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Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1915-03-18
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delayed from last week.
Activities are once n ore started In
S,ringtown. A few Of the population
are stirring about, and we think few
m IRE sunshiny days will bring the rest
out.
The mining industry is waking up,
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
Danger from Glaring Lights

They have been making arrests
OF motorists recently for having
headlights which are too glazing TO
be used properly within the limits
OF the city. II Is the cause OF a
great deal OF discomfort In driving
at night that there is 80 much use
of unnecessarily bright lights on the
roads. To drive against a success
sion OF such lights is TO finish the
trip with a severe headache. There
always are chances too OF being SO
daxzled as to run the risk OF going
OF the road into the ditch. Some
automobilists have hit upon q plan
Of switching of their lights when
they meet another car. That Ia.
they switch OF the big lights and
use the DINNERS or the side lights.
Those who do this find that the mo-
florists they encounter act with like
courtesy, or almost all do so. There
are. of course. cars without electric
headlights which can not. accom-.
plish this feat. but most all the cars
that have electric lighting go on the
$3.50 basis in the nonblinding act
New York Sun.
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
The Sorry of Sugar

Sugar cane was first introduced
into Sicily by the Arabs In 703.
whence 1t was taken to Africa, to
Spain, and all along the coast to
the Mediterranean sea, as well as to
the islands and borders OF the In
dian ocean. The crusaders found
extensive sugar cane plantations in
Tripoli. Mesopotamia. Syria, Anti.
och and Cyprus. and by the four.
teenth century the cane was being
cultivated in every part OF the
known world where soil and climate
were propitious.
1t came to South America by be.
ing introduced into Brazil by the
Portuguese, who brought II from
Madeira, and thence IL spread to
nearly all the other countries OF
that continent. Columbus is said to
have brought 1t TO the Island Of
Santo Domingo, whence II spread
to Mexico and Cuba. II was intro
duced into the other islands of the
West Indies az soon az they came
under European domination. The
first sugar cane came to Louisiana
by being sent TO the Jesuits from
Santo Domingo. in 1851, some Eng
lish authorities giving the date as
1877.
Science has never determined
where the sugar cane originated.
and nowhere has II been found in
its Wild state. II has been under
cultivation for many centuries. In
the sacred books OF the Hindoos.
written long before the Christian
era, there Is this reference: II have
crowned thee with shooting sugar
cane. so that thou shalt not be
averse 10 me-" In the train of
the Great. during his Ash
attic conquests. were some individ-
uals who desisted from the slaugh.
ter Of barbarians long enough to
record "a reed growing in India
which produces honey without
bees" Thus sugar was evidently
raised in that country as early as
$40 b. C.-wall Street Journal.
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
Pointed Paragraphs

Envy has torpedoed many a
friendship.
Most OF us are overloaded with
good intentions.
Many 4 chap with moral dyspepsia
thinks he has religion.
Sometimes patient, gentle.
goQd-natured man Is merely lazy.
A ripe old age is sometimes as
agreeable as a green persimmon.
And most people are willing TO do
you q favor-when you don't need II.
Trying to be funny has made a
big dent in many a mans bank bal
ance.
A woman has faith In her husband
because she would be unhappier IL
she didn't have.
The more girls photograph
doesn't look like her. the more she
tries 10 believe 1t does.
The wife OF a farmer never takes
her eyes of the scales when she Is
selling butter to peddler.
Probably one of the easiest ways
for a man TO get a wife Is TO boast
that he Is a confirmed woman hater.
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
Using Up a
Yard of Ticket
COUPON 2

A denominational special pulls
out OF the Union station for the
coast on the next track. Must be
Unitarian. Another and another
section follows. You're right: Uni
versalist.
At Elgin, Ill, W. T. Radcliffe was
much interested in surveying the
great plant where all the watches
he turned back an hour in Detroit,
come from.
Conductor puts two holes in the
wrong end OF the yard OF ticket
thereby cancelling side trip Los An.
geles to San Diego. You can over
do this gospel Of punch.
The difference between the De-
troit city hall and seeing the Mis-
souri, river when you awake, is that
you get your Council Bluffs In the
morning.
But you don't cross the bridge
over the Mdy. Mo. even when you
get TO II. The Union Pacific put 1t
up before the days OF prodigious en-
gines and mile-long trains. aRd one
at a time Is the rule. SO we have
TO wait until the Universalists prove
they have the creed that carries
them over.
In the Omaha yards the depot mas
ter shows that he is concerned In
knowing and doing one thing well
when he declares all the tracks are
full OF these here university spe-
Gals"
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
A Pair of buffers

