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The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1914-10-02
A Big Little Man.

Editor Dubois of "The Crisis" did
not mention the meeting of the News
paper men, Bankers, Lawyers and
Undertakes at Muskogee last August.
They are prominent organizations and
met during the session of the Ma
tional Negro Business League. He
knows they were in bad company on
account of DR.. Washington's endorse
ment of segregation. That is so; but
they are worthy of mention. 1t is
strange how learned man can be so
narrow, and it is conceded that edu-
cation broadens our minds. He is
certainly one unfortunate exception
and hence we sorrow.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1914-10-02
NEGRO BANK FOUNDER DIES.
DR.. w. R. Pettiford, President of Ala
bama Penny Savings Bank, Pass
es Away in Birmingham.

es Away in Birmingham.
Birmingham, Ala, September co.
DR.. w. R. Pettiford, founder and first
president of the Alabama Penny Saw
ings Bank, president of the Nationai
Negro Bankers Association and one
of the foremost Negroes of the coun-
try, died tonight after an illness Of
eight months. Heart failure was
given as the cause of his death.
With nine other Negroes DR.. Petit
ford organized the Alabama Penny
Savings Bank twenty-four years ago
and through his efforts largely, it has
been developed into the largest and
strongest Negro bank in the coun-
try. The bank in Birmingham is the
central one, with branches in Selma
Admission and Montgomery.
On account of DR.. Pettiford's i'll
health he retired from active par
ticipation in the banks affairs and
since April the affairs have been d.
rected by J. o. Diffay, acting presi-
dent.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1914-10-02

Now is the time to take advantage
of the low prices and the best loca,
tons, as we have a number of clients
who are forced to sell, since the wa,
has begun, and will make terms to
suit you.
/ have number of 8, 4, S, 6 and :
room houses that can be bought with
as low as 500 and $Iso down, with
easy monthly payments.
F. PEOPLES REALTY CO.,
ago Boston Block,
Minneapolis, MINI.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1914-10-02
A CORRECTION.

Mrs. Victoria Clay Haley will Lee
ture at St. James A. M. e. Church,
St. Paul on Thursday eve. Oct. 9Th,
instead of Pilgrim Baptist Church on
Oct. 9. Remember the date.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1914-10-02

wanted-Ageuts to solicit advsr-
Using and news. Salary or commits
sion. Good profits. Write the Twin
City Star. Minneapolis. MINI.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1914-10-02

The struggle for today, is not al.
together for today; It is for q vast
future.-Abraham Lincoln. .. .
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1914-10-02

Why is it that people, who never
subscribe to a paper, always want to
have their personal news in its COL
umnes?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08
Honor Francis Scott Key at Big
Centennial.
~OLD GLORY" 100 YEARS OLD
September IL, 1914, Marked Opening
of Three-Day Engagement In the
War Which Gave Nation
"a Most Stirring Anthem.

Baltimore, Md.-Baltimore opened
wide her gates to guests from all over
the United States when the national
Star-Spangled Banner centennial was
opened there for a weeks duration.
Sunday, September 6, was designated
as patriots day, and was featured by
a music festival by massed orches-
ira and chorus of 5000 voices. Sep
TENDER Z was featured as industrial
day with parade of 500 floats. The
middle states regatta was rowed on
that day.
Francis Scott Key day, on Septem-
Der 8, was observed with floral auto
mobile parade, a reception on battle
ships in the harbor, a night carnival
and tournament and colonial lawn
fetes. On September 10, fraternal
day, a parade with 10000 fraternal
men in line. accompanied by so bands
and 60 floats, was followed in the
evening by fraternal ball.
September IL was celebrated as
army and navy day. In the evening
there was military ball to the presi-
dent, the cabinet, state governors and
other distinguished guests. Septem-
Der IL, Star-Spangled Banner day, saw
the original flag of Stars and Stripes
borne through the city to Fort Nc
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08

