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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-06-22
"SWAT THE ROOSTER"
URGES POULTRYMEN
''ROOsterlesS," or 'Tnfertile, Eggs De.
teriOrate Less in Summer Than
Do Fertile Eggs.

Clemson College, June 21.-The
"swat the rooster campaign inau-
gurated by Clemson college ON the
Clemson cream and egg routes is Of
such importance that every person in
the State keeping laying hens for eggs
should understand tie reasons why
doing away with the rooster is neces-
sary at this season of the year. The
poultryman of the college explains
why infertile eggs are more profitable
than fertile eggs.
The ovary of the hen, where an egg
yolk increases in size from a small
point to maturity, lies at the mouth Of
the oviduct, tube about twenty
indses long. The mature yolk is
fertilized wnen it enters the oviduct
if the hen has been running with a
male and during the process of COW
ering the yolk with layer after layer
of oumen, or white, with the two
skins and with the limey substance
or unborn chick, is growing constant
ly. Every fertile egg at the time of
laying Gas in it a live chick twenty to
thirty hours old.
This little chick takes advantage of
every suitable temperature to increase
in size. A warm room, a summer sun,
or any temperature over eighty de-
grees will make the chick grow
The difficulties of keeping such fer
tile eggs in a fit eating condition dur
ing summer weather are too great to
overcome. The only remedy is to re-
move the cause, which is the rooster.
By "swatting" the rooster and having
eggs without live germs in them, one
can obtain as good eggs in warm
weather as in winter. There is then
no chick in the egg to grow as in
the fertile egg in which the chick
grows for a day or two and then dies.
Roosters should be killed or separa-
ted from the laying taens. This does not
lessen egg production. A men will
lay just as we'll without rooster
The hen which holds the worlds rec
ord of 3O3 eggs in one year did not
have rooster with her during the
year.
"swat the rooster" should be the
slogan of every poultryman. The
rooster is necessary during the breed
ing season, but at other time is OBJ
jectionable. When the roosters are
put out of the way, there will be NO
spotted golks in fried and poached
eggs and people will eat more eggs in
summer. Swat the rooster and have
better eggs.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-06-22
To Oppose Landing.

Nogales, Sonora, June 19.-Gov.
Jose Maytorena authorized the state
ment today that the entire forces un-
der his command would be used if
necessary to resist the landing of
American marines on tie west coast
to protect foreign settlers Of the
Yaqui valley.
Aedetachment Of nearly 1000 troops
sent to the YaQui valley yesterday, he
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-06-22
WINS COLUMBIA BRIDE
George Oxner of LeesvilIe and Miss
Haltiwanger of Columbia Wed.
The State.

The State.
George D. Oxner of Leesville and
Miss Olive Haltiwanger of Columbia
were married yesterday afternoon at
4 o'clock in st. Pauls Luehtran
church, by the pastor of tie bride,
the Rev. H. A. Mccullough. Only a
few intimate friends of the family
witnessed the ceremony. The couple
left last night for Leesville, where
they will make their future home
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-06-22
The Great Man of Greece.
Columbia Record.

