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Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
IMPERIAL VALLEY .LATCH-STR|NG OO|
POULTRY RANGE TO BOYS IN KHAKI

| Poultry on the farm should be Civ
en- free range over the fields as far
as possible in order that they may be
able to pick up as much of thell
feed as they can. Small yards may
be provided, however, to be used du-
ring the breeding season for one Oh
more small pens selected early i'll the
spring for use as breeders to pro-
duce the spring chicks. 1t may also
De necessary to have mediumsizeo
yards attached to the hen houses sc
that all the fowls can be penned up
for a time when it is desired to keep
them out of certain fields or orch
ard plots, or they may be confined
to the henhouses if not kept shut up
for more than two or three days at a
time. The number and size of yards,
if any, will be governed by specific
conditions on each farm.
A we'll designed and constructed
henhouse should be built in which the
fowls are always fed all of the feed
given them and in which they are
made to roost at all times. If fowls
are taught to use the henhouse from
the very first, shutting them up in
| it for three to seven days, if neces-
sary, when first put in, no trouble
should be experienced with their
roosting in trees and outbuildings.
Providing good clean nests in the hen
house and not letting the fowls out
on range too early in the morning
till they get thoroughly used to lay
| ing in these nests, will result in prac-
tically all eggs being laid in the hen
| A dirty henhouse, full of mites and
other vermin, will drive hens to the
trees to roost and the fence corners
to law. A hen is a creature of habit.
Give her comfortable henhouse and
accustOm her TO use it and she will do
so without further bother. Such a
henhouse means more fresh-laid eggs
to be collected daily, as fewer nests
are stolen, and it means fewer stolen
chickens because the hens can be
locked up at night.
In many sections Of the state, poul-
try are bein grm in orchards. The
advantages urged in favor Of this
practice are G) that the poultry ma
nure is valuable as a fertilizer for
the trees if properly used; (2) that
poultry are welcome source Of in
com eduring the growing, unproduc-
| Itiveperiod of the young orchard and
| the poor crop years of the bearing
orchard, in addition to increasing the
1 income at other times; (3) the trees
furnish much needed summer shade
to the fowls; (4) both the trees and
! the fowls can use the same land and
two incomes can be secured per acre.
There are also a number of disad-
vantages in running fowls in orch
ards, and whether the advantages viii
outweigh the disadvantages in any
specific case will undoubtedly depend
upon the kind Of orchard, value Of
the land, soil conditions and many
other factors that cannot be entered
into in brief discussion Of this kind
1t is simply desired to point out that
orchards do offer possibilities for
poultry raising and many growers
nave found it profitable to use their
orchards in this way
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07

"that well informed opinion in the
city is very strong on this point:
That it would be very difficult if
not impossible to impose an economic
boycott on Germany in time of peace
Such threats have the unfortunate
effect of stimulating the war interest
of the commercial classes in Ger
many when their instincts and in
terests impel them so strongly to-
ward the reasonable peace that Pres
ident Wilson offers"
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
i; i: 4;
Mrs. Thompson Entertains

Friday evening Mrs. F. Z. Thomp-
son was hostess to a party OF young
people, entertaining in honor OF her
daughter, Mrs. Rodney kllllam, VINO
was Miss Vera Thompson. The even
ing was spent delightfully."-, talking
over school girl days, most of them
attending the high school together.
Those present were Miss Cora Nuffer,
Miss Tracy Scott, Miss Wanda Greer
Miss Nora Epler, Miss Cheerful Apple,
Mrs. Leah Wilson RICHTER, Mrs. Ann
Gilbert Sherwood.
Mrs. w. S. Fawcett has returned
home after an absence OF a week,
spent in Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
Various Items Of Interest To Women
Edited BY Mrs. A. E. Nance. Telephone PSI
=. Telephone 251

AIRY 7th at the Wilson school. The pur-
pose will to bring together women
Of all organizations, that they may be
educated along these lines.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07

