The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, November 12, 1890, Image 4
MOVING HILLS
SAND.
VAST TRACKS OF LAND DEVAS
TATED BY MIGRATORY DUNES.
Cities Destroyed aiul Fertile Fields
Made a Desert by Irresistible Sand
Drifts—Memorable Catastrophes.
The phenomenon of a moving hill of
saml is by no means an uncommon one on
various parts of the earth’s surface, and,
not unfrequently whole villages and
towns have thereby been overwhelmed
and destroyed. To such shifting mounds
the name of “dunes” is usually given by
geologists, and from a similar root the
more familiar term of “downs” seems to
be derived. Duces or downs of sand
are commonly found within a short way
from the seashore, being composed of
the fine particles cast up by the waves,
and afterward dried in the sun, and
carried inland to a greater or lesser dis
tance by the wind. The coasts of Hol
land present an example of vast quanti
ties of detritus taken down to the sea in
the first instance by rivers, and subse
quently thrown back upon the land,
forming long chains of sand-hills, or
downs. The shores of France, Spain
and various other countries exhibit the
same phenomena at particular points.
On the shores of the Bay of Biscay,
moving sands are so common as to have
occasioned much injury to the land and
the inhabitants, both in early and recent
times.
About the year 1770, a whole village
near St. Pol do Leon, in Brittany, was
so completely buried by one great move
ment of drift-sand, that nothing could
be seen of it but the spire of the church.
In the same region, according to Cuvier,
these dunes advance with irresistible
force, burying forests in their route, and
impelling before them lakes of fresh
water, derived from the rains which can
not find a way through them into the
sea. “One village in the department of
the Landes, named Mimisau, has been
struggling for twenty years against them;
and one sand-hill, more than sixty feet
high may be said to be seen advancing
hourly. In 1802, the propelled lakes in
vaded five fine farms belonging to Saint
Julien; they have long since covered a
Roman causeway leading from Bordeaux
to Bayonne, and which was seen about
forty years since, when the waters were
yet in a low state. The river Adour,
also, has been turned out of its former
course by the same causes.”
Sometimes assuming the shape of coni*
.ral mounds, and sometimes appearing in
the form of fiat heaps or masses, these
shifting sands have also done much harm
at different periods on the British coasts.
In Suffolk, in the year 1688, part of
Downham (a name ominously indicative
of the character of the district) was over
whelmed by sands which had begun to
move, about one hundred years before,
from a point about five miles to the
southwest. The drifting mass traveled
over the intervening distance in the course
of the century, and covered more than a
thousand acres of land. On the north
coast of Cornwall, a considerable extent
of country has been inundated by sands,
constituting hills several hundred feet in
height. So completely have these vast
mounds shifted their whole bulk from
spot to spot, that the ruins of ancient
buildings, originally overwhelmed by
them, have again been laid bare in the
rear of their line of progress. A pot of
old coins was found in the same situa
tion in one instance, by which a guess
could be made at the period of entomb
ment. The changes had certainly oceu-
pied many centuries.
Many other examples of these sand-hill
phenomena might be selected; but
enough has been said regarding sea-borne
sands. There are drifting sands of a dif
ferent character, which have effected far
greater changes on the face of the earth,
and have far more deeply influenced the
comforts and affected the lives of its in
habitants. What were the original limits
of the desert-sands, and what the former
condition of many regions now covered
by them, it is scarcely possible to deter
mine ; but certain it is that they have
shifted to an immense extent within the
knowledge of man, and In’ produced
deplorable consequences. By the action,
seemingly, of the west winds, the sands
of the African interior have been gradu
ally forced in more and more noon the
banks of the Nile, until they have en
gulfed many cities, and the ruins of
cities, and have covered a great portion
of the tillage lands of Egypt. The num
ber of cities, towns, and villages thus
effaced from the earth is too large to bo
calculated. The French traveler, Douon,
tells us that their summits still appear
externally in many instances, and" feel
ingly observes, that “nothing can bo
more melancholy than to walk over vil
lages swallowed up by the desert-sands,
to trample under foot their roofs, to
strike against the peaks of their temples,
and to reflect that here wore cultivated
fields, that hero grow lofty trees, and
that here were even the homes and habi
tations of men—and that all have
vanished!”
