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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
ScRATcHINGS.

Is it the business hen this year, or
only boarder?
The farmer who raises poultry can
always obtain ready money.
A chick that is continually chilled
seldom amounts to much, because Vi
tality is used up to resist and over.
come abuse.
1t is not a good plan to feed grown
up fowls too much soft food, as it
tends to make them dyspeptic.
In estimating the cost of keeping
poultry it is best to allow one bushel
of grain year to each laying hen.
With hens 1t Is much better to keep
the appetite sharp compelling them
to be active and search for food.
Pick all small, slow going, indiffer.
ent appearing pullets and save them
for broilers. Keep for maturity only
the best of the whole lot of pullets.
Experiments show that the yearling
hen lays 40 per cent. more eggs than
the hen two years old.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
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The Coop.

shortest time possible. A good way is
to confine in coops like the one shown
in cut. The open part may be made
of lath or wire netting. Keep pen dark
except when fowls are eating. Throw
thick covering, old carpet or quilts,
over exposed part and the pen will be
so dark that birds will move about
very little between meals. In the
morning if fed boiled potatoes, crushed
while hot and thickened with corn
meal, and a little salt and pepper for
seasoning, chickens will fatten very
fast. They should be fed three times
day, and their bill-of-fare varied as
much as possible. Pumpkins or
squash may take place of boiled pota-
toes occasionally. Fresh bedding
should be supplied frequently, and the
coop and spot it occupies kept clean.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
MAKING A eRooDER.
Simplify Care Of Little Chicks by Con-
structing One.

Some people try to have lot of
hens hatch about the same time as
their incubator, then give the chicks
to the hens. But 1 have found by ex-
perience that is a mistake, writes a
poultry keeper in Farmers Mail and
Breeze. The hen will take them out
and drag them around in the dew, and
If 1t happens to rain she will sit right
down where she happens to be and
lose from three to half dozen, or per-
haps all the flock; while If the chicks
and be safe.
| make my own brooders. They
work all right out of doors and never
yet have lost chick with them.
take piece of sheetiron 20 inches
wide and feet long. Then two pieces
of 1 by 8 feet long, and in each
board make two holes 1S inches apart.
Run gas pipe through these for the
sheetiron to rest on, and fasten the
boards 2 feet apart. Make a rack out
of lath to sit on top of iron and cover
with thick brown paper.
Use two pieces of l by 10 2 feet 6
inches long from which to make a COW
er; fasten on top of first boards with
hinges and hooks so they can be
turned back to clean out brooder.
Outside the brooder make a board
floor level with the sheetiron floor for
inches. then slant to ground so as
to make a run for the chicks to go
in and out. Set the brooder lamp un-
der the sheetiron and place the lath
rack and thick paper over the iron.
The chicks will never get too hot I'M
less the lamp eXplodes, which has
never happened yet for me. The cost
of this brooder is about $1.50, lamp
and all.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
LANES FRONTIER GUARDS.
camped on the Velvet Carpets of the
White House.

Responding to a request for infor-
nation concerning the now famous
Frontier Guards" organized by Sen
ator James H. Lane in Washington,
d. c., in April, 1861, Judge John T.
Burris of Olathe, Kan, recently said:
yes, was a member of that now
somewhat famous and historic COM
pany. This will give the exact date
of the organization of the company" "
said the Judge taking from a large
pocketbook a faded and time-stained
document This" he continued, "is
my discharge. 1t says we were mus
tered into the service April IS, 1861,
and discharged May 3, 1861. Most of
us were either members of the legis-
lature, offlceholders or were in Wash
ington seeking federal jobs in the new
state.
Lane and Pomeroy just had been
elected senators from Kansas and a
great crowd of us went to the nations
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
AUTOMATIC POULTRY WATERING.
System Used by DR.. A. H. Phelps
Described.

