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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-09-25

each 100 pounds Of excess baggage.
~IIE high price of meats is
- Just now attracting much
attention aud comment from
economists. Looking decade
ahead Prof. Kennedy Of the EX-
tension Bureau Of the Iowa College
OF Agriculture predicts that 10y
1923 the price OF beef, which is now
higher than ever known in the his.
tory of this country, Will have
doubled. Gustav Bjscbot Sr. of
st. Louis, president Of the Aneri-
can Meat Packers Association, goes
even further, aud declares it prob
able that in ten years beristcak
will cost one dollar a pound Prof.
Kennedy suggests as the only rem
edy that we must raise more cattle
and emphasizes the fact that we
must put IN end to the killing of
youug COWS and calves for beef
purposes. Mr.. Bischotl says that
unless the farmers Of the United
States are educated to the ncccs-
sity of raising Wore cattle, period
Of national decline will set in with
IN the next ten years, that work
ingmpn will be reduced to a diet of
rice and potatoes, and subject to
such diet their characteristics will
become something like those of the
Chinese. Ilelbellpycs, however, that
the farmer soon can be made to
realize the trend Of the times and
that the serious situation now con
fronting the country can be re-
moved before the calamity in the
shape of a dollar pound beef
steak becomes reality.
At the eighth annual conven-
ton of the American Meat Packers
at Chicago last Monday the situa-
ton was strongly emphasized,
and the responsibility of averting
a meat famine was placed on the
farmer. 1t was pointed out that
despite the highSpricc of beef cat
tie, production had deceased until
the demand had overtaken produc-
I 90, Some of The remedies sug
gested ut the convention were:
that every farmer should raise at
least two beef steers Il year to Off
set the decreased production of the
great ranches of the West; that the
loss of meat food animals through
prevcntable Diseases should be
looked after more carefully, and
that the nnthinkabIe slaughter of
and especially of heifer
should be stopped,
But perhaps, after all, we may
be unduly'alarmed; ms Mr.. Bischoff
seys the farmers may soon be made
to realize the larger profits to be
gained by stock raising in connec-
ton with their other farming, and
TO see the bald wastefulness of
sending their calves to the slaugh-
ter. The fact is our farmers IRE
putting more thought, system and
method into their farming than
hey ever did in the history of the
country. The book farmer" as
ne was once sueeringly called by !
he old plodders, is becoming more |
numerous every year, and the boys |
re being sent OF to agricultural
olleges to learn the best methods
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May Improve Playing of Little German Bands

Specisl Correspondence OF The Star.
BERLIN. January 20. 1913.
TT a new scheme which the Bavarian
government is now conside ing goes
thrc ugh, the folk In the United States
and other parts Of the world who have
TO listen to the music furnished by little
German bands will have cause to give
thanks. At present 1t isn't an undiluted
joy 10 hear a German band butchering
the Blue Danube" waltz or making the
latest rag" melody more ragged still,
but # the Bavarian authorities carry out
their present scheme to start a state
academy Of music for aspiring instru-
mertalists. the little German bands OF
the future will be able to play better.
anyhow.
Al. official statement about this benign
intention of the Bavarian government has
just been Issued. and besides telling about
the state academy project 1t gives q lot
OF curious information about tha little
bansss Of alleged musicians from the
fatherland which begin to toole In Amer
icar cities simultaneously with the sp-
pearance of the flowers that bloom In the
sprisg. Music-lovfng Germany, by the
bye. Is the last country on earth where
the German hand, as Americans know il,
would be tolerated Perhaps that is one
reason why these amateur instrumental
lists think Il wise to emtgratA
Ous remembers reading . while ago
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that practically all the dancing bears
that perform the world over hail from a
certain district in the over Pyrenees.
ana likewise 1t seems that al the Ger
man bands hail ON the PA dist. let
In Bavaria. According 10 the official doc
ument aforesaid. there are viI4ges In
mat country the entire male population
OF which consists of music ans, lust as in
the lower Pyrenees practically every man
jack Is, on and on, trainer of dancing
bears. Throughout the winter these deni-
zens or the Pfalz county busy them
serves with some trade or craft but as
soon as spring draws nigh the big from
pone ana cornet are taken from their
hooks on the kitchen wall and the makers
OF melody set off for foreign chimes.
