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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-11-28
GROVER CLEVELAND
To the New York World on Expan'
sion and other Politics.

"The popular apprehension of the
evils of aggressive expansion and its
incompatibility with what has always
been regarded as safe Americanism, is
constantly growing and cannot fail to
become in the near future the most i'm
portant factor in the political thought
of our people,"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-11-28
RECLAIMED ITS OLD FORM.

1t seems to me that the Demo
cratic situation is such as to awaken
the satisfaction and hope of every
thorough and consistent Democrat
Our party has certainly regained
it's time fighting condition and
recovered the morale that promi.
ses old-time success and prestige.
l think, however, while we can
safely assume that we are not i'm
mediately threatened with repi-
tition of I'M Democratic heresy,
there are palpable dangers to be
avoided if the regeneration of De-
mocracy is not to be obstructed.
The movement toward this re-
juvenation tends to a complete
abandonment of our late yielding
to the temptations of expediency,
against firm adherence to Demo
cratic doctrines.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02

The soil is like bank deposit. One
can check out until the deposit is ex-
hausted, thereafter checks are not
honored. He who would always he in
position 10 draw on the bank must
continue making deposits. 1t is said
that many Pennsylvania farmers have
quite ruined their land by the use of
lime. Lime is merely a solvent, quick
ly making the plant food in the soil
available. OF course, If no attention
was paid 10 raising clover. and no in
crease made in the stock fed, and the
freed plant food thus returned in the
shape of manure, the improvement of
the soil must have gone on at a rapid
rate. But where the soil was fed, lime
was a great and permanent advantage.
1t will often be good policy to feed
with a view to making larger quanti-
ties of stable manure. If the gain in
flesh of the stock fed just equals in
market value the cost of the feed
stuffs consumed, then the manure pro-
duced is acquired at the cost of the
labor invloved in caring for the stock.
1t is often possible to feed on this
basis, and in most cases the fertilizing
matter will be better and cheaper than
If bought in the form of commercial
fertilizers.
Some times the cost of feeds used
may even exceed the market value Of
the increase in weight and value of
the animal fed, and still be profitable
from our point of view. A feeder Of
steers recently reported gain in
weight of so pounds per month for two
months on a ration of hay, silage,
seven pounds corn meal, two pounds
oil meal and three pounds bran, the
animals being kept in box stalls and
never exposed. Now in this case. at
present prices of feed, there may have
been no margin of profit or a very
small one. Yet where the entire ma.
nure was saved. have no doubs that
the feeder was we'll reimbursed. For
fully so percent of the fertilizing mat
ter in the feed was left on the place.
When stock is fed for manure in win
ter plenty of absorbent bedding being
supplied and ciover or stock peas
grown the manufacture of soil food
is carried on the entire year, and the
results will soon appear in abundant
harvests. Feed the soil. and the ,Nil
will more than feed you.-Cincinnatu
in the Epitomist.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02
The st. Eernards at Work.

The military authorities in Batavia
are employing specially trained dogs
to carry letters and provisions to the
snowed-up garrisons among the Ba-
varian Alps. These dogs are of the
st. Bernard breed. The mountain gar.
risons are often showed in three or
four weeks at time. cut off from all
communication with the outside
world. A regular bi-weekly post has
been established, 10 dogs travelling
together. All provisions of a heavy
kind are in store in the garrisons. but
lighter delicacies are often lacking,
and these, together. with letters. are
carried round the dogs necks. When
the snow Is frozen hard enough six
dogs are hitched to small car piled
with things. The authorities on the
whole are satisfied with their expert
ment.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02
Helpful Galactose.

