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Evening star., 1915-01-23
Facts Become Significant.

However, two facts which we knew
then but ignored as unimportant have
since come to have large significance
One Is that the commercial egg farm
was owned by rich man who gave the
business no personal attention, intrust-
ing 1t to a salaried poultryman. I have
heard since that the rich man said 1t
cost him about rs cents for every egg
produced on the farm. The second fact
is that the white rock fancier has all
these years been breeding show birds,
picking his breeders for their beauty
of feather rather than for their per-
formances as egg producers.
In other words, in our ignorance of
the chicken business we got "stung"
in procuring our foundation stock. The
fault, of course, ts our own. and there
is no charge Of Misrepresentation or
unfair dealing on the part of the men
from whom we bought the Matching
eggs. But that doesn't alter the fact
that, though we have some as pretty
chickens as one would care to see. we
haven't a strain of egg layers in either
breed.
When we first came to a realisation
of this situation our impulse was to
start all over again the coming spring.
buying eggs for Matching from some
fiock Of established egg-laytng quali-
ties. After a good deal Of considera-
ton and discussion Of the question at
home, reinforced by the advice Of ex-
perienced poultrymen, we have aban-
doned that idea. We are going to take
one or the other of our breeds and try
to build up a laying strain of our own.
Our stock is pure bred and vigorous
and healthy, and there can't be any
doubt that there are some good indi-
yidual performers in both flocks. When
we decide which breed we shall hold
on to-and that decision must be made
within the next week-we will try to
nick out the individual good perform
ers of that breed and use their eggs
exclusiyely for Matching. Then, q little
later on, we will send to some reputa-
ble pouitryman who Is in the business
for epgs and not for show birds and
get a couple of settings Of eggs of the
breed we adopt. Out Of the chicks
hatched from these eggs We will save
cockerels for next years breeding pens
To Pick Out the Layers.
AS trap nesting isn't practical under
our present circumstances, the picking
out of best layers to constitute a breed
ing pen is bound to be more or less a
matter Of guesswork. but we have
been giving a lot of study to our
birds. their general appearance. con-
formation, activity. and vigor. ana we
ought to get better results than we
would hx breeding from the entire
Evening star., 1915-01-23
TAKING A FAMILY
BACK TO THE SOIL
Being the Experiences OF a Gov
ernment Clerk Who Sets Out
to Lower the High Cost Of
Living.

Don't you wish you were back in
the little old steam-heated fat?" asked
Joe Robinson, when I arrived at the Of
flee the other morning half an hour
late and had to write long and de-
tailed explanation as to the why of the
which.
l treated Joes ribald query with lofty
disdain. but just the same it set me to
wondering if l did really wish we were
back in the fiat again.
1 had oversight a little that morning,
had turned out in a pouring rain to
milk the COW. and because some imp of
inanimate perversity had kept The
kitchen fire from burning. breakfast
had been behind time. l was five min
utes late starting for the station and
the roads being in places almost axle
deep in mud, instead of making up the
lost time l lost more of it. i was with
in sight of the station, but still sew
eral hundred muddy yards away, when
my car pulled in and pulled right out
again.
Filled With Impotent Rage.
You don't need be a country dweller
to appreciate the impotent rage that
welled up within me. That car whisk-
ing insolently away around a curve
was the last possible one for me to
take and get to the Office by Q O'Clock
Also it was the last car of the rush
hour" schedule. The next one would
not be due for half an hour. Either
the station agent had not been there
that morning, else he had gone home to
feed the chickens. At any rate, the
waiting room was locked. Nor does
this end the tale of woe. The narrow
platform and the narrow projection of
roof supposed to shelter 1t are on the
side of the building which that morn
ing was the windward side. Therefore
! had choice of remaining on the plat
form and being soaked by the driving
rain, or seeking shelter to the lee of
the building and standing ankle deep
in mud and water.
Yes. very decidedly that morning l
would have enjoyed being back in the
fiat. or in JAIL or any other place where
I would have been warm and sheltered
from the storm.
Different the Next Morning.
But next morning the sun was shin
ing and the air was crisp and full of
invigorating ozone: 1 didn't oversleep,
milking the COW involved no aquatic
perils. and the kitchen FIRE burned
merrily. The drive to the station was
a pleasant one. I arrived in ample
time to catch my car, and had as fell
low-passengers several of my most
congenial neighbors. No steam heated
fiat for mine.
There isn't any getting away from
the fact, though. that life in the coun-
try is very, very much like the little
girl who had little curl When It's
good It's very good, indeed, and when
it's bad it's horrid.
To sit with a book at night beside
the stove under shaded lamp and
listen to the rain beating against the
window panes, and the wind whistling
through the naked trees, is altogether
comfortable and more or less, poetical.
Evening star., 1915-01-23

ingtonian. and received his education
! in the local schools. and then at the
| National College of Pharmacy.
Evening star., 1915-01-23
Makes Prolonged Argument.

