Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 12, 1889, Page 5

| , Bage, 5 THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELER. An Interesting Decision Rendered by Judge Gresham. VALUE OF THE TRAVELER ABROAD The Parson's Greeting — Shotches . Along the Line--The Basket Arade—Samples from the Grips—At the Hotels. Ahe Parson's Greoting. 10 the traveling men assembled at Brightwood, Litenfield, Minn., June, 18%9.1 Oh, ye genial drummers From the praires far and wide, 1 drink your health on the golden shore Near old ocean’s ebbing tide. T've known you well in the years gone by, As gentlemen full of sand, Reudy to work in ramn or shine In the wind-swept blizzardy land. T've met you in the snowstorm, And ['vo met you when it was tine; ‘We've met where danwers thickened, And we've met in 1o dine. Of all the sturdy feliows That pushed to the western front, Ye weroe the havdy laddios To bear the batile's brunt. Al hail to the men of the sachel, The sample and iron-bound box, For they have the stuff within their skins I'hat stands life's rugged knocks. The Parson sends you grecting From two thousand miles away, And hopes to grasp your friendly hands At no distant future day Important to Drummers. A decision was recently rondered by Judgo Gresham on Perry Brothers' intervening patition on the foreclosure suitof the Central Trust company, of New York, acainst the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway com- pany. The petition sought’ damages from the Wabash for the foss of a trunk filled with jewelry. Perry Brothers aro jobbers of jewelry at Chicago. HarveyJ. Perry, one of the nrm, had his sample case with him in Springtield. He took the Wabash train for Petersburg, and the Wabash station agent at Spriogfield checked it as personal bag- and received 25 cents for tho 100 pounds excess of weight, the trunk weighing 260 pounds, the himit of personal bag- fawe being 150 pounds. En ronte to Pat urg the train was wrecked and the trunk and contents were burned. Perry recovered $612 worth of melted jewelry ana sued the Wabush company for $7,615, the value ot the watches and jewelry destroyed. Humphries and Tutt, the old r vers of the road, under ‘whose management the Wabash was when the loss ocourred, set up in defense that when the trunk was received for shipment a new rulo had gone into effect forbidding the carriage of sample trunks as personal bag- oo, and reauiring their trunsportation as reight. Judge Gresham decided against the Wa- bash railway, holding that the act of its servant, the station agent, in accepting the samplo trunk for shipment as_personal bug- gage, bouad the company, and judginent was given in Parry Brothers’ favor for $7,615.42, he judge argucd that tho agent didn’t be- lieve the trunk contained wearing apparel. He recognized it as a jeweler's trunk and was not deceived. Having checked the trunk by their agont as personal baggage knowing it contained jewelry, the receivers became bound to safely transport it, and the company was liable for its 10ss. The Traveler Abroad. Mr. John Worthington, the United States consul at Malta, appreciates the vaiue of the comumercial traveler in extending commerce In a late report to the stute department he 84, “An Austrian commercial traveler of my acquamtance recently touched at this port, bringing with him a half dozen trunks full of samples. These samples were of great wvariety, briefly described as ‘Yankee notions,” maunufactured in Austria. He followed the American drummer’s plan—spread out his £oods in a large room in g respectable hotel near the business center of the town, and in- vited dealers to call and mspect, with the re- sult that within one week's stay he took away orders for upwards of 25,000 francs' worth of goods, He carried nothing for sale, only samples, His firm pmd him a salary of $1,500 per annum and all his ex- penses, allowing him a three months' leave at the end of each grand round, which usually occupied about twenty months, This grand round took in the coast towns of southern K'rance and Spain, the Canary islands, the coast cities of Morocco, Algeris, the Barbary states, Egypt, Syria, the Greek islands, Sicily, and several of the Mediterra- nean islands. The visit to Malta above men- tioned was his first; his success, however, ‘was such as to cause him to add this island 10 the list of places to be visited in future circuits. This commercial traveler was .n person of sood address, affable manuers, and spoke the lan- age of every country he visited. e informed me that his was the only way 10 secure profitable orders; that soliciting trade by correspondence and