Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1911 — Page 2

The Farm Brood Mare

By H. E. ALLEN,

Good typo of 1,600-pound farm brood mares, give double returns by way of Colts and farm work.

Our horse stock has boon influenced and somewhat Improved during the past few years by the campaign that la being conducted against the scrub, ■naound and grade stallion*. Through this work many farmers have been benefited and encouraged la the production of a higher class of horses. Pure bred, sound stallions have, to a Croat extent, crowded out the undesirable type of grades and scrubs in the more Intelligent and up-to-date ■ections of the country. This has accomplished much good as evidenced by the appearance of a greater per cent, of high class, high priced horses cn our farms and in the markets. However, it is a lamentable fact that, •s yet, too many of our horses are unsound and undersized Individuals, Utting into no market class and so commanding only very ordinary prices. - This condition will continue to exist in spite of the use of pure bred, sound stallions until farmers discontinue breeding the undersized, unsound, mongrel mares that are found on so many of our farms. While many farmers are beginning to appreciate the importance of the pure bred, sound stallion, the equal Importance of using good, sound mares *a not generally understood. Too often p mare is set aside for breeding purposes when by reason of unsoundness ■he Is no longer lit for anything else. So long as this ruinous policy continues we will have a surplus of un-

RAISE YOUR CALVES

By P. H. CRANE,

Essential to Increasing Dairy Profits. Calves In Purdue Herd.

The methods followed by a great many of the fanners of Indiana are •uch that after years of farming their live stock is no better than it was When they began. This is especially true of a class of men known as dairymen. At present there is quit# a distinction made in the use of the terms "dairyman" and “dairy cattle breeder." The dairyman should be a dairy cattle breeder, and vice versa. The dairyman that depends upon other men to produce his cows will always have about the same grade of "staff.'' and can never depend upon any increase la production, duo to his own selection and breeding. Too many no-called dairymen are merely dealers, who buy up large cows due to freshen in a short time. When these oows come fresh, the calves are wealed and the cows milked while being fattened, going to the block after a milking period of three to eight months. This method is very harmful to permanent dairying and puts a poor grade of beef cm the market. (Better results would be obtained if either beef or dairy cattle wefe kept for theta- specific purpose. Instead of trying to make poor Individuals serve JUw purpose of both dairy and beef If one expects to follow dairy fanntegZlt is well to decide what breed of 4*try /ettle is best adapted to his parzttoular conditions, and then, by the

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sound horses on our farms and on the markets, keeping the average price of horses down to the minimumThe Farmer's Type of Mare. Market prices indicate an urgent demand for larger and better horses. Now, since the farmer must have horses, why not keep good, big, sound draft mares, which after all make the finest farm teams in the world? And besides, they will raise colts each year at little extra trouble and expense, the geldings of which will command high prices in the market that Is making these urgent demands. If given a trial, any farmer will find such a policy a good profitable business proposition. Accordtag to the accepted laws of inheritance, colts from unsound, undersized mares are just as likely to inherit the undesirable features of their dams as they are the same or any other bad qualities from their sires. It is necessary then that the wideawake, prosperous farmer keep his best mares, weighing not less than 1,400 pounds. Heavier ones would be better. They should be sound with plenty of good dense bone, and havo gentle dispositions. They should always be mated with the best pure bred stallion available regardless of the service fee, for what is |5 or |lO In the price of a horse when the difference between colts from a pure bred and a scrub stallion is often from 150 to 9100?

herd that will be highly profitable as producers. If the product of the dairy is cream or butter, the heifer calves may be raised largely on skimmed milk and grain without a great deal of expense. The secret of raising calves by hand successfully is tn taking especial care that the stalls and palls are kept dean; that the calf is not over-fed; that there is no great change in the quantity or temperature of the milk fed the calf at each feed; that there is a chance for exercise where the calf has access to water and salt; and that the quarters are dry and well lighted and ventilated. If these precautions are taken at all times, there is not much danger of loss, but one exception may prove fatal. Ground corn and oats makes an excellent grain supplement to the skimmed milk, and should be fed dry. Where a number ot calves are being fed by hand, stanchions are very convenient. The calves can be put tn their stanchions, as shown in the accompanying illustration, and fed their skimmed milk and grain, and after their mouths have dried, they can be allowed to run loose In the pen. Under this management they do very nicely and very seldom form the habit of sucking esch other's ears. Individual troughs for oows are best square and heavy instead ot ▼ phapdff. Thea they do not lay ta them and eaanot root them around no J.- ■

