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Much Money Wasted in Feeding Homeless Cats
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ÄTP.H YORK. Convinced that the house eat is an economic pest as well as
11 a dangerous disease carrier, in addition to its ruthless toll of valuable
song and insect-destroying birds, officials in several states are openly advo
cating various forms of restrictive leg
islation. These range from mere li
cense laws, designed to get rid of the
homeless feline population, to out and
out extermination, which is urged by
the extremists.
"The only reason the ganie*coin
missiou has ever tolerated a law pro
tecting raccoons is because in that
way we keep down the number of
cats," one state official explains. "Rac
coons themselves do untold damage to
game, poultry and useful birds. Rut
if 'coons were not protected they would be quic kly exterminated. Cats have
no value that I ever heard of. They kill rats and mice, but that's all. Such
vermin can be controlled as well without cats as with them. Thousands of
homes never have a cat inside them; neither do they have any rats or mice.
Other places which may be infested with rats and mice have cats, too. but
the cats don t seem able to wipe out the smaller animals. No one need fear
that destruction ot cats is going to increase the number of rats and mice.
Proper traps and other measures will do more than any cat."
State officials say that the household which has a pet cat exhibits opposi
tion which is natural. Members of such a household do not have any concep
tion of the number of homeless cats in city and country which have to skirm
ish for their own living and which are half wild or entirely so; It is from them
that the chief danger comes. Conservative estimates are that in New York
city alone, where the question has been studied, there are 8,000.000 cats, one
half of whom have no owner.
If each one of this 4,000,000 or so cats no one wants, in skirmishing
around for his living consumes only one cent's worth of food every 24 hours
it amounts to $40.000 a day, or nearly $15.0no,0<)0 a year, more than sufficient
to build a superdreadnaught. That is a pretty stiff price for one city to pay
as a general cat tax in one year.
Spring Sunshine Lured Aged Man to His Death
D ETROIT.—It was a winter day, dreary anil cheerless as his own life had
grown to be, when George Harrington was taken to Eloise. The sun
shone brightly Sunday afternoon when he walked out of the big doors for the
last time. An intorurban car ran
over him a few minutes later, inflict
ing fatal injuries.
Harrington was ninety-two years
old. partly deaf and none too spry. Rut "l t» °
with the reluctant spring sunshine
there came a call to the old man from
outside the white walls of the coun
ty's home for the unfortunate—a call
too strong and insistent to be disre
garded.
The voice must have been in the
old man's fancy, for there are none
of his kin left on earth, so far as anybody has ever been able to learn. He
was a business man once, years ago. He had a home and a family, they say,
and existence meant a great deal to him.
Then, vyith the sudden completeness that fate displays sometimes, the
balanbe turned. One by one his own family died. That may have been the
reason he ceased to prosper in a business way. It may be that he ceased
to care much. The way of descent was not rapid, but it was steady. At last,
when he was an old man, the last friend tired of donating to keep him. Only
one door remained to swing open to him, living. He was taken to the poor
farm.
1 hiring the months after that he seemed fairly well contented. Then Sun
day he heard the voices. They called him, and he could not refuse them. He
walked out of the place alone and by some chance unnoticed. Outside, he
reached the street car track and turned toward Detroit.
He had not gone far when the heavy interurban car came up from behind.
The motorman reached hastily for the handle, the air brakes went on with a
shriek and a jar—but it meant nothing. The motorman shut his eyes for a
short second, while he felt the slight thud.
The old man was still breathing when they picked him up. He breathed
when they carried him back into the inlirmary, and the doctors hurried to give
him the last slender chance. But it did not matter. Half an hour later the
last leaf on the tree had fallen.
Yale Senior Class Has High Record for Spending
MEW HAVEN, CONN.—Despite the high cost of living, or, perhaps, because
N of it, the present senior class at Yale is going to leave a record for spend
ing money. Class statistics just published show» that the expenses for the
6 entire class during the four-year
course at Yale will reach nearly $1,
500,000. To be exact, the figure is
$1,404,128.
^ The figures show that in fresh
,0-, man year the class spent $464,667 ; in
sophomore year, $313,890; in junior
^ year> $335,716, and in senior year the
figure is set down at $348,855. The
most extravagant man in the class ad
mitted an expenditure of $5,500 this
year alone, while the figures show that
as a freshman one of the members of
the clasp went through the year on a paltry $100. While the class of 17
proved to be good spenders, they didn't show much capacity for earn ng
money. The hard-working members of the class accumulated but $53,3o2
during the four years, while the class which was graduated last June showed
returns of $306,979 in various lines of endeavor, including almost every occu
pation from that of an icemar to a professional pallbearer.
