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The Adair County news., 1912-01-03
NORMANDY NUGGETS.
Stones That Find Their Way Into the
Mouths of Many People.

Stones That Find Their Way Into the
Mouths of Many People.
1t is far cry from "the lonely
st as of the wave kissed shore" to
Fl eeth, but by unexpected paths
v en- descend abruptly from the
s. to the unitarian. Many a
n almly chewing an indestrucible
s. IN America little dreams that
IL ;turesque coast of Normandy has
been sacrificed to provide him with
mOlars. Such is the painful fact, how,
ever. If you walk along the southern
shore of the English channel between
Dieppe and Havre you will see men
and boys searching for stones of a
certain size and shape from a varied
collection of rocks which form the
beach. These are put into sacks and
shipped to America, where they are
converted into porcelain.
The industry-for such is the term
used to designate this invigorating oc-
cupation-has grown to considera BILE
proportions in the past few years. Its
simplicity is perhaps its greatest
Nhs1l OI1SC lnC hlhu
Of stone you are looking for, all that
is required of you is to pick it up.
If you do this steadily and uncom-
plainingly for several hours you will be
sure to fill sack. Then all you have
to do is to fling it jauntily over your
shoulder. run across the powders to
the superintendent and demand
franc.
With this wealth in your pocket you
CO 1en sit down and look dreamily
OF ne water while you allow your
In cation full play. You seem to
sc . stones after a long voyage
&C the Atlantic being slowly
re d from their rude state. Bit by
Bit -cy are dragged from their primi-
tive nothingness up to the heights of
twentieth century porcelain. They are
then shaped. polished mounted on
gold pivot-but why go into it? 1t is
too minneapolis Bellman.
The Adair County news., 1912-01-03
COOPERATIVE EGG MARKETING


The patrons of a creamy within fifty
or sixty miles of Duluth. Mimi. have
inaugurated a system of cooperative
egg marketing that might well be
adopted In many other rural communi-
ties where poultry raising is carried
on as q side line with the dairy busi
ness. Briefly, the plan is as follows:
The patrons enter, into an agreemp;i;
to collect their eggs daily, wash them
if necessary. stamp on them the date
on which they were laid, separate
white eggs from brown and deliver
them at the creamery in package
bearing their individual name and Ia
bel. When a sufficient number of eggs
have been received they are shipped
in refrigerator cars with the butter
product TO Duluth, which is the mar
ket center for this particular section
Using the care that the producers q"
in packing, the eggs do not have to be-
candled or otherwise handled at the.
creamery. \ demand has been estab
lished for these certified eggs. with the
result that the farmers who produce.
them are receiving from TO 10 CENTS
per dozen more for them than for e"~s
of uncertain pedigree and character.
marketed in the usual slipshod man
ner. There is no patent on this plan.
and it is one that the patrons of every
creamery might look into seriously.
The Adair County news., 1912-01-03
a Duty

Look here, Ben, what did you shoot
at me fer? I amt got no quarrel with
you"
"You had feud with Jim Wombat.
didn't YEP
81 did, but Jim's dead"
I'm his Observation-Disclosures.
The Adair County news., 1912-01-03
The BRIGHT Side.

LET us look on the bright side of
things. Nothing is ever as bad as It
might be-"
you're right. Take the coats that
women wear, for instance. They might
be made to button down the back
Chicago Record Herald.
The Adair County news., 1912-01-03
NO POST GAN STAND THIS.

just at the top Of the ground. Hitch a
horse at B, with a long singletree.
This is the best post litter ever and
can be rugged up in the shortest time.
The upward pull on the post may be
increased by placing trians dlar block
in front of wheel.
The Adair County news., 1912-01-03
KING S0L0M0N's MINES.
They May Have Been the Ancient Gold
Workings at Rhcdesia.

