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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-03

The wooden front corsets of George
II time were commonly worn by dand.
les, as shown in Hogarth's. The
doughty warriors Of Gustavus Adol-
phus wore corsets to a man. Gather
inc de Medici loved small waists and
poison. She introduced the ruff and
a thirteen-inch waist. This monster
invented steel corset No wonder the
portraits Of that day look 80 solemn
New York Press.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-03

Devil flsh Weighing up TO 800 poundo
are sometimes caught In Japan. Thooe
fish arc amphibious: they are oetsn
seen webbing on their tentaeleo IKE
giant spiders In search Of patches a
sweet potatoes. The natives kin them
with clubs In the water they arc
caught In jars lowered to the bottom.
which the octopus enters thlnking
them . good retreae from which %
catch its food.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-03

dents. aid lie future promises to de-
velop the foremost system Of trade
schools to be found In the union. It
has had over 1900 students. gradual
ing over 800. It's latest student has
just entered the foundry department
from Honolulu. Hawali.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-03

wouldn't you like to live your life
over again.
"And owe twice as much a. I do
now? No; think not"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-03

nished by the Rev. and Ma C. II.
Pinnick. Miss Nettie Bennett q the
n. E. church choir and Meodameo W.T.
bur Ellwell and w. R Warren Of the
Christian church.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-14

CGliaT.
If the potatoes incline to rot. sort
carefully and put in no questionable
specimens. Dust the seemingly per
feet ones with lime.
If the winter suuashes are picked
before they become fully ripe they Will
be much more apt TO mold and rot.
Make the cabbage heads which in
cline to burst into kraut. If % fear
trouble in keeping il cook part and
put into cans. sealing With paratfin.
The solid heads need not be put into
the cellar until November, but may
be left growing.
Do not despise the small beets, tur-
nips and apples. The stock Will need
them if you do not. And it is aston
ishing how much stuff of this kind
chickens require to keep them at their
best. Give them the parings now and
save the small fruit or vegetables for
winter use.
If you have more stuff than YOU
need and it is not of sufficiently good
quality to offer for sale. perhaps some
neighbor could use it to advantage.
Many q poor man is glad to get eve
the culls and Windfalls from q large
orchard-and the latter is the better
for their removal.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-14
FREE BOOK ABOUT CANCER

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ing Facts about the cause OF ANGER;
t5n Nhat 20 do in case Of pain,
bleeding. odor. etc. instructs in the
care Of the patient, and is in fact a
valuable guide in the management of
any case. The book is sent free to
those interested who write for it.
mentioning this paper.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-14

Total 10000, 900
The weights of the bales this year
are about 8 per cent. lighter tina last
year and the spinning quality bou
, per cent. less, or a total Of about 5
per cent. This will give us a crop of
9 $500, 900 bales, equivalent to last
years: weight and spinning quality,
or say in round figures, 100000
less than last years crop, which is
a calamity indeed. My investigation
shows that Georgia and Carolinas
nave produced full average crops,
but all other States have practically
made failures, caused by drOuth. eV-
IRENE high temperatures and the raw
e of the boil WeeVil. Texas was
damaged more than any other State
on account Of the drouth and Louisiana
more on account of the weevil. h
Weevil did great damage also in the
States Of Texas. Arkansas and Mis-
sissippi, and the damage would nave
been still greater had it not been for
the extreme heat and dry weather
which checked the WeeVil bat damaged
the crop. This being a fact. l think
/ can safely say that this crop never
had q chance to be a big one.
The boil weevil is spreading rapidly
and Will very likely cover the entire
State of Mississippi and probably a
| good portion of Alabama within an
other year. This, in my judgment, Will
prevent full crop being raised next
year and until something is dis
covered hat will destroy the Weevil,
Jumper crops are out of the question
and it is a known fact that the weevil
do a great deal more damage to cot
ton crops in woodland sections than
they do in open prairie sections like
Texas. TO illustrate, Louisiana pro-
duced in 1904, loo 900 bales and 1
estimate her production this year at
275.OOO and this shortage is caused
principally by the ravages Of the ball
weevil. so it is not hard to picture
what we may expect in the way Of a
cotton crop when the WeeVil spreads
over the entire cotton belt, when we
glance at the great destruction the
weeyil has done to the cotton crop OF
Louisiana.
suming world is concerned 1t IS very
unfortunate hat this years crop is
such a small one, as a big one was
never so badly needed The cOnsump-
ton has been, and is now running
on a basis of at least 13 IL million
bales annually and with such a small
crop. of course. it means much
smaller consumption, though | feel
confident tina spinners will take and
spin every available bale Of cotton that
has been grown this year, and will
also spin up the small reserve sup
plies that they carried over from
last year. | never believed. however,
that spinners' stocks on the last OF
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-14
When Gathering In.

