Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 5, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 June 1900 — Page 7

' '' DEHORNING CATTLE. A Rack Especially Coailrncted foi the Purpose of Securely Holding Mature Cattle. In the work of dehorning mature cattle, it is essential that they be securely held. ’The best plan I know of is by means of a rack, as illustrated, and which I have used with hundreds of head of stock. For its construction, take two scantlings, a a, 2xf> inches by 6 feet. Bore three 1 Viinch holes through each piece, one in middle and one at. each end. Put in three rounds, each 3 feet long, which makes the main frame. Bolt on six upright pieces, b, 2x4 inches and 5 feet high, one at middle, the j other two at ends,fon each side. Mor, t

► DEHORNING RACK. lise or bolt on three crosspieces, c. at the top of uprights, each 3 feet long, to keep sides from spreading. Then nail on two oak planks, h, 2 feet 1C inches above the main frame lloor. 3x12 inches by 7y2 feet; allow IS inches to extend in front to tie the animal's head to. Then board tip the sides nearly solid, except for two slats, the lower one, to put a board, j, 1 foot wide, through, to prevent falling down while dehorning; the slot, i, be* ing used to put a windlass, k, through, to draw the animal to the front of the stock. Nail two strips on each side to top of uprights, each 1x4 inch and 6 feet, long. Then spike on two 2x4-inch pieces 5 feet long, d, across each end of the frame at the ends and on the bottom. Let them extend out 1 foot on each side. Brace them firmly as shown at e. The head of the animal is fastened with a rope through the holes shown at protruding end of board, h. A peg is inserted under the animal’s neck at g. The windlass is attached to the rope about the animal's head and the head is drawn down close and tight against the board, h..—J. M. Tanner, in Farm and Home. HOW TO PREVENT FLIES. First KsMcntlal Is the Removal of Filth and Trash, Tlielr Natural Breeding Ground.

One of the greatest nuisances about a farm is the pest of flies in the summer and fall. It would be hard to estimate the loss occasioned by them every year about the barns, daily and feedllots. No cow can do herself justice where she is forced to keep up a continued battle with a swarm of flies from daylight until dark. Worrying jit the flies is more wearing on a team than hard labor. The cause of pastured and fattening stock losing flesh in the summer is the flies. As with most evils, the best Cure is prevention. To prevent the pest one must remove their breeding-ground, which is the filth and trash about the premises. It is the case on most farms that the manure-heaps are allowed to accumulate during the summer and the yards to go uncleaned. These furnish the best of breedingplaces for the flies. Swill barrels and buckets, too, are never washed out, but are allowed to sour and become Jncrusted with dirt, another source of ilies. In feeding the hogs and calves milk and slop are spilled about the troughs and barrels day after day. The ground thus treated soon becomes a hotbed for the eggs, which will hatch and feed there. Open closets and uncovered drains are another source, as is any place where there is decayed matter or filth for the maggots to thrive upon after hatching. Flies are far more of a local pest than most people imagine. A farm-house whose grounds are kept clean and whose back yard is free from refuse, slops, etc./will be little troubled with flies. Stock kept in a clean stable or lot will be less troubled than the animals of the untidy, shiftless farmer. Cleanliness And flies dc not thrive together.—J. L. Irwin, ii, Farm and Fireside.

Cow with Queer Appetite. Occasionally we hear of caftle that ' develop an abnormal appetite for wood, eating rotten pieces of boards, etc. A contributor to National Stockman states that at one Crawford county institute a gentleman complained that one of his cows -had eaten a pig-pen, a string of fence and other lumber on the premises, and he had been compelled to fence her away from the barn to save it. He has fed her many^and various feeding stuffs, besides bonemeal, sawdust and other side-dishes. With lumber at present prices, the cow has expensive tastes. He wishes to know what produced the appetite, and what will cure it. He thinks he has provided foods that furnish all the mineral elements needed, and the inclination to chew sticks and boards seems now to be only a vicious habit- / , •

