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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-20
TODNY'S FORECAST.

ST. LOuIS-Nliss Anna Louise Busch.
the beautiful young daughter Of Adolphis
l3usc H. The millioulic hr wer. Will Ne mar
RED today to Edward H. Faust. son o.
Tony Faust, the ~eli-known restaurant
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-20

city hail, passenger depot and store
burned at LaGrance.
No fatalities reported as a result of the
storm. hut the damage to property was
considerable.
Heavy wind visited South Texas.
Cattle dealer held up and robbed Of s179l
in Tyler county.
While trying TO protect her chAd. Mrs
NEsonan, of Fort Bend county was bit
ten by "a mad dog.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-20

W ASH NGTON-Rclr Admiral j. q.
Walker viii he placed upon the retired
Est today. when be reaches the ,;e OF 62
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-20
PROTEST. FnoM GRrrcn.

the mohilizins of the Turkish reserve and
baghi bayouks.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-20

ATLANTIC CITY, n. 1.-The commits
OF which Is 10 arbitrate the dificreniial
mileage question will. it is said, meet here
to-day
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-20
TODAT'S FEATURES.

Crete.
creeks In Corstan,fnople preparing for
a revolt.
REGIMENT of the crown prince starts for
the frontier.
huss'a urging Turkey to declare war,
lhsurSont leaders in conference with ad-
m.rals refuse ewcrye hing but annexat. on.
Christians reject autonomy.
Fighting continues
Actress TO King Georgo protes.inr
against the recall of troops
Sport.
Corhett says he was foirly whsppei ana
that FHtzsimn ons is a wonderful tighter.
fitEs nrnons' last appearance in public.
opinons on The Carson tight.
Cuba.
Release Of three Americans r-ported al
the cabinet meeting.
i'issensions between Gomez and C,sne-
los.
Roloff IN Cuba; why he forfeited his
bond
Insurgents attacked a town, but were
iepulsed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-23
HOrticulture.

Do not run closer than six inches
to the newly planted strawberries or
raspberries with the cultivator, for
the newly formed roots will surely
be disturbed. Be content to do the
rest of the cultivation with the hoe,
and let it be quite superficial.
He who has much fruit can hardly
hope to preserve it without som g
kind of cold storage, for thus kept
the loss from shrinkage and rot will
be comparatively small. A cellar
with heavy stone or brick walls,
built into the side of hill, can be
cheaply made, and will be very
satisfactory.
The stations have been expert
menting with the cross fertilization
of raspberries and blakberries, but
because of the meager reports we
Judge results have not been salts
factory. The wish has been to pro-
duce fruit with less seed and more
flesh. S.
Do not be too gross nor too busy to
care for the things of beauty which
should adorn the farmers home
The cultivation of flowers tends to
bring out that which is best and
finest in our natures. Make the
door yard bloom with beauty in the
spring, and have thought for the
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-23

a variety, and should have both
that which is concentrated and that
which is coarse.
The management of good dairy
farm offers good chance for the
exercise of any brains you may
chance to have; if you have energy
here is the place to use it; it has
need of you if you have good iudg-
ment and are careful in looking
after details. A dairy can not be
run by "any fool" but a high order
of intelligence and executive ability
is needed.
Too many never look the facts of
their business in the face. A great
amount of butter is continually
offered in the market, the cost of
producing which exceeds any posi-
BILE price which can be obtained for
it. Farmers would hardly keep on
if they knew of the loss entailed, yet
the testimony as to the state of
things would not be hard to obtain.
Millet is an excellent food for pro-
ducing flow of milk, and some re-
cent careful tests show that it will
produce larger per centage of but
ter fats than most other grasses
Of course, this does not apply to
millet which has been permitted to
become ripe and woody before har-
vesting.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-23
Poultry.

