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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06
DETERMINE AGE OF POULTRY
While There Is No Positive Rule to Go
BY There Are Certain Condi.
tlons to Guess BY.

Strictly speaking, there Is no posi-
tive test for the age Of poultry. How
ever, close guess can be made un-
der certain conditions. For instance,
the size of spurs generally dlstin-
guishes a two-year-old bird; yet the
writer has had young birds develop
spurs that would have done credit
to older birds. On the other hand.
he has had two-year-old birds with
spurs that were as short and rounded
as those of cockerel. To some ex-
tent the texture of the leg Is guide,
and so Is the delicacy and freshness
of the skin Of the face and comb. Yet
there will be occasional hens that have
a youthful appearance to a remarkable
degree.
Probably a better test Is the skin
Of the body, that of the older fowl
being coarser and drier In appearance.
A pullet will show rose-colored veins
on the surface Of the skin under the
wings. Long silky hairs will also be
grown there; but after the pullet has
become a year old these hairs and
veins will disappear and the skin will
grow white and veinless.
It Is more difficult to determine the
age Of water fowls than 1t is Of other
poultry.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06
C00PS FOR FATTENING HENS
Object 10 to Reduce Exercise and In.
crease Consumption Of Fat-Pro-
ducing Materials.

Fattening, II tions are not compli-
Gated or need not be to bring fair re-
suits. The principle Of fattening Is
to reduce the exercise and increase
the consumption Of fat-producins
food. If the farmer possesses a mum.
ber of small shed-roof brood cOops
such as are used for sitting hens with
chicks, these coops will be fine for fat
tening hens. Each coop will accommo-
date about five hens without crowding
and they will have little OPT ortunity
for fighting or scratching. Feed them
three times each day from pan con-
tanning a sloppy mixture Of sour milk
and corn meal and allow the hens to
eat all they will consume. After each
feeding remove the pan SO that any
remaining feed will not become con-
taminated with dirt and cause the
birds to lose their appetites
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06

raucous dabs Of white, green and vel.
low, with a band emitting frightful
blares above the entrance archl
A grubby Mexican In cotton clothes
and a hat with towering crown and
30-inch brim distributes handbills an.
nouncing that Mt p, m. "four ar.
ragantes y bravos toros, four" will be
fought to death. Follow the names OF
the intrepid matadores, banderilleros.
picadores, etc, who are to fight ''un
der the auspices of the Charities asso-
citation" CD.
Seats on the "entrada sombra"
(shady side of the ring) are So; those
on the "entrada sol" are S1-and
IL In all the world there is to be seen
more wanton cruelty and horror for a
trifllng fee tell me where 1t is! Yet
women and young girls flock there
bringing dressed-up children as to q
sylvan picnic!
A huge motor dashes up to the beg.
carly plaza" In choking dustcloud.
1t grazes the toes of squatting beggars
and loafing men, sldeswiping the un.
iuiy nitAiCiu uuTSts Ou WHICH nulp
drunken soldiers" loll.
From 1t step half a dozen Mexican
officers in expensive, violating serv.
ice uniforms, brave leather putteeS
spurs and festoons of braid. The
crowd stares and cringes. The slim
young officer tosses silver dollars to
subaltern, who buys tickets, and with
great eclat they pass inside to their
hideous entertainment.
You wonder what Is in the mind of
the respondent officer as he views
the ragged, half-starved desperadoes
Of his "army." Some sophisticated
persons whisper to you that few nnmes
are published Of those who fall In bat.
tie. 1t pays better to keep the names
on the roster! The poor creatures
pittances come In handy for bullAghtl
and other extras /
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06

