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The Ordway new era., 1911-02-24
Tho Scholar in Agriculture

Five years ago popular advice to
10 colleges could have been summed
up in the words. "Back to the Farm"
The fear was that scientific training
would create taste for teaching aud
Investigating at the expense OF a taste
for practical farming. But now all
that Is changed aud farming has be-
come so profitable that the fear is not
that men will abandon farms for pro.
fess0rships. but that they will desert
prnfessorships for farms. The cry
today Is, Back to the colleges and
experiment stations and out on the
road in the interest OF agricultural
extension" There were thirty.
eight graduates In animal husbandry
at the Iowa State College this
year. and thirty.three Of them
chose to go back to the farm. Sixteen
or them we're offered positions 10
high schools at salaries of from 81 900
to $1,000. and all refused. Twelve
were offered positions In colleges AT
salaries frnm $1,000 to $1,000. and only
four accepted.
But educated men on the farm
know the value Of expert advice, and
the result Is a greater demand for
teachers and experiment station
workers than the agricultural col.
leges can meet. This need has led
the Association of American Agricul-
tural Colleges to establish u movable
school for advanced instruction 10
agriculture. 1t met In 1902 at Ohio
State University. 10 1906 at the Uni
versity OF Illinois, 10 1908 at Cornell,
and 10 July. 1910. at the State College
Of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, at
Ames, Iowa. 1t admits to member
ship only those, who have taken
college degree In agriculture, but, in
spite OF this restriction, more than
$50 students were enrolled this year.
They came from North and South,
the East and West, from thirty-eight
States aud Territories. from Canada.
Cuba, Denmark. Russia, and the
Transvaal.
The story Of what may be called the
awakening in agricultural education
was told by DR.. A. q. True, director
OF Experiment Stations and Dean Of
the Graduate School, In his opening
address,. The statistics gathered 10
his Office at Washington, show that
220 positions In agricultural colleges
and stations have been created since
1907, and that $50 other institutions
have introduced courses In Agrirul-
ture.-Colliers.
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Notice For Publication,
Department of the Interior,
Land Office at Pueblo, Colorado,

Department of the Interior,
Land Office at Pueblo, Colorado,
January FL, 1911.
Notice is hereby given that Cor
nelia Mallett, of Manzanola, Colo
RADIO, who, on April II, 1907, made
Desert Land Entry No. 1881, Serial
No. o7354, for VIZ, Section 10, Town
ship 22 S, Range 81 w., 9th P. Me-
ridian, has filed notice of intention
to make final proof, to establish claim
to the land above described, before
the United States Land Office, at Pu-
eblo, Colorado, on the 2Ist day Of
March, 1911.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Thomas B. Wilson, of Manzanola,
Colo, James D. Case, Daisy N. Case,
of Ordway, Colo. John T. Case, Of
Manzanola, Colorado.
Not coal land. ., ..a
S. A. ABBEY, Register.
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Notice for Publication.

Department OF the Interior,
U. 8. Land Otioe At Pueblo, Colo Jan. 8. 1911,
Notice is hereby given that Myron L.. Fenton,
Of OrdwHy, Colorado, who. on May l8. 1914
made Homestead Eutry No. 1882, Serial No.
1884. for Lots and ,. SEA sWk, MEX sWA,
Section 81, Township ls South. Range 81 West
9Th Principal Meridian. has filed notice OF
intention to make Final Flve-year Proof
to establish claim to the land above described
before the United States Land office Rt Pu.
eblo, Colorado, on the l'th day Of March
1911.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Walter W Wright,
Laura NJ Wright,
Alexander PediGo.
Monty Ross, all Of Ordway, Colorado.
Not coal land.
8. A. ABBEY, Register.
First publicationJan. ~, 1911
Last publication Mar 10, 1911
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
PUEBLO, COLORADO LAND OFFICE.
February 9th 1911

February, 9th. 1911
Notice is hereby given that Robert @ D.
