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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
CHAPTER III.
Paul s Discovery.

1t is essential at this point in our
story to return to the Klondike. 1t is
again night, and the little camp on
the densely wooded stream is wild
with excitement and confusion. Men
were hurrying to and fro and giving
utterance to angry EXPLANATIONS.
Among the most excited was our old
friend Gid Myers. Gid had a rope in
his hand, and was gesticulating wildly
toward a cabin that had been erected
on the banks of the stream, around
which stood four or FIVE men with
rifles in their hands.
No wonder the gold-diggers were ex-
cited. A terrible crime had been COM
mitted in their little community. 1t
was the first that had ever been
known on the Klondike, and these
hardy frontiersmen felt like wreaking
vengeance upon the perpetrators.
Il tell we, boys, we ought to make
a holy example O. that precious rascal
in yonder shanty. We have found gold
here by the million o. dollars, an when
we thought we had an honest com.
munity four thieves pounce upon us,
rob one O. us, an almost kill him. How
let's hang the Teller Crack Lash
wounded"
"Wait, boys" cautioned Glum ltals.
ton, who had listened to the harrahgue
of Gid Myers. This chap what got a
little more lead in his skin than he
calkerlated on amt goin' t git away.
tell we that robbery warn't done by
accident. 1t warn't planned in min
nit neither"
Now yer shoutin', comrade," put in
a grizzled veteran.
ITO be continued.)
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
An Error That Never Dies.

The old idea that food affects the
fat content of milk seems to be one
that dies hard. A recent bulletin of
the Chicago health department said:
There is all the more need of keep
ing milk sweet at the present time,
since the frequent rains have made
pastures so rank and watery that a
much larger proportion than usual of
the milk supply is deficient in butter
fat and other nutrient qualities. Full
ly one-twelfth of all the samples now
examined in the laboratory are below
the ordinance standard in this re-
spect, and large number of suits
have been begun against the vendors
of this poor milk" Who the man Is
that is responsible for the bulletin we
do not know. 1t serves as good ex-
cuse for the men that wish to water
their milk. They go into court and
plead that the water got into their
milk by way of the udder of the cows,
and ION account of too much rain
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
Success With Gathered Cream.

S. e. Oaks in an address to Wiscon-
sin buttermakers said:
If gathered creamery is run right
and it can be if men Of the right kind
are at the head of it, the first thing is
a good number one buttermaker, and
in picking out good number one
buttermaker do not pick out a man
who, when you go into his test room,
you will find his sample jars all
smeared up with cream from the top
to the bottorl so that anyone cannot
see through them. l would not want
that kind of man because If he is
dirty and slack in the test room and
with his sampling jars he will be
slack with his other work, and if you
get one that is clean and understands
making butter, and the creamery Is
run right, and you use box churns
and wheel workers so that you will
know how much salt you want to use
in your butter and will not have to
guess at it, l think the best grade Of
butter can be made and get the high
est market price at gathered cream
cry; but if combined churn is used
in a gathered creamery you do not
know anything about how much salt
to use, but l will admit they are all
right for lazy man. will say that
if a gathered creamery is run right,
and it can be, the patrons will get a
larger profit than they can from any
separator factory. 1t should be CO.
operative creamery and the overrun,
or profit, should be going back to the
patrons and making them better sat
isfied than if it were going into the
hands of an Individual.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
In Bed Three Months.

Oolitic, Ind, Sept. 15.-Mr. W. A.
Terry of this place suffered for
months with very severe case Of
Kidney Trouble.
He was so very bad that he, was
almost confined to. his bed for three
months.
He tried many medicines but he
could not get any relief till he COM
menced to use remedy introduced
here some time ago as a cure for
Kidney Trouble, the. name Of which is.
Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Mr.. Terry says that the second day
after commencing to use this remedy
he could notice very marked i'm
provement in his condition and in a
short time he was able to-, go about
again.
He is naturally filed with gratitude
to Dodd's Kidney Pills For the inn
mense amount of good they have done
him and says:
Il would recommends Dodd'ss Kid
ney Pills to every sufferer rom kid
ney or bladder troublep Tor from my
experience l am sure they ere the
best medicine to be 5ad for all dis.
eases OF. this nature
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
Queer Case of Egg Eating.

