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The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
RIDDLES.
GUS way.

Why is steam engine at fire an
anomaly?
Because it works and plays at the
same time.
What word is it of five letters, of
which two being removed, only one
will remain?
Stone
Why is fly taller than most men
Because he stands over six feet
without shoes or stockings.
What kind of anchor does drum
ken sailor like best?
An anker of brandy.
Why should a false friend never
leave his house2
Because you might look in and find
him out"
When Is a man hospitable and a
cheat at the same time?
When he takes you in.
Why is divinity student like q
merchant?
Because he studies the prophets
(profts)
In what part of the church do they
ring the Dell(eJS!
At the altar.
What is that of which the common
sort is the best?
Sense.
Where did Noah strike the first nail
in the ark?
On the head
Why is an accepted sutton like a
person guilty of crime?
Because he ought to be transported.
Enough for one, too much for two,
and nothing for three: takes one to
make and two to keep?
A secret.
What game does lady's dress i'm,
proven" resemble?
Backgammon.
Why is girl not noun?
Because lass lalas) is an interJec.
ton.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06

Where one has SO small hock-or
even with larger ones-the greatest
profit is made by keeping the hens
laying as much AS possible. For this
reason, even where the chicks are
Matched by hens. the use of the little
heatless breeders will be found the
most satisfactory way of caring for
the little chicks. They can be taken
directly from the hens or the incuba-
tor, and given over to the care of the
brooder, with no fear Of accident.
The brooder should be provided
with run, where the chicks can get
out in the fresh air and sunshine. A
frame three by six feet, and three
feet high, covered on top and sides
with poultry netting, is very good, as
it can easily be moved from place to
place. A little door in one end, against
which the door of the brooder can be
set, allows the chicks to go back and
forth as they wish.
The great merit of this simple outfit
is that it costs very little, is quickly
made. and can easily be kept clean.
Any boy can make all the breeders
and runs he will need in a very short
time, and do it before the season
opens.
The baby chick, for the first five
days of its life, is very tender thing.
II it is to grow into hardy fowlhood,
it must have the right kind of feed
and care at the critical time 1t does
not need very much feed, and not a
great deal of care, but what it does
get must be of the proper kind
The chick should not be fed until
1t is from thirty to forty-eight hours
old. There is great difference in
chicks, and the only way to tell just
when to begin feeding is to watch
and see when they begin to pick hun
grily at things. When they appear ca
ger for food, it should be given to them,
but even then very sparingly at first.
The reason for not feeding them
sooner is this: The yolk of the egg
10 the last part to be absorbed into
the chicks body before Matching, and
it furnishes nourishment enough to
last for some time. The yolk works
upward through the digestive tract,
and If food is given that must work
downward, mischief is sure to result.
Then, too, the yolk has in 1t the right
kind of nutriment to put the system
into proper condition to digest other
foods Nothing else would cleanse and
regulate the digestive organs so we'll
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
If the Life Be Rioht.

If the life is right with God and
man, every moment spent in true pray
er results in the generation of divine
power; for prayer is our dynamo for
appropriating the divine electricity
that manifests itself in invincible volts
OF faith. hope. love. peace. joy and
power. stYe shall receive power after
that the Holy Ghost is come upon
you" If We, then, being evil, know
how to give good gifts unto your chill
dren, how much more shall your Fa-
Their which is in heaven give to them
that ask him. Whatever lack there
may be in US, or our work must be at
tributed to insufficient or deficient
praying. For we have not because We
ask not. Ye ask and receive not be.
caMse We ask amiss."
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
MAGNETIC NAVY is AMUSING
Mysterious Movements of Little Boats
Caused by Magnet and Concealed
Maqnetized Needles.