They go, too. mot as single spies but
IN battalions." From two villages alone.
Wolfstetn and Juttenbach LOO bands
men went abroad last spring, TO return
home with wei filled pockets in the au-
turnn- Two hundred and fifty OF these
crossed the Atlantic 10 assail the ears Of
Americans, forty went to Africa ten 10
Asia and TO Australia no less than eighty
The majority Of these tootling Telltons
learn to play In the stadtpfeiferei'' which
are to be found in almost every village
in the south of Germany. There "Stadt-
pfedferei" are schools where the peasants
can learn almost any wind instrument
known to man for next 10 nothing. Per-
hapS the projected state academy VIII
make would-be inStrumentallstS paw a bic
more and thus succeed in turning out mu-
ticians that one won't have to bribs heaY.
lily to so and play IL the next strest.
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style of collars, giving more of an OPEN
ing in front. the style Of ties changed in
natural consequence first to the ffoWinl,
silk scarf of variegated Persian pattern.
And such A tie is still entirely fashions
able, but within the past few weeks tho
writer has noticed that more and moro
of the mems outftters are putting bow
ties in their windows.
The return should be generally wei.
coined. With all due respect to the four
finland. after the first one or two wear
ings II can never look nearly as neat and
dressy as the bow. for the very good rea-
son that the bow Is not one-fourth so ant
to wrinkle. Then, too. the bow tie is less
In the way than its rival and allows for
greater display OF neat shirt front.
Finally. il is possible to get just about
the best article of bow tie on the market
for 90 cents, which is far from the case
with the four-in-hand
On the whole, II lie extremely probable
that the return OF the bow to popular
favor will be hailed with delight by
every well dressed man. save perhaps
those few who do not know how TO tie
them well. And these. after all, don't
have to wear them.
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ones The former rarely cost less than
;! per pair, and in some shops they ask
SL59 very good silk glove can be
bought for Is cents. and in one or two
shops for 80 cents
Even If you dislike wearing gloves in
waiH'. or. rather. moderately warm.
weather. too. If you would observe the
smaller details of the we'll dressed man.
you must nevertheless have a pair. There
are many men in the class just referred
to- They obey fashion and their own
preferences at the same time by keeping
the gloves in the breast pocket Of their
coats. You who do this must observe
one ironclad rule. Don't let too much Of
the .elove show. Half an inch Of visible
hnge- tips above the pocket is the limit
of display. Less is advisable
Another notable fact in connection with
the new styles is the return to popular
favor Of the bow tie. OF late years the
bow had become rarity. the result, no
doubt, of the close-f1tting collars. which
made any save the narrow knit tie ex-
trentely awkward. With the change In the
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the stage and set up most lugubriouS
bowling. An hour before those dogs would
have set that visitors heart tripping in
excited amazcment. But he was beyond
of aStOniShment.
Bring OH Michael and his archangel!"
he sighed to himself II ready for any
thing now,
the marvellous show was over. The visit
or drew a long breath. He looked at the
dead appliances that had produced such
astounding results He was beyond
rhapsody now.
1T must take a most accomplished and
experienced scientist to operate this kinet-
ophone,' he remarked to Mr.. Edison,
coming back with relief to the common
place after his breathless journey into
wonderland.
The smile rippled, full-tide, over the
features of the wizard.
Here, Bobbie.' he called to 4 boy
standing by the motion picture machine.
The boy came up.
