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THE DARLINGTON — 'T “VOL. I. DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1891. NO. 29. CHURCHES. Prerbtteiuan Church.—Rev. J. G . Law, Pat tor; Preaching every Sabbath at Hi a. in. and 8 p. m. Sabbath School at 10 a. m., Prayer Mieting every Wednesday afternoon at 5 o’clock. Methodist Church. - Rev. J. A. Rice, Paator; Preaching every Sunday at llj a. m. and 8 p. m., Sabbath School at 5 p. m , Prayer Meeting every Thursday at 8 p. m. Baptist Church.—fev. G. B. Moore, Paster; Preaching every Sunday at Hi a. ra aud 8:30 p. m., Prayer Meeting every Tuesday at 8 p. m. Episcopal Chapel.—Rev. W. A. Guerry, Rector; II. T. Thompson, Lay Reader. Preaching 3rd Sunday at 8:30 p. m., Lay Reading every Sunday morn ing at 11 o'clock, Sabbath School every Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock. Macedonia Baptist Church.—Rev. I. P. Breckington, Pastor; Preachirg every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8:30 p. m. Sabbath School at 3:30 p.m., Prayer Meeting cveiy Tuesday evening at 8:30 o ’clock. L'OUNTV OFFICERS. Sheriff.—W. P. Cole. Clerk of Court.—AV. A. Parrot. Treasurer.—J. E. Bass. Auditor.—W. II. Lawrence. Probate Juikie.—T. II. Spain. Coroner. —R. G. Parnell. School Commissioner.—W. H. Evans. Countv Commissioners—C. B. King, W. W. McKinzie, A. A. Gandy. Professional ilnrils. w. F. DARGAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Darlington, C. H., S. C. Office over Blackwell Brothers’ store. E. KEITH DARGAN, ATTORNEY AT L A AV, Darlington, S. C. N ETTLES & NETTLES, ATTORNEYS A T L A AV, Darlington, C. H., S. C. Will practice in all State and Federal Courts. Careful atteulion will be given to all business entrusted to us. P BISHOP PARROTT. stenographer and t y p e-whiter, LEGAL AND OTHER COPYING SOLICITED. Tcetimony leported in short hand, end type-writtcu transcript of same fur nished at reasonable rates. Good spelling, correct punctuation and rcat work guaranteed. Office with Nettles A Nettles. 0 P DARGAN, ATTORNEY •: AT LAAV AND TRIAL - JUSTICE, Darlington, S. C. Practices in the United States Court and in the 4ih and 5th circuits. Prompt ettentiot to all business entrusted to me. Office, Ward's Lane, uext to the Dar lington Herald office DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS. DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS. DARLINGTON MARBLE AVORK8. -ALL KINDS OF— MARBLE MONUMENTS, MARBLE MONUMENTS, 1 ablets and Grave Stones furni-hed at Short Notice, auct as Cheap as tan be Purchased Else where. fW" Designs and Prices Furnished on Application. Fir All AVork Delivered Free on Line of C. & D. B. R. DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS, DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS, DARLINGTON, S. C. FIRE! FIRE! I Represent Twelve of tie mi st Reliable Fire Ineutancc Compa nies in the World—Annng them, the Liverpool and Lon don and Globe, of England, the Largest Fire Campany in the AVorld; and the /Etna, of Har'- ford, the Largest of all Ameri can Fire Companies. Prompt Attention to Business and Satisfaction Guaranteed. F. E. NORMENT, DARLINGTON, 8. C. Office between Edwards, Norment A Co., aud Joy A Bandera’. THE FLEET, was long ago that my dream ships sailed; Day by day to that shadowy sea; And I watched each one till my vision failed! And the ships were lost in mystery. Sometimes a rose>hued and billowy cloud Shut out my view ere the ship went far, ^ But often the darkness would seem to shroud; The vessel before she crossed the bar. They sailed at the sunset, every one. They sailed away on the ebbing tide. Sometimes a brave vessel went out alone, And again two sailed forth side by side. ( left them alone in the hands of Fate; Frayed she would make them reality; And many a time did I watch and wait For my fleet to return from the sea. Then my last ship sailed—for my dreams) were done— And I grieved that my ships came not] back. But only last night at the set of sun I saw a mast o’er the wasteless track; And the twilight mists gave away and made) A pathway lit with the sunset’s beam; And a ship sailed in throngh the twilight, shade, And brought back to me a youthful dream. —Flavel Scott Mines, in Harper's Weekly. How Peter Won Juliana, STORY OF AN ESKIMO MARRIAGE. The little Eskimo settlement of Ka- jartalik was in a great state of excite ment. For a long time young Peter Ma- nassc had wanted to marry pretty Juli ana Marie Andreas, but because of the opposition of the girl’s parents and brothers he had been unable to accom plish his desires. To the villagers the opposition of the relatives had seemed to be wholly unwarranted, for Peter waa a most likely young Eskimo. Ho had a