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WAYS or WOMEN AND BIRDS.
the Pet Hen-llI-trcated Birtis-Misfit
Marriages Among Canaries.

A well-dressed woman. her hands loaded
With jewels, entered a bird hospital up
town tho other day. Under her arm she
carried a white bundle, out Of which pro-
truded, with quaint effect. a little coalblack
head
6he unwrapped come yards Of white
hannsl. and out stepped black pet hen.
We feel so bad over Emily said the
women. MY husband has been very sick.
and nov Emily is sick, too"
Emily was the hen. II was dificult,
from the woman's manner, to tell which
had been the greater calamity. Emily's
illnees or, her husbands
II was the Rrrt time tho young woman
proprietor OF the bird hospital had ever
had hen for q patient. but she proceeded
TO treat Emily. Both the bird doctor and
her essi-tsnt worked over Emily with
special care, for they bad notion that no
unusual pet must be endeared TO the
mistress by some tender association. IL
had belonged TO q dead child, probably,
and was cherished In lite memory. Later
when they found that Emily's uistress had
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recognised the fent that the schoolhouse
u the bsst medium for Americanizing for
eieners and have built up a fine public
school system which comprises four public
day schools. with nine teachers and undot an
are graded all tho way from kindergarten
to high school.
Only two Of the teachers are Of Hebrew
descent, for the colonists want their chill
dren TO learn 70 speak the English language
perfectly and they think this will be more
easily accomplished under the tutelage
OF Americans than under teachers OF their
own people. Besides.. there is a night
school attended by about seventy boys
and girls who are Obliged to work in the
factories during the day.
Then there Is also the Thalma Thora-
the school Of the law where the young
people study tho Scriptures every after.
noon for an hour after they have finished
their duties IN the public school This
sense which all the colonists seem to have
Of the Importance Of educating their chill
dren Is one Of the most remarkable things
about the place. Several of the old settlers
have sent their boys TO college and one.
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for u that signifies Smoke that sourds:'
and Dr; Livingstone got his frat intimation
OF the Tails when the negroes 200 miles away
asked him Have you any smoke soundings
IN your country and What causes the
wster?"
The electric. plant will be built on. a shelf
cut INTO the side near the bot 1m Of one Of
the 7iELeg cracks below tue falls. The
water Will be carried around the cataract IN
great steel tubes and dropped sOo feet to big
turbine wheels. The engineers Of IN. South
African Company estimate that the falls viii
furnish ss.0o0:oO h. power; Niagara. y
every dron OF water were used. would not
furnish more than 7,OR.gO horse power.
Ihls means the equiv aIent OF more thnn ten
horses, working day and night, for every
7hite person In south Afrra: IL Is enough.
one WOULD think. to manufact ire every ar
ticie nat south Africa needs: II Is enough
To light the city of New York. rnn It's street
cars. and do all It's manufacturing. Niagsra.
wei known. would run dry within g
year u there we're some economic means 81
carrying the power ~ far as New YORK;
In South Africa. since the power cannot
gene 70 the city, the city VIII 20 TO the payer
burg On the edge of Victoria Falls. II any
one has ever sighed with the man who nfty
YEAR, ago could have bought q square mile
OF what now Chicago for o. ,e0D. let him 20
e. So1th Africa and huy land, near Nictoris
universities and public libraries. Tho stories
Of Chicago. Minneapolis and Denver are
sure TO be repeated and magnincd
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Woodbine. a colony Of Russian Hebrews
In the northern part of Cape May county.
N. j WIS recentlv organized by the New
Jersey Legislature into n borough with
political identity OF it's own. Officers were
elected last week, and 1t now enjoys tho
eist1I,ction Of being the only place in the
world governed entirely by Jews. II was
formerly part OF the township of Dennis. q,
The colony had its beginning twelve years
seo when the Russian persecution OF the
Jews was at its height and when Hebrews
In France and England were doing all they
could to get their people out OF the Car
enyptre Il was founded through the gen.
,resity Of Baron Dc Hirsch.
He sent three men to Cape May county
in the spring Of 1891 10 buy land and to
,stAhlish thsre a refuge and home Tor me
,ufferers who were being brought TO TINS
country Nv the boatload and dumped into
New FORKS already overrowded Ghetto
They got 500 acres, including all Of Wood
lime proper. which at that time consisted
cllrfy Of three shanties occupied by rail-
road employees.
They bought ali this land. but none OF
hssi ever seen plough and only little was
even half cleared. 1t wRs of white sandy
loam, grown thick with scrub oak and
stnnsod pine. swampy in spots and nat.
with hardly knoll to break the onotonyoi
,hs stretch-almost the last place one would
,l,oose for a home and certainly about the
.ast place an American farmer would 81
Get r
The three men built cabins and did what
they could in the way Of clearing bits of the
prppcry. A year later thirty Immigrants
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A VIEW OF wOoDBINE.

