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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-09-18
Sixteen Alleged Gamblers
Are Dismissed by Judge

The sixteen men VIII" w"r" arrested
by Officer Smith ut ln2S Market. street
carly Sunday morning were dismissed
yesterday morning after an inv"Stic ga
tion in police court. al account "f IN
sufficient evidence that they had hccn
gambling. All of tho men cnnlcmlud
that they were merely sitting around
in the chairs. although several of them
said they had never hccn In the place
before.
or course the judge was rather sus-
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-09-18
SPECIAL CAR SERVICE
West Virginia Traction 4 Hlootric 90
To Operate Extra Cars For WeGt.
Alexander Pair,

Always. ready to assist anything that
tends to boot things. the West Virginia
Traction 4 Electric company, announce.
that special car service will be Z fea-
ture during the West Alexander fair.
starting today. on the out-the-pike div
ision of the company.
The fare will he as follows Ground
trip from Wheeling to West Alexander.
35 cents; from Elm Grove. IS cents. and
from TriadrlphIa: 20 cents. Tickets can
he procured ut the general office at
Twelfth and Chaplne streets. Grienr's
Drug store. Elm Grove. Of Vance's
grocery store, Triadelphia. On Thurs
day. the big day Of the fair. cars will
be operated from the city to West Alex
ander every half hour. The fair prom
ises TO be the biggest ever held in the
"Pensy" town.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
VEAL CALF NOT PROFITABLE
Consume More Food in Milk Than
They Produce in Meat-Raise
Purebreds for Breeding.

Veal calves from dairy COWS gener-
ally lose money for their owners, and
when these calves are kept until q
year old the loss is even greater, is the
information brought by c~ost-account
record of the Ohio agricultural ex-
pertinent station for &c herds. The
milk used to grow these calves Is often
of more value as human food than the
veal produced.
In the % dairy herds IS owners lost
money on raising calves for veal. The
average loss on 323 veals was about
S1.95 a head. The average loss of
raising 361 calves in 80 herds studied
was $3.50 for the first year. Only five
dairymen among the 30 raised calves
at a profit.
When dairymen get a high price for
milk, they would be ahead by selling
calves rather than raising such ami
mails for veal or beef. The milk would
bring a higher price for human food
than the veal produced from 1t. Pure
bred calves usually bring higher prices
for breeding purposes, and in sucf
cases it is profitable to raise them.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
ENGLISH AS SHE Is SPOKE
What the American Soldier Intends to
Do With Kaiser Is Not Under
stood in England.

With c~ommondable enterprise a Lon
don editorial brother seeks to clarity
fer his readers the quaint expression of
certain American soldiers who have In
timated that their first undertaking in
Europe will be to CT the kaiser" In
interpreting them to intend to seal up
his high mightiness Theoretically, how
ever, the LondOner's zeal Outruns his
Information.
Nix, nix, friend, 1t doesn't mean that
at all says the st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch. 1t means merely that they pro-
pose to decorate the German emperor
with hardware; to take his taw; pour
the leather into him put him on the
pan slip him one on the wind! kid
nap his Angora show him where he
gets off. To put it more plainly, hav-
Ing bought chips In a game where the
custom has been to play 'em close to
the Waistcoat. the Americans have
taken off the limit and they
will copper all bets, see all raises and
intend, the very first time the kaiser
gets his feet wet, to call him off the
Christmas tree.
1t is plain in the circumstances that
our British brethren are about to find
their knowledge of English handsome
ly increased.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
Living on Galleries.

