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THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. 19 THESE ARE TH DAYS OF SMALL THINGS The Days of Study, of Pail, Common Sense. KNOWLEDGE. "The Cause That | Knew Not | Searched Cut.” BO SAYS THE TEXAS FLORIST. iy Microbes, the Cause of All Diseases. few people nowadays dispute the germ theory of . It is a theory so easily veri- fied. A microscope, a few minutes of time, an inquiring eye and a receptive mind, and won- ders in the way of illness and its causes may be learned. After discovering the canse of fllness, the next thing is to remove the cause. When a edy is used and the patient steadily grows worse, it is but logical to suppose that the diseuse is being nourished instead of de- stroyed. That the germs, the microbes, are fed and are multiplying themselves. That they are flourishing by what they feed upon. It is always the weakest point of the oily that fs ettacked by disease. Ose may have a delicate stomach. 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Poets and orators have devoted much of their finest language to the bravery de- veloped in facing tne ongry muzzles of bristling cannon, of meeting foemen with cleshing steel, of standing firm before the coming of dreadful epidemics, and all that sort of thing, but they don’t know what inspiration is until they let their language locse on the bravery of mingling with a hundred and fifty skunks loaded and ready for business at a moment's notice. Last Suaday afternoon I went four les from this town down the Muddy Creek pike to see George Ballard’s polecat plant or skunk farm or whatever else it may be caleld, and I enjoyed the experience very much—after it was over and I was at a safe distance again. Here, on the slope of a hillside, Mr. Ballard has an inclosure of about three-quarters of an acre, fenced in with a wire net fence five feet high, and within it he has probably one hundred and fifty skurks of various ages and sizes, and a prettier and livelier sight than this colo- ny having fun with itself on a sunny after- noon would be hard to find. I took a camera along to get a snap shot or two, and when George, in his genuine Kentucky hospitality, opened the gate of the inclosure and invited me to walk in among his collection, I confess to a feeling of wanting-to-be-somewhere-else, the far- ther away the better. A man can’t show the white feather, however, in any sort of an emergency, and retain the proper re- spect of a Kentuckian, and I would have gone into that pen if every skunk there had declared war and trained his arma- ment on me. Dozens of the pretty little black-and- white-striped fellows came up to the net- ting to meet us, and as they showed such friendliness and curiosity, standing up on their hind legs and sniffing the air after the msnner of prairie dogs, and winking and blinking as much as to say they weren't half as bad as they had been represented to be, I overcame my conscientious scru- ples about going into such places on Sun- day, and boldly passed in among them. They scampered away when we went in, with little squeals like young pigs, and dodged into their holes under the rocks and into the boxes made for them, but in a minute or two their curiosity was too much for them, and they came out again and trooped around the pen in a long string like a striped serpent. Powerful When Aroused. Every now and then a scrap would oc- cur, there would be a squeal or two, and a big one would toss a smaller one over Ris back and down the hill. and the procession would move on. As a rule, they are as playful as kittens, show very little fear of man, and their habits are extremely cleanly. This is when they are at peace with all the world and the rest of Ken- tucky. When they are not at peace, then —well, language is utterly inadequate to express what they are. It is one of the things that must be smelled to be appre- ciated. Fortunately, I was not called on to appreciate it. : This farm was established—it is yet only in an experimental stage—in April of last year by Mr. Ballard, Mr. Mockabee and ethers, who had been reading up in the newspapers on skunk farming and the pos- sible profits in the business, and the first thing they did was to select a site and dig a trench down to bedrock, on which to lay a stone foundation. It was necessary to go down to the rock, for a skunk can, and will, dig a mile underground if it should occur to him that there is any necessity. The foundation being firmly fixed, a wire netting fence, with a wide plank on top of it, so the inmates could not reach up over its edge and climb out, was run around it; piles of stones and logs were placed around at intervals, with a number of boxes or coops, and the plant was ready for busi- uess. The next thing was to get a skunk or two, and as soon as the colored brother learned that he could get fifty cents for a good, healthy mephitis mephitica that want was supplied and business began. The majority of the animals owned by Mr. Ballard have been captured, and there is an art in this work, as well as in other dealings with a skunk. As they must be in good condition, it is not possible to Germs OF Typhus Find their way into the system through the water you drink. 