Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 27, Petersburg, Pike County, 21 November 1889 — Page 4

l*ubll(hml K very Thumlav. PETERSBURG. - . . INDIANA. PETER THE GREAT. Tfc* Half Craajr Imperial ftenloa Who Created Modern BwiU. In 1722 he created himself Emperor, "placing the imperial crown upon his own head,' and soon after on that of the Livonian peasant girl whom he married, the mistress of his favorite Prince Mensehikoff, once an Itinerant, vender ©f meat pies; she afterward succeeded Peter as Empress Catherine I. His merciless cruelty was shown early, on bis return from bis first journey, after pulling down the revolt of the (Strelets, a body of janissaries who had risen to replace his sister Sophia un the throne. He executed 2,000 of them in cold blood. His only son Alexis, who had opposed his measures and was accused among other crimes of “defending the proscribed beards and chaftans of the peasants” had gone abroad with'bls wife, but was lured home by an offer of reconciliation, when be was seized and condemned to death by his father and executed in prison. ' 5 . Ills interference was as trying in small as in great things. One story of his didactic tyranny sounds like a lessen out of “Nandford and Merton.” It is told by a Frenchman who heard it on the spot in Finland, where he was sent by I.<ouis Phillipe's government to obtain blocks of rod poryhyry which the Czar Nicholas had granted , for the tombof Na^ileon under the dome of the Invaltdes at Paris. Peter was traveling incognito in part of Finland just conquered, where he was executing some naval works, lie met an over-fat man. who told him he was going to Petersburg. “What for?" asked the Czar. “To consult a doctor about nty fat, which has become very oppressive.” “Do you know any doctor there?" “No." “Then ! will give you a word to my friend. l*rince Mensehikoff and he will Introduce you to one of the Emperor's physicians." The traveler went to the prince’s house with a note, the answer was not delayed; the next day, tied hand and feet, the poor man was draggl'd off on a cart to the mines. Two years after Peter the Great was visiting the mines when suddenly the miner threw down his pick, rushed up to him, and fell at his feet, crying:, “tlrace. grace, what is it 1 have done?" 1’eter looked at him astonished, until he remembered the story, and said: "Oh. so that is you: 1 hope you are pleased with me. Stand 'up. How thin and slight you have-be-come! You are quite delivered from your over-fat; it is a first-rate curev: Go, and remember that work Is the ls*st antidote against your complaint!" Prole ably, as over-fat is a disease, the poor man died of his"“cure."

M Uv nil j'.iurilt (V U * IM V»i I m a Herman writer caUsAAnttcmpted impossibilities; a perfecfTV Itarharous people could not be dragged up to the level of civilization of other nations by mere force of a despot's will without passing through any iyf the intermediate stages. Accordingly the mass of the Hussian people continues much the same in hale ita and education as they were when Veter began his reforms, ami a sort of vaneer among the people and military classes covers a degree of barbarism and corruption which the rest of Europe has long left behind. The restless ambition which he bequeathed to his successors hasgone on to the present day. Cut off at tirst both from the lUltie and -Mack seas, . they conquered the intervening territory in each case, and now declare that they will never rest until they gel pos_acsafoit of the Dardanelles, •‘without which we have not the key to our own bouse." said Alexander the First.—Nineteenth Century. KNIVES FROM OLD FILES. An Kvprrlrnml Artisan tipUlm How They Are Viatic. As smiths are often asked to make knives from old files by farmers w ho Iklieve that such knives are hotter than any they can buy at hardware stores. 1 will describe my way of making them. 1 first draw the temper by heating the file to a cherry red. then placing it in .. the ashes, and five Inches under the forge ami leaving it there unt il it la cool. 1 then grind out the file marks and next comes the drawing. 1 make the heat no higher than a bright cherry rod, and use a good smooth-facet! hammer. The file is drawn a little thicker than the hack of the blade is to he, and the blade la then beat, edge being on the inside.. The blade is then drawn to an tslge, thd drawing on the inner curve having the effect of straightening It. When it has Wen draw n to an even and nice color and straightened, three holes art-drilled in it so that the handle can he fastened on it, and it is then shaped with a file. It is necessary to avoid gening the edge too thin, or ehte there will be trouble in tempering. In tempering 1 use soft and somewhat varnt water. I seize the handle end ,v with a pair of tongs, hold the blade over a clear, well-charred tire with the back down, and heat evenly to the first hole 1 I see that the blade is red, and i plunge it endwise into(the water, t his should leave the hlado so that w(M-n tried with a file, the tile will take hold just a little. If this test shows that the blade is too hard. 1 dip it in linseed oil. hold it over a slow, clear fire until the oil ignites, and then dip into I_the water again. This will toughen and enable it to hold its edge better. The grinding should be done on a good,4-vcn-fpced stone. 1 havc-made many butcher knives in this way, and have never heard any * complaTtrt—atsiut them. There is not . much profit in such work, hut it helps to fill up leisure time.—Cor. Illacksmith and Wheelwright. PAINTING DIAMONDS.