RSCO1u.
The serious illness Of Constantine,
king of Greece, will cause alarm and
CONSERVATION among his subjects in
this country. The king, who is be-
loved by every Greek, is brother
in-law Of the kaiser, cousin of tie
Car and of the king Of England, in
addition to being a blood relation of
nearly every crown in Europe.
But the king is more or less of a
ffgure-head in Greece. That country
las advanced wonderfully in the last
Is wears, and this has been due to the
work of the great prime minister,
Eleutheorios Venezelos, who is a most
remarkable statesman, from all ac-
counts. At the time of the peace con-
ference in London held in 1913 2e was
named by the press as the greatest
Greek since Xenopnon.
1t was he who guided the fortunes
of his country through the war with
Turkey in which the Balkan allies got
their independence. Subsequently
Bulgaria tried to take tie best of the
territory gained from Turkey, and
Greece and Serbia went to war sue
cessfully with Bulgaria. That is what
complicates the situation in the Bal
kan States now. Bulagria is thirst
ing for revenge upon Serbia and
Greece, and fears to move on account
of Roumania Serbia is being scourg
ed with a pestilence worse than war
-typhus fever.
venezelos has worked and lived in
tie hope that Greece may be restored
to her ancient pow With Athens tie
intellectual center of the world, and
the pure language of Hellas restored
and spoken. He himself speaks the
classic tongue and has constantly
sought to keep from the press any
words that teud to corrupt the Ian
guage.
He comes from a family that goes
back to the Middle Ages and the
Dukes of Athens; one Of his ancestors
was a chief official of the famous lib
rary at Alexandria when it was de-
stroyed by the Caliph Omar, and the
Venezelos actually claim to descend
from one of the children of Niobe her
self.
The name Eleutheorios means "the
liberated one," and even as boy he
determined to fight the Turks and free
Greek islands from their despotic rule.
After graduating from the University
of Athens he went to Crete, awakened
the people to enthusiasm and nearly
died from wound in the shoulder.
He has never allowed himself to
learn word of the Turkish language,
for he dislikes those people too deep
ly, but he speaks German, French,
Italian and English; as an orator se
holds audiences spellbound, and in
diplomacy it is difficult to find his
equal.
For a time he was Minister Of War
at Athens, and also Minister of Ma
rine. The reorganized army was plac-
ed under French officers, and he had
British officer to lead the work Of
upbuilding the navy.
He appears to be man Of mild
spirit, and his nearsighted blue eyes
heighten t3is impression. But when
he speaks to an assemblage of his
countrymen in regard to the place of
Greece among the Balkan powers he
is like another person il his fiery en-
tnusiasm and his ragA at possible
injustice or disrespect to Greece.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-06-22

said, was dispatched primarily to pro-
tect settlers and their crops from the
Indians, but. they had orcers to re-
sist any landing of American military
forces.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-06-22

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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-11

horses and meagre equipment, 1t was
to be a large and expensive estate on
Long Island which as time went on
was to be developed into one # the
most complete and beautiful places
near New York. with every possible
convenience that n reasonable man
might desire, including quarters and
a track for racing horses of breeding
and high degree.
Year after year young Alfred Cos
den got up at daybreak. worked until
dusk, building up a fund Of bodily
strength which some day was to stand
him in good stead. And then, at the
age Of about 10. he heard that a drug
gist in Dover wanted lad in his
store and would pay him the incred-
ible salary of SO week for doing
nothing but clean up, wait on folks
who wanted postage stamps and soap,
learn to draw soda water from the
fountain, keep the fires going in cold
weather, wash the windows. run err
rands, sweep the sidewalk. keep the
showcases and other glass well pol
ished and do few other little Things
like that.
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doing, and what 7 wanted to do in
the future. After a long talk the said
that | mustn't think of giving up:
that If | wanted to work hard in
mastering the purely academic
branches he would coach me in them
so that ! might try the entrance eX-
amlnations to the School of Pharmacy
a few months later. You can believe
j wanted to; and after that ] worked
over the school books twice as hard
every minute that could be spared
from the store.
During all these months ] was
simply an apprentice at the Riker
store. My work included washing
bottles, sweeping out, running errands,
tying up large packages and waiting
on the regular clerks. For this
received 81 week. OF this had to
spend S. for room and board, which
left me 81 "A week for clothing, barber,
postage and inc!dentals OF all kinds.
1t required some financing to make 81
cover this. as well as an amount 10
be laid by each week as savings. But
! had to do It. The fact Is. until
after had gone to work ! didn't
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The Aaddinlike Career of Alfred H. Cosden Who Came
From Little Delaware Farm and Is Laying Down
the Reins of a Great Business at AZ

