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The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-02-17
Farming From Experiences.

Z Every farmer learns much each
year about lis business by the ex-
perience he gains. 1t IS the most
valuable knowledge, provided the
farmer Las learned to discriminate rs
to the true cause of success or failure.
It will a. least teach twice the capacity
Of bis own sol and location. While
farmers read with interest what other
farmers have done in other localities,
it does not affect them AZ does de-
cided success or failure IN their own
ne.ghburnGod. What one man in
any locality has done others may also
do Il they have like soil and condi-
tions. Almost all the special crops
that are grown III certain neighbour
made at first with much doubt, but
vnen proved success, melting others
TO initiate the example. In such case
the pioneer who introduces such crops
benefits the entire neighbOrhood
quite as much ns himself. lie IS not
injured by the competition of his
nelghDors, for whatever the farmer
grows there Is sure to be so large u
market for it that the production OF o
large amount calls purchasers from a
distance, SO that the farmer can sell
at his y doors instead of marketing
his special crop at Il distance. An
individual success, no matter Oh how
extended a scale, cannot create such
q home market. American Cultlvator.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-02-17
Tor Srr.n. Chickens.

Our modern methods of living arc
changing our farming in many par
t~iculars. The demand is now for
early spring lamb and chickens il
February ard March. Early spring
chickens have 10 be raised in tho
winter season, end TO do this requires
a certain expert Knowledge that is the
price of success.
Spring chickens at fifty cents a
pound are profitable. and even at much
less than this one can find money in
the business. Besides, it gives the
poultry grower work to do at what is
generally considered a lazy season Of
the year. In fact, there is more
money to-day IN raising spring chick
ems and winter eggs than III any other
branch Of this business. Those who
stick to The beaten tracks are the ones
who never MAKE a great deal out Of
their enterprise. But every Que viii
not succeed in raising spring chick
ems, and it IS we'll that this Is 50, for
otherwise the business would soon be
overdonc. It takes shrewd bushes
tact, exact knowledge, to make the
work profitable.
In the first place Il mUst have g
warm house suitable for the chickens.
modate 100 chickens, but it must be
warm, we'll ventilated aud even in
temperature. This is the first re-
q%uisite. The house shonl1 be located
so that it will receive the sun through
the glass most OF the day. The sit
tiers must be selected for their success
IN Matching eggs. and those that show
an inclination to NEGLECT tie eggs
should be discarded. The ~sitters must
be fed separately when OF the nest so
they will not be bothered and worried
by the others.
The sitting house should be darker
than the main room, and the nests
should be arranged III rows. Zach hen
viii learn TO know her ownn nest. Water
IS we'll as food must be provided the
hens daily. When the chicks are
Matched they must be kept together in
small colonies free from cold winds
and storms. They must be kept grow
ing all the time, and good food, water
and clean surroundings will accomplish
this. Warm mush, bread, oatmeal and
! scraps from the table should be theii
chief daily diet. New hatchiugs should
be made all Of the time, so thai
younger chicks will take the place o!
those sem 10 market. It is astonlsh
ing how many al be raised in a small
house by Matching out new broods
every two weeks, and by spring ono
viii find mo:e profit than can be made
from the old chickens all through Tx
year.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-02-17

