Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 31, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 December 1899 — Page 9

A NOTABLE SILVER ANNIVERSARY. With the close of the present yea* Mr. David C. Cook, of Chicago, will eeletfrate his first quarter-centennial as editor and publisher of Sundayschool literature. Starting twenty-five years ago, without reputation or’assurance of support, he has become one of the most widely and favorably known publishers in this line. Beginning in 1875 with two small publications, his periodicals have grown in number and favor until there are few schools in this country that do not find it to their interest to use some of his pure and helpful publications, while many in distant lands pay tribute to their merits. The past quarter of a century has witnessed many changes among Sunday-school publishers, and much less time than this has sufficed for some to qutlive their usefulness. - On the contrary, Mr. Cook is preparing to celebrate the beginning of another quartercentury with additional improvements and new publications. Among these may be mentioned the New Century Sunday School Teacher’s Monthly, a large and thoroughly up-to-date magazine for superintendents and teachers, the first issue of which will appear in December. Among the most remark

able of his publications is the Young People’s Weekly, which has attained a circulation of nearly a quarter of a million, being a successful attempt to furnish a high grade of religious story reading for boys and girls. To avoid the “goody-goody” story of the Sun-day-school, such as we remember in our childhood days, and furnish something natural, interesting and ennobling, has Deen its aim, and we are not at all surprised at its popularity. The. restraining influence of the Christian home and the Sunday-school on our growing community of young people, some of us may not appreciate as we should—perhaps because these, sometimes fail to restrain. This paper should be a most welcome accessory in this work, hnd one which all should appreciate. Boys and girls will read, and the story book and paper are their first choice. /There seems a plentiful supply of religious papers for older people, but this is the first successful atttempt to furnish a non-sectarian religious story paper for young people. The paper is profusely illustrated, beautifully printed, and contains as much or more reading matter than the most expensive of secular young people’s stcry papers. The price, seventyfive cents per year, should bring it within the reach of every home. Mr. Cook is now making a special effort to give the paper a wider circulation, and all who send seventy-five cents for a year’s subscription before Jan. 1st will receive a beautiful premium picture entitled “The Soul’s Awakening.” It is exactly the same size (13x18 inches) and style as those on sale at art stores for $1. Orders should be addressed to David C. Cook Publishing Co., 36 Washington St;, Chicago. . Probably no man living has done so much to improve and„cheapen Sundayschool literature as has Mr. David C. Cook. Through his aid thousands of schools have been encouraged, improved and made self-sustaining, Mr. Cook is yet a comparatively young man, and it does not appear at all improbable that his field of usefulness may extend over yet another quarter-century.'

BENEFIT BY COMPARISON. The Value of the Philadelphia Commercial Mnnenni to the American Manufacturer!!. The Philadelphia Commercial museum maintains other displays intended to benefit the American manufacturer by comparison. Theseexhibits consist of manufacturer articles, the product of various countries, with which the American may be called upon to compete in foreign markets, especially in such markets as South America, Africa and the Orient. In this section are samples of hats, boots and shoes, cloths, and all manner of manufactured articles sold by foreign nations in different markets. Take print cloths as an illustration. In one group are gathered specimens of' the print cloths used in different countries from the Philippines to Mexico, showing the various patterns and textures in favor in each market. To each sample is affixed a card bearing the name of the country where it is manufactured, the country where it is sold, the cost price and the selling price. With these facts at his command, the American manufacturer can easily figure out whether it is possible for him to make these goods in competition with foreign makers. If he decides that he can, he has the advantage, in going into a new market, of knowing just what competion he must meet, and also what his prospective customers presumably like.—harles H. Cramp, in Ainslee’s. Superiority of American Ships. American ship-building is encouraged by the failure of the new German steamer Kaiser . Friedrich to make her contract speed. She fell two knots short of it, and has been rejected by the company for which she was built. Such mishaps do not befall Americanbuilt steamers. Recently a captain captured a young seal near Anacapa island, California, and took him on board his ship. As the vessel started the mother seal was noticed swimming about, howling piteously. The little captive barked responsively. After reaching the wharf at Santa Barbara the captive was tied up in a jute sack and left loose on the deck. Soon after coming to an anchor the seal responded to its mother’s call by casting itself overboard, all tied up as it was in the saek. The mother seized the sack and with her sharp teeth tore it open. She had followed .the sloop 80 milea.

