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The Largest Line Of OXFORDS
to be found at G. L MORANG'S.
I.o5t.

NATCH-Lady's small gold watch. Finde err
w will be suitably rewarded by leaving
same at THE AMERICAN office. or with H. W
CUsHAAS, First national bank, Ellsworth.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-07-28

dairy, and if we do not get it the pro-
fit is taken out by the COWS i'm a de-
creased milk yield; so we must have
the protein, and should have it in it's
cheapest possible forms.
Taking, for example, farmer stu
ated in Eastern Pennsylvania, ton
of bran would be cheap at $40 or $11,
and he can get ton of cow pea hay
that will be of more use to him in his
search for milk for the sum of rs
cents. How? A bushel of cow peas
for seed will cost him $3.50. This is
enough seed for one acre, and one
acre will produce two tons of hay
when the acre is good one. But, you
say, the peas will not harvest themsel-
yes, and walk in the barn when cured,
nor will they plant themselves, nor
will they pay taxes and rent. Very
true, but at the same it is equally true
that nine farmers out of ten can put
in two or three acres of cow peas and
harvest them without the expenditure
of one cent of cash. 1t will take work,
but it will be labor that is either al
ready hired on the farm or already on
the farm without being hired if the
farmer is so fortunate as to have
enough help in his own family. It
will take extra work, it will take plan
ming, but when we have to sell so
much for so little money we must
avoid in every possible way the ex-
penditure of ready cash. And as far
as 1 can see this is the only way we
can get along until higher prices pre-
-Tri-State Farmer.
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Make Poultry Profitable.

There is probably no more seduc-
tive business connected with farming
than the growing of poultry and eggs
for market. Neither is there any in
which disappointm is not more GER
tain to overtake the beginner who has
not prepared for his work by previous
experience.
The greatest trouble with the anna
teur is his tendency to do too much
on small capital and on too small
grounds. However, poultry may be
fed on purchased food, they need at
least quarter of an acre for every
fifty fowls, and this should be so stu
ated that it can be plowed, sowed
with grain and scratched over for
worms and insects throughout the
growing season. Only small part of
the feed will be grown on this quarter
of an acre. It's value will consist
rather in the insect and vegetable
food it will furnish, and in giving sur
face to scratch over, so that the soil
will not become poisoned by the ex-
crement of fowls, which is the fruitful
source of disease in small yards Yet
by sowing oats or wheat on this limit
ed area it will provide both grain and
insects for the nutriment of the fowls,
with nnOuOh of GROWING GRAIN to
make them digest their food well. If
to this be added rations of fresh
ground bone, it will not need more to
secure profitable returns. But in no
case should more than fifty fowls be
kept on one-quarter of an acre.
American Cultivator.
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grow larger they will be around even,
ing and morning for their meals.
1t is hard to tell the sex apart till
about one year old. The cocks ear
lobes are little larger than those of
the hen, and he has more lordly ap-
pearance. I do not advise anyone to
make speciality of guineas, as I do
not think it would pay, but do think
two or three pairs grand addition to
the poultry or farmyard. My advice
has always been where poultry is
raised where there is large run, not
to take up or depend on one variety
alone, but to keep small flock of
good geese and ducks, flock of tur-
keys and guineas, and good big
flock of chickens; only one variety of
each, and that the very best. Then
you have your own feathers, your own
Thanksgiving turkey, and chicken,
not only when the preacher comes,
but just as often as you feel like eat
ing one. Besides you have eggs every
day in the year, and no expense build
ing yards or runs, as you have only
one variety of each, besides you will
realize snug little sum from what
surplus you have to spare if you give
them the attention they Deserve
Jefferson D. Rice, in Interstate Poul-
tryman.
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Cow Pea Hay VS.. Bean.

An average of different analyses of
cow pea vine hay gives the following
results (the analysis of bran being
placed side by side for comparison) is
given by writer in the National
StOckman:
Protein Hydrates Fat
Cow pea hay. ..16.O7 1894 3.O7
Bran. =. :. ..15.42 1897 4O5
An examination of these figures
shows that in protein or the milk
making part of feed the COW pea hay
is actually in excess of the bran, while
in both fat and carbohydrates it is on
ly little behind With corn at 27
cents or less a bushel, the fodder
cheaper still, we all have carbohy-
drates and fat to burn, as the corn
plant is the greatest producer of these
two elements that we have, and at the
same time the cheapest.
But getting the protein takes a
great deal of the profit out of the
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-07-28
What Pair of Pekin Ducks Did.

