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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24
HOW TO SHADOW TURKEY
HEN TO HER STOLEN NEST

Given free range, turkey hens usu-
ally secrete their nests in obscure
places, such as patches of weeds, tall
grass, or bushy thickets, and often
wander a half-mle or more from
home before they find places that
suit them To find these stolen"
nests is often a long and tedious task,
the usual method being to follow
each turkey hen as she separates from
the flock and starts toward her nest.
taking care that she does not know
she is observed. A much easier and
quicker method than this is to con-
fine the hens early some morning soon
after they have come down from
roost and let them out late in the
afternoon, Those that are laying will
then head straight for their nests in
order to lay the eggs they have been
holding.
If attractive nesting places are pre-
pared about the barnyard, turkey
hens sometimes lay in them. In the
North, where the laying season often
begins while there is still snow on
the ground, they are more likely to
select their nests near home than is
the case in the South, as they do not
range far during cold weather.
Nests are easily made from boxes
or barrels, or by scooping out little
earth in the shape of shallow bowl
and piling brush around it to satisfy
the hens desire for seclusion. OF all
nests, however, the one most preferred
by turkey hens is barrel laid on its
side and nest shaped in it with
straw or hay, according to United
States Department of Agriculture
poultry specialists. When only a few
turkeys are kept it is the usual Gus
tom to allow them free range through
out the breeding and laying reason.
If many turkeys are kept, however,
II is usually found most convenient
because breeding pens or inclosues,
IN which the turkeys are kept until
they have laid their eggs for the day,
letting them out late on each after
noon. When confined to a breeding
pen several turkey hens often lay in
the same nest. but on free range each
hen usually makes her own nest
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24

JOHN X. DUKE

Very few people know that there is
difference between frogs and toads
Or, in other words, that a toad is
not a frog. Although they resemble
each other in appearance, they are
very different in many other ways.
Frogs and toads, together with Sala-
manders, Zoologically speaking, be-
long to the Amphibian group, and the
early life of each is very much alike.
Frogs and toads deposit their eggs
in water during the early Spring
months. The eggs are about the size
OF shot, and are embedded in a jelly
like substance which holds them to-
gether. When first Matched the young
are very different from the adult, be-
ing more like fishes. They are minus
either legs OF fms, and have tail
which aids them in moving about
through the water. They are also,
when Matched, blind and mouthless,
but lips and horny jaws soon appear,
along with eyes, ears, and nose all
of which are highly developed. How
ever their senses grow stronger as
they grow older. / have spent much
time trying to find the little fellows
that make so much noise in the
swamps and sloughs in early Spring,
but on my approach they always hide
themselves in the mud and leaves on
the bottom and | have never seen
one yet.
Not many days after the Matching
of the little frog, which in this stage
of life is known as tadpole, it under
goes a metamorprosis. And here the
first difference between the frog and
toad appears. The tadpole of the toad
is much smaller than that of the frog
when they undergo this metamor-
things take place. The animal de-
velops lungs, and for a certain length
of time, breaths through both lungs
and gills. The tadpole now changes
from its diet of vegetable substance
to that of animal substance and the
small teeth of the frog take the place
of the horny jaws of the tadpole 1t
develops a backbone, skull and four
legs, and in making all these changes
its body absorbs its tail for food, and
it is now a frog or toad.
AS soon as it has passed the tadpole
stage, the toad makes its home on the
land. never returning to the water
till time to deposit its eggs. On the
other hand, the frog lives an aquatic
or semi-aquatc life, using the water
bugs and worms for food.
The construction of the frogs
mouth is peculiar in that his tongue
is fastened to his lip and the back
end is loose. But anyone who has
tried to sleep near pond on a warm
summer night knows that his tongue
being fastened at the wrong end does
not interfere with the use of his vocal
organs.
The toad is a very useful animal.
During the day they remain conceal
ed in holes and crevices, but at the
approach of evening come out in
search of food, which consists en-
tirely of insects, all of which are in
furious to man. AS many as seventy
five or eighty injurious insects have
been found in toads stomach at one
time. Every person who lives in
town should encourage the toad to
live in his garden.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24
YOU'LL BE WANTED