Past the poor 'dobe houses, through
the doors OF which you get glimpses
of family life unpleasantly intimate.
we go into the Via Dlabolo, called by
Jack London the wickedest slum In
the world.
cannot vouch for Its depravity, but
I should think It must be the dlrtiest,
dustlest, poorest, weIrdest, rowdiest,
tawdriest and most heterogeneous, bar
ring possibly some sinister suburb Of
Algeria.
Gaming houses are the staple Sum-
day attraction. Sweating crowds of
men and women rim the tables, the lot
terry booths, the wheels of fortune
and, to judge by most Of the patrons
of misfortune--that I'LL the barnllks
shacks.
One man In FIVE is some sort Of sol.
dier, wearing some sort of fragmentary
uniform.
Poverty and squalor.
Notice the raklsh cartridge belts
some worn straight around In rows
some over one shoulder, some over
bptfi NioSS'b bh'h anu iiohes <hh'ho
milton Is debited to the men, and they
have to take care of 1t! The begrimed
fellows, with the bits Of leather
thonged about their bare feet, with
dirty serapes on their shoulders, are
Of the piteous peon class.
You have seen poverty and squalor
at home, but never such as this The
poor at home at least work In the hope
of overcoming their wretchedness
Here all is sodden. No opportunity
no ambition, no hope at all.
There are few prosperous gamblers
In the gaming dens who serve to set OF
the sinister raggedness of the rest
Sinister, because everyone totes a
gun. sometimes rife. and appears
to appraise thlrstily the modest jewel
on your breast, the purse beneath your
pOcketfap.
And now the bull ring, ancient
Clipped by random shots of many an
opera bouffe revolution, painted In
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06

die. Near the bridge the Mexicans
get dlrtier, the street dustier, the shops
shabbier.
"We don't fix up the place much,"
one storekeeper told me. "We'd lose
our Mex trade. They don't feel COM
Portable coming into fussed-up, fiossy
placei"
That wooden tumble over there to
the left is the market. Note the Mexi-
can women on the ground, shawls to
the eyes (they believe all illness comes
from something in-breathed; hence the
covered mouths) selling stun.
The fiapjacks they claw from buck
ct and stun into the palm of the pas
serby are tortillas, Mex bread. They
are not considered shopworn because
the customer finds them wanting In
quality, but are casually slapped back
again into their receptacle.
Apparently the wearing qualities Of
tortillas are excellent. You have seen
Q limp stack of them examined and
ratected by half dozen prospective
purchasers, yet they look scarcely
frayed, and are still quite salable.
Hear the m Isle? Guitars, tambour-
ipes and voices. A group OF greaser
lads are playing half for sheer love
of II, nalf for che coins the people eat
ing ht the long. sloppy tables will
throw them. launching and dining at
the market blace is the sociable Mexi-
can mode.
Baths Their Passports.
There Is a government bathhouse by
the river bank, where certain cere-
monies must be performed by the
rebellious citizens Of Juarez before
they can commute regularly into FL
Paso as house and hotel servants,
workmen and clerical employees.
Now We cross the bridge. Afoot, the
military authorities and customs men
treat you indifferently. In the trolley
car the examination is more elaborate.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06
WAR SECRETARY'S BOYHOOD

Newton d. Baker, secretary of
war, got his first military experience
when he accepted the office President
Wilson offered him. He never even
played with tin soldiers when he was
a boz. He was always peaceable. His
own mother, Mrs. Mary d. Baker,
says SO.
81 hate war" the mother Of the
war chief said, "but wouldn't have
a son who would hesitate to fight for
hii country"
Another son. Capt. Frank II. Baker,
Is on his way back to his post in Paris.
Her husband was noncommissioned
officer In the Confederate cavalry, and
l3 Of her cousins served In the Civil
war.
"Nonsense Now she said when
asked II she thought her son, Newton
D., would be the next president. II
don't think he wants 1t. The only
person who is confident he'll be the
next president Is his old black
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06
MRS. LONGWORTH DOING HER "BIT"

Two daughters Of ex-President
Theodore Roosevelt are showing their
colors; they are not allowing all the
glory to fall to the share of the three
brothers, Theodore, Quentin, and
Archie, who are now In France. Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth, who as Alice
Roosevelt was the most popular girl
in the White House since Dolly Madl-
son, has turned her home in Cincin-
natl over to the Red Cross for war
relief work. The war has had So
bering effect on the original and dar-
ing daughter of Theodore Roosevelt,
who, in her reign In the White House,
attracted general attention, no less for
her independence Of manner and scorn
of conventional rules as for the charm
Of her unusual costumes.
In London, where the society Of the
English capital llonized her, she was
hailed as the most daringly free
young woman who had ever been ad-
mitted to the inner circles, She de-
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06
PROPER FEED FOR PULLETS
Almost Impossible to overfeed Young
Folds-if Not Given Variety
They viii Not Grow.

