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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1899-03-06
William Wilson Dead.

UNION, Or, March William
Wilson, one of the earliest settlers of
Eastern Oregon, died at his residence in
this city last night.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1899-03-06

Freas Saunders has purchased the
wood business of j. T. Reynolds in this
city. Those desiring good wood will find
him by ringing up phone number II.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1899-03-06
To Tap HarneY County.

BAKER Cry. March 4.-David Eccles,
G. W. Nibley and other stockholders of
the Sumpter Valley railway say they
will this year extend the railway to tap
the Harvey county stock region. the
most extensive livestock range in East
ern Oregon.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1899-03-06
FOR OUR
PUBLIC WORKS
Appropriations Carried for Oregon In
prOTGmGntS.
GRANTED BY THE
LAST CONGRESS
Funds Available for Carrying on River
and Harbor Improvements, and
Erecting Public Buildings, Etc.

WASHINGTON, March 4.-The following
are the Oregon items as carried by the
appropriation bills passed by the Fifty
sixth congress:
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13
Rotating Ma nures tn Gardens.

While the garden always receives
more of the stable manure made on
the farm, this is usually SO deficient
in mineral fertility that garden crops
often suffer from lack of potash and
phosphate, while the nitroGenous ele-
mepts of plant food are an overabun-
dant supply. Under such conditions
the soil becomes heavy and impervi-
Gus to air, or, as old farmers call it,
"muck hidden" Almost all garden
vegetables require potash, ard many
of them need also phosphate to pro-
duce successful crop. When the
crop is valuable for its seed mainly
these minerals are especially neces-
sary. Beans and peas are good ex-
amples of this. 1t is often said they
grow best on poor soil. This only
means that there must be enough
mineral fertility to balance that which
is heterogeneous, or the vines will grow
too much to leaf without either pod
ding or filling as they should. Nitro
genous manures are not needed at all
for beans, as these are never planted
until the ground is well warmed,
when cultivation is enough to cause
the soil to furnish all the nitrogen
needed. Peas are harder, and for
giving them an early start some
quickly available nitrogenous manure
may be used. But both potash and
phosphate may be used literally for
both peas and beans, greatly increas-
ing the yield of grain without much if
any increare in the growth of haulm.
But even those crops which do not
require extra large amounts of miner
ais are benefited by letting the gar
den go without stable manure one
year, and substituting the same value
or cost of mineral fertilizer in its
stead Even if there were no nitro
gen in the concentrated fertilizer, the
effect of applying potash and phos-
phate to land is to set free much nj
trogen, and on land that has long
been manured with stable manures,
this amount will probably be sufficient
for the years crop. In recent pub
lication a well-known gardener tells
how he long 'practiced system of rota-
tion IN which when he had got his gar
dening soil overtilled with manure, re-
lief was found by plowing under 1000 to
1900 pounds per acre of the refuse
hop leaves from brewery after their
strength has been extracted. On an
other occasion he took the waste
stems from tobacco factory, which he
found rotted in the soil, as did the hop
leaves, with the result that the clam
my, sticky condition of soil, resulting
from over manuring with stable ma
nure, was changed to a light loan
that easily responded to any kind Of
manure in single year.-American
Cultivator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13
* AGRICULTURAL. *
iSSsssAAk9a'esi96seSsSi9
Tho Quality of Eggs.

There is much greater difference
in eggs aside from their size and
freshness than is generally supposed.
1t is very largely the result of differ
ences in the food eaten at various sea-
sons. In winter and early spring,
when fowls begin to lay, the food is
grain, and as the hen has not been
exhausted by long run of egg pro-
duction, her egg is higher favored
than it is later, when the grain ration
is mainly Withdrawn, and u diet of in
sects and often of grass takes its place
On this innutritious food neither ),
good egg to eat nor one that will pro-
duce strong chick can be safely de-
pended on. One of the reasons why
eggs packed in various preparations
to keep them fresh are SO generally
unsatisfactory is that they are not
Gst-class eggs, even when fresh. 1t
is best to begin early in spring to put
up eggs for winter. They will be bet
ter to begin with and will keep better.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13
The Warfare in Brief,

