davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1897-03-04
FIRST NAVAL BATTALION.
A Good Representation of the National
Guard of Mnryland.

The First Naval Battalion of the National
Guard of the state of Maryland attracted
great deal of attention in the parade. not
Evening star., 1897-03-04
ILLINOIS GUARDsMEN.
A Company with a Proud Record OF
Active Service.

One Of the prominent National Guard
companies from the west that marched in
the parade was Company /. 5th Infantry.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-05-19
To Improve Poultry.

Writing in Farm and Ranch, Ell. B.
Greer advises the southern farmer
who now has nothing but common
stock and scrub ROSTERS, to kill or
sell the latter and mate a thorough
bred male bird with his hens. If he
wants more eggs from the pullets
that he may raise this year than he
has been getting from his present
stock of hens, let him mate a Leg
horn, Minorca or Hamburg cock with
his hens. Such mating would revO-
lutionize the poultry on his place and
give him lot of half breeds that
would lay fully a third more eggs to
the hen than his present stock. They
would also be more hardy or vigorous
than his present stock, because of the
new blood introduced into his flock.
If, however, he wants to raise mar
ket chickens, to increase the size of
his fowls, then he should use Wyan-
dotte, Plymouth Rock or some other
kind of a large pure-bred male bird,
which mating would result in a flock
of large, plump and meaty chickens
in every way superior to the common
sort.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-05-19
Brooder Experience.

Our experience is that brooder
chickens die from three causes chiefly,
towit: dysentery, legweakness and
over-crowding. The first we have
learned to prevent by first getting the
brooder good and warm before put
ting the chickens in it-say 90 to 90
degrees, and keeping it in that neigh
borhood for the first five days. This
ing box is, of course, much cooler.
Getting chilled when first taken from
the incubator first starts the dysen-
terry, when the brooder is too cool.
If started right, crushed charcoal
three times a week will prevent the
ailment mentioned. The chicks soon
learn to eat the charcoal, and to like
it.
Overcrowding is, of course, easily
remedied, by having enough brood
ers to separate the chickens into
focks of thirty or forty. More than
well together; the smaller the num-
Der the larger the percent of thrifty
chickens.
We believe leg weakness is caused
by bottom heat in brooders. 1t is al
most impossible to avoid it entirely in
a lamp-heated brooder. We find that
covering the bottom of the hover in
side with sand to the depth of an inch
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-05-19

or more reduces leg-weakness to a
minimum among our chickens. The
per cent is not over eight in a hun
bred. Where bottom heat is used ex-
clusively, and the chicks roost on a
heated board, it becomes epidemic and
very fatal at times. The chicks are
usually ten days to two weeks old be-
fore they take it. Their joints swell
at the knee and ankle, and their toes
turn in and crook under when bad
ly affected. We have had them to re-
cover when removed from bottom
heated brooder to a side-heated one,
where sand or earth was used on the
bottom.
When the chickens are three or four
weeks old they should have small
run, where they can reach Mother
Earth. If confined too long they be-
come stunted in growth B. Geer,
in Texas Farm and Ranch.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-05-19
Making Poultry Profita BILE.

There is probably no more seductive
business connected with farming than
is the growing of poultry and eggs
for market. Neither is there any in
which disappointment is not more
certain to overtake the beginner who
has not prepared for his work by pre-
vious experience. The greatest trou-
BILE with the amateur is his tendency
to do too much with small capital and
on too small grounds. However
poultry may be fed with purchased
food; they need at least quarter of
an acre for each fifty fowls, and this
must be so situated that it can be
plowed ,sown with grain and scratch
ed over for worms and insects
throughout the growing season. Only
small part of the feed will be grown
on this quarter Of an acre. Its value
will consist rather in the insect and
vegetable food it will furnish, and in
giving surface to scratch over, so that
the soil will not become poisoned by
the excrement of fowls, which is the
fruitful source of disease in small
yards. Yet by sowing oats or wheat
on this limited area, it will provide
both grain and insects for the nutri
ment of the fowls, with enough of
growing grain to make them digest
their food we'll. If to this be added
rations of fresh-ground bone, it will
not need more to secure profitable re-
turns. But in no case should more
than fifty fowls be kept on one-quar-
ter of an acre.-American Cultivator.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-05-19
Grit for Fowls.

