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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-02-25

ashamed OF or that other girls don't
do every day In the week; only our
pleasures always have to be taken be
hind fathers back It's only me that's
ever wrong. anyway, for you are al
ways an angel. It's a burning shame,
and you only twenty one yourself. I'll
pierce your ears II you say 50 and let
you wear your own coral drops"
"No, Patty! I've outgrown those long
ings years ago. When your mother
died and left father and you and the
house to me my girlhOOd died, too,
though was only fourteen"
ut was only your inside girlhood
that died" insisted Patty stoutly.
''The outside is as fresh as the paint
on Uncle Barty's new ell. You've got
the lOveliest eyes and hair in River
bOro, and you know Il; besides, Ivory
BOynton would tell you so II you didn't
Come and bore my ears, there's a dar-
lingr'
Ivory BoyntOn never speaks word
OF my looks nor word that father
and all the world mlghtn't hear" And
Waitstill flushed
Then it's because he's shy and silent
and has so many troubles OF his own
that he doesn't dare say anything
When my hair Is once up aud the coral
pendants are swinging Ia my ears
shall expect to hear something about
my looks. l can tell you. Waity. after
all. though We never have what we
want TO eat aud never decent dress
to our backs. nor young man TO cross
the threshold. wouldn't change places
with Ivory BOynton. would your Here
Patty swept the hearth vigorously with
a turkey wing and added few corn
cobs TO the fire.
Waitstill paused moment In her
task OF bread kneadlng. WELL" she
answered critically. "at least we know
where our fathsr Is"
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-02-25
JUST A RACIAL REGULARITY
Theory That left.Hsnded People Arc
Mentally Inferior Has Been
Proved to 6e Wrong.

For ages the belief has prevailed
that left.handed persons are physical
~ and mentally inferior. This belief
has persisted In face OF the fact that
not a few great men. including among
others Leonardo da vinci. have been
left.handed.
German scientists. however. declare
there Is absolutely no evidence to sup
port the theory that some relation
exists between left-handedness and
mental or physical defects II is a
racial or family popularity which Is
found among animals as we'll as hui
man beings.
Left.handedness Ia often left-sided-
ness. the entire side OF the body show
ing evidences OF a greater develop
ment on that side In the brutes the
preponderance Of one or the other
half OF the body may vary according
TO race. Thus the gibbon and ourang-
outang are as rule right.handed:
the gorilla and chimpanzee left
handed.
In the Germany army seven recruits
In every hundred are left.handed:
among the school children the per-
centage Is slightly higher. These fig-
urcs, however. are very deceptive. for
many persons who are born left
handed later become righthanded.
The number so born in Germany Is
estimated at 20 per cent.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-02-25

inc TIIdThing NJ: 80 -.-s.es .ar an
hour or two. Just once; II you say
yes can think Of something wonder.
ful to do"
What Is it, asked Waltstill. relent-
Ing at the sight Of the girls eager.
rOguiSh face
Pierce my ears cried Patty. Say
you win"
"Oh. Patty. Pity. am afraid you
are given over 10 vanity, ! daren't let
you wear eardrops without fathers
permission
"why not? Lots Of church members
wear them. NJ II can't be- a mortal sin
Father Is against all adornments, but
that's because be doesn't want TO buy
them You've always said | should
have your mothers coral pendants
when | was old enough. Here ] am.
seventeen today. and Dr. Perry says
am already a well favored young wo-
man. can pull my hair over my ears
for few days. aud when the holes are
all made and healed even father can
not make me OH them up again. Be
sides, I'll never wear the earrings at
homer
"oh. my dear. my dear" sighed
waitstill. with a half sob In her voice.
"lf only ! was wise enough 10 know
how we could keep from these little
deceits. yet have any liberty OF com
fort In life"'
I'VE can't. The Lord couldn't expect
us to bear all we bear" exclaimed
Patty. without our trying once in a
while 10 have a good time In our own
way. We never do thing that we are
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-02-25


We do indeed We also know that
he II thoroughly alive"
And. though people do talk about
him. they can't say the things they say
OF Master Aaron Boyhton. ] don't be
lleve father would ever run away and
desert u.s."
II fear not" said Patty. 81 wish the
angels would put the idea into his
head. though. Of course. II wouldn't be
the angels They'd he above II. II
would have TO he the odd driver, as
Jed Morrill, calls the evil one. But
whoever did II the result would be the
snme-we should be deserted and live
happily ever after. oh. to be deserted
and left with you alone on this hill
Ton what iov N would har'
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-02-25
Scene Before the Mirror.

