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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-14

The British Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science has just publish
ed report, based on examinations of
some ten million children in various
countries of Europe, concerning the
growth of European children. From
this 1t appears that there is an average
difference Of five inches between the
best and worst nutured classes. There
is constant but uneven growth in
height, weight, and chest measurement
increasing annually up to seventeen
and then diminishing rapidly.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-14

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY,
10 CENTS A WEEK, so CENTS A MONTH,
So FOR SIX MONTHS, SO A YEAR. The
SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-14

From the beginning of hostilities in
the Philippines up to November l last.
a period of exactly eighteen months,
there have been expended for military
purposes in that quarter $40, 900, 900,
and on naval account about SO, 900, 900.
The precise total is $55, 1921 repre-
senting the cost in cold cash of a year
and a half of warfare in our new east
ern possessions. From this is to be de-
Quoted about s4,500,000, which must
have been spent in any event for the
maintenance of the naval fleet. The
net outlay for the Philippine campaign
is at the rate of about $50, 900 900 q
year, or considerable more than the
average annual cost of the entire Fed
eral naval establishment before the
war period.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-14

Portable school-houses are used in
Missouri. They are made in sections,
bolted together, and placed upon any
available foundation. 1t is said that
structure of this kind lasts for years,
The school board has allowed 100000
for the four buildings to be used in St.
Louis for the accommodation Of about
200 children. Each building will have a
floor space Of twenty-four by thirty
feet, and seats for forty-five pupils
The buildings will be heated by stoves.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-14

THE CARRINGTON PUBLISHING co
OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27
CIVIL WAR RELIC.
Famous Gunboat 0nnt Is Now on Ex-
hihltlon at Dallas.

hibltiou at Dallas.
Dallas CTex) correspondent St. Louis
Republican: At the headquarters OF
Camp Sterling Price, Confederate Vet
Grams. was exhibited an interesting
war relic. It was the "gunboat quilt"
noted in the south during the war be-
tween the states. The quilt was made
by Mrs. Halter, widow, of Green's
boro, Ala, whose husband had been
killed in the war and who had at the
time two sons fighting in Che confeder-
ate army. Mrs. Halter gave the quilt
to be sold at auction in every town in
Alabama to raise a fund with which to
build a gunboat to be named for the
state. This was done, and the war YES
sci procured was the noted confederate
cruiser Alabama, sunk in the last few
days of the war by the federal warship
Kearsarge in the great sea fight off
the coast of France. AS fast as the
"gunboat quilt" was sold in one place
it was redonated by the purchaser and
resold in another place. Several hun
bred thousand dollars was raised in
this way and was applied to paying
for the Alabama. The quilt was final
ly given to ]. j. Hutchinson Of Green's
boro Ala, to recompense him for his
services as auctioneer. 1t has re-
NAMED in his family ever since. The
"gunboat quilt" was forwarded to Mrs.
Zen Melton, of Dallas, daughter of Mr..
Hutchinson, recently, to be placed on
exhibition at the Texas state fair and
Dallas exposition, but because Of de-
lays did not reach Dallas until near
the close of the fair. The relic is well
preserved and attracted much atten-
tion today.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27

reason that this hish-bred woman De-
came a patriot when she was only
girl Of fourteen. The spectacle OF sur
fering and wrong appealed SO power
fully to her compassion that IL cap,
tured her whole being and swept al
other interests out of her life. She
was born in 1866. near the gap Vi
Dunloe, and in childhood learned 10
know and love the traditions Oh pa
triots who had taken shelter IN tne
mountains round about. In the loFe-
ly country surrounding her ancestral
home lurked many cave ana sien
associated with the name OF some
doughty rebel who had there dehed the
pursuit Of the redcoats Maud Come
loved them all. At the age OF ten she
was sent to England for her educa-
ton. -Four years later, when she was
home for a vacation, occurred the epi-
sode that converted her from
thoughtless schoolgirl into a woman
with a Purpose. She was driving nome
one cold and wet October evening
through the region Of Glengarin,close
to the shore of Bantry bay. In the
midst Of the desolation she heard the
sounds Of women wailng and saw a
pickering light Hard by the ruin OF
what had once been a peasants cabin
she found a fishing boat turned bottom
up and propped a few feet above the
sod by stones. Around it for shelter
against the weather were curtained
the boats sails. From here the light
came, and the wealing. The fishing
boat was a house-and a house Of
mourning. Col. Comes daughter
pulled aside corner Of the sail and
entered. She was made welcome with
the gentle hospitality that distin-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRIcULTURISTS.
Some Up-to-Date Hints About Gull
ovation of the Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures, VitlcuitHrs and
Horticulture.