North Point it was idle, it's defenders,
under the intrepid Major George Arm
istead, awaiting the inevitable attack.
1t came the next morning.
In order to prevent the passage of
the British fleet into the mouth of
the river and thus render it able di-
rectly to lombard Baltimore, a line OF
hulks was sunk across the river. This
acted as an effectual barrier and the
bombardment of the ships was from
off the mouth of the stream.
The British ships had better often
sive weapons than the fort. Their
cannon carried farther and sent ver-
liable rain of bombs and shot into the
fort all that day and the following
night.
Major Armistead at first replied
sturdily, but he found that his can
non had not sufficient range to reach
the enemy's ships. Wisely, then, he
held his fire and awaited events. AS
a hostile vessel essayed to creep
closer to the fort the defenders fire
drove it off. One ship was quickly dis
abled and was towed out of range by
smaller boats. The fort, although in
f1icting little damage, was sturdily
holding it's own.
Admiral Cockburn, in charge of the
feet, determined upon an assault, and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08
GOOD MANAGEMENT
OF. SHEEP FLOCK
Essential to Provide Rams Capa-
BILE of Producing Vigorous
St0ck-Work for Autumn.

While the shepherds work is never
done there are seasons when his work
is heavier and more important than
others, and when the leaves begin to
assume the yellow tints great changes
have to be made and preparations put
in hand for the winter.
Mating Of the ewes is in full
process. Not only is it essential to
provide rams capable of producing
good stock, but the ewes should be
qualified to breed improved offspring.
A yearling ram should be taken for
choice, while the two-shear or three
shear may answer, but no older one
is permissible.
There are flock masters who use
Iamb-rams, but unless it be some such
active, hardy breed as the Horn Dor
set, and those early dropped at that,
it is better not to adapt these young
sires. and even if adapted, in some
exceptional cases, only dozen or a
score of ewes should go to each.
1t is important that the shepherd
sees that all of his breeding ewes are
sound in their feet-free from foot-rot
and other defects, and in truth
healthy in every way, for unhealthy
ewes are not likely to improve the
flock.
The practice of breeding from lamb
mothers is to be strongly condemned,
as they are all unmatured and in
capable of producing up-to-the-stand-
ard progeny or doing the nursing part
we'll.
The good shepherd shrewdly classes
his charges so that the strong and
robust may be separated from the
weakly and delicate. Then, by little
nursing, probably in the course of a
month or two, even the latter. will
have gained in strength and hardness,
so that they may take their feed as it
comes, and in an ordinary place in the
fold.
There are also breeding ewes to be
paid due attention. They should be
given fresh, sound old turf-land where
they may get plenty OF exercise and
yet restful quarters. From the time
the ram is removed the less disturb
ance in moving about the fiocks the
better.
Other important work for the shep-
herd to pay earnest regard to about
this season is finishing off the ripening
or fattening ewes. getting ready for
the market the Gull ewes, topping up
shearlings and disposing of the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08

Henry, the escort consisting OF Pres
tdent Wilson, state governors and
picked guard of 100 men from each
Of the states of the union in 1914.
President Wilson addressed the
guests at the dedication of Fort Nc
Henry as a city park. But perhaps
greatest of all spectacles was the for
nation of living Star-Spangled Ban
ner BY 10000 school children, who
sang the national anthem to the ac-
compartment of massed bands num-
bering $500 musicians. The final day
was peace day, when universal peace
was the theme in all Baltimore
churches.
The summer of 1914 was not
bright one for the arms of the United
States. On land it was marked by
constant defeat, eliminating in the
burning of Washington August %.
But the end of that summer, never
theless, witnessed a glorious event,
celebrated in deathless verse wrung
, from the heart of a burning patriot,
who had witnessed the night lombard
ment of the fortress which protected
his native shores and knew not until
morning whether the brave little fort
had successfully withstood the as
sault or not.
There was no telegraph in 1914, few
and sparse means of communication
but after the skirmish of August %,
sometimes called battle" of Biadens-
KToT Tor ,,x
from Washington, where about three
thousand raw militia, mostly farmers,
were quickly routed by the trained
veterans of Gen. Robert Ross, the Brit
ish commander, the air about Balti-
more was alive with news and rumors
of disaster.
The British fleet, which had left Ber-
muda a month before, was sailing
along the Chesapeake bay and it's trib-
utary rivers, burning and destroying;
Washington was in ruins, owing to a
disgraceful act of vandalism perpe-
trated mainly through the agency of
Admiral George Cockburn, who after
wards conveyed Napoleon to st. Hell
ena.
Baltimore seemed irretrievably
doomed. In its defense it could only
marshal "home guard" principally
consisting Of boys and old men of Bal
timore, a few country companies of
militia, hastily recruited from sur
rounding Maryland towns and from
York and Hanover in Pennsylvania,
and about one thousand real soldiers
spared to the defense of the city, in
all about ten thousand men, under the
command of Gen. Samuel Smith, a
Revolutionary veteran, and General
Stricken, the former as commander
in-chief of the defense of the city and
the latter an active head of the de-
fensive operations.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08