These remarks will bring to the mind
of many readers the buried condition in
which the majority of the recovered
sculptures and monuments of Egypt were
found, and particularly the great Sphinx,
the base of which extraordinary piece of
sculpture was sunk thirty or forty feet in
the sands, having little more than its
massive head above ground, to point out
•where it stood. Although the desert |
sands, however, have wrqught such vast
apparent ruin, by swallowing up the
glorious monuments of past ages, there
is a degree of consolation to he derived
from this very fact—this very cngulf-
ment. The sands are in one sense con
servators of the things they entomb. By
no other mode of interment or keeping
could the fine sculptures, stuccoes and
paintings discovered by Burckliardt,
Beechey and Belzoni have been handed
down to us in so perfect a state. Mr.
Lyall, who makes this remark, points it
out also as not improbable that the sands
which have shifted may shift again, and
in such a manner that “many a town and
temple of higher antiquity than Thebes
or Memphis may one day reappear in
their original integrity, aud a part of the
gloom which overhangs the history of
earlier nations he dispelled.”—Lctfaer.
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
WELL-SHOCKED COHN.
To do up corn shocks so that rain will
not penetrate them and they will stand
up straight in all sorts of weather is of
more importance than is often thought.
The outside of the shocks will, of course,
be considerably browned, but within the
leaves should be nearly as green as when
cut. What is washed out of cornstalks
is mainly carbonaceous mutter, good for
food, but of comparatively little value as
a fertilizer. Hence its loss is absolute,
and not, as in the case of clover soaked
by rains, partly compensated by the fer
tilizing matter washed from it into the
soil.—Courier-Journal.
The Largest Rose Bash.
The largest rose bush in the world is
probably that which adorns the residence
of Dr. E. B. Matthews, of Mobile, Ala.
It was planted in 1813 by the doctor's
father when a young man and is green
and flourishing after its eighty-seven
years of summer’s heat and winter's
snow. Its branches have entirely cov*
ered the house and extended to the sur
rounding trees, so that when it is in
bloom it form a perfect bower of roses.
Its trunk for upward of five feet from the
ground is nearly a foot in circumference,
and it has been estimated that if grow
ing as one continuous vino its branches
would extend a mile iu length.
During the past spring three and a
half bushels of roses wero gathered from
it in one week, while when shedding
petals in the autumn the ground about it
Is white with its fragrant snow. It is of
the variety known as the cluster musk
rose. It is said that this vine several
times saved the residence from Iming
burned during the late war, the doctor
having been a surgeon in the Union
•my—Philadelphia Timet.
WINTER DAIRYING NOT IMPRACTICABLE^
It is thought and said by some that
winter dairying can not be followed as a
rule because the cows will not breed in
the season required. This is a mistake.
Cows are entirely artificial, and while
undomesticated animals through the
necessity of their condition, supply of
food and suitable weather being the chief
of these, drop their young in the spring,
this rule does not apply to domesticated
animals. Cows may be bred at any sea
son of tho year, aud any farmer who
wishes to change from summer to winter
dairying will find no difficulty in the way
mentioned if he will keep back his cows
until the desired season. December or
January is the best month for breeding
cows for this purpose. It is not to be
feared that every dairyman will make
this change at the same time aud so dis
turb the common order of things, for
many preparations are required besides
fresh cows.—American Agriculturist.
WHEY FOR FERTILIZER.
There may be as much fertility iu whey
as iu the best commercial fertilizer. A
farmer who did not have Pans green
l enough to go over his pateli of potatoes,
! aud the Colorado beetle being quite do-
j structive, tested very sour whey as bug
| destroyer. Its use checked the insects
somewhat, and lie made two subsequent
| applications of it. Ho found at digging
J time that the whey had more than
i doubled the crop. This could not be
| attributed to the moisture of tho whey,
: for the season was wet. There are other
evidences that whey and milk-washings
j are loaded with fertility. Let either of
! these bo thrown on the turf in the same
spot a number of times, and it will kill
the grass. The stench soon arising from
! such a spot in warm weather is proof
j that these substances contain much ani
mal matter. Milk-washiugs should be
so disposed of as to conserve sweetness
and fertility at tho same time.—Ifcio
York Trihune.