Phone your wants to The Press
6-and get quick results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17
DOLL LY-IETTTES
At the Matrimonial Altar there are lot of LEMONS" decked out in ORANGE BLOSSOMS"

self almost of necessary food so that I can help my country; but you, sir, continue your reckless extravaganza you spend money harum- scarum, here, there, everywhere, and never penny for your country. I think the govern ment ought to know about you, MT. Caudle, and suppose they'd put you in the jail for lack of support to the administration? An, hal sir-you'd be a pretty prisoner, you'd be.
 Don't groan and snort and chortle like that, Mir. Caudle. I know you are restless and that you want to go to sleep, but not tonight, MT. Caudle I know why you are so sleepy and droswy; you've been drinking, sir, drinking. I can smell it on your breath, even though you are perfumed and powdered up to keep me from detect. ing it. That's mere camouflage, MT. Caudle. I know the smell of whisky in spite of sugar and spice and everything nice, sir; I do. Think of what you have to pay for bot tie of whisky these days and how many thrift stamps that money would buy! But you aren't even on speaking terms with the word thrift you are idle and lazy and no-account and if by getting into the game and Invest ing in few thrift stamps you could save the country from war you'd have some excuse and not do 1t.
 Really, MT. Caudle, I've hit upon a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17
DOLL LY-ETTES
It is not only IMPOLITE to Interrupt Woman when She's Talking But-USELESS!

liquor. Don't tell me you don't have 1t. sir. know. Why, the other night when you came home had the headache for a week, the odor of liquor was so strong, and tonight bids fair to have the same effect upon me. If you would take the money you spend on liquor and invest it in thrift stamps I could face my friends (and my enemies) with clear conscience and proud front. But, also, MT Caudle, you have no patriotism, no Howard Sllimpole if there ever was one, dissolute. agreeable, worthless, ire sponsble. Don't call me a good crea- ture and ask me to desist: I wont be called a good creature and 1 won't let you go to sleep. If you want to go to sleep, why don't you come home at a respectable Christian time of night sir? There was a time when you were as reg ular at your fireside as the kettle; but that was when you were a decent man, and didn't drink and gamble and run after women.
 Whats that? I'm a foolish woman7 ? foolish man, or worse than foolish. You are a wicked man, sir. If you were to die tomorrow (and people who drink do all they can to shorten their lives) 1 should feel like hypocrite when these lines were written about you: "A tender husband and an affectionate father has departed this life; a man who loved his country and served it we'll douisiana
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17

scheme whereby I think you might be induced to buy some thrift stampsl If that little Tattletale minx were to ask you to buy some stamps. I firmly be- lieve you'd do so; now 'fess up wouldn't you, sir? What's that? You can't imagine a woman of my age talk ing so silly? Well, I can't imagine a man of your age acting so silly; but old men always prance around and plume themselves and try to make peo- pie believe they are young and I don | suppose you are an exception to the rule. Lord. how I would like to see one old fool man who has reached the age of 50, who had had the conceit knocked out of him. Whats that? Just because a man tries to keep young condemn him? Not at all, sir; nobody likes youth and fun and gayety more than I do, but I like it when it's be- coming to people; I don't like to see an old man trying to act like he's 21, and running With people the age of his children
 What's that, Mir Caudle? You thought started out to talk about war savings stamps? So I did, but when you are the subject of any particular activity, I have to diverge because there are so many angles to view you from-the main one of which is that you fancy that Miss Tattletale cares anything for you. I'd just like to be behind the door at the Tattletale's s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17
Clemenceau's Record as a Statesman

