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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
PEACE CONFERENCE PROSPECTS APPEAR
 MUCH BRIGHTER
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while the Porte is animated by con- ciliatory spirit and is desirous of a suc- cessful conclusion of the negotiations, 1t can under no circumstances consent to the cession of Adrianople."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
J. F. Brown

I. F. Brown, aged 61 years, died at 1:30 MT. Brown lived at 23l5 Fifth avenue. Ensley, and is survived by three sons. Frank and Jacob of Ensley and Henry of Greenvlle, and one daughter. Mrs. Will Sheehee of Ensley. The remains will be sent to Greenville this morning at S:30 o'clock for interment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
Resignation Accented

St. Petersburg, December 29.-The Em- peror has accepted the resignation of M. Makaroff as minister of the interior. The cause assigned for M. Makaroff's resignaas ton is i'll health
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
0. M. Vancleave

The funeral of O. M Vancleave, the Louisville & Nashville flagman who was struck by a train near Calera Friday night, receiving injuries from which he died Saturday, was held yesterday aft ernoon at 2:30 o'clock from the late resi- dence, 1921 Avenue G.. interment being held in Elmwood cemetery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
Lille May Walton

Lilly May Walton, the swear old daughter of Mir. and Mrs. W. P. Wal ton, died yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the family residence, 1872 Avenue D. The funeral will fbe held from the residence this afternoon at 5 o'clock, interment to take place in Woodlawn cemetery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
Frank Boutwell,

Greenville. December 29.-(Special.)- MT. Frank Boutwell,, aged 1s. died at his home here Sunday morning. He was the son of MT. F. M. Boutwell,. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 10 o'clock at the residence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30

has got to be done tenderly, because If you can educate a man there is no use killing him before you have edu- cated him. It has got to be done in such a way as not to tear and de- stroy the economic fibre of the nation and so stop the processes of life. but it has got to be done. and it has got to be done with an absolutely inflex- ible will. l dare say the patient will not always like it. I dare say that there are some gentlemen who will be criticisng the processes of change until they die; but some of them are elderly and so the criticism of the pro cesses of change may not be as long as we fear.
 A Matter of Courage
 "Tn every direction you turn it is matter of information, of guidance Of moral rectitude and of inhexible courage and 1 believe that the hap piest circumsances of our time is that this Is not a thing which a few men have seen. Enormous sections of pub lie opinion of this country are per- fectly clarified. There is no doubt in the mind of the nation what has to be done and there is to be no going back whatever. l may blunder the men who have so far been picked out may not to be the right men, but whether they succeed or not, the right men are go- ing to arise and the thing is going to be done"
 Governor Wilson will go tomorrow to Trenton where he has a number of political appointments. On Tuesday he expects Representative Underwood to confer with him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
LICE JOY. Undertaken. Phones req

SHAW. the Undertaken Phones .
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-04-18

FIG. xx-sELF FEEDING HOPPER
three months old There is no place
like home" to chickens. and it is a
great deal of trouble to teach them t"
forsake their coops and so into tho
poultry house nights. This trouble can
be avoided by building number of
small colony houses. A convenient!
size for these houses is s by 10 feet
Such a house will hold hundred
chicks until they are nearly full grown
1t may be built on the same plan "a
the main poultry house without the
scratching shed part. 1t should bc
built on runners, so that 1t can b.
hauled about from one place to all
other, as is most convenient. These
colony houses are practically indispen
sable when poultry raising is conducte:!
CD a large scale. In such case it is
best to build these houses In substan-
tial fashion. so that they may be used
many seasons AS much attention
should also he given to keeping them
In good sanitarg, condition as Is due the
main poultry house.
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Locating the Poultry House.

