American Submarines at Rest A fter Long Cruise
EYES AND
VOICE
By R. RAY B A K E R
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(© , IM S . by M cC lU rs N e w s p a p e r S y n d i c a t e . )
Some of Uncle Sam ’s undersea c r a ft tied up a t an an c h o ra le In th e H udson riv er.
th e A tlan tic fleet from C uban w aters.
Shrewd Tricks
in Smuggling
Ingenuity Perverted in Trying
Avoid Payment of Duties
on Gems.
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U nder th e p la ste r w ere th e real d ia
to monds.
“In a n o th e r case th e officials w ere
also m orally ce rtain th a t a c e rta in m an
w as sm uggling, b ut h ere ag ain they
w ere un ab le to get th e evidence neces
sa ry to convict. T h is m an, how ever,
CLEVER SCHEME FRUSTRATED
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of his own, his system cam e to light.
“It w ns sim plicity Itself. l i e would
Customs
Inspectors
Find
$10,000
cache th e diam onds In his statero o m ,
Worth of Diamonds Concealed
th e n u m b er o f w hich w as alw ays
in Fountain Pens and Tube
known In ad v an ce to th e chief accom-
of Tooth Paste.
“ I often wonder w h a t would h a p
pen if h alf of the Ingenuity which Is
expended In doing or trying to do
crooked things In business were spent
In carrying It on along honest and ac
cepted lines.” So spoke one of the
best-known men In the local Jewelry
tr a d e ; the rem ark being Inspired by
th e recent fru stra tio n of a very clever
scheme for smuggling diamonds past
the customs Inspectors at this port. In
this case, nn a tte m p t had been ninde
to smuggle In $10,000 w orth of these
gems—13 se parate stones—by conceal
ing them In the b arrels of two foun
tain pens nnd In a tube of tooth paste.
"O f course," the Jewelry merchant
w ent on, "If n man has any tendency
tow ard smuggling, the present [trice
of diamonds nnd the high Import d u
ties levied on them afford him plenty
of temptation.
Under the present
tariff an Importer of diamonds must
pay one-fifth of their value to the
government If they are cut, nnd one-
tenth of It If they a re brought In
rough. Consequently, If the man with
the fountain pens and the tooth paste
had bi*en successful, lie would have
saved from $1,000 to $‘.1,000 In duties,
depending on whether his stones were
cut or uncut.
T h ese su b s accom panied
plice, and leave th e ship. T h e accom
plice alw ay s booked e a stb o u n d p as
sag e on th e sam e ste a m e r an d in th e
sam e room, w hich he got th ro u g h a
frien d ly clerk In th e office o f th e
steam sh ip com pany. H e w en t ab o ard
a s early a s possible, an d did the
gem s up Into an Inconspicuous b u n
dle. S h o rtly b efo re th e sh ip sailed
a w om an w ould com e to bid him
bon voyage. She sta y ed on th e sh ip
u n til th e final w h istle blew , and
then, In th e re s u lta n t ex citem en t and
bustle, re tu rn e d to th e dock w ith o u t
a ttra c tin g u n d u e a tte n tio n . W ith h»-r
she carried th e sm uggled diam onds. It
w as not until one tim e, w hen a rn th e r
elderly w om an filled th e role of th e
friend of th e ch ief accom plice an d ha.l
a fain tin g spell, th a t th e gam e w as
discovered. She w ns ta k en to a hospi
tal fo r tre a tm e n t, an d th e re th e d ia
m onds w ere found on h e r p erso n ."
F. C. Cottrell Is
Real Scientist
the fruit. T h e orange grow ers brought
suit aga in st the cem ent fa c to ry and
the litigation which ensued Is said to
have cost a million dollars. E v e n tu a l
ly th e cem ent people h eard of th e local
renown of the scientist a t th e U niver
sity of California an d of bis ability to
precipitate t h e m a te ria ls In smoke
stacks. D octor Cottrell w ent to Rlver-
dale an d Installed his a p p a r a tu s . The
Invented
Smoke-Consuming
Device resu lt w as th a t the nuisance was
That Saved Many Valuable By-
abated nnd It wns nec essary th a t the
Products— Smithsonian Insti
com munity sacrifice n e ith e r Its cement
tution Gets the Profits.
plant nor Its oranges.
