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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19
PHONETIC ALPHABET i, u
Mr.. Carnegie Backs the Movement
for Reform in the Language.
Ready to Give $4,000 TO Prom. eat
Educators Who Are PushLng the
Effort to Simplify the SPELL
ing OF English Words.

Andrew Carnegie has come to the
relief of "the English language AZ
she is spoken He has pledged his
financial support to movement
which will bring about reform and
correct abuses in the speaking and
writing of English. This is in pur.
suance of a desire of Mr.. Carnegie
to have English the principal Ian.
guage of the world. The first step
will be in the direction of reform
and simplicity. The members of the
various pathological societies which
have been laboring for phonetic spell.
ing and the reation of a pronuncia-
ton alphabet aroused Mr.. Carne-
gie's interest in the matter and he
will finance the undertaking until it's
completion to the extent of $4,000
a year.
A meeting of educators, presided
over by Mr.. Dewey, of Albany. was
held at Columbia university in New
York city on Saturday, February 21.
This committee discussed the ma tier
thoroughly, but so far as can be
learned no definite action was decid.
ed upon.
w. T. Harris, United tates commits
sioner of education, who was invited
to attend the meeting in New York,
has been made aware of what trans
plred and the present status of the
movement. He said tonight:
''The need of a pronouncing alpha
Iot 80 Lo
guage has long been felt. The
movement has been fostered by the
many pathological societies, and when
the matter was brought to the at
tention of Mr.. Carnegie he consented
to furnish the necessary money if
the project was handled by respon-
sible men. "E.
"Take the word though 1t is ar
gued that there should be sign for
'th,' and the word would then be
spelled by using the sign determined
upon for the first two letters and
the letter Co. For instance, the Eng
fish pronunciation of the word post
is 'poust.' That is the way it is pro-
nounced in England. We pronounce
it post The accent on the vowel
is almost lost. That is due to the
school marms' of our land. who for
the last 100 years have been telling
John when he came to the word
post and was inclined to drawl over
the 90 to bury up and not drag it
out.
''There are other great reforms in
English that there is a desire to
correct, but they are all overshad-
owed by the move for the alphabet.
Mr.. Carnegie's move lis simply a
plan to see what can be done along
this line. had nofidea that the mat
ter was to be made public until all
arrangements had been completed"
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19
NEW SPRINGFIELD RIFLE.
me hoard of Army Officers Said to
Favor the Rival of the KraE-
. .-.- JOrEensen Gun.

The United States magazine gun
board, which has been conducting a
series OF tests at the Springfield
(Mass.) arsenal to determine whether
the new Springfield rifle is the best
weapon with which to equip the
army, completed portion of it's Ia
bors the other day and will now 90
to the Sandy Hook proving grounds
to continue the investigation.
The board will then visit prominent
military posts throughout the United
States, where the new gun will be
given practical tests by army marks
men.
Although the tests have been con
Quoted privately, the expressions of
approval of the weapon by members
Of the board are taken to indicate
that it's adoption will be recon-
mended to the war department.. The
present arm in use is the Krag-J or
gensen. Competent critics assert
that so many marked improvements
have been made over it that the new
Springfield rifle is it's superior in
every respect.
The new gun differs in material re.
spects from the Krag and Mauser
It has rod in place of knife
bayonet, an open sight and three
Tugs instead of one. It's initial veloc.
ity is 1890 feet, carries a steel-iack.
eted bullet and will fire 500 rounds
without cleaning.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19
FLOAT IN POSITION.

| have been buying galvanized iron
floats until l am tired. They rust out
in short time seldom lasting more
than two years and costing five times
as much as the one illustrated. sim
ply buy stone jug. preferably one
gallon jug, and plug it carefully, so
that it is alright. 1 fasten this by
means Of wire chain to the valve at
the bottom of the tank This will last
indefinitely and will neither rust nor
waterlog, as is the case with iron or
wood.-D. B. Solomon, in Orange Judd
Farmer.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19
WRITES TO sToRK FOR BABY,
Postal Card Received at the New
York Central Park Zoo Il Of
Unique Character.

