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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-02-25
The SiIaQe.fed Hoo,

We have not yet come to really ap
preciate the value of silage in the
feeding of hogs. Only few men
have as yet begun to experiment in
that direction. The silo has been
looked upon as primarily an adjunct to
the dairy and next to that help to
the steer feeder. We do, however,
hear now and then of a man that is
making silage principal feed in the
feeding Of hogs. One man of whom
We know raises several hundred hogs
a year mostly on silage.. He raises
dent corn for his silo and has it cut
into quarter-inch lengths. In feeding
it he gives about two-thirds OF ensil.
age mixed with one-third meal, and
continues this feed till the animals
weigh in excess of 100 pounds. Then
he decreases the silage or rather In.
ereases the amount Of meal toward
the finishing period. The result is that
he. has been making cheap pork that
was In demand at good price ON the
market This makes it possible 70
produce cheap pork even IN midNstn.
ter. Our farmers have said that Tier
did not raise fall pigs for the reason
that they had neither skim milk nor
other winter feed. Hess appears to IS
the way out
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-02-25

spired those sonnets for which Pet
rarch is now best remembered, but
) the sincerity OF his passion has been
questioned, and even the existence
of the lady was doubted in his own
day. - It appears, however, that she
Gid exist, being the wife of certain
pUgo de sSade, a gentleman who is said
to have been very cross to her at
t1mes,a yet she never failed in her
wifelyA devotion and was the mother
of ten children.
In his youth Petrarch was hand:
home. and affected the dress and man
ners of fop. His genius and la
bors, however, form one of the most
remarkable chapters in the History
Of Italian literature. He accumulated
books, and had corps of transcribers
constantly working for him, for he
lived before the days of the printing
press. Some works he copied him
self, and there is recorded the fact
that Boccaccio sent him Dante's 'sDi:
vine Comedy sthatahe might read it
and change his poor opinion of that
great poet # 7-
s Petrarch was al great traveller for
his time, and lie liked d'>to see himself
as another Ulysses. He composed a
great poem On Africa, which he dedi:
Gated to the king Of Naples, and then
botn Paris and Rome, hearing of his
desire to be crowned with the laurels
after the manner Of the ancients, Of
fered to grant him the distinction. He
chose to go to Rome, and there won
the bays, having first, at his ewn re.
quest, passed a severe examination
Twice he was sent by Florence as
ambassador to Venice, and it was
soon after his return from that EN-.
bassy that he died, July. 8, 1874, with
in two days Of his sevenfietlf birth
day. ..-..-...
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-02-25

Arezzo, the tiny town in Tuscany
in which Petrarch was born, has nev-
er forgotten the obligation the great
Italian poet and man of letters put
upon her by first opening his eyes in
this world in the midst of her red
tiled roofs, and as that event occurred
just 600 years ago, Arezzo has seen
to it that due honor was paid to the
occasion. r~@~>e .s.@s .s~e74
There was a week Of ceremony.
for an event like this must be cele.
brated with due solemnity and in a
comprehensive manner There was
a congress-literary persons from
various parts of the earth were there;
tourists. too, dropped in to see the
show; there was banquet, a gala
performance at the theater, a tablet
unveiled, and finally reproduction OF
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-02-25

