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The Florence daily tribune., 1899-12-12
Headquarters fer tpervthins in sadies' furnishings

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The Florence daily tribune., 1899-12-12

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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01
FIRST-CLASS cows.
Some Good Reasons Why Dairy
Farmers Should Keep No Others
in Amy circumstance.

The chief difficulty in making dairy
farming successful is the great number
of cows that do not pay their keep and
whose products are always sold at a
loss. II one-tenth of all the cows
owned were fatted at once and sold for
beef it would remove from the market
the surplus butter and cheese which
are now keeping prices too low for
profit. Prices might be temporarily a
little higher until the stock of the best
COWS can be made large enough to sup
ply the demand. Then, with prices no
higher than they have been, and per-
haps not So high, all dairymen would
make money. Getting rid of the poor
est cows will also do away with most
OF the inferior butter. When farmer
knows that his cows are not paying he
grows careless and often uncleanly in
the dairy. When his butter is found to
be inferior he is apt to blame it all to
his luck, and thus, instead of trying to
improve, making matters worse. The
best way to arouse such farmers to bet
ter methods is to increase the milk and
butter capacity Of their cows. When
they secure cows that they can feel
some pride in they will be likely to
take pride in every part of their bust
ness.-American Cultivator.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01
CLEVER PARLOR MAGIC.
some Very Amusing Tricks and De-
ceptiOns Which Are Based ON
Scientific Principles.

A very interesting experiment to
work out during the performance is
one based upon the action of chem
icals. About an hour is required for
this; so it could be commenced just
before the entertainment, and the
things left to stand as part OF the out
fit on the table. Take three medium
sized leaves from red cabbage and
strip them to pieces, and put them in
a clean earthen dish and pour a pint
of boiling water over them. AS soon
as the water is cool, transfer it all to
pretty glass bowl and set that on the
magic table. The water will be of
rich blue in an hour. At the same time
take four clean wine glasses and put
six drops of common vinegar in one,
six drops of baking soda dissolved in
water in the second, and six drops of
alum solution in the third. The fourth
is to be left empty. No one would no.
tice the small quantity of liquid in these
glasses.
When you are ready to use them you
say something like this: "You see
these empty glasses. I shall pour this
blue liquid into them. They will, at my
command, change their color. This
(taking the empty one) shall remain
blue. This one shall turn red (taking
the one with the vinegar), this shall
become green (taking the one with the
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Volunteers of America have 8, 600
communicants in the state prisons
alone and large number in the ranks.
DR.. Alexander Maclaren, the noted
Baptist preacher, of Manchester, Eng
land, thinks the danger of the Christian
ministry to-day is dissipation, not con-
centration."
There was lately inaugurated in the
Temple church in London a church
guild of journalists, of which the
bishop of London has accepted the
wardenship.
One hundred and fifty churches in
Pittsburgh, representing ~ denomina-
tons, have associated themselves in a
federation for united aggressive work
among the foreign population and nom
churchgoers.
A bachelor of Chicago, who died late
ly, left his entire estate of $4,000 in
trust to the First Methodist church of
that city, the income to be used to
clothe 100 newsboys and street wafes
TOT W years.
The latest evidence of sympathy
shown toward the Salvation Army in
Sweden is that the city board of Stock
holm has handed over to the manage
ment of the army public bath, which
has cost the town some 10000 kroner
for fitting.
President Dwight, of Yale, has given
100000 to the university, directly or
indirectly, and it is said that during the
earlier years of his administration he
took no pay, while serving at once as
president, university treasurer, and
preacher in the college pulpit.
The Colorado college was founded in
1874. In 1888 President Slocum took
charge and found only rs students in
both college and the preparatory acad-
envy. Not one student was taking a
regular college course. The professors
numbered eight. In 1898 the college
year began with a faculty of 80, OF
whom "a are in the college department
The student body numbers 400.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01

