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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
HELPING THE BIRDS.

Fig. Shows the Wrong Kind of House,
Fig. the Right Kind.
shed or house, out of the way of prowl.
ing cats, and wait for luck to bring you
bird. In the suburban towns you are
quite likely to get a little, brown, fussy,
sociable wren before May is gone.
Another way to help the birds is to
keep a pan or large fiowerpot saucer
filled with fresh water in some place
where the birds can use it to wash
and drink from. Do not be discouraged
if they do not come in the first week,
for they must first find it, and next, un-
less it is kept full and fresh, they will
not patronize it regularly Robins, blue
jays, cat birds, chirping sparrows and
blaclbirds all enjoy good bath and n
cool drink, and are likely to come to
you.
If an oriole is building near you,
throw some bright-colored worsted,
some string or hemp on the bushes, and
the oriole is likely to call for it.
If bird decides to build near you
you can help him by driving away
the rascally English sparrow, which
will try to drive him away. But the
English sparrow, that tramp among
birds, hates the evening bath as much
as the man tramp would. So, when the
sparrow goes to roost at night, or, bet
ter still, when the nest is nearly built,
make a campaign against him with the
hose and wash him off his roost or his
nest from its place, and it will soon be-
gin to dawn upon him that he is not
exactly welcome guest.
Above all, don't rob the nests of our
native birds. A collection of eggs
doesn't amount to much anyway, and
you will find it more fun to watch the
young birds than it is to drive away the
old ones. Encourage our native birds
to come and live near you, and they
will pay you for your trouble by the
flowers, bushes and trees they will
save by keeping them clean from in
sects, and they will throw in musicale
for good measure.-A. c. Beebe, in Chi
cago Record.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
To Keep Horses He.,,,x.

Broadly speaking, digestive disor-
hers in the horse invariably arise either
from defective food, over or irregular
feeding, or defective or irregular sup
ply of water. The average groom is no
great advocate for water, either for
himself or his charges, and a free supply
of anything like it is clean against
stable traditions; yet the water ques-
ton as. regards sufficiency or regular
supply has considerable bearing on the
prevalence or otherwise of cases of collie
in stable. A first essential is that both
grain and hay should be old and of good
quality. New oats and new hay are
less digestible than that matured by
keeping in bulk, and inferior food is
never cheap food.-Rural World.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
RINGING THE BULL.
Talk in n Natural Voice and Avoid
All Excitement.

Talk in n Natural Voice and Avoid
All Excitement.
AS with other work, there is right
yay and wrong way to do this job
void all bluster and excitement. Keep
our voice down and talk naturally
Ian so as to work quietly. Loud talk
nd big jumps excite the animal, and
Xcitement is what should be avoided
IMPRESS him with the idea that you are
BILE to handle him with ease, and to so
npress him you must be prepared to
andle him with ease. The bull is a
rute and cunning one. He delights
j "bullying;" in frightening dogs,
yomep, children, nervous men-any-
hing and everything he can-but he is
unning enough to look as meek and
armless as kitten when it suits his
him to don his garb of meellness. But
ont let him fool you, and whenever
ou touch him have things arranged sa
ou can master him. Before trying to
ing him have him fast. A dehorning
chute is a good thing for holding him.
but post or manager, with chance to
tie to timber well in front, will an
swer. Tie high and short. Have ready
a three-cornered file with the point and
edges ground sharp. Thrust it through
the partition of the nose with firm
hand. 1t is easily done and causes lit
tie pain. AS the file is withdrawn, fol.
low it with The open end of the ring,
close the ring and put in the screw
and the job is done.-Western' Plow-
man.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
MOUSE AS ENGINEER.
Constructed n Spiral Gallery to Es
cape from Post-HoIe.