In a little book about Lincoln
which read long time ago, re-
member that, when he was a very
young man, he said he had the feel
ing that some time he was going to
be wanted to fill big place in the
world. And so he studied and plodded
and worked.
Never in the history of the world
has the idea of preparation asserted
itself as IL is doing now. Men who
have been living comparatively quiet
and retired lives have leaped into
prominence and leadership. But that
has always been the way, in this world
of ours, where work and thinking
have had their day.
La Place, the astronomer, was still
at work when death caught up with
him, at seventy-eight years of age
But this is what he said when dying
what we know is nothing, what
we don't know is immensew
Some time you are going to be
wanted. And what you learn today
pigeon-holed in its accurate doing, in
some space-may be just what you
will need at some glad and thrilling
future day when the world may be
looking around to see where a man
can be picked who can do the job.
Most of the failures scattered about
towns are there because they never
impressed themselves with the fact
lat some time they will be sorely
needed
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24
WHY NOT MAKE A
SUCCESS OF LIFEr

why Not Make A Success of
Life?" is asked of young people by
Shelby Harrington, a pupil of the
Lindsey Wilson Training School,
Columbia, Ky. who is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. T. J. Harrington, formerly
of Cloverport, recently moved to
Hardinsburg Route 2. Young Har-
rington expresses himself thusly:
Time is worth while.
Time is not to waste. for there will
be time in your life when you will
regret that you did not make good
use of your time.
Think of the boy or girl who goes
to school day after day wasting his or
her time in just having a good time
or to get out of work at home. That
boy or girl should be at home and be
made to work from sun to sun.
The boy or girl who goes to school
for a good time keeps other pupils
from studying if he can, by rolling up
paper wads and throwing them at the
fellow that is studying, or if that
isn't enough he will pull a seat out
from under him. Then when the
teacher asks. Whats the matter back
lHCIC. SOlllCOHc VIII speak up anu
say, My foot slipped"
That is the trouble with most
boys and girls, they let their feet slip
too much. What is lost today is lost
forever You cannot miss a day and
go day to school and learn to any
satisfaction. You will always be day
behind and when in your classes
you'll be heard to say, Il never had
so and So" What is the reason? 1t
is because you didn't go to school
regularly. 1t takes the boy or girl who
is always on his or her job to succeed
Il, as student of the Lindsey Will
son Training School, highly recon-
mend this school as one of the best
managed schools | have ever attend
ed. 1t is supported by the Louisville
Methodist Conference. and we have
a fine set of teachers. S L. Harring-
ton, care L. w. T. s., Columbia, Ky.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24
GIVE CHILDREN WHOLE MILK
IT'S THEIR NATURAL FOOD.

Milk is the natural food for child
rem. 1t is the best food we have A
quart day for every child if possible,
and a pint without fail, should be the
slogan of every household.
Milk gives children the body-build-
ing protein, one of the materials from
which their bodies are made. When
children dring milk, these body pro-
teins are changed and become part
OF their muscles and blood. Children
need these because their bodies grow
SO fast.
Milk contains lime and other salts
which are needed for strong bones
and teeth and for body regulators.
Many children who do not have plenty
of milk have soft or deformed bones
and poor teeth.
Children are so active that they
need more fuel food for their size than
grown people do Milk furnishes
energy for the growing child
Besides these, milk contains certain
substances which are essential to
growth. These substances are called
vitamines. One is the fat-soluble Wit
anime, so called because it is soluble
IN certain fats; this is found in the
greatest abundance in the butter fat
of milk. Butter is rich in this vita
mine. 1t is also found to some extent
in cheese.
In milk is found another vitamine,
called the Water-soluble vitamine, be-
cause it is soluble in water These
vitamines are found to some extent
in certain other foods, but nowhere
are they found in so great an abun-
dance as in milk, according to the u.
S. Department of Agriculture.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24

