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The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-09
THE TELEPHONE m RURAL CON.
MUNlTlEs.

MONiIlEos
A few years ago the telephone was
unknown among the farming COM
munlties This was, no doubt, due 70
the fact that the rural field did not
offer as profitable returns to the stock
holders Of large companies as the
cities and towns. The farmers, there
fore, sought relief in the experiment
Of building and equipplng their own
lines and, with the assistance Of the
manufacturers, who were only too anx-
lous to aid In creating a market for
their apparatus, they soon realized that
they could provide themselves with an
efficient service az a much lower cost
than was possible under other condit
lions. II is, therefore, not surprising,
that these systems have multiplied
until they extend to almost every com.
munity.
The majority OF the rural systems
connect with the exchanges and long
distance lines Of the Bell Telephone
Company under agreements for inter
change of service.
The development of rural telephone
service promises to be much greater
In the future and there Is no doubt
that II properly regulated the move
ment viii have a far-reaching influence
on the life Of the farmer. by enabling
him to render his social conditions
more enjoyable and also to effect the
saving OF time and money in the con-
duct of his affairs. II has been dem.
onstrated by actual experience that
every telephone on a farm effects a
saving Of not less than $4,000 a year,
and there are innumerable instances
where a telephone has saved the user
many times that amount in the same
period.
When sickness Is in the home and
moments stand between the life OF the
sufferer and medical aid, the value OF
the rural telephone cannot be com
puted In dollars and cents. When Are
threatens destruction, a minute or two
will suffice to summon the prompt as
slstance OF neighbors and in this way
many valuable buildings are saved
every year. Thieves and tramps no
longer go prowling through districts
he ying a rural service, terrorizing the
women and children, and stealing
whatever they can lay hands upon, for
the telephone pursues them with re-
lentless speed and renders escape inn
possible.
In busy seasons when threshing,
etc, is in progress and machinery
breaks down, or extra help is required,
the telephone avoids delay and ex-
pense. When cars are expected on the
railway siding. the telephone over
comes the waste OF time In driving 70
the station TO ascertain II they have
arrived. and avoids the cost OF de-
murrage by making prompt loading or
unloading possible.
Every event OF importance occur.
ring In the outside world. all market
and weather reports. etc, are made
available to the farmer, through the
medium Of the telephone, and in this
way the sense OF loneliness Is banished
and he is placed upon an equality with
those who dwell In the city I'm 80 far
as he can acquire at win a general
knowledge OF everyday affairs.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-09
DOWN ON THE FARM
By ELI HAGGARD

ground until he got so fast we had to
let go and then the end of the rope
caught on a fence corner and doubled
the little mule up and the rope tight
ened around his neck and he kicked
more furiously and walled his eyes
and couldn't hardly get his breath and
we thought he was dying, and we
prayed that he wouldn't, and sister
Kate ran to the house to get the
butcher knife and Just before the little
mule died we set him free.
That mule grew up to be a useful
animule, but | am inclined to think
that he never forgot the scare we gave
him. One night / was riding him
down lane under the moonlight
when an old SOW jumped out of her
bed of leaves in the fence corner, and
that mule dumped me over his head
right into the middle of the road and
| walked home leading the mule with
one hand and carrying my nose In the
other. Don't tell me that a mule
hasn't got a memory. That one had.
On that same little mule, in his
younger days, we placed pas saddle
one day and the mule got away from
us It was a sight. The stirrups flap
ped him in the sides and he kicked
at 'em and fairly few, and we laughed
until he ran into an old mud pond and
mired down with pas saddle still on
him. Right there he gave us palpi-
tation of the heart. That was an awful
fool notion that entered the long-eared
Uranium of that thoughtless animal.
That pond was half water, half mud
the balance frogs, snakes and malaria.
Amt 1t strange how things come to
pass? OF course pa appeared on the
scene - just like a moving-picture
show. He wanted to know II we we're
trying to drown the mule. He wanted
to know how his saddle happened TO
be on the mule. He knew we couldn't
tell lie We also knew we couldn't
without adding punishment and pain
and distress.
He helped us get the mule out We
washed the saddle. He made us prom.
Use to break off all association With
the mule. He declared that the mule
was not a suitable playmate for boys
of our size. / looked at Marvin and
Marvin looked at me. 1 knew that he
was thinking of that slide that we had
AANNnhNA AAAoN Nh0 ANNAN oAOaAN
draw Not that day, but he did later.
He drew II with vim, with a rapidly
that we have never seen surpassed by
anything on legs.
We got a set of pillow gears on him
with the slide hitched on behind him.
We didn't intend to let him loose. but
we did. After going around the horse
lot same as il he was running against
time at a county fair, he went of down
the lane that led from the barnyard
to the big woodslot, and pa, coming
up the lane, had to climb over the
fence into a thicket to let the mule
and slide pass, but he climbed back
in time to keep us from passing. That
was the third time that mule had al
most stopped our hearts from beating.
I'm not going to try to describe that
scene in the lane. 1t was beyond de-
scription. We spent the rest of the
afternoon in that woodslot searching
for the scattered fragments Of the
pillow gear.
Who attracts YOU by his ears
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-09
THE SORE SPOT.

