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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-28
Stock.

A few acres planted early and
thickly with corn or sorghum will
furnish one Of the best and cheapest
safeguards from drouth. If not
needed for summer feeding, a good
supply of excellent winter food is at
hand.
On high priced land summer feed
ing Of grain, especially to milch
cows, is often good economy. The
acreage of grass required is much
reduced. The extra food will show
in butter, too.
The irregularity of supplying salt
! is detrimental to the best results. 1t
is essential not only to health and
vigOr, but it aids digestion. A milch
COW will rapidly lose if salt is with
held.
Save part of the pasture for July
and August, or put in some drilled
corn, oats, peas or something of the
sort to be cut when the dry hot sum-
mer leaves you without grass.
Put out some roots for the stock
the coming winter, and do it in time.
They will furnish a relish which
pays as food better than even the
corn or the hay.
Let South Americ and Australia
raise scrub ranch cattle and small
sheep; our markets have changed
Live stock is essential to prosperity
perity in agriculture, and to make
it pay we must breed good stock
which natures early.
We must be more careful to burn
or bury all dead animals, now that
we understand that the microbe is
responsible for most of the disease
in stock. Let no live animal get
near them.
1t is too early in the day to talk
about slowing up on stock raising
The United States has not much
over 80 sheep for every hundred OF
population, while Australia ba:
5000 to the same number of inhabi.
tants.
Sheep climb over rocks and lodges
where COWS would not venture, anC
almost every herb which grows suf.
fees them for food; and they never
crop pasture but to benefit it.
In the milk of cows much phos
phate of lime and other saline mat
ter, as well as heterogeneous matter
are removed, while sheep carry of
only what is on their backs.
When arguing in behalf of sheer
{ let us remember that they multiply
faster than any other animal; espe
cially do the large mutton breeds
which often produce twins.
Sheep fatten much more easily
; than cattle, and when slaughtered
, furnish not only meat, but wool, tn,
= latter not only keeping indefinitely
but paying for long transportation
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-28
Drink Arithmetic.

|. IT a family spends Is cents a
day for beer, how much is expended
in four weeks? How many loaves
of bread at 10 cents loaf can be
bought for the same money?
2. A smoker spends 20 cents day
for cigars. How many dollars will
he spend in one-halt year? How
many books at ~ apiece could he
buy with this money?
3. At 10 cents gallon, what is a
family's beer bill for sixty days,
taking two quarts daily? How
many pairs of shoes at 81 pair will
this money buy?
4. If man drinks a pint of ale
twice "a day, how many gallons will
he drink in ten years? To how
much will it amount at 10 cents a
quart?
3. If man spends 20 cents "A day
for whiskey and % cents for cigars,
how much will both cost him in
twelve years? How many acres of
land, at $40 per acre, could he have
purchased with this money?
6. A young man, now Il years old,
began to smoke cigarettes at the age
of II, and smoked 10 cents worth
daily. How many books, worth 81
each, could he buy with the money
spent?
7. How much will drinker
spend for liquor from the age of IS
to 40 inclusive, drinking glasses a
day at 10 cents a glass? If each
years useless expense be put into
the bank at 8 per cent compound
int est, to how much would it
amount?
s. Tom smokes 3 cigars and his
father smokes each day, for which
they pay 60 cents a dozen. His
father drinks three glasses of beer
at 5 cents glass. Toms mother
buys three loaves of bread day al
5 cents loaf, and two rolls of butter
week at 30 cents roll. At the
end of Ghe year how much more dc
the cigars and beer cost than the
bread and butter.
8. A young lady in San Francisco
furnished her New Years callers
with wine. Sixty-six young mer
called upon her. One-third of then
drank sherry, one-third champagne
and one-third declined to drink a.
all. The sherry cost 20 cents ;
drink, the champagne l219. How
much was the wine bill?
10. In the United States, 100000
drunkards die annually. How
many die each day? How man!
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-28
GRAINS OF RICE.