New Chief of the Bureau of
Mines Has Notable
Record.
GAVE WORLD SECRET FREE
Smoke Contained Potash.
W ashington.—F re d erick O. Cottrell,
T he electrodes In the sm okestacks ol
a tr u e scientist, who has given th is com pany yielded every day a hun
aw ay th e w ealth his brain has pro dred tons of th e m inute particles,
duced and continued to work for the which would otherw ise hav e been
stiiall stipend of a federal employee, spread out on the community. At the
bits been appointed the chief of one of suggestion of D octor Cottrell this com
(be governm ent's g r e a te s t scientific pany examined into the quality of the
agencies—the b ureau of mines.
m a teria l thus precipitated. T hey found
Many Clever Schemes.
In th e group of sc ientists which re th a t It contained large* q u an titie s of
“But, even In the old days, when the volves around the Cosmos club In potash, and potash Is th e basis of one
low er Im port duties m ade smuggling Washington, th e re Is much s a tisfa c of the most valuable fertilizers iu
less a ttra c tiv e from n financial view tion over this appointm ent. Too often the world.
T his accom plishment wns back of
point th an It seem s to he now, nil the man at th e head of a government
k inds of schem es w ere tried to beat scientific bureau Is more of a politician him when th e young scientist gave up
th e custom s. Some of them worked than a scientist. B u t this cannot be his work a s a te ac h er and came to
W ashington to e n te r the government
fo r n long tim e, but sooner or Inter said of Doctor Cottrell.
service. T h e Idea of an application
th e re w ns a slip up somewhere.
H e h a s many claim s to the a p p re ci
"In one Interesting case th a t came ation of bis fellows. H e Is a man who of bis findings slum bered for years,
to my atten tio n the man Involved had does things ami says little. H e Is th a t b u t today this device h a s been install
been u n d er suspicion for some time, r a r e thing, an A m erican who ca res lit ed In scores of g rea t pla n ts through
out tho U nited States.
but the trea su ry departm en t officials tle for either money or publicity.
Doctor Cottrell gave bis [intents on
had never been able to ‘get anything
T he clearest proof of th e possession this process to science.
He tu rned
on him .' T hey w ere m orally certain
th a t he w as smuggling In diamonds, of the qualities of the tru e scientist them over to the Smithsonian in stitu
b u t th a t wns not enough to convict that this m an lias e v e r given, a dem on tion to dem onstrate. A research cor
him, nnd they never could catch him stration deemed a model to be follow poration w as a fte rw a rd formed nnd
w ith th e necessary evidence, lie a l ed by those of bis kind, cam e a decade tills corporation la m arketing th e [int
w ays w orked w ithout accom plices, ago, when be m ade a discovery of such ents and realizing royalties from them.
w hich m ade the custom s people all the practical value th a t It w a s obviously T h e w a r m aterially Interfered with the
m ore asham ed of them selves for being capable of being m ade to yield all th e Installation of th e se devices, but as fur
riches any m an m ight desire. A fter back ns 101.1 the net profits w ere ru n
unab le to land him.
"Finally, the local authorities got having d em onstrated Its possibilities ning up to $ 1 0 0 , a year. Now that
word from their agents on the other I Motor Cottrell g a v e It away. H e th e w a r is over It Is thought the device
side th a t the suspected man was buy gave it to the ca u se of science. He will be generally applied throughout
ing diamonds In a large way. and they ! gave It as an endow m ent to be used Industry, and there would be no sur
Immedlately Instructed those agents to aid oth e r scientific research. Doc prise on the p a rt of th e research cor
to trail Idni day and night and supply tor Cottrell's Invention Is a device. poration If It should, 111 a y ea r or
all possible data. T his was done, hut | which may be put Into a smokestack two, be yielding a million dollars a
through some slip the suspe t was of a factory, or a smelter, or even the y ea r In clear profits.
tipped off to wtiHt In* w as tip against. chimney of y our own house, and which
Tie Immediately laid plans to cover precipitates the p articles th a t m ake up I
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himself. He finally wrote a letter, smoke, th u s preventing them from I
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signed with a fictitious name, to the emerging lo smirch the country, and \ White House Ram Routs
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collector of the port here, giving what also obtaining valuable by products.
