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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-01-27
PIG FEEDING.
Experiments at the New Hampshire
station With Pumpkins, Etc.


Dairyng and the raising of pigs go
hand in hand in New Hampshire. The
latter is necessary for the profitable
utilization of the skimmilk, while the
former is one of the leading agricul-
tural Industries of the state.
Among the chief points of practical
interest and importance in pig feed
ing are the kinds of feeding stufTs to
use in connection with skimmill and
the most economical way to use them.
Experiments with the following com
binations of feeding stuffs have re-
Gently been conducted at this station.
and the results are given in bulletin G6:
|. Pumpkins. cooked and uncooked;
apples and pumpkins. cornmeal, corn
meal and bran.
.. Bran. fermented and unferment-
ed; bran and cornmeal. cornmcal.
3. Corn and cob meal. corn on ear.
Pumpkins were raised at this station
ut cost of 40 cents per ton. and while
it is often said that pumpkins are prin-
cipally hollow space and water it
should he noted that the cost of pro-
duction is next to nothing. The APP
pies used were the common cider APP
pies. or windfalls. and valued at 10
cents per bushcl. the price usually paid.
Conclusions arrived at from expert
mcnt No. ! were:
First.-Thc cooking of pumpkins
does not increase their feeding value.
Second.-Whcn pumpkins are availa-
BILE for pig feeding, they can be fed
most economically In connection with
cornmcal.
Third.-Whilc raw pumpkins fed in
connection with milk produced pound
of gain at small cost, so few pounds
were produced it is advisable to feed
cornmcal with them.
Fourth.-Applcs, even at the low
price of 10 cents Per bushcl are not an
economical food fer pigs.
Fifth.-Bran is not desirable as
food for pigs. even if fed with corn
meal. This is further considered in
the second experiment, from which it
appears:
First.-Thcre is but little gained in
fermenting bran for pig feeding.
Second is undesirable as a
feeding stuff for pigs, fed either alone
or in combination with cornmeal.
The practical question arises as to
the economy of grinding corn for pig
feeding. When we consider that mill
ers charge cents per buShel for grind
ing and add to this the cost Of hauling
corn to and from the mill, the question
becomes one of considerable impOr-
tance. Experiment No. 3 leads to the
following conclusions:
FirSt.-GrOund corn and cob has Il
slightly better feeding value than corn
on the ear.
Second.-For practical purposes it is
more economical to feed corn on the
ear rather than hauling to the mill and
grinding for feed.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-01-27
Avoid Him

Avoid slanderer as you would a
scorpion both sting for the mere
pleasure of doing it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-01-27

young man" said the old gentle
man, my daughter is too young to
marry. y girl of her age cannot be
sure of her own mind in Il matter of
such Importance"
81 fully rcAliZ" that" replied the
young man. who had Just secured the
fair ones consent. That's why |
don't want to wait."-Chicago Pest
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-01-27
SUGAR BEET LEAF MINER,

them. The Michigan station has been
on the alert to detect any such trou-
blcs, but thus far seems to have found
injuries frCm but one insect. the sugar
beet leaf miner, which produces
blisterlike mine on the upper surface
Of the leaf by eating out the succulent
material. 1t is about half the size of Il
house fly and approaches it somewhat
in appearance. For the destruction of
beet tops fall blowing and rolling are
indicated remedies.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-01-27

Silence is the safest response for all
the contradiction that arises from i'm
pprtinrncc. vul"arity or envy.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-01-27
Miscellaneous Advertisements.

Just issued wonderful catalogue of everything
to eat, and use 1t costs us 81 cents to print
and II cents to mail each copy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06
Green Roses.