1t Is surprising the quantity Of food
that young pullets will consume. II
is almost impossible to overfeed them,
for, unlike the hen in laying condition,
they take on fat very slowly. II, how.
ever, they are improperly fed and do
not obtain proper variety Of food
they will not grow, either in size or
weight, and will be very slow In com.
Ing to the laying point.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06
COMMANDS REGIMENT IN FRANCE

Col. George d. Duncan, now on ac-
tive detail, was born In Kentucky,
October 10, 1861, and appointed to the
Military academy from that state In
1882. In 1856 he was commissioned
second lieutenant in the Ninth In
fantry, and has served continuously
In that arm of the service.
Colonel Duncan was recently re-
leased from detail to the general staff
corps to Join one OF the infantry regi-
ments to be sent TO the French front,
and is now on the field at the head of
a regiment of regulars.
Colonel Duncan is an exceedingly
active officer and maintains a wonder
ful control Of his men. He first dis
tinguished himself In the Philippine
islands, where, after serving for two
years In the field, he was In 1900 ep-
pointed chief Of scouts, In which ca
pacity he did creditable work.
General Pershing and Colonel Dun.
can have long been close friends, the
d the worth Of his subordinate when
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06

V /OU can see FL Paso two ways.
" You can be little hysterical.
as I am, over the border-town
thrlliingness Of things. Or you
can close a cold, canny commercial eye
and get chamber-of- -commerce angle
on its go-west-youDg-man opportuni-
ties. never saw town where they
care so little about dust storms and
% much about industrial chances,
writes Zoe Beckley In the Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
Ny ninth story window Is In as hand
some hotel as ever reared Its elegant
facade from the gilt and marble, Turk
fish rug and hat check belt of New
York city. 1t has all the modern con-
venlences with few western develop
ments like free newspapers at your
door In the morning.
Now look out southwark, past n
rocky mountain almost at yorr elbow,
into that longish. squat-buildlnged
street where the sun shines and the
duat blows. At Its end runs a ribbon
of muddy water. too shallow to wet the
ankles of q Chihuahua pup. The Rio
Grandei
Beyond you see a blotch of brown
cubes scattered on the slope Of the
grim and rugged mesa, with the shot
marred, whitewashed Cathedray of
Guadalupe rising feebly In their midst.
Mexicoi
The cubes Of 'dobe houses, where
whole families, including the dog. the
burro, the pig and the flea, live In dirt
fish desuetude. Ragged, sans furniture,
building their mesquite wood fires on
the mud hoorl Mexicol You are
looking from the twentieth century
into the sixteenth, with only a street
and bridge to join them.
Neat Shops Scare Trade Away.
Now we'll descend and walk toward
that famous though mangy-looking in
ternational bridge where the neat Unit
ed States sentry and the forlorn cot
ton-clad. grubby Carranzista meet face
TO face every 20 seconds at the mid
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06
EGGS OF ANY DESIRED SIZE
Expert Of United States Department
Of Agriculture Has Adopted
Gauge for Farmers.

Mr.. Frank c. Hare, in his work for
the United States department of agri-
culture nmong the South Carolina
farmers, has adopted the accompany
ing egg gauge so that the farmers can
select eggs Of the desired size. An egg
that will not enter the hole crosswise
Is standard sized egg and will weigh
two ounces or more. An egg whose
smaller dimensions is less than one
and five-elghths inches, the distance
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06
[EY 1r[KEI lLHNI[LZLl(6IHI1>
EDITS FIRST JERUSALEM DAILY

Mar Ittamar Ben Avi, editor Of
the first daily paper ever published in
Jerusalem, and properly n Hebrew pa
per--the Jerusalem Haov-recently
visited Boston. 1t might be well to ex-
plain that MAR" means "Mr."
Think of II. If-if Mar Ittamar
Ben AVIS enterprise had fiourlshed
1917 years ago; and IL II had kept pace
with the current events of that period
In Jerusalem, how much Of mind spec
ulation, personal and national animos-
ity, fruitless controversy and trouble
generally It would have saved the
world--providlng Herod did not out
Herod himself in the use Of ruthless
and perverse censorship.
However, as Jerusalem is again
passing through a crisis In It's history
and as II Is likely to become of more
political importance-of more interna-
tional importance-than ever after the
war. II is well that 1t should have so
comprehensive and capable n Journal
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06


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but of
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realized
the full fruitlon
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06
FANCY PRICE FOR BR0ILERs
Around Holiday Season There 10 Al.
ways Big Demand for Chickens
Hatehed In Pail.

