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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-01-23

AL PUBLICO.-Cuando usted qniera
compraf el cafe de Yauco de Zeppenfeldt
y Co, puede pedirlo en- grano molido en-
Ia sAmerican Grocery" donde Sc ha esta-
ble,ido nuestro dep6sito. Bows
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-01-23

UNA GRATIFICACIoN. Sc dara
Ia persona que entregue en- esta redac-
G On un alfler de corbata con una esme-
Talda, que perdi6 un caballero al regresar
del parque el s6bado a las de la tarde en-
el caro- no. IA. 6 VS.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-01-23
NUEvA DlRECTIVA.

Ell Iunes % del corriente mes, Sc lley6
efecto en- Ia morada de don Jose C6rdo-
va, Ia toma de poseci6n de la nueva direc-
tiva de la sociedad ssEl Lazo de Oro''
En- dicho acto Sc pronunciaron discursos
alusivos por el presidents saliente don Jo-
sc Ocasio, por el entrante don Manuel Ra-
mos por el secretario don S6simo Martf-
nez, obsequiandose despu6s los concu-
rrentes con dulces y licores.
La fiesta dur6 hasta las once y media
de Ia noche saliendo todos completamente
satisfechos.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-01-23

Sc VENDE UNA CASA EN- SAN
TURCE Gale de Barcelona Tiene
aqua, bafio, etc. El solar tiene 800 me-
tros cuadrados. Renta en- $14. Sc vende
en- $3.50. Para mas informes dirigirse al
Apartado I'll, San Juan, n r. 6va
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-01-23

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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-05
CUSTOMS OF THE NASAL

The face is sometimes in keeping with
the body, but more often has a rather
brutal aspect. The Nasal are not pure
negroes, but obviously received a very
long while ago a slight infusion of
Hamitic blood from races dwelling to
the east of the White Nile. While
they are in the young-man-warrior
stage the Nasal live principally on
milk and on blood drawn from the
veins Of living cattle. They also oc-
casionally eat the meat of oxen, goats
or sheep.
when a Nasal decides that he has
had enough knocking about and has
accumulated sufficient property on
which to retire he decides to marry.
This Is usually about the age Of q
to 30. After marriage he shaves his
head, or at any rate keeps the hair
of his head very close cropped. He
ceases to anoint himself with mutton
fat and definitely ranges himself with
the old men,"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-05
SET DOCTOR AGAINST BACON

Dr.. John A. Wesner, the eminent
bacteriologist, practiced physics in the
wilds of Northern Michigan before
moving to Chicago fifteen years ago.
His professional calls there often took
him into the rattlesnake region. One
spring night he was called to the rude
cabin of a woodsman, some twenty
miles away. A woman and her babe
we're Ill. And while it was charity
work, nevertheless he responded.
Just before daybreak his patients
were quieted and he had fallen asleep.
AS the doctor was tired out he asked
if he could not lie down somewhere.
In the real of the cabin was a small
detached room, used for a kitchen. In
this was a cot and he soon was dream
ing.
Presently I was awakened" said
the doctor, "by the noise of frying
meat. 1t continued for a long while,
so it seemed. l was there for a cou-
pie Of hours, and all during that time,
the same dull. cracking sound dis
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-05

turbed me in my semi-stupor. When
l awoke, sure enough, there was a
woman over the stove.
Been frying a lot of meat, have
MT your" l asked.
mo she answered, 4 have just
commenced
"'Well, somebody has been ahead
Of you cooking Bacon l said to her;
and apparently enough of it 10 supply
all the logging camps between here
and Duluth
"'Oh, no. she replied. That noise
you heard was Pete's rattlers over
there in that, hogshead,' and lifting
the cover she showed me a mass Of
wriggling, writhing red-skinned rat
tlers-about 200 of them. l did not
wait for breakfast, but hastily exam.
lining the sick, again saddled my
horse and hit the trail back to town.
And not since that experience"
continued the doctor, have l been
able 10 eat fried bacon."-Chicago
American.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-05
BY A RUSSIAN WOMAN

many of us ladies, to guard our es-
tates from being burned, thieved or
pillaged? Only with Cossacks. But
you must have mean for this; those
who have ION get ruined. Cossacks
only use their whips when all other
ex%pedients fail. Cossacks have been
on some neighboring estates for eight
months. We have not heard of one
ucing a whip.
con returning from town we were
detained by the political strike in Mos
cow. Every day we went out for
hours, passing under barricades and
witnessing how one fired at the SOL
diers from %attics, behind gates, from
a crowd and from windows. Never
once did we see q soldier fire first.
We had always time to get under
shelter before the cannons fired. This
is not the place to speak of what we
have done for the peasant in the way
Of school, medicine, clothes, wood and
general help. Landed proprietors in
variably do much; yet those who have
done most have been the worst
treated"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-05

