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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-17
Fined for Disorder ON Car.

Fined for Disorder on Car.
Arraigned on charge of being dis
orderly on car of the Richmond ana
Rappahannock railway, George Taylor
and Robert Stewart We're fined $40
each by Magistrate Sunday of Hen
rico yesterday.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-17

helm that can be given them between now and
the elections of 1914. The new tariff bill VIII
not 60 into effect until March. There is serious
danger that some business disturbances will re-
suit from 1t. and there may not be time In the
eight months before election day for the advan-
tages and benefits Of it to be felt directly. The
Renuhlicans will make the most Of every loss,
of every difficulty in adjustment. The Democrats
will be, largely on the defcnsive-always dan
gerous position for a party to occupy This Is
good time for every applicant for office and
every friend and supporter of an applicant TO
resolve to accept any disappointment that may
come with philosophy and good humor. and not
in any condition to swerve from loyalty to the
administration and hearty support of it.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-17
Let's have IT.

And next week we have the big Fashion
Show
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-03

THERE is man living here
who is striving to get enough
money to fulfill an ambition.
He has worked hard all his life,
and has never taken a vacation
because his vacation is really his
ambition.
This man has heard Of certain
hotel in Paris where he can live for
about 10 francs a day. Ten francs
are about 81
Two dollars a day for one year.
amount to $3.50. In order to get
$3.50 per annum as interest on CAPT
tai, he must have $14,60O at per
cent.
But he needs more than this, for
he has got to provide for clothing,
laundry and the smaller incidentals.
So he puts his total at the lowest
figure possible, $4,000, or 5000 per
year; or, $500 francs per year.
This is a lovely plan, and If the
man lives, he will carry it out.
But
He is overlooking a great and i'm
portant fact.
This will not establish the cost
of living for him, because he has
actually made no plan at all for liv-
ing. He has planned only for food,
clothing and a place TO sleep.
A man who moves to Paris to
live the rest of his life on his In
come. takes with him more than his
body
His mind goes along with him.
He has not provided anything for
that part Of him.
Its needs are real, and must not
be overlooked.
ENCE, there is another side to
IL the cost of living, a side sepa-
rate and distinct from the question
of existing. 1t is existing-getting
food, shelter and clothes. that being
the brunt of the burden. Real liv-
ing, that is, having something for
which to live, is one of the most
inexpensive things Of this~ merry
life.
Contentment is a better invest
ment than fun, And for this rea-
son: contentment, like true love, is
lasting; but fun may leave you with
a blank mind in ten minutes.
1t is fun that helps push up the
cost of living. Contentment. based
on reason, keeps it down and leaves
you plenty of time to do your part
in figuring out how the country
should be run so as to give every
man a chance.
All this leads up to the question
Of taxes.
No man likes to pay taxes. 1t
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-03
Here Is a Pretty Fine Girl

Have you heard about Scheel coed" at Cor
ne2
Cornell calls her the perfect girl If she ism perfect she is
g very good girl for these and other
perfect girl studying horticutreat Comedian
ceent study for And when she finishes her studies
going raising vegetables fathers farm
Long sand-an excellent occupation for assuming
that she combines with ii the REAL occupation of
which 5 raising children
Miss Schee is twenty four years Old weighs III and is five
feet inches tall-very good figure the whole
But what important is the fact that her waist
thirty little more her hips forty inches
or more.
girls would realize that little squeezed thin waist
worthless little squeezed forehead if they
realize that hat hips abnormal and opposed
the improvement Of the human the realization would DO
them great good
Woman business creation of the And
women should proud that fact instead of resenng
do what not DO She not only creates the
race makes it better She along by giving 10 the chill
both boys and girls her superior moral character and her
goodness.
A woman a hirty-nch waist and forynch hips and
thrty-fournch just about the right shapen spite
Schopenhauer view to the contrary
Such woman health enough for herself for
dren and vitality enough 10 attend own affairs do her own
thinking and tolerate her husbands foolne egotsm
Besides being so well arranged physically wonderful
coed an sutfrageto that she combines intelligence
character and ambition with good health May her
raising of vegetables and in her important work.
And may the country develop many more girls ike her
P s-If YOU happen to be naturally thin with waist and
hips that are "NATURAILY small You need discou
aged or worried is natural light. \ small waist
and the fat foolish hips bad only when they
and flat by artificial very very
great mothers have been slight and slender 0ympas of
greatest the world has known she produced
ander very thin, slight person exciabe and
wild very fond Of dancing with snakes wrapped
bodyand much else on that body the time She did
NOT lace her waist,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-03
"Chiclens Always Come Home to Roost"
By DOROTHY DIX
Bv HAL COLEMAN.

