The Challis messenger., July 17, 1918, Image 2

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INCREASED FLOCKS ON FARM
Ways Outlined of Hastening Develop
ment of 8heep Business—Source
of Wool and Meat.
(Prepared by the United St&tea Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Though much Is yet to be done to Im
prove the carrying capacity of the
western rnnge lands and to furnish fa
cilities for Increasing the production
from those areas thut should always
be used for grazing, and though the
possibilities of sheep rulsing on cut
over timber lands are very great, neith
er of these advunces can be made to
contribute so extensively and so quick
ly to market supplies ns an lncreuse
of flocks on the farms of all pnrts of
the country. Only one-tenth of all
holdings now classed as farms main
tain sheep. The establishment of flocks
on as many ns possible of the othet
fnrras that are suitable for sheep ofTers
the greatest opportunity for quick re
sults.
This Is not wholly a war matter.
When pence comes It will still be nec
essary for farmers to accord greater
Importance to live stock. The require
ments of the country and the most eco
nomical use of farm crops and farm
labor cnll for a much more general
keeping of farm flocks of sheep, en
tirely aside from the war sltuutlon.
The magnitude of such an undertak
ing argues ugalnst lurge results In a
short time, but If the true facts and
prospects can be adequately realized
by farmers, within a space of two
years It can be expected Jhat the sup
ply of both wool and meat will be In
creased materially.
An obstacle to any Increase In the
number and size of fnrm flocks Is found
In the prevalent Idea that wool and
meat prices, after the war, will recede
quickly to low levels and cause a loss
to those wbo^have Invested In higher
priced stock "for breeding purposes.
The statistics of the world supplies
and requirements, however, and the
trend of prices prior to the war Indi
cate that we already had entered a
new era with regard to the live stock
Industry, While It Is not possible to
give a guarantee as to future values,
the great use of wool by all countries
Qood fsr Wool and Mutton.
at war undoubtedly will deplete stocks
sapldly, and this will tend to Influence
the market for some time to come.
The belief that sheep do not have a
place upon high-priced, highly produc
tive lund also Is inapplicable at pres
ent. It Is true thut the development
of the sheep Industry on the rougher,
cheaper, or drier types of land has
prevented and In some cases destroyed
the business of sheep raising upon
farms of high productive cupaclty.
Conditions now are changed. The
sheep today provides a profitable
source of meat no less than an Income
from the sale of wool.
The large use of forage and pastur
age and the small use of grain favor
the keeping of a flock on the farm.
Sheep are most profitable aud most
healthy when kept upon pusture lands
or used for grazing oft such forage
crops as cereal mixtures, rape, cow
peas, etc. Where large grass pastures
are available the forage crops muy not
Be required, but under common farm
conditions the forage crops will huve
a part In the best flock husbandry.
With good roughages, made up In part
ef leguminous hays, little grain Is need
ed for wintering breeding stock, and If
ewes do uot Innib until they go to pas
ture. grain may be wholly eliminated
from winter rations. Lambs are most
In demand and most profitably disposed
of when weighing, from 05 to 90 pounds.
Ordinarily the lower weight will be
reached at from four to five months
ef age and without the use of grain
If stock Is of good breeding and kept
upon good pasturage. The lamb car
cass requires less fat to render It suit
able for the table than Is necessary In
any other class of meat. This fact
partlcunrly adapts sheep raising to sec
tions that are not adapted to produc
tion of grains but can furnish good pas
turage and forage crops. It also en
ables the flock to produce a cash re
turn frt>m forage crops and other graz
ing Included In a diversified plan of
croppiug. The rapidity with which
lambs attain marketable weight Insures
very quick seturns at a low cost
The comparatively small amount of
labor required In caring for sheep la
another argument In favor ef the farm
Cock.
THESE TWO MEN
REFIT THE ARMY
Lively Work of Major Fawcett
and Captain Thrall at
Camp Blank.
«cause,'lie hns not put his needs in
proper shape."
Makea It Eaay for Them.
Army regulations require particular
printed formulas for requisitions, pre
pared with scrupulous attention to
small details. Major Fawcett has
taught his men to accept any scribbled
memorandum on thé back of an envel
ope or a bit of wrapping paper, tell the
applicant for supplies to come back
In half an hour, and, then, when he re
turns, hnnd to him a perfectly arranged
form of requisition, stating all his
needs with military exactness, and at
t^ie same time directing him to a store
house where his supply Is already
waiting.
