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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-13
Nitro-Glycerine Magazine Ex-
plodes.

Bradford, Pa, Dec. 10.--The nitro
glycerine magazine of the Pennsylvan-
ia Torpedo Company, in Bolivar Hol-
low, one and one-hah miles from this
city. blew up today with a report that
was heard for thirty miles. The shock
was felt at Olean, Salamanca Elllcctt-
vile and other surrounding towns,
The magazine was blown to atoms and
hole made in the earth fifteen feet
deep by thirty feet in circumference.
Trees were torn into splinters at the
scene Of the explosion, and the brick
of which the magazine walls were con-
structed, was reduced to reddish pow
der, which covered the snow over a
wide area Much damage was done in
this city and vicinity by the breaking
of glass, oyerturning of chimneys, etc.
1t is not believed any one was killed.
An Gil stove, fed automatically, is be-
lleved TO have caused the explosion.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-13
Communicated.

Marietta, Ohio, December 12, 1899.
Editor Leader
In view of the insinuation in an edi-
torial in the Register of Monday, and
ofstreet rumors circulated by unknown
persons, the undersigned state that
they are the sole owners of the build
ing in process of erection known as the
Gram -Fcllett-Conner building, and of
tho lot on which it stands; that no
other person is, or at any time has
been, interested with us in the cwner-
ship Of said property, in any respect
or to any extent whatever; that there
is net, and never has been, any con-
tract, or arrangement cir understand
ing by which any person was to have,
or could acquire an interest in said
property; that the undersigned have
not given or promised any considera-
ton of any kind to any one in ccnnec-
ton with the location of the postoffice
in our building.
We desire to state, in as cOmprehen-
sive terms as possible, that no one who
has taken any part in the location of
the post Office in our building has any
personal or private interest whatever
in its being so located, except ourselves
alone.
w. ]. CRAM,
~ MOI T,rrr
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-13
The Passing Of the Free Sill
yer Issue.

The further away we get from 1879
the better the country is adjusting it
self to the gold standard and all the
conditions that accompany it, and the
harder it is to rally men in the fight
for BimetalTism.
That is, at least in part, the explain
aticn of the failure of the Free Silver
Issue which certainly in the last cam
paign showed itself not half as strong
in the West as it was two years ago.
Even Bryan, in a speech of two hours
duration delivered in South Dakota,
failed to mention the subject once; and
this was significant of the general
change throughout that part of the
country that was the Free Silver
stronghold. In the South Dakota
campaign last fall the speaker said
nothing about Free Silver, and so it
was in other states.
1t is quite probable that there will
be a free silver plank in the Demo-
cratic platform next year, and that,
having offered up this sacrifice to the
prejudices of the Free Silver men, the
party will take no further notice of the
matter and it will be allowed to lie
dead, so far as the campaign is con-
cerned.
Practically there is no Demoratlc
party in the Middle West. The Reform
party, consisting of Free Silver Re-
publicans, Populists and Democrats,
has taken its place These make the
Expansion policy and the mistakes of
the war the points of their attack on
the administration.
Precisely what issues the RepubH-
cans will have TO meet at the Presiden-
tial election next fall do not know.
They may be dictated by intervening
circumstances. But of one thing l
feel very sure, they have a certain vic
tory. 1t is inevitable that the country
will support this administration.
The Republican gain in the West this
year, as compared with two years ago,
was at least twenty-five per cent
Senator Kyle in Independent.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-13
The Dred Scott Decision 1857

A negro by the name Fred Scott was
slave of DR.. Emerson, of Missouri,
who was a surgeon in the Unltal
States army. He removed to Rock Is
land, Ills, and in 1886 to Fort Smelling,
Minnesota, taking each time his slave
with MIN. AT Fort Smelling Scott mar
ried a negrsss who was slave of DR..
Emerson. Two children were born to
them, after which the family was tax
en- to ST. Louis and the members sold.
Scc.t brought suit for his freedom.
The case was APPEALED from the cour5s
of Missouri to the United States Su
preme Court, where a decision was not
rendered until March, 1857 Chief Jus
ttce Fancy, who delivered the judg-
ment of the court, declared that no
negro, whether free or slave, was a
citizen of the United States and there
was no constitutional process by
which he could Lecome so. Therefore
under the laws of the United States a
negro could neither sue nor be sued,
and as a consequence the court had no
jurisdiction in the Scott case. 1t was
asserted further that slave was simp-
ly a piece of property or personal chat
tel to be taken from the state like "a
horse or COW without the rights OF
the owner being affected. The Mis-
souri, compromise and the compromise
of 1850 were therefore unconstitutional
and null and void. This decision was
coIcured in by six Associate Justices
of the Supreme Court (Wayne, Nelson,
Grier, Daniel, Campbell and Carton)
while Judges Mclean and Curtis
d.sented. TIL South was delighted
and the North incensed.
The above is a page from the Peo-
Piles Standard History of the United
States and shows the interesting way
the work is written. Send your name
to the Leader Office and sample pages
will be sent for inspection.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-13
McKinlY Down on Polygamy,

