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Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17

ton, to the disregard and neglect of
the vastly more important problem Of
building men at home, and creating
citizenship which will be an enduring
national foundation forever, and en-
larging our home markets. which will
be unaffected by any foreign compiled
tons or trade disturbances.
The attention of our people Of late
has been so much absorbed by the
problems Of our export trade, that we
overlook the fact that the United
States today manufactures annually
product aggregating in total value the
combined manufactured product of
the three other greatest manufacture
ing nations of the world England,
France and Germany, and we con-
sumo ninety-two per cent of our entire
annually manufactured products at
! home.
Create Farm Homes.
And if every farm in the United
States were cut in two, and new
home created on it so that the number
of farm homes, and the capital Ill
vested in, and labor devoted to agri-
culture throughout the entire United
States, were thus doubled, the result
would be an enlargement of our popu-
lation, our home market for manu-
features, and our power as a nation,
almost beyond the power of the imag-
ination to picture to the mind.
1t is to the development of its vast
agricultural resources and the creation
of closely settled population of far
mers and gardeners, who will cult
! vate the soil by the most intensive
methods, that the Middle West mus
look if it is to achieve its full destiny
in wealth. power and population.
The resources of the great territor!
, extending westward from the crest o.
{ the Allegheny Mountains to the ont
| hundredth merchandise edge of tn,
r arid region-and from the sources o
: the Mississippi River on the north t,
:, its outlet to the Gulf on the south, ar
4 so largely agricultural that it offer
: the ideal section of the earth for tn
development of a nation along tn
lines of Japanese development, wit
preponderating rural population.
: There is no other section of tn
a worlds surface where latent agricul
!. tural resources of such inexhaustibl
e richness and extent lie practically I'LL
!, developed.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17

nor military equipment, nor manu-
featuring skill. Western nations will
fail fully to grasp the secret of the
dynamic intensity of Japan today, and
will dangerously underestimate the
formidable possibilities of the Greater
Japan-the Dai Nippon--of tomorrow,
until they begin to study seriously the
agricultural triumphs of that empire.
For Japan, more scientifically than
any other nation, past or present, has
perfected the art of sending the roots
of its civilization enduringly into the
soil.
Progressive experts of high author
ity throughout the Occident now adj
nit that in all the annals of agri-
culture there is nothing that ever APP
preached the scientific skill of Sunrise
husbandry. Patient diligence, with
knowledge Of the chemistry of soil and
the physiology of plants, have yielded
results that have astounded the most
advanced agriculturists in Western
nations"
The Safe Foundation.
The creation of the conditions above
described under which the people of a
ulC iOOtSo W thC oOii III hOlhSS
of their own on the land, is not only
good craftsmanship and the highest
patriotism, but it is the only safe foun-
dation for an enduring national
structure.
To ignore and neglect this founda-
ton while we build battleships, equip
armies and annex islands and dig
I Isthmian canals, Is as fatal mistake
as it would be to build a twenty-story
skyscraper in Chicago without any
foundation but the mud of Lake
Michigan.
We need not muster out our armies,
nor dismantle our battleships nor
evacuate the Philippines, nor stop
work on the Isthmian Canal, but the
fact remains, as clear as the sun from
an unclouded sky at MONDAY, that the
attention of our people as a nation is
riveted on our naval and military af-
fairs and schemes Of foreign exploita-
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17

