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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-05-13
Cupid Misses.

Cupid Misses.
Dan Cupid, spite his fame,
Has now been brought to shame.
We have discovered mid his kisses
His tiny arrows oft make Mrs.
James Schneider, Jr.. In Pittsburg Post.
Building Note In 1923.
In order to complete the four huns
dred and tenth story of the Skyndi
cate building the contractors will have
to. raise the Sky three or four feet
Harper's Weekly.
How He Enjoyed 1t.
Briggs-How do you enjoy your mo
tor cycle?
Griggs-Fine! All need is coat oi
tar and feathers. to feel like bird
New York Life.
Irropressibie.
Through life the CRATER scheming goes
The thoughts blue one
As soon as old tricks We expose
He learns a new one.
washington Star.
Cause For Resentment.
eyes," said Mrs. Newrich, Fl treat
my domestics as equals"
"And don't they resent it?" queried
Mrs. Oldgold.-Houston Post.
A Composition.
A poet could not sleep one night.
His Pegasus demanded flight.
AS he composed he found he might
Compose himself to sleep.
-Lippincott's Magazine.
No stieklsr.
Knicker-Opportunity knocks at the
door.
Bocker-But poverty walks right In.
New York Sun.
The Cheerful Baker.
The baker says. Some people find
Cashihard to raise, l know.
But just give me cake Of yeast
And can raise the dough-"
st. Paul Pioneer Press.
His Malodorous Joke.
De Styfe-When he swore at the odol
Of gasoline was he in rage?
Gunbusta-No; in ga-rage.-Brook.
Ign Life.
Warning.
II you'd not have the busy fly
Crawl tickling Ger your brow
In summer warm. heed this alarm
And Observation-Disclosures!
Kansas City Times.
Same Old Place.
"Where did you go on your honey.
moon?"
Broke. "-Harper's Weekly.
Same Symptoms.
"My love-" said he. lis like the sea-"
And the maiden answered quick.
II think 1t quite likely you're right.
For they both make me sick"
-ChicaRo News.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-04-10

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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-04-10

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New-York tribune., 1908-10-25

pin, He hatched out lot OF chicks
and when those chicks grew up and commenced to
lay eggs for themselves they fine. full
,i2-.i nice looking eggs as you often see-but the
yclhs want bigger than pa. And the hens, on i
Diet Cf water ard bone meal would lay EN- while
you'd wait. They just rtlned eggs Those hens
would Il ke u hunk uf yolk. such common hen
would up egg split II mp into twelve
parts dab twelve whites, wrap up in their
shells ana lay the whole dozen while ordinary
r-n was cackling
You'd th.nk rd made money pretty fast now
wouldn't you saving half my cost of production
al.I getting fun pr.ce fov my product: But l
IiGnL Z lost tn PerHinS's improved. There
laid EN- all right anI I just about got back the
InCury paid the professor When IL came time 10
:ui e chickens and keep up the breed. l up
ward @ hundred at oute-and what do You
surpcs.. they uatyhtd on" Whackilg big Eng
lis! sperIoWs! Not chicken in the whole blamed
Let. The professor sale that the way with the
English sparrow. IL was always crowdng out other
birds. He wrote another book about II, and they
made him head OF nis department and then
swapped him Off Tor a German, that he got
year abroad and lectured before Emperor William
But that didn't do me any good That's the way
with them Harvard College professors. They amt
practical enough. and they don't keep IN touch
with the plain people.
Still. suppose / ought not to complain. I'm the
only man in America that's turning out an adul-
terated egg. and l suppose I hadn't ought to be 80
burned ambitious"
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25
BEATING THE
PURE FOOD LAW
EGGS HIS LAST AND ONLY
RESORT.
81 Perkins, Formerly POtted Chicken
Producer, Increases Profits 90
Per Cent by Reducing YoLk,
Brewster. In outins.

