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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-10-19
Farm ana
Garden
HERE'S A RACING ROOSTER.
Little Drivers Father, L. o. 6onham,
Says Light Brahmss Are Best.

Says Light 6rahmss Are Best.
This picture will show you the kind
of chickens We raise in Texas. Note
the comparative size of the team and
the driver, Joshua Bonham, and Peet,
the rooster"
That is what L. o. Bonham Of john
son county, Tex, wrote when he sent
the picture shown here TO the Rural
New Yorker. The bird is nearly as
large as the baby. Many farmers shake
their heads at Light Brahmas because
they think such great fowls eat too
much for what they give back. Mr..
Bonham was asked to say why he
thinks the Brahams are best, and this
is his answer:
How many study the surrounding
conditions when selecting a breed OF
chickens? We have been growing the
Light Brahmas for the past eleven
years, and this is the reason why. Our
chickens have the range Of the or
chard, berry patch, garden and vine
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-10-19
CIDER NEEDS NO CHEMICALS
Careful Heating, Sterilizins and Cork
ino All 10 Necessary.

ing MI 70 ENSSSo0
The keeping sweet Of cider and other
fruit juices without resorting to the
use OF chemicals Is a simple process,
and can be done by any one who IN
derstands canning fruit.
The cider is heated as 500 as ex-
tracted TO a temperature Of about 200
degrees, or until II begins to simmer.
but does not boil. 1t may be put into
bottles or jars and sealed at once, but
a much better way is to allow II to
stand FOR twenty-four hours and pour
of and filter through a flannel cloth,
then reheat 10 the same temperature
and seal.
When the Juice or cider is put into
the bottles which should be steriliZed
by rinsing out with boiling water, the
corks should be put in and the stopper
sealed with sealing wax or parafin,
It will keep indefinitely, and may be
put TO a great variety Of uses
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-10-19
Blood Meal Not Popular.

Few dairymen feed dried blood to
their milk cows. Sensitive persons
revolt against the idea Of feeding blood
meal. And yet IL contains nearly
twice as much protein as ~cottonseed
meal or oil meal and is just about as
effective as a milk producer.
1t has been more customary to use
blood meal as a hog feed than as a
feed for cattle. II ONE as a by
product from the packing house and
when fed to hogs is mixed with corn.
1t has been shown by station tests
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-10-19
Use Various Lubricants.

Where the pressure Is heavy the lu-
bricant should be thick In order to
resist being squeezed out under the
load. For light pressures oil should be
used. Thus for a wagon heavy grease
is best, while for n cream separator Of
high speed n thin oil is necessary In
order that its ~viscosity win not add
to the friction. Solid substances In a
finely divided state, such as graphite,
are often used effectively to reduce
friction.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-10-19

uoAIC " "a uuSA 10
French journal recalls
DVlogy Of "'canard" In the
lucrative journalistic sense. A Paris
reporter once upon a time in the bot
weather could find no news and he
fell back upon his Imagination. He
r published an account Of a remarkable
experiment conducted in a farmyard.
A farmer took twelve ducklings,
chopped one up fine and gave ii "a
the eleven others to eat. A second
was chopped and the remaining ten
gobbled him up. For eight o days
one duckling was served up To the
others. At last, when only two were
left, one Of the two was given to the
other to eat. This remarkable expert.
ment resulted. therefore, in the one
remaining duckling having eaten uI
his eleven brothers.
The story Of the Twelve Little
Ducks" sprang at nee into fame. A
"canard" in a newspaper has evel
since meant a statement nearer fc
ton than fact.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-10-19
SOFT SNAPS NOT NUMEROUS.

There are no soft snaps about
farm life or any other kind OF
life " q man wants TO win. And
the man who sets out 20 find
any such thing will come out
worse thar he went in and make
miserable failure Of living.
Business 10 business on the farm
as we'll 40 elsewhere. And why
should IL not be2
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-10-19
Cuban Indians.

Cuban officials applied to the king OF
Spain in 1884 for 1000 negroes tha-
they may become Injured to labor be
fore the Indians cease to exist" After
1863 there was not an indian on the
island.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-10-19
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T. DENMARK. !

