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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04
A Mexican Want.
conerS.

In Mexico there is not sufficient an
nual rainfall to keep cisterns filled
with drinking water, and almost the
only source of fresh water is secured
by hand pumps and windmills. They
are necessary at every Mexican home,
at all mining camps and on the cattle
ranges. at the camps and ON the
ranges windmills are used and they
are invariably of United States mann
facture. There is growing demand
for windmills and hand pumps of the
latest and most approved pattern. A
windmill OF pump is as essential to a
home in Northern Mexico as cooking
stove. In consideration of the fact
that pumps are such an important fac
tor in the economy of domestic estab-
lishments, the Mexican Government
admits them free of duty.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04

for companionship. This trait is
strongly brought out in their method
of fighting. They mass themselves
together like lot of sheep, and, in
stead of spreading OUT in skirmish
lines, each man taking advantage of
some natural obstacle for protection,
they rush forward, often with arms
thrown around each other, much like
a gigantic flying wedge on the football
field. With this method of approach
it is not difficult to see how the rapid
fire guns of the American artillery
could tear holes in their formation and
no doubt lay out more men than would
have been the case had the attack been
made by skirmish lines.
At present it would be q most diff
ficult matter to say what course the
insurgents will pursue. Aguinaldo
has fond hope for a Tagal Republic
composed of the entire group. The
whole Tagal race is most ambitious.
In the insurgent army every man
wears some mark indicating position,
for all claim to be officers of various
rank. 1t has not been long since
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04

insurgent leader has violated his
promises. If the insurgents lay down
their arms they will avert great trouble,
and if they are induced to do this it
will be due greatly to the fear inspired
by our soldiery.
Most of the insurgents now with
Aguinaldo are recruited from the
numerous native secret organizations.
The principal of these is the Catapu-
nan Society, which is said to have
some connection with Free-masonry.
This society has been in existence for
several hundred years, aud no doubt
was connected with some of the up
risings against Spanish rule in the
Philippines. In past years thousands
of the members of this society have
been subjected to imprisonment and
hundreds have paid the death penalty
for supposed connection with the So
ciety. But to-day the Catapunan So
ciety is stronger than ever, and has
now membership of over 600. 900
in these islands. Another prominent
society is the Philippine Social Club,
originally formed by DR.. Rizal, who
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04
Money in Goose Farming.

The breeding and growing Of geese
on large scale for market and egg
purposes could undoubtedly be made
profitable if handled in practical man
ner. It would bo necessary to have
farm range with plenty of pasture and
sufficient water for the birds. 1t
would not be necessary to have a
small lake, as spring water or pond
water is sufficient. Geese, as rule,
do not require much grain, as the
young feed almost entirely on pas
ture.
Our best goslings are grown to
about five months of age with less
than one peck of grain each. After
that age, if good weights are desired,
furnish them with grain food. The
mature OF breeding stock should be
fed very lightly during the spring and
summer months, as overwhelmed
specimens are usually entirely worth
less as breeders. The leading varieties
for both market and egg purposes are
the Toulouse, Embden, African, white
and brown Chinese. AS a general
purpose goose, in my opinion, the
the Emf bdens are about the same size
as the Toulouse, but much poorer
layers. The Chinese are smaller
goose, but the best layers of any va
riety. We have produced large num-
bers of young Toulouse at six months
of age, weighing on an average of 80
to 35 pounds per pair, and Chinese
averaging at six months of age, when
in good flesh, "a to % pounds per
pair. To obtain the best results in
Matching it is necessary to use COM
mon hens to hatch and care for the
young goslings. After the goslings
are eight weeks old they may be safely
turned in the fields with the old
geese. The young goslings after
week old should have free access to
plenty of fresh, green grass, when no
grain food will be required. Young
goslings are very rapid O. ow,rs and
at eight weeks old will be, yer ,ne-half
grown, if properly cared fol.
Considerable revenue may be OBJ
tained from the feathers by picking
the mature specimens some four or
five times during the spring and sum-
mer months, and early goslings may
also be picked during the latter part
of August and again in October, pro-
vided they are not being fattened for
market. 1t would not be necessary to
secure the bast farming land for geese
raising; on the other hand geese would
thrive much better in low, marshy
land which had not been under
drained. If properly handled l see
no reason why this industry should
not prove financial success. Charles
M'Clave, in Orange Judd Farmer.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04
CUTTING THE CABLES UNDER FIRE At
CIENFUEGoS.
(After a drawing in Harper's Magazine.
Copyrighted, 1899, by Harper Bros.)