had never been able TO understand how so
thorcughgoing Yankee s. Perkins could be
happy n Chicago I was not, therefore, surprised
- learn he had sold out his canning factory and
gone back to the old family place at West Sidon.
Pe-kns's Potted Chicken IS no longer on the mar
zet but the edge OF 81 Perkins's native shrewd-
ness has been by no means dued by his ten years
n the West
When that pure food law first passed" con-
dded 81. Y didn't pay much attention TO st Reck
oned thered be more interest taken in passing the
isE than IN enforcing It Thought too, they'd
,sckl. the big concerns first and by the time they
got round 70 me the thing would have blowed over.
so Kept right on doing business at the old stand.
snd didn't bother my head about the law
That vas just where I slipped up Look here
szid J. when the inspector got after me that's the
same potted chicken I've been putting up for the
last ten years And by gosh, it's all right I've
eaten 81 myself
All that may be. says the inspector, cool as
-ou please. but the law is most explicit that the
contents % every package shall correspond exactly
With the label. Il you viii put something the
Outside Of your cans 10 match what you put inside
you may keep on doing business; otherwise you'll
have 70 quit
Gosh all punkins' says L IS that the new law,
CO on, Do you suppose Tn going TO mark my
potted chicken. 81 Perkins's Old Reliable Pork
Scrap. and Corn Meal Best on the Market: Be
ware Of Substitutes and Take No Other None
Genuine without Our Signature IN Red Ink. No
siree. Bob, III go out Of business first! And l
&c. In fact. considering what the law said and
~hat 81 Perkins's Old Reliable Potted Chicken
was there wasn't much else I could do. There
stn't much money IN business where weeks
profits don't no rnore'n pay the fines days
output.
We'll figured II out that this particular legal
storm Just about central over the lake region,
snd q only got far enough East I'd strike fair
weather. So located down on the coast OF Maine
and started a sardine carnery- burned If they
didn't fine again because I hadn't guaranteed
The contents Of every be genuine Maine her
rings put Up in cottonseed oil.
SO I changed my outfit and went to put
ting Up salmon IN small way the quiet. just 10
keep myself out OF the poorhouse while I gave the
canning industry a chance to look up a bit.
'Twa'n't any use After they'd made me give up
t-e usual fines they took away my whole stock Of
salmon color. two hundred dollars worth that I'd
3rst laid in-
NOTHING LEFT BUT EGGS.
I Just plumb discouraged. Now look here
says 10 the inspector that getting after me.
I've been prosecuted enough. Prosperity amt
soing 70 be with long. unless the government
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25

learns to stop uaeddllng with business enterprise
Amt there any way a can make an honest
living in the canning business? Amt there any
kind Of original package that don't have to be
labelled Amt there anything that can't be in
spected? Amt there anything that the public
buys at own risk? Because If there Is any
such thing I'm going to manufacture that same
d" Yes says the inspector, there's eggs Find
some way of adulterating eggs and the law can't
touch you
q BY gum says J. I WILL So I went to looking
up the hen business.
y allowed that the hen business is by set
OF Rubes. most scandalously ignorant OF modern
business methods. The hen is nothing but a piece
OF machinery-an egg plant so 10 speak All
you've got to do TO make money out Of eggs is 20
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25
HERE HE COMES AGAIN!

really let up TIL along in January. SO there's
where I scored again
Strange, though. how a amt satisfied when
he's doing well. There I with strangle hold
the pure food law and selling adulterated eggs
in defiance of It, and getting back the money ID
paid IN fines and more. But 1 want content yet
That potted chicken that I used to make kind Of
haunted me- It sort Of ried me to be putting out
product with anything at all in It that 1t pre-
tended to have Besides they'd begun talking
about standardzing the sausage, and knew II
they did that 1t wouldn't be long before they'd be
standardizng the egg-and I wanted to be putting
by something the rainy day in the egg bust
that felt might be coming my way
so went out to Harvard College once more and
my zoologlst. He professor now and
getting famous Showed a book he'd been
writing, entitled An Experimental Attempt to
Justify the Weisnlannian Conception Of the Germ
Plasm IN the Light of Recent Studies in Mendel-
ism Naturally, didn't read It through, but there
was lot IN It about hens and the professor al
lowed that he'd got the idea while he was working
for
Now. that's good" says !. and Just what
But what you need after doing Job like
that is to come up and recuperate the old farm
and have nice cosey visit with your Uncle Silas.
And while you're there says T. what's the matter
with Burbankng the bantam yolk out OF the
Perkins hen and Burbanking into its place the
yolk OF English sparrow? II you could do that,
I reckon It would give about two eggs for oneI
and laying 'em would be dead easy that the
hens would keep It up right through the year
Well said the professor. guess another
summers rest would do good; only remember
that I've been promoted since my last delightful
visit with you and my leisure is worth than
It to be-
WANTED TOO MUCH.
~0ornad - that professor didn't do tire trick a.
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25

