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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31
WOMEN AS FARMERS.
Some Who Have Taken Up Western
Lands Have Made Quite a Sue
cess of Agriculture.

From time immemorial women have
been tillers of the soil, but always as
serving men. 1t has been reserved for
the United States to produce the
woman farmer in independent owner
ship, toiling of her own will and reap
ing herself the fruit of her labOrs.
One of the most picturesque in
stances of the woman farmer is fur
nished by Miss Gates, a trained nurse
of New York city, who had gone to
the west for her health shortly be-
fore the opening of the Cherokee strip
in Oklahoma. She was living in
Guthrie, Okla, and decided that she
might as well become a landed pro-
prietor. The homestead claims of
160 acres were to be assigned to those
first stalking" or marking them aft
er the hour designated for the open
ing" Miss Yates took advantage Of
her vicinity to the strip to look it
over in advance and select her claim.
The opening day she crossed the line
a minute after the hour Ga minute
before would have invalidated her
rights, seated on a pillow to which
two heavy horses were attached, and
made the rum" the first on the strip.
Her clever idea was to stake the
claim by plowed furrow, beginning
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A SUBSTANTIAL SILO.
Progressive Dairymen No Longer
Consider 1t an Experiment But
an Absolute Necessity.

1 am constrained to believe that
the advocates of the so-called cheap
silos are making a mistake, this con-
clusion being drawn both from OBJ
servation and personal experience. 1t
may have been wise in the past TO adj
wise and to construct such silos, be-
cause many farmers considered it ex-
perimental, and | am willing to say
now that cheap construction is bet
ter than none at all, from the fact
that few are bold enough to deny it's
necessity. We are warranted in adj
vising the building of thoroughly air
tight walls. Whether we have yet
reached the ideal l am not sure. We
have been slowly solving during the
past ten years, and shall, no doubt,
make further Improvements. 1 think,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31
The Prairie Dog to Pass.

z The prairie dog must 60. The lit
tie fellow has chung to his home on the
plains more tenaciously than any other
of the inhabitants of our desert waste,
but has at last reached the end of his
tether. Agricultural Secretary Will
son has decided that prairie dogs kill
the grass and ruin good grazing land,
and must therefore give way to agri-
cultural civilization. Chemists have
discovered a mixture which will make
whole villages of prairie dogs fight for
the first bite, but which is sure to
bring disaster in the end tbs believed
that the dog can be destroyed in the
course of a few years, and that with his
disappearance western agriculture
will be rid of mort insi6ious toe.--
National Stockman
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31
BRITAIN LOSING TRADE.
Manufacturers Warned to Beware OF
Industrial Competition.

To the disappointments of war
time, which are keenly felt when the
Christmas season is approaching and
over 100000 soldiers are fighting
across seas, is added the increasing
pressure of taxation and Industrial
competition. The trade journals of
England are making great ado over
the success of American manufactur-
ers in undertaking their British
rivals in tenders for the Urganda
railway bridges.
This industrial incident has created
strong impression, since it indi-
Gates that the expansion of the Brit
ish empire and the opening of new
markets tend to promote American
industries.
British iron and steel manufactur-
ers are warned by their own trade
journals that they must arouse them
selves without delay, unless they are
prepared to lose their foreign mar
kets. since it has become notorious
that Americans and Germans are
making their competition felt with
cumulative effect.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31
PROF. BAKERS IDEAS.
Noted Civil Engineer ExpIOdek Some
of the FaIJRciOus Arguments of
Good Roads Advocates.

