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N the bend Of the main road lead
ing eastward out OF River
Edge, y. j., is a quiet Dutch

LAb NuSt"oao ouN vi WV
Edge, n. j.. is a quiet Dutch
farmhouse which Is a source
Of constant JOY to those who pass
One comes upon II SO suddenly, espe-
cially when motoring. that 1t causes a
start, for 1t seems as though one must
BE- in the land Of bikes and windmills
and that the elang of the wooden
shoon must I've heard. But the calm
and peaceful Hackcnsack a little way
back drones along On aieu OF the
Dutch canals and the whir OF the
motor takes the place Of the song OF
the wooden shoon.
Almost a. quaint as the houses left
behind when the Dutch settlers first
came from Amsterdam Is the little
Jersey house, the home OF John A.
Gurd, architect. standing there in the
simplicity OF its ancient architecture.
It's hospltable facade with its low
windows and half open door seems to
beckon a welcome that the long slop-
ing roof further emphasizes by its
inclusiveness and en~circling embrace.
The old landmark stands there by the
road just as II has stood for 200 years
or more. n treasury OF past memories
and a charming type of Dutch archi-
lecture Of the period.
One hears the inevitable exclama-
ton. "Oh. isn't 1t lovely" as tho cars
60 whizzing by, but while the glimpse
OF the snug little home hugging the
roadside may be brief the thought of
II fingers long, and each one who sees
It Immediately registers a vow to
himself to pass that way again some
Q~uaintance.
Only a few of these relics OF pre-
Revolutionary times r to be found
IN this vicinity now. and 1t is always
a matter for co~ngratulation when one
Of them falls into the hands Of a gen.
uine lover of Dutch architecture. for
then dts preservation Is assured. For
tunately the remnants OF Dutch
houses in Rockland county have
largely been bought up by apprecia
tive persons who know their worth.
As a consequence some charming lit
tie nests have been evolved from the
relics OF bygone years by far see
ing folk which are the envy OF their
less fortunate brothers and sisters, or
rather by those who We're unable to
visualize the latent possibilities con-
cealed within their crumbEng walls.
AS It happens. though, this phase of
the matter works out automatically.
Tor the cd Dutch farmhouse makes no
appeal to any but home loving folk. for
the domestic atmosphere surrounding
II is by far its most salient feature.
The true Dutchman loves his home. II
Ii the centre of the family life. So II
was typical Of those sturdy Hollanders
who came here at such an early date TO
follow their hereditary traits and build
themselves houses that We're homes.
They chung to their customs more te-
naciously than the other colonists,
and 80 II follows that their houses
were wholly domestic in spirit and
individual in style.
The Dutchman always dispensed a
bountiful hospitality and was never so
happy as when entertaining his friends.
This trait is exemplified in the struc-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-29
Black Walnut Pieces o.
fer Best Field, Old
Mahogany Affording
Lesser Opportunities
for Improvement

the thought which is working such n
miracle in the homes OF her sex. She
knew of the domestic tragedies hiding
behind those black walnut atrocities
and the many sorry al shed over
their hopeless ornamentation. On one
occasion when lost in contemplation
of the waste effort expended in their
design and manufacture she conceived
the idea of making over the ugly
things as one would a gown.
Now every n knows what happens
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-29
Berthe Osgood, Paris
Trained, Transforms
Mid Victorian Atroci-
ties With Dainty Dec
OratiOnS

FORMERLY when an unkind fate
r. saddled a housekeeper with a
lot of old furniture OF the
early Gen. Grant" period, as
w. II. Hurlbut so aptly terms 1t in his
play, The Strange Woman" there
was nothing to do but grin and bear II.
To-day she packs 1t off 10 the woman
who remodels furniture. There it is
ehorn Of its gewgaws and ginger
bread decoration, scraped and painted
and garnished with festoons and
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07

