VENEZUELA GAME
COCK Of NATIONS.
Latin Republic That May Fee!
the "Big Stick's" Weight.
ITS RULER AN AUTOCRAT.
Character Study of President Castro,
Who Has Insulted the World For
Years and Violated All Rules of Di
plomacy—A Farmer Boy Who Is
Now Immensely Wealthy.
The noisy little bantam that makes
sharp discord in the barnyard of na
tions—that is Venezuela. Changing the
metaphor, Venezuela Is the tormenting,
aggravating small boy who escapes the
chastisement he so richly deserves be
cause the big boys he pesteirs are afraid j
of being called bullies If they strike so j
small an antagonist.
But there is always some one whe j
eventually takes the clamoring infant j
terrible over his knee and administers
the right remedy in the proper place,
and events appear to be pointing that j
eluty to the United States, the self ap- j
pointed and unthanked guardian of the j
Latin republics, says the Kansas City
Star. Several European nations have
had the noisy pest In the proper atti-'
tude and the slipper poiseel to apply the |
smart, but the Uniteel States has al j
ways felt in duty bound to regretfully
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rpose the Monroe doctrine to stay
the chastening hand. Now Europe may j
have the pleasure of seeing us put oui j
obstreperous ward in the closet until he
promises to be good, as plans are be- j
ing elaborated in detail for the mobili- J
station of a joint military and naval;
force in Venezuelan waters as soon as j
possible after President Itoosevelt ob- j
tains congressional sanction to resort j
to force against Castro. It may not be j
deemed necessary by the administration
to make this martial demonstration, but
the war and navy departments arc both i
mapping out a tentative military move
ment.
There is only one explanation of Ven
ezuela's insufferable insolence. The
"land of stanel still" believes It is the
peer, if not the superior, of any power
on the globe and able to hold Its own
with the warrior nations of the earth.
One man more than any other is re
sponsible for this exalted national ego
tism. That man Is Cipriano Castro.
One almost falls into the old language
of royalty and adds "by the grace of j
God" president of Venezuela, for Cas
tro the ignorant, Castro the relentless, !
rules as if by divine right just as des- !
potleally by grace of the farcical suf
frage of the Venezuelans as does Nich
olas in Russia or Abdul Ilnmld In Tur
key.
Ignorant Cipriano Castro may be, but
he is not unintelligent. If history both
ers with him at ail It must do him the |
justice of admitting that he is a states-!
man subtle enough to have sailed the j
stormy seas of international diplomocy j
for nine years and escaped the punish- j
ment richly earned by playing one na- j
tion's cupidity against the anger of an- i
other to the end that Venezuela has al- j
ways managed to slip away and leave!
the bag in the other fellow's hand, j
Something about this extraordinary
man is ne>cessary to a correct under
standing of a situation that has ex- [
hausted the patience of President Roose
velt anel caused Secretary Root to say
that diplomacy could de> nothing more.
It may explain a little of his character
to tell that there is Indian blood in his
veins. He was born In an obscure vil
lage in the mountains, and the fact that
he Is an "Andlno" (.born in the Ande's)
is one of his greatest blemishes in the
eyes of the aristocrats of the nation.!
That he has risen in spite of that great |
drawback is only one more proof of the )
man's natural ability.
First a farmer boy, Castro later i
worked in his father's store, where j
liquor and groceries were sold. Among j
the lads of the village be was a leader, i
and he early established a reputation
as a rider anel a fighter. Some writers j
have called Castro a coward. He is
not. He fights, and lie- fights well.
No enemy has ever found him a lag
gard in war. The sword raised him to
power. That lie is ready. If need be, to
ejult the palace for the field makes Ills
sway secure.
Castro, the boy, got what education
the Inadequate village school afforded, i
He supplemented this with reading,
and it is certain that lie can speak
and write fluently. He is densely ig
norant. writers assert, of the power
and extent of the nations outside of
Venezuela. He has Iteen heard to de
clare that he did not believe there was
a finer city in the world than Caracas.
One eif tlu>se revolutions which are
so common in that part of the world
came when Castro was a young man.
He supported the government and led
the forces of his state against the rev
olutionists. Victory rested with him
so persistently that, in the extravagant
Spanish-American style, be was hailed
as the "conqueror never conquered."
But Castro's valor did not avail. The
revolution triumphed. Castro tied into
exile. For six years lie remained on
a ranch in Columbia.
Among Castro's literary acquisitions
was a life of Napoleon. The moun- i
taineer saw in himself a counterpart
of the Corsican. Castro took unto him- I
self a star and became a man of des
tiny. The spirit of revolution stirred ;
vlthin him. A handful e»f his moun- !
talneers rallied under the banner of
revolt which he raised.
