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Advocatr.
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All Job Work Cash on DeliverV.
VICTORIA brSINESSl'AKng..
THe
3í'irtotia ^áíítirtt.
DEVOTED TO THE AGRICULTURAL AND STOCK RAISING INTERESTS OF SOUTH WESTERN TEXAS.
VOL. XXX.
VICTORIA. TEXAS. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12.1876.
NO 22.
J. II. BIOWXIOI.
Kl'UKME (MULCT..
JjROWNSON & CO.,
B-A. IT DECEITS,
PROFESSIONAL ('Altl)S.
^ B. PETICOLAS,
Attorney at Law,
VmtouiA,.
NuluMml
Correapdmlcnti:
DONKKLU LAWSOX * CO., Sew Vork.
STATE NAIIONAI. DANK, fce^Orlran..
. TKXAH.
Ofllre In hi* bulltllD* ou Muin atreet. acroud
floor. jiy SQ.iy,
BAI.I.. lUTCHIXtiM A CO., lialvenlon.
J. H. UAYMONI) A CO., Auxin.
jyMy
AU. LKT1. nr. levi.
A LEVI * CO.,
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A.2stk:E^S,
Dealers IA Exchange,
Mala Street..
Vigiarla.
H«*A a. W. L. 0AI.T.KK1ÍKH.
QLASS & CALLENDER,
Attorneys at Law,
Vtcroma
AVUI practica in the counties at Victoria. Cal
lioun, Jat-k«>u, DeWitt. Hollad, H.-IiikÍ", shu
5* sSSlC£ "u"
■■^vins^^"^-. ^
JACKEY & STAYTON.
wa
Attorneys at Law,
W« aunre them utiefaction by our uromptaeu
aad mluluium charge in attending to any buai
neu entrunted to ua. We solicit deposita and
patronage from our friends and the publican
Victoria am> Cumtox. ,
TSXAS,
Will practice in any courta in tha State when
ipeelaUy employed. JlylO-ty.
QEO. WILLIAMS,
Main Straet,.
.. Victoria, Taxaa.
QHAS. F. CARSNER,
Attorney at Law,
vtcroau.......
■pi
. Taxa«.
Consignments Solicited.
Jiy -iy.
Will practice in the courta of Victoria and ad-
joining counties. Jljso-ly.
1ÜP if'0' "'T' |
c.
E. MALITZ,
— - If-;
gfoCKDALE & PROCTOR,
Attorneys at Law,
IXDIAKOLA..
... Thai.
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Near the Bridge......Victoria, Texas.
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Cigars, Wine, Tobacco,
Confectioneries and Beer.
H ' y a-iy.
■* Will attend to bnalnesa in tha 33d Judicial
District, and In the county of Jackson. Also in
the Supreme and Appellate Courts of the State,
and In the Federal Court at Galveston. Jyioly
Jg MELCHOIR,
R. J. B. P. JANUARY,
Practicing Physician,
Vicroaia.. Tan .
'■ ;-• RJl-'
'Joflfcjist tba 4nár«t re,0f L. C.ÁM. Wheeler.
Residence at the former dwelling of J. M. Brown-
■on, on Bust omen te street. Jly *- ly.
Trip lightly over sorrows,
Though all the day be dark.
The san may ahiue to-morrow,
And gaily Bliig the lark;
Fair hopes havé not departed,
Though rosea (any have fled;
Then never be down-hearted,
But look for joy instead!
Trip lightly over sadness,
Stand not to rail at doom;
We've pearls to string of gladness*
On thlB side of the tomb:
Whilst stars are nightly shining,
And heaven is Overhead.
Encourage not repining,
But look for joy Instead I
Sang of the Xjrstlc.
BV FATHER RYAN.
I walk down the Valley of Silence—
Down the dim voiceless Valley—alone;
Ant) I hear not the fall of a footstep
Around me—save God's and my own;
And the hush of my heart Is as holy
As hovers when angels have flown.
Long ago—I was weary, of voices
Whose music my heart could not wt#;
Long ago—I was weary of noises
± That fretted my soul with their din;
►—I wa weary of places
I met bat the Ilninan—and Sin.
I walked through the world with the
Victoria, Texas.
LESAGE,
Notary Public and Conveyances
out in English, German,
lyWy
PORSCH, M. D.,
E.