A postal card was received at Cen
trail park the other day addressed ct
the Stork. Central Park Menagerie,
New York" 1t was mailed in Brook
lyn, and written in German. 'Anyo one
here by the name Of Stork ~ asked the
letter carrier of the clerk who received
the mail. Must be a new appoint
ment. There is no one by that name
on this floor said the clerk. The
card finally was taken to Commits
er Wilcox's secretary, who translated
the message as follows: ..16s
II Kind Mr.. Stork: Please bring me
a little baby boy, and bring him to-
night, 50 we will find him in the
morning Please let him have blue
eyes and yellow hair. "a. w. H.
The writing seemed to indicate the
sender is grown. 5
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19
WATER TANK FLOAT.
ordinary one-Gal1on jug. Hermeti-
CHILLY Sealed. Keats store De-
vices All to Pieces

The illustration shows simple de-
vice for regulating the flow of water
in tanks which are fed from cisterns,
reservoirs or from any other source.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19
Roots for Breeding Ewes.

It would pay every farmer, thinks
the National Stockman to raise few
roots to feed sheep, especially to the
breeding ewes. The roots, will keep
them in good condition. The last
winter the writer fed the sheep as
follows, with good results: For
morning clover hay, noon about six
quarts bran and two quarts corn
mixed; also about three pecks either
sugar beets or rutaibagas; at night
clover hay or cornstalks. This for
twenty head. b. n Ss 55
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19
ROOTS FOR THE HOGS.
They Have a Feeding Value Higher
Than Is Represented by Their
Chemical Analyses.

We have frequently made the state
ment that roots have feeding value
much higher than is represented by
their chemical analyses. We have
claimed that the effect on the ami
malls system has been most beneficial,
md that small quantity of roots fed
in nearly every case would cause a
freer assimilation of other foods, says
the Homestead.
There has just come to hand a re-
port from the Ontario experiment sta
ton, in which an Interesting expert
ment has been conducted with hogs,
the results of which tally very close
ly with our position on the subject.
One lot of hogs fed barley and mid
dlings for period of seven months
gave a daily gain of two-fifths of a
pound, while another lot, fed with
similar quantity of the same grain,
supplemented by roots, gave a gain of
four-fifths of a pound per day., In this
instance it was found that 319 pounds
of roots were equivalent to 100 pounds
of meal. This report claims that this
is an exceedingly high value for roots
and yet such were the facts indicated
by the experiment. ~
In another instance, corn and mid
dlings were fed, in which case the hogs
gave six-tenths of pound daily gain,
while the gain was seven-tenths of
pound when this meal was supple
mented by roots. In this case it was
found that 564 pounds of roots equaled
100 pounds sof the meal in feeding
value.
We believe that there would be more
healthy hogs in the country if roots
were grown to a larger extent and
made to take the place Of some of our
heavy meals in tke hog ration. We
believe in many instances that hogs
are fairly burned up with heavy meals,
and that much economy might be prac-
tlced by supplementing some cheap,
succulent food, such as mangels, car
rots or turnips. As to the effect of
roots on the character of the increase
in this case, the report says: ''Those
which were fed roots were much more
growthy and thrifty looking than the
others and showed less tendency to be-
come fat. 1t is possible therefore,
that the roots had a beneficial effect
upon the digestive organs of the ami
mails, causing them to digest their food
better than the others, for there is
little doubt that hogs closely confined
in pens are likely to have INDIGESTION
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19
DAIRY AND LIVE STOCK.