This boy just turned sixteen. who is
but d two-week apprentice at the work, y
remarked Mr.. Edison, operated the kinet-
ophone throughout the entire exhibit
ton you just witnessed. ANY one who
can operate an ordinary motion picture
machine can operate the kinetophone
Gut, tell me this, please, Mr.. Edison,
explained the visitor. the pentup ques-
tious now bubbling to the surface as they
gained the open air. How do you make
the phonograp sound SO unscreechinG
and lfe-like? And how do you make it
coincide 50 exactly with the motions and
gestures of the persons they talk and
move in the motion pictures? And how
do you modulate the tones SO perfectly?
And how did you ever manage to get
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kid so dark that it verges on the choco-
late.
But while there arc reductions on all
sides, in practically all the more staple
lines of mans apparel, a trip through
tho shops these days is apt to prove dis
astrous to ones pocketbook This is due
to the fact that the winter lines arc
being sposed of their places are being
and there are literally a thousand and
one new novelties. each with its own par
ticular lure.
1t has become more and more the fash
ion of late years for the well dressed
man to wear gloves almost up to the
very day when he dons his straw hat
Some wear them even after that. In
quick compliance with this custom the
shops annually stock up with light gloves
of almost all the shades Of the rainbow,
humor of King Winter. the heavy kid
gloves are already being discarded for
these newer and thinner ones.
Most of these spring gloves are of
silk, and one may get them just about as
thin or as thick as he wishes. To go to
either extreme, however. is distinctly
bad form-indeed the extreme is bad
form in any particular Of dress. The
six glove, for instance, that is Of such
thin material that the skin Of the hand is
revealed through it's meshes is purely
and distastefully effeminate. On the other
hand. the glove OF extremely heavy thick
silk is fully as warm II not warmer than
one Of heavy kid. Hence, considering
the season at which it Is worn, It cannot
but be uncomfortable. 1t looks just that
way. too. and it may be set down as an
unalterable truth that the man who
would look we'll dressed must frst and
primarily look comfortably dress ID.
In addition to the silk gloves most of
the more fashionable mems outfitters car
~ goodly supply of gloves of channels.
undreSsed kid and even very fine, soft.
light quality of doeskin. These come al
most entirely in cream whites or pale yell
lows, and there is a growing demand for
them over and above the silk glove. Prob
ably because they are far more durable.
The silk slove-which, by the way,
should be Of some shade of gray. prefer
ably a dark one-is delicate in the cx-
treme. It's life is extremely short. SO
short that man will easily wear out
three or four pairs in a season. The
gloves of skin look delicate, but are capa-
hle of withstanding all sorts of wear.
Their light color makes them soil easily.
but they can readily be washed with
plain soap and water. The one danger to
be avoided is to see that In the washing
they do not stretch. The gloves Of skin
are more expensive than most Of the silk
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the ready-to-wear shops. In one + street
establishment suits which one month ago
were priced at So are now offered for
S23.7J. Forty-dollar suits may be had
for So. and $50 suits for $3.50. And
with all due respect to the tailor, the
readv-made garment which sells for $50
would surely cost far more than that if
built to order, due, of course, to the fact
bulk, while the tailor's work is purely in
dividual.
But the price reductions are not by any
means confined so'ely to the ready-n1ade
clothes shops The tailorS, fee ing the
mildness of the weather and hearkening
to the call of spring, are also anxious to
rid their shops of the heavy cloths to
make room for lightweight textures. and
so they, too, have slashcd prices ruth
lessly.
The possession of two pairs of trousers
with every coat is thing worthy Of the
consideration of every man Of moderate
income. Even in readymade garments
1t is easily possible to get the extra
trousers and unless man has many
suits, thus being able to wear one suit
while another is being pressed. those ex-
ira trousers are frequently needed, and
badly. In the first place, trousers in
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred wear
out long before the coat Outside the
actual wearing out. however. it is inds-
putable that the trousers lose their shape
after two or three wearings and need the
pressing iron TO be restored, while the
coat can get along very well with only
one pressing a month. The resultant help
Of an extra pair of trousers Is obvious.
SuitingS. however, are by no means the
only articles that can be bought now to
advantage. In underwear. for instance,
the buyer has all sorts of chances to pick
up good stuff at all sorts of low prices.
