H A LS EY
E M EHPIUSE. HALSEY. OHEGOX. J U X E _ 3 k _ H ^
The Red Road pg¡?
A Rom ance of B raddock’s Defeat
* By Hugh Pendexter
Illustration» by
heart bent fast at the brare rolling
of the drums.
At last the march on Fort Duquea
tie had commenced, and we were off
to have It out with the Frenchmen.
And sickening of the dust. I picked
up my rifle, struck through a noble
grove of oaks and started to find my
friend, the Onondaga, Bound Paw of
th« Wolf dan.
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POULTRY BREEDS
BEST FOR FARMER
Which I» the best breed of poultry
SYNOPSIS
Irw in M yer»
for the Ohio farmer?
W ill, more than 600 farm flocks on
Im p o v e ris h e d by th e o p en -h a n d e d
O »i>yrlght by H u g h P a a d e sta « .
g e n e ro s ity o f his f a th e r , V ir g in ia
WNU »UrvU-a
W1 I,-I. to base uu answer to this ques
g e n tle m a n , y o u n g W e b s te r B ro n d
tio n
flocks on which records were
Is s e r v in g ns a s< o u t a nd spy fo r
kei I during 1926 in co-operation with
th e a rm y u n d e r G e n e ra l B ra d d o c k
C X I.? . lin ts and the HKr.culturM
about General Braddock. I almost
p r e p a rin g fo r th e a d v a n c e on F o r t
believed he would blame Ihe bearer
D uq u es n e . H e has Just r e tu rn e d to
college extension service of he OWo
A le x a n d r ia fro m a v is it to the
of bud news. It wiis his firm convic
State university, poultry specialist» at
f o r t , w h e re , po sing as a F r e n c h
tion thut Ihe best of our riflemen were
m an , he han secured v a lu a b le In
the university make this answer.
much Inferior to his drlll-sergeanta
' C H APTER II I
fo r m a tio n . B rn d d o c k , bred to E u
“ There are reveral things to con
-w
I
ro p e a n w a r f a r e , fa lls to re a lis e the
lie did not seem to comprehend the
sider. but probably the most Im
Im p o rta n c e o f th e new s.
(inference between fighting In our
portant is the Individual whim of the
D er Hexcnkopf
gloomy forests and on a level open
After passing through the Blue farmer.”
field In Flanders.
Before framing this answer the spe
ridge I fell as If my visit to Alexan
CHAPTER 1—Continued
Ilia contempt for our riflemen was dria had taken place In a dream. No cialists exumlued the records and ,
complete. Tell him they could whip
Governor Morris furlfior mollified the French and outwit the Indians place here for gay coats and ruined anulvzed them In “ Analysis of Poultry
shirts sn.l silken hose; and what Brolits, 1920." a new bulletin pub
the Irusclhle commander It; Buying:
and he would sneer al them because mockery would the undergrowth make lished for free distribution by the !
" I w ill lend George Croghun u le t
agricultural college extension service.
of my dainty Indy's exquisite attire I
ter, directing him to gturt hells to the
A buxxnrd quartered the sky, and I Copies of the 10-pnge bulletin may be
luke tribe», lie stunds next to WII
knew there would be many of them obtained from the county agent or I
limn Johnson In comprehending In
before long following the army.
the university.
dian nuture and liitloence over them
A\erages used In comparing breeds
I t any man can bring In (he Dela
Hound Paw of the Wolf clan bare- ; of poultry were drawn from records
wares, the Shawnee», Wyandot».
ly glanced up ns I stood beside his of Leghorns, Plymouth Rocks, Wyan
Twlgbtweva, (M lunil)), and the Plan-
small fire, and yet he hud discovered dottes, and Rhode Island Reds. Leg
kashuwa, It 1» Croghan."
me coming or else he would not have horn flocks constituted 59.S per cent
“ When 1 Inst talked with Mr. Wush
been seated with his scarlet blanket of those reporting, nnd the average
Ington he Infoimed me there were
covering hlin from head to foot I , ” j‘ze' o{ t i,e Leghorn flock was larger
three hundred Iroquois, »ho left the
dropped on the ground and laid aside t,ian {or any other breed. Indicating
Ohio lust winter, and who lire now
my rifle, lie filled and lighted his
Leghorns are more adaptable to
ready to march with us," said Brad
pljie nnd passed It through the blue large dock».
dock, his face losing some of Ils dout
smoke. After a few whiffs I returned
“ The Leghorns averaged 13.9 eggs
expression.
