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The Western news., 1900-05-02
TELITAlE CHAIRS.

Their Significance in Accordance with
Their Relative Positions.
"Chairs are great pantomime per-
formers" said one of a group in the
hotel lobby to New Orleans Times
Democrat writer. Il mean," he ex.
planned, "that they have wonderful
powers of expression.
Look at those two, facing each other
In the corner. The one nearest us, II
you will notice, stands perfectly
straight and stiff, while the other 10
twisted around trile to the right, and
we know by that token as plainly as IL
we had witnessed it that they were
lately occupied by a bore and his vic
tim. The bore squared himself in front
of the poor fellow and proceeded to tell
the story of his life. The victim
writhed and squirmed, and when he
finally escaped the record Of his travail
was written legibly in the furniture.
Now, that pair Of chairs by the desk
tell quite a different tale, and one could
almost say that they were engaged In
pleasant conversation at this very mo
ment. Observe the confidential angle
Of the arms. l have often encountered
chairs arranged like that, only more SO,
on the piazza of summer hotels early in
the morning after a moonlight night
They fairly reeked with romance! II
would be impossible, by the way, to
place chairs in such a position deliber-
ately. You couldn't do it to save your
neck. The effect depends upon a very
subtle combination of lines impaired
unconsciously by the occupants.
"Did you ever go into a room where
poker party had been playing stir
game all night and notice the way the
chairs stood about the tables? In nine
cases out Of ten they tell the story Of
the wind-up as clearly as it could be
| done by types. Several years ago
was at hotel in little town on the
Texas and Pacific, when a fellow was
shot in quarrel in one Of the rooms
on the second floor. He had been in
a party Of three who were playing
cards, and when went up to look at
the scene Of the tragedy, very shortly
afterward, 1 was struck at once by the
arrangement of the chairs. They
formed q dramatic tableau. One
hugged the table, and had evidently
been occupied by the chap who looked
on. The other was thrust back several
feet, at an abrupt angle, as If whoever
sat there had risen suddenly, and the
third was overturned in pool Of blood.
One could not have asked for better
record of what had happened"
The Western news., 1900-05-02
Helped Elect Her Husband.

Representative John f. Lacey, OF
Oskaloosa, is one of Iowa's leading law
yers; he has combined some very valu-
able digests of railroad and land laws.
says the Boston Transcript. Little OF
his career has been public, as his large
practice has engaged most Of his time.
Year after year he was importunedt
by the Republicans of Iowa to become
their candidate for Congress against
James B. Weaver. At length, in 1883.
he was nominated almost without his
knowledge, and SO consented to run.
1t is related that when he shame
facedly told his wife that he had ac-
cepted the nomination, she, with some
disgust, said: swell, John, now that
you have gone into 1t, you must beat
Weaver-and If you don't I'll leave
you! To save herself from carrying
out this terrible threat, evidently, she
used all her endeavors to elect him, go
ing to his political meetings and noting
the impressions that different parts Of
his speech made.
The Western news., 1900-05-02
The RubicOn.

The proverb in regard to passing the
Rubicon originated from the circum-.
stance of Julius Caesars crossing the
stream in the year 40 with his for
midable force. This act marked the be-
ginning of civil war. The Rubicon is
the ancient name of a small stream
which divided Italy from Cisalpinel
Gaul, and was the boundary of Gaze
sar's province. 1t separated his prov
ince from fertile and populous coun-
try, upon the conquest of which he de-,
termined. At the brink of the Rubicon
he paused, conscience smitten and un-
decided. Finally, the love of conquest
led him across the stream and sent war
and pestilence into the heart Of the
country. The proverb signifies the an
trance upon any undertaking, from
which there can be no retreat
The Western news., 1900-05-02

would cost Az cents.a pound. and if he
could eat six pounds a day he would
gain two pounds at cost Of 3 cents a
pound.
A hog weighing 500 pounds needed
FIVE pounds of grain feed to keep him
alive and eight pounds to increase his
weight one pound day. This would
make the pound of pork cost 8 cents.
These figures are for good, thrifty hogs
Of good breed and are approximately
correct. and they show very nearly the
economy Of killing hogs before they
weigh 200 pounds If they can be made
fat. But the profit on hogs to the farm
er in the West is not so much in the
gain from grain feed as that the hog
turns unstable products and the
wastes Of the farm into that which
sells readily.
The Western news., 1900-05-02
Bran and Corn Prices.