FOR WINTER FEEDING. Missouri Farmer Describes a Rack Which He Has I scU with Success for Years. A Missourian sends to the Breeders Gazette a sketch of a rack in which he feeds corn (fodder and all) and hay to cattle, and he has the following to say about his system of feeding: The rack is set in blue grass pasture where cattle are being fed. I do not full feed in winter, so in the fall I bring my racks in and line them up on the southeast side of sheds, grove, etc. I then set posts all around them about two and one-half or three feet apart. I use fence rails, as they are cheap and abundant and answer every purpose. The posts n (i fl IT n

MISSOURI FEEDING RACK. ought not to extend more than one and one-half or two feet above the top of the ♦rough on the side where feed is put in from sled or low wheeled wagon. My method of feeding eattle is to buy light, well-bred young animals in the fall and winter them strong. About May 1, or when the grass is good, I move these same troughs back to the summer feeding grounds and give one feed per day of broken snapped corn. The object of this plan of winter feeding is to keep the csittle themselves from soiling the feed by tramping, and especially to keep the hogs off it. I have tried penning the hogs, also changing the cattle to another lot, but found neither us satisfactory as this. .I cut all my corn in shocks 16 hills square, also make as much clover hay as I can, all of which is fed during winter. as above stated. Most of the fodder is fed, corn and all, right from the field. By feeding this way all the time in one place I soon have a great bed of stalks and refuse, which keeps down all mud and makes a fairly comfortable bed for the steers. This also makes a big manure pile, which even in this country is a good thing to have, especially if put on the stubble clover with a spreader, as I did last fall, lightly manuring from this one source alone fully 25 acres. This rack is Tight (three by twelve feet), is easily moved, and thus is in use nearly all the time, winter and summer. My steers wintered this way and did well last winter. VALUE,OF FORESTS. Department of Agriculture Is Trying Hard to Enlightenr'Fnrmers , on This Subject. Few .’persons comprehend in full measure the direct and indirect value of forests to farmers. In the humid portions of America, where. nearly every farm has its wood lot, the total area of woodland is more than 200,000,000 acres. The division of forestry of the agricultural department is prepared to render practical and personal assistance to farmers and others by cooperating with them to establish forest plantations, wood-lots, shelter-belts and windbreaks. Applications for such assistance will be considered in the order of their receipt, but the division reserves the right to give preference to those likely to furnish the most useful object lessons. After an application has been made and accepted, the

superintendent of tree planting or one of his assistants will visit the lafnd of the applicant, and, after adequate study of the ground, will make a working plan suited to its particular conditions. The purpose of this plan is to give help in the selection of trees, information' in regard to planting, and instruction in handling forest trees afteT they are planted. In other words, the division proposes to give such aid to tree planters that wood-lots, shelterbelts, windbreaks and all other economic plantations of forest trees may be so well established and cared for as to attain the greatest usefulness and most permanent value to their owners. These services are rendered farmers free of any cost. Silage for Fattening Stock. At the Ontario agricultural college they fed three lots of two steers each as follows: Lot 1 had 57 pounds of ensilage each, lot 2, 31 pounds of Milage and 9 pounds of hay, lot 3, 43 pounds of roots and 11 pounds of hay. Each had about 12 pounds a day of grain, consisting of ground peas, barley and oats. Lot 1 weighed 2,789 pounds at the beginning, and in 146 days gained 555 pounds, or 1.9 pounds each per day. Lot 2 weighed 2,735 pounds at first and gained in same time 448 pounds, or 1.53 pounds each

per day. Lot 3 weighed 2,672 pounds, and in the time gained 537 pounds, or 1.84 pounds a day. The gain by feeding only ensilage and grain was not much larger than that on roots and hsy-wHti grain, but all estimates indicate that the silage is much more easily and cheaply produced, the 57 pounds' requiring less land and less labor than the 43 pounds of roots, to say nothing of -cost of the hay. One object to be gained by pruning is to reduce the wood so as fairly to equalize growth so that the leaves and branches will not interfere one with the other.

fHE EARLY PRESIDENTS, Sustained Closer Relations with the Senate Then Than They Do hour. The concluding volume of the series compiled by Representative James D. Richardson, of Tennessee, under the title: “Messages and Papers of the Presidents of the United States,” has just come from the government printing office. Besides the appendix and index, it contains a number of the special messages purposely oruitted from early volumes, and some on general topics, which were accidentally overlooked. These include a few which give us an interesting glimpse of our past national history, and throw side lights upon the more modern methods and

events. One ol them calls to mind the factthat in the old times the relations of the president with the senate when acting in its executive capacity were rather closer than now. The record shows that, instead of sending a message by the hand of a clerk to the senate, which wa& to give its “advice and consent” to the matters detailed therein, “the president of the United States (George Washington) came into the senate chamber attended by Gen. Knox” (his secretary of war), and laid a statement of\his policy before that body. One point after another was called up and made the subject of comment, and a vote was^ taken on it, after which “the president of the United States withdre w from the senate chamber and the vice president put the question of adjournment.” This proceeding bore a distinct resemblance, in its own way, to the system under which, in the British parliament, the responsible administrative officers meet their legislative critics face to face and explain and defend government measures. Other papers show the speed with which events in our early history vindicated the wisdom of Washington’s warning, in his farewell address, of the fickleness of international friendships. In 1796 we find the official spokesman of the French republic greeting the American people as “friends and brothers,” and saying pf his country that, long accustomed to regard the American people as her most faithful allies, she has sought to draw closer the ties already

