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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01

tor where it absorbs the odors Of
meats and vegetables. And yet the
housekeepers who are most careless
are the most eXacting and ready to
quarrel with their milkmen; when, as
a matter of fact, the milkman is hon
est and serving pure milk to reckless
or ignorant customers.
Careful and intelligent housekeep-
ers sterilize their milk, particularly
the milk which is for the use of ba-
bies and children. One-third of the
children die before they are three
years old, and one of the leading
causes of this mortality is the use
of unwholesome milk. Careless moth,
ers have been known to permit germs
to attack them just as they attack
cows upon farms, and children draw
these germs from their mothers. Bur.
whether it be mothers milk or MIX
from the cows, unwholesome milk has
much to do with infant mortalite.
Milk can easily be sterilized in the
home by boiling it in glass bottles.
and then suddenly cooling it with cold
water or ice. Boiling kills the harm
full bacteria, and the cooling must be
quick, in order to prevent the re-
development of spores. Every careful
housekeeper rearing a child will glad
ly resort to this method of steriliza-
ton; but careless housekeepers will
probably continue in their careless
ness. and also continue to blame the
milkman for their own faults.
Although milk is one of the best
of foods, and is extensively used
everywhere, 81 per cent. of it is wa
ter. One hundred pounds of milk con-
tains 81 pounds of water, five pounds
of milk sugar, 3.3 pounds of albumen
and casein, and seven-tenths of a
pound of mineral matter. Chemists
and scientists say that pure milk is
one of the best of all food products,
while practical men and women know
that it is the best of all foods for
children. The small proportion of
solid matter, although exceedingly
nutritive, is so readily digestible that
it's healthgiving properties are mar
Vicious. SMITH ID. FRY.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01

Cows are uncleanly animals, as ev-
erybody knows. But the farmers who
would keep clean cows find it difficult
to keep clean attendants. Instead of
trying to remove the dust and dirt
from the cows before milking, in order
that there may be as little dirt as pos
sible in the milk, the Hntidy attend
ants turn directly from cleaning horses
or from other dirty work and go to
milking. They do it in dirty clothes,
with dirty hands, caring nothing how
much dust and dirt comes from them
selves and from the cows into the milk
pals. 1t is important that attendants
should be clearly, having clean hands
and clean finger nails. But every farm
er knows that it is difficult to find help
ers who will ever think of cleaning
their finger nails. They will scarcely
do that before going to church, much
less when going to do their milking.
One of the chief forms of bacterial
contamination of milk comes from this
carelessness. The udders should be
cleaned always before milking begins.
The fact is overlooked that after milk
ing the teats are moist and germs plant
themselves there, some of them even
working their way into the teat cavity.
Unless the teats are cleansed before
the next milking these germs are first
drawn into the milk pail. There they
begin their work of contamination
even while the milking is going on.
They develop rapidly.
Likewise, when utensils are washed,
unless great care is taken, the milk
will not be completely removed from
them, and the Tactic bacteria gather
and terminate there, so that legions
of the bacteria are in the utensils
when the next milking begins, just as
they are in or upon the udder or
teats. Cleaning utensils upon the
farms requires constant and careful
supervision, because employees are
everywhere careless. They use pro-
miscuous rags and wiping cloths,
neglect the strainers, neglect the
pals, do their washing hastily, and
usually with cold or luke-warm wa
ter. Very often the milk pals are al
lowed to become coated with greasy
layers which are hotbeds for the de-
velopment of bacteria. Moreover, wa
ter which is impure is frequently
used, water from cisterns and shallow
wells, and sometimes dishwater
which has been used for plates and
other table utensils.
AS stated above, the department of
agriculture believes that there are
very few dishonest dairymen. The
dairy division says also that many
customers are unreasonable in their
demands, and that they do not take
proper care of good milk after it is
delivered to them. Milk can as easily be
contaminated by bad handling after it
has been delivered as before it leaves
the farm. If pure milk is left in a
kitchen or ill-ventilated cellar, where
dust can settle upon it or where flies
may gather upon it, no blame can at
tach to the milkman or the dairyman.
That is the fault of the housekeoper.
Milk is often left in glass bottles
in the sun. Or it is placed in small
tin pail which has not been properly
washed. 1t is placed in a refrigera-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01
BRIEF DAIRY NOTES.

