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Evening star., 1897-04-07
4 Murder and Suicide.

Glenn Dorsey, a well-known colored man
OF this city, attempted to murder his wife,
Hannah. by striking her in the head with
an ak, and then committed suicide, in this
city this morning about o'clock, cutting
his throat from ear to ear with an old
razor. For some time past Dorsey. it is
said, has been having a great deal of trou-
bic with his wife on account Of her loose
habits. and 1t is said by those in a position
to know that for the past six or eight
months he has been carrying q revolver,
awaiting a chance to use 1t on the man
who has wrecked his home. Dorsey has
Evening star., 1897-04-07
The National Safe Deposit,
Savings and Trust
Company,
OF the District of Columbia,

OF the District of Columbia.
CORNER 18TH ST. AND NEW YORK AVE.
CT Oartered by special act of Congress.
Jan, 1867, and acts Of Oct, 1880, and Feb. ls93.
Evening star., 1897-04-07

DOJAKTENS CFTIZE>,S CUBAN COMMIT-
TEE, $40 Pa AVE. NV.
Washington, d. C., April 5, 1897.
All persons hereby notified not to pay any
contributions for the CUBAN HOSrITAL FI-ND
To any collector persons not presenting papers
"f authorization by the Cuhan committee. and
signed by
]. W. LAKE. Chairman of Committee.
Miss ELLEN G. RHODES. Financial SerJ'y.
P.S-Contributions also lie to Messrs.
METZERUTr & LUCkETT, Treasurers, Columbia
Theater ap5-3t
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15
LITTLE klNDNESSES.

II YOU were toiling up weary hill.
Bearing load beyond your strength to
bear,
Straining each nerve untiringly, and still
Stumbling and losing foothold here and
there,
And each one passing by would do sc
much
As give one upward lift and so theii
way,
Would not the slight reiterated touch
or help and kindness tighten all the day
There is no little and there is no much,
We weigh and measure and define In
vain;
A look. word. light responsive touch
Can be the minister OF JOY to pain.
A man can die OF hunger, walled in gold,
A crumb may quicken hope to stronger
breath.
And everv day we give or we withhold
Some little thing that tells for life ol
death.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15
Must Forts BE RoOfed Z:

Captain Sir b. Baden Powell, q dis
tinguished military authority, warns
the governments Of all nations that
they had better pu. bomb-proof roofs
on their forts, if they want to stand
any chance whatever Of winning the
next war in which they engage. Cap
tain Powell says that an aerial war
ship is an absolute certainty, and that
what the military genius Of the future
will have to look out for will be bombs
overhead, instead OF. in front or be-
hind. In other words, Captain Powell
states that the fort without roof will
be about as useful as the fifth wheel Of
wagon.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15
Garlic In MILK.

"Garlic is much in evidence now in
milk and butter" remarked dealer
to Star reporter, ''and will be for
several weeks yet. The taste of garlic
is pleasant to some persons but the
great majority abhor it. There is
hardly any remedy for it, though some
of the dairy people have a method of
Disgusting the taste with preparation
of lime. The users of the milk or but
ter may not know it, but it is n good
sign for milk to. taste garlicky. 1t
shows the cows are fed on grass. To
save the milk at this season from get
ting garlicky, many dairymen stall
feed their cows, that is, keep them
tied up in the stalls all day and feed
them bran and other mill feed and
chopped-up hay. In albumen this
milk is by no means as nourishing as
that which comes from cows that are
allowed to eat the first spring crops of
grass, and the deficiency shows very
markedly in the case of children who
have milk as an important factor in
their food. The garlic crop generally
plays out on its own account by the
middle of June. 1t is much better
that children should have good milk,
even if it does taste of garlic, than to
give up milk on that account. The
best way that I know to conceal the
taste of garlic is the homeopathic idea
that like cures like, or the same idea
expressed in other words that the hair
of the dog cures the bite. This can
be applied very easily now that green
onions are in the markets. Let the
child or grown person rub an onion on
the lips, even if they do not eat it.
The onion taste being similar to that
Of garlic, though probably more pro;
nounced, kills the after taste of garlic
eifectually. This is much better and
far more healthy than to try to kill the
garlic taste with chemicals, which,
while they may not be dangerous or
very unhealthy, are never Us safe as
simpler methods. Washington Star.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15
Excellent Cheap Chicken Coops.

