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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-14

Wilmington, eDl., Feb. IA. = The Will
mington shops of the Pullman Palace Car
company has to-day completed work on
the handsome car Idler which will be used
by Prince Henry of Prussia and his suite
during their tour of the country. The
Idler is a combination observation and
stateroom sleeper and is one OF the most
nalatial cars ever fitted out in the Will
mington shops The interior decorations
are of bronze and mahogany and all the
rooms are lighted by electricity The up
holstering is Of blue plush and brown
tapestry and the curtains are of brown
silk. Electric fans will cool the air.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-14
PRINCES START
Will Avoid Popular Farewells When
He Emba rlSs.

London, Feb. 14.-Prince Henry and his
suite will take a special train from Kfel
early Saturday morning. A short stop
will be made at Bremen, where the prince
will take luncheon at the railway station
and thence will proceed to Bremerhaven,
where he will board the Kron .Prinz Will
helm Immediately, avoiding all fareWells
The vessel will then start.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

known as Mol Pitcher, the fortune
teller" of Lynn. In 1880 she married
Robert Pitcher and went to live In
Lynn, where she acquired national
reputation as a fortune teller.
One may see in Marblehead the we'll
of Agnes SURFACE known in romantic
history as Agnes, the maid of the
inn" 1t is story combining sad
ness with romance and tragedy, but it
lends well,' as all good stories should.
The Oldest house now standing in
Marblehead is the Tucker house, built
in the year 1910. 1t stands on one Of
the narrow streets and bears its age
well. The old powder house, built in
the year 1775, is another venerable
landmark, speaking with silent elo-
quence Of the days far beyond the
memory of any man now living. The
old town hall, built in 1927, has many
historical associations of interest and
value. We read in history that when
with the closing of Boston against all
commerce by the Boston Port Bill, in
1774, Marblehead was named as the
port of entry, it refused to profit by
Boston's affection. Declaring that its
heart bled for the distressed but re-
spectacle Bostonians. the town placed
the Town House and the powder house
at the disposal of the Boston mer-
chants for the storing of their goods"
So many patriotic meetings have been
held in the hall that it has been called
the "Faneuil Hall of Marblehead."
1t is worth while to visit old St.
MichaePs church, the second rector
of which, the Rev. David Mossom, per-
formed the marriage ceremony that
made Mrs. Martha Curtis the wife
of George Washington. The church
was built in the year 1714 and when
the declaration Of independence was
declared the excited and rejoicing
men Of Marblehead rang the bell Of
the old church so long and so vigor-
ously that the bell was cracked, writes
Morris Wade in the Detroit Free
Press. The visitor to the old town Of
Marblehead will find much to increase
his patriotism and to interest him in
his country's history.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

give. The narrow, crooked streets of
the town lie along gray edges of rock
and one wonders where the flowers
that grace the little dooryards in sum-
mertime find soil enough for their
tender roots The town rivals Boston
in the crookedness and the narrowness
Of its streets. The little, storm-beaten
old houses stand close together as if
for protection against the gales that
sweep the rocky shores.
The history of Marblehead dates
back to 1888 when Allerton and his
mates built their rude cabins here
while they carried on the industry of
fishing, and for years every man and
boy in the town took to the sea. 1t
is still the home of fishermen, but
fishing is no longer the chief industry.
The first fisherman of Marblehead
came from no one knows where, but
it is certain that they were not of the
Pilgrim band that had to do with the
settling of Plymouth, nor were they
Puritans at all They were a hardy,
fearless race Injured to hardships by
sea and land. They had none of the
New England conscience" of which
one hears as having been the FREEDOM
inant characteristic of the early set
tiers of the New England towns, for it
is known that they struggled whenever
they could and that they were not
particular as to their manners or their
morals.
TIE women could not have been
much better than the men, for it is
on record that the women of Marble
head once set upon two Indian women
who had been taken prisoners and
brutally murdered them as they were
coming out of the meeting house. And
it is said that when stranger CHANGED
to appear among these rude and I'M
tutored fisher-folk, who were the early
settlers of Marblehead, he was more
likely to be stoned than treated with
ordinary courtesy.
Marblehead played an important
part in the revolutionary war. 1t was
the home of Elbridge Gerry, Azor
Orne, John Glover and other noted
patriots, and the house of some of
these patriots are still standing. In
the town square may be seen a monu-
ment erected to a brave Marblehead
man named James Mugford, who in
the stirring days of 1875 captured a
powder boat belonging to the British
feet. The capture was made in full
sight of the British feet and the pow
der boat taken safely to Boston, but
when the brave Mugford was again
going out to sea his boat was again
rounded by a number of the British
boats and he was MORALLY wounded in
the conflict that followed. HIS last
words were: Don't give up the YES
sci! You can beat them OFF,
In ITS the town of Marblehead fur
nished and equipped 800 men for the
Continental army Most of the men
were hardy fishermen who did splen-
did service for their country. In the
war Of 1912 almost one-fifth of the
population of Marblehead men were in
the English prisons as prisoners of
war. The people of the Marblehead
of long ago have stood on the rocky
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28
AIkaiI soil..

