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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18
ANTeLoPEs IN COLORADO.
The Little Animals More Numerous Than
For Many Years.

Denver may be invaded BY antelope.
There are many people now in the
city who remember when the timid
animals were accustomed to Craze
upon the plains which are now the
choicest building lots on Capitol Hill,
but they would be as much surprised
as any one should they see an ante
lope trotting through the streets to-
day. Yet, it is not impossible that
such q spectacle may be witnessed
again.
Within twenty miles of the city there
are now large droves of them. Hunt
ing parties have left Denver during
the past week to hunt the antelope
that are running in the bottoms of
Kiowa and Box Elder Creeks, and
some of them coming even nearer to
the city. They are directly east of
Denver in ArapahOe County. One
drove of eighteen was seen recently,
but the hunters could not approach
near enough to them to get shot The
animals are very timid, and in the open
country, which they inhabit, can easily
Keep OUT VI lduSc VI any Ililt.
Chief Roberts, of the Fire Depart
ment, was called in the country on
business Friday. While on n big cat
tie ranch near Box Elder Creek he
saw a herd Of twenty-three antelope.
He made no effort to shoot them, but
could not have approached near
enough to get shot had he wished
to, the chief said
THE antelope are thick in the cou1l-
try east of the city said Chief Rob
erts. Il have not seen as many near
the city for many years. In fact, |
don't think that any have been known
to come as near since the early days,
before the country was at all settled.
But no one can get a shot at these.
The nearest that l was able to APP
proach was 500 or 800 yards, and even
at that they We're startled and ran till
they We're out OF sight. The country
in which they are feeding is Il rolling
prairie, cut up by barancas in which
the antelope hide"
The antelope have been protected by
ranchmen in the country for a number
of years until the herds have in
creased and are almost overrunning
the Tanches.-Denyer Republican.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18
WISE WORDS.


1t is good to love the UNKNOWN
Lamb.
Life has no path so short as to re-
noWn-BuiWer Lytton.
Our country is the world; our coun-
trymen are mankipd.-GarrisCn
Next to the originator Of a coed SEN
tence is the first quoter OF it.-Emer-
son.
Man is the spirit he worked in: not
what he did. but what he became
Carlyle.
Life is not so short but there is al
ways time enough for courtesy.-Em-
erson.
Tho Greatness of those +binns which
follow death makes all thar roes he.
fore it sink into notbinq-WilIiam
law
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eJ',''I y, 'l-e,',si er'~ 49,, '
8 Earl Tov1or
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'eii-i 'iN10 ST. "77i0 ''4 me-
TO be ambitious OF true honor OF the
true glory and perfection OF our ma
lures, is the very prlhclple ana lncen-
tive of virtue.-Sir Philip Sidney.
Honesty is not n divisible quality.
You are either honest or YOU are not;
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18
Child Life in France.

A very interesting provision is
made in the French educational sys-
TEN for encouraging the children in
the habit of saving. The teachers are
empowered to receive any sums from
one sou upwards which the scholars
choose to place on deposit, and these
are collected monthly by agents of the
savings banks. Every depositor re
ceives a handbook, only the child with
savings under one franc gets a small
handbook, while the child with above
that amount has large one. Dur
ing the last seventeen years the boys
and girls have opened more than half
a million accounts III the savings
banks.-Harper' Bazaar.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18
Preserving the Grape Crop.

To those living near large cities the
ease with which grapes may be pro-
cured and the small cost make it
seem almost not worth the trouble
to try to secure them from vines of
their own. But every one is not so
well fixed that a step into market
house is practicable. Indeed even
where it is there is a good deal of
pleasure in eating your own fruit,
even though it has cost as much as
or more than it could be procured for.
There is no difficulty in securing a crop
of fruit in these days. Between spray
ing and bagging crop can be safely
relied on. Unless where the foliage
blights badly, bagging alone is suffi-
cient. Just as soon as Towering is
over and the embryo bunch can be
discerned slip Il common grocer's pa
Der bag over it. Fold the mouth close
about the stem, pinning the ends to-
gether to make all secure. and nothing
more is to be done until you are
ready to eat the fruit in autumn.
What is puZzling to many is that
the fruit in these bags is just as per-
feet in color as it would have been
if fully exposed to the sun and light.
Better than this it is more perfect
in this, that the fruit is possessed OF
Il beautiful bloom, nothing disturbing
it in the bags. In many States moth
ing more is required than this bag
ging, as the foliage does not suffer
either from fungi or insects to any
extent. Varieties of grapes with for
eign blood in them, such as Rogers
seedlings. are much more apt to suffer
in foliage than are those of pure ma
tive origin. and these kinds are greatly
benefited by a spraying with Bordeaux
mixture two or three times through
out the season. Those who grow
grapes in vineyards especially for
marketing purposes rely on spraying
altogether beginning the work as soon
as the Towering is over and continu-
ing until the fruit is full grown and
about to color. To many a one bag
ging will be much the easier and more
satisfactory way.-Joseph Meehan, in
Practical Farmer
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18
Weighing Hardly the Right Thing.

