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The Holbrook news., 1915-06-18
DARIUS,

The neigh of a horse made Darius King of Persia, the six contending powers for the throne agreeing among themselves that the one whose horse should neigh first should possess the kingdom This ancient method of settling disputes among politicians could be revived with profit today. If our partisan factions and petty pol iticians could only settle their dis putes by the neigh of a horse, the bark of dog or the bray of a donkey, it would be a grea4 blessing and would give our citizens a better opportunity to pursue the vacations of industry free from political strife.
 Let those who pick political plums by raising rows and who flash swords dripping in the blood of industry un- derstand that they cannot turn the public forum into political arena and by a clash of personal aspirations still the hammer and stop the blow and that their quarrels must be settled in the back alleys of civilization.
The Holbrook news., 1915-06-18

have to say. Mr Kruttschnitt, exec utive head of the Southern Pacific has written an article dealing with the financing of railroads. He said in part:
 "The financing of a railroad is function which the people, through their servants, the Railroad Commis- sioners and the Legislators, have never attempted, but it is a most i'm portant problem, especially to sec tions of a State where new railroads are needed. The placing of securities has been left entirely with the pro moter and owner of railroads.
 "The immediate determination of what earnings the railroad shall be permitted to receive and what bur dens it shall have put on it Ls in the hands of other servants of '' public
The Holbrook news., 1915-06-18
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
Il---L. E. Johnson On Two-Cent Passenger Rates

both the State and the Railway Com
 pany testified that the claims of the railroad were sustained by the facts
 Two cents did not pay the cost oi carrying a passenger a mile. The State, however, contended that the railroad was earning enough surplus on it's state freight business to give a fair return upon the capital used in it's passenger as well as it's freight business. For the purposes of the case, the railroad did not deny this, but held to it's contention that the State could not segregate it's pas senger business for rate fixing with out allowing a rate that would be sufficient to pay the cost of doing business and enough to give some return upon the capital invested in doing the business regulated. This was the issue presented to the Su- preme Court. Its decision responds to the judgment of the fair-minded sentiment of the country. The Su- preme Court says that, even though a railroad earns a surplus on a par ticular commodity by charging req sonable rates, that affords no reason for compelling it to haul another's person or property for less than cost. The surplus from a reasonable rate properly belongs to the railway com pany. If the surplus is earned from an unreasonable rate then that rate should be reduced. The State may not even up by requiring the railroad to carry other traffic for nothing or for less than cost.
 The decision is a wholesome one and demonstrates that the ordinary rules of fair dealing apply to railway companies. The fact that one makes a surplus on his wheat crop would never be urged as a reason for com polling him to sell his cotton at less than cost. It would not satisfy the man who wanted bread to be told that it's high price enabled the cotton manufacturer to get his raw product for less than cost. In this case the court reaflrmed the homely maxim that each tub must stand upon its own bottom"
The Holbrook news., 1915-06-18
A Horse Shortage in Russia.

Russia is suffering from a shortage of horses. The council of ministers has approved the introduction into the duma of a bill by the minister of commerce by which the western frontier and Black Sea ports will, for the time being, be closed to the ex- portation of horses. The measure has been prepared owing to the huge ex- port of Russian horses to Austria Hungary, the Balkan states and other countries, having resulted in an extra ordinary rise in the price of remount horses. so that the ministry of war was compelled greatly to exceed the amounts assigned in the estimates for remounts.
The Holbrook news., 1915-06-18

states have a two cent passenger rate and whatever loss is incurred is recov- cred through freight revenue. The jus tice of such a procedure was recently passed upon by the Supreme Court of West Virginia and the decision is so far-reaching that we have asked L. B. Johnson, president of the Nor folk and Western Railway whose road contested the case to briefly review the suit. MT. Johnson said in part:
 Some ten years ago, passenger fares were fixed by the legislatures of large number of states at two cents a mile. As a basis for such economic legislation, no examination was made of the cost of doing the business so regulated nor was any attention given to the fact whether such a rate would yield to the rail- way companies an adequate or any net return upon the capital invested in conducting this class of business.
 Such a law was passed in West Virginia in 1907 The Norfolk and Western Railway Company put the rate into effect and maintained it for two years. Its accounting during these two years showed that two cents a mile per passenger barely paid the out-of-pocket cost and noth- ing was left to pay any return on capital invested. It sought relief from the courts. Expert accountants for
The Holbrook news., 1915-06-18
rraaIe ResuIt of Jealousy.

