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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28

Prisoner at the bar have you any
thing to say why sentence Of death
shall not be passed upon you"
A solemn rush fell over the crowded
court room, and every person waited
i'm almost brcathless expectation for
the answer to the judges question.
The Judge waited in dignified ST
lence.
Not a whisper was heard anywhere
and the situation had become painful
ly oppressive. when the prisoner was
seen to move, his head was raised, his
hand was clinched, and the blood had
ru shed into his pale, careworn face.
Suddenly he arose to his feet, and
in low, firm, but distinct voice said =;
"Ihave! Your honor, you have ask
ed ,ne question and now ! ask, as
the last favor on earth, that you will
not interrupt my answer until | am
through.
II stand here before this bar, con-
victed of the willful murder of my
wife. Truthful witnesses have test
flied to the fact that was a loafer a
drunkard, and a wretch; that l re-
turned from one of my prolonged de-
bauches and fired the fatal shot that
killed the wife | swore to love, cher
ish and protect. While have no re-
membrance of committing the fearful
deed, | have no right to complain or
condemn the verdict of the twelve
good men who have acted as jury in
the case, for their verdict is in accor d.
ance with the evidence.
But may it please the court. wish
to show that | am not alone respon-
sible for the murder of my wife,
This startling statement created a
tremendous sensation. The judge
leaned over the desk, the lawyers
wheeled around and faced the prison.
er. the jurors looked at each other in
anazement. The prisoner paused a
few seconds, and then continued in
the same firm, distinct voice.
IL repeat, your honor. that am not
the only one guilty of the murder of
ny wife. The judge on the bench, the
Jury in the box, the lawyers within
the bar. and most of the witnesses,
including tn. pastor of the old church
are also guilty before Almighty God.
and will have to stand with me be-
fore his judgment throne, where we
shall all be righteously Judged.
IF it had not been for thesaloons
of my town, never would have be-
come a drunkard; my wife would not
have been murdered, would not be
here now, ready to be hurled into
eternity Had it not been for these
human traps, would have been SO
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28

The old cry of competition being the life of
trade has been exploded many years. The
great majority of merchants
FALSE have an understanding as to
NOTION prices-buying and selling
an organization at least in
a way, hence no competitor along that line.
1t is less true of the newspaper field than in
any other field. But it is hard to make men
who can get hat full of type and with an
ambition to pull chestnuts out of some
body's fire believe it. There is no business
in any community which so surely repre-
sents the business stand of a community as
the newspapers published there. If bust
ness is bad, the newspaper is the first one to
know it and show it. No man of limited
means can long afford to publish paper at
loss. If business falls off he must cut ex-
penses. TO do this he must publish poor
er paper. He can not pull up and leave.
Newspaper men as rule are the poorest
businessmen of the community They have
less credit usually than the other men in a
town. Why? Not because they are less
honest, but usually because they attend to
everybodys business better than their own.
The editor as rule spends more time for
the public good than any other man in the
town or city He gives of his time and
space for anything that helps his city, and
usually he gets little, if any credit. He
tries hard to get out a $4,000 paper in
$500 town. Too often he does job work at
an actual loss. because too often the big
merchant thinks because he advertises he
should get his printing cheap. If he asks
reasonable price for his work, he is thought
to be a robber. This matter will not be
righted until newspaper men wake up to
the fact that their chosen profession is just
as honorable as that of any other man IN
town. Then too, they must learn to not
produce paper at loss. They must have
enough backbone to turn down job work
that is being done at loss. Let the other
fellow that wants to work for nothing have
it-he' I'll 90 broke that much quicker
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28

