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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-02-12
To be Continued.
RIGHTS OF WORKMEN.
Form of Liability of Employer Neees-
sary to Be Established.

1T Is very important that we should
soon settle in this country some form
of employers liability" said Mr. F.
n. Mollett of Columbus, o., to New
York Telegram reporter.
1.-The best form of workingman's in
surance Is that which gives the injur-
ed q specific amount Of money imme-
diately following the accident, with
out the need of long trial or dam
age suit and about which there Is no
dispute over the amount.
"A similar scheme Is carried out In
some parts Of Europe, and 1t Is found
to work very we'll. There Is sched-
ule fixed for specific injuries, just as
our government allows certain sums
for certain injuries and disabilities in
the army and navy.
IF a man falls, for example, from
the top Of a building and breaks a
leg or an arm the employer must
without any dispute pay him a certain
sum. After this the employe has no
claim upon the employer for further
damages.
THE workman knows very we'll
that If he is killed his widow will get
just so much, and in no country has
the government fixed the employers
liability so high that it would encour-
age men to have accidents happen to
them.
employers find the scheme excel
lent because they can insure them
selves in insurance companies formed
for that purpose. When contractors
are making contract they make the
owner pay for their insurance, so the
contractors are out nothing"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-02-12
NO MOLLYCODDLES.
English Educator Not Alarmed Over
Termination of Boys.

president Hall Of Clark university,
and some of the other American and
German educators who have been
harping upon the rapid 'feminization
Of the boys of the United States," said
Professor James Ladden Stiles Of Lon
don, England, to a New York Tele-
gram reporter, certainly never could
have visited New York's public schools.
II have been looking around here
for a few days through the lower
grades and 1 can testify that the boys
1 have seen are far from mollycod-
dies. AS boys go the world over, 1
should say those of Manhattan are
about as tough and as capable of TAX
ing care of themselves against odds as
any boys in the world.
1T is, in fact rather remarkable to
me that with all the artificiality Of
your home life in this congested city
your boys of all breeds should still re-
tain so much of the barbarian in
stincts.
II was struck with this when
heard them calling each other in the
street on their way from school. They
never or seldom call a boy by his
proper name. His name. we will say,
is William. If these boys who know
him were in the least feminine they
might call him Willie but even Bill
is not tough enough for them. They
call him Snake Mosquito Skinny
or something even more classic.
There has been some apprehen-
sion also lest the female teacher
should be assisting in this process Of
'feminization.' 1 do not think she Is In
the least. A boy nature hates the
very ideal which a woman tries to
impress upon him as model and even
If a teacher were inclined to favor the
Little Lord Fauntleroy type it would
only make the modern boy more saw
age than he is"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-02-12

Every growing plant is little fac
tory. The green coloring matter Of the
leaves, or chlorophyll, is the engine.
The sunlight is the power that makes
the engine go, and the air, water and
some Of the Substances in the soil are
the raw Materials
Under the stimulating influence of
sunlight the chlorophyll takes the car
bon dioxide gas Of the air and the wa
ter, nitrogen and minerals which the
roots send up in the form Of crude sap
and tears them to pieces. Then it puts
them together again in hundreds of
different ways. 1t makes them into
the starch of the potato or the sugar of
the sugar beet. 1t puts them together
in another way and makes the hard,
horny gluten Of kernel of popcorn or
the tough fiber Of a cornstalk. BY
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-02-12
CHAPTER XVIII.

