Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 51, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 April 1900 — Page 7

HIS PRIVATE SECRETARY. • A Kindly Old Gentleman's Way to "Prevent an Old Schoolmate Feellav Badly. “I’ll never furgit it,” began the old resilient, who had just returned from0 attendance upon the graduating exercif fs of his grandson. "You folks hew in Detroit, alightin' over your schools, a don’t know nuthin’ about what trouble wo used to have in gettin a little learn in’ in them early days out west. A few winters in a deestriek school w'.s the best we could expect, and it was frum one of them schools I graduated. I mean ‘graduated,’ jest as 1 speak it, fur there was .1 young feller kim out frum the east that winter, and he stirred up up proper. He was right up ter date, uster to read and talk on everything there was in the text books, and ’ranged it so that the scholar*! could pass a certain examination at the end of the winter was to haxt diplomeys. “The thing worked so well that school was run right along till June. 'Inert was four girls passed and me and the son of the richest man in the 5 county. My folks was poorer than Joh’b turkey, and when it kinp to the commencement I felt cheaper’n a brass watch, fur the other chhp got about half a greenhouse in flowers, a dinmon' stud and a lot of books with fancy bindin’. I got a necktie my mother made herself, and a big bunch o’ johnny jump-ups fruin the girl that’s now^my wife. ‘*J made my fortune in Califojney keepin’ store in the flush time beginniu’ with ’49, and kim here ter Detroit to enjoy it.” “And the other man of your class?” “He clerked fur me in Californey, and now I call him my private see’eliny, so he won’t think he’s livin’ on charity.”—Detroit Free Press. A DAZED WESTERNER.

4 Westerner Loses Ills Breath in New York Just Before the Skinning Process Begun. “What kind of a town is this yoji art getting?” breathlessly afjted a bewildered gentleman from the west as he uii ived ten minutes late at unimportant appointment, looking as if he had undergone a severe shock of some kind. “Why, has anything struck you as being out of the ordinary?” responded his Mew York friend,who was not a little pleased to find that that there was something in the east that could disturb the equanimity of a man from the f'wesf’. “Huh!” said the westerner. “I should say that something has, Severn1 times, in fact, and this is why I am late getting here. To begin with, I was almost run over over by a cable cav when I was crossing Broadway at Twenty-third street. That was bad enough for a man who has - always liked horses and has lived among them all his life, but it is not the worst. As L jumped out of the way of the cable car 1 bumped into a horseless carriage, .and while I was getting away from that I was almost run over by a man on a bicycle.” “That was rather rough,” said the New York gentleman, with affected sympathy and a secret glow of satisfaction, “but you must not. be hard on "us. We are in a sort or transition pe- ' riod just now. But I think that I may safely predict that if you come back in a fefv years and get into a fix like that you will rescued by a man on a living machine.” And then the New Yorker proceeded to skin that dazed westerner outt of his eye teeth.r—The Criterion. The Increase of Nationalities. ' According to a German statisician, Russia is the nation which increases the fastest—her population will double in about forty-five years. Germany needs sixty-five years, Austra-Hungary seventy, England eighty, Italy 110, but France ean only do it in 860 years, provided the present annual increase does not diminish, which unfortunately seems to be the case. The loss' of Alsace-Lorraine, with a population of 1 £50,000 souls is nothing in view of the insignificant annual increase of France’s population. During the last five years the population of Germany has increased 3,000,000, while France’s increase has been scarcely 175,000—a considerable part of whom are moreover of foreign nationality.—Paris American Register.

Lacking la Judgment. . “The Bobetrays are such good hearted people, but* they have no judgment” “What have they done now?” “Why, on Christmas Day they took In a wretched dog right off the street, a miserable mongrel that never had a square meal in his life, and choked him to death with a turkey-and-mince-pie * dir.ier.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Over-Prodvctlom of Broom Corn. All indications point this year to an enormous plant of broom corn. From . reliable information on hand, there will be enough raised to supply this country for four years. Prices on same will hardly pay rent, seed and taxes._ City Peculiarities. Why should Hartford be the center of insurance in this country, instead of „ Tsew York? Why should Boston be the center of the copper industry? There is no copper within 1,000 miles of the Hub. Why should a majority of our shoes be made at Lynn? We can understand why Pittsburgh should be ■ the center of the iron industry, sitting as she does in the heart of the ore and coal region, but why should she make nearly all of our glass when there is better sand elsewhere? Why is Providence the great iewelry-makingr city?