It is well to utilize the leisure n
winter in preparing for the rush Of
work that always comes when spring
opens. One such preparation is the
preparing of the needed chicken coops
for the broods to be hatched out dur.
ing the spring months. A simple ar.
rangement is shown in the cut. Empty
grocery boxes are procured and turned
upon their sides, the cover being re.
placed by Stats, the cover being re.
served for closing the coop at night
Upon the top now nail three strips
that will project fifteen inches in front.
making the middle strip higher than
the other two. Tack upon these strips.
as shown in the cut, piece of tarred
paper, and waterproof roof will not
only be secured, but protection from
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15

but difficult to describe SO that n nov;..
can make one just right. Hay put int
cocks after being fully wilted will. "
good weather, sweat and cure on.
ready to go into the barn, in two !.
five days, according to the weather
When cured enough on br;ch.
morning after dew is of, the cocls
should be deftly opened into lust oooS I
sized forkfuls, and in an hour and
half or two hours it is ready to draw
and put into barns. OF course who,.
one has not storage under cover he will,
be compelled to stack the hay bn, 7
believe this is wasteful practice and
that even with the best system of staot
ing, enough will be wasted in n saw
years to pay for building in which 10
store it. The old notion was. tina, tbs
barn for storing hay should be Oman m
and that the doors should all be lsa
open to air the hay, but now peonls
have learned that the tighter the barn
and the closer it is kept shut, tbs
greener the hay can be stored with
safety and the better it will keen. In
buying lot of clover hay in England
to feed flock of sheep which 1 was to
bring over, while on ship was struck
by its dark color but delicious fra.
GRANGE and the fact that the sheen ats
every portion, even to the coarse stalk
and from then till now l have been
trying to cure clover like it, and have
succeeded pretty well by curing it in
large cocks and putting into mows
quite damp. England Home.
stead.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15

Sheep -Shearing In Tennessee Mountains.
The season for sheep-shearing in
the Tennessee mountains is time of
great festivity and rejoicing. A multi
tude of shearers, washers and other
attendants are employed. The shear
ing begins on the 1st of May, if the
weather is fair. For if the wool be not
quite dry, the feeces, which are
closely piled on top of each other,
would ferment and rot. For this
reason the business is performed in
great shelter houses, built in the form
of parallelogram, four hundred feet
long and one hundred feet wide. A
certain number of sheep are led into
the shelter-house, where they remain
during the day. AS many as it is
judged can be handled by the shearers
next day are driven into long, narrow
passage, called "the sweatbox," where
they remain all night, crowded as
closely as possible, in order that they
may sweat profusely, in order to soften
the wool for the shears, and, as the
shepherds say, ''to oil their edges. !"
By degrees the next morning, the
sheep are led into the spacious shear
ing-room, which adjoins the sweating
place. AS fast as they are sheared
the shepherd carries them off to be
marked with tar. A man can shear
twelve ewes in day, or eight rams.
The feeces of three rams often weigh,
in the dirt or yolk, twenty pounds,
which is equivalent to four wethers
or five ewes. The reason of the diff
ference in the number of sheep sheared
in a day is not only because the rams
have larger bodies, are stronger and
have more wool, but the shearmen
dare not tie their feet as they do
those of the unresisting ewes. Ex-
perience has taught them that q bold,
rebellious ram would struggle even to
suffocation thus confined. Conse-
quently they gently lay him down,
stroke him kindly, and actually be-
guile him out of his fleece The sheep
when sheared are then allowed to 60
back to their pastures, New York
Post.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15

The British population was by the
last census over thirty-nine millions,
and must at the present time be fully
forty millions. The population of
France was by the last census under
thirty-nine millions. The white people
in the French colonies have not ap-
preciably grown in numbers, but the
white people in the British colonies
now number from twelve to thirteen
millions. Thus, the white population
under the British Queen at home and
abroad is not less than ffty-two mil
lions.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15

