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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25
nrcnpn nE A DOZEN COWS.

our herd consists of twelve cows, nint
puru-bred JERSEYS and three grade Jer'
seys, SAWS correspondent OF Hoard :
Dsiryman. Beginning Jan. lst, 1879
Ne have sold 1892 pounds of butter W
Ia Jan. lst, lS96. Besides, family ol
four persons have had milk, cream aud
butter for the year. We have raiseo
calves and pork 70 the amount OF saI 90
feeding skim milk, which should De
credited 10 the herd.
Our herd has been fed on an averag'
for the wear, four pounds Of grain day
composed of a mixture OF 200 pounds
bran. 100 pounds niddlings, 80 POUNDS
cotton seed meal for the summer, anc
corn and cob meal substituted IN plac'
of cotton seed meal in winter. We hav,
also fed little skim milk 10 the cows
when We had il 10 spare after feeding
calves and hogs. For roughsge We us'
mixed hay and corn fodder for winter
ration, aud pasture alone for the sun
mer. We fed no green feed of any kind
owing 10 the severe drouth, thinking II
better TO save our corn fodder for Win
ter.
We use the BabcOck tester every
month aud lind that our herd tests on al
average 80 per cent butter fat for ih'
year.
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EIoauepce Cruelty Interrupted.

When Sala went to Australia, he a.
ranged TO deliver a series Of lecture,
and he was fond Of telling an anecdotp
about one of his platform experiences
there.
II was describing to my audience. "
he said, "in my very best English the
coronation Of her majesty. had seen
the procession from the corner Of Par
lament street, and was telling how the
young girl-queen drove by in the stateli-
ness OF childhood's S simplicity, the dig
nifty of sovereignty already seated upon
her pale young brow, with heaving
breast. A hectic flush upon her blanch-
ed cheek, | was saying, her sweet,
pallid lips slightly parted, teardrop
trembling on her quivering eyelid all
showed 'Bosh = suddenly murmured
a buxom old dame in the front row, and
my inspiration was gone. "-Westmin.
ster Gazette
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25
FARM FA6OTS.

Every grange meeting makes history
What shall that history be:
Oyster suppers at installations seem
10 be the rule ''Out west" a. well as IN
New England.
New England people are justly proud
of the grange and lis large membership
In their MIDST, but We ought to have
900 members instead of 10000 as we
now have
In sections where there are no oranges
farmers are beginning 10 talk about
organization. Ii takes but little enor1
70 convince these men that the grange !.
oldest. best aud really the only farmers
organization in existence.
The grange is 80 constituted that there
i active work for everybody, from the
humblest member TO the master OF Tue
National grange. There Is no place
- hateyer tor drones in this busy pro-
yr.ssiye fraternal organization.
The grange is no longer an expert
ment: il is empha,ically the Farmers
friend. A hundred thousand farmer'
should enroll themselves under our Dan
per this year. Agriculture Is the oas'
OF prosperity. IL should thefeior'
march in the front rank.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25

During the last four weeks, seven Jer-
seys whose milk by Babcock test Will
average over > l-2 per cent butter lat
have dropped calves, and five OF the
calves died when from one 10 three days
old. The tongue seems paralyzed; cali
cannot suck; head is drawn 10 one side !;
eyes sunk in head; calf seems to have
cerebro-spinal meningitis, and dies with
in thirty-six hours. Bowels loose ,
urine scant. The two that lived were
taken from COW and given skim milk /;
are doing finely. Cows all healthy
are fed daily 30 pounds sweet corn en-
silage, hay and pounds wheat bran.
After calf Is one week old. cows have
more grain.) All died before five days
old. Can you suggest the cause ana a
remedy. r.
Jersey City. y. J.
TProbably the milk is far too rich.
Six or eight weeks before calving grad
ually reduce the cows feed, giving only
bran and hay, and when calf Is born
take 1t 10 pen; do not let it suck at all
Cook for three-quarters OF an hour
whole flaxseed. 1-2 10. of seed to IL gal
| ion of water, and use one part OF this
tea TO two parts of milk, and feed the
calf small rations every two or three
hours for several days, gradually in-
| cressing the quantity and reducing the
frequency until four feeds In "a hours
are reached. The drink should always
be "A warm as new milk. Ii is to be re-
gretted that you did not write sooner, as
Il is a terrible loss TO have such fatality
in calves from such rich dams. ]-Culti'
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25
DIAGRAM oY SITUATION AT CAPTURE.


