davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24
Sends Ills Wife to Church
And Then InhaIeS Gas

Blind and paralyzed for six years
and doomed to a life that held no
hope for relief, Charles Delander,
aged "a, 1915 Ontario, last night
sent his wife to attend chruch meet
ing and then killed himself.
When Mrs. Delander returned
home at 10 o'clock she found the
doors locked and when she received
no response to her knock, she called
neighbors and they forced entrance.
In the kitchen they found Delander
with his head resting on four open
jets of a gas stove. He had been dead
for at least half and hour.
He is survived only by his wife.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24

ChunE's Predicament.
II was while they were building the Pan
anna canal An excited Chinese laboreI
dashed into one OF the foremen's tents.
"Oh. Mister Boss!" cried the Mongolia
Chung LII, him stuck In mud up to him
anklesl"
"oh, Mister Boss, him upside DOWN.
San Francisco Call.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24
Asks Anti-Saloon
League to Aid Drys

Chicago, Sept. 23.-Support of the
Anti-Saloon league is asked for the
national, state and local candidates OF
the prohibition party in an open let
ter to Purley A Bake, national super
intendent Of the Anti Saloon league,
from Oliver w. Stewart, campaign
chairman of the prohibition party.
The letter, made public here today,
cites several instances where the
league has ndorsed republicans or
democrats who are being opposed by
prohibition party candidates.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24
Did Villa Lead Raid
On Chihuahua? Asked

Washington, Sept, 23.-Opinion diff
fers among officials here whether
Villa led the attack on Chihuahua
City last week. General Bells report
that the bandit chieftain was in charge
of the expedition is denied by Gen
eral Trevino, commander at Chihua-
hua City, in report here to the Mexi-
can embassy. ... b.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24
For Piles
Pyramid Pile Treatment Is Used At
Home and Has Saved Vast
Number from the Horror Z.
of Operation.

Don't permit a dangerous operation for
piles until you have seen what Pyramid Pile
Treatment can do for you in the privacy of
your own home.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24
German Machine Gunners Found
"Chained and PadLocked" to Guns

cars assisted materially in silencing
the German machine guns and en-
filading the enemy trenches. and the
deep, strongly protected dugouts OF
the sugar refinery. Ten officers, in
GLIDING a battalion commander, were
made prisoners. At the same time
the trenches on either flank. known
to us as I. candy trenches and the
sugar trench, were stormed and
captured.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24
Iowa Postmaster
Takes His Own Life

Cedar Rapids, Ia, Sept. 23.- c. F.
Shanklin, aged 50, postmaster at Ma
rion, near here, died tonight from a
bullet wound in his brain, inflicted by
his own hand this afternoon. He was
a we'll known democrat in this local
ity. The postoffice examiner has been
going over his books, but nothing has
been given out concerning their con-
dition.
Evening star., 1916-09-17
POULTRY YARD NOTES.

The American class includes some
eighteen different varieties. Every one
of them has made its mark and repre-
sents quality.
The great Plymouth Rocks probably
purpose fowl the barred variety Is with
out doubt the most popular of all the
breeds of fowls. The whites and the
buffs and the Co1umbians are making
their way steadily to a front-line pos Il
ton.
The Wyandottes stand next to the
Rocks in popular favor down to the
present moment. There are no less than
eight different varieties of these splen-
did birds: Silver. golden. black, buff,
white, silver-penciled. partridge and Co
lumbar. The whites have won out
against all the rest. though not one has
failed to command universal admira ton.
The Rhode Island Reds are a more re-
cent breed. For q dozen wears they
have been forging to the front. until
they threaten today to supplant even the
Rocks and the 'Dottes'' in public
the single-comb and the rose-comb va
rieties. There appears to he little diff
ference In the popularity of these two
kinds of Reds Under this heading
II iHlSIil pe wen 70 IHeiitlOi lEe ftHout,
Island Whites. breed originated
within two or three years. and which
gives promise of making fine Showing g
in the near future.
The Javas, black and mottled; the
Dominiques, and the Buckeyes. complete
the list Of the purely American breeds.
What solid all-around qualities in
these great forefront American breeds. !.
They are medium in size. Standard
weight of Plymouth Rock cock. nine and
hoI nd lott
the Reds are one pound lighter. Hens
are two pounds lighter than roosters,
These weights are ideal for market
fowls. The twelve-pound bird. as well
as the three or four pound bird will
miss the mark of largest popularity in
the broiler or roaster trade. In quality
of meat. too. these three great breeds
are proba bly, second to none.
In egg production they are among the
best in the world, whether for winter
or summer. Heavily feathered, yet not
burdened; tough and hardy from the
shell up; clean legged and golden
Evening star., 1916-09-17
LYNCHBURG, VA.