Forest Leaves In the Garden.
In discussing the matter OF fertilizing
a village garden with an old gardener,
he highly recommended autumn leaves
In the autumn of 1897, when the streets
were full of fallen leaves, | made up
my mind to try them, says a contribu-
tor to Rural New Yorker. After
good rain / hired a village cartman to
collect them for me, and dump them
in a compact heap in a place in the
garden. where a wagon could enter
without doing harm. lie dumped eight
loads, charging me only 20 cents
load. Being gathered from the gut
tiers, where they lay in heaps, having
drifted thus in the rainstorm OF the
previous day, it was an easy job, and
he did 1t in a half day. In the spring
of 1898 they were not sufficiently de-
composed to be desirable, and l left
them undisturbed. Last spring a single
handling made them as fine as could
be desired In fact, this leaf mold was
worth to me three times its cost in
commercial fertilizer, for it supplied
want which no commercial fertilizer
can supply-humus. l shall continue
the practice, adding annually httle
potash (muriate) or wood ashes to the
pile, the latter of which l get from an
open-grate wood fire, in spring and fall,
in our sitting room.
My old friend who so strongly rec
commended this had garden in which
he had been obliged to raise the soil
to proper level and really good sur
face soil was not to be had, so he had
to use such as he could get much Of
it being subsoil when he dug the cellar
for the residence. He could furnish the
nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid
from the dealers in those things, but
the indispensable vegetable humus he
had to look for elsewhere, and he found
it. 1t takes two winters thoroughly to
decompose the leaves, but they are
worth the time and trouble 1T takes.
have begun arrangements for gathering
them this fall, and when frost comes
I shall double the quantity gathered.
The present supply will be used in
making the garden next spring.
There is no place where leaves can
be thus collected 50 easily as in viii
lagos where shade trees are abundant,
and this qualification is growing year
by year, as we are becoming better edu-
Gated In their beauties, but of course
in many rural places other than viii
lagos, they are to be had at slightly
increased expense.
R. N.-Y.-The leaves viii also be
found useful to the amateur gardener,
as they are to the florist, in his COM
post heap, to be used with pottng soil
The florist usually has what he terms
his rot-pile. where everything in the
way of dead plants, leaves, and vege-
table rubbish is mixed with 81 ent soil
from pots or benches. The soil wealth
ers under the influence Of sun and
frost, until, mixed witt tbS humus, it
4 is again available. ~
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27

10 get rid Of an uuweicome '1 haard
s e. S was the story Maud Come hea EAR,
hat chill october evening. What sn ,''
SoS soen shocked her so profounuii;y,
tbot for weeks afterward she was ~
m he'd "Father," she said, when she
zoe recovering. 'I'll do something TOT
IreIsnd Yeti" Col. Come died SIX
years later. His wife had long Deen
dead. At twenty Maud Come was al
orphan. with a handsome fortune :"
her own right. II
Irelands prospects we're ~uch
brighter then, for Gladstone was IN
mower and working hand in hand win
Parnell Then came the Salisbury
government Coercion. When ire
lands cry went up once more, Maud
Come remembered her VOW. She
turned away from the splendor OF Dub
lin castle. where her wit and beauty
MADE her an honored guest at every
ylce-regal entertainment, and hurried
to Donegal to use her fortune to re-
lieve distress, and her eloquence to as
sail what she deemed tyranny. she
quickly won the confidence OF Par
nell and the other leaders OF the ma
ton. and by the peasants was hailed as
a deliVerer.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27