Harrison's departure left Brewster
in sore straits. 1t forced him to settle
down to the actual management OF his
own affairs. He was not indolent, but
this was not the kind Of work he cared
to encourage. The private accounts he
had kept revealed some appalling facts
when he went over them carefully one
morning at o'clock after an all night
session with the ledger. With infinite
pains he had managed to rise to some
thing over $450,000 in six months. But
to his original million it had been nee
essary to add $5S,55O which he had
realized from Lumber and Fuel and
some of his other unfortunate" op-
erations. At least $4,000 would come
to him ultimately through the sale Of
furniture and other belongings, and
then there would be something like
$4,000 interest to consider.
But luck aided him in getting rid
Of his money. The bank failure had
cost him $113,46S.25, and hopper Har-
rison had helped him to the extent of
100000. The reckless but determined
effort to give a ball had cost 100000.
What he had lost during his illness had
been pretty we'll offset by the unlucky
concert tour The Florida trip, includ-
ing medical attention, the cottage and
living expenses, had entailed the ex-
penditure of $1S,500, and his princely
dinners and theater parties had footed
up $4,000. Taking all the facts into
consideration, he felt that he had done
rather well as far as he had gone, but
the hardest part of the undertaking
was yet to come. He was still in pos
session of an enormous sum which must
disappear before Sept. %. About s4O,-
900 had already been expended in the
yachting project.
He determined to begin at once sys-
tematic campaign Of extinction. 1t had
been his intention before sailing to dis
pose of many household articles either
by sale or gift. AS he did not expect
to return to New York before the lat
ter part of August this would minimize
the struggles of the last month. But
the prospective profit" to be acquired
from keeping his apartment open was
not to be overlooked. He could easily
count upon a generous sum for salaries
and running expenses. Once on the
other side of the Atlantic he hoped that
new opportunities for extravaganza
would present themselves, and he fam
cied he could leave the final settlement
Of his affairs for the last month. AS
the day for sailing approached the
world again seemed bright to this most
mercenary of spendthrifts.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-02-12

are present In the soil in such large
amounts that there will probably al
ways be all that the crops can use.
Two Of these minerals, however, po-
tassium and phosphorus, and not so
plentiful. When the plant cannot get
enough potassium the grain will not
be filled out well. II there Is too little
phosphorus, especially in the case Of
fruit trees, the development Of fruit is
checked. Adding barnyard manure to
the soil helps to keep up the supply of
these two materials. On farms where
little stock is kept or where grain has
been raised continually for years and
little attention paid to the soil it is
sometimes necessary to apply phos-
phorus and potassium in the form of
commercial fertilizers.
In the eastern part Of this country
there are many farms that have be-
come so badly run down that crops
will not grow at all unless they are
fed with commercial fertilizers. These
are very expensive, and 1t often takes
nearly all farmer makes to pay his
fertilizer bills. These farms would
never have become so worn out IL they
had been properly cared for. Leaving
plowed ground, especially on hillsides,
exposed for several months during the
fall and winter allows much plant food
to wash away. Growing the same
crop year after year wears out the
land rapidly. Different crops require
different kinds Of food. BY changing
crops from year to year no one food
material Is used to excess and the
others wasted. BY keeping as much
stock on the farm as possible, saving
the manure carefully and spreading it
on the fields before it rots or teaches
away and by using leguminous plants
to gather nitrogen the soil can be kept
we'll supplied with plant food.
1t is much more profitable to feed
the crops in this way than to buy
plant food on the market at excessive
prices. Usually, however, the plant Is
hungry for the mineral elements not
because they are not in the soil, but
because they are in a form in which
it cannot get at them. The roots of
the plant spread all through the soil
in search Of food. If you will look at
a little root through a magnifying glass
you will see stiaet it is covered with root
hairs. It is through these root hairs
that the plant takes up food from the
soil. There. are no openings directly
into them, but the walls are so thin
that the water can soak through to the
inside. Solid substances, Of course,
cannot get in, so that the plant food
must be dissolved in water before it
can get into the roots and so up to the
chlorophyll, which Is waiting to build
it into seeds or leaves.
If the soil has been worked until 1t
is fine and loose each little particle
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-02-12

81 didn't know you could save any
thing" she said weakly.
Come now, Peggy; that is too
much"
81 didn't mean to hurt you. But you
must not forget, Monty, that there
are other years to follow this one
Do you know what I mean?"
Peggy, dear, please don't lecture
me-" he begged so piteously that she
could not be serious.
1.-THE class is dismissed for today
Monty" she said airily. But the pro-
fessor knows his duty and won't lei
you off so easily next time"
To be Continued
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-02-12

