The Ogden standard. [volume], August 15, 1914, 4 P.M. City Edition, MAGAZINE SECTION, Image 16

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Hn yj-jE STANDARD MAGAZINE SECTION OGDEN, UTAH, AUGUST J
ISACRfD BULLS For OutJables 1
I High Cost of Beef Has Caused ;
Texan to Import Zebus From India, '-Jfffc?-
JjB To eomtat the high cost of Neef
Bf lln America and to get a breed of
Jrattle In America whii h will wlth
H' (stand the Texas feer ticks, the
psacred hulls of India, i ommonly
'ISR called the aebu, being shipped into
I i this country to be used for food.
r-f&m The other day fort of these sa
.. i cred hulls weresold in the stock
I 6JH yards at Kansas City to a packer
'gaS1 and ere now they have been placed
on the market at so murli a pound.
Ml' HL Several times shipments of zebus
:Jm' fo America have been made from
fl 7ndla. and they have been eaten
. $JH l jhere with relish, although the Hin
i HI tin will not touch the sacred anl
mnls They crov: in the Phillpilne
I : " ; nds and the fact that the
v '' 1 f ' I'll'- hiiM i-.-iiiMcrl ihf
"'tHHs Hupening of zebu ranches in the
jj.-l .1(10 -V
tj The animals sold at Kansas City
I LW ' 1 " not -s,1,l'l"-'l in from India.
'BKB'i'hf were f.ne ,-eneration removi I
I B1 ""' tn land w here the; wert
V SMvorshlpped. Perhaps that make-"
,"JHB Bhem profum-iy American, but they
Lh 'h' L'r''i, b'linp and tin' mi ih-
Hflf'vc horns of the Indian animal
Ign'H Their bellows ..i r plaint were
jBnUHl " n i i t - commonly American.
H9H The shipment fame from BIr
like. Tex. where the parent stock
.5'.sMB hipped sever;.! v ears ak'o b
b the Ward Cattle and Pasture f'om
Wk P-ny. It hoped to improve its
s k by er,,?.intr t,,. hrr-ed. and
HH pltms H 'rain (hat won!.! resist
HH the fever tides.
I H ,n that the company has been
successful. The half-breeds are not
Hj troubled with the tick
V'jK Tne hulls, which are really culls
ff.ydMl nf 'hr tdg herd at "Rig Lake, are In
I ,,n' shaDe- They weigh around
1fcS 120n Ioundy- black and dun
;-'sSH! ''n'' n,ous Pr'"v in color and will
,1 dress out well on Ihe block. It I
i-5fjwB nf'licved- Tests made at Fort Worth
fiOW "h6w less loss in killing ihan with
the average Texas cattle, due to a
bi iter distribution of flesh.
B "Xt ' tnf b,e hump over the
fgjBB; shoulders, the most distinctive fea
WM tures of the cattle are the massive
horns like medium cornucopias.
A11 the horns of those hrc have
H 1 f"n Upped to make them less dan-
rerous but even at that some of
tl&H lhm aro two ff,?t long and are
I olr In-hes through at the base.
In India the natives never kill
J rne f these animals. Thev best
I them around, work them nearl- to
I lp"th. fracture a rib nr two when .
I peighbor'a bull climbs into their
fcSH front ar'1 and takes up his abode
Ml on ,hf- front porch but kill them''
Never.' They may lie with a broken
H ,0 and JackaSa hovering ahout
m tne,n, ht native would ri s sor.n
I thmk of cutting down his mother
I 14 A f f A nvr
with an ax as to put the animal out
of Its misery.
When a man dies in India his
neighbors have a fine way of keep
ing his tnemon vividly green. They
get young bull, have it bleated by
the priests, and henceforth that
'"ill wanders where it pleases, free
from work or molestation. If it
walks into a store and samples
some article from the shelf, the
storekeeper Is naturally reminded
of the dead man and the God Shiva
is supposed to be pleased by reason
of the hull being set aside for th
dead man
inchi;asi; of population
CAUSES CATTLE SCARCITY.
The increase In populutlon is the
biggest cause of the scarcity of
meat "We, have broken the grazing
lands and turned them into farms
and have made no other provision
for the raising or animals Farms
arc more productive than grazing
lands. We can raise more cattle
Jo the acre of farm land than we
ban 10 the acre of grazing land, yet
we do not do it.
The last thlrtj yea rs has wit
nessed the practical extinction of
the runge steer. He Is found -nly
In scattered grazing territories. In
South America he has been crowd
ed off the earth as the Pampas
have been broken up to make room
for the growers of wheat Then,
too, we eat a great deal r.f ea).
A recent convention of stock deal
ers In national session declared
against the use of veal for food.
