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The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25

ficiality in method may be brought
against her that is brought against the
Japanese educational leaders is not
true The Chinese educators have
proven in their work in Tientsin that
they can apprehend the seriousness of
a great problem and grapple with it
swiftly and strongly. Kindergarten.
primary schools, middle schools, col
leges, university and again normal
schools for the training of Chinese
men and women teachers, are in opera
ton, all purely Chinese, some managed
by the government, some by private
individuals. The board of education
Is under fearful pressure; great cam
paign of education must be carried
through all over China within ten
years if the nation is to be saved. AS
result, teachers must be trained in
a hurry. Instead of turning out sec
ond grade teachers with superficial
training, the following method is
adopted to get results quick" A
normal school, for example, for women
is established with a complete dormi-
tory system, the entire expenses of
the scholars is borne by the govern
ment and ten dollars a month Is paid
to each student besides her expenses,
thus placing a premium upon this
method of preparation On the other
hand, examinations are held in the
different provincial centers, and those
students are selected and admitted to
the school who have the highest
standing. l went through such a school
myself and talked to the teachers, who
were Chinese, of course, but who spoke
English. There were about 140 girls
preparing for teachers. An apparently
inexhaustible treasury has been de-
voted to the equipment of the schools,
which surpasses anything l have seen
in Japan in the way of scientific labor
! atories for chemistry, physics, biology.
physiology and engineering with it's
various branches. An industrial school,
again with a complete dormitory sys-
TEN, where some 700 men and boys
were hard at work learning trades,
showed that the interest in academic
education had not blinded the educa-
tional department to tue value of in
dustrial education. We Visited but one
industrial school and one establish
ment under government supervision
for the promotion of home industry,
an iron works." but there are many
such enterprises.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25
HORSES soLTING GRAIN
Several Reasons Why They Get habit
How to Cure Them.

When a horse bolts his grain the
first step should be to see that his
teeth are in proper order as sharp
points or other Irregularities may be
making it impossible for him properly
to masticate his grain, and may easily
be set right by judicious use of the
veterinary rasps sold for the purpose.
Next it is important that the horse
should be allowed a sufficient length
of time in which comfortably and
properly to masticate his food. If he
is rushed into and out of the stable
at noon he soon learns to bolt his food,
as the habit comes from hurry and
hunger. In addition to allowing am
pie time for grain eating discourage
boiling by feeding the grain from a
box with very wide bottom, so that
it will be thinly distributed under
which circumstances the horse will
find it impossible to grab full mouth
full to be bolted unmasticated. Put
ting some cobblestones in the feed box
also helps to prevent boiling, and an
other excellent plan suggested by the
Rural New Yorker is to mix some hard
corn with the oats, as the horse will
chew well to enjoy the flavor of the
added grains, and incidentally grind
his oats thoroughly. The objection to
feeding sheaf oats in place of oats
is that horse has a small stomach
the capacity of which is but three and
one-half gallons or thereabout so
that he needs concentrated food in
small quantities often when at hard
work. Oats have to be fully masticat-
ed in the mouth, where they are
drenched with the saliva. which acts
upon the starchy matters. The oats
then pass to the stomach, where they
remain for hours for full action of the
gastric juice. which acts upon the pro-
TEN constituents; then the partially
digested food passes slowly along the
many feet of small intestines. after
meeting the digestive fluids of the
duodenum, and gives up most of its
nutrients to the absorbent organs
during the journey to the large intes-
tine On the contrary. hay, straw and
fodder after partial mastication in the
mouth, pass quickly through the
stomach and are stored in the large in
testines (caecum and colons), and if
fed with oats or just after oats tend to
force the grain out of the stomach I'M
digested. Theoretically horse should
therefore be fed hay first and then
oats or other concentrates, and as wa
ter passes through the stomach to the
caecum it should be given always
before feeding.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25
Well-Lighted Cow Stables.

1t is not easy to get all farmers to
let enough light into their COW stables
Yet the matter is SO, important that
some states are passing laws compel
ling every man that produces milk for
city consumption to put more windows
into his COW stable If he has less than
certain number Farmers should
not wait for law to be passed com
polling them to do this, but should be
more ready to do it than the law
makers are to have them do it. In
the darkness Turk the germs that will
be disastrous to animals and humans
Moisture and darkness are the natural
conditions under which some of our
most fatal diseases are produced
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25
THE GOOD SCRUB.
Find Her Out and Then Keep Her and
Breed from Her.