Mother-Herbert. you mustn't ask
your papa so many questions. They
irrltate him.
Herbert (shaking his head)- amt
the questions, ma; it's the answers he
can't give that makes him sorel
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-09

Who seldom kicks without a cause7
Who isn't seeking place, applause7
Who with his state Is we'll content2
Who deserves a monument
The Mule
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-09

AS L sat one mOrnin lonely In the par
sonage, thinkin' only
or the sweet and lovely girl ! had met
the night before;
Suddenly / heard cackle quickly fol-
lowed by the prattle
OF the other hens an ROSTERS as I'D
heard 'em oft before;
Jumpin' from my chair I started started
for the barnyard door
Eggs were thirteen. cents or more.
That old hen Is worth a dollar, can
always tell her "holer,"
Said to myself as reached the barn
yard door;
She's thoroughbred non-setter, which
for us Is much the better
AS her eggs help TO buy. thread and but
tons from the store
She's gift we highly prize an wen
keep her till she dies
Wen protect her evermore.
All about I looked afraid that our favor
ite had not laid,
Though the other hens were cacklin',
loudly cacklin' round the door;
Yet "old speck" was on her nest In the
corner toward the west
Lookin' grum an angry as she'd never
looked before.
Then ! said An, there, my pet. will
never let you set
There upon the floor.
Then told her in a furry. she must be
OF In a hurry,
That she should not waste her life settin'
there upon the floor.
Soon ! saw that she was frettin' an 1
knew that she was settin'
When she ruffled up her feathers as she'd
never done before.
could see that she would peck as ]
called her gentle speck.
An I knelt beside her to implore
Now. look here. I'm not a-foolin,' sadly
you're in need O. schoolin.'
For you'll ruin your health II you set
there on the floor
With neither food nor drink, noble Speck
why don't you think
An let this foolish notion quickly all
pass o'er2
But her anger seemed to rise. as she
looked up In surprise
An she looked as II she swore.
II you will not quit this settin,' quit your
simple foolish. frettin'.
Quit this way that you are Twin here
upon the floor,
l will take you by the neck. though love
you, pretty Speck,
An I'll put you in the coop. in that sad
Far from hay an barn an fodder. where
you've never been before
Still she set there on the floor.
Soon with anger grew pale an 1 grab
bed her by the tail,
Holdin' tight I quickly raised her from
her place upon the floor.
have never heard such squallin' an the
scene--it was appallin
As held her there suspended as she'd
never been before
Steppin back-O Moses. save me was
fallin' through the GoOr--
Through the floor
In a hole I fell an hung there an for
help 1 loudly sung there
While the hen did peck and fiutter as
she'd never done before.
Soon / saw she had no tail. but what
good could that avail2
Round my head she fairly few, peckin'
till my face was blue,
Her anger risin' more an more, thought
she'd fight for evermore-
Forevermore
Helped by Fate slipped through, an I
ran-now wouldn't you?
An told my tale OF woe. sayin' that
the hen might go
An locate where she had been, I'd not
trouble her again.
henpecked boy feels mighty bad-for
henpecked husband feel sad
The boys troubles soon are DER, the hus-
band endures them evermore-
Forevermore
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-09

Who attracts you by his ears
When in your sight he first appears?
Who spake, tits said, In other days,
But doesn't now, he only brays-
The Mule
Who's helped 20 make this nation great7
Who known in every town and state?
Who helps to help the cotton grow
With the power Of a dynamo7
The Mule
Who for beauty isn't famed,
Among immortals isn't named,
But his duty ne'er forsakes,
Pulls right on till the hamestring breaks?
The Mule
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-09
The Mule.

