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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-04
BANK CLEARlNGS.
Denver Makes Gain of 70 Per Cent
 Over Last Year.

New York, February 3-The following table, compiled by Bradstreet. shows the bank clearings at the cities named for the week ending February ?. with the per centage of increase and decrease as ccm- pared with the corresponding week last year. Totals include clearings of fifty two other cities. Canadian totals include clearings of seven other cities in Can- ada:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-04
At the Churches

The Rev. Dr. w. E. Foust. pastor of the First Methodist church, will preach at the morning and evening services Sunday.
 At the First Presbyterian church the Rev W. W. Wolfe, pastor will occupy his pulpit at the morning and evening ser- vicea Sunday.
 The Rev. Frank Stokes. pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church will preach at the morning and evening services Sun day.
 Hoods Sarsaparilla keeps the blood pure and the whole system in perfect order. Take only Hoods
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-04
Old Receivership.

The arrest Is said to be the result of the receivership of the old McArthur & Sons company which had piano and organ stores in Atlanta, Savannah, Macon, Chattanooga and Knoxville. It went into the hands of a receiver after the senior McArthur was taken very i'll, and the management passed into the hands of the son.
 McArthur & Son owed Mason & Hamlin of Boston sl5.OOO and this company also went into the hands of a receiver and was purchased by the Cable Piano company which is now proceeding against the Me Arthur company. Warrants have been sworn out in Savannah against other members of the stock company of which there were five or six. So far as is known the father and son are the only ones ar rested.
 Last night about o'clock Chief Wier received a long distance telephone mes sage from Savannah asking that Mir McArthur be arrested, and he instructed Detectives Bodeker and Hamilton to ar rest him. They traced him to the Jef- ferson and there made the arrest without attracting any attention. Later the fol- lowing telegram was received from Sa- vannah:
 "Chief of Police w. E. Wier, Birming-
 ham, Alabama:
 Arrest w. R. McArthur, with Forbes Music company Have bench warrant Larceny after trust. Will he come with out requisition?
 JOHN SCHWARTZ, Sheriff"
 Bench Warrants.
 As soon as he reached the office of Chief Wier Mr. McArthur called Sheriff Schwartz over the telephone and tried to learn additional facts, but was un- able to learn anything except that the warrants were bench warrants and were sworn out by member of the Cable company He told the deputy in Savan- nah that he would come without papers and a deputy will be sent after him at once
 Later he called up his father in Knox vile. who stated that he had also been arrested on a similar charge about 10 o'clock last night and that he had made bond to the amount of 5000 and would leave for Savannah by the first train.
 McArthur's Statement.
 MT. McArthur made the following state ment:
 "McArthur and Son company was a stock company with about five or Six stockholders. Father had general offices in Savannah and l had charge of the Atlanta house Father became ill and was unable to carry on the business and I took it. We went into the hands of the bankrupt court and all of the mem- bers of the company are liable.
 Among other things we owed Mason S, Hamlin $15,000 and gave the company four notes due in four eight. twelve and sixteen months, to cover the indebtedness, That company also failed and was bought by the Cable Piano company, a rival organization. It is this company which Is now proceeding against us according to the information l obtained from Savan- nah
 Matter Will Be Settled.
 q thought that the entire matter had been about strengthened out. have been in constant communication with the re- ceiver of the McArthur company in Sa- vannah and was aiding him in getting the matters of the company strengthened I was very much surprised at the arrest tonight and cannot understand it. As soon as I get to Savannah it will be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-04

'svulcan," the man who painted him is located at 219 N. 2Oth st. Hermitage. of course.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-04

Hermitage, sign writer. has moved across the street to Vulcan sign shop g19 N. 20th st.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-04

E. T. Shaw & Sons. undertasers. 3l2 North Twentieth street. Both phones g.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-04
ARREST MADE ON
 4 BENCH WARRANT I W. R., McArthur Charged With
 Larceny After Trust
FATHER ALSO ARRESTED
W. R. McArthur Arrested at Jefferson Theatre on Savannah Warrant. Will Go to Savannah With
 out Acquisition Papers.