1t is necessary that fowls have &C
cess to some kind of grit, if grain
food is fed in any considerable guam
titles. Small pieces of crushed stone,
flint, or crockeryware will answer the
purpose admirably. There are many
poultry houses which keep constantly
on hand crushed granite in various
sizes, suitable for nearly all kinds of
domestic fowls. Crushed oyster shells,
to a large extent, will supply the nee
essary material for grinding their
food, and at the same time furnish
lime for the egg shells.
Chemical analysis and experiments,
together with the reports from many
practical poultrymen, show conclu-
sively that the ordinary grain and the
green food supplied the laying hens
do not contain enough lime for the
formation of the egg shells. 1t will
require several times as much lime as
as is ordinarily fed if green, strong
egg shells are to be produced. Crush
ed oyster shells will supply this nee
essary lime if kept continually before
the fowls, trusting to them to eat
the amount needed to supply lime
rather than mixing the shells with
food.-EX.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-05-19
Feathers.

T. P. Jones, a Kansas subscriber to
Farm, Field and Fireside, asks how he
can break a dog from sucking or eat
ing eggs. The following is recon-
mended: ''Divide a heaping teaspoon
full of tartar emitic into eight or ten
doses. Break off the end of an egg,
empty part of the contents and stir
into remainder left in the shell a
dose of tartar emetic. Confine the dog
in a room or tie him, and give him
the doctored egg. In an hour or two
he will be trying to turn himself
wrong side out. AS soon as he is over
the nausea give him second egg,
and a third, if he will eat it. When
he refuses to eat the egg, and let's
it lie by him for several hours I'M
touched, pry open his mouth and
force the egg down his throat. After
ward yau may trust him in your hen
house. The object in tying the dog
is to let him get nothing else to eat
while he is under the treatment, or
he may think it was the last thing
eaten that made him so sick The
idea is to convince him that eggs no
longer will lie on his stomach"
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-05-19
Poultry Notes.

A crippled and aged soldier in Farm
and Fireside thus gloriYies the hen:
Eggs are always cash. They are ready
for market the minute laid, and the
sooner they are got to market the
better. They require no cultivation,
pruning, or harvesting, but are at
once in salable condition. With plen-
ty of eggs on the farm 5here are a
host of good things in the kitchen
and money in the family purse. Gath
ering up eggs is like picking up dimes
and dollars. Great is the hen thai
produces them. When everything is
dull in the winter the egg basket Las
wonderfully helped out many poor
farmer. The crops may be poor, the
provisions low, the family cow dry.
with a long wait for the next growing
season, but the hen comes up smiling,
and is ready to get a pound of tea or
a sack of flour. If treated well, she
will respond as readily when the
snow is on the ground as when the
fields are green. She is a friend to the
rich and poor alike.
The fact that yarded fowls properly
cared for are usually more productive
than focks with unlimited range,
which are too often expected to al
most entirely board themselves, shows
that close attention has much to do
with the result. 1t has taken many
years, says Field and Farm, to bring
domestic fowls up to their present
standard of productiveness. Judicious
selection and careful mating have ac-
complished wonders, which never
would have happened in their wild
state
Some claim that there is nothing as
good for a nest as clean, sharp sand,
for two reasons; it soon cleans insects
off hens, eggs can never get dirty on
clean sand, and nothing can come off
the sand that will stop the pores of
the shell. This is found in an ex-
change and theoretically is all right.
The plan might be tried.-Californi
Fruit-Grower.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-05-19
POULTRY DEPARTMENT.

Address all communica tons to Poultry De-
partment, Box 200, DeLand, Fla.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-17
NEWSBOYs MUST NOT CRY
The Sunday Ordinance Sustained
by Judge Kimball.
REASONS FOR HIS DECISION
The Appellate Court Upheld the
commissioners in Their Order
Compelling Trains to Come to
Full Stop at Street Crossings
Cases Analogous.