Der man. an industrious workman II
tender father and "A loving husband.
But today my home is destroyed, my
wife murdered. my little children
God bless and care for them-cast
out on the mercy of the world, while
am to be hanged by the strong arm
of the state.
God knows, tried to reform, but
as long as the open saloon was in my
pathway. my weak, diseased will pow
cr was no match against the fearful.
consu ming agonizing appetite for Ii
quor.
For one year our town was with
out a saloon. For one year was a
sober man. For one year my wife and
little children were happy, aad our
little home was paradise.
Il was one of those who sgnied re-
monstrances against reopcning the
! saloons of our town. One-half of this
jury, the prosecuting attorney on
this case, and the judge who sits on
this bench all voted for the saloons.
The commissioners declared to those
who made the remOnstrance that the
Judge was friend of the saloons.
BY their votes and influences saloons
were reopened. and they have made
me what | am"
The impassioned words of the pris-
oner fell like Goals of fire upon the
hearts of those present, and many of
the spectators and some of the law
yers were moved to tears. The judge
made motion as if to stop further
speech, when the speaker hastily
said:
No! no! your honor. do not close
my lips. | am nearly through
Il began my downward career at a
saloon bar-legalized and protected by
the voters of this town. After the
sa looms you allowed have made me a
drunkard and murderer. am taken
| be fore another bar-thc bar of justice
--lni now the law power will rom
duct M to the place of execution al d
hasten my soul into eternity. shall
appear before another bar-th" u DG-
ING BAR OF GOD-and there you.
who have legalized the traffic will
hav to appear with me. Think you
/ that the Great Judge will hold me
th' poor, weak, helpless victim of
your traffic-alonc responsible" FOR the
murder of my wife9 Nay, | in my
drunken. frenzied. irresponsible con-
ditlon have murdered one-but you
have deliberately voted for the sa-
looms hich have murdered Thousands
and they are in full operation today
with your consent.
All of you know in your hearts
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28

ton and can be used to advantage
only in the paved streets of the city or
on good country roads
The motor truck has its place on the
farm 1t eau be used for blowing and
heavy hauling. but can never replace
the draft horse If the draft horse Is
permanent part of agriculture more
duction
There is IN increasing demand for
heavier horses on the farms. Deeper
and better tillage must be practiced In
the future. and this requires heavier
machinery and more motive power.
There are two ways of increasing this
power One is by increasing the num-
Der Of light horses But the most eco
nomical way is to increase the weight
of the horses This will reduce the
farm labor force will decrease the
amount OF equipment necessary In re-
qniring less stable room and less har-
ness. and the cost of feed will be less
ened
All farmers and breeders who are
breeding horses for commercial pur-
poses should replace their small mares
with heavier ones This must be done
gradually by adding a few good draft
mares to the herd every year and SELL
ing the poorer ones. Sometimes good
colts may be reared from inferior
mares by mating them to a good stall
lion, but better ones always will be the
result of the mating Of better mares to
the same stallion.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28

of the undesirable blood. tendencies
and scattered heredities Of their moth
ers.
When you come to breed these heif-
ers. If you go outside for sire. the
scrub blood they inherited from their
mothers Is just as prepOtent and often
more so than the pure bred blood of
their sire But breed them back to
their sire-if he Is a good one-and the
heifers from that union will contain 70
per cent Of the blood Of the sire. In
other words. they are three-quarters
inbred. This inbreeding makes them
answer back In all subsequent breed
ing a great deal stronger than II they
were bred from another sire even II
In the same line.
We should SO breed our cattle as to
concentrate as far rs 1t Is safe the
best heredity we can obtain. Starting
with the blood Of a very desirable bull,
the universal practice Is to dilute and
diffuse that valuable heredity. The
consequence is that the valuable quail
ties of the original bull are very soon
so widely scattered as to be OF small
account.
Skillful breeders like Dauncey with
his Stoke Pogis herd Of Jerseys so
managed his intense inbreeding az to
increase size and strength Of constitu-
ton. 1t can be done If sufficient care
is had at every step in the way to
build on constitutional vigor. With
out that our cattle are failures any
way.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28
MONKY IN RAISING
HEAVY DRAFTERS

The breeding of heavy draft horses
is one of the most profitable branches
of live stock farming. Few farmers
realize the Importance of size in draft
horse when put on the market. either
in public or private sale a horse that
weighs less than 100 pounds is not
considered draft horse in any of the
horse markets of the country. yet the
mares kept on the ordinary farms are
usually lighter than that. This ac-
counts for the small, scrubby lot Of
horses that are constantly being put
on the market at loss to the breeder.
This was well illustrated at sale OF
grade horses recently held at Salina.
says the Kansas lndustrialist. Here
the horses of good size were readily
bought ut good prices. while some OF
the lighter ones could scarcely be sold
at any price There is an increasing
demand for heavy draft horses In the
cities in spite Of the fact that many
firms are using the motor truck in
their delivery work The motor truck
can be used profitably only on long.
heavy hauls where the roads are good
and speed is essential The motor re-
quires good roads for its best opera
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28
Information Wanted
1928 18th Ave. West.
Calgary, Alberta. Canada.
Aug. 10. 1913.