circulars was THrOWing away mo In oriental countries Jike Morocco, Algeris, ‘Tunis, ete., he sold those protty little cups, saucers, vases, pipe bowls, cigarette holders, fancy handled knives, ink bholders and a thousand and one articles that tourists buy in the eastern ba- zaars for genuine oriental work, but which are in reality manufactured in Europe. Now ‘while it is true that the drummer I have spoken of apd othe of European natioualities selling by samples have seoured strong (because the first) hold on the trade of these Mediterra- nean countries, still 1 have no doubt that American wares of similar designs and vari- eties similarly introduced would compote successfully with the Kuropean articles. I have tius Dbelief upon what I know of the reputation 1 which goods of American make are held in those parts of the Meditorranean where trade is the most active and the most likely to be profitable, They Dote on Base Ball, “At this time of the year the traveling man who can be induced on Sunday w con- ‘versc on any other subject than base ball is certainly superior in iutellect and intelli- gence to his professioral brothers,” It was a New York member of the craft ‘who made this statement yesterday, and he continued: ‘“I'iey are the worst lot of cranks in that respect this couutry affords. Here you have been talking to several, hogng thi something might be said worthy of public: tion, but the whole tenor of their conversa- tion has been “New York’'s a sure winner it Tim Keefe only holds out, but Boston is fl?llm great ball and Philadelphia continues eep lersolf strongly in third place, Did You ever seo anybody take such a tumble as Cleveland! She has fallen from almost a tie for first back aown to fourth in the race, and is losing right along. And that's what one hears from worning till night. Each man happens to know the namos of two or taree players, and he harps them continuously. [t makes mo want to go_away in some quiet corner und lay down.” Sunday afternoon in Omaha, when there is anything going on av Athletic park, is not a good time for inter- viewing, The boys are out enjoying them- selves and have no patience with newspaper reporters who ask them to talk business. A Pen Sketch, Accompanying a very ocleverly executed pencil drawing of & well-known traveling man a brother tourist, over the siguature of J. C. Awl, sends the following Underneath the large “‘regulator” clock in the oftice of the Palmer house, at Graud Is and, is huug a picture which seems to a tract no Little attention, We have inquired into details and have found out that it is the portrait of “one of the boys with the grip,” 8 representative of a Dubuque clothing con- oceorn. The man looks like a very stern fel- low at first sight, but by those who know hum he is pronounced as the king of all the jolly boys on the road, His droll autics and Wwitticisins wre appreciated by all. He is eapecially in good wiwm when favored with #p order or two. His “ploto” may vot be familiar to ull, us he is nsually seon with his hat on. He says his main roason for keeping his hat on is not to show people that he **now parting his hair with a towel.” A vacation was lately granted him and & trip to Chicngo was his idea of bliss, but his firm soon wrote him that they had veen so usad to getting good orders from this terri- tory that they could not rest in peace until “our subject” had been walled back to Ne- braska. Some call him Ruk, others Rukie, but he is universally known as Tke, with vem- porary headquarters at Grand Island. While muking these inquiries about the picture we were told that he had just entered the roorn. We woere introduced by Iillie, the gentle- manly clork, and the first words from were: “Why, old duck, how are you! I'v known you a long while. Yes, old boy, I know you whon [lind liair on 'my hea With renewed vigor he shook my hand a we both went out and had a—cigar. Trinls of a Stammerer. Ed R. Ferguson, who disposes of plug to- bacco for J. G. Butler & Co., of St. Louis, 18 A most genial companion and a unique teller of tules, ** as he 18 commonly known among the boys, stammers as badly as the late Mr. Travers, a broker and well known reconteur of Wull street, and some of his stories are as worthy of record. ] w-w-was in Murm-Mum-Missouri Valley lul-lul-lately,” he sad, *and sat in & gamo o high fuf-fuf-five. My partner was the w Wwuh-worst mum-man to stammer you ever suh:saw. J. R Buchanan, of the I'remont. Flkhorn & Missouri Valley railrond, wah- was in it too. I thought muh-my partuer wuh.whs joshing me at fub-ficst, but I found out that he wuli-was worse than me. 1t took u8 o straight 0w-ow-hour to play a gug-game, 80 we Lind 10 quit.”” Ed says that in Missouri Valley he called the bell boy to his room_and ordered a bottle of beer. The boy caught on and was back with the beer before he had got through or- dering it. “Iwas d-d down Sav-Savannah, Geor- gin, selling tub-tobaceo once. There wih-was a fuf-follow near the hotel who o.0-owned a pup-parrot which talked. 