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The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
FAsrIDIoUs AUTHORS.
Campbell Took o Twelve Mile Tramp
to Change a Comma.

II is surprising how punctilious some
autbors have been with respect even to
the smallest detail of their manu-
scripts. Dickens was a perfect terror
and would make enough fuss over an
error of punctuation to drive poor
"comp" out Of his wits.
Tennyson. too. was most particular
that not comma should be omitted
or misplaced. while his revisions were
never finished. Perhaps the greatest
terror of the compositor was Thomas
Carlyle, for he would cover every
square inch of vacant space, both In
the margin and between the lines. with
minute additions and cancellations, and
not once. hut dozen times.
Victor Hugo was equally difficult to
please and satisfy. OF one of his fa-
nous works he made the printers sup
ply no fewer than eleven successive re-
vised proofs. and the last half dozen
were furnished in order to make quite
sure that the commas were in their
right places.
But perhaps Thomas Campbell. the
famous poet who wrote such stirring
masterpieces as "Hohenlinden." THE
Battle of the Baltic" and "Ye Mariners
Of England takes the cake in this re-
spect. He was fas,idious to n degree.
which fact probably accounts for the
small quantity and perfect quality of
bis literary output. 1t is said that he
once walked six miles to his printers
and six miles back In order TO have
comma changed into semicolon.
But an equally careful and fastidious
literary workman owed a great i'm
prOvement in the opening line OF his
most famous poem to a printer. This
was Thomas Gray. whose "Elegy
Written In a Country Churchyard" Is
probably the best known poem in the
English language. Its first line reads.
'The curfew tolls the knell of parting
day" but when Gray sent 1t to the
press his manuscript read. "The cur
few tolls. the knell Of parting day"
The thoughtful compositor did not un
derstand the word tolls" as an in
trnnsitive verb. so dropped the comma.
thinking the poet had put it in by mis-
take. and when Gray read the line his
sensitive ear at once caught its new.
sustained melody, and he adopted the
cOmpositor's correction.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
The Blow q Train Can Strike.

The force Of the blow struck by a
modern train going at high speed Is
greater than that Of the shot from a
modern gun. At least such Is the state
ment of scientist who has been look
ing into this question. He estimates
that modern passenger train will
weigh about 400 tons and that 1t
moves at velocity Of seventy to sev.
enty-five miles an hour. or about 100
feet n second. A mass of 400 tons pro-
PEELED at this velocity will strike n
blow twice as great as that delivered
by a 1900 pound shot fired from 100
ton cannon. This. he states. accounts
for the tremendous destruction caused
by coliisions.-New York Press.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
THE BASEBALL MASK.
II Was First Used In a Yale e-Harxard
Game In 1876


Frederick Winthrop Thayer Of Co
hasset. Harvard IS. captain Of the
famous varsity mines of 1876. 1877
and 1878. was the inventor Of the
catcher's mask. The days when Thayer
entered Harvard baseball differed
somewhat from the present. A pitcher
had to throw underhanded and end
his throw with arm stretched out
Then that changed. and ns conse.
quence the ball was thrown much
more swiftly. DR.. Harold G. Ernst. a
professor In the Medical school. was
pitcher on the varsity nine. and James
A. Tying was catcher. They made a
wonderful battery.
Thayer noticed that the more free
dom given the pitcher the greater be-
came the risk Of the catcher One day
he let few into the secret. He was
going to make u mask. A few days
before the Yale game OF 1876 he came
on the field with It, Save for the fact
1t was made more heavily. II was much
similar to the masks in use today.
Thayer attached It to Jim Tyngs
head, and from that moment the mask
uttered baseball. At first the players.
"ther than those in the varsity. and
the spectators were inclined to ridicule
1t. and it caused no end Of comment
when 1t was worn by Tying at the Yale
game that year Harvard won. and
two years later team after team adopt
ed the mask. .-RostOn Herald.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
Cossack Troubadours.

Like the Spaniards. the COssacks
have a class of trOubadours who in
stead of walking from village to vii
Iage ride Oh horseback with their gusl,
and give performances nf music and
song i'm front of houses. They are
generously according to their talents
There are also women trouladOlirs
among the Cossacks. and their per
formances In the pleasant surround
ings Of Il garden or In street scene
are impressive.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
INOPPORTUNE DEATHS.
Men Who Might Have Changed His
tory Had They Been Spared.