One Of the leading members of Con-
gress is authority for the statement
that President Mckinley said today If
evidence was laid before him showing
that any of his Federal appointments
in Utah were guilty OF practicing poly
gamy he would demand the offenders
resignation Immediately, or, falling to
get IT, would impeach the guilty Of
ficial The President explained also
that he had no intlmatlon that any
Federal officers were polygamists until
Roberts made that charge in his
speech before the House. This dis
poses Of the charge by Roberts and the
feeble yelp by Lentz respecting the ad-
ministration's attitude toward yiolat-
ors OF the antipolygamy laws.--Cin.
Com. Trib.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-13
Oil News.
Yesterdays MARKET

The Pohick Oil Co., the owners of
the big gusher which was drilled in on
the H. C. Henderson farm below Will
Jamestown recently, struck it rich in
their No. on the same lease, which
was drilled in on Monday. This latter
well is estimated to be good for 25O
barrels, and as the No. l still exceeds
that figure, they have a very valuable
piece of property. The rig has been
erected for their No 3 and they will
begin spudding as soon as possible
and will make locations for several
other wells.--Sentinel
No, l Cole at Briggs station, came
in dry Tuesday. A forty-foot streak of
sand was drilled through but no oil
was found.
A well drilled in on the Thomas
farm at Moore's Junction Monday
night is reported dry.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-13
co-operate.n

cooperate"
Mr.. Ellenwood challenged his state
ment in regard to the switching over
Front street and referred to the refus-
al OF a representative to have pro-
hibltory clause of that nature inserted
in the ordinance.
An animated discussion then ensued
for few minutes and the ordinance
was finally put upon its passage. The
vote stood as follows; Ayes-Curtis,
Gossett Lambert, LofIland, Lorenz,
Storck, Wood Nays-Blume. Eve
leigh, Marsch, Strain. The President
declared the ordinance passed
Mr. Rawn in a short speech thanked
the Council and said that time would
show that their intentions were good,
and that within sixty days they would
begin laying track for the extension.
Mr.. Ellenwood replied that they
would have to get the work done much
sooner than sixty days or be stopped
by an injunction suit
Solicitor Richards spoke of the suits
about to be brought by private parties
against the government for damages
done to property by changing the cur
rent by the dam at the head of the is
land He suggester that the city join
in these suits and on motion a COM
mittee of three, Blume, Lambert and
Storck, was appointed to confer with
the Solicitor in the matter.
On motion the same committee was
appointed to act with the Solicitor in
employing counsel to aid him in the
Darrcw damage suit against the city,
TO be tried at the next term of court.
The plat of Riverdale addition was
submitted and referred to Council as
Committee of the Whole to meet Fri
day at 2 p. m.
| The matter of certain sub-soil sew
er in bad condition on Putnam street
was referred to the Board of Health.
On motion the Street Commissioner
was instructed to notify Mr.. Osterle to
remove his scales from the Ice Harbor
lot or it would be done at his expense.
After allowing the following bills,
Council adjourned
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-13
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10, 1899.

Speaker Henderson's gavel is some
thing of curiosity. The head is of
rosewood from Montejo's flagship and
the handle of native Usage, grown in
Polk county. Iowa. 1t is decorated by
an eagles beak bearing d scroll en-
scribed "E Pluribus Unum." On the
upper ferrule are doves and a garland,
on the lower pictures of the United
States ships Iowa and Des Molnes.
The Iowa arms and Mr.. Henderson's S
monogram are on the side of the head.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-13
Auction Book Sale.

A large collection Of books
from the trade sales of Boston,
Philadelphia and New York.
Auction every afternoon at 3
for ladies and 7 o'clock in the
evening. The public is invit-
to examine the stock. Private
sale during the day.
FRANK Brennan,
Auctioneer.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-13
WHAT DO THE CHILDREN DRINK? ?

WHAT DO HE CHILDREN DhlNh
Don't give them tea or coffee. Have
you tried the new food drink called
GRAIN-O? 1t is delicious and nour-
ishing and takes the place of coffee.
i ne more Grain-O you give the child
through their systems. Grain-O Is
made of pure grains, and when prop
erly prepared tastes like the choice
grades of coffee but costs about ~ as
much. All grocers sell it. 15c and 25c
3
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-13
w. j. CRAM,
A. D. FOLLETT,
C. S. CONNER.

