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Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1904-05-05

them, and It's but simple justice
to say they did we'll their arduou,
duties aGd impartially.
The facts are that tina pupils al
other points do not have or yet
the training ours get, aud that 6
their misfortune
If that master mind who con-
ceived, planned and carried to sue
cessful elimination this first
"Ohio Valley School Tourna-
ment' could reach out to further.
most ends of the State it would be
as much Of revelation 10 the ed.
ucators of Kentucky AS this Tour.
nament was TO our competitors
SO now we say TO the teachers and
pupils of the o. V. School .Tourn-
ament, Take what you saw and
learned while at Marion AS your
standard TO work to, and may be
next year you'll be in it.
Hurrah for Marion Ora d 9 d
Chas. Evans iis Principal,
and bis valuable assistants, all of
whom had their tasks to perform.
Did they do them wellY We should
say, Yes.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1904-05-05
BEAUTlFY MARION.

The following article recently
appeared in one of our exchanges
but it expresses the sentiments oil
the Editor of the PRESS 30 fully
that we repeat it for the benefit OF
our readers:
Though the memory of an I'M
usually severe winter lstill smarts,
there is indisputsble promise OF
spring. Those who are planning
to beautify their homes should
consider how rapidly spring comes
when once she is on the way. Ma
ny beautifully planned garden
is never planted because nature
will not wait for the planter. Seed
time flies by while he is thinking
whether he will have roses or pinks
and the weeds triumph. 1t is we'll
TO remember that many things
that are to bloom in tho heat and
glow of midsummer must be star
ted ia the chill of early spring.
Sweet peas and nast1rtiums
both may be planted as early as
March. in fact the former should
be, if they are to give the fullest
return to the planter. Shrubs,
fruit trees and shade trees all need
to be we'll rooted before the hot
weather of early summer 7 h Q
Of home identifying should begin
very soon now. for the sluggsrd
will lind the planting time as fleet
ing as his own childhood.
We are beginning to awaken to
the fact:that there are many things
that need not depend upon the
possession Of money. A poor man
may have not only his home, but
he may have beauty and comfort
in it by the expenditure of effort
and taste, though he may have but
little money to expend upon it.
Grass will grow and flowers will
for the humblest who will give
them care. A morning glory vine
will draps an implanted back
fence as beautifully and as will
ingly as the arbor in rich mans
park. A bed Of nasturtiums or
petunias ornaments little door
yard as beautifully as the lawn of
a mansion.
The poor mans child has HIS
much right to beautiful surround.
ings as the rich mans. The bare
front yard, the implanted walls,
the Uttered, weed grown, ugly |
back yard make children sordid
and paralize their young wills
with encouragement they are
sensitive to beauty and especially
to natural beauty and get infinite
happiness from it. Flowers keep
them innocent and hopeful, and
without hope they are beaten in
the race of life before it begins
The public schools develop the |
artistic instincts and cultivate re-
finement. Is il not sad when chill
dren, responding to this training,
open their eyes to the unloveliness
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1904-05-05

we'll done. Tho neatness and AR
rangement of the work ot the luw
er grades were striking. I h ,
completeness Oh outline; the tho.
roughness Of treatment, the excel.
lency of maps, drawings, diagrams
and apparatus to make clear every
phase of the work could not fail
10 attract attention.
". The originality of the work
Was manifest lou have never
seen anything just like It before.
V The practicability Of the
work. 1t brought education down
to practical life and clenrly show
ed that what our children had
learned they could turn o. pracli.
cal account.
In TIE humble judgment # the
writer there was nothing IN the
Educational Exhibit IN the Pan.
American Exposition in Buffalo
superior to this IN quality Would
that this could be placed in tho
greatest OF all Expeditions ut ~
Louis
Certainly We ought to appreci-
ate cur school, and the excellent
work Of our teachers IA wa have
never done before
JAMES +. PRICE
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1904-05-05

while IN your midst. We had our
little differences but these ara all
forgotten now our pupils speak IA
highest praise of your town and
people. and We wish to assure You
again that We fully aud truly np.
prec!ate the kindness shown us
while with you
j b Ia, lur
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1904-05-05

