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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14
One Way to Plant Peas.

With the wheel hoe burrows were
made B 1-2 feet apart and five or six
inches deep by plowing twice in the
same furrow. The peas were then
drilled in by hand, using one quart of
seed to $50 feet of row, and covered
by reversing the plows to turn in,
running through each furrow and
covering the peas two to three inches
deep, and walking on the rows be-
hind the plow to firm and compact the
soil over the seed. The rows were
made 3 1-2 feet apart that early sweet
corn could be planted between every
other two rows of peas, leaving clear
space between each two rows to facil-
itate picking.
After covering, a shallow trench
was left about three inches deep and
eight inches wide. As the peas grew
this was gradually filed level by cul-
tivation. Cultivation was begun as
soon as the peas were up, by going
through therow with a cultivator and
following the cultivator with the rakes
at the first cultivation and subsequent
ly once q week thereafter. The crop
was cultivated three times o week,
until the peas were in full bloom,
keeping the soil constantly stirred to
q sufficient depth, smooth and free
from weeds. &C. P. Byington, in New
England Homestead.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14
lane as q Food Crop.

We have not yet seen single un-
favorable statement about rape from
any who have tested it as food for
sheep, hogs or poultry, and that is
more than we can say for any of the
new forage crops, as vetch, sorghum,
bronze grass, katiir corn or any of the
rest While some praise them very
highly, others find some fault, or have
failed to induce them to grow we'll
upon their soil. But rape seems to
grow anywhere that cabbages or tur-
nips will grow, and to do nearly as
we'll. whether sown in the shade of an
orchard as out in the open field, and
very nearly as we'll upon light soil
decently manured as on the most fer
tile fields of the prairie. We hope
our readers will try it this year if they
have anything to feed it to. 1t may
not prove as good fodder as the corn
crop, but it is worthy of trial.-Am
can Cultivator.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14
Food In.juring the Butter.

In the spring and summer cows
will often wander into low fields and
swamps and eat weeds and wild plants
that affect the taste of the butter.
There is sometimes strong odor to
it and again decidedly bitter taste.
This is first noticeable in the milk
and cream, and the process of churn-
ing does not eliminate the trouble.
The only sure way to prevent such
odors and disagreeable taste in the
butter in summer is to root out all
weeds and noxious plants from the
pasture. If the latter y is in a run
down condition where weeds thrive
and grass dies, it will be pretty hard
to make the food of the cows good
enough to produce excellent milk and
cream. 1t will pay better in such
cases to rent more and better pasture
fields, and SOW the old one with new
seed and fertilize it we'll. Most tainted
and bitter summer butter comes from
farms where the cows are pastured on
worn out grass fields.
In the winter time, however, the
dairymen cannot remedy matters so
easily. The trouble comes from the
food, but the latter is in the form OF
hay, which cannot we'll be separated
SO that the weeds can be taken out
Where weeds Of disagreeable odor
have been harvested with the hay the
cows will often produce inferior and
bitter butter all winter. In purchas-
ing hay for winter feed the dairymen
runs quite risk in buying weeds that
will do more harm than the food will
do good.
But it is not always the weeds that
taint butter. One may be as careful
and particular as possible in harvest
ing the hay crop, and yet find him
self making butter with decidedly
bitter flavor. The cause of this is
sometimes quite difficult to ascertain.
In my own experience I have found
that large diet of clover hay invari-
ably affects the butter injuriously.
No matter how choice the clover hay
may be, it will cause the butter to
have bitter taste if fed in any large
amount continuously through the
winter. If fed in small quantities
with other hay and feed ana with
plenty of pumpkins and roots, there
will be no appreciable injury done to
the butter. But clover hay is not a
good diet Cor milk cows. It has really
little usefulness for the dairyman. It
would pay him better if it was all
turned under the soil to enrich it.
Next to this the feeding of damaged
grain is the most fruitful cause OF
bad body in winter. Some farmers
buy up damaged grain because it is
cheap. but they cannot afford to feed
it to dairy cows. In nine cases out of
ten it will so injure the butter that it
will prove very costly in the end.--
E. P. Smith, in Farm, Field and Fire.
side.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14
Potatoes and Rye.

