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folk play called Der Meistertrunk''-
1.-THE Master Drunk''-which commence
rates this historical event.
Under the name of "Rotinbure," the
place is first mentioned in history. That
was early in the ninth century and it
was then the residence of the Duke of
Fraconia. 1t became a town in 942
and in 1172 d free imperial city. The
height of its prosperity was reached
under its most famous burgomaster.
ed out to every visitor to Rothenburg.
full place for tourists. But Rothen
burg is 4 stil more wonderful place
for Rothenburgers. For it is Ger
many's only town which has no poor
people. Also it has no millionaires.
The most prosperous citizen makes toys
and baby carriages, and there is no
great gap between him and the least
prosperous. AS q result of a paternal
and somewhat socialistic policy pow
erty has been abolished. There are no
Workhouses and no paupers, and if
matters little, for the average Rothen-
burger owns his own house. has money
saved. and also has, on a small scale,
farm of his own. Also Rothcnburgers.
though they live in houses as old and
musty as Kaiser Charles V, live
clearly and neatly and their streets
are the cleanest in all somewhat
slovenly Bavaria
Rothenburg municipality is Rothen-
ourg's earthly providence. 1t is an
imperative providence. German law
allows municipalities to do what they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-04

Interesting and Novel
Work That Has Been
Taken Up by Eleven
w omen Following
Insects Through the
Life Cycle, or Develop
ment, in an Effort to
Aid the Farmers--Posi-
lions of Women Are
Under Civil Service.
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citizen is told that the whole world
will regard his action as a slur. upon
the fair name of the city.
AS 4 matter of fact, few Rothen-
those that do leave, the majority re-
turn repentant in due course. after
learning that the outside world. COM
pared with their motherly home town.
is hard. cruel and unsympathetic. OF
the hundred families that left In the
past ten years almost seventy re-
turned. They found no other town
half SO picturesque, or one-third so
progressive as the little Arcadia
perched above the gorge of the deep
blue Tauben.
Copyright. 1918. by Curtis Brown
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why-Why. what Is Duilder of bugs.
and where on earth does she build en-
the bugs
Exactly, nladam. and straight to the
point. \ young lady builder of bugs is
a rreparator. and she builds EN- in the
Department OF Agriculture in the bureau
Of entomology, of course
We'll, ] never"
OF course not, as there are only eleven
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like. and Rothenburg municipality
holds that it should do everything. 1t
laid down years ago that all Rothen-
burgers must be made worthy of their
unequaled town and that no misery or
evil must be tolerated.
Rothenburg municipality resolved to
realize this aim by ipsuring that
every citizen should have i stake in
the town. First 1t set to fight the
vicious practice of families living in
rented houses. Rented houses. it de-
cided. are economically as vicious as
would be rented clothes or even rented
food. Also rented houses threatened to
spoil Rothenburs's domestic architec-
ture, the most picturesque and beauti-
full in any European town outside
Venice.
:. ::
Landlords had no interest in preserv-
ing houses in which they did not live,
and tenants had no interest in preserv-
ing houses which they would depart
from in a year or SO. Rothenburg mu-
nicipality. therefore. started on a poll
icy of creating houseowners. By spe-
cial regulations 1t made it easy for men
to buy the houses they lived in. 1t
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1904. when the government silk-weaving
was stopped. Many Of the women doing
this work were not prepared to take up
other occupations. / set them to work
classifying. mounting and cataloguing
the insects, and thereby relieving the
scientists assistants of detail which
clogged their particular sphere of duties.
Did you see the garden where the
perpetrators have SO many plants and in
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EDIENAL Roth
G n b u r &, perched
iliSh above the
deep blue Tauben,
is Germany's Ar
cadia. 1t is the
place where all
men are trelasive-
ly) rich and all
children happy. 1t
is at once Europes
oldest and newest
town. Other towns
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sects under experiment? But them DIR.
Howard paused. they are working more
now in the greenhouses and at their
desks. 1t is. of course. a most unusual
occupation. having been instituted for
the purpose l stated a moment ago But
l am interested in woman's particular
attributes for the world of affairs ana,
being a scientist, when 1 have discovered
q truth, l like to put it into service"
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tie, he would have worn two articles OF
clothing that would have fitted in with
almost anything he might have cared
to don. AS 1t was his vest and tie de-
manded costume that should be built
around them. a plain dark brbown tie
perhaps, would have harmonfzed with
the brown suit But the plain brown
suit would undoubtedly be accompanied
by q brown vest, and the striped vest
would be an unnecessary expense.
Many men in moderate circumstances
who wonder why 1T is that their ward
robe is usually in want Of something,
would find the answer in this mans
case. They will wear a plain vest until
they get tired of it Then, wearying
OF the vest which was made with the
suit, they Will succuInb to the lure
of i fancy vest which they see dis
played in the window. Undoubtedly that
vest would be an acquisition with Ger
tain suits But too often they don't