r. j. Mudgett tells the following in
teresting duck story in the Reliable
Poultry Journal:
On the first of last March, Mrs. G. A
pair of Pelzin ducks, for which she
paid So. The pair was taken home
and given the run of the farm to hus-
tie for what they got. The duck laid
eighty odd eggs, from which were
Matched fifty-three ducklings, forty
seven growing to maturity.
The ducklings, after ten or eleven
weeks old, were picked every five
weeks all season (she even took the
old duck from the nest to pick her) =,
getting in all twenty-five pounds of
feathers. On November 23d [ pur-
chased forty-four of them, paying her
$3.50, she keeping one lame one and
a pair, to try it with again, but she
has since sold the three for 1910.
Now, to sum up the whole, she re-
ceived $31 in money, and has twenty
two pounds of feathers that, were she
mind to, she could sell for so cents
per pound, making grand total of
$4S. Allowing 30 cents apiece for
their feed (which think is more than
it actually cost, it would leave clear
profit of $279O.
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papers give us theories which we have
to put into practice to get experience.
Gull closely. Don't even sell the OBJ
jectionable stock to your home buck
ster, but ship it to a city commission
man yourself and then you will know
that it got clear out of the country
and that no one can get it and use it
for breeding purposes, with the state
ment that it must be all right for it
came from your yards, thus running
your reputation and business.-Ex.
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To the Amateur.

The amateur who aspires to be a
professional poultryman will have a
great many things to learn and the
sooner he learns them the better it
will be for himself and for those with
whom he deals. Experience is good
but quite often a dear teacher. But
for some recognized, yet unaccounta-
BILE reason, the majority of the things
we know about poultry raising have
to be learned in this way. Poultry
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Guinea Fowls.


we have, they are a very desirable adj
dition to the poultry or farmyard
They attain weight of four pounds
or over at maturity, which is in about
six months after Matching. They mate
in pairs and remain true to their first
love always. l would not advise any
one to keep guineas where they have
to keep them confined in yard, as
they cannot be kept proftably that
way. 1t is best to give them full priv
ilege to go where they please.
They are small and do not damage
grain fields where they run in them.
They are fond of roosting in trees and
will continue to do so until very cold
weather sets in, when they will go in
side with chickens if allowed, but just
warm back to the trees they go.
While they get very tame, they do not
like to be handled. If you were to
handle one every day for a month it
would resist as much the last day as it
did the first.
They begin to lay about April LIST,
and continue till frost comes, laying
twenty-five to forty eggs first laying,
and fifteen to twenty after that if not
allowed to set.
I like guineas and expect to keep
them as long as keep poultry. Their
flesh, although dark, is very fine eat
ing when roasted, being favored
something like our wild pheasant.
Then you can count on having eggs
from spring to fall, and, while their
eggs are small, there is no richer or
finer favored egg. Then if your
breeding stock is good you can count
on nine out of every ten being like
their parents. In no fowls do we see
so clearly proven that like begets like
as in guinea fowls.
A hawk or crow cannot come near
without them seeing it, and such din
as they set up always frightens them
away, and it is claimed by some that
hawks will not catch poultry where
guineas are kept, and if a strange dog
cat, or anything that they are not ac-
customed to comes about, you are al
ways sure to know it by the noise
they make. Either day or night they
are always on the watch. l like them
for noise they make. 1t gives place
lively, cheerful appearance. There
are two faults often found against
them. One is that the cocks become
cross and kill little chicks. Do not
keep them over two years old, and you
will overcome that, as it is always old
ones that get cross. Another objec.
ton is that they cannot be confined in
yard. Do not try to confine them.
Give them their liberty; and they will
not do any harm to growing crops.
Their eggs hatch well and can be set
under a chicken hen or a guinea hen.
The young come out in about twenty
eight days. They resemble young
pheasants when first Matched, and are
very easily raised if they happen to
hatch in dry, warm time, but if the
first week after their Matching is wet
y
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POULTRY DEPARTMENT.

Address all communications to Poultry De-
partment Box 200, DeLand, Fla.
Evening journal., 1897-07-22
HOKE AND HIS RULINGS.