RhodeSia. that province of British
Africa lying between the Zambezi and
the Limpopo rivers. has considerable
deposits of gold. The ancients mined
and carried away enormous quantities
of the precious metal. but under the
scientific mining systems of the pres
ent day their operations will be greatly
surpassed.
1t has been thought that Rhodesia
WAS tie ancient land of Ophir. the land
Of the mysterious king Solomon's
mines" but this theory is strongly
cOmbated by some Investigators. The
ancient gold workings are the basis of
modern workings. For every ten
square miles. of Rhodesia, it is stated.
there was one ancient mine-that is,
tt re 5000 old workings-which
n, hat a stupendous wealth was
DIT 2 or the earth before the days of
&c Rhodes. Much of this wealth
MI ave gone to the north and east.
1t probably wrought into the
Gro e the Queen Of Sheba and filed
the Golfers OF Solomon.
The ancient smelling furnaces are
said still to be Of easy recognition.
They are sunk into the floor" The
furnace blowpipes are made of the
finest granite powder cement. and the
nozzles of the blowpipes are covered
with splashes of gold The Innings of
the holes are covered with specks of
gold. When the first lining became
worn by the heat fresh lining of &C.
ment of an excellent quality, which
has outlasted time, was smeared round
on top Of the old lining. 1t is said
that one can take an old lining, split
off the layers with a knife and find
gold splashes in abundance.
The tools of the ancient workers
which have so far been discovered in
clude a small soapstone hammer and
Furnishing stones of water worn rock.
to which gold still adheres. There are
evidences that the ancients carried on
an extensive industry in the manufac-
ture of gold ornaments and utensils.
The Adair County news., 1912-01-03
Quite Contrary.

Gibbs-Your wife seems to be con-
trary sort Of woman. Dibbs-C Contrary
Why. whenever / ask her to darn my
stockings she knits her brows.-BostoD
Transcript.
The Adair County news., 1912-01-03
A Vague impression.
: is your idea Of the character
2 Macbeth %

~" replied Mrs. Cumrox, "there
is SO much gossip about people con-
nected with the stage that one scarce
ly knows what to believe. Washing
ton Star.
The Adair County news., 1912-01-03
a SEED CORN OBSERVATION

A Michigan farmer vouches for
this method of improving his
corn. He says, 81 always choose
the top ear from a stalk bearing
two or more ears and after do
ing SO for the third or fourth
time have been successful in
growing four to six ears on at
least half the stalks in the field"
The Adair County news., 1912-01-03
POST LITTER THAT LIFTS.

Costs Practically Nothing, but No
Patent Device Can Beat It.
Take an old solid cornplanter wheel
and set it as closely against the post
as the chain will allow. Put hook, A.
on the end of the main chain, using
q shorter chain to go around the post
The Adair County news., 1912-01-03

yalor consists in the power Of self
recoyery.-Emerson.
The Adair County news., 1912-01-03

One of the chief arguments ad-
vaced by the champions of prohi-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-03

OUTSIDE NEWS FkO.
In Wisconsin, the people de-
eide whom they want for presi-
Dental candidates.
Yesterday the people of Wis
consin took their little ballots in
their hands, and decided.
The remarkable popularity of
William Judicial Temperament
Taft and Champ Hearst Clark
among the people of Wisconsin is
interesting.
c. S. Havenor, owner of Mil
waukee baseball club, died at his
home in that city today.
Raold Amundsen, discoverer of
South Pole, arrived at Sidney, N.
S. W., today.
While William Jennings Bry-
an is in Ohio April IS and 10, say
ing what he thinks of Governor
Harmon, Governor Harmon has
decided to be in Nebraska, saying
what he thinks of William Jen-
ningS.
What William Jennings thinks
of Harmon and what Harmon
thinks of William, put together,
ought to make fine thing to call
the office boy.
18th district convention, Indiana,
yesterday instructed two dele
gates to Rep. national conven-
ton for Taft. Gives Taft 20
from Indiana, Roosevelt 8. Two
delegates still to be selected.
James P. Howard, candidate
for justice of the peace in Mil
HI Lof4~o
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-03

