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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-07-21
PRESIDENT IS
CONSIDERING THE.
CHINESE NOTE.

Oyster Bay L. July a-The identical from the Chinese
foreign Office neutral in the pending conflict
has been received by President Roosevelt This will be discussed
by the president Secretary today United
be predicted.
1t nad today that the is of such delcacy that
public discussion of it in oand way undesirable
Secretary Root after taking in the formal the threads
the department work in Washington here today
slider with the president of the questions pending He will
pass the day and night Sycamore hill perhaps part
He arrived here in president
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-07-21
CHICAGO HAS 20 MORE
DEATHS FROM HEAT

Chicago. H.. July 2o-Twenty deaths
have been added 20 the list of Chicago
mortallties during the terrible blighting
heat ~ the first three days ~ this week
OF this number seven were adults and
the others were infants.
The cool weather which came with
northerly brcezes OF Wednesday con-
tinues
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-07-21

SLAMS who have thus far surrendered al
various points OF Sakhalin island number
46i including one colonel and IA other Of
f1cers.
An imperial ordinance was issued this
morning authorizing the appointment of
non-commissioned officers from the re-
serve conscript also converting those of
sundry service rank into private OF fight
ing ranks.
ALLEGED PEACE TERMS.
ST. Petersburg. July A.-The Novos
Vremya today discusses the alleged jap
enese peace condition as published by the
Vienna Tagablatt and Frankfurt Zeitung
dwelling especially on the specification
against double tracking the Siberian rail-
way which the paper declares is utterly
unacceptable in every way being equivl-
lent 10 the political and economic suicide
OF Russia.
MAKING REPRESENTATIONS
Ambassador Meyer is making represent
ations 10 the government regarding the
British steamer Oldhamia, burned by the
Russians at Urup Island In behalf OF the
American consgners Of her cargo OF oil.
The ambassador is endeavoring TO has
ten the sitting OF the prize court but the
government is without information in re-
gard TO the ship.
JAP wARSHIP SIGHTED.
Copenhagen, Denmark. July 2l.--A das
spatch from ST. Petersburg to the God
siaan gays that private advices received
at the Russian capital say that Japanese
warships have been sighted near Niko-
laievsk at the mouth of the Amur river.
Many OF the inhabitants OF Nikolaievsk
and vladlvostok, IL is added, have fed T.
Kharborvsk
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-07-21
CHINESE BOYCOTT AGAINST
AMERICA IS NOW WORKING

Shanghai July 2l-The boycott ~
American goods Is now working. but N
has been agreed that the completion of
al running contracts Tor supplies VIII be
allowed
Meanwhile all the Chinese shops refuse
IN sell American goods, including Stand
ard oil
All schools and colleges In this section
have decided TO discard AL American
books.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-07-21
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING IN rHs
NEWS.

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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-07-21

at often happens that a paper Of
5000 circulation covers Its field moro
thoroughly than some other paper
with 100000 circulation covers lts
field and the territory that the
paper of small circulation covers
must be reached through the COL
amns Of that paper."-Mr. Charles
L. Benjamin. IN Printers Ink.
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-15
Too Grasping.

We hope that none of Our readers
are so penny wise and pound fool
ish," as the farmer described by the
Missouri Valley Farmer:
We were talking with a neighbor
the other day about buying eggs of
thoroughbred chickens, and he gave
us a little incident that shows there
are some men who do not keep thor
oughbred stock that want a pretty
fair price for their eggs. 1t seems
that our friend has been admiring
some white chickens that farmer had
who lives several miles away from
this pleasant valley, so one day as
he was driving past he stopped and
asked if they would sell him a few
settings He was informed that "the
old man" had just gone to town with
all the eggs they had on the place,
and that if he would drive along a
little he would probably overtake the
white chicken man. He did so, and
what do you think this man wanted
for his white hen eggs, and they were
not thoroughbred stock either? He
wanted so cents a dozen and refused
to sell for less. Our friend didn't in
vest, so the eggs were taken into
town and sold for 10 cents a dozen.
Would you expect a farmer of this
stamp to go into any combination of
farmers calculated to help the farmers
of a community?
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-15
Eggs of Amazing Proportions.