Potatoes do excellently we'll upon
land where crop OF green rye has
been plowed in, Being usually very
free from scab, fair and smooth.
Early potatoes can be taken off in
time to SOW rye, which will make
growth enough to furnish good fail
pasture or spring pasture for cattle
or sheep, and then it may be plowed
under in season to plant potatoes
again or some other later crop. We
do not like the idea of growing two
crops of potatoes on the same land for
two years in succession, but there are
many other crops which would follow
well after the rye was plowed in, and
nearly all crops can be taken off in
time to sow rye after them, which
will be large enough to plow under in
the spring. But do not trust to the
rye alone as fertilizer, but use it as
an addition to the other fertilizer ap-
piled.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14

On our farm we have found that all
boulders stand deepest on the south
west side and shallowest on the oppo-
site side. We dig the soil away on
the deepest side enough to get chain
on it and place the team facing the
northeast, and out comes the rock
when the team starts, unless the chain
slips. One day last November with
the aid of one horse took out and
hauled away . boulder that must have
weighed half ton or more, but
used my brains more than my hands,
and horse, for neither OF us is un-
usually strong. ". T. Lundvall, in
American Agriculturist.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14
Drunkenness at Manila.

A personal letter recently received from
army headquarters in Manila was duly
signed by an officer who does not particu-
larly request that his name be kept pri-
vate. but so many soldiers have beer made
to suffer for the truth which they have
spoken that we will for the present with
hold his name, He says
II have always been an admirer OF the
Rams Horn, and trust that you will con-
tinue to fight against every form OF sin i,
and especially against the legalized liquor
traffic, whose iniquity never fully appre-
ciated until coming to the Philippines. The
Infamous business thrives here under the
enegetic manipulation OF American saloon
keepers to an alarming extent. No reports
that have read in the home papers have
exaggerated the conditions. I never saw
SO much drunkenness elsewhere. .''-Ram's
born
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14
REPAIRING CARRIAGES.
A Trade That Ia Being Somewhat AT
fected by the Automobile.

A Trade That Is Being Somewhat Al
fected by the Automobile.
The horse has been displaced to Q
limited extent in the city by the auto
mobile. The latter has not yet be-
come popular in the country, though
it may do SO eventually. Already in
New York and other large places it
has been found that the character Of
the repairs called for are different
from those formerly needed. There
is less work for the blacksmith and
more for the machinist However,
the chief factor in the new situation
is not self-propulsion, but the rubber
tire. A writer in The Hub says:
people engaged in the making and
repairing Of carriages were prone to
laugh and sneer at the writer when
told that vibration of the parts of a
vehicle passing over stone pavements
was the agent that produced the many
fractures of wheeled vehicles in the
many parts of wood and iron. The
writer also said that not until soft
pavements or soft tires came into use
would there be any change. The
buffer cushioned axle produced little
diversion in favor of reducing noise
its main object The rubber tire,
solid, semi solid or pneumatic, to-
gether with the soft pavement, have
hit the economical nail on the head in
this town. Ii the tires are put on
properly there is no telling how long
the vehicle will go without repairs.
''The rubber tire does not shut of
vibratioa entirely. It reduces it to a
minimum; in the end the result is the
same. In consequence Of this the
great number of carriage makers who
depend solely on repairs of carriages
for living began to complain. Where
there was formerly work for three
fires and thirty hands, there is today
not enough for one fire to do, while
six men make up full complement
for the plant. One of the pet phrases
is, The man who invented rubber
tires ought to be hamstrung, And
there are many others too positive to
mention. but nevertheless the passing
of the small carriage repair shop is not
hidden very deep in the future
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14
! FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
A Brown whitewash.

