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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-02-18

belt for a finishing period The ranch
men have by the use OF good bulls
made wonderful change in the char
acter OF western cattle. 1t Is now posi-
Bile to buy at the principal cattle mar
kets range cattle almost pure bred and
of great uniformity of type. The farm
ers of the corn growing sections must
meet the competition of the ranches by
growing a better class of steers, and to
do this they must breed with q def
mite object in view. avoiding the cross
ing Of beef and dairy cattle.
With cheap corn our methods Of
feeding have been comparatively waste
full. In the rise of the price of land
and of the crops grown thereon meth
DDS of feeding must be improved. Not
only must the more common feeds be
fully utilized, but the feeder must be
on the lookout for supplementary feeds
from oil mills. factories, etc, in order
to reap the more profit. Formerly the
principal grain feed in most sections
where cattle were fattened was ear
corn, 1t being shoveled out to them to
their full capacity to consume it.
The cattle feeding industry is now
becoming more varied in the methods
employed In different sections In the
semiarid regions of the west they are
using alfalfa and Kaffir corn and in the
neighborhood of sugar factories sugar
beet residues: in the corn belt corn and
corn slower and variety Of supple
mentary feeds as gluten meal, oil meal,
etc; near the cotton states corn and
| cottonseed meal in varying proportions
form the principal grain feeds, with
corn slower and clover hay for rough
| ness. In Kentucky blue grass forms q
| large part of the roughness, especially
i'm the central portion OF the state. and
| great many cattle are fed in the
| neighborhood of the distiIleries on slop
using wheat straw and cottonseed hulls
| for roughness.
| The fact seems warranted that In
4 Kentucky, with residue of blue grass
| corn fodder and hay, with some grair
and reasonable price for certain by
products, it may be profitable 20 feed
cattle. On the other hand. to buy th,
cattle aRd then to buy the feeds makes
] it doubtful proposition. The factor
that may be against profitable cattl
| feeding under these circumstances ar
the local high prices of feeds. the lacl
OF uniformity in the feeding cattle ami
the distance from the best markets.
4 ID. wv. May, Kentucky Experiment Sta
4 ton
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-02-18

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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-02-18
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE

Home Faanta and Furnace HaaR.
The woman who has plants In her
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-03

Washington, Nine. Minhui Cho, wife
of the minister, and their family, are
absent in Korea, and will not return
until next spring. This did not deter
the Koreans from having an enthusi-
astic celebration of the glad season,
in as nearly American fashion as they
could make 1t, beginning on Christ
mas morning with a big tree, laden
with gifts for all concerned, to be con-
tinued over New Years Day. Thus
most of the legations in Washington
from countries having no season cor
responding TO our Christmas, make 1t
a festive occasion that has no religious
significance. A striking exception to
this rule is Chekib Bey, the Turkish
minister. There are several children
at the legation, and they nningle with
the American children in the neighbor-
hood but they have yet to learn what
our Christmas means They have no
feast day to take the place. and no
season Of gifts-mores the pity.
Senator and Mrs. Alger are In De-
troit, spending the holidays with their
daughter. Mrs. Frederick d. Grant,
who has been visiting her daughter
the Princess Cantacuzene of Russia
returned on the Philadelphia, arriving
in New York last Saturday.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-03
GOSSIP OF WASHINGTON.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

English plumb pudding, brought on
ablaze, but no Christmas tree, the
daughter of the house being well
grown. The long table was adorned
with the famous George III. gold plate,
which is one of the permanent pos
sessions of the British embassy. Much
Of the furnishings ana all the orna-
ments which added so greatly to the
interior of this residence last season
were the personal belongings of the
late ambassador and Lady Herbert,
and have been removed, leaving the
present representatives of King Ed
ward less well equipped for entertain
ing than usual.
The French ambassador and Mime.
Jusserand spent very quiet day, the
ambassador having only just returned
from long trip in the South. They
had the members of the embassy staff
who are in town to dinner with them,
but these members are only two. The
Russian ambassador and Countess
Cassini dined at home and were join
ed by few friends, but, according to
the Russian calendar, their Christmas
celebration occurs Jan. 6.
Owing to the illness in the family of
the Mexican ambassador and Nine.
Aspfros, their usual Christmas enter
tainment which, according to the Mex
lean custom, takes the form of sup
per on Christmas Eve, was omitted.
Their eldest daughter, Mime. Perez, is
alarmingly i'll, and consequently her
father and mother have cancelled all
social engagements. The minister from
Cuba and Sonora de Quesado made
their little family happy with what
they called an American Christmas
tree" followed by a donkey party in
the afternoon. Forty little guests
danced around the tree, which was
deliberately decorated and had upon II
gifts for each child. The minister's
family now numbers only two, a boy
and a girl. The baby boy born in
America last spring, died when about
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-03