dressed as knights in armDr, s: They
rode through the entrance of the in
closure. at full gallop, but waited to
begin their exhibition until all the me-
Tdiaeva1 figures had made circuit of
the field, and had seated themselves
in their: appointed places. I .5fE
+ Then the leader rode to the center
OF the field, and at a signal from his
whistle the knights, each with a wood
zen lance in hand, rode at the Sara.
cen, their object being to strike the
figure and break their lances against
it. Some of the horses objected vio-
lently to their unprepossessing an
tagonist, but in general the knights
acquitted themselves as worthily as
any of the Round Table, and spoiled
the countenance of the Saracen, the
enemy of all theNC Christmas This
game called SGiostras del Saraceno,
was very popular long ago and Con
tinued in favor for several centuries,
being considered most useful in
Strengthening the young men and
making them adroit and quick.
{ Having finished the game with the
Moor, the knights gave an exhibition
of zhorsemanship,} for which the Ital-
ian cavalry are famous. 1t should
be stated that all these knights" are
in the cavalry and came from Flor
ence especially to take part in the
celebration.
After their withdrawal all the char
acters taking part in the show walk
ed around the field. Their costumes
were wonderfully good reproductions
from the old pictures, and in color and
form every one of them might have
come to life after sleep OF several
centuries.
Every class was represented, just
as six centuries ago every class turn.
ed out at Arezzo to do honor to the
city's greatest son. There were
| mobiles and knights in armor, moving
bits OF color and flashing bits of steel;
Judges and priests were there, too
| and little boys in the most engaging
clothes, and the populace, the trades
! men, the workers, all were there as
vlvidly portraying the year of grace
1850 as is possible in the unromantic
year of 1904: But it was the schol
ars'' in the procession, those somber
robed figures, with crimson hoods
with faces which haunt one like that
OF Dante or Giotto or Cimabue, who
gave the medieval character to the
procession.
! Messer francesca himself was near
| ly at the end of the procession. Seated
upon white horse led by pages, the
| hero of the occasion slowly passed
in view. This man was a good actor
He seemed to be a Petrarch himself
with his self-conscious and self-satis.
| fed manner. Petrarch took every
| honor as a matter of course; he knew
| he was a great man, and thought 1t
| anything but immodest to appreciate
| himself at his true. value. So with the
Petrarch in the festival, he was the old
scholar, humanist and poet to the life
! Finally the medieval cortege halt
/ ed, and chorus selected from amone
those in the procession sang a hymn
in praise of the poet. Begun late in
the day, the twilight had now envelop
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-02-25
AGED WOMEN WHO SWIM,
Love Of 4eodi1y Exereise: UndimS mSnist,et
by ADVANCING Years.

Love OF 6oofty Exercise Ond1mSni6heL
by Advancing Years.
English papers state that a num-
Der OF women who have passed three
score years of life took swimming
lessons with great enthusiasm at sea-
side resorts last summer, and regard
this as indicating a general tendency
on the part of elderly people to per-
form feats. such as would not have
been dreamed of a generation ago.
DR.. Deighton's walk from Lands
End to John O. Groat's at the age Of
81; the cycling tour from London to
Berwick and back by an octogenarian,
DR.. Harris; and Mr.. Marle's task, yet
uncompleted, of walking 5000 miles,
though he is 76 years of age-these
are enterprises that have attracted
considerable attention.
The case is cited of a woman, near
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-02-25
How Milk HeIns-

I" Milk as feed, when combined
with other feeds, has a very much
larger feeding value than when fed
by itself. It also increases the value
OF the other feed fed. Just how this
is the scientists have not yet worked
cut. Thus an experiment was made
in feeding 100 pounds of skimmilk
to pigs weighing about lbs pounds.
That skimmilk when fed alone made
five pounds of pork. Then 100 pounds
OF corn was fed alone and that made
10 pounds OF pork. That would in
dicate that 100 pounds Of milk and
100 pounds Of corn would make Is
pounds Of pork. But when >the two
were fed together the experimenters
were surprised to find that they made
18 pounds Of pork, or three pounds
more than could be explained. Thus,
It is evident that milk IN. balancing
= food makes It possible for the AMI
nal to use It to better advantage than
when the grain Is used alone. ..
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-02-25
Titled Sajvationists-

Among the Salvation Army's officers
at home and abroad are a Russian
princess, the daughter of an English
earl, the cousin of Scottish duke
and the daughter of a New York mil
lionaire, who, discarding the society
of that city, is happy in working
amid the slums of London. All these
women have long been active and
useful members Of the organization in
various branches of its benehcent on
erations. ! -. -. = : -
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-02-25

