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The Washington times., 1915-07-02
Younger Banker Suicide;
Shortage in Accounts

ANNAPOLIS, July al. Marshall
Caughey. thirty-one, treasurer of the
Annapolis Banking and Trust Company,
and a son of John II. Caughey. Balti-
more, committed suicide in his room at
the Annapolitan Club here, last night,
by shooting himself.
A banking inspector was here yester-
day going over the books Of the trust
company, and although there is evil
dence OF a shortage, or complicated ac-
counts, the extent has not been de-
termined.
1t is said 1t will reach several thou
sand dollars. This. 1t is said, will be
fully covered by Mr.. Caughey's bond,
which was for 10000
officials of the bank. 1t is stated, did
not have the slightest suspicion that
anything was wrong.
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
Library to Close.

The Public Library will be closed
Sunday and Monday because OF the In
dependence Day celebration.
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
SOCIAL CENTER TO
GIVE ENTERTAINMENT
Summer Season Begins Tonight
at Grover Cleveland School,;
Dances Also TO Be Held.

The Margaret Wilson Social Center OF
Grover Cleveland School. will inaugu-
rate Its free summer entertainments
at 1880 o'clock tonight.
The entertainment Is to be held In the
assembly hall Of the school and will in
clude a series Of stories by Miss Dorothy
Hellman, teacher at John Eaton
School; solos by Mrs. Amy L. Ormsby
and Hawaiian records on the phono-
graph.
The Friday evening concerts were a
feature Of last summers work.
Among the other summer activities OF
the social center are the formal dances
given by the members Of the boys ana
girls clubs each Monday and Wednes-
day evening. On Monday the dance will
be omitted, owing to the holiday, but
one will be held as usual on Wednes-
day evening.
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
War Department Clerks
Honored for Service

Souvenir spoons adoSn the dssks q
r. 8. Deland and Dr. Harrison ~. Ben-
nett. In the office Of the auditor q th.
War Department today. The SPOONS
were presented to the two yesterday IN
recognition OF nifty years Of servioe- Mr.
Deland enterzi the service June -. 80.
and DIR. Bennett June -. isS. The gifts
were presented by Assistant Secretary
Of War BreckInridge. foliowins lsuaa-
tory remarks by James l.. Baity. the
auditor.
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
CENSUS FINDS $1,000
BLIND j. S. CITIZENS
Ratio Of e23. to 100000
Shown in Statistics-Mark-
ed Decrease Seen.

More than 5000 of the citizens OF the
United States are blind. a ratio of 623
to 100000, according to figures announced
by the Census Bureau today. The statis-
tics are for the year 1910.
Director Sam L.. Rogers finds that
blindness has, apparently, decreased
markedly among the younger classes of
American population in the last fifty
years: that blindness Is far more pre-
Nalent among men than among women;
that 1t is more prevalent among Indians
and colored people than among native
whites: and that approximately one
half the blind reported In 1910 were
sixty years of age or over.
The report finds that at the time the
statistics were compiled the blind popu-
lation of the world was roughly esti-
mated at 2.39O.O00, although an actual
census failed to disclose more than L.
1s4'346 The report says:
Where Most Prevalent.
THE only countries and provinces IN
which the ratios of the blind to the total
population are lower than that for the
United States 1928 per 100000 are Can
in 1s1l; Belgium, where it was 43.b in
sos in 1900: Netherlands, 4ss in 1903;
New South Wales. 614 in 1911; Western
australia; tr 6o'S In 1911. and New Zealand.
"In the United States blindness is most
prevalent in New Mexico end Nevada,
in which States the ratios Of blind to
total population in 1910 were 169.3 to 100.-
goo and 11S.5 to 100000. respectively. The
high ratios for these States are due to
the fact that Indians. among whom
trachoma Is Of frequent occurrence in
those sections Of the country. constitute
relatively large elements in their popu-
lation. In Arizona. kentucky, Ten
. nessee, and Vermont the ratios are also
bigh-sSs. s4. S9.5. and s4.6, respectively"
In discussing the numbers of the
blind remuneratively employed. Director
"of the s. .47s blind males ten years
Of age and over in 1910. only 1876, or
S.8 per cent, were reported as being
fainfully employed, while Of the "a 900
blind females ten years Of age and over,
only ,345. or sc per cent, were reported
as gainfully employed.
Variety of Employment.
Tho corresponding percentages with
reference to the total population were
E.3 for males and 23.4 for females It
does not follow, however, that more
than 5000 blind persons were actually
eelf-supporting, since In most cases
their earnings were far from sufficient
amounted to mere pittance Of less
than 500 a year.
'Of the 1878 blind males reported as
gainfully employed, l,76S or 20 per cent,
were returned as farmers; 66b or S.S
per cent. as broom Makers 646 or ST.
! per cent. as musicians and teachers Of
music; 6ls' or 7s per cent as retail
hucksters and peddlers); 401, or per
cent, as hucksters and peddlers; 34e
or ~ per cent, as plano tuners; and
242, or 3 per cent, as chair Gamers"
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
Capt. Bryan to Manage
Charleston Navy Yard

