Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1892 — Page 7

The Shortest Route.

! Nearly every day you read in some newspaper that such and such a railroad has the shortest line from one Important city to another. 1 One railway company will advertise that It Is a “short line from Chicago to Omaha.” A competing line then positively states that It Is “a shorter line from Chica'go to Omaha than any other,” and now the Chicago, ‘Milwaukee * St. Paul Kallway Insists that it Is “the shortest line from Chicago to Omaha,” and proves It hy this map:

i The Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Ballway Company also says that It Is the “best line to St. Paul and Minneapolis,” which Is a fact, with “electric lighted trains” and reading lamps In each berth, so that one can read all night long If he has a book and doesn’t want to sleep. It brags about the “finest dining cars in the world,” with the best of meals served on Imported china by the most expert and civil colored waiters. at 75 cents, while the lines east of Chicago charge a whole dollar. And—once more—the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul Bailway opens up a new through Car line from Chicago to Denver, via Omaha and Lincoln, and it isn’t long before the whole world says to Itself that “shortest line from Chicago to Omaha,” that “best line/o St. Paul and Minneapolis” and that “new route to Denver” must be the only first-class railroad In the western part of the United States, and what the whole world says must be true. The address of the passenger agent "In Chicago is 207 Clark street, and everybody who wishes to travel over the best road In the West goes there to purchase tickets and secure sleeping car reservations. We oftener suspect a man of vice than of virtue.

A Decisive Blow for Freedom

From the tyrannical yoke of those despotic allies, dyspepsia, constipation and liver complaint, is struck when the quandom victim of their galling supremacy has taken a course of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. Then they vamose defeated, and health resumes its welcome sway. Such Is the invariable experience of those who use the ruling alterative to get rid of these associate evils. Antl-dyspeptics, choliigogues, drastic cathartics are as the sands of the sea, numberless and—useless. The happy blending of remedial properties, derived from Nature’s botanic storehouse, with a pure, modified spirituous basis existent in the Bitters, not only Initiates but effectuates the joint cure ’ of chronic indigestion, irregularity of the bowels and perversion of the bile. The surest defenso against malaria Is this agreeable fortifier and preservative of health under unfavorable atmospheric conditions. It counteracts a tendency to rheumatism, rouses the kidneys and b adder when sluggish, from inaction, and endows a debilitated, nervous invalid with vigor. Incomparable as a tonic. The fortune which nobody sees, makes a man happy and unenvied. This is essentially an age of advancement and perhaps in no directions have greater advances been made than in medical science. Diseases that until recently were pronounced by the highest medical authority to be incurable are now found to yield readily to the discoveries of modern medical skill. This statement is amply borne out by the article appearing elsewhere in this issue under the heading of “The Saratoga Miracle" and would seem to indicate that one of the most perfect medial preparations of modern, times is embodied in the remedy known as Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. Queen Victoria believes that articles made by blind people bring luck. Ant book In “Surprise Series,” (best authors). 25 cent novels, about 200 pages each, sent free, postpaid, by <Cragln & 00., of Philadelphia, Pa..on recelptof 20 wrap-persof Dobbins' Electric Soap. Send 1 cent for catalogue. There are nearly 3,000 stitches In a pair of hand-sewed boots. Beecham's Pills act like magic on the vital organs, restore lost complexion and bring back thq keen edge of appetite. Ten million dollars’ worth of German toys are sold in England yearly. Bev. Jambs U. Cobden, pastor M. E. Church, Wilson, N. C-, says: I have used Bradycrotlue and never In a single Instance failed to obtain Immediate relief from headache when directions were tolkaw-ed. Of all Druggists. Fifty cents. For strengthening and clearing the voice, use “BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES.”— “I have commended them to friends who were public speakers, and they have proved extremely serviceable.”—Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. FIT< All Fite stopped free by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve liestoi er. No Fits after first day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and 02.00 trial beetle free to Fiitcases. Bend to Dr. Kline, 031 Arch St., Phi la. Pa.