That feat which Castro now attempt
ed was no task for a coward. It was fiCC
miles over the roughest trails to the
capital, where death woulel be the por
tion of elefeat. Perhaps In an earlier
age or a more historic clime thai
mare-li might be compared to Ilanni
bal's crossing the Alps. Castro lived
on the country. The villages ho passed j
yielded both provisions and recruits i
Caracas opened its gates. Castro was
supreme.
.It is needless to tell of the revolu
t* is Castro put down before he be I
coja absolute. Ills hand was heavy
and his enemies felt its weight. Cas
tro was "elected" president In 1809
The Venezuelan term is for six years
A president Is forbidden by the const!
tutlon to succeed himself. Most rulers
of Venezuela have .acauiesced In thi* i
I wtiU cougnras ucviaic uuu
I slonal president" for six years. Whet
that time expires lie will be eligible foi
| a regular election again.
With Castro in power the Venezuelan
! congress became as useless as the pow
' erless senate of degenerate Home. II
met only to sing the praises of Castro
Days were spent In an attempt to finil
i a title to fit ills august person. "Grand
marshal of the armies of Venezuela,'
"the marshal of victory" and"the
founder of peace" were weighed and
found wanting. At last the Inspiration
came. Hail him "Castro, the restore!
of Venezuela," It was suggested. And
It was so decreed.
The most extravagant laudation was
poured out upon him. He was some
thing sublime, something omnipotent,
irresistible, as a sign to the nations,
the bright, refulgent star to which the
world turned in admiration and awe,
to all of which Castro bowed his mod
est head and replied:
"But 1 ought to declare that I am
hardly more than the agent of a some
thing superior that watches over the
fortunes of virtuous people, of nation,
called to fulfill the high destinies of
civilization and of progress."
With his enemies dead, confined in
dungeons, driven into exile or cowed
into submission. Castro had time to de
vote to "a vigorous foreign policy.''
There were various outstanding claims
against Venezuela. These claims were
held in Great Britain, Germany, Italy,
France, Spain, Belgium, Holland. Nor
way, Sweden and the United States.
All of these nations tried to collect.
Castro and his predecessors showed
the collectors the door or made prom
ises that were intended to bo broken
Finally Great Britain. Germany and
Italy combined in 1002 in a blockade
of the Venezuelan ports. Then Castrc
remembered the Monroe doctrine and
appealed to the United States. The
American r1 -.-r. Herbert W. Bowen.
was given full power by Castro tc
make an agreement with the creditors
who came collecting with warships
Mr. Bowen suggested The Hague tri
bunal as a source of arbitration. The
suggestion was accepted. The Hague
decided that Venezuela should pay a
certain per cent of its revenues to its
creditors. Castro agreed. Mr. Bowen
returned to Venezuela and found thai
Castro was already cheating his cred
itors.
Castro has played equally fast and
loose with the United States. The Eu
ropean nations were merely creditors
Castro hates the United States. The
United States overshadows Venezuela.
Therefore Castro's star is dimmed.
The most solemn promises and pledges
to the United States have been broken
and Castro has sought to gain support
abroad by giving concessions to Euro
peans.
Castro justifies his confiscation of
American concessions by the assertion
that they were secured illegally. It
would be a tax on credulity to believe
that this were not true. But Castro
cannot cover himself with the cloak of
morality. That stolen from the nation
is not restored to the people even if
Castro be the "restorer." It goes in
stead Into the pockets of Castro and his
gang. All visitors to Venezuela agree
that the country is being robbed shame
lessly. Taxes are confiscatory. Indus
try Is stunted. The spoil goes to Cas
tro and his supporters.
Castro is immensely wealthy. There
are several courses open to him. He
may flee to some other country and
spend the rest of his life in luxury. He
might be able to continue his rule in
definitely. A revolution may drive him
from power or an assassin may cut
short his career. The future may be i
judged by the past in Venezuela as
elsewhere. The safest prophecy is that ,
Castro's fate is bound up in one of the j
last two possibilities.
Tailored Waists For Women.
"Tailored effects" are to be among
the fashions in women's shirt waists
for this spring and summer. Cloths
bearing big stripes, checks and polka
ilots will be favored. Blue, lavender, I
tan and black and white are the popu
lar colors. It. M. liowlby, a shirt
waist salesman from Philadelphia,
which, he declares, is the shirt waist
center of America, made this explana
tion of the foregoing the other day at
Kansas City:
"By tailored effects I mean three* j
inch starched cuffs and plenty of plaits
and seams, with a separate collar,
man's style, to be worn with a man's
style necktie. I'm talking only of me
dium priced waists, but they're the
sort you'll see most, for the high f.rlced
Paris goods, and not Philadelphia, set
the standard of styles."
