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The Parker post., 1914-07-18
FAT MAN MOVED OVER
LITTLE INCIDENT THAT MADE
Mr.. GOsLINGTON SMILE.
Retributive Justice Was Abroad and
Working That Morning, Though 1t
Is Not Often In Evidence
in a Railroad Car.

whenever I take seat in an ele-'
waited or a subway car" said MI.
Goslfngton, 'T am careful to sit square
ly in the middle of it so that l Shall
not unduly crowd anybody that may
be sitting at either side, but I do not
find that everybody respects my rights
in like manner.
This morning, for instance, when
had seated myself in my accustomed
fashion in subway car there came in
and took the vacant seat next me on
my left big, thoughtless, f1eshy man,
who was quite regardless of my rights
and comfort, to which, indeed, he was
plainly quite Indifferent. He dropped
into that seat any way he happened
TO- which proved to be two-thirds on
that seat and one-third on mine, or
rather on me. And then he stayed
right there where he had dropped,
making no effort whatever to shift
over.
II stood this for a minute or two so
as not to appear disturbed or inpa-
tient, and then I moved one seat to
the right, that next seat there happen
ing to be vacant, thus leaving the
place l had lately occupied free, or
two-thirds so, the other third being
still taken up by the big feshy man.
"And now there came into the car
another large man, bigger than the
other, but not feshy; big man who
was bony, angular and muscular, and
who had also a resolute cast Of coun-
tenance.-
"This large, bony and resolute man
made for the seat which I had just
left, and did he simply sit down on it's
front edge, leaving the fleshy intruder
upon it in undisturbed possession of
the remainder?
mo. This large and bony newcom-
er appeared to be man of keen dis
cernment as we'll as by nature reso-
lutte. At glance he saw that about
one-third of the feshy mans own
proper seat at his left was vacant,
while he was sitting over on about
one-third of this one. So now the
newcomer did not just sit down on
the front edge, but he sat we'll in to-
ward the back Of the seat, and then
he dropped himself into it, solidly
and squarely.
"The feshy man turned toward the
big, bony, resolute man who had thus
sat down on him and looked at him
really quite sourly; but then within a
short moment he moved over. And
as I saw him move 1 felt that what
the big man had just done to him far
more than made up for what he had
dome to me-
The Parker post., 1914-07-18
DID YOU HEAR THAT ilGHT7
II Not Your Hearing May Be Defec-
tive-Every Kind of Material Pro-
duces Some Sound.

It is no unusual thing to see ray
Of light, but have you ever heard one?
Recent experiments prove that beam
Of light can, under certain conditions,
produce perfectly clear and distinct
sounds, a write& in Harper's Weekly
says.
A ray of sunlight is thrown through
q lens on glass vessel that contains
lampblack, colored silk or worsted. A
disk with Sits or openings cut in it Is
made to revolve swiftly in this beam
Of light, SO as to "cut it up" and
cause alternate flashes of light and
shadow. When you place your ear to
the glass vessel you hear strange
sounds as long as the flashing beam
falls upon the vessel
A still more extraordinary effect Is
produced when the beam of sunlight
Is made to pass through prism so as
to produce the solar spectrum. The
disk is turned rapidly and the colored
light Of the rainbow breaks through it
and falls on the glass vessel. Now If
you place your ear to the glass yox
will hear sounds from certain parts
Of the spectrum, but none from the
others
For example, If the vessel contains
red worsted and the green light flashes
upon 1t quite loud sounds will be given
out. Only feeble sounds will be heard
when the red and blue ends of the
spectrum fall upon the vessel. Other
colors produce no sounds at all. Green
silk gives out sound best in a red
light Every kind oi material gives
more or less sound in different colors
and no sound at all in others.
The Parker post., 1914-07-18
Beroson DisIikes Popularity.

Henri Bergson is growing very
weary Of his popularity, which, since
his election to the French academy,
b3s increased so much that there is
never even standing room at his lec-
lures at the Sorbonne. Mr.. Bergson.
who lives a solitary life in his Ivory
Tower at Auteuil, is bored by his fash
lonable audiences, and by lecturing as
abstrusely as possible tries to frighten
them away. But it does no good.
One afternoon a woman, whose
name is historic and whose clothes
are the envy of Paris, went up to the
philosopher at the close of lecture
on the psychology of laughter. MAS
ter" she said, II do not know how to
thank you. You have made me think"
please accept my sincere apologies,
Nine. la Duchesse,' said Bergson.
The Parker post., 1914-07-18
Operative Farm
Products Marketing
How II Is Done in Europe and May Be Done
in America to the Profit of Both
Farmer and Consumer
BY MATTHEW DUDGEoN.
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Copyright. 1914. Western Newspaper Union.)
EGGS FOR EVERYBODY.
BY MATTHEW s. DUDGEo

