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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-24

help admiring the courage of an old
maid who makes a sutton propose
twice before accepting him although
she KNOWS les her last chance. :,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-24

1.-The fortune teller told my wife that
a dark woman would cross her path and
bring trouble into our home. And it came
truer' You don't say so." Yes Our
new cook took umbrage at something
and smashed mp the Kitchen "-Washing-
tom Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-24

do you want work." yep" replied
Flooding Pete Eff you'll gimme some
thin light an easy. I'll engage 1 be-
iieve / kin get more rest as a regular
hand than to go on beir' waylaid an
pestered by people that's tryin' to hire
Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-24

who il there now 70 ~ that cam
paisn literature is not hot stun? Fire
Marshal Parkman suggests that it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-24

Toledo. o.. has just awarded prizes
amone 1880 gardens entered this summer
in its Museum of Arts garden contests Of
a city beautiful campaign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-24

''she il having q perfectly lively
time.''
"How so?"
"She is engaged to one Of twins.
tell them apart."-Kansas City Jour
nal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-24

In Houghton county, Mich, where 5000
copper miners have been laid on, work
construction for which q bond issue of
$500 coo has been authorized
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-24

Psycholoe1 Of the Came.
BIZ RoY K. MoULTON

Psychol0eI Of the Game.
When the xaphJrs. blow
And the posfes grow,
Ana taeir fragrance perfumes the air.
When the futures. bright,
And all natures right,
And the weather is warm and, fair:
When there's naught but strife
And pure joy is rife
And the whole works is to the good:
When the brides sing
And most everything
IL behaving just as it should:
When folks wear q smile
OF happy style.
ana refuse to reduce the same
Even by an inch
It's mortal cinch
That the home team has won q game.
When the clouds hang low
ana the north winds blow
And all nature seems sad and dread;
When there's nothing right
In the mortal sight
And all nature seems said and drear:
When the entire town
Wears a gloomy frown
When the pessimists hold full sway;
When yours good and blue
Through and through and through
And you can't drive Dull Care away;
when you're mighty sore
And your life's bore
And the whole world seems awful
taA.le;
You can safely bet
All that you can get
That the home team has dropped a
game.
The Old Straw Hats.
We have already mentioned the fact
that the discarded straw hats can be
fed to the cows. If you don't keep a
COW, as every thrifty citizen should,
unless he lives in flat, place the old
straw hat car eful1y in the garbage can.
We have already mentioned the fact
that an inverted straw hat trimmed
with baby ribbon makes an excellent
hanging basket for flowers and would
be an ornament to any parl0r.
An old straw hat run through the
meat grinder makes an excellent
breakfast food. There is enough in
ONE hat for family of seven. With
a little cream and sugar added 1t will
taste just as good as Try-a-Bita. Eat
a-Chunka or Tan Bark Flake. The
main point in the breakfast food is to
get something that is tasteless and
there is nothing on earth SO tasteless
as an old straw hat.
There is nothing better to plug up
q broken win low pane than an old
straw hat. It not only keeps out the
storm. but furnishes ventilation to
quite a considerable extent.
The old hat can, with 50 worth of
lace and ribbon for trimming, be made
into an excellent sewing basket for the
missus.
There are a thousand things that
adept at arts and crafts can make a
SAT smoking set out of it with a little
varnish and few pounded copper
trimmings In fact, it is appropriate
to do anything with an old straw hat
excepting to wear it In September.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04

things of any kind not even shoes.
nor hats. Nearly every family spun
its own wool and flax and made its
own thread and yarn and CLOTH.
The clothes for the boys and girls
and the men and women were
made at home. So, also, were the
carpets, the candles. the soap, the
mattresses and the chairs and ia
bles There were no furniture fac
tories, no ready-made desks nor
bookcases nor bed-steads nor any
thing else Such things as we're
made at home were made to order
by the shoemaker, the halter, the
tailor or the cabinet maker. Cloth
ing stores, shoe stores, hat stores
and furniture stores were unheard
of. In 1914 nobody wore rubbers.
That was because there were no
rubbers. There were no rubber
goods of any kind-oVershOes, wa
terproofs, rain-coats, rubber balls,
pencil erasers, hot water bags nor
anything of that sort. There was
no garden hose nor fire hose. There
were no water mans nor fire en-
gines. When house caught fire.
men put it out, if they could, by
throwing buckets of water on the
| flames.
Fireplaces were the only means
of keeping house warm. There
were no furnaces, no coal stoves.
Here and there wealthy family
owned a wood stove, but that was a
rare luxury. Steam heating and
hot water heating were undreamed
of; so, also, we're kitchen ranges and
hot water boilers. There were no
bath rooms; there were no plumb
ing and the towns had no sewers.
And not only had they no sewers,
but they had no street cars.-Se-
lected.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04
Immortality.