The Decline of the Cowboy.
College trade demanded peg top cor- I
duroy trousers. College trade i:ept on |
demanding them until the peg tops sold
in much larger quantities than the
cowboy style in the same material.
The result has been that this year all
the corduroys in many large factories !
are made in "rah-rah" lines. "As long j
as the cowboys don't object that will j
be tin- standard.".l. A. Elting. a trou
sers salesman from New York, declare 1
the other morning at Kansas City: '
"The peg tops are loose and comforta- !
ble. So why not?"
The Proper Number.
The summer resident looked curious- I
1. ... Perry Jones, the sexton of the *
1 «»'< :ry meeting bouse, as she fin
ished lier survey of the little church !
"You say it seats 300 people?" she:
said, raising her lorgnette to gaze at j
him. "What a curious number!"
"I don't know why 'tis," replied Mr. I
Jones. Resentment at her tone was
coupled with irritation at her calm
survey of liitu through her impertinent
eyeglass as he stared back at her.
"Strikes me it's a very sensible num
ber. Three hundred in the body of the
church, four in the choir, one on the
organ bench and a camps tool for Hollis
Prouty that blows for Miss Cummings
to play.
"Perhaps down your way you'd think
he ought to stand all the time, being
only a boy, but folks see things differ
ent In the country."—Youth's Compan
ion.
When She Looked Best.
A reader for a New York publishing
house gives the following, quoted from
a story submitteel by an Indiana au
thoress, as l>elng about the choicest bit
of bungle he lias come across In many
years:
"Reginald was bewitched. Never had
the barnne eetned to him so beauti
fjl - •loment, when, in her
'! . hid her face."—Lippin-
BIG LONDON STADIUM
Splendid Amphitheater Where the
Olympic Games Will Be Held.
FINE ATHLETIC QUARTERS.
Great Inclosure Iri Which World Con
testants Will Compete Has Cinder
Track One-third of a Mils to the
Lap—Room For 150,C00 Spectators.
According to the official statistics and
measurements issued by the English
Olympic committee, the immense stadi
um at Shepherd's Bush. London, Eng
land, where athletes from all parts of
the world will compete in the Olympic
games of I'JOS, Is the largest structure
of Its kind ever built for athletic exhi
bition purposes. Some idea of the vast
ness of the stadium can be gathered
from the fact that provision has been
made to accommodate more than 150,-
000 spectators eluriug the important
meets of the two weeks' athletic car
nival. Of this vast multitude close to
70.000, or a little less than half, can
be comfortably scateel during the com
petitions.
The building, which has been erected j
on grounds adjoining the Franco-Brit- (
ish exposition, is composed almost eu
t ire-ly of cement, res-enforced by Iron
and steel. It is so large that the Gre
cian amphitheater at Athens could be
placed inside the running track of the
English arena. No effort has been
spared to make it the most complete
edifice of its kind ever erected, says
the New York Evening Suti. The walls,
which rise to the height of sixty feet,
are built in the shape of a great oval,
from which thousands of seats de
scend on an inclined plane to the edge
of the bicycle track. Underneath the
great arches supporting the structure
accommodations will be made for more
than 100 rooms of various sizes for the ,
exhibition of all manner of athletic
and sporting paraphernalia and the
quartering of the competing athletes.
In the latter portion of the stadium
the teams of America and the twenty
odd other countries that are expected
to be represented will flnel the most
superb conveniences awaiting them, i
The athletes' dressing rooms will con
tain lockers, cots, pool and shower
baths, rubbing tables and every other
training apparatus that past experi
ence can suggest. Electric bells and
signboards will be installed In every
room in order that the competitors
may be notified from the Judges' stand
of the approach of events to which
they may be entered to take part.
The athletic arena proper, In which
athletes from nil parts of the world
will compete during the month of July,
will be the most complete track and
field that has ever been prepared for
contests of the character which are
seheduleel. The work in this elepart
meut of the stadium building was com
menced just about a year ago. when
the foundation for the running anel
bicycle tracks was installed and the
turf seeded down in order that the
grass might have ample opportunity to
reach perfection before the date of the
opening games. As a result of the j
care and attention devoted to the com
petitors' right of way. the field Is said
to surpass anything of like character
in England, whicli is already noted for
several modern courses of great ex
cellence.
