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Sugar Beets for Hogs.

The best root for hogs is the beet. All
beets have more or less sugar, but it
is better to grow the sugar beet, even
though it may not yield so largely as do
the large, coarse varieties. There is no
time in the growth of beets when they
are not acceptable food for hogs con-
fined to their pens. They are better
feed and more eheap1y grown than
clover, considering the waste of the
clover when it is either pastured or cut
and fed green. There is little nutriment
in clover until it gets into blossom.
If fed then, hogs will nose the clover
over to get at the heads, and will eat
very little else. But the whole of the
beet, including the leaves will be eaten.
provided the leaves are fresh.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-14
SEED CORN SELECTION.
How to Avoid a Mistake That Has Ru-
ined Many Crop on Very
Good Land.

Many farmers owning both bottom
and upland cornfelds make the mis-
take of using the same seed on both
kinds of soils. Corn which is adapted to
the soil and moisture conditions of the
valleys Will not do so well on the up
| land as will some variety that has by
several years of cultivation and selec-
ton become adapted to the conditions
there. 1t is for the same reason that
the large Colorado potatoes that have
been grown for years under irrigation
will do so poorly when used for seed
in Kansas without the accustomed sup
ply of water. 1t is generally the case
on the farm that the corn from all the
fields, both upland and bottom, is
cribbed together, and when the time for
seed selection comes the largest ears
are picked out irrespective of the kind
of soil that grew them. As the bottom
land produces the larger ears it is more
than likely that the bulk of the seed
viii be- from the lower and more moist
portions of the farm. This is the prop
er seed for the lowland, but it is not so
well adapted to the dryer and poorer
upland as is seed that has been raised
there. 1t is advisable TO select the seed
either before or at husking time, when
not only the quality of the ground but
the character of the individual stalk
and ear can be taken into considera-
ton. AS has been suggested before,
small box attached to the side of the
wagon-bed into which the desirable
ears can be thrown is the most prac-
teal device that can be recommended
BY little judicious selection for a
series of years, a strain can be estab-
lished on the upland portion of any
farm which will be web adapted to that
and other soils similar IN location and
composition. An eight-inch ear from
hte upland will ordinarily prove better
for planting on the upland than will a
Pinch ear from draw in the lower
portions of the farm.-J. II. Westgate,
In Prairie Farmer.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-14
RAISE GOOD HOGS.
weII-Rred Rangy Animals Are the
Most Ready Sellers and Hiring
the Best Prices.

If a person who knows anything az
all about hog feeding was given a
chance between a hog that would gain
% pounds in six weeks and one that
would gain 80 pounds in the same time
on the same feed, he would not be long
in choosing. During the past ten
months the Kansas experiment station
has fed 100 hogs that were bought OF
the farmers in the vicinity of Manhat-
tan without regard to breed or breed
ing, just as they were, thrifty and
weighing in the neighborhood of 100
or 125 pounds. This class of hogs is
used because those experiments are for
the highest benefit of the farmers, and
by taking the stock they raise we stay
within their conditions. A few con-
illusions may be drawn from the follow
ing facts taken from observations of
feeding so head of hogs which were just
finished. These hogs were nearer of the
same age than size, and ranged from
the long, big-boned bacon hog, to
the short-boned chunk, according to
the care or carelessness of the farm
er who raised them. First, as to point
of gain: The comparisons are between
hogs fed the same in every respect. The
best and poorest five out of twenty
have the following showing: Best five,
weight at beginning of test 500 pounds,
gain 416 pounds, 20 per cent; poorest
five, weight at beginning of test $40
pounds, gain 235 pounds, 40 per cent.
| This was for period of ~ days, and
from observations made from week to
week, this difference of gain from a lit
tie over one pound to practically two
pounds a day was largely due to the
breeding. A short, small-boned chunk
will make good gains for few weeks
and then stop. 1t Will be fat and ready
for market, while a well-bred rangy
hog will fatten and continue to grow
and make good gains for a much longer
period. Then as to the demand of the
market: The Observation-Disclosures is now
one of the most profitable cuts that is
made for export trade. Hogs from
which these cuts are made must be
| large and muscular. long and rangy.
The short, slnall-boned chunk will not
| answer the purpose. The bacon hog
is also of the latter description and
brings the best price on the markets.
WeH-bred rangy hogs make the most
profitable gains, are the most ready
sale and bring the best price on the
market. = j. G. Haney, in Prairie
Farmer
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-14
AN OLD SOLDIERS TRIBUTE.
gets the Anniversary of Gen.
AIcPhersOn's Death.