fifty million figure; it has stacked up
gold in its treasury, has created
great merchant marine, has captureda
growing share of European commerce,
has already outmarshaled commercial
America on the Pacific, has crowded
it's cities with roaring factories, and
has given costly and triumphant equip
ment to its aggressive fleets and regi-
ments. And it has accomplished all
this out of the profit of harvests
cleaned from farm area scarcely
large enough to afford storage room
for the agricultural machinery in use
in the United States"
Could there be more striking proof
of the oft-quoted words of David Starr
Jordan, that
stability of national character goes
with firmness Of foot-hold on the
SOIL"
Comparison of Areas.
Now compare Japan and its devel-
opment with the possibilities of devel-
opment in the Middle West.
The area of all the islands compris-
ing the Empire of Japan is 1856
square miles; of this only 10000
SuuuEt ullitb 10 dNulioDlc dSllSuit'
ure for every available acre in thai
country is cultivated.
The total combined area of Wiscon
sin, Illinois and Indiana is 146,36C
square miles, and it is safe to say thai
considerably more than half of this
area-probably more than two thirds
is capable of as close a cultivation
and of sustaining as dense a popula
ton per square mile as the cultivated
area of Japan.
The water with which to irrigate i
now runs to waste. TIE water which
Chicago turns into her dcainage canal
instead Of producing agricultural
wealth by irrigating the laads of Hi
nois, produces law suits with st. Loui
because 1t runs to waste past tina
city to the Gulf of Mexico.
The fine will come when irrigate,
agriculture In the Middle West vii
absorb every drop of water fallin
within that territory.
And when the irrigation canals an
the irrigated farms of the Middl
West will dry up the Ohio and tn
Mississippi rivers, just as irrigatio
in the West has dried up Tulare LAX
in California, and is rapidly drying u
the Great Salt Lake in Utah, tn
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17

first-class fighting nation, it is not neg.
lecting its fields Of rice, genge, mliles
and muji, its groves of mulberry au9
bamboo, its priceless plots OF Tea ana
mitsumata shrubs, and It's multi,ihll-
lion gardens Of berries, Vegetables
fruits and flowers. The thousands u
patriots that have marched 10 tnc
front have not thinned the ranks ~
the mightier hosts filling the sou.
Thirty million farmers are gatheriIIs
ample harvests in the dlmlhutiVe heiu'
Of Japan.
Husbandry Dignifled.
"For twenty-five centuries the sun
rico sovereigns have dignified nus,
handry as the most important anu
most honorable industrial calling III
the empire, and now more than sixty
ner cent of the Mikado's subjects tili
with uncomfortable skill the Limited
soil of his islands. ~
.aThe same diligent genius that ena-
bles landscape gardener IN Japan 10 10
compass within few square yarus OIL
land n forest, bridge-spanned stream
a waterfall and lake, chain OF Ter
raced hills, gardens and chrysanthe-
NUNS. hyacinths, peonies and plnks, a
beetling crag crowned with a dwarfed
confer, and through all the dainty
mark meandering paths, with here O
shrine and there a dainty summer
house. has made it possible for the far
mers of the empire to build up on less
than nineteen thousand square miles
of arabic land the most remarkable
agricultural nation the world has
known. If all the tilIable acres OF
japan were merged into one field,
man in an automobile, travelling at TIT
rate of fifty miles an hour, could Skin
the entire perimeter of arabic japan
in eleven hours. Upon this marrow
freehold Japan has reared a nation o
imperial power, which is determines
TO enjoy commercial prominence owe
all the world of wealth and opportu
nity from Siberia to Siam and already
bv the force of arms. is driving fror
the shores of Asia the greatest moi
archy of Europe.
Roots in the Soil.
The secret of the success of the III
tie Daybreak Kingdom has been
mystery to many students of nations
Patriotism does not explain the riddl
Of its strength, neither can commerce.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17

ton from Japan has not vet been
learned, and when President Roose-
welt fails to see it,and demands only
more battle ships, as the lesson of the
great sea fight which has just been
fought, he unfortunately diverts the
minds Of the people of this country
from facts of supreme and overshad-
owing Importance, when should be
burned into the public mind as by a
stroke of lightning from every victory
won by the Japanese.
That lesson is the profoundly i'm
portant fact that the japanese man,
the unit of her national strength, is
the product of a mode of life and an
environment which combines the
physical strength which comes only
from the rural life--from living next
to nature-with the mental activity
and keenness which come from con
slant contact with his fellowmen-the
community life.
A Nation of Gardeners.
The Japanese are not nation of
farmers, as we understand the word.
They are nation of gardeners.
There Is neither isolation nor conges-
ton in their life. They dwell, the
great majority of them, not in great
cities, but in closely settled rural COM
munities. The ranch and the tene-
ment are alike foreign to the life of
the japanese.
The greatprinciple that mustcontrol
our own national development hence
forth is that the land shall be subdi-
vided into the smallest tracts from
which one mans labor will sustain a
family in comfort, and that every
child, boy or girl, in the public schools
should be so trained in those schools
that it will know how to till such a
tract Of land for livelihood.
In other words, let us reproduce in
this country the conditions SO well
described in an article from the Book
lovers Magazine for August, 1904,
from which we quote the following
while Japan is cannonading it's way
to rank with Christian powers as q
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17
The Olive In america.