people from north Of Lynchburg, fee
ing, with all their portable belongings,
before the invading army. We lay in
great glee at the open windows, review
ing the motley procession as II toiled up
the steep hillside. Antiquatod family
coaches surrounded by troops OF slaves
Of al! ages, carts loaded with furniture.
horned cattle and sheep, creaked and
chattered and rumbled and lowed and
blcated in the hot and sitting dust.
After short week Of sleeping in
white sheets was adjudged GONZALES
cent and was sent to filthy prison in
tho lower part Of the town near the riv-
er. My quarters heretofore had been
paradise compared with this place. The
company consisted Of few Yankees
and mixed crowd Of Confederate de-
serters and negroes. We were huddled
into two rooms connected by an arch
way aud were so crowded upon the floors
by night that the guards at the doors
stood astride Of the PROSTATE forms. l
was sick with dysentery when / arrived.
and for three days / lay with my head
in the fireplace Of the cleaner room OF
the two, until the doctor came and re-
moved me Ia an empty room across the
passage and prescribed boiled milk for
my nourishment.
There was a small back yard, To which
the prisoners repaired in the daytime,
and | had so far meDded as 10 crawl
down there when the first troops arrived
in Lynchburg II / remember rightly,
they were some regiments Of General
Breckinridge's command. We heard the
drums outside ON their arrival, and sew
eral of the musicians came into the yard.
The most unique character in our
midst was "a German naturalist who had
been captured IN the mountains for
spy, whom the ignorant soldiers alleged
% have found living on snakes and liz
ards. BY his own statement he was
pupil Of the great Humboldt and a vic
tim Of the pursuit Of science in coun-
try without German consul. The old
mall WAS CIhu III u UNIV bauc iAoui -
grainbag. gathered at the waist with q
rope, and his shabby trousers had shrnnk
far away from his coarse shoes. he wan
dered silent V about the yard, picking up
q leaf here aud spear Of grass there,
examining each object with the mi
nutest scrutiny. On this day he secured a
fife from one Of the musicians and treat
ed the ya,d to series of improvisations
that confirmed the soldiers in their sus-
picion that he was a wizard. The old
naturalist's large eyes hung forward un-
der the lids at such remarkable angle
that l wondered whether this peculiar
condition had been induced by hunting
among the leaves or was the result OF
long practice on the flute.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25
The sNSllAGE QUESTION.
RICK E1EIn Enh q lStlh.

ntAhfltLp, Ito. Vs ics"'.
Editor DeiaOcrdt
The other side OF the question: One
would think by hearing the advocates of
the u>e Of ensiiage for cattle food, that
there is only one side 10 the question OF
its use as an economical food.
know OF half dozen OF the most
thrifty and successful farmers IN the
community that run silo for two or
three years aud then quit. They were
ali of them men who like 10 "make
farming paw" One Of them this wear
raised and threshed three hundred bush
els OF oats, and husked from four TO five
hundred bushels Of corn, which he Is
grinding and mixing together with cot
tonseed meal for mileh cows, which re-
duces his grain bill tn minimum. He
told me that the result WAS more salts
factory than the use of ensilage.
But the greatest objection To the silo
is its furnishing fermented food for
stock. l. food In Il state OF ferments-
tiOn as healthful for stock as feed that is
well-cured by drying: think not.
Two wears sgo called at the farm
connected with the insane asylum at
Danvers, Mass, where there Is y large
quantity OF ensilsge fed To herd of over
one hundred cows. At the same time |
called AZ the farm of DIR. Hitchcock. u
skilled aud educated veterinary, who
keeps a herd of forty COWS, and many
fine horses. asked him II he fed ensi
lage. He said uo, he believed IL an IN
healthy food for stock that he was
called in consultation with the state
veterinary 10 the asylum farm where
tuberculosis WAS said 10 prevail, and he
was satisfied that the disease was in a
measure caused by eating fermented
food, producing what he called a
''whiskey liver
DIR. Ephraim Cutter Of New York, who
is skilled in determining disease In both
man and beast by microscopic examins-
tion Of the blood. claims 20 find the Iino
of spores in ensilsge that he finds in the
blood of diseased cattle. When visiting
my place last fall. he told me that he
considered ensilage unsuitable food for
stock
\ communication from Dr. Cutter In
the New England Homestead OF Jan.
I i well worth the attention of every
farmer, where he treats OF his manner OF
tests. and the causes OF tuberculosis.
II. ID. IRISH.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25
CHAPTER IL