As bran also contains large pro-
portion of fat and starch it does not
differ very widely from some grains.
and the only way to Judge Of the value
Of bran is to compare 1t with the price
OF corn. II corn Is selling at $40 per
ton aud bran at SIS, the farmer should
then consider whether 1t would pay
him to buy bran on difference Of IS
per ton, but in so doing there must be
also considered the kinds of food al
ready used, the location of the farm,
the purposes for which the animals are
kept and the value Of the manure from
the stock. The greater amount of pro-
tein In bran, as compared with corn,
should make 1t more suitable than corn
for cows which produce milk that Is
sold daily, as a large proportion of nj
trogen is carried away in milk. There
is also a gain in the mineral elements
in the use of bran, as corn is deficient
in that respect. For young and grow
ing stock the foods that contain the
mineral elements should be preferred.
but where linseed meal and clover are
used there will be no necessity for
feeding bran. A large number of farm
ers purchase bran, and 1t will be to
their interests to endeavor to know
something of the various kinds on the
market, as a falling off in the nutri-
tious elements Of the bran used may
really cause it to be expensive.
The Western news., 1900-05-02

simply slaughter-house of human be-
ings!"
The New York Central Federated
Union, with which hundred district
and local labor bodies are affiliated, has
adopted a resolution congratulating
"the united Socialist party on the
achieved harmony, and that we endorse
every sentiment expressed in the reso-
lutions regarding organized labor"
The London, England, Trades Coun-
The Western news., 1900-05-02

Gil declares that the South African
game of murder and plunder is grab
of territory ''for the benefit of as un-
scrupulous a set of financiers as has
ever gained the attention of parlia-
ment" The Council says further that
parliament is always thrusting forward
a foreign question with the evident In
tention Of diverting the attention of
Japs are still continuing to come into
the United States in great numbers.
The Western news., 1900-05-02
Care of Dairy Cows.

Every farmer knows how difficult it
Is to keep cows clean when they are
stalled for the night, and to stanchion
them is a system that is not approved
by some. One farmer tested the plan
of blanketing the cows as a protection
against cold, the same as with horses,
and found that the use of blanket in
creased the flow of milk and made q
saving in food, as well as preventing
colds and sickness. The floor was lit
tered to the depth of six inches with
straw. The only drawback was that
frequently the blankets would become
soiled, thus necessitating labor in keep
ing them clean.
The Western news., 1900-05-02

base and provided
with a hinged cap
or cover. Inside
this frame a hitch
ing strap, coiled on
a shaft actuated
by a spring and
carrying a snare or
swivel at It's end,
Is adjusted. SO that
1t can be uncoiled
and attached to the
horSa'S hif IN tho
The Western news., 1900-05-02

usual manner. This construction re-
suits in a convenient and neat arrange
ment. as the strap is automatically
wound up on the spring drum when not
in use and the frame and cover protect
it. 1t is always ready for use, and il
the cover Is locked or bolted and the
meddling by small boys or vandals is
prevented.
The Western news., 1900-05-02
A Good Dairy Herd,

The question Is often asked whether
it is most desirable in developing q
good dairy herd to use full-blooded
sire or to buy a number of full-blooded
young stock. The quickest way un-
doubtedly is to buy the young stock,
but If you have a number of first-class
individual cows, no matter IL their
breeding is not gilt-edge, an exceeding
" fine herd can be built up after few
years by buying full-blooded sire.
The dairyman is more apt to be SETS
fed with the final results, as In buy
Ing young stock there Is always danger
Of getting poor individuals,
The Western news., 1900-05-02
Paris Ragpickers.