1 asked hun if his looming parrot could talk. ‘Wuh- he swd, ‘f ho couldn’t va-talk any bub-bup-better than you, I'd cut huh-his da- da-d—d tioad off 1 whh-was traveling on the Northwestern wu-once,” he said, “*and wuh-was Tntroduced %o a puh-party of Omaha ladies, 1 wuah-was dud-doing my prettiest with wuh-one of them, and nut-nut-noticed that the two on the Ba-ba-back seat were just dying la-la- (phew) lnughing at mo. I said, ‘Gug-gug- 0 ahead with your la-lalaughing, lul-lul ndies: yow'll be through before I do.? " Oklahoma's Wonderfal Climate. A commercial traveler who returued Sat- urday from Oklahoma reports having run across Colonel Tom Burrell, an old-time citizen of Omaha, and present mayor of the city of Columbia, Oklahoma. The colonel, he says, 18 among the biggest boys in school down there, and chock fuil of unbounded confidence in the future of that country. *“That southern country,” said the traveler, “has been badly misrepresented by eastern correspondents. It is, in my opinion, des- tined to make a gropt state, and I shall ad- vise my firm (we are in the agricultural im- plement line) to establish offices in all the principal towns throughout the territory and prepare for an immense trade, because the soil there is sumply perfect i places. The 1and lays well and the climate is suid to be healthy and pleasant. All the cercals pecu- liar to Missours, Kansas and Texas are grown in the territory and produce abundantly. All fruits that are grown in a southern climate will do weil there. The best soil is @ rich, black, sandy loam of considerable depth. This is evidenced by the immense growth of bluestone grass which stands all over the territory as high as a horse's back. Thous- i{m]ds of acres of wheat will be planted this all, s “There is something in the air like south- ern California, and a great deal in the way people talk like southern Dakota. The ter: tory is young, but it has produced some liars who would do credit to Colorado. They tell about a climate in which nature is outdone, and objects appear larger at five miles dis- tance than when at hand. But they can’t helpit. It's a mental disease peculiar to all new countries. Perhaps the worst yarn I heard while away was told by an Oklahoma boomer. He sized o up for a buyer and set out to sell me his homestead. I humored the old fellow. He had been a pioneer in every new territory since he followed his father's ox team across the plains from [llinois to the Colorado foothills in 50, and had a good many interesting stories to tell. He was a professional claim holder. A do: times he had entered land, *‘sqratted” on it for a time and sold av an advance sufticient to give him a tramp stake to some newer clime. From yarns of adventures he had met he skillfully drew the conversation to the climate of Oklahoma.8g I tried to stem the tide, but without ava The old man’s voice rose as he talked, und he grew posi- tively eloquent. At iast he concluded and asked me what [ thought of it—the land thereabout. I told him there was but one objcction, there was no wood. ‘No wood!” shrieked the old man. ‘1L guess you hain't been here very long, Mister. You seem kind of green like. Why, do you suppose we want our grounds littered up with treos twelve months u yeart NotasI knowof. We don’t have ‘to. We plant our trees in the spring for winter fuel, same as we plant our corn and wheat. “I was paralyzed, and my face must have shown 1t, for the old man continued : Y ou don't beliéve that, do you? Well, that's just nothin’. When Icame here a year ago 1 cut off the butts of four young trees to use for corner posts for my house. Then I went back to Dakoty agin for a threo months' stay. When I got down _here agin tho place where my house stood was occupled by four tremenjus big trees, 1 thought, of course, I must be mus- took in the place, and I inquired. T got the lauigh ali rougd fer not knowin’ what would come of my work, till one of the boys told me to climb the nearest tree, some ninty feet tall, I reckon, and I did. Up there "mougst'tho branchies was my shanty, just liter’lly lifted out of sight in three months by the wonderful soil and climate of Okla- homy.' The Basket Trade. A traveling saleswnan for a Now York house dealing in