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The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-22
Sporting Notes.

1t is estimated that 100000 a year
is spent in wages to professional foot
ballers in Great Britain.
Wilbert Robinson has been engaged
by McGraw for 1913 to teach the Giant
pitching students how to shoot.
II. A. Fl. Baker of Princeton univer-
slty. Familiarity known as "Hobey," has
been elected captain of the Tiger foot
ball team Tor next year.
Manager Fred Clarke of the Pirates
has declared himself as agreeable to
arranging an anteseason series OF
games with the Boston Red Sox In the
training camp at Hot Springs, Ark,
next spring
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-22
Founder of the Japanese Navv.

The founder OF the japanese navy
was an Englishman named Will Ad-
ans, who went to the eastern seas as
pilot of Dutch fleet in 1898 and was
cast away in Japan couple of years
later. He became a Japanese noble
and constructor of the navy to the
tycoon. but was never allowed to re
turn to England. He died about TWEEN
" years afterward, very ingeniously
leaving half his property to his wife
and family in England and half his
property to his wife and family in ia
pan. After his death he was deided.-
Exchange.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-22
FURY OF A SPIDER.
An Insect Tragedy as Seen Through
Magnifying Glass.

Magnifying Glass.
One day, rumaging in an old desk. |
found a magnifying glass. 1t was
September. and In a sunny, weed rid
den corner of the garden had dis
covered a big black and gold spider
who had strung her web between two
tall burdocks and was doing thriving
business in grasshoppers.
Seated on the ground. l now sur
veyed her through the glass for an
hour as she hung in the middle of her
engine of destruction. When | touch
ed the net with my finger she swung
frantically to and fro. prompted doubt
less by some instinct Of self preserva
ton. but otherwise was as motionless
as if carved in jet.
Grasshoppers were not very plenti
full as yet but at last a large green
fellow flew plump into the tolls, the
spines on his legs that had so often dis
coursed sweet music becoming entan-
gled. Instantly the crafty spider was
all alive. Darling upon her victim.
she took her station above him. and,
hanging by two legs. seized him in her
other six and rolled him round and
round unswathing him in band of
silver silk until he was as helpless as
mummy. and then she bit him in q
dozen places with fangs oozing with
poison.
At the spectacle of her evil eyes
glittering with the lust of killing. mag
nifed as they were by the glass,
turned sick and rolled over on my
face among the weeds and lay for .
long time miserably inert.-AtlantiC
Monthly.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-22
Current Comment.

1t takes a long time to make the rail
roads blunderproof.-C Chicago News.
Information as to Stock Exchange
methods CLEANED by the Pujo commit
tee strengthens the opinion that a re
form is about due.-New York Ameri
can.
Strict fire supervision in the public
schools is fine. Why not also exercise
strict supervision In the other class of
buildings which burn, with loss of life.
occasionally ?-St. Louis Times.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-22
Education Notes.

Two-thirds of the high schools In the
United States now have complete four
year courses.
A compulsory school attendance law
for Alaska is urged by DR.. p. p. Clax-
ton. United States commissioners of ed
ucation, who has charge Of the schools
for natives in the territory.
OF 81. pa school children recently ex-
amined by medical inspectors in a
large city school system only 2S.721
were free from physical defect. the re-
naming 53.503 were found physically
defective in one or more particulars.
Separate schools are necessary fol-
the proper solution of the vocational
school problem in the United States,
according to Edwin G.. Cooley of Chi
cago. special investigator of vocational
education. These schools. says Mr..
Cooley. must not be regarded as sub.
stitutes for the present schools, but as
supplementary to them.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-22
slREs AND SONS.