1928 18th Ave. West,
Calgary, Alberta. Canada.
Aug. l3, 1913.
Editor of The Dawn.
Dear Sir.-I am in need of informa-
ton of my brother George Davies,
son of the late John Davies. timber
mcrchant Bucknell. Shropshire. Eng
land. and left there for the U.S.A.
August 1885. was then in his 2lst
wear, was last heard of at the end
1886. was then in Ellensburg. Fa-
Their and mother both dead and estate
cannot be settled till he is found or
proof of his death.
Can you help me in any way, if so
please communicate with me from the
22nd to Both August. | expect to
be with Mr.. Collingc. 40 Lansdown
street, Kamloops, BIC. after that date
for some time with Mr.. j. Buck, Box
$50 Nanaimo, BIC, where | shall be
grcatfnl for any information and will
be glad to pay any reasonable amount
for enquiries or advertising.
Yours truly.
Mrs. lMOISLEY.
Late Alice Davies.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28
THE SAFEST WAY OF
|NBREED|NG CATTLE

There are many vague and foolish
notions entertained on the subject Of
inbreeding. says Hoard's Dairyman.
Like everything else in this world that
is good for anything. 1t is capable Of
evil as we'll as good results. Knives
have been used to stab people. ropes to
hang them and water to drown them.
yet no man Of common sense would
fail on that account to make a right
use Of knives. ropes and water. The
safest way of inbreeding. SO far as our
observation goes. is from sire to daugh-
ter. There Is one rule that should al
ways be watchfully observed
Never inbred heifer or COW that
shows a lack Of constitutional vigor.
Keep that idea foremost. Also. with
like pertinency. never inbred to sire
who shows any signs Of lacking In con-
stitutional vigor Now. within those
two road fences 1t Is safe and very
often advantageous to breed a daugh-
ter back to her sire. This should be
practiced In breeding grade cows
great deal more than It is done. with
close observance of the foregoing rules
1t should always be remembered that
inbreeding is an intensiler. 1t inten-
sites weakness Just the same as 1t
may intensity strength. talent or ca.
pncity in any given direction.
Now. suppose we start with q pure
bred bull and a herd Of cows Of mixed
breeding. The heifers got by that IN
ion inherit so per cent Of the straight
blood Of the sire and an equal amount
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28
Charged With Murder-A Plausible Story

rawlings of an unsound mind. but the
truth of the Almighty God.
You lcgalized the saloons that
made me drunkard and a murderer
of my wife.
Your honor | am done. ! am now
ready to receive my sentence, and be
led forth to the place of execution.
You will close by asking the Lord to
have mercy on my soul will close
BY solemnly asking God to open your
blind eyes to your own individual re-
sponsibility, so that you will cease to
give your support to this dreadful
traffic" food Templar.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28

: sothlng that Is quite so pal
~ any class Of farm live stock
pesture. Stock will do better
. g and production and will re-
n estter health and condition on
.uFe than on anything else.
= alfalfa hay come the near
: I'D offer the finest substl.
v!1tsr feeding for the grasses
TOO little attention has been
'''age crops for swine. The
saa most popular growth is
she pigs under 100 pounds
amer that weight has been
sWwth Is slower and more
hut in either period of his
Il g helps 20 much to a proper
- development as do green
= summer and good alfalfa
winter. to which NAV no
lltle sllage.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28

The Holstein COW is one Of the
most magnifcently generous crea-
lures on earth. She will give liber-
ally and unflaggingly to the fortu-
nate man who possesses her. but
she has the inherent and irrevoca-
BILE self respect OF all naturally Gre
ated things. She will not give
something for nothing or worse
than nothing. 1t is gratifying to
her admirers to reflect that the man
who starves or otherwise mistreats
one Of these splendid animals will
not profit much thereby. The Hol-
stein COW Meg Rector Ill. produced
in one year 20.10S pounds Of milk
containing 656.l6 pounds Of butter
fat, not a great record for a Hol-
stein. but vastly greater than the
ordinary run Of cows.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28
SMALL FARMS ARE
PROFITABLE HOMES
4 FTER considerable experience In
diversified farming on a place
Of forty acres in the Chicago

