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Milford chronicle., 1904-11-18
PLANS FOR new
INDUSTRIAL POLICY
President Said to Have Framed an
Important Program.
GOMPERS TO SUCCEED WRIGHT

Hazleton, Pa, Nov. IA. - Some OF
President Roosevelts most interesting
and important plans for the better
ment or safeguarding of American in
dustrial conditions are to receive their
external initiative at the convention
Of the American Federation of Labor
which will open at San Francisco dur
ing the week. The prominent, almost
commanding, position which the Unit
ed Mine Workers Of America, through
their president, John Mitchell. have
latterly assumed in the Federation of
Labor, has naturally placed the former
body, or at least its leaders, in a po-
sition to know many of the inner
workings of the greater organization:
and these, in turn, have. become so
closely identified with the plans of
President Roosevelt as to lend a para
mount import to their development.
1t is at least probable, from inside
information received along these lines.
that John Mitchell, whether or not he |
shall decide to remain in the presi- |
dency of the United Mine Workers. |
will become a member and salaried |
secretary of new, officially recognized |
National Civic Federation.
1t is equally likely that Samuel
GOmpers, the retiring president of the
Federation of Labor, will be the next
United States commissioner of labor,
in succession to Carroll D. Wright,
resigned. In this event, President
Shaffer of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Iron and Steel Workers, will
undoubtedly be otherwise provided
for, in a government position.
Still more probable-for the tenta-
tive tender of this position is said
to have been already made-is Presi-
dent Roosevelt's coming appointment
of James E. Roderick, present chief
of the mining bureau of Pennsylvania,
to be secretary of a projected national
department of mines and mining, with
a place in the cabinet.
These, in brief, are parts of an
elaborate industrial development pro-
gram said to have been more fully
elaborated by the president; and some
Of the corirmatory events leading up
to fuller disclosure later on are ex-
pected to crop out at the Federation's
in San Francisco.
Labor leaders in this city who are
we'll acquainted with the inner work
ngs of the Federation are firmly of !
he belief that this convention also
)egins the retirement Of John Mitchell r
rom active participation in the labor :
movement in his present capacity. $
leaders have viewed with some =
llarm the speech recently made by :
dr. Mitchell at Mahanoy City, con- =
erning his possible retirement, and !
hey freely assert that his utterance I
vas for no other purpose than to Q
mothly pave the way for such re-
irement
Milford chronicle., 1904-11-18
PRESIDENTS ORDER IGNORED
Work Withheld From Women at the
Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia,

Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia.
Washington, Nov 15-It appears from
developments that President Roose-
velt's directions regarding the en-
ployment of sewing women at the
Schuylkill arsenal in Philadelphia
have not been carried into effect.
Michael Francis Doyle, of Philadel-
phia, representing the sewing women,
called on the president and informed
him that his orders had not been
needed; that only a part of the work
had been restored to the women. He
pointed out that the making of trou-
sers. which amounts to about s50OOO0
year, had been withheld from the
women in direct contravention of the
presidents orders.
After hearing Mr.. Doyle's statement
the president sent note to the war
department asking for a report on the
matter, and calling attention to the
fact that he had directed that the work
be given to the women. He indicated
his intention of ascertaining who had
violated his instructions and why they
had been violated.
Milford chronicle., 1904-11-18
THE STORM AT wILkEssARRE
Four Horses Were Killed BY Treadinq
on Live Wires.

-Four Horses Were Killed BY Treadinq
On Live Wires.
Wtlkesbarre, Pa. Nov. IA bliz.
zard struck the Wyoming valley on
Sunday, which was the severest ex-
perienced since 1886. The snow was
wet and heavy and clung to the tele-
graph, telephone and electric light
wires. and many of the wires sue
cumbed to the weight on them and
were broken. The result was a com.
plete suspension of telegraph and tele-
phone service. The wires of the cleo
tric light company were slsG down in
many places. and traffic had to be sus-
pended the greater part Of Sunday
night. Four horses were killed by
treading on live electric light wires
and two repairmen were badly
shocked. Many narrow escapes were
reported of physicians and others who
had to be out in the storm. Railroad
traffic was also interfered with and
trains were very late On the noun
tains the snow drifted and snow plows
had to be put into commission to re-
move the obstruction. The towns of
Luzerne borough and Forty
Fort were in entire darkness. The
storm had disabled their electric light
plants.
Milford chronicle., 1904-11-18
Live Stock Markets.

H. Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg-Cat-
~ steady; choice, s5.5O@5.75; prime.
sstSo,5199go'4O; sto19 fair, S3.25@4.lO. Hogs
siSSroayi PRIME heavy, $5.3005.S5; me-
SIIass, S1Is, $5.2O45.25; heavy Workers.
No. nniis1vgs9.20; light Workers, S5@5.1O:
stss;s stss; S4'SOQ5; roughs, $494.75. Sheep
eSeSy' esrSy' prime wethers, S4.25@4.5O:
6S. SIlon non sheep, s1@2; spring lambs, 81
~ veal calves, S707.50,
Milford chronicle., 1904-11-18
Guilty. of MansIauahter.

Norfolk, Va, Nov. 16.-Frederick E.
Kingsley, aged rs years, a veteran in
mate of the Hampton National Sol
diers' Home, was found guilty Of man
slaughter in the United States court.
Kingsley was indicted for the murder
of Captain A. C. Paul, also an inmate
Of the home. The prisoner pleaded self
defense. His counsel moved that the
verdict be set aside, inasmuch as it is
not in accordance with the indictment.
Milford chronicle., 1904-11-18
GEN. LEW" WALLACE DOOMED
cancerous Growth In Stomach Pre-
vents Author From Takinu Food.

cancerous Growth In Stomach Pre-
vents Author From Taking Food.
Indianapolis, Ind, Nov 16.-General
"Lew'' Wallace, of Charlottesville, au-
thor of Ben Hur," Prince of India"
and other works, and one time United
States minister to Turkey. is under
stood to be slowly starving to death
at his home owing to a cancerous
growth in the stomach. which prevents
the digestion of any food.
Nothing whatever will be given out
at the home of General Wallace, and
it is not known how long the patient
has been compelled to abstain from
eating, or what his present condition
is, but his friends regard his trouble
not only incurable. but certain to
case his death ultimately.
Milford chronicle., 1904-11-18
GENERAL MARKETS

Philadelphia-Flonr steady; winter
sgperiine, S3.7504; Penna. roller, clear,
S9I5Q5.30; city mills, fancy, $4,000
9eU 3,U Rye flour firm; per barrel, $40.
HMI1eat steady; No. Penna red, new,
SLl4gl .l41a. Corn steady; No. yell
loW, local, 641aQ65c. Oats firm; No. 2
pW.nlte, clipped, 26hc.; lower grades,
&c Hay firm; No. / timothy, S14615.
FORK firm; family, $17. Beef steady;
peeI hams, S23424. Live poultry firm;
nenS, l2c.; old roosters, TIC. Dressed
poultry firm; choice fowls, 12c.; old
559oosters, Sc. Butter steady; creamery,
55Sc' Eggs firm; New York and Penna
zeC. per dozen. Potatoes steady;
new, per bushel, $4,000.
Baltimore-Wheat strong; spot con-
tract I.15@1151s; steamer No. 2
iieU, silvia; southern, by sample, S1@
ii'11ss southern, on grade, S1.04G
ss;sl,9}ts. Corn easy; spot, new, $50
OS9Ac;,; -. year. 54054hc.; steamer
miAed' oo.e' 52g52Ac.; new southern white
ooLn' oo' 49q55c.; new southern yellow
SsV[ns s9g5s ,49q55c. Oats firm; No. 2 white,
iptgS44cc.; No. 2 mixed, 33A0331sc.
&e Soe dull; No. 2 western, uptown, SO
Ixssye; IsS9o; Butter firm; fancy imitation,
iIeTISe; isSia fancy creamery, 26c.; fancy
IPsule, l6q17c.; store packed, 13015c.
Asss nrm; per dozen, 26c.
Milford chronicle., 1904-11-18
Locked JaMs Relaxed.

