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RAINY DAY ADJUSTMENTS
FOR THE CHILDREN

DANNY or cold saturdays are coming
N DAYS when the children mus. of ne
COSTLY remain in the house much OF the
time-and the games and the manner IN
which they are to employ themselves
should have some consideration.
The mo,her of several children says she
has a box of rainy day toys. These
TOYS are highly colored and consist OF
blocks, red and blue soldiers, bright blue
metal dishes and the Like. These little
articles are brought out only on RAINY
DAVIS. and furnish much enjoyment foi
the little folks who cannot get out OF
the house. If played with every Gay the
children would soon tire of them.
Another mother, whose purse will not
hermit the buying of many toys tor the
ii tie folks, teaches them 10 MAKE theii
own .oys. RAINY afternoons tne! arc - :,
be found, busy and nappy' cutting GU
naner dolls and pastepodrd turhiluf e.
nn,.,k'ne TONS from spoois, elc. How mucn
ha,.,Iar tnese tots are when making
things for themselves ,.
The spoons, KNIVES, paddles, maroies
tons lacks. ones, flags. SAND, nttle CHAIR =
durable dolls small s,eei WAGONS oii spo o.H
metallic dishes and small table and Taper
napkins are few of the artlces lhs
average child wants in the playhouse IL
he is not to wander into the street
GIVE your little girl ool, cus Aei oos
simple paper patterns for dresses, quits
etc. Give her some pieces OF ciotn,
needle, thread and scissors. she VIII BUSY
herself for hours dressing the ooiiy
she is old enough to sew nicely let hel
piece a quilt for herself or make plan
AKRON 1000,
A sand table is a never ending source
of amusement and also Of instruction
II may be made by Gu ting off the legs
Of the cheap kitchen table to lower 1t Il
the height of the child and placing a mar
row board all around the edge TO Keel
the sand from falling to the floor. RI
the top of the table with sand. The emil
dren will make mountains, rivers, cities
big buildings Like that in which papa ma
his office and most wonderful towns. a
few small toy bricks and animals, sucr
as come in the old-fashioned Noah s ark
will give them the opportunity to estab'
iish a farm. with The animals at pasture
T'he sand table is a wonderful source OF
entertainment to the child and develops
his powers of perception.
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vast fleet sounded a charge. 1t was
soul-sttrring signal both to besiegers and
besieged.
ordered my aid. Lieut.. Charles H.
Blocker, to double-quick the Dist and 25th
South Carolina to reinforce Maj James
Reilly, whom / had put in command on
the left, while l went to the northeast
salient, which / believed to be the vital
point of the work and the one which
needed most protection. I rallied there
the larger portion of the garrison of the
main work, putting 300 men on top of
the bAstion and adjoining parapets and
holding some 200 more in the adjoining
batteries. About $50 remained for de-
Tense on the left to which ! supposed the
$50 South Carolinians would Immediately
be added and these, with the Napoleon
and the torpedoes. l felt sure would sue
cessfully defend that portion of the work.
The assaun.ng line on the right was d.
rected at the angle or point of the l., and
consisted Of 1900 sailors and marines,
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less torment; II was impossible to re-
pair damages at night on the land face.
The ironsides and monitors bowled their
eleven and fifteen inch shells along the
parapet. scat ering shrapnel in the dark
ness. We could scarcely gather up and
bury our dead without fresh casualties.
AT least 200 had been killed and wounded
in the two days since the fight began.
Only three or four of my land guns
were of any service. The federal troops
had been approaching on the river side
during the day, but they were more or
less covered by the formation OF the
land, and we could only surmise their
number. / had seen them pass and oc-
cupy the redoubt about half mile from
the fort. We had fired some shot and
shell at their approaching columns, but
II was at fearful cost of limb and lie
that land gun was discharged, for TO
fire from that face was to draw upon the
gunners the fury of the fleet
With the rising sun. on the 10Th, the
feet, which had been annoying US all
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brought TO bear our single heavy gun.
while the two guns on the mound bat
terry turned their attention from the
sailors af1oat 70 the sailors on shore but
at too long ranre to be very effective.