LfNCHBU RG, Va, September l6.-The
decision of the state. supreme court this
week in the appeal case of the Unit cd
Cigarette Machine Company of this
city against the commonw wealth. in
which the circuit court of Campbell
county is reversed, is said by attorneys
to be one of the most far reaching tax
decisions handed down by the courts of
Virginia in years.
One of the most important phases of
the decision is that it is a precedent for
nearly 100 similar tax cases pending in
the lower courts of the state in tax
litigation which grow out of new tax
laws written in the statute books by
the last two general assemblies.
The United Cigarette Machine Com
pany, which maintains a large plant
just outside OF Lynchbure, for years
and until recently was British cor
poration. Claiming its assets were not
taxable here, the company in the past
paid on $4,000 year. 1t is claimed the
total amount for which the company
is liable for taxation on its intan ngible
assets from 1908 to 1913, inclusive, is
$5,1S2,55S.
In 1913 the commissioner of revenue
of Campbell county assessed the COM
pany with about $4,000 of intangible
personality or capital, and II was from
this that the company asked the circuit
court for a reduction. IN the circuit
court Judge Barksdale reduced the as
sessment. from which judgment the
county and state appealed. 1t is be-
lieyed here that the company VIII, II
possible, take the contention to the
United States Supreme Court for final
adjudication by that tribunal.
Evening star., 1916-09-17

of more than 500 bushels per acre, ana
the result was obtained by the liberal
use of fertilizer. treatment of the SEED
before planting, selection of the best
seed obtainable. and clean cultivation.
The potatoes were of the Irish Coooler
variety, so generally grown In this sec,
tion, and six tubers chosen for size ana
shape weighed seven pounds. with not
bad spot on or in the potatoes.
The crop was grown in ground that
was sowed last fall to crimson clover,
which was turned under this spflns
when the growth was about foot high
a balanced fertilizer being applied to the
soil. The seed potatoes were treated
before cutting in a solution OF corrosive
sublimate, one to 10000. and none put
large, perfectly smooth tubers free from
any indications of disease were used as
seed.
The crop was cultivated three times.
1t Is probable that results almost equal
ly good might have been obtained by
the use Of rye as a green manure, thougn
the effects of the crimson clover turned
under probably will be more lasting.
This and other records Of large crops
of potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn. oats:
wheat, rye. etc. following the use OF
green manure crops and liberal but
proper fertilizing, surely prove that the
soil of the so-called "worn-out" farms
of Virginia and Maryland will respond
to proper treatment and yield crops as
big and as valuable as any produced by
the supposedly more fertile soils OF the
west and middle west.
Faith in farming requires that man
believe in his ability as a farmer, that
he believe In his methods of culture
and plant feeding, and that he see in
his everyday work progression on
ward through the seasons and the
wears to farm prosperity and to home
happiness Faith in farming is that
which causes man to invest in good
f,1ll rn a
and to supply plant food for the crops
that are to be. Faith in farming ena-
bles man to spend both time and
money literally in sowing and fertiliz.
ing because he knows that the harvest
will be bounteous Faith in farming
iustifes the building up of the fertility
of the soil and the addition of perma-
nent improvements, the adoption Of
new and better methods of farming.
Greater than the faith of nation in
its army and navy is the faith of men
in farming, because it is faith in ma
ture.
Evening star., 1916-09-17