Capt B. c. Bryan will succeed Rear
Admiral ]. r. Edwards as commandant
Of the Charleston navy yard when the
latter retifes July 3. Secretary Daniels
has officially announced Captain Bryan's
selection.
The Washington times., 1915-07-02

White, black, blue. flesh. and
maize waists. of silk crepe. in
dozens of entirely new, rich de-
signs. Also white and black
all-over lace and heaviest and
best washing white and black
tub silks. Exclusive styles-not
shown elsewhere.
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
Officers Installed.

Rawley Doome has been installed COM
mander Of Gen. Frank Mcintyre Post.
No. Is. Veterans OF Foreign Wars.
George Dixon was Installed as vice
commander Of the organization.
The Washington times., 1915-07-02
Pocahontas Memorial
Fund Receives Donations

Several additional donations to the
fund for the erection Of a memorial
statue on jamestown island were re-
ported yesterday. The society will hold
it's first fall meeting on the first Mon
day in October.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-16
CAL0MEL MAKES YOU SICK, UGH!
 |T'S MERCURY AND SAL|VATES
Sraighen Up! Don't Lose Days Work Clean Your Sluggish
 Liver and Bowels With "Dodson' Liver Tone'

Ugh! Calomel makes you sick. Take a dose of the vile, dangerous drug to. night and tomorrow you may lose a days work.
 Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones. Calomel, when it comes into contact with sour bile crashes into it. break. ing it up. This is when you feel that awful nausea and cramping. If you feel sluggish and "all knocked out" if your liver is torpid and bowels consti- pated or you have headache, dizziness, coated tongue, if breath is bad or stomach sour, just try spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone. G
 Here's my guaranteelGo to any drug store or dealer and get 50-cent bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone Take a spoonful tonight and if it doesn't
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-16
The Look in French Faces.

Almost all the faces about these crowded tables Gin thet cafe at Cha lons)-young or old, plain or hand some, distinguished or average-have the same look of quiet authority; it is as though all ''nervosity," fussiness, little personal oddities, meanness and vulgarities, had been burned away in a great flame of self-dedication. It is q wonderful example of the rapidity with which purpose models the hu- man countenance.-Edit Wharton in Seribner's Magazine.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-16

straighten you right up and make you feel fine and vigorous by morning want you to go back to the store and get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying the sale of calomel be- cause it is real liver medicine; entire ly vegetable, therefore it cannot sali- vate or make you sick f,
 I guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson's Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your bowels of that sour bile and consti- pated waste which is clogging your system and making you feel miserable. I guarantee that a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your entire fam fly feeling fine for months. Give it to your children. It is harmless; doesn't gripe and they like it's pleasant taste.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-16
Reason for His PoIiteness,

"Shoestring's united, ma am" a small boy called out to the stout woman who moved majestically up the street. "I'll tie it for you
 Even a less naughty woman would have found it difficult to treat with back her skirt in acceptance of his attention
 The little boy pulled the string tight and smiled up at her My mothers fat, too," he explained.-The Inde- pendent
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-16
An Added Bit of Realism.

While watching an educational film a little girls sympathy was aroused through the affection a handsome dog was showing his master.
 Why doesn't he love the pretty doggy. mamma?" she asked
 "S-h," returned the parent. He is scenting a polecat.'
 "Oh," answered the child T never saw a polecat before, but I've smelled them''
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-16
Oh. That Lash!

