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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12
PRINCE LEARNING TO FARM
Nephew Of Queen Alexandra Is Thor
ouohiy Grounding Himself In
Agricultural Work.

Prince Eric Of Denmark, a nephew
Of Queen Alexandra, is living the SIM
pie hard working, hard playing life Of
an English farmers son at Fairford.
in Gloucestershire, according to Lon
don correspondent OF the New York
Herald. His father is Prince Waldo
mar, Queen Alexandra's youngest
brother.
He Is q third son, and destined, like
the scions Of English royalty, for a
sphere In agreement with the tastes
and pursuits Of his country. In Den
mark these are farming. So twenty
year-old Prince Eric is learning wheat
growing. cattle raising, dairy farming
and pig keeping in the British way,
which the Danish minister of agricul-
ture most admires.
On any day Prince Eric may be seen
at work like q farmland Fairford
folk were eager to fete him and spoil
him. but his hours of leisure are
passed with the farmers family or on
an excursion to a football match, for
the prince is an ardent footballer, or
on a family call to see Queen Alex
andra at Sandringham, at none Of
which he Is in danger Of being spoiled
Denmark's minister Of agriculture,
who counseled this life for Prince Eric.
allows his own daughter to be gen.
eral servant to a middle class English
family that she NAV he practically
expert in household duties and SO
avoid the pitfalls before the mere
theorist.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12
Times Have Changed.

Bob White in his Mexico Led
ger says Thine was when no
young woman permitted a young
man to call on her or to walk
with her while he smoked. 1t
was customary for the gentle
man to ask that he be permitted
to smoke in her presence. and
he expected a refusal" Quite
true when Col. Bob was a young
man. Doubtless Col. White used
to 60 to see his girl on horse
back, 600, but unless the fellow
drives a motor car he is consid
cred a cheap guy" by the girl
of this day. And smoke, why
the dear creatures delight in
cigarette smoke-in fact some
of them smoke themselves. How
ever. there are a few of US old
fOgies who like tf.e CUSTOMS of
"other days" best, and sorry to
see them becoming a memory of
''the oldest inhabitant." But
times have changed. It used to
be that when a girl was bowleg-
9ed her mother could console
herself in the thought that being
a girl it wouldn't show, but my,
how times have changed.-Ex.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12
The ''Peor" Foreign Missionary.

Homer Croy, newspaper man
of Maryville, Mo-, who is travel
ing in China, in a letter to the
Democrat-Forum of Maryville,
says:
Yesterday I went to Soochow
to see Dora Otis, the girl from
Hopkins, who went to China four
years ago to be a missionary.
I pictured to myself that she
would bo living under a propped
up corner of a roof, with a hun
cry, haggard look about her
eyes and a weak. plaintive trem-
BILE in her voice, greedy want
gnawing at her, and so l was
Knocked almost Ii mber when she
came whirling down to the sta
ton to meet me in a carriage
with two footmcn. I gave her
couple of weak hand shakes,
backed off and stared numbly
at the two footmen. It was the
first time in my life that l had
ever been met by two foatmen;
the last place in the world l eA-
pected to have it happen to ne
was in China, and the last per-
son in the world l expected to
see come whiriing up with them
was a missionary. Ur the way
to the missionary hom,: | :,as-
wered her quiver of q::cstions
dazedly, all the time !see ping my
eyes fixed on the two coachmen.
I tried to tell her about how ma
ny automobiles Maryville had
and about the new water tower
and about Prof. Hawkins being
in the Normal, but the first thing
I would kn0w wonld be staring
at the two stiftbaexed coachmen
and merely mumbling to her ex-
cited questions. When we went
inside I found a piano and half q
dozen servants; my eyes got big
ger and bigger. At dinner that
evening-did you lOtice that?-|
DINNER had a butler and
blackberry pie, and instead of
the pinched, hungry look on Ler
face 1 began to see a hearty,
we'll fed expression. Then it
began TO dawn upon me that I
had absolutely the wrong idea
about missionaries, There's no
starving, no hollow eyes, no
gnawing of bark-they have ev-
erything they want and button
on every wall with a servant at
the other end"
We will now pass the basket
for the poor missionary.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12
BIG PROFITS O.: GRIDIRCN
FooehaA 10 EssiIy t.,e Greatest Mor y
0ottar Amor, all College
Sptr.i.

