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"; DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD IM h u t TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING Six Weeks In November and Decern bcr Constitute Duration of Market for Dig Birds. (Prepared by the United Btatea Department of Agriculture ) The American public demands tur key for Thanksgiving, nnd gets It usually If It Is huinnnly possible. On no other i'ostlvul of the year do the people of this country feel It neces sary to have any ono kind of rucnt, but Thanksgiving without turkey Is like Ifrmrlct without the ghoat to most Americana. Many serve turkey at OhriHlmas and New Year's also, but after the holiday svason Is post the demand for turkeys Is usually ninnll. TJih? makes the marketing season for turkeys very short, running as It docs trorn the middle of November to the latter part of December. In RMttena where turkeys arc grown la large numbers, as In Texas, dress ing plants have been built by poultry Many Turkeys Are Prepared on the Farm for Market. dealers, who buy tho birds nllvc nnd dress them for the various city mar kets. In ouch cuscs practlcnlly nil the turkey raisers sell to these dealers, who often send buyers out Into the country to gather up a drove of several hundred birds by stopping nt each farm ns they pnss, weighing whatever turkeys tho farmer may linvo to sell, and adding them to those already col lected. Turkeys to bo killed nnd dressed on the l'arm should first be deprived of feed for 24 hours, but given plenty of fresh, clean wutcr In order to clean the crop uud Intestines of all feed. When ready to kill, the bird should be hung up by tho feet; holding tho bird In one hand, a shnrp, mirrow-blndcd knife Is used to sever tho veins In the throat by making a small cut Inside the mouth on the right sido of tho throat, at tho hnse of the skull. After making this cut nnd bleeding begins, the knife Is thrust up through the groove In the root of the mouth mid into the brain nt the back part of tho ekull. The bird gives n peculiar squawk, tho feathers are loosened by a quivering of tho muscles, nnd death la Instantaneous. In dry-plcklng, the feathers should be plucked Immediately, and It tho bird has been properly stuck they come out very easily. The tall nnd Jarge wing feathers are removed first, Iter which the body feathers are pulled out. When the turkoys are to be Marketed locally or nre to be hipped but a short distance, they nre cooled to a temperature of about 05 degrees Fahrenheit by hanging in the open air, provided the weather is eolrt enough, otherwise they aro plunged into ice wntcr and kept there until thoroughly cooled. After cooling they are packed tin drawn In boxes or barrels. It is in advisable for the producer wlthnut proper refrigerating facilities to ship dressed turkeys, as losses from Im proper cooling and from their being exposed to warm weather during tran sit nr liable to occur. Aside from Uils It is seldom protitnblo to ship tur keys any great distance except In car load lots; when this Is done the tur keys are cooled to 112 degrees lCnhren belt, packed In boxes or barrels, and shipped In refrigerator cars. YOUNG FOWLS BEST LAYERS Seldom Pays to Keep Hens for Lay ing After They Aro Past Two Years of Age, There nre people who have tho fight variety of fowls, who house and feed thein properly, and yet who can not ohtnln eggs early In the winter because their fowls aro too old, It s bcldoin that It pnya to keep hens for laying after they aro two and a half years old; not that they will not give a prollt, but becauso younger (owls will glvo a grenler prolH. N MAKE PROFIT OUT OF FOWLS Farmer Should Keep Hens In Pink of Condition by Giving Good Care and Proper Feed. Farmers should not endeavor to raise hens tinder natural conditions. For n hen raised that way Is u liabil ity rather flian an asset. To make a profit mil of hens n farmer- should keep them in the pink, of condition. Tl.la can only be done by giving tni good tare and plenty of proper & riTIFSMS V 4 Wm LV SBBl DM ft m w w m w ri ' - , It "There's Nothing New Under the Sun" ANN AniJOR, MICH. Prof. Fran cis V. Kelsey, head of the de partment of Lntln In the Univer sity of Michigan, has Just returned from a two years leave of absence with one of the most Important collec tions of ancient documents yet discov ered. It consists of