To build this navy thin pieces OF
cedar or pine wood and some mag
netized sewing needles are necessary.
Cut the pieces of wood into lengths
little longer than the needles used
and about one-fourth of all inch in
width. Make one end of each boat
pointed for the bow. After the boats
are all ready turn them upside down
each where the keel should be. Now
light a paraffine candle and let drop
of hot paraffine fall upon each needle
and boat Take hot nail and smooth
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
What Ia Wanted,

What the temperance men want is
not the regulation of the liquor traffic,
but its destruction; not that its de-
struction; not it's evils should be cir
cumscribed idle fancy, but that they
should, to the full extent of the
states ability, be utterly eradicated-
No shilly-shally legislature can endure.
and it would be good for nothing If
it could. Stave in the heads of the
barrels, put out the fires of the dis
tilleries, confiscate the demijohns,
bottles and glasses that have been pol
luted by the internal trafic.-Horace
Greeley.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06

sponge, will bold only certain oman.
tity OF water.
Do you suppose that they concluded
that tile drains should be made shall.
low or deep? What do you suppose
they learned about soils having gravel
CIR sand subsoils?
The next week, these bows came To
school with small strips of litmus ma.
per, which they purchased for Eve
cents at the drug store, some clean
saucers. and some samples of soil ta-
Ken from different places.
One touched some vinegar (acid)
with the litmus paper to see what
change would be made in it's color:
one touched some lemon juice: anoth-
eir placed piece against a raw piece
OF tomato. Then they touched some
dampened soda, wood ashes, and lime.
These they found to be alkaline; that
is they acted much like I've.
They learned that by carefully mix
Ing little lime water and vinegar
no change in the color of the litmus
paper would be made They had read
Sh1S SuSA d SuUSlttuCG Was SttlQ u US
neutral. They learned that the els
tern water was neutral.
The samples of soil were separate
ly mixed with rain water to stiff
mud, and piece of litmus paper
pushed into each and allowed to re-
main two or three minutes.
Three found that their papers were
darkene6 from being wet, but that
there were no marked changes in the
color. The soils tested therefore were
neutral
One boy found his paper turned a
brickish red. That was decided to be
an acid or sour soil. 1t was learned
that it needed draining or lining. or
perhaps both, to neutralize it.
The most impressive lesson these
boys learned was from what they did,
rather than what they read. What
these four boys did any other boys of
the upper elementary grades in any
school can do.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
SPRAYING POTATOES
FOR BEST RESULTS
Treatment Should Begin When
Plants are Ten Inches High
and Repeated Often.
By w. NJ. Kelley

AS a general rule better results will
be obtained il the spraying is begun
when the potato plants are from eight
to ten inches high and the treatment
repeated at intervals of from ten to
fourteen days in order to keep the
plants well covered with the bordeaux
throughout the season
When the blight is in evidence it
may be necessary to spray oftener
Usually from four to six applications
will produce the best results.
The bordeaux should contain six
pounds of copper sulphate to each SO
gallons. When bugs are plentiful and
two pounds of paris green or two
quarts of arsenate of soda stock solu,
ton to the quantity of the bordeaux
mixture required to spray an acre.
The application should be thorough,
especially at times when the bugs are
numerous or when the weather is IA
vorable to blight. AS a general rule
frequent light applications will pro-
duce better results than heavier ap-
plications at long intervals
-. AOoC WIZ VCpOA0 upOA lAICS DIP
plications will obtain better results
during most seasons If they delay the
first spraying until there is danger OF
the vines being injured by bugs OF
flea beetles and then make a thor
ough application of the bordeaux and
the poison.
The following spraying should also
be thorough and applied at such times
as to keep the foliage protected dur
ing the whole of the growing season.
MY experience teaches me that II
we obtain satisfactory results, we
must not wait for the blight to APP
pear before we begin spraying and
that it does not pay to apply poison
alone for bugs. When we are fighting
bugs it will cost but little additional
to use bordeaux and the poison to
gether.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06

ering.
To give it other things to eat at this
time would upset the whole plan of ma
ture, and retGrd, instead OF promote,
the chicks growth.
The first food of the little chick
should be oatmeal the steel-cut, If
you can get it, and that is not to
be had. the ordinary rolled oats will
do if well crumbled In the hands.
This should be given about every two
hours for a day or two, gradually
lengthening the time between feeds
until they get it three times a day.
Put a shallow dish of clean water
where they can get it. If they want
to walk through it, turn teacup bot
tom side up in the middle of the
dish.
For the first two or three days they
will want to sleep and rest much of
the time. and will nearly live in the
brooder. After that they will be ready
to begin active operations. They will
now want to be let loose in the run
for most of the day, if it can be set
where It is warm. Leave the brood
er where they can go into it when
they get chilly.
After the third day begin to give
them prepared chick feed with their
oatmeal Increase the chick feed and
decrease the oatmeal by degrees. un-
til when they are ten days old they
get the feed alone.
You can buy the prepared chick
feed that is better and fully as cheap
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
F07. The N
IIT1II1
ONES 6 ]
BOYS TEST OF SOILS
Interesting Experiments of Four
Ohio Youths.
Moet impressive Lesson Learned Was
from What They Did Rather Than
from What They Read-Re-
suits of Trials

