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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19
Mrs. Caude Jr, Deipn Some Very Pointed Curtain Lectures

street, car, MT. Caudle, and we are mak- ing some slight pretense toward gen. tlllty by having car, you are really ris- ing in my estimation. I always have hated the plebeian ways that stick to you, and I always dislike It when that horrfd old Tattletale throws up to you the fact that you didn't have to pay any initiation fee at the Country club be- cause you were charter member-born member of the Country club, in other words But now that I'm getting some of that tacky country raisin' out of your system, feel that we are really progress sing What's that? You positively re- fuse to have coat of arms painted upon our car? And besides you don't know that you have any? Nonsense; to be sure you have. and if not of course they are to be had for money. I wonder where the Noveau Riches got their coat of arms from? I suppose we could buy 'em at the same place if We only had the ad- dress. They used to drive the most dis reputable looking old car, but now they have brand new beautiful touring car as well IS a sedan, and they've got the most wonderful coat of arms, noticed the other day there are two large tor tolse-shell cats with their whiskers brist- ling as If they'd been dipped in cream standing on their hind legs upon each door with heaps of Latin underneath.
 and above done in gold letters It's most
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19

by fifteen feet is sufficiently large for the small house, and a pen eight by twenty feet for the larger house. I have a similar poultry house and in- closed run in my garden. It is eight by ten feet. The temporary run is at
 tached to the west side of the house and I confine the hens when they would injure the garden. The sides of this run are only two feet high. They are made of lath-covered frames The top of the run consists of frames four by eight feet in size covered with wire netting. These frames rest on the low walls. Once in two weeks I remove the top frames and dig up the run, It makes cheap, healthful and sat. isfactory outdoor pen. There is no need of erecting an expensive fence around the poultry house, unless you intend to have permanent plant.
 Inside the house you will need two roosts made of lumber two inches square that rest in notched boards nailed to the end walls near the back of the house three feet above the ground. Under these roosts it is bet ter to have a board three feet wide to catch the droppings and keep the floor clean Get three or four empty boxes on bricks about IS inches cubic size, and nail a six-inch board at one oidS VI tHS OpSl tOp.t ITldCt lHtSt bOASo on bricks or stones with the open side to the front, make a nest from straw or excelsior, and buy a china egg for each nest. Set a pail of fresh water on top of one of the nests and nail a box four inches wide and deep and a foot long near the floor and keep it filled with crushed oyster shells. Feed the hens all empty egg shells also.
 Fifteen 10 Thirty Hens Are Kept
 By making inquiries in town you can learn where the 15 to 20 hens you re- quire can be bought These should be of large size and preferably one year old, although if some do not give any indi- cations of laying in three weeks they can be killed and replaced with others. Do not keep rooster with the hens. It is useless to pay for his food unless you intend to hatch the eggs as the hens lay equally well without a male.
 In war times we must feed the hens every scrap left from the table. Every morsel will be greedily devoured. Take the table scraps, potato peelings, and any waste from the vegetables you are using and let them simmer on a pot at the back of the stove Then mix the cooked vegetables into a crumbly mash with half the bulk of wheat shorts. You can substitute ground oats for the shorts or cornmeal and cotton seed meal (using ore-third of prime feeding cotton seed meal and two-thirds cornmeaD, or any other ground feed you can procure. Feed this mash in a trough every morning or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19

| row it and SOW rape seed If sown in September, rape will furnish tender, crisp green food until New Years and frequently through the winter, It is
 greatly superior to oats, wheat or rye. The poultry division of your state
 agricultural college will help you start with poultry now. They have published circulars and bulletins on this subject.
 The department of agriculture at Wash ington has issued bulletins on poultry
 raising gardening, canning and drying fruit, vegetables and meats. Every one
 will aid you. The American Poultry as-
 sociation has organized a campaign to increase the poultry production of this country 1000 ,0G0 00O pounds. Send to your
 state college or to Washington for the free bulletins on poultry raising and plan
 to live on roast chicken in war times.
 Join the army of live at home folks and forget high prices of eatables.
 Chicks should be matched in the fall
 this year, especially in the southern
 sections, where severe weather is not felt until Christmas. They are needed to incre ease our food supply In next
 weeks article this opportunity will be fully discussed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19
LIVING IN WAR TIMES WITH
 OUT DEFENDING ON OTHERS
Back Lot Will Supply Foods if It Contains a Garden and Some Chickens-HOw to Keep and House Suf- ficient Hens for Family Needs
By FRANK c. HARE.


