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The daily sentinel., 1910-01-11

When the days begin to lengthen
the cold begins TO strengthen" has
been pretty well confirmed this year.
However. we do hope the cold will
not continue to strengthen as long as
the days continue TO lengthen
The daily sentinel., 1910-01-11

Disbursements.

Due on subscriptions s1S.666.tO
Nearly all of the old members of
the board of directors were reelected
and the board will be made up of the
Following gentlemen: u. w. Aup-
perle. H. II. Vorbeck. l. A. Moon. e.
A. Mckinney, l. II. Walker, w. C.
Knight, II. r. belong and NJ A.
Glasco
The daily sentinel., 1910-01-11
|FLOISAM AND JEISAM|
and POINTERS!
PICKED UP IN
PASSING.
CBy Sam. C. sloane.1

Grand Junction Gets Apple Prize. .
is a heading seen in hundreds Of pa
pers during the past week II reads
good 70 we'uns doesn't it,
The daily sentinel., 1910-01-11

A man down in Kentucky COM
mltted suicide because he thought his
memory was failing II his memory
was really failing we do not see how
he could remember that his memory
was failing
The daily sentinel., 1910-01-11

OF the thlrty-seyen cities in the
United States having over 1OO.O 900
Denver has the highest
death rate from tuberculosis. 45g in
100000 while St Joseph, Mo. has
the lowest. 70 In 100000
The daily sentinel., 1910-01-11

II is quite evident that Preside snt
Taft has not increased the number
Of his friends In this part of Colorado
by the removal OF Mr. Pinchot. If one
may Judge by the expressions he
hears
The daily sentinel., 1910-01-11

When talking or writing about
weddings reference in some manner
IS made 70 wedding bells or the ring
ing Of the wedding bells. Really
now, whoever saw at wedding any
genuine bells. or heard the ringing
OF any?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02
Traits Of The New President of the Union Pacific

UDGE LovETT, Harriman's most
trusted lieutenant, who was recently
elected president of the Union Pacific
railway, is the subject of the following
interesting sketch by Garet Garrett in
the December American Magazine:
"Lovett is Harriman's conscience said
one of the Union Pacifc's bankers, impa-
tiently, and Judge Robert Scott Lovett re-
sented it, the more so because there was
truth in it. A man with a big nose, wide
mouth and fine head, who has worked with
his hands and come out of the west, is apt to
be loyal. The legal representative of the
Hartman roads was intensely loyal to Harri-
man. He had brought the great spirit oS the
west to No, 100 Broadway, and had Obliged
all men, even Mr.. Hartman, to respect it.
To his once on the fourth floor of the Equi-
table Life building Mr.. Hartman was accus-
toned to summon men peremptorily. When
he needed Lovett he went upstairs to Low
ett's ONCE on the fifth floor and sat down
with him. No other man about Mr.. Harri-
man was able to maintain his independence
In the same degree. In the last two or three
years OF a tempestuous life Hartman leaned
heavily upon Lovett; at the very end the only
man whom Hartman perfectly trusted was
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02

found, among its other assets, Robert s. Low
EFT, attorney and counsel in Texas. Mr.. Har-
riman's genius consisted partly in knowing
men. and ia a very short time he knew Low
EFT so well that he brought him to New York
to act as general counsel for all the Harri-
man lines. Baptist, mugwump, awkward
and honest, he was regarded at first with
considerable curiosity in Wall street; pres
emily it was said of him that when the rough
corners disappeared with eastern wear he
would do. He isn't much smoother today,
but that has ceased to matter at all to any
body. AS the intimate legal adviser of Har-
riman Lovett was drawn into the ~iercest ed
dies of the financial maelstrom and never
once, so far as anybody knows, grew dizzy.
His cool, good judgment pulled Hartman
safely through many tight places and was in
valuable in the trying times of 1906 and
1907, when the head of the Union Pacific
was the object of intense public interest.
Hartman was to most people an un-
lOvable man, a great Spectator and a
marvellous money-maker. Lovett is to
everybody a lovable man, with no more gem
Jus for speculation than had Lincoln, whom
he sometimes resembles"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02

