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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-10-11

State may be Interested; and he shall
give his opinion In writing whenever re-
quircd by the General Assembly or either
branch thereof. the Governor. the Comp
troller OF the Treasury. or any states
Attorney. on any legal matter or subject
depending before them OF either OF them.
and when required bs the Governor or
General Assembly h. shall aid any states
Attorney Ia prosecuting any suit or &C
tion brought b. the State In any Court
of the state. and BE- shall commence and
prosecute or defend any suit or action
In any Of said courts On the part Of the
State. which the General Assembly or
the Governor. acting according 10 law.
shall direct 10 be commenced. prosecute
or defended. ard be- shall have and per
form such other duties and shall ap-
point such number of deputies or assist
ants rs the General Assembly may from
time to time by law prescribe. and he
shall receive Tor his services an annual
salary OF three thousand dollars or such
annual salary az the General Assembly
may from time 20 time by law prescribe.
but he shall not be entitled 10 receive
ever In addition to the salary aforesaid
for the performance Of any official duty,
nor shall the Governor employ any add
tionul counsel ~ any case whatever. un-
less authorized by the General Assembly.
Sec .. And be u further enacted. That
the foregoing section. hereby proposed a.
an amendment TO the Constitution OF this
state. shall be-. AZ the next general cleo
tlon for members OF the General Assem-
bly, 10 hp held In this state SUBMIT d
TO the legal and qualified voters thereof
for thcr adoption or rejection IN pur-
flcln IA nf tbn t'onstiit,tion, ma ~ said
alertion II. yn,e ~ sald nronnsei afnend-
ment shall b. by baiiet ma upon each
ballot fher. shall H. nrinted tho word.
For tho Constitutionai Amendment
and Against tho constitutional Amend
ment." as now prescribed by law, and
immediatelv after snId election due re-
the vote FOR amd agalnsi said proposed
tecnth Article Ut the Constitution.
Now. Therefore / Phillips Lee Colds
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-10-11
CHAPTER esl.

AN ACT TO amend Section OF Article
S OF the constitution Of this State. and %
provide for tho submission OF said amend
ment to the qualified voters Of this STATE
for adoption or rejection.
section l. Re- Il enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly OF Maryland. three-nfths
Of all the members elected To each OF the
houses coucurriug. That the followins
section b. and the same Is hereby pro
posed as an amendment to Article o.
the Constitution ~ this state and II
adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof as herein and by law provide 4.
a::i stead of Section Z OF said Article
See 3. II shall be the duty OF the At
torney General To prosecute and defend
on the part Of the state All cases which
fication and which thereafter may BE- de-
pending in the Court OF Appeals. or In
The Supreme Court OF the United States.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-10-11
A living Dog or a Dead Lion7

How do we feel toward duty? In my
ncighboring city there was II police
man. Not now. He lost his star re-
Gently on charge of cowardice. failure
to arrest murderer who shot up a
place At the inquiry he said: I'D
rather he live coward than a dead
hero. | don't take chances Of being
shot on SO month. I'm not afraid
Of any man living II ! can ret an even
break. hut I'm not stopping murlcrers
when they've got the drop on me. Its
better to say. There he goes" than
Here he Hes" \ good many people
will sympathizc with him. or course
he has no business on the police force.
But his fault lies not so much In being
n coward as In being a philosopher.
Philosophy ana physical prowcss are
not often welded. Your skilful think
or Is no hero. The fellows who pro
claim war or have guns and military
supplies or embalmcd beef for sale do
not take up guns. Not they. They
get ont band. wave the flag. talk pa
trlotism and push half grown boys into
the ranks They stay nj home and get
rich, The policcman's case makes one
suspect thinkers are no heroes. Plato
would have made bad cop. Ralph
Waldo Emerson wouldn't likely make
II daring fire chief The real hero OF
today Is the man trying 10 support a
family on SlO to So a week He does
not get much time 10 PHILOSOPHERS.
Suppose he should sit down and think
Il over Do you know what would
happen?
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-10-11
PROCLAMATION
Proposed Amendments to
the Constitution of
Maryland.

