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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-14
OLDEST WASHINGTON REPORTER.
The Veteran Henry Hayes Is Missing
r ON His Accustomed Place.
washington Post

The Veteran Henry Hayes Is Missing
r ON His Accustomed Place.
Washington Post.
A face familiar IN the press galleries and
about the capitol for nearly third OF
century Is missing at this session OF con-
gress, Mr. Henry C. Hayes, the oldest re-
porter IN Washington, has been compelled
by il health, due primarily TO advancing
years, TO lay aside his pen, and he proba.
bly, never again will be able 10 resume
II. For many years he has reported the
proceedings OF the senate. formerly for
the New York Associated Press, then for
the United Press, but OF late years Tor the
New York Sun, He was recognized gerer.
ally as one OF the ablest legislative report.
ers OF his time.
No newspaper man ever lad n more COM
plete grasp OF the situation In the senate
than Mr.. Hayes. His understanding OF the
rules ot the body, his Acquaintance with
aud his perception OF tho limitations OF
senator's, his knowledge OF congressional
legislation, obtained by making a life study
Of II, ana his long experience as n repOrter
who not only chronicled the actions OF legis-
lators but also sought the motives which
Inspired the action, all combined 10 render
MS Judgment upon anything respecting the
senate practically infallible His Intuition
WI" ~ uAHuls utNtiopeU kuht n amounted
20 sixth sense. lie seemed TO know ns n
by instinct when a debate or colloduy would
lead up 10 an important legislative sltua.
ZION or TO sensational climax Quite ire
quently he would take stenogaphlc notes
OF some part OF the proceedings that APP
peared 10 be OF no importance at the mo-
ment, but which a little later would de-
yelop into the supreme news story OF the
days session.
Mr. Hayes Is hue stenographer. and,
above all, knows how 10 make a news re-
port from his shorthand notesa sort OF
ability possessed by few stenographers
lie always uses pen, both In taking and
IN transcrlhing his notes, ms he never
learned % operate a typewriter. While he
works with dellberati0n and appears 10 be
working slowly, he really accompiishes n
prodiHous amount OF work Once while
reporting the proceedings OF a State politl-
cal convention Ia New York he furnished
10 his newspaper In Que day eleven columns
OF matter about 10000 words--al written
IN long hand.
While Mr. Hayes has few close friends
among either newspaper men or congress-
men, his ability and forcefu character won
FOR MN the Admiration and respect OF ali
who know him.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-14

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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-14
Holiday Handkerchiefs

More Hand
kerchIefs are
given as
Christmas
gifts than
any other
article. We
are we'll
equipped thia
season to
satisfy your
needs in that
direction,
and invite
your inspecr
ton Of the
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-14

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new and of the latest and best de-
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We engrave your initials free.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27
NITROGEN for Sweet Corn.

The New Jersey Experiment Station
has been for three years testing diff
erent forms and amounts Of nitrogen
Gus fertilizer for sweet corn. The first
group Of plants had either nitrate of
soda $50 pounds per acre, sulphate Of
ammonia 100 pounds per acre, or dried
blood two hundred pounds per acre.
Each was calculated to furnish the
same amount of nitrogen. On Il second
group these amounts We're multiplied
by %, and on third group by 21s.
The three years test has shown an in
crease of 1913 to 40.2 per cent. The
yield was largest where the most nj
trogen was applied. The returns for
sulphate of ammonia for three years
was $12.66, for dried blood, $9.95. and
for nitrate of soda $500 per acre, and
as the average cost of fertilizer was
81 per acre, they think 1t pays to sup
ply the nitrogen. On cabbages they
found the best results from dried
blood, about go pounds per acre,
though 200 pounds Of nitrate Of soda
was nearly equal in results. The aver
age increased value of the crops was
over $50 per acre. They seemed to
act about alike in Fastening the earli-
ness of the crop.-New England Home
stead
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27

built Of light lumber and the corner
stakes driven firmly into the ground.
The top may be covered with light
cornstalks, hay, straw or burlap; in
fact, with almost anything that will
not draw heat, and which will be fair
~ weather-proof.
Such an arrangement as shown will
be Of great benefit to the chicks, for
1t will give them a cool and shady
place after run on the range. A
number of these shades may be made
at very small cost, SO that there is no
excuse for going without such pro-
lection for the coops.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27
The corn-Fed Hog.

