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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-17
DEMONSTRATION WORK
IN BOTETOURT COUNTY
Tnicrs of the soil Gr-ntiy Interested.
and AK Many Searching
Questions.
out ihc Middlcman-Much Inquiry n
I" iifHIfn-Groving Interest.

9. ~. nicicy. tho county demonstra-
ton agent Of Botetourt County. writes
OF his work ana his county rs follows {;
The Botetourt farmers are taking
ho!d OF the demonstration idea They
are coming 10 a realization OF tho fact
That thc experiment station ana the
department of Agriculture are con-
rtantly placing at our disposal now
truths which can be successfully ada pit
ed "a tho practices OF the farm.
We have 10 start with a soil far
above the average in Virginia Corn
has boon yeuorted To make such rank.
luNUrlaHt growth In some cases that
the oi:ElGcnt CLEANS Of lightning bugs
were plainly seen at midday while
alfalfa ms grown SO rapidly that p.-
culiar cracking sounds wcrc heard Oh
approaching tho field. DO no; vouch
foF these statements. but believe If It
rs possible auyWhcr" IL is possible in
Eotvtourt.
our farmers are not particularly in
tercsted III hearing about thorough
cultivation OF corn. the dust mulch.
"tc. They have followed the hes,
methods FOR years in that respect
They rather want t. know something
about improved seed. winter cover
crops. lime, and always one is asked
about alfalfa With over 1000 acres
growing. it seems that every tarrne:.
we meet who docs not grow alfalfa
eND"cts 10 do 50 i'm the near future
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-10
MADE MISERABLE FOF
MCCORMICK CLAN


A delegation Of housemaids called
on the County Board and made life
momentarily miserable for those fol-
lowers of A. A. Mccormick who have
refused to give raises to the poorly
paid employees while giving fat in
creases to the high-salaried county
officials.
With their appearance yesterday
the old fepd between Mccormick and
his bunch and the Democrats famed
up and for a few minutes it was a
regular old-time County Board meet
ing.
Commissioner Frank Ragen made
an open denunciation of Commits
sioner Ellsworth M. Board and an
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-10

legs and filny, alluring draperies, in
two days is some jump!
Yet, Miss Frances Burr, normal
schoolteacher, playing ''Bessea" in
the High Priestess to Kama did it.
Her friends gasped!
And Miss Burr further shocked
these same friends by inducing seven
perfectly sane girl friends to make
the jump with her.
The girls and their bare legs and
their alluring dances were first seen
here and the chief of police was an
interested spectator. These girls were
young and unsophisticated and the
chief was there to protect them
that is, to prohibit their act if it didn't
meet with his approval.
Pm glad the act succeeded" said
Miss Burr, because everybody was
so astonished and Mortified when we
started. Our friends asked us all
sorts of silly questions about how it
felt to dance bare-legged before big
audience. !
1--WE look only at the artistic side
and try to make the pretty fairy story
told in the dances just as real and en-
PERTAINING as possible.
Its all in the way you look at bare
legs whether they are vulgar or not,
and it is mighty interesting to watch
the effect of our bare legs on the
audience"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-10
nounced that he would at least take
up the housemaids' fight at next
Mondays meeting of the board.
WOULD HARRISON HAVE HAD A
E. GOOD OLD CRY?-

GoIIoT Jay Book
see by the Sunday Record-Herald
that Mayor Harrison, while inspect
ing moving picture films last Friday
had suggestion of tear in his eye
over the trials of young Swedish
girl in Traffic of Souls"
l have been wondering since what
he would have done had he been
down on Randolph street when Ora
Duree had her arm dislocated and
when Mabel Wambaugh had her arm
twisted while picketing for a living
wage for girls. Maybe he would have
had a good old fashioned woman's
cry over such trials and struggles of
girls in real life / wonder!
: g.. Edith ZeIenke,
Member of Mattresses Union, N. 4a4.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-10
HE is one of the leading lawyers
of the town."
Gets pretty big fees, eh?"
81 should say so. Why, it is al
most as cheap to buy grand jury as
to hire him."

