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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-02-24
A Veteran Preacher Dies.

Springfield, o., Feb. 2O.-Rev. Chris
tian Lepley, aged SO years, one of the
oldest Lutheran ministers in the
country, died at the home of his.
daughter in this city last night. He,
preached for many years at Lewiston,
Pa, Cumberland. Md, and Williams
burg Md
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-02-24
Kratz on Trial for Bribery.

Butler, Mo-, Feb. 21.-After delay
OF nearly three years the trial of
Charles Kratz, of st. Louis, a former
member of the municipal assembly of
that city, began here Monday in the
Bates county circuit court.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-02-24
Recommended Expulsion of Senators

SacTamento, Car, FED. 2I.-The
special committee appointed to inves-
tigate charges of bribery made
against State Senators Emmons,
Bunkers, Wright and ISrench made it's
report Monday, recommending that
these members be expelled from the
senate.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-02-24
A 100000 Blaze at Dayton.

Dayton, o., Feb. 21.-Fire yesterday
originating in the finishing shop of
the Barney G. Smith car works de-
stroyed that building, valuable lumber
and six practically completed EXPRESS
cars LOSS 100000
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-02-24
Too Many Miners and Mines.

Columbus, o., Feb. 22.- w. H. Has
kins, president of the United Mine,
Workers of Ohio, said yesterday that
the output of the coal mines of the,
state at present is less than one-third
the usual production,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
Dehorning of Cattle.

Those who have had the pleasure of
raising calves to the COW period with
out horns know how much more sensi-
bic it is to have a herd of cows with
out horns than a lot of animals whose
horns endanger both man and beast
TO have a herd of cows without horns
is easy for the man who raises his
own calves, for the work of killing the
embryo horn is simple and easy.
Buy a stick of caustic potash at the
drug store, wrap a bit of cloth around
the end you are to hold in the hand,
moisten the other end thoroughly and
then rub it briskly on the spot where
the embryo horn may be felt. Cover
all the surface, but be careful and not
60 beyond the horn or you will burn
the skin of the calf For calves, when
the horns are already through, the clip
per made for the purpose is the best
thing to use. Place the blades as close
to the head as possible, and one cut
will pare the horn off smoothly. For
grown cows, either the clipper or saw
is used; and, of course, the head of
the animal must be fastened so that
she cannot move ii.
The operation in a sensible manner
is humane, and only fanatics who
know nothing about the operation
claim it to be cruel. Like all opera
tons among animals, it may be done
in a hurried. careless manner. and so
become cruelty.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
snecinI Cheese Making.

The fancy cheeses are in growing
demand, and the industry should re-
ceive more attention. The cheese is
made in kettles now manufactured
with steam connection The curd is
cooked at a high temperature, and a
large waste of fat takes place. which
is saved in the better equipped fac
tories, by passing the whey through q
separator, or is hand skinned The
cheese requires from I5 TO 100 days
for curing, First it is put in n cellar.
with a temperature of 65 TO 20 degrees,
next in a temperature of 10 10 90. and
finally in a temperature not above CO.
1t is a sweet-mtk production, yet there
are certain ferments, apparently de-
mandei, for developing its flavor.
and especially the eyes" for which
1t is noted. There is a group of Ger
man cheeSeS that have as a basis OF
manufacture the same general princi-
pies. The cheeSes when cured take
on peculiar flavor. for which taste
must be acquired. and they are highly
priced by our foreign population. The
curds are dipped at a temperature OF
Sc degrees and placed in a draining
table. the temperature being held al
about so degrees during the draining
nrocess.-U. E. Cook. Denmark. y. y
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
~N@ONN~~-NN~