TRANSPLANTING ONIONS.
W. J. Green, of the Ohio Farmers’
E..perimeutal Station, reports a very
great success iu transplanting onions.
The seeds were sown in bods in a green
house February 25, which is cousider-
ably earlier than they could be put in out
of doors. The young plants were six to
eight inches high when transplanted in
April, at which time a bed was prepared
and grown iu the usual way. Tho
manuring aud cultivation of each bed
was the same except the transplanting.
The onions were left three inches apart
in the row, which in those grown from
seed involved extra labor in thinning
nearly as great as that from transplant
ing. Tho difference between the two
beds was markedly in favor of those
transplanted, from the very first. Six
kinds of onions were experimented with,
and in eacli case tho yield of those trans
planted was much the largest. Giaut
Raeca yielding 1106 bushels and 596
bushels respectfully; Yellow Danvers
yielding 594 bushels and 389 bushels;
Red Wetherfleld, 779 bushels and 560
bushels by the two methods. The
greater size and uniformity of the trans
planted onions made them much more
salable, and they also matured earlier.
Professor Green estimates that there was
nearly half the labor of cultivating saved
by having the onion transplanted. Even
were it otherwise, it is evident that
transplanting is well worth trying. It
is especially adapted to market gaideners,
but any farmer who is far enough ad
vanced to grow onions as a crop will also
need a greenhouse, so that iu this re
spect ho will have equal advantages with
the market gardener.
SELECTING A SOW.
An English swine-breeder says that in
selecting sows three or four points de
mand attention. First, the animal should
be strong and healthy. Delicate speci
mens are frequently dainty feeders, and
they should he avoided, for they give
much trouble. .Secondly, the sow should
be long, aud have good shoulders, back
and loins. A narrow-backed pig often
rises with difficulty, and frequently
emothers one of her offspring. Thirdly,
long legs are to be condemned, for sows
which have this defect carry too much
of the race-horse in them. Lastly, there
should be a full complement of teats.
He adds: “It is very annoying to find
your sow has but ten teats when she has
brought you a litter of twelve strong pigs,
for the two unfortunate members of the
litter which are not provided for must
either be killed (which no one likes to
do) or be reared at considerable incon
venience. Under such circumstances as
these I have found it the best plan to
leave the pigs with their mother until it
is clear which lias to run short, and then
teach it to drink from a teacup. This
can be very quickly accomplished by
holding the pig m one baud and tht
milk in the other, gently pressing the
head into the cup. The young sow
should lie brought to the boar for the
first time when about eight months old.
If she has been carefully managed until
that age she will be of good size, aud
nothing will be gained by keeping her
longer unmated. Hhe should not be
pampered at any time, but be fed regu
larly and be taught to run out in the
grass-field from an early age. Breeding
sows can be kept, I admit, in a close sty
from year’s end to year’s end, but it
costs niore to keep tliom iu this way,
and it is more natural to give them a
grass run. The greater part of the year
they will get most of their keep, and,
when not suckling, all the food they will
require in addition to grass will be a
bucket of wash morning aud evening
Farmers' Reeietc.
keeping cabbage in winter.