MOO) AS IT ' i.'
and Repairers,
OPPOSITE A. JATHO'S
■Mi vr^.-.y ..-■iHPH
Kant snenr. victoua, tiua.
fly.XRf
FKLAMBERG,
ria, tmxas
All kind* of gold and
Sllvar
Shop with ti
A Co. fly Mly
ÍOCH,
MANUFACTURER OF
TIN MID SHEET IRON WIRE,
and deaijcb r
cJl and name plates eat to order. Jlytoly
QARKIAGE AND UNDERTAKER
Slander.
'Twits but u.brcutli—
And yet the fair, good name was wilted.
Aud friends onee fond grew cold ana
stilted,
And life was worse than death.
One venomed word,
That struck Its coward, poisoned blow,
In craven whispers, hushed and low—
Aud yet the wide world hcjrnh
'Twos but one whisper—one
That muttered low, for very shame,
'lite thing the slanderer dare not name-
Ami yet Its work was done.
A hint so slight.
And yet, so mighty Is its-power,
A human Boul lit one short hour.
Lies crushed beneath its blight!
Trip Lightly Orer Trouble.
'l^rlp^lgíítiy wcTwrong,
We only tnake grief double
By dwelling on It long.
Why clasp Woe's hand so tightly?
Why sigh o'er blossoms dead?
Why cling to forms unsightly?
Why not seek joy Instead?
I craved what the world never gave;
And I said: "In the world, each Ideal
That shines like a star on life's wave,
la tossed on the shores of the Real,
And sleeps like a dream In the grave.'
And still did I pine for the Perfect,
And stUlfoundih&Efliw with the True
I sought mid the Humai
But I caught a mere glli
Till I knelt long at tui Altar,
And heard a voice call me—since then
I walked down the Valley of
That lies far beyond mortal ten.
Do yon ask what I found in the Valley?
'TIS my try sting-place with the Divine
at theleet of th
",T'V2ZS¡
iiPl i spirit p.'l-SilllpaL ....
An echo—"My heart shall be Thine."
Do you aak how I live in the Valley?
I weep—and I dream—and I pray—
But my tears are as sweet as the dew¡
drops
That fall on the roses of May;
And my prayer, like a perfume from
censors,
Ascendeth to God night end day.
frf^ttance
. mm.
message pi Peace they, may brlqg.
But far on the deep there are billows
That never shall break on the beach;
XTANLET AS A MISSIONARY.
A Kaillcul Method of Tewhjng garages
the Way* of Clrllliatiou.
Tltc African exploring P*P<
which Mr. Stanley has been conduc-
ting on behalf of the DaUy Telegraph
and New York JUtrald, is numerous
and formidable. There are only two
white men—Mr. Stanley and an En-
glish servant—which, per"
ful as preventing unplei
cucos of opinion and cri
the leader's acts, but there is a strong
native forco of picked men, armed
with the newest weajponB of destruc-
tion, aud this ariny marebdR boldly
from city to 0%. and front*kingdom
to kingdom in the itigloii'-otiile grcut
Mtes,, making ite conqiu
causo of civilization, anil
flags Of England and America. But
it must not be Su^poéea that Mr.
Stanley's "eivilisade," though car-
ried On with All the pomp and cir-
cumstance of war, and claiming to
be a part of the mission of the two
^Ksh-speaking natións, is
ampercd by
■MÍ do
the restraints which an
over-scrupulous humanitarianism has
imposed upon warfare in the Western
world. After all, Mr. Stanley is
simply fighting with savages, and it
would be obstad to limit his flreedom
of action by a referenco-to the arti-
ficial standards qt European war-
fare. It is worth while to recapitu-
late the incidents of one little chap-
ter in the history Of Mr. Stanley's
most recent missionary labors. With
in the last fortnight the Daily Tele-
graph has published three installments
of the explorer's correspondence, aud
we arc enable to study and admire In
its fUll proportions the testimony of
the hero of the tale. In July, 1875,
while sailing on Lake (Victoria)
Nyanza, Mr. Stanley and his boat's
crew of picked men were tempted to
touch át Bambirch Island in search
pf a supply of provisions. The na-
tives maintained a doubtful attitude,
and seemed inclined to extortion.
