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The Columbus journal., 1903-01-07
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Union deserters Though their lines on
promise that they would remain At
home daring the war. But I never
met . man, or heard Of one, who had
returned to his home in that way.
Hundreds of men who had seen
service In the Confederate regiments
came to our lines In Kentucky and
East Tennessee, and many OF them
entered eagerly into Union regiments.
A few Union soldiers taken prisoners
probably enlisted In Confederate regi-
ments, but the mass of deserters from
the Urion army were not that Kind of
men. They left the Union service be-
cause of their dislike for discipline or
for military duty, and SO far as their
comrades we're concerned or their
friends at home, they dropped out of
life. Now, what became of them?
Where did those hundred thousand de.
serters 60? What sort of a life did
they live Chicago Inter
Ocean.
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He Shot Gen. Reynolds.

Leander I. Hensel of Quarryville,
Penn, while on recent visit to North
Carolina. met BENJAMIN C. Thorpe, q
Confederate veteran. who says he is'
the sharpehooter who killed Gen. John
F. Reynolds. the hero Of Gettysburg:
Thorpe Was . member of the Fifty.
fifth North Carolina regiment. On
the first day Of the tight the Confedery
ate sharpshooters were stationed near
Caehtown. Il was on q cherry tree
when the general was poipted out TO
me-" said Thorpe, "and after fixing
my sight 1T 800 yards I fired. saw
him fall into the arms Of . companion.
That eventg IVES told had killed
REYNOLDS"
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From the Farmers Review: In last
weeks Review I saw the question
asked: How can I kill the morning
glory vines?" I wish to contribute
three ways in which they have been
killed In my own neighborhood:
To kill the morning glory vine:
First. BY plowing deep in August:
second. BY putting the ground in
broom corn three successive years:
third, Q herd Of good hungry swine
will clear . piece Of ground Of the
morning glory vine quicker than any.
thing else. - they viii dig and eat
every root . foot or more in the
ground.-Chas. 3. Freeman, Cham
paign County. Illinois.
The Columbus journal., 1903-01-07
vaeatjoo ,1ome Tor Women.

Vacation Home for Women.
Spencer Trask Of New YORK and
George Foster Peabody Of Brooklyn.
have q force Of Worhmen employed In
remodeling Crosbyside. . hotel o.
lake George. where they vim establish
q vacation home for the young wo-
men toilers Of New York city.
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Z have often wondered" said the
colonel. what became Of the deserter.
from the Union army. We had sew.
eral In our regiment that were not an
preAended during the war. and I have
never met or heard cf Que Of them
slnce the close of the var. have
heard OF one man Who left our resi.
0eot and enlisted in another. and of
another who mysteriously disap-
-peared. but OF downright deserters. not
00e.
mot including drafted men vho
,iafled to report and not including the
0ea Who left the ranks after Lees
Gunen1er. there were ll,,OO0 desert
efs ftU0 tie ua;on army, and Gen
Pfeoeoa peported fally as many in
loel ftuQ the Coafederate army. In
aneenoats were offered to dsoerters
ltun fhe o1Qoeing amy On both sideG
NJ - Cou6edesate government Was
D0oe p1o6ee Ct o0e time to return
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UNITED AFTER MANY YEARS.


h. G. saekus Finds Daughter Atst
lsne separatish
PLATTsMOUTH:-There is eonneet-
ed with the life OF Mrs. Agnes Liebsf-
shal. formerly Miss Agnes Backns Of
this city, . story which reads IKE L.
ton.
Mrs. Lebershal's mother died six
months after the former was born.
and her father, r. d. Backus. after
placing his child in the keeping Of Mr..
and Mrs. Dennis Mccarthy Of this city.
drifted out into the world to seek his
fortune. and not from that day Until
recently did he hear anything directly
from his daughter.
Then he received q letter from her
addressed to Cincinnati, o. He Inn
meditely answered 1t. expressinS his
great pleasure at hearing from her and
stating that he had written inaiay let
ters to relatives and others IN Platts-
mouth inquiring about her, but for
some unknown cause these letters We're
unanswered and he had been kept In
ignorance as to whether or not the
child was still alive.
Mr.. Backus arrived the day before
Christmas and 10 spending the holi-
days with his daughter. He is q rep
resentative Of the Cincinnati Times
Star and from general appearance il 4
very happy man. His daughter wa
married about six months ago to An
tone Liebershal. . cisarmaker.
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Fowls Need the open Air.