Tommy had watched the high-hatted and frock-coated ringmaster for some time. He was particularly interested in the way he handled the whip with the long lash.
 Well, Tommy" said his father, what do you think of that fellow?"
 The whip cracked again as Tommy replied: I'm glad he isn't my father" "
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-16
Some of Those Who Need Reforming.

How nice it would be-" mordacious- ly remarked J. Fuller Gloom of Sniff fies, Mo, '.if the village drunkard the oldest inhabitant, the town gossip, the life of the party, the glee club, the woman who comes of a fine old fam fly, the political wheelhorse, the natu- ralborn humorist, the local poet, the dramatic reciter, the preacher who tries to get down to the masses, the lady who is greatly troubled over our lack of culture, and several others whom I could name, would experience a change of heart and reforml l"-Kan- sas City Star.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-16
He'll Get It,

How about going to a show tonight, Jim? ?'
 Not for me. I'm going to Jiggins party"
 "Oh, come on with me. The Jig ginses are dead slow. You never have any fun at their house"
 q know, but I need new hat"
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-16
His Busy Day.

Mrs. Dixon-Why do you let your husband growl so much when you have company?
 Mrs. Vixen-That's the only time he gets to grumble.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-16
His. Ohiection.

Are you in favor of Woman Suf- frage?'
 Decidedly not It's bad enough to have to explain politics to women without having them explain 1t to us"
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-16
The Trouble.

Did you see where the Anglo-Ger- man knight in London was told he could not resign his baronetcy?"
 'Yes, that was not title he could sir-render'
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-16
Copyright g5 by the Mcclure Newspaper syndicate)
Dear. it's so late-must you go to the office tonight?"
e ot to look

U 0 [ { O l O O k over some of that mail before 1 see c ri fiji Il in t h e morning. This the o n e you W a n t opened? % Warren was unstrapping one of the trunks.
 Both of them, and you'll have to open this suit case Helen hand ed him the key. I h a t l O c k catches. 9
 Now, see here, don 1 try to un-
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-16
Rather Risky.

What's the proper way to indorse a check?"
 With the name of a man who has a good bank account"
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-16

You can see the finish of some men , written on the faces of their wives.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-16

Fire in the premises of the John W. Bunny Wholesale Grocery com pany. Springfield, H.. destroyed the Gnper floors of the building
The sun., 1915-03-14
Matter of Expense. Does Not Count
With o. c. Barber, match King" in
Equipping $500 Acres in Ohio

a raceforse or n grand opera star.
Forty acres of the farm is given
over to private park for Mr.. Barber.
He picked for the site of his new
home a hill that commanded a Won
derful view but which had about the
meanest, orneriest looking soil in
northern Ohio. The surface was a
treeless stretch of clay. fecked with
stones on which scarcely weed
would grow. y quarter of a mile or
more away was a wood. Mr.. Barber
simply had part of the wood moved
up closer to the site of his house. He
transplanted more than 1l00 trees.
many of them big oaks, with no more
thought of the expense than IL he had
been shifting a bed of nasturtiums
Then he sent to New England and
got himself a birch and pine wood
and moved it to his place on a freight
train.
Still his property looked bare and
new. He then had agents go down
into Virginia and gather up train
Load of mountain laurel and rhodo-
dendrons. All this mass of stun grow
ing in the transplanted woods about
the house gives the effect to-day of
having been there as long as the hill
Itself.
There are two or three artificial
ponds fed by springs and artesian
wells and surrounded by moss COW
cred logs that were brought there TO
make everything look perfectly nat
ural.
practically every kind of flower that
will bloom in northern Ohio is to be
seen growing in profusion about the
big house on top OF the once sterile
clay hill. And the flowers are cared
for by gardener that Mr.. Barber
imported from the royal gardens about
buckingham Palace in England. There
may he other private grounds just as
beautiful as Mr.. Barber's. but it is
doubtful II there Is another forty acre
landscape scheme in the country that
is as expensive.
Although no other man ever fixed
up a farm with so little regard TO exc
pense. Mr.. Barber as irritated when
he stops to think of it, because his
place doesn't pay. Yet he goes right
ahead spending more than 81 900 day
on improvements that HI knows can
never show dividend. The fact
that he has a desire To see the place
pay will not deter hiuf from finding
out how much money de can put
into Il.
He wants To make il pay. not be-
cause he needs the dividends. but
simply for the sport of the thing. 4
man may play golf and be perfectly
content not to make any money out
The sun., 1915-03-14