PRANKS ON THE STAGE

MANY ACTORS HAVE VIOLATED RULE AGAINST “GUYING." How Edwin Booth Decorated the Face of a Dying Desdemona—Louis James Was an Inveterate Fun Maker. While “guying" and playing pranks on the stage which are liable to upset one’s fellow actors and cause them to deliver their lines while in a condition of almost helpless hysteria are strictly forbidden by theatrical managers, the practice has always been a favorite one more or less with some of the world's brainiest and, so tar-as appearances go, stern and serious stage celebrities. Take Edwin Booth, for instance. He often yielded to the temptation to play the comedian, even the buffoon, to his company while the audience saw only the tragedian. A writer in the Bookman tells how Booth once enlivened the last act of Othello. While smothering Desdemona he managed to get some of the brown paint from his own makeup onto the tips of his fingers. .liJ Then while delivering the lines of the scene with his usual Impassioned fervor. and apparently ■ stifling Desdemona with pillows, he painted a mustache and goatee on the helpless lady’s countenance. The audience of course knew nothing of it But when Gratlano and the other actors came on and one by one went to the bed to gaze at the features of the murdered bride the sight of a bewhiskemsd lady almost threw them into convulsions.

Each in turn approached the body with loud lamentations and each suddenly turned away shaken with convulsive laughter which the audience fortunately mistook for manifestations of grief. Another of Booth’s tricks was to mb his face against Katharine’s when he was playing Petruchlo, In “The Taming of the Shrew,” smearing her face with the paint from his makeup mustache. But this was at the end of the play as the curtain was descending. Louis James was an Inveterate fun maker on the stage. As Vlrglnlus he would rouse the audience to enthusiasm and then strike terror to the hearts of the timid In the mad scene of the last act But while going through this role without skip or break the chanc.es were that poor Applus Claudius, who lay dead on i the floor, was praying for the curtain to come down so that he might laugh outright instead of choking to death trying to smother the mirth provoked while kneeling over him.

Man and the Cocoanut.

According to the opinion of the old historians and the commentators of the Koran, God created from the remainder of the clay of which Adam was made the Kullserr, or cocoa tree, which is found in abundance in the Indian Islands. It produces a nut which Is brought to Anatolia and Roomili. The Interior and oily part Is nourishing and fortifying food. The shell is worked Into spoons and cups of the size of a man’s head. It Is a round, black nut, on which all the parts of a man’s head may be seen, mouth, nose, eyebrows, eyes, hair and whiskers, before it was formed from Adam’s clay. A wonderful sight! From the same clay God created also the Wakwak, found In India, the fruit of which resembles a man’s head, which shaken by the wind emits the sound of Wakwak. Finally was cheated also the palm tree from the remainder of Adam’s clay at Kufa, near the water Tlnnoor. This is said to be the cause why the palm trees of Kufa, Medaln and Ommaun are straight and upright, like the stature of a man. If you cut Its branches, it does not only no harm to it, but grows even more, like the hair and beard of men; but if you cut off the head of the palm tree, It gives a reddish juice like blood, and the tree perishes like a man whose head is cut off.—Evlla Effendi: “Travels.”

Her Daily Thought Book.

A year ago I started a dally thought book, and so much entertainment and profit has it afforded me that I pass the idea on for the benefit of other girls who are interested in self-im-provement. Every day I leawn a new quotation, now and then a whole poem, and when it is mastered I write it in my book under that date. If a day slips by without my learning a quotation I make the loss up later, and when in reading I come across things I want to learn I clip them or make a memorandum where they can be found, so they will be available whpn I am at leisure. The result is a broadening knowledge of the poets; and, in fact. I hate found that it is not hard to memorize prose. The plan was suggested by the experience of a friend who was confined to bed for three months. During that time she was forbidden reading and visitors, yet she was a most tractable patient. “I entertained myself by reading the yards of poetry I know." she explained. —Harper's Bazar.

Unfair Comparison.

"This thermometer I bought here last week isn't accurate." complained the man > with the sunburned countenance; “It registers ten degrees too high." "How did you test itT* queried the dealer. “I compared It wfta the thermometer la the summer hotel where I was staying.” replied the Innocent man. Li

LAMBS AS BURNT OFFERINGS

Sacrifice* for Benefit of Flock* Mad* by Shepherd* of the British isles. ■ ’ ~ -'U Adelaide Goeset'i “Shepherd* of Britain” tells us that a lamb was burned alive by a farmer in recent time* to deliver hl* flock* from a spell which he believed to have been cast upon them, and that Prof. Rhys knew a very old woman who told him that she remembered seeing a live sheep burned as a sacrifice. A lady contributor states that lambs have been sacrificially burned, whether alive or not she does not say, within living memory in the Isle of Man May day. The author, as well as one of her contributors, believes that the name collie is taken from the black-faced Highland sheep, which were formerly called collies or colleys; hence the dogs which drove them came to be called colli* dogs, now abbreviated into collies. It may astonish some southerners to learn that in Shetland, during the winter, when the pastures have become bare of grass, the sheep, and for that matter, the ponies also, feed largely upon seaweed; but this is not so much to be wondered at when we remember that human beings sometimes eat th* same food on the west coast of Ireland. One of the greatest enemies of the shepherd‘is an eagle, when he takes to lamb eating, which very many eagles do. "The eagle is the most voracious glutton, and the best chance for the shepherd to take his revenge is when he weathers on a bird gorged to the beak with downed mutton. Then the prince of the air and the moan* tains may be knocked senseless with a staff.”

