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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11
FOR o
Tubers Should BE Given with
Considerable Caution.

When a farmer has a big crop of po-
tatoes on hand and the price goes away
below any fair compensation for the la
Dor involved in growing them, he nat
urally wants to feed to some kind of
live stock. 1t then becomes interesting
to know what their relative value for
that purpose is. Fjord found in the
low countries of Europe that four
pounds of potatoes were worth one
pound of grain for pig feeding. Henry
i'll this country found that 445 pounds
of potatoes was worth 100 pounds of
corn meal for pigs. For pigs the po-
tatoes should be fed with skim milk
or some other foods fairly rich in pro-
tein. Counting cornmeal worth SIS
per ton, potatoes would be forth 13
cents per bushel for pig feeding. If
cornmeal is worth SIG, potatoes would be
worth ~ cents per bushel.
While l caution your reader from
undertaking to reduce pig feeding to
n mathematical science | think he
would not be far wrong in estimating
the amour of gain to be derived from
potatoes ju~diciously fed with middlings
and skim milk as three pounds of gain
to the bushel of potatoes. In othez
words the bushel of potatoes added to
the skim milk and middlings will pro-
duce three pounds more of gain than
the skim milk and middlings would
have produced if fed alone. Potatoes
have been fed to dairy COWS and to
horses. \ French chemist estimates
that 100 pounds of hay could be re-
placed by a little less than 800 pounds
of potatoes. Whether fed to cattle or
horses, potatoes should be fed very
Observation-Disclosures C. d. Smith, Mich
igan' Experiment Station, in Farm and
Home.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11
SHEEP AND THEIR CARE.

Water at stated intervals twice .
day.
As soon as a sheep is secured change
the feed.
Don't give sulphur in its common
mineral form.
When a sheep is biting itself examine
it all over.
Feed regularly and change the feed
frequently.
Give salt in due moderation at least
twice a week.
If ticks are found free the sheep from
them instanter.
Keep the feet dry, and on the first
appearance of lameness examine them
and treat with any good hoof ointment.
Keep the floor above the sheep tight,
to prevent draughts and dirt from rat
tlingdown and sitting into their f~ieeces.
Western Plowman.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11
CONDITIONS IN MANILA.
Street Car Traffic Resumed-White Flags
Observation-Disclosures Shooting.

Street Car Traffic Resumed-White Flags
Observation-Disclosures Shooting.
Manila, Feb. s.-Street n traffic
has been resumed and the cars are
running regularly, though the streets
are almost deserted. There are a few
native stores open and white flags, in
the nature of towels, pillowslips and
aprons tied to bamboos, :.adorn the
windows of the native residences every
where. But, in spite of these en-
blems of peace, scores of Filipinos, I'M
der the cover of the darkness. fired
from these same windows Monday and
Monday evening on the American pa
troll. At nine o'clock Monday night
there was a general fusillade in the
Quiapo and Binon districts. The in
habitants of the city generally be-
lieved hat a battle las raging at their
doors. lights were extinguished in
side the dwellings and a majority of
the people were in a state of terror.
Under the circumstances it is remark
able that no casualties were reported.
Several shots were fired cross the
river during the excitement.
Gen. Hughes has the interior situa-
ton absolutely in hand.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11

tines for the two little girls because
one of them-Katie-had reminded him
of the little girl for whom he had
bought valentines so long ago. :,
If it does not come Tomorrow" he
thought, with a faint smile. lit will be
too late" For he had been more feeble
than usual this winter. and his doctor
had told him that he could hardly hope
to live through another. Then he
closed his eyes and slept, and perhaps
as he slept he dreamed.
He slept SO late the next morning
that his old servant was alarmed, but
near noon he awoke and asked for his
mail. The servant brought it. There
were two or three small envelopes, let
tiers, probably. and one package
handsome white box. tied with blue and
pink ribbons. Then he put out his hand
tremblingly and touched it. He wished
to be sure that it was not a part of his
dreams. He was SO pale that the old
ervan was frightened.
Are you ili-worse he asked
Mono! lam well. Open-opeL
the box" q,
The servant united the ribbons care
fully. Within was a, beautiful valen-
tine. The old man stretched his hand
for it. 1t was very handsome, and in
the center was a poem hat told of love
and consistency through all time. The
servant read it to him.
See if there is any address on it
anything to tell where it was sent
from"
The old servant looked carefully.
There was no address.
Then she will come to me. l shall
see her to-morrow-perhaps to-day"
The rest of his mail remained unno-
ticed. 1t was a beautiful winter after
noon and the sunlight shone through
the west window into the room where
the old man waited, holding the white
box, tied with blue and pink ribbons.
by and by the servant went out and left,
him there. When he returned it was
near evening. The old man still held
the little white box and his face was
turned toward the gates of sunset. But
his eyes were closed and he was look
ing through the gates of-eternitv.
And perhaps she had come to him. for
when katie's grandmother heard of old
Mr.. F~essenden she said. ~refectiyely:
Il used to know of a young mar by
that name more than 40 years ago. He
lived in the next town to us and went
with a girl whose folks moved to the
city just before we did. didn't know
EN- very well. but l heard once that
about a year after they came here she
died."-Albert Bigelow Paine, in y. Y.
Herald
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11
FEED RACK,