Upon each floor of my poultry house
! have a 2-inch iron pipe which passes
the whole length of both the main
floor and loft from west to east, at the
latter end projecting outside the build
ing. This pipe runs along the floor,
passing through each of the warm
roosting rooms, in each of which is a
T joint, surmouhted by 1-inch nipple
coupling. On the top of this is
screwed a cast-iron drinking cup
inches in diameter and 4 inches deep.
All are set at the same level.
At the west end the inflow takes
place through tank supplied with a
float valve, like that used for flushing
a closet. This tank and valve are ad-
justed to the same level as the drink
ing cups so that when the cups are
full the float shuts off the inflow, and
as the water is used out, it falls just
enough to allow the cups to refill,
again closing when the proper level
is reached. In this way the water is
not wasted. At the outflow at the
west end gate serves to flush out
the whole system. Inside of this gate
an overflow pipe, placed at the prop,
er level, easily prevents the possibility
of the cups overfowing and thereby
flooding the floors. The Pinch pipe
is of that size to render clogging i'm
possible. A pipe from the hot water
heater in the brooder cellar is con
nected with the inflow pipe, making
1t possible to supply hot water to the
system.-Orange Judd Farmer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
The Scraper.

broken end of spring can generally
be found at any blacksmith shop, and
the thin end can be filed sharp for ten
or fifteen cents. Have it sharpened
as per the illustration, the thin end
sharpened and one side about two
inches back, to be used as scraper or
screwdriver, and the thick end can be
squared on one edge to drive a nail
with. find it very handy for all pur.
poses around an apiary.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28

Ddyos
er killed or wounded. 1t is almost
equally significant of the gallantry Of
the One Hundred and Fifty-frst
Pennsylvania that the confederate
regiment which was Immediately op-
posed to 1t for most of the day-the
Twenty-sixth North Carolina-lost 5SS
men and officers out of 500, one COM
pany having so killed and wounded
out of SO. There must surely have
been magnificent fighting between
them!
The institution which furnished COM
pany D of the One Hundred and Fifty
first regiment was an academy at Nc
Allisterville, Juniata county, Pennsyl-
vania. Its principal, George F. Nc
Farland, was the first captain of the
colonel of the regiment on it's organ
ization, and commanded it at Gettys-
burg, where he lost leg. Col. Nc
Farland had acquired the proprietor
ship of the McAllisterville academy in
1859, and had made it very success
full The spirit of patriotism ran
high among the students. When the
president issued his call for nine
months men, Mr.. Mcfarland closed
the school and formed a company,
about 100 strong, of the scholars and
teachers. Gov. Curtin summoned it to
Harrisburg and it was incorporated in
the One Hundred and Fifty-first reg
ment.
But few members of company d
survive. Major w. l.. Owens, who
succeeded Mcfarland as captain, wan
one of the teachers. He says that he
knows of only two of the scholars who
are still living, viz. Corporal Jo-
seph M. Owens of Lewistown, who
was captured by the confederates in
the first days fighting at Gettysburg
and Corporal M. c. Bratton. now T.
Missouri. who was shot through the
head.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
Sees America a Heaven.

Prof. w. B. Elkin of the University
OF Missouri believes that America will
be veritable heaven on earth within
100 years. and he goes ON to tell why
In an article which he has written for
the American Journal of Sociology.
Among other things which will be a
feature of the millennium he pictures
is reformed press. Newspapers, he
says, will be printed and edited by
the colleges.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
FATTENlNG FOWLS.
Provide the Right Conditions to Get
Good Results.

In order to fatten poultry at profit,
the right facilities must be provided
and proper food used. Probably among
the best are fat meat residues, corn
meal, potatoes, rice, cows milk and
oatmeal with milk. If anything, oat-
meal is preferable because of effect on
color or fat, says writer in Success
full Farming.
The point is to fatten fowls in the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28

