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By Hen Cooper
Mr. Oooper, professor of hemelogy, will make [his o sirictly seteniif
depariment on (he ort of heeping povitry. No other poulloy towrnal cver
gm anything Mie thia If pou are poing 1o heep hena Be origing
Ohowt (1. This b molhing but erginaily
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" ADVICE TO BEGINNERS.
Tlm are, of course, mAny waAys 10 keap hens but there is edly
one way 1o keep them fresh, and that is allve
If you live 1n & oity apariment you may keep hens in the refrig
erator. Put they should be dressed. as 1t is cold tn there
If you have a yard you should sucesed very nlcely with your hens
If your peighbors have yards you will be sven more suceessful
Foed your hens &t least twice a day. No one has as yot succeeded in
making any profit keeping hens withowt feeding them
SELECYING THE BREEDS.
A oold storage hen laye Do sgge
A live hen is far more likely to 4o this But remember that & setting
hen provides no breakfast food
Somas prefer Plymouth Rocks These ought te be HARDy Others
prefer Wyandottes If you are wise you will select the following breeds
*Laywell “Ever Busy,” Wiliing Workers,” “Larerinos™ and the like. The
pareggselance for & hen s one egg per dlem. There are some hens that
Iy two or three erge & day, but so far as sotual proof goes, Lhey never
Wy them anywhers excep! I nowspapers.
All roosters and no hens makes & vaoant exg basket
Al hens and po roosters makes a dull henyard
For layers get pullets Whaen a hen hecomes real o!d and henny she
i» tOO busy cackling sbout past performances to help increase the egx
cansus
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THE HEN MOUSE.
A bhenhonse, or. to be more refined about ft, & hex's resifience, is quite
tmportant. Never buy a Jot of hens unt!l you are able to surround them
with a welllighted well-ventiiated, wall.guarded henhouse
The p per henhouse is full of little nooks and coxy cormers and
turns and alooves and other hidtug places. These are important, as they
enable the hens to lay for you
Some people make & big mistake In furnishing a henhouss. Do ot
provide beds for them Even twin beds are no Lelp In the matter of
double-yolked eggs
A hen, like a pollceman, messenger boy and walter, goes to sleep
standing up
Remember that & hen works sitting down and rests standing up
There shou'd be enongh nests in the henhouse so that each hen has one
The hen s bedroom. which 's & long, smooth pole about three feet from the
ground, horizontally, should be about three feet from the longest arm's
reach through the henhouse windows.
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¢ THE CARE OF HENS.
1t the weather is extremely cold, provide ear muffs for them. This
will keep you very busy for a long while, as a hen has no visibie ears.
Buot they will appreciate your good intentions .
Even in the dampest weather never squip your hens with rubber g
boots, else they will think they can break their eggs in the mest and walk
sround without getiing their feet wet.
Always provide a big box of sand Hens need sand. It certainly
(akes sand to keep on laying an egg every day and having someons hover
ing nearby to grabd it with an exultant yell and dash out and exchange it
for an sutomobile or something.
HOW TO MAKE HENS LAY.
This ts tmporeant. In faot one of the noblest—and rarest-—of a hen's
deeds 18 to crawl off into a lonesome nest and provide the crowning glory
of a slloe of toast.
Wire your henhouse for eleotricity. Put In the strongest lights pos
sible. Just outside the windows put some lighig with pink bulbs. The
modus operandi, and also the way it works, s as simple as a censored
war dispatch. About la. m. each morning get up and switch on the
pink lights. The rooeters will see these and, thinking it is dawn, begin to
crow. A rooster always crows about the work the hens do. Then switch
on the bright lights in the henhouse. Pretty soon, thinking it {s day, the
hens will elimb into their nests and lay eggs. Then slowly switeh out
light after YMght. The hens will think night is coming agaln and they'll ‘
alimb back on thelr roosts and go to sleep. In this manner you double
your profits, or losses, as the oase may be.
A less expensive way to make hens lay, and one that was never known
to fail, is to tie thelr legs together.
They've simply got to lay, then.
Of course, the longest and steadlest and ocoolest layers are cold stor
age hens
FEEDING THE HENS.
