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The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1902-01-18
Wednesday, Jan. IS.

1r s.
The second of the levees Of the sea.
son ut the White House, the reception
in honor of the Judiciary, was given
by President and Mrs. Roosevelt on
Tuesday evening.
]. H. Isaacson, for the past rs years
grand secretary of the lodge of Quebec
"A. f.. and A. NJ, we'll known In Mason
ic circles all over the continent, lis
dead at Montreal. " f.5
General s. G. Griffin. a. veteran Of
the Civil war. Is dead at Keene, N. H.,
aged n years. General Grimm took
part In 20 battles, az well as In q mum,
Der Of skirmishes.
Albert Keep, for Is years chairman
Of the board Of directors Of the Chi.
cago and Northwestern Railway com
pany, has resigned. and the Office has
practically been abolished.
Lord Francis Hope. who was re-;
Gently accidentally shot while hunting
and whose foot was subsequently ann
putated, has been In d serious condi.
ton for q week past. He is suffering
from high fever.
The New York court of appeals has
reversed the order of the appellate d.
vision OF the supreme court granting
q new trial to William f., Miller Of
Brooklyn, the head .of the Franklin $50
per cent syndicate.
The progressive farmer., 1902-10-28
The Future of Cuba.

Good men throughout the United
States, without regard to party lines,
cannot fail to resent the unscrupu-
lous dealing with Cuba which the
controlling spirits in the sugar trade
are trying to force upon our govern
ment. Their program is simple
enough, but appallingly cruel and
selfish. In the decentralization imme-
diately following the war they
bought, or secured options upon, a
very large proportion of the sugar
lands of Cuba. This was not for the
immediate development of these
lands. Their next step was by fair
means or by foul to defeat the move
ment toward reciprocity or tariff
concessions in favor of Cuba. The
object was to wreck the business of
the native sugar producers, who
without access to the American mar
ket are helpless. They have very
nearl y succeeded in this too; it is
only matter of time. The final OBJ
Ject of it all is now becoming appa-
rent. They will buy up the rest of
these sugar lands at bankrupt prices.
Then campaign for annexation will
be inaugurated, the island will be-
come a part of the United States,
sugar duties will be abolished, and
presto! their holdings become enor-
mously valuable and productive.
Such plot is an outrage on civil
The progressive farmer., 1902-10-28
GENERAL NEWS
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
News About the Coal Strike and the
Political Situation.
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:

Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
The great coal strike of 1902,
which began on May u and ended on
October q, and which advanced the
price of anthracite coal from $5.35
to Tin some instances) $25 per ton,
was declared off by the Convention
of the Mine Workers of America on
Wednesday and with characteristic
energy the President has summoned
the arbitrators whom he appointed
to meet in Washington to-day.
They will perfect their organization,
and then proceed to the White House
to receive their instructions. The
case of the miners will first be pre-
sented by President Mitchell and
such assistants as he may choose,
and it is probable that most of the
early sessions will be held in the
mining district, after which, the
board will adjourn to meet in either
New York or Philadelphia, and there
take the testimony of the operators.
The testimony will be printed and
the board will adjourn for a sufficient
period to permit thorough review
by the individual arbitrators, and the
board will again meet to formulate
a report which will be made-tt.ner the the
President
The progressive farmer., 1902-10-28
Official Corruption in St. Louis.

In st. Louis an energetic prosecut-
ing attorney has been spreading dis
may among bribers and takers of
bribes. He has forced a confession
from one of the latter company. A
number of dishonest Legislators are
in jail or have confessed by flight
Also there is dismay in the places
where the managers of corporations
gather, and several 9eading citizens"
expect to extend their VACATIONS in
definitely. As usual the scandal is
connected with the grant of public
franchises, a source of dishonesty So
prolific that-it is no wonder many
men who would resent the name of
Socialist are beginning to think that
these rights never should be permit
ted to pass to private ownership.
Nine-tenths of the corruption of pub
lie bodies is traceable to the corpo-
rate control of public property.
Whether this is true of America
alone, we are not prepared to say.
But the fact is worth noting, that
the industrious gentleman who or
ganized corruption in a Western City
Council and a Western State Legis-
lature has gained control of excep-
tionally valuable franchises in for
eign capital where the integrity of
public officials is supposed to be
above suspicion; and this in spite of
the fact that his interesting career
included a short stay in the peniten-
tiary. Has the promoter changed
his methods, the leopard his spots
Or is the granting of franchises the
same ugly business, inviting the
same sort of vicious enterprise
everywhere Golfers Weekly.
The progressive farmer., 1902-10-28