grow large pnyslchlly as well NJ
MENTALLY. Your delegation, from
a city of colleges, with a popula
ton of over ten thousand, and sit.
uated in the richest county in
Western Ketucky, discovered this
latter proposition we opine.
1t says further:
| "In several other contests the
results were very close and the
Hopkinsville children, in the opin.
ion of many, were entitled TO the
prizes, This was particularly true
in the oratoricsl contest, In which
popular applause clearly indicated
James Breathitt as the winner.
with the subject, Mckinley and
His Times The judges, however
gave the prize TO a girl"
THIS sounds like joke, and is
an absurd one. Young Breathitt
did we'll, we admit, and was given
a hearty encore, but as a matter of
fact the judges and audience were
unanimous in the decision that
Miss Hubbard WAS entitled TO the
prize, and never during the whole
tournament was there such rounds
of applause rs she received.
Young Breathitt could not help
being an orator, with the blood of
family of giants at speech ma
king" for a hundred years cours.
ing through his veins, and we con
graduate him on his success; but
HE WAS not IN MISS HUBBARD's
CLASS. He would make a good Sth
grade pupil in Marion, and as for
the fair winner We would put her
against all the Breathitts in the
State and feel no uneasiness. The
fact is, Miss Hubbard is genius
and her superior does not exist in
the South.
II says also;
There were ~ school contests,
in - of whioh Hopkinsville had |
entries and won Is. Marion won
II, Morgan6eld 7, and Corydon ,.
There were I athletic contests and |
won one of these,
making a total of II out of - pri-
yes"
The facts are, in the Literary
contest, Marion, with $500 people
won II prizes; Hopbinsville with
10000 people, won l3 prizes.
In Athletics Hopkinsville won
|, while Marion won T.
In the high school Marion had
entries and won ) lover 80 per
,ent) Hopkihsville had II en-
ries and won 1, Gust 30 per ct.)
In the common school contests
entered Is, won Is,
just 80 per cent while Marion
inferred II and won 8, (nearly 30
,er cent g.,
1t says further:
THE same can be sad of Alvin
)lark. in the debating contest, :
'ho deserved the prize" 7
We don't see how Bro Meacham
btained this information, MS he
'as not here, and the judges de.
ision was unanimous in favor of
coleman Haynes, and in fact the :;
peech of Mr. Haynes was so far !
uperior to all his competitors that !.
hey acknowledged their defeat, :,
yhich was palpably plain. If =
1opkinsville desires to pit any one
ut of it's schools against Coleman
Haynes let them come and vel !.
1t them choose all the judges. =
1t might be added here that the =
ldges were chosen from among
he foremost educators of the state
rom points as far distant from !;
larion as from any other place in .
ne tournament, and from among Z
ltors of the highest standard and 9
and each contesting =
chool has the right. as in choos- II
lg a jury, to accept or reject
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1904-05-05
Hold On Bro. Meacham...Fscts. Pleas,