1t would be good thing If we had
a system of testing the scrub COWS
that are good mixers 1t is a fact
that every farmer understands that
here and there in the multitude of
scrub cows is a milk COW of great
value, and a COW, too, that seems to
have the ability to pass her large milk
ing qualities down to her progeny.
II is too bad that any good milking
strains should pass from the land. 1t
must be remembered, says the Farm
ers' Review, that all the present
breeds came out of the great mass of
cattle, and that there was a time when
all cattle were scrubs. The possibili-
ties that we have discovered and de-
veloped in the selected breeds existed
in the undeveloped breeds and some of
the large milking strains are to be
found in the cows that are without
pedigree. Moreover, many of these
scrub cows have in them the blood of
the improved breeds.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25
The Veterinarians,

The good veterinarian should be en-
couraged, for the country needs i'm.
The good veterinarian is almost al
ways the graduate of veterinary col
lege. There are a great many unskill-
full and unscientific men practicing as
veterinarians to-day. They have not
passed through the veterinary schools
and their information is largely picked
up In picking up this information
they have gathered with it good deal
of misnformation. The latter makes
the unqualified veterinarian a danger
Gus man Many a good animal has been
ruined by being treated for a disease
he did not have, or by being given a
medicine dangerous in the hands OF .
man not understanding it,
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25
A Handy Barn.

put in 1t. The doors on the COW shed
are wide enough SO you can drive
through them with wagon or manure
spreader. The horse stable has double
stalls ten feet wide and Is feet from
inside of manger to the wall. This.
together with the fact that the doors
are eight feet wide. enable You to get
out with your team very easily. The
size of the structure is 35X3S feet, with
a hay NOW over the lower floor The
caves are six feet, affording more than
usual protection to the outside of the
building. The accompanying plan,
says the Journal of Agriculture, will
give the reader a better understand
ing of the interior arrangement.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25
w EXECl/z1NS RNLHCE az NE EIKREfUR

every form. A search FOR an opium
den proved the efficiency of the law.
and inspection wiped them out of eX-
istence
Perhaps the least said about the out
rageous doings of the foreigners in
Tientsin the better 1t is a subject
that people do not like to discuss and
do not wish to have brought before
them. 1t is true, nevertheless, that
in the foreign settlements the Chinese
are finding endless opportunity for
the gambling which is prohibited by
their government in their own city,
and is nevertheless openly coun-
tenanced by several consuls of for
eign nations in spite of their agree
ments with the Chinese government.
THE China Times Tientsin paper,
is waging an open war against houses
of i'll fame and places of amusement
of outrageous character which are act
ually protected by the representatives
of foreign powers. The papers are
full of it. One paragraph will copy,
itself: THE Alhambra & its Pic
lures: Mr.. Pratt, British vice con-
sui, sat In the British consular
court on Saturday morning to hear
a charge against Mr.. A. Harper of
the Alhambra Russian concession of
exposing indecent pictures. . . The
consul for defense: The first one
he thought was undoubtedly coarse,
as to the second and third that
were called indecent, that. of
course. was matter not of indi
vidual opinion so much as of opin-
ion of the court trying the case. 1t
was rather stretch of the mag
nation to say that one of the
reasons for Directing was that the
Chinese went there, and that 1t did
not look well for Chinese to see
what foreigners did in this way. He
had no doubt foreigners did lots
of things the Chinese did not APP
prove of. If these pictures were
permitted in London he did not see
why they should not be permitted
here" People have a way of saying
that There amt no Ten Command
ments" beyond Suez, and then dismiss
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25
LIVE STOCK INDUSTRY.
Good Profit in the Business If 1t Is
Managed Right

The live stock industry is one of
the very great industries of this coun-
try and will continue to be such for
centuries to come. The conditions in
this country make the production of
stock one of the most profitable of
enterprises. The lands are as yet
comparatively cheap and hence will
pay a good profit in the business of
stock producing. provided the right
kline OF farming is carried on in con
junction with the raising of the live
stock. That right kind OF farming
must include the raising of large
amount of roughage of such a charac-
ter that the farm animals will eat it
almost entirely. If this roughage be
corn or some ether plant rich in car
bon it is an easy way of transferring
the carbon of the air to the carcasses
of the cattle. With some stock many
a farmer can collect from the air free
carbon and sell it in the various prod
ucts that come from the animal world
No matter how high-priced land be-
comes, the farmer cannot afford to
foreGo the profits that would come to
him from being able to grow herba-
ceous plants of a rank nature and
transform them into a high-priced
salable product
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25
THE STOCK.

