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Middletown transcript., 1914-01-17
MonqreI cseee.

The mongrel goose is generally the
result Of a mating between a Canada
gander and some dark colored domes
tic, usually an African or Toulouse
It is dif1cult to fatten mongrels prop
erly until the cold weather comes, when
they fatten very readily. They are
never sold as green geese, being re-
served for the trade. A mongrel prop
erIy fed viii have better favored meat
than the pure bred Improperly fed.
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Portable Poultry Fence.

long. Stand up three of the T's eight
feet apart and place the cut board on
them, letting the 4-foot pieces rest in
the inch notches in the board; square
the uprights with the edge Of the
board and nail We now have one 16-
foot section complete, except the wire.
The Pinch board at the bottom is
sufficient to prevent the cocks from
lighting. This fence is very slightly
and two men can easily shift it wher-
ever desired. If yop wish to stack it
out of the way the screws can be re-
moved from the brackets and the
4-foot bases knocked off and replaced.
when setting the fence, without much
trouble.
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WAYS OF SEPARATING MILK
Best Method Vet Devised Is centrt
fugaI Machine and Involves Con-
siderable Outlay Of Money.
Rv WK. BRAINERp.)


The three systems of separating
milk in most common use are: The
shallow pan, deep setting and centrt
fugal.
The setting of milk in pans OF
crooks, letting the milk stand for
from 12 to "a hours, depending upon
the temperature. and then shmmine
the cream, is known as the shallow
pan system. This is the Oldest meth
cd Of separating cream from milk
and varies greatly in efficiency, De
pending very largely on how quickly
the milk is cooled after coming from
the COW and how low a temperature
is secured during the creaming pro
cess.
The deep-setting system is used al
most as much as the shalloW-pan-
The essentials of this system are cans
six to eight inches in diameter and
about two feet long, which are placed
in cold water. Often trench is dug
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During inclement weather fowls are
better indoors than out.
If the hens are not laying the
chances are that the fault is with their
keeper.
In an egg of 1000 grains, 900 be
longs to the white, 300 to the yolk and
100 to the shell.
Let the children have a. pen OF ban
tams. Look up the different breeds at
the fairs, and buy pair that attracts
you.
The pullet or hen which begins to
lay in November will usually lay all
winter if properly fed, housed and
cared for.
Don't allow your chickens to have
scaly legs. Clean and apply a good
disinfectant, then rub in plenty of
good grease.
That good layers are great eaters.
A bird must have capacity to eat and
digest a great amount of food if she is
TO lay a great number of eggs.
Cut out all small chickens and keep
the largest and most vigorous ones
for winter layers. The long hot sum-
mer has retarded the growth of the
late ones.
The duck laying season opens in
February, although number of early
hatched ducklings begin laying in
January. The first eggs of the sea-
son are rarely ever fertile
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How 10 Skim cream.

The skimmilk Of warm milk in a
clean separator standing upon a firm
foundation, operated at full speed
and with the height Of the bowl prop
erly adjusted win insure the minimum
loss Of fat in the skinned milk.
Cream should contain between 80 and
40 per cent. Of butterfat.
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When a young man calls on girl
and she tells him that she expects to
die an old maid, 1t is equivalent to g
proposal.
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strnnn Horne. Eassntlal.

Nowadays farmers are beginning
to awaken to the fact that it takes
strong horses to do good work on the
farm.
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mi. wm Intarest Nrotbers.

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children
relieve Feverishness, Headache, Bad Stomach,
Teet1inp Disorders, move and regulate the
Bowels and destroy worms. They break up
colds in "A hours. They are so pleasant 70 take
Years. All Druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. Ad-
dress, A. S. Olmsted, lie Roy, N. Y. Adv.
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In Chicago.

Mrs. Wabash see eggs laid by
New Zealand lizard require IA months
to hatch.
Mrs. Dearborn--The idea! We
ought to boycott those eggs. too!
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coIno TO Extremes.

