EXPERIENCE DEPAl
The Dog Law.
1st Premium —The law of several years
ago, requiring that all dogs should be
tagged and those that were not should
be killed by the constable'of the township, is, in our opinion, the best dog law
we ever had. A great majority of the
dogs that kill sheep are owned by the
poorer class of people; that is,people
who work by the day, and oan hardly
support their families comfortably, let
alone feeding two or three worthless dogs.
Under the above law the dishonest
man could not beat the county out of the
tax on his dog, and besides, there was no
room for litigation, as there Is nnder the
present law.
A good dog is an indispensible help
about the farm, and should be protected
in all possible ways by law. The dog
that Is well fed and has plenty of water,
will not be likely to kill sheep or go mad,
Be humane toward your faithful friend,
and he will repay you many times.
Washington Co. H. E. D.
2i Premium. A few years ago we had
to buy a tag of the trustee which was to
be worn on the dcg's neok and it cost $1.
And if I am not mistaken any person
had the right to kill a dog that did not
have a tag on_- I think this law was the
best we ever had; at least it was too good
to last long. In this neighborhood some
people have six or seven dogs and claim
to be coon hunters, but when the assessor
comes the dogs all belong to somebody
else and consequently there are no taxes
paid on them, Again we have another
olass of people who tell the assessor that
"that dog does not belong to them." They
say, "he cam* here and some one may
come along tomorrow and olalm him. I
can't pnt him in." I have known people
to have dogs for seven years and never
pay any taxes on them. Of all the dog
laws we have ever had I think the tag
law the best As a rnle most of the sheep
that are killed are killed by dogs that
have never had any taxes paid on them.
Harrison Co. L. L
review.
The tag law was liked about here In
most respeots. True, the tags were occasionally stolen or lost. And parties
hesitated to kill a dog if a poor man
wanted to keep it and had no tag, or if
anyone made a pitiful story. Some one
suggests that United States deputies be
appointed for eaoh county, to kill all
dogs not licensed either by tsg or otherwise. That these men being from distant
communities, would not hesitate to kill
dogs. And that the increased tax collected would pay all expense, leaving
the dogs thinned ont, so that farmers
could grow sheep.
The present law paying for sheep killed by dogs is a very unsatisfactory one.
There is some red tape and lots of delay,
and the best sheep can only be allowed
"oommon" sheep prioes. It is a bid to
keep "common" sheep, and discourages
high grade or blooded stock. I onoe had
a Canadian buok that sold for $50. What
could I have got for him it a dog had
killed him? It is true here, as our friends
say, that those who live below paying
tax are the ones who keep the mcst dogs
I would gladly keep sheep, but do not
want to take the risk and do not want to
see a herd, that I have taken lots of pains
with in breeding up, soared to death or
mangled by the wolves that a few of my
neighbors olalm a right to keep.
One is not allowed to keep breeohy
stook that break fences and damage your
orops. He must not keep ponltry or turkeys that you can't fence against, bnt he
may keep a half civilized and hungry
wolf that goes everywhere, especially at
night, and you are expected to submit to
It.   •*
saw a fine picture the other day of
"The Chase," in England. And the titled
people were running horses across farms,
leaping fenoes, making mortar of plow-
land and destroying crops. I once asked
an Englishman why they allowed it.
"Oh," he said, "we have to; it has been
onstomary so long. I guess a man oould
forbid it and keep them off from private
property, bnt he would lose standing."
We Americans would get pretty hot if
it were tried here, yet not long ago I had
a nioe field of wheat along the pike, and
as a neighbor who lived in Carmel went
to his farm every'.day to work his two long
legged dogs would chase around throngh
that wheat, and at cutting time it had
paths through it with the straw pushed
down.
Again a neighbor had hogs dying of
cholera and a stray dog oarried half of
one's baok bone onto my farm where I
had a lot of well hogs.
Again a neighbor adjoining me had
sick hogs and I had a large herd of well
ones. He came over to talk occasionally
and had his big wooly dog at his heels
One could hardly imagine a better means
of infecting a herd, as the miorobe breeds
freely in manure and Is alive in the little
ohips and dust which collect in a dogs
hair and on his feet. The man said there
was no danger and I was expected to
take that for an answer. I mention these
as reasons for legislation to control dogs.
