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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-12
GRAM MAR.

I. Name at least three up-to-date
grammars. Which of these do you con-
slider best? Give some distinctive fea-
ture of each book.
2. What is synopsis? Give a synop-
sis of the verb read" passive voice, in
all the modes you teach.
3. Explain fully your method of get
ting pupils to distinguish between the
passive voice of verb and a verb in
the past tense. Why in your opinion do
pupils find difficulty here?
4. Define an object complement; an
objective complement; an attribute COM
plement. Give an example of each.
5. "Green be the turf above thee
Friend of my better days;
None knew thee but to love thee,
None named thee but to praise"
Parse the italicized words in the above
quotation.
E. Analyze the following sentence and
parse the words in italics: "The erratic
gentleman who endowed the college is
the one entering the room, ACCOMPANIED
by the tall lady
7. What parts of speech are infected? !?
What is the value of parsing? Of analy
sis?
g. What is the best method by which
to secure the use of good English? Dis
cuss this question carefully and fully.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-12
AGRICULTURE.

1. Explain the difference between soil
and sub-soil What is the chief value of
tile drainage?
D. What are the most important
points to be considered in the selection
of seed corn? How do weeds hinder
the growth of corn?
8. What are the chief varieties Of
apples grown in your neighborhood? !?
(Name fve). Grapes, plums, cherries? !?
a. What is considered a good yield of
wheat per acre in Ohio? Corn, oats,
potatoes, timothy hay?
S. When, and with what crops may
commercial fertilizers be used to best
advantage? How often should COM
mercial fertilizer be used on the same
plat of ground? Discuss.
6. At what time of the year should
timothy seed be sownA Clover seed ?
Wheat? Oats? Buckwheat?
7. Why is corn generally placed in
well ventilated cribs? What price is
generally paid in your community for
husking and cribbing corn? What is the
approximate value of corn per bushel
in your community at this time?
8. Name three dairy breeds of cat
tie. How many pounds ought a fleece
of wool weigh from the average sheep ?
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-12
GEOGRAPHY.

I. What determines the width of
zones?
2. Name one state in the United
States and one foreign country noted
for the production of each of the fol-
lowing: salt, copper. cotton, beet sugar,
wool
3. Define and illustrate: estuary,
pampas, crater.
a. Under the control of what govern
ment is each of the following cities
Melbourne, Manila, Hong Kong, Par
amarillo, Gibraltar?
S. Locate five ports having notably
fine harbors and name the chief ar
ticles of commerce passing through each
E. Mention foreign city in approx
mately the same latitude as Columbus,
Ohio; Chicago, New Orleans.
7. Trace the route of vessel from
the Norfolk navy yard by way of the
Philippine Islands to San Francisco.
8. Locate the best agricultural, min
eral fruit and oil regions in Ohio.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-12
PHYSIOLOGY.

1. What may be said as to the preva-
lence of defective hearing, and to what
causes in general is it due? How may
the sense of hearing be developed?
2. What dangers are encountered by
changing the weight of clothing in Fall
and Spring? Is it good policy for one
to wear the same weight and texture of
clothing in Winter and Summer? Dis
cuss.
8. Write briefly several rules that
should be followed in eating. Why does
one that vchews his food we'll eat less
than one that eats rapidly?
a. What connection has the will with
respiration? With the heart? How is
the blood affected by the condition of
the air?
5. Show many ways how water in
wells and springs is contaminated What
disease is generally contracted by con-
taminated water?
6. How may foods be classified?
What do vegetable foods include? What
is the best cereal food?
7. What is digestion, and what are
the digestive organs? Describe the
stomach and its openings
8. Write briefly on the following
topic: "How good cooking pays"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-12
ORTROGRAPHY.

l. Write two synonyms and two anto-
nyms of each of the given words: abb
sorb, union, rend image, conceal: blame
Eager and caution.
D. Point out several of the imperfec-
tons of the alphabet If the alphabet
were perfect how many elementary
sounds would there be?
g. Indicate the pronunciation of the
following words: masculine, Indianap-
oils, declension, theory, and almanac.
a. Define each of the following
words: parasite, equable, diligent, cal
endar, eclipse, and tangible
$40. Spell: mortise, facsimile, crok-
mole, baritone, shopping, Dessimist, tor
toise, plagiarize, buzzard, misspelling,
exercising, bantam, saleratus, metallic.
arabic, culvert, citadel, pinnacles, liturgy.
crystalline.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-12