more than 120 le fal papers dating from the reigns of the Iloninn emnornrn Atitnminn fi. berlus, Caligula and Claudius, and uierciore in tho lifetime of Christ or of the Apostles. They represent a part of tho flies of t record odlce !m or nenr tlin rttv nt Tebtunls in Egypt. They are written on pnpyrus; chiefly In the Greek lan guage, only a few belnc In Domntlp. They were probably covered with sand booh oner me record otilce fell Into ruin, nnd with few exceptions are per fectly preserved. Tho earliest document Is dated in "The Handsomest IIICAGO. After n Hpnnrnrlnn nf moro thnn a year, Mrs. Elvira Mlllspnugh Dewey, for years prominent In Chicago society, 1ms started suit for divorce In the Superior court against Cluiuncey Dewey, mil lionaire ranchman. Mrs. Dewey ac cuses her husband of cruelty. She Is living quietly at a Michigan avenue ho tel. Her husband is on his bin ranch 'In Knnsns. The couplo were married on April 20. 1008, In Topekn, Knn by tho bride's father, Rt. Rev. Frank It. Mills paugli, who was the Episcopal bishop of Kansas. Five years before there had been another girl In Chaunccy Dewey's life. It wns n dramatic love story. It re sulted In tho death of the girl's father and two brothers nnd four others, tho attempted lynching of Dewey by 250 cowboys and tho dispatching of state troops 'in a special train to rescue Dewey, barricaded In his ranch house. That was when young Dewey, n college graduate, went out to the north west corner of Kansas to manage tho great ranch extending over most of four counties which had been accumu lated'at tax sales by his father, C. P. Dewey, Chicago millionaire. The young Chicago society man fell In love with Lincoln Didti in His NEW YORK. Thomas Proctor, In whoso bed Abraham Lincoln Is said to liuvo died, Is a pauper in the city home on Blnckwell's island. Uojvns formerly n lawyer of standing in this city nnd an nmntour naturalist, being a friend of John Burroughs. A breakdown of his health about ten years ngo caused him to lose his grip and in 1015 ho became an Inmate of the city home. Proctor, when seventeen years old, was a clerk In tho War department and had u room In the lodging house opposite Fordls theater, whero Lincoln was shot, according to the story told by him and corroborated with some do tall iy his friends. Returning from an entertainment, Proctor reached the lodging house r'jjsJZfi if" j2-- fmmm Cassidy and His Cannibal Pocahontas FORT WORTH, TEX. W. J, Cas sidy, Fort Worth oil operutor, is completing plans for n trip to Cooktown, northern Australia, to erect i monument over the grave of tho only girl who ever loved him, nnd to present to her relatives. If he can Uud them, a dozen head of cattle for a fenst. Cassldy says ho would have pre ferred death to marrying tho girl whoso memory ho- expects to honor. The long trip, monument and beeves will Involve an expenditure of $8,000, Tho girl wns burled In Australia 25 years ago, Cassldy is forty-four years old. When he was nineteen, tho girl, whoso nuine, as near us ho could mako out, was "Konjukl," saved him from a can nibal tribe to which she belonged, and which was fattening Cassldy for a banquet. Cassldy and three Australian gold miners were prospecting In New Guinea. He wns captured by it can nibal tribe, carried Into the mountains and tied to a stake. For tlvo days they brought, him food In great juun UUvk On the fifth day the natives in the ' i hi ii ! Mi 3SF-iMMaBMSMS the year 7 A. D. It contains the signa ture of a woman who agreed not to bring any claim ngalnst her brothers. The next earliest, also dated In the reJgn of Augustus. Is n contract of common law marriage. Among tho other documents nre con tracts of sale, covering both personal and real property, furm lands and vine yards, ns well as houses. There nro also leases, agreements regarding loans, a contract of Indemnity, receipts for wnges. a receipt for dowry, ofllelnl orders, petitions to public ofllelnls, tax receipts, accounts, documents relating to the transfer of ownership of Blaves, nnd part of n register of deeds. The most Important record Is In the form of a roll seven feet and seven Inches long, written on both sides. It Is n perfect example of an ancient book or scroll of tho kind referred to in tho Bible. It dates from the year 42 A. D. Professor Kelsey brought also a number of papyri written In Coptic In the early Christian