Hagood's brigade, sent by Bragg, was
now arriving at Battery Buchanan, but
by the fire of the fleet after it had stc-
ceeded in landing two South Carolina
regiments. which came at dOuble-quick
to the mound under heavy fire. The
ported to me by the officer in command
as $50. They reached the fort less than
thirty minutes before the attacking col
umns came like avalanches upon our
right and left.
Ny headquarters during the fight were
the pulpit battery on the sea face, lOl
yards from the northeast salient and ad-
Joining the hospital bombproof. COM
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a deadler fire into the flank Of the en-
envy occupy ng the gun chambers and
traverses than they We're alb to deliver
upon my men from the left salient.
VIII lie thus engaged / met my aid, who
informed me that the South Carolin ans
had failed to respond 20 my order, al
though their officers had pleaded with
them. and with few of them had gone
into the fight; that the assaulting col
umn had made two distinct charges upon
the ex RENE left and had been repulsed
by the fire of the Napoleon and by the
infantry: thai the torpedo wires mad
been cut by the fire Of the fleet and the
e ectrician had tried n vain to execute
my orders: that. driven from the ex-
treme left, the enemy had found a weak
defense between the left salient and the
sallyport in their third charge, and mao
gained the parapet and. capturing two
gun chambers. had attacked the force in
the left bastion on the flank, stimuli
taneously with direct charge Of fresh
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their attachments and rush to the top of
the parapets when the firing stopped and
drive the assailants back. AS I returned
I instructed the squads that were forming
under cover to rally to the parapets as
soon as the order should be given, to
which they responded with enthusiasm. L
had determined to allow the assailants to
reach the BERNIE of the work before eX-
ploding line of torpedoes, believing 1t
would enable us to kill or capture the
first line, while destroying or demoraliz-
ing their supporting lines of assault.
had not quite reached my headquarters
when the roar of artillery suddenly ceased
and instantly the steam whistles Of the
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pedo lines and their columns along the
river shore massins for the attack, while
their sharpshooters were firing upon
every head that showed itself upon our
front. Despite the imminent danger to
the gunners ] ordered the two Napoleons
at the central saly-port and the Ma
po!eon on the left to fire grape and cam
lister upon the advancing skirmish line
They fearleSsly Obeyed the order, and
with effectiveness, but at a sad sacrifice
in killed and wounded.
At the same time on the ocean side a
column composed of sailors and marines
was seen to approach. the advance throw
ing up slight trenches. On these we
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would continue the fight as long as
man or a shot was left. and noby di
he keep his promise. Shoruy afteI M
fall the Federals made an advance. an !.
capturing several more Of The gun cham
bers. reached the Import. The colu IN
in the work advanced, but Maj Reilly.
rallying the men, among them the SO tn
Carolinians. who had all become c gag
ed, drove them back.
About O'Clock at night my aid came
to me and said the ammunition was Nv
ing out; that he and Chaplain McNnnon
had gathered all on the dead and wound
ed in a blanket and had distributed ii;
that the enemy had possession Of nearly
all of the land face; that it was impos-
sible to hold out much longer, an SIG
gested that it would be wise 10 surren-
der, as a further struggle mig e a
useless sacrifice Of life. l replied that
so long as I lived / would not surrender
the fort. Gen. Whiting re 7 arked:
Lamb, when you die / will assume COM
mand, and will not surrender the fort.