The finest fowls neglected are no
better than the veriest scrubs-they
are worse; they can not stand neg
lect, because they are not used to it;
scrubs can, because they have been
raised on it.
Those only who have time and
inclination to do so should raise
pure bred fowls, because breeds can
not be kept pure without close atten-
tiOn.s
Keep too essential points in view
when feeding chicks-growth and
warmth. Unless chicks grow rapid
ly they will not give as large profit
as they should. The food should be
composed of elements which pro-
duce bone and flesh. AS all food
contains heat producing elements,
they will seldom be lacking if a
variety is given.
If your hens stop laying suddenly
in the winter look at their combs.
If these have been frozen, the fowls
are on the sick list, and laying is out
of the question. Their houses were
not warm enough. Egg production
should beja possibility without hav-
ing the benefits of the food given
them simply to sustain animal life
and heat.
A long row of figures is required
to represent the egg crop of the
United States for single year; it
reaches the enormous sum of about
$l,800,000,000. Even this does not
shut off the Importance of large
numbers of eggs in the face of a
duty. The value of our wool crop is
about $60,000,0O0, that of our wheat
5000, 100000, while that of eggs is
$40, 100000.
He who puts the finest product in
the market reaps the richest harvest.
Eggs are refined wheat, corn, grass,
and they contain much that on the
farm would go to waste. In winter
a basket of 80 dozen eggs will bring
more money than load of hay it
took large patch of ground to grow,
a team to cut, horse and man to
rake, two men to stack, and team
wagon and man to market.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-23

A man may succeed well upon 80 or
100 acres of land; he doubles the size
of his farm, but it is only to find
that he makes no more money than
he did before, for his theories did
not hold in practice. The exception
comes to him who takes to stock
raising.
1t depends wholly upon what a
debt is incurred for as to its wisdom.
1t is foolish to give note for a fast
horse or for luxury, but when the
debt will help one to make money,
and so to become Independent
sooner, it is a very different thing.
By top dressing with manure in
the fall of the year, after the cattle
have been taken off the pasture, the
fertilizer will become packed in the
ground, and the enriching qualities
will all be absorbed before grass
grows in the spring. If top dressed
in the spring, the growing grass
will lift the manure up, to be dried
out.
1t is well to harrow meadows and
pastures, for it tears the roots and
tends to thicken the grass. 1t also
destroys moss which may grow on
badly drained or cold ground. 1t is
sometimes as essential to harrow
these fields as it is to cultivate the
corn.
Numerous experiments have beer
recorded to show that moisture is
saved by cultivation. During hot
dry weather every foot of plOughed
ground should be kept well stirred
on the surface with any tool which
will keep it from baking. A fine
surface will hold down water like {
wet blanket.
The farm and the work must bC
studied. By having the labol
properly systemized and distributed
less hired labor will be needed
Only by taking every advantage tt
produce result at lowest cost is {
profit possible, oftentimes.
Plan for the coming years's work
so that when spring is here you will
be ready to be up and at it and know
Just what you want to do. The far
mer who works so steadily that b.
never has time to stop and thinl
ahead can not be sure of the best re
suits.
The location of drains should b.
accurately marked, or. better, al
exact map of the fields should b.
made showing their location
Otherwise they may be lost, or eX
pense entailed in digging to fint
them when they fail to perform
their full duty.
1t is not the adding of all kinds o
material to the manure heap whicl
makes it valuable, but the preserva
ton of these materials so that the,
will not deteriorate nor lose any o
their plant food. A progressive far
mer is one who pays more attention
to the making of manure than t
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-23