 Poultry Husbnndman, Clemson College.
 Owing to lack of training or time, liv- ing in apartments or with no tillable land around home, because of aversion to gardening or the keeping of chickens and stock, too many American families are living off others-buying from mer- chants or growers all foods consumed on the table This living off others has enormously decreased the production of foods It is in part responsible for the present high food prices in America. To offset this we should raise at least a part of our food.
 In the northern half of the United States, it is, unfortunately, too late to plant a garden this year, but in the southern half a fall crop of Irish po- tatoes should be planted by every fam fly the middle of July. These potatoes will be ready for eating the first of November and can be left in the ground until used. This vegetable grown at home can be used to supplement or even supplant rice, the dinner food of Dixie. The backyard garden campaign has been success in other countries It should be popular here, as it is pre- dicted that from the first of March to the harvesting of the crops of 1918 every one will feel the pinch of food shortage many families who have lived off others will from necessity eat fresh, home grown vegeta bles next summer
 But vegetables and cereals constitute only part, and the least important part
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19

proper and effective instrument. A glance at past achievements may help to explain the grounds for this implicit faith Har- veyized steel, so necessary in naval arm ament, was the invention of an American Ericsson, an adopted American, revolu- tionized naval warfare in his invention of the monitor The Gatling gun was brought into being by North Carolin- ian, while the Lewis gun, rejected by our government, was accepted by the Euro- pean governments from an American The first successful air flight in heavier than-air machine was made by an Amer ican. The two Maxims, both born in Maine, have led the world in the de- velopment of powerful explosives When
 Holland made the submarine practicable
 he little dreamed that he was setting task for some future countryman to |grapple with. There are others among the names of American inventors who are foremost in war inventions, but these are enough to justify the sanguine faith that one more will come forward in the pres ent crisis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19
l am Sincere! Stop CaIomeI!
 Guarantee Dodson's Liver Tone
Listen to me! Calomel sickens and you may lose a days work If bilious, constpated or
 headachy read my guarantee

Liven up your sluggish liver! Feel fine and cheerful; make your work q pleasures be vigorous and full of ani- bition. But take no nasty. dangerous calomel, because it makes you sick and you may lose a days work.
 Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones Calomel crashes into sour bile like dynamite. breaking it up. That's when you feel that awful nausea and cramp- ing.
 Listen to me! If you want to enjoy the incest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing that you ever experienced just take a spoonful of harmless Dod- sons Liver Tone tonight. Your drug gist or dealer sells you 50 cent bottle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19

or Dodson's Liver Tone under my per sonal money back guarantee that each spoonful will clean your sluggish liver better than a dose of nasty calomei and that it won't make you sick
 Dodson's Liver Tone Is real liver medicine You'll know it next morning because you will wake up feeling fine your liver will be working; headache and dizziness gone; stomach will be sweet and bowels regular.
 Dodson's Liver Tone Is entirely veg etable, therefore harmless and cannot salivate Give it to your children Millions of people are using Dodson' s Liver Tone instead of dangerous cal omel now. Your druggist will tell you that the sale of ca1omel is almost stopped entirely here.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19
WHITE INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS

Indian Runner ducks are growing rapidly in popular favor, and in some sections are competing with hens for favor among poultrymen. Remarkable records for egg production have been made by the Indian Runners, which are good foragers, grow rapidly and reach maturity early.
 Full-grown specimens weigh from four to four and a half pounds. This is about half the weight of Pekins, but is not too small for profitable marketing. since the duckling can be rushed to marketing size quickly. The old fowls are good foragers and the heaviest laying breed of ducks known.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19
nH9A 7R. CAUDLE, I really do " llMI think you were perfect
 UNJl love, a regular duck, to let