skinned: powerful and plump of body
and aboundlng in energy and pep
without being nervous and "scary. the
Rocks, the Dottes and the Reds lead the
world as all-round general purpose
fowls.
An ideal Barred Rock is one Of the
most beautiful birds in the world. Its
deep richness of coloring, the majestic
the splendid presence, all combine to
build up an animal personality Of the
most ariStocratic caste. Again, inspect
the fiery red feathering of the Rhode
Island Red. There's color for the most
eNacting. Try the Columbian Wyan-
dotte, with it's beautifully rounded rose
comb, splendid markings of jet black
and snow white, its skin as yellow as
gold and its voluptuous shape. ravish-
ing to the sight of every epicure in
the land. You can't convince the
American farmer that these birds are
second to any in the world. They will
lay eggs. they will mother chicks, they
will load platters with meat At for the
gods. They are his ideal. He desires
nothing better. because he can get
nothing better.
They are just as much "at home" in
the suburban back yard. Frost cannot
frighten them. heat cannot harm them
they can live and thrive on a square
rod or rustic for a living over a hun
dreda acre range.
For egg farming alone We will have
to admit that the four-pound White
Leghorn has won out against all com
ers. She eats little and asks no time
off for maternity matters. But for an
all-round general purpose business. in
Guiding eggs, meat. feathers. roasters
broilers. capons. incubation and brood
ing. as well as the highest caste and
most profitable form OF the fancier's
art, the little egg machine" has not
even standing room by the side of the
great American breeds.
Every year writes in larger scroll the
superexcellence of these splendid fowls
We must have more than eggs. We
must have meat in abundance as we'll
Let every man who can make the most
he can of the best meat producing ami
mails in the world-the Rocks, the
Dottes the Reds. the Javas, the Domi-
niques and the Buckeyes. They should
be raised by hundreds of thousands in
every state in the Union. The most
exhaustive scientific Investigations are
needed to develop to its highest possible
efficiency this rich mine Of the people S
resources.
Evening star., 1916-09-17
Fredericksburg, Va.

FREDERICKSBURG. Va, September
IA wedding of interest took place
in the Presbyterian Church here Thurs
day night, when Miss Sarah Lyons
| lizard, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
lizard, became the bride of Marsden
Churchill Smith of Richmond. The GER
emony was performed by Rev. j
Sproule Lyons of Atlanta, Ga, and
Rev. G. r, McFaden of Richmond un-
cles, respectively, of the bride and
groom.
the marriage of Miss Eulalia White
house, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. f. b.
Whitehouse, to Lafayette Reeves OF
Mathews county, which took place in
Norfolk Tuesday. The wedding was
a surprise to the families and friends
of both parties Mr.. and Mrs. Reeves
are now the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Whitehouse. but will leave Monday for
their home in Mathews
Mrs. w Mayo Smith was hostess at
Il reception Wednesday afternoon in
honor of the SmithIzard wedding
party. Mrs. Smith was assisted by
Mrs. +. r Baker, Misses Helen and Eta
Barney, Eliza Roy. Ann and Helen
White. Katherine Ford, Ruth Johnson,
Hilda and Helena Butler.
Mrs. Gregory, mother of United
States Attorney General Gregory. who
has been the guest Of Mrs. w. Fl. Fitz-
hugh, at her home on Washington ave-
nue., has returned to Mississippi.
Marengo. the home of w. ]. Dickin-
son. In Caroline county, was the scene
of pretty dance Tuesday night, given
in honor of the Misses Frazier of Mas
saponnoX, who are visiting i'll that sec
ton Many from this city were present.
Evening star., 1916-09-17
FREDERICKSBURG, VA.

FREDERICKSBURG. Va, September
l6.--While travelling from their home
in Stansbury, Nd, to Colonial Beach
Wednesday DR.. and Mrs. J. c. Carwell
had a narrow escape when their car
turned over on the road just above
Falmouth, pinning both occupants be-
meath it. Passersby came to the res
cue.
DR.. Carwell was not hurt. but Mrs.
Carwell was badly bruised and shocked
Later in the day they were able to
proceed to their destination in d hired
car.
Members of the Fredericksburg Jer-
sey Breeders Association were the
guests of Mr.. Frank G. Baldwin at
tSnowden Saturday. DIR. g. w. Brenner
Of the United States bureau of auima
industry made short address on CO.
operative efforts to eradicate tuhercu-
losis from the herds of the United
States and at the same time Mr. Bald
wins herd of Jerseys was undergoing
the tuberculin test. Beverley Harrison.
X. &. Moore. Mr.. Baldwin and others
made short addresses
Evening star., 1916-09-17

ings was established on the local tobacco
market this week, the best offerings Of
the week bringing ss.75 a hundred pounds.
Prior to this season the record was about
s6, and local warehousemen are still at
loss to know how to account for the great
demand for this. the lowest grade Of leaf
tobacco.
The crop in this section. although some
what earlier than usual. condition due
to early planting. was practically all cut
this week. Local dealers look for the new
crop to start on this market as soon as
there will have been a warm rain, follow
ing which the tobacco can be gotten down
in the barns and be prepared for handling
and for sale.
Evening star., 1916-09-17
Want Tollgates Removed.