Some farmers spend too much
money for buildings and farm equip
ments; others spend too little. One
extreme Is Is bad as the otheC,
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The Difference.

Severe Moralist-My dear young
man, do you bet on the races?
Experienced Jockey-No, sir; race
On the bets.
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Modern Form,

Doctor-Do you take any form OF
active exercise?
Patient-Oh, yes, doctor. dodge
automobiles all the way downtown.
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Wasted Time.

Time that is wasted is sure to be
needed later and for this reason it is
poor policy to waste it.
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More than 100000 gross Of pencils
are annually made in Philadelphia,
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Breed for the Best.

DO not try to get colt from every
mare on the farm. bat from those that
IRE likely to bring the best stock.
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Use Roman Eye Balsam for. sealding SEN
sation in eyes and Inflammation Of eyes o.,
eyeIida Adv.
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Many a fellow who waits for some
thing to turn up ends by marrying
girl with a pug nose.
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Putnam Fadeless Dyes do not stain
he hands. Adv.
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The diameter of the moon is esti-
mated to be 2,162 miles.
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cHIRoPoDY
MRS. JAMES

Corn, bunions, ingFOWinR nails or any
affections OF the feet antiseptically and
pairlessIy treated by graduate chiropodist.
Also Shampo0ing, coanicuring and Scalp
Treatment. Hair Combings made up in
She latest stvle.
HI0H STREET, ODESSA. DEL
Middletown transcript., 1914-01-17

That good layers are great eaters.
A bird must have capacity to eat and
digest a great amount of food if she is
70 lay great number of eggs.
Middletown transcript., 1914-01-17

Don't allow your chickens to have
scaly legs. Clean and apply a good
disinfectant, then rub in plenty Of
good grease.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-06

their citizenship because they close their eyes to the common welfare. These are the potential traitors of the nation, who would make money out of their coun- try's wounds.
 But war involves all in common dan ger, plunges all into a common grief. In it's presence class and clan and sect and party vanish. and the nation claims an equal willingness in every man and woman to plunge into suffering famine mourning. penury or death for her dear sake. Loyalty's imperious call Is the bus gle which the nation blows. It summons bu. does not create, the spirit of eitizen- ship.
 ?. And in the meantime all class selash- ness is reproved by war. A country is safe where the rich man loves the poor man and does not exploit him. How safe we are let conscience say. in the light of recent fluctuations of the markets. It is a dreadful thing that we in this land must confront the speculator and demand that he be loyal to his' own people. Is 1t then true that where nationality has fewer privileges loyalty is greater than here in America? Must we be driven into the miseries and deprivations of a bel ligerent to prove that loyalty is ours as great as any in Europeg Have we nursed in our bosom a selfish conner cialism that will gnaw our hearts in the hour of trial? If that were true, then war itself might come as a boon to weld all our people into mutual love and chas- tened interdependence. That be far from usl So much loving service, so much self denial, so much social passion, is evil dently ours, that we need not the flashing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-06
THE CONVERSATIONS OF WAR-By George Eaves D. D.