The cheapest eating in the world is
rice and peanuts, measured by the
calories. which constitute the only real
test. The former costs five cents per
1000 calories and the latter seven
cents. SO that if a person would eat a
good helping Of rice and wind up by a
plentiful dessert of peanuts, he would
get more muscle, brain. nerve and bone
out of it than he would out of a diet
Of roast beef and potatoes. There is
no attention paid to the value of food
in practical living. Our sole guide is
what hits u appetite, says the Ohio
State Journal. We want what "we'd
ruther,' as the poor woma told Jane
Adams. 1t is going in and buying
potatoes by the pile. without regard
to the bushels or pecks. There is
twice as much living in some kinds of
foods as in others and yet we pass up
our plate perfectly u~nconcerned
whether it back with 500 or
1000 calories. This is one reason we
are poor.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
Gases Used in Warfare.

A recent scientific report from Eu
rope treats of the principal gases used
for attack. These include chlorine,
bromine, sulphur dioxide and formal
dehyde. Chlorine and bromine have
proved most effective, because of their
great weight. They roll over the
ground like water. These gases are
released from compression tanks. The
sulphur diOXide and fo~rmaldehyde are
produced by burning the appropriate
chemicals. There are many gases
more deadly than those named, but
in order to be effective for trench
work the poison gas must have suffi-
cient weight to stick to the ground.
The gas mask has practically done
away with the actual effectiveness of
the gas attacks. but they are said to
have considerable psychological effect
still. many soldiers thinking they are
.gassed" when they are only smelling
the harmless vapors set up inside the
gas masks.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
FAvORS LlTMUs PAPER TEST
Ieoe Makes Suggestions for lo-
eating Sour Soils.

With a little practice, any careful
q soil to see if it is sour All the ma
terials necessary are some strips of
blue lttmuS paper that can be pur-
chased at almost any up-to-date drug
store and, If the soil is dry, some pure
water free from lime. Distilled water
or rain water is best. II the test is
made when the soil is wet enough to
make a mud bah, no water is needed.
r. Il. Huddelson of the University Of
Missouri College of Agriculture offers
the following suggestions for making
the test. Work the sample of soil into
q stiff mud ball about the size of an
egg. Break this into halves and put
one or two strips of blue litmus paper
between. Put the mud ball back to-
gether, pressing it firmly against the
paper, and let it stay for five minutes.
Then examine to see If there has been
any change in the color of the paper.
If the soil is soul the paper, where it
| was in contact with the mud, should
be distinctly pink in color. If 1t IS
| spotted pink and blue or purplish IN
color, either the soil is not very sour
or there was poor contact between the
paper and mud. If the paper remained
blue the soil is not sour enough to be
very detrimental to crops.
The soil of a field is seldom alike all
over. and when making u soil test, care
should be taken to get soil from sew
eral places and mix them together, or
enough tests should be made over the
field to determine whether any OF ii
is sour.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
Children and Untruths.

Why do children lie? Edwin S. Pull.
Ter in the Mothers Magazine answer
The question by saying that the imagi'
nation Of a child is stronger than his
intellect. that fiction is as real to o
child as fact.
1.-THE cur for lies inspired by imagi.
nation" he asserted, lis the education
of the child's intellect to distinguish
between fact and fancy. AS his error
is mental, not normal, his cure must
be mental. 1t would be a grave error
Of training to attempt to suppress his
Imagination as a cure for his untruthS,
Imagination is the handspring which
moves his mentality to growth. hence
1t should be directed into rational
channels and not curbed.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17

his selections in this and
should be familiar with its limitations.
In order to judge the animal with
much accuracy she should be in milk
and at the best stage of her lactatiOn
period. A cow that is dry offers very
little upon which to base opinion, as
she has a tendency to take on flesh.
Cows that have been underfed are in
no condition to be judged. 1t is hard
to tell what heifers will do from APP
pearance before calying. Sometimes
the COW that has all OF the external
appearances does not have the stimu-
lation to produce milk. Until records
are kept of more animals or some
other means devised FOR selection, the
selection by type should be used, and
it is up to everyone interested in dairy
cattle to become familiar with it.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
Measuring Your Pace.