\w* Jfrs. William Lahr Dyspepsia 'C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Ma.se.: “A year ago this last f»U I commenced to fail rapidly, lost all appetite and ambition, and barely dragged along with my work. During the winter and spring had to hove help about my housework. Physicians 'did not help me, and I got more and more discouraged. I suffered from dyspepsia so that I Could Not Eat Vegetables or meat, and at last so that I eould not even use butter on my toast. Used to dip the toast in tea, and even then it would distress my stomach. In the spring I hired a girl permanently, my health was so poor. She tried to persuade mo to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, as a lady for whom she had worked had been greatly benefited by It, She said: *lt will only cost a dollar to try it.' I Dragged Along Until August, when I began to take Hood’a Sarsaparilla. In about a week I felt a little better. Could keep more food on my stomach and grew stronger. I took three bottles, am now perfectly well, have trained 22 pounds, am in excellent health. I owe all this to Hood’s Sarsaparilla and am glad to let you know what it has done for me.” Mbs. William Lohb, 101 Van Buren Street. Freeport, 111. Rood’s Pills are the best after-dinner Pills, assist digestion. cure headache. Barlow’s Indico Blue. The Family Wash Blue, for sale by Grocers. rt r M~lirinn~ From*the*"Pacific7~Nothing Vru MUNS like it. Beautiful hand-paint--31 Ln IVIUuU ed booklets, SCe; souvenirs, ■ ■ : cards. 10c. All made of this lovely moss. W PACIFIC BOCVENIR CO., Box 826. Chicago. Di. BEST POLISH IM THE WORLD.

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AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.

A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RUftAL READERS. Effect of the Flow on the Moisture of the Soli—A Milking Yurtl Convenience— Bow to Make a Wagon Jack—Fool try, Eta. THE FARM Fralnlng by Flowing.

THE plow has no small effect on the moisture of the soil. It found the Illinois praiX ties, for exam pie, \ covered with waiter; but breaking ijijjijup the soil injereased drainage K /until the excess Mm has been much reduced. In Kansas the plow has increased the moisture in the soil. Breaking up the ground -* has allowed more

of the rain to penetrate, and the increased capillarity of the soil has better regulated the amount of moisture in it. Of course other agencies were at work in both cases: but the part done by the plow is none the less real or important. But by keeping the desired point in view in plowing, and plowing accordingly, we may multiply the effect of the plow on the moisture in the soil, either to reduce or increase the amount. If there is an excess, then we are to plow in such a way as to favor the escape of water. The most convenient method of plowing is to plow around the outside of the Held or of the “land.” But on flat land this method is suicidal. It makes in time a ridge around the margin of the field, damming the water on the field. " If we divide such land into narrow lands and begin in the center, throwing the furrow in, the water not only can, but since it must run down hill, it must drain to the ditches along the fields. On flat land there is no danger of gullies by mak-' ing’the land furrow at the same place each year. On land more rolling, gullies may be avoided by moving the land furrow a little to either side each year; this is easily done by making the outside lands narrower or wider. Hilly fields, frequently having a lijht soil, should be plowed in the opposite way. They are _apt to lack mositure. because the water so readily and rapidly flows off that 'much of it does not sink into the soil; and the upper parts of the hills, at least, are usually far above the influence of the ground water. In plowing such fields we must also consider their aptness to wash and gully, especially when they are in cultivated crops. It is hare to keep these fields up, because of the carrying away of the soil. If, in plowing, we throw the furrow out each year, we soon have an embankment around the margin. This will break the force of the currents from the higher ground, retard the flow of the water, and thus give it more tfane to sink into the soil. The embankment will also soon catch the greater part of the soil brought down from above, and oy this means will be increased, in extent and effectiveness. Instead of the soil being carried off the field and lost, it is deposited 'On an ever-widening strip. Thisstrip, thus fertilized from above, will not need manure; and twice the former amount may be applied to the higher-ground. Thus this higher ground also will be enriched, and,for the further reason that the wash from it is less. It is desirable that the furrows should run up and down the hill, although some prefer the opposite. But the water will cut across the furrows and make deeper gullies than jvhen each furrow affords an exit for the comparatively small amount falling on it. It may be necessary, therefore, to plow each year a headland along the foot of the hill. To hold the embankment well in place, seed the margin—the fence row or the bans: of the stream—well to grass. The soo will hold firm, and the grass will catch much of the soil brought over. It. is apparent, that by so plowing, the’foot of the incline is being constantly raised, bringing the land nearer to a level and hence more favorable to an ample supply of moisture in the soil; while the Ipss from washing ai»d gullying is <rea,tlv reduced.—John M. Stahl, in American Agriculturist. Home-Marfe Wagon Jack. The following is a description of wagon jack I made for my own .use, and which I find to fill the place of an expensive shop-made one to perfection. Ais a piece of 2x4 scantling about 4 feet long; 18 inches from end make mortise for B, also one near

the other end for C. Bis 2x4 and length to suit height of wheels. For my wagon it is 22 inches from bottom of A to top for D (wheels low), with open mortise in top of D. C is 28 incnes high with two notches cut open below and hooking above to catch D when wheel is raised and D. lowered. <f>. is 14x3 at larger end and 5 teet long, with hole 8 inches from end, at B, for pin, and cut to fit notch at C.—E. M. Inman, in Practical Farmer. Top Dressing Mowing Landa. Upon most farms there are some fields ofapermanent mowing that are continued from year to year in grass. Because these give a fair return is no* reason why they should be neglected, although if unfed and no aftermath is removed, they may not suffer at all by the continual cropping. If a very light top dressing of well pulverized manure is occasionally applied, its effects upon succeeding crops is almost magical. An application ot ashes also shows its infiuence in an increased growth and in causing a luxuriant growth of clover where there was none before. More hay means more manure, and more manure, better crops.

LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY.

Milking Yar<| Convenience It requires but a little time to

make a shelter like that shown In the accompanying sketch from the American Agriculturist, and it certainly provides a very neat and desirable place in which to set the milk until all the cows are milked. The lower shelf makes a good receptacle for the milking-stools, and, by the way, milk-ing-stools ought to be made for the purpose intended, and not by the utilization of some old box, keg, or

SHELTER FOR MILKING TOOLS.

pail, as many do, for milking is not such a pleasant task that the milker should have a torturous seat while performing the operation. This shelter keeps the rain from the milk, and out of danger from being upset by the cows. The stools are kept dry, and the neatness of the entire surroundings, convenience, and comfort to f be milker, ar® the result. Hamons for Training Coltm A colt should never know how much strength he has until he knows how to use it. If he once runs away he is never a safe horse afterward and, while he may to all appearances forget it, there will come a time when he will run again, and the chances are that he will do much damage. The harness for breaking and driving colts should be extra strong and heavy. The reins and bit especially must be stout enough for all possible emergencies. A straightbar bit is good enough for a steady horse but it cannot be depended on with fractious animals. There are numerous kinds of bits that are easy when a horse is steady, but so made as to hold the horse when he tries to run. . For Rough Landa. Whatever careful tests have been made, it appears to have been demonstrated that Jerseys or Guernseys will make butter more cheaply. The Holstein is for rich lands, where quality is a secondary consideration, and the Ayrshire for rougher pastures where a large quantity of milk in proportion to* size and of good quality for human food or for cheese is desired. She produces a milk peculiarly fitted for domestic use because of the small size of most of the fat globules, for children and invalids as well as for persons in health. It is for the same reason unusually well suited to bear transportation, and the cow produces milk yery liberally in proportion to her opportunities. How to Hold a Hog for Kinging* Etc. Provide a small, stout cord, with a slip-noose in the end. Put this over the upper jaw of a hog just back of the tusks, hitch the cord to a post, and the hog will pull back and squeal, but can be held or led at ease. Strike a hog on the nose or throw him down, and he will open his mouth. A hog’s nose is more sensitive than its head. Live Stock Notes. Cross-bred lambs.ripen quickly. Good clover makes the best pasture for sheep. Keep your watering troughs scrupulously clean. Breeds combine the characteristics of individuals. Regular feeding makes animals more content. It is easier to count the profits than to make them. If you keep poor stock, expect to be poorly kept yourself. Sheep ought to get into a good condition rapidly on pasture. Good feed is of course required for fattening animals, but it won’t give much-profit unless you combine it with good care. A dollar saved in food is often two dollars lost in growth. Many an impacted stomach has been caused by need of water. For mutton the butcher seeks a carcass that is round and smooth. Put enough good blood in the sheep to get the best returns from their products. Prof. Hunter Nicholson offers this suggestive advice, the force of which lies in the application of it: “Sell nothing for breeding purposes that you would not buy. ”

THE POULTRY-YARD.

Mix tliH Fggs. If you raise light and dark breeds mix the eggs when setting so the hens will not make you trouble when they hatch. 1 raised white and black chickens several seasons and found that if 1 set eggs under one hen producing white chicks and black under another, they would own none other than the white or black chicks they hatched and would pick and often kill chicks of the opposite color to their own. I mixed the eggs, they hatched part white and part black chicks, and I had no more trouble with my hen’s fighting each other’s broods. Variety of feed will of course promote digestion and increase growth. If early broilers and a good market is desired, they must be hatched early and pushed from the start. If you want them for your own use and do not want to take any extsa time in preparing for them or feeding them more than is usually done, you can do so, but need not expect such good results. My neighbors consider that •money can be made raising chickens upon the farms and selling to the grocers at even low figures, say two or three dollars per dozen. It is not such a chore to look after a flock of chicks if there is a Jove for the work, but neglect of this branch of the farm is not to be commended.—Prairie Farmer. Fertility ot Egga. On the care of poultry the Northwest Agriculturist says that the hens that are given a variety of food, and are not over-fat, will lay eggs that should hatch, if the male is vigorous.