The Technograph, published at tho
University of Illinois, has an article
by Prof. /. o. Baker, a civil engineer,
ics," in which he alleges that 'falla-
cious arguments" are sometimes used
in behalf of good roads. 1t is often
said. for example, that horse in Eu-
rope does twice as much work as one
in America and that bad roads there
fore costs the American farmer the
cost of feeding one-half of the horses
plus the interest on their value. But
the premise is mere guess. and the
argument assumes that all horses are
on the road all the time. which is a
great error. The farmer, moreover,
needs more horses to raise his crops
than to haul them to market.
1t is often estimated that the saving
per horse due to improved roads is
from SIS to $25 per year. This sum,
multiplied by the number of horses
given in the last census report. is put
down as the annual loss due to bad
roads. There is no evidence of the
actual loss. Possibly a horse could
earn $25 more a year on a good road
than on bad one, though farmers
assert that horses are damaged fully
this much by being driven on stone
roads. But in fact only a small per-
centage of the horses of the country
are on the road all the time. 1t is not
at all clear that with better roads
farmers could keep fewer horses. The
hauling of crops to market is an incl
dent of the farmers work, not his
constant employment. As respects
the conclusions of the United States
road inquiry office, circular 10, the
professor thinks they rest on very
imperfect data. 1t is absurd to say,
he thinks, that the average cost of
hauling crops to the market is % cents
per ton per mile and that the cost
of marketing the crop is 26.6 per cent.
of its value. The real advantages of
good roads are that they are more
comfortable and less expensive to use
during parts of the year; facilitate
rural mail delivery; enable children
to attend school with less difficulty;
add to the social opportunities of the
farmer. THE fundamental defect in
in the construction and maintenance
of American highways says Prof.
Baker, is the lack of intelligent and
effective supervision. '-Baltimo Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31

however, that when we take into con-
sideration both cost and value, the
well-built stave silo the most salts
factory The cut shows a section of
a stave silo with slaves six inches
wide and 2R inches thick. Pine, bev-
eled to the circle, grooved and
tongued, is put together with white
lead, making each joint air tight,
ends of slaves being joined with a
heavy piece of galvanized iron. The
foundation is similar to any barn wall,
only the wall projection is outside
the silo, permitting an even, perpen-
dicular wall on the inside. The top
of the wall is so inclined that water
cannot stand upon it. The inside of
the wall and bottom of silo are &C.
mented, the center being about six
inches lower than the side; basin
shaped bottom. The roof should be
symmetrical, with wide cornice pro-
jections, and, if possible, so adjoining
the barn as to give it fine architec-
tural appearance. Two coats of paint
and a weather vane complete the ex-
terna1 construction.
The cut shows some conveniences
not always found. Some trouble has
arisen in connection with solid iron
rods, lacking flexibility; silo eXpan-
sion and cold weather have caused
them TO break. The Page wire fence
has been used to some extent, and has
the advantage of overcoming to a de-
gree this difficulty, but other obiec-
lions seem to offset it, so that it has
not come into general use. In casting
about for a medium that would COM
bine the good qualities of both the
steel wire cable seemed to fill the bill.
The strength of one-half-inch wire
rope is given as one-third great
than fve-eighths-inch solid iron, and
at the same time possesses the fieX-
Utility so much needed. The system
of fastening is the ordinary twin
buckle; other means, however, may
be equally as good. The system of
doors has always been difficult one
to solve. The continuous door is the
only satisfactory one, yet the patent
many objections not necessary to
enumerate here. My idea was to get
a door that should be continuous,
hung on the outside, firmly held and
always ready to use. This we secured
by alternating the doors with two
slaves between them uncut. The
heavy iron cleats formed to the cir
Gle serve also as hinges. They are
bolted to a similar iron on the inside,
countersunk in the door and slaves.
These doors are fastened with refrig-
eratordoor fasteners, two on the low
er doors and one on the doors nearer
the top, holding the doors absolutely
to their place. The dormer window in
the roof furnishes sufficient light and
a place to fill. We have, therefore,
combined durability, effectiveness and
convenience.-H. E. Cook, in Rural
New Yorker.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31

In some English counties prizes are
offered for the section of road which
is kept in the best order throughout
the year. There is an honorable rival
ry among the roadmasters for obtain
ing these rewards, and the winners are
proud of their distinction as champion
road members. When all the roads are
prominent for their excellence. it can
not be an easy matter for the most
critical committee to make the awards,
but the effect of the competition is to
put every man on his mettle and to
increase the efficiency of the road serv-
ice. How different are these methods
and processes from those which pre-
vail in rural America, where highway
commissioners draw their salaries and
set gangs of laborers al work few DAYS
before election or where farmers in the
autumn, when there is nothing else
to do, unite in weeks voluntary serv-
ice as road members.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31
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CONTROL YOURSELF.
Nothing Ages a Woman So Quickly
and Surely as Giving Way to
Temper and worry.