Secret Service Guard.
He Made Good Decade Ago.
seemed to be Inside Information on
the suspect and Ills operations. Not
W ashington, D. C.—One of
T he first d em onstration of Doctor
only w as the nam e of Hie ship on Cottrell's invention came more than
P resident Wilson's sheep, n big
which he would reach tills country a decade ago w hen he w as a young
ram. grazing on the front lawn
given, together with the number of p i •.lessor at the U niversity of Cali
of the W hite House, took a sud
the stateroom and oth e r data, hut the fornia. T h e re was a sm elter n e a r by
den dislike to "D ick" J e rv is of
letter actually told In wlmt part of a and the fumes from this sm e lte r w ere
the secret service guards nnd
certain tru n k the diamonds could be a nuisance to the community, making
chased him Into the executive
found.
offices. Je rvis' disa ppea ra nce so
It unpleasant for the residents nnd
Infuriated the raiu he turned
blighting the vegetation. iMctor Cot
Found Paste Gems.
around aiul butted S ecretary T u
"All of the details were so accurate trell worked In his laboratory nnd de
multy's
automobile
several
th a t It w as un easy m a tte r for the lo veloped bis plan for p reventing this
times. T hen he placed his fi>et
cal official* lo follow them up. The offense on the p a rt of the smelter.
on the running board nnd a d
suspected trunk was located an I The device which he Invented w as elec
dressed th e chauffeur with a
opened, nnd, sure enough, there lay a trical. As the fumes passed up be
loud "bn ha a-n-n !"
Idg collection of stones. The custom* tween electrodes the result w a s that
men w ere elated, b u t when the m a t alt suspended particle s In them w ere
te r was sifted down !t was found that deposited ui>on these plates.
the gems were p aste and that the
I Victor t'o ttrell won local fann* by
Her Destiny Obscure.
m an could not be held on a major this Invention. At Ulverdale. a town
I.nwrvnoehurg. I in l—Mrs. Elizabeth
charge.
H e w as released af te r rer not fur away, th e re was a huge cem ent A. Mvers, aged S-l, a widow, who Is
tain necessary cerem onies had Iteen factory, which bad likewise become a dead from the effects of a broken hip,
com pleted, an d prom ptly left for the uul wince In the com munity because the sustained In a fall down a sta irw a y
hotel In which he m ade his home. dust from It found Its way Into the at her home, died In the room In whtcii
O nce there, he had his w ife peel a blossoms of orange grove* near by and she wns horn and In which she slept
h uge porous p la s te r from his back. Interfered with the development of alt her life.
I
Itoscoe B ates w as one of th e p oints
of th e queerest love tria n g le on rec
ord. A t least Itoscoe had n ev er h eard
of its equal.
H e w as in love w ith tw o young
women.
N othing rem a rk a b le ab o u t
th a t, you will s a y ; It’s m ore often
th a t w ay th a n n o t T h e re ’s no dis
puting th a t. T h e fa c t th a t h e w as In
love w ith tw o girls— or th o u g h t he
was— w as n ot th e rem a rk a b le th in g
about K oscoe’s rom ance.
H ere’s th e th in g ab o u t I t; O ne of
the girls Itoscoe had n ev er seen and
the o th e r he had n ever h eard s p e a k ;
and he could not tell which of th e tw o
was th e m ore d esirable. As fo r th a t,
though. It looked hopeless fo r him In
eith er case.
