The people's recorder. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1893-1925, 1909-09-11

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You get good out of life only, warns
the Commoner, as you put good into
it.
It's the size Of dollar, thinks the
Philadelphia Record. that causes the
signs of those who haven't it.
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At any rate, in passing the census
bill Congress has done something,
chirps the Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
that counts.
Americans now go to Europe, de-
clares the Seattle Post Intelligencer,
for three reasons: To consult spe.
cialists, study music or get into
trouble.
In Or. Eliot's list Of books necessary
Tor the essentials of a liberal educa-
tion, Puck says We fail to note the
Football Guide for 1909.
Mr.. Maxim Jr., recently returned
from Europe. says that in England
they are drilling everywhere" and
that In Germany "every other person
seems to be in uniform" Evidently,
remarks the New York World, there
is more work ahead for Mr.. Maxim Sr.
What the human race needs, as
serts the Norfolk Landmark, Is an alb
solutely exact umpire-one as trust.
worthy as an adding machine. When
this invention has been perfected, it
should be clinched to all baseball and
football games, yacht and track races.
gas and water pipes. etc., etc.
hair? Perhaps, submits the Kansas
City Star. this is the reason: There
once was statute in England under
which actors found wandering were H.
able to be branded through the right
ear. The long hair concealed the dec.
oration. and thus the custom was
started
At the banquets of the eighteenth
century the man who carved needed
to know words as well as the use Of
knives. Venison he "broached," the
pheasant he "allayed,' the rabbit and
woodcock he '"unlaced" and the crab
he tanned" Dismembering swaI
was lifting" him and the crane under
his knife was being displayed" The
peacock was "disfgured."
AS variation from the abandoned
farm idea the Vermont Commissioner
OF Agriculture has prepared an avail
able farm booklet" including a list of
farms. apparently supplied by the real
estate agencies. Judging by the
prices and descriptions, some might
very well have been described as
abandoned but a~great many are plain
~ first class in price, declares the
American Cultivator. Prices OF Yer.
mont farms are supposed to have ad-
vanced during recent years, but the
range OF price here given shows that
there are many cheap ms still on
sale In Vermont. AS for instance,
twenty-five acres with a quantity of
spruce lumber, fair buildings, 1-2
miles from Barre, price $500. Anoth-
er farm in East Montpelier with a
good house but poor barns and 1876
acres Of land,s advertised to keep
twelve cows and team, is also held at
only $500. Some of the best bar
gains offered aDnt.ar Tn ma ~ Tho ;ina