would not have hold with him
at jobs feast, nor would Michael tho
archangel had q contention With hin.
about the body of Moses; nor would
the SAVIOR been led away to the top OF
q mountain By him aud listened 10 his
persuasions. / heard q good man say
that satan was very much of q gentle
man in his way and had most fasclnat-
ing
But 1 did not start to preach . ser
mon. My thoughts ruminated that
way, and l reckon that every man and
woman he's had the same consciousness
OF evil thst Paul and Cyrus had. Tho
devil is Tot dead, aud war is his rsvlv-
al, hia big campmseting. During its
existence he catches men by tho
thousand-younS men who behaved
we'll ct home, where they wore under
good influences arc turned into deAlons
and brutes. This late Spanish war
has been . horrible exhibition Of
human d~epravity, both among officers
and men. The conduc of most Of
them is . stencil On tho page OF Amer
jcan history, and the country will
never from the d~ebasement Of
tho soldiers who were in it. Courage
n battle is always to DO admired. bux
that brutal courage which q bull
dog has. Courage without patriotic
emotions or any other emotions except
to kill somebody. That Is the reason
whyI have no high regard for the sol
diex's profession.
b cn1eT END n aim OF . rEotss-
sionsl soldier Is to fight and he pro-
noted. / don't ailude to prlvates, for
they are hirelings. Neither do | silude
to such noble men as Lee and Long
street aud the two Johnsons and
Wheeler, but with = very few excep-
tons the officers of tho late war wero
vain, selfish aud corrupt. The country
has no respect :or them. Let them
quarrel. No doubt they are all telling
the trath Oh ssch other. Tho first
commandment says: The sins of tho
father shall be visited upon his chill
dren." but itnoWhere says: I will visit
the aims or the oEcers upon the mon.
OF course, there are some honorable
men mons tho ~privates and I hAvo
talked with some Of them since thor
return from Cuba. and they oil lament
the white soldiers aud the total de-
p~ravitv of all the negroes. The
tendency of wal is TO denoralize.
Men will rob and pinnder and com
nit name'ess CHIMES who never did il
at home: OF mercsnaries who fi1ht for
pay, pluuder is part of it, and it winds
up with 3 ,ensiop. But enongh of this.
1t reads pess,mistic. aud 30 do the
speeches of Hoar and our Senators and
the waitings IF Bryan and Carnegie aud
Atkinson. The hope OF tho country
now is that new rarity lines will b.
formed, and any further war wilt b.
avstted. There are q few honest
statesmen left who nave not bowed the
knee to Baal. What a sad spectacle it
10 to SEQ the son of General Grant
openly buying q seat in the Senate
With $50. 600. What is to become of the
country when money il openly used to
ecure Office in tho highest tribunal
nat MAKES our laws? But I forebear.
must walk out In the garden and eeA
10 ground readv for rea~. Politics i.
eprsssinS and 80 is war and the ru
nors Of war. The best thing that Gen
raj Grant ever said, was: Let II.
rave reace."-Blll Arp in Atlanta Coz,
etitutlOn.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-02-17

fewer stats will be required This ar
ransemens leaves a depression about
eight inches deep three feet from the
fence on either side Of it, into which
the animals forefeet will Go.and place
him in y position where he cannot
readily iump.-Atlanta Journal.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-30

Camping out in the woods for month,
a week, or even a day, is not much fun
y-;iess you cook your own meals. or first
Importance is to know now to make
fire. If you are in great hurry to bulid
a fire, and only want to use 1t for one or
two occasions, the following is the best
v-av to go about it: Pile up stones, pyra-
mid shape, to the height Of about two
feet; then cut a green sapling because a
green one will not burn easily, ana rest
Il against the pile Of stones. One end
should be weighted with big boWideT or
a pile of small stones, while the other
should extend about a foot beyond the
ryI,rarnid of rocks on which 1T Is resting
Now hang the boiling pot or Kettle on
the end Of the sapling and build your hre
Of dry wood Just beneath. Where you are
Intending to spend several days or weeks
IN IN one Camp a more elaborate outdoor
Kitchen can be arranged without much
Labor. First cut two green saplings about
s feet high, with crotches at the Top OF
each Drive these into the ground ABOUT
8 feet apart Along the top OF these up
rights place another sapling held IN place
bT the crotches. A fourth saphng IS now
reo1lired. which should be about rect
long. and with the branches SO Topped on
.as 70 leave crotch at each end. one enc
vou hook over the horizontal saping ana
on the other end is hooked the Kettle.
when there is a strong wind blowing IT
IS often a good plan to build a sort OF
senni-cirGular wall Of stones epoul 10
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Cooking IN the Woods

