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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-04-23
Daviess County VIII Vote.

Judge Lancaster in county court
on Monday morning granted the
prayer OF the petition of Virgil M.
Shively and $40 other Daviess
county citizens. asking for the call
ing of an election for voting on the
road bond question. The election
was ordered to be held June 22 in
each of the voting precincts of Da-
viess county. There will be no
other question submitted to the
voters than whether or not there
shall be issued bonds by Daviess
in the sum of 100000 for
the construction 5. Of roads and
bridges an the county.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-04-23
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The Cautious Capitalize.

81 call 1t an unwarrantable blank
ETY.. blank insult" said the get-rich-
quick promoter. angrily.
"Why. what's wrong?" asked his
partner. in surprise.
Did you see what that old scoun-
drel did?" roared the promoter. "He
carefully counted each of his fingers
after shook hands with him."
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-04-23
Barred Rocks.

have just bought from the es-
tate of J. p. Foster ~ fine barred
rock hens and the rooster that cost
him $25; also one fine rooster from
Pope & Pope that I put In the pen
with the IL hens and l have penned
the Foster rooster with my barred
rock hens. l now have three fine
pens. Eggs Is for $500; day-old
chicks 15c each. Goshen and New
York rooster in pen No. g..
alta J. G. ILER. Hartford.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
WHY A FARM DEMONSTRATORS
Is WORTH WHILE TO COUNTY

From the Savannah Morning News.
At a meeting in Baldwin county the othef day
M decide whether the farm denomination agents
work there should be continued for another year
one of the speakers made the somewhat amazing
statement that nobody in Baldwin county should
be farming who did not know how to build up
the land and grow better crops. If there is still
need of building up the land and growing better
crops in Baldwin county after all the years since
farmers first began to grow crops there then there
evidently is need of somebody to tell the farmers
how to meet that need.
Evidently there is somebody farming there who
doesn't know all he ought to know about the bus
mess of farming Some of the farmers don't know
all they ought to know about building up the land,
else it would already have been built up until II
was remarkably rich. And they don't know all
they might know about growing better crops, else
Baldwin county would produce much more to the
acre under cultivation than any other county IN
the state. If the farm demonstration can help the
farmers to improve their land and crops ne IS
worth the little that he costs. 1t isn't surprising
that some of the speakers at the meeting were
farmers who had found the demOnstrator worth
while who actually could point out ways IN Wnlch
he had helped them to make their farms more prof.
table.
There is not a county in the state where a dem
onstrator could not do some good ana that
hasn't some farmers who might be told something
about how to make their soil richer and improve
their Weld per acre. The results obtained by corn
club bows who have in many instances made twice
as much money from acre as their fathers from
the same bit of land is evidence OF that Ana the
fact that so many farmers want the services OF d
demonstration is evidence aplenty that they know
there are some things they can yet be told ABOUT
their own business.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
The Women of Paris,
Paul Proctor in LesIie's,

Partisan women are playing no small part in the
life of the city On the lower rungs of the French
social ladder they taking the positions their
husbands and brothers used to OCCUPY We're
American women forced by circumstances suddenly
to undertake the same responsibilities they would
find themselves handicapped by lack of any prar.
teal experience. Not so the Partisan woman For
she has taken vastly more interest in the business
affairs of her husband or brother than any Amqr-
can woman ever takes. 1t is an axiom in Franco
that the wife is the silent partner of her hus-
band. She helps him in his small stock-takings,
she checks up with him on his accounts: she SER
0nds him as he places his orders; she waits uDon
his customers, and so when war came and ne ex-
changed his tradeSman apron for a brass-buttoned
great coat she was quite as capable of running his
little business during his absence as he of taking
his place in the ranks OF the trained fighting men,
OF Paris which in the total is more important to
the life of the city than it's big business is run
ably today almost entirely by women. Women
are the "middlemen" in getting food to the mouths
OF the millions that dwell in Paris.
Higher up the social ladder the women of Paris
are working indefatigaby for the succor OF the
sick and wounded soldiers pouring in from the
front. They spend their days and nights in ar
ranging relief for victims and to make time
for their labors, they have practically dispensed
with every sort of social function which does not
have a benefit" scheme attached to it, These
women are holding their purses open in readiness
to help where help is needed; they hoard their
pennies for charity and spend no more gowns
from Paquin and POiret-last years frocks will do
and last years hats and shoes as we'll Seeing
their poorer sisters contributing so Justly the
WaIfare of the community they have turned their
faces from the old order Of luxury and shoudered
share Of the work that lies ready to their hands
Thus the women Of Paris have learned to subOr-
dinate their personal Walfare, their selfish Whims,
to the good OF thar country
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
Back to the Land.