think of that They see the vest in a
shop window. with no conflicting back
ground to its rainbow beauty. They
try it on, purchase it and walk home in
a daze Of glory. And they feel hurt
when asked how they dare come home
in such q condition.
After all, men would do well to get
women's opinions on matters of this sort.
A woman. nine times out Of ten. can tell
at a glance whether a certain suit will
has the cultivated. or uncultivated. ap-
probation of color value which many
hard-headed men of business lack, al
though they will never admit it.
Mind. this is not to be construed as an
assault on the fancy vest as an institu-
ton. A man who possesses three suits,
each with vest of the same material.
must humanity hunger at times for a bit
Of contrast in his costume That is well
and good. But he should consult some
body who knows, and get vest which
can be worn reasonably with all of his
suits.
There is, among the writer's acquaint-
ances, a man whose closet is filed with
fancy vests. He is not particularly es-
thetic. His choice of vests shows that
But he has enough common-sense to
know that you can't wear five shades Of
purple, one of green and one of blue and
get away with 1t. Consequently his, vests
hang in his closet. He bought them at
one time and another to go with certain
suits. A suit wore out and the vest did
not. He can't wear % per cent of them
now, and they represent cost to him Of
about $50, or enough TO buy two new suits
Of clothes. -.
= =
This man continually complains about
his lack OF wardrobe It is because he
has studiousIy ignored the fundamental
Of military life. avoid impedimenta." He
has the vests Of man making twice his
salary. And the cost Of the vests has
to be eked out elsewhere. since he hap
pens to be one Of those men who live
within their salaries and don't run, huge
credit accounts.
Grays Of different designs blue grays
and blues, all go toward the making Of
the unitarian vest. Light cloth-light In
texture. that isis also of benefit to the
man who wants change And these
vests can be purchased cheaply, for deal
ers are not anxious to sell the gaudier
types and simply supply demand. One
dealer says that II there was more uni
formity in the selection OF fancyIvests- he
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with hoary paSts. narrow Streets, pictur-
esaue gabled houses. gray fortress walls
and damp dungeons compensate for their
picturesque beauty by being socially
backward. and when you ask them why
the houses smell and the children are
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ems nimble fingers can do SO many things
that everything is practically open to
them in the department except field work.
1t might be there. I suppose. but there
are few who could endure the hardships
of all kinds of weather. And what would
a woman do if she were teiegraphed
within an hours notice to get ready to go
from Virginia to Kansas, for instance?
II instituted the work OF perpetrators in
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JGS? USa..'' IS not
hard TO imagine
being uttered, with
a little Shrek and
t h c traditional
Z Kin s up of
skirts, as though
skirts We're over
magnets for bugs,
iuic" and the Ike.
builders, yau
say of-cT-busS ::
For goodness sake,
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At Once the Oldest
and the Newest of
German municipalities
Wonderful Munich
pal Activities Which
Have Made Its 5000
Citizens the Most Con-
tented in the World.
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single bug in armies of bugs?'' was a
challenge not without logic. I'VE are not
going to be experimenters, she affirmed,
to clinch her avowal of permanent love
for inscts.
YES our ambition is to be scientific
assistants" approved her co-worker.
Acting in that capacity ones opinion is
authoritative. A scientific assistant may
write bulletins. There have been only a
very few women made scientific assist
ants in the history of the bureau of plant
life. The salary Is We believe, ordinarily
$1,000 a year, but the work is worth that
much to us for its entertaining instruc-
ton
What is the most interesting phase
of your, work as preparators?' was
asked.
well. the most interesting thing We do
is the mounting and lettering of the eggs
and then watching closely the life histo-
ries all the way to the beetle stage. In
dicating a certain beetle In a greeniSh-
gray suit of tweeds and looking as If he
had lived and died off the fat of the
land: I'VE found those eggs in the gar
den-our bureau garden. just ousideEon
cabbage leaf We watched nine days for
the eggs to hatch, and then nine days
after that until the, beetle emerged, when
we set to work to try to determine the
number of life cycles in a season.
The three divisions Of interesting work
thus afforded give us abundant variety,
and there is no other occupation that
could tempt us
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DR.. L. o. Howard. chief of the bureau
of plant life. says there are no vacancies
for perpetrators and not very likely to be.
I'VE have thirty eight women in this
bureau" he says, 'buf most of them are
doing clerical work. and most of them
are unusually efficient, too. In fact, wom-
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Special Correspondence o. Tile Star
BERLIN, December %, I!
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the acton and eject OF each. and one OF
our duties is TO file the records. The in
sects sent to us samples are kept for
breeding purposes and to follow out what
We call theiI. life histories. From these
life histories. which We record in detail,
the scientists make bulletins that are is
sued at intervals and sent out to the To-
thrives.''
The Lexington intelligencer., 1914-10-09
WHAT RAILROADS DO
t@ WITH THEIR INCOME
!
Continued from Page y