A campaign is under way IN Amherst
county against the tollsates of the
county, and the fight promises to wage
warmly from now until the voters have
opportunity at the polls to decide
whether or not the present rates, or
even the gates, are to remain. feti-
tions are being circulated over the
county for a special election, to be held
during the fall, and as soon as the re-
quired number of petitioners have been
secured the petition will go to the cir
cult court of that county.
Not a few people of the county are
up in arms over what they claim are eX-
orbftant rates and an organized force
is to be put behind the effort TO DO away
with all of the gates in the county.
The county has a system of macadam
roads. and for several years AN effort
has been made to maintain them out Of
revenues from the toll2ateS
Tobacco Prices Soar.
Hn,, =,
Evening star., 1916-09-17
FAMINE |MPENDS IN
POULTRY INDUSTRY
Heavy Selling of Fowls for Market
and Storage Threatens Shortage,
Say Experts, Calling Halt.

Experts in touch with conditions in
the poultry business all over the United
States are becoming alarmed over the
strong possibility of a poultry and egg
famine next spring. 1t is stated that
farmers and poultrymen everywhere
are selling off their stock because of
present high prices of grain and feed.
and that hens and pu1lets that ordinar-
lily would be depended on to furnish
winter eggs and eggs for purposes of
incubation next spring, close observers
say. are being bought up by the hun
dreds of thousands by market and
storage interests, the result being that
on many farms not half a dozen fowls
have been left, while scores of small
poultry raising plants have disposed of
all of their stock and gone out of the
business.
Evening star., 1916-09-17
NORFOLK, VA.

NORFOLK, Va. September 1s-Officers
and men of the 4th Regiment Infantry
Virginia Volunteers, are not taking kind
ly to the report that the regiment is to be
mustered out of the infantry branch of
the service and transferred to the coast
artillery. They were resentful at not
peing called out when the Mexican stu
alton was acute and they were disap-
pointed a not going into camp this year.
but when the announcement was made
that the War Department would prob
ably break the organization up into com
parlies of coast artillery the limit was
reached
While Col L. f. Goodwin, commanding
the regiment. has his home in Emporia.
Va. the headquarters is in Norfolk.
where five of the companies are loca ted,
and much comment is heard here regard
ing the latest report. Maj. F. L. Curdts,
commanding the I'd Battalion of the
4th. said he hoped the adjutant gem
cral of Virginia would he able to con-
vince the War Department that the ten
companies OF coast artillery asked for will
be organized throughout the state, with
ou. having to break up the lth- Maj.
Curdts said he could not forecast what
the attitude of the officers and men would
be il the department sees fit to make the
change against their wishes.
Evening star., 1916-09-17

more important operations are likely to
take place.
Although early in the week Berlin re-
ported that the Russians were on the
offensive from the Baltic to the Car
pathians. later developments did not
seem to warrant this assertion. 1t
would appear that the main Russian
effort at the present juncture is di-
rected toward Lemberg and in the Car
pathians, where they are attempting to
open passes into Hungary Several
minor successes have been achieved in
the mountain region, but Berlin re-
ports repulse with heavy losses for
several Slavic assaults
Evening star., 1916-09-17
Foot Crushed Between Cars.

Maurice r. Reamy. son of County
Treasurer W. D. Reamy of Stafford,
was badly hurt when he was caught
between two cars at the local depot last
week. Mr.. Reamy was experimenting
the loading of several cars of cattle
when he attempted to pass between
the cars. At the same time a shifting
engine backed into the cars and Mr..
Reamy's foot was caught between the
bumpers. He was taken to the Princess
Anne Hotel, where his foot was am
putated
Evening star., 1916-09-17
Prominent Mason Dead,

s. B. Quinn, prominent Mason and
for several years superintendent of the
city water works, died suddenly at the
home of his sister, Mrs Mary Quinn
Hicks Wednesday afternoon. Mr.
Quinn was thirty-f1ve years old and at
the time of his death was clerk in the
local Baptist church. He is survived by
one brother and four sisters. The
funeral took place with Masonic honors
Friday afternoon at o'clock, and in
terment was in the family plot in the
city cemetery.
Evening star., 1916-09-17
Public Schools Open.

The city schools opened Wednesday
with the largest enrolment in their
history. In the high school the regis
tration was twenty in excess of that
for the corresponding period last year
and in the white elementary schools
the increase was correSpondingly large.
At the state normal school for women
many applications for admission have
been turned down, owing to the fact
pacity number, which is about 29S res
ident students. in addition to about
thirty day students. Reports from the
private schools also show increases
Evening star., 1916-09-17

J. II. MandiEo. the oldest employe OF
q company manufacturing farming imple-
mcnts in WalIingford. VT, resigned his
position recently, after a service OF up
ward of fifty-one years. --A.---
Evening star., 1916-09-17
fredericksburg Notes.