Copenhagen, Denmark. - Did you
know that the people in New York
alone eat one hundred fifty million
dozen Of eggs every year and that
they cost something like forty-five mil
lion dollars? Did you know that an
expert has estimated that each year
America eats something like one thou
sand million dollars worth of eggs?
How Eggs Spoil.
When the farmer used to go to town
his wife went along with a basket Of
eggs containing possibly four or six
or ten dozen of them. These eggs were
delivered to the general country store
keeper and instead Of paying for them
in cash the merchant gave trade in
exchange. The price of eggs was low
and when the price was further re-
duced by translation into sugar or cof-
fee at a high price the results were of
no great significance. Egg selling
then was in fact a small business. AS
a small business it was not for long
time developed along scientific lines.
The hen laid only when the weather
was good. She laid a fresh egg of
course, but it was likely to lie around
in dirty nest until time and summer
heat made it very bad egg to look
at and worse egg to eat. Not all
eggs spoiled but so many went bad
that scattered through the lot sent in
by the farmer they lowered the grade
of all so that even the freshest went
only as "eggs' because no one knew
they were strictly fresh"
Strictly fresh eggs were practically
unobtainable as matter of fact. Aft
er the farmers wife delivered the eggs
to the merchant he kept them around
a few days or maybe weeks until he
had fairly large shipment. They
might be in the cellar and they might
be in the back of the store where it
was warmer, but at any rate they
gained nothing in flavor or quality
from his storage. Then he sent them
to some merchant in the county
seat nearby. This dealer kept them
awhile until an accumulation made a
shipment possible to the city commits
sion merchant in Milwaukee, Boston
or Kansas City. They then might be
sold by the commission agent to the
retail trade or they might be put in
cold storage or they might be shipped
to some distant place. But you may
rest assured that it was some time be-
fore the egg laid On the farm found
it's way to the breakfast table of the
city consumer. Much time had been
consumed, unnecessary expense had
been incurred in going through this
slow, unbusinesslike, unscientific sys-
tenn Of distribution. But worse than
The Parker post., 1914-07-18
No Tango or Motors.

There is one place where the tang.
is as yet unknown, and that is Mon
rovia, the capital of Liberia, accord
ing to Reed Paige Clark. the receiver
of the general customs there, who
is now on six months leave of alb
sence.
Ragtime and the movies, however,
flourish there, Mr. Clark says, but
there is not an automobile in the
whole of Liberia; in fact, there are no
wheeled vehicles at all, as there are
no roads and no railroads.
Life at the capital is village-like in
its simplicity. The people are kindly
and courteous, and Mr.. Clark is de-
lighted with the treatment he received
during his two years residence there.
Mr.. Clark says his British, French
and German colleagues work harmo-
niouSly, although there is some fric-
tion on political questions, but this is
of no great Importance.
The port of Monrovia is showing a
wonderful increase in shipping. More
than 400 steamers called there during
the past year with cargoes which ex-
ceeded million tons.
The Parker post., 1914-07-18
Too Much Maqnificence.

The first carpet ever seen in East
Hampton, Long Island, was in Parson
Lyman Beecher's home. One day a
little money came from Uncle Lot Ben
ton, the good angel of the Beecher
family. With it young Lyman bought
the cotton; his wife, Rozana, spun it,
had it woven and painted it over in
oil colors, with gay border round
the edge and groups Of flowers in the
center
When the new carpet was laid down
the people were astonished at the
magnificence of the pastors parlor.
Good old Deacon Talmadge, coming
one day, stopped at the door, afraid
to enter.
Walk in, deacon" said the pastor.
'T can't" he answered, "thout step
pin ont. Dye think" he added, in
wondering admiration, we can have
all that and heaven, toC?"-Youth's
Companion.
The Parker post., 1914-07-18
Space and Eyesioht.