Fowls should not be forced to ex-
posure in cold winter weather. neither
should they be closely confined in
over-heated houses. There is a prop
er medium and ideal condition be-
tween compelling them to roost In the
trees and keeping them all the time
In warmed houses They need a GER
tain amount Of liberty In the open air.
The Columbus journal., 1903-01-07
Gestatjon OF Sheen

Bulletin IS. of the Wisconsin Sta
tion, says: At the Experiment Station
our service rams are kept separate
from the flock during the breeding
season and only turned with the ewes
for a short time each day, during
which, the shepherd or an assistant is
on hand to note which ewes are In
heat and which ones breed, conse-
E. emily we have no difhculty In keep
ing an accurate record Of the time Of
service Of each eve. OF 524 ewes that
have been bred and dropped their
lambs. the period Of CESSATION has
ranged from 40 to 156 days, and the
greatest number, 113 ewes, or zig per
cent, dropped their lambs on the 146th
day after service: the next greatest
number, 81 ewes. or 1876 per cent,
dropped their lambs LAT days after be-
ing bred and 404 ewes or TIL per cent
dropped their lambs between the 144th
and 15Oth days after service. Only two
ewes carried their young for moro
than 154 days, one yeaning 155 and the
other 156 days after taking the ram.
while only one eve yeaned as early ~
40 days after service. All three Of
these ewes gave girth to dead lambs.
which would at least suggest that these
extreme periods were abnormal. From
the data here given, representing as It
does the various breeds Of sheep. We
feel quite justified IN stating that the
extreme range Of the normal period OF
CESSATION in breeding ewes il thirteen
days beginning at 142 and extending to
154 days after service.
We may also safely conclude that
the greatest number Of ewes may be
expected to drop their lambs at least
six days earlier than was found by
Tessier to be the case with breeding
ewes In France. This difference may
be accounted for. In part. at least, BY
the peculiar characteristics Of the va
rious breeds. OF the 81 pure-bred
Southdown ewes 20 or 62.8 per cent
carried their lambs less than 147 days
and OF the 8 pure-bred Merinos 6. or
Is per cent, carried their lambs over
this period, while the Shropshire
grades and tho various crosses Of
Shropshires With Dorsets and Merinos
occupy a middle position between the
two above mentioned breeds. From this
it would seem that the more compact
and quick maturing the breed, the
shorter the period Of CESSATION. and
vice versa. Since the Merinos are
much longer In reaching their matur.
ity in breeding as well as in growth
and general development than either
the Southdown or the Shropshire
we might reasonably expect them
to carry their young longer
time. This conclusion would serve to
explain the longer period Of CESSATION
noted In France since practically ali
Of the sheep Of that country are Of the
Merino type.-Farmers' Review.
The Columbus journal., 1903-01-07
4 Tree Album.

II you do not know all the trees in
your neighborhood in their winter as
well as their summer dress, start q
tree album with pasteboard leaves, on
which may be pasted the pressed
leaves, blossoms and samples Of bark
and wood Of trees.
The Columbus journal., 1903-01-07
Destroying Red Mites.

Clean thoroughly the roosts, nest
boxes and other wood work where
these pests accumulate, then paint
with coaloil, using an old paint brush
to apply it with. Do this before and
after the Matching season. Put new
dirt on the floor and fiji! up the holes
which the fowls have scratched. Do
this each fall and you will soon get
rid of mites. After you place q suf-
ficient amount of dirt on the floor,
level 1t and tamp it with a wooden
maui. This will make q better floor.
The Columbus journal., 1903-01-07
Corn Meal W. a Balanced Ration.

Corn Meal W. Balanced Ration.
The Maryland Experiment Station
went into an extended experiment to
know the comparative effect of feed.
ing corn meal or q balanced ration to
cows. 1t was found that on the bal.
anced ration the cows keep more
healthy, in much better breeding con.
dition, give more milk and are In
much better condition for the next
years work.
The effect of the corn meal ration
was the same on all the cows, differ.
ing only in degree. With one COW,
corn meal caused her to dry on, re.
SO for three months before
This leads us to wonder II
much of the shy breeding often com.
planned OF may not be due to the
feeding of an unbalanced ration.
The Columbus journal., 1903-01-07

A straight line Is shortest n NOR.
ais q well as in geometry.-Robel
The Columbus journal., 1903-01-07

