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ATLANTA, OA., SUNDAY, MAY 4, 1013. IIBARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN,
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Cattle Tick Incubus Is No
Obstacle to New Stockman
Selection of Sites Is Important, Dipping Vat and Sprays Take Care of Ticks—Progressive Stockmen
and Clever Devices Are Em
ployed to Reduce Cost.
Atlanta merchants are constantly
putting Into practice some ot the fun
damental principles of economics In
the selection of business sites. De
partment stores and other establish
ments along Whitehall are using a
minimum of frontage and a maxi
mum of "backage.” For Instance, the
store which fronts 30 feet on White
hall will extend back many feet
toward Pryor Street or Broad and
there spread out over a great area.
The floor space is what is desired
and the store gets it without paying
the high prices that more frontage
would entail.
The office building is likewise built
on an economic principle. While there
are lateral restrictions on a 100x200-
foot lot, there is no limit to the ex
tent to which the structure may go
into the air, except the limit of safe
ty. If an office building were reduced
to twenty large stores, all of which
demanded frontage, the cost would
be twenty times as great, and the ef
ficiency would not make up for it by
any means.
A capitalist who was trying recently
to place a wholesale house In a de
sirable location recommended a site
at $1,000 a front foot. ' What is the
price on the opposite side of the
street?”, asked the wholesaler.
“That is $750," was the reply. "The
difference is due to the fact that twice
as many people use the other side of
the street.”
"Then I'll take the cheaper locat
ion,” returned the wholesaler. "It
suits my purposes just as well and
it saves me considerable expense."
A far-seeing business man had a
piece of unproductive property on his
hands. He had tried in vain to sell
it. It was far-removed from the
prevailing trading centers and it
couldn’t be sold as It stood. Then
an idea struck the business man. The
lease of an undertaking establishment
in another section of town was ex
piring. Undertaking establishments
pay good rentals. He would erect a
building and lease it to them. The
undertakers, In the meantime, were
wondering what they were to do for
a new place. The business man
showed them.
RIDDER GIVEN NEW YORK
OFFICE; MITCHELL BEATEN
ALBANY, N. Y., May 3.—Governor
Sulzer to-day nominated Herman
Bidder, of New York, for the posi
tion of Superintendent of State Pris
ons. The Senate confirmed the nom
ination. %
The Governor also resubmitted the
nomination of John Mitchell, the la
bor leader, for State Labor Commis
sioner. This nomination was rejected.
Welcome Severe Restrictions—Tick Continuance Inexcusable, if
Thorough Safeguards Will Be Taken in Every Instance Tick
Aj i]'cars.
By CHARLES A. WHITTLE.
(Georgia State Collage of Agriculture.)
M ORE than 1SO.O0O miles of ter
ritory has been freed of cattlo
tick since 1906—a territory
that would cover Mississippi, Ala
bama, Georgia and slightly more.
Pretty gcod work that!
And what is more, his pudgy nibs
is on the way to oblivion at a faster
pace than ever. The street would put
it more expressively by saying that
he was being put on the “blink," for
that Is about what happens when he
receives a deluge of the arsenic so
lution in the “dip.”
For a long time the Margaropus
Arrnulatus—none other than the cattle
tick—gorged and gorged good blood of
Southern cattle, but at last a scien
tific sleuth trapped and convicted
him of cattle raiding computing his
outrages at millions and millions of
dollars a year.
Forthwith the federal authorities
located the van of the tick’s far flung
lines, sec up a quarantine and stopped
crossing from infected to uninfected
territory until a clean bill of health
was shown. It was discovered that
the tick had fixed Itself upon the cat
tle Industry* of the South and South
west, that cattle reared in uninfected
territory when taken into infected
territory died when the tick got in Its
work. Indeed the cattle tick fever
is to the cow what yellow fever is to
man.
Farmers Do Not Appreciate Damage.
a CURIOUS feature about it is that
the Southern farmers did not
know that the cattle tick had any
thing to do with the development of
their herds. In fact, a great many
Southern farmers to-day will hoot
the claims that the cattle tick
amounts to anything, averring that it
is all a fuss about nothing.
