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Show L1XAI1 TUB PAVSONIAX. PAGE SIX Tjacs o'fiO STANDARDS DEMAND NOW IS FOR BETTER timer Dorothys Adventures in tin- h jih, a in By WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN Two Chapter and (hi wi-tf- til v ! n cho-- e i iglit-- frks il lur m I, ."lti- - ii !'( kiit'il h. r- -t If r,i.g mi'l din n had never mjlkn ild ring and ln un-l- i ill inr a lib in From that tlm or,, she urjinl t , with ii languid ilro p of her oyolol-- , she lias Told little cUo. The guv count y called Loup.tiel Is a bright spot uilevied wirii cal). iti'T ami cocktails, All nieri ft r tdiiier rn it merchants, steel magnate-- , jvoolcn wealthy iiiunlt lou linkers, plain milnil told her lionaire- or judges--theeo themselves, and she believed them. Adventure und romance spilled Itself upon Dorothy's gentle bend from the moment she Heated herself upon the observation platform of the Overland Limited in Sun Francisco, where h- -r mamma lives, and the wheels begun to turn. I left It on the platform. Oh, oil!" she cried. My suitcase! A gallant bird hopped lightly over the brass railing, retrieved the carele suitcase, Taught the train and Dorothy Moore, later Dorothy Crosby, thereby Initiated into the world. The young man was a millionaire actor, and before they got to Chicago be had told her of a hotel where actor peoph could live cheaply. But she sidestepped the lure, Dutifully she reported, she says, to tin well home of her aunt and uncle, the Spencer Crnshys, at Glencoe. Two days of kids and two nights of kids and Dorothy went away. Five week later she became a connoisseur of cabarets. The rabble In the courtroom listened aghast as she unrolled her stories of the millionaires he had met. Alas, the scene changes : The girl reporter presented here!f at the place where Dorothy was stay lng, behind the bars. Judge Uhlir had said : Let her sleep tonight behind a window with bars. Forget not that she tried to throw herself from a window." And so it was. i Popular Recruit Bombarded With Wrist Watches The popular recruit is having a hard time getting to rights these girl cousins, mind pretty hard to think of a fellow's cousins -t watches. There is a you all separately and individually sending him wr!little blonde cousin he hates like the dickens to part with her wrist watch. He knows that she went without n new hat to get it. or else got in hud with father by "boning" him for an wttra allowance. Then there Is the black-eyecousin poor kid, she certainly must have been In a heroic mood when sins sent on the wrist watch. For If there Is anything that the black-eye- d cousin doesnt like to part with it is her money, Then there is the freckle-face- d cousin and the cousin with red hair and the one that turns her toes In. They are all represented by wrist watches, and lie wishes with all his heart that he was a centipede or something that he could decorate himself with the whole bunch of them. The popular young recruit who will have money when he grows up and who is awfully eligible from every point of view has stacks of leather objects sent to lilm by the mammas and aunties of promising young girls. He has leather wall wallets, traveling cases and leather-buckewriting hooks and traveling photograph frames and portfolios and leather cases containing coat hangers, trousers hangers, etc., and leather shaving cass and playing-caroutfits and boot polishing outfits und more and more of them. They come to camp by every mall and as he disinters them from their elaborate wrappings his somewhat carping tent mates suggest to httn that If the worst comes to the worst and their boots really do wear out nobody need ever expect they will get new ones with so much leather in the house. DETROIT. d PAIR OF PUREBRED SHORTHORN SHOW HEIFERS. 1 N K Ii Tn.MsoN) exl- -' i m the mind of anyone as to the g net al inclination (By Fit If there any doubt to produce better t it of all breeds, the prevailing i.eti.by of the trade will serve to clear a a ay the-- e doubts. There Is unquestionably, at the present time, a keener and more substantial demuud for jegisuicd breeding stock heretofore, and than has ever evi-blias been a there demand with this require-metit- s The In values. ndvnnee steady more exacting, have beeotne which lias foieed Icgher individual standards and liner discrimination in the matter of blood line- -. As art Illustration of tlm present conBros., a ception of values. Tom-o- n and Dover, (nrl)ondale firm, breeding Kansas, disposed of Id registered Shorthorn calves to W. (. Roseuberg-e- r .. a breeder of high-clas- s of Tiffin, Shorthorn i, for an average of These calves ranged ?G00 per head. in age from eight to fifteen months, with the exception of five short yearling heifers, and with four exceptions were all bred iu the Tomsoti herd. The entire lot had been selected ns an offering for a public sale to he held later iti the season, hut the buyer, who has appreciated a constantly growing trade larger