LoYett. And Lovett, of all men vino knew,
was the only one who did not tic to wall
street about Mr.. Harriman's nealth. Wall
street thinks Lovett honest, and this is so
much foI Wall street to think OF any human
being that the TACT deserves to be promi-
nently recorded. He is honest, in a most
old-fashtoned way. He may owe it to the
Scotch stock OF which he is, but more likely
he owes it TO himself. His father was a
Georgia slave owner who moved to Texas
after the war in traditional circumstances-
that is, with fewer of the worlds goods than
one ought TO have. What with farming and
tie-hauling and holding a job with a con-
struction crew, young Loyett must have had
little time for school. He got as far as the
Houston High school; the rest was self-edu-
cation AS railroad station agent he found
time to read law, and in 1882 was admitted
to the bar at Houston. He was then 22 and
Is now 40, which leaves him a young man.
At 40 he was perhaps the best known rail
road attorney in the southwest, having en-
Joyed the confidence and fees of both Jay
Gould, who had large railroad interests In
Texas, and Coils p. Huntington, who owned
the Southern Pacific. When Hartman
bought control Of the Southern Pacific he
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02
Along Top-Knot Row

A Council Bluffs fancier showed some highbred ornamental fowls
more distinguished for their eccentricites of garb than utility. Sew
eral coops of crested Houdans and white-crested Polish fowls consti-
tuted "top-knot row. The crested Polish birds appeared in public
wearing striking collections of homemade millinery in pure white
and silver grey surmounting bodices and vests of the jettiest black.
The effect was altogether charming and chic, a s the society editor
would remark. Then there were sikies-chubby, sweet DISPOSE
toned birds that do nothing of consequence but grow long, fine coats
of glossy hair-ike feathers. y
"Angora hens" was the designation that a conscienceless visitor
placed upon the silkies. The silktes' feathers, by the way, are deli
cate as satin floss and about as easily rumpled and tangled. The
birds spend most of the day at their toilet. They don't have to work
for a living, though, on account of their good looks.
king. His claims to especial prominence we're the biggest comb and
es in his TAIL which cleaned like black pearl. Besides a high
sounding name and a proud Spanish ancestry. this cock had a crow
ing voice that was the envy of the whole rooster congress.
The Leghorns' brown, white and black, gave the show a good
representation of the most typical of the chickens where originated
ABOUT n MEDITERRANEAN coast. The Leghorn is very properly a proud
fowl. Besides being very shapely and cheerful, the Leghorn is much
given to the production of eggs, a quality which cannot be over
looked. The Omaha show was more than usually strong in the show
ing of Leghorns.
The Plymouth Rocks are finding a close rival in the contest for
supremacy as the American chicken in the Columbian Wyandotte
the latest edition OF the Wyandotte family. The Columbian fowl
has assumed the colors OF the Brahma, minus the leggings, with the
blocky but pleasing lines of the typical Wyandotte.
Chickens In the making was the subject of a most attractive dis
play by an incubator concern at the show. In a glass-covered ipcu.
bator one could see the fuzzy hasn t-scratched-ye chicks come neen-
ing out of their shells into a motherless world. The incubator chicks
found their way into another machine substitute for the mother hen
the broOder' Given a good, enthusiastic hen to lay eggs, modern
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02
Just a Part of Breeding

