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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-02-19

We have suspected for long time
that the pooling of the 1907 crop made
the average growers no money, and If
these facts could have been made pub
lie in time very little of the new crop
would have gone into Equity pools this
year. The writer has challenged the
management often enough to produce
the figures that show the handsome
profits promised growers, but they have
failed so far to give them out. The
Reporter is pretty well fortified re-
garding the figures of the sales so far
made and we hope to be able to show
shortly just what has been accomplish
ed, even though the management de-
sire them suppressed. That it was not
pleasant subject to refer to could
have been seen at the late state Equity
convention when a delegate asked a
few pertinent questions about the 1907
pooling and was promptly sat down on
and came near being thrown out of the
convention for presuming to want to
know how the business had been ham
died.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-10-15
DUCKS , "!,. PILLS

Will cleanse your liver and puri-
fly your blood and make you feel
like a new man.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-10-15

Marguerite, Of Evansville. Ind. were
the guests of their uncle, Rev. r.
j. Acton and family Friday
Mrs. q. II. Lawrence and daugh-
ter. Miss Ellen, Beaver Dam. returned
home Saturday, after a weeks visit
with friends in this community.
Mrs. Ellen Jmaison. Richaland. Ind,
and Mrs. Columbia Allen, Narrows,
visited Mrs. c. c. White and family
Monday.
Rev. T. J. Acton filled Bro. Law
rence's appointment at Mt. Zion Sun
day.
Miss Crena White is having the
chills.
Miss Bessie F. Acton spent the day
Monday with her mother, Mrs. c. c.
white.
Mr.. George Crumes and Miss Myr-
tie Miller. Horse Branch, were mar
ried az Morgantown during the Fair.
They returned home September 27,and
will make their future home near Sa-
lem. They have the best wishes of
their many friends.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-10-15
Most Damaging Of All Policies.

Free-Trade is the most damaging of
all policies, when considered in ref
erence to American wage-earners- be-
cause 1t condemns them TO direct and
hopeless competition with the ill-paid
labor of the Old World. 1t is the AM
erican public that largely supports
American industries. and the value
OF the product of our mills and fact
cries equals the combined manufact-
uries of Great Britain, Germany and
France. Good wages are essential TO
a right standard of living, and up
on the maintenance of such wages on
national welfare depends. The effect
of putting American labor into d.
rect competition with cheap labor in
Europe and the Orient would be dis
astrous.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-10-15

pie and old fashioned as can be. This
is not anything very swell, zut for
our Sunday school it will do Just as
we'll"
This candy pulling was the terminal
ton of a contest between the ladies
and gentlemen of Cromwell union
Sunday school begun some three
months ago. The agreement was that
the losers should entertain the win
ners and of cours thee ladies won
by a big majority. The entertainment
was set for Friday October l, and
was one long to be remembered by
all present. DIR. E. w. Ford, Hartford
by a special invitation was present
and gave a very instructive talk
along Sunday School lines.
At $50 Misses Norma Miller and
May Rogers announced that the can
dy was ready for pulling. We all
made a break for the Masonic Hall
for futher instructions the ladies all
passed in without any molestation
but the men. poor fellows had their
pockets pulled for ten cents. They
We're TO pay for the pulling you know.
Everybody had a good time. Uncle
Jack Taylor thought 1t even beat pos
sum Hunting" and not half SO danger
Gus, he said.
Tom Cooper and Joe Keown We're
there smiling and feeling young again.
Miss Norma Miller burnew a big blist-
er on her finger but she pulled candy
just the same.
Fun is not all we want in Cromwell,
neither is having fun all our Sunday
school is doing, as is evidenced by
fourteen conversions 10 Christ during
this year. The people OF this town
and community are interested as
never before in the christian work and
the time is not for off when all will
join hands and work as brothers and
sisters for the upbuilding of the town
spiritually as well as intellectually
and financially.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-10-15
BOARD IS FORMED
TO TEDISTRICT STATE
Gov. Wilson Selects Committee
To Make Senatorial and
Legislative Districts.