Every added inch of mad makes the
road many miles longer.
The farmer who is mired in the mud
up to his knees should be deeply in.
terested in roads.
The improvement of a road should
depend upon something more than the
wind and the sun.
The best method in which a town
can pave its way to success is to pave
its streets and improve the highways
leading therefrom.
Wide tires are growing in favor.
Now that some of the States are build.
ing expensive highways, taxpayers
insist that the roads shall be pre-.
served.
The San Francisco Bulletin points
out that the county which cannot af.
ford schools and good roads is allowed
to pass into the possession of men who
want neither.
Hempfield Township, Westmoreland
County, Penn, must pay 1910 to a
citizen who was crossing a bridge with
threshing- machine when the bridge
gave way and dumped the outfit into
a creek. Poor highways ere expen.
siYs.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13

A Pennsylvania gentleman owned q
horse that would have been very valu-
able but for what seemed an ineradi-
cable vice OF baking. A friend sug-
gested that electricity might cure him.
The gentleman purchased small
storage battery, connected it by wires
to the bit and crupper, and placed it
in the cart to which the horse was at
tached. As was anticipated, the horse
refused to move. and stood with all
four feet braced.
Then the owner touched the button
connected with the battery. When
the horse felt the shock he snorted,
jumped, and began to move off at q
lively pace. Every day for week he
was treated to the same lesson. AS a
result, his owner declares that the
horse is completely cured of his evil
ways,
The West Pennsylvania Humane
Society, which Investigated the gen.
tleman's method, came to the conclu-
sion that small amount of electricity
used in this way was more humane
than whip.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13
Advantages of Improved Roads.

One of the most interesting papers
read at the New York State Farmers
Congress, recently held at Albany,
n. Y, was that on the advantages of
Improved Highways" by John A. G.
Wright, of Rochester, N. Y. In part
Mr.. Wright said: mo subjects are
SO closely related as highways and
agriculture. Material prosperity de.
pends upon production and trans
portation. In production we have
made immense strides, in manufac-
lures many fold, and even on the farm
each of us produces as much rs all
four of his forefathers of two genera.
tions ago. Besides the cost of produc-
ton there is the cost of getting what
is produced to its best market How
much that is, we often fail to realize.
1t has been computed that the annual
freight bill of each of is is $50. This
is the transportation charge or what
it costs us to move products over the
highways which are of three sorts
the common highway, the railway and
the waterway. The relative cost is
most aptly shown by stating that the
amount it costs to move ton five
miles on the highway, will move it
twenty-five miles on the electric rail
way, $50 miles on the steam railway
and 1850 miles in deep waterways.
SIN improving, therefore, the COM
mon highway, we reduce the largest
item in this freight tax. By pains.
taking effort we have found it costs
thirty cents per ton mile on the
ordinary road, such as we have, and a
smooth hard roadway would reduce
this to seven cents per ton mile, or
we would do the business for one
quarter of what it costs us now. This
is equivalent by the above tables to
getting each ton carried for more than
500 miles by rail and more than 1000
miles by water.
"We have also found that the farm
products of this State reduced to tons
are about 100000 tons, and that at
the average haul costs about $150 to
move per ton, Or freight bill for
primary transportation of agricul-
tural products of SIS, 100000 year.
If we had good roads this cost would
be, to allow good margin, less than
$4,000, 900 and the saving over S12,-
000,000 year, OF as much as our
total State tax bill for all purposes.
The common road, therefore, is the
most important factor in transporta-
tion, so far as we are concerned, and
the chance for saving in haul on it
the greatest"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13

