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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-25

ing Annie as his wife or being turned over to Sheriff Vollmer. He chose the former and was married at the city hall by Justice of the Peace W. T. Mullins. The girl has no parents in this country, and consent to her marriage being granted by Mayor Buckingham.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
BATHING AND HEALTH.

While in America the latest cod
gerry, cranky teaching is that too
much bathing is fatal, in Japan the
commonest laborer is in the habit of
water cleansing the body twice daily.
II he does not 80 battle he is looked
down upon by his fellows and
Stunned as lonesome pariah. Dur
ing warm seasons most of the mika-
dos subjects bathe three times daily.
japanese are not the least biz
ashamed of bathing frequently and
openly in the big barrel-like tank in
the back yard, men and women,
wearing no clothing at all, uncon.
cernedly leaving the dwelling and
crossing over to where the hogshead
waits with its warm welcome.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
VARIED SHAPES OF EGGS.

There was recently had before the
Geological Society of London a
mathematical discussion of the diff
ferences in the shapes of eggs. A
few eggs, like those of the owl and
the tortoise, are spherical, or nearly
50 /; a few, like the grebe's or the cor
morant's, are elliptical, with SYM
metrical ends; the great majority,
like the hens, are ovoid, or blunter
at one end than the other. Eggs that
are the most unsymmetrical are also
eggs of large size relatively to the
parent birds. The yolks OF eggs are
spherical, whatever the form of the
entire egg may be. This has been
shown to be due to their being in
closed in a fluid, the white" which
makes the pressure everywhere on
the surface of the yolk practically
constant.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
AReENTINA's EXPORTS.

Argentina is the greatest exporter
of corn in the ) world; she sends
abroad more chilled and frozen meat
than any other country. Only Rus
STA excels her in wheat exports, and
only Austria contributes more wool
to international trade. The story Of
her occupations is told in the fact
that nearly 81, 100000 of work.
ing capital is represented in the pas
toral and agricultural pursuits and
in the allied industries, while less
than $1OO,0OO,O00 is involved in
manufactures and this includes cleo
tric light and power plants used in
the larger cities.-The Century.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
SUPPER WAS AT HER EXPENSE
How a PhIIadslphla Young Man Of
Limited Means As.en!:hes
New York Girl.

A New York gitl visiting recent
ly in Philadelphia was taken to the
opera by young man and at the
close of the performance was asked
to partske of some slight refresh
ment in the way Of supper. She &C
cepted the invitation and at the con-
clusion Of the repast was somewhat
astonished to see her escort reach for
her pocketbook, which lay on the
table at her side, and coolly pay the
bill out of her money. This, it
seems, is customary in Philadelphia
when young gentleman's means
are somewhat limited. 1t relieves
his lady friends of the embarrass-
ment they might otherwise feel on
partaking of any entertainment at
his cost. 1t struck the New York
girl, however, as being very ridicu-
lous and she began to laugh. 81 fear
you are laughing at my expense"
said the young man; '1et me ex-
plain" ooh, no." she replied, 81
was laughing at my expense"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
THE DAHLIA.

BY a kind of horticultural irony
the dahlia, that popular flower that
so often forms a conspicuous display
at flower shows, has a dreadfully
prosaic parentage. 1t has been de-
veloped from the Mexican tubers in
PRODUCED about 1870 years ago by the
Swedish naturalist, DR.. Dahl, for
the purely commercial purpose Of
experimenting the potato! The doc
tors scheme did not meet with ia
vor, and the dahlia dish soon disap-
peared from British tables, but the
gardeners of the old country at once
perceived the great potentialities of
the flower. The tubers of the dahlia,
too acrid for most tastes, are still
eaten in some parts of France.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30

Lawyer sends Hssty Answer to DIE
trlot Judge and Then a. Hastily
Retrsets n.