When the time comes that the cook
prefers cottonseed oil to lard for house
hold use, we shall expect to see what
is called the bacon hog, with two
streaks of lean to one of fat, take the
place and sell for as good price in
our markets as the corn-fed animals.
We do not mean that it will be nec-
essary to go back to the animals that
weighed four hundred or five hundred
pounds when slaughtered, because
feeders have learned that they can be
fattened ut It's to 225 pounds, be well
fattened, too, but the thin-backed
scant-hammed and peak-nosed tribe do
not find favor among our marketmen,
however we'll they may be liked by
the aristocracy of England.-American
Cultivator.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27

suddenly seemed to regain his facul-
ties when Susan Brown, forgetful Of
all the curious eyes about her, sud.
denly dropped on her knees beside him
and put up her loving arms and cried,
"Oh. Jack!
"Why Susan, dear!" murmured Jack.
There, there. don't worry. I'm Just
little dazed. One of them hit me
over the head with something from be-
hind and stunned me. I'm almost all
right again."
"Oh. Jack" moaned Susan Brown,
IL thought they might have killed
you. and-and shot the man, and
and-and got the money back-oh, oh,
OH" And here poor Susan quite broke
down. and putting her face against
Jacks coat, sobbed convulsively. And
Mr.. Tompkins told what he knew, and
then the astonished and delighted Jack
turned the recovered treasure over to
his assistant. who had been Temporal
rlly absent at the time of the attack,
and borrowing the happy Mr.. Tomp-
kins' phaeton, drove Susan to her
aunt's.
"Oh. Jack" she murmured on the
way. at was SO unwomanly and SO
cold -bloodedw
"I'm afraid 1t was, my DEAR" said
Jack in n painfully-solemn voice, "but
as it saved the bank in which am in
timately interested $37. 900 In cold cash,
and at the same time. appears to have
broken up the most desperate gang Of
thieves the State has ever known, /
fear l must condone the fault. But
you will promise not to do it again,
won't you. dear?,
Susan promised.-Cl Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27

up some of the things about the place
which they need. They have killed
out the grass, used up all the sharp
gravel or perhaps the soil has become
infested with disease or the coops with
lice. Remedy is to note conditions,
supply what is needed and introduce
fresh stock.
Care of Poultry House.
Nine out of ten poultry houses re.
main uncleaned during the summer,
except for the removal of the drop.
pings. If the houses are occupied. As a
result the lice greatly Increase in num-
Der, and are responsible for the slow
growth made by many of the chickens
during the summer.
There is no reason why the houses
should not be fumigated during the
summer almost as regularly as during
the winter, and the labor involved is
really not so great. An abundance of
whitewash and some carboiic acid will
usually do all necessary to rid the
houses of lice, provided It is applied so
that all cracks and crevlces are reach.
ed. Nest boxes should be removed and
new ones substituted unless the old
ones can be thoroughly cleansed.
Roosts should come down so that the
disenfectant may be placed in all the
cracks; in short, the house should be
thoroughly cleansed, and that several
times during the summer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27
THE swEEr.-LoNo DAYS.

as sweet. long days when the morning
breaks
Over the mountains in rose and gold,
When the shadows linger on vale and
lakes,
And the afterglow tints field and void,
The summer days when the pasture land
Lies dappled with daisies beneath the
sun,
When the waves wash up on the pebbly
strand,
And the little ripples leap and run.
1hs sweet, long days when the children
play
Merry and sweet as the day is long,
Driving the cows, and tossing the hay,
And singing many a snatch Of song.
When mother Is busy from morn till eve,
And father is earning the children's
bread;
In every task when prayer they weave
For blessings to rest on each little head,
The sweet, long days when, though trou-
BILE may come,
We bear the trouble IN trustful cheer
For ever in God is our constant home.
A refuge and shelter from grief and
fear.
The sweet, long days which our Father
sends,
Foretaste and pattern Of days to be,
In the time when the measure BY DAYS
shall end,
On the fadeless shore Of the Crystal
Sea.
M. E. Sangster.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27