Frankfort, Ky, Oct. 5.-More impor-
tant to the welfare of Kentucky than
amy act he has performed since he
has been the States Chief Executive
was the appointment by Gov. Wilson
to-day OF a committee bipartisan in
the political complexion to prepare a
measure for the consideration of the
next General Assembly, redistricting
the State into Senatorial and Legisla-
tive districts, in accordance with the
Constitution, the geography and the
census.
JUDGE HUMPHREY CHAIRMAN.
Judge Alex z. Humphrey, of Louis
vile, a Democrat, is named as chair
man Of the committee. The other
members are Col. Andrew Cowan,
Louisville, Republican; Col, John r.
Allen, Lexington, Democrat; o. H.
Waddle, Somerset, Republican; John
F. Hager, Ashland, Democrat; F. l..
Edelen, Frankfort, Republican,; John
f. Shelby, LXington, Democrat; l.. j.
Crawford, Newport, Republican; Jere
Sullivan, Richmond, Democrat; c. U.
McElroy, oBwling Green, Republican.
Mr.. Shelby is the Democratic mem
her of the State Board of Election
Commissioners, and Mr.. Sullivan was
the Democratic leader of the last Hou
of Representatives.
The Governor says that as there is
no provision Of law to pay the ex-
lenses of the committee he shall be
glda to ask the General Assembly, If
it approves the result of the laborers,
to pay the necessary expenss incurred
in making the preliminary investiga-
lions.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-10-15
Oldest Honse in Kentucky.

A Scott county woman, who recent
ly visited Crab Orchid Springs, sends
in the following:
Situated on a prominence in Lin
coin county, with Muldose Mountains
IN the distance, is said to be the
oldest brick house in Kentucky, hav-
ing been built between the years
1888 and 1890 by Col. William Whit
ney the grandfather of Mrs. Mary
Moore, of Georgetown. In the front
room, then known as the "big" room,
Col. Whitney met with and entertained
the Indians when making treaty
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-10-15
ChiIdren Cry
FOR FlETCHER'S
Q q STO q
A Corset String Trust.

Now the corset trust has taken a
steel-ribbed grip upon the neck of the
and garroted it with
linen strings. But the squeezed and
gasping common people have found a
champion. A Chicago dispatch to the
Cincinnati Enquirer says: "The Re-
tailers" Commercial Union has come
TO it's rescue with lance in rest and
determined to enforce the rule of trade
that Free strings go with the corset
At the Grand Pafic hotel to-day a
shot was fired that will be heard
around the world. 1t was this: Re-
solved, That a corset lace is a part Of
the original construction and as nee
essary to the corset as laces in shoe
or buttons on a mans trousers and
coat, and should not be considered a
by-product for which extra charge
should be made; and that we vigorous
iy condemn all manufacturers in the
corset trust for refusing to include a
pair of laces in the sale of each cor
set. Liberty shrieked for several hours
before the declaration of war was com
pile, but all the speeches were on the
one side. 1t was a meeting of the
executive committee of the union
which has for its purpose collective
buying by retailers in the middle west
The pull back on the corset strings was
denounced by President w. II. Cen
ner, of Pennington, Iowa, as unfair
unjust and illegal and an injury TO
the middle classes and lobOring peo-
pie who stand the burden of the extra
cost A long pull and a strong pull
and pull altogether on the corset
string and We will break the trust
said another speaker
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-10-15
SWEETHEART OF
TAFT EXPLAINS
Dad No Idea That President Was
Going to Mention Their
Romance.

= North Yakima, Wash, Oct. 10-Mrs
II. e. Dodge, to whom President Taft
alluded during his visit here as an
"old sweetheart of NINE" today made
her first statement regarding her girl
I hood romance with Mr.. Taft. She was
found on her ranch In the lower
Natchez valley, ten miles from here.
'Mr. Taft and grew up as children
together in Cincinnati" she said, IAN
from our earliest days we were dear
friends. In one sense of the term we
Were sweethearts, though most people
have put an unfortunate interpreta-
ton on the word the president used.
Our parents went to the same Uni
tartan church and we took deep in
terest in each othet.
During more recent years Mr.. Taft
was little at his Cincinnati home and
j saw him seldom.
when l heard that Mr.. Taft was
going to be in Yakima l went down
there to see him. He invited me into
his private car and introduced me to
some of his Washington friends as his
old sweetheart. / had no idea he was
going to mention it upon the car plat
form.
He was not at all like the boy and
man l had known at home. l am glad
that my old friend was so highly hon
ored and / am proud of him"
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-10-15
"Girl With Gray-Green Eyes"