Maxim Gorky IS now living quietly
in Capri.
DR.. Percival Barton. at ninety. is
still able to. practice medicine In st.
Paul.
.Gustaf Dalen. winner of the Nobel
prize for physics. just awarded. is a
Swiss engineer. He is head of the
Stockholm Gas company.
During his recent stay at Balmoral
Major General Sir Rudolf Baron Won
Slatin Pasha, inspector general of the
Sudan. had the grand cross of the
Victorian order conferred on him per-
sonally by King George.
Senior Alvarode de Romanones. the
new prime minister of Spain, differs
In one respect from the majority of his
countrymen. He finds no pleasure in
the national sport of bullfghting. but
is devoted to horse racing.
Colonel William c. Gorgas. whose
wonderful work banished the deadly
yellow fever from Havana and the
Panama canal zone. has been honored
by tue hoydI SOSitty VI oieol bIilaih
through its award of the Buchanan
medal TO him.
Frederick Warner Carpenter, newly
appointed United States minister to
Siam, is a Californian by birth, and in
the earlier years of his career practiced
law in the state. He was private sec
rotary to President Taft during the
latter's term as governor of the Philip
pines. He was appointed in 1910 to
Tangier, his first diplomatic post.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-22
What is PRAYED For.

An old darkey who was asked if in
his experience prayer was ever an
swered. replied: Well, sab, some
pra'rs is ansud an some isn't-'pends
on what yo' asks TO. Jest arter de
wah. Wen it was mighty hard scratch
IN TO de culled brudren, 'hsarved
dat w'enebber | pway de Lo'd to sen
one o Massa PeytoR's fat turkeys TO-
de ole man. dere was no notice took
OBJ de partition; but wen | pway dat
he would sen de old man TO de tur-
key, de ting was tended to befo'
sunup mex mornin dead sartin
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-22
USE os VIC CT WHOA.
Where Grammar Sunks Up Against
ldicrr and Gets q Jolt.


ldiom and Gets Jolt.
The employment Of the nominative
who for the accusative In certain
forms of Interrogation has become so
Embedded IN common usage that re-
sort, even now. to the strictly orthodox
practice frequently requires. on the
part of educated men, positive effort or
prolonged training. 1t somehow does
not seem natural In the past assured
fy this nominative form. where precise
grammar would require the accusa
tive. turns up with almost invariable
regularity in works which set out to
represent colloqulal speech.
WHO Is it FROM says the mother
in Jane Austen's Pride and Preju-
dice to her daughter. who has just
received a letter WHO is it likegf
says the heroine of "Jane Eyre" to st
John Rivers as she shows him the
picture of Rosamund Oliver. Such ex-
amples could be multiplied by hun
dreds. There are cases, indeed. when
the use of whom" would strike upon
the ears of most Of US as painfully
pedantic.
"Who the devil is he talking tor
says Sir Lucius 0'Trigger in Sherl
dams Rivals" as he notices Captain
Absolute soliloquizing. To tolerate
'swhom" In place of who" in such a
sentence as the last would require the
speaker to be so thoroughly stepped in
grammar that the sense of traditional
usage. which has been hardening into
overcome. That height of linguistic
virtue few of us there are who attain.
Thomas r. Lounsbury in Harper's
| Magazine.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-22
Fashion FriIls.

A lovely woman is dangerous, but not
so dangerous as her hatpin.-Charleston
News and Courier.
'Women's dresses are to become
tighter" Roller skates next and boy
behind to push.-Harvard independent
The Balkan bonnet and the pyramid
skirt are the latest fntimation that
New York women are keeping in touch
with foreign events.-New York World
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-22
Some Bio Numbers.

If you fill a tiny vessel one cenume-
ter cube with hydrogen corpuscles you
can place therein. in round numbers.
five hundred and twenty-five octu ions
Of them. If these corpuscles are allow
ed to run out of the vessel at the rate
Of 1000 per second it will require sew
enteen quintilhons Of years to ernpry it,.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-22
One of the Wavs

Who was that seedy individual ]
saw you give a dollar to-"
An old literary friend Of Ulae. au-
thor Of Ten Thousand Ways q 1lah
ing Money"
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-22
Mind and Matter.

Teacher-Is there any connection he
tween mind and matter? Small Boy
Yes; If boy doesn't mind therell be
something the matter.-Chicago News.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-22
Not on Him.