The Hopkinsville Kentuckian.
in referring to the recent Tourna.
msnt says, of the baseball teams:
"The baseball teams contesting
against Hopkinsville's boys, none
over II, were made up of men"
The facts are, that not mem.
Ter of the Marion team WIS cho.
sen outside of the school boys and
only from the pupils who have
been enrolled over 100 days. Our
boys down here. Bro. Meacham
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of their own homes and repine
and become bitter because they
seem to have an unfair share OF
the good things of life? But LEI
the home be neat, surrounded
with flowers, drape it with vines,
make it beautiful in ell possible
ways, and your children will learn
from it the important lesson that
much that is worth having may
be had without money.
No snail body of citizens can
make Marion beautiful. The en-
thusiasm must be very nearly uni
versal and no home in the city
must miss its share of the general
identifying. Those who do not
actually enroll themselves in this
movement may still do their part
by improving their own property,
and spreading the gospel among
their neighbors.
The work of identifying city
belongs to all its citizens. 1t can
only be we'll done when all classes
and ages unite with a common en-
thusiasm, leaving nothing, howev-
or small, which an individual may
do, undone. When young or old,
rich or poor, city official and house
holder, are equally enthused with
love of the home city, aud are
eager to take tome person
al part in its improvement I, it be-
comes beautihed with most aston
ishing rapidly.
The improvement of streets and
the care of parks do not make a
beautiful city. Nor do stately |
homes with beautiful grounds,
noble public buildings and impos-
ing business houses. the small
yards, the lawns of the cottager,
the surroundings of the homes of !
persons in moderate circumstan-
ces. In short the real body of the !
pity must feel the touch of impro.
vement and share the general eff
fsct before the city has any claim
10 rank among the fast increasing
of beautiful American CT.
les.
A civic improvement society is
more than a name until
ts object is appreciated and its
shared by all classes of
,itizens. A vine upon the cottage
porch, a clump of flowers in the
ioorysrd, is even of more import.
lnce to the ends of such a society
han all that wealth may do about
he homes of the rich, or all that
he city authorities may do upon
public grounds. 1t is the beauti-
ying of small places, the use of
lowers and grass and vines, the
quitting and keeping in order of G
Ill homes, whether fine or simple,
vhicn is the real object for which
uch societies are organized.
A Civic Improvement Society [
8 not for the purpose of having '
he authorities do" certain things,
10 many persons seem to think. 1t q
8 simply an organization of citi- v
ems who intend to beautify their g
'wn homes and who have united [
or the study of methods and who S
lope to enthuse their neighbors 8
o Join them in a common effort t
or the City Beautiful. v
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Nice Little Farm Tor Sale

One mile from Marion, about llOI,
acres, good log house and frame barn.
creek and never falling spring. ci-tcrn
and woodland. 4 nice farm Tor stock,
fruit or poultry raising; plenty u water
which is half the battle. Apply to
= NJ. jenkins
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1904-05-05

Marion graded school Trustees
Messrs j W. Blue, X. +. Flanery
7. ii. Cochran, \. G. Moore, w
b. YandelI aud II. \. Haynes are
to be congratulated on the sh,w.
ing their school made in the re-.
cent Tournament. Their duties
are very trying each year to select
and decide on teachers. to hold up
the high standard of the school
That they have acted wisely stands
without question when we see be.
fore us the results of the work OF
these teachers. In comparison
with what other schools put out,
speaking generally, pupils are
almost equal, and after all it's the
training their minds get that
makes them win laurels when thew
come in contact with rival schools
In after life this same training
will be valuable TO them in the
battle of life.
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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-08-11
The Poison Of the Cobra.

The venom Of the cobra contains an
ingredient not we'll known that acts
upon the nerves. Its effects are rapid
and difficult to counteract. This in
gredient exists in the cobra's venom
to a greater extent than the other
substances that make up the poison.
The poison of the viperine and crotal-
inc snakes the rattlesnakes, copper
head, moccasin, etc. contains but a
small percentage of this nerve-destroy-
ing (or paralyzing) element. Tie
poison Of these snakes acts principally
upon the blood, and in consequence Of
its action is slower.-St. Nicholas. d.
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Would Stop in the Way.

I once had dog that was good to track
rabbits,
But to catch them he always would
fail,
For whenever the rabbit was started, you
see,
He would stop to play with his talk
ais stopping would hinder the other ca
mines,
For ne always would stop in the way;
He seemed to think more Of his tail than
of meat,
And was never too hungry to play.
I know Of some men in high stations to-
day.
Who balk every good resolution
That is started in Congress, for they get
in the way,
And play with their tail. Constitution.
This playing might do, If the time was
their own.
But the people do not think It neat;
they would rather the playing was
stopped. am sure.
They do not want barking, but meat.
Jake II. Harrison. N Dallas News.
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Boys on the Farm.