In different parts OF the West there
has been much complaint Of "alkali
Soils" In all cases complained of
these soils have been under cultiva-
ton, the alkali at first not seeming to
AFFECT the crops. The rendering bar
rem Of the soil has occurred after the
application of irrigation water, and
usually after a number of years OPP
erations. Year by year these barren
tracts have increased till it has be-
come a question of some moment as to
what should be done to reclaim the
lost areas and to prevent other areas
from becoming also infertile. On care
full investigation it has been found
that the alkali in these soils was so
distributed through the soils at first
that it was not harmful to plants.
Thus, in a layer of earth three feet
deep there would be a certain amount
of alkai, enough to be decidedly
harmful if it were moved from its po-
sition in the subsoil and accumulated
in the first foot of soil. The irriga-
ting of the fields and orchards has
brought about this very thing, as the
amount of water applied was not suf-
ficient to more than supply the needs
of the crop and of evaporation. Had
the water been sufficiently abundant
to have supplied a good quantity for
drainage the alkali would have re-
NAMED largely distributed through the
soil. AS it was, the water in three
feet of soil was gradually drawn up
ward by capillary attraction and took
the alkali with it. Thus the alkali
was brought to the surface and de-
posted in thin layer. A continuance
of this process increased the alkali to
point where it destroyed all vege-
tation. The Arizona station has ap-
parently solved the question for all
localities that are subject to food
waters. These should be used to food
these lands, covering them to depth
of eight inches or more. The result
would be the carrying away of much
of the alkali and the washing of other
portions into the subsoil
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

Henry S. Carr, now deputy at the
county jail, was one of the youngest
spies in the service of either side in
the war between the North and the
South. At the age of 10 Mr.. Carr re-
ceived his first instruction.
It was the year that the Louisville
forts were built. The order for all
able-bodied men of certain ages to as
sist in the construction of the forts
had been issued, and many Southern
sympathizers were looking about for
some way to evade the edict, says the
Louisville Courier-Journal. Judge S.
A. Carr, father of the deputy jailer,
openly declared that he would do no
work for the soldiers from the North.
He also declared that his negroes
should not help build the forts, and
the officer in command of the federal
troops heard of it. A squad of soldiers
was dispatched at double-quick time to
the Carr homestead, which was with
in hundred yards of Western Park.
When the soldiers arrived they
found barefoot boy sitting upon a
fence post. He was swinging his legs
and whistling as only some boys can.
A lieutenant was in charge of the sol
diers and ne drew rein when he saw
the boy. He inquired for Judge Carr.
The boy shook his head and answered
that he did not known him.
The soldiers passed. An hour later
they returned and the boy was still
upon the gate post. All day the SOL
diers searched in the woods and all
day the boy sat upon the gate post.
The following morning the soldiers
returned and again the boy was upon
the gate post.
81 sat there for about four days"
said Mr.. Carr MY father and several
neighbors and all of their negroes
were hid in the woods, and by means
of signal code we were able to com
municate with one another
Two or three men were stationed in
the treetops. We all had white hand
kerchiefs l watched the soldiers. One
wave meant that they were in the
neighborhood. two meant that they
were leaving, and three meant that
they were not in sight and that all
was we'll"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