himself of the fact that he had no
place to sleep and from some Of
the clerks ascertained the location Of
a modest boarding house in Twenty
second street, near the store. When
he got time for supper he went over
there, engaged a tiny room and table
board at the rate Of IS week for
both. dropped his satchel in the room,
swallowed some food and came back
to the inventory. At 10 o'clock the
store closed and he went across the
street to his new boarding house,
but at A. NJ. was up, had break
fast and was on duty again at the
store.
In talking to Mr.. Cahoon the first
time Cosden had mentioned that, as
he wanted to study pharmacy, he
must get sufficient time of, three af-
ternoons a week, to attend the School
of Pharmacy, and to this Mr.. Cahoon
assented. Also the young man had
three evenings to himself every week,
in which he studied in his little room
until after midnight.
Soon after he reached New York
he applied for admission to the School
of Pharmacy. and paid his matricu-
lation fee of 1925, which he had saved
so carefully in the three years work.
ing in the Dover drug store. And
he went up to the old armory one
day to take his entrance examina-
tions.
There were a lot of us fellows
sitting around there that day." Mr..
Cosden said recently, recalling the
experience with keen enjoyment. II
looked around, trying to size them
up. and wondering just what was
coming next. Pretty soon the ex-
aminers passed around lot of papers
to us containing questions about
things l barely knew the names of.
I could no more solve the problems
in algebra and geometry than | could
read in Chinese. I'd never had any
mathematics beyond simple arithmetic,
remember in that crossroads school
down home. and the grammar ques-
tons and others in those examination
papers fairly staggered me. For about
an hour l sat there doing nothing. At
last ! walked up to one of the men
In charge, whom I afterward learned
was Prof. Ferguson. | told him what
was the matter, showed my papers at
him. and said | guessed 1t was about
time for me to go somewhere else.
Then Prof. Ferguson commenced to
ask questions. just as Mr.. Cahoon had
done He wanted to know all about my
folks and myself. and how | happened
to come to New York. what | was
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There wasn't any work In sight
that sort of job was simply fun
in the eyes Of q youth who was ac-
customed to the back breaking toll Of
farm. Besides. fots Of people came
into the store and there were m Iii
tudes and multitudes going about the
streets. Young Cosden jumped at the
job and landed It. He began work at
about o'clock in the morning, and
his first wonder was how people ever
got along in the world who started
business so late in the day.
He had not been there very long
when he decided that he preferred a
druggists life to the life Of a farmer.
In order to be druggist he must
understand pharmacy; and to do this
he would have to attend some school
or other. So he began to save every
cent he could spare out of his SO a
week. This was easier during his Sec
bnd year, because then he was earn
ing 81 week; and in his third year
he received the princely pay Of IS.
Everything was simple now. When the
third year was over he quit Dover
and started for New York. He had
in his pocket S125 to pay for matricu-
lating at the School of Pharmacy
and a small sum for living expenses
until he could find a job and receive
his first weeks pay. The only people
from New York he had ever seen were
some travelling statesmen who made
Dover on their regular trips; and he
decided that II wasn't worth while to
look any OF them up. Time was too
precious. But he knew exactly where
he was going to apply for a job. be-
cause for more than year he had
been studying advertisements in the
New York newspapers and had con-
stantly noticed the alert. attractive
announcements of a firm then situated
at Twenty-second street and Sixth
avenue. That was the kind of a live
concern that he wanted TO get a job
with.
to the metropolis he thought he would
be justified in looking around for an
hour or two at some of the great de-
partment stores he had read about,
and he did so. strictly from the out
SIDE" he now says with a chuckle. FOR
he didn't have a cent to spare in
purchasing anything. Block by block
he made his way up town and at last
stood in front of the store Of William
Il. Riker 4 Sons Company. He stood
there something less than minute.
sizing up the busy ,stabl .shment, then
walked inside and with all the conf
denCe he could muster asked for the
boss.
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with battered wooden Indian stand
ing outside, and show window heaped
with cigars, canes. cans If tobacco,
boxes of cigars, packages OF cigarettes
just heaped up. with no plan of dis
play. and with dust everywhere. And
the average salesman within doors
was slipshod In appearance, made no
especial effort to please a customer
and seldom dreamed of saying THANK
YOU" when a customer handed him
money
one evening. II is related. George
Whelan was walking along Broad
way, opposite Union Square. When
AT the corner of Sixteenth street he
felt like smoking. hut had no cigar in
his pocket. He stopped and looked
around. The nearest cigar stand on the
south was at Fourteenth street; the
nearest stand on the north was at
Twentieth street. Ii was then, ac-
cording to the accepted story. that
Whelan remarked TO himself
There ought to be cigar stand at
the corner of every block of the busy
streets IN this big city
When he was in a sleeping car. later
ON the Tn ught kept recurring to him.
Arriving back up State he spoke to
one or two men of means explained
his plan of opening IA chain of stores in
New York-and was turned down.
Then he went to n capitalist who had
known him since boyhood. William Is.
Niver. formerly president of the Read
ing Railroad. who for years had been
"A patron Of the Whelan stores. Mr..
Niver listened carefully and re-
sponded:
George, know you, and you know
AL about the cigar business. If you
are convinced that you can succeed
in New York, I'll help with capital.
But you'd better try out conditions
there with a single store before you
undertake "A chain of them"
Meanwhile young Whclan had
opened in New York an office for the
sale of Syracuse Cigar Company goods.
He remained here for about a year,
attending to this business, but also
making an exhaustive study of the
needs and opportunities for retail
cigar stores in many localities. He
studied the people on various streets
and avenues, he would stand by the
hour, in the evening, at one corner or
another, counting the passersby. no.
ticng what proportion Of the men
We're smoking, what they were smoh-
ing, watching them enter cigar stores,
noticing the way they We're waited on
by statesmen, and every other detail
connected with the proposition that
was being thrashed over in his fertile,
tiret IS mind,
Finally he was ready to act He
returned to Syracuse and with his
brothers organized the United Cigar
Stores Company. AS yet, Mr., Nivcr
was not supplying capital, so Whelan
had to he contented with opening a
single shop at S4 Nassau street. 1t
was a modest place and attracted SO
little attention that on the opening
day it took in just $40.
This was not particularly encour-
aging. but the brothers in charge
waited and hustled-hustled to please
the occasional customer who dropped
in. Pretty soon an old establsh,d
cigar dealer around the corner began
to hear OF these young men. their
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that time. from Ireland. With little
difficulty Michac! got work IN a cigar
store and remained there five years
when he and another clerk went into
partnership, and opened cigar store
on their own hook.
AS the business increased Michael
opened other retail stores and put in
charge OF them one brother after an
other. As he became old enough. BY
the year 1881 young George announced
that he was ready to take hold. Be-
fore this he had finished his schools
ing. and had served apprenticeship
in cigar store. Now he was 10.
ana Michael set him up in business
at stand in the Vanderbilt Hotel
Syracuse
From that moment George Whelan
made business the object of his life
Everything else was subordinate to
it. Within an hour after he took hold
the cigar stand was transformed.
Glass cases were polished goods were
displayed attractively. not speCk of
dust, not bit Of tarnish on metal,
could he seen anywhere. Old custom
ers stopped for their favorite brands
and went away feeling glow OF sat
isfaCtion over the courtesy with which
they had been treated. Nothing was
too much trouble to please them: the
young proprietor, apparently, was as
grateful for the purchase of two sto-
sies at a nickel as If he had sod per-
fectos at quarter each.
When the cigar stand was closed
ar night young Whelan didn't stop
work. either. And III: first thing his
elder brother Michael realized was
that some IF his own regular custo-
mers had left his store and were trad
ing with George. Naturally Michael
demonstrated.
whats the odds?" George replied.
I'm selling EN- more goods than
they used to buy in your store. and It. !;
all in the family
As month by month went by
Georges fertile mind kept working
overtime. He saw his brothers and
himself successfully conducting sew
eral stores in Syracuse; why shouldn't
they extend their field to other towns
He put up the proposition in no I'M
certain terms.
At first it was met with adverse
response; the Whelan boys were doing
well--let well enough alone. But that
wasn't the makeup Of young George
In the end he carried his point, bought
out a cigar manufacturer named John
i. HER, and organized the Syracuse
Cigar Company. He created the c. A.
Whelan Company. which opened
stores On Watertown, Schenectady. FL
mira and Troy, placing four OF his
brothers in charge of them.
The experiment was Il success from
the start. And then George Whelan
decided that he would attempt a
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George j. Whelan, Who Built Up the Greatest Chain
Cigar Stores in the World, Believes Mans Life
From so On Should Be Play Time