In less than an hour a fourth ar my
brigade three were already in the fort
under Gen. Adelbert Ames} ente Ell the
sallyport and swep. the defen-els ira
the remainder Of the land face. MAJ
Reilly had Gen. Within and mySe bur-
riedly removed on sIretcheis to Il. tier
Buchanan, where he pur osed to ma--e
a stand. When we left the hosp al IN
men were fighting over tie ado ming
traverse and the spen. halls fe.i lie
hailstones around The arrison the
fell back in an orderly retreat alon e
sea face the rear qua keep4ns e
enemy engaged as they a ivanceI slowly
and cautiously in the darkness As far as
the Mound battery, where they hai ei
Some of the men, cut off from the main
body. had 10 retreat as best they coui
over the river marsh, while some few
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the greater portion of whom had fianked
my torpedo lines by keeping close to the
Ordering the mound battery and
any other on the seaface that could do so
to fire upon them and the two Ma
poleons at the saIlyport to join our Co
lumb ad in pouring grape and canister
into their ranks, I held in reserve the in
fantry fire, Whiting stood upon the brink
of the parapet inspiring those about him
The sailors and marines reached the
bernie, and some Sprang up the slope, but
a murderous fire greeted them and swept
them down. Volley after volley was
poured into their falter ng ranks by cool.
determined men. and in half an hour
several hundred dead and wounded lay
at the foot of the bastion. The bravery
of the Off could not restrain their
men from panic and retreat, and with
small loss to ourselves we witnessed what
had never been seen before. disorderly
rout of American sailors and mar mes.
AS our shouts of triumph went up /
turned to look at the western salient, and
saw, to my establishment. three battle
flags of the Union army assaulting col
lImns upon our rampartS on our land
front. Gen. VIII ting saw them at the same
moment. and calling to the men to
pull down those flags and drive the ena1ny
from the work, rushed toward them on
the parapet
In order to make careful reconnois-
sance of the position of the enemy 1
passed through the sallyport, and out
SIDE of the work witnessed a savage
hand-to-hand conflict for the possess on
of the fourth gun chamber from the left
bastion. My men. led by Whiting. had
driven the Federal standard bearer from
the top of the traverse and the enemy
from the parapet in front. They had re-
covered the gun chamber with great
slaughter, and on the parapet and on the
long traverse of the next gun chamber
the contestants were savagely firing into
one another's faces. and n some cases
clubbing their guns, being too close to
load and fire Whiting had quickly been
wounded by two shots and ha- been car
ried to the hospital bombproof..
i saw that the Confederates were ex-
posed not only to the fire in front but
to a CALLING infantry fire from the cap
tured salient. / saw also a fresh force
pouring into the left of the work. now
offering no res stance. l doubt if ever
before the commander Of a work went
outside of it and looked back upon the
conflict for its possession. but from the
peculiar construction of the works it was
necessary to do so in order to see the ex-
act position of affairs. | was in front
of the sallyport and concealed from the
army by fragment of the palisade
Order ng Capt. Z. T. Adams to turn
his Napoleons on the column moving into
the fort, l returned into the work and,
placing men behind every cover that
could be found, poured at close range
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unarmed artilerists barely eudea tho
enemy by following the seasho.e.
When we reached Battery buchanan
there was a mile OF level beach between
us and our pursuers. swept Icy two H.
inch guns and n twenty-four- pounter. ard
in close proximity 10 the battery. a COM
modious wharf where transports could
have come to carry the men of. We eN-
pected to cover with this battery the re-
treat of the remnant of the garrison. but
we found the guns spiked. and every
means of transportation gone.
The enemy threw out a heavy skirmish
line and sent their fourth brigade TO Bat
terry Buchanan. where il arrived about 10
pm, and received the surrender of the
garrison from Maj. James IL. IIill and
Lieut.. George II. Parker
So stouty did those works resist the
.o.o@ shot and shell thrown against them
in the two commandments that not a
magazine or bombproof was injured. and
after the land armament. with palisades
and torpedoes. had been destroyed no as
sault would have been practicable In the
presence Of Bragg's force. had it been I'M
der a competent officer One thousand
tons of iron were gathered by the United
States from the works
Had there been no feet TO assist the
army al Fort Fisher the Federal infantry
could not have dared assault II until it's
land defenses had been destroyed by
gradual approaches. For the first time in
the history of sieges the land defenses OF
the works were destroyed not by any act
of the beSieginE army, but by the Concen-
trated fire direct and enfilading. of an i'm
mense fleet poured upon them without in
PERMISSION, until TORPEDO wires were cut.
palisades brea he'd SO that they actually
afforded cover for assailants. and the
slopes OF the works were rendered practi-
cable for assault.
