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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17
An Appeal for Prisoners.

To the Friends of those who sit in Prison
Houses:
Christmas is at hand and l come again
to beg of you to send me your nice papers
and periodicals to destitute for you in
our State Prison and county Jail l saw
more than thirty sick prisoners last sun
day, all of whom would nave peen glad
of paper or anything that showed them
somebody remembered them. would be
so glad of picture papers and CARDS Ior
the women and children. Please send as
soon as yu see this notice so that may
have time to properly prepare your gift.
Yours in the Masters name,
MRS. /. c.. BLAIR,
No. 123 Saunders Street.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17
Heavy Rains in Kentucky.
(By he Associated Press. J

Louisville, KY, Dec. 15.-Heavy rains
in the valley of the Mississippi, which
have continued in some instances since
last Thursday. have sent many stream;
out of their banks with considerable dam.
age to railroad and other property.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17

The ladies of the w. C. r. U. will be
glad of any contribution in the way of
aprons, handkerchiefs or any article or
confectionaries to be carried to the
Aims House. They can be sent to Mrs.
G. N. Walters. New Bern Avenue; Miss
Narcissa Hutchings, on Edenton street
or Mrs. w. H. Worth, on Dawson street
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17
coLoRING oLEoMARGARINE.

The Prairie Farmer comes out as the
apologist of coloring oleo with the old
stale arguments in favor of the article.
1t says: 'Oleomargarine is a wholesome
purse conditions make it incumbent on
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17

LOST-A LADY'S DOUBLE CASE WALT
ham gold watch. Plain case, fancy
face with gold hands. Case No. zoe, S36.
Watch is attached to carved f1uer de
lis pin. set with three jewels. Finder
will be suitably rewarded by returning
watch to Mr.. T. B. MoselY
12-17-2t
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17

II opportunity offers there will be an
EFFORT to secure the ratification of the
new treaty with Spain before the adj
1ournment of Congress for the Christ
mas holidays
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17
HESSIAN FLY.

]. F. Warlick, Grouse, n. c., writes
that the fly is playing havoc with the
wheat there owing to the late, frostless
autumn. He sends samples that certain
ly contain the pupae of the fly really to
transform in the spring into the perfect
insect to lay eggs and hatch larvae to
his neighbors are blowing the wheat
down and Resolving. hoping in this way
to counteract the effects of the fly. and
asks if this is wise. We are inclined to
believe that his neighbors are doing the
best thing that can be done. We believe
the burying of the pupae will probably
destroy them and that the wheat sown
now may escape. OF course this could
not be done in a colder climate. but l
have known at least one CROP of wheat
made III Eastern North Carolina that
turned out thirty bushels per acre. and
it was not Sown till the middle OF De-
cember after the cotton was off the field
If advantage is now taken Of the mild
weather to get the wheat up the chances
are that we will have an unusually mild
winter, and we had rather take the
chances on blowing the fly infested wheat
down and re-Sowing at once than to
wait for them to get in their work in
the spring. A field infested now will
certainly be badly damaged in the spring,
and the late sown wheat will have at
least as good chance. OF course we
would not advise the practice of sowing
as late as December. as a rule. even in
the mild climate of Carolina. But it is
a choice of two evils. and the buried
wheat will help the crop.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17
Telegraphic Briefs.

The Education bill passed it's third
reading yesterday in the British House
of Lords.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17