At the close of services one Sunday
morning the pastor of a city church
went down the aisle as was his GUS
tom, to greet the strangers in the con-
gregation. "You are not member Oh
our church" he said to one of them.
mo, SIR" replied the stranger,
"Do you belong any denomination,
may / ask?"
well" responded the other, hesitat-
ingly, Pm what you might call sub
merged Presbyterian"
"How is that?"
81 was brought up Presbyterian,
nv wife is a Methodist, my eldest
daughter is Baptist, my son is the
organist at UniversaEst church, my
second daughter sings in. an Episcopal
choir, and my youngest goes to Con-
gregational Sunday school,"
But you contribute, doubtless, to
some one church,"
"Yes, / contribute to all OF them
That is partly what submerges me-
Youths Companion.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01

and his advertising appropriation was
five dollars. Three years ago he orig
mated the now familiar Cascarets that
''work while you sleep" and this year
he employs over 200 people, including
twenty stenographers and typewriters
and a system of ten graphophones. His
newspaper advertising investments
are over 100000 a year, and he is
counted as one of the greatest
practical because successful, au-
thorities on the science of adver-
Using in the world. His delight is
to see the working of the enormous adj
vertising machine which he set in mo-
ton a few years ago, and his ambition
is best illustrated by an expression
made use of to friend recently. He
said: "My boy, we'll get rich when we
make money faster than we can spend
it for advertising"
Besides his proprietary enterprises,
Mr.. Kramer scored another great BUSH
ness success in the Magno-Mud baths OF
Indiana Mineral Springs, Ind, where
treatment for rheumatism is obtained.
The place was mere wilderness in the
hills of Indiana a few years ago, but ma
ture had provided the material, mud
and lithia water, for the cure, and Mr..
Kramer appreciated its possibilities at
first sight. To-day there is at the Indi-
ana Mineral Springs $250,OO0 plant OF
hotels, lighthouses and cottages, cleo
tric-lighted, steam-heated, with beau
tiful park surroundings.
Mr.. Kramer is only thirty-six years
old and his energy and vitality have not
yet reached their climax. Many lead
ing business men of America have been
glad to join in his enterprises. display
ing the highest confidence in great flu
ture which this mans remarkable adj
vertising genius and capacity for work
will bring forth.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01
y1INlNN ENNNN-,
VIEW ON FEEDING FLOOR.

had them sawed in four-inch and eight
inch pieces and surfaced on one side.
OF these 1 made spouts of the proper
length to reach from the feed trough
sufficient distance above the floor of
the second story for convenience in
feeding. These are constructed with
lip to prevent wasting feed in pour
ing in. The spouts and troughs were
arranged in pairs and hood was made
to extend out beyond the line of the
trough and down from the upper floor
to the line of the lower edge of the
boards of the upper portion of the
manger, which should extend down as
near to the height of the cow as posi-
BILE. This hood prevents the coarse feed
from getting into the trough.
1 keep the feed on the second floor
of the barn, and can feed the grain
at the time that give the coarse feed.
! save a great deal of time in this way
/ am not annoyed with the cows eating
out Of my bucket or spilling the feed
as I pour it into the troughs. Alto
gether have found 1t satisfactory, and
/ give it in the hope that it may be use
full to others. One Of my neighbors who
remodeled his barn this summer has
fitted up his stable in the same manner.
National Stockman.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01
ELECTRIC FOREST.
by a VenturesOme German
Professor.

