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F. F. F. 1. CALL PAGE TWO NOT EASY TO GET SHINE IN FRANCE OLD VIOLIN SHOP BOASTS FAR FAME PLANTS ALSO HAVE DISEASE CARRIERS Thinking Sin WATCH MARKETING EGGS AND POULTRY "Poultry production Is running wild without chart or compass, stimulated by past profits, by a tendency to shift from other nonpayment branches of agriculture to poultry raising, and by optimistic statements of those who sell supplies to poultrymen." Thl Is a statement of Prof.

James E. Rice, head of the poultry department of the New York State College of Agriculture at Ithaca, N. commenting on trends In the poultry Industry. Recent figures showing the enrollment In the correspondence courses In poultry husbandry offered by the college, bear out this statement Nearly five hundred New York state fnrmers are studying the four poultry courses, and an analysis of this figure shows that approximately fifty are studying the general management of a laying flock to one who is taking the course In marketing of eggs and poultry. "This may Indicate," say college authorities, "that the poultrymen are a great deal more Interested In producing eggs and poultry than they are In marketing them so they can compete with the high-quality products shipped to eastern markets by midwest and far west producers.

"Better marketing and curtailed production," according to Professor Rice," are necessary to save the New York state poultry Industry from a serious depression." Dirty Eggs Expensive to Careless Poultryman Dirty eggs, especially numerous this time of year, cost farmers and poultrymen from one to three cents per dozen because of the lower grade In which they are placed, according to E. R. Menefee of Purdue university, who Is Investigating marketing of poultry and eggs. Three principal causes may be assigned for the large volume of dirty eggs, Menefee found. They were: too few nests, resulting In the hens hiding their nests In dirty, wet places; unclean nests, and allowing hens free range In wet weather.

Dirty eggs can be eliminated by providing a sufficient number of clean, roomy nests, at least one to every four or five hens. These nests should be placed In a darkened part of the house to prevent egg eating and floor eggs. Do not permit hens to roost In the nests at night and change straw or shavings at frequent Intervals. The wet range Is the most common cause of dirty Keeping hens confined to the house In wet weather until noon, and gathering of eggs before they nre let out will keep eggs clean. Ducks Not Particular Where They Leave Eggs Ducks lay heavily during the laying season.

However, they are not particular as to where they leave the eggs. It Is no uncommon sight to see duck eggs scattered here and there In the yard or hog lot As a result of this thoughtless attitude on their part, many eggs are eaten or destroyed by dogs, swine or the ducks themselves. The proper method of handling the ducks In order to get all the eggs laid Is by keeping the ducks confined in a duck house, or an abandoned stall of the barn during the night and until eight or nine o'clock In the morning. -soci' Poultry Items Tobacco In some form Is now generally used as a remedy for Intestinal worms In poultry. 'Remove all males four to five weeks of age.

Furnish perching space early to prevent cfowding. You can't have thrifty chicks unless they get sunlight either direct, or through these glass substitutes. Window glass strains out the life-giving violet rays. The demand for fresh duck eggs la never oversupplled. "The best bens and roosters to keep and to breed from," says one poultry-man, "are the bright, nervous, talkative' kind, but not the These are signs of vigor, and vigor means egg.

i It Is the general practice not to keep breeding ducks more than three or four year, although people have kept them with good results until they were eight years old. Heavy egg production, like heavy milk production, can only be secured by liberal feeding of a well-balanced ration. Only three chicks should be placed In the brooder house for every square foot of its floor space. A house 10 by 10 feet will hold only 300 chicks. Scratch feed, mashes, meat scraps, and milk, properly nnder common-sense methods make It possible to bring poultry Into egg production successfully.

Great Musicians Pick Way to Dingy Quarters. Atlanta, Ga. All the world's a stage for May Radgett. In It he humbly ploys the part of a violin maker. His shop, two itorles above Atlanta's busiest corner, is dingy.

About his bench Is a confused ensemble of musical Instruments. The clatter of traffic pounds In through dusty window. But Bndgett as he works away with the knowledge that the proof of the fiddle Is In the playing, would not trade his shop for palace. Famous personages of the musical world have made a beaten path to his place. Once a year he has a big party attended hy members of the Metropolitan Opera company.

Once Riidgett gave a bear supper to 600 guests. Including the opera stars. Sousa's band and southern artists. Artists who sing and play for the public for thousands of dollars perform for Badgett between courses. Occasionally the party Is broadcast and opera goers rush away from the auditorium to reach their radios for two more hours of music by the stars.