beautful kayak, with two harpoons and a bird spear, two fish lines and two hooks, beside a net with which to scoop out the little salmonoids that throng the water there at certain seasons. More over, he could use them as well as any one that had ever paddled that way. Further still, he was courageous. Once in early spring, when the field ice had filled the fiord for several days in such a way that no one could go seal hunting, Peter, having seen a seal on an iceberg, ran across the floating ice cakes till he could strike it, and so, in spite of the dangers relieved the pressing need of the colony. However, the relatives of the girl re mained obdurate, while she looked on with apparent indifference, and so poor Peter sighed in vain until at last his father determined to interfere by giving a great feast to all his neighbors. It was the announcement of the date of the feast that had excited the people, and not without reason, too, for if during the course of the iestivities young Peter could manage to pick up and carry away the pretty Juliana to his father’s house, the matter would be settled; she would be constrained by the usages of polite Eskimo society to accept the bold lover, while the relatives would not be allowed to interfere once the young man got his sweetheart safely at the door of the hut. It appeared that the Manasse family had had the feast in mind for a long time, for, now that it was announced, the people remembered that both father and son had been very assiduous in look ing after their traps during the winter, and had taken many foxes. The pelts had been carefully prepared and de posited at the store of the white man. Among other things obtained in exchange were three kinds of hard bread, a large supply of coffee and enough tobacco to last a long time. It was when the father and son carried home these things that the feast was announced and everybody knew that a very great feast it would be. AVhcn the afternoon arrived Mrs.Manasss placed three flat stones close together nol very far from the entrance to her house, and built a fire of driftwood and faggoti from the tiny forests hard by. Over thii was placed a big iron pot bought of the whites, long before. The pot was filled with sea water, and into it she placed as many big chunks of seal meat and seal fat as would serve to make the founda tion of a most nourishing and savory Eskimo stew. To the seal meat she had added enough ptarmigans and hares to give each member of the community one, and thereafter she carefully tended the fire so that the mess simmered gently and continuously, and the broth was kept well replenished. Meantime a host of youngsters gathered about the fire, sniffling the odors and dancing with on« another and singing a song that related the trials of an Eskimo lover who, hav ing failed to win the object of his de sires, went away and married a wild goose, a song very popular on such oc casions in Eskimo land. But the oldci part of the community kept strictly within the huts. By and by, when the stew was don* to the taste of Mrs. Manasse, she called her husband from their hut, and there- upon he began shouting at the top of his ▼oice: “O-c-yo! O-o-yo!” which is an Eskimo word of invitation to eat boiled meat. The people all came out so quietly that a stranger would have surmised that thej Had been waiting, perhaps not without some impatience, for the word to come. Gathering about the fire, they all squatted down in a circle. Then Peter’s father, with a seal rib sharpened at one end, dexteroualy picked a piece of boiled meat from the kettle and passed it to Mr. Andreas, who wss suunited by fail side. Mr. Andreas put as much of it a; possible into his mouth, and then cutting his bite clear with a knife he had brought with him for the purpose, he passed the chunk to the next person on his right. A tin can full of the soup followed the meat in its travels around the circle, each man drinking a swallow nnd pass ing the can along—growler fashion—the men being served first and the women and children afterward in succession. Then the bread was passed around, so that each one had a biscuit, and in the meantime coffee had been boiled on a fire in the hut by one of the Andreas girls, and this was brought out and passed as the soup had beeu. It was a remarkably fine Eskimo feast, snd no attention was paid to anything but the eating, save by the two most in terested persons present, young Peter and pretty Juliana. As for Juliana, she was seated on a rock on the side of the circle furtherest from the Manasse door way, and was kce}ring a bright lookout for every motion that Peter made, being determined to give him such a tussle as he had never dreamed of whenever ho