens OF the few remaining
buffalo In the West. The result was
that in few years the millionaire
Long Island railroad man had the
qualification of assembling In the Blue
mountain forest OF New Hampshire n
collection of thirty eight noble specl,
mems of the buffalo tribe. The herd
has now increased to seventy-four
more than forty having been born in
the New Hampshire forest. n few of
which died.
This is the finest herd of buffalo in
America. Every one of this herd, in.
Guiding those born in state OF com
parative captivity, is n superb spec
men, and the tribe is increasing rapid
ly.
Some time before his death Mr.. Cor
bin presented this splendid herd to
The city of New York. Quarters VIE
be fitted up for them in Van Cortlandt
Park, and they will probably be placed
| Their this fall.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
OLD snrrP roN'r PAY

At this time of year all who keep
sheep should look over their focks,
separating those six years or over, and
giving them little extra feed so as To
it them for the butcher. While they
arc still ut grass gill of oats per day
will make an astonishing appreciation
Of their value. Ii the fGtteniag is
postponed until cold weather or dry
iced the extra grain ration will only
maintain the sheep in condition, and
may even be needed to keep it through
The winter without fattening. OF
course there is no profit in n sheep
that has got so old that it needs to be
grained in order TO live through The
winter.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
suBsTrurEs ZOE HAY.

1t IS getting TO be n serious question
with some Eastern farmers as to how
they shall meet the effects of drought
which occurs nearly every year about
The time the spring crops and winter
rye ere setting the grain or earlier.
Short pasturaSG must he supplement.
ed every summer or the dairy doesn't
pay, and how TO do this il n problem
with not few. Si'age will meet the
emergency, but many farmers will not
so to the trouble of building si!o,
and yet it need not bo expensive
However, corn silnge does not furnish
n we'll balanced ration, being strong IN
carbohydrates and lacking i'm flesh
forming constituents. It should be
fed with concentrated heterogeneous
grain foods.
MilIot and Hungarian grass make
good supplementary crops. They
should be cut before the seeds beviu
TO form. They become "woody" very
rapidly as they mature in secdint
use about three pecks OF miilct and ~
bushel OF Hungarian seed TO the acre.
For n late pu-turage, or for feeding
green late in the iu'l, barley aud po,..
sown together aJou5 August 1st, are
excellent. They can follow milIet to
advantage Oassnnd peas mixed are
also good crops for late feeding
Tho farmer viii iuj that success. i'm
dorying particularly, requires careful
iorcthought AMI wise planniny. Hap
hazard methods viii surely result en-
failure. Eclipuce caurot he pIncsI az,
n good feIsou every year; droughts
viii come and they must loo bridged
over; and on the wisdom of tho plau-
ming success will very often hinge. -
low York lnInunn.DnL
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
Hoods Pills s sas ff liver fs ssma snln'E rio
Napoleon's Attempt MT suicide.

Since 1905 he had worn about his
neck as a kind OF amulet n little bag
said to contain deadly poison. one OF
the salts OF prussic acid. That night
when the terrors of n shaken reason
overpowered him, 1t is believed that he
swallowed the drug. Instead of OBJ
livion came agony, and his valet, rush
Ing to his masters bedside at the sound
Of a bitter cry, claimed to catch the
words: "MarmOnt has struck me the
final blow! Unhappy man, loved him.!
Berthier's desertiOn has broken my
heart. My old friends, my comrades
In armsv' Ivan, the EmpcrOr's. body
physician, was summoned, and admin
istered an antidote; the spasm was al
layed, and after short sleep reason
resumed her seat 1t is related in the
memoirs of Caulaincourt, and probably
with n sort of Homeric truth, that when
the reputed writer was admitted in the
early morning NapoleOn's ivan ana
sunken eyes seemed struggling TO re.
call the objects round about; uni
verse OF torture was revealed In the
vaguely desolate look" Napoleon Is re.
ported as saying: 1T Is not the loss OF
the throne that makes existence unen-
durable; my military career sunlces for
the glory OF n single man. Do YOU
know what Is more difficult to bear
than the reverses of fortune? 1t Is
the baseness, the horrible ingratitude,
OF men. Before such acts of cowardlce,
before the shamelossness of their ego
tism, have turned away my head in
disgust and taken my life in horror.
What | have suffered for
twenty days no one can underestimate
Century.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
APPLES FOR DESSERT.

