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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
All Around the Farm.

If young tree is leaned by the
wind get it back in line at once, for
never again will it be 50 easily done.
Stake, if necessary.
Never allow swarm of bees to
remain out long after settling. Hive
them as soon as possible and lessen
the risk of loss.
1t requires just as much care and
always more feed to make the same
weight with scrub stock that it does
with pure breeds, and the price is
never so high for the first as for the
last.
The sheep should be clipped clean
about the hind parts, lest filth gather
and attract blOw-fies. A mixture
of glycerine and fish oil in equal
parts is excellent to smear such
parts.
The custom of loading farm
wagons so that the heaviest weight
is upon the front wheels is all wrong
and adds materially to the draft.
The heaviest weight should be car
ried by the hind wheels. This has
been proven by official and careful
tests.
A good destroyer of bugs on squash
vines is crop of chickens three
weeks or more old. Place the coop
in which the hen is confined in the
patch and let the chicks have full
sway.
A North Carolinian advises all
farmers who sow cow peas to SOW on
top of pea sowing half a bushel of
German millet to an acre. Millet
acts as support of the pea vines
and aids in the curing of the crop.
A COW which yields a product of
800 year is pretty sure to be a
paying investment if bought at a
reasonable price. One which will
give you half that amount, as many
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
Sale Of Phosphate
Property and Equipments.
J. r. Bryan, vs.. y. Hardey.

In obedience to decree of the Chan
Gerry Court, at COlumbia Tennessee,
entered at the Special August term, 1897,
at page 254, in above styled cause, | will,
On Monday, the 18th day of Septem-
her, 1897,
at the courthouse door, in Colum bia
Tenn, sell to the highest and best bid
der, the property in said decree des-
cribed, being a leasehold interest in and
to tract or parcel of land situated in
the Thirteenth Civil District of Maury
County, Tennessee, and bounded on the
north by the lands of Ed Orr and Lem
Long; on the east by the lands of Ed
Orr and DR.. Henry Long; on the south
by the lands of Rufus Long, and on the
west by the Sugar fork of Bigby creek,
containing 80 acres, more or less; zen
numbered with the charge of royalty
and to S. c. Long, the original leasor.'
Note due at six months, bearing inter
est from day of sale with good personal
security will be required of the purchas-
err. and lien retained on the leasehOld
interest sold as further security.
At the same time and place, | will sell
to the highest and best bidder for cash,
s work mules, 4 two-hOrse wagons and
harnes: | One-hOrse wagon and harness
A lot of plows, shOvels, picks and other
tools, implements and equipments, and
household furniture and commissary
stores. y. y. AKIN, I. X NJ,
augl3 At and Receiver.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
DObbi1ss f. EsCiass':
Agricultural and Live Stock Department.
Poultry Notes.

Chickens like sweet milk better
than sour, and warm, sweet milk is
a good tonic for the sick fowls.
The goose is good rustler, and
will take care of itself where there
is pasture. Never mind the noise
it makes go long as it is bird of so
much profit.
If you want to raise eggs only,
separate the hens from the males.
The cOckerels are nuisance; any
how, most of the time, and should
be sold off as soon as the mark ct
warrants.
Chicken cholera is but symptom
of undiscovered troubles. If the
fowls are kept free from lice and are
fed properly, cholera is not likely to
appear among them in any shape.
If little chickens get sOured feed
and stale water, the mixture will
run from the mouth when they
are handled and the crop will be
soft and watery. See that they get
perfectly fresh food and pure cool
water.
Where fowls have swellings on
heads and feet battle the affected
parts with Arabian balsam and in
to every two quarts of drinking
water put one teaspoonful of the fol-
lowing mixture: One ounce each of
oil sassafras, Jamaica ginger, tinct-
ure of iron, and alcohol.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
STAR POINTER is KING.

