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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-12-06
WIRES ALMOST USELESS
Severe Rain and Wind Storm Rsges
Through ghout Pennsylvanis.

Severe Rain and Wind Storm Rsges
Throughout Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. ga heavy
rain storm has prevailed throughout
the state all day accompanied by winds
of great velocity. At its maximum the
wind, blew AZ miles an hour. Tele-
graph wires from this city south were
rendered almost useless on account of
the heavy winds. Trees, swinging
signs and chimneys were blown down
but no great damage is known to have
resulted.
A few dispatches received at the
Maritime Exchange told of very
heavy northeaster prevailing at the
Delaware Breakwater and other points
along the New Jersey coast. At many
points the tide rose to the highest point
it has reached in years. No disasters
to vessels have yet been reported.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-12-06

Gloomy Reports of Increasing Famine
Reach tho British Capital.
LONDON, Dec. 5.-Advices from Rus.
sia say the reports of the thyeatened
famine there are growing more gloomy
every day. Count Leo Tolstoi has peti.
toned the government for permission to
form relief committees to cope with the
distress, and the car himself has con.
tributed 500, 900 roubles to the Red Cross
society to aid the starving peasants.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-12-06
CARGO OF MAUSERS.

Transport Port Victor Arrives at New
York From Santiago.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-The United
States transport Port Victor, which
sailed from Santiago Nov. 20. has ar
rived with all well on board. The Port
Victor brought 1S0 passengers, most of
whom were soldiers returning home on
furlough. The Port Victor brought as
cargo about 5000 Mauser rifles and
seven Spanish cannon taken from the
Moro castle at Santiago.
STARVING IN RUSSIA.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-05
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Some person with love for large
figures has said that in Christmas week
S. 1000 is handed over counters
of LIS city as tribute to Santa Claus,
says New York correspondent. That
sum may sound suspiciously great,
and the statistician might be charged
with the evil of exaggeration, but'when
it is remembered that gifts for 5000
900 of people are purchased here $780,
600, ZOO do not seem too large for the
total. An average of trihe over SO
per person is large, or small, accord
ing to the financial rank OF the reader,
and in New York it is particularly diff
fcult to strike fair average, because
of the extremes Of poverty and wealth.
The Fifth avenue millionaire gives
his wife $500 diamond necklace,
while the father of the east side brings
JOY to the heart of the child of tho
tenements with gaudily painted ten
cent toy. One Christmas, half
dozen years ago, William K. Wander
bilt gave his wife, now Mrs. Belmont,
o pearl necklace that cost him 81, 500,-
900 to gather the fifteen feet of stringed
pearls together. That same Christmas
more than one child found delight in
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-05
Keeping IMMORAL Fertilizers.

There ought to be no trouble in
keeping mineral fertilizers until spring
in good condition for drilling or put
ting in the hill if you put it in dry
place. So far from losing its effective
ness we think the phosphate will be
more effective than when it came from
the factory. We have often used new
phosphate and have generally found it
so moist that it is hard to drill, but:
when kept six months the phosphate
will; be dried out, and while less in
weight will for that reason have its
fertilizing properties in more concen-
3trated form. We usually kept bags or
barrels of phosphate in room adioin-
ing the horse stable. No doubt the
sulphuric acid in phosphate united
with the ammonia from the horse.
manure. But if we had this to do
over again we should mix the phos-
phate with either cow or horse manure,
trusting that its sulphuric acid would
unite with the ammonia of the manure
pile and5with the lime of its original
compound. It is possible every win
ter, we believe, to thus mix phosphate.
and manure together and reduce them
both to condition of fine powder.
Such fertilizer will, we believe, be
more effective on any crop than either
the manure o. the phosphate used,
separately.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-05

ing crush with their trancelike charges
in some remarkable way. A man with
hobby horse on one shoulder, ave
locipede in his hand, Christmas tree
under his arm, big dolls sticking out
of every pocket, dozen packages !:etd
in some miraculous manner in the
other hand, stops and buys o five
pound box of candy for forty cents,
slows it away somehow, and goes on fss
happy as the millionaire riding through
the Park in his victoria. 81
Tough girls not above sneaking|a
roll of ribbon under their wraps, were
it not for the hordes Of detectives
which fill the stores of Grand street,
buy to the limit of their purses, but
buy sharply.
'I am going to buy Bonnie for
Jimmie" says one to her friend.
"Say, mister" to the floor walker,
"where do I buy der bennie?" 81
"Hey?" &
"Dcr bennie2 What floor is youse
selling them on?" S
"The bennieP" #
eyes, yer hungry-looking guy, der
bennie. Don't yor spose Use got de
price? I want to buy bennie5 like
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-05
Old Church In Virginia.

