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The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

The right way for a farmer to do
who desires to attend the farm insti-
tute is to hire a man for a couple of
days to do all the chores and then take
his wife and attend all the sessions.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

A marked change is in progress in
the agricultural methods of Kansas
and Nebraska. 1t has beer demonstrat-
ed that winter wheat is one of the sur
est and best crops which can be grown.
especially in all hat portion of those
states which are at all subject to mid
summer hot winds and drought. Kan
sas leads all the states in the produc-
ton of wheat this year. These wheat
fields furnish an immense amount of
good feed during the fall, winter and
spring, and may be pastured to the de-
cided benefit of the crop of wheat. The
fact, coupled with this other, that al
falfa will do well IN very much of this
territory, is going to make the, eastern
end Of the great American desert to
bloom as the rose.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

tEZldWHESS
NLoG. S9
Copyright, 1901. by ]. S. Trigg,)
Rockford, Iowa.
Correspondence Solicited.

There is a loss of from Sc to IS on
each steer fed for beef when 1t is not
followed by a hog.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

We came across a lady the other day
who was much surprised that the Ger
man language could be understood
over the telephone.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

The rabbit can get along all right
with the shotgun and the hound. but
the ferret is bad medicine for him. A
12-year-old boy and a ferret extermin-
ated 200 Dummies last winter.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

A man has made a failure OF living
II there is not a Tiger crowd at his
funeral than there Nyas at his wedding.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

Keep that green boy of yours or the
careless hired man who thinks he
knows it all away from the corn shred
der, or the surgeon is likely to have a
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10
A Prevention of Black Leg.

A Texas stockman is working out his
theory that an infusion of Buffalo
blood in our cattle will render them
immune to attacks of blackleg, he
claiming that the buffalo never has
this disease and that the grades with
one-siXteenth buffalo blood in them
seem to be blackleg proof. He pro-
poses to still further dilute this blood,
and the result is awaited with interest,
as this disease is a terror to the South
ern stockman.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

Do not turn down the small boy who
Is always asking questions. He will
know more than you do if he keeps on.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

If the owl made as much noise with
its wings as it seeks its nightly meals
as does the migrating duck or the ruff
fed grouse or prairie hen, 1t would go
hungry, but the fan of the owls wing
is the most noiseless motion in the
world. and it drops on it's victim like
a feather falling from the upper air.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

The year 1914 was a year of short
crops for England, and she had no sup
ply of wheat to draw upon from Amer
lea. Wheat that year went up to $50
a quarter, or $1S.75 a bushel.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

Whenever the politician gets a foot
hold in any farmers organization hav-
ing for it's object the betterment of
the farmers condition it is all day
with it.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

We are reminded that the ways Of
the world are far more humane than
they were in the good old days. Polit-
ical conditions made an army of va
grants and tramps in the time of King
Henry VII in England, and he dis
posed of them by hanging them, no
less than 10000 Migrants being hanged
during his reign of &c years. Times
improved some during the reign of
Queen Elizabeth, for she hanged only
about 400 a year.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10
Timber Culture.

The economic value of a ten-acr
grove of timber on the prairie farm
cannot be refuted. The warmth, shell
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

ocean without wires? ask
ed the editor of Uncle Bill
and O'Fallon, as they stepped into his
Office to wish him a Happy New Year"
Its jest an invention fur the women
folks replied Uncle Bill, who it was
plain to be seen had been in another
flare up with Helen"
why should it be an invention for
the women" inquired the editor.
wall so far its possible ter tele-
phone, 'bou as far as it is ter tele-
graph. an If they kin telegraph with
out wires, they kin telephone the same
way, an what show will a man have
under SIGH circumstances" replied I'm
Gle Bill.
They'll be talkin' into soap bubbles,
wan av these days and BLOWN thin
across the wather, and who liver gifts
thin can have a poipe dhrame in reali-
ty," said O'Fallon, who had not forgot
ten his experience with 1.-The man from
Mars"
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

We have offered a premium of Is
cents each for all rabbits killed in the
vicinity of IL orchard, and if bunny
values his life he will keep away from
that territory.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