The bicycle course, whicli is the
larger of the two tracks, has be'en built
of smooth cement for a width of thir
ty-five feet, with flie turns banked at
the proper angle for fast speed. This
track measures two and two-third laps
to the mile anel will encircle the run
ning track, which is only a few feet
less in width anel measures one-third
of a mile to the lap. Inside the two
courses a perfect sod field has been
laid out which will permit of lacrosse,
football and other classes of field
games being played at the same time
that the tracks are in use if the neces
sity for the double bill should arise. 1
Some idea of the extent of the infield
may be gathered from the fact that its
greatest length measures 235 yards,
while the width at the broadest point
is lust about 100 vards
An innovation in the arrangement tor
the Olympic games has been the builil
ing of an immense swimming pool,
which will be located on the Infield di
rectly in front of the grand stand. The
pool, which is entirely constructed of
cement, will be 100 1-3 yards long and
a trifle more than 50 feet wide. The
elepth at each enid will lie four feet and
will gradually Increase until in the
middle of the pool, where the high div- 1
ing contests will be held. It Is more
than twelve feet deep. A system of
water supply has been installed which
will permit of a complete change of
water once in every twenty-four hours,
liml, ns flie swimming races and other
forms of aquatic sports are to be fea
tured. it is likely that the natatorium '
will lie the center e>f Interest for many '
days during the great athletic carnival. I
The great structure, which, when
completed, will have ceist more than '
$350,000, will be thrown open to the '
public on Saturday. May 2, when the 1
first of a long scries of strictly English I
athletic meet:; will lie held in the sta
dium as a sort of preliminary tryout 1
for the greater international competl- j
tion which lias been set for the month '
of July. The programme for the Olym- 1
■r'c meets will include every form of
track and field competition, cycle rac- 1
ing, archery contests, lacrosse, football •'
and open air nasties. Such ath- :
letlc events ns are not suitable for the I
stadium will be conducted on the 1
grounds of clubs featuring these sports J :
In or adjacent to London. <
Salt In Digestion.
Wlssen feur Alle had a symposium
to discuss the value of salt in diges
tion. One of the physicians
that, while salt in moderation is good j
for the stomach and often absolutely |
necessary, it ought to be taken apart:
from the meals, in much the same j
way as medicine. He bases his Judg-1
ment on the way artificial digestion j
proceeds in the presence of marine
salt
"How old is you little brother, my
dear?"
"He's not old at all, sir. He's nearly 1
brand new."
GREAT GAME OF WAR
Novel Maneuvers In Defense of
Coast Around New York.
FOUR FORTS TO TAKE PART.
Target Practice With Solid Shot and
Shell Will Be Carried on In Lower
Harbcr Next June—Over Six Thou
sand Men In Action.
New York will wake up to find itself
in a state of siege some morning next
June. Added to the rumble of traffic
will come the of great guns
at the forts down the Narrows, the
roar of the twelve inch monsters at
Port Hamilton and the spatter of the
eight and six inch guns hi the big
forts behind their grassy embankments
on the Westchester shore of the sound.
Troops from the armories In Harlem
and the Bronx will be hurrying
through the streets to re-enforce the
artillerymen at the forts, and the
screech of real solid shot and shell
will go ricochetting over the heads of
busy traffic in the lower bay and the
sound.
It will be nearer to the real war
condition than the metropolis ever got
j before in time of peace, and as New
York was never besieged by a modern
| fleet it will be nearer to what might
happen than the civil war or any other
war ever brought the city.
Light and twelve inch shells will be
shot and exploded, says the New York
World, and at night the dull roar of
plant mortars and the red stream of
their flight will illuminate the heavens.
In t'.iis novel feature of the coast de
fense maneuvers around New York
real target practice with solid shot and
shell will be carried on by the mili
tia coast defense companies of the
city. They will be linked with the
regular artillery in manning the guns
of Forts Totten, Schuyler, Hamilton
and Wadsworth.
Th U will lie a distinct departure in
the effort of the war department to In
crease the efficiency of the coast forti
fications through the development of
an effective auxiliary of state coast de
fense reserves. The liest that has been
done in the past was the subcallber
target practice in which the state
forces participated with the regulars
I last year. But now the coast artillery
system has perfected plans Involving
the use of the genuine article in pro
jectiles, which are to be fired at fixed
targets at 6.000 yards range from 6lx,
ten and twelve inch breechloadlng
rifles of the tnost modern type; also
from twelve inch breecliloading mor
tars.
