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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-12
Encourages Competition

The third and last object of a poul-
| try show is to encourage competition
between the birds in different breeds
and Vafities to see whose birds are
the best and who has shown his skill
to best advantage in breeding GER
tain breeds. incidentally the winning
| of prize money, cups, and trophies is
an object, but not the highest object
for which the majority of poultry
men make exhibits. The financial
award and Immediate cash is not
large, but the honor of winning is a
valuable business asset in the form
of advertising. A winning shows a
superiority of the birds owned by the
exhibitor, and thus enables him to
sell stock and eggs at prices far above
the average market. The larger the
show the more valuable the winning
from an advertising standpoint.
This is the white variety of the
famous Cochin fowl which is given
credit by a noted English writer as
the breed which stirred up and boom
ed the rearing and exhibiting of fancy
poultry.
Although variously called Shanghais
and Cochin Chinas in their early days
the breed came from Shanghai, China,
and was first introduced into England
from sailing vessel, returning from
that port about 1S45.
When first introduced the Shanghai
was generally of red color. Skillful
fanciers developed the Buff, Part
ridge, White and Black varieties, and
of these the White Cochin is the sub
ject of our sketch.
Their chief utility qualities are
based on their production of large
brown eggs in winter. They are also
highly esteemed for large roasting
fowls and are bred pure and crossed
in certain localities for this purpose.
The White Cochin is a harmless
fowl, large and round, with heavily
feathered legs and feet, long soft
curling feathers in all sections. Plum
age should be pure white in all sec
tions.
The hens get broody, sit, hatch and
rear chicks, making excellent moth
ers. The chicks grow rapidly anI
feather slowly, attaining consider
able size before they are fully feath-
cred. The pullets reach laying ma
turity in from six to eight months,
but neither sex attains full size until
a year old. At that time females
weigh from eight to ten pounds.
males ten to twelve pounds and often
more.
These fowls are poor foragers and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-12
happiness to every one concerned
CONSULT YOUR PARENTS.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

am a girl seventeen and deeply
in love with a young man nine years
my senior. He is an American, but
of Italian descent, while | am a Jew
ess. My parents object greatly to my
associating with him. We meet often
but secretly. He is well educated and
able to provide a comfortable home
for me. He wishes to speak to my
parents, but they do not care anything
about him. PERPLEXED.
DON'T marry without the consent of
your parents. That would mean much
unhappiness to them and to you. See
if You cannot persuade your parents
to give the young man q hearing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-12

DR.. Thomas J.. Clemens. Poultry
Editor of Philadelphia Inquirer, will
contribute an article on "Success in
Poultry Industry Rests Upon Selec-
ton of Breeding Stock" next week.
The illustration will show methods
of treating sick poultry and some de-
vices for preventing disease and keep
ing the chicken house clean.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-12

are hardly suited for farm flocks, but
the small breeder can obtain plenty
of enjoyment and considers profit
from the sale of eggs, roasting fowls
and Matching eggs if he has exhibited
and won a few prizes on his stock.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-12
Copyright, 1914.
WHITE COCHINS
BY Louis Paul Graham.

of mankind to raise poultry in some
manner.
When the wealthy businessmen on
the richest street in the world look
forward to the day when they will be
In touch with the soil through the
enchanting hen, it is not to be wonder
ed at that men in the humber walks
OF life, who want to economize in
their household expenses, should also
nave their interest in raising chickens
aroused by attending poultry shows.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-12
Miss Fairfax
Answers Queries
1T MAY TURN OUT WE'LL.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

q
l am twenty years old and deeply
in love with man of forty-six. This
man is well off and has a large busi-
ness. He has asked me a number of
times to become his wife, and I have
refused for the reason that he is three
years older than my father. Yet L
dearly love this man. Should I con-
sent to be his wife or not?
A CONSTANT READER, b.
YOUR marriage may turn out han
ply, put the interests of people two
generations apart are widely SEN
arated. The man you love will be
seventy when you are in the prime of
life. Get your parents to consider
every phase of the matter with you.
and then do what you feel is for the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-28
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Every man who drinks knows that his kind is the only pure booze. Every wom- an who bakes knows that her brand is the only pure brand of baking powder.
 When two men get to telling each other how hard they have to work each is busy thinking what a fine president of the Ananias club the other fellow would make
 Anyway, Adam never had the pleasure of hearing Eve tell him that she wished she had decent clothes to wear like other women.
 A cheap sport is always an expensive friend.
 It doesn't pay to get gay with unloaded guns and other mems wives.
 After a man has been up against the buzz saw a few times he is perfectly willing to take dare.
 You can steal dollar from a man and he will still have some use for you. But if he buys you four drinks and you do not rctaliate, you are dead one as far as he is concerned.
 You can always flatter a man by telling him that he Is too smart to listen to flat tery.
 When girl insists that she can't sing ana then gets up and sings, you always realize that she was telling the truth No man ever worked himself to death working for some other man. woman thinks it and doesn't tell it. A man tells it and doesn't think 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-28
In and Around Birmineham