A forest of queer trees more wonder
full than any ever known before in all
the world has just been discovered by
a wise and fearless little old German
professor while exploring never be-
fore travelled part of India. The ma
tional forestry commission of Germany
had sent him out into India to hunt for
new and strange plants and other
things. His name is Prof. Leipsic, and
it seems that he is a man who is not
afraid to go anywhere.
Well as he was travelling along
through the deep jungle in part of
India situated not far from the Arabian
sea, he came upon forest that looked
as if the branches of the trees had
been done up in curling papers. The
branches were all curled in. And the
wise little German professor said to
himself: These are the funniest look
ing trees l ever saw in all my life
will go up and examine them!"
AS he started toward them his native
guides began to laugh. He thought that
was queer, but as he could not under
stand them very we'll, anyhow, no mat
ter what they did, why, he kept right
on toward the trees. When he got up
to them and touched one he received an
electric shock that sent him bounding
into the air. He could. scarcely be-
lieve it! The idea that away off there,
deep in the wild jungles, where no liv-
ing person had ever been before, there
could be anything like electricity ex-
cept as it might come from the clouds.
And SO he went up and boldly put both
of his hands on the tree. Instantly he
received a shock that threw him to
the ground. Getting up, he took a
pick and spade and went to digging
down to the roots of one of the trees.
Presently his pick struck one of the
roots, and as it did so he received a
third shock that made him unconscious.
| When he had recovered he hunted until
he found very little one of the trees.
1t was only about four feet high. On
his touching it he received a little shock
| that only tickled his hand bit.
Making camp rightnear the marvel
Gus forest, the old professor set to
work studying and experimenting as to
the strange trees Among other things
he found out that no insects or flies or
birds could be found anywhere near it,
and that apparently no animals of any
| kind aver yapturp1 Daor II Whan n q
touched the leaves of the tree with his
finger a large bright spark would be
seen. The trees all had little brown
berries on them, which dried up to al
most nothing within an hour after
they were knocked from the tree. The
professor hoped to discover some way
of transplanting some of the trees to
other countries. = Cincinnati En-.
quirer.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01
ROYAL HeadRear.

The coronet of duke consists of al
ternate crosses and leaves, the leaves
being representation of the leaves of
the parsley plant. The princes Of the
blood royal also wear similar crown.
The state headgear of marquis con-
sists of diadem surrounded by flow
ers and pearls placed alternately. An
earl, however, has neither flowers nor
leaves surmounting his circlet, but
only points rising each with pearl on
the top. A viscount has neither flowers
nor points, but only the plain circlet
adorned with pearls, which, regardless
of number, are placed on the crown it.
self. A baron has only six pearls on
the golden border, not raised, to dis
tinguish him from an earl, and the
number of pearls renders his diadem
distinct from that of a viscount.-Cin.
cinnati Enquirer.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01
AN ADVERTISING GENIUS.
Harry l.. Kramer Invests a Thousand
Dollars Every Day for News
paper Advertising.

The young man whose portrait is here
printed is a living, breathing illustra-
ton of the success which can be OBJ
tanned by practical faith and persistent
and judicious investment in newspaper
advertising. Mr. Kramer only few
years ago, without capital, started in
most modest way, advertising in news
papers the merit of tobacco-habit
cure, building up an enormous mail or
der business for that successful specific.
His original line, Don't tobacco
spit and smoke your life away"
through the medium of newspa-
pers, became known throughout
the English-speaking world, and
brought in unprecedented results. The
secret of his advertising method is "re-
investment" When Mr.. Kramer ran
his first little advertisement ten years
ago his capital was less than one hum
dred dollars. He wrote the order on
rented typewriter operated by himself.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01
What High Grade Means.

Farmers are now beginning to see
the difference between the precious and
the vile. They are paying $40 and $25
and sometimes even higher prices for
high grade calf, discriminating in ia
vor Of those to the extent Of about
ten dollars per head. In short, on the
present market in country places the
difference made by intelligent feed
ers between a high grade calf and a
common calf is from five to ten dollars.
This, then, is the measure of the value
of q good bull. If man has ten cows,
he can afford to give 500 for good
bull, knowing that he will pay him
from $50 to 800 each year and be
worth when sold fat from $40 to $780,
Wallace's Farmer.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01
THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS.
Railroad Speed Apparently Is .
Trihe, Even to Some of the
Very Little Fellows.

