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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-11-12
WHO LAUGHS LAST
BY BERTON BRALEY.

The tramp looked at the cavalcade
AS the King went by in his gilt and braid;
And he gazed and said, with a heavy sigh
THAT chap is certainly living high;
with all that fellow would want to drink
And servants jumping every wink,
"And plenty money and grub see
That King is fine old thing to be-"
Then a soldier thrust the tramp aside
AS the King in his purple pride,
Time passed-and the mighty King lay dead
And the soldiers marched with a measured tread
And the tramp stood watching the cavalcade
AS the dead King passed and the march played;
And he said Poor fellow, his game is DONE
He's finished his drinks and had his fun;
The muscm play and the wine will flow
And the dancers dance-but He won't know
And the sun will shine and the breezeu sigh
And color and life will greet the eye.
And jewels will sparkle and birds will sing
But he won't know it-that poor dead King
He'll just lie there in coffin. grim
And I'm the fellow who envied him!
"Enved Him-that poor dead clay,
And I've got life and the light o. dav
And grub-to rustic, and drink-to get;
And a lot OF adventures l haven't met
And many and many men
To find in places l haven't been;
"a live tramp isn't much' he said
But he's got the bulge a King who's dead"
AS the bier went by he raised his cap
And whispered, smiling, Goodbye. old chap
I'm sorry for you" and off he strobe.
Humming song down the dusty road
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came near guessing it out. Goethe anticipated
it in Faust and the French Lamarck laid elab-
crate foundations Of an evolution philosophy.
Lyel and Hutton had made gradual development
the foundation of geology. And everywhere
among scientific and learned circles in Darwins
time it was felt that some theory Of the orr
gin of things must be worked out, because evil
dences had so accumulated to show that the old
idea Of an instantaneous creation unfounded.
But no thinker was able to seize the METHOD
of evolution. THE world has evolved" averred
the scientists But how? ?" asked the laymen,
and the scientists could not answer.
Darwin did not discover evolution but he dis
covered the chief way or it is SO thought at
least, in which evolution works. He gave an
answer to that question, "How?"
But Darwin is not entitled to all the credit
In 1854 Wallace moved to the Malay Archipelago
and spent eight years studying life forms there
He, too, had long given up the old instantaneous
theory of creation and he too asking that
question. How" but could not make answer
But it CHANGED that while lying in a ham
mock afternoon, the idea came to him that
life evolves through struggle, that creatures are
born with variations which slightly differentiate
them from their parents, and that those ndvid-
uals fortunate enough to inherit peculiarities
which would adapt them to changed conditions
would be able to survive any unexpected change.
Thus the fittest would survive. Instead of some
World-Maker, standing on the outside Of things
and arbitrarily remanufacturing or selecting crea-
lures to fit the conditions, Nature through
this struggle process of letting the fittest sur
vive herself did the fitting Therefore the the
DRY first called Natural Selection" and re-
NAMED that until Spencer rechristened it with
the accurate Survival of the Fittest"
cognomen.
Wallace, who had met Darwin, Immediately
forwarded to him at London treatise in which
this hypothesis elaborated, but it so chanc-
ed-and it is of historys most striking CO.
incidences-that Darwin himself had already
prepared treatise of his own in which the the
DRY was almost identicay worked out
But Darwin, magnanimous he was great,
generously read the two papers at once and &C
corded Wallace equal share in the epoch MAX
ing discovery. This, however, did not please
Wallace when he had learned that Darwin had
been working than twenty years on the
matter and had nearly completed a book setting
the theory forth with a wealth of convincing
proofs and evidences, so he insisted that the
hypothesis be named the "Darwinian theory
and such it has remained
Scientists no longer believe as they first did
that this theory explains all of the processes of
evolution, they do not even believe it explains
the greater part of them, but they all believe
and cordially, that the credit of establishing the
theory of evolution on a scientific basis and MAX
ing it the controlling issue in the scientific and
philosophical thought of the age belongs to
Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace
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THEATRES

THE Lottery Man" is playing at the
Murray this week. 1t has no entangling
plot. nothing to tire the brain of the
wearied business man" and soon at
ter the ENHANCEMENT begins. even the
less shrewd easily foretell what the
final climax will be. In its last analysis
it has more Of the farce comedy fea
lures than of the legitimate drama.
The audience. however. seems to en-
JOY the complications created by the
purpose of a reporter out of a job TO
offer himself as a lottery prize 10 the
woman who holds the lucky coupon
printed in a newspaper.
Joseph Shafer takes the part Of the
lottery man. An elimination of his
mannerisms would give strength &c
the portrayal 1t would seem that he
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Runs No Risk.