How stum of small Value Are DorturrU by Dishonest Experts. There is one pawnbroker in Washington who has lost all faith in human honesty. Several months ago a nicely dressed man entered his shop and displayed a pair of diamond ear-rings upon which he desired to secure a loan. The •tones had that peculiar bluish white color so highly prized among lovers of diamonds, and the pawnbroker readily advanced him #230 on them. The stranger departed, and indue course of time the pawnbroker tried to dispose of them. He exhibited the diamonds to a well-known dealer, .who said if they would stand a test they were easily worth #1.300. The stones were removed from their settings and placed in a bottle of alcohol. They wer< then shaken tor about five minutes, taken out and carefully cleaned. From the beautiful bluish white they had become as yellow as the Chinese flag, and were not worth, over #73. The expert said afterwards: ••Three stone* were painted. The process is a very simple one. A small piece of indelible pencil is dissolved in a teaniipful of water. The yellow diamond |» then painted with a fine camel's hair brush dipped in the preparation and the stone is allowed to dry. The paint will wear off in time, but nothing will remove It quickly hut alcohol. No reputable denier will have any thing to do with such stones, but we have to keep a pretty sharp lookout for just such 1 exposed a few Bout Traveller,

PERILS OF THE SEA- 4 Sermon By Rev. T. DeWitt Taint age at Brindisi Tha rerila Fnrounlrrfd By Those Who Go Down to the Sea in Ship*—The C'hrtatlan Ufe a Voyage Beset with Peril*—The Haven Ahead. The following sermon was delivered by Hev. T. DeWitt Talmage at Brindisi, while on his trip to the Holy Land, and after a week spent among the historio localities of Italy. His text was:_ And on it came to pus* that they escaped all safe to land.—Acta xxvli., 4*. Having visited your historical city, which wo desire to see because it was the terminus of the most famous road of the ages, the Roman Appian Way. and for its mighty fortress overshadowing a city which even Hannibal's hosts could not thunder down, we must to-morrow morning leave your harbor, and after ' touching at Athens and Corinth, voyage about the Mediterranean to Alexandria. Egypt. I was reading this morning in my New Testament of a Mediterranean voyage in an Alexandrian ship. It was this very month of November. The vessel was lying in a port not very farfrom | here. On l»ourd that vessel were two distinguished passengers: one, Josephus. i the historian, as we have strong reasons to lx'lieve; the other, a convict, ope Paul by name, who was going to prlshn for upsetting things, or, as they termed it. "turning the world upside down.” This convict had gained the confidence of the captain. Indeed, 1 think that Paul knew almost as much about the sea as did the captain. He had been shipwrecked three times already: he had dwelt much of his life amidst capstans, and yardarms, and cables and storms; and he knew what he was talking about Seeing the oqul

