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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-12-17
Gives Valuable Informa-
ton as to Types and
Breeds That Are Best
Producers.
Can Be Used With Very
Little Effort and a
Minimum Of Time.
BY MICHAEL *. BOYER
Poultry Editor of the Farm Journal
Copyright 1914


| The only way by which egg producers
| van ho surely known is 10y the use OF
rap nests. ,nhol value has been known
Tor twenty years ana to-day they are
Indispensable ON "a weIl-rcgulatcd farm
TIA" rap u"et tolls not only which
hens are the layers. but which par
ucular type or brood is a producer and
what kinds of 'rl~ they produce. Ac-
rurate scientific knowledge is in this way
phtainablc and hit or miss methods are
Eliminated Many poultrvman has
been put ON the road to profit by the
As" OF this unique device.
The nap nest j. a Yankee notion now
In practical us" for about twenty years.
It is the only method by which the
sctuai layers can be known, and the
nniv way To tell IN" color of their eggs,
RS well as In" size and shape. II en-
a'IoS us to find the hen that gives strong
fertility, and the one that gives poor. It
picks ori the winter layers; II arrests
lhe esg-oater; it prevents broken eggs
b. the nest; 1t makes hens tame
1t is moro profitable to have dozen
selected layers than double tn" number
Of doubtful ones. The labor in attend
lne to traps should not exceed tom min
utes for fifty nests providing they are
conveniently arranged.
puN't that VIII lay u" eggs from
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-12-17

New Orleans despatch says that the
British government is employing aero
planes for scouting purposes in its patrol
of tho steamship routes i'm tho Gulf n
Mexico and the Atlantic ocean.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
MOROCCO rR1BEsMEx ENTER THE WAR.

Until today there were accounts of trouble for
the French in Morocco Now comes an official dis
patch carefully worded, that tells of serious bat
tie between a large French force and the AIoors.
Morocco is fanaticaly Mohammedan, and 1t is ey-
ident that the proclamation of holy by Turkey
has been carried the tribes and has had the de-
sired effect The country too recently con-
quered by the French to be depended in emer-
gency of war. Half savage tribes did not readily
render allegiance to masters.
The outbreak in Morocco the extent of which can
only be conectured extends the of the European
war which includes Egypt and the Soudan, to-
gether with South and East Africa, vast extent of
Asia with also Australia, Oceanica and North Amer
lea in Canada. And this is less than four months
old If the uprising in Morocco spreads to Tunis
and Algeria which French possessions, all North
Africa may soon be in conAagration of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
wber, Boys Race turtles at Sea.

In the Galapagos Islands, that
strange group lying off the coast OF
Ecuador, to which they belong, there
seems to be something unknown to
science, but firmly believed in by the
natives, that attracts turtles. 1t is,
Indeed, to turtles. the huge ancient
specimens found in the volcanic hills
of which have written here, that the
islands find their chief claim to the
interest of the rest of the world. But
whatever the interest to science these
monsters of a past age may hold, the
smaller living specimens found along
the shores find keen sporting regard
among the native boys,
Almost any fine day you may see the
youngsters, often innocent Of bathing
suits, creeping along the beach to sur
prise the turtles basking in the sun.
With whoop boy will fling himself
on the back of a somnolent turtle,
grasp the shell where it projects above
the neck, and when the startled ami
NAL rises and numbers off to the water,
follow along whooping in sheer de-
light.
Once in it's element the turtles
speed changes from sloWness to an
amazing swiftness, and off through
spray. Sometimes half a dozen
youngsters try to race their steeds,
but they never can keep them going
In straight course. The sport ends
when they lose their grips on the
turtle and are compelled to swim
YEARLY back to land.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
vol. LxxxuI.-No. 27s.
soRD1D GREED VERSUS PATRIOTISM