When John Hanson of Mcpherson
finally gets through with his grew
ances against the courts he will no
doubt conclude that it would have
been better had he taken the shoot
that Representative Brown of Har-
very county once did.
Brown was practicing law at New
ton. He fell out with the district
Judge over some trivial matter. One
day the court wanted him as a wit
ness in a case and sent the sheriff
after him.
"Just tell the judge to go to h."
said Brown, when the sheriff told
him to come to court.
GAIL right" said the sheriff.
The latter wheeled around and
started toward the courthouse.
Brown turned and looked at him.
The longer he looked the more con-
WINGED was he he had made a mis-
take. So he started after the sher-
iff. But the sheriff was too fast for
him and reached the court room un-
molested.
"May it please the court" said
sheriff, "Mr. Brown told me to tell
the court to go to h"
Just then Brown rushed through
the door to the courtroom and be-
fore anything could be said or done
by the judge Brown remarked:
"May it please your honor, | have
changed my mind. You needn't go.
III. testify"
The incident caused so much mer-
riment that the staid old judge for
got the insult and ordered Brown to
the witness stand to testify.-Kan-
sas City Journal.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30

Miles and Miles Of This ExquIsIts
Flower In Bloom IN the West
srn Metropolis.

There are miles and miles Of
roses in Portland, Ore. One man
with fondness for figures has call
culated that if the rose bushes we're
placed close together they would
stretch in an unbroken line from
Portland, Ore, to Los Angeles, Cal,
a distance Of 1888 miles. Their
fragrance, beauty and color defy de-
scription, says the Authors Maya
zine. The bushes are planted along
the streets and boulevards all over
the city and strangers wonder at
their not being molested. AS mat
ter of fact, the youngest citizen of
Portland takes too much pride in
the roses to pick one. Travellers
from Italy and the south of France
agree that nowhere in the world do
roses attain such perfection as in
Portland. There seems to be hap
DIV combination Of soil and moisture
which suits this most beautiful flow
or as nowhere else. AT the festival
time-the second week in June
both day and night are given up to
spectacular floral pageants. There
are historical floats, cars and char
lots and gayly decorated motor cars.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
THE EXPLANATION.

"That theatrical manager says all
he wants is a fair DEAL"
'Humphl He knows the value Of
blondes" ka4a
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
Ia ) +!
Time Card No. la
Effective Sunday April 80. 1911.

Effective Sunday April 80. 1911.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
NC. &C. &N o. Lin. 11:56 p. n
No. 5l-St. L. Express 5:35 p. o
No. 95.-Dixie Flyer, 9:91 am
No. 55-Hopkinsville Ac. 7:05 q. NJ
No. 59-St. L. Fast Mail 5:S9 a. n
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
NO. SC. & st. L. Lin, 5:25 a. m
No. 52-St. LOUIS Express, $685. D
No. 94.-Dixie Flyer, GIT p. m
No. 56-Hopkinsville Ac. 8:55 p. N
No. 6-St. l.. Fast Mail, 1920 p. u
Nos. 95 and "a will make Nos. 80
and 91's stops except "a will not stop
at Warrington and No., IS will
not stop at Warrington or Empire.
No. 81 and 81 connect at ST. Louis and Other
points west.
No. 81 connects at Guthrie for Memphis lin
points as far south as Erin and nor Louisvi
ClAeinnAd and the East.
No. 81 and IS make direct conn At Gut
rie for Louisville, Cincinnati and all point
uorth and east thereof No. 50 and IS also con
oect Cor Memphis and way points.
No. "a runs through 70 Chicago and win 40,
carry passengers to point South Of Evansville
Also carries through slsepers TO st. Louis.
No. % through seepers TO Atlanta, Macon
jackson Vile, st. Augustine an Tampa, Fla
Also Pullman sleepers 70 New Orleans. Con
Eects at Guthrie for points East and West. N
90 win not carry local passengers for potts NORTH
NGshVuie Tenn.
&c. HO0E. Agt.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
SLIGHT k:aTAKE.

'This drama has very little plot.
/ can't seem to follow it,"
1--WE are attending a vaudeville
performance, old man, not drama. /"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
ENIeMArlcAL.

"What do you think of Wallace
being preferred to Washington as
national heroT'
"Great Scott"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
DOUBTFUL.

al see where a man has discov-
cred new star"
"Is he an astronomer or a theat-
rical managerS"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
CALLING. NAMES.

Opponent-The machine is plant
ing trouble for itself
Advocate HAT Do you dare call
Il . soviag mAchins, ,.a...-
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-04-12
LEGAL BlunderS.