He gives most who has the least
remaining.
A praying christian is always a
paying christian.
The doorway to the Christ.life
opens from the tomb of self.
The intensity of a mans religion
can often be gagged by Il hand
shake.
The prayer that moves heaven
never comes from self willed heart.
1t is a strange paradox that he
prays best who helps God give the
answer.
Charity never robes herself in silks
and laces when others are clothed in
rags.
A penny given in Christ's name is
more than a dollar given without
his blessing.
The man who scOrns honest toll
deserves little sympathy when want
presses him.
If most christians could see them
selves just as they are seen by others,
they would be Mortified.
If knowledge were measured by
how much one knows of other peO-
pies business, the world would be
filled with Solomons.
AS well expect two things to oc-
cupy the same space at once as to
suppose that love and hate can dwell
together in the same heart.-Cum-
berland Presbyterian.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-28
Agriculture.

Narrowing should be done so as to
make the soil fine as deep down as
it is plowed. The cross roots re-
quire well fined and compacted
soil to do their best, as they go down
to greater depth than blowing is
ever done.
With the exception of three or
four elements of fertility, all ordi-
nary soils are practically mex
haustible. With proper tillage land
will wear a thousand years in gen.
eral make up, save sandy knobs,
perhaps,
Have the rains and warm sun
started growth of weeds and
formed crust over the corn fields?
In getting rid of the one we break
up the other, and we shall be all
right for another 10 days.
If there is any truth in the saying
that "a stitch in time saves nine,n it
is right now the case in all patches
of ploweG land which have not been
molested for 10 days or two weeks.
Harrow before noon what has
been plowed in the morning, and in
the evening what has been broken
in the afternoon. Then the surface
will not dry out nor be cloddy, but
be in the condition which Will pro-
duce best.
For a stable manure to be used
with potatoes, horse manure is eX-
cellent, because it contains large
quantities of phosphoric acid and
potash, which are two essential in
gradients to their growth.
The cultivation of the corn at the
end of the season is to control moist
ure. Now is the time to attend to
the weeds. The very best work OF
the season is being done right now
if the corn is up.
1t is true that all manures must be
| liquid in form to be available as
plant food, but the teaching process
should take place in the field, and
not in the barn yard.
Where possible, land should al.
ways be kept in such condition o,
fertility and supplied with the ele
ments of plant food sufficiently t.
meet the requirement of any croI
we may wish to grow.
Suiting the crop to the land, rath
er than suiting the land to the crop
is the easiest method of agriculture
but it is not always the most profit
able. The owner is not then the
master of the situation.
We can not expect a large yield o
tubers without Il good growth o
vine; yet, if planted too close OF
moist, rich or too heavily shaded
soil, the foliage of potatoes ma,
sometimes develop at the expens,
of the crop.
If mineral food elements be scan
and heterogeneous matter in excess
potatoes are apt to be most luXurian
in their growth above ground
Especially should there be a suppl,
of potash and phosphoric acid.
About the worst folly a farmer cal
commit is to spend time and none,
and labor to produce crops, AM
then not take the very best care O
them after they are grown an,
harvested.
There is no better sign of promis
for the future of agriculture tina
that our farmers and farmers son
are seeming to appreciate the valu
of higher education i'm things an
plying directly to their occupation
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-28
HOrticulture .

Wick ranks SCOT as valuable
thing in his garden, especially that
from coal; it is not only of value as a
fertilizer to any crop, but, because
of bitter principle it contains, it
drives away insects from all grow
ing plants.
A western slope has at least one
advantage-fruits are often spared
from the disastrous effects of the
morning sun bearing down upon
them after frost.
Why not have some competent
man legally appointed in every COM
munity to spray trees and destroy
insect pests and fungous diseases,
taxing each man for the number of
trees grown? The thrifty man
would then no longer suffer from
the habits of his negligent neigh
Dor.
1t is not so much the amount of
manure applied that benefits the
fruit crop but the per cent. which is
in an available condition. If well
rotted it is soluble, and therefore,
easily appropriated.
To make the most profit out of his
business the gardner must not de-
pend entirely upon the good grow
ing weather, but grow his vege-
tables when it is freezing outside
The cheapenlng of the construction
of green houses is greatly prolong-
ing the growing season.
Almost any grower of choice fruit
would be glad to have his trees
sprayed regularly by some one
adept in the work. Such a one
could also find daily engagements
in the vegetable gardens of his COM
munity.
A perfectly healthy apple tree
should be so managed that, by the
aid of the pruning knife, every
branch should have chance to
have its leaves fairly well exposed
to the light.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-28