Remember that the milk should be
cooled as promptly as possible after
it is drawn from the COW. Cool and
aerate thoroughly, in order to prevent
the milk from retaining unpleasant
odors.
Ice water will chill and kill as well
as fill the COW, and the thoroughly
chilled cow cannot secrete milk free
ly. The dairyman who forces his
cows to drink through hole in the
ice in winter should not expect a good
flow of milk from the cows.
The milk cows should have album
dant supplies of water. Milk is rs
per cent. water, and that fact shows
how necessary water is to the COWS.
Moreover, the very fact that so mucl
water must be drunk by the cow
indicates that the water should not
be much below the temperature of
the cows body.
Artificial ponds are not liable to
contain pure water. Such ponds are
generally located in natural depres-
sions on the farm, ana into such de-
pressions there is sure to be more
or less drainage of filthy water. If
the dairyman deems it necessary to
have such ponds, he should at least
fence them in, so that the stock can
not turn them into filthy wallows and
sources of disease.-Farmers Voice.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01

Cows give trifie more milk when
receiving some succulent food such
as roots and ensilage, but practically
the same amount of butter or other
milk solids. We select The cheapest
foods and so mix them that the COW
gets about one pound of carbohy-
drates. If we should feed a much
wider ration, that is, one that con-
tanned more carbohydrates and car
bohydrate equivalent than the
amount stated, she would gradually
lay on fat, shrink in milk, and failure
to breed would probably follow; but
when the above mentioned nutritive
ratio is maintained. no such difficult
ties are encountered.-Prof Hacker,
N Rural World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01
UNLOADING CORN MADE EASY.

as wide as the outside of the wagon
box. Then put on short sides nailed
securely to this sloping floor, and ex-
tending forward few inches past the
sides of the box and on the outside of
it. Take out the end gate and gate
rods, put on this attachment and bore
holes to correspond with the holes in
the box and with four bolts secure it in
place. The lower cross-piece, C, should
extend out little beyond the wagon
bed on each side and come down
against it, the sloping floor resting on
the bottom of the bed an inch or two
from the back end. If desired this at
tachment can be fastened on with
stout hooks and staples instead of
with bolts.-Orange Judd Farmer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01

ability they do so. They claim that
carelessness exists on the farms, that
many farmers do not naturally possess
business ability; and because of this
lack of business ability they do not
take such precautions in all cases as
they should take. Moreover, it is de-
veloped that there are nowadays very
few dishonest farmers. Lack of knowl-
edge is the cause of the delivery of i'm
pure milk in Il majority of cases.
Because CT these conditions the
creameries have become educators.
They deal only with those whom they
know, and their agents have given in
struction to thousands of farmers who
have gladly received all valuable infor-
nation. Some of the best farmers
who make great efforts to produce
pure and clean milk are often handi-
capped by careless or slovenly help
men and women on the farm who cam
not or will not comprehend the impor-
tance Of strict observance of certain
rules.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01
NOTES FROM THE PARIS Ex-
POSITION.

"The Singer Manufacturing Com.
pany, of 149 Broadway, New York,
show their usual American enterprise
by having a very creditable exhibit, To-
Gated in Group XIII, Class 70, at the
Paris international Exposition, where
they show to great advantage the cele-
brated Singer Sewing-Machine which
is used in every country on the globe,
both for family use and for manufac-
turing purposes. The writer was high
ly pleased with this display and OBJ
served with much satisfaction that it
was favorably commented upon by WIS.,
itors generally.
The Grand Prize was awarded by the
international Jury to Singer Sewing
Machines for superior excellence in de-
sign, construction, efficiency and for
remarkable development and adoption
to every stitching process used in
either the family or the factory.
Only One Grand Prize for sewing ma
chimes was awarded at Paris, and this
distinction of absolutely superior merit
confirms the previous action of the In
ternational Jury at the Worlds Co.
lumbar Exposition, in Chicago, where
Singer machines received 81 distinct
awards, being more than were re-
ceived by all other kinds of sewing ma
chimes combined.
Should it be possible that any of our
readers are unfamiliar with the cele-
brated Singer Machine, we would re-
specially advise that they call at any
of the Singer salesrooms which can be
found in all cities and most towns in
the United States"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01
THE AMERICAN COW.
Value of Her Annual Product Is in
Excess of $500, 900, 900.
Department of Agriculture Desires to
Help Farmers to Produce AbsO-
IuteIy Pure Milk, Butter
and Cheese.
Especial Washington letter.
TTaHE dairy division of the burea

