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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-02-16
McGinn Bill Goes Through.

Salem, Or, Feb. 1.-THE honse
pasesd McGinn's senate bill to pro-
hibit the employment of children un.
der Is years OF age. during school hours,
or children under IA years of age in
shops or factories or as messenger boys.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-02-16
Australian Wheat Crop.

Adelaide, Australia, Feb. 13.-It is
unofficially estimated that the wheat
harvest of South Australia will amount
to an average of six bushels per acre,
and that the exportable surplus will
total 100, $50 tons.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-02-16
Cancels His engagements.

Washington, Feb. 13-Admiral Dew
ey has been confined to his home for
the past week with a severe cold and
cough, and by the advice of his physi-
clan has cancelled all engagements for
the present.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-02-16
SUSPECT Arrested

Butte, Mont, Feb. l4.-Detective
Murphy has arrested William McCul-
lagh on suspicion of being one of the
Northern Pacific train robbers The sum
of $4S5. 80 was found in his belt.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-02-16
Cruiser to BE Launched.

Washington, Feb. l3.-The navy de-
partment has been informed that the
protected cruiser Chattanooga, built by
Lewis Nixon at Elizabethport, N. j.,
will be launched on March Z.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-02-16
STATELY CEREMONY.
DIR. Randall Davidson EnthrOned as
Archbishop of Canterbury.

London, Feb. 13.-Dr. Randall Da-
wilson, was enthroned as Archbishop of
Canterbury in Canterbury Cathedral
with much stately ceremony. The ca
thedral was filled to it's capacity with
church dignitaries and civil, naval and
military officials in full robes and uni
forms.
The ceremony was concluded with the
archbishop taking the customary oath
and the usual promise of obedience on
the part of the clergy.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-02-16
To Join Pacific SQUADRON,

Washington, Feb. 13.-The gunboat
Bennington will be put into commission
in a short time at the Mare Island
navy yard and probably added to the
Pacific squadron, now commanded by
Rear Admiral Glass.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-02-16
Reward Offered.

Helena, Mont, Feb. l4.-The North
ern Pacific has offered a reward of
IS, 900 for the arrest and conviction of
the men who held up the Burlington
express just east of Butte.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-02-16
NEWS OF THE DAY
ITEMS FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF
cHE WORLD

the Iess Important, Though Not Less
intervening. Happenings Of the Past Week
IA . Condensed. hut Comprehensive
Form
Miss Alice Roosevelt celebrated her
nineteenth birthday on Thursday.
The Montanta house has killed the
woman's suffrage bill by vote of Al to
"a.
House and senate conferees have
agreed on report on the general staff
bill.
A ferryboat crossing the Visloka riv-
er in Austria has sunk and so peasants
who were aboard persisted.
Dennis J. Sweeney. for 20 years chief
of the Chicago fire department, is seri-
ously i'll from kidney trouble.
The directors of the North American
company have declared dividend of 4
per cent on the capital stock of the
company.
The North Dakota Press association
is making trip to the coast. Its men,
bers will be entertained at Seattle Feb
ruary l6.
The Hamburg American steamer Bull
garia, from Boulogne to New York, put
in at Halifax short of coal. She has
1000 passengers aboard.
The Illinois state senate by a vote of
43 to l. adopted a joint resolution in
favor of electing United States senators
by direct vote of the people.
The national trades congress of Can
ada has issued an appeal to organized
labor to join with it in advancing the
interests Of Canadian labor.
The Audubon thaater on Charles
street, New Orleans, known for the past
quarter of century as the Academy
of Music, has been destroyed by fire.
Ansegar college, at Hutchinson,
Mimi, with it's library and all the fur
niture, has been destroyed by fire. Two
hundred students lost all their belong
ings.
The new blood poison remedy, form
alin, has been used with success in
Bristol, Conn, in the case of Mrs. Ma
poleon DUDE, when apparently she was
dying.
The capital stock of the Bay State
Gas Company of Massachusetts, has
been sold at auction for $l1 200, 900.
Kidder, Peabody & Co., of Boston, were
the purchasers.
Rev. Thomas A. Perryman, president
of the Creek House of Kings, died at
Kansas City Wednesday, aged "a years.
Mr.. Perryman was fullblood Creek
Indian and had been leader in ma
tional affairs for thirty years.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-02-16
In State of Siege.