WY s'SN p"Sy ~SS" Sf~'SSs
Julius Caesar was assassinated when
be had almost completed the task Of
consolidating the administration and
dominion Of the Roman empire. and
his death opened the way to that des-
potism and corruption which ultimate
Jy undid his work.
Henry of Navarro was killed when
he had almost healed the differences
between Catholic and Protestant
which subsequently rent not only
France, but Europe, and William the
Silent also fell when he was on the
point Of uniting the Netherland prov
1nces into a compact barrier against
the encrOachments Of Spain.
In English history Lord Give died
at the moment when he was the one
man who could have saved the Ameri
can colonies and kept the Anglo-SaxOn
race united.
But there is the case OF Mirabeau
He was literally the one man in France
who could have averted the horrors OF
the revolution, saved and reformed the
monarchy and SO spared Europe the
murderous career Of Napoleon and all
the devastation II brought. II he had
lived ten or even FIVE years longer the
history not only Of France, but Of Eu
rope and the world, would have been
different 1t is, In fact, sufficient to
say that he would have made both
Robespierre and Napoleon impossible.
Strand Magazine.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
FREAKS OF NATURE.
An Uphill Waterfall and . Tree That
Squirns Like a Snake.

Nature in the tropics. left to herself.
writes John burroughs. the naturalist.
Is harsh. aggressive. savage: looks as
though she wanted to hang you with
her dangling ropes or impule you on
her thorns or engulf you In the ranks
OF her gigantic ferns.
Her mood Is never as placid and
sane as In the north There is tree
In the Hawaiian woods that suggests
tree gone mad. II is called the hau
tree. II lies down. sQuirms and wrig.
GIGS all over the ground like wound.
&C snake. II gets up and then takes
to earth again. Now IL wants to he
viue; now it wants to he a tree. Il
throws somcrsaults: 1t makes itself
into loops aud rings: II rolls Il reaches:
II doubles upon itself Altogether II
is the craziest vegetable growth l ever
saw.
1t was near rali that I saw what
! had never seen or heard Of before
Il waterfall reversed. going up instead
of down II suggested Stockton's story
of negative gravity.
A small brook comes down OF the
mountain and attempts to make the
leap down high precipice. but the
wind catches it and carries il straight
up in the air like smoke II is trans.
lated. 1t becomes q mere wrath hov.
ering about the beetling craig.
Night and day this goes on. the
wind snatching from the mountains in
this summcry way the water II has
brought them.-Century Magazine.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
A Eish Story.

A fisherman caught seven bass In the
Potomac river above Washington at
one time.
This Is how he did It: The bass were
caught and strung on line and kept
swimming In the water alongside the
boat. When the last fish was being
placed upon the line the entire bunch
slipped away from the fisherman. But
imagine his wonderment when at his
next cast the last fish strung upon the
line took the bait and the whole seven
were safely landed.
The gentleman who vOuches for this
story Is without doubt an honest and
truth telling mathew York Tribune
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
lnfalIible.

The druggist was becoming wearied
by n shopkeeper. who. with no inten
tion to buy. kept asking questions. ex
amining various articles, pricing them
and demanding the manner of their
use Finally she picked up n bottle.
lis this pest exterminator reliableT
she asked. How Is 1t applied
"YOu take n tablespoonful every half
hour. ma'am." the druggist replied
with more than an ounce Of satisfac-
tion. and the woman asked no more
qnestions.-St Louis POst-Dispatch.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
Astronomers' Work.

The popular idea Of the astronomer
says writer In the Worlds Work. as
one who spends his time in sleeping by
day and peering through the small end
of a telescope by night must be dis
missed. ",rhe greater part of the mod.
ern astronomers time" says the art-
tie, IFS spent In studying photographs.
Sften with a microscope. Taradoxical
as II may seem, an astronomer today
gazes more often through microscope
than a telescope"
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
British Death Duties.

Death duties on property In the
British isles. whether belonging to m
lives or foreigners. are progressive.
ranging upward from per cent ON
estates of the valne Of between $500
aud $2.5OO. 2 per cent between $500
and $4,000. 3 per cent between $1,000
and $4,000 and IS per cent ON estates
Of $5.OOO.OOO and over
There are also legacy and succession
duties. varying In percentage.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
LURE OF THE CIRCUS.
Hold Of the Music and Sawdust Odor
Upon Old Performers.