A faded rose lay between the forefeet
of the horse of bronze on which sits the
heroic figure of Gen. Mcpherson III the
square which bears his name. 1t was
found there one Sunday morning, shriv-
eled and dead, with nothing to show
whose hand had placed it at the foot of
the man who fell before Atlanta in de-
Tense of the union, mute evidence of
remembrance.
On Saturday night a young man was
passing through the park. In a mo-
ment of abstraction he turned aside
from the path and read the inscription
on the granite base of the statue. He
was turning away to continue his walk
across the park when voice called to
him. Turning, the young man saw
seated on bench, directly in front of
the statue, a bent figure, with a SLOUGH
hat and an old army blouse. Gray
haired and bearded, clad in army blue,
a crutch beside him, the old man was
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-14

willingly, by new injection, the same
terrors. About that time I bought
three St. Bernard dogs, thinking they
would protect me, but one night /
found out they were talking about me
how could they get rid of me-so
stood up and shot one of them with
revolver, which I always used to carry.
1 think this was the most dreadful night
of my life-I, standing on the table with
an Indian dagger and a syringe on the
ground, one three-foot high dog going
to die and two rather dangerous dogs
roaring and groaning aloud, reproach-
fully looking at me, who always fan
cied: Now comes the moment when
they will tear you to pieces [ stood
the night on the table until the ar
rival of my wardman who hardly riszed
to enter the room. The strangest thing,
however, in the cocaine habit is that
there seem to be two souls in the cocain-
ist-one infested by the cocaine, suffer
ing and tortured by its effects; the
other normal, laughing at his fears and
saying: What nonsense! it is only an
hallucination produced by an Injection
Not frightened enough by these expert
ences and escaping from the troubles
produced by his conduct, on the cocain-
list goes, taking more and more, and
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bottom. If the top is neatly ''thatched''
with some of the crop, or if q bit of cloth
be thrown over the top and tied in
place, as suggested in the second cut,
the crop will be quite safe from harm,
whatever be the weather. There are
many worn out farms that ought to
raise just such crops as beans and peas
plants that get stores of nitrogen
from the air, as clover does, leaving the
land, in reality, richer in this valuable
element than before they grew, besides
making a valuable addition to the farm
produce. The writer once saw an ex-
ceedingly heavy crop of beans harvest
ed from a wornout, rocky hillside, on
which sorrel would hardly grow, and
that, too, with no great assistance in
the way of fertilizer or cultivation. The
plants got a start on the manure placed
on the hill, scanty as it was, and then
drew on the stores of nitrogen in the
air. Beans appear to do particularly
well on light, stony land, where many
crops would be perfect failure.-N. Y.
Tribune
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then enters a new kind of illusion.
which finishes him up for the mad
house. 1 mean the revolving, sensuous
illusions.''
The afflicted physician, in summarize
ing the physiologic effects of the drug,
says that the cocainist early loses all
appetite for solid food, but likes sweets,
lOllies and cakes. Upon the muscular
system the drug, as is generally recog-
nized, acts as a most powerful stimulant
for either single or continued effort.
Not only could he make long marches
without becoming tired, but on one Oc-
casion, after injection, he says he lifted
cab with one hand on the axle. 1t in
creases also the number of the respira-
tory and of the heart cOntractions, as
we'll as the amount of sweat; hence the
great loss of weight. After each in
lection the pupil dilates, but remains
dilated only because injections are con-
tinued. As regards the brain, mental
processes seem quickened, but kind
of hypnosis intervenes, so that the
brain works without, and even against,
the will. Immediately after the injec-
ton the cocainist becomes excited and
remains restless while under the infiu-
ence. He likes manual work, however
trif1ing, but has neither Will nor abil-
ity for mental work.
These are facts which the temperance
lecturers of the future should possess
and disseminate. The crusade against
alcohol, which has progressed for we'll
nigh half a century, has been partially
successful. 1t has made the liquor bust
ness unpopular, the salOOnkeeper a
pariah, and the drunkard a dreadful
example to the young. That there is
yet much work to be done in that cause
everybody sees and admits. The cru
SADIE will go on for decades before its
end shall have been completely at
tanned.
But here is additional work to be done
for humanity; and it must be done
primarily by men of education and dis
cernment. It will require some years
for the workers in the cause of human
ity to apprehend and comprehend che
conditions thus outlined. They must
know that there is now on the market
well advertised wine which is a decoc-
ton of cocaine. Some physicians recon-
mended its use as stimulant for the
nervous system, and for the digestion.
This is an insidious form of introducing
the cocaine habit, and those physicians
who understand the dreadful and hor-
rible results of that habit will not
recommend its use in any form. That
they will administer it themselves,
must be taken for granted, because it
is good drug and a valuable addition
to the pharmacopia.
Cocaine may be effectively used to
produce temporary anaesthesia over
the entire nerve trunk. 1t can be eff
fectively used to benumb sensibility
and relieve pain in all mucous tracts
which the surgeon may desire to reach.
1t is better than chloroform or ether in
many particulars. Surgeons, dentists
and physicians may intelligently use it
for the benefit of mankind
But cocaine must be kept from the
common people. Nature has produced
enough perverts, criminals and idiots,
for some inscrutable purpose. Alcohol
and opium have added to their number.
Cocaine should be throttled before it
increases its demoniacal empire.
SMITH d. FRY.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-14
STACK FOUNDATION.
How to Take Care of the Bean and
Pea Crops Without the Least
Danger of Loss