The Mule.
Memory is a great thing. IL keeps
us from doing a great many "phule'
things that we might do. It's the
place where we file away the receipts
received for tuition that we've paid
in the School of Experience. It's an
art gallery where are hung the pic
lures of the past-some happy, some
sad, some pretty, some ugly, some that
bring us Joy, others that bring us sor-
row. You can't keep out of the art
gallery of Memory.
A fellow asked me yesterday II ]
knew "haw" from gee" If / had ever
plowed. l am not a scientific agricul-
turist. / can't say that | would get out
an Injunction to secure the pleasure Oh
walking up and down the corn rows
with the broiling sun above me, with
the dinner table about two hours
away, with the sweat-bees buzzin'
round about me.
wasn't so fond of agriculture that
/ Just kept on blowing and paid no
attention to the dinner horn. had
sense enough to know that / would
never make successful farmer in the
territory where l attempted to tear up
the earth. When the pillow struck a
root or a rock ard the cross-bar that
holds the handles together punched
me in front of the back and the han
dies slapped me in the sides had
sense enough to resign"
When "Old Beck" wanted to go one
way and ] wanted her to go another
and she went her way, l said right
there that l would never be farmer
unless had hypnotic power sufficient
to hypnotic a mule-I wouldn't be
dragged around by a mule. | realized
that | was no more fit for farming
than prize-fghting. I was convinced
that was not built on an agricultural
plan.
Speaking of mules-I will never for
get that little black mule that had
been weaned, but had never had a bri-
die on his head nor a saddle on his
back. He was a lively rascal. He
had burrs in his ears and name and
tail, but the burrs didn't affect the
energy in his legs. He was nervous
with a quick movement. One day we
found him in the horse lot and per
suaded him, with a bundle of fodder,
into the stable and shut the door.
Marvin Zone of our younger" bro
thers) climbed up in the loft and
gently dropped a rope over the little
mules neck and with a fishing pole
we fished the other end of the rope
out at the door, and then Marvin and
held the rope while sister Kate went
around on the other side of the stable
and punched the mule with a stick to
make him come out. He came out all
right But he was In too big q hurry
He came out a-jumpin' an a-buckini
an a-lzickin' an a-snortin'. He went
up IN the air. He was excited. He
jerked US down and dragged us on the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-11-11
FOR PREPAREDNESS

Editor Seattle Star: In your is
sue OF Monday. Mr.. Fred W. Bur.
we'll said. among other things
against militarism-"That a large
army and navy has never been a
guaranty of peace. both England
and Germany have been taxing
their people for generations to pre-.
pare suitable armies and navies to
protect them from each other. but
what has II amounted to-"
As far rs England is concerned
she made the greatest mistake Of
her career for not having prepared
an army commensurate to her
navy, II she had done that, no
invasion of Belgium would have
taken place and perhaps not even
war.
Mr.. Burwell would like to work
for universal disarmament and
peace. Very well; let us begin at
home and abolish the policeman.
the sheriff. the national guard and
army and see how long our peace
will last. Perhaps he would object
to this. lest anarchy will stark SUI
preme in the world and everyone
would arm against his neighbor.
FRANK BORZONE.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-11-11
TAX CHURCHES. NOT RELIGION

Editor The Star: am compelled
TO take up little of your valuable
space In answer 90 Conservative
Christian who states In Friday s
star: Writers who advocate tax.
Ing religion are overlooking the
good religion IL doing"
No writer advocated taxing re-
ligion. but the church property.
which amounts to millions of dol.
lars. This church property in
cludes some OF the most valuable
city real estate. We have no right
10 tax unbelievers that churches
may be maintained: no more right
thar TO tax churches for the sup.
port OF infidel clubs.
II the collection OF taxes from
churches would reduce the activity
of the churches. and thereby aid in.
fidels and atheists. there is some
thing radically wrong with the
churches.
Benjamin Franklin said: when
n religion Is good. concede IL viii
support itself. and when Il cannot
support itself. and God does not
take care TO support IL. so its pro
fessors are Obliged TO call for help
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-11-11
LETTERS TO TIE EDITOR

for some years OF the opposition
different people have made TO your
public-owned docks. especially the
Pacific Coast Co.
Now on arrival a, Skagwsy. we
found n very up-to.date. modern
dock there. We thought in Seattle
We would see something even bet
ter.
! had occasion 20 see some Alas
ka friends away on the steamer
Congress few days ago. and
stood there on that famous slip.
Luckily We did not slip In the wa
ter. IL made me come to this con
clusIon. that II. instead OF going
around 10 different meetings and
knocking modern and upto-date.
comfortable docks. they would get
TO work and do something 20 their
own so that you would think you
we're not going TO fishing shanty
instead OF a place 60 embark on a
trip over the seas. II would certainly
he appreciated by the public.
a. u. CULBURTSoN.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-11-11