HHSA 7R. CAUDLE, I really do " ll\Ml think you were a perfect
 U\IJl love, regular duck, to let
 me get the big new touring car and I've seen an improvement in your health already, although we haven't had the car a week yet. I'm always right, MT. Caudle; I know what you need, and if you'd only listen to me you'd avoid great many complications and keep out of a great many difficulties. Whats that? The main trouble now is that you listen to me nearly all the time? Now, just what do you mean by that? I do nothing but talk, talk, talk and you do nothing but listen, listen, listen? Well, what's a husband for if not to listen to his wife?'
 that the one thing you needed was a car to bring you out to our country place every afternoon after hard days work. Whats that? It was a pretty expensive cure for what ails you? We'll, everything that's worth while is expensive; every body knows that. And now, MT. Caudle, that we've got the car, I want the fam fly coat of arms put on the door, mean to have 1t for my writing paper also. Everybody who Is anybody uses their coat of arms these days and nothing could set our new car off better than to have ours nicely arranged on the door.
 ..Now that you don't depend upon a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19

of our diet The important part of our diet comprises the meat, fish, eggs, milk, beans and peas, and other substances that contain the most protein or flesh building food. Without a liberal supply of protein we cannot enjoy good health.
 Produce Meat at Home
 It is natural and more appetizing to obtain this constituent from animal than vegetable foods. But meat of any kind is almost at a prohibitive price. It is stated on good authority that milk will sell in various parts of the in- dustrial north at 40 cents quart, and In the south at 20 cents quart next summer" Eggs are being placed in storage at double their normal cost and they will sell at unheard-of prices next winter Since there is no chance to buy any kind of meat, milk or eggs within
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19

reason, every foresighted family will
 produce one or more kinds of meat at
 home Poultry growing, which happily
 furnishes eggs as well, squab raising and
 Belgian hare keeping are industries that the family can successfully conduct.
 With our home garden and preserved or dried fruits and vegetables, and a fresh and preserved meat and egg sup
 ply few additional foods need be pur- chased.
 Every back lot has spots that are too shady or otherwise not adapted for gardening. These can be profitably utilized for the growing of poultry. A roast chicken from the home flock should be served for dinner at least | once a week. From IS to 30 hens will keep the family in eggs. Eleven aver age size eggs equal in nutritive value a pound of sirloin steak. The care and expense of maintaining a flock of poultry is small in comparison with the satisfaction of living well in war 1 times
 Only Temporary Building Necessary An inexpensive shed six by eight feet in size will accommodate 15 hens, while one eight by ten feet will take care of 30 egg producers. This shed faces the south and the front is six feet high. with the back a foot lower to shed the rain. Place a door in one end. Cover the upper four feet of the front with wire netting. This style of open-front poultry house, with a cloth curtain dropped over the wire to keep out the snow has even superseded poultry houses with windows in the cold north. In the southern climate a board one foot wide is nailed tempo rarily in the back wall near the roof and removed in hot weather to pro- vide more ventilation The two ends and the rest of the back wall are
 made tight to prevent drafts in win- ter
 If you are living on small lot you can conffne your hens. A pen six
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19

The market is far from being sup
 piled, and duck farmers are finding this
 a profitable branch of the business The heaviest laying ducks necessarily are the most profitable, and duck growers are finding the Indian Runners, both colored and white, very satisfactory for this purpose.
 The white Indian Runner duck makes a better appearance when dressed than
 the colored Indian Runner. It has every other quality of the Indian Runner, and it's spreading popularity bids fair to
 result, in a very few years, in the stu
 premacy of the white Indian Runner
 duck over it's sister with colored feath-
 CTS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19

Ole Miss, hit sho' is de truth dat de Moon causes Lunacy, kaze l has known folks dat Thinks dey kin Sing, Hunt Coons, Lick Cops" and be Happy tho Married n by Moonlightl Yassum!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19
Fiction