formed in the fields of America, under the auspices of victor}7 “over the ruins of tyranny,” etc. Only two years later we come upon a circular of instruction issued from the navy department to commanders of armed vessels of the United States “to subdue, seize and take any armed French vessel sailing under authority or pretense of authority from the French republic which shall be found within the jurisdictional limits of the United States or elsewhere on the high seas,” and more to like effect. Thus promptly were snapped the sentimental ties formed in the field between the French people and our own. Official absenteeism had already drawn notice to itself as an abuse before our republic was a dozen years old, as appears from a circular issued to “the heads ot the departments” by President Jefferson in 1801, concerning the machinery of .official communication between the various officers of the government. After describing how letters on executive business had always been referred by President Washington to the several cabinet secretaries and the secretaries’ reference of their proposed answers to him, Jefferson tartly continues: “During Mr. Adams’ administration his long and continued absence from the seat -of government rendered this kind of communication impracticable, removed him from any share in the transaction of affairs and parceled out the government, in fact, amqng four independent heads, drawing sometimes in opposite directions. That the former is preferable to the latter course cannot be doubted.” And how quaintly, in view of the conditions existing to-day, reads the letter of Gov. Collins, of Rhode Island, addressed in September, 1789, to “the president, the senate and the house of representatives of the 11 United States of America, in congress assembled, to explain the unwillingness of Rhode Island to come into the union until she had some further assurances that it was not going to be merely a stepping stone back to monarchy.” The people of his state, Mr. Collins took pains to emphasize, “know themselves to be a handful, comparatively viewed; and although they now stand, as it were, they have not separated themselves or departed from the principles of that federation which was formed by the sister states in their struggle for freedom and in the hour of danger. We are induced to hope,” he added later, “that we shall not be altogether considered as foreigners having no particular affinity or connection with the United States, but that trade and commerce upon which the prosperity of this state much depends will be preserved as free «nd open between this and the United States as our different situations at present can possibly admit.”—N. Y. Dost. Kroner** Talking: Tree. There is a wonderful elm tree in the Transvaal. The legend of its remarkable behavior runs thus: When under its branches a council of war was being held by the Boer generals during the Transvaal’s last war with the English a shrill voice proceeded from the tree prophesying that the Boers should be victorious over their enemies andin the future should be unconquerable.— N\ Y. World.

Higher Criticism. The savage held his temper admirably. ‘‘Nature, he replied, with a comprehensive gesture, “is our Bible!” “Then of course you have no higher criticism!” exclaimed the enlightened man, shuddering. “Oh, but we have!” protested the savage, vehemently. “Why, there are among us any number of advanced thinkers who wonder for instance, if there isn’t too much salaratus in the bread fruit! Yes, sir!” Here we see that the mind is alike impatient of fetters, no matter what man’s corporeal condition be.—Detroit Journal. Every reader of this paper should give special heed to the offers which are appearing from week to week by the John M. Smyth Co., the mammoth mail order house of Chicago. In this issue will be found their advertisement of a thoroughly up-to-date, first-class sewing machine, at the astoundingly low price of $14.25. Coming as this offer and other offers do from a house with a commercial rating of over one million dollars, and of the highest character, they mark an opportunity that the shrewd buyer will not be slow to take advantage of. The John M. Smyth Co., 150 to 166 West Madison street, will send their mammoth catalogue, in which is listed at wholesale prices everything to eat, wear and use, on receipt cf only 10 cents to partly pay postage or expressage, and even this 10 cents is allowed on first purchase amounting to one dollar.

Hla Ability. Seldum Fedd—Dat feller, Hungry Hooks, is a credit to de perfession. Soiled Spooner—You betl He could steal de soda right out of a biscuit widout break' in’ de crust.—Judge. Give tbe Children a Drink called Grain-O. It is a delicious, appetizing, nourishing food drink to take the place of coffee. Sold by all grocers and liked by ali who have used it, because when properly prepared it tastes like the finest coffee but is free from all its injurious properties. Grain-0 aids digestion and strengthens the nerves. It is not a-stimulant but a health builder, and children, as well as adults, can drink it with great benefit. Costs about| as much as coffee. 15 and 25c. A Bad Case. Doctor—You are troubled with insomnia. Patient—Terribly.. I can’t even sleep when it’s time to get up.—Puck. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove’s Tasteless Chill Ton ic. Itis simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure-no pay. Price,50c. Some folks say this worl* is not dey home. Dat’s why dey moves w’enever house rent’ come due.—Atlanta Constitution. To Cure a Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. So long as we have the self-made man, there will doubtless be a call for the readymade ancestry.—Detroit Journal. Piso’s Cure for Consumption has saved me many a doctor’s bill —Si F. Hardy, Hop* kins Place, Baltimore, Md., Dec. 2, ’94. A lot of the conversation worked off in society ought to be dumped in the garbage can.—-Chicago Daily News.

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In Dixie. The old colored man was watching the new-fangled machine spin down the, street, and remarked: “I reckens dat mus’ be one er—one er dem autographs.” “It’s an automobile.” “Dat’s it. I alius was gittin' dem two towns mixed, but I knowed it war some’ere in Alabama.”—Automobile: Magazine.

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