Potashnifr aiso came to woodbne from
Russia In the early 'pOs. He had just money
enough to buy the forcquarters Of q beet
He began peddling meat from house 10
house, and now he owns butcher shops
in many other places ia the county. and.
in addition to supplying the Jewish trade
with local meat. has large quantities OF
Chicago beef shipped in for sale In other
parts OF the county.
He is building big cold storage plant
which will cost SIS, 900, and he will also 60
into the ice manufacturing btisiness, sup
plying the summer resorts along the coasa
He n rich.
But the end OF wbodbins's ju,ilation
IL not yet. The ofiicers arc TO be installed
on May and everybody Is then going to
celebrate formally. 1t Is going to be
Woodbine holiday.
The band IL practising every night for
the occasion, and II Michael McAmond
Of Sal City. who Is drilling the players, can
continue to stand the strain. 1t will probably
be able to do few stunts on the big day.
When tho band practisss now It goes whore
nobody can hear 1t, out In the woods about
q mile from town, and tries marching TO
the music. Not that II objects to having
people listen to it's music, but the old settlers
are getting hot again and have registered
q lick against being disturbed at mig ut.
On Inauguration day there will be big
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as though il had brought. the incorporation
about all alone. They told the young men
that they weren't the whole cheese and
called an opposition meeting on the same
night in the basement Of the synagogue.
The Civic Club had two brass bands.
the old settlers didn't have anything but
in front Of the synagogue. with most Of
the town behind them. some OF the sixty
year-olds went over to them. and the back
Of the opposition was broken. Then all
joined In general rejoicing
The election was held last v-ak. The ~,
was only one choice for AIayor-H, H..
Sabsovich, the head OF the .gricv.tdrsl
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parade with floats representing all sorts Of
things and events, pubic speaking and lots
Of other doings.
The Council met for the first time last
Monday and had q Philadelphia lawyer
present to show them what TO do. The
first announcement Of general interest
was that members Of the fire company
empt from taxation in the future.
A petition from the band for uniforms
was handed over to the Finance Committee
to await the appearance Of the budget.
The Board OF Fire Commissioners and the
next week. and then Mayor Sabsovich
expects TO have everything going smoothly
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etreets and that there are no records Of any
cases in the county court In which Wood
bine Hebrews are named except one OF
two trifing squabbles about land and debts.
Beer and wines are sold al one of the hotels,
and about all the colonists keep on tap
domes tic wine.
Before the town was Incorporated there
lived in q state OF happy and harmless
anarchy. A Jus tics Of the Peace was the
only officer in the place and he never did
anything.
The sanitary conditions and other mat
ters pertaining to the physical welfare
Of the community were left 20 the control
Of the Woodbine Improvement Society.
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being accomplished at the agricultural
school at Woodbine. and even on some
Of the farms.
Most of the settlers. Il is true. come to
Woodbine entirely ignorant OF even the
hrst principles Of agriculture: but that h
chiefly because they and their ancestors
have not been allowed to hold land in Rus