to this end sent storming party OF
1850 picked men in small boats to es-
say the ramparts of the fort. The III
tense darkness of the night aided this
project, but as the party was about TO
land it was discovered. A terrible nre
came from the fort, and although tue
British behaved with great valor, they
were beaten off, two of their vessels
were sunk and many men were killed.
This storming attempt was not re-
peated, although the bombardment
continued, not ceasing until seven
o'clock in the morning of the four
teenth, after night of fire and ter
ror in which 1900 shells were thrown
into the fort by it's assailants. But tae
attack was frustrated, and, daunted
by their heavy losses, the stern re-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08
CIV A I IOVEIOYO

CBy A. J. LOvEJOY)
The pig that is to be sold for meat
has but few months to live, and
there should be no let up in feeding
from birth.
1t will begin to eat shelled cOrn at
three or four weeks of age, and a lit
tie sweet milk or a thick mush OF the
same material as that given the moth
er is a great help to hasten growth.
Well bred or even good grade pigs
should weigh 60 to 80 pounds when
weaned at three months of age, and
should then go on alfalfa, clover or
other fresh green pasture, and have
corn twice day.
Late in summer there should be
ready for them pasture of rape, field
peas or soy beans, besides the corn.
III their teeth become sore, change
to shelled corn, soaked "a hours in
water. slightly sailed.
1t will pay to have a cool, shady
place where it is rather dark, if pos
sible, for the pigs to lie in during the
heat of the day, with free access to a
mixture OF salt, copperas, lime and
ashes.
The feeder should watch closely to
see that every pig is eating with a
relish.
If pigs cough 1t is probably due to
a dusty shed. Worms will also cause
a cough. and IL the hair becomes dead
in appearance, it is well to give a
worm powder.
In raising hogs to be used as breed
ers, the object is very different They
are not to go to market at six to ten
months of age, but to grow on to ma
turity.
They should be pushed for rapid
growth, but must be fed for a growth
OF frame and bone, not fattened on
corn. but expanded by a feed rich in
protein.
At six or eight months of age they
should show more length Of body and
more scale than the market hogs, and
be smooth and well covered, but not
so fat as for market.
This can be very easily done by feed
ing mixed grain ration, with ten per
cent of tankage or ten per cent of oil
meal.
Use corn, barley and oats ground to-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08

gether, mixed thickly with water, and
fed at once while sweet. 1t is much
better to mix three pounds Of milk to
one pound of grain.
If one has no milk the next best feed
is ten per cent of tankage. If one has
the corn and does not want to buy the
mill feeds, he can use 80 per cent OF
corn and 20 per cent of tankage and
have a well balanced ration.
The summer treatment of young
pigs should be about the same as for
the market pigs. For late summer and
fall l have made it practice to have
a field Of evergreen sweet corn to
feed. in the roasting ear.
l begin by adding one stalk and ear
for each pig in addition to his other
feed; in a few days, two stalks and
two ears, and gradually increase this
amount to a full feed, while diminish
ing the other ration.
know of nothing that will equal
alfalfa, bright and green, run through
a cutting machine. Two-thirds chaffed
alfalfa and one-third shelled corn
mixed together and ground In a steel
bur grinder, make an almost ideal RAJ
ton which can be fed dry or mixed
thickly with scalding water; little
salt adds relish. It Is cheap ration
and has just bulk enough to take the
place of grass.
II one cannot have alfalfa, bright.
well-cured clover is good. Sorghum
cane is a good fall feed until heavy
freezing. Mangels or sugar beets are
of course very good.
1t is very necessary that the brood
sows have exercise, that they may
bring strong filters of pigs, full of vi
tally. 1t Is best to keep the same
sows for several years If they have.
proved good breeders and careful
mothers; they will raise more and
better pigs than the young gifts.
Mature sows can be kept breeding,
raising two litters annually, and can
be carried from year to year after
weaving their filters, quite cheaply,
with little or no grain after the spring
litter is weaned until the fall filters
come, If they can have fresh grass or
other succulent feed.
We should learn to produce as much
feed as possible ourselves.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08