Especially where the market for
the table egg is being supplied, after
the breeding season is over, it is a
good plan to remove the male birds
from the hens and give the latter as
much free range as possible.
tits better to use common soap
boxes for nests than to have a row
of them built, as they are more
easily carried out of doors and
cleaned.
A scrub man will make a scrub
out of everything he touches. This
is certainly true in poultry matters.
There are as many mOngrels on
farms as there are on dunghills.
KEROSENE emulsion is positive
death to lice. Add half gallon of
kerosine to as much boiling hot soap
yuds, and then dilute with six gal
Ions of water. If you have no
sprayer, use a watering pot.
To have good "luck" with poultry
keep their houses clean, and give
the fowls good variety offood, with
ground bones and meat scraps. i
given as good care as other animals
have they will return a proportionatt
income.
If your turkeys are kept growing
from the start, as they should be-
three weeks of extra feeding at the
proper time will put them in The
proper condition for market.
No farm is complete without poul-
try. There is a certain amount Of
food absolutely and unavoid dahl!
wasted unless there are fowls tc
utilize it.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-28
Agricultural and Live Stock Department.

1t is the profit we must aim for,
the profit which comes from the best
farming, from raising most at least
expense, the raising on one acre
what our neighbor raises on two.
The man who increases his yield
an acre saves in seed, in expense of
cultivation and harvesting, and has
land left to put to other uses, and to
add to his profit.
Do not worry over the imaginary
danger of doubling the yield of grain
by good farming. Drain, manure
and cultivate all we please, and we
shall find the profits to increase pro-
portiOnately.
The "wasteful" farmer, instead of
having an easy pair of stairs to
climb to reach the hay loft, has not
even decent ladder, but scrambles
up by the corner posts and braces,
at expense of time and muscle.
Arrange to have corn which does
not need sorting near the feeding
troughs. Arrange the horses so
that they will stand way that hay
can be put into the managers without
being handled two or three times.
The man who plants closely prac-
tically enlarges his field. 1t is pos
sible that heavy manuring and bet
ter cultivation will enable farmer
to plant certain crops in hills nearer
together than Is usual.
The fact that one or two eyes, well
fed with fertilizing material, will
admit of the full development of the
young potato, is a solution of the
question as to the best mode Of
planting.
There is no necessity, further
than ease of cultivation, Of planting
in hills three feet apart, for if but 6
foot apart about three times as many
potatoes can be obtained with al
most the same labor.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-28
HOME.

The prince rides up to palace gates,
And his eyes with tears are dim,
For he thinks. of the beggar maiden
sweet
Who may never wed with him.
For home is where the heart is,
In dwelling great or small,
And there's many asplendid palace
That's never a home at all.
The yeoman comes TO his little cot
With a song when day is done,
For his dearie is standing in the door,
And his children to meet him run.
For home is where the heart is,
In dwelling great or small,
And there's many stately mansion
That's never a home at all.
Could but live with my own sweet
heart,
In hut with sanded floor,
I'd be richer far than a lOveless man
With fame and a golden store;
For home is where the heart Is,
In dwelling great or small,
And a cottage lighted by lovelight
is the dearest home of all.
49, George Horton.
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Items of Interest 10 Farmers and
HOrSemen.

The Supreme Court of Alameda
county, California, has declared the
well-known horseman, Monroe Sails
bury, insolvent.
A small amount of the right kind
of food is better than too much in-
ferior stuff.
The best means of obtaining a
profit with any class of stock is to
keep the best ard keep it well.
If the farmer cannot afford to
breed and raise pure-bred stock, he
can at least breed and raise good
grades.
Wheat is one of the best egg pro-
ducing foods. Sunfower seed pro-
mote laying and good health.
Do not feed the pigs too heavily,
especially of corn, at weaving time,
or they will get corn sick, which is
not easily overcome. When the
pigs in the pen get to chewing the
corn and then splitting it out, feed
plenty charcoal and little salt. 1t
will tone up the digestive organs.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-28
Dairy.