ment, for the captain of whale ship
had unlimited and complete authority
to draw on them for any sum he
might need, sell his cargo anywhere at
Whatever terms his judgment might
dictate and even to have the ship con-
demned and sold to be broken up if
he thought it proper.
Once the captain of a whaler left the
headlands behind he was a king. He
went whithersoever he listed and stop
ped wherever he thought "suitin and
fittin'."
But like a king, he was burdened
with heavy responsibilities. The Pa
cific islands where he had to take
wood and water were unexplored, and
many were inhabited by cannibals.
The harbors were uncharted. There
were tens of thousands of square miles
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-03

Washington, Jan. 1.-The cabinet Of
ficers all took Christmas dinner in
their Washington homes, excepting
the Attorney General and Mrs. Knox,
who are spending a few days at their
place near Valley Forge, Pa. Most
of the diplomatic households make
great account of Christmas, although
in some Of them the festival does not
fall on the same day as ours. The Ger
man ambassador and Baroness Won
Sternburg entertained the members of
the embassy at dinner. This is not in
accordance with the custom in Ger
many, as in that country the great
dinner occurs on Christmas Eve. The
Baroness, who has no children, but is
exceedingly fond Of little folks, made
an elaborate German Christmas tree
for the children connected with the
embassy and a number of her other lit
tie friends, for Sunday evening.
The handsome mistress of the Aus
tria- Hungary embassy, Baroness Won
Hengelmuller had a Christmas tree for
her one eve lamb, to which many of
the playmates of the little girl were
asked as well as number of the
friends of the ambassador and his
wife, including the members of the
embassy staff. This is an annual
custom with the hospitable Hengel-
mullers. The ambassador has been Sc
riously Ill all winter with bronchitis,
but is now able to attend to official
business, though accepting no invita-
tions outside.
The British ambassador and Lady
Durand entertained the embassy staff
at dinner Christmas Eve, and will
probably hold their formal reception
for the diplomatic corps before New
Years Day. There was the usual ex-
change of gifts and the inevitable
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-03

hope for supplies.
So dependent on themselves were
these whalers that there was nothing
from a boat nail to bricks for the try
works that they did not carry with
them. There were no dry docks in
their hunting grounds, and when a
hull needed repairing, the ship was
sailed to the most promising beach
and run aground at low tide, broad
side to shore. Then tackles were fast
ened to her heavy stumpy masts, and
she was hove down" on her side till
the men could get at the injury and
repair it.
"Heaving down" was so customary
a method of repairing whale ships
hulls that it was practiced even in New
Bedford, and it is done there at times
It the present day.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-03