In reading of milk records we always
see the amount put down in pounds;
yet, while this is, no doubt, more
certain than putting it down in quarts
or gallons would be, it does not seem
as if it is sufficiently accurate.
1t is generally estimated that milk
weighs about two pounds to the quart;
but milk rich in cream. weighs less
than milk containing but little cream,
for the reason that the cream is the
lightest of all the elements in the
milk. Thus we see that the COW
giving rich milk does not get the
credit. when weighing it by the pound.
that a COW giving poor milk would
get-New York Weekly Witness.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18

A perfect smoke arrangement which
will completely cover acres of ground
if the conditions are such that the
is made by taking a cylinder made of
sheet iron two feet il diameter and
three and one-half feet high, with Il
CRATE bolted in sixteen inches from
the bottom. \ door six by eight
inches is set in four inches from the
bottom and another for convenience in
putting in dry wood when needed
eleven inches above the CRATE. \
piece of old wagon tire is neatly riv-
eted on top and bottom, which makes
a substantial rim. AS soon as the ar
rangement was ready | cut wheel
barrow load of weeds in the woods
and a little dry rubbish wood for the
CRATE, and after covering the top of
the smoker with forkful of the green
weeds, applied the match, and such
a smoke for half an hour my recollec-
tons fail TO record.
AS soon as the fire appears, pile on
more green stuff. There is so little
fire below that the weeds on top do
not waste away very rapidly. Keep
the lower door open until you wish
to have the fire 90 out. then close it
and the fire is gone in twinkling.
The cost of one smoker is too much,
but if a quantity were made, the eX-
pense might be brought within the
reach of everyone having a garden.
This one cost $40, which, perhaps, is
not excessive. considering the amount
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18
against the fence and is eaten through

ii.
Many find the annex of n feed bin
in front an easy means of distributing
feed to COWS. The ditch is made wa
terproof and sixteen inches wide, nine
inches deep next to platform and seven
inches by walk. The latter may be
made any width or depth TO suit the
builder. The distance from the ditch
to the fence facing COW depends upon
the size of the COW to occupy. The
six and one-half feet is the right length
for 1000-pound COW. with less or
more accordingly. The fencing can
be placed as far toward the COW as
her size demands, so that she may be
fenced back to her ditch, insuring per-
feet cleanliness and at the same time
have perfect and absolute freedom
with her head, not having to move
backward or forward to lie down or
rise. Arrangements for watering with
pans bolted on sides of partitions can
be readily attached-G Z. Scott, to
Ohio Dairymep's Association.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18

A friend of mine who happened to
be in Las Vegas, n. NJ, managed to
make blooming idiot of himself at
the dinner table at the hotel, in the
presence of several ladies.
He had been downtown, and in pro-
nouncing some names had been told
that all words beginning with u
were pronounced as beginning with
III" so when he had been invited to
dine with a friend and several ladies
he took the menu and in order to show
his knowledge, he ordered in tone
of thunder:
Bring me some howl and belly"
Which, of course meant jowl and
jelly.-Hal Reid in the Denver Times.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18

of these is a box with a division, one
end being fitted to receive pail,
while the other is open to receive grain
or hay. For older calves that are
hitched in stalls the same plan is use
full. In this case the box in front
could be continuous, having divisions
as shown in front of each stall, with
similar openings for the Youngsters
heads. The calves could be tied to a
stanchion behind the openings Such
a plan permits leaving a pail of wa
ter constantly before the calf, a de-
sirable feature in the care of young
quently than older animals.-NeW
York Tribune.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18
The Art of Pnnctnatinn

This book on punctuation is too
old" he commented. II see it was
published in 1871. Give me something
up-to-date."
The merchant looked askance. Sir"
he said, cynically, possibly you may
have forgotten that the art of punctu-
alton has not improved since the day
of Shakespeare, when the art of writ
ing was in its highest development Z"
The ambitious young author hung
his head and walked slowly out.-New
York Press.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18

Dom Santon, a member of the Bene-
dictine community of Liguge, who is
also a physician, having for many
years devoted himself to the study of
leprosy, travelling for this purpose in
many parts of the world, has, with
the consent of the Council of Hygiene
and the approval of the French Gov
eminent, purchased property in the
Vosges, and proposes to establish an
asylum for lepers, to be called the ST.
Martin Sanatorium. 1t is estimated
that there are about 400 lepers in
France, 100 of whom are i'll Paris.
Among them are many missionaries
and nurses, who have fallen victims
to their devoted care of sufferers in
other countries, and also a number
of officials and soldiers, who have con-
tracted the disease in tn colonies.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18
Artificial Cyclone Box.