The ragpickers of Paris, to the num-
Der of something like 10000, who
make their living by picking over rub
bish put out from houses. are greatly
agitated over new boxes, which are to
be used to hold the rubbish, and which
cannot be opened except by the cart
men who carry 1t away.
The Western news., 1900-05-02
LABOR NOTES.

Last year the union tailors Of Amer
lea had Al strikes and won thirty.
Six hundred thousand trades union
lists were represented at a conference
recently held in London.
All the employees of the Robinson
basket factory at Painesville, O., have
struck for an increase of wages.
The Labor World (Japan) stigma.
tizes the factory system in Japan as
The Western news., 1900-05-02

over and tioored for IL sleeping pen or
shelter during storm. A trough is
also permanently attached to the oppo-
site corner.
The pen can be readily shifted from
place to place each day, thus giving
the pigs fresh place and new grass
continually.-Farm News.
The Western news., 1900-05-02
Oleo Not Steer Fat.

1t is always in order to take a whack
at oleomargarine, the greatest food
fraud of the nineteenth century, says
the Racine Journal. The kidney fat
Of a fat steer, such fat as it is claimed
is used for the production of better
grades of oleomargarine, win weigh
about forty pounds. Assuming that
the average cow will produce 16O
pounds of butter in a year, it will take
four steers to offset one COW as but
ter producer. Enough oleomargarine
was made last year to offset the prod
uct of over 100000 cows; SO, If this
choice fat was used alone in its produc-
ton, 1,6OO, 900 steers were drawn upon.
but there was not any such number Of
steers killed, and SO it proves that oleo
is not made Of that sort of fat.
The Western news., 1900-05-02
Duration of a Wink.

A German scientist has gone to some
trouble to calculate the average dura-
tion Of wink, in order to ascertain
just what the phrase "in the twinkling
of an eye" means. He says that wink
occupies four-tenths of a second. The
eyelid descends in one-tenth of a Sec
ond, stays down thirteen-hundredths Of
a second, and rises again in seventeen
hundredths.
The Western news., 1900-05-02
A Travelling Pig Pen.

While among the farmers in Wiscon-
sin we ran across a novel device-a
movable pig pen, which many of our
readers who keep in a pen pigs which
they want to put out to grass will find
very useful.
The Illustration will show how 1t is
made. A pair Of old wheels of any
kind will answer. One corner Is rooted
The Western news., 1900-05-02

were to be married. This arrange.
ment was carried out, and during the
evening the Pittsburg operators and
their wives and daughters attended
the wedding reception and supper al
the hotel.
The Western news., 1900-05-02

There are good many dog house
keepers: housekeepers who let dogs
run all over the house, and get hairs
and f1eas into everything.
The Western news., 1900-05-02
Feed to Make Pork.

The Wisconsin experiment station
has proven that pig weighing 100
pounds requires one pound OF cornmeal
and a half pound of wheat middlings
to keep it alive without gain or loss.
Three pounds a day Of the same feed
would make a pound Of pork. and II
the grain cost $50 per ton, the pork
The Western news., 1900-05-02
Invention of a Wnman.

This novel hitching post is the inven-
ton Of a woman. 1t consists Of pipe
or hollow frame, mounted on n suita bIe
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-04
PROSPECT OF a PEACH CROP.

OF the famous Georgia peach the
Baltimore Sun has This to say in con-
nection with a recenS%<report of State
Entomologist Seatts;1 Despite the fact
that tine department of agriculture is
having trouble with the diseased fruit
trees shipped into Georgia, State En-
tomologist Scott states there will be
over 1850, 900 trees of various varie-
ties planted this year, of which the
famous alberta peach will be in the
majority. The liberia is no longer the
favor1te in South Georgia, as has been
the case for so many years, but other
varieties are being freely planted, and
to great extent. In Northern Georgia
the alberta peach still holds the first
place. That section of the state is rap
IDLY forging to the front in fruit-grow-
ing. 1t is believed that next year will
be very successful. Entomologist
Scott says that the San Jose scale,
which affected so many orchards last
year, has been wiped out in most parts
of the state
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-04

