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Year: 1875

The decOmposed form of deck hand
was found floating in the river
at Keokuk, Monday. The body
was that Of a middle aged man
who had on dark coored pants and pair
OF overalls, dark colored wool shirt, coarse
shoes aud a belt around the waist. There
were found upon the person three pieces
of fractional currency. a copper cent and a
steamboat laborer's check, but nothing by
which the body could be identified.
Year: 1875

There are some very bad boys in Dav-
export as we'll as N Rock Island. For
several days past crowd of Cork Hill
lers" have laid In wait in the cut on Rock
Island street, along Eighth, for the pupils
close of the afternoon session. Armed
boys, threatening and at least in cne in
stance this week infiicting serious injury.
a night in Jail for the boys, and round
fine for their fathers would cure it Par
ents who allow their boys to run wild, and
especially those who allow them their lib
erty after dark are responsible for the
growth of bad boys in towns.
Year: 1875

WHOSE Boy IS THATy-He may be seeh
any day, in almost any patt of the city he
never makes room for you on the sidewalk
looks at you saucily, and swears smartly il
asked anything, he is very imPudent, and
often vulgar to ladies who pass; he delights
in frightening and sometimes does serious
injury to little boys and girls; he lounges at
tho street corners, and is the first arrival at
the dog fight or any other sport or scrape he
crowds in the postofice in the evening, and
multiplies himself and his antics at such a
rate that people having legitimate business
are crowded out; he thinks himself very
sharp, he is certainly very noisy be can
smoke or chew tobacco now and then, and rip
out an oath most any time.


We ask whose boy is it Mother, is he
yours? We think be is, for there are many
good qualities in the lad, and we do not think
that you know what he does on the street
Look after him. mother; keep him more at
home. Train him and yOu will have son
to be proud Of
Year: 1875

saw wife pull out the bottom drawer of
the old family bureau this evening, aud went
softly out, and wandered up and down, until
| knew that she had shut it up and gone to
her sewing. We have some things laid away
in that drawer which tho gold of kings could
not bay, aud yet they arc relics which grieve
us until both our hearts are sore. haven't
dared look at them for year, but remem-
Der each article.


There are two worn shoes, little chip hat
with part of the brim gone, some stockings,
pants, coat, two or three spools, bits of
broken crockery, whip and several toys
Wife-poor thing-goes to that drawer every
day Of her life and prays over il, and lets her
tears fall upon the precious articles, but I
dare not gol


Sometimes We speak of little Jack, but not
often. 1t has been long time, but somehoa
we can't get over grieving. He was such a
burst of sunshine into our lives that his going
away has been like covering our every day
existence with pail. Sometimes, when wo
sit alone of an evening, / writing aud sho
sewing, child on the street will call out NJ
our boy used to, and we will both start IN
with beating hearts and wild hope. only 10
find the darkness moro of burden than ever


1t is so still and quiet now. l look M Mt
the window where his blue eyes used to spar
kle at my coming, but he Is not there. I
listen for his pattcring feet, his merry shout
and his ringing laugh, but there is no sound
There is no one TO climb over my knees, no
enc to ecarch my pockets and tease for press
cuts, and 1 never fnd the chairs turned over,
the broom down, or ropes tied to the door
knobs.


want some one to tease me for my knife
to ride on my shoulders to lose my AK 20
follow me to the gate when go, and be there
TO meet me when come to call "good night"
from the little bed, DOW empty. And wife,
she misses him still more there are no little
feet to wash no prayers 60 say. no voice tens
ing for Jumps of sugar or sobbing with the
pain Of hurt toe; and she would give her
own life, almost, to awake at midnight and
look across to the crib aud see our boy thcro
us he used to be.


