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NEWS IN GENERAL.
Austrian dealers are reported to
have purchased between two and
three million rabbit skins at the Leip-
zig fur market for winter clothing for
the Austrian army.
Since the commencement of the
European war, there have been 19 ex-
plosions and fires from undetermined
origin, many of them under suspici-
ous circumstances, in government
arsenals and in powder factories and
plants engaged on war contracts in
the United States and one in Canada,
with a total of 34 deaths and injuries
to 22 other men.
The Allan liner, Hesperian was eith-
er struck by a mine or torpedoed with-
out warning Saturday evening by a
German submarine near the Irish
coast. Most of those aboard escaped '
in boats and the Captain and Crew
attempted to reach land but in vain !
and about eighteen were drowned
when the vessel went down. Germany
* has another dastardly act to repudi-
: ate if the vessel was torpedoed iu |
direct opposition to recent statements |
that no more such outrages without
warning should be ade ¢ on unarmed |
neutral vessels.
In an opinion rendered recently by
Price Jackson at Harrisburg the lim-
itation of six days a week for female
emplayes is absolutely fixed. The
opinion is of sweeping effect in the
telephone business especially and
reaches far into other lines of industry.
Accused by her alleged accomplices
three negroes — Elizabeth
having incited the murder of her hus-
band, Dr. C. Franklin Mohr, a wealthy
and well-known physician of Provi-
dence and Newport, Rhode Island.
Mrs. Mohr vehemently denied the ac-
cusation which she characterized as
absurd, The hostler Healis was held
account of the affair conflicted with
that given by Miss Emily Burger, the
doctor’s assistant who was in the au-
tomobile and was also wounded.
The chaffeur was arrested after Healis
told the police that he and the hostler
had plotted to rob Dr. Mohr on the
night of the shooting. The authorities
did not believe the stories of the ne-
groes and Brown was subjected to a
searching examination during which
the police say he admitted that he was
concerned in the shooting and that
Mrs. Mohr had offered him $2000 to
kill her husband.
The Diagnosis of Glanders
hk The Department of Agriculture, in
f professional bulletin No. 166, recom-
NL mends the use of ophthalmic mallein
for the diagnosis of glanders. This
test, it is held, is more accurate, easier
of application, and gives results more
quickly than the other methods. As
the same time, the use of this test
odes not interfere in doubtful cases
with subsequent serum or subcutan-
eous mallein tests.
In considering the good results ob-
tained and the advantages of this
method of testing a concentrated mal-
lein has been prepared for this pur-
pose by the Bureau of Animal In-
dustry, and this was made available
to a number of practicing veterinar-
fans who desired to give this method
of testing a thorough trial. It has
also been employed by inspectors of
the Bureau of Animal Industry in
their field work, and reports are ac-
cessible regarding its action for diag-
nostic purposes on more than 18,000
3 cases. The results from all sources
were uniformly satisfactory. Practie-
ing veterinarians who have given this
method a trial have reported very
favorably on the results, and the tests
eonducted by the bureau inspectors on
several thousand animals were also
satisfactory. The method has been
applied here in Washington whenever
possible, and recently in some immun-
izing tests of glanders conducted by
the Bureau of Animal Industry there
was a good opportunity to repeatedly
employ this test. In all these instances
the results were uniformly good. In
cases of glanders there appeared a
marked purulent conjunctivitis, and
the reaction at times was so severe
that the animal could not open its
tested eye.
The success of the test, the Depart-
ment’s specialists find, depends upon
Tiffany '
Blair Mohr Friday at Providence R. I. «
was held without bail in the charge of |
by the police since the shooting as his !
Story... ..
IS IT WORTH WHILE?
Is it worth while that we jostle a
brother
Bearing his load on the rough road /
of life? a
Is it worth while that we jest at each
other
In blackness of heart—that we war
to the knife?
God pity us in our pitiful strife.
God pity us all as we jostle each other
God pardon us all for the triumphs
we feel
When a fellow goes down;
heart-broken brother,
Pierced to the heart;
keener than steel,
And mightier far for woe or for weal.