Kisewhere | have made brief mention that hens must be fed. Please
take this sertously. It {4 no joke
It is no joke either way. It you do not feed them it s no joke for the
bens. If you do feed them it 18 no joke when the grain bills come in.
At the present price of wheat and other grain, it would seem that it
would be cheaper to buy breakfast foods put up In boxes. This is not
true. You will never succeed with your hens by trylng to feed them
‘breakfast foods, because all hens need a little nourishment.
By taking a six-cent loaf of bread and mixing it with twelve cents
worth of milk and feeding it to a hen you can induce her, every day or
#O, to lay un egz that, during the first few weeks of its existence, will be
worth anywhere from four to eight cents. Always keep a pad of paper
and a pencil in the henhbouse in order to figure out your profit.
Be sure and keep it in the henhouse, as your own home is no place to
make the remarks that will Invcluntarily follow this example in profit
and loss. (The word “profit” is silent, as In matrimony.) !
Hens need 'fll. You can buy it all prepared, or you can grind up
that pink and blue vase you got for a wedding present, and use that.
: A bhen will eat almost anything. That's the great trouble—a hen has
scarcely any more brains when dining taan a human has at & banquet
Nine tenths of the things & hen will eat are not good for her. The tgnu;
tenth is very expensive.
Hens are very fond of liver, girloin steak, fresh fish pate de sole gras,
caviar, frult cake, fresh oysters, lobster salad, hethouse lettuce, ete.
: If any of your folks keep hens and begin to feed them on that diet,
go out and board with the hens.
_ ° The subjeot of pouliry-keeping has been touched very lightly thus far,
although #is a most touching subject. This little chat {s desigred to
interest you in the poultry business. Next week we will go into detailsg
about making a henyard, building a hechouse, and learning the psychol J
HEAKST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN ATLANTA. GA. SUUNDAY. FERRUARY 28 1913
¥, : : ”» An Interesting Scene from the Great War Play
lflSlde the Llnes, by Earl Derr Biggers
[G:mm.u. Yes, Jaimihr, what s 0?
JAIMINE A young man who wishes 1o ree
i you, General Sabih He will give no name,
bt there was, be says & promise by the telephone,
GENERAL- Al yos slvow the young man up
‘ (Jetmihr . exits Gienera! sita—Pusses with
hings om desk. A slight passe and Jelmikr re
’ appeare
JAIMIHR - The young man, General
(Enter @ toll, slim, mervous youth Ne seemap
nervous a 4 he approaches the General Joimihe
wilhd awe /
CAPPER - How do you de, General Awfully good
of you 1o see me
GENERAL-—Not at all. St down [ haven't son
gotten that you did me & service in India
CAFPER- -Oh, yes of course But that waa my
Job. | got '.‘u for that,
GENERAL- You're not with the Brussels Secr=t
ly‘o.“b any longer?
CAPI'ER--No- er 4they et me go
GENERAL-~ % | heard
CAPPEIR-1 suppose you heard a lot of other things
atout me-that | was a rotter—that | drank——
OENERAL-What | heard was not altogether—
complimentary. [ trust it was untroe
CAPPER - Well—l —er-—1 did go to pleces a it for
a time But they lied about me—l know who did 1t
too. I'll gt even some day [l've been playing in
pretty hard Juck for the past two years But they
can't keep me down much lenger ['m golng to show
them.
OENERAL-~! hope so, I'm sure. What was it you
wished to sea me about?
CAPPER - Genera)—l'm an Paglishman. You know
et | may be &wn and out, and my friends may
know me when we meet—but I'm Enghsh And
™m loyal,
GENERAL~Yes-—gea I'm wure | don't question
CAPPER--1 fust want you to keep {t in mind, Gen
eral, witle I talk. | want you to remember that I'm
Pagiteh, and as loyal as any man.
GENFRALYes, of conrse.
OAPPER — General- remember Cook- -that chap in
Burmah?