Furbelowed Dumplings The French
name "Pommes en- Falbalas," is as
much prettier than the English version
as the dish Is moro dainty than the
old-fashioned pie-dumpling. Choose
fine Pippins, peel and core them,
keeping them nice shape Make
syrup OF II pint of sugar with pint OF
water, favored with slices of lemon,
and cook the apples in this until about
three parts done. Now roll out some
good pastry, cut in circles lay an
apple IN the center OF each put in
BIT OF butter and draw up the crust
around into kind OF friIl at the top.
Sprinkle with granu ated sugar and
bike until the crust is done Eat with
sweet sauce. The syrup should be
saved and poured over apples al out
to be baked, or used TO sweeten AZ plo
sauce.
Apple Froth Bake eight large
apples, and when cold rub through a
sieve; sweeten with sugar and add the
whites of three eggs beaten to n stiff
froth; whip this gradually into the
apple pulp until all is light. 1t may
be heaped on top of boiled or baked
custard in pretty glass dish or may
DO served by / eli i'll little glasses,
with whipped cream on top.
Apple Ghartreuse Boil cupful OF
rice, with little grated lemon pc Il,
in n quart Of milk until the rice is
tender and the milk all absorbed.
Core eight apples; fill the hollows
with raspberry jam, lay them in q
dish and put the rice between, brus a
over with the white of an egg, silt
sugar over and bake, covered, until
the apples are nearly tender. Then
uncover and brown.
Apple Fool-This is an English dish.
Served for Sunday night supper with
homemade sponge cake, it is n meal
in itself. Put two pounds pared and
cored apples in "A saucepan with cup
tul OF water, sugar to taste and two
cloves; simmer until soft and beat
with u wire egg benter add gradually
n pint of new milk, or cream that has
been heated to the boil, sweetened
and allowed to cool.
Apple Flummery -This is m e..
ceedingly Delicate dessert. Pare and
core two pounds of tart apples end
COOK until tender with q pound OF
sugar, the finely minced rind O q
lemon and water to barely cover !;
drain the juice from the apples, beat.
ing these TO a pulp. Soak On ounce
of gelatine in little cold water for
half on hour add it to the apple Juice
and stir over the fire until all is dis.
solved; now stir in the apple pulp and
"a cnpiul o. cream; keep stirring over
the fire for five minutes, but do rot
let it boil turn into mold wet with
/ cold water, and when set, eat with q
boiled Gu tard or whipped cream.
Apple Hedgehog two dozen
large apples, pared and c)red, 10
smooth jam, and sweoten to taste, flaw
/ orinR with bitter almond. Pare eight.
cen more, take out the cores and boil
/ them in syrcD until nearly tender.
/ Arrange them on dish i'm two or
/ three layers, as nearly ms possible in
| tue form OF n hedgehog, filling core
/ spaces with bright jam cover with an
| icing, stick blanched and split al.
monds over and color in the oven. It
I Ia better to cook tho whole apples
first, using the syrup that remains to
mako the pulp.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
ArESDISG GRANITE WARE.

