davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-10
KneeIing Beside Casket in
Darkened Room, PhiIadeI-
phian Shoots Himself.
CHILDREN FIND HIS BODY
RUSH IN ON HORRIBLE SIGHT
WITH THEIR UNCLE-INCON-
SOlABLE GRIEF DROVE UN-
FORTUNATE MAN INSANE.
Publishers. Press.1


Philadelphia, Jan. 9.-Kneeling be
lay, awaiting burial, and placing a
revolver to his head, Alexander
Johnson, boilermaker blew out his
brains today, while alone in the little
darkened parlor of his home, 1925
Newkirk street.
His body still warm and covered
with blood, was discovered by his
three little children, when they re-
turned a few minutes later with their
uncle.
Inconsolable grief drove the man
insane. His wife died two days ago.
Johnson told his brother-in-law that
he might not be long in following her.
He spent most of the hours since his
wife's death, beside her coffin. The
dead woman's funeral was to have
taken place on Friday. Only when
the undertaken did he leave the
room. He was alone in the parlor at
noon today sitting beside the corpse.
While the neighbors and the mans
three children were in the rear of the
house, they heard a revolver shot.
Running into the parlor, the children
saw their fathers body, fall in a
heap across the casket..
On table nearby he had left hast
lily scribbled note, which read:
I'VE did not want to live more than
a little while after each other. The
time has come. He has called us
away TO His heavenly home, where we
Will suffer no more trouble. God
help those who despise me, or lie
about me. God help my children and
bless them
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-10
DrischeII Resigns.

Cambridge City, Ind, Jan. 9. (Spl.)
-Chas. Drischell has resigned his po-
sition as bookkeeper with the Cam
bridge City Lumber company, and will
travel for a well known sash and
door company in the east. His resig-
nation takes effect next Saturday.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-10
INSTALL SWITCHBOARD
Telegraph Instruments at the Penn
syIvania Station Make Too
Much Noise Entirely.

switchboard is being installed in
the telegraph Offices at the Pennsyl-
vania depot to take the place of some
of the many 'tickers" there. The
constant click of the increasing num-
ber of instruments in use became so
annoying that it was necessary to
avoid it by the installation of switch
board.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-10
Played at New Castle.

Cambridge City. Jan. 8. Spl) -
Messrs. Galloway and Marson left for
Newcastle this afternoon. where they
furnished music for a big reception
and dance given by Mrs George Will
Jams. at her home on South Four
teenth street, tonight
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-10
WILL VISIT POOR FARM
Grand Jury According to instructions
Of Judge Fox, VIII Inspect
That Institution.

According to the instructions given
the grand jury by Judge Fox previ-
Gus to it's assuming the regular rou-
tine of business for the January term
of court, that body will go to the
Wayne county poor farm Friday after
noon. where they will give that in
stitution a thorough inspection. The
needs of the farm will be looked into
and several changes may be recon-
mended.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-10
EARLY REPORT EXPECTED
1t is Thought the Grand Jury Will
Finish Its labors This Week
Make Good Headway.

Numerous witnesses have appeared
before the grand jury the past two
days, and there will be large num-
ber more appear before the jury to-
day. Just what cases the jury are
investigating is not known, but it is
expected that the report of the jury
will be returned by the last of the
week.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-10
BAKER QUITS POSITION
Former Richmond Man Will Leave
Traction line-Field for Some
Other Vocation.

c. w Baker. formerly connected
with the Richmond Street and Inter
urban company, and who has been
connected with the traction lines in
Indiana, has decided TO sever all con-
nections with that business and seek
other lines of vocation.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-10
DR.. GILCHRIST IMPROVING
Sharon Jones Gets Better. Saying
That the Eminent Divine Is
Resting Much Easier.

Mr. Sharon E. Jones was the recip-
lent of a letter yesterday from Pitts
burg stating that the condition of the
Rev Alex. Gilchrist, formerly of this
city. who has been suffering with cam
Ger Of the liver. is slightly improved.
He is resting easier and is a little
stronger
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-10
CLARENCE HARRIS FINED
Youngster Assessed 81 and Costs in
Police Court for Intoxication-
"Friend" Implicated.