S From "Clemenceau Takes Hold" by
 Maurice Leon, in the American Review
 of Reviews
 Clemenceaus incisive eloquence makes him the peer in debate of Rene viviani. Frances first war premier, who being also foreign minister, received from the hands of the German ambassador on August 8, 1914, the tissue of mendacious falsehoods concerning pretended French aggressions against German territory by which Germany declared war upon France falsehoods which having thus fulfilled their purposes were promptly retired to the crowded museum of Ger mal. fabrcations, in which they have rested ever since. When Clemenceau be- came the head of the government in 1908, Juares, the socialist leader. was the great orator of the Chamber of Deputies. A series of debates between the two men oy CT the socialist programme. labor dis orders. Morocco, increased Clemenceau's s oratorical stature and decreased that of Juares.
 Viviani was succeeded as premier by Briand, the persuasive. Briand is a dip- lomat of the old world while Clemen- ceau achieves his great results by resort to what is generally called American diplomacy" Take, for example, the Casa blanca incident, for which Germany de- manded an apology in 1908, backing her demand with threat of war. From the platform of the Chamber of Deputies, Clemenceau defied the German govern ment He declared that France would apologize if and when an arbitration showed her to be in the wrong. and not before; that Germany wanted an apology before she would consent to an arbitra- tion; that Germany could not have such
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17
By DOLLY pALRYMpLE

HHW9( YELL. I say it again, and l
 WW say it honestly, woman
 had better be in her grave than be married; that is, if she cant be married to a decent man. No; l don't care a bit if you are tired. l shant let you go to sleep. No; l won't say what I have to say in the morn ing; I'll say it now or never. It's all very we'll for you to come home at whatever time you like-it's now 12:S0 e'ciock-and expect me never to say a word, but coddle you and pet you and let you go to sleep. What next I won- der? A woman might just as well be sold for a slave at once and be bound with chains and fastened firm to a rock
 What's that? What am I driving at now? You know perfectly well, MT Caudle, what I'm driving at now. I'm driving at your extravaganza. In these war times when every human being on the face of the earth is trying to save and economize and help the gov ernment you persist in spending your money recklessly and foolishly instead of investing it for the children and myself and yourself in thrift stamps so that we can at least do our part toward winning the war. Whats that: You bought thrift stamp. When and how and where, sir, I'd like to know? {? Here we have our eight children, none Of the boys old enough to go to the war and fight; the girls-poor, little things-are knitting and making band ages with the Red Cross and doing their bit, while I am depriving my
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17
Germany Attacks Behind the Lines

Charlton Bates Strayer. in Leslie's.
 Germany's attacks behind the lines are
 more to be feared than her military blows. The persistence of these attacks marks the wars most insdious phase. In a military sense Germany has lost the war. and her military chiefs fully realize it. The recent drive on Italy
 may for a while bolster up a staggering
 Austria but it will not win the war and the Kaiser knows it. There is the pos sibility that Italy. with the help of
 France and England, may even turn the Italian campaign into an Austro-German
 disaster. However the tide of battle runs, German Is unceasingly and desperately striving by a subtle peace propaganda and by all the arts of the diplomatic game to SOW discord among the allies,
 and by socialistic and peace talk to take
 the fighting spirit out of the armies of the enemy. In Russia Germany has had conspicuous success in using the revolution to It's own ends, and 1t was the same tactics, operating on the Italian army through Italian socialists and Italian cericals. which produced treach- cry in the Italians ranks and enabled the enemy to drive unopposed through breach in the Italian line. There Is
 hope for Italy now, not only because of prompt allied cooperation, but also be- cause the successful German thrust, made possible by insidious sociallstic propa ganda, has unified the national spirit of Italy as at no time during the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17