War contract scandals there we're galore in the
early years great Civil War and millions
we're squandered in the way of excessive prices paid
by the government, and rotten food clothing and
other materials furnished under these contracts.
Simon Cameron. OF Pennsylvania, was the war sec
rotary and gave the contracts, and they all
personal Cameron resigned about the time the
scandals got too rank.
They are having some of that experience in Eng
land in contract-making. The government depart
rnents spending hundreds of millions for supplies
and this lavish expenditure could not fall TO have the
effect on the official conduct that cost this nation
dearly during the Civil War Moreover, supply firms
have made combinations to fleece the government by
grossly inflated prices. 1t Is alleged that one COM
bnation has compelled the government to pay nine
dollars a ton in its iron contracts than the
prices openly quoted for private purchasers.
This exhibition of sordid greed is humiliating to
nation and provokes the scofing of the outside
world We numerically criticised by European
opinion in 1862 when contract scandals at
their height, and afford TO criticse the
utter of patriotic spirit revealed in the English
contract scandals. which well matches the evident
decadence of that spirit the crowds of young
men who patronze the football games and are deaf
the call of their country
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
4 COMMUNITY KITCHEN.

The opening of a cooperative kitchen at Mont
clair is an experiment by intelligent people in the
way of solving two problems. those of the cost of
living and domestic help. The experiment has at
tracted wide attention and interest and if it proves
successful there viii be suburban communities
that will adopt the idea.
A common kitchen for entire community in
which all meals be prepared according to the
fancy of each individual housekeeper and served hot
at dwellings is convenience obvious that it seems
wonder the idea should be in the experimental
stage.
And yet it is not altogether experiment. Years
ago in many American communities the baker cooked
family dinners in his at small charge
although all he did the baking. The Montclair
kitchen is TO provide everything culinary.
The common kitchen permits the purchase OF food
supplies at wholesale. which is important economy
It is guarantee of the quality Of food we'll of
honest weight and measure, which also mean econ
omy. 1t dispenses With the family cook and the
esperations frequently associated Herewith, and
the housewife is relieved from onerous daily duties.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
BY DIX. LEONARD KEENE HIRsHBERG.
a. B., n. A, NJ D. Johns Hopkins.

Ii the irritation happens to be those
pestiferous germs which kind frien.Ie
and a cruel language call colds"
they will start right in to multiply
and flourish. Moreover, with eacI
flourish II nothing has been done,
there will be sneeze.
Usually an antiseptic-sucil as mei.-
tioned-will check the invasion. a
hot foot bath. hot glass of milk OF.
lemonade, and mothers good friend,
castor oil, will do the rest.
Ear sneezinE Is a not uncommon
example of this symptom. When in
Examinations spread up the ear vent
the eustachiap tube-sneezes may
occur. So, also, If wax cakes in tbs
ear against the drum. ~
There is no greater chagrin and
disappointment In the human cosmos
than to feel the approach of a sneeze,
to set yourself comfortably--or un-
comfortably-in tune for it, and then
not to have 1t materalize Thig
evaporating "sneeze," if you so tern
it, is explained In thfs plain, though
uncomforting way The sneeze itll5
pulse which has traversed all tho
paths which make you have the sem
sation of the oncoming sneeze. *
switched away from the respiratory
muscles, and like a thunder stormy
which clears up and fails to precipi3
tate, this pseudo sneese "dies
abornin'."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
A DIMINISHED PANAMA CANAL PROGRAM

One feature in the program of the ceremonies
which will inaugurate the Panama Canal and the
Panama-Pacifc Exposition next spring. the foreign
contingent in the international parade of warships,
will be sadly lacking. All of the nations with navies
had originally promised to be represented but that
was when some of them did not foresee that their
ships might be rather busy with other matters in
the spring of 1915.
It would be obviously impossible for German,
British French, Russian, Japanese and Austrian
warships to be assembled peacefully at Hampton
Roads for the trip through the canal to San Fran
CISCO and probably before the spring Italy and Greece
will have the for their absence.
What promised to be a great international spec
tacle will therefore be virtually confined to own
Tarships. And yet who shall say now what emer-
gency may not arise for our country to compel the
abandonment of the ceremonies altogether?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
THE srEGEL TRIAL AND CONVICTION.