In these days of reform the game has become little more than a
show chicken. Breeders find the game useful, however, in injecting
a strain of stamina in the production OF more valuable and remunera-
tive birds. Then, it is just natural that the game should be healthy,
because there has been no effort to take the fight out of the game
chicken and he has developed unbrtdled.
With all due respect to the game cock, he may be said to be a
Sort of frontier fowl. His services as an entertainer have been dis
penked with as civilization has gained maturity. The cock fight, by
the way, so the historians would have us believe, is but a survival of
the old Roman days when combats of the beasts made the Coliseum
bloody.
At the poultry show a most interesting collection of Plymouth
Rocks was to be seen. The Plymouth Rock is the most entirely
American member of the chicken family. Just to size him up, a
barRed Plymouth Rock cock gives a sort of sturdy stars and stripes
enHCt The antecedents of this very American bird are somewhat
like, the nations peoples, rather uncertain and highly complex. Ex-
pertsNAave many theories, but the fact remains that NO one can tell
just what the Plymouth Rock is'made of. This bird is the pride of
the farmer and the despair of the breeder. He is a Woodworking,
persistent chicken of good. sober habits and a home-loving dispost-
ton. He has, however, a careless way of reverting back to ancestral
traits of color and form in a most unexpected way.
1t must be just a whimscalty, but the Plymouth Rock cock in
shts on feathering lighter than his sister. and that sister persists in
the time keeping the Rock family at a happy average for the show
pens. Then there is a hidden streak of yellow in the Plymouth
Rock. not his disposition, but Just his colors. Down there in the
Auditorium show one could see this yellow streak cropping out in a
few Of the birds. The fanciers grow grey hairs trying to keep down
that brassy tint, for in prize-winning Plymouth Rocks there must not
even be a suggestion of the yellow, This is quite right, too. Who
wants a real American chicken to show the yellow?
To the close observer the cages of the big show exhibits told
many interesting chapters in the history of the chicken family. The
chicken is an old institution. He originated, according to the most
reliable information obtainable. somewhere near where the human
race is supposed to take its beginning over there among the mysteries
of Asia.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02
Pat Liked the Limelight

Little Pat, the mascot Of the Merry Widow company. a Boston
bull from Boston, Mass, spent most of his time at the show sitting
on a pedestal, with many admirers about him. Pat wears a real
BACK Bay airo OF reserve, but condescends to make a friend now and
then. He, Of course, enjoys the limehght. He was one of the few
seasoned show dogs of the Kennel clubs exhibit. Most of the dogs
there were new at the game as compared with the entries in the east
err shows. The real old-timer among show dogs gets into the game
and shows himself of with an air of consciousness.
Pat had plenty Of competition among the terriers, however There
are many wen-bred Boston terriers in Omaha. They are quite the
proper pet now.
The hghting character Of the show was Jack Wonder, a pure-bred
English bull, Jack weighs fhy-one pounds and don't care who he
meets. His running mate about the dog show circuit is To-day Rob
a pit bull some twenty pounds heavier. To-day Bob is the silent
ing the power of pit science over mere force. Jacks average is 1000
per cent, having whipped Teddy Bob three times out of three times
up.
A woolhsh little vixen of Polar ancestry is "Tootsie," a spitz he
longing to c. w. Irwin Of Omaha. Tootsie and her family were ar
the show in force. The mother dog considered herself the whole
snow. She is fashionaby attired in the seasons furs. pure white
A are bit OF vanity displayed was in her finely pencnled eyebrows.
perfect semtcreles of pale yellow. She lorded 1t over the Ayrdale
terriers the uglest and wisest Of the dog family. The average AYR
dale terrier is so homely he is ashamed to speak to other dogs or
maybe he is too wise and too proud.
The Dalamatans. commonly known as coach dogs. attracted
much admiration at the show. The Dalamatan is of n O particular
use except to run around behind his masters fourin-hand or tandem
trap The Dalamatian has a spotted hide and a wiTfuI wandering
eye that betokens a wOoLgathering mind.
Another show dog Of unusual design was a tnv italian 0rov
built on slight lines and wears big gazele-ike eyes that look buprrv,
Carl Lambeth Of Omaha had a sedate old st. Bernard about Inc
size of a Shetland pony on display. Nero" looks the part OF AN
Alpine hero and resembles the picture in McGuneys Fifth readsr
Nero Is said to be very fond OF children, but he Is fed exclusively q N
dog biscuit
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02
#IrmgS Slim dpdhBNefy NidOwOqg: =