". R. McArthur, manager of the D. E. Forbes Piano company, was last night arrested In the Jefferson theatre on a charge. of larceny after trust. The arrest was made at the instance of MT. Holmes of the Cable company in Savannah
 r. E. McArthur. father of the man un- der arrest in Birmingham, has been ar rested in Knoxville and has made bond to the amount of 5000. The son was not allowed to make bond here, as the war rant is returnable in another state.
 MT. McArthur will go to Savannah as soon as officers arrive from there. They are expected tonight. McArthur has con sented to go without requisition papers and states that he does not apprehead any trouble in settling the matter as soon as he gets to Savannah, as it was made by a rival company, and he believes it to be groundless.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-04
Watson's Plan Defeated.


 ing of the session an unsuccessful at ltempt was made by MT. Watson of h. diana, after q sharp debate, to exclude lrural carriers from the operation of the lcivil service regulations. MT. Watson tcharged that under the present policy of Appointments there was being built up iamong the rural carriers a political ma- chine, and he insisted that the representa- ltives in Congress could be relied upon lto recommend capable men for that ser- Twice.
 ] The chair sustained a point of order i against the amendment.
 The question of political activity by postal employees and the course to be kadopted to prevent it was raised by MT. LGriggs, Ga, who offered an amendment providing that the uniting by postal em- ployes with "any association or organiza- ltion which has for it's object the change of the relation of employees to the gov- Dernment shall be cause for dismissal.
 Denounces Their Methods.
 MT. Griggs denounced the methods of postal employees associations organized in border to increase their salaries, and con- gratulated the President and Postmaster General for already having dismissed certain of their officers. He contended, however. that that was not sufficient. The only way to stop the abuse he said was to prevent postal employees from enter ling such associations. The amendment went out on a point of order.
 MT Moon, Tennessee, moved to recom- init the bill with instructions to eliminate tthe provisions for special mail facilities.
 The motion to recommit was lost, 92 to l15S and the bill then was passed without division The total amount is $1S0 7S7, ,413 lBills were passed as follows:
 Providing for extension of time until May l. 1905, within which homesteaders may establish their residence on certain lands formerly within the Rosebud Indian Preservation, South Dakota, and the Dev- irs Lake reservation, North Dakota.
 Authorizing the extension of the west ern boundary line of Arkansas.
 At 2:54 D. m., the House adjourned until tomorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-04

Best on earth or anywhere else The Gawk Engraving Co. Peoples phone 276.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-04
Special Mail Facilities forlSouth
 Will Continue
MOONS MOTION DEFEATED
criegs Denounces Methods of Postal Employees Assocation,- Organized to.Increase Their Salaries.
 Wants Such Prohibited.

Washington, ,ebruary 3.-After nearly week of discussion the postoffice appro- ,priation bill, carrying 07S7, 41s passed the House today following the defeat of "a motion by MT. Moon, of Tennessee, to hrecommit it with instructions to strike out the provision of the special mail fa- tCilities on trunk lines.
 Propositions by MT. Watson, of Indiana, fo exclude the civil service rules from rural carriers and by MT. Griggs, of Geor- fEia, for the dismissal of postal employees beIonging to any association or organiza- tion having for its object the incrtas ing of salaries, excited sharp debate, but were ruled out on points of CrGer. An early adjournment was taken to permit lthe use of the House chamber for re- publican caucus regarding railroad rate QegiSlation.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09
THINGS WHICH DON'T PAY.

