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BY A DECISIVE VOTE. I DAIRY AND POULTRY.
MR TELLER’S RESOLUTION
, PASSED, 47 TO 32
Effort* to Amend II Fillril — Sonotor
l.oilgr'i Gold Standard' substitute Dr
feated by a,Vote of Ayet *4. Najr! AS—
Analyil! of the Vote.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
Waiijiiqtox, Jan. 21.—After a de-
bate, uni mated at all times, and «x*ca*
sioually acrimonious, which occupied
the irreater part of the week, the
Senate lust evening, by a decisive vote
of 47 to adopted the Teller concur-
rent resolution. The resolution is a
* practical reaffirmation of that of Stan-
ley Matthews, in 187#, and is as fol-
lows:
“That ail the bonds of the United
V States issued, or authorized to be is-
sued, under the said acts of Con-
gress herein he fore recited, are pay-
able, principal and interest, at the
. option of the government of the
United States in silver dollars of
the coinage of the United States, con-
taining 412^ grains each of standard
/ silver, and that to restore to its coin-
age such silver coins as a legal tender
in the payment of said bonds, princi-
pal and interest, is not in violation of
the public faith nor in derogation of
the rights of the public creditor."
All efforts to amend the resolution
were voted down by majorities rang-
ing from five to twenty-nine, Mr.
Lodge's gold standard substitute be-
ing defeated by the latter majority
The vote on the Lodge amendment
was: Ayes, 24; nays, 51.
The silver or bimetallic strength
was made up of thirty-one regular
Democrats, including the entire party
\ representation, with the exception ol
three, six Populists, six silver lie pub
licnn.H who left the party to vote for
% Bryan, and eight Republicans who
voted for McKinley and have always
been clnssed with the administration.
These latter are Perkins of California,
Shoup of Idaho, Wolcott of Colorado,
Carter-of Montana, Clark and Warren
of Wyoming, Pritchard of North Car-
olina and Chandler of New Hamp-
shire. The first six art Western men
who have always been for free coin-
age, but who remained with the party
during the campaign last year on tur-
iff and international bimetallic
grounds.
' The negative votes were made up
of the thirty-five Republicans remain-
ing plus three Democrats, Gray of
Delaware, Caff cry of Louisiana and
Lindsay of Kentucky. They represent
all there is left of the genuine gold
v Democratic strength in the Senate be-
^ cause Gorman of Maryland, Smith of
Kew Jersey, Murphy of New York,
Faulkner of West Virginia and Mitch-
ell of Wisconsin, though believers in
the gold standard have submitted to
the Chicago platform.
anothefTindia disaster.
A HrltUh Brigade llcomr* Entangled In
a Gorge and Is lladlj Cat to Pleeei.
Calcutta, Jan. 31.—General West-
niacott telegraphs from Camp Mama-
mi that the Fourth brigade became
entangled in a gorge near Shinkamar
yesterday, and suffered serious losses.
Lieutenant Colonel Houghton, Lieu-
tenants Swing, Dowdall, Hughes and
v Walker, together with five men of the
Yorkshire light infantry and three
Sikhs were killed, and seventeen pri-
vateiFnre missing. The receipt of the
di&patoh has caused a great sensation
here and further details are anxiously
awaited.
MRS LANE MAY DIE.
The Wound She K»cn)vod Two Weeks
Ago Mnjr Yet He«ult Fatally
Washington, Jan. 31. —Mrs. Lucille
Blackburn Lane, daughter of ex-Scn-
ator Blackburn of Kentucky and wife
of Thomas Lane, who accidentally
shot herself with a small revolver
two weeks ago. is again in a serious
condition, after a period of improve-
ment, and her relatives and physicians
are apprehensive lest the wound, with
new complications which have set in.
' may result,fatally.
Itank KecHvar Gone.
ChBYKXNB, Wyo., Jan. 31.—Joel
Ware Foster, receiver of the defunct
Cheyenne National bank and assignee
\of Thomas A. Kent, banker, the Chey-
enne financial institutions which
i-faUed in 1892 and 1893, is missing.