The weather has played into mere man $
hands this year AS d result, at the pres
wear hugely reduced. or he can buy sum-
mer underwear, also reduced. Practically
every one of the shops have cut the prices
of their heavy undergarments. Those with
a stock of SeaSon-old summer underEar-
ments, bit shopworn, but perfectly
good, are not SO numerous, but they are
to be found If one looks. These latter
may be a bit soiled, but the material is
just as good as ever. AS to the soiling-
a bit of washing will fix that
Reductions are also to be found in
shirtings. No less than five of the larger
stores of the city are holding sales in
this most important article of mans ap-
parel. Shirts that ordinarily sell for
30, with few that retailed as high
as s., are being offered for a. cents. The
only reason the writer was given for the
sales was that the proprietors wanted to
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make room for new spring stock and pat
terms.
Those shirts are perfectly good" the
proprietor of one of the shops told the
writer. hut we make it point never to
hold over any old stock. Every spring
the stock must be bra and ncw--just mat
ter of policy. that's all. Of course, the
line offered in a sale like this isn't COM
plete. The sizes arc broken and the pat
terms have been picked over. and the best
ones taken at higher figures. However
well, confidentislly. l think I'll take half
a dozen or SO of these sale shirts' home
for myself"
Right on down the line the price reduc-
tons i'll mans apparel continue to run.
Hosiery, the heavier kind, suitable for
winter wear is to he seen all about
town, fifty-cent quality for thirty-five
cents; thirty five-cent quality for tWen-
ty-flve cents, and twenty-five-cent quality
for eighteen or nineteen cents. There is
no reduction i'll the hosiery of thinner
material. 1t might be well to remem-
Der that hosiery will keep, and that it
sooner. For all that Boreas SEEMS kind
ly, he is Of variable temper. and there
has been many month of March in
Washington when there was ice skating
on the Potomac.
1t might be particularly we'll to re-
member this, too, ii one is thinking of
buying d pair of shoes. A good many of
the shops are cutting the prices of their
high shoes right and left. One in par
ticular is offering line of its regular
tive-dollar winter shoes for $S.9S. And
they aren't all so terribly heavy, either.
You can take your pick of color-tan,
patent leather or plain black calf, al
though custom moro or less DEGREES
that you choose the first named
This evolution in the fashionable color
of shoes incidentally is little short of
remarkable Five years ago the tan
high shoe was almost unknown. The few
pairs that We're worn were seen on very
young boys. Even in low shoes tan was
almost invariably known as Il color de-
signed primarily and essentially for
youth. Plain black. prefera oily nox calf.
was the commonplace color for ordinary
wear, with patent leather. being COM
monty known as the dress shoe.''
It's all different today. Black shoes
of any sort are the exception rather than
the rule. The patent leather. save for
the extremely thin soled, cloth topped,
button shoe worn with ones evening
clothes is. 10 the really we'll dressed
man, all but unknown. Every one. young
old and middle aged. now wears tan
shoes, the age differentiation being
marked, if marked at all, by the vivid
ness of color. whether the shoe be bright
yellow. medium deep russet. or, mayhap,
for the very old man, a brown Of yici
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specially adapted to show its perfect con-
troll over not only the synchronization of
movement and sound. but also the mOdu
lations of all sounds. After the dismal
wall of Leonora there came from far
back in the hidden dungeon-far back,
remember-the quaVerinG tenor OF Man.
rico, with it's piteous 'Ah, che la morte,"
distant. soft. almost a whispering sigh
of melody.
Then, as the tone swelled, the hearer
could see, in his minds eye, the unfortu
nate lover, cropping his way through the
darkness toward the sound Of Leonora's
voice. Louder. nearer, it grew until, as
his face appeared at the grating of the
dungeon. it rang forth in all its volume
and filled the theater with its despairng
farewell--and just then it stopped and
the lights flashed up, and there was
nothing but an innocent white screen,
that none the less seemed to wear very
human expression of humor on its blank
surface as the visitor caught his breath
with an ejaculatory oh
1t was like being jerked headlonS into
another world. this sudden transition
fury ''Troubadou to a seat beside a
twentieth century scientist IL one OF his
departments.
well, I'll declare," exclaimed the Wis
itor; 1T was all he could think to say.
