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The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-04-09
HOW no RAISE DuCKs.

Ducks eggs must be dampened dur
ing incubation. whether under a hen
or in the incubator. They should be
dampened once each week during the
first three weeks and the fourth week
about three times; luke warm watea
must be used.
When Matching you may assist them
IL they ore slow in coming from the
shell and 1t will not hurt them in the
least. They should be taken from
the nest as soon as dry, when Il is
warm or the hen may mash them. II
is not necessary that hen should run
with them II you have a small lot for
them They do not need lowering
more than a few nights.
1t Is important that they should
roost on a floor and not on the
ground, when young.
The feeding problem should receive
careful attention, and as we have
besR quite successful in this line
will give our experience as 1t may be
of help to others.
We never feed anything the first
"a hours, then commence by giving
them new milk. After feeding milk
day we add moistened bread
crumbs, and clabber cheese mixed
with sand; sand is also kept on the
floor OF their houses and runs.
We let them out OF the house the
third day and commence giving them
water and add corn meal, bran and a
very little beef scrap to their feed,
and feed in this way two weeks.
Always give ducks a wet feed, and
never feed corn meal alone, as It will
kill them.
After they are two weeks old We
give them plenty OF green food, such
as cabbage and lettuce. II is a good
idea to SOW a small patch OF rape
for them. This bulky food rushes
their growth and reduces the feed
bill.
Plenty OF fresh water must be pro-
vided them, but they must not get
very wet when young; later on 1t will
not hurt them. II is not necessary
to have a stream OF water TO raise
ducks; II you allow young ducks to
wash and swim all they want to you
will lose them.
We feed Ave times a day for the
first two weeks; until the fifth week
four times ard from then three times
each day. We feed coarse meal, add
Ing more bran and beef scraps, never
water and plenty OF green
food. Continue this system OF feed
Ing and management and you will
raise IS per cent. OF your ducklings.
"A. f. Shaw. in the Indiana Farmer.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-04-09
Elaborate Revenge.

Paw, wasn't that q horrible dim
ner?"
1T was, Tommy"
But you handed the waiter a dime
when we went away. What did VOC
do that for?"
Il wanted to convey the idea 10
him, Tommy, as delicately as posi-
BILE, that II he'd brought US good
feed II would have been q half dol
lar."-Chicago Tribune.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-04-09
MORE EGGS.

| have many letters asking this
question: How can ! feed my hens
to make them lay eggs?" says Cal
Husselman, In the Southern Planter.
Moulting is the season OF rest and
reenperation for hens. and II 10 next
to impossible TO make hen lay eggs
when she Is moulting, early Matched
pullets OF the small breeds should be
laying n they are from good laying
strains and have been ven ted. They
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-04-09
cLoYER sEED FoOp.

It is claimed by one authority that
one hundred pounds OF clover meal
contains enough lime for the shells
OF liz dozens of eggs. Clover is
very rich in protein and contains pot
ash, soda. phosphoric acid and other
ingredients that make II one Of the
best feeds for fowls that can be used.
1t contains all the essentials in well
balanced proportion, and Is ralatabls
to the fowls as we'll as healthful. =
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-04-09
Very Funny.

Borroughc-Mr MerChant's out,
you say? Why, he had an appoint
ment with me here. That's very
funny.
New once Boy-Yes, SIR; guess
he thought II was, too. Any ways he
was laughin' whsn he went out
Catholic Standard and Times.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-04-09
MInnssota Wolf KIIIsra.

State Auditor 8. @. Iverson recently
issued warrants for tS,22S for 1895
wolves and cubs killed since last
September Hubbard county Tecelv
ed the largest amount, a total Of 1874
for 40 wolves-'St. Paul Dispatch
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-04-09

Sir Thomas Browne, author Or tho
"RsiiEio Msdici," believed In witches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-06
By Robert June

