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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
Marking the Layers

1t has been my experience in the
poultry business that an early laying
pullet, especially one that begins pro-
duction under six months of age, is
wroth marking for the breeding pen,
To discover these early layers | use
the trapnest; then pull q small band
around one leg of each pullet. After
that, l watch the pullets closely to
see if they continue their good work
Occasionally one fails to keep it up
but more often they all make good
layers. Those that lay continuously
for year, or until the next melting
season, l mark with band around
the other leg. l find that these birds
make the best breeders. Occasion
ally pullet that starts producing
later than six months of age and
keeps up a steady flow of eggs
throughout its pullet year, makes a
good breeder, but l have found this
to be the exception rather than the
rule
The breeding pen should contain
nothing but the best layers, in my
opinion, as it is waste of time and
money to breed with poor stock. In
order to breed successfully, am COM
PEELED to watch my poultry closely and
make use of the trapnest, but l have
found that it pays big returns.
P. E. S.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
Old and Highly Valued Letters Of
Sir Walter Scott Found in California
Eminent English Novelist Pays Large Sum for Relics of
His Countryman's Msfortunes

ticular letters are what they seem to
be they're the ones I've wanted the
most of ALL"
Sir Walter, as shown by the Gibson
letters had legal obligation of $780,
600 as firm member of James Bal
lantyne & Co., printers. When the
house failed for 100000 he would not
agree to bankruptcy proceedings, or
partial settlement, but pledged him
self to repay every dollar. 1t killed
him; the debt was finally paid from
his life insurance.
Among the letters is one that shows
the CHEEKY spirit in which Scott took
even such a matter as the sale of his
furniture:
81 ask it to be advertised as the
furniture in No. SO, lately occupied by
Sir w. S. Your delicacy, l know
would boggle at this, but mine does
not. My displeasure is that l am un
able to pay everyone their own-not
on the measures necessary to effect
payment. l have some reason to
think that if the public are aware it
is mine, better prices may be given.
Some folks are anxious to have even
trifing articles belonging to those
who have right or wrong, made some
noise in the world. heard fellow
passing the house say:
"'Oh, I'll have one of his chairs if
it costs me 20 pounds Others may
have a similar whim; and if so, why
should they go to brokers, to give
them the advantage, which would be
gained by the creditors
The death of Lady Scott, when mat
ters were at their worst, is mentioned
in the same heroic spirit. And when
his health began to break under the
strain of frantic writing, he wrote:
1.-THE hyasyenus which l was obliged
to take for the gravel deranged me a
good deal, and believe was the cause
of some inaccuracies of the copy; for
one day l could neither write nor
spell. This is over, thank God. l re-
turn proofs and copy for Woodstock
4 hope they will not smack at the
apoplexy.'
There are dozens of such letters,
with Gibson's. replies, and Scott's own
memoranda of business matters. They
were handed down to Gibson's daugh-
ter, and now will leave San Francisco
to take their place in Hugh Walpole's
library of Scott.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
The FurrOW
Ne7cs and Vleqvs Ab0nt The Farm

Planting of ensilage corn last, in
stead of first, is an expensive mis-
take very generally made in the north.
ern portions of the United States, ac-
cording to specialists of the United
States Department of Agriculture, who
recommend that strong terminating
seed of ensilage varieties from regions
farther south be planted two or three
weeks earlier than homegrown seed
which is planted for grain production
Such planting program works to the
decided benefit of dairymen and all
other growers of ensilage corn in the
Northern States.
When large varieties of ensilage
from as far south as Virginia or Mis-
souri,, for example, are planted in re.
gions farther north late in May, they
make a rapid long-jointed tender
succulent growth, and are so so green
when fall frosts come that they are
heavy to handle, low in feeding value,
and make ensilage which is sloppy
and too sour But when planted in
April or very early in May, they make
a slower, harder growth; they better
Withstand spring frosts and summer
droughts, reach better maturity, and
produce more grain than when plant
ed later. Fall frosts, not spring frosts,
are the most to be feared.
Early-maturing homegrown vari-
cites do not need such early planting
and will not be benefited in the way
that large ensilage varieties are. The
latter, though somewhat dwarfed by
very early planting, make ample stalk
growth and yield more and ripper
grain and make richer and sweeter
ensilage. The early planting supplies
the age necessary for maturing and
reproduction. Reproduction is. in this
case, grain production.
In growing ensilage crops in the
North one should judge the crop by
its feeding balue, not by its height or
weight or the amount of labor neces-
sary to silo it.
Early cultivation pays, as it dries
and warns the soil surface. If the
soil remains wet, it stays cold and the
young corn cannot grow, whereas stir
ring causes the surface to dry rapidly,
after which it will absorb heat and
feel firm to the hand-a condition
favorable to good growth.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
Charcoal, Grit,
and Oyster Shell