From the Washington Star. Has Crimson Gulch quit drinking?" Yes replied Broncho Bob
 And playing faro bank?
 Quit, entirely.
 What do you do for amusement?' 'Go to the moving pictures and laugl at the reckless way they think us wilt west fellers behave"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19

I evening Give the hens what they will clean up in 20 minutes. Too much is bad The other meal two meals daily) scatter some whole grain in the litter on the floor of the house, allowing one 1 large handful of grain to hen. Corn, kaffir, sorghum, barley, buckwheat, oats, peas, wheat or mixtures of these grains are suitable. Inferior grain is safe to feed, including screenings, provided 1t has not been damp and moldy. Mold spores cause diseases.
 | If you have sour milk, add it to the mash. It is a good plan to soak oats ! in water over night and wash them. 1 Ther pour the soaked oats in the chicken pot simmering on the stove This kills all the mold and smut pores. The oats can be boiled alone, when the soft, swol- len grains are enjoyed by baby chicks as well as fowls.
 notice any red mites under tho roost on 1 the roost supports, or in the nests, paint 1 these with kerosene and coal tar or l crude carbolic acid--one cup to a gallon | of oil. Clean off the dropboard under | the roosts once a week. Keep the out | side run dug up frequently, and if the 1 hens are fed regularly, and are sup piled with fresh water and shell ma terial, they will lay well.
 Raise Late- Matched Chicks | In place of cooking cheap meat, we can buy finely ground meat crisps, or meat scraps, or good tankage, and use
 either of these by sprinkling the meat l food over table scraps, and giving the l chicks a liberal feed daily. Another way is to make mash like equal weight l of cornmeal ground oats, wheat shorts
 and meat scraps and keep this mash be- i fore the chicks in a dry state. In the south it is difficult to obtain any of | these meat foods. Good results are ob- tained by using a mash of equal parts | by weight of cornmeal and ground oats, and either prime feeding cotton seed
 meal, pea meal, peanut meal or soy bean meal. Mix this mash with the
 cooked table scraps and vegetables out
 of the chicken pot, and feed it literally
 every morning. Scatter any whole grain on the grass twice daily, CT let the chick | ems run in a pea field.
 1 Every family in the south should hatch l 150 chicks this fall Commence the hens | or incubators September 1 and continue | thr ough October. These chicks will grow | as well in any part of Dixie as the chicks l atched in the spring. Tn three months l the cockerels of breeds like the Ply | mouth Rocks, Wyandottes and Rhode l island Reds, can be killed and fried. | This is cheaper meat than you can pro-
 duce in any other way. Keep the pul
 lets for layers They will lay well next I spring. If you have no green food for the chickens, blow up some ground. har-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19
American War-Winning Inventions

Americans confidently believe that an American will shortly come along with an invention that will win the war How ever long the delay, nothing shakes theif faith in his ultimate arrival with the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19

looks like he's just stepped off of Fifth avenue. Really, MT. Caudle, I shall be a very happy woman and-What's that? For Gods sake keep still and let you get one hour of sleep before daylight? Why, MT. Caudle, how could you be so( unappreciative and so unkind when I'm doing all this for you and your health?T'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19
Confusing City of Cagnes

COnIuSlng Olty or CdgneS
 American and English visitors to the Riviera soon come to know Cagnes by name. It is challenge to their ability to pronounce French-a challenge that must be accepted. if you are in the region of Grasse or Nice or Antibes Two dis tinct tramway lines and several roads lead from Grasse to Cannes and Cagnes. Unless you are very careful you may find yourself upon the wrong route. Once on the Cagnes tramway, or well en- gagged upon the road to Cagnes, when you had meant to go to Cannes the mis- take takes hours to retrieve At Nice, chauffeurs and cochers love to cheat you by the confusion of these two names. You bargain for the long trip to Cannes, and are attracted by the reasonable price quoted. In very short time you are at Cagnes. The vehicle stops Im- possible to rectify your mispronunciation without substantial increase of the original sum of the bargain. Antibes is between Cagnes and Cannes. Cagnes is nearer, and it is always to Cannes that you want to go. Spell the name, or write 1t on a piece of paper, if you are to be sure that you will be taken west instead of east.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19
DOLLY-ETTES

Some Women talk so much that you could never refer to them as 'the woman of the Period" and not even of the-semicolon!
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-13
New York Cotton.