IL Finally he remarked:
, more [)er blrd t i,an any other breed,"
i glanced nt Governor Morris nml
"My white brother has come from t ,]e gpeciai|stg point o u t “ This bear»
fancied I delected symptoms of un
the home of his father."
out ,,ie contention that Leghorns are
easiness, lie knew what I was think
“ My father Is n ghost. There ts no j
producers than other breeds.
ing, and, while he much disliked at
tiHiiie for me In Alexandria. My fa
thut time to dash any of Braddock's
“ There are exceptions, however, for
tiler's house belongs to another.”
hopes, he announced:
some of the lowest producing flocks
lie was silent for a few minutes. were Leghorns. There was little d if
"1 regret, sir, that the Iroquois you
then asked:
mention are no longer under our con
ference In egg production among the
“ You carry belts for Onas?" (The three American breeds, although the
trol. Pennsylvania fed them from the
governor
of
Pennsylvania.)
latter part of Inst year unlit -his
Wyandottes averaged 72 eggs more
“ I carry a talking-paper to George per bird than the Plymouth Rocks.
spring. My lust advice from I’hllu
Croghan," I told him, tapping the
delphlo Is that the assembly has voted
“ Cash receipts were less fo r the
breast of my hunting sh irt “ The big Leghorns than for any of the other
to go to no further expense In their
chief from over the stinking water breeds. Thia Is true despite the
behalf and that the Indluns have re
tins asked me to get men with long higher egg production for Leghorns,
turned to the French.”
rifles for Ills army. And I have said
It was disheartening news for the
and is largely due to Increased meat
lender to hear. I do not know that I “ My Whl«« Brother Has Come From I would go to Duquesne again. Does receipts from hens and broilers for
the man of the Wolf go with me?"
would have Imparted It had Governor
the Home of Hie Father.”
the American breeds.
He rose and allowed his blanket to
Morris kept silent And yet It would
“ Total expenses per bird were slight
have been deadly wrong to have they were unable to go through their drop down on hlg loins. During my ly higher fo r the three American
blinded I be general to the truth ol drill. Hyde Park dexterity In the absence he had repainted while the breeds. This tended to balance the
the slluntlon. I could have told him manual of arms weighed more with pnw on his chest, the totem mark of labor income so that It was quite sim
II »-as loo Inte to send hells to the him than the keenest knowledge of Ids clan, and be was oiled for war. I ila r fo r the four breeds. With only
knew he was eager to he deep In (he
lake tribes; hut ns that was my be forest lore.
59 cents difference between the high
lie f and not an established fuel my
I was peopling the broad stairway forests beyond the Alleghenies and ond the low In labor Income, It Is ap
was even now ready to s ta rt Al
conscience permitted me lo keep my with beautiful women from my boy
parent that there Is no practical d if
mouth shut
hood's recollections, and was again though leg-tired I did not unpack my ference In the profitableness of these
blankets,
but
signified
my
readiness
"A fte r all, sir," soothed Mr. Frank
admiring their Imported brocades and
four main breeds."
Un, "Fort Duquesne will fall to Gen
velvets and marveling at their fash to travel. He produced some smoked
eral Braddock's veterans uml not tie
ions In hnlr-dresslng when his excel meat and parched corn for me to eat
and after I bad finished he made np Egg-Shell M aterial Is
cause of the wavering allegiance of lency finished his letter, and an
his travel-bundle, and we were off.
the natives. The tribes nre wllh us nouticed:
Essential for Layers
As I walked behind him, as much
today and accept presents from
“ Here It Is, Mr. Brond. See that II
Oyster
shell
which is used for poul
of
an
Indian
In
appearance
as
be
If
France tomorrow. Anil on another gels to Mr. Croghun either by your
day they «III come hack lo us The own hand or by some trusty messen not for my disheveled hair, 1 described try is made by crushing the whole
truth of the mailer Is, sir, the Indians ger. Be careful while at Duquesne the gallant appearance of the army as shells, after which they are washed
favor neither Fngllsh nor French, and We move a bit lamely now, hut It'll It marched out of Alexandria. Ilia three times. Following the washing
the crushed shell Is dried In rotury
would heartily rejoice If'h e two races he the devil's own stew for the only comment was:
“ Big noise. The Swannock—Eng- dryers, the intense heat of which de
would cut each other’s throats until French once we get the pot to boil
stroys all foreign and putrid mutter,
not a white mun was left In North ing. Good lurk on your travels and llyhtnen—cannot shoot with drums.”