DIR. BULBS Cough Syrup is the best
medicine for sore throat, laryngitis, quinsy or
Jnnsilitis Every drop of IL sOothes and heals
wenty-five cent bottle OF this wonderful
rem dy will cure a cough or cold In one lay
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-13

Robt b. Mantell, the great actor, at
the Auditorium Wednesday, Dec. 10.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-13

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Agent for the Rem Sho and Usher Book Type
writer's Edison's Photograph with all the
latest Records, Reglta Music Boxes, Once
Desks, rubber stamps Of all kinds, seals aud
all kinds OF ONCE out1ttings and TypewIiting
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Phone s7l.
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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-10-18

frequently die during warm days from
excessive heat. More eggs will some
times be secured by giving no food at
all in the summer than when fowls are
very highly fed. When improving the
flock aim to feed according to the
breed. 1t is waste of time and food
to feed such active birds as Leghorns
very literally, as they can pick up
twice as much as they can eat during
the day. Large fowls may receive lean
meat, the Brahmas, especially, but
nothing else. Let the scrubs be i'm
proved by using pure bred males, and
if they have been good layers treat the
improved layers in the same manner
If stock of scrubs and one of pure bred
are fed alike, it will be noticed that the
pure bred hens will lay more eggs than
the others, and produce fifty per cent.
more in the form of meat-Farm and
Fireside.
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she cools her feathers with oil to cause
the rain to run off and keep herself
dry. Rolling herself in fine soil or
coal ashes so as to fill her feathers full,
and then shaking herself, is the hens
way of keeping clean. If you will keep
some fine soil in a large box under
SHELTER where it will be always dry,
the hens will patronize that whenever
they need a bath, and they will keep
themselves flee from vermin, which
they cannot do in wet time unless
some such dust bath is provided. Coal
ashes are finer than road dust and are
therefore better. Some should be kept
for this purpose. 1t may be we'll also
to have another box with some dry
earth on top and some moist earth be-
low for use in extremely hot wealth
er. Hens are very sensitive to heat,
and one of the reasons why hens prefer
to take dust baths in summer, because
in digging down to roll they will find
moist, cool soil to roll in. Therefore
in summer the dust bath should be
moist below with few inches of dry
soil on top.
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Wholesale Goose Fattening.

At Adamsville, r. l., there is a
large goose-fattening establishment
The proprietors pick up the geese in
carts when about half grown, that is
about the age that the quilts begin to
start; many farmers prefer to dispose
of the geese in this way rather than
have the trouble of fattening them
themselves. The professional fatteners
finish off the geese in four to six
weeks. There is nothing secret about
the method of fattening. They are
given mostly corn meal, bran and meat,
and fed all that they will eat. At kill
ing time five or six pickers are en-
ployed, and these become very expert,
dressing off from 20 to 25 day. The
product is shipped to New York and
Boston; sometimes the demand is bet
ter in one city and sometimes in the
other. The poultry are dry picked and
feathers sold, being kept until winter
and all shipped together. Goose
feathers are usually worth about 81
cents per pound, duck feathers from rs
to 3Oc. Common hen feathers sell at
from to 5 cents per pound.
Said Mr.. Cromwell, owner Of this es-
tablishment: "This year [ have fatten-
ed about 10000 geese and about 1000
ducks, not as many as usual, as it has
been poor season. feed them on
cornmeal and beef scraps, fattening
them during September, October and
November. | feed 100 bushels of
meal per day, and two tons of scraps
per week. We do not coop them up
in houses to fatten them; they are out
in wards about 80 to 40 feet square. L
employ about eight pickers and three
or four men to take care Of the geese.
Most of my poultry goes to New York
market. We stick them in the roof OF
the mouth to bleed them, and hit them
on the head with small stick. DO
not pick the neck or wings, only the
body. | pay 10 cents for picking geese
and cents for picking ducks.-Amer-
lean Agriculturist.
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Pure Breeds and Management.

Farmers who look for something
more than the ordinary in pure breeds,
are disposed to manage on the theory
of the more feed the more eggs and
the result is that they feed excessively,
make their fowls too fat, and do not
get as many eggs from the pure bred
fowls as they formerly did from scrubs
Such instances are SO common that
thew are we'll known, as many farmers
who have hocks of pure birds complain
that their neighbors, who keep only
scrubs, get more eggs than they. The
fault is that while the neighbOrs do not
feed SO much food, and compel their
scrubs to work and scratch, the farmer
who has good birds, feeds them until
he makes them very fat, and renders
them liable to disease. What every
farmer should do is to never feed his
fowls when they show no inclination
to attempt to secure a portion Of their
food working (scratching) as he will
save food by so doing, and have his
fowls in better condition than when he
surfeits them. 1t is almost impossible
to convince farmers that the surest
way to stop egg production in the sum-
mer is to feed the flock exclusively on
corn, for it may be noticed on every
farm that when night comes, corn will
be given literally, and that, too, to
hens that have just come in from the
range, with their crops full. Corn is
very heating, and large, fat hens will
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-10-18
Dust Baths for Hens.