Whereas. at the January Session Of the
General Assembly Of Maryland held In
the year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and twelve, Acts were passed
proposing amendments to Section of
Article / Second = Of Article 8. Section
OF Article 3. Section of Article 5. Sec
ton q Of Article 4. and adding a propos-
ed new section to Article 3. Of the Con-
stitutson of this State. which said Acts
are Ia the following words. 20 wit:
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-10-11
The Wire In the Gable.

! somehow feel God sees and uses
these unknown workmen in church
and state. on my desk is one of those
motto calendars so widely known
throughout the world The man who
issued them was Quaker In Phila-
delphia ut the head Of large manu-
featuring business. For twenty-five
years he issued the calendars. With
that Of 1905 his own lire's calendar
closed His family have issued them
since as memorial Millions We're
published and blcst nation anony-
mously. Shall | tell You his name;
Not for the world II would hurt his
glorifcd spirit My mind harks back
10 the Titanic. Some passengers,
mostly first cabin. were saved: all the
officers except two. few seamcn-
permitted Ia 20 rs oarsmcn-wcre
saved All the engineers save one. all
the stokcrs and coal passers went
down. All knew the peril. Not one
made effort TO get away. II the band
played as they went down that WIS
thrillingly spectacular. But those fcl-
lows In overalls. grimy faces. half
naked bodies. faced death for four
hours, but not one flinchcd No one
wrote poems about them. Their pic.
lures were not In the papers. But God
saw them. There's praise Cor those Of.
ficers In uniform and gold lace. for
brave Aston. noble Stead. plenty Of
tears over Strauss and his faithful
wife. but those naked. sweaty. unseen
toilers--who sang Of them? What
sn0bs we mortals be.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-10-11
SATURDAY NIGHT
ma SERMONS
,W-S@ By
2 REvSAMIJEL
7" WpURVTS.DD
THE OBSCURE WORKER.

Text. "lIe lodgcth with one Simon. a
tanner, whose house is by the seaside
Acts X. 6
like Peter for that. Simon would
talk of II till his dying day and his
children's children would boast Of it.
1t meant as II the president OF the
United States were To become my
guest mt our parsonage. Why Peter
lodged there do not know. The BUSH
ness was extremely obnoxious To the
Jews as unclean because II required
contact with dead animals. 4 wife
could claim divorce II her husband
was tanner and had kept the fact
secret before marriage. The authori-
ties made tanners live AWAY from
town: hence Simon was over at the
scashorc from Joppa. Peter was sure
~ welcome guest and was showing
that Christ is no rcspectcr OF persons.
I've been pastor where they did not
believe that He was also preparing
himself for his experience with Corne-
Illus and bursting bonds OF narrowness.
Most of ALL Il was the recognition by
great big man of the humble. OBJ
scurc worker. How anxious we are 10
get away from the common herd. y
BE careful which side you get on. Re
member Herod and John Baptist.
Dives and Lazarus. PLATE and the
prisoner before him. II il rare art to
see time. place. persons and occupa-
tlons IN their true light Christ was
born IN n mangcr and was the friend
OF Isiblicans and sinners.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-10-11
CHAPTER 402.