A hitherto unknown element in milk
a new ferment. has been discovered
called gaactose, which is proving Of
value in the ripening of cheese. The
properties of this ferment are similar
to the secretion of the pancratic or
gan in the human body. Old cheese
is a predigested food. and the diges-
ton is wrought by the galactose. 1t
was found that the galactose would
go on working at very low tempera.
ture, temperatures at which bacteria
were practically inert. Cheese was
put into refrigerators and kept frozen
for months. Other cheese was kept
just above the freezing point. It was
found that the first cheese is cured
at from 40 degrees to As degrees Fab
renheit. Practical cheese manufactur-
ers have maintained that so degrees
was the lowest temperature at which
cheese could be worked without be-
coming bitter and worthless. The
new discovery, will. it is believed, rev.
olutionize cheese manufacture, doing
away with the curing rooms the
cheese being sent directly to the re.
frigerator.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

An old dog does not bark for moth
ing.-Italian provcrb.
Beauty and folly are often compan-
ions-French proverb.
A good swordsman is never quarrel
some.-French proverb.
lie who has good wife can bear
amy evil.-Spanish proverb.
Better lose the anchor than the
whole ship.-Dutch proverb.
A lean compromise Is better than q
fat lawsuit.-German proverb.
A beautiful woman smiling bespeaks
purse weeping.-Italian proverb.
Who has no bread to spare should
not keep dog.-Spanish proverb.
A hundred years of fretting will not
pay q half-penny of debt.-F'renct
provelb.
Marry your son when you please
your daughter when you can.--ltaliar
pioverb.
A propensity TO hope to joy is rea
riches; one to fear and sorrow, rea
poverty.-Hume.
The harvest trial of heart is wheth
er 1t can bear a rivals failure without
triumph h-Aitken.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02

A certain Iowa packer Of pork pur-
chased last autumn at least three car.
loads OF large improved Yorkshire
swine. These we're taken down into
Central Iow6-that is to say, into the
very heart of the corn belt. They
were not taken there for purposes of
slaughter, but for breeding uses. The
males were chiefly intended for being
crossed upon the types of sows al
ready IN that country. The purchaser
told the writer that his object was to
induce the farmer from whom his sup
plies were obtained to grow swine that
were more OF the bacon type. He
wished such animals, he said. because,
all in ell, they suited his trade better
than the other types of swine, such as
he had been purchasing.
When the average farmer Of todsy
kills swine for mis- own use, which type
of animal does he prefer? Does he
not pass by the large, heavily laden
hog and choose such as are lighter and
not so highly finished? If the taste of
the farmer himself is veering in the
direction of meat more nearly resem-
bling the bacon types, why should
not the taste of the customer for
whom he grows It veer in the same
rection?-Professor Thomas Shaw,
in Twentieth Century Farmer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02

Real bacon has been so little grown
in this country that the public are
only now getting familiar with it.
Until recently it was not far different
with our mutton, but in that line of
meat production the change has been
marked during recent years.
The trend of change in the public
taste with other classes of meat Is al
together III the direction of leaner
meat. Because of this change, the
large, heavyweight steer of eighteen
hundred pounds has been set away
back in the markets of today. The
handy weight early maturing steer of
1900 to 1900 pounds has taken his
place, and old fat wethers weighing
120 to 1S0 pounds alive are now be-
ing superseded by the lamb under IL
months and weighing from 70 to 100
pounds. 1t would seem Incredible to
the writer that public taste should
change SO much in the direction of
leaner beef and leaner mutton, and
that there should not follow a CORE
spending change in the same. in the
line OF leaner pork-that is to say, in
the line of pork that is more of the
bacon type.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02
Farm Notes.

The stables should give shelter,
warmth and ventilation.
Do not feed lambs on rape alone, hut
accustom them to it gradually when
fed with other fodder.
An authority on lambs for market
says pure bred or high grade lambs
should not he kept beyond six months.
The barn and all the outbuildings
should be reached with dry feet even
in bad weather. Good paths are
needed.
It takes a horse over an hour to mas
ticate four pounds of nay, half an hour
for whole oats, and only Is minutes to
masticate ground feed.
Some cows give more milk and milk
that is richer If they are fed little
while milking. 1t will pay to humor
the whims of such cows.
Never give sour milk to the brood
SOW with a young litter of pigs. To
do so Is to invite securing and rum
the prospects Of the litter.
The state veterinarian of Nebraska
says it Is unwise to ring the noses of
hogs. II they have plenty Of salt and
ashes they will root very little.
An excess Of corn in the diet of the
SOW and also of the young pigs is apt
to produce scours. The pigs should
have no corn until six weeks old.
When a hen learns to fly over a
fence she teaches the habit to the
others. AS soon as one of them is OBJ
served In the flying, secure her and
clip one of her wings and II may pre-
vent others from going over.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02
LEGENDS OF THE GROWING.
A Quaint Collection of Tales About Ed
wards Chair, Its stono and His Ring.