Hygienic Fashion Institute pro-
claims that corsets cause sour dis
positions and SOW the seeds of di-
vorce. 1t is a cold day when some
sort of reform doesn't take kick at
the corset. -~ .-.. ~
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-26
A NATIONAL HEALTH GUARD

a call for a new National Guard, a
the Life Extension institute. through
its president, E. E. Rittenhouse, and
while the argument is advanced pri-
mariIy in the interest of insurance
companies which are naturally seeking
the prolonging of life, the object is
one in which we are all bound to ad-
NIT certain personal interest.
Mr.. Rittenhouse takes for his text
the life waste in the present war. He
says:
The American people are horror
stricken by the awful carnage of the
great war. They read daily of the
killing of great masses of men in the
prime of their youth, health and
strength. In addition to this is the ap-.
paling life-waste which is still to come
from the enormous numbers of wound
ed, and from the victims of disease
exposure due to war.
Now that the American public
mind is conferred upon this awful
waste of human energy and life, and
the poverty and misery will result,
they should give serious thought to
the still more destructive battle that
is going on in their own peaceful IA
therland.
IF Europe can enlist an immense
volunteer army to destroy life, surely
the United States should be able to
enlist a great volunteer army-a Ma
tional Health Guard-to save life by
combating its deadly but conquerable
enemy, preventable disease. This en-
envy can be fought and checked, and in
the end conquered, without costing the
life of a single volunteer.
''In our battle with the preventable
maladies we still lose $4,000 lives ev-
cry year.
This is nearly four times as many
people as were killed on the battle
fields of the Franco-Prussian War, and
undoubtedly far more than will be
killed in all the battles of the present
great war.
Our annual loss is equal to a battle
of Waterloo every sixteen days dur
ing the entire year, and a battle OF
Gettysburg about every three days.
Every year diseases of the heart,
arteries and kidneys, which are nearly
all preventable or postponable If de-
tected in time, cost us as many lives
as were destroyed by wounds and dis
eases in the Union army during the
Civil war.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-26
TAvENNER AND GAG RULE.

The stand of Congressman Clyde H
Tavenner against the gag rule on the
war revenue bill was characteristic.
With two other democratic members
from Illinois he did not hesitate to
take a stand against the majority in
this matter. for he believes in full
expression OF views on every subject
and for doing things in the open.
OF course in this case there was par
ticular need of prompt action and it
is likely that the interests Of the ooun-
try did not suffer as a result OF the
limiting OF debate to seven hours. New
theless. the Fourteenth district should
be proud of the fact that II has rep
resentative in congress who, by the
training he has received in public af-
fairs is so thoroughly impressed with
the evils of executive session leg
islation that he always insists upon a
complete expression of views and full
publicity OF every act
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-26
IEALTHTALKSY
William Drady.M.D.
A TWenty-Four Hour Rest.

There Is a common idea that the
heart is the only organ in the human
body that never rests. That is a mis-
take. The healthy heart rests twelve
hours in each twenty-four, though it
does recuperate on the installment
plan. 1t rests a while after every beat,
and when you begin to think about it,
it's a long time between beats.
Lots of otner organs are harder
working organs than the heart. Take
the liver for instance. The average
liver has to stay on the job till about
three o'clock every morning, and then
get up and go at 1t again when the
whistle blows. II the liver occasional
ly gets tired and peevish and knocks
off work or pretends to, why, instead
OF giving the poor overworked old
liver a breathing spell. what do we do?
We shoot 1t full of liver pills to make
IL work harder than ever.
Good Grounds for Stomach Complaint
But the liver hasn't half so hard a
Job as the stomach. We make no al
lusions to bad cooking or intemper-
ance here, but only call attention to the
fact that human happiness by no
means depends on a full stomach. A
ruiz STOMACH Is all very well Dy way
of variety II It isn't kept full all the
time. And somehow the notion pre-
walls that IL is a dangerous thing to
be without something in the stomach.
People will sit down and assault a
plateful of hearty victuals at mealtime
just because II is mealtime and not
because they are hungry. There's the
meal all ready to eat. and II seems a
shame to pass IL up untouched, espe-
cially when II must be paid for any
way. So down goes the food right on
top of another incompletely digested
because it's dinner time. Is
IL any wonder there is so much stom-
ach complaint? The stomach has just
cause for complaint.
a Prescription for Aneriean-Eat-Is.
Letters reach MS daily asking what
would be good for stomach trouble
and gas. Our answer is always the
same-have the family doctor look
your stomach over and ind out what
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-26
WAR AIDS FARMER.