Wilmington, Del. Nov. 16.-Eight
million units of anti-toxin have been
administered hypodermically to Will
liam Gebhardt, 43 years OF age, of New
Castle. who is suffering from lockjaw,
and Drs. Black and Wertenbaker, the
attending physicians, say he has a
chance for life. His jaws have relaxed
about three-quarters of an inch, and
he tock as nourishment portion of
soft-boiled egg and some milk. His
laws have been locked for a week, as
the result of having his right thumb
laeerated in machinery.
Milford chronicle., 1904-11-18
sniolde In united states Tre


Washington, Nov. 16.-Albert Rel
yea. a chief of division in the Office
of the treasurer of the United States,
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head while at his desk. Relyea
was chief of the redemption division.
He was Immediately removed to the
urgency hospital, where he died. He
was from Connecticut and was so years
old. He had been in poor health re-
Gently. to which his act is attributed.
Frozen to Death on Public Highway.
Roanoke, Va, Nov. ia special
from Martinsville, Henry county, Va,
saws that Thomas Richardson, a
Henry county magistrate, aged so
years. froze to death on the public
highway.
Milford chronicle., 1904-11-18
West virqinia Miners Strike.

Charleston, w. Va, Nov. 16.-The
miners of the Cabin Creek district, one
Of the largest coal producing districts
of the state, are out on a strike. The
main cause of the disagreement is a
notice posted by the operators declar-
ing that they would employ and dis
miss men without regard to whether
they were union or non-union. Large
numbers of union men are leaving the
fields, and operators are endeavoring
to fill their places. About 20 operations
are affected. No violence has occurred,
but After feeling exists, which may
culminate in an outbreak. Scores Of
peace officers are being sworn in to
guard property.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-12-09
the vessel broke the silence of the

the vessel broke the silence of the
night.
When once out into the river the
pilot gradually turned the nose OF the
craft in q southwesterly direction.
The Colubima widens her channel as
she approaches the ocean until she
reaches the width of over fifteen miles.
It appeared as wide sea to the off.
GERS and soldiers and the Pickering
lights on the north and south shores
looked like SO many stars lining the
distant horizon.
An hour after midnight had been
reached. The officers had ascended to
the pilot house and asked inpatient
questions.
ST cannot be responsible for the de-
layed train," replied the pilot. "My
boat is doing her best and will get you
there as soon as possible
He was now to the south of the
eastern point of Sand island. He had
discovered the dark outline of the boats
of his friends lying in the shadow of
the island shore. To the south he saw
another line of dark shadows which he
knew was the fotilla of reinforce
ments. He could not account for this
except an unforeseen delay which often
attends the organization of forces.
One thing he did know, and that
was that he would never take the
soldiers where they could interfere
with his friends so long as he could
avoid it.
Suddenly fishing boat was discov-
cred in front of the vessel. The oc-
cupant of the little craft was waving
an oar franticaIly overhead to attract
the pilot. He signalled the engi-
neer to reverse the lever and the wheel
began to pull back against the current
which was taking the boat rapidly to-
ward the ocean.
The officers down sairs rushed upon
deck to ascertain the cause of the boat
coming to halt. They soon discov-
cred the figure in the fishing boat and
went to the point where the small craft
was about to collide with the larger
boat.
With an ease brought about by years
of experience on the water the figure in
the small boat guided the little craft
came together without scarcely jar.
A rope ladder was thrown over the
side of the large vessel and the form
left the fishing boat and glided up the
frail stairway like a shadow.
"Why, it's woman-a grill" said
Captain Budlong as she stepped on the
deck.
eyes, it is sankala!" said the sheriff
as he recognized the girl.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-12-09
ITO tie continued)
The Girth of Man Increasing.

Ihe G1rCn OF Man increasing.
An excellent illustration Of the value
of records has been afforded lately re-
garding the question of physical degen'
eracy. A firm in the north of England
has compared the measurements for
clothing made two generations ago
with those Of to-day, the results going
to show that chest and hip measure
nients are now three inches on the av-
erage more than they were sixty years
ago. The same conclusion is reached
by the experience of the ready-made
clothiers. These facts, whatever may
be their generality. do not quite dis
pose Of the question Of degeneracy.
They are what we should expect from
the more abundant and cheaper food
Of the people, their better housing and
improved sanitary surroundings; but
the testimony regarding the unfitness
Of recruits and progressive lack of
stamina in town, and especially manu-
featuring, populations cannot be disre-
garded. The girth of man may be in
creasing. but. like a fatting hog. is not
corpulency bringing clumsiness?
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-12-09
Select Your Seed Corn.

