Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 30, 1887, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 0. 1887. THE CAVSE OF THE COLLAPSE | Why the Livctin Insurance Company Oame to an Untimely End. R, BILLINGS' CHOLERA GERM. e Wants the State to Furnlsh Him B00 Hogs to Experimant On—Lin- Coln's Water Sapply—Capl- tal City Brevities. [FROM THE BEE'S LINCOLN BUREAU.] The collapse of the Lincoln insurance company continues to be discussed with a good deal of interest. ‘The company was organized about eleven months ago by Lincoln partics. 1ke principal stock- holders were Lincoln capitalists. The management of the company's affairs seems to have been very bad from the be- ginning, and 1t has been swamped by anderground insurance and extra hazards which any good insurance man ought to have had judgment enough to avoid. 1f the company had confined itsolf to legiti- Euu business it would have made a indsome profit. The amount of prem- fums taken in this state amounted to $87,000, und the losses during the same time werc only $11,000, while the ex- penses were a trifle over $6,000. In the same time the underground risks taken outside the state amounted to §65,000, and the losses were nearly three times that arount. This will swamp the en- tire receipts and capital stock of the company, and will then leave at least 50 per cent of the losses of the company un- r.fld. The Ngbraska businuss will be re« nsured. BILLINGS AND GERTH. Dr. Billings having proclaimed in nu. ous and voluminous communications to the State Journal that he had succeeded in isolating and reducing the hog cholera rm so as to make it suitable for inocu: ation and available for the prevention of hog cholera, State Veterinurian Gerth has ealled upon him by meaus of a letter in the Journal to demonstrate the value of his alleged discovery by means of a public test to be given under the super- vision of the state board of agriculture. Dr.Billings appeared in a letter yesterday morning in which he asserted that he Lasn't enongh money to make such a test as Dr. Gerth demunds, and modestly nsks the live stock sanitary commission to furnish him 500 hogs with which to make the test. It is a pity that some one who has a nttle surplus capital does not cowme forwrad and give the somewhat able and entirely abusive and egotistical investigator an opportu nity to demonstrate whether he has made the most valuable discovery of the cen- tury in his department of work or whether he is 8imply feeding & hungry public on wind, THE SUPREME COURT," In the supreme court yesterday Coquil- lard v. Hovey, Mo. Sug. Dim. Red. was sustained. The following causes were argued and submitted: Holmes v. Shimer; Richards v. State; Board of Chureh Ex- tension v, Johnson. Court adjourned to Tuesday, October 4, at 8:30 a. m., when a peremptory call of the docket of eauses from the second judicial district will be made, The following o?inl()n was filed: Dawson v, McFadden. Appeal from John- son county. .Judgment of district court reversed and decree of specilic performance entered. Opinion by Cobb, J, 1. Equity vprotects a parol gift of land equally with a parol acreement to sell it, i accompanied by possession, and the donee induced by the promise to give it has made valuable Improvements on the property, Neale v. Neale, ¥ Wall, 1. LINCOLN'S WATER SUPPLY. The work on the new system ot wells for the city water supply has gone far enough to demonstrate very satisfactorily that there need be no further uneasiness as to Lincoln’s water supply for some time at least. Mr. Burns, the contractor, has put down six wells, which yield an average of 33,000 gallons per day each. As he s to v)ul down eighty wells 1t may be reasonal estimated that they will ) afford a nur‘pf:;' of 2,000,000 gallons a day the which, wit amount furnished by the big well, will be four times as much as is ®sed at present. SENATOR VAN WYCK'S DATES. Hon. C. H. Van Wyck was in the city #0-day on his return from Geneva. Yester= day afternoon he went to Syracuse where will deliver an address at the fair. On onday he will be at Sioux City where will open the great corn palace. On ednesday and Thursday of next week he will be 1n Lincoln, and on Friday fol- lowing he will deliver an address at the district fair at Friend. HERE AND THERE. Mr. Ager. of the railroad commission, and H. M, Waring, clerk of the board, went to Bradshaw to-day to try a case of estimated weight. The complaint was made by Tilden Bros., who allege that they shipped in a traction engine weigh- ing 6,400 pounde, on which they were re- quired to pay charges for an estimated weight of 10,000 pounds. The musicians of the city had a meet- ing last might at which an organization ‘was perfected for the purfouu of holding & musical convention. Prof. W. W. W, Jones was eclected president; Dr. C beer, vice president; Rev. E. H. Chapin, treasurer: J.1).M.Shirts, secretary, and O, B. Howell, Prof. Seamark, Prof. Curtice, Mrs, P. V.M. Raymond, Mr. Shirts and Prof. Easteday, executive committee. ‘The suprems court this morning heard the argument in the case of the Board of Churcn Extension vs. Johnson, which in- volves the title to some ot the most valua- ble property in the city of Lincoln. Al- though a decision adverse to the plaintiff is generally expected, the decision 18 awaited with a good deal of interest. Pitcher & Baldwin sold several lots at auction to-day. Among them was one on O street, one of the best inside lots in the city, which sold for $16,600. This repre- sents the value of the lot, as the improve- ments were worth very little, Penalties of tmprudence. Summer s at hand—the time of year when old heads and young become im- prudent, get over-heated, cool of sud- denly, catch cold, headache, nervous disorders, and a_thousand and one other troubles. Preaching prudence is played out, The only thing to do is—after you have contracted one or more of these pains—to cure yourself as quickly as ossible. Swmall pains are not to be neg- ected except at the risk of serious con- sequences. Remove them at once. It oan be done by an applieation of one or more of ALLCOCK'S POROUS PLASTERS, recognized the world over as the best external remedy ever made. Mind you, dou’t neglect your little ills, They out- grow evervthing else and if let alone cost you more thun you can ever know. Re- member ALLCOCK'S PLASTERS, e ~. REAL ESTATE 1RANS FERS, Arthur East to Charles F. Bauer et al, 1ot 1iu block 20, In West Albright's add, wd. Hanson Nielson ‘and wife to Mads Toft, the south 84 feet of lot 4 in block 2 in Reed's first aad, wd ..... Jounas R. Harris and wite to William H. Jackson, lots 39, 40 and 41 in Stewart place add, w d . 'l":t John Dierks Mnfg, Co. to Hu h ughes, lot 24 in blk 9 of West Al- bright add, w d P Calvin Kessler and wife to Henry I, Eyman, lot 11 io blk 5 of Central park, w d..... O, H, Ballow et'ai 0ot 1ot 10in blk 4, and lot 2'in blk 12 of Ambler vlace, and lot 2 in blk 18 of Central nll’ii.m . ore Olsen and wife to Adolph attson, lots 1 and 3 in blk 2ol South Omaha park add, wd. ...... Solon L. Wiley and wite to Joseph H. Eyman Bialr, lots 5and 6, and west 34 feet of 1ot 7 in blk 77, city of Omaha w d Thomas W, Robinson and wife to F. N. Jaynes, lot 9 in Washington squareadd, wd........... vees John W Foster to F 1, Murray, lo! Flack's subdiv of lots 8 and9in Fairmount place, wd ........ Vaughn and wife to Matthias Tucksehsoerdt, lot 4 in bik 9 of West ALbright's add, W d..ooieiiiineinie W R Vaughu and wife to Leonhard Pfirter, lot 3 in blk 9 of West Al- bright's add, w d. P John M Dmmnanr to R P Shelby, lot 14 in blk 12 of Cloverdale, w d.. . Byron Reed and wife et al to Frank O Olsen, the n 90 ft of lotSin blk 2 in CAmpbell’s Add, W d.....oovusreeries Frank O Olsen and wife Michael Husy, the w 90 ft of the n 90 ft of lot 8in blk 2 of Campbell’s add, wd.... Patrick Noctor and wife to ) C Winn, lot 5 in blk 1 of South Omaha, View add to South Omaha, w d. John A Ballou and wife to Redman, lot 19 of Millard & well's add, wd. Chris Jensen to Jel 5 0 store room on cor Capitol and 14th sts, and known as No. 502 n 14th st, lease for 3 years, $180 per year. John H Horbach and wife to Thompson, the n's of lot 8 in blk A of Horbach's sub div of Horbach’s 1st add, w d. Weieeressis esiieiiae Charles 3 Brown und wife to Josephs ine M Getty, the 30 ft frontoff of the w side of lot 8 in blk 2103, City of Omaha, wd.. . Larmon I Prug t G Rush, lot 8in bik S, of Shinn’s 2d Harry B Mulford to Larmon P Pruvn, the's 30 tt of lot 4 in blk 1, of Pope PIace, W G ouiuieiiieiiiiiniiiiiiies Herbert 1, Aulls and wife to Spencer Otis, lots 1, 2, 8, 10, 11 and 12, in blk 1, and lots 1, 2, 8, 4, 5, 6, 7, Sand 9, in blk 5. in Otis Place, W du.oiee ieae John S King to Joseph Oliver et al, lot 4 blk 83, South Omana, w d . John 1, McCague and wife to tiie Cén- tral United Prosbyterian church,part of lots 3 and 4 blk 86, city of Omaha, 1 Charles Blomberg et al to John I, Me- Cague, part of lots 3 and 4 blk 86, Omaha, wd.. ceees 1146 The County of Donglas and State of Nebraska to August Doll,lot 14 bik 4, Douglay’ add, w d . Cnarles L, VanCamp and wife to William F Krelle, It 4 bik 3, Cottage William R Homan et al to Udora 1 HKIQL‘ the west 80 feet of east 115 foet of lot 10 in Millard & Caldwell's add, W d..ooiiiiinenins James L, Black to the Embnn plat of Black’s subdivision of lot 16 of Ken- sington.. Mitchell I Chapman and wife et al James M Chapman,the nw!{ of nwX Of Sec 30-16-18, ¢ € A.eevveerios voee Martha D Chapman to Jesse H Ch K- man, the nlg of nel{ of swig and the n%duf nwi of sei of sec30-10-13, (3 3 o it n to ol Chapman, the e3¢ of nel{ and sig of nwéor sel{ and wig of swlq of sec 80-16-13, rLe d Edward G Crap 2 Iv:iblk 4, of Grammerey Park w 100 3,000 2,800 1,100 Samuel al to Amelia M Davenport, lot 7, blk 2, of Hiilside add, w d... Samuel Schlesinger et al W White, lots 14, 15/16, 17 and 18, bik 9, Schlesinger’s add, wd........ Jessio H Chapman et al to Mitchell F Chapinan, the s1§ of ned of swi and s'g of nwi of the se' and wig of swig of sec 30-16-13, g ¢ d . Mitchell ¥ Chapman et al to Jessle H Chapman, the nigof nel of swif and the nl¢ ot nwiy of selg of 16-13, q cd. Martha D Chapman to J man, the nlg of the neg of the swig and the ni¢ of the swl{ of the sel{ o 600 B0-16-18 G.