Here is the daughter of a British
colonel urging British soldiers to de-
sert to the Boer standard and Offering
to lead a regiment of Beers into bat
tlel Her name Is Maud Come She
is called the Irish Joan of Arc, and is
proud Of the name Perhaps that has
something to do with her offer to ride
into battle at the head OF a regiment.
She hates England because Of the
wrongs Of Ireland-not her own
wrongs, for she belongs to the favored
class, and might easily, IL her heart
would let her, avert her eyes from the
sufferings Of the lowly. 1t is one Of
Maud Comes guiding principles that
everything that eInbarrasses England
must help Ireland. Hence she has
seized upon the Transyaal war as an
opportunity to undermine the fidelity
OF her countrymen among the British
troops sent against the Beers. She
has fitted from the continent to Dub
lin. a beauteous figure of Cassandra,
prophesying woe to the oppressor.
May God prosper the Boer!" she cried
In addressing a recent meeting Of
Irlshmen.
And as she spoke painter might
well have caught Inspiration from her
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27

cuisines the poorest of her race In
the midst of the circle that crouched
on the sodden turf lay Michael Me
Grath, with candles at his head and
at his feet. The sails were inadequate
protection against the storm, and
drops of rain fell upon the wasted face
OF the dead. In the cries of the
women and children swaying in the
candlelight, in the dark faces of the
men who bowed their heads in silence
Maud Come with ready intuition di-
vined that she was face to face with
no common tragedy. And these were
the facts she learned: Michael Nc
Grath had built his own cabin, and he
titled his little farm with industry.
Lord Bantrys his landlord, wishing to
turn the land into pasture, raised his
rent from e4S to G105. Unable To
pay the advance an eviction was or
dered Attached to the soil. and re-
Numbering Parnelrs watchword.
Keep a firm grip on your home
steads!" McGrath barricaded the place.
and with his wife, sister and four chill
dren withstood five days siege nv
using boiling water as a weapon of de-
Tense. Then the little family was
starved out. But this was not final
When the coast was clear McGratb
moved back to his little homestead
mat was a breach of the law. and he
was sent to Jail. His wife went back
TO the farm. She was sent to iail
His sister and eldest daughter went
back, They We're sent to Jail. This
troublesome family kept the authori-
ties busy a long time, for no sooner
would one of them be released than
he or she would go back home. All
were arrested and imprisoned in this
way three times. Then, as a last re-
sort, Lord Bantry destroyed the housa
McGrath had built. The undaunted
McGrath turned to his fishing boat
Neighbors helped him to move it over
to the farm, alongside the ruins of the
homestead.
His case was a celebrated one nv
tnat time. The Land League helped
him with funds. But imprisonment
and exposure had done their work ue
caught typhus fever, and the canvas
walls OF his house helped Lord Bantry
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27

for a picture of some prophecies or of
the veritable Joan of Arc.
A brow crowned with a halo of gold
en- hair; large eyes which are now
filled with indignation, now bathed in
tears of pity; graceful, slender and
supple figure; the gesture large and
noble; the whole appearance stamped
with character of supreme elegance
such is Maud Come.
But hear her words on British soil,
flung in the face of lingo govern
ment:
"A deep debt of gratitude is due to
those Irishmen in South Africa who
have Joined the Boer army"
The British government has learned
by experience that it is not the part
of wisdom to manufacture martyrs,
and In the case of beautiful and low
able woman such a policy would be
trehly disastrous. So Maud Come en-
joys free speech to incite British sol
diers to desert their standard on the
field Of battle and turn their guns
against the forces of the Queen. She
Is perfectly sincere about 1t. In her
heart of hearts she believes that
treachery ceases to be a crime when
employed by an Irishman against Eng
land Every weapon she concelves to
be a good one IL It be used to achieve
freedom and avenge oppression.
What startles the English who read
of the red sedltion she breaches is that
this is the daughter of the late Col.
Come, OF the Sixteenth Iancers, a
loyal and valiant soldier of the Queen,
conspicuous by his personal brilliancy
and because ne commanded a crack
regiment And above III the storm Of
Mortified comment sounds the ejacula-
ton: ':What would Col. Come say!"
And yet Maud Come is not extreme
IN her demands for Ireland She pro-
fesses no desire to see the union dis
solved-to see Ireland a nation. Home
Rule is the extent OF her political
dream. Let Ireland have parliament
OF her own, and the Irish Joan of Arc
would be content to see the little green
island remain par OF the United King
dom.
1t was through emotion rather than
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27