What these Jungle ladies lack In
clothing they make up In hair adorn-
ment. Some styles are pleasing while
others are very grotesque. Their hair
combs are made OF very tough wood,
and they need to be tough. for one OF
the feminine customs is to put gum
all through their hair to keep 1t In
place. A very strong comb is needed
TO get It apart. but the women con.
trive somehow to do IL; and as time 10
not money In Africa. they are never
in a hurry. One Is not surprised to
learn that sometimes II takes a wom-
an a week to have her hair properly
arranged.-The Christian Herald.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-02-25
ONLY THE CAPTAINS BOOTS
Households Advance on Supposed
Burglar Came TO an End In
FIT OF Laughter.

The rambling old house where Cap
tain Fields and his unmarried daugh-
ter, Martha. lived stood back from
the road half a mile. fianked on every
side by the captains broad acres.
II happened one morning in early
spring when the captain had mar
shaded all available help from the
neighborhood and had two hired men
besides to help get his corn ground
ready and the seed planted early.
Martha had been busy since morn
ing arranging for big dinner In the
old southern fashion. About ten
o'clock she left the dinner cooking
on the big range and went upstairs to
make the beds. but came flying down
with pallid face and called In stage
whispers TO the girl. Go ring the big
dinner bell for the men. There Is n
burglar upstairs under daddy's bed.
BE quick and then come to me.
The girl did as she was hidden and
Martha stood at the exit to the stair
way. ready to defend with her life II
need be. but prevent his escape she
must.
The men from the fields came
mounted on the horses with harness
jingling. supposlng that the house
must be on fire or some such dire
disaster threatened. When told that
a man was under the bed upstairs
they determined to make short work
OF him and marched up. throwing mis-
siles and shouting. &C me out" but
the burglar refused to ,dge.
Then some one moved the comforter
back and exposed a pair OF the cap
tain's Sunday boots.-Chicago Trib-
une.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-02-25
cHAPTE ..
The Sisters.

THAR, far up in the bosom Of New
Hampshire's granite hills the
Saco has its birth. As the
mountain rill gathers strength
It takes
Through Bartlett's wales its tuneful way.
Or hides in Conway's fragrant brakes
Retreating from the glare Of day
Now 1t leaves the mountains and flows
through green Fryeburgs woods and
farms" In the course of its frequent
turns and twists and bends 1t meets
fuller and stronger along its rejoicing
way. When 1t has journeyed more
than 100 miles and is nearing the ocean
II greets the Great Ossipee river and
accepts it's crystal tribute. Then in its
turn the Little Ossipee joins forces
and the river. now splendid stream.
flows onward to Bonny Eagle. to Mod
Grafton and TO Salmon falls. where II
dashes over the dam like a young
Niagara and hurtles in foamy torrent
through the ragged detile cut between
lofty banks of solid rock.
Widening out placidly for a moments
rest In the sunny reaches near Pleas
ant point It gathers itself for a new
plunge at Union falls, after which 1t
speedily merges itself In the bay aud Is
fresh water no more.
At one of the falls on the Saco the
two little hamlets OF Edgewood and
Riverboro nestle together at the bridge
and make one village. The stream Is a
wonder OF beauty just here, a mirror
OF placid loneliness above the dam, a
tawny, roaring wonder at the fall and
a mad, white 1ecked torrent as II
dashes on Its way to the ocean.
The river has seen strange sights In
its time. though the history of these
two tiny villages Is quite unknown 10
the great world outside. They have
been born. waxed strong and fallen
almost 10 decay while Saco water has
tumbled over the rocks and spent itself
IN Its impetuOus journey to the sea.
1t remembers the yellow moccasined
sokokls as they issued from the Indian
Cellar and carried their birchen canoes
along the wooded shore. II was In
those years that the silver skinned sal
mon leaped In its crystal depths. the
otter and the beaver crept with sleek
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-02-25
PROLOGUE.