I asked a farmer this morning what he
would suggest as the best dog law. He
said, "the one that cuts their tails off just
behind the ears."
Our assessors are very careful to get all
the dogs. One told mo he first got a list
of all the dogs in a town and the owners,
and if a man denied having a dog he
pressed him. He would then claim that
a man across the street ln another township owned the dog. The assessor stepped
over and asked and found it a lie, and put
the dog down on his list against the first
man. Among farmers he inquired of one
about the next one, etc. But in spite of
this there are many very poor people
who keep a troop of dogs and pay no tax.
It would be a blessing to them if the government would prohibit their keeping
them. As the little food they give those
dogs and they make them steal most of it
would keep a pig and turn out a lot of
lard.
'Tis not true that only cur dogs run
sheep. Bird dogs have many times been
seen running them to death. As civilization becomes more intense we shall expect to keep in better bounds. A few
years ago men wonld fight rather than
put their hogs up. Now they have no
thought of letting them out on the roads.
But let the dog question keep publio attention, and he will be restricted more
and more.
Written for the Indiana Farmer.
Something About the Bible.—No. 2.
BY Q S   COTTMAN.
No. 89, Nov. 13.—Are lightning rods a
protection? How should they be put up?
And how may one avoid being cheated?
No. 90, Nov. 20.—Desorlbe a good cistern,
also a good filter,
No. 91, Nov. 27.—How does the compulsory attendance law work in your
schools?   Give suggestions.
Premiums of $1, 75o and 60o will be
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week. Let copy be as practical as possible and forward it 10 days before publication to E. H. Collins.
Carmel.
Professor Cook says: "We all know
how children long for candy. This longing voices a need, an another evidence
of the necessity of sugar in our diet.
Childen should be given all the honey at
eacn time that they will eat. Ills safer;
will largely do away with the inordinate
longing for candy and other sweets, qpd
in lessening the desire -will doubtless til-
minlsh the amount of oane sngar eaten.
Then, if cane sugar does work misohief
with health, the harm may be prevented
In another paper I have spoken of the
sources from whioh our Bible is drawn.
It now remains to say something of the
English Bible in its various translations-,
Christianity was introduoed into England in the latter part of tbe 6th century,
and spread rapidly, but for 800 years
about the only translations were fragmentary Anglo Saxon versions intended
for reading aloud in the churches. In the
earlier part of this period the chief translations were Eadhelm, Egbert,"The Venerable Bede," and Klny Alfred the Great.
Then came troublous times, the Norman
Conquest, the permanent invasion ot a
foreign raoe and a slow charyiog of the
language which for generations unfitted
lt for literary uses. By and by,however,
out of the fnslon of the old Saxon and the
Norman Frenoh the new English language emerged and by the latter part of
the 14th century we find the conditions
ripening for an English Bible, and there
appeared the first complete version of the
Scriptures in the new language—thatof
famous John Wyollfte. It is interesting
to note the state of affairs that inspired
this work. England at that day was in a
deplorable religious state. The church
[was corrupt to the last degree, and the
people utterly neglected except for the
money that oould be extorted from them,
as if ''God had given his sheep not to be
pastured but to be shaven and shorn "
Anarchy and warfare reigned in the
church itself, and the spirit of Christ was
all bnt extinct. To the masses the Bible
was an absolutely sealed volume. At
this juncture arose John Wy cliff e
the reformer. To him it seemed
that the very greatest service
possible to] England was to make the
Bible accassible to the people and get
them ih touch with the noble doctiiaes
of the gospel. "The Sacred Scriptures,"
he said, "are the property of the people,
and one whioh no one should be allowed
to wrest f re in them," and in pursuance
with his idea he made the oomplete
translation referred to. lt was eagerly
received. Laboriously, by hand, copies
were made and widely circulated through
the kingdom. The great oost of the book
confined it, chiefly to the hands of the
wealthy, but many of the poor, also,
found access to it. The story is told of
one person who gave a load of hay for
permission to read for a certain period
eaoh day in the book of a more fortnnate
brother, and another anecdote is of a
woman who, having committed the ten
commandments and parts of the epistles
to heart, was sent for frequently to recite
them to a little gathering.