Some years ago, it is said, legal
blunder of most extraordinary char
acter was committed in one of the di-
vOrce courts in Paris. BY some mis-
apprehension on the part of the pre-
siding judge whose papers and mind
had got confused, he actually mistOok
the name of an advocate who had been
arguing petition for the name of the
petitioner himself and in granting and
signing the decree of dissolution of
marriage of the petitioner unwittingly
substituted the advocates name for
the petitioners and thus divorced the
lawyer from his wife instead of grant
ing the prayed for release of the advo-
Gates client. AS the lawyer had no
desire for separation from his wife
and as there was no process for annul-
ling an absolute decree for divorce,
even to meet such remarkable case,
it became necessary through this judi
icial error for the man of law to re-
marry his spouse without delay, ant
this he did.
A somewhat similar error was com
mitted in the English court of chan
Gerry There had been litigation over
some property, which was held by one
man and claimed by another of the
same name. In evading some order of
the court the holder of the property
had committed contempt, and on
the Judge an order Issued for the sum-
moning, not of the guilty party, but of
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-04-12
INCREASE FARM VALUES.

So far as has been observed, Kan
sas leads all other states in the in
crease of farm values in the past ten
years. The census bureaus figures
1863 per cent more in 1910 than in
1900. At the other end of the line,
so far as reports have been made
public, is Massachusetts, with an in
crease of only 81 per cent in ten
years.
The great expansion Of values in
Kansas is easily understood. Good
crops at remunerative prices have
added so much to the income-pro-
ducing power of Kansas farms that
the owners have steadily boosted the
price of land, and most of them
have declined to sell, even at the
advance.
But what's the matter with Massa-
chusetts? 1t shows a small decrease
in the number of farms-3 per cent
and a reduction of per cent in
the number of acres used for farm
ing That is no more than a nor
NAL decrease for state in which
manufa curing and the building of
cities are the matters of chief i'm
portance.
The rise in prices of farm products
has been almost as great in Massa-
chusetts as in Kansas. Farmers in
New England, as we'll as in the west,
have benefited from the increased
profits of agriculture.
1t was not to be expected that the
increase in values would be as great
in Massachusetts as in Kansas, be-
cause land was cheap in Kansas ten
years ago, and some of it in the
western counties could hardly be
given away. But the disparity is so
great between the increase of 1863
per cent in Kansas and only 81 per
cent in Massachusetts as to indicate
that the New England farmer is not
living up to his opportunities.-For
Dodge Messenger.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-04-12
Books in Old Rome.

There were in Augustan Rome es-
tablished publishing houses which not
only turned out large numbers of
books, but many editions of them and
at an incredibly small price. That
their arrangements were businesslike
may be inferred from the testimony
of Horace. He relates that when an
author failed to please the metropolis
the publishers shipped the entire edi-
ton of his works to the provinces, and
if he still failed as writer they made
arrangements to bring them back
again and sell them as paper to the
pastry and spice shops.
One great firm in Rome had over
10000 trained slave copyists, and their
work was swift and cheap, for Mar
tial writes that they had really an edi-
ton of a thousand copies of his "Epi-
EIGHT 7S90$.
grams" in just one hour, to be sold at
10 cents a copy. The exceedingly
large reading public which all that
indicates must have been many years
in growing, and one may assume that
Rome had long been city of readers.
Atticus, the publisher of Cicero, had
a great many modern methods in the
conduct of his business, and the fact
that Caesars commentaries" were
very quickly dispatched to the out
posts of civilization shows that the
machinery of distribution was also
well organized. Thus we may con-
clude that the advertising and public
ity department was in good shape
Bookman.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-04-12
THE HIRED MANS PAY.