Few civic or social events here have been so fruitful of good as the Cham Der of Commerce barbecue at Bayview Tuesday," said Robert W. Ewing.
 "Not many of those who took day off for the outing had ever seen Bay view or Edgewater. Not only so, but few had any conception of the magni- tude of the Tennessee company's splen- did development work under the pres- idency of MT. George Gordon Craw- ford. So delighted were the Chamber of Commerce men with the barbecue that it Is sure to be made an annual event
 "The revelation that most of us had Tuesday suggests to my mind the i'm portance of frequent sightseeing trips in and around Birmingham. Other cities have their attractions, but not many of approximately Brminghams size have one-tenth of the objects worth seeing in the outlying sections that we have here. It is safe to say that there are not dozen cities in the UEited States that have the beautiful boulevards trayersing enchanting scenery that Birmingham has, and iSzlagine that no industrial city of this country has such model mining camps and manufacturing plants as Bir- mingham has. All boosters should be familiar with what we have hereabouts It will greatly heighten the effect of their boosting."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-28
SlipshOd English

One of the charges most frequently made by Englishmen against Ameri- can writers is in regard to their slipshod use of English. Even English news paper writers declare that the English found in American newspapers is not what it should be, yet research shows that even the great authors have fall en by the way, not once but many time, and there is solace in the thought that the paragons themselves are open to.crlticism on that score.
 The. worst offenders in the careless use Of English seem to be writers of so-called popular novels" This crit icism does not apply as a rule to "best sellers,' but to the ruck of books that
 are turned out every year by the American publishing houses and for gotten almost as soon as yesterday $ newspaper. The style of writing in some of these books, if one takes time to study it, is often absurd and such glaring grammatical errors are made tlat the wonder is how any reputable publishing house would consent to stand sponsor for such slovenly work The worst offenders seem to be the novelc of o odvapf,,ra ;,foxJaJ fo,, ,.a,l CTS who never do any hard thinking. A book of this sort that recently came out and is advertised by certain pub fishing house with the usual display of glowing adjectives, was offered for serial publication to newspaper and was declined because it would require ''too much editing"
 Writing a book is supposed to be a much more ambitious undertaking than contributing a column to a news paper, and yet there are great many successful authors with established regulations who might find it to their advantage to study the terse, vigorous style that obtains in some newspapers. The men who serve the various news agencies in this country and abroad excel in form of writing which is al- most totally lacking in individualism, but for lucidity and conciseness is un- surpassed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-28
The State Medical College

Birmingham is the logical place for the medical college of the University of Alabama. As one authority puts it Birmingham is the center of Ala bama's medical education.
 Eighteen or 20 years ago before this city had grown to large proportions as an industrial center no one would have thought of suggesting that the state medical institution at Mobile be moved to this city, but now that lief ferson county has population of about 300,000 with manifold indus tries the clinical advantages offered here surpass those of any other city in the south.
 The large and ever increasing clin- ical advantages were fully appre- ciated by President George H. Denny of the university the first year that he took charge, and it did not take him long to induce the university trustees to establish here a graduate school of medicine. This graduate school is al ready doing important work, and within the next year or two young doctors from every part of the south will be enrolled in it for special courses. A free dispensary is con- nected with the graduate school, and in n short time it's facilities will be greately enlarged.
 Concentration in almost every field of endeavor makes for economy and general efficiency. In view of all the facts the argument in favor of the University Medical college being ad- ded to it's medical foundation already here is compelling. It requires no prophet to see that Birmingham is destined to become to this part of the south what Baltimore with it's Johns Hopkins Medical school is to the At lantic group of states from Delaware to South Carolina, inclusive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-28
Their Ever Shifting Home