They don't permit trainmen to remain
on continuous duty beyond a certain time
| limit on the Chicago and Northwestern
railway, and the management is receiv-
| ing much commentator from the press
on the subject Of the recent order intend
ed to crystalline this policy. On the
Northwestern line, under this new rule,
the men are not only not required to
work belond 4 reasonable limit, but the
man who wants to increase his days earn
| ings is restrained from doing so, and ten
| hours of work with eight hours rest is
made the standard beyond which the
men must not go without a reasonable
amount of rest. No engineman or train
man is allowed to go out on the road
without meeting this requirement, and
an elaborate checking system is employ
ed to insure the observance of this rule.
The New York Central lines have
formed comprehensive plans requiring
the expenditure of more than $200,000,-
600 with a view to obtaining a firmer
hold on the enormous tonnage originat-
/ ing in ard passing through Chicago. In
this latest Vanderbilt scheme many mill
ions Of dollars are to be expended in ex-
tending the Big Four Railroad into Chi
cago, aud in connecting the Lake Shore,
| the Michigan Central the Nickel Plate
and the Big Four with all of Chicago's
important industries and also in giving
| these four systems physical connection
with all of the railroads centering in Chi
cago. The plans viii firmly entrench the
Vanderbilts in the second greatest ton
mage center in the country.
The railroad mileage in the United
States is increasing at the rate of about
5000 miles year. At this rate in TWEEN
" years there will be 100000 more miles
of railroad in the country. IF the coun-
try continues to develop during the next
twenty years as rapidly as it has during
the last two decades it will require fully
10000 more miles of railroad to handle
the increase in the volume Of traffic.
A portion of the SI3.000O00 for i'm
| provements TO the Il. * o. viii be spent
| in additions TO rolling stock These adj
ditions VIII consist Of 10 consolidated
| freight locomotives, 81 passenger engines.
40 switch engines and 10000 ears Tie
official report shows that the company
now has in service ISL locomotives and
s.. 200 freight cars.
The matter Of the readjustment Of the
wages Of locomotive firemen on the Mich
igan Central has been practically set
tied.
Reports OF the increasing size of loco
motives and freight cars suggest that
although the horse and the mile and the
OK remained substantially of the sane
strength and speed from the earliest
dawn Of history to the present time.
there is no real limit to the capacity Of
machine. Its expansion in size and
speed is restrained only by conditions
of the physical problem. such as the
strength Of bridges. or the amount Of
fuel needed.
The trip of George Gould through
Mexico is interpreted by some Of thu lead
ing local railroad men as a preliminary
step in plans to build a new road in thas
country.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
woRKMEN KILLED LIKE CATTLE.
Pittsburg a Veritab1e Slaughter House
Saws an Official.

ION account of insufficient laws regu-
lating the matter. and the utter disregard
for the laws which do exist, Pittsburg is
being turned into regular slaughter
house, and hundreds of workmen, mostly
foreigners, are being killed each year
like so many sheep and cattle in the steel
mills. the blast furnaces and the coal
mines"
Coroner Joseph G. Armstrong made
this startling statement in addressing a
coroner's jury investigating the death of
a Hungarian killed at the plant of the
American Steel and Wire Company.
Adelbert Merle, Austro-H Hungarian
consul general, backed by the coroner,
proposes to petition the State and federal
authorities to ascertain if something
cannot be done.
An attache Of the consulate said the
number of fatalities were never fully re-
ported, but that every year an inyestiga-
ton was asked of the cases of men who
were reported to have disappeared. Two
such cases now being inquired into were
those of men employed at the tops of
blast furnaces. who bad probably made
a misstep and followed the ore they were
dumping into the fHs-aees. where their
fate was something horrible to eontem-
plate.
The officials o. the steel mills say that
they viii do any hing in their power to
help better the conditions Of the men.
They claim tb=t they have had no knowl-
edge INal they were so horrible, and that
the foTemen are mainly responsible.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
WANT TO BE coNsuLs.
Tremendous Crush of Applicants for
Foreign Berths.


