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The state herald., 1914-12-04

Go through the orchard and small.
fruit plantations and clean up all the
brush and burn 1t. You destroy dis
eases, insect pests and weed seeds
without number.
Clean out all the old red raspberry
canes and transplant the blackcaps. II
you do not have enough blackca ps,
layer the tips by burying them. Just
sink your spade halfway in the soil,
slip in the tip. and the job is done after
you tread on the soil above the buried
tip.
The borers should be dug out of
their winter nests.
Don't let the scabby apples lie under
the trees. but feed or burn them.
The strawberry bed does not need
its winter blanket until the ground
freezes hard enough to hold up a wag-
on. Don't be stingy with 1t.
Do not use any material such as clio.
vei chaff or barn.loft sweepings to
mulch the strawberry bed. or you will
regret 1t next spring when you fully
understand this warning
Cut scions for grating: tie them in
handy bundles and bury them in forest
leaves in the cellar
The fruit and vegetable cellar
should be ventilated and kept as near
the freezing point as possible
The state herald., 1914-12-04
TIMELY TOPICS IN
The FARM ORCHARD
Tarred Paper viii Keep Rabbits
Away From Young Trees
Fight San lose Scale.

Heavy paper viii turn the punnicr
away from tho young frulttrcen II II
Ia wrapped about them two feet high.
DO not forget that the fall and
spring seasons are best for spraying
with tho lime. sulphur and salt mix.
iuro In your warfare against the San
Jose scale
Mulch the big fruit and little fruit
the young shade and nut trees. the
roses. tho porruniala. tho rhubarb. tho
vines and everything you wish to hayo
push root growth and storc up fer.
tlllty and strength for tho growing
acnHon
II you have mn old orchard you
wish 10 destroy dig away the soil from
about tho trees cutting tho largest
'ootu, and tho action nf the wind and
frost viii fell the tree FOR you by
tprinEtlmn
The state herald., 1914-12-04
pemoersts' Real s,sndIna,

Last September The Democrats saw
In ths Maine returns mn assurance thnt
the country was with them. AL Dem
ocrntlc outsiders who had participated
IN the campaign no expressed them.
selvcn 10 The president How much
imitation they were IN now an cstnb
llshcd fact plain 10 everybody They
owe their slender margin In tho next
house 10 The null Moonefu Had hll
The iull MooserH returned 10 their old
Affiliations tho Republicans would have
chffied The house easily and anbaiab
TALLY
The state herald., 1914-12-04

.ombicd 10 view the wonder. n scor.
u thom had oven brought skates with
them. Rash people' The Ice melted
away under the warmth OF their en-.
thuHIaam. ana tho dnrodeyils took
what tho Anslophlie nordolais calls a
"tob"-a short immersion In cold
water
Conservative and Comfortable.
The population Of bordeaux IL con.
soryatlvo and comfortable-co conserya.
live by nature. and comfortable by
principlea In tho heart Of tho city
mere IL large open space called Los
qulnconocn. whore twice a year big
iair In held. a real fair with real
tiantcsa. ~ dwarf ho less real and a
real FinsHr spinner. gingerbread nhopn,
bootlr of all sorts aud mournfully
real merry gorounda Everyone IN
bordeaux and tho Botdclais district
Eoep 10 the falr-,ho aomohodloB 10
show their Parts ffocka, made In llor.
doauS land very woll made, tooD, tho
uobudlea io ant gingerbread and have
lholr teeth pulled out. not BY tho Gin
Eerbrcad. but by n gorgeous being IN
4 red'hudgold dress with biz drum.
The state herald., 1914-12-04
PLANS FOR STORING
HARDY VEGETABLES
Potatoes for Seed and Table Use
Next Spring Should Be
Buried in Dry Spot.

DO not store away any unsound or
bruised fruit or vegetables. as they
will soon decay and cause all those
next to them to go the same way.
Bury Irish potatoes on well.drained
spot. Cover with wheat.straw about
six inches deep, put on four inches OF
dirt tearth) and let this freeze light.
iy. then cover with six or eight inches
or rough. strawy manure. As soon as
this gets wet and freezes put on six
inches more earth and pat Il down
smooth. This Is for potatoes for seed
and table use next spring before early
potatoes come again.
They will keep better than II kept
in cool storage plant.
Place beets. carrots. satisfy. turnips
and few parsnips In barrels. First
put In two or three inches OF garden
soil: any mellow earth will do. Then
u layer OF vegetables and so on TN
tho barrel Is full or all are In. Place
the barrel In n moderately warm
cellar. A slight freeze will not hurt
them.
Turn the cabbage upside down. ieav.
Ing the roots on: and cover the heads
with earth about four inches. leaving
the roots sticking out. and they will
keep fine In this way.
Pull up n few tomato vines with
the fruit on and lay In tho ccilnr.
You may have ripe tomatoes at Christ.
mas.
The state herald., 1914-12-04
Country WIN a,nuhIIean..