The Maury County Horse Goes Mile
in 1:501-4.
The question whether or not it is
possible for a. Light harness horse to
pace mile better than two minutes
was settled in the affirmative last
Saturday at Boston, Mass, by Star
Pointer, Maury county bred and
raised horse, going a mile in :594.
A press dispatch reports the event as
follows:
Star Pointer, at the Readville
track, took the champion crown
away from the New York pacing
stallion, John r. Gentry. The con-
coded king of harness horses to-day
engaged in tilt against the watch,
and when it was over the two min
ute mark was thing of the past by
Just three quarters of second. II
was a royal wind up to the greatest
grand circuit meeting of the year.
The day was perfect for record
breaking attempt. The track, in the
opinion of the horsemen, was faster
at the July meeting, but it was in
better shape to-day than at any time
during the week. The heat was
oppressive and not breath of air
stirred.
McClary drove with more than a
snug hold of the PAGER. With his
big, easy stride, the stallion stepped
the first two furlongs in just 80
seconds, a two minute clip. A
mighty cheer went up from the
grand stand as a half thousand
watches caught the half in :594
The three fourths in 30 caused an
other cheer.
Around the turn the PAGER stepped
| a little to the outside, but the waver
was for but fraction of a second
and once in the stretch the horse
moved perfectly. The driver says
that at the distance Pointer APP
peared to be to his limit, but when
he called on him and the runner
came along, Pointer forgot that he
had been beating the two minute
mark, and responded with burst of
speed right at the wire. 1t was not so
rapid as to cause a sensation, but it
was sufficient to make the last quar-
ter in :304, and the horse seemed to
be within himself
The two minute mark was beaten
three quarters of second. Nc
Clary was hoisted onto the should
ers of his friends and taken from the
sulky to the stand. The crowded
grand stand went wild, and horse
driver and owner received an ova-
ton. Scores of watches got the
time as announced by the judges
and G.. w. Marks. of Chicago, who
saw his greatest rival to Joe Patcher
widen the gap between the horses
declared that if anything the mile
was in 80.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
THE POULTRY YARD.
How to Conduct With Success Poultry
Farm.

How to Conduct With Success II Poultry
Farm.
To set about successful poultry
farming, you cannot do better than
to observe the following:
Begin with small number; be
personally acquainted with all
wants, and with the laying powers
of each hen. 1t is best not to breed
from the pullets, but to select the
best layers as pullets and breed from
them the following year. Only
after several years careful selection
for laying qualities may any attempt
to begin on a larger scale be made.
Go to no unavoidable expense in
buildings and such; they may look
well, but are of no real value.
Choose a situation where the soil
is fairly dry and rich in natural pro-
ducts, such as worms, ETC., suitable
for poultry.
Choose a good situation, where a
good market for table fowls or fowls
for fattening is available.
Combine the sale of pure-bred
stock and eggs for Matching with
other business.
Allow as much space as you can,
and if possible combine fruit grow
ing with poultry farming. If mar
ket for milk and butter be available,
some cows and pig may also with
advantage be kept.
Do not start at all unless you have
a sufficient income from some other
source to keep yourself going for
four or five years, and leave margin
also for loss in management, and
you are prepared for very hard work.
Wisconsin Agriculturist.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
Learn to Don't.

A big acreage of fall sown wheat
is being planned for by many far
mers. We say, don't. Present and
prosperous high prices will probably
stimulate an enormous sowing of
wheat this fall and next spring, not
only in the United States, but
throughout the world. Just this
was done after the high prices of
'9l-2, and it caused worlds over
production of wheat which has just
been reduced to normal proportions
by short crop in foreign countries
this year, following reduced yield
last season. Low prices are as like
ly to follow big supplies of wheat
next year as during the past few
years.-America Agriculturist.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

