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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-10-10
Telephone Service IN Paris.

OF course. they are a beuighted set in
Paris but when il comes 20 telephone
convonienccs they ara tribe in advance
Of US, For instance. everyone who is a
subscriber there is furnished with a tick
ct which entities him 10 use any public
telephone at any hour Of the day or night
for ms long time az it suits his pur-
pose. Every instrument is attached to
a desk, has metal circuit and is pro-
vided with a most convenient receiver
and transmitter combined which enables
the user To sit in whatever position he
prefers and TO be free to write when
necessary international Magazine
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-10-10
Free Masonry in the Middle Ages.

The Free MaSons were one Of he in.
Vulnerable trade guilds Of the middle
ages each Of which had ifs oaths. it's
passwords and its mystery or symbolic
drama. hearing on the theory and prnc-
tice Of the craft. The builders held the
place Of honor among those guilds. he
cause their work was the npblrst The
namclrss architects Of those majestic ca
thedral4 which shine ont like Jewels on
the dark side Of medieval anarchy and
ignorance were Master Masons who mad
gone through precisely The same ordeal
that every English Free Mason goes
through today London Express.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-10-10

absolutely the creature Of hi, Emperor
by odict he may be- DEGRADED 10 the ranl,
of coolc, or brought before the board
of punishments. In practice every vice
roy has his parry az ,our5, MS frcnd-.
who. like the undertakes OF the Eight
centh century, take hi. pay to defend his
interests. In the palace, too. the imperial
policy has ever been to play of magnatc
against magnatp and never - allow any
one official TO become 700 strong The
advantages Of a balance Of power are
well understood in the Forbidden city
I.nnlnn TnIl graph
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-10-10

Cities ought to have the same right
and power "a The individual or corpora
ton 10 employ the best help obtainllln
for he price paid. and should b. enabled
10 recognize and uufiizc 10 the utmost
special ability IN the public service. and
should have full power to compel an
hrrr,t and conscientious days work fer
a liberal days wage. So long as the
cities pay better wages than private en-
ploypr- they ought 10 receive as good
service, and should have the power to
compel that service and TO remove the
sh rk the laggard and the Incompetent
Saturday Evening Post
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-10-10

Within a short time two children u
indianapolis. the press of that city an
nouncts, have had to undergo surgical
operations for the removal from their
threats OF tiny metal dogs that are sold
with pieces Of candy. They are some
what in the fashion of tobacco tags. ard
children who buy the candy put them in
their mouths.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-10-10

Country Seat of TaIIeyrand.
/ he Chateau De R0checotte has an ad-
4uonal interest as the country seat of
We famous Talleyrand. who was the un-
,e Of the marquis and consequently
SFand-uncle OF Count Boni Tallcyrand
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-10-10
Gould Heirs Not spendthrifts.

New York, Nov. 1.-While the count
and countess are getting rid by lavish
expenditure of every dollar the estate
furnished them the other members of the
family in this country are constantly
adding to the inherited principal. The
following table shows the money status
of the different members of the Gould
family:
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-10-10
Specimens of Extrava gancc.

Inc rumOr winch was circulated I'm Ibis
gty at the beginning of the year that
me count had lost heavily on the hourse
h's never been verified. despite the asser-
mons contained in the Figaro. But it did
not require stock gambling in MS case
20 cat up the Gould millions. Here are
some Of the recent eXtravagances of the
EoUng Castellanes previous 10 that of the
Tardrohes:
Mansion, u, IT, r,,t.. L. r,.,.,... o. no., ono
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-31
Raleigh, NJ c., July 81, 1900.

Get a smith to rivet, not weld, these
together, so that two bands will go
around the silo. Rivet to the ends
of these bands short pieces of iron
one half inch thick by two inches
wide. Turn up three inches of this
thick iron and punch three-quarter
inch holes in the turned-up portion.
For each band procure two bolts a
foot long and three-quarter inch
diameter. Have threads cut on bolts
nearly the entire length, and place
these bolts through the holes in up
turned ends put on nuts, and tighten
the silo. These are stronger, cheaper,
and easier to work than the round
bands and considered a great i'm
provement over the latter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-31
CATTLE SCARCE IN GEORGIA, TOO.