In the spacious and shady garden of
a relative, not far from Meopham,
have seen this week a bush of green
roses. The buds and blossoms be it
understood, were not merely greenish,
nor striped or variegated with green,
but perfect green roses in shape and
make, with calyx, corallo, petals-ev-
erything, all alike-of a bright, vivid
color, exactly resembling that of the
ordinary green leaf of the rase bush,
says Sir Edwin Arnold in the London
Telegraph.
Some of the blooms were of the or
binary size, and fashioned like tea
rose, or small Gloire de Dion, and
many among them We're most symmet-
really formed and finished.
Perhaps, since I have the honor OF
the friendship of the dean of Roches-
ter, and know his most delightful
books about roses, ought not to have
been so astonished at a green rose.
Dean Hole is sure to have written
something wise and learned about this
particular vagary of nature. which 1
may have forgotten; but certainly the
great, bold rosebush at Meopham, with
its score or more of grass-green flow
ers. was at the time a true surprise.
There exhaled a faint perfume Of
briar from thes emerald-colored mon
strositiesbut what could possibly III
duce the queen of the garden thus 10
abdicate her lovely colors and splendid
traditions and look like tuft Of grass
or button IF st. Johns worts After
that bush. I at least. am quite pre-
pared to hear Of blue roses and black
roses without incredulity
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06
He Was BaIzac,s Valet.

When Balzac was in Russia, in the
palace of Wierzchownie, domestic
then serf, was appointed especially
to serve him. He is very old man.
but his mind is clear today, and this is
what he says of Balzac:
"Do / remember him? Why. perfect
ly! was his valet during the entire
time that he was here I have not
read his books. People say that they
are very. interesting I don't know If
they are: / don't like to read. The
reason is, suppose, that don't know
how.
you can say to anybody who asks
me what / know of Mr. Balzac that he
was a good man. He was polite, kind.
and never angry. Oh, it was pleas
ure to be his servant! He did not want
much, and he. was glad if l did any
thing for him. He knew only one Rus
sian word. This was tognia,' which
means fire.
"He wanted a fire in his room all
the time. That man worked all night
and slept late in the daytime. He read
read, wrote, wrote. After dinner he
talked for hours to Nine. Hanska, who
became his wife, and her daughter,
Countess Mniszech.
"Of course we Were astonished ito
see great lady like Nine. Hanska so
attentive to mere writer. People who
write books are common people, after
all, aren't they? But for long time
we thought he was a great nobleman
of France. Then we heard That there
was to be a marriage. and we under
stood. For it is permissible to a great
lady to be capricious. is it not?
"Oh, his trade wasn't in his favor. 1t
was the trade of lazy, useless man,
of course. But he was well bred
When visitors came to the palace he
knew how to behave. He was queer,
as most foreigners are. He didn't like
cabbage soup. He drank bouillon.
Think of it! Bouillon! And he never
drank whisky. I hear that they are
raising statues to him in France Com
ical, those Frenchmen are! He was
good, amiable man. But statues to
him-eXcuse me if / laughr'-New
York Journal
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06
Impressions of New York.

Washington man got into an up
town 9th avenue Il" train at Park
Place the other afternoon, says a New
York correspondent of the Washington
Post. He sat down in one of the fore
and-aft seats, and then his eve caught
that of another Washington man an
acquaintance, who had boarded the
train bit farther down. AS station
after station was reached the car be-
gan to fill up, for it was around six
o'clock in the evening, when most of
the men and women in this town
knock off work.
Finally all the seats were taken. and
at the next station a number of weary
looking shop girls struggled aboard
and hung on to straps OF course none
of the New York men in the car of
fered to give up their seats TO the wo-
men. The New York man never dreams
of doing such think Under any cir
cumStances. But the two Washington
men eyed each other narrowly. En-
vironment is a great thing. and it could
be seen that the WaShingtonians were
making u fight with themselves. For
a moment or so neither offered to give
up his seat. nor did the standing wo-
men look as IL they expected any such
thing. Then they caught each Others
eye at Just the same second. both grin
ned sheepishly. and both of them got
up and passed over their seats to two
exceedingly surprised young women.
1t seemed a pretty problem TO the
writer whether either of these men
would have given up his seat had he
not felt that he was under the eye of
the other. The New York men. swim
ishly spread out on the seats. sized UP
the two washingtonians with sneer-
ing faces. as if to manifest their belief
that the pair from the capital city were
simply playing for effect.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06
Is Everybody at Work