set made of BIRDS eye maple wood in
her house.
But all this is pure delusion. The
names are simply invented by the
workers in fine woods to distinguish
particular material. The terms refer
entirely to granting shown by the diff
ferent methods of cutting oak, walnut
and maple.
Birds eye maple is a veneer set
upon a body of solid wood. The birds
eye figure is produced by cutting
around the log beginning Immediately
under the BARK.
Curly walnut is the root and that
part of the trunk of the walnut tree
just above the ground. The logs are
sawed IN the ordinary way. Curly wal
nut is obtained from all species Of
trees.
Curly birch is the same kind of
wood obtained from the birch tree.
And so it might go through all the IL
Illustrations of trees which under skill
full hands of the trained worker pro-
duce totally different kinds of woods
for the attractive furniture which in
these days adorns almost every home.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

Orchard Work In Southern Illinois.
The department of horticulture Of
the Agricultural Experiment station
at the University of Illinois is pre-
pairing for extensive field work in
southern Illinois during the present
season. Although there are many
problems requiring investigation, the
most important one now confronting
the fruit growers is the control of the
bitter rot of the apple, and this has
been selected for thorough study this
year. This disease has been most dis
astrous in its attack upon the apple
crops of southern Illinois, and unless
some effective means can be discov-
cred to keep the fungus in check, it
will render the production of apples
a rather precarious business in many
sections of the apple growing dis
tricts The experiments this season
will be conducted upon practical
scale in three large orchards, p)r-
tions Of which have been placed IN
der the immediate control of the de-
partment by the owners. Orchards at
Tonti, Flora and Tamaroa have thus
been secured. In addition, the de-
partment will have the hearty sup
port and cooperation of number of
growers in southern Illinois; thus a
thorough investigation of the subject
is assured. The main line of work
will consist of experimental spraying
with two points in view; early spray
ing as a preventive measure Twill be
plications for the control of the dis
ease after it makes it's appearance will
be determined. In order to facili-
tate the work headquarters will be
established at Salem, where a horti-
cultural and botanical laboratory will
be fitted up.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28
some Rra Pastnraus.

A correspondent of the Farmers
Review mentions the fact that last
year he had twenty acres of rye and
will get a good crop from it this
spring. He says that in addition he
saved $50 worth of feed by pasturing
it in the fall and spring. 1t came par
ticularly handy this past winter when
hay was selling at IS per ton and corn
at So cents per bushel. The rye crop
frequently works in to advantage with
other crops, and wherever it can be
advantageously used will pay well. II
is of great value to the men that have
no silos and have to feed dry hay all
winter. 1t adds succulence to the ra-
ton, and in that is like fresh silage.
The practice of pasturing rye is an
old one, but may yet survive the A.
croachment of modern methods.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28
Oh lEI1llPflre I Idles

brigade meet the charging rebel lines
in q crash well calculated to develop
all the ferocity in soldier nature.
4 remember that as looked at the
faces Of our men as they went over
the first rebel line and into the second,
had feeling of dismay at what
might happen. Every face was ablaze
with fury, and the men as they sprang
forward into the melee looked like so
many demons. That was a time for
cruelty. That was a time for brutal
thrust and merciless stroke, but in an
instant, it seemed to me, two or three
hundred confederates threw down
their rifles, unbuckled their belts, and
threw their cartridge boxes to the
ground, and there, in the midst Of the
battle, saw our men offer their cam
teens to and shake hands with the
men who, ten minutes before, they had
been striving to kill."-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

One will not find on all the Atlantic
coast quainter seaport than old Mar
blehead. 1t somewhat resembles, in
Salem, and there are as many quaint
legends associated with it as there are
associated with the more widely
known town of Salem. The very at
mosphere of Marblehead is reminis-
cent of the past and there is nothing
modern about the old town with the
exception of the cottages of the sum-
mer resident, and few of these are
within the town proper. Most Of the
houses have an air of antiquity that
only the lapse of years and years can
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28
The only Peasloned veteran of 1914