strove to capture her, as ho was sure to do before the festivities were ended. Peter was waiting until when, after the edge had been taken from appetite, the oldest woman in the village would get into the centre of the group and would there entertain everybody by con torting her face just as children do mak ing faces. He had noticed, wily fellow, that the old woman’s doings always con vulsed pretty Juliana, and lie guessed that if he were over to capture the girl he must make his rush at the climax ol the fun, when the old woman, with bulg ing eyes, wide, extended mouth and pro truding tongue, would call herself Quarnat—the moon. It was, therefore, with beating heart and rising emotions that ho watched the well-known pro gramme of the feast pass on till at last old Marie Tirra stepped into the ring and began the fun by looking square at pretty Juliana and thon drawing one side of her face into a re narkable grimace. Under ordinary circumstances Juliana would have roared with laughter, but this time her eyes had been wandering elsewhere, and she had seen, looking over the shoulder of her father and past the head of her unaccepted lover, an oomiak or great boat full of strangers coming around the rocks at the entrance of the little harbor, while two men in kayalks paddled beside the oomiak. In stead of laughing she jumped to her feet aud shouted ’ “Strangers! Strangers!" It was a most startling event In the history of the little settlement. At the sound of the girl’s voice every body stood up and looked toward the strange boat. Then all flocked down to the landing and greeted the newcomers by shouts and inquiries regarding their health. It was a cordial meeting in ap pearance only, however, for according to custom, one of tho strangers had to wrestle with a picked man of the settle ment, and under a very old custom the stranger, if defeated, could be killed by the victor—a custom now obsolete. Now, the party of strangers included an old man, his wife, two sons, a daugh ter-in-law and several children. The sons were in the kayaks, and it was the unmarried one who led the way to the landing. As ho stepped from his kayak the villagers by common imtinct turned toward young Peter Manasse. Ho had had hard luck in wooing a wife, and here was his opportunity to show his prowess such as he had never had before. In some way—probably from tho chatter among tho gossips—tho young stranger seemed to apprehend the con dition of affairs in the village, and looked at one after another of the maidens stand, ing behind their ciders aud glancing shyly at him when they thought h< wouldn’t observe them, until at last hit eyes fell on Juliana. Her beauty of face and form would have convinced a less observant youth that she was tho oni sought for, but had anything else beeu wanting, her quick flush was enough t< betray her. Thereat the young strangei picked a great dead swan—a very ran bird in those parts—from the top of hi| kayak and carried it to the feet of prettj Juliana, who said not a word, thougt she smiled very brightly toward hci mother. Then the young man said: “My name is Habakik. Who is it that will meet Habikik?” and young Peter Manasse stepped from tho group and said that it was he. Tho two eyed each other and then, as white athlete: would say, began to wrestle catch-as- catch-can. It was a mighty and mem orable struggle. No such match had ever been seen by any one present. With equal strength and skill they pulled and pushed and lifted, hither and thither, about the level beach, till both wen flaming red in the face and bathed is perspiration. Tiien the foot of th< stranger slipped aud ho stumbled for. ward, head down, under Peter’s right arm. A shout went up from the vil- lagers, but before Peter could take ad. vantage of the slip Habikik had grabbed the young man about the knees, lifted him from his feet and throw him heavilj with his back on tho sand. And ther< the two lay panting, while blood oozed slowly from Peter's nose, tho shock ol the fall having burst a small blood ves- >el. After a minute or so, when both had partially recovered their wind, they ron slowly, and the villagers began once more giving the strangers a cheery wel come, in which, though crestfallen, Peter joined heartily. As he stood before Ha bakik, saying it had been a fair fight and well won, he saw the pretty Juliana, her big brown eyes watching the blood flowing down his face with a look of con cern in them that no bright young Eski mo man could mistake. She wasjusl outside of the group of villagers, and her father and brothers bad run down to help draw the strange oomiak on shore. Juliana, catching the eye of Peter, turned her head very quickiy away, and then the