Clarence Harris, aged 10 years, was
fined 81 and costs in police court
yesterday morning for intoxication
The boy was in such bad condition
Tuesday evening when arrested that
it was thought for a time that he
might die. Harris claimed that he
got his "boze" from friend In
Dayton
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-10
DIVORCE SUIT DISMISSED
Case Of Cora 3. Yost Against Hus-
band, Stricken from Docket at
Plaintiffs Cost.

The divorce case OF Cora 3. Yosr,
against Harry Yost, which has been
pending for some time past, was dis
missed yesterday, in the circuit court
at the plaintiffs cost. An effort is
being made to clear the docket.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-10

The lobby will have its usual full
ness" of corporation representatives
this session. In fact, the advance
guard of the lobbyists has reached
Indianapolis and is getting primed for
the days that are to come There
has been much talk in the past of
excluding the professional corporation
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-25
ALL OVER THE FARM.

The best tools are the cheapest:
the best stock is the most profitable
and the highest fertilization and cultit
walton will bring the largest crops.
With all classes of stock usually kept
on a farm, care should be taken to
feed according to age, condition and
time of marketing.
Shelter and comfortable quarters
should be provided for stock, If for
nothing else than simply question of
economy in the consumption of food.
Lime Is most active agent in rem
dertng the soil mellow and setting the
plant food free to be assimilated by
vegetation, while 1t is itself direct
plant food.
The meadows and pastures as we'll
as the growing wheat are often bene-
fitted by rolling we'll in the spring after
the frost is through the ground.
By cleaning up the farm you will
increase its value and when it is clean
ed and cleared it will cultivate more
easily and cheaply and give larger
returns.
Manure never contains a larger
amount of plant food than when it
is first made and except In special
cases, the sooner 1t is. hauled out and
applied to the land. the better.
There is a medium in feeding which
1t is best to follow. 1t gives to each
animal just what its system can readily
assimilate and make use of, no more,
no less.-N. j. Shepherd.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-25
FARMERS NOT TO BLANin.

OF all men, our farmers are mos
Interested in the enactment and en-.
forcement of pure-food laws. Not tina,
they are particularly affected by fooe
|adulteration, for they take almost
everything they eat right from the
hand of nature. But they are con-
|cerned that the stuff they produce shall
reach the city neighbor who uses II
as fresh, pure and wholesome as pos
sible.
1t is in way a reflection upon the
farmer that milk, butter, fruits and
other things which come from the
farms Of the country, are impure and
so calculated to work injury to the
life and health of the nation. So they
are doing all in their power to bring
about the best legislation on this sub
ject.
They also desire that the laws al.
ready enacted shall be put into effect
Therefore, they welcome the sugges-
ton of DR.. Wiley, chief of the Bureau
of Chemistry of the Department OF
Agriculture at Washington, that the
national government shall set the stan
dard for pure milk at S.25 per cent OF
butter fat.
Our farmers are now producing milk
that averages very closely to four pei
cent Few of them are satisfied with
anything below that point. And they
do not like to be told, as they have
been many times, that the average fol
milk sold in the markets Of the country
is far below that standard.
1t is not their fault that it is so
and they want the crime, for it is
little less than crime to thus debase
the milk supply of the country, placed
where it belongs. and punishment in
ficted accordingly.
The same thing is true touching all
other farm products. The farmers
want it just as good as nature gave
it to them when it reaches the table
of the man who uses 1t.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-25
HOW BOOK LEARNING PAYS.

Book learning for farmers has
been thing to laugh at in the past.
1t used to be thought that an alma
nae and one or two patent Office re-
ports were all man needed to make
him competent to run a farm" We
are getting past that day, and doing
it at a pretty fast pace, in our times.
Think of the report just published by
the commissioners appointed a couple
of years ago in the state of Louisiana
to investigate crop pests, with particu-
lar reference to the boil weevil and the
terrible injury it has wrought to the
cotton crop. For two years these
commissioners have been studying and
experimenting on the state farms in
the Red River region, and now they
send word out to all the world that
they have succeeded in growing cot
ton that cannot be hurt by the boil
weevil. Just how they have done this
we must wait to learn. The great fact
| is that they have done It, Think what
this will mean in money to the farmers
of the cotton growing states! Nor will
the benefit Of their work stop there.
Other people than the cotton growers
are interested in cotton. We all have
use for the plant and its products.
From the poor man down in the most
obscure quarter of the city to the mil
lfonaire in hts beautiful home, we all
need cotton in some form or other.
And book farming" cuts the cloud
which has hung over the men who
grow the plant and lets tbs sunshine
out all over the world,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-25
I must pronounce 1T messy, sticky