1TTNHE dairy division of the bureau
of animal industry is one of the
IL most important and valuable of
all the working divisions of the
busy deparement of agriculture. Facts
about milk, its production, care and the
mercantile methods which have devel-
oped, and which are being developed,
all receive careful and scientific con-
sideration by men who are not only
scien lists, but versed in the business
which has grown into such proportions
during recent years, particularly in
the prairie states.
There are approximately 10000, 900
people in this republic, and there are
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01
Dakota Woman Otchardist.

Mrs. Laura A. Alderman owns the
largest orchard IN South Dakota Ao-
cording to w. N. Irwin. chief of the
division of pomology of the department
of agriculture in Washington, she has,
near Har.ey, Turner county, $50 acres
in which are 5000 trees, two acres be-
ing given to plums. Besides the trees
there are 1000 currant bushes, 1000
gooseberry bushes, 500 grapevines and
three acres of strawberries.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01
THE HOMELY SUNFLOWER.

1t is said that the sunfiower is val
liable for keeping off malarial fevers.
The seeds are splendid food for poul-
try, increasing the number of eggs.
The cultivation of the sunhower is
largely carried on in Russia, India.
China, Germany and Italy, and forms
a profitable industry.
Every bushel of seed yields one gall
Ion of oil, and this when purified is as
good as almond or olive oil. 1t is also
used for making soap and for lighting
purposes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01
Probably Not.

and lovely fellow, but awfully absent
minded.
Ada-Indeed!
"Only fancy! During the marriage cere-
mony, when he gave me the ring, he felt
my pulse and asked me to put out my
tongue"
"Wel, he won't do the latter again.
Spare Moments.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01
UNLOADING OF CORN.
Work and Adds to the Capac-
ity of the Wagon.

A useful device can be made and at
tached to the back end of wagon box
so that shoveling out may be begun at
once upon reaching the crib. 1t will
also add several bushels capacity to the
wagon box. Make sloping floor, a, a
few feet long with cross-pieces on the
lower side at and C. Let the floor be
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01
The stock Gave Ont.

Wife-How did you get along while
1 was away?
Husband kept house for about
ten days, and then went to hotel.
"A hotel? Why didn't you go ON
ssHnRing house?"
Couldn't. All the dishes were
dirty."-N. Y. Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12

ly temperate mainland. To some ex-
tent they were right, for, taken as a
whole the climate of north China is
less enervating than that of the Philip
pines; but it all depends upon the time
Of year in which that region is visited.
During the first months of summer,
before the rains commence, the temper
AZURE is agreeable, though high, and
the vast plain stretching from the gulf
of Pe-chi-li to Tien-tsin and from that
city to Picking is traVersable in every
direction, though the traveller may be
enveIoped in clouds of dust. The dis
tance from Taku, where are situated
the forts which were bombarded and
stormed by the allied forces, to Tien-
tsin. the city which was more recently
taken by them, is about 81 miles. In
the hot season the main road between
these two points is hard and dry,
though in places worn into deep ruts by
the traffic of centuries. This main
thoroughfare in a busy hive of human
workers. human beasts of burden push
ing native barrows piled high with i'm
mense loads-not d drone among them.
The same may be said OF the great
highway from Tien-tsin to Picking.
which is about 70 miles long, making
the entire distance between the coast
and Chinese capital a little more than
a hundred miles. A railroad from the
coast at Taku ran to a near suburb of
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12