WOULDN'T DRINK MILK. st«rr of ■ Calf That Grew Up oa Water and Grau and Developed Into a Good Cow.

We once raised a calf that nevei learned to drink milk, writes a contributor to Natoinal .Stockman and Farmer.- It was the only case of the gort 1 ever heard of and we naturally supposed that it would die, for by no possible means could it be taught to drink any milk, more than just to taste of it. It grew very thin, even before we gave it up, but as nobody wanted , the job of killing it, we turned it into the field and let it take its chances. After that it lived somehow, on grass and water, and it did not get any too much of either, for we had the bad habit of turning calves into a sort of ; clearing that had neither water nor feed in much quantity, expecting the calves to live mainly on milk. The calf that would not drink milk seemed to fairly dry5 and shrivel up till it was a sort of walking shadow, but it made a great fight for life and came ont in the fall quite an animal, so that it wintered with the other stock and began the second year about even. It was a heifer and' as a cow developed the ordinary milking qualities of the rest of the herd, none the worse, apparently, for its experience. Nobody had any idea why it disliked milk. I cannot remember whether it began by | sucking the mother or not', but suppose that it did, as it was common to allow the calf to remain with the cow till the milk was fit to use. 8 My experience is that all possible effort to get calves to eating solid food early is valuable. We take to late summer or fall calves as we watch them more. These can be taught to eat grass early, and as it does not physic them as the over-succulent spring growth does, they can eat as much as they will without injury. CREAMERY TROUBLES. One of the Biasest ^Obstacles Eacountered la Dishonesty Among Those Supplying Milk. One of the hard things that the man ager of a creamery or cheese factory has to contend with is dishonesty among those that supply milk. Where milk is purchased by the hundred pounds this condition is particularly acute, and it even exists in considerable measure where the milk is purchased by the test. One cheesemaker tells of the trouble he has with his patrons that bripg poor milk. He says that one map continually brought milk so near the' soufing point that it ttfas sometimes impossible to use it, and once or twice it was returned. But the man would always come back smiling the next day and assert that the manager was wrong in sending back the milk—that it kept perfectly for a long time afterward. One day the milk brought was so near sour that the manager thought It necessary to refuse it. He thought, however, that he would be sure that this milk soured, so he slyly slipped into the cans enough rennet to make the milk thick in a short time. The following morning the farmer was back with a new lot of milk, but declared that the milk of the preceding day kept over night, and that some of it was used for making custard thg next day. Of course, it was not policy for the manager to give away the fact that he knew the man was lying, or that be had put rennet in the milk. It illustrates one of the biggest obstacles in the way of getting clean milk.~Farmers’ Review. CURE FOR KICKERS. A Simple Device Which Usually Reduces Unruly Dairy Cows to Abject Submission. To keep a cow from kicking while milking, tie her in the stall. Tie a rope to a joist and the other end to one end

* *^~ «•rSSf- * AN ANTI-KICKING DEVICE of a rail. The left leg should be in front of the rail as illustrated. If she tries to kick, she only strikes the rail end« and will not be likely to try it many times.—S. Dole, in Farm and Home. - Points of a Good Cow. Individual cows differ, i„r which reason there dre no rules that can be relied upon with certainty as being adapted for all. The following, which have been given before, will be found useful: (1) Long, large udder, broad and elastic, (nj Soft, mellow skin on udder. (3) Large barrel, with broad ribs wide apart, and firm muscles in abdomen (denoting excellent feeding capacity). (4) Broad loins, with long rumps and lean hips. (5) Long neck, clean-cut face and large eyes. (6) Soft, velvety skin on the body and especially on the rump. (7) Wellformed teats, standing well apart. (8) Prominent tubes under the belly, extending from the point of the ud4er, having the appearance of covered ropes, and sometimes knov 4 as “milk ducts.” (9) Mild expression. (10) Inaptitude to fatten. Extra methods of cleanliness are required to produce a natural, wholesome flavored milk from stable-confined cows. Are your milk and butter abso lately faultless in this direction? %