Without an actual breach of the
peace, they showed their treacherous
design by pulling up Mr; Stanley's
boat upon the beach, and afterwardts
stealing the oars and a drum. They
also attempted to frighten the ex?
plorers by ferocious shouts and ges-
ticulations. After some delay Mr.
Stanley prudéntly resolved to get off
somehow; his men made a rush at
the boat abd pulled her Into deep
_ r*. _ - - ------ = tur fofttbcfifas
water, and
her
Heaven,
of Its Blue,
reach Of the
reception of
rthireh
And I
Tbjttto men, like the Dov
"if jjgtg
a . . .. . ..• /
y. >>y. í
And I have heard songs in the silence
That never shall float Into speech;
And I had dreams in the Valley
Too lofty for language to reach.
Doyou ask me the place of the Valley,
Ye hearts that are narrowed by care?
It lleth far away between mountains,
And God and his ahgeis are there:
And one is the dark mount of
T.I«Tfc*^.p W.
The astronomers of Europe, says
the New Yo k Trtiwue, ore just how
excited by the re-discovery-of Levcr-
rier's planet, Vulcan. Some twenty
years ago the great French astrono-
mer announced that certain perturba-
tions in the orbit of Mercury could
only be accounted for by the existence
of another plMet still nearer the sun;
even aa the perturbations of Saturn
had enabled h|m to discover the
Neptune. Wtyln three years
mV
detected
Vulcan in his tnfoit across the sun's
dUc; but inasmuch as he has not been
seen again since (then, most savans
have begun to doutt whether he was
seen at all. Bik the latest Par
"* " " " «• that two em-
1 MnWo
V«
■to Mr.-!
, Hfr
the heat of his righteous an-
ger he resolved to give the offenders
a lesson. ' 'I discharged my elephant
rifle with its two large conical balls
Into their midst. My dooble-bar-
reled-shot-gun, loaded with buck-
shot, was next discharged with ter-
rible effect, for without dmwing a
single bow or launching* siiüde spear
they fell bacK?^''"U
M
to launch their <
succession" he i
pinf": pp'""'
from stones sluug at us." The next
day, as the fleet of the Ilerald-Tele-
yraph expedition steered- close to the
shores of Bambireli, Mr. Stanley was
gratified to observe the moral effcct
of the correction ho had adminis-
tered; the native trembled at the
sight of the terrible missionary and
his flags, their boldness and audacity
that completely crushed, so much so
was a .single bullet—fired, it seems,
as an experiment—put to flight hun-
dreds of them. A few came down
to the coast and prayed for mercy,
which "gave me" (says Mr. Stanley)
"an opportunity to preach to them
that thej^ had brought the punishment
on their own heads for attempting
tlio murder of peaceful Htrangers."—
■ U Mail "
SAILING THE AIB.
The Latest Invention for the Purpose
by a Civil Engineer.
At the lost meeting of tho San
Francisco Academy of Sciences, Pro-
fessor Brooker, a young civil engi-"
tfeer, was introdned. lie had ihven-
ted a flyiiig machine, which was quite
a prodigy, and ho bad been prevailed
upon to exhibit it and deliver a short
essay on "Aerial Navigation" before
the academy. After dilating upon
the importance and fascination of
aerial navigation, the lecturer said
that the idea of sailing through the
air was not so impossible as it ap-
peared. The subject had been taken
up with considerable earnestness re-
cently by several august scientific so-
cieties in other lands, and be thought
the day was not far distant when the
entire air would bristle with flying
machines, and when distance would
be comparatively annihilated.
The possibility of New York being
only about twenty-four hours away
was surely a grand thought. He be-
leived that in ancient times the prac-
tice of navigating the air had been iu
vogue, but liad been lost, as other
important inventions had been, in the
whirl of modern civilization. He
cited a number of instances in history
whére inventive geniuses had flown
through the air, and biblical fables In
which the ancients had figured as
winged birds. Strangely enough, al-
most all these aerial navigators were
found dead shortly after their first
trip with wings. ''v;' 'r
He said the science of navigating
the air had received a great set-back
By IE® introduction Of the iraflooirr
irhich, was, for a long time, consid-
"Swcetcakc William," cried Judge
Cox of Virginia City.
"Yer," answered a slight young
man, rising to his feet and stroking a
dyed mustache with a hand burdened
with rings.