"StUSsUOSSS0 VuS OV8s
Pension Commissioner Ware was
sitting in his ONCE at Washington cne
day when a brigadier general of the
regular army was ushered in.
This Mr.. Ware?.' he asked.
I'm that same" replied Ware.
What can I do for your
Il don't suppose you remember me,
do you?" was the reply.
well. I don't know that I do," said
Ware, taking side look at the man
again, and then, under sudden inspir-
alton, but with a slow drawl, but I
would like to know what the devil
you've done with that dog?"
The stranger was astonished, but
laughed heartily, and the two had q
long chat. 1t seems that during the
civil war the two had been slightly
acquainted, the stranger being q men,
ber Of the First Iowa. He was known
as q reckless fellow. wholly superior
to the little niceties of toilet and
bath. He owner bull dog named Ma
jor that was the pet of the company.
After a meal the soldier would toss
his plate aside and call Major to wash
the dishes. And Major would lick the
platter clean.
And 1t was this recruit of the days
of 81 that walked into Wares Office
in the stif. precise garb of the briga-
der general OF the regulars. Ware
did not remember him at first, but
suddenly was struck by something
familiar about the fellow, and, al
though he could not remember his
name, did remember the dog.-Iola
Register.
The Columbus journal., 1903-01-07
Warm Water for Cows.

The Germans have been trying the
effect of warm water on milk produc.
tion. They found that while the cows
drank on an average 73 pounds OF
warm water per day, they drank but
63 pounds of cold water. The cows
that had the warm water consumed
three-quarters of q pound Of food
more daily, but there was smaller
quantity of dry food required for each
quart of milk.
The increase in water drank was
accompanied by an increase of water
in the milk, with no increase of total
solids. Here is q good opportunity
to speculate on increased metabolism
and assimilation of food owing to the
warm water, but in such cases 1t is
better to let the cows do the talking,
there is less of having to revise
theories, but there is not much doubt
that on the whole cold water does not
assist in butter or milk production.
The Columbus journal., 1903-01-07

Booker r. Washingtoo has purehas.
ed . nunbaf a A1eosa goats, 70 -
added to his breeding farm stock q
the Tuskoeeo Institute.
The Columbus journal., 1903-01-07

The man who wears 4 small hat kep-
orally has q big opinion Of himself
The Columbus journal., 1903-01-07

Now is good time to take stock Of
what Is on the farm and the cost and
profits Of operating during the past
season.
The Columbus journal., 1903-01-07

Farmers will do well to give the
question Of fuel for the future some
consideration. The wood lot should
be carefully looked after.
The Columbus journal., 1903-01-07
orchard ara eerry Notes.