Never give way. to fits of i'll temper.
Every sensible woman ought to be
aware that bad temper and worry will
trace more wrinkles in a week than
hot and cold bathing and massage and
complexion brushes and creams and
lotions can remove in years faithful
application:
Physicians assert that an immense
amount of nerve-force is expended in
every fit of bad temper; that when one
little part of the nervous system is in
iuriously affected, the face first records
it. The eyes begin to lose the luster
of youth, muscles become flabby, the
skin refuses to contract accordingly.
and the inevita BILE result is wrinkles,
woman's fercest and most insidious
foe.
INDUCING in a fit of temper not only
makes a woman old and ugly before
her time, but it actually shortens life.
Moreover, every time she loses control
of her temper she unhinges a moral
brain-cell and weakens by several de-
grees her capacity for self-control.
The oftener she permits herself to
indulge in what she believes to be
righteous Indignation, the more fire.
quently she finds such occasions pre-
senting themselves, for life is full of
such irritating opportunities.
1t is these frequent bursts of passion
that prevent women from growing old
so beautifully that they seem to re-
tain their youthful attractions, and,
like a tree, become more amiable with
age.
A mouth that from habit has set
itself in an aggrieved or hard line soon
settles in a grim curve that writes
years of age upon woman's face, and
imparts a disconnected and disagree
able expression which repels all de-
sire for intimacy on the part of her
acquaintance.
No matter how beautiful and brainy
and fascinating the bad-tempered
woman may be, or how lengthy her
bank account, her power is infnitesi-
NAL compared with that of her amiabl
sister. And amiability is not only pow
er; it is mental progression, health,
happiness and long life to ones self
and to ones friends and family.-N. Y.
Weekly
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31
HOW TO HANDLE POSTS.
Dressing and Setting Them in a
Proper Manner Is Task Re-
curing Some Care.

II to be driven two feet deep, dress
two sides in a direct line from lower
dotted line of a, II inches long, from
shoulder to point, making a one-inch
point. Then dress the edges from ~
to IS inches. Edges may be rounded
from shoulder to point. A post dressed
more on one side than another, as
at b and c, will drive crooked. Stake
the fence line perfectly straight, us
Ing three-foot stakes. Then take a
one-half-inch rope 100 or 200 feet long,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31
MRS. LILLIAN STEVENS.
She Has just Been Reelected Presi-
dent of the WOman's Christian
Temperance Union.

Mrs. Lillian NJ. N. Stevens, who has
been reelected president Of the Wom-
ems Christian Temperance union, is a
native of Dover, Me-, and began her
work as a teacher in her own state.
At 81 she married Mr.. Stevens and went
with her husband to his home near
Portland. Mrs. Stevens first met Miss
Willard at Old Orchard in the summer
of 1875 and there assisted in the or
ganization of the Maine w. c. T. U. Her
first office was that of treasurer of the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31

