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The Prescott daily news., 1915-04-05

Bartlesvile, Oklahoma, has adopt ed a unique method of bringing farm CTS to town. Merchants chip Tn and have raised fund to purchase dn- ners for farmers and their families who come to town on a certain day oi each week.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-04-05
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Before New York began it's big road improvement movement there were more than 15,000 abandoned farms Tn the state; now there are not more than 300.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-04-05

In an effort to aid local charities the Merchants and Manufacturers as socation of Milwaukee. Wisconsin, has placed 1 1000 contribution boxes in retail stores of the cities.
 Bank deposits have increased per ceptibly in Ireland since the war be- gan, owing to the sales of horses and catle at good prices and increase of farm product prices.
 Watertown, New York, has solved its unemployment problem effectively by opening wood pile. Railroads donte cast-off ties, which are sawed into stove wood by men who get $1.50 a cord. The wood is sold at $2 cord, the net revenue going back into a unemployment fund to give more men work.
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25
BritainS Great Naval Anniuersaru

Britain's greatest nero was and is
Horatio Nelson. Each recurring
year. on the 21st CO October, there
is celebrated with much pomp and
circumstances the anniversary OF
the battle OF Trafalgar bay. 1905.
where he lost his life in the action
in which he so signally trinmphed
over the combined fleets OF France
and Spain. II Is likely that London
will this year celebrate that great
naval victory with more enthusiasm
than ever before and a program is
now being arranged TO that end
The following lines were written
by Nelson just before he left Var
mouth for Copenhagen in 1901
Only now long TO be gone, time
ts precious and every hour makes
more resistance. Strike quick and
home. and may we soon return vic.
torious Is the fervent wish and shall
be the hearty exertion Of your faith
ful ard Obliged, Nelson and Bronte.
His titles were Viscount Lord Mel
son and duke OF Bronte, Sicily. the
latter title being given in recogni-
ton Of his victory nj the battle Of
the Nile Nelson was bogn In 1853,
eleven years preceding the birth OF
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25
American Pap2rs AsfOund Britain

4 writer in the London Spectator
las the following TO say of Ameri-
can newspapers:
For want OF q game. seek any
thing that shall distract the mind.
A minute ago | fancied that this
bundle OF newspapers fresh from the
United States of America would be
the distraction. The United States,
I said. are at peace; their citizens
Of German birth have kept their
German instinct for tranquility and
will see to 1t that nothing troubles
the profound tranquility OF those
happy States. To the United States.
remote from our disasters, all our
frenzy of war must be as distant
trouble OF ants. So ] took up the
American newspaper for news of
the calm continent.
These headlines are in black let
ters almost as large as those with
which our reticent European news
papers will announce the fall of
Berlin on their street bills. And
they are not about peace. They are
about the war. To look at those fat,
black letters you would say that this
was not Europe's war but Ameri-
cas- / measure their inky inches
before read them. And then lean
backward 20 let them clamor at
me This is what those letters CRY
aloud. | Will not let my printer
attempt any imitation OF their bulk
! will bur copy out their astounding
message
In shrek OF vas. type they give
me "1'sar halts Advance in Galicia.
Had 10 kill wife, he says" Ny first
thought Is 70 turn upon our Censor
OF the Press. BY what right does
he suppress such amazing news
from the imperial court of our ally?
Had TO Kill Wife. ne says" And
America may listen. while the Cen
sor stops our English ears. Before
| go any further, tell myself, al
though grieving for An Empress.
that know nothing of the fearful
needs 81 Russia. stand hushed
before that imperial sacrifice which
was, u seems, the price OF victory
in Galicia.
a moments thought brings me 70
wholesome doubt. Russian ways
are not our ways: II IL long, long
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25

A frost Is generally dew before 1t
comes.
To be n gentleman q man has to
hide meanness.
Talk Is cheap when one uses his
neighbours telephone.
The truth that lies at the bottom
Of well never gets In the milk.
A man must make his way In the
world. while a woman merely has
her way.
A coachman may not attend
church, but he drives a good many
others there.
There Is room for everybody in
this big world-but We can't all
have front rooms.
The most pitiful objects in the
world are girls who act like men
and men who act like girls.
IL II wasn't for the weather a
great many loafers would have no
excuse for remaining In the busi-
ness.
The period of sorrowful mediation
INDUCED In by the defeated candt
date is due TO the mistaken judg-
mcnt Of his constituencies he
thinks
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25

Napoleon ard OF Wellington. He
was forty-soyen years old when kill
cd by a musket ball ia the battle OF
Trafalgar
II has been said that among the
warriors OF his generation Napoleon
alone was greater master Of the
souls OF men and IJinecher alone
came near him. While Nelson was
magnificent figure In battle he was
sadly deficient in morals On the
occasions when he returned to Eng
land he was almost pariah az far
as the better classes of society were
concerned. though he was received
with the greatest enthusiasm and
warmest plaudits by the general
populace.-Indianapolis News.
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25

TINE FILTRATION.