I answered that the soldiers would making the shell sanitary and clean.
America."
bring buck your own bnlr.”
have no chance to use their guns be The heating Insures freedom fo m
| T ills speech made an Impression
e
e
e
e
e
e
s
cause
of the weak condition of the odor and poisonous matter.
and Brnddock agreed:
I preferred the river bank to the
A fter drying the shell Is screened
“ A y e . There's sound sense In that.
crowded tavern as sleeping place that fort and garrison. A year earlier, Into two sizes, for hens nnd chicks,
We must depend upou the army, nlghL My business from Braddock when Mr. Washington marched out of
the situation might respectively. The oversized material
Thank God. Ihe Guards have never gave me Immunity from any annoy Fort Necessity,
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la
zvl I t n I rx n f i x ( I
bare
been
different
Then Duquesne and dust Is eliminated.
failed England and Ids majesty I”
ance by the civil authorities, and
The feeding of oyster shell Is a
whs
garrisoned
by
close
to
a
thousand
I w ill say now Hint there were hut there were homes of old friends that
good practice In poultry husbandry
two men In all the colonies of whom would have opened to me had I made men under the command of veterans.
Twelve months had seen a change as the high calcium content provides
General Braddock unqualifiedly ap myself known. I had thought to moke
bone-building material for growing
proved-young Mr. Washington »'bom my camp In the neglected garden of In conditions. The portage at Niagara
birds nnd egg-shell mnterinl for lay
bad
slowed
up
the
arrival
of
stores
I had known In happier days, and Mr
the Brond house, hut the ghosts were
Franklin. Mr. Washington, despite too tnnny, and I g»( no farther than from Canada. The horses expected ing hens. For tills reason the mate
from Presqu’ Isle had not been deliv rial should be available in feeders at
his youth—twenty three yeurs of age the gale.
all times.
—had been requested to serve on
Early astir, I ate at a market-stall ered. The garrison had been weak
ened by the sending back of troops to
Itrnddoek's staff, lie was very bold on the square near the Horse murket
In op|H>tdng the general'» plana when The place »as lively with the rolling Canada.
Those bringing supplies from Can
he perceived they were based on of drums and the clumping of heavy
strategy learned on the bntlleflelda ol b n , » t o . * ax the regulars, wllh wonder ada arrived attired In rich velvets and
genial from rare wines, but with their
Knrope, but not nt nil suited to our ful pr>-' Isloa, swung Into various for
sacks empty. Waste and confusion
wild forests and mountains. Mr
Lack of sunshine often
malino».
hud blighted the fine spirit of Du
Franklin nun e magician al ex|s>dl
The march to Frederick. Maryland, quesne's defenders. I had learned this weakness In chick«.
enta, and »Itbout any show of bins
wns »bout to begin. As there was no much from Captain Beaujeu who hnd
ter could blare a trail around «bat
Overcrowding the house enuses roup
ro i l from that town to W ill's creek. readily accepted me as a loyal French
appeared to lie Impassable obstacle*
ns well ns stunted chicks.
Colonel Dunbar would have lo cross man.
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General Braddock remembered I
the pototnne at the mouth of Ihe
Round Pnw was never a gossip. We
was still In the room and said aom»
The color of the egg shells has
l oii'M-o'hengue nnd take the Winches
hnd traveled together for two years nothing to do with the food value of
thing to Governor De Lanrey
ill»
'e r road.
and there had been many days when the eggs.
excellency n-ked me:
My business was finished In Alex
he burelv spoke. We first met on
“ Do you believe you could vlsll Do
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quesne again and pass yourself off as muirla, and trailing my long rifle I Lake Erie’s southern shore when a
Eggs
cannot
he produced without
passed once more by the house Of the pack of Hurons and a few Frenchmen
a Canadian?"
nitrogenous food In some shape. Bones
«pen
hand,
and
started
north.
