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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-08-05

The farmer is the rich man of
the country today" says Senator
Chauncey M. Depew. By the way
the New York World asks: What
has become of that commission
which was to uplift the farmer"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-08-05
How the Tariff Works.

Here is an article on the tariff
that is as good as anything we have
seen. 1t is entitled, Scene at the
Sugar Trust Distributing Agency"
enter Two Country Grocers.)
First Grocer l want a barrel of
standard granulated. What's the
price?
Agent - Where's your place of
business?
First Grocer Coberg, Ontario.
Agent Export price $3.50.
Here's a 1926 pound barrel. The
amount is $845. Thanks. (To
the second grocer What can l do
for you?
Second Grocer A barrel of
standard granulated. Two-sixty is
pretty cheap, isn't it?
Agent Where's your place of
business?
Second Grocer-Hammondsport,
New York
Agent-Thatll be $4.60-, 1926
pound barrel is $1494
Second Grocer But you just
sold that man a barrel for $780,
Agent Oh, he's a Canadian deal
er. He gets the export price which
is $500 a hundred under the do
nestle price.
Second Grocer -And that's what
the tariff does, is it?
CT. Drescher. son E. L. Drescher
and Henry Schmitt went to Palmy-
"a, Saturday to attend the funeral
of the former gentleman's uncle.
Henry Boetcher.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-08-05

Richard Gray has gone to Wanda
liza to remain while, at least He
is always welcome in this section of
the country.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-08-05

Shelbina and Paris are to have
an airship. Monroe City has got"
the horses.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-08-05

Miss Mamie Saunders, of Lake
nan has been with friends in this
city.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-08-05

Mrs. Belle McElroy, of Palmyra
arrived Friday afternoon to visit
relatives.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-08-05

Miss M. Drummer, of Woodland
has been with friends in this
city.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-08-05

DR.. William Bell, of Stoutsville
came over Friday afternoon to visit
his friend, DR.. A. w. Miles.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23

gun in the United States, but as the
model grew they discovered that their
ideas were being assimilated by local
experts. When you consider that
three European governments are will.
ing to pay an immense sum for a re.
liable nayy-smasher, 1t seemed worth
their while TO quit the States and com.
plete the submarine IN England.
Arriving at Liverpool they learned
that two American torpedo agents
were on their heels. Not caring to
begin work they postponed all fur
ther trials until the coast wah clear.
But the agents were painfully early
risers and dogged their movements
night and day. To have started ex-
perimentng on the open beaches and
rivers of England would have been
like handing their brains to foreign
Torpedo Trust They got scared, and
finally hired a schooner that brought
them and their submarine to the South
Seas, where the design-snatchers
snatchers could be dealt with II they
yentured within hundred-mile radi-
us.
THE Jap inventors wanted the run
of lagoon where stores and food
could be had. And they were willing
to pay handsomely. told 'em that
the island was mine-beach, palm
trees, trade house and lagoon-and
that there wasn't native In the South
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23

A champagne cork popped under
the awning; the scent of cheroot
rose like incense amid the offal that
trails eternally In the wake of pearls.
The wine mellowed Hayes, softened
the blade-like edge of his overwrought
mind until his laughter was heard by
the Trepang fishers across the bay.
The man who owns pearl lagoon
has got to sell his dignity and watch
the skyline" he said, after a pause.
I've been in the business for eighteen
years, sir, and know thief schooner
from mission boat. | bought Ia
goon once from an old German down
in the Shoe Archipelago that cost me
$4,000 and my reputation as Jap kill.
er.
"The Shoe Archipelago is long way
south of the Marquesas, but there were
shelters who'd have gone to the ice
limit to put in years fishing at Eight
Bells Lagoon-that was the name
gave it. From reef to reef it was
packed with golden edge shell, little
baby pearl the size of your thumb
nail, stuff that will tempt nine thieves
out of ten into your waters. Golden
edge shell is slow to mature, and
thought it worth while to sit down and
wait year or so and give it time to
grow.
THE old German who sold me the
island had put up notice stating
that he'd gun the first poacher who
took an oyster from the lagoon. So
when the pearl banks became my
property | reckoned that the printed
notice had claim on my ammunition.
"One afternoon schooner ripped
into the passage and started to wind
herself round the buoy. Before my
mate, Bill Howe, could bring me my
Sunday uniform couple of Japs put
off in dinghy and climbed up the
steps to my tradehouse veranda. Their
names were written on ivory cards
Matt Hannigin and Sustu Ma. They
gave me to understand that they were
graduates from the Tokyo University
"Then they bowed and showed me
the diamonds on their fingers. was
considerably impressed. 1t takes three
generations they say, to make gen.
tleman. l reekoned by the way they
kowtowed that their forefathers had
been practicing bowling since Colum-
bus first pointed the way to Chicago.
Their business was in a nutshell.
They had with them the skeleton of
a submarine designed and thought out
by themselves. 1t was an improve
ment on the old French type and cap
able of destroying the largest battle.
ship afoat. Its construction was be-
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23
Farm Notes.