The trial of Henry Siegel for his acts in eonnec-
ton with the bankruptcies of his large business in
terests in New York and Chicago did not attract the
public attention it warranted, because it over
Swallowed by much greater events. In ordinary times
such trial would command national attention.
Siegel was tried count of his indictment.
The defense offered evidence and his conviction
last evening by the jury in the inevitable
Siegel will be free bail until next June and will
have six months TO make good to his creditors before
the comparatively light sentence imposed will be
carried out, but 1t is highly improbable that he will
ever be nterned in dungeon cell.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24

fy because it authorized the executive
to reduce by one-half the duties on
goods imported from countries that
allow special privileges to Argentine
products, and to increase by
as much as half the tariff
on the imports from coun-
tries that take measures which ben
eft the entry of merchandise o.
other nations to the detriment of our
exports. Legislation is now pending
that Will create permanent organ
Of the government, whose mission
will be to propose gradual modifica-
tons of duties as the necessities of
our internal economy and those of
our foreign commerce. require. In
my opinion the United States could
not have a better opportunity than
exists at the present moment to de-
velop it's commerce in the countries
reached by the river Plate, either by
increasing the quantity sold here OF
North American products which COM
peted before with those of European
countries now at war, or by promot-
ing new industries that may supply
such articles as are not now exported
from your country. 1
The department under my direc-
ton is able 10 supply representatives
with lists of the principal imports
which your nation may undertake to
market in Argentina with assurance
of success and of probable increase
in the future.
Investment Opportunities-ocean Trans
pOrtation.
There is an increasing development
Of profitable opportunities for invest
ments Of foreign capital in this coun-
try The people of North America
can with advantage apply their own
experience in studying this phase Of
opportunity in Argentina. The CAPT
tai which has run the greatest risk
has been that which was attracted by
high interest rates. The rapid in
crease in land values has brought ex-
traordinarily large returns within the
shortest possible time. But capital
invested with the productive capacity
of the soil, the development of agri-
culture and the cattle Industries, and
the manufacture of our natural
products taken into account can rely
upon profits that come somewhat
more slowly, but are undoubtedly
more certain. The expansion to their
present proportions of many Of the
largest concerns in the republic is due
to this conservative method Of opera
ton.
FINALLY. l must advise you that we
possess only the beginning of mer-
camille marine, and this is needed for
exclusive coast service between the
cities and along the navigable rivers.
Fortunately, the countries that have
| commercial relations with us have
understood that the best way to de-
velop those relations was through the
establishment of great navigation
lines, and the organization. of COM
panies destined exclusively for trans
portation in the Southern hemisphere.
81 hope that this which | have said
may be of service and that it win con-
tribute to the impulse that will in
crease business relations between the
Argentine Republic and the United
! States
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
MUNICIPAL COLD STORAGE.

Among the features of the plan of Mayor Mitchel's
food supply committee for better marketing condi-
tons in New York TO reduce the cost of living none
is important than municipal cold storage. AS
the executive committee in its report the city
has spent many millions of dollars building
voirs to store water future and dollar to
preserve food.
Private refrigerator plants fall far short of pres
ent needs, for at this day there is not inch of
unoccupied cold storage space in Greater New York
Jersey City. Municipality owned controlled re-
frigerators would be the most effective weapon that
could be devised against the exactions of the pro-
vision trusts without them there is sense in
building up a system of terminal facilities and mar
kets
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24