Authoritative announcement has
been made that the Southern Tex
tile Company, better known as the
Fries mill merger, will become eff
fective on December 1. John Fries,
who is the active mover in the plan,
says that about 135 mills have ap-
piled for admission, but that the
adaptability and needs of each of
these will be carefully scrutinized be-
fore any are accepted. That there
will be over 70 mills in the merger
appears certain, and the capita1iza-
tion will go beyond $30,OOO,0OO:
The progressive farmer., 1902-10-28


zation. It sells the very blood of
our boys who died to free an oppress-
ed people, and will bring upon war
we waged for hu1nanity's sake the
scorn of the world. In a general way
we have not much to say for reci-
procity in tariff. It is a cheap make
shift. But in this case, if for moth
ing but to defeat these greedy mo-
nopo1ists, and to do honor to our
dead President, whose last public ut
terance was in advocacy of this pol
icy, we say, Let Cuba have the ben
eft of every possible concession
Nashville Christian Advocate.
The progressive farmer., 1902-10-28
Candidates for Congress.

Washington, Oct. 25.-For the 378
members of the House of Represen-
tatives to be elected November 4th,
6 in Maine, Vermont and Oregon
having already been chosen) the
Democrats have made 370 nomina-
tions, the Republicans 333, the Pro-
hibitionists 96 in Is States, the So
cialists SO in 16 States, Socialist La
Dor 12, Socialist Democrats 10, Labor
1, United Labor 4, Peoples Party 8,
Populist Z, Antitrust 1, Third Par
ty 3 Missouri, Unionist 9 Gin Penn
sylvania), and Citizens (also in
Pennsylvania. The Democrats
made no nominations In two New
York districts and in four Philadel-
phia districts, while the Republicans
put up no candidates in Florida,
Georgia, Mississippi and South Car
olina and in one district in Arkan-
sas, one in Kentucky, one in Louisi-
ana, two in New York, three in Hi
nois, three in Tennessee, five in
Texas and two in Virginia. In one
district of North Carolina both par
ties agreed upon one man, Robert
n. Page, who, although a Democrat,
secured the endorsement of the Re
publicans because he voted for Nc
Kinley, and in the Tenth eHIfthhl Z -PEeennsYlya-
-i1fia -if1fia district VIM. Connell, the present
member from the Scranton district,
Republican, received the endorse
ment of the Democratic bolters, the
regular Democrats nominating
George Howelly, Republican, who
also received the endorsement of the
boilers from his own party. Two wo-
men are numbered among the candi
dates, Mrs Mary Burkhart being the
standard bearer of the Prohibition
lists in the Tenth Kentucky district,
but will be unable to vote as will Miss
Ida Hazlett, the Socialist candidate
for Congress at large from Colorado.
The progressive farmer., 1902-10-28