time when the market had scared to
dizzy nights.
In one cruise Of go days she killed
POP whale. She penetrated Hudson's
bay in 1854 and 1866 and brought back
oil and bone that made her two voy-
ages net more than 100000.
This was at top" prices, when oil
was worth 1.65 gallon and whalebone
was selling for $2.40 a pound.
Great as this record was, it was ex-
celled in that same period by Capt.
Ebenezer Morgan, who entered port in
1865 with $150,000 worth of bone and
oil.
Even before the Civil war, and
without the aid of war prices the
whalers of those days made fortunes
in single voyages.
In 1855 the schooner Alabama, un-
der Capt. Consider Fisher of Sippican
made a six months voyage and came
in with $4,000 worth of whale. She
was worth only $4,000 originally with
her full outfit. Another schooner, the
James, took $4,000 worth in three
months.
other great voyages were those of
Capt Richmond of New Bedford
which took 900 worth Of whale in
two and one-half years in the Pacific
Ocean in 1928. The Falmouth ship
Uncas got $4,000 worth in two years
and eight months. The Lopez of Nam
tucket got $4,000 worth in fourteen
months.
The Sarah of Nantucket returned
after a three years cruise with $S9,OOO
worth of oil.
In 1s49 the South America of Prov
idence, fitted at total cost of $4,000
for ship and outlet, took $4,000 worth
of bone and oil, thus paying her cost
NJ In n
ers a dividend of 125 per cent.
In the same year the Russell OF New
Bedford arrived there with $4,000
worth of oil.
Envoy's wonderful Voyage.
one of the wonderful records of those
"get rich quick" whaling days is that
of the Envoy, Of New Bedford. In
1874 she was condemned and sold TO
William G. Brownwell to be broken
I'D. He concluded to fit her for one
more voyage, and Capt. w. I. Walker
took her out. Nobody would insure
her. At the first port she touched
her captain found 1000 barrels of whale
oil saved from a wrecked whaler,
which he bought at a nominal price,
and shipped from Manila to London.
Then he cruised in the Pacific ocean,
and in fifty-five days took $500 barrels
of whale oil and 10000 pounds of bone.
He put into San Francisco, where he
sold part of his cargo and shipped the
rest home. Then he sold the ship for
$4,000. Altogether the voyage brought
$13S, 450, and the total cost of purchas-
ing and fitting out the Envoy was
only $4,000.
Big as the profits were when a ship
made a lucky voyage, losses were still
more heavy when they occurred, for
the owners had absolutely no control
over their ships once they had left
port.
They could not even feel sure that
in case of misfortune the limit of their
loss would be the sum that they had
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-03
QUEER VILLAGES IN REAL LIFE
One Where Almost Everybody Is
Crippled, and Another Where
Everyone Plays Chess.


Every little village in the world
probably has its local peculiarities. but
none are more marked than those Of
the hamlet of Jatte, near Culox.
France, not far from the italian from
tier.
In this village live about 200 de-
formed men, women and children, who
comprise about one-third Of all the
people in the village. These deformed
people are without the use of their
legs, their lower limbs and thighs be-
ing withered and stunted. They push
themselves about the village streets in
little wooden carts with wooden wheels
propelbng themselves by means OF
fiatiron-shaped blocks of wood which
they carry in their hands
Another peculiar village is that Of
Halberstadt, in the district of Magde-
burg, Germany, which has about 1900
inhabitants. In this village rich and
poor old and young. spend large
part of their time playing chess. In
the public schools chess is one Of the
compulsory studies, ana the teaching
Of it is begun as soon as the child be-
gins to attend.
Every day from one to two hours
are set apart for the study Of chess
problems, and scholars have to invent
new chess combinations, just as in
other schools children have to write
compositions. Examinations In chess
are held twice year under the
supervision Of the village authorities.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-03

At the Japanese legation the
yuletide celebration will not be as gay
this winter as 1t has been in the past,
for the wife Of the Minister, Nine.
Takahira, is now in Japan, leaving
the place without woman or child.
However Christmas was marked by a
general interchange of remembrances,
a dinner for all the members of the
legation, and another dinner will be
given on New Years day to the same
company. The Japanese, like the Amer
leans, have come to regard these
festivities as purely family affairs.
The Koreans have their feast of
rejoicing on New Years day, the cele-
bration of which in Korea Is much
like our observance of Christmas. 1t
is a religious day as well as one of
rejoicing. The season this year will
be duly celebrated at the legation in
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-03

| six months old. Both the minister and
| his wife were born in Cuba, but edu-
| Gated in New York, where they spent
most of their lives before coming to
Washington, which makes them feel
more at home with an American
Christmas tree" than they would with
| the customs of the season in Cuba. In
that island the celebration includes
much religious service, and a great
feast is the dinner on Christmas Eve,
when the important dish is roast pig,
! where ours is turkey. Christmas Eve
is called La Noche Buena," and at
midnight the church service begins,
La Mesa del Gaelic"
The largest and merriest Of holiday
parties is being entertained at the
Peruvian legation. where the Minister
and Nine. Calderon have with them
the ten children of their own house
hold and a large party of Peruvian
students, who are in this country at
tending various Eastern colleges.
Among the latter are the brothers Or
tez de Levallos. from Cornell. All
fashionable Washington gathered at
this legation on Monday afternoon, to
attend the reception, v hich marked the
debut of the second daughter of the
Minister and Nine. Calderon. Miss
Rosita Calderon enjoys the distinction
of being the only debutante of the year
in diplomatic circles. The large resi-
dence was decorated throughout in
Christmas effects with masses of roses
and violets in the first drawing room
where the bud, and her mother receiv-
ed. Nine. Calderon. from whom her
young daughters inherit their beauty
welcomed the company In a lovely gown
of yellow chiffon. built on a founda-
ton of yellow silk and trimmed in
very rare old lace. Miss r >sita wore
soft white silk. and her skter, just
one year her senior, and a tud of last
winter, an equally becoming gown of
yellow satin. An orchestra played in
the wide hall, and refreshments were
served in the dining room. This, like
all the apartments of this spacious
home, is wide, and high, and in addi-
ton to the Christmas decorations. was
fragrant with the roses. which adorn-
ed the long table. The Countess di
Celoere, of the Italian embassy and
Baroness Bussche- IIaddenhausen, of
the German embassy, poured tea and
coffee.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-18
POLITICS IN BERTHE.
That County has not Had State Off
Ger Since 1903.