During camp parade OF the buglers
OF an English regiment the other
day an Irish corporal was in charge.
He was asked by the c. o. II all the
buglers were present, when he re-
piled:
mo, SOFT; one man absent"
We'll, them" said the c. o., go
and find him. and ask what he has
TO say for himself"
A few minutes later Pat came run
ming back, and shouted: "Shure.
SOFT, and weren't we a pair OF duff
fers not TO know IL? II was meself.
Bedad, sorr. OF forgot 10 call me
own name entoirely, sorr."-Top
Notch.
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
A Poem q Day.


WV
We know not what Il T., dear. this
The folded hands. the awful calm.
the cheek so pale and chill:
The lids that will not lift again.
though we may call and call:
The strange, white solitude Of peace
that settles over oil.
We know not what IL means, dear.
this desolate heart pain.
This dread to take our daily way. and
walk In IL again;
:. the loved who leave us go.
Nor why were left to wonder still,
nor why We do not know.
But this We know; our loved and
dead. IL they should come this
Should come and ask us, what Is
lifer' not one OF Va could say.
Life u mystery as deep as ever death
can be-
Yet. oh. how dear II Is TO us, this life
we live and see!
Then might they say--these vanished
ones-and blessed Is the thought
so death lis sweet to US, beloved;
though we may show you naught:
We may not to the quick reveal the
:. mystery OF death,
mystery Of breath"
The child who enters life comes not
with knowledge or intent.
So all who enter death must go rs
little children sent.
IL known. But nearing God.
what has the soul TO dread.
And as life IL to the living, SO death
10 to the dead.
Mary Mapes Dodge.
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
THE KEEP WELL COLUMN

then rtnsed with scalding water. The
drainage pipes should be kept free
from slime. Where a rubber tube
Is used TO carry of the waste water
this can be boiled without damaging
II.
Economy and health will both be
served by placing the drinking water
in a receptacle next 10 the ice. This
will bring IL TO as low a temperature
as Is healthful.
Iced drinks interfere with diges-
ton and are a menace TO health.
They often arrest digestion and not
infrequently produce death. Red
meats should never be frozen or
placed in contact with ice.
Stinulants such as tea and coffee
are best avoided during the evening
by those who do not sleep well.
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28

has shown that it Is likely to result in
failure.
What we need is simplicity in our law
and flexibility in our government; power
to do as we please, as intelligent citizens
without let or hindrance from outside
and small efficient body of men entrust-
ed with this power. and responsible di-
rectly to the people.
Then, and only then, shall we have
good government.
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
A DULL DAY
~ On. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. By Frank Crane)

The sun may be shining when YOU
read this, but it was a dull daay when
it was written.
The sky is an ugly, drab smudge.
There Is no sun, no rain, no wind,
nothing.
Across the street is house. II is a
stupid house, full of stupid people.
know them. / wish / didn't. There are
many people you are sorry to have met.
It's too close to have q fire and too
cold to do without one. Is anything
follower and drearier than a fireless
fireplace?
bird is on tree outdoors. He is
not singing. His head is all drawn down
into his shoulders. He is just sitting
there hating himself.
A number of people have passed by the
window. They are the dullest, homeliest
bunch of human creatures l ever saw.
hate them all.
A crash-the hired girl has just
smashed one of our best plates, an
extra fine Sunday plate with gold on it.
The only reason don't go out and give
her dressing down is because hate to
move.
Why move? Such day as this you
are no happier anywhere than where you
are. If you must be miserable, why
spread it around?
Old Mrs. Grumpet has just called. She
has told the missus for the nth time
about her troubles. She has all the
diseases she ever heard Of. As soon as
she hears of new one she goes and
has it. She has more symptoms than
patent medicine almanac. And it's all
along of that blue mass she took just
before Austey was born. She's dread
full, vast, steamy creature.
She has left an aroma OF added
wretchedness in the house. We opened
the window to admit some fresh air,
and the flies came in. loathe flies.
I chased them with fly-swatter and
broke an extensive vase. All vases must
some day be shattered, as all men must
die.
All women must die, too. and all chill
dren. also all dogs, cats, horses, cows,
and grizzly bears. hundred years from now
everybody and everything will be dead. There
will be a new crop. After awhile they. TOO VIII
die What's the use?
The gas stove Is out OF Tx THIS morning. @o
am / So Is the universe.
There is no news In the paper. Newspaper
are all poor. So are magazines and books. why
read? Aren't you miserable enough as you are
am trying to have vacation and enjoy my
self This morning played game or tennis
and was beaten by poor boob that played
worse than l. Then ! play two games OF soil
taire. Lost both.
| went to the cupboard 10 see. Notnihs
there but grape Juice.
The weather is thickening. 1t is going to rain
1t is hours and hours till bedtime.
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
From Another Point of Vie,D
BY c. 7. 8.