his old age the evil brood has come
home to rOost.
While you stop to bestow your
aims on the old mendfcant, another
man rolls by in his limousine, a
silvery- haired old man with a pink
face who is swathed in furs and at
whose nod of recognition men raise
their hats. These two men, the
rich and respected man and the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-03
The Real COntentment
By THOMAS TAPER.

seems to be the nearest thing to
something for nothing in this life.
So many man Will dodge his taxes
il he can learn to dodge.
But there are taxes and taxes.
Most municipalities are easy
compared with the tax demand Of
Desire, Temptation, Habit & Co.
For example:
In 1905 the census bureau issued
a diagram showing the taxes we
pay ON OUR OWN PROSPERITY.
Nobody demands these taxes. We
simply break our necks, climbing
over each other in our eagerness to
put our money down before the tax
collector.
Here are the taxes Of seven years
ago They are higher now:
Liquors (beer and ale) $275 900, 600
Tobacco Chewing and
smoking e. =. e.. 1875 900, 900
Tobacco cigars and
cigarettes) o.. o.. e. =. 5000, 900
Liquors (hard drinks).. 10000, 900
candy .. 100000
Total. e.. =. e. 1886, 900, 900
The total Of these few tempta-
tons alone is $685.. 100000
II we were living, as a nation,
as the man who Is going to Paris
proposes to live-that is, on income
it would require 27,5OO, 900, 900 in
government bonds at three per cent
to pay the above bill alone.
Yes, your conclusion is right.
, That is a lot of money And it is
all fun. There is no particular con-
tentment about it. Particularly
when we add the above 1896, 900, 900
to the cost of living.
III.
NOW every one of US is more or
less like the gentleman who is
going to Paris. We look forward
TO good vacation in the future
when there will be no work. Bu4
We differ from him in this: He is
actually making it himself. Most
of US are hoping for it.
Take just little cash out of hand
today and put it by for twenty
years hence.
Don't plan on living in Paris, or
anywhere else; plan on living.
Living means an interest in life,
which is way ahead of shelter, 900
and clothing.
Living means finding out every
day something, or somebody, to live
for, and also finding happiness in
that living. There are no taxes on
this that man can not pay gladly.
The cost of living is high when
we are no better off at night in
mind, hope, interest and content
ment than we were in the morning.
And that happens when the days
taxes have been high.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-03

flower of his youth, but the doc
tors tell you that they can not save
him.
But" you say, 80 many others
with that malady recovered" All"
replies the doctor, but the trouble
with him is that he has gone the
pace that kills He has burnt up
his vitality in dissipation He has
got nothing left with which to fight
disease" And so the boy dies.
His chickens have come home to
roost.
The woman who has no friends
is the woman who has never kept
her sharp tongue from saying the
thing that she thought was witty,
no matter how badly it hurt an
other; she is the woman who has
ridden roughshod over other peo-
pies rights and pleasures; she is
the woman who has been so selfish
and so determined to have the best
for herself that she has never sac
riiced her own comfort for any
body else. Sarcasm, and greed, and
jealousy, and envy, and hardness of
heart are the chickens she's Matched
out, and as age darkens around her
they all fiutter up to their roost
pole in her heart.
Character Not Made in a Day.
But the woman who has been
loving and tender and kind; who
has thought of other people before
herself; who has been the first to
go with a helping hand to every
one in distress about her, who has
shrouded the dead, and pinned on
the wedding wells, and cuddled the
babies wherever there was need Of
a woman's sympathy in joy or sor-
row, never complains that her old
age is lonely or that people don't
like to have old women around
them.
Her birthdays are smothered in
remembrauces. Her old friends
cleave to her as David did to
Jonathan. Young people come to
her with their condolences. Her
chickens come home to roost. and
they are called love and tender
ness and honor.
Character isn't made in a day.
It isn't made up OF one act Nor is
success or failure determined by
one single spectacular deed, for in
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-03
Complain They Are Lonely.

You go TO the hospital to see
some friend who lies tossing upon
his couch of pain. He is a charm
ing young fellow, lovable talented
with every good thing the gods can
give. 1t seems terribly unjust that
such a one should die in the very
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-03

by committees. The sessions Of
the council are taken up with
pickering and useless debate.
I think a return of the au-
thority and responsibility of
the city government to council
would solve the problem.
May Get the Wrong Man.
Every class of citizens and
every section are represented in
the general council. 1t is a
truly representative body.
Give it's members authority
and demand results of them.
I do not favor giving the
mayor more power.
1t is possible that we would
get bad man in that office.
In our council of 80 mem
bers, though, we can depend
on a majority of good citizens,
These will insure us against
any crooked work.
| am man of few words,
but [ want to urge radical re-
vision of our charter.
We are not getting the right
sort Of results for our tax
money.
We are wasting money on
salaries in the city hall, for one
thing. In proportion to what
men in private life get for the
same work, they are too high.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-03
JOHN H. JAMES
Writes on
The Necessity For a Ne1V City
Charter
By JOHN H. JAMES,
Mayor of Atlanta in 187I-I872