NJ WIRE AND CABLE
the peace, but that a dead justice
of the peace is at least a good
compromise.
Mexican rebels in Juarez have
arrested Powell Roberts, Ameri-
can citizen of El Paso, Tex. Com
plain has been made to state de-
partment, which is looking for ex-
cuse of that sort.
T. Roosevelt will make two
days speaking tour through Hi
nOis, Saturday and Monday, in
the hope that thereby he will gar
ner some delegates Tuesday.
John A. Benjamin, engineer on
President Lincoln'S funeral train,
celebrated his 82nd. birthday at
Cleveland, O., today.
Not one city person in ten
eats fresh eggs."-State Dairy
and Food commission of Ohio.
We are glad that the gentle
man made it NOT one city per-
son in ten, otherwise we should
have called him a shorter and ug-
lier word.
Army aviators at College Park,
Md, are testing new aeroplane
gun, weighing Is pounds, firing
500 shots per minute, and special
four inch gun, first air weapon
of large caliber.
Australian steamer Koomba,
carrying so passengers and crew
of 80, wrecked in typhoon off
Perth, West Australia. No sur
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-12

commissioner fon the games to be held
| at Stockholm in July.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-12

at the University Of Pennsylvania for
some time prior to becoming director
of the great library in 1895.
While the name of DR.. Billings Is
perhaps not as familiar to the gen.
eral public as Jack Johnson, Ty Cobb
or Bertha M. Clay, he has attained
worldwide fame among the savants,
and has been honored with degrees
by the universities of many lands. Ed
inburgh, Buda-Pesth, Harvard Yale
and Johns Hopkins have conferred
upon him the degree of LID, Munich
and Dublin the degree of MD, and
Oxford made him a D. c. l., or Doc
tor of Civil Laws He is a member
of the leading medical societies of
Ireland, England, Germany, Sweden
and France, as well as of the United
States, and one-time president of the
American Congress of Physicians and
Surgeons.
In short, DR.: Billings Is one of the
few supremely wise men who know
so much that they know that they
don't know very much. The wisest
man in America-and yet how little
he knows compared with what any
college freshman thinks he knows!
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-12
PUBLIC OPINION
AWOMAN'S PROTEST
Editor Of The Farmer: Sir.

Editor Of The FARMER: Sir,
an writing this in behalf of the
women of this city, who declare the
Burroughs Public Library building is
in "just the right location" because
it is in the heart of the shopping dis
trict. A great many have expressed
to me their 'disapproval Of the propos-
ed radical change in the location OF
the library and as everyone knows,
women form large proportion of the
visitors at the library building. Their
wishes in this matter should be con-
sidered.
Now. sisters, out upon this fearful
silence! Speak for yourselves. Now
is the time. to express our opinions.
We are different from men and chill
dren. After attending the multitude.
nous household, clerical, social and
club duties, we become enerVated and
worn out. How often we seek diver.
sion in a visit to the shopping dis
trict Now. suppose we find the Ii
brary on the Hill or in some other 10.
cation not traversed by several troll
ley lines. Then we can no longer
embody in Or down town trips visit
to the library without great ineon-
venience
The directors, out of kindness Of
heart, should remodel and renew If
necessary, rather than sell the build
ing. If need be they could utilize the
Main street stores for more room.
They cannot erect a building, so large
on a site as we'll located.
Directors, remember the trust CIV
en- you by Mrs. Pettingill. the donor.
Regard for her request-to perpetuate
the Burroughs name and to mark the
homestead site FOREVER.
Who has outshone her in the mag.
nificence of her generosity? The
Burroughs Public Library building,
Burroughs Home, Burroughs chapel
what more eloquent monuments to the
memory of a splendid woman?
Women have little enough of honor
and praise A young clerk in store
not a block from the Burroughs Lii
hrary building said to me tha other
day, "Where is the BurroC<>ls Lii
hrary building and the Burroughs
Chapel?"
He knew it was the Public Library
nd st. Johns chapel, but he didn't
nov them by any other names. he
said.
MARY WEILES BURROUGHS.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-12
MRS. HOSLEY TO Be A nun
Widow of Naval Commander Begins
Her Novitiate Near Albany.