Treat Cause of a Sneeze and save. Days
of Illness.
a 'Gesundheit' or God bless
you" after someone sneezes is a
modern survival of the ancient SUI
perstition that a sneeze means health,
wealth and happiness. Centuries
ago no less than today, a sneeze was
an omen Of good fortune-a sacred
sign of the gods. This superstition
was ancient even before Homer wrote
his "Iliad' and Odyssey"
Aristotle, with his greatest OF
brains, riddIed this belief and asked
why coughing was less divine than
sneezing. 1t takes, however, more
than 1000 years TO explode a fallacy
and a legion of wiser men than Aris-
totle would fail in the task. People
hug such decisions to their hearts
and all the kings horses and all the
kings men cannot rid mankind Of
their nonsensical beliefs. As for this
particular one of sneezing, why it all
hanks back to the days of Prone
theus, who blessed his man of clay
whenever he sneezed.
The rabbis account for the Gee
sundheit'' or Your health" used
when Jews and Germans sneeze, in
a biblical way. It was. they say
only through Jacobs struggle with
the angel that sneezing ceased to be
an act fatal to man. Thus the eS-
preston arose.
Sneezes OF Mystery.
Sneezing received such homage nos
alone in Palestine, Greece and Rome,
but also In Asia, Africa and among
the Aztecs and Incas of ancient
America. xenophon discusses it at
the court of the King of Persia. In
Mesopotamia and Africa the populace
gave themselves over to rejoicing
whenever the king sneezed.
In the time of Pope Gregory the
Great there was some mysterious
malady--it may have been some poi
son mixed with the snuff that was
then taken--which so affected those
who sneezed that they at once fell
into a death trance. The Pope him
self became so alarmed at the death
of many courtiers that he inaugu
rated prayers to be uttered the in
slant the paroxysms began. God
bless you" was then said in Latin,
and it was expected to avert the pas
sage across the StyX.
The prize winner of the sneezing
troupe rests between hay fever and
those tiny tumors of the nose called
"polyps." Crushed ice and pollen
anti-toXin helps to minimize these
paroxysms in hay fever, but only
the removal of the poiyps will elimi-
nate the compound sneeze lombard
ments when due to these jelly-like
swellings in the nostrils.
Methods of Prevention.
Usually sneeze is the red flag
and low bridge signal of approaching
trouble. Treat the cause of a sneeZe
In time and you may save many days
of illness. If you will rub thin
film of white precipitate ointment
well up the nose Immediately after q
sneeze you may succeed in side
tracking, blocking or doing away
with prospective autumn cold" or
infection, which is on the pathology
cal road to Mandalay,
The fiimsiest feather, the most deli
cate flake of dust. the supremest
ra-microscopic microbe which in
sinuates itself into the lining of your
nostril will flash an impulse through
your olfactory nerves to the brain
and medulla oblongata, down your
windpipe and out through your sur.
prised muscles as a sneeze.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
UPLLFT TALKS
THE STIMULUS OF RESPONSIBILITY
BY oRIsoN SWEET AAFsDES.
Author or Pushing to the Front. Etc.
copyriEht s91t.

In his baccalaureate sermon to the
last graduating class Of Yale Univer-
sity President IIadley said:
A mans success or failure in life
is not measured by his success or
failure In winning the race. II is
measured by his success or failure
in accepting the responsibilities OF the
position for which he has proved his
fitness
Proprietors Of Ian sc concerns are
often very much exercised by the
death Of a superintendent or leu
tenant who has managed with ex-
ceptional bility. They are fearful
that very disastrous results may fol-
low, and believe it will be almost inn
possible to fill his place; but. while
they are looking around to find a
man big enough Tor the place, some
one, perhaps, who was under the
former chief attends to his duties
temporarily, and makes even better
manager than his predecessor.
have In mind a young man who
developed such amazing ability within
six months from the date of a very
important promotion that he sur
prised everybody who knew him.
Even his best friends did not be-
lieve that it Nas in him. But the
great TGSltDHstDlAlLltS. Nii1
situation; thrust upon him brought
out his reserve power. and he very
quickly SHOW ed Of what stun he was
made. This promotion. and q little
stock in the concern. which had been
given him, aroused his ambition and
called out q mighty power which be-
fore he did not dream that he
possessed.
Tens of thousands of young men
and young women of today are only
waiting FOR chance to prove them
selves, waiting for an opportunity TO
try their wings, and when the oppor-
tunity. the responsibility, comes they
will he equal to anything that con-
fronts them.
have known of several instances
where daughters reared in luxury
We're suddenly thrown upon their own
resources by the death of their pa
rents and the loss of their inherited
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN
NOVEMBER 81
Grace Darling, Mary Walker, Frances Burnett
BY MARY MARSHALL.