Lloyd George, chancellor of the
British exchequer, makes sig
nificant admission that all is not
well in England, when he stated
that England had to fight the
liquor habit of its own people
first, and then Germany. He
says that the efficiency of the
working masses of the people
has become so deteriorated
through the universal habit of
drink that unless the govern
ment steps in andinaugurates an
enforced prohibition, this ineffi-
cheney will prove serious factor
in England's progress in the
war in which she is now engaged.
When this condition of the Eng
lish masses is contrasted with
that of the German masses, it
must bring blush of shame to
the ruling class of England. Ger
many's efficiency, not only in the
conduct of her side of the war,
which has caused the world to
wonder, and then sit up and
hink, but in her cultural and in
lustrial life, is the net result of
government control over the lives
# the people of that nation. AL
though the general impression
prevails that in Germany the
personal liberty of the individual
'as the freest exercise, personal
liberty there, in truth, is always
subjected to the welfare of the
lation under the direction of the
rational government. In Eng
and, the people have lived as
they pleased, and as the under
world of London and other large
titles of the kingdom will attest,
here has been race deteriora-
ion to that extent that it now
Seems to menace the foundation
If the empire. Shutting off al
cohol will help some, but the
government will have to 20 farth-
than that-it will have follow the
,olicy of le Germans and enter
more broadly into the task of
supervising the personal welfare
If it's people if it would lift them
ION the degeneracy into which
hey have fallen.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07
Why a Whip ':Craek:."

Why does a whip "crack?"
Probably the :oachman or team
ster most adept in the art could
not tell you. And no wonder.
For the reason is one that has
puzzled some of the graatest au-
thorities on dynamics. An ex-
planation was recently offered by
Prof. G.. V. Boys in d course of
lectures for juveniles at the Roy
al Institution. Briefly, it has to
do with the fact that. owing to
the action of centrifugal and
other forces, the speed at which
the whip travels through the air
is greater and greater through
out its length. and so great at
the end that it come up to the
velocity of sound. - Scientific
American.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07

Governor Major has been lop
ping off the aspirations made by
the late general assembly in the
attempt to bring them within the
prospective revenues. He has
made large cuts in the allowanc
ss for the support of the state
educational and eleemosynary
institutions and smaller outs in
other directions, but, so far as
we have been able to note, he has
carefully avoided trimming any
of the new job or salary-raisine
bills. That's apparently moi
within the vision of the Govern.
er's view of economy. He is not
taking any chances on his U. S.
senatorial prospects and raise q
howl from the boys in the
trenches by looping off a few
new jobs or salary raises. Safe
ty first, Gov.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07
A Marvellous Industry.

No industry in the United
States has ever developed Sc
rapidly to the extent in capital
invested. in value of annual out.
put, in number of people employ
ed, as that o. manufacturing
auto vehicles.
Twenty years may be correctly
taken as the full time since a
practical machine was construct.
ed, and yet in that brief period
of time how marvellous a growth
and development.
It can challenge any industry
in the world to equal its record
in that space of time.
Not the steam engine, not the
railway. not the telegraph, not
telephone, not the electric light,
could show such value of capital
invested, such numbers of per-
sons employed, such wide exten-
sion of service, nor such value in
revenue, if we consider sales rev.
enues, as this most modern of
all our important Industries.
The coal production of the
world a century after coal was
first utilized was small in value
as compared with the value of
the annual output of the auto
factories.
The iron industry of the Unit
ed States 100 years after its es-
tablishment was a bagatelle in
comparison with that of the au-
to vehicle industry in 1915.
Yet wonderful as has been it's
development to this time, it must
be regarded as but the infancy
of this industry, and it is plain
now that the future is to wit
ness the utilization of these We
hicles in almost every sphere of
transportation, in almost every
form of activity in which dis
tance on land has to be covered
by mankind Or by materials re-
auired for the use of mankind
Washington Post.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07
Some Wit; Some Wisdom.

It is good plan neither to
borrow nor lend where trouble
is concerned.
When a fellow is crusty it
may be due te the way he was
bred.
It's a poor rule that won't
work both ways, but a poorer
one that won't work our way.
A soft answer turneth away
wrath, unless wrath comes in
the form of a creditor.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07
He Knew Him.

