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New-York tribune., 1908-08-16

they're fretful and caters to their little Uhi1ns IL
all has an effect their laying the same as you
and I do better work when we're treated wen at
home and In the Office A little fattery helps the
hens They don't like to be jawed at and called
names when they take a fancy to set on nothing
or to go off in a corner to lay. man grabs them
by the tail and gives them a ducking Wnen
woman would use moral suasion. Hens need not
food and hot water to drink at this time of year.
Their feet must be kept warm and dry. II they
walk in the snow they're liable to colds and pneu-
monia. They want perfect sanitation and cleanH-
ness. plenty of air. clean sand and straw daily to
New-York tribune., 1908-08-16

at once. People build expensive outfits, instead
of starting gradually, like me-"
THAT doesn't answer the whole case said the
veteran. There is rock that most chicken
farmers split on and it amounts to more than all
the inexperience, rashness disease and compeu-
ton in the business. There is a constitutional
defect in the fowl itself that accounts for failures
We need a new hen not only you and l. but the
world of professional breeders. and until we get
her there will be bonanza in the business
That's new idea to me-" replied the begin
ner 7 have a stock of White Leghorns which
the government report declares to be the pest
LAYERS IL the land They lay about two hundred
New-York tribune., 1908-08-16
TOO TOUGH FOR BOARDING HOUSE

You haven't tried 10 eat many of those Leg
horns I guess. Wait. had some that were
al out two years Old. Fattened one up so that Il
x-eichcd :, little more than five pounds dressed
Invited friends to spend the day and enjoy
rrime unrefrigeraIed. homemade roast. Say, II
was the toughest and strirgtest tdbit ever pre-
sented outside of L boarding house We tried to
pass it over; but I'd talked too much ABOUT my
fine chickens, and my friends couldn't help get
ting hack at me was in a false position. My
wife had cooked the bird couldn't lay it to the
cook. and didn't know st in the nature Of
I,eghorns TO be tough
New-York tribune., 1908-08-16
NEW YORK WANTS WHITE EGGS.

'I believe all eggs must be white for the New
York mar ket' said the novice.
Yes. that's the fad. Boston follows suit with
England in preferring brown eggs. There Is no
difference in quality, yet the public fad must be
respected by the man in business. Size is less i'm
portant than color, since eggs are sold by number
instead of weight"
Aren't you exaggerating when you say that
the lack the combination fowl is the largest
factor to account for failure in the chicken bus-
ness?'
II don't think So Take man with stock Of
nve hundred White Leghorns. The pullets and
yearlings the best layers. and it is necessary
dispose Of one-half the old stock every year in
order TO keep up the egg record. But these super
animated layers only realize twelve to fourteen
cents a pound wholesale. while good roasting
fowl sell the private trade for twenty-h five
cents pound. and broilers may fetch up to
seventy-fve This sacrifice of old stock cuts
all the profit out Of the egg department. If the
good layers were eligible table after their
year of other usefulness there would be real
money In the business-until the laws of competi-
ton got busy. There q time when the public
taste less refined. and anything with feathers
had fair market. Now the public has been, edu-
Gated to demand tender and plump birds for the
table Even fricassee won't conceal the defect.
of a strngy. tough fowl
isn't it unnatural expect a hen to lay eggs
every other day and still be large and juicy?"
We'll we have succeeded after thousands of
years in making her lay frequently instead once
twice . yesr. and we're the high road to revo-
lutionize her structure that can lay without
undue strain TO her constitution. and accumulate
tenderness. Nothing is impossible to science. Some
day the hen will be cured of her nervous dispos-
ton and occasional traits of stubbornness and
peevishuess To-day she needs too much coddling
Perhaps that's why women get along we'll with
chickens
Yes. I've noticed my wife manages am better
than I DO"
''Of course. She has a sympathetic voice, and she
handles them gently Sha GAlnas thAna when
New-York tribune., 1908-08-16

eggss year instead of the seventy Of the aver
age farm fowl. If you get only l4o eggs there
in
New-York tribune., 1908-08-16