Many people in this country have
seen ostrich eggs, which usually aver
age about equal to two dozen hens
eggs. But an egg equal in size to six
ostrich eggs would surely be a Gu
riosity.
The following account is from the
Southern Poultry Courier:
An egg IL inches long and 10
inches in diameter with a shell near
ly one-quarter of an inch thick will
be exhibited among the treasures of
natural history by the government at
the Worlds Fair 1t is an egg of
the apyornis and was recently pur-
chased by DR.. L. w. True, of the
Smithsonian Institute. Specimens of
these eggs are very rare, having sold
in London as high as $1,000. Com
pared with other eggs some idea of
its immensity may be had. 1t will
hold the contents of six ostrich eggs,
or I4S hens eggs, or 10000 humming
birds eggs Little is known of the
birds from which these eggs come
Most of the eggs are found in the
sands and swamps in the southern
part of Madagascar. One specimen
was found afloat on the ocean, after
a hurricane, bobbing serenely up and
down with the waves.
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-15

eral stations note the smaller number,
but remarkably fine color and quality
of eggs produced by hens on a corn
ration
Very recently the West Virginia
station reports the results of expert
ments in which celery oil, sassafras
oil and trimethylamine, respectively,
were fed to laying hens, but without
any noticeable effect whatever on the
flavor of the eggs produced The color
of the yolk of the egg, on the other
hand, was found to be easily infiuenc-
ed by the ration fed. Wheat, oats, or
white corn fed alone or in combina-
ton uniformly produced very light
colored eggs The feeding of yellow
corn on the other hand gave eggs with
rich yellow yolks.
All these results considered to-
gether, indicate that flavor may be
fed into eggs, and this point should
be taken into consideration in prepar-
ing ration for laying hens. In building
I'D fancy trade in eggs, it is very de-
sirable that they have rich yellow
yolks, and with proper attention to
the rations this may be secured.
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-15
A Hen Story from Across the Border

The Toronto Globe is responsible
for the following remarkable tale of
the eccentricities of a hen. 1t
says:
Town Assessor W. A. Grosecup
of Clyde has come forward with the
champion hen story.
He says that he has hen which
buries her eggs. She does not lay
twice in the same place as other
hens do as a matter of course, but
deposits her eggs in the most unex-
pected places, covering the egg each
time with earth. Some have been
hoed out of the garden and others
dragged to the surface by the har-
row. One of the eggs was laid in a
heap of sand on the south side of the
house some weeks ago and yesterday
a little chicken popped out of the heap,
having been hatched by the heat of
the sun.
Mr. Grosecup says he expects that
later when the ground gets thorough
ly warm little chickens will come pop
ping up out of the ground all over
his farm.
Mr. Grosecup has always borne the
reputation of being an exceptionally
truthful man.
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-15
Millet Seed.

Millet grows well in Florida. Be-
sides being good for hens, it is ex-
cellent feed for young chicks. Better
grow a small patch and try the ex-
periments. The following is from
Commercial Poultry:
Millet seed is relished by the hens,
and unless given too freely is one of
the best egg producers. A good way
to feed it is to throw the unthreshed
straw in the shed and let the hens
scratch for the seed-but too much
must not be given. Millet is almost as
fattening as corn, but since the seed
is so small, there is less danger from
feeding it. If corn is given to the
hens before being shelled, they will
work over it, getting a grain at
time, and so far apart that the danger
of overfeeding is much less. Cowpeas
are highly relished by hens, but, like
nil'et and corn, must be fed with
care. All kinds of sound grain are
good for hens-and if we exercise
care in feeding we will get good re-
suits from them.
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-15