The different methods of keeping cab-
huge during the winter are as numerous,
almost, as are the varieties of cabbage
grown, and nearly all methods have their
records of success and failure. There is
no doubt that much depends upon tho
meteorological conditions of the winter,
and that a method which proved emi
nently successful during a severe winter
would give indifferent results during a
mild or open one. The cabbage grower
must therefore either strike a medium
or else adapt his methods to suit the
varying conditions of tho winter. There
tro two of the different methods of
storing cabbage which we have found
satisfactory. One is to select a high
piece of ground to afford natural drain
age. A light mat or bed is made with
dry straw, about the width of two cab
bage heads, and as long ns may be de
sired. The cabbages are pulled up,care-
fully carted to this place and then, hav
ing. the outside leaves neatly doted
against the beads, the plants are plaotd
roots uppermost on tho straw, and at
closjly together as possible, making two
compact rows. A few inches of straw
arc put carefully on the cabbage and
earth is thrown on gradually to the
depth of about a foot, drawing in the
roots to form the top of a ridge. The
earth is taken alongside of the row, thus
affording additional drainage, while the
mound while the mound when finished
must be well packed down with the back
of the spade. When this is finished, a
row of corn fodder is piled along each
side to still further protect from the
weather. This will keep off both rain
and cold, if properly placed. In taking
out any cabbage during winter, at once
cover up the row to protect the remain
ing heads. Another method is to plant
the cabbage roots downward instead or
inverting them and then pursuing the
same general plan as above. If there is
a root cellar (not underneath the dwel
ling house, as vegetables should never
be stored there), tho cabbage can be
stored there in almost the same manner
except that no litter need be used, and
instead of earth a small quantity of sand,
there being but Uttle covering needed to
protect from cold when thus sheltered,
and what is used being to keep the cab
bages from drying out. Iu whatever
manner cabbages are stored, if it is de
sired to keep iu prime coudltion, the
roots must not lie removed until the
heads are needed for use or shipment.
Rats and mice are Very fond of this veg
etable, and growers must do all they can
to keep them out. As the straw used in
storing makes fine nests for them and
tho cabbage affords plenty to eat, these
rodents naturally like to find such quar
ters to pass the winter.—American Agri
culturist.
farm and garden notes.
Prepare ground well for winter wheat.
As the pastures shorten, lengthen ra
tions.
Calves need to be fed their food at
blood beat.
Cruelty to au intelligent animal begets
eiciousncss.
Always have something on band that
a team can do.
A good farmer is pretty likely to have
i good garden.
Keep ducks and geese separate from
the other poultry.
Turkey hens mature earlier, as a rule,
than the gobblers.
Don't pour your water on flower beds;
tlways use a sprinkler.
The profits of poultry keeping depend
on attention to little things.
The semi-starvation of young stock is
one of the farmers’ absurdities.
As a rule, farmers cultivate their land
too poorly and sow too much seed.
It does not pay to keep an animal for
Its beauty. This world demands use.
Don’t have your pig’s teeth kept sore
by cracking hard, dry kernels of corn.
Don’t think that because a pig is thor
oughbred he will thrive aud grow fat on
s less daily ration than the mongrel.
Let the stalls be separated by parti
tions, not by bars. They prevent the
liorses from biting and kicking each
other.
It is said that typhoid fever has been
traced to a dirty pig pen, tho virus com
ing into tho house on tho unwashed feet
of flics.
Attend the fairs, farmers’ meetings
»ud institutes. If you have learned any
thing this season, don’t be afraid to let
your neighbors know it.
The change from warm to cooler weath
er and the hot days and cold nights
»re apt to produce iu horses, if not
looked after properly, severe colds.
Hogs and pigs may do well sleeping
on the ground in dry, warm weather,
t>ut they need shelter and a dry bed
these cool nights when heavy dews fall.
Duck culture is now a very important
part of poultry keeping aud yet within a
tew years, people did not suppose that
ducks were worth keeping for profit.
They now know better.
Twenty drops of carbolic acid to a ten-
quart pail of drinking water, removing
ihickcns and burning sulphur in the
bouse they occupy, is an effectual remedy
for chicken cholera. Try it.
Fowls that have free range in the
Held or meadow will be certain to be
benefited and find plenty to live upon;
give them a little whole corn or wheat
it night and they ought to shell out the
eggs-
Some farmers will, uo doubt, clear
several hundred dollars out of this sea
son’s flock of chicks. Can you not say
you can. Many supply their household
needs from their flock of fowls. Why
not you?
A hen that lays soft shelled eggs now
is weak from moulting, and needs lime
»nd grit and good wholesome food; lime
iu the water is good, and should he used
when you find the condition of the flock
demands it.
Professor Baity says: “It may not be
generally known that the chokcbcrry can
be used as a stock for dwarfing apples. I
have fruited the crab Montreal Beauty
on it aud have worked other apples on it
successfully.”
