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The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-01-27
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Conducted by the National woman's
Christian Temperance Union)
BAN ON MODERATE DRINKING
Employers of Prominent Railway sys-
tenn Prohibit Employees From
Touching Alcoholic Liquor

The use Of alcohol is receiving some
hard knocks these days. A prominent
railway system, not contented with the
general rule heretofore in force on rail-
ways forbidding employees to drink
while on duty, now forbids employees
to indulge at all in drinking out of en-
ployment hours, or in any other con-
duct which will impair their health
or make them less alert and less cap
able while on duty. The owner of
one of the nations pets-a prominent
baseball team-announced that mod
Grafton in drinking is not sufficient:
The players on his team must leave
alcohol entirely alone and abondon Gig
arets. The justification for such rules
may be found not only in the difficulty
of being moderate in indulgence, but
also in the CUMULATIVE and after-ef-
fects of dissipation. The world IL
moving; the old fetish of personal lib
erty" at whatever cost of danger to
the public at large seems to be losing
its power. The time may come when
every man to whom the life and safety
OF others are entrusted may be ex-
pected or even required to be as alb
stemious as the ball players and rail
way employees just mentioned.-Jour-
nal American Medical Association.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-01-27

as anything you can make. 1t should
consist of a variety of seeds and
grains cracked fine enough SO they
can readily pick them up. Besides
this, they will need plenty of water,
grit and bran where they can get to it
| all the time. Mix a little pounded
charcoal with the bran, to keep the
digestive organs sweet, and prevent
fermentation.
Do not fuss" with the chicks. See
that they are clean, dry, have plenty
of feed and water, and let them go.
Handling is bad for fowl at any age,
but especially for the tender babies.
The feed should be given in a deep
litter of chaff. 1t is as natural for
chick to scratch as it is to eat.
The exercise they get in digging out
the grains is worth as much as the
feed itself.
Never give any moist food. It is
likely TO cause bowel trouble Dry
grains make the natural food of any
feathered fowl, and they will take in
what moisture the system demands
if water is left where they can get
to it. Grit is, OF course, a neces-
sity for grinding it, and must be fur.
nished right from the start.
When the feathers begin to start
the chicks will need little extra
nouTishment, and of different kind
They must have certain amount OF
animal or meat food. Where they are
| in a wild state they provide them.
selves with bugs ard worms, but the
domestic fowl must have this fur
nished.
The best thing to give for supply.
! ing this element is milk. 1t may be
| given either sweet or sour, but for
the small chicks the sweet milk is
| best. If this is not to be had, give
a small allowance OF beef-scrap
watching the bowels to see that they
| do not get too loose.
! Feather-making is a great draft
/ upon the system, and must be met, OF
| the chicks will weaken and die.
Plenty of the right kind of food, eS
ercise, cleanliness and fresh air are
| the great factors in success with
young chicks. If these principles are
kept in mind, you should have little
! to fear from disease.
Copyright, 1918. by C. NJ shultz)
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-01-27

The other two cans of soil remained
dry. At the close of the school, the
thermometers were read again. Which
soils showed the highest tempera-
lures? Which the lowest?
At another time they punched holes
at different heights in the sides of
some old tin cans; the cans were then
filed with the same kind of soil and
the same quantity of water was pour
ed into each can.
1t was observed that little or. no wa
ter ran through the holes while it was
flowing downward through the soil,
but as the soil became over-saturated
from the bottom upward the water be-
gan to run out.
The bottom of the pan represented
a blue clay, hard pan, rock, or any
other hard layer through which water
could not easily pass. The hole in
the can represented the underground
drain through which what water the
soil could not hold would flow away
They learned that the soil like a
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-01-27
WHAT HIS FAMILY RECEIVED
In Making Temperance Speech Eng
lish Workinsman Makes Startling
Illustration With Bread.

In Manchester. England, working
man was making temperance speech
He held in his hands knife and also
loaf OF bread. Drawing the knife
across the loaf and taking of slice
of moderate size. he said, This is
what you give to the city govern
ment." He made another and larger
section, and added, And this is what
you give to the general government.
He now made tremendous slash
with his knife that cut away guam
tity of bread equal TO threequarters
of the entire loaf. This" he said,
you give to the brewer" The rem
nant after all this amputation was
only thin slice. The larger fraction
of this he allotted to the public-house,
and of the few crumbs left he said.
And this you keep to support your
self and your family" The drunk
ards children know this we'll
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-01-27
lNTEMPERANCE AS A DISEASE
Dr.. Macmillan Grossman Declares the
Question Is One to Be Handled
by the Doctors.