ters is authority for the statement
that in one town visited by Mr.. Viii
liams he addressed an unenthusiastic
meeting of 40 persons where usually
audiences of several hundred turn
out. Mr.. Williams returned to his
hotel disheartened, but was consoled
by the landlord, a Republican, who
told him that the week before a Re
publican spellbinder had still small
er audience. "There was only 80
men went to hear him." said the host.
Another veteran campaigner who
returned to Washington the same
day is Delegate Dennis Flynn, of Ok
lahoma. Mr.. Flynn is Republican,
and has been stumping several States
but he brought the same story of
general apathy and Indifference. He
says the people turned out well
enough, but they did not seem to lis
ten to what was said to them nor to
take any interest in the issues. "They
listen in a half-hearted way" said
Mr.. Flynn, "ask few, if any ques-
tions, and then go away from the
meetings without appearing to have
understood or cared to understand
what had been said to them"
GENERAL POLITICAL APATHY
Reports received from Ohio indi-
cate that the people desire chiefly to
be entertained. They flock t9-'iI6ar te9 hear
Tom JohnsoR.,ss see his big tent
and nd g tT7Omobile, but that seems to be
all there is to it. The same is true,
according to report, of Montana,
where Mr.. F. Augustus Heintze is
going about with a big vaudeville
troupe. ''It is a great show" they
all say, but that seems to occupy all
the attention and leaves no room for
political thinking. Delegate Flynn
attributes the general apathy to loss
of respect for the public men of the
country, but there are others who
say that, while the people say little,
they are doing lots of thinking, that
they are weary of the old parties and
the old partisan lines, and that the
situation portends the organization
of new parties and the Inauguration
of new issues. Your correspondent
was present the other evening, in
company with a newspaper man who
has been travelling from one politi.
cal center to another all fall, at 6
banquet of Canadian Railway Pas
senger Agents. President Roose
velt's name was proposed for a toast
and the agents cheered it to the echo
"That was a greater exhibition ot
enthusiasm than / have seen any
where in the field" remarked tht
newspaper man afterwards.
A. B. M.
Washington, d. c., Oct. "a, 1902.
The progressive farmer., 1902-10-28

The Arbitration Court in the
Pious Fund Case has condemned
Mexico to pay the United States ST.
42O,682.67 in Mexican currency. The
decision of the court was unanimous.
The progressive farmer., 1902-10-28

Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the
famous advocate of woman suffrage,
died in New York, Sunday, 26th.
Frank Norris, the novelist, died in
San Francisco Saturday.
The progressive farmer., 1902-10-28
" The SAMOAN CASE

Your correspondent learned yes
terday at the State Department that
the important Samoan case which in
volved the right of the United States
and Great Britain to land troops,
etc., at Apia, Samoa, for the purpose
of putting an end to the Samoan
revolution, which right was contest
ed by Germany and was submitted
to the King of Sweden and Norway
as a single arbitrator, has been de-
cided adversely to the claims of this
country and Great Britain. In addi-
tion to the conviction of having vio-
lated international law, this decision
involves the payment of damages to
an amount not yet adjudicated, but
estimated at 100000. No official
statement has yet been made by King
Oscar, but it doubtless will be made
Immediately, now that the facts have
leaked out.
The progressive farmer., 1902-10-28

Perhaps we are coming to railways
without rails. Several automobile
owners in New York are planning to
construct on Long Island fifty miles
of road, to cross other roads above or
below grade, so that they may have
a free course on which to speed their
machines. From running a single
motor car on such a road to attach
ing one or more "trailers" is a short
step, and the next leads to passenger
and freight service. Even if special
roads are not built for their accom-
modation, it is probable that automo-
bile coach lines will be run as feed
ers to the steam or electric lines in
districts where it would not pay to
lay traok.-Youth's Companion.
The progressive farmer., 1902-10-28
THE COMING ELECTION

This country is on the eve of an
important election. The entire COM
plexion of the House of Representa-
tives and twenty-four seats in the
Senate are dependent on the results
of these elections and the campaign
managers are amazed and perplexed
at the general apathy which exists
throughout the country. Represen-
tative John Sharp Williams, after a
campaign tour which has extended
from Mississippi to New Jersey, ar
rived in Washington yesterday and
brought story of extraordinary and
discouraging apathy. Mr.. Williams
makes the usual claims for Demo
cratic prospects and says that the
Democratic meetings are more large
ly attended than the Republican, but
he describes the receptions given all
political speakers as "a frost" a
gentleman at Democratic headquar.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-28
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PIGEON NEST CABINET.
style Here Described Has Been
Adopted by Noted Fancier After
Years of Experimenting.

After experimenting for years with
various nesting apartments for
pigeons, and examining those Of other
experienced breeders, we have adopted
the style set forth in the accompanying
illustration as being the best, cheap
est and most convenient for the attend
ant as well as the birds.
The dimensions are seven feet two
inches high, eight feet long and two
feet deep. Partitions are two feet
apart, making each nest shelf, which
rests on cleats nailed to the partitions,
two feet square. Shelves are one foot
apart, giving ample room for nest pan
about three and half or four inches
high.
Few birds will need more than one
nest pan or box at time; but should
the hen wish to lay before the squads
are old enough to leave the nest, am
other nest may be placed in the OPP
posite corner. 1t would be better to
have the apartments two and a half or
even three feet long where two nest
boxes are to be used.
The illustration shows the top row
of nest boxes in position, also one of
the shelves removed in the second row.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-28
PIGEON NEST CABINET.