- WO thousand fowls, noisy belligerent, insistent, gathered
into a cackling, grooming, growing concourse-that was
the Transmississippi Poultry show ned at the Auditorium
n last week.
In the mind of the city dwelling consumer this vast
gathering Of show birds was more than likely to appeal from a
unitarian standpoint rather than from the enthusiastic but technical
~sde of the fancier. Think of it, If you can, with the present prices
fresh in mind after the holiday expenditures. Two thousand fowls,
meaning in all nearly eight tons of poultry, worth at the prevailing
prices something like $1,000. Then, while fancy ranges consider
80 cents a dozen for eggs. Seventy dollars worth of eggs would be
miration and really too proud themselves to be considered from SO
material a viewpoint.
There was one prevailing note in the poultry show room. The
unmistakable mumur of the bellicose spirit of the birds arose from
the long rows of coops. The Auditorium resounded with the one
vibration, the war cry of the feathered clans. 1t was the enforced
peace of stout cages alone that prevented the shedding of many feath-
GERS and much blood. Fair tradition to the contrary Notwithstanding,
and despite the dove a s the emblem of peace, the bird is a natural
bern fusser, a scold, a combatant.
Just to give vent to the tenseness that surcharged the atmosphere
of the show, a few of the sturdy game cocks were allowed to mix 1t
with gloves on for little harmless three and fcur-round goes.
Yes, sir. Cock-hghtng in sedate old Omaha of 1903, 1t was a
long way from the kind Of sport that the olden days have seen,
though. The Transmissdssippi "mains% were lively contests, but as
bloodless a a reading circle debate. The honors of the arena went
to a strutting little bantam cock, of course. This little red pyle game
wouldn't stand long in a finish fight, but for points he was clearing
the "clasdest what Is" a Muggsy would put it.
There were many fighting birds at the show. The tall, spare
built, rangy fellows. those we're the games. Some of the game birds
at the Transmississippi show have a pedigree that runs half way back
to the revolution, a regular family tree, with everything but a coat
ofarms.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02
Much Chicken Chatter

The show gave the breeders OF this territory a great opportunity
for talkfests. There were busy groups of animated arguers all about
the show. The chicken fever ran high. There is no limit to the
possibilities in poultry breeding and plenty of room for argument in
the questions involved. The Omaha show aims at the one greatest
object of the business, the production of eggs and flesh fowls. The
SHOW side of the exhibition was subordinated to the material in
terests of industry.
The work of preparation of the chickens for the show is an art
of which the public knows little. Show chickens are always given
a most elaborate toilette. and special dress for the occasion. Careful
baths are administered to put the feathers in their finest conditions.
Leg scales and wattles must be oiled to bring out their colors in the
brightest tnts and claws and bills must be polished and scraped.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02
Evolution of the Chicken

The first chicken was a jungle fowl. Long association with man
and frequent removal to distant cnmes has wrought many changes
in the bird and in the fat, sleek beauties of the show there is little
that suggests the pheasantlike jungle fowl, the unchanged descend
ant of the same parent stem. :
As might be expected, the Chinese put this jungle fowl to work
long before the western civilization got acquainted with it, This
may account for the oriental origin of chop suey, of which chicken is
alleged to be an important component. This hazy Asiatic origin
must, Of course. also account for the inherent scrappiness of the
chicken. Down there in the Malay provinces. where the chicken first
grew into glory and prime, they fight for pasume.
The heather Chinee has bulded up from the parent stock, posi-
bly, by accident, possibly by design long ago conceived, some of the
Most valuable breeds OF fowls. The beefy Brahmas and numbering
Langshans are Asiatic chickens. Then there is the big black shang-
hal bird. His outlines are those that suggest the sturdy Monaghan
coOie build. Just to be ouhandish. these Asiaic birds are given to
the frivoity OF growing feather lesgngs. making them look clownish
and ungraceful.
The real sports of the chicken show were plenty. Taken all in
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02