the crews of the other boats
went to work. 1t was perilous bust
ness, but the sailors grappled and cut
successfully the two cables they had
been ordered TO destroy. They also
found small cable, but the grapnel
fouled the bottom and was lost. Mean
time the Spanish fire grew hotter and
hotter, pouring out from the batteries
and machine-guns, and the boats be-
gan to suffer. The well-directed fire
from the rifles of the marines and from
the ne-pounders kept the Spaniards
from reaching the switch-house which
controlled the submarine torpedoes,
but launches could not contend with
batteries at close range, and when the
work for which they came, and which
had all been performed under heavy
fire, was done. they withdrew to the
ships. Nine men, including Lieuten-
ant Winslow, had been wounded, some
seriously, and three, as was reported
later, mortally. 1t was very gallant
exploit, coolly and thoroughly carried
through, under CALLING fire, and it
succeeded in its purpose of hampering
and blocking in the enemy at the i'm
portant port of Cienfuegos, which was
the road to Havana from the southern
coast. It was another twist in the coil
which the United States was tighten
ing about Cuba.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04
ACU|NALDO'S FIGHTING men.
The Filipino Method of Resisting the Americans is to
Mass Forces Instead of Using the
Skirmish Formation.


Most of the Americans in the Phil
ippines are becoming convinced that
the backbone of the insurgent opposi-
tion is broken. There are numerous
rumors pointing to an early collapse
of the insurrection. One of these is
that General Pho del Pillar, the best
fighter among the Filipino officers,
will desert Aguinaldo and give MS
support to the Americans.
The Spaniards, reasoning from
their experience with the natives, re-
fuse to believe that the rebellion is
anywhere near put down. They de-
clare that the Filipinos will not take
their defeat at Malolos, with the loss
of the city and the removal of their
so-called government, seriously to
heart. On the contrary, the Span
iards predict that the insurgents will
hover near the American lines, both
ering them as much as possible, and,
when attacked in force, dissolve, only
to reappear at other points. This
sort of tactics, the Spaniards say, will
be followed until the wet season
compels the Americans to be housed
in barracks, and then the Filipinos
will return and reoccupy such towns
as the United States troops do not gar
rison With the next dry season a
repetition of the present operations
will begin. Time alone will show
how much there is in this theory !;
but, as against it, it must be borne in
mind that the Spaniards in all their
domination of the Philippines never
gave the inhabitants demonstration
of power comparable in effectiveness
to that given them by the United
States.
A priest and two members of the
so-called Philippine Congress, who
the fighting which preceded the cap
ture of Malolos, returned there and
declared that 1000 of the Filipino SOL
diers were anxious to give up fight
ing, and would do so, but for their
officers, who keep them under arms.
The whole country between Malolos
and Caloocan is now full of friendlies,
mostly women, children and old peo-
pie, who are returning to their homes,
carrying white flags. The Americans
are trying to gain the confidence of
the inhabitants by proving to them
that if they will return and attend to
their ordinary work peacefully no harm
will befall them. Two hundred and
fifty civilians have come back to their
homes in Malolos. Two hundred
women and children, with sprink-
ling of unarmed men, supposed to be
warriors, came to the outskirts of Ma
lolos on the sea side of the city and
afterward sneaked away, carrying all
the goods they could.
The mainstay of Aguinaldo's army
are natives unused to the arts of mod
ern warfare and schooled only in the
crude methods of the savage. Their
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04
Early Spraying of Apple Orchards.

