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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-06
BITS NEWS

Fate trails Peter Van Vlissingen,
ChicagO's spectacular forger,. serving
sentence at Joliet. His wife and
daughter are dead of ptomaine poi
sonmg. 49,.
Chicago bar association urges leg
islature to appoint six more circuit
judges.
War reaches U. of C. Prof. Jas.
Laves said Belgians fired ruthlessly"
on Germans. Prof. Leon van der Es-
sen denied. LaVes puts him in Ana
Mas club.
Mark Morton, Wheaton, and wife
have separated, say friends of the
millionaire salt merchant.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-06

picture S. bateshp Florida anchored
New York In the view of New York shown lies
wealth than similar the world of national
banks here we'll stations and u s. suesu
rich coastal cities America needs the Navy
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-06

D. E. Robinson, so, 2933 Cottage
Grove av., Chicago's richest police
man, dead. Continued on the beat
after inheriting $4,000.
Rivers Mcneil, collector of Gus
toms, says custom boat on lake is
not seaWorthy.
Carrying baby, Mrs. Theresa .Boless
insky, 1887 Hastings, fell down stairs.
Mothers arm broken. Baby Unhurt.
SOME POSITION
Washington, March 6.-:'If laziness
had not overtaken me would have
been a shoemaker. All do is hold
office, draw salary, do nothing and
tell everybody about it, says Vice
President Marshall
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
FARM TO-THE-TABLE' FlAScG
Neither Farmer Nor Consumer Benesit
From Huge Crop Of Vegetables
Commission Men Blamed.

An investigation Of Predetermined
conditions made by the Sun shows
that not in years have vegetables
been so plentiful as now and so cheap
for everybody but the consumer.
Potatoes sell at 81 barrel whole
sale. as against s4.25 a barrel a year
ago. At retail they bring from 10 to
l212 cents a quart, or at the rate OF
$500 and 81 bushel and IS and $40
a barrel. Tomatoes sell at wholesale
for from % TO IS cents a crate, and
to the housewife at the rate of four for
10 cents. Onions have been bringing
25 cents a bushel Wholesale. as COM
pared with So last year.
Commission men blame the retailers
for their failure to adjust prices to the
advantage of the consumer. Certain
ly neither the consumer nor the farm
er is benefited from the huge crops
and low wholesale prices. Between
the 81 cents a barrel received by New
Jersey producers for potatoes and the
rate of $40 barrel paid by small con-
ouhClo hC 0huoooA POooibhAsASS -
trade graft.
Has the net result of several years
of active agitation for cheaper farm
produce been merely to make matters
worse for the housekeeper? Is it to
this that all the ''farm-tO-the-table'
movements, the women 's-club crusad-
ing, the reports of commissions. has
come at last?
Obviously, the remedy for this in
equality of produce prices has not yet
been found. Whether a method of dis
tribution just and equitable to all con-
cerned can be devised remains prob
lem. But certain conditions have not
been visibly improved by all the Off
cial inquiries and public agitation di-
dected to that end.-New York World.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
AGRICULTURE IN THE SOUTH
Impetus Being Given to Spread Diver
sifieation Decentralization to New
System Of Farming.

Business plans are being made along
conservative lines, and already there
is impetus being given to spread fur
Their the diversification idea. Unless
cotton this year rises to levels seen
before the war, there will no doubt
be further expansion of areas devoted
to other crops. Even should the price
mount chances favor much of the
attention devoted to the new system
Of farming becoming permanent, says
a Memphis dispatch to the New York
Post. The cotton crop has been
grown more economically than any in
recent years and its cost Is believed
to be smaller than in at least a decade.
Naturally this will be a factor to be
considered in trying to determine at
what level selling will be free.
Still, the spread of diversified
farming during the last year has been
wonderful. and not only has the effort
to grow other crops been the greatest
ever made. but results are more salts
factory and the South will be more
independent from the standpoint Of
what it will be compelled to spend
than ever before.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
WHERE DOES THE MONEY COZ
Keep Accurate Account Of Expendl.
lures, Then Carefully Study and
Plan to Save More.