the fatherhood of God and the broth erhood of man as a hollow and hypo- critical pretense, turns knightly and accomplished gentlemen into pirates and licensed highwaymen, lowers the standard of international justice; causes humanity to revert to the era of savaggry, dips the scales of justice in the blood of martyrs, so that they come up stffened and unworkable proves afresh that our much belauded civilization rests neither on reason nor on love. but on mass and weight and terror and the sword Surely it ought 10 be incredible that the lands from which the gospel has been sounding through these many centuries, lands whose literature was created by the gospel, should be today mauling each other to death and uttering savage cries of exultation when they hear that thousands of their "enemy" have been successfully butchered.
 Such tide of moral conviction that this thing is horrible and unendurahle should arise in this year of grace that from henceforth war, like witchcraft, will be banished into the limbo of spec ulative tradition.
 1T
 Nevertheless there is soul of good in things evil, and there are compensa- tions even in war While we smile pitt fully at the insane pre-eminence which imperialism gives to the fighting man, and while we lament with the mourners in a myriad homes, and mourn our selves to think of cities wasted without inhabitants. villagers driven from their blazing cottages, and all the other mon-
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cieties have been formed, a Palace of Peace built and far reaching interna- tional conventions have been signed amid much popular enthusiasm. So deeply were we welded to peace that when the great conflict suddenly be- came actual it was incredible even to the nations most immediately con cerned. Only few statesmen. who for many years have been carefully re- pairing the dykes. were ready to ac-
 knowledge that at last the flood had broken through; for only they were all ways acutely conscious of the death impending over the happy. busy, pleas
 ure-loving peoples of northern Europe
 TO us in America a spiritual danger now threatens. A month ago we would all have denounced war; today We find reasons for it. and, as the news comes in, our sympathies are awakened; we champion one side or the other; we ex- ut over this victory or that defeat; the blood-lust pulses in our veins and Mars no longer seems a demon but a god. Canadian officials report that thousands of young men from across the border are realty to espouse their cause. French and German, Austrian and Russian flags awaken similar emo-
 tions, and if Europe is an Aceldama
 We see the reflection of it, in the minds of those who read the dispatches far
 from the scene of conflict This is it.
 self a sapping of the springs of Chris tian civilization. Hardly anything could be more disastrous than the cessation of our modern war on war. For war makes Christianity itself incredible, shames all our professions of belief in
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tain divine necessities-nationa1 unity national justice, the loyalty of the one to the necessities of all Far greater than the evils of such a sacrifice would be the failure of the nation 10 keep faith with itself to be loyal to it's allies to be willing to pay the price of it's own ideals Nations as individuals, may fall into a sad indifference to the ultimate realities. may lose generosity, sincerity conscience. In an epoch marked by wealth and self-indulgence these divine realities become unreal virile minds grow flaccid with sloppy sentimental ity, and selfishness replaces generous ar dor. To all these war Is the flail of love, threshing them as dust and chaff. Their very existence. most happily, creates that flail To change the metaphor, war is the pruning knife in the hands of the vine dresser with which he cuts away all that impedes the prosperity of the Vine What humanity might have been without the tonic of such purgation the mind refuses to contemplate
 Four splendid gifts are made ours by pic eos'iS piiSe ol pdtue; VI The gl1t or national unity. nation would break into classes, into parties, into sects, into rival clans, into competing interests, were 1t unable to face as one man the antag- onism of a rival people. This is of course a confession of the fundamental bfu- tality and greed of the race and we may well hope that the time may have come already when no longer bloodshed shall be necessary to cement the elements of a nations life. We all know how in our own land there are citizens who deny
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strous inhumanities whereby imperialism is offering sacrifice to itself we must confess that war is not all sordid nor all inhuman nor all unmitigated devil ishness. If l were asked what is the that it is the training of men to offer themselves for death, and then making use of their sacrificial heroism to give new tinsel to an imperial humbug This is none other than the use of Calvary to glorify Pilate. the battening of Nero or Caligula on the deaths of men and women to whom love was more than life. The crime of war is cunningly de- vised admixture of splendid popular sac rifice and despicable official selfishness, and it Is all the more difficult 10 analyze because so seldom is the wrong wholly traceable to single tyrant or single government. But always 1t is the people who die; always manhood bears the cross.
 Certainly there are things. worse than war and more deserving to be called hell The Victorian literature was not without it's protests against too eager Siii ii,ftu5 HUH liidl uN bdllle. Itn1N- son, Kingsley, and even Carlyle knew that there was danger lest England should suffer something worse than to be vanquished in d great conflict of arms; and we at this time feel an in- stinctive suspicion when advocates of peace wax over dogmatic. The soldier should stand to us not as the express sion of brute force, but as the last logic of national loyalty. He wears that uniform not as a bully. but as one set apart for death. He expresses to us cer-
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into his office with his little girl in his arms, pointed her to the electric button on the wall and while he still held her. he told her to push the button. The pres sure of her tiny finger was sufficient to occasion one of the most terrible ex- plosions known. In the distance a deep. sullen and prolonged roar broke on the silence of the afternoon. train of ifn- mense stones flew upward as though they had been leaves blown from their branches, dense smoke accompanied 1t all, the earth for a considerable distance shook
 with violence fragments of stone were thrown great distances in different di- rectlons the waters rocked in the com
 motion into froth, but within three ssee- onds the echoes had died away, East river had become a navlgable stream free
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SOME SIDELIGHTS ON THE WAR-By H