There is queer man in Washing.
ton who makes it business to attend
receptions, teas, weddings and other
social gatherings to which he has moi
been invited. He always pays his re.
spects to the hostess, speaks few polite
words and than passes into the crowd.
He is never offensive, but always def.
erential, and is simply tolerated be.
cause that is the easiest way to get
along with him. He lives quietly
with his mother and sister in we'll.
situated and well-appointed house in
the west end, but the ladies of the
family have never made any attempt
to enter society. Their eccentric
brother confines his social enjoyment
to these intrusions, which are harm.
less and are so we'll known as to cause
little remark. Some ladies have in.
structed their buffers not to admit
him. When he is refused entrance al
a house he always retires in a gentle.
manly manner, handing his card, with
A request that his regrets be offered to
the lady of the house. He seems to
think that it is his duty to go to
these places, and he does it in o con.
scientious manner.-Chicago Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13

An English woman, Mrs. Rogers,
stewardess of the steamer Stella, he's
won for herself name and place
among the worlds HEROES and martyrs.
When the boat went on the rocks in
the English Channel and was fast sink
ing, she first coolly and courageously
assisted the women passengers to put
on life preservers and having helped
them into the boats, she refused to fol-
low them for fear of overcrowding the
already dangerously laden craft. And
so, remaining with the steamer, she
sunk when the latter broke up and
was never seen again. The memorial
which the English people are going TO
erect to her memory will be one in
which America would be honored by
being asked to join.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13

Finland, since it was torn from
Sweden in 1909 by Russia, has been a
Russian principality, enjoying large
measure of home rule. The Czar, I'M
der the title of Grand Duke, is their
Prince, and they have been his most
progressive, enlightened and valuable
subjects. They have made their own
laws in their Diet and have obeyed
them. They have had popular gov
ernment based on a suffrage nearly
universal, and have made great strides
forward in wealth, education and civili-
zation, until to-day through their own
efforts, they compare favorably in gen.
eral well being, prosperity and happi-
ness with any people on the continent.
OF the Russians, eighty-seven per
cent. are illiterates, against one per
cent. for the Firms. They have fur
nished an admirable example of indus
trial, social and political capacity, and
their impending fate has excited the
sympathy of the civilized world and
Mortified the Finnish people.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13

Some idea of the difficulty of COM
municating with Samoa is to be had
from an inspection of ocean distances.
From San Francisco to Honolulu the
distance is 210O miles; from Honolulu
to Samoa, $3.50 miles; from San Fran
cisco to Samoa by direct route, AGO;
from Samoa to Auckland, New Zea-
land, tho nearest telegraph station, it
is 1880. Under present conditions as
much Oh more time is required for
voyage from San Francisco to Homo
lulu or from the latter place to Samoa
than for trip to Europe, though the
distance from New York to Liverpool
is about 5000 miles. When the Pacific
cable is laid, it will be tapped for con-
nection with Samoa.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13
Russian Nuwspnpers.

There has never existed a political
press in the real acceptance of the
term in Russia. According to immem-
orial tradition, the government of the
ear only allows the publication OF
news which is in every respect agree
able to its own views and opinions. In
certain special cases of great i'm
portance, when it is thought neces-
sary either to excite or to calm public
opinion, the Russian government is
trifie more lenient. Thus, for in.
stance, in 1872, during the wars against
Napoleon l., two newspapers suddenly
made their appearance, and at once
became the recognized organs of the
Russian Chauvinist party, the Russian
Invalid, mouthpiece of the ministry OF
war and the Syn Otetschesva. The
first Russian newspaper dates from the
reign of the Car Alexis (1G43-1676). 1t
was known under the name Of Cur.
rent News and was only destined for
the immediate "entourage" Of the EN-.
peror. The real founder of the Rus
sian press was Peter the Great who
first started the ST. Petersburg Gazette
the official organ of the Academy OF
Sciences, a complete collection OF
which exists since 1714-Correspond.
ence Providence Journal
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13
THE WORLDS SMITHS.