Dusty hog yards are fruitful of dis
orders in the lungs of the pigs. and
such disorders are frequently taken
for cholera.
One COW will make more milk out
of hundred pounds of food than
will another The COW that makes the
most milk from hundred pounds of
food is worth the most.
Rape is a good plant to grow for
sheep pasture in the latter part of the
summer and in the fall 1t can be
sown at any time in spring and early
summer.
The sow must be carefully taken
care of if the best results are to be
obtained with her in breeding opera.
tions. She should not be turned into
lot where conditions are such that
she will have to jump over bitches,
crawl between rails, or where she will
be tempted to try her ability to climb
half tumbled down fences.
On the dairy farm where pasturing
is practiced, there is no more impor.
tant thing than the pasture. 1t is
probable that in most localities the
grass that grows in the pasture yields
a larger profit than any other feed.
That is because its expenses are re-
duced to the least possible sum. 1t
is a great thing not to have to cure
and harvest the grass. The cows
harvest it without expense to the
owner and have it in a condition that
yields the greatest possible amount
of nutriment.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25

interact Thanks to the constant at
+an,iop and comnanionshin of Mr., Rob
-, V NJ r. A general SECRETARY in
T;onta;n ond Nv Foy a Chinese resi-.
49,. and NJ Of vale the most
,1uos,o.a;ra oity under Chinese admin
ia.,otio,, Voc onaned nm To us in a
.s,. .ho+ to;r1,, i,,rnined its edu-
oatinno, soo,.1 ond rel;rious prob-
80. a,d ,,,o,, 70 n,,t before Won a
ton, t,a.s +hot aro,n tbomsa1ves about
.hroa th;rgs. Tba hroad and wise mol.
49, - .he ,ooai chtnasa government
san +ha areatest of its men Yuan
CIT xoi ~ .o.ri,1a horder1.nd he
- ~ Chiuo.o oit,, ond tho fore;pn
"..1as+o 10 80 s+roto,ic rosition
e,,a,, ~, 49, W NJ n
0oo''-
10 say that CHINA Is a"aheiiiLs VI
VIII AWAKEN Is iaise statement VI
the case' 10 say Ih"' Nuiia ,i,''
-. +oro, Won Z, tba fo,a on everv
oor,ar II, overv b1oc,, on everv street
~. os MO ;rd,a tho nossibi,itiee and
tba quality of a mans mind nv his
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25
RIGHT Kind of Draft Horses.

In the breeding of horses for the
city the kind should be bred that can
be used in the work of ordinary team
ing, for in this is the greatest demand.
This is especially true of the larger
horses. The medium-sized draft horse
may be bred to do work on the farm.
He is particularly well adapted to the
large farms where heavy farm ma
chinery is now used in place OF the
lighter kinds formerly in use.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25

That China is progressing by leaps
and bounds is true, but that tie
same charge of carelessness and SUPER
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25
A it'd