Clear
were giving me a bard run nnd on
I believe that I could aod sold so
of the town I stopped on a slight emi the point of catching me It war are absolutely essential.
•
•
s
Then his excellent-? proceeded to
nence
and
looked
hack
and
watched
Round Paw’s tierce war cry, the ter
question me closely as lo the physical
Give the young poultry plenty of
the cloud of dust redden In the sun
rible defiance of the Onondagns. and
conditions of the fort. Stepping to
light. It hung low nnd settled on Ihe his deudly arrows that had caused my fresh air without drafts. An open
the tnlde and using my finger and a
meadows and robbed the first grass pursuers to slow up the chase, fear- growing coop w ill do this,
pool of sfillled wine I Indicated the
• • •
of Its rich sheen. I enught the strulns lug an ambuscade.
structures and was marking nut the
Remember that the hens which lay
of
the
“
Grenadiers’
March,”
nnd
my
(TO B E CO N TIN U ED .)
twelve foot stockade on the riverside
the golden eggs nre the ones that pro
when the r o»r»l curtly Interrupted:
duce them when they bring the high
” Ws understand enough of that.
est prices.
We • BI learn ell the details after
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•
a
we base taken over the fort. You Sim ply C ouldn’t “S e e ” Chow Puppies at $50
A broiler Is a young bird weighing
w ill pr> eed to the fort nnd learn 1»
less than two ponnds. The best prices
“ In front of a fashionably located
t « French have received any rein
"But how obout a tralLed dog?” 1 are received for the plump, well-de
f'.r'-emehta. Aa you w ill trnrel much dog store window containing a dis a eked. “ Suppose It was an extra veloped birds.
fsste, than i t * army, you are to se play of Chow puppies, 1 saw two good dog?”
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rose enlistment, among Ihe provtn
Chinamen laughing and slapping each
“ Oh, thlrty-fl’ cents,” declared the
The products of the great American
tlaia w rite traveling to and from the other on the back in their outbursts of more conversational one, aud
his hen rank fifth In our agricultural
fort.”
glee. I doti't know when I ever saw friend nodded agreement.
products list, nnd every year more
lie dismissed me with a flirt of his Chinamen so emotional. Out of curi
“ Then what does a cat cost?' I tn- people are realizing that there ts
thick blind
osity I sauntered near and tried to qulred.
rnouey In hens.
Governor Morris motioned for me see what had amused them. It wasn't
• • •
"Cat, him cost more," promptly re
to follow him down the hall, and ex
any cute antics of the Chow puppies, plied my new acquaintance. “ Good
The standard weight of the Pekin
plained I was In wall while he wrote because all were asleep. Finally, I
cat catch mice— cost 92.“ —Fred Kelly drake Is nine pounds and of the Mus
a letter for me to give to George Cro
asked one of the Cblnatuen what they In Nation's Business Magazine.
covy drake, ten pounds,
«han. He smiled wearily and mur. were laughing n t This brought a
• • •
Inc red:
fresh outburst, hut, after gaining con
Many
breeders
sell the Leghorn
A
fleeted
O
n
ly
by
Noise
"None of us «III rest easy until the trol of himself, the one who seemed
There Is always a public In Eng cockerels when they weigh about one
army la under way. " I t ’s too bad to have the best command of English
young Mr Washington Isn't here to pointed to a small sign which I had land, perhaps elsewhere, that either pound. At this size they are known
as squab broilers.
make things dear to the general”
not previously noticed. It gave the does not hear or does not rv«lly be
• I
“ Bui von have Kvana’ map!"
price of puppies as $30 each. Thai lieve you are In earnest unirss you
When the hens stop laying they
“ A ye
W e have the map,” grumbled
price was what made (lie Chinamen shout—Disraeli.
may often be started again by a
his excellency
lauglp
change of feed, but do not give them
No Change in Design
"Doga like that In China cost fl
much corn In summer, unless, of
I b e i e are men ot high station with
Fish hooks have been mads on ex course, you have cooped them up to
whom I feel free to talk. t»ut there cents—maybe ten ceuts,” one of them
actly the same dss-gn for 2.00} year* fatten for market
us something chilling and repelling explained.