Is there anything new under the
sun? Yang Va, late Chinese minister
at Washington, says that bicycles
were in common use in the Flowery
Kingdom 1000 years ago, but as wo-
men rode them to the neglect of their
families the Emperor stopped the
manufacture. The boomers, how.
ever, survived, and now that bicycles
have come back even in China, there
would seem to be nothing in the way
of the almond-eyed damsels resuming
their interrupted pastime.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15

The San Francisco Chronicle de.
clares that New York is so far in the
lead in the matter of foreign COM
merce that no other American city at
tempts to dispute her position, but
occasionally some one is rash enough
to maintain that Philadelphia is the
greatest manufacturing centre in the
United States. There was time
when this was true, but the New York
papers are now pointing out that the
census of 1890 exhibited the fact that
the value of the manufactured pro-
ducts Of New York city was s777, 221, :
72l, while in the same year the
manufactures of Philadelphia only
turned out products worth S577, 234, =
446. The statistics of the census,
when examined closely by would-be
rivals, afford very little hope that the
metropolis will ever be overtaken in
the race for precedence. New York
has first place, and is likely to hold it
permanently. From present indica-
tions there is as little prospect of a
rival American city surprising New
York as there is of some provincial
British city overtaking London.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15
Farm and Garden Notes.

Mother earth wants her back
scratched after showers.
The successful farmer not only
knows how to do his work well, but
does it as we'll as he knows how.
Dig out and haul off, or bury, the
rock that dulls your plow or sickle, or
you may have break to repair next
time.
Our rule has been to begin turning
the horses on pastures nights as soon
as the crops are in and the pasture
good. We consider it good plan.
Tomatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips,
ETC., may we'll follow extra early po'a-
toes, sweet corn, lettuce and radlshes,
thus securing two crops from the same
rich ground.
Many behind-hand farmer might
succeed in raising a profit by Lowering
the cost, through more intelligent ana
industrious use of better teams, tools
and methods.
The journals of grass and gran,
cutting machinery must be kept Sei
oiled, the knives sharp and the pl'mana,
of such length that the sections WILL
exactly centre in the guards.
On farms where much feed is groula
for stock good feed mill will often 10 y,
found to pay; the saving in toll WIZ
soon amount to the price of one anu
then the grain will not have to w
hauled over bad roads.
In narrowing sod ground trs' uli0
over it is best to go same way Wv
plow went, for the harrow will 'hen Wv y.
inclined to push the imperlecW
turned sods over to their places ~
stead of tearing them up.
Much American butter goes aor0'u
but whether consumed at home
abroad, competition is sharp -.
quality must be just right or down n, n,
go. Questions of competition u'uA
turn upon the matter of quality
Dairymen we'll know that bee" -. -.
mangolds are excellent for cows W. n.
ing up the system and increasing ,s "a
flow of milk; and now an experien'o
Nebraska man claims the feealas
sugar beets to hogs is an 4Im0s' ~
tain preventive Of cholera, =,
A smile should now play arouau
corners of the improved stock u's' s
er's mouth---at least the one WY ~,
stocked up with good animals IN n
stock industries haye been run
down hill long enqEgh, aud nov
! upgrade seems to b yss been rs''n'
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15

The houseboat plan has been turned
to good account in the Fen country in
England. According to the latest
English papers a boat has been fitted
up as a church in the parish of Holme,
in the diocese of Ely, and is moved
along the canals and thus spiritual
consolation is brought within the
reach OF those who could only with
great difficulty get to the parish
church
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15
A writer in the New York Herald

A writer in the New York Herald
signing himself Lawyer, comment
ing upon the overcrowded condition
of the legal profession, says that hun.
dreds of lawyers in this country are
actually starving to death for the
want of practice, and that something
should be done at once to check the
constantly increasing stream of talent
that is pouring into the ranks 'of the
profession.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15
sent to your trying your young, joyous

sent to your trying your young, Joyous
life to mine"
"Arthuri Husband!" she whispered
softly; then I stole from the room,
knowing my presence would not be
missed, and sure my darling would win
her cause. Nor do I think, in the
many happy years which since then
have rolled along, leaving me an old
woman now, either has ever regretted
that for once and the last time Miss
Emily had her willful way.-New York
Ledger.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15