The man who last August was cuss-
ing Providence and bewailing his bad
luck as he looked at his withered corn
field and offered to sell it at the rate Of
So or 81 an acre, in November found
that the field yielded 40 bushels of good
corn to the acre. worth 500, and a ton
and a half of fine fodder. worth $12, or
or more than one-half what his farm
was worth at $50 per acre. This was
really the worst case of agricultural
%grunting and cussing that we ever
came across.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

A Minnesota man claims that by the
careful breeding of wheat he is going
to be able to supply a variety of wheat
which will produce fourfold more than
any we now have. We do not believe
that this can be done, and if it could
be it is doubtful if such discovery
would be of any real benefit. Wheat
pulls the life out of the best of soils
fast enough as it is, and. one year with
another. is one of the least profitable
crops which can be raised.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

We are asked about the fall sowing
of clover seed-for instance, on a field
of rye in middle September. We have
never known a fall sowing of clover
north of latitude AZ to be a success.
The plant is too tender to endure the
extreme cold of the yinter. We have
known clover to be sown among orn
at the time of the last blowing in July
and come through all right, but in that
case the plant had time to get better
rooted and stronger. The best time to
SOW the clover seed is in the spring as
early as possible.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

Without any sort of sense or reason
man manifests the same inveterate en-
nifty toward all kinds of hawks, owls.
eagles and their kind hat he does to-
ward snakes, when with the exception
of the few venomous snakes, the entire
list Of birds referred to and nonvonom-
GUS snakes should be rated as among
his best friends, as they constitute ma
lures most effective agency to limit
the number of the rodentia-rabbits,
mice, rats, gophers. This is a lesson
which needs preaching over and over.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

When the stock die in the cornstalk
field, it becomes a very extensive pas
ture ground. They have died by the
thousand all over the corn belt recent
ly, whether from smut poison or from
impaction or what it matters not, and
it does not seem to nave made any diff
ference whether care was used in in
Producing them to the new feed. The
fact remains that there is death in the
cornstalk field, and If one can't cut the
stalks up he had better burn them up.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-03-20

There is no doubt that the annual COM
ing of Easter awakens the careless in
religious matters, acting as a sort of
tonic to the sin-weary wanderer.
Easter has always been considered
the chief festival of the Christian year.
1t is the sanctified symbolism of the
wonderful resurrection of Christ, but
it is also symbolic of the renewal of
life in nature. Like many other Gus
toms, it is the perpetuation of an old
usage, which became the rule in the
Christian church in \. d. 6S.
Easter derives it's name from the
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-03-20
Easter-Tide With Foreign Nations.

In France, before Easter the priests
begin their rounds Of visits, blessing
and receiving eggs in return. The
largest of these We're selected and sent
as a tribute to the king. After high
mass in the Louvre, highly gilded and
piled in pyramids, they We're carried
into the royal presence. Then having
been blessed by the chaplain they We're
distributed among the people. In Italy
the same custom was employed. In
Russia Easter is "at-home day." as
New Years is with us, and every man
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-03-20
T. d. CROTHERS, NJ. D.,
Sec, Hartford, Conn.
A Traffic That Curses.

The horrors of the drink traffic have
never been fully portrayed. No pencil is
black enough to paint the picture and do it
iull justice. No tongue is eloquent enough
to tell the sad story in all its dreadful de-
tails. The use of alcoholic beverages is of
all scourges the most wide and whitening.
1t is a physical curse: Blearing the eyes,
blistering the tongue, deranging the stom-
lch, paralyzing the nerves, hardening the
liver, poisoning the blood, coagulating the
brain, inducing and aggravating many dis
eases, and digging many premature graves.
1t is IA financial curse: Draining the pock
It, producing poverty, diminishing comfort,
multiplying miseries, filling almshouses, in
,reasing taxes and creating hard times.
1t is mental curse: Clouding the judg-
ment and dethroning the reason, promot-
ing ignorance. producing imbecility, and
Transforming its unhappy victims into ma
macs and fools.
1t is moral curse: Weakening the will,
infaming the passions, hushing the voices
of conscience and preparing the way for
every vice and crime. And yet, strange to
say, there are those who advocate the re-
moval of this curse by legalizing it. But
the colossal curse of drunkenness will con-
tinue so long as drunkard factories are per
mitted, protected and perpetuated by law,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-03-20