inches high to leeward Of the hre 1nlS nus
helps TO concentrate the flames on the
bottom of the kettle, for the flames being being
Straight Upward instead of blowing hither
and thither and so wasting time and heat
in the cooking.
Sometimes with a roaring fire the heat
is so intense that in the operation OF COOK
ing fish in a frying pan for example, you
feel it is nip and tuck whether your face
or the fish will be cooked first In such
a case YOU want to cut down a long slim
sapling and split it up for about foot
or IS inches. Shove the handle of the fry
ing pan between the halves and bind IT
tight with wire. Now drive short stick
with crotched top into the ground about
three feet from the fire and on on It's top top
frying pan This, of course, to steady it
and to relieve you of the weight.
If you are stewing or boiling some por-
ridge, or anything with a lot OF milk In
it, you will have to exercise caution not to
let 1t get scalded or burned. The best
plan is to put a little water in the kettle
and then drop in a few pebbles. On the
top of them rest the stewpan or other re-
ceptacle containing the food you are cook
ing This will effectually prevent burning
or scorching.
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How Spent Five Years
In : Siberian Prison.

money to cut the crews term down to
five years, but the first mate and cap
tain were doomed to serve the full SEN
tence of twenty years.
On October Is, 1897, we were taken out
on the Siberian Transcontnental Kali
wav. with the exception Of the captain
and mate. and worked there until our re-
lease on July 20, 1898 Then we were sent
to VIadivostok and given three days IN
which to get away. 1, with seven others
Of the crew. succeeded in slowing away
on the tramp steamer Packhan ana
managed to get to Hongkong
The crew We're all English except my
self and the French cook, so were natur-
ally anxious to get back to England
wanted to get home, and that, TOO as
rapfdlv as possible, so managed through
the kindness Of Mr.. Van Buren, the
steamship agent in Hongkong, to get
massage on the Gaelic back to dear ola
Frisco, and here I am.
The general impression has been that the
Willie Mctfown was lost in the Arct!c'
so very little inquiry was made ana noth-
ing Of importance has been done toward
shortening the term Of Imprisonment
nIaced on the unfortunate captain and
mate That they will ever live to see the
end of twenty years service at Sagha-
lien Is beyond possibility. Their only
chance is intercession for them by the
English Government. Heaven grant 1t
may come! GEOHGh MA fhh J" o.
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Little California Girl Does Ohat
Strong Men Feared
to Attempt.
to Attempt.

confusion as made it an impossibility
for them to help themselves.
Dora is a slender little creature with
the lambent confding eyes Of a petted
fawn, a curly luxuriance of brown
black hair and a delicately rounded
face which has not yet lost its infan-
tile expression. She is the pet and
pride Of her mother and her two grown
sisters, and she lives in the upper part
Of the city in a well-appOinted home.
One of the sisters-the eldest-is mar
ried to a well-to-do young stOrekeeper,
whose combined place of business and
residence is situated far out on the
San Bruno road, and was the scene, a
night or two since of an attempted
robbery. or assassination, or both,
which only fate prevented from becom-
Ing an actual tragedy.
That Dora was visiting her sister at
the time was an unkind arrangement Of
that same fate, since the little one will
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it was thought there could never be a
great expulsion of lava from the sum-
NIT crater certainly not unless the side
rent was overlooking to its utmost, for
it was considered that since the lava
must arise within the mountain from
below it would find it's way out
through the Kilauea hole before it
should reach the MOkuaweoweO one.
Yet neither the eruption of 1855 nor
those since nor the present Outburst
have proven the truth of this theory.
Mokuaweoweo crater consists of three
rims, the outer being the largest and
farthest from the lake of fire. This
cavity Is not circular. but measures
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death for all of US without the slightest
chance for success.
Finally we were reduced to such a state
that our captors saw there soon would
be none Of US left, so one day the captain
of the prison came in and said that the
kind Car could support US no longer IN
idlencss and that on the morrow we
should break stone in the prison court.
People In their comfortable homes IN
the full enjoyment of life and daily be-
holding the gladstone light Of Gods sun
shine cannot realize what those few words
meant to US poor emaciated, beastlfke
looking creatures. We danced up ana
down and wept for very joy.
It seemed to US like veritable freedom
after that long, continuous night Of hor-
ror. .
The meanest convict Of an American
peuitcntfary lives like a king compared
with the Russian felon.
So, on September 10, 1886, we set to
work breaking rocks. We wore ball
and chain of twenty-five pounds during
work and then were chained to the floor
ct night But we did not complain, for
It was like paradise after what we had
been through.
After we had been on this work for
about nine months a gleam of real hope
came to us. We heard a rumor that Ger
tain parties had taken up our case and
had given the Government sufficient
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ss=* s=* The surnnit Crater Of />auna @oa
Now in Active Eruption.
s Bicycle Boat
for The English
Channel