1T cannot be that earth is mans
only abiding place. 1t cannot be
that our life is a bubble cast by
eternity to float moment upon its
waves and sink into nothingness.
Else why is it that the high and
glorious aspirations which leap like
angels from the temples of our
hearts are forever unsatisfied?
Why is it that the rainbow and
cloud come over US with a beauty
that is not of earth, and then pass
off to leave us to amuse on their
lOveliness? Why is it that the stars
which hold their festival around
the midnight throne are set above
the grasp of our limited faculties,
forever mocking us with their unap-
prOachable glory? And, finally
why is it that bright forms of hu-
man beauty are presented to our
view and then taken from us, leav-
ing the thousand streams of our
affection to flow back in an Alpine
torrent upon our hearts? There is
a realm where the rainbow never
fades, where the stars will be
spread out before US like the islands
that slumber on the ocean, and
where the beautiful beings which
pass before us like shadows will
stay forever in our presence
! George D. Prentice
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04
Church Built From a Tree.

In Santa Rosa, Cal, is a Baptist
church building, the product of a
single giant redwood tree which
grew in the neighborhood of Guerne-
vile, few miles distant where it
now stands. Not only is the main
structure built from the one tree,
but the interior finishings- except
the floor, which is of pine are of
the same wood, beams, pulpit and
seatings, not a particle of plaster or
other similar material being used in
this remarkable building.
The tree when sawed yielded 49,
600 feet of lumber, and after the
building was finished in every par
ticular, enough material was left to
manufacture several thousand shin
giles, besides a quantity of scant-
lings, joists and other dimension
stun. so carefully were the details
planned and so skillfully was the
framework put together that the
builders of this one tree church de.
clarded it might be as enduring as
the old Saxon churches of England
built centuries ago out of native
timber and still in use. 1t is gothic
in style finished with massive but
tresses outside and heavy beams
inside. A tower 70 #. high was
built on the southwest corner, buI
ii came down at the time Of the
great earthquake ia 1905. Eek
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04
Who is the Greatest?

We have read of kings and mon
archs, and the conquests they
! had won:
How some ruled their nation wisely,
and the noble deeds had done,
And how heroes of our navy won for
us many a fight;
But we've overlooked the mother
who had trained her children right.
We have read of how some states
men served their native land so
well;
How the generals gained the victo-
ries ere on battlefieIds they fell;
And. how patriots of our country did
their duty with delight;
But we've overlooked the mother
who had trained herChildren right
We raise statues for the noble who
have done some mighty work,
Who have acted very wisely and
their duty ne'er did shirk;
And we praise religious heroes who
proclaim the truth and light;
But we've overlooked the mother
Whohas trained her children right.
Now we'll stop and just consider
how the mothers of the land
Do so teach their children justice
and guide them with loving hand
And the sacrifice they're making to
train the youth Alright;
And through mother comes the vic
tory, she who trains her children
right.
Albert E. Vassar.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04

Judge Thomas F. Hurd has an
nounCed as candidate for Probate
Judge of Monroe County. Judge
Hurd has served as Probate Judge
and made a splendid record. He
has many friends who hope he will
be elected.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04
No Candidate from Monroe.