There are honest republicans, mis-
guided but honest. OF such we will ask
question, and if they answer it so as
to satisfy their own sense of truth and
honesty, that is all we desire 1t is not
hard question, on the contrary, every
one of them can answer it easily 1t is
this:
You know, of course, that the news
papers of your party have been telling
you for the past two years that every
laborer and mechanic is employed at
good wages, and that your party lead
ers have brought about this unhappy
condition, and you, if you have been
fortunate enough to have work your
self have perhaps believed this Now a
few days ago there was strike in Chi
cago of the carpenters and bricklayers
to the number of 81 900 were at work,
or in other words, went on strike
Inside Of tloo days their places were all
filled by men who were willing to work
for the offered wages. just think this
over aud see if you can guess what this
81, 900 men who were ready to take the
jobs of the men who went on the strike
had been doing before the strike. We're
they also<sployed, and did they hasten
to throw up their jobs in order to take
the jobs OF these strikers Or had they
been out of work aud praying God for
a chance to earn bread for their FAM
Ines What do you think about it ?
DO you believe your papers have been
telling you lies
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06
Clock That Goes a Year.

A clock that is the nearest thing to
perpetual motion yet discovered is the
invention of Peter NJ. Ravenskilde, of
Cabery, Ill. The clock is an accurate
timekeeper, and will run for a year
without attention. 1t was started go
ing Aug. 26, 1898 and has not been
caught in a mistake yet.
The clock proper is run with a
wheel 60 inches in circumference.
From the outer surface of the circum-
ference are suspended 12G cups, each
ene-half inch in diameter and a third
of an inch deep. Each of 40 of these
cups, which are successive, contain
steel balls three-eighths of an inch in
diameter. Every minute and half
as this wheel turns by the weight of
these balls, one of them falls out of its
cup, rolls down an inclined plane 20
inches long, when by its own weight,
1t reunites a broken circuit of electric
ity and is again elevated by a little
car travelling along a sleeper inclined
plane to the top of the wheel, where
it falls into cup which stands verti-
cal for a short time. After the car
discharges its cargo it returns to it's
original station from its own weight
From the time one of these balls is
dropped into a cup until it is again
dropped into another cup it travels SO
inches. Thus the work done by all
the balls is equivalent to one ball
travelling over a mile a day; 400 miles
in one year, and during a lifetime of
a person living three-score years the
distance around the globe.
The electricity used is generated in
an ordinary storage battery, which
does not require any attention for full
ly a year-Washington Post
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06

Justice is swift in China, and if the
robbers can be caught who have ter
rorized people in the vicinity of Can
ton, they will be given short shrift.
Although the Chinaman is usually of
a peacable disposition, there exist
many bands of roughs who terrorize
natives who are of a more pacific or
industrious nature. The police are Sc
we're with them when caught. When
not killed on the spot the criminal is
put in a cage and confined for some
days awaiting his trial. In two or
three days the trial takes place, when
it is decided whether the criminal IS
to die by kneeling on chains, the thumb
screw, by being sliced into pieces. or
by any of the other numberless forms
of punishment devised by the ingeni-
Gus Celestials. There is slight chance
of acquittal in a Chinese court. The
judges are there TO convict
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06
Marvellous Escapes.

A negro in Alabama had a quarrel
with a white man who in the end
pounded him numerically with a
club. To get even on the score and set
one notch over for good measure, the
negro soon afterwards burned the
white mans home whereupon all the
neighborhood of whites rose as one
person and went cunning for Buck,
the fire-bug, and in lonely wood shot
him, so that he lay spread out as fiat,
limp, and as full Of holes as a fishnet.
There they left him. A month later
another house was burned. The clIl-
prit was tracked from the embers to a
distant cabin, where he was captured.
Everybody's eyes grew large of a sud
den and stared wildly; everybody's
under jaw sagged like a FOOLS; for it
was Buck they had in hand He was
yet sore enough Of his many wounds,
but vigorous and lively.
When confronted by his accusers,
the leader of whom was his old enc
my, Buck confessed and begged for
mercy. His plea did not find favor in
the mob's mind; it was thought safer
to hang him and add few more bull
let holes to the many already troubl-
ing him, which was forthwith done.
During the process of hauling him on
high there was merry fusillade, and
just as he reached the extreme alti-
tude, with the pistol balls raising a
great dust out of his baggy garments,
one missile hit the. rope at his neck,
and snip! down he came.
His sudden descent took the crowd
by surprise; but the further fact that
he "struck the ground a-runnin'," as
the man who told me expressed it,
actually dazed them. In. short, Buck
escaped by plunging into dense wood
and could not be found again, al
though the search lasted for nearly a
week, night and day. Five years la
ter man who knew Buck we'll drop
ped into a hardware store in Nashville,
Tenn, and while transacting some
business CHANGED to catch a familiar
ray from the grinning face of the firms
black porter 1t was Buck, and the
observer held his peace, preferring not
to renew the old acquaintance just
then.-Lippincott's
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06