€ duvrrnnense voeersss Lew W Hill to Susie H' Smith, lots 12 and 13, blk 11, Omaha View, w d.... James G Megeath and wite to Cora A Belden, lot 62, Windsor place, wd.. Henrietta M Caldwell to Victor B Caldwell, lots 18, 1014, 22, 23l 23 2814, 24, 3¢, 97, '2744, 1, 82, 821¢ an 33, Millard & Caldwell’s add, William K _Hawley and wife to Thomas Kennedy, lot 9, Hawley Terrace, Wd...oovieiiieniiiin . John W Wallwork and wife to Bela J Wetmore, lots 1 and 2, blk 6, Jet- ter’s 1st acd, wd... s Sophia P Mergell an band to Nel- 1ie Poor, middle X of lots 12, 13, and 14. blk 10, Hanscoin place, w d. . William Petarson and wife to Chi tian Banker, lot 3, blk 2, village of Elkhorn, wd....... Frederick W White e to Schlesinger et al, lot 7 of Yates & Reed’s sub divof lot 7, Ragan’s add, w a. Lesee Rosa McCaffrey to t McCaf- frey, the north 5 acres of the south 15 of nwi{ of swid, sec. 8, 14, 13, w d Elmer A Todd to Michael Hogan, lot 8, Auburn Hill, w d. Cora B Traber to John ab K 2, 6,7, 8, 9and 10, block 22, Waterloo, O O R R M L Bruner to Emiline D Bruner, lot 23, block 5, Schlesinger’sadd, w d... Samuel Schlesinger and others to M L Bruner, lot 23, 'block 5, Schlesin- eer's add, w d. e Experience Esterbrook to Otis H Bal. lou and others, 10 feet of west side of middle b of lot 2; also beginning at.southwest corner of above tract, north 66 feet, west to board fence, south to alldy, east to beginning, lease for three Years, Per year........ BUILDING PERMITS. H W Snyder, one-story frame cot: tage. Girace near Sixteenth..........8 1,000 C A Dean, two-story and attlc frame residence, Thirty-seventh and Jones 9,000 Alvin Saunders, three-story brick warehouse, 1214 Harney streot. . 14,000 Geo W Koogh, one:story frame black- smith shop, Saunders'and Frankhn streels. . . The Lowe ave' building asso., three two-story frame dwellings, Lowe av and Burt st.. The Lowe ave Buildin, story frame dwelling, Morton ave cesiiees veee E S Dundy jr, two two-story frame dwellings Thirty-second st and Pop- pleton ave. . sie 1 Chap: ced.. ' 8%50., tWo- Cass st and Seven permit: There are many cheap cosmeties of fered for sale, which claim to contain nothing injurious to the skin. This is all bosh, ali, or very nearly all are com- poumhu'l from the most deleterious and isonous drugs in the materia medica. Chey destroy the vitality of the skin, making the consumer pr urely with- ered and old. J. A. Pozzoni guarantees his medicated complexion powder en- tirely free from all injurious mati will gladly pay #3500 to any chemst who can find upon analysis the sligntest trace of white lead orarsenic.- Use none other and you will never regret. Price 50 cents and” $1.00 per box, Sold by all druggists and perfumers. e Marriage Licenses, The following marriage licenses have been 1ssued by Judge McCullough: Name and Residence. { Earnestitsibson, Owaha 1 Minnie Pugsley, Omaha. { Henry V. Fitzsimmons, Omaha. i Franel eels, Omaha.. { Charles W. Olcott, Omaha | Elizabeth R. Lanson, Omal { Francis M. Mather, Pueblo, Col. | Harriet B. Walker, Peola,shkan. ) Edward La Page, Omah: i Flora Dunn, Owaha... { Peter H. Peterson, Omaha. 1 Emma Miller, Omaha, .. Charles W. Olentt, Omaha Elizabeth R. Lawson, Omaha. % William Joseph, Omaha. Jeunnie £ Craig, Omaha ) Frank M. Hogan, Omaha. { Maggie Parnell, Omah: 1t Won t Make Bread, In other words, Hood's Sarsaparilla will not do impossibilines. 1ts vropri- etors tell plainly what it has done,submit proofs from sources of unquestioned re- liability, and ask you lrankly if you are suffering from any disease or affection caused or promoted by impure blood or low state of the system, to try Hood's Sarsapurilla. The experience of others is sullicient assurranoce that you will not be disavpointed in the result. FACTS FOR THE FARMERS. Farm Improvements-—The Care of Pigs in Fall. SOME EARLY AUTUMN HINTS Texan Fever—Keeping Root Crops Over Winter—The Cow and the Dog—The Gait of the Horse. Farm Improvements. Every farmer should try to get time to make some improvements ou his farm every year, and there is no better time to do this than during the autumn mgnths. As soon ns the weather becomes a little cool the farm laborers will work with more vigor than they ean in the spring or summer. Among nther improvements roads should not be neglected; these are important, and where much used they should be well made, and to make a good road over a wet place it should be well underdrained. On farms where there are plenty of stones the road-bed should be constructed over all wet places by first covering with stones to the depth of eighteen inches, this will insure a hard, dry road,if the stones be covered with six inches of good gravel. When stones cannot be easily obtained the rond-bed should be kept ‘dry by laying in the mid- dle of the road a four-inch tile, covering it with sand or gravel, so that the water y get to the drain. A road once t will keep in good order for many years, but if only half built it re- quires constant repairs, and is then never satisfactory. In building farm roads, 1t is, a8 n rule, best to avoid the hills, even though it increases the distance, and as a rule it is better to cross a hollow than go over a hill, because 1t is easier to fill up than to dig a hili down, esvecially on rocky farms, for there is almost always some old stone wall that it is desirable to get rid of, that is just what is wanted to make u road-bed of. The autumn isa good time to clear up new land,especially low land; the springs are usually low, so the work can be done much better than in the spring, or,in fact any other season of the year. Every farmer who has un- reclaimed low land should make it his rule to clear up a portion of it every year until it is all reclaimed, Early Autumn Hinta, Owners of gardens often give special attention to their grounds early in the season, and get everything fairly in good order, but omit this care later in the sea- son, A few random suggestions may therefore be of use tothem. Weeds.