Name the conditions under which he
might become President.
5. What brought on our Civil War;
What was its cost? What were its eco
nomic and moral results?
E. Who were the carpet-baggers? The
Ku Klux Klan? What is the Spoils
System? The Monroe Doctrine? Why
is this doctrine discussed at present?
7. What presidential terms have had
to do, in a large way, with the tariff
problem? With our financial system ?
What are the main problems of the
present administration? What Presi-
dents have dealt in purchases of foreign
territory?
8. What was the last of the Is Col
onies to be settled? Who was the lead
er? Describe his character. What other
Colonial leader most nearly resembled
this man in character?
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-12
ALCOHOL FOR AUTOMOBILES

The Challenge Oil & Paint Company,
Toledo, Ohio, issue a folder showing
''Frost Proof" Oils for Winter use for
farm and automobiles. Their TWO-IN-
ONE Alcohol is also making hit; it
keeps cooling water from freezing, cleans
season costs $3.50, including Beaume
automobile owner with some spare time
who could look after their business in
this locality. 1t might be well to write
them if interested.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-12
UNITED STATES HISTORY,

1. What practical good should come
to a pupil from the study of United
States History? How should this sub
ject be taught? How much time should
be devoted TO it daily, say to an eighth
grade class?
2. On what phase of history are re-
Gently published texts placing most
stress? Why? What value do you at
tach to dates?
8. What is the number of the last
amendment to the u. S. Constitution
What is its substance?
4. Name the several steps necessary
to the election and installation of a
President. Who is our Vice President?
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-12
Not BEYOND Helm at 81

SIeep-disturbing bladder weakness,
stiffness in joints, weak, inactive
kidney action and rheumatic pains,
are all evidence of kidney trouble.
Mrs. Mary A. Dean, Al E. Walnut
street, Taunton, Mass, writes: "I
have passed my 87th birthday, and
thought | was beyond the reach of
medicine, but Foley Kidney Pills
have proved most beneficial in my
case" Fink & Haumesser.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-12
FOR THOSE Who
WISH TO TEACH
Questions For Applicants For
County Certificates.
EXAMINATION HELD DEG. G.

Prepared by the State School Com
missioner to Test the Mental DUAL
Ifications of Those Who Seek Posi-.
tions as Teachers In the Public
Schools.
Following is the list of questions
as prepared under direction Of the
state commissioner of public schools,
and submitted at the county exam
nation of teachers Dec. 6, for ele-
mentary school certificates:
ARITHMETIC.
1, A farmer sold $3.50 lbs of oats at
18c per bushel, and received in return
-four at S. barrel. How many barrels
of flour did he receive?
D. Make a diagram and locate B's
farm of 40 acres, in the E. Il Of the 5
q of the N. w. II of Section %, T. 8
N, range w.
5. A man has farms. The first CON
tains "a A., 10 So. rd., Is So. yd., 4 So. Fl
and 76 So in. The second "a A., "a So
rd., 80 So yd., So 1T. and 127 So. in
The third 128 A., 100 So. rd., 16 So. yd..
f So. tt. and ~ SO. IN. How much lano
has he in all?
4. An agents charges including $35
for freight, were $3.50, and his rate
for buying was 5A9o. Find the amount
of purchase and the entire cost.
S. If a piece of land is bought for
$500, and a man who owns 25 of it
sells II of his share for $500, what per
cent does he gain by the transaction?
E. A man has bin 7 #. long 21z #.
wide and ft deep which holds % bu.
of corn. How deep must he build an
other which is 18 #. long, l #. 1917 in.
wide in order to hold 120 bu?
T. How many yards of carpeting 1H
yd. wide does it require to cover floor
q it. in long and 13 #. E in. wide if
the strips run across the room? How
much will be turned under? Find tie
cost of the carpet at o9c yard.
g. A circular fountain 18 #. in diam
eter is to be surrounded by cement
walk #. wide. What will the walk
cost at SIPS per square yd.?
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-12
California Woman Seriously Alarmed

OdHIUI nId WUHdH OtTIOuSIy AIdTMtu
ga short time ago l contracted
severe cold which settled on my lungs
and caused me great deal of annoy
ance. l would have bad coughing
spells and my lungs were so sore and
infamed l began to be seriously
alarmed. A friend recommended
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, saying
she had used it for years. l bought
a bottle and it relieved my cough the
first night and in week l was rid of
the cold and soreness of my lungs"
writes Miss Marie Gerber, Sawtelle,
Cal. For sale by all dealers.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-27