Petrarch's famous triumphal entry
into Arezzo in the height of his fame.
The little town was absolutely mad
with delight. When a train rolled into
the station of AreZzo genial and
progressive member of the town COM
mittee would rush up to each stranger
whom he suspected of coming for the
celebration
'Petrarca?" he would ask, eagerly.
Yes replied the tourist, hardly
knowing what to say. .
But that was enough. "Arezzo was
delighted again. The committeeman
representing that commendablc pride
would take possession of the newcom-
or, rush him into a side room at the
station and there bear him down with
tickets, badges, pamphlets and what
rot. Arezzo had not been so much
alive since that day in 1850, when Pet
1arch, astride his white horse, visited
his birthplace. AS matter of fact,
all Petrarch ever did for Arezzo was
to be born there, and pass through the
city fOrty-six years later. But could
a great man do anything more for
any city?
Arezzo was cleaned in honor of the
event it celebrated, and from gala
posts erected in the city banners of
red and yellow futtered in the occa-
slonal breeze. From every, house
pieces Of red and yellow stuffs hung
from windows, and even garlands of
flowers festooned picturesque walls.
The part of the festival to which
all looked forward with the greatest
amount of interest was anything but
disappointing. This was the repre-
sentation Of the festivities, With ap-
propriate costuming, given in honor of
Petrarch when he arrived at his na-
tive city in the year 1850, as he was
returning from the jubilee in Rome.
The magistrates went out to meet
him, and ordered that no alterations
should be made in the humble house
in which he was born. At that time
he was at the height of his fame: he
had received the laurel crown at
Rome, had written hiss great work
'Africa,' which is no longer read.
and was on his way to- Vaucluse.
Petrarch's original triumphal entry
into Arezzo was in December, but as
the sixth centenary of his birth was
being celebrated, it was thought ad-
visable and not anomalous to include
this feast for the eyes, and so not
only lend that color so dear to the
Tuscan. but that spectacular elem ent
beloved by every human being. IA
The fiesta storica'' was given
toward evening, for the sun had been
extremely hot. Fifteen thousand per-
sons had gathered to witness the cul-
minating point OF the centenary cele-
bration on the great "prato," or field.
just at the edge OF the town. They
had come from everywhere in the
surrounding country, for the Italians
not only know their great men of
antiquity, but are proud of them.
The spectators sat in rows on benches
which surrounded the prato. which
has always been used for games and
shows, and was more than likely the
scene of Petrarch's triumph nearly
six centuries ago.
In the center Of the field stood a
huge wooden figure, representing the
head and body of q Saracen. This
turned on pivot, and was the object
of attack by the soldiers, who were
n y l. z E &
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-02-25

ly 70 years old, who says her regular
dumbbell exercise brings the pleas
ATTEST hours of her life. A member
of the English Alpine club, now over
60, has just reclimbed the Matterhorn
and a Welshman aged 70 not long
since trampeds over the highest peak
of snowden, along an arduous noun
tain ridge,,Eand some ten miles of IN.
dulatinE road.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-02-25
Bad Milk and Infant Mortality.

Bad Milk and Infant Mortality.
The health officers of Sydney and
Melbourne, Australia, say that one
infant out of every seven that die in
these cities is killed by filthy milk
Some OF the people in those cities
are urging the authorities to adopt
the Chicago method and treat all dirty
cans with blows from a sharp axe.
A New Zealand paper says: 'sWalk-
Ing down the streets of the Empire
City on recent Sunday morning
passersby were struck by the sight
OF trio of filthy milk cans that were
so obviously unfit for the use to which
they were put that the most .callous
could hardly. refrain from express
sions of horror and disgust. The cans
referred to were in a main street of
Wellington city, a few chains from
the Premier's residence, and it was
nooody's business to interfere. Had
the, sight been witnessed in an Amer
lean city, a few blows of an axe would
have prevented these filthy disease
spreaders from doing further injury:
but here they may be allowed to go
on carrying disease and death to
scores of children for many years to
come"
infant mortality due to the use OF
bad milk is inexcusable as it is so
easy to prevent the use of such milk.
In the past, much Of this mortality
has been due to ignorance, as people
never connected the poor milk with
the digestive disorders that carry
OH SO many small children. Now that
the truth is known, there is no rea-
son why the slaughter should not
stop.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-02-25
Reform. in Penal Institution.

