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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-02

SVns Of the activities now managed
me Department of Health which
~ not been started in 1907 are the
g..sIeolosis homes and cnnics and
Miants' milk stations. Attention
~, a'ied TO the reduction in the death
~. IN that time. The comparison
s o..Stll 1904 and 1914 based on 1000
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-02
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.

Barometer Readings.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-02

Humidity.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-02

Christian Jacobs Fireproofns and Concrete 20 ~
anu Emma 't0oos ~ sl2l.s
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-02

1t costs as much for a street rail
way company employee to support
himself in a decent manner as it does
any other workman.
The car men feel that they are en-
titled to have home and table things
as nice as their cousin workers enjoy.
They know they must deny them
selves many things which the work
eTs in other trades can have.
The car men, through the aTbitTa-
ton committee, are pleading for a
wage more consistent with the de-
mands Of the day. They are asking
why they cannot receive a wage that
will put them on equal footing with
the workers Of other trades. They
point out that prices have scared
away above their wage basis.
Maurice Lynch, financial secretary
of Division PAL, Car mems union,
showed by table that the average Chi
cago union wage was about so per
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-02
NORWEGIAN TARS FEAR SUBS
MUTINY-THREE SHOT

Queenstown, July 2.-Fearing at
tack by German submarines, the
crew Of the Norwegian bank Abys-
sinia mutinied while the ship was Iy-
ing in the harbor here today. [
In a bloody battle on Cne Abys-
sinia's deck officers shot three of the
mUtineers, wOunding two fatally.
Queenstown police ran alongside in a
harbOr boat, boarded the vessel and
quelled the disturbance. The Abys-
sinia was still in the haTbor here this
afternoon.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-02

WIEN WAN ENOONFl ~ LIVE
LIKE HUMAN BEINGS
Safety First. Give a man enough
to provide a clean living, for a clean
living means a clear mind. A clear
mind is necessary for safety's sake"
this was the plea of Vim. D. Ma
hon, head Of the union car men, be-
fore the arbitration board today.
Give us wages enough to provide
a home for the family, good gar
ments, enough to eat and sufficient
to give our children an education"
he asked.
The car mans job is no snap. Ma
hon brought out the figures present
ed by the federal industrial board in
1902 showing that there was one car
man killed in every 1,154 employed.
A later report shows that these fig
Ures have changed to one car man
killed for every TAG employed.
"a mOtOrman's job is harder than
that of a locomotive engineer" Ma
hon edclared. "The engineer drives
his train through a guarded highway.
The mOtOrman must face all the dan
gers of the city. Look at the differ
ence in salary"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-02

cent higher than what the car men
are getting. The company protested
that building trades employees who
got from IS to IS cents an hour did
not work the year around. Lynch
replied that but 80 per cent of the
car men were on duty at a time.
Lawrence D. Bland, editor of the
Union Leader, official organ of Chi
cago car men and economist expert,
told the arbiters how the cost of
foods had scared while wages had
not. He quoted the official pamphlet
Of the federal department of labor to
show that the cost of fOOdstuffs had
risen 27.8 per cent from 1907 to 1914.
Street car conductors drew high
er wages in 1906 than they did in
1913, notwithstanding the enormous
increase in the cost of living in that
time.
This was the astounding fact de-
veIOped in the testimony of Samuel
Crawford, former conductor, now
county emplOye.
from memoranda Crawford snow
ed that for 13 days in August, 1906,
he received 1854; that for 13 days
In August, 1913, he received $36.51.
The hours on duty were nearly the
same, a little over 9 hours a day. Ex-
cept during the cold months of win
ter he would prefer being a con-
dUctOr on a grip to that Of conductor
on a 1913 pay-as-yOu-enter, he said.
Now he runs an elevator at the
county Jail and gets $50 a month for
a 712-hOUr day with vacation at pay.
NORWEGIAN TARS FEAR SUBS
MUTINY-THREE SHOT
Queenstown, July 2.-Fearing at
tack by German submarines, the
crew Of the Norwegian bank Abys-
sinia mutinied while the ship was ly-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29
HANDLE ALL KINDS OF CROPS
Farmers Institutes Form Part Of
Diversif;cation Movement Started
In Southern States.