Proudly displayed by the violin maker Is a letter from Eugene Ysaye. praising his Instruments. David Love. New York conductor; Fritz Schaeffer and Henri Georgia of the Metropolitan orchestra, and Rlckard Schlehven of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Mu-sic are among those who use his violins. One of Badiett'S latest violins was made from a bedsted of curly mnple more than two hundred years old.

Badgett's wife Is an expert string maker. I American Army Relics Still Seen in France Chateau-Thierry, France. American army relics and souvenirs are still visible throughout the former battle zone In France. Some recall grimly death and devas tation of war; others have a lighter touch showing that the doughboy's sense of humor never abandoned him even when shells were flying. The motor of the plane flown by Quentln Roosevelt on July 14, 1913.

when the son of the former President of the United States was killed in aerial combat at Chamery, Is Installed in the American War Relic museum at Chateau-Thierry. Though battered and smashed, it Is kept clean and shining. When the American soldier, who modestly signed his design of an Indian's head, G. Santa Monica. finished his work in July, IMS.

he little realized that lie was creating a masterpiece for the admiration of natives for miles around Missy-aux-Bois. The owner of the ruins expects to rebuild his property this year, but he says he will keep the stones upon which the Indian's head Is "painted." Driving through the SL Mlhlel sector, the correspondent noticed a baker's delivery automobile which had a familiar appearance. It was one of the old ambulances of the American army. Now It is dispensing bread to the French In the same sector. Fish Fight to Regain Homes in Flood Area Memphis.

Tenn. With conservation of all wild life the elm of every true sportsman In the flooded areas, no greater opportunity for restocking of favorite lakes and ponds with game fish has been offered than that which is being afforded now as the flood recedes and the high waters, especially In the lakes, pour out Into the bayous. This Is especially true, observers claim, for Horseshoe lake and the other smaller lakes In eastern Arkansas. Thousands of small game fish between an inch and two-Inch growth are fighting their way up the streams in an effort to get Into the lake At four culverts on the Horseshoe lake road a party saw countless numbers of small fish swarming at the bayou side of road culverts, unable to push their way up against the heavy outpouring stream from the h-ke. More to Come Cesaree, Turkey.

This town In eastern Turkey has a railroad connection for the first time Id history and has 100 less sheep and one less camel than before modernity arrived. The animals were sacrificed In ceremony when the railroad was opened. -a Girl's Brittle Bones Mystery to Doctors Burton-tm-Trent An eleven-year-old girl here, the daughter of a miner. Is puzzling medical men who have come from all parts of England to study her case. Her bones are so brittle that they break easily and she has already suffered seven bone fractnrei five to her leg and two to collar bones.

She spent two years In a locsl Infirmary, but had been discharged as cured several weeks ago. i Two weeks after she wag discharged she stumbled and fractured a leg bone again. Bootblacks Not Familiar Sight on Street. Paris. "Shine, sir Don't expect to hear In Paris the cry familiar outline railroad depot bock home.

But even at that you don't have to walk around the streets of the French capital with rusty footwear. No, It Is no use thinking that all you tourists hava to do is to place your shoe outside the door of your hotel room, a you will And in the guidebook advices. The half awakened chambermaid or night watchman will merely wipe off the dust, slap about one centime's worth of polish on the shoes, and let It go at that. Ion won't find shoeblacks at every corner as you do In New Tork or Chicago, but you can find a few If you know where to go. There are not many, half a dozen or so In the whole city.

When you get off the train at the Gare St Lazare yon can have your shoes shlned right In the station or in a hidden arcade across the street With a tip It will cost you about two francs, or eight cents in real money. Then there are two worthy or public messengers, who sleep half the day on little stools on the two corners of the Boulevard des Italiens where It runs east from the Place de l'Opera. If you can wake up one of them when they are not busy carrying a bunch of flowers to a blonde or ringing a bell somewhere to awaken a late riser, you can have the Job done under the eyes of half of Parisian Paris which never misses a chance to watch the antics of "those crazy Americans." If you understand some of their argot you will at the same time learn what they think of people who spend money getting their shoes shlned and then tell France she must pay her debts. Parted 24 Years, 3 Reunited by Letter Philadelphia. But for a letter opened by mistake Henry J.

