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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-07-24

phantiasiS. 1t takes out the
inflammation, soreness and dis
coloration; relieves the pain and
tiredness, reduces the swelling,
gradually restoring part to
normal strength and appearance.
ABSORBINE, JR. is a mild, safe,
pleasant antiseptic liniment, healing
and soothing. Severe cases where
veins have liberated and broken
have been completely and perma-
nently cured. First few applica-
tions of ABSORBINE, JR., will
give relief and prove its merit.
$I.oo and $2.oo per bottle at drug
gists or delivered. Detailed di-
rections, reports on recent cases
and Book s G free on request.
SF.YUung.P P.D.F. ,3iOTsmplsSt, Springfield, ,AIsss.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-07-24

Logical Result.
DO beauty shows pay?"
Il don't know, but they ought to
show a handsome profit"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-07-24
sEASoNABLE DISHES.

1t is the shadows OF life that make the
beauty of life. -Srane'
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-07-24
Exact Copy Of Wrapper.


When marigolds do not open, it is a
sign of rain.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-07-24

Corrected.
"Her gown was quite outre."
mo, 1t was summer silk"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-07-24

HE more a man loves himself
the harder he can hate an
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
SOW CLOVER SEED
In FALL Is BEST
If Ground Is Not Properly Pre-
pared Failure Is More Than
Likely to Follow.
Rx II UNDERWOOD

Some farmers think that fall Is the
best time in which to SOW clover seed,
while others are equally as sure that
spring is the best. If the right kind
of seed is provided and the seed bed
properly prepared, the seeding may be
successfully done either in the spring
or in the fall. If. however, poor seed
is sown and the ground is not prop
erly prepared, there is liable to be a
failure, no matter when the work Is
done.
l have had success in sowing both
in the fall and in the spring. l can
not see much difference. Fall sowing
is generally preferable, because it can
be done at a time when there is not
SO much rush work on the farm.
This being true. better job can be
done, and, consequently, better stand
will be the result.
When l intend to SOW clover In the
fall. pillow the ground about the mid
die of August. About ten days after
being plowed it is narrowed thor
oughly and leveled with long float.
This float is made similar to road
drag and, in passing over the field, 1t
levels the ground very smoothly.
Either in the spring or fall seeding
this float should be used.
In about week after the ground
has been narrowed and leveled with
the float, it Is worked again with a
harrow, followed by light. planker.
Then l SOW the plat to rye, placing
on about three pecks to the acre, and
harrow the ground twice, once each
way. After this Is done, I SOW the
clover seed at the rate Of fifteen
pounds to the acre, and give the
ground one light narrowing.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30

(By BESSIE L. PUTNAM.)
II the ground was well fortified
before planting the seeds, there will
be but little trouble through plants
dwindling in the hot weather, pro-
viding the soil is kept light.
Much of the trouble laid to drouth
comes through plant starvation. The
cucumber Is such a rank grower that
it exhausts the fertility of the soil
very quickly, unless some reserve
food is provided.
If you have not made due provision
for this in the planting. 1t may still
be easily done by digging a large
hole between each four hills, and ell
ing this with the fertilizer, mixing it
as much as possible with the soil.
Rains will wash a part of the fer
tility down among the roots, and the
plants will thus find a source of con-
slant renewal.
This will keep them growing. and
In vigorous condition throughout the
season, and the fruit formed under
these conditions will lack the bitter
ness which we are accustomed to ex-
pect from the August cucumber.
If the little striped squash bug ap-
pears, it can be hand-picked early in
the morning, or late at night, but
when the sun is shining it is always
alert, taking wing at the slightest
disturbance. Look for it in clusters
on the under side Of the leaves, and
at the tips Of the branches.
1t is most easily managed by tap
ping the vines gently and holding a
shallow pan underneath to catch the
beetles as they fall. They can then
be transferred to a pail Of water con-
tanning little kerosene, and may be
trusted to remain there until one is
ready to make a permanent disposal
of them.
Two crops Of this beetle appear
during the summer, but the later
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
COLLEGES URGE TEMPERANCE
Movement to Rule Out Intoxicating
Liquors at Banquets Characterized
as important Step.