Sometimes I think there must he
two distinct varieties Of humanity
said an Old circus man, one OF which
we might call the rovers aud the other
the stay ut homes. With my own taste
for rowing II was hard for me to un.
derstand that ninety-ninc persons IN
every hundred are content to stay IN
one place most of their lives and even
are unhappy II taken out of II. but
there are such people, aud they are the
vast majority. The rover. who is one
man or woman in II hundred. likes TO
wander and is unhappy If confined to
one place. Probably If Ii were not for
him there would be no circus. Love
of the road has strong hold on all
the circus people. from performers to
canvasmen and drivers when you
hear the band play you join out!' is
the way they put II themselves. aud
once | had striking illustration OF
this.
was checking window paper in a
small town and came to fine plate
glass front IL was the best tailoring
establishment there and ordinarily
would have been passed by the lithog-
raphcr as unobtainable. but It had n
single sheet of our paper and went
in TO take up the order 1t developed
that the tailor's brother was n rover
and had trouped with circuses as n
bandSman-a windiammer. In the ver-
nacuiar His influence had put that
lithograph there, and he chattcd with
me.
"You won't catch me round here to-
morrow. Mike, while that show is In
town" he said. III saw as much rs
a side wall half n mile off I'd he join
ing out again! No. sir. I'm going up
into the country tonight. My brother
pays me good wages here, and there's
nothing in trouping."
A week later dropped back to the
show. 1t was 10 in the morning. and
the parade was just leaving the lot.
Somebody shouted. "IIey there. Mike"
from the big band wagon, and on going
nearer l saw the tallor's brot her. seat
ed among the other windjammers.
with red and gold coat. a plumed hat
and his cornet.
II thought you were going up into
the country"
Forget IT," he replied. 81 didn't GO
He had heard the band play.
Circus people are Of all sorts-old
and young, Americans and foreign
born, well paid performers and bosses
and ne'er do well hostlers. canvasmen
and raZorbacks. From time to time
they will turn and denOunce their call
ing, just like other people. In fact. I
never knew man In any line who
would not occasionally scOld about his
occupation and regret that bis talent
had been frittered away In such an un-
promising field when he might have
done so much better in something else.
but that is no indication that he doesn't
like his job, and circus people like
theirs. They love the smell OF saw
dust, horses aud animals. the music OF
the big band, the peculiar hollow rat
tie Of circus wagons, the daily jumps
and the little knot OF curious stay ut
homes who seem always to be round
to watch whatever a circus man does.
They are born rovers.-Saturday Even
ing Post.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07

ty; c. q. Davenport, Warren county.
Ohio county officers-L. b. ITCH
enor, President; Henry Pirtle. Sec
retary; S. y. Bennett, Treasurer.
COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Henry Leach, Chairman, Hartford,
Ky.
/. L. u. Tichenor. Hartford, X. #.
ID. No. o.
2. Il. c. Hartford, Reynolds, Ky.
8. NJ. S. Patterson, Olaton, Ky.
4. b. l.. Afford, White Run, Ky.
8. Richard Plummer. Taylor Mines,
Kentucky.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
Autosuoqsstion.

"What does autosuggestiOn mean?"
asked Rinks.
THAT'S when your wife begins TO
6gure out how much YOU and your
family would save In car fare II You
had yonr own machine" replied Jinks.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
Corrsctino Him.

"wben try to talk to you, Maudie."
fsltered Algy. my heart comes up into
my MOUTH
''That shows how little you know OF
anatomy" said the lovely girl 1T
isn't your heart. Algy. It's your dia-
phragm. m."-Chicago Tribune.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
She Hadn't Thought Of That.

Marriage brings Its awakenings."
"Ycs," sighed the other lady. Il re-
member that ! as "A bride was thunder
struck 10 find that my husband. after
a limited nmOnnt OF going to pink teas
and matnees, had 10 go back to work
and support the pair Of us."-Pitts-
burgh Post
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
A Good Enough Reason.

81 am surprised. Ethel, that you al.
lowed that handsome Italian count to
kiss you last evening"
"Oh, ] really couldn't help IT."
"Why couldn't your
because ! can't speak a word of
ltahan."-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
No Escape.

Cra wford-If your friends poked fun
at you for having the artistic tempera
mcnt. you must have the laugh on
them now that you are NO surcessfnl
Penheld Not at all. They sneer nj me-
now for b~inx commercialized. New
York Times
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
Quick Cure.

How annoying! My wife Is always
ailing. The hard work fatigues her"
My wife also was always III. but
now she enjoys the hest OF health"
How did YOU cure her."
II told her that would give her Sc
mnch n month for her dresses and hei
doctor, Since then she Is quite we'll"
Paris Soarire
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
Quick Pace.

