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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-27
MUCH REMAINS TO BE DONE
Lord Roberts Refuses TO Spare Troops
For China.


For China.
London, June $500 p. an.-As Lord
Roberts, apparently Is carrying out inn
portant combined operations, the slack
ness of news from South Africa will
probably continue until they are COM
pleted The fact that the foreign mill
tary attaches are homeward bound indi-
Gates that in their opinion, the war is
over But, the reported refusal of Lord
Roberts to spare troops for service in
China seems, II true, to show the field
marshal considers much work remains to
be done.
Large quantities of bar gold, received
by merchants In the western part of the
Transvaal from President Kruger. ostsn-
sibly in payment of requisitioned goods,
have been seized by the British. II the
genuineness of the accounts can be
proved, the gold Will probably be repaid.
The Beers sharply attacked Gen. .Rundle's
transport near Senekal. June 25, but were
repulsed.
The official report Of the capture of
convoy Of 80 wagons escorted by High
landers, between Rhenooster and He'll
bron, June 4, was only received today.
Lord Roberts reports that the convoy was
surrounded and sent messengers to the
nearest posts, asking for assistance, but
reinforcements were unable to reach the
convoy and 100 Highlanders in reply to
flag of truce from Gen. Christian DE
Wet, surrendered during the morning of
June 4.
SUBDUING THE REBELLION.
London, June e6.-11-25 p.m.-Ths war
from Lord Roberts:
Pretoria Presidency, June 26.-Sir
Charles Warren reports that the rebellion
in Cape Colony, north Of the Orange riv-
er, Is now over. The last formidable
body under Commandant De Villiers,
surrendered on June 20, consisting of
about 220 men, $50 horses, Is wagon, 26O
rifles and 100, coo rounds OF ammunition
Gen. Baden Powell reports that paciti-
cation is going on satisfactorily in the
Rustenberg district.
INTERVIEW WITH BADEN-POWELL
London, June 27.-Mr. Winston Church
Ill In despatch from Pretoria, dated
June 10, ,describe an interview with Gen.
Baden Powell in which the hero of
Mafeking said, among other things, that
the Beers could certainly have stormed
Mafeking early in the seige. Little
flags dotted the outskirts and numerous
warnings to the townspeople not to let
their cattle stray within the areas sown
with mines proved an effective ruse
and saved the garrison the trouble Of
laying mines.
TROOPS WILL STAY.
Cape Town, June 27.-It is officially
announced that no troops win leave
South Africa u until the Boer war is over.
MORE TROUBLE FOR BRITISH.
Minneapolis, Mimi, June pa spec
ial to the Times from Seattle, WASH,
says:
"A rebellion is in full swing in Bara-
tonga, Pacific island, under the British
flag In the south seas. The uprising has
spread over the whole island. The ma
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-27

Some baking powder makers claim their powders
are cheaper They can be cheaper only if made
from cheaper materials. Cheaper meansinferior
materials always To cheaper the cost of an
article of food at the expense of its healthfulness,
as is done in aluY ng powders, is crime.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-27

tiement along the coast and are threaten
ing the capital. 1t Is alleged that fifty
Europeans have already been kille d.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-27
TROOPS WILL STAY.

Cape Town, June 27.-It is officially
announced that no troops viii leave
South Africa u until the Boer war is over.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-27
MORE TROUBLE FOR BRITISH

Minneapolis, Mimi, June ga spec
ial to the Times from Seattle, WASH,
says:
"A rebellion is in full swing in Bara-
tonga, Pacific island, under the British
flag in the south seas. The uprising has
spread over the whole island. The ma
tives are advancing on the European SET
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-27

koyn BAKING POWDER CO.. 800 WILLIAM ST. NEW YORK.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