Washington, April 12.-Washing-
ton society is much interested in the
announcement that Mrs. Hosley. Wild
ow of Commander H. H. Hosley, U.
S. ~, has definitely decided upon be-
coming a nun, and will, according to
her present plans, be received into
the Order of the Sacred Heart next
week.
Mrs Hosley is now at Kenwood
Convent near Albany, where her
novitiate will be passed. Mrs. Hos
lev is a handsome woman Of middle
age and the mother of a child who
Immediately after her graduation two
years ago entered the Order of the
Sisters of Charity at Emmtttsburg.
Md. AS Miss Genevieve Paul, daugh-
ter Of the late Gen. Paul of the army,
Mrs Hosley was great belle of a
generation ago, and during her nus
bands lifetime was very prominent In
navy society here and abroad.
The novitiate on which Mrs. Hos
ley enters with the taking OF the
white veil will last two years.
Commander Hosley, who died three
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-12
RECEIVER DENIED
FOR THE SHUBERTS

New York, April 12.-Holding the
Shuberts, theatrical agents, to be sol
vent and well able to finance the
..B,uebird" production, Justice Bisch-
off here today denied the application
of Liebler & Company that a receiver
be appointed for the Bluebird Com
pany.
Samuel Untermyer, counsel for the
Shuberts set forth that they We're
worth s., OO0, 900 in securities and prop
ertv in New York, and that they do
a business throughout the country of
81. 600. 900 a year He offered to fur
nish bond of $50, to guarantee the
proper administration Of the Bluebird
Company This was accepted and the
application for a receiver was de-
Med
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-12
DR.. BILLINGS, DEAN OF U. S.
LIBRARIANS, IS 70 TODAY

There are two professions in which
to be successful, one must know
something of everything. In most
lines of human endeavor it is the spe-
cialist who arrives, but the librarian
and the newspaperman must be well
grounded in every field of knowledge.
Mr.. p. Bone Publicus, thirsting for in
formation as to the date of the Sulli-
van-Kilrain fight, the distance of Mars
from the earth or the value of an
1851 dime, goes or writes to the near
est editor, and If that supposedly ON
niscient individual is unable to tell
him, Immediately and "out of his own
head Mr.. P. Bono is grieved and
surprised, but not hopeless. He
knows where he can obtain the desir-
ed data, and hastens to the public
resort, a never-failing fount of wis
dom, and what a librarian does not
know is not printed in books.
Therefore it follows, as B follows
A, that the greatest librarian in any
country is of necessity that nations
case, DR.. John Shaw Billings, director
of the largest municipal library in the
world, that of New York, may be said
to be the wisest man in America.
DIR. Billings was born in Switzer-
land county, Indiana, seventy-three
years ago To-Day, ana IN the HattST
of age as we'll as in the pre-eminent
position he holds, is the dean of Am
erican librarians. For sixteen years
he has been the head of the New
York Public Library, and all Of the
multitudinous activities carried on in
the great 100000 edif1ce in Fiji h ave-
nue. are under his watchful eye. He
had won wide fame as a surgeon be-
fore he undertook his present work,
and it was while he was engaged in
indexing and arranging a catalogue of
the books in the library of the Sur
geon Generals Office at Washington
that he became interested in library
| work. A specialist in surgery, medi
cine and hygiene as well as library
methods, he has also the wide general
knowledge so necessary to the sue
cessful director of a great public IL
brary.
The venerable librarian gradual ed
from Miami University, Ohio, in 1851
and a few years later received the
degree Of MD. from the Medical Col
lege Of Ohio. At the outbreak of the
war he entered the service of the gov
ernment as an assistant surgeon of
the army, and continued to wear the
uniform OF Uncle Sam until 1895, when,
after a year as assistant surgeon gen
eral Of the United States army. with
the rank of aforementioned, he re-
ired from active service al his own
request. He was professor of hygiene
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-12
TELEPHONE GIRLS TO
HOLD DANCE MONDAY NIGHI

You have heard their silvery voices
over the wire but you don't often get
chance to meet them socially, 50 it
is expected that the telephone girls
will have a big crowd at their dance
next Monday evening at Colonial hall.
The girls are great entertainers ard
everybody who attends the dance IS
assured of a good time. Those who
have charge of the arrangements are
the Misses Louise Conklin, Ruth
Botsford, Kate Kelly, and E. Blanche
Crosse. Miss Crosse is the floor COM
mittee and she will see that every
body has a partner.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-12

pee dead of heart disease brought on
by the excitement. The investiga-
ton developed that the brakes of the
train refused to work properly and
that instead of stopping at the sta
ton as Foley and Holden expected,
it went just far. enough past to strike
them. Cavanaugh, who dropped dead
just as he was lifting the body of
Foley into his undertaker's wagon,
was so years old and leaves widow
and one daughter.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-12
WHITCOMB LEFT
100000 ESTATE

New Haven, April lathe will Of
Walter c. Whitcomb, filed in probate
court today, disposes Of an estate Of
$500, e00 Half is left to the widow and
the other half is divided, two-thirds
to a brother, c. NJ. Whitcomb of Phil
adelphia. and the other third to Mar
ian E. Whitcomb of Wilkesbarre, Pa.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-12
DOUBLE FATALITY BY
TRAIN ACCIDENTAL.