A terrible remedy" for jealousy was employed by a good-looking woman named Bora, the wife of aa Italian tradesman living at Luino, near Lu- gano, recently. The couple had been married five years, and the husband, who was very jealous, made frequent scenes for which there was no reason. In desperation at last his wife ob- tained some vitriol and washed her face with the liquid ito spoil my beau ty and keep my husbands love-" she explained to the doctor. The wom- ans hands and face were terribly burned, and she has been taken to hospital Her husband cannot be con soled.
The Holbrook news., 1915-06-18
THE LAYMAN'S DUTY

There never was a time when preachers and politicians formed an unholy alliance that civilization did not shriek out and Christianity cry aloud. Since the beginning of gov ernment, politicians have sought to decoy the ministry into the meshes of politics and make them carry banners in political processions. They have taken the ministry to the mountain top of power and offered to make them monarch of all they surveyed, and while most of them have said, Get thee behind me Satan" a few have fallen with a crash that has shaken every pulpit in Christendom.
The Holbrook news., 1915-06-18
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
III---JuIius Kruttschnitt
 On Financing Railroads

the Legislators and the Commis- sioners.
 Managing a railroad is quite differ ent from managing a government where the money is raised by taxa tion. When the expenditures, for good reasons or otherwise. increase, taxes can be equally increased. The railroads, while servants of the pub lie, cannot raise money with such ease and facility. The railroads must keep their expenditures within their incomes because while they have some control over their expenditures they have almost no control over their incomes, their rates being fixed by public authorities.
 There is not a railway manager 1n the country today who is not fearful that under the press of increasing de mands the transportation systems of the country will, in a few years, break down, unless the railroads are allowed to earn larger funds wherewith to build 1t up. There are vast sections of the country, especially in the West, where more railroads are needed and they cannot be built unless the rail ways raise new capital.
 People invest money in order to make money, and they are skeptical as to whether they can make money by investing in concerns that are dealt with stringently and unfairly. Rail- road securities must be made more to invite investments, and in order that they may be made more the roads must be allowed earnings that will enable them to meet the increased capital charges"
The Holbrook news., 1915-06-18
Mail carrIers, Hard Job.

If there is a point south of the Alas kan boundary where the United States mail carriers have to contend with ad- verse weather conditions parallelin6 those of the Arctic regions, it is at Put-in-Bay, that famous island in Lake Erie where Perry won his victory a century ago. Separated from the Ohio mainland by 12 miles of open water. the coming of winter brings hardships to the men whose daily task it is to traverse the distance laden with the mails. A stout sailboat is the usual mea~ of communication, but when the ice cl es and boating is impossible, the ice boat is called into play and the distance is trayersed in record time.
The Holbrook news., 1915-06-18

The farmers of this nation need to become better acquainted with the railroad men and their prob lens. It is only those who know that can give us information and the farmers of America should listen attentively to what the men who manage rail road property
The Holbrook news., 1915-06-18

The farmers of this nation are vitally interested in railroad rates and equity be- tween passenger and freight rates is especially i'm portant to the man who follows the blow for the farmer travels very little but he is a heavy con- tributor to the freight revenues. s O m e of tn e
The Holbrook news., 1915-06-18
POLITICAL PRAYER MEETINGS

It is sad day for Christianity when the church bells call the communicants together for political prayer meet ing. Such gatherings mark the high tide of religious political fanaticism, put bitterness into the lives of men; fan the flames of class hatred and de- stroy Christian influence in the com munity. The spirit actuating such meetings is anarchistic, un-Christlike and dangerous to both church and state.
 The success of the nation is In the hands of the farmer.
 Work for the best and the best will rise up and reward you.
 Tenant farming is just one thing after another without pay day.
The Holbrook news., 1915-06-18
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
National Officers

President Woodrow Wilson
 Vice President Thomas R. Marshall Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan
 Attorney General ............... Thomas w. Gregory Secretary of the Treasury. William G. McAdoo Secretary of War;. ..L. M Garrison Secretary of the Navy,.-.-. Josephus Daniels Secretary of the Interior, Franklin K Lane Secretary of Commerce. C. Redfield Secretary of Labor. William B. Wilson Secretary of Agriculture. ........D David S. Houston Postmaster General, S. Burleson
The Holbrook news., 1915-06-18

Work for the best and the pest will rise up and reward you.
The Holbrook news., 1915-06-18
RAILROAD TIME TABLE. Effective Feb. 2, 1915.
 EAST BOUND

Nos 2 and 4 Eastbound and No 3 Westbound do not stop.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-01-29