AN ACT to propose an amendment 10
Article OF the Constitution OF this state
by adding a new Section to DO known as
s0A. and 10 provide for the submission OF
said amendment 10 the qualified voters OF
Section /. BE II enacted by the General
Assembly Of Maryland, thrcc-ilfths Of all
the members OF each of the two houses
concurringi. That the following new sec,
ton BE- and III. same Is hereby propos d
us an amendment to Article 3. title
Legislative Department" Of the Consti-
tuition Of this state. the same 10 be In
serted after Section ~ and to be num-
bercd i0A. and IL adopted by the legally
qualified voters thereof. as herein pro-
vided. said section shall become part
OF Article OF the Constitution OF Mary
land.
toA The General Assembly shall en-
act no law authorizing private property
TO be taken for public use without Just
compensation. to be agreed upon between
the parties or awarded By "A jury. being
first paid or rendered TO the party enti-
tied 10 such compensation. but where
such property Is situated in baltimore
City and Is desired by this state or by the
Mayor and city Council OF Baltimore. the
General Assembly may provide Tor tn.
appointment Of appraisers by "A Court ~
Record to value such property. and that
upon payment of the amount of such val
uation 10 the party entitled to compen-
sntion, or into Court and securing the
payment OF amy further sum that may
be awarded by jury. such property
may be- taken.
Sec :. Ana be " further enacted Dy the
authority aforesaid. That the said fore
going section. hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution. snail al
the next ensuing general election. to bc
held ON Tuesday next after the first
Monday IN the month OF November, 1913
be submitted to the legal and qualified
voters thereof FOR their adoption or re-
lection. In pursuance OF the directions
contained III Article II OF the constltu-
ton OF this State. and al the said cleo
ton tho vote on said proposed amend
meut to the Constitution shall be by bal
lot and upon each ballot there shall b.
written or printed the words For thu
Constitutional Amendment" and Against
the Constitutional Amendment" as now
provided by law. aud Immediately after
said election due returns shall be made
TO tho Governor OF the vote for and
against said proposed amendment. as d.
rected by said Article II 81 tn. Consti-
tuition.
Approved April 5. 1912.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-10-11
REST AND HEALTH TO MOTHER AND CHILD.

Mas. MISSIONS SOOTHING syRuP has been
used for over SIXTY WEARS by MILLIONS %
MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE
rRErHINc, with PRRFEcT SUCCESS II
SoOTHES the CHILD. SoFTRNS the GUNS
ALLAYS all PAIN CURES WIND COLO, and
Is the best remedy for DIARRHdA. II Is abb
soiutely harmless. he sure and ask for Mrs.
wiusiow's Soothing Syrup" and take No other
kind. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-10-11
Nothing Is Common.

Men talk of common places. hut what
Is n common place: \ cottage? How
about that in Bethany which Christ
TRANSPORTED into little corner Of
heaven? Unattracilvc city house?
Christ said of one. This day Is saliva
ton come 10 this house" The country?
Urban folks like 10 cartoon country
ncighbors out from country has come
our greatest men. and there Christ
worked his mishticst works. \ car
penter shop? The Nazarene gioriiied
one. There are no common places
from nurscry Ia throne. from village
store TO lecture platform. from black
smith shop TO Office of iron king. from
farm To White House. No common oc-
equations either. The men who have
saved cities. founded empires, extend
ed the kingdom OF God. were common
place and came from commonplace
homes. Time. place. birth. circum-
stance are scaffolding that death will
pull down some day. revealing just
what you have built.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1913-08-14
Hossatt Named on State Land Board

Denver.-Volney T. Hoggatt OF Den
yer was appointed registrar of the
State Land Board by Governor Elias
NJ. AmmOns to succeed Dr. B. l.. JEFF
ferson, who resigned a month ago to
become United States minister to Mic
aragua.
The resignation of DR.. jefferson
was the third to be rendered this year
and left the state without a land
board. Attorney General Frederick
Farrar ald State Engineer John f.
Field were appointed to act in the re
naming two vacancies. They will
serve without compensation, and Mr..
Hoggatt will receive $4,000 yearly if
the fees OF the office are sufficient to
pay that amount
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1913-08-14
WAGE BOARD MEMBERS
WILL NOT BE NAMED UN IL
FUND is AVAILABLE.
Governor Wants Definite Decision Re-
garding Public Utility Bill Before
Naming Railway Commission.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver. - Governor AmmOns an
nounced that he would make no ap-
pOintments to the wage board proylI-
ed for in the minimum wage for WON
en- law until provision could be made
for funds with which to carry on the
work The Legislature made no pro.
vision for the expenses Of this board
and the governor believes that it Is
usless to make any appointments until
the question OF finances has been set
tied.
The governor will appoint soon the
members of the state racing commits
sion provided for in the bill passed
by the last Legislature.
lie has several other minor boards
to name and declares he will name no
member OF the state railroad commits
sion until some definite decision re-
gardng the public utility bill has beer
made. Commissioned Stately contin.
Ues to hold over on this board, al
though his term expired the first OF
the year.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1913-08-14
MeeInnIs Gets HIahest Rating.