Have the cellar carefully cleaned be-
fore storing away any Of the winter
supply. If there are detects IN the
wall make them tight WIN mora. :
~ are loose, repair them.
,rhasa little things may be the means
- saving the entire contents OF the
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-14
COTTON
(NorfOlk Nirginian-Pilot.)

(Norfolk Nirginian-Pilot.)
w. p. Browns crop estimate to
Cobb Bros, & Co, Bankers and
Brokers, Norfolk, Va:
100000 bales commercial, which
includes linters and city crops.
| beg to submit for Your informal
ton my annual estimate of the cotton
crop for this year. The result is
based IN the most reliable Informal
ton that l have been able to gather
from all sections of the cotton belt.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-14
4 & 4

60 Twelve Specimen Lessons in Bookkeeping will be sen
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A BUSINESS COURSE of Fifty Lessons sold for 800.
70 cache required for Hon Study
h Science Of ccoun mad Clear an Simple.
cor use in Schools n Colleges n place of Fridays Arithmetic Lesson.
It contains valuable practical information for business Zen. Pro-
Men and Young People. This Boo is Commended by Business
Men ad School Boards
1900 Copies Of Aliens Works in Bookkeeping have been sold. Money
AdarAce GEORGE ALE RaIGh y T
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-14

The farm value of the grain alone Of
the corn crop in our country is more
han twice the value of the cotton
crop, seed and lint included. If the
value of fodder on 100, 900, 900 acres
Of corn were added to the value Of the
grain the total would prove beyond Il
doubt tina corr is King of our dgri-
cultural empire.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-14

september were more than normal.
II thes had been they would not
have taken the great quantity up to
this time hat they have. With the
exception of last year, spiln2rs' tax
ingS of American cotton since Sep
tember are the largest on record.
tthey took last year 13,314,OOO and
their takings UP to date are only
$1,000 bales less than last year) and
prices ranging now about $50 a bale
higher than at the corresponding date
last year. This, to my mind. is quite
convincing that they have only taken
this large quantity at the beginning
of the season because they actually
needed it.
1t is frequently said that high prices
check consumption. | differ somewhat
from the majority of the people on
this point. Prices are only relative,
and / firmly believe that the consum-
ing world is now in a better condition
financially to buy goods made out of
20-cent cotton than they We're a few
years ago, goods made out of 9-cent
cotton. If cotton was available this
year the consumption might run con-
siderably above Is IL million bales,
as q great more cotton is being used
this year on account of wool selling
at double the price it was at this time
last yea There are certain grades of
wool that were selling at 20 cents
a pound last year that are now selling
at over 40 cents. You can substitute
cotton for wool. linen and silk. but
you cannot subs aituto anything for
cotton, hence, the world must have
cotton even if it has to pay much
higher prices than those ruling to-
day, which ] believe it will have to do
based on purely a supply and demand
basis and my advice to SDinnerS is to
protect themselves as early as pos
sible by buying their supplies to run
them until the end of the season. A
word to the cotton grOwerS-In my
Judgment they will do we'll to market
slowly what they have left as | ex-
pect higher prices.
W. p. BROWN.
c. w. NIAGARA. chairman of the IN
ternational Federation of Master Cot
ton SpinnerS, cabled "a local firm yes
terday that S%pinncrs' takings were no
gauge whatever to the actual on
sumption. The reduction in cOnsump-
ton was Liverpool bro
kers were re-selling cotton for spin
ners on account of the paralysis OF
the cotton industry In England. Short
time agreements in some continental
countries have terminated, but these
are being extended.-NeW York Com
mercial.
COTTON.
j. A. Taylor, of the National Gin
ners, declared: IF we gin 900, 600 this
period, compared with 1,413,0G in
same period last year, and continue
at the same ratio to last years figures
the alan of season, we would have
a final ginning Of 10,32O,000 Add 22O,-
900 linters, $4,000 repacks, gives US
10,620, 600. Commercial crop of bales
at least 20 pound lighter than last
season making 10,196,0 900 bales of last
years weight, but even poorer spin
ming value."-New York Commercial.
The farm value of the grain alone Of
the corn crop in our cOuntry is more
than twice the value of the cotton
crop, seed and lint included. If the
value of fodder OF 100, 900, 600 acres
Of corn were added to the value Of the
grain the total would prove beyond d
doubt hat corn is King of our dgri-
. cultural empire.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-05
The Gettysburg Address