The effort being made by friends of
the University of California to have
passed by the student body an
amendment ruling out all intoxicating
liquors from the officially recognized
banquets and other social functions, is
in accordance with a movement which
DR.. David Starr Jordan characterizes
as "the most important forward step
in American universities"
The large state universities, such as
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Mis-
souri,. Kansas. Indiana, do not serve
liquors at their class or officially rec
ognized student banquets, and how
ever much intelligent American citi-
zens may differ as to the best meth
DDS of prohibiting or regulating the
liquor traffic no conscientious man or
woman can fail to recognize the abb
solute folly Of multiplying the work Of
the college or the university by per-
hitting temptation in the form of al
coholic drinks to. be placed in the way
Of the students.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
He PREFERRED A POOR TRADE
Into Dry Goods Store Because He
Was Afraid Of Children.

A saloonkeeper recently closed out
his business and opened small dry
goods store instead. One of his ac-
changing a good income for very
limited one, demonstrated with him.
Il can't help it, JIM" said the saloon
keeper, my children are growing up
and they began to ask questions about
the liquor business that couldn't an
swer without being ashamed before
them. They didn't like to see their
father selling whisky, they said. I'd
rather be in a poor trade that there's
no question about. and be able to look
my children In the face"
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
NOT EASY OF PRONUNCIATION
Foreigner Meets With Many Difficult
ties in Efforts to Understand Pc
cuiiarities of Words.

1t is hard for the person to whom
English is his native tongue to realize
what struggle the foreigner has to
understand some of the peculiarities
of our spelling and pronunciation.
One foreigner gives the following de-
scription of his first lesson in an Eng
lish class:
We have been given a book to
learn the letters. / arrive at the
class, having learned them perfectly.
Soon, in the course of the lesson,
we have the word low. Love-" /
pronounce it, thinking the W has the
sound of v.
mo; it is pronounced TO-" says
the teacher.
Then why is the W there?" l in
quire, mystified.
"It Is there because that is the way
the word is spelled" responds the
teacher; "but it is silent Never
mind why; it is sufficient to know
that it is there"
Before long we come to now.
Pronounce it," says the teacher.
NO." 1 reply.
why will you not?" she asks me.
1t is some time before she under
stands that I am trying to pronounce
the word when I say mo" Then
she declares that although low is 10,
now Is now
IF you want to make it no." she
explains. kindly, you put before
it."
You may believe am bewildered.
However, memorize that now is
now. The next word is SNOW. I
pronounce it like now with an 8 be-
fore it. The teacher laughs. The W
is again become silent, apparently for
no reason, and the word is called sno.
But that Is not all. Later 1 find
that If you drop the n from snow you
can pronounce it whichever way you
like!-Yeuth's Companion.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
0rMefY|
LIIIIIE|H|
ONES 3
STRANGE RECOVERY OF BOY
Letter of Sympathy From Walter
Johnson, Noted Pitcher, Works
Miracle With Washington Lad.

Warren A. Slee, thirteen years old,
lay sick for weeks, and, according to
a Washington dispatch, physicians
said they did not think he would re-
cover. Then the lad went into delir-
tum and talked OF Walter Johnson, the
speed king" among the pitchers of
the American league. He had been
the boys idol, the man of men before
whom this lad had stood secretly in
awe, and when the mind was free the
idol of his worship spoke to him.
When the team came back to Wash
ington from its western trip, mem
Der Of the boys family had intuitive
sense enough to seek out the pitcher
and tell him what the doctors said.
Naturally Mr.. Johnson wanted to go
to the boys bedside, but the physi-
clans said no, that the excitement
would be fatal
So he wrote this letter, and it was
read to the boy in an interval of de-
lir1um:
My Dear Warren take pleasure
in sending you herewith one of the
baseballs used on our western trip,
and hope that you will soon have the
opportunity Of using it with your
friends"
Pills, powders and surgery had
failed, but an idol worked another
miracle. AS if touched by the gods Of
old, there was an immediate change
for the better. and within remark
ably short space of time the boy left
the hospital and was able to use the
baseball. The primitive mind had
been allowed to work.
Many noted writer's have tried In
vain to describe the psychology of
miracles such as these, remarks the
New York Sun. Kipling and his
"Brushwood Boy" Kenneth Grahame
and his Golden Age" have essayed
to explain the mind of boy, but it can
not be done. All that we know is,
as Thackeray says, that every boy at
a stage in his life has some idol OF
course, the idols change. eventually
becoming feminine. Yet If our learn
ed uplifters would seek to learn the
name or nature of each boys idol,
and work through it, instruction in
moral hygiene and eugenics would be-
come obsolete. That way progress
lies. If an idol can save life it can
do other things, for it represents the
boys, ambition at it's best and most
impressionable period.
And what matter the form the idol
takes? 1t may be, as it often is, a
locomotive engineer, drum major, a
baseball pitcher; through the hero
worship of these exalted beings the
boys salvation lies. Text books on
biology were never intended for the
primitive mind
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
EXCELLENT HINTS TO CUCUMBER GROWER