1t has long been n problem that has
been widely discussed, How can the
boys be kept on the farms:" In the
Progressive> Farmer Dr.. Freeman
gives some very good advice as fol-
lows:
1 wish to say word about the boys
on the farm, for from my cwn exper-
ience think it far-reachirg and Of
much Importance.
When | was boy my father did
many things whicE l thought 1 could
have suggested some improvement.
This 1 think is general with boys on
the farm, and they feel like they have
been ignored when not consulted about
the work they are doing.
think it worth the fathers while
to talk to the boys about the work in
which they are engaged. Get the boys
ideas about the work, ask them how
they think such work should be done
to the best advantage and talk it over
with them, md when it is possible,
take the suggestions of the boys and
show them that you have regard for
their opinions. This is one very good
way to get them interested n the work
and make them feel and realize their
worth to the place.
Always explain to the boys why you
do things, and why you think your
way is the best, and Away consider
their suggestions and give your rea-
sons for not adopting them if you
think best not to do so. All this goes
long way toward satisfying and
contenting The boys as they go about
their work.
Don't fail to Introduce the boys to
all comers high or low. Do this IN
very polite manner just as If all were
strangers and all were Oh visit to
your house.
Nothing makes a boy feel better
than wheL, in a very polite manner,
you introduce them to your visitor out
in the field where he is at work. A
word of commendation in the boys
hearing does much good.
To fail on any occasion to Introduce
the members Of the family, from the
smallest up. to all visitors, makes it
very unpleasant often-time; to the
family and also to the visitor. When
1 60 into home and the man of the
home fails to introduce me to his wife
and others of the family as they stand
about, l feel badly and generally
pressed to ask who he is, and thus
try to make it as pleasant for myself
! and the family as possible.
Give the boys an interest in the farm
so they will get some money out of it
each year as their own. A young fel-
low feels badly without cent in his
pocket when on Saturday evenings he
goes sporting his best girl.
Help the boys and girls in all their
trials and little troubles and suggest
the best ways for them to succeed and
you will make light and jolly many
| heavy hearts.
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Odd Insurance.

An educated chimpanzee that died
In England recently was insured for
$125, 900. Other notable entertainers
are heavily insured also. Nine. Patti
was one of the originators Of this
kind Of insurance. Her voice-the
most intangible of subjects-is in
sured for $4,000, at premium of $125
for each performance. Paderewski's
hands are underwritten for $50 900 and
for each Of his concerts a temporary
policy Of $500 is taken out. Josef
Holman goes even farther and sets
q price of $500 on each finger Of both
hands. AS a precaution against acci-
dent preventing his performance, Ku
belik's right hand is insured for $10,-
oe0 for each concert and for $4,000
against total disablement.
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LIGHTNING Freak.

Steady and unimaginative Swis;
vouch for the following story: Al
LIE Pont, in the canton or Vaud
twenty-five persons while at a rife
match were struck and knocked over
by lightning, which played along an
electric bell wire. No one was killed
but several men were badly injured
falling senseless, and being revived
with difficulty On the bodies Of all
twenty-five persons were afterwards
found photographs of fr trees. The
lightning had imprinted on the skin
of those it struck views Of the wood
behind the shooting-range.
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Minor Mention.

Joe Chamberlain's tariff scheme Is
coming along" His commission OF
business men has reported plan
which will now come before the coun-
try for discussion. The idea Is to use
the proposed British tariff as means
of forcing the United States and other
higher tariff countries to lower their
rates on British goods. It Is also hoped
that the colonies Will enter into the
preferential tariff scheme, although
there is az yet NO evidence that they
will be willing to do thfs.
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SOUTHERN : EARM* NOTES,
.d--p. @d--p.
TOPICS OF INTEREST PLANTER s7ocxMAaAHS TRUCK GROWER
NOTES.