Remarks at the Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
November 10. 1868.
HOURSC0RE and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon
this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated
to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that
nation, or any nation SO conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedi-
cate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here
gave their lives that that nation might live. 1t is altogether fitting
and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate,
we cannot halow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or de-
tract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.
but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living,
rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far SO nobly advanced. It is rather for us to
be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from
these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly re-
God, shall have a new birth Of freedom, and that government of the
people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-05

and of laughter. He, the babe that
came here of parents poor and almost
illiterate, is the reason for the temple.
for the crowds and for the oratory.
He Is likewise the reason for the ma
tion existing at all in Its present form.
So these humble acres are not all I'M
productive, even though they cannot
grow crops, for they brought forth a
great soul to lead a people from bond
age and to place before mems eyes a
type of charity and ~forbearance b a
will make us all tenderer and better
for having seen.
The Lincoln farm, after passing out
of the ownership of Thomas Lincoln.
belonged for many years to a family
of the name of Creal, after which II
was bought by a New York capitalist.
a Mr.. bennett, who made some inn
proyements on it with the idea OF
changing 1t into a national park. rms
was abandoned, however, because OF
business reyerses. The farm became
tied up in the litigation of the Den
nett estate and for years was neglect
ed. At last it was sold at public auc-
ton by the authorities of Larue coun-
ty, KY, when it was purchased by
Richard Lloyd Jones as a representa-
tive of Robert j. Collier. A Lincoln
farm association was formed, with
Governor Folk of Missouri at its head
and various distinguished men on Its
directorate. To this body Mr.. Collier
turned over the farm, popular sub
scriptions were raised, a memorial
building was erected, and other i'm
provements were made. AS a result
the Lincoln birthplace farm on FEB.
II will be opened to the public as a
national park. From a scenic aspect
it is a beautiful spot. Near to the
plaza fronting the memorial building
is the famous rock spring, and not far
distant is a picturesque creek, on the
banks of which the boy Lincoln play
ed.
In addition to the dedication of the
farm. a statue of Lincoln will be I'M
yelled in Hodgenville. More important
still, ii is now practically certain that
some form of memorial will be erected
at Washington. a step that should
have been taken long ago.
Everything connected with Abra-
ham Lincoln is held precious by the
American people. His birthplace and
his tomb, his acts and his words. the
people with whom he associated, all
IRE objects of a popular interest such
as has been aroused by few men In
the history OF nations. Compared
with Lincoln's simple greatness most
of the characters grouped around him
suffer by contrast. This is true even
of his family. For one / feel that JUS
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-05