When we speak of outer space, the
space between star and star, as be-
ing empty Of matter, it is rather in
teresting to see exactly what we mean.
We know from observation on the
planets that light, in it's passage across
space to our earth, suffers hardly any
absorption, and from this fact we can
deduce conclusions respecting the den
sity of such matter as exists in outer
space.
If the degree of rarefaction in outer
space is, for example, in the neigh
borhood of the one hundred-millionth
part of an atmosphere, the appear
ance of Jupiter, for instance, would
be as if our atmosphere had twice its
present opacity. So that such matter
as exists must be in a much more
rarefed state But after all these
terms are only comparative.
Suppose our atmosphere were al
lowed to expand up to the limits of
the visible universe, as far as the
milky way then it's raefaction would
be such that it would be quite impOs-
sible, by any optical means, to detect
the presence of any matter. Neverthe-
less, there would be about five thou
sand molecules per cubic centimeter
throughout space.
The Parker post., 1914-07-18

In Germany the eggs are marketed
much as they are in Denmark. In the
one province Of Hanover there are for
example one hundred forty-two COOP
erative poultry societies. Some of
these combine the breeding of poultry
or the other forms Of cooperation with
the selling OF eggs. Ninety-eight egg
societies. however, are devoted en-
tirely to egg selling and in the year
1910 disposed of 27,50O,000 eggs real
izing therefrom over $40O, 100000 for
distribution among their cooperative
members.
To belong to the society each farmer
pays an entrance fee of twenty-five
oents; shares in the society cost each
$1.25 Of which, however, only twelve
cents is paid down. the balance being
gradually paid by distribution OF div
idends upon the trading profits. The
cooperative society at Hanover owns
a substantial brick egg house from
which 100000 eggs are sold each year.
The collector who is paid SOC for every
one thousand eggs collected calls once
a week at the farm house of each
member Of the cooperative egg SELL
ing society. The woman who tests.
sorts and packs the eggs is paid fif-
teen cents for every one thousand
eggs passing through her hands. A
clerk from a neighboring cry goods
store attends to the billing and keeps
the books Of the society, receiving
twenty-five cents for every one thou
sand eggs handled and recorded. Sum-
noing up all the expense incurred by
the society in collecting, testing, sort
ing, packing and shipping the eggs it
costs less than four hundred dollars
to market almost half million eggs.
The customers are obtained in the
first instance through the chamber of
agriculture at Hanover. This is sort
OF rural chamber of commerce which
among other things keeps an up-to-
date list of customers who are good
pay and who are honest dealers. Each
week the society ships large consign-
ments to the various cities of the Ger
man Empire seldom finding it neces-
sary to export to foreign countries.
Experience shows that under this Ger
man cooperative system Of marketing
the cash returns upon each dozen of
eggs are from three to six cents great
er than they were when they were
sold to the ordinary buyer. On the
other hand not penny has been added
to the cost to the consumers, who in
the majority of instances get eggs
The Parker post., 1914-07-18

the delay and expense involved was
the fact that the egg which started
down the line from the hen as "a
strictly fresh" egg had little chance
of reaching it's destination as anything
but bad egg.
A WastefuI, Expensive Process.
The whole process is wasteful Last
summer in Missouri literally hundreds
of wagon loads Of eggs were driven off
into the woods and dumped simply
because they had gone bad upon the
hands of those who were not able to
market them promptly. Then too the
loss and damage from breakage is con-
siderable, and one authority has esti-
mated that the handling of eggs by
those who pack and ship them is so in
expert that each year seventy-fve mil
lion dollars worth are broken and lost
in transportation.
Is it any wonder that when eggs fin
ally reach the consumer they often
cost him more than twice what the
farmer received for. them? Is it any
wonder that the farmer is dissatisfied
with the price he receives when it is
sometimes less than one-half what the
consumer pays. Is it any wonder the
city man kicks at the price which he
pays, kicks again when he finds that
the high priced eggs are bad eggs.
A Better, More BusinessIike Way.
Contrast this method of handling
with the way it is done by the e'co-ooer-
htive organizations abroad. Denmark
leads in egg marketing as in the mar
keting Of almost every other farm
produce. At Frederickssund in Den
mark, for example, ten thousand farm
ers own an egg packing establishment.
Every farmer gathers every egg from
the nest every day. In hot weather he
is required to gather the eggs twice
day. At least three times a week he
sends in his eggs to one of the collect
The Parker post., 1914-07-18
Heavy-Handed.