The bottom row of nests is raised
from the floor by Dashboard two
inches wide, this allows space for the
end cleats on which the bottom shelves
rest.
The cabinet here illustrated is made
for 20 pairs of birds. Two such cab
inets, one on each side of room ten
by twelve feet, would comfortably ac-
commodate 80 to IS pairs, allowing a
few nests for birds that may claim two
sections.
Only the upright partitions are made
secure to the building. The top and
shelves should not be fastened, and
may easily be moved when cleaning-out
time comes. One point must be remem-
bered, no nest cabinet should be built
more than five nests high, and where
one is not cramped for room four nests
high would be better
The top of the cabinet makes good
resting place for birds not on the nest,
and no other perches are needed. In
nearly every pen there will be pair or
two that will persist in building on top
of the cabinet, and, if they are to be
humored, the attendant should give
them nest pan or box, for in most
cases they will succeed in raising a
good pair of squabs.-Farm journal.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-28

We hold our sacred dead aloof,
We put them by like treasures old,
No more for them or hearth or roof,
But narrow dwellings lone and cold.
The dear, warm hearts that fell asleepi
Why shun them in our secret thought?
Why ever at a distance keep,
AS If some change were in them wrought?
They cease not from their constant love.
They are not strange and far away:
Their presences about us move
Closer than presences of clay
How 1t must grieve them, when they come
Heart-close, and find no welcome therei
Or whisper love, ndf1nd us dumb,
Forgetful, hedged with servile care!
Oh, let us hold our dear ones close
Closer and closer, when they move
Beyond the veili For no one knows
The preciousness of human love!
James Buckham, in Christian Advocate.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-28

When to slaughter pig must de-
pend on what we have to feed him, and
the price at which feed is selling in the
market. The price of pork also cuts
some figure, but not SO much as the
price of feed. For instance, this year
in some localities pig feed is so high
in price that every pound of additional
weight put on costs ten cents, which is
far above the highest market price
possible. Where the hog raiser lives
near a creamery and can get skim
milk at low figure, or near cheese
factory and can get whey for prac-
tically nothing, it often pays to keep
the pigs till they are of good size, even
when other feeds are high. This year
a good many pigs are being got rid
of as soon as they attain weight of
$50 pounds Farmers Review.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-28
DUCK RAISER'S WAY.
Competition BEING Very Keen, There
Is No Profit in Keeping Small
Number of Pekins.

When you have for mating Pekins
rs or 80 females and five or six males,
in case your duck eggs do not hatch
well, it is almost impossible to trace
the trouble, while of course in the sim
gle mating you can tell at once where
the trouble is and remedy it; where
there are so many in together they are
apt to interfere with one another and
do not think the result is as good.
The expense of single matings is great
err, but it is astonishing to see how lit
tie it takes to shelter ducks anyway;
mere packing case will do just as
well as an elaborate building. The
only objection ! see to the single mat
ings is in the yards in case you have
running water, for it necessitates
quite good deal of fencing in order to
give them fair show at it, but | in
dorse the single pen matings. Com
petition is very keen and there is no
profit in small numbers. A profitable
number to begin with is % females and
five males. In general, allow one drake
to six or seven females. The house
should afford six square feet to each
bird. For breeds, Pekin is best and
Muscovy next. A two of three foot
fence is enough to separate full
grown Pekins. They begin to lay in
February and continue to July. The
average weight of young ducks at
10 weeks should be 10 to ~
pounds. Feed ducllings at first mix
ture two-thirds bran and one-third
cornmeaL which is sometimes moist
ened with milk, or with infertile hens
eggs, with little fine beef scrap.
After five weeks they may be given IS
per cent. beef scrap. Dress off at 8
or IL weeks old Run the incubator as
for hens eggs or one degree lower.
Ducks eggs are worth five to eight
cents per dozen more than hens eggs.
&C. II. Pollard, in Farm and Home.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-28
Treating Bloat in sheep.