There are some things which don't
pay and which many farmers do. 1t
doesn't pay to see how many acres Of
land he can scratch over and call it
farming. for 1000 bushels of corn are
more cheaply produced on twenty acres
than on forty. 1t doesn't pay to take
any kind of old seed and SOW it, trust
ing to the Lord to send you good crop,
for he won't do it; like begets like. 1t
doesn't pay to keep COW which only
just pays for her board, yet hundreds
Of men do it. 1t doesn't pay to keep dog
which your neighbor is afraid Of; bet
ter kill the brute than lose a good neigh
Dor. 1t doesn't pay to raise turkeys I'M
less your nearest neighbor is at least
half a mile away. 1t doesn't pay to set
out nice young orchard and then let
it grow up to grass and weeds and then
turn in the stock to eat the grass. 1t
doesn't pay to grow the same crop on the
same land year after year; the natural
law is rotation or ruin 1t doesn't pay to
hold farm product for higher prices
when it will sell for enough to pay first
cost and reasonable profit. It doesn't
pay to be land poor-have more acres
than can be proftahly used. 1t doesn't
pay to treat hired man as an inferior
or try to squeeze out nf him more than
is fair and right, for hired men have
souls and long memories. 1t doesn't pay
to keep rough, profane, vulgar hired
man around the place if you have
young boys; better boil your acres and
your business down and get along with
out hired man. 1t doesn't pay to be
indifferently content to do as well as
your grandfather did and do things his
old ways; the world has moved on. 1T
doesn't pay to try to make a grain1eld
out Of meadow until you first get it
properly drained. 1t doesn't pay to keep
more stock than you can properly feed
and shelter 1t doesn't pay to raise scrub
stock when it costs no more to raise
good stock. It doesn't pay to remain per-
petually in debt when you might learn
to be cOntented with a smaller farm
and enjoy life. 1t doesn't pay to be eat
ing up this year what you expect to
earn next year; try oatmeal and milk
and pay as you go. And, lastly, it new
er pays to be other than just, hon
est, fair and square in all your bust
ness, for there are sharper and meaner
men than you in the world, and you
are dead sure to run on to them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09
STRAWBERRIES AND AspARAcUs

/ . 1S&A w DGL1N1NAnAS AMI 4AS1.AkGANTUSe
There are two things at least which
should find place on every farm-sl
good large strawberry bed and an as
paragus bed. Both are very easy to
get, yet they are wanting on two thirds
of the farms of the country. AS the
time will soon be here to take the nee
essary steps to secure these two things
we again give few simple directions:
A bed containing four rows of straw
berry plants six rods long will furnish
all the berries any family can use both
for eating when fresh and for canning
and preserving. Get good, strong, well
rooted plants of the previous years
growth and set them early in the spring
two feet apart in the row and four feet
between rows. Select such varieties as
have done well in your neighborhood.
For most of the northwest the Lovett,
Senator Dunlap, War1eld, Havilland,
Clyde and Beder Wood are standard
varieties. The soil should be rich
enough to grow seventy five bushels of
corn to the acre. The bed should be
well cultivated the first year and all
weeds killed. Cover in early winter
with three inches of clean straw or
hay. Fruit next season, moving all
vines off close to the ground as soon as
the picking season is over; then cult
vate the bed thoroughly with horse
cultivator, leaving strip of plants in
each row about eight inches wide to set
plants for the next years crop. After
fruiting two years pillow up and have
another bed ready to take the place Of
the old one. Change the land on which
you grow berries. The asparagus bed
needs different treatment. A bed 8 by
Is feet will supply large family The
asparagus bed is permanent thing,
and the older it grows the better it
gets provided it is properly cared for.
Asparagus is very gross feeder, and
| the soil cannot be made too rich. A
good way is to dig out the bed to a
depth Of eighteen inches and fill in with
old bones, some wood ashes and rich
barnyard manure. Cover this with ten
inches of good soil, set the plants two
feet apart each way and do not cut the
first two years unless you have very
strong old plants to start with. After
that the bed may be cut continuously
from early spring to the time when the
first green peas are ready to pick.
Give the bed liberal coating of ma
nure every spring after the old stalks
are removed. These two things are
worth $40 a year to any farm home.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

The greatly magnifed and highly col
ored seed catalogues are now in the
hands Of prospective gardeners. Nearly
every seed firm exploits some speciality,
some new thing It is usually best to
let these things alone, for only rarely is
anything offered which is of any spe-
cial merit
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

