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Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13
WA.TON'S FAST.
The "Piunsor" Did Even More Than
the Doctor Suggested.

The "Plunsor" Did Even More Than
the Doctor Suggested.
Race track lovers Of some years ago
all knew "Plunger" Walton-Francis
Theodore Walton. as he was christen-
ed Everything that Walton did he
did as thoroughly as he plunged on the
races. This habit was illustrated by
his famous fast Rheumatism caused
him considerable suffering for years.
Across the street from him lived
doctor. who said one day:
walton. you eat too much. That's
what's the matter with you. Do as |
say and you will cure your rheuma-
tism Don't let food tempt you so
much Just taper of your meals ana
don't eat except when you really feel
like It."
Some time passed before the two
men met again. The ,..rvsician III
quIred what results f" , I'd from
needing his directions. lie listened
thunderstruck to the following report:
THAT advice Of yours sounded easy.
and | didn't eat morsel for twenty
one days. No. sir; not single particle
Of food passed my lips. Every hour
that | was awake did drink glass
of water. ! suffered no great pangs Of
hunger | was comfortable and had
q good time. 1t was my wife's anxiety
that made me break my fast She got
the notion that was losing weight too
fast You seex once weighed 285
pounds. When | began the fast
weighed 246. At the end Of twenty
one days | weighed an even 200. Your
advice was all right"-New York Trib-
une
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UP TO THE SMALL CITIES.
Harder to Improve a Metropolitan Dis
trict Than a Village.

trict Than Village.
There are many misconceptions
about city planning. but none Is fur
ther from the fact than the notion that
comprehensive planning Is only for big
cities. says John Nolen. architect. AS
matter Of fact. the reverse Is nearer
the truth. In big cities the conditions
are fixed. inelastic. unyielding. Com
prehensive planning. especially with
our limited city charters and the ham
pering laws Of our states, can have as
yet but little play in larger places.
At most 1t must content itself with
relieving only the worst conditions.
ameliorating merely the most acute
forms Of congestion. correcting only
the gravest mistakes Of the past.
But with smaller towns and villages
the case Is different. Comprehensive
planning can render them big and
lasting service. for there Is scarcely
anything In them that cannot be
changed. and most Of the territory that
IN to be built upon Is still untouched.
In small cities railroad approaches can
be set right. grade crossings eliminat-
ed. water fronts redeemed for com
merce or recreation. or both; open
spaces secured In the very heart OF
things: a reasonable street plan can be
made and adequate highways estab-
lished; public buildings can be grouped
in some proper way. and a park system
IA true system. with all sorts OF
we'll distributed. well balanced public
grounds-can be outlined for gradual
and orderly development. And all
these elements indispensable sooner or
later to progressive community. can
be had with relative ease and at slight
cost
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13
NO.. IT,.
BEGGARs OF LONDON.
Many Of Thorn Partial to the Hired
Siekiy infant Scheme.

Many Of Thorn Partial to the Hired
siekIy infant Scheme.
There Is no city In Europe. according
to an American citizen who has return.
ed from business trip to England.
where there may be seen SO many beg.
gars in the streets as in the British
metropolis. says the Washington Her
Md.
These beggars-'halt. blind, maim-
ed'-cOme for the most part from the
'beggars' colony the most iawless dis.
trict in all London Ii Is hidden In
the haze OF mean streets in the Dor.
ough of Kensington and is called Not.
tingdnle.
These tale pitchers as they call
themselves, are men and women who
hire starved looking children by the
day to enlist the sympathy Of the be-
uevolent There are old soldiers and
sailors with bogus boards and rec
ords complete; there are shabby gen.
teel meu in tattered frock coats and
carefully brushed broken boots. who
talk Of college days. there are the
musical beggars. who live by singing;
there are the begging letter writer's.
and. finally. there are the beggars
who solicit under the pretext of Offer
Ing matches. collar buttons or shoe
strings for sale.
a tale pitcher who knows the
ropes can hire a sickly infant at the
rate of about II cents a day. An
unusually wretched. looking infant will
be dparer, but a whole family Of neg.
-lected mites can be borrowed for ~
cents and no questions asked.' Many
of these professional beggars make as
much as 81 n day"
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CLEAN STREETS WANTED.