The scarcity of cattle in Georgia,
and especially in this section of Geor-
gia, would indicate that this indus
try would also be profitable. Beef
cattle have not been scarcer than
they are at present for many years.
Thousands and thousands have been
shipped to the West during the, past
two years, and market men in this
section cannot get home raised beef
enough to supply the demand. There
is no reason why the people of Geor-
gia should not raise all the beef cat
tie that may be wanted, and besides
have large numbers to ship to other
sections at a good profit. Besides
horses and cattle, it would be a
profitable business for Georgians to
engage in hog, sheep and goat rails
ing also. There is good profit in all
these properly managed, and the en-
terprising, energetic, wide-awake
farmer will find it so if he will try it.
Columbus Enquirer Sun.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-31
EXPERIENCE WITH CORN.

I will try to give you my expe-
rience with corn fodder. In 1892 1
cut up forty shocks, fed some and
wasted more of it, with not much
satisfaction. In 1898 l cut one hun
dred shocks and had about the same
experience. In 1894 [ cut ten acres,
got me a feed cutter and cut it all
up, fed it in the barn and was well
pleased with results. In 1895 put
up a small silo and cut up about ten
acres, besides, and have increased
my acreage of stock corn as my stock
has increased until l now use my en-
tire crop for ensilage and fodder.
Now, let me say right here that L
think one acre in the silO is worth
one and One-half or two acres in the
shock and it don't take the work to
put it in the silo that it does to care
for it dry.-C M. Stewart.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-31
AN INEXPENSIVE sILO.

The silo has become a necessary
adjunct to a large proportion of
farms, especially dairy farms. Vari-
Gus styles of silo are constructed,
but very simple stave silo within
the means of almost anyone is de-
scribed by the Virginia Experiment
Farm. A circle Is feet in diameter
is marked on the ground and covered
with short pieces of plank. Four
pieces of plank Is feet long, 6 inches
wide, and two inches thick are then
set on end on the circle at equal in
tervals. These are held in an up
right position by braces in various
directions. An iron band is placed
about one foot from the bottom of
the silo and held in position by nails
driven into the plank and bent up
and over the band. A second bband
is placed about one foot from the
top. The rest of the slaves are then
set in place, nail being driven into
each to support the bands. The lat
ter are then frightened somewhat
and three more put on, the distance
between the bands being about four
feet. Instead IF hoops of round
iron ordinarily used, bands made as
follows are recommended Procure
(as can usually be dOne) partially
worn tire iron from heavy wagons.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-31

Topping Cotton. Building silos and Other
Farm Matters,


Farm Matters
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
I write to inform you that there
are many South Carolina farmers
who, appreciate The Progressive
Farmer and who are glad to see such
farm weekly building up in the
South.
The cotton crop will not be more
than three-fourths of a good crop
here. Corn is better than last year.
Inotice some of your readers are ask
ing whether it pays to top cotton.
My experience leaves me in doubt as
to it's advisability. When cotton
has nearly done it's work, when the
last crop of bolls it can grow which
will mature before frost are started,
topping may do good by checking
growth and throwing the energy of
the plant into this crop of bolls. But
if wet weather. sets in just after top
ping, and new growth begins, as is
apt to be the case, the labor of top
ping is lost. In any case it is useless
to top cotton early in the season,
hope your readers will build silos
this year. They cannot use their
time to better advantage. The fol
lowing from the July Southern
Planter contains some good advice a:
IF you have no silo, it is time to
make preparation and build one, if
intended to be used this year. A
silo is the most useful building on a
stock farm, and no stock farm is
complete without one. It is the
most economical barn a man can
build. We have repeatedly published
directions for building a silo, and
would advise any one contemplating
the erection of one to send for Bulle-
tin No. 83, recently issued by the
Wisconsin Experiment Station, which
contains the most recent infOrma-
tion on the subject. The great point
to be aimed at is to build so that the
structure is air tight, or as nearly so
as possible, and that the depth shall
be not less than 30 feet, but as much
more as practicable. There are four
important reasons in the storing of
silage for making the silo as deep as
practicable: CD The largest amount
of feed per cubic foot can be stored
in this way; (2) There is less loss at
the surface during slow feeding, and
because the silage packs more closely,
there is less danger of the entry of
air; (3) The spoiled silage at the top
is less in PROPORTION to the whole
silage stored; (4) The stronger lat
eral pressure forces the silage so
closely against the walls that, if they
are at all open, it tends to exclude
the air and the silage keeps better.
The best form of silo is a round one,
and this may be either built up of
slaves like tank, or be framed like
building"
Our South Carolina State Fair is
to be held at Columbia, October goth
to November I'd. hope many of
your Tar Heel farmers will come and
see what kind of farmers and what
kind of State we have. R. A. S.
Chester Co., S. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-31
THINGS IN WHICH WE EXCEL.