baskets, answered a couple of random questions regarding his trade by saying: ‘“‘All our baskets are brought from the continent. Contrary to vhe rule that governs most other lines of goods, we are often obliged to sell imported goods as American “made; the latter are more ex- pensive; that is, on high class work." “Why can’t they bo made just as cheap in Aumerica as in Europe 1 _“Idon't know why, but they are not. No, Nebraska will uever raise mich of a basket orop. Her ground is worth 100 much for corn and stock. There are places where nothing but basket woods of various kind can be grown, and those places will keep right on monopoliziug the busimess, He **Bested” Them AlL Charles H. Ingersoll, the handsome young representative of Parke, Davis & Co., chem- ists, Detroit, Mich., was in Weeping Water recently, aud held a body of traveling men pell-bound by his masterly handling of the affimativo side of 8 debato—*That the east offers better opportunities than the west for @ young man.” His opponeuts were many and the debate of long duration, but he “bested” them ail, in point of eloglence, if not of fact. ‘Chis is Mr, Ingersoll’s first trip through Nebruska, but aftor he has made a few trips through cornland he will probably be as firm a believer in her greatness as are tho boys who are daily pulling large orders into Omaha from her interior. Mr. Inger- soll hus already made many friends among the fraternity, why hope that he will make bis headquariers “if not hiz home among hewm, Sunday Guests. The traveling men who Sundayed at the Millard hotel were: C. E. Brubaker, New York; H. B. Merrill, Chicago; J. H. Brandi- wore, Chicago; H. H. Bainbridge, New York; John McGee, Chicago: Max Engie, New York; J. 8. Murphy, New York; W, M. Murray, Goshen, N. Y. A. A. Ladd, St. Louis; George A. Oluey, New York; J. S. Cooley, Chicago; M. Bchroeder, Chi- ongo; ' A. Kubn, New York; 4. Sawin, Chicago: G. O, Weaver, New Yor! H. M. Gould, Rochester, N. Y.; George ( Cooper, Buffalo; F. Plerson, Milwauke:; W. Robinson, Boston; C. W. Waite, Chicag Roy Dodson, St. Louis; T. B. Tutle, St. Louls; F. W. Jones, St. Louis; J. Pascuel, New York; 8. Levy, New York: A. W. Butts, Chicago; A. G. Merle, New York. Came in Disguised. Harry Bainbrid ge, who has been comine to Omaha for years, with a flowing moustache on his face, appeared Saturday disguised so complotely that for a long time none of his friends knew him. Heo had shaved the mous- tache off, and to carry tho joke along, sup- pressed that well known, beautiful smile of is. Harry is one of theold timers, and popular with everybody. He attributes that fact, hdwover, ta ‘the reputation of the goods 80l by him, his firm being Reynold & Bros., boot and_shoe manufacturers of New York. “I have found business very good,” says Mr. Bambridge, ‘and at no time have the prospects for fall trade been better than they are now. Samples A. C. Annett, who has boon in for some time on account of his wife's illness, has again taken up his grip in the interest of Williams, Van Arnam & Heart. Mr. John C. Laux, representing the Omaha Hardware company in the Black Hills, re- sumos his territory after an_extended ab- sence 1n the east. Ho was called thero by the death of his eldest brother, who was drowed at Belfast, N. Y,, while in bathing with Muldoon and Sullivan, whom he was visiving A traveling man complains very vigorously about the Chica Burlington & Quuey rail- road. He lives 133 3-10 miles from Chicago, and the road juvariably tears from his mile! age book miles He says while he doesn't stand it directly, the house cuts down his sulary at the end of the yoar to make good this deficit. Pretty mean house, iso't it? Van R. MaoVeagh, a Rockford traveling salesmen, is in_trouble again. Last winter he was charged with marrying a girl in St Cloud, Minn., while he had a wifo and fam ily living at Rockford, Jil. A few days ago ho was arrested in Minneapolis, charged witht having eriminal relations with & woman named Auna Roche. W. H. Thompson, of Syracuse, N. Y., a well known commercial traveler represent- ing the dry goods house of D, McCarthy & Co., of that city, was waylaid in the stroets of Waterloo one night three or four weeks ago and received serious injuries from tho hands of a gang which attempted to rob him. The toughs were caught and jailed. Tho af- fair occurred in the glare of an electric 1ght. "horo is eoing to bo another “Commercial Traveling Mon's Clun,’ and this time in Pittsburg, Pa. The incorporators are H. Kohler, John C. Shoemaker, C. S. Hughes, R. B. Ford, Ira B. Duncan, James H. Wells, L. P. C. Godfrey and C. D. Hughes, It is recoiving