Never before since the government be-
gan has there been such crush of APP
plicants for consular posts as has been
witnessed at the White House since the
Inauguration, says a Washington CORE
spondent.
Some of the men applying for consular
billets present remarkable reasons for
their desire to take office under this gov
ernmeDt in foreign countries. One Of
then, on his way to the White House to
see the President stopped at the State
Department and filed a formal applica
ton for a post in Spain which he had
been informed was soon to be vacant.
DO you speak SPANISH" the young
man, citizen of central Illinois, was
asked at the State Department,
"Nope-dOn't know a word of the
lingo" was the applicant reply. That's
one of the main reasons why l want the
job--want to learn Spanish"
Another applicant for consular pre-
ferment, this one from Iowa, told the
State Department people, upon whom he
called to make preliminary inquiries,
that he wanted the consulship-held
down by a very competent man who is
not going to be disturbed-at a German
city near which famous spa is located.
He was asked why he had fixed his mind
upon just that place.
'Well,' he replied, quite offhand, like
man sure of his ground, I'm all run
down with the rheumatic, and I'm in
formed that them Dutch baths fix a
rheumatic Teller up in no time. l want
to git near 'em SOS | can git boiled
out"
Not less engaging was the reason Of
fered by young Michigan man for de-
string consular berth in an Italian city
of the second grade, this place also be-
ing occupied by a man who is going to
be let alone.
"You see," he explained at the State
Department. ''a sister of mine married
Dago up in Detroit three or four years
ago-Dago who paints, or sculpts, or
something of that sort. He took her to
this town in Italy-the place where
want to go-soon after they were mar
ried. The folk at nome have heard from
various sOurceS-not from Sis herself
because she never writes a word about
it-that he isn't treating her on the
square, neglects her, and all that I
NdHI W De dppOluteu u IHdI 1IdlldH
town SOS l can be near Sis, and if
find that she's getting the worst of it,
SOS l can punch the nose off the Dago.
| guess that's pretty good reason, isn't
| it?"
A Swede gave rs . reason for want
| ing a consular Office in his native land
that he had a rich uncle there and wish
ed to be near him when he died HE
may loaf me and leave me somet'ang in
| his will"
The usual crowd of colored applicants
for the Liberian post have come to
| Washington. One Of them, a jolly. very
| fat and very black man from Arkansas,
gave a singular reason for his desire to
| be appointed to the post on the east coast
| of Africa.
"Ah'm dun tiuhd O desc hyuh nigguhs
in dis country whit wants tub be wife
| folks" he said. "Ah wants tub mix up
wifi sho' 'nough nigguh nigguhs, dat doan'
want tub be nothin else, fo' uh change"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
Oats and Canada Peas.

The various varieties of peas are
sold under the general name of Can
ada field peas, and can be obtained
from most dealers. The oats should be
the stronger growing varieties, the
Clydesdale giving excellent satisfac-
ton. This crop is one OF the most SER
viceable in a forage crop rotation, be-
cause supplying food when other crops
are not usually available The crop
may be seeded at intervals of from a
week to ten days, making them follow
in the order of their maturity. Hence.
the first crop should be seeded as early
as possible in the spring; it requires
about two months from time of seed
Ing TO time of harvesting. This crop is
better adapted for mellow loamy soils
than for light sandy soils. though good
crops may be produced on the latter IL
seeded early. On good soils two bush
els per acre of both peas and oats
should be used.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
Hens Teeth.

"As scarce as hens teeth" is a COM
mon saying from which comes the
idea that hens have no teeth. This
is true only so far as teeth in the
mouth are concerned. Hens have
false teeth, and the owner of the fowls
is called upon in the winter to act as
dentist, says Farmers Review. The
hen has the advantage of the human
being in this. When her teeth get old
she Gjgests them and gets a new lot.
Her teeth are really very numerous
and may be made out of bone. crock
cry. flint, quartz, and even glass.
The principal thing is TO give her
enough of the size she can best use.
Many of the ailments among fowls
are caused by the lack OF grit in the
winter time.
When the ground is uncovered and
not frozen, it is comparatively easy
for the fowls to find enougn large
sized gravel to supply the gizzard with
material for the grinding of food that
comes to it. When fowls are killed
and the gizzards are found TO be
filed with very fine. gritty material.
or none at all. il may be known that
there is great and imperative need
for the supply of grit at once. The
worst feature about it is that the
fowls begin 10 droop and get sick. and
the farmer never mistrusts that the
real cause of the trouble is the lack
of grit.
That hens teeth are false. and that.
in the winter, man must supply them
should not be lost sight OF, and every
person that reads this article should
ask himself the question If his fowls
have been fully supplied with grinding
material. When the ground is COW
cred with snow il may be necessary
10 purchase commercial grits IN the
| market.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
HoRDEs OF IMMIGRANTS.
Influx of Aliens Is Greater than Ever
Before in Our History.