—One of the first things to do is to clear from the grounds all the scat- tered weeds, some of which have already reached a foot or more in height and are beginning to form seeds. By promptly eradicating them, a numerous crop an- other year may be prevented. Single plants of some of our common weeds, when they have full rope, ripen several thousan eds, and it is economy to pre- vent it. The true wu{ 15 to destroy weeds betore they reach the light, when the labor 18 small, or in other words,keep the ground always perfectly clean—it is much the cheapest 1n the end Preparing Soil—Many crops are to be planted in the spring and the best thing now is to put the ground in periect order. This will greatly reduce the labor next season and give much tiner crops. Go over thentended ground repeatedly with cultivator or steel rake, thus destroying the successive crops of starting weeds, and by top-dressing with fine manure it will be well incorporated with the soil, and be worth double the amount of ma- nure carelessly applied. 1f thegarden is liable to be water-sonked in early spring, or by long and heavy rai thoronghly tile-drain it this full. Let these drains be twice as near together as 1n farm-drain- ing, and it will pay well n the early work and early crops. If the soil is too clayey, and you have an accessible sand hole, draw on to the land you are prepar- ing enough loads of sand to cover it with a layer three inchs deep. This sand will become worked in by future cultiva. tion, and benefit the soil for at least fifty years to come, for thesand will not evaporate nor be carried off like manure. Apple Orchards—Top dress these with manure every autumn, or at least bien- nially. Letthe top-dressing cover the whole surface, avoiding the common mistake of spreading the manure a few feet only on each side ot the tree. This treatment will not on!ly give the trees more vigor, but will add to their frui fulness, and not only add to their fruit- fulness, but produce larger, fairer and better fruit. We have secn trees which were supposed to be hopelessly superan- uated restored to new vigor with a wide and copious manuring on the surface of the ground. It answers well whether the orchard iz in grass or in cultivated ground. Peach Trees.—Being slightly tender, but requiring frequent pruning or short- ening back, the work should be done early in autumn rather than later, so that they may recover from the wounds and the wood become ripened and hard- ened betore winter. Very severe weather has a tendency to injure freshly pruned peach trees, It would be better, how~ ever, if lnrfif wounds are to be made, as n heading back old trees, to do the work early in spring, This heading buack may be sometimes usefully performed on trees which have extended their long branches beyond proper bounds, ;fiving them new and compuct heads, and improving the size aud quality of the crop. The value of this treatment was suggested many years ago by witnessing the work roughly done by a storm, which broke ofl the top, and gave a new and vigorous head bear- ing the large and excellent peaches seen on young trees. Currants—Being quite hardy, may be pruned in autumn. Cut out old and stunted wood, cutting back shoots which are too long, and making an evenly dis- tributed head. Cuitivate the ground well, keep it clean and apply manure, if you want heayy crops with currants four mes as large as on neglected bush Raspberry Bushes—If not growing in exposed places, may have the old canes which are already done bearing all. cut or cleaned out, giviug room for the fin- ishing growth and ripening of the young canes which are to bear next year. If the new canes are numerous. thin out all but five orsix of the strongest. The best time, however, to do this last thinning is in early summer before they have grown. 1f the bushes stand in a much exposed or windy place, it may be best to leave all this trimming till spring, so that all may assist in retaining the drifting snow and thus affording sheiter. Plant Every Year.—Some new plunting may be done every year. Old sorts of fruit occasional die ‘out, and may need replacing with the same kind, or with newer and better ones. Always choos those of tried and proved excellence, and avoid new names and high priced trees. A few well cared for are better than many with partial neglect, By pro- curing a few at a time it will be easier to secure those sorts least liable to disease and most valuable. Hardy Oramentals.—As berbaceous perennials may be increased at this sea- son of the year by dividing the roots and planting separately, covering them as a matter of safety before winter, with lenves, The Memorandum Book.