ll«n V(ai aiurui i auu jn i ua|ia noticing something unscaworthy in the vessel, he advised the captain to stay in the harbor. Hut 1 Hear the captain and the first mate talking together. They say: “We can not afford ti take the advice of this landsman, and he is a minister. II® may he able to preach very well. but I don't .believe he knows a ; marlinespike from a luff tackle. All 1 aboard! Cast off! Shift the helm for headway! Who f^ars the Mediterranean?" They had gone only a little way out when a whirlwind, called Euroclydon. made the torn sail its turban, ■ shook the mast as you would brandish a spear, and tossed the hulk into the heavens. .Overboard with the cargo! It ' is all washed w ith salt water, and worthless now: and there are' no marine in- ; suranee companies. All hands ahoy, and oat with the anchors! Great consternation comes on ci^w and passe.ngers. The sea monsters snort in the foam* and the billows clap their hands in glee of destruction In i^ull [of the storm I hear a ofcain clank. It is the chain of the great apostle as he ' walks the deck or holds fast to the rig- ■ ging amidst the lurching of the ship— , the spray dripping from his long beard . as he cries out to the crew: “Now I exhort you Jo he of good cheer; for there shall ho no loss of any man’s life among you, hilt of the ship. For there stood by me this night the angel of God. Whose I am. and Whom I serve, saying: •Fear not, Paul: thou must Is1 brought ladore t'icsar;' and, lo. God hath given thee all them that sail with the.” Fourteen days have passed, and there is no abatement of the storm. It is midnight. Standing on the lookout, the man peers into the darkness, and, by a flash of lightning, knows they must Ik* coming near to some country, and fears that in a few moments the vessel will lie shivered on the rocks. The ship flies like chaff in the tornado. They drop the sounding line, and by the light of the lantern they see it is twenty fathoms. Speeding along a little further, they drop the line again, and by the light of the lantern they see it is fifteen fathoms. Two hundred and sev-enty-six souls within a few feet of awful shipwreck. The managers of the vessel, pretending they want to look over the side of the ship and undergird it, get into the small boat, expecting in it to escape: hut Paul sees through the sham, and he tells them that if they go off in the bout it will Ik* the death of them. The vessel strikes' The planks spring! The' timbers crack!. The vessel parts in the thundering surge! Oh. w hat wild struggling for life! Here they leap from plank to plank. Here they go under as if they would never rise; but, catching hold of a timber, come floating and 1-anting on it to the beach. Here, strong swimmers spread their arms through the waves until their chins plow the sand, and they rise up and w ring out their wet locks on the beach. When the roll of the ship i^called, two hundred and seventy-six peopty answer to their names. - And so." says my text, "it came to pass that they escaped all safe to land."

i ir#m m>iu iui» suu^v. First, that ttoM Who pet us into trouble will not stay to help us out. These shipuien got Paul out of Fair Havens into the storm; but as soon as the tempest dropped upon them they wanted to go off in the small boat, earing nothing for what became of .Paul and the passengers. Ah, me! human nature is the same in all apes. They who pet us Into trouble never stop to help us out. They who tempt that younp man into a life Of dissipation will l«> the first to lauph at his imbecility and to drop him out of decent society, (•amblers always make fun of the lasses of pamblers. They who tempt you Into the contest with fists, saying: “I will back you,” will be the first to run. Look over all the predicaments of your life, and count the names of those who have pot you into those predicaments, and tell me the name of one who ever helped you out. They were plad enouph to pet you out from Fair Havens, but when, with damaped rigpinp. you tried to pet into Harbor, did they hold for you a plank or throw you a .rope? Not one. Satan has pot thousands of men into trouble, but he never pot one out. He led them into theft, but he would not hide the poods or bail out the defendant. The spider shows the fly the way over the gossamer bridge into the cobweb, but It never shows the fly |he way out of the cobweb over the gossamer bridge. I think that there were plenty of fast young men to help the prodigal spend his money; but when he had wasted his money in riotous living they let him go to the swine pastures. while they lie took themselves to some other new-comer. They who took Haul out of Fair Havens will he of no help to him when he gets into the breakers of Melita. I remark again, as a lesson learned from the test, that it is dangerous to refuse the advice of competent advisers. Paul told them hot to go out with that ship. They thought he knew nothing about it. They said: “He is only a minister!" They went, and the ship was destroyed. There are a great many people who now say of ministers: "They know negthing about the world. They can not talk to us!" Ah, my friends, it is not necessary to have the Asiatic cholera before you can give it medical | treatment in others.' It to not necessary j to have your own arm broken before you can know how to splinter a fracture. And we who stand in the pulpit, and In the office of a Christian preacher, know that there are certain styles of belief m4 certain Unde ot Nhavlcc that will