A tidal wave of immigration is now
breaking on our shores. 1t is computed
by immigration authorities that 100000
aliens will have landed in the United
States in the fiscal year which ends on
June so next.
The figures for March arrivals am
ply sustain this prediction. As compar-
ed with former years, immigration has
been steadily rising ever since last No
vember. 1t is unusual for the rush to
set in during the winter season. 1t
seldom begins earlier than March and
the high-water mark is reached in April
and May; yet the opening months Of this
year showed almost double the arrivals
of the same months of 1904. the record
for last January being Al ,405, as against
70, ~ in January, 1904, and for Feb
ruary, 1850, as against 2S,067 in 1904.
This anomalous increase setting in so
early in the year portends nothing less
than a deluge of foreigners. To carry
them over every available passenger
carrying ship has been put in commits
sion and many tramp steamships have
been chartered in addition, while all the
regular passenger boats are booked to
their full capacity for the next three
months.
Strange as it may seem, Industrial and
other conditions in the United States are
known almost as well in Europe as they
are here. To every town and hamlet
America spells prosperity and gigantic
operations in which every man may have
share. Many come here early in the
spring in readiness to work on farms,
but by far the greater number are labor
ers who expect to Gnd employment on
construction work. Every nook and
Granny of Europe is apprised of the vast
railroad and rapid transit developments
now in course of construction or project
ed, and it is the prospect of work along
these lines that is now largely response
bic for the unprecedented rush of immi-
grants.
For purposes of comparison it is in
teresting to look at some of the immi-
grafton figures for last year. The total
number of alien steerage passengers who
arrived at the port of New York during
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1904, was
OS,922. These brought with them S15,-
$40, or $24.69 per head OF nation
alities the south Italians led with a total
of 140,225; then came the Hebrews. with
S4,910; Germans, with 59,327 Poles,
with 50,313; Scandinavans, with 1924:
north Italians, with 35.6S7; Irish, with
26,1S5; English, with 23,500; SIovaks,
with 81, 425, and Magyars, with 2062S.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
A CONSERVATIVES CITY.
Movement to Found Such Community
in Texas or New Mexico.

Physicians, bankers, business men, fra
ternalists and military engineers Of St.
Louis and nearby cities are interested in
a plan to found in New Mexico or Texas
a city of consumptives. They have or
ganized the National F'raternal Sanato-
rum fer Consumptives for the establish
ment of this odd city.
Last month a committee of physicians,
business men and a sanitary engineer left
st. Louis for a three weeks tour of
Texas and New Mexico to look about for
a suitable site. They Travelled 1000
miles and visited seventeen different
places. The competition for the site
was keen, some places offering from 1000
to 100000 acres of land for the proposed
settlement, and one railroad official
pledged to the santarium 100000 in
cash and lands if it should be placed
along his line. The site has not yet been
chosen.
The proposed sanatorium will be de-
parture from the usual lines along which
such institutions have heretofore been
conducted. 1t will be a community ra,h-
er than the usual camp city, in which
there will be opportunities for the con-
sumptives to live amid healthful sur
roundings the ordinary life of those in
good health, working at farming, stock
raising and other outdoor vocations. The
sanatorium will be conducted on the mu-
nicipal ownership plan, with absolutely
no commercial features The revenue
for the administering expenses will be
raised by a per capita tax on fraternal
and other organizations to whose mem
bers the sanatorium Will be open.
1t will be open to all fraternal socie-
ties, churches, clubs. cities, counties and
States in the United States which con-
tribute a per capita tax of one cent
month a member; to all union men of
every occupation, as well as to all other
labor. benevolent or other organizations
contributing a per capita tax to the sup
port of those whom they send to the san
atorium. The patients thus sent will
live there as the guests of their respec-
tive organizations, with a minimum of
personal expense. The Temple of Fra
ternity at the worlds fair will be re-
moved to the site as soon as it is selected,
and will serve as the administration
building of the colony
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
ALL OVER THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST IN BADGER
DOM.
Divorce Turns Up Directly After Hus-
band Dies - Roaming Incendiary Is
Thought to Be Insane Mother and
Son Seriously III Together.