"the ancient Athenes celebrated the
awakening of the earth and the bios
soming time of the year with pipes and
paens Of rejoicing. and professions to
the violet-crowned hills of our Acropo-
lis" Our Saxon ancestors continued
the celebration Of Easter for eight
days. After the long penitential sea-
son of Lent; after the forty days of
doing good, and abstinence from public
amusements, marriage festivities and
other worldly attractions, and after the
long winters burial, when the earth
has been wrapped in somber shades,
the people found legitimate gratifica-
ton in the celebration of the spring fes-
iival.
During the Easter festival in earlier
times slaves received their freedom.
the poor and needy We're helped and
feasted. bonfires were lighted, scenic
representations, games, songs and
dances We're INDUCED in; even the
clergy recited from the pulpit stories
and legends for the amusement of their
hearers an odious custom against
Wnlcn the reIOFneFS Oh the sixteenth
century successfully issued their re-
monstrance. A game played with egg
shaped balls of various colors was a
favorite sport in which municipal cor
porations formerly engaged. The game
was kept up with considerable pomp
and ceremony, even into the early part
of the nineteenth century.
Deep religious fervor dominates the
character of the people of Holland, and
in the period before Easter their devo-
tions are especially marked. No more
charming picture can be found any
where than is here presented, that of
a spring confirmation class. The sweet.
fresh faces Of the young girls have the
rapt expression that betokens devout
nature and speaks of that rarest quail
ity in human character. sincerity.
The Feast of the Eggs" has ever
been the most popular of the Easter OBJ
servances. The egg is the ancient SYM
Dol of the new BIRTH and a religious
significance has always been given to
its use at Easter. The Hebrews use
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-03-20

her darling nest, so this kind rabbit
slept all night upon it, and when he
woke in the morning Gt was Easter
mOrning) the nest was full of little,
downy, yellow chickens. The chickens
thought the rabbit was their own man.
ma, so they cried out for something to
eat. and the rabbit ran about and
fetched food for them, and kept them
warm and fed until they were all old
enough to take care of themselves
Ever since then the rabbit has been
the special genius of Easter-time, and
this holiday is not complete for Ger
man little folks without an "Oster
Hase's nest" 1t holds. many a favor
and present, serving the same purpose
that Christmas stockings and wooden
shoes do at Christmas time.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-03-20
An ter-Remembrance Booklet.

A pretty Easter remembrance can be
made in the shape of dainty booklet,
containing an appropriate or helpful
poem for your friend. These booklets
may be made in two ways. The leaves
and cover may be made twice the size
or the page desred. then folded ana
stitched with silk cord or narrow rib
bon, and tied in knot at the back. Or
they may be cut into pages instead of
leaves, holes punched at the back
about an inch from the edge and n rib.
bon run through and tied. Cut sheets
Of the tinted paper to the shape and
size you wish your book. Unruled
tinted not paper, wholly out of place
for correspondence, may be used to ad-
vantage, as it is already of suitable
size. Other paper may be cut in long,
narrow sheets, to be fastened at one
end. The poem is to be written or
typewriter, using as many pages as
desired, but only one side of the paper.
The booklets sold at the stores are
good models of how much or how little
to put on page. Select a picture, or
several of them, suitable to the poem,
and mount them on pages of the same
size. From fancy board cut a cover
little larger than the pages. On the
front Of the cover put picture or an
Easter greeting. Bind with ribbon
Florence Marian Critchlow, in the
Woman's Home Companion.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-03-20
WHY Germany is Apathetic.

