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The Washington herald., 1913-09-14
Big Chance for Bright Lad.

With all the discussion and development
Of the new and intensely interesting subject
is the ever recurring question. where will
the requisite army of advisers come from ?
II will require approximately 3OOO OF these
skilled demonstrators to cover the entire
country. The original draft has been made
on agricultural college professors who have
been induced. more through the realization
OF the splendid opportunity and responsible
ity than the allurement of increased finan-
cial emolument to respond to the calls Of
communities that have seen the light and
engaged in the work in their respective To-
calitIes.
Great Industrial organizations have entered
the field, the department Of agriculture has
a small corps OF advisers doing good work
in their naturally limited capacity many
local organizations, augmented by nRtiona!
and state bodies, are increasing in number
and Importance. and the efforts to secure the
legislation for a nationwide and standard
public service system give promise of sue
cess. but the fact remains that the requisite
supply Of advisers is one of the most i'm
portant items in the entire question.
The bright lad who qualities for such work
can now command in his first years after
full preparation better pay than comes to
the newly fedged engineer or doctor or law
yer. He doesn't live upon the weaknesses
or foiles or misfOrtunes OF his fellow man.
His work is in the open. healthful whole
some and productive. He makes his own
way. He has the inspiration Of benefiting
his fellows and leaves society better each
night for his days work.
1t is one OF the brightest most ambitious
outlooks for the youth Of the land. As he
STARTS out. with an income Of s., 800 or S3.UOO
a year. he becomes Immediately vital fac
tor in the development and advancement
Of his community, and it is up to him to work
out this process Many Of the graduates Of
the agricultural college will return to their
homes to take up the work and prove to the
generations before them the truth of the
new-old science on the fields of their fore
fathers. Hence the opportunity remains for
public or professional service for the many
who will prepare for the new vocation.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-14

There were aO,oS9 applications for patents
in the United Kingdom last year, as COM
pared with 1888 the previous year.
A new German patent law protects citi-
zens of the empire even II they do not have a
residence or establishment in the fatherland
A suction cup base is provided with a new
portable electric lamp so It can be used any
where there is a smooth surface to which the
cup will cling.
Finger nails are shaped automatically by
& California inventors file which Is mount.
ed on frame TO be slipped over a finger,
the frame controlling the movement
Resembling a pair OF pliers is an Illinois
inventors implement for quickly fastening
twine around parcels by clampIng the ends
together.
A novel attachment for women's hand bags
holds four nickels so they may be quickly
withdrawn when its user boards a pay on
entering street car.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-14

n NEW vocation, a new occupation, dig
~ nified. limitless in opportunity, splen-
TSfd in achievement, comparatively easy
Aof access, opens to the youth OF the
United States: Skilled farm adviser!
The title conveys little Of the responsible
ity. the ambitious effort, the benefits to So
ciety, to those unversed in the economic
affairs and process OF natural evolution OF
the nation. yet It represents one of the most
vitality important subjects under discussion
by leading thinkers and doers of the gen.
Grafton. 1t opens a vista of magnificent en-
deavor. II means an active participation in
the preservation and development of the
worlds fundamental commodity. food.
The skilled farm adviser. a practically
recent product Of scientific and common
sense demand, Is already in his place among
the essential factors in modern life and eco
nomic advancement, and already is the de-
mand far in excess of the supply
With the turn Of attention 10 the necessity
for improved methods OF American tarmIng,
emphasized by direct comparison with the
wonderful advancement of quantity and
quality with less effort wherever the scien-
tific principles have been applied abroad and
at home many organizations, Industrial
bodies. and general welfare sseking indiv!G-
uals have set in motion different forms Of
machinery 10 bring the practice of better
farming to the attention of the agricultural
community and the individual farmer.
In all directions the work has proceeded
with a substantial degree of enthusiasm that
bespeaEs permanency and perpetuity a.
though there is no common standard On
the latter requirement an organization is
actively and continuously engaged, in pro-
noting legislation by which the federal and
STATE governments will cooperate in estab-
fishing a service ror the maintenance Of a
skilled farm adviser in every agricultural
county in the United States
The Washington herald., 1913-09-14
Products of Inventors Genius.