few If any of the unfortupates lost
their lives by actual drowning.
Occasionally the sudden downpour
of rain will be precipitated on a soft
yielding soil, and instead of taking the
form of a cloudburst with a wave oil
water carrying everything before it,
the whole surface of the ground will
take on the c~onsistence of molasses
and roll slowly but irresistibly down
the water courses. This happened In
Chalk Canon, near Mount Princeton,
In Colorado, three years ago. Chalk
cliffs are a peculiar formation at this
head of the canyon, the ~so-called
chalk" being of a lime nature, which,
after being dissolved In water, quickly
hardens again like cement. A cloud
burst began high up on the sides OF
the mountain, washed away tons of
material from the cliffs and rolled the
mass slowly over the railroad tracks
like the pour of lava from Vesuvius.
The tracks were covered to q depth of
six feet. A gang of workmen was
put to work on the deposit, but 1t ooz-
in on the tracks as fast as the men
shoveled it out. Finally all work was
suspended, and the overflow hardened
so quickly that a track was built over
1t. Within six hours of the breaking
of the storm trains were running over
the deposit. So hard did the ''chalk'
become that the railroad has never
penetrated to the old tracks, and In the
excaVating that was done in relaying
the tracks permanently dynamite had
to be used.-Ainslee's Magazine.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11
Chinese
Customs
Their Working Day
q Many
Hours Before
Ours

may hold his name dear. A rich mar
may have a separate building for this
purpose, which is his hall of ancestors;
the less wealthy may nave a room set
aside for the purpose, and the poor
usually have only a shelf; but in each
case h tablet is called shin shu, and
the humble paper on the dirty shelf
is as sacred to Its owner as the illum-
mated tablet in the gorgeous hall of a
rich mans ancestors.
After the religious ceremony the
Chlnaman visits the barber, for keep
ing his head well shaved and his pig
tail in proper condition is a duty which
must not be forgotten. Until 1927 the
Chinese wore their hair long and coiled
on the top of the head, where it was
fastened with an ornamental pin. But
the Manehu edict making the pigtail a
sign of loyalty changed this style, and
now the barber is a necessity. He goes
to he homes of the rich, but the poor
man receives his attention in the
street.
There are few bearded men in China.
Men who have grandchildren may wear
a mustache, and many take advantage
OF the privilege and are called "old hair
men," The foreigners with mustaches,
when they came to China, excited much
curiosity, and the unusual sight justi-
fed them in asking the ages of the
bearded men.
The food, about which all travellers
in China have written much, is not OF
the kind that could ever become popu-
lar in America. Garlic and nut oil are
used in such great quantities that the
dishes are unpalatable to the people
accustomed to the American table. All
kinds of meat are used, but pork is the
most popular. Kittens and puppies
are offered for sale in the markets, and
these are fattened on clean food be-
they are slaughtered. Rats are
not used as much as. some exaggerated
accounts on that subject would indi-
but the blood of rats and the
dried, pulverized skin of the animals is
used as medicine extensively. The
rat is held in contempt, and is consid-
cred a criminal, because it steals rice.
most precious food article, and the
little animals are frequently cruelty
tortured when caught. Black dogs and
black cats are the favorites in the line
OF food. because when eaten in mid
summer they will insure health and
strength.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

The instinct of animals in the mat
ter of self-preservation is curiously
illustrated by the fact that several
dozen cats found refuge during the
Ottawa fire in a wooden house which
although the buildings on each side
were burned down, refused to catch
fire, and remained intact. Cats have a
peculiar gift in this direction, since,
In addition to their reputed nine lives,
there is a popular superstition that
they will only eat what is good for
them. This may or may not be a fall
lacy; but the instinct of self-preserya-
ton, which is common to all animals.
except perhaps horses (who, being
very bags of nerves, will during a fire
behave with suicidal obstinancy), has
been proved time and again.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11
FREAKS
Or III III III
CLOUD
BURSTS,
c. MOUNTAIN
CAMPERS CAUGHT
IN ONE OF THEM