When Colonel George Harvey
talked with the President on
peace Sunday" he told the
chief executive a story.
Mr.. President, do you know
there's actually a man here, a
candidate for Office. too, who has
never heard of Mark Twain"
rs that possible:" asked Mr..
Wilson.
Yes, sir. | asked him if he'd
ever heard of Tom Sawyer. Was
he from Ohio this man queried.
| told him No, he was Alissou-
rian.' | tried him ON Huck Finn
and on Col. Mulberry Sellers,
but he didn't know them Fin
ally | said: Have you ever heard
of Pudd 'nhead Wilson, Yes,
indeed, said the candidate. 1
voted for him.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07
OF POETRY AND POKER
IMPORTANT SUBJECTS DWELT ON
IN THIS NARRATIVE.
Razor Finally Supplanted this Muse
When Full House That Looked
So Good Took Back Seat
for Four Queens.

When the fourth queen came into Il.
Hillary's hand on the draw, and the
sun was just about to appear after an
all-night session, and one other man
in the party, whom he called "Pard-
ner," showed a disposition to be ag-
gressive in the betting, Mr.. Hillary
thought the time had come to break
up the game, SO he bet every dollar
that he could muster for the attack.
"Pardner" had entered this excit-
ing period of the game with three
jacks in his hand, and he drew two
cards. To him were delivered q pair
of tens.
''Heigh.ho," said "Pardner" with par.
donable exhilaration. "Heigh-ho, the
sun is upeth, and jocund morn stand
eth tiptoe on yon misty mountain top"
He was feeling poetical, and what
ever Hillary bet, "Pardner" would re-
cite bit of appropriate verse. and in
crease the sum.
Every one else in the game dropped
out for the time. The pot was piled
in the center of the ring. In paper.
silver. and gold it represented $33.
rather large sum for that neighbor-
hood, for it was in a bridge builders
camp on the San Gabriel river.
I'll shoot my last fve," said Hill
larry.
'"The roses are red, the violets are
blue, here's my FIVE and Ill see you,"
Lob ov.d-
ner" deposited his last '.jitney" In tho
pile, and the time for a showdown
came.
"Pardner" did it with much cere-
money. He quoted bit, chortled a
bit, and sang a merry lit as he re-
vealed his hand, the hand he thought
was magic with its three jacks and
two tens.
Crisply and with businesslike pre-
cision, Mr.. Hillary laid down his cards
"Pardner" looked. Only three
queens he saw, and then a fve-spot
and then. by the black skill of the
man who invented cards. he saw an
other queen.
Mr.. Hillary dragged in the pot
"Pardner" dragged out his razor. Then
started proceedings that were not
marked with poetry from "Pardner"
or triumph from Hillary. Hillary was
in the lead, freighted with wealth
which he was jamming into his pock-
cts as he fed. "Pardner" was close
behind.
| But a dollar bill spilled from the
pocket, Hillary stopped just second
| too long to recover it. and "Pardner'
was upon him.
At the receiving hospital, several
hours later. Mr.. Hillary had more than
| twenty inches Of cuts treated by the
surgeons, and he made a complaint to
the police regarding his assailant,
| whom he knew only as 'Pardner," the
J man who quoted poetry.-LOs Angeles
| Times.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07
Evangelism Brings IN the Kale.
The Scott County Mo. } Kicker

The Scott County (Mo. } Kicker
says:
"Burk and Hobbs, the 'evang-
elsts, closed their performance
at Jackson Sunday night claim,
ing over 500 converts. OF
course they did the people good
and plenty. The 'evangelists'
have the money, their victims
have what the believe to be re
ligion', and everybody is happy.
but these crossroads 'evang-
elists' that hit Southeast Mis-
souri, are small fry when COM
pared with such artists as Billy
Sunday. 8ilDy goes after the
long green with q shovel He
has just closed a revival in Phil
adelphia at which, press dis
patches say, he cleaned up
$4,000.
u DO not claim to be a Bible
student, but the little [ know
about the life of Christ has never
impressed me with the idea that
he was always passing the con-
tribution box, nor did he live Off
the fat of the land while the
masses were ragged and hungry.
Somebody ought to get busy
in trying to christianize the Sc
called christian relgion."
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07
Over at Granite City, ILL.,, a

Over at Granite City, ILL.,, a
large industrial concern has just
put 1000 employees back to work
on full time (grand hurrah by
the Democratic papers), but this
glad news is dampened by the
information that the employees
had to accept = cut in wages be-
fore being allowed to return to
work mo mention of this fact by
said Democratic papers). This
is typical Democratic "prosperi-
ty''-work, when work is te be
had at all, at reduced wages. It
is only under Republican rule
that work and wages reach the
top notch.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07
The Painful Truth.