All authorities are agreed that a
person runs no risks by the injec-
Ion into his system of the thousand
million or more dead bacteria which
constitute the dose. Seldom is there
reaction and in almost every case.
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At the Gennett,
At Coliseum
Murrette.

Nov. 16-Russian symphony OrcheS
ira.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-11-12

Typhoid fever may be prevented in
almost every instance by the use or
INphO- baCterin vaccination and when
contracted may be made much milder
and less dangerous. This is the gist
OF an interesting paper read by DR.
L. r Ross before the recent meeting
OF the Wayne County Medical Asso-
citation.
The most unquesuoned proof of the
certainty of this new discovery OF the
medical profession is furnished by the
United States army. In 1909 among
900 regular troops there were lie
cases and Is deaths. In 1912. after q
large proportion had been VacCinated
only Is cases are reported with three
deaths. of these only six cases &C
CURED among the vaccinated result
ing in no deaths. In 1910 there were
ten times as many days lost from the
illness as in 1912 after use of vacCin-
alton.
Notable Improvement.
What an Improvement this is over
the olden days of insanitation may be
seen by comparing the experience OF
the army ROW camped in Texas. which
during the past year had only one
case and that an unvaccinated team.
ster who contracted ii in Mexico. and
the United States volunteer army in
the Spanish-AmeriCan war when 81
per cent OF the troops were infected
with typhoid Lieutenant Foster
! W~ites:
The I. S army was crippled TO a
greater extent by this disease during
that war than by all other conditions
! combined"
The entire army. including regulars
! infected and 1,50S died
| Typhoid vaccination was introduced
| into the British army in South Africa
as far back as 1898 but in spite of the
| Crudity of the methods then used "
! phoid was decreased % per cent IL
| one section seven times as many
cases were reported among the un
vaccinated as the vaccinated and elev
en- times as many deaths.
| France and Germany are both com
| polling vaccination in their armie,
and other advanced nations are rapid
ly introducing the measure.
And what has been done in thu
army may be done with equal success
in hospitals and cities. In one hos
pital where the measure was used, o
511 vacCinated only 1876 contracted
the disease, while among the nurse
and physicians and attendants VIII
went unvaccinated 149 per cent be
came infected.
Runs No Risk.
~ hn
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Today and tomorrow the Murrette
will offer another of those wonderful
wild animal pictures I'm The Midst of
The Jungle" This picture today was
made by the same company that pro-
duced "Alone in the Jungles," about
two months ago and is said to be far
superior to that picture Two comedy
pictures are shown today. "The Ac-
tors Troubles" and THE Tramp Po-
lice"
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS
LOOKS AROUND AND SAYS SOMETHING

Topeka Capital
According to Murphy, Sulzer lied every turn" but
though the boss is the it has turns
a every
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SEEMS LIKE SIMPLE REQUEST

Washington
All that Carranza asks is that arms and ammunition
be made accessible Mexico bchoride or cyanide
is in this country.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-26
REJUVENATE AN OLD ORCHARD,
Increase in Size and Color of Fruit
Is Very Largely Due to JudIclous
Use of Prune Saw.

