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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-10-21
Never Saw Live Hog.

Kansas City, Mo- Oct. 16- Inquiry
following a humorous incident show
that nearly 200 girls in varions
Kansas City high schools have new
er seen a live hog.
1t has been related that a high
school girl recently went to the
country and seeing pig run across
the yard, asked what kind of an
animal it was. On receiving the
information that the scamperine
beast was a pig. she exclaimed
Why, it has hair"
This led to an inquiry on the
subject and canvass of all the
high school girls in Kansas City
showed that some 200 marriageble
girls of the second largest live
stock market city in the world hac
never seen a live member of the
porcine family. - ..
MesdameS W. o. Dimmitt, o
Shelbina and Emma Vaughn. o.
Little Rock. Ark. spent Friday viii
their relatives. Walter Dimmitt and
wife.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-10-21
Not Worried Over Scoldins.

The insurgent Republican sena-
tors are not worried over the at
tempted scorching President Taft
gave them, President Taft is on
record as saying that the new tariff
bill did not carry out the promises
of his party, but rather than injure
the party he signed it. After he
signed the bill Mr.. Taft says he is
forced to stick to it.-Platte City
Landmark.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-10-21
Need Not Buy a Dress Suit.

Peary says he does not want to
be Toasted and honOred until he has
proven he is worthy of it. If he
keeps up the manner ne has been
conducting himself since his trip
from the north pole he need not be
in any hurry about ordering a dress
suit for the occasion.-Albany
Ledger.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-10-21

Mrs J. G. Fuqua has been with
her relatives in New London.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-10-21

years before that era. Wheat and
barley have also been found, in con-
siderable quantities, in the palafittes
or lake dwellings erected on piles in
prehistoric times.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
HdQS C00z0 A00 7HT M;jE5 l0S7V NaD eZ0SN

player, but after Kingdom went to Columbia the
game somewhat broken up; there was
a fine professional tennisplayer at Lakewood he
took up court tennis instead. 1t is game that
quires unusual strength and quickness of notion
but he became expert at 1t that when he
II he the American championship and
when he was Is he carried off the English cham
pionship, which is of course the championship of
the world.
Neither Mr.. Gould nor myself is an advocate OF
boarding schools. We believe that the very best
associations that children can have during the
formative years of their lives home associa-
lions, and that guardianship is equal to the
loving watchfulness of a father and mother. There
fore have kept children right in the home
nest and have had them educated by tutors and
governesses.
In educating the children we have tried to de
veop each along the line of his or her
natural bent. For instance Marjorie adores read
ing, particular poetry and romance. She is good
musician and, as said speaks four languages; but
she does not for what you might call the
drudgery of study, and have not afflicted her with
it. But Vivian has profound mind She loves to
study and to delve into deep subjects.
Il very proud of my two big boys They are
clever, and they are strong, manly boys. and best
of all, In mothers eyes, they are good boys.
Neither of them has ever caused me moments
uneasiness or single heart-pang Kingdom is 81
and Jay is 20, and neither Of them smokes or has
ever tasted liquor Not that am prohibitionist
at all, or have ever tried especially to keep such
things away from them. but they just have no de-
sire for stimulants, And that take it. Is about
the best indication of their health and strength az
well as vindication of my method OF raising ckik
dren for after ALL it's the healthy body that gtvs1
healthy mind and healthy impulses isn't it2~
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
GOOD ROADS ADDRESS.
United States Backward.

Ruling nations of ancient history were
Egyptians, Carthagenians, Babylonians
and Romans. Each one, when at the
height of its glory, owned more improved
highways than any other country.
France now has the most perfect system
of highways, owning 1000 miles of ma
tional highways, 10000 miles of depart
mental roads and $4,000 miles of coun-
try roads. For the first two the pub
lie treasury gives annually $3s, 900, 900
for maintenance and construction, and
on the country roads there are employed
5000 inspectors and $4,000 laborers for
twelve months in the year. England,
Germany and Belgium also have good
highway organization. In this phase
of civilization the United States lags
behind Sweden, and is on a par with
Turkey, with one-twelfth of our popu-
lation. All told, the United States has
appropriated only $14,OOO,O00 for ma
tional highways.
Doctrine of State Aid.
The states have long since abandoned
the idea of obtaining aid from the fed
eral government, and over half of them
are now making appropriations for per-
manent improvement of their highways,
which are under the administration of a
state highway department. New Jersey
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30