Cloudbursts are sometimes very de-
structive of life as we'll as of property.
They come up so suddenly that it is
almost impossible to escape If the way
farer is caught in the bed of the creek.
Campers in the mountain regions
usually select the high ground above
the creek rather than pitch their tent
beside the gently ripping water, which
may become a roaring torrent while
they sleep, sweeping them to destruc-
near. 1t was from neglect of this
precaution that many lives were lost
in a cloudburst neal Morrison. Colo,
in the spring of 1897. Some people
were camping along the borders of the
stream, and, as 1t was just after dark,
and had been raining heavily. they
had sought the shelter of their tents.
Suddenly they heard the awful and Pc
culiar roar of the approaching cloud
burst. 1t grew louder every second.
Realizing what had happened, the un-
fortunate campers-men, women and
children-rushed from their tents and
tried to reach the higher ground. In
the confusion and darkness some turn
ed the wrong way, and were soon
struggling In mad torrents, battling
with tree trunks and wrecks of cabins
and immense masses OF moving stone
the bosom of the flood. Thirteen
lives went out in that dire night. The
bodies found later showed the marks
Duneting with the debris in the
1000 OF waters and it is believed that
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

In Abyssinia women are rulers and
men are evidently the weaker vessels.
The house and all it's contents belong
to the woman, who may, if she choose,
turn her husband out of doors on the
slenderest pretext. If, upon repentance,
she consents to receive him again. he
must bring as a peace-offering a COW
or half the market price of a camel.
The right of divorce belongs exclusive
ly to the wife, and, though her hus-
band must not leave her without her
consent, he is obliged to go If she de-
sires to be rid of him. In fact, a
state Of affairs exists in Abyssinia
which might well justify a revolt of
man.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

A fat citizen of the seacoast town
OF Lubec, Me-, went down a ladder at
the side of a schooner to get a hammer
that he had dropped overheard. He
inserted his body between the rungs
of the ladder. that he might reach
down and get the hammer from the
shoal water. and became stuck there.
The tide was rising and he was rescued
three hours afterward, just in time to
save him from drowning, the water
having reached within two inches of
his mouth.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11
Profit in well-rattened Ch,okeD..

An WeAl-FAttened Chickens.
The Maine Experiment Station has
Deen conducting a series of expert
ments, one object of which was to as
certain the profit in fattening birds
for market. A summary on this point
says: Taking the sixty cooped and
uncooped birds. together and consider
ing the gains in fiesh,, and the cost of
the food used. enables us to form
opinions as to the ~advisability of sell
ing chickens from the range when in
growing condition, or specially pre-
pairing them for higher priced mar
kets.
II these birds had been dressed with
out fattening at the commencement of
the feeding test, and had shrunk the
same per cent that they did when
slaughtered, they would have yielded
1853 pounds of dressed meat worth
IL cents per pound, $21.51. At the
close of the test they dressed 272.7
pounds and were sold at Is cents per
pound net, yielding $4,000. This shows
that their value was increased by fat
tenlng 1898. The increase was prob
ably more than this amount as we
found in other tests that the percent
age or shrinkage in dressing lear
chickens was greater than in fat ones.
Thirteen cents was as much as the
unfattened birds would have sold for
slowly-while the fattened ones sold
quickly in the same market at fifteen
cents per pound. They were very
much improved in quality by ~fattening.
The flesh was white and soft and when
roasted the thighs were soft, juicy
and free from strings.
The amount of the dry food used
was $50 pounds and cost 1871. The
skinned milk was lao gallons. worth
$3.50, making the total food used
worth $10.71. which amount taken
from the increased value of the chick
n leaves a balance of S8.68 gain on
the sixty birds; an average increase of
a little more than Ia cents on each
one above the cost of feed used. A
very large proportion of the chickens
raised in this state are sent to market
alive, without being fattened. usually
bringing to The growers from twenty
five to thirty-five cents each. These
tests indicate that they can be re-
tanned and fed a few weeks in mex
pensive sheds or large coops with
small runs and sent to the markets as
dressed meat and make good returns
for the labor and care expended. The
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

There are important distinctions be-
tween India rubber and gdtta percha
anu in the majority of purposes for
which they are employed, one can not
replace the other. While the trees
yielding India rubber are well distrib-
uted over the tropical parts of the
world and may be cultivated with more
or less facility. the tree which fur
nlshes gutta percha is to be found only
in Borneo, Sumatra and the Malay ar
chipelago generally.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11
A Strange d

Pawnbrokers take some curious
pledges, but it is not often that they
receive one from another world. A
London pawnshop, however, exhibits
in it's window, as an u~nredeemed
pledge, a magnificent aerolite, a mass
of fused metal that fell, as it were,
from heaven, to provide a poor man
with his beer. A ticket bears the state
ment that it vas brought from the arc
tic regions by a sailor.-New York
Tribune.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