So, VIC preserve our relics, md when wo
are dead we hope that strangers will handle
them .tenderly, even if they shed no tears
over them.
Year: 1875

We now enter the field for
the fall and coming Winter
and are furnishing the bes,
paving and most easily worked
AGENCY in the world. Our
AGENTS have always been the
most successful, and we nave
lately added new and exceed
ingiy taking inducements, re
auiring only intelligence and
application for any one,young
or old, of ether sex, to make
really first-class paying busl
Year: 1875

Nv dear gentlemen and ladies', rcmem


Der that we. like yourselves, have moods
and cannot always be frisky and cheerful
You do not strike your grandmother IN
the face because this morning she does
not feel as well as usual; why, then, do
you strike us Before you pound Us,
ask whether we have been up late the night
before, or had our meals at irregular
hours, or whether our spirits have been
depressed by being kicked bya drunken
hostler We have only about ten or
twelve years in which to enjoy ourselves
and then we go out TO be shot into moth
ingness. Take care of us while you may.
Jobs horse was clothed with thunder


but all We ask is plain blanket. When
We are sick, put us in a horsepital. De
not strike us when we stumble or scare.
Suppose you were in the harness, and !
we're in the wagon, ha Il the whip, and
you the traces, what an ardent advocate
you would be for kindness to the brute
creation. Do not let the blacksmith
drive the nail into quick when he shoes
me, or burn my fetlocks with hot file
Do not mistake the dead eye that ma
ture put on my forelcg for wart to be
exterminated Do not cut off my tail
short in fy-time. Keep the north wind
out of our stables. Care for us at some
time or other than during the epizootics,
so that we may see that your kindness is
not selfish. My dear friends our inter
ests are mutual am a silent partner in
your business. Under my sound hoofis
the diamond Of national prosperity. BE
yond my nostris the worlds progress
may not go. With thrift and wealth and
comfert | daily race, neck and neck BE
kind to me, if you want me to be useful
to you. And near be day when the red
horse Of war shall be hooked and impo-
tent, and the pale horse of death shall be
hurled back on his launches; but the
white horse Of peace, with face like the
sun, all nations following -Epangelist
Year: 1875

What can / feed my COWS in addition to
early cut hay that will increase the milk
sufficiently to cover the cost? MIX four
and half cents per quart.


Having selected good new mich COWS,
the next thing will be to see that they
have warm and comfortable quarters.
| Comfort for the head is sine qua non for
paving returns from feeding for milk. 1t
will matter little how good or how cheap
his food may be. if any considerable part
of it must be used to warm the celestial
spaces, or even that portion of the atmos-
phere floating over his premises, he will
not get milk enough out of it to pay cost.
But with herd of good new mich COWS
kindly cared for almost any Of the extra
foods in common use will, with milk at
tour and halt cents, not only pay cost at
current rates, but a profit. All foods,
however, Will not pay alike. From the
explanations before given, it will be un-
derstood that those which abound iii flesh
| forming matter, and are at the same time
easiest Of digestion. will give the largest
returns There is but little difference in
the milk producing capacity and digesti-
| bilitY of oatmeal, wheat brans, shorts, and
canaiIle; the meal and canaille of buck
wheat, and rye bran. Eastern and Western
corn meal and barley meal come next
Oil meal will produce more milk from a
given weight than any other feed have
ever used, but it is costly, ard only a small
quantity can be used without affecting the
flavor Of milk. Brewers grains, for their
cost, produce more and poorer milk than
any other food Of the grain kind have
| ever used


In producing milk at any time, there is
nothing which will tell upon the yield
more than the circumstances of rapid and
slow digestion. AS already explained. a
poorer food which will digest rapidly will
make more milk than richer one that can
only be digested slowly. Young and sue
culent food digests more easily than those
which are old and dry cooked food easier
than raw, especially where ripeness is ap
preached. In cold weather warm food will
digest sooner than cold Tepid water and
warm food in winter will add ten per cent
to the yield above the same given cold.
Soaking, and even little souring. will
increase the digestibility Of food which is
ripe and dry. Where there is NO difference
IN rapidity of digestion, that food should
be preferred which contains the most
albuminoids, remembering that while a
! full supply Of albuminoids IS absolutely
necessary to the largest quantity, a full
supply OF fat forming elements is necessary
to perfect quality. With these general
principles before him, the dairyman c4n
regulate the TODD of his herd better than
any outsider can do it for him. Prof. l..
| II Arnold
Year: 1875

1t appears to me that some men exhibit
less sense in their attempts to feed hogs
than in almost anything they undertake
| have neighbor, and he is no green
hand at the bellows but farmer of many
wears standng-one of those experienced
fellows who should know all about it, and
who doubtless thinks he does-that for
the past eight or ten years has fed his
hogs in a little pen three or four rods
square. without ANYTHING in the way of
Moor or shelter, beyond what nature has
pr0vided-mother earth below and the
skies above l was looking over his hogs
to-day. As | passed, for the pen is imme-
dlately alongside the road The hogs
nave no place to go into out of the mud,
which is five or six inches deep, perhaps
deeper-they must hunt out the corn,
from the quagmire into which it is thrown
ana make their beds in the same precious
mortar His hogs are from sixteen to
eighteen months old, and do not weigh
over 23C pounds on the average Another
nelghbor, who was with me, remarked
that he did not believe these hogs had
gained pound a month


The practice OF turning hogs into the
corn field is, perhaps. little better than
tins, but still not much better. It's about
liobson's choice between them.