A writer in an unidentified exchange
says: l have curious case OF egg
eating now in my yards. A few weeks
ago it began to happen regularly that
some of the eggs in two adjoining
nests in one corner of one of the pens
were broken and eaten late in the
afternoon, the eggs not broken being
very much daubed up, ad .-e nests
torn to pieces. 1t was never done
early in the day, and if eggs were
gathered about or o'clock there
was no trouble. AS soon as | had an
opportunity I set watch for the cui-
prit, and caught two-year-old hen
in the act. She was shut In a small
pen occasionally used for sitters until
an opportunity to dress her occurred.
The next evening when | came home
| discovered that she had laid on the
floor, but had paid no attention to the
egg. l put in a nest box, and leIt
her there for a few days. She laid
almost daily, and never disturbed the
nest or egg.
There was one hen-identity I'M
known-which, instead of laying IN
the house, laid among some raspberry
bushes beside stone wall at one SIDE
of the yard. AS no eggs were lald
there while this hen was shut up, the
conclusion was reached that she was
that hen. Taking it for granted that
as she did not modest her own eggs,
she was not a confirmed egg eater, l
returned her to the pen from which
she had been taken. The nest by the
wall again contained an egg almost
daily. For perhaps a week the nests
in the houses were not disturbed
Then one day l came home late in
the afternoon to find those same two
nests all torn up. Next day | came
earlier and caught this same hen In
the act.
Again | shut her up intending to
kill her-this time in an unused dog
house, putting couple of Stats over
the opening. She laid here the next
day and the day following, and did
not attempt to eat her egg. So as
final test put few eggs in the nest
in the pen where the breeding hens
are kept, and put her in the yard. In
less than ten minutes she had found
her way to this nest, had broken the
eggs-and was back in the dog house.
This time she gets no reprieve. But
why doesn't she break her own eggs!
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
The Fat of Fowls.

To properly fatten a fowl Is a
science. That fowl is not properly
fattened which has large amount OF
fat in layers under the skin and
around the intestines. Around the
intestines it may be, but the flesh
should be rather permeated by TAT
than surrounded by fat. The flesh
should be evenly infltrated by fat.
Fat should not show through the skin,
nor should there be any fat under the
skin to show no matter how thin the
skin may be. In France a well-fat-
tened bird is one that has a good sup
ply of flesh over the back. When that
is attained the buyers feel certain that
the breast meat is in good condition,
as fat more readily accumulates on
the back than on the breast. To fat
ten birds properly requires food rich
in nitrogen as we'll as carbohydrates.
1t also requires some attention to
breeding, as the quality to fatten prop
erly must be inbred to very con-
siderable extent. AS yet we have
done little along the line of determin-
ing what breeds fatten most perfectly.
Probably in each breed will be found
strains of fowls that have the desired
qualities Before long, experimental
ton will without doubt be made along
this line. The result should greatly
improve the quality of the fattened
fowls we see in our markets.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
Moist Air in Incubators.

The incubator which will furnish
its air nearly or quite saturated with
moisture, so as to prevent drying OF
the embryo at any stage, will prevent
the larger proportion Of the deaths in
the last stages OF incubation, and fur
nish large and stronger chicks to be
brooded, says bulletin of the Rhode
Island Station. 1t would seem to be
preferable to allow the heated air to
mass over a wicking or cloth saturated
with moisture just before or upon en-
tering the incubator 1t is doubtful
whether saturation of the air of the
room will ever be fully satisfactory
on account of the atmospheric
changes. although much may be done
by keeping the room closed. Where
comparatively tight, unventilated
rooms are used, the continual burning
of lamps goes far toward using up the
oxygen and raising the temperature
outside the incubators, so that more
moisture is necessary. To wait for
the heated air to take up necessary
moisture from pans within the incu-
bator, seems subject the eggs also
to the same influence, and to permit
their moisture to be taken up. All
tendencies of this kind will be avoided
wen the air is admitted saturated
with moisture, or nearly SO, after be
ing heated.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
HELPS Make Criminals