With crude oil worth a dollar bar
rel and a good market for natural gas,
the Kansas oil and gas field is enjoy
ing boom that has every prospect Of
being bigger than any the field has
ever seen. Seven oil companies were
Incorporated by the Kansas charter
board the other day, all of them in
prospect in the Paola, Chanute and In
dependence fields Nearly all the com.
panies made showing that they now
own leases in that section and some
already have paying wells.
Within the last two months thirty
on companies have been Incorporated
and some of the defunct companies
have asked II the old charters could
be reinstated and operations started
again without new corporation It
has been nearly ten years since there
were as many companies seeking
charters as at the present time.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-27
JOHN ALSO NEEDED MONEY
AZ II Turned Out, Wife Need Not
Have Been Afraid Of What He
Might Say.

It was Christmas eve A beautiful
woman sat staring dolefully at the
embers of the fire.
Christmas eve," she murmured.
and no money to buy baby Christ
mas gift"
Slowly her eyes wandered round the
room until, with guilty start, they
rested on something standing on the
mantelpiece.
1t was baby's money box. Her
hands clutched the chair convulsively.
IF l only dared!" she murmured
But what would John ssy?"
For few moments she stood de-
batting the awful question In her mind,
and then she took the box in her
hands.
John need never know" she whis-
pered.
Then, with guilty face, she broke
open the box and emptied on to the
table collection of-tin tacks, nails,
etc.
John had been there first.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-27
WORKS ALL DAY
And Studies at Night on GrapO-Nuto
Food.

Some Of the worlds great men have
worked during the day and studied
evenings to fit themselves for greater
things. But it requires good consti-
tuition generally to do this.
A Ga. man was able to keep 1t up
with ease after he had learned the
sustaining power Of Grape-Nuts, al
though he had failed in health before
he changed his food supply. He says:
Three years ago l had severe at
tack of stomach trouble which left me
unable to eat anything but bread and
water.
1.-THE nervous strain at my oftice
from 6 A M. to P. M. and improper
foods caused my health to fail rapidly.
Cereal and so-called Foods" were
tried without benefit until saw Grape
Nuts mentioned in the paper.
"In hopeless desperation tried this
food and at once gained strength, flesh
and appetite. am now able to work
all day at the office and study at night,
without the nervous exhaustion that
was usual before I.tried Grape-Nuts.
1T leaves me strengthened, re-
freshed, satisfied; nerves quieted and
toned up, body and brain waste re-
stored. / would have been a living
skeleton. or more likely dead one by
shis time. If it had not been for Grape
Nuts"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read THE Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs. There's q Rea-
son."
enc appears from time to time. They
are genuine true, and fan 81 hunan
interest
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-27

The Kansas "anti-affinity law"
which provides penitentiary SEN
tence. for a man who deserts his wife
and family, has been upheld by the
supreme court. The court directed
that ]. G. Walker of Mcpherson coun-
ty must go to prison for deserving his
wife. In defending his case Walker
commended that the law was intended
to apply only 4 poor people, where
the wife had been left in necessitous
circumstances. The supreme court
said that it applied to the rich as well
as the poor.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-27
sha Scored.

He was trying to make up their
quarrel and came home with pack
age held behind him.
Look here, dearest" he said, 1--WE
got something here for some one l
think more of than anyone else in the
world"
"A box of cigars; presume" she
said sweetly.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-27