So long as the weather is dry fowls
will find ways of cleaning the vermin
from them, and taking their kind of a
bath by rolling in dry earth, out OF
doors, if given a chance. 1t will uSu-
ally be in the garden too, especially if
one has made an especially mellow bed
for the growth of the seeds that he re-
CARDS as the choicest. The flower bed
nicely leveled and smooth, and as mel
low as an ash heap, is the hens favor
tie place. But it isn't fair to blame the
hen too much for what after all is the
fault of the owner. The hen won't go
into the water and wash herself to
keep clean. If rainstorm comes on,
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ally increased. This increase per hen
is growing profit in her favor that
will more than repay the effort for
her improvement.
The careful selection of the better
layers year after year, and the use OF
them only mated to males as care
fully selected from the largest egg
producers, has increased the egg-yield
until today many focks of hens aver
age over $50 eggs each, and individual
hocks or pens have gone as high as 100
per year. This shows what careful Sc
ecting will do for a flock of hens. If
this can be with one, why not to a
greater or less extent with all? In
these days, when the average income Of
all is reduced, we must look with care
after the small things that add to our
comfort.
Formerly the average egg-produc-
ton of 100 hens was about IL dozen
per week; today it is about 20 dozen
per week, or a little better, and those
that do not average SO many or its pro-
portion from their hens can feel assur-
ed they are not getting what they
should, while those who use the most
approved methods get as many as rs
dozen per week from each 100 hens.
This is only three eggs a week for
each hen, or 1856 eggs per year from
each hen, not an unusual number at
the present time.
In looking over the yearly egg re-
cords of lot of hens kept by Mr.. Nor
ris, | found the average to be for the
lowest month, 35 per cent, and the
highest 70 per cent. Or, in other
words, the lowest average was for each
hen about II eggs per month, while the
highest was p eggs each per month.
This only shows the capabilities of the
hen that is bred to produce eggs when
handled to the best advantage. These
Well-known cases prove beyond all
question that the proper selection Of
the breeding stock is the key note to
success. The best of stock poorly
handled cannot prove a success. Infer
ior stock properly handled will do bet
ter; but we'll selected stock properly
bred and looked after will do truly
good work.
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How to Select for the Future.

winter laying:
In selecting your stock of winter
laying hens, it is always best to set
aside for this purpose, the strong, Wig
orous, early maturing pullets, not nee
essarily the earliest Matched speci-
mems, for some of these may not ma
ture into as strong and vigorous pullets
as some of the later Matched ones.
Size, strength and vigor are the most
important features of a good egg-pro-
Queer, and that is the first considera-
ton to the maj ority of all who keep
hens.
The vigorous hen is an active, hard
working hen, always on the go hunting
for attractive morsels of food that will
build up her constitution for the duty
at hand. Her very activity gives her
strength and vigor of constitution and
like all the animal and bird creation,
the most active and Industrious are
the most prolific producers. An idle,
lazy hen seldom produces many eggs.
She is usually over-fat, and longing to
do her duty as a market fowl, SO as to
end her useless and unproductive eX-
istence. Hens that lack the energy to
hustle might as we'll be killed at once
to save the expense of food they will
consume if allowed to continue their
useless lives.
An idle hen is always lazy hen; an
idle, lazy hen is always an over-fat hen.
This condition may be either your
fault or the hens fault. Be it as it |
may, it is time wasted in the effort to
reduce her to proper laying condition,
for the time lost in this process could
be given to the good laying specimens
that pay for their keep. We all know
it is a useless waste of time and food
to keep year after year a COW for milk
that appropriates the greater part OF
her, food to making herself fat. Better
send her to the butcher and select one
to take her place that does not rob the
milk pail to make beef
lust the same with hens Some
naturally accumulate fat, while others
turn all their food supply into eggs,
only absorbing for themselves sufficient
for vigor and good condition. The
most noticeable feature of a good lay
ing hen is her vigor and industry, be-
ing always on the go, hunting and dig
ging for her living. These conditions
give her a bright clear eye and very
red comb, face and wattles the barom-
eter of her health and the indicator of
her ability to give full returns in eggs
for all the food that she consumes.
In selecting your hens for winter
reproduction, study we'll all these
points. We select our seed Of all kinds
with care and judgment. No inferior
COW, hog or sheep is selected as me-
dunn for increase in Our live stock.
The future milk COW is selected from
among the daughters of the best milk
producing COW. All these matters have
Our consideration. Why not bestow
equal thought to the selection Of Our
hens that can, if properly handled pur-
chase the full grocery supply for the
family, and return to you quite sum
of money besides?
o.1Sso
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POULTRY DEPARTMENT.

Address all con munications to Poultry De-
partnent, Box 200. DeLand, Fla
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