PORES-A, A, A.
will become surrounded by water,
which will readily dissolve the plant
food from it. If, on the other hand.
the soil Is in the form Of chunks and
clods very little of the plant food can
be dissolved. The plant food that Is
on the inside Of a clod might as well
be out in the road or over on one of
the neighbors' farm.
Some Of the potassium and phos-
phorus will not dissolve even when
brought. in contact with water. 1t
takes a long contact with the air to
cause chemical actions which will
change it into a soluble form. Con-
tinual stirring Of the soil hastens this
change. Thorough stirring also loos-
ems up the ground so that air can get
down to the roots. Without aid they
will stop growing and the entire work
Of the plant will stop. The yellow ap-
pearance of a patch Of corn in a low
place where the ground is water soak
ed Is due to lack of air about the
roots
To he Continued
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-02-12

@ DR.. w. J. Garnett writes to the
London Saturday Review protesting
against the phrase by the skin Of
my teeth" as recently used by we'll
known court official in one Of his pub
lie addresses. DR.. Garnett points out
that these words so generally used
are not only a misquotation. but q
perversion Of the meaning conveyed
in the poem by the true text. Refer.
ence to the Book Of Job, xix, 20, will
show the protagonist as made to say.
not I am escaped by the skin Of my
teeth but with the skin,' meaning,
not I have escaped with great diff
Guilty. but, destitute Of everything I
possessed, just as the teeth are des-
titute Of skim" DR.. Garnett con-
cludes: 1.-The latter is appropriate and
forcible, the former an absurd meta
phor, and 1t is high time 1t were rel
egated to the same category as Great
ing Frankenstein,' and similar cor
rupt texts.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-02-12

April.
II think you are going in too heavily,
Monty" protested Harrison, twisting
his fingers nervously. Il can't for my
life figure how you can get out for less
than a fortune if we do everything you
have in mind. Wouldn't it be better to
pull up a bit? This looks like sheer
madness. You won't have a dollar,
Monty-honestly you won't"
ITS not in me to save money, Mop
per, but If you can pull out a few dol
lars for yourself shall not object"
you told me that once before, Mon
ty," said Harrison as he walked to the
window. When he resolutely turned
back again to Brewster his face was
white, but there was look OF deter
mination around the mouth.
Monty, I've got to give up this job
he said huskily. Brewster looked up
quickly.
What do you mean, Nopper?'
"I've got to leave, that's all" said
Harrison, standing stiff and straight
and looking over Brewster's head.
Good Lord, hopper, I can't have
that. You must not desert the ship.
What's the matter, old chap? You're
as white as ghost. What is it?" Mon
ty was standing now, and his hands
were on Harrison's shoulders, but be-
fore the intensity Of his look his
friends eyes fell helplessly.
1.-The truth is, Monty, I've taken some
of your money, and I've lost it. That's
the reason II can't stay on. have
betrayed your confidence"
Tell me about it." and Monty was
perhaps more uncomfortable than his
friend. II don't understand"
You believe too much in me, Mon
ty. You see, thought was doing you
a favor. You were spending so much
and getting nothing in return, and
thought saw a chance to help you out.
1t went wrong, that's all, and before l
could let go of the stock 100000 Of your
money had gone. I can't replace 1t
vet. But God knows I didn't mean to
steal"
Its all right, hopper. see that you
thought you were helping me. The
moneys gone, and that ends it. Don't
take it so hard, old boy"
II knew you'd act this way, but 1t
doesn't help matters. Some day may
be able to pay back the money took
and I'm going to work untilI>do." ".vs4s-
Brewster protested that he had no
use for the money and begged him to
retain the position Of trust he had held.
But Harrison had too much self re-
spect to care to be confronted daily
with the man he had wronged. Gradu-
ally Monty realized that Hopper was
pursuing that most manly course open
to him and gave up the effort to dis
suade him. He insisted upon leaving
New York, as there was no opportu-
nifty to redeem himself in the metropo-
lis.
I've made up my mind, Monty, to go
out west-up in the mountains, per-
haps. There's no telling, I may stum-
BILE on a gold mine up there-and-
we'll, that seems to be the only chance
I have to restore what have taken
from you"
by Jove, Hopper, I have it, cried
Monty. "If you must go, I'll stake you
in the hunt for gold"
In the end hopper consented to fol-
agreed that they should share equally
all that resulted from his prospecting
tour Brewster grub staked" him for
a year, and before the end Of the week
new tenderfoot was on his way to
the Rocky mountains.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-02-12
Home Course In
Modern Agriculture.
M.-HOw Plants Eat and Crow