I must pronounce 1t messy, sticky
job.
A much better way Is to drive them
out by the following plan: Take the
hive to be transferred under a tree
or in the shade of building and turn
1t bottom side up. Place on top Of 1t
an empty box of the same size, blow
in little smoke at the bottom oc-
casionally and drum on the old hive
with couple of sticks for ten or fif-
teen minutes. Nearly all the bees and
the queen will go up into the empty
box above.
Meantime place the hive in which
you wish to put the bees on the stand
where the old hive stood, so the field
bees that will be coming in all the
time, have place to co. They will
be rushing in and out again. not know
ing what to make of it.
Then carry the box of bees and
dump them in front of the new hive
and they will soon run in and make
themselves at home.
Stand the old hive in a new loca-
ton and drum on it again in twenty
one days, having an empty box above
1T as at first and put these young
bees in a new hive, or add them to
the old colony, just as you prefer.
If one desires two colonies from the
one, it is better to let the old box hive
cast a swarm first, then drum in twen-
will be all that is necessary,
Z
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-25
DOWN NITROGEN
Electricity Made to Harness That Most
Valuable Fertilizer for the
Farmer.
MT ITROGEN gathered from the air
in by electricity and converted into

i'm py electricity and converted into
fertilizer ready for use!
That is the latest achievement of
sc1enoe beneficial to agriculture. That
It Is an accomplished fact there seems
70 be no doubt.
The agricultural departments of all
etvflzed countries have urgently advis-
% the farmers during the past decade
g grow alfalfa and other nitrogen
gathering plants upon their unproduc-
tive lands with the result that thous-
lnds of acres have been reclaimed
from eventually becoming sterile
wastes and are now producing crops
Of profitable size.
Now comes machinery which prac-
ticaIly harnesses the air and takes
from 1t vast quantities of commercial
nitrogen which in turn is distributed
o agricultural centers at so much per
ION.
For years Prof. Birkeland of the
Christiana University and S. Eyde, a
civil service engineer, have been ex-
perimenting with a process of remov-
Ing nitrogen from the atmosphere by
electrical processes for the ultimate
purpose Of employing it as a fertilizer
m the form Of calcium nitrate.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-25
STOCK BIRD ON THE FARM.
Better Stick to One Coed Breed ana
Develop It.
by a. v. Meersch.

TNO the farmer who takes an inter-
est In fowls and Is DESTROYS OF
\ making profit from them. the
question of the birds to use for stock
purposes is an important one. This
seldom receives sufficient attention. Fl
1t is the exception to SEQ in farm
yard many fowls of any definite breed.
Seldom is there any attempt to bring
fresh blood into the yard, and so the
stock in manyinstances becomes closes.
ly inbred leading to deterioration in
size and constitution.
If fresh birds are introduced, the
usual practice is to exchange one or
two cockerels with q neighbor, no
heed. however, being taken as to tho
stamp of fowl or their suitability to
produce the class of chicken that will
pay the best. In deciding upon the
most profitable breeds, 1t must be first
considered whether eggs or chickens
for the table will sell the most readily.
In some districts eggs have to be
looked to for the profit; In others tho
growing of table poultry will be more
lucrative. Or there may be q good
market for both. Should there be a..
ready sale for both eggs and table
fowls, it is, worth while to keep two.
separate sets of fowls in different parts
of the farm.
Portable poultry houses make thta
easy. besides helping to lessen the food
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-25
anything out of the food which is of