Under this well worked out scheme
state militiamen will be allowed to fire
the guns of nil four forts for the first
time. While the reserves will manipu
late the artillery, the range finding ap
paratus will be worked by the regu
lars, the object of this being to develop
team work between the state and fed
era' artillerists.
Plans have been developed in detail
for the New York maneuvers after
voluminous correspondence between
the war department and New York
national guard officials. The defenses
of the metropolis are the most impor
tant along the coast, and the federal
government is especially solicitous
about the part the militia of New Y'ork
may piny in the eastern and southern
sets of forts guarding this great port.
The coast defense exercises commence
at Mobile May 1 and conclude at Bos
ton June 00. Between these dates guns
will boom ail along tho Atlantic coast,
with the New Y'ork maneuvers as the
crowning feature of the great war
game.
The Empire State will contribute
more reserves to these exercises than
any other state. She wi!l furnish thirty
state coast defense companies, which
are to be supported by two full regi
ments of state militia. The nearest ap
proach to tills contingent will t>e the
fourteen state coast artillery compa
nies of Connecticut for the New Lon
don maneuvers, which will be held at
New London simultaneous with those
at New Y'ork.
All of these maneuvers will be In
continuation, but one step in advance
of those undertaken under the direc
tion of Colonel Murray, chief of artil
lery, last summer. Their purpose is the
same—the creation of enough interest
along the seacoast states to induce the j
states to form enough state militia
coast artillery companies to furnish 50
per cent of the number of coast artil
lerymen necessary In time of war for
one manning relief of ail Atlantic de
fenses.
Sixteen hundred men aro necessary
toman the eastern artillery district of
New Y'ork at Port Totten. Willet'S
Point and Port Schuyler, on the West
chester shore, and 4,500 are needed for
the southern artillery district, compris
ing Fort Hamilton, at Brooklyn, and
Fort Wadsworth. at Staten island. Be
fore last year's maneuvers Atlantic
seaboard states had organized only
twenty-five militia coast artillery com
panies, twelve each in New Y'ork and
Massachusetts and one in Maryland.
So beneficlni were these maneuvers
that by stat*' legislation New Y'ork now
has thirty militia coast artillery com
panies. Connecticut fourteen. Rhode
Island sixteen, District of Columbia
four, Georgia four and Alabama four,
while Maine, North and South Caro
lina are seeking state legislation for
additional companies.
The New Y'ork maneuvers will ex
tend from June 13 to 20 and take place
simultaneously in both the eastern and
southern artillery districts, but the
problem of each district will be inde
pendent of the other. All thirty of the
New Y'ork militia compaules will act
us artillery reserves.
Anaesthetics Known In Middle Ages.
Lecturing before the Association ot
Surgeons of Munich on narcotics Pro
fessor Klein said that the process ot
reducing the sensibilities of jiatients
with a view to making operations pain
less was known and practiced In the
middle ages. Bishop Theodorus of
Chervira wrote a prescription for a
pain destroyer in the twelfth century
j which contained opium, morphine and
hyascuin. A medical work printed in
1460 contains the first known treatise
on inhalation, and we now inject tinder
the skin the soothing mixture which
1 In 14G0 was inliale<J. London Globe.
iSEJ PICTURE CRITIC
He Knew All About Ships and the
Wild Ocean.
ART COMMENTS OF A SAILOR
The "Death of Nelson" Reminded Him
of How 'Arkness Come Off the Main
Yard—The Blood Red Sky Without a
Cloud That Foretells a Storm.
Crude perhaps and curious, the out
come of a life apart, sailorinen have
yet an appreciation of the arts, writes
David YV. Bone in the Manchester
Guardian.
Once In the Walter gallery I was
looking at "The Death of Nelson."
There was a man with the look of a
seaman standing near. He had a slight
smell of drink and was chowlnp tobac
co. Tie, too, was interested in the pic
ture, and, recognizing me as seaman
like, he said something, and wo got to
talking about Nelson and his times,
about ships and pictures. "R'gad,
mate, them fellers" (the painters he
meant) "knowed what they was
a-doin'. Look at that 'ere glim" (lan
tern). "Looks as its triminin' was for
got w'en they brought th' admiral
down. * * * An' them eyes," point
ing to a wounded seaman in the near
foreground, "them's th' eyes o' poor
j 'Arkness wot come off th' main yard
las' voyage an* struck th' fife rail full
on!"
I He told me of the accident, how it
happened, and by his eyes and rude,
simple speech I saw It all. As plain be
fore me as the figure of the stricken
seaman 1 saw 'Arkness como off the
main yard, clutching wildly at the
sheets and lifts as he fell I hoard him
strike the rail with a sickening thud
and lie stretched. I saw the running
figures on the dock, and—" 'e never
larsted th' night. We burled 'im out
there. Taltal it was," salcl my speaker.