Placed cars, twenty yards to car, it would
take train 44O miles long to handle the material
from the Gatun locks and 400 miles from all locks.
The prism needs train 40, 139 miles long, and the
total American SO $40 miles. The French would
quire train %, 600 miles long. The daily
ton would load 35 miles of train, and the monthly
S64
To place this enormous quantity of material at the
disposal of the shovels and dredges 900 pounds
of dynamite exploded each month. Placed end
to end, the sticks used monthly would extend 1S9
miles, or from New York to Boston, yearly 2,27O,
from Boston to Spokane the crow flies. The total
amount used at the completion of the canal would
extend some II, 600 miles Made into one great cart
ridge this last would be so feet in diameter and 55
long. Laid down Broadway, it would choke it up for
a city block, and if it exploded not one building
in twenty in all Manhattan Brooklyn would live
to tell the tale and far greater disaster than that
of Messina would ensue
To place this great quantity of dynamite where it
will do the most good incredible amount of drill
ing is necessary, and by the time the canal is
pleted Uncle Sam will have drilled holes enough to
reach from Panama right through to Java the
other side of the world.
Another important item is concrete, of which the
engineers propose to put in 5000, 600 cubic yards.
This will be divided between five points, follows:
100000 yards for municipal. sanitary, and building
construction work. 25O 900 for the splway in Gatun
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-06
O u R

president TAFT has called the Panama Canal
+ the greatest constructive work of the age. How
stupendous the task really it is hard for the
age person to realize.
The excavation is divided into two parts, that of
the canal prism proper and that of the locks DAMS
and diversion channels. From the first named
173 600 900 cubic yards of earth and rock will have
been removed by the Americans at the completion of
the canal and from the second 100000 600 yards,
5000 900 of this from the Gatun locks alone.
The total of all French excavation 81 600, 900
cubic yards, while the American record to Novem-
Der l. 1909, 100000 yards, or over half the
total quantity Each month the great dredges and
steamshovels take out 3,OOO,O 900 yards and if the
present rate of progress maintained shall have
our canal in 1913.
Some idea of what these figures may be
gained from the following statements Placing cubic
yard upon cubic yard the rock and earth from the
Gatun locks alone would extend 2, $40 miles, and
that from all locks and dams 6S1S miles. The prism
would stretch out 9S, 800 miles while the total of
American excavation would equal 1O5, ia miles, or
than four times round the globe at the equator
The grand total of American and French would reach
three-hfth of the way to the
AS hole in the ground the Gatun locks would be
5l9 feet deep and the square. All the locks would
be 6SS feet in each direction The prism would be
cube 1872 feet deep and the total American l 40
feet while the grand total of all excavation would
be deep, dark hole extending two-f1fths of mile
into the earth. Each day hole measuring 139 feet
in each of its dimensions is dug and at the end of
each month these dimensions have reached 435 feet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-06
B I 6 J o B

dam; $780, 900 for the first flight of locks the Pa
cific end at Pedro Miguel 100000 for the second
and third flights at Mrafores; 600 for the
three flights on the Atlantic end at Gatun.
Lay this sidewalk six feet wide, and the munich
pal work would extend 341 miles, the spillway 426
miles, the Pedro Miguel locks 1868 miles, the Mira
flores 2S12 miles, and the Gatun 3 $50, good deal
than the continent.
Poured into fve-room cottages after Mr.. Edlsons
plan, the municipal and sanitary allowance would
give town of $40 houses; the spi1lway would
shelter 1712 families; Pedro Miguel would make
good sized town with 5,4SO dwellings; while Mira
flores could house Norfolk Virginia. in its II 800
buildings; and Gatun with IA S5 of these cottages,
could care for Duluth at pinch Altogether there
would be 81 600 of them, enough to make city
the size of Buffalo.
If the barrels of cement that go to make this con-
crete placed in pyramids with bases equal to the
height the municipal would form pyramid 162
feet high; the spway would outtop this twelve feet;
Pedro Miguel would reach 252 feet; Mirafores, with
329 feet would take up city block and be as high
the Masonic Temple; and Gatun would reach
twenty feet above this. Were all these combined,
We should have an enormous pyramid towering
nearly 500 feet above our heads.
Of the auxiliary works none has aroused SO much
popular interest the Gatun dam. This is to be
over mile in length and third of mile in thick
at the base. 1t will contain 81 5000 cubic
yards of earth and rock about oneninth of the total
excavation. AS to its stability ample tests have
proved that it will be able to withstand many times
the pressure that is to be brought against it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-06