The annual output of olive oil in
California is about 10000 gallons: of
pickles 100000 gallons. The imports
to the country of oil amount to about
100000 gallons per year and of
pickles to 2.116 gallons. The olive was
introduced into California 1876 years
ago, which is a bad showing for use
of native olive oil, especially when
it is acknowledged to be the superior
of all foreign oils.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17
Our Own Country.

OuT own Nountrys
When we compare Japan, with its
dense population, its wealth, its rev.
enues, its trade and commerce, its
national strength, with any section of
our own country equal to it in area
and natural resources, we are amazed
at the great possibilities of future de-
velopment in our own country.
The entire population of Japan is
about forty-five million, of which
thirty million is farming population,
and this vast population of thirty mil
lon farmers and their families is sus-
tanned on nineteen thousand square
miles of irrigated land. There is no
agriculture in Japan but irrigated
agriculture. They have learned that
water Is the greatest fertilizer known
to nature, and save and utilize it with
the same care that they use every
other available process for the fertili-
cation of their fields.
Nineteen thousand square miles is
an area about one hundred and thirty
five miles square, and in q square in a
corner OF the State of Illinois, the COM
parative size Of which to the rest of
the State is shown on the accompany
ing map, Is sustained nation which,
to the amazement of all other peoples
on the earth, has sprung to the front
as one OF the great world powers.
Source of Power.
And the Home Acre farms or gar
dens-the rural homes of Japan-are
the source of that national power.
Commenting on this, the author of
the article in the August 1904 Book
lovers Magazine, quoted from above,
says in that article:-
From what it's advanced agricult-
ure has made its plains to yield Japan
has fed and clothed and educated its
multiplying masses, fast nearing the
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17
PENSIONS.

Over -one Million Dollars
allowed our clients during the last
six years.
Over one r h O u Q a N d
claims allowed through us dur
ing the last six months. Dis.
ability, Age and In.
Gre a 8 e pensions obtained
in the shortest possible time.
Widows claims a speciality.
Usually granted within 90
days if placed with us immedi-
ately on soldiers death. Fees
fixed by law and payable out Of
allowed pension. A successful
experience of rs years and benefit
of daily calls at Pension Bureau
are at your service. Highest ref
erences furnished. Local Magis-
trates p ecu N i a rily
benefited by sending US
claims.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17

Guilty in the way of 1t Is a mere Gus
tom or habit, easily modified.
The terms of school Of all city
schools should be changed. There
should be short winter term, dur
ing which the time should be given to
instruction from the books and In
handicraft within doors.
There should be a summer term of
equal length. during which the schools
would be transferred to the suburbs,
and work in summer school gardens.
The children should be taken back
and forth to these summer school gar
dens at public expense, as they are
now taken to and from the CONSOLE
dated rural schools on the trolley
lines in some of the New England
states.
The vacation, which would not need
he so long, should be divided between
spring vacation and fall vacation,
intervening between the winter city
erm and the country summer term OF
each school
Building Strong Citizenship.
OF course, many will hold up their
hands and say this is impossible.
England finds it impossible, as the
result of her system of great landed
estates, to provide her people with
homes on the land, and in conse-
quence her ruin as nation is only
question of comparatively brief
time.
Japan, on the contrary, put forth
her hand and solved the very problem
which, to England, seems impossible,
and behold the results in her strength
ana power as nation.
1t is only question with us, as
people, whether we will follow the
lead of Japan, and profit by her les,
sons, or follow the lead Of England
and share in her eventual ruin.
The influences which are DESTROYING
England are at work steadily and in
sidiously in this nation, and though
1t will take longer for them to work
our ruin, it is sure to come if we do
not ind a way TO root the great
majority of our people to the land in
homes of their own, as Japan has
done, and as we can do, unless we
are as blind and as impotent in deal
ing with our national problems as
seems TO be the fate of England.
In the carrying out of this great
patriotic purpose of building q strong
citizenship by building rural homes
on the land, we are, at the same
time, doing that which will create
the greatest possible commercial
prosperity, and develop to the high
est attainable point, not only the re-
sources of the Middle West. hut of
our entire country.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17

For, in fact, they are undeveloped.
We have, as yet, hardly more than
tickled the earth over this immense
area.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-04-21
Co Easul But Don't Try.