John Hartman, plumber, formerly
of Chicago, died in Racine the other
day. Eight years ago he married Louise
kimball of Chicago and child was
born. year and a half later his rela-
tions say, the wife left her husband and
child. Since then she has worked in a
telephone office in Chicago When Hart
man became Ill he said he wanted his
brother William, in Chicago. to be the
child's guardian. Immediately after the
death the former wife turned up and
claimed the child. William Hartman.
president of the Hartman Printing and
Binding Company of Chicago, had the
child temporarily in his care and refused
to give her up. The wife began habeas
corpus proceedings and, by agreement, it
was decided to leave the matter to the
Chicago courts. Hartman was insured IN
the Modern Woodmen for $1,000, the
child being the beneficiary.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
Chase of Tramp Incendiary.

A posse of farmers gave chase to an
alleged lncendiary who is believed to be
insane and has been setting fire to houses
and smaller buildings near Stevens Point.
1t is believed that the man is a tramp
who was released from the Junction City
jail by Sheriff Hebard. In the evening
a message came from McDill saying that
crazy man had set fire to several houses
prove that the incendiary and the juno
ton City tramp are one and the same
man. Parker McGee's residence at Nc
Dill narrowly escaped burning. The
sheriff could not find the man at McDnl
and then farmers formed a posse. 1t is
believed the man is near Plover.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

pullets have been short on exercise,
have been overfed or underfed, have
occupied damp, dark houses, they are
not in condition to produce eggs which
are fit for Matching
Turn attention to the breeding stock
now and first Of all see that the feed
ing and care of the female is what 1t
should be. Have the house comfort
able, but also have plenty of ventila-
ton and find some way to force her to
take needed exercise; cut off on the
corn feed and increase the wheat and
other musclemaking grains. As for
the males. place them where they too
may be well cared for and fed, so as
to get up the greatest amount of
energy and vitality before they are
turned in with the hens. No work in
the poultry business is more important
than this now, for the future of the
flock may depend upon how we'll the
breeding stock is brought up to the
highest perfection.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
Shoots at Wife and Dies.

Herbert L. Potter Of Superior, after
a quarrel with his wife, followed her to
Ashland and found her in resort. At
ter attempting to shoot her he blew out
his brains. Mrs. Potter escaped unhurt.
The couple had not lived happily for
some time and Mrs. Potter a few days
ago started an action for divorce. Pot
ter formerly lived in Shell Rock, Iowa.
His wife before her marriage resided in
IOrain Ohio
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
Mother Dying; Son Hurt.

Mrs. Michael Salter of Byron is dy-
ing, the result of blood poisoning, while
her son, Richard, also of Byron is in
serious condition from being kicked
by horse. Mrs. Halter left Byron sew
eral days ago to visit relatives in Wau-
kesha and while she was dressing a
wound of grandchid scratched her
hand. Nothing was thought of the mat
ter at the time until the hand began to
swell and a physician was called in. He
said she was beyond medical aid. Mr..
Salter, the son, was kicked in the jaw
by horse, breaking several bones.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
HurIs Her Babe to Death.

Anna Holowftz, an inmate of the Mil
waukee county hospital, threw her six
months-old child through window of the
second floor of the institution to the
ground and then hurled herself through
an adjoining window after the infant.
The child died. The woman may re-
cover. The woman had been suffering
from infammatory rheumatism. 1t is
thought she was in a delirium of pain
when she committed the deed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
wrote His win on Birch Bark

On a piece Of birch bark by the light
of a tiny cil taper Robert Mcneil. who
lay down his life in the quest for riches.
scrawled a last message to his loved
ones. and bequeafhed TO them the wealth
that was rs McNeilrs death came
while he was prospecting near the head
waters Of the Stewart riyer in Wash
ington-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
Tho breeding stock.

IL the hens and the males to be
ased for breeding purpose this spring
have been properly wintered there
ought 10 be no trouble in Matching
chicks which viii thrive; on the other
hand, If the males have been kept
half starved, or have been so placed
that they have spent the winter In
fighting each other. they are not In
condition for mating. II the hens and