titan he could supply, found In these calves just the type and tl i lines of breeding that he needed at.d made this attractive offer which was accepted. Demand I For Best Breeds, lie stated that he would be able to dispose of them at private sale at a very considerable advance over this He said there was a time figure. that he found a ready sale for a cheaper class of registered cattle, but that he had noted from year to year an iu- -- clination on the part of his buyers to obtain und breed the best available, and Ids trade is now practically limited to this class. Mr. Rosonbergers experience is the experience of a large number of breeders. Nor is this limited to the Shorthorn breed. The same tendency prevails among all breeds to a proportionate extent. Many farmers who have heretofore handled nothing but grade cattle and have used inferior bulls are now forced by market conditions to use a better class of bulls registered -- Ires that the cattle they produce may command a satisfactory valuation when they go to the beef markets. The farmers who have been breeding grades of a high order, and there are many such, the result of continuous use of registered bulls, have come to recognize the advantage of producing fullddood or registered cattle, and are embarking now along this line. Then, as slated above, many who have procattle of fairly good duced their attention now are turning type to the production of cattle of still better type and more dependable blood full-ldoo- d lines. It is a broad, general movement toward improved standards the result of more exacting conditions at the market centers. There are so many forces of an educational nature at work now that we may reasonably look forward to a continuous progress along the line of live stock improvement. Then there is the cost of production which in itself would inevitably eliminate the inferior live stock standards. When land Is high and help expensive and grains and forage maintain a price level heretofore unheurd of, it is easily conceived that the animal of an indifferent standard can no longer be grown profitably. d Paola Got in Bad When the representative of the West One street police station shouldered his way to the center of the agitation the other afternoon at One Hundred and Fourth street and Amsterdam YORK. i i lift-- . NEW :! (OopjrigtaJ mi Led li.ick '. ImihjIiI In I Well-Meani- ng i l t Loopiand ilny fiw ii.-i- the Little Problems sf cTWarriedLife WHEN THE FAMILY INTERFERES. trii'lv, Where later tell him cf a chng and made in one of the rooms the member of her names sj, Ui, or he to fauitlv who made the motion; some repeat may a position made. They are ism his mother otheach in discord of mg seeds .stimulating er's minds, unconsciously and opposition and intensifyia.ii.-ing' family interference. As the days go on critical approcommittee on priation from the family harder ami grow m, erf entice may to live is depressing It bear. to r l,;in like of criticism, under the microscope IS often conThere insect. :,,i impaled were demnation where, if the foil facts 1m only praise. known, there would There is altogether too much judging in the world, too muon idle intrusive It is censorship of the acts of others. uncomfortable to hear constantly that should "v.m ought to do this" or you so easy to certainly do that." It is solve the conundrum of anothers life. The reason that advice is usually of little value is that it Is not based on a perfect knowledge of the infinity of detail that makes up a condition. Perfect advice should fit the situation as a glove fits the hand; most advice does not get much nearer than a boxing glove in the matter of fitting. That the family interference may arise from genuine Interest dues not excuse it nor even explain it; where love is greatest it should be most tender and most considerate. There are times w hen some tiny flame of misunderstanding arises between husband and wife that a breath of kindly interpretation mighx Mow into nothingness, but, talked over by the family and canvassed and debated and intensified, grows into a conflagration. Under the gossip, often unthinking of its evil influence, a tiny molehill of difficulty may become an almost impassable Rocky Mountain range. Oil is a 'good tiling to pour on troubled waters but it is poor to put out a fire. A difficulty that originally concerned only a duet now has been made to affect the whole family choir. It is easier for two people to reach loving harmony than to distribute it among a dozen. Sometimes the interference of families becomes even more active and aggressive titan this, and because of a fanoied grievance or a genuine opposition It actually comes between husband and wife and by harsh criticism or condemnation seeks to incite strife and discord between them. Here instant loyalty of the one to the other should assert Itself and refuse to listen to the voice. In an instinctive spirit of proUvtlon there should be a calm, dignified protest against the recital