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handing the best views of the APP
proaches to the land face. At half-past
Q. as was returning from another bat
terry. one of my loQkouts called to me:
Colonel. the enemy |s about to char e "
I passed hurriedly down in the rear Of
the land face and through the galleries,
and although the fire of the fleet was ter
rife I knew 1T must soon cease, and
ordered additional sharpshooters to the
gun chambers with instructions to pick off
the officers in the assaulting columns, and
directed the battery commanders to form
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through the night. redoubled its fire on
the land face. The sea was calm. the
naval gunners had become accurate by
practice, and before noon but one heavy
gum protected by the angle of the north
east bastion remained serviceable on
that face. The harvest of wounded and
dead was increased, and at noon l had
not 100 men to defend the long line of
works.
The enemy were now preparing to as
sault; We saw their skirmish line on the
left digging rifle pits close to our tor
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HE capture of Fort
Fisher, N c.. Con
the peninsula be-
tween the Atlantic
ocean and Cape
Fear river defend
ing the entrance to
the port Of VIII
mington), on the
18th Of January,
1865, was followed
so quickly by the
final dissolution OF
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hills, causing the very earth and sea to
tremble.
1 had telegraphed for renforcements.
and during the day and night following
about 700 arrived, giving me 1.JOO. all
told. UP to the morning of January 10, in
Guiding the sick and slightly wounded.
Friday, the 18th, in the midst OF the Dom
bardment. Gen. w. H. c. Whiting the
district commander, and his staff arrived
in the fort They had walked up from
Battery Buchanan. l did not know of
their approach until the general came TO
me on the works and remarked. Lamb.
my boy | have come to share your fate.
You and your garrison are to be sacri-
feed / replied. Don't say so, general;
we shall certainly whip the enemy again.
He then told me that when he left Will
mington Gen Bragg was hastily removing
his stores and ammunition, and was look
ing for a place to fall back upon. I Of
fered him the command. although he
came unarmed and without orders: but he
refused, saying he would counsel with me,
but would leave me to conduct the de-
Tense.
In the former bonbardment the fire OF
the fleet had been diffuse, not calculated
to effect any particular damage. and so
wild that at least one-third of the mis-
siles fell in the river beyond the fort or
in the bordering marshes: but now the fire
was concentrated, and the definite object
of the fleet was the destruction of the
land defenses by enfilade and direct fire.
and the ships took position accordingly.
When attacked in December l had had
for my forty-four heavy guns and three
mortars not over $500 shot and shell; and
for the most effective gun in the work,
the 1:0-pounder Armstrong, there were
but thirteen shells, and we had no other
ammunition that could be used in il.
During the time between the two expedi-
tons we had begged for more ammuni-
ton, but none came except a few useless
bolts DESIGNED for the Armstrong gun.
/ was oblis ed TO husband my ammuni-
ton even more than in the previous bat
tie. and therefore gave the same orders.
that each gun should be fired only once
every hat hour until disabled de-
stroyed, except when special orders were
given to concentrate on a particular YES
sell in case an attempt were made to
cross the bar and run in, when every
available gun should be used with all
possible effectiveness. 1t was this slow
firing from the fort at times not over
fortyfour guns in thirty minutes, COM
pared to the naval fire of from one to
two guns d second, that gave the navy
the erroneous idea that it had silenced
the fort. But no attempt was made TO
run by the fort. which was great sur
prise to us.
All day and night on the 18th and 14th
of January the navy continued its cease
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from text and plots. The latter to
be treated as follows:
No. ]. No treatment.
No. 2. Nitrogen in form of dried
blood at the rate of 700 lbs. per acre
No. 8. Nitrogen by use of legumes
No. 4. Potassium alone by the use
of potassium sulphate at rate of zoo
lbs. per acre.
No. 5. No treatment.