The explanation is that Southern
born ana reared cattle receive a touch
of the tick fever very early in life
with comparatively slight effect, but
enough 10 make them immune from
serious effects afterwards. Though
Southern cattle thus early go tnrough
the tick ordeal, as a matter of fact,
they are never afterwards what they
might have been. Their growth la I boll, the sal soda Is added and stirred
permanently stunted. They are, In I till It dissolves. The arsenic Is ad
ded and again stirred until it In turn
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
Adair & Holt’s Revised New
Listings
HIGH-CLASS SUBDIVISIONS.
HAVE EXCLUSIVE listings and options on North Side land, right in the
town, and property never before on sale. If you want something real
good we know where it is and have it at the right price.
PONOE DE LEON AVE. APARTMENT SITE.
AT THE GEORGIAN TERRACE and Ponce DeLeon Apartments.
Price only $600 per foot, and it is cheap at that.
PONCE I)E LEON AVE. HOMES AND LOTS.
JUST LISTED some elegant homes on this beautiful thoroughfare—
some dandies. They are right up to date and the prices are right.
Easy terms.
STONE MOUNTAIN OAR LINE HOME.
SMALL TRACTS on and near this line are getting scarce. We have
some nice ones at low prices. Have nine acres with small house in
quarter mile of car stop for $1,500. It’s pretty and cheap, too.
too.
TWELVE ACRES ON MARIETTA CAR LINE.
$300 WORTH of improvements, such as private water, sewerage and
barns. No dwelling, but elegant grounds. Price, $6,000. Make an
offer.
$1350, NORTH SIDE ACREAGE, RIGHT NEAR
PIEDMONT PARK.
CHEAPEST, prettiest and most desirable tract on the market. We
have only a few days at this price, then it will be $1,500 per acre.
Buy it now and make a quarter of a million on the 100 acres. It is
just simply beautiful and in the right place, facing to main thor
oughfares that are paved now.
“LET US SHOW YOU.”
ADAIR & HOLT
97 1-2 Peachtree St., Alfriend Bldg. Bell Phone, Ivy JO
fact, predestined bovine failures.
The Southern farmer faces his poor
cattle with an “On, well the South is
no place to grow them!” He has
been placing the blame on the coun
try and climate when It belonged to
him
Every intelligent farmer now knows
that the South is a territory suited to
cattle growing, ndeed, wonderfully
adapted to it—tne tick, of course,
eliminated as a factor. The long
grazing season, :he great variety of
crops maturing at desirable intervals,
the possibility of double cropping, the
generally favorable climatic condi
tions, have all been made to show
prime beef and dairy results where
the tick has been driven out.
How Tick Does Damage.
THE charges against the cattle tick
* have been we.’i briefed by Dr. W.
M. Burson, prof'^fisor of Veterinary
Science of the Georgia State College
of Agriculture In the following way:
1— Sucks blood thereby causing loss
of vitality.
2— Stunts the growth of calves.
3— Lessens milk production.
4— Increases expense of fattening
cattle.
5— Interferes with the improvement
of breeds.
6— Causes commercial damage to
hides.
7— Restricts commerce in cattlt.
8— Lowers the market value of cat
tle in tick infested territory.
9— Causes death of many cattle.
10— Prevents to a large extent the
proper use of cotton seed meal there
by reducing soil fertility.
11— Prevents the exhibition of
Southern cattle at northern fairs and
stock shows.
12— Prevents sale of breeding and
feeding cattle to northern farmers.
How to Eradicate the Tick.
THE two general methods of eradi-
* eating the tick are pasture rota
tion and spraying or dipping with ar
senic solution. If one had only a
small herd and time he could resort
to hand picking and currying being:
dissolves. The solution Is then al
lowed to cool to 140 degrees fahren-
heit. One pound of concentrated lye
is dissolved in one quart of water
and stirred into the pine tar. The
pine tar is then added slowly in »
thin stream to the solution of soda
and arsenic, the whole being stirred
thoroughly. The volume is thj?n in
creased by the addition of water to
make the total 50 gallons. This
gallons of substance is known as
“stock" solution. In this condltier
it is entirely too strong for applica
tion. Previous io use it must be di
luted with water at the rate of nine
gallons of water to one gallon of
“stock" solution.
Arsenic is. of course, a deadly
poison and care must be exercised in
handling it. Cattle should be water
ed before dipping and should be al
lowed to drip off throughly in the
dripping pen to make sure that none
will drip off on grass or pasture and
be oaten by cattle. When the liquid
has become too foul for further use,
it should be drained off into a pit
where it will not run out on pasture
land or find access to the water sup
ply.