Chickens hatched In early fall
should bring fancy prices as broilers
or fryers near the holiday season.
There Is generally great demand for
fryers or broilers at that season and
those who have them usually are for.
tunate.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06

cned wedding smoked and declared that
the
ardent workers in Red Cross giving Of her m her and her
Ethel Roosevelt served
young Mrs
pitfalls Of
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06

n
lines
boyish
selves"
Mrs Baker though
because boys good" she explained.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06
An Egg Gauge.

between the two points Of the gauge,
Is rejected for sending to market. 1t
might be well to fashion one for your
own use.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06
Disqualified.

Knicker--is Jones physically dis
qualified to be a soldierf
Bocker-He can't see RED. white and
blue; he can't hear the call Of duty
and his legs run backward.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06

A hero is n man who sticks 10 ~
same woman all his life.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-12-06


they serving In the Philippines together.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-15
COMING TO BURLINGTON.
Geraldine Farrar, Famous Singer, to APP
pear Oct "a.

| One of the most interesting phenomena
about that most interesting woman, Ger
aldine Farrar, who is to appear in Bur
ligton on Oct. pa, is that every time she
is photographed the result seems almost
to be an entirely different person. Miss
/ Farrar has posed before the camera hun
dreds of times and being an exceptional
~ beautiful young woman herself, the
pictures are always attractive whether
they are in character or in ''propria per-
soma" but whether they are in character
or are taken simply of her own sweet
self, each differs from the other in a way
that is most puzzling At times one see
ing two pictures has to look twice to
make sure that il is of the same per
son.
A Photographic expert has undertaken
to explain how it is that each new pic
ture of Miss Farrar presents her with
new personality.
1T is because she does not allow her
real self to be photographed" he said,
"she is SO accustomed TO throwing her
self into moods and personalities other
than her own and for the time being real
ly living these histrionic creations, that
the moment she sits before the camera
she throws herself. unconsciously per-
haps, from long habit of trying to real
ize some prescribed situation, into the
attitude and expression of
person sitting for picture. In other
words, the photographers never, or but |
rarely. catch the artist off her artists |
guard This ia not to say that Miss Far.
rar consciously poses or that she is con-
sciously and always insisting in private
life at every moment, on her undoubted /
iivaship; it only means that it has be
come second nature to her to put her
self into the skin and clothes of some
body else; to stand detached from her
,wn personality for the time being, as
{ were
"The varying degrees of intensity and
success and effect with which this sub.
conscious habit comes to the fore when
given portrait is taken, measures the
amount of variation of the resulting pie
re from its predecessors and from all
IS fellows. adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-15
Uncle Sam Needs 10000 Stenographers
and Typewriters at Once.

Washington, d. c., Oct. l5.-Now that
Uncle Sam has the young men Of the
country in training for military service
he finds that he needs 10000 typewriter
operators and stenographers and type
writers, both men and women, for the de-
partments at Washington. The civil
service commission. has notified all of its
5000 boards of examiners that they
should put forth their best efforts to Sc
cure these urgently needed workers.
While examinations are now held weekly
in $50 cities, the commission states that
will be made to have an
examination held at any accessible place
where small class of applicants can be
secured. The entrance salaries range
from 81 900 to 81 200 year. Promotion
is reasonably rapid Ito those whose serv-
ices prove satisfactory. No appointments
can be made to these or other positions
in the federal classified civil service un-
less authorized by the civil service com
mission under the civil service law Any
to the contrary is unauthor.
lied. This is a splendid opportunity to
serve your county. Full information
NAV be secured from the secretary of the
board of civil service examiners at the
postoffice in your city.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-15
SELECT MORE SEED CORN.
Five Reasons for Doubling Supply Given
By U. S. Department Of Agriculture.