Rudyard Kipling is probably the
first poet to have one of his works
form an item in governments cable
bill. His "Our Lady of the Shows"
was cabled at twenty five cents word
from London to Ottawa at government
expense. Even with this the Canucks
were not satisfied
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15

A. J. Balfour, the first lord of the
British treasury, has achieved the all
but impossible. He has produced a
bill dealing with Irish finances, which
is approved by Irish conservatives,
English liberals, Parnellites and anti
Parnellites.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15

In Austria law has just been
passed making it a punishable offence
for parents to take young children
into bed with them. This arbitrary
interference with the ''liberty of the
subject" has been rendered necessary
by the large number of deaths of in
fants by being overlaid.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15

the sun in front Of the coop. This will
be very grateful to the chicks in hot
weather, and to the mother-hen, which
often suffers in the ordinary coop in
the heat of summer.
These coops will answer their pur.
pose admirably, can be made with but
a few moments work, and need not
cost over fifteen or twenty cents apiece.
New York Tribune.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15

A new Russian law forbids the
carrying on of trade by sea in foreign
vessels, and under any but the
Russian flag, between all Russian
ports on the Baltic and Black seas and
on the Pacific coast. The law is to go
into effect in 1900.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15
A WILLFUL BEAUTY.
BY JENNY WREN.

}, no, Miss Emily,
dear, don't!" l
urgently pleaded
with the willful
young beauty
who had so i'm
petuously been
relieving h G +
mind of certain
matters resting
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15

The United Brethren conference IN
Indiana has refused the request of
many women to strike out the word
"obey" in the marriage service.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15
well-kept Borders.

The beauty and value of a flower
bed or farm depends not little
upon o well-chosen and well-kept
border. We have never met person
who admired farm bordered with
dilapidated fences overrun with briars
and weeds, or fine crop surrounded
with tall weeds. Cut 'em down in the
beauty (?) and vigor of youth, and re.
move the old rundown fences.-The
Epitomist.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15

A Calais (Me) correspondent in writ.
ing OF a recent slugging match pulled
of In that city says the ring was pitch
ed in secluded spot. near the center
OF the city"
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15

either case water must be carried to
them and their pail is very likely to be
tipped over.--American Agriculturist.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15

The Calls Drinking Pail.
Calves during the first summer are
frequently pastured in an orchard or
tethered by rope near the barn. In
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-15
Difference of Names.

The English do not call things by
the same name as we know them. Be-
low are named q few articles in both
the American and English styles:
The Paducah daily sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1896-1898, 1897-03-02
I-..-.-.------
KILLED BY A TREE.
Young Tom Waller Meets An
Awful Fate.
HAD BEEN TO BENTON.
His Head Was Dashed Against "a
Tree and Death Was In
Simultaneous.
HAD BEEN TO BENTON.
LIVED THREE MILES FROM BENTON.

Tom Waller, a well known anc
highly respected young man residing
near Benton, was instantly killed by
his horse late yesterday Afternoon
while en- route home from county
court, which met yesterday.
Young Waller rode in to attend
court and drank considerably during
the day. When he started home he
is said to have been consider
ably under the influence OF
liquor, and rode in a gallop. In at
tempting to pass tree he must have
thought his horse would pass on one
side. but the animal sheered around
snd went the other way.
The young mans head was brought
in violent contact with the trunk Of
the tree, and he was knocked from
his steed and killed. His body was
soon picked up and carried home,
and the funeral took place today.
The unfortunate young man was
about 25 years Of age, son Of Alex
Waller, one of the wealthiest farmers
Of Marshall county.
He was unmarried, and an exem.
plary young man, except that he
drank little.
The Paducah daily sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1896-1898, 1897-03-02
CAUSE OF THE HITCH.
In Proposed Concerted Action of
the Powers.