Strength and interest of quiet
lives in the New England of
three quarters of century ago
provide the framework of The
Story of WaifsfiH Baxter. That
is the skeleton. The flesh and
blood of human beings, living
and loving and moving in a world
of their own that is a miniature
picture of the greater world ouf-
side, are also there. The story
Is a cross section of life as seen
and described by woman who
has been well called Americas
greatest living woman novelist /"
Amid the hills of New Engiand
are many men and women like
WoifsfiH and Patience Baxter
and their father, Ivory Boynfon
and his afflicted mother and
funny Cephas Cole, who woos
hopefully. but with small chance
of success. They find their way
into books but seldom, for it
takes a master hand TO describe
faithfully the doings of real
people. And that is the reason
why The Story of WaitsfiH
Baxter" has won highest praise
from critics who know good
book when they see one.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
SYRUP OF FIGS FOR
A CH|LD'S BOWELS
It is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose" mother insisted
on - castor oil. calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them. how you fought
against taking them
With our children its different
Mothers who cling to the old form Of
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt is well-found-
ed Their tender little "insides' are
injured by them.
II your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious California Syrup of Figs" Its
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
Of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take 1t; that 1t never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach, and that teaspoonfuI
given today saves sick child tomor-
row.
Ask at the store for 50-cent bottle
of California Syrup OF Figs" which
has full directions for babies. children
Of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. ADV.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
A New Cure.

A bedpost has not generally been
regarded so much as an eye-opener as
an eye-shutter, but If a story that
comes from Boston is true-and what
story from Boston was ever untrue?--
our oculists should go to school to the
landmarks of Morpheus. Mr.. Frank
H. Hayes, who has been stone blind
for nine years, so the tale runs, struck
his head violently against the bedpost
on arising, and was astounded few
minutes afterward to find that his
sight had been entirely restored We
do not know whether the virtue OF this
cure lay in the bedpost or in the fact
that 1t was Boston bedpost, but If 1t
was really effected in this way there
would seem to be good deal in such
inanimate objects not heretofore
dreamed of in the philosophy of OPP
tics. One of the morals of this mod
ern miracle would seem to be that
knocking is sometimes a very effica-
cious process, and that the only way to
make some folks see things is by
knocking them into their heads.-Bal-
timore Sun.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
WANTED TO CONTINUE GAME
Secretary Lane Couldn't Understand
Defeat in Golf While He Had
Clubs to Play.

Josephus Daniels, secretary OF the
navy, was invited the other day to
90 out and play golf
4 can't play it," said Daniels; Il
made up my mind some time ago not
to go in for golf until they change
the rules"
How do you mean?"
We'll. until they change the rules
and make it as good a game as
shiny"
That recalls the tale they tell about
the time Franklin X. Lane, now sec.
rotary of the interior, first undertook
the mastery of golf.
Two enthusiasts over the game lent
a large set of clubs to Lane and they
played round. When they had
reached the last hole Lane walked
over to the nearest teeing place and
began attempts to drive of with each
club in his sack, one after another.
The games all over" they ex-
planned, gently.
We'll" asked Lane, picking up an.
other kind Of club, cant I play my
hand outT'-New York Sun.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29