The trouble of hoover OF bloat in
sheep. caused by various gaseous foods
being taken into the stomach, such as
green clover, alfalfa, etc, is easily re-
lieyed by tying round stick back in
the mouth. This is done by taking
piece of an old broom handle or other
round stick of about that size. The
stick should be eight or ten inches
long, cut grooves around the stick near
each end and tie at these places a
string which can be tied back of the
head, when the stick is put in the
mouth. This arrangement forces the
mouth to remain open. The gas will
quickly escape and the animal win be
relieved. This treatment is as APP
plicable for the COW as for the sheep,
but larger stick is required for the
cow.--Nebraska Farmer
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-28
Pictures In Japanese Temples.


The yotive pictures (yema) or Jap
anese temples are an outgrowth of an
old custom. In ancient times departed
warriors were honored by offerings OF
sake and rice placed before their tab
let's and tombs. AS the idea gained
ground that their spirits lowered
around their graves, besides food a
certain number of spotless white
horses were provided with which these
spiritual worthless might take recrea-
ton. So it became the custom in
wealthy shinto temples to keep one OF
these scored animals. There were
many shrines that could not afford to
buy a white horse, so the next best
thing was to get picture of one;
hence the name yema (picture horse)
from we Ia picture) and una "a horse).
The use of the yema was first confined
to the shinto religion, but the Buddhists
took kindly to the custom. The word
yema has long lost it's primitive mean
ing and has become generic name for
every picture hung up in Shinto
shrines or Buddhistic temples. De-
troit Free Press.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-28
No Time wasted.

Probably since the world began,
there was never period when men
wasted their time as little as they do
now. Whether they use it well OF
i'll, they at least do not let it slip
away empty. Never was the fascina.
ton of work so potent as at the
present moment, and never before
were the same keenness and concen-
tration displayed in the pursuit OF
distraction. Energy is the dominant
quality of the Anglo-Saxon race, the
quality they love to exercise, the
quality they cannot choose but adj
mire. Work is no longer regarded as
necessary evil or even wholly as a
means to an end; it is valued for its
own sake. The richest men in Amer
lea work as hard as the poorest-or
at least pretend to do so-lest the So
ciety in which they move should sup
pose them men of leisure, suppose
ton which would be, we understand.
against an American, whatever his
position in life.--London Spectator.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-28
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Stock
IMPORTANT QUESTION.
when Do swine Make the Cheapest
Gains, in the First Season or
at Mature Ages

1t is now pretty generally under
stood that sheep and cattle make
gains the most cheaply near the
birth period, and also the most rap
idly. This is owing to the greater
activity of the secretions when an
imals are young. But this explana-
ton does not so well apply to the
case of swine. After several years OF
experimenting at the Minnesota ex-
pertinent station, it has been ascer-
tanned that pigs do not gain nearly
80 rapidly when they are young as
when of more mature age. When
they were on the SOW it was found
difficult to make them gain pound
q day. After weaving for two or
three months they seldom made more
than one-half pound per day, but aft
er say five or six months for the next
two or three months they gained well
on to two pounds per day. Thus it has
been shown in several instances, that
between the ages of five and eight
months pigs have made the most
rapid increase in weight. The exper-
iments referred to were not made
with view to test this question, but
these results came out incidentally
in large number of tests. As re-
suit of the casual manner in which
these conclusions were reached, the
relative cost of the gains cannot be
given, but it is probable those made
near the birth period were the least
costly, owing to the small amount
relatively of the food consumed.
This is a great question. It ought
to be further investigated. The ex-
perience referred to calls up the
thought that it may be possible to
market pork too young to bring the
grower the greatest profit, even
when swine are sold as young as six
or seven months, the popular age at
which to SELL These results in swine
growing, so different from those OBJ
tanned in growing cattle and sheep,
are well worthy of the closest study
Northwestern Farmer.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-28

We all know with what enthusiastic,
even religious, devotion women have
loved music in all ages, and particu-
larry in this age; one may almost say
music would have persisted but for the
active sympathy of women for the art
and its artists; and we all know, fur
Their, what brilliant heights of excel
lence have been attained by women as
executive musicians, both in vocal and
instrumental kinds; yet no woman has
ever yet composed any great music
Sidney Lanier, in Lippincott's Maya
zine.