IHE rHtNTAItONs
He sat beside me In crowded sur
Face car.
And IL knew what love was AT
the sight OF him.
Our ride together WAS. alas' too
short by far.
Time Is reientless-but We loved In
spite OF him.
I did not hesitate TO be the one to
WOO,
Though I'm not prone to place af-
lection Nightly.
But Just one side glance from his
eyes OF matchiess blue.
And I surrendered--which amused
him nightly
He glanced with favor. then. upon a
rose | wore:
I offered II. and he accepted charm
ingly.
And when ne went ne stopped a
moment at the door
one backward look-my heart beat
most alarmingiy,
I'd boldly search for him. without "A
trace OF shame,
Had l a clew that would reveal his
Whereabouts
A course could pursue. and he
exempt from blame.
Since he. you see, was only two
or thereaboutsl
New York Times.
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25
Here's q Boon to the
Country School Teacher

= The new idea Of furnishing the coun-
~ school teacher with home which she
can call her own, is good one, and
wouig induce better qualified type OF
teacher to engage in this important
work.
The method still in vogue in some
loha is TO board" the teacher around
~ the homes Of her various pupils.
a 1ome casss this might be acceptable
d many eases entirely unacceptable
but the principle back of
u ylone one and places the recip-
- questionable hospitality in a
ddt could not but rob her of
q Independence. During the
~ servant Of the community,
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25

against the pursuit of country teaching
by any but very young or very poor
teachers, just graduated, who leave TINS
ill-paid, uncomfortable field of work as
soon as possible.
The state of Washington has recog-
nized this fact, and is building near each
country school cottage which, Ike
parsonage will be turned over TO the
teacher as her residence. There is little
doubt but that this will induce a more
highly efficient and desirable class OF
wonderland perhaps men-to enter this
work. A man with a family could, IN
this way. make living and give to the
younger generation fund of knowledge
and experience that no very young teach
err could supply, and which would be OF
priceless value to the pupils.
As the country is the place to which
we must turn for reinforcement in brain
and sinew. Il is most desirable that the
best possible education should be given
its youth.
Many college teachers, who preferred
country life and followed teaching with
the love of it in their hearts, might find
in this way pleasant life and a COM
petence.
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25
From Another Point of VieiU

Farmers are kicking" says head
line. They certainly were Saturday
King Constantine seems to have mod
ernized the graceful old Grecian dance
into a side-step.
A New York store ,vertises fall cos
tunes for "ladies of larger proportions"
There's a shorter and uglier word.
1t really isn't quite the right thing
socially for the Zeppeins to make so
many calls on London before the first
one is returned.
"Yost will not shift his 'front.'" an
nounces an Ann Arbor correspondent.
As we recall Mr.. Hurry Up it would be
some shift if he did.
Odd Name Contest.
(Polk's Detroit directory aviary).
Wren, E. j., 1900 Third-ave.
Finch, David, 600 Second-ave.
Merlin, E. H.. 1897 Gratiot.
Grebe, Andrew, 8 Mitchell-ave.
Buzzard, Henry, 257 Willis-ave. east.
Gull, Ralph, 18 Howard-st.
Nightingale, Benz, 1401 Burns-ave.
Quail. Peter, 623 Campbell-ave.
Raven, John, 230 Avalon-ave.
Coots, Harry, 343 Baldwin-ave.
F. w. F.
Anyway. Yost knows just how the
Grand Duke felt
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25
Nutrition and Crime
e~ n. ApDiNGToN BRUCE.
Author OF The Riddle OF Personality.
Psychology and Parentbood." etc.