! like Arctic explorers, in huts of ice and
snow, until the winter is over.
In considering an advance from Tien-
tsin to Picking, with the former city as
a military base, the condition of the
roads have to be taken into account,
even though the distance is compar-
atively short and under favorable
auspices might be covered by a
forced march of a few days. The rains
| convert the entire plain into vast sea
of mud and water, rendering it almost
impracticable TO make the journey
even if unmolested by the hordes of
rebels who might mass upon the army's
TANKS and rear.
An alternative is offered of taking
the longer route, near the eastern hills,
about 200 miles, parallel with the great
wall: but this, too, has its disadvan-
tages. In fact. Picking could not have
been better situated for natural de-
tense if it had been chosen by a board
of modern military engineers.
Situated in a sterile plain, without
any important suburbs, the city ap-
pears suddenly at a turn of the road,
rising grand and grim, with its 16-gated
walls topped by loftier towers. 1t is
realized that, even after reaching the
outer works of this vast walled city, an
army has before it the real PROPOSE
ton" How to take it without the lar
gest sized siege guns, which it would
ordinarily be impossible to take along.
The allies did not attempt in 1860 to
enter this city, with its outer walls so
feet in height, go feet wide at the base
and 40 at the top. That feat has not
been ACCOMPLISHED in centuries for
within the outer defenses are other
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12

New York member % bod The SPEAKER
ship zrss John n Taylor, who served
from 1875 90 1871 There have Eesn
Democratic sEsssk erS from OTHER states
since The clos@ % ere war-IEdlarsa-
Feansyiv Kennedy AID Georgia
TIE Central Un1eT Erz-r.a Tz~EEY q
Lo.Ecn- which n operated ~ slsctgic-
ST.. Rad az - engines ard uearly az .
its other nsscasnerS e1slf n TIE Tzats9
states. Z hzz 5Esf sssn opened scr
business. bat - ret re frs; cozatr1c-
tlon q St. kind - I,sEsfen- az oshs-
underground Foass k&zA bssu 81 opera
ton there g. Ezzny yez<a IAs Eys-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12

was a reciprocating strain. as n the
case OF a saw.
In the kgmnatogTaph nearly 500 pic
lures are taken on A plate l. inches ia
diameter, the turning Of handle caus-
ing slow rotary and lateral notion
with the necessary stop for exposure
az every fourteenth second The PIC
lures thus iTsa pressed II spiral eeTrs-
biue n an animated photograph when
a positive plate Is passed through the
camera n front % lantern
There has not been 3 Ne~ Yorker n
the speakers chair Of the hCuss q rep
resEnt2ttves for - years. Tas latest
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12


the 12 locomotive the
o Of
Allen o
the track
ybic
shutter
rails between which small stick
ed to the stick and when the
cult thus closed acting heavy
which suddenly bulb
The lasts a
period OF
inches yet the photographs resulting
continuance above wonderfully
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12

so many millions of subjects and con-
troll of so vast portion of Europe and
Asia.
1t is thought to have been the moving
cause of his abolition of exile to Sibe-
ria. with its attendant horrors; but it
will be recollected that his grandfather
issued an edict forever doing away
with serfdom in his dominions, and
yet the ultimate goal of freedom in
Russia was far from attained.
Whatever may be the influence his
wife has over the car. it is to be hoped
that her counsels will prevail and that
the temptation to set in motion the
machinery that might end in a world
war will be resisted.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12

would be shot themselves If they ala
not obey orders Leon served in the
war with the United States In IS4T
while quite a boy and was wounded At
the battle Of Buena Vista
There is good evidence that the an
cient Egyptians used reciproc2ting
saws and hollow drills set with Jewels
and that they worked them under great
pressure SO as to get coarse cuts In
fortunately, none OF the tools have ever
been found, and we are quite ignorant
how the jewels were fixed in the metal
supports so as to stand the heavy side
strain upon them. especially when it
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12

for-nsr Frssniss 90 ~ sgt a tifls
= AZ fee@2@e - Insisted sf-ss hse1fulux
re Earl q L4FsrEoos. With Wzs sac
efrsfzilT oy1ozsa - ~ gsnEinsoe
family
TIE ifafaa fzfa1stsy - efguezftoa has
1Ts41rsE fhaE fEs Pa nina ff'sn ard lgt-
Gcsftpn - fhn sarfvi taken frssa as
HsFrEiisnszzs aaz ssres1tes &C. fts ess-
ssszFs ~ Naries - ressa-~g affsr "a
lateral - uznF TsaTs. Ire fsfarsIs
tssk has tesn frsfszFies1 60 f-saf=ssse
Efl.la Marital - the ea5ierfton - 50
EafYFi fssae b 80 oa.E ahssas - h4ss
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12
CULLlNGS OF THE NEWS.