"home," She scarcely knew where she
went. A hopeless despair weighed on
her sensitive spirit. Tears, unchecked
and UNDECIDED, dropped as she walked.
Anywhere, anywhere, out of the
worldp' would have been her exclama-
ton could she have expressed her deep
est wish. Suddenly she found herself ON
the top of the reservoir embankment
The moon was shining upon the water,
which sparkled and shone with "A crvs.
talline briliance
"There's nowt left to live for, an |
won't ivep' and casting her shawl
from her, she threw herself from the
embmkment There was sharp, ring
ing sound. The moon shone on, and all
was still.
Il
"Now, Aw wonder what's come out
about this money!" thought jim sum
ner as he struck the reservoir bank on
his way from the station home. Folks
are fain to stay in toneet, Aw reckon.
AVN glad nob'y'll see me till Awe
cleared myself If clearin it is-and
what can tn masters ha taken tn trou-
bic to get my address fro mother-for
MODIFY else knew it-an telegraph for
me to come instantly, if it's not? Ny,
but tn frost has bin keen this two DAYS!
Anvil bet tn lodge'll bear" So saying,
he ran down and tried it with his foot,
and finding it safe, walked distance
ON the margin.
whats that Good heavensp' He
had stumbled over the PROSTATE form of
a woman lying Il few feet from the en-
bankment. The ice was starred in every
direction where her head had struck it.
Poor wench!" He turned her over, and
the moons light fell upon face he had
often kissed. He Ieeled as though he had
received the blow that made the blood
flow from that marble brow How cold
she was But she breathed. He picked
her up and carried her. he knew not
how, up the bank and away till he stag
! gered into his mothers cottage
Could she be in better hands? Still
unconscious, but with signs of returning
animation, he lett her and fastened TO
the mill. The lights still burned in the
Office. The masters were seated by the
fire, and i'll the background sat the mes.
senger and Jabez Smethurst.
"How dye do, James-you got onr
wlre?"
II did, sir, thank you. "
boy, tell us again what you told
this morning" Whereupon the penitent
lad, with fearful looks at Jabez, told
how the overlooker had terrorized him
about small betting debts; how, at his
instigation, he had obtained a blank
check from the Office lad at Bromley's;
how Jabez had filled it in, copying the
writing from another of Bromley's
checks; how he had presented it with
the rest at the bank and got the cash.
The sequel was known and did not need
recounting. Jabez swore it was parcel
of lies, but the boys evident sincerity.
revelations of Jabez's bookmaking trans
actions and later Rachel account of her
rejection of his suit and his subsequent
threats and persecution, convinced the
masters of Smethurst's guilt They sim
ply discharged him and eased their con-
seriousness of Jim's overhasty dismissal
by raising his salary to ESQ a year.
The folks who cheered happy pair
and pelted them with rice did not see IA
scar on the brow of the bride, for it was
covered by her bridal veil. -Tit-Bits.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-23
DEEDS NOT WORDS.

e words could satisfy the heart
Tho heart might find less care,
But words, Ike summer birds, depart
And leave but empty air.
The heart, IA pilgrim upon earth,
Finds often, when it needs,
That words are as little worth
As just so many weeds.
A little said--and truly said
Can deeper joy impart
Than hosts of words, which reach the head,
But never touch the heart.
The voice that wins its sunny way,
A lonely home to cheer
Hath oft the fewosb words to say;
Bnt, oh, those few-hOw dearl
If words could satisfy the breast,
The world might hold feast
But words, when summoned to the test,
OFT satisfy the least
Like plants that make gaudy show,
All blossom to the root,
But whose poor nature cannot grow
One particle of fruit.
Charles Swain in Housewife
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-23

plants for house decoration in the
winter.
If the black knot appears upon the
plum tree it can often he etfectually
checked by saving off the knot and
painting the wound with linseed oil,
to which little carbolic acid is
added, and enough oxide Of iron to
give it color.
The promise from trees 50 heavy
with fruit that they must be prOpped
is IA delusion. One of the first re-
quirements to make financial sue
cess is to prevent overbearing. The
excess of fruit should be removed at
an early stage of IT'S development.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-23
Items of Interest to Farmers and
HOrSemen.

This is locus year. The time when
we must expect another scourage of
the troublesome insects. Every
seventeen year they make a visit,
their last appearance being in 1880,
when the army of these creatures
did considerable damage to vegeta-
tion.-EXchange.
Recent statistics show that the
annual value of the poultry and egg
trade in the United States is $780,
100000. Just think of it, Five hun
dred million dollars for poultry and
eggs every year. 1t is astonishing.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-23
Stock.