To safeguard boy from "going wrong care
full training and a good environment are OF chief
importance Also the development OF good
physique is highly important. The anaemc.
puny, poorly nourished boy is far more likely
TO become a deliauent than the boy OF good
phyical development
That there Is a direct relation between NAL
nutrition and crime has been clearly brought
out by the results OF Investigations In prisons
and reformatories.
In New York institution for juvenile delin-
uuents Doctor Hrdlicka found that the great
majority OF the inmates were smaller In stature
and lighter in weight than the average boy OF
their years.
tutions In New Jersey, Massachusetts, and else
where. Taken in the aggregate the juvenile
delinquent is physically inferior TO the normal,
| healthy minded boy.
| Being physically Inferior being less we'll
nourished II is not surprising find him in.
ferior TO the average boy in ability TO resist
temptation For. II his body is poorly nour-
ished. HIS brain, as part OF his body, is sure TO
J be poorly nourished likewise And a poorly
nourished brain means dulled and weakened
mind
It would be well IL every parent TO keep
/ this truth constantly in recollection. The old
pre- serb. "A sound mind in a sound body" finds
striking corroboraton in the facts Of modern
lcriminali tic research.
In Pennsylvania boarding school the head
master was disaRreeably impressed by the
appearance aid manner OF a new pupil. He
looked unhealthy, and his furtive ways arous I'd
a suspicion that his morality not all that
III should be.
The master kept his suspicion 20 himself and
SGT about gaining the lads confidence For
some time there was response. Then one
day the boy unexpectedly came 10 him with
con ,oes!On OF serious wrongdong
| The master did not expel him Nor did he
ret content with giving him good advice In.
stead, he acted on the principle that physical
strength makes for moral strength
He advised the boy. 10 be sure and advised
him wisely and kindly. But in addition he pa Id
special attention to his diet and insisted that
he take more than usual part in the games OF
the school. in which he had previously taken
part scarcely at all.
The result Of this psycho.physical reform plan
was the development within two years OF
cleancut. vigorous. manly lad, one OF the most
popular boys In the school
IL was transformation which many parents
might advantageously undertake In the case OF
their own children.
Good food and plenty OF exercise in the omen
lar-combined, or course with sympathetic
lhandling-will be found TO work moral maryels
IN the case OF almost every child Of delinquent
Tendencies.
Unless thers = sess censsuiss, brain veal.
r., " lsffS $4,000 iee Seod, the i'm
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25

children in the school are exposed
and these who are susceptible will
follow In turn.
School authorities are naturally
anxious TO secure regularity Of at
tendance on the part Of the scholars
and many parents feel that they are
simply doing their duty I'm forcing
children TO go 10 school who COM
Plain of not feeling well.
II Is much better for a child to
lose an occasional days schooaino
than 20 yts9 brine1ng, 9 e. ooce
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25

way with a wife. | must go deeper
into the newspaper for the truth.
have II now, and II claims me. In
deed. | had not reckoned with the
American method OF headlines.
Truly the Tsar has halted the Teu-
ION in Galicia. But there we leave
he Tsar and go on 10 Samuel Lett.
ner. who has had TO kill Wife, he
avs" not in Galicia. hut in Third
venue, New York.
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25

Children's recuperative powers,
generally speaking, are superior to
those of older people. Proper rest
and care Will often ward on serious
iilqess but this requires care and
Insight on the part Of the parents
az the children themselves are not
apt To cali attention to their condi-
ton until they become seriously I'll.
LOSS OF appetite. feverishness,
lassitude, discoloration OF the eyes,
are all indications which should be
watched as symptoms Of indisposi-
ton.
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25
The FQirer Side of 1t

homes; but have either the visitors
or the absentees seen California
That commonwealth Is not compos-
ed OF tourist routes, bungalows. and
resl-estate agents. You ought to get
ont on some hilly byroad between
vineyards where the evening air In
heavy with the smell OF grapes.and
the sun Is setting liz glory behind
the Coast Range. Or go sit on the
pier at Antioch In the tule Country
by the brown San Joaquin river and
have some old earrInged Greek fish
erman tell you how best 10 cook fish
with olive oil. In the fiat and fer.
tile fields OF the Sacramento the sun
will blister your back In harvest
time through two flannel shirts, but
there isn't colder wind anywhere
than blows across the high dour
cattle lands about Mount Shasta.
There are folks worth knowing In
all those trim little villages, wheth.
or the shade trees are pine, eucalyp-
tus. or palm, or Just oil derrfcks.
People live and like II In California.
and that IL the chief industry Of the
state. though other things get more
advertising. The electrical engi-
neers have done wonders at the ex-
positions, but villa; are all their
iightipg effects compared to the vel.
vet sp'endor of clear California
night? stars like the magic of q
poets dream and a wind that IL the
marching song OF tho spheres, and
about you rich. deep-hesrted land
that rivefs the love Of those Il
claims--that IL the true v,liforuia;
| hat no one ever cav e Indoors a.
rnnie yaGhHn - 49, 4. u '~-seS~
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25
Let the People
Rule-and Write
criueizes Dayton Government