Word received from the comptroller of
the currency is to the effect that there
Is nothing wrong with the accounts of
' Foster as receiver of the Cheyenne
National bank
( on,ul l.e, Knterl.lus
‘ Havana, Jan. 31. —Yesterday morn-
ing United States Consul General Lee
gave a banquet at the Ilavann Yacht
ciub'n c'ubliouso at Mariano beach to
the officers of the United States war-
ship Maine. After the banquet sev-
eral officers of the Maine witnessed
a bull fight, a box having been pro-
vided for them by Acting Captain
' General I’arado.
Will II. N.,„,lf HI.In.
MAvrif.i.n, Ky., Jan. 31. — l'eople
have been flocking here by every pos-
sible mode of conveyance, in expecta-
tion that the negro wife murderer,
Bob Banks, would be brought in. If
he ie brought in he will be lynched in
• style that for aavageness will throw
the Paris, Texas, lynching into the
•hade
Row R.rrw.f.1 Parmer. Operate Thl.
Repnrtm.nl of th. Pnrm -A Pew
HloU a. to the t ore of I4r. Stock
nud Poultry.
A Hrtttnluy Buller Parm.
One hears so much nowadays, writes
a correspondent of the Globe (Eng-
land) of the excellence of foreign but-
ter, and of the Inferiority of the home
product, that It may perhaps be Inter-
esting to get an Insight Into the sur-
roundings of one of our many compet-
itors In the manufacture of this useful
article. It Is true that Brittany by no
means stands first on the roll of for-
eign manufacture. So much so, In fact,
that a great deal of Its butter la sent
to Denmark to be reshlpped thence to
England, and so come Into the English
market under the prestige which right-
ly attaches to the Danish product. This,
however. Is by the way. The fact re-
mains that a large quantity of Breton
butter goes direct to England, and Is
sold as such on Its own merits. Those
who use It are prepared to maintain Its
superiority over that made at home,
l^t us take a glance at the Breton
farmer and his surroundings, and see
If this be so. Take almost any high
road In Brittany—very excellent they
are, too—and you will soon arrive at a
green lane leading out of It. A most
picturesque lane It will be. Possibly It
will lead between high banks, thickly
studded with pollard oaks, beneath
which the swine will be greedily
munching acorns, and an old woman
in a white cap and a blue dress will
be herding a solitary cow, or a flock of
geese, or a mixed crew consisting of a
cow, a sheep, and a couple of geese,
and, as a matter of course, she will be
knitting busily. Or It may lead down
an avenue of chestnuts, whose fruit la
common property, and you will see two
or three women, and twice as many
children, stamping the nuts out of
their prickly covering with their wood-
en sabots. The chestnuts form a val-
uable addition to the peasants' homely
fare of bouillon, black bread, and the
Inferior potatoes. The best are given
to the pets of the family—the pigs, to-
wlt. This plain fare Is washed down
with copious draughts of cider, tea and
coffee, being luxuries which smack too
much of extravagance to the thrift-lov-
ing peasant. It is not too much to say
that saving la the one absorbing pas-
sion of the women, and only rivalled
In the men by their love of strong
drink. The lane will debouch into an
open field, where the men will, suppos-
ing It to be October, be seen shaking
down the fruit from the apple trees,
and the shout which may possibly greet
your arrival will be, not a tribute to
you, but In honor of their having Just
finished a tree. On these occasions the
elder mug goes round, as. indeed, It will
on beginning the next. As there are
many trees on every farm, and farms
on every hand as well, a Bacchanalian
festival appears to be In progress, what
with the continual shouting and cheer-
ing (one farm answering another) and
the state of drunkenness which prevails
everywhere.