Charcoal is a great corrective of
the evils of injudicious overlooking,
and good remedy for bowel dis
orders of poultry. AS it has wonder
full absorbent powers, especially for
gases, it should be kept in thor
oughly dry vessel with close-fttine
cover, so as to exclude the air. 1t is
a good plan to mix powdered charcoal
twice week in the mash. If char
coal is well heated before it is given
to the poultry, the heat will have a
tendency to drive off impurities which
may have become absorbed, and the
heated charcoal will be equal to fresh
charcoal.
Grit must be hard and sharp. Oys-
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
Daylight Saving
Merely a Device

Daylight saving is a fairly success
full device to delude busy people into
thinking there is more time than
there is. 1t takes the place of will
power and lends to the daily routine
an missionary air of nationality, almost
as. though civilization were really in
telligent. Just look, we say, we have
noticed that the sun rises earlier in
summer. Isn't it clever of us?
But daylight saving doesn't give
many modern city people enough time
Nothing, perhaps, could do that. The
browning age of time-saving devices
| is also the age in which nobody has
any time to spare. Rapid transporta-
ton enables us not to travel short
distances. The telephone does not
save steps; it merely enables other
people to interrupt US at our meals
We can go farther, see more, get more
work done, amuse ourselves in more
ways in a day than we could even
five years ago, but it uses up all our
time. There is so much to read that
we have no time to read it, so much
to do that there is no time to do it.
| There is an old anecdote of father
who having nothing else to leave hi;
son, left him instruction to go into
the orchard and devote half an hour
to uninterrupted thought. The half
hours thought was the turning point
in the sons life, and he became a
railway president, or postmaster gen.
eral, or whatever he wanted to be-
But most of us didn't have time to
think. We are hurried gasping
through life with almost no chance,
and in the end no inclination, to ask
what it is all about.
| The oriental error is in the oppo
site direction, and consists in too
much meditation and too little action
Their god is Buddha, who sits with
half-closed eyes and reflects upon
eternity; ours is Thomas AIva Edison,
who invents the monograph before
breakfast and the incandescent lamp
after breakfast and never sleeps more
than four hours in any night; or Theo-
dore Roosevelt, who, when he was not
| lighting Congress or running for Office
had to be hunting elephants or dis
covering lost South African rivers.
! The Orient has all the time there
is and does nothing; we do a great
deal but haven't time to find out why
we do it. The Orient understands
the universe; we tinker everlastingly
with it without understanding. In
some centuries or thousands of years
| (there is plenty of time for that a
| golden middle course may be dis
covered.-San Francisco Call.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
Fight it Through

In your work and in your play,
Fight it through
Hang right on like yellow clay
Fight it through
When a job you once begin,
Through the thick and through the
thin,
Set your heart and mind to winl
Fight it through
What if others may have failed,
Fight it through
Though by powerful odds assaulted,
Fight it through,
Refuse to be an "also ram"
Square your shoulders like a man,
Grit your teeth and say q cam"
Fight it through!
Well, suppose things do look bad,
Fight it through
Show a little pep, get mad,
Fight it through
When you know you're in the right,
It's your duty, boy, to fight,
So go in with all your might.
Fight it through,
The Cave Scout in Boys Life.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14