The speed of the flight of birds is
often overestimated. The late DR.
Gottke, of England, supposed that mi
grating birds travelled at the rate OF
1870 miles an hour, which is almost GER
tainly impossible; and estimates of LAG
and $50 miles an hour are frequently
made.
Arecent fight of carrier pigeons from
the Shetland isles to London brought
out sustained average speed of 81
miles an hour for 16 hours. This, how
ever, included stops for rests and prob
ably a good deal of circling to spy out
the way, for a pigeon does not fly
straight to the mark. Better speed
was once made from Paris to Spa-250
miles, in five hours, but even this gives
no hint of what pigeon could do
over measured ten miles. Some au-
thorities put their speed as high as 100
miles an hour; it is certainly very
nearly that.
Sir Ralph Payne Galloway estimates
the fight of a teal duck at lao miles
an hour, but this again is doubtless in
excess of the truth. 1t is well known
that when gales exceed 40 miles an
hour only the strongest flying birds
can make much. Roadway against the
wind. Anyone who has travelled at a
mile minute on the pilot of an engine
knows that the air resistance is felt
as an almost crushing force.
Audubon, the naturalist, once sho'i
in Louisiana some pigeons in whose
crops he found rice of kind which
couldn't have been eaten nearer than
South Carolina, $50 miles away. From
the state of digestion of the rice, he
concluded that it had been eaten six
hours earlier. Hence he figured out
a speed of mile minute for the whole
distance. though manifestly such COM
putations cannot be very reliable. He
placed the speed of wild ducks at As
miles an hour.
In general, it is not proved that any
bird ever flew more than 100 miles an
hour, though it may be true. The swift.
err birds can certainly do from 60 to
90 miles, perhaps more, and almost
any bird, 40 to so miles an hour. A
frequent source of error in estimat-
ing bird flight is the fact that, at an
even rate OF. speed, small bird seems
to be going much faster than a big
one.
The carrier pigeon, the frigare bird
the falcon and the eagle are the cham
pions among big birds. The swallow Is
not particularly fast, but seems swift
! because he is so ittle.-N- Y. World.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01
TIMELY DAIRY NOTES.

A COW that can fill the milk pail is all
right provided the milk pail is big
enough.
It takes all kinds of people to make a
world, but it does not take all kinds OF
cows to make up dairy. Good dairy
men select the best.
The man who believes in sheltering
pigs, calves and poultry in the same
stable with his cows is only one step in
advance of the peasant, who keeps his
live stock in a section of his dwelling
house.
The term good milk" signifies great
deal. 1t means that it comes from
healthy cows and healthy, nourishing
feed, and that 1t is not contaminated by
the hands of the mixer, or from other
sources after it leaves the udder.
If you have cow that coughs, and
tends towards emaciation on good feed,
regard her with suspicion, and at once
isolate her from the rest of theherd till
she can be tested for tuberculosis
! American Cultivator.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01
WAIT FOR THE TRAIN.
rival as Well as the Station
Agent Himself.

1t is mighty dry in the Indian terri
tory as to liquor at ali seasons, ard az
to water at any season save that of the
freshet.
In an Indian territory town where
rains have not fallen and where the
bullfrog is voiceless for the water to
wet his throat passenger train passes
about II o'clock every day. In the
town is the usual flock of English spar
rows that never becomes discouraged
and is omnipresent. Neither drought,
cats nor small boys with slingshots can
make it move out or thin its number.
All day from II until II o'clock, "a hours
away, the sparrows go thirsty; other
wise they get along very well, for every
Indian territory town has enough to
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01
winter Dairy Advantages.

Winter dairying avoids injury to fla
vor Of butter from weeds in summer
and fall pastures. The cows will be
dry when heat, flies and drought are
severest, and when butter prices are
lowest. 1t will furnish profitable en-
ployment for the farmer and his men,
when without it they would be idle
or forced to work for low wages.
Calves can be better raised and cared
for in winter than in summer, and will
not be troubled by heat, flies, sour
milk and diarrhes, and when weaned
will go direct to green pasture without
any check of growth.-Farmer's Re
view.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01
Mans Expenditures in n Lifetime.