THE Central Wisconsin, Judging from
its editorial page last week, is not very
much in love with the powers that be,
in the United States, whose sympathies
are with Great Britain in her war
against the South African republics
Bob'S heart is in the right place, and
besides, he was soldier in our civil
war and knows, as all soldiers of the
civil war know, that the material aid
aud encouragement then given by
Great Britain to the slave holding oil
garchy then established here under the
name of Confederate States, prolonged
that unhappy war for years and more
than doubled its cost in treasure and
human life That experience gave the
soldiers of the civil war a proof they
can never forget of the real feeling of
Great Britain toward the United States,
and of the inSincerity and Selfishness of
her words and deeds during our recent
little war with Spain when we did not
need either sympathy or help from
anyone.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06
The PRINCE SaInted Him.

The present emperor of Germany
made a long stay at the Ilfracombe
hotel in North Devon 20 years ago. He
was anything but popular, for al
though he was then quite a youth, he
maintained an attitude of extremes
hauteur toward every one with whom
he came in contact. Only one person
ever succeeded in penetrating his frig-
i'll reserve. and that was the attendant
at the Tunnel swimming bath,
where the prince went for his morn
ing swim. The famous bath at the IL
fracombe hotel was not built at that
time This attendant was a typical
Devonian-shrewd, CHEEKY, indepen-
dent, and every day, when the prince
came to the bath, be, oblivious of roy
al etiquette, babe him a hearty "Good
mornin'." receiving nothing but a
chilling stare by way of reply. Moth
ing daunted, on the third morning the
man supplemented his greeting with
the remark, 1T be the custom in this
country for folks to answer when
body says Good marnin' to I'M The
prince stared for moment at the au-
dacious native laughed good-humored-
". and promptly saluted him, and from
that time the morning greeting was
never passed unacknow edged.-Lon-
don Sketch.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06


IT WAS en- agreeable correction, the
news dispatches made after we
went to press last week, in saying that
it was Kitchner, 1.-THE butcher of Om-
durman," who refused the Beers per-
mission to bury their dead, request
which had often been made by the
British during the war, and as often
granted by their enemies. The first
dispatches charged this piece of bar
barism upon Gen. Roberts. Kitchner
is the man who trained Maxim
guns upon a camp of Arab women ana
children at Omdurman, and pursued
them for miles killing about ten thous-
and, after which he sent home dis
patch to the effect that he had killed
ten thousand Arabs in q battle. The
only other instance that we remember
in history, where general, after de-
feating his enemy, turned his troops
against the women and children, oc-
ours in Caesars Commentaries, but
Caesar was brutal and honest enough
to tell that he slew the women and chill
dren, while Kitchner was cruel and
cowardly enough to conceal it, so that
it did not become generally known
until an English newspaper cores
pondent, who was an eye witness of
the massacre, found British maya
zine to publish his description of it.
We are glad to know that Roberts is a
different man, and We hope that even
the English army, which has never
been noted for humanity, does not
contain another such a fend as
Kitchner.-Central Wisconsin.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06
Their Excuses.