In Cloverport
Miss Lula McGavock left Monday
for Alabama, where she will reside
in the future.
(o) -
Mrs. j. Scott Vance and children
are visiting in Owensboro.
(o) -
Mrs. r. N. Hudson returned to
Louisville, after visiting her parents.
Mrs. Marion Ryan returned to
Louisville, after visiting her mother,
who is i'll at Mrs. Weatherholt's.
-(o) =
c. E. Keith and family moved from
Grayson county here and are occupy
ing the Moorman cottage on Main
street
+ M. Hall and Miss Lizzie Hall are
on the sick list.
Mrs. s. r. Berry and Miss Lizzie
Hill are in Henderson visiting.
(o)-
L. L. Waggoner went to Louisville
to sell his tobacco.
-(o) -
Taylor Haynes and Tom Kendall
never fail to get gas in this field when
they start after it,
-(o)-
Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkerson- and
daughter, Mrs. Eta Evans returned
from St Louis, where they have been
spending the winter with Mr.. and
Mrs. David Stancliff.
-(O) -
Geo. F. Askins, McQuady, was in
town yesterday and says he has a
plant bed ITO feet by IL feet wide, is
done blowing for corn. and ready to
plant. His oats are coming up nicely
and all his farm work is up. George
is for free silver.
The engagement of Miss Rose Holt,
of Holt. KY, and Mr. Gus Luckett,
of Owensboro, is announced
Capt. William Vest is great
admirer of gold as any man in this
town and owns as much of it as any
other one man, yet he is not welded
to it to the exclusion OF silver He
thinks as does the News it has been
badly treated by the gold bugs and
ought to be restored to its former
position as one of the redemptive
moneys.-Ed.
-(o)-
In Hardinsburg-Dr. A. M. Kin
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24
FISHING-TWO WEEKS OFF.

AS / listen to the gurgle
Of the brook that sings below
Where the tamaracks are bending
In their cerements of snow.
All. the fever how it tingles
Fry nerve with keen delight
And | echo back the laughter
OF the singer out of sight
They are waiting there alluring
In their hidden paradise
The speckled beauties darting
In their snuggeries of ice.
Ev'ry fancy goes a-straying
On the wings of winds that scott
Get your fishing tackle ready
For it's two weeks off,
Horace S. Keler-N. Y. Sun & Heral,
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24
ON EASTER DAY

On Easter Day, on Easter Day
The maidens don their best array.
They mince along in snowy shoes,
And silken hose and drivers hues.
And satin gowns and sashes bright,
And floating wells of black or white.
Ard hats adorned with plumes and
wings,
And wreaths and bows and Other
things.
To church, to church on Easter Day
The youths repair; but not to pray.
They go to see the pretty girls
In lace, chiffon, in pearls and curls-
And as the dainty dears they view
Attired in all their finery new.
Each one decides with deep regret
He can't afford to marry yet
Cartoons Magazine
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24

I cheloe was called to West View to-
see Mrs. NJ. d. Humphrey
-(o)- r.
A volunteer offering of SIS was
given Rev ]. w. Bigham for his
preaching of three weeks.
(o) -
Holt-Mrs Annie Moorman and
and son, Marion, and Mr. Zach Bur-
dette, of Hites Run, visited Mrs.
Moorman's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Weatherholt.
Lodiburg-Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rob
ertson, Mrs. Eve Bassett and Master
Roy Bassett, of Preston, have been
here visiting relatives.
-(o)-
Rev. Duggins filled his appointment
at Walnut Grove, Saturday and Sum
day. He is an excellent preacher and
will have his church in good standing
ere his year closes here.
-(o)-
Dukes-Mr. Simon Roland sold his
tobacco to Mr.. Brashear, of Clover
port, for $3.50, $3.50 and so cents.
-(o)-
Paynesville-Mrs. Levi Bassett has
woven 365 yards of cloth, pairs
double mittens, pairs fingered gloves
and done her own house work. How's
that for industry
-(o)-
Stephensport-Mr. Robt. Tobin, of
Tobinsport, Ind, dropped in Satur-
day at the store of K. B. Blain &
Bro, to see his nephew, Mr.. Blain.
Mr.. Tobin is vice-president of the
Breckenridge Bank. :
-(o)-
Falls of Rough-Miss Jennie Green
has returned from Princeton, where
she attended school
-(o)-
Messrs Will French and George
Sherbourne will leave for New Or
leans in few days.
-(o)-
Miss Pearl Gibson has returned to
her home in Cloverport, after an ex-
tended visit
Ekron-James Cox, of Highland
neighborhood was in town showing a
sample of very fine seed oats of which
he has about 300 bushels and sells
at 45c per bushel.
-(o)-
observation-disclosures O'Bryan has
returned from Daviess county Says
he is going to raise Is acres of tobac-
CO this year.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24
MARK TWAIN KNEW.

