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however, that when we take into con-
sideration both cost and value, the
well-built stave silO the most salts
factory. The cut shows section of
a stave silo with slaves six inches
wide and 21% 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
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 ce-
mented, the center being about six
inches lower than the side; a BASIN
shaped bottom. The roof should be
symmetrical, with wide cornice pro-
jections, and, if possible, so adjoining
the barn as to give it a fine architec-
tural appearance. Two coats of paint
and a weather vane complete the eX-
ternaI construction.
The cut shows some cOnveniences
not always found. Some trouble has
arisen in connection with solid iron
rods, lacking feXibility; 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 objec-
lions seem to offset it, so that it has
not come into general use. In casting
about for 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 greater
than five-eighths-inch solid iron, and
at the same time possesses the 1ex-
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 a difficult one
to solve. The continuous door is the
only satisfactory one, yet the patent
doors that I have seen are open to
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 d similar iron on the inside.
eountersunk in the door and slaves
| These doors are fastened with refrig-
| erator-door 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.
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standing of the business value of COM
bination and cooperation. Before the
war between the states the average
country newspaper was published at
heavy expense. Few editors managed
to make both ends meet. Their bust
ness life was a constant struggle for
existence. Competition had reduced
advertising rates and cut subscription
prices below the cost price. But early
IN the sixties, at a time when money
was getting scarcer and labor harder
90 procure than ever, the late A. N.
Kellogg, then a country editor up in
Wisconsin, solved the problem which
was agitating his fellow publishers by
Enaugurating the auxiliary sheet
better known as the patent inside
business. The idea, although reVolu-
GTonary and contrary to all editorial
traditions, became popular at once, and
WIS adopted by hundreds of western
publishers who, by it, were enabled to
Issue good papers at nominal ex-
peHse-
a few years later the stereotype
bUsiness-another industry founded
on the principle of combination and CO.
operatiOn-was launched. Its purpose
was TO supply the editors of newspa-
pers printed in the larger towns with
stereotype plates that could be used
In place of the much higher priced
hand composition. The business was
a success from the start. 1t not only
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Exupr0ved the standard of newspaper
reading matter, but proved to be of
vast advantage 10 wage-earners in the
printing trades because, like the aux
Hilary sheets, it led to the publication
Of azores of newspapers in every part
of the country.
The large city papers were inclined
60 EIdieule the patent inside" and
~~rI1tz'' business; and for years the
p0upous editorial magnates instruct
ed their funny men" to make game of
the enterprise. But eventually they,
COO, were made the victims of fierce
competition. Men from way out in the
vest Invaded the newspaper field in
New York and other eastern cities;
papers formerly sold at five cents a
copy had to be offered for two cents
OK = penny, and some hitherto proud
and supercilious publishers had great
difficulty in making the "ghost walk
az Saturday afternoons" Expenses
had to be cut TO avoid ruin. Instead of
collecting city news independently,
the publishers formed organizations
far jointly obtaining routine informa-
<ian OF every description. From this
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GENERAL LoGAN's CLOSE CALL
Canteen Shot from His Hand While
Taking a Drink of Contraband
AppIejack.

Several old soldiers were sitting in
the lobby of the Palmer house relat-
ing their war experiences, says the
Chicago Tribune, when one of them
turned to George Burghardt, who
served for two years as one of the
escort of Gen. John A. Logan, and
said: Come, George, tell US that cam
teen story"
ut amt much of a story" he re-
piled. st was in the early summer
of 1862 and our regiment was on its
way to Vicksburg. We had reached
Champion hill and gone into camp to
the left of Joe Davis home. Along
about dusk Gen. Logan sent out a
squad to scout around and see what
was going on. We came upon set
tiers cabin which had been deserted.
Some of the boys, including myself,
went inside where we found several
kegs of applejack. Of course we all
filed our canteens and incidentally
put little under our belts. An hour
later we returned to camp and when
taps sounded we were feeling pref
ty good and rolled in. Early the next
morning Gen. Logan, who had heard
about the applejack, sent for me and
I was a trifie scared for fear he was
going to reprimand me. When ap-
peared at his headquarters he was
standing at the door waiting for me.
AS 1 drew up in front and saluted
the general said: 'Burghardt, I want
drink of that applejack.'
''I felt fattered that the general
should wish to drink from my can
teen, so I unslung it and handed it
to him. AS he raised it to his lips
there was a crash and the next in
slant it went flying over his head. A
spent ball from some unknown quar-
ter had struck it full on the side
making big dent in it,
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Rural Free Mail Delivery.