FIG. IX-SMALL POULTRY HOUSE.
too far away they will roost in the
barns and sheds rather than return tn
it. The poultry house should not be
too far from the dwelling either, il
order that it may not be too incon-
venient to care for the poultry. The
ground where it is placed should he
fairly high and naturally well drained
A damp poultry house fosters all sorts
of diseases
The size of the poultry house de-
pends upon the number Of fowls kept.
1t is estimated that about five square
feet of floor space should he allowed PEI
fowl. Ii they can be out Of doors most
of the time they can get along with
considerably less The best kind OF
house to build is the scratching shed
type, built with shed roof The high
side should be to the south. About
half of this house should be parti
toned off for a scratching shed. The
south side of this shed part is to be
left open. covered only with wire net
ting to keep the fowls in If the back
and sides of this room are tight and
the bottom boarded up a foot or two
there will be little draft and the
fowls will be comfortable even in the
coldest weather The floor of this
shed part ruay be Of dirt ard should
be kept covered with several inches Of
straw
The remainder Of the house should
havc,a floor. preferably of cement. !
cement floor is easily kept clean and is
little more expensive than Il wooden
one The chief advantage is that it
keeps out rats and other vermin better
than any other kind of floor Neither
does 1t furn!.:h any crevices in which
lice and mites can hide. These pests
are the worst enemies to poultry cul-
ture. and care should be taken in build
ing house to leave as few cracks
where they can hide as possible
Value Of q Curtain Front.
There should be several windows in
the south SIDE of the house to supply
light Light is one of the best disin-
fectants 1t does much to keep the
fowls free from disease and happy and
contented. To provide for ventilation
there is nothing equal to the curtain
front" This is q large square of mus
lin fitted into a frame the same rs d
window. This allows a gradual ad
mission of fresh mir without drafts
The exchange Of air takes place slowly
enough, so that 1t does net lower the
temperature of the heusa tao much
Considerable light comes through the
curtain also. and less heat esranc;'
through 1t at night than through glass
windows. The curtain has the furtlc;
advantage nf being cheap. No pouitr.
house should be put up without one,
Whether built Of lumber or OF some
other material. the poultry houss-
should be tight. Drop siding is gcet'
material for the side walls. A sinw'~
wall IS the 'heapest and answers IL
purpose very well It costs only y
tie extra however tc lath and nlasts.
the inside and such house Is Nor.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-04-18

A word spoken. an army Of chariot
cannot 0vertake 1t.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-04-18
Making Money
On the Farm
x.-PouItry Houses and
Equipment
By 6. Y. GREGORY.
author Of Home Course IN Modern
Agriculture
Copyright. 1909. by American Press
Association
.OR the money invested and
-

~OR the money invested and
II work applied poultry is one
Of the most profitable side line;
on the farm. Indeed, many
farms are run at profit with poultry
alone. If poultry is profitable on a
place where all the feed must be
bought it should be doubly so on
the general farm, where much Of its
feed is made up of waste products
Too often the work of caring for the
poultry is left to the women and chill
dren- Much of it is light work that
they can do all right. but the man Of
the place should not consider it be-
meath his dignity to lend n helping
hand when it is needed
Ii poultry Is to be kept at profit
some kind Of shelter other than the
machine shed. the apple trees or the
COW stable will have to be provided
A good. warm poultry house is absc
lutely necessary if winter eggs are to
be secured. At 80 to so cents dozen
winter eggs will soon pay tie cost Of
u EUuSe VI tuiS klUu, 10 Say
nothing Of the superior health Of the
flock
The theory that poultry does best
when left to its own resources is about
exploded in enlightened communities
1t has been demonstrated over aud
over again that no form of domestic
creature kept for profit responds more
readily to good treatment than this
same barnyard fowl. That it has al
ways more than paid it's way eve,
when neglected shamefully is but an
indication of what it would do under
better treatmen
Locating the Poultry House.
The poultry house should be located
near the other buildings. The chick
ems will 60 to the barnyard TO scratch
anyway. and II the poultry house is
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-04-18
Making Money
On the Farm
M.-PouItry Feeding
BY G. v. GREGORY.
Author Of Home Course In Modern
Agriculture"
Copyright. 1909. by American Press
association
Copyright. 1909. by American Press
Association

Y HERE are four main objects in
feeding poultry-to maintain
life, to cause growth, to pro-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-04-18
A Fine Jack

sMy little son had very severe cold.
l was recommended to try Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy, and before a
small bottle was finished he was as well
as ever" writes Mrs. H. Silks, % Dow
ling Street. Sydney, Australia. This
remedy is for sale by all dealers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-04-18
Fatteninq.