II farmers generally appreciated the
real objects Of soil cultivation, and
would adopt the use OF more modern
cultiVating implements than are COM
monty used. more crops could be made
on the same soil with much less time
and expense.
Every one recognizes that one object
Of cultivation is to kill weeds. This.
however. IL not the only reason. Aside
from killing weeds, soil cultivation
should aid in the conservation Of the
soil moisture BY putting the ground In
such condition that more water will
enter in the form of rain. In addition
to this, cultivation should conserve
the water OF the soil by keeping Il
loose, open in nature, and thereby pre-
vent evaporation from the surface.
Incidentally, as the soil is made more
open, a greater amount of air enters,
the plants are fed better, the root sys-
TEN Of the crops spread more freely,
and at the same time the activities Of
beneficial soil bacteria are promoted.
In the cultivation of the soil for any
of the field crops, 1t is not necessary
to go very, deep to accomplish all the
above objects. In fact. it has been
shown by experiments that shallow
cultivation, such as may be done with
harrows and small cultivators, is much
more effective than the deeper plow-
ing, such as is done with the double
shovels. Not only is 1t more effective
to cultivate shallow, but 1t Is far
cheaper to do so.
When good seed bed has been pre-
pared for the ordinary field crops, and
the seed planted on the level" the
first cultivation may best be done with
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-01-29

& st. Louis Railway and the Holston
National Bank was prompted, not only
by desire to encourage the produc-
ton here of the type of mules and
horses needed in Tennessee, but with a
true conception of the intimate relation
ship between livestock and agriculture,
and with the view of stimulating great
er interest in improved methods in
everything that pertains to modern
progressive agriculture.
The institutions will be directed and
operated by the University of Tennes-
see, and future success may safely lie
in the sound judgement of the men who
are affiliated with its agricultural
school.
The booklet, which is being mailed
from the office of L. P. Bellah, Gener-
al Agent, Nashville, to twenty-five
thousand farmers along the Nashville,
Chattanooga & st. Louis Railway, con-
tains tabulated pedigrees of the animals
placed in both studs.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-01-29

their commodities arrive at the other
end and more of them are less familiar
with the condition the commodity must
be in to sell readily to the trade If
more growers took a live interest in
putting up a good grade Of product and
visited the other end Of the business
occasionally there would be much less
complaint at both ends.
Getting hold of the growers until
good effective working organization is
established is the hardest problem Of
all cooperative societies. II is hard
for any organization to fight outside in
fluences and inside influences as well.
II the inside influence is loyal it is not
q hard task to overcome outside in
fluences for the latter depend entirely
upon dissatisfaction within the ranks to
disrupt the association thereby further
ing their own ends.
Cooperation is essential. The same
business sense and the same organizing
genius which have placed this nation in
the front rank in industry must be in
yoked for agriculture.
One of the greatest stumbling blocks
in cooperative organizations is the
fact that the farmer wants cash when
he turns his products over to the society
to be sold. A cooperative society can
not pay the farmer for his product any
more than he can pay himself for his
own commodity. The farmer therefore
should not and cannot expect returns
until his product is sold.
The more local effect of organized
cooperative marketing insures q steady
income and keeps money in circulation.
Banks are more willing to loan money
because the risk is reduced. This fact
puts the members of the association in
q position to secure a working fund at
considerably reduced rates of interest
over the ordinary charge where the
risk is greater because the individual
is handicapped by not being able to
control the price he receives for his
products.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-01-29
New GameILaw.

A new game law that should be pass.
ed by all States would contain the fol-
lowing:
Book agents may be shot between
October and September l; Spring
Poets from March l to June l; Auto
mobile Speed Demons from January l
to January /; Road Hogs from April Is
to April Is; Amateur Hunters from
September to February l; War Talk
ers-no closed season; Any man who
accepts paper for two years and then,
when the bill is presented, says 4 never
ordered it, may be killed on sight and
shall be buried face downward in quick
lime so as to destroy the germs and
prevent the spread of the infection. +"
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-01-29

By LIV-VER-LAX.

The City Commissioner of Terrell,
Texas, a former Greenville citizen,
writes,
April 9, 1914.
II take pleasure in saying for publ
cation that by the use of Liv-Ver-Lax
| have been cured of disease which is
correctly described by the recognized
symptoms Of Biliousness, Stomach and
Liver Trouble, Constipation and result
ing complications. and commend its use
to all like sufferers.
George H. Jackson.
II. E. Griffith, Witness.
Mr.. Jackson, like hundreds of others.
has discovered the beneficial results of
Liv-Ver-Lsx. the wonderful vegetable
Liver Tonic. Harmless. safe for any
child; has no injurious after-effects like
caiomel. Pleasant to take: no nausea.
Take regularly and keep well. SOC
and 81 at Rhes Drug Co. o.. from Leb-
anon, Cooperative Medicine Company.
Lebanon. Tenn. adv. 81
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-01-29
Percheron Breeding Promoted.