Douglas. of Kendrtck, County Of Lincoln, State
OF olurado. has filed in his office his Hpplica-
tiou to enter under tho provisions OF Section
25o6 Of the Revised Statutes OF the United
states, the following Described land; viz:
W.. 9th p. NJ
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
lands des scribed. or desiring to object because
o the mineral character OF the land, or for any
other reason, to the disposal tn app icant
shou d file their affidavits Of protest In this Of
tcc, on or before the first day OF April. 1911
s. A. ABBEY.
REGISTER.
First Publication, Feb. II
Last Pu oil cation. March 81.
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makes of machines at Griffin g. Col
gins. Act
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No coal so good as the Niger Head
.old by the Ordway Trading Co. Six
Hfty at the bin. Remember the
place,
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Cows For Sale
Two good, fresh milch cows.
Chas. Trotter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09

Dr. George Eaves, Birmingham, Ala.
 Dear Sir-I have read with supreme interest your article, "A Big Fight" Last year I spent four months in Col orado oppressed with the awful fear that was victim of the plague" There met men and women from all parts of Alabama "a larger percentage than from any other State) chasing, chas- ing that good health which they never again will find. For those who were un- der such dreadful necessity, yet who were able to seek improvement in rest and desirable climate, I experienced the deepest pity; but when the truth dawned upon me of the thousands of poor at home for whom there is no rest, no good food, no cheerful surroundings, hot tears of sorrow burned my face.
 I wondered, why are my people so afflicted? Alabama air Is invigprating, her sunshine is glorious, her forests are splendid Why are my people so af- ficted?'
 In the few cities and towns I visited noticed the cleanliness and neatness. Why should they be cleaner and heater than Alabama cities and towns? These western people are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. How have they be- come different from us?
 When I returned to Alabama I was as- I really had never known how filthy we are I have had occasion to visit several handsome court houses. Whew! How filthy they are AS I have passed along the streets of my own and other Alabama towns, I have glanced into the stairways, railways, and alleys. Filth and dirt abound. The base of many heating stoves takes the place ef
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Some may indignantly deny that it is so But the denials won't hold. The facts are beyond reach of indignation or denial. The only thing that will wash away those facts is a baptism of repentance, leading to a persistent water baptism of courthouse floors and walls. leading to the expenditure of elbow grease and brain matter by those who are entrusted with official responsibility. These coun- ty officials must clean up. These town boards must clean up. These postoffice people must clean up. The fly, the dirt the foulness everywhere must be abol- ished.
 A dear friend from Montgomery tells me that when he was in the postoffice of that city the other day, the dirt and foulness were so marked as to compel him to seek the open air. that outside one of the best hotels in that city the gar bage lay in the gutter attracting hosts of flies, and that there In our capital the accurst inheritance of dependence on the negro Is working precisely as MT. Ash craft describes. No doubt Montgomery will resent this statement. l give II on first hand authority.
 Now notice that this same Montgomery is black spot in the books of life in- .surance. The experience of 34 life com panes, as compiled by the Actuarial So- ciety of America, and published eight years ago. gave the following statement by its Investigating committee:
 'The most unsatisfactory experience has been found in the county of Montgomery in Alabama, Orleans in Louisiana, Santa Fe in New Mexico. Shelby in Tennessee and Rexar in Texas"
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piety beautiful, cheerful and sunny Among such influences she grew into lovely womanhood. and wrote her songs, the glory of Him whom she called her Divine Master. l mean Frances Ridley Havergal.