The city dailies and other pa
Ders under baneful influence are
'amentine pitifuily, that the leg
>lative machinery was clogged
Turing the session of the legis-
lature just closed by the wet and
Try fight and the many dry bills
ntroduced. This is the verieSt
Stiffness.
There were 1894 bills introduce
d in the two Houses and only
bout a half dozen of them were
specially dry bills, and yet, ac
:ording to the lamentations of
he papers, that half dozen bills
:ongested the calender and pre-.
vented constructive legisla.
tion." Such Orwell!
Only 145 bills were finally pas
sed out of all the 1894 introduced
and many of those passed were
very insignificant indeed.
Certainly there was something
wrong, but it was not the wet
and dry fight. Insurgency,
horse-play and personalinterests
we're the great hindrances tc
helpful legislation.
The St. Louis Star has the fol.
lowing to say about the Legisla
ture: There was too much
cheap politics in it for much
work to be accomplished, especi
ally of a good character. Tee
many small minds were swayed
by little things. There was not
in it enough men of broad and
independent vision and strength
| of character.
And that is the painful truth
about the matter.-Sullivar
l I'M, 11G.>-- .o-~:oI O.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07
SOLD BY EDMOND CASEY
LUMBER, HARDWARE AND
FARM IMPLEMENTS

Unfortunately there are some
things that even tho most absent
minded of US can't forget.
With some men nothing is i'm.
possible, You will even some
times see an old bachelor trying
to muse baby.
1t is possible to entertain an
angel unawares, but you can
not entertain a bore that way
Chicago Herald.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07

The Wilson administration l.
making strenuous efforts to hold
down the showing of a big deficit
at the end of the fiscal year
June 80, by Juggling the expense
bills in the interval, but though
the murder may be thus hiddel
temporarily, it will out sooner O.,
later. They are now wrestling
with the truism that a deficit il
harder to handle than a surplu, .
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07

The state insurance premium
tax for 1914 amounted to $742,
35s, a gain of $4,000 over 1913
The insurance companies doin.
business in Missouri ppy this
revenue into the state treasury
but only after having collected j.
from the policy holders. This
is a way the Missouri Democracy J
has CT piling mp the burden o.
taxation urdor aiS~niSe.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07
-
Mitten Money.

Sometimes when the weather is very
cold and the pilot boat is rolling ir.
a heavy sea off the Ambrose channel
lightshiD the old pilots will think twice
about the precarious ride in the small
boat and the icy, strenuous climb up
the ships side on a sea ladder.
And if he does think twio'. about
it the old fellow may give one or
the younger pilots chance to take
his turn. Should this bargain be con-
cluded in the snug cabin the younger
man receives, besides the regular
fee, the sum of 81. and this is called
mitten money.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07
Signs a Farmer Believes In.

A correspondent to the st.
Louis Journal of Agriculture
says he believes in the following
signs:
If you nave an average farm,
have little sickness and no real
disasters, and are not making
money, its sign that you have
sand in yonr gear box. Get it
out and put in some scientific
principles of farming.
Ifyou do not grow large crops.
it's a sign that you have poorly
prepared seed bed, and are do
ing poor cult, vation, have poor
seed and have worn out your land
by previous cropping.
If you do not make farm life
attractive for the boys and girls
it is a sign that you think more
of dollars and cents then you do
Of them.
If you do not encourage your
wife to get out some, have con-
veniences in the house, books,
magazines and papers, it's a sign
that you should have bought you
slave and not married.
If you don't allow some games
in the house, some recreation
out of doors. it is a sign that you
are a crouch and are not half
living.
If you are not working for bet
ter roads, better schools, better
rural homes, better churches, it
is a sign that you are a moss
back.
If you are not working for the
cause of temperance, and voting
for it, it is a sign that you think
more of q Jug of whiskey, and a
red nose than you do your boys
and girls.
If you are not reading and
thinking of agricultural subjects
reading plenty of our best agri-
cultural journals, the farm bull
letins, the reports Of the expert
ment stations, it's a sign that
you are q back number.
If you are not studying the
marketing proposition, and are
not Disguised with the haphaz-
ard, unbusiness like way that
farm products are sold, it is a
sign that yon wear a small sized
hat.
If you have not joined the don t
worry club, it's a sign that you
have little faith in God.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07