Two local property sales of impor-
tance were reported last week Fred
ericks W. Coleman bought the house on
Prince Edward street belonging to NJ
b. Musselman and c, Archer Smith
purchased the Marye house on the same
block.
The Enterprise building, = foYr-stery
Evening star., 1916-09-17

Most poultrymen have already begun
to select from last seasons layers the
hens that are to be the coming seasons
breeders In making the selection it is
well to bear in mind that scientific in
vestigators in the Department of Agri-
culture, as well as poultry husbandmen
at the various government and state ex-
pertinent stations, have determined that
coccIdioSis, or white diarrhea. is dis
ease that cften is transmitted from
mother to offspring through the eggs
That is, hen that at any time during
her life has had white diarrhea from
which she has recovered, retains the
bacillI Of the disease in her egg-produc-
ing organs, and her eggs also contain
the bacil!i, which are In the system Of
the chicks when they hatch
rms being the case, it is well to be
absolutely sure that no hen that has
ever had this disease is used as a
breeder, because the chicks hatched
from her eggs are almost certain to de-
Feiop the plague. The disease chiefly
AFFECTS young chicks. though mature
fowls toteH develop il and die from its
rH"cts. No positive cure has yet been
found for the disease though preyen-
tlN" means usually stay its ravages
Constant and liberal use of sour milk
on hutterm,lh has been found effective
as means of preventing the spread
of the trouble among chicks the milk
being before them all the time so that
they may consume all they will of it.
l sc OF Dernlanganate of potash in the
drinking water is another preventive
with which most poultrymen are now
familiar. Both the sour milk and the
pefinanSanafe operate intestjna dis
infectants.
Daily renewal of litter in the brood
coops and burning of the litter that is
removed, as well as frequent spraying
OF the interior of the coops and houses
with strong germicidsl solution, are
other preventive measures However
Evening star., 1916-09-17
Russian Effort
Directed at Lemberg.

follow. The capture of Halicz means
the turning of the Teutonic line
on the Guita-Lipa river, the last re-
naming natural water defense of the
Teutons between the Russians and their
goal-Lemberg. Russian activities in
the direction of Kovel have come to
a StandstiI.
While Italian aero fleets have been
dropping tons of explosives on Trieste
and other Austrian Adriatic points,
sharp fighting has broken out in the
Trentino district. where the Italians
are declared to have stormed several
enemy positions near Monte Cauriol
The Italians also have increased their
activity to the east of Gorilla in the
campaign for Trieste. it being declared
by Rome that her forces have taken
several enemy positions near Eailone,
with 2,111 prisoners.
Evening star., 1916-09-17
KUHN'S WAR REVIEW.

Continued from Fifth Page.)
Evening star., 1916-09-17

Lexington. Na-The building COM
mittee of the Virginia Military In
stitute board of visitors has awarded
the contract for changing old Stone
wall Jackson Hall into barracks for
cadets, and work will begin at an early
date. Additional room will be given
for about fifty cadets. The committee
Evening star., 1916-09-17

Haliczs according to report, has been
taken by the Russians and if this is
Evening star., 1916-09-17

aided by feeding a ration high in pro-
tein-that is. meat feed.
The ordinary grains, such as corn,
wheat, oats, etc, do not contain enough
protein. In the case of small focks,
table scraps containg meat, lean and
fat, supply the deficiency. With large
focks it is necessary to feed a larger
quantity of commercial beef scrap. Tn
less sufficient protein is supplied the
moult will be delayed and the fowls
will not form the new coats of feathers
before cold weather arrives.
Chilling. due to insufficient feathers
after the moult, is a prolific source of
the colds that often develop into roup.
Hens viii not lay until their old feath-
ers have been shed and replaced by a
new coat; therefore, to hasten the
process by proper and judcious feed
ing hastens the coming of the profit
able laying season.
Evening star., 1916-09-17
Bakers Action Protested.

Norfolk retail erocers are protesting
against the action of the master bakers
in refusing to receive returned loaves of
bread. They do not object to the raise
in the price Of bread. which, they agree,
is reasonable in the face of the high cost
of flour and other material. but they con-
tend that it is unfair to them to refuse to
receive the loaves they cannot sell, AS
they have been in the custom of doing,
pointing out that il is more difficult for
them to sell loaves for cents each than
it has been for them to sell the bread
at cents loaf. and that every loaf
they have left on their hands offsets the
profit on I'VE loaves.