"Y our ia c @
9 e e m S familiar,
but / can't recall
ever meeting you
before"
II don't think
you ever met me. /"
"B ut / can't
get over thinking
l have seen you
before. Maybe l
have seen your
p i C t u re some
where"
but / assure
you / never have
been cured of any
thing"
n q
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-22

what are you using that shovel
for?"
ITO dig with, you ninny."
what are you digging for?"
"Oh. for about twenty minutes
Pittsburgh Press.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-22

Men are born to succeed. not to fail
-Thoreau-
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-22
The Excuse Imaginative.

Fanatic-Why didn't you turn up for
golf on Saturday?
Discriminatory sorry. old chap. 1
was cleaning the eanary's cage when
the little brute kicked me. Such
quiet bird. too. as a rule.-Punch.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-10-02

FOR SALE CHEAP-Attractiv bun
galow with one or 3 u acres, near
high school. Address L. c. B., care
Tidings, or phone 959-R. 7-St*
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-10-02

TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-10-02
OUR COMBINATION
SUBSCRIPTION BARGAINS

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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-10-02
Another Bargain Offer.

The Portland Evening Telegram
daily and Ashland semi-weekly
Tidings, both one year for IS. If
you subscribe before October Is, both
ridings and Evening Telegram free
to January /, 1914.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-10-02
Then Genuine Article.


"Bliggins is true pessimist."
What do you mean by true pes
simist?"
"A man who, when the thermome-
ter is at 80 in the shade. insists on
worrying about the next winters coal
bill. Washington Star.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-10-02
The Boredom of Perfection.

"Well, what was Frau Roths af-
ternoon like yesterday"
"The tea was good, the cake de-
licious, the tablecloths exquisite-in
a word, it bored me to tears. File
gende Blatter.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-10-02

A hand operated machine that
opens clans without endangering it's
users fingers has been patented by
a New Yorker.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-10-02

FOR RENT-Furnished 5-room cot
tage at 303 North Main st. In
quire at 1877 Oak St. 37-tf
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-10-02

FOR SALE-Mutton and breeding
ewes, Duroc-Jersey pigs, breeders
and stockers. Welborn Beeson.
37-4t
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-08-08
bow PATTON
First Shorthand Reporter in
This County is a Visitor
Here from Indiana.

L. Dow Patton, former Clarks-
burger, is visiting relatives in the city
for a few days. Mr.. Patton was born
and reared in Clarksburg but he left
here about thirty years ago and has
not visited here for twenty-seven
years. He is now located at New
Castle, Ind, where he has been acting
as official court reporter for many
years. Mr.. Patton was the first short
hand writer in Harrison county and
the first official shorthand reporter of
Indiana. He became very proficient
and for many years was assigned to
some of the most important cases in
his line, both in Indiana and Illinois.
He ds a son of the late e. w. Patton,
Of this city, and au uncle of the High
land brothers of this city. He has
met many of his old friends and
schoolmates here and expresses great
amazement at the wonderful growth
Of this city since he left here.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-08-08
POST SELLS
His Interest in the Post
Roger Real Estate and In
surance Company.


B. FL Post has sold his interest in
the Post-Reger Company to G. ..
Floyd and James P. Lyman, who have
been connected with the firm for some
time.
The Post-Reger Company was or
ganized and it begun business in May,
1909, with Howard Post, who is still
a member of the firm, and James 2.
Roger, active members and managers
and has enjoyed liberal patronage
Of the lnsuring and real estate pur-
chasing and selling public. They have
been very successful in their line OF
business and have the confidence OF
their patrons.
Mr. Floyd, who Is a graduate Of the
law department. OF the university is a
native of West irginia and gentle
man Of sterling qualities. Mr.. Fly
man is successful business man OF
the city well liked by all who know
him.
Miss Nellie DeNoss, a graduate OF
the West Virginia Business College
who has been stenographer and book
keeper for the company will be re
tained, as well as Mr.. Lucian E. Ward
who has been employed by the com
pany since its organization.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-08-08
DABNEY SMITH
Is Engaged as Stage Director
of the London Hippo
drome for a Year.