The Interior traffic of the camp has
increased until 100 big motortrucks
nre tearing through the streets from
dawn until dark, and half of them
BROTHERS IN ARMS
Every wearer of khaki who Is now
with the American expeditionary
forces In France has been tnken Into
the hearts of the French families and
our sons are as their sons. There Is
no bond like that which arises from
fighting In a common cause for high
Ideals.
'MERRY WIDOW' TO DIE
French Woman Found Guilty by
Court-Martial.
•old Military Secrots to the Germans
In Letters to Her
t Children.
Taris, France.—Brief announcement
has Just been mude thut a Paris court
martial has condemned to denth as
a spy Mme. M-. thirty-seven years
old. Her son, Noel, sixteen years old.
who was accused of being her accom
plice, was ordered to a penitentiary
colony until he comes of age. The
court believed he was too young to be
held responsible for his acts.
As the case was not heard In public
only a few details have become known,
■ach as that Mme. M.'s husbnnd was
killed at the front In March. 11)16, aud
that the wife soon started a life that
earned her. In the circles she frequent
ad, the name of "The Merry Widow."
work far Into the night. The more the
camp speeds up "the more troops Mnjor
Fawcett Invites the war department to
send through the camp. The Ideal of
seeing to it that no man crosses the
seas for service with clothing and
equipment which Is not new, or as good
as new, has just about been reached.
Troops are detrained from the Interior
In dusty, fnded clothing, pntched nnd
ulled out of 8hnpe, and go onto their
hips In nn Incredibly short time dress
I up like a show window display.
His lieutenants In chnrge of money
Isbursements, subsistence, construe
on, transportation, and reclamation
•e at his door with brand-new com
Icntlons every few minutes. Bewll
»red supply officers, who have come
the camp without the slightest Idea
whnt Is expected of them (and who
fould hnve resigned before coming had
ey known) nppear at his door look
g scared ; they listen for a few min
es to the general run of his tele
one conversation, forget their scare,
answer his questions with n prompt
ness and n definiteness which seem to
surprise the men themselves, and go
:t with their heads up, smiling confi
tly, nnd accomplish changes nnd
tings and substitutions such as
hud never dreamed of.
Work Well Divided.
The work ander Major Fawcett sub
vlded Itself naturally so that no dis
proportionate burden falls on any one
(•partaient, with one exception. For
ccounting purposes It Is absolutely
cessnry thnt one man should hnve
rge of what, In quartermaster lan
nge, Is called "property." He must
in every Invoice and assume respon
llty for It financially. This job
nder Mnjor Fawcett Is that of Capt.
E. Thrall, Q. M. R. C. Captain
brail hns counted It a big night when
e has had more than four hours' sleep
ilnce the war started.
Captain Thrall has never been
GIRLS DO GOOD WORK
American Telephone Operators
Now Serving in France.
Hundred Who Were Sent Over Giv
ing Such Efficient Service More
Will Be Sent.
Washington.—To the 100 girls from
America now doing service as military
telephone operators in France, 150
more In training schools here may soon
be added, leaving a reserve force of
400 more on file out of about 8,000 ap
plications.
The telephone is referred to as the
"nerves of thè army," and the young
women who have been accepted for
this work have undergone tests as se
vere as those to which a soldier at the
front Is subjected.
The telephone exchanges often are
only a short distance behind the
treqehes, and the operator must pos
sess both courage and calmness under
dangerous circumstances.
"These girls," said Capt. E. J. Wes
son, who recruited the unit, are going
to astound the people over there by
their efficiency. In Paris it takes from
40 to 60 seconds to complete one call.
Our girls are equipped to handle 300
calls an hour."
Other reports that hnve reached the
war department from France show
that the American hello girl Is making
good rapidly In a task as difficult as Is
to be found back of the front line
trenches.
The first group of operators entered
training school here on Janunry 12
for instruction In advanced telephony.
They received practice In the lnrgest
New York exchanges and were then
tried out at military cantonments. The
course Included talks upon personal
hygiene.
The first contingent sailed on March
2. Other groups sailed In March and
April and were stationed at supply de
pots nnd debarkation bases.
In addition to speaking both French
and English fluently, every one of
these girls hns stood a loyalty test
which proved that she could be trusted
with military Information.
The uniform prescribed consists of
a coat and skirt of navy blue serge,
shirtwaist of navy blue Palm Beach
She soon ran through the money she
Inherited, and, to obtain more, commu
nicated with a Greek living In Spain,
nn agent of the spy bureau established
In Barcelona by the Germans.