—For noting down any practical suggestions in the vroper order of time, if regularly used, will be found of great value in future, Devote a page to each week of time through the season note any blunders in PEA or say nllonp which | proved practically successful. Omissions properly filled will prevent similar omissions next year. Pigs in the Fall American Agriculturist: It is doubtful 1if anything is gained ultimately by hav- ing sows farrow twice a year. The suck- ing of Lwo litters must injuriously reduce the sow, and the pij are not properly nourished, thus injuring them. But when the spring htters are still-born, or lost shortly after birth, or, in some cases, when sows are toa. young to be bred to farrow in the spring, it is good polioy to breed for fall pigs. But to muke them as good as spring pigs they must have ood shelter and the equivalent of green ood. Swine shelters are more likely to be made too warm than other- wise. Tho swine le closo to- gother, and their bodies are compact, hence they require rather open shelters. Sheltered swine usually suffer more from foul air than from cold. Good ventilation is the first essential of a swine shelter. This must not be forgotten when constructing shelters for fal because they are small, the shelter i likely to be made warmer than for ma- ture swine, which is saying thatit will be altogether too small. They should have no litter if the shelter will keep them dry and protect them from wieds. The equivalent of green food 18 easily provided, and 1t is not a more expensive food than grain. ‘lurnips can be grown after a crop of early potatoes or sweet corn has been removed from the land. The small potatoes may be gathered up and boiled. A patch of rye will give green food until covered by the snow and at intervals during the winter. The vegetable scraps may be saved, and thus the pigs be kept thriving through the winter. Texan Fever. Every fall season cattlemen are mena- ced by this great scourage. In some years comparatively little of it1s developed; n others it sweeps over the country a'most wholly unannounced. Though its period of prevalence is short, it can within a few weeks inflict more serious losses upon stock raisers than all other contagions combined. Fortunately, its ravages are limited by the coming of frost—otherwise it would soon practically drive feeders out of the business. This fall it has ap- peared 1n more places and has done more damage than for some years. 1t has shown itself in sowe of the most important markets and has created consternation whenever stockers and feeders are n- troduced. And what is to be done about it? The time has come when the inter- ests of cattle raising demand that this thing be sum ily stopped. ing as it does only in a particular season, it can be prevented by prohibiting the mo ment of southwestern cattle in that ses son. The remedy s simple and plain, and suggests itself at once to those who give the matter thought. ‘Lhere is little good in ridding the country of pleuro- pneumonia if Texasfever isto be allowed to stalk abroad unchecked at the close of every summer, Reeping Root Crops Over Winter. Custom vrompted farmers to keep the root crovs stored in vits outside of the barn. ‘T'his planis an excellent one, a8 the room in the barn cellar is not fitled to overflowing, and by simply covering with straw and earthing up the mound all danger of frost will be avoided. But the difliculty is not that there is a danger of loss, for an even temperature can easily be maintained in the heaps, Itis when the ground is frozen hard and it becomes unsafe to open the mounds, that the farwer often ftinds he cannot utili his root crops. They arc as solidly and tightly sealed as though bound in iron, and not until the frost shall begin to leave the ground can he make use of them. It is just as easy to keep the beets, carrots and turnips in the barn cellar as in the mounds in the open air. All thatis necessary is to avoid ha them thaw too suddenly after having been frozen. There will really be no necessity for the frost reaching them at all ifthe roots are properly stored. In Illinois where the temperature some- times falls as low as 30 deg. below zero, root crops are stored in bins in the barn cellar, or even in the barn loft. The are packed in dry, clean earth, or sand, no moisture being allowed. The roots are first carefully dug and cleaned,then permitted to dry in the shade, imperfect or partially decayed roots are thrown out,and the round ones are not permitted to touch each other, a layer of earth be- ing between each layer of roots and the spaces being filled also. As soon winter approaches the roots are fed and no difliculty is experienced in handiing them, which is a convenience in very cold weather. Tlere 1s no danger to them except too much warmth, and a cellar or some other cool ised 1 which to place the bims. 3 s method the roots may be fed in winter, whereas by the ground system they cannot be used till late in the spring. It is this diflicuity of convenicntly storing and hand handling rootcrops that deters many farmers from growing them ex: tensively. The turnip grows quickly and at & season of the year when the press- ure of other work is nearly over, and larger crops of them should be grown Farmers don't take kindly to cook- ing roots, as it entails too much labor, and at the same time they are not partial to the feeding of frozen roots to stock. l‘ly giving some attention to the maltter of storage, however, there will be no danger of the roots becoming frozen, and, instead of cooking them, they can be hiicud and fed raw, though cooking them in winter would be an advantage. The Cow and the Dng. The majority of farmers think it very necessary to keep a dog to help them drive the stock. A well-trnined dog may be of some help, but the largest per cent of the dogs