Involuntarily twisting a shoulder to an
imaginary southwest.
There was a sea picture, a ship com
ing up to the Isle of Wight—clean
curving sails, a good sense of move
ment ami a fine, breezy atmosphere.
"Jest wot It Is." said my friend.
" 'omeward bound. Let 'ergo, boys!"
a burst of enthusiasm that made some
visitor glance around, alarmed. '"Ome
ward bound it is!" There were other
fine pictures, but we did not feel that
we bad a right to do more than look at
them and admire. With sea pictures It
was different. They were our world,
and who had the right to criticise the
way a sea was moving oft the sky if
we had not? Too often had we watch
ed, anxious eyed, for a break in the
clouds not to know the way of wind
on the water, the scud of a cloud
breaking free In a welcome shift. Well
we knew the curve of a standing sail
and the relation it bore to the sense of
movement.
For a city of the sea Liverpool has
no great representation of her fore
most industry on her chamber walls
Sea pictures have apparently no at
traction for her ehiefest citizens. There
was little call for sea critics down
stairs, so we went to an exhibition of
modern art In the upper galleries.
Here we found ourselves properly con
fronted. "Setting Sail After a Blow" it
was, a large canvas, a ship pitching
heavily In the swell of a recent gale
and the crew putting the canvas on
her. ft held a great message for my
mate (black smoke and an ever throb
bing screw had not yet dulled his sea
fancy). lie was highly pleased. "Them
seas wot ye gets off th' Plate!" He
wanted to show some word of cheer, to
swing his right hand to the loft shoul
der in seamanlike admiration, but the
cold gray eye of a tall hatted official
wns upon us. "Huh. sailors!"—and
tuere was a group ot young ladles
near by worshiping at the shrine of a
corporation purchase, so he contented
himself by nudging me furiously.
"That's wot I calls a picture," he said.
A sunset over water claimed our at
tention. A blood red sky with no
clouds, only a slight density near the
horizon. I said It was remarkable,
perhaps unreal. "That's where ye
ain't in It, mister! Ix>ok a' here! If
ye wos t' take all tli' colors In th' lock
er so's ye 'ad lots o' red an' yeller in,
ye'd find a sky t' match it. Ain't ye
never 'card o' what them dagos calls
blood o' Chris'—them dagos wot loads
ye hallest in th' I'late?" I had not
heard. "Well, it's a sky like that, an'
It comes afore one of them 'pamperos.'
"Mln" I wos lyin' in Monte Video
oncet, an' we 'ad a sky all blood red
an' never a cloud, an' th' fishln' boats
wos all comiu' In; not rowin' shipshape,
same 's me an' you 'ml do; them
shovin' th' oars 's if they wos pushln'
a barrel*." lie spat into a dark corner
and said something more about dagos,
then continued: "Nex' day we 'ad a
gale. 'Owlln', it was, an' her drivin'
into it same 's we wos off th' Horn,
an' a big German bark driv' down on
us an' took th' fore to'gal'n'inast out o'
'er an' th' boom an' started all th'
'eadgear. Two ships wos driv' ashore,
an' that's wot comes out o' them skies
wot they calls th' blood o' Chris'."
It was an Impressionist picture that
annoyed my mate—an Impression of a
scene in dock, with masts and funnels
and hulls all mixed tip. The coloring
was good, but the ships might have
been ninepins or egg boxes or any
thing. At first he was perplexed, then
amused, then indignant. "Oh. !" he
said. "What's this? Ships b'gad, or
I'm a Dutchman!" lie burst into a tit
or rude laughter. "Ships it is, mister,
an' look at them tawps'l yards! Ships
wi' tawps'l yards below the main, an'
a hangman's gibbet fer th' mizzen gaff.
Them fellers 's got some cheek, mate.
That's wot I calls it—cheek—t' be
paintin' things like that. 'Oly sailor!
Look at them."
Boiling a Fish.
In boiling any fish you should put
enough water in a largo pot to enable
a fish to swim in If it were alive. Add
to this water half a cup of vinegar, a
tablespoonful of salt, one whole onion,
one dozen whole black peppers, one
blade of mace. Take any fish and sew
it up in a new piece of cheesecloth
fitted to the shape of the fish. Put In
the water and heat slowly for thirty
minutes; then let It boll hard and fast
for about ten minutes. TTuwrap and
serve with drawn butter made from
the liquor in which the fish was cooked
and add to it the Juice of half a lemon
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NOTES
C.MBAIiNITZ
RIVERSIDE . \
CORKESPO.VDENCE "
solicited U/x Jrl —
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THE WAY TO PERFECTION.