LAUNDRESS
BENEFITED
Stable M an Showed
G rim Sense of H um or
Add to the true but trying stories
of the week the case of the young
lady who was most anxious to reach
her gentleman
friend
postilaste.
Knowing him to be an ardent horse- j
man and confident that he was riding
at the moment, she besought the tele
phone Red Book. With no more In
formation than Ihe fact that he rode
a mount named Molly, she proceeded
to query academy after academy.
Eventually, success was to be hers.
Nearing the end of her list o f num
bers, her Impatient ” hello” was an
swered by a gruff-voiced stable man.
"Is this the Park academy?" she
asked.
“ Yep,” answered the voice.
“ Well, have you a horse named
Molly?"
The answer shocked her Into speech
lessness.
“ Sure,” said the gruff one. “ Shall
1 bring ’er to the phone?” —Detroit
Free Press.
B y Taking Lydia E. Pink,
ham’s Vegetable Compound
Nashville, Tenn.—“ I cannot .ay
too much in favor of the medicine,
I was in a run«
down condition.
I worked in a
laundry but my
health got to ba<i
that I had to
give np work. I
got a bottle of
Lydia E. Pink,
ham’s Vegetable
Compound and
began taking it
and every time I
feel run-down I
get another bottle. I t is an excellent
tonic and I am w illing to tell others
about it. People take me to be much
younger than I am.” —Mas. H arrx
B obxstein , 406 Second Ave, South,
Nashville, Tennessee.
P rin ce’s Sim ple L ife
on Ranch in C algary
The prince of Wales, so they say,
Is developing an American accent
Seven years of annual association
w ith the cowhands and neighboring
ranchers at Calgary, Alberta, where
he Is owner of the EP ranch, have
erased much of bis carefully cu lti
vated Oxford enunciation and substi
tuted the drawl of the American
Northwest.
The B ritish royal heir even Jokes
about the change In his speech. A fa
vorite story w ith him Is one in which
an American acquaintance explains
that the difference between a ranch
and a "rawnch" Is that “ a ranch pays
and a ’rawnch’ doesn’t.”
"B u t everybody In Calgary knows
that the prince runs a ranch and not
a ‘rawnch’,” says Chief Long Lance,
a neighbor. “ By 8:30 every morning
he has breakfast and is out Inspecting
his cattle and barns. One of his
chores Is hauling manure In a wheel
barrow.” —Los Angeles Times.
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C olor W a r in E d inburgh
Following the refusul of some res
taurants to admit Asiatic and African
residents, not because of their con
duct, but because of their racial origin,
Edinburgh has a color war that has
gotten Into the bouse of commons.
The secretary fo r Scotland was asked
to take steps, by legislation or other
wise, to stop the discrimination, and
he replied that he did not have the
power to Intervene and did not think
legislation along the line suggested
would be practicable. A delegation of
students representing the Edinburgh
Indian association protested recently
to the lord provost of Edinburgh, and
the members of the organization re
fused to take part In the recent
charity pageant
H is Experience
“ Well, sir," said Dad Drizzle, “ the
children had got to playing around,
the whole dura ten of ’em, I reckon.
1 wasn’t paying no pertlckler atten
tion when I heered an almighty yell,
nnd over the fence comes a heifer,
blattlng for gosh' sake with three,
four arrers sticking out of her body.
1 gives another yell and darted Into
the house fo r my gun, hollering ‘In
juns I In ju n s!’ at every Jump.
I
hadn’t been offm’ the place fo r so
long I’d forgot there wasn't no Injuns
no more and Just nacber’ly didn't
suspicion the children a-tall.” —Kan
sas City Star.
H is V iew p o in t
"A very promising young man,” we
Bald, “ ne w ill do big things.”
“ We have too thundering many
•golng-to-dners’ now,” said old Festus
Pester. “ What we need nre not men
that are going to do, but those that
have already done—we need ‘didders,’
not ’golng-to-doers’ or ‘might-have-
doners!'
H urrum ph!"—Kansas City
Star.
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