Judge Kimball this morning announcedhis
readiness to render decision in the cases
of the newsbcys arrested for crying their
papers on Sunday, who were tried in the
police court last Saturday.
Major j. Mcdowell Darlington. counsel
for the boys, asked that the rendering of
the decision be deferred until next Friday,
as neither his colleague. Gen. Hrney, nor
the defendants were in court.
Prosecutor Pugh, in answer to this, stated
that the absence of the defendants would
make no difference, and if the lawyers
for the defense wished for time to decide
upon plan of action he would be perfectly
willing to give it.
Upon tins Major Darlington withdrew
his request and the curt proceeded TO give
its decision. Judge Kimball said:
THE decision in these newsboys' cases
cannot he influenced by sentiment or any
thing of that kind, but must be determined
entirely by the question of law. In this
| must be guided entirely by decision
recently promulgated by the court Of ap-
peals in two cases which in point Of law
are precisely identical with the one now
before lis.
THE cases concerned an ordinance of the
Commissioners, ordering all trains entering
this city to come to q full stop before cross
ing the tracks of any rapid transit street
railway. Two engineers were arrested fol
violating this ordinance. They were fined
SO in this court, and the case was taken
on habeas corpus proceedings up to the
court of appeals. The court of appeals sus-
tanned this court, and upheld the right OF
the Commissioners to make all reasonable
and usual laws for preserving the peace
and comforts of the citizens of the District
Of Columbia.
"By usual and reasonable in this con-
neetion the court decided that Congress
intended to confer upon the Commissioners
| all powers which are frequently, if not gen
erallv, conferred upon municipal corpora
tons This decision, therefore, has di
rect application to the case before us. II
| is a. fact that Sunday regulations have been
made by manymunici qualities of this country
| and the right Of such municipalities to
| make and enforce orders regulating noise
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-17
CORBETT SURE OF HIMSELF
The Big Fighter Tells How He
Has Studied His Art.
SCOFFS AT HOOK AND ELBOW
The "Pompadour" Belittles Long
Bob's Generalship, and Says He
Is Not Equal to an Emergency.
The Australian Promised Much
Scientific Information.

Carton, New, Feb III am not afraid
of any blow / ever saw Fitzsimmons de-
liver said Corbett last evening. There
is not one of them thatI cannot stop from
reaching me, and have spent great deal
of time studying out methods of returning
on his body. No fighter ever went into a
ring with such a thorough knowledge of
his opponent or his tactics as have of
Fitz During the three years that we have
been wrangIing over this fight Rave been
studying him and inventing schemes to
worry him and to render his styl OF light
ing ineffective.
II think have succeeded tolerably well.
/ always had faith that we would meet in
the ring some day, and put in all my time
deyising ring tactics TO meet his peculiarl-
ties. / can discount every blow he makes,
from his famous hook to the elbow blow
that he gives when returning TO position
after a drive. He can't work any of those
blows on me. Even if he should try that
blow that he ssaid to have given Sharkey,
he won't find me where he expects to.
THE softest snap | could wish for is TO
have Fitz fight in his usual style. That |
know he will do. He does not know how To
invent new tactics. SO you might as well
set it down that | am going into the ring
thoroughly fortified with perfect knowl-
edge of my opponents strong and weak
points.
ION the other hand, he knows nothing
about my style Of fighting. l may say
that have no style; all styles, and styles
that were never heard of, are my styles.
I'll, !; .laa - l,ts- I in.
tend To fight Fitzsimmons, and | can think
of nothing now that is likely To make me
change. However, il something unforeseen
should arise, have no doubt of my ability
to rise equal to the occasion. 1t would
not be the first time have changed my
entire plan of campaign after | have en-
tered the ring. Inventing new tactics
after the fight has commenced is my strong
suit. Fitz is likely to see more different
STYLES of fighting on March II than he
would have seen IL he had witne ssed every
fight that has taken place since the prize
ring was established.
II am glad that Fitz has taken in good
part the suggestion i made to Siler about
how TO act at certain points during the
fight. 1t ought to be understood that both
men have the right to drive when breaking
away, provided one arm is free. There
are a number of questions such as that
that are likely to arise and make trouble
during the fight unless the principals have
a thorough understanding beforehand.
About what to do. Now, ! want Siler
to send each OF us note giving us his in
depreciation of Queensbury rules. Then
Fitz ami myself can hold a correspondence
through Siler until we come to an agree
ment on all points on which we have diff
ferences of opinion. Fftz is acting in a
fair spirit lately, and l think he has come
to the conclusion that he can whip me and
that he will make no further trouble, but
60 i n and fight 1t out properly
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-17
WILL REDUCE RATES.
Railroad Fare From the East VIII
he n Little Over Half.