of what if unessential should never be spoken, and if of serious Import should be heard only in the presence-of the one thus charged with what he or she should have the opportunity of denying or disproving instantly, before the weeds of suspicion have time to root themselves in the heart of the other. In many homes, there is some one in the family, on either side, whose visits bring a trail of sadness, sorrow, protest, bitter opposition, an unnecessary and unwarrantable Intrusion of a discordant element tending to worry, irritate and perhaps even to bring Into inharmony husband and wife. In this delicate situation it often seems a problem how best to act. The health and happiness of the home must be considered as of first and greatest importance. If It be but a trivial inconvenience or jar to the domestic serenity, the wisdom of tolerance for a time should be manifested, v If It be of more serious menace, imf possible to master by patient bearing, the privilege of hospitality should not be strained beyond the bearing point. There is a moment when sacrifice' ceases to be a virtue and degenerates into cowardice, vice. There may be an injustice to oneself and to one near end dear that this unwelcome guest-hoo- d outrages. It Is not true hospitality to mask the hearts continued protest under a smile, to submit unnecessarily to an atmosphere that saps ones mental and moral vitality, that dulls energy, deadens ones finer sensibility, and kills the joy of life, leaving one worried, weak, worn and weary, unable to meet as one should the questions of every-da- y living. If we constantly suffer injustice that we can remove, we are slaves to the individuality of another and cowards to our own. The rankling irritati.on of the unjust bearing, if continued, will permeate our whole nature, like an emotional poison. We should therefore act calmly, wisely, with kindness and dignity, and frankly recognize conditions and with4 perfect fairness taka the gentlest action that will remedy them. Better a short, decisive battle fought to a finish than a constant series of petty squabbles and skirmishes. Wo cannot be just to others if we are unjust to ourselves. If one lives ever under the scepter of the decision of others, it is not free life it is slavery. One cannot keep emotion corked up; some time that constantly cork will me out perhaps inopportunely. True love, true companionship, true living, can reign in the home only a there is in the home an atmosphere of liberty, of individual freedom in its highest sense. If there be interference from outside forces, whether they be from the family or others, that tends to, blight the joy, rest, peace and calm of the home that threatens to in even bring the thin edge of the wedge of discord between husband and wife that interference should be silenced forever. e home should be a sanctuary of refuge, not a battle ground of fliscord ; s mu d be a place where the angel ' ever swings the censer of She may Wue-rontt- LARGE PIG PROFITS MADE IN MINNESOTA Lelting Animals Gather Their Own Feed Found Economical and Satisfactory. With the returns amounting to five avenue he found two persons attraet- lug more attention than for a moment cents a minute for the time spent, A. he could subdue. Finally he injected I. McGuire, of the University of Minhimself into the conversation and nesota, found that raising 100 pigs lehmed thnt one of the oratorical con- every year was the most profitable testants was Mrs. William Hennessy work the men did on his farm last of One Hundred and Tenth street and year. The pigs were raised, figures Columbus avenue, while the other was completed at the end of the year a youth sixteen years old. His name, -- how, with one hours time a day. At said the youth, was 1aota Martine, the prices for pigs now, the returns and he was the second deputy assis- this year on this 305 hours time was tant of (tlovamd Bertruehhl, before nearly $3 an hour. The reduction of work to a miniwhose sidewalk establishment the mum is the method that the McGuire whole affair was happening. Well, whats it all about?" asked the policeI arm uses to increase the return on man. "Wait one at a timer I have been trailing here with Giovanni for two years now come next the labor. The pigs collect their own December," said Mrs. Hennessy, "and I always got what I wanted before. feed in the spring and summer from This morning I was on m.v way downtown to do some shopping and left my rape and alfalfa fields and in the fall vegetable list of what I wanted with this hoy for him to send tip to the house. they gather the feed to prepare theta Everything was nil right except the two baskets of -- Ickle pears that I or- for market by hogging down a field of dered, and when I saw theta I had to come right down and tell him he cant 15 acres of corn. Light acres of rape and alfalfa keep the pigs and the put that sort of stuff over on me. Just look at em i brood sows In the summer, furm-hin- g The policeman obediently garni