The species of hero-worship7 Of
which the famous outlaw Tracy was
the object is a perverted moral SEN
timent which is largely responsible
for the existence of just such crimi,
nails, and as long as it exists so long
will the hero-criminal flourish and
prey upon his fellow creatures re-
garding even their lives as no more
than lawful tribute to his own might
and Observation-Disclosures American.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
Extensive.

"Yes," said the man with the hob
by, "the cultivation of prize flowers is
a very expensive fad, bat the results
are worth all the trouble. Why, I've,
got single blossom in my collection
that cost $40" Rem kable, sheIy,"
said Col. Bluegrass of Louisville, but
l have blossom on my nose, subj.
that cost mo- than youah entiah. con-
servatory."
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
Advancement In India.

One of the native rulers of India,
who was educated in England, has
issued decree permitting the re-
marriage of widows. When 1t Is
known that in India there are more
than 20,000,000 widows, many of them
children under 10 years of age, and
that the condition of widowhood is
virtual slavery, the significance OF
this decree as an entering wedge in
removing one of the curses of India
its child widows-is plainly appar-
ent.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
What Men Like in Men.

Men like in men these traits: The
honor that ennobles; the justice that
insures the right; the reasonableness
that mellows and makes plain; the
courage that proclaims virility; the
generous instinct that disdains all
meanness; the modesty that makes
no boast, the dignity that wins re-
spect; the fineness and the tenderness
that know and feel.-Rafford Pyke in.
Cosmopolitan.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
Pure Water for Butter Washing.

The keeping quality Of butter de-
ponds very greatly on the water In
which it is washed. If the water looks
clear it is generally supposed to be
pure. But the microscope has shown
that the water that looks as clear as
crystal is frequently the abiding place
of disease germs as well as of ferment
germs of various kinds. We predict
that the time will come when butter
made in our first-class creameries Will
be washed in sterilized water. There
have been numerous cases where but
ter made under highly scientific con-
ditions has gone off favor in short
time and subsequent Investigations
has shown that the apparently pure
water in which it was washed was
the cause. In the home of the farmer
the well is usually depended on to fur
as for other uses. Too often the well
is dirty from different causes. We
have seen such wells where the water
actually was odorous with decaying
animal life. Yet after the water be-
came tainted it was still used for
weeks by the family. One such well
on being cleaned out was found to
contain great masses of dead angle
worms. 1t is no unusual thing for
frogs and even mice to get into wells
and become decayed before their pres
ence is detected. Even when nothing
Of this kind exists the water may not
be pure enough to use for the washing
of butter. Germs of many kinds cap
able of reproducing themselves in the
butter may be in the water. 1t is an
easy matter for the farmer to boil
water used for the washing of butter.
This is advisable certainly when long
keeping butter is desired. 1t would
not be amiss to use sterilized water at
all times. Could we but bring 1t into
general use in the washing Of butter
the spread of disease would be pre-
vented in some degree. 1t has been
shown that even in butter typhoid few
err and other disease germs have been
carried.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
DAMAGE DONE BY LocUsTs.
Seventeen-Year Specimens Have Be-
gun Their Work.

Seventeen-Year Specimens Have Be-
gun Their Work.
The 17-year locusts are beginning
to show what real damage they can
do. When they first appeared in num-
bers in parts of Maryland a few weeks
ago the farmers charged them with
but very little damage; now the resi-
dents tune has changed, and all about
you can hear them saying: THE To-
Gusts are running my shade and fruit
trees" According to the farmers, the
greatest damage being done by the
locusts is to the limos of trees. After
the locust energies from the ground
it at once makes for the body of the
tree, and sticks upon it until ready to
emerge from its shell, which is exactly
the shape of the insect, legs and all.
The shell breaks lengthwise of the
locust, from the middle of the back
to the head. Out of this opening the
locust comes forth as white as sheet.
It Immediately begins to crawl to the
trunk of a tree. 1t is not long be.
fore it begins to get darker in color,
until within a few hours 1t becomes
almost black, with the exception of
the body and the eyes, which remain
a reddish brown. AS soon as they
turn dark they proceed to the extreme
ends of the trees where they do the
damage. The females sting kills the
branches. Chickens, dogs and spar
rows are making short work of the
insects when they come in contact
with them. The crops in the fields
have not suffered as yet.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
Average Waves.