In regard to the comparative value
of shelled and ear corn, as feed,
the latter is considered the safer,
and if the ears are broken, split or
crushed until they can be handled
readily by cattle they are certainly
to be perferred to shelled grain.
The feeding value of fax straw is
very small. 1t is really too valuable
for other purposes to use as feed.
1t commands in many regions the
prices of good hay.
Let the stable floor of the stock
barn always be of cement. 1t not
only prevents wind from blowing
under the cattle, but it saves all
liquid manure, and is less expensive
than heavy joists and plank floors.
1t is also rat proof, and one of the
greatest economies of the farm.
That you may have liberal feed
ing of roots next fall and winter for
all the stock, unles you have plenty
Of rich winter pasture or will put up
a silo and will fill it with green corn
ensilage for green winter feeding,
plant plenty of root crops this
spring. Have beets, carrots, tur-
nips and cabbage, and good warm
bin in the barn, well lined with
straw. to keep them from freezing
and convenient for feeding.
Where one can devote good part
of his time to "choring" nothing can
fall in line more acceptable than
the apiary as side issue. 1t will
be of advantage in more ways than
one. Even success with fruit cul-
ture is often dependent upon the
activity of the ever busy bee; and
the stores of honey should be re-
ward enough.
Like cotton seed cake, oil meal
cake furnishes "a food of great value
on account of its high percentage OF
nitrogen; it becomes of especial i'm
portance as means of raising the
albuminoid ratio of diet, while its
abundant supply of this element
naturally furnishes an extremely
valuable manure. 1t is properly fec
with cut straw or hay, and il
cheaper than grain.
Feeding must be done regularly
literally and Systematically, work
ing to accomplish the end in view
in an economical, business like
manner. Each feeder must, in {
great measure, determine the ration
which he can most economically
supply, as that which would be too
costly for one might be compare
lively cheap for another.
1t take wise manager to marke
live stock at just the right time, a
it is more difficult than to sell Othe
farm products. If held too long TIL,
profits begin to decrease by reason
of the added cost of keeping. Grain
in the bin will not "eat its head off,
but stock sometimes does this yer,
thing.
The disposition of the animal ha
much to do with the gain or los
upon given amount Of feed. Thi
is an important thing for considera
ton when buying cattle either TO
growth or to fatten, and as mucl
Judgment is required in selecting
animals to feed as in feeding them.
To allow an animal to make a slov
growth and then, when sufficien
development has been reached i
> this way, to feed it for the market
will add to the cost to such an eN
tent that in many cases no prof
: will be obtained. Feed from tn
start.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-23
Agricultural and Live Stock Department.
ANYTHING else ON the farm.

anything else on the farm.
1t is not an impossible thing to
make good land pay for itself every
year. This sounds extravaganza to
many, but the fact has been demon
strated many times. The larger the
acreage under cultivation the less
attention can be given to details
and, consequently, the smaller
average profit an acre can be OBJ
tanned.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-23
Dairy.

A good COW will make more
pounds of human food in year than
steer will make in life time, and
you have the COW left over for
another year, and the same pro-
gramme can be repeated.
The continuance of high feed for
a few generations, without proper
exercise, will destroy the good quail
tiles of a fine race of animals. They
lose their symmetry of form, which
depends upon the proper action of
the muscles, and become barren and
worthless. All animals live best on
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-23
Hog Cholera.

DR.. d. E. Salmon, Chief of Bureau
of Animal Industry, at Washington,
gives the following as the most eff
cacious cure and preventative of
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-23

PuIverize and thoroughly mix The
ingredients-Dose l table spoonful
to each 200 pounds, weight of hogs,
to be given in liquid or soft food, once
a day. Do not turn the hog on it's
back to drench it, but pull the cheek
away from the teeth so as to form Il
pouch then slowly pour the medi-
cine in the pouch and the hog will
stop squealing aud swallow it.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-02-11
a MIXING Machine.

Hiram &. wheeler. n farmer king Of Iowa
hp. n machine that milks .cvcnty.lvc COW,
n day with n perfection Of action that wouid
nut n ..prrtty maid to the blush. The In
inventor offered the machine some time ag,
10 Mr. Wheeler who liked II. tried It and
found Il n success.
The machine Il complicated. but the prin
cipIc IL simple. A coliapsablc vacuum nil
chamber raises n heavy weight when the nir
IL pumped out Of II by an air pump; this
creates suction In pipe leading to specially
made malk cans. with tight covers. and from
the cows a main suction pipe runs along the
stalls, with a branch for each cow. To
these branches arc attached teat cups. which
draw the milk.
The vacuum chamber. when fully col.
i,pscd, will milk from ten to fifteen cows
before Il is necessary to pump the air ont Of
It again. the number OF cows depending on
the quantity Of milk they give. Al any
time during the milking operation the op.
orator can step to the pump and pump out n
part or all Of the air In the vacuum storage
chamber.
when a large number Of cows are at.
tnchcd to the machine Rt one time II would
he necessary to have some one nt the pump
nearly all the time.
The mixer has been found to he great
labor. .sav wing machine, as with II one man
can milk from twenty five TO nifty cows per
bour. the average speed Of the average man
with mn average lot Of cows. under ordinary
conditions, being about three to I'VE cows
per hour.
When MIXED with this machine the cows
show no neasincss and they give milk free
iy and may be MIXED dry.-Cblcago Times.
Herald.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-02-11
WESTERN NEWS NOTES.

