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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-01-03

most satisfactory and beneficial results
have followed. The bill has the en-
dorsement of State Superintendent
Mynders, and practically every promi-
nent educator in Tennessee, and is in
line with the progressive thought of
the older states of the Union.
There will also be demand for the
passage OF some kind of a compulsory
educational law. The Davidson coun-
ty delegation is instructed to vote for
a measure along this line. 1t is not
probable, however, that such legisla-
tion will be enacted at the coming SEES
sion, as public sentiment is hardly
ready for so radical departure. Very
few Of the prominent educators of the
state favor compulsory education at
this time.
State Superintendent Mynders takes
the position that the first effort of the
lawmakers should be directed toward
making the schools better, securing
more efficient teachers, longer terms
and better school management, rather
than the enactment of compulsory at
tendance laws. The experience of
Union and Claiborne counties has dem
onstrated that mild compulsory law,
or rather one without truant officer,
and adequate penalty to secure its en-
force is failure.
There will be many bills presented
in view of an improvement of the sys-
TEN of working and building public
roads. 1t is not improbable that a sys-
tenn for keeping up the roads by direct
taxation will be substituted for the
present unsatisfactory method.
That there will be some reform of the
election laws cannot be questioned.
However, there is great difference of
opinion among members of the legisla-
ture as to how and IN what respect the
laws should be changed. An effort will
be made to extend the Dortch law to
all sections of the state, and such bill
seems to stand fair chance of pass
age. The greatest disagreement will
be over the matter OF appointing officers
to hold elections.
Both the democratic platform and
Gov elect Patterson are committed to
a change in the method of appointing
commissioners of election. The gov
ernor-elect declared from every stump
that this was power that the governor
of the state ought not to exercise. Sew
eral plans have been suggested for ap-
pointing the election commissioners
One suggestion is the creation of a
state commission to be appointed by
the legislature; another is that the
members of this commission to be elect
ed by the people, one from each divis-
ion of the state. On the other hand
there are members who believe that
the state commission is unnecessary
but think that there should be a com
mission in each county to be elected by
the qualified voters thereof, but one
member of which shall, however, be.
long to the minority party of the coun-
ty.
From present indications there will
be no dimunition of local bills as com
pared with previous legislatures. AL
though much has been said in the press
and from the stump, about the evils of
too much local legislation, the predic-
ton is generally made that the law
book Of 1907 will be encountered with
just as many laws of this kind as form
er books have been. Commercial APP
peal.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-01-03

We have sworn off drinking hair re-
storers, bnt as our head is very ban,
We wei into = lrug store and asst for a
bottle Of herr> eide, which is guaran-
teed to i..ake the hair grow. We got to
work with - lidid and in few days
we had two large horns sprouting on
our head. We kicked to the clerk,
what sold Us the stuff, and found ont
that he mad made mistake, and give
us bust developer instead of what we
as fer. Hereafter we air on a gasoline
dist. Hardeman Free Press.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-01-03

In Chicago the wives of union men
are offered bonus of 800 for a baby,
5000 for twins, and $500 for triplets.
Now, that's the proper thing. We
have always believed in union labor
and wanted to join the order and ex-
pect to move to Chicago to do so-soOn.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-01-03

The Holston Valley Zephyr is the
fastest venture in journalism in East
Tennessee. It'll an S-column quarto
issued at Kingsport, Sullivan county,
by the Kingsport Publishing Co. 1t
seems to be starting early to boom
Kingsport. Here's hoping the Zephyr
will never turn to hot air.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-01-03

ebert" Upton wants to be live
stock inspector under the new admin
istration. He is we'll qualified from
any point of view, and is deserving and
Gov. Patterson would make no mistake
in appointing him.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-01-03

A Texas editor got off the following:
MANY wife is lettering around home
fooling her time away with the wash
tub or cutting wood while her poor
husband is hard at work in the back
room of saloon worrying his brain
trying to keep the other fellow from
shutting out his double six.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-01-03