The farmer who has a uniformly
good corn crop is generally the man
who looks after his seed himself. He
does not buy from any dealer whose
circular happens to fall into his hands
and plant the seed without testing.
The careful farmer picks out his seed
from the best of his own corn or that
of his neighbor, sees that it is properly
dried and cared for during the winter
and tests it before planting in the
spring. The careless farmer does not
do these things and then kicks because
his crop is a failure. He ought to
have a man to apply some good lusty
kicks to his person. The seedmen are
not always to blame. Some of them
are honest. The farmer should test
his seed for himself, and If it be good
give the seedman his due; If on the
other hand, it be bad, let him dispose
Of it the best he can. A failing that
growers have is to delay securing their
seed until too little time is left to OBJ
tain an adequate knowledge of its real
value. cannot too strongly urge corn
growers to see to it now that wel1-ma-
tured ears Of desirable type and the
product of a variety noted for sue
cessive large yields be secured for next
years seedfng.-Clinton NJ. Schultz.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-12-09
Handy Wire stretcher.

Handy Wire Stretcher.
On most farms there is more or less
wire to be handled either in the way
of putting up dividing fences or trel-
Uses for grape vines. A poorly stretch
ed wire is always making trouble, but
there is no need of having this annoy
ance when the tool illustrated may be
easily made with the help Of a black
smith, and at small cost. The handle
is two feet long Of one and one-half
inch stuff, but hard wood must be
used. On the heavy end Of the handle,
which should be formed as shown, fas-
ten piece Of strap iron with screws
to prevent the wire from cutting into
the wood. The short strip shown just
above the detail drawing of the handle
end in the cut, is a piece of iron seven
inches long, one-half inch thick and
seyen-eighths Of an inch wide; one end
is bent over seven-eighths Of an inch
and hole is bored in the fat side one
inch from the bend. This piece Of iron
is then bolted on to the handle as
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-12-09
How Cellulofd Is Made.

Celluloid, the chemical compound
which bears so close resemblance to
ivory, is a mixture Of collodion and
camphor, invented in 1855 by Perke-
sine, of Birmingham, whose name for
a time it bore The process of manu-
facture is as follows: Cigarette paper
is soaked in mixture of nitric and
sulphuric acids until it becomes nitro
cellulose. After thorough washing. to
free it from the acids, this cellulose is
dried, mixed with a certain quantity
of camphor, and coloring matter if re-
quired, and then passed through a roll
er mill. 1t is next formed into thin
sheets by hydraulic pressure and after
ward broken up by toothed rollers and
soaked for some hours in alcohol. A
further pressure and hot rolling proc
ess finish it, and results in ivory-like
sheets half an inch thick.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-12-09
For Compulsory Atbletics.

Rev. DR.. Percy S. Grant, speaking
before the League for Political Edu-
cation, at New York. said that the
coming New Yorker would be feet 3
inches high and have the chest meas.
urement Of prize fighter. Judging
from the increased standard of mo-
rality and intellectually in our uni
versities since athletics became univer-
sal and popular, DR.. Grant says that
physical training should be an impor-
tant part of the public school system.
He had noticed that - per cent of the
national guardsmen were too Door
physically to pass the doctor.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-12-09
limit Of LaZineSa.

Two darkies lay sprawled on the
levee on hot day. Moses drew long
sigh and said, ''Heey-a-h-h! Ah wish
All had a hundred watermellionsv'
Toms eyes lighted dimly. Hum.
yah! Dat would suttenly be fine. An
eff yo' had a hun'ed watermellions
would yo' glib me ffty?"
mo. All wouldn't glib yo' no fifty
watermellions.'
wouldn't yo' glib me twenty-fve"
mo. All wouldn't glib yo' no TWEEN.
ty-five."
Seems ter me youse powahful
stingy, Nose. Wouldn't yo'-wouldn't
yo' glib me one?"
mo All wouldn't glib yo' one. Look
a hyah, niggah, are yo' so good-fer-nuf.
fin lazy dat yo' caihn't wish fo' yo'
own watermellions?
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-12-09
Poultry Pickiups.