on the outer edge. In this way she
inclosed the land in incontestable fash
ion. She had a hired man with her,
but she drove the pillow. The next
day a small cabin was built for the
hired man. She lived in Guthrie until
tiny house could be built, then took
personal possession. Five years of
residence were required to perfect the
claim, but at the end of two years the
young woman was ready to return
to the east, and transferred her rights
to settler, who paid enough for the
claim to give the enterprising pre-
emptor a clear profit of more than
$1,000. She had seeded 60 acres to
cotton and the remainder to corn and
wheat, and was employing so negro
hands when she transferred the
claim.
Another nurse timber claimed" a
homestead which is done by planting
trees in treeless soil. She set out 800
trees, built a log cabin and sent for
her family in Sweden, consisting of
mother, sister and brother She has
become almost the physician of the
surrounding homesteads, and is max
ing good living.
On Long Island is a farm bought
by several trained nurses of New
York a few years ago. There were
three in the enterprise at first, but
Miss Mary L. Cromwell and Miss
Clara Watkins bought out the third,
who wished to relinquish her interest.
Their idea is to have a home to
which they can retire when old and
unable to continue in active profess
sional life. They rent the farm on
shares to an energetic man, and re-
serve two rooms in the house for their
own occupancy when at liberty to
leave the city. They expect to have
the place free from mortgage within
few years.
In Georgia is farm devoted to
mistletoe and holly growing. 1t is
owned by the Carteledge family, con-
sisting of mother and two daughters,
but the daughters do the farming"
Their negro farm hands would not
plant holly tree for worlds, as they
believe that if they did they would
die as soon as the tree became tall
enough to cast a shadow the measure
of their graves.
Last Christmas the sisters found
the trees so grown that they re-
quired thinning out, and the trees
+bo+ yyara ramoved Jvera sent por+h
for Christmas trees and brought high
prices, as they were symmetrical and
covered with large, rich berries. They
plant the mistletoe berries under the
| bark of old oak trees, in the fork or
hollow, where they can get hold as
they terminate.
Kansas has it's successful women
farmers, too. Helen and Edith Ray
mond are Chicago girls, whose parents
died some years ago, leaving them a
few thousand dollars. 1t was not
enough to support them in the city,
and they finally decided to buy a
farm. They bought so acres in Jack
son county, Kan, and devoted them
selves to raising fruit. They also
raise corn for their stock and wheat
and vegetables for their own use.
| Two other farmer sisters in Kan
sas are Martha and Carrie James, of
Usage county. Their father died and
they undertook to keep the farm GO
ing. They do all the work. Miss Car
RE James was one of the pioneers
who secured a claim in Oklahoma,
which she leased and visits once a
year to collect rent and to assure her.
self that it is being properly cared
| for.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31

stretch tight on line where posts are
to be driven. Saw a block six inches
long and drive it into pins one-half
inch square. Drive a pin where each
post is to set.
Get a mattock, the hoe blade of
which is three or three and half
inches broad and nine inches long and
the opposite side with an ak blade
four inches broad and six inches long.
Use the AK and make a mark even
with the pins to indicate where posts
are to be set. Use the AK again, sink
ing deep on either side Of pin. Then
with two or three vigorous digs with
the hoe blade, dig out pin and all,
thus leaving a hole 10 or ~ inches
deep for setting a post, leaving the
sides solid to hold posts from giving
sideways, as there is no danger of
them going edgewise, as the entire
fence joins in support. Raise post
above a hole and settle down hard,
which will cause it to sink still deep
er. But eight or ten inches will then
be left for the post to be driven. A
few solid iolts from 20-pound post
maui will settle it securely.
To gauge the depth, use straight
stick four or six es'longer than
the posts are to stand out of ground.
Put gauge mark at bottom and a
plumb bob on a string to reach near
the ground. Set this gauge three os
four inches from post to be driven,
lean stick to which the string is at
tached about six degrees and govern
the fence post by the plumb Then
use platform, box or stand in wag-
on, and driving the posts will be of
but little labor-A. Byers, in Farm
and Home
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31

state union. She next became presi-
dent, and under her guidance the Maine
organization soon became conspicuous
in the national union and it's president
no less conspicuous among the ladies'
at work in the temperance cause. Mrs.
Stevens advance in the union was rap
i'd. She was elected vice president dur
ing the life of Miss Willard and sue
ceeded that great reformer as presi-
dent when Miss Willard died.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31

"You know / feel just like counterfeit
bill" observed a young man - a friend with
whom he was walking, stopping in front of
a barroom.
'Why?" queried his partner
81 cannot pass" the other explained, wav-
ing his hand toward the entrance of the
place.
"Oh," remarked his friend, don't let that
feeling worry you; you know I'm somewhat
accustomed to showing the queer" and he
took the man with thirst by the arm and
carried him on down the street.-Memphis
Scimitar
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31
Excellent Cleansing Fluid.