TO any one who .-..5 seen even on3
Of the minor fall +.'.i.os.s upon tho
gridiron It will no. &c surprising IL
Learn that footbai. j The greatest
monarOAker ancls al the COLLEGE
sDoftA The proi,s IL aEy other heiI
are comparatively eligible. and ito
fOofhaA surplus e2.-A year haip3 u
make up some OF 49, dcncit that re-
Rkss hum maints,!.iLg unprC0taLlo
athletics. 1t Is repo.. .oI That AarvarG's
recGlp&s from footb Ill last year wcra
$11A3eA Of which $.1,1ii represented
caear psu6t, while P.iEce;on received
81 m and achieved i neat profit Of
$azx3A These are gains Of which
any professional s-h.-t,c enterprise
might well feel proaj. even in . soa-
son tH less abbrcvn.ei .nan that in
wmeh football has to :-asa i:s m0noy.
So 4 - scarcely SLY. .as that ila
athletic authorities CT ,Ac colleges rs-
gard football as thei.. ..os. iIav0rt;..-t
sport But the game hciI5 that pl -s-
ties not merely becsuso CT the la
showing made by its .4i.a.c.al baiais 90
xheot. It seems rather t...;.t tna Ia. -
income Is to be attributed to t..s
prestige Of college foe bali as an c.
ciustve and unique game. /; occupi- ;
Q field in which the undergraduate,
have everything practically their o. Il
way and are not yet disturbed BY p-o.
fesaional competition. As sport Ii.
enjoys the especial distinction Of ti.3
college stamp.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12
A SuHiciency Here.

The Canadian Government has
decided to deport all persons
who have been less than three
years in that country and who
are unable to get Work. This
action casts some doubt on many
of the glaring advertisements
pioturing Canada as the new LAND
| of hope.
We have been told repeatedly
in magazines and hand bills that
one need only cross the northern
frontier to find plentiful employ
ment, sure wages and a quick
road to wealth. If this be true,
there should be no necessity for
such a radical measure as that
decided uponin Ottawa.
The provinces of Ontario and
Quebec are, as matter Of fact,
said to be over run with unem.
ployed. Western Canada, which
is devoted to agriculture, min
ing and numbering, is in a soma
what more prosperous condition
but this fact will not 20 far TO-
ward eliminating a suspicion in
the United States that Canada is
a good place for Americans with
out some financial resources to
stay from, for the time, at least.
And incidentally, it might be
we'll for Uncle Sam to see that
Canada does not send US her un-
employed to sit in hungry com
pany with our own. We have a
sufficiency as it is.-Ciucinnati
Times Star.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12
Well have to hand it to the
Germans for courage, they un-
hesitatingly tackle all the rest of
the big European powers, let the
outcome be what it may.

The French government is ap-
pealing to the women of that
county to harvest the wheat crop
while the men are away at war.
It is upon the European woman
that the great burden of Europe's
militarism rests. Not only do
they bear the sons to give to the
army. but they must also labor
at tasks that should belong to
men only that great armies may
be maintained. The women
there are the slaves of the politi-
cal lords and without their labor
the great armies would vanish,
for then the men would either
have to go to work and become
producers OF starye. The light
English women are making for
the ballot is undoubtedly inspir-
ed by their desperate desire for
release from the slavery to which
they are subjected under a poIit-
ical system which regularly in
times of peace takes something
like quarter of million men
from the fields of useful produc-
tion and thrusts>> them into the
idleness of the army and navy.
The military system of the old
world would quickly 60 to pieces
before the votes of women. They
are weary of the oppressive bur
den it forces upon them. And
who can blame them!
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12
Cause for Conaratulation,


A Polish couple came before a Jus
tice OF the peace to be married The
young man handed him the marriage
license aud the pair stood up before
him
Join bands" said the Justice.
They did so and the Justice looked
at the document which authorized,
him to unite in matrimony Zaehare-
wicz Puxynsh and Leohowards leu
Nnsd
"Ahem," he aaid. "Zacharh'mehi
do you take this woman" etc.
Yea, sir." responded the YOUNG
man
'Ieoh'mh'm-sE. do you take thA1
man to be." etc.
Yes, sir" replied the woman
Then l pronounce you man and
wife" said the Justice. glad to hn19
something he could pronounce, md
I heartily congratulate you both On
having reduced those two names to
ona"
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12
RAINY DAYS ON THE isTl:... IS
Inhabitants Of Panama Strip c,r;-:.lf
Cannot Reproach Nature I....a
NIpgardIiness.