Today is The ninety ninth anniver-
sary of the birth of the English hero
ire, Grace Darling. The story OF how
the Acknowledgment daughter who
went out with her father when the
Forfarshire steamboat was wrecked
and with him braved the perils of the
storm to rescue four men and one
woman is we'll known to everyone.
Hundreds of other wmen Of Eng
land had dine deeds quite as heroic
and brave, but for some reason the
story OF Grace Darling appealed 20
English men and women, and before
many days had passed Grace OAR
ling's name was on the tip Of every
Englishman's tongue. So many re-
quests came for locks of Grace OAR
ling's hair that she said she was in
danger of becoming bald. Batty's cir
cus--the Barnuns OF England in
those days-offered her a fine salary
ii she would Join their troup, and one
theatrical manager went so far as to
advertise her appearance on the stage.
The old lighthouse keeper himself
to a local paper that seven
times in twelve days he and his
daughter had to pose for photograph
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

upon the public the burden Of proof
when complaints of unreasonable or
unjust rates are made before the
State Commission. Under the law
there is no power vested in that body
to suspend a proposed schedule of
rates pending an investigation Of its
equity. The railroads may put into
effect, despite the universal protests
of the commuters, their proposed In
crease of rates: but the commission
offers a slight promise Of Keller when
il intimates that it will require the
railroads to issue receipts to pas
sengers for the excess charge. In
the event of the new rates being
overruled az ''unreas onable or I'M
just" reparation will thus be faeii-
itated. This means, OF course, that
the proceedings Will be protracted
and that passengers must submit TO
the higher rate until the commission
shall determine the question at Issue.
The fact that the railroads are act
ing strictly in line with the express
suggestion Of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, to the effect that
il was their duty to increase their
passenger revenues. does not in the
least mitigate the hardship imposed
by the increased rates upon suburban
residents. Without going into the
question whether the new fares are
or not a just charge for the service
rendered, 1t is indisputable that a
large suburban traffic has been built
up at the direct invitation of the
railroads, who fixed low communication
and excursion fares as an induce
ment for the development of the
rural and semirural districts close
to Philadelphia.
fIs- ~ al ~
ing to the country from the congested
city streets usually takes into careful
account before doing so the cost Of
transportation, and the rates nat
urally assume in his mind the char
acter of a contrast between the rider
and the company. To have these fixed
charges suddenly increased is an un-
deniable hardship, and Il Is not
surprising that the protest should be
universal and vehement. On the other
hand, the position of the railroads is
no less hard. Denied by the Inter
state Commerce Commission the
| privilege of increasing revenue by the
addition of a charge where it will be
least felt by the general public, the
companies are not only confronted by
| the absolute necessity of more money
| to balance depleted income and in
| creased operating expenses, but they
are expressly told by the Federal
Board TO look to their passenger
traffic for the additional revenue they
| require.
| Ground thus between the upper and
/ the neither millstones Of authority and
necessity, the passengers only re-
course is to an appeal to the state
| and Federal powers and to costly
| and troublesome litigation.
The railroads have doubtless studied
| the probable effects upon travel Of a
radical increase of fares. That it vii
tend to discourage passenger traffic /.
certain, and in the case of thf
! suburban service the increased rates