The Delaware & Raritan Canal Com
pany is said to be mastering it's mules
out of service, and Harvesting up the
automobile to do their work on the
tow-path. If this sort If thing is al
lowed to go on till the beasts of bur-
den and of draft are let off from their
present tasks, the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals will be
tempted to relax its vigilance,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

The employment of women in the
postal service is not an American idea.
1t was by no means uncommon in the
Did days, when postmasters kept post
houses and were persons of some con-
sequence. I'm 1913, Leonard, of Taxis,
appointed a woman postmaster at
Braine-le-Comte, an important point in
France"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

Consul-General John Goodnow. the
United States representative at Shang-
hai, whose dispatches to the govern
ment concerning the situation at Pek-
Ing have been printed in the news
papers of the country, is a Minneapolis
man. He used to own the Minneapolis
Baseball club, and at the time of his
appointment to his present post by
President Mckinley he was engaged
in the coal business in Minneapolis.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

quality of the w~ell-covered, soft-fiegh-
ed chickens, if they are not too fat,
is~so much superior to the same birds
not specially prepared that they will
be sought for at the higher price. The
dairy farmer is especially well pre-
pared to carry on this work as he has
the skinned milk which is of the
greatest Importance in securing yield
and quality of flesh.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

Besides being the seat of the Trans
vaal government Pretoria is the most
beautiful town in South Africa. It
nestles in a valley. Nowhere else in
South Africa is there such a blending
or new and old OF are there so many
contrasts in the way of architecture.
There are quaint, low Dutch roofs,
sturdy English architecture and the
big government buildings completed
ten years ago at a cost of 81. 900. 900.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

Inc customs and usageS in vogue
In China are interesting at this time
owing to the disturbances that have
focused public attention the world
over pom the celestial empire. Ac-
cording to a recent writer the Chinese
believed early rising and begin their
workday several hours earlier thar
Europeans or Americans. In this par
ticular the high officials set a good K
ample, for they hold audiences and
transact business at daylight. The
street kitchens which may be seen in
n Chinese town do business at all
hours of the day and night, and had
become we'll established institutions
several thousand years before the
American owl restaurant was thought
of.
Chinese Beds.
The Chinaman rises early possibly
because his sleeping apartment offers
few attractions. The rooms, even in
the homes of the wealthy, are usually
dark nj poorly ventilated, and are
like inside cupboArds. The bed is u.s.
ually a canopied, elaborate affair. heavy
and beautifully carved, and this piece
OF furniture is often handed down from
rather to son through many genera
t1ons. But there is nothing elaborate
ABOUT the bed covering. In place of a
mattress there is a mat,and the cover
ing is the occupants clothing, or pos
slbly a wadded quilt. Extra clothing
Is provided for cold weather. and in
the north. where the weather is ex-
tremely cold. the carved wood bed
stead is not used. There, in the house
OF every well-to-do citizen, and In the
inns, there are divans of masonry
beneath which there are freplaces. and
on these divans the people sleep and
the fire is utilized for cooking pur-
poses.
There are no pillows in Chinese
beds. They have instead hollow
square frames of rattan or bamboo.
or blocks of wood fashioned SO thew fit
the nape of the neck and support the
head when lying on the side. PEOPLE |
h have used these substitutes for
say they are much more com
Portable than soft, hot feather or hair
pillows, especially in warm weather.
These substitutes for pillows are used
even by those people who have rooms
with modern tables and 9TH
er European furniture.
The Chinese have no use for bath
or bathing paraphernalia. Their
toilet is quickly made, and is not be-
gun until nearly all the garments to be
worn have been put on.
First Duty Is to Worship.
The first thought of the Confucian
arising is to worship. There is
a shrine in every house, where a tab
let with the anne of the ancestors is
Kept. There the householder does
to the memory of those who
have preceded him, and prays that he
nay live so that those who follow him
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11
Poultry Brlefs.