CBy PROF. A. B. GRAHAM. Ohio Col
lege OF Agriculture
-Four boys who were members of
the same country school had read
about how the soil had been formed
by glaciers; they had seen the soil on
the hillside farm gradually removed
by tiny streams and deposited on the
nearby level farm.
They had noticed the effects Of
freezing and thawing on high banks
and the sides of the bitches. But
there were some facts about soils that
which they knew only by what they
read. Each one resolved to contrib
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
what temperance Rrinas.

More of good than we can tell;
More to buy with, more to sell:
More of comfort, less of care;
More to eat and more to wear;
Happier homes with faces brighter;
All our burdens rendered lighter;
Conscience clean and minds much
stronger;
Debts much shorter, purses longer;
Hopes that drive away all sorrow;
And something laid up for tomorrow.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
Before and After.

There are now hundreds Of children
In Knoxville with clothes and shoes
to wear and something to eat who
went naked and hungry when saloons
were here.-W. P. Chandler. Chief OF
Police of Knoxville, Tenn.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
The Magnetic Navy.

the paraffine out over each needle.
The boats are now ready to place in a
large vessel of water where they will
act very queerly toward each other,
says the Popular Electricity By hold
ing magnet near the boats they may
be made to move about in mysteri-
Gus way
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
Great BARRIER.

81 can desire nothing better for this
great country than that barrier.
high as Heaven, should be raised be-
tween the unpolluted lips Of the chill
dren and the intoxicating cup. John
b. Cough
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-08-09
WITH TINY ELECTRIC SPARK HE COULD HAVE
TERRORIZED THE WORLD-NOW HE'S IN JAIL

Salt Lake Utah, Aug 9.-Fate
and the law have robbed the criminal
of tool with which he might have
terrorized the world.
The tool was tiny electric spark
which could be shot without wires,
the far-reaching, unseen hand of
murder and destruction.
w. L. Cummings, still boy who,
since childhood, has studied electric
ity; a dreamy genius, impractical in
a worldly sense, cOnfiding and easily
frightened, was perfecting a spark
coil capable of throwing without
wires an electric spark $50 miles.
His coil was not practical for COM
mercial use. He hoped to adapt it to
railway switch systems and in oper-
ating stock tickers on shipboaFd.
He was at the end of his resources
when man-Cummings says his
name is Charles Burge- asked him if
he wanted to make some money.
Cummings said he did.
Then draw on the bottom of this
letter." Cummings says Burge told
him, "the picture Of a suitcase con-
tanning dynamite, nitrO-glyceTine and
guncotton, and then arrange the
wires to show how you could touch
it off with your spark"
Cummings did as directed; then he
read the letter. It was to Dorothy
Bamberger, daughter of J. E. Bam-
berger, millionaire mining man, and
demanded 81 900 or her life.
"Just look over the enclosed draw
ing and you will see how helpless you
are in our hands, it read.
Now" snarled Burge, 1--WE got
you. If don't get you the police
will; so you'd better stick to me and
carry this through"
Frightened, Cummings consented.
He said he would do anything that
Burge directed. The letter was sent
as were others. Detectives caught
him and he confessed.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-12-01
T oEM-s-l DAY { AZ