At the annual meeting of the Society for
Combating the Abuse of Spirituous Liquors
at Beslau last month, Baron Won DER
gardt said he believed that alcohol would
one day be universally regarded as an en-
emy of civilization, but at present it was
only possible to recommend moderation in
its use. Seven hundred and fifty millions
of dollars was yearly spent in Germany on
Intoxicating liquors, he said, and it was
estimated that the average German con-
sumed the equivalent of five glasses of spir-
its day. Baron Won Diergardt added that
one difficulty in the campaign was that the
State itself was interested in alcohol de-
irving, as it did, a revenue of SAL 900, 900
from spirits and S25,000,0 900 from beer.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-03-20
DIR. Atwater Repudiated.

The American Medical Association at
It's annual meeting in st. Paul unanimous
y adopted the following resolutions:
Whereas, The American Medical Asso-
,iation, the members of which are phvsi-
clans and medical teachers who have de-
7oted years to the study of alcohol and it's
effects. and who are conversant with the
work done by scientific men the world
over TO- determine the effects. of alcohol
When given IN any quantity, have noted
the teaching of Professor w. o. Atwater.
If Wesleyan University, upon the food and
medical value of alcohol as set forth by
him in the pages of the influential lay
press; be it
Resolved. That this association utterly
.epudiates the pro-alcoholic doctrine of the
said Professor w. O. Atwater as being con-
.rary to the evidence deduced by scientific
experimentation, and that his conclusions
ire unwarranted by the evidence resulting
from his own experiments. Be it further
Resolved, That this association regards
the teaching of Professor w. o. Atwater
Is erroneous and a source of danger to the
laity inasmuch as such teaching contrib
ltes towards the increased consumption of
alcoholic beverages by giving supposed rea-
son for their safe use"
(Signed) n. S. DAVIS, NJ. D..
Pres. Chicago, III.
7. d. CROTHERS, NJ. D.,
Sec, Hartford Conn.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-03-20
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE,

The Tragedy of Michael Kilroy-AIcoholi.
Drinks Transformed Him Into a Fiend
-Murdered His Wife in the Presepc,
of His Children-Such Cases Common.
When Michael Kilroy reeled home in the
early hours of the holy Sabbath of Sun
day, January 20, in the Christian city OF
Boston, his pockets empty of the money
that he had promised to his wife to buy
the clothing for lack of which his children
were freezing; when he answered her ap
peal for the fulfllment of his promise with
a blow that knocked her to the floor; when
he choked, with his fingers upon her
throat, her appeal for mercy; when he
kicked her with his heavy boots and she
about to become the mother of another
child; when he sat for hours unmoved, lis
tening to her means and watching her suf-
ferings; when he brutally mistreated the
children who would have brought her help;
, when he struck away the water that her
little daughter was lifting to her bloody,
thlrsting lips-it was drink, gentlemen
the drink that Professor Atwater tells us
is food-the drink that you gentlemen rec
ommend in moderation" that made him
do 1T, and neither in earth nor hell has any
other agency been found, in the history of
the whole human race that inspired men
to such deeds
But drink. gentlemen. alcoholic drink,
not only made Michael Kilroy do that bru-
tai, devilish deed, but has transformed un.
counted thousands of men into fiends
Of the same character, and has driven them
to deeds equally brutal. Drink, gentlemen,
has inspired such tragedies so commonly
and in such multitude that the public
scarcely pauses to notice their occurrence
Drink, gentlemen, is to-day preparing
more men for just such deeds as that, and
you know and we know and the world
knows that it will take boys from your
churches, boys from your schools, ave.
dod pity you, perhaps boys from your
homes, and will make them into such
brutes to work such fiendish crimes in fu-
ture years on women who to-day are lovely
| and loving girls.
1t was only twelve days before the butch
| cry In that Boston tenement that Vincent
Vincelsk came how drunk in Pittsburg
and chopped his wife and little children to
| death with a rail-cutter. 1t was only thir-
teen days before that John Blissett. of
| Detroit, drunk emptied his revolver into
his wife's body and poured kerosene over
her and stood with lighted match to make
her a burnt offering to drink when the Do
| lice broke in upon him. 1t was Just one
month and day before that father in
Indiana came home drunk, sought to kill
his wife with hatchet and was shot dead
by his son.
But why go on with such list? The
eases are innumerable and before Michael
kilroy came home to kill Bridget YOU and
we and everybody in the whole land knew
that some man, because of the drink traffic.
would come home and kill his wife. and
that the terrible procession of crime would
Keep right on.-The New Voice.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-03-20
Easter Eavors.