~ eOnSiOCi dDIC SARSssSA~ -
"a diversified farming on a place
Of forty acres in the Chicago
district | can recommend q
dairy Of eight or ten cows as the basis
Of operations on small farm. 1t Is
taken for granted that hired man
will be kept for the principal work or
that the owner is prepared to devote
his time and energies to the PROPOSE
ton.
For three years my dairy Of ten
cows has paid 500 to 1925 a month.
It took considerable time to grade up
from a lot Of scrubs that returned $50
to $50 q month to cows that can be
depended ON for about four gallons Of
milk each.
There ia something in market facili.
ties also. Private customers. including
restaurants and hotels. are desirable.
In this way the middleman's profit Is
saved Our sales are all by the gallon
and part Of the product is furnished In
the form Of cream. We use small
separator. The place 10 two miles
from an active little town. where there
10 a ready cash market for milk and
cream. butter, eggs. poultry. etc. It il
also possible to obtain table scraps In
abundance. and this Is an excellent
kind Of food for chickens and pigs.
When milk was unreasonably low
We made butter. for which we had pri.
vate customers. With prices on the
present basis We prefer to sell milk
and cream.
One hundred dollars a month pays
the wages and all the living and oper-
ating expenses. There are then left
for profit such items as hogs. poultry
and eggs. honey, fruit and vegetab les.
It 10 bad policy to keep cows Of any
but high quality. The law Of selection
needs to be kept In force. 1t costs no
more to feed and handle an animal
that yields Hve gallons OF milk daily
than one producing three gallons. It
does not pay to keep cows that pro-
duce less than four gallons day.
Ten or twelve cows are not too
many for a farm of forty acres. and
they will permit Of many other inter-
ests that will distribute the labor
evenly through the day. Operating In
this way on a small farm there ought
to be twenty FIVE hogs. 200 chickens
and 100 ducks and geese to market
every fall. In addition to 200 to 800
broilers. q considerable number OF
eggs and a miscella neons lot Of vege-
tables
There IL work enough for an aver.
age family on a very few acres where
the intensive principle is followed. We
need to diversity in order to distribute
the work over season.
For instance. an acre of stra " berries.
an acre Of cucumbers two acres OF po-
tatoes an acre of onions and ten acres
Of corn will make protitab BILE seasons
work for q family. The total IL but
fifteen acres. and 1t will take some
hustling to handle these crops Add
ten acres of alfalfa for dairy. send
thirty or forty gallons of milk to
market every day and the family will
he kept bnsy from morning til! night.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28
THE FLOCK MASTER,

Ewes that lose their lambs
should raise some twin or or
phan.
Watch a sheep that Is seen to
stretch. See If 1t Is constitpated.
II 80, give wheat bran and OIL
meal.
Success In the sheep business
depends as much or more upon
the care taken as upon the
sheep.
Lambs that become chilled
may be saved by giving them
hot coffee. Do not have 1t too
hot. After administering a ia
blespoonful or two wrap them
warm in a thick. dry horse blan-
ket
In the care Of sheep great at
tention must be given to details.
Sheep are such sensitive crea.
lures that little things in care
and feed make for success or
failure. no matter what the
breed.
Fertility. which is daily be-
coming more Of a need on every
farm. is one Of the sleeps strong
virtues. Sheep eat and tramp
everything which comes within
reach into available plant food.
Farm Journal.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28
THE HORSEM MAN.

A horse that is kicked and cuff
ed is always lodging. 1t Is apt
to be difficult TO manage and hard
to catch in the pasture.
1t is reported that great num-
bers of horses in Europe have
been successfully vnccinated
against CHAMBERS
\ horse that is overworked or
poorly uourished is more suscep-
tibe to disease than one well fed
and well cared for
The colts and idle horses should
spend most of each pleasant day
in the paddock.
At weauing time colts should
be taken away entirely out of
sight OF the mothers.
There is nothing that produces
stiffness. Inflammation and I'M
soundneSs faster than standing
in stall day after day.
The Improvement of the quail
ity of the grade horse in the
country has been made by farm
ers who are willing to pay a
reasonable price for the services
of high class stallion.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28
! money ON
If little FARM