Laying hens need animal feed. Sup
ply them with ground or green cut
bone. If possible, or good beef scrap,
which can be purchased of any supply
house. Skim milk, sour or butter milk
also is good.
If the henhouse is damp ditch about
it SO as to carry off outside moisture
as soon as possible, then fill up the
inside until the floor is at least six
inches higher than the ground out
side. Gravel is the best to use in
house of this kind, where floor Is not
laid.
A hundred lice in a poultry house
will multiply to thousand in very
short time, and million within
month, unless checked. 1t is much
easier to dispose of them when they
number only hundred than to wait
until they Have multiplied to a mil
lion.
Good drinking fountains for young
chicks may be made by punching three
or four nail holes near the open end
of tin fruit can, I'll with water and
invert In saucer. The water in the
saucer will only reach the depth that
the holes are from the mouth of the
can. By using this they can not get
into the water and fresh supply is
held in reserve in the can.
1t will soon be time for many of the
poultrymen to begin to dispose OF part
of their breeding stock to make room
for the growing youngsters and 1t Will
be a great chance to purchase good
stock at low price, as birds are gen.
orally sold at this season for less than
half of their regular value. Any one
desiring to begin the raising of thor
oughbred stock should look out for
these bargains.
The temperature of the .brooder can
be lowered degrees each week until
it is down to 70. 1t should be kept
at that as long as 1t is necessary to
keep the chicks In brooders. They can
be taken from the brooder at the age
OF six or eight weeks, according to the
weather and put in colony coops, put
ting about twenty-five to the coop. A
hundred-chick brooder will comfort
ably accommodate about fifty chicks
as long as they require artificial heat.
Never before in the history -of the
poultry industry has there been such
an interest in pure-bred poultry as
tbara is at this fife and this Is no
passing fancy. This country is be.
coming great poultry country, and
the business has been taken in hand
by men who have to do with the
markets of the world. There are now
in cold storage thousands of fowls
which are to be shipped to Europe,
and this in the faee of the fact that
our home demand is as great as the
supply.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23
Rhode Island Reds.

Rhode Island Reds date back about
fifty years to the rocky coast of Rhode
Island, when some Of the small farm
ers began to cross the large red Malay
cocks which were imported from
Southern Asia, with the Cochin China
hens. The idea was to produce a
strong bird, about the average in size,
which could stand the cold, rough win
ters and hustle pretty well during the
rest of the year. The mating proved
very satisfactory, and the cross was
bred for egg production and uniform
ity in size, color, and markings. II
was not, however, until the year 1886
that the name Rhode Island Red was
given to this Rhode Island production.
II cannot be said that the origin of
the Rhode Island Reds was an acci.
dental happening. 1t seems to have
been carefully planned and splendidly
worked out.-Epitomist.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23
Lining Yards.

The scattering OF fine lime over the
yards occasionally (and also on the
floor and walls Of the poultry house,
Is often of very material assistance in
keeping down lice. In case disease
develops in the flock, give the house
thorough clearing out and dust the
lime over every part, and -.bo In the
runs. The same measures will also
act as preventive. Sucn treatment OF
the soil also adds to its fertility. and
II at any time a crcp should be grown
In the poultry runs the manurial and
chemical effects OF the lime will be
noticeable. Another good thing is to
make free use of lime under the roosts,
as 1t deodorizes the manure and keeps
the droppings platform sanitary and
the air pure and wholesome.-R. b.
Sando, In the Epitomist.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23
Variety Essential for Poultry.