Beautiful Anna Dean Farm Represents
an Investment of $3,OOO,OOO-
Hopes to Make Farm Pay Dividend

the cost of labor and feed is running
so high that chicken raising is be-
coming an expensive luxury. A few
hens running about the back lot eat
ing up scraps from the kitchen are
a good proposition. because the cost
of chicken feed is almost nothing. \
poultry yard of several thousand
chickens is something else again.
Still Mr.. Barber is going to make
chicken raising on a big scale pay #
it can be done. \ few weeks ago he
started to build a big -four mill with
a capacity Of 100 barrels a day. and
one of his main objects in beginning
this enterprise was to get chicken feed
as a by-product. In that way he
thinks he may be able to feed his
chickens more cheaply and perhaps
get them to move over 40 the right
side Of the ledger.
Similarly. Mr.. Barbers LOO hogs
have never been proiitlb BILE. ana now
he is starting high art slaughter
house In whicb he will put up hams
to compete with the highest priced
hams on the market. and then he
will see II that makes any difference
on the profit sheet
Twelve acres of the Barber farm Is
under glass. There one finds hot
house grapes, orchids, carnations, figs,
peaches and various vegetables. ON
the whole this rays II pays better,
perhaps, than almost any other de-
partment on the farm.
The entire farm provides enough
revenue now to pay off the 225 em-
ployees, and that helps a lot, for a
number of these men are experts and
are paid accordingly.
1t So happens. by the way, that j.
G. Frank, the general manager Of the
big farm, is not a farmer at all. but
"A business man. Mr.. Barber took him
from a manufacturing concern be-
cause he had proved himself almost a
genius at organization and at ham
ding men. After h.. had assumed
charge of Mr.. Barbers 3 500 acres,
however. he took a short course in
tclligently about the growing crops
with those about him. To-day he can
command threshing crew or a corps
Of adding machine opera ors about
equally well.
The adding machines are there. 400,
Tor the farm is conducted Ike big
manufacturing establishment. About
the office building are stenographers
and accountants jott!ng down every
thing worth recording. from the daily
milk records of all the 800 dairy cows
10 he maternity records of the high
horn sows in she cork walled piggery
The sun., 1915-03-14

5000 Of these birds in a wonderful
brick and concrete house and sells
them to big hotels in Chicago and
Pittsburg. They are looked after 10y
woman who gets a big salary for
knowing nearly all there is to know
about pigeons.
With the ducks and squads yielding
a profit. the chicken department con-
stantly loses money. Some $4,000
chickens have been hatched during
the season under the direction of one
of the best chicken experts an the
country. and yet every man that
bought one of these hens took money
out of O. c. BARRIERS pocket. The fact
seems To be that raising chickens
on large scale is not a profitable
line Of endeavor. Thus we must blast
one OF the dreams of chose who look
forward To the day when they will
retire to chicken farms and perform
little labor except 10 count money.
Theoretically nothing else will pay
such dividends as chickens. You buy
a dozen eggs and hen and the hen
matches the eggs. Presently the new
brood lays more eggs, which provide
more chickens to lay still more eggs.
In a little while there are thousands
Of fine little spring fries for the mar
ket and countless dozens of strictly
fresh eggs. one sells these and
squanders the money on touring cars
or what not. The only flaw in the
argument is that IT doesn't work out
IN quite that way.
As the number If chiCkens in the
flock increases there is a rapidly in
Crcasing danger vi contagious dis
eases, and the FIRST thing one knows
The sun., 1915-03-14