Miss Elizabeth Magic, 1.-THE girl with
the grey-green eyes," who few years
ago attracted worldwide attention by
offering herself to the highest bid
der, has startled Chicago with a So
Geological dissertation entitled, "A
graphic description of hell by one VIII
is actually in it,"
- Miss Magic, in this new declaration,
pictures the servitude in which she
says the masses of the American peO-
pie are living and tells of the suffer-
ing, hardships, embarrassments and
unpleasantnesses she has endured be-
cause she is self supporting. Here
are some of her epigrams:
ut is hell to have a superior educa-
ton and TO have TO work for and ODE
the commands of ignorance.
"To have a sensitive and refined ma
ture and have to be forever brushing
up against pigs.
ITO have an ear for fine music and
have to be tortured by street organs.
ITO know that you can do some
things better than other people and
have to live in little Sx1O hall bed
room.
"To hang on to a street car strap,
with several bundles under your other
arm, and see ilver-harnessed bulldogs
riding by in automobiles.
ITO pray for an angel and get
devil.
ITO crave the society of clean, cul-
tured people and have the ianitor in
vite you to an amusement park.
ITO love the best candy and never
have any.
ITO have clear conscience and
clean record and go to bed hungry.
ITO have long-facea, sanctimonious
cusses tell you that the Lord loveth
whom he chasteneth.'
"To be always in debt to the land
lady.
ITO have these everlasting don't
worry and keep smiling signs staring
you in the face when you don't know
where your next meal Is coming from.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-10-15

other business, as time rolls on, farm
ing has undergone a revolution, and
we must change with it. The process
es and methods employed one hundre
years ago will not work successfully
to-day, and those who still use them
and try to teach them to their boys
make failure of their undertaking.
l would say, take your boys more
into your confidence and interest them
with the whole working of the farm,
and give them a chance to prove them
selves. They may have some idea on
certain branches that you are doubt
full of; set aside little portion of your
land to experiment on, or let them
do the experimenting; but don't be to-
harsh on them, even if they fail, for in
experimenting they show the true spir'
of the future farmer Your boy may
have a tendency toward fruit and
poultry and pigeons take his fancy,
or perhaps stock raising is his de-
light, we say never stop him, for all
these and many more not here men
toned belong to the farm. 1t Is true
we will be most successful in those
things in which we take an interest.
We can not expect success in any,
thing If we only take half an inter-
est in it, and If we don't put our
whole heart into the subject it will
not pay, fincially or otherwise.
We need more fairness institutes
and similar institutions, where we
can meet and intrchangee views, and
when we attend take all or any of
our families who wish to hear what
others may have to tell us, and in so
doing profit thereby. Let us uphold
all helpful and useful plans for the
advancement of the farmers inter-
ests, and as we pass from the drama
of life our boys may have the oppor-
tunity of as good, If not better, field
of action.
If we wish our doy to become a
doctor, we send him to a medical col
lege, or to the law school to become
a lawyer, and by the same reasoning
we should give him an agricultural
education to become a farmer. The
opinion is shared by too many people
that to become farmer our boys don't
neck any special preparation--they
say he can pick it up by himself. OF
course, he can pick up a great deal;
but if he has good instruction, how
much more he will know. l again
make the urgent plea to keep the boy
on the farm, by making the outlook
for him as you can. You can not do
SO by keeping his ears tingling with
the story of your reverses and bad
ventures, but by dwelling on the
sunny side, by telling him some of
your successes.
Don't encourage your boy to be al
ways hunting that soft snap" in
town, for the most of them turn out
to be nothing but hard propositions.
There may be more in your boys
than you thought. and you should give
them opportunity to show you that
there is.
The more parents that do this, the
fewer rundown and unproductive
farms there will be in the future.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-10-15