Mulching raspberries is a very good
practice where it is practicable. The
mulch must be put on thickly enough to
keep down weeds, or it will be more
trouble than it is worth, and will pre
vent cultivation and increase tho hard
labor.
SUNFLOWER FARM.
ACRE OP FLAMING GOLD IN
NEW YORK.
Raising the Flowers to Feed tho
Seeds to Hens-The Biggest.
Hennery in the World—
i Keeping Hens Warm.
•ee tho' gforimm variety that tho Field
family have to diet on. The aristocracy
of tho barnyard is here sure enough, as
well ns those more common hens who are
not above the drudgery of laying an egg
a day; aud when it comes to cake and
It is a grand estate that Cvrus W.
Field owns among the glorious West
chester hills. You cau travel for miles
after leaving Broadway and never get
off his property. The homes of Mr. Field
and of his sou and married daughter lie
on the top of a commanding hill about a
mile and a half above the Hudson and
back of the pretty little village of Dobbs
Ferry.
When you have climbed the long hills
on which stands the noble mansion of the
great promoter and the villas of Dr.
Lindsay, his son-in-law, and the younger
Field, his son, you come to an abrupt
ravine. Behind this is the spring house,
containing a liquid crystal of great
worth, and the conservatories, where
hothouse grapes and rare flowers grow
the year around. Dogs, big and little,
savage and affectionate, bound * hi.
side your carriage and make yoh ^ «
for the lonely pedestrian who should
pass this way after dark. Then
comes a magnificent hill of wood
land, cut by a road which winds and
twists, no tv up hill aud now down, until
it crosses the divide and reaches the val
ley of the Sawmill River.
It is in *his valley, beside a pretty but
dangerous pond, that Mr. Field raises
chickens, suuflowcis and malaria, and of
which of flic crops were most successful
this summer it would be bard to say.
But all did well, and there was never a
wishbone fight iu the valiant house of
Field. The hennery is said to be the
largest in the world maintained for a
gentleman's tabic-fifteen hundred chicks
to be. divided among three families.
All summer long passers on the Saw
mill River road have drawn rein just
above the great lieu houses, and, with
exclamations of wonder and delight,
wondered what all that was for. “That”
was a great field of sunflowers—mam
moths, the biggest kind that grows—all
planted in serried columns. It was a
wonderful sight, this acre of green and
gold. When the morning sun shone
upon them on the same side as the road
a thousand great circles of yellowest gold
would all point that way. It was almost
dazzling, and the man who could pass it
without reining up was either devoid of
WOMAN’S INTUITION.
A PEEP INTO A HEN HOUSE,
pudding the lieu of the yellow dog va
riety, tho hen who lays and lays and
never goes on strike, is found to be just
as serviceable as the more aristocratic
eggs of the high caste Brahmins and
Cochins, which have come all the way
Irom in ill a and China to show the Amer
ican chicken what is what in the poultry
line. E. Ellison encourages both and.
you cau take your choice of the cultured
blue blood caged iu exclusiveness, each
kind by itself, or in the happier but more
plebiau fowl who have the run of tho
chicken yard and even do some of their
scratching for worms aud chasing of
grasshoppers on the public highway.
Some of the big boarding houses for
chickens were supposed to be rat proof.
Such was the intention of the builder,
but like all men in this world of fallibil
ity he forgot to put his wire screens in
the one place needed, and the rats got in
and made trouble in the chicken family.
There were wishbones—very tender and
little ones—which did not get to the
house of Field. For a time the chicken
guardian was at his wits’ end what to do,
but at last he bought a few lively little
fox terriers, and their bright eyes had
not been long about the place when tho
plague of rats was no more. Rats do not
seem to Ikurish ou the same soil as fox
terriers.
NO USE FOR THESE.
sight or of imagination. So many asked
the meaning of that field that young E.
Ellison, who planted it, grew very weary
and thought to paiut a sign to this effect:
“These sunflowers are to feed chickens.
All other questions answered at one dol
lar each.”