In the unsavory prison at Lynchburg
I found only one Federal officer, also a
second lieutenant in zouave regiment
from Rochestec Lieutenant Shannon.
When we had been week together IN
that swarming hive, we We're taken out
to Join trainload Of 300 enlisted men
passing to Andersonville. The train con-
sisted Of six cattle cars-open cages OF
slats-into each of which so men were
locked for journey Of week. The Con-
federate officers and train guards occu-
pied the red caboose at the rear OF the
train. Lieutenant Shannon and were
taken into their company, as were sew
eral of the severely wounded men.
The officers and guards, who were
from the front, treated Lieutenant Shan
non and myself with the utmost kind
ness. No restraint was put upon us,
and when the train stopped for wood
and water we wandered at will along
the track, observing the pitiful condi-
ton of the men. Even in the evening
we strolled about the dilapidated sta
tions unattended. In the cool OF the aft
ernoon we used to climb ON to the roof
of the cars Ind ride for hours, enjoying
the outlook as the train wound among
the red hills Of Virginia or crawled Oh
q causeway over the endless levels OF
the Carolina swamps. We passed throuf b
Columbia on a Sunday perched on the
roof, receiving tho yellow swells OF the
city, body servants in gloves and silk
hats and housemaids in gauzy blue and
spotless white.
At Augusta we were taken from the
train and corralled ON swampy goose
pasture in the outskirts Of the town for
the night. It had been raining. and in
the muggy heat we were obliged to
smother our heads under coats and
blankets to escape the huge mosquitoes
which hummed necessarily about us. In
the morning Lieutenant Shannon g
hands were puffed up like pincusLions.
while mine came ont day later in
hard, white Jumps which lasted for a
week.
When the train reached Macon, Ga.
Lieutenant Shannon and / were sent
under guard to Camp Oglethorpe, a
short distance outside the city. A stock
ade Is feet high, constructed Of upright
planks, surrounded the prison pen, and
four feet from the top this barricade
was encircled by board walk, from
which the armed guard looked down mp
ON the interior. A massive plank gate,
under an archway, on which was paint.
ed in black letters Camp Oglethorpe,
swung open at our approach, and arriv.
| ing at the inner side we were instantly
surrounded by a multitude Of ragged
officers, mostly barefooted. with un'
kempt hair and boards and looking al
together unlike the Official company w
expected to zee. The cry VI Fresh fishP'
rang through the stockade. and all were
eager to hear the news from the outel
| world.
TIE field we occupied had bean for
merIy fair ground. and in the center oi
the inclosuse stood big ono story build
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25
Hi, Reward.

A member Of the house who was de-
feated for denomination explained to
a number of his associates what had
caused his downfall. BE said one tov Il
in his district had 20 voters, and there
were - persons in the town who want
ed him TO appoint them to $50 place
in one Of the departments i'll Washing
ton. This one place was all he could got
for the town. He gave it to one OF tie
II, and the remaining dozen turned
loose on him in the primaries. This
ratio held good in other parts OF the DIS
trict, and when the convention was
called to nominate candidate the only
friends he had were those whoL. ne had
appointed, and as they were in Wash
ington his enemies carried the day. -
Washington Post
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25
WILL NOT eeT LEFT.
rHE COMING FARMER WILL DIGNITY
his CALLING AND ASSERT HIMSELF