The Nashville, Chattanooga & st.
Louis Railway, through the Industrial,
Agricultural & immigration Division OF
its Traffic Department, is this week
mailing out an illustrated booklet an
nouncing to the Company's friends and
patrons the establishment, on the West
Tennessee Experiment Station Prem
ises, near Jackson, of a Percheron breed
ing stud to be known as the Nashville,
Chattanooga & st. Louis Railway Rer-
cheron Foundation Stud.
A number of young registered Per-
cheron mares and registered stallion
have been purchased and placed in the
stud, and their services are now avail
able to the public. A similar enter
prise has been established at the East
Tennessee Experiment Station by the
Holston National Bank of Knoxville.
The ultimate aim of these worthy in
situations is to encourage and foster
the production of larger mules and
horses in the state. Heretofore Ten
nessee's large mules have come from
other states as wesnlings and yearlings;
but these breeding establishments will
result in supplying the demand for large
horses and mules in state from Tonnes
see soil.
The Incentive to create these breed
ing studs by the Nashville, Chattanooga
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-01-29
Dangers of a Cold.

Do you know that o all the minor
ailments colds are by far the most dan
gerous? 1t is not the colds themselve
that you need to fear, but the serious
diseases that they so often lead to.
For that reason every cold should be
gotten rio of with the least possible
delay. To accomplish this you will find
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy of grea
help to you. 1t loosens a cold, relieves
the lungs, aids expectoration and en-
ables the system to throw off the cold.
For sale by all dealers. adv. 81
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-01-29

the weeders, or wide section spike
tooth harrows; for these implements
enable one to accomplish all that could
be accomplished with . slower pro-
cess. such as Is usually followed. The
weeders and harrows do 30 much more
in = given length Of time, and are.
therefore. much cheaper to operate.
When the crops are 90 large that these
rapid-workins tools can not be used
longer. cultivators doing the most
rapid and most effective work should
Be used. Rapidly In the work can not
be too strongly emphasized, and for
THAI reason the implement that re-
Quires more than one operation to the
row to give a thorough cultivation
should be discarded.
The time OF and the number Of cul-
1vations to give must be governed by
conditions. Generally speaking, after
each rain, when the soil is rapidly
evaporating the moisture supply, the
land should be cultivated, as we said
above, to save the water. When there
are weeds of any kind to kill, cultiva-
ton should be done. When the ground
for any reason has become compact.
cultivation should be done.
Knowing the objects Of cultivation.
and the fact that deep blowing is not
at all essential to the profitable pro-
duction of crops, and that there is real
economy in the use of the shallow
rapidworking implements. and that by
this means we must keep a good
mulch on the soil to accomplish one
Of the objects Of the work. We are
ready to go forward to do our Juno
cultivation.-J. G. Pridmore, Univer-
sity of Tennessee.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-01-29
The 1915 Vegetable Garden

The year just now fairly begun is 60
ing to be a year that will call for the
best judgement Of the people of this
section TO enable them to go thru il
with health and economy. As an aid
to both these needs we suggest that
every citizen, whether farmer or not.
begin right now to plan for a good
garden thruout the coming summer,
fall and winter. Vegetables can be
grown here to feed the average family
turnout the entire year, to give boiled
dinner every day from January first to
December thirty first. And the man
who argues with you that he can't
afford it is just declaring to be true
something he has not tried. Indeed
the writer could not afford not to have
garden. AS rule we get a boiled
dinner with many side dishes from our
garden EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR.
This winter is proving an exception to
this rule. We have sweet potatoes,
Irish potatoes, parsnips. lettuce, satisfy,
now, hut this is the first time in five
years, winter or summer that we could
not get vegetable dinner from our
garden. And that we have not this
time is due to excessive drouth and
heat in summer and early hard freezes
in winter. We have never known just
such combination of weather until the
past year and trust we may never see
again.
No acre Of ground on any farm in
Fayette county will produce as many
dollars worth of crops next year or any
other year as will the acre devoted to
a well prepared and well worked vege-
table garden. We make this statement
without the least fear of being success
fully contradicted. Many are just
averse to giving a garden the necessary
attention to make it profitable, they
should not blame the garden for that.
1t takes constant care and unending
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-01-29

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The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-01-29

work to make the best of q garden. but
il will produce more than the average
acre of ground If given half attention.
1t is just about time now to prepare
the plant bed for growing early toma-
toes. peppers, cabbage, etc. ANY man
who is handy with saw, hammer and
nails can make bed that will answer
every purpose. A square frame cover
ed with old flooring, ceiling or other
waste lumber with a sash or oiled cloth
over It will give the necessary protec-
ton, if the earth is taken out 'of this
frame to depth of six inches and fresh
barn yard manure put in it and covered
with a.few inches Of soil. The neces-
sary work can be done in few hours
and five cent package of seed will
furnish several families.
The Falcon is interested in seeing a
good garden at every home in the
county, because if furnishes a health
full food that can be had in no way ex-
cept to grow it at home where it can
be grown at cost far less than the
returns. Every family in the county
will need to save every possible dollar
this year, and by having a supply of
fresh vegetables direct from ones own
garden is a sure way to save several of
these dollars. Get ready now for the
planting that will soon be done.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-01-29

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The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-01-29
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Chamberlain Tablets are just fine
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