I'D expect to argue farm
J. II Of grain raising although
- ! not the most profitable
'rIssltur.. 1t is possible, now
~ owners Of land that 1t -
-, % grow thirty bushels OF
- su,hels Of corn or 800 bush
.,to,, on an acre as 1t is to
~. "a miserable crops II Is
! ar.ytion Of management and
Iliy Il bard work. 8,
4 &c Of wheat amounts to tif,
~ 20 acre there is no profit
50 + average prices. Above M
1ss 4 b practically all profit
~ Incsnnye to raise reasona'
s seopa The corn average Is
1y'elght bushels au acre
r eneht 10 be 100. The potato
- bushels. but 1t ought TO
- b TIE right succession OF
~ ooldA the 80 called rota
1i~ INST be the money max
llnn hetween grass land and
~ nye stock in proportion
- III. are vital to all pro
i onons to have become the
~ mall farmer to blaze the
= ~ Intensive and scientific
n1rulture.
70 Z large amount Of manure
fnoces1arily mean bigger yields
upot1. Something more than
IL
~ : required-the soil must be
~ and weeds destroyed.
- ut be right proportion and
4 plant foods. It will not do
. ut they are in the soil, for it
woyed. II the test shows the
II heiing and proportion wrong
~ cannot make money. Non
: 0bDull under heavy. close soil
, ; porous subsOil under sand
= = upderlaid with porous sub
: ~ coil underlaid with non
u11eu Is the proper combina-
3 Ae great run of soils the
ogcs. phosphorus. calcium and
! u the only materials neces-
~ 10 them.
- ; supplied best In form of
y stone: phosphorus in the
- Dngic Stag phosphate or phos
~; the humus by the green
~ erasses and farm manure.
= some Of the crop require
Nitrogen, phosphorus.
Nitrogen.
! MI. Nitrogen. phosphorus.
= potassium.
y coveF, Alfalfa. Calcium. phos-
i Dohssium.
D-Phosphorus. potassium. cal
Dvoieh bold moisture do not lack
- The drier a soil may be. as
! - greater Is the lack of nitro.
- coll remains poor in humus.
- spots the soil Is darker and
, aotent increased.
NV clay soils require a heavier
q phosphorus and a lighter
= nitrogen, while on the dry
q reverse Is true. Wet. cold
'cF the most part poor in
~ plain principles like these
~ farmers ought to be able
uaru and Increase production
and 80 to 100 per cent. Plans
phticn should bring wheat
= clover after wheat Zone or
y and potatoes after clover.
sugar beets. turnips and
~ ought to have a place in
Ne scheme.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28
FIGHTING GRAIN SMUT.

German Hot Water Treatment Found
Effective In Tests.
In u recent German report on expert
ments on control Of loose smut Of bar
ley and wheat with the hot water
treatment. the author gives an &C.
count Of tests made in treating barley
and wheat before planting with one or
two soakings In tepid water. followed
SO degrees c.. for from Eve to ten
minutes
The results were practically always
IA vora BILE as regards a lower percent
age OF infection OF the plants when
compared With those from uutreated
seed. while the percentage of germina-
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28

LOOSE SMUT OF WHEAT, SHOWING FoUR
sMUTTRD HEADS At VARIOUS STAGES OF
DEVELOPMENT, AND FOR COMPARISON
SOUND WHEAT H1AD
ton was but slightly or not at all
affected. except In case Of the higher
temperatures or longer treatments.
Winter wheat STEPPED for four hours
at % degrees and then dipped into
water for ten minutes at 81 degrees
gave a termination Of from 80 to 90
per cent and no infection. Summer
wheat under similar treatment gave 81
per cent germination and OBS per cent
infection. while barley gave. respec-
lively. 50 per cent and OPT per cent.
This seems on the whole the best
treatment used. The yield was very
little affected by the treatments.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28
THE SOIL 10 ALIVE.

A productive soil is not mass
Of inert material. as many seem
to regard it. 1t Is a living. &C.
tive medium. with organic mat
ter. where micro-organlsms are
busy In reducing vegetable mat
ter to available plant food. No
matter how much chemical plant
food there Is III the soil. unless
there he organic matter the soil
will not produce large crops
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-08-28

The sire and dam of a horse are
not the only points to be consid-
cred in the production Of heavy
drafters The care of the colt prob
ably will influence its growth and
development as much as its breed
ing Some very good horses some-
times are produced from inferior
stock If they are wei! cared for.
The horse illustrated is from the
farm of the Pennsylvania Agricul-
tural college. He is a grade Per-
cheron and was developed by care
and feeding.