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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-07-21
H BREEDING PATCHES
See That Cotton is Trimmed. Now to
!. Only One Stalk to Hill.

see 1n1E SOtSOu II Auinih00' fSo" ~
1 Only One Stalk to Hill.
Clemson College, July Those
farmers who have not yet done, SO
saoaid Immediately give attention to
] HtGis;breeding patches of cotton and
that the patch is thinned to the
rropsr distances between the stalks
ami to- only one plant to the hill.
These details are important in
breSding work. There is yet time
tqsso this work =
tsTi.e botany division of Clemson
College advises that where one wish
ess:to- make a study. of individual
stalks and 10. select superior 'individ-
suais for further breeding, it is alb.
sotutely essential that such stalks
be given distance to develop normal
~ In breeding patches and pro-
geny rows the stalks should be at
ieaststhree feet apart in the row and
the stand should be as nearly even
49, . H.f
isand perfect as possible.
IT is especially important that only
one stalk be left in a hill. Cotton is
Very seldom thinned to such a stand
whenit is chopped out and frequent
" one does not realize that it has
been. left too thick until the plants
are almost mature.
By now the plants are large enough
for one to see.w where the stalks are
crowded and it will be an easy mat
ter to go through the breeding patch
and pull out the surplus stalks. This
should be done now. The longer one
leaves the plants, the more will one
dislike to pull them out. Selections
made this fall will mean very little
unless the cotton has been perfectly
.thinned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-07-21
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-07-21
,ADRIATIc SAFE

IN THE MERSEY.
New York, July Sword of the
arrival of the Adriatic in Liverpool
was received shortly before 6 o'clock
tonight at the White Star Line Of
fees and dispelled apprehension over
the safety of the liner, which had
to pass through the war zone where
German submarines are operating.
The Adriatic sailed June 30th with
339 passengers and a large consign.
ment of ammunition. 1t was said
there were only a few Americans
aboard.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-07-21

, "The Dancer and the King" in five
parts, will be at the opera house Fri
day, also "The Country Girl" a two
reel Thanhouser, featuring Florence
LaBadie, the T~hanhouser favorite.
g reels in all. 10 and Is Gets.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-07-21
HELLEBORE. FOR FLIES.

New and Effective Method of De-
stroyins Larvae-No Risk to Live
Stock or Damage to Crops In
volved.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-18
Jayh awker Jots


A reporter on one of the Norton
newspapers tells of having seen q
tramp in the Rock Island yards lift
his cap to passing box car and say:
God bless our home"
Luke McLuke il quoted by the
Shawnee Chief as saying: Since the
vacuum cleaner displaced the broom
man can't find a blame thing but
his wife's hairpins to clean his pipe
with
Among the high school notes in the
Americas Greeting: The Physics class
is studying heat. The one thing that
they all seem to know about IL that
the closer two bodies are together the
less heat it takes to keep them warm.
According to the Sabetha Herald, 4
Sabetha woman has grievance against
the firemen. She went to the fireman's
ball and was asked to dance only nine
times. She had cut the sleeves off OF
her union suit to wear decollete at
tire and doesn't think it was worth the
price.
Talk about good loser, says the
Pratt Union. There are a lot Of gem
tlemen who mean to be good losers,
and try to be good losers, but you may
easily detect the effort required to keep
up the appearance. It hurts and they
are not one bit to blame II they do feel
little bit sore.''
Gossip about the moon. in; the Atch-
ison Globe: February, 1915, will not
have full moon. q thing that has not
happened since 1856. and that will not
happen again untff 100000 years from
February. The moon in January will
be full on the LIST and 30th. In March
it will be fun on the 1st and 30th
again, and this cuts off any possibility
of February having a full moon. 1t is
an odd combination of circumstances.
If there is anything in signs. 1866 was
a peace year after a big war.
Told by the Atchison Globe: In
preaching. the minister had been rather
long winded. when the young bride re-
membered that she had left the dinner
in the gas range without regulating
the flame. She hastily wrote a note
and slipped it to her husband, who was
an usher. He, thinking II was intended
for the minister, calmly walked up and
laid it on the pulpit. The minister
paused in the midst of his sermon
and took the note with a smile, which
changed into a terrific frown as he
read: please hurry home and shut
off the gas.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-18
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-18

gains the nrst interest Or the neigll-
borhood. The kinderDartner must
visit the homes, and the parents Of
the children I'm find that her visits
are dfsinterested. She has no AK to
grind. In trade. politics. or religicns
she comes as !. friend of the family.
Suspicion Of any Interior motive soon
disappears. and she IL. welcome: she
meets with the greatest courtesy and
Kindness in the neighborhood. Hun
dreds Of churches and missions with
records OF true beneficence have
found the kindergarten absolutely es-
sential in their work.
THE biggest bill tho community
has to pay 3 that run up by pauper-
ism. vice and crime. Little can be
expected from remedies applied to
chronic cases; such treatment Is pal-
liative. at the best; only prevention
can be genuinely, lastingly beneficial.
and prevention is the peculiar Office of
the kindergarten"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-18
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record.1
Even tho blind beggar may have an
eye for business.
Virtue is its own reward. To the poor
all things are pure.
I'm just stuck on love letters" ex-
claimed the postage stamp.
He Is a mighty lucky musician who can
muster the horn Of plenty.
Misplaced condolences demonstrates how
many absent-minded people there are in
the world.
Swearing on demonstrates that il it
wasn't for the night before. there wouldn't
by any day after.
NeIl-..Would you say that Mr.. 0uxxler
was well BRED" Belle-"Well, he general
ly has little bun.''
The average man IL more apt to have
bouquets thrown at him after he il dead
than when he IL alive
It's all right to make the most OF your
opportunities, but don't regard every man
ycu meet as an opportunity.
Muggino-ssAy wife IL always buying
things and getting stuck" Bug8ins-
Huh! My wife can't even buy spring
lamb without having the wool pulled over
her eyes"
what assurance have that you do
not wish to marry me merely for my
money demanded the heire8a. The inn
pecunious sutton drew himself up proudly
Money" he exclaimed. Money IL moth
ing to me. should be happy in the
prospect OF never earning cent in my
life. 20 long as had you" And. having
put him to the ten, she w1s eupeounely
0ARYY -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-18
From, Other Pens
WIsDoM.s ORIGIN.