In return for the pleasure of reading her book we offer the author the following information relating to sheep. As Is well known, there is no bad habit oY which it is more difficult to break a dog than that of chasing sheep. In many cases all that can be done is to destroy the dog. The next neighbor of the reviewer had a pack of hounds, one of which became a confirmed and apparently incurable sheep runner. It* master had also a fine flock of Shropshire sheep, and selecting the largest and most powerful ram he coupled the delinquent to it and turned them into a large grass field. Much alarmed at being attached to its canine companion, the ram galloped furiously round and round the field, dragging the reluctant hound after it until both lay down thoroughly exhausted, Nothing would induce the hound ever to look at a Sheep again. Indeed, Instead of running after sheep, for the future it ran away from them. —The Tablet

The Vacant Mind.

There are those who claim that the human mind, in those recognized as entirely rational, never in working hours becomes entirely inactive: that always it is productive of thought. Many who have experimented with themselves know to the contrary. It is not by the human eye that plainly Indicates introspection that we may conclude upon mental vacancy in the person. Take the opportunity of’a deep blue sky, void of clouds, that suggests features and forms of human beings, animals and fishes, and outlines of the earth’s surface. Gaze fixedly into the sapphire depths for a minute or two or three, or many minutes, and then you will likely conclude that during that time your mind has been absolutely vacant, completely at rest. It will be Impossible to produce this result upon yourself by gazing into the great dome of the night when the stars are ablaze or the moon radiant; for this will Infallibly produce activity of the mind in that feeble effort we are all prone to indulge In to grasp some vague idea of the infinite. What we call the laws of nature demand activity in all growing animal life that it may grow. There are points of growth byond which occasional rest from those activities will' aid in the conservation of the forces. Men of tremendous affairs in finance and construction in many Instances die early because they cannot rest the mind. —Cincinnati Enquirer.

Typhoid Fever Is Conquered.

It cost a big lot of money—probably several million dollars—to mobilize the American troops in Texas, but results have* .already shown that it was well spent* And for this one reason, if no other, the movement has enabled medical science to demonstrate that typhoid fever, the deadliest foe of armies in the field, is a preventive disease. Altogether something like 17,000 troops were sent to Texas, all of whom were inoculated with typhoid serum. As additional safeguards the most rigid hygienic and sanitary regulations that the medical corps could devise were strictly enforced. Result, only one case of typhoid fever has occurred in that entire army. Compare this showing with what happened to the troops—perhaps 150,000 In ail — assembled in the southern states during the Spanish war. Among these forces were 18,000 cases of typhoid. The plain truth is that the army in Texas has achieved a magnificent victory—a bloodless one. it is true, but splendid tn its gain for humanity.— Detroit Free Press.

In a Quandary.

Litson —Nubbs is on the horns of a dilemma; he doesn't know whether to break his word or to hurt the feelings of his fiancee. Billens—What do you mean? Litson —Why, he rowed he would never share if the Canadian reciprocity bill was passed; and on his birthday his fiancee gars him a shaving set. ‘

MANY PLAYERS HURT

Chances of Several Clubs Marred by Injured Men. Detroit’s Chances for American League Pennant Materially Lessened by Accidents—Other Clubs Suffer Same Way. It isn’t in the breaks of the game that luck counts in the long run in baseball; the strongest team will win the pennant) every time provided it has no worse luck In the way of injuries and illness to players than other teams. It is luck of this latter sort which often goes a long way toward making or breaking a team; making the team by its absence, breaking it by visitation. Injuries or illness are playing a big part this year, and it has come to be almost an axiom that a team to win the peonant must be lucky !n not having players incapacitated. A probable exception this year will be the Athletics. Last year the Athletics were extremely fortunate in the scarcity of players laid up. This year they had Eddie Collins out of the game for a while with an injury, also Dan Murphy, but threaten to win the pennant nevertheless. Detroit’s chances for the American league pennant were hurt materially by misfortune to players. Nor did these come singly. Gainor, the hardhitting first baseman, broke his wrist early in the season and has been of little service. The shifts necessary to fill his place broke up the team more or less. The spiking of George Moriarlty crippled the Tigers at a critical time and the absence of George Mullen while getting over the effects of an operation was a further handicap. Then Cobb became overtaxed and was forced to lay off and rest. Mishaps are part of the game and each manager endeavors to keep his team fortified against them. He is a fortunate or far-seeing manager who can keep wholly fortified, and a still more fortunate manager who escapes hard luck coming from casualties to his men. One of the most fortunate In that regard has been McGraw of the Giants, though to do McGraw justice he doesn’t trust to luck, but Is always watchful and prepared for emergencies. That Is one of his most valuable traits as a manager. Stil neither he nor any other man can be so fortified that no mishap his team, and this thing of accidents Is more or less a bugaboo with all managers. The Phillies have come pretty near winning the pennant or at least been dangerous to the last if they hadn’t been unlucky. The accidents to Titus and Dooln just about wrecked the Phillies’ chances for the championship. The New York Americans suffered greatly from illness or injuries. Chase, Sweeney, Gardner and_ Wolter being among those who have been forced to stay out of the game for periods of varying lengths. This club never yat has Enjoyed a season In which it went through the whole campaign with its full strength undisturbed. The Clevelands this year were set back by injuries to Lajoie and Jackson.