; A Kansas City inventor proposes an
artificial cyclone machine for extract
ing the feathers from chickens in large
packing houses. His scheme is to
place the fowl to be defeathered in a
receptacle into which are turned sew
eral cross currents of air, from cleo
trio fans revolving at exceedingly high
speeds. 1t is claimed this machine
will strip a bird of it's feathers in a
few seconds.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18
Prnner Selection of Foods.

Foods vary so greatly as to render
it difficult for a farmer to select with
a knowledge Of the kinds which should
be used. Only certain proportions of
all foods are digestible but the indi-
gestible portions are valuable in the
manure heap. Bran at So per ton
is worth the price, even if applied to
the crops direct, but when used as
food it assists to balance the ration by
supplying the mineral matter, thus
promoting growth Of the animal while
adding greatly to the value of the
manure
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18
Lesson From the Weeds.

The farmer who has been very near
sent into bankruptcy by being unable
to get the best of weeds on his place,
has found out that he would have
been better off with less ground to
keep clean and it will be a long while
before he will make the same mistake
again. 1t costs some farmers a good
deal of time and money to find out
that intensive farming is the real
thing.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18
A Tall Telegraph Pose.

One of the biggest telegraph poles
in existence has just been set up at
llfracombe, a watering place at the
Devon coast, in England. 1t is made
of steel; is over 11G feet high, seven
teen inches in diameter at the base,
set six feet in the solid rock and
weighs two tons, 1t is TO be used in
wireless telegraph experiments across
the British Channel, distance of
about twenty-five miles, the opposite
station being at the Mumbles Head
land. on the Welsh coast.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18

It is noticed that pigs fatten very
quickly on sweet potatoes, due to the
large amount of sugar in the food,
and sweet potato growers utilize the
small potatoes for that purpose. The
beet also contains a large proportion
of sugar, and should be grown for
swine. as they are relished at all sea-
sons, both cooked and raw.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18

Where calves are confined in pens
the plan shown in the cut for feeding
and watering will be found conven-
lent Two slirS are cut in the side
of the pen, each just wide enough
to admit the calf's head. In front
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18
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FARM and GARDEN. !
iHl~~EREEERESE


If a field contains Canada thistles
cut them down and then turn a flock
of sheep into the field. The sheep will
eat the young shoots as fast as they
appear, which will cause the thistles
to die. If little salt is sprinkled on
the thstles the sheep viii soon learn
to prefer them to other foods.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18

of good it can accomplish. a local
tinsmith and blacksmith did the work.
In spring when green stuff is not
available. green pine chips, pine fol-
iage and the like can be used for
smoke material-A. \. Southwick, in
New England Homestead.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-10-18

Most spiders are possessed Of poison
fangs, but very few are dangerous to
human beings.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-15

Of such inventions, it is probably i'm
practical. 1t is a system of receiving
and delivering for use in towns in con-
junction with horse and wagon collec-
tions, and is designed to enable the
postman to make his rounds, accom-
plished by attaching the mail boxes
tc their supports with yielding fas
tening of some kind, such as a chain
and weight. The box is shown in the
illustration, attached to post by
means of chains, and is provided with
counter weight, and handle for
greater convenience. The postman, il
is supposed, drives up, reaches out his
hand, grasps the handle and lifts the
mail box into the wagon, where its
contents are removed. 1t is then
locked and gently lowered into its
original position on the post.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-15

tain and there went to work. There
were stonemasu MS and builders among
them, and every man did his best to
help. The foundation had been laid
previously, but on that one day the en-.
tire superstructure of the monumnt
was built. 1t was "a feet in circuIn.
ference at the base and IS feet high,
composed of wall made up of large
stones, the interior being filed with
the same material. In the center q
stairway led up to the top of the pile.
Twelve feet from the base, on the side
fronting Boonsboro, a white marble
tablet was inserted bearing fitting
inscription. Many soldiers who fought
in the revolutionary war took part in
the erection of the monument, and
the Grafton was delivered by clergy
man who had served as chaplain in the
continental armies.
In 1872 nothing was left of the orig.
inal monument but the foundation and
few crumbling fragments. At that
time movement was started to re.
store the monument, and in 1883 il
was rededicated, having been raised
to height of so feet and surrounded
by an iron framework and balcony.
The site of the monument is SO ex.
posed, however, that even the restored
structure has fallen prey to the ele.
ments, so that now it is again in
condition of ruin. Historical investi.
cation has shown that this was the
first mOnument ever raised in honor
of the Father of His Country, and
movement is again on foot to restore
it to it's original condition.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-15