"Movie" Actor Tell s Pitiful Story of Privation
* OS ANGELES CAL.— Having eaten bologna he knew was polsoaous, when
L he could ino longer stand the panes of hunger. Roger Pierrot twenty
seven years old, a motion-picture comedian, was found unconscious from
weakness and ptomaine poisoning. He
£ ft/'.
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a pitiful tale of privation and
•; of how he lived for a time on
and stolen oranges, while vainly
; to obtain work. His chief con
is for his wife and two babies,
ire in New York and who were
nt when he last heard from them,
pie of days ago.
'he cc'"'*dian said he was work
nd living happily in New York
he met a Los Angeles motion
•e nrodueer, who offered him
there at $50 a week for the first month and $100 weekly thereafter. He
red that when he went to the studio here he found it only a barn. -
of giving him $50 a week he said the producer offered him only $lo,
i he refused. The same day, he stated, $30—all he had -was stolen.
I walked from one studio to another hunting work, he said -
ie Chaplin's place I got work for six days at $o a day. I sent my wt-e
Tr« 'vas «OK. the mao «ho got me out Here come to my
and offered me $2 a day. I ordered him out.
I succeeded in finding just one more days work and got $3. I suit n
$L paid $1 on my room rent and used 39 cents to pay for laundry.
Hp^MbeTast effiffor tread and bologna sausage. I had eiten ncth
iuce Thursday night hut the roots of some tall Brass and oranges I stole.
f r,*ml me to eat the last of the stiusage. though it had spoiled.
;er forced me , t when SO mo letters fell from h!s pocket
were from Ids wife and told how the milkman had refused her lull: for
abies and the landlady had threatened to eject them.
Nobody
Home!"
By VICTOR REDCLIFFE
{Copyright, 1317, by W. G. Chapman.)
Click !
"What's that for?" sharply ques
tioned Matt Dorsey of his companion,
Vance I »acre.
"Oh, that's one of the city's celebri
ties; 'Noodle Nat,' they call him.
That's his fad. taking photographs
with that old camera somebody gave
him."
"Got you!" grinned ragged, uncouth
Nat in question. "I'm gathering up
characters. You're one—make a fine
villain in the show."
"Why, the fellow is really observ
ing!" chuckled Dorsey. "Keen and
witty, quite."
"Nobody home, see," remarked
Dacre, and tapped his own head sig
nificantly. "Does odd jolts, gets a wild
streak occasionally, but never harms
anyone."
"Why, I say," said Dorsey, as if
roused by a sudden suggestion, "he
may fit in down at the lodge. Hey,
Nat. want a job?" and the derelict ap
proached him with the query:
"You won't object to my picture
taking atween whiles?"
"Not a bit of it."
"I'm your man."
"All right. You know where my fish
ing lodge is down on the river?"
"Heard of it."
"I need someone to watch it while
I'm away, and keep it in order, and
cook and serve the meals when I'm
there. Light work—good pay."
"What you call good pay?"
"Two dollars a week."
Nat stared. He had sense enough
to read the shrewd chiseler in the Dor
sey fellow, just as he had proclaimed
bis villainous characteristics—right in
both cases, and knew he was.
The bargain was consummated, and
Nat went on his way. A square distant
he met Ned Talcott. The latter was
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ill
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"Ha! ha!" Laughed Nat.
cashier in the big factory of the town.
Nat liked him. He showed It and his
respect by taking off his tattered cap.
"I'll soon pay you that three dol
lars, Mr. Talcott," he announced.
"You don't owe me anything, Nat,"
declared Ned heartily.
"Oh, yes, I do! You was my only
friend when I had my last tantrum,
and paid my fine, or I would have lain
in the lockup for a week,
"Oh, you're nil right, Nat," said Ned
pleasantly. "Don't mind the three dol
lars."
"I've got a job, you see," exclaimed
Nat, "and I'm going to save up and
pay you. You're my good friend, Mr.
Talcott, and I'm going to remember it.
And Miss Ward is my friend, too,"
added Nat proudly. "She's your girl,
isn't she, Mr. Talcott?"
Ned became slightly embarrassed
and reddeqed, but in his usual light,
heartsome way he added wistfully, "I
wish she were."