Berlin, Feb. 12.-The entire repub-
lie of Guatemala has been declared in
state of siege, according to dispatches
received here.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-02-16
Friday.

was transacted.
Friday.
Senate-As had been generally init
mated after the unsuccessful fight made
by the friends of the railway commits
sion bill on the floor of the senate
Wednesday morning, Senator Tolman
today introduced new bill providing
for an elective railroad commission.
The measure was read by title without
incident or comment, and was referred
to the committee on railroads and
transportation.
The appropriation bill'for state edu-
cational institutions was introduced. It
carries $74 900 for the normal school
at Whatcom; $62, 900 for the Cheney
normal and $55 900 for the Ellensburg
normal. For the state agricultural COL
lege 1920, 900 is called for and $2lS, 900
tor the state university.
House-The Jones congressional APP
portionment bill was recommended tor
passage by all but four members of the
congressional apportionment commit
tee. The appropriation bills providing
funds for the state university, normal
schools and agricultural college were
made a special order for Monday at
2:3O p. m. There was some discussion
as to the standing of the railroad COM
mission bill, but it was not finally de-
termined.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-02-16
THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
Thursday.

The house and senate met in joint
session to pay tribute to the memory OF
the late John b. Allen. No business
was transacted.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12
PROFIT IN CAPONIZING.
A Simple Operation and Some Reasons
Why 1t Pays the Farmer to
Perform 1t.

The chief reason for caponiZing cock
erels is to get a larger profit out of them.
Good capons generally sell for higher
price per pound than other poultry.
They also weigh more. and are marketed
at time when the flock is bringing lit
tie return. A flock of capons are quiet,
do not crow and are easily taken care of.
The best breeds to caponize are the
medium-sized varieties, such as Ply
mouth Rocks, Wyandots, Rhode Island
Reds, etc. The Asiatics do not give as
satisfactory results unless kept until
they reach maturity, when they are so
large as to be beyond the reach Of private
families. 1t does not pay to caponize
smaller breeds, for they do not produce
dressed fowls of the highest quality. Ca
pons are usually marketed at from
six to IL months of age, and the market
for them opens soon after the holidays
The best time to capOnize is when the
cockerels are three to four months old.
At this age the operation can be per-
formed with less danger than when the
birds are older and larger. A bright,
sunny day must be chosen for the OPP
Grafton and the birds must have been
tasted for at least "a hours previous. A
special set of instruments are neces-
sary for this purpose, and the work re-
quires skill and care. One may easily
acquire the skill by practicing on few
dead birds.-Orange Judd Farmer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12
POULTRY PARAGRAPHS.

He who fears drudgery will fall short
of success.
Some shippers to private customers
go SO far as to have little paddock on
every crate of eggs they send out, and
claim it is help in holding customers.
Take good care Of the young poultry.
To lose a chick by carelessness is like
letting money be lost through neglecting
a hole in the pocket, and just as useless.
If man knows ducks and has a suit
able range for them with pond of clean
water containing aquatic animal and
vegetable life, ducks can be raised at lit
tie cost.
If the hens or young chicks are yard
ed, do not forget to provide them a. lib
eral supply of green stuff every day. It
will save grain and help to make
mixed ration.
Eggs are cash bringers the year round
and if flock of hens is managed right
ly they can be made to produce eggs
when a few dozen of them will bring
snug little sum.
Where but small amount of room is
available for keeping poultry, pen or
two of bantams might be introduced with
profit. A very tiny house will accommo-
date the little birds.-Farmer Voice.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12