the Country. Just as the idea
has prevailed in the minds of
many that the railroads are
owned by handful of rich men,
so the thought has also found
deep root that they collect mil
lions of dollars from the public
which goes into the Golfers OF
the lew and which is perman-
emily removed from the thrift
and industry Of the people.
At the end of the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1918, the rec
ords at Washington show that
the railroads of the United
States had collected a gross in
come from all branches of thell
service amounting to SO, ,118,929
918. Of this sum, 81, ,373,83O,
589, was paid out for labor-or
to put it in another way, almos
The Lexington intelligencer., 1914-10-09
Death of Geo. B. Fletcher.

Geo. B. Fletcher, an Old
and highly respected citizen
of this county, died at his home
in Higginsville Sunday morning
at 6 O'clock.
Mr.. Fletcher was about 10
years of age. Besides widow
he is survived by four sons. he
was an uncle of Mrs. W. j. Ban.
don of this city.
The funeral was held in Hig
ginSville Tuesday afternoon a
| , O'clock.
The Lexington intelligencer., 1914-10-09

receive a higher price for the
things he produces on his farm
for his corn, wheat, pork, beef
mutton, cotton, wool and other
farm products. In other words
50 inter-dependent have we be-
come, and so closely allied are
the interests Of the farmer, the
merchant, the manufacturer,
the laborer and every other
great National industry that
the prosperity Of one has be-
come the prosperity Of all.
When times are good, the rail
roads spend around $5OO,OOO,-
900 a year for betterments, eX-
tensions and new lineS-and
this expenditure always opens
up a market for thousands OF
mules used in heavy construct
ion work.
Another fact which the aver
age man doesn't take into con-
sideration is the e IF ect of
drouths and crop failures on
the railroads. While admitting
t off hand that these things hurt
= the farmer, merchant and man.
ufacturer he forgets that when
= the farmer doesn't produce big
| crops and ship lots of live stock
t these things cut big hole in
the receipts of the tranSporta-
4 ton companies forcing them
! to run trains that are only half
= loaded while thousands Of
= empty box cars stand idle on
: the side tracks. During the last
: four years Missouri and the
S Corn Belt generally has had
d three severe drouths and the
railroads possessed no magic
7. power which enabled them to
/ escape their full share of the
= resulting consequences. They
al bear no charmed life which plac
s. es them above the inexOrablt
le law of cause and effect-no nee
s, romancer's art which changes
lie dross into gold or a deficit int
os a surplus. Well might they ex
= claim with Shylock in his pa
X thetic defense Of the Jew, 81
IS you prick US, do we not bleed
p If you tickle us, do we no
at laugh? If you poison us, do W
.st not die?" Adv. Ito be continl
re ed next week.
The Lexington intelligencer., 1914-10-09
Jerome w. Simpson A Suicide.