Most farmers delay spraying their
apple orchards until after they are in
leaf, and often not until the effects of
leaf fungns are plainly to be seen on
the foliage. This is mach too late, as
what part of the leaf has been de-
stroyed cannot be replaced no matter
how effective the spraying may prove
in preventing further spread of the
disease. The tree is consequently
weakened all the season, and its abi!-
ity to perfect fruit or form fruit buds
for next years fruiting is impaired.
There should be at least one good
spraying before the buds burst into
leaf. This may be made much stronger
than would be safe after the tender
foliage has put forth. 1t will need to
be stronger so as to destroy the spores
of fungus while they are dormant.
There is, besides, another reason of
late years for spraying before the
apple-leaf buds have opened, and put
ting some paris green in the spray.
The bud moth larva so soon as it
matches makes for the nearest bud and
eats it's way in. If the spray has
fallen on the bud, the first mouthful
it eats is its last. Spraying before
the buds open will also destroy many
coiling moths which often hatch out
some time before there are any young
apples to deposit their eggs in.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04

was executed for supposed participa-
ton in insurgent uprisings. For
long time the natives were not able to
maintain an organization in Manila,
owing to the vigilance OF the Spanish
police and spies. But the Philippine
Social Club lived and to-day numbers
in its membership the leading Fill
pinos of Manila. Just what position
these societies have taken in regard to
our occupation is not known. I'm
doubtedly they can be great aid OF
great menace to us.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04
Practical Dairy Rules.

Never use musty or dirty litter.
Do not allow dogs, cats or loafers to
be around at milking time.
Milk with dry hands. Never alloy
the hands to come in contact with the
milk.
All persons who milk the cows
should have their finger nails cut
closely.
Whitewash the stable once or twice
year. Use land plaster in the man
ure cutters daily.
Use no dry, dusty feed just previous
to milking; if fodder is dusty sprinkle
it before it is fed.
If cover is left off the can piece of
cloth or mosquito netting should be
used to keep out insects.
Strain the milk through a metal
gauze and a flannel cloth or layer OF
cotton as soon as it is drawn.
If in any milking part of the milk
is bloody or stringy or unnatural III
appearance the whole mess should be
rejected.
Keep the nights milk under shelter,
so rain cannot get into the cans. In
warm weather hold it in tank OF
fresh, cold water.
Never close a can containing warm
milk which has not been aired and
cooled by turning from one to the
other. stirred or dipped until animal
heat is out.
Throw away-but not IN the floor,
better in the gutter-the first few
streams from each teat. This milk is
very watery, and of little value, but it
may injure the rest.
Allow no strong smelling material
in the stable for any length of time.
Store the manure outside the COW
stable. and remove it to distance as
often as practicable.
Remove the milk of every COW at
once from the stable to clean, dry
room, where the air is pure and sweet.
Do not allow cans to remain in stables
while they are being filed. Never
keep milk in your stable OF near bad
odor.
If milk is stored, it should be held
in tanks of fresh, cold water (renewed
daily, in clean, dry, cold room.
Unless it is desired to remove cream,
lit should be stirred with a tin stirrer
often enough to prevent forming a
thick cream layer.
Aerate and cool the milk as soon as
strained. If an apparatus for airing
and cooling at the same time is not at
hand, the milk should be aired first.
This must be done in pure air, and it
should then be cooled to As degrees;
60 degrees if for home use or delivery
to factory, or delivery for domestic
use sold by pint or quart.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04

sand acres of land without a private
owner, and which is or soon will be
open to any citizen of the United
States to homestead or pre-empt. In
other words, here is an ocean para
disc that will grow every kind of tropi.
cal crop-bananas, oranges, lines,
guavas and other fruits; that is the
nesting place of thousands of turtles,
the green turtle of the Northern res
taurants, and the waters around which
TEEN with the finest variety Of fish,
ready to be given away to the first
comers
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04
COwpeas.