GALL that I am. all that l hope to be-
/ owe to my angel motherll' be after
ward exclaimed. In a year Thomas
Lincoln married a second time, and
the stepmother came as near supply
ing the vacant place In young Abra-
hams heart and life as any other be-
ing could have done. For the boy the
stay in Indiana consisted chiefly Of
hard farm work, with one 1atboat
trip down the Mississippi e its end.
Following his pioneer instincts, Tom
Lincoln in 1880 moved to Illinois.
That winter Abraham, now "his W
man." split rails and started out in
the world for himself. The next year
he tool a second fiatboat trip to New
Orleans and returned to clerk in 4
grocery at New Salem. In 1882 he
served as a captain in the Black
Hawk wal and ran for the legislature,
but was defeated. In 1888 he started
in the grocery business for himself.
but his partner ran off, poor Lincoln
failed, and it took him years to pay
the debt.
Lincoln tried for the legislature q
second time in 1884 and was elected.
remaining In the house eight years. II
part of which time he was minority
leader. His chief acts as a legislator
were his advocacy of internal i'm
p~rovements. his protest against slav-
cry and his leadership of the fight to
remove the state capital from Van
dalia to Springfield.
Other events occurring contempora-
neously with this legislative expert
ence were briefly as follows: In 1894
and 1885 he acted as deputy surveyor
and studied law. In August, 1888.
Ann Rutledge died, throwing Lincoln
into fndescribable gloom. In 1896 he
was admitted to the bar. forming a
partnership with John L. Stuart In
1910 he was an elector OF the Harri-
son ticket. In 1871 he formed a part
nership with Judge Stephen T. Logan
and on Nov. 4, 1912, he was married
to Miss Mary Todd Of Kentucky.
AT the end of his legislative career
Mr.. Lincoln in 1S43 formed his final
law partnership, that with William II
Herndon, which lasted to the end or
his life. In 1914 he was an elector on
the Clay ticket and in 1916 was elect
ed to congress-, which was, properly
speaking. the beginning of his ma
tional career, although his real advent
rs a national figure did not come until
4 decade after his one term In congress ;
was finished.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-05
! The Lincoln Centenary
Many Rare Ceniuses Were Born In
1909, and Abraham Lincoln Was Great
~ est of Them ALI - - - - ~
By EUGENE FERRIS
Copyright eoo by American Press Association

and indirectly contributed to the split
ting of the Democratic party and the
deciding of the election. Oddly also.
the two men were personal friends,
and in the test of war Judge Douglas
came valiantly 10 President Lincoln's
support.
AS for Booth, his motive in Staying
Lincoln has always been something
of a mystery. That there was a con-
spiracy and that he entered into it
there seems little doubt, but his rea-
son for the step has never been made
clear Whether he had a private griev-
ance, acted through sentimental SYM
patty with the south or simply was
crazed by the great event of the pc
Rod is yet a matter of controversy
and doubtless will always remain so.
Considering his talents and brilliant
family connections, the last supposi-
ton Is the probable and certainly the
charitable one.
Lincoln said that his early life
might be described in a line from
Gray, 1.-THE short and simple annals
of the poor" He came of English
Quakers. His parents, while of good
family, belonged to the frontier, had
little or no education and no money.
The son was never burdened with
these things himself. His schooling
altogether did not amount to a year.
Yet he taught himself, reading omniv-
orously such books as he could pro-
cure. Fortunately these were the
best-the Bible, Shakespeare, Aesop,
"Pilgrim's Progress" Thomas Paine.
Robert Burns and the lives of Wash
ington and Clay.
In 1916 the Lincolns left Kentucky
for Indiana, and two years later the
mother died. 1t was a time of intense
misery and saddened the boys life.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-05

LiNJOLN In COG lhC ho
was unable to make enough from the
place to meet the taxes, just as the
earliest one of record, a certain farmer
carpenter Of the name of Thomas LIN
coin, failed to get enough out OF the
barren acres to pay for them.
Yet this stony, unproduetive spot OF
earth Is now one Of the worlds
shrines. On Feb. IL presidents, gov
errors, judges, cardinals and cabinet
ministers foregather there to crate and
dedicate these rocks and sterile soil
patches to the people for all the days
to come. On one of the hills a white
memorial hall patterned after a Greek
temple will likewise be consecrated
and left as a Mecca for future genera
lions. The temple incloses an old mi
room log cabin, with a stick chimney,
one door, one window and no floor at
all. In this cabin was born a man
child whom the world has taken to its
heart-Abraham Lincoln, war president
and liberator, man of meekness and
mercy, strange compound of sorrow
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-05

