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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-04

planed spruce. In several buildings. n
breezy, cool and clean, There is a
dressing room with a cement floor and
six shower baths where cold spring
water right on the high reaches OF
the mountain will take the place of
the morning plunge in the brook that
the men are so pleased over; a DOR
mitory building 100 by 20 feet with
mosqnitqs bar netting and swinging
sashes: new mess hall. and general
building with officers mess room.
store room and the foremen's sleep
Ing quarters. The cooking Is done by
three Negro chefs, prisoners from
Sing Sing, one OF whom has had ~
years experience as a cook.
Next week about 40 more prison
ers are coming up from Sing Sing. A
cavalcade OF mules uormed its way
through Palenville one day this week
on its way to the camp. one pair be-
ing owned by the state and having
formerly done service on the Catskill
Aqucduct
Here is the average days routine
Of the camp: At 6 o'clock every one
Is up and the men are out for their
morning plunge. A few minutes later
they are storming into the mess hall
with the glow Of health on their
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-04

cheeks anc o good healthy appetite
inside them.
For hreakfast--OatIneal with real
cream from the farms; Hamburg
steak -haeon-and- eggs. hash and
bread.
Al 1880 they are ont at work. and
lrntii ~ o'clock things hum around
tic building and along the road.
When the dinner horn blows the men
come In. not In long lines OF shuffiing
rTison marches. but rs they please,
laughing and talking and hungry.
For dinner-Roast beer, mashed POI
tstoes. gravy, green corn from the
surrounding farms, and bread ana
eat
AT 1 o'clock they are busily at work
again, wearing broad brimmed straw
hats, gray shirts and trousers. work
steps for the day at 4:SO. and supper
is waiting them.
For supper-Bluefsh clam CHOW.
der. potatoes. onions. coffee and not
biscuits.
when the prisoners discovered that
the only weapon In the camp was
Cficer Barney Simmons corn coo
pipe and that the only close watch
kent upon them was by the small Dr.
ing black flies, which on muggy daSS
did their best to discourage them,
none OF them seemed surprised. Tor
they had agreed among themselves
that this expedition was to be on the
square, and there was to be no rum
Ming away.
They remembered that whenever
convicts had been worked outside OF
Sing Sing In the old days the ever
present rife accompanied the guard
who stood over them. and they APP
pear to appreciate the change. A
stray dog, hunting foxes through the
mountains all by his lonesome. drop
ped into camp and liked the place so
well that he stuck. and now Is the
mascot.
There are some good singers among
the prisoners, and after supper the
mandolins and banjos are brought
out, the pipes are lit. and those who
like 10 read get away by themselves
In comfortable corners under the
lamps and peace settles on the camp.
Stories are told and games OF check
ers and dominoes played. AT 3
o'clock every one Is In bed and the
lights are turned on.
The first day, that the men arrived
they were so anxious TO get TO work
that many OF them worked too hard
at the unaccustomed tasks In the
open air, and were laid up the next
day. But now they are sun-browned.
hardy and seem happy in the out
doors work.
The farmers wives and daughters,
going home In the evening from shop
ping in Palenviile. drive past the neat
camps with carefully averted faces,
but stop their horses around the bend
up the road to listen for a minute TO
the soft playing of the mandolins and
perhaps q strong baritone voice In the
shadow Of the camp piazza, SINGING
NELLY Gray" or Sweet Alice Ben
Bolt" And then they shake the reins
thoughtfully over the horses back
and whisper: Poor fellows. Amt
Il awful? Do you s'pose that can be
one OF the real conyicts singing! !.
George T.. Herring. constable OF
the southern district Of Green county.
said yesterday at the Cat3kill hotel:
"Of course, we had rather have this
road built by local labor. because It
would put money In circulation here.
but we want the road and are glad
to get II built any way. Nobody round
here has anything but the friendliest
feelings for the prisoners. and they
seem to be behaving finely and at.
landing to their work"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-04
Volcano Changing Climate of Hemisphere

the Miles
How Smoke'C Cove Land 700 Miles
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-04
ITO RIVAL ClfY'SS
LURE TO KEEP
BOYS ON FARM
Farmers Provide Entertainments
To Make Young People
- Contented
RURAL KANSANS MINGLE
WITH FOLK OF CITIES
One thousand Urbanites AS
semble To Be Guests of
Country Cousins