Contrasting conditions as now af-
fecting his labors with those of de-
cade ago, the hired man on the farm
has a much easier job and, too, his
pay is higher. Department of agri-
culture statisticians have figured it
out that the American farmer pays
an average of $3.50 per month to the
hired man, and this wage stands the
highest in the past forty-iVe years,
and SSH more than was paid twenty
years ago. The hired man thus gets
a good wage in these days of high
priced farm lands and moderate
priced grain returns. Highest wages
paid in Nevada, where the average is
$54 a month, nearly twice the amount
of the general average for the whole
country. This possibly may be ex-
planned in the fact that the Nevada
farm workers are even scarcer in
proportion to the number of jobs open
to them than happens to be the case
in the more thickly populated states,
where the farmer can draw upon the
energetic unemployed of the cities to
come out and help him handle the
crops. In the north central states
east of the Mississippi the average
monthly wage paid is $31.S1, the hired
man being left to find his own lodg-
ings, garden, etc, while the average
where he boards with his employer
is 1924. In the north central states
west of the Mississippi the average is
s35.45, without board, and $3.50 per
month where the hired man is board
ed.
The matter of wage increase over
former years is not great in the gen.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-04-12

eral average, but thousands Of in
dividual farmers have complained in
recent years that farm labor scarcity
has made it necessary for them to
pay an exorbitant price for help. In
many cases farm wages have run up
to $50, and even $35 to $40 per
month. Besides, the hired man has
been given many concessions which
the employer himself considered the
height Of affluence only few years
ago. The hired man has demanded a
horse and buggy for his exclusive
use. He has also been granted a half
holiday on Saturday and often full
Sunday holiday, in which the chore
duties were left entirely to his en-
ployer.
High wages in the cities have been
a strong factor in boosting the wages
of farm labor, since the cities have
drawn from the rural sections many
thousands Of young men who form
erly were content to work upon the
farms. The glare of metropolitan
life has proven a strong attraction
and even though the high cost Of
living in the cities takes practically
the entire earnings of the young man
minus a trade and experience in his
line of work, he seems to prefer city
life to comfortable wages and better
working conditions he is able to find
upon the farms in his own locality
back home
The farm worker is not compelled
to labor as hard nor as long hours
as a decade or two ago, and. in fact,
his condition is such as compares
more favoraDly than those under
which the city dweller works. Still
the farmer invariably is short of help,
because the young men of the village,
preferring to wear a b'led shirt each
day, insist upon coming to the city
Hampton Chronicle.
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Miss Minnie Dobbert was visiting
her sister, Mrs. Fred Reise, of near
Kiron, last week.
Misses Olga Taylor and Anna Kull-
berg left Tuesday for Smithland to
visit Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Paulson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Deirsen and
Herman Deirsen visited at the Dob
bert home Sunday.
Swan Nelson made KirOn call
Monday.
WANTED-Competent girl for gen.
eral housework; good wages. Inquire
| te The Review office.
Misses Edna and Nellie Nelson went
to Denison Friday to attend the teach
ers' meeting. Miss Nellie goes on to
Manning to visit her sister, Tena, for
few days.
A lecture was given at the M. E.
church Wednesday evening. The sub
ject was 1.-The American Girl at Home
and Abroad A good crowd turned
out to hear it in spite of the bad
weather and roads.
Charles DObbert went to Schleswig
Thursday on business, returning Sat
urday.
Miss LESSEE Slechta went to Steve
Slechtas Wednesday. She will make
her home there this summer.
Mrs. Geo. NeWcom was a Denison
shopper Friday afternoon.
| Seth Anderson and Calr Kuelberg
are doing some carpenter work for
Jim Wulf this week.
Quite crowd of people came to
Boyer early Friday morning TO hear
the lecture given by several from
Ames college on domestic science, ex.
tension work and stock raising and
farming. 1t was very interesting and
everyone was we'll paid to go out and
hear the lectures.
Mrs. Frank \Io0lstOn called on
| friends at Denison Friday afternoon
between trains.
J. Fleming and sister, Jessie, went
to Denison Friday afternoon to at
tend the teachers meeting
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-04-12
A Iona Coaching Trip.

Paul J. SOrg, son of the multi-mll-
lionaire tobacco man, has for some
years maintained what is probably the
finest stable of light harness horses
in the country. He is a coaching en-
thusiast, and has completed a plan
for a coaching trip across the United
States from New York to San Fran
cisco, starting in April. We take the
following from one of the daily pa
pers:
"The arrangements for the trip
have been on a lavish scale. He will
have an equipment of two coaches,
seventy-fve horses, forty men and
two special cars for the conveyance
of the paraphernalia. The route of
the New York Central will be fol-
lowed closely to Chicago, and the
teams will be shipped ahead each day
to await the coming of the coach and
rest in the interval The stages are
to be twelve miles, and at the end of
each stage the keepers will be wait
ing with a fresh team. The extra
coach will be carried on one of the
cars. to be used in case of breakdown,
and a blacksmith will accompany the
party to make needed repairs. vii
liam G.. Grant, professional whip,
who has been in charge of Mr.. SOrg's
stable, will alternate with Mr.. Sorg
in driving"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-04-12
kENWOOD ITEMS.