When mother und son were arrested,
the boy was Just about to engage in
the uvlntlou service In order to obtain
Information to be supplied to Germany.
A writer In the Paris Midi identifies
the Greek as the head of Germnn prop
aganda in Spain and director In par
ticular of the service for arranging ex
plosions In factories. He was a reg
ular visitor to the girlsf school at Bar
celona, where he went to see three
little girls whose guardian he was
supposed to be. One of the youngest,
nbout eleven years old, handed over
to him, on each visit, several letters,
which he carried away.
These three little girls were French,
being the daughters of Mme. M. The
"Merry Widow" used to pass on any
Information that she obtained to her
son, who wrote It to his young sister,
placing It In the middle of his letters!
which were never really examined,
when It was seen that they were let
caught rattled. He swears now and
then, but laughs at himself when he
swears and he never lets anybody else
get rattled. Captain Thrall Is a much
more tired looking man than he was a
year ago—but like his chief he has
found thut the best way to keep men
mooing Is to meet Ignorance and stu
pidity alike with a friendly grin and
straighten them out as they go along.
Major Fawcett left the regular army
17 years ago and was for many years
purchasing agent for the Philippine
constabulary. Captain Thrall came
from the ranks of the regular army.
GETTING A "BEAD" ON A HUN
Photo by
Western Newspaper Union £
This machine gun operator is care
fully aiming a Lewis gun at a raiding
Gotha. It tnkes a dead shot to bring
down one of thg birds when It flies
high.
cloth and straight-brimmed hat of blue
felt, while the regulation orange and
white cord on the left sleeve Is used to
designate their rank, as operator, su
pervisor, chief operator and so on.
"WAR BRIDES" DUPE SOLDIERS
Women Fortune Hunters Arrested for
Having More Husbands Than
Law Allows.
San Diego, Cal.—Almost since the
United States entered the war soldiers
have been victims of women fortune
hunters. Girls at various camps Bre
being arrested charged with having ftn
over quota of soldier husbands, and
In every case the question of Insur
ance was the motive.
This city has been no exception to
the rule, and with the thousands of
soldiers and sailors in training at the
camps near by federal officials are
always on the alert, and as a result
two girls are under arrest. They gave
their names as Miss Mae Smith and
Mrs. Elsie Byrnes, and both are
pretty. They were caught In the act
of mailing about 20 letters to sailors
and soldiers asking for money for
clothes and traveling expenses. In
every letter written by the girls was
the phrase : "I wish you oceans of
love with n kiss on the top of every
wnve." The girls also received 18
letters from ardent lovers and each
letter contained money.
% WHILE OVER THERE HE I
• GETS DIPLOMA OVER HERE *
Knoxville, Tenn.—Although Ï
Clay Barber, Knoxville lad, is •
"over there," a formal présenta- J
tlon of a diploma to him as the «■
only boy graduate of the Carter *
High school occurred here. Pa- •
trons attending the school's ex- «
• ercises beheld the seat of the »
• only boy graduate draped with &
J Old Glory. •
s<rs<rs<ts fts<rs<rsftsasfts <r«ft«ft,|»
Madagascar, the world's third larg
est Island, hns an area equal to France,
Holland and Belgium combined.
ters from a brother to a little sister
at school.
:: "DUKE" JUST A HORSE, x
| JOINS RED CROSS BODY ::
- « I
Seattle, Wash—The life nnd '!
services of Duke will henceforth ' 1
be devoted to the Re Cross. ' !
Duke Is a pet horse and be- * '
cause Its owner, Frank Larson, «!
had no money to contribute to ; '
the Red Cross, he gave Duke. ' '
The animal was brought to the ; '
Red Cross headquarters and « !
duly receipted for. « [
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Beggar Had $500.
Memphis, Tenn.—John Johnston, a
professional beggar, cursed a white
woman when she refused to buy a pen
cil from him. He was arrested. At
the city jail when he was searched
$500 in currency was found In his
clothes.
Practical Garb for Outdoori
«aï»
There nre middies, smocks, sweaters
nnd coats for outdooring, that is, for all
sorts of sport nnd recreation wear.