But all this was in the face of the bitterest opposition from the ecclesiastical
authorities who, with a fiendishness we
can not now comprehend set themselves
to crush out the new movement. A bill
was introdnoed into Parliament forbidding the circulation of the Scriptures ln
English, and Wycliffe was cursed with a
rancorous hatred as "a pestilential
wretch, the sen of the old Serpent and
the fore-runner of Antl-Christ, who had
completed his iniquity by inventing a
new translation of the Scriptures." The
work that the old hero did, however,they
conld not undo, bnt after his death in
very hatred they dug up his bones and
burned them Ignominionsly.
A hundred years passed dnring which
there was no relaxing of the bitter opposition to the circulation of the scriptures,
then arose another horo and martyr ln
the person of William Tyndale, whose
name and service, perhapc, stands yet
ahead of John Wyoliffa. By this time
the great art of printing had been discovered and the revival ot learning throughout Europe had made poEsible a muoh
thorough scholarship; and Tyndale, with
these advantages, prooeded to a more accurate translation of the Bible, copies of
which he purposed multiplying by aid of
theprintiDg press till the books should
come into the hands of every plough boy.
But he had set himself to a formidable
task. To carry on the translation alone
was dangerous and diflloult in England,
and the printing of it there, entirely out
of the question, so in pursuance of his object he left his native conntry never to
return. On the continent, still amid dangers and hindrances and in deep poverty,
he prosecuted his work until he succeeded in produolng the first printed
English New Testament. Then the edition
was secretly forwarded to England by
being hidden in barrels, in bales of
cloth, in sacks of flour, in every seoret
way that could be devised. The English
authorities were agog. Strictest watch
was kept at all parts and thousands of
copies were seized and burned, but still
they oame, In desperation the Bishop of
London hit upon the brilliant expediency of buying, through an agent, all the
oopies Tyndal had—which he did, and
duly burned them. Tyndal, made happy
with the money thus gained, at once devoted it to the printing of innumerable
others. Finally he paid the penalty with
his life. Seized secretly by his enemies
he was thrown in an obsoure dungeon,
where he Euffered for a while ln cold,
misery, and rags, then was strangled and
his body burned.
But the seed sown by this man at suoh
cost bore fruit many-fold and with astonishing rapidity. Within three years
after Tyndaie's assassination there was
another translation, fathered by the
English authorities, and placed in every
parish church. A reactionary sentiment
swept over the country, and the very
men who htd persecuted Tyndale and
burned the English Bible with rancor
and hate now sent it forth with their
sanction and the sanction of the king.
There were several other translations
ot minor Importance. Then in 1604 came
the great King James' version, which is
in nse to the present day. No former
version, could compare with this for
labor, oare and scholarship. Fifty-
four of the most learned men in the
kingdom were divided into six companies, each of which, took a portion of the
book. No time or pains were spared to
make the work as perfeot as possible,
and as the result a book was produoed
which has become interwoven in English
lite and thonght, and which as a piece of
literature alone is unexcelled.
OI onr now revised version we have little space to speak. It is the work of a
large convocation of the most eminent
divines of the present day. The argument justifying it is that there Is a vast
maES of old manuscripts accessible now
which were not known of in King James'
day, and that biblical scholarship
takes a wider range to-day than ever before. With all this, however, the changes from the old Bible are less than one
would look for, and the latter, it must be
said, still retains its place in the affections of the people.
For Lockjaw.
In case of a nail or other sharp instrument being stuok in the foot of human or animal, and lockjaw is threatened, take a buoket of unleached wood
ashes, put in tub, and pour on two buckets ot waim water, stir well, and
place the wounded foot in the mixture.
K3lief will be felt Immediately. Let remain an hour or so if necessary. Only
yesterday I relieved an old lady by this
reoipe, who was suffering intensely from
a nail wound in the foot. Another remedy is to burn a flannel rag under the
foot, bnt the latter applies to any cut that
is painful.—W. F. A, in Prairie  Faimar.
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