1t may seem as much of misnomer
to speak of brown whitewash as Of a
white blackberry, but the United
States uses wash that gives brown
ish white, not SO glaring to look upon
when new as lime wash, and it is
claimed to be more durable and to re-
sist water much better. Take three
parts of good hydraulic cement, not
necessarily the highest priced, and
one part Of clean, fine sand, and mix
we'll with cold water. Wet the sur
face to be covered, whether wood,
stone OF brick, and then apply the
wash before the surface dries, which
will make it adhere better. Keep
we'll stirred while using.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14
Preparing for the Honey Harvest.

In getting colony of bees ready
for the honey harvest, one should
know what plants will furnish pollen
and nectar in abundance, and whe1
they usually are ready for the bees te
work upon. 1t usually takes worker
bees about 81 days from the egg unit
they are ready to fly out to gathe,
honey, though they will go out at ar
earlier age sometimes if the colony is
weak and the stores low. This il
like the sending of children out te
earn their living when very young; il
may seem necessary under some cir
cumstances, but it is neither we'll fol
the children nor profitable to the
parents in the end, if they can sustain
life in any other way.
Then the time to begin to feed the
bees to stimulate brood raising is
best placed at 81 days before the
blooming of the flowers, or little
more, that there may be plenty o:
bees to go at work when the honey is
ready for them. If the season is de
layed beyond the expected time, keeI
up the feeding, and if the combs get
we'll filed with brood stores, put on 6
super with frames of empty comb, OF
full sheets of foundation, and let the
queen go up there to start more brood.
If one can get double hive in this
way we'll filed with brood, he may ex-
pect not only strong swarm from it,
but more than one or two crates OF
sections or frames above it we'll filled
With honey. 1t is in this way and by
feeding when the honey flow slackens,
and by good care at all times, that
some are able to get 100 pounds OF
honey OF more from each colony.
In this way the eight-frame hive
can be made practically 16-frame
hive, with bees enough in it, and it
will not send out but one swarm OF
should not be allowed to do so. II
more increase is desired allow them to
send out second swarm, which they
are likely to do if the colony is strong
and queen cells are not destroyed,
then hive the new swarm in the upper
box with the brood and comb that
may be there, and have the lower
hive on the old stand with supers tc
build comb in.--Boston Cultivator.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14
Straw az a Horse Feed,

Some straw can always be fed to
horses, the amount varying with the
work and the purpose for which the
animal is used. Idle horses, having
ample time for masticating and di-
gesting their feed, can subsist almos
wholly on good, bright straw; hard
worked animals and those required to
move rapidly can make use of only a
little-the feeder must judge from the
conditions how much to supply. 1t is
notable fact that many horses are
fed costly hay for roughage when
cheaper straw or fodder would Prov
equally satisfactory. In relative value
for horse feeding, the straw ranks in
the following order: Oat, barley, wheat,
rye-the last named being of slight
utility.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14
The Crusade in Brief.

Not one drop of Intoxicating liquor Is
allowed to be sold at any of the military
camps OF Canada.
The sale Of liquor has been almost wholly
abolished during the six months trial of
prohibition in Lowell, Mass. Under license
1000 barrels used to be shipped into the
city annually.
DR.. Edward Abbott says: II see more
saloons within Ave minutes walk OF one OF
the great railway stations in Boston, and
more drunken natives in a single week
between Boston and Cambridge than saw
during a ten months journey OF 10000
miles by land aud seq around the world" !,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14
WorId,s Temperance Coneres..

A notable gathering of this year will be
.he worlds temperance congress, which
meets in London next June. More than
twenty temperance societies. representing
religious, scientific and independent bodies
In different countries of the world, will give
ing the century.
The Continental societies are chiefly COM
posed of clergymen and medical men, and
their work will be presented mostly from
the moral and sociological sides. The
,trictly scientific societies are English and
American, ono studying alcohol and its ef-
fects, the other the disease of inebriety and
1ss causes.
The Bishop of London will preside at the
meetings, and Robert Rae, a pioneer In fhe
temperance cause, will arrange the pro.
gramme.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE,

The Drones Sell Ruin-A Powerful An,
swer to the Charge That Temperance
Advocates sExageerate-Itis 10 Impossible
to Speak Too Strongly on the Subject
What are our liquor-sellers?
The drones OF the community; they feed
On the Mechanics labor, the starved hind
For them compels the stubborn glebe I'd
yield
Its unshared harvest; and your squalid
form
DraRs out in labor protracted death
To glut their grandeur.
oil
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14
The New stampbooks.