Itoscoe w as b e tte r acq u ain ted w ith
‘Voice” th an w ith "E y es.” In fac t, he
did not know E yes a t all. Voice, of
course, w as th e one he ta lk ed w ith
over th e phone, and E yes w as th e one
th a t w orked in th e sam e building w ith
him. H e had tried In various w ays to
m eet her, b ut u n fo rtu n a te ly th e girl
was em ployed In an office en tirely sep
a ra te from th e one In w hich he h ad a
desk, and he had n ot been able to find
one am ong his fellow w o rk ers who
knew any of th e g irl’s asso ciates.
Eyes had sm iled a t him w hen he
met h e r on th e sta irw a y fo r th e first
tim e som e ten m onths a g o ; and su b se
quently w hen he m et her, w hich w as
frequently, sh e had g reeted him th e
sam e way. B u t it w as Ju st a frie n d
ly, com radely sm ile— not th e Invita-
tion-to-a-flirtatlon k ind—an d he w as
gratified It w as th a t way. Itoscoe had
liked th e girl from th e s ta rt, and d u r
ing th e m o n th s h e saw h e r come and
go from th e building he becam e con
vinced th a t he loved h e r—o r would
love h e r If h e had h a lf a chance. H ow
ever, he w as q u ite th e opposite of
fo rw ard n ess—n o t ex actly tim id or
bashful, b u t r a th e r reserved, you
m ight say.
Itoscoe’s
ac q u ain tan c esh ip
w ith
Voice sta rte d a y e a r back. I t w as a
case of "w rong num ber.” T h e girl w as
calling up a n ew sp ap er office to get
th e b aseb all scores— fo r It developed
she w as a "fa n "—an d had becom e con
nected w ith Iloscoe’s desk Instead. H e
w as a “fa n ” him self, an d h ad th e
scores a t his to n g u e’s end, so he fu r
nished h er w ith th e desired in fo rm a
tion.
T hen he took one of th e boldest
step s of his life. H e told h e r he would
give h e r th e scores every day If she
would call him u p ; In fact, he offered
to cnll her, b u t she refu sed to give h er
num ber. She accepted h is Invitation,
an d soon th ey becam e q u ite frien d ly
In th e ir telephone associations, w hich
a t first d e a lt m ainly w ith baseball
“dope,” b u t la te r w idened tlielr scope
to o th e r su b jects, alth o u g h n ev e r de
scending to th e p lan e com monly
known as "k idding.”
Itoscoe fell In love w ith th e voice,
n ot In a silly way, b u t seriously. H e
w as a se n tim en tal youth an d th e nov
elty of th e situ a tio n ap p ealed to him.
S till, he w as h an d icap p ed by h is re
serv e an d could n o t m u ster th e cour
age, or w h ate v er th e m issing Ingredi
en t m ight be, to ask th e g irl’s nam e or
seek to m eet her.
T h u s m a tte rs stood w hen tw o
m onths la te r he began m eeting E y e s ;
an d he w ent up In th e air, so to speak.
E y es’ eyes w ere a s ben u tlfu l to look
upon as Voice’s voice w as to hear, and
h e felt th a t c ith e r of th e g irls would
fit In w ith his Ideas of th e ideal.
R oscoe w as not a p a rtic u la rly h a n d
som e young m a n ; still, lie had h is a t
tra c tiv e fea tu re s, one o f w hich w as
h is Im tnaculnte ap p earan ce, w hile Ills
fe a tu re s w ere clean-cut, an d he h ad a
couple of dim ples th a t sta m p e d him
as h aving a genial disposition. Yes,
It w ns en tirely possible fo r a girl to
g et In love w ith Itoscoe a t first sight,
alth o u g h lie did not (latter him self on
th a t score and did not suppose th a t
E yes gave him m ore th a n a passin g
th o u g h t.
As to Roseoe’s voice. It had tones
th n t w ere pleasing e n o u g h ; a t lenst,
th e re w as no h arsh n e ss connected
w ith h is speech. H e realized, how
ever, th a t It possessed tio en ticin g
q u alities, nnd lie labored u n d e r no de
lusions th a t Voice had fallen In love
w ith him o r w as m ore In terested th an
one e n th u sia stic bnsetm ll fan m ight
be In terested In nnother.