Il look for great results from the
farmers institutes that are being held
in the several sections of the county"
said Prof. Charles r. West the other
day to a Birmingham Age-Herald rep
resentative, las the advantage of
having scientific farming explained
orally by government experts can
readily be seen.
These institutes form a part Of
the crop diversification movement that
has been started throughout Alabama.
They teach practical and intelligent
methods in handling all kinds If
crops.
"A distinct feature is that relating
to the animal industry and as 1t is
explained by the government expert it
seems almost criminal that the farm
ers of our state give so little attention
to this branch of farming. Mrs.
Mathis certainly made a scathing ar
raignment of the farmers in the state
when she said their corncribs and
smokehouses are in Illinois and Iowa.
But with the activity displayed by
the government and the cooperation
of the city and county authorities
in furthering the diversificatlon
movement believe the time is not tar
distant when the present conditions
will be entirely charged and that but
little foodstuff will be imported into
this country or state"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29
IMPROVE CREDIT OF FARMER
Two Methods Described by Bulletin 10.
sued by Department Of Agriculture
How to Organize.

/ The new office of markets and rural
organizations has contributed to the
department Of agriculture a bulletin
on How farmers may improve their
personal credit"
The two general methods considered
are: That of temporary agreements
with existing loan agencies. agree
ments terminating with the payment
of loans. and that of permanent ar
ticles of agreement among the farmers
themselves, Oh cooperative credit as.
sociations."
Under the first method, the bulletin
presents in detail three different plans
and gives in full the legal forms to
be used in their development A spe-
cific example is given applying these
plans to the improvement of the dairy
herd and suggesting how they can be
used in cattle breeding. hog raising
and the purchase of better farm equip
ment.
The second method takes up the
cooperative credit association" II
is well known that many farmers are
industrious and progressive. but lack
the money to carry out their ideas
These men as individuals cannot OBJ
tain the credit that they could IL or
ganized into permanent associations.
This pamphlet tells how to organize
how the association is managed and
how the association helps its members.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29
ARRANGE GRADES OF COTTON
Agricultural Department Builds Up
Elaborate Systems Of Checks,
Balances and Precautions.

One of the most elaborate systems
of checks. balances and precautions
that surrounds any of the administra-
tive activities of the government has
been built up in connection with the
machinery in the department OF agrl-
culture for settling disputes as to
grades of cotton under the cotton-fu-
lures law. The department has had TO
guard carefully against the possibility
of the good faith of its agents being
questioned, and TO accomplish this has
worked out a plan that should satisfy
even the most chemically suspicious.
After the receipt of small quantities
of the fiber, agreed on by both parties,
from each bale of cotton in dispute.
the samples are carefully locked up IN
a vault until a clerk to the board OF
examiners opens the packages and ar
ranges them in readiness for examina-
ton. Each sample is marked only by
a number so that nothing can be
known of the parties to the dispute.
An examination sheet is prepared for
tdNH u4oDutC, dioO thO hbAHON'
and a statement of the contentious or
the parties to the dispute. but with
out names.
Finally the board of examiners. COM
posed of expert cotton classers. is d.
vided into squads of three men each.
the personnel of each squad being
changed daily so that no three men
constitute the same squad for two con-
secutive days. The examinations are
made by squad, its decision being the
basis for the findings by the secretary
OF agriculture. The findings have the
effect of prima facie evidence Il all
United States courts.
In the six-and-a-half months follow
ing the PRONUNCIATION of the various
standards. December Is, 1914, the dis
putes referred to the secretary OF
agriculture totaled 41S and involved
$1,000 bales of cotton. The fees as
sessed for determination of the dis
putes amounted to S13,37S.45. The de-
partment does not profit by these
fees. however. for they must be turned
into the treasury as miscellaneous re-
ceipts.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29
TELL SIZE OF COTTON CROP
Remarkable How Close People Living
in South Come in Their Guesses
Before the Picking Season.