merciaI poultryman. and the inventor who gets
the answer will be hailed great benefactor
Has anything been done to breed the combina-
tom
Attempts enough yes; but the true Burbank OF
fowls is vet T. come. Birds are being crossed and
recrossed all realize the utility fowl or
the future The trouble in the past has been that
people have bred for fancy purposes, for gait and
pIumage housekeeping and fighting, and perhaps
with vague ideas of eradicatng the cackle or max
ing the rooster crow hour later in the morning
1t is a practical chicken want now, rather than
a polite trick creation. Fer example, you
might think it an advantage to have featherless
hen TO save the trouble of picking, but then you
would have to buy clothes for cold weather and
give 'enn steam heat Practically speaking, the
Orpington is one OF the attempts to give US COM
binatiop eater and layer She originated in Eng
land some years ago. and is not long in this coun-
tly being formerly considered 2 fancy stock, and
the price the eggs for setting is still too high
Tor q quick commercial spread Of the breed The
eggs cost about dollar apiece, while you can get
all the pure Leghorns Plymouth Rocks you
for s. to 81 q hundred. Orpingtons come in
bun white and black varieties They size up to
small turkeys. having fine style, long tails and
glossy resplendent feathers. They lay very close
to the Leghorns, and don't quit in winter One
fault which doesn't injure them with the suburb
ante as much It does with the commercial
grower is the laying Of brown eggs. instead Of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
.HETY GIVES NO CASH
ON VANDERBILT GEMS
Refuses to Play Pawnbroker and
Furnish Money to Go to
Hungary.
RICH ON VERGE OF POVERTY.
Woman Financier Tells of Big Loans
and Makes Prophecies on
Political Outlook.

Mrs. Hetty Green, Queen of Finance,
has been hearing things" and the
other day in an interview at Boston
she confided in the public through the
press. The financial stringency has
plunged many of the notably rich into
Green's statements are true. Mrs.
Green, according to her story. got IN
der cover before the pinch hit, and had
plenty of cash. Then the fnanciers
came to her on Bonded knees for relief.
The Vanderbilt family, she says,
came to her with their family jewels
They wanted her to take them as Sc
curity for loan. This was before
Gladys married the count. Mrs. Green
told them, she said that she didn't
deal in diamonds, and their offer was
spurned. ''They say Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt is going to marry a Hunga-
rian count" said Mrs Green. ''She
ought to have a guardian instead"
Mrs. Green says men high in politics
have tipped off the inside information
on the presidential nomination. Roose-
welt, she says is to be nominated again.
Taft knows it, too. She says the scheme
is to pose Taft before the country as
the Presidents choice. He will get all
the delegates he can and then will get
UP himself and nominate Roosevelt 1t
is all framed up, declares Mrs. Green.
She says money is easier, but hard
times will continue until after the cleo
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
NOT EAGER FOR LAWS REPEAL.
South Dakota Divorce Mill Brings
I'm S5.OOO.aOO.


In the annual report of the bureau Of
vital statistics is made plain the reason
why South Dakota does not want to give
up the divorce business. The bureaus
report shows that during the year 1907
a total of 552 divorces were granted in
the State, of which 800 were to non-res-
idents, and it was dull year in the di-
vorce market, too. The average spent by
seekers for divorce during their six
months residence in South Dakota is not
less than $500 a month and probably
much higher, but estimating the average
cost of a Dakota divorce, including the
expenses of setting up residence. pay
ment of attorney and court costs at ST.
800, the State of South Dakota last year
took in S4S0,O00 for granting the 800 di-
vorces to non-residents. While 1907 was
decidedly bearish in the divorce trade,
owing to the agitation in the State for
repeal of the law, if the income for the
last year is taken as an average, South
Dakota has realized S5,OO0,0O0 from her
divorce mill in the last decade. This
really is a low estimate, for most Of
those who come to South Dakota to be
freed of chatting matrimonial ties are lib
eral spenders of money. Merchants send
special orders for high-grade goods in an
ticipation of the divorce patronage, hotels
fit up whole suites of rooms in the best
ant, while it is regular business to fur
nish houses and rent them to unhappy
wives for from $75 to 500 a month.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
TRADE AND INDUSTRY