Dcnyor.-The State Civil Service
Commission announced the result Of
the examination for state immigra.
ton commissioner which was held
March 4. j. Stanley McGiunis Of Den.
yer received the highest mark and will
probably receive the appointment.
This position was abolished By the
Legislature, but Governor Ammons We.
toed the bill and the bureau will be
supported partly by public and partly
by private funds, or the forty who
took the test twenty.one passed.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1913-08-14

1t Is not in the soil, or the fertilizer,
or the weather, nor in any other fac
tor, important though each may be.
The first essential is to breed up
corn for points with the same care
given to animals or fowls Type,
quality, stamina, produCtiveness, etc,
must be known, must be sought for
and improved with each season. 1t
IL not enough to pick out perfect ears
or such as may be attractive at harry
est time. 1t Is necessary that one
shall know the plant that produced the
ear, and all the conditions of its
growth and environment.
There are many mysteries to be
solved in this question of seed selec-
ton with the view to breeding up a
more productive type of corn. My
own experiments in this direction will
Indicate some of the difficulties to be
met with. In husking the corn in
the fall OF 1908 | came across Just
one stalk containing two ears. 1t
was the first had ever met with.
though upon inquiry find that farm
crs do frequently come across such
two-eared stalks. though they never
pay any attention to them but throw
them in the crib with the others.
1t occurred to me, however, that It
would be well to plant from those two
ears and endcavor to raise two
cared type. one ear was OF good size
and the other about two-thirds as big.
Weighing them the large one weighed
IA ounces and the small 9ia ounces.
The large ear was an average ear
such as every stalk carried Thus
this particular plant gave 9l2 ounces
more than any other plant. This gain
would mean almost ton more to the
acre II the corn could be bred to
yield two ears. It would mean even
more II the two ears could be made to
attain a good size instead OF ono be-
ing large and one small as in this
case
The corn was OF variety called
ycllow.tlInt, obtained originally OF a
nearby farmer. From these two ears
| selected $50 kernels, discarding the
butts and tips. The field in which
this was planted was fall plowed and
dressed during the winter with a
liberal application OF high quality
OF stable manure, as ! keep such in n
Cementbottomcd pit Tho twoeared
seed was planted at one end OF the
main corn field, It should. OF course.
have had n separate plot, and It may
H..
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1913-08-14

Denver. -A At the largest official
gathering of state educational au-
thorities ever held in Colorado, the
heads Of all Colorado educational in
situations in conference with Cover
nor Elias NJ. Ammons voted unanim-
Ously to drop the threatened injunc-
ton suits to bring about a readjust-
ment of the appropriations for the
schools and many state boards. Their
action quiets the unrest among half
a hundred employees at the state house
and more than score of state boards,
whose appropriations and salaries
would nave been held up under the
iniunctons sought against State
Auditor Ready Kenehan.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1913-08-14