Leadville, Colo, Feb. 17.-Soon after Bob
Fitzsirnmons reached Leadville yesterday
he hunted up a blacksmith, and in few
minutes was engaged in making forse-
shoes. Fitzsimmons made twenty six shoes
in all, and dist ributed them among local
admirers.
The opera house was packed last night
to see Fitzsimmons and his sparring part
ner, Dan Hickey, give an exhibition.
j. H. Shoemaker, representing Martin
Julian, has decided to give an exhibition
at Glenwood tonight, instead of making
the long jump to Salt Lake City without
interruption. Thursday night the party will
arrive at the latter place, where per-
Torrance will be given, and from that
point a through trip will be made to Car
son, arriving Saturday morning and going
Immediately to training quarters.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-17

Seventy cents a month doesnt
seem like much TO pay for a daily
newspaper, but it counts up. so
does 90 cents or 50-for a single
edition. If you can get three
edition paper, paper published
mornings, evenings, and sundays,
all for so cents, that is talking.
1t lis the case with The Times,
though. The two daily editions
are totally different. They are
similarly straightfor ward, good
humored and wholesome, fit for
any family or for any member of
the family. If taken together these
editions make you feel that you
are not buying a paper filled with
alleged news OF the day before
yesterday, or the day before that,
but rather in every case news of
the preceding twelve hours.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-17
Washington's
Oldest
Advertisers.

Firms and individuals
- advertisers Who've
stood the test Of time,
and scored successes in
stead Of failures, have
reaped the reward Of
prosperity by judicious
advertising. Judicious
advertising is the result
Of experience, and expe-
rience is the sequel Of
experiment-there must
be"the Experiment" the
"trial advertising"
Measure THE TIMES
worth that way.
Advertisers whose en-
ergy and enterprise have
built Washington COM
mercially- who've won
rungs on the ladder of
business succesS-Who-
We earned dollar and
cents prosperity have
done so by judicious ad-
vertising.
That prosperity can be
maintained only by that
same righteousness.
Today TIMES adver-
Using is judicious adj
vertising.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-17

John Lawrence. Henry Howard, Charles
Roberts. John Melon and John Beach at
tended a soiree in dancing hall on NJ
street northwest last night. and between
dances they would go down TO the saloon
below to cool off In this process they
inbibed enough liquor to make them fight
ing drunk. 50 that when they finally emerged
from the hall they imagined that Martin
Sullivan, who was passing at the time, in
suited them. Under this delusion the five
jumped upon the unfortunate Sullivan to
do him up" but the noise attracted Of
ficer Witt. who rescued him and bagged
his assailants In the police court this
morning each of the men was fined SIS.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-17
I.ASkY BOB MADE HoRsEsHOEs.
He Presented Them to His Friends
as Souvenirs

San Francisco. Feb. lT.-Genefal Passen'
ger gent Goodman, Of the Southern Pa
cific, has completed a full list'of rates TO
Carson during the battle between Corbett
and FitZsimmons.
ITO Carson and return" said Mr.. Good
man, Twill be from FL PaSo, 500; from
Ogden. S3S. 40. This last is not the basic
rate, which have no doubt Will be $50.
LAS for the railroads East, which desire
to cooperate with US, we have received a
proposition from one line, which would
make the rate from Chicago to Carson and
return SS4. So Another line offers rate
of SIC SO, which is little more than one
fare.
However, nothing is settled yet. Other
propositions Will be received, and we will
hear the arguments of different kinds"
MI Goodman said that large orders for
Pullman cars were being received daily.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-17
Another Challenge for Schaefer