For handling garbage in cities there has
been invented a self-loading wagon, gar
hage dumped into e hopper low in the rear
Icing lifted into the body OF the wagon by
a belt conveyer.
For heating shaving water in a cup in a
minute there has been invented a resistance
coil. taking electricity through a cord from
a light socket
A patent has been granted to cover the
manufacture Of dog biscuit in the shape OF
bones.
To keep dust out Of the eyes and nose a
silk gauze face shield for motorists has been
invented.
\ trap TO catch rats as they try to enter
a ship by climbing a hawser as 1t is moored
in port has been invented.
a household novelty is a litter for remov-
ng fruit jars from high shelves.
Horseshoos attached by bolts around the
hooc har. been patented in England.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-14
Foreign Butchers Superior.

Porc!Eu butchers are much more careful
yo-ILmen than are our domestic butchers
They strip a hide from a steer with great ac-
.uraCy and get the greatest possible surface
roe from blemishes. And the cost Of the i'm
"Iicc hide is not much more than those OBJ
taiUah.e here. The foreign butchers also
.nW their superiority over the domestic
rI.chers by the way in which they do up their
riCes fOr expectation. Their bundles are
" raped with the flesh side out. which is the
Z. ores part Of the hide. The American hides
g~e all bundled up with the hair side out The
p Hsequence is that when they come in con-
Ic; with sharp points the choice side Of the
ides IS damaged. Some of our hides also are
purchased from the various domestic packing
. uses.
iI.Ges are split on Two machines made for
hat purpose. One is known as the old style
".on machine. which consists Of station
3. l knife, the hide being forced up against
is knife and drawn through the machine by
.rd. II takes several men to split a hide in
is manner. because OF the irregular shape
TO- the hide. The hide is pulled through for
lew inches. the machine then started up
again for the purpose of cutting few inches
This process is followed until the complete
Ice mas Detn spit ] MS IS a SLOW Dut aDSO-
r,eIv accurate method of cutting the leather.
ro- the hide may be split until the thicknesses
ave no heavier thar a sheet Of tissue paper.
The other splitting machine is known as the
Iooper machine. consisting of heavy iron
-r..ers set in a frame AS the hide passes be
tween the rollers is comes in contact with
s;eeI belt kniEe, and the hide IS split just .
as; As it passes through the rollers From
. zen TO fifteen hides may be split on the
Hooper machine 10 one on the old union ma
The Washington herald., 1913-09-14
Tanning Hides Lucrative Trade;
Big inducements to Young Man.
By E. R. BURLEY.
,Hss;e-n Manager P. REILLY & son.I

with extract taken from bark, remaining
in each vat a certain length Of time. First
the hair and the loose flesh on the flesh
side are taken of. We use the old oak bark
process, which takes about three months for
the hide to go through the numerous treat
ments before it is ready for the market.
Before the green hide comes out OF the tan
merry as finished product, ready for COM
mercial purposes, ninety days must be con-
sumed.
Leather is sold on sixty day terms. It will
therefore, be seen that the independen: tan
ner must have big cash fund in order TO
operate a ;annery, for his money is tied up
in hides for something like five months be-
fore he begins to get returns. All this
heavy overhead expense makes the tanner
anxious for the time to come when some in
ventor will discover a chemical process that
will tan leather in a much shorter time than
II now is possible to tan il in. but the solution
of the problem seems as far of today as
il ever was
The Washington herald., 1913-09-14
Must Reach Individual Farmer.

The science Of agriculture is not new: its ac-
ceptabilIty and application are modern.
Statistics and demonstration have proven
-nat in Europe and the United States side by
side with soil, atmospheric. natural, and aid
ed conditions. the adoption of " book farm
ing methods has returned to the impover-
ished soil its original vitality. increased the
production from 10 TO 100 per cent. decreased
the cost of production in energy and money,
and given assurance OF sta bility and endur-
ance beyond the fondest hopes OF the farmer
himself
In this country the department Of agricuI-
ture. state agricultural college state expert
ment STATION, demonstration trains. Iyceum
and institute lectures bulletin services, and
The Washington herald., 1913-09-14
Borrowed, to Pay OFF Mortgage.