The New York Farmer says that there
is an article being sent out in barrels
from Chicago to dairymen, called "but-
ter help" 1t is a sort of mucilage that
smells like butter and has 40 per cent
of water. 1t is intended to increase the
bulk of the butter by glueing the casein,
etc. together. 1t would seem that a
dairyman using this would come under
the oleomargarine law. and his butter
would be simply another form of oleo-
and liable to the same tax as an arti-
fetal imitation of butter.
The Michigan folks are we'll aware of
the value of Farmers Institutes, and in
no State are they more thoroughly car
lied On. We have received from the
Michigan Agricultural College a list of
IS 2-day Institutes and IS 1-day insti-
tutes to be held during December and
January We have not room for the
whole list, but our Michigan friends can
doubtless get it by writing to the Agri-
cultural College. Some day the Legis-
latures of other States may wake up to
the Importance of these Institutes and
appropriate funds for their maintenance.
Quite a list is being planned, we believe,
in Pennsylvania. but we have not yet
received it.
The st. Paul Globe says that there
are indications that the big oleo manu-
facturers are about to abandon oleO and
go into butter manufacture on large
scale with the purpose of controlling the
whole butter manufacture. In other
words, they want to make big butter
combine and get the entire dairy inter-
est under their thumbs. The idea seems
to be for the packers to go into the mar
ket and bid UP butter prices so high as
to populariZe the oleo in it's uncolored
condition, and dairymen are warned
against playing into their hands by ac-
cepting small advances on what the
creameries are paying, since the effort
will be to freeze out the creameries and
then TO have the dairymen where they
will be helpless to oppose the packers.
Dairymen should keep their eyes on this
scheme and not allow themselves to be
deceived by temporary advance in price.
With the creameries killed off they will
be in the hands of the oleo men.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17

Senator Foraker has introduced in the
senate bill to provide a government
for the Island of Guam.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17

I. J. Watkins, Poplar HILL N. C.-Here,
where we have little frost and heavy
rains in winter. nothing is gained by
Fall blowing 1t may be Of Importance
to the Northern farmers in getting an
early start in spring, but We are not so
hurried. have plowed alluvial land with
a heavy coat of vegetation and thought
it helped in the mechanical condition.
Land plowed in the fall is generally
closer in the spring than before. l have
tried burning in the spring and plow-
ing at once with good effect. We have
abandoned fall blowing unless some crop
is sown as a winter cover. Experience
is dear school. and 1 have had my
share in it, and hope the younger gen.
Grafton may profit by it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17

IL opportunity Offers Inere Will De an
effort to secure the ratification of the
new treaty with Spain before the ad-
journment of Congress for the Christ
mas holidays.
Admiral Dewey, commanding the bat
tleship fleet, with the exception of the
Massachusetts, sailed from San Juan,
Porto Rico, for Culebra, yesterday morn
ing and engaged the vessels in tactical
evolutions.
At Guthrie, o. T., William Cross, the
recent Democratic nominee for Delegate
to Congress, defeated by 1874 votes, has
announced that he has given up the idea
OF contesting the election of his opponent,
B. B. Mcclure.
Murder in the second degree was the
verdict returned last night against j.
W1lfred Blondin, who, for more than two
weeks had been on trial at Boston
charged with wife murder. His counsel
will make motion for new trial.
Second Deputy Commission of Police
Piper and Police Inspector Brooks, were
served with summonses in New York yes
terday in suit for $6,054, which Richard
Garfield has brought against them and
other officials in an endeavor to recover
damages for the destruction wrought on
the night Canfield's house was raided.
A summons also has been issued for Dis
trict Attorney Jerome, who is at present
out Of the city.
In the Court Of Criminal Correction at
st. Louis, Judge Moore declined to hold
as a fugitive from Justice William r.
Draper, the newspaper correspondent
for whose arrest warrant was issued
Saturday at Wichita Kansas, by the
county judge on charge of criminal
libel preferred by the Philadelphia North
American. The judge said the warrant
charging libel was issued subsequent to
the bringing of the proceedings in st.
Louis
Senior Agulas Rosapina, editor Of the
Diario Americana. at Guatemala City,
who arrived at New Orleans last night,
says he was within two squares of the
scene of the killing of William A. Fftz-
gerald by W. Godfrey Hunter, Jr, and
declares that Hunter shot in self-defense.
According to his story Fitzgerald fired
first, and Hunter then began shooting.
Hunter was with Bailey and the meeting
with Fitzgerald was accidental Fitz-
gerald slapped Hunters face and they
grappled until Fitzgerald pulled away
and drew his pistol.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17

Admiral Dewey, commanding the bat
tleship fleet, with the exception of the
Massachusetts, sailed from San Juan,
Porto Rico, for Culebra, yesterday morn
ing and engaged the vessels in tactical
evolutions
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17

At Guthrie, o. T., William Cross, the
recent Democratic nominee for Delegate
to Congress, defeated by 1874 votes, has
announced that he has given up the idea
OF contesting the election of his opponent,
B. B. Mcclure.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17

Murder in the second degree was the
verdict returned last night against j
Wilfred Blondin, who, for more than two
weeks had been on trial at Boston
charged with wife murder. His counsel
will make motion for a new trial.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-27
AVERAGE AGE OF THE DOG.
According to This Authority But Few
Live to BE Twenty and Most
Die Mt Ten.