lola, Kas., Aug. An the good
things OF life are not confined within
the cities, and the lure OF the town
Is no stronger than the lure OF the
rural home, Allen county farmers be-
lieve.
To demonstrate effectively this con-
viction and to return the courtesy of
the townspeople. who on many occa-
sions have arranged special events In
their honor. Allen county citizens
have started a series OF entertain
ments to which they are inviting the
residents Of the towns OF the county.
At the first OF these entertain
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-04
CHICAGO GIRL ASKS
$4,000 FOR JILTING

LOS ANGELES. Aug. 4.--Miss LII.
liam ID. Kelly, young and beautitui
Chicago girl. has brought suit against
Juan c. Da Silva for breach OF prom
ise. She asks $4,000, alleging that
Da Silva asked her to marry him, that
she consented and that they set the
date for their marriage.
Da silva admits he promised to wed
Miss Kelly, but denies date was set
for the wedding.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-04

KODIAK, Alaska, Aug. 4.-Katmai
volcano went into acuon again re-
Gently and tossed few cubic miles
OF sulphuric gases skyward, estab-
fishing once more its record as q
rain maker. Since this outbreak two
weeks ago southwestern Alaska has
had only two clear days.
Similar downfall Of moisture, oc-
Cured two years ago when Katmai
first became active. Then there was
so days continuous rain.
Katmai is the fifth volcano In q
chain OF 10 located along the Alaskan
peninsula.
Scientists who examined Katmai
after the great outbreak OF June, 1912,
agreed that II discharged more pum-
ice and solid material than had been
thrown out during any previous erup-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-04
EXPENSIVE TO THROW
SNOWFALL IN WISCONSIN

MADISON. Wis, Aug A snow
ball thrown by fellow employe at
George Rogers while at work for the
Paint Lumber Co., cost the company
an indemnity under the workmen
compensation act.
For permanent deafness thus
caused, together with an injury to his
ears which caused disability for two
months, the industrial commission
awarded Rogers $141.10.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-04
CONVICT CONSOLED OVER
WIFE'S IMPRISONMENT

JEFFERSON. City. Mo-, . Aug. A.
Claude Hale and his wife. Maude,
were committed to the penitentiary,
each 10 serve two-year sentence for
grand larceny.
There's one thing sure" Sheriff
Williams said Hale told him, mo
smooth-tongued fellow will run away
with my wife while I'm boarding, with
the state"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-04
LAKE AND RIVER STEAMERS.
III WHITE STAR LINE Z

For the Fists and Port Auren, wAy.
ports. steamers leave Detroit daily s:AS
.. m. z:3o p. N. and p. m
sundays, n m. and l:3o p. m. ano
Extra Moot for Flats and Tnshmoo Park
sundays only. a.ts y. m.
For Toledo and sugar Island daily at
q m. and .. m Wharf foot OF oris-
void street.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-04
LAKE AND RrvnR srrAxnaa.
IS: S sss!'s: :|!'

Ess. Cleveland. Ptttsburgh and al paints
south and east. leave daily ie,IL 3. q.
Pare to Cleveland. s1es; sittssnrsa.
Day Trips to Clsveland---russdayS
Wednesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays
$50 o. m, $3.50.
Per Bu9ais and an pei.ss Eass-.
Fsf Msskisse ialass sas way Psr,s-
nssdays and Fridays y:sU q m.
special steamer To Mackinac Island
Mondays $50 q. M. Thursdays $3.50 y.
IN. No stops enroute.
wesk-End ExcuAsions Every saturday
--clsveiand. 12.S0. Runaio. st.0s: Mag
ara FaIls sAsp round Trip Tor sr.nspor-
tattoo. rsturnins In tims for business
sistsfcsm Accom- moda.ions - Upper
berth. $500: lover bsrfh. yI.so. whole
TICKET OFFICEs--Third Ave. wharf.
~ Woodward Ave- tAatestic Bldg.a
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1914-01-01
HOW CONNECTICUT COMPARES WITH OTHER
STATES

