Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, March 11, 1921, Page 2

aa: EX-SENATOR WEEKS Former Senator John W. Weeks of Massachusetts, secretary of war in the Harding cabinet. RUSS REVOLUTIONISTS CAPTURE KRONSTADT London. — Confirmation of reports that Russiam revolutionists have taken Kronstadt, the fortress near Petrograd, is given in advices received in Copen- hagen, says the correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph. The revolution- aries have made Kronstadt the center of their organization, he asserts. “The rebels have trained the guns of the warship Petropavlovsk on Petro- grad,” he continues. Soviet authori- ties have suspended the Oraniembaum- Petrograd service. “Moscow reports say bolsheviki overpowered the rebels there with the most sanguinary terrorism,” the cor respondent says. Soldiers and sailors from Kronstadt, says a Riga dispatch to the Times, at- tacked Oranienbaum but were repulsed by the batteries there. Four ships fired on Oranienbaum. BRIEF GENERAL NEWS The Minnesota house passed a bill to prohibit trading in grain futures The measure now goes to the senate. The Fordney emergency iariff bill was returned to the house with the president's veto and failed to become a law. Z Upwards of 50,000 appointments to public offices carrying salaries ag- gregating more than $100,000,000 a year are to be made by President Harding. The Wisconsin assembly passed a bill making all marriages contracted outside the state by Wisconsin resi- dents null and void if the parties re- turn to the state. The money test of immigrants of the artisan or laborer class into Can- ada has now been raised to $250, and this amount the applicant for entry must be possessed of in addition to full fare to his destination within the country. The league of nations is not concern- ed with the allocation of the former German possessions in the Pacific. which includes the Japanese mandate for the island of Yap, the American government is informed in the reply of the council of the league of the American note on the mandate ques- tion. Lines To Handle Own Problems, New York.—The National Associa- tion of Railway Executives, at a meet- ing here, voted to abolish its labor committee, asserting that it had vir tually completed its work and that its further maintenance was a con- stant invitation to seek a uniform set- tlement of labor matters which ought to be settled between each railroad and its own employes. Tribute Paid Chamberiain. Washington. — George E. Chamber- lain, retiring senator from Oregon, was the recipient of an unusual tribute in the closing hours of the senate this morning. Chairman Wadsworth, a Republican, who succeeded Chamber- lain as head of the military affairs committee, paid the Oregon statesman &@ remarkable conpliment in the most eloquent words he could command. Auto Bandits | Chicago Mail Truck Chicago, Ill—Five armed robbers in an automobile held up a mail truck, kidnaped the driver, drove the truck through crowded streets to an out- lying section, picked out six pouches of registered mail and escaped, leav- ing the driver locked in his own truck. Soldier Memorial, Last Bill Signed. Washington.—The last bill signed by President Wilson was one providing for the erection of memorials at Ar REI NATURE’S WORK WELL DONE Good Old Mother Has a Purpose in All Her Doings, However It Seems to Us. Nature’s methods, we say, are blind, haphazard; the wind blows where it listeth, and the seeds fall where the winds and waters carry them; the frosts blight this section and spare not; the rains flood the country in the West and the drought burns up vegetation in the East. And yet we survive and prosper, ob- serves John Burroughs in the At- lantic. Nature averages up well. We | see nothing like a purpose or will | in her total scheme of things, yet in- side her hit and miss methods, her storms and tornadoes and earth- quakes and distempers, we see a fundamental benefaction. If it is not good will it amounts to the same thing. Our fathers saw special prov- idences, but we see only unchange- able laws. Nature has no art, no architecture, no music. Her temples, as the poets tell us, are the woods, her harps the branches of the trees, her minstrels the birds and insects, her gardens the fields and waysides —all safe comparisons for purposes of literature, but not for purposes of science. DREADFUL SPIRIT OF EVIL African Tribes Have Implicit Belief in the Existence of Monster Who inflicts Death. African tribes, while having no gods, believe in a queer personage known as Nyakwa. He is the son of human parents; but no one knows who those parents are, and even the parents themselves don’t know it. He is mortal, though he is never known to die. He is invulnerable, though no one ever tried to wound him. He is invisible to all human eyes except to those of his intended victims, and only once to them. Any one who looks upon Nyakwa knows that he must die within that moon. Those who claim to have seen him say that he is neither white nor black, nor yet the color of a mulat- to; but of a pale, grayish-yellow hue like that of dead grass. He | wears the skin of a deadly serpent about his waist. He lives in the marshes of the jungle and never | leaves them except at night; then he often steals into the villages, usually when it is stormy. Silently and | without giving pain at the time, he gnaws at the heart, sucks the blood and blows his fetid breath into the faces of his victims while they sleep. | HOW TWO BOYS TOOK LEAVE. E. F. Benson, who wrote “Dodo,” is out with an autobiographical book containing many sly hits at other people. Here is his description of the leave-taking of two close school- boy friends—of whom he was one— at Marlborough. They were lying on the grass: And at last the friend rolled over on to his face and said: “Oh, damn!” “Why?” I asked, knowing quite | well. “Because it will be awful rot with- out you.” “You'll soon find somebody else,” j said I. “Funny,” said he. “Laugh, then,” said I. Few authors of English school stories have written anything as true as that. BIG FLATS FOR