of them do, is a poor thing to keep,
even if gift to you. Have good
COWS or none. In buying do not be
guided by the eye. Value depends
upon the cows yield of milk, and
not upon her beauty.
Is it any wonder that the orchard
trees become discouraged when far
mers pillow, grow crops which i'm
pOverish the soil, or use the ground
for pasturage as if the trees were
but fence posts.
The sun upon unprotected tree
limbs is hurtful, and fruitspurs upon
the branches produce large num-
Der of leaves for their protection.
Thoughtless pruning may be injury
in more ways than one.
Let the plum orchard have a north
slope, if possible. If it can be so
arranged, let there be shelter on the
east side, as protection from the
storms during the blooming period
seems to be of advantage.
Grape rot is due to a fungus which
settles on the skin; bagging protects
it against this settling, and in no
OJneI way can " De protected so
cheaply or effectively. There is no
longer question about its profit
ableness.
The common privet will make as
pretty hedge plant as any, and is
much harder than the California
variety. By keeping it we'll cut
down when young it can be kept
stOcky and within bounds 10 suit al
most any purpose.
Celery culture is IA much easier
matter than people used to think
There is no longer any setting of the
plant in trenches. Start them on a
level in rich soil, and bank up as
needed, remembering that too much
soil about them in warm weather
causes rust.
Four inches is not too deep to
plant black raspberries. Even if
| the weather becomes exceeding dry
they will make an excellent growth,
and the fruit will come. If the
canes are kept back to two feet they
will throw ont laterals, and will
stand as erect as when tied to stakes.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
LOOK OUT
GREAT BARGAINS!

Especially in midsummer goods.
We will sell 30 per cent cheaper
than in the spring.
Fine Clay Worsted Suits, ma IN
worth $500, for ... ..... @O'oV
Fine Brown straight cut nc IN
suits, worth $1,000 for ..... pO'VV
We sell our $500 suits for -. S4.75
We sell our youths $6.OOsuits go =.
lOI ..,......,..,,... .'.,.,'
We sell our $500 suits for. 1925
We sell our $500 suits for 80 S2.75
One big lot of pants we sell
cheaper than ever before.
Our 1925 pants for. ........ $500
We sell $500 pants for. SI.25
We sell pants worth $1.25 for 75c to Soc
One big lot of Jeas pants worth $l,25
for soc. $l.00 pants for Toe.
One big lot of boys knee pant d., -.
suits, worth $3.50, at 49,. @l''o
$3.50 suits at. Observation-Disclosures $3.50
$3.50 suits at Observation-Disclosures. Ito
$l.25 suits at. .................. SO
Knee pants, worth SOC. for go. 20
Fifty cent pants for, ........... 20
Seventy-tive cents pants for. so
We sell shoes, dry goods and hats
cheaper than ever before.
Columbia Bargain House,
june4 3m South Main Street.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

If your boy expresses a desire to
remain on the farm, prepare him for
the work. The day is but a short
distance ahead when only the thor
Ough farmer can exist as a farmer
He must have scientific as we'll as
a practical understanding of his bust
ness. He must be educated to sue
coed in full measure-and a free
course in some agricultural college
is the shortest way to this end
COleman's Rural World.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

An exchange says that woman's
character has been likened unto a
postage stamp; one black mark
ruins it. Mans like treasury note /;
no matter how many stains, it will
pass her par. When woman falls
from grace her character is gener-
ally ruined forever. On the other
hand may straighten up and be
received into society again. All of
which is too true; but being true
does not make it right.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
ESTR Az NOTICE

Takenu up by ODE johnson. in the 18th dis
trict OF Maury County, Tenn. Sawdust VAL
ley neighborhood, north west of Columbia,
one stray horse, about years old. 10 hands
white, white name; CAM on his premises
about June 10, 1897. Valued at $25 90.
This August y. 1897.
aug20 81 jobs T. TUCKER, Ranger.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

"Dah is two ways O. wastin'
money" said Uncle Eben. Zone is
ter spend it so fast it doesn't hab
time ter do no good; an de yuther
is ter hor onter it so tight it nebber
gifts a chance"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

Small precautions often prevent great
DeWitt's Little Early
Risers are very small pills in size, but
are most effective: in preventing the
most serious forms of liver and stomach
troubles. They cure constipation and
headache and regulate the bowels.
A. b. Rains. 1y
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
MELANGE.
Nonsense and News, Odds and Ends
Wise and Otherwise.

Mrs. Shopper-Do you believe that
any of these mark downs. are gen
uine?
Mrs. Seizem-Some of them are,
l know. My son got one of them.
what was it?"
IA wife. He married girl in a
combination store. She was "a
marked down from 37."-Pittsburgh
Chronicle.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

No man or woman can enjoy life or
accomplish much in this world while
suffering from torpid liver. DeWitt's
Little Early Risers, the pills that
cleanse that organ, quickly. A. B.
Rains. ly
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
Non Resident Notice.

