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Newport daily independent., 1903-03-30
EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH.
The Necessity of Education to the Enjoyment of Hard-Earned
 Prosperity.

There is no sort of doubt of the en- ergy with which the intelligent men of the south are taking up the ques- ton of the extension and improve ment of the schools of that section. The amount of work that has been done since the close of the civil war and the amount of money that has been expended are very great when we take into consideration the diff culties with which the south has had to contend. There is no chapter in the history of the country of which we have occasion to be more proud than that which recounts the rise of the south from the desperate state in which it was after the war. But the leaders of southern opinion have come to the conclusion that the fruits of the hard-earned prosperity the south is now enjoying can not fully be harvested unless education is made very much more general and much better. They are turning their attention especially to the country districts, which are still the most inn portant and in which the illiteracy is the worst, and their movement de- rives particular life from the change in the methods and aims of schooling that has taken place in the last twen- ty years. The amount of unselfish and faithful work now being done by the teachers of the south in an intel ligcnt and progressive manner is very great, and it is constantly increasing The situation is extremely hopeful, and those who are laboring still fur ther to improve it are entitled to the respect and the aid of all intelli- gent Americans of whatever section. New York Times.
Newport daily independent., 1903-03-30
THE FARM ORCHARD.
It's Value Consists to Large Extent in the Pleasant Sentiment
 COnnected with It.

When we remember the old farm, there is nothing that comes to our mind bearing greater sense of pleasure than the old orchard. 1t was the orchard that filled the air with perfume in the spring, thrilled us with promises in the summer, and kept its promises of good things in the fall. What stronger influence is there binding the sons and daugh- ters of the fa~m to their old home? Every farmer that owns farm and expects to live upon it in the future should have family orchard. This orchard is not the one that is to supply apples and other fruit for market, but for the family only. The commercial orchard must contain only few varieties of fruit, but the family orchard should contain d great many different kinds. It is de- sirable that the family have apples from midsummer to the next spring. A few trees of early family apples should be set out. Then others that ripen at the end of summer and in the early fall. More should be grown that will keep till midwin- ter, and some that will keep till the next spring. A great variety of fruit will prove pleasing to the fam fly rather than a few kinds. Then, too, it is a matter of education to the younger members of the house. hold, for the fruits and the lessons concerning them learned in child hood will never be forgotten. The grower should know the name of every fruit that grows on his grounds, and this will add to the in- terest the children show in the or chard. Lastly, the well-kept orchard will add immensely to the value of the farm, if it ever has to be sold. The value of such an orchard will not be estimated in the value of the amount of fruit it will produce, bus to large extent in the sentiment connected with it. The prospective buyer sees in the orchard not only so many bushels of apples, but he sees in it a certain element of pleasure to his family. He beholds in his minds eye a mass of bloom in tho spring, the waving of fruit-laden boughs in the summer, and the glis- tening of dew-brightened fruit in the fall. He is generally willing to pay something for these. By all means, create an orchard for the family. Farmers Review.
Newport daily independent., 1903-03-30
TIMBER FOR POSTS.
The Trees Hest Suited for This PuS- pose Are Red Cedar, White
 Cedar and Com m on Locust.

For five years the Vermont experi- ment station has been trying to raise the very best timber for fence posts on the most worthless soil from an ag- ricultural standpoint, and it has had remarkable success. The three com mon trees, best suited for posts. are the red cedar tbe white cedar and the common locust. Seedlings from nine varieties of trees, including the above, were planted in the driest tract of level sand plain east of Burlington. where the pitch pine is the only tree that makes vigorous natural growth. Here the white pine did fairly we'll, but the locust far outstripped all others. Of several thousand seedlings set out last spring when less than foot high, 92 per cent. are now alive and three feet or more in height, with vigorous tops. Twenty year old trees near by have diameter averaging nine inches at the base of clean shaft averaging 25 feet. Each of these trees will fur nish three fence posts and some fire wood. A thousand trees can be plant ed to the acre, and the seedlings cost only $3.50 per thousand. The only source of trouble is the borer; this may be greatly reduced by planting oc- casional rows of white pine among the locusts. On the whole locust fence posts may be considered a very val uable product of otherwise worthless eoi1
Newport daily independent., 1903-03-30
FISHING FROM A JIBB0oM.
Exciting Sport Enjoyed by Sailors When Catching the Rnpacions
 'BOnito.