The worst of it was that people were
not satisfied with the information con
tained above. They wanted to know
what part of the sunflower he fed to
chickens, and why he did it, aud whose
chickens they were, and if Mr. Field
could not afford to buy chicken feed,
and what effect the sunflower seed had
on chickens, and if they would cure the
pip—and all manner of questions, per
tinent, impertinent and otherwise. At
times E. Ellison's head whirled round
and he was tempted to resign his place
or plow up the sunflowers. But he stuck
it out to the end, and now lie has a va
cant house full of sunflower blooms, and
is the happiest chicken man this side of
Elysium.
I always thought a big poultry house
must be a bad smelling place until 1 eu
tered Mr. Field’s and found how much
I was mistaken. Of course the keeper
has to do much in the way of cleaning,
Symbols of the Thunderbolt.
Nearly all peoples have represented the
fire from the sky by an arm, sometimes
also by a bird of strong and rapid flight.
It was symbolized among the Chaldeans
by a trident. Cylinders going back to
the most ancient ages of Chaldean art ex
hibit a water-jet gushing from a trident,
which is held by the god of the sky or
of the storm. The Assyrian artist who
first, on the bas-reliefs of Nimroud or
Malthai, doubled the trident or trans
formed it into a trifid fascicle, docile to
the refiuciueuts and elegancies of classic
art, by that means secured for the ancient
Mesopotamian symbol the advantage over
all the other representation! of thunder
with which it could compete. The
Greeks, like the other Indo-European
nations, seem to have represented the
storm-lire under the features of a bird of
prey. When they received the Asiatic
figure of a thunderbolt, they put it in tho
eagle's claws and made of it the scepter
of Zeus, explaining the combination,
after tbeir habit, by the story of tho
eagle bringing thunder to Zeus when ho
was preparing for the war against the
Titans. Latin Italy transmitted the thun
derbolt to Gaul, where, in tho last cen
turies of paganism, it alternated, ou ths
Gallo-Romaii monuments, with the two-
headed hammer. It is also found on
amulets of Germany, Scandinavia and
Brittany. In the East it penetrated to
India, following Alexander, where it it
found competing with other symbols hav
ing the same significance.—Populat
Science Monthlu
The number of lunatics under restraint
in the district criminal and private luna
tic asylums of Ireland on tho first day of
this year amounted to 16,159, being an
increase of 474 over tho total recorded
in the previous return,
SUN-FLOWERS PUT AWAY TO DRY.
for eighteen hundred fowl of chicken
size and five hundred ducks and several
dozen geese and turkeys, to say nothiug
of a couple hundred pigeons and squabs
can make considerable trouble if left
alone. But there was very little sugges-
turn of evil in the three great tenements
were the Fieldian stock is at home.
Three houses five hundred feet in length
are the tenements for the chickens. Two
nave expensive arrangements for stcam-
hcating in winter, arrangements at
which E. Ellison sticks up tho nose
in scorn. It is not natural, he says.
The chickens, unless very young, want
nothing but the shelter and such heat as
the winter sun pours in at the glazed
windows. All else is n nuisance. It is
apt to give them bronchitis, and the
whooping cough, and I do not know hut
a touch of the grip. There is also an ex
pensive brooding arrangement, built by
a famous architect named Clark, who
evidently had built for hutnau beings
more than chickens. Mr. Clark had the
idea that it was the little tootsy wootsies
of the chickens that should be kept warm,
and so he put the heat underneath. E.
Ellison, who studies nature's methods,
noticed that it was the backs of the little
chicks that tho mother hens keep warm,
and so he does not use the patent font-
warmers, and saves many a chickun'a life
by not doing so.
There are many different kinds of so-
called perfect breedeis which have been
tried aud tossed one side as useless, and
If you wish to buy a chicken hatcher
cheap I have no doubt that E. Ellison
can give you a bargain. Tho incubator
which he uses is a self-acting, lazy man's
affair, with a capacity of 50'J eggs.
Three settings of this giant lieu are all
that is needed to keep tho vow of Cyrus,
and as maternity on tho part of lions is
strictly tabooed in the Field establish
ment, this one machine does all the work
of turning eggs into little peeps ou legs.