The best sentiment Of the nation
has rallied 10 the Republican party
and "a binding together those who
have broad views and care morc for
the welfare Of the American worker
than Tor the exploitation ~ any class.
room doctrine after having our mar
kstn open TO world competition Tor
our own good aud 10 u stimulus TO
activity
The meaning IN plain The people
have failed 10 indorue tho record of
tho last two years made by a Demo
cratic congress
The state herald., 1914-12-04
Wins Best Sentiment,

Tho vote OF the Union. except per
haps In the Southern section, where
voting is pcrfunc,ory performance
aud where the primaries nro the real
election. shows that the country looks
to the Republican party for rodcmp'
ton.
There ir nothing TO be- hoped from
the party atill IN power and the Re-.
publican party has resumed It's posi-
ton NJ n moral leader OF the nation IN
steady and rational progress
The state herald., 1914-12-04

its everyday name of Bordeaux.
the new capital of my country.
~ a patch OF France upon which
the sun and Dionysus have
smiled-the land OF palatable red wine
and pleasant. dark women. To most
newspaper.reading people Bordeaux is
interesting Just now because OF the
change that has happened to 1t: for
me Bordeaux is interesting because II
does not change. So writes Marthe
Troly-Curtin. In the London Sketch.
Bordeaux does not want to change
II is lazy. happy, bourgeois. we'll
fed town; II Is snug and contented.
warmed for nine months of the year
by very clement climate, and all the
year round by the rutilant glow Of its
claret. Bordeaux has few large and
fine streets. and many old.fashloned
and insanitary ones. the Improvement
OF which nobody really cares about.
least of all the dweliers OF those par
ticular streets. the bad air of which
seems to agree with them to an ok.
traordinary degree. The Bond street
of Bordeaux is the Rue sainte Cath
crime. n narrow. dark, cobbled street,
wherein you can buy quite smart hatn.
and where flsh-wives and their wares
spread themselves on the threshold
OF fashionable modistes.
In Bordeaux life counts more years.
and summers more days than In most
other towns. II seldom SHOWS, but
often rains: Ice on lakes or ponds is n
wonder 10 be talked about at many
"feeve o'clocks" for many weeks after.
Well do ] remember the year In Bor.
dcaux when the lake OF the Jardin
Public did freeze: the Bordeaux pa
pers had leading articles on the event:
"one could almost skate on the lake"
they said. $50 thick was the Ice" All
the fashionable people of the town as.
The state herald., 1914-12-04

long while ago, grant you. but until
OF late years French people. especial.
ly Of the provinces. travelled very III.
Ao and intermarried much. which
might Justify the surmlac that those
two facts hre related. and that many
among n. Medocains aro Of Englisb
descent
What clao can tell you OF Bur.
doaus that viii sound less podnntie1
That nowhere else IN tho world can
they accommodate mushrooms IN such
truly inspired manner: that Il has
fno theaior. the staircase Of which,
thoy say, served as model for that Of
tho Paris opera; that ilordoaux IL
great productive place. not only OF
rood Wines. but Of rich voices, aA nro
her sister towns. Mauoilica aud Ton.
louuci aud that there IL cathedral,
lovely and loynblc, mothcrly. homcly,
nnd awfully stately. DATING from tho
eleventh century. with tho dearest
gnrEoylca crawling along every cor.
nice aud such collection OF atna,
saints on The portal that ono waHlr-t
n thny have left any room far ~
othcru' IN paradise
The state herald., 1914-12-04
Work Aerrea auffer.

Thourauds Of work horses suffer
from lack OF care and proper foodlng.
A grcai per cent OF the work horses
nro tended 10 any old way without
Rlylns any thought 10 their need and
arc pushed unreaHonabiy 10 ret tho
most work done. II IL time that horse
owners llyed above such mafhnda
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-11-16
HOMICIDES AND DEATH
PENALTY.