Fattening.
1t is the common practice to let the
chickens run until along toward fall.
when the ccckereis are caught and
sold without any special preparation
for market At the usual fall prices
the cockerels yield fair profit This
profit can b. greatly increased by fat
tening them fer q few weeks before
marketing. A bunch Of twenty or tbir-
ty can be shut in a yard together and
fed a grain mixture consisting cf two
parts corn and one part shorts. They
will gain rapidly IN such feed and in
two or three weeks will lie ready to be
marketed with considerable increase
both IN price and weight
Where a special market for high
rlass poultry can be obtained it pays
TO crate fatten This is done by confin-
Ing the birds In Slated crates, TERED
up under shed. They are fed some
such mash as ground cats. two
parts; ground barley. one part. and
ground corn one part, mixed With
skimmilk. This is fed in troughs three
times a day. giving the chickens all
they will clean up in thirty minutes
From one to two pounds can be put on
each one in three weeks. and the qual-
ity Of the meat is greatly improved ~
the same time. enough to double tn,
price If high class market can be Sc
cured. A still higher quality Of meat
can be obtained IL the chicks are ca
ponized when they are three or four
months old.
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uuCe VECS anu 10 1Htten. 4
arge share Of the feed given to any
animal goes to maintain life 1t is
only when Il fowl receives an excess
over that amount that it can grow,
produce eggs or lay on fat Thus il
will be seen that it pays to feed lib
orally. The wider the margin over
the maintenance ration up to the
amount the bird is able to use the
greater will be the profit.
On the farm fowls will pick up
most of their food. at least through
the summer time Yet even then they
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Pas Weakness,

Little Nell You've got good para.
Willie Wi!Iie-Pa amt so bad. bur
wish he wasn't so much in love with
mamma Why he believes everything
she says about me-"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-11
LEWIS ADMITS HIS DEFEAT
FORMER HEAD OF U. M. W. A.
COMEDIES WHITES SUCCESS.
Says He viii Attend Convention and
Believes a Strike Will be
Unnecessary.

Wheeling. Va. Jan. Special:
Tom L. Lewis, former head of the
United Mine Workers of America and
candidate at the late election TO
succeed John p. White, the present
head of the organization, gave a
statement to the press today in which
he comedies the election of his oppo-
neat. Mr.. Lewis's statement. couch
ed in diplomatic language character
istic of the man, is as follows:
There were less than 10000 votes
cast in the five districts of Pennsyl-
vania, including the anthracite and
bitumDous regions. The total vote
in Ohio is reported as being less than
that of last year
According to the most reliable in
formation ! have received John p,
White is rejected president Of the
United Mine Workers Of America.
His majority, in my opinion, will be
as large as It was last year.
" will be at the international con
vention at Indianapolis as a delegate.
Ny future plans do not care to
discuss at THIS time II would be
highly improper for me to indicate
what think should be the policy
that would best protect the interests
OF the mine workers after April /
next,
MY position was made clear in a
circular which issued on the second
of last December In that circular
made il plain that in my opinion the
best results would be secured without
3 strike Whether the membership
"a the. organization is satisfied win be
nor <bem 20 deeide A tpe conventior
@Iich meets III IND k61Ial >alIs this
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-11
Iowa Loses Lot Of Land.

Logan, Jan. 1O.-special; Practical
ly all of the land southwest and
north of the Soldier river In Clay
and Cincinnati townships of Harrf
son county belongs to Nebraska, ac-
cording to a decision handed down
by Judge Troup at Blair. The land
affected consists of about 1900
acres. The decision came in case
arising over the title of the land west
of the U. S. Survey line and east Of
the present channel of the Missouri
river bed, which has meandered since
a cut off was made Of the Iowa Land
company, claiming all OF the land up
to the middle OF the present Missouri
river. The court at Blair held that
the state line was and still is in the
middle of the abandoned river bed
and dismissed the suit here on the
ground that the Nebraska court has
jurisdiction over the land in question.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-11
DIR. \. {. WEBSTER
TO PLEAD GUILTY.
Chicago Physician is Accused Of
Staying His Wife.
CRIME A SENSATIONAL ONE
Prisoner Now is Anxious to Escape
Death Penalty and Will Seek
Mercy Of the Court, His
Counsel Says.