A Quaint Collection of Julcs About Ed
wards Chair, Its stono and His Ring.
The chair in which King Edward
will sit when he is crowned is the
carved wooden chair in which all the
kings of Scotland were crowned. till
Edward took II from Scone to Lon
don, not, however. with the result of
preventing the crowning of real
Scottish king in Robert Bruce.
In this chair Is enclosed the stone
supposed to be that on which the pa
triach Jacob slept and poured oil. II
was brought from Egypt to Spain by
a Greek named Gathelus. who was
contemporary with Moses. according
to the legend, and who extended his
dominion TO Scotland, taking the stone
with him.
King Simon Brech removed the
stone to Ireland about b. C. 700, but
"the first Fergus" took It back to
Scotland 400 years later and there it
stayed till King Kenneth some time
before A. d. 33i enclosed it in this
chair.
The stone when raped while a
prince of the true blood is sitting on
It is supposed to yield a peculiar
sound not heard when a pretender
sits upon 1t. A learned writer has
solemnly asserted that its possession
is essential to the preservation of
royal power in England.
The kings crown will be such as
Henry VII first wore. II will be nei-
ther so weighty as William the Con-
Queror's. which had lapels to cover
the ears. nor so simple as the good
King Alfreds. which was "of gould
wyre work sett with slight stones
The holy oil with which the king
will be annointed is supposed to have
some miraculous influence, making
him truly 'the Lords anointed."
The royal seal signifies defence of
the faith. A quaint story of this ring
Of the king is told in the Golden
Legende," published in 1903.
II tells how IA certain fayre old
man asked and received aims of st.
Edward the Confessor." Later. two
English pilgrims lost their way in the
Holy Land, and there they met "a
fayre ancient man wythc whyte heer
for age"
He asked them whence they came:
and who they were: and when they
told him they were from England he
spoke comfortingly TO them, and guild
ed them to a fair city. where they were
Hospitality treated. The old mans
talk was all Of the ''saynt kynge" Ed
ward.
On parting with them after acting
as their guide, he said: Il am Johan.
the Evangelist. and say to Edward
your king that | grete him well by the
token he goff to me. thys his rynge."
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02
HOW the Rnca Tells.

IL was physician who makes a spe-
cialty Of nervous diseases who was
talking.
IF you will observe the men who
hold responsible positions in the large
corporations nowadays" he said, you
Will be surprised to notice what a
number are afflicted with muscular
nervousness.
Look at the men in the banks and
trust companies, for instance. or in
brokers' Offices and on the floor of
the stock exchange. You will see many
whose eyelids or mouths twitch, or
they will jerk their necks or heads,
or tap constantly with their fingers
or toes. Everything in business Is
going at nerve wrecking speed
Zone of our millioraires who has
been mentioned frequently of late in
connection with a new charitable in
stitution has worn out five or six
men who have undertaken 10 assume
the responsibility of looking after his
Investments. They were paid prince
ly salaries, but the strain was too
great, and one by one they have gone
under. Nerves are not confined to
woman any more, Sooner or later
we all pay the penalty."-Ne York
Herald,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02
yEFl4l.E3RF2gSES'
!M!C1glFll(I!E3R
sulrhnr a. . pi.infectnnt.

sulphur burnt in the poultry house
will dispel foul odors, and thoroughly
disinfect the disease breeding germs.
II is not difficult to do. and requires
only few minutes time once every
month. One of the simplest ways is
to heat an old shovel until red and
sprinkle n few tablespoonfuls of pow
dered sulphur on It. Close the doors
of the house at once, and be careful
that no fowls are concealed therein,
as the fumes mean certain death for
them.
Let the door remain closed for an
hour, then open and let the house have
ventilation. Carbolic acid is also one
Of the best disinfectants, and may be
uurnt like sulphur. but If sprayed over
the roosts and walls, 1t answers the
purpose equally well.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02