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRIST
MAS.
"a Revised Version, BY Alice Jaynes
in the Ladies' Home JournaI.)
Twas the night before Christmas,
when all In the shop,
Not n saiesgirI nor wrapper but
thought she would drop;
The cash children rushed with the
money with care,
with wan faces, strained hither, thither
they fed,
While visions or reprimands flashed
through each head,
At an hour when rich children were
tied in niGhtcaps,
And settling themselves for their long
winter maps,
From tables and counters arose such a
cIatter
Some terrible tragedy must be the mat
The lights from the shining bulbs.
white in their glow.
Gave auster OF midday to objects below
saIesgirl was selling small gifts
Like flash
She tore open boxes and counted out
cash,
When what to my wondering ears
should resOund,
But a shreVvdiSh abuse you could hear
aisies around.
From a woman, well gowned. who came
just to kick,
L knew I'm a minute she was "the Old
Nfck.o
She was dressed all I'm fur from her
feet to her head.
And a comfortable feeling of opulence
| shed.
More rapid than reindeer, rcproaches
they came,
As she scolded and called the poor girl
harsh name.
SLOW stupid! You vixen! Don't dare
| answer back!
III report You at once for being 10
slack.
My gifts never came. Now where car
| they he:
/ How such things can happen 1 really
/ can't seew
And giving a nod, up the store aisle she
sailed
Full of wrath that her own "Merry
Christmas had failed.
THE snIesgiri 80 pale went straight tt
her work,
For dozens of buyers forbade her tt
shirk.
Hours and hours played the dramii
/ long after she'd gone
IDeliyery boys, women, cash girls struGt
gled ON,
In hundreds of stores, I'm many a city,
lThis spells "Merry Christmas" oh
1 good people, pifyi
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-12-01
HISTORY.

The most conspicuous failure in
our schools next to the laughable
worship of the Ancient Languages, is
in the teaching of history.
The date when Caesar crossed the
Rubicon is not important or interest
ing, outside of an encyclopedia, and
the details of wholesale murders of
men should not be told in text books
for children, but by the weird CRATE
fire when tales of horror are recited
with grief and tears.
The names of kings who did moth
ing are worse than dead; but the
deeds that represent the progress of
the world should never be forgotten.
The date of the battle OF Pharsalia
| is insignificant, but when the soldier
citizen of Rome lost his land and the
nobility got it-when the Caesars
found it more profitable to raise sheep
than to raise men, Rome fell.
When the king of France paid
100000, for necklace for DuBarry,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-12-01
OH COME NOW JESS!

The convicts both in Michigan
City prison and the Jacksonville
reformatory were given big turkey
dinners yesterday. and later re-
called with vaudeville. Possibly this
munificence might be contemplated
with more equanimity If all the
hard working, honest. and sober
citizens of Indiana had been able to
afford similar luxuries. Under
prevailing conditions however, it
appears that about the only way
for some folks to connect with
celebrations of this sort is to COM
nit murder, rape, or burglary and
be sent up.-Fort Wayne News.
With all due respect to the esteem
ed News we feel that this criticism i
just little bit harsh. Granted tina
the poor sinners In the state prisoi
have spoiled their lives and the live
of others by their lapses, at the sam
time 1T wouldn't hurt them to know
that the outside world is celebrating
a holiday by having their lot eased
little Prison life is dreadful thing
Perhaps Brother Green ate to
much turkey.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-12-01
TbSE POI ETFGAK
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(FROM THE TINES OWN NDIANApHl Is RIIgrAID

his preference, regardless of his for
mer party affiliations or political con-
duct. Some of the politicians take the
position that in this way the real
views of all voters could be registered.
This plan contemplates the reorgan-
ization of the party. If the progress
i've element was able to cast a major
ity of the votes the state organiza-
ton would be placed on a progressive
. basis, which ought to be satisfactory
, to that element
Those who favor this plan take the
point on that a majority of the repub-
licans are progressive in their views.
anyway. They says that the party as
at present constituted is not responsible
for what has happened in the past and
that the majority would support the
progressive plan at the primaries.
Whether anything will be aceomp-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-12-01
THE CHAUTAUQUA REGIME.