All's not gold that's told in ads., even
though It's a Gold Rock ad. Winning
birds are seldom mated, though this
oft has been related to sell eggs and
you. Not natural for a silver cup sport
to sell eggs equal to his own to hatch
show birds to compete with him at tlio
next contest. You're a bird if you be
lieve it. Ilis "best in the world" aren't
going to be sold to another sport who
may turn a new breeding trick or have
a now fake card up his sleeve to make
the "best" better and thus relieve him
of a quadruple cup. When breeders
mate up they don't always take win
ners nor perfect birds. They might
hatch something too perfect, just as
people may get too awfully goody good.
And then somp of these perfect prize
birds aren't just so perfect as they
seem. Some have homemade perfect
combs and spliced feathers and pluck
ed shanks and snowy bleached backs
and indigo flight feathers, and when
you buy them for a big price in the
showroom and take them home in a
month there is as big a difference be
tween their "before and after" as in
the pictures of an anti-fat advertise
ment.
All's not silver that shines, even if
it's a Silver Itock silver cup winner.
So fair fanciers concede that it's not
always best to mate prize winners nor
perfect birds. Too much varnish spoils
the picture. Had traits come from
somewhere—maybe three generations
back. Anyhow the perfect birds, espe
cially colored breeds, aren't generally a
success, and so they adopt a plan that
you wouldn't. They mate imperfect
birds. This is the plain truth, if some
one is doing fancy lying.
In this perfect mating of imperfect
birds they select a male and females
and make the good traits on one side
balance the bad traits on the other. A
hen's good traits may cover the bad
traits of the male, and the male may
have some perfect points the hen is
weak in, and thus, bred together, ev
erything may even up and the off
spring be just right.
A long legged Leghorn with poor
color may lie bred to a short legged
hen with strong standard color.
A Silver Laced Wyandotte with a
poor hackle is matched with a hen of
perfect hackle that may be deficient in
some points in which the male is true.
A Brown Leghorn may have a four
point comb. To get the live point some
will breed a live point female, while
others will take a sis pointer, claiming
that the four and sis point combs will
neutralize into the regular five point
comb.
Imperfections are thus offset by per
fections to get the perfect.
Then there are the cockerel and pul
let matings—not that cockerels form
into stag parties and pullets organize
girl bachelor clubs, but breeding pens
are matched to bring certain color
cockerels or certain color pullets. For
Instance, some Barred Itoclt fanciers
like a rather dark cockerel, and they
mate fur it. They want pullet feathers
to have narrow dark tips and all
feathers .to be barred to the slcln, and
they mate accordingly. So it's not so
simple after all, and when a man at
St. Louis paid SI,OOO for a lien It was
not because he was a fool, but he ap
preciated the science required to build
that hen and knew the pleasure and
profit that come from such a bon ton
brain product to breed from.
In society you have often noticed
people try to even up in the same man
ner. A brainless man will try to mar
ry the new woman to make himself
look intellectual. A man with a slim
Income will strive to wed a woman
with a fat bank account. But, as the
chicken mating may be a failure, the
brainless man may seem more non
compos mentis, and the fortune may
be a fizzle.
DON'TS.
Don't use all the adjectives in the
English language to sell a three pound
rooster. Nuf sed.
Don't be a rotten nest egg fossil.
China eggs for nests. No rotten nest
eggs for customers.
Don't mate more than six hens to
one gobbler. You'll not have many
Christmas turkeys to gobble if you do.
Don't fail to exterminate the rats.
If you can't hit a barn door, call out
the N. <; They can make corks pop
ftraight.
Don't forget to And the turkey's nest.
The skunk will get there If you don't.
Hope you don't meet and quarrel. Ex
cuse us from the peace council.
Don't forget that you are an un
classed specimen of t'ap fool species if
you lick" your boys for getting the
chicken fever. It's an attribute of
greatness, and if you never had It pre
pare for a severe attack of non compos
mentis.
Don't envy the prosperous poultry
man. I'eople running machines get
their fingers caught in cogs when they
watch the scenery. Try the "oil of
gladness" on your rusty wheels anil
shout over every fellow's success.
Hump a little harder, and the band will
soon serenade you.
BILVER ROCKS.
Dor.'t forget tho Golden Rule
When you're selling hens and cocks, j
If you do. you'll play the fool
And be out tho Golden Rocks.