The Only Pensioned Veteran of 1919.
Hiram Cronk of Ava, a veteran Of
the War of 1912, and the last surviving
pensioner of that struggle. was 1O2
years old April 20. Heretofore the day
has been celebrated in some appropri-
ate manner by the relatives and
friends of the old veteran, but owing
to the advanced years of Mr.. Cronk
and the fact that he has been some
what feeble for some time past, it was
deemed unwise to mark the occasion
this year by any special event.
Mr.. Cronk. was born in the town of
Frankfort, Herhmer county, April 20,
1900, but in his early youth moved to
this county and lived for some time at
Wright Settlement, the family later
moving farther north and locating in
the town of Ava. During the last
months of the War of 1912 Mr.. Cronk,
then a mere STRIPPING, enlisted with
his father and two brothers and served
about 100 days at Sackett's Harbor.
For a long time he received but So a
month pension, but within the past
few months, by a special act of Con-
gress, his pension had been increased
to $25.-Utica Daily Press.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28
Mrs. LincOln,s Pension Petition.

Col. Walter H. French, file clerk
of the House, has, perhaps without
exception, the finest collection of
scrap books Of any public man in the
country, says the Washington Times.
Not only scrap books. however, but
autographs of statesmen long since
passed away, and rare old public doc
uments, the history of which is most
fascinating.
Among his collection is the original
petition of Mrs Lincoln. widow of the
martyred President, to the Congress
Of the United States, asking for a pen.
sion. The petition is signed Mrs. A.
Lincoln
A copy Of that petition was printed
a few years ago. Just now it is OF
peculiar interest, the statement having
been recently made that the widow OF
no President had ever applied for a
pension.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28


We hold our sacred dead a1oof,
We put tnem by like treasures old,
No more for them or hearth or roof,
But narrow dwellings lone and cold.
The dear, warm hearts that fell asleepl
why shun them in our secret thoughtf
Why ever at a distance keep,
AS II some change were in them
wrought?
They cease not from their constant lows
They are not strange and far away;
Their presences about US move
Closer than presences of clay.
How It must grieve them, when they come
Heart-close, and find no welcome therel
Or whisper love, and find us dumb,
Forgetful, hedged with servile carei
oh, let US hold our dear ones close
Closer and closer, when they move
Beyond the veili For no one knows
The preciousness of human Lowell
james BHekham in Christian Advocate.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28
Llttle Crusltr IN CiviI wnn.

ut was not necessary" SAID the cap
tain, ito restrain the boys from cruel
ty. 1t was not in the soldiers of forty
years ago to be cruel. l served from
first to last in the same brigade with
General Jacob H. Smith, now in the
Philippines. He was an Illinois boy
and 1 was an Ohio boy. but we both
enlisted in the Second Kentucky vol
unteer infantry, mainly because it
was reported that Major Anderson,
just arrived from Fort Sumter, was to
command the brigade.
"our first experience of war was
in the mountains of West Virginia,
but our first great battle was Shiloh,
where Captain Smith was left on the
field wounded. He recovered rapidly.
however. and was soon with his COM
pany. At Stone River. l saw that
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28
spraying Fruit Trees in Bloom.

One of the investigations being un-
dertaken this season by the depart
ment Of horticulture in the College
OF Agriculture at the University OF
Illinois has reference to the matter Of
spraying fruit trees in bloom. Pre-
liminary experiments made last year
indicate that the blossoms which are
hit by the spray before being fertil-
lied fail to set fruit, owing to the
fact that the pistils are injured by the
spraying material. The experiments
this season have in view the determin-
alton Of the nature and extent Of the
injury to both pistils and pollen, and
the effect upon the quality and guam
tity of the crop.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