There are a number of crops that are
stacked up in the field to dry before
housing in barn or granary. Among
these are beans and peas. The small,
high stacks that are ordinarily made
are in danger Of being blown over by
the wind, and are in greater danger of
absorbing moisture from the earth. A
combined foundation of support is
shown in the accompanying cut. A
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-14
A NIisanthrnne

'.Are you bill collector?' ' asked Mr..
Slopeigh, suspiciously.
No. answered the weary and Gym
ical young man who had climbed four
flights of stairs; I've got collection
of bills that I'm trying to get rid of.
I'm a promise collector. Washington
Star
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-14

FEED-SAVING TROUGH FOR HOGS.
is shown in the illustration. The bot
tom part of barrel is sawed off and two
narrow strips of board are fitted to-
gethera and nailed firmly into the trough,
as in the drawing. A flour barrel can be
made to answer this temporary pur-
pose, but trough from a stouter barrel
will prove more lasting. = American
Agricuituralist
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-14

Prosecuting Attorney (Frozen Dog)
Your honor, the sheriff's bull pup has
gone and chawed up the court Bible.
Judge-Well, make the witness kiss
the bull pup, thenl We can't adjourn
court for a week jest to hunt up a new
Bible!-Puck.
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long stake is driven into the ground
near the growing crop and cross boards
nailed to either side near the ground.
These support Stats, as shown in the
cut. Beans and peas piled up about the
central stake are proof against any
wind, while no moisture can injure the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-14

Where several hogs are quartered in
an orchard or other pasture they must
be fed out-of-doors. To keep each one
from crowding and fighting his neigh
Dor when eating, make such a trough as
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-14

Hens will readily eat parings or any
kind of vegetables if they are well
cooked.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-14

In nearly all cases the price of fruit
and vegetables in a package is fixed by
the worst specimens, not by the best.
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sure OF Hfs sfnndinr-

The polite man is always sure of his
standing in crowded car.-Chicago
Daily News.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-14

An over-fat hen viii not lay at all or
her egg viii be worthless for Matching.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-14
a. OId-Timer

The sun-dial is one of the old-timers.
Chicago Daily News
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-14
oUT-oF-DooR FEEDING.

