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The citizen., 1914-01-30

$50 we guessed" said one of the
boys. I'VE read about them in his
tory books. But what is it Off"
The captain studied longer.
The figure on the photograph was
different from anything ever seen or
dreamed of in the year 1862. Appar-
emily 1t represented some creature
bearing a faint resemblance to the
women Of the day. The physiognomy
was dainty and appealing to the eye,
but it was almost surrounded by
great mass Of material resembling
hair. To the waist the figure bore
some resemblance to the women of
1862. But here the resemblance
ceased. From the waist down the fig
ure was shaped like an elongated v,
with the small end at the bottom,
where the feet should have been. 1t
looked something like woman who
had been caught and tied SO she
couldn't move.
THAT" said Captain MacManus. SIS
an old-time photograph Of a woman in
a hobble gown"
What! Ha, ha, ha. Good joke.
captain" laughed the apprentices.
"Fancy--a woman! But tell US what
it really is, captain, please"
Il have told you," said the captain.
TITS a woman in hobble skirt of
the age of 1912 or thereabouts."
"a woman!" the boys drew forward
and gazed at the picture in amaze
ment "a woman-in a what did you
say, captain?"
"a hobble skirt" said the old man.
you don't know what that is, do you,
kids? Never heard of such thing?
Can't imagine such a thing, eh? But
that's what this relic of the past rep
resents, and you can look in any an
cient history and see that I'm right"
What do you think the woman had
done, captain?" asked the apprentice.
what had she done?"
''Yes. To make them bind her up
in that fashion What was she be-
ing punished for"
"Or maybe she was doing penance
of some kind" suggested another.
The citizen., 1914-01-30
VALUE OF ALFALFA
AS HORSE FEED
Considerable Experiment Work
Done by Utah and Illinois
Stations With Crop.

The Utah experiment station has
been doing considerable work to prove
the value of alfalfa as feed for horses
and makes the following statement re.
garding It:
I'm comparing alfalfa and timothy as
roughages for horses, the result of six
tests under varying conditions of work
show that it is not as difficult to main
tain weights of horses when fed alfalfa
as when fed timothy. The cost OF
maintenance was greater in every
case, except one, on timothy than on
alfalfa. The appearance of the horses
in every comparison of alfalfa and
timothy was in favor of the alfalfa fed
horses
The Illipois experiment station has
made this statement in reference to
alfalfa:
When alfalfa hay is fed as the
roughage part of ration for farm
horses at hard work, less grain is nee.
essary to prevent them from losing
weight than when timothy hay is fed.
In this test there was saving of
about twenty-five per cent. of grain"
We may add that In most instances
where men have failed to get the de.
sired results in the feeding of alfalfa
hay to horses or mules, that too much
has been given them. says Hoard's
Dairyman. The government has con-
Quoted quite number of tests with
alfalfa, but they could not get some of
the men to follow instructions as to
the proper amount of alfalfa to feed
and had to put them In the guard
house. 1t is reported they fed
weeks supply Of alfalfa In three days.
We do not know that 1t Is necessary to
infer that guard houses should be es-
tablished in the country in order to get
farmers to see the Importance of not
feeding too much alfalfa hay 10 horses
or mules.
The citizen., 1914-01-30
tBy w. r. aILBERT.)

~
No other stock require more care in
winter than in-lamb ewes. Too many
roots, frosty grass, hustled about by
dogs through muddy gateways. etc,
are all apt to bring disaster when
lambing time comes.
A few roots, q good run on dry pas
ture or down, and plenty of good sound
hay in racks nights and morning, are
what is required for breeding ewes.
Too many roots are certain to bring
many dead lambs into the lambing
yards. Very serious losses have been
traced to this cause, but few roots
given with discretion every day will
greatly benefit the ewes.
The ewes should be kept in regular
steady thriving state; on no account
keep ewes short one day and stuff the
next. They must not be turned out on
frosty morning until they have had a
little hay in racks.
Rock salt should always be kept
handy, being one of the chief items
Of a ewes diet. Bad management with
in-lamb ewes Is the root of most Of the
trouble and losses at lambing time.
The lambing yards should be made
on level piece of old ley, if possible,
and sheltered from north or northeast,
and in an open dry position near hay
and straw ricks. Two square yards
should be made with hurdles adjoining
each other, with each pen made of
four hurdles thatched at top. The
number of pens and size of the yards
must be according to number of ewes
to lamb. To use the same yard year
by year is the way to cause disaster.
When the ewes begin to drop their
lambs, the shepherd must be constant
ly with them, keeping an eye on any
eve likely to lamb, and not losing
sight of her until she is over her trou-
BILE, and lamb and mother seen safely
into pen. If neglected one of twins
very often stray off and be found dead
amongst the other ewes.
1t is much safer to let ewes lamb
(when fine) out in the open by day,
where she has made up her mind to
lamb, then drive her back to lambing
yards. After all is well the lamb
should be carried back to lambing pens.
when the mother will follow quite con-
tentedly.
On no account should a eve be in
terfered with if 1t is possible for her
The citizen., 1914-01-30
BABY COOS AS MOTHER DIES.
Engaged in Ironing, Woman, 27, Stag
gers and collepses on Red-Hot
Fireplace.