"I suppose that yonr son II develop
ing aIace."
Yes. ana n pace TINT is much too
fast FOR one OF his years. Buffalo Ex.
press.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
All Consumjpu.

''He eagerly swallowed every word
she bestowed on him, he fed upon her
every look, he lived upon the smiles
she gave him" THAT'S what l call
IN all consuming passionw-Judge.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
Would Like q Look.

"Say. sheriff"
"Yes"
- voted fer Won, Can't yon show
me writ Of habeas corpus? ! read ~
much about 'em that I'd kind q like
TO have u look at one O. the darn
things City Journal.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
ARTHUR u. KIRK
Attorney at Law
HARTFORD, KY.

ASSOCIATED WITH II. L. UlEAvRIN
This office Is equipped for hand
ling Commercial Law and Collection
Items as we'll as other legal and liti-
gated matters. Practice in all the
courts. Prompt and vigorous service.
NJ. l.. Heavrin's Office.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07

II thou art % man. admire those whr
attempt great enterprises. even tbougl.
they fail Seneca.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07
lihsrtx.

liberty may bs defined a. that con-
dition OF things which does not per
init rs to take liberties with othsrs.-
Puck.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07

II Is easy TO be brave when you know
ne enemy has only blank cartridges.
The Hartford republican., 1913-11-07

Good only is great and generous and
fruitful. Bailey.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-11-21
SAVE THE ALFALFA LEAVES.
Sixty Per Cent. of the Feeding Value
OF Alfalfa In the Leaves-Hay
Should be Cut at Right Time
and Cured so as to Preserve
the Leaves.

or the entire alfalfa plant, accord
ing to Kansas bulletin 1855, the stalk
comprises 60 per cent, and the leaf
30 per cent, whereas the quantity or
the protein in the stalk Is only 40 per
cent, while the protein in the leaf is
60 per cent. Moreover only 20 per
cent. of the fat is to be found in the
etalk, while so per cent. is in the leaf.
1t is, therefore, very important that
alfalfa be harvested at the proper
time, and carefully handled SO that
all the leaves will be saved.
When possible to do so it is best to
cut alfalfa late in the afternoon or
evening. Dew or rain ON the freshly
cut alfalfa will not inJure it. Where q
toddor is used, it should be started in
tho morning as soon as most Of the
dew Is off and before there is any dan
ger Of knocking off the leaves. It Is
often advisable to go owe it more
than nee.
Alfalfa hay is harvested and cured
in much the same way as clover, eX-
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-11-21
ILLS IN TRAIN OF AVIATION
Sudden Ascent to High Attitudes, and
as Sudden Descent, Frequently
Brings on Sickness.

M. Berget, a French aeronaut, aft
err speaking of the conditions OF the
atmosphere In general, brings out
some points on aviator's sickness.
Aeroplanes sometimes reach attitudes
of ten thousand feet In an hour, and
here the effects on the a such as
humming or cracking noise are about
the same as In a balloon, but the eff
feet on the respiratory organs Is diff
ferent. The pilot Is sooner out OF
breath and he feels a special kind OF
uneasiness. During the descent, the
heart beats are Of greater amplitude,
but without accelerating. A quicker
descent in a sailing flight at a speed
of 1000 or 1900 feet a minute or
even more, causes a feeling or a ape-
cial kind, or %uneaslness, accompanied
with humming in the ears. Burning
In the face Is also felt and a severe
headache, also the great tendency TO
sleep which has been before observed.
The movements Of the body are slug
gish and unskillful. These symptoms
continue for some time after the land
ing. and the tension In the arteries Is
noticed to be higher than the normal.
Health.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-11-21
ALFALFA MOST VALUABLE CROP.
Per Acre Value Five Times More
Than CloVer--Some Wisconsin
Census Figures Which Talk
for Themselves.

According to the 1910 ems Of the
hay crop, the state of Wisconsin grew
5000 acres Of alfalfa, which averaged
rs tons per acre for the entire state,
and the average acre value of the
crop was s31,Q0. During the same
year the combined acreage Of timothy
and clover averaged 1.6 tons per acre,
valued at S1400. 1t costs no more TO
grow an acre Of alfalfa than it does
to grow an acre Of timothy or clover.
The average cost Of growing an acre
of clever or timothy is approximately
$1,000. Thus the farmer would clear
$500 per acre in growing these crops,
whereas If he grew alfalfa he would
make q profit Of S21.00 per acre, or
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-11-21
Dance Reflects It's Period.