A single dipping ,pf a cow, of
course, destroys all ticks on the ani
mal at the time. Other ticks might
crawl on her the next day and if
they are allowed to remain there
long enough would develop and be
ready to perpetuate the race of ticks
Until the ticks have been completely
eradicated it is, therefore, necessary
to put the cattle through the dipping
vat about every two weeks.
How Ticks Reproduce,
/~\BSERVATIONS made by govern-
^ ment experts concerning the hab
its of the cattle tick reveal that ticks
average from 350 to over 5,000 eggs,
the average being nearer 3,000. These
eggs are laid in greatest abundance in
November with January and Februa
ry next in order. The incubation
period varies greatly from 19 to 188
days with October and February as
hatching periods. The tick’s long
sure to remove once a week every
tick before it grows sufficiently to est life time as observed by scien
lay eggs. For a small herd he could tis ts is 249 days.
also apply with brush or sponge a
tick destioylng wash or oil, such as
crude petroleum, tick oil, cotton seed
oil and kerosene mixed equal parts;
The life history of the cattle tick
may start with the female tick after
reaching its full development on a
cow. It then drops to the ground
lard and kerosene mixed equal parts and immediately hunts a hiding place
or other disinfectant. on moist earth under litter that will
Spraying these oils, disinfectants, protect her from the sun and her
and stock dips or what is cheapest
arsenic solution, upon the cattle see
ing that all parts of their skin is
thoroughly dampened, is also practi
cal for small herds.
But the most effective and the
practical way for large herds is the
“dip.” It Is the most economical
for a community that is willing to
co-operate in its construction, and
is adapted to the treatment of a
large number of cattle. The “dip”
consists of passing the cattle through
a vat full of tick destroying liquid,
the liquid being so deep that when
the animal is forced to plunge Into
it, complete immersion is the conse
quence.
Concrete is generally used in the
construction of the dipping vats and I
plans and specifications for their con
struction can be had from any col
lege of agriculture, from the Depart
ment of Animal Husbandry of the
United States Bureau of Agriculture,
from industrial departments of rail
roads, etc.
numerous enemies. Egg laying may
then begin in ten days and continue
for a period of five months. From
19 to 188 days after the eggs have
been laid, they begin to hatch. The
small seed tick may live eight months
after hatching. After hatching they
fasten themselves to-the-nearest veg
etation and attach themselves to cat
tle as they pass by or when they lie
down.
As soon as a seed tick attaches it
self to a cow it begins to draw blood
and to grow. It molts twice and
may mate, mature and drop to the
ground in from one to three months
Thousands of Isolated Farms Free of
Ticks
THE quarantine line established by
the Federal Government does not
mean by any means that all territory
south of the line is infested with
ticks. As a matter of fact whole
counties below the quarantine line
have been clean of ticks and hold a
In the South much interest has; clean bill of health to this effect from
been taken by railroads and cotton Federal Inspectors. Wherever a pro-
seed crushers interested in fostering:
the cattle industry, and at their own
expense, community dips have been
constructed for the benefit of any
farmer who would joig the crusade
against the tick.
The arsenic solution which has giv
en such excellent results and Is most
generally used in ffipping vats, can
be made from the following formula:
sodium carbonate (sal soda), 24
pounds; arsenic trioxid (white arsen
ic), 8 pounds; pine tar, one gallon;
water sufficient to make 500 gallons.
To prepare this mixture for use, 25
gallons of water are brought to a
AT PUBLIC OUTCRY
WE WILL SELL to the highest bidder before the Court House door on
May 6th the property and equity of Molse DeLeon. Bankrupt, lo
cated at 241 -243 Whitehall Street, being 62 1-3 feet on W'hitehall Street
with an average depth of 225 feet through to Forsyth Street, and
fronting thereon 107 1-2 feet, being known as Nos. 210-214 South For
syth Street.
At the same time and place, we will sbll an undivided one-third
interest in.an equity in house and lot on the northwest corner of For
syth and Castleberry Streets, known as 205 South Forsyth Street, and
fronting 76.6 feet on Forsyth Street with an average depth of 85 feet
Both of these pieces of property are in the immediate section of the
Whitehall Street regrading and improvements.
Plats and full particulars regarding terms, titles, etc., to be had in
our office.