Following the abolition Of the lock.
step and the cropped head in New,
York state prisons has come the doing
away with the stripes on conyicts'
clothng and 900 suits minus the the
stripes are being made. ,s5l.'''',,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-02-25
!. Three Ways Of. Improvement.

Three Ways Of Improvement. 4.
Three ways there are Of improving
the dairy herd, by either one of which
it may be brought to a paying basis.
OF the three ways two of them are
what we might term popular and are
generally urged on the audiences by
speakers and on readers by writer's in
dairy papers.
The first method is for the dairy
man to sell OF all the cows he has
and put the money into pure-blooded
stock of one of the dairy breeds. The
second method is to keep the cows
and put a pure-bred dairy sire at the
head OF the herd, and then follow Sc
lecting the: best dairy calves for
cows, discarding the calves Of poor
dairy conformation. It will take ten
years or more, to accomplish ones
aim by this process. A third process
is to 60 out into the country and
select the best animals possible. Civ
ing them the best of treatment there
after. Some COW owners are very
sure that the right kind of treatment
will greatly increase the power of
the COWS to give milk, even far be-
yond that usually supposed. Prof.
Sloane, of the Maryland station, says
that COWS we'll treated and properly
fed have developed wonderfully. Rela-
tive to one batch of COWS purchased
in the country he says:
"They were stabbed, curried, as is a
horse, every day in the year, and re.
ceived a liberal feed of grain every
day they were in milk, both winter
and summer. On this treatment the
COWS commenced to improve. Not in
the first year was it so noticeable, but
in subsequent years there was con-
slant increase in the amount, of milk
and in the amount of butter made
from this milk. In the five years that
the herd has been at the station some
good records have been made from
COWS that did not promise at the start
to ever be able to pay for their feed.
One COW made 200 pounds Of butter
the first year and 420 the fifth year,
and this though she was old enough
at the time she was bought to lead
to the canclusion that she was or
should have been. In her prime as q
dairy animal. This was the best rec
ord made, but only one COW in the
herd failed to respond to our treat
ment, and she was so evidently of the
beef type that we did not feel that
her record was against our conclusion
in the least
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-02-25

81 The Babcock test should be within
the reach of every farmer. q
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-02-25
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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-09-01
SUNSTROKES

Don't be afraid in cleaning up your
lot TO pull weed that grows through
the fence.
A morning headache sAvee many q
man 4 lecture from his wife on the
events Of the evening before.
NJ, Witie has acknowledged that
President Roosevelt 10 entitled to get
ting the peace ENJOYS started, but he
did the rest
The man who will propagate q breed
OF roosters that will not crow At al
times Of night, will confer q blessing
on humanity.
when it was talked that Rock,'
feller's tainted money was to be nsed
to pay the Jsps, they decided 10 relin'
quish all claims for indemnity.
4 young lady on one Of our principal
streets gets up early every morning TO
practice on the piano. She notices u
in her playing when she skips day
and On do the neiRhborS
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-09-01
cHINA's BOYCOTT.

Intelligence lie furnished that the
Chinese boycott on "a mericsn goods is
about so be lifted. The merchants OF
China have discovered the fact that
they are about to lose money by its OF.
Grafton. and in consequence are turn
ing their faces against IT,
Several stories have been put sfloat
rs 10 why the Chinese started the boy
colt, the principle one being that il
would bring about a modification Of
the Chinese exclusion act While the
main cause OF this trouble is charged
up TO EX-Secretsry Of State Foster, il
lie not supposed by the majority that
he lie entirely 10 blame for the move,
says The Savannah NeWs.
OF course the Chinese have a grew
snce against this country, aud a very
great one, but they haven't adopted
the right way to have it removed. Ii
10 not improbable that they are begin
ming t. find that out, and hence, are
calling a halt on the boycott. Prob
ably they expected that as soon as the
boycott was instituted the objection
able regulations which govern the adj
mission OF Chinese into this country
would be abolished. Finding that
they haven't been abolished, and that
there is no promise that they will be,
they are abandoning the boycott be-
cause it 10 doing them great deal Of
harm. But the abandoning Of the
boycott ought not TO interfere with
the correction OF our regulations
which are applicable to Chinese immi-
grants.
China is very naturally and prop
erly indignant At the treatment her
travellers and students meet with at
our ports. II they we're the scum Of
the earth they couldn't be treated so
as to humiliate them more. The regu.
lations themselves are harsh, but il
they were wisely and kindly admins
tered II is probable that we wouldn't
have heard of boycott. We seem TO
be afflicted with officials at some OF
our ports that delight in showing their
authority. They want to appear TO be
bigger men than they really are. They
are the cause Of the trouble. They
have assumed that every high class
Chinaman is q coolie and treated him
~ such until he proved TO the con-
trary. When we treat the Chinese de-
Gently they will treat ne properly.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-09-01
scuPPeRNoNe GRAPES.