The dancing masters who attended
the annual convention Of the Ameri-
can National Association Of Dancing
at Asbury Park were divided in opin-
ion as to the future Of the popular
dance novelties. Dances" I expert
said, have always reflected the age
of their birth. The minuet was timely
In its day, and it gave way to the more
rapid quadrille. The polka and waltz
held out until the two-step made them
appear old-fashioned, and it was only
natural that a time like this, with Gus
toms and ideas which would have
been impossible IN the days Of the
Quiet dance, should have produced the
Tarious new dance movements. II We
should ever quiet down they will be
m~ods6sd--if not they will stay"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-11-21
GOOD QUALITIES DYING OUT?
Men In High Position Declare Sentl-
mentalism Of Present Day Is Fast
Leading to Decay.

Cardinal Bourne, Roman Catholic
archbishop of Westminster, England.
In a recent sermon favored enforced
military service for all men over TWEEN
ty-one who had not, prior to attaining
that age, trained to a required stand
ard Of physical manhood. The Ameri-
can Army and Navy Journal, in a
striking editorial deprecating the sen
timentalism of the times, quotes Doc
tor Inge, dean Of st. Paul's Cathedral,
London, as follows:
The modern Englishman is an in.
corrigible sentimentalist In religion, in
politics. in charity and everything else,
and like oil sentimentalists be hates
doing or witnessing anything painful,
ments unjuetihable and he sheds maud.
lin tears over the wastrel and the
criminal"
The Journal applies the same state
ment to affairs in America, and with
good reason. Luxury Is become com
mon and hardship unusual. The hardy
pioneer Of the west has practically dis
appeared with the wip.ng out of the
frontier. The trend to the cities with
their e%nervating Injuries and licenses
is pronounced.
The luxury, softness and sentiment
alism OF the age are sapping its man.
hood.
The Journal quotes Price Collier
writing in ~Scribner's, in which he ia.
vors for the United States the en-.
forced military service of Germany.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-11-21
Ancient Family Of Bankers.

Clay tablets found in the mound OF
Jumjuma speak of the great banking
house Of the Igibi or Jacobs family OF
Jews, which controlled the finances Of
Babylonia for centuries. The ancient
plan OF the city has been determined;
its walls have been measured; its
streets have been traced. Though
large parts of the city still lie buried
far beneath later ruins, enough of it
has been uncovered SO that we are no
longer dependent upon the imagination
of the artist for q picture Of it. We
have the city itself to tell us how it
looked, now Its people lived and trad
ed and worshiped, and how the great
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ruled. Thus the
dead cities Of the Bible are no longer
dead; the spade Of the e%xcavator is
restoring them to ug.-Christian Her.
aid.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-11-21
ADJUSTING SCHOOLS TO FARM
Opinion Advanced That Country Be%
and Girls Should Be Taught
Rural Subjects,

Advocating that the boys and girls
stay On the farm and at the sans
time teaching city subjects in the
rural schools is contradictory. If the
boys and girls are taught n thing
they cannot be expected to desire to
do something else even II so adj
yiscd.
Boys and girls IN ~thirty.tour schools
In Wright county, Iowa, were asked
what they desired to do. or the 164
BOYS. l57 desired to leave the farm
and I63 Of the ia girls desired to do
likewise. But after agriculture and
home economics had been taught for
three years the same question was
asked In The same schools. This time
162 OF the ia BOYS desired TO stay
on The farm and 16t Of the lis girls.
This changing Of an almost unani-
nous desire to stay on the farm
seems almost miraculous. Yet 1t was
done through making a change in the
course of study, writes ", c. Palmer
in the Breeders Gazette.
Boys aud slrls will desire TO do me
things they have been taught how TO
do. Their interest is developed In the
things they are taught. Agriculture
| and home economics are the things
that boys and girls are most interest.
"a IN to begin with. They live In q
, great agriculture and home economies
laboratory,
The knowledge that they have when
| they come to school Is on these sub
jects. Education to be the most effec-
tive must begin with what the chl-
dren know,
The will to do springs from the
knowledge that one can do. One
likes to do what one can do well. Do
Ing work that one does not under
stand is drudgery, Most boys must
enter productive work. II they are
not educated for 1t then 1t will be
drudgcry, Most girls will manage
homes. II they are not taught about
1t homemaking would be a drudgery.
1t is in the power of the schools to
make their enthusiastic workers or
drudges Of the boys and girls.