I. DENMARK. +
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Professor Richard Burton of the
University of Minnesota has just re-
turned from a visit to the Scandina-
Wan countries. He seems to have
been particularly impressed with the
Danish theaters. In view of the fact
that he visited the most famous the
aters in Europe it is interesting to
note that he was singularly well i'm
pressed with the open air productions
that he saw while in Denmark and
Norway. In Copenhagen a distin-
guished company of actors played
Schiller's "The Robbers" in a grove
called the Deer park, with just the
natural forest setting; and in Chris
tiania a delightful fairy play, Ell
veroy," by the Danish playwright, Hell
berg, was beautifully acted in a park.
These two outdoor performances"
Professor Burton said, "far surpassed
anything of the kind l have seer in
this country. ! might add that the
audiences were Of a higher class, in
intelligence and attention, than IN
we muster"
A dispatch from Copenhagen dated
Oct. s says: "A message received
here from Greenland says hat Knud
Rasmussen, the Danish explorer,
failed to discover any trace Of Cap
tain Einar Mikklesen and his COM
panions, who, after having been res
cued on the coast of East Greenland
last year, left this part of the country
to search for traces Of the lost *
plorer, Erickson. Rasmussen ex-
presses the fear that Mikkelsen and
his party have persisted. Fruehen, an
other Danish explorer, who accom-
panied Rasmussen. obtained from
Cooks Eskimo assistant, Etukishuk,
the box which Cook alleges contained
the instruments and papers which
would prove his polar discovery
claims. The box contains only a
broken sextant and other instru-
ments, but no papers.
The Politiken (Copenhagen) urges
the Danish people to contribute to the
national subscription which Is being
taken in Sweden at present in behalf
OF August ~Strindberg, the eminent
Swedish dramatist, novelist and play
wright, stating that Denmark should
share in recognizing the forty years
work that this literary giant has con-
tributed to the literature Of the
North"
Rev. H. Ostenfeld of Fredriksberg
has been appointed Bishop Madsen's
successor in the Sjalland diocese. Rev.
Ostenfeld is a splendid speaker and
is considered to be n of the most
learned clergymen in the country.
MARION s. NORELIUS.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-10-19
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NORWAY. =


A bust Of Ibsen was unveiled last
month on the grounds of the North
Dakota Science school at Wahpeton.
N. d. President Smith Of the science
school delivered the unwilling speech
and Waldemar Ager, one of the most
noted Norwegian authors in the Unit
ed States, delivered an address in the
Norwegian language regarding tn
life and work of Ibsen. Thus it will
be bel that not alone in Boston, but
on the plains of North Dakota, the
spirit of Ibsen still lives. The band
played "Aases Death" by Grieg, and
other compositions created for Ibsen's
works. The bust was made by the
late Jacob Fjelde, a Minnesota sculp-
tor, who died in Minneapolis in 1896.
Ibsen posed for it twelve times in
Molde, Norway. AT that time he was
writing The Lady From the Sea-"
Thirty-three Norwegian soldiers
were tried by courtmartial at Gard.
moen the other day for conducting a
wbistling concert in honor of a GER
tain lieutenant. Two of the soldiers
were sentenced to twenty-five days
Imprisonment, fourteen were given
twenty days and the rest were set
free.
Twenty-eight E~nglishmen have been
on an extensive exploration trip into
the interior of the Bergenhus districts
during the past summe under the
leadership Of DR.. Kolderup. Some
eminent biologists and botanists &C
~companied the exploration party.
The Norwegian Telegraph company
is planning to establish double cur
rem telephone connections from
Christiania to ~Trondhjem, Bergen and
Christiansund. Later on the service
may be extended to Berlin and Paris.
Bjorn Bjornson, a son Of the late
Bjornsterne Bjornson, is touring the
country, giving lectures. Mr.. Bjorn-
number of lectures in the United
States and Canada some years ago.
The Norwegian brig Caprice encoun-
tered a severe storm in the North sea
recently and was thrown against the
English shore and smashed to pieces,
Eight members of the crew persisted.
Cally Monrad, the Norwegian opera
singer, has been granted a divorce
from her husband, Ritmester Aas
Both parties are, however, reported
to be engaged to marry again.
Norway is exporting more herring
to Germany this year than ever be
fore. From fifty to sixty carloads Of
herring are being sent to that coun'
try every day.
Baron Cederstrom, the Swedish air
man, made a successful flight over
Lake Mjosen Sept. FL. He gave one
or two exhibition flights In Chris
tiania also.
Prolonged drought is reported from
Stavanger and potatoes and othel
vegetables have suffered. There viii
be little OF no crops In that section o.
the country.
The "sill" fishing has just beer
closed off the coast Of Iceland. Nor
wegian fishermen returned with abou
10000 barrels of the finest sill" il
the world.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-10-19
Job Printing =.
THE REPORTER AND FARMER.

the show you will hear more comments
Of the Brahmas than any other breed;
that is, from people that are not inter
ested in special breeds.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-10-19
Self Hetp.