"You are charged with assault and
battery," said his Honor, "in having
belted a. uian over she head ut_ the
Diamond Grotto fcialoon last
"Jumo," calm!. : " *
cake William
walked back to the game and took
out a twenty in two-bit chips; I-bet
five on tho four an' six to win, and
coppered the queen to take the eight
with two an' a half. Then I put
down two on the ace straight, fur I
was bound to mitke a scratch, bein'
down to my seams, as it were, with
the hash man and lan'lady. The five
on the four and six was raked in. 1
got away with my bet on the queen
an' eight, and looked around to see
how the ace was gettin' along, when
I saw a stiff walkin' away with it fur
a sleeper. I didn't say nothin' but
took it outen his fist, all in good na-
tur, an win a ten by copperin' the
Jack. By this lime the deal was
nearly out, an' the deuce, trey, nine,
seven, eight an' ten spot was cases.
'Copper the odd and take the even,'
sez I, layin' down all I bad—just
twenty-eight big dollars. Well, yer
honor-—"
"My good fellow," interrupted the
jtidge, "you are speaking Greek to
me. I know nothing of this jargon.
"What's that, judge?" asked Wil-
liam, slightly puzzlei
"I say, my good fellow, that this
hasn't anything to do with your case
of assault and battery. You gamb-
lers are becoming too turbulent alto-
gether. I have a good mind to make
an example of you, sir. It would be
well for men of your class to remem-
ber that you arc allowed to carry on
yotur immoral trade merely upon suf-
ferance. When civilisation, sir, ad-
vances somewhat in these western
outposts tho country will be mortified
by the spectacle of legalised vice
■ now disgraces the State óTNe-
ercd a solution of the problem,
reviewed the -many arguments
I took delib
phant rifle
have since been
and two others
standing a few
.The:canóea, never ..IMP
launched, and Mr* Stanley was com-
led to check the, pi
H§p|iF|. measures. 19RH
them to approach within
yarfla^i^and
Four shots ldraHHL
the canoes." When all war over and
the
Ifonnd^ouflHi
with ball and bhckshot,
I should consider it
ment for the robbery
oars and a drum, wits
alent in fair estimation
ded massacre of
'.♦intention" eviden
whole guilt of the
for no single person in
party was struck wf'
After sotóe thrill!
the water Mr. 8tant „ ■
crew got back in safety to his c
Or three days'
of inventing any machine lighter than
the air, which would be capable of
supporting the weight of any object
The resistance of the air was very
great. He replied that all flying ani-
mals are heavier than the air, and
that the heaviest aré the best flyers.
A fallacious idea is prevalent that
the birds had air-cells, which assis-
ted thcra in flying. Bats,' and other
heavy birds which- have no air-cells,
fly with ease, and many birds never
fly, though they possess air-cells. He
thought that to guide the balloon
was an impossibility, because the sur-
face exposed to the air was so great
as to make it a special object of re-
sistance to the stirring air. Naveae
had \ estimated that the propelling
power of a bird was equal to that of
five horses. It has been demonstrat-
ed that the largest birds require the
smallest surface on which to fly, and
It had been found that a light surface
of twenty feet in diameter would sup-
port the body of a man.
He showed, by a series Of figures
Upon a black hoard, that tlie larger a
bird was the lésff ¿nrface was required
to suspend him in the air, and there-
fore reached the conclusion that the
(r thing in the way of aerial nati-
on was the means at command.
;h the assistance of figures he also
showed that a crane weighed twenty-
one pounds, and that it only required
Two.
to have convinced htm I
estimation" which he had <
formed of the punishment
dne to the criminals who
and dram wufl
JH Vhth ajMpHMH
S'to «
ItoflH
the <
drum, t I
(torn the
■■MMpHiR!
sufficient to propel him, without any
, away from the most savage
hurricane. The construction of the
" " nOchine was more a matter Of
mechanical contrivance than of más-
ele or endurance.
He explained several flying inven-
i tions introduced into France, got up
by Hansen and String fellow, two en-
usiastic Gauls, of the eventful end
r of whose intellects history docs not
* leave any intelligence. The lecturer
- hauled out a pasteboard model of a
flying machine invented by himself,
and demonstrated in a scientific way
; a man could fly with It This
machine is in tho shape of a flat dia-
mtmm tho forward end
; to a point. On each side of
;rivancc there aire half-bent
, which revolve downward, and
r goet artmnd
b, it folds lip
hue to which it la
kes a half turn, when
and forces tho oar
r . .iii
) winfts revolve very
fofoe
like a wagon,
i on wheels, nod
iMIIfllflSi
left out of the
mkh&-
d«.ce of the.