Near some of the summer hotels
there are farmers who grow sweet
corn tor them and they plant corn
almost every wee kfrcm May to Au-
gust l. that they may sell IT every
week whne the guests are there. But
many farmers and gardeners not hav-
ing this special trade to cater for,
make but one or two plants, and
though II may be favorite food with
the family, there is but short season
that IL is available. We can see why
the market gardener may desire to
have his corn crop harvested and out
of the way that he may grow another
crop upon the same land. but where
land is so abundant that one does not
want To produce double crops on Il,
we sec no reason why this succession
of crops should not be kept up. We
have had It on our table nearly every
day from July until Nivember, and
liked IL as well at the last picking as
at the first, and we know IL to be
wholesome and nutritious, and know
that its use reduced both meat and bread
bills. The late paintings might have
to be picked before the first severe
frost and kept in a cool place until
we were ready to use the corn, but
even then they should nc as fresh as
much that is sold in our markets.
The Cultivator.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02
RACE WITH A CYCLONE.
Train Ran Fifty Miles an Hour-Ahead
Fifty Feet.

Passengers on the Santa Fe flyer
fIom Kansas City to Wichita. Kan.
had an exciting experience in a mad
race between the flyer and a cyclone,
and the former came out about so feet
ahead. after a fight of II miles. North
bound passenger No. 406, due at
Wichita at noon left Arkansas City
at 10 o'clock. The cyclone which
came from the southwest. started on
the right of way and the race COM
nenced Immediately. Conductor
Strain says that he locked all doors
and windows to keep passengers from
leaping out. Many women were half
crazed and tried TO jump out. The
heat was unbearabe. He stood on
the rear platform and could feel the
suction Of the cyclone as It drew
nearer Engineer Watts pulled his
train at 80 miles an hour, barely keep.
ing out of the storms clutches. Fire
man Johnson was so exhausted when
the train reached Winfield. where the
cyclone cloud shot upward and dis
solved, that he had to be carried from
his cab. The engineer continued his
run to Newton. The cyclone swept a
path of about 90 feet, destroying farm
property.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02
wh.. Abou, Your schco, ,Ious.sY

You may not this season be able to build n
now one, or make the radical changes In the
old one that you had in contemplation. bu,
there IL no school district In the United
States that cannot afford TO tint with Ala
bastine the interior of their buildings, thus
making them more attractive, getting colors
made with special reference 20 their effects
harbor disease germs.
The closely crowded school rooms need all
the safeguards to the health OF the pupil tina:
intelligent officials can surround them with
and all sanitarians unite in saying that Ala
bastine is the only proper material to be
used on such walls.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02

Ask an old farmer the best way to
break up broody hen, and ten to
one he will tell you. shut them up
and starve them or duck them in cold
water: throw them as far as you pos
sibly can every time you come near
the nest; tie a rag on their tails, or
build frame wnere they must always
stand on roost, with no, chance OF
settling down" A short time ago
heard new way, and | tried it and
found it worked well.
Remove your nen from the nest
carefully-and here is a point which
II is well to follow at all times: Al
ways handle hen as you would a
child, with care and consideration, as
they are tender things, and jerking af-
fects their nervous syste0 just as
much as II would affect your child to
grab IL by the arms or legs and swing
il over your head once in while. That
is something which many people, and
even men and women who have made
study of the poultry business for
many years. 10 not know, or else they
do not care to know. But, to return
to my subject: Take the hen carefully
from the nest, place her in a comfort
able place, but in altogether new sur
roundings, where there are no nests,
and do not starve her by any means.
On the contrary. feed her on all the
rich, concentrated foods she will eat,
and especially see that she has some
kind of animal food-green cut bone
is about the best for this. Be sure
she has plenty of grit. some green food
and water. Do not forget the last. as
what we wish to do is to get this hen
in laying condition again, and in or
der to do this she must have plenty of
good food and water. Before long we
find our setting hen has renewed her
entire constitution; that old broody
feeling passes away, and she feels like
getting out and enjoying the air, and
will soon by laying again.
The reason this process acts so well
and so quickly is that hen after lay
ing a large number of eggs becomes
worn out; her constitution has stood
and she feels a desire, a very natural
desire, to sit. because it is the nature
of the hen to sit and raise brood of
chicks at least once a year. BY rails
ing this brood she rests herself, and
that is why she is usually in such good
condition when winter comes. have
heard showmen say that they like to
have their hens sit, as by doing this
they rest up, and in the winter when
tho show season comes on. instead of
having an old tagged out hen who has
been forced to lay most all the year
around, they have hen that has had
her natural rest, and she is in good
condition to show. About this latter
| am not much of an authority, but
do know that hen can be broken
from being broody by feeding care
fully and changing her quarters. She
will begin laying quicker under this
treatment than any other. and, in my
mind at least. 1t is the best have ever
tried. and | have tried several other
humane ways.-Correspondence in
New York Tribane Farmer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02
A NEGRO COLONY.
Former Congressman White Head OF
Land Syndicate.