Cartridges Dealt Out.
capital with them. When we got
there Washington was in the throes
of military fever and the intensest ex-
citement prevailed. There were ru-
mors that railroad tracks were being
torn up and bridges destroyed.
Harper's Ferry was taken, Virginia
had secretly seceded-Wise was
marching on Washington. The Sixth
Massachusetts had been fired on and
stoned in Baltimore. Washington was
defended only by Gen. Scott and a
handful of regulars and there was
danger that the president either would
be kidnapped or assassinated. At this
juncture Cassius M. Clay of Ken
lucky and Senator Lane each or
ganized a company of irregular vol
unteers recruited from the ranks Of
the politicians who had followed them
to Washington. The secretary of war
sent lieutenant of the regular army
to muster us in.
"Our company, which Lane called
the frontier Guards was stationed
in the East room of the White House.
We got our meals at the best hotels
and paid our own board. / myself put
up at the Willard. The government
supplied us with bright new rifles and
ammunition, but gave us no uniforms.
But we were a pretty we'll dressed lot
being in Washington looking for ap-
pointments for ourselves or our
friends. My recollection is that most
of us wore plug hats"
Nicolay and Hay in their life of
Lincoln, speaking of the CLAY Bat
TALON" and "The Frontier Guards"
say: "These companies of from 80 to
60 men each were what might be
called irregular volunteers-recruits
from east and west, of all ranks in
the great army of politics who came
forward to shoulder a musket without
enlistment, commission, paymaster or
commissariat. BY this time the dan
ger had become so threatening that
every scrap and show of military
force was really welcome and useful.
gave them in charge of Maj. (after-
ward Gem David Hunter, who, on
the evening of the 18th, stationed
Clay's company at Wizards hall with
orders to patrol the streets, and took
Lanes frontier guards to the post of
honor at the executive mansion. At
dusk they filed into the famous East
room, clad in citizens dress, but car
rying very new untarnished muskets,
and following Lane, brandishing a
sword of irreproachable brightness.
Here ammunition boxes were opened
and cartridges dealt out; and after
spending the evening in an exceed
ingly rudimentary squad drill, under
the light of the gorgeous gas chan
deliers, they disposed of themselves
in picturesque bivouac on the brilliant
patterned velvet carpet-perhaps the
most luxurious cantonment which
American soldiers have ever enjoyed
Their motley composition, their too
transparent motive, their anomalous
surroundings, the extraordinary emer-
gency, their mingled awkwardness and
earnestness rendered the scene med
ley of bizarre contradictions-a blend
Ing OF masquerade and tragedy, Of
grim humor, and realistic seriousness
IA combination of Don Quixote and
Daniel Boone altogether impossible
to describe"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
LYDIA e. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND

Mrs. Will Young, of 6 Columbia
Ave-, Rockland, Me-, says:
~ was troubled for long time with
dreadful baekaches and a pain in my
side, and was miserable in every way.
doctored until was discouraged and
thought would never get well. read
what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound had done for others and
decided to try it; after taking three
so well in my life"
Mrs. Augustus Lyon, Of East Earl,
Pa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
II had very severe bactaches, and
pressing-down pains. Icould not sleep,
and had no appetite. Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound cured me
and made me feel like a new woman"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28

The back Is the handspring OF
woman's organism. 1t quickly calls
attention to trouble by aching. It
tells, with other symptoms, such as
nervousness, headache, pains in the
loins, weight in the lower part of
the body, that woman's feminine
organism needs immediate attention.
In such cases the one sure remedy
which speedily removes the cause,
and restores the feminine organism
to a healthy, normal condition is
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
Llaht Seed.

Light seed will produce light grain.
This has been proved many times.
Light seed has not sufficient power to
push the young plants during the early
stages of growth. and 1t becomes
stunted
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
Clean up Seed Grain.

Clean up all the seed grain, and do
1t now while you can take plenty of
time for the job. Don't use any old
mill, with sieyes all rusted out Good
mills, with all attachments. are cheap
now. and 1t pays to have one that viii
clean out all weed seeds.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
A Necessity of Life.

The liquor men say that Americans
every year spend less money for liquor
than for chewing gum, proprietary
medicines, candy, perfumes and hair
oil. However. Americans simply must
have hair oil.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
poubIe-pisk the Corn stubbIe.