brood, which does not appear until
comparatively tough, do no damage.
Pick the cucumbers regularly every
day, being careful not to bruise the
vines in the process.
II a crooked or deformed specimen
starts, pick it when small and thus
save the plant energy for better
purpose.
Keep the cucumbers picked, even
If you do not have market for them
at all times. Later, there may be a
demand, and If you quit picking the
large ones will quickly sap the life
from the vines.
1t is questionable whether or not
it pays to raise your own seed, with
the professional growers furnishing il
SO cheap. The process of ripening a
single cucumber is an exhausting one
and there are always some that es.
cape until they are too large for
slicers and one or two of these may
be saved, the rest being promptly dis
patched for sweet pickles.
II you feel that the vines must be
watered during the drouth, do il
thoroughly. Surface watering only
calls the roots upward. where they
are more quickly affected by the heat
If threatened with blight, spray
with Bordeaux mixture in proportion
of three ounces to a gallon of water
In, large patch this will be- found
the better way to fight the squash
bug, though where the plot is only for
family use the hand picking Is prefer
able.
When the first frost comes it will
be well 10 protect the vines with pa
pers, straw or pieces Of old carpet;
for usually after this initial frost
there are some weeks of fine weather
in which the vines will continue to
bear.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
Maeaw Trying to Sing.

and paraded around the bar in exact
measures that have been made famil-
lar by countless strutting Afro-Amer-
leans. Then, firing of this, the ma
cav turned to face the music and be-
gan beating his wings in time to the
music. The macaw bent himself al
most double across his rod or bar and
distended his body in rhythmic mo-
lions to the dance music that was be-
ing played. Then he tried his skill at
singing. He listened attentively, with
his head bent on one side, until he dis
covered that the simple tune that was
being played was in regular measures,
and then he undertook to express his
musical appreciation by butting in
with chorus at the end of each line.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
DRINKERS ARE NOT WANTED
Activity Of Railroads in Promoting
Total Abstinence Among En-
pIoyes Is illustrated.

The following instance illustrates
the activity of railroads in looking
after the observance of the total alb
stinence rule: An official of a western
railroad suddenly appeared in the
yards of the road in an Illinois town
and began an examination, commenc-
ing on the engineer.
Lets smell your BREATH" he said.
He shifted and declared the engineer
had been drinking.
Sure" replied the engineer. 81
have had four or five BEERS
go home" the official told him.
1--WE don't want men to so to work If
they have had liquor to drink. If ten
drinks make a man drunk, one drink
makes him one-tenth drunk"
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
AWFUL RESULTS OF LIQUOR
Moral Enemy of Peace and Order, and
Despoiler Of Men and Cloud
That Shadows Faces.