Among the publications issued by
the United States department of agri-
culture is Farmers Bulletin No. SO,
"Cowpeas, by Jared G. Smith, assist
ant agrostologist.
Mr.. Smith in this bulletin calls at
tention to the fact that thousand, of
tons of hay from the northern and
western states are each year marketed
in the south and shows the great ne
cessity for the more extended cultiva-
tion of grasses and forage plants in
that section. Many of the farmers
and planters of the south still confine
themselves to growing cotton, sugar
cane or tobacco and buy meat prod
ucts and forage instead of producing
them. This is no longer profitable,
because of the low prices to which the
staple crops have fallen.
The bulletin says that the south has
as great an abundance of varieties of
grasses and leguminous plants as any
other section. There is perhaps
greater need for the cultivation of
leguminous crops than in the north.
The soils are more liable to the rapid
exhaustion of the available plant foods,
because the washing of soluble salts
goes on all the year. Soils can be
most protitably built up by increasing
the quantity of organic matter in them,
and the quickest and cheapest way of
doing this is by growing leguminous
forage crops and feeding them on the
farm, returning all the manure to the
land. The cowpea is to the south
what alfalfa is to the west and red
clover to the north-a forage plant
we'll adapted to the region. The cow
yea has been cultivated in the south
for at least one hundred and fifty
years.
The bulletin also describes the va
rieties of the plant, its power of in
creasing the fertility of the soil upon
which it grows, and says there IS 20
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04

States there is band of religious en-
ihusiasts in the western part of Ne
oraska who are doing missionary work
among the people. They have a
church, and it is very peculiar struc-
ture. 1t is built Of sods, has roof
made of planks and enough windows
to give plenty of light for the wor-
Slippers. 1t has a primitive appear
ance, suggesting the period when In
dians stalked through the forests,
while widely separated were the set
Elements of the pioneers, who were
ever ready to die in defense of their
homes and their dear ones
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04
CUTTING CABLES UNDER FIRE.
Ono Of the Bravest Deeds of the War
With Spain.

ohe OF the Bravest Deeds of the War
With Spain.
When Lieutenant Hobson and his
men sank the Merrimac in the chan
mel of Santiago Harbor, the deed was
almost everywhere hailed as the brav-
est of the war. This was as it should
have been, but to our mind deed
equally brave was that represented in
our illustration taken from the April
issue of Harper's Magazine, Cutting
tho Cables at Cienfuegos. The illus
tration was drawn by r. F. Zogbaum
for the third part of the "History o.
the Spanish American War;" by the
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator
from Massachusetts, who in this in
stalment of most notable history
discusses 1.-The Blockade of Cuba and
the Pursuit of Cervera," and gives an
admirable description from an histor-
ical point of view, OF the operations
around San Juan, of Guantanamo
Bay, of the bottling up of Cervera's
feet, and of Hobson and the Merri-
mac.
The gallant work of the men who
under CALLING fire cut the cables at
Cienfuegos has been in the main lost
sight of by reason of the more i'm
portant and decisive battles. A brief
resume of it will certainly not be out
of place.
The same day that the Winslow, the
Hudson, and the Wilmington were
having their action at Cardenas, far
away on the southern coast of Cuba
another fight was taking place, in the
progress of the work of separating the
great island from therest of the world.
On the night of May 10, Captain Nc
Gala of the Marblehead called for VOL
unteers to protect the cable-cutters IN
their work. The roll was soon filled,
and the next morning the steam
launches of the Marblehead and Nash
Vile, towing the two sailing launches
under command of Lieutenants Wins
low and Anderson, started into the
harbor of Cienfuegos about quarter be-
fore seven. They carried a squad of
marines picked for proficiency as
marksmen, and machine gun in the
bow of each boat. The Nashville and
Marblehead then opened fire on the
Spanish batteries, and under cover of
this, and that of the steam launches,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04
FREE-A FINE TROPICAL ISLAND.
Lies OF the Coast of Porto Rico and May
Be Had For the Asking.