George w. Miller, representing the
american League. one of the three
defendant leagues in the suit, spoke
for five hours yesterday in his effort to
convince the court that the Federal
League came into court with unclean
hands that its action in bringing the
suit was Il scheme TO accomplish what
II had failed to do by any other
means.
Attorney Miller charged the Federal
League with the theft of players from
organized leagues-the American and
National in particular-and that the
league attempted to come into organic
ed ball and when refused filed suit
asking this court to strike the very
thing they sought to become a part
of"
Robert Il. Ward. president of the
Brooklyn Federal club. was served with
subpoena at the close of yesterdays
session in the case in which the Phila-
deiphia Nationals sued the Brooklyn
club for $4,000 damages for causing
PITCHER Tom Seaton to desert. Seaton
signed with the Brooklyn Federals
after he was alleged to have signed
with the Philadelphia club.
Evening star., 1915-01-23
Mapping Out Chicken Program.


Planning for the garden, interesting
as it is, is only an amusement as yet,
but the time has now arrived when
planning our chicken program is a
serious business matter We want to
have our incubator going within a
month. and we haven't yet mated up
our breeding pens. In fact, we haven't
definitely decided whether we shall
breed white leghorns or white rocks,
or both.
Jane has about an equal number of
feghorn and white rock pullets, and
she is SO fond of both breeds that she
finds IT hard to consent to the giving
up of either. though she agrees with
me that 1t would be good business poll
cy to drop one breed and devote all our
time and attention to improving the
egglaying qualities of the other So
far as we can determine, there is very
little If any difference between them as
egg layers. Neither breed has per-
formed in manner calculated to place
it's members in the championship class
There are 120 pullets, within a very
few of being equally divided between
the breeds. and all Matched before the
middle Of last May. They have been fed
and housed and cared for according to
one of the most approved experiment
station systems, and they ought to be
laying at their very best right now.
giving US from six to seven dozen eggs
day. Instead OF that. we are getting
from three to four dozen day, an egg
yield of perhaps a trifle more than 25
per cent, instead OF the at least so per
cent we are entitled to.
There isn't any money in keeping
chickens with a 25 per cent egg yield,
even if eggs are retailing at so to 50
cents dozen. This is especially true
when wheat is lowering around $3.50
a bushel, and corn and oats and other
feeds are up in proportion. We paid a
good price for our Matching eggs la3t
spring, and thought we were getting
something extra fine. The leghorn eggs
came from commercial egg farm. and
the white rock eggs were procured
from man who has been specializing
for years with that breed.
Evening star., 1915-01-23
RED CROSS SURGEON
MARR|ES A PRINCESS
DR.. Philip Newton of This City Fig
ures in a War Zone
Romance.
Leads to Altar Russian Woman Who
Volunteered to Help Nurse
Wounded.

DIR. Philip Newton, an American Red
Cross surgeon, sent in charge of a hos
pital unit to Kiev, Russia, has been
married to the Princess Helene Scha-
hofskaya at Petrograd.
Brief details of the romance are con-
tanned in cable dispatches to friends
here. The American Red Cross head
quarters here received a letter from
DR.. Newton, but he said nothing about
his intended marriage.
DR.. Newton is Washington boy. He
attended the United States Military
Academy and was for a time employed
as inferno at the Emergency Hospital
here. A little more than two years
ago DIR. Newton was bereaved by the
tragic death of Miss Alice Dorothy
Nixon, who was then his fiancee.
He was returning from a special
mission to the Philippines for the
Smithsonian Institution, when on the
same day that he set sail from Manila
she was drowned while attempting to
rescue companion in pleasure
party at Colonial Beach. Va.
Tried to Rescue Companion.
Miss Nixon, with other members of
her family. were at the beach in Sep
tember. 1912. She was out in a boat
with Frank W. Wissman, a neighbor
and lifelong friend. He dived. and
when she saw he was disabled, she
dived to his assistance. He sank be-
fore she could reach him. and she was
caught in the undertow herself and
drag ged to her death.
A cablegram advising DR.. Newton of
the death of his intended bride did not
reach Manila until after he had sailed.
A cablegram he sent on the same day
never reached Miss Nixon. 1t spoke of
his happiness that they could arrange
for their wedding in the fall.
DR.. Newton, when he completed his
work for the Smithsonian Institution,
engaged in private practice here until
last September, when he was sent to
Europe by the American Red Cross.
Volunteered as Nurse.
The Princess Schahofskaya, who is
now Mrs. Newton, volunteered as
nurse in the hospital operated by the
Americans. The marriage was per-
formed yesterday according to the rit-
ual of the Russian Church. and was at
tended by Frank North Winship, the
American consul at Petrograd. and by
Ray Baker secretary to American Am
bassador Marye.
The bride and bridegroom are now on
a honeymoon trip to Archangel, where
they will meet two American doctors
who are to reinforce the Red Cross
staff.
DIR. Newton and his bride, it is said,
plan to establish Red Cross unit at
Warsaw. where it will be possible to
better care for the wounded from the
fighting lines. The Red Cross head
quarters here says 1t does not know of
such a plan.
Evening star., 1915-01-23