There is no difficulty in providing
variety for small flock, as the table
scraps will assist, but for fifty or
hundred fowls, resort to foods that
are easily obtained is required. Cut
clover, meat, milk, linseed oil cake
and cabbage will all serve to vary the
diet. 1t is when fowls are fed on
grain during the whole time that they
refuse to lay. But even the grain may
be varied if corn is Withheld and oats,
wheat and buckwheat are used in ro-
tation. Fill trough full of corn and
place 1t where the fowls can eat all
they desire They will soon begin to
refuse it, as they require something
which the corn does not contain, and
they will not produce many eggs until
they are gratified. Variety of food is
not only essential to egg production,
but assists in keeping the flock in a
healthy condltion.-Weekly Witness.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23
Farm Mechanics.

Every farm should have workshop.
The building may be large or small. 1t
is not necessary to have it very ex-
pensive. The tools may be few or
many, but what there are should be
good No man can do good work with
poor tools, and good tools cost but lit
tie more than poor ones. A building
ten by twelve feet will answer for a
blacksmith shop with small vice
bench In one corner. If this is fitted
with a good chimney, forge, anvil,
hammer, tongs and good steel vice,
considerable blacksmithing work can
be done to advantage.
There should be a small stove to
make the shop comfortable in winter.
This is very important because there
is more time to work in shop IN
the winter and you can't work with
blacksmith's tools in a frosty atmos-
phere.
Carpenters work is different. A
carpenters bench may be placed
against the side OF the building and
covered with shed roof, for, If neces-
sary, carpenter work may be done
outside If you have covered place
for the bench and tools.
A much better arrangement is to
have a blacksmith shop in one end OF
q larger building and carpenter shop
in the other end with a partition be-
tween. There should be no shavings
lying about a blacksmith shop; there
is too much danger from fire. For
another reason the two kinds Of work
do not jibe we'll together. 1t is COM
paratively easy to keep blacksmith
shop In order, but there is great deal
Of litter about a woodworking shop
and farmer never finds time to keep
such things neatly In order.
In buying woodworking tools the
best are the cheapest. 1t is poor econ
omy to buy cheap tools Not many
are needed for common repair work
and a good kit may be had for few
dollars.
instruction books on mechanics may
help a good deal. The principles may
be studied out and applied in the shop.
The boys on the farm take up such
things easily and often make good me-
chanics.-Epitomist.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23

edge pearl. I was more like hallow
bathing house when 1t opened out, and
l could hear the clatter Of shell in
side as the divers spilled 1t from their
loaded baskets into the receiver.
I guess these people have been
working the same game for the last
ten years. say to Bill. But wait till
my bulldogs come In. Gilbert and
Sullivan's operas won't be in it.
1--WE had whiskey each. Then Bill
clawed the air and theorized about let
ting of his gun. Up to the third whis-
key he kept to the point; after that
he talked hyperbole and frivolity.
You amt the man you was, Mul.
ly. says he bitterly.
Fighting is sinful, says I, when
you can pawn and dislocate your ene-
my without getting out of bed, VIII
liam.'
eve walked round the lagoon, keep.
ing we'll In the shadow Of the woods.
The moon was UP and the water leap
ed and gurgled over the reefs as the
tide crawled in. Bill held my arm
to hundred ghost-llght flashing from
the ocean into the lagoon.
The bulldogs says l.
"The bloodtscent had fetched 'em
from the north and south-big, gray
backed sharks, thirteen feet long, You
could see and hear them moving In
droves across the lagoon.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23
Care of Lambs.

Examine the udder OF each eve and
were necessary to cut away al locks
of wool SO that the lamb may have
free and unobstructed access to the
teats; otherwise the lamb is liable to
suck and swallow some wool, which
forms into a ball in the stomach,
eventually causing death when the
lamb is three or four weeks Old
Farmers Home Journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23
Build Poultry Houses Early.