If running a dairy, perhaps you
can establish fancy trade" 1t
may be done with either milk or
butter as basis. Putting the milk
in glass bottles as soon as drawn,
and carrying it to the customers, IS
a feature in some places.
Because a hog is to sell by the
pound almost any one will feed it
we'll, but not one man in ten will
feed milch cow enough to enable
her to do half as we'll as she might.
GuerDseys win their way by their
own straightforward work in the
dairy. Their large size commends
them to the farmers who are grading
up good butter herds.
The dairy COW is an individual
animal, and is to be found among
several breeds. Probably when the
Guernsey has had as much spent on
her in forcing and testing her she
will outrank the Jersey, for she has
the size and constitution.
A heifer which has no calf until
three years old seldom makes a
heavy mixer. Breed the heifer5
early, anu cultivate the habit of
early maturity for other than beef
purposes.
The farmer who appreciates the
value of plump kernels of clean
wheat for seeding purposes readily
comprehends the worth of improved
breeding in the dairy, and his COWS
are of the same high standard as his
golden fields of grain.
An old dairy COW which has ceas'
ed to be profitable as a mixer is
usually worth more for leather ano
for fertilizer than for any other pur
pose.
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PRESIDENT Notice.
CLERK AND MASTERS OFFICE,
Columbia, Nav IA, 1897,


Margaret Cant, col, Complainant, VS..
Martha Caldwell, col, ct. al, Defen-
dant.
happening from affidavit filed in this
cause, that the defendant, Matilda Cor
don, is a nonresident of the State of
Tennessee,
1t is therefore ordered that she enter
her appearance herein, before or with
in the first three days of the next term
of the Chancery Court, to be held at
Columbia on the first Monday in July,
next, 1897, and plead, answer or demur
to Compliments bill, or the same will be
taken for confessed as to her and set
for hearing eX parte; and that copy Of
this order be published for four consecu-
tive weeks in the Columbia HERALD.
A Copy-ATTEsT:
! A. n. AKIN, Clerk q Master
j. A. Smiser, Sol'r for Comppt.
mayl4 st
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I'm McKinIey'S Circus.

Ringmaster Hanna: Step this
way, ladies and gentlemen, and will
now show you Mr.. McKinIey's cele-
brated trick mule, Prosperity. viii
some gentleman kindly step into the
arena and see if he can ride this
wonderful animal. Come this way,
please; Prosperity won't hurt you"
Memphis COmmercial-A Appeal.
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each hour? Allowing IL square
feet for each grave. how many acres,
will be required for their burial?-
The Standard Bearer.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-12-31
ALWAYS ON TAP.
Drop Faction in tile slot aud Get Rev
olutIon-hIRchine Always Pays.


NEW YORK, Dec. SO.--k special to
the Herald from Washington says:
Salvador is threatened with another
revolution. To protect American inter
csts the navy department upon the re-
quest OF the state department, has icle-
graphed orders to the gunruas Marietta
which Is at Mare Island. directing her
to proceed as soon Rs possible to La
Llbertad and remain until further or
ders.
The Importance OF this action will be
appreciated when It is understood that
the Marietta was being fitted for SER
vice In Chinese waters.
The Information upon which The state
department acted came from John Jen-
klns consul at San Salvador, who ca
bled:
bad condition OF affairs in Salvador,
send warshlps."
The distance TO La Libectad is about
$500 miles and 1t will be covered in two
weeks.
The instructions to Commander +.
NJ. Symonds require him upon arrival at
L!bertad to communicate with Mr.. Jen-
klns and to take all measures possible
for the protection OF American interests.
Mail advices from Salvador have In
dlcated that trouble ig brewing. The
E2ata faction which was ousted in the
revolution OF two years ago, has never
rested and repeatedly expeditions have
been alleged to be forming In this
country with view OF proceeding 60
Salvador and wrestling the administra-
tlon from General Rafael Antonio Gut
icrrez.
General Guteriz has faced consider
able grumbllng among his political fol-
lowers and It Is said one potent cause
OF dissatisfaction resulted from his ac-
tlon in Joining the greater republic OF
Central America.
II is expected that Huduras and Nj
caragua will aid Gutierrez in return for
similar services.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-12-31
FRENCH OCCUPATION
or nalNan Denied, Hat IT'S Believed to
He rrns.