A scientific man has made discov-
cry. and 1t only remains to be put into
practice in order to test its usefulness,
saws London Answers. It appears that
if one drop of oil from foul pipe be
placed in the mouth of a snake the
action is instantaneous-the reptile
becomes rigid and powerless. The
information will doubtless be appre'
ciated in those countries where snakes
thrive. If a man sees a snake all he
has to do is to squeeze the animals
paws until It opens its mouth, place
a drop of oil from a pipe inside, and
while the snake is rigid walk out OF
danger. What could be more simpler
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-04-21
Mules Hard to XIII.

A correspondent who was with Col
Younghusband's mission to Tibet tells
a mule story: Mules, apparently DO
not die from any cause. When the
mission first crossed the Jelapla a
a mule slipped in the dusk and fell
into the lake at the bottom OF the
pass. 1t was thought to be drowned
Next morning a convoy found 1t with
it's nose Just above the ice, the resi-
OF it's body literally frozen in. Pick,
axes were brought and the animal
was dug out. It is now working as
usual"
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-04-21
The Modern lester.

"a certain class of insane persons
are remarkable for their ready and
apt retorts," said DR.. George T. Win
ston, the criminologist. "The court
fools whom monarchs and great mo-
bles used to employ were all of this
insane class. 1t would be possible
now, If the court fool fashion were to
be revived again, to get from our
asylums excellent testers.
81 have in mind young man in a
Boston retreat who would make a
good Jester for any monarch. This
young man keeps his companions con-
tinually amused. The first time ever
saw him he sat on the floor swearing
bitterly.
"'Tut, tut said l. Don't swear
""Why not?' said he.
Because, said I, you won't go ITO
Heaven if you do az
ooh said the young man disdaln'
fully, I'm not going to try to go to
Heaven. There's more trying now
thann get in Philadelphia Bulle-
tin.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-04-21
soEa voeAcco is STRONG.
White Man Cannot Endure It's Scent
or Taste--BIaekr Like II.

svhlte Man Cannot Endure Its Seen,
or Taste--Biaekr Like II.
After Transvaal tobacco, but a long
way after. comes Boer The name is
In reality nowadays a misnomer saws
south Africa. for this tobacco is grown
largely in Natal and Cape Colony. II
is also cultivated in the Orange River
colony. is sold by the roll and can be
obtained for ebout IS pound if n
whole roll is purchased. It's also sold
by the sack.
White men buy these sacks, but they
do not smoke the contents themselves;
thew use It to reward the Kafir sery.
ants for working overtime, or doing
anv other meritorious action. The
taste for Transvaal tobacco is an ac.
ouired one; it also takes a certain
time before a man gets used to the
scent. No white man who has come
from n distance has so far lived long
enough to acquire a liking for either
| the taste or the smell but 1t has it's
uses in the case Of the natives. and it
is also useful II you have an unde.
sirable visitor who you are anxious to
get rid of. Offer him pipe Of Boer
tobacco and he will never enter your
home again.
The traders purchase this weed
largely; they also use It upon the
natives in the shape Of presents. as
every Kafir who makes purchase in
a country store always asks for a free
gift and the competition to secure the
native trade is so acute that the re.
quest cannot be refused.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-04-21
The Present Rate Law.

The duties of the present Interstate
Commerce Commission are to correct
all determinations In railroad rates.
II it finds that an unjust rate is in
effect, the railroad is notified. II it
declines to change 1t, the Commission
can bring suit in Court and If the
Court decides in favor of the Com
rissioners' finding, the railroad must
obey, or its officers may be brought up
for contempt of court and summarily
dealt with.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-04-21
GARDENS HERE AND ABROAD.
Fundamental Difference In Their Rela-
ton to the Family.