Poultry Briefs.
The Buff Leghorns have evidently
come to stay. They have grown into
public favor very rapidly, and are now
widely distributed throughout the
country.
In sending fowls to market it is al
ways advisable to have hens and
ROSTERS in different coops. Hens bring
more than roosters; but the presence
OF the latter gives the buyer a chance
to beat down the price.
A poultry raiser says that he finds
a good way to make his turkeys come
nome to be to feed them regularly
once a day near the house. The man
that lets his turkeys go unfed, except
as to what they get in their daily
wanderings, is likely to have a good
deal OF trouble in keeping control of
his flocks.
1t is doubtful if chicks should be
closely regulated in their feeding. If
an attempt is made to feed them only
twice a day it will probably result in
the stunting of the birds or at least
in the temporary suspension of their
development. Nature provided that
birds should feed a good many times
per day. II the chicks have a chance
TO expend their energies in activity
there is little danger of feeding too
OFTEN, provided the foods be not too
fattening in quality.
y =
We have yet to see the advantages
In high roosts. The birds naturally
prefer the high ones, as they in
stlnctively get out of the way of prae-
datory animals. But under the care of
man there is no necessity for them to
roost high. and they are better off
low. Heavy birds especially
are liable to injury when getting on
and off roosts that are high. Two feet
IS nigh enough for the roosts, and
they should be on a level that all the
fowls may be satisfied with the par
tlcular one on which they can secure
a footing.
The red mites are difficult to de-
stroy, but it can be done. If they
are In the nests of the sitting hens the
nests must be burned, and probably
Inc new nests will have to share the
fate, as a few nits and lice may
remain on the hens. Sitting hens are
quickly killed when left to the mercy
d these mites. The roosts should be
20 constructed that the lice will take
'eruge in grooves on the under side.
which the roosts may be temper
erlly removed, the grooves saturated
with Oil and the insects destroyed by
ire. This will have to be repeated for
time to make the work complete.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

Mummies manufactured in France
are now being shipped all over the
world. Prudent antiquarians, purchas-
Ing wisely, examine the mummy with
the X-rays, for thus the spurious arti-
Gle is readily detected.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

OF course, those enthusiastically pa
triotic citizens who are mobbing Chi
1ese laundrymen would hail with de-
light an opportunity to go to China.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

Recent studies of the ocean bottom
near the coast line CT continents have
shown that rivers of considerable size
sometimes enter the sea beneath the
surface.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

It is quite evident that the good
Boxer very closely resembles the good
indian.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.

How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department OF the Farm-A Few
Hints as to the Care of Live stock
and Poultry.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11
Summer and winter sno..

condensed from Farmers Review STEM.
ographic Report of Wisconsin Dairymen's
C~onvention.l
Major Alvord of the Department OF
Agriculture said:
l nave a dairy in a part of the coun-
Try where we have winter twice a year
that Is, We have a time in fhe snm-
mer When the ground is about as bar
rem as In winter. We can't. therefore
raise a soil1ng crop in the summer
n have to feed silage from the
middle OF July to the end OF August
| get more out or the silage bv
Ieedlng at that time rather than in
winter. Somehow, the cows that have
Deen on pasture in the first part of
the summer do not take to dry hay
as they will in the cold weather in
winter. So we find it pays better to
1eed them the silage. If I have but
a small amount of silage I hold 1t for
summer rather than winter use; but
IL pays better to have enough silage to
Iced both summer and winter. 1t is
Detter TO have two or more silos rather
enan large silo, and then one silo
can De held for summer use.
Vouiu you hot construct a SllO
lor summer use somewhat different
from the n you would build for win
ter use?
Mr.. Alvord--I would construct a silo
the same for either summer or win
ter. -
w. l.. Hoard-When you open a silo
IN the winter time and expose the top
70 the air, the cold keeps the siIaoa
from spelling by retarding fermenta-
tlon; but in summer time the top OF
the silage is exposed to hotter weather.
and the top area should be therefore
less.
Q.-Have you aver fed silage when
the cows are on good pasture?
Mr.. Alvord-Yes.
eff you feed silage when the cows
are on pasture do they not eat as
much silage as they do when the grass
is shorter?
deal.