Mark Twain was editing a Mis-
souri, paper. a supersititous subscriber
wrote him that he had found spid-
err in his paper. and asked Mark if
1t signihed good or bad luck? Twain
replied:
"Old misunderstanding a spider
in your paper was neither good nor
bad luck for you. The spider was
merely looking over our paper to see
which merchants are not advertising,
so that he could go to those stores
and spin his webb undisturbed." -Ex
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24
JUST LOOKING"

She was the kind that makes you
take down everything on the shelves
and then says she is "just looking
She asked to look at union suits
and the obliging clerk showed her
everything in sight Still she was not
satisfied He brought out all the re-
serve stock AS he deposited the last
box on the counter he said:
There madame is our stock"
"Oh, my! is that all you have?'
said the locker"
Yes, ma-am, it is-'cept for the
one I've got on"-Team-work.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24
A WESTcHESTER RESCUE.

Charles Kaiser, the Vallevue Farm
egg magnate, came out of his bur
row" on Monday last after being
"marooned" for more than two weeks
the aid of an experienced farmer with
due to the heavy spowfall, and with
sleigh and dependable horses negotia-
ted safe passage to White Plains,
where he disposed of several hundred
eggs to advantage.-From the North
Castle Sun.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24
FARM COW A NATIONAL ASSET

The farm COW that gives milk for
human food stands first, with a total
value of $2,O22 100000 as compared
with other classes of farm animals
for January, /, 1920 by the Bureau of
Crop Estimates of the United States
Department of Agriculture Not even
the total value of all other cattle is
equal TO the value OF the dairy COW.
The average price per head of milk
cows in this country has increased
from $5s 25, since January /, 1915 to
$91.95. the average for 1919, or a
gain of So per cent in FIVE years, ac-
cording TO the bureau.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24
TASTES.

Some men prefer, perhaps with right
the girl with dreamy eyes.
While others choose the maiden who
is always a surprise,
Some like girls strong, some like them
frail, some big, some small
While others seem contented with
most any girl at all.
It's fortunate tastes vary so, with
varied kinds of men,
That some prefer the peacock gay
and some prefer the wren
For there would be heap of grief
and anguish, woe and fuss,
If all we men liked just one girl and
she did not like us.
-Sommerville Journal
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24


Vienna from February 8, to February
II this year, but there were ID -
deaths, mostely those of children
AS part of an elaborate program in
spoken languages, Columbia Univer-
sity is to teach Dutch, Japanese, Ara
bic, Armenian, Chinese, French, Dan
ish Norwegian, lcelandic, Russian,
Serbo- Spanish and Turkish.
Investigations made in factories at
Niagara Falls have convinced officials
of the Public Health Service that
more than two hundred million tiny
particles of dust as sharp as ground
glass, are breathed into the lungs and
air passages with every cubic foot
of air in some of the factories in the
United States. Such dusts breathed in
to the lungs never are expelled.
Photomicrographs show the tiny par
ticles to be exceedingly sharp and jag
ged, and chemical tests prove them to
be practically insoluble A remedy has
been devised
Once year one OF the greatest of
Partisan dressmakers lets each of the
women in his employ choose gown
from his stock and has it made up
according to her directions.
Lighthouses have always been a
cause of great mortality among small
birds, which during their nocturnal
migrations are dazzled by the light
and beat themselves to death against
the tower. Now lighthouses in the
British Islands are being converted in
TO harbors of safety for the birds
through the construction of a great
many perches and rests beneath the
lights, and whereas formerly thous
ands of dead birds were often picked
up at the base of single lighthouse
during the migration season, it is
now rare sight to find one bird be-
meath any of the improved towers.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24

called Monday for the fna
and the members of the Fiscal Court together and
balance road
everything the work the road will begin
credit
in the
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24
FARMERS MEETING