Perhaps, matter of local curiosity you be in
terested knowing how Connecticut with the
OF the United States this matter of production
Conneccuts for potatoes, 1900190, 50
bushels against SO for the whole Our average for
oats almost 30 bushels against 30 for the whole
try. Our average rye almost IS bushels,
pared with Is 12 for the whole country. Our average
country But then such pitul yields eleven
bushels in Florida Georgia and South Carolina
considered III the general average and brought
sadly 1t should be added, strict Justice, that
about the only which fairly hold
considering that distinctly American cereal. and
that of the United States produce than
of all that raised around the world the production
other lands being almost negligible 1t will be that it
is not proper subject for comparison The European
both beat production Italy by bushel
and Hungary by nearly five bushels.
Look back that table of comparative productivity All
they get from their Soils though they have been
taking off crops for mleniums scarce two
centuries Practically the only exceptions
Italy and Spain and Portugal and Roumania
where during OF those thousand years. the peasants
have been ground down under the heel ecclesiastical or
baona alien tyrants and have dared good
lest they be murdered because of their
aries In all the great Kingdoms where order has been
parat1vey strict and property comparatively secure the
farmers excel US in the they get, by
Now, won't undertake to just how things this
suggests. But do that only suggests it proves
things: First that the farmers of Europe,
ing them by and large, better and expert farm
ers than are second, that farm lands, when sllfuv
ar1ed, not worn out by thousand
cropping, but become steadily productive.
those two things enough III all conscience make
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1914-01-01

You'll observe that the big bosterous and muchbragging
United States behind only Belgium and Germany
and Great Britain but behind New Zealand Egypt
Norway and Chile.
But beat Mexico and Australia and Algeria Whoopee
Aren't the stuff?
Seriously though what you think about the facts dis
closed by that comparison?
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1914-01-01

good many OF inclined to be little bump
tious, We high an opinion
ability think straight work hard the
rant Some OF us opposed everything general
principles, and some OF us don't take kindly advice,
Our New England hills and inervales have been armed
average, about couple OF hundred We think
they The hills and valleys OF Europe have
ee lIned or coupe OF thousand years, and are pro-
ducng today for and better crops than they
did hundred hundred thousand years ago,
and vastly better than getting II lands really
worn out why on earth wasn't the surface OF Europe
worn out to desert waste a thousand years back?
Now there's dismissing the European with
peasant teach us nothing That Euro
pean farmer doing things with his dirt and making his dirt
do things him after thousand years of crop
hundred years-old dirt do for
Don't you believe it? Listen please:
During the period 19001909 both years included
the average yield OF potaos per 1913 bushels in
France 154 in Hungary POI in both Germany and Great Brit
and-93 in the United States the potato is Ma
tive American belonging this hemisphere originating
here, never known IN Europe TIL carried there from here
Think Of it. the sconed peasant farmers Germany and
Great Britain now their old thousand
producing regularly the crop of this American
tnber which the American farmers produce right the
place OF its nativity, and on comparatively lands
THERE IS NO ROOM FOR INVENTED PRETEXTs
Don't begin nventing pretets don't pretend that there
something mysterious the matter with climate
SOIL don't try hunt up There excuses.
Why, that New York farmer Martin whom have lust
toned has had average yield bushels per acre on
his twenty potato field for the years when the
average Germany and England 201 bushels and that
for the of blooming braggarts Yet the
Mr. Martin tried grow potatoes he couldn't get hundred
bushels off any Of the There several po
farmers Maine whose average annual crop well
above the 200 bushe mark There quite bunch Of them
throughout the country
Now the good Lord isn't playing isn't
picking the farmers England and Germany and these
few United who get good crops special recpi
of special kipdnesses He sends His rain the and
the uust His shines the wise and the
wise He is just willing fill soil with capillary
tubes and multiplying agents the soils of England Ger
many Mr.. Martins farm,
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1914-01-01