Farmers OF the United States will
receive more money for their crops
this year than ever before in the his
tory OF the country. Not only is the
wheat crop by far the largest ever
raised, but the returns that can be
counted on safely for this crop will
exceed the greatest expectations of a
few weeks ago.
In virtually every important wheat
raising section of the country the pro-
Queer can now obtain 81 a bushel for
his wheat. Two months ago wheat
prices were about 40 cents lower than
at present, and in many sections farm
ers were not getting more than 60
cents a busheI for their wheat.
Considerable wheat was sold at low
prices, but of the 5000, 900 bushels
that will be raised this year IL is not
likely more than 20O.0O0.O00 bushels
has been sold at this time from the
farms.
A forty-cent advance in the price of
wheat means on 700.000,000 bushels
$3.50 000, 900. and from present indica-
lions in regard to the export demand
reduction OF farm prices for wheat be-
low the dollar level does not appear
reasonable In fact. judging from the
way Europe IS buying both wheat and
flour. farmers may not be willing TO
sell freely at 81
Oats prices have been enhanced
about 30 per cent In the heaviest part
Of the crop movement. On the basis
OF present values for oats compared to
what they were at the beginning of
harvest there has been an increase in
the value OF the crop OF about si75.-
100000 Corn prices were high at the
beginning OF the war. and while there
has been no export demand as I'm
wheat 10 stimulate speculative actiy-
ity. prices are now the highest in
years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-26
FARM IMPROVEMENT WORK.

ConseryatiYeiy estimated, the Scott
County Farm Improvement league has
saved to the farmers across the river
5000, 900 in the two years of its exist
ence This is the statement made yes
terday at the annual picnic of that or
ganfzation by A F. Dawson. its pres
ident II was shown that the saving
in swine alone through treatment for
cholera. or plague. amounted TO that
sum, while a great deal has been &C
complished in promoting the better
cultivation OF the land. the selection
and care of seed, improvement of live
stock and the encouragement OF the
growth OF alfalfa In addition there
has been the social feature, the value
Of which, while not reckoned in dol
lars and cents. is perhaps most import
ant OF all. Mr.. Dawson estimated that
the league had brought cash returns
equal 10 100 times the cost OF main
tenance.
Do Rock Island county farmers want
500, 900 added TO their annual income
and the routine of their lives made
more attractive by opportunity for in
teresting study and constructive work?
Do they care TO improve their social
status2
Last spring there was a half heart
ed effort made here to organize such
league as there is in Scott, Clinton
and Muscatine counties in Iowa and
in many counties In Illinois. Interest.
never apparently strong. gradually de-
clined and IL was impossible to secure
organization by townships in the form
required to get government aid
There seemed to be nobody ready to
take hold and push the matter
through TO a successful conclusion
Rock Island county farmers surely
do not consider themselves above the
need of cooperation for their own bet
terment- Neither Is IL reasonable to
suppose that they hold themselves too
wise 10 learn No doubt they are as
ready TO take up their agricultural ad-
syancement as farmers In other coun-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-26