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Te is by the judfcicus use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up util streng encugh to resist every tendency of dis- euse. dreds “of | subtl dies are’ floatiny around us y to attack w er there fs a weal oint. We may escape Keeping eurselves: well. fortiti nourished frame. shaft oy nre blood and a properly Service Ga- zette. Made simply with boiling water or mille Sold ‘only 1n half-pound tins, vy grocers, labeled + Homoeopathle Chemists, ‘England. thus: JAMES EPPS & CO., Lta. London, oc5-s,m,tu,9m catch them in the ordinary trap, and noth- ing on earth will coax a skunk into a box trap as a rat may be caught. He is alto- gether too curious for that, and, instead of going Into the box set so invitingly before im, he turns it over two or three times, and generally succeeds in rolling it down a hill or getting its open side down, so he couldn't get in if he wanted to—which he doesn’t generally want to. That leaves but one other mode of capture, to wit, digging him out of.his hole, and here his curios- ity, which before saved him, is fatal to him. You Must Know How. The digger digs away until he is within reaching distance of the skunk and then he gets over behind and above the hole and waits. In a very few minutes ol’ ma’s skunk or ol’ mis’ skunk comes sniffing and peering out to see what it is all about, and just as its head gets past the edge down comes a hand across its nevtk, and that settles the freedom of the skunk. Carefully, then, the captor draws the skunk out, slip- ping his other hand along its body to the end, when, with a quick jerk, he pulls it out and doubles its head under its tail and keeps it that way until he drops it into a sack or box for delivery at the farm. This doubling is to prevent the animal from using its chief weapon of defense, because, as Mr. Ballard says, “he’s got to hump himself before he can throw his stink.” The same results may be obtained by catching the animal by the tail, and hold- ing it up, but a tail hold is not always available, though Mr. Ballard and his son both picked them up that way while they were feeding, and I took a snap shot of the boy holding two up by their tails, but I got away to a safe distance before he let them go. Perhaps no animal in the world—certainly none in America—is in as bad odor in the community where it resides as the skunk is, and there is much reason for this, for there is no smell known which is much worse than that of the peculiar fluid or liquid a skunk discharges when provoked. It comes from a ring-shaped sac at the interior extremity of the alimentary canal and is discharged through three (Ballard says three; the natural history says two) needle-like apertures, and can be thrown with great accuracy to a distance of ten or twelve feet. It spreads out in a vapor- like cloud, and is so penetrating that noth- ing escapes it, and it may be detected at a distance of a mile. It is of a reddish cast when thrown upon a white board, but in water it gives a greenish tinge. The sup- ply seems to be inexhaustible, and the cat is ready as long as life remains. It has remarkable curative qualities, but its ter- rific odor prevents its use. Mr. Ballard cites an instance when he was suffering last winter with sore eyes, of being struck square in one eye by a discharge from a cat he was trying to discipline in the pen, and the eye was well within the week. Then he tried to get a similar application for the other eye, but the odor was too much for him and he gave it up. It is said to be a cure for asthma also, but the rem- edy is worse than the disease. Skunks and Polecats. Mr. Ballard divides his collection into two classes—polecats, which is the usual desig- nation, and skunks—the skunks being all black, except a white spot on the head, and the polecats with the peculiar marking of two white stripes starting from the head and descriving an ellipse, meeting in the tail. According to the books, however, Mr. Ballard’s collection are all skunks, as the pclecat is more like a black ferret, with nothing like as much brush to his tail as the skunk has. The first cat (they are called “cats,” though they are of the badger family, rath- er; that is, meline and not feline) of this collection was a female, caught in April, and she added eight to her household in May. They are very prolific, producing two litters a year, May and September, and a litter contains from five to thirteen. Ten kits for a year’s product is considered average. At this rate it wil be seen that Mr. Bal- lard, with 150 cats now on his farm, will have a pretty fair-sized collection in two or three years. It costs about 50 cents per year to feed them, and they will eat anything, having a preference for cooked green beans, meat slightly tainted, eggs, corn, bugs—in fact, they are the easiest satisfied boarders that can be found anywhere. As their taste is “gamey,’’ their sense of smell is acute, and Mr. Ballard has given them a dozen bad eggs with one good one in the