long disappointed lover reached her side with a jump, picked her np in his arms, and fled away in triumph to his father’s iglu, and there they re mained till the rest were through with the feast. A week later the moon was full. Juliana received from her mother a new scraping knife and a new butcher's knife, and from her father a lamp made of a hollow stone. The white trader gave her a very fine, large iron kettle, a coffee pot and a great quantity of bright colored goods, and beads enough for a new collar a foot wide, which, under the circumstances, was a very decent thing for the trader to do. Juliana, as was said, was a very pretty girl. Then Juli ana and Peter went to the house of the n itivc preacher, aud in the pre«'”>ee nf all the people were married according to the Lutheran service, for nearly all Greenland Eskimos are Lutherans. When Juliana had married him Peter went to live with his mother-in-law, ac cording to the usual Eskimo custom. Eskimo wits never make jokes about the mother-in-law. It would not bo in good form. Tho Eskimo mothcr-in-law rules the household. Sho can even command a divorce, the process being a simple one. She orders her unacceptable son-in-law out of the house, and when he obeys, as he always does, she throws any personal property after him that he may have left behind. Both the young people are then free to marry again. The Eskimos do not marry cousins. A man could always have as many wives as he could support before the Danes dis couraged polygamy, and it was the rule for a man to take one of the sisters of bis chosen sweetheart. It is said that the old practice is still adhered to, though without the sanction of any religious ceremony. It occasionally happens that a newly- married couple do not begin housekeep ing at once—each instead remaining home. On the other hand, some young men set up a separate establishment at once by building a new iglu or house. Even then, the husband is not unlikely to have his wife’s parents come m and live with him. When the new husband goes to his wife’s house one end of tho low platform, used as a bed in the house, is curtained off to form tho bridal cham ber, and in front of that the young wife may set up her own lamp if she choose. The bridegroom is expected to make a present to his wife’s parents, even when he has to light to get her or when he is betrothed to her in early years. In the old days he had to buy her.—JVeis York Sun. Foed During Sleep. Many persons, though not actually Dick, keep below par in strength and gen eral tone, and 1 am of opinioa that fast ing during the long intervals between supper aud breakfast, and especially the complete emptiness of the stomach during sleep, adds greatly to the amount of emaciation, sleeplessness and general weakness wc so often meet, writes Dr. William C. Cathell. of Baltimore. Phy siology teaches that in the body there is a perpetual disintegration of tissue, sleeping or waking; it is, therefore, logical to believe that the supply of nourishment should be somewhat con tinuous, especially in those who are below par. if we would counteract their emacia tion and lowered degree of vitality, aad as bodily exercise is suspended during sleep, with wear and tear correspondingly diminished, while digestion, assimilation and nutritive activity continue as usual, the food furnished during this period adds more than is destroyed, and in creased weight and improved general vigor is the result. I am fully satisfied that were the weakly, the emaciated and the sleepless to nightly take a light lunch or meal ol simple, nutritious food before goiug to bed for a prolougcd period, nine in ten of them would bo thereby lifted into i better standard of health. Nicknames cf the New states. “When I registered at the Tromont I put opposite my name ‘Chinook State.’ Mike O’Brien, one of tho clerks who knew me, said that was a new one on him. I told him it was the nickname of our State of Washington, just as Illi nois nnd other States have nicknames. In Washington we have great winds, which arc called tho chinook winds, and tho State takes its name from chinook. Then O’Brien asked me about the nick names of the other new States. North Dakota is called the Flickor-tail State, South Dakota the Swingc-cat Slate and Montana the Stubbed-toe State. I don’t know tho significance of any of these nicknames, except the one of which I told you.”—Chicago Tribune. Danbury, Conn., produced 8,000,001 hate last year. ARMY DEFENCES. FIELD GUNS IN PORTABLE ARMORED TURRETS. 