Atlantic City. N. J.-Mrs. Hattie
Balcher, twenty-seven years old. was
burned to death while her sixteen
months old baby lay in its coach and
gurgled with glee at the flames when
q fit caused the woman to fall pros
trate upon a red-hot stove.
The tragedy occurred in one Of
three rooms occupied by the Balchers
in the basement of dwelling at lib
North Florida avenue. The mother
had cleared away the dinner dishes
and resumed her ironing, when she
staggered and collapsed, striking the
stove and sending shower of red
hot Goals upon herself. Neighbors,
who saw the smoke pouring from the
basement windows, saved the laugh
ing infant and summoned the firemen,
who had to fight their way into the
room where the charred body of the
mother lay in huddle on the floor.
Policemen picked her up tenderly,
but the last spark Of life fed as she
was placed in patrol wagon for q
thrilling dash to the city hospital.
Neighbors said Mrs. Balcher had
not been in good health for some
time. She was devoted to the infant,
which laughed while she died.
Balcher, who is a coal cart driver.
reached his stricken home after the
police had left for the hospital. He
whipped up his horses and drove at
the best speed he could muster to the
institution. only to be told that his
wife was dead.
The citizen., 1914-01-30
THE GENESIS OF THE HossLE

Captain MacManus, master airiga-
COR, leaned Idly on the pneumatic star
board CaiI of the great New York re-
ceiving aoat of the Five Continents
& Australia Aerial line and gazed
down at Manhattan Island, 5000 feet
below. as It was In the year 1862.
Down on the caissons Of the F. G..
e A. ground terminal a tiny electrical
depot-tender, all glass and wire, was
taking aboard her quota Of passen-
gers. hound for the float to catch the
10:l1 Express for Paris. The Express,
q monster 900-footer. that flashed her
red hull across the Atlantic on the
10,O00foot level at the rate Of $50
miles an hour. lay in her clips on the
float, impatient to be released and
tear herself away from contact with
things Dear-mundane. Tiny 30O-foot
express packets from Washington,
Chicago Pittsburg and other nearby
points were swarming to the float,
discharging their passengers and
mails for the big Express, taking their
release signals and scurrying back
whence they game. t-
1t was q scene that the captain had
seen year after year. yet he never
tired Of witnessing the silent swift
ness with which the thing was man
aged.
A tiny bell buzzed near him and No.
no StarboaTd Clip swiftly opened its
great steel arms and awaited the com
ing Of the boat that had signaled it.
Down below the tender rose up from
the terminal caissons. spiraled upward
In long curves. and one minute later
No. 10 Clip received it in its arms.
Out Of the tender came rushing
four boys in the white and green uni
iorms OF the apprentices of the line.
"Kids bound for the training
grounds tn the Himalaya's," grunted
Captain MacManus.
The boys instantly made respect
ful rush toward him.
"What luck!" cried one We've
got Just fifteen minutes to catch the
The citizen., 1914-01-30

my boys" said Captain MacManus
'she was not doing penance, and she
was not being punished"
you don't mean to say that she
was wearing that thing Of her own
free will?"
mo; she was doing it because
she had to; it was the style"
Go on, captain" said the boys,
1--WE like 10 hear about those queer
old-fashioned days."
"Well, Style was the absolute Boss
OF all women in those days, my lads
1t was before they'd acquired the
equal right with men to help worry
about how the world should be run
and there they went along in the old
instructive ways of their mothers
that have all been done away with
now-and their instincts ruled them
and the Boss Of the biggest instinct
of all was Style"
"What was the biggest instinct?'
asked the group.
"The desire to look pretty and
make other women look plain"
"And what was this Style thing that
you mention, captain
"Style was a mysterious power that
changed every year or so. and wher
it changed women had to change will
1t. One year style would be for PLUMP
women. and all the women would bt
plump Next year it would be fol
thinness, and all the women would bt
The citizen., 1914-01-30
GERMANYS ARCADIA
Mediaeval Rothenburg Is an Ideal
Teutonic City.
A Place Where All Men Are Rich An
Women virtuous and All Children
Happy-Europe's Oldest and
Newest Town.