TURMAN,BLACK &
CALHOUN
203 Empire Building.
INMAN PARK BUNGALOW
IF YOU will call to see us early Monday morning we ll show you one of the
prettiest bungalows in this section Xo use to try to describe it; you must
see for yourself. No information over phone only for an engagement. Owner
leaving. Must sell at once. It’s up to you.
STEWART & COOPER
MAIN 1228.
31 7 PETERS BUILDING
BE A BELL
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OPERATOR
The work is agreeable. The
surroundings are pleasant. You
are paid a salary while learning.
The opportunities for rapid ad
vancement ere excellent. In
creased salary it assured if you
prove efficient.
There are several vacancies in
our training school for young
women between 16 and 22 years
of age who have a common school
education and can furnish satis
factory references.
Apply in person at training
school, 25 Auburn Avenue in the
Bell Telephone Exchange
gressive farmer has taken the pains,
he has been able to eradicate the
tick from his farm without trouble
and much to his profit in increasing
the development of his live stock
business.
For a long time the Southern States
did not support the Federal Govern
ment in its efforts to eradicate this
cattle pest. But now most Southern
States have entered heartily into the
fight and have established intra-State
regulations as sttingent as any that
the Federal Government ever estab
lished in protection of the cattle In
dustry north of the line.
A great deal of fuss has been en
countered within the States and nc
small opposition. In fact, at times,
it would appear that the worthy cru
sade would have to fall back from
gained ground and give up hope, but
good advice has prevailed and prac
tically all that has been won has
been held.
The meaning tf it all Is that- the
man who will permit his cattle to be
infested with ticks will have to stand
to lose a market for them. At least
his market will be so constricted by
reason jf quarantine measures as ut
times to amount to no market at all.
He must get rid of the ticks if he is
going to stay in the cattle raising
business. Such Is about the signifi
cance of the Georgia State law which
is one of the strictest and therefore
one that Is accomplishing most and
putting Georgia more rapidly on tW>
cattle growing map than others.
Each year the number of kickers
against cattle tick regulations become
smaller The Kickers have “come
across," joined the ranks of those
.who have eradicated the tick and
have become the most exacting in
their demands that the law be en
forced upon the other fellow. The
veterinary department of Georgia de
serves much credit for the rapidly
growing area it is wresting from the
tick.
If the farmer- of Georgia would
co-operate, the vattic tick could be
eradicated from the State in two
years. The Georgia farmer with’ his
excellent Georgia market for his
products could quarantine against all
other Southern territory not free from
ticks and feel a great impetus In
live atocK growing.
There is nothlnc else in Georgia in
the way of developing a cattle in
dustry *ji a vast scale than the tick.
The same may be said of any other
Southern State which has been af
flicted with the trouble.
The eradication of the tick is a
direct contribution of science to the
welfare of the farmer. Had the hab
its and harm of the tick not been
discovered through scientific research
the South mighv have gone on for
evei as a failure at cattle raising
without ever suspecting the correct
reason. (
! Paving Extension
On W. 14th Street?
Suggested That Marietta and Peach
tree Be Connected—Much
Activity In Section.
A "revival'’ in street paving seems
to have struck the Fourteenth Street
DAT IT 'T’DV Public Market a Big Help to
vL/Lell\l Producer and Consumer, as It
Cuts Out Profit of Middleman--Personal Patron
age Better Than Any Other Method, of Course,
but Goods Should Be Kept Up to High Standard.
By JUDGE F. J. MARSHALL
neighborhood. Less than a year ago
Fourteenth Street paving w’as com
pleted between the Peachtree*, and
now Peachtree is being repaved from
Sixth to Fifteenth Street, and Ores
cent Avenue is being repaved from
Fourteenth Street southward.
It has been suggested that West
Fourteenth Street be paved from
West Peachtree to Marietta Street,
and , in fact, this extension is said to
be under consideration by the city.
Such an improvement would ccyinect
tho entire Ansley Park and Pied
mont Park sections with the big
west side of the city, and through
Marietta a.nd Peachtree Streets from
a loop, which would be of great ad
vantage in a commercial way. Four
teenth Street is wide and long, and
its advantages mark it for car line
us© eventually, as a help in the so
lution of the “cross-town street”
problem.
Extra! All About
Frank West’s Buy!
Two New York Lots Received as
Book Premium Are Now
Worth $120!