1 Murderous Magazine Rifle Kqnal Fifty Single Loaders—Tbe Part Smokeless Powder Plays— The New Tactics. This year will probably witness in this country important experiments with magazine guns and smokeless powders, the probable rearmament of our army and a change of tactics. Accuracy of aim and range of weapons of precision have marvelously increased since the last great war between civilized nations. Only the other day a few Aus trian marksmen were able in an incred ibly short space of time to annihilate the whole personnel of a battery (represented by dummies), at a distance of 1400 to 1800 yards. Artillery operates from a distance out of the range of unassisted human vision with deadly precision. Shells filled with explosives wreck buildings and walls with unprecedented rapidity, which in the near future seems destined to increase as the problem of propelling high ex plosives as a bursting charge for pro jectiles draws nearer to a satisfactory solution. The newest magazine rifle works with a quickness that gives a num ber of shots in a given time fully equal to the fire of the entire front rank of one of our infantry companies when armed with single loaders, while the penetrating force of the bullet is sufficient to take it through the trunk of huge trees, as well as through earthworks almost two feet in thickness, as if they were butter, and such cover no longer affords sufficient protection for human life. To protect the crews of rapid firing artillery as much as possible portable fortifications or armored turrets have been constructed in the Gruson Works at Madgcburg, Germany. Heavy armored turrets were constructed years ago at these same works and were adopted for the fortifications of almost all European countries. They were very expensive, however, and their weight and the consequent difficulty and delay in their transportation were tremendous drawbacks. Their adoption, however, in spite of these well founded objections, was due to the opinions of high military authorities against the strategic value of great permanent fortifications and in favor of the construction of important defences. Tho exponents of these opinions directed attention to tho tremendous military expenditures involved in great fortified places like Metz or Strasburg, and they pointed out the fatal attractious which such strongholds have possessed for great armies during recent wars. Even the brilliant achievement of the defence of Plevna is regarded by these critics as merely constituting a crowning proof of the superior excellence of im provised defences, nnd, on the other hand, as showing with whatcertainty tho resort to the permanent shelter of en trenchments leads to a disaster which might have been replaced by a series of brilliant movements, such as would have inflicted an equal loss on the enemy, without the ultimate sacrifice of the army that inflicted it. Tho attention of artillerists, and par ticularly that of the lato Lieutenant Colonel Schumann, of the German army, has been therefore directed to the con struction of a turret light enough to bo transported by troops in the field. This result, it was found, could be achieved only in part by sacrificing to a certain extent the power of the turret to resist the enemy’s tire. Two types of turrets were made and armed with guns of 1.25- inch and two-inch calibre. These turrets are proof only against bullets and shell splinters, and cannot resist the full Im pact of heavier projectiles. But as tho small turrets cannot become direct tar gets for artillery without excessive waste of ammunition they may be regarded as practically shell-proof. The turrets, each of which contains a rapid firing gun, are placed in position in the infantry trenches. They are trans ported on specially constructed carriages, which require at the least three horses to draw them where the country is at all rough, as tho total weight of turret, car riage and ammunition sufficient to sus- tian the firing for a few minutes is about two tons One man suffices for the ser vice of tho gun and for the management of the turret, which rests on a revolving pivot and consists of a cylinder thirty- eight inches in diameter, protected by steel armor in the shape of a cupola or case one inch in thickness. The gunner sits upon a saddle like tho seat of a bicycle, while there is room in the back of the turret for a second man, who passes the ammunition. The gunner can turn the tower on its pivot and change the gun elevation at will. A more elaborate form has been re cently devised in order to afford the greater protection to the gunners. By in arrangement of balances and weights the turret is made so that it can bo raised and lowered from within. Tho external cylinder is sunk into tho soil and the roof, when the interior cylinder is low ered, is level with tbe ground. These turrets are more heavily plated aud are of a more permanent