the hearty co-operation of business men in Pittsburg. The quarters are not yet decided upon, but will be before the chartor is granted. —— Hale ana Hearty in Old Age. What is more beautiful than an ancient tree clothed with an ample robe of verdure. Apt 18 the comparison between such a growth and an old man or woman infused with health and vigor. The sine qua non, the indispensable condition of vigorous youth, robust mauhood and a virile old age, is sound digestion. Without this life is shorn of the hearty zest that should attend it. No more beneticient and agreeable contributor to the attainment of a hale old age, and efMcient means of counkeracting the infirmities that too often attend life’'s decline, can be found than Hostetters Stomach Bitters, Dyspep- sia symptoms, a tendency to kidney com- plaint, nervous inquietude and rheuwmatio trouble are overcome_ by its use. The effect of exposure end overwork are nullified by it, and it affords sufficient protection to all sub- jected to malarial influences. Give it a thorough trial. AR e A CURIOUS RELIC, An Anclent Sword, tha Heirloom of a Prophet's Family, Here is a story that is told by one of our esteemed follow citizens, says the New York Sun: “When Isat down to breakfast in Delmopico’s I noticed at the other side of the table a queer- looking, gaunt-faced old man, who did not seem at e in his suit of New York clothes. After a time I made a friendly approach to him by offering him a small courtesy at the table, accompanied by a few words. He did not understand uglish, but I found that he spoke French in a curious way. We struck up acquaintance, and before our coffee pots were emptied we were on confi- dential terms, which seemed to give him great pleasure. He was a stranger in New York, to which he had just come in, and did not know anybody 1in the city. *‘He grew so frizndly thatafter break- fast he 1nvited me to a room which he had taken the previous dnrv. He there told me that he wasa Calmuck in the Russian service and that during a leave of absence he had come to New York, which he had been anxiousto see. 1 noticed a pair of Turkish trousers hang- ingon the wall and beside them a curved, short sword of peculiar form and destitute of the regulation hilt or handle. As I looked at it he said: ‘“Take it down, draw out the cimeter and you'll find a thumb ring by which iv can be used.” I did as he directed, found the ring spoken of, grasped tho weapon and began to handle it. While doing so I bent it, and noticed that, in- d of swinging back when the pressure was taken off, it returned gradually to its proper form. It had evidently been forged from an untold number of steel rings, welded together like old Damascus blades. When askea about it he told a curious tale. ‘One day,’ he said, ‘forty years ago, when 1 was in the Caucasus under Vor- onzofl, a cloud of Circassian cavalry un- der Schamyl suddenly, came upon us in a pass. A Circassian with a drawn cimeter galloped toward me, and I raised my sword to guard my head, but he cut it in twain with a single stroke as he would have cut'a carrot. At that moment his brain was pierced by one of our Calmuck bullets, and I sprang from my horse to get hiscimeter. ~Next morning Schamyl sent s messenger to our camp to ask General Voronzoft for the body of his brother, who had been killed in the previous day’s fight, and he asked also for the cimeter, which however, could not be found. That is it. It had been an heirloomin the fam- ily of Schamyl, the Mohammedan prophet, was said to be 700 or 800 years old und had probably been made in the Caucasus out of Damascus steel.” " The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINTMENT is oply put up in large two-ounce tin boxes, and is an absolute cure for old sores, burns, wouuds, chapped bands, and all skin erup. tions, Will positively cure all kinds of piles- Ask for the ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINT- MENT. Sold by Goodman Drug cempany at 26 cents per box—by mail 30 cents, e General Andrew Jackson’s Dinner. Says a Concord letter to the Boston cller: When Andrew ited Concord, N. H,, after his presid tial term had expired, he was entel tained at Cass’ hotel, at that time the leading hotel of the state. ‘Ihe propri- etor, wishing to do honor to his distin- guished guest, proviaed a banquet and arranged to serve it with considerable style. With the first course the general surprised the waiter by ordering crackers and milk, and refuged all other dishes, much to the disgust of the pro- prietor. Cass’ hotel was the great re sort of stage drivers, and it was at this hotel Vice-President Morton