The success of Doris Schroeder as
a writer of motion picture scenarios
should be an inspiration to every
young girl with Imagination and am
bition.
Miss Schroeder who is in her early
twenties, has created a score of sue
cessfuI screen stories, and for the past
three years has been one of the most
valued members of the Universal
scenario department.
A graduate of the Girls High
School of Brooklyn, she took bust
ness course and accepted a position
as secretary to Rollin Sturgeon, now
director at Universal City, but then
chief of production at the Vitagrapn
Studios in New York City. Between
answering letters and tipping notes,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14

The measured beat of drums may
serve useful purpose by keeping UP
the spirits of soldiers and helping
them to forget their fatigue, but, curl
cusly enough, it does not help them to
keep in step.
On the contrary, as science has
lately proved by a series of interest
ing experiments, troops on the march
keep step far better when there are
no drums to mark time for their feet
The soldier marching beside the
drummer or Immediately behind him
has no difficulty in keeping in per-
feet step. But as you go farther and
farther away from the drum you will
find steadily increasing variation
between the movements of the feet
and the rhythmic beat of the drum.
A soldier 265 feet in the rear of
the drummer will almost invariably
grove to be just one-fourth of sec
end behind time with every step. His
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
Marines Shot Well

From a shooting standpoint, the
year just passed was the most sue
cessful in marine corps history, ac-
cording to advices from marine corps
headquarters here. Over 81 per cent
of the marines who fired the pre-
scribed range course in 1919 qualified
as marksmen or better.
Owing to the many new conditions
brought out by the war, standard
course of instruction embodying the
most modern methods of small-arms
firing is being adopted for future use
by the marine corps.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
Scheme For Giving
Chance to Al

The way to succeed is to do some
thing. That, in brief sentence, is
the creed of Andrew H. Green, Jr.,
one of detroit's greatest employers of
labor His idea of giving a man a
chance is to put him on the job and
let him work out his own salvation.
If he does things, he is given more
chances. If he fails to show any
action, he is dismissed.
Mistakes are human" he says. 81
make them. So do my subordinates.
The thing demand is initiative.
When man hasn't that he will never
go far. If he acts, but makes mis-
takes in his problems, it proves that
he hasn't analysed them correctly, or
enough When confronted with a
strange situation, the thing to do is
to sit down and figure it out"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
To Preserve Eggs

Select fresh eggs that are clean,
but not washed. Use infertile eggs
if possible. Take nine quarts of water
that has been boiled and cooled, and
add one quart of water-glass (sodium
silicate). Place the mixture in a five
gallon crock or jar. This amount of
liquid will preserve fifteen dozen eggs.
For large amounts, mix the solution
in the same proportion. Clean the
crock thoroughly before using.
Place the eggs in the solution If
the poultry yard has not supplied an
adequate quantity of eggs for i'm
mediate use, they may be added from
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14

this direction
Meredith has made it practice to
loan any boy money to carry on farm
work. A boy can borrow from $25 to
500 from him to buy a pig or a COW
or whatever he may want in the way
of something to feed or cultivate on
the farm. The boy gives note. II
through some mischance he cannot
meet it, the loan is renewed. He also
loans money to young men who are
working their way through college
He has lost but little on account OF
investments in farm boys or the young
college men, and he feels well repaid
for having given them start in life
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
Poets Lofty Position

Among the British men of promi-
nence probably the one who most fire.
quently refused money was Robert
Browning, the poet. During the last
% years of his life editors offered
large sums for a short poem from
his pen. But Browning said No" He
told his friends when they pointed
out the unwisdom of this course that
he was determined not 10 thrust his
poems down the threats of people;
that if they wanted to read him they
could buy his books.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
Secretary OF Agriculture Evolved
Philosophy from the Gift of Pig
Humble Gift from His Father Developed Qualities Fitting
Him for Big Field