(By S. VAN SMITH, Colorado Agricul4
tural College.)
Our attention is being called every
day to the example of some farmer
with an idea, who takes a pruning
saw and goes into an old and unprofit-.
able orchard and makes it pay attrac-
tive dividends. Proper cultivation and
spraying are important factors in
such a regeneration, but the increase.
in size and color of fruit is very large
ly due to judicious pruning.
In old orchards which have been
neglected the thing most noticeable
is the fact that the tree tops contain
too much wood; too many limbs.
Many of these are large limbs which
should have been cut out years ago.
whel. they were small and the shock
to the tree would not have been so
great, to say nothing Of the saving OF
plant food used In the production OF
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-26

eye. You're a second edition OF Ralph Waldo
Emerson my boy" said he little quizzically.
They're pretty by the water" said Billy, "and
the wind whispers to them and they tell me what
the wind says"
You're a poet" said the man with the box
81 wouldn't pick your flowers now were they the
real gold they seem to be, but I'm after birds
too"
Bang em and put EN- in a box?"
mo. Just look at them"
"Pll show you lots said Billy.
The man came to the meadows often after this
and met Billy. The lad knew where the lark
finch, where the vreo placed its paper-lined
home and where the oriole swung its cradle, He
showed all his treasures to the man who was
willing to lock and to spare. One day Billy
brought some papers to his Observation-Disclosures
cal acquaintance. They're poems" he said
like what the man with the gray beard wrote
about bobolnks and like what the man Shake
something said about the yellow swamp flowers"
Bily's naturalist friend took the manuscript
Rhythm there was none; the spelling would
make a photographer weep but there was poe
try. The boy said In essence that the marigold
didn't die because he thought Of 1t all the year
through and thinking Of things makes EN- live"
One Of Billys schoolmates had trapped shore
lark The bird sings as 1t scars, and In that re-
spect is like unto the lark that at heavens gate
sings" Billy had fought good fight for the
trapped lark when the trapper was taking It
homeward, but a crowd Of schoolmates who re-
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-26

garded the larks as fair prey made numbers
carry the day.
One day Billy and the stroller afield were
vile road that runs along and crosses the rustic
bridge over the north branch of the river They
heard shouts and turning saw that a building
facing the road was on fire. 1t was a frame
structure with the two upper stories occupied by
families. 1t was on the ledge of the front win
dow Of the upper apartment that the Gagged lark
which Billy had tried to save had been impris-
oned for several days. The man and boy started
for the scene Of the fire, The building was a
furnace, "Everybody's out" called a man in the
crowd that had gathered
Billy, the witless looked up He saw the lark
in the cage. The stairway was burning. He
euded OBTAINING hand and dashed into the en-.
trance and up the stairs. A man jumped after
him, but 1t was too late He was driven back.
In less than a minute the people with staring
eyes saw the boy appear at the front upper win.
dow His form was framed with smoke and
flame They saw him fairly tear apart the cage
that held the lark In an instant the bird was
free and went soaring heaVenward singing.
There was a crash floor had given way. A
little later a crowd had gathered round the dead
body Of boy, The school teacher and Billys
naturalist companion were looking down on the
face that the flames had left untouched
He wanted to be poet" said the teacher.
Wanted to be-" said the tramper Of the fields.
Wanted to be? His whole life was a poem
and his death was a song"
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-26
DRAINAGE Of W.. Lands.

For the management of wet lands
the usual advice is to tile drain them
but an intelligent German farmer now
living in this country suggests that IL
sometimes pays better to make arti-
fetal ponds. In Germany, he says, an
acre OF fish ponds is often reckoned
worth more than an acre of wheat.
The dams may be built with farm
labor at small expense, and the ponds
add considerably to the beauty of the
scenery. Very often, also, the ponds
can be used to some extent for irri.
cation, ard irrigation will work won
ders.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-26

than those of a bird, as he darts hith-
er and thither, and it is often perpleN
ing, at dusk, to distinguish the two
These odd birds cling to the sides
Of the chimney, and to rough places as
sisted by their spine-like tails, and are
never seen to alight on the ground, be-
cause they would be unable to arise
again, on account of their long wings
and short feet. Their song consists
Of rolling twitter, which is quite
pleasant to hear.
The Chimney Swift is about an inch
shorter than the English Sparrow, but
its long wings make it appear larger
The male and female are marked
alike, being of deep, sooty gray. The
tail is even, and has very elastic and
sharply pointed quilts, beyond which
the wings extend an inch and half.
The feet have exceedingly sharp
claws.
In country houses, during the sum.
mer, ! have heard the roar, like dis.
tant thunder, of flock Of these birds
rising from one of the large chimneys.
in the early morning.
The Swift lays from four to siI
pure white eggs.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-26
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BARN SWALLOW, CHIMNEY SWEEP AND KING BIRD
BY JULIE ADAMS POWELL.