We had only STOO when the mortgage fell
due. paid it by borrowing sos on my note
at Der cent. How We rejoiced when We
burned the note a year later! Had it not
baen that my wages were increased to SIS
The Washington herald., 1913-09-14

I,A-.rl.:, ranu-lg. ~ reason Of the ex-
! cep,.cSaiiy high T"aEes paid. offers big
! Inducements to the young man who
- IS casting about fo2 q lucrative trade.
.slc:llsH ta-rnsrs and grniners always
are II demand. &c order. however. to reach
las degree O. ski! called for. the young man
mast raal:c ip ;,:s Clind that ne will apply
nirasolE without :aRr Of the cxactiors Of sew
@Tsl JeaTs before ne may qualify. He must
first begin as common la5orer al laborer's 5
Yyages II ne is built Of the sterner stuff he
viii fms 4 certain fascination about the
:-ork.
The making o. pstaD, ard enameled leather
= carried on IN Pennsylvania and Ohio. but
=: vzSs in Newark n J.. that the industry
o.igina:el and it js there where one will
i.1d the real headquarters. There are some
thing like thirty-n.ght tanneries in this one
city. Indians were tanning hides at Newark
in the pools and streams when the first white
people settled there.
1t is not geEeral'y known that in the manu-
facture of high grade patent and enamcled
feathers. for Use in automobiles. upholstery.
and various other article. steer hides-called
cattle hides in the trade-are almost excIu-
sivcly used. The finer grades Of these leath-
"rs are made from European hides. The Ger
man hide has the preference over all 9TH
ars. but it is not always possible to obtain
them in large quantities French hides and
Russian hides are about on par with those
that come from Germany: Spain and Norway
furnish hides Of good quality. There is
something in the climate of these countries
that gives the hides peculiarly fine texture.
Also. the barbed wire fence is an unknown
quantity in these countries.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-14

YER 1000. 10000 tin cans are thrown
away every year. Once used they are
put in the garbage cans by the thrifty
housewives and ultimately find their
The Washington herald., 1913-09-14

n NEW vocation, a new occupation, dig
~ nified. limitless in opportunity. splen-
TGdd in achievement, comparatively easy
Aof access, opens to the youth of the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-14
Convent Wrecked,
Many Killed.

\ convent several blocks beyond the
national palace was struck by shell
while Il number Of nuns ana children
were at prayer Many Of them were
killed
Special religious services were held IN
many churches for peace, but so furious
was the cannonade that the voices Of
the worshippers could not be heard.
The rebels began Smelling the federal
batteries placed near the British con-
suate and shells began ripping up the
streets about that building. The Union
Jack was hit by a bursting shell. Dia2
issued orders to his men not to recog-
nize the Red Cross or White Cross flags,
declaring that federal spies were using
them to get information. The wounded
can not be cared for
Madero is said to have formed a dy-
uanity squad to blow up all buildings
in the nc1rt Of the city in the three
blocks surrounding the ARSENAL SO tbac
the redcrals VIII have clear path for
tneir artillery.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-14
WIZ { PHONES FOR
|. AID AS HUSBAND
FIGHTS YECG
Wife of DahIonega Bank Pres.
ident Operates Telephone in
Summoning Posse.

DAHLONEGA, GA, Feb. 14-With
his wife at the telephone exchange
switchboard summoning a posse to his
aid, R. c. Meadors, president of the
Bank Of Lumpkin, aided by Sheriff
Thomas Ray, OF Lumpkin county, bat
tied in the darkness here at an early
hour today with a gang of safe blow
ers, attempting to rob the bank. Fully
IS shots were exchanged The robbers
escaped, but without any booty.
About l o'clock, Cleveland Duncan,
roOming over a store near the bank,
was aroused by three distinct explo-
sions. He went TO a porch overlook
ing the bank TO ascertain the cause.
AS he stepped out OF the doorway, the
lookout for the robbers fired at him and
ordered him TO get inside and keep
quiet.
Duncan CROPPED about in the darkness
to telephone reused the exchange OPP
orator and called President Meadors
and Sheriff Ray. They hurried to the
bank, while Mrs. Meadors rushed to
the telephone exchange near by.
As Meadors and Ray approached the
bank, the robbers began firing on them
They returned the fire.
In the meantime Mrs. Meadors had
taken charge OF the telephone switch
board and began calling UP the men Of
the town to her husbands aid As the
posse began TO gather the robbers fed.
The yeggmen. before beginning OPP
erations at the bank, cut the electric
light wires around the public square,
and the battle that followed was fought
in darkness.
The explosions that reused Duncan
wrecked the heavy outside door and one
OF the inner doors Of the bank safe.
Duncans timely alarm prevented them
blowing the second inner door to the
money box.
Thus far there has been no trace
found of the robbers.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-14
WHOLESALE ARRESTS
LIKELY IN w. VIRGINIA
SENATORIAL SCANDAL