"what Is your theory about self
belpT'
"Why. to help yourself IL there is
anything in sight."-Exchange.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-10-19
Peacemakers.

10 prevent lawsuits three peace
ms rs were appointed for each Penn.
uyly1nia county in 1858.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-10-19

that cottonseed meal is somewhat
cheaper rs a milk producer than blood
meal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-10-19
OF INTEREST TO
SCANDINAVIAN
Recent Happenings IN This
Country and Abroad.
GIRLS END LIVES TOGETHER

Peculiar Case of Double Suicide at
StockhoIm-eust of Norway's Fa-
nous Author, Henrik lbsen, Unveiled
at Wshpeton, N. D.-Minnesota Uni.
versity Professor Praises Danmark's
Open Air Theaters.
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+ SWEDEN. +
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-10-19
King
, Of "Canard."

name for a duck In
French journal recalls
Evening star., 1911-05-28

hen about half full. The delicate shad-
surface seen directly through the
are themselves merely cloud forms.
Ing the bright star Regulus. 1t has not
yet reached the crescent phase. but will
be seen In a small telescope to be a
very little more than half full; 1t does
NOT become an exact half circle until
July 8. 1t is now so directly approach
ing the earth that it is growing notice
ably larger During the month its di-
ameter will increase one-third in size
nearly four times as large as at present.
1t VIII then. however. only be visible
as very narrow crescent
The brilliant Jupiter is now almost
exactly south, and will at once be seen
sninlnE out a little to the right OF the
Balances and to the left of Spica. It
Is now moving slowly westward into
virgo, but July it's westward mo-
tion will cease, and it will then begin
10 move eastward again. On the night
OF June the moon will be tseen to
pass below and quite near to the planet.
the center OF the moon passing exactly
south OF the center of Jupiter at D
minutes past midnight eastern stand
ard time). Even when nearest the two
bodies will seem to us to be separated
Dy q distance one and one-haif times
as great as the distance across the
moons disk. But If we could WaiE
southwark over the earth we would
see our nearby satellite apparently ris-
Ing higher and higher in the sky, ana
We would be able to look continually
farther under it's lower edge, until.
when he had reached q latitude of
twenty-five degrees below the equator.
we would see its upper edge just Craze
the planet. Observers between this
latitude and the south pole may see
Evening star., 1911-05-28
Back Numbers.

g CIR PATRICK SPENS, London surgeon
- praised at a dinner in New York tht
abundant and timely reading matter thai
American physicians have In their wait
ing rooms.
The English physician offers his pa
tients reading matter. but I am afraid
isn't always up-to-date"
Sir Patrick smiled.
"One of your American millionaires con,
suited me in Harley street last month
He was kept waiting about an hour
When he finally entered my inner ofic<
he looked very much bored.
"I see by your papers, DOCTOR he said
with yawn, that it is rumored that twS
Dayton men, Orville and Wilbur Wright
can actually fy.'"
Evening star., 1911-05-28