! 81 or So per barrel. nothing is better
or cheaper and can be applied with
an ordinary watering pot to whole
herd in a short while. Enough should
be poured on to completely envelop
the hog, and if the hogs Oe confined
together in small pen it will take
less oil to go round. They should re-
main penned till the oil ceases to run.
Some have objected to crude petro-
leum on the faith that it might cause
pregnant sows to abort, but I have
never seen any i'll effect Of this kind
and don't remember of q single au-
thenticated case.
The dipping tank is in great favor
with some breeders aid is constructed
along the anne lines as the sheep and
cattle dip tanks. Some of the numer-
ously advertised coal tar preparations
are used after being largely diluted
with water, but left of sufficient
strength to kill the vermin. The tank
is located in a chute so that the hogs
can be driven in at one end and out
at the other, getting thorough
drenching en- route. A strong decoc-
ton of tobacco also used as dip will
kill the lice. And in tobacco districts
this is good use to put plug tobacco
to.
Sulph~r sprinkled over the hogs too,
will kill many lice. Lven wood ashes
busted over the hogs when damp will
destroy many of the vermin. Refined
coal oil is effective, too, bit leaves the
cuticle in a rather harsh condition.
Bear in mind. however, that any Of
these applications should be applied a
second and third time to kill all nits
or eggs subsequently hatchcd out. Say
about ten days apart.-Southern Agri-
culturist.
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Scar!itt Talks.

Winthrop E. Scarritt was chosen to
make a public statement, defining the
attitude of New York business men
toward improved highways. lie says:
"The civilization of people may be
measured by their transportation facil-
tiles and the condition OF their public
highways. The pioneer had no roads
that were worthy Of the name. After
more than a century and a quarter OF
existence, this country still has thou
sands of miles of public highway that
are disgrace to civilization.
America is a country Of extremes.
Congress has spent uncounted millions
on rivers and harbo-s. while, on the
other hand, for more than half CEN
tury she has spent practically nothing
for roads. How absurd this is when
YOU consider that probably there is
one hundred times as much travel on
land as there is on watc::. Steam rail-
ways have been encouraged. The Gov.
ernment has subsidized ships.
How ludicrous. if not pathetic, has
been the attitude toward good roads.
Notwithstanding the rapid growth OF
the United States and our boasted pro-
gress in civilization. 1t costs just as
much to carry Z ton Of farm produce
on a wagon to-day as L did before the
war-namely, at least twenty cents per
ton per mile. While almost every SUBJ
ject under the sun has received consid-
Grafton at the hands Of the Govern
ment; the roads have been left to Ian.
guish.
"In a few ot the Eastern States
notably New Jersey, Connecticut, Mas
sachusatts and New Yor--the good
road movement has been substantially
aided by the States themselves.
Enough has been done in these States
to demonstrate absolutely the siSnifi-
canoe and value to any community Of
a system of good highways"
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The Tide River.

Clear and cool, clear and cool,
BY laughing shallow and dreaming pool;
Cool and clear. cool and clear.
By shining shine.e and loaming wear;
Under the crag where the ouzel sings,
And the ivied wall where the church-bell
rings.
Jndefiled for the undeiled;
Play by me, battle in me, mother and
child.
Dank and foul, dank and foul,
By the smoky town in its murky cowl;
Foul and dank, foul and dank.
BY wharf and sewer and Shiny bank;
Darker and darker the further l go,
Baser and baser the richer I grow:
Who dare sport with the sin-defiled?
Shrink from me, turn from me, mother
and child.
Strong and free. strong and free,
The fiood-gates are open away to the sea; (;
Free and strong. free and strong.
Cleansing my streams as ! hurry along
To the golden sands and the leaping
And the taintless tide that awaits me
afar,
As l lose myself in the infinite main,
Like soul that has sinned and Is par
doned again.
Undefled for the undefiled,
Play by me, bathe in me, mother and
child
Charles Kingsley.
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Sow Peas.

Put every spare acre in cow peas
without delay. The pea vines will
shade the lands anG will enrich it. and
furnish several tons Of the best Of hay.
Sow peas and sofa beans on poor spots
where nothing else viii grow and they
will prove A benefit to such soils.
These are soil makers and animal fat.
teners. Wonderful plants. Why dc
not the farmers have eyes to see them
as their laborerS and frierGs?
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Items of the Day.

The new British torpedo boat de-
stroyed Waveney belongs to the new
class of torpedo boat destroyers and
has been built with a displacement of
$50 tons and equipped with one 12-
pounder and five 6-pounder Quick-firing
guns and two 18-inch torpedo tubes.
The Waveney has been fitted with en-
gines of 7.000-horse power, supplied
with steam from modified Yarrow wa
ter-tube boilers, propeliing her at a
speed Of 2Sh knots An hour.