Vernon, April 12.-According to the
authorities who investigated, the kill
ing last night of Frank Holden. -
and George Faley, 10, by a New Ha-
ven passenger train, was accidental,
Andrew Cavanaugh, an undertaken
who took charge of the. bodies. drop
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-12

Boston-Miss Lydia Schader. of
Braintree, concert singer, says "she
hasn't even sneezed" since she began
fighting chronic colds two years ago
by wearing a fetchfngly low "V"-cut
neck winter and summer.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-12
SULLIVAN APPOINTED
COMMISSIONERS FY TAFT
FOR OLYMPIC GAMES

New York, April 12.-It was an
ounced here today that President
aft appointed James E. Sullivan.
,cretary of the American Olympic
association, as American Olympic
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-12

Forrest E. Hodgdon, Portsmouth,
N. H., now keeps Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound on hand all the time.
He says, My baby had cold almost
all winter but toward Spring / got
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound and
it cured him right up. / now keep
it in the house all the time" L. +.
Curtis. s135
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-12

years ago in New York, won consid-
cradle fame by his skill and success
in taking the great dry dock Dewey
on it's long journey to the other side
of the world
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-28
This Confident Inventor VIII Drop 700 Feet
from the Fifty-first Floor of the Woolworth
Building to Prove That His Device Will
Arrest Runaway Car Wi bout In
jury to Its Occupants.

car should crash all OF the way down TO
the bottom of the shaft to hurt the pas
sengers. There are various systems for
arresting falling elevators. and the sud
denness with which some of these are de-
signed to work is very apt to throw the
people within the car so violently to the
floor as to do them serious harm-.he
prime intention being to save life at the
imminent risk of breaking many bones.
This is a long way from perfection. Ihe
ideal safety control should catch the Gle
vator in it's downward plunge and check
IL so progressively that the car could be
brought to a standsull without concus-
sion-like the stopping OF properly
handled express train. This means that
the action should be automatic, because
no human being is likely to be 50 COM
pletely i'm possession Of his wits when
making a drop of several hundred feet as
to handle any lever or controlling apta-
ratus with the nicely ard comparative
deliberation which this implies.
Contradictory as it may seem, the best
way to effect progressive checking, with
the least ultimate jar, is to let the clc-
vator drop the full limit, and. in doing
this, to take advantage of one Of natures
forces which can always be relied upon
when properly utilized. We refer to the
resistance offered by air when compressed
in a suitable manner. There is a great
deal yet TO be learned about the func-
tioning of this atmosphere OF ours under
different circumstances, and there arc
many things which most Of us misunder-
stand about the action Of the air upon "A
person falling from a considerable height
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-28

ground with al OF tae accumulated mo-
meutum Of its drop, but tire elevator must
also be brought to standstill easily. and
this can be accomplished only by check
ing It's downward course progressively.
VI the car We're to enter a close fitting
casing at great speed-if it did not burst
that envelope-the elevator would come
to a stop wellnish as violently as If IL
had hit the ground and the shock to the
passengers would be disastrous and the
elevator might be wrecked. Air will yield
to compression up 70 a point and then
will react with great positiveness or force.
and a cushion of this sort bears no rela-
ton TO the sense OF comfort with which
we usually associate the term; II would
be like dropping upon pile OF bricks
when expecting confidently to land on
feathers. Let US see how the air cushions
I'm the present application get the full
benefit Of the saving quality Of the at
mosphere without mourning violent re-
action. The solution is an ingenious one
and the layman can easily appreciate il.
The upper end of the protective tube IS
somewhat expanded, like a funnel. As
the dropping car enters this part of the
apparatus there is more space around the
sides of the elevator for the upward es-
cape OF the air undergoing its first COM
preston AS the car drops further the