time, That's why. Don't you know that a girl as young as she is only laughs at an old man like you? Didn't hear lot of women talking only the other day about a 60-year- Romeo they'd recently seen and how they en- joyed the spiritual reading of the lines and the poesy and the art and all that but they couldn't picture the dash ing, stunning, emotional Mir. Romeo Montague as old and spiritual! They were deploring the fact that porch climbers are able to get up stairs and that while lot of Romeos are still dying rapidly and that while a lot of Romeos are still able to get up the stairs, mighty few remain who can scale the balcony! The women who were doing the talking weren't any spring chickens themselves, which goes on to prove that even middle-aged women like young men, much less young women liking them"
 Whats all that got to do with war savings stamps and the war? Much. This much: How any decent, respecta- ble man can spend his nights gambling and drinking liquor when his country is at war is more than I can understand. Whats that? You men get together for rational conversation? That's not true. MT. Caudle. No man Is rational when he's drinking. I'd like to know how often you'd congregate at an old club for rational conversation with a lot of old buns, if you didn't have your filthy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17
CaIome| Users! Listen To Me-!
 Guarantee DodSon'S Liver Tone
Your druggist gives back your money if it doesn't iven your liver and bowels and straighten
 you up without making you sick.

Ugh! Calomel makes you sick. It's horrible! Take a dose of the dangerous drug tonight and tomorrow you may lose a days work.
 Calomel Is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones. Calomel, when 1t comes into. contact with sour bile, crashes into it, breaking it up. This is when you feel that awful nausea and cramping. If you are slug gish and 'all knocked out" if your liver Is torpid and bowels constipated or you have headache, dizziness, coated sour, just try a spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone tonight.
 Here's my guarantee--Go to any drug store and get 50 cent bottle of Dod- sons Liver Tone. Take spoonful and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17
Melba in' 'Faust''RecaHsKing
 EdWard and Emperor Willian1
Lady Mary Tells of Coven Garden When There Was No Whisper of the Coming Terror-Other
 Milestones Recalled
By LADY MARY

{ New York, February15.-CSpe dc not exactly consider myself an exile, but sometimes when I read meagerly men, New York, papers, feel fearfully far away, and wonder how things are really going in the "old country"
 For instance, the other day I read a brief announcement of the death of MT. Alfred c. Rothschild-a name, beyond being that of the famous banking house, has no special significance in this part of the world. But in London, where he died, MT Alfred was personality that was as familiar there as the late Pierpont Morgan was here.
 Only with the difference that "Mr. Al fred" was a social personality who never missed a great opera night, an impor- tant premiere at theatre or any great gathering where the aristocratic and artistic world congregated.
 He was never called MT. Rothschild-al- ways and to everyone he was MT. AL fred' He was an intimate friend of King Edwards and they used to sit side by side in the box at Covent Garden opera, which Is the property of Whites club, and discuss the merits and de- merits of the reigning prima donna with iulmensa vfvacity.
 "Mr. Alfred with his neat white whiskers, his thin, rosy face and his rather weary blue eyes was known to everyone He was a tremendous dandy, and his clothes were the perfection of cut and fit. His evening clothes had velvet collars and cuffs; he always wore a white gardenia in his button hole and he possessed the most superb cuff links of any gentleman in England.
 They were made of four huge pearls, two grey and two white, and he inva- riably wore his shirt cuffs well down over his small gloved hands so that the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17
Aviator an Author
From Eyerybody,s Nagaz,ne.

from EVeryDOuy Magazine.
 Raoul Lufbery, the Ace aviator of the Lafayette Ecadrille, is not French man, but an American citizen, hailing from Wallingford. Conn. Hitherto he has been too busy winning promotions -he is now major-to write. He de- scribes how a bombing expedition is con ducted The following is taken from his description of the earth from an air. plane.
 T gazed at the landscape as 1t unfold ed itself beneath me. To the right was the Seille river. barely recognizable at this time of the year. With it's curves swollen by the rains, it looked like one long link of swamps. To the left lay the Moselle. with its canal, forming two narrow silvery lines, one of which ex- tended to the north, where 1t lost itself In a veil of mist. That which, at dis tance, had taken for dense fog, l found was the smoke from the factory chimneys of Metz.
 "As drew nearer, I could distinguish, through the smoke. groups of houses red tiles, probably barracks encirclsd by small, green, economically formed squares These were the famous forts.
 Slowing down the motor in our de- scent We glided smoothly over the vailsy of the Meurthe. and so on home.
 Gradually the scene beneath us grew normal. The smooth carpet of green moss slowly developed into forests; the long and narrow black ribbons became railroads, the white ribbons, roads. That which in the distance I had taken for large factory. partly hidden in cloud of smoke. now assumed gigantic propcr- ti6ns. and I recognized it as the city of Nancy. I was at an altitude of POO ne ters, over the plateau of Malzeville which served us as an aviation field. One last spiral, and I landed near the hangars Of my escadriIle. My first care was to examine my machine. found that the planes were pierced in several places by bullets"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17
Feeding Cattle From Railway Cars