of fence. Every one of the farmers
| bought out had divided his land into
little fields, each one surrounded not
only by fence but by strip of waste
land along the fence, covered with
rocks and weeds. NJ matter how good
fence you have. it keeps certain
amount of land idle And besides that
the farmer has to keep spending
money on the upkecp of the fence.
an my opinion a fnce on farm
is about as bad as a first mortgage.
The only fence l have now is the
one that marks the boundary lines
and the few required To erClose little
paddocks for cattle and chickens. I
reclaimed enough land when / took
down my twenty-five miles of fences
20 pay for all the .abor of removing
the fences, and we picked up enough
granite hardheads off these waste
strips to build several macadam road
ways"
y Certain of Mr.. BARRIERS departments
already yield profit. The dairy herd
OF 900 well favored cows. mostly
Guernseys. more than pay for their
keep. Milk from these vacuum cleaned
cows sells in Akron for II cents a
quart.
Another profitable d. partment is the
ducks. which are presided over by an
expert who gets several thousand dol
lars year for keeping tab on them
and studying ways to fatten them
quickly. There are now some $4,000
ducks on Anna Dean Farm and $1,000
others were hatched during the sea-
son.
Pigeons pay too. Mr.. Barber has
The sun., 1915-03-14

of the game. hut nearly every business
man who takes up gentleman farming
gets an ambition sooner or later to
make his plaything show profit. The
explanation seems to be simply that
a farm is a thing that is supposed to
pay. and the man who plays with it
decides that he is poor player un-
less he can make it do what It as in
tended to do.
HIr. Barber says he will make il pay.
lie may not get dividend from his
dollar a foot fence or from various
bits of farm grandeur in the form of
costly buildings. but he thinks the
capital inv. sted in stock and neCes-
sary equipment Will show a good re-
turn as soon as he gets all squared
away.
Il am just getting started he ex-
plains. "My land will not he really
productive until ] get il all properly
underdrained. have spent morc
than 100000 laying tile through the
fields and am not quite half through
When j get that work finished our
crops will make DIETER showing.
THE trouble with most farmers is
that they do not realize that the
eartl, is a big diving thing that will
yield in proportion To the way you
feed il. just as COW does. | put
hundreds of tons OF fertilizer on my
land every year and this feeding of the
earth is beginning TO show up in the
crop yield.
Most farmers are wasteful. For
example, when | assembled my origi-
nal farm of 500 acres the first thing
did was to puN down twenty-five miles
The sun., 1915-03-14

In Akron, eight miles srom lie farm
is the main sales department. consist.
ing of a bt brick budlr ,a,go
enough for a wholesale grocery and
containing an elaborate cold storage
plant Several big motor truck, run
between the farm and thrs Warehouse
at regular intervals
Whether all this olihurl', c1up.
ment ever pays dividends ur not. i
has paid Mr.. Barber IL n- return
in health and vigor. Five year, ago
he wished to retire from su~.nt,,
He had been manufactures matches
for more than fifty years tll the
thing had begun 10 grow 'm.nu'.rou.
| have his word for it that r. matter
what you may think of t., mate.
business when you start r { yp.
make matches for Twins tN'.t.u.g'
half a century the novelty Vl W,-
off and the whole proposition V..
begin to pail on one. lie WIS frankly
sick and tired of mak.r- ma'he,
So, as | say, Mr.. Barber q, gol n
retire Nom business.
He was then GS years ,'I To-day
at 73 he is considerably younger
than he was at 6S. Ills iIu. - t.
ruddy, his eye as clear, his .a.-. as
fun and his step as elastic a- hi'
of the average able bodied man ~ -.
Part of this due to taking plenty 0.
exercise. on the top hpur ut his -
house is gymnasium fitted with DID,.
manner Of specially miEui1c'lr"I
apparatus, including an clcc'r. h.r,r
to jolt his liver and an elcc'r.c mas.
saying machine, which runs h.- roll.
ers up and down his chest Mostly
though, Mr.. Barber's present N-,r
may he attributed to the fact that L..
farm has given him a new .u',rr,' r
iife. He declares now that Lr is sl.
ing to live to be a hundred year o'I
As an indication that Mr. Barber 8
thoroughly up 10 date at 70. one may
mention his plan for getting mp q
moving picture show as a farm 'y'
product.
"A big ranch out West orga"z z"l 4
Wild West show" says Barh.r an.
the Wild West show makes them ~
much money, I'm told, as all fN- ..,
of the farm. In a year or So e.. B..
ing TO have a moving p.cfHt. .,H
showing all the processes earned ~
each day about a model farm !
have the films all tinted in r'Hra
colors by the best artist ! car. -a,
Then I'll exhibit the films lrd '.r
will be educational as well a- .r'.r
esting. | think they will lrr- r
lot of money.
You see" he added, "to a 'l-....
man like me nothing is really Cd SID.
cess unless il pays"