Edwin Meredith, Secretary of Agri.
culture, began his life as farm boy
himself. His father gave him pig,
and from the gift young Meredith
evolved philosophy of helpfulness
that has endured to this day.
Because of this pig he came TO
realize what it meant to a boy to
own something-to have stake in his
own labor. He believes that one of
the most essential things connected
with agriculture is to keep the boys
on the farm, and he believes that in
dividual ownership of something that
grows on the farm will do much in
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14

entrusted to the adaptation of many
important stories.
Among Miss Schroeder's scenarios
scheduled of early production at Uni
versal will be "Togs," Jewel and
Virginia"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
F R E. K LES
Now Isthe Time to Get Rid of
These Ugly Spots

There's no longer the slightest need of
feeling ashamed of your freckles, as Othine
double Strengths guaranteed to remove
these homely spots.
Simply get an ounce of Othine-double
strength-from your druggist, and apply a
little of it night and morning and you
should soon see that even the worst freckles
have begun to disappear, while the lighter
ones have vanished entirely. 1t is seldom
that more than one ounce is needed TO COM
pletely clear the skin and gain a beautiful,
clear complexion.
Be sure to ask for the double strength
Othine, as this is sold under guarantee of
money back if it fails to remove freckles.
ADV.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14

ter shells are too soft to serve this
purpose. Oyster shells furnish lime
for the making of egg shell. There
should be supply constantly within
reach of the fowls.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14

Plans are under way for building
two 1O00-foot oil burning ships which
will make the distance from New
to Liverpool in four days.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
On the Watch

Keep your eyes on the ice box and
the garbage pail.
Kentucky raises more tobacco than
any other state in the country.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14

Great Britain lost 1000 prominent
athletes in the great war.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14

Nearly $50 pages of Sir Walter
SCOTS letters and memoranda, writ
ten to John Gibson, his attorney, dur.
ing the famous financial battle which
ended SCOTS life, will leave San Fran
cisco in Walpole's trunk when he de-
parts.
In consideration he will leave be-
. hind him a round sum, something I'M
der $4,000, but not very far under.
Several days ago Walpole dropped
into the rare bookshop of John Howell
on Post street, San Francisco, to keep
a luncheon engagement.
On Howell's desk lay stack of
neatly written letters in strong
handwriting, by no means easy for
modern eyes to read. Walpole
glanced at the pile of papers and ex-
claimed:
'Where on earth did you get
those?"
Howell replied that they had been
brought in two days before-only two
days-by a gentleman whose grand
father had been SCOTS lawyer.
"You don't mean these are SCOTS
letters to John Gibson, who handled
SCOTS affairs after the famous fail
ure of James Ballantyne and Archi-
bald Constable. the publishers" asked
Walpole.
That's precisely what they are,''
replied Howell. "Gibson's grandson
terday He said his mother had had
the letters all her life and now wanted
to sell them
"H'm,~ remarked Walpole you
may not know that | possess the lars-
est collection of Scott's manuscript
and letters in England. If these par
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
Clothing Allowance

When making out budget, ap.
proximate1y one-sixth to one-fourth
of the family income should be ap-
portioned for clothing. Seventy per
cent of the clothing allowance will
be needed for our outer clothing such
as coats, suits, dresses, shoes, ETC., and
20 per cent might be allowed for ac-
cessories, and per cent for cleaning
and repairs.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14

The long arm of coincidence,
stretching across an ocean, CONT
nent and a century of time, has Sc
lected San Francisco as the one spot
on the earth's surface for Hugh Wal
pole, the eminent English novelist, to
stumble squarely on his hearts de-
sire.
By one of those freaks of chance
that makes the life OF, the collector
continued eXtra-hazardous romantic
risk, Walpole is now the proud owner
of literary treasure for which he
has hunted many years since
he began to amass England's largest
collection of old editions and manu-
script of Sir Walter Scott.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14

Pittsburgh sporting men plan an
arena to seat 10000 to meet the in
creasing popularity of the manly art
there.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-14
BELLE BAKER HAS
Loss OF MEMORY
She Cannot Remember What
Took Place at Time of
WOman's Death.

