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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16
Fertilizer for Grapes.

Perhaps grape vines are the only
plants which do not need stable man
ure, owing to the fact that manure
contains atbuminoids in excess, which
makes grapes rot and vines decay A
poor, gravelly soil suits vines better
than rich one. Therefore vineyards
are planted on the hill sides. More
than nitrogen and acid phosphate,
vines need fertilizer containing Is
per cent. of potash. Often we hear
farmers boasting of having put tons of
commercial fertilizers in the soil of
their farms, which may be very good,
but we never hear any boast about a
well preserved stable manure, which
in this sandy soil particularly is an
impellant necessity, for it furnishes
vegetable matter (humus) of which the
soil is deficient, improving its condi-
tion so as to enable it to hold its hui
midity, and that addition of CONNER
cial fertilizers, if the soil is too loose
AS is the case with ours-makes it
compact, and if it is stiff it loosens it.
1t is a fact that the effects of stable
manure in the soil have been traced
twenty years after. NJ. Valerie
III New England Homestead.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16

q hated American was seated in the
chair. A half dozen claimants for the
throne sprang up. Moli, the brother
of the dead Malietoa Lanpepa was one;
Malietoa Tanus, son of the dead
sovereign, . STRIPPING little known to
the chiefs and the people, was another.
The American chief justice, con-
STRUNG the Berlin treaty, read Mataafa
outside of the ranks of those who may
be King of Samoa. The old exile had
carried by vast majority the odd sort
of an election by which king is cleo
ted. The Germans, who had put that
clause in the document, found it last
to bar their own path even more than
that of the aged, indifferent Mataafa,
whom they had brought back from
exile to make king.
The Germans want the ruling hand
in Samoa. They cannot claim this on
the strength of their superiority in
trade with the islands, for in this re-
spect they fall lar below the United
States, Great Britain and Australasia.
In 1897 the islands imported $53. 415
worth of goods from the United States,
$13, 1922 from GreaG Britain and only
S5562 from Gen many. The Germans,
however, prepare and export great
deal of copra, and they own most of
the land that foreigners hold in the
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16

begged that he might die in Spain.
This request, in view of the fact that
he had won six medals by bravery in
battle, was granted. Meanwhile Cen
eral Brooke and other Americans who
had been engaged in the campaign Pc
titioned for clemency, showing the
Spanish authorities by detailed ac-
counts of proceedings that Colonel
San Martin could not possibly have
done otherwise than he did. Armed
with these documents the convicted
colonel sailed for Spain. In consider
alton of the fact that he had done the
best he could-and, moreover, remem-
bering his noble achievements in the
past-the Spanish war department
sentenced him for life to penal set
tlement
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16
White Glover Seed,

1t is so difficult to cut and cure the
white clover after it has ripened its
seed that this seed must always be
high priced. 1t is therefore worth
while for farmers who complain that
everything they grow is too cheap to
give them any profit to seed plenti-
fully with white clover on some land
that is reasonably free from weeds,
and grow this crop as speciality
What is now mark eted is secured from
hand picked heads of clover, out of
which the seed is pounded and the
chatf blown away. White clover heads
are pretty sure to be filled with seed,
as the honey bees pass from flower to
flower and fertilize it, The farmer
who grows white clover should always
keep bees. as the clover makes the
very best honey known. The modern
habit of seeding with red clover thick
ly suppresses the white clover, as the
larger growth smothers the smaller.
Yet wherever white clover has been
plentiful it will come in when the red
clover dies out, as it does after the
second year, thus showing the per-
sistency of the white clover seed in
the soil. Were it not so valuable a
plant it would prove troublesome
weed, and indeed does, where straw
berry beds are neglected. American
Cultivator.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16
Poultry on the Farm.