EE WANTED MORE TIME. A. Tonsh Ball Player Wbow l»-Crow« Ins Apjretlte Came Ob by FrelRht. . There was “Beezy** McGuirk—do you remember sweet Beezy. Ben Bolt? Sweet Beezy, of whom they relate that he brought down his clothes in a sis^inch valise, but his appetite, came down by freight, says the Lewiston Journal. On his arrival in town McGuirk appeared' to President Isaacson, of the baseball association, at the latter's: store. Beezy carried a grip—a fuzzy canvas affair about as big ns a woodsman's mitten, lie had ail his possessions there. “Say, boss," said McGuirk. “eanyer give me the dead straight line on a good hashhouse? Me name's McGuirk and I am on de team." President Isaacson sent4 hint to one of the smaller hotels. And then for a brief time the tumult aroused by Beezy's arrival in town subsided. Then one day appeared unto Mr. Isaacson the proprietor of the hotel,'. He had woe !'• his fr ee. “I like all those beys that you have j sent up there, and 1 get along with ! them first rate," said the hotel, man. "But there is that fellow that , they call Beezy—only just that one— I don't like him." “What's the milt tor with him?" “Well, lie's too tough. He sits and chews tobacco and spits on the marble steps. He v^on't spit anywhere else. Xow. 1 don't like that." "Why don't you tell him so?" “I don't dare. He is too tough.** “Well, tell him to go somewhere else."

“I don’t dare to do that either. I tell you that fellow is awful tough.” ‘*1 don't know what 1 can do," said President Isaacson. “You'll have *to run your hotel yourself. Put I'd get rid of him if 1 didn't vvan.t him around.” About two days afterward Beezy appeared at Isaacson’s store. He was “all packed up.” He was moving1. He carried the fuzzy little valise, that he held as gingerly as though it contained dynamite. “Say, boss,” he commenced. “I’m up aginst her agin. I'm goin' to steal a base to anodder hashhouse an’ I want a tip from de coach line, see? Where’ll 1 go?” “What’s the trouble up where you are?*’ __ “Well, 1 t'ink de cook's got de Charley horse in her arm. Can’t even git de fish balls over de plate. I’ve sprained me arm reaehin’ for grub. L t'ink dev’ve got it up agin me dere. I donno what fur.” “Ts that so?” “Hat's on de <]ead. You see. dey sets on de grub in dinky little dishes de same as ye see on de side of a canary cage. Dey must t'ink l*m a bur'rd,' 1 reckon. Hut I ain't, boss, and I don't like cuttlefish, see? I want meat—I don't care if it's tuff, so long as dere’s lots of it. I likes dat place where dey sets de hash right on de table in buf dishes and lets yer hoe in and ifip deep. Dat's de place 1 want, arm if yer knows such a place I'll go down dere, boss, on de nex' ball dat's pitched.” vyl It was an appeal not to be resisted. “Boss” Isaacson found a place for Beezy where tfre hash came on aliopathieally. WHAT CHILDREN LIKE. The WorkliiRs of the Child’s Mind r Are Rarely Understood by Parents.

A very original experiment was recently made by a lady who is fond of studying the characteristics of children. She wrote on the blackboard of a London board school the following question: “If a fairy were to offer you anything you like, what would you choose, and why?” A child who evidently had. social aspirations wished for “a carriage with four lovely white horses so that I could drive to theaters, parties and balls,” Then another, anxious to get all she could from the fairy, answered: “To live in a palace, and have all that my heart desires,” adding: “I should like long life and health, and no troubles and worries.*’ There is a pathetic ring about the wish of one child, who would have asked for “new’ boots and underclothing.” One would like to be a fairy godmother to that mite for a few hours. The girl who carried off the prize wished for money. With this she would “travel abdut the w*orld,” she said, “and help poorer people.” She also proposed to build a home for girls and boys “whose mothers and fathers are drunk nearly all day long.” Significant this of some daily sordid misery in this child's life. -It is given to a very few people, says the Philadelphia Times, to understand the workings of the child mind, and it is only by exercise of patience and the utmost sincerity that one can get to know* the ideas and desires that are formed in the ever-busy little brains. A pretty story was once told by Sir Edwin Arnold of three children of his acquaintance, whom he asked at their bedtime, when about to say their prayers, if they would pray for what they wanted most. After.the two eldest had made their requests, the youngest,1 a little girl, knelt down, and, putting her hands together, said: “Dear God, love me when I am naughty, like mamma.”