H. F. West, of the real estate firm
of A. J. & H. F. West, bought a set
of books tl*ree years ago for $48 and
received as a bonus two residence lots
on Long Island, 40 minutes from New
York City, and Friday he got a let
ter saying his lots had been apprais
ed at $100 to $120. Mr. West is ser
iously considering a trip to Long Is
land to look over his property. Ho
thinks he had better hold it a while
for more enhancement.
Not only Mr. West, but many local
realty men invested in books and '.re
ceived lots in addition. At the time
of the purchases, it will be recalled,
a local newspaper ran half a column
telling of a well-known dealer’s in
vestment in New York real estate.
"There is one difference between
Atlanta and New York land," de
clared Mr. West. “You can’t club
the former with book offers.”
Houses and Lots
Net Nearly $25,000
R. L. Turman, of Well-Known Real
Estate Agency, Puts in
Busy Week.
In addition to the sale of 157 and
159 Decatur Street for $44,280, R. L.
Turman, of the Turman, Blake & Cal
houn agency, has made the following
sales:
For Dr. John B. Daniel to Mrs. S.
M. Whijmer, two lots on St. Charles
Avenue for $5,000; one six-room
house on two acres of land on Brown
Mill Road for Dr. E. L. Osborne to
J. W. Culpepper for $2,250; two lots
on McDonough Road for C. J. ’Mar
tin to Mrs. L. F. Owens for $1,300;
four lots just off McDonough Road
to Mrs. Owens for $800; one lot on
Lakewood Avenue for Miss M. N.
Graves to W. J. Milam for $525; one
lot corner Griffin and Simpson Streets
for Mrs. S. A. McDonald to W. R.
Johnson for $750 cash; two houses
and lots in Fortified Hills to clients
for $5,000.
E. W, Grove Property
Is Placed on Market
Fortified Hills, on Mason and Tur
ner's Road, Listed With Well-
Known Agency.
The subdivision known as Fortified
Hills, on the Mason and Turner's Fer
ry Road has been turned over to
Messrs. Turman, Black & Calhoun
for sale. This 1?? a large tract of
land on which Dr. E. W. Grove, of
St. Louis, has built quite a number
of handsome homes and spent a great
deal of money laying out parks and
driveways. It is one of the "show
places" of Atlanta. The river car line
runs through the property for about
half a mile.
The property is fashioned after the
residence parks of St. Louis, and is
restricted exclusively to the building
of residences, nine years having been
required to bring about this develop
ment. Quite a number of handsome
stone buildings have been erected
during the sprlpg and the owners have
spent $5,000 in getting a water main
to the property.
WOMAN 102 SAVES TO
ATTEND BARGAIN SALES
In Germany and France, and in fact
in many of the large cities of this
country, the market place is the great
rendezvous for all classes to trade in
the products of the farm. It is spe
cially the place for the farmer and
market gardener and the poultry rais
er to dispose of their goods. A good
jnarket place full of good market
goods is a godsend to any communi
ty, as it brings the producer and the
consumer together.
If the poultryman puts his* eggs and
dressed poultry into his market stall
in the best possible condition he can
readily command the top of the mar
ket. Buyers, as a rule, arc looking
for the nicest and most attractive
things* they can find for tho money
they have to spend. In this way, you
see. the producer and the consumer
are brought together and they do
away with the middleman’s profits.
There are, however, many of our best
Southern cities in which there are no
public street market places, nor the
other method of allowing all produ
cers to back up and stand upon cer
tain streets two or three days of the
week, for a limited time during the
morning hours.
Cities of the South owe it not only
to themselves as a purchasing body of
people to maintain a good public mar
ket, but also they owe it to the com-
piunity of farmers and producers sur
rounding them. You need them and
they need you. Supplies will be much
more satisfactory, both quality and
variety. Freshness is half the value
in considering all kinds of green gar
den stuff, as It is in the line of poultry
products. The next best thing for the
poultryman to do In the absence of
these market places is to use a small
light delivery wagon, making regular
runs certain days, getting in touch
with the best hotels, restaurants and
private families where they know a
good thing when they see it and are
willing to pay for it.
Cleanliness Keynote.
Cleanliness, whlcn means attrac
tiveness, is the keynote to success.