boarded when a young man and engaged as a clerk in the dry goods business. One of the leading merchants of Concord, now in active business, was a boarder at the hotel at that time, and occupied a seat at the same table -~ Abstracts of title to Wyoming oil lands furnished. Assessment work aone and veritied to by aflidavit and certi- ficate of recorder. Claims located. J, J. Corbett, Casper, Wyoming, OF INTEREST 10 THE FARM ER RO The Injurious Effect of High-Step- ping in Horses. RAISING HORNLESS C ATTLE Several Ways in Which it May Bo Ac- complished — Planting Straw- berries in August — Pigs That A8 Overfed. High-Stepping Horses. The American Agriculturist: I no- ticed that the broeding of these is much oftener recommended at present in the agricultural papers than form- erly. True, the action of such is more showy, and on that account is preferred by those ignorant of 1its injurious ef- fects upon the horse. He has to lift his feet to an extra height, which is tire- some, and prevents his accomplishing in such action as great a distance a day on & journey as he otherwise would if not obliged to raise his feet so high, and this with considerable less fa- tigue at the end of the day. As the feet are replaced on the ground, the impact of high-steppers is much more forcible than of others, and this is par- ticularly injurious to the feet and legs. When traveling on a stony road ora pavement I have seen horses so lame in a few months, or even weeks of such work, that they had to be withdrawn from use and turned out on soft pastur- age for some time to recruit. Even with this rolaxation they wero unfit to go back to hard roads nnd had to be employed for farm work or on mellow ground ever after. Quito low stepping, on the other hand, is to be avoided, as the horfe is likely to strike his foot against any little rise of ground or obstruction on the road and stumble badly, often falling down in harness and endangering those riding in the vehicle to which the he is at- tached, to be upset and perhaps fatally injured. A low stepper travels more easily and is less fatigued' than those stepping higher. A medium between the two is best and safest. Planting Strawberries in August. Spring is the best season of the year to setout a bed of straw ies-—--us the 80il is moist and the air ¢ i few days’ time they will take root and start to grow nicely. Young plants (called runners), produced from the par- nt plants, can, however, be set out in ugust, choosing rainy or damp days for doing the work, if possible, says the Baltimore American. Prepure the ground now, have it thoroughly plowed and made fine by répeated harvowings and rollings. Manure, uniess it is old and well rotted, had better not be used, a8 50 many weed sceds aro in it. Use one handful of some good phosphate to each three feet of row. After the rows are run out, four feet apart, sow the fer- tilizers in the row,cover the row up with the one-horse plows, run once on each side, and thon-rake the top level® Now the soil is ready for planting. If you have an old bed, and want to trans- fer the runners to the new one, get a good garden trowel, grind the edge of it sharp and cut around each plant. and then 1ift the plant, with a ball of earth attached, and plaht'it carefully in the new bed. Let the' plants be sixteen 1nches apart in the row. Quice a large business has grown up the past few yedrsin growing straw- berry plants in small pots. They can be sent” long distances, and can be very quickly planted. After they are set out and comm:nce growing, the soil mu 8 be kept loose and cleas Planted in carly August, by November they will be fine, lavge plants; they should then be covered with fine, light, rotted horse manure about two inches deep, and left thus through the winter. The kinds best suited for family use are the Downing, Cumberland, Sharp- less and Kentucky late. The main point in growing fine strawberries from August planting is that the soil must be deep, line and rich, and the plants kept growing from the time of planting. From one-haif to three-quartersof a full crop can be gathered the following seat son. Five hundred plantsof Cumber- land for early, and 500 of Kentucky for- late, will be an abundance for a f;u—ga family. Hornless Onttle. That there aremany and important ad- vantages to be gained by the stockmen and farmers generally, by growing hornless cattle, hardly any person will deny, says the Bedfieid, (Kan.,) Repub- lican: 1But the process of dehorning as generally practiced, has numerous and strong oOpponents, even among those who favor hornless cattle, because of the painful operation and the alleged