the business in an up-to-date way. Your hen
costs you much; that's your capital Your feed
costs much; that's your material Then as
the hen gets old you charge off much for
probation of plant. You know how much eggs'il
bring All you've got to do after that is reckon
how much you've got TO aduterate your product
10 meet competition. You want 10 look at the hen
business proposition: and / swan it makes me
sick 10 4 raising spring chickens for the
market and throwing away the feet. That's what
spells ruin out to Chicago. But I wasn't going in
for chickens; was after eggs.
so far | could make out there was no econ
onlizing the shell. That was made out Of old
bones; and bones are cheap. There want much
chance to save anything the white. neither II
being IS per cent water, anyway. What costs
money TO manufacture is the yo1k that has most
Of the substance and all the taste. Making yolk I
figured is what takes 1t out OF the hen. I allowed
that if could get hold Of egg that would be all
white and no yolk like seedIess oranges and stone
less plums, a hen could turn em out about twice
as fast a. ordinary Then if they were sold all
over the country and into cold storage no
body'd ever know where they came from and
there wouldn't be any dod-ratted inspector coming
round bother But. of course saw this
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25

msntz later. was hIt AAd Knocked into Snccnlss ~
ness BY switch enElns In the freight ysSShs- ~ .
outside the Depot. Tbs trSlnmen plokfE. "A a.
and tslsphoned 20 Police Headquarters p0
bulancS -. 80
What dtd you say his name vsSF
the telephone from the desk sergeant rsrnsa
Don't know. The man Is UNCONSCIOUS
the gwitchman sa-uEN
Any papers on him BY which you oAN -
him. asked the sergeant. .A--sn
Not thing' 'phoned back the sstteoo1 1s@as,ulr~i
Does he belong to any lodge or UNION
the sergeant 90 .,l,ed ths
Hold the line tin 1 take look, regssrt vas
Swltchman and In a moment the desk set.f1oS.
greatly surprised 70 receive this tnfQ
Yes; he Is e Lady Maccaoes-
Magazine
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25
SILL In PROCESS

\ New England man, lately returned from year
IN South Carolina, tells of little darky whom he
the week after his arrival. and from whom he
derived great amusement during his stay in the
South
The man was lying In his hammock on the hotel
piazza one day, and opened his eyes after a drowsy
period TO fnd a small. coal black boy regarding him
solemnly, tall glass OF cooling drink on a
tray held tightly by both hands
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New-York tribune., 1908-10-25
BEATING HIS RIVAL

What are you Growing about7 GrfgsSsby.s air
ship showed itself superior 20 yours IN every re-
speCt.
Yes but as mine was tested on n fine day the
photographs turned out perfect and Grlggsby made
his ascent when 1t was too dark even for a tims
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25

Where were you raisedT' inquired the Invalid
next with vague idea that be had heard that
was the usual opening question
There was another broad smile but out Cd the
midst OF IL gurgisd the reply:
ion
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25
UNPROFITA5LE.

Kind Old I.ady-VVhy. my dear little o0S'
the use Of crying Ike thate - -
Little BOy-'Tain't no usa. We oos. -
this al moTrIa' AZ n0s1ax ssnA knEz - s
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25

wouldn't work No yoIk, chick; and II did get
a kind OF hen that would lay yokless eggs there'd
be no way OF keeping up the breed. You can't
raise chickens from cuttings like you can plants
1 guessed the only way to reduce the cost of pro-
duction to put lot of white in my eggs and
only little yOlk Something in the line OF
bantam yolk IN a fuIl-sized white, I guessed,
would just about hit
Il don't think I'd ever come out anywhere II
hadn't got to reading about that man Burbank, out
to California. Thinks l. II they can DO that sort OF
things with plants why can't they do it with ami
mails? They're all living things and there's the
principles in breeding EN-. Then I heard
about q professor out to Western Reserve that had
a lamb with hair ike goat I wrote him about
it. but he said that he got II from a farmer that
kept goats with his sheep and they hadn't been
able yet TO make II happen again. Finally heard
about a young feller down to Harvard College that
had been doing surprising stunts with rab
bits and guinea pigs, making them do pretty much
anything he wanted EN- to. So 7 went round to
him.
BURBANK METHODS ON THE HEN
q I've been readin.' says I. about this Burbank
and how he make about any kind of plant he
wants
No says ths young feler he cant DO quite
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25
Titled.