Inhabitants and summer visitors OF
fog-bound and moisture saturated
seashore resorts in summer time will
appreciate the paraffine leaves of the
postofice departments new stamp
books. The accommodating post
mistress will no longer feel moved to
provide her patrons with oiled paper
wrappers at her own expense.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14

unable to express himself. It was the
little woman who Strengthened him.
''Who are you?" she asked.
"Why, you know, I'm one OF the
board. I'm president Of the board for
the home for the blind. Why did you
not reply to the letter Of the secre-
tary?"
Maggie gasped and fell back against
the wall OF the passageway. II never
got the letter. never had any let
ter, she said. "Was there vacan-
cya"
eyes, there was vacancy" The big
man actually trembled as he realized
what it meant to this helpless little
woman. He longed to say something
comforting, but there was nothing to
say.
II don't know who is to blame" he
was saying, when the sound of the
carriers whistle nearly drowned his
words, and in moment the postman
was at the door.
"Here" demanded the big man.
''Do you know about letter directed
to Mrs. Maggie Kimber?'
The postman dropped his whistle at
the sudden attack. why, yes, do.
And delivered it, too. remembered
it because it was new name. had
never had any mail for that party be.
fore. Let me see; it must have been
three weeks ago..
"Oh, /" groaned Maggie. "Was it in
the morning?"
The postman thought moment
eyes, it was, L believe-yes.
"And no one was here to watch foI
it and someone IN the house has kept
it!''
The little black chair fell over on
its face in the midst of the three
The big man looked the postman
over fiercely. That's great way
to do business" he said, sternly.
"What was I to do? The woman
who took it said her name was KIM
Der, and gave her the letter.
''The vixen" said the big man.
ooh, OIL don't say that. Perhaps
there is another Kimber here. But,
tell me, is the vacancy illed?" cried
Maggie.
The big man was looking up at the
banisters where the bristling heads
listened for the postman to call.
'No WONDER" he muttered. "a
rough looking lot-no wonder"
whats the damage?" said the
postpan. "1'll do what can to make
good my mistake"
81 suppose it's filed by this time.
It's in the hands of the committee.
I'll find out and let you know. I'll
come myself and tell you. Now, which
one of those heads did it? Which took
the letter."
''She isn't there - this sort of people
never stays long in place. The
woman has gone away by this time. +"
The postman called out two names,
and the big man departed.
Maggie climbed the stairs The old
chair bumped noisily along as she
slowly iourneyed upward.
Mercy heard her and flew to meet
her.
Il didn't go, NUM- wanted to,
but / didn't. / stayed to watch for the
letter. | fought I'd put it in the
bread furkin if it coined, but it didn't.
Nothing come but the p'rade, sh"
said.
Two days afterward the big man
stopped at the movable Office.
''It's all right, he said to Maggie
'They had found teacher, but she
has resigned. She is going to be
married.
He called a cab and put the little
blind woman in it and rode away,
leaving the little black chair alone on
the pavement. The movable Office was
deserted. The next time the big man
passed the place bootblack had
moved in. But tho bootblack never
knew what the low chair knew, nor
how it and the grand parade had
helped to usher in good times fol
Mum Maggie and for little Mercy. =
Chicago Record.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14
An Cnholy Bond.

Liquor selling Is universally acknowl-
edged a curse, but not felony. The sa-
Icon victim is a social outcast, but the sa-
loon keeper and the brewer and distiller
are the companions of politicians and
princes. And yet civilization is progress
ing, though with dragging steps, for
hanging to her arm Is the rum seller. He
claims her company and protection. They
are united by bonds of self-interest. They
married for money, and though civiliza-
tion has nothing but loathing contempt
for her life companion, there seems as yet
no arm brave enough nor strong enough
to break the unholy bond which unites
them
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14
Lecture in Itself.