Constructed Spiral Gallery to Es-
cape from n Post-HoIe.
Along the mountainous shore of Lake
Lucerne in Switzerland, carved in the
face of the cliff, runs famous road
called the AXenstrasse. In several
places where the hills jut out in pre-
cipitous bluffs over the water, it be-
comes an actual tunnel-a sort of gal
lery cut through the solid rock, partly
open, however, on the side toward the
lake. 1t has long been considered a
great feat of engineering skill; yet it
was once closely paralleled-one can
not say imitated-Eby an ignorant little
field mouse. AS usual with both mice
and men, necessity was the mother Of
invention
That this was mouse of more than
ordinary skill and experience the event
sufficiently proved; but he was racing
rather recklessly across the garden,
and it CHANGED that he fell into post
hole. AS this hole was about three feet
deep, with perpendicular walls and a
narrow bottom, he found himself as
helpless as young Joseph when his
brothers left him in the pit. He tried
in vain to scramble up the sides; he
1eaped with all his strength again and
again; at last he gave it up, and
crouched painting and discouraged on
the loamy floor.
The mind of a mouse works rather
slowly, except when the claws of cat
are near the tip of his tail, and it was
some time before our prisoner rea-
soned out his problem. AT length,
however, he saw the solution, and set
to work without further loss of time.
He had a life to save, and only his own
little brain and feeble paws to do IL
with.
So he began to excavate spiral gal
lery, running around the perpendicular
sides of the hole very much on the plan
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
Bambooa in the south.

Experiments in Florida and Louisi-
ana have shown that bamboo win grow
in those states almost as well as in the
hottest countries. Around Fort Myers
there are bamboos that have attained
to height of so or 60, feet. They are of
variety which usually grows to about
10 feet. in India. In Orange county
there is one clump of bamboos, said to
be only ten years old, in which the
stalks have attained to the height OF
65 feet, the stalks averaging 13 inches
in circumference. There are eighty
stalks in the clump. This particular
clump is of variety from Bengal,
where the wood is used for building pur-
poses and for light spars for vessels.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
PLAN OF A SMALL BARN.

the bulk of it is not in the way. 1t is
nn easy matter to fill these bins by
means of rope and pulleys, There is
room for three horses and five cows.
AT the end of the barn may be built
wagon shed, with hog pens, sheep
stables, or calf stables, with storage
room above for corn, hay, etc. This
Darn ought to be built complete for
$500 to $500 with plank frame, the
cost depending upon wages and price OF
materials, as well as upon the style of
tinish.-John L. Shawver, in National
Stockman.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
Some Causes of FaiIure.

One of the most important things
about good farming that most of US
have to learn is to avoid waste. We pay
taxes on land that we do not farm; we
only half cultivate our fields, and sc
waste both land and labor; we leave a
large percentage of the crop in the
field; we waste time and capital rails.
ing inferior animals; we waste money
in buying what we should raise our
selves; we waste energy in trying to do
more than any one man can do right;
we waste opportunities to improve oui
condition by staying away from in.
stitutes and neglecting to read papers;
we WINS se--in thousand and one ways
and then we are ready to say that
farming don't pay" And it is nc
wonder = Rural World
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05

OF the AXenstrasse, and gradually
bringing the little deliver nearer the
top. But like many another amateur
engineer who goes ahead without an
adequate survey of the ground, he met
with an unexpected obstacle. About
half way up he encountered stone,
firmly embedded and SO large that he
could not tunnel around it. Here again
was pause, and sadness, and cogita-
tion. But again the diminutive brain
was equal to the emergency-thou
ordinarily it doesn't contain wit enough
TO keep its owner out of palpable
trap with the dead bodies of three or
-four of his neighbors stuck in it for a
warning. For mouse, our long-tailed
engineer was nothing less than a
genius; he reversed his plans, set his
back to the rock, started his spiral in
the opposite direction, and finally
reached the surface. Certainly he had
earned his freedom; and let us hope
that the clever little fellow never fell
victim to either cat or trap.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
HELPING THE BIRDS.
How to Build Homes for Them which
They VIII Like.