GENERAL —Cook—Cook. no—
CAPPER —Haven't forgotten him, General® Haven't
forgot how he lived In Burmah two years, mingling
with the English-—until suddenly somebody found out
that bis name was Koch, and he was a mighty un
heaithy chap to have about Buarely, General—
GENERAL-—Oh, yes ! remember him now.
CAPPER - There was Hollister, too. You played
bilidords in your clud with Hollister, I fancy. Thought
him all right, too-—untll a couple of secret service
men walked Into the ~lub one day and clapped the
handouffs on him
GENERAL-~~Yes, but I doa't-
CAPPER-—l'm just refreshing your memory, Gen
eral. I'm just reminding vou that there fsn't such a
lot of difference between those people and us, after all
It one of these chaps wants to play the Englishman
and knows his book-he ean fool the lot of us.
GHEONERA!~Yes 1 tmagine he can. But I don't
see ——
CAPPER~~I'm just in from Alexandria, General
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A They celebrate some good Saint’s birthy
Brass nolses blare with loud acclaim—
George Washington's the person's name.
A bralded oue, sphinx-like phiz,
His chief olaim to distinction ls,
At least 80 say the passers-by,
He never even told a llel”
“A Lle! A Lle!™ quoth Mario;
“What ls a Lile? I'd ke to know,
"'ll" matter or is't quality?
' Of tone morose or jollity?
| Is't aught to frighten or altlure,
Or is't some form of lit'rature?
All we know Is, from where we view It,
It seems a virtue not to do "
“Once there,” sald Squinto, “in my
youth,
| read of some Earth thing called
Truth.
The Lle | also read about;
'Twas fact, | b'lieve, turned inside
out.”
“By all the Bpheres!” King Mario
oried,
«i'd see thig thing exemplified.
A new gensation yet unknown i
Has quite some strong appeal, |
own!
He'll not regret, whoe'er the guy ls,
If he can show me what a lle Is.”
Nor did the King have long to walt.
Next day before the Palace gate
A beggarman they there did “nd,
With arms gutltmtchod, “Pleass
help the blindl™
Came pight befors last on the Princess Mary, There
was apother “Englishman™ on bourd, for this port
Captaln Womihouse, of your Signal Oorps
GENERAL-Well, what of that?
CAPPER ~iave you seen Captain Woodbouse,
Genera!?
GENERAL-—Yes. He paid his duty call on me thie
morning.
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GENFERAL--Of course. Why not?
CAPPER--Remember Hollister, General. Remem
ber Cook
GENERAI-—Whoat the devil do you mean?
CAPPER -~ What do | mean? 1 mean that this chap
who calls himself Woodhouse isn't Woodhouse at all.
He's an enemy—and a spy.
GENERAI-~Why was it Brussels let you go!
CAPPER-—l'm pot drunk, General. I've been broke
for a week. I'm as sober as you are—and I'm talk
fog for the good of the service. No other reason,
GENERAL-—You're romancing.
CAPPER—BO help me, Geuerai, I'm telllog the
truth, 1 got it straight in Alexandria—l can't tell
you who told me—but I know the ropes underground.
I can't prove a word [ say—but it's straight. I swear
it 18! The wildest dreams of the Wilhelmstrasse
have come true-—they've got a man in our service on
Gibraltar. In your signal tower, General. In your
signal tower.
GENERAL-Suppose they have. Suppose they
learn every nook and corner of the Rock. They
couldn't capture it in & thousand years
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As was his wont, unto the old
Man tossed the King a purse cf gold,
Which from sheer joy the blind man there
Right up and caught it in the air.
“By Jinke! a marvel here | find,
Now,” said the King, “for one who's blind!
What, ho! My Head Physiclan here!”
The Doctor looked. “Mls sight Is clear.”
“Oh, joy!™ the King sald, “nmow have |
Found some one who knows how to lie.
“Take this purse, too—'tls paitry pay
For what you've shown us all this day;
For now | see beyond a doubt
Just what a fact Is inside out,
What endiess joys yet unexplored
This art, once learned, will then afford.
Our souls unfettered can pursue
What ways they will in regions new.
Il find instructors for the sport
And introduce it to our Court.”
In Mario's Court, from Fool to Sage,
The Lying Art was now the rage;
Nor apter pupil e’er was seen
Than Mario's most graclous Queen.