Berlin. - Medieval Rothenburv
perched high above the deep blue
Tauben, in Germany's Arcadia. It ia
the place where all men are (relativa.
ly) rich, all women virtuous, all chill.
dren happy. 1t is at once Europe's
oldest and newest town. Other towns
with hoary pasts, narrow streets
picturesque gabled houses, gray for.
tress walls and damp dungeons com.
pensate for their picturesque beauty
by being socially backward; and when
you ask them why the houses smell
and the children are ragged, they say:
You can't expect everything" But
Rothenburg is an exception. 1t is as
old and as picturesque as Venice, and
as tidy and progressive as brand new
Berlin. No town equals it for ANTIQUE
loveliness, and no town has such good
municipal institutions, such excellent
drainage, such fat balances in the saw.
ings banks.
Rothenburg is q town of more than
5000 inhabitants, some fifty miles
southwest OF famous Nuremberg. It is
situated on high plateau 200 feet
above the river. The blue Tauben
runs placidly beneath, and so beauti.
full is the view that the towns eight
thousand contented inhabitants waste
many precious hours gazing over the
panorama. There are sixteenth GEN.
tury fortress walls; medieval, mellow
streets and miraculously soft colors:
a wonderful double Rathaus, part in
thirteenth century Gothic, part in six
teenth century Renaissance. The Rat
haus alone is marvel. 1t has tor
ture chamber and dungeons where
seven hundred years ago a mayor was
done to death for treason. There are
some innocuous industries; and the
The citizen., 1914-01-30

Paris Express. and we want to get
ihe Great Mystery unraveled before
rc sail"
'Yes. Captain MacManus." said an
ether. please, SIR. tell us what this
H." and he thrust into the old mans
bands one Of those antiquated card
board affairs which. in the long past
days OF their usage, were designated
as Cabinet photographs
N@I found 1t In an old trunk was
going through" gasped the apprentice
On awo 81 was afraid TO touch it at
Erst I didn't know what it might be-
Then ! put on my germ proof and
current proof glove and picked 1t up.
Vt didn't hurt me. So brought it
kere. I know you could tell us what
M is &c anybody could"
Old MacManus twirled his binocu-
bars.
fright you are. kids. in coming to
me-. said he. "If anybody can tell
you anything about ancient relics I'm
the man. Why. can remember back
10 the days when women couldn't
vote."
While the apprentices were recov-
ering from this awe-inspiring asser-
ti0n OF antiquity, the captain was hold
ing the object Of the commotion of
nt arms length and studying 1t care
tuIly.
my lads" said he at last. "it's q
sAotograph."
The citizen., 1914-01-30

possible precautions hog cholera ap-
pears on your farm, notify the state
veterinarian, or state agricultural col
lege. and secure serum for the treat
ment of those not affected. The early
application of the serum is essential.
The department of agriculture does
not distribute this hog-cholera serum
direct to farmers. The department
produces only such serum as is re-
quired for it's own experimental work
Farmers, therefore. should appeal to
their own state officials.
Evening star., 1914-04-17
WILL Be THE GUESTS
Of SONS OF REVOLUTION
French Ambassador and Nine. JUS
serand Accept Invitation
of Society.

The French ambassador and Nine JUS
serand have accepted the invitation of
the Sons Of the Revolution to be guests
of the society at its triennial convention,
which begins tonight. The organization
plans to honor Admiral de Grasse, the
French naval officer, whose aid helped
Gen. Washington force the capitulation
of Gen. Cornwallis in 1871 and end the
revolutionary war.
Col Henry May, president of the local
chapter of the society, will offer reso-
lutions tonight, whose adoption is as
sured. it Is said, providing for the ap-
pointment of a committee to obtain
the erection of a suitable statue as II
memorial to the Comte de Grasse and
to the services of the French feet un-
der his command in the cause of Amer
lean independence"
This years meeting of the Sons of the
Revolution will be itinerary in character
Leaving here tonight on a Chesapeake
bay boat the party will reach Yorktown
early tomorrow and spend several hours
there going over the historic battlefield
They will have luncheon at Virginia
Beach. then return to Fort Monroe, where
drill will be given in their honor to-
morrow afternoon, and in the evening a
banquet will be held at Old Point Com
fort, at which Ambassador Jusserand
will be the principal speaker. Leaving
Old Point late Saturday night the con-
vention will reach here Sunday morning
and will Immediately adjourn.
Evening star., 1914-04-17
MAY BE DOUBLE MURDER.
Man and Woman, Burned to Death
Found Bound With Wire.