» • •
But let us enter the house Itself, and
see the actual surroundings In which
the Brittany butter has Its origin. Here
you will find no cool, cleanly dairy; on
the contrary, there Is a mud floor of the
dirtiest description, sometimes with
puddles of water standing on it. You
go Into a room, which, from Its table
scattered with unwashed cups and plat-
ters. from Its array of cupboards (some-
times of priceless oak), from Its "close"
beds which line the wall. Is evidently
the living and sleeping room of the
family. Here, from an oak chest, you
will see Madame, in the whitest of caps,
In strange contrast to her surroundings,
take several terra-cotla-colored earth-
enware bowls full of milk. These she
will skim, and then she will pour the
skim milk Into a tub for the pigs. If
you watch closely you will see a fair
quantity of black dirt dribble out of the
bowl with the last cupful of milk. She
will then churn the cream In a churn
shaped something like a bottle with a
stick In It, which works up and down.
But perhaps the most disgusting feat-
ure of the performance is that. Instead
of wetting-her finger with water when
she Is making up the butter, she moist-
ens them with her1 tongue. This is an
eradlcable Item in Breton butter-mak-
ing. People have tried in their own
houses to make their "bonnes" use wa-
ter. but unless the mistress actually
stands over her servant the latter will
at once return to the old familiar habit.
The butter, when made, is of good
flavor and color, and Is palpable enough
to those who are unacquainted with Its
manufacture. Near Quimperll there Is
a lalterle, or dairy, where everything Is
done on improved modern principles,
and the proprietor asks and actually
obtains three francs a pound for the
article he produces. This, in a country
where butter fetches from half-a-franc
to one franc at the ordinary farms,
speaks volumes for the estimation in
which common cleanliness is held, and
how extremely rare It Is. The better
class of residents In Brittany will not
drink bought milk on account of the
dirty habits of the peasants who pro-
vide It. When the sanitary arrange-
ments on English farms, the cleanli-
ness which prevails, and the inspection
of dairies is taken into consideration,
It seems strange that anyone can prefer
using foreign butter to tbnt made at
home. For the consumer knows ab-
solutely nothing, as a rule, of the con-
ditions under which the foreign article
la produced, whereas be can be toler-
ably sura that every possible precau-
tion la taken in hta own country to en-
sure cleanliness and the absence of con-
taminating atmosphere, to say nothing
of the health of the rows themselves.
Swill-Fed Hogs Killed By Noap.
V. A. Moore. In Bulletin 141* Cornell
Experiment Station: It la n common
experience of those who are engaged
In the investigation of animal diseases
to occasionally find outbreaks of a pe-
culiar nature among swill-fed hogs. By
these are meant herds of greater or
less alxe, usually kept near or within
the outskirts of our villages or small
cities, and which are fed upon the
kitchen refuse, often Including dish wa-
ter, collected from hotels, boarding
bouses and private dwellings. The
cause of death In these outbreaks la,
In this state, at least, usually attributed
to hog cholera. The basis for this pop-
ular diagnosis seems to be In the sim-
ilarity of certain of the symptoms man-
ifested by these animals to those of hog
cholera, such, for example, as diar-
rhoea and partial paralysis, and the
fart that a majority of those attacked
die. The course of the disease is Ir-
regular. deaths occurring In from a few
hours to several days after the symp-
toms appear. During the past year I
have had occasion to make Investiga-
tions Into the nature of several of these
outbreaks of a supposedly Infectious
disease. In a few of these epizootics
hog cholera or swine plague was easily
demonstrated. In certain others, how-
ever, these or other Infectious diseases
could not be found. The animals were
usually fed the kitchen slops collected
from hotels and boarding houses. The
tissue changes In the animals exam-
ined were atypical of any known dis-
ease, and notwithstanding the bacte-
riological examinations which were
made, together with animal Inocula-
tions with pieces of the diseased or-
gans, the cause of death remained un-
determined. The post mortem examl-
natlops showed in nearly all of these
animals enlarged and dark colored
lymphatic glands, especially those of
the mesentery. The blood vessels of
the mesentery were very much distend-
ed with blood. The liver and kidneys
were usually not affected, but occa-
sionally these organs were Involved.