The age to which a dog lives in the
ordinary course is always a somewhat
interesting subject, especially at the
present time, when so much is done
in the way of breeding for early ma
turity. For instance, we have both
collies and fox terriers becoming
bench champions before they are well
out of their puppyhood, but it is sad
to say that in a majority of such cases
the overshown dog afterward rapidly
d~egenerates or dies an early death,
says the Pail Mall Gazette.
A correspondent writes to the Field
of the death of his fox terrier at the
advanced age of Is years, having been
born in 1854. He was either a son or
q grandson of Brokenhurst Joe, his
late owner does not know which. This
is, no doubt, a case of unusual longevi-
ty; but instances of dogs living to IA
and Is years are common.
DR.. Leeney recorded the death of a
dog of Lord Ogilvie's at 80 years old,
it arising from an accident; while w.
L. Littleton-Geach about the same
time mentioned two of his own dogs,
one of which was then living hard on
to 20 years old; the other had just died
when over that age. The well-known
fox terrier Belgrave Joe was born
July 81, 1868, and died January IS, 1888;
while another aged terrier was one of
a working stamp which came from
George Carter, of the Bedale, born in
january, 1880, and died February IS,
1900. In several of the above well-au-
thenticated cases Of longevity death
either arose from accident or wa
brought about by the owner owing
to the growing feebleness of the poor
creature. No mean can be struck on
the average age of the ordinary dog,
but this might be taken at ten years
as he is now.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-27
HOME CHEESE MAKING.
Under Proper Conditions and With
Able Management the Industry
Can he Made to Pay.

Can home or dairy cheese making be
made to pay? 1t certainly can be UNI
per proper conditions, and if conduct
tie by a person with some previous
practical experience. The best place
to require this experience is in a reg
ular cheese factory, where one might
work as a subordinate for a time. l
de- not think that n should attempt
the business on a farm unless the milk
of 20 or 25 cows can be depended ON.
Makeshift facilities and apparatus
should not receive recognition, as they
will not pay in the end.
Many fastidious consumers prefer
lairy-made to factory cheese, but on
account of the limited amount manu-
featured, cannot get their wants sup
piled. Thus, the field is open for those
who can furnish a first-class article
in this nov neglected line.
One should first possess cows that
are copious mixers, yet whose milk
will test at least three per cent. of
butter fat. This will insure good, rich
cheese, a necessary adjunct of quality.
A small vatof a capacity suited to your
needs should be employed, and a press
with hoops to mold cheese of from
ten to Is pounds in weight. Any first
class dairy supply house ought to be
able to furnish a complete set of ap-
paratus for a dairy cheese making
plant.
1t is best to have a cheese house
complete by itself for manufacturing
purposes, and the making room is kept
sweet and clean. as is essential, can be
used for the storage of the nights
milk, after it has been aerated. The
vat itself is a good place in which to
store the nights milking, and running
water about it. or ice, car be employed
to keep it cool. If you make the mis-
take of skimming any part of the milk
it will be fatal to your success as an
amateur cheese maker. What the pub.
lie wants is a rich, nutty favored, reli
able quality cheese. and that of small,
bulk. This can so easily be produced
in a ZONE dairy.
Strive to please the public taste ant
needs in this direction, and you can Sc
cure from one to two cents per pound
for your product than the aver
age factory article. As the making
will take one persons time from hall
to three-quarters Of every day, diaries
under 20 OF rs cows would hardly find
it profitable.
Remember also that the profitable
ness all lies in your being thorougl
and in dead earnest, in pushing your
business to a success. DO not offer you,
cheese for sale until they r thor
oughly cured, which takes from 80 t1
40 days. Do not launch into the bust
ness without some previous expert
ence. IT you haven't that experience
get it as an initial step.--George y
Newell, in Orange Judd Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-27
Benns for the Dniry Cows,