One of the very few old churches
still standing and practically un-
changed is st. Luke's, at Smlthvllle,
Isle of Wight County, Va. 1t was
built in 1882, as attested by the date
on some of tho bricks, under the su-
perintendence of Joseph Bridger'
whose descendants still live in the
county arc. worship in the churon.
The recol J of the family, which are
unbroken for /, :, ,,sriod Of $50 years, es-
tablish tho date of the building OF the
church, and are full of interesting de-
tails of early colonial history.
It appears that st. Luke's was or
isinaliy so we'll built and of such ex-
cellent material that no repairs were
made to it until 1737, 105 years otter
it's completion. At that time it was
ordered "that Peter Woodward 40 the
shingling of the church with good oy,;
pres shingles of good substance, ard
we'll nailed, for 700 pounds of tobacco
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-05

and ied II: order. rs make II dtepte.lI
3 The use of kainit IN compost heap
cannot be too highly recommended, as
it preserves to the farmer his valuable
nitrogen and serves as aprevent,ve OF
waste upon upon ssaeafag The addition
of the acid phosphate makes co@ :
nlete manure that is highly satisfac-
tory for all kinds Of crops and Oh
almost all kinds of soil. We advise
every farmer to do some close figuring
and see If he can afford to sell his cot
ton seed at ten dollars ton or e1.
ohenae 1t for 725 pounds of cotton seed
meal. It will be one OF the most Pro %
fitable rainy days. work he ever dla II
he will calculate all ofprofts and losses
and carefully study how he could save e
several dollars per ton By feeding STOCK
and preparing his fertilizers at nome. l,e
BE may find that is selling his BIRTH
right for mess OF pottage when ne
,arts with his cotton seed at prevail
ing rates. He may ind that ne can
save largely by producing more tertlh-
| Z6r8 uDOu Uu6 INV NJ
ply the potash salts and the ACID pnos-
phate necessary to properly utilize his
present wastes. III:
Stop the wastes upon the farm. oti'
lie it's products in on economic man,
ner. Prevent loss to live stock ans
fertilizers by exposure to the weather
and cold drenching rains. Avoid IN
iudicious sales of valuable farm pro-
ducts and the purchase OF fertilizers
that should be saved upon the farm.
Where fertilizers ore bought let them
be supplemented to those produced
upon the farm, and purchase those IN
gradients necessary to perfect the leis
tilizer products of the farm. AVolo
wastage of labor by cultivat!ng un'
profitable lands and see that oil cultl'
vated land is we'll fertilized.
DIR. JOHN A.. MYERS,
! Ex-Direotor West Virginia Ezper'men'
D Station.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-05
WERE BORN in 1915.
Ladies Who Claim to Do the Oldest LiV'
Ing Twins in tho Country.

The claim of the Newell brothers, OF
Missouri, that they are the Oldest pair
of twins in the country, will not hold, "
according to correspondent Of the
Chicago Times-Herald. Mrs. b. d.
johnson, recently of Kenkakee, H.,
and now of Omaha, Neb., and Mrs.
David Noggle, of Janesville, Wis, are
one month older. These ladies are
the twin children-Polly NJ. and Anna
M.-of Benjamin and Eunice Mosher
Lewis, aud were born at Bristol, N. l.,
May 29, 1915. They were the young
est of fifteen children. The TWINS
went to Milan, Ohio, when about bout
seventeen, married there, and ID 1851
Mrs. Nogglo came to Wisconsin to live
the life Of o pioneer. Mrs. Noggle is IS
q woman of native ability and can tell
many interesting tales of early life in
Wisconsin. She is the mother Of
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-05
, nickel toy. Christmases back John