New York, Dec. 12.-Thc cotton market showed more or less nervous ness and irregularity at the opening tody. Yesterdays big advance on the official crop estimate was evidently sufficient to attract good deal of profit taking if not increased offer inss of actual, nnd afte.. opening steady at an advance of points to decline of 2 points, active months sold some 10 to 16 points ret lower, with January touching 29.37c and March 29.20c after the call Houses with Liverpool and domestic trade connections were moderate buyers. bpt the English market did not fully respond to yesterdays strength here and the demand inspired by the gov rnnlent's crYp figures s .emed to have fecn checked by the advance into new high figures for the season.
 Houses with southwestern connec. tions were among the sellers, while comparatively slight bulges seemed to meet scattered realizing, and prices gradually worked off to net decline of some 20 to 23 points, with January selling at 29.30c and March at 29.09c. It was reported that $1l had been bid for small lot of ocean freight room to Liverpool.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-13
REPORTS OF MARKED | . COTTON l.TVESTOCE

at SIPS 3-S and May $1.193-S to $l.19 1-2, were followed by a. moder ate general upturn.
 Increased offerings for cash prod uct. together with slowness of de mand, led afterward to a setback in prices.
 Oats tended up grade, influenced by fear of snow blockade. Selling pressure was very limited and arri- vals continued scanty.
 Later some persistent selling on tae part of commission houses caused a reaction. The close was unsettled, January $1.21 3-8 and May $1.193-S, with the final range as whole va rying from 1-8c off to like advance, compared with "A hours before.
 Higher quotations on hogs gave firmness to provisions. Business, however, was unusually small.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-13
New Orleans COttOE.

New Orleans, Dec 12.-The cotton market was nervous and irregular around the opening hore today, chief ly as the result of conflicting war umofe. In the first half hour of trading prices at tneir lowest were 9 to il points under yesterdays close. From this they moved Up to q net advance of , to 10 points.
 Liquidation became the principal factor in the trading and uE to noon prices were forced 26 to 32 points be- low the close of yesterday.
 Pressure to sell increased in the afternoon and at o'clock the trading months were at a net decline of 39 to 43 points.
 The close:
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-13
NO FENCE DISTRINCT.
 NO, l.
SPECIAL ASSESSMENT.

The tax book for the collection of the special assessment upon the land in No Fence District No. One or. Jefferson county, Arkansas, has been placsd in my hands. All owners of land lying in the district are re- quired to pay their assessment to me within 30 days from this date. If such payment is not made, action will be commenced at the end of tha, time for collection of sad assess ments. and for legal penalties and costs.
 Given under my hand this 4th day of December, 1917. ..- , s3s
 R. H. WILLIAMS, Collector.
 12-4.lm
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-13
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stock holders of the National Bank of Ark ansas of Pine Bluff, Ark, will be held in the directors room of said bank in the city of Pine Bluff on Tuesday, January 8, 1918, between the hours of 10 a. m. and 12 (noon) for the pur- pose of electing directors to serve for the ensuing year and for the transac- tion of such other business as may properly come before the said meet ing.
 HI. TR1PLETT, President. Pine Bluff, Ark, Dec, 8, 1917. 12-9-1m
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-13

,OLORED FARMERS-FARM LAND for rent. l offer, on reasonable terms, some of the best farming land in Drew county. Over 300 acres in cultivation, just 6 miles from Monticello. This land avera- ges about 1-2 bale cotton per acre, and from 30 to 50 bushels of corn. Will rent same for IA of crop, or where preferred. a cash rental of ? 600 per acre. Parties interested can see me at my office, room No. l, Merchants & Planters Bank building, Pine Bluff.
 H. E. TRULOCK
 12.1.2W.