How to Build Homes for Them Which
They VIII Like.
Life is an uphill struggle with many
of our birds, and they are exceedingly
grateful for little help at suitable
times. Boys and girls may, if they
wish, help the birds, and have fun be-
sides.
One way to help the birds is to put
up a bird house or two, and you may
be lucky enough to have the wrens
build in them. just word about bird
houses. Numbers of them are built
wrong, as you may see by a little OBJ
servation. The hole for entering is
made on a level with the floor, and
when the bird attempts to build nest
the sticks, grass and feathers close up
the only door. In the right sort OF
bird house, which is merely n box about
eight inches square, the hole for the
birds to enter is made in the middle
OF slightly above the middle of the
front When the nest is built the open.
ing is just on a level with the top of it
The picture will show what is meant
A slanting roof sheds the rain best
and a little doorstep or place on which
the bird can alight is appreciated, but
a plain square box, with a hole an inch
and one-half in diameter in the front
of it will do. Nail such a box on the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
TREASURE I'm an old Ark.

A great deal is heard of hidden treas
ure, but very little is ever found. A
California man is one of the few lucky
ones. Last September an old fisher
man hermit was found DE- I'd in his ark,
In steamer near San Jose. The cor
oner held an inquest, and the ark was
sold at auction for $3.50. Not long aft
erward the purchaser blossomed out in
new clothes, and took trip east. His
friends became inquisitive, and finally
the man confessed that he had found
hidden in the ark, in notes and coin,
more than $4,000. Now people recall
that the old fisherman once had $a3, 900
IN bank, and the man who thought he
was so lucky is being sued by the her
mit's relatives to recover the money.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
AN OLD STORY IN RHYME.

II heard a great big lion in the BRUSH"
Bald he; along the river" - Freddy,
hushi"
Said his mamma; you talk at random,
dear,
For there were never any lions here"
"oh, then 1t must have been a bear" said
Fred;
"A cross old bear-he might have killed me
deadv
''Why Freddy" said mamma, "you talk
SO wild;
Tho bears were all killed long ago, my
child"
"a wildcat or coyote, then" said he:
But his mamma said no, 1t could not be.
"You think" said Fred, that it was just
calf?
That's what you said-I wish you wouldn't
laugh.
Twas HfSting dark-I hadn't time to look,
But anyhow, know the bushes shook"
Della Hart Stone, in N. Y. Independent.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
Administering Iron to Hens.

1t is claimed that a French physician
has discovered method by which iron
can be given in large doses. Hens, he
noticed, have powerful internal organs
They can digest considerable quantities
of iron and then render 1t back through
the albumen of their eggs in form
which is easily digested by the weaker
stomachs of mankind. So he feeds his
hens with what he calls "a very alb.
sorbent salt of iron," mingled with
grains of wheat, and they lay eggs ex.
tremely rich in iron already digested.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
PLAN For a BARN.
Cheap and Convenient Structure for
Small Farmer.

ohenp and Convenient Structure for
n Small Farmer.
In the building of a barn, as in the
building of a dwelling, the farmer
ihould seek to secure the greatest
amount of comfort, convenience and
durability for the money invested.
In the plan herewith presented we
,ave cheap but convenient barn for a
small farmer. The barn proper is 22x42
'eet and should be 20 feet to the caves,
There is a good grain bay 14X32 for the
grain in the sheaf A threshing floor
l4XS2 with two decks overhead each
l0x14. On one of these decks, out of the
way of the other things, should be the
,at and bran bins, with spouts lead
ing down to the small feeding boxes
lust in front of the managers. Thus the
Iced is always convenient to get at, yet
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05


birth they would annoying "longngs
of n such cas-
"From the time sixteen old till
troubled with of the kidneys and terrible whntmy monthly
periods Pnhams
Compound relieved After married the doctor said
would living child
healthy could
your gave
health child
expected such blessing Praise God for Lydia Pnham Vegetable
homes be frightened has Minis L. WHITNEY,
ST.. Somervile,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
p{WNIN NNN cyG@l uI.,.
:|......ES..N.|5g ,SR NJ: I:
TO MAKE wELL-DIGG1NG SAFE.

may be spilled. The man below ought
to have some safety device like that
shown in the cut, to stand beneath as
soon as the bucket begins its ascent. a
few moments labor will make it, and IL
life may be saved by its use.-N. Y,
Irihune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
,IHow Not to Boil Eggs.