Kad to destruction as certainly ns Paul i tew that it that ship went out of Fair : Havens it would go to destruction. “Re- * joiee, 0 young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of 1 thy youth; but know thou that for all 1 these things Ood will bring thee into 1 judgment.” We may not know much, but we know that < Another lesson from the subject Is : that Christians are always safe. There 1 did not seem to bo much chance for Paul 1 getting out of that Bhtpwreck, did there? 1 They had not in those days, rockets with which to throw ropes over foundering vessels. Their lifeboats were of but 1 little worth. And yet notwithstanding < all the danger, my text says that Paul escaped safe to land. And so it will always be with God's children. They may j be plunged into darkness and trouble, , but by the throne of the eternal God. I 1 assert it "they shall all escape safe to < land.” Sometimes there comes a storm , of commercial disaster. The cables i break. The masts fall. The cargoes 1 are scattered over the sea. Oh! what struggling and leaping on kegs and hogsheads and corn-bins and store-shelves! And yet though they may have it so very hard in commercial circles, the good, trusting in God, all come safe to land. Wreckers go out on the ocean’s beach and find the hulks of vessels, and on the streets of our great cities there is many a wreck. Mainsail slit with banker's pen. Hulks abeara’s end on insurance counters. Vast credits sinking, having suddenly sprung a leak. Yet all of them who are God's children shall at last through His goodness and mercy, escape safe to land. The Scandinavian warriors used to drink jrlne out of the skulls of the enemies they had slain. Kven so God will help us, out of the conquered ills and disasters of life, to drink sweetness and strength for our souls. You have, my friends, had illustrations in your own life of how God delivers llis people. I have had illustrations in my own life of the same truth. 1 was once in what on your Mediterranean you call a euroclydon, but what on the Atlantic we call a cyclone, but the same storm. The steamer Greece, of the National Line, swung out into the Mersey at Liverpool, bound for New York. We had-on board seven hundred, crew and passengers. We came together strangers—Italians, Irishmen. Englishmen. Swedes, Norwegians, Americans. Two flags floated from the masts—British and American ensigns. We had a , new vessel, or one so thoroughly remodeled that the voyage had around it all the uncertainties of a trial trip. The great steamer felt its way cautiously out into the sea. The pilot was dis- , charged; and. committing ourselves to the care of Him who boldeth the winds in His (1st, we were fairly started on our voyage- of three thousand miles. It was rough nearly all the way—the sea with strong buffeting disputing our oath.

•But iw night, at eleven o'clock, after the lights had Iwon put out. a cyclone— a wind just made to tear ships to pieces —caught us in its clutches. It came down so suddenly that we had not time to take in the sails or to fasten the hatches. You may know that the bottom of the Atlantic is strewn with the ghastly work of cyclones. Oh! they are cruel winds. They have hot breath. Us though they came up from the infernal furnaces. Their merriment is the cry of affrighted passengers. Their play is the foundering of steamers. And. when a shipgoes down, they laugh until both continents bear them. They go in circles, or. as 1 describe them with my hand -rolling on! ^^Uing on! with Unger of terror writing on the white sheet of the wave this sentence of doom: “Let all that come within this circle perish! Brigantines. go down! Clippers, go down! Steamships, go down!” And the vessel, hearing the terrible voice, crouches ii\ the surf, and as the waters gurgle through the hatches and port holes, it lowers away, thousands of feet down, farther and farther, until at last it strikes the bottom; and all is peace, for they have landed. Helmsman, dead at the wheel! Engineer. dead amid the extinguished furnaces! Captain, dead in the gangway! Passengers, dead in the cabin! Buried in the cemetery of dead steamers, beside the City of Boston, the Lexington, the President, the Cambria, wailing for the archangel's o trumpet to split upthe decks, and wrench ’open the cabin doors, and unfasten the hatches. 1 thought that I had seen storms on the sea before, but all of them together might have come under one wing of that , cyclone. We were only eight or nine . hundred miles from home, and in high expectation of soon seeing our friends, for there was no one on board so poor as . not to have a friend. But U seemed as . if we were to he disappointed. The most , of us expected then and there to die. ( There were none who made light of the , peril, save two. One was an Englishman. ; and he was drunk, and the othei was an , American, and he was a fool! Oh! what , a time it was! A night to make one's , hair turn whit*'. We came out Of the , bertha and stood in the gangway, and , looked into the steerage, and sat in the \ cabin. While seated there we heard ( overhead something like minute guns. ( It was the bursting of the saila We ( held on with both hands to keep our ( places. Those who attempted to cross , the floor came hack bruised and gashed. , Cups and glasses were dashed to frag- , menu; pieces of the table getting those, . swung across the saloon. It seemed as if the hurricane took that great ship of , thousands of tons and stood it on end; and said; “Shall 1 sink it, or let it go , this once?” And then it came down with ' such force that the billows trampled ' over It. each mounted of a fury. ,