In an address before the last In
ternational Congress of Hygiene in
Washington, D. c., DR.. Macmillan
Grossman, director of the National AS
ISOLATION for the Study and Education
of Exceptional Children, declared that
intemperance was a disease and a
question TO be handled by the doctors
The utterance has been widely quoted
in the liquor press as bolstering up
the arguments of the anti-prohibition-
lists. What all thinking, common
sense people ask is that the manu-
facture and sale of that which direct
ly causes this disease of intemperance
be forbidden by law. Our national
health is physically our greatest gas
set wrote Theodore Roosevelt, when
president of the United States. To
prevent any possible deterioration of
the American stock should be a ma
tional ambition. The preservation OF
national vigor should be a matter of
patriotism"
The alcohol question is therefore 4
national issue.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-01-27

sponge, will hold only certain guam
tity of water.
Do you suppose that they concluded
that tile drains should be made shall
low or deep? What do you suppose
tEey learned about soils having gravel
or sand subsoils?
The next week, these boys came to
school with small strips OF litmus pa
per, which they purchased for five
cents at the drug store, some clean
saucers. and some samples of soil ia
ken from different places.
One touched some vinegar (acid)
with the litmus paper to see what
change would be made in it's color;
one touched some lemon juice; anoth
er placed a piece against a raw piece
of tomato. Then they touched some
dampened soda, wood ashes, and lime
These they found to be alkaline; that
is they acted much like I've.
They learned that by carefully mix
ing a little lime water and vinegar
no change in the color of the Htmus
paper would be made. They had read
that such substance was said to be
neutral. They learned that the els
tern water was neutral.
The samples of soil were separate.
ly mixed with rain water to a stiff
mud, and a piece of litmus paper
pushed into each and allowed to re-
main two or three minutes.
Three found that their papers were
darkened from being wet, but that
| there we're no marked changes in the
color. The soils tested therefore were
neutral.
One boy found his paper turned q
brickish red. That was decided to be
an acid or sour soil. 1t was learned
that it needed draining or lining. or
perhaps both, to neutralize it.
The most impressive lesson these
boys learned was from what they did
rather than what they read. What
these four boys did any other boys OF
the upper elementary grades in any
school can do.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-01-27
SPRAYING POTATOES
FOR BEST RESULTS
Treatment Should Begin When
Plants are Ten Inches High
and Repeated Often.
(By w. NJ. KELLEY

AS a general rule better results will
be obtained if the spraying is begun
when the potato plants are from eight
to ten inches high and the treatment
repeated at intervals of from ten to
fourteen days in order to keep the
plants well covered with the bordeaux
throughout the season.
When the blight is in evidence il
may be necessary to spray oftener
Usually from four to six applications
will produce the best results.
The bordeaux should contain six
pounds of copper sulphate to each SO
gallons. When bugs are plentiful and
two pounds Of paris green or two
quarts of arsenate of soda stock solu.
ton to the quantity of the bordeaux
mixture required to spray an acre.
The application should be thorough
especially at times when the bugs are
numerous or when the weather Is IA
vorable to blight. AS a general rule
frequent light applications will pro
duce better results than heavier ap-
plications at long intervals.
Those who depend upon three ap-
plications will obtain better results
during most seasons If they delay the
first spraying until there is danger of
the vines being injured by bugs OF
flea beetles and then make a thor
ough application of the bordeaux and
the poison.
The following spraying should also
be thorough and applied at such times
as to keep the foliage protected dur
ing the whole of the growing season.
+ My experience teaches me that il
we obtain satisfactory results, we
must not wait for the blight to ap-
pear before we begin spraying and
that it does not pay to apply poison
alone for bugs. When we are fighting
bugs it will cost but a little additional
70 use bordeaux and the poison to
getheT
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-01-27
MAGNETIC NAVY IS AMUSING
Caused by Magnet and Concealed
Maqnetized Needles.