70 the Editor o, The Times
wish you would give me little
space in your valuable paper. to
give the other side OF the Dayton
commission government. story. Your
editorial OF Oct. 10 would leave the
impression that things are all right
In Dayton, and that every body is
satisfied with the government. This
II not true, as I will show you, hav-
ing lived in Dayton before, during
and after the flood. | saw the COM
mission form forced upon the PEG
pie. and saw II work since.
You are mistaken about the one
commission OF six. and another COM
mis- sion Of Ave. There Is only one
commission. composed OF Ave citi-
zens elected at large. In regard 10
there not being any politics. there
was a commission OF IL elected to
draw up a new charter. The full
ticket OF the commission manager
crowd went In. composed or IL bus
mess men, including ox.politicians.
one union labor man and one Ne
gro. Does that not look like poll
tics, Some organizations asked
that the election be postponed until
after the food. as the minds OF the
people were not in shape TO think
OF and discuss politics, being too
much occupied with rehabilitation.
The commission manager crowd re-
fused, with the result OF only $4,000
out OF $4,000 voters going to the
polls. either due TO disgust or lack
Of interest on account OF the work
at hand after the food.
When the manager took Office, he
got $12,5O0 year. more than the
governor of Ohio Or the secretary
OF state. Dayton having only H.
600 Inhabitants, II IL a pretty high
salary, don't you think?
The charter Is very undemocratic.
calling for rs per cent on the lnitia-
tive, referendum and recall.
This manager since bis appoint
ment. has brought to Dayton Fix OF
his Cincinnati friends. who alto
gcther draw nearly 800 a day sal.
ary from Dayton. Two men alone
for over a year drew S35 day and
expenses, as the managers advis-
ors.
And about bridges? Before the
food $4,000 was provided for build.
ing a new bridge at Keowec-st. The
food washed away the websier.st.
bridge and the Fifth-st. bridge.
This efYiciency commission manager
bunch has q tumble, down wooden
piling bridge at webster-st. and at
rifth.st., and nothing ~ yet has
been done ut Keowec-st, and II Ia
two and one-half yenrs since the
food. Dayton has wanted these
bridges and needs them.
They have increased the bonded
Indebtedness OF the city more than
ssoo 900 in a year and half.
They have turned down ns 1leeal
the United Trades a Labor In
itiative petition. calling for an
amendrnent to the charter.
They ignore a protest from all
kinds ~ organizations ami arc run-
ming things IN the most bieh-hand.
81 and autocratic manner imasin-
able.
TNere are = lot more things that
corid be said but 'his much rr.f
suf'~e. ~ fear 7 have already
used too rr~~h ~ vour spate.
very truly yosssp.
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25
lRnssia's Most Powerful
Ally Soon to Lend Aid


In the eastern war zone Russia's most
\ powerful ally is being marshalled in bat
~ array. A news dispatch says:
Already the nip of coming winter is
a the air and the specter of 1872 leers
behind every German soldier today
When group of German prisoners was
met on the road marching eastwards the
a(rst questions asked as they gazed APP
!peshensively at the landscape, gray and
deeolate beneath the leaden sky, were of
~ Russian winter, when it would fall
M how long it would endure"
MI n 1912 Napoleon, flushed with vic
nv upon victory, and a prey to an inor-
t(lnats ambition, threw his magnificent
1xMy at veterans across the Russian
Eder. with the declared intention of
ldng St, Petersburg and completing his
iqnest Of Europe. For some reason he
9ltered his plans and marched on Mos
-, the second capital of the Russian
rrlre 400 miles southeast of st. Peters
The Russian armies retreated be-
4nto the French, laying waste the coun-
~ u they went Nothing could stay
npoleon's peerless legions and they
ehed Moscow in triumph and took
+ GDsssion Of the city. But the inhabi-
toMts OF Moscow had deserted it and
G6l1nt Rostcptschin, the governor, or
4 od Il set on fire. The greater part of
eity was destroyed, forcing Napoleon
1--we It IN October. just as the bitter
ogian winter was setting in. Retreat
3 through destitute country, the
1p SHOWS making it impossible to get
6pH trains through to them and at
lR same time impeding the march of
1ie army, the retreat was most disas-
1sous Two hundred and fifty thousand
- the finest troops, the flower of the
Wcs1d soldiery. left their bodies in Rus
jlon SHOWS. The remnant of the once
|1Fsat army reached France, broken in |,
y and spirit
Ii Napoleon's prestige was ended, his
vas waning. The rigors of the Rus
climate had accomplished what the
y nbtned military power of Europe had
llea to do.
~ M the present moment the German
y without base-having thus far
1led 70 capture Riga--suitable for the !
y nbhshment Of winter quarters.
October 10, l03 years ago, Napoleon's
tfU4Toat began. Though conditions have
ShSnged since that time and war has be-
& come science, that science avails little
. Against the elements, unchanged, and as
nel and implacable as in the days of
Napoleon.
NJ wonder then that The German SOL
r Of today "gazes apprehensively at
NJ landscape" and visions "the spectre
4 y 1872"
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25