MADRID. A gigantic effort to settle the housing problem of the Spanish cap- | ital by the inrush of thousands of | country folk to the city is in prog- ress in the northern section adjacent to the suburb of Cuatro Caminos. A private concern has acquired an enormous tract of land and has be- gun building what for Medrid are skyscrapers of ten stories. Each of these buildings is to contain 400 flats and 40 stores. The new model suburb is to be in all respects mod- ern. Engineers are now engaged in laying out a boulevard running through its center over half a mile long and 130 feet in width, with two carriage ways and a central prome- nade lined with trees. IMMIGRATION FIGURES. Tt has been estimated that 33,- 000,000 foreigners have come to this country since the signing of the Dec- laration of Independence. Of this number more than 6,090,000 have been from Germany, 4,000,000 from Treland and an equal number from the rest of the United Kingdom. and less than 2,000,000 from the BULLETINS AID WITH FOWLS Noteworthy Success of District of Columbia Woman With Smail Flock Attributed to Study. (Prepared by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture.) One hen, a brood of 12 chickens, and a few farmers’ bulletins on poul- try raising were the foundation on which Mrs. M. Lohrberg, a resident of the District of Columbia, began her poultry operations in the spring of 1919. During the first 11 months of 1920 her flock of eight birds—the hen and seven pullets—laid 1,059 eggs, an average of about 132. Dur- ing the same period she hatched from three settings of eggs 30 chick- ens, of which she raised 26. The noteworthy success with poul- Purebred Rhode isiand Red Cockerel. try, came to the attention of the United States Department of Agricul- ture recently, when Mrs. Lohrberg ealled for an additional supply of farmers’ bulletins, explaining that owing to her success her neighbors had borrowed the bulletins which she had formerly obtained. “I never kept any chickens before,” she said, “and knew nothing about poultry raising until I got the first brood and also the bulletins.” Her chickens are Rhode Island Reds from good stock, and a standard-bred rooster is used. The flock is kept en- tirely upder back-yard conditions in a space 30 by 50 feet, and the feed, costing about $1 a week, is supple- mented by table scrapes. Based on retail prices, the estimated value of the 88 dozen eggs laid by this back- yard flock was about $62, but none were sold. A fondness for fresh eggs prompted the family to keep every one for family use. In addition, fried chicken and roast fowl graced the table frequently. Acting on suggestions in Depart- ment of Agriculture literature, she is planning to “put down” in water- glass solution a good supply of eggs next season. Her poultry house ts small, but scrupulous care in clean- ing it out every day, combined with close personal attention to good feed- ing is responsible, ghe believes, for the absence of poultry diseases and ailments. SANITARY HOUSES FOR HENS To Secure Adequate Returns in Eggs and Growth Buildings Must Be Light and Ventilated. Chickens will not give adequate re- turns in eggs or growth when kept under insanitary conditions, say spe- elalists of the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture. The construction of the poultry house should receive first attention. Sufficient air space, lighting and ventilation should be pro- vided, and the entire house cleaned at frequent intervals. While these precautions cannot be depended upon to control mites and Hee, they ald the poultryman in de- termining when these pests are pres- ent. Furthermore, the fowls are kept in vigorous condition, which in Itself alds in controlling pests, Dirty and insanitary houses provide ideal breed- ing conditions for insects and germs which are detrimental to poultry. Dis- eased fowls, or those with malformed bills or feet, fall ready prey to lice, mites and other insect pests, and should be removed as soon as discov- ered. DON’T FORCE BREEDING HENS if Strong Healthy Chicks Are Desired Fowis Must Be Kept in Good Con. dition in Winter. Many a breeder has fallen into the pit of forcing his breeders for winter eggs and then wonders how it is that the eggs don’t hatch well in the spring. If you want strong healthy chicks and big hatches you will do well to keep your hens in good condition but not force them for heavy egg production. ESSENTIALS OF EGG MAKING Sprouted Oats or Steamed Clover and Meat Scrap Take Place of Buge and Grass. Laying hens need the elements of egg making that are found so freely in their summer range—meat and grass. Both are vitally necessary to making hens lay, and can be‘ supplied with but little trouble, in the form of meat scrap, and sprouted eats or eeamed clover. BRING US ALL Your Country PRODUCE - We will pay the highest market prices iinnKésii NN i J. V. BAKER & SON “Where Quality and Prices Meet” The Grain Drill that Stands the Strain of Hard Work If you are having seed- ing troubles on steep hill- eater on level ground, me in and let us show tyou how to overcome these troubles. We have a grain drill built to stand the strain of hard work. Its bridge- like construction of grain box and frame, with direct support on the long, strong wheel hubs insures lasting strength "without stiffness. And the drill that we want to show you—the Van Brunt Grain Drill with double run feeds — puts every kernel of grain to work down in seed furrows of uniform width and depth. Ker- nels of every kind and size are planted at regular distances apart there are no vacant spots. All the seed is properly covered so that it establishes root con- nections easily and receives the nourishment from the soil nec- essary to make deep roots and strong stalks. The result is a crop better able to withstand ex- cessive heat and blighting winds. We want particularly to show you the double run or saucer type of feed used on this drill. It gives four different kinds of feed openings and 48 combina- tions of quantities seeded. We can furnish this drill with either single discs, double discs, or hoca.