There are few farmers but what
make some money. Who gets this
money you earn? II you are keeping
cows do you spend the greater parts
Of your receipts for hay and other
feeds or do you produce the feed on
your own farm and market these
crops by the milk and cream route?
Have you been running an account
during the year at the store and at
harvest time must pay the storekeep-
er a big part of the returns you get
from your crops? Possibly a greater
part Of the things you purchased could
have been produced on your own
farm.
Money saved is money earned. You
may make big money. but IL you spend
all of 1t in making it, what is the ad.
vantage? We cannot produce every.
thing on the farm that we need. We
can. however. produce a great deal
more than what we are doing now.
Plan to save some of the money
that you are now spending. We have
only suggested two ways to do II.
there are many more. Keep an &C.
count Of where your money goes. then
carefully study and plan some
method how you can save more.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
INVENTOR OF SUBMARINE

If the war continues for two years
England will have to use cargo-car-
rying submarines to import food from
the United States. in the opinion OF
Simon Lake, submarine inventor ana
president of the Lake Torpedo COIL
pany, Bridgeport. Conn.
Captain Lake. whose company Is
constructing undersea boats for our
navy, is encouraged in this berer Dy
the 5,5OO-mile trip, on an initial supply
of fuel, made by the G-3 OF the Uniteu
States navy. =
1.-THE G-3 made that trip at spec
of IL knots an hour" he said. AT
reduced speed she can cover a greater
distance
Between IS and "a months from
now, should the war run that long, the
ships of the Teutonic allies will close
the seas to surface shipments OF tood'
ammunition and other supplies from
this country to England. You can
readily see that some other method OF
shipment will have to be adopted
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
BIG GRAIN CROPS IN SOUTH
Remarkable Record Made In Crop
Observation-Disclosures Decrease
In Cotton Is Noted.

Nothing published about the South
recently has attracted so much atten-
ton as the statement based on gov
eminent figures that the volume Of
the South's grain crops this year
would exceed the value of the great.
est cotton crop ever raised" said ].
s. Barton of Chicago to a Birmingham
Age-Herald representative the other
day.
Allowing for the fact that several
Of the states grouped as southern are
big corn and wheat producers and
raise little or no cotton, 1t is never
theless a remarkable record the South
is making in crop diversification.
Il understand that Alabama will
produce forty to fifty per cent more
corn this year than 1t did last. and 100
per cent more wheat. That the Sec
tion generally known as the cotton
belt should be able in a single year
to make such gain in food crops as
is being made In 1915 is of vast i'm
portance from an economic point of
view. The low price OF cotton last
fall drove the South to diversification
practice. What was something of a
misfortune in 1914 will prove a real
and lasting blessing"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
WHY CLERK GOT A RANCH
Wealthy Retired Farmer Deeds Land
to Man Who Owned the Win
ming Rooster.

Lyman, Neb.-Gus Stephens. q
wealthy retired farmer, has decided
one of his ranches containing a Sec
ton of land to Walter Dewitt, q
clerk in a grocery store here. Ste
phens' act was the result of rooster
fight. Both men had been boasting
for months as to whose rooster was
the better fighter. Stephens pur-
chased his fighter in California last
winter. and Dewitt owned a Nebraska
product
Stephens told Dewitt he would give
him a ranch If the Nebraskan rooster
crowed last.
A fight was arranged. and a large
crowd gathered under a big apple tree
in the city park. At last the birds
were turned loose. They went at
each other. viciously. At first they
appeared to be evenly matched. After
battling for almost half en- hour Ste
phens' rooster showed signs of be-
ing exhausted. 1t was not long un-
til he fell to the ground defeated.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
REPORT ON INSTITUTE WORK
Number Of Meetings and Attendance
Of Farmers at Them Is Steadily
Increasing Each Year.