stroke on which his imaginative mind
had been rejecting for a long time.
In order to purchase goods he had
been in the habit of coming to New
York frequently. His keen eye noticed
that mighty few cigar stores in this
big town were attractive in appear
ance. excepting those in cafes and ho-
tells. As a rule the New York city
cigar store was a dingy little shop,
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tn HE beginning OF success on the
part of George J. wheian and
= his six brothers dates back.
really, to the close Of the
civil war, when Michael, eldest Of
the seven. returned from the Union
navy to Syracuse. N. Y. to which
city his parents had gone. long before
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menced to wake up. He saw 'r.gN,.
coming for his own business t.i
opened war on the invaders .. 81. 'er.
ritory which he had grown P. r,-tr.
as his own. The Whcllu buys War,
not long in finding out that v,r .ia
been declared. Instantly '... .Ih
up the challenge and up,u.! o. W..r q
retaliation, a cut rate vAt -. severe
in reduction of prices and 3. $780,. ti.
vert sed. that within q m .... .t
store was throused with ..-. w p,
II was more than PAWN u....-.,
and success was in sight.
This assured, four ur 't, .. ..- .'
the East Side were pgl. .... g.. W
David Roscnfeld. VIII i.mH..I ls
manager of the group. '.N 2.
taken over were several ...'r H.l
10y Louis Bell. ana his t...rH Na"a
was aftcrward purchase .. ."
American Tobacco Cumu.N III"
Wise stores planted t,r..a y"
England were added Ivy N...' t@
a chain in Texas up,iN'.t s. WI.
Bros. After this som. 'H..E
more Independent stores F" s." ir
sold out to the United g. '.. N.
since then have opened S'.''- '...'
own everywhere.
Ii is "a Il that Gcorgr g. .. .'
duccd the system OF -.... .r"..A
coupons with each pure. .. . ..
after he had made ar ... ...I f.t
careful test IF the r,t. .. his S..t'
cuse stores. To-day .
of the greatest aCyt.,..' >...
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Pheasant agreeable manner tho abso.
lutte neatness of their store, the fac,
that they were as spick and span IL
appearance as IL on their way 70
party and, most astonishing of all
that they said THANK you" in a waY
that meant real appreciation. whom,
ever man bought anything. even -
1t were only a box Of matches.
The old established dealer con-,
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Continued on Sixteenth Page.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-06-19
NEWS BRIEFS