parts are grayish slate color; on his
head is concealed orange red crest
The under parts are white, washed
with gray on the breast The tail is
black, tipped with white. The nest is
built at the end of branch of some
low tree, several feet from the ground,
and is compact structure, composed
of leaves, string, weeds, grass, fine
rootlets, bark and hair. The number
of eggs are generally five, and they
are creamy white, spotted with dark
brown and purple gray.
suppose that every boy who reads
this paper has seen the Barn Swallow,
but how many have seen the bird at
work building her nest? Some day
If you hide away inside the barn, and
keep very quiet, you can witness this
very interesting performance.
One day last summer was out on
farm, and in the barn l heard a great
ohattering and chipping, and discover
( the Barn Swallow were building.
AS the male of most bird families
does no. assist his mate in this work,
l concluded that it was "he" who was
doing the chattering, while the little
housewife carried the mud and straw
of which the walls of the house we're
built. Most of the time he was inside
the half-finished nest giving advice,
while she worked.
There were three nests under way,
and they were round In form and the
mud and straw were nrmly and
smoothly plastered together, and the
inside Of a finished one was lined with
soft feathers from the chicken yard,
These birds are very graceful, and
they 60 about In colonies, flying.
low over the meadows and fields while
on the lookout for the insects on
which they feed.
The male and the female Barn
Swallow are marked alike. The upper
parts are steely blue throat, upper
breast and forehead are chestnut
rufous in color, and the under parts
are washed with the same, shading to
a buff, The tail is very slender, and
deeply forked. The female is slight
ly smaller than the male, and her col
oring is paler. She raises two broods
of young in a season, from the four
to six eggs at sitting, which are
white with spots of purplish brown.
The Chimney Swift is more COM
monty called THE Chimney Swallow"
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-26
HELPFUL TO BEE BEGINNERS
One Method Which Cannot Fail to AS
sist ls to Give Delinquent Insects
Good Shaking Up.
CBy MRS, R, F. JosEPH.)

A method | have just learned that
cch1ot fail to help beginners in bee
culture is to give the bees good
shaking when they become delinquent
in their work. When you move them
short distance to prevent their go
ing back shake them in front of the
entrance of their respective hives. The
most vicious bees can be made very
tame by shaking. shake them of
the comb into large dishpan. When
the pan is shaken about the same as
you would shake corn pepper the
bees roll over In a confused mass and
after a minute Of shaking, rolling and
tumbling they can be picked up with
the hands, providing, of course thai
you do not hurt them.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-26

When the King bird arrives in the
eearly spring with his bride from the
,south, he guards her most jealousy,
sand fights most pugnaciously all 9TH
,ers of his kind who come near
Noted for his fighting nature, the
King bird is entitled to his royal name,
land is also called the tyrant Fly Catch
,er. and from his epicurean love of in
,sects, he is known again as the Bee
Martin, although far removed from the
Martin family, being really one of the
Fly Catchers.
He possesses no noble qualities, as
without provocation he often allows
-'his angry passions" to rise, and
makes bold and aggressive attacks on
the crow, and often chases away
from his field the less offensive small
birds. Very like the Indians Of the
western plains, the King bird never
likes to meet a foe In open warfare,
preferring to swoop down upon some
,unoffending neighbor, giving him a
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-26
HIT HIGHEST MARKET PRICE
Easier Done With Grain Crops Thar
With iVestoek-Anlmals Must
Go When They Are Ready.