anything out of the food which is of
any value as manure.
A knowledge of what an animal does
with his food enables us to see the
reason for many practical points in
farming.
a. The manure from young grow
ing animals and dairy COWS is not as
rich as that from fattened beasts be-
cause a considerable quantity of the
substances which would have been of
value in the manure have gone into
their frames or into the pail.
(2) pasture grazed for several
years with young beasts or lambs will
require dressing of superphosphate
of basic Stag, because all the animals
have been taking away phosphoric acid
in their bones, in fact, pasture graz
ed by young animals will never inn
prove in condition unless MANFRED, for
the animals are constantly taking var
ious substances out of the land.
(3) The best manure is made by
fullgrown and fattening animals of
all kinds.
a. Both the digested and undi-
gested portions of the food benefit the
manure, but as the undigested portion
does the animal no good it is great
waste to buy indigestible foods or to
supply an animal with more food than
it can digest and use properly, The
animal docs not benefit by feeding for
manure.
90 AS all the waste nitrogen from
the body is excreted by the kidneys,
the urine is the richest portion of the
manure.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-25
THE HIRED MANS DAY.

Est
Why shouldn't the hired man have
ms Sundays for himself? He is as
much entitled to 1T as ANYBODY alec
I know farmers who work along ,v,t,,
thelr hired men all the week and on
sunday go off with the folks to
cnurch or to spend the day at a picnic
wnile the hired man is expected to
clean out the barns and do odd chores
around the place all day. That isn't
a square deal and ] haven't much re-
spect for a man who will stand for It
Then again, there are farmers who
nave no respect for the Sabbath them
serves and never take rest them
selves nor give a rest to their horse.
and help, but have noticed that man
of this class who work with their lags
and arms all the time and never use
their brains are less sucoessfi,i 49,,
the men who take time to rest and
plan.
TO the man who works on the farm
the bath is the most delightful thin J
that he can fall into. In my knock.
ing about. however. I have found
mighty few farmers WHO provided thts
very necessary adjunct 70 health and
decency. Generally, the hired man
has to provide his own bath which
consists Of nothing more conyenient
than a barrel of water in the barn
Then again know some farmers who
have bathrooms In their houses hut
appear to think that the hired man
is no more entitled to their use than
the pigs.
every hired man who Is worthy OF
the name appreciates the little per-
sonal luxuries that can easily be sun
piled him by the housewife. He wants
a room to himself. no matter how
small, good clean bed and conyen-
fences for bathing. There is nothing
IN the world that SO adds to a mans
self respect as personal cleanliness
and the consciousness that he is recoe-
|nized as worthy of the respectful at
tentien of his employers.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-25
TO HANDLE BEES
Some Good Advice BY a Great Expert
In Bee Culture.
BY r. q. Herman.

tTHERE is vast difference in var
1ous strains of bees. While some
With vim are gathering in from
Held and wood the various sweets which
they can find, others with equal energy
are bent on increasing their numbers
more than their stores and consequent
ly when winter comes, they find that
they have swarmed the harvest time
away, SO to speak, and are without
stores for winter.
Italians are preferable to the blacks,
not only because they are better work.
besides better looking. The leather
colored l have found to average the
best workers. For beauty I prefer
the golden, and when bred for business
they score we'll as honey gatherers.
A singular idea some people have
In regard to bee keeping is that 1t
is necessary to plant a certain crop
and furnish 1t to the bees.
The bee is miller to whose mill
everything that comes is grist She
gets her honey from trees and plants
as we'll as flowers. She roams the
country as sweet odor leads her,
through two or three miles of the
surrounding country, and she cares not
If she transgresses property rights or
filches her stores from your neighbours
flowers and trees. By the latter she
lis most welcome, for their hope of
posterity depends somewhat on her.
If your bees are in box hives, trans
: fer them some time during the month
of April, while the colony is yet small
and the hive light.
There are at least three ways of
transferring bees from box hives into
movable frame hives. The old method
is to pry open the old hives with a
cold chisel and hammer, cut out the
combs and fit them into the frames
of the movable frame hive and fasten
them in with stick and strings After
trying this method on several colonies,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-25