on at great length rell1ng me now he
was going to manage them and how
much he calculated to make out of
them. After he had told me all of his
plans and explained his methods in
full, he said: "I'm satisfied I'm on the
right track, and that this is a sure go.
What do you Think" | simply wrote
him to wait until all those chickens
were five weeks old and then to write
me and say how many he had. | did
not think he would write, but he did.
He wrote: 81 have just II of that first
lot of chickens alive, and l have just
taken out 254 more, and | hope to
have better luck with them, but | fear
they will get the cholera like the 9TH
ers did and all die off If this batch
does no better than the other, I'm out
of it for good" He asked for no ad-
vice. and l ventured none, but I soon
afterwards heard he was out for
good He was a good mechanic and
engineer and he could manage ma
chinery all right, but he was not in it
when it came to managing living
| things. He failed because he tried to
| manage his chickens as he did ma
| chinery. He fed them the same as he
would oil a machine, and ran his
brooders strictly according to "direc-
tiOns,' as he understood them His
wife, little thing who knew nothing
at all about machinery, took his hens,
22 nice ones, and following the direc-
tions of a kind, motherly neighbor,
raised nearly forty dollars worth of
chickens. This year she has IS hens
and has sold about fifty dollars worth
of eggs and chickens, and will proba-
bly, make it $50 before winter. She
is so quiet about it that one would
scarcely know that che knew what a
chicken is. But she manages to get
firstiate matches, and, what is better
to raise to selling size very nearly
every chick she hatches
She keeps her chicks yarded as |
have 50 constantly advised, and when
she retires at night she knows that
every chick is in good coop and en-
tirely safe from storms and all prowl-
ing things She has learned that the
first two weeks of a chickens life is
the critical period, and that at this
time T must be fed ver,- much as wi
| birds feed their young, a very little
at a time, easily digested food with
enough variety in it to build them up
all over, not in flesh at the expense
i OF bone, nor bone at the expense OF
flesh but all together, symmetrically
Then she has learned what many a
fancier has yet to learn, that to make
a perfect fowl the bird must have food
that will develop all its parts, bone
flesh and feathers, equally; also that
a healthy chick and fowl will balance
its own ration if il is provided with
the material from Which to get what
its system Graves. This is why she
has succeeded where her husband
failed why she has made money from
a few hens alone where he failed with
both hens and machinery. 1t is knowl-
| edge of this sort that makes the sue
cessful poultryman, the one who stays
in the business year after year and
makes money.
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-15
Not All in the Hatch.

Not All in the Hatch.
Probably some of you have al
ready found out that it is not all in
the hatch. Almost any make of in
cubator will, if carefully managed,
hatch a good percentage of eggs, but
the raising of them is not always so
easy as it appears to be. A writer,
in Commercial Poultry, gives some
incidents that illustrate this truth:
How many chickens we can hatch
is not so important question as how
many we can raise. If we hatch
thousand they will do us no good un-
less we can raise them to market size.
If we hatch three hundred and raise
all of them we are on the hlghroad
to prosperity. Early last spring a
poultry-loving friend wrote me that
she had hatched over five hundred
chickens, and she was in high spirits
over her prospects and said some
thing about summer trip to COlora-
do. About three weeks ago | wrote
her asking about that trip. In reply
she emptied the vials of her wrath
and indignation.
1--we had the infernalist luck this
year | ever had" she wrote, "and that
Colorado trip has gone glimmering. 1t
| | had followed your advice, L am now
convinced it would have materialized.
| The rats and the storms laid my
chickens out in swaths, and now IN
| like any other old farmers wlfe-sell-
| ing a little dab now and then to the
chicken wagon
| | had advised her to spend about
thirty dollars in improvements, and
get into chicken raising shape before
She got out the chickens. Like thou
sands of others, she declared it would
be waste of money. l said, fence in
yard and keep your chickens safe
from storms, cats, bird-dogs and
hawks Make your coops rat-proot,
and make plenty of them, so the
chicks won't be crowded, and shut
the doors every night, and sell the
birds just when the profit to you will
be the largest l told her exactly how
to do these things and when to do
them, but she thought my advice was
all twaddle and went on in "the usual
way" and lost out. Now she is pre-
pared for next years campaign, and
there will be different tale to tell at
that ranch And this reminds me that
| now is the time to prepare Tor the
work of next season The party who
puts off until spring will find himself
in the same hole he now is. I've
heard lots of people say, 81 shall fix
things different around here next
spring" and | knew when | heard
them say it that things would be ex-
actly as they now are. But when
heard a man say a few days ago that
he had bought the stuff and was going
to fix things next week, | knew they
would be fixed. What's the use of
Matching chickens, anyway, unless you
raise them to market size and get the
cash into your pocket?
! In the spring of 1904 a young man
wrote me that he was in the poultry
business for wealth, and that he had
just taken 100 chickens out of one ma
chine and had another me same size
nearly ready to shell out. He went
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-15
POULTRY DEPARTMENT.

All communications and inquiries should
be addressed to
W. c. STEELE,
Switzerland, Florida
New-York tribune., 1905-12-31
RIGA AGAIN SUBDUED.
The Strike EndS-PLans to Punish
RebeLEouS Districts.