Capons bring from 5 to s cents per
pound more than other chickens and it
Is the best possible use to make of
LOT of worthless young ROSTERS.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

1t begins to look as though for all the
territory where the dairy is not made
the principal business on the farm
the farm separator will supersede all
other methods of handling the dairy
product. Where small diaries are scat
tered over an extended area it is really
the only sensible way.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

The wind that blows the tops off the
stacks and fills the roads with snow
in the winter is the same wind which
runs the windmill and dries up the
mud. 1t is simply a matter Of looking
at and using it right.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

A cement fence post selling at 25
cents is on the market-a durable, sub
stantial post, which at the price named
would seem to settle the question of
fence posts for the future.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

1t makes small odds which a woman
or a pug dug. In either case she is not
apt to be worth very much as house
keeper
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

The great trouble with the beef bust
ness today is that it is hard to find a
market for the lower half of the beef
carcass. The American people are a
sirloin and porterhouse crowd and will
have none of the lower priced and
equally nutritious cuts from the lower
half Of the animal If women were
more skilled in the art Of cooking
meats and knew how to prepare and
serve these lower priced cuts of meat
in a palatable form, much of the trou-
BILE referred to would be done away
with
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

A man in Iowa raised fine crop of
wheat last year worth a dollar a bushel
when thrashed. He thought it would
pay to hold the crop for higher prices
and carelessly stored his wheat in bin
when it was little damp, with the re
suit that he has lately been glad to
take chicken feed prices for it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

If there is yellow patch on the grain
or corn field it is natures signal that
the soil wants nitrogen-a call for clo-
yer or barnyard manure. Heed it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

A reader wants to know whether, see
ing that he has not much work to do
this winter, it would pay him to haul
straw out on to his fields and burn it
for it's value as a fertilizer, he living
where the soil is rich and well supplied
with potash and such other mineral
constituents as would be the residuum
of the burned straw We do not think
this work would pay, as it is the wrong
way in which to use the straw, the
value of which lies almost wholly in
the humus which it furnishes the soil.
The straw should be fed to stock in a
yard and when converted into manure
be hauled out on the fields, when it
then becomes the most valuable ferti-
lizer to be obtained. Under no circum-
stances should straw ever be burned.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

A great many very serious mistakes
have been made in the attempt to tile
drain land, the tile not being properly
laid. We met two men recently who
will have to take up hundreds of rods
Of such thing and have it properly laid.
Tile draining is too expensive a propo-
sition not to have it properly done.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

The COW and the hen are having
their innings this winter, with butter
retailing at 35 cents per pound and
fresh eggs at 80 cents per dozen. At
these prices butter and eggs can only
find their way to the table of the rich
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

The Japs are fast learning to eat
American -four as result of the pres
ent war and in the future bid fair to
become important customers Of this
country for breadstuffs which from the
very nature of things in that country
they can never produce for themselves.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

It seems to greatly lengthen the keep
ing term of fall apples like the Wealthy
to pack them in oats when put away
for the winter. For this use none but
perfectly sound and well matured fruit
should be used, and it should be kept
in cellar the temperature of which
is as near the freezing point as safety
will permit
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

It is great pity to strip all the tim
Der from the borders of the small
creeks and streams, as SO many do. At
best these bottom lands are fit for lit
tie else than pasturage, being subject
to periodical overflow. Because of
the moisture and superior fertility of
such localities trees always do well.
The creek which runs through the farm
should be bordered with trees, both
from an economic and from an aesthetic
standpoint, as nothing adds more to the
beauty of the landscape.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