of dowry. His MRS. COLLIER
gift amounted to nearly half million
dollars. A chest of table silver, dia-
mond brooch and diamond tiara
We're among the other magnificent gifts
from relatives. The bride, by reason of
her family connections and her pleas
ing personality, has long been one of
the conspicuous figures in metropolitan
society. She is n granddaughter of
Mrs. William Aston and, like the grand
mother who SO long was leader of the
foremost social set in this country, is
attractive in face and figure and
charming in conversation.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27
MISS MAUD COME, KNOWN
AS "ERlN'S JOAN OF ARC

Miss Maud, Come, who made a tour
of the United States last year, speaking
in all the principal cities. is known as
'Erin's Joan Of Arc" She is tall, of
slender figure and finely proportioned,
while her carriage is queenly. Nature
fitted her to command attention In any
walk Of life, and her inclination and
education have combined to make her
conspicuous in her chosen field, that OF
an advocate of the political rights of
her native country.
Few women agitators have received
the respectful homage that has been
bestowed upon Miss Come. The cause
for which she pleads appeals to her
fellow countrymen; her personal graces
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27
FATHER OF THE STEEL TRUST.
John w. Gates Rise from Salesman
to n millionaire.

to millionaire. &
The father of the steel trust after all
is not ]. Pierpont Morgan but John w.
Gates. So the latter declares in a re-
cent Interview. He says that he not
only conceived the gigantic project,
but laid down the plans which Morgan
carried out.
incidentally Gates told the story Of
how he rose from a travelling salesman
to be millionaire and one of the great
est financial powers in America. He
first started selling barbed wire at
salary of 500 q month. Soon he con-
cluded that there was more money in
the manufacture of barbed wire than
there was in selling it and with Alfred
Clifford he embarked in AManufacture
for himself. The business was small
at first, the capital being less than
$4,000. but 1t increased and soon an
Incorporated concern was started under
the name of ]. w. Gates & Co. Into
this concern each Of eight men put ST.
500, making n total working capital
of $4,000. The profits for the first
year We're $4,000. Gates bought out
his partners and with Clifford and an
other stakeholder Incorporated the
Southern Wire Company, capital $780,
900. The profits for year in this were
$1Ss,OOO.
".rhen we concluded" says Mr..
Gates, ito build mill near Pittsburg,
and selected Rankin as site. In 1884
we began the erection of what is now
known as the Braddock Mill. We
started in to build mill that would
cost us $4,000. We concluded that
we would incorporate for 100000 and
borrow the $4,000. Before we had
completed the mill $25O,OOO had been
expended, and we were obliged to bor-
row $15O,0OO
1--WE began operations in the mill
early in 1856, and went abroad for
the purpose Of buying STEEL it being
unobtainable in the United States-I
mean steel billets. I purchased about
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27
$4,000 tons Of steel In Great Britain for
shipment via Baltimore to the Rankin