Let every egg be spick and span, not a
spot of any kind to prevent them from
looking like they were surely intended
to eat. People will stay with you on
that class of good5', in spite of the fact
that they think they want to buy as
cheap as they can. r
In the leading cities and larger
towns good plump broilers weighing
from 1 1-2 to 2 pounds are in good
demand from January to June and
command fancy prices. The bulk of
such trade will usually be at the best
hotels, although a good retail market
can be worked up by perseverance
and a little patience in canvassing the
residents. Often those a little larger
will take better with private fami-
Married 3 Times;
Had 34 Children
Englishman Thinking of Another
Wife—Five Born Within Year
to Proud Father.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 3.—A man who
has been married three times, has had
34 children and still hopes to mar
ry again, has Just been discovered in
York.
This wonderful husband and fa
ther is William Bonnett, aged 65, who
has worked as a ganger in various
parts of England for over 40 years.
His marital adventures are as fol
lows:
First Marriage—Hepsy Suderby,
who died in 1872; four children, two
living.
Second Marriage—1873; Caroline
Tuck; died about 1890; 26 children,
including triplets and twine (the lat
ter on more than one occasion); six
children living.
Third Marriage—1899; Liza Page,
who died in 1908; four children, two
living.
This, in brief, is the record of Bon-
nett’s family.
”1 can not think of the names of my
children that died,” said Bonnett.
"Within a year my wife Caroline had
five children—triplets and twins. We
got the Queen’s bounty of $13. All
these five children died, however.
"I’ve seen many funerals in my
time—Just 27, to be exact—in my own
family.
“It may not be very long before I
am married again. My advice to
bachelors is that to marry is the best
thing a man can do."
Gold Braid Given
Convicts of Merit
All Forms of Punishment In the
Indiana Penitentiary Are
Abolished.
WATERLOO, IQWA, May 3.—-“Live
in the open, eat moderately, exercise
regularly and use tobacco if you feel
like it”
This was the advice given by Mrs
Isaac Spoors, of Waterloo, 102 years
old, as she paused while on her way
to a bargain sale. Mr? Spoors had
walked more than a mile at the time,
yet appeared fresh and active.
“This lltle walk is a mere step,”
Mrs. Spoors said, as she urged her
husband to hasten to the sale before
the rush started. The husband, 73
years old, found difficulty in keeping
the pace ?et by his wife. She helped
him up and down the curbings.
POOR FEWER THIS YEAR,
SAYS ENGLISH REPORT
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 3.—A pubstantlaj
decline in pauperism in England and
Wales Is shown in a paper issued
recently.
In 1912 the total number of paupers
was 780.329, which is equal to 21.6
por 1,000 of the population. The fla
mes for 1911 were 886,177, or 24.8 per
1,000.
Last year’s figures were the lowest
on record.
The cost per head of the population
of the relief of the poor was $2 in
1912, compared with $2.50 in 1911.
MICHIGAN CITY, IND„ May 3.—
The “hole”, otherwise known as “the
solitary,” has tJeen abolished at the
Indiana State Penitentiary. So have
prison stripes.
The announcement was made to
day by Warden E. J. Fogarty. Pris
oners in the future will wear light
blue and plaids. Although the chang
es remove unruly prisoners, Warden
Fogarty declares the prison will con
tinue to maintain excellent discipline.”
Warden Fogarty said the abolish
ing of "the solitary” and stripes puts
the Indiana prison ahead of any sim
ilar institution in the world.
STEPMOTHER DEPENDENT
RELATIVE COURT RULES
■WASHINGTON. May 3.—A step-
mother is a relative of her step-chil
dren, according to a decision to-day
by Comptroller of the Trcasirry
Tracewell. Tho question arose in the
case of Lieutenant Reginald W. Lud
low, of the United States Marine
Corps, w’ho died at Key West, Fla., in
January, and who had designated
Mrs. Margaret Ludlow, his stepmoth
er, a<? a “dependent relative to re
ceive the six months’ gratuity allow
ed by the Government.”
V
lies. Vigor, health and quick growth
are the essentials for putting this
product upon the market at top
prices. Customers will not stand for
scrawny, ill-kept looking specimens
of this class.
Chicks weighing 2 1-2 to 3 pounds
are not much in demand in the best
city markets for the simple reason
that they are neither broilers, fries
*or roast its. Quirk-growing, voting,
tender cockerels weighing from 3 to
4 pounds usually sell pretty w’ell dur
ing July and August and bring fair
ly good prices. Then there is a de
mand for prime roasters weighing
from 4 to 6 pounds at almost any sea
son of the year. They must, however,
be well fattened and in the pink of
condition.