How recent history in Russia ap-
pears to a woman of the upper classes
is told in a letter written by her from
her home in Samara, eastern Russia.
"If any one would come to this dis
trict," she says, "the truth about the
Russian peasantry might be learned.
Here the peasants are rich, each hav-
ing nine or more acres, with cattle in
abundance. Workmen cannot be OBJ
tanned; not on account of low wages,
but because they are not free to drink
upon every occasion. In Russia every
laborer receives. besides his Day, food,
heating, lodging and lighting, also
fees in wood and straw; if he comes
with his family to live on the estate
extra food is supplied to him, accord
ing to the number of people.
Last autumn, 1905, the doctors or
dered us to take my mother to town.!
on our return we found the peasants
had cut down all our best wood and
sold it for money with which to buy
drink. Admonitions, threats, persua-
sions were in vain. Now how are we,
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-05

ductive beverages form the liquid I'M
derlay of the country entertainment
to-day as they did when silk clad cav
alters escorted stately danes in the
days when George III. was King.
The early Californians found the
Americo-Spanish hasendao producing
a fine wine from the vineyards on his
hillside, and as the quest for gold
brought out and established the fam
lilies of the gold seekers the ranches
changed owners and the enterprise
that caused the habitant Of the East
ern coast to journey to the Pacific
spread out from the mining camp and
found (what always follows but
precedes an adventurous advance) an
agricultural outlet. Now the vineyards
of the Golden State produce wine
which in quantity almost equals the
entire product Of the Old World and
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-05
Three Thousand Varieties of Intoxicants
i'm Use Throughout the United States

in quality and liquid refreshment pro-
duced under the sun.
The wine merchants of Europe call
us a nation of label drinkers, and the
reason is apparent. Thousands OF
Americans journey to Europe yearly,
and, owing to the phenomenal advan-
tages offered, have large sums of
money to spend, and as a rule they
contrive to spend it in whatever man
ner will attract the most attention.
There is no keener student of human
nature than the European hotelier.
He will, with the most servile bow
and ~extravagant gymnastics, send
away a bottle of choice wine, that has
not found favor in the serving to a
party of diners, whose knowledge of
the beverage is based on the price op-
posite the lame of the wine on the
card, and substitute a cheap, strong
liquid, with every assurance that had
he known the gentlemen desired the
best they should have had it at first.
New York, Ohio and California now
produce some of the choicest wines
produced in the world and find 1t a
very difficult matter to market them
against the foreign wines. An early
fault Of the American sparkling wine
was it's sweetness and its alcoholic
strength-faults TO- overcome. A
dry wine is an imperative condition
to popularity now. The Latin palate
is adjusted to sweet wine, but the
English and American champagne
consumer of to-day wants a "brut"
wine.
While some writers credit the origin
of champagne to the Benedictine monk
Dom Perigon, the careful students
OF the subject know him for a blend
er and improver of wines, while the
production of champagne dates from
the Gallo-Roman days; but the cult
walton of plantations required for this
wine did not become properly devel-
oped until the fourteenth century.
Several New York club and many
private residences have what can
safely be classed as among the choic-
est collections of wines in the world.
There are also many wine buyers who
visit the leading sources of supply in
the interest of their clients, and keep
their cellars stocked with the choicest
and oldest wines ~obtainable. When
the late Queen Victoria sherries were
sold a large percentage of this wine
came here. In one cellar there are
nearly ten gallons of Madeira brought
to this country by Lord Baltimore.
There is port of 1775-1S11 and 1920,
stored away in one cellar, New Eng
land urn in the days of the Puritans,
brandy and whisky long past the 100
year mark in many places and choice
collections of champagne. Old col
lectors have quantities of every
known brand of sherry fifty years old.
New York Herald.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-05

Sir Harry Johnston writes of the
Nasal, that African race which has
been giving so much trouble to Ger
many of late: "The young men are
all warriors, theoretically, between
the ages approximately of II and 27.
When in this stage they are known in
their own language as ell moran.
They pull the head hair out to it's
greatest length, eve sometimes twist
ing and plating fiber and string into
their wool. The hair is then thickly
coated with mutton fat and red clay
and tied into perukes. All hair on the
face and body is plucked out by iron
tweezers. The skin is kept constantly
fabricated with mutton fat mixed with
red clay, but as a rule the body is not
d~isagreeably oily, and this fabrication
only has the result Of giving a beauti-
full polish to their statuelike forms.
"As regards the body, there is prob
ably no more beautifully formed type
OF man than the young Nasal warrior.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-05
TO ALL WHO GRVMBLE