For nine months OF the -.,c..r. =
rains some" on the isthTus ., ra...
anna. The precipitation Of cac :a2-.!
not long ago was So inchcS. IL
broke even the Panama rainy sce.a.
record and nothing like 1t has c>cu-..
since, but with somethirs il, IN 5.
erage Of twelve feet Of rainf:!i il J. j.,
months the isthmus can keep
showing Of dampness withNut t.,
worried about an ability TO i've L.
soaking recordA
0atun lake. the artificial bcL" -
water created by Lieut.. Col. Willis II,
L. 6fbert by the hard process OF car-
ming the unzuly Chasres river. i,' nc,..
at the close Of the rainy seusco, :
the high level which the army c!ii
predicted It would reach. Ghn G..
gres pouring into the valley rladc t.
lake, but the rains made the Ca.s-.".
For the next three months TIE rive.
win be little more than G :.ickl:n.
rin. but water enough has been stored
to keep the hke level as it il until
the rains descend and the IocLs como
onoe more as they have descended
and come untnterruptedly over since
the day Of Balboa. and since how lcrg
before nobody knows. Ihc United
States government has built lcck
canal acroas the is:hcug Of Panama
A sea-@evd waterway Ecvld have been
imperative II the Skies al. I'VE tie 18TH
mus were not In the hao.. OF weeping
day in and day out for ninetwelfths
of the year. Some of the Panamans
through The years probably looked
upon the drenchings as q curse, but
commerce must look upon them - q
blessing Every mile OF the way
through the canal except for the COM
paratively short distances Of the ocean
approaches, the trading ships Of the
world win sail through fresh rain
water. An water Is rain water, but
down at Panama, somehow or other.
1t seems a IL q "liqu.a differentiation"
properly might be n..ldc.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12

1t has often been noticed that on
wet and foggy days sounds are heard
at a greater distance than on clear.
fine days. 1t was Tyndall who ex.
planned the reason for this. He no
ticed that the distance at which the
sounds Of fog horns. whistles, shots
could be heard varied from day to day
from two to twelve miles. The cause
of this difference is found In the de-
gree Of homogeneity OF the air.
On a foggy or snowy day the air
may be perfectly homogeneous, this
permits sound to travel q great dis
tance. Ia clear weather the air may
be composed of vertical layers Of diff
fering consistency. and the sound
waves are reflected from the surfaces
of the layers. Probably they are also
refracted in passing through the sew.
eral layers. Currents of warm ascend
ing air form IN sne place and currents
Of cold descending air form in others.
Thus the atmosphere may be very
transparent optically and very opaque
acoustically.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12
The License to Steal.

Scuttling railroads pays bill
lion per cent, and is the safest
form of stealing. It comes out
of the stockholders and from
the public through traffic charg-
es fixed as high as the interstate
|commercs commission will per-
nit.
In the New York, New Haven
& Hartford robbery, financed"
by Morgan and Mellen direo-
tors, the interstate commerce
ommission reports the public
and the stockholders were plum
dered of 80 million aollats.
The reading public of the Unit
ed States is waiting to see if this
band of pirates will be permitted
ito get away with it." Will they
be made to disgorge-to go to
Jail?
Those directors robbed wild
ows, orphans. old men and old
women who had their all invest
ed in property as good as a
gold mine" if properly managed.
A few years ago in one of
these colossal holdups a half bill
lion was lifted, from the Rock
Island by The Watered stock
game, Today the shares of this
magnificent piece of property
are quoted at one dollar and
twenty five cents apiece.
Think of having license to
steal half a billion!
T4e railroads and their Wall
Street managers ieplore the
growing sentiment for govern:
ment ownership! Such compa-
MES as the New Haven, the Rock
Island and the Frisco are the
very ones that with lmight and
main are forcing the people to
this very thing as a measure OF
projection against a robbery SO
vast, so bold and so successful
that the greatest despoilers IN
ancient history seem to have
committed only petty larceny.
It is the high cost of finance"
which is wrecking the railroads
and creating more sentiment
for government ownership. Why
blame it on the people:-Mis'
souri, Valley Farmer,
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12

match, Wisdom is better than
weapons of war;" and education
al interests are not promoted by
the promiscuous use of firearms
IN behalf of candidate for school
trustee. No doubt there are
school trustees in Kentucky who
ought to be shot, but there is
no legal provision for disposirg
Of them in that summary man
ner, and human life is still suffi.
ciently sacred in the mountains
that those VINO would scruple no
more to take a pot shot at an en-
emy than to shoot sheep killing
dog are still in the minority.
Good natured rivalry among
candidates and their supporters
should not result in fatalities
The enthusiasm which leads a
man to work like a beaver in get
ting out votes Cor his candidates
is not to be decried. There are
voters who like to be persuaded
and the election worker ort;iaar-
lily does not ind it necessary to
use revolver to bring him to
his way of thinking. Pistols and
clubs seldom coHduce to a free
BALLOT and fan count. 1t is to
be hoped The time W., come IL |
Letc..>v County when the eIoc !
torat, will not feel it incumbcr, /
to put gun in it's hip pocket
when it sets out for the polls 20
cast an untrammeled vote.
Quick tempered men ought
to leave their guns at home when
they go among the voters. Lou
isville Courier-J journal.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12

What the Democratic tariff law
took from US the general war in
Europe will bring back, for a
period al least-the opportunity
to emp'oy sur own labor in sup
plying .ur home markets. While
the strife is on Europe will ship
no goods, and in this the i'll wind
that has befallen the countries
across the big pond will prove a
refreshing breeze in the United
States.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12
TOOK GOLF TO AFGHANISTAN
Scottish Mining Engineer Taught Tho
Amssr the Ancient and Honor
able Game.