Henry C. White, the last colored
man to sit in Congress, n member from
North Carolina in the Fifty-fifth and
Fifty-sixth congresses, Is at the head
OF a syndicate which has purchased
from Senator Robert Il. Hand, 957h
acres of land near Burleigh, N. j..
near Cape May. 1t is intended to es
tablish a colony of negroes from North
Carolina. The name OF the town is
to be Whiteboro. Already several
avenues have been laid out. Each
colonist is to buy a house on the in.
stallment plan and is to have 10 years
in which to pay for il. II is to be
an agricultural colony on the same
plan as the Jewish colony at Wood
bine, founded by the Baron de Hirsch
fund trustees.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02
No Color in Oleo.

Commissioner Yerkes. of the inter-
nal revenue bureau, has settled the
contested question as to whether but
ter or any other ingredients. artlflcally
colored, may be used in the manufac-
ture of oleomargarine without increas-
ing the tax from one-quarter Of cent
TO 10 cents a pound, by issuing regu-
lation which holds in effect that no
artificial coloring matter whatever
can be used in any way in the manu-
facture of oleomargarine without in
creasing the tax.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02
Unprecedented Condition.

A curious discovery has been made
in connection with the veterans of the
Italian war of independence. Instead
bf dying off gradually, as might be ex.
bected, they are actually increasing.
Forty.two years ago Gsribaldi sailed
with 1000 men from Querto. OF this
gallant band there are to-day 1900
survivors. Again, Italy is paying
100000 year to 1S,421 pensioners of
the 1S4S campaign. According to the
average rates of mortality four-ffths
D. them ought to be dead.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02
olL.cARRYlNe FLEETS.
viii Be Largely Incressed--Are Their
careoes Dangerous?

In connection with the mercantile
marine. nothing can he said to be
more certain than that the oil-carry.
ing fleets of the world will be con
siderably increased in the course of
a very few years. A growing demand
for crude and refined petroleum. the
discovery of new oil fields, and the
allround development of the trade
will necessitate the building of new
tankers. At the present moment
there must be nearly score Of these
vessels on the stocks in British and
American shipyards. II is new
branch of the shipping industry. and
one which ought to attract a great
deal of attention. The tanker has a
more expensive and complicated
equipment than the ordinary freighter
and this demands the display of engi-
neering and scientific knowledge
quite unique among specialist work in
the art Of shipbuilding. Oil-feld
steamers, both cargo-carTying and
passenger. will also become more
numerous during the next four or five
years. Oil as a fuel and cargo is one
of the most promising liquids of com
merce II has future that is both
interesting and important. There Is
certain unaccountable antipathy to
petroleum. Some practical men think
IL constitutes a dangerous cargo. Ten
years ago there were between 60 and
40 petroleum tank steamers, and OF
these many carried from 5000 to
1000 tons of OIL" now there are three
times that number of tankers, and the
largest, trading and building. are de-
signed to carry from 5000 to 10000
tons.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-07-02
Brought the Steak.

Seven years ago Simon Eustace, of
Ararat. near Susquehanna, Pa, left
home one morning to obtain beef.
steak. He did not return, and his wife
finally gave him mp for dead. After
three years she remarked. A year ago
she become a widow. Sunday morn.
ing Eustace returned home with the
Beefsteak. He said his mind had been
a blank until a month ago. when he
found himself peddling washing ma.
chimes at Fort Wayne, Ind. From pa
pers in his possession it is shown
that he has been all over the United
States and Canada.