oObS0O lSAo VI SbSSA Ill ShStiS SkAlhi4A hOh
shipment via Baltimore to the Rankin
mill.
81 had great difficulty in obtaining
bankers credit to satisfy the European
makers. Finally called upon Mr.. Nor
gan, and he very cheerfully gave us
credit for 100000 sterling, which was
more money than we We're worth.
lowing to our exceedingly large pur-
chase in Europe the price Of steel ad-
vanced So to $40 ton, which meant
profit to us of from $25O00O to $780,
600. l sold 10000 tons of the steel to
the Carnegie Company without touch
ing 1t, simply delivering the shipping
documents to them. and thereby made
100000 net profit. The balance of the
steel we worked up into rods and wire.
Our profits in the manufacture Of
wire In 1885 We're very small, caused
largely by the Grant-Ward panic. The
year 1856 was fairly good. In 1887 we
realized the profits of the steel pur-
chased in Europe in 1856, together with
the steel sold to the Carnegie-Phipps
Company.
"In 1887 we increased the capital
stock of the Braddock Wire Company
from 100000 to 100000, and paid
cash dividend of $780, OO-making
500 per cent dividend as the result of
work during 1884, 1885, 1856 and 1887"
Mr.. Gates is now well launched on
his career His policy after that was
consolidation. In 1892 the Consolidat-
ed Steel and Wire Company was form
ed, with an actual paid in capital of ST.
100000. For three years Mr. Gates
managed the concern, the earnings of
which were $1,1OO,O0O year. In 1895
Mr.. Gates was elected president of
the Illinois Steel Company, Of which
he owned $1,000 shares. Later the
American Steel and Wire Company.
with a capitalization Of $9O.OOO,O0O,
was formed. Then came the billion dol
LAT steel trust, which swallowed all
the Gates interests as well as those Of
Carnegie and otner iron masters.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27

Horses are high this year, and every
farmer should keep only just the num-
Der necessary for his work. He should
get all he can out of them by giving
good grooming and feed, starting in
work gradually, providing well-fitting
collars and keeping them clean. These
may appear little things, but are Just
what often determine the success or
failure Of a seasons work.-American
Agriculturist.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27
Grain and pair FAIR; =,

An important difference between
dairy farming and grain farming is
the amount Of the farm that is sold
With the product that is of the fertility
OF the farm. The man who sells a ton
of wheat sells in it about 81 worth of
fertilizing elements, and If he does not
buy something to replace them his
farm is SO much poorer. The dairy.
man who sells ton of butter has sold
but fifty cents worth of fertilizing ma.
terial, and If he is good dairyman, he
has probably added much more than
that, or twenty times that to the value
of the farm in the bran. oil meal, cot
ton seed or other food that he pur-
chased while feeding his cows for max
Ing that ton of butter. 1t is in this
way that the dairyman's farm is con-
tinually growing more productive, and
If he does not make much from his
dairy, he should from the crops that
he can grow on his much enriched soil.
American Cultivator.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27

and mental endowments secure from
others the consideration to which they
entitle her.
Miss Come is little on the shady
side Of 40, but could pass for much
younger woman, for her complexion is
as fresh and fair as that of girl in
her teens. She speaks in clear, res
onant. musical voice, with Just trace
Of the Irish accent, and has a command
of language that few orators possess.
Less argumentative than emotional,
she stirs the sentiment rather than the
judgment of her hearers, although she
does not lack of forceful reasons for
the faith that is in her and can hold
her own with the best OF controversial.
lists. Wherever she has been heard the
cause of her country has been ad-
vanced and friends of free Ireland have
multiplied by the scores and hundreds.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27
Late Fodder crops.

Late fodder crops include Kaffir corn,
millet, sorghum. rape, corn, the cereals
and the clovers. One writer claims
that where hogs are kept rape is the
greatest of all those mentioned, as a
half acre will feed forty hogs during
the season if the crop gets good start.
Sorghum is looked upon as one of the
very best crops for shocking and curing
to be fed cut during the winter. AS
this crop may be seeded after cereals
have been harvested, there is still am
pie opportunity to prepare the soil and
sow the seed. If the soil is plowed to
a depth of three or four inches and
afterwards well worked down with the
harrow and cultivators such seed
bed will favor the production of sew
eral tons Of cured sorghum per acre
One writer recommends Mammoth
Early Orange as being the best sor-
ghum for both fodder and seed pur-
poses.-Iowa Homestead.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27

According to the government census
of 1900, there are 3,271,121 mules In
the United States. 1t is also stated by
the census officials that mules are in
creasing in this country. According to
the enumeration In 1890, ISL, O22 mule
colts were foaled in 1880, whereas in
1890 the number had increased to 231,-
G07. The actual increase of the total
number Of mules in the entire country
is said to be some "a per cent during
the past ten wears.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27
Growing Rnuishes.