Orchard and Berry NotoA
From the Farmers' Review: Here in
Central Illinois apple trees are usually
set 80 10 s. feet apart each way. two
rods being thought the best distAAse
apart. There was q faif crop Of DIP
,les here this year, aAd falf winter ap-
,les ere selling 1t SO to Is cents per
oushel Wholesale, when hauled in BY
.armers. Small fruits are often set
among apple trees and usually, With
advantage to both kinds Or fruits.
When starting fruit growing over
:welvs ysaiS old, l set al my berries
among the tfee6, running Ill f6ws
north and south and parallel to the
.ree fowA fhese berry plats all did
well. and raspbefries. currants and
yooseberrfes seemed to be better for
some shade. The finest currants and
yooseberries ever saw were grown In
the partial shade Of IN apple and
peach orchard, where the apples and
peaches were planted together. the
peaches to be cut out when room was
needed BY the apple trees. These trees
and berries have been planted ten
gears and are still In line shape. The
peaches and berries have been much
more proAtable than the lppleS; the
,atter lot having amounted to any
thing q yet. But With twelve years
experience I would not again set berry
plants Cexcept perhaps strawberries)
among peach Or plum. cherry or
ounce trees; these coming into bear
Ing 20 soon that tho berries are In the
way before bearing many crops. Be-
fore most berry plants are IN full bear.
ing the trees mentioned need all the
room. Among apple trees I would still
set Ill kinds Of berries, setting the
drst berry row eight feet from q row
Of trees. the rows running north and
south.
In regard to the apple orchard writ.
ten Of In the Farmers' Review that
was entirely killed By being plowed
and cultivated In August, I have no
personal knowledge, but the trees
must have been rather old and have
made practically NO growth till that
year. Then . good working Of the
soil caused every bud to start, making
the whole tree tender and easily kill.
ed by zero weather. Perhaps the
growth was hastened and kept up
late by tall like the present one. To-
day. the 18th Of November, gathered
out OF doors. roses. galiardias. chrys-
anthemums and quite . bunch Of orna-
mental bean blossoms.
Peach buds here are thought to be
in very poor condition to stand the
winter, and Il 10 likely there win be
no peaches in Central Illinois next
year unless the winter proves 70 be .
very mild one.-Frank Akin, Macon
County, Illinois.
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WS00SoUDs
Noting period generally lasts from
July to December. The old faded
feathers become deficient in the nitro
kenous and mineral matter that com.
pose them and are cast OF.
The aabltins season may be shorten
ed 80 rs to cover / period of but stx
to ten weeks.
To do this snd q bring about an
early mest breed from those pullets.
ef hens rather, which molt the earliest
and most rapidly and which prove
your earliest winter layers.
During the molting season give the
fowls the following care: Feed sys-
tematically and scientifically. Provide
plenty of good drinking water, given
fresh twice day, In Z drinking vessel
that IL kept clean aAd In the shade. II
fowls are confined give plenty Of
shade and scratching material in .
cool. airy place. Provide plenty Of
good grit and ground oyster shells. II
they have no grass run provide clover
meal for miving IN the morning mash.
Provide plenty of road dust and see
that the hens use ii. Be sure and keep
down the lice. Provide charcoal. Keep
the hens healthy and condition pow
ders are not necessary, but use them
twice . week If the hens show the
need Of it. Feed . variety and only
all that they will eat up clean.
For . morning feed take one quart
Of coarse corn meal, one pint Of good
beef meal, one quart Of wheat bran
and one quart of white middlings and
one quart of ground oats; mix thor
oughly. Take one quart Of clover meal
whish has been scalded the evening
before by enough boiling water to wet
the whole and left to steam and stir
the clover and clover tea into the
mash until it is thoroughly mixed and
feed to your flock.
Increase or diminish this amount of
feed according to the size of the flock.
In this mash every other morning
stir in while dry one tablespoon of
sulphur to every twenty-five hens.
Stir in charcoal every other morning.
Every other morning omit the quart of
middlings and substitute oil meal one
quart. The oil meal and the sulphur
will aid in Fastening the molt and are
needed in the composition of the new
feathers. In the evening feed whole
grain. oats and barley, which are flesh
and bone forming; rotate this with
corn and wheat Use charcoal as q
corrective for bowel trouble and as .
preventive of indigestion. Use linseed
meal to loosen the feathers.
As feathers contain lime, sulphur,
oil and nitrogen, clover meal and beef
meal or run in clover field among
the grasshoppers is a necessity to
produce rich, brilliant colored feath-
ers. Pea meal and sunfower seed are
rich in nitrogen.
Corn helps to hasten the mott:
wheat is rich In nitrogen. An all
round ration is necessary to produce
healthy birds, and only healthy, Wig
Orous birds on plenty of food rich in
nitrogen. as beef meal. corn meal,
clover meal, sunlower seed and lin
seed meal, can product glossy. rich
colored plumage.-W. E. Dean, in
American Poultry Journal.
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Air.. Quiet A,oou tn. Potomac.

AIRS Quiet Along the Potomac.
The director of the Department of
History has discovered . very inter
esting diary among the war records
of the state of Mississippi. kept by
william H. Hill, clerk in the quarter
masters department OF the Thirteenth
Mississippi regiment. Under date of
Fredericksburg. Va, March z, 1868,
occurs this entry:
The following lines were composed
by Lamar Fontaine of Pontotoc
county. Miss, when q private in the
Eighteenth Mississippi regiment,
Barksdale's brigade, while on picket
duty on the Potomac river, near Lees
burg, Va, in the fall of 1861. He was
several times wounded in the Valley
of Virginia in the year 1862 under
Gen. Stonewall jackson and has been
discharged from the service"
Then follows the lines which proved
tc be the well known "All's Quiet
Along the Potomac Tonight"
This little entry in the military
diary shows that IL Major Fontaine
laid claim to the production of some
one else in the shape of this poem,
IS is generally received among liter
ary folk, he did it very early in action
He has maintained his title to the
authorship up to the present time.
and his claim has caused numerous
controversies as to its authenticity
Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial-Appeal
The Columbus journal., 1903-01-07
NEBRASKA M GENERAL

johnson. No cause for his disappear
anee il known.
The Columbus journal., 1903-01-07
Popularity Of lncubators.