National Commander John P. Dona-
hoe. of the Union Veteran Legion,
spent yesterday in Washington, and on
his way home last night paid an official
visit TO Encampment No. 1O9. in Balti-
more. He says that he expects to have
a decision from the Interior Depart
ment in the Skaggs pension case either
to-day or tomorrow and he is conf
dent that other pension rulings made
by HOke Smith will also be reversed.
"We have not been disappointed in
Hoke Smith," said the national COM
mander to an Evening Journal reporter
this morning, for we didn't expect
much sympathy from him. II would
not have been natural for him to have
felt kindly toward old Union soldiers.
His father was killed at the head OF his
Georgia regiment, fighting our forces
and he married a daughter Of Wertz
| the brute who had command of Ander-
sonviIle prison and who received his
quietus from the United States Govern
ment ="
Evening journal., 1897-07-22
SIX BEATEN BY ONE.
Mr.. O'Neill Won His Fight at
Council Caucus Last Night.
IB GOT WHAT HE WANTED

THE OTHER SIX DEMOCRATS GIVE
IN TO THE OLD MAN AND MAKE
HIM CHAIRMAN OF THE TWO
COMMITTEES HE HAD HIS EYE
ON.
The deadlock in City Council caused
by Mr.. O'Neils persistent demand for
the craftsmanship of the Law and Pub
lie Buildings Committees. was broken
last night after Mr.. O'Neil was satisfied
that ne would get all he wanted.
The caucus met at 8 o'clock and did
not adjourn until midnight. The usual
following of interested oifice-seekers
and hangers-on, crowded the pavement
in front of the Court House. Mr..
.O'Neus big son, Dan, was on hand and
delivered several essays to the crowd
on the ethics of councilmanic dead
locks.
The first matter discussed by che eau
Gus wag that of committees. After con-
siderable discussion the Democratic
members decided to extend the olive
leaf TO Mr.. ONeil by naming him
chairman of the two committees he has
had his eyes on Mr.. O'Neil accepted
the overtures gracefully and as a mark
of his satisfaction voted to make Mr..
Oberly chairman of the Finace Com
mittec. a smile beamed over the face
Of Mr. O'Neil when the voting was over.
He felt that he had achieved great
victory; that he, one man. had COM
PEELED six to bow to him. The Law and
Public Building Committees are two
of the most important in Council.
After the committees had been fixed
and the pointed remarks subsided the
question Of nominations for city offices
was then discussed.
Mr.. O'Neil wanted Philip j. Murphy
of the First ward, made clerk of the
market Mr.. Cannon wanted Charles
Cannon, of the Second ward. named fol
the same place, while Mr.. Kane wanted
John Connolly, of the Fourth ward
named.
The discussion over this position II
said to have been very lively.
Mr.. Kane was rather loud and en-
phatic in his opinions, and this raised
the ire Of Mr.. O'Neil. of the First ward
who arose in his place, and with hi
finger pointed at Kane, exclaimed:
Il heard of you before you got here
Now / want to tell you that while l an
an old man. you cannot bulldoze me.
The slate for the city offices, gener
ally talked of, is as follows:
Clerk of Council-William p. Morri
son.
Bailiff-John ]. Ryan.
i City Auditor-Isaac c. Pyle.
City Auditors Clerk-John Bough
man.
City Treasurer's Clerk-George
Kloberg.
4 Coal Oil Inspector-M. J. Kelley
Clerk of the Market-Charles Can
non.
Evening journal., 1897-07-22
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.

The steam yacht Meteor. of Jersey
City. is anchored in the Christiana op-
posf,e the foot Of Tatnall street.
While August Ferske. who keeps a
barber supply store on East Seventh
street. was making some cologne the
liquid exploded doing S35 damage.
Opposition to the Adams bill taxing
interest-bearing investments is slowly
subslding.
Register OF Wills Crossan has
granted letters of administration upon
the estate OF Amanda Woodside to Will
liam c. Woodside.
In the case of Charles Davidson vs.
Refine Martin, of this city Magistrate
Medill, of Newark, gave the plaintiff a
verdict for 500 and costs.
Shields Library Association has
prepared a new constitution.
The labor organizations in this city
some Of the parks.
The steamer Broadmain entered
this port yesterday from Rouen,
France, and will load with oil at Mar
Gus Hook.
The keel for the new tug to be built
for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Company was laid yesterday by the
Jackson and Sharp Company.
The steamer City Of Key West will
be placed in the drydock of the Harlan
and Hollingsworth Company within a
few days for repairs.
The dixie about the government
property on Cherry Island marsh has
been completed. and the work of filing
in the land will soon be commenced.
Caleb S. Woodrow. of this city, has
been granted an increase in pension.
A new electric block signal was
placed in the p. w. & b. station yes
terday and the connecting wires were
put up.
William McCafferty, aged y years.
fell overheard at theWilmington Sean
boat Company's wharf and was rescued
by a passer-by.
Evening journal., 1897-07-22
$4,000 FOR ONE; $1,000 FOR TWO