nature, and, in ••me eases, are intended to rest inside a sunken cast metal cylinder built into tbe ground. They are also intended to carry very much more powerful guns than the field turrets. The latter can easily be transported by rail, caubequickly moved where the roads arc not too heavy am answer all the demands of purely tempo rary fortifications. Earthworks can quickly be run up b infantry, nnd if a number of these gn are massed in readiness to send to threatened point they make a line of i trcnchments almost impregnable. Ti- gunner having a certain sense of security can be more deliberate m bis aim ami can discharge bis rapid lire gutis will: far more deadly effect than under ordinary (trcumstanccs. 'niese turrets arc difficult to hit, as they are so hard to distinguish from the surrounding earth and vegeta tion, Even if they arc hit it is only ont gun and two men gone if the whole thing (s destroyed. The excellence ol weapons of pre cision will naturally redound to tho benefit of troops acting on the defensive. Smokeless powder will also confer a pre ponderating advantage upon the de fence, as the attacking force will havo the greatest difficuly in discovering tho position of lines and batteries which have good cover, while bodies of men moving to the attack in the open will almost invariably fall victims to tho firo of the defenders. Cover that protects troops from being seen will probably be almost as valuable as actual cover against fire has hitherto been. The first care of the tactician of future battles will uo doubt be tho choice of a position and the disposition of troops so that the advantage of in visibility, as conferred by smokeless powder, maybe made the most of.—Neio York Herald. POPULAR SCIENCE. A new typewriter, under the “point" system, produces writings which tho blind can read. Felix L. Oswald maintains that night sir from the outside is far more healthful than the/vitiated, discasc-Iadon night air of ordinary human dwellings. A grain of fine sand would cover ono hundred of tho minute scales of the human skin, and yet each of these scales lu turn covers from 300 to 500 pores. Tho Common Council of Cincinnati, Ohio, at tho suggestion of the health officer, has passed an ordinance making it a misdemeanor to give public exhibi tions of mesmerism and hypnotism. A method for using the short pieces of carbons used iu the electric arc lights is iu operation by the electric light com pany at Concord, N. H., aud it is stated that it saves thirty per cent, of the cost. The smokeless powder that will be used iu the thirty-calibre magazine rifles that the Army Board on Magazine Guns are about to experiment with is ol Belgiau make. It is known as the Wet- tcran powder. Among the latest disinfectants is “ly- sol," which appears to be very much like carbolic acid. The emulsifying agent is resin or fat soap, tar acid being incorpor ated with the soap at the moment of saponification. A new idea iu arc lamps is the substi tution of q hollow carbon cylinder for tho usual upper carbon point and a disc for tho lower rod. The edges of the cylinder and disc arc in contact, aud tho light is formed at that point. A Willows (Cal.) paper says that Jeff Garnett has utilized three miles of barbed wire fencing for a telephone. It runs from his old ranch home to a new rcsi- ileico just finished. A small wire at each end of the fence connects a tele phone in each house. Oxygen is the most abundant of all the elements. It composes at least one third of the earth, one-fifth of the at mosphere and eight-ninths by weight of all the water on the globe. It is also a very important constituent of all minerals, animals and vegetables. A scientific paper says: Observations seem to show that a decrease in tho earth’s latitude is in progress, implying an alteration in tho direction of the earth’s axis. The fluctuation is thought to be due to a minute oscilatiou caused by changes iu internal wars of the earth. Homoeopathy is said to be spreading in Russia, especially iu the upper social strata. Societies for the propagation of the Hahnemannian doctrines have re cently been established at Tscliernigov, Odessa and Warsaw. The clergy arc conspicuous among the suppoilers of tae great medical heresy, and in Russia the military mind seems also to have an elec tive affinity for globules and infinitesimal dilutions. Month by month the number of tele grams which can be sent through a single wire increases, and the distance through which a telephonic message can be heard Is lengthened out, A uewly devised ap paratus, quite simple in form, is said to take a telegram as it (lows from one’s pen and trnnscrilic it from the wire in fac simile. Even the words