The Morristown Republican will
hereafter be issued as semi-weekly.
1t has been reduced in size, but is eth
erwise improved.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-01-03
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY

Patterson will be remembered as
Tennessee's brainiest governor if for
no other reason.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-01-03

Gov. Patterson will be inaugurated
on Jan. 10Th, then will come the tug OF
war-the fight for Office.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-02-01
POULTRY INDUSTRY

ton suggests lot of chicks that have
grown very irregularly, few perhaps
quite well, but many very little, most
of them more or less stunted, weak,
puny and many afflicted as well with
various diseases. Such a lot of chicks
is usually the possession of novice
who has succeeded better in Matching
than in growing chicks, and whose
chicks, while not thriving, have had
nothing serious enough to carry them
off quickly. The best way to treat
such a case is to kill every chick that
is not thrifty, then put the others on
good hearty diet. After that, as
often as a chick begins to lag in
growth kill it. This is heroic treat
ment. 1t is not likely to leave much
of the flock, but it will leave all that
are worth keeping.
eff the chicks with this trouble are
all through the flock, the presumption
is that the general treatment Of the
stock is wrong somewhere. From our
correspondents statement he seems to
be very uncertain about feeding, and
where such an unsettled state of mind
on the feeding question exists there
is likely to be frequent changing or
methods and an unsettled and unsatls-
factory system of caring for the chicks.
Under such conditions, the lack OF
thrift in the chicks is likely to be no
ticeable In his feeding, our CORE
spondent has gone from one extreme
to the opposite. From two-thirds corn
meal (Which is too much except for
chicks with good range and abundant
green food) to no corn meal or corn,
is from one faulty ration to another.
Indeed the latter ration, with it's 70
per cent oatmeal and rs per cent. beef
scrap is worse than the other. Give
one-third to one-half corn meal, and
beef scrap about five per cent, with
food in good supply. Stick quite close
ly to this diet, and weed out the chicks
that will not grow on 1t.
"There may be some rheumatism,
but what rheumatism there is is prob
ably a result of the general condition
of the chicks and treatment for rheu-
matism can have little effect. Much OF
the lameness may be due to exhaus-
ton. In that case, separating sick
bird from the others, and giving 1T
little special attention would be likely
to lead to some improvement, without
any medical treatment whatever being
given"
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-02-01
To Get the Hens to lay.

Force the hens to exercise. Espec-
tally look after this item in winter
Pile the straw deep and fresh in the
scratching shed and make it impos-
sible for the hens to get grain until
it is found. Lack of exercise often
shuts off egg laying altogether. The
body adapting itself to the indolent
condition refuses, quite often, in these
cases, to set up the egg laying habit
when spring comes. Atrophy has set
in. Mark the hens that are now lay
ing; that is, the older hens. These
are the hens whose eggs, later on,
when you want strong Matching stock,
can be relied upon to give you just
what you want in that line, and also
to give you a dependable laying pullet
for next winter. Watch the droppings;
if blood and a watery discharge shows
separate that bird from the rest 1t
may take some time to distinguish it
from the rest, but it will pay to take
the time. White dropipngs adhering
to the fluff feathers show that you are
feeding too much of one kind of grain,
and not providing enough grit, green
stuff and charcoal Green droppings
sometimes suggest merely slight colds
taken by the fowls, but it is well to
keep a lookout for the birds thus af-
fected and get them away from the
main flock.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-02-01
Some Advice to Beginners.
(Ellen Day.