What is this iron music
Whose strains are borne afar?
The hammers of the world-smitha
Are beating out n star.
They build our old world over,
Anew its mold is wrought,
Tney shape the plastic planet
To models of their thought,
This is the iron music
Whose strains are borne afar:
The hammers of the world-smiths
Are beating out star.
We hear the whirling sawmill
Within the forest deep;
The wilderness is clipped like wool,
The bills are sheared like sheep.
Down through the fetid fenways
We hear the road machine:
The tangled swamps are tonsured,
The marshes combed and clean.
We see the sprouting cities
Loom DER the prairie's rim,
And through the inland hilltops
The ocean navies swim.
Across the trellised land-ways
The lifted steamers slide;
Dry shod beneath the rivers
The iron stations glide;
Beneath the tunneled city
The lightning chariots flock.
And back and forth their freight OF nen
Shoot like 4 shuttlecock.
The moon-led tides are driven back,
Their waves no more are free,
And islands rise from out the main
And cities from the sea.
We see the mountain river
From out its channel torn
And welded to the desert
That Plenty may be born;
We see the iron roadway
Replace the teamer's rut;
We see the painted village
Grow round the woodman's hut.
Beneath the baflled oceans
The lightning couriers fee;
Across the sundering isthmuse5
Is mingled sea with sea.
Smiths of the star unfinished,
This is the work for you,
The hammer down the uneven world
And there is much to do.
Scoop down the beetling mountain,
And raze that bulging cape;
The world is on your anvil,
Now smite it into shape.
What is this iron music,
Whose strains are borne afar?
The hammers OF the world-smiths
Are beating out star.
Sam Walter Foss, in Songs OF War and
Peace.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13
is made in the usual way, except that
a door is placed in the side to remove
the old hen when desired, without

unlocking the lath yard. A space at
the top is left wide enough SO that
board may be slipped down and cover
the front opening to the coop to keep
the hens and chicks in at night and
protect them from STORM and early
morning dews.
The yard is made of laths or hall
inch stuff, and is fastened to the sides
of the coop with hooks and eyes as
shown. 1t is secured to the ground
at the farther corners by crotched
sticks driven into the ground. This
plan of fastening permits the use of
the frame on different coops. Over
the top is a square of wire netting
and over this netting is stretched a
length of waterproof cloth which will
keep the pen dry in wet weather and
shady during the hot part of the day.
This cloth is fastened to buttons
screwed into the frame, buttons such
as are used for fastening carriage
curtains being just the thing.
The arrangement permits frequent
changing of both coop and pen to dif-
ferent locations. A portion of the
ground inside the pen is spaded and
the small grain fed is scattered over
it to teach the chicks to scratch.
Mother hen will find a corner for a
dust bath and keep herself free from
lice, and the entire family will be
comfortable and happy. The plan is
especially desirable for use with the
late Matched chicks when the coop is
so located that the sun shines on ii
during most of the day and when fre-
quent and heavy showers come up
suddenly. Atlanta Journal,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13

The Philadelphia Press computes
that the capitalization of all the trusts
organized in this country in the last
fifteen months reaches the enormous
total of $4,1S5, 100000. In other
words this is two-thirds as large as the
cost of the Civil War, and is one-third
greater than the greatest debt the
United States ever owed The manu-
facturers OF the country in 1890 had
total capital of Sc, ,139, ,397, 3S5. The
trusts only include a small share of the
total manufactures, yet their capital is
now two-thirds as large as the total
sum invested in all establishments
making anything in all the land, and
more trusts are being organized daily.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13
A Device For Wateripr-Trourb.

Where a number of cattle are turned
out to drink together there is quite
sure to be crowding and perhaps fight
ing at the trough. A device tending.
to obviate this is shown in the cut.
Within the trough a board is fitted,
which rises and falls as water is pumped
in OF is drunk out of the trough. At
regular intervals are square or round
openings, through which each animal
can drink, one, and only one, at a
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13
NeNxwsNxzeNsxsswNNeeesseee.e.
GOOD ROADS NOTES.