That a total of at least ten vessels
and $50 lives were lost in the great
blizzard that enveloped the Great
Lakes from Sunday until Tuesday is
indicated in the compilation of re.
ports received from various points on
the lakes. In addition twenty-one
other vessels were partially or wholly
destroyed, their crews escaping.
-
The biggest sale of Jersey cows
ever made in that state has just
closed at Vinita, Ok, where A. L..
Churchill held his annual sale. The
total amount Of the sale was $16,038.
The average price paid was 1898.
A. Chevalier, a teamster 55 years
old, was almost instantly killed at
Bartlesville, Ok, when team he was
driving took fright at piece Of pa
per and ran away.
Three persons were killed and
dozen injured, one probably fatally.
when eastbound Pennsylvania train
No. So was wrecked four miles west
Of Wooster, o.
The 1914 National Convention Of
the Modern Woodmen Of America has
been awarded to Toledo, o., by the
executive council of the society.
A campaign against the high price
OF eggs, 1t was announced by Mrs.
Julian Heath, president of the House
wives League, will be started at once.
Flora Rigby, 13 years old, and her
sister, Josephine, are dead and their
mother, Mrs. l.. w. Rigby, wife of
Nowata oil worker, is in critical
condition, as the result of being over
come by gas fumes.
The shores of Lake Superior, Lake
Huron and Lake Erie are strewn with
the wreckage Of three days gale
and snowstorm, which. cost the lives
of more than three score persons,
turned bottom up in midlake 300
foot steel vessel, with its crew,
wrecked or grounded numerous other
craft and caused property loss as
yet unestimated, but which will run
into the millions.
One hundred pounds of giant pow
der and fifty sticks of dynamite, &C!
cidentally found in the coal at the
Rio Grande Western Railroad supply
depot at Helper, Utah, spread a panic
among engineers and firemen of en-
gines stopping for fuel. The explo-
sive is believed to have been placed
in the fuel by sympathizers with the
Colorado coal strikers.
Details are just beginning to reach
Chicago Of the death and disaster
wrought by the terrific gale which
has swept the Great Lakes two days,
From many lake ports stories are be-
ing received OF ships which still are
in distress and which rescue ships
have been unable to aid. That sew
eral vessels have been destroyed and
all on board lost seemed certain.
That a plant for the coining OF
spurious United States money -four
ished throughout the summer in one
Of the principal residence sections OF
Joplin, Mo-, has just become known.
Federal officers. who raided the plant
several weeks ago kept the fact secret
until after the arrest of w. c. Gard
ner, miner, who is charged with hav-
ing operated the coin factory.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-27
Mot Yet

do you not propose to marryT"
asked Miss Filters of young Mr..
cambridge.
well. haven't proposed yet" re-
piled he, in tone which forbade a
further prosecution of inquiries
Puck.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-27

The Kansas State Teachers Associ-
alton has decided it would employ
permanent secretary, to devote his en-.
tire time to affairs of the association.
He will occupy an office in the state
house here.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-27
Different.

Ruff-Hello, Fluff. heard you mar
ried woman with an independent for
tune.
Fluff (disconsolately)-No. mar
ried fortune with an independent
woman.-Judge.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-27
Persuasion,

NO." said the timid man, II don't
! want any flying machines today. I'm
afraid of them"
why. sir" said the persuasive
salesman, "a flying machine might
save your life"
"How?"
"You might be out riding in ono
when an earthquake takes place. -
Washington Star,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-27

1t isn't every man who is whole
souled when he is well .heeled.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-27
Foreign Affairs.


1t is said in the City or Mexico that
John Lind has recommended that all
diplomatic negotiations with Mexico
be terminated. Government officials,
foreign residents and the people OF
Mexico realize that the relations be-
tween this country and the United
States are strained almost to the point
Of war.
Gen. Victoriano Huerta tacitly re-
fused to accede to the demands of the
United States, expressed in an ulti-
matum sent to him by President Will
sons personal representative, John
Lind.
Amid scenes of wild excitement
Mendel Bells, the Jew, was acquitted
of the blood ritual murder of Andrew
Yushinsky, the 12-year-old Christian
boy who was slain in March, 1911, at
Kiev, Russia.
Late official dispatches confirm the
reports Of "a disastrous earthquake in
Abancay province, Peru. The dis
patches say that the city of ADancay
was wrecked and that more than 200
persons were killed. Thousands of
persons are homeless.
Personal.
|
Mrs. Janet Watson Seward, age IA,
wife of General William H. Seward,
is dead. She was married to General
Seward, son of William H. Seward,
secretary of state in President Lin
coins cabinet. in June, 1860, went to
the front with him and spent several
years in camps alocg the Potomac.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt was the
guest OF honor - banquet at the
Colon theater at Buenos Aires at
which covers were laid for more than
a thousand.
Dudley Field Malone has been con.
tirmed by the senate as collector OF
customs at New York.
Foregoing his usual custom of ban.
lshing official business on Sunday
President Wilson worked practically
the whole of the day on the Mexican
problem.
Harlan Page Amen, 60, principal Of
Phillips Exeter Academy and an over
seer of Harvard College, is dead. He
had been in charge of the academy fol
aearly score Of years.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-27
| WHAT THE NORLDI IS DOING
| HERE, THERE and EVERYWHERE
Interesting Items Gathered From All
Parts of the World Condensed
into Small Space for the Ben
eft Of Our Readers
Washington.