Albany, N. Y, Asks Citizens to Co.
operate With City Authorities.
The value Of clean streets Is con-
stantly being shown. Recently the d.
rectors of the chamber Of commerce
of Albany. N. Y. decided to inaugu.
rate campaign Of clean streets. The
committee appointed for the purpose
caused circular to be- placed In every
home In the city. asking citizens to CO.
operate with the city authorities to
keep the streets free from paper and
other refuse that Is frequently thrown
into the streets.
The circular IL an appeal to the civic
pride Of every one to observe the regu-
lations regarding the using Of the
streets as dumping place.
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13
Hope.

Hope Is anticipation. It is an in
herent feeling In mankind and divine
provision for the sustentation Of In
terest In life. Hope Is chord which
strikes pleasant desires for the future;
It is every ones sunshine, the rainbow
in the storm. the silver lining to the
present cloud. a star set In the firma-
ment of our lives. to brighten, tighten
and cheer the way and differs in mag
nitude and brightness according to &C.
casion. Hope is an antidote of misery,
a cordial for the desponding and q
chain with many links.-Nellie Il
Mate.
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13
Order of Publication.
No. S7l9 Equity.
In the Circuit Court for Frederick county,
in Equity.
I.ethia Chestina Lowell
VS..
n.x:xsl4 1
Isaac Dwight Lowell

Isaac Dwight Lowell
The object of these proceedings is to
obtain divorce vinculo matrimonii by
the complainant, Lethia Chestina Lowell,
from the defendant, Isaac Dwight Lowell.
The bill! states that the parties to this
suit were married on the - day of July,
1904, at Garfield, Maryland, by the Rev.
Isaac Lowell, minister of the Gospel.
That about the middle of October, 1904,
the said defendant, deserted and aban-
doned the complainant and their minor
child, and has continued to live apart
ever since, and has never contributed to
their support since said desertion.
That the separation is deliberate and
final and beyond any reasonable expecta-
tion of reconciliation.'
That the complainant is citizen of
Frederick County, Maryland, and the de-
fendant is a nonresident of said State.
1t is thereupon on this 10th day of June,
1911, by the Circuit Court for Frederick
County, in Equity, ordered that complain
ant cause copy of this order, together
with statement of the object and SUBJ
stance of the bill, to be inserted in some
newspaper published in Frederick Coun-
ty, once a week for four successive weeks
prior to the 2lst day of July, 1911, giving
notice to the defendant in said bill, of
the object and substance thereof, and
warning him to appear in this court, in
person or by solicitor, on or before the
7th day of August, 1911, to show cause,
if any he has, why decree ought not to
pass as prayed
Filed June 18th, 1911.
HARRY w. BOWERS,
Clerk Of the Circuit Court for Frederick
county.
True Copy Test:
HARRY W. BOWERS, Clerk.
june % st Samuel A. Lewis, Solicitor.
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13
Huntino on Treacherous Soil.

Snipe shooting on an Irish bog is
an excellent test OF gunners skill
and enthusiasm. An experienced bog
shooter If he finds himself going down
throws himself fla, on his side or back
and at the same time throws bis gun
to his attendant. generally an nnshod
"gossoon." who rarely fails to catch
1t. The sensation of being begged ia
very unpleasant, but II man throws
himself on his side or back there is
strength enough In the peat to sup,
port his body.-"Forty-hve Years of
Sport"
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Peg Tankards.

The pegg;ng or marking Of drinking
cups was introduced by st. Dunstan to
check the Incorporate habits of the
times by preventing one man from
taking larger draft than his COM
panlons. But the device proved the
means of increasing the evil II was
intended to remedy. for, refining upon
st. Dunstan's plan. the most abstemi-
GUS were required to drink precisely
to a peg or pin. whether they could
soberly take such quantity Of liquor
or not
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13
Different Positions.

What does the man do over there
Mt the desk who seems to be working
SO hardY'
HE checks the cash."
"And what does the man do who is
leaning back In the easy chair smok.
mgr
.'Oh. he cashes the checks"
more American.
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13
A Great Wheel.

Laxey. In the Isle Of Man. Is the
headquarters of the lead mines OF the
island 1t Is celebrated also for Its
great wheel. which was erected IN
1854. Its diameter is seventy-two feet,
and 80 splendidly Is 1t set that there
Is no oscillation. and 1t has been going
practically ever since Its erection.
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13
FOOD FOR A GENIUS.
Dict That Enabled Mrs. Siddons to
Rise to Lady Macbeth.