A young lady jealous in temperance
work asked certain butcher to- donate
one dollar toward meeting the expenses Of
temperance lecture that she was en-
deavoring to secure. She did not expect
to get 1t. and was therefore somewhat
surprised when he promptly handed her a
greenback, saying, "Yes will give you a
dollar. l can we'll afford to, for have
sold more meat in this town since 1t went
mo license than used to in a whole week
when We had saloons" Was not this q leo.
ture for "no license?"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-04-26
DURHAM COUNTY PoPuusI
Condemn the Election Law and Am-ps
ment and Endorse senator Butlsr.

Condemn the Election Law and Am-pd
ment and Endorse senator ButI.r.
DURHAM, n. c., ALril Is. 1900.
EDITOR CAUcAsIAH-The Populisi
Convention Of Durham county a.
sem bled in Durham, Saturday, Apr
Ia. Temporary organization conEis-
ted of James <. Lyon. Chairman and
Charles A. Shepherd. Sec.
Delegates to the State ConveDtiOr
were elected.
w. j. Christian, EI Clerk OF tbs
Court was unanimously elected coub.
~ chairman Of the Peoples Party.
The following resolution were 9
cred and unanimously adopted, tovIi
We, the Populist Of Durham cour'
ty in convention assembled, belieE.
ing in equal rights to all and specTt
privileges to none, and believipl
that every duly q ualifed voter shoult
be allowed to cast ono ballot freelI
and securely, and have that ballU
counted as cast. therefore be n
Resolved, / That we condemn tt'
action of the last General Assent,
for its vicious and partisan legislI
ton.
2. That we do especially condeul
the present election Law, for that Z
is framed with q view. to make
ballot as deficient as possible 1
make it possible for partisan re,
trars to defeat the will of the 2
pie.
3. That we heartily endorse "
course taken by our Senator, tbt
Hon. Marion Butler, in battling fr
the rights of the people, and herebl
pledge him our sympathy and CO..
nest support.
CdAs. A. SHEPHERD,
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-04-26
THEIR PURPOSE TO DISFRANCHIsE
WHITE MEN.

There is trite, but pertinent,
old saying. that "you can fool part
of the people all the time, all of the
people part of the time, but you can
not fool all of the people all the
time,' and this fact the machine
ringsters in North Carolina are, no
doubt realizing, now, since their
effort to fool all the people has been
in vain.
The Infamous scheme to disfran-
chise good, honest, brave white men
because they can not read and write
is now understood by these good
citizens of the State, and when cleo
ton day comes they will bury with
their ballots the Simmons ballot box
suffers. The people of this State
love liberty, for it was on our soil
that liberty was born, and they will
not, at this day, surrender this God
given right; and the Simmons ma
chine will receive due notice of this
fact in August, when they get an
opportunity to pass judgement on
the Ubiquitous disfranchislng scheme.
No doubt when the amendment
was proposed the Simmonsltes
thought they could lull the people
to sleep with the cry of "nigger"
and that the voters would walk into
the trap and vote away forever their
political liberties; but the ballot
suffers are now realizing that "ln
vain is the net lightly set before any
Bird
The white men, whose liberties are
in grave danger, now plainly see
through the damnable plot to pre-
vent them from voting after the
adoption of the amendment. They
only have to judge the Simmons
ringsters by their past conduct to
discern their motives in advocating
the amendment. These fellows have
no sympathy with the masses of
North Carolina. and have never been
in control of the State save by the
use of fraud and ballot stuffing to
suppress the will of the people.
The Ransom Simmons machine have
no love for the honest, humble brave
and noble-hearted "plain people, of
North Carolina, and by this dis.
franchising scheme are attempting
to rob them of their rights to vote.
The "nigger racket" will be worked
vigorously by these tricksters SO al
to hide their devilish scheme to re.
move the honest, uneducated white
man as political factor.