A resident of Kent, Md, who has kept
careful account of his expenditures.
calculates that during the "a years OF
his life he has consumed 2S,560 loaves
of bread, at cents per pound, value.
SS56.sO; 26,ss0 pounds of meat, at 5
cents, s1,34O; 7,72s pounds of vegeta-
bles, eggs, fish, ETC., at 2 cents, $154.56;
and 11,76O gallons of water, tea, coffee,
beer, wine, ETC., at an average cost of 1
cent per gallon, $117.6O; total, 81, 46S.96.
He also figures that of the 10000 days
of his life 10000 have been spent in
sleep, 10, 900 in work and 9,76O in eating
and pleasure seehng-Chicago Chron'
icle.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01
REMODELED STABLE.
How an Eastern Dairyman Rear
ranged an Originally IncOnven-
lent Farm Structure.

The drawings herewith will explain
the way in which l remodeled my cow
stable year ago. My barn was of the
prevailing plan in this part of the state,
bank barn of two stories, with feed
ing-room next bank, horse stable next
this and cow stable at lower side, with
manger against Notwithstanding, and
feedroom for feeding hay, ETC., cribbed
off from the mows on second story. In
feeding grain the feeder had to pass in
between the cows and place feed in
troughs, carrying feed from feeding
room through horse stable to cow sta
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01
WHERE THEY sLAKE THEIR THIRST.
eat for many sparrows by the side OF
its grain elevators and cotton gins.

eat for many sparrows by the side OF
its grain elevators and cotton gins.
At II o'clock every forenoon the
train pulls into the station of the town.
1t has come from the south and the
engine is thirsty. A little beyond the
station is big red water tank with
long nose trussed up against its side,
which is lowered to the engine when ii
comes. The red tank holds the only
considerable supply of water in the
town. The sparrows know this. After
the engine has slaked its thirst the
nose of the tank is elevated again and
the train pulls away from the town
and is gone for another "a hours. Be-
meath the tanks nose is little gravelly
hollow, and for ten minutes after the
train has gone the nose drips and drips
after awhile at long intervals, drop
by drop, until it stops altogether. And
its drippings form pool.
The sparrows know the train time
quite as well as the bus man and the
town loafers. After the train has
pulled out they gather about the nose
under the water tank. First they stand
around the pool in circle and drink,
the tiny heads dipping into the cool wa
ter and heads going back, that they
may swallow it. AS ADon as they have
slaked their thirst they plunge into the
pool and iirt their wings in the water,
as is their method of bathing. They
quarrel and push each other about and
peck savagely. And after they have all
drunk and bathed no water remains
save little moisture in the bottom OF
the water-worn gravel basin.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01

Practically all packages which go
through such a big post Office as that in
New York or Chicago are examined.
The temptation to scribble something
on card inclosed in package is hard
to resis. in most cases, and as conse-
quence the amount of money collected
ior insufficient postage is wonderful.
According to Leslie's Weekly, New York
collects on an average 5000 day from
the receivers of underpaid packages,
and the receipts from this source the
three days before last Christmas were
over $4,000.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01
TRAINING A BULL CALF.
Hew to Make the Young Creature
Become Accustomed to Control
and Being Controlled

We hear very much of the uncertain
temper of Jersey bulls. No doubt this
is the inevitable result Of bad training
or want of training, says an ex-
change. The bull has never been sub
iected to control He does not acquire
the confidence of his keeper and feeder,
and from the first the natural dispo-
Sition is never checked or turned in the
way it should 60. BY feeding by hand
from the first and afterwards tether-
ing in pasture when the first milk feed
ing has continued for two or three
months-and indeed il the season ad-
mits of it when it is a month old-the
calf becomes used to control and sub
mits without opposition to every wish
of the keeper. After grown to near
full age the training should be con-
tinued by giving him work to do, by
which subsection is fully confirmed.
Idleness is the parent of vice; and to
keep the young animal in this subject
i've state by work of some kind, if only
as an exercise, will confirm its DISPOSE
ton and prevent the resistance to con-
troll, which is the basis of savage and
unruly habit afterwards. Indeed, train
ing-by which mean the teaching and
forming of the disposition by practice
and kindness, with firmness always and
at times with discipline-should be the
rule with every animal on the farm.
Even fowls will be more useful and
more easily managed by this training
when they are young, learning to be
handled and to lose all fear of their
keepers.