There is more or less cumulative
evidence to the effect that all has not
been plain sailing under the Chautau-
guam regime in diplomacy Wash
ington dispatches indicate that sew
|eral coigs have slipped in spite of
|copious fabrication with grape Juice.
Aside from the actions of that arch
tempter the Hon. Jim Ham Lewis.
who tool. Pindell of Peoria I'D on the
mountain and showed him the bar
gain counter. it has come to light
that there was also some slight con-
fusion as to the Greek mission.
A despatch stated that the trifing
error had been made in sending tele-
grams apparently on the same day to
both Professor Droppers of Williams
College and the Hon. George Fred
Williams of Dedham, asking each if
he would take the post at Athens. AS
there was dual kingship at ancient
Sparta doubtless It was argued that
with such a precedent there could
certainly be two American Ministers
to Greece. And if the Bryan-Pindell
one-year-only installment plan was to
be similarly applied to Greece that
would have meant eight Ministers in
four years, running capacity of two
Ministers per Year sfmul tSneously
Perhaps the idea was thas The day
and night shift should be introduced
into diplomacy. Who knows?
But the dilemma in regard to
Athens seems to be mild compared
with the vexatious predicament
wherein Colonel Thomas III. Birch of
Burlington, N. J., appears to have
found himself Let us append one de-
tail of his unfortunate quandary We
quote from a Washington despatch:
| Colonel Thomas II. Birch of
| Burlington. N. J.. who was NOM
| mated and confirmed as United
States Minister to Portugal more
| than a month ago and has not yet
started for his post, apparently
/ only learned this week that the
diplomatic honor he has achieved
| is not of ambassadorial rank, but
that he is only Minister. He has
ordered richly embossed stationery
with the letterhead American En-
bassy. Lisbon, Portugal ignoring
the fact that Lisbon has an Ameri-
can legation and not of
bassy"
Will not the Hon Jim Ham Lewis
be good enough to suggest to the per
turbed New Jersey Colonel that he
Law aside that stationary de !llXp as ?
! memento for his children's children
By the third generation we may have
, an embassy in Lisbon and the little
/ ones might never guess their grand
Isire's misunderstanding. Yorl
: Sun.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-12-01
POOR MR.. JOHNSON.

Mayor-elect Johnson of Gary seems
to be obliged to put in his evenings
attending various banquets.
If his honor doesn't watch his d.
gestion he will go out of office won
dering what become of it. And in re-
spect to dinners the lord mayor OF
Gary seems to be in as much demand
at them as the lord mayor of London.
1t seems as il the same fate might
befall Mr.. Johnson as did friend Bill
Nesbit.
Bill is the champion long-distance
dinner Marathoner in and about Chi
cago. He speaks during the open
season for banquets at from to
banquets per week.
He was packing his dinner buds In
a suit case one morning at his home
in Evanston just before going down
town when Mrs. Nesbit asked what
was on that night.
ooh I got to speak at a little din
Iner,' said Mr.. Nesbit.
Sure I might have known it,
Iquoth friend wife. why whenever
you get up in the morning that suit
case of yours just comes running out
of the closet barking like a dog til
so happy"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-12-01
JUSTICE

A drunken negro who accosted a
white woman in a crowded thorough
fare Of Gary and who threw his arms
around her was given a fine of IS
and costs for his atrocious conduct.
1t is such pitiful justice that places
the law in contempt.
Were Gary below the Mason and
Dixon line the black would have Deen
strung to the nearest telegraph pole
A So fine is a sad commentary upon
the price which the Gary police court
views the attack of a negro upon q
white woman.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-12-01

the Taggart organization. That Kern
is now a lieutenant of the Taggart
army is evident There is an attempt
being made at present, to stir up a
little opposition to the reelection of
Senator Shively. But there is no rea-
son for expecting that any good will
come of it. If the organization wants
Shively sent back to the senate he
will go back The truth of the whole
matter is that Indiana democracy
likes to be bossed. Some day the
state will free itself of Taggartism
and Boss rule, but the. achievement
will not be due to efforts of demo-
Gratis who count themselves regular.
1t is going to take a general uprising
to purify the politics of the state and
free the people from the machine that
now is in control.-Lafayett Jour
nal.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-12-01

and his courtiers, in the chase, rode
over the fields of the farmers and de-
stroyed their crops, the French Revo-
luton came. But the date of Louis
death is unimportant.
When Gutenberg invented printing
education was revolutionized, but the
place where the royal family put up
for the winter in sixteen eighty-three
is not a matter of great interest.
When history shall drop it's dates
and places, describe its wars with
horror, and replace the names of
worthless, sapheaded kings with those
of the real men who have promoted
the progress of the world, we shall
have textbooks that children will
plead for the privilege of reading. The
weary, Misunderstanding struggles with
memory win be replaced by few in
Istructicns as to how to use an ency-
Iclopedia, and all will be we'll