After peddling the offer of a con-
gressional crown all over the Sec
ond district to no avail two lone
politicians made a last trip to Paris
Wednesday to try and get out a
candidate from this county. The
effort failed here as it failed alse-
where. Monroe county will have
no candidate. Farmer Jones of
Livingston, it is said. has deter
mined to jump into the deadly
breach and make the sacrifice, but
the Farmer has hit upon a bad
year. It's going to be Rucker-
Mercury,
Cecil Dawson and family spent
Saturday 10 Hannibal.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1914


VIM, Bnckman, of Clapper will
probably be the "hog-king" of Mon
roe County this year, providing he
does not have bad luck. Right now
he has 300 hogs and 60 head of
brood Sows. He is feeding SO 2
year old mules and so big steels
and is shearing 800 head of sheep,
600 of them yearlings. In addition
to this, Mr., Buchanan has 800
acres of corn, 60 acres of oats and
and 200 acres of very fine wheat. -
Appeal
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04
A Hundred Years Ago.

The world has changed more in
the last one hundred years than in
the thousand years that have gone
before. To get some idea of the
wonderful changes that have taken
place, let us 90 back to 1914 and
note how many. many things our
great, grand parents did not have
which we have today. 1t will not
only astonish us, but it will also
make US realize how much we have
to be thankful for.
There were no canned goods of
any kind. There were no tin cans,
neither were there any cars to bring
fresh fruits and vegetables-like
strawberries and tomatoes and let
tuce-frOm the south and from Cal
ifornia. In fact, there were no such
places in the United States as Flor
ida and Texas and California. They
were all of them waste places or
foreign lands. They belonged to
England and Spain and France and
Mexico. Oranges. bananas, pine
apples, grapefruit, olives, Malaga
grapes and other tropical fruits
which are so familiar to all of US,
were never seen in the markets of
1910. Boys and girls of that day
only heard about them from travel
ers or read of them in books.
Dinner, were cooked in fire
places.
There we're no ranges. There
were no gas stoves; no oil stoves; no
coal stoves; no cook stoves of any
kind. Housewives had no baking
powders, no yeast cakes, no self
raising flour, no graduated sugar
no havOring cocoa, no potted meats
no catsup, no prepared breakfast
foods, no soda crackers, no macaro
nj. All the coffee had to be roasted
and ground at home. Housekeeper'
then had very few of the conven
fences that they have today. The!
had no running water in the house
nor stationary wash tubs nor clothes
wringers no washing machines no
wire clothes lines. Neither haC
they refrigerators nor ice cream
freezers nor egg heaters waffle irons
nor meat grinders nor carpet sweep
ers nor ammonia nor borax no
gasoline nor moth ball nor fly pa
per, nor fly screens. And they haC
no matches, no electric lights, anC
mo kerosene.
/ There were no sewing machine
J in 1914. All clothes were made b
hand. There were no ready-mad'
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04

Mrs. j. M Summers of Callao, ar
rived Monday to visit her daugh-
tiers, MesdameS George and Angus.
That evening Mrs. M. C. Mears of
Kansas City, another daughter of
Mrs. Summers came in for a visit.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04

One of the biggest corn growers
in Monroe county, L. B. Hickman
who lives east of Stoutsville, will
have $50 acres of corn and 80 of
oats this year. He is feeding 1870
head of Shoats for the August mar
ket, and has 100 spring pigs which
he will ship about January 1 next
Paris Appeal.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04

For Sale Small soda fountain.
j. E. Christian.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Doc Moss, of Ely
were here shopping Saturday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04

$500 to loan on city property
See Node Green. Cd.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04

Mrs, Cora UmStattd is spending
the week with relatives in Shelby.
vile and Kansas City.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04

Mrs M, P. Asbury Visited Cantor
ralafivesthe first Of tie week.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04

Mrs. S. H Baynum and daughters
Misses Bessie and Ethel. spent Sun
day with Shelbina relatives.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04

Miss Ruey Hardesty of Hume
well, attended the P. E. o. meeting
here Saturday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04

Mrs. James Mcclellan and Miss
Viola Allen of Hunnewell were here
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-04
THE DEMOCRAT
w. J. ROUSE, Editor
TERMS $1.O0 PER YEAR

Entered al the P0stodlco ~ Monroe City
Missouri. as sccUuu.u.lss /. tier.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-05-25
HOW CONNIE" MACK HANDLES
MEN.