Germany against the allies is far more to be desired than is the keeping of peace by America.
 MT. Wilson and MT. Bryan have de- clined to view with alarm" the siege of Tsingtsau by the army and navy of the Mikado. They do not believe that Manila, Honolulu, San Francisco, Chi cago and Washington are in danger of attack by the little brown men. The fulminations of the New York Ger man. American Chamber of Commerce. have failed to shake the administra- ton. A banshee in the far east is not going to be allowed to involve the United States in trouble with England, France and Russia, and thus give to Germany the aid and comfort she now needs so badly.
 On the face of the whole thing sup port of Germany by the United States is. something nearer to the soul of the German American Chamber of Commerce" than is the preservation of the "open door, in China.
 America will get another shock when King Albert's commission arrives and pre- sents its affidavts detailing inhuman practices on the part of the German army. But it is highly improbable that President Wilson is going to allow himself to be made catspaw by King Albert. The plight of the Belgians is frightful. They have the admiration of the United States for the heroic battle they are waging in defense against a ruthless and over towering enemy, and they have this coun- try's sympathy for the horrible things they are being compelled to suffer.
 At this time-this is not America's war. Woodrow Wilson has said neutrality Real neutrality it will be, even unto the end of the chapter.
 The flower of England is answering Earl Kitchener's call for volunteers. In France, scientists, poets, painters are at the front
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TZ ING ALBERT of Belgium has "A named a commission to come to 4 A the United States to protest against atrocities committed against the people of Belgium by the Germans slnce the outbreak of the war Accounts of excesses on the part of the troops of the Kaiser since his violation of Belgian neutrality have been numreous, and many of them seemingly are only too weel au- thenticated. From all that is now Krown, the destruction of Louvain was wanton vandalism ,and nothing less. Boys from Belgium have arrived in Paris with their hands cut off. They explain that Ger man soldiers committed the mutlletion so that when the young fellows grew up they would never be able to bear arms against the vaterand."
 All this is horrible. It is now clear that the Germans never dreamed that tte Belgians would offer armed resistance to the invasion of their country. The de- fense of Liege may have changed the whole course of the war. Time is the essence of the Germans task Delay in reaching the French border allowed Eng land to pour troops into the zone Of hos tilities, and permitted France to mobilize it's armies for the defense of the nation. It was the Kaiser's aim to crush France by quick, snla lashing blows, and then hurry to his eastern frontier to meet the Rus sian hosts. The valor of the Belgians has enraged the Germans. Berlin docs not deny that excesses have been conn mitted, but sets up in Justification the all legged fact that women and children-whC, by all the rules of war, should appear only in the light of non-comba:anss-- have actively opposed the invaders
 King Albert's commissioners tarried while in England to present an address to King George. They told him:
 Our adversary, after invading our ter
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i. .HVHE famous saying of a modern general identified war with hell. This, however. must not be mis- taken for exact theological or scientific description. General sherman, in the overflowing indignation of gener- ous soul. cried out against the mon strous sufferings of the siege, the bat tlefeld, the raided district. the denuded home the agonies of the military hos pital None knows so we'll as the sol dier the dehumanizing clements of the soldiers profession. Nothing should be allowed to blur the Christian conscience Of the Twentieth century as it takes It's stand with this virile denunciation of the famous American officer