lot, and they carefully rolled the good one aside with thelr paws and ate all the others first. One of their peculiarities is to discharge their perfume when feeding, but at that time it is almost odorless. Still not alto- gether, for they were fed while I was in the pen, and I am here to state that I would have known there was a polecat in the neighborhood, even if I had had my eyes shut. They fight among themselves, but rareiy kill each other, but if a dead one is thrown to them they seem to be more eager to eat it than any other food that can be given to them. They will also eat all the tobacco worms in a patch, but they tear the tobac- co to pieces, while they are at it, so they have not become popular in this role. Money in the Business. When the sac is removed they make dainty and beautiful house pets, and they are the finest ratters in the world. Mr. Ballard will make some experiments soon in this line, and, if successful, will try to supply any demand that comes. In my opinion, he will have to change their name, though, for there is a rose-by-any-other- name prejudice that must be overcome. One object of the farm Is the raising of cats for their fur, the skins being worth from seventy-five cents to $2.50 each, and they can be readily converted into sealskin, Rus- sian sable or anything else that the skilled skin manipulator may desire. Of course, no lady would wear a skunk- skin cloak, but she does it just the same. Another object, and a greater one, is the production of “polecat oil” for the cure of rheumatism and frostbite. For these com- plaints P..O. is declared to be the sovereign remedy, and ‘it sells at $5 a quart. As cats (they weigh from seven to twenty pounds when fat) will average a quart of oil each, with, say, a dollar and a half for a skin, it will be observed that there ought to be some money in the business. Mr. Ballard will kill fifty in December, and there is only one good way to kill them with safety to the killer, to wit, with chloroform. The cats are to be turned into a box and the chloroform sponge put in with them. In this way they will be dead before they have a chance to—to—well, to defend themselves. Naturalists say the skunk is very fine eating, having tender, white flesh, and Bal- lard says one of his neighbors ate one of his once which he had been rendering for its oil, but the neighbor, when I interviewed him on the subject, asserted positively that George Ballard would tell anything that was complimentary to his confounded old Polecats. One thing is very certain, while thieves break into chicken coops and steal their contents, they most emphatically do not try to steal any of Mr. Ballard’s skunks. An expert is my authority for the state- ment that the best brand of skunk is the blue grass skunk, though why is not known, unless it is that whatever is blue grass is best, no matter what it is. And, further, the best blue grass skunks come from Madison county. Nor does anybody know why that fs. “Best” in this connec- tion meaning they are more nearly all piace and by that more valuable for their ‘ur. How They Sleep. When the weather becomes very cold the skunks go into their holes and stay there, without food or water,’ remaining some- times as long as two months. Only very cold weather, however, drives them to this. They do most of their sleeping by day, and when one is fast asleep he lies flat on his back, with his feet up in the air, and while in this condition may be picked up and carried around by the tail withdut waking him. When he is merely taking a siesta he curls up as a kitten would. As I said above, the skunk is a cleanly animal, and there is never any odor about his living place or his person, and he is especially careful to curl his big brushy tail over his back when he turns loose his weapon of defense. The old story that he uses his tail in scattering his odor is a granny’s yarn, in which there is no truth. W. J. LAMPTON. —_—_—.__ The After-Lunch Cigar, From the Boston Transcript. They sat in deep thought for half an hour after the lunch. 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Alarmed at this, a party was finally form- ed to go up and investigate the cause. Touch- ing the river at various points as they pro- ceeded on horseback, they noticed that the water was getting hotter and hotter, and later they could trace‘the entire course of the river by the rising steam. The meteor had hit the chalk cliff, liter- ally tearing through it a hole 100 feet wide from the top to the water’s edge. The ex- posed portions of the fissure had been melted by the intense heat and friction. There in Little river stood the lost starlet, anchored deep in the bed of the river, leav- ing barely room for the water to pass on the southwest side, and projecting twenty feet above the level of the water. The exposed portion was still lurid with the heat of its rap'd transit through the air, and the water was boiling. Navigation beyond this point will be im- possible until the Little river cuts a new channel to the south —— When He Noticed It. From the New York Weekly. 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