at the baskets of pears which Mrs. Hennessy had brought buck, and even to Ills unbiased mind there appeared the ttl a fair season all the feed thc.v will eat. In St ptetaber the pigs are turned need for explanation from 1uolu. field of com, beside All right, kid, he said, turning to the lad. "jump In the witness chair Into a which Is a four-acr- e rape field. The and tell your little tale. Why did you semi such rotten pears to the holy? "But thats what It said on bet list," wailed Iaola. "It said two baskets sows that are to he kept over dating the winter tire left to clean up tb of sickly pears, aud I got her the sickliest I could find." waste after the pigs are marketui. Mr. McGuire finds that letting the Carried Off Heavy Furnace in Broad Daylight pigs do tin u own woik is ju- -t as satisfactory and economical and mtn h He even urrangi s more probiabie. affable strangers with a yellow CITY. Three KANSAS borrowed h key from Mrs, T. W, McGuire, 3305 Last Tvventb tt die winter quarters so that ns luti. as pu ilde may be nuinrol street, stole a heavy furnace and all Its equipment from Mrs. McGuire and attention sow- Straw shed- - make good the by to then returned the key, according ft r them mid the corn or !s belters complaint made to the police, s are pine- d as near tl,- uui feed-bound her Mrs, McGuires able. as sheds j two sons have beou conducting a shoot metal establishment lu a building at 2004 Indiana avenue, Recently, lmw CARE FOR SUCKLING ever, one of the boys enlisted and McSo was the second drafted. later LADIES IS OUTLINED Guire closed his shop. The other afternoon a yellow truck and three men drew tip before Success or Failure of Sheep the McGuire residence, on Twentieth street. The spokesman explained that Flock Depends Greatly on AThey were electricians and desired to repair the wiring in the place at JtHU ttention to Youngsters, Indiana avenue. Mrs. McGuire expressed her delight ami gave the mnu tins key. A druggist near the Indiana street store noticed three men with yellow On re ghm be suckling lambs mat truck dismantling the ldg exhibition furnace In the window of the McGuire determine -- access U or failure m -tore, and continued whistling and watching the girls go by. heop on the iurui, according to A. M Sometime later a yellow truck stopped on the corner near the McGuire Paterson, instructor iu animal hushome and an affable stranger returned Mrs, McGuire a key, telling her the bandry In Lie K.m-a- s State Agricultuwiring was ail O. K. ral college. M.s. McGuire thanked him and he left. New born lambs should nurse sooq strangers, one yellow after birth, for alien Now the police are looking for three lambs got milk motortruck and one furnace with accompanying equipment. a their Etomachs they usually gm l.'-acr- e well-dresse- ou-ha- well-dresse- d no more trouble, pointed out Mr. Pat- erson. Suckling lambs should have access to grain at all times. This is best provided by means of a creep. Plenty of clean, fresh water should always be provided, and the lambs should be allowed to have green grass if available. Lambs should be weaned at from four to five months of age, depending, somewhat, on the condition of the ewes and the size of the lambs. Where they are large and grovvthy, the ewes thin, the lambs may be weaned earlier in order that the ewes may be put in before breeding. condition bettor Where the lambs are small and the ewes In good condition, however, they may be allowed to run together longer. The lambs should be well fed at weaning time to avoid setbacks. Watch the udders of the ewes to see that they do not cake. If they ilo, the lambs will be prevented from Particular attention must suckling. be given to prevent the udder from spoiling at weaning time. To stop the iiow of milk the ewe should be put on a dry ration for two days. BURN CHOLERA HOGS TO CONTROL DISEASE Carcasses Is Not Good Practice, as Dogs Are Liable Burying to Dig Them Up. By L. C. KIGIN, Assistant Veterinarian, Purdue t'nhersity) Visiting a certain section of the state where lmg cholera existed, I attempted to trace the origin of this The farm where the disoutbreak. ease first existed was visited. We noticed buzzanls flying over the place and upon investigation, dead hogs were found half eaten at the foot of a cliff. Dogs had made a path to this plaee. Owing to the peculiar arrangements of this particular spot, it was inaccessible to other live stock. Until people are more careful and burn their dead hogs at once, and neighbors tie up their dogs, especially at night, when hog cholera exists iu a community, this disease can not be cout rolled. Burning a hog is a difficult task unless a place is prepared for timt purpose. A trench six feet long, two feet wide and IS inches deep is dug. a piece of woven wire fence stretched across this trench and staked on each side. The hog is laid on this fence and the fire built in the trench beneath. A few incisions made in the side of the hog with a knife will permit the escape of