Both the number of farmers insti-
tutes held each year and the attend
ance at these meetingc is steadily in
creasing, according to a report on
farmers institute work which has been
published by the United States depart
ment Of Agriculture as Bulletin No.
269. During the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1914, the report states, 25.238
of these Institutes were held through
out the country, with total attend
ance of 3,656.3S1. This is an increase
in attendance of &c per cent over that
of any previous year. On the other
hand, the expense Of conducting the
work was nearly $4,000 less than last
year, the total cost for the fiscal year
ending June 30. 1914, being $44.S97.51.
The farmers institute organization
conducts it's work under many diff
ferent forms 20 that it is almost i'm
possible to summarize its activities
briefly. For example, in addition to
the ordinary meetings. there were
movable schools in Is states which
had a registered attendance of 112, 49S
different people. Field demonstration
meetings were also held in Is states.
although no record of the attendance
was kept. Special railroad trains were
organized in II other states for the
purpose of giving lectures and demon
STATIONS. A detailed analysis of this
work showing the number of different
kinds of meetings in each state. the
attendance. and the duration of each.
is contained in the bulletin already
mentioned. This bulletin also contains
a number of notes on agricultural ex-
tension work of a similar nature in
foreign countries.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
THE SPHINX OF ITALY

Signor Shnei Sonnino. Italy's
minister for foreiga affairs. is known
in the Italian pres as the Sphinx"
He has twice beer premier and has
three times declined the honor. he has
been minister of finance, has served
in the diplomatic corps at Paris. Vien-
ma. Madrid, and has sat in parliament
"a years.
With this varied experience in
governmental affairs, he was sought
by the king to guide the cabinet in the
crisis brought about by the outbreak
Of war. Sonnins declined. fearing. it
is said, that he would not be able to
command the necessary support in
parliament. He has always declared
he belonged neither to the right. nor
to the left" meaning that he adopted
no policy of open support or opposi-
ton to the government. He is q lib
eral.
He is an exceedingly cultured
man, a good classical scholar and a
distinguished commentator of Dante.
His knowledge of state affairs is compl
His speeches are cold and uninspiring
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
TWO BOYS CATCH A WOLF
Bag Him With Gunny Sack Near
Small Town, Then Collect
The Bounty.

Kansas City.-Cecil Latimer, twelve
years old. and his brother, James Ed.
gar, ten years old. sons of ]. j. Lati-
mer of Independence. took a wolf
scalp to the county clerks Office in
that city recently and claimed the
bounty of 50.
The boys said they captured the
wolf on the Frazier farm, southeast
Of Independence. When they saw it,
it ran into a hollow log. They pro-
cured gunny sack and tied it over
the opening Of the log. and then
scared the wolf out into the sack.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
Don't pime-push,

Don't pifIie-push.
Policy" is a poor honesty!
Taxes do not have to toot horn to
make men dodge.
An idle acre means that some work
ing acre must carry the extra bur-
den.
Better colts begin with the choice
of a suitable. not merely a good.
sire.
The one man in the world who thor
Oughly believes ia hero worship Is the
hero.
One can pitch a tent in half an
hour: 1t takes half lifetime to build
a home.
Unless'a man amounts to a good
deal. he should not say he has done
his best.
Any artist can make his model
stand around, unless he happens to be
married to her.
A good neighbor is one who will re-
fuse to lend you the tools you ought
to buy for yourself.
Even the people who stand up for
their own rights might prefer to sit
in the lap Of luxury.
The income tax doesn't bother the
man whose principal holdings consist
Of castles in the air.
Ever notice that the people who are
willing to share their last dollar with
you never have a dollar?
A crouch stands poor show OF be-
ing successful or even popular.
Cheerfulness makes the wheels of life
run smoothly.
1t is very poor business policy to
loan money without security. Your
friend may be strictly honest. but he
may drop dead
To reach a mountain top, the num-
Der of times we fall does not count;
II is the picking up and going on that
gains the pinnacle.
Suppose we put as much into COM
fort for others as we do into comfort
for ourselves. wouldn't this be a
transformed and reformed world?
Consider the hen. She lays most
freely at a time when eggs are cheap
est. In that she exhibits the same
wisdom as the farmer who jumps into
all-wheat because everybody else is
doing it.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22