(By JOHN J. NEWMAN. Washington.
D. c.
II is remarkable to find how close
the government comes to ascertaining
the size of the cotton crop a month or
two before the picking season and
still more remarkable how close peo-
pie living in the South come in their
guesses.
was in Georgia in Nay and asked
several cotton men about the probab bile
size of this years crop. The reply
in each case was between $4,000. 900
and 100000 bales. Later on the
United States agricultural department
estimated the crop at l2.500.000 In
July ! met a cotton man from Texas
in Washington and when | asked him
about the crop. he said II would be
slightly under 100000 bales. This
same man came within about SOC. 900
bales of calling the figures on the rec
ord-breaking crop in 19l4-two months
before the crop had matured.
am told that the decrease In the
use by fertilizer accounts more for the
falling of in this years crop than the
decreased acreage. although that
amounts to Is per cent.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29

pieces B. Eight feet square is good
size for this frame. but make 1t wider
II you can. Cut a notch In each end
of uprights A. also one in the center
of the length. Of the right width and
depth for the horizontal members b
to fit in. Then place the uprights A
upon the ground, and spike pieces B
in their notches. Before raising the
frame. buy wire netting and staples.
and cover 1t.
Have several boys raise and support
the framework on the spot 1t is to &C.
cupy. then quickly drive stakes into
the ground. and connect them and up
rights A with diagonals D. and the
ends of d and A with pieces e.
Base sacks ALMOST as good as the
best to be bought. can be made OF
eight or ten ounce cotton duck, stuffed
with excelsior Gig. g.. Fig. shows
a diagram for cutting the cloth. Use
a doubled coarse linen thread. Sew
up all but one end. tapping the edges
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29
Cotton Declared Contraband.

England has automatically settled
all controversy with this country over
her orders in council" by declaring
cotton absolute contraband Well at
least this action by the British gov
eminent definitely places the cotton
shippers on notice as to where thew
are at" and while that affords poor
consolation for the injury wrought this
great industry. the friends of the
staple will have to govern themselves
accordingly and look out for their in.
terests as best they can.-Houston
Post.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29
Man for the Farm.

The ideal hired man on the farm
is one who farms because he is in
love with the work, and who studies
the best methods of agriculture. both
by observation and books and papefs.
and who prefers the clearly. orderly
and healthy occupation of farm lite
to the squalid and disturbing infiu-
ences of the city.
The hired man who receives rom
thirty 10 forty dollars per month and
his board the year around. is better
of financially and more often be-
comes independent. than many city
workmen. whose wages are three
times as much.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29

2, using 1x2 inch Turing strips" lap
ping the ends, and reinforcing the
connections with strips of tin figs. 2
and 81. Then buy enough chicken
wire netting at the hardware store to
cover the frame.
For hanging the screens in place.
purchase a pair of hooks and pair
of screw-eyes. for each. and screw the
eyes Into the top edge of the frame.
and the hooks into the top Of the win
dow frame.
A wire covered backstop will not on
ly save you boys lots Of chasing after
passed balls" and fouls" but also
give protection to adjoining property.
Fig. shows the completed frame
work. The first portion to build is the
front frame, which consists of the two
2x4 uprights A. and three horizontal
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29

Don't stew" or the world will hand
you a hot one!
The good you do is not lost. although
you may forget il.
A lazy man is never too lazy TO
bother a busy one.
A real live farmer cannot stand
still; he must grow.
Don't be afraid to maintain all the
stock your farm will carry.
The man who is always just going
to do IL seldom gets it done.
Many a mans purse is lean because
he fails TO feed enough protein.
Pigs in clover" is a game at which
every hog should become proficient
A farm without a repair shop should
be as uncommon as thunder in Janu
airy.
Don't let the calves, colts, pigs
lambs lose their baby fat. Keep 'eIn
a humpin'!
The movable grain bin solves the
problem of farm storage in a cheap
and satisfactory way.
Cooperation is based upon conf
dence, and where confidence is lacking
cooperation must fail.
True economy consists in getting all
one can use profitably. and in using
profitably all one gets.
II a man is troubled with indiges
ton il is a waste of words to try to
convince him that the world is grow
ing better.
Sometimes a man fails to accom-
plish anything worth while because
he is too busy criticizing some other
fellows work.
The man who has so much money
he doesn't know what to do with it
would know Just what to do with it. il
he didn't have it.
Ninety millions of dollars lost to the
animal industry of this country in one
year because of the cattle tick. Too
much tick in any line of business is
Improbable.
Life on tine farm should be just
what the city man imagines 1t is
one Of real cOntentment and pleasure
one Of blissful repose. where energy
and pluck count.
Work and study to make things easy
for the women folks on the farm. And
sister. while the men folks try to save
you mental and physical work. save
yourself all you can.
Lavor-saving machinery is doing
away with most of the outdoor and
indoor drudgery on the farm. as the
up-to-date farmer is supplied with a
reasonable amount of both kinds.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29
FOR A GIRLS ROOM.