London, March 2.-The Daily
"Chronicle" says there is little doubt
that the serious hitch in the concert
Of the Powers is due, first, 10 the lack
Of wisdom on the part OF the govern
ment, and secondly, TO the wrath Of
Emperor willlsm who, the "Chron.
icle" says, deeply resents the form
OF Lord Salisbury's announcement Of
the policy Of Great Britain toward
Crete, especially the suggestion that
Great Britain has taken the lead In
the concert.
Continuing, the Chronicle says :
"This indiscretion WAS enhanced 10y
Mr.. Curzon's most unfortunate
speech, in which he said that the So
luton was mainly due to Lord Sails
bury. II Is understood that Ia,
Emperor, in retaliation, made him.
self responsible for the official com
munique from st. Petersburg, on
Thursday last, in which Russis
threatened the immediate coercion Of
Greece, failing her instant compli'
ance.
"There is reason 10 believe tina
the attitude Of the Emperor has beer
influenced by the serious report
which have reached Berlin as IN thu
present .reis'ie.-, :,
and the Transsaa'
The Paducah daily sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1896-1898, 1897-03-02
CLINTON COLLEGE
1t Experienced a Temporary
Bust" Up.
Rev. II. Pettles Resigns-Teachers
All Walked Out Tuesday.

The college at Clinton temporarily
closed down last week, and thereby
hangs'a tale. Yesterday it resumed, I'M
der entirely different management
and new teachers, Rev. DR.. A. 5.
Petite, the superintendent, having re-
signed ,,t E FL DE college originated over
some alleged unbecoming conduct u
T;raiI petite, q son of the superln-
,endept. 1t il. said that without as
certaining the facts the trustees me'
and demanded the young man eA'
EXPULSION, and DIR. Petite refused y
sccede TO their demand. They WIN
held funds from him, 1t Is saiu' an'
lbeine unable 70 pay teachers 'ne'
salary, the latter all refused 10 'eac
last Tuesday. .;,o.0hl
Thursday, by dint OF c0nslder az,
. hard work, enough teachers W WEI
found to teach, and Friday pr' . !,
tie resigned, and was succeeaf a.,
} DIR. Riley, with new corps Vi '''
lers. ~ ...oodod
nj The college is well attended
$ South. western Kentucky young "e
1t one or two being from Paducah'
The Paducah daily sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1896-1898, 1897-03-02
HUNG HIMSELF.
Rash Act OF a Cairo Man In
Jail.
Had Been Sentenced to the ro"
uen,iaIy for Assaultin9
His Daughter.

Elijah Kirby, who was convicted
of ossaul,,ng his daughter as the Ter
,;no,ion of an exhaustive trial IN
a;nor;t court last week, in which he
mas ohlv deteaded hung himself IN
;a;l this morning about 2 O'Clock,
S,ys Yesterdays Cairo ARGUS
lue ovoiled himself of the time when
| the other prisoners were asleep aho
oou,d not watch his operations thei
with a rope taken from his BUM
hanged himself in the big cell uhu
lead lie did this rather than re
: ,nrn to the penitentiary and endur
e ono,her indefinite term OF impr''oD
n ment. u..,;,dcod ma
'e and the victim Of unfortunate circa -.
stances, else he deserved all m''io
a tune that has betallen him.
id Sheriff Miller was up to E'co "
terday, to visit his mother ana
no turned on the early Nj. x w. U,
nd This morning, to be introduced to
ay unpleasant happening in the eou II
Oh iaii soon after He intended " v
80 x;rhv 10 Chester this morning,
, would have done so yesterday
lists there had been tram 10 'a i,';a ',
' ,hrouoh. Kirby had been talking
The Paducah daily sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1896-1898, 1897-03-02
The War Has Not Been Stopped
PRtSIOENT-ELECT ARRIVES.
The Governor In Consultation
With Boyle and Others.
ANOTHER RIOT At KNOXVILLE.

Canea, Island OF Crete, March ?.
The town OF Candano has fallen into
the hands OF the insurgents.
The Greeks FIRST took the fortress
OF Vavaros, which dominates the
town, where there were 1000 Mus
sulmans.
The Beys, having appealed to Tew-
hk Pasha to get the Sultan's protec-
ton for besieged Mussulmens, he re-
piled that the Sultan was power less
TO insure 1t, and that they must look
TO the Powers. Thereupon the Beys
vent To the English consulate to ask
for assistance.