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NOftTIT PLATTE SEMTAVEKKLY TRIBUNE. Jr 1111 -S5U You should worry, Karl and 55lta. You should rnve and Uar your hnlr. You should kick ntrnlnst the cllmitte. curse tho kegs ot vintage rare. You should wall about the sunshine, Idlo hours out on the bay drinking liouta most every evening, listening to the guitars piny. Exile on the morry Island's better'n sawing wood at Ddorn. Plots anil thrones and bombs behind you, life Is not so 1 - d forlorn. . NAZ, In Chicago Evening Post. jiiii.ni i-q, BUS the comment of the hour Su Karl of Madeira once the 12mp on once the Emperor Charles of Austiiu-Huiigury iind now tho last of the Hitpsbtirgs und tin exile and Intornntloiiiil outlaw. Clinrles and Zlta arc In a villa on the- island of Madeira and havo be gun their life of- exile aa decreed by the allied council of 'ambassadors. They arrived from Constantinople on the lirltlsh battle cruiser Cardiff. As they motored to their villa ' crowds gathered along the way and cheered them. Their seven children wHl be taken to thein fioni Switzerland. Charles and Zlta, as everyone knows, sought re fuse in Switzerland, after the collapse of the cen tral powers In 1018. The Swiss government was not enthuslnstic over Charles, but consented to allow him to remain within Its borders on the distinct understanding that he would hold aloof from any movement whatsoever for the recovery of t)iu thrones that ho had lost and against, the new governments, duly recognized by the powers of Europe, that had been established in ills former dominions. Last spring Charles abused the hospitality reluc tantly accorded to him by the Swiss government, lie left Ids beautiful residence on the shores of Janice (Jeneva, and proceeded In disguise to Hun gary, turning up at the royal palace at Budapest and requesting the regent, Admiral llorthy, to sur render to him the supreme po,wer to which the admiral Iind been elected by bis fellow citizens. Tho admiral quite naturally refused, and the coup came to a paltry end. Charles was turned out of the country without he or 'his followers making any tight. Switzerland announced that It would no longer harbor him within Its borders, but relented ut the pressing Instance of the powers of the entente, who nt the moment did not quite know what to do with him. So he was allowed to rejoin his family in Switzerland In return for- his giving his parole and pledging his most sacred word of honor that he would abstain from nny further attempt to re cover the Hungurlnn throne. Yet despite these solemn pledges, he attempted last October another coup, leaving Switzerland by airplane with Zlta and alighting In Hungary. A number of disaffected troops Hocked to his Hag. Fighting ensued. There wns a considerable amount of blood shed, and the neighboring stntes went to the heavy expeiise of mobilizing their respective armies, threatening to invade Hungary if Hnps liurg rule was- restored nt Budapest. Clinrles sec ond coup ended In dismal failure. The forces that he gnthercd nround him were surrounded and crushed, while he himself was tnken prisoner. Then came the question of putting him where ho should be harmless. The congress of Versailles hud ndjourned, but It had delegated Its powers to u commission composed of Its nmbussadors, which had become n more or less permanent body, nnd represented the views of their respective premiers, who constitute n sort of supreme International council. ' These ambassndors, In the name of tho congress of Versailles nnd In that of tho supreme council, decreed Charles of Ilapsburg nn Interim fionnl outlaw, unworthy nny longer of belief und ns a standing menace to the peace of Europe In tho event of his being left In relntlvo freedom, since no dependence could be pluced upon his word of honor. Charles freely admitted when tnken prisoner In Hungary that he had broken his plighted word, but maintained that no promise that ho might give, no mntter how sacred, could weight In the balance when he felt himself called by Ills people to resume Ids throne. Moreover, Charles perslBtcntly refused to re nounce his "hereditary rights." So In November 6f ftcm ti Off f Charles was dethroned and the Ilapsburg dynusty was ousted from Hungary by a law passed by the Hungarian national assembly, , I'orttignl, which owt.,s Madeira, has consented' to the residence of Charles on the Island and has given assurances thnt she will prevent him from making any further attempts to recover the crown of St. Stephen. Thnt may bo another story, since Madeira contains many Gennnns who largely con trol tho trade and Industry of tho Island. Beside, the government at Lisbon Is not the strongest In the world or the most stable. Anyway, It's pretty soft for Carl and Zltn. They are treated as honored guests by the governor, MaJ. Acaclo Correa I Into. Their only