As a rule, the best time to dispose
of old hens and cocks is during the
Thanksgiving or Christmas holidays.
There is usually at this time an enor
mous demand for all classes of roast
ers, consuming everything in sight.
Fine Goods; Best Prices.
The fine ones bring the best prices,
so that it stand one in hand to have
his product at the head of the list.
Stock usually brings the best prices
when nicely dressed and furnished in
the pink of condition.
A fow’l may be rather old, but if
nicely handled will not show it so
much when dressed as it does in its
old scraggly plumage.
frn fact, a good healthy fat fowl
roasted to a turn is pretty good eat
ing at any time during cold weather.
As already indicated, where the poul
tryman raises stock in considerable
numbers, it pays to look up markets
for himself. It does not pay to deal in
proxies. It requires personal effort
inspired by personal interest to make
it a go. A retail business of this kind
is usually started with two or three
tfood customers who, being well satis
fied with the goods delivered, make
good trade pullers for you. There must
by all means be regularity in the de
livery of the goods, as customers
soon tire of an irresponsible party
who falls to keep his word as to time
of delivery. When the housewife Is
depending upon two dozen eggs at a
certain time to do her cooking with
she will not be in a very, pleasant
mood toward you if you fail to show
until the next day and then with per
haps but one dozen for her in the
place of the two promised.
Let everything go along like clock-
w’ork, with precision and system. Pro
vide yourself with neat little packages
of some kind holding one, two and
three dozen that your delivery may
not only be businesslike but more
promptly executed, saving your own
time and that of your customer.
It will insure confidence at the start
If you will take the trouble to stamp
each as fresh and guaranteed by
"yours truly," telling your proposed
customers that you will replace all
eggs that are not strictly fresh and
good.
China May Adopt
‘Pidgin-English’
Parliamentarians Find Difficulty in
Selecting Universal Language
for Debate.
Special Cable to The American.
HONGKONG. May 3.—It will be in
teresting to see how the new Chinese
Parliament grapples with the lan
guage difficulty. The committee ap
pointed in 1906, under the presidency
of Prince Chlng, to report on the best
means of introducing parliamentary
institutions into China, found that
one great obstacle to the successful
working would be the difficulty of
finding a common tongue.
The Chinese have so many dialer’s
that delegates not of the mandarin
class gathered from all parts of the
country would find it impossible to
carry on debates. It was held that if
a Parliament were established it
w’ould be necessary to draw’ up a new
grammar and vocabulary for the use
of its members. Commenting on
this, the Japanese review, “Kelzai,’’
suggested that pidgin-English, which
the progress of railway construction
has spread over a wider area than
any other dialect in China, might per
haps serve the desired purpose.
Wife May Steal if
Husband Looks On
Queer Provision In Old English
Law Frees Woman Accused
of Theft.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 3.—When Egerton
Phllbrick, a Stratford estate agen f ,
and his wife were accused of theft at
the London Sessions, Mr. Allen Law-
rie said the woman must be acquit
ted.
"When a married woman commit
ted a felony in the presence of her
husband,” he remarked, "she is as
sumed to be under his coercion, and,
not being responsible, is entitled to
acquittal. Little is heard nowadays
of this provision In English law in fa
vor of women. It does not form the
subject of conversation at certain
meetings which have become preva
lent of late.”
“Philbrick’s wife is worse than he
is, for she has six convictions to his
three,” said Detective Sergeant Red-
cliffe.
"That may be," said Mr. Lawrie,
“but she is not worse in the eyes of
the law. It may be altered 1n the
days of equal rights."
Phllbrick was given 21 months’ hard
labor.
COLLEGE GIRLS THRONG
BUREAU SEEKING WORK
CHICAGO, May 3.—College alum-
nae, all eager to find work in the
lines of their individual specialties,
most of them eager to begin at the
top, thronged the Chicago Collegiate
Bureau of Occupations the past
week w’hen it opened its new offleas
on the ninth floor of the Fine Arts
Building.
There were girls who said they
were past masters of domestic
science, others who were sure th*»v
had qualified themselves for highly
paid executive positions over women
of lesser educational advantages, anrl
still others, although they were nj;
in the majority, who acknowledged
that they wanted “any kind of a Job
to start.”
Lever Bill Now Before Congress
Suggests Co-operation Be
tween State and Nation.