1t seems strange that so many peo-
pie will do, year after year, just what
they are repeatedly told by the poultry
journals not to do. | am sure the
main cause of sickly chicks is keeping
about three times as many fowls in
every house as the house should shell
ter. It is no wonder that there is so
much disappointment in the poultry
business, for a beginner is usually told
there is lots of money in poultry and
that one does not need much money
to start with A person would not
think of trying to make living run
ming a store or any such business with
out some capital, neither should per-
son start in the poultry business with
less than five hundred dollars. Even
with that outlay one could not make
much of living until the plant was
enlarged considerably. The right way
is to buy nice fancy stock to commence
with and commence small. One must
not expect to make much towards
living till the plant is enlarged some
what. Be sure to enlarge the buildings
and yards as you increase the flock.
Another expense to provide for is
liberal advertising. l think l hear
some one say, advertising doesn't
have anything to do with healthy
chicks" There is no part of the poul-
try business but what has a vital part
to play with all other parts. Plenty
of advertising brings more sales, which
bring money to be put into better
buildings, making more room for
larger focks.
Crowded quarters produce sickly'
hens, which in turn produce weak
chicks that die. Houses must be warm
enough so that few hens can be COM
Portable in a house large enough to
provide not less than ten square feet
Of floor space to a hen. A few hens
housed and cared for rightly will bring
in more money than lot wrongly car
ed for. So long as we have crowded
quarters we will have sickly chicks
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-02-01
Flesh Condition of Fatted Fowls.

Flesh Condition OF Fatted fowls.
In fattening fowls it is necessary to
know the influence of feed on the sys-
tenn, because if this is not known and
provided for, there is a probability
that mistakes will be made, or that the
best results will not be obtained. 1t
is possible to add greatly to the weight
of fowls by feeding food that is rich
in carbohydrates, like corn, but the
results are often unsatisfactory. The
oily, yellow fat produced by feeding
corn is Objectionable in appearance,
and if a bird so fatted is roasted,
greater part of it is lost in the drip
ping pan. 1t is not thought desirable
to add fat to the system beyond GER
tain degree.
The food employed chiefly in Eng
land consists of ground oats. Not oat
meal or partially-ground oats-the
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-02-01
Wrong Management and Poor Chicks

Wrong Management and Poor Chicks.
In the Farm Poultry correspondent
writes as follows: cat the beginning
of October l had a lot of chickens,
large and small, that were not doing
well, so | bought package of poultry
food, and gave them mash of two
thirds corn meal, one-third bran, and
two tablespoonful of the poultry food
in the morning; the rest of the day,
mixed grain. After few days l saw
a change in the chickens. They seemed
to have lost the power of their legs.
When they ate they lay down if any
Of the chickens came, or If anything
comes against them they fall down, OF
they fall down of their own accord.
They eat well; they will eat as long
as they have the power to get it.
that is until they die. l have let them
out in the yard, but the cold seems
to make them worse, so l keep them
in the house. When they get out, some
of them will lie down, and can't get
up. | have the advice of two parties.
They say that it is weak legs. May be
it is, and it may not be- l don't know
have stopped giving them any corn
or corn meal. l have given them a
mash of one-fourth bran, one-fourth oat
meal, one-fourth beef scraps, one
fourth alfalfa, two tablespoonful poul-
try food, and one or two tablespoon
fuls of fine ground bone in the morn
ing, and the rest of the day mixed
grains, but no corn of any kind. In
the water l put Is drops of tincture
chloride of iron. l gave this one week,
but | saw no improvement. 1t seems
to me that they are worse on a damp
day. l have taken one out of the yard
that lay down fiat. l put her in a box
in the house to die; the next morning
she was little better. In the even
ing l held her up with my hands to
eat, and she was very hungry, but if
| took my hand away she would fall
down. The weather is damp here now,
and she is very bad. The others are
worse, but they can help themselves.
am going to stop the poultry food
and the iron in the water. l am going
to give them mixed grain; not much
corn of any kind, and I will put IS
grains of iodide of potassium in the
drinking water and treat them for
rheumatism. Can you tell me If it is
weak legs, or If it is rheumatism, and
what to do If any are left"
In reply the editor wrote his CORE
spondent as follows: Chickens in the
condition described are poor property
at any time, and perhaps worth less
to the owner at this season OF the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-02