Where there had been marked nervous
symptoms the brain was much congest-
ed. Occasionally the lungs contained
areas of collapse. The intestines were,
as a rule, pale, and the mucoua mem-
brane seemed to be abnormally shiny.
The negative outcome of these Investi-
gations suggested that possibly our
methods had been faulty or that some
unknown conditions existed which had
obscured the cause of death, and that
after all the popular diagnosis of an In-
fectious disease was right. Against
this theory was the fact that the dis-
ease did pot spread from the affected
herds to others, although, as a rule,
precautions were not taken to prevent
its dissemination, and In some In-
stances the neighboring herds were
most favorably situated for contracting
the disease If It had been contagious.
In certain of the outbreaks the exceed-
ingly filthy condition In which the pens
and yards were kept suggested, In the
absence of a knowledge of definite,
specific agents, that the animals had
died ns a result of their unsanitary sur-
roundings and unwholesome food, a
hypothesis which In some Instances Is
still entertained as being highly prob-
able. However, wc were still confront-
ed with the problem that In many out-
breaks neither a specific Infectious dis-
ease could be found nor the exciting
cause of death pointed out.
Although it was apparent that the
cause of the deaths was to be found
In the food, the feeders of this kind
of swill failed to see why they Bhould
discontinue Its use. Naturally they felt
that If wc could not find or demonstrate
the presence of the destructive agent
in the swill the cause of death must be
something eUe. probably hog cholera,
for thousands of hogs are annually
raised upon this kind of food. Fur-
ther, the plea that such garbage was
not a suitable or even wholesome food
for their animals availed nothing, for
the reply was, that usually their pigs
thrived upon it. Early In the summer,
in conversation on this subject with
Mr. W. F. Davey, an enterprising farm-
er living near Brewerton, N. Y., he re-
lated the circumstances concerning an
outbreak of this kind In which he hnd
traced the cause of the trouble to the
soap used in washing dishes. The swill.
Including the dish water, was collected
from three small hotels and fed to a
herd of Bwlne. In a short time the ani-
mals began to sicken, and many of
them died. Upon inquiry It was found
that In the hotels large quantities of
powdered so»p were used In washing
the dishes. This watt stopped, and no
more animal* died. Later In the sea-
son Dr. J. * ■ Mi Crank, of Plaltsburg,
told me of a outbreik of an apparent-
ly infectlo, ( ri.seii.se among swine
which had *me under bis observation
and in wt 'b he ;ould not make a
positive dli inoals. n the Investigation
of Its cams he foi nd that the hogs
were belnt fed the swill, Including the
dishwater from a' Kitel. Upon Inquiry
he found that powdered soap was helm
used in large quantities. The awl!
from this place was stopped and thi
disease disappeared. In following u>
the line of Inquiry which three expe
rimers suggested. It was found that
there is among the more enterprising
farmers a quite general belief that
these soaps, when given In considera-
ble quantities, are Injurious and even
fatal to hogs.
ARK YOU TO LIVE IN ALASKA?
Reselree»i»nie Thai Will Be Feaa«
lidUptnMblB,
The universal article of diet In that
country, depended upon and Indispens-
able, is bread or biscuit. And to make
the bread and biscuit, either In the
cwmp or upon the trail, yeast cannot be
used—It must be baklug powder; aud
The concensus of opln-i the powder manufactured by the pro-
ton on this subject, together with the I coatee of the Royal Baking Powder
more definite observations of Mr. Da-1 Company, miners and prospectors have
vey and Dr. McCrank, appeared *— ■- »*— —•- —
to be
so conclusive that It seemed Important
to determine by careful experiment to
what extent, If at all, powdered soaps
ran be considered as the cause of death
In this class of outbreaks.
Konp.