Miss Stella Evans, of Colorado Springs,
was boiling can of lard over a cook
stove and, picking up an egg, thought
ahe would boil it in the red-hot grease.
The egg no sooner touched the boil
ing lard than a loud explosion occurred,
and the young lady was literally Gov
cred with the flying lard.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05

mothers milk after.
Is not that an incentive to pre-
maternity?
Do you know the meaning of what
is popularity called those long
ings," or cravings, which beset so
many women during pregnancy?
There is something lacking in the
mothers blood. Nature cries out
and will be satisfied at all hazards.
One woman wants sour things,
another wants sweets, another
wants salt things, and so on.
The real need all the time is to
enrich the blood SO as to supply
nourishment for another life, and
to build up the entire generative
system, so that the birth may be
possible and successful.
If expectant mothers would fort
ify themselves with Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, which
for twenty years has sustained
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
NO Fun in Now CIothen.

Sister-There you have candy all over
your new suit What will N ANNA say ?
Little Brother-Well, mamma won't
let me have any fun in these clothes
till / get 'em spoiled.-Golden Days.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
NEAT SAFETY DEVICE.
No Farmer Should Dig n Well With
ont Constructing One.

1t is often necessary TO olga we'll
upon the farm. or make some, other
form of excavation in the ~-~'--
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05

Nouvelle Richesse.- Hostess-"I want to
give large party. What would you advise,
gentlemen, the dansant or cafe chant
ant?'-Fliegende Blaetter.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05

Piso's Cure for Consumption relieves the
most obstinate coughs.-Rev. D. Buch-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
Tn the Depnrtment store.

Customer (who has purchased a pair OF
kid gloves)-They will do very well, though
they are trihe large.
Saleswoman-Bu then, your hands are
so small! Is there anything else?
Eyes; there are few things / wanted.
Let me see-oh, yes; a gallon Of molasses, a
pound of tenpenny nails and hindquarter
of lamb"
"Will you take them with you or have
them sent?"
Perhaps you may as well send them, as
/ am not going directly home. e."-Boston
Transcript.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05

Rural Teacher-"What current event of
great interest can you give me this morn
ing? Small Girl (eagerly)-"My ma has
just made 20 tumblers of jell."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
Try arn,n-oi Try ernin-oi

Ask your grocer to-day to show you.
that takes the place of coffee. The children
may drink it without injury as well as the
adult All who try it like it. GRA1N-O
has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java,
but it is made from pure grains, and the
most delicate stomach receives it without
25 cts. per package. Sold by all grocers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-05
Motherhood.

mother who is in good physical condition transmits
to her children the blessings of good constitution
The child fairly drinks in health from its mothers
robust constitution before birth, and from healthy
mothers milk after
Is not that an incentive to prepare for healthy
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-21
Oh. wrIr Yon,rn Not ,o warm,

LONDON, Sept, 2O.-The Globe this
afternoon In an editorial on the futllity
OF arbitration with a power which dis
regards alike the legal prescriptions
and ordinary courtesles of civilized ma
TONS" says:
Lord Salisbury has treated the Uni
ted States with Il kindness they do not
deserve, always wearing the silk glove,
until America has forgotten the exist
ence OF the iron hand beneath It,"
In conclusion the Globe remarks:
The idea Of our being afraid Of n
fourth-retc power like the United States
could only have occurred to sufferers
from a severe attack of swelled head.
America has lost all sense Of proper
ton and has forgotten she plays only n
minor role IN the affairs Of the world,
We hope our relations with America
will hereafter be distinguished bv a
ilrmor tone, as the only way to avert
trouble ia 20 make her plainly under
stand that we are determined not 10 be
shouted out of our rights"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-21