They showed how calves were sold
for the tables of the rich while the
poor did not have enough to buy
be-f. , raif is so much smaller
than s full gtown steer that the
waste Is apparent. But it lakes
Mm to grow a steer and In times
of drouth the farmers get rid of
their surplus stock as a measure of
necessity Heldes they get fancy
pru e8 for veal.
If the laws against the slaughter
ef veal became universal it would
result In the greater production of
beef for our consumption. The In
dications aro at present that beef
soon will pass off the bill of fare
In the average home, unless con
ditions change greatly.
To bring about this change is the
purpose of the men who are im
porting the zebu and cross breed
ing him with the American beef
animal
As food the zebu cannot brine a
ABOVE A calf and steers
ready tor slaughter.
Center A sacred bull. Be
low A butcher noting the
hi.ch price of meat.
higher price than beef. It is the
same and advocates of the use of
l lu- meat of thjgi sacred bull say it is
better and the meat is distributed
well over the body. They argue
that when we once get to growing
the new kind of beef animal it will
result m it bemg grown in Mexico
and the islands of the Pacific, as
well as In Texas, and a great supply
will then be furnisher us.
banners have not et been con
vinced of the desirability of raising
beef tattle for the market to any
laiKe extent. In the vicinity of the
larger i-llirs there are many dairy
' irn s, but the feeding stock farms
are n-t as numerous as they need
to he to supply the demands of the
meat -eaters of the cities. The farm
era usually raise sufficient meat for
i
MmmK m MISSED A FIRST THEATER NIGHT IN SIXTEEN YEARS
Iimi i ioi oi cnronlc theater goers
there are, how you always sec the
fame faces in the same places espec-'
tally at first night performances?
Transients may come and go, but a
large number attend the shows -year
after year, missini: scarcely any.
There's one citizen of Omaha who
hasn't missed an Orpheum bin pUice
the vaudeville house started sixteen
years ago except for a few weeks
at ihe time hia father died This
Is Bert Hamill.
His fourteenth birthday came on
the day the Orpheum opened and by
waj of celebration he took 10 cents
of his birthday money and went to
the vaudeville how. He a;it :-. the
first row In the Kallery ami had the
time of his young life applauding
hiSflng and eating peanuts.
Although he was only 14 he was
already a seasoned theater goer. He
first show, but It was at the old Far
nam Street Theater, which burned
down in '3. He then patronized
pl us at the new Boyd and at th
Oeighton which was the original
of the present Orpheum and stock
productions of the Woodward com
pany, which played there in the
summer
Mr. HamiU sat In the gallery at
the Orpheum for years, going every
Monday night and waging a brUk
war with the other boys to get the
same seat In the first row which he
had from the very start.
As he grew more prosperous he
worked down- from the gallery to
the balcony and as he grew still
more prosperous he began getting
two cat8 instead of one. He still
continues this custom. He always
gets the name two seats in the first
row in the balcony and always takes
... .nc b,ri. 11P -j, never sat
downstairs In the theater and savs
he has no depro tn.
Until a few weeks ago he saved
all his Orpheum programmes, but
the collection numbering something
over 800 slips got to be a nuisance
so he had a big bonfire and burned
them
Great as Is his enjoyment of the
shows, Mr. Hamill has never had
even a touch of "stage strike." He
de. lares that he has absolutely no
parlor sticks and Is not a bit "am
bitious along that line. He enjovj
what the actors do from the open
ing selection of the orchestra to the
moving pictures at the close
Of course, there were no movies
when he first started going to the
Orpheum and there have been many
other additions and changes In the
sixteen years. All of his old pals who
used to inhabit the first row of the
sallery with him are scattered over
the country until he has completely
lost track of them.
'The gallery hm't the same as It
used to be," declared Mr. Hamill.
"Tnere Isn't the same crowd there
used to be. And then, hissing isn't
allowed any more. There are signs
forbidding it. Wo used to hiss when
we didn't like an act. It's a lot
quieter there now."
He argues that a gallery god
should be allowed to hiss what he
doesn't like as well as applaud what
he c-njoys.
He saya that the same people have
come year after year in the balcony
since he's been sitting there. Occa
sionally a face vanishes and e new
one appears, but the changes -ome
so slowly as to he scarcely notice
able. He knows the names of hardly
L . .
any one who sits near him, but feels
at home with them all. He savs
that there's a spirit of comradeship
among those who always sit In the
same places on the same night
There have been change. In the
klnrl of shows themselves since Mr.
Hamill began his career as a chronic
theater goer.
"There aren't so many acrobats
as there used to he." he says. And
the work gets finer and finer all the
time. The actors change too as
time goes on."
A Wise Answer.
Examining Admiral (to naval
candidate) Now mention three
great admirals.
Candidate Drake. Nelson, and I
beg your pardon, sir, I didn't quite
catch your name, Punch.