Professor Gilbert of Ottawa, Canada,
in answer to the question: Why is
poultry valuable to the farmer? gives
the following reasons:
l. Because he ought by their
means to convert II great deal of the
waste of his farm into money in the
shape of eggs and chickens for mar
ket.
2. Because with intelligent man
agement they ought to be all-yearrev
enue producers with the exception of
perhaps two months during the moult-
ing period.
3. Because poultry will yield him
quicker return for his capital invested
than any of the other departments of
agriculture.
4. Because the manure from the
poultry house will make a valuable
compost for use in either vegetable
garden or orchard. The birds them
selves, if allowed to run in plum or
apple orchards, will destroy all injuri-
GUS insect life.
5. Because while cereals and fruits
can only be successfully grown in cer-
tain sections, poultry can be raised
for table use or layers Of eggs in all
parts oi the conntrv.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16
THE CRISIS IN SAMOA.
Fascinating Drama Of the Three Contendng Nations the
PARKWAY Pacific Island
WE OPPOSE GERMAN AGGREssIoNs.

The belief in Washington that Ger
many will repudiate any unlawful acts
of her Consul at Apia, Samoa, and
will also disavow responsibility for the
extraordinary attempt of DR.. Ratfel,
the President of the Municipal Coun
Gil, to run the Supreme Court, prob
ably accounts for the calmness with
which the Administration regards the
matter.
IF the recent aggressions OF local
German representatives i'll Samoa had
been the first of their kind we might
be at some loss to account for them;
but we must go back more than
dozen years for the beginning OF the
efforts of the German traders to con-
troll the islands and to turn them, If
possible, into a German possession.
AS long ago as 1885 Consul Stuebel
and Herr Weber, the head of the lead
ing German firm, tried to bring
King Malietoa under their control,
and, finding this impossible, en-
couraged Tamasese, the Vice King, to
plot against the Government. In 1887
German naval officer landed his men
at Apia and hauled down the Kings
flag, the unfortunate monarch being
soon afterward taken away on Ger
man ship to a distant land, and
Tamasese set up in his stead. The
people, finding Tamasese only Ger
man puppet, chose Mataafa to be their
King, and he distinguished himself
by defeating with considerable loss
landing party from the German cruiser.
Meanwhile the vigorous protests Of
Consul General Sewall, our able rep
resentative in Samoa, backed up by
those of the English Consul, were fol-
lowed by the measures of Secretary
Bayard against German aggression,
and the result was q conference at Ber-
lin, ending in the tripartite treaty un-
der which the islands are now gov
crned.
The war with Spain and the press
ing occupations connected with the ex-
pansion of our territory have caused
Samoan affairs to slip temporarily into
the background. The appearance of
the Philadelphia in Samoan waters will
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16

signnlize the resumption of our full
rights and responsibilities there.
More fascinating than romance is
the naive story of the brown skinned
folk of Samoa these twenty years past
1t is tragedy, it is farce, it is opera
bouffe, it is child's play. 1t is a tissuy
of intrigue and greed and simplicity
And the mighty import of the wor
politics threads the whole by virtue o
the clashing interests there of the
three great Powers of America, Eng
land and Germany.
Nearly every year in the past twent,
there has been crisis there, clash
of kings or wrangle of consuls. War
ships have rolled into the tragic bay Of
Apia and lain there et anchor, silent
but powerful factors in the situation
Almost ten years ago came the great
est of all the crises. Rival kings were
warning in the island under German
incitement. Consuls were at daggers'
point. Washington, London and Ber-
lin were aroused. Out across the
Pacific into Apia harbor sailed three
American warships. Three German
vessels lay there already. Her Maj
esty's steamship Calliope put in. The
ugly quarrel was smoothed over by
none of the soft speeches of di-
plomacy. The British and Americans
stood allied against the greed and as
sumption Of Germany and there was
no pretense of concealment. The bluff
naval officers talked plainly of shoot
ing and meant it. Rumors came to
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16
How to Underdrain the Orchard.