Thl* Great Country. We make our own Cuban cigars. | We manufacture better news from foreign lands than Is to be found there. We raise our own European wines and mineral waters. The finest French sardines in the world come from Maine. The choicest and most expensive of Dresden china is grown in Xetv Jersey. We declare war in more places in a minute than some other countries can declare in three hours and a half. We don’t want the earth. We are it. Hurrah!—Truth. Hammers Drive* ly Air. Pneumatic hummers, driven by com pressed air, are now generally used instead of hand labor for chipping and cleaning iron and steel castings and billets so as to free them from any defects which would injure the finished forms into which they are to be rollml or drawn. This hammer will do tne work of three men. The same principle has been applied in the ship yards for calking, in which the tool can be wpri-"d v?ry fnst. dcing the v. rirk of five or six mcc.—Chicago €h*-ocieie. Breathing Solid Dost. An nerouaut says that there1 is the same difference in the air at the earth's surface and at an altitude of half a mile that th^e is between water ip. a muddy puddle and the purest spring water. He states that for a time one feels, after coming down from an ascent, as if one were breathing “solid dust.”—Chicago Inter Ocean. ^ Cadiz a White City. There could not possibly be a whiter city than Cadiz unless it were built of snow. As you near the coast you see in front of you n white mass which appeal's to be floating upon the water. The first thought of a foreigner is that he is in sight of an iceberg.—Chicago Inter Ocean.

Like Some of Her Elilm. “Every morning on the way to • school,” said the. little miss, “the boys eaten me and kiss me.” “Why don’t you run from them?” asked her father. “Because,” replied the small edition of Eve, “maybe they wouldn’t chase me.”—Chicago Post. Au Kiplanatton. His Little Son—rapa, what is retrenchment? ^ The Congressman — Retrenchment, my boy, consists chiefly in abolishing offices tilled by members of the opposite party.—Puck. * Laity l-inonjfh. “How do you know that, pretty young woman is the wife ot the fellow with the side whiskers?” “1 just heard him say to her: ‘Come on, I’ll dance this one with you.’ ”— Cleveland Leader. “The Poeri Fire.-’ Prof. Dryasdust—Now, Mr. Wagger, can you explain what the poet means by “the embers of the dying year?” Mr. Wagger—Certainly, professor. November and December.—N. Y. World. Two Years* Alike. The calendar for the present year exactly reproduces that of 18S7. Each year began on a Saturday, had a 2Sth day of "February, and in both year? Easter falls on April 10. A Case of StagsertiiK. She—Why men drink is what always staggers me, • ■ He—What they drink is what usually staggers me.—Harlem Life. Sure Stern. “She said I was the most provoking man on earth.” “That was your time to propose.*— Chicago Post

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7100 Reward flOO. Tlse readers-of this paper will be pleased to ieara tnat there is at least one areadeu disease that science has been able to cure iu all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarra be;ng a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so mnch faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure, bend for list of testimonials. Address F.J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, a Sold by Druggists, ?5c. Hall’s Family PiL!- are the best. He (ardently)—-I am heels over head in love with you.” She (the cruel coquette)— «et you must be. —Town ‘How awfully upset you Topics Piso’s Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and Fe^HMSOO ^ A^sley, Vanburen, Ini, Pope says: The mind’s the measure of the man. Perhaps that is why seme men are so hard to find.—Ram’s Horn. The Beet Prescription (or Chills j and Fever is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Toxic. Itis simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. Ncc^re—no pay. Price,50c. When a man says he wants work, he does not always mean that he is willing to do the work he is capable of doing, at the market price.—Atchison Globe. Try Yucatan Chill Tonic (Improved). A reliable Tonic: each dose has the same proportion of medicine. Pleasant to take. Price, 50 cents. The depth of feeling displayed bv the mosquito touches all mankind.* — Chicago Daily JfewS. To Care a Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure- 25c. The man who can give no reasons for his opinions is the hardest to change.—Washington (la.) Democrat. S. R. Baldwin, Columbus, Ga., writes: I occasionally give a Teethina Powder to keep my teething child’s gums softened. A SENATOR'S LETTER. Perima as a Nefye and Catarrh Tonic the Talk of the World.