Dadney Lee Smith had no idea that
he would sign up a contract for one
year as stage director at the London,
Eng, Hippodrome, after having filled
an engagement for three months.
The other day he told the manage
ment that his contract was almost
through and asked it to arrange for
his return passage. The management
replied by offering him a years con-
tract, which he has accepted.
The Washington times., 1913-09-14
THE PEOPLES MONEY.

The Public Utilities Commission of New Jersey
is entering upon an inquiry that ght we'll be dupli-
Gated in every State in the Union 1t has called upon
ever gas water, and electric in the State for
information concerning the deposits demanded OF
their customers as security for bills.
Precisely why public service corporation, enjoy
ing monopoly, should be permitted to exact cash
bond from its customers assurance that they will
pay their dues to it, has never been clear The
butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker, of
course, would not dare demand payment in advance
for, say, two months bills, because they would
promptly lose their customers, who could 60 to
body else to do their buying Yet that is what the
public service corporation does when it insists on a
deposit of cash before it will turn the gas the
current or the water.
This is simply system of forcing the public to
provide working capital, in large part at least for
carrying the business. Projected to its logical and
reasonable conclusion, this system would be the very
essence of communism. For if every business might
demand of the public deposit, in advance of suf-
hcient cash to provide working capital that would be
in effect the specialization of all business. 1t might
be good plan if everybody would agree on scheme
of paying all bills in ADVANCE for that would elimn
ate the big item Of bad accounts and make it possible
by that amount to reduce the fixed costs of conducting
the business
But in the case of public service concerns there is
no evidence that the community gets any advantage
from its enforced financing of the enterprise. The
corporation seems to reap it all. Think of what a
department proprietor would be willing to pay
for exclusive franchise in town like Washington
under which he would not only have all the trade
assured to him. but would have the public compelled
before it might do business with him. to drop around
to his office and deposit the money with which the
business would be operated If at the end of the
month Mr. Consumer didn't pay his bill, his deposit
would be forfeited But it would be paid, because
Mr.. Consumer couldn't buy anywhere else.
Looked at in this way, the public service corpora
tions monopoly certainly seems to be mighty good
thing for the people who control it. The community
gives it pretty nearly everything it needs to use:
occupation of the communitys real estate, monopoly
in its lne the privilege of collecting bills in ADVANCE
which in effect is equivalent to providing it with
working capital out of the publcs pocket And when
all this is amiaby granted to it, the average public
service corporation is likely to feel outraged if re-
quest is made for detailed statement Of the facts
about its affairs
The Washington times., 1913-09-14
SHORT CORN CROP A DISASTER.

The United States is now so vast farm, with so
many millions of under cultivation in so many
different quarters of different soil and clime that the
lost value of crops which not many years ago would
have been crushing financial blow to the whole
country now be made up by gains in other Sec
tions where droughts do not wither and floods de-
stroy. Thus we have the remarkable agricultural
situation of perhaps loss of three-quarters of bill
lion of bushels of from the crop of last year and
yet, with enormous increases in wheat and some
other products assurance that the total agricu-
tural wealth of the nation for this year will again be
marvel for the world.
Nevertheless, the serious aspect of the corn short
age ought not to be disregarded. Corn direct
food, very important; but also indirect food, still
more important. Corn means beef and pork and
poultry.
American consumers have been groanng under
the high prices of meat products. If those prices
could soar when there was an abundance of corn
last year to feed and fatten animals for this years
market, it is obvious how much higher prices can
60 in the future with supply of corn perhaps three
quarters of a billion of bushels less than in the
bountiful year of 1912
But there is something still worse for the con-
sumer than the immediate of fattening cattle and
swine for the market There is the fact that rather
than face the hazard of going through that expensive
feeding breeders cease to raise the swine and the
cattle There is, therefore, immediate increase Of
prices through the cost of feeding, but there is an
ultimate increase of price, even serious, through
the decreased supply of live stock
That is exactly what has been happening in the
last several years Corn has been going up. Because
of the cost of feeding and fattenng breeders have
been giving up business. The herds on the ranges
and on the farms have steadily diminished; and all
the while, with the population steadily increasing,
ing meats!
We had meat in prodgal supply and we ate it pro-
digiousiy, compared with some other modern races.
But nation expect to do again.
We can only look forward to the days when shall
eat less and less beef because there will be less and
less beef measured in units OF population, to eat
The Washington times., 1913-09-14
THE LOWER HARVESTS.