the conversation becomes decidedly less volub1e and
then somebody suggests that while certainly have
had perfectly magnificent ride, the horse to
be getting little tired, because he hasn't been out
for nearly week. you know, and he isn't rough shod
anyhow, and there are SO many slippery spots,-dd
you notice ?-and, anyhow We had superb ride
and been out almost long enough, haven't We?
That's right. Everything you say is hereby ap
proved. Let's go in. We go in. Running -posi-
lively runnng-to the biggest fire in the house, and
leaning over it in wraps closely that we're in
imminent danger of catching fire and burning to a
crisp right in the presence of the family proceed
to tell the others who haven't gone sleigh riding Just
what they missed; what mag -f-cent sleigh ride
we had. Somehow, though, they don't look jealous
at all. Then after about fifteen minutes thawing
the fire for about five straight hours, refusing to
bulge matter how urgent the call may be. And
guilty. conscious during that long thawing
out process that-that-wel yes, did have fine
ride of course; but-oh, well, this mighty comfy
old house, after ALL and the fire is pretty nearly
mag -nif- f-cent anything we know anything about
and
Well, the next time there's fine fall of snow
and somebody other suggests sleigh ride, and
endeavors to work up enthusiasm on the subject
why, we've got many letters to write that just
cold and we're afraid to venture out, much we'd
love to go sleigh riding; we're expecting some
folks to drop in presently; or-oh, any old thing to
get of going sleigh riding This is attitude
to the No. sleigh ride that is to say, if we're per
who learn by experience, and most of us are in
spite of what the Ressimists say on that subject
Leave it to Mr.. E. A. Poe. He knew! What Mr.
Poe liked about sleigh riding the sound of the
bells, heard from this side So do we. And we are
perfectly delighted that, in this age of uncandd
avoidances, we are permitted humb1y to ndorse at
least one of Mr.. Poes views.
The Gorgeousness of Coasting
A ND then tobogganing; or rather coasting as
4 y it used to be called before became SO high
fautiny addicted to fancy words for plain things
There isn't, there couldn't be, anything much
more gorgeous than coasting. We used to call the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-06

thngbut please to look upon me- SO far as coasting
was concerned, as one who had passed forever out
of their lives.
Did they listen to me? Would they count me out?
They did not and they would not. They never do.
Folks that indulge in Winter Sports must have been
the folks who wrote the words and music of the
axiom, MISERY Loves Company Their restless
ness or whatever it is, will not permit them to stay
inside and behave when there's ice and snow outside;
and So with the malignant intention of getting even
with somebody else for the narrowing misery they
positively know they're going to endure themselves
as soon as they get to Winter Sporting they
drag perfectly circumspect and well behaved persons
who like the Indoor Arrangement out into the cut
ting. tumultuous, icy night, and they.
Well anyhow, went coastng with them solely to
escape being called horrid old poke" and dreary
kill joy" and relic of former ages, and such like.
Not only did go coasting with them, but they
installed me as pilot or steersman.
Have you read, by the way, that current best
anyhow, that expresses it. 1t never can!
The cold was vicious enough, for thing. We
walked to the coasting hill path of fallen
crunched icicles formed by our own breaths l
as | used to have-well, back in the late '70s and
early sos when I'd go a-coasting Throw it away?
! wanted two or three more overcoats! And how
imprudent, how frightfuy chance taking the little
lads and 1assies looked in their sweaters, and no
heavy wrappngs at all 1t was horrible to think of,
the pneumonia and peurisy and 1umbago and scia-
tca and rheumatism and things they might get,
going without their proper swaddngs that way!
l wondered, when [ EN-, what their folks could
possibly be thinking of to let those nice chubby
checked children and tear around in such bitter
weather without their And right at that point
afraid that grinned rather foolishly. Yes, |
member that did, and somebody asked me what
was grnning about, and declined to say
The Perilous Job of Steersman
WELL, with chattering teeth and dark, dark
w fear weighing me down Il hadn't steered sled
for years than cared to think about, took
place steersan of that wabbly coastlng craft,
Continued page II
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-06