S'V
I «lift red'
Tlie lecturer closed with a short de-
scription of other flying machines in-
vented by various parties, nearly all
of whom had been killed in illustrat-
ing their inventions, and in all the
machines the professor pointed ont
tlie defects.
A Nevada Judge Swho Didn't Under-
stand the tiame of Faro.
Drawing the Long Bow.
The Philadelphia Chronicle says:
The must interesting of all centen-
nial experiences is to go into the
Egyptian department and listen to
the talunted young exhibitor, who is
drawing upon liis imagination for
facta to instruct inquiring minds.
When the exhibition first opened, he
says lie* tried to give visitors all the
informoition in his power, but he soon
found that the American mind was
not satisfied with dry details, and it
was necessary to invent a little. They
have in this department a huge stuff-
ed crocodilo, and also some spoons,
vases, etc., made of rhinoceros horn,
inlaid with ivory. Tliese spoon are
sold for two dolíais, and Mr. Fritz is
L lows: In order to catch a rhinocer-
ous you must first catch a crocodile
The latter' is trained to pursue the
former in the water; when the rhi-
nocerous sees the crocodile coming
he plunges into the water beneath
him and thrusts his horn through the
crocodile's body. At' tho croco-
dile is secured by a rope, the boat-
men step on his body, cut off the
horn of the rhlnoccrous, and take
their hunter home, - where he is nurs-
ed up until well enough for tho next
chase. Cne of the most serious-tri-
als of Mr.. Fritz, however, arises,
from the flict that a multiplicity of
visitors tome in pursuit of mummies,
of which they have none, this being
an exhibit of modern not ancient
Európt. He manages their importu-
nities by leading them to a mirror
and telling them, "There is the only
mummy in the department." Sev-
eral rather skinny individuals have
felt themselves considerably agrieved
by this reference to their personal
appearance.
.A remarkable story is to|d of the
fearful scene at the death of Char-
ley Reynolds, Custer's chief scout,
and the best shot on the Missouri
river. He was shot off the back of
bis horse, and in falling caught the
horse and killed him, and, making
a breastwork of the beast's body he
commenced a terrible slaughter of
the Indians. He lay behind his
horse dying, and still shooting, and
every shot he fired sent a savage to
the devil. When he was taken off
the field after the fight twenty-two
dead Indians Were femad around
IA DEMOCRATIC JOURNA
KnuaitKO 1YKZHLT,
at
•3.50, Coin, Per Annum
Tha onir novapaptr puhlhhrd In Vlctc
County, tho hoart of tho K,L.al .tuclKtowinji
terwt of soutiiwvaleru Tt-aan.
Book aad Job Printing doma In t!
boat manner.
All Job Work Cash on Delivei
Sheep Farming in We t T xa .
vada and renders it «o difficult a task
to keep the rising generation from
j the «vil examples which are'
constantly before their ejres. Pro-
ceed, sir, but stop your professional
slang, and remember that the court
knows nothing about the game faro
or any other gambling device."
Oh, ye don't 1" said William.
"P'r'aps ye don't call to mind the
night you and me snatched- a lift
sleeper when driink didn't save
enough to pick up a split on a bet of
thirty. P'r'aps ye don't remember
when I staked yon at three this
mornin' over in the Dew Drop Inn?:
P'r'aps you and Jake Small ain't
snacks in rop'in in snoozers?
PVapps—" Ifff f ■ 'ij-
nee!" roared the Court, glanc
ing at the «inning crowd of carica-
tures outside the rail. ' «There seems
to be nothing iñ this case William.
You leave the court to infer that you
were being cheated and you lifted the
stiff under the car. You're discharg-
ed." ...
Englishmen and their Manners.