Jerome w. Simpson A Suicide.
The body of jerome W. Simp-
son, who disappeared Wednesday
from his home in Kansas City,
was found Thursday afternoon
n the Lake of the Woods in
SwOpe Park. To make sure Of
death, Mr.. Simpson had severed
arteries in his wrist and had at
tempted to sever the jugular
vein.
Mr.. Simpson was the second
son of the late Ju dge Jerome B.
Simpson. He is survived by a
wife and two brothers, Marcus
and Talbot Simpson.
No reason is ascribed by mem
bers of his family for the act,
The Lexington intelligencer., 1914-10-09

7. G. Sawyer went to Indepen-
dence Tuesday to spend the
day.
E. F. Meyer went to Kansas
City Tuesday to spend the
day.
Dr. B. 7. Payne went to Kan
sas City Tuesday to spend
the day on professional busi-
ness.
The Lexington intelligencer., 1914-10-09
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For Senator in Congress
WILLIAM j. STONE
For State Superintendent of Pub
lie Schools
HOWARD A. GASS
For Judge of the Supreme Court
JAMES T. BLAIR
For Representative in Congress
COURTNEY W. HAMLIN
For Representative
N. M. HOUX
For Presiding Judge County
Court
ZACH w. WRIGHT
For Judge County Court West
ern District
DAN G. WADE
For Judge County Court Eastern
District
JULIUS V0GT
For Probate Judge
S. N. WILSON
For Circuit Clerk
1rrur m UTTrrn
For County Clerk
GEORGE W. BATES
For Recorder of Deeds
w. T. WERNWAG
For Prosecuting Attorney
WILLIAM AULL, JR.
For Collector
c. L. WILSON
For Justice Of the Peace Lex
ington Township
CLYDE G. WRIGHT
For Constable Lexington Tow
ship
JOE N. MITCHELL
The Lexington intelligencer., 1914-10-09
Ma0zeI.

Drop me a card and | will send
you literature telling all about
the Manzel engine driving auto
tire pump. This pump has a
safety valve and there is no dan.
ger of putting TOO much air in
the tire.
r. M. OD0NNELL,
Levasy, Mo.
The Lexington intelligencer., 1914-10-09

Miss Margaret Bates went 10
Odessa Monday evening for "
visit.
Mrs. Earl Young and httle
son returned Monday evening
to their home in Aullville after
a visit here with relatives.
Frank Kriehn went to Kansas
City Tuesday to spend the day.
day.
The Lexington intelligencer., 1914-10-09
| NO ALUM in
| DR.PRIGE'S S
CR EA-m
l BAKING POWDER

30 cents out of every dollar they
took in was Immediately paid
out to the hundreds of thous-
ands of men and women whom
they employ in the conduct OF
their business. For mainten-
ance of way, equipment, depots'
etc, they disbursed 1929, 167 49l.
or almost another billion dol
lars and in this vast item the
reader can grasp what railroad
prosperity means to the great
steel mills, the lumber and coal
industry, the big car and loco
motive building concerns ana
other sources of railroad sup
plies. In taxes they paid
out the enormous sum of $l29,-
O52, 1922, which helped to main
tain the public schools, public
highways and other revenue eX'
penses of every state, country
and incorporated town and city
in the country. After the in
+oroe+ had heen paid on theil
funded debt and all other char
acters of expense had been me-
they had $153, ,426,676 left ou'
of which to declare dividends
and to use as a surplus fund TO.
emergencies Of one kind and an
other.
In other words after the rail
roads got through paying TO
their labor, steel, lumber, Goa
interest and other necessary ez
penses the above little NOR
than $153,OOO,OOO was a
the surplus they had left fC
: themselves out of an income {
more than three billion dollar
and this too, upon propertlt
: worth the gigantic sum Of twel
ty billion dollars. Thus it ca
u be seen that on the basis of tt
present rates the railroads pt
back to the public in one w'
= and another practically evel
"a dollar they receive for servlC
Of AS was stated in the previo
re article, the operating income
n, the railroads for the fiscal we
I'd ending June 80, 1914 was $12
il 100000 less than for 19l3--wh
lie expenses and taxes were 81
of 100000 greater. 1t can thereto
n be seen at a glance that unlt
lift the railroads are given sol
increase in rates in the W
ar near future the time when ma
&C. of them will go upon the roC
,at of financial ruin is not far Of
ed and yet the slight increase n
in essary to save them is so sn
cir that the average citizen wo
20 not be conscious of it after
o. had gone into effect. In
or. future article this quest
ost will be more fully discussed
The Lexington intelligencer., 1914-10-09

Miss Elma Brooks went to
Kansas City Saturday for
few days visit.
The Lexington intelligencer., 1914-10-09
A Barometer of Prosperity.