The bonito is one of the most rapa- cious as we'll as the gamest of salt wa ter fish. He makes bold and gallant fight for his life. He delights in play ing about the bows of a ship sailing swiftly in the glorious trade winds He exults in the roar and the tumble of the foam stirred up by the ships sharp cut-water in the sparkling sea-
 That is the time when Jack, intent on mess of fresh fish for dinner, seeks to capture him with rudesfackle. which ordinarily consistssefs large hook baited with white rag and se- cured to a stout line. Sallying out nimbly to the end of the flying jib- boom he sits astride it, and if the ship is braced sharp up on the port tack as is the case when outward bound is blowing stiff, Jack has all he can do to hang on when the ship 'scends and pitches on the heaying bosom, of the sea.
 Over goes the hook and line. The lure skins in the water as the vessel idlls anu AisNe' iHS DohitVcS iuSu AOI- ward to investigate with wariness ax we'll as boldness. If Jack is lucky he may hook an especially ravenous speci- nen, and if the fish happens to be a big fellow he fnkis it no easy task ta hoist him up to bis precarious perch on the jibboom en6., Nor is the battle over when he has the fish in his grasp. says writer in Outing. It is thtp in- deed, that the real struggle beginss.so sor the bonito out of water is full of wig orous fight, and often manages to get away after the hook is extracted from his muscular jaw, while the sailors hanging on by his eyelids and toenaiis- seeks to take him to the security of the deck
Newport daily independent., 1903-03-30
FRIENDS OF THE HORSES.
Spiders Spin Their Webs in the Stalls and Protect the Animals from
 Annoying Insects.

How many readers are aware of the value of a spiders web in the right place? The neat housekeeper would pA efer other kinds of traps for ridding her kitchen of flies and even star boarder might hold to the old-time mosquito bar when he lays himself down to sleep, but it is doubtful if anything so cheap, so simple and at the same time so effective has ever been utilized for the comfort of horses in a stable as the cozy parlor of the tiny threadmaker A reporter was stand ing in front of Lloyd Grubbs' livery stable a few mornings ago when a hostler trotted out Dr. Lawson's ma hogany bay, relates the Denver News. Like most men who have long lived in Texas, the scribe loves a good horse, and the animal referred to has pretty build, stylish step and claims to have aristocratic blood in his veins. He had
 been we'll groomed and his sleek coat
Newport daily independent., 1903-03-30
Buyn Cows for Patrona,

A Salem (Ore.) creamery Operator has entered upon plan for the devel- opment of the dairy interest of his neighborhood. Whenever he finds an
 industrious farmer who desires to pur- chase cows for dairy herd, but who has not sufficient capital, the creamery man buys the necessary cows and then sells them to the farmer, taking 8 mortgage. This plan has been prac- ticed previously by creamery men, not ably large companies operating i'm Kansas, and has been found successful.
Newport daily independent., 1903-03-30
FoRkIGN GOSSIP.
Parrots arSftaten by Africans, and smoked bsts Ire considered a great