Tonight 1t enters a humble home
to strike the roses from woman's
cheeks and tomorrow it challenges
this republic in the halls of congress.
Today it strikes crust from the
lips of starving child and tomorrow
levies tribute from the government
Itself
There is no cottage humble enough
to escape 1t; no palace strong enough
to shut It out.
1t defies the law when it cannot co
cree suffrage.
1t is flexible to cajole but merciless
In victory.
1t is the moral enemy of peace and
order, the despoiler Of men and ter
ror of women, the cloud that shad-
ows the face of children, the demon
that has dug more graves and sent
more souls unshrived to judgment
than all pestilences that have wasted
life since God sent the plaques to
Egypt and all the wars since Joshua
stood before Jericho.
1t comes to ruin, and it shall profit
mainly by the ruin of your sons and
mine.
1t comes to mislead human souls
and to crush human hearts under its
rumbling wheels.
1t comes to bring gray-haired moth
ers down in shame and sorrow to
their graves.
1t comes to change the wife's love
into despair and her pride into shame.
1t comes to still the laughter on
the lips Of little children.
1t comes to ruin your body and
mind, to wreck your home, and it
knows 1t must measure its prosperity
by the swiftness and certainty with
which it wrecks this world-Henry W.
Grady
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30

When 10000 persons spend $500, 600
for liquor, only $500 goes to labor.
and only $25,200 to the farmer. If the
money was spent for shoes, clothing.
food, furniture, ard building of new
homes. over $4,000 would go to labor.
and over 100000 to the farmer or
miner. and a great proportion of this
money would again come back to labor
through the purchase of more shoes,
clothing, furniture. hardware, farm
machinery. etc.--Kennebec (Me.)
Journal
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
GETTING RID OF
LAYING WORKERS
Plan Given as Result of Many
Experiments in the Past
Two or Three Years.

It Is not difficult to cure colony OF
laying workers If they are taken soon
after they have begun their work
, that is, within four or FIVE days after
the first eggs have appeared. If a
couple of frames of young brood, with
the adhering bees, are given, queen
cells will almost invariably be started.
1t is well not to allow these to hatch,
for the queen will almost certainly be
inferior, so they may be replaced
after two or three days by ripe cell.
A queen will often be accepted at this
stage, but l have found Introduction
risky.
But when the laying workers have
been allowed to go for ten days or
more, so that the combs are filled
with drone brood in all sorts of scat
tering stages, a cure may be said to
be impossible. so far as making the
colony Of any use within reasonable
time Under these circumstances the
bees will seldom accept a. queen if
offered in any usual way, and the
combs are too full Of worthless brood
any way to allow queen to lay.
The result of good many expert
ments In the past two years has led
me to fix on the following plan, which
has never yet failed me- A two-frame
nucleus is made from normal colony
and a queen introduced, or a very
weak colony may be used instead of
this nucleus, if there Is one which
needs Strengthening. The laying
worker colony is set on bee-escape
board over the nucleus. That Is ALL
In the course of four or five days,
four-fifths of the abnormal bees will
have gone down, one by one, and wiz
have united themselves quietly with
the nucleus. The few bees left above
1 have always fancied to be the laying
workers themselves; but they do no
harm If knocked out on the grass.
The sealed drone brood is then un-
capped. and left to chill over night
1t may then be given back to the
bees. which will clean out the dead
larvae.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
MAcAW is LOVER OF MUSIC
On Hearing Gramophone Beautiful
Bird Gives conv1lslve Start and
Then Begins Cake Walk.

Most of the birds in the aviary at
the New York zoo took no interest in
the gramophone. but there was a big
macaw. a beautiful creature, dressed
In blue, who went crazy with the first
note AS soon as it sounded the ma
cav gave convulsive start, and then
began to dance about his cage. This
expression of his emotions was too
limited. and he few to the bar that
stretches across his cage and began
cake walk. There was no mistake
about lit was cake walk. The
music lent itself to that form of
dance. and the macaw lifted his feet
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
Smallest Inhabited Island.

The English island on which the
Eddystone lighthouse stands is the
smallest inhabited island in the world
At low water it is thirty feet in diam
eter; at high water the lighthouse,
whose diameter at the base is 26A
feet, completely covers it. 1t is in
habited by three persons. It lies nine
miles OF the Cornish coast and four
teen miles southwest Of Plymouth
breakwater. Flatholme, an island In
the Bristol channel, is only a mile
and O. half in circumference, but, con-
sistlng mostly of rich pasture land,
supports farmhouse, besides the
lighthouse, with revolving light 156
feet above the sea.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
farm Help.