We want to suggest to the investi-
gators that even though they may have
ascertained the Eastland was stuck in
the mud, they haven't gone to the bottom
of it.
Golf is recommended as a cure for in
sanity Which will explain a whole lot,
no doubt, for the average caddy.
What's become Of the old-fashioned
fellow who liked to 6e~y. it RAIN
Played the new auto game: Conger
says tops down; tops up.
A Detroit suicide was found to have
1918 in his pockets. Riches probably
had become burden.
We do not know whether the war has
anything to do with this weather, but.
honestly, we couldn't blame it if it did
not.
Those deponents in the Becker case
never seem to reach the stage of further
saying not.
Bourke Cochran. we note, has not vet
bolted Becker's side.
Probably rain.
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28

temperature to prevent 1t from be-
coming a poison.
For the proper care Of food during
the hot weather cleanliness OF the
vessels and ice box Is essential.
The box should be cleaned thor.
oughly at frequent and regular inter
walls. The interior should be washed
FIRST with cold water and soap and
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
Without Legs

His little granddaughter came be-
fore him. her face wreathed in
smiles. and said: Grandpa. saw
something running across the kitch-
en- floor this morning without any
legs. What do you think it was?"
He studied for a while. but finally.
What was IL" he asked.
Water" answered the little lady
riumphantly.- Notch.
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
He Struggled Hard

Benevolent Old Lady-Dfd you
struggle against the consequences Of
temptation?
Prisoner-Sure 7 did.
p. o. L-Ah. but you should have
fought little harder. n you had
fought q little harder. you wouldn't
be In jail now.
Prisoner done the best I could.
Teddy. II took seven cops to get me
to the station.
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
Warned

They--the two-were sitting on
the rustic seat In the arbor. He had
been wondering II he dared. Even
the moon had begun TO pay atten-
tion. Just then the young enamored
edged up closer.
BE careful. Mr.. Jones'" said the
football girl. II will have to penal.
Ire you three feet for holding
Puck.
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28

OKXV KI4ruts w HNI Y
there are infants
and young chill
dren In the family
the proper care Of
the milk requires
ice In order that
II may be kept at
Q sum GENTLY low
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28

If simpler living could be built into
the ideals of people there would be
more happiness and less crime.
The simple life" cult which had it's
run about ten years ago, is not the
thing.
People cannot change in a minute, and
if they attempt to live in a cottage on
the outskirts, after being accustomed to
steam-heated flat, life becomes for
them, not simpler, but more complicated.
What would be sound foundation for
simpler living would begin with the edu-
cation of children.
They would not be surrounded from
their earliest recollections with confu-
sion of things and a strenuous atmos-
phere of rush and hurry.
They would have quiet, peaceful life
with peor,e about them who had time
to answer their questions and attend to
their wants.
They would not be whisked about in
automobiles from the age of one month
on. nor hear the constant ringing of tel
ephones and electric bells.
They would eat simple food and wear
simple clothes and be out Of doors most
of the time.
When they were three or four years
old, they would not be introduced to the
modern methods of diversion, they would
need no diversion beyond bigger pile
of sand with which to make more elabor-
ate castles.
They would have a beautiful fairy
story told to them at night and fall
peacefully asleep.
The children of today are feeling the
pressure of the times.
They are even developing nerves"
At its root this pressure is the mad
endeavor of the minority to pile up mon
ey and the awful necessity Of the ma
jority to get enough to keep their heads
above water.
The adjustment is so bad that this
condition is growing worse yearly. and
by all natural processes, must end in
disaster.
Go through the Polish sections of the
city and you see thrift, content and
seeming prosperity.
No one is striving to keep up with
someone else, but is satisfied to add a
little to his own small bank account.
He can get along without the super
fluities of life, as his grandfathers did
and never miss them.
Not so the American.
He must have everything there is,
though he mortgages his home for 1t.
The spectacle of young mother steal
ing that her baby may have pretty
things to wear, is only an indication OF
the power of the trend of the times over
those without much moral stamina.
Had she been away from all this
artificial display, her baby would have
looked beautiful to her in the plainest
slip she could make with her own hands.
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
The Family Skeleton