ances had taken the part of execu-
toner in the play that was making her
famous.
why, John, What brings you here
at this time of night-without having
changed your dress?"
II have come to announce that it is
time for you to prepare for the block
Had the words not been spoken with
evident seriousness the tragedienne
might have fancied that the man was
Joking. Another feature conduced to
make her think he was in earnest. 1t
had been noticed that Coyne had re-
Gently been acting strangely. Some
time before that he had asked to be
given another part. The one he per-
formed he had played so long that it
had begun to pail on him. Night after
night he had looked upon the queen of
Scots enacting the scene leading up to
the execution and had been under the
influence of her impersonation of one
whom he was about to behead. He had
not given this as reason for his de-
sire to change; he had said that he was
ambitious for a speaking part, whereas
that of executioner was silent one.
But he had confessed to the TRACE
dienne that while enacting the role he
had felt himself to be real headsman.
1t was this that caused the TRACE
dienne to shudder at the solemn man.
ner in which he had announced what
he had come for. Indeed, she caught
at once at an explanation of his strange
coming. He was mad; he was armed
with an AK. She was alone, with no
means of summoning assistance except
and her stood the lunatic. Besides.
there was no one she could call who
was capable of protecting her.
Persons when cornered by one whose
mind is unhinged. if they keep their
own heads. naturally feel it necessary
to humor the person they dread. The
tragedienne saw at once that to op-
pose John Coyne would be to excite
him. All she could hope for was to
delay him that she might in the mean
while conjure up some expedient by
which to save herself.
John" she said, 81 ask but one
boon of you. Before pass TO that
bourn whence no traveller returns per-
init me TO partake of meat and drink
to gain strength to endure the ordeal"
There is time for that" said Coyne,
lowering his ak to the floor and sup
porting himself by the handle as he
had done so often on the stage while
waiting for her TO speak her lines.
The tragedienne tried to resume her
meal, but could not force herself 20
swallow the food. She drained a glass
of wine and poured out another. This
she did to give her strength to with
stand the man who was bent on be-
heading her.
John" she said by way OF keeping
her mind employed. how did you
come up here?"
by means of lattice"
Gould you so back the same ways"
81 could"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-26

'In Europe they are destroying life
by human design; here, by human
neglect.
There, they are fighting to bring
the awful sacrifice to an end; here,
our indifference is so great and our
resistance so feeble, that the ravages
of our enemy have been but slightly
checked, although the means of pre-
vention are at hand and well known.
Now that so many of our sister ma
tions have for the time reverted to
barbarism and are engaged in mangl-
ing and destroying human beings,
what better could Americans do to en-
phasize the lofty purposes of theis
civilization, and the value they place
upon human life, than to inaugurate
a popular, nationwide citiSen-mov
ment to save their people from the
wholesale suffering and life-waste that
is going on from preventable disease?
I'VE have our regular army and
navy, and the national guard and even
boy scouts, all being taught how to
destroy life if it becomes necessary in
the support CT our laws and our gov
eminent We have the great religi-
Gus associations supporting the church
We have our political parties to give
support and vitality to our govern
mental system. We have all sorts of
organizations in support of education,
that we may be guarded against il
literacy
Surely, it would be a paying invest
ment for the press of our land, which
has done so much to promote health
full living habits and to disseminate
knowledge of disease prevention, to
urge for the same purpose a popular
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS into a Nation
al Health Guard-to help prolong
American life and make it more Iva
BILE. Membership in this citizen health
guard could be made possible with lit
tie formality and expense.
There is a group of people in every
community who would be- glad to
pledge themselves to observe the sim
pie laws of health. and to urge others
to join in spreading knowledge of
hygienic living.
There is not a health officer in
the country who is not in need of sup
port of such an organization. Why
should they not have it?
why should our people give so
much money to treat" With the enemy
after an attack and so little to pre-
vent the attack?'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-26
The Daily Story
The Actor Headsraan-By r. A. Mitchell.
Copyrighted. 1914 by Associated Literur1 Bureau