OTJeT ELSll, COl', VS. hSItlS bHSlli COl'
Petition for Divorce. Circuit Court,
Maury County, Tennessee.
In this cause it appearing to me that
the defendant is nonresident of the
State of Tennessee, so that the ordinary
process of law cannot be served on her.
1t is therefore ordered that publication
be made in the Columbia Herald for
four consecutive weeks, requiring the
defendant to appear within the first
three days of the next term of the Cir
cult Court, to be holden for the County
of Maury at the courthouse thereof, on
the second Monday in November, 1897,
then and there to plead, answer or de-
muir to complainants bill or the same
will be taken for confessed as to her
and set for hearing eX parte.
w. +. EMERY, Clerk,
J. A. Smiser, Sol'r for Petitioner
augl3 It.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-06-09
HOW THE GREEKS SLEEP.
Fastidious People Find No Conven

F~astidi0us People Find No Conven-
fences at the HOtels.
In Greece the hotels of the interior
follow one general type-the Italian.
There is no common sitting-room, says
the Atlantic Monthly. Why should
there be? There is no office, but that
does not seem to interfere with the
presentation of bills. The ground floor
is given up TO a cafe or restaurant, if
the innkeepr goes into that kind of
business. Very often, however, the
master of the Apollo has only rooms to
let. The sleeping apartments on the
floor above are often approached by
an outside stairway, and, as is to be
expected in n southern CLINE, they are
scantily furnished. Overfurnishing is
a vice anywhere. UDde a southern
sky it is a crime of which the Greeks
are not guilty.
There is usually a mirror, though
that tribute to human, vanity is some
times lacking, and, like the Turk, the
solitary Turkish towel bears no brother
near his throne. The bedstead is in
variably of IRON. AS in primitive United
States within my memory, single oons
are rare. Two, three, four, five beds
are put in one room or strung along
the corridors. A fastidious person who
desires to occupyaroom alone has to pay
for all the beds therein. In some places
special charges are mad for sleeping in
the daytime, and there is a fixed rate
for sleeping on the floor.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-06-09
OlEOMARGARINE.
Forme Disposition of the Fat Scrap
fngn from Fur.

Former Disposition of the Fat Scrap
fnGs from Fur.
Here is an echo from the days when
it was not reckoned unlawful to sell
oleomargarine as butter:
"We no longer have the same profit
able way of disposing of our waste prod
ucts hat we had a few years ago." said
a fur dealer the other day. He looked
retrospective and a tribe ~regretful, as
he continued: "There was always n
ready market then for every particle of
the fat scrapings from the different
skins. Who took them? Why, the cleo
margarine manufacturers, to be sure.
They would send wagons up to my
place every day and carry away several
barrelfuls of the fat and grease which
have to be taken off the under side of
the heavy pelts. Skunks, opossums,
all kinds of animals contributed. 1t
all went into the butter. But that is
over with now. Since this new law has
been in operation, that branch of bust
ness has been dead. People could eat
skunk and opossum grease, you know,
SO long as it was called butter, but if
the dealers are obliged to come out
frankly with a description of its real
character, their customers object"
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-06-09
To The Gold Fields of Alaska.

The Northern Pacific Railway Co.,
has arranged to sell through tickets
to the Yukon Mining District, Alaska,
via Seattle and the Steamers of the
North American Trading & Trans
p%ortation Co. Steamers sail from
Seattle on Thursday. June 10th, 1897,
and Tuesday, August 10th, 1897, and
proceed directly to Fort Get There,
on st. Michael's Island near. the
mouth of the Yukon River, touching
only at Ducth Harbor, Unaiaska
Island, (Aloutian Chain), en- route;
at Fort Get There change is made to
the Company's River Steamers. which
pass up the Yukon River to Circle
City, Fort Cuhahy and Forty Mile,
thus affording an easy and pleasant
trip. Prospectors and miners are
advised to take the boat sailing
from Seattle on June 18th. SO as to
arrive at the mines in time for q
good seasons work.
Rates and further Information will
be furnished ON application to,
A. ID. EDGAR,
Gen'l Agent, Helena, Mont.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-06-09
THE FROZEN BREEZE.
A strange Phenomenon Observed b
n LAYER 0f Nniure