Notice a throng of persons in any
street, says L. J. Jennings' London
letter, no matter where—and it wiH
ho found that they have a rosier, moré
cheerful, better-fed appearance than
an average concourse of Americans—
the people somehow look as if their
did them good, and as if they
found time occasionally to enjoy them-
selves. A good-natured set they seem
to be on the whole, although by no
means courteous or polished in man-
ners. I doubt whether the English
.will ever be a polite people—it is not
In their blood. When I see a dozen
of them together—whether in the
country or in town, in a drawing-room
or a theatre, at a club or a hotel—I
am always struck by their rudeness to
each other. They will scarcely an-
swer a question in a civil manner,
walk into the coffee-room of a
. where ladies are present. With
their hats on, and shout out for and
to the waiter in their lottdest and most
commanding tones. They stand all
across a. doorway, and wUl not make
room for anybody to pass, and if you
enter a railroad carriage where a few
of them are, they glare at you in a
manner which speedily convinces you
that you have no right there and have
of an unwarrantable In-
trusión. Vet this bearishuess is chiefly
" the
roan,
say that ho ■
pretty thoroughly
leave a
dead person
to eternity. In for-
¡ was customary in Nc-
) the food exposed, and
i who watched from a neigb-
I of brush were wont to
ít.
i the Virginia Chromicl , "M to
> a crowd of hoodlums seated on a
f " ' ttmÉlMÍS!?!nR
"r* «afi^
Hgnt, alter wntcn toe W11« an-
and birds get the benefit of the
; is the difference between a
I and a beaten child? One pours
and the other roars with
him.
The Presbyteries of the Presby-
terian Church in tho North will be-
fore long begin to'vote upon the . •... , T. swJIP «
overtures in relation to the basis of lng °f, th®¿'IC'd 08 sutton, or of the
representation sent down to them by
the General Assembly. The first
overture substitutes fifty ministers
for twenty-four as the basis. The
second provides one representative
for every twenty ministers, in a Pres-
bytery. The adoption of the second
plan would, it isi said, reduce the
number of ministers of the General
Assembly of about 800.
Messrs. Coleman, Mathis & Fulton
have hod a map of their several pas-
lithograpucu CS'l published,
atures lie in Aransas, S¿"
and Nueces counties, and
consist of a total of 209,428 acres,
named as follows : Big Pasture,
110,000acres; Rincón Pasture, 15,-
000 acres; Shipping Pasture, 3,000
acres; Brasada Pasture, 45,000
acres ¿ Nueces Pasture, 15,000 acres;
Henry's Bend Pasture, 17,000 acres;
Win. Quinn Future, 4,428 acres.
It would have been 190,000 in the
pockets of h|s Mends if Dr. William
A. Muhlenberg, the author of the
hymn. "I would toot live always, I
ask not to stay," had departed soma
years ago. That gentleman, who
irtngs what he doesn't practice, ling-
era at nighty years of age, and his
enthusiastic admirers, instead of
rebuking such manifest inconsistency
have presented him with a purse of
The pianista is what they call the
new automatic arrangement for play-
ing the piano,of organ. Place it in
position; turn a crank, and you can
grind oqt sonatas from Beethoven or
airs from Mme. Angot—sacred or
profane music—according to your
taste. Anybody with sufficient mu-
sical genius to engineer a coffee-mill 1 j.
can now become an accomplished
"instrumentalist."
A correspondent to tin exchangi
in alluding to the sheep and wot
growing interest of West Texas says
Sheep raising and wool growing :
rapidly becoming one of the gre
aud most important industries oi'oi
State, and men of practical expei
ence in the business give it as tin .
opinion that Texas oilers a range in
surpassed anywhere iu the world
and that all the finer breeds can L,
raised at a greater profit here tlni¡
elsewhere, owing to the mildness t
the climate and the abundance o
nutritious grasses for sheep food
Sheep require a large range am
plenty of clear water, which is aflur
ded in most ony portion of the State, "
though north and west of. the San
Antonio river seems to be the favorite
locality among sheep raisers, and
also along upper Colorado, Guada
lupe and other western sections.
A man with small means may wit'
safety embark in the business, and
in a few years sceure a competency,
if he is willing to give his flock
proper attention. The ordinary,
coarsed woolcd American Sheep sella
at about $1 50 per head, tip to 85 lor
fine whecp, while fine rams used for
breeding larger sheep and the longer
staple of wool, command from 825
and upwards.