How many steps do you take to the
mile? Even if your considered reply
be Il .76O," I shall take leave to doubt
1t. Should you be a British infantry
maj your pace will be the longest of
any infantryman. The Russian pace
Is the shortest, being but 271a inches ;
the French, Italian and Austrian pace
Is % inches. the Germans do 80 inches,
while British soldiers stride an extra
half inch. But your own pace, what
of it? 1t depends upon your height.
Take your eyebrow height. halve it,
and that represents your pace. You
will find it to be somewhere between
30 inches and 81 inches, so that YOU
will need between 1000 and 2.1OO
PAGES to the mile.-London Chronicle.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
TO ERADICATE WILD CARROT
Short Rotation, Including lntertilled
Crop, Is Simplest and Most
Effective Remedy.

If the soil is thoroughly infested
with wild carrot, a short rotation OF
crops, including an intertilled crop,
as corn, potatoes or beans, is the sim
plest and most effective remedy. The
intertilled crop should be given a
little extra attention, particularly late
in the season after 'laying by" to
make sure that none of the weed sur
wives. Before seeding to grass a spe-
cial effort should be made to build
up the fertility Of the soil by blowing
under barnyard manure or other or
ganic fertilizer.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
EVERY GOLFER IS CHAMPION
II He Doesn't Like the Ordinary
Classifications He Can Make New
Ones to Suit Himself.

It long has been a mystery to the
man who doesn't play golf to UNDER
stand what there is about the game to
make otherwise dignified and rational
persons to go nutty over it. Should a
non-golfer casually confide to his fam
lily doctor that all is not well, and that
he finds that he can't get away with
three square meals a day and a light
lunch before retiring quite so happily
as he used to, the medical man prob
ably will tell him to play golf. And If
the non-golfer asks If the doctor plays
the game, the physician proceeds to
give him 5000 words on how he made
the seventeenth hole in three. and that
he a swing his mashie like Chick
Evans. And it Is the same with other
acquaintance; they all prescribe their
fad as a means of battling old age.
Another queer thing about the game
is the ready conceit acquired by the
dub, says the Seattle Post-Intelligen-
cer. Give a near-golfer two or three
lessons and he is ready to bet money
on himself. And he will 60 to a lot OF
trouble to round up a bunch of other
dubs and take them out to the links
to trim them out of 40 cents. Any
player may be a champion in his class.
He may be the best 240-pound, side
whiskered and bald-keaded player in
the world. If he doesn't like the ordi-
nary classification he can make new
ones to suit him. There is no reason
why my man should not be champion
in his class.
Also it is eXasperating for a man
who must stay in the office or store
all day to have somebody come in and
clank his golf sticks OF the floor and
talk about niblicks and brassies and
the "drive through stroke" whatever
that Is. And Just when the conversa-
ton gets around to the point where
n could happily eXpatiate on the
joys of backyard garden. a motor
boat or a fivver. the hounder usually
rises and leaves hurriedly.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
The Need of Caution.

Guide-Here you see the waistcoat
worn by Captain Snoot when he was
shot by the assassin. The bullet that
ended his life went through that hole
there.
Mother-Do you remember, children,
how l have warned you against are
l~essness. If the hole had been mend
ed at the proper time the bullet could
not have gone through 1t and he would
still be alive.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
Maybe He Did.

The couple had stopped before the
brilliantly bejeweled window of a shop
in Fifth avenue, near T~hirty-seventh
street, New York. The girl, petite and
altogether a treat to the passing mas
culine eye-passing. but h~estitatingly
so-was gowned charmingly in some
thing which chung to her affectionately,
~pardonably so.
"Oh. Harold :" she exclaimed, did
you know that knee vanity boxes We're
becoming all the rage?'
$50 l see," replied the %unashamed
Harold.
You horrid thing! You do not"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
WHY Bottle was Empty.