There is one farm animal at least
which bids fair to hold his own in the
matter of price and profit, and that is
the well bred draft horse. No matter
to how great an extent the automobile
may be utilized for heavy hauling, the
machine can never displace the horse,
for it is only under certain fixed condi-
tons that the machine is available,
while the horse is adaptable to any and
all conditions. There is today no easier
way to make $3.50 on the average farm
than to have pair of we'll bred three
year-old draft colts to sell each year.
They cost but little if any more to
raise than a steer and will be grown
on very much more of the roughness of
the farm than the steer
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

we nave had several Inquiries of late
as to what the silo will do and it's
value to the average farmer. We will
answer two or three points. The cost
of silo is about $1.25 per ton for it's
holding capacity. An acre of field corn
which will yield sixty bushels of corn
will make fifteen tons Of silage, or 3d.
600 pounds. A matured COW or steer
will eat not to exceed forty pounds of
this silage day, and it will represent
about two-thirds of the ration needed
by such animal. The acre of corn thus
treated will thus furnish a good food
for one animal for $50 days, and the
variations can be easily figured out on
this basis. In no other way can so
much food be stored so cheaply; in no
other way can SO much nutritious and
palatable food be secured from so small
an area of land. The silo goes with
high priced land and progressive farm
ing.
This is the season when, if you are
going to make hotbed, you must be
thinking about doing it. For many
years we have made a sort of cheap
family hotbed as follows: We take
sheltered spot on the south side of the
chicken house or some shed, pile up a
bed of fresh horse manure four feet
wide and, say, ten feet long and eight
cen inches deep, well tramped and pack
ed, then make board frame eight feet
long and three feet wide, eight inches
high in front and fourteen inches wide
at back, SO that it will nicely fit and
carry lot of old window sash which
we keep on hand. We then throw a
few pals of water on the manure and
cover it with four inches of good soil,
then put on the sash and let it heat and
steam for two or three days. We then
SOW the seed-radish, lettuce, tomato,
early cabbage, peppers, elephants, pars-
ley and celery, the four first named
taking up most of the room. The seed
will very quickly terminate, and then
the only thing to watch is to see that
the bed is covered if there comes
very cold snap, to water it properly
and watch that the sash is raised a lit
tie on warm days when the sun beats
down too warmly upon it. The rad
ishes will be ready to pull in about
three weeks and the lettuce soon after,
giving these appetizing vegetables at
very small cost long before they can
be grown in the garden We usually
SOW some lettuce among the radishes,
so that it can come on as a second
crop after the former are pulled. One
can raise all the cabbage and tomato
plants he needs in this way and sell,
besides, several dollars worth to his
neighbors from a bed the size referred
to and made as DESCRIBED
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09
RAILROAD TROUBLES.

One important line Of railway trav-
ersing the stock producing sections of
the west paid out to stock shippers over
it's line during the month of December
last the sum of $4,000 as damages for
the one item of getting their shipments
Of stock on the market late, and this
when almost superhuman efforts were
made to reach the yards on time. The
entirely possible congestion Of traffic
on these big roads as they near Chica-
go is not as well understood as it should
be, the road in question often having
to deliver as many as 600 cars of live
stock at the yards between o'clock
and 9 o'clock a. N. A broken wheel, a
derailed car, disabled locomotive, may
very easily block the whole road And
the road referred to is only one of sew
eral which pour their consignments into
the yards at one common point There
would seem to be every reason why the
slaughter of our stock should be better
distributed and not, as now, so largely
concentrated at one point
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09

A more general utilization Of the
wind as a motive power on the farms
of all the prairie region would seem to
be a possibility in the near future Up
to date two or three horsepower
seems to be about the limit, the mill to
do the pumping and the grinding, while
every farm homestead has a hundred
horsepower going to waste on the half
acre inclosing the farm buildings. Sure
~, II men can impound the big rivers,
reclaim the deserts, build oceanic ca
nails and tunnel the mountains with
railway bores, some way can be discov-
cred whereby the wasted power of the
winds can be captured and harnessed
for practical work An unlimited source
OF both light and heat, as we'll as Of mo-
tive power, is Gagged in the fugitive and
fitful winds which, with but slight in
PERMISSION, forever sweep the vast prai.
RE plains Of the west. There is a great
field open here for inventive genius.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-09
COUNTY OFFICERS.

CHICAGO s. NORTHWESTERN RAIL,
WAY.-KENOSHA STATION.
In effect on and after Jan. 3, 1905.