Were it not well in this brief little
journey,
On over the isthmus, down into the
tide,
. That we give him a fish instead of a
serpent
Ere folding the hands to be and a-
bide
poor
words are
Attorney General Brown to Commis- | Forever and aye in dust at his side.
sioner of Labor and Industry John !
Look at the roses saluting each oth
er;
Look at the herds all at peace on the
plain,
Man and man only makes war on his
brother,
And dotes in his heart on his peril
and pain—
Shamed by the brutes that go down
on the plain—Joaquin Miller.
| Little Mary's mother had just
| bought her a suit of white rompers
for hot weather, She was showing
them proudly to her aunt, saying,
“How do you like my new wompers?
I don’t have to wear anything under
them—only just myself.”
Nc Mote in his Eye.
“What are you studying now?” Mrs.
Johnson. r
“We have taken up the study of
molecules,” answered her son.
“I hope you will be very attentive
and practice constantly ,” said the
the mother. “I tried to get your fath-
er to wear one, but he could not keep
it in his eye.”
Kipling.
Mr. Kipling’s description of the
world as consisting of “human beings
and Germans” is just ground for sus-
picion that he is not perfectly neutral.
How He Beat the Railroad.
An Irishman riding on a railroad
train looked so greatly pleased that
he was asked what amused him so
much,
“Sure,” he said, “I’ve been riding
over this road for tin years, and to-
day’s the first tme I ever got ahead
of it.”
“How did you do it this time?” he
was asked.
Slapping his knees
satisfaction he replied: .
“I bought a round trip ticket and
begorra, I ain’t goin’ back.”
with evident
The attorneys for the prosecution
and defense had been allowed fifteen
minutes each to argue the case. The
attorny for the defense had commenc-
ed his with an allusion to the old
swimming hole of his boyhood days.
He told in flowery oratory of the
balmy air, the singing birds the joy
of youth, the delights of the cool wa-
ter—
And in the midst of it he was in-
terrupted by the drawling voice of
the judge:
“Come out, Chauncey,” he said,
“and put on your clothes, Your fifteen
minutes are up.”
Why Worry?
“Why does you struggle, child?”
asked Aunt Chloe. “When you fights
Bad Luck he’s liable to bust you with
trouble, an’ if your bones is all stiff
with strugglin’ he will donesprinkle
the groun’ with your pieces. Now
the degree of concentration of the
mallein. The bulletin gives full de-
tails as to the preparation of con- |
centrated mallein, its application and
the effect of the ophthalmic test in
healthy and glandered animals. The
bulletin is technical and is designed
primarily for veterinarians and state
live stock sanitary authorities. |
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A long raft containing one million :
feet of cedar, Sgid | to be the largest
ever floated on th arise, recently
made the trip fro: Briti Columbia |
to Puget Sound. It was 100 feet long
cet wide; it stood 1f vet out
and 70
iter and 20 feet under
i an’ soft an’ I says,
{ Luck here I is, now tramp on me an’
when I see Bad Luck comin’ (an’ he
i allers comes in threes, sixes or nines
neber single)’ I just lies down all flat
‘All right, Bad
get through, so’s I kin be happy agin.’
i An’ he does!" An’ then I is!”
GREAT PEACH CROP
The peach crop of the country will
amount this year, it is estimated, to
than 58,000,000 bushels. With
the application of more scientific meth-
more
| ods the crop has increased greatly in
recent years and the peach grower is
| now confronted with problems of mar-
her than of production, Ow-
y rishable nature peaches
cult to dispose of
ss, and good distribution is
tial to prevent the glutting of
ing to the
are unusu:
while scarcity and high |
elsewhe Peaches
full and cheap in this sec-
the grower is making very
on them.
TELLS GOOD POINTS
OF UILITY BIRD
Eradicate the Scrub and Cross Breeds
on Farm, Advises W. H.
Pfeifer.
“Chicken! Yellow legged chicken!
With a flavor that tickles the palate
and makes the mouth water for more.