Fresh meat gives vigor to the laying hens, and if more meat and less corn is fed the hens will more than pay for the difference in the price of the meat in the increased number of eggs laid. This' male should .have a little meat once a day if possible, as it will greatly add to his vigor and increase the fertility of the eggs. Of the grains, buckwheat should not be overlooked in the change of diet, and a good mess of scalded chopped hay should be allowed daily. Providing Water for Ducks. Ducks that are kept in yards where there are no ponds, need a larfe quantity of water. The troughs should be very large, so as to allow several bucketfuls of water to be poured in, or the work of filling smaller troughs frequently will entail too much labor. Ducks not only drink water freely, but they waste a large portion by throwing it out of the trough on the ground. Keep only a few adult ducks unless you can provide water but with little difficulty. Poultry Pickings. One rooster and ten hens are enough for breeding. Pullets that are just beginning to lay are not good setters. Extra large or odd-shaped eggs should not be used for hatching. Fasten a small box to the side of the house to hold oyster shells, ground bone or grit. At no time is It desirable to feed poultry an exclusive grain diet; they need more bulky food. One advantage with ducks about the yard and garden is that they do not scratch, although they are voracious eaters. It requires an average of ten pounds of grain to feed Incubator ’chickens ten weeks. At first they will need less than one pound a week and at last more.

HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN.

Bints for lioimecleauliig'® The most satisfactory way to clean wall paper is with bread a day old, bub not old enough to crumble badly or fresh enough to be doughy when used. If the paper is not*very much soiled it may be dusted and rubbed down with a soft hand mop made of cotton yarn. Remember in using the mop or bread to take even downward strokes, one following the edge of the other, so as to cover finally the whole. To remove spots from furniture, an old authority says: “Rub them vigorously tine. When the spots are removed the furniture may be wpxhed with warm, not hot, soap suds, and pmished with a little crude oil or petroleum.” The best way to renovate old feathers is to put them from the tick into a barrel of hot suds. They should be shaken out under the water after thoroughly washing them in two or three barrels of suds. Rinse them thoroughly. Spread them on a clean sheet on the floor in a small, warm room after wringing them thorough ly in a cloth to extract all the moisture that can be take out in this way. Leave them over night to dry omthe sheet, then remove them to another and beat them with a stick, tying a veil over the face and head to prevent breathing the fluff of the feathers that rises. In a few days the feathers will be fine and dry. They can also be dried by putting them in a bag of white mosquito netting, hanging them in the sun and turning and beating them occasionally. If on® lives near a steam renovating establishment it is better to send the pillows there, as they only charge 50 cents a pillow to renovate them. To clean marble mix a little whiting with a strong solution of washing soda and a little dissolved soap. Lay the mixture on the marble with a brush, and let it remain for half an hour, then'wash it off, using a scrubbing brush and flannel, with a little alcohol to polish up the marble. Old pots and kettles that have become stained or have an odor may be immersed in cold suds and boiled, when they will come out as good as new. Far the Cook. Soft Gingerbread.—One egg, onefourth cup of butter, one-half cup o{ sugar, one-half cup of molasses, onehalf cup of sour milk, one level teaspoonful of soda, spices to taste and one and one-half cups of flour. Bake in a sheet, not in a thick loaf. Brown Bread.—The following is given by a correspondent of an exchange and vouched for as reliable. For a good loaf take one quart of Indian meal, one pint of graham, one cup of molasses, one teaspoonful of salt, one heaping teaspoonful of soda. Use buttermilk to make a moderate batter and steam four hours. Boiled Apples with Syrup.— Halve and remove the cores of a half dozen nice apples, leaving the skins on. Boil till tender in suffie’ent water to cover them. Take out with a fork into a glass dish. Add to the juice three or four slices of a large lemon: boil for ten or fifteen minutes; sweeten to taste; then pout over the apples, and cool. This is a change from the ordinary baked apple.

Lack of Economy in Americans.

Americans, whether rich or poor, know but little more about economy in food than an equal number of savages. Some families must breakfast either on beefsteak or mutton chops; others will serve just as mtich meat, and miSfte it just as palatable, at a quarter of the expense of choice cuts, because they know how to cook. Temperament has much influence on the larder. Excitable people will «it twice as much without satisfying their hunger, as those of better physical balance, yet they will not do more work. Some wives will save the price of a ton of coal by re-making for one of the children an old dress or suit of clothes; some others, seeming to be destitute either of tact, skill or inclination, must buy everything new or go without. Economy is a science which quite a number of men and women have mastered by close observation and diligent practice; otters do not seem to know of its existence.— New York Herald. '■ Mr. Nicefello —I atn told that Miss Bullion never wears the same dress twice. Miss De Pink (rival belle) —Yes, that is true, and 1 understand she has a different set of teeth for every day in the week.

