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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-10-11

I advised them all to go, but they
insisted that the only way of escape
was to cross the river, and they were
going to 90 it. Twenty minutes
after [ left they were all prisoners.
Another squad of 20 stopped: the
next day at the house of man
named Hoyt, who welcomed them and
asked Them to sit down to dinner.
While they were eating the first
cooked food they had had for three
days the house was surrounded by
confederates and they were recap
tured Of our own squad four laid
in the brush all day Sunday. In the
evening young boy of IA, who was
sick, went back and delivered him
self up. The. two regulars and my
self kept together for five days, go
ing, at my suggestion, across the
mountains toward Charleston, W..
Va.
ION the night of the fifth day out the
regulars declared that they would not
go any further in that direction and
insisted that we turn toward eastern
Kentucky. L decided to keep on the
West Virginia route, and we Parted the
next morning. The two regulars went
their way, and within a few miles of
the union lines in eastern. Kentucky
were recaptured and taken back in
irons to Danville. I went on alone,
travelling by night in the mountains,
stopping in the cabins of coloredpeople
or in caves, or sleeping in the widest
and most inaccessible places. On. Flat
Top mountain I struck a union set
Element. Before this my feet had been
frozen, and I could hobble along with
the greatest difficulty, and was all the
time suffering with the keenest, pain.
I almost fell into the cabin of negro
just before reaching Flat Top. He
and his wife took me in and doctored
my feet.
Then [ was taken on mule to the
Flat Top settlement, where I stopped
several days. Here came in contact
with a squad of confederate deserters,
who were afraid to go into the union
lines in the belief that they would be
sent back to Richmond in exchange.
This would, of course, place them in
the hands of their own authorities. I
slept with one or another of them each
night and convinced them that this
theory was wrong. In the end they
went with me over the 90 miles of
mountain road to Charleston, Va.
''There [ was given transportation to
Gallipolis, at the mouth of the Ken
awha, and from there was sent down
the river to Cincinnati.
After a rest I started for home,
where arrived the night before Christ
mas.
'Of all the IS men who escaped from
Danville that night only three reached
the union lines. All the others were
captured or shot.
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burning Ont old stumps.

The easiest way to get rid of
stumps in field or meadow is to burn
them out. Dig a trench around the
stumps about two feet wide and two
and one-haIf or three feet deep, cut
off al projecting roots quite close and
remove the soil as well as possible.
Then leave the stump for few days
to dry. Gather up lot of dry sticks,
brush, ETC., and FIJI up the trench all
around and on top of the stump and
set it on fire. The stump will be CON
sumed in day or two. Even green
stumps may be burned out in this
way, although it may require sec
ond or third supply of dry sticks on
the fire to accomplish i'll. o. Folio,
IN American Agriculturist.
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see who should compose the expect
ton. When four men had been chosen
they laid their plans. First of all they
were to black their faces, put on rag
ged clothes and then go to the farm
house and get the honey. On their ar
rival they were met by a big blood
hound. A shot from one of the guns
silenced the animal. Then the owner
put in an appearance. He was seized
and his gun taken away. placed in the
center of his back, and then his hands
tied behind him and over the gun. Then
he was backed up to a tree and left
there. The boys then got into the
honey. To make matters safe they left
a small kettle of it in front of Capt.
Dave Stewards tent. The next day the
owner of the honey came into camp
and declared that our company was
nothing but a set of thieves.
Capt. Stewart became very indig-
nant and asked the man if he could
identity the thieves. He replied that
he could. Then the entire company
had to run the 'gantlet,' butas the men
now wore blue uniforms and were not
BACKED up, he failed to identity them.
When he left, Capt. Stewart said:
Boys. don't let your fondness for
honey get the better Of you again."
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joined the Fourth New Hampshire
regiment His war record is too well
known to need comment. He left
the army when his regiment was mus
tered out in 1865, put aside all offers
of political preferment and became
principal of the Manchester On. h
grammar school, for he says he does
not remember the day when he did not
believe he should be a teacher. At Day
ton CO., in 1865 he began reform work
in methods of education. Although
strongly opposed by teachers and peo-
pie, the board of education had faith
to appoint him principal of the first
normal training school in Dayton In
1871 he went to Europe for the purpose
Of studying the science of education;
in 1872 entered King Williams univer-
sity at Berlin, where he spent 27s years
in the study of psychology, philosophy,
history and pedagogics. He travelled
over the continent, visiting schools,
studying the arts, geography and his
tory of the various nations until, on
his return TO America, he was elected
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FEED-GRINDING NOTES.