hmanners were those of a gentleman and those whom he had paused to see and who gave him welcome were the more favored and refined. His conver- setion was tactful and entertaining, and flowed from a cultivated mind. In incidental remarks on current themes he showed himself a man of intelligent and generous sympathies. Evidently he i was one to attract attention, to set a standard. to be quoted and deferred to. He had enjoyed his ride; he was elo- quent of the scenery and sunshine; riv- CT. farm, trees, clouds had imparted to him poetic joy. He was eloquent, too, of his carriage and, looking at his watch, told boastfully of the little time in which it had borne him thither.
 It happened that there was one who listened to him, who was familiar with the road and whose mental arithmetic was equal to figuring his rate of travel. The road ran through one large city and several populous villages; yet the average speed had been close to P miles an hour. This man of wealth and culture this gentleman, this standard and model to so many, was a law breaker.
 He smilingly alluded to this fact, yet was quite at peace with himself. He had not been stopped; he had injured no one; no harm had been done. No harm had been done! It had been quite possible to have joined issue with him there. To be sure, no one had been frightened, no person killed or maimed. A law, however, had been transgressed, and that, not by an irresponsible mad cap, but by well-poised and respected man; and in this transgression great harm may have been done. Law break ing, though no immediate and specific harm follow upon 1t, can hardly be call ed harmless. Laws meet us at all turns, and 1t is only through a law-abiding sentiment that social stability is possi- ble.- Surely that is not harmless con-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-02

represents private taxes levied by hold- CTS of special privileges or by powerful violators of law, from the workers who have produced it and who often suffer morally as well as materially for it's lack
 "Squalid tenements are often the property of ostentatious people, who have taken no part in creating the in- comes they spend in idle and luxurious living. The fact that of each days or months wages one-third must be hand ed over regularly to the agents of those who live in luxury and splendor at the cost of others is responsible, probably, for more bitter class feeling than all other causes combined. There is nothing that conduces more largely to bitterness of soul than the well-nigh universal spectacle of idleness in lux ury, while many of the most indus trious starve in tenements.
 Absentee landlords living on the fashionable streets of our cities, who through counsel or through taxpayers associations oppose all legislation that Is in the interest of common decency for the workers, and absentee stock. holders living in luxury on incomes &C., quired by apprpriating without produce tive service a large share of the wealth which the workers create, have vast ly larger influence in creating bitter ness and the ignoble type of class feel ing through apparent indifference to the wrongs and rights of their fellow beings than have all the demagogues together
 There are millions in our country to-day for whom no amount of industry will bring an adequate supply of the neoessaries of life. On every hand those who live in wage slavery are reminded of the injustice done them. None who suffer through social and industrial in- justice can read for instance, of the $5O,00O service of gold at the feast of one of the wealthy without being
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-02

aroused, or of the fabulous price paid for poodle dogs, or of the great for- tunes spent annually on personal adornment, or of the enormous sums paid for homes, or of the jewels worn at the opera.
 Class Feeling Aroused.
 'The newspapers give widespread publicity to the ostentation of the rich, and 1t must be repeated that knowl- edge of these facts arouse class feel ing not because of the folly, but be- cause of the injustice which these ex- penditures suggest And when people read of big donations to some popular charities by a powerful fnancier or by some fashionable woman in society, who through monopoly of some of the necessary means to life taxes the peo- pie almost beyond endurance, feeling becomes intnsifd
 "That men and women who crush the life of the people that they may Haunt the power to luxuriate and idle and to still further oppress, should dare to appear philanthropic, seems to them the flower of refined hypocrisy.
 Tn the great majority of instances" cor cluded Mrs Stokes. ''the giving and taking of charity between rich and poor is not only harmful, but danger ous, as both sides are too easily satis- fled by such means, and blinded to the injustice underlying the necessity for charity of this sort.'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-02
BRAVE YOUKGSTER
 DEFIES DEATH Stands by Brother and Faces Approaching
 Train. SAVED BY LUCK. Refused to Save His Life by Leeping From
 Bridge.