Now is the time to build your hen
houses for next winter so they will
be done and the ground will be dry.
Build either out of shiplap or dry lum-
ber, for If built of common lumber,
the cracks must be striped
Three years ago l built two hen
houses ten by twenty-four feet, five
feet high on back and eight feet front.
The last three years have only kept
from 120 to 125 hens. will give you
the egg record we have kept through
the winter and show the gain we have
made by different feeds:
Jan. ..1O72 eggs 14J2 eggs 1915 eggs
Feb. ..1361 " 1921
Mar. .222S " 30S5
Look at the gain from the first to
the last, 743 eggs. The gain was more
than enough to pay the expense OF
feeding. The feed Of the morning is
corn, wheat, cats Ind kaffir corn mixed
and put in litter of straw and shredded
fodder about eight inches deep.
At noon every other day feed one
gallon of milk with bran and four
pints of dried beef scraps made in
a stiff mash. At night, feed as much
corn as they will eat and keep oyster
shells by them all the time. Keep
plenty of fresh water by them at all
times. Feed the hens early In the
morning so they will know where to
go to get their feed and they will
soon learn to know where to find it.
Water them early, too, for laying hens
like plenty OF fresh water. never
fed kaffir corn until this year, and find
1t to be one of the best grains can
feed.
Clean out the hen house where they
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23
MAIN FARM FOR MISS KELLER.
Will Move to the Country That Her
Work May Be UNINTERRUPTED.

Miss Helen Keller, the noted deaf
and blind young woman, must leave
Wrentham, Mass, to escape social
claims. The proximity of her present
home to Boston has resulted In con-
stant flow Of visitors and has serious
ly interfered with what she intended
to be her life's work.
John A. Macy, one Of the editors of
The Youths Companion. who has been
a resident Of Wrentham for nearly five
years, has purchased fine old es-
tate at Pennellville, about FIVE miles
from Brunswick, Me-, and with him
and Mrs. Macy, Miss Keller will make
her permanent home in that state.
Miss Keller is planning several
books, and in order to write them she
wishes leisure and seclusion. Living
near Boston entailed great many So
cial engagements, but by removing
Into the country she hopes to be able
to devote a large part of her time to
her work and to her large volume of
correspondence, brought about by her
interest in the blind and deaf. Her re-
cent book has brought out an ex-
tensive correspondence from all over
Europe and South America.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23
J STI1E FARMERS HOME AND AClES4

roost once week, using a broom af-
ter you get all you can with shovel.
Clean out the scratching part every
two or three weeks. sprinkle lime
and ashes under the roosts. | have
100 Single Comb Buff Leghorns and
2S Single Comb Buff Orpingtons.
Last week we gathered in 105 eggs
one day. We use glass eggs in every
nest. Feed and water regular and
the hens will lay regular.-E. E.
Hedrick.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23
Lime for Egg Eaters.

Professor J. e. Rice, Of Cornell Uni
verify, Ithaca, N. Y, in the course of
an address at the poultry institute OF
Guelph, Can, said cne of the results
Of Withholding lime from pullets was
that they ate all their eggs. This may
account for not little of the egg-eat-
ing about which SO many farmers are
now complaining.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23
SCATTERED TO THE FOUR WINDS.

Boston tells of boy walking downtown street
who careey piece of till he had handful of bits
which he then tossed policeman stopped him compelled
him gather these floating
not for the wind had scattered them John Fa writing
the Epworth Herald adorns this tale with another
that all Of could heed with But
omnibus, forgetting
roundngs made to his seamate
Brought his sharp
who wished
He determined he would again be guilty Of the
Only later
guilty thoughless friend
spoken than he onged gather them the
gathered the scattered bits
him unless who him
thoughtful than they
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23
Value of Salt for Cows.

The Mississippi station has found
that three cows kept without salt will
produce fifty-five pounds less milk in
week than they will when they have
all the salt they want.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23
WHEN As A LAD.
isabsI Eoolestone Maekay.