with them regarding the capture Of
white women and children. In this
same room on the high mantle are
thirteen stars, representing the thir-
teen States then in the Union. Ken
lucky at that time being portion of
Virginia. The woodwork is all hand
carved and or the stairway is carved
at each step an eagle with an olive
branch in its mouth. The attic. quite
low structure, was Nle ballroom
and from the small windows at each
end, 1t is told, the whites fired on the
Indians when with hostile intentions
they were around the premises.
The brick of which the house was
built were burned near by and in dia-
mond shape are placed glazed brick
to add TO the quaintness of the struct-
ure. IL is said farm was paid for
the brick and a number of barrels
of whisky were given to build the
house. The chimney in one room is
twelve feet wide, the walls of the
house being two feet thick. The doors
are two ply with metal between to
insure safety from the enemy.
The farm contains 1870 acres. now
owned by Mrs. Galhe Pennington, who
takes pleasure in showing strangers
through the entire house gives them
in her affable way what information
she can about her quaint and much
loved home.-Georgetown Times.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-10-15
FAIRVIEW.
NO. ate for Lalst Week.


Oct. 5,-The protracted meeting ut
this place closed Saturday night, with
good results. Twenty-one were admit
ted to the Cane Run and Olaton
churches and were baptized Sunday
morning al Olaton by Bro. Lawrence.
This was a great meeting and Won
derful revival of Gods spirit among
His people.
Mrs. Ellen Jamison, Rlchland, Ind,
is visiting relatives and friends in
this community.
Miss Bessie F. Acton returned home
Friday night. after a three weeks
visit with relAiives in Owensboro.
Mrs. Iva Blnckle and LITTLE daugh-
ters, Misses Easter Lillian, and Nora
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-10-15
How to Keep your Boy on the
Farm.

AS we travel along and notice some
of our best farms running on the
downward course, the question pre-
sents itself. Why is this when we
know that all the world, city and
country alike, depends on the farm for
the sustenanoe of life? Destroy our
farms. Danish our farmers, what do
W. behold? The answer is, look at
Cuba, the once proud Pearl of the
Antilles" ruin and desolation. We
must get farmers to understand the
importance of their position in re-
gard to the affairs of life. When
farmers realize the importance of
their occupation, and unite for mu-
tual protection, then l verify believe
the questions of overtaxation and sup
ply and demand will be adjusted.
We must not wait for some other
generation to take up these questions,
.Rt meet and settle them ourselves.
Begin at onee-the present is always
the accepted time. 1 would say instil
into the Young a love for the farm
and all that pretains to 1t, and never
for moment allow them to think of
farm life as drudgery or slavery.
Sometimes We are farming not be-
cause We like the occupation, but be-
cause of the force of circumstances.
rrnh hA he Ill
not become farmers, because they are
Not taught in that direction. We our
selves disliking the occupations can
not be in a position to teach others
to like it. In many instances farmers
children lose part of their schooling.
Why should they? No good answer is
given. We dwell on this as one of
the drawbacks. The girls are not
often kept at home, We are glad to
know, but the boys, we don't mean
the big fellows, but the little chaps,
toe or twelve years old, must stay at
home and lose the chance some of
their playmates have. Do you think
they love the farm for this? No but
their playmates have. Do you think
] am sorry to say it creates a feeling,
akin to hatred for the farm, when
not the farm but methods used should
bear the blame, and there is formed
in the young mind a determination
to leave such system; and sometime
1t is that our young men are driven
from the farm, the beautiful farm.
their birthright, and go to the now
over-crowded cities to seek for some
thing better. Outlines. we are sorry
to say, they sell their birthright, like
Esst of old, for mess of pottage.
Now when we give our boys proper
home training and supplement this by
a liberal common school. or perhaps
higher school, education, we do our
duty to prepare them to meet the is
SINS before them with some knowl-
edge. for without knowledge acquired
by some means, how can we do any
thing? 1t is said II you educate your
boys. they will leave the farm for
sure. Some of them may, but not all.
We San point TO many farmers who
are college-bred men. One important
point raised is, that farming dosent
nav. Possibly it dosen't, along the old
ruts. You must keep abreast with
/ the times and make it pay. Like any
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-10-15
N E Nd MALLS
CHILL TONIC
Best for Malaria, Chills and
Fever. Guaranteed.
What Shall i Be.

What shall it be? The Superintend-
ant looked at the committee, the COM
mite was at sea. After some mo-
ments of silent thought, while all
were anxiously waiting and time was
passing fast, Old Stonewall says 81
have solved the problem at last,
candy pulling we shall have as SIM
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-10-15
Up Before The Bar.