STA for many years They learn quickly
enough, and the trouble At Woodbine seems
TO be more in the land itself than in the
people who till It..
1t In a sandy loan which requires large
amount Of fertilizer, and unless the farmer
has the capital to begin with. he has hard
time in keeping his head above water. One
Of the first settlers, who Is still living on the
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from Dennisville and othsr neighborine
hamlets which would como In for q share
of the taxes couldn't think Of such a thing.
The only inc the Woodbine colonists were
able to get anything through a school meet
ing was once when they took their wives
stormed the meeting before the Dennis
vile people had a chance 20 call their women
folk TO the rescue.
The Woodbne colonists also showed the
Legislature that they didn't have any
active voice on the Board OF Assessors
and that they were being taxed out OF pro-
portion to other places in the township.
The bill giving them separate political
identity was pass I'd on March 8. Wood
bine heard about 1t the next morning. and
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ths savings which their fatheFs PVT AMY
from the farm or business. In thu way
revenue from three on four SOURCES y conn
ing into the same family pot. The average
family consists OF about seven persons.
A remarkable thing about the factory
OF his own. In fact. only about twenty.
Ave OF the lis houses in the town occupied
by, men employed In factories are rented
houses. Industrial Woodblne IA small
town OF home-owners, and that y why
al the place are so well kept up.
wherever a broken fence has been allowed
to 70 unrepaired. that place can be set
down a. rented property. Neatness In this
respect h further encouraged by prize OF
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undeveloped land, has been changed into
a thriving Jewish conpupity OF zoo PEG,
Pile, with factories. stores. schools and
modern equipments surpassed Oy any
about half the original tract fs for cult
walton. - a ~ ~
Tho success OF Woodbine as . Jewish
colony b due. Of course, largely TO the
philanthropic aid which Il has had from
and other wealthy Jews. Other colonies,
started near h for speculative purposes.
failed completely and consist now OF the
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all work was called off for the day. The
brass band, which had been organized
in anticipation of this very event. was called
out In It's balf-developed condition. and all
the musical prodigies at the agricultural
school were brought out. There was q
great hurrahing, a big footing Of horns.
and not much music. with a mammoth
display Of fireworks which had been bought
in Dennisville itself.
The Civic Club got out posters announcing
that there would be big MAS meeting
al Werner Hall on the following night.
The old settlers didn't like the way the
Civic Club signed its name TO the posters.
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little green lovehircis were at that moment
illustrating the beauties Of q happy home.
When both are we'll. Darby vial bring
a. shs In perfectly well able to pick II up
herself But now Darby was Ill. and
Dorothy was additionally bringing him
chotue bits from the seedbox- In the In
tervals Of feeding they would cross their
bills lovingly. an action - much IKE a
III Darby Dies said the birds friend.
soberly. Il am afraid Dorothy win pine
away and die. too. They do sofnetlmes.'
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A FARMERS HOUSE.