Don't forget tlio Silver Rule
When you're mating hens and cocks.
Or you'll not bo In tho pool
Where they coin tho Silver Rocks.
Crossing Gold and Silver Dottes,
You will mint a mass of brass;
Neither gold nor silver spots
And no Silver Rocks amass.
If you're mixing Hocks and Dottes,
Gold and Silver in one flock,
You will lose the Golden Dottes
And be out the Silver Roclu. j
-- *,ut.ivs you uioea,
straight your hens and cocks.
Sixteen to one's the proper creed
To coin tons of Silver Rocks.
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FOMULAE FOR FEEDS.
C ' hick f0( -' a Pounds.
Cracked wheat 25
t racked corn 10
Uillet 10
Oatmeal 10
This is the basis for true feed, and
the following may be added if desired:
Pounds.
K a[hr corn 20
L'rarked peas io
Cracked rice 3
Kape 3
Hemp 2
After a month or six weeks use this
i-oarser scratch feed: Pounds.
tVhole wheat 20
Coarse cracked corn 15
f>ats 15
fCattir corn 20
Barley 6
Millet §
It* you desire to use forcing mash or
broiler bread the following is the best.
Forcing mash: Pounds.
Commeal $
Bran . j 3
Flour mids 2
Beef scrap.*. g
Broiler bread: Pounds.
Cornmeal 2
Bran 2
Flour mids 1
Beef scrap
Fine grit
Mis well, stir in six raw eggs and
milk sufficient to moisten. Putin
greased pan and it slow oven. This
cake should not bo sticky nor served
with ice cream.
FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS.
If you are raising broilers, a good
fattener is wheat, scalded overnight,
fed every other day.
If your poultry run is full of plau
tain, don't let your hens gorge them
selves or you will be plautia' them.
What poultry prefer to eat is uot al
ways fit for the end in view-. They
prefer fat producers. Antifat for fresh
eggS.
Beware of beef scrap that smells like
fertilizer. It's Chicago tankage. Re
ject scrap that's yellowish. It's Chi
li og-o cracklings.
One reason why English poultry
look so untidy in the showroom is be
cause they are shipped in wicker
hampers. They look 'ampered.
Blackhead has about destroyed the
turkey industry of New England. If
baldhead was so fatal, there would be
110 deacons left in the front pews.
When the small end of the egg is
elevated during hatching, the head
grows in the wrong end, and thus de
formed chick cannot come out, but in
this and other cases you often come
out the small end of the horn.
A poultrymau's work is a series of
details. Itemize your day's duties
and put the most important items first.
Then shove them through, and do
all if it's not beyond your strength.
A small thing well done Is better than
a big thing bungled.
When you dress a fowl to sell feed it
nothing for a day before. This is the
law in some states. Thus the digestive
system will be empty. If fowl is full
fed and to be drawn, make an incision
around the rectum and tie the organ
with strong cord. There will thus be
no accident, and your fowl will uot be
foul.
When you permit your poultry to
drink from tho foul pools around the
manure pile, just remember that an
egg is largely water. No wonder your
young turkeys die when allowed to
wade through such a mess. It's enough
to paralyze a hog. If your customers
see the picture it will paralyze your
egg trade.
ueath of chicks in the shell has
various causes—weak males, lack of
moisture and improper ventilation in
incubators, too high or low temperature,,
old eggs and last, but not least, open
ing the door during hatching to count
the pipped eggs or to show off the
wonderful marvel of nature to an awe
struck multitude.
The hard times, with the fall in
prices, will count something to tho
poultryman on the feed question. Both
poultry and squab raisers culled down
to a minimum and now have the finest
pens and lofts ever. That much good
the high feed prices did, and you'll see
the best stock raised this season in the
history of poultrydom.
It's a delightful chance you have to
make things hum this summer. Get
out just the number of chicks or duck
lings you can feed well aud care for.
Then lay aside the spring fever and
the summer prostration. After a good,
happy hustle you may slack up in the
fall long enough to receive congratula
tions and then boost tile rooster for
winter eggs. May you always get
there.
During the winter season In Califor
nia ffesh eggs sold at 23 cents, storage
extras at 17 cents, while wheat, oats
and corn stood at $1.83, bran at SLOS 1 -.;.
and mids at SI.OO. Now. you eastern
knockers who have been buying wheat
nt 05 cents, corn at 00 c >:its, oats nt 53
cents, bran at $1.30 and uilds at 51.40
and at the same time selling eggs from
CO to 00 cents, yes. you had better quit
your knocking
raof!
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Furnaces, eto.
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