BY all means double-disk the corn
stubble before sowing to oats. Then
II you will harrow with the disk and
CROSS harrow. you will not worry about
your seedbed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

FOr Thirty years Lydia L. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands Of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fibroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges-
tion, dizziness. or nervous prostration.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
HIVE scRAPER.
Most Servicabe Tool Can Be Made
Out of Buggy Spring.

l have been using cheap and prac-
ticable hive tool which can be made Of
a wagon or buggy spring, writes cor
respondent in Bee Culture. The
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
numanlty,s Real Value.

Emerson: 'Tis the fine souls who
serve us. and not what is called tlns
society.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
TOO MUCH.

Eddie-I don't mind so much dat I
quit smokin' cause you asst me ter, but
Ter be refused after I'd gone an
washed me handsome face fer week
straight-well, honest. I didn't think it
OF yer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28

Doan's Kidney Pills to persons suffer.
ing from kidney disorders, backache,
etc. 1t is the best remedy 1 have
ever known and will gladly answer
any questions about it,
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28
POLICE JUDGE WILLS.
viii Gladly Answer the Questions Of
any Inquirer.

II is generous offer that Police
Judge j. H. Wills, of Cloverport, KY,
makes to sufferers from backache, kid
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-28

ney and bIadder Ills,
Judge Wills knows
the value of Doan's
Kidney Pills an d
will answer the ques-
tions of any sufferer
who writes to him.
The judge says: II
take pleasure in
T. O cnm m q n din u
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-06

One of his eulogists declares that
Lincoln is not a type. He stands alone,
no ancestors, 10 fellows, no successors"
The facts. writes Mr.. +. Il. Hill in Lii
coin the Lawyer fully justify the trib-
ute. 1t is interesting to remember, how
ever, that he was not a specially remark
able or industrious boy. AS a matter of
fact. he did not begin to develop mentally
until he was about eighteen.
He lived the healthy outdoor life Of
the average country lad of the settler
days, exhibiting no precocity or abnor-
NAL tendencies to distinguish him from
his fellows.
He was fond of tramping about the
country. not caring much for shooting or
fishing. but entering into other sports
and pastimes Will zest and spirit, and
excelllng at games requiring strength /;
Lot in love with work for works sake.
but willing to do his share without grum
bling, seeing no visions of coming great
ness, and troubling himself with no pon-
derous thoughts concerning his career.
In one respect he was undoubtedly
exceptional. He liked reading, an I'M
usual trait among the pioneer settlers of
the middle West. Lincoln worked three
days at twenty-five cents a day to com
pensate for an accidental injury to the
Life of Washington" which he borrow
cd from blue Nose Crawford.
But there was nothing angelic about
the youthful Lincoln. He considered
Blue Nose" as mean as any other boy
would have thought him under similar
circumstances and we know that he nick
named and otherwise ridiculed the stinyy
old farmer; but his dawning character is
indicated by his prompt recognition of
the claim and his faithful payment of
the damages.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-06

The New York World is essaying the
role of DiCgenes for the Democratic
party with some spirit, bit it is likely
that the light in its lantern will flicker
out for lack of oil before its quest is
successful. "A man must be found
and soon" declares the World, eff the
Democratic party is to be saved from
falling into the hands of William j.
Bryan as permanent receiver"
And "Marse" Watterson, from his
sanctum in the Blue Grass belt, taking
heed of the Worlds patriotic efforts,
shakes his great head sadly and means,
TOO late too late!"
These two newspapers-the World
and the Courier-Jeurnal-are typical of
their party. When WattersOn was i'm
ploring Bryan to retire for some other
Democrat whom Watterson had In the
background the World was silent, but
now that Watterson has abandoned all
hope and is prepared to endure another
dose Of Organism the World suddenly
comes out of its trance and out-Watter-
sons Watterson in its zeal to rescue
the party from certain disaster. They
do no pull together, but, like a team of
Unmatched draught horses, see-saw
away their strength which, if exerted
spontaneously, might lift the load out
If the ora
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-06
When Lincoln WINS Stern