 It is right enough to exemplify the solid strength and rock-lke quality of religion in the home, as elsewhere; but along With all this there must be shown the glad ness, and beauty of holiness. Those mighty columns that stood before the temple of King Solomon not only illus trated strength, for we read, "On the top of the pillars there was lily work Here we have type of the most magnetic re- ligion-the massiveness of the pillars, and the beauty of lily work crownIng all And this seems to be the divine or der generally. Bleak mountain sides that stand as symbols of strength, resisting the desolations of storms of centuries,
 God has beautified with the tender trac-
 cry of yerdent vines, ferns, flowers, or
 delicate lichen Even vindictive volcan-
 oes are festooned with flowing foliage,
 while tiny flowers spring from the inter
 stices of hard, gray lava. One is to see
 to it that his character be not pillar Of |
 know that 1t is possible, wise and right
 tu adorn the bronze with lilly work
 How important this suggestion IS ior
 the home life. For those whom God mas committed to our care can only be at
 tracted to piety; they cannot be driven to 1t. All the strict commands that one
 may utter out of his strong character cannot make his boy one whit more re- ligious. All the fiogging that one might infict from now till the crack of doom cannot force the child to love religion. Religion must be made beautiful and full of attraction. Otherwise the child's ma ture will not incline to it. Does the read CT remember the home of Arthur Clenam, as Dickens describes 1t in Little Dor ritt?" Recall the sarcasm of Dickens who knew more about religion than | many, though he knew nothing about theology He says in Clenam's home | there was "a stern religion" There was
 the gloomy Sunday of his childhood. when
 he sat scared out of his senses by a ter rible tract which commenced business
 with the poor child by asking him in it's
 title, Why He Was Going to Perdition? | a piece of curiosity that he. in frock
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09
WHY WILL YE DIE?-By George Eaves. D.. D.

So then the death rate among those thrifty persons who insured their lives is actually increased to the point of most unsatisfactory" conditions where those thrifty persons live among negroes or Mexicans. And whoever knows the counties here named also knows that dirt and neglect and disease are written on places of public resort there in woefully legibe hand
 The above named experiences" contain a confession of encouraging progress. a gratifying change in the preceding 30 years. So far so good. For either We must make progress and conquer dirt. disease and neglect by a widespread so- cial rejuvenation and repentance, or else these three demons will conqur us and put us under ground in a dirty and neglected grave.
 But how make the change? Here comes personal responsibility, and the need of making local issue in every town and settlement of the dirt dues- tion,' as well as the open-alr tubercu- losYs hospital. May I reverently sug- gest that the women's clubs in every case have the remedy in their hands {? A lesson of value would be the arming of all the ladies of every town with mops and brooms to assault the court house, say, or the public square Then let them serve notice on the men that if it has to happen agab, if windows are not clean and floors spotless and dust absent, and kept so, the ladies will assume office themselves and ap- propriate the contingent salaries. But let them be sure that Joe keeps their own premises spic and span.
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Quick as a flash came the reply: "No. but I approved of it. The Hoars, father and sons, were famous for nimble and caustic wit.
 George F. Hoar wrote his '"Recollec- tions," and it is a delightful book, but in it is a savage attack on the memory Of Butler, the only ill-natured thing in the entire book. But Butler in a war of words was a match for any and all his foes and he returned ofttimes' two Ro- lands for every Oliver.
 There is no doubt that Butler was a pronounced pro-slavery man in 1860, and doubtless it is true that he would have restored African slavery in Massachu- setts if the power had been his. And he had illustrious precedent. Roger Sher- man, the grandfather of his adversaries- the brothers Hoar-in advocating Clause 8, Section 2, Article of the federal con- stituton said that it was as much q duty to surrender runaway negro to his master as it was to return an estrayed horse to it's owner. It Is history that John C.. Calhoun was a student at Yale college It is tradition that while there he was a frequent visitor to the home of Roger Sherman, the leading man of all the New England fathers of the con- stitution, and 1t is not violence to reason to opine that the young southerner im- bibed some of his extreme states rights views from Sherman, who was states rights man of the straightest sect
 Upon his return to Massachusetts after the war, Butler was chosen member of the Fortieth Congress from district of which he was not a resident. That was in 1866. and immediately after the election he bought a set of the Waverly Novels, which he read from lid to lid while im- patiently waiting for the first session of the body to which he was chosen. While serving his first term the President was
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cuspidors. "Why is it so? Why is It so?' rang constantly in my heart.