LONDON, July 12-The channel sticks
in England's throat. 1t is so exasperat1ng
to have a sheet of water stretching out
before you so rough that you dare not
breast it except upon big steamer or the
most reliable yacht
English sportsmen are always expert
raenting with channel boats, and each
year they believe they have found some
thing.
The latest channel invention is not deS-
tined to work great transformations in
the methods Of channel travel. nor to great
ly affect commerce. 1t is in truth only
a new bit Of sporting life let into the pres
ent craze for the water
A FolkestOne inventor has rigged up
cycle boat, upon which he declares 1t Will
be possible to cross the channel in ten
hours. a days trip of easy working on
the water will bring you from Dover.
which is only short distance north OF
FOkeStone to Calais. The boat, Which
looks unCOmmOnly like row boat, can be
worked like tandem, making the weight
which the operator must push much less.
The movement is exactly similar to the
pedal movement of a bicycle, each down
ward push causing the paddle wheel TO
reyolve and propelling the boat forward:
The Tapidity of the boat depends upon
the strength and rapdity Of the push;
and this depends upon practice and the
muscles Of a mans legs
Tandem bicycling across the English
channel should be great fun. 1t has been
tried by Chicot up the Rhine with much
success, Dut unfortunately every attempt
to send the bicycle boat across the chan,
mel has been unsuccessful. Just off
Folkestone on the first attempt, storm
came up and drenched the riders 30 that
they put back to port for personal re-
pairs. The second trip resulted in chain
breaking, quite a, bicyclistfc experience;
and the third which should have been
successful, was brought to sudden end
by the indisposition Of one Of the pas
sengers, for the boat carries two persons
besides the Wheelmen.
There may soon be a motor boat op
Grated like the automobile cabs. But that
is some way off. The electric launches
are propelled on a different and more
expensive principle.
This bicycle boat Is quite inexpensive.
1t costs $500 for the machinery, and in
addition to this the cost of the rowboat,
which may run from $50 up to $500, accord
ing to the woods. The Folkestone boat
cost $3.50.
The idea is an advance one for Henley
successfully, and If other boats can be
built and the German boat can be induced
to come to Henley, then there can be
new exhibition of aquatic sport at this
famous water course.
The motion is one that could be fmt-
tated by any machinist, who will readily
see by what simple art the wheels of/the
paddle can be made to go around in obedi-
ence to the pushing down of the pedals
that connect with the paddles The
strength required is, upon smooth water,
about equal to that required for pushing
a tandem up q very slight incline. 1t does
not run of itself, like tandem upon per-
fectly level plane, but 1t requires only the
slightest push. AS for the sport, 1t Is
great. With each push comes the splash,
and 10, you are bicycling over the ocean
blue.
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Il, 900 feet in one direction and 5000 feet
across, while its depth to the burning
plain is about 800 feet.
1t gives no warning through earth
rumbIings or quakes when it is about
to burst forth, as does Kilauea, but the
only evidence by which those below
may judge of its imminent activity is
a light seen burning at the top of the
mountain. This becomes very distinct
at night and assumes shape like
fiery palm tree. This proceeds, as has
been said, "as quietly as the moon
rises" getting more intense for several
days until it assumes a brilliancy which
by night can be SesSl Cor distance Of
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forty miles. This illumination is not
actually a fire, but a reflection upon the
adjacent clouds and sky Of the fires in
the pit, getting day by day higher up
in the cavity and spreading over all
rims until finally the molten substance
overfows, sometimes rolling quietly
down the slope, again moving with at
tendant explosions of the volcano which
open new rents and vents from 400 to
500 feet below the summit.
When at it's height the AIokuaweOWeO
crater will throw up great columns or
Jets of lava a thousand feet in the
perpendicular, creating the most mar
Vicious appearances.
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~ AN FRANCISCO has a baby
e heroine. Her name is Dora
y Careghino. She is barely ten
~ years old, yet she has experienced
a baptism of fire" and has gone
through it with as much true bravery
and as high a conviction of her own
duty as was ever shown by the noblest
young hero on his first battlefield.
Where five men stood aghast, paral-
yzed mentally and physically and rem
dered utterly powerless by the sudden
and unexpected advent Of threatened
death, little Doras childish brain
worked quickly and vigorously. So
well. indeed. did it realize the exigen-
cies Of the situation that it enabled her.
child though she is. to be Of the great
est and most efficient assistance to all
around her in a time of such terror and
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Mike-Halloa, Pat, how much did you
pay for your new hat?
Pat-Faith, and don't know; there was
no one in the shop when bought it.
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The following inscription appears on the
tombstone of man whose business It had
been to look after the repairs of an Eng
Iish turnpike:
Reader, doth he not merit well thy praise
Whose practice was through life to mend
his ways?
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child Is placed in such a situation as
was She but it Is a good thing to know
that, having been so placed. one child
was equal to the responsibility so un-
fairly cast upon her.
Little Dora, a white-gowned mite,
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Many a man would be all right II he
could lose his reputation.-Chicago News.
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lFORE it's eruption in 1856 Mo-
kuaweoweo crater was but
slightly considered in the vol
cantc world Of the island of
Hawaii. The great feature, sung,
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auea. Both cTaters are upon Mauna
Cor MOunD Loa, but Mokuaweoweo is
at its summit, fourteen thousand feet
high, while Kilauea is merely a break
or rent upon its slope ten thousand feet
below the summit and at an elevation
Of but 1000 feet
Prior to the greet overflow Of 1856
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Continued from Page Twenty-One-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-02-02
- YEARS.
DEATH OF HOMER w HEATON.