JUDGE BRADFORD HANDS DOWN
HIS DECISION IN THE CASE OF
THE WILMINGTON DENTAL COM
PANY.
Judge Bradford this morning handed
down a decision on the petition of the
Girard Life Insurance Annuity and
Trust Company for $4,000 for services
rendered as receiver of the Wilmington
Dental Company, and for $4,000 for
services of counsel for the receivers in
his opinion.
Judge Bradford says a presen, allow
ance of $4,000 to the petitioner on ac-
count of It's services as receiver and 81
600 to j. II. Hoffecker and Robert ID.
Maxwell. counsel for the receivers. The
latter allowance is made less any mon
les the two counsel might have received
from the receiver as compensation for
their services.
The decision was followed by a de
cree awarding the said sums 90 the said
receivers and said counsel.
Evening journal., 1897-07-22
NEFF'S IGNOBLE END.
A LETTER FROM LOS ANGELES
TELLS HOW THE RASCALLY
CLERK NET HIS DEATH.

CLERK NET HIS DEATH.
Alvan r. Morrison has received from
friend of his in Los Angeles the fol-
lowing letter, telling how Night Clerk
c. w. Neff. Of the Clayton House. met
his death after stealing $3.50 belonging
to the hotels guests and fleeing with It
to California:
My Dear Mr. Morrison: According
to instructions on margin OF Evening
Journal | found out particulars con-
cerning Neff. When he came to Los
Angeles from Frisco he had pawned
his watch and hadn't a cent. He hunt
ed up Mr.. Lehman. clerk of the Hollen-
beck, whom he knew well about twenty
years ago OF course they didn't want
him hanging around there. so the clerk
gave MIN money for few days board
and he went to the Broadway Hotel.
The second morning he was there the
maid heard him making a peculiar
noise. and when they opened his door,
the clerk. an old gentleman. told me he
thought Neff was dead. A doctor who
was summoned worked on him and
thought he would recover. In short
time after, the bell boy went up and
found him on the floor dead. He left
his brothers and mothers address, in
Cincinnati. Theye telegraphed right
back to brother living right here. 1t
seems the family knew nothing of him
in the last fifteen years. After two
days the brother sent coffin to the
hotel and they buried the body from
the morgue And that is the end OF the
chapter on this side"
Evening journal., 1897-07-22

INCLEMENCY OF THE WEATHER
ROBBED HIM OF HIS AUDIENCE
AT THE ACADEMY LAST EVEN
ING.
At the Tenth Street Cycle Academy
last evening Sam Small, the Georgia
evangelist addressed a small audience
on the subject of local option. He
opened the meeting by reading a chap
ter of the Bible. Mrs. Harry c.. Sickle,
OF Hamilton. Canada. sang a solo, and
exPugilist Jimmy" Smith led the
general singing.
Mr.. Small said that he considered the
clause in the Constitution referring to
local option a good one for the local op-
tion people. and If he had been drawing
up a clause to suit himself he could not
have done better. II was a little hard
to reach the desired end. but when ac-
cOmplished it was sure and the state
was safe. Local option meant the pro-
lection OF life. properly and happiness.
Ii was a question of home rule, and
whoever was against it was opposed to
home rule; by the licensed liquor traf-
fic more people were sent TO death and
destruction than were killed by the
Spaniards in Cuba, or by the Kurds in
Armenia The Weyler of the whisky
barrel is the one the people of America
want to get at. The country is being de-
stroyed, but the American people have
the weapon Of defence in their hands
the ballet. If the people of Delaware
continue under the liquor traffic il is
because they are on the same moral
plane as those engaged in the traffic
If they want to free themselves of It,
now is the time.
His subject this evening will be
Personal Liberty VS.. Anarchy" There
will be twelve night meetings here and
if the weather becomes settled the acad-
emy will be crowded with those who
wish to hear the gifted Southern evan
gelist
Evening journal., 1897-07-22
rAI.K OF AN INJuNCTION.

The dumping of garbage on Sheep
House farm, over Eleventh street
bridge. IS creating so much complaint
among the residents of that section of
the city that there is talk of getting out
an Injunction to compel the garbage
contractors to stop it. 1T is bad enough
IN make such a residential section Of
the city a dump for offensive matter oil
that kind" said a property-owner TINS
mornig. "but to make matters worse
the plugs are pulled out OF some OF the
carts at Church street, and the thor
oughfares, as well as the atmosphere
are saturated with the effluvia.
Evening journal., 1897-07-22
ToucH Only DEAD WIRES.