it. 1t was simple enough to ascertain
who was the head of the family, but it
was not so easy to identify the family,
for marital relations had been assumed
and abandoned at will. The most ex-
pert genealogist would have had diff
Guilty in fixing up the family tree of any
Guamite, so extraordinary were it's
ramifications. Capt. Leary solved the
problem by cutting the knot. He issued
a peremptory order that every adult
male must pick out one woman, take
out license, marry her on a given day,
love, honor and protect, if not obey her,
and settle down to housekeeping. The
Guamites made no objection even to
this extraordinary proposition. On the
day appointed every mothers son of
them appeared with the woman he had
selected and was legally married to her
and concubinage was at an end in
Guam.
To crown his reforms Capt. Leary
on New Years day issued his decree
that slavery was abolished in Guam.
The islanders offered no opposition.
They are now launched on the full tide
of civilization and they are making
such satisfactory progress on their new
lines that it may be confidently antici-
pated by the time the last year of the
century closes Guam will be the most
advanced of all our new possessions.
At the pace Capt. Leary is going the
first day of the twentieth century may
dawn upon an island with all the es-
sentials and some of the luxures of
modern civilization. 1t may not be too
much to assume that on January l,
1901, Guam will have its primaries and
conventions, its policemen and firemen,
its mayors and aldermen, its corpora
tions and tax dodgers, its newspapers,
football teams and automobiles, and
that the one-year-old brides will be en-
rolled in women's clubs, studying the
question whether Kipling is a second
or first class writer and working for
dear life to solve the meaning of Brown
ing. As compared with Cuba, Puerto
Rico and the Philippines, Guam has
fairly plunged head foremost into civil
ization.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-15
EIGHTY YEARS OLD.
Miss Susan B. Anthony Has Reached
the Four Score Mark.
DufYrsgists VIII Observe February
15, 1900, Ms n Day on which to Pay
Tribute to Their Distinguished
Leaders Work.

The National American Woman Suf.
frage association will celebrate the
eightieth birthday of their great lead
er, Susan B. Anthony, in n manner
befitting her grand work for human.
ity. A committee appointed for this
purpose is making preparations for a
public meeting in honor of the event
which will take place on February IS,
In Lafayette opera house, Washington,
d. C.
In the evening of the same day there
will be a card reception for Miss An
thony, at which she will receive with
members of the birthday committee.
The occasion will be one of interest in
many ways. Those having the ar
rangements in charge are:
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, chair
man; Rachel Foster Avery, secretary;
Harriet Taylor Upton, Ohio; May
Wright Sewall, Indiana; Mary B. Clay,
Kentucky; Emily NJ. Gross, Illinois;
Mrs. Senator Burrows, Michigan; Mrs.
Senator Warren, Wyoming; Lucy F..
Anthony, Pennsylvania, and Harriet
Stanton Blatch, of England.
Prominent women representing all
phases of woman's work and expert
ence will present to Miss Anthony
their greetings, and express their
sense of recognition of what her la
tors have meant to their respective
efforts. There is not woman to-day,
no matter what her position, who has
touched any of the really vital issues
of life, who has not been helped to
some degree by the efforts of Miss An
thony and her compeers.
This celebration will follow the close
of the National Woman Suffrage con-
vention, which will be in session in
Washington from February SIS.
When Miss Anthony began her work
woman was a chattel in the eye of the
law; shut out from all advantages of
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-15
PROGRESS OF GUAM.
One Of Our Island Possessions al
ready Half Civilized.
Wonderful Work Accomplished by
Capt. Leary npd His Associates
-Concubinngc and slavery
Entirely Abolished.

The new year dawns auspiciously
upon our far-away possession, the
Island Of Guam. Capt. Leary is not
only an ideal governor but an ideal
reformer. Everything he attempts
succeeds and every act of his thus far
has been on the lines of good govern
ment. morality, progress and civi'i-
zation, His colonial subjects have
proved apt scholars, and although his
administration has involved the COM
plete reversal of century-old practices
they have taken to it kindly and even
with certain sort of enthusiasm.
Capt. Leary, says the Chicago Trib-
une, has been naval governor of Guam
Tor barely year, but he was no SOON
er in his gubernatprial chair than he
entered upon his work of reform.
His first step was to cure his subjects
of laziness, and this he did by notify
ing them that they must raise vege-
tables enough for their own consump-
ton and to supply the tables of the
governor and his garrison also. Not
withstanding they had been lotus eat
ers all their lives and had lived upon
what nature so lavishly provided, they
took to truck farming with such a
will that now every Guamite can have
New England boiled dinner when
ever be wishes it. The Guamites had
way of not paying their debts. He i'm
pressed them with the sanctity of
financial obligation. They had never
known the meaning of the word
taxes" but they soon learned it and
nave manifested no opposition to pay
ing them. They have never known
the value of domestic animals. He
stimulated their interest in natural
history by intimating that every head
of family must have a COW, a donkey
and some hens.
AS to the last administrative act Capt.
Leary found a difficulty in executing