By C.. V. GREGORY,


Copyright, 1908, by merican Press Association.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-02-12
CHAPTER XVII.
BY GEORGE BARR M'CUTCHEON
RICHARD GREAYESl

cooyi lIoo,B Stone q Company
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-18
A New Sulphur Wash.

During the past season the depart
ment OF agriculture has made an i'm.
portant discovery that the self boiled
lime sulphur wash is not injurious to
peach foliage when properly made and
will not produce russeting and other
injurious effects on apples. Further
more, 1t has been found to be about as
effective ms fiingicide as the stand
ard bordeaux mixture. Extensive ex-
periments have been carried on during
the year by the department on nearly
all OF the common fruit diseases which
are preventable by spraying. and 1t
has been demonstrated that the above
mixture is a very useful one.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-18
THE DEATH PENALTY.
Horrors Incidental to Old Time Exc.
eution BY Drowning.


Horrors Incidental to Old Time Exc.
eution by Drowning.
Execution by drowning was abol.
ished in France by Henri Quatre, only
to be revived by one of his successors
1t was finally abolished az a statutory
method Of execution By the earliest de
cree Of the great revolutionaries
AS late as the eighteenth century
death by drowning was decreed to a
feion In Edinburgh. and in the middle
ages 1t was a common enough mode
OF doing convicted criminal to death.
That execution of this nature was con.
sidered as humane as any other, so far
as the victim was concerned, is shown
by the fact that 1t was not unknown
among the early Jews, who varied the
punishment OF stoning adulteresses by
drowning them. Among the Egyptians
It was common. The Roman lex cor
nella sanctioned the method by placing
1t on the statute records. Tacitus tells
as that the Germans copied the prac.
tice from the Romans. The Teuton
termed It the "Iast BAPTISM and ne
did not allow his powers OF inaglna-
ton to sleep when be set about de.
yising additional varieties which
should add to the excitement attend.
ing upon the doomed persons depar-.
ture from life. The convict was sewed
up, Monte Cristo fashion, in bag, and
with him were inclosed vicious dog,
hungry cat, violent rooster, ven
omous viper, all very much alive and
presumably kicking.
For what reason II Is hard 10 see.
but death by drowning was by many
peoples considered preferable for Grim.
inal women. In the case Of very de-
based or very mean offenders the
Romans had a more or less pleasant
fashion of drowning the doomed ones
IN marshes, FIRST incasing them In
elaborate crates.
For refined cruelty in killing OF their
female criminals the earlier Albanians
were certainly the most inventive in
the matter OF ingenuity. 1t is COM
monty known, OF course. that even the
modern Albanian has less respect for
wonankind than any other known male
in the human catalogue. not even ex-
Guiding the Chinese. The approved
method Of doing criminal or even
woman TO death prevalent
among them up to rather less than a
century ago was to chain her in tank
into which the water was allowed 70
flow gradually. AS the water reached
her breast IL was allowed TO recede. |
sometimes back TO her ankles, when !
the refilling OF the tank began anew.
If the woman had children the torture
was varied by the drowning or mutila-
ton Of them before her eyes. To vari- |
GUS parts Of her body was attached
such food as attracts rats. OF which |
a number would be let loose.-New
York World.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-18
windham County Commandment.