I notice in the Stockman and Farme>
a query In regard to the cause of roup
and the way to cure the disease, etc.,
writes W. P. Perkins to National Stock-
man and Farmer. The writer has been
actively connected with the poultry
business for more than a decade, and
be unhesitatingly Bays the best way to
cure roup I* to keep clear of the foul
disorder. That le, prevention la prac-
tically the only satisfactory remedy.
It Is well enough to talk about making
cures, but most of the so-called cures
leave the birds all broken up constitu-
tionally, and practically worthless.
When 1 first began to keep fowls roup
was a terrible trouble to me, but lately
we do not have to worry much about
the disorder; and this, I think, Is the
experience of the majority of poultry
keepers. A beginner is almost Bure to
get a good taste of roup the first fait
and winter In which he practices poul-
try culture. It Is bo easy to neglect
closing doors and windows and setting
broken panes of glass, which, If not
done, means drafts of air upon the
birds while at roost, one of the moit
prolific sources of roup In existence.
Foul air Is almost as had as a draft.
Have effective ventilation, but do not
allow the air to blow upon the roosts.
Feed wisely and be vigilant and there-
by avoid roup.
Nava the Feather*
Poultry feathers should be kept for
stuffing pillows, sofa cushions, and
other home conveniences, even where It
Is not deemed worth while to sell them,
says Column's Rural World. Geese
and duck feathers, being much more
valuable than others, should always be
preserved with care. Downy feathers
of hens and turkeys serve a very good
purpose and unless you wish to make
dusters of tall and wing feathers, the
soft, feathery portions of these may
be stripped off the quill and added to
the rest. Unless the flock lg large. It
will take some time to secure enough
feathers to stuff even a cushion, and aa
they are gathered from time to time,
they must be put Into whole cotton
bags, tied securely so that no moth mil-
lers can enter, and placed for a short
time In a warm oven, to dry thorough-
ly. If hens are scalded before picking,
the feathers can be dried in a tin pan.
In a moderately warm stove oven. Re-
move all bits of skin, as they produce
an unpleasant odor hard to get rid of.
Feathers well cleaned answer very well
for bolsters, chair and soft cushions.
learned, is the only one which will
stand In that peculiar climate of cold
and dampness aud raise the broad and
biscuit satisfactorily.
These facts are very Important for
every one proposing to go to Alaska
and the Yukon couutry to know, for
should he l>e persuaded by some out-
fitter to take one of the cheap brands
of baking powder, It will cost Just as
much to transport It, and then when
be opens it for use. after all his labor
In parking It over the long and difficult
route, he will find a solid caked mass
or a lot of spoiled powder, with no
strength and useless. Such a mistake
might lead to the most serious results.
Alaska Is no place In which to experi-
ment In food, or try to economize with
your stomach. For use in such a
climate, and under the trying and
fatiguing conditions of life and labor
In that country, everything must be
the best and most useful, and above
all It la imperative that all food sup-
plies shall have perfect keeping quali-
ties. It |g absurd to convey over such
difficult and expensive routes an arti-
cle that will deteriorate In transit, or
that will be found when required for
use to have lost a great part of Its
value.
There Is no better guide to follow in
these matters than the advice of those
who have gone through similar experi-
ence. Mr. McQueaten. who Is called
"the father of Alaska," after an experi-
ence of years upon the trail, in the
camp, and la the use of every kind of
supply, says; "We find in Alaska that
the Importance of a proper kind of
baking powder cannot he overesti-
mated. A miner with a can of bad
baking powder is almost helpless In
Alaska. W’e have tried all sorts, and
have been obliged to settle down to use
nothing but the Royal. It la stronger
and carries further at first, but above
all things. It Is the only powder that
will endure the severe climatic changes
of the arctic region."
It Is for the same reasons that the
United States government in Its relief
expeditions, and Peary, the famous
arctic traveler, have carried the Royal
Baking Powder exclusively.
The Royal Baking Powder will not
cake nor lose its strength either on
board ship or In damp climates, snd is
the most highly concentrated and effi-
cient of leavening agents. Hence It is
Indispensable to every Alaskan outfit.