The gasoline engine solves the prob
lem of quick and efficient power for
rapid grinding.
With corn at so cents a busheI one
can easily pay for good sweep mill
in one seasons saving of feed.
For the general farmer the sweep
mill is the thing; but for heavy feed
ing the larger mills should be en-
ployed with power.
a sweep mill that will grind from 40
to so bushels of dry corn and cob
meal per hour, is pretty good mill
Grain is valuable as food only when
digested and assimilated, and to be
valuable for digestion must be
crushed, ground and pulverized either
before feeding or by the animal itself.
The successful cattle feeder, the one
who always tops the market, is the
one who can convert the largest
amount of crude feed into high-priced
beef. Grinding feed is a great aid in
laying on fat.-Prairie FARMER
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Good HONEY PLANTS.
a. a. Dun Considers Bokhara Clovea
Excellent for Bees, for Feed
and for Seed.

You can greatly Improve your honey
flow in your locality by putting out
honey plants, those that also are use
full or ornamental, besides the honey
they produce. Perhaps the best honey
bearing plants and trees are those that
are good for other purposes as we'll
The most abused and misrepresented.
and the best honey-plant that grows,
is bokhara clover. What I know
about bokhara clover is from my own
experience, having thoroughly test
ed its usefulness not only for honey,
but for food and seed. Bokhara is
an immense seeder, and will produce
ten bushels of seed per acre under or
binary conditions. This seed has a
ready market at wholesale seed houses
at from six to ten cents per pound,
and usually is retailed to growers at
from Is to 20 cents per pound. That
bokhara is a good feed for stock [
can testify. having used it myself.
This clover, like alfalfa, stock do not
naturally take to. as they do to some
grasses, especially such grasses as
grow in the middle and eastern states.
where timothy, blue grass and red
clover abound. Stock there will usu-
ally go around it just as they will
alfalfa, if alfalfa grew there as it
does here. This being true, and from
the fact that bokhara spreads and
grows spontaneously on road sides,
has given the impression to some peo-
pie that it is only worthless weed,
and for the want of proper investiga-
ton and thorough testing it is thus
misrepresented.
If I were planting trees for both
honey and other uses. I would plant
linden or ''basswood," as it usually is
called, and also catalpa. The linden
is very valuable for its white. fine
grained wood. and. as a shade tree,
scarcely has an equal. The catalpa
is noted for its everlasting posts, and
in this regard it is said to have no
equal. It also is a beautiful shade
tree and both the foliage and the bios
SONS are very ornamental. = A. II.
Duff, in Farmers Voice.
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superintendent of schools at Quincy,
Mass. and began his work April 20, 1875.
During the three years, 1875 SO, over
10000 visitors inspected the Quincy
schools Col. Parker asserts that he
introduced no new methods, simply car
ried out the recommendations of the
great educators of the past. Comenius,
Pestalozzi and Froebel. In 1880 he was
supervisor of schools in Boston. Here
his work met fierce opposition, but he
was reelected. However, he desired to
come into a closer contact with schools
that he might verify the suspicious of
better things which he thought were in
store for children.
He declined the offer of superin-
tendency of schools in Philadelphia,
but, on January /, 1888, became prin-
cipal Of Cook county normal school,
which had had a struggling existence
for Is years. He regarded Chicago as
the ''storm center of our civilization.
Here he could closely study the chill
dren in the practice school and enter
into what he believed the greatest need
of the country-the education and
training of teachers. He has given the
school worldwide reputation, and
Un1S IS the man VINO mas DS6h selected
as head of the new institute which
promises to do so much for our future
citizens, for as Col. Parker says, "the
future demands an education into free
government, a strictly American edu-
cation" which will ''meet the demands
of the times with their world prob
lens that are weighing us down and
the ever increasing duties of citizen
ship. These problems must be worked
out in the common schools
The Chicago institute is near Lake
Michigan, on North Park avenue, and
may be easily reached from any part
of Chicago. It offers unusual advan.
tages for all the work. play and recrea-
ton connected with the school, being
adjacent to Lincoln park, with its
Fairgrounds, botanical, horticultural
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FOOD AFFECTS WOOL.
Why 1t Is Important to Provide Sheep
with Proper NOurishment the
Year Around.