guard Is a plain clothes policeman and his principal duty Is to keep off the beggi rs. "It's better'n sawing wood at Doom," tho Jingle says. It may be so. Holland, is not pleased with the residence of William Iloheiizollern In her boundaries. Tho only reason she keeps him Is her time-honored tradition of refusing to surrender political offenders wh" have sought refuge on her soli. Ho Is to all Intents and purposes a prisoner of state there, 'Quoin Wllhelinlne's government being determined that he shall have no opportunity of making Holland the place of any Intrigues or conspiracies, either against the Gorman Republic or against the power of the entente. So far, William lloU"iizollern has abstained from abusing In any overt fashion the unwilling hospital ity of tho Dutch go eminent. Anyway, he has not been caught at II.. and the government keeps lilin under the closes' supervision, censoring his mail and telegrams und keeping track of bis visit ors. So he has not been guilty of breaking bis parole. And though probably tho most-hated man In all the world, he e n not be properly called an International outlaw, us Is Karl of Madeira. But If he should ever take it into his head to escape from the Nethrelnnds , and to return to Germany, or In any way to disturb the peace of Europe,' he would probably bo promptly proclaimed by the. council "Tif ambassadfirs an International outlaw,' and would be fated U Internment In some remote Atlantic or Pacific Island. Ho knows this. And that's why bo's keeping quiet and sawing wood To nnnio Napoleon and tlrvn Knl of Madeira Is , strongly suggestive of iescoudlng from tho sublime to tho ridiculous. Yet It Is Interesting to recall that NapoK?on also broke his parole the unpur donable sin In the eyeti of tho civilized world. Napoleon was compelled by the allies to ubdl cnto the Imperial throne of Franco In 18M. He was treated with great consideration. Ho was per mitted by the allied power,s assembled In congress at Vienna to retain all his civic rights. lie was allowed to keep the Itlo of emperor. Ho was accorded for life the iiovorelgnty of Elbn, one of the most beautiful Islands In the Mediterranean. The honors due to a sovereign were left to him. He wns assured of an annuity from the treasury of France, and all that was asked of Jilni in re turn wns that ho should give bis parole, pledge his most solemn and snere'l word not to leave the Island or to take nn; steps, directly or Indirectly, to plunge once mere all Europe Into tho horrors of war. A few months lntcr,ln J 815. Napoleon deliberate ly broke his parole, quitted Elba In secrecy, landed In France, raised the stundnrd of revolt against King Louis XVIII and against the royal govern ment .which bad been re-established In I'uiis. Thus ho threw down the gauntlet to all Europe. The congress of VIennn, still la session, united at the Instance of the French plenipotentiary, Prince Talleyrand, .In proclaiming him nn International outlaw and as beyond tho pnlo of honor nnd of Inw. That Is why Nupoleon was not allowed to set foot In England, where he had begged to bo per mitted to spend the remainder of his days, and was shipped off to the lonely and remote Islund of St. Helena, In the south Atlnntlc, to spend tho rest Fjo jtf AfjertrfeMJy!r Imas of life a .peculiarly bitter fom of exile. Madeira, compared with St. Helena, Is an earthly paradise. .Madeira, the Portuguese word for "for est," directly In tho Atlantic ocean trade routes and thus Is kept In dally touch with the outside world. The isnnd. 400 miles west of Morocco, has a temperate climate. It Is lli miles wide and r miles long and elliptical In shape. Three other Islands nearby complete tho Madeira group. There is a population of 170,000. Funclml, the chief city, has a population of more than 120,000, nnd the Is lnnd produces famous wine, as well as an abun dance of fruits, grains and sugar. Oxen are main ly used for agriculture, Instead of draft horses and other farming methods nro primitive. It Is nearly always summer there. The Island Is volonnh.: and Its scenery Is on a magnificent scale. So the Island Is famous as a henlth resort. Visitors remember the sleds drawn by oxen, runners being used instead of wheels be cause of the preclpltious streets, and the novel experience of coasting down a street paved with stone. What of Hungary's future? Though the Ilaps burg dynasty has been ousted and Charles Is In exllo, there are other Hapsburgs. General Lobar, who was Charles' Hungnrian supporter In the Octo ber fiasco, has disappeared ; his brother Franz, Vien nese composer of (he "Merry Widow," Is searching for him. Admiral Nicholas Horthy Is regent of Hungary and Hungary apparently wants a mon archy and mny umke him emperor. Ferenc Vecsey, the Hungarian violinist now In this country, is u cousin of Regent Horthy. He says : "Hungary desires a