He 'frne.
LONDON, Dec SO.--The Daily Mail
has received kilograms from Hong Kong
and TonquIn denying the report of
French occupation of the Island Of Hal
Nan, but It regards 1t as morally cer-
tain that Hal Nan was occupied about
fortnight ago when Port Arthur was Oc-
cuplel by the Russians, the coincidence
forcing the suspicion that France and
Russia were acting In concert.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Singapore dated yesterday (Thursday)
says:
"The news that the French had occu-
pied the island OF Hai-Nan was brought
here from Saigon Capital Of French
Cochin -China) on Tuesday by the French
mall boat Ernest Simon. Before the
latter left Saigon on the 95th, a French
cruiser arrived there with either Admiral
Bedolliero or letters from him 20 the
French governor OF Saigon The Ernest
Simon delayed for an hour at Saigon In
order to take the governors dispatch re-
latlng to the holstlng Of the flag on the
island OF Hal-Nan to the French COVER
nor.
"The cause Of the delay was known
only to n few officers on board the Ern-
est Simon, but Inadvertently the secret
was impaired to a French officer here
(slngapore) who. not being bound to Sc
erecy, let the matter out. II Is believed
that the French hold the telegraph Office
at Ho-Kow and prevent communication
to Hong Kong
''The cable between Hla.Phong (Ton-
quln) and Saigon is broken and under
repair and therefore It was impossible
for Admiral Bedolllsro to telegraph the
news OF the seizure to Saigon.
Admiral Beiolliero, with the warships
Bayard and Descartes left Hong Kong
on December II. He called at Hal
PhCong about that date, when the seiz-
ure Of the Island Of Hal-Nan was decided
upon."
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ANOTHER VICTIM
or Loverlng'S Vengeance Rt Fort shsrl.
Jan Corporal Ward, Who Testified
Against Him, Is HumlliAtsd-Nlss state

or LovsrlnR'S Vengeance Mt Fort shsrl'
dan-CorpOral Ward, Who Testified
Against Him, 10 HumlllAtsd-Nies state
OF AHa'rs.
CHICAGO, Dec. so.-Corporal John II,
Ward, Of the Fourth infantry, is under
arrest at Fort Sheridan. and win have
to appear before the now famous sum
mary court" for breach OF discipline,
Yesterday, while serving as corporal Of
the guard, he allowed three prisoners to
engage In conversation.
The warriors plight would have oc-
casloned no comment at the military
post and might be even welcomed as
furnishing an excuse for the Plckwick-
ian law-glvers to don the gorgeous raj
ment OF full dress, were It not remem-
bered that Corporal Ward was one OF
the principal witnesses against Captain
Leonard A. Lowering in the recent court
martial touching the officers brutal
treatment OF Private Hammond. Wards
testimony before the court-mart!al was:
captain Lowering appeared to be an
CRY and used SUFFICIENT force with his
foot and sword to severely injure che
prlsoner."
When the urres. of Ward became
known yesterday the barrack-room
gosslps declared that "he was In for II
They recalled that Corporal Clarence
New, another anti-Loverlng witness.
had been deprived OF his stripes and
that Private Charles Waddell. who al
so told Of Captain LoveTing's harsh
ness, left the army week ago, pro-
claiming that the soldiers who testified
against Captain Lowering were not
wanted at Fort Sheridan.
Enlisted men at the fort say that II
has been customary TO allow prisoners
the small privileges which Corporal
Ward granted them, the military code
Notwithstanding, Ward was detected by
Lieutenant Brooke, son Of Colonel
Brooke, commanding the Department
OF the Missouri. Lieutenant Brooke. who
Is officer OF the day, is the first lieu
tenant OF Captain Coverings conf
pany.
Among the officers OF the fort, the
act OF Lieutenant Brooke In ordering
Ward to the barracks is not considered
proceeding out OF the ordinary.
Among the soldlery, however, II Is con-
sidered the result or Wards appear
ance as witness against Captain Low
erlng at the recent court-martIal,
Corporal Ward was not placed In con-
ilnement at the Euard-house, but was
deprived OF his belt and gun. He Is
placed upon his honor not to leave the
barracks, and will be brought before the
next session Of the summary court, over
which AdJutant Duncan presldes.