To build this navy thin pieces OF
cedar or pine wood and some mag
Cut the pieces of wood into lengths a
little longer than the needles used
and about one-fourth of an inch in
width. Make one end of each boat
pointed for the bow. After the boats
are all ready turn them upside down
and lay a magnetized needle upon
each where the keel should be. Now
light paraffine candle and let drop
of hot paraffine fall upon each needle
and boat. Take hot nail and smooth
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-01-27

ute some simple apparatus which
would be needed in making some sim
pie tests of the truth of the state
ments made in the books.
With lamp chimneys, thin muslin
and some fiat-bottomed pans, they
planned to find out for themselves
how rapidly different kinds of soil per-
mitted water to pass through them.
After tying the muslin on the bot
tom of each chimney they filled one
with very black soil (humus), one
with clay. one with loan, and one
with sand leach containing the same
amount of SOLD; to the upper part of
each chimney they tied strings which
served as balls through which to run
broomstick
Each end of the broomstick rested
on the seat OF desk. The pans were
placed beneath the chimneys. At the
same time, exactly the same quantity
of water was poured on the soil in
each chimney.
Through which do you suppose the
water ran most quickly?
Which was the last to permit it 10
run through?
Which one held the most water?
Which one retained the least wa
ter?
On another day, they filed the same
chimneys with the same kinds of soil
-humus, clay, loan, and sand,-and
set each one on two small chips on
the bottom of the fat pans.
Instead of pouring the water into
the chimneys, they poured the same
quantity into each pan. They did this
to learn from the experiment which
soil would allow water to arise most
rapidly. Through which do you think
1t rose most rapidly?
The next Friday morning each boy
had common thermometer and a
good sized tin can. Into each can was
placed the same kind of soil. In the
center of each of two cans the Their
mometers were placed deep enough
to allow the freezing point to be just
above the soil; in the other two they
were deep enough to allow them to
remain upright
At the first recess, the temperature
of each was read and noted Into the
can containing deeply-covered Their
mometer and into one having the Their
mometer not so deeply covered, the
same quantity of water was poured.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-01-27
e the LIfe Be Rlaht.

If the life is right with God and
man. every moment spent in true pray.
er results in the generation of divine
power; for prayer is our dynamo for
appropriating the divine electricity
that manifests itself In invincible volts
of faith. hope. love, peace, Joy and
power "Ye shall receive power after
that the Holy Ghost is come upon
YOU" If We, then, being evil, know
how to give good gifts unto your chill.
dren, how much more shall your Fa-
Their which is in heaven give to them
that ask him?" Whatever lack there
may be in us, or our work must be at
tributed to insufficient or deficient
praying. For we have not because We
ask not. Ye ask and receive not be
cause We ask amiss.''
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-01-27


ering.
To give it other things to eat at this
time would upset the whole plan of ma.
ture, and retGrd, instead of promote,
the chicks growth
The first food of the little chick
should be oatmeal-the steel-cut, if
you can get 1t. and that is not to
be had, the ordinary rolled oats will
do if well crumbled In the hands.
This should be given about every two
hours for a day or two, gradually
frightening the time between feeds
until they get it three times a day.
Put a shallow dish of clean water
where they can get it. If they want
to walk through it, turn teacup bot
tom side up in the middle of the
dish
For the first two or three days they
will want to sleep and rest much of
the time, and will nearly live in the
brooder. After that they will be ready
to begin active operations. They will
now want to be let loose in the run
for most Of the day, If it can be set
where 1t is warm Leave the brood
er where they can go into it when
they get chilly.
After the third day begin to give
them a prepared chick feed with their
oatmeal Increase the chick feed and
decrease the oatmeal By degrees. un.
til when they are ten days old they
get the feed alone.
You can buy the prepared chick
feed that is better and fully as cheap
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-01-27
What Is Wanted.

What the temperance men want is
not the regulation of the liquor traffic,
but it's destruction; not that it's de
struction; not its evils should be cir
cumscribed idle fancy, but that they
should, to the full extent OF the
states ability, be utterly eradicated.
No shilly-shally legislature can endure.
and it would be good for nothing if
it could. Stave in the heads OF the
barrels, put out the fires of the dis
tilleries, confiscate the demijohns,
bottles and glasses that have been pol
luted by the internal trafic.-Horace
GreeleV
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-01-27
The Magnetic Navy.

the paraffine out over each needle.
The boats are now ready to place in a
large vessel of water where they will
act very queerly toward each other,
says the Popular Electricity. By hold
ing magnet near the boats they may
be made to move about in mysteri
Gus way.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-01-27
What Temperance Brings.