All these apparently trifling inci
dents fitted in to the Installation of
Nat at the lodge in question. Matt
Dorsey was a newcomer at Riverside,
had come there a stranger, except to
Vance Dacre, who was assistant man
ager of the town factory. The twain
were birds of a feather to a verity.
"Sporty," was the common designation,
loud in their attire, consequential in
their manners and irresistible among
the ladies, they fancied. The reason
why Dorsey had lingered at Riverside
week after week, was the fact that he
believed he had made a favorable im
pression on the self-same young lady
Nat had referred to. Miss Eva Ward,
the belle of the village and an heiress.
Ned had been calling on Eva until
Dorsey put in an appearance. The lat
ter had worked his way into the good
graces of Mrs. Ward, who was vain
and shallow. He dazzled her with his
boasts of family wealth. As to Eva,
she tolerated her new visitor and se
cretly missed the pleasant calls of
Ned.
"Nobody Home Nat" was not so ob
tuse that he did not pay attention to
some conversation indulged in by
.
!
Dorsey and Dacre. They met nearly
every day, and Nat began to under
stand that not only was Dorsey a vil
ain and a chiseler, but also a wicked
plotter.
"I'm going to see Mr. Talcott and
tell him the danger he's in," N;>.t so
liloquized one morning. Ho had over
heard a precious scheme put up by
Dorsey to have the influence of I »acre
secure the discharge of Ned from em
ployment. This happened that very
day, before Nat got info action. False
charges were made against Ned; be
had fallen innocently into pitfalls con
jured by Dorsey, who wanted to get
a possible rival-out of the way
"I don't need to tell Mr. Talcott,"
chuckled Nut at noon. Dorsey bad
been writing letters all the morning
and had gone for a stroll, leaving his
desk open.
"Nobody Home Nat" read the letters
and said "Aha !" jubilantly. Then—
click! snap! and two of the letters
were photographed. Then Nat sped
for the village photographer to develop
and print them.
"Can I see you for a minute or two.
Miss Ward?" inquired Nat, appearing
at the Ward home the next day.
"Why. I'm right before you, Nat,"
smiled Eva in lev usual sweet way.
"Yes'm, but if you'd come out into
the garden I would show you some
thing. Tell you a story first, though."
added Nat, as they reached a garden
seat.
Which he did—all of his acquaint
anceship with Dorsey. Then Nat pro
duced tile photograph of the two let
ters. Eva flushed indigpantly as she
read the boast of Dorsey written to
a friend in the city, that he had "cap
tured a simple heiress" and would
have her fortune to spend. There was
a second letter to another friend, gloat
ing over the clever plot whereby N< d
had lost hi*: position.
"The poor, dear fellow!" hurst ftirth
Eva.
"You mean?" anxiously interrogated
Nat.
"Mr. Talcott, of course."
"It's all right, then," nodded Nat.
"I've discharged myself from my em
ployment with Dorsey. I hope you'll
discharge him, the villain!"
Then Nat wont to see Ned and,re
peated his weird tale, and intimated
that his opinion was that Miss Ward
would welcome him if he would call
upon her.
Which was true, and Nat was a
happy, happy man that afternoon, as,
from behind a sheltering hush, he
"snapped" Eva and Nod, who had come
to a full understanding.
It was the next afternoon, and Ned
was again in the garden with Eva. and
Nat, working in the front garden,
grinned broadly as, in response to a
ring at the doorbell, the servant an
nounced to Dorsey, according to in
structions from Kva:
"Nobody home."
"Ha! ha!" laughed Nat, as he sidled
up to the discomfited Dorsey, "nobody
home hut these two in the garden,"
and he exhibited the developed photo
graph. "And say. you better git. for
the same camera took the pictures of
those two letters you wrote. And Mr.
Talcott is going to get his job hack,
and your friend, Daere, will he tired,
and you better get out of town, if you
don't want to meet Mr. Talcott, who
has promised to give you a good
trouncing."
And, as the baffled plotter sneaked
away, inimitably adopting the tones
of the housemaid, Nat, with a broad
grin, announced :
" 'Nobody home !' "
Bracelet Is Ancient Ornament.
Ry the Romans bracelets were first
used as a reward for valor, Curtius
Dantius receiving no fewer than 150
of these decorations. Among the worn
en'bf Rome as of Greece the craze for
this form of adornment spread to an
extent to call forth the condemnation
of Cicero. From Rome some centuries
after the Christian era the custom of
bracelet wearing spread to eastern
Europe anil thence to Rritain. Edgar,
host and wisest of the line of Saxon
kings, bestowed bracelets upon the
men and women of his court, while
the Danes, making peace with Alfred
the Great, swore fidelity upon them.