The Farmers meeting held Hardnsburg last Saturday of thu
attended
full of business will much for the farming interests
this of substantial and representative farmer
from section Of the who joining hands and hearts
condition
uplif of their business
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24
EVENTS THAT TRANSFERRED
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

From The Breckenridge Wednesday, March 1895
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24
ODD ITEMS FROM ~
EVERYWHERE.

There were only eight births in
Vienna from February 8, to February
II this year, but there were ID
deaths. mostely those of children
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-03-24

In Hardinsburg-Dr A. NJ Kin
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-12-18
BY MARJORIE"
rltten for The United Press)

(Written for The United Press).
New York, Dec. 16.-The snakes
"in the grass" are now found upon
Miladys feet. For, according to the
really swagger Gotham boot shops,
putting ones best foot forward
means stepping out in footgear made
of snake skin These shoes of the
animal kingdom are made OF soft
reptile skins, often gilded or silvered.
1t is only the scales that tell the
secret, for the general effect is very
much like that OF gold cloth slippers.
Another reptilian fancy as found ins
the seasons iootgear is the use OF
fringed scarlet tongues, combined
with white and light soft feathers.
The effect is meant to resemble an
adder's or dragons tongue.
Shoes have never been so conspi-
cuous as this year With the waning
of popularity in the head dress
women seem to have concentrated
upon the feet, and the glitter and
hue which used to shine from the
hair now twinkles from the feet.
There are a hundred variations OF
the gold and silver slippers which
were the height of shoe chicness and
elaborateness but few years ago.
Tinsel cloths. hectic brocades, soft
pushes and velvets, silks, satins,
and brocades are all found in the
shoe Stops. These fabrics make ev-
ening pumps with long vamps and
high French heels.
But color and luxury is not found
in evening shoes alone. Brilliantly
dyed leather abound upon the street,
in the hotel and theater, and in the
exclusive shopping districts. 1t is no
uncommon sight to see vermillion
kid slippers Or walking shoes upon
the street, while henna, blue, and |
green shoes are being worn by the |
leisure crowd, as mudl as niger
browns and black is worn by the |
woman. /
Henna is the very latest shade and /
is found in a soft antelope leather.
by the -way is being used I
as much as kid for the lighter
weight shoes. Copper kid slippers is
its nearest rival and red calfs is
devoted mainly to sport oxfords with
The fringed tongues in a contrasting
color.
Shoe dealers sweepingly declare
hat there has never before been
year when high sclloes were so ut
.erly out of the running-and walk
ing. A few high Russian boots of
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-12-18
SEEING SNAKES? NO IT'S MILADY'S
SLIPPERS WITH SCARLET TONGUES

white, brown, copper and scarlet
feathers, with collars at the top Of
the lacing are sold. But, barring
these, the only high schoes which
are in demand are those of ten or
twelve straps with nothing between
the strap apparatus.
1t is the two-strap sandals with a
semi-French vamp and very low
heels that is selling best for South
ern wear, and New York women are
Haunting gray suedes with two
straps as much as anything else
Some have metal straps and others
straps of contrasting color and fab
ric. Black or brown patent kids,
with brass straps and buckles IRE
very chic just now, and combination
patent leather with suede or a so.t
pile cloth, is extensively used.
The inset under a cut pattern still
holds good. One house is now show
ing afternoon slippers of scarlet kid
A cutwork pattern of fleur de rs
bands the toes and wide straps, and
brown suede underlays the cutwork.
The same house is emphasizing even
ing shoes with contrasting heels.
Thus, white antelope slippers have
black heels and black satins have
carmen red heels and red buttons.