More of good than we can tell:
More to buy with, more to sell:
More of comfort, less of care;
More to eat and more to wear,
Happier homes with faces brighter:
All our burdens rendered lighter;
Conscience clean and minds much
stronger;
Debts much shorter. purses longer;
Hopes that drive away all sorrow;
And something laid up for tomorrow
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-01-27
creat sarrler.

Il can desire nothing better for this
great country than that a barrier.
high as Heaven. should be raised be-
tween the unpoIlutad lips OF the chill
dren and the intoxicating cup."-John
B. Cough
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-01-27
Before and After.

There are now hundreds of children
in Knoxville with clothes and shoes
to wear and something to eat who
went naked and hungry when saloons
were here.-w. P. Chandler, Chief OF
Police Of Knoxville. Tenn.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-01-27
Tor the n
I'D
ONES { ]
BOYS TEST OF SOILS
interesting Experiments of Four
Ohio Youths.
Moot impressive Lesson Learned Was
from What They Did Rather Than
from What They Read-Re-
suits of Trials.
by PROF. A. p. GRAHAM, Ohio Col
iege of Agriculture.)

iege of Agriculture.)
Four boys who were members of
the same country school had read
about how the soil had been formed
by glaciers; they had seen the soil on
the hillside farm gradually removed
by tiny streams and deposited on the
nearby level farm.
They had noticed the effects of
freezing and thawing on high banks
and the sides of the bitches But
there were some facts about soils that
which they knew only by what they
read. Each one resolved to contrib
La Junta tribune., 1914-11-14
Offseaal vees - 49, -. =.

At ths rsesat slsetiea n peoels
voted upoa slsht iAitiatea aasa1-
ments to ths constitnt5on. aaA elGht
proposed and rsfsrrsd lava of -
sixteen propositions Otsso county -
dorsed only two slats wids prohihl-
tion and ~ propossA oas-haif Mn
levy for eood roads ahs na3ority
for stats Wide prohibltaon bsing -
5si. and for. good roads. 1.I3z. All
Of tho other PROPOSED laws and
amendments we're votsd down. The
official vote follows:
No.l.-Prohibiting voting on "rs-
jected" amsndmsnts for ssx years.
Yes, sls: NO. 33ss.
No 3--Eor state vide prohibition,
Yes. lzSs: no. 1895.
No. 3-Providins for thres- -fourths
jury verdict. Yes, 1913; no. 1887.
No. l.--Civing the governor pow
er TO cali IN election Whenever Z
certain per cent Of the people psti-
tion for IL Yss. $50; no. 1905.
No. s.-For child welfare commis-
sion. With Ben Lindsey in charge.
Yes, l4s4: no. 1871.
No. s.--For . Law permitting pro-
baton in certain criminal cases Of
minors and first offenders. Yes.
l2?7: NO. ls42.
No. For Better noads. Yes,
1855; NO. 1898.
No. s.-MakinE newspapers pub
lie utilities. Yes. TIC: NO. 3o7s.
No. s.-Amendins Public Utilities
Commission Law. Yes. $50: NO. l.
5ss.
No. 1o.-Law regulating commits
sion merchants. Yes. 1891: no. L.
A20.
No. l1.-Reiieving employees and
workmen from assuming risk Of In
Jury or death. Yes. l.7.s: mo. III
s4?.
No. l..-Appointment OF deputy
sheriffs. constables anc other peace
officers. Yes. $50: NO. 1853.
No. l3.-Public Utilities Commis-
sion Law. proposed amendment. |
Yes. ISL: NO. 1855.
No. l%.-Permitting towns and
elites to incur bonded Indebtedness |
Of 10 per cent Of assessed vsluatioa. |
Yes. ss7; NO. 1859.
No. ls.-AnsA1nent coasssning |
boards Of equalisation 70 properly |,
adjust the burdens Of TAXATION. Yes.
1882: NO. 1854.
No. ls.-Permitting change in
NE manner and cost Of publishing II
sonstitutionai amendments and ini-
hated and referred measures. Yes.
1897: no. i%ss.
La Junta tribune., 1914-11-14