o nickel toy. Christmases back Ohm
D. Rockefeller sent check for $780,
600 to the Fifty-seventh Street Baptist
church as holiday Offering. and the
same day the organ grinder of Null
berry Bend dropped couple OF cop
pers in the plate of tie Italian church
in Roosevelt street.
So much for the extremes OF Christ
mas giving in New York.
Fully one-half of the Christmas
shopping is done the day and the night
before Christmas; not one-helf hnancl-
ally, but numerically. The moderate
ly poor, the poor and the very poor
must wait until the very last minute
to get their small funds together for
the great event. The money gift of
the employer to the bread winner OF
the family is made the day before
Christmas, and often times the extent
of that gift determines the scope of the
Christmas shopping for the family.
Again if Christmas comes near the
end of the week, rs it does this year,
many will get their weeks pay on
Thursday night.
Another potent r" Ion for delaying
the shc,.,inr we last minute is that
things are .Aeaper on Christmas Eve
than earlier in the week, Toys and
games and clothing have suffered from
the rough handling, there arc rips and
tears which, however, can be easily
sewed up; paint has been scraped OIL
parts of games lost and numerous
other mishaps have occurred, oil OF
which induces the shop owner to make
q material reducation in his prices.
Again, he does not want to carry Q
single piece of his Christmas stocf
over for year, as he loses the use O.
the monsy. So he is eager to mari
things down to the real cost, or trlti'
below, if needs be, to get rid OF them
People who have to watch the pen
nies are quick to recognize these ad
yantages. So Christmas Eve is th
great shopping time for the lowe
part of town and the East side. Vese,
street is the Christmas Eve stampin!
ground of the old First and Fonrt
Warders. The people for the mos
part OF this district esteem themselve
lucky if they can spend 50, and as thi
sum hos to supply the Christmas din
ner. MS we'll as to bring Santa Clau
to an abnormally la-ge family c
children, sharp bargaining must b
done.
Push carts line the streets fro1
Broadway to tho North River, and q
most anything from heavy clothing
household furniture, kitchen utensils
to tiny gimcracz toys can be bougn
Ten cents is the prevailing price &c
the average run of things, and at
squeeze this can be brought down
nine, or even eight cents.
Grand street is the centre OF IL
great East side. The Bowery DC
BUYS the Bowery girl q ninety-nin
cent diamond ring there, and ST
reciprocates by purchasing sever
caret, seventy -nine-cent diamond stu'
J, Women with seven OF eight chi'drt
= toddling along in open-mouthed wo
del uaIage to get through the alarr
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-05
row NEW yonE SPENDS ITS MILLIONS FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS

ing, and answered that when q per-
son's fire went out, he got some OF q
noighbor, and if all the fires in the vii
lage should go out, they would get 1t
from the next village. Their fathers
and grandfathers had told them that
they remembered o time or had heard
from their ancestors that there
was a time when fire was not known,
and everything was eaten raw.
The natives of the southern coast OF
New Guinea, having no iron, shave
themselves with piece of glass. For
merly they shaved with flint which
they could sharpen quite we'll and used
with considerable dexterity.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-05

ring in meal. I fed several pigs
through the winter wholly on this,
with the exception Of daily throwing
in of uncooked Hubbard squash. The
animals did fairly well under tlis reg
linen. but the gain fromsthe invest
ment was not sufficient tc warrant Q
repetition. The beans, Alter soaking
for twenty-four hours, were so im-
proved in appearance that with very
little hand picking they were usually
in good condition for family use, the
defects being mostly but stains on the
surface, which were removed by the
water. When, therefore, beans are
high priced, the poor man might save
o penny when. he can buy this class by
the barrel at the usual price at which
they sold, viz, about one cent a
quart, The pea waste which is LETT
from those I raise for seed purposes, a
mass of halves, small sized, skin
cracked or rotten peas, I have been
able to utilize with results that were
much more satisfactory; for whereas
hogs, ifnot brought pretty near to the.
borders of starvation, viii not eat
beans unless accompanied with other
food, they always welcome peas.
My way of preparing them is first to
soak, or rather sink them in water,
when the rotten ones rise to the sur;
face and are easily skinned of. By,
pouring the peas into the water rather.
than water on to the peas, and in
either case giving them o little stirring,
T find I am able to secure large pro-
portion of the rotten ones. After soak
ing the peas twenty-four hours the
water is drained off, and I boil them
to o soft, pulpy~ condition. In the
pea-growing countries I understand II
is the practice to feed after they are
soaked and swollen without cooking,s
but as the waste I am handling is DID,.
and as / utilize heat that would other.
wise be wasted, Iprefer to cook them
My hogs, which average 200 pounds
live weight, eat heartily six quarts
each Of this waste, measured when dry
daily, and grow like weeds, weighing
considerably more than one OF the
same lot. kept by my neighbor, who
feeds his on the mixture of cornmeal
and shorts. AS the peas fed you'd
otherwise bethrown on the dung heap
the cost of feeding them is merely the
Understanding itt.J Hs Greeoryd II
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-05