Locate drains midway between the
rows of trees. The depth of the tIains
should be from four to five feet, not
less than four and as much deeper as
the outlet and convenience will allow
The tile should be two or three sizes
larger than would be necessary to use
in ordinary land draining, to give
aeration to the soil, and not be liable
to distractions from small roots. If
the drains are midway between the
rows and as much as four feet deep
and laid with five or six inch tile, the
roots of the trees will not likely reach
the drains in sufficient numbers to
seriously affect the drainage. The
deeper the drains the deeper the roots
will penetrate the subsoil. If the
drains were eight feet deep the earth
midway between the drains and di-
rectly under the rows of trees would
be affected as deep rs seven feet, in a
few years time. and the roots of the
trees will penetrate as deep as the
subsoil is drained within a ieasonable
limit, say ten feet, possibly more.
Trees so deeply rooted are the better
secured against injury from the ex-
tremes of the weather. With the suf-
ficient underdrainage of fertile, re-
tentive clay soil, the intelligent or
chardist with persistent energy is mas
ter of the business.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16
Honey Bees a. pollen pistrIbuter..


The honey bee as pollen distribu
ter is perhaps of greater value to this
country than the crop of honey pro-
duced. 1t has of late years occurred
to scientists that the honey bee is Of
more benefit to distributing pollen
than all other sources combined. That
we are largely indebted to the honey
bee for both quantity and quality of
our fine fruits there is but little doubt.
Not only fruits but vegetables, and
cereals commonly grown on the farm.
Bees are not the only insects that
are valuable in pollenizing flowers, but
if we note very closely we will find
that only on very small scale COM
pared with the honey bees do other
insects accomplish much of this work.
The honey bee is general pollen
gatherer wherever pollen is to be
found, and thus works an extensive
territory. Bees thoroughly canvass
several miles in diameter in search of
both pollen and honey, and are al
ways pollen distributors whether they
are engaged in gathering honey or
pollen.
Who has not seen the corn fields
with their heavy laden tassels of pol
len swarming with honey bees? Also
the clover fields, the buckwheat fields,
the orchards, the We retabe fields, the
strawberry fields, and almost every
wild flower that produces either fruit
or seed is daily visited by the busy
bee, perhaps every hour in the day,
thus distributing pollen from flower
to flower, industriously performing
the work that nature intended them
to do.
Fruit growers of the present have
awakened up TO the fact that the honey
bee is their best friend, and that bees
and fruit growing must be closely
combined and the strawberry man has
found that his berry patch is almost
blank without honey bees principally
for successful returns. Who would
not be friend to the honey bee. one
of natures good gifts to man? That
there are not enough of bees to thor
oughly supply this want there is lit
tie doubt; many neighborhoods have
but few colonies Of bees. In support
of this | would refer you to the state
of California, which is the most extern
sive beekeeping state in the Union,
and also the same in the production of
fruit.-H H. Duff in Farm, Field and
Fireside.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16

Mrs. Mahaney, decorated that trunk
as no trunk ever leaving Meadville
before was decorated.
First two large pasteboard hearts,
red in color, were tackled on the top.
In black letters across one heart ap-
peared, ''We are as happy as two tur-
tie doves" and on the other was
printed "Two hearts that beat as one."
Red, white and ueribbons were also
attached.
Mr.. Mahaney, who is employed in
the general postoffice in New York,
had been told by friend in Mead
vile that he need not give himself no
concern about the trunk. The friend
would see that it did not miss the
train.
The bride and groom reached the
Erie Railroad depot in Meadville as
the train they ware to take to Jersey
City came into the depot.
''All aboard,' shouted the con-
ductor.
''Walterl my trunk! What about
it?" said Mrs. Mahaney, who, as Miss
Annette Baldwin, was one Of the bellies
of Meadville.
'There it is" answered Mr..
Mahaney, as he caught sight of por-
ter lifting the trunk into baggage
car
"Oh, Tn so glad! I thought it
wouldn't arrive in time said the
bride.
II wish it hadn't" groaned the
groom, who had just then caught sight
of the decorations upon the trunk.
During the trip to Jersey City the
bridegroom tried to reach the trunk
in order to denude it of it's decora-
tions, but the baggage master, who
winked at the conductor, wouldn't
help him find it, and when the train
reached Jersey City the trunk had
gained a few new trimmings. The air
was blue when Mr.. Mahaney, in Jer-
sey City. aided by a sympathetic bag
gage man, who said he had recently
been married himself, finished tearing
off the decorations from that trunk.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16
THE SUPREME COURT HOUSE AT ApIA.