WANTED-Competent girl for gen.
eral homework; good wages. Inquire
at The Review office.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry fisherman and
Mrs. Hans Boehm We're Charter Oak
callers last Friday.
Adolph Boehm and Albert and Her.
man Tebbe and Misses Beta and Anna
Boehm spent Friday evening at the
fisherman home.
Etlef Jensen, Of Charter Oak. was
seen in our town last Tuesday.
Fred Boettger made trip to Char
ter Oak between trains last Thursday.
crowd of young and old folks
gathered at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hans Boehm last Sunday and enjoyed
the day dancing and playing cards.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-04-12
EDUCATE FARMERS CHILDREN.

We are all trying to answer the
question, what's the matter with
Iowa? AS pointed out by the Messen-
ger a few days ago, one reason is
daughters of our farmers to be led
away from the farm by teachers who
don't know what they are talking
about. Instead of teaching the boys
and girls to make the most OF the
farm and develop it into a business
that pays to stick to, as they might,
the girls from town and the other
young persons from the university
or who want to 60 to the university
or some professional school have been
Turing the farmers children away
from their true destiny. Joseph Chap
man, Jr., vice president of the North
western National bank of Minneapo-
lis, in an address before the Chicago
Association of Commerce a few days
ago said:
"The city girl who goes into rural
communities to teach is a menace to
the agricultural future of the nation.
She strikes at the backbone Of the
country's prosperity.
"From her position on the rostrum
of the little red schoOlhOuse the
teacher from the city turns the
thoughts of her boy pupils into other
channels than those leading to the
raising of cattle and corn. AS result
of this influence on his mind at a crit
ical period the boy fails to see later
the possibilities that lie in the scien-
tific development of farm land, and,
believing his future lies in the city,
soon deserts the life Of tilling the
soil"
Minnesota has established ten agri-
cultural high schools and will now es-
tablish ten more.
The most thorough going system Of
making sure that farm children learn
in the public schools to think we'll of
farming and to know something of
what science is doing and may do to
make it more profitable and more in
teresting, has been inaugurated in
the young state of Oklahoma. Agri-
culture is required by law to be
taught in every graded school, and
every teacher in the common schools
must be prepared to teach agricul-
ture and must have passed an exam
ination that has proven it. In the six
state normal schools maintained by
Oklahoma, and also in the state uni
versity. agriculture is one of the re-
quired studies. There is no getting
around it. Two secondary agricultur-
al schools are in operation now and
five more have been located.
This is what Iowa ought to have.
With that sort of teaching in the
rural schools and even in the town
schools, and with the short courses,
the farmers Institutes, the great ag
ricultural college at Ames with all it's
activities and it's famous experiment
station headed by Prof. Chas. F.. Cur
tiss, Iowa would not show a loss OF
population in 1920, or in 1915. The
boys and farmers as we'll would soon
see that Iowa land if intelligently
managed, is worth more and is cheap
er than the cheap lands so far from
market and from the advantages and
comforts of better settled country.
The Legislature of Iowa cannot af
ford to adjourn until it has made
some effort to cure this evil, to
strengthen this weak point, for as
suredly it is one of the principal
things that is 'the matter with
Iowa"-Ft. Dodge Messenger.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-04-12
A WAY to Do It.

Mrs. Blinks-The people in the next
suit of ours are awfully annoying
time our Name sings. | wish we
knew of some way to drive them out
OF the fiat.
"Why not have Mamie keep on sing
ing ?"-Cleavland Plain Dealer.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-04-12

the claimant of the same surname, and
the order very severe one, was ac-
tually in execution before the error
was discovered.-New York Press.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-04-12

Nearly everyone In Crawford County
subscribes for the REVIEW.