Under the new law passed recent
~ by the State legislature the com
missioners Of Uhis county may in
crease the county road engineers sal
airy 10 a sum not exceeding $1,000. 10
Is understood this will be done.
A local autoist ran over a fine
bull dog on Market street yesterday.
and Oficer Walter WORKS was called
to put an end 10 the dogs misery.
There will be a special term OF
the Circuit Court held in this county
June 26 by Judge r. VI. Addleman.
The special term has been called 10
dispose OF certain routine matters
that need attention.
Contracts for new Offices have
been awarded by the State Fair Aqgo-
ciation 70 the J. W. Bcltz e. Sons Co.
.at their bid OF 81 300
The County Commissioner yes.
terday made tour Of inspection over
the roads of tho county This was
done 10 get an idea AZ TO the amount
81 work that must be- done out Of next
years appropriation.
Yesterday was city pay d7y for
the employees OF the street. water.
health. light and gas departments OF
tho city
Tho lirht and water committee Of
council viii meet in adjourned see.
zion Monday night. 10 decide ON the
question Of abandoning the gag plant
From Indications. tho plant win BE-
run. but The force will be- curiauod.
The volunteer nromen OF Mozart
held dance 40 Mozart park last
night Many persons were there and
"a neat sum was realized Tho pro.
ceeds viii DO used t0 help pay for e.
new chemical house
Nat Kunnca viii bc arrairrrd be-.
Tore The insanity committee fhis a.
tcrnoon Off 9 O'Clock Sat was ur .n
police court yesterday morning
Tt g. expected That tho cre.rcora.
report ON The wcu system OF IiIfaiIon
VIII DO frtshod by Monday and sub.
mlticd to council Tuesday nirhf Do
has boon lnumafrd that tho new com.
mifsion'q figures win amount fo about
$500 600
Purcell Hcatfe. 0f fhc island has
been elected captain off tho 1916 base.
ball team OFF Tho University of Pitts.
hurgh. BC1tflr q. won known ir This
city. having played 1n number of
scmi-pro. teams and o. one OF the best