Five reasons for selecting and saving
double the usual amount of seed corn
in the localities where the corn crop is
maturing in good condition, are put forth
by the United States department of ag-
riculture for the consideration of farm.
ers in statement issued to-day. The
department believes that much more
than the usual acreage of corn will be
planted next spring and that now is the
best, surest, and easiest time to get the
necessary seed. The five reasons for in
creasing the seed corn supply are:
|. First class seed corn is scarce al
most every spring.
?. Extended paintings and replantings
practically exhausted the hold-over sup
ply last June.
3. In some sections this years crop
has been destroyed by drought or early
frosts. Farmers of these sections should
now arrange to secure seed from locali.
ties possessing climatic conditions sim
liar to their own
4. In the localities favored with a crop
this year, next years crop may be lie
stroyed, and there should now be &C.
lected a supply of locally adapted seed
for 1918 and hold-over supply for the
1919 planting.
.. Hail storms, floods, and drougLts
yearly destroy millions of acres of young
corn, making second and third paintings
necessary. Seed corn dealers who oro-
vide ample supplies Of seed Of early
maturing varieties render valuable sery.
See by prompt deliveries for these emer-
geney paintings.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-15
Football Scores Saturday.

At Portland, Me.-Maine heavy artil
| lery 81, Maine university 9.
At Hanover, n dartmouth 80
Mddlebury 9.
At Exeter, n. H.--Phillips Exeter ID
Colby academy 9.
At Annapolis, Md.-Navy 62, Mary.
land State o.
AT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. TO-
| Swarthmore 0.
At Pittsburg, Pa.-university of
Pittsburg Al, Lehigh 0.
AT Amherst, Mass.-Amherst 10, I'm
ion g.
At West Point, N. Army "a, vir-
ginia Military institute 0.
At Ithaca, n. Williams 10, Cor
nell 10.
AT Cambridge, Mass.-Harvard fresh
men Ii, Phillips Andover 0,
At Syracuse, n. Y.-Syracuse IA, Rut
gers TO-
At Durham, n. H.-New Hampshire
college %, Fort Mckinley O.
At Rochester. n Y-St. Lawrence O.
University of Rochester 0.
At Worcester, Mass.-Rhode Island
State 30, Worcester Tech g.
AT Norwich-Fo rdham 80, Norwich 0.
AT Washington, d. C.--Western Mary
land Is, Gallaudet 9.
AT Morgantown, W. Va-West Vir-
ginia 81, Carlisle 0.
At Allentown, Pa.--Muhlenberg Is,
Penn. Military college 7.
At Lancaster, Pa Franklin and Mar.
shall Temple university cancelled.
AT New York-Columbia- Vermont,
Cancelled.
At Haverford, Pa.--Delaware 7, Ha-
verford O.
AT Middetown, Stevens g.
Wesleyan 0.
AT State College, Pa-PennsyIvania
State 3d. st. Bonaventure 0.
At Gettysburg, Pa.-Gettysburg 8,
Johns Hopkins g.
At Washington, Pa. Washington and
Jefferson IL, West Virginia Wesleyan 8,
At Utica, n Y.-Colgate "a, Bucknell
At Easton, Pa.-Lafsyette II, Ursinus
6.
AT Carlisle, PaS-Dickinson "a, Albright |
Z.
At Clinton, n Y.-Hamilton 26, Ho-
bart 0.
At Pittsburg-Carnegie Tech. 10, West.
minister 0,
At Cambridge-Harvard varsity in
formal 80, Bumkin island naval reserves
,.
At Lewiston, Me- Bates college 0, 18th
company, Fort Baldwin 0.
At Brunswick, Me- Bowdoin college
IS, 10Th company, Fort Baldwin 0.
At Waterville, Me.-Portland section
naval reserve force T. Colby college 0.
AT Chicago-Chicago 49, Vanderbilt 0.
At Madison, Wis.--Wisconsin 0, Notre
Dame o.
At Minneapolis-Minnesota 81, South
Dakota State 0.
AT Columbus, O.--Ohio State 40,
northwestern 0,
At Ann Arbor, Mich Michigan 3d.
iount Union 0.
At Champaign, Ill.-Illinois A, Okla
iona 0.
At Lincoln, Neb.-Nebraska AZ, Iowa
At Vermillon, S. D.--South Dakota 10,
Torth Dakota o.