Its the most wonderful thing l.
Ladies and gentlemen" interrupted
smooth. trained voice as the lights
winked out. The visitor turned his gazr
from Mr. Edison to sec what new
corner had broken in upon his rhapsody
There ON the stage, stood man in
evening dress, pointing to d machine set
upon a table beside him!
II desire to explain briefly to you the
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'CAsS1US AND BRUTUS" Q1ARRELI1NGT WITH COMPLETE
INSTRUMENTATION OF VOICE. AND GESTURE.

mechanism of the kinetophone," contin-
ued the man on the stage-wel, on the
screen then. but 1t looked Just like a
lecture stage. Again the visitor gasped
a the perfect realism of it all. The
opera had been something wonderful;
but then operas are in themselves I'M
real. illusory. iictions of playwrights and
musicians, and singers in costume never
do seem just like real people
But here was man-folks just like
real folks-and talking in a conversational
tone just like real folks. The visitor
looked again-and listened again. lean
ing forward. eager, intent. Could that
man talking there. every movement of
whose demonstrating fingers was accom-
panied so accurately in sound and sense
by his voice, be a mere phantasm. van
fishing with the snap of an electric
switch?
There was something uncanny about
this everyday human being, SO real, Yet
so unreal; not even painting, but just
a heetinS wil-o-t hc-wisp of an iTage
Farther over the visitor leaned, rapt-and
then again he caught Il glimpse of his
wizard host watching him with that
subtle quzzical smilc-the smile of the
"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" play
ing about his lips and sparkling i'm his
eyes.
AS he turned again TO the stage, tho
lecturer dropped d china plate. Crash"
it struck the stage and the fragments
clattered merrily as they danced across
tho floor, The visitor jumped. He
couldn't help it; he'd broken plates him
self.
Then followed the blowing of horns and
whistles, together with piano. violin and
vocal solos. all in perfect coincidence of
movement and sound
Last of all two collie dogs rompcd on
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But found that / must have a record.
ing Eeedium Of sufficient sensitiveness to
make an accurate record at a distance Of
forty feet: otherwise, the recording
would show in the motion
pictute.
'Aster a number of experiments. I
perfected d cylinder which would make
such record. It was Of wax. soft wax:
SO s"ft that the slightest sound would
make an impression upon it. 1t was
almost as soft as butter. Then l placed
the Inotion picture machine and the. pho
nogra phi with the wax cylinder side by
side, and connected their moving parts
to the same shaft with identically the
SAM gearing. This, you see. insured
absolute synchronism Of voice. or sound,
with the appropriate action.
when the actors move and talk upon
the stage, both machines record what
transpires both as to movement and
sound, at identically the same instant. A
notcs, at the starting point of both the
recording film and the WAX cylinder
shows the beginning of both records
exclaimed the visitor. Then he paused.
Columbus and the egg" he murmured
to hs1nself.
"Ti.e metallic sound is wholly eliminated
differing in shape from the needle COM
monl* used in. making records. This
ordinary needle. you see,' and here Mr..
Edison held one up for inspection. lis
broad at it's base, tapering gradually down
to a point. Of course. the greater the
volume OF sound the farther the needle
was pushed into the wax cylinder and
hence the broader the impression made.
With this style OF needle it is the breadth
Of thu. impressions that produces the vari-
ation.; Of sound
Nsw, With my now diamond-pointed
needle 1t is different. That does not
taper: 1t is the same size throughout it's
length. Accordingly. when a. greater VOL
umc OF sound enters the recording phono-
graph 1T pushes the needle farther into
the wax cylinder, but the impressions
made are all of the same width The
variations Of sound accord with the va