Railroad officials and telegraphers are
slow to agree upon a schedule of wages
for the latter under the eight-hour law.
Representatives of the Minneapolis
Chamber of Commerce will 20 to Wash
ington to protest against she passage of
the Culberson and other bills aimed at
exchanges
Grand Forks was chosen as the place
for the next annual meeting of the Mu-
tual Rlacksmiths and Mechanics Union
of North Dakota The members took
stems TO avoid the dead beats" and will
keen each other posted on characters of
this kind.
All Messenger cars used in this country
fen wears hence will have TO be made of
steel if bill which will soon be intro
duced IN Congress is passed The Tray-
eIers' Protective Association, consisting of
81 900 commercial men, is to father the
measure, it is said, and has gathered to-
yether mass of statistics relative to cas-
ualties in railroad wrecks
A number of prominent men of the
Red river valley have formed company
which has as its object the erection of
big dam on the Red river near Halstad.
Mimi, at the junction of the Red river
and the Wild Rice river, and if they are
allowed to carry out the project it will
mean the construction of the biggest pow
er plant in that section of the country. 1t
will supply power for manufactures and
lighting to Crookston, Grand Forks and
Fargo.
The South Dakota railroad commission
has ordered the Great Northern Railroad
Company to reopen its stations at Grover
and Ranville. Codington county, which
had been closed as a measure OF economy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
RUIN FOR CATARACT
PREDICTED BY EXPERT
DIR. j. w. Spencer Says Power
Plants Will Change Looks of
Niagara Falls.
GREAT sHRINKAGE PROBABLE.
Lower Level of Whole Lake system
May Come from Tapping Stream
Effect of Chicago Canal.

DR.. ]. W. Spencer. the British scient-
isr who was commissioned by the geo.
logical survey of Canada to make an
investigation of the Niagara Fails prob
em, discussed in an interesting manner
the effect of the utilization of its water
by power plants upon the scenic beauty
Of that natural wonder At the in
stance of the American Civic Associa-
ton DR.. Spencer appeared before the
House rivers and harbors committee
and presented facts and figures to show
what effect the request of the Ontario
Power Company for franchise TO use
10000 cubic feet of water per second
would have on the falls
1t was contended by Dr. Spencer
that this is from 20 to % per cent of
the discharge of Niagara river and it
would greatly impair the characters
tics of the whirlpool rapids; lower the
river bed up to the falls, break up the
surface rock at the foot of the Ameri-
can falls and Goat islsnd and thereby
cause more rapid recession of the
horseshoe.
As the beginning of these rapids is
marked by a rim over which the flow
Of water is already thin upon the east
ern half said DR.. Spencer, 1.-The di-
version of the water will drain that
portion of the upper rapids with the eff
feet of destroying about 800 feet of
the eastern side of the great horseshoe
and breaking up the American falls
into separate streams. BY this shrink
age of the water the total length of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27

both falls will be contracted from near
ly 1000 feet TO say 1000 feet and the
diameter of the great fall from 1,200 to
800 feet. This diversion of the water
will produce a shrinkage of the horse
shoe, so that what remains will be en-
tirely on the Caadian side of the boun-
dairy line.
'On account of the lowering of the
water in the basin above the upper
rapids it will increase the slope OF the
river SO that the surface of Lake Erie
will be lowered by three feet. Again,
the lowering of Lake Erie will in the
same manner lower Lakes Huron and
Michigan. Already with a partial use
Lake Erie has been lowered ten inches,
but this is not apparent to the superb
cial observer owing to the high water
which has prevailed during the last
four years and especially the last two
years.
But this condition cannot be expect
ed to continue. This amount of lower
ing is partly due to the Chicago canal,
which at present is taking 1000 cubic
feet second, or about half what it is
allowed. In connection with the calcu-
lations for repairing the harbors and
canals damaged the United States en-
gineers calculated that to increase the
depth even one foot would cost over
S12,OO0,OO0.''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
Lemoine's Diamond Form uIa.