Now, such ways of feeding hogs do not
pay at any time, and especially when corn
IN nitY cents to sixty cents per bushel 1t
beho0YeS us farmers to look into this mat.
ter OF feeding and see if we cannot hit nm.
on more improved and economic methods
II behooves us to give the matter onr
most serious thought, and to discover how
we can make the last ounce of pork from
a bushel OF corn II we do not do this.
we certainly deserve little sympathy when
we complain of hard times and high taxes


The practice ! pursue is to grind my
corn or whatever grain | am going to
iced, and cook it with steam into a sort of
mush, which | feed in troughs so con-
structed as to prevent the hogs from get
tlng their feet into the feed The best
Pian Is to have plank pen to feed in,
WIN good high sheds for them to 90 into
olt oi lhe storms. and not let them out
uhtli Iat ! hat will not be very long If
you have good breed of hoes and feed
them regularly and exercise GOOD ;ndr'
ment 1hey can be made to gain from a
pound and a halt to two pounds dav and
at this rate will soon be ready for market


/ should be pleased to hear from Others
OF my brother farmers on this subject of
feeding hogs, for | am satisfied it is one
III winch we all have very deep interest,
ana l am not sure that any of us under
stand all there is in it, TJ. L., in National
Live Stock Journal.
Year: 1875

A license to marry is often wanted when
| it can't be had, but poor one is better
than none when man is in Il hurry-viz
namely, to wit, the following:


In the early days of Texan independence
and youth an eccentric genius, still living
and reigning, was clerk Of one OF the west
ern counties The village was quite Sc
cluded in the prairies, and the squire pas
tured his COWS on the broad acres around
bringing them home at night and letting
them 90 to grass in the morning. He
| kept a bell on one of them to help him in
| finding them but one morning as he was
| letting them loose, he perceived that the
| clapper of the bell was lost out, and being
unable to find it, he made substitute by
making fast his own office key Not till
he had reached his office did it occur to
him that he should want the key; but
now, finding himself locked out, he betook
himself to other matters, proposing to re-
cover the key at night. About noon a
rough-and-ready young Texan, in buck
skin dress, came riding into town, inquir-
ed for the clerk scared him up, and asked
for a marriage license.


"Sorry can't accommodate you to-day,
but it's no go"


"Why not? I'm going to be spliced to-
night, and must have it whether or no."


'But the fact is," said the clerk my
office is locked up, and my COW has gone
away with the keyn'


1.-The cow-what does the cow want of
the key ?"


So the old fellow told the whole story,
and the two set off for the Prairie, to find
the cattle and get the key. But the more
they looked the less they found, and tnal-
ly had to give it up. A bright thought
struck the clerk of the county


''I'll fix you out" said he, and Young
Texas jumped a rod. SO tickled was he to
know that he was to be fixed out of the fix
he was in. They proceeded to store
close by the office, and there the county
scribe lndited the following autograph:


Republic of Texas: To all who shall
see this present greeting: Whereas |,
the undersigned clerk of this county, hav-
ing this morning unthoughtedly tied my
office key as clapper into my cows bell
and whereas the cow has gone astray to
parts unknown, bearing with her the said
key, and therefore the said key is non in
Centats est-that is, can't be had: And
whereas one Abner Barnes has made ap-
pl1cation to me for marriage license, and
the said Abner persists that he cannot
wait until the COW comes back with the
key, but is compelled by the violence of
his feelings and the arrangements already
made to get married. Therefore these
presents are to command any persons le-
gally authorized to celebrate the rites of
matrimony, to join the said Abner Barnes
to Rebecca Downs; and for doing so this
shall be your sufficient authority


Given under my hand and private seal,
on the doorstep of my ot1ice-the seal of
the office being locked up, and my COW
having gone away with the key-this
fourth day of October, A. d. 1888