s,,;;,fft sweet little VIII OF 1ts- owns,
for Il will not undergo allegiance to
any country. Governments ofsen e! lex. ss.
perience considerable trolele IN pre-,
serving the allegiance OF peopIessaes
have conquered, but as rule piece
of property or real estate has been 'e
looked upon as likely to remain in the
same place for considerable period
of time.
This little island, which has received
the name of Falcon Island, proves on
exception to the rule, however. NO
sooner has it been annexed than 1t
disappears off the face Of tho globe
leaving only dangerous reef to indi'
oots it's former whereabouts, and COM
ing up in o few years time, when the
country 1 which has performed the on
nexation has given up all claims.
Our old friend, John Bull. always
on the watch to increase the imperial
empire, was the first to encounter 1t.
In 1880 the British corvette Egeria
was sent on cruise among the South
Islands. with orders from the British
Admiralty to seize upon any islands
or coral reefs that had hitherto been
unclaimed, and to take possession IN
the name of the Queen. Cruising
around shesanoticed from afar OF a
prominent island, toward which she
sailed. Toll palm trees were growing
on its southern extremity, which was
| O. commanding bluff, rising lou fee'
from the level of the sea.
Having reported the results OF MI
voyage to the Admiralty, next yea
thew sent out a transport ship viii
orders to make further discoveries
md reports. What was the dismay o
the CAPTAIN of the Egeria, who hap
pened to be in command of the trans
mort. on arriving at the place where b
had the year before left the islan,
sporting the union jack, to find that
had disappeared from view! lnstea
of the beautiful island standing out s
prominently from the ocean, was ),
low and dangerous coral reef, with IN
} sea beating and surging up against II
Two years later France, also seize
with the inordinate desire OF annexln
: new territory, sent the cruiser d.
| ohafault to the Pacific. Crulsln
, around she found her way to Falcol
, There, instead Of finding sunke {
$ reef, whitened with the foam OF I'll
| breakers, the vessels Grew discovere
!, nm island the exact shape OF II
o island found by the English corvet'
s in 1889.
9 Scarcely two years had passed aw'
l when a brig sent out by France
s revisit her possessions found her ": y!
L to Falcon Island. 1t had again d
n appeared, 1t being simply Q reef do
@ gerous rel to navigation. Whereup'
is France was obliged to give up
o rights of possession.-New York III
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-05
utilizing Waste Beans and Peas.

We seed dealers of the beginning OF
every season have nore or less OF
beans and peas on our hands, whose
percentage of vegetation is too low to
make them of any value for seed pur-
poses, while they are too good to
throw away. These are usually utll-
lied either by selling them to the
grocerymen, who handle them as col
ored beans, or to the farmers to feed
10 sheep. In my own disposing OF
them I havo usually had them ground
md then fed to my COWS and horses.
rs beans are apt to cling to the mill
stones (so my miller tells me), they
are ground with two or three times
their bulk of corn. Ny horses will
not eat the bean meal, while the COWS
relish both bean and pea meal. Either
of them is exceedingly rich feed hay
ing a larger proportion OF the flesh
forming constituent (protein) than
corn, while peas are also valuable Tor
fottenine animals, as our Canadian
neighbors we'll know, though inferior
in this respect to corn. The fat made
from peas is whittier in color than that
from corn, as can be readily seen by
comparing Canada fattened turkeys
with those raised in the States. AS {
milk producer, bean meal is o grea
fayorite with those dairymen who ar'
70 fo,+unote ns To be able to obtain 0
supply of old beans OF as low tigur!
as corn sells at. Like all very ricl
foods. bean meal should be fed witt
discretion; wise proportion, I inclin
TO believe, is but little more than Col
be safely fed of cottonseed meal ii th
feeder intends to keep O good COW.
There is another kind of bean on
men waste which / have been usln!
more or less for the last forty yeal
that I believe is but rarely used
the best advantage; indeed, in man
cases it is not used at all, but con
signed to the dung heap. L rete
to the waste from new beans an
mems. That of which I have spoke
previously is the waste caused by a,g'
the peas and beans being as sound {
ever, but simply too old; that which
now speak Of is the waste plcke'
riddled and winnowed out OF them
make them in condition to be sold
seed This waste is made up OF IL
half beans and peas, and that sma
Grade which passes through the wiz
Of the sieves used in racking and WI
moving, and the sprouted, SIX
cracked, rotten or otherwise defecti
ones which are hand picked out. IL
class of waste is confined mostly
the growers and the wholesale aeale
in beans who contract for the cr'
lust as winnowed, and do their o7
sorting and hand picking. Su
waste cannot be ground, as there
too much foul stuff among it to ma
il healthy food. -, :.
There are two ways by which it {
be utilized, by feeding to sheep just
it is, leaving it to the instinct OF
animal to reject the rotten peas, OF
feeding it to pips, in which case it
ouires some manipulation. My ii
experience in utilizing beans was W
the hand-picked waste OF the whoies
rrocers. Purchasing about tive
bushel of these ct about twenty
cents a bushel, put the quan'
needed for the next days feeding
q soak over night, the next day COO!
8 them with quantity of beef scrap
= til they were soft, and while the N
was scalding hot thickened it by s
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-05
Versatile Sir Claude.