AS the One Hundred and Forty-sev-
enth New York was making its glo-
Yious record, the Iron Brigade swept
forward and entered the woods just
as Reynolds was being carried to the
rear dead. The West had in that line
its noblest sons, there to defend and
to crimson the soil of our state with
their blood, and what a fight they
made on that July morning! OF this
brigade the Twenty-fourth Michigan
lost 60 per cent killed and wounded,
and, in addition, SO missing; the
Nineteenth Indiana lost Sc per cent
and so missing; the Second Wiscon-
sin 4S per cent and 20 missing; the
Seventh Wisconsin Al per cent and
4S missing. This regiment had 10 Of
fcers and 271 men killed in battle.
during its term of service. Taking
the FIVE regiments of the Iron Brigade
as a whole, we find the killed and
wounded to have been 49.5 per cent.
with 249 missing, many of whom were
amorI the dead.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

The question when to plant?" is q
puzzler to the Porto Rico agricultur-
list. 1t seems to make no great differ
ence when a crop is planted-the re-
suit is always the samoa good har-
vest Some years ago, one of the Is
lands most enthusiastic agriculturists,
in endeavoring to force Nature to d.
vulge her season secret, planted patch
of corn each month consecutively for
a year with the result that sixteen
months from the time of the first
planting he was rewarded with his
twelfth good crop. There was a slight
difference in the height of the Deem
Der crop from the other eleven and it
was few days longer in ripening, but
aside from these two differences, there
was nothing to show that Nature IA
vored one crop more than another.
Another prominent grower, in expert
menting with pineapples, produced an
abundance of this fruit in March, fully
three months before it's season"
These two citations OF the many like
experiments that have been made on
the island, make it easy to understand
how it is possible for the people in the
United States to have fresh fruit and
vegetables 365 days in the year.
Porto Rico Agricultural Journal.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

Several years ago, when Mr.. Camp
bell was publishing through the coun-
try the wonderful things that his sys-
tenn OF soil culture would do, he re-
ceived small attention. We thought
then, and think now, that his system
is of no particular use in Illinois,
Wisconsin and adjoining states or in
other states where the supply of soil
moisture is ample in most years. The
system seems to be particularly adap-
ted to the lands in the more arid re-
gions, especially where those lands
have the soil water long distances
from the surface. For some years now
the system has been tried in Western
Kansas, and favorable reports are re-
ceived from it. Professor H. NJ. Cot
trell, of the Kansas Experiment Sta
ton, is particularly enthusiastic in
support of it for Kansas. He relates
many circumstances where it has CIV
en- good sized crops where all others
have failed, and says that every farm
er in Western Kansas should give it a
trial. Mr.. Campbell has purchased a
farm at Hill City, Graham County,
Kansas, on which he is showing what
his method can do. The farm was one
of the most unproductive ones in the
county, the crops generally failing on
account of drouth. Mr.. Campbell has
changed all that. The crops grown
on his lands last year were good ones,
while crops grown by other methods
failed. 1t may be that the Campbell
soil culture will yet push the line Of
profitable farming further west.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28
Sugar Beet Pulp as Fesd.

A government publication says:
Sugar beet pulp can be successfully
preserved in silos and makes a very
fair quality of silage. 1t is relished by
cattle, even the slightly spoiled por-
lions not being distasteful to them.
In Europe the silos consist of trenches
or pits dug in the ground, but the or
binary silo used in making corn silage
will undoubtedly preserve the mate
rial with less loss. AS the sugar beet
crop is an exhaustive one, and the fer
tility of the soil can be maintained
by feeding the pulp, it becomes quite
an important matter that farmers
growing sugar beets should combine
with it the feeding of the pulp where
practicable.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

ducts of some particular kind of tree
in each species.
There is an instance on record of a
woman seeking a birds eye maple in
Central Park because she was sure it
must be beautiful tree and refusing
to believe that there wasn't tree of
that name. Any tale of that sort was
invented merely to hide the parks
shortcomings in the matter of maple
trees, she said, for she had bedroom
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-28

the civil war is claimed by Gilbert
Van Zandt of Kansas City. Van zandt
was 10 years old when he enlisted as
a drummer boy August 6, 1862, in
Company d, Seventy-ninth Ohio Vol
unteers, in the little village of Port
William, Clinton county, Ohio. His
discharge at the close of the war de-
scribes his as soldier 10 years old
and 4 feet high" He was born at