When, = a lad, break of day
l watched the fishers sail away,
My thoughts like nocking birds, would follow
Across the curving skys blue hollow,
Into the very heart of dawnl
For long I searched the worldi All, me!
I searched the sky searched the sea,
With much useless grief and ruelng,
Those winged thoughts of mine pursuing
So they
So lovely and far away
/ seek them stl and always will
Until aggard heart is still,
follow, follow,
curving sky's blue hollow,
Those thoughts fleet
the souls swift feet!
From Ainslee's Magazine
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23


Pacific game to rattle a handful Of
beads without my permission.
1--WE fabricated extensively, to eacE
others internal satisfaction. We also
smiled.
Il was to be partner in the sub
marine speculation. A reliable sub
marine Is an investment that shoots
half million into mans lap. He
is dollar swamped, and his life Is full
of music and press notices. was pos
tive that the Jap's invention was a
work Of genius. | mightn't know
twelveinch gun from gaspipe, but
you could back horses on my instinct
when 1t came to drawing up an agree
ment.
Il stood hand on hip while the war
splitting machine was landed at the
foot of the trade house. The deeps
of partnership had been fixed up; 1t
was concave agreement with the
bulge in my direction. | showed them
Eight Bells Lagoon and the sky above
it. asked them II 1t would suit their
submarine.
after sizing 1t all round they said
it would fit them to yard
Before dinner we rowed across the
lagoon in my whaleboat. l was mum
about The golden-edge spat lying on
the floor Couldn't see how 1t would
interfere with the submarine practice.
Then | examined their credentials and
found 'em clean as British ambassa-
doris. Putting one thing with an
other hailed myself partner in a
spac that would pull out on the sunny
side Of $4,000.
"The fifth night the Japs started
maneuvering their submarine against
the wind and tide. Bill rushed into
The trade room like a spring-heeler
rooster looking for fight
THAT war machines making its
fortune across the lagoon, Cap'n, says
he.
Doing submarine work. says l.
With your golden edged Shells
says he. They've lifted and scraped
together half a ton Of pearl an pack
ed it away aboard the schooner. BY
the time they're done with the lagoon
there won't be enough shell left to
cover a dinner plate
You mean,' says l, that they're
loading that barrel-shaped thief ma
chine with my goldenedged pearl?'
"-'An, maneuyerin' CaD'n'
81 guess my intellect was off the
grass when it allowed a couple OF
Shinto greasers and patent diving
machine into lagoon that was packed
to the shore line with finest mother-o'-
pearl, and the schooner shipping the
stuff as fast as they could load her.
"Bill asked me to keep CALM, Talk
sense and bring out the cartridges
says /.
"Then an idea floated into my head,
and after I'd rubbed Its edges and
smoothed it into shape commanded
Bill to kill pig. Cut 1t into doz-
en- pieces and scatter 1t about the
lagoon entrance says l.
What for?' says Bill.
1t will bring up my bull pups.
You watch the pearling industry by
and by, BILL
There was an old hog in the COM
pound of no particular account. Bill
walked round 1t with an ak and got
in first blow before the hog could
strike an attitude. We spent two
hours cutting 1t up and scattering 1t In
the deep water at the lagoon mouth.
Then Bill heaved the hogs head and
feet astern of the Jap submarine.
81 was hard at work on the edge OF
the shell spat, moving here and there
as the skin divers worked the shallow
floor. Great Scott!' says I, they're
sprinter at the game
81 could feel that the big-barreled
machine was glutted with my golden.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23

A mans beard is generally heavier
on the right side Of his face,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-23
6,be BuncO Submarine.
A Tale With Pearls, Orientals, and Sharks In It.
(London Sketch.)

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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-04-14
ReturneA bn thc Glaoinr-

one or the nrss instances on record
Of body returned by Swiss glacier
IS that "f the IIamcl accident, which
took place Ia 1890 Several guides
were swept down by an avalanche and
hurled into n crcvasac Hamcl prophc-
SLED that the glacier would yield them
up again In the course Of a thousand
years, but Dr. Forbes believed that
the end OF the glacier would be reach.
cd By the bodies In forty years. This
statement was considered bold, but
it& accuracy was borne out by the
event In forty years the now Of ice
brought the bodies to light
In 1866 Henry Arkwrlght was lost
In n glacier. In Just thirty.onc wears
his brother received telegram from
the mayor OF Chamouni that The BODY
was found. Every article Of clothing
was intact. His name ana regiment
could be read clearly on his handkcr-
chi"f, and his gold pencil case opened
and shut rs easily rs when he last
used 1t three decades before. -"Truc
Tales OF Mountain Adventure"