BY the time this is printed about
one-sixth Of our entire population
will have looked around the Califor-
MIA eTpositions and found them very
good. The Sunday supplements have
shown their towers and gardens and
endless other wonders TO the stay-at.
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25

way TO Petrograd. Yet | cannot be
lieve. even though told In ve:y tall
letter. that this thing has befallen
an Empress. Even the Terrible
Tsar Of sixteenth century Muscovy
although more married than Hanr:
the Eighth. had not Henry's aerc,
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25

serious Illness. II.
az 80 often hap
pens. the slight in
disposition proves
10 be the begin
ming OF some com.
m u n | c a BILE dis
case, the result II
that the other
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25
Had Experience.

Motorist-Are you a religious
man?
Chauffeur--Yes. sir.
Notwithstanding with the BIZ
BILE?
Chauffeur-Well. rather. III bet
I've kissed II 80 times In court
Puck
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25
pisappolnted

How now?"
This fellow told me he was go
ing to show me the beauties OF the
town"
"weli. didn't her
"He meant parks and ONCE build,
ings. wss prepared TO see some
som1oono 1oVo11noo6y~ = Pit1ehpTXh
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25
HOW HE KNEW.

"The street cars haven't been as crowded.
lately as usual"
THAT sow
"Oh, yes, Why, coming downtown this
morning had only one person each foot
Kansas City Star.
The Detroit times., 1915-10-25
The Keep Well Column
SICK CHILDREN.

\ day spent in school by a half
sick child NAV result in weeks
The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-20
BUlGARS SORE AT THE ALLIES.

LONDON. Sept. 19.-It is under stood in official circles here that the cause of the allies has been in- jured among the people of Bulgaria generally for the reason that the Bulgars claim that machines of diff ferent types and of inferior make were furnished to them during the Balkan war. It is claimed in Bull garia that that nation bought many automobiles and aeroplanes during the Balkan war and that they paid a high price for them, their agents being assured that they were pur- chasing nothing but the best When it came to a tryOut however, it was discovered that all of the aero planes of French make and the automobiles of British manufacture Were of inferior workmanship to any purchased from the manufac- turers of any other nation
The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-20
F airbanksans In
 The Mining Game

SEWARD, Sept Bennett James and Jack Roman, formerly of Fairbanks. have entered the mining game here in earnest, having re gently made the purchase of the Reconsideration quartz property, at Moose Pass. They but recently returned from the property. where they went several weeks ago on an Investigating trip.
 The new purchase of Messrs. Ro- nan and James is a gold property and is said to contain some very rich ore It has been worked on a small scale for a number of years, but has heretofore produced but little, owing to the fact that the former owners were short of funds for development purposes.
 It is now announced, however, that the new owners will proceed with the immediate development of the property on large scale. They will work the ground themselves and are preparing to leave within a short time for the scene of their operations.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-20
Anthony Comstock
 Is Seriously III

NEW YORK. Sept. 19,-Anthony Comstock, perhaps the widest known of the social workers of the United States, is very i'll at his home in this city. and his recovery is doubt full. He is nearly 72 years of age, having been born at New Canaan Conn.,, March '. 1S44.
 Mr Comstock has been secretary and special agent of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice since March 2, 1872. During that time he has brought to justice 3.361 criminals and has destroyed 131 tons of obscene literature and pie tures He has also been United States postoffice inspector for New York City since 1873
 Aside from being a great social worker, MT. Comstock has served his country as soldier and Is also the author of number of books on social evils.