It can be had of any of the trading
companies in Alaska, but Bhould the
miner procure his supplies before leav-
ing, he should resist every attempt of
the outfitter to palm off upon him any
of the other brands of baking pow-
der. for they will spoil and prove the
cause of great disappointment and
trouble.
Glorifying thr Hen.
Galen Wilson, In "Farm and Firs*,
side," requested an old, crippled soldier
engaged in poultry raising, to give his
views, and received the following:
Eggs are always cash. They are ready
for market the minute laid, and the
sooner they are got to market the
better. They require no cultivation,
pruning or harvesting, but are at'once
In salable condition. With plenty of
eggs on the farm there are a host of
good things in the kitchen and money
in the family purse. Gathering up eggs
is like picking up dimes and dollars.
Great is the hen that produces them.
When everything is dull In winter ths
egg-basket has wonderfully helped out
many a poor farmer. The crops may
be poor, the provisions low, the family
cow dry, with a long wait for the next
growing season, but the hen comes up l
smiling, and is ready to get a pound of
tea or a sack of flour. If treated well,
she will respond no readily when the
snow is on the ground aa when tha
fields are green. She is a friend to th»
rich and poor alike.
PEDDLERS IN MEXICO.
XVhy aa Old Woman Wouldn’t Hall All
liar lloney at Una Tima.
"While traveling in Mexico a few
years ago 1 had a funny experience
with a Mexican vender which goes to
show whut little business ability the
lower classes have," said E. F. Gulg-
non of St. Louis. "I was en route to
look at some mines away up in the
mountains. At the station where we
left the train to take the stage 1 saw
an old woman gelling some honey. She.
did not have more than ten pounds of
It altogether and as it looked so good
I wanted to buy it all to take along with
us. I asked our Interpreter to buy It.
Much to my surprise the old woman
would sell him but two boxes, claim-
ing that if she sold It all to him she
would have nothing to sell to other
people, neither would she have any-
thing else to do during the remalndet
of the day!"
Feeding for Eggs.—Here are a few
more figures and they are from an
Eastern man (Lung Itriand), who lives
where poultry can be kept for nothing,
as It can very nearly be on the average
grain farm In Dakota. He gays:
"From January 1 to January 1, I kept
on an average of 175 hens; Bold 3.213
dozen eggs and raised 310 chickens.
Eggs sold at home for (574.44; the .
chickens were part sold and part kept I
on the place. While amount for poul-
try and eggs, JG40.30, with 15ti fine pul-
lets for another year.” ThlB gentleman
says that Ills "method of feeding Is to
have corn on hand, winter and sum-
mer." When cold he feeds other grain,
with warm bran and meal pudding. He
also feeds chopped clover and other
hay. He adds: "I have tried this plan
two winters and when my neighbors,
who feed In the old way, were only
getting two or three dozen eggs per
week from 100 hens, my product was
from forty to Bixty dozen per week
from 175."—Ex.
e ones
In
this
London,
for
ex-
freaths
and
em-
Russia possesses at least one luxury,
In a breed of dogs which are bald to
be naturally quite unable to bark.
FADS IN FLOWERS.
Florists' shops abroad arc much dif-
ferent from 11
country. In
ample, funeral
blcms are displayed In the windows,
with their prices attached. Some are
attractive, others very hideous. Lichen
Is fashionable there for crosses and
wreaths, and from this grisly-gray
background calls lilies aud white roses
peer. >
Set pieces, the "gates ajar," broken
columns and floral pillows, are always
painful, for, In the first place, the nat-
ural grace and beauty of the flowers Is
destroyed, and In the next there Is no
excuse for the emblems. Flowers for
the dead should be scattered in care-
less baudtuls—then ouly are they com-
forters, with their graceful beauty un-
impaired. The modern custom of add-
ing to a death notice the words.
"Friends will please omit flowers,"may
be traced to the reluctance of the sur-
vivors to be confronted with thosa
ghastly set pieces which have raged so
long.
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