GEDDES. S. D.. April 17.-What ap-
pears to be a double murder was dis
closed here today when the bodies of w.
II. Menzie, manager of the Farmers lum-
ber yard here, which was burned last
night, and his bookkeeper Miss Blanche
Signal. were found in the debris of the
lumber Office. Both bodies were badly
charred.
The feet of Miss Signal were tied with
a wire and her hands wired behind her.
Her skull had been crushed with a ham
mer which was found nearby. Mr.. Men
zie's feet also were wired together and
wire was found on one wrist the other
end was broken. His skull also had been
fractured. There is no clue and no
known motive for the murder has been
discovered.
Mr.. Menzie and Miss Signal were last
seen alive when they went to the office
about $50 o'clock last night to do some
extra work. Miss Signal had agreed to
meet her mother at 9 o'clock. they hav-
ing planned to attend a dance. The fire
was discovered about 1880 o'clock and
had started just back of the office. 1t
had gained such headway that nothing
could be saved.
Evening star., 1914-04-17
BLEAsE ENTERS OBJECTION.
Approves Encampment Site Selec-
ton, But Wanted to Be Consulted.

The militia division of the War Depart
ment arranged with the adjutant general
of the state of South Carolina to hold
the encampment of the organized militia
of the states of South Carolina, North
Carolina. Florida and Georgia this sum-
mer on the Isle of Palms near Charles
ton. That selection has been held up.
however, by Secretary Garrison, because
of the receipt of a telegram from Gov.
Blease complaining that he was not per-
sonally consulted by the agents of the
War Department in the matter. He ad-
mits, however, that he favors the
selection of the Isle of Palms for the
encampment
1t is stated at the War Department that
all correspondence between the War De-
partment and the organized militia of
the states always is conducted between
the adjutant general of the army and
the ad,utant general of the state, the
presumption being that the latter is
acting for the governor just as the ad-
jutant general of the army Is acting for
the Secretary of War. Unless Gov.
Blease approves of the selection of the
Isle of Palms. Secretary Garrison said
this morning that the joint state en-
campment will be held in some other
one of the four states concerned.
Evening star., 1914-04-17
TAKES LINER AT VERA CRUZ
Admiral Fletcher Places Small Guard
on the Esperanza.

Rear Admiral Fletcher, at Vera Cruz,
reported to the Navy Department today
that he took over the liner Esperanza at
Vera Cruz yesterday afternoon and placed
aboard her a small guard and a detach-
ment of signal men in command of Lieut..
Fletcher. He has also taken on a few
refugees. He does not say whether it
still will be necessary to send the Es-
peranza to Tampco.
He reports the return to Vera Cruz
from Mexico City of Lieut.. George McC.
Courts. an aid on his staff. but he does
not say what the officers mission to
Huerta's capital was. He confirms re-
ports of a fire, covering several blocks
in the Spanish quarter of the Mexican
capital. and adds that number of for
eigners are coming to Vera Cruz
However. 1t is thought that the
Esperanza will for the present furnish
sufficient room for any refugees who
may seek safety. Acting upon instruc-
tons from the Navy Department Ad-
n1iral Fletcher has cancelled the charter
of the Ward liner Guantanamo.
Evening star., 1914-04-17
WAR ON COMMON TOWEL.
Federal Government and Fourteen
States Have It Under Ban.

The passing of the common towel is re-
corded by the public health service. Since
1911 fourteen states have enacted legisla-
ton restricting or prohibiting the use OF
common towels in public places
BY executives order President Wilson
has ordered the roller towel and other
common towels out of service in public
buildings ali owe: the United States by
order OF the Secretary Of the Treasury
the common towel has been eliminated
from passenger cars and others ears
from passenger stations and all properties
of common carriers.
The states that have fallen in line with
the crusade against this menace to gen
eral health are Arkansas. Connecticut
Iowa. Maine. Massachusetts. Missouri
Montana, Nevada. North Dakota, Ohio
Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Vermont
and Wisconsin. Ather states have pro-
mulgated regulations restricting the use
of roller and other types of common
towels in public or ,semi-public places.
Evening star., 1914-04-17
SHOOTS AND KILLS WIFE.
Indiana Farmer Then Turns Weap-
on Upon Himself.