so of guests, it is usual to provide small
gifts or favors to the departing guest.
These are often of silver, articles of
small value. which can be conveniently
carried home. Moral: Do not bestow
silver pencils. One little girl has seven
already. A pot of Towering daffodils,
hyacinth or crocus is a pleasant favor
for Eastertide parties. The fiat. small
box of bonbons, chocolates preferred,
is tied up with bright colored satin rib
bon and used for a favor. Small East
er eggs, Easter bunnies or chocolate
chickens are also used for favors.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-03-20
with a red silk banner inscribed with

with a red silk banner inscribed with
the word "Alleluja" waving above 1t.
The washing of feet" on the Thursday
before Easter has long been custom
in the Roman church, and still sur
wives. 1t is intended to inculcate hui
mility among the high and mighty
princes of the world, both temporal and
ecclesiastic. James II. was the last of
the English kings who performed the
ceremony. In Austria, however, the
emperor still keeps up the rite under
circumstances of great splendor. In
the Tyrol on Easter Eve bands Of mu-
sicians in quaint garments traverse the
country, guitars in hand. singing East
er hymns somewhat in the fashion of
our carol singers at Christmas.
In early times the religious part Of
the Easter festival consisted principal
ly in the daily services held in the
churches, which were lighted on East
er Eve by immense "Paschal tapers,"
weighing 200 or 300 pounds. On Easter
Sunday the people saluted each other
with the Easter kiss (the kiss Of broth
erhood still obtains in the Russian
church,, and the exclamation, "Christ
is risen," receiving the reply, "He is
risen indeed" The service being over
the people returned to their worldly af-
fairs or gave themselves up entirely to
pleasure. But gradual change has
been going on during the long ages, and
the occasion is now observed with a
loftier conception of the true meaning
of Easter
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-03-20

carries about a generous supply of
hard boiled eggs. These, with Easter
greetings, are exchanged with every
friend he meets. Ladies who receive
have platters of handsomely painted
eggs to give away, and kiss can al
ways be claimed with the egg. Easter
nual wash, which can be compared
only to the spring housecleaning of our
country. Fun as well as work forms a
part of the cleaning. Men with brushes
fastened to their feet skate over the
floor, while the women accompany
their rhythmical movements with song.
Blanche Gardner Spinney, in the
Wonan's Home Companion.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-03-20

them at their Passover feast. and the
Persians present each other with deli
cately-tinted eggs at feast celebrated
at period of year corresponding with
our Easter. In Scotland, on "Pash
Sunday" as they call it, the young peo-
pie rose early and went out to the
moors to search for wild fowls eggs
for breakfast, considering it happy
omen if they found them. 1t is still
customary to boil eggs hard, dye them
different colors and give them to chill
dren to play with on Easter morning.
Germany, Russia and other countries
have their own peculiar observances
and beliefs about the egg and its ap-
plcation to Easter and there are many
myths and legends in regard to eggs in
nowise connected with Easter. The
Hawaiians, for instance, have super
stitious legend that their "iSland was
produced by the bursting of an egg
which mad been laid upon the water
by bird of great size, presumably the
eagle, it being considered of great crea-
tive power and that there was no other
land
blessing the Food is curious Rus
sian custom. Before the dinner is
cooked it is brought in baskets to the
churches where priests, moving up
and and down, sprinkle it with holy
water. In Poland elaborate prepara-
tions are made for the Easter feast.
In the houses of people of means the
tables groan with a multitude of
dishes, in the centre of which a whole
lamb is fixed upon raised pedestal,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-03-20

r Y all lands, wherever the Christian
religion prevails, the anniversary
on the resurrection was celebrated
Sunday. Easter Day is an occa-
sion for triumphant rejoicing, in which
youth and age and joyous spring unite.
The praiseful song mingles with the
gladstone note Of the birds, and the
oder of flowers lends a sweetness to
the festival that adds to the genuinely
pious sentiment pervading the day.