impressed upon tho wax of a phonograph are now capable of being forwarded to distances exceeding a hundred miles. The first newspaper in Virginia wu printed in 1780 at $50 per annum. FARM AND H0USEHOLD. THE CHEAPEST MEAT. Most farmers know that youog animals grow faster from the food consumed than they do after they pass their second year. With pigs and sheep a shorter time suffices to attain limit of profitable growth. The meat of lambs is higher iu price and has cost its owner less to produce. Sheep for breeding may be kept five yeais. After that they, too, should be fattened, as keeping longer will result in more or less dying every every year from indigestion, as their teeth become poor. Young hogs that weigh 150 to 200 pounds find ready sale, snd at better prices per hundred than the overgrown pokers starved one year, when there is most profit in good feed ing, and fattened the next, when there is least.—Boston Cultivator. TREATMENT OF SICK ANIMALS. It is not always easy for the farmer to determine just what treatment is best for a sick animal, while educated vetenn- arians arc sometimes in doubt what course to pursue. It is not strange that farmers who havo had no opportunity to study the symptoms and treatment of disease are perplexed when they find that some of their animals aro sick. There is on# thing, however, that it is always safe and is often impoitant to do. That is to isolate the affected animal at once. If the disease is contagious it is a matter of great moment. If it proves to be oniy a simple malady, the removal of the sick creature from the others can do no harm, while it will give better opportunitie* for care and nursing and will greatly hasten recovery. If the disease is con tagious, prompt removal may prevent its spread. Oltentimes whole flocks of sheep or herds of cows have become dis eased, when the immediate removal of animal first seen to be affected would have entirely prevented the spread of the disease. In marked cases of sickness a competent veterinarian should bo called as soon as possible. But the first thing to be done, whether the case ap pears to be severe or mild, is to put the sick creature into a stable by itself nnd make it as comfortable as possible.— American Dairyman. THE HEDGE 8FARROW. There are several species of bird called sparrow. Tho gqperic characteristic of these species is tho conical bill and u habit of feeding upon seeds and small insects. Tho hedge sparrow nests in bushes, and in England harbors in the frequent hawthorn hedges. It is known as Accentor modularis, and is a singing bird. It is reddish brown in color and the wings are tipped with white. The common English sparrow, so unfavorably known here for its bad habits, is the house sparrow, and nests about houses, iu the roofs, over doorways and win dows, and in ivy and other creeping plants which cover tho walls and porches. It feeds on grain chiefly, and while it will occasionally eat insects, yet its habit is to devour grain wherever and when ever it can. The wren is a much smallei bird and is entirely harmless; on the other hand, it is a voracious tnscct cater, and so is the “tree creeper,” which lias a habit of clinging to the bark and hanging to the branches in its search foi insects. Farmers who have seen a leu acre wheat field with the grain broken down for a rod from the fences al around, or the corn with the ears torn open and the soft grain eaten for two inches or more down the cobs, do not think there is anything premature about the common sparrow except its most un wise and injurious importation hither bj some foolish people who would listen to uo warning.—New York Times. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. There is a great difference betweer “sheep meat” and “mutton." If hens are set early be careful not to put too many eggs under them. Carrots must not be kept in too dry a cellar, unless they are covered with earth. Cut up the roots and mix them intc the meal or grain when feeding to tin cow. Do not try to fatten the milch cow. You want her to turn her food into milk. One will never have good sweet butler as long as the pastures iu summer arc fill of weeds. Somebody says the middleman take: (he oyster aud gives the other two fcl lows each a half shell. Moral—sell t- the consumer. One part of corn meal to two parts o. skimmed milk makes a fairly balanced ra tion for pigs. Frosted combs should be washed clean with warm soap water and oiled with sweet oil. « Mixing a pod of red pepper in with the chicken’s food occasionally will be found beneficial. Cuttings of most kinds of plants in the winter may be started iu a box of sand placed in a warm, sunny place. These will soon root and make firm