! believed so strongly in rev.
dictionary charter reforms a
year ago that | voted for COM
mission government, or rather
the charter that was supposed
to embody the ideas Of COM
mission government.
The need for changes is great
err today.
The trouble | see with our
city government is that the
council has shirked its duty
and responsibility.
Board after board has been
created, and the old boards
have been enlarged.
Council once elected the
heads of the various depart
ments, and was responsible for
their conduct. The depart
ment heads who are not named
by boards now are elected by
the people.
ThrotUn Aside Responsibility
Council has thrown aside this
great responsibility, but it has
also lost control Of the func-
tions of the city government.
The head of each depart
ment is independent Of all au-
thority.
What business the council is
supposed to transact is done
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-20

f. = - \ j.
enormous number OF weed seeds Do.
stroyed az to be negligible. Anyone
who will take the trouble to 80 out
thru the weed patches during Septem-
Der, October and November while the
juncos, white tllroated. harris and tree
sparrows and others are migrating. can
see abundant evidence OF the hosts OF
helpers in the constant struggle OF the
farmer to keep down the weeds. Con-
tinuing this observation thru the win
ter, spring and summer Will be rev.
citation to any alert, thoughtful obserV-
er. According to the careful inVesti-
cations and estimate Of F. E. L. Seal
of the United States biological survey.
the tree sparrow alone destroys $50
tons of weed seeds annually, IN the
single state Of Iowa. A single stomach
containing 700 seeds Of pigeons grass.
Couple with this the weed seeds de-
stroyed by the many other equally val.
liable native species Of sparrow rouno
abundantly in Iowa and North Dakota,
we have a grand total which means an
incalculable saving to the people OF the
state.
The examination of 725 stomachs
of the red winged blackbird showed
"a per cent was vegetable matter. most
ly weed seeds, while the remainder
consisted largely of weevils and grass
hoppers. The stomachs of mourning
doves contained 81 per cent of weed
seeds for the entire year. including
such pests as pigeon grass, rag weed
and smart-weed. One stomach alone
contained 6,40O seeds of fox-tail grass.
The stomach of a snow bunting con-
tanned 1000 pig-weed seeds.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-20
HOW ABOUT THiS7

We have had and are having one of
our Iowa periods of bad roads
Ben Robinson lives on 400 acre
farm six miles north Of Marshallrown.
1t is very fine farm the result of
two generations Of good farmers. AS
an investment it would probab bly, rep
resent somewhere between $4,000 and
100000 y couple OF months ago this
farm was fifteen minutes from the
center of Marshalltown. That is an
established fact for two persons drove
out to that farm on a shooting expedi-
ton in precisely that time. If il had
been physician speeding 10 save a
life he could have done it in ten min
utes or even less, How far Robinson s
farm is under present conditions from
Main and Center streets by automobile
is problematical. Nobody with a ma
chine would have the nerve TO try. But
il is good two hours By hog wagon.
Carey Arney lives about eleven miles
from Marshalltown on big farm.
"heh the road Is good ne isn't over
twenty-five minutes from the court
Az sei-c! % ne ana oea n
~ - i'1'eeh minutes
q -oi - ii'i4e an AouI
road when it is good and necessity sits
LIS quay l. .
90 ~ O1esS' ~ Is ma
'ooii0o 80 1@f q 'i-e machines are con
''oe M"soii'
are ol'-S instances. Ihey
'i eEeif l"ao "nL ~ Mar
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-20
Mud Roads Good Enough

Editor Times-Republcan: In your
cent vote of the township trustees as
sembled with relation to proposed road
legisla ton as follows:
The township trustees in voting
xxxN merely exemplified the need OF
campaign of education upon this
subject. 1t was a mistake to declare
that hard surfaced roads were not
needed. 1t was done because Of the
lack of information
AS a trustee of Vienna township not
present at the meeting referred to, al
tho it expressed my sentiments. 1 beg
space to state briefly, the reasons for
NY positions. l should regret to be-
lieve that any one elected to an office
o. public trust would carelessly or
reckie ssly perform his duties because
&c the lack of information and in nee /
Of d campaign of education
We have heard much about "sta:e
aid. What sources of raising money
has the state except thru the counties.
True, there are the collateral inheri-
lance tax and a few other ways OF
raising Insignificant amounts. Within
recent weeks, the state has taken over
the exclusive right to tax railroads
and terminals. We are told that this
will merely lessen the amount of state
tax that must be levied on other prop
erty.
What other more progressive states
have done and are doing is the chorus
IN this song for permanent roads. Min
nesota, WISCONSIN. Texas and others
are cited. No parallel lies between
Iowa and the states named-or IL 1t
does. lies outrageously. Minnesota
holds title to thousands of acres OF
school lands in the swamp and cutoNer
counties. Whole counties are unstable
because unavailable until roads and
incidental drainage are projected. The
| counties unable to do this must be
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-20
NOT A GREAT INNOVATION.