Through nearly ten centuries have
bracelets in one form or another main
tained a strong hold upon the affec
tions of women, although until the
time of Benvenuto Cellini they had
been crudely simple in form and de
sign.
Puns.
Puns cover about three-quarters of
the world of humor. Because they
are so numerous, they are not given
the highest rating by many critics, hut
from the supposition that they may
he cheap comedy, most of our joke
smiths use them to cut down the H.
C. of L.
A pun is made from a word that
sounds like another word which it
isn't, and is known as play upon that
word, hut finding a pun is work, just
the same. A pun is made by hunting
tin and down the pages of a dictionary
until a word is found which is leading
a double life, and it is seized upon
hungrily and made to show itself off,
in all its duplicity. Most of our great
. humorists have been more or less ad
! dieted to the use of puns in their most
pernicious form.—Indianapolis Star.
More Women Among Students.
Since the beginning of the war the
increase in the enrollment of woman
students lias been especial! v noticeable
at the Prussian univers« i s (Berlin,
I Frankfort-on-the-Main, Marburg and
Halle) and also at the L uivrrsity of
: Munich. Bavaria. The increase at
j Heidelberg and Tubingen lias been
I and til* 4 woman
-■lui lents at tsrraibtir' and Freiburg
! (Baden) has decreased slightly.
REASONS FOR THE PUREBRED DAIRY SIRE
' Very I
(Hy C. A. BERNS, IV-jn
11lisbanilry. < »klahoieu
lege. Stillwater.)
Nothing hut a pun
should he used in breeding gra
scrub cows which are muintniue
milk and butterfnt production.
The use of a scrub hull can net
considered as economy in any sen
The purebred hull should he
same breeding as the prevailing
of the cows, for crossing dairy breeds
only causes confusion and gains noth
ing in the end. When a good individ
ual purebred hull is used on grade
cows the offspring almost invariably
Young Jersey Heifers.
will he an improvement over the dam,
while if a grade hull is used, no as
surance can he given that the get will
not he inferior to its dam.
As grade dairy cows are kept for
butterfnt production and are not used
to produce, breeding stock, it is a very
simple conclusion that the bull calves
will la* worth practically nothing ex
cept for veal. The grade sire often
failing to improve the hutterfat pro
ducing ability of the heifer calves has
BULL CALF OF EXCELLENT BREEDING.
SAFETY IN IKE SOUTH
Farmers Urged to Produce and
Conserve Food Supply.
National Problem cf Defense as Im
portant as Men, Guns, Ships and
Cannon—Do Not Increase
Acreage in Cotton.
(By BRADFORD KNAPP. Chief of Co
Operative Extension Work, States Re
lations Service. Department of Agricul
ture.)
For nearly three years I have done
my best to warn you to prepare for
the present emergency. For years we
have tried to encourage diversification
in the South as a basis for greater
safety, both agricultural and economic.
Since the war began in Europe we have
urged safe fanning. When prices were
low you did well and made groat prog
ress. When cotton went to IS cents
and over you made large profits be
cause of your progress in safe farm
ing, hut some were tempted to go back
to cotton. In common with many other
men, I have tried to warn you of that
danger. Cotton lias not been high but
has only increased in somewhat less
proportion than food and feed.
Now the crisis is here ! This groat
nation must arouse herself for a
mighty struggle for liberty. People
without food and armies without ra
tions are conquered before they can be
gin to fight. Our greatest safety now
lies in food production and in saving
the waste products.
If the South is to he strong she must
have food. If this country is to he
strong she must be well fed and have
! an abundance to sustain those friendly
people who are even now fighting our
battles for liberty and democracy.
Transportation may be disturbed.
Your own defense requires you to pro
duce and conserve your food supply.
Don't fail now! It is a national prob
lem of defense as important as men
and guns, ships and cannon.
Business men, if seed is short can
vass the situation like patriots and get
the seed for farmers. Arrange the
credits. Furnish fanners seed corn,
soy beans, cowpeas, velvet beans, pea
! nuts, sorghum, etc., at cost. See that
! all things necessary to help farmers
! are done. Of course, we must produce
; cotton, but with a moderate acreage
1 and a good season there will he enough.