A tramp passing through the waiting room Of tho
NorthWesteTn depot at milwaukee spied a small
ensmeiied PIN lying on the floor lie picked Il up.
looked II over n a osreleas way and PINNED u on
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New-York tribune., 1908-10-25

that. But II he find plant with good
point about it along with lot Of bad ones he
transfer that good point some other plant that's
got more good points. but not that particular one.
Unit characters, call them.
oh, that's it says 1: picks good point
here and another there and puts 'em all together
and makes sort of vegetable
Yes says the young feller. that's about f.
And they tell me you've been doing the same
sort cf thing with rabbits and such. Taking ears
off breed and fur Off another and tails off an
other. and making a new breed to suit Yourself!
Sort of Burbanking animals. ycu might say
Yes. says y. that's about what I've be II
doing: but only 3 scientific experiment. +
haven't made any practical application Il my
methods
Well says /, Yen jest try making practical
application To the hen and there's years salary
IN 1t for you You Just tell them prof as5ors of
yours that you've got invitation to pat III your
summer vacation with your Uncle Silas np On the
old farm where you spent Your happy boyiood
DAYS. Then you take hold AMI Burbank u bantam
yolk into 4 Plymouth Rock egg. There's jrst one
unit character about the bantam breed tat y,nt.
and that's the yolk Of its rgg.
" 'Humph" ass le nothing Hi.c i.a. .as eyer
been done. But I've done two or three otter thirgs
that haven't been done before says H. And Sci
IS mighty. says ne. And TIE mater with
Harvard College is thai its too academic and
doesn't do enough for the Plain people
Il don't know how THAI young feer went t.
work, any more thsn l know how Burbank auI
Bifiin do the tElass they DO. All know Is that BY
the next spring had II thousand lady
chickens that looked ike Proper Plymouth Rocks
and Leghorns, and want 10y dun sight. Tie
eggs they laid looked like just ordinary eggs but
when you broke into 'em you found "a measly little
bantam yok about big the end Of your
thumb. The rest all white-and IS per cent
water. My wife made keep SONS real hens for
family use-sort of private stock
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25
TIE PROBLEM SOLVED.

"As near as could ngger It out. one OF these
Imitation hens would lay five eggs on the same
feed that common hen would in ma king four
That meant I'd been able to reduce the cost Of pro-
duction of eggs by 20 per cent ana was getting
that much clear profit what other men was
making in the business. Now. there's money IN
eggs. anyway. and when you come TO add 20 per
cent moro by adulterating your product why
you're just laying right out IN the sun OF pros
perty. Morn that, the hens laid these little yoks
so sort OF easy that they didn't mead to take a
vacation Just as eggs began TO get high Kept or
iezsAs ns'1 siss sixAk ua d uhssscnsA ana csaaa
New-York tribune., 1908-10-25

NOTHING LEFT BUT EGGS.
I Just plumb discouraged Now look here
says 10 the inspector that was getting after me
I've been prosecuted enough. Prosperity amt
soing 70 be with Us long. unless the government
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-24
Scottsville Social News.
Special to The Times, pispntechn.l

[special to The Times Dispatch. j
sCOTTSVILLE, VA. May 2s.-Miss
Bessie Holiday, Of spotsylvania, has
been spending a few days at Ches ter
DR.. Hatcher, of Richmond. has been
visiting the Rev. Richelien Hatcher
and wife, near Scottsville.
Mr.. Frank Gilmer, of Charlottes-
vile. spent Saturday In the town.
Miss Nora billiard who has been
visiting In Norfolk and spotsylvan1a
is expected home shortly.
Mr.. Marion Pitts was guest al
"Belle Haven" this week,
Mrs. #. H, Farrar left on Monday
morning for her home In Tlcondeaga
N. Y. She was accompanied as fa1
as Richmond BY her husband.
Miss Mary Scott, Of Elowardsville
Ras been visiting friends In Bucking.
Miss Mamie M. Hill, is spending
some time with friends In Richmond.
Mr.. Charles Moon Is quite sick Will
an attack of measles. S
The children OF Mr.. w. p, Londeree
who have been III. are recovering.