A bout th e tim e Roscoe had decided
he cart'd th e m ost fo r Eyes, possibly
beonuse she w as m ore tan g ib le th an
Voice, and p erh a p s because o f Ills
fe a r th a t Voice m ight be q u ite th e op
p o site of b ea u tifu l to look upon, and
m aybe because E yes see met 1 th e more
elusive, one of his fellow w orkers
cam e to him w ith th is discouraging
In fo rm a tio n :
“ I found o ut w ho th a t girl In th e
red co at Is. H er n am e’s P earl D lxson
an d sh e’s In D earb o rn 's office u p
sta irs. B ut you h av en ’t a chance, Ros.
S h e's alre ad y In love w ith a fellow.
I m et h e r chum , la st night, an d she
told m e so."
Roscoe
w as
d ish earten ed ,
but
b rig h ten ed up w hen he learned th a t
th e next aftern o o n w as to be a h alf
ho lid ay and he would h av e hts first
o p p o rtu n ity of th e season to w itness
a baseball gam e.
R oscoe owned a sm all ro ad ste r
w hich had not y et passed th e crank
Ing stag e, and in th is he m otored to
th e ball grounds. T he gam e w as so
ex citin g th a t he forgot about hla love
affairs, an d a f te r Its term in atio n he
lingered to discuss w ith an um pire
w ith whom he w as acq u ain ted a tech
nical p o in t on a ruling th a t had arisen
d u rin g th e diam ond conflict.
W hen Itoacoe le ft th e g rounds th e
crow ds had vanished, all except a girl
In a red coat, who stood o utside th e
g ate looking ab o u t as though In search
of som e one. She w as Eyes, an d she
sm iled w ith them w hen she saw Itos-
eoe.
R oscoe’s h e a rt b eat violently a s he
ap p ro ach ed her, am azed a t his own
tem erity , lifted his h a t an d in q u ire d :
“Can I be of service?”
" I d o n 't know ,” she replied. “I’m
looking fo r my au n t. We got s e p a ra t
ed In th e crow d an d I'm a fra id sh e ’s
tak en th e trolley c a r th in k in g I also
w as on It, and th e re Isn’t a n o th e r ca r
fo r h a lf an h o u r.”
R oscoe stepped Into th e b reach.
“I’ll be glad to escort you hom e In
my— my alleged autom obile.”
"I'll be equally glad to rid e In It, 1
a ssu re you,” she told him sw eetly.
Soon th ey w ere buzzing along th e
road— not too fast, fo r Roscoe w an te d
to prolong th e trip , especially a f te r he
discovered th e re w as no ring on th e
th ird finger of h e r left hand.
‘W a sn 't It a glorious g am e!” she
exclaim ed, s ta rtin g slightly as Roscoe
n arro w ly m issed h ittin g a n o th e r car,
due to th e fa c t th a t h e w as looking
Into E y es’ eyes.
T h ey discussed th e gam e In detail.
“Do you know ,” she observed, as
they w hisked Into th e resid e n tia l dis
tric t, h ead in g fo r an ad d ress she fu r
nished, “you rem ind me a lo t o f a
frie n d of m in e — an o th e r baseball
fa n ? ”
R oscoe’s h e a rt sank.
" T h a t m u st be th e fellow sh e’s In
love w ith ,” h e thought.
"H e ta lk s Ju st like you, u sin g th e
sam e Idioms, and h as th e sam e fav o r
ite p la y ers,” she w ent on.
T h is gave Roscoe a new lease on
hope. I f sh e loved th is o th e r m an,
an d th e o th e r m an w as like him , he
fe lt th a t h e had some ch ance of b e a t
ing him In a m atrim o n ial duel.
"Y ou should m eet him ,” E yes con
tinued. "T h e n ex t co rn er Is w h ere I
live, p lease. Yes, you should m eet
him, b u t I could n ev er b rin g It
ab o u t.”
“A nd w hy n o t?” he Inquired, slow
ing down.
“B ecau se I n ev er m et him m yself.