What girl would not like to own
the set of shelve. shown in Fig. !. 10
hang upon the wall in her room! the
shelf boards should be about three
fourths inch thick and ten inches
wide. by whatever length you wish
to have them Buy eight half-incn
screw-eyes and screw one into eacn
corner of each shelf: and get some
heavy wrapping-twine on which 70
string the corner spools.
The illustrations show how the
spools are strung. with a spool below
the screw-eyes of the bottom sneif.
and another above those OF the top
shelf. with knot tied upon the lower
end of the cords. and loop upon the
upper end. to hold the spools togetn'
er. The cords must be pulled tight.
and the loops tied close to the top
spools, to make the corner stth.
Every girl needs work box Ike
that shown in Fig. 3. The only car
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29

about one-half inch. and sewing with
double row of stitching. Then turn
the sack inside out. stun with excel
sior moistened to make it pack solidly.
Get a strap long enough to buckle
around the sack. and fasten this to
the sack with straps Of canvas sewed
across it Gig g.. Prepare a stake
with a staple in its top Gig u, and
drive one of these into the ground in
the proper place for each base.
Usually almost anything at all serves
the purpose Of home plate. in prairie
ball games, but II you want one Of
regulation form. make 1t as shown In
Fig. 10. Taking a square piece Of plank
Gig. ~. cut OF corners A. and notch
corners B: then cut tapered stake
to fit each notch, and nail In place as
shown in Fig. 10.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29
Vermont at least three inches long.
and West Virginia four inches long,
while California prohibits entirely the
killing of spike bucks.
SETS THEM TO THINKING
Freak Dog at st. Adams, Va, Makes
Specially Of High
Climbing.

St. Adams, Wv. l.. Plumley OF
North Clarendon has a freak dog
whose specially is climbing. The
highest climb he ever made was 32
feet. Veterinarians and others who
have examined the dogs feet are at
loss to understand how he grips
tree trunk in climbing.
His nails are like those of the or
binary dog, though possibly a trifie
more pointed, and the fieshy pads Of
his feet are perhaps a little broader.
So accustomed to height is the dog
that he sleeps in tree branches 20
feet above the ground. He is three
years old and part pug and part bull.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29
SHOD HALF.MILLlON HORSES
Indian "village" Blacksmith Retires
After Sixty Busy Years at
the Forge.

Lafayette, Ind.-Matthew McNulty.
who was at one time known as the
village blacksmith" of Lafayette. has
retired after being in the business for
nearly sixty years. He estimates that
he has shod more than a half million
horses and mules in his career.
He was a horseshoer during the
days of the Wabash & Erie canal and
had the contract for shoeing the mules
that provided the power for the boats
between Toledo and Lafayette. Nc
Nulty accumulated a fortune of $40.-
900 and says he will now retire to his
farm.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29

bed, and a roll like that shown In
Fig. is not difficult to construct. Get
two barrel hoops for the ends. and
three wooden strips onehalf inch
thick and one and one-half inches
wide with which to connect them Zig.
10). The length of the strips should
equal the width of the bed the roll
Is made for
The diameter of the hoops must b
made IL inches from outside to out
side. Remove the hoop fastenings.
turn in the ends until the right diane
ter is obtained. and renal (Figs. 3
and 81. Connect the hoops with the
strips. spacing these equidistantly
around the inside.
Two-thirds of the framework must
be covered with cardboard, the other
third Is left open. Cardboard boxes
may be used for covering material
Bend this around the framework, w.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29