From the Popular Science Monthly.
 The desert cattle ranchers of Arizona and New Mexico have learned that to raise cattle Is one business, and to fat ten them is another. For this reason, they ship their cattle to California, where sugar beet pulp is obtained in abun- dance. One factory is located near the field where the beets are grown The cattle are turned into this field after the beets are harvested.
 Under the fence Is placed a trough which projects outside of the fence just enough to allow the beet pulp to he thrown into it from the cars. The cars run on tracks from the factory to the field and follow the fences around the corral. More space is thus obtained for the beef cattle to feed, and there Is but little waste of fodder. In these war days the cattlemen are learning to conserve stock food, as the cattle themselves are conserved for our use.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17
Hears Ms Gaudz Jr Diym Some vey Pointed Curtain Lectures
Indeed. Id hide

papers please copy). Indeed. I'd hide my head in shame
 Don't tell me. you only spend few cents at your old club MT Caudle. I'm not quite a fool, sir a great deal you could get for few cents and you drink Ing liquor enough to swim a boat. won't even spend the price of a paper of pins during war times. Oh. MT. Caudle. you and old Tattaletale and those terri ble vultures that you associates with men who drink like fish and wear a cigar in their mouths as constant as their front teeth-and-and- Whats that2 For heavens sake, go to sleepl I won't sir; tell you, I won't; it's time to get up. anyway, and--and-oh, what's the use of going to bed if I must endure such language from you and such recrimina- tions and such ingratNude!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17

if it doesn't straighten you right up ana Ma make va you m ,eea t iine e ano th vigorous get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone Is destroying the sale of calomel because etable. therefore. 1t can not salivate Or make you sick.
 I guarantee that one spoonful of Dod- liver to work and clean your bowels of that sour bile and constipated waste which is clogging your system and making you feel miserable I guarantee that bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your entire family feeling fine for months. Give it to your children. It it's pleasant taste.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17
Cautious Communication

From the Washington Star.
 I'm going to tell you something in confidence said the diplomat.
 ''All right. replied the cynic. ITO what particular person of my acQrain- tance do you want me to mention the matter by accident?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17

war. German peace agents are active in every country in the world. Anarchists. socialists, pacifists. visionaries, the sell fish. the cowardly, all who may be uti- lized for her ends, are seized upon by Germany. Every one knows that the so- cialist party in the United States is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17
CLARKE ENTHUSIASTIC

And again my wool-gathering brain wanders back to the Melba Of today and the New York audience that greet ed her with rare enthusiasm. I saw white-haired Senator Clarke in a box with his wife--both of them interest ing and arresting figures. After Mel
 ba had sung her Jewel song, Senator Clarke stood up In his box and smore his white gloved hands together with an ardor that was quite startling. Mrs. Clarke. with her hair demurely parted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17

working in the interests of Germany.
 Leading socialists, who are international in their spirit, have been compelled to withdraw from the party. One hundred Italians, most of them miners and ship yarc employees, have been rounded up by
 federal agents in cities of the northwest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17

sometimes on the subject of you and your foolishness! Why is she so nice to you if she doesn't like you? Poor belated lamb Isn't that the very acme of conceit? Why, because you spend your money on her and give her a good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17

apology. We'll Germany did without that apology, and the subsequent arbitration showed convincingly that, far from be-
 ing entitled tn one, she owed one to | France.