bought on credit the Westliche Post, a
German paper in st. Louis, and with
the late John Dillon combined it with
the Despatch as the POst-Despatch.
which succeeded from the first week
With the profits of this new paper Mr..
Pulitzer was enabled 20 years ago to
come to New York and buy the World,
which his resistless energy drove to
success almost as quick as that he had
won in st. Louis
To do this he broke all the rules. He
won dislike by cutting advertising
rates and shaking up the drowsy man
ayers of the day. He was the first to
print pictures in a daily newspaper
drawn for him by Gribayedoff, Rus
sian. He used voting contests, started
subscription for the Bartholdi statue,
sent Nellie Bly, around the world;
did everything that someone else had
not tried, to increase the circulation
of his paper.
It succeeded. Twenty millions in 20
years is the financial measure of that
success. The gift to Columbia, which
but follows many smaller gifts for
various purposes, is the old Scriptural
"tithe" Of the mans wealth. In pro-
portion, it is more than Carnegie or
Rockefeller has ever given for educa-
ton.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
The Safest Pursuit for the Man with
Small Capital and Limited
Area of Land.

Specialist farming will always be
practiced, because such farming Is
adapted to very many localities The
diversified farm also has it's place and
very large place, too. There is such
thing as having too many farms of
one character. This is felt in some
OF our western states, where ranching
has been carried to the limit, but
where there are abundant opportuni-
ties for the establishing Of small
farms to be operated along diversified
lines. In the last report of the Mon
tana experiment station the director
calls attention to the dearth of farms
IN the state following diversified farm
ing. He says: Gin our agricultural
development few industries, such as
stock raising, have forged ahead and
left others either far in the rear or out
OF the race altogether. This station
has tried to show for years past that
there are other important industries,
such as dairying, poultry and hog pro-
duction, that might receive attention
and become in time successful, with
of the present leading INDUSTRIES 1t
might be mentioned that Montana i'm
ports annually over 81 100000 worth of
poultry and eggs. The amount Of
money sent out of the state for poul-
try and eggs and dairy products does
not by any means tell the story, for
it is evident that much less of such
re-
raised at home and could be obtained
by the people without having to pay
the large prices necessitated by sue
cessive landings, transportation
charges and the inevitable losses
Diversified farming is the safe kind
Of farming for the man with small
capital and limited area Of land. There
is less of a lottery about it than in
the growing of one kind Of product
Moreover the man that follows di-
versified farming can utilize his time
to the best advantage If he en-
ploys farm help he will have less
trouble than the specialist; for the
reason that he can employ a man or
two the year round. The specialist
uoo1iiy Aoooo q great uoi1 VI HeIp dC
one time and none at other seasons of
the year. The man that follows grain
raising exclusively is bidding for Ia
borers just at the time of y,sar when
all other grain raisers are bidding
for them. In such case also the farm
owner cannot look after details as
well as can the man that distributes
his work throughout the entire year.
Diversified farming should mean
smaller but better titled farms, with
the bringing closer together of the
rural population and fxity of loca-
ton in the class that depends on
farm work for living. Nomadic pop
ulations will not build up any COM
munity-Farmers Review.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12
Fertilizers ON Farms.

That the fertilizer trade has grown
to enormous proportions is shown by
the figures given for the year 1899
In that year the total expenditure for
fertilizers in the United States was
$54,7S3,757, or about SO per farm
This was about IL per cent. of the
value of all farm products. The out.
lay for fertilizers increased AZ per
cent in the decade 1890 to 1900. Sugar
farms spent an average of $3.50 for
fertilizers. For some other classes OF
farms the figures were: Nurseries,
500; florists establishments. s51; veg.
etable farms, $38; tobacco farms, $27;
fruit farms, $22; rice farms, SIS; cof-
fea, cotton and dairy farms, $11; hay
FARMS, Sc; stock farms, SIS.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12