Beans have not been much used for
COW feed, but where they have been
used they have appeared to give very
excellent satisfaction. They carry
about 23 per cent. of digestible protein,
so per cent. of digestible carbohydrates
and Ia per cent. of digestible fat.
Just how much of these steamed
beans could be fed without injuriously
affecting the product is perhaps a prob
lem, but commencing in a moderate
way one might increase gradually un-
til the daily allowance reached nearly
or quite four pounds. We think it
would be a good plan to mix some
wheat bran with the beans. We do
not think it advisable to get along
with only silage for roughage. The
cow seems to crave more or less dry
forage in connection with silage or
aven with Observation-Disclosures Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-27
A VERY STRONG LETTER.

La Fargo, Wis. VIM. I. Payne, OF
this place, has written a rather start,
ling letter to the papers. He says:
Il was in great pain across my back
for four weeks, and was taking med
icine from a doctor all the time, but
it did not do me any good.
Il bought a box of Dodd's Kidney
Pills, and had not taken more than
four or five doses before l noticed
that they were doing me good.
They helped me right along, and
/ kept on using them till l had used
four boxes, when the pain left me al
together. One box of Dodd's Kidney
Pills has done me more good thar
five dollars worth of doctors med
icine.
"This remedy has certainly worked
wonders in my case, and | feel it my
duty to give it the credit due"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-27
IN THE SUpERLATIvE DEGREE.

The shortest book in the Old Testa-
ment is that of Obadiah, being only one
chapter of % verses.
Tinium is the hardest metal. Itlooks
like copper, but will scratch rock crys-
tai.
The best homemade fire-extinguish-
er is four ounces of pearl ash dissolved
in hot water, and added to a pail Of
cold water.
Winchester, founded in 1866, is the
Oldest of E~ngland's public schools.
Eton, founded in 1440, comes next in
point of age.
The hardest wood in the world is not
ebony, but cocus, which is much used
for making flutes and other similar mu-
steal instruments.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-27
The Cow and Her MIX.

Prof. Clinton ID. Smith, after five
years investigation of the milk ques-
ton, publishes the following conclu-
sions: 81. A COW yieds as much rich
milk as a heifer as she will as a ma
ture cow. 2. The milk is as rich in the
first month of the period of lactation
as it will be later, except perhaps dur
ing the last few weeks of the milk flow,
when the COW is rapidly drying off. 3.
There is little difference in seasons as
to the quality Of the milk. While the
cows are at pasture the milk is neither
richer nor poorer, on the average, than
the milk yielded when the cows were on
winter feed. 4. The milk of a fair-sized
dairy herd varies little in composition
from day to day, and radical variations
in this respect should be viewed with
suspicion"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-27
PURE MILK
Upon II, Say Sanitary Authorities.
Depends the Health of Entire
Communities

In nothing that is bought for humaL
food is the necessity of cleanliness and
purity more manifest than in milk.
Meats and vegetables are for the most
part thoroughly cooked before they
are eaten, fruits are peeled and nuts
are shelled; but milk is more or less
injured in flavor and in nutritive prop
critics by boiling, and has no protec-
tive cover to keep it clean. 1t is Il there
fore essential for the consumer to
know the history of the milk he gets.
In view of the Importance of this
question the provider for the family
should if possible himself inspect
the dairy his milk comes from.
and should satisfy himself that
perfect cleanliness is the rule
in every stage. The COW barn
should be well ventilated and sunny,
the cows should be healthy and clean,
the mixer should have well-washed
hands, and the udder should be washed
before each milking.
In many diaries and farms all these
essentials are now strictly observed
and if the milk is then bottled at once
and the bottle is kept sealed until de.
livered, one may feel reasonably Ger
tain that the milk is fit to drink. II
this certainty is denied one, especially
if there are young children in the
family. the only recourse is steriliza-
ton. Boiling for a few minutes will
kill all germs, but at the same time il
kills the milk, which becomes a diff
ferent fluid and, al many physicians
believe, less nutritive than raw milk
Another and less Objectionable pro
cess is what is called "Pasteurization,'
by which is meant keeping the milk al
a temperature of about 10 degrees
for 20 minutes, but never letting il
come to a boil.
Either boiling or Paste,Hization will
destroy the germs which cause acit
fermentation or ~putreaction, as wei
as the germs of tuberculosis; but i
these changes have occurred, boiling
will not annihilate the poisonous prod
acts already formed; it will not max,
bad milk good.
The addition of any of the variou:
representatives. to milk is only an ex
change of one poison for another, anc
should be condenned.-Youth's Com
~ponion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-27
MUNICIPAL
Great ucce Has Attended Their
Establishment in the French
City OF Nantes.