One of the phenomenal successes in
the development of, our postal system
has been the extension of rural free
delivery. This was begun two or three
wears ago, with an appropriation Of
perhaps $685. It has been extended
by degrees and with good judgment,
and wherever it has reached. if reports
are to be credited, it has been a very
considerable success. The postmaster
general now estimates that the system
can be extended over such parts of the
country as may use it to advantage at
an approximate cost of $40. soc, 600, and
he urges all kinds of reasonable econ
omy in the administration of postal
affairs in order 10 be able to ask for
fuller appropriations in this direction.
The estimate for maintaining free de-
livery in the next year on plans already
formed is placed at s3,5o0.oo0.
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THE ASPARAGUS BED.
Well Drained, Spring Planting
Is to BE Advised.

Asparagus roots may be planted in
spring or fall, but unless the ground
is we'll drained, spring is preferable.
Good strong one-year-old roots are
best The soil should be made as
rich as possible. If very stony the
stones should be removed, as they
are much in the way of cutting the
stalks. In garden culture it is best
to dig trenches about three or four
feet apart and IL inches deep;
then put in layer of manure to fill
about half of the trench after it has
been packed down. On this put two
or three inches of soil on which place
the roots, spreading them out in all
directions, and cover with fine soil,
packing down all around. The plants
should not stand closer than two
feet in the rows, and as they start to
grow more soil should be drawn into
the trenches until the surface is level
again All that is necessary during
the season is to keep the ground loose
and free from weeds. To raise first
class crop the bed has to be MANFRED
every year by scattering manure over
the plants in the fall. If white or
blanched asparagus is desired, the
roots have to be set deeper and the
rows have to be hilled up similar to
what is done with celery.-Barnum'S
Midland Farmer
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his clothes and scramble into them, but
the maneuvering aud fighting that fol-
lowed carried E:m farther and farther
from the bushes on which his clothes
were drying.
while the men of the company were
laughing at jacks plight and calling
on him to dress up the fight went On,
and Jack said not a word. Finally, an
other brigade took up the pursuit of
the retreating confederates, and we
were ordered to our old position along
the river. Jack was again exultant, be-
cause he could see in the distance his
washing taking the air and the sun,
undisturbed by confederate or bullet.
All seemed going Jacks way again.
when the colonel, not a little proud of
his command, stopped to let the regi-
ment pass in review. He caught sight
of Jack, ordered the company to halt,
and Jack to step out of the ranks. He
thunderGd at the hapless fellow a score
of questions, winding up with: How
did you come to be in this plight, sir?
You are disgrace to the regiment and
the service, and want you to tell me
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-01-24
Prizes for Road Members.

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
~ 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
preemine 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
etgangs of laborers at work few days
before election or where farmers in the
autumn, when there is nothing else
to do, unite in a weeks voluntary serv-
ice as road members.
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A SUBSTANTIAL SILO.
Consider 1t an Experiment But
Absolute Necessity.

I 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-
detrimental, and I am willing to say
now that a 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 ad-
vising the building of thoroughly air.
tight walls. Whether we have yet
reached the ideal 1 am not sure. We
have been slowly solving during the
past ten years, and shall, no doubt,
make further improvements. I think,
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NEWSPAPER MAKING.
American Publishers Have Faith in
the Combination Idea.
EhSuEhts Suggested by an EnElisIl-
zAnn's Talk About Journal
zstic Trust-WOnders OF the
Mail Plate System.
Especial Chicago letter.

COMBINATIONS rule the day. 1t
4 may be true, as Senator Marcus
Aurelius Hanna, Ohio's world
famed president maker, said in the
heat of last years campaign, that there
are no trusts" but that the country
Is full of all sorts of combinations not
even the astutest politician could deny
without making a spectacle of himself.
Reckless competition is the basis OF
combination and cooperation. When
ever competition assumes that form of
extFavaganc which threatens to ruin
a certain line of business the men en-
gagged in it must either GO into bank
rupfcy or save themselves by agreeing,
one with the other, that the goods pro-
duced in their factories shall not be
sold below a certain price. This is
legitimate combina ton, quite as fair
and equitable as any other business
proposition having in view the best in
terests of the community at large. On
this basis, also, our great trade unions
have been built up; and no American
citizen, be he employer or working
man, can deny that legitimate organ
zzation has done more for the cause
of labor in one generation than has
been accomplished in 10 centuries of
competition between underpaid jour
z1eymen and artisans.
To the American country newspaper
publisher belongs the credit of having
been the first to arrive at true under
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-01-24