1t seems that the unofficial statishcians of Ameri-
can agriculture have been misleading to all that
the country is to get out of this years crops. Pre-
vious figures have shown that there would be very
big shortage of potatoes and still bigger shortage
of corn, two most important food products. But We
led to believe that though the corn farmer must
generally suffer and though the meat consumer must
generally pay higher prices because of the added
of feeding and attening animals for market the
country would be flooded with general agricultural
products to greater degree than ever before.
Now there comes from the Department of Agri-
culture the less cheerful that after harvest time
for all crops shall find that there is smaller total
yield, good deal smaller than the average for the
last ten years. We say good deal smaller because
these statistics of the Department of Agriculture ndi-
cate composite average 10 per cent lower than the
ten-year average But, of course, the population to-
day is very considerably higher than the average
population for the last ten years. So that there is
bigger shortage for the people than is indicated by
the mere 10 per cent shrink of supply
The Washington times., 1913-09-14
HANDICAPS IN SCHOOL.

One of the most useful ids of work in which
the modern health department IS engaged is that OF
medical inspection of schools. How necessary it is
to see that this work is continued vigorously one may
gather from the annual report of Baltimores Health
Department in which it is shown that II per cent of
pupils suffering from defective nutrition in that city
were unable to keep up with their studies.
OF pupils who found it necessary to repeat the
work of their grades, 81 per cent were physically
defective; and of retarded pupils IS per cent. Only
10 per cent of those who made normal progress had
any physical handicap.
1t is not necessary to quote additional figures to
show how dependent is normal mental activity upon
normal physical vigor, Thoughts of the cruelties
visited upon the backward child in the belief that he
was perverse rather than incapable is sufficient to
spur US TO undo in the case of the present and future
generations the world-od injustice practced in
ignorance.
The Washington times., 1913-09-14

trouble with the Postoffce Department about pa
tronage because he insisted standing for the public
interest instead of partisanship in the matter of an
appointment Most recently he is in hot water over
charges which he has made against the Attorney
General, whom he accuses of betraying the public
interest in preparing the decree for the dissolution of
the Union PacifcSouthern Pacific merger
Right wrong as to his methods, Mr.. Kindel
is the sort of man Congress needs. He has mission
he convinced his people that it so important that
they sent him here to look after it; he has devoted
all his energy to ii from the day he got here He is
not the sort of man who can be frowned down or
thrust aside; if he had been he would never have
got where he is now
The Washington times., 1913-09-14
A BALTIMORE ANNIVERSARY.

Baltimore is preparing for a celebration which
should mean quite as much to the rest of u.s. Ninety
nine years ago Baltimore wrote page in the history
of the United States 1t showed with the North Point
battle of defense how city can rise to meet great
emergency. 1t turned the humiliation caused by the
capture of Washington into outburst of joy
throughout the country which found expression in
the ringing words of song written by young Mary
land lawyer and poet-"The Star-Spangled Banner
of Francis Scott Key.
When the Federal Government was disorganized
helpless and in flight, Baltimore showed that it could
help itself Scornng the thought of surrender John
Eager Howard spoke for the people of the city when
he said:
/ have much property at stake
persons and | have four sons in the field, but
would | wetering in their
lood and my property reduced ashes than
far disgrace the country.
Baltimore has remembered vividlv its greatest
achievement during the years which have elapsed The
battle monument stands not only historical re-
minder but the symbol of a spirit which deserves
to be initiated as much in generation as another
and in all parts Of the country.