Don't make changes IN food of
ewes near Landing time. Stick to
clover hay and don't feed corn.
Do not overfeed the young pigs
when they begin to eat. If thew be-
come stuffed and poddy indigestion
and scours will result.
Keep milking the heifer up to the
last six weeks before she is due to
comes fresh again. This will get her
into the habit of holding out in her
milk all the rest of her life.
The adage says: eff you want a
thing well done, do it yourself. .
That's why the cow prefers licking
herself to being licked by the hired
man. He hits only the bumps.
Be sure the colts have strong, we'll
fitted halters. If the halters are not
well fitted they will soon learn to
rub them off, and a habit is formed
that is almost impossible to cure.
Some cows hold up their milk be-
cause the mixer is not a, good one,
and they do not enjoy the process.
Another man might milk them and
have no trouble that way. It pays to
study this characteristic in the va
rious members of the herd.
Three weeks before cows are due
to give milk we should stop giving
them heavy feed. No meal should be
fed during this period. Wheat bran
is the best Of anything at this time.
If the COW is after that watered and
fed carefully there will be practi-
3cally no danger from milk fever
Farm Journal 5a5 4
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19
DEATH OF ART IN ITALY.
Joseph Pencil Predicts That All
Treasures Will Follow the
CAmpanfle.

An article in the London Art Jour-
nal by Joseph Pencil says the Cam
panile at Venice has gone, simply be-
cause the modern Italian is unworthy
to care for the monuments amidst
which he finds himself" ''Despite the
pretended revival of art continues
Mr.. Pencil, "Venice is daily drawing
nearer to the Italians ideal SO happily
expressed some rs years ago by the
cynic. who, when a band of artists
ventured to protest against the wan
ton, wicked and villainously vulgar de-
structiOn of the beautiful island of
St. Helena, assured them that he and
his fellow councillors hoped the day
was not far distant when Venice would
not have any interest for any artist.
1t looks as if the day was coming.
Save for the artist, it would make
little difference. The tourist will be
just as happy reading in his guidebook
gazes at Moses Lewis bric-a-brac
shop, which has replaced it, and will
shed tears over the Hotel of the Sa-
Lutte which covers the site of the
church of that name He will take
the electric line down the grand canal
to the Piazzetta, and the brilliant idea
of filling up all the canals, but for the
deaths of the people from the plague,
would have been carried out very few
years after it was suggested. Before
long the entire Gindecca will be a fine
railway yard, and every island will be
turned into powder mill or a mad
hOuSe
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19
COWBOYS CAPTURE RED DEER.
Anne rican Westerners Find Them
Harder to Catch with LassOs
Than Wild Horses. tgSs

Two of Buffalo Hills cowboys, now
performing at the Olympia, London,
Tom Webb and ST Compton, had what
they called TIE best days sport they
ever had in their lives on the grounds
of Loudwater house, the residence of
Panmure Gordon, at Rickmansworth,
recently. They were invited to las
500 a herd of red deer, and found
them trickier to capture than wild
horses, but after a determined con-
test the cowboys were victors.
The chase ranged over 12-acre
field, fringed with woods, out of
which the deer were driven by beat
ers, whose attempts at capture they
had hitherto defied. First came fine
stag, which seemed the leader. He
eyed the cowboys with an air of de-
tiance and contempt. The coils of
rope Kissed through the air and fell
around the legs of the stag, but be-
fore the loops could be drawn taut
the animal bounded five feet into the
air. Several times the cowboys failed
but eventually coil fell round the
stag's antlers.
With another, which had no antlers,
capture was more difficult After two
had been taken prisoners, the deer be
gan to practice sly tactics. They
watched for the rise of the cowboys
arm, and jumped high in the air while
the lasso fell harmlessly below them.
It took two hours to capture the first
five t.I 80 .5
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19