Where e'sr she moved, her slightest acts
Were blended with distorted facts;
She'd look her Liege square in the eyes,
And siide him Lies and Lies and Lies,
Which much conduced at times, you see,
To get his goat most grievously.
Then to himself—"“A noble art,
But as | gave the thing the start,
| g'pose | shouldn’t show amaze
To find It workin’ out both ways!"
CAPPER-~1 don't know what they wapt. [ doa’t
kpow what they're after All | can do sto warn You,
Woodhouse lsn't taking orders from this room. He's
taking them from Wilhelmstrasse,
GENBRAL- Woodhouse?
CAPPER -1 meat the chap who calls himeelt
Woodhouse. Here was the plan, General: The real
Woodhouse comes down from the Nlie country -ne
friends in Alexandria—bhas to walt a night for the
boat. Three men from the Wilhelmetrasse—the clev
erest three in Europe—are laying for him. Some
thing happens. I don't know where that Woodhouse
is now—probably dead. But |do know that the man
who came aboard the Princess Mary carried a card
and & number from the Wilhelmstrasse They sub
stituted him for Woodhouse.
GENERAL-It seems incredibie.
CAPPER~Yes—It does. But it happened, just the
same. | saw those three men in an Alexandria street
the night before we sallel. I've known them for years
And they're not the kind that slip up-—-they put things
through. I'm warning you, General. That's all I
can do,
GENERAL—Ridiculous. I tell you If they had all
the plans in the world—ls they knew the Rock ag well
as I do—they could never take it even with a hun
dred men inside the lines.
CAPPER-—Perhaps they arn't trying to capture it
Best Stories of the V/eelt
The Last Word.
A LITTLE girl travelling in a sleeping car with
! her parents greatly objected to being put
'iln an upper berth. She was assured that papa,
| mamma and God would watch over her. She was
settled In the berth at last, and the passengers
were quiet for the night, when a small voice piped:
“Mamma!"
“Yes, dear,”
’ “You there?"
| “Yes, I'm here. Now go to sleep.”
, “Papa, you there?”
| “Yes, I'm here. CGo to sleep like a good girl.”
This continued at intervals for some time, until
a fellow-passenger lost patience and called:
“We're all here—your father and mother and
brothers and sisters and uncles and aunts and first
cousins! All here! Now go to sieep!”
» There was a brief pause after this explosion
Then the tiny voice piped out again, but very softly:
“Mamma!”
“Well
“Was that God?”
Increment.
lT is on the country circuit, and the aydlence is
sadly lacking in appreciation of the efforts of the
actors.
Catcalls and groans, vegetables and eggs are
directed at the stage, but stiil the well-meaning per
former, who is in the midst of a long monologue,
continues to recite his lines.
Finally e despairing spectator huris a boot on
the stage, and the actor starts to retreat behind
the scenes.
“Keep on playing!” cries the manager in the
wings. “Keep on playing till we get the second
boot!”
! Nothing to Stop It.
lA PASSENGER recently entered the Southern
| Pacific depot, Santa Barbara, California, to
take the 2:25 p. m. train. The clock in the waitiug
room was several minutes faster than the one in
the office, and the passenger asked the porter which
clock was correct. After scanning the clocks care
fully, the porter, with much satisfaction to himself,
replied:
“It don't make any difference which is right; the
frain goes at 2:25 anyhow.”
Well Recommended.
A YOUNG country Scotchman and his sweetheart
went to Glasgow for a day's outing. After
sperrding the morning looking round the biz shops
and the cenire of the city, the young man suggested
that as it was near one o'clock they should look out
for a suitable eating-house to get something to eat.
1 dop™t know adoul thalt We -l Ve (04 yYoii-—as ot e
Englishman 1o anotoer. | hope ['ve told you in time
GENERAL—~Where are you going”
CAPFER—WeII, Geperal ~frank!y, I'm broke. I'm
not going—much of anywhere
GENERAL~Humph! A few drinks, and you mig'n
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CAPPER—I doa't know, Geuera!- | might. ’
GENERAL~Where o you wan! to go'* 5
Poaria. (Jaimikr appears right,) Send my arderiy to
me at once.