Because present dog pound Ii m.
suitable the public safety commit.
tee recommends that u be moved
to site Of city incinerator. on south
eide OF Lake Union. An appropria-
ton will be made for erection OF
new pound.
Mayor Gill addressed meeting OF
Young Mems Business club Thurs
day noon in Womans Exchange on
the tar levy.
Next regular meeting Of Munici-
pal Civil Service league will be
held Friday night at W. o. w hall.
Fourth and Marion.
James Ajax. SO. pioneer tailor OF
Seattle and resident OF Washington
since 1857. died at his home. 703
2lst ave. Wednesday.
Harold Henry. American pianist.
who will give recital Mt the Cornish
school OF Music Thursday night.
says American birth and name are
no handicap TO musicians nowadays
and that less American musicians
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-11-11
"pRo BONO" AGAIN

Editor The Star: Sympathy for
unthinking Pro Bono Hooch and his
philanthropic kind. who cannot alb.
stain from hooch. dope. SNOW" or
other poisons without bride and
bit. While prohibition law is
necessary for him and his false
reasoning political gamesters. Il is
10 be ever lamented that the limo.
cent must suffer with the guilty.
Yes. Bono Hooch" would sacrifice
HIS and millions OF others birth
right personal liberty. for which
our fathers fought and died. What
care he as long as he has an axe
TO grind: he'll grind II under the
pretense OF keeping poison out OF
his precious system. You are n
dangerous species to be Mt large.
"Hooch." Regulate the liquor traf
fic by Just laws" and not by silly
impossible ones.
PRO BONO PUBLICO.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-11-11
PUBLIC DOCKS BEST
MEAT INJURIOUS
TO THE KIDNEYS
Take a tablespoonful OF Salts II
Back hurts or Bladder bothers
Meat forms uric acid

We are nation OF meat eaters
and our blood il filled with uric
acid. says n well-known authority.
who warns us to be constantly on
guard against kidney trouble.
The kidneys do their utmost to
FREQ the blood of this Irritating
acid, but become weak from the
overwOrk. they get sluggish: the
eliminatlve tissues clog and thus
the waste il retained In the blood
to poison the entire system.
When your kidneys ache and feel
like Jumps OF lead, and you have
singing pains in tho back or the
urine is cloudy. full OF sediment, or
the bladder IL irritable. obliRing
YOU TO seek relief during the night
when you have severe headaches.
nervous and dizzy spells. sleepless-
ness. acid stomach or rheumatism in
bad weather get from your pharma.
ciHt about four ounces OF Jad Salts:
take a tablespoonful In n glass OF
water before breakfast each morn.
ing and In few days your kidneys
will act fine. This famous salts is
made from the acid OF grapes and
lemon juice. combined with lithla.
and has been used for generations
TO flush and stimulate clogged kid
neys. 10 neutralizo the acids in
urine so II IL no longer source
of irritation. thus ending urinary
and bladder disorders.
Jad Salts Is inexpensive and can
not inJure; makes delightful ef.
fervescent lithia.water drink. and
nobody can make mistake by
taking little occasionally TO keep
the kidneys clean and active.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-11-11
EASILY SETTLED

MO SENSE in that court-manal at San francisco
~ getting stuck over the question as to whether
or not Commander Cowan OF the aviation school IS
FLYER and deserving the extra pay. The matter
can be easily decided.
Let Cowan fly
Let him go up as high as Lieut.. Hollis Muller
did Or, let him try the looping as Lieut. Iaiaieno
did Muller got the record for height, and got de-
noted Taliaferro got killed. But, the head OF
school ought to be able to do better than his pupils
No less than eight eutenants have been killed
at that San Diego school within the past 80 months
six OF them under Cowan'S schooling II the
head of that school deserves Sii3.63 extra per
month as an extraordinary flyer, let's see him fly
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-11-11