Grandson--well. Grandpop. I've
discovered that we are descended
from q foreign nobleman.
Grandpa Hardscrable--Wal. p'raps
we're right. Jimmy--but tn familys
bin respectable ever since kin re-
member!-Puck.
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
Let the People
Rule-and Write
eIames Corrupt Politics for the
Eastland Disaster.
70 the Editor Of 7Ae Times:

70 the Editor Of 7Ae Times:
The Eastland horror clearly dem
opstrates that the supposed protect
ors Of the people who are paid big
salaries for no other purpose than
TO restrain greedy carriers from
jeopardizing our lives, are either In
efficient of corrupt
More than likely these political
appointees compare favorably with
the men whom the gang politician
OF Detroit recommend and had ap-
pointed as inspectors In the dairy
and food department for Wayne
county. When James Helme at
tempted to purge his department OF
these men he met stubborn resist
ance, and because Of his activity In
prosecuting them Heime was made
out to be very undesirable once
holder, and the Wayne county repre-
sentatives in both house and senate
together with those Of their kind
from other parts OF the state did all
In their power to put Helme out OF
once.
The average politician cannot toll
crate men in ONCE who do honest
service.
Every life lost on the Eastland
can be directly charged to corrupt
politicians.
have been connected with Jack
son state prison nearly i've years
and have general acquaintance
with It's inmates. also know some
politicians. and I want to confess
the better know the workings Of
some politicians, the more respect I
have for large number OF the In
mates Of Jackson prison.
When the public understands that
its political AFFAIRS must be in
charge Of honest, Conscientious
fearless men In order TO protect
lives. homes. and morals, II may
awake and take q hand.
The Chicago Federation OF Labor
should be commended for action
taken over q year ago calling atten-
ton TO q state Of Affairs which Ger.
tainly invited this disaster.
EDWARD FRENSDORF.
Hudson, Mich. July rs. 1915.
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
Simpler Living Is One and
Only Cue to Prettier Babies

A headline in Detroit newspaper
reads:
WOMAN STEALS TO KEEP HER
BABY LOOKING PRETTY"
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
Home Rule and Freedom
From Outsiders, Detroit's Need

What Detroit needs, above all else, i!
e.sreater measure of home rule.
The city should have power to reg.
" u1ate it, own affairs, regardless Of the
s State legislature and constant interfer.
Gnce on the part of courts.
Many events Of recent happenings
have shown the city is hampered and
I hindered on every side by constitution
drawn with too little regard for thick
N-settled community, and laws passed by
q legislature which has as little regard
for the states principal city as if that
city were doing the state an injury by
L existing within it's borders.
Detroit citizens have just learned
that they have been spending money on
\ their art museum for many years with
/ ut legal right
NJ They learned, few days before, that
they cannot enforce the protection of
grade crossings within their own bound
G1ies.
The state has taken from the city, for
nxati0n purposes, first the railroad
Eppsrties within its limits, and now the
automobiles. returning to the municipal
SSl lsss than its proportional share of
49, taxes.
What folly it II to hold that city of
n ~ eise and the intelligence of Detroit
puA not have complete authority to do
4 4 p1sases with it, own property
Why should citizen Of Muskegon, or
|S oharman in far-o6 Ontonagon county,
6om anything to say about how Detroit
hau spend its money!
Why should Detroit, manufacturing
ntsr, have hand in the government
~ fruit-raising Grand Traverse county,
~ mining Keweenaw?
The problems Of a large city are
& neither understood nor sympathized
Nth BY rural community.
New York city is FESTIVE under the
control Of New York state; Philadelphia
md Pittsburgh are angry at the domino
\ don Of Pennsylvania; st. Louis cannot
bide the rule of Missouri; every two
#yterss the cities of Ohio engage in a
d legislative battle with the rural commu-
~.
The problem of the cities is how to Sc
" eure for themselves the power which the
\ people outside the cities WELD over them !:
\ power which it is as illogical for them to
& have Is for the common council of Tim
uctoo, if there is one, to dictate when
President Navin shall start his ball
ganes.
To prohibit Detroit from supporting
B ~ quasi-public art museum may be a
treat legal victory-but what good does
u e do7
Detroit will continue to enjoy its mu-
heum some way will be found, some legal
way will be discovered, by which the
citizens viii be authorized to spend mon
I ~ on their own property.
All that will be gained will be COM
puance with an intricate mass of law
4 which, designed as a protection, is a
h hlndrmce and nuisance.
Y vi It h as If man built labyrinth to
,1onard treasure at its center, and daily
Ut lost in the mazes Of his own contri-
L snes.
Detroit, with 650,OOO people, is larger
! ~ - Of the states.
- y community without likeness
b = Michigan, and II should not be treated
~ other Michigan community.
N 6htless, under the law the Detroit
G>pt my b amended to secure the
cf powers for the citizens, but this is
ne prccedurs. and experience
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
Two Pertinent Questions.