The reason some farmers cannot
afford to keep a hired man is because
they do not know how to manage
seen farmers with only 20 acres, who
kept two hired men all the season
and one the year around.
Then / have seen men who owned
100 acres who could not afford to
keep one. It's all In knowing how to
make the soil give up every dollar of
profit there is In it. It's poor farm
er who cannot pay a man $50 month
and make dollar day profit from
his work. Some of them make three
or four times as much
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
Best Time 70 Sell.

It is generally conceded that the
best time to sell chickens Is from the
first of January to the first of Novem-
Der. Everyone seems to want to sell
during November and December, and
consequently the market is always
overstocked at that time. Sprague
says if possible chickens should be
marketed before the first of, Noyem-
Der, and if not they should be held un-
til after the holiday in order that the
best prices may be secured. This,
of course. refers ONLY to sending to an
open market, and does not apply to
any private custom
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
Little Unseen Workers.

Earthworms have special duty,
and they perform it.. The numberless
millions of them scattered far and
wide, unseen and so obscure They
have created all the loan and all the
arabic Land of the whole globe. They
pass through their bodies the fallen
leaves and decaying vegetable matter
and by their labor render cultivation
and harvesting possible. When one
kills an earthworm an agricultural Ia
borer Of the most respectable class is
destroyed.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
His Manifold Aspeet.

Small Boy-Mummy, is it really true
that the devil has horns and club
foot?
The Mother-Ah, my dear, some
times the devil appears in the shape
of a very handsome and charming
young man.
Small Boy (pityingly) --Oh. mummy!
you're thinking of Cupid.-London
Punch.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
DEVICE HELPS IN SWIMMING
Paddle Attachment for Hands Aids
Swimmer In Getting Over Water
BLADE Is Slightly Curved.

A paddle attachment for the hands.
designed as an aid for swimmers, is
shown in the illustration. The blade
or paddle is attached to the wrist by
flexible strap and to the third and
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
RaIIoon-supported Swing.

tened to anchors. The swinging mo-
ton is produced by propellers fitted
to the car, and the car can move in
curves within the same space inclosed
by the anchor ropes. To permit pas
sengers to enter the car, the balloons
are pulled down by means of the CEN
trail cable. which is wound up on a
drum.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
A Time-saver.

Where a sufficient amount of ma
nure collects around the stalls in one
night to form a fair load, much time.
labor and fertilizing juices win be
saved by hauling It out to the fields
every morning.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30

T h o u g h L OF
lived in the dawn
of human history
and in a far-away
land, he is a mod
ern character and
seems like a citi-
zen of our own
community, so
frequently do we
meet men of sim
liar character and
conduct. He es-
teemed silver OF
more value than
a soul, and the
variety and ex-
citement Of life in
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
Temmy,s ImpendIna promotIon.

well, Tommy" said the father of
a six-year-old youngster: how are you
Citing along at school?"
"Bu,ly!' rejoined Tommy. Guess
the teacher is going to promote me-
"sWhat makes you think SOL"
"She said today that if kept on at
the rate was going I'd soon be in the
criminal class" explained Tommy.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
BALLOONS SUPPORTED SWING
ingenious Device, Patented in Eng
land and Germany, Has Car Sus-
pended From Huge Bags.

This ingenious swing. recently pat
ented in England and Germany, has a
car suspended from two balloons,
which are held captive by ropes fas-
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30

TEXTS it not little one?-4aenesis
1920.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-30
Swimming Device.

fourth fingers by means of flaps. The
blade is slightly curved longitudinally
in order to conform with the outline
of the palm.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-19
VIEWPOINTS
Is IT Really This Bad!

Editor the Missourian:-A son or
daughter intoxicated with the tango
is no better than a father Intoxicated
with liquor" declared Kansas City,
Kan, pastor recently in an arraign-
ment of the new dances. The police
department of that city will soon
view an exhibition of the tango, the
hesitation, the one-step and other
dances by professionals in an effort to
determine whether the dances shall
be permitted in the city.
The dances seem to be getting bold
er and bolder each year. Last year
the first simple steps of the tango
were introduced in this part of the
country with much fear and trembling.
The enthusiasts, seeing that the public
half-heartedly countenanced this
dance, grew bolder until now, to cap
the climax, comes the hesitation,
which is usually danced in such way
that on-lookers may well say, He
who hesitates is lost" c. F. NJ.