One delight of small Harold was 20
go on an errand to q neighboring store.
After school yesterday at No. 8 ne
was sent by his mother to get a siphon
of vichy. He was long In returning.
When he did arrive, his mother scold-
ed him for consuming SO much time.
why she exclaimed, "and the 81
phon is nearly empty. Do you 70
tell me that is all the vichy there was
in the bottle when you got itY'
"Well, mamma" Harold replied, "on
the way home l met little cat
"Well?'
1.-THE cat said 'p-s-s-t' to me and tho
siphon said 'p-s-s-t' to her"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
Suuelched.

A family tree Is unquestionably OF
equal value to some persons as is real
estate of q more material nature. But
it all depends upon whether or not the
branches of the tree are clean limbed.
This wa the decision reached by the
two men discussing ancestry and he
redity and such philosophy.
II had my own family pedigree
traced by a genealogical authority last
week. said the taller OF the two men.
"Indeed! What did it cost you?"
FIFTY dollars hush money"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
SELECTING DAIRY cow
Essential Functions Are Milk Pro-
duction and Reproduction.
On y Small Proportion Of Animals
Jsed for Dairy Purposes Of Which
Records Are kept-Charac-
teristics Of Conformation.

The essential functions of the dairy
COW are milk production and repro
duction. The most accurate methods
Of determining these are: (1) Milk
production by means of the milk
scales and the BaDcock test; (2) re-
production by breeding records.
There is only a small proportion CT
the cows used for dairy purposes on
which such records are kept. This
necessitates the employment Of some
other method of selection. In the
breeding of high producing animals.
been observed that there are certain
characteristics of the conformation
which are correlated With large pro-
duction. These characteristics are,
namely: (1) Extreme angular form.
carrying no surplus flesh, but in good
physical condition. CO Prominent de-
yelopment of the udder and veins. CD
The symmetrical development of the
barrel with large capacity After one
becomes familiar With these external
characteristics it is possible to select
cows producing 300 pounds of fat PEI
year from those producing $50 pounds
The dif1culty in picking the ami.
NAL that will produce 500 pounds OF
fat per year as compared to the one
producing 400 pounds.
The selection of animals by this
method is rather uncertain. The
farmer makes the largest majority o.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
HOG NEEDS ASHES AND SALT
Articles Should Be Kept Handy for
Animals at All Times-Avoid
Giving Coal Ashes.

Wood ashes mixed with salt should
be kept in the hog lot all the year
around. The greater the amount of
charcoal in the ashes the better. Coal
ashes should not be given, rs they
are constituting. About the proper
mixture Of ashes and salt for the lot
is four quarts of salt to a busllel Of
ashes. Keep it III Il trough or self
feeder, SO it viii not be trampied into
the ground.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
No Chance for Him.

They We're sitting in a secluded cor
ner of the veranda. For a long time
neither of them had spoken. Sudden
ly he took her little hand in hrs. His
said:
DO you think you could ever learn
to love a man-'
Yes" she interrupted in a soft
whisper. Bring on your man."-St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
DO NOT DISPOSE OF LAYERS
Practice Of Selling Large PuIIets In
Fall, Retaining Small Ones,
Should Be Discouraged.

The common practice Of selling the
largest pullets in the fall and keeping
the small ones should be discouraged.
It is the mature bird that will lay
during the early fall and winter.
Farmers should plan TO winter
over large tloeks. The sacrifice Of the
pullets last fall is being shown already
by the egg shortage. That mistake
should not be repeated q second year.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
MUCH MILK SPolLS QUICKLY
Wise to Observe Doctrine, "Keep Per-
ishable Food Cool, Clean
and Covered"

Much milk spoils quickly because
1t is kept uncovered in warm kitchens.
Close observance of the doctrine
keep perishable food, especially milk,
cool, clean and covered continuously
may make q striking difference In the
food tills Of many families.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
A Little Too Much.

Father Gladys, | want you to give
your beau Il message. Tell him ] don't
object to his staying here and running
up my light bills, but dc obiecr 10 his
carrying of tie morning paper when
he leaves.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
TREATED FOR CAnKER
Combination Of WhaleoiI Soap, slaked
Lime and Water Is Recon-
mended as Effective.