LIttrell, seventy, of Alavlsta, Va, might never have been reunited here with his two sons, who have mourned him as dead for 25 years. Some twenty-five years ago a storm and flood razed a small town in the Middle West where Mr. LIttrell had taken up his residence, and after it abated he had vanished. Although the sons searched for his body for days, they never found It Some time later he was declared "dead" by the courts and his estate was disposed of. Two weeks ago James LIttrell, a grandson, was taking a business trip through Virginia.

He had requested bis associates to address his mail to general delivery along the route he proposed to pursue. At Roanoke he received a letter addressed to "Littreli." with the first name erased. Believing It to be his own, he opened It Inquiries at the post office disclosed that the letter must have been meant for Henry LIttrell. The younger LIttrell decided to deliver the letter to the person It had been sent to. The old man and the young man began to talk and before long discovered their relationship.

New Gears for Planes Climbing in Rare Air Lynn, Mass. The addition of two gears and a small "impeller" to an airplane engine now makes possible higher power at all altitudes, which In turn means higher speeds or heavier loads. This Is accomplished with a hnilt-In supercharger developed at the research laboratory of the General Electric company here, nfter the design of Dr. S. A.

Moss, It was announced recently. Previously the supercharger has only been used extensively In military airplanes, and then only as an attachment, but now several large manufacturers of engines have adopted the new supercharger as an Integral part ot their motors built for commercial planes. "The supercharger does exactly the same for the airplane engine as the oxygen tank does for the pilot when flying at high or unusual altitudes," stated Doctor Moss. "At 20,000 feet there Is but half as much oxygen in the atmosphere as at sea level. Ad ordinary engine loses power rapidly as It ascends, but with the supercharger In use this la not the case.

We Get John Bull New York. Uncle Sam Is to acquire John Bull. "Yes, sir, that's my real name," said an applicant at the naturalization bureau, "and I wo born In Tipperary." a Recognize Persons 13 Miles Away in Mirage Cape May, N. J. The most remarkable mirage seen hereabouts for years was visible the other day from the board walk-Ships that were 20 miles at sea, hull down beneath the horizon, were seen clearly.

The beach at Cape Henlopen, 13 miles away, was so plainly seen that persons walking on the sand could he recognized. Woodland, back of Rehoboth beach, also wa clearly visible. Old seamen say that the phenomenon la a certain sign of the approach of a severe storm. Leaf Hopper Found to Spread Yellows Disease. New York.

Just a yellow fever Is due to an Invisibly sinul genu or virus carried from person to person by an Insect are some of the most serious and destructive illnesses of plants due to Invisibly small germs carried from plunt to plant by an Insect In a report to the Engineering Foundation Dr. L. O. Kunkel, plant pathologist at the Noyce Thompson Institute for riant Research, Yonkers, tells how a little gray insect, the aster leaf hopper, spreads the yellows disease of asters by first tilting sick plant and then, after the virus has had ten days to Incubate In Its Interior, biting healthy ones and planting the Infection in their tissues. Carrie It to Fifty Others.

The same leaf hopper that transmits yellows to the China aster also carries It to more than fifty other species of wild and cultivated plants. Lettuce Is one of the most important hosts of aster yellows. On this plant It has long been known In the Southwest as the Rio Grande disease and In New York and other eastern states as the white heart disease. In the winter yellows lives on perennial weed hosts. During the summer, when the carrier leaf hopper Is very active, It spreads rapidly to susceptible annual plants, such as the China aster and lettuce.

Spread of aster yellows ond Its host range depend largely on the likes and dislikes of the aster leaf hopper. The African marigold is quite susceptible but seldom takes the disease even when grown adjacent to yellowed aster plants. The leaf hopper does not like the marigold and seldom feeds upon It when other plants are available. If confined In a cage containing only marigold plants hunger drives it to feed upon them and they readily take the disease. It is fortunate that although whent and other cereal crops are favorite hosts of this leaf hopper they are Immune to the yellows.

Disease Known Only Here. The aster leaf hopper is thought to have been accidentally Introduced Into the United States from Europe fifty or more years ago. Although It Is prevalent In Europe and the Orient where the China aster is extensively grown, the aster yellows disease is known only in America. Thus a disease which Is apparently endemic In America has been rendered much more serious through the lmporfar tion of a European leaf hopper, and of an oriental plant the China aster, No satisfactory means is known of controlling the aster leaf hopper, but the yellows which It spreads can be held in check by digging out all infected perennial weed hosts In the vicinity of the field to be protected and by destroying all diseased annuals as soon as observed. A yellowed plant is a menace to nearby healthy plants Just as a malaria patient is a menace to a healthy community In a region infested with the Anopheles mosquito.