Parrots arSfeaten by Africans, and smoked bsts Ire considered a great dainty.
 Skyscrapers are not wanted in Paris. The new regulations limit the height of building to 66 feet.
 Malta, with population of nearly 100000 persons, relies almost wholly upon goats for it's milk supply. A goat is worth $10 to $25 and it's yield of milk is four to five pints day. All efforts to diminish intemperance have failed in Moscow. The city has 1,036,000 inha bitants; the number of arrests for the year ending July IA, 1902, was 53,617, daily average of AT.
 Smoked fish is a favorite article of food in Germany. The home supply is so inadequate that there is large inn port of fresh fish which are smoked or otherwise cured, and sold at large pro- fits. Last year the whole fish import of Germany was over T, 1000 tons.
 The Japanese government is endea- voring to stamp out the barbaric GUS tom among the lower classes of using the heads of human bodies for medical purposes. The heads are charred over a fire and ground into powder, which is sold under the disguised name of ten seki.
 A French correspondent at Bang kok complains that French influence is rapidly disappearing in Siam. Among two hundred European railway offi- cials only one is French; the principal steamship line is in German hands, while the most important positions are filled by Danes, Belgians, and Eng lishmen.
 Emperor William recently ordered the army chaplains to deliver period ical lectures in the evening for the benefit of private soldiers. Attendance is usually small, not being compulsory but one reverend gentleman found that his lecture-room was filled every eyen- ing. He was much pleased, and to the commanding officer expressed his plea- sure, atthe religious awakening. Rub bish," said the uncompromising colonel; ''I have merely discovered that compulsory attendance at your ser mons is excellent punishment for trivial offenses."
Newport daily independent., 1903-03-30
SOUTHERN EDUCATION
MANUAL TRAINING.
A Matter of Fundamental Impor- tance i'm the Education of
 Our Children.

Conscientious, intelligent and ener- getic action is the highest duty of man. Only in proportion as our schools, from the kindergarten through he university, enable their students to act with conscience, with intelligence, and with energy, should they be judged efficient instruments of education. The value of manual training consists chiefly in it's inf ence as a most natural and helpful exercise for the development of the will, and not, as has been thought by many, in it's industrial significance or in the appreciatieo it gives of manual arts and lSbors. Every act tends in increase oVr will-power, not only in the direction of that act, but also, if the act is consistent with our general usefulness, in the direction of our entire activity; and the voluntary or involuntary obstruction of any i'm pulse to act from it's proper express sion tends to decrease our will power, not only in the direction of that i'm pulse, but also, if the impulse is con- sistent with out general usefulness, in the direction of our entire activity. Therefore, we can readily see the su- preme necessity of weakening by lack of expression the harmful i'm pulses and of strengthening by every possible expression the helpful i'm pulses.
 The part that manual training can play in this purpose must not be un- derrated. A child, for instance, wants to make wood box, but is kept from doing so by the untrained inability of his hands to put the wish into action and bring it to successful realiza- tion. Now this forced obstruction of the child's impulse is mainly of his will. Of course, the child's power of action is being exercised by the du- ties and occupations of his daily life in the home, in the school, and on the playground; but the educational i'm portance of manual training receives a unique emphasis because it makes use of some of the child's best inn pulses, and by & systematic training renders the realization of these inn pulses direct and stimulating.
 And it shall be said in this connec- tion that the product of manual labor in the schools should be valuable in itself, not because the end in view is the product, but because the will of the child is best stimulated by the making of such product as he can readily see is of practical value. Is it not natural that the child should lose interest in the simple folding of pa per, when he might be enthusiastic over the making of table?
 The ideal of manual training is reached when the child does what he wills, learns the importance of making the accomplishment agree with the purpose, Strengthens his power of willing more and doing more, appreciates the moral connec- tion between will and action, and takes ever-increasing delight in the realization of ennobling impulses.
Newport daily independent., 1903-03-30
THE GOOD DIRT ROAD.
1t Cannot Exist Where Surface and subs urface Drainage Are Not
 Complete.

The first aud most important es sential for good dirt road is thor ough drainage. Drainage to be thor. ough must not only take off the sur face water but also the sub-surface moisture.
 To have a dry and solid surface or a dirt road there must be beneath sss surface subsoil that is not sat, urated with water. No matter how we'll the roadbed be graded up, un less ample provision is made for thoroughly and speedily draining out the subsurkace moisture the road WI, Will becogSe muddy after every heavy rasn-if the rains continue such rofads become impossible.
 Wbi1Ie open ditches at the sides ot tffe road will carry off the surface 8water, they will not drain the road bed speedily enough to prevent mud and preclude sponginess, the condi- tion so wearying to draft animals and detrimental to heavy hauling.
 To afford quick and effective drain age a line of six-inch tile should be laid in the center of the road below the reach of frost.
 In the level land where the soil is loose and porous such tile so laid in graded roadbed would drain a track 70 feet wide. As open side ditches, constructed so as to give a continuous and unobstructed flow ot water, will not only carry off the sur face water but also aid in draining off subsurface moisture, the addition of the six-inch tile as here suggested will speedily and thoroughly drain the roadbed.
 The distance which such tile drain can be run without outlet will depend upon the lay and character of the land, varying from 30 to 60 rods. In very fiat land, where not convenient to obtain frequent out lets, two six-inch tiles may be laid side and side of each other, which will permit longer distance be tween outlets; but the outlets should be sufficiently numerous to rapidly drain out all subsurface water.
 A roadbed cannot be thoroughly drained when the side ditches are so small that the water stands in pools or sink holes and only escapes by absorption or evaporation.
 Where surface and subsurface drainage are complete, good dirt roads may be had. Where they are rot good it is impossible to have good dirt roads.-Farmers' Voice.
Newport daily independent., 1903-03-30

