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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-02-02

After all is said aud done Governor
Wilson has lost nothing by the Waiter
som Harvey episode. The Commercial
Appeal in a doubIe-leadsd editorial last
Sunday virtually makes this admission,
and that paper would prefer to support
Harmon. The friends Of Governor Viii
son view the matter with rather de-
cided advantage. The fact is that Mr..
Watierson had nothing too good in his
paper for Mr. Wilson few months ago.
Mr.. Wilson was heralded in the
Courier-Journal as the coming second
Tilden But Mr.. Wattcrson is more or
less filled with the idea that he is the
custodian Of party management, and
when Mr. Wilson declined the Wat
tefson nanagement--weIl, Mr.. Water
son 3 language WASH Z altogether suitable
for the sewing circle;
As far as Editor Harvey is concerned,
he y the editor Of Republican journal
owned BY J. p Morgan, and what could
no n any other man expect when asked
the plain question II the support Of Har-
per's Weekly would injure Governor
Wilson's candidacy. Harvey asked for
the truth and Wilson replied in kind.
But even as it is, Governor Wilson has
nothing to lose. Harper's Weekly will
take no real Democrats away from the
support Of wilson AS Sayoyard says,
IT was as precious piece OF baseness
as ever was Matched. The secret Of
the whole matter is that Watterson and
Ryan made diplomatic move to place
Governor Wilson under obligations to
the interests the very interests that he
bad singled out and fought with sue
cess, and that would have been, with
out the shadow Of a doubt. Wilson )
undoing. They treated Wilson like he
was an educated ffssa and they got nil
Tor their pans y chAnn did the only
thing . man in hsty, ation could do,
and he did Il prombsiy and emphaticaI- |
ly. He declined TO be championed by
J, Pierpont Morgan's Republican organ.
What else, pray, could he do.
II, as many politicians seem to in-
sist, candidate must dissemble in or
der 70 control the various interests Of |
campaign; II, ii other words, be must
play 70 the galleries or masses with
beautiful sentiment about the sacred |
rights 81 \ sovereign people, and while
he IS doing this reach with hand ex-
tend behind him for bride; il this
must be done why is Il essential to have
q change. No man can be honest and
serve two Gods. No Democrat can Be
true and seryile to the enemies Of true
Democracy at the same time.
Governor Wilson is on the right track.
Wilson's candidacy is based upon the
hypothesis that party victory il mean
iugless unless it embraces the triumph
Of party principles. and Che triumph OF
true Democracy could be nothing less
than tho boldest AMI most complete
separation from those interests which
desire rothing Of the kind.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-02-02
College Life Of To-day.

80 $500 - = =" ~Ae@ye
You have undoubtedly heard, in the
last few years, especially, great deal Of
criticism, nay invective even, against
modern universities and modern college
students. Prominent men, who claim
TO have made exhaustive investigation,
have recently spread abroad accusations
against our modern colleges, which, If
they do not cause the high school gradu-
ate to hesitate, certainly tend to create
doubt in the mind of the fond parent.
Now, we do not claim to be possessed Of
that wisdom and experience, by which
this article should be considered a
criterion, and by which all contrary
opinions should be condemned But
after residence OF three months in
Yale University, we must confess that
we have found no conditions to justify
such accusations against the universities.
When we come, however, to consider
the students in the universities, we must
look at the matter from an entirely diff
ferent point Of view. lii the first place,
let us consider the offer Of the college.
To be at home in all lands and all
ages; to count nature familiar ac-
quaintance, and art an intimate friend: !,
to gain a standard for the appreciation
Of other men s work and the criticism Of
your own; to carry the keys Of the
worlds library il your pocket, and feel
its resources behind you in whatever
task you undertake; to make hosts Of
friends among men Of your own age,
who are 70 be leaders In all walks of
life; to lose yourself in generous en-
thusiasms and cooperate with others for
common ends; to learn manners from
students who are gentlemen and form
character under professors who are
christians--this is the offer Of the col
lege for the best four years Of yourlife. \
The college does NOT guarantee that,
when the student is graduated. be will
be a clean, sober, upright, christian
glentleman-far from it. There are
many tramps, many drunkards, many
wandering, worthless waits roaming the
streets and byways to-day, who were
once college men. No, the character
Of the man depends upon himsef, not
upon the college. You caE,t make i
man good by force or by Legislative en-
actments, neither can you make him
good by sending him TO college.
Furthermore, there are, in the colleges
themselves. drunkards and debaucbees
---it cannot be denied. But we see no
reason why this should be held against
the college, for you will find men ofthis
character everywhere you 20, There
are black sheep in the family, black
sheep in the church. and the college is
not proof against them.
Mr.. Crane, the notorious Chicago
continues % send forth,
from his private sAnctum, invectiye
against modern college education, which
i diabolical enough u cause Satan and
all the imps Of hades to clap their hands
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-02-02