Is 1t possible that the present type
OF farmer has reached the limit of
his capacity to improve? 1t may be
/ so. At any rate. besides all this there
/ Is an agricultural press. of vast pro-
portions throughout the states, work
Ing to educate the farmers and keep
him posted on everything that may
be Of help to him in his business
Many farmers take several such pub
locations Then again, the tools that
are available to the farmer for his
work are far superior to what they
have been In the past. and are i'm
proved every year Is It possible that
the farmer is not as class taking ad-
vantage Of the best tools for his
work.
What ia the first thing to be done
/ In the growing Of better corn crops?
| | think, in seed selection. There is
nothing startling or original in this,
| admit, IL Is the doctrine that has
| long been preached, but ! would sim
ply add my testimony from the re
suits Of my experiments with the
hope that 1t may lead others to try
along the same lines There Is moth
ing difficult about II, there is certain
ly nothing costly: It amounts to sim
ply little more thorough and intelli-
gent heart interest In ones labor
To secure a corn that will yield ten
fold what he has been accustomed
to getting the farmer must breed for
results. He has got to improve the
corn in the same way that he would
raise the standard OF his stock or his
iloCks. And once he has secured a
type OF corn that shows increased
produCtivoucss, he must try to keep
It pure, avoid inbreedIng and main
tain its stamina. with the same
watChfulness and care that all breed
ing demands
II does not require a scientific edu-
cation to grow more and better corn,
or better crops Of any kind 1t does
require brains One OF the first
things to be done is to get out of the
slip-shod ways OF working. Corn. es,
peciully. Is one of the most abused
crops OF the farm because It will
grow and give some returns with a
lot of neglect It gets IT,
In no ono respect is the average
farmer moro careless than in his
choice OF seed, and this may be said
to be the prime essential. The farm
er Is blowing manurlng. performing
all the operations from planting time
TO harvest year after year, and with
some OF these ne takes considerable
. PRIDE tor Instance, know farmers
VINO are perfect plowmcn; they knew
IL ana are proud OF their skin, but
'h'sc same farmers ARE hide bound in
an oll custom OF throwing their corn
IN their CRIB Just as II Ia husked, asd
"u'" l''E want S''u IN the spring
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1913-08-14

sufficient stamina in all the seeds to
reproduce like the parent. The corn
reverted not only to the one-eared but
to the eight-rowed type.
This is one of the mysteries that
will have 70 be solved, no doubt be-
| fore a highly-prOduCtive two-eared
| type OF corn can be raised with the
| qualities of the parent so fixed that
| it can be relied upon to maintain a
/ big average yield It may be due to
/ a weakness of inbreeding.
Some of the ears weighed over a
| pound each, making over two pounds
| to the stalk. If this could be aver
aged for an entire corn field it would
! yield over ten tons to the acre.
Such may seem an exaggeration or
an impossibility, but it so only in
comparison with what we have been
accustomed to. Even if by judicious
selection of two.eared seed each
| year still the type could not be fixed
so as to produce even yields of the
maximum amount, yet II it gave an
increase of 20 per cent. as 1t did in
my experiment. the return would be
a big one for what is involved. 1t
does not imply added cost, in the pro-
| duCtion. but only greater care and
| interest in ones work.
Another thing to be kept In mind
| in breeding up type of corn for high
er produCtiveness is that the number
OF kernels to the ear and their size
has an important bearing on the yield
OF grain.
a corn expert once figured out that
| II the produCtiyeness OF corn could
be Increased by only one kernel to
each ear. on the entire crop it would
mean a gain of 90 tons of grain!
Even though the figures be not abso-
| Lutte there is no gainsaying that the
increase of yield would be a very big
amount in the aggregate. The point
! Is made very clearly in the accom-.
panying photographs which show
| eight ten and twelve-rowed ears OF
| corn. Each ear was exactly the same
| In weight, being II ounces each. The
! eiGhtrOwed ear gave seven ounces OF
| grain. and had a cob weighing four
| ounces, the ten-rowed ear weighed up
! eight ounces of grain and had a
three ounce cob. The twelve-rowed
ear gave So ounces OF grain A DIFF.
ference OF an ounce and half to the
ear OF actual grain Is an appreciable
gain worth striving for But that
does not mean that such is the limit
OF the gain to be obtained 1t would
be quite within reason to obtain ten.
fold that increase.
The chief requisite to substantial
| progress In the growing OF more
| productive corn must be the skill and
| Judgment OF the worker. The first
essential Is no doubt seed selection.
but this does not merely mean the
picking out OF the best looking ears
either at harvest time or in the husk.
Ing Il Is necessary that the grower
shall watch the corn from the first
start OF the seed and through tho
growing
Nigor productlveness and early
ripeninE should be noted, not merely
IN the mind, but In a book. and the
stalks should be marked so that they
can be Identified AZ any time. NV
method IS 20 snip out little bits OF
tin punch a hole through them AT
ono side and put q bit OF thin wire
through and twist this loosely about
the stalk when marking H. On the
tin ! scratch a number with a sharp
awl There Is not likely TO occur
any accident that can destroy this
/ IN 81.