tervention of the hand of Providence,
who knows but that great war might
have started? The Berlin treaty fol-
lowed in its stead.
Now the second great crisis has
come. The poor, vacillating king, set
upon the throne by the Berlin treaty
of 1891 is dead. German interests,
which have ever dominated ON the ISL
and, seek to replace him by man
suited to their own desires. Strange
contradiction of fate-that man is Ma
taafa. Stranger still he stands barred
from the petty throne by the very act
of the Germans themselves, by their
own special provision, inserted in the
Berlin treaty, to keep him out of the
seat of authority. 1t is as though the
hand with which they had struck
Mataafa had rebounded and smitten
them. They had been his dearest
foes. He had been the instrument
with which the undisputed reign of a
puppet king of the Germans had been
overthrown. They were his followers
who slew forty of the flower of the
German marines. Mataafa must be
barred from the throne. He was.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16

cruise about the islands with out
spoken intentions. The tension was
too much; at one point the German
lowered his gun ports and made ready
to fire.
By no more than q hairs breadth
possibly was war averted that day.
For some reason known only to him
self the German did not fire. The
ships steamed sullenly back to Apia
harbor. There they lay watching each
other with angry eyes. They were
prey to fate. At the moment when
war seemed most imminent came a
terrific hurricane up out of the Pacific
into Apia harbor. In the angry sea
were buried many German and Ameri-
can seamen and along with them, as it
happened, were buried for the hour
the ugly quarrel which had divided
them. The nations were brought to
their senses. But for the tragic in
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16
! FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
Harlequin Cabbage Bugs.

This is one of the worst garden
pests. The full grown insect is about
half an inch long, with a hard shell,
brilliantly spotted. 1t is a sap sucker,
puncturing the stalks and leaves, then
sucking out the sap. The insect is
particularly fond of cabbage and tur-
nips, working upon them both in the
spring and autumn and is especially
destructive to these plants when they
are shooting for seed About the only
effectual method of getting rid of the
pests is to pick them off by hand.
They are not affected by poisons, and
turkeys and chickens refuse to eat
them. 1t pays to- destroy the first
brood at any cost, even to the loss of
the early crop of vegetables.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16

islands. OF the 1876, 900 acres, about
one sixth of the area of the group
owned by foreigners. at least $4,000
acres, including the best land in the
islands, is owned by the Germans.
This landed estate was secured by the
original German trading firm, and it's
successors have never parted with an
acre of it,
The great drawback OF Samoa is that
1t is so far from markets. Its best
products are tropical fruits, which are
abundantly produced, but distance
from markets prevents expectation.
In 1888 the Ceylon coffee disease
first appeared on the plantations of
Samoa and in short time put an end
10 coffee production in that group. No
attempt has since been made to raise
coffee.
Practically the whole business of
Samoa is based to-day upon the cocoa
nut, and the export of copra, the dried
meat of the cocoanut, represents nearly
all the exports of the islands. In
1897 nearly 100000 pounds of
copra, the native product, were exs
ported in addition to the large guam
tity raised OF the German plantations.
What with her political troubles and
the causes that have conspired to keep
her commerce small, Samoa has not
had very prosperous history. The
time is coming, however, when she
will see better days. The resources
of the group, which, all told, is about
as large as Rhode Island, have yet
scarcely been touched In fact,
nobody lives more than three or four
miles from the sea and the inner parts
of the islands have not been utilized.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16
!. Because poultry raising is an

6. Because poultry raising is an
employment in which the farmers
wife and daughters can engage and
leave him free to attend to other de.
partments.
Z. Because it will bring the best
returns in the shape of new laid eggs
during the winter season-when the
farmer has most time on his hands.
g. Because to start poultry raising
on the farm requires little or no cap
ital. Under any circumstances, with
proper management, poultry can be
made with little cost valuable adj
junct to the farm.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16
Composirors No Longer Scarce.