theaves that are not to go for the
breeders.
There are in fact, to be cleared on
before winter sets in In earnest the
old members of the flock, to give suffi-
cient space for the new.
1t is when the going-off and the new
fiocks meet and lap over that the
shepherd is sorely tried to find provi-
sion for all. Grass is going off at
every hand, and yet there must be no
stinting Of the going-off focks, lest
they hang on all the longer before be-
ing fit to go, while 1t would be sui
cidal to stint the going-on sheep
against trying season, for any check
now in the thriving state would not be
recovered all winter long.
OF all the losses we get among our
heavy-sided ewes few are brought
about so commonly as checking the
thriving condition just before winter
sets in.
There may not be mortality to sig
nifty there and then, or there may be,
but fatality stalks when the sharp
frosts and deep SHOWS obtain, and as
regards the ewes, when the critical
time of yeaning comes.
Nor is mutton and progeny all we
achieve by good management among
our sheep. There is. the wool. Here
is a second profit.
And is that all? No, it is not.
There is the Improvement Of the land
from the golden hoof and the better
the focks are supported so the wool
is the more profuse and the land the
better fertilized.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08

RAG.
sistance they had encountered and the
death of their general, the British
drew off and the fleet, with the army
aboard, sailed away.
1t was great victory, more impor-
tant than it would have been from its
direct effect, for it heartened Ameri-
cans cast down by succession of land
defeats.
Still greater, however, was this vic
tory, for it's horrors were the birth
pangs of a song which has since
stirred Americans for hundred years
During the bombardment of Fort Nc
Henry, Francis Scott Key. lawyer-sol
dier-poet, wrote "The Star-Spangled
Banner" actually, if not officially. the
national anthem.
After the fight at Bladensburg, the
British fleet had made its way down
the Potomac river and up Chesapeake
bay. Landings of troops were fire.
quent and these often burned homes
on the countryside. During one OF
these forays an aged physician, Dr.
William Beanes of Upper Marlbor
ough, Maryland, had arrested some
British soldiers for wanton destruc
ton of his property. He was captured
and held a prisoner upon the prison
ship Minden.
Doctor Beanes was close friend OF
the Key family, and to effect his re.
lease Francis Scott Key, under flag
of truce, made his way to the British
admiral. He was courteously received
and accomplished his purpose, but
neither he nor Doctor Beanes was al
lowed to land Immediately, because
just at this time the bombardment of
Fort McHenry had been resolved upon
and it was feared that they might re-
veal the British plans.
During the terrible night of Septem-
Der 13, in all the horrors Of the bonn
bardment, Key and Doctor Beanes
paced the deck of the Minden, fear.
full at every lull in the firing that the
brave little fort had fallen. The fact
| that the forts guns could not carry to
the hostile ships and therefore early
ceased firing until the ships came
within range, lent apparent corrobora.
ton to their fears.
Morning broke, a fair, bright Sep
TENDER morning, and in the soft haze
| the blushing sun revealed the great
| flag which had been especially made
for the fortress by Mrs. Mary Patters-
gill of Baltimore in her home at 60 AL
bemarle street, in house which still
stands. Keys joy was boundless.
| The words of the first stanza of his
glorious song of freedom formed them
selves in his mind. He and his COM
panions were released few hours af,
| terward, and in a small boat, on their
way to Baltimore, the song was writ
| ten.
1t was found to fit perfectly to a
| then popular English tune. "Anacreon
in Heaven" The poem was finished
that night-September IA, 1914 The
next morning it was printed, and that
evening, September Is, it. was sung
with rejoicing in all the taverns and
public places in Baltimore, for by that
time the British fleet had sailed away
and the city was safe.
The city of Baltimore, which was
saved from an enemy a century ago,
near which Francis Scott Key was
born in Ito, and where he died in
1S43, honored by nation, has de.
voted week to celebration of its de.
liverance which eliminated September
Il, hundred years from the day OF
the birth of the national anthem and
Of the sailing away, defeated, of the
menacing feet Of the invader.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08
Elastic CeIluloid VarnIsh.