1t is now recalled that the late Sena-
tor Davis, when unfolding President
CIeveland's decision in 1894 to repress
by military force the Illinois rioters,
uttered the following forcible state
ment of what true liberty is: People
pirate about liberty, and define that
liberty as the liberty of the particular
class they are speaking for. The only
liberty worth having in this country
Is the equal liberty of all men alike.
Liberty in it's philosophical and COM
mon sense definition consists IN that
right of each Individual to exercise the
greatest freedom of action up to, and
not beyond, that point where it in
fringes upon the like exercise of free
dom of action of every other man. Be-
yond that it is the destruction Of the
liberty of the weak by the stronger,
a subyersion of the very theory of the
and return to primevaI an
archy on the one hand, or, as ar alter
native, to despotism on the other.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-04
LOOKING BACKWARD.

AT this time of the year the spell 0
Christmas comes upon Us, no matter If
we are far from the ancestral roof and
there is a suspicious sprinkle of gray
about our temples. Indeed, how could
we drive it away, with the shop windows
IN our view and a fodder at our knees
asking, Glow long fore Christmas :?
Is it three weeks till Santa Claus
comes ?" With the spell, too, comes
the memory of our own ch1ldhood-its
hopes, its views of things, its faiths
and recreations.
What a wonderful world is childhood!
Back there we had implicit hope. If
We threw a butterfly over our should
er, was it not sure augury that we
would one day be wealthy ? We never
doubted it. The chrrup of cricket
meant happy future. Little opti-
mists, all of us, such as the world has
never looked upon.
We had an abiding faith. Who
thought of doubling the creator? Who
thought the old preacher, picturing still
waters and babblIng of green fields,
was an ignorant enthusiast Who
doubted that God was bending down
to catch the little prayer of the child
kneeling by its mother The great
psaImist had no greater faith.
We were heroes. AS we marched
with wooden knives and guns, no fol-
lower Of Napoleon imagined himself so
invincibIe, as we charged upon the
MULLEN in the pastures and scaled the
fence to attack an imaginary foe
We had the divine feeling of sym
pathy, When the pet bird died we
buried 1t-buried it with its eyes turn
ed upward toward the blue skies it had
loved so well-believing that some
time it would sing for us again. And
the patient old dog that had hunted
the orchard depths, or pulled our wa
CONS about the streets or lanes-our
earliest tears maybe were shed over its
death. Somehow we have never gotten
over the belief that in the beyond the
pets of childhood should live again
our earliest friends our earliest care.
A heathenish idea ? No-you will
never get a man to say he does not
look back to the dog of childhood days
without feelings of affection, without
throb as for a personal loss over the
memory of its passing away
So, with the coming of the Yuletide
and the children's hopes returns our
own childhood; and once again do we
forget the cares and responsibilities of
the present. 1t is well for US.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-04

The Woman's Suffrage Association is
shortly to hold bazaar in New York
city. The state association of Iowa re-
Gently determined to make a contrlbu-
ton to the eastern function, and upon
a vote it was decided to send a carload
of hogs. At first it was proposed that
the hogs should be put upon exhibition
along with the other fancy work of the
bazaar, but upon mature elaboration it
was determined to send them to the
Chicago stock yards, sell them, and
forward the proceeds to New York.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-04

Surgeon General Sternberg of the
Marine Hospital Service says that dur
ing the past year he has received no
less than 500 communications from var
GUS parts of the country enclosing
''cures" for yellow fever. And, queer
Iy enough, 80 per cent. of all these
communications came from section
where yellow fever is never seen,
and from persons who could not tell
yellow fever from mumps.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-04
STICK 20 HOME ENTERPRISES

The home merchant is the man who
gives You credit when you have no
cash to buy the neccessaries Of life,
The home merchant is the man who
helps you to pay the taxes that run
your school and pave your streets. The
home merchant is the man to whom
you appeal IN times of distress for fav-
ors. Then why should you ignore him
when you desire to make purchase !?
He sells goods; goods at as low figures
as the man who does business in the
big city. The home paper is the friend
in need. 1t is to the home paper you
must look for all aid IN time of depres-
sion and it heralds good tidings IN time
of prosperity. Remember, the hills
look green far away.-Printers Ink,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-04
WILL VISIT TALLADEGA, ALA.
Duke and His Bride VIII Spend Two
Days There.