Joseph Rabinovich, a factory superin-
tendent; Jacob Feldman. the postmaster;
DR.. Joseph Jofe, the town physician:
William Robinson, a hotelkeeper and the
only Gentle on the board, and Max Pot
ashnif, the butcher. All are pretty well
The histories OF Bayard and Potsshnifi
are especially interesting. Bayard came
to the place from Russia in 1902. He didn't
have q cent. and worked for other people
until he got money enough to put up a
little blacksmith shop.
Now he owns . big machine shop there
worth S2s. 900, and has other interests In
the town valued at $4,000. He manu.
features attachments for automobiles and
steam engines.
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school and the leader OF the community
ever since the colony was esisblishad
As told above. be u q university Sraduats
and was one OF the three men Gent out
There were sixteen nominees for Council.
men, and the tickets ~ete split 30 badly
that some were elected by g5 votes. Tboss
elected were NJ H. Bayard. a manufacture:
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GREATER POWER THAN NIAGARA.
vast Electrical Pvsiect Beins Carried Out
~ vissoria FNts.
From tie Boston transcript.

An empire bsiidsr's visionary hope is
soon TO BE- realized In Africa. In 1859 David
Livingstone discovered Victoria Falls; In
isei he visited them again and vas stfll able
TO record that no other white mnn bad even
seen the wonder. In 1873 II wss ssid that but
twelve Europeans had seen Victoria Falls:
twenty years later Cecil Rhodes had conceived
his Cape to Cairo telegraph: by 1900 that
daring enterprise was complete, and the
empire builder had already addressed his
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which was organized for that purpose.
The only matters the settlers were inter-
eeted in politically were their schools and
their taxes, and Il was through an appeal
on the ground OF injustice in these that
the Legislature granted them charter Of
Incorporation. y =. ..-.---t.,
They wanted TO enlarge their schools,
but representatives Of the school board
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Those who have charge Of the colony have
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28
Possible Yield of Soil,

A recent publication by Prince Kra-
potkin, the Russian economist, recites
some Of the effects Of intensive culture
in the possible yields. Thus i'll Bel
GUM they grow enough agricultural
products to feed their own population
of 400 Inhabitants to the square mile,
and have enough left to send $1,000
900 worth each year to Great Britain.
If we could do as we'll in our fields, the
State Of New York might furnish food
for 100000 people, and Texas could
feed twice the present population of
the United States. The prince tells OF
instances where eighteen tons of hay
year have been gathered from single
acre. and an acre has produced 1000
to 1000 bushels of potatoes. But this
Is as nothing compared to the crops
under glass in Belgium and the isle Of
Jersey, where the land is kept under
cultivation all the year, one crop being
ready to succeed another without any
interval. By this method he claims
that thirteen acres under glass in Jer-
sey have produced better money re-
turns than 1900 acres under ordinary
methods Of farm cultivation. This must
be a satisfaction to those who are wor-
rying from a fear that the world will
not produce enough to feed the grand
children of the present generation
Eychanpe
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Cow and the Dairy.
change.


No COW can get more out OF her food
than nature has put into it.
Ten cows are about as many as
man can milk properly in an hour.
Keep the stable and dairy room In
good condition, fresh air and clean.
All persons who milk the cows
should have the finger nails cut closely.
Milk with dry hands. Never allow
the hands to come in contact with the
milk.
Whitewash the stable once or twice
a year. Use land plaster in the manure
cutters daily.
Do not move cows faster than COM
Portable walk while on the way to
place Of milking Or feeding.
Good care is as important as good
cows. The careless man will make but
a sorry living even with the best OF
COWS.
A large udder is not by any means an
infallible sign of good mixer. A poor
COW may sometimes have a large,
fleshy udder.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28
ONE OF THE ClTY's TRAGEDIES
Loser in the Battle Walks the Streets
Pathetic Sight.

zone of the curious signs Of New
Yorks absorption in it's money task
is the number of men you hear talk
ing to themselves, oblivious to their
immediate surroundings" said an OBJ
server of things cosmopolitan, as he
called attention to the worried-lookini<
man who was mumbling half-audibly
over his luncheon.
eff one could catch the meaning of
these mutterings one would hear,
fancy, the real tragedy of the city.
Stand for few minutes on lower
Broadway and you can see scores of
men whose lips are moving in mum
bled speech as they walk hVrriedly,
with fixed eyes on the ground, lodging
through the throng with some strange
guiding instinct in their feet.
MANY of them are we'll dressed, but
most are a bit shabby, and have the
scars of a lost battle on their tired
countenances They are the crippled
of the long campaign for wealth, who
are now stragglers in the rear, led on
bv hope and memory to get into the
line Tor one AShS. my A1-
a sorry spectacle when you stop 10
scrutinize them a little.
"Then there are others you Will
find around the stock tickers in cares
hotels and other public places. the
ticker seems a running ACCOMPANY
ment to their dreams; they murmur
familiar words of the stock mart; they
are back again in the whirl of things
where fortunes rise and fall like bat
tie flags. To me these are the most
pathetic figures in this city OF con-
trasts.
"There is a half humorous element
too. One night / was hurrying nome
in the rain. The murk of the storm
was thick upon the streets, and Re"
neople were out. In the soaked circle
of light shed by discouraged street
lamp stood an old man, miserably clad
and dripping from every stitch. He dld
NOT trv to beg, and, I think, scarcely
noticed me, but stood in helpless
abstraction, muttering in cracked
and quavering voice:
"sGrandpa's so wet; grandpa's SO
wet: grandpa's SO wet. New YORK
Mail and Express.
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That Horrid Bog Hole.