The Great Farm Problem :-J Just what IS IT.
It has good many phases, that problem and probably
hundred working farmers asked define It ofhand
they would give good many different replies But when
the personal element and the varying conditions OF individuals
has been averaged and eqized think fairly representa-
tive might be sfted out:
THE GREAT FARM PROBLEM IS-HoW TO MAKE
THE FARM PAY?
Not merely how make it pay taxes and running ex-
Pensenet merely how make pay its owner decent
wages and fair interest s invesmennot merely how
make it pay the upeep of home and the education OF
growing fafabut how make il do all these things and
also provide pret which be banked for possible u
tare emergencies
Isn't that about right
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1914-01-01

Why in the first years CT this century the average
acre Weld Maine $50 bushels. Yet there farm
that Mainef happen to know Of at least
who didn't average hundred bushels to the during
that period Gonnectcuts average 95 busfels And in
that New York state where Martin regularly digging
28S bushels per acre. the other farmers averaged
SCARCELY SO bushesi
The difference isn't in what and the good Lord
us, but what we door de-for ourselves
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1914-01-01
, FARM PROBLEM IS-H0W TO MAKE
THE FARM PAY?
FARMS THAT DO PAY.

According latest available statistics there about
90060 of land i'll the country and about 00o00000
people That there nine acres ana nan io every
woman and child
that Nordman in Wisconsin. whose little
story was recently told in one OF The Farmers Iak sup
ports his family and those OF hired men, the year
round, sixty acres OF billy, stony swae-y thin-seed
land begging purchaser So
when he first took it in hand. There fifteen mem
hers in the three families Therefore his sixty acres support
fifteen for each Jour acresand after also pay
ing him wages and paying and paying cent
his investments leave him about $4,000 year
profit
Mr. T. E. Martin western York has for the last
dozen years managed farm OF hy-seven acres only on
which he employs the year round, man for
eight months, and additional during the
mer This farm supports them all and pays Mr. Martin ar
wages besides per interest his original in
vestment and the OF all subsequent Improvements In
this takes little less maintain
person.
There scores OF similar instances
tered throughout the country,
WHERE ONE LARGE MISTAKE IS MADE.
The simple that very few of making
do what could and should make them do As Sec
rotary Houston OF the Agricultural department said the other
day "RecieSsness and waste have been incident
GREATNESS conquest Of continent We have been
SO bent on building great industrial center by natural
and artificial device that have little thought or the
foundations of our industrial existence
OF when the country and the land stored
with the accumulated fertility gathered from thousand
years OF forest growth and decay had nothing do
take the gifts the gods had provided and ways
1t didn't make much difference how cultivated whether
titled at all beyond scratching OF the surfacewe
got the crops Just the same hat the way they re Sill!
doing i'll the wheat belt and along the frontier We of
appropriately described soil robberywon work for
always fathers they got to
ze ii they expected their crops grow. But, with their
crude methods they weren't able in spite OF all their
ing, to get the returns that grandfather used to.
All of US know by tradition, if from actual records,
that the very get dWnding crops upon used
produce bountifu We draw the
preceding generation did and pow and till about that
generation did, but don't get the results it did
So inclined, good many of declare, oHhand
that the soil has and that nothing will
make it productive it used to be.
, That's just where make One Large Mistake
: The trouble isn't in SOILS but in ourselves
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1914-01-01
THE SIX MAIN ROOD CROPS OF THE WORLD.

Taking the main food crops of the world-whea oats
rye barley and poatoewhich six crops occupy about
eighty per OF all the farm lands of the world given up
MISUNDERSTANDING OF hay and other forage
the Washington department OF agriculture has prepared
little table showing how the agricultural countries
rank in order of productivity. Taking 100 'par" here
way stand efficiency cropproducing;
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1914-01-01

Perhaps you think that potatoes the exception and
that the farmers Europe make special drive at them
and don't do we'll comparatively speaking with other
Let's consider wheat in that connection.
Many of think of the United States FIJI E wheat
country of the universe Guess them Butchmen and Dagos
can't give pints 'baout raisin wheat" That's
attitude Yet the show that pretty the
tail of the wheat procession production
erned In the tenyear period from 1900 1910 the
production wheat bushels France,
nineteen and half Austria thirty Germany hirthree
in Englandand fourteen these great big blowing United
Staes In 1909 the last year with full semi
civilized Roumana produced OF twenty-three
bushels OF wheat the and little Belgium harvested at
the hirtyseven and tWohirds bushels to the
We beat Siberia and Turkeya little And presume that
did better than Greenland.
Anything to be proud OF in our wheat record, eh?
How about rye? That's called by many poor land CROP
and supposed do something any old side pasture.
Alsras for the of which have statistics
nineteen bushels Ireands average twenyseven
and half bushes-and fifteen and half bushels!
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1914-01-01
WANT TO KNOW ABOUT OATS?