grease is soon as i lie carcass gets hot Many a good matrimonial ship, with its sunlit cargo of happiness aud hope, has been wrecked on the rocks of famIf it were customary ily interference. to erect tombstones to the memory of dead loves the cause of the death of marital happiness in thousands of homes might be given in the chiselled epitaph: "Died Frota an Overdose of the Interference of Relatives: If there be one place in the world where the justice of "home rule" should bo unquestioned, that place is the. home. Marriage makes the couple a new firm, an independent partnership, not a branch house under the management of a parent company. It was interference and bad advice that spoiled the first marriage, started the first quarrel, and broke up the first home in the world in those early days, long, long ago when Eden was the only spot on earth that had even a name. This was the first lesson to man and now after sixty centuries some people have not learned it yet. Husband and wife must work out their own problems in their own way. The problems of two must be solved by two. They Deed only kindness, sympathy, a reserve of help in emergencies and a free open field all the time. There is no justification for gossip, criticism, complaint, condemnation and incendiary meddling by members of the family. These things should be put on the list of unnecessary luxuries In the home and gently, firmly, definitely cut off. We may sometimes be privileged to help others to live their lives; it is arrogant assumption for us to attempt to live their lives for them. We are told that we should not bury our talents, but there is one talent that of special aptness for impertinent management of the affairs of o,thers that we should carefully wrap in a napkin and on some dark night, quietly bury forever. It is in the first years of married life that foreign interference is most trying and dangerous and it Is this very time when It is most conspicuous and dominant. No need for the family to remind the wife that the husband is not eighteen karat, that he will never make a fortune, that they fear greatly and then let their fear expand into a long catalogue of detail that fades away into the dim perspective of the unspoken. After the goods are bought and sent home and cannot be returned, what Is the use of discouraging the purchaser? The wife may think she has the finest little home In the world; everything seems beautiful to her and she has even pride in the array of cooking utensils, dazzling and new in aluminum and tin, and the dishes ranged carefully on the pantry shelves. She often stands at the door and smiles as she looks in to get the general effect at a glance. When the family makes a tour of inspection, her indiscreet sister may say, Oh, what a mite of a Kitchen. You can only wash the small dishes like cups and saucers in a little box like this. It had never seemed small to her, none of the rooms seemed small ; they held so much love and hope and happiness that the size did not count; but now her heart sinks, and the joy note seems gone and a cloud comes over it all and she begins to compare her home with that of some friend and it suffers. She thinks of all the other deficiencies pointed out by the visiting Inspectors. She tries to be brave so she will be smiling when he conies home but it is hard to keep back the tears. When her husbands sister tells her in confidence, just to put you on your guard so you will know how to handle him, what a temper he has, it comes to her as a surprise and a grief, for it does not seem possible he could ever speak a cross word. When she Hears, still in confidence, about the girl he was so much in love with two years ago and was going to marry, she feels twinges of vague jealousy and she wants to be alone. He too nitty suffer from the early stages of family interference if his mother begins her maternal vivisection of his wife. She doubts If she will prove a good housekeeper, but of course we Lave to hope for the best. Soon tb family may begin a campaign of education on how she should manage him. She hears with irritation the words: You surely won't let him smoke in the parlor! You know you can never get the odor out of the curtains and that cartridge paper drinks in smoke like blotting paper absorbs Ink. If she weakly assents they the dose; if she rebels they think she js overconfident ami setting lt- -r right becomes more than a pleas ure it is a duty. Never permit him to be five minutes late at dinner. Just assert your independence is the next shot from this s in the interests of domestic war. The husband may return home In the evening ami find the wife nervous, irritable, brimful of suggested new arrangements in the home and repairs that he might make in his manners and il. She does not tell him who us been there all afternoon but he li. ows it as absolutely from the traces wff m her conversation, as the hunter twins the passing of a bear from tracks be snow. , peace-congres- nu tm hu.mineML |