Do not sacrifice acres of food to in
crease your acreage in cotton. Look
ahead! Get the warehouses, the feed
milis, -heller-, cleaning stations, cream
eries. packing plants, etc., ready. You
mus ilo vom share ami co-operate with
I
living, and the only
sensible thing to do is to castrate all
grade hull calves and make use of
thrill f ir wiiat they will bring as veal.
Ry tIn' u-r of the good, purebred
hull very hiali producing cows may
soon hr the result, c\cn with a medium
grade lirrd of rows. It is quite easy
to understand that 250 pounds of but
terfat prixhirrd by one cow in a year
would hr rmirh mon pndltable than if
ihr 25(1 pounds of buUcrfat are pro
duced h.v two cow s at 125 pounds each.
1 suail.\ t)|, srrviers of a purebred
dairy sin* may he had at a reasonable
price, and if there is no hull of the
kind in thr n- ighlmrhond then it might
pay tin* farmers of the neighborhood
to own onr jointly.
It would hr quite conservative to ex
pert thr tirifrr calves from a Rood,
purebred dairy hull to produce at least
twenty pounds more hutterfat in a year
than thrir dams. Estimating a six
year period of production with a 20
piunul annual increase above the dam's
production, the get of the purebred
sire would produce 120 pounds more
hutterfat it: the six years than U>»
dam.
I: a small herd of five cows wer»
bred tn this purebred sire, thTs would
mean t;oo p jris more hutterfat in « '.*i t ,i1e è
next six years over and ahove T. Be <1 p r*
the dams of these animals eoiik/; a i a ;,, t •
dure. I.îlltmn t ,
If the average price of hutterfat iv» ., iin
the time is taken as 30 cents a pound, . ' o
this would amount to $180, or tho
amount made by one season's breed
ing with the purebred animal over and
above what could have been expected
if a grade hull had been used. More
over. these cows would he capable of
producing better calves than they
could have produced had they been,
sired by a grade hull.
farmers. They must do their share and
tend the crops faithfully.
Farmers, in your unions, clubs and
other organizations, resolve to use that
best methods ; >w. When the nation
faces a crisis e must liare 1he best
farming in its iiistory. Labor is 9j>*
hence the best tools and all labor
ing devices must he used to ma'
possible for every farm lahori '_ T1 'Drge
cover as much ground as possib! Jr,ln . Jr,
do the most oflitV**nt work* Jesuits
women and girls have import an ton ; T. V
to do In the garden, the orchi.lt ; c
raising poultry, and especially
ning, preserving and conserv?,,, , ino j_
F. B.
food supply.
peering do
1 teas me I
secona
iave stp f > r 'l, Inly
k to tvj commit! eg
South.
days?
Your county agent and hors
stration agent become morejjj
officers now than ever berf
state extension division at,
tural college will have
portant duties. Look
so! and advice in this nfof each mom
extra work. The comité,
without doubt, have n^'ourt
responsibilities in the i'Jefferson
Farmers and business. », .
breeding stock. Don't, »,
ers. mares, sows, gil' ^ 'JcU>tier
Keep tjiem for breed' ja, [ Monday i;
ing stock is sold who 11 * 1 Y in NovemLe
means to supply fa; Charles
country? ''id Monday
Let us forget all y"'Nov cm i,e,
join in a mighty effort: to it ,j
What can you do in the ne/
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PLAN FOR MEAT PRODUCTIO^
•eys, Nuj.
Nothing of More Importance Tha.ic, and Pare
tures, Peas and Peanuts—St^edbyVefc
Bermuda Pasture. 'ears. No
__ 'Vick m
(Clemson College Bulletin.) ten*®:*
If your policy is "live at home and
hoard at tho same place," nothing
probably is of more importance in the
meat production side of suHi a policy
than the four P's—pastures, peas, pea
nuts and pigs.
Now is the ideal time for starting
bermuda pastures, and a little later
grazing crops of peas and peanuts. A
bermuda pasture with a few ears of
corn nr an equal amount of good rice
meal (lail.v will give a gradual profit
able growth of pigs after they are four
months old. Pre.iqn* to this time they
should have a ïtîf, ration of shorts,
preferably fed in slop. Feed them all
jthe surplus buttermilk.
; Peas and peanuts planted at Inter
! \ als from ru»w on should furnish . heap
'finishing crops which will produce
pork at a profit if finished with core
for two or three weeks in connection
j therewith.
Write to
I >i vision
Hie Extension
deni-on College, S. C\, for free hm«>
tin. "Forage Crops f >r South Carolina«*