from the floor above the pen an ar
rangement such as is shown in the
illustration may be found serviceable.
1t is a hanging rack with Stats all
around it and made narrow at the bot
tom so that the flock can reach even
the last spear of hay. There will be no
crowding with such an arrangement.
The feed will not be soiled, and the pen
can be kept closed so hat the lambs
cannot escape from it. Even when the
fodder is not thrown down from the
floor above such a rack may be hung
near the side of the pen and the hay
thrown over into it from the feeding
floor, giving much more feeding space
to the flock than would a rack nailed
against the side of the pen.-Farm and
Home.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11
Manila Full of DesperadOes.

Manila, Feb. S.-There are many in
dication that Manila is full of despera-
does who had intended to cooperate
with Aguinaldo. The police are ON
tinually capturing men and women
with weapons concealed in their cloth
ing.
Last Saturday about midnight two
F~nglishmen accidentally encountered
a gang of armed natives in a dark side
street. The natives, fearing discovery,
imprisoned them until morning and
threatened to kill them unless they
maintained silence.
Many native clerks, employed ry
mercantile houses, are missing. AS il
is impossible hat they should have
passed the lines, the Inference is that
they are in hiding in the city
Several attempts were made to assas-
sinatc Americans on the street, but that
danger is now at a minimum. The ma
tives are terribly cowed. and the pre-
cautions taken, especially against in
c. ndiarism. are admirable.
The rebels, who have been swept in
every direction, like pheasant3 in 4
battle, die by the hundreds in the
t1enches-for the most part passively,
except the Ygorotes, who charge des-
pera:ely and uselessly.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11

let him in helped him to bed, where he
often spent the greater part of the day,
as he lay back amid the pillows be
was thinking of the two rosy checked
girls and the valentines. and then his
memory went back and back, and he
was thinking of another rosy checked
girl for whom long ago he had Dough.
other valentines. They HAD been sweet
hearts for awhile, and it was nearly 4C
years now since they had quarreled-
just 10 years tomorrow. The old gen.
tIeman closed his eyes that he might
remember more clearly. It had been
about a valentine. too; a foolish quar-
re-. She had sent it to him in fun, OF
course. but h., had been sensitive. and
he had recognized her handwriting.
He had gone to her a~ccuslDgly ard she
had not denied it. So then they had
quarreled and parted.
You will be sorry some time" he had
said to her, as he turned away.
when l am l will send you another
Valentines beautiful one. with sweet
verses on IL" she had answered.; and
since hat day he had been waiting
for it.
He had loved her dearly. and he be-
lieved she had loved him in return. At
first he had expected the valentine
surely with the coming of each Feb
ruary. Then by and by her parents had
moved TO the city. and his hope grew
fainter each year. Later he had come
to the city, too, but he did net know her
address. He had never married. He
told himself that she must have mar
ried long ago and that the valentine
would never come. And yet he had
never ceased to think Of it when the
day came around. and in his heart he
haG never ceased to look for it. When
the shop windows were filled with val
e~ntines he would so from one to an
ether. looking at them all and wonder
ing which she would send Ha had
done this more and more as he grew
older, and to-day he had BOUGHT valen-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11