kept for this purpose do con- siderable more harm than good. Not being under your control to any considerable extent, and well started after stock, it is more trouble to stop them and get them to let the stock alone than it would have been to have driven the stock yourself, and this, too, without taking into consideration the damage done to the stock. On many farms the cows are allowed the run of the pasture, and at night it very often devolves upon the boy of the farm to drive them to be milked. Mounted upon a horse, and accompanied by the neccessary dog, the cows are hur- ried home on the run as rapdly as possible, the boy alternately urging the dog, his horse and the cattle by whoop- ing and yelling, often wmided in_ his work with a good stick which he has learned to use ‘‘not wisely but top well.” Leaving out the other many risks of injuring the stock from various causes, thisone injury to the cows and their milk ought to be sufticient to induce a change. Itis surely bad enough to worry the other stock with, in n.any cases, a useless dog, but to drive the cows,’ with their well- tilled udders of milk, home on a run with a barkivg, biting dog at their heels to add to their excitement and worry is certainly cruel well as injurious and it is not only the animal but also the pro- duct that 1s affected. Not only the quality but the quantity is affected, so mnch so that often it is not fit to use or to be manufactured into butter or cheese. Such milk is not good for the calves or to be used in the family, and when we con- sider that this is wholly uncalled for and could easily be avoided it would certainly secmn advisable to discontinue it. ‘Then in addition we must consider the less of flesh that must be vccasioned from unnecessary running and beating up. Since cows of an easy excitable nature will gradually get into such a condition that the sight of a dog will needlessly ex- cite them, the boy and the horse are bad enough without the dog. In fact stock ought not to be driven faster than u walk at any time, and the milk cows more pigs, for, | especially so than anythingelse. Treat them kind and when driving be careful not to hurry them out of a walk. The Gait of the Horse, The walk of the horse is greatly in- fluenced by the driver or attendant. On a farm if you put n norse into the care of an old man, or a slow, idle man, you will soon find that the horse acq o soail's pace of the man, If thisis continued for some time it is a practice most difficult to eradicate, In addition to this the slow trailing gait is rather harder wotk for the horse, A moderate quick walk either when under a load or when em\»(y, exhaust the animal less than the snail’s pace. In these days of depression, when it is necessary to get the maximum of work out of both man or beast, there is nolhinf more irritating than to see a man and horse erawling along as though both were dropping asleep, no matter whether the horse be in a conveyance, & cart, a ploagh or a harrow. [t is not natural but an acquired pace, both the man and beast, and in the case of the latter, tho man is to blame. This is & matter in which tho owner hus the remedy in his own hands, In the hands of the breaker and in the hands of the driver, instructions should always be given to keep the head well up and the pace smart, A horse so tramed will ever command a readior market and 825 to $%0 better price than a slow animal of otherwise equal merit, for how often do you hear mtend- ing purchasers say, ‘‘unless the animal is a nover it is of no use for any pur- pose.” There is, too, another and al- most important consideration that ought not be lost sight of, When a horso is al- lowed to fall into slow paces he becomea aged and meapacitated long before his natural time, his sinews and joints be- come stiff and contracted, and he is as [:ermnncutl,v injured as though strained v over-work and too-heavy londs. Just the same as a man who goes in for a moderate amount of athletic exercises will retain his juvenility to an advanced eriod of life, so also will the active, ively horse retain his youth and useful- ness. He will not only do a work per week more than the crawder (a mat- ter pregnant with great results when spread over an entire country), but he will continue to do it for several years longer than the slow horse. Ennui has far more victims than brisk, lively work. et v skl A Usoful Precaution. It is a useful precaution for the tourist, the commercial traveler, or the emigrant to the west, tot along Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, Invalids who travel by steambuat or rail should provide them- selves with it, in order to prevent or remedy the nausea which the jarving and vibration of vchicles in (ransitu often causes them, Vastly preferravle is it for this simple, but needful purpose, to the heady unmedicated stimulants of commeree. Un board ship, it not only remedics sea sickness, but neutralizes the pernicious effects of water slightly brackish, which, if unqualified, is apt to give rise to irregularities of the bowels, cramps in the abdominal region and dys- pepsia. To the aerial poison of ma it is an eflicient antidote. Sick headache, heartburn, and wind upon the stomach, are promptly bunished by it. [t health- fully stimulates the kidneys and d- der’and nullifies the early” symptoms of rheumatism, ——— SOME OLD