Treatment recommended for canker
of apple trees by one of the expert
ment stations is to paint the affected
trunk with a combination Of one pint
whaleoil soap. three pints slaked lime
and four gallons of water: thicken to
the right consistency with wood
ashes, or with bordeaux mixture
thickened with lime until Like white
wash.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
The Family Pride.

II suppose you're proud of your boy
Josh, now that he's in the army
"Of course" said Farmer Corntos-
sci. But that's no SO important just
now. What I'm supposed to do is to
hustle an run this farm in a way
thatll make Josh proud O me-"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
MARI ikA inhfninn

AS a borrower he's a wise guy"
"Whataya mean?'
"He never asks a man the second
time for a loan"
That's what a fellow meant when
ne said he worked like lightning. He
sever strikes in the same place twice
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
FEED CALVES IN STANCHl0NS
Young Animals Should Be Fed Sep
arateiy After Milk Ration-Give
Grain and Roughage.

When feeding time comes feed the
calves separately after the milk ra-
ton. Let them have grain and rough
qge-no ear sucking will follow and
wind on the stomach and Indigestion
will not result. Try this plan. Stan
chions with box for grain and rack
for hay is a good plan.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
Handy Farm Gate.

which the gate turns. An inch iron
pin Is inches long and II inches in
the post that the gate is framed on
and six inches In the post in the
ground, does the work. This should
fit the holes very tight SO that the
gate may turn solidly.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
GoinQ to Land Him.

"He was engaged three times beforq
he proposed to her."
"Yes."
"And she accepted him?"
"Yes, but she's insisting on an Inn
mediate marriage. PrOfiting by tbs
| experience Of the other girls she isn't
going to take any chances on his
breaking another engagement" /
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
Bad Weather.

Passenger-What changeable weath-'
or Won have in this part of the state.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES? 1T 1t had,
been changeable we'd have changed
1t long ago"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
CONVENIENT GATE FOR FARM
Turnstiie Arrangement Is Handy
Where Four Lots Come Together
How 1t Is Built.

An excellent gate for use where
four lots come together is a turnStile
gate. This will enable one gate to
answer instead Of four. The end posts
are 214 feet from the center post on
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
Honest Advertising

= YvHIS is q topic we all hear nowadays because 81 many people n In.
cined to exaggerate. Yet has any physician told you that we claimed
unreasonable remedial properties for Fletcher's Castoria? Just ask
them. W. won't answer it ourselves, we know what the answer will be.
That il has all the virtues to-day that was claimed foriti in its early days
isto be foucd inits increased use, the recommendahonby prominent physicians,
and our assurance that its standard will be maintained.
limitations are tt be found in some stores and only because of the Cas-
toria that MI. Fletcher created. But it is not the genuine Castoria that Mr..
Fletcher Honestly advertised, Honestly placed before the public, and from
c cssa he e as.s.', .'~.,. . TO- ,., ri. .' his .'".' ., 21m4&zzM
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
Position.

What is your old enemy's position
in this crisis?"
Il don't know exactly" replied Sena-
tor Sorghum. But whatever his posi-
ton is. it pays Il good salary, or he
wouldn't accept it."-Washington Star.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
Abundance. ?

America has nc art and no poetry
'~Evidently," said the business man,
severely, You are neglecting to read
our advertisements
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
Subtle Patriotism.

"That's u funny little coat you're
wearing"
Il know it. The tailors are doing
the proper thing just now and making
all clothes that aren't soldier clothes
look as ridiculous as possible"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17

History spends half its time repeat
ing itself and the other half in get
ting itself revised.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17
The First Call.

Robert, the children need shoes"
$50 does the auto The children will
have to wait"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17

Whenever "A nan fails in I'm under
taking he attributes IL 10 fatalism.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17

How men drink staggers a woman,
but what they drink staggers the men.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-17

The board of health consists of three
square meals a day,