\ BE LINCOLN never had no regular %schoolin'; !.
~ He never quarterbacked nor pulled stroke oar,
Nor never spent his time and money fooin'
With buried langwidges and ancient lore.
But y y = Abe Earned more
To set him forrerd in the human film
Than all the college felers' kit and bilin'.
q BE LINCOLN never did git hifalutin-
"a Not even tha: in Washin'ton, D. G.
He jit KEEP common, humble, ordn'ry, suitin'
His backwoods corn patch raisin' to a 7.
But = . = Jimmy gee;
Wy, Abe was any statesnan's peer and ekul
And wise as Solomon or old Ezekul.
r RECKON I'm a bit old fashioned, maybe,
But when 1 want a pattern for q man
I'm middlin' shore to measure Father Ably
And cut to fit his homely human plan.
And long IS I can
I'm hootn' loud and rootn' proud, by lucky,
For that old boy from Hodgenville, Kaintucky!
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-05

j. WILKES BOOTH. the scores. Chief
among the poets were Tennyson, Poe.
Holmes, Fitzgerald and Lord Hough-
ton. OF musicians there were Chopin
and Mendelssohn; of scientists, Oar
win and many lesser lights; of fight
ers, Admiral Dahlgren, Kit Carson.
Marshal Canrobert; of statesmen,
Gladstone, Hannibal Hamlin and Abra-
ham Lincoln.
Lincoln and Darwin. perhaps the
most celebrated of the list. were born
OF the same day. One abolished chat
tel slavery, preserved the worlds
greatest republic and set democratic
government a long step forward; the
other revolutionized science and wrote
the word evolution into the Ian
guage and thoughts of men.
Lincoln's fame has grown with ev-
cry hour since his death and is yet
growing. His hold on the hearts of
men comes not alone from his acts
These but brought him into the public
eye. 1t was the sweetness of his char
acter, his mercy and simplicity, his
loyalty to truth, his homely common
sense, his literary quality and his per
feet democracy that have given him
second, If not first, place among the
great men of his own land and won
him the affection of all lands.
The centenary of his birth, on Feb.
IL, will be celebrated as has been that
of no other American. On the birth
place farm in Kentucky a memorial
building will be dedicated, speeches
being delivered by President Roose-
welt, Secretary of War Luke e.
Wright, Supreme Court Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Cardinal Gibbons
and Governors Folk of Missouri and
Wilson of Kentucky. The address OF
President Roosevelt, while short, will
be, it is believed, n of his most am
bilious efforts. 1t will constitute prac-
tically his last important utterance as
president, and he designs to place it
as nearly in the class with Lincoln's
Gettysburg address as he is able. The
memorial building itself is Small ana
of simple but classic design Sur
rounded by Greek pillars and APP
preached by broad flights of steps. it
makes a striking appearance on the
humble Kentucky farm. 1t complete
ly surrounds and incloses the little
log cabin in which Lincoln was born.
which after it's wanderings has been
re-erected on its original site. At the
foot of the steps are a broad sward ana
driveway. with a Flagstaff in the cen
ter. Near by is the rock spring which
was famous even In Lincoln's day
All of this, with the remainder of the
farm, which will be left much as 1t
was before, is to be thrown open to
the public as a national park on Feb
II.
The Lincoln centenary will also be
deliberately celebrated at the tomb of
the martyr president and his former
home in Springfield, at most of the
large cities and in the churches and
elsewhere all over the United States
and in some form throughout the
world.
Two men whose lines of fate cross
ed those of Abraham Lincoln In q
strange and one of them in a sinister
way were stephen A. Douglas and
John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln and
Douglas were lifelong political foes
rivals for the hand of the same girl
rivals for the ~senatorship. rivals IN
debate and rivals for the presidency
Lincoln won In every case, except in