manure and filth is most essential, but
the proper screening of houses and
the adoption of destructive measures
are also of great value.
If, in spite of these precautions, the
disease develops, it then becomes the
duty Of every citizen to implicitly fol-
low the instructions given in order
that the safety of others may not be
imperiled, bearing in mind the fact
that every case of typhoid fever is
due to someone's ignorance or care
lessness. No higher duty of citizen
ship than this can be conceived.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22

When Secretary of State Lansing
selected Frank Lyon Polk for the
highly important position of ounselor
of the state department. he licked an
accomplished lawyer and Q man of
wide experience.
Mr.. Polk Is the son of DR.. William
Mecklenburg Polk. dean Of the Cor
nell Medical school, the graldson of
the Confederate bishop-genera Leoni-
das Polk. and the grandneJhew of
President James X. Polk. he was
born in 1871 and was graduated from
Yale in 1894. He studied Law at Co
lumbia Law school and was graduated
from there in 1897. In 1898 he went to
the Spanish war with Troop A and
became assistant quartermastet under
General Ernst with the rank Of cap
tain. In 1908 he married Miss Eliza
beth Potter. daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Potter Of Philadelphia. They
have three children.
Mr.. Polk was treasurer Of the bu-
reau Of municipal research during
Mayor McClellan's administration an
borne Democratic league In the early
1914. he was appointed corporation c,
his close friend. He was riding with
ance-crazed man shot at the mayor.
Mr. Polk in the left cheek
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
SHE HAS HYPNOTIC EYE"
Lindsay (cai.) Man Complains Against
Wife Who He Says Exercises
Malign Influence.

Lindsay. Cal.-Alleging that his
wife. Mrs. Mary Perry. has q "hyp-
motto eye." and that for the last year
she has exercised a malign influence
over him. Wesley e. Perry. a rancher.
swore to a complaint for the arrest of
Mrs. Perry and asked that she be de-
tanned at the county jail until an ex.
animation can be made into her men,
tai condition.
Mrs. Perry made a statement to the
officers following her arrest. in which
she declared her husband is half in
sane" and that he. instead. should be
locked up and examined by the county
alienists.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
WAITED So YEARS TO WE'D
Bride Says No Woman Can Pick Good
Husband Before She 10
Fifty.

Sunbury. Pa.-Philip Graham, sew
enty-two years old, a widower of Epsy
and Miss Martha Powlus. flfty-nine
years old, of Bloomsbury. we're married
here last week.
Mrs Graham told friends: II had
many chances to get married in my
time. but | refused all my suitors. be-
cause it is my belief that no woman
possibly can pick a husband she will
be happy with the rest of her life be-
fore she is fifty.
Il am proud that was an old maid.
because l will live happily with my
husband"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG
MiddIeman Makes az Much In Short
Time as Farmer Does In Year.
Better System 10 Needed.

There is something lacking in our
system of marketing farm products.
When a farmer tolls all summer to
produce a crop. and then others come
in between the producer and the con-
sumner and make nearly as much
profit in a very short time as the farm
er does for his years work of pro-
ducing It. there is something wrong.
1t is a problem how we are going to
overcome this condition but we will
have to put up with it until a united
effort is made to bring about a better
system.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
HIGHLY HoNORED WOMAN