Two Pertinent Questions.
To the Editor of The Times:
Do you know that Belle Isle II
not as big as Detroit? Also, that
there are more people In the streets
OF Detroit than on Belle Isle? Then
why are there on Belle Isle several
fine comfort stations and In the city
only one without q bit Of air!
Why does the city Of Detroit have
only one unsanitary. dangerous pub
lie bath house? Do not the on
Gals know that there Is not Q city
in the United States with a popula.
ton like Detroit without a few big
bath houses? Can anybody give an
answer to my questions?
MORRIS GREEN.
No go watson-st, July rs, 1915.
The Detroit times., 1915-07-28
TIE ICE BOX

The Ice box is q necessity In hot
for the preservation OF milk
The Ketchikan miner., 1915-07-08
From Page One

Bills for the current exrences of the Town for the month of June were read and warrants ordered drawn for same.
 \ communication was read from Judge Jennings stating that he plan ned visit to Ketchikan for the pur- pose of looking over the saloon license question, and same was filed.
 A letter was read from insurance company representatives calling the attention of the town to the fact that several places in the town are using fuel oil from tanks which do not conform with the requirements of the board of underwriters, and re- questing that ordinances be enacted by the Council requiring them to be brought into compliance there with.
 The bond of the NJ. X NJ. Bank as Town Treasurer was read and ap, proved. and warrant ordered drawn ioA tnC AuAtUAt VI tuS NiAASA is $125.Oo. The company guarantee ing the bond is tine National Surety Co.
 The Town Clerk was instructed to secure the services of M. A. Mitch ell to make the extension of the town tax roll for this year.
 X petition was read, signed by the owners of two-thirds of the property on Main street between Dock and Grant. asking for the improvement of the street, and the matter was re- ferred to the Street Committee with instructions to get everything in shane tn push the Improvements through ard reror, el the nevt meeting of the council.
 r -~'.sa'n.s scnf gsss as r. str to e,si, T euvnfify of fopr, six an4 ei~ht ,~eh earereta sewer ei, Tho intsatien af the council is to e-i're'.t with the aiaht iref si7 see f i' is saitalle for ri'- irg e~,s. - e44i'inp ta tfe pl ' s instructed to lav ia 3 sar- nly # vvcs, 10th for the fipe nc on and and for the concrete piee.
The Ketchikan miner., 1915-07-08

the Poodle Dog, during the recent to tell of two occurrences which had come under his notice of open and flag rant violations of the law. One an assault on a native woman by Il white man, part of which was wit messed by member of the local United States Marshal's s staff; and the other. the selling of intoxicants by an cx-saloon keeper who had not taken the trouble to renew his license, and who is credited with having made tho boast that he cam make more money selling liquor without a license than with one, who had been seen in the act by deputy marshal, but no action had been taken in either in stance by the marshal s office. Neith- CT of these crimes came under the Town E jurisdiction the Mayor said, 50 it was clearly q lack of interest on the part of the marshall who would not take any action unless some one swere to a complaint, not withstanding the fact that he had personally witnessed both oeeurronc- es. Other members of the Council a greed with him, and the local police were instructed to see that the law was observed both inside and outside he saloons. 1
 And then, after getting that ou, of their systems, the councilmen, the areater number of whom voted
 wet ' went home