Elastic celluloid varnish may be
made as follows: Cut one ounce of
celluloid into fine shreds. Add to a
solution of ten ounces of acetone and
ten ounces of amyl acetate, and stir
it well. Do not wait for it to dissolve.
Cork tightly and set in warm place.
To make thicker varnish add more
celluloid, but thin varnish is most
elastic. To secure colors, add aniline
dyes dissolved in a little alcohol to
the acetone solution.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08
Keeping Milk Whole

If the milk is to be kept whole get it
into the cooler as quickly after milk
ing as possible. However, it should
first be aerated and if you do not
have a machine for this purpose, the
work can be done by turning the milk
from one bucket to another a few
times. This must be done where the
air is clean and fresh. Under no
condition should anything be added to
milk to prevent is souring. Cleanli-
ness and cold are the only preventives
needed.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08
"Youv Instead Of "He.'

Have your verbs of social inter
course-at least as far as the spirit of
them goes-in the second person in
stead of the third. There is good
deal of human nature in most people,
and nothing is more soothing to even
the wisest of us than to be considered
individually.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08
Avoid Impending Disease.

Filthy pens and lots, stagnant wa
ter and wallow are Improbable. The
multiplying lice are all visible warn
ings, so plain that even the fool may
read. If farm work and harvest have
kept you from looking after this De-
fore, attend to it now and do prompt
ly these things that attain to health
and thus escape impending disease.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08
I,nf.eIino Mixers.

Some folks go at milking as they
would at pumping water, acting for
all the world just as If the COW had
no more feeling than the pump handle
they are pulling. Some cows are ex-
tremely sensitive in these matters,
and shrink as if to get away from
their unfeeling mixers. The COW
which does this cannot do her best.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08
To the Coast in a WheeIbarrow.

Chicago.-Stephen Meynhert, Alec
Fricz and John Janossy, newspaper
men, are travelling from New York to
the Panama exposition in a wheel
barrow, each taking turns riding, and
have reached Chicago. They started
on the journey on May Z and expect to
reach their destination on May l, 1915
The party makes it's expenses by adj
dressing meetings and writing fol-
Hungarian newspapers.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08

Mrs. M. A. Winn. No dog hereabouts
ever received a more elaborate burial
than Nick. He was the favorite dog
of Bellevue and hundreds Of people
went to the Winn house as the dogs
carcass lay in state. Such funeral
only befitted the life led by Nick, who
died by overindulgence in luxurious
f0Od
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08

priced silo turns out just as good en-
silage as high-priced one. Rough
hemlock boards, with strong tarred
paper between the two courses, make
a good silo. Anyone that can lay one
stone on another in mortar can build
the foundation. The one idea Is to
exclude the air. The cutter should
be the best obtainable. Get q ma
chine with a down cut.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08
DOGS COFFIN is GOLD LINED
Body Lies in State in Masters Home
DIED of ereating-Hundreds
Attend the Funeral.

Bellevue, Ky.-Nick is buried and
the cold clods that cover his silver
and gold-lined coffin are much less
cold by banks of flowers laid by low
ing hands. The burial took place af-
ter the body had lain in state In his
masters home. Nick was an English
bulldog, member Of the family of
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08
He Didn't Go.

Il didn't see you at church yester-
day."
No; my wife considers it unfashion-
able to be seen at church during the
summer months. We're supposed to
be out of the city then, you know"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08
xounaster Broke from Jail.

Atlantic City, N. J.-Alonzo Fainlan,
ten years old, charged with larceny
broke Jail at Atlantic City, by loassina
! bar in window on the secord floor
Of the prison, worming out on the
roof and then sliding down . rah
spout.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08
prenarlnn for the Fray.

'T'm going to make speech that
will make my friends sit up"
You're on the wrong track" re-
piled the experienced campaigne-. See
if you can't make one that will cause
the other fellows to lie down."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-10-08
Why She Was Disappointed,

81 was so disappointed that l was
out the other day when you called,
Miss Percival'
$50 was /. felt sure I'd find you,
because as / turned the corner l saw
YOU go in.''-Boston Transcript.