 At the present time. in this year of grace. 1914, many causes contribute to satisfactorily prove to this nation the wiclSedness of war. I have talked re- gently with farmers and merchants of rural Alabama,~ who are so indignant against the Kaiser. whom they regard as chiefly responsible for the loss of a cotton market. that they are almost willing to enlist against him. This also is worthy of consideration. since it proves that the nate or war iosicdhy may become a sufficient excuse for fighting.
 I.
 The mass of American people, as represented by their press, undoubted- ly are for peace. and it would be most ungenerous to suppose that the chief argument in their minds is self-inter- est. A really enormous volume of pub lie opinion has been created against war within recent years. Peace so-
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The most significant part of his pro- gramme is indicated in the sentence 'rhey do not know that they can be hitched to thing too heavy for thep to move" They are not afraid of tac- king anything They put their shoulders to it, and they expect the load to give.
 There's no hesitation.
 You've heard the saying, "I'n try any thing once It's slang. but it con tains the same idea. Try something. You may astonish yourself by succeed ing. Nothing like trying" you know.
 It's all in the training, in the long, slow process of development that takes patience and hard work. In the OK there is no word of impatience or de- sire to hurry results. 'I am always kind to them,' he says. That means that he does not lose his temper or be- come discouraged. If he did he could not be kind. And there's no mention of whip or goad.
 Fathers of growing boys and girls
 It may pay you to read carefully this OK. trainers words. There is here more than the germ of an idea for you.
 Before q New York judge appeared recently a woman who wanted a sep aration from her husband. She as- serted that he had treated her cruelty in that he had brought against her an action for divorce. maliciously, with out proper grounds for doing so, had had her arrested and had published a notice that he would not be responsible for her debts.
 The defendant denied the allegation of cruelty, asserting that he had never beaten or had committed any of the actions which are generally termed cruelty.
 But the judge said that the actions complained of if proved. constituted sufficient grounds for the charge of cruelty. He held that they were proved and granted the separation demanded, with alimony.
 Thereupon tho newspapers began the discussion of what constitutes cruelty.
 In the miscalled good old days" the times when there was chivalry for few of the rich with nideous misgov- ernment and debasement for the poor. no such question could arise. A wife was chattel, to be treated as meanly and unjustly as her natural powers of resistance would permit. The old Eng fish law said that man might beat his wife as much as he chose provided he did not use a stick that was thicker than his thumb.
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of the whip the 1eaping flame the last agony of common despair. ours not the pride of birth but the bond of service. Better war than that a nations soul die in it's sins.
 3. War imparts to death less horror than loveliness. Those slain were murdered. say you. at Lege, in the dcfiles of the Nosges. at the gates of St. Quentin? Yes. if you will. But more than murdered. for they gave themselves to die. Is any one iit to live who Is unwilling to die for some cause greater than himself? Here on these dead soldier faces let us trace their courage and their self-forgetful passion for their own land. Ii Is not death that trumphs here. but love. Yes. even war savage and primitive and wick ed as it is, hath it's compensations. while love abides.
 a And at the last it must be confessed that war drives nations to their knees in honest and acceptable prayer. It is not the prayer for success. not the prayer for glory. that glorifies war, but the hush of all agonized hearts. waiting upon One greater than Kaiser or Kings or generals One Who wills the comfort of the sufferer and the emerging of His peace upon the hearts of all men. With new unction we shall pray. Thy kingdom come" With new and tenderer hearts we shall turn from the market and the forum, from all thh clash of arms and voices, and pray to Him in whose care is liberty and life. What desoations He hath wrought He maketh wars to ceasev
 An will nothing short of war and want woo us from the. worship of material well fare and bring Us face to face with the God and Father of our spirits?