Description Of Trough That Is Sure
20 Keep the Hogs from Crowd
ing Each Other.
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InOhLnS and elSlLeen DAYS dIIeT IoJOnt
River. Then came a lull of nearly two
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-09-19
REGATTA DAY

The athletic exercises of Saturday.
justify the establishment by law Of
one day in the year. for the object Of
sport and education. II is the step
ping stone to something broader. and
therefore better. IL is wholesome and
forces the thoughts out Of ruts and
channels. I; is educational because IT
develops and exhibits skill in the brain
and hand. 1t develops latent faculties.
and latent desires for what is pure and
healthy in nature and art. II leads the
young men to contemplate things al
they are, and not as they are not.
These athletics tend to take men away
from that form Of the business habit,
which is about as bad as the opium
habit, the dull and deadening effects Of
routine. which makes a mockery OF
wealth, and leaves the rich man the
unhappy possessor OF the white ele-
plant of money which he cannot use
with intelligence or advantage.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-09-19
PRESIDENT JORDAN'S VIEWS.

In his book titled Imperial Demo-
crazy" President Jordan, for whose
virile thought and breadth of views,
we have unbounded admiration, at
tempts to draw dead line" around
the tropics, and declares that the white
man cannot cross II with safety. He
ventures to say that, among hundreds
of colonial experiments in Brazil, In Is
dia. in Africa, in China, there is not,
today. such a thing as self-support-
ing European colony in the tropics.
President Jordanis certainly not fam
iAar with the facts, and especially
ignores the underlying fact that, man
Ia the most cosmopolitan of mammals.
He Is putting limitations on men which
do not exist. II he will read Olmsted's
Seaboard and Slave States published
In 1850, the book that especially en-
ragged the slave owners OF the South,
he will find in it the argument advanced
by every slave owner that slavery must
Ike maintained, because the white man
could not work in the cotton fields.
Thirty years after the overthrow of
slavery, thousands of white men were
working successfully in the cotton
fields, and, according to the last cen
sus, Southern white labor commanded
nearly double the price Of negro labor.
So the dead line" was pushed further
towards the equator. The English set
tiers in Northern Queensland, a tro-
pical country in which the sugar cane
In largely cultivated, are thriving well,
and are self-supporting. The Quarterly
Review, in a recent issue quotes Sir
Joseph Fayrer. who had charge OF the
Lawrence Orphanage In India. He
said, Children could thrive in India
as well as in England. not only in the
hill stations, but In the very plains OF
bengal" Improved sanitation has re-
duced the mortality OF the British
troops In India from 90 per 1000 10 II
per 1000. W. u, Curtis, recently re-
ported that the French surgeons con-
nectsd with the Panama canal, had
entirely stopped the fearful mortality
NJ the laborers In that deadly climate,
sir Charles Markham, gathering all
ths available information on the sub
ieci, shows that pure European fam
lilies have been settled for upwards OF
two centuries In the tropics without
loss of mental aud physical Nigor
There are enough white men AZ WORK
~ ths hslds, Ia Africa In the WesI In
dies, aud IN India, 90 SHOW beyond
A0ubi, that tbs white man can, n he
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-09-19
SPuRNED BY THE NERGOES.