P ro b ab ly you’ll th in k I’m a foolish lit
tle g i r l ; b u t fo r a y e a r I ’ve been In
love w ith a m an I'v e n ever seen. H e
gives me" th e b aseball scores o v er th e
telephone every day, an d —b u t, of
course, It's all useless. I’ll n ev e r m eet
him .”
T h e ro a d ste r cam e to a sto p In fro n t
of h e r hom e w ith such violence th a t
th e ir h ea d s stru c k th e top.
“T h an k you so m uch,” she said, as
h e helped h e r out. “M aybe I can do
som ething fo r you som e day.”
R oscoe gulped an d groped fo r
w ords, finally m an ag in g to s a y :
"You can do som ething rig h t now.
L et m e com e up an d see you tonight,
and I'll b rin g th is telep h o n e m an of
y ours along. I ’m w ell acq u ain ted w ith
him .”
And E y es' eyes sm iled a t him and
an sw ered In ad v an ce of h er lips.
RIDDING HOUSES OF VERMIN
Outline of Method Recommended by
Poultry Specialists of Depart
ment of Agriculture.
T h e follow ing m ethod of rid d in g
hen houses of m ites and lice, w hen
th e w e a th e r conditions a re such as to
p erm it of th e b irds being kept o u tsid e
th e h o u se fo r five o r six hours. Is rec
om m ended by p o u ltry sp e cia lists In
th e U nited S ta te s d e p a rtm e n t of a g ri
cu ltu re.
Close all th e doors and w indow s
an d see th a t th e re a re no c ra ck s o r
an y o th e r openings to adm it a ir. S et
an iro n vessel on gravel o r sand n e a r
th e ce n te r of th e house. P lace In th e
vessel a h andful of shavings o r stra w
s a tu ra te d w ith k erosene and on th ese
sp rin k le su lp h u r a t th e r a te o f ab o u t
one pound to every 00 o r 100 sq u a re
fe e t o f floor space. In stea d o f using
th e sh av in gs and kerosene, th e su lp h u r
m ay be sa tu ra te d w ith wood alcohol.
W hen ev e ry th in g else Is In re a d i
ness, lig h t th e m a teria l and h astily
leav e th e house. In case any an x iety
Is fe lt ab o u t fire, a glance th ro u g h a
w indow w ill show w h e th e r every th in g
Is a ll r i g h t T h ere Is very little d an
g e r of fire w hen p ro p er p rec au tio n s
h av e been ta k en to have plen ty of soil
b en e ath th e vessel.
A fter th re e o r
fo u r hours, th ro w all th e doors and
th e w indow s w ide open to d riv e out
th e su lp h u r fum es thoroughly. T h en
let th e fow ls In one by one. As each en
te rs, ca tc h It and d u st It w ell w ith In
sect pow der, w hich w ill d estro y th e
lice on th e b ir d a T obacco d u st Is
also good to u se In stea d of Insect
pow der.
T h e b ird s and house h av e now been
freed from verm in fo r th e p resen t, b u t
th e eggs o f th e Insects h av e n o t been
d estroyed, and In a w eek a n o th e r
sw arm w ill be h atch ed out. T here-
ZUNI INDIANS FLEET-FOOTED
Remarkable Racing Tournament In
Which Runners Usually Defeat
Mounted Competitors.
T h e Zunl In d ian s of N o rth w estern
New M exico occasionally hold a ra c
ing to u rn a m e n t In w hich a n u m b er of
th e fleetest ru n n e rs of th e trib e con
te s t fo r p rizes to be given th o se who
first com plete on foot a circu it fu lly
25 m iles In length, a f te r a w eek of
severe p re p a ra to ry p ractice. T h e con
te s ta n ts a re com pelled to kick a sm all
stick th e e n tire d ista n c e of th e race.
S om etim es th ey b are th e rig h t foot
and g ra sp th e stick betw een th e ir toes
so th a t In ta k in g a ste p they can fling
It a su rp risin g d istan c e in fro n t of
them a s th ey run.