Riga, Dec. 30-The strike ended here to-day.
the papers have reappeared and business and
work at the factories have been resumed The
termination of the strike will rescue the city
from famine The supply of fresh meat gave
out three days ago
General sonogub. Governor Of the Baltic Prov
inces is moving north at the head of 10000
troops with artillery On his arrival here he is
expected to begin an energetic campaign against
the revolutionists, who have created con-
ditfon of anarchy in the country Two OF the
most famous castles in the Baltic Provinces
Dondangen, built in the thirteenth century. and
Odessee-have been burned.
IN the course of the strike many atrocities
were committed. The revolutionists established
an execution block where persons condemned
by the revolutionary committee We're shot
The police here are now armed with rifles
New-York tribune., 1905-12-31
SLAUGHTER IN MOSCOW.
Troops Make Desperate Efforts to
Crush RerOLt.

Moscow, Dec. 80. p. m.-Governor General
DoubassoT to-day assumed the offensive against
the revolutionary stronghold in the northwest
ern. Presna. quarter and all day the inhab-
itants Of the city have been listening TO the
thunder of cannon and the rattle Of small arms
At this writing firing is still audible. but more
distant. and the glare in the heavens shows that
many structures are in flames
It essentially a surprise attack In the
night artillery and machine guns moved to the
streets leading to the Presna district, all of
which were heavily barricaded and at o'clock
this morning the troops began a ruthless ad-
vance. By 10 O'Clock much of the region had
been cleared and the main body OF the insur-
gents and strikers had been driven into the
ProkharoR cotton mill, immense establish
ment, which was fortified TO stand a siege A
New-York tribune., 1905-12-31

smaller force of the Insurgents held the kor-
nosod. another four story factory. in kudr1nsky
place The latter was bombarded and reduced
without much difficulty.
1t is Impossible to penetrate the quarter as
tho pickets have the strictest orders to allow
no one to pass.
The artillery fire was resumed at Z O'CLOCK TINS
afternoon, and still continues.
According to officers at headquarters the Prok-
harom mill is monentariIy expected to fall, and
ii is asserted that It is planned to put an end
to the revolt tonight. 1t is admitted that the
slaugher has been immense.
The Seminovsky Regiment is understood TO
have distinguished itself in many places by
storming barricades and is the heaviest loser on
the side OF the troops.
The insurgents displayed great stubbornness,
and were moved down on refusing to surrender.
A terrible affair took place at a workmen's
tea house in Novaya Derevnya-st., near the
Presna district. 1t surrounded by the
BLACK Hundreds" who finally applied the torch
and were watching the victims die in tho flames
when Cossacks arrived on the scene.
Governor General Doubassof has posted an
imperial ukase guaranteeing pardon TO strikers
who have not used arms.
New-York tribune., 1905-12-31

quarters yesterday it's declaration of principles.
The declaration is that 1t will be the aim of the
league to protect capital and labor and sup
plant bosses with honest rule
The league declares that there were no fewer
than twenty-five elected to the Assembly wholly
in part by its organization in the recent cleo
ton. large delegation of the league will
so to Albany and open headquarters there
to- care for these new members and 10
spread the principles of the organization
For some weeks past the law committee of the
executive committee has been drafting bills The
chief object OF the delegation to Albany will be
TO get resolutions calling for an investigation OF
the recent traction merger and Of the election
laws OF greater New York A ballot reform bill
VIII be introduced. also a municipal ownership
measure similar to that introduced last session.
a resolution regarding the debt limit an en-
and prevailing rate of wages" and pure food
New-York tribune., 1905-12-31
GEN. BINGHAM'S PLANS.
Sags He VII Enforce La1cs Nozo
on Statute Books.