m* (7ii in«( rirrj uuu^ urjicuuru ub ( the propellng screw. If that stopped for an instant we knew the vessel would (all off into the trough of the sea and sink, and so we prayed that the screw, which three times since leaving 'Liverpool had already stopped, might not , stop now. Oh! how anxiously we listened for the regular thump of the machinery upon which our lives seemed to depend. After awhile some one said: “The screw is stopped!” No: its sound had only been overpowered bj the uproar of the tempest, and wfSbreathed easier again when we heard the regular pulsations of the overtasked machinery going thump, thump, thump. At three o'clock in the morning the water covered the ship from prow to stern, and the skylights gave way! The deluge rushed in, and we felt that one or two more waves like that must swamp us forever. As the water rolled back and forward in the cabins and dashed against the wall, it sprang halfway up to the ceiling. Rushing through the skylights as it came in with such terrific roar, there went up from the cabin a shriek of horror which I pray God 1 may never hear again, i have dreamed the whole scene over again, but God has mercifully kept me from hearing that one cry. Into it seemed to be compressed the agony of expected shipwreck. It seemed to say: “I shall never get home again! My children shall be orphaned, and my wife shall be widowed! I am launching now into eternity! In two minutes I shall meet my God!” There were about five hundred and fifty passengers in the steerage, and as the water rushed in and touched the furnaces and began violently to hiss, the poor creatures in the steerage imagined that the boilers were giving away. Those passengers writhed in the ffhto? ** l* W

lome crying, all terrified. They made a ■ush for the deck. An officer stood on leek and beat them back with blow kfter blow. It was necessary. They xrald not have stood an instant on the leek. Oh! how they begged to get out >f the ship! One woman, with a child n her arras, rushed up and caught hold >f one of the officers and cried: “Do let ne out! I will help you! Do let me rat! I can not die here!” Some got town and prayed to the Virgin Mary, laying: “O, blessed mother! keep us! lave mercy on us!” Some stood with vhite lips and fixed gaxe, silent in their error. Some wrung their hands and Tied out: “O, God! what shall I do? iVhat shall I do?” The time came when the crew could 10 longer stay on the deck, and the cry »f the officers was: “Below! all hands >elow!" Our brave and sympathetic Captain Andrews—whose praise 1 shall tot cease to speak while I live—had teen swept by the hurricane from his tridge, and had escaped very narrowly vlth his life. The cyclone seemed to itand on the deck, waving its wing, cryng: “This ship is mine! 1 have capttred it! Ha! ha! I will command it! f God will permit, 1 will sink it here ind now! By a thousand shipwrecks, I iwear the doom of this vessel!” There vas a lull in the storm; but only that it night gain additional fury. Crash vent the lifeboat on one side, 'rash! went the lifeboat on ,ho other side. The great booms :0t loose, and, as with the heft of a hunderbolt, pounded the deck and beat he mast—the jib boom, studding sail won and square sail boom, with their itrong arms, beating time to the awful narch and music of the hurricane, dcanwhile the ocean became phosphor‘scent. The whole scene looked like ire. The water dripping from the rigring, there were ropes of flre;and there vere masts of fire; and there was a leek of fire. A ship of fire, sailing on k sea of fire, through a night of fire. Slay I never see any thing like it again! R very hoi y prayed. A lad of twelve rears of age got down and prayed for his nother. “If I should give kip," he said, •I do not know what would become of nother." There were men who, I think, jad not prayed for thirty years, who hen got down on their knees. When a nan who has neglected God all his life ’eels that he has come to his last time, t makes a very busy night. AJ1 of our lins and shortcomings passed through >ur minds. My: own life seemed itterly unsatisfactory. I could only lay: “Here. Lord, take me as I km. I can not mend matters low. Lord'Jesus, thou didst die for the :hief of sinners. That's me! It seems, [jord. as if my work is done, and poorly lone, and upon Thy infinite mercy I cast nyself, and in this hour of shipwreck tnd darkness commit myself and her shorn I hold by the hand to Thee, O Uml Jesus! praying that it may be a short struggle in the water, and that at he same instant we may both arrive in flory!” Oh! I tell you a man prays straight to the mark when he has a ;yclone above him, an ocean beneath Pirn and eternity so close to him that he •an feel its breath on his cheek. The night was long. At lastsve saw the dawn looking through the port holes. \s in the olden time, in the fourth watch if the night, Jesus came walking on the sea. from wave cliff to wave cliff; and when He puts His foot upon a billow, though it may be tossed up with might, it goes down. lie cried: "Hush!” They knew His voice. The waves knew His toot- They died away. And in the shining track of His feet I read these letters on scrolls of foam and fire: “The :arth shall be filled with the knowledge . of God as the- waters rover the sea.” The ocean calmed. The path of the steamer became more and more mild, until, on the last morning out, the sun threw round about us a glory such as I never witnessed before, llod made a pavement of mosaic, reaching from horizon to horizon, for all the splendors of earth and Heaven to walk upon—a pavement bright enough for the foot of a seraph—bright enough for the wheels of the archangel's chariot. As a parent embraces a child and kisses away ;ts grief, so over that sea, that had been writhing in agony in the tempest, the morning threw its arms of beauty and of