“BIG ED” IS REAL IRON MAN

Pitcher Walsh Continues at Same Terrific Pace Without Any Signs of Going Back. Some years ago Joe McGinnity, then a pitcher with the Brooklyn team, was nicknamed “Iron Man,” because on numerous occasions he worked In both games of. a doubleheader. McGipnlty pitched a whole lot ball in those days, but in this respect he was never In the same class with Big Ed Walsh. It Is really remarkable that Walsh still continues to be numbered among the best pitchers In

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the league. It was predicted several yean ago that he could not last much longer because of the enormous amount of work he was doing every season, and yet he goes on at the same tetri* sic pace without showing any evidence that his arm is weakening.

The Onlooker

By WILBUR D. NESBIT

" • -4,' ' ■ ■■ ' 'Xc ■ ci-A-v' • • ■ The lonesomest kind of a lonesomeness Is not in the forest dark Where the falling leaves have a lonely look And the trees stand sere and stark; *Tis not on the ocean, wide , and blue, With never a hailing bark. >, The lonesomest kind of a lonesomeness Is not in the forest brown Nor yet in the mountain fastnesses, But here In the heart of town Where men and women on every side All day go up and down. Where never a friendly face you see Through all of the while so drear, Where never a hand is reached to you z And none gives a word of Cheer, Where each is a stranger whom yon meet— True lonesomeness is here. The lonesomest kind of, a lonesomeness Is here in the rush and sound, Where nothing but people strange to you. Encompass you all around. And you do not care any more than they Where one of the other is bound.. The tree and the breeze and the foaming sea J Draw near unto yens. all kind; But folk whom you meet with stranger eyes ‘ To strangers all are blind. And this is the lonesomest lonesomeness A lonesome man may find.

Shopping.

“Do you sell all kinds of drawing material?” asked* the man with the incandescent whiskers, stepping into the shop with tiie sign “Drawing Material.’’ “Everything In that line, sir,” answered the affable salesman. “Well, I don’t know as I want to buy anything today.” “It is a pleasure to show the goods anyhow, sir.” “O, well, I’m just looking around, so don’t bother.” ' “But I’ll be glad, Indeed, sir, to show you whatever drawing materials) you think you’ll need at some future time.” ; “Well, Ilk look at a horse and a poroifs plaster, if it’s all the same to you.”

Their Own Petard.

“Did you read that first article In the Getthere Magazine about ’How to Amass a Fortune?’ The one that said to cut off all unnecessary expenses' and save every dime?” “Yes, I read that one.” “Do you remember, then, In the second article of the series, how it said that—’’ “Didn’t read the magazine , article. Took the magazine at its word and began saving money by ceasing to purchase It.”

Called on Pressing Business.

“Henrietta,” said the stern parent, “what am I to understand by the remarks of that ydung man who was calling on you last night?*’ “Why, what do you mean, papa?” “I happened to overhear him as I passed through the hall. He was saying: ‘Only let me look into your eyes!’" "But that was Mr. Treatem, the young oculist, papa.”

Business la Business.

“No,” said the photographer to his friend. “I can’t lend you the money. I have told you that as. emphatically as possible. Why do you repeat your request?" “Didn’t you toll me the other day that after getting a good negative one should begin retouching carefully?” /. The Original Banana Joke. "What fruit was it that caused Eve to fallT’ asked the Bunday school teacher. ”De banana peel, mum.” answered the new scholar from Clancey’s Lane.

In Lincoln Park.

“Percy says the lake is as Incon- . atant as a woman.” ’ "Alfred'says it isn’t—says you always know where to find the lake!" "And Don’t Qo Near the Water." Mere where the breaking waves dash high *- . And lissome ladies look quite cute I find myself inquiring. “Why Don’t bathing suit the bathing suit!”