out paper and pencil and start planning
my garden for the coming season.
\ few mornings later--a bright and
sunny morning mild enough for April
one of my neighborS remarked going
in on the car: "Well, old man. a morn
ng like this kind of makes ones hands
tch to get hold of a hoe. doesn't it?"
Gets Into Mans Blood.
And that fellow has been living in
the country dozen years or more.
committing to the city and toiling in
the garden mornings and evenings and
whenever he has a spare hour at his
disposal. I tell you, the thing gets into
mans blood l came to the country
because in town the cost of living
problem was slowly but steadily fore
ing me to the mat. l am going to stay
in the country because l like 1t: be-
cause | never again could endure the
emptiness of life in the little old
steam heated fiat" which made so
strong an appeal that morning when
Joe Robinson rubbed salt into the raw
wound of my discomfort.
Planning in January for a garden to
be planted in April is a lot of fun,
when once you get into the spirit of it.
l realize now that my garden last year
was a mess. That fellow at the Friend
ly Neighbors Club who said my farm
ing had been neighborhood joke came
pretty near to hitting the nail on the
head, ! reckon. He tried, by the way,
to apologize for his remark when ] met
him at church last Sunday morning,
but l wouldn't let him. l told him that
! realized ] had been joke as a
farmer, but that | had gotten lot of
enjoyment out of the joke. and hadn't
any objection at all if my neighbors
found it amusing. He seemed glad that
l cherished no resentment. and Tn not
at all certain that I haven't converted
tive poultry program Leastwise he re-
marked: I'VE all are nightly inter-
ested in them new-fangled ideas of
yours, and hope you'll make a go OF
them"
Evening star., 1915-01-23
Again Questions Jurisdiction.

Judge Landis again declared the ques-
ton OF jurisdiction to be unsettled, and
Quincy a. Meyers cited authorities in
answer to the defendants doubts concern
ing the interstate commerce laws as ap-
Piled to labor.
Meyers charged that the exception of
labor noted in the Clayton act was only
"A sop to organized labor" and doubted
rs force. He cited decisions to emphasize
his contention that labor came under the
provisions of the interstate commerce act
With pleas of the defense complete,
counsel for the Federal League pre-
sented final arguments in the United
states district court today in support
OF the Federals' charges that organ
lied base ball is operating in violation
of the antitrust laws
Attorney Gates claimed he was pre-
pared to show, il was said, that ball
players under contract to organized
ball were held as slaves and "A human
'hatteI, that they We're sold and trad
rd without their consent and that they
were compelled to accept the salaries
ofered them or be denied the right of
playing with the leagues alleged to be
under the control of .he defendants
Indications were that the hearing
would close today, and if Judge Lands
decides that he has jurisdiction in the
case 1t Will go into his hands, the deci-
sion coming, perhaps. within a week
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-30
SHORT ONES