A hole in granite saucepan or
kettle may be mended by using a cop
per rivet. These rivets, which come
in several sizes, may usually be bought
from harness-maker. The rivet is
put in the hole, and over the end of t
is put copper washer which is part
of it. Flntten the end of the rivet
with tack hammer, and the kettle is
good for service for many days. When
the enamel is Clipped from small
spot in the bottom of the saucepan,
the weak spot may be reinforced in
the same way.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Crowd the young porkers that You
wish to turn Off in December.
Do not feed too much hav, ami
avoid watering Immediately after feed
ing horse much OF n dinner.
So manage your stables as to saw,
all of the urine, as it is very valuable
have cement floors, if possible.
Use good snaps on lines and sid.
straps at least and by SO doing save
time, which is motley on farm.
II. Cnhill, Wisconsin, says that al
work horses should be watered ut least
six times day while doing the fall
work.
If You have been so negligent as to
have buGrs upon your farm do not lie.
tho sheep among them, for even a
high tariff will not make bury WOO
profitable.
If horses are troubled with the
scratches, mix two parts lard and one
part gunpowder thoroughly and ap,
ply on the place affected; it is CHEAP
and effective.
In cleaning horses, if they will moi
stand the currycomb well, get five
or ten cent brush made of broom corn.
used for scrubbing in the house. They
are very stiff.
The bureau Of animal industry q.
"H5hingtcl seems TO have settled bJ
experiment beyond dispute that one
nj least OF the most common means oi
the distribution of Texas cattle fe7ol
is q tick.
The breeders of Az shire cattle
Claim that the Ayrshire COW is lesg
susceptible to tuberculosis than my
other and that the Government veter,
lnarians who are applying the tuber.
calm test lind very few infected
Ayrshircs in the herds inspected.
Cattle raised under farm condition,
ought to keep ahead and far ahead oil
those OF the ranges. They can do il
If owners OF herds will pay greater ut.
tcGtiOn 70 the one matter that thew
hayo been most neglectiug for soma
years past, namely tho breeding oil
htrts.
The farmer who has obtained nigh
priced stock is sometimes tempted ID
breed from it TOO young. It is naturn
that Inc should want TO mukeit remu
uorGiiTc u9 soon as possible, but until
animals arereasonlbly well deyolope
/ they nr1 not i'm condition to be profit
able as breeding stock
The greatest fear Of tho shepherd Iq
the singnant water by which tho sheer
are injected by those in urious worm.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
THE PALE p1saAsE OF 1Aras.

The disease commonly thus known
is caused by worms lodged in the
throat Of the same kind rs those which
cause tho gapes in chickens. 1t is ac-
companied by u cough, loose and
husky, and by general weakness, due
to the imperfect action of the mir
breathed on the blood, by which the
skin is pale and the eyes watery and
dull. The worms are generally lodged
in the air passages of the throat and
the lungs, and are surrounded by n
frothy mucus, III which they exist in
punches. These, OF coarse, interfere
with the breathing and the want of
air to purify the blood then causes the
weakness and finally dcuth. Tho di-
sease is most common in low, wet pas.
lures, or in such rs are supplied with
water from low ponds or sluggish
streams. Turpentlne is the most ef.
fective remedy, given III teasponnful
doses each morning before iceding,
and repeated daily for a week, then
suspended for week, and then re.
peated, with the Same alienation IN.
til the lambs are relieved. New York
Times.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
WAY TO KEEP HTRBs

The best way to keep the various
herbs with which every careful house.
wife's store room should be supplied,
is in paper bags, suspended from the
wall. This keeps them dry and free
from dust or insects. AS the leaves
or blossoms rattle of, they are ready
for dressings, while the stems can be
used in soups.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01

Your honor" said lawyer n y re-.
cent trial in England the arsuino1 +
Of my earned friend is lighter tbon
vanity. 1t Is air; It is smoke From
:op to bottom it is absolutely nothing.
and therefore, your honor. it falls to
the ground by its own weight"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-12-01
Eia Hint.

Ie-Dld you know that an appIica.
ton Of raw veal is an excellent ci,ro ror
sunburn?
She-Dear me! 1t seems that if I
wanted to kiss q girl would ask for il
instead of limiting. Cincinnati En-.
quirer.
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rcAoock rArurya pAyg

Raising pcacocks and phcuslnts is q
new buoIness IN this country 10 su3.
ply thcr wants 70 number o. million
aires tre importing b-js Md eggs
from England.