In the matter of wages there is
marked divergence in the different
sections of the country. The aver
age of the North Atlantic states is
s459 per worker. In the North Cen
trial states the average is s44S.. The
lowest wages are paid in the SGath-
ern sates-$334 per worker in the
South Atlantic states. Tho Western
states show the highest average.
S556
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
Dirt in Butter Cannot Be Hidden.

am not of the opinion that it takes
as much skill to make pound of flour
as it does to make pound of butter,
neither do l know of any other article
of food that little neglect in its man
ufacture would cause it to deteriorate
so fast. The interior of flour mill, If
not perfectly clean would not perhaps
injure the quality of the flour; at any
rate the consumer would probably
never know the difference, bat with
butter it Is different. The consumer
is being educated to tell whether the
milk and cream was perfectly clean,
from which the butter was made, and
when any impurities get into the milk,
no known method will eliminate them;
they will remain until the butter is
consumed. So for this reason it takes
more care and skill to make butter
than any other articlo of food that
Inow of, and everything must be per-
feet in the creamery.-F. A. Leighton.
Some men take pains naturally and
some give them the same way.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
Work of BuiIdinq Societies.

The magnitude of the work carried
on by the building societies in the
United Kingdom may be appreciated
from the fact that during the finan-
cial year 1900 the receipts Of 2,3O7
societies, with a membership of less
than 100000 amounted to G37,771,-
262. OF this sum a36,5S6,776 is set
down to the credit of 546,3S3 Eng
lish members. Scotland has G674,-
S43 for S6.075 members, and Ireland
511,145 for 1851 members.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
PERCENTAGE of Fall Chicks Saved.

A correspondent of the Farmers
Review requests information as to the
proportion of fall incubator chicks
usually saved. We pass the query to
the readers that are raising incubator
chicks in the fall. Let us hear from
them as to their experiences in the
saving of the chicks Matched at this
time of year. How does the number
compare with chicks Matched in the
spring Of the year?
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
Honesty In aermans.

Valuable papers and $500 in notes
were contained in a pocketbooS
which an American accidentally drop
ped overheard from yacht during
the. Kiel regatta, The po'Aetbook was
washed ashore later at. Ashaustrand
and picked up by a workman, who
restored it with its contents intact
30 the owner.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
Instant Relief from rheumatism and
Neuralgia.

NCuTdi9ids
Here is a case: Mr.. T. Shepherd OF
Whltburn, Sunderland, Ohio, says:
my wife suffered severely from rheu-
matism, and 1erra4 gia. She could not
get one moments rest and was nearly
crazed with pain. Obtained instant re-
lief and permanent cure by using
the contents Of one bottle of st. ia
cobs Oil. There is no other remedy in
the world that will do this. The IN
Simultaneous effect which st. Jacobs OLE
produces is part of its half century
record" st. Jacobs OIL is sold in 25
cts. and so cts. sizes by all druggists.
The words Acts like Magic" Con
quers Pain" which have been used in
connection with st. Jacobs Oil for
more than so years are wonderfully
and truly descriptive.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
One Definition of Fame,

This story is told of Ralph Waldo
Emerson: On being asked by
friend what he lectured for. he re-
plied: "F-a-m-e." "What do you mean
by that?" inquired the other. Fifty
and nv expenses"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
Was With Commodore Perry.