Illinois Roads.
There's q blight upon your name,
Illinois, Illinois,
It has compromised your fame,
Illinois, Illinois;
In the spring and in the fall,
When there's lots of things to haul,
We can't use your roads at all,
Illinois, Illinois,;
We can't use your roads at all,
Illinois.
When it comes to raising corn,
Illinois, Illinois;
You can laugh them all to scorn,
Illinois, Illinois;
But it's painful to relate
That for highways out of date
You're the banner-holding State,
Illinois, Illinois;
You're the banner-holding State,
Illinois.
See them stretching on and on,
Illinois, Illinois;
Like q ditch across the lawn,
Illinois, Illinois;
Full of mud so black and thick
That four-in-hand would stick
With load of twenty brick,
Illinois, Illinois;
With Il ioad of twenty brick,
Illinois.
Shake the moss from off your back,
Illinois, illinois,;
Time to take another tack,
Illinois, Illinois,;
II You have bit of pride,
d ont be any longer guyed-
Make your mud-roads hard and wide
Illinois, Illinois,
Make your mud-roads hard and wide
Illinois.
Illinois State Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13

place. Incidentally, the cut shows an
excellent way to put watering-troughs
together at the ends. Let the end
pieces slightly into the sides and bot
tom, and "shrink on" a strap of iron,
as shown. This will pull the joints
together firmly, since the heated band
shrinks in cooling, as does wagon
tire when placed on the wheel. Put
cleats under the board that rests upon
the water to keep it from warping.-
New York Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13
An Ideal Coop For Chicks.

The usual arrangements for rearing
little chicks are not, as rule, the
best that might be had. The idea
seems to prevail that any old box set
On edge, with Slated front, is all
that is required. In such coop the
comfort and health of the old hen is
lost and she soon gets lousy and
quickly transfers the lice to the
chicks. This illustration shows an
improvement ON the old style hen
coop which is at once practical,
humane and inexpensive The coop
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13

''To- day the barriers between us and
the remainder of the county are roads
that are almost impassable," says the
Waukegan (Ill.) Gazette. ''In this
the town is not alone the sufferer.
Farmers throughout the county are
hampered and their work seriously re-
tarded because OF miserable highways,
Would it not be wise to labor through
our representatives for the passage Of
a bill. calculated to remedy this evil?"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13

The car wheels made in Pennsyl.
vania are generally run 10000 miles
on passenger coaches and are then put
On freight cars. A forty-two-inch
wheel now in the shops has been run
over 100000 miles and thirty-six-
inch wheel has travelled 600, 900 miles.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13
Coxey Ouits the Road.

General Coxey, whose plan for the
betterment of highways was not adopt.
ed by Congress, declares roads at Mas
sillon, Ohio, are impossible. He has
purchased naphtha launch, and will
hereafter do his travelling on the canal.
Coxey's Office is five miles from his
residence, til , road being the worst in
the county.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13

There are millions of the inhabitants
of the Philippine Islands who never
knew the dominion Of Spain and never
saw Spaniard.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-13
THE BURNING OF DIXON'S

, was evident
that Dixon must
have informed
on them. The
Government de-
tective coul d
never have found
their we'll hid
1A 1.I Z
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-10-25
CARING FOR CALVES.
Clean, Fresh Water More Than
Heating RatiOns.

Never put corn, Kaffir corn meal or
any other grain in the milk for calves.
The starch of corn has to be changed to
grape sugar before it is digestible.
This change only takes place in the
presence of an alkali and is done chiefly
by the saliva of the mouth. The corn
is gulped down with the milk, the
starch is acted upon by the acids of the
stomach, but remains unchanged until
it comes in contact with the alkaline Sc
cretions of the intestines. With hogs.
the stomach is small and the intestines
long. This allows starchy matter to
be digested in the intestines. The op-
posite is true with the calf, the stom-
ach being large and the intestines
short. Unless the starchy matter is
largely digested by the saliva of the
mouth, complete digestion will not
take place in the intestines, and the calf
scours. Flax seed meal made into a
jelly or cruel is good to mix with skim
milk to take the place of butter fat. Oil
meal is frequently used for this purpose
but, like the skim milk, it has a large
amount of fat removed and is not as
good as meal with the fat in. Calves
like fresh water. Any arrangement
that will keep clean, fresh water be-
fore them all the time, is the best way
to supply it. Our calves drink from
seven to eight pounds daily per head
ID. II. Otis, in Agricultural Epitomist.