Who would have expected that the ''back to the
land" movement, so widely praised and advertised
in recent years a panacea for the evils of high
prices, would be doused with cold water by gov
eminent officials whose positions and experience
give them the right of authoritative pronounce
ment? 1t is a movement that has received the
tacit approval of public opinion, while until
little or no evidence of its real Importance has been
forthcoming.
The Department of Agriculture has been making
comprehensive investigation OF the march from the
city to the farm, and has come to the conclusion
that, however interesting or picturesque such
migration may be- it is not yet economically nee
essary to maintain a proper balance between pro-
ducton and consumption. In forty years the per
ceutage of our people actually engaged in agri-
culture has fallen from Al to 80, and is steadily
diminishing, but agricultural labor has been made
more and more efficient by the of machines
and by better farming processes National produc
ton continues to supply an enormous surplus over
our national needs and does not yet depend upon
the exodus to agriculture of d population of low
efficiency from cities and towns.
The plain fact is that there is no need for the
back to the land" movement. Its influence upon
social economy is slight. almost negligible. 1t
does not even approximately balance the rush from
the farms to the cities. Small struggling trades
men, merchants who have failed, men comfortably
well off who buy farms near the cities where their
chief occupation lies and men who have a senti-
mental interest in farm life the principal con-
tribut0rs to the exodus to the farm Rarely is
farming adopted as a career by these city folk,
and very rarely does city man who has not been
born Or lived at some time in the country become
Farmer.
The result is that the movement to the land,
while often a beneficial change of life for ndivid
uals, has no general or economic significance. The
problem Of the future according to the Depart
ment of Agriculture, viii be to check the migra-
ton from the farm to the city. The nation still
possesses large reserve in its present agricuIt-
ural population, whose depletion below the point
OF requirements must be prevented. And with
huge crop SURPRISES and immense exports of food
Stu1s even that problem is far from pressing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
MIR. R1vEs IDEA OF AN INVESTIGATION.

Editor Dawson News: The prison commission
should not in the opinion of the writer go to the
state farm to interview the prisoners as to the
treatment they get there. There is no doubt but
there are abuses there by the warden and his I'M
derstrappers, but going in person to investigate
will breed insubordinatfon, and this will lead to
harder lines being employed to repress it. Years
since, under COlquitt the lessees went to extreme
lengths. One white man was beaten by negro
whipping boss and died within two days. This
went on until H. D. Mcdaniel was inaugurated,
and he investigated conditions through the medium
of a trusted agent who visited the farm in Dough
erty county, and in ten days the farm was closed
and the convicts removed. Such shakings UP have
to come occasionally to clear the public atmosphere
of miasma and it is about time for a quiet lnVeS-
gation by constituted authority not only OF abuses
at che farm but of neglect by the Wardens through
out the state, who, when a member OF the prison
commission regular inspector comes, are on
the best of behavior, but to casual visitor would
appear their natural selves. The best guarded
farms are those where the thieves don't know
at what hours or what days the master Will
appear. An instance will illustrate gentleman
living some miles from school sent his elder chill
dren to school in a buggy. Later he moved to
town, his farm being cultivated by troopers Al
ter moving to town he had stated intervals to
visit his farm; sometimes he went on Monday,
sometimes in the morning, sometimes at noon,
again lust at dusk. The net increase on his farm
when his hands did not know when to look for
him over the receipts when they knew he
the farm and which part was more than enough
to pay for house rent in town, his added expense
of living and leave him margin for helping to
build a home for his old age. The prison COM
mission composed of good men, profit by do
ing their Investigating the same plan, or sim
liar one, and drinking inspectors and Wardens Will
cease-as well brutal keepers and guards. Re
spectfuIIy, ANDREW P. RIVES.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17