Find Old Roman Town on Farm in Britain London. Recent discoveries in and around the town of Stockbridge, Hampshire, have led archeologists to believe that the site of a former Roman town has been discovered. In 1924 Ernest Barnard discovered on his 850-acre form the foundations of two Roman baths and three villas. He has since unearthed the positions of over a dozen other Roman buildings. Among the more recent discoveries are several hundred copper coins, parts of a tortoise-shell necklace, an oyster opener, a razor, a quantity of broken pottery and two grinding stones.

Barnard has also discovered what he believes to have been a Roman vineyard, with terraces cut in the rising upland. Further finds were two huge stones, probably forming the bases of pillars of the entrance gates of an Imposing Roman building. Roman bricks have been found built Into the walls of an Elizabethan cottage In the town, while In the neighboring village of Kings Somborne several people have collected quite a show of Roman and early British relics. Such Importance is attached to the discoveries that a British' museum expert Is making- a personal investigation. Lord Balfour Admits He's Lazy and Likes It London.

Lord Balfour Is a lazy man and admits It "I am a great lover of Idleness myself, though I never say much about It, and I always love to hear that there are to be certain hours of the day when no one will ask me to do anything," the former prime minister said at a luncheon of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology. "The Institute Is engaged upon one of the most important tasks facing people engaged in social welfare," Lord Bolfour went on. "That 19 the complete explosion of the superstition that all hours of work, are a minus quantity in the happiness of life and all hoars of Idleness a plus quantity." Lord Balfour' idea of perfect bliss and laziness Is to listen to performances of Handel or lie tn bed and read "thrillers" or detective stories. By REV. H.

OSTROM, D. D. Exuunlun Dpirtmeot. Moody Blblt Institute, Chlcigo, TEXT Enemlea In your mind. Col.

1:11. We hear of deep thinkers, word rendered "mind" In our The text really means deep thought Here Is a condition described In which deep In (be thought there is antagonism to the Cross of Christ. It is much more than any superficial objection. And it is the Cross that Is meant, because not only has the blood of the Rev.Oitrum.D.D. Cross Just been mentioned, but the text literally reads that the enmity Is against It Is not tins the real explanation of why the Cross was to the Greeks foolishness? Deep in their minds they were thinking unfriendly thoughts about it What should follow then but a system of teaching such as Gnosticism.

Statements of false theories followed the false thinking. We today may pay attention to the subject of the Cross, but it may be only a superficial attention. To hear of It and to read about It may Interest ns until we agree that It is the most remarkable exhibition of love and sacrifice of which we have any knowledge, but deep in our thought there may at the same time lurk enmity against it. Surely It would be most culpable sacrilege to consider the Cross merely as an exhibition. The real Import of the Cross of Christ Is neVer grasped until It Is grasped personally.

It must be "He gave Himself for me." And a personal superficial receiving of that would deny Its real meaning. There may be with us assent as to the value of the redemption accomplished on the Cross, but deep In the mind personal resentment against what was undertaken, suffered and finished for us there. It Is the souPs gesture without the soul's surrender. We need not characterize as done merely for argument's sake or for a display of scholarship, present-day writing and speaking in couched language about the Cross, which all the while denies the saving work accomplished there, for evidently deep In the thought of many there is actual opposition to It Scores and hundreds of them declare that they not only oppose it but that It Is offensive to them. To really come where they would glory in It would be to admit It as an Interruption to all man's progress and to accept It as a miracle.

What if It Is a miracle of mercy, they oppose the very introduction of the miracle. But this same deep thinking was against God In Israel when the miracle was right before the people's eyes. What though he led them through the sea. what though the pillar of fire and of cloud pointed the way, what though the water gushed from tie rock to slake their thirst; deep In their thought they sinned yet more and more. Ah, sin Is a serious delusion.

There Is no evidence that the objector to the Cross in our day would accept even did he see our spotless Savior hanging there. He misses it all Just as really as if he withheld assent that it could be possible to receive what Is provided there. One may even go so far as to admit that God, the living God, has provided redemption for sinners In the Cross of Christ but still having affirmed the fact as true, be an enemy to it. For, sin Is ever deeper than the fairest admission, It is In the heart rejecting. You see this in Jesus' words: "How oft would I ye would not" Or you see It In Stephen's rebuke: "Ye do always resist the Holy Spirit" Even the convinced man may be a lost man.