Il don't remember anything that
happened that night except that 1
drank five OF six glasses of whisky
and absynthe and that we had a
quart of whisky and aLSynthe and
that Mabel said that it was too late
to go 10 the Orpheum theater," Belle
Baker, held in connection with the
death OF Mabel Carlin at 329 1-2 =.
Michigan St, early Friday morning,
told Deputy Pros. George A. Schock
and Chief Of Police Kline in the lat
ter's office Tuesday morning
The Baker woman told the off,
Gals that she could not remember
what happened during the night be-
fore Miss Carlin's death, except that
the two women had been heavily
drinking.
Was Her Friend.
why should l kill Mabel" she
asked the officials. she was my
friend, and if Mabel was here now.
she would tell you I did not kill
her" the Baker woman declared.
Following her examination by the
deputy prosecutor and the police
chief, the Baker woman was return
ed 10 the county jail to be held
pending further investigation of the
death Of Miss Carlin.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-14
COMPLETE PLANS FOR
TWO MEETINGS HERE

Plans for bringing DR.. Charles
Stelzlo OF New York authority on
industrial and labor questions, to
South Bend TO address the members
OF the Chamber Of Commerce at
their weekly MONDAY luncheon
Monday, and a mass meeting at the
high school auditorium Monday
night, have been completed. IL was
announced Tuesday by DR.. A. NJ.
Eells, chairman of the arrangement
committee.
Mr.. Sickle, according to Or.
Eells, has a wide reputation as a
public speaker on industrial and
labor questions. He is said 70 have
spoken TO more mass meetings Of
laboring men than any other public
speaker in the country.
According 10 DR.. Eells, IL will be
necessary to increase the charge per
plate at the luncheon from so cents
to 81, and in order 10 give the
speaker more time. the luncheon
will be held at IL o'clock instead Of
1915.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-14
LOCAL EDUCATORS TO
ATTEND STATE MEET

W. W. Borden, superintendent OF
schools. Miss Adelaide Lamport. Miss
Alice Scott and @. 3. Weber. teach
ers IN the part time schools, will at
tend the Indiana State Vocational
Training Conference which will be
held In Indianapolis Thursday. Fri
day and Saturday OF this week.
The program includes addresses
by DR.. Stanley Coulter OF Purdue
university: Hon. II. Z. Foley, chair
man state council OF defense; Hon.
Hugh S. Magill, special representa-
tive OF the National Education asso-
citation: L. S. Hawkins, federal d.
rector OF vocational education; Prof
G. r. Buxton. vocational teacher
training director OF Indiana univer-
sity; L. n Hines, state superintend-
ent OF public instruction; DR.. Frank
w. Gunsaulus. president Armour IN
stitute, Chicago.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-14
CHAMBER WARNS
FREIGHT SHIPPERS
TO CLEAR DEPOTS
transportation Department
Asks Merchants to Aid in
Relieving Congestion.

Removal OF freight from the rail-
road depots 10 the places Of busi-
ness OF the consignees IS urged by
the transportation department Of
the Chamber OF Commerce IN a let
ter sent them Tuesday. The follow
ing Is the letter:
Receivers Of freight are urged
20 use every possible means OF NOV
ing shipments from depOts 10 their
warehouse as IN consequence OF
present restrictions, freight for South
Bend Is accommodating at terminal
and other Joints and this when
moved will necessitate the carriers
using every inch OF space they can
md. Appeals by phone and other
wise TO receivers have resulted in
decreasing the accumulation to
marked degree. but there Is still
room for Improvement
Freight EmbargOes.
'Embargoes placed on freight
movement into and out Of South
Bend by the various carriers at this
writing are as follows:
New York Central cannot receive
inbound freight 10, or outward
bound freight from South Bend.
Michigan Central cannot receive
inbound freight TO, or outward
bound freight from South Bend.
Grand Trunk will receive freight
for local points, IN the immediate
neighborhood. all other points are
embarBoes both in and out.
Pennsylvania r. r. will receive
freight for local points, all other
points embargOed both in and out.
IN. ]. /. & 1. cannot receive in
bound freight TO, or outward bound
freight from South Bend.
Predictions as 20 how long these
conditions will exist are futile. as
the situation may change for the
better at any time.
81. r. Bremner,
transportation Sec'y."