June IA, 1853, an unsuccessful attempt
was made by Banks army to capture the
place by storm and my regiment led one
of the charging columns. Just as the
sun was peeping over the hills we sailed
forth In battle array The Charge" was
given and we tore across the open ground
straight at the enemys breastworks.
When within eight or ten rods of the
let in my thigh. My comrades were
driven back-no man could long stand
against that avalanche Of leaden death
that poured out OF the fortffcations-
l was left with only the dying and the
dead to keep me company. Then began
my long vigil in that CHASTITY inferno.
The cries Of the wounded-the merciless
sun-the torment of it all-and the thirst,
the madenning thirst! Only those who
have lain thus can appreciate its terror.
when the welcome night closed down
the enemy posted pickets outside their
line of defense. One OF them found me
and took me inside. I remained in their
hospital until they surrendered. July 8.
Twenty-Five out of total Of thrty-seven
men in my company, 1 learned then, had
been killed or wounded in the charge.
During the last nine or ten days of my
lying in the hospital all we had to eat
sassafras tea. There were some twenty
odd Confederates and but one other
Union soldier besides myself in the hos
pital tent We-their enemes-were given
the same 1000 ana treatment O1IereQ their
own wounded. And that to the credit OF
the Confederacy.'
X X
In the same battle were two other SOL
diers-one under the stars and bars the
other under the stars and stripes-who
now hold positions of unusual trust and
prominence under the same flag. The
former was no less a parsonage than
Chief Justice White of the United States
Supreme Court, serving then as aid to
Gen. Gardner, commander of the Confed-
crate forces within Port Hudson during
the siege. The latter was Senator Fran
els e. Warren of Wyoming. At the time.
Of course. no one of the three men knew
of the existence of the others, and in
deed it was not until the past few months
they became aware Of the facts. Sena-
tor Warren, who enlisted when but sew
enteen years of age. was awarded a
medal of honor for conspicuous gallantry
in the engagement.
Evening star., 1911-05-28

the brilliant Dog Star. Sirius and five
of the stars in the Great Bear form one
little family, and are all drifting through
space together. Similarly. there are about
one hundred stars which are drifting
along with our own sun at speed OF
about eleven miles a second. In the
Bull q similar flock Of thirty-nine stars
has been found. and very recently seven,
widely separated stars. of which An
tares is one, have been shown to be mov-
ing through space together.
It is q most interesting fact that In
many cases stars which are In a similar
condition are found associated together.
The most extreme examples of this are
the densely packed clusters. large pro-
Evening star., 1911-05-28

selves witnessed. To them Memorial day
means something more than the mere
placing Of flowers and flags on the graves
Of those who met a patriots death. 1t Is
personal to each OF them. It Is day
Of memories: day OF recoliections so
vivid that eternity alone can efrace them:
Q day when their dreams hark back to
the old camp ground, the bugle's call and
the cannon's roar. And. as they fondle
h memory the scenes through which they
passed. they Jay tribute to the God OF
battles who spared them until their eyes
could close on the hands OF the Confeder-
ote gray and the Yankee blue clasped
across the firing line in a Union indi-
visible.
'T have never been able to forget an
Incident that occurred on the battlefield
Of Antietam." said Gen. A. W. Greely,
u. s. A.. when asked for his most vivid
recollection OF the civil war. And each
Memorial day, somehow, 1t presents itself
with increased appeal On my way back
to the field surgeons hospital for treat
ment-1 had been wounded twice. met
up with one OF our doctors applying
restoratives to a wounded Confederate.
He was a mere boy. not day over
fifteen. I was but eighteen. and he also
had been shot twice-so there were things
In common between us.
but IL was his courage, his unflinching,
unyielding spirit that impressed me most.
AS he lay there, horribly mangled. his
eyes were as steady and his manner as
cool as though he were idly lounging in
his own home. His nerve was not
broken, nor the fear Of death on him.
He seemed grateful for the attention,
but not in the least humble. Thank you,
gentlemen he seemed to be thinking.
but when get well I'll be at you again"
II there are many more like him in the
southern army. i thought. We are cer-
tainly in for a long. hard struggle. 1
have wondered many times since what
became of him-whether he pulled through
or died on the battlefield. I have never
been able to learn"
Gen. Greedy made two attempts before
he was allowed to enlist You get out
of here; we don't want babies; We want
men," was the objection of enlisting
officers. Finally he found one who passed
him. He served throughout the entire
war and was the first enlisted man in
the Union army to attain the grade of
a general in the regular army.
He recalls vividly the part his regiment,
the 18th Massachusetts,. took in the for
lorn hope at Fredericksburg. when they
crossed the Rappahannock river in the
face of a murderous fire and took the
town. All day long they had been trying
Evening star., 1911-05-28

reddish stars form a little cloud Of their
own at an immeasurable distance away
from us. For IL has been one OF the
most interesting of all the quite recent
discoveries in astronomy that many of
the stars in the sky are grouped to-
getRer. as 1t We're in focks. all the stars
of a flock drifting through space along
flock may appear to us to be widely sep
arated on the sky, for 1T must not be
forgotten that We are plunged inside the
great cloud of stars of which our sun is
a part, and that it Is therefore difficult
for us to form a right conception of the
true distribution in space of the multi
tude Of suns around US. For example,
Evening star., 1911-05-28
SENATOR kNUTE Nelson
OF MINNIE SOTA