The time has come when the farmer
asks that he and his family may stand
upon the same platform with all other
classes. He i not quite satisfied Nith
some of our Laws that have been enacted
aud he asks that they may be changed
He feels that he is sometimes left out IN
the cold in places where his voice should
be heard.
Then [ say educate; the farmer must
work for the farmer; our chiiGr,n must
have better education than Ne have "
crived aud our children should be- en-
coursged ia agricultural pursuits from
childhood 10 manhood.
Agriculture should be taught IN our
common schools aud la our high schools
our children should learn 10 love that
~ hich j. the healthiest and highest cali
ing given 10 men aud our agricultural
colleges will then DC better patron,hed.
The new farmer should prepare him
self a. thoroughly for his vocation Ia
life ss the man who studies law or medi-
cine. In other words he must be able "a
DO his own business and not allow SOM
one else 10 arrange business for hlu
either ia the politics OF the dsy or Il
legislative htlls.-New England Farm
sar
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can. From Gordonsville We were sent
to Lynchburg and quartered in brick
hospital in the upper part Of the town.
Most Of the inmates were officers and
men Of our own army. and We lay In q
big airy room ON clean cots provided
with white sheets and woolen blankets.
During this week General Hunter was
threatening Lynchburg. There were no
troops in the town. The negroes were
strengthening the earthworks, but 50
little hope had the citizens Of holding
the fort" that the merchants went home
every night with their account books
under their arms. For several days we
heard the distant booming Of General
Hunters artillery. One moonlight night
there was general stampede Of country
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25

An expert tool juggler in one of the
great English needle factories in a re-
cent test of skill performed one Of tho
most delicate mechanical feats imagina-
BILE. He took common sewing needle
Of medium size tlength Ia inches) and
drilled hole through its entire length
from eye to point. the opening being
just large enough to admit of the pas
sage of very fine hair.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25

How many pause when about to eat OF
u.e an egg in cooking, to think what
may have been the food OF the men pro
ueing that egg? Yet IL Is out OF the
food that the eggs are ouilded. heaitny
,raiu. pure water and fresh air will give
the right flavor and condition to the
esss. and nothing else will The water
r6e hens drink should be as pure as tns'
we would use ourselves. lt may OK
dits,cult 10 determine quality from ex'
trruals, but the man who sells stale OF
off favored eggs soon fiuds that the only
wav for him Is to dump them Into tns
hsap at the corner grocery, his private
trade having left him.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25

question OF time as
/ could not be cured.
I gradually grew
worse, very weak.
and completely dis
couraged. until !
lived. propped half
up In bed. because ]
cossldss't lie dOscss
nor sit up. Think
ing my time had
come I told my fam
ny what ! wanted
done when i wa
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25
HAD HIS HAT ON.

A certain farmer who lived In north
ern New York, and who was by nc
means noted for his resemblance 70
Apollc. had sou Of six or seven whe
mad more Wit than pedigree. One day
stranger came to the farm, and seeiue
the lad asked, "Sonny, where's your
tather?' "in the pig pen" was the re,
ply. in the pig pen! Thanks. ano
as the man moved in the direction In
dieated, l'enfant terrible shouted, y
saw, You'll know him cause he's 60
MS hat on .r-Boston Budget.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25

The reason why SO few people are
agreeable in conversation is that each Is
thinking more Of what he is intending
% say than of what others are saying,
and we never listen when we are plan
aing to speak. ak.-Rochefoucauld.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25
! TEART DISEASE, like
many other ailments when they
- "A Al a s..-1 asxa

never gets better OF Its own accord, out
Consfa nflv grosrs srorse. There are
thousands who know they have defective
heart. but will not admit the fact. They
don't want their friends TO worry. ana
Don't kssosc srJsat TO take for tf, as
they have been told time and again that
heart disease was incurable. Such was the
case of Mr.. Silas Farley Of Dyesvtlie. Ohio
who writes June 10. 1894, as follows:
"I had heart disease for "a years,
nv heart hurting me almost continually.
The first Is years doctored all the time'
irving several physicians and remedies,
until my last doctor told me It was only .
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25
AMONG THE FARMERS.
"sPExp THE PLow."

ON practical agricultural topics
is solcltett. Address AL communications In
tended for this department 70 Hsssr ID HAN
xoxD. Agricultural Editor oxford Democrat
Paris. Ne.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25

Keen the fences around young trees In
GOOD repair. otherwise stray stock may
Oct into the orchard and do much dam
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25