Sir Claude de Crespigny has led an
adventurous life, having been sailor
soldier, steeplechaser, war CORES
pondent and aeronaut. In the last
named capacity he holds the record,
for he is the only living balloonis'
who has crossed the North Sea, as dis
tinruished from the Channel, his com
panion, the professional aeronaut Sim
mons, having been killed soon after
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-05

dis" Here she caught hold of man
wearing blue overcoat and held the
coat for the others inspection.
"Oh, O coat-on the fifth floor
front.
"What dye ti'nk of dat? De g1y
didn't know what o bennie was. he
must be new on Grand street" Then
they take the elevator and she tells
the man to let her off "where dere
sellin' de bennies." +"
Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue
is where the biggest part of the city
goodly section of Brooklyn. o large
part of Jersey and big portion OF oil
the suburban towns within fifty mile:
of New York do their shopping.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-05
2nil7ine and other feg
yer medicines take from 3 4
to 10 days to cure fever
johnson, s Chill md FsYer
Tonic cnres III. g NE Dlt J
STOP THE WAsTAcE.
In Export Tolls How Agricn1turaI Re-
sources May Be

/ >
sources May BE Increased.
The wonderful loss to farmers
drought about by the neglect to prop
erly utilize the resources and to en-
ploy knowledge that is considered In
dispensable in other kinds OF busi-:
ness is one of the causes Of depression
in agriculture. This is more particu-
larly the case in the South than else
where, although much has been done
within the past few years. to check this
loss. The Southern people are just
beginning to appreciate The adyan-
stages of employing their other re-
sources than chose Of cotton produc-
tion. In the past the South has been
too largely depend dent upon the colored
man and the mule. The result has
been, and will continue to be, so long
as they practice o one-crop system,
THAT they viii be; subject to periods OF
discouraging depression. In other
words, where she farmer put all OF his
eggs in one basket and meets with
some accident he is confronted by the
loss of his entire source OF support
until nature has time to produce an
other crop. Should it fail second
and third time the poor farmer is left
in o desperate way. In the South tho
wonderful resources for feeding the
North upon early vegetables have not
been utilized as they can be. There
has been and will continue to be q: ::
large wastage of products upon the 5
farm, most particularly in the failure
TO properly utilize cotton seed and its
products. 81 5$si II =
3 Where favorable terms with the
cotton seed oil mills can be made it is
well enough to sell theaexcess Of cots
ton seed and either exchange it or buy
cotton seed meal. The intelligent
farmer, with the hid of the experiment.
station or the officers Of the agricuI-
tural college of his State; can readily
figure out whether it is moro spgofta.
BILE to sell and buy or to keep and !
feed or use as o fertilizer. If the far
>mer. keeps his cotton seed he should I
at once provide for feeding it to &
stock. Il Cheap; sheds can sEbe CON
structed to properly protect the cattle
from the cold rains which are SO try
ing on stock in the winter, and The &
manure carefully preserved in ashed
RilE give the farmer double profit.
In fact, I might saySa treble profit.
For in this way, By preserving his
manure in the form of q compost heap