fag?" continued the old veteran. who
paid as his price Of duty to his country
both legs. mo? Well. Tim Regan was a
son Of the Emerald Isle who had gone to
teer Infantry. He, with many other Union
soldiers. lay in Libby prison as that
Fourth Of July drew near. They chafed
In spirit at the thought Of passing the
Fourth without even sight Of the flag.
Tim conceived the idea of making one.
He had a new white wooden shirt and the
others blue ones. They pooled their slen-
der amount of cash and persuaded an
amiable guard to purchase for them some
red and white woolen goods. on the pre-
text that they wanted to make them up
into shirts. Out Of this material they
fashioned a flag. crude in construction.
butt represented Old Glory.
''They gauged as we'll as they could
the probable height to which the patrol
ling guard might raise his vision. Then.
the night Of the Sd, they clambered up
among the rafters and stretched their
crude flag in the apex OF the loft. The
next day they gathered in a circle In
the center of the chamber and sang pa
triotic songs throughout the day. The
guards were q little curious as to the
cause of the unusual proceedings. but
failed to discover the banner above them.
That night they took 1t down, cut it into
strips and divided 1t among themselves.
Each thereafter wore a strip OF that flag
around his body next his skin. And as
each was paroled he bore out with him
his fragment Of the banner.
"Regan had taken the precaution to
ascertain the home address of each man.
After the war he corresponded with them
or their surviving relatives, and finally
1t was a work OF years duration-had
every bit of the flag back again. Again
he sewed 1t together. Again he stood at
salute before 1t. Now he has gone to
join his comrades in the great beyond.
but the nag he made Is securely guarded
from dust and decay in glass case at
the Stephenson Post, G. A. R.. at Rox-
bury, Mass.
Evening star., 1911-05-28
First Aid.

GEORGE ADE. at a luncheon In Chi
- cago. paid a gallant compliment tc
a well known actress.
The actress wore a harem skirt OF TIN
new flame color. and Mr.. Ade said to her
ut is pretty. And what an odd colW
1t is! Tell me the name of the color"
'.Flamme de vesuve-fiame Of yesuvf
u.s., the actress answered.
BE jabers," said Mr.. Ade, I'VE make 4
vurry purity crater."
Evening star., 1911-05-28

Surrounding us in every direction there
Is the wonderful universe of hundreds
of millions Of suns, of which our own
sun is small and inconspicuous MEM
ber. All Of these suns are drifting
through space with high velocities In
every direction-like bees in q swarm
and yet they are SO infinitely far apart
from one another that collisions between
them can almost never occur. It is esti-
mated that the average distance between
any two stars is at least ten light years.
Evening star., 1911-05-28

group cdlleO Ine Twins. whose
two bright stars, Castor and
PoIlux, shine out very near the ground
In the west, but which each evening
sink a little lower. and before the month
has passed will withdraw from the
evening heavens. not to reappear until
next November. Meanwhile. in the east,
there has appeared the wonderful sum-
along whose golden stream are the beau
tiful Cassiopoea, the Northern Cross and
the Eagle. AS the weeks go by this will
rise ever higher. but not until next Sep
tember will ii span the evening heavens
with an arch exactly overhead
The bright stars In the south are now
the BLUSH Spica. or Ear of Wheat. in
the very long, faint group of the Virgin.
the brilliant. golden yellow Arcturus
and the fiery red Antares. The last
which is the brightest star of the very
striking group of the Scorpion, Is be-
lieved to be a very old sun, surrounded
by wonderfully dense and heavy at
sorbing effect Of this heavy blanket that
its red color is due. Like most of the
red stars, Antares has only very small
apparent motion; that Is, ii can hardly
he seen to drift over the sky at all. even
when measured with thu most powerful
telescopes. From this We are sure that
the stars of this kind are immensely re-
mote from US. and since. notwithstand-
ing their great distance, some of them
look very bright. II must be that they
are actually many hundreds, and per-
haps many thousands, OF times brighter
than our own sun.
u may be that many Of these little