trenched he believed in hitting hard.
AS a champion of the people he was
as much in earnest as was ever Gree
ley, and he was imbued with princi-
pie as high. Men who have worked
under him for years assure me that
they have never known a suggestion
or an order coming direct from him
that was not apparently. inspired by
the best of motives and by high ideals.
In the Is years that the owner of the
World has been able to read his own
paper-much Of the time spent in prac-
teal exile for his healthAsome queer
things have found their way into it,
but they have always been the work Of
Over-zealous subcrdinates. One of the
queerest- issuing Of "war extra"
before the war with Spain was de-
clared, was the work of a man actual
1y crazed by hard work, lack of sleep,
excitement and responsibility. OF
course the issue was promptly sup
pressed.
MIR. Pulitzer lives much in Europe,
but has just finished in New York a
magnificent house, where he will spend
more Of his time in the future He is
not yet 80 years old, and in health no
worse than ten years ago when he re-
signed the active charge of his paper.
His wife is a member of an aristo-
cratic southern family, a distant rela-
tive of the late Jefferson Davis. His
preference in social life is the talk Of
intellectual men upon topics of his
torical or philosophic interest.
Perhaps his closest personal friend
was the late Prof. Davidson, one of the
most learned and devoted scholars Of
the age.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12
Salt In the Poultry Rod.

Salt does not kill poultry, says a poul-
try exchange, though such has been the
claim. If the fowls are allowed to have
access to the broken rocksalt, or brine
from a pork or fish barrel, they may
eat too much and be injured, but proper
proportion of salt in the food is as neces-
sary for fowls as for animals. Many
diseases are due to a failure to supply
salt, and this accounts for the cures eff
effected by it in some cases, the fowls
when sick being benefited by salt because
1t supplies long-felt want. -'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12


lin curtain, which is let down over the
roosts. The front is composed very
largely of glass, there being three large
sash five feet high to each pen.
In the accompanying illustration, a
shows the drop boards, d the roosts,
the nests, b the nest door, and the
floor, which is raised one foot above the
outside surface, and is composed Of
loan and straw. The hens enter the
nests from the back and find darkened
place in which to lay. The floor space
is entirely clear, which gives them a
large amount of room for scratching
and exercise. The windows are kept
open much of the time in winter, but
are always closed at night and during
stormy weathCr.-Farm and Home.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12

sible. Why should the star reporter
bother over little things like grammati-
cal construction and punctuation, when
there sits the "desk man paid to cor
rect slips? All that he tries to do is
to get into his work the human in
terest," that element that makes the
story news Let the blue pencil man
struggle over the form; he's paid for
it!
I once got for young fellow in dit
fculties the promise Of Job on
New York newspaper. He was tine,
handsome, magnetic man, we'll educat-
ed, built to succeed. Five days later
he met me and said, broken-heartedly:
''Well, they put me on all right, at
good salary, and set me to reading
exchanges. l didn't know any more
about reading exchanges than pig
knows of embroidery. Naturally they
fired me-"
The man who should have been
''fired'' was the one who put a green
boy reading exchanges without even
defining what the words mean. To be-
gin with, it's three mems work. Usu-
ally an experienced veteran does it
with two young assistants.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12
The South's Cotton Crop.

The worlds dependence upon the
product Of American cotton fields is
graphically shown in the exports rec.
ords of the fiscal year just closed. In
spite of the phenomenally high prices
for our splendid southern staple, ex
ports of raw cotton, 1915, 900, 900, showed
an increase Of close to $4,000 ,00C
over the preceding year. The value
of cotton exported constituted more
than 40 per cent. of the entire exports
Of domestic products, and was greater
by round million dollars than the
combined falue of all cereals ana
-four. Every effort should be made tc
maintain our supremacy in the
worlds cotton market-Orange judo
Farmer,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12
Remarkable Machine.

The potato planter of to-day would
make the farmer of a generation ago
sit up and rub his eyes. 1t requires that
the potatoes be supplied, but will do
all the rest on its own initiative. 1t
picks the potato up and looks it over
or seems to-cuts 1t into halves, quar-
tiers or any desired number of parts
separates the eyes and removes the seed
ends. 1t plants whole potatoes or parts
thereof, as desired, as near together or
as far apart as the judgment of the farm
er on the driving part suggests. Hay
ing dropped the seed it covers it, fertil-
ICES it, tucks 1t in like a child put to
bed and PAGES off the next row with
mathematical accuracy. = Philadelphia
Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12