Discussion still continues in European
papers concerning the case of Mr.. Lee
moline, the alleged diamond maker of
Paris, who Sir Julius Wernher of the De
Beers Mining Company recently prose
cuted on the charge of swindling him out
of $4,000 in connection with the financ-
ing of a company to exploit Lemoine's
artificial diamond formula. Since Lee
MONIES arrest it has come out that he did
not confine his operations to Wernher,
but sold half interest in his secret to
one Edgar Cohen, London capitalist,
who has made public the formula attach
ed to the contract drawn at the time of
his investment. The main points of this
formula are the heating of mixture of
iron 80 parts, boron 30 parts and ami
NAL charcoal 10 parts in an electrical fur
mace heated to a temperature of 1000 de-
grees. A current of carbonic acid gas is
turned on at the same time to drive out
the oxygen. Diamond makers and chem
lists appear to be skeptical about the gen
uineness of this formula, notwithstanding
that Armstrong asserts that he saw Lee
MONIES secret diamond making process,
and that it is entirely bona fide. The late
NJ. Maissan. who received one of the No
bel prizes fof his discoveries, succeeded
in making very fine particles, known as
diamond dust, but which had no CONNER
cial value.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27

and contemplating the expenditure or
$500. 100000 within the next ten years
1t may not pass at this session. But
that it must pass. or that some meas
ure of commensurate magnitude N st
speedily be adopted, every man in Amer
lean public life. from minor politician
TO farseeing statesman, has already
conceded. There is no choice, no alter
native, unless it be the choice Of pur-
blind folly
Senator Newlands, who introduced
the bill, is one of the experts selected
by the President as specially qualified
for membership in the Inland Water
ways Commission-the Nevada author
ity whose broad knowledge of the sub
ject ranks him with Frederick H. New
ell, the director of the reclamation ser
vice; DR.. w. ]. MCGEE. the distinguish
ed expert of the geological bureau;
Clifford, Pinchot, the government for
ester; Senator Warner of Missouri,
who has been one of the most thorough
ly versed students of the plan, and
lOUs, dChllOW
edged as the Congressman qualified to
speak the last word of wisdom upon
the needs of the country's rivers and
harbors.
In the next ten years." declares
Senator Newlands, 1.-The United States
should spend at least S500,000,000 in
the improvement of inland waters. The
government should enter into this work
in every section Of the country. on the
Pacific coast, the Atlantic coast, the
Gulf coast. and along the Mississippi
river and its tributaries"
The proposal is to cut a channel at
the northern end of the intercoastal
canal, from Barnstable bay, north of
Cape Cod, to Buzzard's Bay. giving &C
cess to the comparatively smooth wat
ers of Buzzard's bay and an inner pas
sage down Long Island sound to the
Delaware and Raritan canal, at Perth
Amboy.
The Delaware and Raritan. deepen
ed, is to give access to the Delaware
river at Trenton, Y. J., whence there
will be the route of natural water
courses TO the Chesapeake and Della
ware canal, which extends across the
narrow neck of Delaware and the east
ern shore of Maryland. This will pro-
vide a ship route from the Delaware
river to the Chesapeake bay.
Down the Chesapeake bay the route
proceeds to Norfolk and down the
south branch of the Elizabeth river
1t is likely to cut across Currituck
sound, through Coanjock bay across
North Carolina, into Albemarle sound
and on through Croatan sound into
Pamlico sound.
Cutting through the Beaufort, it has
access, by means of various cuttings, to
an inland route paralleling the whole
Atlantic coast line down to Florida,
and then on, skirting the Gulf of Mex
leo and admitting the enormous traffic
of the Mississippi, to Texas and to the
mouth of the Rio Grande.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
~QAZ9 MIS-
or
Ng4ATJ
8P@RR