ing the matter with the feeling thasev
they have made \ rather clever anttis,
telling observation. few
Do they realize, / wonder, that itwh
some Chinese ports the term AmericaIhaC
woman is synonymous for woman OF d
i'll repute-or prostitute? Thank Go6apr
it is not so in Tientsin. The Americal.su
and British governments are acting sthel
far as Christian nations in this city.
even if the individual American meImy
and Britishers are showing themselveibet
anything but Christians. The CHA fte
nese government is not .ns tom
stand for this" long. There will b,ur
a day of reckoning if the foreign cont h
cessions go on putting a premium olnea
vice as they are doing now. MeI1 az
who have lived in Tientsin for years n
do not hesitate to say that matter
must come to crisis soon. 1t
in the interest of the people at HON IT
and of the United States, it seems tool
me, to understand what is going OH II
az
This brings me to my third poinyhe
which includes kind of summary Oft r
all the rest, namely, the important pcbea,
sition of the Y. NJ. C. A. in flemish
A record of some of the activities &
my very good friend Mr.. RobertsoFor
will be most conclusive in shown Muir
+h,. +hay NJ n All
.i.'' nv ' W. "a 10 power LOT Gu Page
cation and for righteousness needein e,
and esteemed by the Chinese educ our
tors On one side Mr. RoharteoA Ask
comes in contact with vast numbe ="
of school boys. He has severn r.,
classes in various schools in physich..
and takes his students to all the ceI
ters of the city, such as the Wester-
telegraph station, telephone buildini
power plant, etc. He also Is mana
ing a regular athletic campaign. ha
introduced the games of associate A
football, coaches the teams and DR.. Il
notes the truly western idea of "h. "
ing thorough sport" "
Through the efforts and personalit
CT Mr.. Galley and Mr.. Robertson ii "
Y. M. c. A. is in a position where
can have tremendous influence fl
sound education and righteousness
the wheels can only be oiled. with
little more money.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25
: - . 8St@o6 li,
Z EG>
AN S--.3f s&s's''
A HANDY BARN.
Il Will Accommodate Seven Horses
and Ten Cows.

Here are plans for handy barn. 1t
will hold seven head of horses and
about ten head of COWS. A crib OPP
posite the feedway will hold about 500
bushels of corn and an oats bin adjoin-
ing this will hold from 1000 to 1,200
bushels of that grain. This leaves
a space 15x1S for implements. hay or
anything that the farmer may wish to
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25

J uNG.-A Chinese dinner
OF AZ dishes, a glimpse in
to a Chinese theater and a
visit to a popular lecture
hall-the latter not one of
the least significant evil
dences of a remarkable
educational purpose be-
hind the workings of the
Chinese government-end-
ed our visit in Tientsin
with an evening of great
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25

in the habit of catching and eating
chickens and proved an effective him
drance. The hogs wearing this device
were able to see enough to eat and
drink, but were obliged to refrain from
indulging In their favorite pastime.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25
CHICKEN EATING HOGS.
Board Across the Eyes Will Cure
Them, 1t Is Said.

Pieces of tin four inches wide and
about eight inchee long with four
holes punched in the upper edges were
tied in the ears of two hogs who were
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-25

The Chinese government is surely
doing its best. Gambling has been
prohibited within the city on pain of
ten years mprisonment-gamb in
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-02
CLEVER CROOKS ROB
AN EXPRESS COMPANY
Trunks Disappear by the Hundreds In
New York and Methods Em-
ployed Are Difficult to
Overcome

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-The arrest OF
three men in Brooklyn at an early hour
today disclosed the fact that the Adams
Express company has lost 100000, &C
cording to the police estimate, through
a series of trunk robberies in that
borough.
1t is not known whether the plot to
steal from the express company also
extends to Manhattan and elsewhere.
The prisoners, who are in the tolls in
Brooklyn, describe themselves as Alfred
Wilfort, aged 20, lather; John s.
Cook, IT. plumbers helper, and Alfred
Moule, 18, a driver
These three men, according to the
police, are suspected of knowledge of
trunk robberies which total $4,000.
Three more drivers are being searched
for by the police.
According to the detectives the
Adams Express company has been
robbed by clever system of counter
felt checks and tags made by job
printer who was in league with the
gang Of trunk thieves. When trunk,
which was to be stolen, was given to
a driver at some one of the depots
in Brooklyn the driver would put on a
bogus check and tag. He would then
deliver the trunk to an aceomplice.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-02
SAYS CAPITAL AND
LABOR WILL CLASH
Gustav HerVe Declares Time Is at
Hand for Bitter Conflict.
Troubles at Paris
Continue
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
PARIS. Aug. 1.-The excitement
among the labor leaders of Paris over
the outcome of the recent trouble at
VigneauX, and the statement that the
STATIONS, are generally recognized as
reaching a feverish, if not dangerous
state of unrest
Whether the situation will grow
worse it is hard to say, but it should
be recalled that the history of French
labor movements generally shows that
turbulence quickly dies out.
However, at this moment the revolu-
tionary branch of the unionists is
working up to an unusual pitch on &C
count of the shooting down by the
troops at Vigneaux of the demonstra-
tors and the arrest of various labor
leaders.
The government is preparing to pre-
vent fresh outbreaks Sunday and Mon
day when a second strike called by the
Federation of Labor is due to take eff
feet Additional arrests of labor lead
ers are planned.
A great majority of the French news
papers continue to unequivocally con-
denim the laborites for the Vigneaux
riots, but some of the labor organs, es-
specially the Guerre Sociale, the mouth
piece of Gustav Herve, the anti-mili-
tary agitator, insists that a revolution
airy period has arrived, and that the
hour has come for a bitter conflict be-
tween capital and labor.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-02
ILL HEALTH DRIVES
Her TO SEEK DEATH
Is Hurried to Receiving Hospital
Where Antidotes Are Promptly
Administered and Speedy
Recovery Effected