One would think that residents of city moved from one home to another with much greater frequency than do the occupants of the farm, and yet Director William J. Harris of the cen sus bureau of the department of com merce will shortly issue bulletin, prepared by John Lee Coulter, expert special agent in charge of agriculture, showing an amazing tendency among the farmers to migrate.
 The data is based upon the replies of nearly six million farmers in this country to question submitted in the taking of the 1910 census as to how long they had resided upon their farms and shows that 52 per cent had been upon their farms less than five years.
 The figures embrace both white and colored farmers and reveal the fact that of the former 496 per cent fell into the less than five-year period, and of the latter 64.5 per cent. Over a million farmers had lived less than a year at their homes.
 In the north 57 per cent, or nearly three-fifths, of the farmers had lived upon their farms for five years or
 
 longer, while 22 per cent had been there one year or less. In the west the proportions were A and 27 per cent respectively. In the south Al per cent had titled farms over five years and 34 per cent, or over one-third, had lived there one year or less. Of these southern farmers p per cent of the white and 23 per cent of the blacks were reported as having been upon the farm less than year. However, of the southern farmers those who had lived on the farm over ten years the per centage was for whites 27 and fol blacks 19.
 This showing reveals the fact tha1 farmers move before they have hac time to become acquainted with thu various conditions of the soil and eli mate, of their habitat, or to properl, prepare for cultivation and the result is reflected in the respective yields o. the farm, corn being taken as gauge In the New England states wher' { there is less moving from farm t. farm, the yield in 1909 was 45 bushel per acre; in the middle Atlantic, 3: bushels; in the west 28 bushels, and il the south Atlantic, where the shifting is practiced to the greatest extent, bu 10 bushels.
 The constant moving results in g
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-28
ON A BEAUTIFUL DAY

By John Sterling. Oh. Unseen Spirit! now a calm divine Comes forth from thee, rejoicing earth
 and air! Trees. hills and houses. all distinctly
 shine, And thy great ocean slumbers every-
 where. The mountain ridge against the purple
 sky Stands clear and strong. with darkened
 rocks and dells. And cloudless brightness opens wide and
 high A home aerial. where thy presence dwella The chime of bells remote. the murmurins
 sea, The songs of birds in whispering copss
 and wood. The distant voice of cfiIdren's thoughtless
 glee, And maiden's song. are all one voice of
 good. Amid the leaves green mass q sunny
 play Of flash and shadow stirs like inward life: The ships white sail glides onward far
 away, Unhaunted by . dream of storm OF . sz ' r. [-a... .s.s-< f,1 =. #. ...., .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-28

that count, and while superior to us numerically it is extremely question able whether we would not rank Great Britain in efficiency. The marvellous ly accurate craftsmanship of Ameri- can gunners has given us the worlds championship as fleet-destroyers and no other nation has so creditably ac- quilted itself in naval warfare as has the United States.
 But both this country and Great Britain are lamentably behind other countries in military and naval aero planes, France, with it's fleet of sev- eral hundred airships, and Germany close second, leading us and our Eng fish cousins by a long pace.
 Naval authorities are keenly alive to the importance of aerial equipments for the navy and many of them are urging the diverting of the money ap- propriated for building dreadnaughts to be used in the purchasing of air ships, and it is more than probable that in view of recently strained in- ternational relations both the war de- partment and Congress will devote serious consideration to the subject.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-28
HOME RULE FOR IRELAND

From the New York World.
 The calm with which the House of Com- mons accepted the inevitable emphasized more than riot could have done the im- portance of Mondays passage of the home rule bill.
 A great historic event for more than Ireland, it may foreshadow further revo- lution; home rule for Wales, Scotland, England; the lifting from Parliament of a burden of local legislation all too heavy Britain already has delayed overlong to gain federal advantages with which Ger many, the United States and, to some extent. France are familiar.
 To have triumphed where Gladstone and Parnen failed puts Asquith and Redmond securely among Britain's great statesmen. MT. Asquith works with so little appear ance of effort he speaks so seldom, so smoothly and so briefly, that his power has scarcely yet received due recognition. John Redmond, political descendant of Parnell, has combined strength with sym pathy and force with moderation. The British habit of conciliation and compro- mise finds it's leading example in the fiery Celt.''
 Statesmen could have done nothing without the people, and there the figures tell the story. More than four years ago the liberals appealed to the country against the lords on the budget and won by 126 seats. They still have about 100. They have lost a dozen or more and gained one-of all places-in Londonderry! They had T majority yesterday, with 45 absentees, including the O'Brien irrecon- cilables.
 Why should not the country stand be- hind them? Eight years of turmoil over home rule have seen the lords power to block progress broken; wealth taxed to relieve poverty; commerce incerased by almost E, ,0oo, o,ooo.0 600 a year; more than s5o,- 00c,0oo year paid, on the national debt; prosperity almost unexampled; a new hope and wider prospects for the laboring man. Against such material arguments for a more enlightened political and social pol icy the tory threat of armed rebellion in Ulster for a cause which English tories. at least value far less than their own shrinking privilege, is vain indeed.
 What have the C'arsons and the Cecils to look forward to now? King George will sign the bill whether the lords pass or reject it. The Dublin Parliament must be elected within a year; but MT. Asquith is willing to let Ulster counties that so de- sire stay six years outside it's jurisdc- ton. A threatened rebellion which must wait seven years for color of a4tual ex- cuse Is hardly present menace to Great Britain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-28
 RooseveIt's Popularity