CHARLESTON. w. VA, Feb. IA
Wholesale arrests of lobbyists and po-
litical workers are expected to follow
the meeting of the special grand jury
called for today by Judge Henry K.
Black TO investigate the charges OF
bribery In connection with the election
of United States senator.
Prosecutor Townsend will present all
the evidence he has been gathering the
past three months not only against the
five legislators under arrest, but against
others said to have been under surveil-
lance Of Burns detectives.
Colonel William Seymour Edwards
today asked for an immediate investi-
CATION by the special grand jury of the
charges of bribery made against him by
Delegate Smith.
Sensational rumors and charges are
flying thick and fast about the state
capitol. Delegate George VanMeter of
Grant county, charges the Burns de-
tectives have forced brides. One man,
he declares, thrust $3.50 in his hand,
which he gave the attorney general.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-14
BAPTIST PREACHER
GRANTED DIVORCE
BY COURT IN MACON

MACON GA, Feb. 14.-Rev. L. T.
Moore a Baptist minister, was last
night granted the final decree in his
divorce suit, which he brought year
ago against his wife. Mrs. Gertrude
Moore. now OF Clio, Ala. Previously
Mrs. Moore stubbornly resisted the
suit but last night she offered no de-
Tense and allowed her husband to OBJ
tain the second verdict
The specific charges were infidelity
and the sworn statement Of j. T. Hall,
the man in the case" was the evidence
upon which the jury acted. Hall made
his deposition at the earnest request of
Rev. Mr. Moore. who said he had for
given Hall for coming between him and
his wife believing that the latter was
altogether to blame. Moore was award
ed the two children.
The case was taken up at special
night session.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-14
FIGHT STILL RACES;
u. S. READY, WAITS
Late Developments
In Mexican Situation

Daz rejects early morning ultima
tum from Madero to surrenderI can
nonading Is resumed in the streets Of
Mexico City.
President Taft calls cabinet to can
Vass the situation, later announcing he
Will hold the order for intervention
until reports are received of "unciv-
lized warfare"
The navy department at Washing
ton announces that marines can be
landed In Mexico within an hour
Madero's defense 10 reported by Am
bassador Wilson to be weakening.
The national palace, Madero's head
quarters, is struck and fired by rebel
shells and partially burned. The
American club Ia demolished
a shell strikes convent beyond the
national palace while nuns and chill
dren are at prayer and explodes, XIII
ing many.
Diaz orders his men not to recognize
Red Cross or White Cross flags be-
cause federal spies are using them.
Madero is said to have organized
dynamite squad TO blow up all build
ings about the arsenal, the rebel
stronghold, so his guns may have a
clean sweep at the arsenal
Diaz sentiment is reported gaining
in the rural districts.
The suggestion of John Barrett, Of
the Pan American union, for media
ton, is declined by the American state
department.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-14
Diaz Rejects Madero's
Ultimatum to Sur
render and Duel Is
r enc we'd National
Palace Fired by Shell
and Damaged.

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 14.-War
still RACES in Mexico City. After
the rebel leader. Colonel Felix
Diaz, had rejected an ultimatum
from President Madero, the artil-
lery duel was renewed i'll all it's
fury shortly after sunrise today.
The answer of the msTgent lead
err to MaderO S demand for sur
render was a volley from his
heaviest guns. directed toward
the national palace.
At 1850 the federals made sortie
against the arsenal and fierce hand-to-
hand fighting ensued in the streets, in
which many were killed In that hour
the bombardment had ceased, but a
heavy fire was kept up from small arms
and machine guns.
At $50 O'Clock the cannonade was
begun and shells were again dropping
near the cable office The commercial
center was the object of a shattering
fire
White Cross and Red Cross doctors
and nurses estimated that 1000 soldiers
and non combatants had been killed or
wounded in the fighting Thursday and
Thursday night, --
Two federal batteries OF ten guns had
been placed in position near the British
consulate and a constant stream OF
shells was falling around the American
club, which was in the line Of fire. An
other battery of three guns in Canine
San Juan de Letran, was hurting it's
shells toward the arsenal, but the aim
of the gunners was bad and many pro-
jecttles fell upon private property
Colonel Diaz claimed to be winning
and ordered his men to make today's
bombardment against the federal works
the heaviest In the six days engage
ment,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-14
SU|('|[)ECHA|N
DRIVES BOY
FAILURE To
POISON
Mental Suggestion of Mother
and Others Who Tried to End
Lives Impels Lad to Deed.
REPENTS AS HE SUFFERS
ON A COT IN HOSPITAL