monarchy, but not a Ilaps burg monarchy. To understand tho way my peo ple feel, you must remember that government and religions In thtlr country go hand In band. Ours was an nposteltc monarchy. The ruler wore the crown of St. Ptepfion. "But the Ilapsburg family Is thoroughly hated. It Is decadent house. What Hungary needs Is new blood. Admiral Horthy represents the people. Ho hns their Interests at heart. He Is clean, ener getic, patriotic and endowed with n strong charac ter. He has completely reorganized the army "The curving up of Hungary only can result In dlscontont. We havo lost 10.000,000 of our popula tion, although many have drifted bock to the little Hungary and are living In wagons, In railroad sta tions, everywhere. The present arrangement can not bo permanent. We must be given back our territory, and If necessary, for tho maintenance of peace, an autonomy could be created of a part of Hungary, where each of tho many nations living there could speak Its own language. Then Hun gary, her Integrity restored, should Join the little entente. Ah It Is now, she Is Isolated." Does Regent Horthy want to be emperor? Ap parently not. Anyway, ho has a position without precedentnil the functions and authority of a king without tho title. As everyone knows, he was a leudlng flguro In tho war. With the outbreak of tho revolution which resulted In the Hungarian republic under Karolyl, ho retired to his estates. But he came bnck from prlvnte life to oppose tha Bolshevists. Parliament made him regent In 1020 and Blnco then has been holding the reltiB of gov ernment, never knowing what the morrow may bring forth. "Within n short tlmo Empress Zlta and her hus band, Emperor Charles, will return to tho throne of Austria." This prediction wus mado by the Prince Reno do Bourbon, brother of tho ex-empress of Austria, who Is In the United States on a busi ness trip. "Eighty per cent or more of the people nre anxious to havo them return ns qulcklj us possible." UNFAIR METHODS IN SELLING HAY Conditions and Practices Often Tend to Make Producer and Buyer Suspicious. PUREBRED STOCK IS AID TO PROSPERITY EXPERTS GIVE SUGGESTIONS Careful Observations Made at Princi pal Markets for the Purpose of Eliminating Loose Methods In Handling Product.. 1'repared by the United HUtr Department ot Acrloulture.) Hay Is marketed too often under ondltlons and practices that tond to unke the producer somewhat suspl ious of the buyer and the buyer bus ilcious of the producer. Such pritc Ices should be eliminated altogether, n the opinion of tho bureau of mar ets and crop estlmntcs, United States Vnartment of Agriculture, and In a iow bulletin, No. 070, ".Marketing Hay "hrough Terminal Markets," federal ifllclals make suggestions as to how hat may be brought about. Copies of he bulletin mny be obtained upon np llnttlon to the department at Wash ngton. Loose Methods of Dusinocs. "While n good many unfair nietb 1s," says the bulletin, "are at pros nt practiced by thoso concerned In he marketing of hay It appears that lost of them are related to loose nothods of business on the part of minus agencies engaged In the iiindllng of hay. On the basis of care ful observations made throughout the 'my producing and consuming sections, und at the principal ninrkets, it is i bought that sonio improvement in the methods of marketing hay can bo ob tained by observing thu following sug restlons: "On tho part of tho country shipper: More care In grading, weighing and loading the hay; better forms for use In confirming sales, tabulating and stating weights, and for Invoicing hay ; and more care and accuracy in stating terms of sule. "On the part of dealers In terminal markets: The elimination of the prac tice of allowing tho state of 'the mar ket to lnttuenco the fulfillment of con tracts with country shippers; more uniform methods of handling In ter minal markets; better weighing meth ods and more consideration of contents of weight certificates; more uniform grading practices; grading Inbound and outbound hay on the same basis when hay Is bought and sold on grade designations; and tho elimination of the practice of boosting grades on out shipments. Suggestions to Dealers. "On tho part of dealers In consum ing sections : More careful weighing of purchases; elimination of rejections if tffil ii m mm, m mU'j V i lay 'taken t-rom a Cur In "Plug" Method of Inspection. when price decline Is the only factor; and better records relative to contents and weight of a car when unloading." The bulletin goes Into the details of methods followed In shipping and dis posing of hay nt various cities; cites common trade practices nnd faults; Il lustrates mqthods of car loading nnd of selling, and contains much valuable Information relative to tho Industry, SPECIAL RATION FOR FOWLS Great Deal of Concentrated Feed Is Given Where Table Scraps Are Fed to