Gazed for awhile on the roaring gloom:
Fell on a SentinelS h~eaV'n-sent form,
Driven, by pressure of circumstances,
Out in that beastly storm.
High on a magazine. bleak and lonely,
Nobly he paced his appointed beat
(Rather like Casabianca. only
That little horror complained of heat),
Daring an enemy'S foot to touch on his
Windy preserves, he was hurled about,
Getting his spine well iced, not to men,
ton his
Gizzard blown inside out.
Long l gazed on the gusty fellow;
GaZed, till mine uglier moods were
spent;
Gazed, till my whole soul seemed to mel
low
Into a chastened and bland content;
And. as l blessed him. and drew the cur
tain.
Leaving him on his wind swept mound,
Life. l remarked, though a bit uncertain,
Wasn't so bad. all round.
Grumbler, such is the Grand Idea:
Surely the moral is plain to see;
Wien you're in need of a panacea.
Think of the sen~tinel-think of me!
Turn. to Philosophy's consultations;
Doubtless the gods may nav used you
i'll;
But-by a Merciful Dispensation-
Others are worse off still!
London Punch.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-05
a Son of Beecher,

A son of the late Henry Ward
Beecher is, We are told, holding a
minor clerkship in the Seattle city
~treasurer's office. The only question
of public interest in a case of this
kind is based upon the hope that he
will be competent and honest in his
calling. There is no reason in the
world why a Beecher should not earn
his living in an ordinary vocation. and
no reason why he should wish, in SO
doing. to conceal his identity. The
older Beechers. men and women,
worked diligently and were not
ashamed of work. Harriet Beecher
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-05
was supplied by social or political

was supplied by social or political
outcasts and poor debtors.
While the Sunny South is better
adapted to wine growing than almost
any other section of this republic,
it has made less progress in the in
dustry than the more recently settled
districts, and the average Southerner
is content to sip the heavy, rich,
fruity Scuppernong, which has much
of the quality of port, with nc ambi-
ton to improve the vineyard or the
vintage, and thus it is that the hos
pitable South will offer the visitor this
wine to-day as it was produced many
years ago. To be sure, 'the wine of
the country as far as the South is
concerned, has corn or rye as its
basis. and the dispenser Of planta-
ton hospitality expects the guest to
partake of either toddy Of a mint
julep early and often, and these Sc
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-05

of the defenders of any flag.
"Sweethearts and Wives" keeps the
memory of home bright, and often the
sip of wine is met with a lump in the
throat of a grim old warrior, who
through tear dimmed eyes above his
glass gets a glimpse of his loved ones
at their faraway freside, and the
world is better for a noble sentiment.
Wine growing has steadily in
creased with the growth of the u
try. The few vineyards of the sunny
hills of Western New York were fol-
lowed by the many great vineyards
of Ohio. The Carolinas and Virginias
have made wine since the Colonies
were practically penal settlements and
the labor outside the slave lines
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-05

You that only appear contented
When you are grumbling about your
lot,
Mainly because of a much lamented
Absence of all that you haven't got,
Listen to me. for l bring you healing
II you would scatter those moods away,
If you would conquer that injured feel
ing,
Listen to me-, I say.
Years ago, for a certain season,
l was a peSsimist (strange but true),
And, as a matter of fact. with reason,
Not for the fun of the thing. like you;
All thai / merited. looked for. built on.
Seemed to be doomed to a fatal slump;
Mine was the mental complaint which
Milton
Happily termed the Hump.
Came a highland of all Decembers
That was the vilest-I sat alone,
Bitterly smoking before the embers,
Hugging my grievance, and making
moan;
Out in the open a biting blizzard,
Whirling the gravel about like snow.
Froze the marrow, and turned the SiZzard
Inside out, at a blow.
Then said, this is something childish
(Which was a fact), and l crossed the
room,
Flung up the blind, and with sour disrel-
iSh
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-05

While we as a nation use and appa-
rently enjoy a little more than three
thousand more varieties of intoXicants
than any other peoples, we also ram
among the temperate folk of Christen-
dom.
There are about six thousand, more
or less, generally used kinds of intox-
icating drinks in the world, and We,
owing to the picturesque variety OF
our citizens, use a fairly liberal al
lowance of nearly each and every
brand of liquid exhilarator brewed,
fermented or distilled for the tenn
porary inspiration of jaded man.
While it is an historical fact that
oil nations have considered spirituous
liquors a proper subject for heavy tax
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-05
SHORT CRY TO COL VMBUs