going down head foremostway bly, b-st g; but,
somehow another, that phrase no longer sounds
polite once it did. Yes, coastng is superb,
harat1ng, entranc1ngfor coasters. 1t all depends,
of course upon whether you natural born coaster
not. Almost everybody is natural born coaster
until he she arrives at the age when she he pos
Sesses the most fundamental idea to the meaning
of heat and cold. Which is roundabout way of
saying that coasting is gorgeous for young 'uns.
Children don't know what cold means, nor heat,
either but they re particularly impervious to cold.
Do you remember dignifed sir when you used to
slinkiy remove your oppressive little overcoat-op-
pressive when the temperature around
Zero-ust you got around the corner,
where you your watchful mother couldn't
you from the window! Do you remember, serene
madam and mother when YOU yourself used to grab
off your cunnin little dolman and neck comforter
and use EN- to repel the audacious boys the bit
terest days when you getting home from school,
and replaced them only when you were block
away from the house-and then you got caught
dolmanless and comforterless in awhile?
The blubber belted Eskimo Cf they that way)
"have nothing on children of the temperate zone
when to resisting not feeling the cold
Which is why coast1ng just made to order for chill
dren.
Try 1t Again Now
RUT have you ever tried coastng since you grew
- up? l don't exactly mean since you grew up,
ether but since you got to be- say, thirtyfve, with
all the despicabe sensitveness to climatic and other
influences which that hdeous old age necessarily
fastens upon you?
Well, if you haven't, try it lust you try it!
did not SO long ago. 1t was rank failure. 1t was,
in fact one of the most dreadful frosts of my life In
the first place, didn't want to coast at all l tried
to resist. l told em l had some business letters
to write that, if they didn't go off in the imminent
sands of dollars. l told 'em / had murderous
earache and threatened with mastoditis. told
em had la grippe mo, did not say the la grippe;
l implored begged beseeched and entreated them
to count me out of the merry-oh SO merrv!-
coasting party to go and coast all by themselves,
and Heaven help them; to play pretty and every
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-02
PRESIDENT LEWIS OF
MINE WORKERS SCORED

SPRINGFIELD, H.. Aug. IA peppery
statement given out here today by State
President John II, Walker of the Illi-
nois Miner Workers replies TO the state
ment issued from Indianapolis by Ma
tional President Lewis. In part. Walker
said:
He has proved his absolute incom-
potency. and worse, the short time he
has been in office. He went into office
with q solid and united organization and
nearly $1,000 600 in the treasury. He
spent most OF the money on strikes thou
sands OF miles away. which did not Af-
feet our wages or conditions, and where
the men had not paid anything into our
treasury
I'm less than three years he has
brought about this condition. whereby
there is dissension. strife and division.
lack of confidence, suspicion and diStrust,
bankruptcy and Indebtedness.
The miners OF Illinois are right In their
contention and they are determined ts
continue this contest until they win. and
the yawpings Of cheap. disgruntled and
disgraced demagogue will not deter them.
The men have made most magnificent
fight and will continue to do so to the
end.
ain my opinion, his real reason for not
counting the vote is to avoid having the
rank and file of our organization know
how badly the Illinois miners repudiated
him -
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-02
BALL|NGER GETS
HIS DANDER UP
Secretary of Interior Bitterly
DenOunces "PinchOt, Garfield
and That Bunch"
TRYING TO MAKE HIM
SCAPEG0AT, HE SAYS
Stands With Taft in EndeavOr
to Make This Admins
tratiOn Success.