The Birkeland-Eyde plant is located
Ia Norway, where 3d. horsepower
will soon be utilized, and large
amounts of nitrate of calcium for di-
rect use produced.
Every farmer knows that such
pfants as alfalfa, clover, peas, beans,
btc., secure the nitrogen they need
from the air and are for this reason
rich in this element; this being true,
u the plants are plowed under they
will furnish an abundance Of nitrogen
for the next crop that must draw
Its supply from the organic matter of
The soil.
Many plants take up their quota of
nitrogen from the soil in the form of
soluble salt as nitrate of potash,
nitrate Of soda, ETC., and as solids
are more apt to be deficient in nitro
gen than in other substitutes forming
the constituents of plants, it is ex-
trernely valuable fertilizer.
Considering that four-fifths Of the
atmosphere Is composed Of nitrogen
ana that every square yard of the
earth's surface is weighted down with
seyen- tons of nitrogen gas, 1t is OBJ
vious that the raw material is plentf-
full enough and is about the only use
full thing In nature that can be had
without price.
The problem, however, is not how
TO get something for nothing, but how
to fix 1t in large quantities and at small
cost.
This has been accomplished by the
Birkeland-Eyde process, electricity
being the chief agent in gathering
nitrogen from the air.
The idea was first conceived by a
scientist who noticed that when a
spark from an electrical machine pass
ed through the air it left a peculiar
odor, and 1t was ascertained that this
pungent odor was nitric oxide. This
was the starting point of the discov-
cry.
The discoverers assert that fertiliz-
ers will be cheaper than ever before,
and that at the same time water pow
ers that are too far away from the cen
tiers of civilization to be used for light.
heat and power, will be developed to
the eternal profit Of everyone concern
ed and all who eat.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-25
SICKNESS IN THE CELLAR.

Uncle Henry recently took me down
into his cellar to show me some apples
he has for sale and that cellar was q
sight. Piles of potatoes. some rotten,
many sprouting. cabbage that srnei1ed
TO heaven, some vegetables in one cor
ner that Were left over from last year
land such a stencil! He had about
loo bushels of apples piled up in two
long bins but don't believe there
We're twenty-five bushels of sound ones
in the lot. made him an offer on that
basis, but Uncle Henry refused and
said he guessed he would hold ,em for
awhile" If he holds them in that con-
dition month longer, he will have
none to sell. He and his wife both
complained that they had not been
very well the past winter. No wonder
with that cellar full of rotten stuff
right under them.-L. G. B.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-25


ing scheme. All who have re-
ceived these know how cleyerly
they are worded.
There is almost always a lot
of letters published, purporting
to come from men who have in
vested in the proposed ventures
and found them to be wonderful
opportunities for making men
rich or from those who have
made their fortunes and gener-
ously want to help their fellow
farmers to get rich too.
Very few, indeed, of these
schemes. would bear the light or
day. They are not made for
the purpose. Their sole purpose
is to bleed the farmers of their
hard-earned cash and they are
doing it most effectually.
Not many who lose their mon
ey through these wildcat invest
ment schemes ever tell the
story; they are ashamed ever to
let it be known that they are
so foolish as to sink their cash
that way. That the number who
do this is legion. however. no
one can doubt, for human ma
ture is about the same the world
over. We all like to get some
thing for nothing.
Now two things will help In
this matter. The first is that
all reliable farm papers shall
resolutely shut out every adver-
tisement of this sort. The other
is that we shall all urge
the national government to
close the mails to all schemes
that were begotten for the
purpose of robbing innocent ar
norant investors.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-25
FEATURES OF THE HAMPSHIRE
HOG.

In 1903, John Goodwine, Jr, of
Potomac, Ill. sent five Hampshire bar
rows to the International Stock Show
at Chicago. They took first prize for
barrows Weighing over $50 pounds.
One Of these hogs weighed 1870 pounds
on foot and dressed $50 pounds. These
hogs came to the United States from
England through Canada and were
natives of the Hampshire district of
England. They were bred by the farm
ers of the Ohio valley forty or fifty
years ago. They are good breeders,
1t being not unusual for gilt to pro-
duce from nine to eleven well develop
ed pigs. They are hearty, responsive
feeders and often attain the weight OF
500 hounds in twelve months,