A Phenomenon Observed by
q Lover of Nature
Did you ever see n frozen breeze?
You might have e one if you had
gone with me into the country one win
ter morning, says the Country.
This was the way it came to be
frozen: All night long the air had been
laden with mist. Over the fields, in the
holIows. all through the woods, eve
on top of the hills, the fog hung heav-
lily. All that time the wind blew stead
lily, but not fiercely, from some north
ern quarter.
At nightfall the mercury fell below
the freezing point, so hat this mist,
as it drifted through the trees, was
frozen upon their branches and twigs.
The elms, the oaks and the other leaf
less trees took their ice coating quite
evenly, but the thick, impenetrable
masses of the needles of the pine trees
were covered ~noticeably only upon the
sides toward the north or northwest.
from which the wind came. The strong.
steady breeze BENT the branches to lee
ward while it was icing them, and when
the wind came down in the morning
they remained just there, leaning to the
southwark, iced and frozen to inn
movability, but looking just rs if the
wind were still steadily blowing.
Even in the afternoon, when the rain
began to fall and the wind came from
quite another quarter, that north wind
of the night before still remained white
and frozen yer the piny woods, the
pale, rigid corpse of a thing once keen
ly alive.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-06-09
Cattle and Sheep.

CHICAGO, June Seattle were
active to the extent of the supply, at
stronger prices for desirable lots.
Sales were at $4@5 for common to
choice native beef steers, the bulk Of
the cattle crossing the scales at
$4.4504. 80. Prime beeves were scarce
and pretty much nominal at $1,000
$50. The stocker and feeder trade
was again pretty good, with sales
mostly at $3.9O94.5O. Heifers were
lower than last week and there was
rather a slow trade in grass cows.
Bulls sold at $2.5OG3.75, and choice
calves were active and strong at
S6d6.5O per 100 pounds, with a good
demand for country feeders. Texas
grassers and corn fed cattle sold
very well, prime 1,2OO-pound steers
bringing $4.55.
Sheep were steady, with fair de-
mand, at $2.75@3 for the poorest, up
to "a. 90 for the best lots, with
the bulk Of the sales at $3.5O@4.5O.
Texas sheep sold at $3.65@4.35.
Lamb traffic was cry slow and
prices were about five cents lower
for Colorado wooded focks, buyers
Directing to pay over $685. for the
best. Shorn lambs sold slowly at
$3.25@5, few going above $4.S5.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-06-09
A SERMON TO HUSBANDS.
The should BE Banished
from the breakfast Table.

The should BE banfshed
from the breakfast Table.
The average man eats only two meals
a day in his own house, and these meals
are the opportunities Tor social and do
nestle talk, delightful to the wife, who
has no such opportunity as her hus-
band of rubbing against other minds all
day. and important to the children in
widening their horizon, their Jews OF
life, says an English exchange.
AT the first meal of h day most
women like to tall to their husbands
about the plans of the day, but the
woman who has once received the dis
trait, self-absorbed growl which en-
mate from a male disturbed in the
reading of his newspaper does not again
attempt to ask her husband this or that
on a subject of domestic interest. The
back of a newspaper is not a pleasant
thing to contemplate across the break
fast table.
Think of this, husbands, when you
look round for the casters or other suit
able prop for the back of your paper,
and for the sake of good manners, for
the sake of your wife's feelings and the
example to your children, remove your
newspaper, reserving it for the train,
omnibus, or tram-car.
OF course there are occasions when
matters of absorbing interest must be
looked to at once-telegrams of thrill
ing import. Why not glance at the pa
per FIVE minutes before the breakfast
bell rings if it is really essential that
such news should be seen at once? SPe-
cial occasions sometimes Justify special
behavior, but of your mercy let the
newspaper be banished from the break
fast table on ordinary occasions.