a bulletin of the Michigan station
says: The strength of the weakest
place in the fiber decides the strength
of the whole fiber. So far as the
writer has been able to discover there
is no special ration, which, if fed to
sheep, will produce wool of great
strength, nor can we. at any time,
say that any special ration is to be
recommended to produce a large
quantity of wool. Il has often been
observed that sheep and lambs that
have been on full feed for long peri
DDS shear heavy fieeces of wool.
This would indicate that any ration
calculated to keep the sheep in
thrifty condition would be a suitable
one for growing large quantities of
the wool grower will understand that
it is highly desirable to provide the
sheep proper nourishment through
out the year, permitting no periods
of neglect to intervene to destroy the
strength of the fibers of the fleece.
Liberal and judicious feeding does not
change the quality of the wool, but
it does affect the strength and the
quantity of the wool produced by a
given sheep. The weight of wool pro-
duced is affected both by increasing
the length of fiber and by increasing
the amount of yolk and natural oil
in the fleece.
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,11 ! |;
[6EllSz6 IEl'FIs}Il|lIE:a||SD
ESCAPED FROM PRISON.
"A War Veterans Story OF Hard Times
Getting Through the Con-
federate Lines.

t'We all had been telling stories,' %
said the major, relates the Chicago
Inter Ocean, except Tulley McKin-
ney, of the Ninety-fourth Ohio. There
were gathered about the breakfast
table half dozen men from the old
home neighborhood who had served
in as many different regiments. The
ladies of the party had called out
from each stories of army experience,
all of which were interesting and
many very exciting, but through all
of the talk Tulley had said nothing,
until one of the ladies asked him if
he had come through the war I'M
scathed. Yes he said, and then
added in hesitating way: 4 had
my feet frozen, you know You
S1id?' put in young girl. why, how
did that happen, Mr.. McKinney?'
-Well,' he said, after my escape from
prison I was in the mountains about
40 days, and-well, the long and short
of it is, came out of the scrape with
my feet frozen
Having said this much, Tulley was
silent again until one of the young
ladies exclaimed: Mercy, Mr.. McKin-
ney, why don't you tell the story?'
And after he had been badgered and
questioned the story came out. 4
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TALK ABOUT CowBELLs.
They Are Made To-Day Exactly as
They Were a Hundred
Years Ago.