 I saw the family washing" piled on shackling wagon. with other family washings." Where were they going? To some negro cabin, infested with vermin and disease. The cook did not come. Various parts of the kitchen and other house work was postponed till she should put in her appearance or another could be gotten. Where did these negro wo- men come from? From ill-ventilated cab ins, infested with vermin and disease. Why was not the store or office cleaned this morning? The "nigger' played out. Why are the barns and COW stalls so filthy and such abundant breeding places for flies? You can't get the ''niggers' to clean them. We are always trusting our cleanliness to the negro, and waiting for him to clean tip, and he never does 1t well, and often leaves 1t altogether un- done.
 The westerner does not wait for the negro. There are none there. So the westerner provides his family with mod ern conveniences for doing the laundry cooking and e-cleaning, and the family does the work with intelligence and despatch.
 He provides the best appliances for caring for his public buildings, streets, barns, etc, and vigilantly enforces com piance with the best sanitary methods Therefore the westerner Is vigorous and healthy, and grows wealthy caring for and ministering to those victims of our slovenliness who are able to get away from us
 The negro, however, is with us, and
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impea ched by the House of Representa- lives. A majority did not want old Ben to have anything to do with the proceed ing: but Thad Stevens forced him on the relectant House and he was made one of the managers. Tn his book Butler tells how he knew the impeachment was com ing and how he read the English state trials to be prepared for it, so far as the law was concerned With much glee he relates how he tricked the other and hostile managers into giving him the op- portunity to go off with all the applause He said none of them-Boutwell, Bing- ham, Wilson, Logan, or even Stevens himself-knew what job they had on hand, and he remained mute, though diligently preparing for the emergency. He knew that If ne asked to open the case it would be refused him. The others, except Stevens, had their minds centere1 on summing up. About 4S hours before the trial began, at a meeting of the man. agers, Butler, as if it had just occurred to him. asked: Look here, who's going to open the case on the part of the man. agers?'' There was consternation in the faces of all of them and none answered. Then old Ben, in an injured tone and with a disg,lsted air, remarked like this: Very well, I see that I was put on this board to do all the drudgery while you fellows get all the glory. But somebody must do it, and as we are greatly pressed for time I'll now set about the prepara- tion." They all pressed around him to thank him and express their gratitude, though he was stealing all the thunder there was in the case. One of the things for which they impeached the President was bad manners. William M. Evarts, chief counsel for the President, and an- other grandson of that same Roger Sherman, who was grandfather to the Hoars, undertook to show the Senate
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fellow, who was less than six feet and weighed 400. "Discussing! Old as I am, I would sooner undertake to he ma spar row in the corner of a rail worm fence than to try to bring that young man to a discussioni, And off the old fellow went mopping his brow. @9llIII'
 If Humphrey Marshall had -hSIiIlfe ex- alted character of Joseph R. Underwood. or Simon Boliver Buckner, or John C. Breckinridge, there is no telling to what eminence he might have attained. As lawyer or debater he never met his mas ter. ~E
 He was an inveterate gambler, and this story is told of him. When he was a member of Congress some three score years ago, one day in the early afternoon he entered the famous Pendleton's place, which was deserted ny patrons because of the early hour. Sitting down at faro. Marshall promptly lost every dollar he had but so great was his passion for the game that he asked Pendleton to give him a stack" and allow him to play for fun. Then fckle fortune turned and he won nearly every bet laid. By and by, Ed Marshall. a kinsman. Jim Jack son, and some other sports came in and they proceeded to.l lose all they had. See ing stacks of chips before Humphrey, they reminded him of sums and he passed them over. Fortune still inclined against the bank. which, after losing some thousands, declared itself "broke'' and the game closed with everybody's pockets full except Humphreys who did not cash in, as he was playing for fun, though the others were in dense ignor- ance of the fact.
 Pendleton enjoyed the affair immense ly. Perhaps he knew he would recoup it ere the weeks end.
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we can neither get away from him, nor he from us.
 Unless. therefore. we simply yield to the mad folly of destroying him and in turn being destroyed by him, we must ir prove him.