The supreme court Of Illinois has de-
c.5eG by . unanimous vote that hard
c-jsy is an intoxicating drink.
l,r- James n. Stafford. who Tor many
yfor has been professor Of seoloEy at
rcIlJ university. has retired at
t1t axe OF % For half a century he
las en- state geOlogist OF Tennessee.
-~ta Tennys0n. successor 10 the
.aarc2 ara title Of the late poet Laureate
20 Gs, Britain. has advertised his
s21-.l Surrey home AT BiacSdoVn
~ rant icr = period OF three years.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12

Lord TennNSOn win be absent for that
length OF time in South Australia, Of
which he was recently appointed gov
erno-.
Al eN-Mexjcan soldier named Leon
who died recently in a lunatic ASYLUM
near Tamuieo IS said to have been the
last survivor OF the firing party who
shot the unfortunate Emperor Maxi
miiian on June II. 1851 Leon. together
with one or two comrades. protested
against being selected for the duty. but
the soldiers were assured that they
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12

ten - rot a experiment. bzt rro~st
success. yst. Eith fbe sxcepf1oa q 9
railway tunnel or tTo there - not a
single rad a IRE kfnz3 - anT Americas
city. although fhsT are ErEsatsT ns<4~d
IN F2any q thenn-
Ira y. EAnksy. ~ evangelist. xf,sy
taking part 81 TIE reopesgrx q ~
SsurTeoa AGstrD.eai8u tsrnsAs f. Len
dan nsxf Sspseznkssr. ~la r1sss Tssrssy
as re guess az suv~rkl s7ar1sslan nsis.
ssezs q sszzt oeuaf-Y.
zscrs las ben ssazs9 - T-azss.oa q
issteF zFsfts1 - Gs4aaszszs shzs ; sszzs
q iSs es4ssf Ia; t1a c@lT Fxzsos to
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12
AN AFRICAN ExEcurIoNER.

Human life has never been held sa-
cred by the savage tribes OF Africa any
more than Il is today in China When
the king OF Bantama wanted a rich
red color for the walls OF his palace. he
commanded 100 girls TO be slaughtered
and used their blood The lord high ex-
ecutioner was a man OF Importance and
one OF the hardest worked officials in
the kingdom. for. although the people
knew well enough thar any one OF them
might be the next victim. they dotted
on executions. which were always
largely attended.
As the Ashantees believed that a
great chiefs standing In the next world
depended upon how many attendants
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12

The last phase Of The fa IN India brought
presence in
IonsR
srer1
description flied
stricken patnt2
Everywhere the
directions AID stricken
/
Ieasf
eoxa
been running About win ehAafsss
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12
A CHURCH SELDOM USED.

There is in England a quaint little
structure, barely large enough to hold
100 persons, which was erected long
ago to commemorate the battle of Tow
ton in 1461 and as memorial to Lord
de Clifford, who fell in that fight of
more than four centuries agone.
The knights are dust, their good
swords rust" and the noble soldier and
his companions might have been for
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12

Inc Chinese courts Of justice
to ~ INC as II Is understood in more civilized countries
The rms lnS{aIoR shows the interior of
are the
@ is pretty sure 10 be against them
on either side the
and constabesand in the background OF
Sens which a
no wiring from him confession OF innocent ESCAPE
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12

gotten were it not for this memorial
chapel. in which services are held but
twice year for the purpose of praying
for the repoSe of their souls. Even
this infreQuen: service might have fall
en- into disuse but for the fact that the
vicar of Ryther, in whose parish the
chapel is situated, receives the tithes
from more than a thousand acres Of
land that are dedicated TO this historic
sanctuary for this particular purpose.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12
CAMP AIGNING Tn CHINA AND WHAT IT MEANS

Peking, but the section between Tien-
tsin and the capital was destroyed by
the rebels soon after Admiral Seymour
and the allied relief force started on
their mission. When, after having been
out Is days, fercely beset by the Box
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12

u.EHEN the gallant Ninth regiment
w was ordered from the Philippines
to China, there was much rejoic-
irg among 'tthe boys on account of
ne prospective change from the hot
and humid islands to the comparative
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12

After the late summer rains have
ceased there is an interim of good
weather before the winter frosts, and
it was during such a brief season that
the allied French and English forces,
10000 strong, marched upon Picking in