plants foi early spring use. The Arbor Day movement has reached Australia. The Secretary of the Ne braska Horticultural Society says: “Thousands of our Western farmers pay one-fifth of their earnings for fuel, when an.acre of good land thickly planted to catalpa or ailanthus would furnish abun dant good fuel.” Millet may be fed without danger if cut and cured before the seed is formed. Hungarian grass aud so-called German millet seriously affect the urinary organs of horses if fed liberally, unless it is cut when just in blossom. Wc advise that you feed but one-half rations if the hay was cut when nearly ripe. It is a well-known fact to most breed ers of fancy poultry that the longer they can keep a pullet from laying the longer they can make her grow. By tho use of fine bone-dust we can delay the egg pro duction several weeks, and add thereby an extra pound or so to the size of our exhibition birds. In case of leg weak-; ness in crowing fowls, the fine bon" h also beneficial. RECIPES. Hominy Griddle-Cakes—To two tea cups of warm,boiled harmony,add two tea cups of milk or water, two cups of sifted fleur, a level teaspoon of salt, and two well beaten eggs. Bake on hot, well- greased griddles. Oatmeal Crisps—One cup oatmeal, nearly one-half tcaspoonful salt, mixed together dry, cover with cold water and let it stand half an hour. Drain off any water remaining; drop by spoonfuls on a tiu, spreading as thick as possible. Bako until brown aud crisp, but uot scorched iu the least. Plain Rico Pudding—Onc-half cup of we’l-wasncd rice, one-half cup of sugar, a little salt, one quart of milk; soak half .in hoar. Bake two hours, slowly at first, until the rice has softened and thickened tho milk. Then let it brown slightly. This is creamy and delicious. A half-cup of raisins can bo added for variety. Muffins of Eutiro Wheat—Mix to gether a cup aud a half of flour, two tablcspooLfuls of sugar, a teaspoon of salt aud two teaspoons of best baking powdei; add a teacup of sweet milk, half a cup of cold water and a well beaten egg. Beat two minutes, dip into hot, greased gem-pans and bake about twenty- five minutes. This is a moist muffiu, •weel aud delicious. FUN. The man with a handle to his name ind-; himself easily lifted up.—Puck. The dentist never feels very unhappy when he strikes a snag.—Boston Tran- Kript. The lawmaker that is often paired is a lawmaker who might be spared.—Boston Transcript. “What kind of a hat would you wear With this soot?” asked tho Flue; “a chimney pot?” The strange thing is that hotel-runners arc not tiie people who run the hotel.— St. Joseph News. It is only the comedian who is pleased when his friends give him tho laugh.— Binyhamton Ilcpublican. A man is a genius who can say nicF tilings to two different women without repealing.—Atchison, Globe. The direct consequence of rushing out of single blessedness is often that of rush ing into double wretchedness. Primus—“How was Langford’s book sold* By subscription?” Secundus— “No, auction.”—Kate Field's Washing- ton. “So old Mr. Hunter asked you to marry him! And what did you say?" “That he had better ask mamma.”— Life. A man no sooner gets old enough to know how to talk well then ho also learns the value of uot talking at all.—Atchin- ton Globe. First Trap—“I never have caught a thiug.” Second Trap—“No wonder. You haven’t auy snap to you.”—Detroit Irce Press. Bradstreet’s Commercial Agency does nol profess to sec into the future but it’s a great place to get fortunes told.—St. Joseph Neirc. They called each other “birdie" once, Hut quarreled. So to-day A chattering parrot ho calls her, Willie she says he’s a jay. —Indianapolis Journal. The stern parent who chastises bis off spring is not generally ashamed of it; still in performing the operation he first looks for a good hiding place.—BostonCommer- end Bulletin. It is rumored that the now Vassar dor mitory will have two mirrors iu each room instead of heating apparatus. Tho girls will keep warm by constantly walk ing from one mirror to tho other.— Yuls liecard. In India little girls wear gold rings in their noses. One of the advantages of this fashion consists iu the fact that tho ring wearer does not have to take off her gloves to parade her jewelry.— l\j'iis Si/liiiys. Thus spake a true Bostonian, Ilia lunch before him spread: "Hero, waiter, on my roll 1 find A capillary thread. Please keep it for some other guest, Who likes such things,” he said. “For though I’m fond of quail on toast, I don’t like hair on bread.” —Puck. A syndicate of North Carolinians havo just concluded tho purchase from the Slate Board of Education of 80,000 acres pf land in Hyde County, known as “Hyde Park.” The price paid was fifty cents ucr acre.