The poorest stand was from 1Es to two
feet high, but most of it was three feet
or better. We sow three bushels to
the acre, half and half by measure,
thoroughly mixed on the barn floor,
and put in at one sowing. We set the
drill down to suit the peas, and the
oats seem to have no trouble in get
ting up in time to support them. With
"a large acreage, or other crops need
ing attention at about the same time,
we begin to cut when there are peas
big enough to eat" The oats are
mostly well headed out by that time,
out we are governed by the condition
of the "clover' (peas) part of the COM
Dination.
We generally let the hay lie undis-
turbed in the swath for about "a hours
after cutting, then it is tedded and the
next day we drive over it with the
Loader, which licks it up on the wag-
on from the swath. In all, we hayed
over l6 acres, about four acres being
cut and fed green TO the cows from
DAY to day after it got a foot or more
h1gh. From the earliest cutting there
was quite second growth by the time
we were through with the lot 1.-TWO
slcres). The first five acres we cut for
hay was rained on the night after
cutting, and or four days thereafter
sVe were kept from it by intermittent
ram. 1t finally went into the barn
IN much better shape than timothy and
cloVer-especially the iatter-would
under the same circumstances. The
peas generally had pretty good color.
though the oats were decidedly straw.
Later we had about one acre rained
ON internationally for two DAYS, after
1T was ready for tedding. This was
practically spoiled, of course, but we
hauled five loads to the BARNARD and
made stack for the cattle to worl,
at; leaving another small load of scat
terlngs (on II acres) that we did not
take time to rake up. In all we hauled
40 loads of oat and pea hay from about
1914 acres. We weighed the first load.
"a rather small one, and from this we
estimated that the crop averaged over
three tons to the acre.-Eugene +
SteVens, in Ohio Farmer.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19
I q - ~. n y z.
i Can't Drive IL font.

The critics carp at "a g time music
but it still has the floor, says the
Chicago Tribune.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19
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STOCK
OATS AND FIELD PEAS.
Ohio Farmer Explains Why He Pre-
fers This Combination to
Timothy and Glover.

After some years of repeated disaP-
pointment in trying to get paying
crops of timothy and clover on our
light sandy loan, we began in 1899 to
try oats and field peas, cutting some
to feed green into the cows and haying
the rest. The result is that we have
since made them our regular hay crop,
abandoning timothy entirely but still
whacking away at the clover because
we hate to give it UP. A fine stand of
clover secured last year, sown in July
with buckwheat, nearly all winter
killed, and the ground (six acres) went
to swell our oat and pea acreage this
spring to over 20 acres.
Here is photo showing the growth
much of the oats and peas made the
man shown being five feet nine inches.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19
Underground Den for PIG.

IT you have not suitable buildings
for pigs dig an underground den,
cover with boards, stalks straw. sods.
or other handy material. For win
ter, the deeper this den is dug the
better. Have the pigs tame by gen
tie and quiet treatment. If you have
not conveniences for separating them
and wish to separate one hog at a
time take a light crate or box, and
while the pig is eating place this
crate or box over the pig; then with
a man on the other side to hold the
crate you can march" the pig any
where with perfect ease. Farmers
Voice. 0
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19
Mr.. Helleau Find. relepb J Z y.

M. Paul Helleau, a French exquisite
who has recently been doing New
Y FORK, was asked when he returned
to that dear Paris the other day how
he liked the American metropolis.
s''Ah a bas New York! Z he cried, with
a shrug Of disgust. ossing but
teleph onitis in re air. But, says
the Chicago Record-Herald, it was
perhaps only natural that NJ. Helleau
should have found the telephone es-
pecially in evidence. .5 s5
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19
the Cup This Tim e.

5ss Sir Thomas Upton has served no
8tice that he is coming for the cup
this time. He is tired, says the Chi
scago Tri bune, Of being merely 9 jolly
good fellow. ssi FIJI
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

bition to want to serve the State and his people in the highest position within their gift and he may yet yield to their in1- portunities. Time alone will tell. know very wen that he is not giving it a thought now but is giving his whole time and energy as to how he shall best serve and advance the interest of his people first and then of the whole country.
 A Recent Utterance.
 Tn the great Howard College speech this summer he said, speaking of sub ject near and dear to every mother and father and every citizen of Alabama:
 All in Education.
 When we consider that we are just entering upon an era of the greatest pros perity for the South she has ever enjoy ed; and that over a quarter of a century has been spent by the grandest, the bray est the most patient. the most chival- rous people on the face of the earth--in building up and retaining what was once the fairest and most prosperous section of our continent, we must acknowledge that the continuation of all development and progress in Alabama lies in the en- largement of our system of education.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