WASHINGTON, May 3— Interest In
the plan to establish a public ser
vice supported equally by Federal
and State funds, providing skilled
farm advisers and demonstrators !n
every agricultural county la the
United States, Is renewed In the re-
introduction at tho opening day of
the extraordinary session of Congress
of the so-called Lever agricultural ex
tension bill, ^
This measure, indorsed by agri
cultural colleges and organisations.
Industrial and commercial bodies and
Institutions, failed of adoption by one
vote In the Senate, after passing the
House by unanimous vote at tbaJost
session.
The bill provides a Federal appro
priation, graduated upward for tan
years until a maximum Is readied,
to be matched by the States accept
mg the proposition, to establish as
rapidly as practicable a skilled farm
—a permanent public flxture for the
aid of the agriculturist and the edu
cator of his particular community.
Basis of Population.
The appropriation Is apportioned
on the basis of percentage of agri
cultural population and the gradual
increase of Interest In the work and
the adoption of the plan. The scar
city of competent advisers was an
other reason for the gradual Increase
Instead of attempting to establish
the system generally.
The demoxstrator, or adviser. Is
regarded as the logical complement
of the educational plan Inaugurated
by lhe establishment of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, followed by the
creation of the State agricultural
colleges fifty-one years ago, and the
State experiment stations a quarter
of a century later.
By this process the enormous fund
of valuable knowledge gathered bv
the Institutions Is expected to be
brought direct to the farmer himself,
and the operation of the Lever act
Is not at variance with any of the
work on similar lines now being con
ducted in this country, although ir.
course of general adoption It will re
lieve Individual bodies and communi
ties of the burden of support and win
establish a uniform standard In this
branch of education and evolution of
natural development.
The demonstration work baa met
with general approval, and Is re
garded as essential to the aid and
guidance of the American farmer.
Presideih Wilson has expressed him
self clearly on that direction. Dur
lng a recent address to the New Jer
sey Legislature Mr. Wilson saldt
Farmer Neglected.
"The farmer hag not been served
as he might and should be. We have
set up and subsidized agricultural
schools, horticultural schools, schools
of poultry raising, and the rest, and
they have done . xcellent work. Our
support of them should be hearty and
generous. But a more effective wsiy
still has been found by which the
farmer can be served. Lectures and
schools end experimental farms at
tached to schools like laboratories
are excellent, but they do not and
cannot ot themselws push their work
home, dome State# have gone inuoh
beyond this, and we should follow
them with zest.”
President H. H. Gross, of the Na
tional Soil Fertility League, has been
In Washington to consult with Sena
tor Smith, Congressman Lever and
other leading supporters of the I/ever
bill, and states that the organization
he represents will give every aid
possible to the passage of the farm
extension measure.
The league hag in its directory and
advisory committee such men as
William Jennings Bryan, James J.
Hill, Speaker Chump Clark, President
Mudge, of the Rock Island Railway.
David R. Fnrgan, President of the
National City Bank ot Chicago,
and Alonzo Wilson, Master Farmers
National Orange.
3 Injured During
Duel in Argentina
Father Dead, Son Fatally Wounded,
and Two Others Badly
Hurt.
Special Cable to The American.
BUENOS AYRES, May S.—4 tri
angular fatal duel took place At Bue
nos Ayres recently.
Senores Carlos Juarez Celtnao and
Oscar Posse were fighting, and the
latter was wounded by his adver
sary’s sword, and was about to be
removed from the dueling ground,
when his father, Senor Francisco
Posse, arrived.
Ho attacked Senor Cetraan, wound
ing him, and also one of the wit
nesses, severely. Senor Celman then
shot Senor Francisco Posse dead
with a revolver.
HAZARDOUS WORK CLAIMS
1 VICTIM OUT OF EVERY 8
OLYMPIA, WASH., May 3,—In the
State of Washington one man tn avery
eight who are engaged in hazardous
or extra hazardous occupations, as
defined by the industrial insurance
law, is injured, and one in every fifty
who are Injured is injured fatally.
These astounding figures are discov
ered in the report of the State com
mission for the first seventeen months
of its work
During that period 145,000 persons
were engaged in hazardous work. The
accidents brought before the commis
sion totaled 16,236, and the doftths
resulting 406.
An average of $2,000 per dag la
paid bv the industries of the Stara to
injured workers or their heirs. The
gross amount collected in premiums
during the seventeen months was
$1,703,566, while the amount actually
paid out In claims was $929,448.9&