The University of Wisconsin will have
| four coaches to make its football eleven
| for next season.
The Columbia Yacht Club of Chicago
| is preparing for an increased interest in
yacht racing on the Great Lakes.
The Grinnell track team, last year the
| champions of Iowa, will make strong
bid for the same honors this spring
The management at Nebraska has of
| fered the Thanksgiving football date to
Ames, the game to be played in Lincoln.
In a roller skating contest at Chicago
| Miss Pinkerton and Miss Souchard COW
cred fifty-one miles and eight laps in four
| hours.
In connection with the Cuban winter
festival it has been decided to inaugurate
horse racing on a new track at Buena
Vista, near Havana.
On a slushy track at Oakland, Cal, the
best race the other day was the seven
furlong event, which was won by Ra-
leigh, in a game finish.
Louis Drill, one of ST. Paul's veteran
catchers, who played with Pueblo, Colo,
last season, will manage the Terre Haute,
Ind, team this season.
At Los Angeles, Cal. Battling Nelson
was given the worst beating in ten rounds
that he ever received Rudolph Unholz
won on the bit, beating the Dane at every
kind of fighting which the former light
weight champion introduced.
George Hackenschmidt of Russia easily
defeated Joseph Rogers, American, in the
wrestling match at Oxford music hall,
London, for the championship of the
world.
The girls basketball team of the State
agricultural school defeated the girls of
Drummond hall, Minneapolis. in the ar
mory at the agricultural school, by
score of "a to g.
At South Bend, Ind, in a wrestling
match for $500 purse wild Joe" Col
Inns of Wisconsin defeated Dan Mcbride
of Cleveland, winning two successive falls
in 81 and % minutes.
The negotiations between Nebraska uni
versity and Iowa university for a game
of football to be played between the
teams representing the two institutions
next fall have fallen through.
A Russian trotting mare of the famous
Orloff breed has arrived in America for
the purpose of being bred to a stallion
through whose veins runs the pure blood
strain of the American trotting breed.
Thomas A. Hueston of st. Louis sue
cessfully defended his title as champion
FOOL player by defeating Jercrne keogh
of Buffalo, the score for the three nights
play in st. Louis being Hueston 600,
keogh 5S4.
Brugger, the big tackle on the cham
pionship Ames football team, has been
elected captain of the Ames track team
for the spring of 1908.
The New York Jockey Club has issued
a pamphlet entitled The Truth About
Racing" which is intended as an answer
TO the various criticisms against the sport
Harry J. Huff of Grinnell college
Iowa, whose sprinting last summer placed
him in the front rank of the short-dis-
lance men. will be taken to the Olympic
games in London next summer whether
he wins place on the American team
or not If he does not make the -Ameri-
can team he will go on the Chicago Ath-
letic Club team.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
CHICAGO

discussing trade in the Chicago dis
tricC Tor the last week, r. G. Dun &
oompany's report says:
The general course of trade is headed
toward recovery, although the returns
disclose some irregularity. Operations
TINS week were restricted to some extent
by unfavorable weather and the holiday.
ana there are smaller marketings OF farm
products, less freight movement and de-
cline IN payments through the banks.
Against these temporary setbacks there
are gratifying offsets in important re-
sumptlons at the mills and furnaces. fur
Their unemployment of workers and an
Improved demand for manufactures and
spring merchandise.
Retail trade here and at most interior
points benefited from wider buving of
heavy winter apparel and depletion of
stocks previously in slow absorption.
1he attendance of country buyers in
the wholesale markets for staple goods
shows seasonable increase and dealings
are encouragingly stimulated in dry goods,
woolens, clothing, footwear and food pro-
ducts.
The bookings IN some respects make
i"'oiaole comparison Win year ago,
and the aggregate would have been bet
Ter were all buyers making their usual
tuli selections of needs, but there is yet
a rather conservative feeling, which is
ilkely to last until the trend of prices and
the business outlook become more settled
Road statesmen have fair success in the
textile branches and new accounts are
opened in the south and southwest Sec
lions. Indications generally encourage
confidence in the prospects for wholesale
and jobbing activity.
Manufacturing is not yet marked by an
appreciate increase of outputs and inn
provement in deliveries is not expected to
become general before spring. The situa-
ton. however, is better by the machinery
set in motion and reduction of the unem-
ployed.
Inquiries appear more plentiful in iron
and steel branches, especially for rails,
structural shapes and wire products.
Bank clearings, $201 ,416,S56, are 1913
per cent under those of the corresponding
week of 1907
Failures in the Chicago district num-
Der SO, against 81 last week and % a
year ago. Those with liabilities over So
900 number 16, against 6 last week and 6
year ago.