Duke and His Bride VIII Spend Two
Days There.
TALLADEGA, Ala, Dec. 3.-The Duke
of Manchester and his bride, nee Miss
Zimmerman, and her father, Eugene
Zimmerman. will be given a royal well
come when they arrive here this week.
Mr. Zimmerman owns considerable prop
erty IN Talladega, including the fur
mace. ore lands and the Birmingham
and Talladega railroad, extending from
Taliadega to Pell City, and which may
some day be part of a system extend
ing from Birmingham to the Atlantic.
Miss Zimmerman was in Talladega last
year and was great favorite.
According to the itinerary given out
by papers, the duke and his wife and
Mr.. Zimmerman will be in Talladega
Tuesday and Wednesday and will leave
on the last named day for Birmingham,
thence to Jackson, Miss.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-04
PRITcHARD IN THE CABINET
Stated He May Be rendered the Post
master General Portfolio.

AsHEvILLE, N. O., Dec. 3.-Senator
Jeter O. Pritchard has returned from a
visit to friends in Kansas to his home in
Marshall, N. Q. Senator Pritchard was
accompanied by Mrs Pritchard.
It has been rumored in southern po-
htical circles that there may be a change
in the cabinet after March 1, and that
Senator Pritchard may be asked to ac-
cept the position of postmaster general.
The senator states that nothing of the
kind has been intimated to him and that
he can be of fully as much service to
the country in the senate as in the cab
met.
He is satisfied that the Nicaragua
canal bill will come up for consideration
at the coming short session of congress
and that this and the bill for the reor-
ganization of the army, with possibly
some action on the Chinese and Philip
pine questions, will take up most of the
time of the coming session.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-04
Butchers In Annual Convention.

CLEVELAND, Dec 3.-The third an
nual international convention of the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen of North America began here
today. 1t is said the organization has
membership of 10000. The convention
will continue for three days and is prob
ably the most important meeting ever
held by the union. About 90 delegates
are present.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-04
The Tifnes-ReCorder is the
NOTICE!
AMERICUs, Ca, DEC. 4. 1900.

Young Mr., Phillips made $500, 900
out of corn. He controlled for some
days the price of the great American
commodity; yet he is no farmer, and
has no sympathy with farmers. The
commercial basis needs rearranging
when such things can be.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-04
BEGINS HIS SIXTH TERM.
President DiaZ Inaugurated With
Great POmp and Ceremony.

OAEAp anu WI
CITY OF MEXICO, Dec. 3.-The festiv.
tiles connected with the sixth Inaugural
ton of President Diaz as president Of
the republic of Mexico eliminated last
night in a grand ball. Mrs. Diaz was
the center Of attraction.
The diplomatic corps was Respondent
with numerous decorations and orders,
the dean of the corps, the United States
ambassador, Powell Clayton, being con-
spicuous by the order given to him on
the battlefield, an empty sleeve. The
American colony was out in full force.
High mass was celebrated in the
great cathedral and all the churches
Sunday with special prayers for the
health and continued happiness of the
president, and in the evening from
Chapultepec to the national palace the
streets were ablaze with Examinations
and thronged with people.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-04

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. 3.-The po-
lice department has been advised from
WetumpEa that a posse, while pursuing
a negro named Alex Benson, was fired
into by Benson and two white men and
negro were wounded. The negro was
last seen near Jenkins ferry. He was
armed with a Winchester rife.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-04

The following in reference to the ne
gro problem IS from nothern paper,
and is very frank admission: Forty
years ago the negro was a slave; today
he is a problem, The south disfran-
chises him and lynches him; the north
lynches him and buys his franchise. Of
the two the north uses him the worse.
The south understands the negro bet
ter than the north, and, on the whole,
treats him better. It at least gives INN
what he most needs-employment, and
gives it freely. But his chances in the
north grow fewer every year.