There will be widespread regret, not alone IN
the warning countries of Europe but among all
who have been impressed with the magnitude OF
the suffering occasioned by the war, that the Amer
lean Red Cross feels compelled to announce the
withdrawal of its doctors and nurses from the Eu-
ropean battleields on October 1st Lack OF funds
to maintain them longer makes their recall i'm
perative.
The report of the Red Cross covering the first
year of it's war activities in Europe shows that
$1,5600 900 was collected in the United States Tor
the relief of suffering due to the war. There was
also a special contribution of $4,000 from the
Rockefeller Foundation for the Seryian Sanitary
Commission, and $4,000 from the Servian Agri-
cultural Relief Committee. The Red Cross has
already spent $1,46O.306, leaving a balance of
$174818 for which the existing demands are
heavy.
The American people have reason to be proud
of the noble army of mercy whose work made
possible by their generosity and sympathy Found
ed upon the broadest possible precepts and prac-
tees under whose influence man cares for the suf-
ferng of his fellowman, there is naught in its
creed except the truest richest philanthropy 1t
goes everywhere, even unto the ends of the earth,
in quest of human woe to be relieved, nor asks
reward when it's work is done. Surely, this is one
phase of human nature which impels US to be-
lieye that the world is growing better instead OF
worse and surely this is society in whose praise
we may all raise our voices in thankful sincerity
Europe will miss the Red Cross. It's blood
stained land and the soldiers who give their lives
back into the keeping of Him who watcheth over
all battlefelds will know no longer the only touch
of humanizng element which has been theirs for
a aeeting space of time. It's work will rebound to
the lasting credit of the American name.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
" Good Stuff. ;"

This is a word of off-hand advice that is none
the less good because of its off-handedness.
No matter what your work may be let it be
such that it may be designated good stuff"
Did you ever hear that expression before? DO
YOU know what good stuff" is?
Well it's like this:
Good stuff is an expression peculiar to the
newspaper profession, which has its own private
vocabulary Stuff is what a newspaper man
does-v-hat he writes. 1t is known by no other
name That is what the writer himself calls it,
and that is what it is called by every other re-
porter and editor on the staff.
The surname then is settled. 1t is "stuf'-all
of it. The given name must now be supplied.
AdfectiveIy there seems to be no middle ground.
It is either good stuff" poor stuff" Rarely,
indeed, do you hear the verdict, 'Oh, it is fair
stuff"
It means something to a newspaper man when
his brother reporter or editor says to him, That's
good stuff you turned out about and So" 1t
means work well done-an assignment conscien-
tiously, panstakingly accurately, promptly and
ably handled 1t is "Well done, thou good and
faithful servant" translated into newspaper colo
quialism,
If you so live and act and speak and write that
your life and it's acts. your utterances and writ
ings are good stuff you have much to be proud
of, and no cause for the mantling blush of shame.
1t is Just as easy and eminently more self-sat-
isfactory to produce good stuff than poor stuff,
no matter what the task may be. 1t means far
more to you and your friends, your relatives and
your acquaintance when you retrospectiyely
summarize your existence and its daily doings as
good stuff"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
Gasoline.