'.cAauncsy MeDsssid. foseaaa oe
Alsx Wants ranch ten miles south Of
Roeky Ford. and Interested With hin
II The cattle business. was sssiously
injured last Monday morning. when
ths horse he was riding stepped In
to . hole and both horse and man
were thrown heavily TO the ground.
The horse fell on top Of Mcdonald.
and Inflicted serious Injuries. McDon.
ada pelvic bone being broken. and
iikewise his collar bone and two ribs.
The accident happened about II
o'clock the morning. while Nc.
Donald vas rounding up another
horss in = pasture located some dis
tance from the house. When Nc
Doaald did not return 10 the house
for dlnncr Il caused no great alarm.
bet towards night when Il vas
found that he had not been in Rocky
Ford or been seen BY any one. .
searchlns party Of over forty peo-
pie was ~ once organized. and sher-
iff Yant was also notified. About
sac o'clock Mcdonald vas found IN
n Daseure about four miles from the
houss. He was practically helpless.
bet ha1 been able 10 crawl about
lee feet from who're the accident oc-
cusso6. He was badly chilled BY The
niGh4 ais. sad pss>ably vouil 81
hsvo O1svived the nisht.
NepoaAld was taken 10 the Pollock
IloGUoeAl at Rocky Ford. where Il 10
rsDesee1 be h esttiae aloag nicsly
at ~ Deeseat time. No pesnaasnt
injury b aatieipated.
La Junta tribune., 1914-11-14
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La Junta tribune., 1914-11-14

long : thsy nuras their DFessnt e1nl-
~ towards each other ths dsmoera2S
will remain II power. Ths staa1-
pattsrs have lsas uss for : proSrsslsD
than they have for : democrat, - ~
long ~ they feel that way about Il
thers viii be NO amaigamation. 49,
ass already talking shout nomiaaslns
Taft or Elihu Root for ths prsailsa-
q In 1915. and Of course TIE progres-
sives would flock In droyes 70 the ~
publican party II either vers nano1
- standard bearer. What's tho
matter with Taft?" queries the dystl
in tho wool standpatter. on. moth
Ing. Of course. There couldn't -
anything the matter with man who
only carried Utah and Vermont ~
1912.
Here II an utterance Of . great
American captain OF industry that
deserves undivided attention. James
). Hill. head 6f the Great Northasn
Railroad. says: 'If the United
States. as . nation. takes advantaeel
Of present opportunities the msn
In public lie. in the majority. prove
capable Of taking statesmanlike
measures there IL no reason why. In
time, We cannot be three times 81
prosperous ~ We have ever been ~
fore" The railways and the Indus
trial corporations In this country are
obeying the law. II they inherited
sins OF omission or commission thess
should be forgiven. Warfare on
business should cease as long ~ bus
mess II properly conducted. The o.
portunity to increase our prosperity
threefold. which Mr.. Hill points out
should be taken at this time. when
the world Is turning 10 the United |
States for the necessities Of life.-l
Leslie's.
Hays Brothers. ocean to ocean |
tourists were La Junta visltoSS |
last Monday. They were on their |
way from Charleston. 8. c.. 70 san |
Francisco. Calf. in . covered 70
gon. the latter being 10 arranged |
that Il can be converted Into candy |
manufacturing establishment %
short notice. They make . special.
" Of "floss candy which looks vssy |
much like . SNOWFALL or . ball of
cotton. either Of which would prob
ably appeal 70 the southern eye.
They left their home In South Caro-
lima on January LIST. and expect -
reach Frisco not later than Febru.
ary goth. which In the date for the
formal opening Of the Panama Expo.
sition. En- route they provide fos
their necessary expeuses By making
h. they do unless the
license exactsA In the eommunity 10
which they happen To VISIT b nesI
prohibitive. They had 10 pass up
Dodge City ~ they wanted s7.Se per
day there for the candy selling psivi-
iesc. and decided also to pass up La
Junta as the local powers that b.
wanted 81 per day for the privilege
Of doing business. That Dodge
City ordinance would be q good one
for La Junta TO pattern after. A
prohibitive ordinance would be bet
ter than the present one for the local
deal.rs Thiok 10 .x.r 80. ..ts.. Al. /