It is worth a peck of minted money to
/:o through these long hen houses aud '
cutting sunflowers.
The sunflower farm was a scheme of
the chicken man. Ho knew that the
seeds of that delicate flower were ex
cellent dessert for chickens. Too rich
for a steady diet, there was something in
their oily richness which put au extra
gloss ou feathers aud was very fattening
to the bird itself. Why not, he argued,
in a farm of 670 acres, backed up by an
other farm still farther to the eastward
and by the big estate on the Hudson,
why not devote an aero to the cultiva
tion of tile big sunflower and give his
chickens au occasional teste of luxury
such as few other chickens enjoy. £?o
the sunflowers were planted and flour
ished amazingly.
But the glory of the sunflowers has de
parted. Three days of a recent week
were devoted to harvesting them. The
chicken man and a small hoy assistant
went into the field and the giants bowed
their heads before his sharp-edged corn
hook. Some of the plants were twice as
tall as he. Many had been rifled of their
blooms by passersby who were anxious
to start sunflower farms of their own and
who thought the mammoth variety good
enough for them. But there were
hundreds left and he w’ent at them like a
very prince of decapitaiors. The big
sunlike discs were lopped off at the neck’
so to speak, and the yellow blossoms
rubbed off. Then they were tossed into
a dump cart and when the latter was full
they were trundled to au empy cottage
and stacked up on the floors to dry.
Every room was needed to furnish floor
space for the big circles—some of them
a foot in diameter.
When all the harvesting was done, the
common chick were turned loose in the
denuded field, and among the lesser
blossoms which it was not thought worth
while to house found many a store of
fowl delight. Next year wbeu the fame
of this sunflower farm has gone abroad
we may expect to hear of sunflower
farms throughout the country, and the
chickens of Thanksgiving, 1891, will
wear a gloss and bear a flavor such ns
chickens never wore before.
“Does Mr. Field raise any chickens
for market?” I asked.
“No,” said E. Ellison. “This is not a
commercial enterprise in any kind. Of
course if I have more eggs or chickens
than are wanted nt home I am privileged
to sell them, but I am not trying to run
opposition to the men of Hainmonton or
any other market raisers.”
The first setting of eggs usually takes
place about the first of January, and
there arc young chickens on the Fieldian
tables at a time when the average man
takes his from the icebox or goes with
out. A little box, which looks much
like the market gardener’s hotbed, but
which has lamp and furnace within to
temper the chills of winter to the new
born chick, is the place where he spends
his infancy at a time when chicks are
supposed to lie sold by tho dozen in the
original packages. There is a slide iu
front, so that on warm, sunshiny days
the infant may stroll a little ways abroad
and taste the fresh air of Westchester,
but for the most part lie prefers the so
ciety of the brooder which follows Dame
Nature’s methods aud warms his infant
back instead of his infant toes.—Reio
York Herald.
Chopped OB' Ilia Toe for Balt.
A colored girl, about fourteen years
aid, and two white boys, about ten and
twelve years old, went crab fishing at
Brunswick, Ga. Their bait giving ou!,
the girl took a hatchet and chcpped off
one of the white hoy's toes and used it
for bait. The boys left and came home.
The girl, after fishing awhile with the
too for bait, buried it in the sand. She
was arrested and placed in jail.—St.
Louis Star-Sayings
Mount Saint Elias, in North America,
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Nearly Always Rleht In Her Judgment la
Retard ta Common Things.
An old gentleman over seventy, came into
the city from his farm, without his overcoat.
Tho day turned chilly and ho was obliged to
forego his visit to the fair.
To a friend who remonstrated with him for
going away from home thus unprepared, he
said: “I thought it was going to bo warm:
my wife told me to take my overcoat, but I
wouldn’t. Women have more sense than mem
anyway."
A frank admission.