Since the introduction of linotype
machines into city newspaper offices
has been made the rule, the country
printer no longer has to advertise for
compositors. Recently typo alb
seconded from the Office of the Palmyra
IN. " Courier. The fact was given
publicity. Inside Of twenty-four hours
the proprietor of that sheet had over
fifty applications for the departed
ones place.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16

of the United States, William Lea
Chambers, of Alabama, had come to be
chief justice of the island, under the
provision of the Berlin treaty. Not
long ago a German had held that Office.
Now that question of vital political
import was to arise to be passed upon,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16
Three of Neptune's Adopted Children.


That out of family of four children
three should be born at sea and on one
ship is q: remarkable occurrence, which,
taken into consideration with the fact
that the only child of the family born
ashore did not live to be week old,
makes it more so. The children are
those of Captain and Mrs. Carson, and
they first saw the light of day in the
cabin of the Manx ship Manx King.
Captain Carson's family consists of
two sons and one daughter-Tom,
Jack and Teresa.
Tom, the eldest, was born on the
Pacific Ocean about three hundred
miles off the coast Of Chile on May 8,
1883. Teresa was born in the storm
center of the most dreaded coast in the
world, almost off the peak of Cape
Horn. on March "a, 1891. Jack was
born December "a, 1892, in the. North
Atlantic Ocean, in latitude 4. 16 north,
longitude 24.31 west.
All of the children euioy''remarkably
good health, and no matter at what
angle the ship may ride, nor how
much it may pitch and toss, the chill
dren of the Manx King play in the
ships cabin. They have become SO
accustomed to the motion of the ship
that not one Of them has suffered any
bad mishap, for, when they are thrown
down by the violent pitching or roll
ing Of the ship, they seem in some
way to settle on the deck, much after
the fashion of the stormbirds on the
ocean waves.
Toms knowledge of nautical mat
ters is naturally extensive, As young
as he is, he knows the name and loca-
ton of every line and spar on a ship,
and if it came to pinch he could give
all the necessary orders for shortening
sail or putting the ship on it's courses.
Portland Oregonian.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16
Bound to X, sep Warm.

In schoolhouse in Lucerne, Switz.
erland, that Mecca of summer tour
lists, a new hot-air furnace has recently
been installed. Now on the black.
boards of the various recitation rooms
one may read the admonition: Since
hot-air heater has been installed in
this building the opening of any win
dow is expressly forbidden, since the
hot air would 60 ont Chicago Record.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16

America that already there had been
fight between the United States steam
ship Adams and the German ship Ad-
Ter, in which the former was sunk by
the first shot. One day the fire was
nearly ignited. English and American
vessels lad followed the Germans on
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16

The charter of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company is dated
March II, 1888, and its founder was
Robert Keyne, part member of the
Honorable Artillery Company of Lon
don, which was chartered by King
Henry VIII. The Boston organizs-
tion was first known as the Military
Company of Massachusetts,.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16
JOKE ON A BRIDAL COUPLE.

How the Young Wife's Trunk Looked
When 1t Reached the Station.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Mahaney, who
married recently at Meadville, Penn,
were desirous of reaching their new
home in Jersey City without observa-
tion. They might have done so had
it not been for trunk. Some per-
sons, at present unknown to Mr.. and
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16

When his following grew turbulent
they stole him into exile and kept him
hidden away for three long years.
Times changed. Political lines
shifted in the islands Malietoa, the
weak, died. Note the drama. Aman
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16

Mrs. Mahaney, decorated that trunk
as no trunk ever leaving Meadville
before was decorated.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-09-13

add two teaspoonfuls of vanilla.
Pour into wetted moulds, and when
cold and firm turn out, garnish with
with sugar and cream.
Coffee Ice Cream.-MalZe coffee as
for the table, using six tablespoonfuls
of coffee and the white of one egg
to a pint of water. Strain and make
into custard with one pint of milk,
three cups of sugar, and the yolks of
four eggs. Cook until smOc iii and firm
then cool. When cold add the beaten
whites of three eggs and quart of
whipped cream. Freeze.--Selected.