State Sen. Mccormick announces
that he is about TO launch vigorous
campaign for the abolition of the
death penalty in Indiana; that he will
introduce a bill 10 that effect in the
legislature this winter. 1t is interest
ing, in connection with his program, TO
consider the fact that Milwaukee has
the fewest murders Of any city in the
country. The ratio in that city is two
for each 1905 people. New York has
80 each year: Cincinnati, 1917; St.
Louis, 1873; Charleston, 3O.6; Men,
phis, $50; Minneapolis. 80.
Milwaukee and Minneapolis, the
cities making altogether the most
favorable showingS, are the only two
on the list in which the law does not
impose the death penalty. If the cleo
trio chair or the gallOws is a deterrent
and would-be murderers are not
afraid of anything short of death SEN
fences Milwaukee and Minneapolis
might be expected to figure at the top
instead of the bottom OF the percent
age column. Experience indicates that
the electric chair and the gallows tend
TO increase instead of decreasing the
number of murders
II is well recognized that iuries will
not xote TO execute criminal except
III extreme cases. Unquestionably
very large percentage of those &C
quilted in Indiana and other states
infiicting capital punishment. would
be convicted if conviction meant inn
prisonment. Instead OF being turned
loose TO commit other crimes the muir
derers would be safely under lock and
KEY and society would be more secure
than il is at present.
Advocates of capital punishment be
lieve that the death penalty is a pre-
ventive of crime. And when they have
said all they have TO say, the answer
to their argument is in the states that
do not resort to the practice OF a lie
for a life. indianapolis Star.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-11-16
NOT THE ELIMINATED KIND.

Here in Washington" says a down
east editor, the disposition is to re-
gard Mr.. Roosevelt politically elminat-
ed-for the present at least"
That editor wisely gives his opinion
life preserver in the words 'for the
present at least" 1t is never safe to
say that any man is perman sntly elm
mated in American politics. Politi-
cal decisions are reversed by folks
about whose intentions editors and
politicians know very little. When
such as PenrOse and Cannon come
back. under strong "vindication. &"
what's the use in having the word
elimination" in the political lexicon
AS TO Mr.. Roosevelt, he is an anon
ally 4 party was actually formed by
and around him The millions who
voted the national progressive ticket
voted for the Roosevelt personality
not because Of Pinchot Garfield and
others OF his friends who are. in fact.
totally unlike him and who have made
poor showings in the recent elections,
Notwithstanding his support.
Ii would almost seem that in Amer
lean politics the main essential is a
strong personality. pretty much re-
ardless of the character thereof. Pen
rose comes back with a popular plu-
rality of 100000. Cannon. repudiated
by the nation and by his own immedi-
ate constituency. is returned.
Roosevelt hasn't been running for
anything and hasn't got anywhere
for the present. IL would be just like
him TO see in the decrease in the pro-
gressive party vote strong reasons for
him TO capture the republican nomina-
ton. two years hence. You'll find the
most clubs marked IT. r." under the
best apple tree one of his character
istics most admired by the masses is
his habit OF clubbing off what he can't
reach otherwise. He isn't even elm
I'm ted for the present. He may be
quiet. fer the present. like a good
many others. but he's only waiting for
the apples TO become good and ripe.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-11-16
PURSUING THE UTILITIES.

There is something prophetic about
the decision Of the mayors in confer
ence at Philadelphia 10 establish a
municipal utilities bureau The plan
as we understand II is for the mu-
inequalities TO become united-form a
sort Of trust-thrOugh which they can
assist each other with data, etc.
wherever there is a fight with the util-
tiles to come up. 1t is regretable that
the cities OF the land should feel the
need of such a bureau but we are
half disposed TO credit the men back
OF IL with a realization OF the hope
lessness. OF individual cities. when con-
fronted by the combination that exists
among the utilities.
There is considerable to the argu-
ment, no doubt. but that the utilities
CT today are being sorely pressed that
IS. some os them are AS investments
they are not the most stable thing in
the world ana the reason is obvious.
The constant Fostering which they are
forced TO suffer from municipal activ-
ity keeps them constantly in pessimis-
tic mood, and the outlook is, indeed,
one OF much uncertainty. The old
days have gone. They are reaping a
whirlwind evolved from a sowing of
tie wind, and evidently the harvest is
not over
We do not like the municipal own
ership propaganda proposed by the
mayors. save where utility oppression
compels il as last resort. We believe
regulation is better. as experience
indicates. In Indiana the public ser
vice is the regulating force. 1t ought
10 answer every question. Fairness
for both sides must be its motto and
that applied. municipal ownership
would be a mistake If not a hindrance
TO public welfare. Utilities. however.
must learn there are concessions to be
made on their part as well as on the
part OF cities, and that if these cannot
be amicably secured, and everything
must be fought TO the last notch; well,
at the last notch is about where the
fight will be likely TO end.
The Philadelphia proposition looks
like the outlining of mere program
20 that end. The mayors are evidently
planning efficiency in fighting, and
heaven knows that If they are going
10 fight, they need it. Otherwise they
had better lie down and stop the pOlit-
zeal humbuggery employed in every
municipal campaign, making goat"
of the utilities. upon which to ride into
office The public would like to see
the thing fought out for once, or at
least. brought TO some sort Of settle
meut
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-11-16
ABOLITION OF CHILD LABOR.