We quote the following paragraphs
from President g. T. Winston's ad-
dress to the N. G. Bankers Conven-
tion to which we have already re-
ferred:'
There is a portion of our State
which is independent of the agricul-
tural conditions named above as pre-
vailing elsewhere. Nature has
placed Eastern North Carolina at a
point in the trucking zone where, if
it keeps pace with other trucking
regions in industrial education, in
industrial knowledge and in the en-
ployment of industrial machinery, it
must command absolutely, for a GER
tain portion Of each year, the truck
ing markets of the United States.
This is a fact in nature which can
not easily be overcome, and our
Eastern truckers are beginning to
understand it's significance. But
only a beginning has been made
The growth of large cities and towns
in our State, and the multiplication
of transportation facilities must in
the near future tax to the utmost
the truck producing capacity of
Eastern Carolina, and convert into
rich garden vast areas now devoted
to the unremuneratiEe production of
corn and tobacco.
Other sections of our State are
peculiarly adapted to the production
of fruits But a beginning has
scarcely been made in this direction.
With growth of population, increase
of transportation facilities and bet
ter knowledge of fruit growing and
fruit marketing derived from expe-
rience and from industrial education,
no one can doubt that fruit growing
will become one of our largest and
most productive industries.
The possibilities of stock raising
as a source of wealth in North Caro-
lima are exceedingly large. In the
process of raising beef and fattening
it for the markets, as practiced in
the West and Southwest, there are
three steps.
1. Herds of cattle turned out to
pasture without food, water or shell
ter, except what nature supplies,
struggle through the winter, as best
they may. Probably a dozen times
each winter one-half the cattle in
these pastures are within 48 hours of
death from cold, hunger or thirst.
When the winter is over, and the
calves are big enough to Craze, every
thing that can stand on four legs
and be pushed into a cattle car is
brought up and shipped to be fat
tened elsewhere. 2. Then begins
the next stage: In an enclosure con
tanning from 500 to 10000 cattle, an
unlimited supply of cotton seed meal,
hul1s and water is furnished, until
the cattle have hidden their bones
and taken on as much flesh as can
be had from such food, when they
are again sold and shipped to cattle
dealers in the cities for final fatten-
ing. 3. The third stage is one of
fattening with grain, which con-
tinues until the beef is ready for the
butcher.
There is no reason why the first
two steps in beef making should not
be taken in North Carolina. Vast
areas of land in the east are admir-
ably suited to this purpose, and our
mountain section furnishes pastures
in many respects superior to those of
Texas -
If you wish more than one paper
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-31
Live Stock.
FEEDING THE SHEEP.

Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Sheep are naturally heavy feeders,
and a healthy animal will consume
more feed to<the hundred pounds of
live weight than steers, if both are
fed to their full capacity, but at the
same time the sheep will gain far
more in weight in a given time. A
sheep that will eat forty or fifty per
cent. more feed than a steer will gain
from sixty to seventy-fve per cent.
more in weight. Consequently we
do not begrudge the sheep their
good appetites and their remarkable
capacity for storing away food. In
deed, at this ratio we would be will
ing for the sheep to increase it's ap-
petite if the gain was proportionate-
ly increased. There is no animal on
the farm that shows the results of
poor or slack feeding more than the
sheep. You will notice it both in
the fleece and in the conformation of
the body. The loss is thus twofold.
| The fleece becomes poorer in quality
and less in quantity, and the body of
the animal becomes thin and lank.
The actual thinness of a sheep some
times is not very noticeable until
sheared, because of the heavy layers
of wool that seems to bulge out the
sides. The condition of the animal
can be determined, however, if the
hand is run over the sides, fanks
and back.
Sheep have to hustle more or less
in summer and fall pastures and it
is a good thing that they do. Sheep
that have everything their own way
are much like chickens that are
never exercised. They become weak,
lazy and fat, but not altogether
healthy. A little exposure might
cause their death. We do not want
sheep on the farms that cannot hustle
a little and hunt out food when the
feed on the farm is low Neverthe-
less, we cannot afford to let our sup
| ply of feed run too low summer or
winter. It is slack management that
fails to provide ahead of time for
every season of the year, and many
farmer has been forced to sell a
good many of his sheep in the fall or
winter simply because he has not
saved sufficient food to winter them.
When food is scarce and high priced
and sheep are low it is a heavy loss
to either winter the sheep or to sell
them for nominal sum. There is
rarely any good reason why a man
should find himself in such guam
dairy.
It takes but little calculation to
figure out how much food is required
for given number of sheep for a
winter or summer. Sometimes the
mistake is made Of trying to carry a
heavier line of stock than the condi-
tions justify, and then the feed dis
appears so rapidly that before one
realizes it there is not enough for
half the flock It is better to sell the
sheep now, and raise just enough to
consume all the food that can be pre-
pared and stored for winter use,
than to let the flocks go ahead, trust
ing that later you may be able to
dispose of them to advantage, and
thereby run the risk of falling short
of provisions for the number that
could otherwise be easily and salts
factorily carried along.
E. P. SMITH.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-31
Agriculture.
swEETENING THE LAND.
A Correspondent Makes Some Suggestions as
to the Use and Misuse of Lime.

A Correspondent Makes Some Suggestions as
to the Use and Misuse of Lime.
correspondence of The Progressive Farmer
The use of lime as a soil sweetener
should be far more general than is
the case, especially in some localities
where the composition of the soil is
naturally such as to create a sour
tendency. The attempt to make
lime appear as fertilizer had bad
effect on its use, and many today re-
fuse to use it at all. There are many
cases where direct injury to the soil
is being done through refraining
from dressing the land with this soil
sweetener occasionally. Lime is not
a fertilizer in any sense of the word,
and the farmer who applies it for
that purpose will be disappointed.
That is, he will be disappointed un-
less his soil happens to be full of or
ganic matter in a state of congestion
which the lime will suddenly relieve.
Many a farmer who has dressed his
land with lime has concluded from
this sort of experience that the lime
added positive manurial ingredients
to the soil. Instead of adding any
thing of actual benefit to the land, it
merely loosened the imprisoned fer
tilizing elements and gave the plants
a chance to digest and assimilate
them.
This is one of the great functions
of lime, and it should be so under
stood. I have seen farmers spread
ing their fields regularly with a
lime dressing in the belief that it
would increase the fertility, but
they did not realize that in time it
would cease to have any good effect
unless more organic material was
added to the soil also. On the other
hand a prejudice against lime is ap-
parent in localities where the land is
sour and so full of undigested organic
matter that is difficult matter for
the plants to find any thing to feed
on.
Our soils on heavy lands are very
apt to get sour, and we must spread
lime over them regularly to keep
them in the highest productive con-
ditiOn. Heavy soils are rendered
much lighter by an annual dressing
of lime, and light sandy soils are
sometimes benefited also. In the
latter case the lime binds the fine
particles more closely together and
prevents fertilizers from teaching
away so rapidly. Some soils do not
seem to be able to take much organic
matter without getting cOngested
and fermenting. Lime is the only
remedy for such lands, and it should
be applied as faithfully as the fertii-
ger or seed. A little more discretion
and intelligence in the use of lime
would make us all friends Of this soil
Sweetener.
Hoping that many farmers will
exchange experiences, views and
opinions through The Progressive
Farmer, G. S. VESSELS.
In Switzerland the price of farm
lands is frem $500 to 81, 800 an acre,
and farming pays in spite of these
high values. Switzerland has no
pauper class, no slums in the cities,
and no tramps The roads are al
most perfect, the streets are clean,
and there is little need of police or
soldiers. 1t is a country of universal
education, and the best house in any
village or town is the school house.
Effect and cause.-N. @. Journal of
Education.
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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1900-12-04
NEW LAW
Which will Reduce the Number of sa.
looms and Change the Manner of
Granting License.