Gasoline, George Fitch tells us, accordlhs ~
Graphite, originally used only for ciean b5
gloves and ejectng hired girls through the Mo-
roof, but has now been taught great valle'! ~
interesting tricks such as running automoDlcS' rn
oplanes, motor boats, wind-mills street cars w.
Shelters hearses and bicycles. % las
By the aid of gasoline we can traVel oU "a rer
hour through the air, $50 miles an hoG itt t6e
the land and six feet into the ground WIZ
greatest ease. - bonr
gallon of gasoline can do as much IN az have
as horse do in day, and it doeSn arive
to be fed and bedded down at night. II ca +his
an automobile twenty miles, and while doia9 ans
can cause three runaways, a collision a ~
for speeding a divorce suit and an Inquest. 1once
A gallon of whiskey at a Saturday hsHs tame
can cause great deal of trouble but II - bich
and kittenish beside a gallon of whiz-Wa'ei
is conducting a joy ride. - = COM
Gasoline is a clear nervous liquid " IiLoi narts.
posed of speed, noise and trouble in equal iboIent
1t is made of kerosene reduced to more nor
STAGE and is kindly supplied to the res tha late
tions of mankind by the fragments Oh IN
Standard Oil Company.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
A CITY OF SALT
The Wonderful Underground Town of Wel;czl. ,,,.,
Its Cathedrals, Streets and Railway Station. IN

In the war news from Galicia we have oooo-
ally heard the name of Wieliczka, some 81, 1,
from Cracow. Wieliczka is an interesting + Ines
for what is in it, but from what is under i ~ uO'
salt mines there are the greatest in the wool, lug
the most wonderful They actually form an -, an0
ground city. The Wieliczka salt mine is TN uef-
and one-half miles long from east fo wv tmo and
1850 yards wide from north to south ana
1t has seven levels and the lowest is ~
thousand feet deep. 1t is entered by eleven ~by
The different levels connected by figb4s @l@
steps hewn out of the rock salt In the nine OF
chapels, tramways, railway, railway stati are
ballroom and several other halls, all heWn a
the rock salt with elaborate architectural Az ~ OF
ton 0ola-
There are 81 miles of pony tramways and a.
miles OF railway. All these lines and the nri q
passages, or Streets, meet in a sort Of aa
cavern Here is the central railway station I'd
spacious waiting rooms and an excellent rof "dtl
ment room. 1t looks, according to one yiita ssh
description, more like a summer pavilion tboU
railway station, with it's latticed galleries and i,
rows of stately pillars cleaning white and irraa 40
cent" 0S-
The oldest building in the mine is the Chou,
of Saint Anthony; it dates from 1891 It cn
tains three affairs, pulpit and much statuarv -,
deliberately carved out of rock salt But sor,i 81
are now held in the modern but equally eIaborot
Chapel of Saint Cunigunde which is entered b
descending 46 salt steps. Tho chA1el is 40 vo,9 ~
long, 5 yards wide and 80 feet high and is noS
regularly for worship
The ball room is huge ROOM where tho n,i,on,
often hold their festivals. A miners orcbasfrs
plays regularly in the hall, not only for the dances
but for the entertainment of visitors The r,;no
has been worked for at least 500 years If be1onas
to the Austrian government and gives work IN
1000 men.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
Has the Millennium Arrived?
From the Kansas City Journal.

The report comes that the French government
went into the market at Chicago for $4,000 cat
tie OF course, a satisfactory price was offered
The Chicago cattle buyers could have made neat
profit by accepting and filing the order.
But they turned it down. And what reason 90
you suppose they gave for not accepting and ming
the order? 1t was not that there wasn't money
enough in it to make it tempting. That was not it,
Now hold your breath and listen:
Why they said to purchase that number or peer
cattle all in a lump would raise the price of beef
at home Think of Chicago packers losing sight
of their pocketbooks and exposing their phllan-
thropy in it's shirt sleeves.
To their credit of course, it is. 1t shows their
bodies are not minus souls, that they have hearts
as well as heads 1t shows that while living them
selves they are willing to let other people 1--we
Their act in refusing to fill the order may leave
some of the French soldiers meatless, but it will
give some Americans chance to moisten the dry
staff of life with gravy and a taste OF meat
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
Educating the Filipino.
From the WASHINGTON Post.