N. H. Brown, an attorney of Pitts
field, VT, writes: I'VE have used
DIR. Kings New Life Pills for years
and find them such a good family
Spedicine we wouldn't be without ther
For Chills, Constipation, Billiousness
or Sick Headache they work wonders,
25c at all druggists. m
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-19

than five hundred feet deep, one end
of the crack admitting light from a
deep gorge. The draft of air coming
up from below and out of this crack
is overpowering in its force.
We might go on for long period
naming beauties to be seen in this
world of natures richness of which
John Otto is the presiding genius but
space will not permit. We have made
no exaggerations whatever.
People of Grand Junction wake up
to the wonderful possibilities afford
ed to make Monument Canon and its
sister canons one of the widest known
scenic wonders of the west. John
Otto's plans for a wagon trail are
feasible and not very expensive. To-
day he has completed four miles of
as fine a foot trail as can be found
anywhere in the mountains of the
state. Go see for yourself. Drive to
the foot of the trail and then go
horseback or burroback 1t will be
an experience never to be forgotten.
This weak sketch will only give you
slight conception of this little
known section. A paradise of beauty
is just at our gates, let us let the
world know of it,
At the same time keep in mind the
work this lover of nature, John Otto
is doing He is asking no credit yet
he deserves it all. Single handed he
has opened this great playground to
the world. w. w.
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-19
INVESTIGATION MADE Of GREAT
SCENIC SPOT NEAR THIS CITY
Wonderful Sights Viewed By Committee from Chamber OF
Commerce Grand Junction Asleep to Possibilities OF
OPENING to the World of of the Greatest Paradises
of Natural Beauties to be Found in the West-Rght at
the Gates of the City.

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gates it IS of
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The daily sentinel., 1909-04-19

| Yesterday morning at an early
hour Secretary Mahoney of the
Chamber of Commerce and Directors
S. b. Hutchinson, Thomas NJ. Todd
and Walter Walker left Grand June
tion as a committee from the Cham
Der of Commerce to make a thorough
investigation of Monument park,
Monument canon and its sister can
ons, brought into prominence by the
| tireless, commendable and noble eff
forts of that man of the mountains.
that builder of trails, that lover of
| nature-John Otto, the hermit OF
Monument canon.
1t was beautiful day for such a
trip. Il was the first party that has
gone out of the city this spring to
investigate the Monument canon
country. and before the day was end
ed the four gentlemen had visited
portions of that undeveloped and
practically unknown section that had
never been visited by local people.
The drive from Grand Junction to
what John Otto calls the Grand juno
tion entrance to the canon is easy
and pleasant and interesting. Down
Fifth street. across the two rivers.
through the rich lands of the Red
mesa, up the No Thoroughfare canon
road for time. then branching off
to the west and south, and, after a
drive of an hour and a half from
Grand Junction. you reach the foot
of the remarkable trail that has been
built by John Otto. This drive out
from the city over splendid roads is
n pleasure in itself. The view afford
ed along this drive is very pretty.
With bridge across the Grand riv-
er at the foot of Main street the drive
from Grand Junction to the foot of
the trail would be lessened at least
3 miles and would not be over an
hours duration at the greatest
A word here about John Otto and
his great work Sentinel readers are
familiar with this man. He is Il PEE
culiar yet fascinating; a strange, yet
splendid fellow. Years ago he took
up his residence in one of the canons
near Fruita. From time to time he
would work as a cowboy. then as a
road builder and then on the ranches.
His love for nature and her works
has always been most pronounced; ;
we might say, unusual. Long ago
the people at Fruita began to call
him a hermit. Others called him Il
crank.
All the time he was endeavoring
to arouse interest in the great play
ground and show ground of nature.
Few people knew anything of the un-
developed section of which he talked.
Few paid any heed to his statements
and his plans. He was put down as
a dreamer. Perhaps he is dreamer,
but his dreams have a wonderful de-
gree of materiality and substance.
All the time he continued TO explore
the wild and rugged country. made
up of canons and gorges, peaks and
monuments, table lands and bench
es. west and south of Grand junction
and south and west of Fruita.
John Otto is young man of not
more than 81 years; tall; 1.-THE
blacll-haired: strong, good-loolking
| face; well versed in current events
and possessing considerably more