fore. It got into the bodies OF babias
Of only ten months old or less, and
1t made them unable to move their
hands and feet. or to eat, r anything:
and the bacteriologists were eleven
years in discovering how to kill that
particular germ and save the babies.
I'm spite of all these diseases, and
Of all the new ones that continued to
arise, there were more and more men
in the world. This was because Il
was easy to get food. The easier 1t
was to get food the more men there
were; the more men there were, the
more thickly were they packed to-
gether on the earth; and the more
thickly they were packed, the more
new kinds Of germs became diseases.
There were warnings. Soldervetzsky,
as early as 1929, told the bacteriolo-
gists that they had no guaranty against
some new disease, a thousand times
more deadly than any they knew,
arising and killing by he hundreds
of millions and even by the billion"
1t was at this point that Hare-Lip
rose to his feet. an expression of huge
contempt on his face.
"Granser," he announced, you
make me sick with your gable. Why
don't you tell about the Red Death?
If you amt going to. say SO, an wen
start back for camp"
The old man looked at him and
silently began to cry. The weak tears
of age rolled down his cheeks, and all
the feebleness of his eighty-seven
years showed in his griefstricken
countenance.
ITO BE coNTINUED)
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
The conqueror's Return.

Mr.. Mouatt, born tired, also father
OF large family, spent most of his
married life in bed, while Mrs Mouatt
worked in the glass factory, just to
keep things moving. One morning Mr..
Mouatt became impregnated with the
large idea Of getting out of bed at last
and offering his services to his coun-
try. On calling at Mrs Mouatt's one
day last week lady found her in
tears.
why, Mrs, Mouatt, what is the mat.
ter? Has your husband been wound
ed?"
mo, miss. cloud sniffles)
We'll. dear me! l hope he has not
been killed."
"Oh, it's worse than that, miss! Els
coming 'ome!"-Judge.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
AT THE GOLF CLUB PHONE
Line of Talk Handed Out Would Bring
Blush to the Cheek Of Old
Ananias.

This you, dearie"
"How's everything? Riddles all
right?"
That's good What?"
mo, I'm still at the golf club; Just
finished IS holes, Dearie-"
That's why | called you up? Some
of the boys
Now. dearie. listen. They want
me-
Just a minute, dearie. ] know I
promised I'd come home for dinner
and spend the afternoon with you. but
three of the men here want me to
stay over and play a foursome this
afternoon with them. 1t will probably
be the last chance I'll have to pl"y
with them this year."
but that won't matter. We can 90
there any Sunday afternoon during
the winter. You know we didn't
promise definitely to call on them to-
day."
Nov, dearie--"
II know / did, and If you insist
I'll"
"of course don't want to spoil any
arrangements you have made for the
afternoon and evening, but SO long as
you have nothing special that must
be done, Thought you wouldn't mind
just this once il stayed"
Yes, indeed / will I'll get the
alter tickets for tomorrow night. oh,
yes, Ill be home early, dear, know
that. I'm sorry. wouldn't stay II
it weren't for the other fellows; it
will break up their game If don't.
Remember, tomorrow night we go to
the theater."
And behind him all the time is a
line of anywhere from five to fourteen
golfers waiting to spring the same
line of soft talk on their wives. The
telephone girl who looks after golf
clubs services on Sunday moons hears
a fine line of domestic bunk.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
His Only Promise.

A promise to his wife to stay at
home more at night and to prepare
for the next world was the only
pledge made by Max M. Mulberry, de.
feated candidate for congress from
the First Kentucky district.
Hunberry's report filed recently in
Washington showed he neither re-
ceived nor spent cent.
1.-THE only promise / made to any
human being during the whole OF
my campaign" read the affidavit, was
to my wife. did promise her l would
be with her at least as much or more
after the election than had prior
thereto, and did give her little
friendly advice, which was this: That
we both pray earnestly to get to
heaven, as there was absolutely no
danger of us having to go to Wash
ington. Utica Globe.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
Fiction rFLJE TINIEC, Travel
- STORY PAGE
Adventure -