Police Captain Robert W. Chambers
received a visitor in the shape OF boy
at the City Hall last night, who report
ed that an electric light wire had set
fire to a house on King street near
Fifth He went there to investigate and,
while examining the cornice over the
awning box. discovered that It was
smoking. He stopped to feel If the
woodwork was hot. and as ne did so
his hand touched a live wire, causing
blisters on two Of his fingers. The wire
was repaired by the electric companys
men
Evening journal., 1897-07-22
MUST PAY A FEE.

Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue
Robinson received a special order from
Washington yesterday announcing that
in the future all persons who sell
Pabst's malt extract must pay the spe-
cial government tax to sell liquors.
The new order will cause a number of
dealers to pay the fee of $40 to sell malt
Mauors. which will restrict them to the
sale Of liquors OF the malt variety.
The new order will affect druggists and
grocers selling malt liquors. No state
license is required for the sale OF the
malt extract, as the state government
does not place malt extract on the high
licensa list.
Evening journal., 1897-07-22
PUBLIC SALES.

ADMINISTRATIONS SALE OF PER-
SONAL PROPERTY.
The undersigned, administrators Of Lu-
ther W. Palmer. deceased. will sell at
public sale. on the premises. No. POS West
Tenth street. Wilmington, on
TUESDAY. JULY 27 A ID. 1897
At 10 o'clock, A. NJ.
All the personal property belonging to the
estate of the said Luther w. Palmer, de-
ceased namely: Two horses, coaches, 2
sets coach harness, / covered wagon, ]
open wagon, cooling boards, iee boxes.
cases, uncovered caskets. chestnut cas-
kets 60 small coffins. . pedestals pair
of stools work benches. lumber. tools.
chairs. pillows, lining, handles. one em-
balming set. fire-proof safe, desk, look
ing-glass. clock. etc. Terms cash.
KATE II. PALMER. Administrators.
l. w STIDHAM q son. Auctioneers.
Evening journal., 1897-07-22
WILLIE WEAVER'S FOOT
Young Irving Bennett Held
for Court BY Judge Ball
FOR PUTTING A BULLET IN IT
OFFICERS RALSTON AND OHARA
HAVE A BIG DAY IN COURT AND
DOWN THEIR MEN-OTHER MU-
NICIPAL COURT CASES.
FOR PUTTING A BULLET IN IT

Officers Ralston and O'Hara were re-
sponsible for a large part of the bust
ness in Municipal Court this morning.
In the first case called, that of John
Lloyd charged with Dsing drunk, Ofl-
Ger Ralston testified that he discovered
him In his merry humor and convinced
the court that his case was woI,h 81.
Lloyd gave as his excuse for being
drunk the condition of he weather yes
terday. 1t was not wet enough for him.
Frederick Sore. a Hebrew, was ar
raigned on a charge of disorderly con-
duct. Officer Ralstcn testified that he
found Sore cussing and acting strangely
at Front and Shipley streets yesterday.
Sores excuse was that his wife de-
manded money Of him and followed him
TO his shop to get it, and dis" he said,
made me mad" Judge Ball told him
that he laws Of this country do not per-
NIT man to swear at and abuse his
wife. Five dollars and costs was the
verdict rendered
William Cooke was fined 80 and costs
for being drunk. Officer OHara tesi-
fed against him.
Cornelius LeMartin got a verdict of
81 and costs for allowing Officer OHara
to catch him drunk and asleep. He
pleaded hard for his liberty.
William Smith and Jason Lewis
charged with the larceny of a boat from
party in Bridgeton, n. j., were dis
missed. as there was no evidence
against them. The stolen beat has
been located in Lcbdell's yard, on the
Christiana. and will be delivered to the
owner.
The next case on the docket was thai
Of Irving Bennett, charged with assault
upon William E. Weaver on July 8
The charge was that young Bennett
while returning with some companions
from a swimming expedition. shot off q
revolver four times. the fourth shoi
striking young Weaver, who was in The
party, on the ankle. The plaintiff fur
ther charged that young Bennett delib
erately aimed at his companions foo
after having been cautioned about fir
ing off the pistol. John Lynn conduct
cd the defence and made an admirable
! fight against Assistant City Solicitor
Caho0n. He summoned a long line o.
| witnesses and made a gigantic effOr
to have the case dismissed. but th'
court aver-ruled him and held yOuni
Bennett in the sum Of 800 bail for tbs
upper court.