terly lost. and remain there until the
wee. small hours Of the morning. II 4
man is straight, he viii be straight any
where. under any and all circumstances;
il he is crooked, i'm be pretty hard to
reform him in college, in a factory,
or in an office. Ii you have not the
manhood and moral courage. the viii
and determination to withstand tempta-
ton, you needn't come to college
college doesn't want you.
On the other hand. there are. in the
universities, men who live the purest
kind of lives, whose sole objects are %
drink from the eyer-howing fountain OF
knowledge, and TO cultivate q better
understanding of human nature and
divine grace, in order that they may
walk closer to their creator, and more
conveniently to their share to uplift hu-
mainly and make the world better by
their having lived in it; there are those
who realize the difficulty of attaining
success. in the present OF age, without
the higher academicai and technical!
training, who have looked into the future
and have seen that they will soon have
to contend with qualified, educated, col
Iege-trained men, and who are daily
endeavoring to fit themselves for this
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-02-02

Yale College, Dec. 80. 1911.
The Keota news., 1912-07-19
Progressives to Hold County Conven-

Pro9ressives to Hold County Conven-
tiOn
John c. Nixon, H. E. Mann, H. C.
Bennett, and Leo G. Mann, as COM
mittee, have issued q call for . mass
meeting of Progressives, to be held at
81 Opera House Block, Greeley, at
p. m. Monday, July 22. All progress
i've voters. without regard to past polit-
ical affiliations, are invited to attend.
The convention is to nominate twenty
delegates to the State Progressive con-
vention, which meets August l; to Sc
lect delegates to the district convention
of the eighth judicial district; and to
select provisional county central COM
mittee for the party.
The Keota news., 1912-07-19
Much Rain for a Dry Country

Keota and vicinity has been blessed
by two "million-dollar' rains very re-
Gently. Last Saturday night there was
q good shower that was quite general
over a large section of the county.
About midnight Wednesday, July II,
a severe thunderstorm brought one Of
the heaviest rains of the year. This
rain. however, was very local. and re-
ports from few miles to the north and
east indicate only slight rainfall.
Two inches or more of moisture was re-
ported Thursday morning by residents
from south and west Of Keota, and
many old lake bottoms are said to be
filed with water.
The Keota news., 1912-07-19
Call Issued for Republican County AS
sembly, and for Local Caucuses

Gall Issued IOf RepuDucdn county AS.
sembly, and for Local Caucuses
E. H. McClcnahan. chairman, and H.
C. Luther, secretary Of the Republican
county central committee. have issued
official call for IN assembly Of delegates
representing the Republican party Of
Weld county, to be held in Greeley,
Saturday. July 2, beginning at 10 a. m.
The purpose of the assembly is to select
delegates to the Republican state as
sembIy, which will be held in Denver
July 81, and to place in nomination can
didates to be voted for at the primary
election to be held Tuesday. September
IL, 1912. as follows: one senator. first
district; two representatives.; county
clerk; sheriff; coroner; treasurer; coun-
ty Judge; county superintendent Of
schools; surveyor; assessor; two COM
missioners, districts / and 8; and to
name delegates to Republican state.
congressional and judicial assemblies.
The committee also orders that
caucus be held in each precinct in the
county, from z to 9 p. m. Monday, Ju-
ly %, for the purpose Of selecting dele
gates to the county assembly. Each
precinct chairman and each secretary il
to be Judge Of those entitled to vote in
the caucus, and attention il called to
Rule No. 81 Of the Republican party Of
Colorado, wherein it is provided that
none but Republican voters be permit
ted to vote at Republican primaries.
The official call gives Keota precinct,
No. 36, the second largest delegation in
the county, with ten delegates. Eaton
precinct is allowed eleven delegates.
The total number Of delegates for the
entire county il 1926. At the meeting
of the County Central Committee, held
July 13, motion to limit Keota to six
delegates was defeated. Since last
election half of this precinct was cut
off to form Raymer precinct No. 43,
which was given three delegates. In
the former election, however, less than
a dozen republican voters came from
Raymer or beyond, giving Keota good
argument in her fight against cut in
her delegation.
The Keota news., 1912-07-19