It is much easier, generally speak
ing, to hit the highest market price
with grain crops than it is with live
stock. There are various powerful
interests that aim at certain seasons
Of the year to depreciate the prices
Of meat products and grain The
grain farmer is less at their mercy
than the stock farmer, because h@
can, 80 a rule. hold his grain for .
few months until the market suits
him. The stockman cannot do thin
with his cattle, sheep and swine to
anything like the same extent. Cat
tie. sheep and swiRe must go when
they are ready for market It 10 the
best thing q farmer can do to seIH
when they are ready, that Is, whez
they have reached weight at which
he cannot add more weight at =
profit. The only advice that It is safe
to give on this point is TO avoid being
a market chaser, and to sell fattened
stock when 1t is fit to ship. There
is large expense connected within
holding fat stock and in many in
stances the market goes the wrong
way. Every farmer knows that with
corn at, say so cents, he is assuming,
the role of a Spectator by holding a,
bunch for a higher market, after most
of the food of support and the food
of gain becomes a diminishing guam
tity, diminished to such an extent that.
he cannot make profitable increase
on his stock.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-26


selves.
conditions. Seed corn that Is not
thoroughly dry before cold weather,
will In the northern climates, freeze,
which will cause the kernel to expand,
thus injuring the germ or little plant,
lowering its vitality and often destroy
ing it, so the kernel will not germi-
nate.
Few farmers save enough seed corn.
One bushel. of shelled corn will plant
from seven to eight acres, One hun.
bred to one hundred and twenty se-
lected ears will make a bushel Of
shelled corn. At this rate it will take
from twelve to fifteen ears to plant
one acre. 1t should be remembered
however, that the first selection Is
not always perfect; and oftentimes
upon second selection and germina
ton test, half of the first selection
will be thrown out. Thus 1t is seen
that there should always be selected
in the fall at least twice as much
seed as the farmer expects to plant
There is little danger of getting too
much seed corn. Any surplus, if the
seed is good, can usually be sold at
fair price.
In case one has no special seed
plot" in which his best and earliest
maturing ears we're planted, it is then
necessary that his seed be selected
from the field. The most practical
method to do this is to go through
the field with a sack tied across ones
shoulder and select the choicest and
best matured ears. Two rows Of corn
may easily be examined at once. Dur
ing the process of selection, consider
alton of the strength and character of
the stalk, the height of the ear from
the ground, and the size of the shank,
should be noted.
A stalk does not necessarily have
to be large to be big producer. A
tall spindling plant lodges very cas-
lily. The stalk should be of good size
and strong at the base, gradually tap
ering, and not necessarily tall. Strong,
vigorous stalks of medium height,
usually produce the best and earliest
matured ears. The ear should be at
tached to the stalk by medium-sized
shank, which is long enough to allow
the tip of the ear to hang down.
All ears in a cornield will not ma
ture at the same time. A variation of
fifteen days in maturing Of ears in a
field is not uncommon. One of the
reasons why a good selection of corn
cannot be made from the shock or
from the field late in the fall, is that
one is unable to tell the time the ear
maturNd.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-26
SEED SELECTED EARLY
Farmer May Be Reasonably Sure
of Corn Stand Next Year.
Consideration Of Strength and char
aeter Of Corn Stalk, Height Of
Ear From Ground and Size Of
Shank Should BE Noted.
AN al p nITIIN

One Of the main reasons Why seed
corn should Do selected early is to be
reasonably cure It win grow the fol-
lowing year when planted Early So
lected seed earn Is the corn that uSu-
ally gives the best stand. Without 9
good stand 1t is impossible to get .
maximum yield, and 1t costs no more
to raise a field Of corn with perfect
stand than It does to raise field with
a 80 to 10 per cent stand
Every good kernel of seed corn has
in it a live, though very small. corn
plant This plant IL tender and easily
injured, unless kept nnder favorable
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-26

whereas 1t is no swallow at all, being
more nearly related to the humming
birds than to the swallows.
These birds congregate about my
home in small tiocks, and in early
morning and late afternoon may be
seen rapidly sailing over the house
tops, where they build their nests in
unused chimneys. Their nests are
composed of twigs glued together with
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-26

A profitable industry is being de-
veloped on many of the government
irrigation projects in the production
of honey, and reports indicate that
this honey is superior in quality. Al
falfa is the chief source from which
the bees secure their supply, and as
it blooms constantly from early
spring till late in the fall, the bees
have something to work on al tha
time, which allows a greater amount
Of honey 20 be stored.