T h e ru le o f th e ra c e Is th a t th is
stick Is n ev e r to be touched by any
p a r t o f th e body o th e r th an th e foot.
T h e c o n te sta n ts m ay g et Into severe
difficulties when th e nom adic piece of
wood h ap p e n s to fa ll in to th e m idst
of one of th e la rg e th o rn y clum ps of
cacti w hich abo u n d s In th a t country,
o r If th e riv e r h as to be crossed In th e
race.
So e x tra o rd in a ry nre th e en
d u ran c e an d speed of th ese ru n n ers
th a t th ey o ften cover th e e n tire 25
m iles In a little m ore th an two hours.
Som etim es In d ian s
m ounted on
sw ift ponies e n te r th e rnce ngninst the
foot ru n n ers. At th e end of ten m iles
the horses begin to show signs of fa
tigue, nnd w hen 15 o r 20 m iles have I
been trav e led th ey h av e often to be |
w ith d raw n from th e race. T h e foot
ru n n e rs a re alm o st alw ay s able to win
th e rac e o ver th e ir m ounted com peti
tors, an d seem to suffer no serio u s
effects from th e g re a t m u scu lar stra in
to w hich they have been subjected.
Annoying Both Ways.
Miss E lsie De W olfe said a t th e
c lu b :
"S erv an ts— and n o t necessarily good
se rv a n ts—now get $15 a week, and a t
th a t th ey a r e h ard to find.
”A young girl ab o u t to m arry said to
a m iddle-aged m atro n th e o th e r day :
“ ‘I su p p o se housekeeping h as Its a n
noyances?’
“ 'It ce rtain ly h a s 1’ th e m atro n an
sw ered. ’You've e ith e r got a serv an t I
o r you h av en 't.’ "
Its Natural End.
Fumigating Hen House to Get Rid of
Mites and Lice.
fo re It w ill be n ecessary to re p e a t th e
o p era tio n once o r tw ice b efore th e
p e s ts tore e x te rm in a te d . A fte r th is
c a re should be used to see th a t no
stra n g e fowl is ad m itte d to th e bouse
o r y a rd w ith o u t h aving been th o r
oughly rid o f lice, fo r one lousy hen
w ill co n tam in ate all the rest.
GIVE GROWING CHICKS MILK
Where Supply Can Be Obtained It
Should Be Kept Before Them In
Open Dish or Pan.
N o th in g Is b e tte r fo r grow ing chicks
th a n a lib eral supply of so u r m ilk. If
It can he o btained It alw ays should be
k ep t b efo re them In an open dish or
p an w h ere they can e a t and drink It
freely. W here so u r m ilk Is fed. th e
am o u n t of beef sc ra p In the dry m ash
m ay b e ,re d u c e d one-half.
P len ty of fresh, clean w a te r Is abso
lu tely n ecessary fo r all grow ing chicks.
In hot w en th er It should be given tw ice
dally nnd p u t Into fo u n tain s or dishes
and p laced In th e shade so as to keep
as cool as possible. Clean th e w a te r
dish thoroughly each day before fill
ing.
SURPLUS FOWLS PROFITABLE
Males and Females That Have Out
grown T heir Usefulness Pro
vide Additional Income.
M ost fa n n e rs find th e profit In th e
com m ercial p a r t of th e p o ultry busi
ness In m ark et eggs, but th e su rp lu s
m ales and th e fem ales th a t have o u t
grown th e ir usefu ln ess provide an ad
ditio n al Income w hich Is w orth while.
GEESE MAKE GOOD FORAGERS
Fowls Pick Up Large Portion of Their
Ration if Allowed Free Range
on Farm.
"T h ere Is one occupation w hich no | All geese a re good forag ers and even
m a tte r how w ell a m an succeeds I d j w hen young will pick up a large p a rt
It Is bouud in th e eud to go down o f th e ir ratio n If allow ed free ran g e on
th e farm . T hey e a t g rass and fresh
hill."
veg etab le grow ths o f all kinds, as well
“W h at’s th a t? "
as bugs and worms.
"M ountain clim bing."