A cleaning fluid that will remove
grease from the most delicate silks and
cloths is made of one pint of distilled
benzine, three-sixteenths of an ounce
of fluid chloroform, one-eighth ounce
of carbonate of ammonia and one
eighth ounce of sulphuric ether. 1t
should be kept bottled and corked tight
ly and kept from fire and lights, as it
is very inflammable
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31
HaYe Ynu Noticedf

"This snaillike pace" growled the
first trolley car passenger, sis enough
to rile a saint"
"Yes, these cars are peculiar" re-
piled the philosopnic man. when
you're in a car it simply crawls; but
when you're trying to catch it it flies
along at top specd."-Philadelphia
Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31

do you think it is proper to intro
duce money in political campaign?"
inquired the man Of lofty ideals.
at doesn't wait to be introduced"
answered Senator Sorghum. 1T just
breaks in. "-WashiDgton Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31

Poor Bronson"
whats the matter with him?"
"He was the victim of a hold-up last
night, so he tells me-"
You don't say so! How did it hap
penn"
"Oh, the baby had eaten something
that didn't agree with it. He had to
hold it up for three hours at stretch"
Chicago Times Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31
Value of Music.

Mrs. Maternal-I am sorry you are
going back to Germany. Had | not
better get another music teacher for
my daughter?'
Prof. Won Noted ees nod neces-
sary. She knows enough museek to
get married on.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31

Criteek-"That western Napoleon of
finance whom you have written up in to-
days paper must be man of enormous
longevity"
Editor-"Why?"
you say, He is reputed to have made
S6,OOO,OO0 in as many years philadelphia
Record
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31

excuse me, sir said the man in the next
seat, but your cigar is burning a hole il
your paper"
That's all right" responded the other:
81 am just burning out the price of those
electric seals at to-morrow's bargain sale.
You see, | take this paper home. '-Phila-
delphia Record
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31

Most people who try to nejghbor with
you want it all their own way.-W Washing
ton Qa.) Democrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31

No dairyman can afford to hire ILL
tempered help 10 look after his cows
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31

Instead of buying an article you do not
need of an agent pay what you owe.-Atchi-
son Globe
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31

Did any man ever succeed in kicking
a COW into submission Farmers Re-
view.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31

A fire engine is merely a water pitcher
Chicago Daily News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31

Lost wealth may be recovered, but lost
time never.-Chicago Daily News
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-12-05

There is a knack in doing every
thing" is an old saying, and the truth
fulness OF 1t was brought to mind re-
Gently by a gang Of men engaged In
wrapping and packing apples Each had
a full box Of apples, a pile of thin pa
per cut into wrappers and an empty
box. An apple was taken from the full
box, a wrapper put around it, and It
was put In the other box. 1t Is not an
easy thing to pick up a wrapper Of thin
paper without missing n occasionally,
and In doing so the men adopted diff
ferent schemes. A new hand wet his
thumb on his tongue for every wrap
per. One who had been longer In the
business, and found 1t was unwhole-
some to be wetting his thumb on his
tongue, had a slice of lemon beside his
pile OF wrappers. and moistened his
thumb in the lemon before picking ND
the wrapper. The scheme worked well.
but he did not know whether the acid
OF the lemon would make his thumb
sore or not. A third man had a thin
rubber thumbstall on his thumb, and
could pick up wrappers all day long
and never make a miss. He was an old
hand at the Misunderstanding Orego-
MAN.