when it is raining, or in times Of ex-
treme drought and hot winds. Silage
is q good feed daily, both in winter and
summer. It may be fed daily through
the winter. When grass is ready in
the spring. the feed that remains in the
silo can be covered and will keep well
until needed when the summer drought
comes. Silage furnishes green. sue
culent, appetizing feed through the
winter, the same as grass through the
summer. 1t keeps the animals system
in good condition AZ when the stock Is
on good pasture. and feeds given with
it are better digested than when fed
with dry forage.
Corn makes the best silage; Kafir
corn, Milo and sorghum follow, their
value being in the order mentioned.
Broom corn, after brush has been har-
vested, is used successfully around Lib
eral, Kansas. Green peavines and
husks and cobs from the canning fac
tories make good material to put In the
silo. In continuous rainy weather al
falfa, clover and other hay crops may
be saved in good condition in the silo.
Any solid-stemmed feed plant will
make good silage, If harvested at the
right stage Of growth. Plants with
hollow stems, like green wheat and rye,
make silage that is unsatisfactory.
Every live stock growing district in
the United States needs the silo. The
general use Of the silo will make the
high-priced small farms Of the corn belt
profitable growers, rs we'll as finishers,
of bsef cattle and mutton sheep. The
vast dry farming sections Of the South
west will b - thickly settled with
comfortable farm homes a. is the north
ern corn belt whenever dairying.
drought-resistant forage crops and the
silo is the system Of farming followed,
instead of grain farming. The South,
with it, millions Of acres Of cheap lands
and its short, mild winters, can make q
profitable speciality of beef production,
whenever the silo and corn silage is
generally adopted on the farms and
plantations. H. N. Cottrell in The
Southwest Trail.
The Keota news., 1912-07-19

A good h. p. Fairbanks-M Morse en-
gine with all pumping attachments, in
good repair. Will trade for plowing.
Inquire of George H. Besaw, north Of
Keota. 81
The Keota news., 1912-07-19
A BILLION DOLLAR WASTE
Should Be Stopped and, Turned
Into Profit Thru Silos

est, waste in any single industry in this
The grain Of the annual corn crop Of
the United States is worth on the farms
one and half billion dollars. In ripe
corn plant 60 per cent of the feed value
is contained in the kernels and 40 per
cent in the stalk and leaves. With the
grain worth on the farms one and half
billion dollars, the feed value Of the
rest of the crop, if fully utilized, is a
billion dollars. At least 80 per cent Of
the feed value of the stalk is lost under
the present system of farm manage
msnt-a waste with this crop alone Of
nine hundred million dollars yearly. No
other business but farming could stand
such an enormous loss.
In the New England and the Middle
States most of the stalks are saved ~
fodder. and there are many silos, but
with the damage from weathering, the
waste in handling and the loss in diges-
tibility from drying, the farmers are
very far from utilizing the full feed
value Of the corn stalk In the corn
belt, where the bulk of the crop 10
raised. comparatively few corn growers
harvest the stalks, and the only returns
most Of them secure from the forage is
by pasturing the dead stalks in the cold
and storms of winter. Frequently the
death Of stock pastured in the stalk
fields makes loss that far exceeds the
returns from the feed.
Contrast this waste by the corn
grower with the practices Of large bus
mess organizations. For years the
great packing houses have sold dressed
meat for less than they have paid for
the live weight of the animals from
which the dressed meat was secured.
Yet every year these packing houses
return millions of dollars profits because
they utilize to the fullest extent the
value Of their by-products. The Stand
ard Oil Company takes crude oil into its
refining plants, puts it through costly
processes, using apparatus that requires
an outlay Of millions, pays the freight
and delivers the kerosene and gasoline
01SCS w SOuoOIuGAo ~ 1VWSA SoS0
than is asked for mineral water, where
the only expense is to run the water
through pipe from the spring into
bottle. The Standard Oil Company is
doing this and making more money
than any other large corporation be-
cause it utilizes all waste and all residue
produced in refining. The Rock Island
Lines is one Of the large railway sys-
TENS Of the United States. Every night
the empty envelopes that have held the
day.. mail in the general Offices are col
lected, baled and sold. This il only one
example of the close economy that is
practiced in every department of this
great railway system that serves four
teen states. At the same time tho
corn growers are wasting most of 40
per cent of the feed value Of over one
hundred million acres Of corn.
The. silo provides the corn grower
with the means for utilizing the largest
proportion Of the feed value Of his en-
tire crop, grain and forage. The whole
crop can be stored economically in the
silo in a compact form, with little
waste The silage can be kept for days,
months or years. or feeding may begin
- soon as filling the silo is completed.
The silo can be filled in good weather,
The Keota news., 1912-07-19
BELIEVES IN HOMESTEADINC
Family Has Had Experience Cow
ering Almost Fifty Years