busily and did not notice that Q cable
car was changing its bell wildly and
thatthe gripman was making a frantic
effort to stop it. But suddenly each felt
herself pulled hastily backward, and
realized that they had been drawn from
in front of the deadly cable car just in
time. Each gave a little scream and
turned to thank her rescuer 1t was the
old gentleman, Mr.. Fessenden. He had
dropped his cane and leaned on them,
trembling from the effort. The girls
were abashed, and blushed and STAN
mered. Clare hastily picked up his
cane, and he thanked her courteously.
They crossed the street together in the
direction OF the little shop.
Il suppose you were so taken up with
the valentines you are sending that you
did not notice the car" said the old gen
tleman, gently. Il used t, be very fond
OF. them myself. Suppose we all go in
and1ook at them a little"
The girls could not refuse and shame
facedly entered. The shopwomaE
smiled at them knowingly, but they
only smiled back in a feeble and sickly
way. The old gentleman selected two
valentines that the girls had not felt able
to buy.
Il ant you to have these" he said,
"to remember me by and to make you
think to be always very careful wheE
you cross the street."
The girls thanked him family with
downcast eyes. Then he babe them a
courtly ad;eu. They noticed how feeble
he was as he limped aw1y aud Won
dered how he could have had strength
enough to save them from the car.
Then as they vent out, each holding
a prettiiy ornamented envelope, they
looked at each other in shame and re-
greet. Clare vas the first to speak.
Lets send him another" she said.
"They have some beautiful ones down
the street further. Let's go down
there"
They counted their money as they
went along and put it all together. BY
and by they came out of the shop below
with a valentine that, instead of being
in an envelope, rose TO the dignity of Il
beautiful box, tied with pink and blue
ribbons.
81 would give anything if we could
only get that old letter box open" said
Clare. and, passing. they frowned at i:
as if it were to blame for everything.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11
Hens Too Fat to Lay.

At this time of year farmers who al
low hens to run with the fattening hoga
will find hat they steal so much corn
that they will eat their heads off. The
worst of it is that such breeding makes
the hens too fat TO produce any eggs
all the winter. If the hens are cooped
and their wings clipped SO hat they
can be confined in a yard, the matter
of feeding can be entirely regulated by
the poultry owner. Feed more whole
wheat than any other grain. giving
for variety a loose cabbage that has
not come to head and is good for moth
ing else. Some finely-ehopped clover
is also excellent after the grain Is fed.
Too much clover is iniurious.-Ancr.
lean Cultivator.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11
OTIS.
TERRIBLE FILIPINO LOSSES.
Dead and Wounded Everywhere-TerribIe
Execution by a River Cunboat,

Dead and Wounded Eyerywhere-Terrible
Execution by a River Gunboat.
Manila, Feb. street car traffic
bic loss of the rebels may be gath
cred from the fact that 16 of them
were buried in one rice field on Mon
day near Paras, and that 81 were in
tered between Pace and Santa Ana.
A converted river gunboat did terri
bic execution among the rebels, sweep
ing both banks of the river with her
Calling guns and her heavier battery.
Hundreds of Filipinos undoubtedly
crawled into the cane brakes and died
there.
The Americans are working nobly
in their efforts to find the wounded.
and are bringing hundreds of suffer-
ing rebels to the hospitals for treat
ment. The natives are unable to I'M
derstand the humane motives which
prompt the victors to succor the
wounded of the enemy.
Members of the hospital corps have
made the startling discovery that there
are many in male dress, and
with hair cropped. among the dead.
The chief of the Ygorotes, the Fill
Pine natives, who fought so CALAMITY
in the face of u artillery fire, with
their bows and arrows, is in a hos
pitai with a shattered thigh. He adj
mits that he never saw modern artll-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11
BULLETIN FROM GEN. OTIS.
Estimate of the Enemy's Strength and of
the Casualties on Both sides.

the Casualties on Both sides.
Washington, Feb. THE war de
partment has received the following
dispatch from Gen.. Otis:
Manila. Feb. 7.-Adjutant General
Washington: The insurgent army
concentrated around Manila from
Luzon provinces, numbering over co.
600, possessing several quick-firing
and Krupp field guns. y good portion
of enemy are armed with Mausers of
the latest pattern. Two Krupp guns
and great many rifles were captured.
The insurgents fired a great quantity
of ammunition. There are quite 4
number OF Spanish soldiers in the in
surgents' services, who served the
artillery. The insurgents construct
ed strong intrenchments near
ments near our lines, mostly in BAN
boo thickets. These our men charged,
killing or capturing many of the enc
my. Our casualties probably aggre-
gate "a. Full reports to-day. The
casualties of the insurgents are very
heavy. Have buried some 800 of their
dead and hold 500 prisoners. Their
losses in killed. wounded and prison
ers is probably 1900. We took TIL
water works pumping station yester-
day. six miles out. There was consid-
cradle skirmishing with the enemy,
who made no stand. The pumps are
damaged. but will be working in a
week. We have Il number of c~ondensers
set up in the city, which furnish god
water. The troops are in excelIeh:
spirits. Quiet prevails.
TSirraI nTIC
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11
INSTRUCTIONS TO OTIS.
To Notify Insurgents of the Ratification Of
the Treaty-To Occupy IioiIo.