Flock. Owners of back-yard Hocks, and sometimes farmers, depend to a con siderable extent upon table scraps as feed for tho hens. Feed of this sort varies a good deal In composition with different families and also with the season, but in winter It Is usually free from large quantities of coarse green stuff and contains a great deal of fair ly concentrated feed. Tho United Stntes Department of Agriculture has designed a ration spe cially to be fed to Hocks that receive all of tho table scraps. The mash of this ration Is mndo up of three pounds com meal, one pound bran, one pound middlings, one-half pound meat scrap. The scratch feed contains two pounds cracked corn, one pound wheat -and one pound oats. If scraps are not available, feed live pounds of cooked vegetables dally to HO hens. Two pur cent of bono meal may be added to tho mash without changing any of the other constituents. Five per cent of bone meal mny bo added If the content of incut scrap ia reduced slightly. High-Grade Herds and Flocks Are Cause of Wealth. Department of Agriculture Has Been Especially Interested in Survey Conducted In Tioga, County, New York. (Prepared by the United Slate Department ot Agriculture.) How closely Is the prosperity of a. community rotated to the proportion of well-bred live stock In it? Fre quently It Is asserted that purebred and high-grade herds nnd Hocks are? Oie result or wealth rather thuli the cause of It. In Its effort to throw light on this question the United: States Department'of Agriculture ha been especially Interested In u survey conducted in Tioga county. New York, as u part of the program of work of" the farm bureau, which believes lu purebrcds us n contributing factor lr fni;m prosperity. According to dntn furnished tho de partment by Harold B. Fuller of th farm bureau, the survov revealed the Purebred Sires Are Contributing Fac tor In Farm Prosperity. fact that only nbout CO per cent oC the sires used In the dairy herds of the county nro purebred. The re mainder are either grades or senilis. About '20 per cent of tho cow list ed are purcbreds. These animals are? for tho most part scattered througl a large number of herds, showing thnt the average dairyman, is working into purebrcds as fast as financial condi tions will penult. In studying tho census it is noticed Immediately that tho most prosper ous sections of the county havo lilgh grades and purebrcds. This Is not confined entirely to tho valley fnnnsr since tho town of Tlogn contains thc largest number of purcbreds 115 bulls and 1,220 cows of nny town In the county. Newark valley Is in hilly country for the most prirt, hut it is w prosperous farming section. It bonstw of 08 purebred hulls and I) I purebred cows among 3,003 animals or nearly 10 per cent. In nnntliet town In Blml tar hilly country the agriculture I more backward. The purebred 'cnt tlo arc limited to 11 bulls and lSS cows out of fiOO animals, which Is but little more than 5 per cent. Simllnr differences wpro noted In six other townships surveyed. Tho Tlogn county farm bureau i starting on u campaign to ellmlnnto- tho scrub sire from the herds of tho county. At tho fall county fair In' September a purebred bull sale wnn held on tho Inst dny. The anlmnla were sold to tho highest bidder rc cardless of price. Jn Rome cases tho farm burcnu will arrange with men to- own a slro ns n community enterprise. and t" oxchiingo sires from one com munity to another ns time goes on. Kvery effort Is mnde to eliminate In ferior stock nnd to plnce purebred bulls and heifers wherever possible or grade farms. ICE FOR DAIRY AND FAMILY" Amount Necessary, Dependa Greatly on Number of Cows Milked and Ways of Handling. The quantity of Ice needed for dairy farm with 10 or more cows de pends on Its locntlon, number of cows milked, and methods of handling' the product. In the Northern States, the United States Department of Agricul ture has found that, with n moderately good Ice house, where the shrinkage from melting Is not more than ao pr cent, half a ton of Ice to each cow fa sufficient to cool the cream and hold It at a low temperature for delivery two or three times a week, Sultnblo cooling tanks, however, nre necessary under this estimate. The hnlf-ton-per-cow estimate for Ico to be stored allows for n reasonable? waste and also for ordlnnry house hold use. If whole milk Is to be cooled the quantity of Ice stored must be in creased to Vj tons per cow In the North, '10 meet the needs of the uvnr. age family on a general farm It will' oo neccs.snry to store about live tons. VEGETABLE FOOD IS NEEDED" Fertility of Eggs and Vigor of Chlck Is Increased by Feeding Beets and Oats. The' farm flock needs more vege table food In spring than In winter. Tho fertility of eggs and tho vigor or chicks Is Increased by the feeding or beets and sprouted oats and nny other sort of succulent green food.