Rise to Lady Macbeth.
1t Is not altogether easy to imagine
Lady Macbeth eating chops. Yet her
greatest impersOnntor got her inspira.
ton from them. II one may rely ON an
altogether delightful authority On
certain occasion. writes e '. Lucas In
his book ."The Second Post" the paint.
er Hayden paid his butcher. who re-
ciprocated by expressing great admira'
ton for the artists painting Of ALEX
ander."
"Quite alive, SIR" said the butcher.
II am glad you think, So" said the
artist.
"Yes, sir: but. us | have often said
to my sister. you could not have paint
ed that picture. sir. II you had not eat
my meat, sir"
Every true. Mr.. Sowerby"
"Ah, sir, ! have fancy for genius.
SIR"
"Have you. Mr.. Sowerby?'
ayes. sir Mrs. Siddons, sir. has eat
my meat. sir Never was such WON.
an for chops. sir! Ah. sir. she was
wonderful crayture"
"She was Mr.. Sowerby."
"Ah, sir. when she used to act that
there character-but. Lord, such
head. us | say to my sister-that there
woman. sir. that murders king be.
tween EN-"
"Oh. Lady Macbeth"
"Ah. sir. that's it-Lady Macbeth.
used to get up with the butler behind
her carriage when she acted. and
used to see her looking quite wild and
all the people quite frightened. Aha.
my lady says l. If It wasn't for my
meat. though. you wouldn't be able to
do thatr"
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13
Patience,

There's no music In rest" that I
know OF. but there's the making Of
music in 1t. And people are always
missing that part of the life melody,
always talking Of perseverance and
courage and fortitude. but patience u
the finest and worthiest part Of forti-
tude, and the rarest too. Ruskln.
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13
Sensitiveness.

The smp linsi bird cannot light upon
the greatest tree without sending a
shock 10 It's most distant hber Every
mind IL nj times no less sensitive to
the most tritiing -vords Lew Wallace
IL Ben Aut
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An Exception.

Happiness" declaimed the philOso-
pher, ''is the pursuit OF something. not
the catching of IT.
Have you ever" interrupted the
plain citizen. "chased the last car on
q rainy mighty" Toledo Blade.
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13

1.-TWO heads are better than one."
quoted the wise guy.
II find one quite enough the morn
Ing after" replied the simple mug
Philadelphia Record.
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13
Doina II Riaht.

But. my dear. II buy you this
gown II will put me $50 In debt"
"Only $50! II you are going In debt
why not 60 In like q gentleman and
make It q hundredw-F Fliegende Blat-
ter.
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13

Clara-I see Cynthia has decorated
her room with guns. pistols. swords
and the like Cora Yes; she always
has been a great girl for having arms
about her.
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13
Tho White Woman's Burden.

or course men hare lot OF small
worries. but they don't hnve to carry
n chamois skin and a little satchei
around with them wherever they go
Galveston News.
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13

'Daily tDaily except Sunday. SSunday
only. saturday and Sunday only.
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13

The innocent seldom lind an uneasy
pillOw.-COwper.
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13

I've never any pity for ronceited
peonle bernuse th"v earrv their COM
fori about VITA llrm. Gro:E' Eliot
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13
Maryland r. r.

Schedule taking effect June 4, 1911.
Catoctin clarion., 1911-07-13
Frederick Railroad.
Thurnont Division.

Schedule In Effect June 4, 1911.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-05-11
Work And Happiness.