With the early penmakers the problem
of point was the most serious, and
long time elapsed before It was definite
ly solved,
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-02-25

zone. But on the frst day Of March on
the recommendation Of Mrs. Fannie Jones,
of Anderson, Ind. commenced taking
Dr.. Niles' EesC Cure for the Aear
and wonderful to tell. in ten days ! vas
working at light work and on March ~ com
menced framing barn. which Is heavy
work, and hav'nt lost day since. am %
years old. Q IT. ~ inches and weigh z5Oabs.
i AesSere Il ans FULLY cared, and
am nov only anxious that everyone shall
know of your wonderful remedies"
Dyesville. Ohio. SrAs fARi1f'
N. wslea Hear Cure is sold on . positive
svsarantee that the first bottle VIII dement,
All druggists sell Il at o. bottles fos - @
e viii 6e sent, prepaid. on receipt ot Rn29
lie Dr. Niles Medical Co. Hkhast lna
DR.. Miles Heart Cure
Restores Health
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-06

literary track with which my feet have
grown so familiar this score Of years.
viii do the Dying Ratcatcher," gar
ret PALLET Of straw and all, and my
esteemed customers, Messrs. Rhine and
Eees0n. viii have no occasion 10 COM
plain OF The quality OF my wares.
And yet the picture that | shall draw
Of the last moments OF the slayer Of rO-
dents viii not, l am sure, be nearly as
Ditiful rs The one I have in M minds
eve. OF an old man with face OF ashen
gray. saddened by q look Of hopeless
yoorDing thar has come into it since
he ook 20 his bed lie is indeed, dy-
ing i'm the midst OF everything except
that which he never gathered unto him
sell as he priyateeTed through life
that which money cannot buy.
lie has sons, il is true, hul they are
not here. The market viii break when
the news reached Wall street. Some Sc
curitics viii go down. Others-he smiles
grimly 40 the thOught-will so up when
relieved OF his grip at their throat.
The "hCys. his TWO middle aged, hard
featured. HIGH living sons. are DOWN
town getting everything ready for any
turn the market may take. They will
be million richer ere the Old man
is cold IN his grave, the same old man
ua0 taught them the game they are
preparing TO play 10 the limit tC-mOr-
row
They have kept the secret of his ill
ness WELL Are there any young men
lettering in the street opposite the
house? No? Then the death watch
has not begun He will sleep a little
now. perhaps TO dream Of the wife who
preceded him long ago on the Journey
that b will take himself to-day Or to-
morrow, or perhaps, please God, not
until the day after.
The twilight has long since deepencd
into night but he has not wakened yet,
nor Will he again. say the doctors.
The boys are 40 his bedside now, with
genuine emotion in their florid watery
faces. and something like tenderness
Juggling az their heart-strings. The
death watch has begun across the way,
and I'm every newspaper office in The
town they are taking the old mans
obituary down from the shelf and
Ni lL-.aE no Nl 10 Ndlt, rs ulit litt man
oging editor sends word TO the COM
posing room to hold first and second
page forms open for late story
And now the doctors have gone, the
death watch has melted away and
single light burns dimly in the room
where the old man is lying white and
siU. with his hands folded across his
breast
Tomorrow all the papers will take
pains to say Of him that he was kind TO
his family.
That does not sound pathetic that
last phrase. but it is, nevertheless.
Kind 20 his own flesh and blood. They
might as well say OF him that he was
kind to his feet and always wore over
shoes i'm wet weather,
Think, however, that [ had best stick
10 the dying rat-catcher and not run
any risk OF having my goods thrown
back ON my hands and perhaps losing
the custom Of my valued friends,
Messrs. Rhine and Reeson.
JAMES i. FORD.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-06
NO CONTEST.

Those who are talking about the
various candidates for Governor on the
Republican ticket are mistaken about
there going to be contest, we think
It has simered down to the point where
George Wesley Atkinson is to get the
nomination without a contest, and
Hon. William NJ. o. Dawson is to be
Secretary of State, provided, of course
the Hon. George Wesley is elected
Hampshire Review.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-06
WILL HELP THE COLLEGE.
Special to the Register.

Special 70 the Register
Berkeley Springs, W. Va. March O.
The report that Rev .JcMC. .f-msyW
The report that Rev. J. McC. Duck
wall has secured $4,000 for Elkins
College is mistake. If he can secure
enough TO commence the building this
spring, Hons. Stephen b. Elkins and
Henry G. Davis will at once give the
same amount in cash and start the en-
terprise. They wish to build the col
lege by next fall.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-06
ONLY POSES

The Republican party at Huntington
is posing as a reform party The Re
publican party is always strong for re-
form. especially municipal reform. at
ali times and places when and where
il is not in power 1t is a great re-
former until it gets in. History and
experience teach US that it is not so
strong for reform after it gets into
pOwer.-Wayne News.