GENOA THE PROUD.

The Home for Many Years of the Great £olu tn bus. The fact that the United States is going to celebrate the discovery of this country by Columbus has awakened a new interest in that great man’s life.. Every incident in it is traced with religious care and every place associated with him is of importance. Of all the places, however, Genoa, associated with Columbus’ early life, if not actually his birthplace, is most interesting from the slight change which it has undergone since that time. The city is built on sides of hills sloping down to the sea and covered with gardens tilled with dark green orange trees, while still further back the mountains rise lightly into the air. From its tine harbor the city looks extremely grand and well deserves its Italian name, Genoa the Proud. In reality its streets are na-row, tortuous lanes, impassable, m 'St of them, for any vehicle except a hand cart. On either hand high buddings tower aloft, many of them tine architecturally, but the ettect is - spoiled by the narrowness of the street and the consequent gloom. The city boasts many splendid palaces, magnificently constructed of finest marbles, and adorned with paintinrs and smlp ure. These are rented to travelers or turned into hotels. The v< stibules, often adorned with marble

MONUMENT TO COLUMBUS AT GENCA.

are thronged with booths of petty trades-people. The city has lately erected a monument to Columbus, and his house Is preserved by the government. It is in a narrow street, the end of which is filled by the venerable arch b'uilt to resist Frederick Barbarossa several hundred years before Columbus’ birth. The lower part of the house is boarded up, and the whole place is in very bad repair.

A Penguin City.

During our recent cruise, writes a Falkland Island correspondent, we went ashore on a sequestered Island, to view what the captain called a “penguin city.” Sure enough, the whole Island, comprising perhaps fifty acres, was laid off in regular squares, by streets running at right angles, the lines straight and true as a surveyor could have drawn them. As is well known, penguins spend their Ilves on the water except during the breeding season, when they are obliged to seek the shore. You will hardly believe me, but it is nevertheless true, that the birds not only lay out their city in blocks, but pick up all the loose stones, till the whole place is as smooth as a 1 oard floor. Then they take possession, in couples, each pair selecting a home site—not to build a nest, but merely to preempt a particular spot on the bare grdund. The hen lays one egg, and only one, and during the time of incubation the male bird brings her food from the sea, or sits on the egg a while himself if she wants to go out and take a swim. But in this case, as in many others, virtue is not “its own exceeding great reward,” because the lady penguins grow so fat ano sleek under the good care of their faithful husbands that they are the more eagerly hunted at that particular season. The old birds arc too tough and fishy to be relished by man or beast, but the tender young matrons are in great demand, both for their oil and flesh. Even the eggs have an oily and fishy flavor, and taste as hens’ eggs might if cooked in kerosene. The penguin is by no means a handsome or graceful creature. He has wings, like any other bird, but they are altogether too short to fly with, though they may assist him somewhat in waddling over the ground. When in the water he has no use for wings, because his broad feet- wcbbdß like those of a duck, propel him rapidly. There are several varieties of them, the largest, called the “emjieror penguin,” weighing from twentyfive to forty pounds. It is funny to see a colony of these ungainly birds marching up and down the streets like soldiers, all the time standing erect and maintaining an air of great dignity and importance.

Smoking Under Difficulties.

In the snowy regions of the Himalayas little smoking tunnels are made in the frozen snow, at one end of which is placed some tobacco, along with a piece of burning charcoal, while to the other the mountaineers place their mouths and. lying flat on their stomachs, inhale the smoke of the glowing weed.

Too Practical for Poetry.

There are some people who can’t appreciate poetry. The other day James Griffin, of Plymouth, Pa., returned home after an absence of eighteen years. Who'll his wife saw him she remarked: “Begone, 1 will have no Enoch Arden business here.’ And James departed, feeling that he was a back number sure enough.

Pontage Stamps.

Old postage stamps are highly prized in China, and a hundred canceled stamps will bay a baby.. Accordingly, it is said, the Roman Catholics are collecting the old stamps and purchasing the infants, whom they bring up to Christianity.

Beats a Torpedo.

Gen. Serrell is said to have invented an electrical instrument for striking a ship when fourteen miles distant from New York a blow equal in force to 50,000 foot tons.

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