Women’s good sense is said to come from
Intuition; may it not be that thev are more
close observers of little tilings. One thine is
certain, they are apt to strike the nail on the
head, in all tiie ordinary problems of life,
more frequently than the lords of creation
“According to Dr. Alice Bennett, who
recently read a paper on Bright’s disiase lie-
fore the Pennsylvania State Medical Society,
E ersons subject to bilious attacks and sick
eadaches, who have crawling sensations,
like the flowing of water in the head, who
are ‘tired all the time’ and have unexplained
attacks of sudden weakness, may well be sus
pected of dangerous tendencies in the direc
tion of Bright s disease.”
The veteran newspaper correspondent, Joe
Howard, of the New York /Vr.in noting
this statement, suggests: “Possibly Alice is
correct in her diagnosis, hut why doesn't she
give some idea of treatment? I know a man
who has been‘tired all the time’for ten
years. Night before last he took two doses
of calomel ami yesterday he wished he
hadn’t.”
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DaviA of Basil, O., Juno gist, 181W:
‘T uo not hesitate to say that I owe my life
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five months. The physicians could do noth-
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dollars and I was not relieved. I was under
the can:of the most eminent medical men in
the State. The hemorrhage ceased before l
had taken one bottle of the Safe Cure. I (gin
safely and do cheerfully recommend it to ail
who are sufferers of kidney troublsa.”
Last Battle of tho War of 1812.
The last battle of the war took place
before New Orleans, January 8, 1815,
between tho British troops, consisting of
12,000 men, commanded by General
Packcnham, and the Americans, amount
ing to’ 6000, under General Jackson.
About two weeks before a large British
force landed about six miles below New
Orleans, for tho purpose of attacking
that city. A few days after landing.
General Jackson ordered a movement tc
check the advance of the enemy, ap*i <tt
feated them in a battle with se 'Oif V-r;.
On January 1, 1815, the British -/.tacked
General Jackson's line ot defense and
were repulsed. Upon another attack, on
the 8th, they wore defeated with great
slaughter, aud retreated to their landing
place, where they embarked and sailed
away.—Boston. Culticator.
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The Slnry of a Song.
There is a story of a song told by
Julian Jordan which has a tinge of
pathos. The story, as Jordon relates it,
is as follows: Mario, the great singer,
was one day walking along one of the
Paris boulevards when he passed a blind
beggar soliciting alms. Mario had a
tender heart, but on this particular
occasion was without money, two cir
cumstances which very often go to
gether. He was very anxious to do
something for the poor man, and ho
suddenly bethought himself of his
voice, which he knew if ho used would
certainly fill the beggar's cap with
money. Ho tried the experiment, and
the beggar went home tiiat night happy.
The song which Jordan dedicated to
Mario is entitled “A Touch of Hu
manity,” and is as follows:
There walked one day iit a cily fair,
A city beyond the sea,
A singer whose fains in that city fair
Surpassed by none might be;
Lightly humming a favorite air
As slowly he walked along.
Until at length there came to his ear
The strain of a plaintive song.
A |*oor blind lieggnr was singing
By the wayside, asking alms;
The great singer paused to listen—
The beggar knew not who heard,
Or how great was the fame of that singer,
Whose heart with pity was stirred.
And when tho beggar had finished his plaint,
A thought to th-- singer came—
One song I’ll sing for sweet charity,
One song in humanity's name!
And then by the side ot the beggar he stood,
_ And grandly he sang a song,
Till alt (lie Ix'ggar’s wants wero supplied;
Thru tile singer passed along.
There was one poor heart made happy,
And the ung-.-l - r.niilud I ro.n n’o >ve;
There was one poor heart made happy and
glad
By that net of pity and love!
Ami that sotig was recorded in heaven,
Tlint song for sweet charity;
And the Father of Love will rt-nioiuber
Tiiat touch of Immunity.
—/’leo i/« lie.
A Ball of “Dadti) Long Logs."
A curious natural phenomenon was
seen at Plainfield, N. J., a few days ago.
A gentleman walking through his gar
den saw a living ball of “daddy long
legs,” as they are commonly called.
There were hundreds of the insects iu
the lump, which was fully half a foot iu
circumference. Their long legs were
tangled in a seemingly inextricable mass.
The animal warmth of their tiny bodies
probably induced the insects to huddle
so closely together.—Acte York Tele
gram.
A tortoise has been known to live to
the age of 1U7.
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