penter work necessary il the fasten-
ing together Of the cover boards with
a couple of strips nailed across them
as shown In Fig 8.
The box must be covered to con-
ceal the roughness of the boards. 4
pretty figured cretonne looks well for
the outside. and a plain colored lining
is best for the inside.
Fig. shows how q cloth pocket
and elastic tapes should be tackled
to the inside of the cover; also Low
to make a spool rack by drivins nails
into the cover and slipping rubber
bands over the nail heads Zig. 81 to
keep the spools from dropping on.
A bolster roll to encase the pillow
is quite the proper thing for . girls
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29
Water-Glass EqQs.

Water-glass eggs are practically as
good as fresh eggs for EOst cooking
purposes. II il is desired to boil them
prick small hole through the large
end OF the shell before placing them
into the water. The pores OF the shell
have been sealed with the water.gIass
solution and without ttis pinhoie the
expanding air within the shell would
burst 1t.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29

George Cram, the aged man OF the
picture, is eighty-six. To see him you
would never think that he has spent
the last 25 year in Sing Sing prison
for the murder of his wife. He looks
like a man who has grown old happily.
regardless of the fact that he has
been one of the many numbered in
mates of the College on the River"
as the grim old prison is often called.
Twenty-Five years have worked mar
velous changes in his home city-New
York, and when the old man was
whisked from the little village #
Ossining, he experienced every thrill
of a visit to Wonderland. First there
was the big automobile which waited
for him at tn prison gates. There
was the swift ride halfway to the
city in the machine. Then the ride
in the electrically equipped railway
cars through the tunnel into the great
station of the New York Central, fol-
lowed by an electrically cooked dinner
arranged for him in the Herald Square
hotel.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29
PLAN TEST OF CRIMINALS
Cooperate With Berkeley Police in
Making Scientific Survey.

Berkeley, Cal.-Criminals arrested
in Berkeley hereafter will be subject
ed to a scientific survey by experts at
tached to the psychological depart
ment of the University Of California,
it was announced by Chief of Police
Vollmer.
The University psychologists have
agreed to make scientific tests of all
criminals that come under their care
for the purpose Of determining the ex-
tent of their deficiency and the rea-
son for it.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29
SURPRISE FOR MAIL CARRIER
Goes to Bed Worrying About Cost Of
Living and Wakes Up With
$4,000.

Kenosha. Wis.-Raymond More
house, a mail carrier. has Joined the
silk stocking" class. The other night
he went to bed wondering just how he
was to keep the home going under the
high cost of living.
The next morning. he received q let
ter announcing that he was heir I'll
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29
Did Not Hold on to Trouble.

Did Not Hold on 70 Trouble.
Someone remarking on the vigor
and apparent youthfulness of an &C
quaintance who had reached ad-
vanced years. received the answer:
Yes. and she's been through a good
many hard times. too. but, you see.-
she never was one to hold on to trou-
BILE" There was truth and common
sense in that homely summing up Of
the case. Troubles come to every
one. but 1t il the holding on to them
Living them over and over In regret
ful complaining, shadowing today with
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29
Found In Poorhouse.

Laurel, Miss.-Lou Grayson, a Lau-
rel negress. sixty-five years old. had
not seen her mother for fifty-two
years until she found her in the Jones
county poorhouse at Ellisville. The
old negress Is ITO years old and IL
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29
FOR CITY LOT BASEBALL.

There would be less objection to va
cant lot ball games if adjoining prop
erty owners could be relieved of their
fear of broken windows. Show an
owner this article. and call his atten-
ton to Fig. 1, that he may see exactly
what you propose to do. and it is not
likely that you will have difficulty with
him.
Make each frame to fit the window
opening. in the manner shown in Fig.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-10-29
Keen Sire's Record.

A breeding association provides its
members with a practicable way bf
keeping their good bulls until their
usefulness is past. and OF giving sew.
eral farmers the advantage of know
ing a sires record on one of their
farms without all of them doing the
experimenting.