centuries. The most Important Is a pnpyrus book consisting of 12 leaves, in which are written out the Incantations and formulas used by a master magician. There nre charms and curses for various occasions, one being a love charm. In the prayers God and the nngcls are invoked ns well as Isls and Osiris, pngnn divinities of Egypt. Cowboy in Kansas" i cF Bessie Berry, daughter of a rancher, Daniel Berry. Embittered by the nggresslons of the Deweys, Berry opposed the attentions of Dewey, who was called the "hand somest cowboy In Kansas." When Dewey and his cowpuncheis, on June 3, 1003, called at the Berry ranch for a borrowed cattle trough, the Berrys opened fire. Dewey and his men dropped behind a sod foil co and emptied their six guns. Berry and his two sons were killed, A mob of ranchers, attempting to lynch the Clncagoan, were driven off by mllltlnmen. The subsequent murder trials and suits cost Dewey $100,000, Ho was acquitted. Tho elder Dewey dropped deud of apoplexy two year? later. . Bed; Now a Pauper shortly after 10 p. m., Just as u num ber of men crossed Tenth street, car rying Lincoln, ulready unconscious from a bullet In the brain. Proctor directed .riic party to his room, where tho Piesldent wns laid upon Ills bed. According to his story, which Is said to bo corroborated by a contompornrj wood cut of tho deathbed scene, Proc tor wns In the room at 7:20 o'clock the following morning, when the President breathed his' last. Proctor is thus probably one of tin two surviving witnesses of the dentt of Abraham Lincoln, the other being his son, Robert T. Lincoln. Well known histories of Abrahan Lincoln are blank on the subject of tin occupant of the room In which Llncolr died and are contradictory in their do scrlptlon of the rootnttsclf. The memory of Proctor Is faint or most topics and ho can hold the thread of a conversation for only a few sen tenccs nt a time. When Proctor wns asked wlyther he remembered the death of Lincoln lit said : "Oh, yes, Indeed He died in mj room. That's quite true. 1 stayed there all night and was there when hf died." built a grcnt tire, and naked men attf women and children danced urounl tho lira until they fell down In nheot exhaustion and went to sleep. Then Konjnkl came," Cassldy ro Intes. "I Judge nho was about mj .own age. She was the belle of tin tribe. She had a bono through hci noso nnd some copper pieces througt her cars. Like the rest, she had in forehead, tho hair beginning nlmosi at tho eyes. "Konjnkl cut tho thongs, grnbbe my hand, nnd noiselessly led me away We traveled 1G0 tulles to a Britlsl settlement. It took us ten days. took Koujuki to Cooktown, In Nortl Queensland, and there, after tlv. months, she died." Sk N O. &!&(&$ y& Jef" uJAi s "sw4Rwsr IS s iu IE IK jA vlhlll . Vi"WaBVaHswph4Rf Underwood of Qnd a Democrat to pair with him. He went to Underwood, who promptly agreed to protect his vote until hl3 successor was nppolnted. Politically Harding nnd Underwood are as for apart as the poles on many great questions. But Underwood always fights In the open nnd always fights fair. Underwood, the Republican senators will tell you, 13 one of the ablest men In public life, and generally the senator who Is talking to you about the lender of the minority will odd that he Is the fairest fighter In congress, and for thot reason the hardest to defeat. Stillman Fight The Stillman divorce case Is ngnln to the front and the most Interesting development seems to be that Miss Anne Stillman, who espoused the cause of her father, became reconciled to her mother during the summer months. Although Miss StUImnn never definite ly broke with her mother, she sided with her father, and It wns through her that an effort was made to com promise the case last spring. Miss Stillman now occupies a unique posi tion In the family, as she is on friend ly terms botli with her mother nnd father. II has been learned that Mrs. Stillman, "Bud," Anne, Alexander, und Guy took part in a so-called "family reunion" In Cnnnda during the sum mer. Another equally Interesting devel opment Is tie report thnt Mr. Stlll mnn hopes for a reconciliation with Mrs. Stlllmnn. n this connection It wns reported that Mrs. Stlllmnn would entertain no overtures for reconciliation until her husband admitted the father hood of Guy. That Mr. Stillman seriously hopes, however, to adjust the "divorce mess" was