Postmaster General Burleson smiled,
at a luncheon in Washington, over the
suggestion that the parcel posts rival
ry of the express companies was bad
for the peoples transport trade.
bad for the people?" said Mr..
Burleson. well, sir, when you say
that, you remind me of one of our
oldest post Office stories.
According to this story, a postmas-
ter said to a customer:
"'This letter won't go for two cents.
What's the matter with it?'
TOO heavy
"'Too heavy, hey? Wall, that's just
about what I expected. My son wrote
that letter, and 1 told him at the time
he was writin' too heavy a hand; but
he KEEP bearin' down and bearin down
Here, give it back. I'll take it home
and make him do it over in lead pen
Gil '"-Chicago Record-Herald.
The Parker post., 1914-07-18

cheaper than they got them before and
of better quality. The more economic
less wasteful system of marketing
makes egg production more profitable
to the farmer, leads him to produce
more eggs, increases the supply, and,
by the soundest principles of practical
business economics, lowers the price
to the consumer.
Americans Can Cooperate in Eggs.
Nor has the cooperative marketing
of eggs been confined to Europe. We
have in our own country some excel
lent institutions which demonstrate
that the cooperative procedure which
is good for the European hen upon the
continent Of Europe Is good for the
American hen upon American SOIL
One Of these is at Dassel, MINI.
These are the results in two years:
During the first year, the egg selling
society handled six thousand dozen
eggs, receiving an average Of five
cents a dozen more for their product
than was paid for the miscellaneous
eggs on the same markets, thus max
ing over $22 per member.
The second year, the association
shipped $4,000 dozen eggs with the
came success, while the Dassel Prod
uce company Ia private concern)
shipped 10000 dozen more in carton
box lots. In ALL 100000 dozen eggs
were sent from this little town during
the year, for which these progressive
farmers received nearly $4,000 in
cash or $4,000 more than they could
have received under the old system,
whereas only enough eggs were for
merly taken in trade at the village gro-
Gerry stores to supply the five hundred
people living in Dassel.
Other American Cooperative Egg So
cieties
At Hickory, North Carolina, CO.
operative egg marketing grew out Of
and became engrafted upon a cooper
ative creamery business. That the
existing cooperative creameries can
easily and naturally assume the func-
tions of an egg marketing institution
is eV1denced Dy the success which
several Minnesota creameries have at
tanned in this line.
The cooperative society need not
necessarily be a large organization.
The Blue Mounds Egg association of
Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, consists of
only seven members. The home of
one of the members constituted the
headquarters of the concern. Modest
as was this venture it netted the mem
bers very considerable margin above
the price which they otherwise would
have been able to obtain. AS the foun-
der said: cit requires almost no time,
the association runs ITSELF" In fact
all that is needed today is the con-
viction that what has been done else
where can be done in any community
in the United States if only the hens
are on hand to do their share
The Parker post., 1914-07-18
HAD PITY ON THE OLD MAN
Story Of kind-Hearted Chicago Wom.
an, the PeddIer and the
Short Change.

A tottering old mamie looked
about one hundred and ten years OF
age-knocked at the door of fat or
the second floor of an Oak Park apart.
ment building recently, offered his
wares for sale, and was informed that
no needles we're needed, relates the
Chicago News. Then the poor old
face quivered and the lachryma1 glands
were opened and deluge ensued. The
rains descended and the floods came.
Dear lady," sobbed the old man,
"just one package. They told me If
I couldn't work l would have to go to
the poorhouse. And 1 am trying to
work-oh, l am trying, but nobody will
buy
1t was heartrending. The lady Of
the house dug deep into her purse.
But a 81 bill was the smallest she
could produce.
"You haven't change for 81, sup
pose," she said, hesitatingly.
"Bless your dear, kind heart, lady.
I wish 1 had. But I'll go and get it.
No, don't give me the dollar to change.
Thank you, but don't do that. will
try to sell some needles first. Maybe
later 1 will have enough change and
then I will come back"
Twas, indeed, a shrewd stroke.
Two hours later the old man re-
turned His nose was blue with cold
and his hands trembled as he held
them out.
There, lady, count that" he Quav-
cred. There was just 60 cents change
in his palm.
ooh, dear, is that all? What shall l
do? It was all l could get"
Of course, you know what hap
pened. The lady of the house took
two packages of needles that she
didn't want and gave him the 81 bill,
receiving as change the so cents.
She watched the pitiful figure de-
scend the stairs and later glanced
casually from her rear window. This
is what she saw:
Under the stairs was the old man.
He was counting his money. From one
pocket he took a roll of bills; from
another a bunch of half dollars, from
another a pocketful of quarters and
from another a handful of pennies.
He counted all the money gloatlngly'
put it in a bag and went his way.
The Parker post., 1914-07-18
INSTANT DEATH IN CREVASSE
One of the Tragedies That Seem In
separabIe From Antarctic
Exploration.