of hiIir, pretty head andLneck made picture, but in spite of Bis rich blood and good looks he soonA became rest less. He squirmed and switched, stamped and fretted, though there were very few flies about him. MT. Grubbs came out, famed the pests of, alter which the horse stood quietly enough, but gazed longingly into the stable. Half a dozen men were eying the animal and all interpreted the ex- pression in the horses eyes and action of his ears to mean he wanted to get back into his stall. MT. urubbs was quick to speak. He first called atten- tion to the two long ranks of horses standing in stalls on either side of aisles that led entirely through the building
 "Notice,' he said, mot horse is switching his tail, nor is there the slightest noise, though on wooden floor, from stamping feet. You can turn any of those horses out of the stable and they would break right through this crowd to get back. Why is it?"
 If any of the others were prepared to answer his conundrum they failed to speak out.
 Look at those cobwebs," MT. Grubbs proceeded. "For years after I first went into the livery stable busi- ness I swept every stall fore and aft, overhead and on the sides. could not tolerate spider webs, for knew they gathered dirt and looked so untidy. An old Colorado miner dropped in here one day just as he was dragging out from under pretty heavy jag. He claimed to have been a hostler for years on stage line between Silver Plume and Colorado Springs. For drink the old fellow offered to tell me how to rid my stable of flies and mos- quitoes. The proposition looked fishy, but I knew just how badly he wanted that drink, for I've been there myself. I'll go you, old man. was my answer, so gave him big new dime. Make her fifteen,' came back. I gave him another nickel, but got between him and the door, expecting him to dash away Nitn lduSH. beb lne SpIueT webs alone, and when they get pretty thick about the upper part of the stalls they will keep off flies, gnats and mos quitoes.' He was off before had time to think how his face looked-whetheI' he was trying to tell the truth or was simply working me for that drink, but I told the men about the stable that we would try it. Within few months friendly spiders had filed preemptions and finished up a pretty good job above the stalls, and for years my stock has never been harassed while in the stall with flies, gnats or mosquitoes. You see the hooks of the horses are not swollen or their hoofs split from pounding the hard floor with their feet, nor do their eyes run water, as do the eyes of all horses where gnats and flies haunt them"
 There hung the dingy festoons, while 40 or 50 horses sleeping peacefully tes- tified to the truth of all that their owner had said about the value of spiders in a stable.
Newport daily independent., 1903-03-30
cnre of Wagon Roxes.

It pays to have good bottom in the wagon-box and it also pays to have a hired man who will not throw chunk of rock salt or coal as large as a cook stove from a car into the wagon, break ing a hole in the bottom large enough to throw a eat through. A man who will do this ought to be made to fur nish enough coal for one stove all win ter. I am of the opinion that some kind of springs on the holsters of the wagon would save the bottoms of the boxes, and l know that it is necessary to have good plate on the side where the front wheel cramps in turning. Neglecting this means new box some times. Midland Farmer.
Newport daily independent., 1903-03-30
PAY OF G0vERNn
Employees of the Treasury D. ment Are Better Paid Than In
 Amy other.