For the first time in its history
Columbia university conferred the hon.
orary degree of LII. d. on a woman
recently. She Is Miss Louisa Lee
Schuyler and she was born In New
York in 1887. Miss Schuyler was prom
inent in the work of the sanitary COM
mission in the Civil war. Since that
time she has been prominent in hos
pital and poorhouse work and she
founded the State Charities Aid asso-
citation in 1879. She established the
Bellevue Hospital Training school for
nurses and she has done much other
notable philanthropic work. Miss
Schuyler is a great-granddaughter OF
Alexander Hamilton and of Gen. Philip
Schuyler of the American revolution.
Although Miss Schuyler is no
longer young. her days Of activity are
by no means over. 1t was only nine
years ago that she organized the first
committee in the United States for
aftercare of the insane, and q year
later she was appointed one of tho
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
Sit on Eaos In Turn.

Spokane. Wash.-The male ostrich
in the Manitou Park Zoo is sharing
with his mate the labor OF hatching
seven ostrich eggs. on which the hen
ostrich began to sit q few days ago.
The male ostrich sits on the eggs In
the daytime and the hen ostrich takes
up the work at night.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
Real Happiness In Money.

There is more real happiness and
a great deal more safety and sense in
seeing how little one can spend and
still live well. than in recklessly see.
ing how little one can have left after
throwing away money in unnecessary
expenses.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22

ola. who had got the bait and para.
phernalia ready. reached for the can
of worms.
Horrors! He had brought q can of
green paint for bait!
Nichols Is an artist. He took the
green paint. painted picture OF -
worm on the hook. and the two caught
quite a string of fish.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
SOME PAINTER, THIS FISHER
Takes Can Of Green Paint on Pisca.
torial Expedition Instead Of
Worms, but

Pewaukee. Wis.-Bright and early
one Tuesday morning recently Rob
ert Nichols and e. F. Schmutzler rose
with the sun and started on fishing
trip.
After rowing about two miles 20
their favorite fishing spot they start
ed to get ready to fish and Mr.. Mich
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22

To Save the Hogs From Cholera.
It pays to protect hogs against
cholera. Potent serum from q respon.
sible source should be used and II
should be administered by someone
who IL competent.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
tt Advantage.

There IL enc extremely rare
quality about Iowa"
What il that?-
"One can keep It and return II at
the s2Sna time"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
Duty Of Town Merchant.

The town merchant must do some
thing besides sit on the counter and
wait for trade. He must give some
community service IL he achieves and
merits success.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22

Must Supplement Pastures.
Farmers must learn to supplement
the pastures with forage crops, or
have summer silos to open when the
need comes for extra feed.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22

brought from q Milton farm weigh
72N ounces. or an average Of q little
more than "a ounces each. The larg.
est one tips the beam at 25x ounces.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
Mlssions ana the War.

The British student movement an
nounces that turing the first SIX
months Of the war twice as many
men volunteered for foreign missiou-
airy service as in the corresponding
period last year.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
4 Key 70 Success.

Overflow did Litely overcomo
Gotrox's objections to him a. q pro-.
pective son-in-law?
3yer-he taught him . new dance
, step Judge.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
Some" Apples. These.

Des Moiues. la--This may be an on
year TO- some varieties of Iowa prod.
ucts. but not 30 with the apples. Three
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22

established on
the landing
will be from
should hostile arships
unable 10
the subnirnes unless the surface
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22

Of the Russell foundation In 1908 she organized
committee prevention Of blindness and
composed of both physicians and laymen.
subjects which
nzed a leading authority.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
Raiain0 Mutton To Sell.

Raising Mutton to Sell.
II you want to raise mutton to sell
20 in for the mutton breeds and let
the wool problems alone.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22
n Society.

Soctety.
We'll, am forty-tive years old to-
morrow"
my dear lady. years mean nothing
to q beautiful woman"
II know. Still. guess III have 70
really move out Of the younger set"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22

His
His speeches cold and unnspring
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-22

Profitable Spring PIG.
As q growing proposition there is
nothing more profitable than the
curing pig.