hint proceeded the organization of the
so-calied literary Syndicate" which
buys articles and sells them to editors
al over the country at a merely NOM
inal price To-day there is not metro
politan paper in the United States
which does not make copious use of this
Syndicate" stuff; and one Sunday pa
per, barring the local news, looks very
much like another, whether it be pub
lisled in New York, Chicago or San
Francisco. Several years ago the
writer, while guest of the Lotus club
at New York, asked a well-known
American author why these manu-
script dealers called their enterprises
''syndicates." 81 suppose" he replied,
because the stuff usually offered to
the public by our financial syndicates
is no good. A mere case of imitation,
you see."
There is now in this country an Eng
Iish editor and publisher, Mr.. Alfred
Harmsworth, who is entitled to our re.
spect and admiral ton because he hasha
the hardihood and good sense of intro
ducing American newspaper methods
in the management of the London
Mail Mr.. Harmsworth has declared
himself in favor of combination and
has suggested the forma ton of mann
moth syndicate-a real syndicate
which is to control the publication of
all the great newspapers of the world.
He would organize a stock company
with a vast paid-up capital for the pur
pose of buying up all the profitable pa
pers in Europe and America and freez-
ing out the stragglers. The combina-
ton would collect its own news, build
it's own telegraph and cable lines, man
ufacture its own paper and build it's
own machinery. 1t would be, in short,
the most powerful and unique interna-
tional enterprise ever conceived.
Mr.. Harmsworth's colossal dream
probably is not destined to be realized
in our time, but it happens to remind
the writer of most interesting inter-
national literary and business enter
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-01-24
PoTATo-oNIoN CULTURE.
West virginia Farmer Describes 3
Method That He Has Employed
for Several Seasons.