Plain It is then why the call of the Gospel Is to repentance, for the real meaning of that word is a change of mind. Whether the act of repentance be accompanied by weeping or groaning, the act only occurs when the mind changes. And that change Is In relation to Christ. The things of the Ten Commandments, the things of the Law are Included, but the Holy Spirit convicts men of sin because they do not believe on Jesus Christ That change of mind claims for the Cross, not offense but favor, not enmity but sanctity. It will cry: "God forbid that I should glory save in the Ctobs of Christ" Evidently there may be Intelligent thinkers on both sides of this precious subject, and they be earnest too, but what Is human Intelligence in the presence of the question of how to deal with sin? The most Intelligent Jury may condemn the" thief for robbery but It cannot approach dealing with the matter of covetousness which is at the root of the man's thievish-Dees.

How surely man by wisdom falls to know God. It Is In the precious Word that we learn how sin Is met and cored. It Is by the blood of the Cross. Surely this Is not a question of Interpretation, It is a question of believing the record. Whosoever be-Ueveth on Him who there provided redemption for ns Is Justified from all things.

Oh, when one's deep thought accredits this, the later miracle takes place. The true testimony follows the true thinking, the true thinking accompanies the true believing. "As a man thlnketh In his heart, so la ha" STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED A Resume of the More Important Event! of Interest Condensed To An Epitomized Form The last $2,000,000 of the first road bond issue was sold recently at the State Capitol. New directories of the Birmingham post office, giving new addresses and new residents are now being used. Sing Gilbert, young fanner residing near the Gadsden Country Club, killed a large gray wolf at that place recently, he reported.

Public improvement contracts totaling approximately $250,000 were recently awarded by the Birmingham City Commission. No deaths were reported nor any serious damage caused by the earthquake tremors felt in Madison and Jackson Counties recently. Thirty new concerns have begun business in Birmingham within the past few days, the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce announces. R. El Christenberry and Evans C.

Evans, both of Marion, were injured recently when their automobile collided with another car near Selma. Liquidation of the affairs of the People's Bank at Mobile, which closed following a run on the Institution recently, has been announced. Announcement has been made of the purchase of controlling interest In the Florence (Ala.) Times-News by J. L. Meeks and Frederick I.

Thompson. Bessemer merchants will hold a "Fourth of July" celebration. According to reports the program will be staged during the afternoon of July 4. The first cotton bloom of the 1927 season was brought to Anniston by F. P.

Eure, of Alexandria Valley, and exhibited at the offices of The Anniston Star recently. During the reorganization recently of the Farm Bureau and Cotton Association in Randolph County, 130 farmers signed the new seven-year mar- keting agreement. The four convicts who escaped recently while working on the Birming-ham-Springvtlle road near Camp Cosby are safely locked behind the steel doors of the Jefferson County jail. Because the mule which bit him a few days before It died was believed to have been a victim of rabies, Robert Long, of Quinton, Route No. 1, will probably take Pasteur treatment Judson College students who are attending Summer school at Howard during this session were special guests of the Birmingham Cooperative Club recently at the Tutwiler Hotel.

Maxwell Lancaster, Birmingham, Phillips High School orator, who won the Southern championship, spoke at the meeting of the Birmingham Cosmopolitan Club at the Bankhead Hotel recently. The city dump pile at Selma yielded $500 in radium, when A. J. St. Charles Dunstan, of Auburn, found a tube which was lost from the Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital at that place recently.

Sheep raisers shipped to Montgomery recently 500 lambs for the sale held there. The lambs were assembled at Selma and sent out from Marion Junction, Blalock, Mlnter, Masillon and Selma. Immediate electrocution followed the attempt of Earnest Trather, an employe of A. K. Adams, contractor, to replace a wire leading into a con-1 Crete mixer in the Connecticut mills at Decatur, recently.

I More than 200 owners of motor! trucks in session at Montgomery recently formed themselves Into the Alabama Truck Owners' Association. A resolution against the proposed taxes on motor tmckswas adopted. Jack Linx, Birmingham musician and composer, has dedicated a new song to the heroic accomplishment of Coi. Charles Lindbergh. The song titled "Breezing Through the Air." has bees accepted for publication by Mills Co-, of New Tort The Mobile Junior Chamber of Commerce recently presented John T.

Cochrane, president of the Mobile Bridge Company, which built the Cochrane Bridge, with a silver trophy of victory in recognition of "splendid civic Lewis Jackson was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of second degree murder at preliminary bearing before Judge H. B. Abernethy in Jefferson County, In connection with the killing of his brother-in-law, Albert Jones, near Brown's Ferry,.