zone of the comparatively few
things that the hand of Improvement
has not touched is the cowbelI.
which is made now just as it was a
hundred or more years ago, and has
now just the same peculiar cIanking
sound as ever said a bell manufac-
turer to a Washington Star writer
recently. "Cowbells are made some
of copper and some of a composition
metal; but most of them are made of
iron and finished with a coating Of
bronze. The cowbell is not cast; it is
cut from sheet of metal, which is
folded into shape and riveted The
metal cap at the top, through which
the strap is passed, is riveted into
the bell. Cowbells are made of ten
sizes, whose sounds range through an
octave. Sometimes musical enter
tainers who play upon bells of one
sort and another come to us and bv
selection among bells of various sizes,
find eight bells that are accurate in
scale.
There are only four factories in
the United States in which cowbel1s
are made. and in each case the cow
bell is only an item of production
among other things. Cowbells are
sold all over the country. just the
same as ever. but much the greater
number is sold in the south, the south
west and the west, where farms are
larger, less likely to be under fence
and cattle are more apt to stray.
American cowbells are exported quite
largely to the various countries of
South America and also to Australia"
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pills, but as human beings At this
reunion, friends of education, from
the Atlantic coast to the Hawaiian is
land testified either in person or by
letter to the high esteem in which
they held the work accomplished by
Col. Parker and his co-laborers dur
ing the last quarter century.
Col. Francis Wayland Parker was
born in the village of Piscataquog,
town of Bedford, N. H., on October 9,
1887. His ancestors were actively en-
gagged in the French and Indian and
revolutionary wars. His grand
father fought at Bunker Hill. In
every strain of Col. Parker's heredity
are ministers and teachers. He was
well advanced in his studies when, at
eight years of age, he was taken from
school and bound out to farm work
for five years, attending school but
eight or nine weeks each winter. He
now considers that during this pc
Rod he received the best part of his
education. Here he studied geog-
raphy and all the sciences in a prac
teal way. although he did not dis
cover the fact until after about 20
years of experience in teaching.
Thirteen years of age he left the
farm, and, eager for an education, at
tended Mount Vernon (New Hamp-
shire) academy. Here he did chores
to support himself and worked on the
farm in summer. At Is he taught rs
pupils at SIS per month. He contin-
ued to teach school, work on farms
and attended academies until 21 years
old. In 1858 was principal of the
school at Carrolton, III. At the break
ing out of the war, as a private, he
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EDUCATION IS LIFE.
That Is the Sentiment Adopted by
Modern Educators.
What the New Chicago Institute for
the Training of Teachers and
Its President, Col. Parker,
Expect to Accomplish.
Especial Chicago Letter.

tt 19 is seldom that radical re-
former receives. during his
earthly existence, the APP
probation that is so generously ac-
corded to Col. F. w. Parker, presi-
dent of the new Chicago institute en-
dowed by Mrs. Emmons Blaine. Col.
Parker's methods have revolutionized
teaching in this country. Perhaps
method" is not a good word to use
in connection with his work, as he
seemed to disown it when. last April,
he addressed the large audience SO
vitality interested in educational mat
tiers, which had gathered to celebrate
the twenty-fifth anniversary of his adj
vent in Quincy, Mass, where as SUI
perintendent of schools, he first in
troduced ideas entirely at variance
with preconceived opinions regarding
the instruction of children in this
country. He said: ''Those who seek
for some special and peculiar method
or device in the Quincy movement will
never find it. Faith, ideal spirit, ex-
plain all that pertain to our success,
whatever that success may be. The
outcome was what may always be ex-
pected under similar circumstances
progressive movement. If you ask
me to name the best of all results I
should say the more humane treat
ment of little folks. We tried to
teach them, not as children or as pu-
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CABINET FOR STABLE.

it fastened or rest about five feet
from the floor. If screwed to the side
of the barn, the open top will become
the side. Put in shelves, compart-
ments, straps, as tool holders, etc. To
close the box, drop-leaf side is put
on by Ringing at the bottom and
fastening supporting straps from the
upper corner of the box to the outer
corner of the leaf. This will make
table before the closet when open. If
this is not desired, put a screw eye in
each upper corner, connect with
wire and hang over the wire thick
cloth for a cover. L. Irwin. in
Farm and Home.
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FRONT VIEW OF THE NEW CHICAGO INSTITUTE.