aed off in 1891. Connecticut followed in
1895, and then came Massachusetts and
Vermont in 1898, etc, to the present,
when we find twenty-five states with or
ganized highway departments. The
state aid plan, briefly stated, is as fol-
lows; A direct appropriation by the
state legislature, the roads constructed
under the state aid law to be paid for
partly by the counties and partly by the
states. In Massachusetts, the state pays
Hhree-fourths of the cost; Pennsylvania
pays rs per cent, the counties 1917 per
cent, and the townships 1917 per cent;
Ohio pays 25 per cent, the counties so
per cent, the townships is per cent and
abutting property 10 per cent.
The aid extended by the states is
usually accompanied by some form of
state supervision over highways con-
structed with state funds The system
of supervision varies all the way from a
highly centralized system to an almost
local SYSTEM; in Connecticut, Rhode ISL
and and New York the highway depart
ment prepares plans, specifications,
awards contracts, supervises construc-
ton and maintains the road; in Michi-
gan plans, ETC., are prepared by the local
talent, the state paying reward for
roads which meet a certain standard. A
cooperative system seems to be the
happy medium: by its working the de-
partment of highways would have super
vision over all permanent improvements,
~ n n IL
reau of information.
Solution of the Problem.
Public sentiment on the side of per-
manent improvement is a most powerful
organ, so hold agitation meetings" in
all the counties to enlist the enthusi-
astic support of as many people as pos
sible; encourage the state press to boost
good roads; invite railroads and other
corporations to take a hand, all of which
will be preparatory to enacting law
creating an appropriation for perma-
nent Improvement and also highway
department to make intelligent surveys
and plans for modern highways.
The appropriation should be sufficient
to give $1,000 to each county, and to
pay the expenses of the department.
When a county has raised an amount
equal to its share Of The appropriation
construct at least one-half a mile OF
obiect-lesson road in the most frequented
place in the county. When the head
of the department of highways has com
Melted these exhibition roads, he should
report on the cost, and then will the peo
pie know just what can be done, and
at what cost. The head of such de
partment should be one trained in thu
art of modern highway construction
and, more important, should be one who
should energetically and promptly study
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30

the local conditions of material in the
various couples.
The legislature that does the above
will be regarded as the most famous,
for having done what the times demand.
D. w. BROWN.
A. & NJ. College, Miss, Aug. 25, 1909.
Endorses the Bee Keepers Association.
G. L. Hailes, of Moselle, writes an
interesting letter indorsing the organ
ization of those interested in bee keep
ing. He is looking for better location
than the one he has, and parties having
such information are respectfully re-
quested to write him. Mr.. Hailes says:
81 received your favor some time
since containing membership card in the
association. Please pardon me for not
answering sooner. | would like very
much to be on hand when the meeting is
called to order, but can't say just now
that | will be there. | will do my best
to be on hand. l am convinced that the
bee keepers are DOING the proper thing
to organize AS for myself, have about
seventy-fve colonies, and have them in
four different yards on account of my
location not being able to support more
than twenty-five colonies in one place.
This is not good honey-producing coun-
try, poplar along the branches and creeks
being the principal source of supply, ard
it comes in so early that the bees don't
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
mss
MHRJOPX
GOLXD