efln& Almost FIFTY Years
On January l. 1868, Daniel Freeman
filed on the first homestead to be taken
under the original homestead law of the
United States. This first homestead
was located in Nebraska, five miles
west of what is now Beatrice, altho at
that time the nearest trading point was
Nebraska City, sixty miles away. Very
shortly thereafter, Richard Rossiter
made homestead entry No. IL, on
quarter section of land twelve miles
northwest of where Beatrice now
stands. He reared his family on this
homestead, and for years engaged in
freighting by wagon between Nebraska
City and Julesburg. In those early
days Indians were troublesome, and
frontier life was not so tame as it is to-
day.
While he and the country were both
young, F. E. Quackenbush and an elder
brother came to Nebraska. The BROTH
er took a homestead. while the younger
of the two contented himself by marry
ing the daughter of the twelfth home
steader. This family increased in size,
and made its home in tho vicinity Of
Beatrice for many years after the last
open land in that section of the state
had been taken. As the boys grew up
the need of more land and greater op-
portunity was keenly felt. One of
them, Clifford, married Agnes Free
man, youngest daughter of old Daniel
Freeman, and with his bride established
homo in Beatrice.
In August of 1910, F. E. Quackenbush
and wife came to Keota, and made
homestead filing on half Of section Is,
township 9 north, range 50 west. Dur
ing the same summer three Of the sons,
Clarence, Oscar, and Walter, came and
made filings on adjoining half-sections.
These filings exhausted the homestead
rights Of the family for the time being,
altho there were still two youngep
members unsupplied.
A few months ago it was learned that
valuable quarter-section of land near
the Quackenbush settlement was sub
ject to contest, In fact, it was so
much subject to contest that the orig
inal entryman, who had failed in per-
forming the duties of his entry, could
not be located. Mrs. Quackenbush
brought proceedings and won her case.
and the southeast quarter of section 22,
$50, became open for entry.
Just little while ago Miss Bessie
Quackenbush had a birthday. No par
ty was given in honor of the event, but
when dance was held at the parental
home last Saturday night. it was
learned that Miss Quackenbush had
that day made filing on the contested
quarter, so entering the ranks of the
homesteaders. In three years she will
be possesser Of 16O acres Of land. fine
spring of water, and will be "a years
old. This last. of course, only in case
the Sterling land Office should fail to
burn with it's records in the interval.
And now Earl Quackenbush, young
est of the family, il waiting for about
three birthdays, and wondering If there
will be any unattached land remaining
when he attains his majority.
A good h. p. Fairbanks-Mo en-
gine with all pumping attachments, in
q y
The Keota news., 1912-07-19
Has Faith In the Dry Country