h'ih-ujvwuh, nuu tuv ui rtiuu aim Heaven met. As 1 came on deck—it was very early, ind we were nearing the shore—I saw a 'ew sails* against the sky. They seemed ike the spirits of the night walking the lillows. I leaned over the taffrail of ,he vessel, and said: “Thy way, O God, s in the sea. and Thy path in the great caters.” It grew lighter. The clouds lung in purple clusters along the sky; ind, as if those purple clusters were >ressed into red wine and poured out ipon the sea. every wave turned into ■rimsott. Yonder, fire cleft stood opmsite to fire eleft; and here, a cloud, ■ent and tinged with light, seemed like i palace, with flames burning from the vindows. The whole scene lighted up intil it seemed as if the angels of God vere ascending and descending upon tairs of fire, and the wave crests, hanged into jasper, and crystal, and rystal, and amethyst, as s they were lung toward the beach, made me think if the crowns of Heaven cast before the Krone of the great Jehovah. 1 leaned iver the taffrail again, and said, with nore emotion than before: "Thy way, > (iod. is in the sea, and thy path in the treat waters!" So, 1 thought, will be the going off of he storm and night of the Christian's ife. The darkness will fold its tents ind away! The golden feet of the risng morn will come skipping upon the noun tains, and all the wrathful billows if the world’s woe break into the splenlor of eternal joy. And so we come nto the harbor. The cyclone behind is. Our friends before us. God, who s always good, all around us. And if ;he roll of the crew and the passengers had been called, seven hunIred souls would have answered to heir names. “And so it came to pass hat we all escaped safe to land.” And nay God grant that, when all our Sablaths on earth are ended, we may find hat, through the rich mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, we all have weathered the gale! } Into the harbor of Heaven now we glide. Home at last! Softly we drift on the bright silver tide. Home at last! Glory to God! All onr dangers are o’er; W« stand secure on the glorified shore. Glory to God! we will shout evermore. Home at last! Home at last!

—The greatest wheel of its kind in the world, a very wonder in mechanism, stands in the main shop of the Dickson Manufacturing Company, in Scranton. It was built for the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, of Lake Superior, Mich., for the purpose of lifting and discharging the “tailings,'’ a waste from the copper mines, into the lake, and its iiameter Is 54 feet, while its weight in active operation will be 900 tons. It is sailed a 50-foot sand-wheel, but its extreme dimensions are 54 feet in diameter. Some idea of its enormous capacity can be formed from the fact that it will receive and elevate sufficient sand every twenty-four hours to cover an acre of ground a foot deep. —An Allentown (Pa.) citizen, in endeavoring to utilise all his time proflta- ! bly. tried to cut his corns on a railway • train, and while going around a curve he was thrown and the knife entered bU to* ' ‘

FARM AND GARDEN. PLAN FOR SILO. Direction* for Constructing It—Value M Sorghum. . 4 Let me give you the plan of a silo, says a writer in the Country Gentleman, which we have recently built, and as itcan be followed with ease by any one, even ; those not skilled in carpenter work, it may be suited to the wants of a large class of farmers who have not the necessary mechanical skill, or the ready money to hire a carpenter to lay out, | frame and erect a wooden building suitable for the desired purpose. The site chosen for the silo is on a hillside close by one on which we shall build a row of stables where we will feed and house our herd of Holstein cattle the coming winter. An excavation 33x32 feet and four feet deep on the side next to the bank was first made. A ditch in which were laid three-inch tile was then dug close to bank on three sides, thus insuring a dry j bottom—the slope of bank being such, ! that on the fourth side the grade of bottom runs out level with top of ground. The sills (8x10 sticks twenty feet long)