With a slender arm thrown across
his face to keep the sunlight out of his
pale blue eyes. Roy Thomas, a four
teen-year- old youngster, lay on a white
cot at the Grady hospital today repent
ing with trembling lips of an attempt
to take his life with draught of wood
alcohol.
Disheartened and without work, young
Thomas, a country boy alone in Allan
ia, surrendered to fate at o'clock last
night. walked into a drug store at
Whitehall and Mitchell street, bought a
pint of wood alcohol and drained a
goodly quantity mixed In a glass OF
milk.
AS he was picked up unconscious
from the floor of the druggists shop a
tattered red diary relating, in an un-
certain grammar school scrawl, the in
cidents of his little tragedy was found
clasped in his hands.
Il am complete failure. There Is
no need of causing my grandmother
and my folks any more trouble the
| lad had written ~ want to go where
| mamma went a year ago. I'll be better
off there
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-14

This morning, with the sunlight
streaming into the cool, white ward at
the Grady hospital, things seemed
brighter to young Thomas He had re
pented Of his act and unwittingly as
signed mental suggestion as the mo-
tive
We'll. I'll tell you all about it, if you
can make the nurse bring me a choc-
olate milk" he said, 81 just got to
thinking of how my mother, who is
dead, tried TO kill herself five years
ago, and of how easy it was for a
drunkard | knew back in the country
to drink too much wood alcohol and
die. / had read of other suicides-a
chain of tbem-and as l thought them
all over, they seemed to pull me on to-
ward an easy way out of it all.
81 was pretty tired Of everything in
Atlanta, and / was all alone, and Tues
day was sick in bed. l just got to
studying about how easy it would be
for me to take the alcohol like that man
did back in Norcross and forget about
everything"
The corners Of the boys mouth trem-
Dled perceptibly as he told Of his moth
ers act and his eyes grew big-big
for little blue eyes-as he dilated upon
the easy manner in which the town
drunkard went to his last sleep with an
overdose of the drug that had wrecked
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-14
PUT YOUR OVERCOAT
AWAY; WEATHER MAN
CHASES "JACK FROST"

Fair weather. with a rising tempera-
ture for the next few days, is promised
Atlanta at the local Office of the United
states weather bureau today. The tenn
porature this morning was IS, and will
be 80 tomorrow morning.
Nothing but fair weather is i'll sight
for Atlanta, and with the cold wave in
the Northwest entirely gone, and no
temperatures below zero in the United
states this morning, there is very lit
tie chance for cold weather here the
balance of the winter.
Overcoats should be taboo in Atlanta
by Sunday
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-14
Lull in Fighting
While Fighters Eat.

The federal troops are becoming dis
heartened. Part OF the national palace
has been destroyed by fire.
At 8 o'clock there was a hull in the
firing, but IT was resumed shortly aft
erward. The gunners took advantage
Of the respite to eat their dry bread and
coffee.
Federals attempted early today to
mount machine guns on the roof Of the
Toluca Brewing Company's plant at the
western end Of the Rincolada de San
Diego. The German manager OF the
brewery FASTENED to the roof and nailed
a German flag TO n pole. The German
declared he would shoot the first soldier
who mounted to the roof and awed the
soldiers by telling them that Germany
would intervene if he We're killed. The
soldiers retreated.
Neither side respected the rules Of
civilized warfare. Foreigners and for
eign property were subjected to the fire
as well as the combatants. At 9:15
o'clock the fighting had reached its
highest pitch and shells were being
hurled from at least half dozen direc-
lions
Despite reports that the Zapatist
army Of Morelos is In sympathy with
Diaz. only a few hundred OF the insur-
gents have entered the city.
The federal minister of war sent n
note to Diaz at $3.50 o'clock telling him
that his conduct was in violation Of all
rules OF war and that he and his men
might expect no quarter. Diaz was In
formed that shells from his guns We're
endangeriug the foreign Cousulatcs.