The scuVpeTnong grape does not
seem to be appreciated As IL should be
and q writer in The Savannah News,
who has watched their growth, says
that "'te real value OF this grape does
not seem - be understood, for Il viii
not stand ,hippinR any distance, does
not keep we'll and IL brought TO mar
ket in q green state, as q rule, 30 that
few city folks ever get ripe specimen
OF the best grapes in any country, II
is for the making OF wine primarily
shat this trujt was Invented, and when
We CONSIDER that it 10 exclusively .
Southern PRODUCTION and one that
would fad a congenial home in the
pine land. being laid waste by the lum-
herman and the tuTLentine butchers,
il is 4 shsmr that IL is so neglected. As
TO It's permsnency and sdaptability to
our country We have ample proof in
the fac; that there are vines in North
Carolina nov doing paying business
that were there when Columbus dis
covered Amsrica. As TO who planted
these vine. it 10 fair to assume that IL
is all We have leit OF the Garden OF
Eden, and right royalty have We abused
il.
Il have made scUppernong wine for
twenty i've yea ~ have sent IL 10 half
dozen States and never had enough
to so around have made repeated eff
forts To bny grapes or lease Q number
Of vires, bIt, presto, change" those
grapes ro'tnG upon Ihe ground imme.
diately hr'ame pearls with . price be-
yond possession. No doubt the day
will come when this grape will be al
lowed lo assert itself, but not with our
present population, for ! am satisfied
they will never exhaust their efforts tn
get rich III ,ixty miles per hour, Vines
sixteen years old have easily made for
me barre, of wine which was oil juice
OF the grippe and no base attempt To
turn water INTO wine as was once done.
To stsrt such an enterprise requires
but htllr zach and q good stock In
trade Of patience and attention. En-
periercr vii grow With the vine aud
eventually me number will be reduced
who have to say / cannot live because
my parent. lived before me- "
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-09-01

j. i.r south had more cotton mills
E9 TIE people would wear more cot
w God. the price Of cotton could be
~-J Kept up. The regulating Of
F''' BY supply and demand would
w. ieIsbIe market.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-09-01

IT, a'1"k signal system is to be- put
= -, southern Railway between
'''n sat Atlanta. By this system
u ;Aasrr % collision between trains
''.1.-d TO minimum. All the
~ 's lads will have this system IN
80 Jar. sc il IL the safest yet
-.-. sIywheFe.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-09-01

A man fell from q balloon in Illinois
ikW days ago and was mashed 80 fine
Ru there wasn't enough bones for
me setting.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-09-01

While there is no cause for any un.
tOe Isrm. it is we'll enough for our
a. iary officer to look to the pools OF
ES'er aud other unclean places about
he cI'y. II 10 we'll to keep the city
tlsar
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-09-01

The assertion that permanganate Of
pOlS.sInm ls "a cheap and simple prep.
anton that will destroy mosquitoes
many stage OF development" lie denied
b mary who have tried IL.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-09-01

Nr Elizabeth Hunt OF Brooklyn =,
yY. is lo5 years old, and says she
IOlId ike to live to be 200 IL she could
my nave some OF her near relatives
alive a. that time.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-09-01

II o-ier recommends reading in
Va before going to sleep. Half an
loa' 30, IN with such reading will in
'4'e TIE most refreshing sleep, and
h'' D.. no more comfortable way OF
Rtt ..