Look, for moment. at the two
reasons oftenest given for voting
against free trade between the United
States and Porto Rico
l. The adoption of this tariff bill was
necessary in order to show that when
passing laws which apply to Porto Rico,
congress is not bound by the constitut-
ion of the United States Precisely the
same argument might be used to defend
a measure authorizing the requirement
of excessive bail in Porto Rico, the i'm
position of excessive fines, the infiiction
of cruel or unusual punishments; to de-
fend a measure denying to Porto Ricans
the right to trial by jury, taking their
public property for public use without
just compensation, ablidging their free
dom of speech, granting some of them
titles of nobility, allowing them to ac-
cept emoluments from the king of
Spain, imposing upon them such di-
rect tax as would not be Sin proportion
to the census or enumeration" directed
by the constitution to be taken.
2. Porto Rico needed revenue, which
could not be raised in any other way
To believe this is to believe that some
thing impossible was proposed by the
president, the secretary of war and the
governor general, all of whom have re-
commended free trade Which are we
asked to believe, that the president, the
secretary of war and the governor gen
eral were too stupid to see that they
were recommending an impossibility
or too Indifferent to care whether what
they recommended were impossible or
not? The Porto Ricans themselves,
judged by their Representatives in Wash
ington, ardently desired free trade with
this country and were quite willing to
have the additional necessary revenue
raised by internal revenue taxes differ
ent from those imposed in the United
States, or else by some form of general
property tax. The president, the sec
rotary of war and the governor general
either had some such alternative in
mind or else were In favor of giving
Porto Rico part of the revenues of this
country. They did not make their
recommendation in ignorance.
The house of representatives has
made a grave mistake The bill is un-
just. 1t is certain to make the Porto
Ricans distrustful. If the senate does
what the house has done the Republican
party will be in position difficult to
defend. Honor, common-sense, policy
all are disregarded in this discrimi-
mating tax upon Porto Rico Milwau-
kee Sentinel
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06
GEN. OTIS AS AN EDITOR.
"what . Great Desk Editor Was Lost in
This Same General"


$50 you're a correspondent, are
your said General Otis, combing
his flowing whiskers with one hand
and cycling the sunburned young man
before him.
Yes, general"
And you wish to send this dispatch
about our glorious victory"
The young man merely bowed. In
the presence Of the great 1t is well to
be meek
The car of the Philippines took up
the dispatch and his whiskers took up
a curl of disdain.
"A squad of our soldiers captured
two insurgents just outside the city.
The prisoners say Aguinaldo's men
have every confidence in his ability 10
whip the Americans or hold them i'll
check as he did the Spaniards, and
that there is no truth in the rumors
that his men are deserving him in large
numbers. The proclamation of Gen
eral Otis offerings $50 to every insurg-
ent who gives up his rifle, they declar
ed, has had no effect on the natives.
They are not anxious to give up their
arms even on these terms. If General
Otis pursues his present policy there
is little hope that the war will be end
ed inside of two years"
Nothing was heard but the cracking
of the generals whiskers as they
curled tighter
"Orderly!" he finally called when he
had recovered his voice, ''bring me my
biggest blue pencil. I'll teach 'em to
round robin me-
The correspondent left him at work.
Later this cable was sent:
"A small squad of our soldiers cap
tured 200 insurgents. Prisoners say
Aguinaldo's men have no confidence in
his ability to whip the Americans, or
even to hold them in check, as he did
the Spaniards. His men are DESERVING
him in large numbers. The proclama-
ton of Gen. Otis offering $50 to every
insurgent who gives up his rifle, they
declared, has had its effect. They are
anxious to give up their arms without
these terms. If. Gen. Otis pursues his
present policy there is every hope that
the war will be ended inside of two
months"
"Ahp' said the correspondent, who
stood in with the operator, what a
great desk editor was lost in this same
Gen. Otis.-Boston Traveller.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06

WELL, gentlemen of the imperialist
type of republicans--you who think At
kinson and Pettigrew of the anti-im-
perialist type of republicans ought to
be ostracised because their remarks
were published by the Philippines, to
encourage their soldiers to continue
the war, what are you going to do
to Senator Beveridge, the young man
from Indiana whose, speech in the Sen
ate, stating with brutal honesty the
purposes of the administration, has also
been published and circulated among
the Philippines, rs evidence that our
officers there are not honest in promis-
ing them liberty, and to show them that
their only chance to obtain liberty is to
fight for it. The laugh is on you fell
lows now, isn't it