had stitch of flannel, not even
flannel petticoat They have warm wraps
when they go out of doors, but in the house
they wear little socks and low-necked and
shortsleeved cotton wooden clothes.
They live also the simplest and plainest I
food-cereals and eggs tender steaks and
good roast meat with plenty of vegetables
and fruit and the simplest sort of dessert
when they have any at all. No pies and
pastry, and no nibbling at candy all day for
them. l also put great stress absolute
regularity in eating, and no matter who
else waits, the children have their meals
exactly on the stroke of the clock.
I'VE a very domestic family and the I
children have their breakfast and lunch,
which is really their dinner, with Mr.. Gould
and myself but until they are 16 years old
they have their supper at little after six
o'clock, and only have something very light I
to eat They never come to dinner, unless |
upon their birthdays it is permitted as |
great treat. Why. Marjorie never came to l
dinner regularly until last year, and she is
still attached to the nursery tea that l.
when we are down at Georgian Court she N
often eats with the children by preference
"Of course ] have so many other duties that 1t
is not possible for me to be always with my ba-
bies, and l kept trained nurse for each one
until he or she was two and half years old, and
past the teething time; but there is never night
even to this day, that do not go into each room
the last thing before going to bed, and tuck the
covers down with my own hands, good and tight
around each child. And have nursed every one
of my children with my hands when they
were sick. | had trained nurses of course but
/ sat up with the sick child too. When Marjorie
had that fearful spell of scarlet fever in France
the summer before last and when 1t seemed ut
tery impossible for her to recover, her father
and never left her day night for weeks. The
doctors said that it was the most malignant case
they ever saw, and that nothing but her marvel
GUS strength pulled her through. They said that
if she had been a French girl she certainly would
have died.
81 believe that the chief thing about raising
children up to be well and strong is to bring them
up in the country where they can have plenty Of
fresh air and room for exercise, and freedom 1t
was for the benefit of children that we went
down to Lakewood and built Georgian Court. The
the children. and the sunniest room in 1t is for
the baby and the next sunniest for the exbaby;
and we's always had great times and ceremonies
when the reigning monarch had to give way for
new king queen of the nursery and have his
or her little belongings packed up and moved on.
Everything has been sacrificed for the good of
the children For ten years we lived at Georgian
Court only in the winter. and took the babies
every summer up to the quietest and dullest little
place in the world in the Catskills ten miles from
anywhere
AT Georgian Court we provided every sort Of
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
GEORGE a. GOUZD, IR.

other place in the world is it more sci
dom seen than along Fifth avenue
The home of Mr.. George j. Gould
however, is an exception to this rule
Seven times the domestic bird has Wis.
tied and blessed that abode, each time
leaving a baby so strong and lusty, so
big and beautiful, that it fully justified
the fond parents declaration that il
was the finest child ever born. Bet
ter still, the Gould children have
grown up to be almost perfect speci-
mems of physical health, and they are
so intelligent and so natural and unaf-
fected in character that it seems
worth while to tell how this result
has been accomplished, and how a
wise father and mother have enabled
their children to lead the simple life
In the midst of millions and luxury
that makes that of the tabled Sybar-
ties look like makeshift with which
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30

cOuld get along III one ndu 10.
When you want to dive to the heart OF mys-
terry the French shrug their shoulders and spread
out their hands, and say: "Cherchez la femme
If you desire to find the key to any family situa-
ton and know why the children of the household
are what they are-virile or weakly sturdy lit
tie men and women 1abby jellyfish, potential
citizens of worth or cumberers of the
ground-you must act if the old French adage
read: "Cherchez la mere"
It is the mother that counts where children are
concerned and so l sought out Mrs. George j.
Gould and asked her for her recipe for bringing
up q family. | found her in their magnificent
suite of apartments at the Plaza hotel, surround
ed like Cornelia by her jewels. There was her
daughter Marjorie, lovely, slim slip of girl,
one of the debutantes and bellies of the season,
come In to tell of the delights of the ball of the
night before. There Edith, a sturdy little
miss of seven, hanging upon her mothers Shout
der There was George, shy lad OF IL, poklng
his head in between the portieres from time 10
time The other children absent, and mo-
tor was being sent to her school for Vivian, and
another to Columbia university for Kingdom and
Jaw for the day was bitter cold and snowy. Baby
Gloria who is only two and half years old, was
spending the winter at Georgian Court with her
grandmother, and trinkets were being got reaoy
to send to her there.
The room itself was very temple Of mother
hood for its empire tone had been ruthlessly sac
riiced before family affection and love OF things
homeike and everywhere on walls and mantles
and tables there were photographs of the chill
dren-Jay in tennis fannels when he won the
championship of the world, Kingdom with his first
mustache, marvelously like a young edition OF
the kaiser Marjorie in her debutante gown, and
baby pictures innumerable.
In the midst of all this evidence of a mothers
brooding love sat Mrs. Gould, a radiant figure in
trailing paleblue silk young looking almost as
her own daughter, and thought that If were an
artist I should like to paint her as triumphant
modern Madonna woman to whom motherhood
has brought nothing but joy and whose children
are her crown of happiness. She has had all that
women crave, has this woman who is darling
of the gods. First she had success and fame,
which she by her own genius; then she was
given love and marriage and enormous wealth
and high social position. She has beauty that is
still undimmed, but the best that life has given
her is her children, and 1t is good to hear her
say
my acquaintances have sometimes pitied me- .
she said with smile, because | have had so
many babies, but have not one child too many.
have never had child that did not want. or
that has not found warm welcome waiting for
it, I think that is one reason why my children
have all been strong and have had such Sc
rene dispositions.
Il have felt the responsibilities of motherhood
too, and have tried to give my children as good a
start possible by giving them sound bodies
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30