IS Return From the Dead) .-Part l
HHRk$NNNDAfEfWRfRE

are assuming foreign names.
W. T. NAcGlaahAn. president OF
Beaver Co. OF New York. visited
Seattle this week en- route to Cali.
fornia. lie said he was greatly Inn
pressed with Seattle
Future European tourists will be
bothered a lot 10 pick on, the old
historic ruins from the new.
Eighteen OF 80 applicants for II.
oense 10 practice dentistry In this
state we're successful in exams.
held November 80 at wnlla wsiIa
Estate OF Mrs. Josephine Ken
rcdy. who died last May. valued at
tt05.i1s.2e.
Prof Trevor KincGd OF Univers.
ity OF Washington. and Earl Con.
stantine. gave addresses on Balkan
feuds Wednesday night before
Canadian club.
ISN'T IT THE TRUTH
Every time a fellow is arrested
for smuggling opium. the ncwspa-
pers declare that at last the author.
tiles have succeeded in breaking up
the dope ring by nAbblng the ring.
leader. There doesn't seem to be
anything but ringieaders among the
smuggler,
Or. q. VI. Horton, well.known Sc
attic physician. underwent success
full operation In Rochester. MINI,
Wednesday.
Annual election of Aero club
| held In Rainier club Wednesday
night w. T.. Boeing reelected
president.
Resolution introduced Wednes.
day urges creation OF office OF eff.
cheney engineer with Il. n. Allen at
head
Rabbi Samuel Koch spoke before
community meeting of residents OF
vicinity Of Hiawatha playfield Wed
nesday night on Tho Modern Civic
Spirit"
Wireless telephone has finally
reached across the ocean. "Wha,
are the wild waves saying" abou,
III
Lieut. Commander Mark Ellis.
who brought the wrecked gunboat
| u. S. s. Princeton To Bremerton
from Samoa. will vacate his post
to Lieut.. Commander l.. S. Shap.
ley. now in command OF naval mag.
azine at Mare island.
According to the Amsterdam cor.
respondent OF the London Central
| News. tho kings OF Rumanln, Bul.
garia and Greece have made mr..
rangements to meet at Bucharest.
Personal Representative John
Lind has declined Carranza's invl
tatlon for conference at the Mesi
can boundary. safety first
Or. r. Lester Jones. superintend.
ent OF the coast and geodetic sur.
vey. will leave Washington Sunday
for Seattle on tour of inspection
Wednesday. third day OF con.
vention OF American Federation OF
Labor. fraternal delegates from
this and foreign countries made
speeches, and resolutions were in
troduced. Among them were reso-
| lutlons TO protest alteration or re-
/ peal OF seamen's act.
A Toledo man has been wllled an
estate IN Atsace-Lorralne This Ia
almost an husky as drawing a ranch
on the Mexican border.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-11-11
SCIENCE VS.. SENTIMENT

y LUE eyes and golden curlS no longer qualify an
- orphan for adoption. Prospective foster
parents now depend on science to tell them which
baby is desirable.
Even after mental and physical tests have been
passed, little John Does and Jane Roes are con-
sidered with regard to their dispositions and adapt
ability.
And if they are too Self-conscous and egotisti-
cal they are considered no more desirable than if
physically defomed.
Science picks the NORMAL baby-and teaches
the rest of us to appreciate our lust average
darlings.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-11-11

U I'VE police inspectors were recently appointed
L a committee to investigate unemployment con-
dtons in New York.
Policemen are undoubtedly active in social
service most of the time but they are seldom so
accredited Few of them would claim any special
training as social investigators. They are not often
college graduates. They are not accustomed to
attend lectures at school of philanthropy
And yet the New York policemen returned
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-11-11
BEAUTY DOCTOR
TELLS SECRET
Detroit Beauty Doctor Gives Simple
Recipe to Dsrken Gray Hair and
Promote Its Growth

Miss Alice Whitney, well.
known beauty doctor OF Detroit,
Mich. recently gave out the follow
ing statement: Any one can pre-
pare a simple mixture at home, at
very little cost, that will darken
gray hair. promote it's growth and
make II soft and glossy. ToNpAGu
pint OF water add OF. Of bay rum.
a small box of Barbo Compound
and u OF. OF glycerine. These in
gradients can be bought at any
drug store at very little cost. APP
ply to the hair twice week until
the desired shade is obtained. This
will make gray-haired person
look twenty years younger. II is
also fine to promote the growth OF
the hair. relieve itching and scalp
disease, and is excellent for dan
druff and falling hair. Advertise
ment
Lunch at the Hollywood, 21a