1t is an awful sight to see dairy cows
come wading into the barn through a
pond Of mud and manure tea coming
up to the udder and wetting and be-
daubing the teats so soon to be
stripped Of their fluids. Say, there Is
little poetry about the cows coming
home in the cleaning when they wade
through this horrid bog hole. And the
worst of it is there is no need Of such
a slough of despond. Take team and
draw in some old stock bottom or other
trash if you can do no better and fill
I'D the hole. Next summer you can
draw it out for manure and fill up with
dirt. Get rid Of the nuisance in some
way. 1t is robbing you Of money and
your COWS Of health.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28
A Farm Electric Light SYSTEM.

a well-known farmer in eastern New
York State, J. T. Mcdonald, reports
favorably of his experience with a
farm electric-lighting plant. He put
in a fifty-light dynamo costing $500
and paid out about 500 more for wiz
ing, etc. He has a brook running
through his farm which supplies the
power. There are sixteen lights in the
stables, and the house Is lighted
throughout whenever desired by turn
ing on the switch. The power Of the
current is regulated by an indicator in
the kitchen, and all the trouble neces-
sary is to watch the indicator and
change the voltage to correspond with
the number of lights that have been
turned on or Off The two wires are
drawn tightly on a sweep, and so ar
ranged with a gear wheel that the
water gate may be easily managed, it
being very sensitive to the slightest
change in the voltage, and very easily
controlled without leaving the kitchen.
Mr.. Mcdonald says the convenience
cannot be realized without trial, and
no other investment which he has
made has pleased him SO well. For
those who have not a brook to furnish
power, an apparatus has recently been
invented, costing about $500 all up and
wired ready for use. 1t is combined
gasolene motor and generator, and is
said to prove quite satisfactory
American Cultivator
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28
Saving Grain.

Horses at moderate farm work can
be kept in good condition on partly
cured clover and one-third the usual
grain ration. We have been trying this
scheme again this year on account or
the high price Of feed, and am sure
the horses are satisfied with the ar
rangement, says Alva Agee, in Nation
al Stockman. They like the green
clover better than the cured, and a
single cutting keeps for several days
in piles in the barn. The earliest cut
strip of clover has given it's second
crop this summer, and there is almost
no soldering from its use. The horses
could do more work on dry feed doubt
less, but they do all we want them to
do, and they enjoy the feed, while the
expense of feed this summer seems
practically nothing, as we do not like
to sell clover and peas off the farm,
and they are improving the soil for a
succeeding crop.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28
Frand in Mixed Feeds.

Farmers are getting shy Of the mix
ed feeds now ON the market. 1t APP
pears that some of the feeds contain
a good deal Of ground bulls or corn
cobs, or other substances not very fat
tening in their tendency. AS a result
of recent analyses at the Massachu-
sets Experimental Station, many mix
ed feeds were found to be seriously
adulterated with ground corncobs. and
seeders are especially cautioned against
them Bulletin So states which feeds
are the most economical to purchase,
gives the relative values Of all the most
important concentrates, suggests a
number OF satisfactory grain rations,
and furnishes much information about
the composition and feeding value OK
continental stock and poaltry Yoods.
New England Homestead.
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Proper stabling for Horses.

The Farm Journal gives some points
of value to be observed in caring for
mans best friend on the farm: The use
and value of farm horses are often
seriously impaired by lack OF proper
stabling. They are crowded In filthy
ill-ventilated stables, the air so bad
from the damp urine-soaked floors that
the harness is rotted by it. The eyes
and lungs and general health are In
iured, and disease of some kind Is sure
to follow A side light strains the eye
unequally. The light should come ID
the stable from the front, and the WIN
dows should be lime washed to mellow
the light A stable should never be
dark. The stable should be well ven
tiIated. but so carefully that no drart
can possibly touch warm horse. a
draft on a hose warn from work OF