Tragic was the fate that overlook
two Of Doctor Mawsons companions
in the course of their recent explora-
tions in the Antarctic. This account Is
taken from the Geographical Journal:
CAS- regards the disastrous sledge jour-
ney from the main base with Lieuten-
ant MINIS and Doctor Merz, Doctor
Mawson says that his object in under
taking it was to dash as far east as
possible so as to ascertain the nature
of the land in that direction. The
three men had the assistance of 16
dogs in dragging load of over seven
teen hundred pounds. On December
IA, 1912, the party were in 6S degrees
So minutes south, 151 degrees 35 min
utes east, having covered distance Of
I'll miles. The track had lain over
plateau heights and crevassed glacial
depressions, the totals Of the ascents
having reached 5000 feet All were in
the highest spirits, as prospects
seemed good for a further advance
over an unbroken plateau at safe dis
tance from the crevassed coastal down
falls. The day was a beautiful one
and Doctor Merz was leading on ski,
Doctor Mawson following with the
first dog-team, while Lieutenant Min
mis- brought up the rear with the sledge
containing the most vital necessaries.
Unexpectedly the faint outline Of a
'crevasse crossing the path was no
ticed, but both Doctor Merz and Doc
tor Mawson crossed without hating or
regarding it as a cause for anxiety.
"The latter called back 'Crevasse!
to Lieutenant MINIS, but on looking
back soon after saw nothing but
blank expanse of snow and ice. Has
tening back, the two travellers found
,yawning abyss, and at length dis
|cerned an injured dog caught on
ledge, but no trace of their comrade,
who must have gone down to the in
visible depths below-certainly to in
stant death. After calling for hours
without answer, they read the burial
service and started on their return,
with only one and half weeks food
for themselves and none for the six
emaciated dogs. There was saved also
a spare tent cover, for which frame
was improvised out Of a pair of ski
and theodolite's legs.
1.-THE food was strictly apportioned
to the distance to be covered, but bad
weather was encountered and the dogs
gave out daily, until soon none was
left. No nutriment was to be ex
tracted from their flesh and by Janu.
ary both travellers we're very weak,
Merz being in the worse case Of the
two, though still cheerful. Unable to
proceed on foot, his companion
dragged him painfully in the sledge,
but about midnight of January 8-9 he
passed away. A month Of terrible pri-
vation for the survivor followed, with
miraculous escapes from falls into
crevasses, but Doctor Mawson unex-
pectedly came upon a cache contain
ing food, left by a search party, and
eventually reached the hut
The Parker post., 1914-07-18
He'd GondoIaed There,

Bacon-It is stated that Venice is
wrestling with the peculiar problem of
a rapidly-increasing population with
out being able to enlarge the city.
Egbert-Why, l should think they
could easily do it by irrigation.
The Parker post., 1914-07-18
Ignorance Is Bliss,

Don't you know that l don't allow
any man to kiss my daughter?" said
the indulgent father.
"Well, how was l to know she was
your daughter, sir?" replied the young
man.
The Parker post., 1914-07-18
Somebody Gettinq His.

Church, see a trolley line in
western city is going to be knocked
down to the lowest bidder at auction.
Gotham-It won't be the first time
that the knock" trick has been known
to trolley lines.
The Parker post., 1914-07-18
A Mover,

Patience-I hear Mrs. Flatte has
lived in 16 different apartments in IL
months.
Patrice-She must be "the queen of
tina movies"
The Parker post., 1914-07-18
ImDOrtant.

Tommie--And did Noah only have
two of each kind in the ark, pop?
Father-So we are told
And were both feas on one of the
dogs, por?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
DISPUTED BY SULZER.
Former Governor Denies Murphy Re-
funded Brady's Campaign Donation.

NEW YORK, February .I-Charles f.
Murphy. leader of Taulnany Hall, did
not give back the So 90 campaign con-
trib Of the late Anthony n Brady.
in iai2 as Murphy said he did, according
q ne sworn testimony yesterday of Will
,iaEa yer, deposed Governor of New
York
Sul,er. witness for the second time at
the John Dee inquir: into political graft,
testified that Murphy had told him that
he had turned the $1,000 o.er TO the
democratic state committee. lie added
that MurpnI also said he had fixed it,
20 that i would be reported in the COM
ralttse's list of campaign contributions
tif-le. the name u a dummy. This is the
S2f..tD which Sulzer says was first Of
tered TO MIN and which he refused to ac-
cept.
Murphy in a recent public statement
sa:u that he had given the money back
t. Brady. He viii probably be called in
the near future to tell his story under
oath.