Child labor can be abolished in
America by the present generation &C
cording TO owen r. Lovejoy. general
secretary of the National Child Labor
committee. whose tenth annual report
has Just been published in the Child
Labor bulletin for November.
As evidence OF the progress of the
campaign against child labor, Mr..
I.ovejoy compares the state child labor
laws in 1904. when the National Child
Labor committee was organized, with
those OF 1914.
In 1904 only 13 states had a straight
14-year age limit for all factory work,
while in 1914. states TO the number Of
sc have that limit.
IN 1904 only one state had an s.
hour day for older children but now
IS states have II.
Night work was prohibited for child
rem under Is in five states in 1sO4 and
in 81 IN 1914.
Factory inspection was provided for
In 13 states in 1924 and in "a states
in 1914.
Other achievements OF the commit
tee have been the establishment OF the
Federal Children's bureau. fathered
in congress by Rep. Henry a. Barn
hart and the drafting Of a federal
child labor law which. as the Palmer
owen bill, has already been favorably
reported by the house committee on
labor. The membership Of the COM
r.littee has increased from SO in 1904
to S.7S9 in 1914.
Mr.. Lovejoy reports that in seven
OF the Il states whose legislatures
met last year child labor laws were
improved Investigations were carried
on by the committee in eight indus
tries In Is states in the past year and
the exhibits OF the committee were
shown in so cities in 30 states. The
committee issued 4,166.1S4 pages Of
printed matter in the quarterly bulle-
tin. pamphlets and leaflets. besides
widely published press stories and
special articles.
The cost of. securing new members
for the committee is increasing. ac-
cording 10 Mr.. Loyejoy. and he states
that because the committee is support
ed By voluntary contributions. fluc-
tuating Industrial and financial condi-
lions place us work in serious jeopar-
d.. In general. however. his report is
optimistic
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-11-16
THE NEW CONSTITUTION.

The defeat of the proposal for a
new constitution was undoubtedly due
to ignorance and Misrepresentation
There are many good reasons why
We should reconstruct the funda-
mental law and some of them are
gravely important.
1t is a favorite saying that what
was good enough for our forefathers,
is good enough for us but it is a
silly saying NEVERTHELESS. Our fore
fathers were younger in time than we;
those were the young days; these are
the older days.
Our forefathers used the oX-cart-
We use the automobile. Our fore
fathers would have used the automO-
bile. too, if they had known how TO do
il.
They were in the ox-cart stage
thev lived up TO their light-we have
a right and an obligation to do the
same thing.-Kokomo Dispatch.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-11-16
OUR TABLOID CLAssIC-No.14.
The First Argonauts.