 Impressed with this sense of obliga- ton, I improved an opportunity not long ago to appear before the Negro State Baptist convention, which met here, and presented to large body of men from all parts of the State. some of the alarm ing facts with reference 10 tuberculosis. was well received and I enclose you copy of resolutions passed.
 My judgment is that the negro is not yet well enough developed in patriotism to be successfully reached by an appeal to that or theories. He must be reached through his religious nature This is the soil out of which our own civiiza- ton has grown. and in which our high est patriotism is rooted
 I wish l had the capacity to organize general movement among the negro churches to fight tuberculosis In my opinion, they may be more quickly edu- cated to right methods of living through the church than by any other way.
 should be pleased to have you con slider this, and to have your views on the subject. Yours truly.
 JOHN T. ASHCRAFT.
 Being not only an Engishman but westerner and now by love and choice an Alabamian, I put these words into print with sorrow and hope. Why should we die? Why should the presence of the negro be a fatal barrier to our social energies and doom us to live in dirt :?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09

the years to come, his salvation. In the stress and strain of temptation awaiting him, his win must he his strength. It is his personality It may be the greatest endowment of God to the childs life. Do not crush it. Do not break it. If it re- bels against parental authority. it needs guiding and directing, and will answer to reason and loving counsel far sooner than to harshness and to threats of he black closet and the boogaman. Oftener will who at the last goes wrong. He that is tossed about by the whirlwinds of temptation, Is he most frequently, whose will was broken in the long ago by un- wise parents.
 It Is also unwise to be eternally mak- irg points with children, that is, finding fault with what they do; or do not. and threatening them with punishment which you never intend to inflict. Take for granted that they are going to do many things that you would no. have them do. Just expect this. Make up your mind to it. Calmly point out the wrong if it is worth while; but be not everlastingly telling them they shall not do this or that I have heard of a mother whose two little boys were playing in the attic She had just returned from 'the sewing society," where they, like Mrs. Jellyby, were making fred flannel petticoats' for the heathen. As she entered the house she called to one of the boys: Willie, what's Sammy doing?" "IIe ain't doing nothing. Ma" "Well, tell him to stop 1t this minute or he'll get a beatin' The ruling passion strong gjust after the sew ing society.
 As a rule, if you have threatened dis cipline you should apply it. But this IS a rule that has its exceptions. child should not be punished simply because you threatened to do so. This is punish-
 ing him for reason that had no exist ence in the original wrong that he com mitted. You may have determined to ois- cpline him when you were, excited, or when you were unacquainted with all the facts or you may have threatened par ticular kind of punishment out of all proportion with his offense. You have had time to think it all ever, and now find that to do as you expected would be unjust to the little fellow. Therefore
 you do not punish him. Indeed, in honor you cannot, for you find that you were wrong. But it should be made very clear
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what was the standard of good manners set up by two of the managers of the in- peachment-Bingham and Butler-where- upon he read from the Congressional Globe passages from debate in the House of Representatives between these two distinguished disciples of Turvcy- drop in which Butler accused Bingham of the murder of an innocent woman Mrs Surratt-and Bingham retorted that the tongue Of man like Butler, who lived in a bottle and was fed on spoon, could utter no islander. The matter un- der discussion was charity, too that is kind.
 Some years before Buffers death John S. Wise and he were associated as coun- sel in important litigation before the su- preme court, and on the eve of the ar gument they met at a hotel In Washing ton and held a consultation that extend- ed far into the night. After they had thoroughly reviewed the case from every standpoint and fixed on a line of pre- senting II to the bench, the papers were bundled up and they fell into social chat After a while Butler with some an imation said:
 By the way, Wise, have at my home a very handsome vase, a fine work of art. that was presented to your father, according to the inscription it bears, but how it ever got into my possession is an insoluble mystery"
 No mystery at allr' roared Wise. My fathers mansion was over in Ac- comac county. near Fortress Monroe, and you stole 1t while you were in com mand down there."
 Butler burst into hearty laugh and said: Perhaps you are right; but at any rate I shall make complete restitu- ton by returning it to you,' which he did upon his return home.