No. 6. Phosphorus alone by the
use of strained bone meal at the rate
of 200 lbs. per acre
No. T. Phosphorus and nitrogen
combined
No. s. Potassium and nitrogen
combined.
No. g. Phosphorus, potassium and
nitrogen combined.
No. H. Farm yard manure alone
at the rate of 1000 lbs. per year or
5000 lbs every four years (unleached).
No. IL. Farm yard manure supple
,mented by PHOSPHORUS using 600 lbs.
of ground phosphate rock per 1000
lbs. of manure
No. 10. No treatment.
Harvesting the fall crops and dis
cussion of yields. A critical study
Of the records of former yields. The
need of nitrogen and it's supply of le-
gumes. Root tubercles and inocula-
ton. The need of PHOSPHORUS and
the sources of its supply; rock phos-
plate and bone meal. The need of
potassium and the commercial supply.
The acid test of, soils. The need of
lime and it's commercial supply.
1 Farm yard manure: it's value, its
preservation, and it's application. Ro-
tation of crops from the fertility
standpoint A critical study of the
yields Of the neighborhood.
Animal Plant Improvement.
Origin of domesticated races.
Natural selection.
Improvement by selection.
Heredity.
q How to cross; cross popcorn, sweet
corn, field corn, both naturally and
artifcially; inbred field corn, sweet
corn and pop corn. Plant the mixed
kernels and note the character of the
crop Detassel and compare the yield
of the detasseled with the entire row.
Treat wheat, oats, barley and rye in
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of lands drained. Benefits of drain
age. Ditching and estimation Of cost.
Commercial Law and Bookkeeping.
A system of farm accounts.
Items to be considered in farm
bookkeeping and a method of open
ing and keeping an account with each.
The cost of keeping team of WORK
horses for one year.
Ascertaining the total cost of pro-
duction of an acre of each of the com.
mon crops Of the neighborhood n
terms of days work of men and teams
as we'll as in money.
A comprehensive study of the in
struments of business transactions:
bills, notes and contracts will be
studied in a brief way The idea of
the course will be to acQuaint the stu
dent with instruments of trade COM
monty met in everyday business af-
fairs.
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much the same way. Make collec-
ton of freaks in plant growth.
Farm Machinery and Drainage
The general care of farm machin-
cry.
The adjustment of the plow.
The purpose and operation of cul-
tivating tools.
The mower and self-binder and
their proper care and operation.
The small gasoline engine.
Students progress in the special
subject and his report on it.
Location of tile and sewer drains,
leveling for drains; digging the ditch !;
leveling and finishing the bottom );
laying tile and sewer pipe; the gener-
al nature of infectious diseases with
especial reference to those carried by
waters; source and supply of pure wa
ter; sanitary drainage; house SAM
tation. Reasons for drainage Kinds
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A, w. Hayes, Agriculture with some
other subjects.
Amelia Won Levern, Normal Depart
ment. Qn Washington Building.
Alta Newcomb, Domestic Science
and Domestic Art.
Graded School
Clara and Johanna Hanson, LIST and
End grades.
Elna Worthing and Ida Ormsrud,
Sdr and 4th grades.
Jessie McLaren, 4th and 9Th grades.
Flora Patten, 5th and 9Th grades.
Mary Cue, 9Th and 7th grades.
Hannah Solberg, 7th grade.
Jessie Carlson, Sth grade.
The above teachers have all signed
contracts, and will, if true to their
promises, return to fulfill their con-
tracts.
Very respectfully,
e. M. Mitchell.
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OFFICER DIES OF BLOW.
Lieut.. Written succumbs to Injuries
Inflicted by Thugs.

Boston, Aug. 81. - Lieut.. VIM. A..
Whittier, executive officer Of the Unit
ID States revenue cutter Androscog-
gin, died at the Relief hospital from
injuries received at the hands Of
thugs. Lieut.. Whittier, with another
officer Of his ship. and two friends,
were returning to the vessel from the
theater, when they were set upon and
beaten. ..- \. 80