AfghantstaE, which has kept itself
~ free as any place N the Orient
from western institutions, has finally
succumbed to the charms of golf. The
sponsor Of the royal and ancient
game is the ameeg himself, who u
rapidly becoming an expert player un-
der the tutelage Of Scottish mining
engineer, This Scotchman went to
Kabul looking for mining concessions.
He took with him his bag of clubs on
the remote chance Of finding golf links
In country which had cherished q
prejudice against any game played
with a ball, since the time Of Omar
khayyam. He soon discovered that
the monarch was fonder of talking
sport than business.
When he spoke enthusiastically of
the Scottish royal game, the ameer
lost no time in putting a corps of sap
pers and miners to work constructing
a course under the direction of the
visitor. Since that time the ameer
has become a devoted exponent of the
game and he has attained a fair degree
OF proficiency. But no matter what
his skill, he bids fair to remain cham
pion of the country, for it is not con-
sidered polite to defeat q man who
enjoys the power Of life and death
over every one of his subjects.
The game has reduced the girth Of
the ameer and improved his health,
but he Is afraid of OVERRIDING it, so at
his winter capital he is having built .
miniature links de luxe, limited in size
and as smooth as a tennis lawn. Here
hs will play the game without any Of
the bunkers or hazards usually pro
vided by the ordinary course.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12
Waterpzoofins Cement.

The United States army en-,
gineers have long used the fol,
lowing mixture in waterproofing
cement: One part cement, two
parts sand. three-quarters OF a
pound of dry. powdered alum to
each cubic foot Ct sand. Mix
and add water III which has Seen
dissolved three-quarters OF q
pound of soap to each gallon.
This is nearly as strong as or
dinary cement and is quite i'm
peryiouS to water.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12
Zeal That Boils Over.

The State primary last Satur-
day was a quiet election every
Ehsre except in Letcher County,
where four men are reported to
have been killed and two persons
wounded as the result of an ar
gument" over the merits of rival
candidates for school trustee.
zel. il SCHOOL elections is
mucn to be commended, bu: it
ought to stop short of a shooting
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12
Should Buy Coal Now.

Mr. G. E. Warner, coal traffic
agent of the Missouri Pacific
Iron Mountain, has sent out q
circular to the agents of the
company at all points along the
lines notifying them of the i'm
portanee of orders for next win
ter's coal being placed with
dealers at once. The circular
calls attention to the fact that
each year people have delayed
placing large per cent of their
orders until winter, when the
mines are so overcrowded with
work they cannot promptly sup
ply the fuel. Frequently, too,
the railroads have not the cars
to transport the coal whan SO
many orders come in at one
time. The latter condition is
apt to be p; rticularly true this
winter. the circular states, OF
account of the nr:lber of cars
required to transport the unusu
al crops which hay, -cen raised
throughout a large section of
the countay. Although the cir
cular does not mention tine fact.
another advantage or ordering
coal before Wlatef sets in is that
the consumer is able to buy it
at a much lever rate.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12

Of course, Congressman Hens
lev had a walkover over his op-
Donent in the primary, but it be-
gins to look like he will have to
pack his trunk and come back
home to stay after March 4th,
next. Mr.. Reppy will, in all
likelihood, be warming Hensley's
seat in Congress after that date.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12

Just what the general war in
Europe is about is not clear, but
it NAV be that the various gov
ernments over there were mere
ly curious to see how effective
in killing off men the modern in
struments of war are.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12

The wife of well-known min
lister in St. Louis, In fling her
bill for a divorce, charged he1
husband with being a habitua]
drinker and using profane Ian
Ruage toward her. Nice example
some preachers set for US less
spiritual-minded mOrtals.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12

Fighting is still going on in
Mexico, but the little racket there
is drowned out by the resounG-
ing clash of arms in Europe.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12
The primary returns do not
display much confidence here in
the Wilson administration.

The American idea of reducing
the population is to resort to
railroad wrecks rather than
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12

The politicians over in Europe
who started the war will do none
of the fighting themselves.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12
This is a good time for the
American tourist to sec America
first.

The whole country grieves
with President Wilson in the loss
of his good wife.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1914-08-12

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