The city of Nantes, France, has
evolved an inexpensive method for
supplying food to the destitute. For
several years the city has maintained
kitchens where persons without
money may present tickets and Sc
cure q warm meal. A dormitory has
been added to one of the buildings
where about so people can be accom-
modated. For three nights these
beds are free to the same persons,
when they must make way for 9TH
ers. During the stay at the dormi-
tory each one is given two meal tick
Its a day, says the Minneapolis Jour
nal and Engineer.
The kitchens themselves are only
open from October Is to April Is
each year, but the dormitory is open
all the year round. Tickets emitting
the holder to anything on the bill of
fare are placed in the bakeries and
tobacco shops throughout the city,
where they can be purchased by char
itably inclined persons to be handed
to the applicants for aid. Meats, fish
and eggs on the bill of fare cost two
cents a plate. Beans, rice, etc, are
one cent.
The expense of these kitchens has
been growing less each year. The
total expense for the last year was
about $9,264, and the receipts $7,720.
The privilege of taking meals at
these kitchens is not restricted to the
destitute, but many workmen take
their meals there on account of the
moderate price. A moderately sub.
stantial meal can be obtained for five
cents.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-27

The idea that the waves of light
produce q mechanical push, or pres
sure, was advanced years ago by Clerk
Maxwell, but he could only offer q
theoretical proof. Recently Prof.
Lebedew, Of Moscow, has made an ex-
perimental demonstration of the
pressure of light" He employs a
radiometer resembling the familiar
Crookes radiometers with their re-
yolving vanes, but uses a larger and
more completely exhausted bulb, from
which the heating effect that is the
principal agent in moving the Crookes
vanes is excluded. When the light
falls upon the vanes they are driven
before it, and the intensity of the
pressure thus revealed comes within
ten per cent. of that calculated by
Maxwell. The effect Is independent
Of the color Of the light, and direct.
ly proportional to it's energy.-Sci-
| ence
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-27
SAFETY MILK PAIL.
Upsetting Does Not Waste Its Con
tents and 1t Also Prevents Gath
cring of Impurities.

Many a pail of milk has been lost by
a kick from the GOV just as the task
of milking her was about finished and
many a stray bit of dirt falls into
the open pail if the farmer is not ex-
tremely careful in his labors. John
Heustis King, of Clarity, Ala, believes
that the pail he has just designed will
save the milk in case of an upset pail
and also prevent the gathering of i'm
purities.
In the picture The details Of con
struction of this improved pail are
shown. The top of the pail has a
screw-threaded iange, to which a re-
ceiving bowl is secured by Il similar
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-27
DEHORNING CATTLE.
How to Construct n Cage In which
the Operation Can he Performed
without Trouble.

In response to inquiry the National
Stockman republishes the %subjoined
description of a dehorning cage:
Dimensions, 6 feet long, G feet high,
3h feet wide at top in front and Az
feet wide at top at back end; bottom
or foot board a foot wide, with seven
,~cleats ~ inch thick, a foot long,
nailed it to keep cattle from
slipping; footboard 2 inches thick
and rests on three 2 by 4 cross-pieces
1 feet long. To these are bolted up
right pieces Z feet long, 2 by 4 inches,
for nailers for sides of cage. Across
the top cage are used two strips l by
4 inches for each set of uprights,
bolted one on each side of upright,
The inside of this frame is boarded