ST PAUL, Aug. In an interview
which he gave out tonight at Mime
apolis, Richard A Ballinger, secretary OF
the interior. bitterly arraigned his en-
emies as ''demagogues' and charged that
not only are they seeking TO make a
scapegoat OF him, but they are also try
ing to foment trouble between President
Taft and Theodore Roosevelt.
After referring to the fact that at
Seattle: his old home, every one is his
friend, and that ne went to Washington
as secretary only after being long sought
after. he said:
"Pincbot. Garfield and that bunch have
been after me, trying TO make scape-
goat Of me.
THE president and have done all we
could TO make this administration sue
cess. The president is heartily In favor
OF Il radical conservation. and SO am /
There are a lot of demagogues who would
like 10 see breach forced between Theo-
dore Roosevelt and President Taft, It's
Just the way OF things But President
Taft has been wise. He has taken a
broad and liberal stand for constructive
and upbuilding policies
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-02
VAST ARMY Of
MINERS STRIKE
Thirty Thousand or More Men
in Southwestern Coal Fields
Are Affected.
OPERATORS AND W0RKMEN
CANNOT GET TOGETHER
Men Have Already Been Idle
Four Months Pending At
tempted Settlement.

KANSAS CITY. Mo, Aug. 1-Negotia-
tions between miners and coal operators
of the southwestern territory, which have
dragged along over a period OF exactly
four months, were brought TO an end to-
day. a general strike order will be Is
sued Immediately, according to George
Manuel, secretary OF the Missouri dis
trict, and 10000 OF more miners who
have not worked since the expiration OF
the old contract, April l, will be formally
on strike.
The conclusion Of negotiations came
after the miners had been in session the
greater part OF the day, and had waited
for the operators TO agree to their propo-
sition TO hold u joint session, at which a
wage scale based upon what is known as
the Cincinnati demand could be dis
cussed.
No Arbitration.
Conference committees had been pro-
posed by the miners to meet such con-
ference committees as the operators chose
TO appoint. But the operators held that
by agreement neither the operators or the
and would make no concessions TO this
requirement OF the miners
or the number OF miners affected by the
strike order, about $500 are In Kansas
about $500 In Missouri, 1000 in Oklahoma
and about 30, 900 in Arkansas. Some
5000 miners in Texas, though in another
district. will be Indirectly affected by the
strike order, and this. too, Will have an
indirect bearing upon the miners in Colo
RADIO and other western states.
AT present there are a number of in
dependent mines in this territory. that
from the beginning have paid the wage
scale asked, and at these mines there has
been no cessation OF work
They employ approximately $500 men.
Employees of these independent concerns
will not be asked to discontinue work
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-02
TAF 7 WILL NOT
TALK So MUCH
President Feels That Public
Business Will Claim His
Time This Fall.
SAYS NOTHING ABOUT
POLITICAL SITUATION
But From Conferences With
New York Leaders Appears
to Be Worried.

BEVERLY, Mass, Aug. I.-Presi.
dent Taft followed TODAY the recent
cancellation of his western and south
ern engagements by announcing that his
speeches OF tho future would be- few
and far between. He told a commit
tee from Providence, r. l., that he
could not reconsider the cancellation Of
his engagement to speak before the At
lantlc Deep Waterways association in
that city in September. Mr.. Taft said
important matters of public business
would claim his attention from now
until the convenlng of congress.
The president did not give a definite
answer TO Governor Eberhart of Min
nesota and delegation of fifteen from
St. Paul, who came to urge him to ac-
cepC the invitation ITO speak before the
National Conservation congress In that
city September s.
IT he goes to st. Paul he will simply
write the conservation feature of his
next message in advance and deliver it
in an address before the conservation
congress In this way the ST. Paul en-
gagement would interfere little with the
president plans for the next three
months.
Sees New York Leaders.
New York state politics brought Vice
President Sherman and William L.
Ward. Republican national committee
men for that state. TO Beverly late to-
day and they were in conference with
the president for an hour or more. Mr..
Taft Is said TO have confirmed to his
New York callers the position he took
in the upstate fight, that Of keeping
hands off"
AS IN the Influence of Colonel Roose-
reason to believe that the state leaders
regard 1t as potent. This phase OF the
situation entered into today's conference
at Burgess Point President TAFT was
told it was the hope OF the New York
Republicans that candidate might be
selected upon whom all factions could
unite and who would demand the ap-
proval and support OF the president.
Governor Hughes and Colonel Roose-
welt,