Mrs. Ola May Carpenter, wife of D.
S. Carpenter, an employee of the Elk
celsior Mills and Cereal company, at
tempted to commit suicide at their
home, 22S Hewitt street, last night by
drinking oil OF pennyroyal.
Mrs. Carpenter was victim OF the
San Francisco earthquake and fire. and
was badly injured in that disaster.
Since then she has been in a state OF
chronic nervous disorder.
Her husband was absent from home
later than usual last night, and when
he arrived found his wife groaning on
the floor with an empty bottle beside
her. She informed him that she had
taken poison and he at once gave the
alarm and the police ambulance was
sent for.
The woman was hurried to the re-
ceiving hospital, where it was ascer-
tanned that she had taken oil of penny
royal, but not in sufficient quantity to
injure her.
After her stomach had been emptied
and the usual antidotes given she was
taken to the matron's department OF
the jail. Mrs. Carpenter is said to
have been Respondent from ill health
and, owing to her nervous condition.
magnified her troubles.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-02
LIQUOR CAUSE OF
TRIPLE TRAGEDY
EMPLOYE SHOOTS FARMER HE
WAS DEVOTED TO
Later, Realizing Crime He Had Com
mitted, Murderer Blows His
Own Head OFF with
Shotgun
Ry Associated Press.

by Associated Press
AURORA, ILL.,, Aug. III. M. Nor
rill, wealthy farmer living at Black
berry Center. a small village fifteen
miles from here, was fatally shot early
today and his housekeeper was muir
dered by John Anderson, who was en-
ployed on Morrilrs farm,
Anderson later committed suicide
with a shotgun. blowing the top of his
head off.
Anderson had been drinking heavily
for several weeks, and it Is believed
was demented.
Morrill, was awakened early this
morning by Anderson climbing through
the window of his room. He asked him
what he wanted, and Anderson emp
tied the contents of two barrels of a
shotgun into him. The housekeeper
ran to a telephone to call for assist
ance and Anderson, following, shot her
dead.
From the brief story which Morrill,
had been able to tell, it is believed An
derson, after killing the housekeeper,
awakened to a sense of what he had
done and endeaVored to aid Morrill,.
The farmer says he remembers that
some man tried to help him, and that
he heard a voice asking for forgive
ness. 1t is also believed from an exam
nation of the body of the housekeeper
that Anderson attempted to undo his
work there, and on realizing that the
woman was dead he killed himself. An
derson when sober was devotedly at
tached to Morrill, who had always
treated him more as a friend than as
an employe.
When Mrs. Lucinda Morrill,, mother
of Morrill, saw her sons unconscious
form she tainted and physicians who
were called predicted that her death
from the shock would precede that of
her son.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-02
REFUSE TO INSURE
NAUGHTY" GOWNS

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-Evidently the
British business man, as typified by
the members of the London Lloyds,
does not believe that the sheath gown
is destined to become popular in the
United States. At any rate, the mem
bers of the famous London insurance
company refused to issue a policy for
$4,000 on a consignment of sheath"
gowns recently imported from Paris
by local department store.
The uptown merchants, feeling some
what skeptical as to just how well the
latest Paris creation would take with
New York women, asked an insurance
broker to botain a policy insuring the
sale of the gowns-in other words, to
insure the popularity of the sheath
gown.
The Britisher knew that the London
Lloyds were willing to write a policy
on anything, from presidential elections
to the safeguarding of an automobile
race course, or the fluctuations of the
stock market and promptly applied for
a policy on the sheath gowns. To his
surprise, however, he was, to use his
own words, turned down cold" He
appealed to several other companies
with the same result.