The representative Negro conference
In Chicago refused to give Booker
washington a hearing. He is declared
by many OF the most influential negroes
to be a traitor to the cause OF the
race progress. This hostile attitude Is
doe to ignorance and the bad influence
II the negro preachers. and demago-
gues. The best friends of the race
have, since the war, been suspected by
Q majority of the people of the race
Of selfishness.
Booker Washington tells the negroes
to get an industrial training, and make
themselves the equal of the white man
In education, and in thrift. He virtual
~ tells them not to force themselves
into political affairs. until they are
qualified to do so. This advice dis
pleases the negro demagogues who are
making living out OF the weak breth-
rsn who believe, through dense ignor-
ance, that they have reached at a
hound, since Emancipation, the plane
which the white man has reached only
through centuries of peril and suffer
ing.
The dissatisfied preachers and poll
ticians now favor the emigration OF
the negro to Africa. The failure of the
tiberian republic is not even known Ia
these preachers. The negro has abund-
ance Of elbow room in the Southern
States. but he does not know how to
use his advantages. He has soil and
climate and opportunity, but little
knowledge. In the evolution of the
negro in America, the present stage
of II discloses the white man as the
mlSter who is maintaining civilization,
although there are many painful eXcep-
lions to this maintenance. He holds
the older and ignorant negroes in
check. while men like Booker Wash
ington are trying TO educate the black
children to become good citizens. The
character and habits of mature negroes
as well as whites cannot be changed.
As 1t was said in Boston few years
ago, the hope of the white race lies In
the funerals Of the mature people who
cannot change their habits, and are
forever blocking the wheels of pro-
gress. The industrial school keeps the
negro on the land, instead Of driving
him away from it. 1t gives him a
home, and that is the beginning Of good
citizenship. The old negroes. like the
old settlers of New England, know
nothing OF the true theory Of life, and
suspect all new things.
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END OF DKEYFUS CASE.

The conviction of Dreyfus is not un.
expected. There was evidence before
the court martial OF his authorship OF
the bordereau. 1t appears to be worth
less, but at the same time, II Is suffi-
cient for a verdict OF guilty. Our An
glo-SaxOn juries often render compro-
mise verdicts, and commit outrages on
individuals.
The recommendation to mercy made
by the court has some hidden mean
ing In II. II would seem as II the ver-
dict was rendered in order to propitiate
the army, and prevent some outbreak
and the recommendation to mercy was
made in order to break the fall"
We are not able to state how and In
what manner, the verdict may
be reviewed. II is reported In one OF
the eastern journals that the Court OF
Cessation has the power OF review. II
is stated positively In another journal
that the verdict and sentence is not
final until II has been approved by the
Minister OF War. Until this power has
been exercised, no final execution OF
any sentence will be made. Nor will
Dreyfus be degraded. As the govern
ment Of France is bound 10 secure JUS
tice, In spite Of the wishes Of the army,
the world Will wait, not patiently, how
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primitive way of sitting. there is no
special hardship in it.
The exercises in this. as well as in
other schools, are far in advance of
those seen in l-.e majority of schools
on the Mainland. As the Industrial
ideas prevail, the prospects are that
these many children OF mixed races
will be better educated. in the hes;
sense Of the word. than the correspond
ing class in many of the rural districts
OF the United States.
In no place within the tropical belt
has the Anglo-Saxon and European
done as much for the education of the
native races, as they have done in Ha-
wall. This is due entirely to the fixed
purpose OF the early missionaries
Merchants and traders establish no
schools in foreign parts.
There is a wide field for sociological
study in these schools. The Board of
Education should institute the taking
Of census in each school. by which
chronological and other important
facts may be obtained and preserved
for future use. Those who come after
US should have before them the data.
which can at present be obtained re-
garding the characteristics and differ
ences, the aptitudes and capacity OF
every grade Of child. whether purely
native or mixed. or Asiatic or POrtu-
guese. BY securing data now, the value
and accuracy of scientific work will be
ready for the students and thinkers
hereafter. Through the schools. the
best knowledge of the social condition
of the people may be obtained. The
Board of Education should make most
valuable contributions TO the subject
which covers the evolution of mixed
races on these Islands.