and geological gardens, and the libra
ries and scientific collections in it's
vicinity. The building is designed to
accommodate three schools, the aca-
demic, pedagogic and summer school.
1t is to contain a library, gymnasium,
natatoriUm. manual training-rooms,
assembly hall, music, lecture and class
rooms. There will be laboratories for
home economics, geography, history,
biology, physics and chemistry. Owing
to labor troubles the building will not
be ready for occupancy at the opening
of the school on October 1, but COM
modious temporary quarters have been
secured in the vicinity. In the aca-
demic course ideal conditions will be
provided for the education of children
between the ages of four and IS. It
will include kindergarten and all
the grades of elementary and second
airy (high schooD education, and pre-
pare pupils for entrance to the best
colleges. The pedagogic school will
offer teachers the best possible profess
sional training. Every candidate will
be considered on probation until the
faculty decides that he is able to teach
successfully. Under no circumstances
will a diploma be granted until his
efficiency has been demonstrated.
The summer school will be open to
all who wish to have the best advan-
tages for the study of education for
three or II weeks. All departments
of the institute will be represented.
The library contains about IS, OGO vol
umes, as that which is profound and
technical can seldom be taught orally
but it need hardly be said that the
teachers are not bound by any sla7ish
devotion to textbooks. The children
are taken to Mother Nature to be in
structed in science. Geography and
history are naturally combined. Arti-
fetal rivers and sandhiIls constructed
by the little ones themselves illustrate
the growth of the world and locate the
scenes of the rise and downfall of ma
tions. The true aim of education is be-
ieved to be character building, to
which knowledge getting must be
duly subordinated. To again quote
Col. Parker: THE ideal school is the
ideal community. Character constant
~ realizing itself in citizenship, in COM
munity life. in complete living, is the
immediate, everlasting and only pur-
pose of the school,
Subjects will be correlated and each
study made to enhance the others. The
children will be taught here every
thing that they learn anywhere else,
but there may be vast difference in
the manner and the purpose of the
teaching. Every recitation will be an
examination. Special attention will
be given to dull and backward chill
dren Only his own very hest will he
demanded from any pupil. The indi-
vidualism of each will be encouraged.
In short, the aim will be to reveal to
each student what the best in life may
mean for him and to train teachers
throughout America how best to give
their pupils the true American educa-
ton. Chicago may be congra tulated
anew on having again added to her
claims as the educa tional center of the
United States. EDWARD JULIAN.
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THEY GOT THE HONEY.
How Some Illinois Boys Got Away
with the Sweet Plum
der.

every man in our company had
weakness for honey" said M. J. Cork
endorf, of company A, Fifty-ffth Hi
nois infantry, to a group of veterans
at the Sherman house, according to the
Chicago Tribune. ''In fact" continued
Mr.. Corkendorf, ''they loved honey to
such an extent that they frequently
risked their lives to procure it. We had
moved down into Memphis from a po-
sition we had been holding on the out
skirts of the town'for several days, and
on our way in we discovered farm
house owned by southern gentleman
who had little or no use for Lincoln
soldiers. This man was bee fancier
and had abundance of honey in his
storehouse. When we learned this we
went up and tried to purchase some of
it. No, sah,' he declared, Lincoln's
soldiers can't have any of my honey;
no, sah!' Then. he turned and walked.
away, leaving our boys standing in the.
road.
''WeIl, that night raid was planned
by the boys. They first drew lots to
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device up before his face, with A at his
nose, he brings the point CO. in range
with the stump that is to be. Then he
backs away slowly until he can bring
D in line with the top of the tree. He
says that the distance from himself
to the foot of the tree will be equal to
the height of the latter.
The Tribune finds it hard to under
stand how this device can, be used as
described, unless the upper end of CD
leans backward toward the mans
head. It would then be no longer per-
pendicular. and the true prin ciple of it
would be sacrificed. But if the sticks
were put together as in Fig. 2 greater
accuracy would be secured. Then ALB
would be horizontal and parallel with
the earth, and Be would be vertical and
parallel with the tree trunk. Under
these circumstances, the distance from
the mans feet to the tree would be
equal to the height of the tree. The
principle employed is nearly the same
as that used on warships at sea to get
the enemy's range.-N. Y. Tribune
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MEASURING TIMBER.
a Simple Device Resembling In Es-
sentiaI Respects the Range
Finder of a Warship.

John Page, of Ben Lomond, Santa
Cruz county, Cal, describes plan
which he employs for estimating the
height of standing timber and which
he thinks is not generally known. He
takes two straight sticks or weed
stalks II inches long and joins them at
right angles in the manner indicated
by the left-hand diagram. That is to
say, he puts the end of one at the mid
die of the other stick. Holding this