1t developed yesterday. says the
Wheeling Register, that among other
important business to be brought to
the attention of the Legislature at
its coming session will be a bill
making a very radical change in the
method of granting liquor licenses
in at least the larger cities and towns
and most populops counties of the
State. Ingeneral terms the measure,
a rough draft of which is believed to
have been made, will take such Ii
censes out of the hands of board and
Commissioners, County Courts, and
city and town councils, and lodge
the power in the hands of Circuit or
Criminal Judges or both where there
are Criminal Courts, with restric.
tion as to the number of such licen.
ses which may be granted, based
upon population.
The proposed measure will thus
follow closely along the line of the
Pennsylvania law, which not only
restricts the number of saloons, but
provides for revocation of license
granted for cause and for the per
emptory refusal of an application.
The proposed new law will attract
wide attention, and this publication
of the probability of its presentation
at Charleston will be read with in
terest,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1900-12-04
Death 81 Ed.gard 3. Liz.


WINCHEsTER. VA, Nov. 25.--Air. Ed
ward Cabeil Bruce, one Of Winchesier's
foremost citizens, died at the home Of his
daughter, Mrs. Charles R Oldham, al
Moundsyille, W. Va, yesterday, afier a
brief illness. Mr. Bruce was type of a
staunch ante belIum Virginia gentleman.
He was an ardent Secessionist, and before
the war was one of the ablest writer's in
the South. For many years he was edi-
tor aud owner Of the Winchester Virgin
ian, newspaper which welded a wide
influence in Virginia. During the Civil
War he served in the Quartermaster's
Department at Richmond, Va. Since
that time he had devoted himself princi-
pally to literary work and art. He was
frequent contributor to the leading
magazines of the country and illustrated
his stories with sketches drawn by him.
self. He was an artist of exceptional
ability and his chief work was the full
length portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee,
which is now owned by NIr. Charles B.
Rouss, of New York, and which, since the
Civil War, has been on exhibition at Mr..
Rouss' Broadway store. There was a
story published some years ago in the
New York papers that this painting had
been stolen by the Federal soldiers and
exhibited through the North, where, on
account of the intense feeling against the
South, numerous attempts were made to
burn it. The fact is that Mr.. Bruce's
brother, Col Douglas Bruce, of Boyce,
Va, took the portrait to Montreal and
thence to New York, where he had it on
exhibition, and where, on several occa
sions, mobs attempted to ruin the canvas.
The Virginia Legislature made several
Intellectual attempts to purchase the por-
trait, but Mr.. Rouss finally secured it. II
is the only portrait of General Lee in ex-
istence painted from life. The artist took
atudies of General Lee in his tent at Pc.
tersburg and subsequently secured several
sittings from him in Richmond. 1t rep.
resents General Lee leaning upon the
neck of his famous warhorse Traveller,
with Confederate cannon and the
youngest of his couriers in the back
ground.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1900-12-04
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