The assistant judges Of windham
county court met here Tuesday to APP
point license commissioners for the town
of Vernon, and as there was no oppo.
sition they appointed the old board.
John T. Wright, George X. Stebbins and
Rodney d. Doolittle. Applications viii
be made to the commissioners for II.
ocnse for the hotel at South Vernon,
and then there win be opposition.
One OF the new laws provides that
no license shall be granted for the sale
OF liquor nearer the state line than the
chief village OF the town. Heretofore
The license in Vernon has been exercised
as South Vernon. but large part Of
the village of which South Vernon is
part is over the line in Massachusetts,,
and IL will be claimed that South YER
non Is not the principal village in the
town.
II that contention prevails there may
be no license granted in the town, as
IL is understood none is wanted in the
other villages. The assistant judges
are Fred b. Pier Of RawsonvllIe and
Frank Worden Of Halifax.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-18
FARMER A BUSINESS MAN.
Prosperity Of the Country Depends
Upon System.

Prosperity Of the Country Depends
Upon System.
To be up 20 date the farmer must
plan ahead. II he is wise he will open
accounts in his ledger for every crop
he raises, including horses. cows,
sheep swine and poultry. He win
have a system Of bookkeeping that
viii show him at the end OF the year
which crop paid profit and which
created a loss.
II win be great satisfaction 20
know how the potato. the onion, the
general garden, the hay and the straw
crops paid. His ledger will show how
many days his tennis worked, credit
Ing them with such amounts as he
would have had to pay had he hired
teams TO do the work. Against this
win be the price OF feed. There need
be no Item for labor In attending TO
the horses. as the manure and the use
OF the animals for pleasure drives will
offset that
The income from the cows and the
sheep. the swine and the poultry
would have their place. against which
would have to be the cost of feed.
The writer knows OF a progressive
farmer who follows that system year
after year. His daughter keeps the
books. He reports each night the
sales. the purchases. the hours the
teams were at work. etc, and thus
is he able 10 keep a record Of his do
ings and knows exactly what each
crop means to him.
Beginning the new year, the farmer
should lay out his plans for the spring
operations, the size OF the vegetable
garden, the varieties TO grow, the in
crease OF the small fruit plots and the
additional trees to the orchard. the
changes and the repairs that should
be made TO the barn and other build
ings. not forgetting improvements on
the old homestead.
There are a hundred and one mat
tiers that can be planned for 1909s
operations, and no better use could be
made Of ones evenings than 20 map
out all these matter.
The latest catalogues Of reliable
seeds, nursery and implement houses
can be secured, and profitable time
may be spent in carefully looking
them over. Lists Of seeds. trees, tools,
etc, should be got out and ordered be-
fore the general rush In spring. This
win avoid delays, errors and vexations
generally.
The farmer Is a business man, and
each year the farm is becoming more
important to the welfare OF the coun-
try. The farmer Is no longer the sus-
ject of ridiculous cartoons, but the
emblem Of prosperity in al the high
class publications The whole world
looks to the sturdy tiller Of the soil
for the means Of maintaining prosper
ity In the land.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-18
EsrATE or ANnREM rAcY.

STATE OF VERMONT, In Probate Court
District OF Washington. ~. held In MOntpel-
Ter, in and for said District on the End day Of
March, A. ID. 1909.
Gertrude NJ. BInnell ,Exeeutrix Of the last VIII
and Testament Of Andrew Tacy, late Of the
City OF Barre, in said District. deceased. pre-
sents her administration account for examina.
tion and allowance ana makes application for
decree OF distribution and partition Of the es-
tate OF said deceased Whereupon IL is ordered
by said Court that said account and said appli-
cation be referred 70 session thereof to be held
at the Probate once. In said Montpelier, on the
sd day OF March A. ID. 1901, for hearing and
decision thereon. And IL IL further ordered that
notice hereof be given to all persons interested
by publication Of the same three weeks success
slvely in the Barre Daily Times, q newspaper
published at the City Of Barre, In this State.
previous 10 said time appointed for hearing
that they may appear at said time and place and
show cause, II any they may have, why said
account should not be allowed. and such decree
made
BY the Court. Attest,
MELVILLE +. SMILE, Register
Mar 4-li-l