1t is true too, that the vain show birds t given to the use of
paint The practice Of staining birds to improve their marking is not
allowed in the annual Transmississippi shows, but experts can accom-
pltsh makeups that defy detection. Butter coloring II anaine is
used to give the slacles of the legs and bills fuller coloring. Inks Of
various colors can be defuy applied with a brush to make I'D natures
dehclencies in markings. Even false feathers can be attached to the
show bird. Should a long, sweeping sickle feather of the proud
cocks all be damaged 1t Is but the work of a minute to replace II.
The old feather is cut on at the base, leaving the hollow quill at
tached to the matrix in which the substitute is placed. A drop of
more.
Poultry alone did not claim the entire attention of he visitors TO
the Transmisssdppi show. The Nebraska Kennel club held in con-
nection with the fowl show the annual exhibits of Fidoes. Neros and
Towsers. 1t was a right merry collection of pups, with a wide rel
resentation of the dog family.
The aristocrat Of the show was Rodney" an English bulldog. so
homey that he looks like a cartoon of a bulldog. This valuable dog
is the property of Emil Brandes of Omaha. This squat-built canine
has legs like an antique dressing table, a jaw undershot like a shovel
and, withal, a sweet disposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02

all u course bantam, naturally impressed with it's own impor-
tance' was the Beau Brummel of the exhibition. There is more
strut, crow and vanity in a bantam than any other chicken born in
captivity. bantam tribe of the Transmissssppi chicken show
has some claim to real blood, anyway, for the premier bird of the
lSOS show was Omaha" a red pyle game bantam. Omaha" is a
real sportVe gent in chickendom. The bantam's aggressive nature
is said to be in inverse geometricaI ratio to his size. Like wrens
chickadees and other puny but pugnacious petits Of the bird family,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02

the noble redskin, his one human contemporary in the primitive
wilds. over the border into the past. 1t will be generally admitted
that the too close touch with civilization of the city has been hard on
the turkey. There is not a case on record of a turkey going to a
banquet and surviving the indulgence. This, however, cannot be at
tibuted to the Iowa professors diagnosis of appendicitis.
The Transmssssippi show barred the guinea. 1t may be that
the guinea is a vociferous bird, but still he ought to have been well
coined instead of barred out on that score. A few professional
guineas might have put the less able fowls to shame
and secured a few minutes of ultimate quiet during the show.
There was a small showing of waterfowl. Despite the smallness
of the pond-paddling delegation, they were much to be heard from in
the general discussions of the feathered congress. The white China
geese took the palm by a continuous concert in their native tongue.
The China goose makes a bigger hit on the table than in the display
nn
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02

poultry science can produce chickens by cleo
tricity with greater certainty than unasssted
nature can.
One great bronze turkey cock graced the
Transmississippi show. He gobbled and fluffed
and strutted with an amusing air of grandeur
quite ~befitting the royaI American bird. He
was probably the only turkey who got through
the holidays alive. This handsome bird was
raised over at Dunbar, Ia, by Mrs. J. J. Nellis.
A college scientist has just made the start
ling announcement that the American turkey,
the only turkey the world has ever seen, is
doomed to extinction, 1t has come just this way.
The turkey has had too much civilization and he
is falling prey, the professor says, to that patri-
clan disease of appendicitis. We might have ex-
pected, however, that the turkey would follow
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-19
CHAPTER ". At The Uruguay.

When the clerk of the 5kely West looked up at the sound If a gentIeman's voice, he was startled at ihe apparition which confronted him.
 'swill you kindly tell me-" Chester the best suite of apartments you have left"
 Eighteen thousand year, stam- nered the dignitary of the desk in amazement.
 syery well," observed Chester, "I know the house and I think I'll take ihem. What f1oor?" he added imper- turbably.
 "But," gasped the clerk, Eve .sthat is say, young man, we want a months rent in advance
 '@very we'll" said Chester, send nc ID blank check"
 You can't have them," said the rlerk abruptly. What are you thioh. Ing of, dressed like a tramp"
 You show an unfortunate lack oi 1iscrimination,'' replied Chester UT. banely- Have you ever heard ths saying that you can always tell g gentleman by his extremities? ?''
 He backed away a little. Observe my pumps," he remarked with pride. Just look at my hat he added. touching it. "See m. hands, he concluded, extending them.
 The clerk did as he was b'd glanced at the clean shaven freshly massaged young face glowing with health and vigor, and stood stock sti1 In dumb amazement.