The radish is a hardy plant and can
be grown every month from spring I'M
til late in the fall But few should be
planted at time, as they soon become
tough if left in the ground or are al.
lowed to approach maturity. To have
them crisp and tender they should be
grown on rich soil and forced, as the
sooner they reach the table stage the
better their quality.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27

The Drover's Journal tells of man
who came from New Plymouth, New
Zealand, to Syracuse N. ", a distance
Of nine thousand miles, to purchase a
herd of Holstein cattle. He bought
eleven head, eight heifers and three
bulls. which he will take home with
him. This will be the second herd Of
Holsteins ever imported into New
Zealand.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27
Effect of the Olco BiI1..

Some dairymen are inclined to be-
lieve that the passage Of the oleo bill
means permanent heavy advance in
the price of products, particularly but
ter, and are banking the future of the
dairy interests along these lines as be-
ing very promising. The best intent
Of the oleo bill is the suppression Of
fraud, and 1t is doubtful whether
prices advance as much as some seem
to think. Yet national law forcing
bogus butter to sell for just what it is
must exert a salutary influence on the
market for butter. Dairymen should
keep up the high standard of the pure
product and see that the cleo bill is
strictly enforced.-Farm and Home.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27
Within Our borders.

Horse thieves are operating in Pot
tawattamie County.
A number Of counterfeit 5O-cent pieces
are in circulation in Waterloo.
d. Been has been appointed postmaster
at Henshaw, vice JaAles Higgins, resign
ed
Miss Susan Orvis of Dubuque will leave
in a few days to take up work as a mis-
sionary in Asia Minor. She goes under
the auspices of the Congregational
Church.
Henry, the S-yenr-old son of Charles
Daniel, farmer residing west of Lee
Mars, was fatally burned. The boy was
alone in summer kitchen, where there
was lighted stove. An explosion was
heard and the boy rushed out, his cloth
ing in flames. He was so badly burned
that he died in few hours. 1t is thought
he threw some oil on the Goals in the
stove.
Prof. c. +. Curtis is being suggested rs
suitable successor to the late DR..
Beardshear, as president of Iowa State
College at Amcs.
Rev. John w. Boyle, former lawyer
preacher in Iowa, met death in run
away accident in Oklahoma. He was past
80 years of age.
f. @. Church has sued the village of
Denver for $4,000 damages for injuries
alleged to have been sustained by fall
on defective sidewalk.
John Schrader, aged 16, and Joy Thorn
as, IA. were captured at Burlington on
an order from Fort Madison, whence
they had eloped. Ell route to Davenport.
They We're sent home.
The formal opening Of the new golf
club house Mt Muscatine was made the
occasion of great reception, which was
attended by 500 people.
j. NJ. Molsberry, ex-postmaster of Ply
mouth and pioneer, was gored to death
by bull. He was driving cattle from
the pasture when the bull yiciously at
tackled him. He was so years old.
The Blackhawk County Board of Su.
pervisors has accepted the new SlOO,O00
court house. In the construction of the
building there We're used over 1000, COZ
brick, $1,000 cubic feet Of sandstone,
1900 barrels Of Portland cement. 12J
tons of steel and 1000 square feet OF
marble.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27
Don't Sow Seed by HIND.

The sowing of seed by hand is not
an economical method, as more seed
is required than when drill is used.
and there is larger return from the
drill, owing to better covering of the
seed and greater uniformity of depth.
The drill has been improved to high
degree Of efficiency, and some have
fertilizer attachments. In all expert
ments made to determine the compar-
alive value of the drill and hand seed
ing less quantity of seed, carefully
drilled in, yielded more bushels per
acre, in proportion to seed used, than
seeding by hand.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27

There are thousands of chicks hatch
cd late In the season that need pro-
lection from the suns rays to enable
them to make proper growth during
the summer. The coop illustrated may
be used, or any coop Of plan best
suited to the ideas of the poultry rails
er; any Of them may be protected by
IN arrangement such rs shown. What
ever the form Of the coop. the shed
which is to furnish shade should be
built on the slant shown, so that any
rain which falls on 1t may be shed.
To make this roof, frame should be