Hartford, July 31.-Tales of courage and valor have been told and retold but nothing more true or beautiful has occurred in Hartford than an act of Wednesday, when two little boys, caught on the railroad bridge over the Park River at Dutch Point by the sudden approach of a northbound train, raced for their lives up the track. As the engine was almost upon them, the younger boy, only six years old; caught his foot in the trestle and l fell The older boy did not hesitate moment. Turning about, he tried with all his might to lift his brother but the foot was deep in the hole between the ties and stuck and stuck, while ev? cry instant the train thundered nearer.
 The older lad still had time to save himself if he would but jump, but he stood by his brother and waited the few remaining instants of life, when, wonder of wonders, with d hissing of steam, a rattle of machinery and the creaking of timbers, the train grad ually stopped but not before the en- 1 zine was within two feet of the chill dren Engineer James Malligan had seen the boys as he rounded the curve near Colts factory and though they were so near that it seemed like work ing against fate, he applied the brakes, pushed back the levers and used sand in plenty, but even when the train finally came to a stop he was sure that the little bodies would be found beneath the wheels, for the engine was So close upon them that they could not be seen from the cab window
 For moment after the train stop ped the older boy remained standing, with his arms protecting his brother 1 but when Engineer Malllgan, with his smiling face, appeared, he seemed to i think that his work was done and he crouched down and hugged his brother closc.
 The engineer took the little hands in his big hands and, leading the boys up the track to solid ground, he com l lOFlPu lHelly pfdlSbu tue courage lHe older one had shown and told them never to walk on the railroad bridge again. The little hands were all of a tremble by this time, but not a tear twas shed by either hoy,l and arm in arm they went home, the excited pas sengers, unable to leave the train 1 watched them with .admlring faces.
 Engineer Mulligan did not ask the names of the children, but they told i him that they were brothers and were crossing the bridge towards home when they saw the train coming. The train which came so near passing over them 1 reached Union Station at PAP o'clock.
 This is not the first time that En- gineer Mulligan has narrowly escaped killing persons walking on this bridge About month ago, as he rounded the curve at the south, he saw two col ored women almost directly over the river He tried to slow down and sue ceeded in stopping but the women ran ahead and jumped from the track near the shore.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-02

duet that tends to enfeeble this. EyI were on that man in his illegal raceE eyes of men against whose immedial advantage some law decreed, eyes youths whose immediate pleasure sorI law forbade, and their sense of obligI ton to law was dulled by the exampI of his 1awlessness. For them to bred through legal restraint was made ea5 CT by his conspicuous contempt for
 And let not the point be missed thu the estate of the man. his apparel wealth and high bred atmosphere, col tributed not slightly to the bad infif ences of his conduct. Lowlier folk evi take as their standard the example the more favored. When gentlemen al lawless, expect not hoodlums to ke4 the peace. Talk as you willyto the you1 of what the statute forbids, his pral tical statute will be the example of u man he looks up to, The favored an cultivated are the models of the ui favored and uncultivated Here ' come to the graver charge against large CLASS Ol our dutoii4oOAAoeS' more common complaint against the is the peril they occasion, the more s} rious grievance is the lawlessness the encourage. The shiftless and unstab are always with us, and their tempta tions to exercise forbidden liberties al not few; and here are they who shou1 be their living mentors of obedience legal requirements going their way conspicuous and defiant disregard { them. Not merely the punishment the law, but the moral ,reproaeh of bf ing aiders and abettors of lawlessne9 is their rightful portion. Their betts estate they make an apology for diso5 der.-Christian Register. Italy.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-02

The doubt in respect to Erie prefer red dividends lies with the second pre- ferred. Although the per cent. paid on the stock the past two years calls for but $640,OOO annually, it has not helped the position of the first prefer red nor of the common.