The American influence in the Philippines is in
no manner more widely felt than in the eXtensio Of
educational facilities" remarked Dr. H. A. Hope
well, an American, formerly resident of Chicago
DR.. Hopewell has been in the Philippines for ten
years
There are about 100000 children enrolled in
the public schools of the Philippines, he contn-
ued. The children unusually bright until
they reach the age of 4, when they usually marry
Some of them continue to attend school regardless
OF the marital state. Many Filipnos now dress
like Americans whereas a decade ago the clothing
Of the men consisted of pair of white Trousers
and gaudy-colored shirt, usually worn outside
the trousers. .
"One of the striking features of Filipino lie Is
the home. Often three or four generations Teslue
under the same roof. Family ties are very strons
The old, destitute and crippled are usually caIel
for by the younger and more prosperous meilius.s
of the family Christian Filipinos go TO chuIS S
every Sunday morning before breakfast and IN 'I9
afternoon they indulge in baseball games OF -, ~
witnessing a cock fight. The fights are held unl9
municipal supervision, but are allowed only Cd
Sundays and holidays.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
The Drums of Memory.

Beat the drums Of memory
In a low and lulling key,
Till my feet so marching on
Through the twilight and the dawn,
Backward through the paths of time
Into the enchanted cline
Where the blossoms never fade,
Where the sunshine and the shade
Dance in dapples on the grass
OF the orchards that I pass.
Beat the drums of memory
Till they thrill the soul of me,
And l foot the hazy miles
Into long forgotten whiles,
Find the meadow and the brook
And the vine hid forest nook,
Till the world that was of old
World agloW with rose and gold
Lures me with its hopes, forsooth,
AS it did when | had youth.
Beat the drums of memory
Let the roll rally be!
Call the boys l used to know
In the wondrous long ago
Call them all from field and foam,
Till again We are at home,
Let US boast, and do, and dare,
Having neither fret nor care;
Let us laugh at the far page
Where is told the tale of age.
Beat the drums of memory
Till the old songs come to me,
Till l murmuT faded tunes,
Hum conteuted OIden crOOns,
And the boy days all are mine
Till my veins pulse with the wine
OF the days that WERE made new
As I find my pathway through
All the ever calling ways
OF the living yesterdays.
WILBUR D. NESBIT.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
Why the Objection?

Columbus Miss, a fair-sized town, gets into the
dispatches because numerous citizens have succeed
ed in securing a temporary injunction preventing
the council from enforcing traffic law which
provides that all vehicles must travel to corners
before turning.
This is not the first time court has granted an
injunction nor the first instance in which petition
ers have asked a foolish thing, but we cannot re-
call one more foolish.
Sensible street traffic laws have for years been
saving lives and averting serious accidents. Turn
a few score drivers of automobiles and other vehi-
cles loose in the thoroughfares of business COM
munity where traffic is more or less inevitably con-
gested, and allow them to have their sweet
will to when, where and how to turn and the re-
sultant mx-up would be constantly menacing.
Just why any citizen should object to observing
certain sane regulations in their street driving is
inexplicable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17

Every boy and girl who has gazed into the sky
on clear, mOonless night and marveled at the
countless stars in the infinite black void has ever
atterward had some thought of sympathy with the
belief that the stars may be connected with the
destiny of humanity. Later on, when the cares
Of adult life fill the mind, the youthful wonder is
only recalled at odd moments or vanishes alto
gether.
The latest discovery of astronomers will revive
the feeling Of and mystery in those not too
crossed in the material affairs of life TO be affected
by it. That discovery is that the total number
OF the stars closely apDroximates the total number
o. human beings existing at one time this planet.
Ii otaer words there is a star shining in the sky
Ior every person on earth. The universe, once
supposed TO be infinite, is believed to have
bounds. That Is to say, while space may have no
unit the number of stars in space has actually,
been counted
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-17
Tabloid Booze.
inexplicable.

The saying of have pill which in the YER
nacular of today is an invitation to have drink,
will soon graduate into polite parlance. Chemists
are busy inventng alcoholic synthetic tabloid
containing the roysterous rye and the seductive
Scotch which is guaranteed to produce the same
effect with safe and sane morning after. This it
is said, will do away with all the brass-ra places
and the barkeeper will become extinct the
dodo. A man under the pill method carry
assortment in his pockets. When he meets friend
he will say ''haye a pill" In this way they
work up jag for jitney.
Then every distillery will be pill factory, and
every brewery will be making tabloid extracts