TIME PIRATES. Stories of the Roaring, Raging Thieves of the Ocean. First of all upon the list of pirates, says a writer in Harper’s magazine, stands the bold Captain Avary, one of the insti- tutors of maroning. Him we see but dimly, half nidden by the glamouring mists of legend and tradition. Others who came afterward outstripped him far enough in their doings, but he stands pre-eminent as the first of marooners of whom actual history has been handed down to us of the present day. When the English, Dutch and Spanish entered into an alliance to suppress bue- cancering 1 the West Indies, certain worthies of Bristol, in Old England, fitted out two sels to assist in this laudable project; for doubtless Bristol trade suffered smartly from the Morgans and the L'Olounises of that old time. One of these vessels was named the Duke, of which a certain Captain Gib- son was the commander and Avary the mate, Away they sailed to the We: and there Avary beeame impressed by the advantages offered by piracy and by the amount of good things that were to be guined by very little striving, One night the captain (who was cne of those fellows mightily addicted to punch), instead of going ashore to urate himself with ram at the ordina had_his drink in s cabin in § While he lay snoring away the effects of his rum in the cabin, Avary and a few other conspirators heaved the anchor very leisurely, and sailed out of the har- bor of Corunna, and through the midst of the allied fleet riding ut anchor m darkness, By-and-by, when the morning came. the captain was awakened by the pitch- ing and tossing of the vessel, the rattle and clatter of the tackle overhead, and the noise of footsteps passing and repas- sing hither and thither across the deck. “What's the matter?” bawls the cap- tain from his berth, “‘Nothing," says Avary, cooly. “Something's the matter with ship,” says the captain, ‘‘Does drive? What weather iy it*" “On, no,” says Avary; “we are at sea." t Indies, the she At sea®" “‘Come, come!" says Avery; “I'li tell you; vou must know that I am captain of the ship now, and you must be packing from this here cabin, We are bound to Mad- agasear to make all our fortunes, and if youre a mind to ship for the cruise why, we'll be glad to have you, if you will be sober and mind your own business: if not* there is a boat alongside, and I'll have you set ashore.” The poor half-tipsy captain had no relish to goa p g under the com- mand of his back-siding mate, so out of the ship he bundled, and away he rowed with four or five of the crew, who, like him, refused to join with their merry of them sailed away to the East Ind ...On his way Avery picked up a couple of like kind with himself— two sloops of Muadagascar. With these he sailed away to the coast of India, and for » time his name was lost in the ob- scurity of uncertain hstory. But only for a time. for suddenly it flaied out in a bluze of glory. It was report- ea that a vessel belonging to the great mogul, laden with treasure and beaving the monarch's own daughter upon u holy pilgrimage to Mecea (they being Mohammedans), had fallen in with the pirates, and after a short resistance had surrendered, with the damsel, her court, 1 all the dia- monds, pearls, silk, silver, and gold abroad. It was rumored that the great mogul, raging at the msult offered him through his own flesh and blood, had threatened to wipe out of existence the w English settlements scattered along the coast; whereat the honorable East India company wus in & pretty state of fuss and feathers. Rumor, growing with the telling, hasit that Avary is 1;(.\11;: 10 marry the Indian princess, willy-mliy, and will turn rajah and eschew piracy as indecent. As for the treasure itself there was no end to the extent to which it grew as it passcd from 1outh to mouth, Cracking the nut of romuance and ex aggeration, we come to the kernal of the story—that Avary did fall in with an In- dinn: vessel laden with ‘great treasurs (and possibly with the mogul's daughter), which he eaptured, and thereby gamned & ZTent prige. Having concluded that he had earned ennu{h money by the trade he had un- dertaken, he determined to retire and live decently for the rest of his life upon what he already had. Asa xh-g toward this he set about cheating the Madagas- car partners out of their share of what had been gained. He persuaded them to store all the treasure in his vessel, it being the largest of the three; and so, having it safely in hand, he altered the course of his ship one fino night, and when the morning eame the Madagasear sloops found themselves floating upon a wide ocean without a tnr\hinp{ of the treasure for which they had fought so hard, and for which they might whistle for all lhox od it might do them. At first v had o great part of a mind to settle in Boston in Massachu- setts, and had that little town been one whit less bleak and forbidding it might have had the honor of being the home of this famous man, Asit was he did not like the looks of it so he sailed away to the eastward to Ireland where he settled Iumselt at Biddleford in hopes of an easy Here he found hiwself the possessor ot a plentiful stock of jewels,such as pearls, diamonds, rubies, ete., but with hardly ascore of honest farthings to jingle in his breeches pocket. He consulted with o certain merchant of Bristol concerning the disposal of