And their comrades are skirts, bloom
ers or breeches, nccording to the sort
of service to be required of them. For
tennis nnd golf, skirts that will wash
again and again nnd come out ns fresh
and unfaded ns when they were new,
have not been rivaled as yet by bloom
ers or breeches—for some other sports,
skirts are n thing of the past. With
these washable skirts plain Blouses nre
worn and swagger little coats made of
summer flannel, serge or other ma
terials—and, of course, sweater or
sweater coats.
The coat's the thing this year, that
has almost absorbed the attention of
those who specialize in designing sport
clothes. And it has been presented in
a variety of new styles so that
when It Is slipped on over a
skirt and blouse it tones up the cos
tume, lending it neatness. Sleeveless
coats of satin nnd velvet were among
these new ideas and hnve proved them
selveè successful. Among new arrivals
a
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Caprices and Conceits in Veils
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Why tile veil? Merely musculine
them are simply hemmed. art
Why tile veil? Merely musculine
minds will never figure out the answer
although they will have the rest of
time to ponder the question. Veils
were and nre and will continue to be.
They are a strictly feminine institution
nnd whether they are worn to add
charm to the face or to call attention
to charms already there, or for some
other reason, these are mysteries only
the veiled ludy can solve, for us. But
they make opportunity for capricious
ornamentation and for variety—two
very good reasons for the loyalty with
which women favor them.
New face veils this summer are near
ly all woven with a large mesh; the
hexagon-slmped mesh appears to be
best liked. Two examples of this par
ticular weave are shown at the left of
the picture. They are circular and
float about the face. The veil at the
top Indulges in the caprice of little and
big chenille dots und little pusted-on
velvet leaves, all of them dancing in
"11 the wayward wandering breezes
they chnnce to meet. A few dots splat
tered over a lovely chin, make us think
twice of its delicious curves. A silk
scroll wanders in the most aiinless and
happy-go-lucky way over the veil be
low, but it just misses the eves and
just hits a very alluring pair'of u ps ,
which goes to prove that a veil should
be taken seriously and adjusted with
care.
At the left appears the "war bride"
veil—one of the small consolations al
lowed to the girl whose sweetheart Is
away !u the service of his Country. It
Is of navy blue chiffon and is draped
about a navy blue or navy blue and
white turban. This one is finished
with a narrow silk fringe, but most of
the simple but swagger ,it:ie eott
shown in the picture, neej not feat
comparison with coats of more eostlj
goods—it has some points of advantn«
over them. It is made of summer flu»
nel in any of the gay bright colors und'
touched up with white in pearl buttons,
pique collar and arrow-head finish o!
pockets.
Just the skirt for this coat Is shown
with it. It is of heavy white phpit
and fastens at the middle of the from
where a row of white penri buttons fin
ishes the overlapped seam. Then
are any number of sport hats that wit
top off this practical nnd pretty out
fit. But its youthful wenrer has chose)
a tarn of white corduroy, one (it
the "blue devil" models thut embodlet
much dash. Its long tassel matches
the coat in color. Where somethin!
more dignified Is needed, for an oldet
woman, one of the coconut braids ii
white embroidered with yarn or sill
flowers ngninst the crown, would nmkt
a good choice, and there Is the perennial
Panama with handsome band or scarl
that belongs to all summers.
them are simply hemmed. They art
probably destined to a short-lived pop
ularity but they are very charming.
Veils should be tried on and selected
carefully as hats are, for some face)
look best under a plain, close mes)
without figures. Scrolls or dots or oth
er figures in front of the eves. ar<
never pleasing ; they look nnd are un
comfortable.
The Isabella Color.
Once a Spanish princess vowed not
to change lier lingerie till a certnln
war was won, and as thnt took man.'
months, the result was that fashion
nble Spanish ladles of the time, win
looked to this princess for leadership
In the matter of dress, soon entile w
ndopt a yellowish-brown sort of line 1
for their 'kerchiefs, tuckers, wlmpU*!
and other similar apparel. The prin .
cess' name .wns Isabella, and thü,
fnshionuble shnde wns known as Isal
belln color, nnd one occasionally hears
this name applied In Paris even I»
this day to a sort of ybllowish-l.rovrtS
thnt really does look like linen thnt
had been dedicated to „ hu.ndr
existence. Although we have
h ° f " nKer,e ' hnv,
jet had this color. The next thh
It, and something that surely wot
uppea to nil womankind, l's the
imTn f m f nl . cke, -* r "y that has
put on the shelves of one or tv
the exclusive women's shops 1
wenr c ? mplete 8Pt ° f thl * U
wear In crepe de china 1