New York, Feb. IA dispatch to
the Herald from Washington says: In
structions have beer sent to Maj.-Gen.
Otis directing him to communicate to
the insurgents the information that
the treaty of Paris had been ratified
by the senate and to continue his oper-
atoms against them so as to promptly
crush the revolt against American SOW
ereignty.
The cruiser Boston which left Ma
lila, Monday for Iloilo, ostensibly to
relieve the Baltimore, carries with her
instructions to Brighten. Miller to at
once occupy lloilo with or without
consent of the natives there.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11

lery, and vas ignorant of its effects
until he and his followers met the
disastrous fire of Sunday morning.
The chief is bitterly incensedagainst
the Tagalos for placing the Ygorotes
in front of the American battery, uu-
der the pretenses that they were sent
to occupy a post of honor, and he in
timated that the Ygorotes will avenge
this t~reachery when the survivors re-
turn north.
1t is regarded as a significant fact
that many of the Filipino officials of
this city disappeared from Manila as
soon as hostilities commenced. Some
Of them are supposed to be still hid
ing there.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11

~NT
N G FEED RACK.
An Arrangement Which Keeps sheep
from InjurinE Themselves or
Their Wool.

The usual method of feeding sheep
has a number of disadvantages. When
fed from the floor adjacent to their
pen, the lambs are quite sure to be
found walking all over the hay and
grain, and making themselves general
ly at home in the uttermost parts of
the barn. The sheep, moreover, veal
off the wool from their necks and dis
figure themselves when feeding
through openings in the side of their
pen. Where the fodder is thrown down
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11
A~GUINALDO PROCLAlMS.
Declares the Americans Opened the Fight
Machinery Parts Recovered.

Manila, Feb. $40 p. m.-Aguin-
aldo, the rebel leader, issued two proc
lamations o Saturday and Sunday.
opened the fight and calls upon the
Filipino congress to suspend the con
stitution.
The second says: I'VE have fought
Il ancient oppressors without arms
and we now trust to God to defend us
against the foreign foe"
The Nebraskans have recovered the
lost parts of the pumping machinery
of the water works. which assures a
speedy resumption of the water sup
ply of the city.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11

case filed with those dainty combina-
tons of paper lace and bright color so
fascinating to the heart of youth and,
ali, me! to the memory of age, perhaps,
and as they lifted the tilmy crerlays to
read the cunningly hid verses beneath
they did not notice that standing IN the
door was a feeble old man leaning on a
cane and watching them. His hairy was
rather long and silver white. His face
was cleanIy shaver. and he had a large
nose, a rather childish mouth and
clear blue eyes. As he moved away the
two girls heard his step and turned.
"Oh." exclaimed Clare, whispering,
"there is Old Mr.. Fessenden! He lives
next door 10 us and is e cranky old
bachelor. Let's send him 4 valentine"
The other girl nodded. Then they
watched him a moment through the
window as he paused to look in.
"He comes every year to look at the
valentines" said the shopwoman.
"Show us some funny ones" said
Clare. "Some about old bachelors
The girls were not cruel; they were
thoughtless. They picked out a high
ly colored picture of a fierce-looking old
man in a house thai was in wretched or
der. and under which were the follow
ing lines:
AN OLD BACHELOR
You think yourself extremely wise,
Since all your worthless life
You've lived alone without the care
And love of a tender wife.
Perhaps. indeed. you've vainly tried
To wed. you whole life through,
And were so glup and crusty that
No wife would live with YOU"
They did not like the word worth
sess,' because Clare said she had never
heard that he d~issipated in any way.
but Katie said it did not mean that.
but only meant that his life had been
worthless because he hadn't married.
By and by they went across the street
to a bright red letter box and dropped
in all their purchases.
As they recrossed they were talking
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11
Americans In Complete Control.