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their own consumption, but do not
raise enough to supply their city
cousins.
Formerly when only a small per
centage of the people lived in the
cities the meat problem did not
amount to anything, because the
small surplus of the farms and the
jg rXv
hlg surplus from the open range
supplied the nieds Today the pop
ulatlon of the cities is Increasing
ever ..ear. an. I la outstripping the.
population of the rural dlttrit te.
The back to the farm cry calls
some people, but It cannot call thoft
uho left it Thev-are having a hard
Struggle for existence in the rltiev
bui they do not relish the Idea of
returning to the long hours they
remembered when they were boys
on the farm.
The fact that the farm of todar Is )
a .llffcrent thing from what It used
to be does not snare many. The -v
icople don't want to go back to the
farm and we are on the high ro.id
to vegetarianism in spite of the fact
we have no religious scruples
agalnJt eating meat.
Rigors of Farly Day TrnvcL
In 170 1 Madam Knight -.vent from
Boston to New York on horseback,
and her experience, with bad road;,
miserable taverns or huts where she
Stopped lor the night, ive us a dis
mal picture of the rudeness of the
times. I
(m October 1701, she wrote In
her Journal- "Began my journey
from Boston to New Haven: being
about two hundred miles." The
fond offered at the taverns was apt
to be trying, in one place the ".ab
bage was of so deep a purple," she
thought it had been "boiled in the
dye kettle." tjhe speaks of a "can
noo" so small and shallow that she
kept her "eyes steady, not daring
so much as to lodge my tongue a
hair's breadth more on one side of
mi mouth than tother, nor so much
as think of Lott's wife, for a wry
thought would hav e ov ersett our
wherey." She wrote that after leav
ing New London:
' wee advanced on the town of
eabrook. The Rodes all along this
u.i are very bad Incumbered with
Rocks and inountalnos passages,
which were very disagreeable to my
tired carcass. In going over a
Bridge, under which the River Run
very swift, my hors stumbled, and
very narrowly escaped falling into
the water, which extremely fright
ened me. But through God's good
ness 1 met with no harm, ana
mounting again, in about half a
miles Rideing came to an ordinary,
was well entertained by a woman
of about seventy and advantage, but
of as sound Intellectuals as one of
seventeen."
After (. rossing Sav brook Perry
she stopped at an Inn to bait, and to
dine, but the broiled mutton -.as
so highly flavored that the only din
ner received was fchrougfl the 6ene
of smell After leaving Killing
worth, she was told to ride a mile or
tvo, and turn down a lane en the
right hand. Not finding the tens,
she continues " e met a oung ft:I
low and ask't him how farr it was
to ttie lane, which turned down t
Guilford. He said we must ride a
little further, and turn down by the
corner of Uncle Sams ixitt."
.The found the people possessed of
as "large a portion of mother wilt,
and sometimes larger than those
who have been brought up In
Cittiea" but needing "benefltt both
of education and conversation."
Making shrewd comments she
reached Rye, and stopped at a tav ern
where she ordered a fricassee,
but could not eat it, she was then
conducted to her bedroom, by wav
of a very narrow stairway. She
ea.v s
"arriving at my apartment, a lit
tle Lento Chamber furnisht among
other Rubbish with a high Bed and
a low one, Little Miss went to
scratch up my Kennell. which Rus
selled as If she'd been In the Barn
among the Husks, and suppose such
was the content? of the tlckin
nevertheless being exceedingly
weary, down I lay my poor Carkes.
and fund my covering as scanty as
my Bed was hard Annon l heard
another Russelling noise in the
Room called to know the matter.
Little Miss said she was making a
bed for the men ;who. when they
were in Bed, complained their leggs
lay out by reason of its shortness
My poor bones complained bitterly,
not being used to such lodgings:
and so did the man who was with
use: and poor I made but one
Orone, which was from the time I
went to bed to the time I Riss.
which was about three in the morn
ing. Setting up by the Fire till
' iok up o ine r ire un
light."
Through mud, forests and all sorts
of difficulties she mde her journey
to New York and homo again in
Roston. and after an absence of five
months, she broke out Into the fol
lowing verse'
"Now I've returned to Sarah
Knight's,
Thro" many toils and many frights.
Over great rocks and many stones.
God has presarv d from fractured
bones."
If?
"No disaster more horrifying
could be imagined than that which
would occur If New York City
should have a great earthquake."
opines Frank N Went worth. You
are right. Mr. Wentworth. It would
he almost as bad as If the sea sud
denly should rise 1,000 feet, as if
Mars should fall on Gotham, as if
10,000 nrmed Japanese should
spring up on Broadway And. ac
cording to scientists. Just as likely,
too Cincinnati Times-Star.