Especial to News and Observer
Windsor, n. c., May 1.-THE pri-
maries are called to meet ana elect
delegates on the 10th of June in Ber-
tie and the county convention meets
on June the 10th.
Nothing of Importance comes be-
fore the convention since there are
no candidates for the county offices
other than the present incumbents.
For the office of Representative
there are several candidates, but the
available man seems to be J. II. Eth
ridge. He was y candidate in the pc
riod known as the dark days in North
Carolina and reduced the Republican
majority from 500 to so. He is a
forceful speaker and if elected would
take an active part in the legislative
proceedings.
Ex-Judge f. d. Winston's name
will be presented to the State Con-
vention for the nomination of Lieu
tenant Governor. Judging from the
reports that come in from different
parts of the State he will have little
opposition. He is eminently fitted for
the office-both by qualification and
temperament.
BERTHE has not had a STATE office.
since David Stone was Governor, who
was elected in 1903. This is not
t1aceable to any other cause than that
the men of the grand old county of
BERTHE have been always so busy try
ing to get the claims of some other
candidate recognized that they have
lost sight of the honors which by
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-18
Unless the Boil WeeviI's
Ravages be Checked.
STUDYING THE PEST
The Price of Cotton Will be Enormous
Iy Increased Difficulties in the
Way of Fighting and Ex-
terminating the
WeeViI.
(By the Associated Press.D

Washington, ID. c., May 17.-Some
significant official predictions regard
ing the ravages of the cotton boil
weevil are made in a report soon to
be issued by the Department of Agri-
culture and written by w. ID. Hun
ter, who has charge of the entomology
cal part of the boil weevil investigation
in which half q hundred experts are
now engaged. Mr.. Hunter says that
conservative authorities agree that un-
less contingencies at present uneXpect-
ed occur, the pest soon will cause an
increase in the price of cotton through
out the world. BY living within the
fruit of the plant the weevil is well
protected from any poisons that might
DE applied; it occupies but fourteen
days for development from egg to
! adult and the progeny of single PAIR
in a season may reach 134, 100000 IN
dividuals it adapts itself to climatic
conditions and is remarkably free from
parasites and diseases, all combining
| to make efforts at control difficult. The
report estimates that the presence of
| the weevil practically doubles the area
| of land required to produce a bale OF
cotton and that the weevil caused the
| Texas planters a loss of about $15,-
| 600. 600 in 1908, assuming $500, 000,0 600
| as the value of the normal cotton crop
of the country. Mr.. Hunter says the
probable ultimate damage when the
| pest has become spread over the entire
! belt would approximate $25O,OO0,000
annually, provided nothin" were done
| to check it, Planters. however, are
| adopting changes in methods that tend
| to avoid so much damage. The report
| predicts that the weevil eventually viii
! be distributed all over the cotton belt,
advancing into new territory at the
rate of approximately 500 miles de-
cade and it probably always will be as
| destructive in a series Of years as it
has been in Texas since 1894. The re-
/ port suggests that the probability of
| it's being carried to West Africa or
elsewhere abroad is not at all remote.
In case the seeds happen to be
sacked or even shipped in bulk there
is nothing to prevent the weevils from
being carried long distances on ship
| board as they are able to adapt thaiT-
selves successfully to climatic condi-
tons 1t is pointed out however that
the danger could be- avoided by fumi-
CATION or by leaving the seed sacked
in store rooms, isolated from new cot
ton for a year previous to shipm mt.