the stones—a fellow not much more cleanly in his hubits of hon- esty than Avary himself. This worthy undertook to act as Avary's broker. OIl he marched with the jewels,and that was the last the pirate saw of his Indian treas- ure. In “Blackbeard” we have a real, rant- ing, roaring pirate per se—one who really did bury treasure, who made more than one captain walk the plank, and who committed more private murders than he could nnmber on the fingers of both hands; one who fills and will continue to fill, the place to which he hus been assigued for generations, and who may b depended upon to hold his place in the contidence of others for genera- tions to come. Captain Teach was a Bristol man born, and ned his trade on board of sun- dry privateers in the East Indies during the old French war—that of 1702—-and u better apprenticeship could no man serve. At last, somewhere about the lat- ter part of the year 1716, a privateering captain, one Benjamin Hornigold, raised him from the ranks and put him in com- of a_sloop—u ately captured and Blackh sard's fortuns was It was a y slight step, and but f o f letd , 10 convert uto ‘“‘pirat and it was a very short time before Teach made that change. Not only did he make it, but he rvr aded his old captain to join with hin And now fairly began that series of bold and lawless depredations which have mude s name so justly famous, and which placed him among the very greatest of marooning freebooters. “Our hero.” says the old old historian who sings of the arms and bravery of the great man—"Our hero assumed the cog- nomen of Blackbeard from that large quantity of hair which, like a frightened meteor, covered his whoie fuce, and frightened Am a more than any other comet that app ed there in a long time. He was accustomed to twist it with ribbons into small tails, after the manner of our Ramillies wig, and turn them about his ears. In time of action he wore a sling over his shoulders, with thireo|braosiof pIAtO]s HoGEI g nlioB{16Es hke bandolecrs; he struck lighted matches under his hat, which appearing on each side of his face, and lus eyes naturally looking fierce and wild, made him altogether such a figure that g ination cannot form an iden of a Fury from hell to look more frightful.” The night before the day of action in which he was killed he sat’ up drinking with some congeninl company until brond daylight. One of them asked if his f‘mmg wife knew where his treasur hidden. “'No,” says Blackbeard, body but the devil und I knows wher is, and the longest liver shall have all.”’ For a time Blackbeard worked at his trade down on the Spanish Main, gath- ering, in the few years he was there a y neat little fortune in the booty cap. tured from sundry vessels; but bye-and- bye he took it into his head to t hic Iuck along the const of the Carolinis; 80 oft he sailed to the northward, with g a respectable little fleet, counsisting of b own vessel and two captured sloops. From that time he was actively engaged in the making of Ame ) history in his small way. He first appeared off the bar of Charles- ton harbor, to the no smuall excite of the worthy town of that 1lk, and t he lay for tive or six days, blockading the port and stopping incoming and out- going vessels at his pleasure, so that for the time the comme of the province was l~ul|rvl.y paraly All the vessels 50 stopped he held as prizes, and all the crews and passengers (among the latter of whom wuas more than one provincial worthy of the day) retained as though they were prisol of war. Aund it was & mighty awkward thing for the good folks of Charleston to be- hold day after day a black flag with its white skull and bones fluttering at the fore of the pirat ptuin’s craft over across the level stretch of green salt- marshes, and it was mightily unpleasant, 1o know that this or that prominent n was crowded down with other prisoners under the hatches, Becoming tired of an inactive life, Biackbeard afterwards resumed his piratical care d around in the rivers and infets and sounds of North Carolina for a whi.c,rnling the roost, and with never a one to say him nay, until there was no bearing with such a pest any longer. So they sent a deputation up to the governor of Virginia asking if he would be pleased to help them in their trouble. There were two men of war lying at Kicqueton in the river Jame: the time. To them the governor of nin plied, and plucky wicutens ; the Pearl was sent to Ocraco fight this pirate who ruled it down thére 50 like the cock of a_walk. ‘There he found Blackbeard waiting for him and as ready for u fight as _ever the lieutenant himself could be. ht they did, and while it lasted 1t w 8 pretty a picce of business of its kind could wish to see. Blackbeard d u gluss of grog, wishing the lient nt luck, in getting aboard of him, fired a broudside, blew some twenty of the lieutenant’s men out of existence and totally erippled one of his litttle sloops for the ‘mlu!l('u of the fight. After that, and under cover of the smoke, the pirate and his men bourded the other sloop and then followed a fine old fashioned hand- to-hand conflict betwixt him and the lieutenant. First they fired their pistols, and_then they took to it with cutlasses—right, left, up and down, eut and slash—until the licutenant’s cutlass broke short oft at the hilt. 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