PLAN FOR SILO. V are placed inside; they can be either halved together or simply placed with ends butting up to each corner.. On the tops of these sills are spiked h. regular courses six-inch wide ^ftank two and one-half inches thick, one-half the ends of one course projecting over the course next below It. as appears in the foregoing sketch. This building up is continued until the desired height is reached; in ours it was carried up twenty feet from the bottom of sill to top of last course, on which the rafters are placed and all roofed in. To build on this plan requires a little more lumber than to erect a balloonframe, and plank both the outside and inside of the same. But no frame building can be put together that will resist the pressure of inclosed cqp tents, and be as easily made air-tight as one built after this plan. Witness the immense grain elevators that stand throughout the Northwest, some of them holding their millions of bushels of grain in bins located away up a hundred feet from the bottom of their walls, which are built up with inch boards placed flat sides together, one above the other. ^ The silo walls are lined on the insid" with tarred paper, over which one-inch I boards placed perpendicularly ai|J nailed, making a perfectly air-tight wajW If the builder had any fears of frost eF tering such a wall, after tacking on the building-paper let him nail on inch strips to which to nail the inside boards. Do the farmers of the Sbuth know the value of sorghum as a fodder plant for nearly all stock? Has any grower found out that it can be cut twice, and%oasi* bly thrice, in a season? If the tame grasses do not thrive in this warm climate, here is a plant that will, together with a little bran and corn meal, furnish, a suitable ration, and more of it than j any other with which I am familior. It 1 can be cut twice (that we know), and used in its green state: it can be siloed, and will funush an excellent ration for milch cowsrmring the winter and early spring months. Feed it to young horses once a day; hogs thrive on it, and sheep love it dearly.

VENTILATING DAIRY BARNS. t'rah Air » NHM>lt7i ami One Way ol Obtaining It* In order to produce a pure article all of the ingredients must bo pure and the processes • of change they undergo must, says the Orange Judd Farmer, he free from foreign influences. In seeing that the water and food are pure, the stalls well cleaned and bedded and the animals kept warm, ; one Tery important consideration is apt i to be overlooked—namely, pure air. j Where the atmosphere is not kept pure the effect upon the system soon j asserts itself in one way or another; ; the milk may not show it directly at | first, but the quality of the products is ; liable to be influenced. . A too common way is to leave open the j hay sh«pt: but this spoils the hay for a considerable distance on all sides, besides generally giving either too much or too lit'tle circulation. The best plan i is not to postpone this matter until cold weather approaches, but to look it up at j once and make such alterations as are necessary, as time permits—a splendid ; job for rainy days. In the accompany- ! ing illustration tho principle is shown to good advantage, which may of course be varied as circumstances require. The j ventilator leading to the cupola is six i by eight inches with a regulator at the : bottom, which brings it under perfect control. When this is not practicable the opening may be made in the wall at the upA

PLAN Poll VKNTILATINQ ItAIKY BARS. per part of the stall, or in any convenient place, where the desired effect will be obtained. The plan of running it up to the roof as indicated is a very economical one and is being practiced more every year. It creates a constant draft of air, and when properly built can he regulated to perfection, keeping the air as pure as possible, and at the same time not causing a cold draft to strike the animals, as is too often the case when the openings are made down lower. Theory of Siloing. Science tells us that changes in the silo depends on four conditions: 1. Life in the vegetable coils and the presence of air—result, oxidation and the generation of heat. 2. Life in the spores of bacteria, fungi, etc., in the presence of air—result, mold. 3. Life in the vegetable cells, without the presence of air—result, fermentation and sour ensilage. 4. No life in the vegetable cells, nor in the spores of bacteria, fungi, etc., and the exclusion of air—result, preservation and sweet ensilage. By let- ' ting the heat rise in the first condition of oxidation to 135 degrees and over, i even up to 150, the life in the cells and ■pores is destroyed, and by proper packing the air is excluded, and thus the second and third conditions are avoided, and the fourth oondition with ItB results is secured as a consequence,—Orange Judd fVwer

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