The tragedienne had played the roll
of Mary, queen of Scots, to crowded
house. Throughout the play the audi
ence had sat speIlbound. and during
the last scene-that In which the queen
is led to execution-not sound was to
be heard In the theater except what
pertained to the melancholy procession
on the stage. Then when the curtain
fell Just before the ak was supposed to
fall on the beautiful neck resting on
the block the hush gave place to long
drawn breatbs. The audience arose and
passed out without the usual hum OF
conversation, but silently, as If the real
tragedy of several centuries ago had
been enacted.
The tragedienne entered her carriage
at the stage door and was driven to
her hotel. No one was about except
the night clerk in the Office and call
boy. The tragedienne passed up to her
rooms. in one of which a table was
spread with a few light dishes. Throw
ing Off her wraps. she seated herself
and partook of the meal
1t was summer, and the window
doors were open, giving access to
stone balcony without The tragedi-
enne was in the act of lifting morsel
to her lips when she paused and lis
tened. There was a sound on the bal
cony. Then a figure stepped into the
room.
Though a man, tall, 1.-THE, muscular,
his tread was as. noiseless as that of
cat. He was clad in tight fitting black
and on his shoulder carried an ak. On
his head was a conical cap, and his fea-
lures were covered by a mask Not
withstanding this concealment the
tragedienne recognized John Coyne,
who through a long series of perform
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-26

ties now organised were In the be-
ginning. All that is needed here is
a little intelligent. persistent effort to
draw the people together in the COM
mon cause. Once q nucleus is started
there can be little doubt that farm i'm
provement work will quickly gather
Roadway in this county as IL has done
elsewhere, and H. will be but a short
time before the members will be won
dering how they ever got along with
out a county farm agent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-26
Suppose Mothers Go on a Strike

they do war will remain among the
scourges OF the race.
Man has localized the patient wo-
man who sits within four walls and
croons to baby in the cradle whilst he,
the lord of creation, plots and fights
But in the battle man has neglected
to keep the home a sanctuary. Into
the hellish nav of war he feeds its
offspring. From it's smoking ruins he
dooms the weeping mother to wander,
forsaken and shelterless.
1t is woman who must stop all this
man, unaided, is still too much the
brute.
The hand that fondles baby must be
the hand that rules the world.
1t is only In fiction that it does so
now.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-26

War in Europe and the resulting
necessity for the Omitted States to
manufacture its own chemicals for the
Industries and arts instead of import
ing them are probably responsible for
an unusual increase in chemical engi-
neering courses at Iowa State college.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-26
peoria Journal.)

u tUI IN JUuI IIaI'T
From a western reader comes the
most radical suggestion for peace yet
seen.
Let the mothers of the world go
on strike" she proposes. LET them
refuse to bring children into existence
until the whole world disarms."
A strike of mothers! Can you i'm
agine IL?
Yet why should a woman bring a
child into the world to be shot for
another mans glory or to feed with
its wasted life another mans hate?
Soon or late. in one way or another,
the women of civilization must make
this strike; for it's evident that until
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-26
Local republican leaders think som

Local republican leaders think some
good. old-fashioned tariff speeches
might help this fall. Go to it II the
G. o. p. has any orators who can hold
crowd together with that kind OF
entertainment he should be placed on
exhibition However. why not make
the topic the weather and give the
speakers something that they will
stand a show of arousing a little in
ferest in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-26

II seems quite clear that the average
republican politician Is either hog
tied to doctrine and argument some
five years obsolete. or lacks either doc
trine or argument OF any kind what
soever. Many of them have opposed
the Administrations war emergency
measures. Yet, for their part, what
has been proposed? Not blessed
thing
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-26
Sept. 20 IN American
History.

1S20-Daniel Boone. pioneer hun.e''
founder and defender of kenfucA''
died; born 1885. !,
1901-John G. Nicolay. biograpne'
Lincoln, died; born 1882
1909-Charles James Barclay. rear ~
mirai q. S. N. (retired, an autn0s
ity on torpedoes. gunnery ana o'u'
nance, died: born 1S4S.
1911-General c, F. Henderson. roraue,
United States senator and no.s'
civil war veteran. Died: bore
All the news all the ume-
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-26

European heroes of war have moth
ing Of the heroes of peace in America
Governor Dunno the other evening
dauntIessly partook Of luncheon pre-
pared by the pupils Of the domestic
science department of the state fair.