In the June American Magazine
Eddie Collins. second baseman for
the Philadelphia Athletics, writes a re.
markably interesting article describ.
Ing his baseball adventures during the
past seven years under the manage.
ment OF Connie" Mack. who is prob.
ably the greatest baseball general in
the world. In the following extract
from his article, Collins tells a story
In which he gives an insight into
Macks methods OF handling men: .
Down South. Mack shows attention
to young pitchers but not the slightest
to his veterans. Indeed he generally
lets the veterans take care OF them.
selves. This is especially apparent
around World Series time. Last fall
he left us absolutely to condition our.
selves. He kept the regular team in.
tact until the last ten days OF TIE
American League season. We left for
Boston on Tuesday night. but Plank
and Bender we're left behind. Mack
told them in plain words that the bur.
den OF defeating the New York Giants
was on them.
"'You fellows have learned TO know
how to take care OF yourselves he
told them. You know best how 10
prepare yourself for the strain OF a
World Series. Now you don't have
to come with the team on this trip.
have decided TO give you ten DAYS
to get In condition for New York. You
are at liberty to use your time In any
way you want, only show up 1T
Bender selected a course that took
him to the ball park every day. lie
spent his time In pitching and in log.
sing around Shibe Park. He remain.
I'd In Philadelphia and kept his mind
right on the game.
Plank' on the other hand. went out
10 his farm in Gettysburg. remained
here a week and forgot baseball en-.
iirely. Long walks and exercise in
he open kept him in shape. lie did
lot pitch a single baseball during
hose entire ten days. Suppose. some
not as wise as Mack, had
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-05-25
wHIsKEY MAKES POOR FARMERS

In the current issue OF Farm ant
Fireside a contributor. writing under
the title, Booze and Business" tells
as follows, how whiskey makes poor
farmers
About forty miles from me In q
great nursery. Some Ave or six years
ago their barn burned with twenty,
eight horses In II. The night watch.
man was drunk and asleep In his room
In the barn. He alone was saved by
the heroic firemen when they arrived.
Not hair OF horse or a strap Of a
harness was saved. The barn with
all It's contents. except the drunken
night Waterman, was lost in flames
and In smoke.
"The 18th OF last November the barn
was burned again. Someone returning
home about midnight noticed the
nursery barn on fire quarter OF a
mile away. They turned in the alarm.
and the local FIRE company rushed
there with their equipment. And again
they found the same old Waterman
drunk In his room in the barn; so
drunk he had not heard the struggles
OF four horses as they broke loose
from their stalls opposite his room.
The firemen saved the watchmen;
everything else was lost, not hair
or halter was saved. This time
thirty horses were burned; four broke
loose but never left the barn; the
other twenty-slx died with scarcely
struggle, evidently overcome by the
smoke before the FIRE reached them.
Booze and business will not mls.
A man who gets drunk should never
be given responsibility which involves
the lives and safety OF human beings
or dumb animals. II is almost crlml.
nal to give him such responsibility"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-05-25

Christian and Miss Bessie Morgan.
The eleventh grade are finishing
their examinations today. Regular ex.
aminations will begin in the other
grades on Friday.
The following made official visits OF
inspection to the Bryan schools this
year: The trustees Of the Bryan In
dependent school district; the State
Superintendent Of Public Instruction.
two University of Texas high school
visitors.
In the way OF improvements this
year the new colored school and the
new desks for the East Side school
are among the most important things.
W. c. LAWSON, Superintendent.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-05-25

riage In as complete ignorance OF
woman as did. ] he'd been rather
bashful and shy with them as a boy
ana too busy to pay much attention
TO them as a man. Living in cities In
which ] was a stranger had no op.
portunity to meet the nice ones and
no inclination 10 associate with the
other kind. Being strong. healthy and
normal. ] knew nothing OF nerves and
had scaht patience with their various
manifestations, ordinary attributing
phenomena due to nerves to other
causes"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-05-25
NERVES IN THE MARRIAGE GAME.