have time to build up good and strong
to bring in the nectar
81 am particularly interested in bee
keeping, and like the occupation fine
| would like to sell or exchange my
farm for one in better locality where
sweet clover thrives. don't expect to
get better farm, but desire to find a
better location for bee keeping. There
are so many better and older bee keep
ers than myself in the state, that l dc
not feel competent to offer subject fol-
discussion. Will say that I am espe
cially interested in the price of honeS
and desirable locations. A general ques'
ton box would no doubt prove especially
beneficial. l believe that a small fee
from each member for the purpose OF
having the proceedings published, would
be a good thing"
The proceedings will be given space in
the publications from the Mississippi De.
partment of Agriculture without cost,
However, if there is desire for them to
be published in pamphlet form, small
sum could be provided for that purpose.
The Mississippi Live Stock and Dairy
Association, at its regular meeting il
August, after full and free discus
sion of the matter, decided that there
should be some means of reimbursine
parties for stock destroyed in the stamp
ing out of contagious diseases. The fol
lowing resolution was offered and, after
due consideration, passed:
Whereas, it is sometimes necessary
for the state veterinarian to order tn.
destruction of animals infected with con
tagious diseases, and the entire com
munity is benefited by the destruction
of such diseased animals; therefore, be il
"Resolved, That we respectfully petit
ton the Legislature at its next regular
session to pass a law authorizing the
county boards of supervisors to com
pensate the owner of diseased animal.
that are destroyed by order of the stat.
veterinarian, to the extent of two-thirds
of their value as determined by compe
tent and disinterested appraisers"
The combined oat and pea thresher i
doing a good work in the way of en-
couraging the growing of these crops
Wish the writer knew just how many O
these machines were used in Madison
county. The farmers up there are going
some on both crops and using the new
thresher.
The average mud tax for the 10 coun
ties of Mississippi is approximately sos,
00.oo per annum How many year
would it take with the use of tina
amount to give each county in the stat
good and permanent roads? 1t is worth!
of serious thought and investigation.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
KI,XGDOX GOLLD

diversion for our children to en-
courage them in athletic sports.
We have a background, and
riding-ring, and tennis and
squash-courts, and the children
have their ponies and ride and
drive a great deal. The boys
were particularly interested In
polo, and Kingdom, my Oldest
son. at is was considered one OF
the best polo-players in the
country. Jay was also a fine
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30

Before they were born | took every care OF
my own health and lived as much as pos
sible in the open air. Before Edith was
born l spent months on our yacht cruising
around, as it was summer, in fact she was
born at sea. Then l have nursed my babies
myself, except twice when illness rendered
1t impossible for me to do so. do not be-
leve in sterilized milk nor patent baby
foods. baby is like little puppy. If you
want 1t to grow fine and strong and fat, you
must give it the right start, and nothing has
yet been discovered that takes the place of
the food that nature intended for child
In raising my children my plan has been
to bring them up to be simple and
hardy. Not one of my children has
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1848-1918, 1909-05-14
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