And the great-grandfather used to tell
my friend Harmsworth that the Co.
lumbus story had been told to him
when he was a boy OF 9-that is in the
year 1724--by an aged great-uncle of
his who vas nearly a hundred at the
time, having been born in 1924. This
great-uncle used to tell Harmsworth's
great-grandfather that he had first
heard the story when he was about 10
years old from the lips Of N Will
liam Sutcliffe, a retired sailor, who
was hen in his 9Sth year, having been
born in 1886. Sutcliffe went to lei
when he was a boy of IL, shipping as
cabin boy in a brig bound for Vigo,
Spain, and there he fell in with an old
sailor, u years of age, one Marco
Guzman, who, as a lad of 16, had
sailed with Columbus to discover the
new world. And Marco, the sailor,
told Sutliffe the story.
$50 you see. from the lips Of that
sailor Of the Santa Maria to my ears
the story came through only four per-
Soho ouIciihe, the SiedI-uhSie' Iho
great-grandfather and my friend
Harmsworth. A few years ago, when
Harmsworth was living, he could have
said that between him and a sailor of
Columbus only three lives interviewed.
So, you see, after all tradition is a
thing not to be lightly disregarded."
"And what was the story?" asked
n of the party.
ooh, I have forgotten just how 1t
went now" said the statistician.
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"Oh, that is a matter Of tradition"
said the man who had been doubling
every statement made in the course
of the luncheon, "and a story passes
through too many people to be reli-
able when you get it a couple of hun
dred years late"
Tradition" said another man. "are
you aware how few lives it takes to
bridge over the centuries? For in
stance, the discovery of America
seems a long time ago, and I suppose
traditions concerning Columbus and
his crowd you would consider of no
reliability; yet, do you know, that
only four lives intervene between me
and a sailor of Christopher Columbus?
Yes, sir, I am in possession of a story
told by a sailor Of the Santa Maria,
which passed through only four PEG.
pie before 1t got to me, and yet it
spanned the centuries from 1892 to
the present time. The story was told
me by Christopher Harmsworth, who
died in 1885, at the age of 95-a clear
headed old man with an excellent
memory, especially for things he had
learned in youth-like most old peo-
pie.
"Now, Harmsworth was born, of
course, in 1890, and when he was a
boy 10 years old, in England--that is,
in the year 1S00-his great-grand-
father, then a man of IS, used to take
him on his knee and tell the story to
him. The great-grandfather, as you
will see, must have been born in 1715.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-05
Care of Brood SoWs.

I know nothing of the treatment OF
sows save in the extreme
corn belt, and of conditions
arising therein I will write. The
hogs are supposed to be summered on
corn and grass in the main, a full ra-
ton of corn being given from Sept. 10,
as soon as new corn will do to iced.
I am not saying that this is the ideal
condition, but 1t is the method that
obtains in the great pork producing
states. II properly managed this
need not be at all detrimental to the
SOW. Some time in November. how-
ever. the prospective brood sows
should be separated from the rest OF
the herd and a ration less inclined to
make fat should be fed. For cheap
ness and real value l know Of moth
ing that is superior to oats, and II
the sows are very fat / would advise
almost an exclusive diet Of oats, COM
mencing at least three weeks before
breeding. l always confine my bears
and feed them oats, or almost anything
In preference to corn, till breeding
time, then l give a mixed ration and
all they can eat.
The boar's condition is half the bat
tie in getting a crop of pigs. On an
average a boar can not get two large
filters of pigs a day. Still I once
owned one that was reasonably sure
for three or four and in one day got
four filters of 81 strong pigs. The
hnn -oo I'LL L. -,.I L~-,or o
limit to less than an average Of two.
| record the date of breeding and mum
Der the sows by shearing figures On
them. These will show plainly till
they farrow and by consulting the rec
ord I know when to expect the pigs.
and while for early pigs l use a hog
house, the sows are never confined 48
hours. When 112 days are completed
| watch the sow carefully and pen her
always in the same pen, letting her
out a few hours each day. | have
never seen strong pigs farrowed un.
der IL days and never over 118 days,
the best pigs and the greatest number
coming 113 and ia. So your can
see that it is no great task to put
forth special effort on each sow.
My hog house has a dirt floor. 1t is
graded up inside higher than the
ground outside, so that no water runs
in. Hogs will never root up the bed
ii 1t is kept dry. and when you see
your hogs roofing it is an indication
that you should put in a large supply
of dry bedding. Sows that are healthy
can safely be fed all the oats they will
eat Immediately after narrowing. They
will not eat much. After a few days
they should have corn, etc., and as
soon as the pigs are strong enough to
follow they should be turned out, a
few hours at a time at first, but soon
let them run all the time, sleeping in
a common bed.
| can easily take care of 40 CT 80
sows and have half the day, when the
weather is good, for other work. In
fifteen years of hog raising I believe
have matured an average Of over five
pigs to the litter from Poland China
and Chester White hogs. This is not
a great pig average, but has been
very satisfactory to me.
Cedar Co., Neb. E. w. Ferguson, Jr.