injurious effects many times upon the animals treated. This fact hus led to the seeking out of other methods of re- moving the horns from the animals, and this has resulted in the bringing out of substances for killing the horn in young animals during the early stages of its growth. These, while probably not absolutely painless, are as nearly so as it is possible for anything to be, and 1s therefore the most hu- mane, as well as the cheapest and least troublesome method of getting rid of the useless appendages of domestic ani- mals. The latest agency recommended for the purposo of romoving the hora from cattle, is the use of caustic potash ap- plied to the young calf and preventing the growth of any horn. A scientist says: ‘A single applica- tion of caustic potash prevents the growth of the horn, Caustic potash is simrly the pure potash. Get a nickel stick at the drug store and keep it in a bottle so that it will not slack. When a calf makes its arrival, devermine whether you want it to be horned or hornless. If you have no use for horns (the calf itself will never have any good use for horns) then take your stick of caustic potash, wripped up in a paper, in one hand, take the calf between your knees, wet the hair gver the horn spots, rub the end of the potash well on these spots and he will gfow up a polled Jer- sey, polled Holstine, polled Short-horn, polled whatever it 5 This we believe to be ‘the simplest, most expeditious,' 1f as successful as claimed, cheapest and least painful of any method yet suggested, and is worth a trial. An agency of this kind werits stron g recommendations, s the practice of de- horning by some humane method should bo ecarnestly encouraged. Horns are worse than useless upon cattle as they are only instruments of warfare, which no domestic animal has any business with, A cow or an ox has no more need of horns than a horse has, and they would seem absurd on the latter. Aund the frequent loss of human life from wounds inflicted by cattle with their horns is sufficient ground for the removal of tne horns from all neat cattle, o say nothing of the many advantagesin an economi- cal and financial way to breeders of stock in growing hornless cattle. Pigs That are Overted. Swine are provérbially greedy when they are brought to hunger by too long intervals between feedings, says a writer in the Western Agriculturist. ‘When they have eat at their all theya [ want to they will masticate their food it should be, and do not gorge it down for foar they will not get a full supply, us nature demands. 0 0N can meas- are out the correct allowance for any sizo herd of pigs, so they all get just so much and no more. me are faster eaters than others, are larger and stronger, and they would get an over allowance. So the proper way isto have nutritious food in sufficient quan- tity where they can go and feed any time. With the precautions not to allow the troughs to become sour or feed sour swill or sour milk., Dry feed ground 1s preferred, A mixture of oats and rye, half and half, I have found to be the best I have ever tried. To scald the meal it makes an excellent awill mixed with skim milk that is not soured; pigs do most excellently on it. To overfeed, it is meant that by aliowing the animal to become hungry and then give it all the food it can eat, This course would very often founder a horse,n cow. steer or old hog. And why not a pig But let them have gradually what they want up to a full mess and all they will eat. Then they will masticate the grain or any other kind of food and it will commence to do the animal some good. o and more 8o, with the little pig. It will feed and lay down in_the sun, ns soon as hungry get up and eata little more, lay down, sleep and grow. They are not rooting around to find some- thing to satisfy their appetite. There aro more pigs die at the trough for want of proper food and enough of it than those that die by overfeeding—in the sense that the said article alluded to. Her Young Kept Her Up. ‘We have just had a striking illustra- tion of motherly love in a hen, says a writer in the Iowa Homestead, Biddy had sat_ipdustrously for three long weeks and brouught out u good hatch. ‘When we placed her and her brood in their new home we noticed she wassick, ‘We gave her a dose of castor oil, but she seemed to grow no better. We watched carefully for results, and tried every remedy av hand, but with no avail. She would pick up the food, call her young, and drop it to them. She taught them to eat and drink, but she refused both herself. When the chilly evening arrived she would call the young to her ‘and hover over them. Just