The matter of salaries in the govern mental departments in Washington iz one of great interest to the clerks Few of them, before appointment, search the blue book to ascertain how we'll or how poorly each departmentis provided for as regards salaries, says the Washington Post.
 The treasury department takes first place among all the departments in re- gard to high salaries, although even in that department some divisions are meagerly provided for in the annual appropriations in comparison with the others. This, no doubt, is accounted for by the nature of the work.
 Perhaps the best paid office in any of the departments is the di- vision of bookkeeping and warrants. secretary's office. The chief is paid $3, 500, assistant clerk $2, 400, one esti- mate and digest clerk $2,250, two prin-s cipal bookkeepers $2,100 each, ten bookkeepers $2,ooo each, ten clerks $l, 800 each three clerks $1,600 each and other clerks $1,200 each.
 It is difficult to determine which of- flee or department has the most poorly paid clerks, but the offices in which women are employed in great numbers such as some of the divisions of the, treasurer's office-are not as choice, so far as the salaries are concerned, as the offices in which men are almost ex- clusively employed. Though the treas ury department has many high-salaried positions, it also has some very low ones, civil service appointee some times having to begin on salary of S720, or perhaps less.
 The war department, taken as a whole, is about the best in Washington for an original appointment, IS the lowest salary paid to clerk in most all the bureaus is $1 ,0o0 per annum. In reasonably short time, say six months or a year, after appointment to S1,000 position, the clerk is pro noted to $1,200; but there he stops, for there are fewer positions above the $1.2oo grade in the war depart ment than in any other. This condi- tion arose from the fact that former secretary of war recommended to con- gress that most of the positions be made $1.200 ones, and the recommenGa- tion received the sanction of the sai- ary givers, and has remained law ever since.
 Soon after a clerk receives his pro- motion in the war department to $1 POO he realizes that his chances for further advancement are decidedly slim, and hat he cannot expect another promo ton for at least ten, and, in most cases, IS or 20 years; he begins to look around in the treasury or elsewhere to see what his chances are for a trans fer.
 There are more voluntary resigna- tions in the treasury department thnn in any other. This is owing to the tact that there are several bureaus which afford clerk an opportunity-taAeaz business that &ill be -'atsseefful to him on the outsida. The office of the comp troller of the currency affords an ex- cellent opportunity for an employe to learL soTething about banking, if he is studious and has the necessary am- bition. Many of the employees in this department have received good posi- tions as bank officials or officials in trust companies.
Newport daily independent., 1903-03-30
Growlng onions under Glass.

The Farm and Preside says. that there is chance for profitable work in some sections growing the Prize taker or other Spanish onions under glass, and selling the young plants roy the hundred or by the thousand to those who want them to set out in the spring, and yet do not want to bother with a hotbed or have no greenhouses. This method of start ing onion plants under glass ard transplanting them seems to grow more popular each year, as it gets well-ripened onions into market much earlier than when they are grown from the seed, and the Span ish onions seem to be best adapted to that plan where they can hardly be grown out of doors.
Newport daily independent., 1903-03-30
The Rising Generation.

We must educate the rising genera ton. It is the highest duty and the loftiest duty and the loftiest privil- ege. Let education be neglected and all that we hold dear is lost; pursue the policy of advanced education for one generation and new life will be seen.=Henry Louis Smith.
Newport daily independent., 1903-03-30
Mont vaIunhle pincorerx.

If in one sentence I were required to give what I believe to be the most valuable discovery of the educational world up to this present, it would be that poor teachers are worse than no teachers.-Prof. Hoyt.
Newport daily independent., 1903-03-30
Az He CnIledIt.

"So you don't mind my piano-pIay- ing, MT. Skorcher," remarked Miss Nexdore.
 Mot at all." replied Skorcher. ~E like it best when you're coasting."
 "When I'm coasting?"
 "Yes, when you keep your feet of the pedals. ."-Catholic Standard.
Newport daily independent., 1903-03-30

DESIRABLE FORM OF ROOT PIT. is too dry and warm. The pit was 2x4xS foot. The roots were thrown in mixed just as happened, spaces be- tween the roots being filled with the sandy subsoil. The sand filling does much to preserve firmness and quality. The heap was covered with three inches of straw, then layer of boards, then more straw, and finally with six to eight inches of soil.-G. B. Fiske, in Farm and Home.