SELECTED GEHS OF VERSE. Tke PhlioMphev. Oh, his face Is very solemn As he looks along the column Where the economic theories are spread. And he says we mipt be careful. Likewise erudite and pray'rful. If we aren’t—well, we might as w%il M dead. And the coal is getting lower And the clock Is ticking slower And the lawyer’s written threatening i call He Is poor as any pe^int, ‘ Some would say it w?s unpleasant. But it doesn’t seem to worry him at all His researches scientific Are with doubts and fears prolific; He says the earth will shrivel up and freese. And we won’t have any fuel To confront the winter cruel— He is much disturbed o’er matters such as these. His bank account la tiny And his sleeves are short and shiny. And a creditor is waiting in the hali It is scarce the situation For a man of education. But it doesn’t seem to worry him' at alL -Washington Star. O Ye of Little Faith. A sower sowed his seed, with doubts and fears; **I dare not hope." he said, “for fruitful cars; Poor hath the harvest been in other years.” Yet ere the August moon had waxen old ! Fair stood his fields, a waving sea of gold; He reaped aethousandfold! In a dark place one dropt a kindly word; “So weak roy voice," he sighed, “perchance none heard. Or If they did. no answering impulse stirred.” Yet In an hour his fortunes were at stake; One put a life In peril for his sake. Because that word he spake! “Little I have to give, O Lord,” one cried, “A wayward heart that oft hath Thee denied ; CouldstThou with such a gift be satisfied?” Yet when the soul had ceased Its mournful plaint, God took the love that seemed so poor and faint And from.It made a saint! —Christian Burke, In Sunday Magazine.

The Tides. Be careful what rubbish you toss In tht tide; On outgoing billows It drifts from your sight. But back on the incoming waves it may ride. And land at your threshold again before night. 5 Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide. Be careful what follies you toss in youth’s sea; On bright dancing billows they drift far away. But back on the Nemesis tide they may be Flung down at your feet all unwelcome some day. Be careful what follies you toss in youth's sea. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Youth’s Com panion. ‘‘Even This Shall Pbm Away." The seasons come, the seasons go, / The crocus dies, the roses blow; 1 The quiet, sunny, summer noon To winter's cold shall change full soon. Say not “Alas!'* For all things pass. This day thy feet may firmly tread Where they who loved thee once lie dead; The child who clings to thy strong hand To-morrow in thy place shall stand. « Say not “Alas!*' For thou must pass. But when the phantom. Death, draws near, Breathe thou no sigh and sited no tear; Look upward with unfailing trust To Him who knoweth thou art dust. Say not “Alas!" 1, For Death shall pass. —Churchman.* A Dangerous Experiment. X know a man who has no friend * In all this teeming earth; His days in solitude he’ll end Afar from sounds of mirth. The ,truth somehow went to his head; By trouble he is caught. He frankly went ahead and said What everybody thought. Some people said: “Of course it's true And. that's what makes it worse; We’ll have to quit him. He is due To feel the social curse Which o’er the over-bold is spread.** His life with woe is fraught And all because he frankly said What everybody thought. —Washington Star.

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Every spring you clean the house you live in, to get rid the dtist and dirt which collected m the winter. Your body, the house your soul I ves in, also becomes filled up during the w nter with all manner of filth, which should l:iave been removed from day to day, but was not. Your body needs cleaning inside. If* your bowels, your liver, v your kidneys are lull of putrid filth, and you don’t dean diem out in the spring, you’ll be in bad :dor with yourself and everybody else aE summer. DON'T USE A HOSE to dean your body inside, buti sweet, fragrant, mild but positive and forceful CASCARETS, that work while you sEtep, prepare all the filth

\ collected m drive it off surely, leaving your Wood pure and nourishing, your lively, and your liver and kidneys healthy and active* not satisfied pet vour monev hack—hut vmiTl see tor removal, and hut none the %ss bowels clean and box today, and if of your body is ALL DRUGGISTS will send a box free. Address and paper. 423