Sterling, H., Jan. 10.--It was an
nouncsd here that DIR. Harry Elgin
Webster, the young Chicago physician
charged with the murder of his wife,
Bessie Kent Webster. would follow
the example of Rev. Clarence V. T..
Richeson and plead guilty.
This statement, which was a great
surprise to the people of Sterling,
came from Attorney John Erwin, chief
counsel for the prisoner. Attorney
Erwin stated that DR.. Webster would
appear in the circuit court on Friday
and enter a plea of guilty and throw
himself on the mercy Of the court.
Life Sentence Is Expected.
While no statement would be given
out at the office of the states attorney,
it is generally believed that DR.. Web.
ster's confession will save him from
the gallows and that he will be given
a life sentence.
Until this announcement the young
physician had stoutly denied his guilt
and his lawyers had prepared to make
a bitter fight to save him from pun
ishment. The prosecution, however,
had built up such a strong case that
apparently the defense feared the YER
dict of the jury would be hanging and
so decided on the plea of guilty to
save the prisoners life.
DIR. Webster was an inferno at the
Polytechnic hospital in Chicago when he
was arrested for the murder of his
wife. They had been living apart for
some time, the physician having mar
ried one woman before taking part in
the justice office ceremony which
made Bessie Kent his wife.
Friends Believe Him Innocent
Following the finding Of the young
woman's body half buried in the
underbrush near DixoR last October
the Chicago police were asked to ar
rest DIR. Webster. His reputation was
so good, however, that they hesitated,
and when the charge was made pub
lie and the doctor taken into custody
his friends in the medical profession
expressed confidence he would be
cleared.
In the last few days the charge has
been made that DIR. Webster was the
man who shot Mrs. F. E. Mize in Hyde
Park on August %, 1905. The police
sent detectives to Sterling to question
the prisoner and he denied all knowl-
edge of the crime.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-11
ATTACKS
.G.HOlOEN
Iowa Loses 1000 Acres Of Land by
Decision OF Court.
loWRS BIG COAL PRODUCTION
Waterloo Visited by Big Fire Last
Night - Judge Walter /. Smith
Seriously NJ at His Home in
Council Bluffs.

Des Moines, Jan. 10.-Special: In
an editorial in his paper the Home
stead, today James NJ. Pierce comes
out fiat-footed against the candidacy
of Hon. p. G. Holden for the republi-
can nomination for governor. The
Homestead states that but recently
Holden took Greater Iowa" as a
platform, and now asks How can
a man conscientiously come before
the farmers Of Iowa as candidate
on ticket which has only the one
plank, a Greater Iowa." when so
much OF his time and talent has been
expended in urging Iowans to leave
Iowa and follow the will o. the wisp
alurement' They further venture the
assertion that no one man has been
more of a factor in sending Iowa
young men to the Pacific northwest
in recent years, thus causing Iowa to
be the only state in the union to show
a decrease in population in the last
ten years, than this man who Is now
coming before the people as a candi
date for the high Office of governor.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-11
BEER MAKING IS STOPPED
St. Louis Brewery suspends Opera
tons Until Pumping Stations Can
Supply City With Water.

ST. Louis, Jan. 10-St. Louis water
famine has assumed a more serious
aspect by the announcement of August
A. Busch. vice-president OF the An
heUSer.Bu Brewing association.
that the immense plant will be shut
down until the city's water supply is
Increased. Not <ottie of beer will
be Manufactured
In their efforts to aid the city Off
Gals in saving water, the brewery Will
throw out of employment a large per-
centage Of it's 5000 employees
Thousands are now temporarily out
of work, a score OF Iaundries nave
ceased operations. Only three OF the
six giant pumping engines are work
ing and these are supplying only u.s.
000, 900 gallons day. while 100000
coo gallons are being used.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-11
U. S. WATCHING SHOE MEN
Bureau Of Justice Hears Prices Are 70
Be ncressed-Ssnufscturers
Deny Report.