In the American Journal Of Science
Mr.. Nudge says that while the present
mouth of the Grand river is at Grand
Haven, on Lake Michigan, there is an
other point seventy miles inland from
the shores OF Lake Michigan which
was the termination of the old river
valley and Is therefore its mouth in
an interesting sense. He declares
that at one time a great glacial river,
tnree-fourths of mile in width,
flowed across the peninsula from Lake
Saginaw to Lake Chicago. Long ago
the sources of this glacial river
(Which has been called the Pewamo
outletl failed, and the wide valley,
with its record-bearing deposits, was
laid bare to give up its secrets to the
inquisitive geologist. Mr. Nudge de-
scribes its course and the river de-
posits about its old mouth.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27

The head Of a large corporation says
that he is tired Of having letters in
volying thousands of dollars delayed
because his stenographer's feelings
were hurt by reproof for hardness.
The remark sheds light on the fact
that many corporations are supplant-
Ing women by men employees. Too
many women have yet to learn that
business is business. not sentiment,
and that places are held, if not always
won, by business qualifications alone.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27

Brave Bill Anthony, the marine
who reported the blowing up of the
Maine to Capt slgsbee, committed sui
eide In New York, owing to despond-
ency over his inability to find employ
ment. IL is little to the credit of the
great eastern metropolis, the city
which made so much noise and fan
Iaronade over the Homecoming Of
Dewey, that a plain and simple man
VINO had served his country nobly could
not gain a livelihood within it's bound-
aries Bill" Anthony was unfortu-
nate In the selection OF a home. Had
ne come to the west he would in all
probability have been alive and happy
today.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27
HEIREss MAY BECOME A NUN.

Miss Josephine Drexel of New York.
who has fortune of $4,000 900 in her
own right, is said to be seriously con-
slderins the idea Of becoming a mem
Der of a sisterhood. In becoming a
nun Miss Drexel would be following
the example of her aunt, Miss Kath-
crime Drexel, who gave up the world
several years ago and is now known
only as Mother Katherine. Miss
Drexel Is member of the wealthy
Philadelphia family of that name and
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27
Hairy vetch or SAND Vet, 8

The scientific name of this plant is
Vicia villosa. A government report
says of it: This annual leguminous
plant is native of Asia. 1t has been
cultivated for about fifty years in some
parts Of Europe. especially Southern
Russia, Germany and France, and was
introduced into this country for the
hrst time about 1S47 under the name
OF Siberian vetch. Excellent reports
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27

About this time Of year, aR
over the exchanges, we frsqga4
reports of large hogs killed b. d
parties each trying to oaiboau
who made the previous rspr
Farm and Home. And ever t7
see such q report we feel Ike
"the bigger the hog the biggan
one who fattened it," TheFekA
excuse for having such eIuaa
weight in hogs. When one Dos
hog, kept for breeding purposes
is ten or a dozen years old, nha
it will be a large one very III
but we think the owner OF suclAl
NAL would save more money
and bury it than TO Try to gu
We do not believe that in Aa
land any man can take a ls
weighs $50 pounds, and buy
for it, and get pork enough y n
the food. 1t will cost less to %
hogs until they will dress ~ 4
each than to make one Vsp
pounds, and less to bring ~.
weigh 175 pounds each thsl ~ i
win weigh $50 pounds. Su'a
hogs cannot be sold at as SO0a /
as the lighter ones, and the pon l. |.
as good for home use. We % :.
lieve in killing lean hogs nol K
Ing them on poor food Or Sn0i X
ance to get more lean meat 49, 7.
necessary. The latest hog v, \,
raised and killed weighed les +
mounds when dressed ana .. u
Is lam 1 one was an old 0I !. Y.
dressed 72o pounds. The nI 's, y +
for our own eating and sY. y, /
for ANYBODY. The big one v, II,
sausage manufacturer lol !, n
= YOU'D sl171 pay. and delivered . a. \
door after dark. Posslui, s S 4
eat the meat after it had '''- I
up.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27