The happiest people are the workers.
Look at the dinner pail brigade going
to the factory of mornings. Their
faces are shining their step is free and
glad. And then look at the guests Of
the Grand Hotel De Luxe, at the sum-
mer resorts where it costs S14 a day
for board and room, and before they
begin to rouse themselves with alcohol
notice how jaded they look.
There's a vast deal of nonsense
written about the man with the hoe'
He is much more cheerful Individual
than the man with the golf stick ex-
cept when he is fool. Happiness is
the child of WEAKNESS from work. 1t
is the shadow cast by the light from
work. Resting is not good when you
rest all the time. But it is mighty
good after 10 mile tramp. People
who have turkey cannot enjoy Thanks
giving, Christmas means nothing to
the child whose hands are full of dolls
and candy and tin soldiers all the year
around. The law that he who will
not work shall not eat'' is no truer
than Natures law that he who does
not work cannot eat."
Work is the mother of joy. To
find task, making something useful
is the art of life.
Work is the mother of truth. Not
by studying, but by Doing does the
real Truth soak into your soul, whether
it be botany CT sign painting, languag-
es or car building, philosophy, theology
or politics.
Doubt and despair love to take
lodgings in the mind out of a job.
This was Carlyle's gospel and good
one: Find thy task, and in Gods S
name, produce! Produce! if only the
smallest fraction!" - St. Louis Times
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-05-11
Seuenteen Year Locust Due
or Periodical Cicada
BY Leonard Haseman, Entomoloeist to
the Missouri Experiment
Station,

however, that the amount Of food it
consumes in any one year is very
slight. Thus thousands might be feed
ing on the roots Of single tree with
out injujring it appreciably.
In the spring of the thirteenth or
seventeenth year the full-grown nymph
comes to the surface of the ground.
II the soil is soft, it makes small
chimney of mud at the surface and
remains in it some time before ven-
turing out. In hard, dry soil the chin
neys are usually not made.
After coming out OF the ground the
insect crawls up a tree or other OBJ
ject and throws off its hard outer cas-
ing and appears on the wing.
For the first few days the insects
are inactive, but after week they
are flying everywhere. They usually
appear on the wing in Missouri from
May Is to May 80, depending on the
weather conditions.
s The periodical cicada is the longest
lived insect we have accurate data
on, but the majority of it's life is
spent in maturing. 1t lives in the adult
state for only about month, then dis
appears as rapidly as il came. AS
soon as female deposits all her eggs
she drops to the ground and Is eaten
by other insects.
The male cicadas have pair of
musical organs attached just back of
the hind wings. With these they are
able to make very loud and pene-
trating sound. During the heat of the
day the male constantly grinds out
certai Indefinite notes. These are loud
and strident, and may easily be recog-
flized by one who has heard them be-
fore. Often a grove will be so full
of the tiny musicians that the sound
will be deafening as one stands in
the midst of it.
Because of the suddenness of the
appearance of these famous insects,
and the great swarms of noisy adults
flying about men have come to con-
slider them more or less a dangerous
pest. In reality, they cat so little
that this part Of their activity might
be overlooked entirely. The damage
they do, however, is in laying. their
eggs. Normally the eggs are depos-
tied on the young twigs of forest trees.
1t is not uncommon, however, to find
the females abundant in young or
chards near forest trees, where they
will split and damage the young twigs
considerably with the saw-like ovipos-
itor. This is the only damage they
do, and it is really very slight. In
older orchards and forest trees the
injury is usually outgrown in a single
season or two.
If it is necessary to use some meas
ures against the insect If is best to
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-05-11

The sudden appearance of great
swarms of these so-called 17-year To-
Gusts creates a great deal of interest,
and usually an undue amount of anx-
iety. The insect is not locust or
grasshopper at all, but is cicada,
closely related to plant lice, scale in
sects and similar types which feed
by sucking sap. This particular in
sect, however, takes very little food
while in the adult stage.
There are two forms of the period
ical cicada, a 17-year form and 13-
year form. The former is confined
largely to the northern states and re-
quires II years for maturing. The
latter is confined more to the southern
states, and natures in Is years. The
brood that appears this year is the
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-05-11

to run the street cars and light the
streets of that city. Already negotia-
tions are under way to transmit the pow
er north and south, east and west,
from St. Paul to Memphis, and from
Chicago to Omaha.
In the third place. Keokuk will be
come the center of a new manufactur-
ing section; the city famous as the
hub of the richest agricultural country
in the world will displace plows with
smokestacks, corn planters with looms
and harrows with dynamos.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-05-11
Notice.