Two rams per hundred ewes are con-
sidered suflicient, though three, per-
haps, are better, ánd it pays decidedly
to cultivate "the breeds which wiil
bring the liighest market price for
mutton and at the same time produce
the fairer qualities of wool.
The Leicester, Cotswold and Lin-
colnshire best adapted for this com-
bination, being known as the heav-
iest muttou sheep producers. But
the present favdrite seems to be the
improved Lincolnshire and Lciccstcrs.
Sheep seem to thrive better in small
flocks than in large, and the better
your stock the more attention you
can afford to give it. This seems" all
the more platisable, when you con-
sider that one sheep eats as much as
another, and that the comnion sJieeP
requires the same treatment as those
which yield the greater gain. Tho
ordinary sheep' weighs on a general
average from seventy to one huudrcd
pounds, while the purer breeds av-
erage from one hundred to one hun-
dred and seventy pounds. The or-
dinary sheep will clip no more than
from three -to-six potmds of wool,
while the finer breeds yield from six
to twelve pounds, leaving a fair bal-
ance of clipping alone In favor of
wool* combing breeds, to say notli-
4
premium the finer wool commands in
market.
Yet it is not a judicious plan for
breeders to sell off all their ordinary
sheep at once, J)at to introduce the
finer breeds so . as gradually to dis-
pose of tho old stock until the fleece
and miitton come up to the premium
standard.
In conclusion let me add, in select-
ing a sheep ranche, avoid black soil
and low lands where there is standing
water. A rolling country is best,'
but a wide, dry range, with plenty of
clear water, is quite sufficient.
One of the speakers at the Massa-
chusetts Woman Suffrage convention
said that he had heard an orator com-
pliment a lady as having eyes as
bright as brass buttons on an angel's,
overcoat, and theu vote ogafnst giv-
ing that angel a vote. That was
hard.
A medical examiner in one of tho
prominent English Insuranco Com-
panies reports that he has to turn
away more than three fourt hs of those
applicants who excel in athletic ex-
ercises, because they have danger-
ously overstrained the organs of the
heart.
Twenty ladies Voted on the ques-
tion: Has a young lady the right
to kiss a gentleman with whom she
takes an evening drive. There were
nineteen affirmative votes. The one
negative vote was cast by a woman
with red hair and a glass eye.
Úoraco Greeley used to tell this
He once sent a claim for coi-
to a Western lawyer, and re-
C it aa a desperate claim, told
if he collected It he might re-
serve half the amount for his fee. In
due time Mr. Greeley received the
fallowing laconic epistle: "Dear
Sir:—I have sncceoded in collecting
hair of the claim. The balance
la'
"Yes,'
he observed musingly j
to looking up, that's
a fret. A fellow came In and paid
me a quarter be owed ms tWs more-
andthe chances are good for
ny dog this afternoon. "Ob,
are brightening «p vtoi-
iu, he went over and got
for three twenty-five cpat
cigars, straight off. :
An Arkansas coroner, having oc-
casion to Investigate the cause of a
man's death lately, charged the Jury
cident. by incidence, or
that
Spiteful Chtcafa says that a St.
Lonto man ran six ralles
nose, thinking he wan
•re.
Ms
to a
A citizen of Alsacc, desiring to dio
the other day, put a dynamite cart-
ridge Into his mouth and touched it
off. .Portions of him have been found
in Baden-Baden, and they are look-
ing for tho rest in Switzerland.
An Indians gir) wishing to see if
her lover really loved her, hired a
boy to yell "mad dog" fts they were-
She went off and marri
up alone*
a dry goods clerk.
A boy who will yell like a Tartar
if a drop of water gets on hto shirt-
bánd when Ms neck to washed, cat
wl through a sewer after a bolt
and think nothing of it.
After carrying a dog-bite around
for sixteen years, Joseph Kvnrts, a
batcher in Guilford, Connecticut to
now suffering an attack ef hydro-
A boy fcaa written • a composition
on the turtle, in which he says: "A
turtle to not so frisky as a man, hut
he can stand a hot coal on his back
, "ling-" '
When the contribution-box comes
—... «ay, remember that blessed aro
who gives to the Lord, and that
makes more noise thsn a
cent surip.
The fool killer unfortunately over-
oked John Whitney, of UoKn
afea, Michigan, John climbed to
_ • top of a 116 foot poto and stood
on Uto truck for 15.
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