Elmer E. Schofield Of Lafayette,
Colo, came to his 32O-acre desert claim
seven miles southwest of Keota We'd
nesday of last week. to remain for
few days. He is putting down a well,
and bought pump. stock tank, and
windmill tower for it in Keota this
week. Water which raised six feet in
a test we'll was struck 1T depth of
twenty-four feet. Mr.. Schofield has
his entire half section fenced with
woven wire, and intends eventually to
keep hundred head or more Of dairy
cattle. He already has on his place
twenty four head of young dairy stock,
which he brought here two months
ago. Mr.. Schofield owns good irrigated
farms at Loveland and at Lafayette,
and has followed irrigation farming for
. number Of years; but he believes that
the dry farm on which forage crops are
raised and fed to stock offers more
profitable investment and greater re-
turns for the labor required than the
best farms in irrigated sections.
j. A. Rumsey moved the thistles in
his machinery lot Wednesday, and is
looking for buyer for the four stacks
of hay they made.
Miss Alta Jobbins returned to KeotA
Monday from visit Of two weeks with
her sister, Mrs. F. v. Finley, in Gree
ley.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-12

lalnt half donc!" he grumbled,
with the sour clammy mixture stick.
ing to his teeth
1T cooked as long as the wood last.
ed" said Clar, uuconcemodly.
And ! amt had = cherry pie for
more'n two years. Eph said, pushing
the plate back and shaking his head
mournfully.
"When you get something to make
it with and something to cook 1t with,
I'll bake you a cherry pie" said Clar
"EIuh"' gr0Rbl Eph, in disgust
"If is got to work for cherry pie,
I'd ruther have green's"
"All right" said Clar. "The greens
are out in the pasture; go eat 'enl,"
But the next day there We're wosd
and flour and sugar in the house IN
time for a cherry pie. After missing
three regular meals, Eph had concIud-
ed that yictuals of any sort We're worth
working for-if he could not get them
in any other way.-Youth's Compan-
ion.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-12

Rev. George r, EMnn, the new mayor
If Schenectady says: Il don't preach
Give to the poor but Stop taking
rom the poor
Mr.. Lunn, discussing this dictum
he other day, said to the Albany Jour
al man:
"The millionaire social reformer.
mless he is a very sincere man, al
ways reminds me Of the husband who
brought home one evening a bottle of
champagne and a lobster.
cit is your birthday, dear he said
o his wife, and purchased these
ielicacies as a little trent for you this
evening with your birthday dinne:.'
"'You are very kind the woman
answered, but l thought you knew l
lever touch champagne, love, while
obster invariably disagrees with me-
"'Neyer mind, my dear, never mind
he husband answered. 'Tuat being
he case, III Just eat the lobster N.Y.
self and drink the champagne to gour
health.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-12
MADE HIM EARN CHERRY PIE
ResoureefuI and Independent Daugh-
ter Gave Old Eph Just the Lesson
He Needed.

Eph WATSON did not believe in the
sweetness of bread earned by the
sweat of the brow--at least, not by
the sweat of his own brow. So Mandy,
his wife, like many another industri-
GUS colored woman, not only took In
washing to pay for the groceries, but
chopped her own wood. built the fires,
and waited on Eph besides, 49,
But there was change when their
daughter Clarissa come home. "Clar, -
who was an expert cook, had gone
to school and become teacher, and
had acquired an independent spirit.
She quickly took In the domestic sit
uation.
Now all the spring Eph had watch
ed the cherry tree in his back yard
with watering mouth. If there was
one thing that, Eph liked more than
another 1t was cherry pie; and Clar
was famous for her cherry pie AS
good luck would have it, she had come
home just as the cherries were ripe.
"Clar, honey, said'Eph, in a wheed-
ling tone, the morning after her ar
rival, won't you cook 20 ole daddy
cherry pie?'
Very WE'LL" said Clar, and Eph shut,
fled off happily to his usual loaling
place.
Law, honey" said Mandy, when
Clar started to make the pie, "dar
amt enough wood. Yo' mammyll have
to get some"
mot a stick!" ordered Clar, EN-
phatically.
Moreover, there was no sugar, and
only a half-cup of flour. However
that did not disturb Clar. She pick
ed a pint of cherries, put them IN a
pan, and poured over them the pint
Of -four stirred in water. This mix
ture she put in the oven and lighted
the only two sticks of wood in the
house.
AT noon Eph came in with eager
anticipation, and sitting down at the
table, called for his pie. Clar set It
before him. He rolled his eyes at
the mess in establishment 1t was a
queer.looking pie; still Clar was al
ways learning something new. lie cut
into it and took big mouthful.
"Why," he exclaimed, oyou done for
got to put the sugar in"
No" said the daughter "You for
got to get it"