Montpolier, Jan. 9.-Hon. Homer w
Eeaton died at his home on State street
at 2:30 o'clock Saturday morning. He
would have been IS years old If he had
lived until August and he was not suffer
ing from any disease but quietly stepped
from this life to his well-earned rest, haV-
ing been confined to the house for only
about three weeks being dressed and
about the house up to five o'clock Friday
evening.
Mr.. Heaton was born in Berlin and re-
ceiVed his education in the st. Lawrence
Academy, in Potsdam, New York, and in
the Washington County Grammar school
in this city. being admitted to the Wash
ington County bar in November. 1885. In
1880, 1871 and 1SGO-6l he was States Attor-
ney for Washington County and repre-
scented this city in the Legislature in lS4S,
He has always been a staunch democrat
and was the candidate of his party foi
governor in 1864 and 1870 and for member
1872 and 1874. He has been president of the
Montpelier Savings Bank and Trust com.
panY since its organization in 1871.
He VIII be endeared to the general pub
lc as the founder and donor of the Heatoi
Hospital of this city upon which it is said
he expended 10000. He is survived hy
two sons, Charles H., and James s.
The funeral viii be held at the house al
2:30 O'Clock Monday afternoon. Rev. A.. \,
Lewis officiating, and the burial will he IL
the family lot in Green Mount Cemetery
The members of the Washington County
bar Of which he was the oldest member
Will attend in a body and the business
places in the city VIII be closed during tho
hours of the funeral out of respect and
esteem for the deceased lawyer, banker
and philanthrOphist.