Lies OF the Coast of Porto Rico and May
Be Had For the Asking.
Who wants fine tropical island in
the West Indies-a veritable "Pearl
of the Antilles?" Such an island now
belongs to Uncle Sam, but nobody
lives on it except lighthouse keeper,
and nobody seems to care anything
about it. 1t is lying down there in
the Southern seas waiting for some
enterprising homesteader to come
along and stake out his claim.
Mona has luxuriant vegetation, is
we'll watered and we'll drained. Every
variety of tropical fruits will grow
here, and it possesses every natural
advantage that could make life easy
and pleasant. 1t has an area of fifteen
miles-nearly 10, 900 acres.
Mona lies forty-two miles due east
of Porto Rico, in the middle of Mona
Passage, to which 1T gives its name,
and which is one of the highways of
travel in the West Indies, being the
widest break in the great coral reef
that joins the Antilles like string of
beads.
Mona comes to the United States by
virtue of the second clause in the peace
treaty, which cedes "the island of
Porto Rico and other islands now un-
der Spanish sovereignty in the West
Indies. 1t has been celebrated in
West Indian history for hundreds of
years, and just why it remained unin-
habited except by nomadic fisher folk
is hard to surmise. Nevertheless it
is true that here are nearly ten thou.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04

The more intelligent natives, brought
up in and about Manila are the only
ones who are intrusted with the mod
ern gun. The Tagalos and other
tribesmen would bea as aptto kill them
selves as the Americans with the Maui
ser rifles.
The reports of the tremendous
losses to the natives are not surpris-
ing to one acquainted with their mode
of warfare. Their method of attack
differs widely from the cautious and
stealthy approach of the American
Indian. The Filipinos seem to gain
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04

chief arm is the bow; their sole ambi-
tion revenge. They fight from fear,
not through courage. They serve the
ambitions of their chiefs. To them
the majority-love of country is con-
tracted to love, through dread, of ruler
despots.
To them the Red Cross emblematic
of humanity and civilization in war
means only the suggestion for new
decoration for their half-naked bodies.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04
Effect of Corn Rot on stock.

Residing in the corn belt of Illinois
and my profession being that of vet
erinarian, l have many opportunities
of seeing the deleterious effects caused
by stock eating rotten corn. This last
fall most of the corn On the stalks
throughout this section was badly af-
fected with mold OF rot, which / be-
lieve was caused by the Eurotlum
glaucus, spoken of by DR.. Mayo of
Kansas. AS to this mold having an
injurious effect on stock that eat it L
also most heartily agree with DR..
Mayo. Since the third day of last
November / have been called to see at
least $50 cattle which had the 'stag-
gers" or so-called enzootic cerrebritis.
In every case have seen, it was di-
rectly traceabe to the eating of rot
zen corn. / do not know of single
case in stock that had not had access
to this corn.
The symptoms in each case are very
similar, being those of paralysis of
limbs, constipation of bowels, sup
pressed urine, elevated temperature
and wild vacant stare from the eyes.
The first symptom usually seen is
staggering, unsteady gait, tending to
pitch on the head, which is soon fol-
lowed by inability to rise when down.
My experience has been that most
cases yield to treatment if taken be-
fore or soon after they get down, but
nearly all cases that have been down
As hours before treatment was begun,
have succumbed, some lingering, how
ever, as long as two months, but
never being able to rise, although eat
ing little all the time 1 have also
been informed by two different farmers
that their hogs died from the effects of
eating rotten corn, but had no chance
of seeing them while sick, nor holding
post mortem examination. have
seen no bad effects among horses, not
because they are immune, as L believe
they arc as susceptible as cattle, but
because they will not eat the rotten
CON, even if half starved, George B.
Jones in New England Homestead.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04
! FOR FARM AND GARDEN. }


Although the results of many ex-
periments conducted by number of
experiment stations do not agree with
each other to the letter, the greater
part of the evidence seems to show
that immature seed has tendency to
produce an earlier crop, but the plants
are much weaker than those that are
the outcome of seed that has been
matured. 1T is said that some large
gardeners make it practice to use
immature tomato seed, thinking that
this enables them to secure an earlier
crop.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04

courage from companionship, and
nothing in the least degree hazardous
is ever attempted by solitary native.
They go hunting in pairs. They fish
from their wabbly dug-out canoes al
ways in company, and no native ever
thinks of venturing out alone at night
In fact, characteristic of their COM
plex character is their lively desire
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-04
Very Much Mixed.

At auction sales things are very much
mixed. In recent catalogue there
was a"Court waistcoat, worn by King
Charles Ii, embroidered and worked in
silk" and "a jockeys cap and sleeve
worn by the late Fred Archer when be
rode for Lord Rosebery."