VOpOu0VuIy OU uOCUO0tOT8s
The great increase In the use of
lhcubators is q matter worthy of spe-
cfal note. Poultrymen generally are
realizing the advantage of using incu-
bators found that thousands of fan.
ciers have adopted the incubator as a
more satisfactory hatcher than the
hen. They are made in different sizes
and capacities to Ill the needs OF
both the large and the small breed
er. An immense amount of time and
thought has been devoted to incu-
batOr construction and wonderful
strides toward perfection have been
made during the past few years. Man
ufacturers have such confidence in
their machines that they are willing
and anxious to sell them on trial and
risk the machine and the chances of
q sale in the hands of amateurs who
never before saw an incubator. The
result is that thousands of them are
being sold and the business this sea-
son bids fair to figure up to an al
most incredible amount. The old
prejudice against incubators is fast
disappearing as q result of improved
machines and the unqualified sue
cess of breeders with them. Nothing
counts like facts before ones eyes.
and in the case of the incubator the
evidence of this character is over
whelming. Incubator chicks proper
ly raised will make just as hardy.
vigorous, healthy fowls as will those
hatched under hens. and 1t is a com.
mon thing to see them win the best
prizes In the show room. The fact of
the matter is that a poultryman who
pretends to do any business at all
cannot afford to ignore the incubator
and brooder. They arc practically
necessities if we wish to get the most
from our work 1t is well to bear in
mind that while old methods are good
ones, the world moves and progress
is the watchword all along the line.
Twentieth century methods count in
the poultry business the same as they
do in other lines of trade. and it is
best to keep up with the procession.
The Columbus journal., 1903-01-07
Last Of the Merrimac Crew..

Last OF The Merrimac Crew.
In . village Of barely fifty people.
down in Beaufort county, says the
Raleigh IN. c. Observer, lives VII.
liam r. Tetterton. the last survivor of
the crew of the famous Confederate
states warship Merrimac, formerly
the old Virginia He is sixty-seyen
years old, and is in many ways the
same old unreconstructed rebel that
he was In the days from '61 to '65. In
Richmond, Lieut.. Woods had 4 re-
cruiting station, and he was signing
men for service ON the Merrimac. The
idea of . naval life appealed to young
Tetterton, and he enlisted for ser.
vice. The war vessel had not as vet
been out on any expeditions, and the
new recruit found himself one of the
first among rather scanty crew. He
served on the boat from the first dav
she went into service until the order
came from the secretary of the Con-
states navy to put her out of
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Monuments at Mission R;do..


The commission to erect a monu-
ment to Ohio soldiers at Mission
Ridge has three sites in view, any of
which are within the limits of the
glory achieved by the Buckeye boys
In that battle.
The first is just south of Bragg's
headquarters, or south of the center
of the right and left flanks of the as
saulting columns. The second site is
500 feet south of Birds Springs road,
where Hazen's brigade assaulted the
Confederate lines. The brigade was
composed of the First. Sixth, Ninth,
Ninety-third and One Hundred and
Twenty-fourth Ohio regiments and as
saulted Slocum's Louisiana battery at
that point.
The fortifcation occupied by the
battery and the earthworks used by
the Confederate infantry are still in
good preservation, and the national
commission has promised, il the mon
ument is located there, to restore the
works to their original condition and
to place the battery in position.
The third site is south of De Longs
point, where Turchin's brigade is said
to have charged. The second men.
toned site is said to have the prefer.
ence of the commission, although no
Official action has been taken.
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Taxing 40 Chances.

That ancient worthy who claimed
that the ballads Of a country would. in
the end. make It's history, might also
have included the hymns. Our feet
marched to the measures we set them.
a correspondent of The London Tele-
graph tells how Lord Kitchener inter
preted the power of music.
It was on a day when the peace set
tlement with the Beers was ONE
tarily expected that 2 worthy dean
planned to anticipate matters and per-
haps give the Powers q little nudge.
He telegraphed Kitchener from the
Orange River colony.
las I am acting as chaplain, and
conducting divine services in many
camps tomorrow, may I ask if the
hymn, Peace, Perfect Peace" would
not be appropriate to be given out?"
Lord Kitchener wired this reply:
please yourself. I think Onward.
Christian Soldiers quite as good.