The ArgOnauts of 10 were not
the only ones who went into a far
country, nor the first TO obtain a
golden fleece or be otherwise fleec-
ed. They had a precedent, at least
in mythology. The Argonautae of
mythology, which il a dead fact
covered with living moss, were
those who went with Jason on
board the ship probably a good
ship Argo To Calchis. And this Is
how IL happened.
Abhamus, King of OrchOmenus
i'm BOeOtia, married Nephele, the
way things usually start, by whom
he had two children, a son and "A
daughter, named Phrixus and
Helle. Having, subsequently of
course, divorced Nephele, he mar
ried InO, daughter of Cadmus. a
name we still have with US, who
bore him two seas, who after they
were born were Learchus and Me-
Hcerta. Ino may be said to- have
set the pattern for stepmOthers. At
any rate she was very much like
some of the stepmothers OF the
present day. Feeling the well
known jealousy of stepmothers for
their own offspring she resolved To
destroy the children of Nephele,
and took roundabout way to do
IL. She persuaded the women To
parch the seed corn unknown TO
their husbands (wOuId you believe
it?) and very naturally the lands
yielded no crop.
Abhamus sent to Delphi to con-
suit the oracle a. TO the manner I'm
which the threatened famine might
be averted. instead of making
second planting as the modern
farmer would have done, and InO
persuaded the messenger To say
that Apollo directed that Phoixus
be sacrificed to Jupiter. Ahamus
reluctantly placed his son before
the altar, but there the Justly cele-
brated mother love broke i'm. Ne
phele snatched away both her son
and her daughter and ave them a
gOld-fleeced ram she had obtain
ed from Mercury, which carried
them THROUGH the air over sea and
land. (The first flying machine on
rccOrd). The proceeded safely till
they came to the sea between Sig
aeum and the CherSOvese, into
which Helle fell. and for that rea-
son il was named HellespOnt.
Phoixus went on TO COlchis to
TO AeteS. the son of HeliOs, who re-
ceived him kindl- and gave him I'm
marriage his daughter ChalciOpe.
He then sacrificed his ram TO Jul
piter and gave the golden fleece to
Aetes, who nailed il to an oak I'm
the grove OF Mars with the tail
toward the road.
There are other versions of this
remarkable story, but the one given
will answer every purpose. Ii was
this golden fleece the ArgOnautae
went i'm search of.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-11-16

hard times in 1914. both for psy-
Geological effect. is still on the job.
He is going to give the American peo-
pie 10 understand that Pres't Wilson
and his administration have been
''rebuked," or knew the reason why
there now.
"Rebuked" is the prize word; the
apparent slogan of this mind de-
spoiler.
The way the awful word goes trip
ping through headline and squib in
the republican newspapers throughout
the country is enough 10 startle the
wisest.
Woodrow Wilson, painstaking and
Industrious; in charge of the white
house. He is "rebuked."
The democratic congress is ere
buked"-both senate and house.
this Notwithstanding that the senate
increased its majority and the house
continues safe within democratic con
troll.
So with the democratic party 1t is
'rebuked, "-rebuked, we suppose, be-
cause out of 435 democratic candi-
dates for the lower house, a hundred
more or less personally unpopular
ones. were defeated by the use Of bar
rels of money. supplemented by sun
dry threats and innuendo, calculated
TO scare timid voters out of their wits.
Everything is "rebuked" in fact,
from the Goddess of Liberty on Bed
loes island to the wabbly walrus that
dispOrts himself in the seas of the
frozen north.
Get that into your noodle--thou
fool, for which the republican press is
seemingly playing you.-and it figures
that its campaign in 1916 is good as
half won.
Anything that makes for pessimism
apparently measures up to the repub-
lican ideal; to get the masses dissat-
isfied, keep them dissatisfied, and
then show them a "band-wagon'' up
on which to climb in their scramble
for a seemingly wanted change-dig-
nifies the highest republican aspira-
tons.
Il have undertaken the work of
reaching great many years and
nave found that the human mind has
great resources for resisting the in
PRODUCTION of knowledge" said the
president In one OF his recent ad-
dresses, and he might have added
"a corresponding susceptibility TO the
absorption of nonsense"
This latter completes an expression
of scientific fact-the existence of
condition upon which the republican
mind-moulders are operating with
their full might.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-11-16

Gov. Ralston expresses the hope
that the coming legislature Will be
marked nv the quality OF the new leg
islation proposed rather than by the
quantity. 1t is a timely sentiment.
one of the easiest things in the world
is to criticize, TO find fault. This weak
ness. common to all humanity. is quite
characteristic of our legislators, and
results in a superabundance OF sloppy
legislation. The average lawmaker
Jumps TO the conclusion that the one
thing needed TO improve conditions is
new legislation. To ind defects does
not call for great ability; any one can
pick flaws. But a constructive pro-
gram TO overcome defects calls Tor a
degree OF ability that does not appear
in much of our modern legislation
Sen. Elihu Root, in addressing the
American Bar association. declared
the people were right in their conten-
ton that there were too many laws.
In the five years from 1909 10 1913
congress and the state legislatures
enacted more than s.. GOO statutes, and
in the same period there were over
5000 decisions of federal and state
courts OF last resort. reported in $50
volumes.
4 most intimate connection exists
between the number - cases and the
number Of poorly drawn laws. Every
useless word. every loose construction.
every ambiguous phrase rs apt 10 cost
a law suit Many Of these statutes,
SAYS Sen. Root, ARE drawn artircially,
carelessly. ignorantly. Their terms
are so vague. uncertain. doubtful, that
they breed litigation inevitably. They