The Montana Senate has passed an anti.
gambling bili-13 to I.
Governor Thornton Of New Mexico has
signed the death warrant Of the four mem.
bcrs Of the Borrcgo gang.
The Atchison road has effected n settle.
mcnt for the Atlantic & Pacific bonds. and
has Issued Its own bonds to replace them.
The ways md means committee Of the
Nebraska House has appropriated $4,000
for the Omaha Transmissippi exposition.
A sugar trust war Is on In Nebraska and
the socniicd trust Is being combattcd by nm
organization known as the Southern REIN
Ing company. with headquarters at New Or
leans
William johnson killed a mountain lion
near his rnnch at Rakin. Wyoming. last
week, which measured eight feet In length.
The animal had killed nine sheep belonging
to Mr.. Johnson.
Senators A. II. Fail Of Las Cruces and q.
A. spciss Of Santa fc got into an altcrcn.
tion In the New Mexico Senate yesterday
and Fail struck Spciss. He afterwards
made a public apology.
Black Jack. the bandit leader. was cap.
turcd near EI paso on the 9th. He is the
most daring outlaw that has Infested New
Mexico since the days of Billy the Kid.
United States Marshal Hail has been camp.
Ing on his trail for months, and the gov
ernmcnt has expended over $4,000 In trying
to effect his capture. Black Jacks name IL
Mcdonald. and he is u native Of the Texas
Panhandle. Formerly he was a member Of
the Dalton gang. operating In the Indian
Territory. when the United States marshal
made Il so warm for that gang last summer
Black Jack and "Rcd" Anderson crossed
over into New Mexico. and there they have
committed several robberies and murders.
Governor Smith of Montana has sent q
message to the Legislature calling attention
TO the fact that Its members had been paid
too much mileage. II seems the members
were given warrants for mileage at the rate
Of 20 cents per mile. under provisions Of
section 30 Of the political codes. The GOV.
crnor said that tho last Legislative Assem-
bly, had passed section 1850 Of the politlcn,
codes, which provided that the mileage
should be but 10 cents, and that he hoped
the Legislature would pass some measure
returning this overdrnft to the treasury.
hut the mistake Of about 5000 has been
paid out. There seems to be no inclination
on the part Of the Legislators to refund the
money, and In ease 1t Is not paid back the
question naturally arises who will have to
stand seod for the balance due the state,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-02-11
x.br.... B.., sugar a.o~.r..

The Beet Sugar Growers association Of
Nebraska was In session Mt Hastings last
week.
The committee on nomination Of Officers
for tho ensuing year reported ns follows:
President: II. II. Allen; secretary. W. y.
Mason. Omaha: treasurer. W. q. whiiinorc.
The following was adopted:
.Rc.oivcd. That It I. the sense Of this
convention that the stntc Of Nebraska Is
under moral obligation to pay NIL the boun.
tie. due manufacturers Of sugar under the
provisions of the law commonly known a-
the sugar bounty law. and that the interests
Of the state demand that the Legislature
should vote an appropriation snfilcicnt to
cover the bountie- due producers"
A resolution was adopted requesting .hc
representative In Congress to secure an
Import duty Of not less than w cents per
pound for al sugar Imported. for revenue
protection. and to secure the passage Of n
bill empowering the secretary Of the treas.
nry to raise or lower said tnrin as circum.
stances and the action Of foreign powers re.
anIrc. Governor Iioicomb addressed the
convention for thirty minutes In opposition
TO the state sugar bounty. At O'Clock the
convention adjourned sine die.
The t.arimer County Sheep Feeders nsso.
citation met In Fort Collins on the 9th.
An impottant suit IL now pending In the
District court at Trinidad In which the Ia
Iunta and Lamar Canal company arc con.
tc-tnnts The Great Plains company has
secured n right Of way from the water right
owners along the canal for the use Of forty
mile. Of the canal during the winter To fll
their reservoirs. and this contract IL being
rc.i.tcd by the holders of the canal sccuri.
ties.