Washington, Jan. fO.--Omcials Of
the department Of Justice intend to
keep a close watch on the price OF
shoes this year in consequence Of the
report that the price to consumers
viii be materially increased. VI the
advance Is made. the government in
all probability will institute an inpes-
tigarlon to determine whether or not
it resulted from combination in VIC.
lation of the Sherman antitrust law.
New York, Jan l0.--Ohicials Of the
National Boot and Shoe Manufactur-
ers association, meeting in their an
nual convention here. declared that no
discussion OF proposals for raising the
price of shoes would be entertained
at the present sessions.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-11
ADMITS MANY CRIMES
THRILLING TALE OF MURDER
AND ROBBERY.
Confesses to Two Murders and Says
He Looted Two Banks OF
$4,000.

Chicago. Jan. l0--An ordinary sus.
pect arrested on a charge of picking
pockets startled the police by calmly
admitting that he had killed two men,
participated in two bank robberies
shich7nrrted stu TX 6id tGinmitise
various other extraordinary crimes,
To cap tae climax Of the comics
sion" the prisoner informed Inspector
Hunt that $4,000 Of the bank plumber
was hidden in q downtown hotel.
One detail Of the mans statement
was verified and detectives are now
searching the hotels Of the business
district for the small fortune in cash
supposed to be in three suit cases.
The prisoner gave his name as
Frank Holloway. Some Of the crimes
he Is said 20 have confessed partici-
pating in are:
With others blew open the safe in
the bank OF the Panama City Banking
company and escaped with $4,000
Took part in the safe robbery n The
Bank of Montreal in New Wcstmin-
ster. y. C.. September IA, 1911, IN
which $375,OO0 was stolen.
Killed a man named "Schaefcr" in
Panama City in a quarrel over the
division Of the proceeds Ct the bank
robbery
Killed Edward G. West. a railroad
cmploye, March q, 1910, in a quarrel
a Rcgota. Colombia
mn
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-11
Iowa's Coal output Increased.

Des Moines, Jan. 10.-Special:
Eight million tons of coal was mined
in Iowa last year, according to the
estimate made by l.. q. Stamm, sec.
Rotary in the state mine inspectors
office The output during 1911 was
100000 greater than that of the pre-
ceding year. The production this year
is expected to exceed that of 1911,
owing TO the tapping OF one Of the
best coal fields in the state, by the
extension of the Rock Island railroad
to Allerton through Marion county
The Rock Island has launched the
Indiana Consolidation Coal Co, at
Dallas. The mine will be in opera.
ton next month and will be the larg.
est in the state, with hosting eapa.
city of 1000 daily Iowa mines fur.
nfshed work for nearly two thousand
men last year.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-11
BOY WINS CORN HONORS
ROY BROWN, OF sALIx, DEoLAR.
ED BEST GROWER IN IOWA.
Miss Lois Edmunds, of Clarinda, is
Best Bread Maker--other
Prizes at Ames.

Ames, Jan. 10. - Special Roy
Brown, 10 years old, of Salix, Wood.
bury county, was declared winner OF
the junior corn growing contest con,
Quoted by the Iowa State College at
Ames, in which 1000 boys participat.
ed. The lad was announced as the
winner of the grand championship on
ten ears grown in Iowa, as well as
the best single ear. The honor car.
ries with 1t prizes amounting to $500.
This Is the first time in the history
of Ames short courses that the honor
of being the best corn grower in Iowa
has gone to a boy In the northern half
of the state, for which additional
praise is due the Woodbury. county
lad. .#
The prize for the best parent ear
and five daughter ears was awarded
to Earl .zeller, Of Cooper. Greene
county. The parent earl won in TIVE
preceding shows, and all that is left
of it is now the one or two rows OF
kernels remaining on the cob.
Ill lue girls COhleSl the HUhOt VI
baking the best loaf Of bread was
awarded to Miss Lois Edmunds OF
Clarinda. with second place going to
Miss Gertrude Peterson, also OF
Clarinda
One hundred representative horse.
men of Iowa organized the Iowa
Draft Horse association. the object
of which is to promote the draft horse
industry in the state. G.. w. Grigsby
of Mddrid, was elected president. 9th.
err officers are: Vice president. c
W. Damien. of Melbourne; secretary,
Howard Vaughn, Of Ames; treasurer
Martin Nelson, OF Cambridge.
A director was elected from each
congressional district in addition to
four directors-at-large One of the
directors at large is Omar Singmas
ter, of Keota, and the Sixth district
director is G.. l.. button. of Sigourney