to with joyous spirit by their loved
ones there, win do well 90 heed my
warning. Home-buildAng Is natural
aspiration that a merciful God has
planted in every human breast the
command TO labor was issued at the
portals OF the Garden OF Eden, and
man, individually or In the aggregate
has never been able to repeal the laws
Of God Almighty that We must eat our
bread in the sweat OF oT brow, Mr.
Debs cannot repeal this law, He may
indulge In well-worded and impossible
dreams, and he may prosper upon the
dues and the monthly installments paid
IN by duPes, he may even be profoundly
sincere in believing that he may ac-
o0mpllsh the great task of abollshine
labor, poverty, crime and tyranny, but
since the world begun men have been
compelled 10 work, and until the world
ends men win be compelled TO work.
II by honest effort and economy I
have been able 10 purchase and own n
little home, humble though II be, II II
my palace To the law which Is the
king and should be the king TO ms all,
look for protection In the possession and
enjoyment Of that little home,
The most OF those about Mr.. Debs, II
not Mr.. Debs himself, are against all
property ownership, and whenever you
knock the prop OF safety in the law
from the rich, you also take the same
prop away that supports nue. In possess
sion and ownership OF that which Is
mine, en- MEMBER A, II. U.
Wheeling, w, Va, Aug, 1897.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-21
MURDER MYSTERY
About to he Cleared up-vletlm was a
NaturaIlEsd American.

hDoul 10 ne AleANeA Np-N tetAA VS. ="
NRtHrAiIEsd American.
NEW YORK. Sept sO.-A dispatch to
the World from London says! Scotland
Yard is now endeavorlng TO trace the
murderer or murlerers OF Moritz VII
helm Won valtheim, naturallzed
American citizen. and from 1898 to 1896
the American consul at Santa Marta
Colombia, on August s, the naked body
OF a man six feet four inches In height
was found floating in the Thames in the
vicinity OF the docks. A strong lanyard
rope was wound tightly around the
neck and down the back, tying the
hands and then securely fastened 10
the ankles. The body II was declared
had been In the wafer a month, and the
doctors aifirmed that death was caused
by strangulation before immersion.
The police content with verdict of the
coroner'a jury consigned the body 20 a
paupeFs grave in lltord cemetery.
About two weeks ago Nine. Won Walt
helm applied to the home secretary for
an order to have the body eXhumea, as
she believed Il TO be that OF her hus-
band. She said she had lost sight Of
him early in the year and that soon az
terward he had bigamously married q
Greek lady, Marie Magroyordate, whom
he met at a bloomsbury boarding house.
The body was eXhumed last Friday
night and Nine Valthelm Immediately
Identified It as that OF her husband,
Won Valtheim had had remarkable
career. Born in the north OF Germany
he began life In the German navy and
then fought as q volunteer for Bulgaria
against SeTvia, Subsequently he tramp
led across the Australian continent, He
married his first wife, a Miss Yearsley,
at Perth. Western Australia, In 1856 AZ
forwards he settled in the United
States. Then he went into the banana
trade at Shnta Marta, where he was ap-
pointed United States consul. Won Walt
helms second wife, discovering that he
had another wife living had begun pro-
ceedings TO nulllfy her marriage, but
they were postponed on Information
that Won Valthelm had gone to NADIA
gascaE However a decree nulllfylng the
marriage, was granted In July. How the
body came In the river is a complete
mystery. But II Is suTmlsed that Won
ValtheIm was thrown overheard from
some foreign ship.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-21
CHEAP ARMOR PLATE
CIalruu that It Can he Made for 500 Ton
by New Methods.


READING, Pa, Sept. 2O.-several
government officials were In this city
last week in consultation with j. H.
Carpenter, the steel projectile manurac-
turer, whose proposition to make ar
NOR plate for 500 a ton is now before
the armor board By his new methods
he claims to have eliminated serioas
difficulty which oil have to contend
with; that Is, the acid reactions in the
molten metal. which have prevented
steel from being used with more conf
dence and saving in enormous wastage
of castings. which could not be used,
because they were unsoupd and full Of
blow holes.
a plant Is now being built at Cramp &
Sons ship yards, Philadelphia under
Mr.. Carpenters supervision, which will
soon be ready for the making OF cast
Ings and the carrying out of any fur
Their experimental work which he may
desire to enter into,
The present method Of making steel
armor plate is by what Is well known
as the open hearth process and It takes
from eight TO ten hours to convert iron
mixed with steel scrap into steel while
by the new process the same amount OF
steel Is made In less than an hour and
without the difficulties In casting incl
dent to the open hearth method.