as 10 It's drouth-resisting qualities and
us adaptibility to our climate have
Deen received from Washington. Ne
oraska, Georgia, New Mexico. south
Dakota, Minnesota Montana. aad
pennsylvania. 1t has been grown on
the experiment grounds of the DEPART
ment of agriculture at Washiastnn.
u. T., and has proved to be thoroughly
ADAPTED to and valuable for th,s local
lty. The seeds terminate poorly wpen
they are more than two years old
Most OF the seed used in this country
is imported from Europe. so that mar
tlcular care should be taken by i'm
porters and dealers to handle none hut
such as can be sold under guaranty as
good, fresh seed.
Cultivation-Hairy yetch may he
sown in autumn, from about the middle
OF August to the middle Of September
or In spring from the latter part Of
April to the middle of May. 1t should
be sown broadcast or with grain arm
at the rate Of one to one and one-half
pusheis OF seed per acre. The driu
method OF sowing will require a less
amount OF seed. When the seed is mt
IN broadcast, a bushel of rye oats or
wheat should be sown ut the same
ume SO as to furnish a support to keen
the vines up of the ground. II II e.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27

III. ''ouitural Ob,e,,..
,.n The sending to Marker nar'''''Is
lr'lit that has fallen f I'e q
should sa be dlscontlnup.a i'o 10 y
NJ only for hogs ana ~, laAt
should 81 81 .l,i be collected and S', y :, -
a as It falls. This will dest : e
mat are usually the ean,s w
peaches and pears mo 9'aus
IN several ways, and sbo u '''i'
posed OF. II an eyano' ~'o "
Is mandy, the fruit can 1.
or in the absence ot :, ~'s
fashioned method Of sup .a' Y
used In sun-drying apy =, ny, y
they should be protected -, u
screens OF some sort. Asa w.
Is canning, which needs no
IL the fruit thus caDps NJ 1
worked up in sufficient on, ,a !
on lne market, more than y.
efforts will be needed r
that canned fruits will i.
more diiiiculty in the tumrs h
the past owing to the vSol '''
preserYatiyes. 1t is possibsn''I
canned at home and free i,o u
Jectlonable ingredients cor,s ' I
the heishborhood at an sa,,,'
what Is paid for them in Ia n,il
The utilization Of all the ins
is now wasted would be o., !,
TO the human race. A lsrss !,
OF cultivated fruit is lost and
larger percentage OF that grovi,,
Ohe man said, in the preseDs 4
writer: "Blackberries grow viss|
neighborhoOd in such ousDtiF.
we do not cultivate the tame ona
PICK and ship the wild ones m
get too low to pay US a FOOD 4
and then we let the rest rot h
vines" This man was LOCATED
than 100 miles from Chicago 4
a railroad. What happens in M \
tiles that are a long distance l-orl
roads? The writer has passed M
mountainous regions in The Mai.
Atlantic Seaboard states vim
blackberries were growing vi,
great profusion over huntSs
square miles, with no one 10 DID
More and more these wild sup5Is
being utilized, but as ye. myt
tally. What is needed is a na.
plete system of utilization a7s
with more commercial holag
addition to the free bountla d i
there is the immense supply d 4
waited fruit, a large part o. Iia
lost by rotting. TheoretealI
storage is the means Of saving <
practically a very small perca.4
our fruits ever gets into cod SD
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27

s'wn In drills in n. ~,
August the crop sb u~S latis i
forage in autumn ANA ",'l iSnla
ter is not too severn Ter When y
grow again in the sDrID, w !.
cling forage in late ling s,,i ita
most needed. periods Ma
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27

The Washington Post says there will
doubtless be men who try the Sam
Jones business in other states. 1t is
hopeful that they will at least try the
Sam Jones brand Of honesty.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27

When macerated in water it swells
and absorbs from four to five times its
weight in liquid, retaining the water
for a long time. AS the pulp becomes
soft a poultice Of any consistency can
be made by varying the quantity of
water. By using hot water the poul-
tice retains its heat longer than one
made of flaxseed or bread. Antiseptic
drugs soluble in water may be soaked
into the wood pulp.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27

h ,,os oeen IN society but few years
pelng now only 20 years old. She ' bas
Two ,,os sisters both of whom are mar
T RE, 70 sons of Admiral Dahlgren mo- .,
wa W dSn nstS In spite of her wealth
anu SCOTT position Miss Drexel has as
c, yrel p ueei fond of society. being in.
ci GIN rather to study and other so VI
GUS pursuits. ei serl-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27

The editor OF the Abilene (Texas)
Reporter wants the people there to
abolish the town cow" When this
is done will he propose a chalk fac
tory?