Education is like water; to fructify 1t must descend. Pour out floods at the base of society. and only at the base. and 1t win satprate, sfagnate and destroy. Four 1t out on the summit. and 1t will quietly and constantly percoiate and descend. germinating every seed. feeding every root. until over the whole area. from sum nit to base. will spring the tender blade and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear
 .-The most important work in our edu- cationai system now. in Alabama. the first. the highest, the holiest duty now pressing upon every Alabannian Is to build up and endow our universities and colleges. This is our summit. This Is the Ararat on which the ark that bears all that is left of our old civilization must rest from the storms and waves of rev oiutfon and send out the life, and strength and hope of q better civilization, which shall make our great State bloom and blossom like rose
 "one of the: great lessons learned by the party of Northern Congressmen on their tour through Alabams last year was that God in His infinite wisdom had en- dowed the white man with those superior qualities which fit him for governing and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

close touch with the farmer, the mer- chant. the bankers. and in recent years with the leading and representative citi- zens and law-malxers of the United States, he Is peculiarly fitted to represent the people of Alabama. the State of his birth. in the national halls of Congress.
 Progressive and Charitable.
 Colonel Thompson has been liberal. gem erous open-hearted, and patriotic. He is enterprising and aggressive, and always takes a leading part in every enterprise with which he is connected. Notwith- standing the fact that he has accumu- lated great fortune. he never turned a deaf ear to an appeal for charity, has al- ways contributed liberally to the support of the ministry. as well as for the sup port of education. He contributed a thousand dollars to the endowment fund of the Alabama Conference Female Col lege. which is located at his hometown, Tuskegee. and has been liberal on many occasions by handsome contributions to other educational institutions in the State. He was invited last year by the Presi- deat and faculty of Howard College to deliver the commencement address, and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

forever controlling the affairs of our stats and Nation. ast
 Mind is Race Question.
 'Srhe question of mind Is largely race question. As the meaning of every Idea Is its history, so the character of every race is its history; and the same may be said of every man. The mind of the greatest man in any race determines the character of that race Hampden may. in a sense, be said to have created modern England, and Jefferson. in similar sense. and with equal propriety. may be said to have created our own nation. The Anglo Saxon race, of which these two men are probably the highest types, Is now the dominant race.- not only on this continent. but on all continents. The Aglo-Saxon mind Is today the master of all internal tional events. w
 When the Anglo-Saxon came to this country he left behind him, so far as he himself was concerned. feudaIsr and all things pertaining to caste, including what was then known In England, and is stili known. as Divine right When he enun- ciated his political faith. he placed in the forefront of his declaration. as self
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

to their respective States in the North with changed ideas of the Southern peo- pie; and the praises of Alabama and her splendid citizenship composed of her chfv- airous men and her noble women have been sung throughout the North and East by those representatives since their re- turn. Hon. Charles F. Littlefleld. from sar away Maine, a State which has pro- duced perhaps more bitter Republicans against the South than any other State in the Union. has been proclaiming in his public addresses throughout the North and East the kind treatment and friendly feeling of the white people in Alabama towards the negro, and vindi- eating the course adopted by the late Con stitutional Convention in eliminating from the politics of Alabama the corrupt and corrupting and ignorant voters.
 Having begun his early life under the most adverse circumstances and having struggled amid the hardships with which many of the good people of the South were surrounded after the Civil War, Col- onel Thompson naturally feels an abiding interest and a tender sympathy for those people in his State who are now strug- gling like he struggled in his boyhood days. His varied business experiences. having been throughout his entire life in