There is fundamental difference
between the English and the Ameri-
can garden. writes Prof L. H. Bailey
in the Garden Magazine. The Eng
lishman's garden is well nigh as es-
sential as his house. It Is like an ex.
ira room to the residence 1t is for the
family rather than for the public. 1t
therefore works itself into developing
consciousness Of children, and garden
love becomes as much part of the
person as books and furniture and
music do. An English teacher recent.
ly inspected the study work at Cornell
university. what surprises me-" she
said, SIS that you need to do such
work. The English child loves nature
as IL by instinct" The American gar
den is likely to be all in front yard.
1t is usually of the look-atme kind.
1t is made for the public to see. This
may contribute to public spirit and
civic betterment, but It loses in origin
atty and vitality.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-04-21
TAKE STOCK OF TALENTS.
Good Advice for the Business Woman,
and Others.

and Others.
Twice a year every merchant takes
account of stock. When the work Is
completed the shop-keeper knows just
where he stands. If certain depart
ment in his store is losing money, he
plans on strengthening 1t or cutting 1t
out entirely. II another department
is making an unexpected success, he
specializes upon 1t and features 1t.
He has what might be termed a COM
mercial housekeeping.
Now, have often wondered
whether it would not pay for those OF
us who work for our living to take &C
count of stock at regular intervals,
not making an inventory of ribbons,
laces. shirtwaists and hats in our pos
session, but of talents. The influences
of business life should tend to broad
en- and develop the feminine mind
| sc whenever hear a business WON
an mourn because she finds herself II
groove, or, as most of us put II, II
rut, wonder why she does no
stop long enough to take account o.
stock. Perhaps she will discover some
talent which will lead her to more
remunerative and congenial occupa
tion.-Woman's Home Companion.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-04-21

This can be easily obviated by using
Peruna. Peruna strikes at the root of
the difficulty by correcting the diges-
ton.
Digestion furnishes nutrition for the
nerve centers. Properly digested food
furnishes these reservoirs of life with
vitality which leads to strong, steady
nerves and thus nourishes life.
Peruna is in great favor among
women, especially those who have voca-
tions that are trying to the nerves.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-04-21
HOW DOES THE ROBIN KNowf
When Mrs. Redbreast Goes After a
Grub She Always Gets Him.

When Mrs. Redbreast Goes After
Grub She Always Gets Him.
recently observed robin boring
for grubs in country dooryard. 1t
is common enough sight to witness
one seize an angle worm and drag
it from its burrow in the turf, but l
am not sure that ever saw one drill
for grubs and bring the big white NOR
sci to the surface.
The robin | am speaking of had a
nest of young in maple near by, and
she worked the neighborhood very
irdustriously for food. She would
run along over the short grass after
the manner Of robins, stopping every
few feet her form stiff and erect.
Now and then she would suddenly
bend her head toward the ground and
bring eye or ear Tor moment to bear
intently upon It, Then she would
spring to boring the turf vigorously
with her bill, changing her attitude at
each stroke, alert and watchful, throw
ing up the grass roots and little jets
of soil. tabbing deeper and deeper,
growing every moment more and more
excited, till finally a fat grub is seized
and brought forth.
Time after time, during several
days, saw her mine for grubs in this
way and drag them forth. How did
she know where to drill The insect
was in every case an inch below the
surface. Did she hear it gnawing
She roots of the grasses, or did she
see a movement in the turf beneath
which the grub was at work | know
not only know that she struck her
game unerringly each time. Only
twice did l see her make few thrusts
and then desist, as If she had been
deceived-John Burroughs in Outing
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-04-21
Women's trousers at Hyderabad.

The first time Twas introduced into
the harem of one of the noblemen of
Hyderabad, in the Deccan, was sur.
prised to find the Begun and her
ladies dressed in tight-fitting trous-
ers made of rich damask silks. It be,
ing the fashion to have these trousers
as close-fitting as possible, they are
actually sewn on, and are taken on
and changed about once fortnight
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