Many a man wins a hero medal by
holding his ground just because he is
too scared to run.
1t begins to look as if the United
States is to have another Boston tea
party, with old John BarleycoTn play
ing the role Of Tea
Every time we look over a mems
style book we wonder what the man
ufacturers do with the kind of clothes
they represent in the pictures.
The physician who examined Jack
johnson reports all his organs nor
NAL, indicating that the examination
did not extend above the neck.
A Camden, N. j., judge gave a
mother and father two weeks in
which to wash their children. They
must have been happy children.
The army mule is to give way to the
motor truck, but then when the car
buretor goes on the blink one can
cuss a motor truck almost as enthU-
siasticaIly as one can cuss a mule,
and with even more chance of get
ting results.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-30
but the days Of regret are each a cen

but the days Of regret are each CEN
fury long.
It may require moral courage, girls,
to turn down the thin-stemmed glass
at dinner party; the covert shmg,
the scornful glance, may hurt lit
tie; but the doing so set you apart
as one with whom men may not toy,
then cast aside. It's THE badge Of
honor to those whose regard is worth
while
If parents could only make their
daughters see how eagerly the real
men they meet are seeking tn odd
fashioned girl, could they open their
eyes to the fact that they do not
choose their wives because of their
capacity for wine, many sweet and
gentle woman would be saved to so
ciety, many a broken heart and
ruined life avoided.
IT'S not a temperance sermon we
are approaching. Only plea that our
daughters be delivered from the great
social evil. 49,. .. ....
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-30

Ar EMEM ERING NOTHING
MORE" pretty Los Angeles girl
of 20, in testifying at the examination
of prominent attorney who had be
trayed her, said:
81 took a small quantity of beer
and whisky at his Office. Then we
went to a cafe and by that time I
hardly knew what was doing. We
had about 10 drinks and l lost count
l remembered nothing more until
morning"
IT'S the old, old story and the sim
pie relation contains a world of
pathos, for it's but the history of
thousands of innOcents.
cts a tale that's written over and
over every day in our great cities in
letters of shame. Society has fos-
tered many evils, but in fixing the
custom of young girls partaking of
strong drink it has stamped the seal
of its approval upon the rake and Sc
Queer.
~ No girl can take a cocktail or high
ball and remain in complete control
of her faculties. The effect of the
first drink may be but momentary,
but, alas, the second follows all too
quickly.
The primrose path is aIluring, but
it leads swift and sure to destruction.
It is given to to lead this life but once
and unhappily, with woman, the
downward path once chosen there is
no turning of the way. The moment
of pleasure is brief, the joys fleeting,
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-08-27

State OF Michigan. the Circnit Court for tho
County OF Shiawassee. In Cbancery.
Laura Messecar, Complainant,
VS..
Edward NJ. Mess ecar. Defendant.
Before Seloen 6. Miner Judge e. 'ho said
Court a"tlng at Cha mters Oh The 2yth day Of
JuLe 1915.
In this cause IL appearing by he affdavit or
flie and from the subpoena duly returnt ard
hitu in SAID cause thar the defendant Edward
NJ. essecar. is resident OF this ststeand hat
q subpoena 10 appear and answer has b, en-
duly issued In laid cause but could not be
served upon the said Edward NJ. Messecar bv
reason OF his contiL ued sbsence from this
state. Oh motion of Van r. Pond. solicitor
for complainant II is ordered that the appear
ance OF said defendant. Howard M. Messef ar
be entered in this cause wiz hin three mont III
from the date OF this order. and that In case OF
his appearance that he cause his answer to
the bill OF complaint TO be filed and a copy
thereof served upon the solicitor for com
plalDant within fifteen days ter service or
him or his solicitor Of a copy OF the said bill,
ana In default thereof that said bin he taken
as contested by the said defendant Edward M
Messecer.
II is further ordered that the said com.
plainant cause this order 10 be published n
The wo $50 Times, n newspaper printed
published and circulated in SAID county, and
that said publication ne commenced within
TWEEN days from the.date tf this order and be
continued therein once in each week for six
weeks in succession or that the said com plo ip
ant cause a copy Of this order 10 be personally
served on the said defendant. Edward NJ. Mes
secar at least twenty days btfore the time
above prescribed for his appearance.
SELDEN S. MINER.
Circuit Judge.
Countersigned and entered by me:
hLBERT L NICHOLS, Register.
VAN n. POND,
Solicitor for Complainant.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-08-27
ROOSIER JURIST GIVEN FINE
Judge Lands Imposes $1,000 Penalty
on Three Men.

Chicago, Aug. 25.-It cost an In.
diana judge and two associates $1,000
each to disobey Judge L.ndis, when
they appeared in the federal court,
for failing to observe an order re.
straining them from manufacturing a
patented article. The Indiana judge
is r. E. Green of Whiting, and his co.
defendants were William Zimmerman
of Whiting and Frank H. Rexstraw of
Hammond.
Robert Malcolm, Chicago manu-.
facturer, was the original plaintiff.
Twelve years ago, it is said, he EN-.
ployed Rexstraw as salesman for
the eye shield. Rexstraw left his EN-.
ploy and entered business for himself,
producing the same article. He was
restrained by federal order. Later
another eye shield concern was dis.
covered by Malcolm's attorney, with
Rexstraw and the two other men
fined as partners.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-08-27
Order Publication.