A reader in West Virginia tells me
how he raises his potato-onions, as
follows: 81 cover my ground with
good stable manure, then pillow this
under, and make the surface as fine
as possible by narrowing. Then I
lay off the rows about Is inches apart,
and set the onions in the rows about
six or seven inches apart, and cover
about six inches deep. I put the
large onions by themselves, and the
sets by themselves. The former
make sets to be planted out another
fall, while the sets make the large
onions for spring sales. 1 have early
onions in spring, and what is left over
I pull in July. to keep over for fall
planting. I do not leave them out
in the sun after pulling, but cure I'M
der shelter [ myself am not very
much in favor of these rather coarse
and high-favored bulbs. For earliest
onions I use the Egyptian, or Tree
winter onion, which is so hardy as to
grow whenever the ground is not
frozen. They give me green onions
for the table almost as early as spring
opens and nearly by the time that
we can plant sets outdoors. This I
do just as soon in spring as lit
tie patch can be gotten ready, and
always try to get Prizetaker sets,
which can be as easily grown as any
other sets, and are remarkably good
keepers, making by far the best-fa-
vored (mildest) green onions which
I can grow from any sets obtainable.
For green onions to come later by
practice is to plant Prizetaker and
Gibraltar seedlings (grown in green
houses) rather close in the rows and
as early in the spring as possible.
Then to provide the finest green on
ions for late spring and summer [ sow
seed of the Gibraltar onion thickly in
the row, almost as thicllly as for sets
in early spring, and repeat every few
weeks for successfully. Greiner in
Farm and Fireside.
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a lieutenant in the confederate army
under the name of Lieut.. Harry Bu-
ford, says the Chicago Tribune. In
this capacity she took part in several
battles, leading her men with great
fearlessness and skill and winning the
compliments of her superior officers
for gallantry on the field of battle.
In the latter part of the war she was
made an agent of the confederate
secret service, and in various dis
guises spent months in the north.
travelling repeatedly from New York
to Chicago, Philadelphia and other
cities. At one time she even succeed
ed in getting employment under the
head of the United States secret serv-
ice in New York city, and in that POI
sition was able to secure information
of great value to the confederacy.
At the battle of Balls Bluff she was
in command of a regiment, and the
men under her charge captured moro
than 100 federal prisoners. It was the
scene of bloodshed of which, she was
forced to be a witness here that final
ly led her to give up active service
in the army and go into the secret
service, which, while quite as danger
Gus, did not lead her constantly into
the presence of wounded and dying
men. During the whole of her service
she was never wounded, though it is
said that she often took greater
cbauoeS than ware necessary
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instantly how this happened. Answer
promptly, sir
Jacks comrades were In dismays
but Jack himself was cool and smiling.
He presented arms, and then. bringing
his rife to order, explained how he
came to wash up, and his theory about
getting into his clothes in case of an
alarm, and then added: But there was
no alarm. culnel. The Iebs rushed us,
and there was no time for any band
box business. There wasn't time for
anything. and 1 just got into line, and
[ want 10 ask you, culneI, right now, II
you had no Clothes on, and the rebS
came at you that way, and the captain
was a-ragin' and the orderly was a-cuss-
in and the boys was a-yellin' and ths
bullets was a-fiyin', 1 ask you what
would you do, culneI? Answer plompt-
ly'
1.-The colonel looked down at Jack, as
Happy Jack, never happier than in this
crisis, and the sternnesS went out of
his eyes and face, and smile came as
he said; I wouldn't have thought of
clothes, Jack. would have tried to do
my duty. (The boys remembered when
the colonel rode into fight in dressing
gown and slippers.) Go back to your
quarters, if you can find them, and get
into your Clothes just as soon as the
Lord will let you. I viii put your cap
tain under arrest for allowing you to
wash up in time of battle But he
didn't"
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prise that came under his observation
a few days ago, called the Mail Plate
Co. of Chicago. This concern, like the
stereotype plate houses, sends out
ready-set matter of a high character
to its customers, most of whom are
doing businessin out-of-the-way places.
The stereotype plate is heavy article
which is advantageously used by
American publishers, but to send it to
the orient or occident would entail eX-
press charges quite beyond the reach
of the nominally constituted antipode-
an or Arctic publisher. To fill the lat
ter's demands is the mission of the
mail plate, which is manufactured of
pyralin and can be sent all around the
globe for a few cents. The plate itself
is thin sheet of celluloid composition.
This is fastened to a metal base, which
the publishers keep in stock, and when
SO united the plate prints as well as it's
metal prototype. The cut explains the
modus operandi in detail.
The extent of this mail plate bust
ness is surprising, and cannot fail to be
gratifying to our national vanity. It's
purely American reading matter is
regularly placed before men and wom-
en- of every nationality. That this state
ment is by no means an eXaggeration
was satisfactorily proved by a visit to
the company's shipping room, where
Manager 1. H. Whipple pointed out
packages ready for. shipment to Nome
City, Skaguay, Juneau and Sitka, in
Alaska; Dawson City, in Yukon terri
tory; Mexico City, Monterey and Nue.
va Casas Grandes, in Mexico; Havana
and Santiago, in Cuba; Belize, in Brit
ish Honduras; Kingston, in Jamaica,
W. l.; Moulmein, in East India; Ma
Mia, in the Philippines; BluefieIds, in
Nicaragua, and Auckland, in New
Zealand. On the day before plates had
been shipped to Cape Colony and the
country of the Boer in South Africa.
1t seems almost wonderful that the
publisher of a paper printed in the
English language in far-away Hong
Kong can, on the arrival of the steamer
from San Francisco, stroll up to the
post Office and secure dainty package
containing a variety of articles, pro-
fusely illustrated and ably written, the
the whole thing ready fo= the press, at
cost which must seem trifing even
in those countries of the orient where
AoOOA SS1L NC ndO 1OI d U1Hs
Like the patent inside and the stere-
otype plate, the mail plate is triumph
of combination and cooperation, in
whose advantages every newspaper
reader has a share. And it is also tri-
umph for American inventive genius
and American postal methods, which
assure safe and prompt delivery at q
triding expense.
Trusts which control the output and
prices of the necessities of life unques-
tionably are menace to society, but
healthy combinations having in view
the development of general activity
and the creation of new business enter
.prises are entitled to public respect
and commentator.
G. W. wETPPIERT.
In German cities fresh oysters cost
from 50 to rs cents a dozen.
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WHAT A TOMATO IS MADE OF.

q. Solids Other Than Sugar IL Protein)
accompanying Illustration. Of course,
the greater part is water, Of the
nutrients sugar is by far the largest
amount, being 1888 per cent There is
a wide range in the different samples.
Some specimens contain less than one
per cent. and others as high as four
and one-half per cent. The protein
content is low and amounts usually
to onehalf per cent. The fat amounts
to about one-half per cent, or prac-
tically the same as the protein
Orange Judd Farmer.
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THE AVERAGE TOMATO.
Its Food Value Analysed by Prof.
Harry Snyder of the Minnesota
ENperim emf Station.

The extensive use of the tomato for
the table has resulted in many inquiries
concerningits food value. Prof. Harry
Snyder, of the Minnesota experiment
station, presents a series of analyses,
the results of which are shown in the
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A BRAVE SOUTHERN WOMAN.
One Who Served as a LIeutenane
in the Confederate
Army.

Cerai1ily the most sensational part
played by woman in the civil war
was that of Nine. Velasquez. a pretty
young southern woman of Spanish
descent, who disguised herself as a
man and for many months served as