(Exit Jawmikr.)
CAPPER-—Geuvcral—it was the truth.
GENERAL (writes a note The orderiy appears)j—
You wiil cross to Algeciras, where you will be put on
s train for Madrid. You wiil have a ticket for Parls
You will be allowed to talk with no one alone befors
vou leave here. Under no clreimstances will you be
allowed (o return.
CAPPER—That sults me, Geseral. Pa:is!
GENERAIL~OvrderIy, turn this gentleman over ts
the officer of the gunrd at once and give the oificer
this note.
CAPPER--1 didn't eome here for——this, 1 canme te
do a service for you-—and for Buzinud
GENERAL—I understand, And perhaps you have
Good day, - g
CAT'PER —Good by, sir,
Having spotted a likely place, they entered and
took their seats at a small table, and when the
waitress came for their order the young man asked
for a six-penny meat-pie. This was brougut in due
course, and he started eating it with evident relish.
The girl waited a little time wondering very much
where she came in. At last, in sheer desperation,
she said to her companion:
“Is the pie good, Jock?"
“Good?" replied Jock, “I should think it is;
it's ripping! You shou!d ge! one.”
Apparently.
THEY were discussing in the workshop the cues
tion of corporal punishment.
“] believe in the old maxim,” said the foreman,
“‘Spare the rod and spoil the child’ When I was
a boy I know I received many chastisements and
whackings, and it did me good. On one occasion,
1 remember, 1 was punisied for teiling the truti.”
“It cured you-"" e e e ee . e et
whispered a voice
‘fom pthe far cor- I It Wasn’t Aguny.
ner, I MRS. JONES went shopping one
. . afternoon, accompanied by
her husband, and as they emerged
: : from a store afier a busy seancs,
Getting . .
hubby noticed that mother wasn't
Around It. ecting naturaliy. Beneath a spotted
A MISSIONARY veil lier face was undergoing a
was returning | series of fearful contortions, twis:-
to Basle from | ing first to the rigat and then to
Patagona, bring- | the left.
ing with him, for ‘“‘What’s ° the matter, Mary?”
the purpose of | asked the c¢ld man in alarm. “Are
science, a collec-'| you il1?"
ion of Pategonian “Of course not, =illy!” answered
skulls. The cus- | wifey, as the cont. rtions continued.
tom-house officers [“I never felt bette~ in iy life.”
opened the chest | “Then what in the world are you
and informed the doing with your face’' wondering
owner that the !iy demanded father. o
consignment must | “What am ¥ doing?”’ answerzd
be classed as mother, expu;f:lg both hands, which
animal bones and ' were full of bundles. “Why! I'm
taxed at so much trying to get my veil down ovep
per pound. my chin” }
The missionary
was indignant. So T
the officials
:fl::d ;‘,’he‘:fl";‘e An Improvorent,
way-bill had been “l GET a pretiy litiue rég wtih
revised, it ap- every package of cizuy il 5"
peared in the fol- “1 know it.”
lowing form: “How dfd —eu kuow 1177 2
“Chest of native
skulls. Personal “By the sinell. You bave ma'e n
effects already] mistakc aud are smoliip the poo
worn. this tiwe,” A s
CAPPER—WeII =
they tell me evers.
body's broke 'n
Paris— millionai oy
and eversbody. You
eAn get 2 room
ot the Rits 1w
the asking — that
wou'd mean Heaven
for we
GENERAL — You
want to go 10 Paris
CAPPER~We| =
it it could be ar
ranged -——
GENERAL~ Cap
per—did you coms
here to Dbiackm i
me?
CAPPER~So heip
me, General, | came
bere to tel! yom the
truth! 1 went to 2o
to Parie—l admit il,
But that has nothinz
to do with my com
ng. I'm an. Eng
lishman, and I'm
loyal
GENERAL~ 1 4o
not kpow., (Capper
looks oul from frost
shifting end greds
ally round to Gen.
eral,) At any rate |
can’t have you talk-
Ing. You're guing fs