Chicken that produces lots of delicate
flavored and wholesome eggs for the
business ‘man’s’ breakfast and the
workingman’s dinner pail, is ‘the kind
of chicken that the great mass of hu-
manity is chiefly interested in,” was
the statement of William H. Pfeifer of
Allenton, Mo., in his address on
“Chicken as the Public Sees It,” at the
Missoutf State Poultry ‘Show.
Continuing he ‘84id: “think you
will ‘agree with me ‘that it is the util-
ity-bred, standard-bred hen that comes
nearest to filling the bill or require-
ments, so let us give her Inore atten-
tion in the future.
“It is with a feeling of doer appre-
ciation for the wonderful achievements
of the little hen and the exéellent work
being done at the Missoiiri ‘State Ex-
periment Station for helping her to
still greater accomplishments that I
come before you as a humble poultry-
man who is willing to share with those
who care to listen such information as
he has learned in the school’ of exper-
ience.
“The birds at this exhibition are
judged solely by their outward appear-
ance, and outward appearances are
frequently deceiving. The handbock
by which they are judged is called the
Standard of Perfection, but it applies
only to the outward perfection, while
the inward perfectionfi, the truly use-
ful perfection, is completely ignored in
the awarding of the ribbons. The birds
that an exhibitor sends to a show like
this nearly always represent the very
cream of his flock, but that by no
means signifies that some of the lesser
lights that he has left at home are ex-
celled in the one vital thing to success-
ful breeding, and thit is utility. The
time was—and that not long ago, and
in some instances it is still practiced—
that the culls of a flock of standard-
breds were called utility birds and dis-
posed of as such. While some of them
might have been worthy of the name
by far the greater part were just
simply the undesirables of the flock,
nothing more. Now when we stop to
consider that by far the greater num-
ber of the people who entered the
poultry business bought this so-called
utility stock, can you still wonder why
so many of them failed?
“The time is now at hand for utility
poultry to take its rightful place in
poultry culture, for the primary worth
of all poultry lies in its utilitarian
value. Certainly the culls of ‘a fan-
cier’s flock should not be soldafor util- |
ity birds, for their sole value Hes in
their carcass and that rule is far be-
low par. Take the dressed carcass of
a plump, well-developed Plymouth
Rock, place it beside that of a cull, and
vou will have the indisputable evi-
dence staring you in the face.
“It is not my desire to detract from
the glory that an exhibition bird is en-
titled to nor to belittle the man who
produces such, but it is a well known
fact amoung students of poultry cul-
ture that only a few, a very few of
the birds that a fancier produces, are
of a high exhibition type, and there-
fore they are very valuable, the result
being that there is only an occasional
sale for such stock. The second choice
birds are held to be sold as breeders
and the market is so overrun with this
class of the fancy that the demand
is practically nil, compared with the
number of breeders who are waiting
for prospective buyers. Only the es-
tablished breeder with a wide reputa-
tion can dispose of this class of stock
at a profit.
“On the other hand the utility breed-
er can cull his flock at a far earlier
date and dispose of his surplus at a
reasonable profit, for he has an ever-
ready market and a constantly grow-
ing demand for his product at prices
above market quotations. tI is the
plump carcass and wholesome table
eggs that attract the greatest atten-
tion from he public. No only that, but
the utility breeder is is not always
outclassed in the show-room, for it is
easier to produce exhibition birds from
a well-bred and uniform flock of utility
birds than from an exhibition flock.
In our own lives it is perfectly plain
to us that it is not the upper crust, nor
the dregs of society, but the great
middle class that causes the wheels of
civilization and progress to grind. Not
only does the rule apply to humanity,
but it applies to stoek and to poultry.
“Therefore it will pay all poultry-
men well to remember that to eradi-
cate the scrub and cross-breeds that
are found upon the farms of this coun-
try and to replace them with pure-bred
poultry we must interest the farmer
jn the highly useful standard-bred.
This cannot be done with high-priced
specimens of extraordinary beauty,
nor with an almost worthless lot of
cast-off culls, but it can be done with
uniform and useful stock, for such
stock is utility and none other.
“The fancier is of course a necessity
in upholdir the pleasing beauty of
bred, but the utility breed-
redit for the
> in poultry
his Charter of
for every
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