Do you want standard authority on
the treatment of the diseases of domes-
tic animals? Do you want free con-
sultation with the best Veterinarians of
the United States and Canada? Do
you want to save thirty per cent on
the cost of your drugs and medictnes7
If so, get membership ii the Veter-
mary Science Association. The fee
is reasonable; there are no meetings
to attend, no dues to pay. You will
be satisfied or your money will be
promptly returned to you. For fur
ther information address, L. B. Tidwell
Box %, Forsyth, Mo.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-05-11

13-year brood. This long period of
development is especially peculiar, for
most insects are very short-lived, ma
turing and dying in one season.
This insect does not appear over
the entire country, and then after 13
or II years reappears. The prolonged
time which is required for the insect
to mature has made it possible for
various forces of nature to alter the
original schedule of the insect. We
now find the two forms broken up
into various broods which are sharply
confined to certain regions and which
appear and reappear on schedule time
in these regions.
The brood that will appear in this
state this spring is technically known
form. 1t appeared last in 1898 and
was present quite generally in the
counties south of the Missouri river.
This spring we can determine def
nitely where this brood is present. It
extends south along the Mississippi
river, being present throughout south
ern Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and
Louisiana.
The adult female lays her eggs in
the smaller limbs and twigs Of trees.
This is made possible by the use OF
a sword-shaped saw or ovipositor
which the female possesses. This Is
kept folded away in a groove on the
lower side of the insect until she gets
ready to drill holes for depositing eggs.
After six or seven weeks the eggs
hatch and the young louse-like nymph
reaches the ground and enters It..
Here it remains for 13 or II years
without seeing daylight. 1t feeds by
sucking sap from the roots Of trees
and plants It's growth is so slow,
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-05-11

destroy them as they leave the soil.
Applications of whitewash, lime-sul-
phur or Bordeaux mixture help to pre-
vent some female from depositing
their eggs on the rruit trees.
The department of entcmologv of
the University of Missouri wishes to
collect all the data possible as to the
distribution of this particular brood
in Missouri, the date of their appear
ance, and the injury they do. The read
ers will help greatly in collecting the
information if they will notice and re-
port to the college at Columbia, Mo.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-05-11

Joseph w. Folk was solemnly prom
ised the support of the Missouri De-
mocrocy for the presidency. The Ia
mented Richard Bland had the same
promise in 1896 and would have been
nominated had he not been in the
hands of his friends" If Folk is ever
nominated for president he will owe
no debt of gratitude to the Old Guard
leaders of the Missouri Democracy.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-05-11

Protection of American wage earners
against the cheap labor of other coun-
tries and of American farmers against
the cheap products of other countries
is policy as popular and as potent
for prosperity now as it ever was. It
is the policy of the Republican party.
Any departure from it is a concession
to that political party that has always
raised the banner of free trade in cam
paigns and stood for cheap money and
cheap lands and cheap labor.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-05-11

Democratic editors ard politicians
are busy now trying to place all re-
sponsibility for bad management of the
Farmingt IN insane asylum at the feet
of Governor Hadley. When the Gov
ernor gets ready to take cognizance oil
their Indictment OF his offic al course
they will be ready TO take to the woods.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-05-11

Missouri farmers listen to free trade
talk, and some of them follow the haS-
II of voting the Democratic ticket, but
If you would know their real sentiment
about protection listen as they discuss
reciprocity with Canada when they
meet at the post Offices and country
stores.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-05-11
We Hone This Is Right.

The Springfield Leader of last Thurs
day had the following to say in regard
to the extension of the Mansfield Ava
electric railroad into this section oi
country.
Within ten days engineers under
the personal direction OF ], B. Quigley.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-05-11

Take from the farmers of Missouri
the advantages they derive from the
protective policy of the national gov
eminent and you will take from them
the greatest prosperity they have
known since the war.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-05-11

August /, 1911, the intelligent reo-
pie of Missouri will, doubtless, vote
for an issue of bonds with which to
erect and equip magnifcen: capitol
at Jefferson City. The amount speci-
fed is 50, 100000, the bonds to run
13 years, and to be paid with tax
levy not to exceed cents on the 800
of taxable values. There is no valid
reason why this proposition should not
be heartily supported.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-05-11
Notice.

1 will sell you buggy, surrey, Spring
or farm wagon at from $50 to $35 less
than other dealers ask for the same
grade of vehincles. I will sell you any
kind of a vehicle you want on the in
stallment plan. Make a small cash
payment at time of purchase and bal
ance in monthly payments, with out
interest. If you want to pay cash for a
vehincle I will give you a liberal dis
count for same. Every vehicle shipped
on approval, and fully warranted for three
years.
L. B. TIDWELL, the wagon man For
syth Mo.