HENRY OSBORN, Clerk"
Year: 1875

The house in which the writer was born
was covered with shaved pine shingles in
the year 1905, at which time the roof re-
ceived generous coat OF oil paint made
Of linseed oil and Venetian red After 20
years had elapsed another coat Of paint,
nearly black, was applied. Since that
period no paint has been applied and it is
now good root for an old one. 1t does
not leak, and the only repairs on it have
consisted of a Shingle added here and there
where a portion of a poor shinglc was
worn out. If the roof had not been
painted the butts of most of the courses
would have been worn entirely away and
if such long periods had not been allowed
to intervene between the times of painting
the roof would have been Il good one,
even after the lapse of 100 years The
true way to paint a roof is to apply paint
of some kind to both sides of the shingles.
1t is quite as important +hat thu nn1er sid.
| of every Shngle be covered with paint as
| the surface, to prevent the water from be-
| ing drawn up between the courses by
capillary attraction. Ii good shingles are
! painted on both sides, and good paint be
| applied to the root once III 10 years, it will
continue leak-tight for more than a hun
dred years. When it is not desirable to
save the water for drinking, coal-tar is an
excellent and cheap paint for preserving
shingles, and it will pay well to smear a
roof with this material once in four OF five
years. When the roofs are not painted,
moss is liable to collect at the butts of
every course of shingles, which promotes
their decay more rapidly than alternate
rain and sunshine, When oil paint is used
for painting shingles, it is always better to
employ some light color rather than black,
as the apartments of the attic story, be-
meath black roof, are liable to be un-
comfortably hot in the summer; and, more
than this, as black paint absorbs more
heat than any other color, neither the
paint nor the shingles will endure as long
as if the roof had been covered with light
colored paint. A metallic roof covered
with Gghtcolored paint will last much


longer than if it had been painted with


a black paint. The most economical paint


for a roof is a generous coat of coal-tar


once in ten years but coal-tar will


color the water for five years after a


coat is applied to the roof industrial
| Monthly
Year: 1875

They have good joke on Professor
of Ventilation who being put in room
at hotel with another guest, asked the
latter to raise window, at night. as the
air was SO close. II can't raise it," said
the guest, after working at the window
while. Then knock pane of glass out''
said Professor, which was done. After a
while the Professor got up and knocked
out another pane, then he was able to
sleep; but in the morning he discovered
that they had broken into book case.
Year: 1875

FROZEN potatoes are generally past re-
coYery, and it may not come amiss. at this
season, TO publish the fact. for which an
eminent chemists vouches, that placing
them in cold water for six days previous
TO using will make them as good as new.
Year: 1875

Is about tWenty-Seven years OF age, tai.
well ll-formed, and decidedly good-looking
AIan. He was married to his first wife


when he was only nineteen years old and


she fifteen, and after living with him three


months she procured separation, and at


length divorce He was afterwards con-


victed of theft and served a term in the


New Haven jail. He was also engaged To-


be married to Il young woman who died


in mysterious manner short time be


fore the day upon which the wedding was
to have taken place, and Il suspicion was
entertained that Latin had taken her lille.


Since he has been in Bridgeport Jail the
prisoner has shown no signs of despOLd-
ency, but he very soon abandoned his pre-
tense that he was not near the Cedars ou
the night that the murder was committed.
He admits that he perjured himself at the
inquest, and says that there was no reason
why he should tell the truth there, lie
passes his time cheertully, and says that
he knows a number of witnesses will be
on the stand ..to lie about him. He enter
tains peculiarly bitter sentiments toward
his first wife, now Mrs. Wheeler. who is
only twenty-one years of age, and makes
no secret OF her adherence of him She
says that while she lived with him she
considered her life in constant peril, and
that his cruelty even to dumb animals
credulity. His telow-work-
men at the meat market, from their expe-
rience with him corroborate this. and
horrible story was in circulation about his
cutting off the paws of dogs and sleeping
the raw stumps in turpentine. This
charge, however, has not been fully sus-
tanned.
Year: 1875

COL. %cLURE's NEW DAnY-PROMIsEs MADE IN


THE PRosPECTUS-NEED OF AN INDEPENDENT


JOURNAL IN PHILADELPHIA.


iFRoN THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT THE TRIBUNE !


PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22.-The prospectus of
Col McClure's daily, The Times, appeared yester
day The paper itself, 1t Is announced will be issued
March 10. 1t is TO be independent In everything,
neutral in nothing and opposed to all corrupt rings in
municipal, state and national affairs II 1t fulfls
fair promises OF its prospectus 1t will be sure to sue
ceed. Philadelphia has been hungering and thirsting
for an independent newspaper for years, and it is
strange that some with money and journalistic
ability did not long ago supply tho evident demand No
such opportunity existed in the United States for spr
tied opposition daily. There are newspapers enough
here already, everybody knows. but broader field
than that occupied by any Of them except The Ledger
lies open proves himself competent to fill it
and enterprsng enough make the effort. streak Of
independence and then appears the old papers,
but all them that proessedly political sheets
so complicated with the dominant State and City rings
that they usually fail the public at the very moment
when they ought in interest TO denounoe bad nOmi
nation or expose JOB.


What is needed is paper that will not only promise
to keep of the rings. but will have political
to grnd-no friends to set up enemies to pull down
that will foster no cliques and share in no
spos; ana that will tell the truth at all times
from that PROVINCIAL spirit which leads to the suppress
sion OF legitimate news because might dspease one or
two large advertisers few wealthy old fOgies which
speaks OF everybody who has gained q little promi-
"Our distinguished ell0w-citZen, and writes
up the great enterprises Of u metropolis In the style
OF a village newspaper describing new blacksmith
shop. 1t should be thoroughly metropolitan In tone.
leaving others TO strive 20 which can be most
tensely local Col McClnres friends say that he has
the win and has found the way to make such paper
His large political acquaintance will give him power
fol support at the start and success would seem to lie
within his grasp.


The influence Of THE TRIBUNE in improving the typo
graphic art applied TO newspapers will be observable
in The Times, which Will copy its wide columns and
tasteful headlines 1t will inherit fair circulation and
advertising business from It's predecessor The Age. Ac
cording the talk at tho clubs and In Journalistic
cles the price paid for The Age 10000 which
includes its large Hoe press but not Its type Report
says Dr. MOrwiz the proprietor OF that paper
so confidence ia the enterprise that ho
vested nearly all the purchase money in the stock of
The Times.
Year: 1875

MINORITY AND NON-PARTIsAN REPRESENTATION IL


THE COMMISsIoNs--PRoBABL RESIGNATION OF


THE COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS.


There is no change as yet in the municipal
problem, although the decision OF the Governor the
OF the Corporation Counsel and Fire Commission
is expected to be given within few days at the fur
thest 1t has been stated that there was COM
pact between Mayor Vance and Mayor Wick
ham, before the former left Office that, II tho
matter OF the Fire Commissioners were left over
for the action OF Mayor Wickham, he would
recognize the claims OF the Republicans TO minority
representation in all OF the commissions and the Police
Commission and Others where there Is even number
Commissioners should DO made nonpartisan by tho
appointment Of the same number OF Commissioners
from each political party. This foreshad
Correction Those with the facts say that
bargain made between the two Mayors, but that
in conversation between them the matter was tacty
understood, and Mayor Wickham IN his message takos
this ground.


IL was sta ted also that the Commissioner OF Public
Works had finally decided rendering has resignation
to the Mayor, TO take effect March l. The rcsgna-
tiOn has been rendered, but persons who IN
position to know the truth that such action is
riOusly contemplated by the Commissioner. on the
ground that he Is harrassed and hampered In the work
ing OF his department and Is tired OF the position and
aud responsibilities. The successor Of C0mmis-
ably be civil engineer, and Who has had su lent
the trusts committed 10 his care integenty and
wal
Year: 1875

BALTIMORE, Feb. 25-Pollceman John For
syth killed last night by falling down hatchway
at No So Camdsnst Finding tho door OF the warehouse
open while his round h 10 supposed stepped inside
In tho dark and fell down an open hatchway. He
dead when discovered by the sergeant Of police.
Year: 1875

y NEW Postal REGULATIoy.-Fo the
benefit Of those who are in the habit of
placing stamps on any part Of the envelope.
we would state that the Postoffice Denart.
ment at Washington has ordered that all
letters which have not stamps at the proper
place, the upper right hand corner. to be
sent To the Dead Letter Office.