T have never had the pleasure of meet ing Colonel Roosevelt, but have heard him speak, and I think him a singularly magnetic man." said J. H. Seele of Phila- delphia
 "I cast my first presidential ballot in 1912, and it was for Mir. Taft. 1 still call myself republican, but if Colonel Roose- welt is candidate. no matter on what ticket his name appears, I will vote TOT him. The country is now full of Roose- welt talk. and I believe his friends feel sure that the colonel will run. I do not know much about politics. but I would think it an easy matter for the republi- cans and the progresslves to get to- gfther.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-28
PETERSON CITY THRIVING

From the Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette
 Peterson City which was started by MT. c. M. Peterson of Tuscaloosa shortly aft CT the Louisville and Nashville railroad came through that section, Is taking on new life and Is keeping pace with Tuscaloosa in the line of getting new in- dustries
 Already there is loca,ed a sawmll and two coal mines near the place. and it is now reliably reported that bottling works plant, brick plant a moulding and coffin factory will locate at that thriving village. which indicates that there Is something that is appealing to the man wanting a place to locate small industriex
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-28

make the college subject to every change of political party.
 Dr. Wheelock the first president of the institution, had contended some 10 years before that the charter was not within the power of the legislature to alter or re-. real it. During the debate in the legis- lature the eminent Webster had suggested a move to bring about compromise by getting bill passed to found new uni- versitv. but the move did not succeed. The court that first decided the Dart mouth college case found it difficult to un- derstand "how privilege can be protected from the law of the land by a clause in the constitution declaring that it should not be taken away but by the law of the land.''
 The Dartmouth college case produced tremendous excitement in many quarters for several years, and the opinion of Chief Justice Marshall provoked much criticism on the score of its tendency to fortif, all corporations against control by tn, states that had created them Daniel Webster. in his masterly defense of the institution, stated: There are in this case all the essential constituent parts of contract. The charter recites that the founder on his part. has agreed to estab- fish his seminary in New Hampshire and to enlarge it beyond it's original design, | among other things. for the benefit of that province; and thereupon a charter is given l to him and his associates, designated by himself. promising and assuring to them, under the plighted faith of the state, the right of governing the college and ad- ministering its concerns in the manner provided in the charter
 1 "Is not this a contract? If lands or money had been granted to him or his as- sccates for the same purposes. such grant could not be rescinded. And is there any difference in legal contemplation between grant of corporate franchises ard a grant of tangible property? No such diff
 ference is recognized in any decided case, nor does it exist in the common apprehen- sion of mankind.
 The Dartmouth college case was one of the most important cases in constitutional
 law ever decided in the United States su-
 preme court. The consequences of this decision have been very far-reaching. both
 in securing the inviolabiity of private trusts and in limiting state sovereignty
 and extending through the federal courts
 the authority of the federal constitution The principles of the decision have been l applied frequently both by federal and state courts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-28


 4 Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall pronounced his opinion in the case of the trustees of Dartmouth col lege vs. Woodward. It was the establish ing of new law and the interference in private affairs that at the time seemed unjustifiabe
 Briefly the Dartmouth college case was as follows. The legislature of New Hamp- shire passed an act in 1916 changing the name of the institution to Dartmouth university enlarging the board of trus- tees and assuming the control of its af- fairs. To this act the trustees were op- posed, and with the design of testing it's constitutionality they brought an action before the supreme court of the state. By this tribunal the legislature was sustained. An appeal was thereupon taken to the case of the college was then argued Dy Daniel Webster and other able counsel, and fully sustained by the court. The uni versity organization was dissolved and the old college board of trustees continued.
 The great battle was fought by them not for themselves only; the principles concerned were vital to many other insti- tutions. Dartmouth in comparative pow erty, was thus instrumental in vindicat- ing the sacredness of private trusts. Chief Justice Marshalls decision was that the Dartmouth charter was contract within the meaning of the clause of the United States constitution forbidding any state to pass any law impairing the obliga- ton Of contracts.
 The trouble started when the president Of the college had a disagreement with the trustees and was dismissed from the office. He determined to fight rather han give up his position submssively. and therefore took his grievance to the legis- lature of the state, and he was able to secure a large enough following to get his act Eassed.
 Seventy-fve out of 190 members of the house protested against the first and prin- cipal act and their protest was entered upon the journal of the house. The pro- test vas based upon the grounds that the trustees would be despoled of their heair heads without proper hearing, that the college was prospering and no legisla- tive interference was required and that the effects of the act would be to en- danger the college funds-by destroying the trust-and that it's tendency was to