The sole survivor Of Commodore
Perry's expedition to Japan is Prof.
John S, Sewall of Bangor theological
seminary. Prof. Sewall Is now en-
gagged in writing a book, giving COM
plete history of the expedition and its
results.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
Birds FIy and Sinu,

Besides the skylark a number Of
other birds sing as they fly. Among
these are the titlark, woodlark, water
peppet, sedge warbler, willow warbler
and whin chat
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19

Matrimony has spoiled many friend
ships.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19

Some men take pains naturally and
some give them the same way.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-30

he shot at! The poor mica women,
cut digging mica! and the lords OF.
creation" idle. No man or woman II
Mitchell or any other county has ever
depended solely on mica for a living
No woman in Mitchell county has ever
dug out mica from the earth. ~ few
have trimmed mica and prepared it for
market-a nice, light task. No woman
has ever been known TO carry mica to
Marion for $3.50.
How fuently does he dwell on "ignor-
arce." and the lean, lank hounds, like
those in Pharaoh's vision, running and
hiding from him" Sensible hounds they.
He saws he met two little girls riding
a donkey to school at BakersVllle-
Every one doubts his ever being IN
BakersviIle, but if he came here he no
doubt tramped it, and overtaklng the Ut
tie girls on their way to school, a spark
of goodness may have been in his soul
and he placed the little girls on his pack
then they rode a donkey.
How strikingly strange that TINS coun-
ty, long famous for its grand mountain
scenery, its celebrated summer resorts,
such as "Cioudland on the Roam with
it's capacious hotel, enVeioped III the
clouds, and 'Essaolla nm" at IinVille
City, on the SpdTFlIHS Ndtt1o VI liz
Linville, with its drives, parks and lakes
and near approaches to the Great
Grandfather" the father of waters.
where thousands of men and women of
wealth. education and refinement yearly
visit for health and recreation, from all
parts almost of the world, and not a
single word spoken or written by them
except in praise Of these people and their
Inequalities, until this modern solomon
hailing from Battle Creek, away up IN
Michigan, comes like a thief IN the
niont, with a soul as black as his as
srmed name suggests, and under that
black mask (for some purpose, God only
knows WHAT ISLANDERS and bellies these
noonle to his hearts content and skulkS
off to his den.
Shame he would disgrace the maya
| zine he represents. Shame that ne
would belle and Islander the good women
| Of the country, He should pull OF ina
black mask and quit journalism.
D. "A. BOWMAN.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-30
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN THE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

The following extract from the recent
report of the Hon. n. c. Schaeffer, SD
perintendent of Public instruction. OF
Pennsylvania, shows that industrial edu-
cation is bound to become a part of the
public school curriculum. 1t emphasizes
the need of industrial training for our
school teachers:
One Of the most perpleXing education
al problems is the making OF a satisfac-
tory school curriculum. All are agreed
that subjects which have become anti
quated, should not longer be taught.
Equation of payments is based upon
methods of conducting busir as that pre-
vailed several centuries ago. Iure food
laws should in no long time make 2liiga-
ton Q thing of the past. The analysis OF
puZzling sentences whose n eaning is be-
You'd the grasp of the pupil, Is a mere
waste Of time. 1t is not a valid arSu-
ment to say that such subjects must lie
retained for the sake of mental disCip-
line. The sciences which beGet higher
forms of mental power, can be made to
furnish adequate and sufficient materials
for thought. Arithmetic and grammar
have mOnOpolized the biggest share of
time in rural schools. How little arita-
metic beyond the fundamental rules does
the average farmer use, Mistakes il
grammar and exercise in false syntaX
have no bearing 0 his rop On the
other hand the laws governing the fer
tility OF the land, the growth Of crops,
the destruction of noXious insects are
seldom taught. The practical study OIL
natures forces and laws should receive
moro attention, especially IL c]onptry
schools.
The work must begin in the Norma
Schools, must be carried forward il
teachers meetings at institutes and sum
mer schools, and must finally be made
to pcrcolate into the lower schools anc
into the every day life on the farm. Th'
efforts to improve the schools shoul
above all else be conferred upon I'll
agencies that help to fit the teachers 70
their work"