For that period the yield of eats in
Hungary almost hirtyene bushels; in France almost
tirtytwo in England fortyfour; Germany nearly
fty-one-and in the United States twentynne Little Bel
GUMS average annual yield than xtynine bushels
close seventy. Scoands average is thrtynne
Ireands sxtyhree; Englands about forythree
little craggy Wales is thrynne. And is twenty
nine!
haven't statistics accurately setting forth the average
yield of hay abroad but the average OF the whole United
States 1911 and enetenth to the Such
facts have indicate that the in England
than double this and in Belgium than triple. We all
remember how Hay King Clark for than twenty
averaged between five and the off his Hig
ganum fields. We don't need go abroad to know what
can be done with hay right in Connecticut
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1914-01-01

shoed Frencmen hobnaled Duchmen more ntelii-
gent than the American who has been brought I'D
from the cradle to think that he about the
sckest OF twolegged life this earth. But, one
of farmers working land that cutvatedsand
cropped since Julius Caeser day get crops year
after year that another set get off comparatively
soils what other explanation be given that they plan
and work inteigenly? They may know so much
about ancient history the geography of South America
political economy but they know farming
They save money by ertizng what waste; they get
crops
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1914-01-01

The average European farmer goes far beyond in saving
careful conservation of the farms wastes by the
reduction bills through the restriction of
his work fewer by his refusal to bond his income to
fertilizer trust by his foretough in arranging his
crops make his farm practically support his family the
year round He is producer and seller rather than buy
The high of living meaning thereby the high price
goods Sold doesn't worry him because he seller not buy
All things American farmers might learn from
him to profit.
Then the average European farmer produces bigger crops
than do, acre for by intelligent and s1lul
lage have hesated long before writing that word in
egent above 1t is hard to admit that lot OF wooden
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-07
AT THE EMPIRE.

La France and Conklin, white chaps
appearing as delineators of the negro
character. are offering the funniest act
of it's kind seen here this season at
the Empire the first half of the week
When the curtain rolls up one of the
Fair is peering through the bars of a
jail when his dapper friend, arrayed
in the latest toys, and carrying roll
of greens that would choke a horse,
comes along About as rich dialogue as
you ever heard ensues. The act alone is
worth the price of admission. Next
in Importance is a sketch, THE Bath
Room Mystery" by the Lester trio.
father, mother and a delightfully."- clev-
err daughter. The playlet is a laugh
from start to finish. Other acts on
the bill are Southwick and Barr, THE
Bag Punchers;" Leonard and
Alvin, singers and eccentric dancers;
the Lulu Hunter musical trio, and. as
an added attractio the Empire trio
of vocalists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-07

had been paid for caring for her daugh-
ter for that period. He said that this
had nothing to do with the merits of
DR.. Craig's bill. and insisted that it
should be paid without further delay.
He did not favor the adoption OF any
new rule for handling the matter dur
ing the term of the incumbency of DR..
Craig.
DR. Craig further explained that in
Davenport they have adopted the plan
OF paying the city physician monthly
salary and So a case for smallpox In
addition. He said that NIoline's II
cases of smallpox cost as much to han
die as the 1O1 cases in this city,
totalIing $500. He explained that in
Moline all patients were kept in quar-
antine for period of six weeks, and
all suspects for three weeks,
making the expense for handling the
cases heavy.
81 believe that we cannot force small
pox patients 10 pay for medical care
declared Mayor II. NJ Schriver. When
we put heads of families in quarantine
and deprive them of the opportunity TO
work. believe we are morally liable
TO pay for their maintenance" On
the motion offered by Commissioner
Hart TO allow the bill. Mayor Schriver
and Commissioners Hart and Bear