1t is an Ola Saying ClldC NIlSh
railroads are prosperous every
body is prosperous-and the
manner in which their income is
disbursed, as above explained |
tells the reason why. In short,
for years they have been re-
garded as the great business |
barometer of the Nation. No
other industry in the country
employees 50 many men as do the
railroads-and furthermore it
is a high grade of labor employ
ed upon as lucrative a basis as
obtains in any other large in
dustry. When times are good
nearly two million people, first
and last, derive their living
from the railroads-and when
this vast army is working full
time and is contented the mil
lions they pay out for merchan-
disc and for the living necessi-
ties produced on the farm can
not help but have tremendous
effect upon the Commerce and
agriculture of the country.
But this is only half the story.
Aside from the nearly two mil
lion operatives directly employ
ed upon the railroads in normal
times, the hundreds Of thous-
ands of men who work in the
great steel mills, the coal mines,
the lumber industry and in the
big car and locomotive shops
are equally vitality affected
for when the railroads are max
f ing extensive Improvements
and buying heavily of these sup.
plies it means that these great
industries are running full bias
n while when the railroads arr
q subsisting only upon absolute
:, necessities it means that man!
y of them are only working hal
v shift.
, Why Men Are Idle
IS Every man who reads tn
# newspapers knows that gu
II large cities have been crowde
y with idle men for a number Q
lie years. This has not been due
j. much to politics but rather ths
re we have been passing throug
IS one of the most marked bus
le ness depressions in the histor
ry of the country-a period OF r.
ny adjustment in the industri
ks world in which groping aft
- sound economic policies bs
&C. crops, etc, have all played the
all part. That much of the trou
lid led situation in the labor wor
it however has been due to Il
fact that the railroads ha
on been and are now facing t
most critical period in their h
. tory is so true that extend
= argument is superAuous. Stru
Cling against an ever increasi
II cost of labor, operation and 81
II plies and an ever diminish
II net income they have had
II economic in every direction
II and in the frantic endeavor
keep their heads above wa
they have been forced to disc
tinue hundreds of trains, to
the forces working in tt
myriad railroad shops and t
dispence with many thousa
of former employees. In
manner, cutting down the
chases of steel, lumber, coal
cars and locomotives has |
wise affected the payrolls
these industries-and hence
army of unemployed which
some years has been haun
every city in the land.
The Farmer Vitally COncel
That the farmer has a
vital and personal interes
this situation should be aT
ent at a glance. When the
lions of laboring men in
The Lexington intelligencer., 1914-10-09

A. W. ALLEN. Editor and publisher
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09

PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss, Jan. g.
Though deeply absorbed for the most
part in affairs of State, President Will
son has awaited himself of leisure mo-
ments during his vacation here to
answer scores of oddly written letters
from children in this vicinity. 1t is
one of the many things which the
President would like to do at Wash
ington, for he enjoys reading the let
ters of children, but he finds it inn
possible at the White House because
of pressure of important business.
None of the letters are made public,
for the President always defers that
to the recipient. But as the receipt
of a letter from the President of the
United States is not an every day oc-
currence in the hamlets and towns
along the gulf coast, information
about them has leaked out in various
ways. Master Cecil Brown. of Missis-
sippi City, has two letters from the
President, more than any of the other
youngsters. Master Brown a few days
ago stood in the road waving an
American flag and halted the big
automobile.
II want to give you some candy
he told the President, land ] want
you to eat it, because l made it my
self"
The President took the box of home
made candy with him, while Master
Brown, attired in a boy scout uniform,
saluted proudly as the automobile
proceeded. When Mr.. Wilson got
through with his important letters he
wrote the boy. thanking him for the