The Probate Court for the Cou ty OF Shia
WaSsee.
AT a session OF the Probate Court for said
County held az the Probate office In the City
OF Corunra on Tuesday the IL dav Of August
Ia the year one thousand nine hundred ano
fifteen.
Present Matthew Bush. Judge OF Probate.
In the matter OF the estate OF James b
Lotrldge deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Edward
A. Lotridge praying for a license TO nortgogc
real estate belonging To said estate.
IL is ordered that the 9Th day OF September
next At ten O'Clock In the forenoon at salo
Probate otfice, be assign.d for hearing sato
petition.
And IL is further ordered that a copy OF this
order be published three successive weeks
previous TO said day OF hearing, In the Owosso
Times newspaper printed aud circulating 10
said County OF Shigwassee.
MATHEW BUSH,
Judge Of Probate.
BY CLARIBEL GALLOWAY,
Probate Register.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-08-27
THREATS TO LYNCH,
TROOPS CALLED out
Governor Orders Militia TO Pro-
teCt Negro in Illinois Jail.

Murphysboro, ILL.,, Aug. 25.-Gove--
nor Dunno has ordered a part of the
fourth regiment, Illinois National
guard, to Murphysboro to protect De-
berry, negro, who will be placed on
trial Monday on a charge of killing
Mrs. James H. Martin.
The guardsmen are being sent here
at the request of Judge Hartwell.
There is talk Of lynchlng Deberry,
and Sheriff White requested assist
ance from the state. Deberry is in
jail at Harrisburg.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-08-27
Notice Of Public Improvement and Of
Special Assessment No. l23 For
tho Contribution Of a Curb and Gut
ter on Clark Avenue Between oliver
ard Lee Streets.
To all Whom 1t May Concern

To all Whom 1t May Concern:
Pursuant 20 n resolution Of the Comm ssion
OF the CITY OF OwosIo at a session held upon
the 23d day Of ugust a. D. 1918, notice Is here
by given that tile City OF OTosso proposes TO
make the following i'm prOvemept VIZ:
To construct a concrete curb an 1 gutter up
on each de of Clark avenue from oliver st Get
10 the nortn line OF Lee street.
That the plans and specifications and esti
mates Of cost are on file In nv Office for public
inspee ton that the Commission has cesignat
ell IA the special Assessment diSLrict upon
which the special assessment for said i'm
provemeDt shall be levied all the lots AND
parcels OF land fronting and abutting upor
said proposed Improvement tie same to bt
assessed according 10 bt nefiis.
Notice IL also hereby given that the specia
asses sment berttoftr made by the ity AS
sessor for the purpose OF defray ing that por
tion ~ the cost which the Commission decided
should be paio and horne by special assess
merit for the improv. ment ss aforesaid is nov
on hle In my onice for public inspection. The
CJm mission OF the Citv OF Owosso will meet VI
lie regular session on Monday, sept. 18Th A. ID
1915 at 1890 O'clocH In the afternoon 10 review
the special Assess nj and hesr any obi sction'
TO any asse. sment which may he made by ADy
person deeming btmsef eggrieved thereby.
Dated August gath. A. ID. 1915
ARTHUR II. DUMONO,
City Clerk
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-08-27
Not Even on Eastland.

Saginaw, Mich, Aug. 12.-Word has
reached here from Chicago that Harry
Shannon, vaudeville actor of this
city, who was thought to have been
drowned in the Eastland disaster, was
not on the boat.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-08-27
ATTACKS ON WILL ARE ENDED
Mrs. Rose Curtis, Sister of Late Jas.
Campbell, Withdraws.

st. Louis, Aug 25.-Mrs. Rose v.
Curtis, sister of the late James Camp.
bell, filed in the circuit court a mo.
ton withdrawing as a plaintiff in the
suit to break the Campbell will and
stating that hereafter no one is au
orized to take an appeal In her
ne from the recent jury decision
Mrs. Lois Campbell Burkham IL
daughter of James Campbell.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-08-27
But Where In CASTOR?

Flint, Mich, Aug. 12.-Achilles and
Alphonse Van Walleghem, child re-
fugees from Belgium, are safe in the
home of their parents here. Many
presents have been showered upon the
children.