In the June American Magazine a
husband. who has had twenty-five
years OF married life. tells the story
of his experiences. On the subject OF
nerves in the marriage relation he
comments as follows:
II was extremely ignorant OF women
and their ways. and more ignorant OF
nerves. Indeed nerves were an item
In the marriage relation that I never
had considered. and II was years be-
fore the relation OF nerves to marital
happiness became known to me.
1T takes the average man a long
time after marriage to realize that HIS
wife is human being. much like him
self, with the addition OF some nerves.
some superstitions. some prejudIces.
and some finer emotions OF which he
knows little or nothing. Not many
men have reached the state OF mar.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-05-25
THE CITY SCHOOLS.

High school enrolment this year,
1874: East Side grade enrolment this
year, 41s; West Side grade enrolment
this year. 1879; total enrolment in
white schools, 739.
Enrolled in the graduating class this
year, u; retired before the close OF
the year, 2; number OF graduates this
year, 10; date OF graduation, June 8,
1914; number OF boys to graduate this
year. 6; number OF girls to graduate
this year. 4.
Names of graduates this year
Walton Ramson Cole, Everett Conn
Gibbs. ]. II. Newton Jr., John Thomp-
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-05-25

son Sanky Park, Charles Stuart Pip.
kin, Tom Searcy Powers, Erin Kath.
crime Blatherwick, Erma Jane Cloud,
Myrtle Estelle James, Della Margaret
Lawrence.
High school department heads-A.
W. Kinnard. B. A. (Austin College,
English and history; Miss Wesa We'd
dlngton, Phi. 3. baylor University.
Latin; George Simpson, B. Sc. (Uni.
versity Of Missouri), mathematics and
physics.
Manuel training-J. L. Reese, grad.
uate Of North Texas Normal College.
Three teachers each had an enroll.
ment of sixty or more this year. They
were Miss May Burtis, Miss Lucy
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-05-25

We. the colored citizens OF Bryan.
met and organized committee for
the purpose Of giving a Nineteenth
dinner with officers as follows: Tom
Bell. president; Nose Lights. first vice
president; Jerry Simpson, second vice
president; p. ]. Adams, third vice
president; L. Alberson, secretary;
Willis Williams, assistant secretary;
Lee Morgan. treasurer. The commit
tee will have their next meeting May
81, at 8 p. m. at Tom Bells restaurant.
WILL DAVIS.
FELIX THORNTON.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-05-25
NOTICE.

All desiring to Join the Monday and
Thursday dancing class please phone
800 or 524.
Dances taught:
Tango = Brazilian. Spanish. Argen-
tine Maurice.
Hesitation waltz-La Jota, One
Step, Castle Walk. Maxixe. Trojin.
Exposition Waltz.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-05-25

laid down arbitrary training rules for
these two men2 As itbwas the wis
dom OF Macks action H. indicated by
what happened In the 'rprld's Series.
ter" ~
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-05-25

There are II farms in the county
that contain more than 500 acres each.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-02-18

ing at Delaware. o.. on Sunday to hold
services
Miss Ethel Kerns is confined to her
home on seventh street with AN attack
of tunsiliti-
Mrs. Alfred SWIFT has returned to
i'" home ON iIomliusOu avenue after
being ln Pittsburgh. Pa, with friends
ami relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs Jack Swager. OF Morg-
autuwu. are spending few DAYS with
friends and relatives In this ,itE.
Fred White has returned To- his home
al fairmont. after Speudiu- the past
few days with friends and relative.
Mrs. g T.. Jackson. who underwent
an operation at Wooster. o.. "a lew
days ago. lS improving nicely
Mrs owen Mckay returned tu her
home az Rochester, Pa. after spending
ih" past Few days with friends ana re-
latiV's here.
The new headquarters for the indie
ICud"rt order or odd Fellows iu the
Myers building are nearing completion
and are being cleaned.
w. u. Al"NaudnI I- confined Co his
nom" ON I"miiusuu avenue with DO
slight illness.
AR. and Mrs Roy Ra,eurroft moved
Yesterday from Glendale fo Ery-sr.
vher" they viii make their futur.
Mr.. o. D. Wee-. of Asror. o.. I-
spending few DAYS WITH friends and
r'ltuNcE BOO this rItN.
tn" condition OF vs. g. Niddc-. who
mas been confined Co hi- home ON Nor
ton avenue. remains unchanged
MISS IN"lfna GrIudsfa0 Iz confined
@" her home on Hurdy avenue with a.
serious illness