Hon. W, V. Sullivan. U. S. Senator from Mississippi, v Hon. W. V. Sullivan, United States Senator from Mississippi, in a letter recently written to l)r. Hart man from Oxford, Miss., says the following: “For some time I' have been a sufferer from catarrh in its most incipient stage, so much so that I became alarmed as to my general health. Bat,* hearing of l’e-ru-na as a good remedy, I gave it a fair trial and soon began to improve. Its effects were distinctly beneficial, removing the annoying 'ula' symptoms, and was particularly good as a tonic. “I take pleasure in recommending your Ereat national catarrh cure, Pe-ru-na, as the est I have ever tried.” "W. V. Sullivan.” Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Peruna has no substitutes—no rivals. Insist upon having Peruna. Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, 0., for a free book on catarrh. p;o;o:o:o:o:o:o:o:ao:o;Q $@®3X E5TB££ <HPT J*RBg? Send your name and address on a< postal, and we will send you our *56- J page illustrated catalogue free. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CQ. 1180 Winchester Avenue, New Haven, Conn. BE INDEPENDENT! Get SO atm of land in the great BAN JOAOn .V V A 1.1. KY.California. It will maintained cows annually. Good profits in fruit, oranges, dairying, poultry and stock raising. Cash demand for all products. Educational advantages unexcelled. Irrigated crops pay and never fail. Level lands with water rights, free from bush, stones sad sod, in populated communities, at from to $15 per acre. Send te. in Stamps for illustrated pamphlet, to Has Jmaata Talley Comwerelal Auaclatloa, VISALIA, CAUVOkXU. I

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New Binding Twine, 91c Lb. We received the following telegram from our buyer wai.ih explains itself; “Purchased three hundred and seventy-flv* thousand (375.000) pounds New Standard Binding Twit;’*. Price enables us to sell at nine seven-eighths (OX). Twine, will arrive promptly. 1 congratulate you." This new'vinding twine -will be placed on sale by us May 25th, and will be sold by us until'this lot is gone *t9>$ cents forSt&sriard and HX cents for Manila Mixed - __ STANDARD TW11IC AT 9 7-8 CENTS AND No. pectation of being ati e to get any twine at anything like this price, IY PEOPLE A FEW WEEKS ACQ. W'o always believe, whe. m the beaetic of our cue basis on which we do business, namely Iv „„ ,..... _______,______charging theoi the regular market value. Consequently^** divide this pi and will simple sav that when this twine is out you can rest assured that we will try to make you as low prices as possible, but. nevertheless, we would sugg.is l that you get your order in at once for any part that you may want of this lot. We will be able to ship by May 30th, as the twine readies us by fast freight. The above telegram was received May 2L Sand for agricultural, implement catalog u*. T. M. ROBERTS’ SUPPLY HOUSE, nSgB^VUtfiMMri& MINNEAPOLIS, MINN, _ _ ___ _ ___ la ordering this tie i»» reason that we eenld possibly obtain this twine was that a partv neSSfsnot^Ssl!?0W®?ad*?io , xpectafioo^o£^Sigafif,e to^g^Tn? twine at^nytSng^fiSe?^?* p3c£?Aril*70u W ■' * - — —- --— - -*- We always believe, wheu we get a bargain. ' ' * ’ saies and small rotit with you. ftlikollM&mfteTlV ISTt|-8nOF A CENT LESS THAWTOUR FARMER FRIENDS PAID TO THE PENITENTIARY PEOPLE A~FEYlJ WEEK'S ACQ. always believe; wheu wi In dividing It witli our friends and customers, feeling that when they know that we are alwa. * willing to treat them right and give them the benefit of onr c ne basis on which we do business, namely large profits, that they will appi^eciate it, and in the end we will make qiore b.r favorftn * them with something of this kind than we would bjr charging them the regular market value. Conseq^uentiy_wd divide this

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