Indicated when he showed his daughter, Anne, through his new apartment at Madison avenue and Forty-second street before she sailed for Europe. Ac cording to a friend of Mrs. Stillman, her husband pointed to one room nftci' another, snylng : "This Is mother's room; thnt Is Bud's; that is Alexander's." Campaign for oman President BBBBBBBB V '.'iflk f J "v BBbMbW campulgn next year with the proposed amendment to the constitution to abol ish all legal discriminations against women as the Issue. She declared women of America are not emancipated and that they are less free than the women of Englutid and other countries of Europe. Wilson's Health Is Improved Woodrow Wilson fell a sick man two years ago. Since then ho has passed under the shadow of death and out of the White House. He will be sixty-five years old next December and has pussed through an ordeal which few men survive. Ills normal weight (n health while he was president wns 160 pounds. He shows little departure from that figure. Uls eyesight Is as good although ho has discarded his favorite nose glasses for Bpestacles. His hair has turned snow white. The motor nerves nnd muscles of his left side huvo given more response to treatment than wus hoped for. He still walks with a cune most of the time, but frequently hangs tho crook over hU arm and "goes It alone with out my third leg," Mr. WlUon is far from a well man But during tho last two years there have been times when his voice was Inaudible nnd when he could not sup port himself nlone. His condition today ahowH more Improvement thnn his fam ily und friends dared hope for. Mr. WIIhou brought with him to the White House the iminll savings of i lifetime, which he preserved. During hie terms his roynlllcs from books previ oDsly written mounted Into rather handsome sums. While ho wns President clrcumutunces helped him save ntnncj. Tim w'at Jid the BUBuensIofl cf. soclnl fnnclIo;m and entertainment wore quite un Item Mr. A. 1 . the "Big Four" The people seem to bo well satis fied with the "Big Four" Hughes. Root, Lodge and underwood who have been i selected by President Harding to rep- ' resent tho United States nt tho disarm- , anient conference. "The foreigners will have a fine time putting over any thing on that bunch" Is the way this satisfaction Is frequently expressed. i Senator Oscar W. Underwood of , Alabama (portrait herewith) Is the t Democrat on the delegation. He wns born in Kentucky In 18C2. He has served ten terms In the house and Is serving his second term In the senate. His appointment surprised no one, for he and President Harding have been close friends for six years- There ure those who say that Harding likes Un derwood best of nil the Democrats and thinks him the ablest. When Harding was elected, the Republican majority In the senate was only two votes and he had either to occunv his seat or else Is on Again By the gift of $140,000 tho Na tional Woman's party has come Into psession of the entire block of three houses composing the "old cnpltol" nnd of the surrounding historical gardens Immediately opposite tho present cap ltol building at Washington. The gift was nindo by Mrs. Oliver H. P. Bel mont (portrait herewith) who was unanimously elected to the office of president of the party. Miss Alice Paul woo elected vice president. Miss Elsie I1III remains chairman of the executive committee. Mrs. Belmont made announcement tliat a now "petticoat party" will be In the flfld in the presidential cam paign with tho women voters in every state orgnnlzed to "carry on" against the old political parties with a woman's platform and n woman's candidate for president. She said effort would be made to get it Into action for the congressional I i vM" 'iBk.tf .EiituBBHBnHS&fSHflHHHBH Watch Your Kidneys ! That "bad back" Ii probably due to weak kidneys. It shows in a dull, throbbing backache or sharp twinges when stooping. You have headaches, too, dizzy spells, a tiled, nervous feel ing and irrcaular kidney action. Don't neglect it there is danger of dropsy, gravel or llright's disease! Use Doan'a Kidney Pills. Thousands have saved themselves more serious ailments by tho timely use of Doan's. Ask jour ncighlorl A South Dakota Case IT. ar. Chtaillc, Salem, S. Dak., anya: "Jarring woakonod my kidneys and I l ad n. dull ncbo r.nil sorcneus ocrjsa my back. 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