Poultry Pickings.
New blood should be introduced fire.
quently.
Crowding is a foe to thrift and pro-
ductiveness.
Injurious effects are often produced
by inbreeding.
A hen, to be profitable, should lay a
dollars worth of eggs in a year.
A little salt given in the soft food Of
fowls is very acceptable to them.
Supplying lime, charcoal, gravel and
crushed bone will assist in feather
making.
In supplying water to little chickens
arrange SO that they cannot get their
feet wet.
1t is quite an item in handling
flock of poultry to have them as gentle
as possible.
AS rule, it is not profitable to keep
hens over two years old, unless they
are valuable stock.
While in arranging the poultry house
warmth is an essential there, fresh air
is equally important.
Raw. corn meal is not good feed
for little chickens from the fact that it
heats and swells after eating.
Top and side ventilation, arranged
SO as not to blow directly on the roosts,
is just the thing for summer.
Never select a cock with dropping
or "ewe neck" and also avoid one that
fails to have a good, strong, wide
spreading tail.
Many a case Of indigestion may be
traced to heavy feed in the morning,
and the next meal taken from the leav-
ings of breakfast after being trampled
over.
It is pretty hard to give a growing
cockerel or pullet enough corn to make
it lay on fat, especially when running
out. as so much of the food goes to the
production Of bone, feathers and mus
Gle.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-12-09
Modern Bread Poor.

was Informed a few weeks ago by
gentleman who owns large flour
mills that the craze for white bread
is being carried to such extreme that
many millers are putting in expensive
machinery for the purpose of actually
bleaching the flour, says correspond
ent Of the London Times.
This is being done by ozone and
nitrous acid, the object being to make
an artifcially white bread and to en-
able grain to be used which would
otherwise give darker color to the
flour.
The development of the grading
process during the last few years has
stones have been replaced by steel
rollers actuated under great pres
sure.
The germ and other most nutritve
constituents of the wheat are thus to
a great extent abstracted and the val
liable character Of the bread greatly
reduced.
1t is the opinion Of many who can
speak with authority on the subject
IudI 1lSlcdu VI UC1uS dS lOI.
merly the "staff of Hfe," has become
to a great degree an indigestible nom
nutritive food, and that it is RESPONSE
BILE, among other causes, for the want
of bone and for the dental troubles
in the children of the present genera
ton.
It is doubtless true that the variety
Of food now obtainable in a measure
compensates, in the case Of those who
can afford it, for this abstraction Of
phosphates; but think am justified
in stating that every medical man, If
asked, will give it as his opinion that
very white bread should be avoided
and that seconds -four, now almost
unprocurable, should only be used
either for bread or pastry.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-12-09
SPRUNG FROM SAME SOURCE.
Whale and Lion Said to Be of Identi-
cal Origin.

Whale and Lion Said to Be of Identi-
cal Origin.
AS everyone knows, or ought to
know, the whale is not a fish, but
mammal, and biologists have long pom
dered and disputed about it's family
tree. In Eocene times the ancestors of
mammals were beginning to take
shape somewhat like those of to-day
and to lose the grotesqueness inher-
tied from their reptilian progenitors.
To be sure, animals were very differ
ent from those Of to-day. Horses were
no larger than dogs and had five toes.
while cattle-like tinoceras, twice the
size of an OK, with six horns, tusk-
like teeth and five toes, cropped the
heritage Of Wyoming. Along with
these peculiar plant feeders there
dwelt some very primitive flesh eaters,
to which Professor Cape gave the
name of creadonta.
The scene shifts to modern times.
Professor Fraas of Stuttgart, Ger
many, is delving in the rocks near
Cairo, Egypt. He is getting out huge
jaws bones that have been petrified.
Inc Jaw bones are those OF whales
and the rocks near Cairo were, IN
Eocene times, the seashore. The pro-
fessor has studied his whale jaws and
compared their teeth with other fos-
sill teeth. Now he tells us in recent
Abhandlungen that these teeth Of an
cient whales are like those of the an
cient carniverous creodonts. From
this he argues that in Eocene or earlier
times some primitive flesh eater took
to an aquating life. From these old
times to the present whales have been
becoming more f1shlike.
1t is hard to believe that the raven
GUS lion and inoffensive and toothless
whale Of to-day had a common ances-
tor, yet they both have the same tastes
for blood, only the whale swallows his
food whole.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-12-09
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PIG PEN AND TROUGH.

swinging partition. so you can push it
back to put swill in or clean out, and
the pigs cannot interfere. A cement
floor is all right. We prefer solid
wood trough, V-shaped, and secured SO
that pigs cannot loosen it by their
roofing. A few years ago we gave the
following illustrations Of an improved
hog trough. Fig. 1 shows the swing
ing partition or gate pushed back,
leaving the trough outside, for putting
in feed. Fig. shows the latch and
lever to be attached to swinging gate
or partition, by bolt, B. The rods R.
R, run through staples, s. A is
guard in which the lever L Slides
Push lever to left and the door swings