BOONVILLE. Ind, April 17.-Pushins
his wife. Mary. forty-two years old,
against hot stove in his home here
today. William Folsom, ffty-two years
old. formerly a prosperous Warrick
county farmer, held her while he fired
two shots into her heart, killing her in
stantly. He then turned the weapon on
himself. inhicting three wounds in the
breast none Of which, the doctors say,
will prove fatal.
The shooting occurred from the wife's
denial of infidelity made to Folsom, it
is said and her refusal of his demand
that she surrender her wedding ring.
The Folsoms are parents of ten chill
dren. ranging in age from three to
twenty-five years. Three of the younger
ones, in the house at the time of the
shooting, fled, fearing thei- father
would turn the revolver on them.
Evening star., 1914-04-17
Astor's Wedding Not Postponed.

NEW YORK. April 17.-No arrange
ments for q postporement of the wedding
of Vincent Astor and Miss Helen Dfns-
more Huntington set for April 80 have
been made, Notwithstanding Mr. Astor' S
illness This announcement was made
at the Huntingtons' country home today,
in contradiction OF reports that the cere-
mony had been Indefinitely postponed. A
postponement may yet be found expedi-
ent, however. Mr.. Astor spent COM
Portable night and was pronounced
about the same today.
Evening star., 1914-04-17
BELIEVE REPORT ADOPTED.
United Mine Workers Confident of
Success of Referendum.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, April 17.-Addi-
tional unofficial reports from various 10
calls in the eleventh district gave the Of
ficials of the United Mine Workers added
confidence today that the report of the
policy committee had carried In the ref
erendum vote of the miners. The policy
is said to have been adopted by sub
stantial vote at Clinton One of the
Clinton locals voted unanimously for
the report, it was said
The subscale committee of the miners
and operators which was appointed
Thursday morning to take up the ques-
ton of new scale resumed its work to
day Members of the subcommittee de
clared they could not venture CUES:
as to how long the session would last.
Evening star., 1914-04-17
Weather Observer in Damage Suit.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, April 17.-Accord-
ing to the sworn testimony of Henry
Pennywill, United States weather OBJ
server, the banner northwest wind in
Pittsburgh blew the afternoon of May 81
1911, when it reached velocity of sixty
four miles an hour. This testimony was
developed in a suit for damages brought
by George S. Martin against a property
holder whose sign had been blown down
and in falling struck Martin. Attorneys
for the defendant declared it was IAN
act of Providence, and called in the
weather observer tc prove it.
Evening star., 1914-04-17
Church Services in Memory of Bard

NEW YORK. April 1.-THE three hun
dred and iftieth anniversary of the birt
of Shakespeare will be observed in ma
New York churches next SUNDAY,
clergymen having agreed to make Sha','
speare the subject of their serm"
Thursday of next week school childr'
will participate in the exercises at J.
Shakespeare statue in Central Park. y
outdoor civic celebration will be held
Staten Island Friday, and SaturdaA
number of public school principals hS'
arranged for exercises in public parks.
Evening star., 1914-04-17
$165,OOO IS APPROPRIATED.
House Overwhelmingly Votes fol
Increase for Children's Bureau.

Increased appropriation for the chill
drens bureau, amounting to S139 600 more
than the appropriations committee origi-
nally proposed to give the bureau, was
overwhelmingly voted this afternoon by
the House Of Representatives during the
series of roll call votes on the amendment
for the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill.
The total amount for the bureau is now
to be s165,0oo instead of about $4,000.
The vote on this was 276 to Al. The de-
feat of the appropriation committee and
the increased appropriation for the pur-
pose of carrying an investigation into
subjects including child labor conditions
in southern cotton mills is marked vic
tory for the labor group in the House.
Evening star., 1914-04-17
Gets Beouest of $3.50 for Cigars.

CHICAGO. April 17.-oliver W. Norton.
a wealthy Chicago manufacturer, was
notified today of bequest of fund
amounting to $3.50 to be dedicated 10
purchase of cigars. The money was will
ed to him by Mrs. Elizabeth c. Vincent.
who died recently at her home in Cir
cinnati The will. which was filed il
Cincinnati yesterday, provides: ITO Oliver
W. Norton, to be expended for the best
cigars he can buy. ! give and bequeath
$3.50"
Evening star., 1914-04-17
HOLD DIVERSE VIEWS.
Delegates to Farm Conference For
and Against Union Regulation.

CHICAGO. April 11.-Acknowledgin- =
that farmers marketing associations are
operating contrary to the Sherman anti
trust law, delegates planned to introduee
a resolution at today's session of the
second national conference on marketins
and farm credits, asking Congress to eN-
empt cooperative marketing associatior ;
from the provisions of the Sherman laH
If was expected the resolution wou-i
draw much opposition from delegates wh >
believe that farmers unions should II
regulated. State market commissions ais"
were to be advocated.