belong to the tribe of Santa Rosans
] married into that tribe. NY sons
and daughters married into the Chauf
feurs, the Sacramentos, and the Pal ,
Altos. You. Hare-Lip, are of the
Chauffeurs. You, Edwin, arc OF the
Sacramentos. And you. Hoo-Hoo, are
of the Palo-Altos. Your tribe takes
its name from a town that was near
the seat OF another great institution
OF learning. 1t was called Stanford
university. Yes, remember now. II
is perfectly clear. l was telling you
OF the Scarlet Death. Where was
in my story?"
You was telling about germs, the
things you can't see, but which make
men SICK" Edwin prompted.
Yes, that's where | was. A man
did not notice at first when only few
of these germs got into his body.
But each germ broke in halt and be-
came two germs, and they kept doing
this very rapidly SO that in short
time there were many mill.cns of
them in the body. Then the man was
sick. He had disease, and the dis
ease was named after the kind of a
germ that was in him. 1t might be
measles, it might be influenza it
might be yellow fever; It might be
any of thousands and thousands of
kinds of disease.
Now, this is the stranl thing
about these germs. There were al.
ways new ones coming to live IN
mems bodies. Long and long and long
ago, when there we're only few
men in the world, there wer2 few dis
eases. But as men increased and
lived closely together in gree. cities
and civilizations, new diseases arose,
new kinds of germs enter their
bodies. Thus we're countless millions
and billions of human beings killed.
And the more thickly men packed to-
gether, the more terrible were the
new diseases that came to be. Long
before my time, in the middle ages,
there was the black .Iague that
swept across Europe. 1t swept across
Europe NAL times. There was
tuberculosis, that entered into men
wherever they were thickly packed.
A hundred years before my time
there was the bubonic plague. And
in Africa was the sleeping sickness.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
an the Realnnlna.n

Say, ADAM" remarked Eve at the
breakfast table, al need new gown.
What kind shall | get?"
ooh. don't bother me-" growled
Adam, who was trying to peruse the
morning paper. Il don't care a fig
what kind you get. But as it's the
first Of the year, perhaps it would be
just as well to turn over a new leaf"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
Khaki for the Navy.

Navel medical authorities, after ex-
perience gained in naval operations at
Vera Cruz, are of the opinion that
white clothing, particularly white
hats, are too easily penetrated by the
suns rays and are therefore insult
able for use in the tropics. 1t is rec
commended that only Khaki or forestry
neutral clothing be supplied to the
navy for landing parties.-The Path
finder.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
Return of the Walnut.

The wood of our fathers, the good
old black walnut" that was reckoned
the supreme cabinet material of so
years ago, has come back. True. they
call 1t American walnut" now, and
give it a shiny finish and try to hide
the deep, purplish brown which is the
true glory of the stuff; but it is the
same old wood in spite of all May it
soon get back its ancient name and
more than its ancient popularity.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
Their PASTORS Faults.

Warden-So you got rid of your pas
tor?
Elder-Yes; he was a good man, but
he was too dry in his preaching-al
ways giving us history of the Jews
But we don't like our new pastor
much, either
Warden-What's the matter with
him?
Elder-Well, he breaches with tears
in his voice all the time.
Warden-I see. The old pastor was
to historical. and the new one too
hysterical
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
Poor poooyl

Say, mister, will you give me five
cents?"
What for?"
Il want to buy loaf of bread for
my starving family"
"oh, certainly, in that case. Here's
your nickel"
Thank you. sir. Now, IL 1t isn't
asking too much, will you give me a
dime more?"
What for?"
81 want to buy some meat for my
dog"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
Rinnest Zoo HORNS

The largest fog signals now made
use Of are supplied with horns 80 feet
long and their blasts are so power
full that they can be heard from TWEEN.
ty-ive to thirty miles at sea. They
are generally operated by compressed
air, the generator being driven by
a gasoline engine of about twenty
five horsepower.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
Solved

Professor Crouch has at last solved
the problem of abolishing distress in
the world"
Whats his scheme?"
TO starve the poor off the face Of
the earth"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
Two Thlnus Went Tonethcr.

An eccentric clergyman was once
told by a parishioner that he was a
very odd man. YES" the clergyman,
replied. Il set out to be a very good
man, and soon found that could not
be very good without being very oddi"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
SYNOPSIS.

In California valley an old man, one
OF the Jew survivors OF a world wide
plague that has destroyed civilization.
tells the story OF the Scarlet Plague to
his grandsons.