this morning she caume out into her yard and we noticed she was very weak. She could not stand, but sat down, called the chicks, picked up the feed, and saw that they had all their share. Then her head aropped, but she would raise it and call up some little fel- low that wandered too far away. But the crisis came at last, she fell on one side, gave a few struggles and died. Then followed a picture. The little ones gathered around her and gave a ery, just as though they knew their mother had died. To-night we took a setting hen and placed her in with them and how gladly the little ones crept un- der her. evidently thinking their right mother had come home again. The White Oraze. There is a big craze in the country at present for the white breeds, says the Jowa Homestead. To such an extent is this idea carried that breed- ers of black and other colored fowls complain that their orders have fallen off considerably. Nearly every varioty now has its white cousins: White Leg- horns, White Minorcas, White Lang- shans, White Plymouth Rocks, White Wyandottes, White Javas, White Cochins, White (or Light) Brahmas, White Dorkings, White Games, White Polish, ete. There is no disputing the fact that a yard of white fowls are at- tractive and, as a rule, they are full of merit. Scours in Oo ts. Scours in colts is generally traceable to some altered property in the milk of the dam, In a wet season like the pres- ent the grasses in their quick growth have less of nutriment and more water than in ordinary seasons, says the Rural World. This, although it may not sensibly affect the dam, certainly —_ T does have a powerful effect (through the milk) by producing scours in the foal, more particularly so if the weather is unusually cold. Tn such seasons mares with foals should be fed a cortain dry feed in connection with grass, and the young colts should have warm, dry | bedding at night. Give the colt four ounces of castoroil, take it away from the mother for a fow days, and feed in on cows' milk with one or two eggs added; a littie wheat flour stirred in the milk is beneficial. If it is much griped give a teaspoontul of pare goric. Put the. mare partially on dry feed for afow days and milk sevoral times a day. When the coit improves allow it 10 suck the mare a littloat a time. No- tice if the milk agrees with it. This must bo done gradually, otherwise it will have another attac) Wind Breaks. 1 have made many mistakes in plant- ing them; others are still doing so. Quito a prominent farmer recommends planting Russian mulborry on the oute side to catch the snow, or check it, says F. F. Brockway in the Nebraskn Farmer. 1 say don’t do it. Plant seed- ling apple if you must plant some be side evergreens. I used to piant thr of pines eight feot apart. This is ¢ protty and perfect while small, but when they grow togetherand interlock, the low limbs inside all die, and trim up all but the outside limbs. The per- fect windbreaks and the only one I know of are where I planted single rows of white pines five to eight feet apart and gawe plenty of room on each side. Planted this way they hold their limbs to the grass when they have at- tained the height of sixty feet, and make a perfect barrier to wind and snow; befter than three row better than forty rows of mulberry or apple. —— 1t you suffer from loosoness of bowels or fever and ague, Angostura Bitters will cure you. Dr. J. G. Siegert & Sons, ole raanu facturers. Ask your druggist. - LILLIAN RUSSELL'S ENEMY, A Daily Struggle to Keep Herself from Growing Fat. Lillian Russell is the victim of her own beauty s the New Yopk World, and the dread of getting fat keeps her as miserable as the humblest chorus girl in the Casino company. She can't eat any fort of sweetmeats, cake or pas I able is denied her that grows under ound; no e is allowed to pass her Tips; meat is limited to one meal a day,and between the foods that she dare not eat and does not care to eat her bill of fave is confined to bread and butter, lemwons and lettuce. Every day she is compelled to walk ten miles, and in this hot weather the exercise is far from ngreeable. She dresses in blue flannel, wears cork-soled shoes, & straw hat with a moist sponge basted in the crown, and carries a double-lined sun umbrella. As the ob- ject of this exercise is to keep her flosh down, sho never fails to weigh herself before starting out, so that she knows exactly whav reduction is necessary. A part of her outfit consists of long strips of white flannel which are coiied about her body spirally and laid double where the flesh i8 too abundant. 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