New York, Feb. 17.-Frank c. Ives yes
terday made another Offer to Jacob Schaefer
for a billiard match. Ives offers to play
a match game of 5000 points, 600 points
in the afternoon and 500 in the evening,
for any amount of money from a five
dollar note to any part of $4,000. He fur
Their offers TO concede Shaefer 200 points
at the start. so that the wizard need
only play in all 5000 points.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-17

mile professional race for the amateur in
door championship.
Two heats i'll the One-nile amateur nam
diean were decided, and the first three men
in each will meet in the final heat to be
skated tomorrow.
Summary: Two-mile professional race
John Nilsson, Minneapolis, first; Wilson
Breen, St John, n. B., second. Time,
GOA As. Nilsson won by lap and
half.
One-mile scratch for amateur indoor
charnpionship-Bennie Phelps. first; Steve
o'Brien, second; VI. HOrnfeek, third. Time,
3:O7 As.
Phelps won by about fifteen yards.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-17
INTERESTING SKATING RACES
Nilsson, the Worlds Champion
Easily Defeated Breen.

New York, Feb. 17.-There was large
and enthusiastic crowd of spectators in
the Ice Skating Palace last night, and they
witnessed some of the most interesting
skating races of the season. John Nilsson,
of Minneapolis, the worlds champion, de.
feated Wilson Breen, OF st. John, ". b.,
in the easiest style imaginable, in the two
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-17

Does your head ache, back ACHE limbs
ache? You have Grip sure. Stop it with
a bottle of Grip Cure. Washington Home
opathic Pharmacy, LOOT II st. NV. Full
line remedies.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-17
sold hx the Phlllics.

Philadelphia, Feb. 17-ShOrtstop Hulen
and Outfielder Mertes have been sold by
the Philadelphia Baseball Club to the
Columbus, Ohio, club.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-17

responded the father in tone, which pre-
saged much future discomfort for Robert.
''All right, you can CO.
''Thankee, sir" and the father and son
quickly left the court.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-17
PARKER, BRIDGET d CO.,
Progressive Clothiers. 5lo tn st.
Haven't had such big sell

Haven't had such big sell
ing days as Saturday ana
Monday since early last tall.
The reason is plainly appa-
rent when you consider the
values we're offering. Styl-
ish Suits aud Overcoats now
S.. Still a fair assortment
of the BARRIERS, Walters
and Barkeepers' Coats. in
white duck, black and white
alpaca, serges, ETC., at Ioc.
Only large sizes left IN the
Mems "odd" Coats, which
YOU may have at your own
price!
Parker, Bridget & Co.,
Progressive CIothiers, BIS 9TH s..
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-17

on Sunday has been upheld by every court
which had to pass upon it.
II am, therefore, compelled 10 decide
that the ordinance issued by the District
Commissioners prohibiting the crying OF
new spapers on Sunday is within the
mower of their office, and is perfectly
legal order, and is one which this court IS
bound to sustain.
Major Darlington now moved, Tor the
defendants, thatsentence be postponed until
Friday. by that time, your honor, ne
said. my colleague, Gen. Hrney, and
myself will be enabled TO produce the de-
PENDANTS, and will also have decided
whether to carry the case tothe upper court
on habeas corpus proceedings or not. The
little fellows. in any event, could not pay
their fines, and would wish toprevent their
incarceration.
Sentence was therefore suspended until
Friday.
tits probable that the habeas corpus pro-
ceedings will be taken out by the defense,
and the case carried to the upper courts
Rnt if it is decided to abide by Judge
KimbaIl's decision, the personal bonds
of the defendants will no doubt be taken
as these are the first offenses under the
new regulations.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-17

''This business of maltreating our beau
tiful shade trees by unruly boys has got
to STOP said Judge Kimbali TO the
father of Robert Harrison, colored, charged
with destroying public property You
know as well as 1 do that these injuries
are often irreparable and kill the trees
Have YOU the money to pay his fine?"
.'Efyoh kick me frum hyar to Moo Yawk,
yoh honah, you coudn' kick moh'n 81
cents outer me-"
well, if you will promise to punish
the boy, Harrison, will let him OFF. NO
inhumanity, mind you, but good thrash
ing which he win feel. With little more
attention from parents we wouldn't have
so ma n boys in court II you'll promise to
correct your son, I'll let him CO.
.'Oh, I'll correck him, yoh hcnan,