Charles Wiegand was major OF a
German regiment from New York and.
being of an enterprising turn of mind.
secured a personal interview with Presi-
dent Lincoln and importuned him for
authority to raise a brigade of German
troops. He was extremely optimistic and
conceived the affair to be then already ac-
complished, but. after waiting awhile for
the desired presidential spontaneity. he
pressed the matter and was discounted
by being turned down in this remorseless
mode by the President II think this
man called on me once or ~oftener, but |
really know nothing as to his capacity
or merit. If a brigade was promised
him by the War Department. l know
nothing of it, and not knowing whether
he is fit for any place l could not with
propriety recommend him for any" He
treated with equal superciliousness one
f. l.. Capen, who ~engrossed some of his
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-06
1.-THE ENID



The recruiting office in this city has
hung on its walls a Chinese flag which
was captured from the Chinese forces
by the Ninth infantry Of the United
States in command of Col. Liscum.
The flag is twelve feet long and Is
shaped as al uneven triangle. The
base, which was fastened to the pole,
Is six feet wide. A many colored
dragon four feet long, with fiery tongue
Is striving to reach a bloody moon
just out Of his reach. The dragon is
in this position on the flag to show
the Chinese belief that the empire
would put down that moon could 1t
reach it. Several bullet holes decorate
the yellow portion which surrounds the
moon and the dragon.
The finest of workmanship is dis
played on the flag. The toes, eyes and
the fiery noon are carefully inlaid
against the sombre background. The
Chinese flagmakers consider a well
made flag an estimate of their love for
the emperor.
The crimson moon and the fiery
tongue do not attract the attention of
the observer as does the blood which
Is spattered in many places on the
flag. The blood is sure to remind that
val is not of the gentlest occupations.
Wichita Eagle.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-06
Pronunciation If ..Tbeater.v

If "theater" was originally written
"theater' in English, has its pronuncia-
ton also varied among the orthodox
that is to say, was there W a time
when correct speakers said 'theayter,"
as many OF the incorrect still doe
There is no direct evidence in verse Of
a serious kind for such pronunciation
so far rs we know. Shakespeare GER
tainly pronounced the word as we do
now, says a London journal. But since
''theayter" does really represent a long
"a" Of the original Greek and Latin it
is not easy to understand how the vul-
gar could have blundered on to it of
their own accord. 1t would have been
more comprehensive if they had turned
ar orthodox ~'theayter' into "~theater,"
just as the second "a" in "Amasis"
goes too often popularity shortened now.
The French language has had to mark
the length of the "a in "theater" by
giving it a rather irregular circumfiex
accent.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-06
AN OLD VALENTINE.

Out OF my 'Telemaque," worn and old,
Like a sword from a rusty sheath,
Hath fallen this trifie of lace and gold
A fairylike tissue, all shot with gold,
Hall Yelling a verse beneath
In the midst of the verse Is a heart. trans
fixed
With an arrow of steely blue:
Oh, the foolish verse. with its metaphors
oh. the foolish heart, with the dart trans
fixed.
And the foolish way to WOO,
l remember well the sunny-haired lad
Who wrote In this boyish way
A dreamer-what glorious eyes he had!
Poor dreamer, whose dreams have grown
sere and sad,
And whose hair and hopes are gray.
One fair spring day, when the wood lark's
song
So sweet that 1t sank like pain
Through our thrilling hearts, as we passed
along
Adown leafy aisles-(How that haunting
Floats back to my mind againD
The story as old as Adam and Ewes
Was told, while the lark o'erhead
Flung his arrows of song into golden
sheayes,
And the silken rustic of tender leaves
Made sweeter the words he said.
All, well, We have all had our Area
die"
And this Is the brief of mine.
And the mystic messages. the shining key
That opened that land of delight to me
Was this primitive valentine.
We do these things In q different way
From the younger folk | CLEAN.
In the learned light OF this lettered day
We move In q more esthetic way,
And a wiser way, | ween.
But athwart the years, with their grander
things,
Their treasures of wisdom and lore.
This trihe of gold shot tissue brings
remembrance of simple, holier things
That hallowed the days OF yore.
Agnes Mahony.