owner Of the World did 20 years ago.
Mr. Adolph Ochs came here from
Chattanooga to take charge of the New
York Times. It was respectable pa
per, losing money. Mr.. Ochs dropped
the price to one cent and there was a
chorus of critics to say that, for the
Times, was fatal error. It wasn't.
The papers circulation grew enor-
mously. 1t was cheap to produce, hav-
ing no pictures Or color work.
Upon Broadway and FOrty-second
street, three miles north Of Park Row,
Mr.. Ochs is erecting for the Times a
building in some respects remarkable.
It is even taller than the famous
"Flatiron," and based upon a smaller
site, but it will not look SO tall, for 1t
is driven five stories into the ground.
The floor of the press room will be 55
feet below the level Of the street. The
new underground road will actually
run through the basement above the
press room.
Here, then, is a building q stories
tall, sunk Ave stories into the ground,
bestriding a railroad right of way SO
feet wide and providing the very lat
est devices Of printing and distribu-
ton. This is the rising monument of
one mans success.
And here also is the Daily News, for
years successful and profitable paper
as the organ of Tammany Hall, run
for very short period by Frank Mum
sey at loss of 100000 and sold at
auction to stop the loss!
1t isn't always the possible or the
probable that happens in New York.
OWEN LANGnON.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12

versity to found a
school of journal
ism is criticised by
some old neWspa-
per men, who
think that t b e
only way to teach
a youngster the
profession is to
throw him into an
Office and let him
succeed by obser-
walton or fail for
lack of training.
So boys used to
be taught to
swim by throwing
them into the wa
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12

ers have seemed to
desire to SurpaSS
it in this respect,
while the World
itself has grown
more conservative.
Mr.. Pulitzer be-
lieved in Sensa-
tiOnalism. H e
thought it innO-
cent enough to
employ unusual
methods to attract
attention; but that
was not the most
Of his offending.
When he saw what
seemed to him
giant. wrongs en-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12
MODEL POULTRY HOUSE.
1t Is Thoroughly Well Built and II
Cool I'm Summer and Comfort
able in Winter.

A poultry house over 400 feet long
has been built by w. J. Kirwin, of Mid
dlesex county, Mass, who keeps several
hundred head of Barred Plymouth
Rocks. The house, which faces the
south, Is IL feet wide, seven feet high
in front and four feet in the rear, with
a shed roof that slopes one way. 1t is
protection during cold nights of mus
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12

for Journalism that
man is Joseph
Pulitzer.
A poor Hungar-
ian boy, coming
hither just at the
breaking out Of
TIE war, Mr.. Pull
tiers first work
in the country was
fighting for it as a
cavalryman. Even
now, nearly blind,
he is a magnificent
horseman. Drift
ing to st. Louis
after the war he
engaged in various
a,:%o lno~raI
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12
DutifuI Daughter.

"You must admit that you gave me
some encouragement" said the young
man who had been Tilted.
YES said the girl; you see, father
says that the first essential in the de-
velopment of character is to learn to
say no; and 1 wanted you to practice
NATURALIZATION Star.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-12

ter; teachers of swimming know that
there is better way.
l do not know of any educational
need SO crying as the one that the pro-
prietor of the New York World has so
munifcently supplied. Publishers of
out-of-tOWn papers cannot realize the
need SO acutely as can man in Mr.
PulitZer's position The New York pa
pers, which afford the best pay for able
and experienced men, are the poorest
schools for beginners in the country.
have seen youngsters after three
months of attempts to learn the rudi-
ments Of the business who remained
ignorant Of details and methods which
any experienced man could have ex-
planned in an hour. This is why most
of the successful journalists here have
won their spurs in other cities before
trying New York.
The New York "cub reporter" never
sees that great man, the city editor.
An assignment is handed him by some
lOrdly second assistant, who acts upon
the often quoted remark: Were not
running a kindergarten" The copy
is brought in at night and handed to
an assistant night city editor. He
passes it to long table, or row of
desks, where dozen old journalists in
their shirt-sleeves-the copy readers"
any man Of them capable professor
of practical journalism-correct and
prepare the matter for the next day
The veteran into whose sands the I'M
important item falls, says impatiently:
What fool wrote this?" and COM
presses the awkward pages into five
line paragraph under the "City Briefs. -