United support from the great pow
ers abroad for the American policy
toward Mexico shown in a variety Of
quiet diplomatic activities, give Presi-
dent Wilson and Secretary Bryan a
confident feeling that the elimination
Of Gen. Victoriano Huerta as pro-
visional president of Mexico soon
would be an accomplished fact.
The attempt to force the admins
tration Currency Bill through the SEN
ate by the way of the Democratic
caucus has been abandoned and the
banking and currency committee of
the senate was given time for further
consideration of the bill.
With certainty that the Currency
bill will soon be before him for his
signature, President Wilson turned to
the trust policy. This will be the all
overshadowing issue of the regular
session of congress.
A silver service will be the wedding
gift from senators to Miss Jessie Will
son, according to an an announcement
made by Senator. MARITIME, who is re-
ceiving voluntary subscriptions from
his colleagues.
Railroads working employees over
time without rest in violation OF the
Hours Of Service Law are liable to
fine for each employee so worked, and
not merely for one fine in each in
stance where a body of employees Is
concerned. The supreme court has
so held.
The preliminary estimate of the
corn crop, announced by the Agricul-
tural Department, makes the crop
2,463 million bushels, which Is SO mil
lion bushels more than the figures in
dicated by the October report month
ago.
Developments In the Mexican stu
alton here tended to emphasize pur-
pose on the part Of the Washington
government to refuse to recognize any
of the acts OF the Mexican new con-
gress.
Receivers Of insolvent corporations
are not required to pay the corpora
ton tax imposed by the Payne-Aldrich
law, according to recent decision by
the supreme court.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-27

Any Way He Wanted.
The Professor-Boy, get me fly.
New Page-Yes, sir. Dead or alive,
sir?-Punch.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-27
Domestic Items.

When John Machinery, city mar
shall Of Caney, Kan, stopped motor
car at 10 o'clock at night, he was shot
by one of the two occupants, said to
be bootleggers from Bartlesville.
Machinery died half hour later.
Fifteen thousand dollars for an al
tar in the new st. Louis Cathedral is
set apart in the will of Mrs. Margaret
Meagher, just filed here. The Cathe-
dral, which cost 100000 is nearing
completion.
Attorney Daniel Donahoe, charged
with conspiring to defame Clarence s.
Funk, former general manager Of the
International Harvester Company, was
found guilty at Chicago and fined
$4,000.
The long controversy between rail.
roads of the East and their conductors
and trainmen over demands for more
pay has ended. The employees are
granted an increase in wages averag
ing per cent and totaling $6,OO0,00C
annually.
The theft OF money and jewelry val
ued at $4,000 from a mail sack was
discovered by James Stuart, postof
fee inspector at Chicago. The crime
is alleged by Colonel Stuart to have
been committed by Albert Tardy, ,
mail wagon driver who is an ex-con
Wet.
Three men were killed when a pip,
used for the transmission Of steam
exploded at Indiana Harbor, Ind. TIL
dead are William Zielke, Nichola
Pazkovics and F. F. Mangel.
The average yields this year of al
crops in the United States are So.
per cent of last years and 1913 pc
cent of the average of recent years
Kansas crops are 61.4 per cent O
the average, Missouri I'll, Nebrask
70, Oklahoma GIT, Iowa 1924, Illinoi
80, Minnesota 114.6.
Fourteen persons were killed an
more than hundred injured, seyel
Of them probably fatally, when thre
coaches of Central Of Georgia pa.
senger train left the rails seventee
miles south Of Eufala, Ala, an
plunged down steep embankment.
Troops E, F, G and H, comprisin
the second squadron of the Fifteent
cavalry, has left Fort Leavenwort
for Fort Bliss, Tex. Capt G. w. Col
is In command. A squadron of til
Fifth cavalry will be sent to garriso
the post at Leavenworth.
Governor Felker has honored til
requisition of the state of New Yor
for the extradition of Harry X. Thav
The case is now transferred autom,
tically to the federal courts where
writ Of habeas corpus on behalf {
tThaw Is pending.