Manila, Feb. Z, 3:43 p. NTH.
Americans, as this dispatch is sent.
are in complete control of the situa-
Manila, their lines extending to Ma
labon, on the north, and to Paranaque
on the south, are fully 25 miles long.
While a few detached bodies of the
enemy offer desultory opposition, the
main body of the rebels is in full re-
treat and utterly routed.
Of the hordes of troops originally
drawn up in battle array against the
Americans. fully one-third are already
incapacitated. and the others are scat
tered in every direction.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11
FIGHTING SAVAGES.
A Wounded American Captured,
Murdered and Horribly Mu-
tilated by Filipinos.
INCIDENT OF TAKING OF WATER WORKS.
The American Lines Pushing Out and the
Filipinos Sullenly Falling Back-Bul-
letin from Gen. Otis Giving an Estimate
OF Our Own and the Enemy's Losses In
the Fighting.

Manila EeD. :, 1880 a. m.-Late YES
terday Gen. Hale's brigade advanced
II took the water works at Singafon.
-Four companies of the Nebraska reg
Iment and a part of the Utah battery,
with two field guns and two Hotch-
kiss guns met the enemy. on the hill,
a half mile out, and a sharp engage
ment tok place in which the Nebras-
kans lost one dead and three wounded.
WE'RE FIGHTING SAVAGES.
DIR. Young, formerly qu~artermaster
sergeant in the Third artillery, was
wounded, captured and brutally muir
dcred, and his body, when recovered,
was found to have been horribly mu-
tilated. The Filipinos were driven
back, retiring in bad order, and car
rying with them the valves and heads
of the steam chest and cylinder of the
pumping machinery.
Gen. Overshine's brigade advanced
and took Paranaque, capturing two
field guns. They met with no oppo-
siticn.
Gen. McArthur's division advanced
beyond Gagalangin without loss, the
enemy retreating Upon Caloocan.
AMERICANS PUSHING OUT.
The Americans now have possession
of the steam car line to Malabon, and
600 marines, with four Maxims, have
been landed from the fleet on the
beach, on the north of the city.
The Third artillery on the main
road and the Utah battery, in a GEM
etery, covered the advance of the Kan
sas troops.
Among the important points cap
tured was a strong embrasured earth
work within sight of C~aloocan.
There was considerable firing from
the upper windows of the houses i'll
the native quarter of the city last
night. but no casualties have been re-
DOrted as the result.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11
Gen. Otis Has Plenty OF Ammunition.

Wash ington, Feb. 7.-N-i.-Gen.
ordnance. war department, says that
Gen. Otis men have about 5,000.O 900
cartridges and plenty of ammunition
for their siege. field and machine
guns. 1t is proposed to ship an adj
ditional supply by steamer. Practic-
ally all of the ammunition furnished
the ships and troops is smokeless.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11
II.

Mr.. Fesserden on his way home
paused here and there to rest. He was
not SO old as he looked. but had been il,
for many years. and the sudden eXer-
ton had been unusual and too much
for him. When he reached his home.
which. as Clare had said, was next to
her own-he climbed the steps with diff
fculty and was trembling violently as
he gained the top. His oil servant who
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11

Mrs. Slimdiet-Yes; l got Il comic
valentines to-day, and 1 shall expect you
all to settle up ct once.
Chorus of Boarders-But surely, Mrs.
Slimdiet. you do not accuse us OF send
ing the valentines?
Mrs. Slimdiet-I make no accusations
whatever. gentlemen. only know that
l have II boar6ers.--N. Y. World.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11
CouId Not UnGerstaDL It..

"Thcre's one thing" said the prac-
teal joker, that l could never UNDER
stand"
What is that?"
why. when l can pick out such ger.
timely witty comic valentines 10 send
u to my friends, they shG..d make
such blunGering ard brutal selections
to send to me."-Washingtnp Star.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-02-11
Gen. Otis Given "A Free Hand.

Washington, Feb. 7.-Appreciating
tie impossibility of operating a cam
paign from Washington. Gen. Otis mas
been notified that the president leaves
in his hands the conduct of the war,
but he is directed to act vigorously
and to bring Aguinaldo and his follow
ers to subsection with all possible dis
,otaL