When the president banished wine
from the White House table this big
country shook hands and the president
was acclaimed and approved as an in
novator. But what is so strange and
new as regards the Punishment of in
toxicants from an American table?
How many tables in Marshalltown
supply intoxicating drinks as part of
the menu? Has any one attended a
function of not in private family
where intoxicants were served? AT
what public or semi-public banquet
or function do 1owans serve the cup
1t a general conclusion accepted in
nine homes out Of ten in this country
that the old time custom of be-
fuddling guests with one kind of strong
drink or another ought to be dis
carded? And it is.
Wilson is good American, a some
the ordinary American citizen. The
ordinary American long ago banished
liquors from his dinner menu Will
sons conformity with this general
opinion is simply another proof of his
common Americanism. And that is
good enough, both for him and for the
ordinary citizenship he represents.
When the wife Of President Hayes
set her foot down against wine at the
White House that was truly an limo
walton. But the lady, who appears TO
have known what she wanted and how
TO get it, had her way. But that was
long ago as concerns sentiment on the
question under discussion. Then the
New Years caller found the hostess
awaiting with a smile on her face and
another on the buffet. Serving wine
or its equivalent was common at pri-
vate parties and public functions in
those days. But il is different now.
Things have changed
Nevertheless it was what we should
expect of the new president. Let US
keep on hoping that he will continue TO
carry out the general sentiment and
obey the wishes of the common AIueri
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-20

have secured the United 1tatso an1I
Europe Tor antaai 4xpsstehcS sand rsal1
achievement In road building. r. our
people will not stand pat In their e9o-
tism that Iowa II above any need for
what has been tried and proved In the
older states we can have hard snrfaeed
roads a. passable today - they were
in July At cost not to exceed from SO
to $25 per annum for each quarter secs
ton of land. Let the farmer who
watches $500 mare heavy with foal
wallow thru this mud think about
these things. Farmers whose little chil-
dren wade to school might realize what
it would be to live on q thoroughly
graveled pike at an expense OF $40 per.
annum. Men who unload to relieve
broken wagons in the spring quagmires
might be able to see an actual saving
of more than $25 per annum in a hard
surfaced road to say nothing Of the
increased value to land to be located on
hard surfaced county road.-Ed.1
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-20
Manure for Heavy Soil,

What manure is best for growing
garden vegetables in clayey hillside
soilo ! am asked. \ warm loan cor
tanning a fair proportion of sand Is
most favorable TO the production of a
general line Of garden vegetables, and
il the soil is stiff. hard or inclined TO
bake the first thing to do is TO fill that
soil With decaying vegetable matter or
hur2uS. Stable manure makes hunus.
Use enough OF il 10 make the soil loose
and fra bic SO that il will not crack. Or.
if such manure can not be had. take
the slower course OF growing a crop or
two Of clover. or Of rye and winter
vetch and pillow good coat or two of
that green stuff under to be mixed with
the soil and 10 furnish the needed de-
caying vegetable matter. Strawberries
usually DO we'll on rather heavy soils.
If yours do not do we'll. the cause may
De in the variety. Some varieties do
we'll in one locality and do poorly in
another. The large white grub found
at the roots of some plants are the
larvae OF the May beetle, and they are
often very destructive in strawberry
plantations If the bed is old. pillow it
up and set new one. using the variety
or varieties which do Well with your
neighbors on similar soil. a few sorts
succeed on almost any kind OF soil
among them We have the Ozark. very
early, and very good berry.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-20
MAKING FARMERS.
Huntington HaWkeye.J


corinth township, in Humboldt
county. Is planning a $4,000 scnool.
where the youngsters will not only get
the Three RS" with some of the add
ed educational trimmings. but also
will be instructed In many OF the prop
lens OF the SOIL Perhaps that VIII
work out all right, who says that
farmers are born and not made. He
claims that many young people ieaSe
the farm and go to town because they
realize that they are better fitted Tor
some other kinds OF work. And there
are many in the towns who have never
learned farming, who would soon pc
come successful farmers If they were
turned loose Oh the soil. The argu-
ment Is by no means a new one, ana
SO there are many physicians VINO
ought to be saving wood. and mary
lawyers who are untitled for their
calling. and in every calling and pro-
.ession there are insists. Yet these
nisfits might have won prominent
place in some other calling. There Will
be some progress in the world, mar
Vicious progress, when we shall all be
able to discover the thing for which
we are best adapted and then shall get
an opportunity to get busy on thet
particular job. Perhaps many Of us are
not particularly well fitted out for any
thing, and still It would be found that
there are some things in which we
might be able 70 do better than ia
others.