Prioad,er General Theodore A. Bingham, the
newly appointed Police Commissioner, talked freely
yesterday ct the Hotel Gramatan, in Bronxvne,
which viii be his home, about his acceptance of the
place. made vacant yesterday by the resignation Of
Commissioner McAdoo He said that he didn't
know where Mulberry st. was, did not know thlng
about poolrooms, and asked the support Of every
one in his effort to make a good record
Candor cou1peIs the statement that the old round
ers in the Pc>ice Department are chuckling at the
idea of an arn% man tackling job like the run-
down Police Department. and transforming It into
an honest and efficient body of public servants
Concerning his policy commissioner, the gen
eral saidi
ever been up against, and realize it It presents
difficulties that wellnigh disheaTteni9g can
Mcclellan my word that would do the best
level hest 90 rs true that have no great personal
acoaintance in this city, but that will be all the
better for 6s w haTe n9 St n be
and when 5s PRem 99s o4 the W 5
books know it Is Big bSSa sadd gbeeb 6Tf Wng amy
qhd no35g 19 tn do sad have
OF succeeding 1 am going to try hard to get the
cor s6 thing 9h fhe DO not intend to use the
as a stepping stone to anything else, 90 @ hGf }f
a man is successful It ought M to be enough 70 Keep
him busy the rest OF his lfe 1,,, :,
II am not going in with the purpose OF 5lahl4Is
record a m4Ry bn4Rd4e sPRs Wanf f to TO ef the
ddenoe OF the people If l once get that VIII 1Fy
n9rp q9T Suppose 20 there will plenty Of knockers
1,,,+ don't care I am absolutely Independent ana
iiI 1dT nv to do good work We need clean govern
ment and that is what am going to try to give:
AS vet have no opinions ABOUT the Jol' ou' %
Wben asked what course he intended TO pursue
orou+ fhe Doolrooms, General Bingham said;
4?TSo !Sow Sn boys, don't know thing about pool
rooms suppose. though they 90 s6afi eTls eertain1
suppress them There will always be &c certain srtI
70 nfnrce the laws that regulate vice and enforce
them without regard to anybody | am absoluteIyy
f9eaS Mac out know that If do good work
It viii help the Mcclellan adTninistrsu0f1 ana IN
tosnp TO work as hard know now
New-York tribune., 1905-12-31
CRANE COMMENTS ON BINGHAM.
Magistrate Says Police Department Will Go
from Bad to Worse.

Magistrate Crane, sitting in the Essex Market
court Yesterday, when asked his opinion Of the
appointment Of General Bingham as Police Com
missioner, spoke disparagingly of the Police De-
partment, saying:
NV views on the deplorabe situation will
probably not change the Mayors decision IN
his choice of a Police Commissioner, but have
no hesitancy in stating that think as a result
of this appointment the condition OF the pres
ent inefficient Police Department will simply go
from bad to worse The Mayors choice is a
most unfortunate one from my standpoint.
Mind YOU I have desire to reflect In the
slightest on the character or ability Of General
Bingham, whom 1 have not even the honor OF
an acquaintance with. but what would do at
the head of q grocery concern? There is the
parallel Why couldn't he put man ike
brooks or Cortright IN the positton-rnen VINO
know crime and criminals, policemen and police
methods, then we would have a cleaner city?
tell you the situation is serious. Why, the
crooks of the city simply laughing in their
sleeves If anyone is in a position to know
the rotten condition of police affairs II is GER
tainly a police magistrate. for he gets the first
view of the criminal situation handled by the
police They (the police will doubtless con-
tinue to fool the commissioner as they have
McAdoo who has been one OF the most upright
and honest commissioners the city ever had.
The situation will not improve, in my opinion,
until there is o policeman at the official head
of the department
New-York tribune., 1905-12-31


nose Of attacking the strikers. revolutionists and
Jews.
The police force of Moscow has been increased
by q thousand men, and the night watchnen
by two thousand men
The attempt OF the "Black Hundreds to
march into the city and wreak vengeance on
the revolutionists and strikers only tends TO
increase the fears that the collapse OF the re-
volt at Moscow may be followed by an awful
massacre. and although Governor General
Doubassoff succeeded in preventing the entry
into the city to-day and viii take stern meas
ures in the future it win be difficult TO restrain
the lower classes, who regard the insurgents as
enemies of the Emperor and the country Al
ready rowdies are taking advantage OF the STU
alton to plumber large scale
Governor General DoubassoT has not YET
given the figures of the losses in the fighting
az Moscow. saying that It is impossible at pres
ant TO more than make a guess. He places
the outside limit as 1900. The troops and police
did not suffer nearly so heavily, and 1t is re-
nortad that up to Thursday night there were
fewer than fifty casualties among them every
where.
Throughout Russia the authorities are deciaT-
Ing martial law. making wholesale arrests and
conhscattng arms.