A St. Louis woman shot ans
killed a man the other day, be
cause, .he says, he was peepin.
in at the window. Sensitive
ness of this kind is just a little
bit too swift on the trigger. She
might just as easily have pulled
down the shade and called The
police, and thus saved herself
from having the death of a fel
low being on her consclence-i1
she has any.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07

The ease with which Germany
placed a ten million dollar loan
in this country recently is pref
ty good evidence that the Amer
ican investor is not apprehen.
sive that Germany is about to b.
wiped out of existence.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07

1t looks now like Bryan will
be a candidate for the Democrat
ic presidential nomination next
year on the prohibition platform
Politics is said to make strange
bedfellows, but one of the oddes,
sights in that respect would bt
Democracy and Prohibition hit
ting the hay together.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07

Elk Governor Hadley has signi-
fed mis- Willingness to enter the
u. S. senatorial race next year.
Another good man who will be
in it is Hon. Walter S. Dickey o.
Kansas City, former chairma,
Of the Republican State Com
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07

The willy Jap is picking up a
lot of juicy Chinese pIums whi'e
the European nations are too
busy among themselves to chase
him out of the orchard.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07

Quality of Steel-The the construction of
BUCkEY fence the best that be made Each
hon from the to the wire is under direct
perts thus insurng the very best.
Condition of Gaanzng-For years the cry of the
has been regarding the us of the wire and
come this defect there has been particular The
adoption of the latest gaanng
lasting quality of the BUCKEYE fence.
Machine Construction machines used in making the
fence of the latest and constructed
reduce scratching abrasion of the galvanizng
This empty statement
the gavanng before and after the weaving of the
We therefore safe in saying that when BUCKEYE fence
ready for the posts the gaanzng of exceptional quality
Buckeye Square Mesh Field and Stock Fence.
After going carefully the merits and demers of
mesh field fence with majority the
that taking everything into consideration BUCKEYE
fence is the logical fence The great improvement the meth
OF other of style of fence the deep cmp
the lateral wir which the wrapped which
holds the stay wire rgdy place and still does interfere
with the hinged the superior features
the BUCKLEY square mesh BUCKEYE fences equipped
with tension crps which take of the expansion
raction of the due to the different weather conditions
six and twelve inch stay fences placed respectively
tension crmps between ths stays This crmp forms half
circle, thus giving the greateat tension.
BUCKEYE fence with the STAY that is bound stay
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07

Our Democ ratio friends nc
longer attempt to explain their
failure to lower the high cost of
living, and haven't even the
grace to apologize for it.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07

The bank robbing industry is
growing by leaps and bounds.
but this is one business revival
our Democratic friends do not
point to with pride.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07

The number of Democrats who
cheered at Wilson's election and
have since gone behind the house
and kicked themselves for dam
phOols, is rapidly growing.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07

At last the white Hope" has
been found who could make good,
and we may hold up our heads
again
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07
Our Uncle Samuel is still a
prOtestin'.
If Italy enters the war we
hope she will get her jacket we'll
busted.

Americans in Mexico can keep
them selves from getting killed
by getting out of Mexico.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07

In Chicago the Republicans
elected the mayor Tuesday by
10000. What:
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07

The Rupublieans carried st.
Louis Tuesday by Is. 900. WHAT
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07
WHY BUCKEYE FETCE
LIVES TIE LONGEST.

Our claim that BUCKEYE
fence has no equal is based
on all three a'l-im mportant
points of a woven wire fence,
viz-:-quality of steel, con-
dition of galvaniZing and
machine construction.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1915-04-07

We respectfully call your
attention to the latest Buck
eye Square Mesh Field
renee with crimps to hold
the stays.