Solemn faced, long coated, bewhis-
kered experts held the floor for hours
and delivered long lectures to group
of attendants at Farmers week" at
the state college Of Pennsylvania last
week, but they did not seem to be get
ting anywhere. The only sign that
they made any impression at all was
indicated when one Of the visitors
said the seats ''were pretty hard
There was a change when q little H.
year-old girl took the floor. She had
something to tell that was of interest.
that was practical. and that was worth
while. And she knew how to tell her
story. She told the gathering of peo-
pie all she knew about turkeys, and
they soon learned that this little girl
knew lot. She said that the habits
Of the wild fowls should be studied by
those who wish to raise them in cap
tivity. They ought to live in the
woods and have plenty of room. The
best brood she ever raised was when
she allowed turkey hen to conceal
its nest in the forest. The hen brought
home her brood in splendid shape.
Then the little girl summed up her
turkey talk with the statement that
she believed turkeys could be raised
with profit on any farm where there
was little boy or girl to look after
them, because the little boy or girl
knew more about the natural ways OF
doing things. And this little instruc-
tor received more applause than all
the professors. Her talk probably will
stick longer. toO,-DavtOn News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-18
Kansas Comment
PATRIOTISM AND BREAD.

A recent lengthy address by Prime
Minister Asquith of England contains
the interesting statement that From
Canada, from Australia, from New
Zealand, from South Africa, and from
Newfoundland, the children of the
Empire assert. not as an obligation,
but as privilege, their right, and
their willingness to contribute money,
material and, what Is better than all,
the strength of sinews, the fortunes,
and lives of their best manhood" II
Mr.. Asquith had SO desired he might
have stated that from German South
Africa and other German colonies
subjects Of the Fatherland are con-
tributing their Strength OF sinews,
the fortunes and lives of their best
manhood The colonists of France
are thus contributing. Mr. Asquith
presents a fervid picture of the glory
of patriotism. In contrast appears
the picture of women and children
working in fields and factories and
stores, toiling in hardship, privation
and woe-many widows and orphans
while the former sinews of indus
try continue to fight on as the sinews
of war at the front. Patriotism can
not long survive without bread at
home and at the battle front.-Otta-
wa Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-18
Globe Sights
By THE ArCHISoN aLOBE.


You can get plenty Of help If you don't
need 1t.
them think of economy.
There are those who observe neutrality
by lying to both sides.
Ability to get drink in a dry town is
some mems notion OF achievement.
When a woman says all men are alike
she isn't Dragging on our sterner sex
1t 10 a mans theory that q pin should
never be asked to take the place OF a
button.
With all due regard to the 42-centmeter
gun. ridicule Is the deadliest weapon.
There are people who don't need to
know anything about the case in order to
be prejudiced.
What has become Of the old-fashioned
family which was 20 numerous trundle
beds were used?
If it were not for precedent most Of US
would be in q dark room with lot Of
things to fall over.
When q man reaches that age when
sleep seems important before morning, he
realizes he isn't az young as he used to
be.
Alb Adkins says he has \ nephew so en-
dowed with self confidence he would try
to convince Doc Cook that honesty il the
best policy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-18
PASSIVE PATlsIOrIsad-

II we may Judge by occasional pro-
tests against editorials in the interest
OF national defense. teachers are well
r presented among the paciflcists OF the
peace at any price school presided over
by David Starr Jordan. says the Chi-
cago Tribune. and it continues: A GER
tain familiar type of pedagogue would
naturally be inclined that way. 1t IS
refreshing and encouraging. however
to take up publication like "Teacn-
ing, the magazine Of the Kansas State
Normal school. the spirit of which Is
expressed in the following extremely
significant editorial note by Professor
Baker Brownell:
Patriotism has become perplexed
virtue. Once vigorous certainty in
life and education, it is now tentative
and explanatory. Teachers are today
interested in admonishing us on what
it is not. They extol the virtues of the
just as true hero.' the moral courage
Of inaction.' The hero is, pedagogic-
ally. the man who can inhibit a bad
will carry good one to a result. En-
phasis is laid upon the narcotic aspect
Of morals. Where intensities and slim
ulants were, there are now cautions and
II straints. In this patriotism has suf-
Tered change from an expressive to-
an inhibitory virtue.
''It is feminine ideal. 1t aims for
the good by the method of reduction OF
evils. The masculine complement, the
aim for good by the method of increase
of good. is lacking. With each national
day the teacher wonders again how to
soothe the old time, ruddy patriotism
down to softness and pretty peace.
THE Montessori assertion that good
ness in our schools has been too much
associated with keeping still is the first
encouraging protest against this edu-
cational pacificism. Unchecked. the
watery tendency will debilitate our
patriotism like an increasing anemia.
Let us hope that here, too. Mime. Mon
tessori will brace U.S.
Professor Brownell has here touched
upon an issue which is as yet very
dimly discerned by the public, but
which must be more clearly realized
and more vigorously dealt with. There
always has been a strain OF the ostrich
in the national bird. an inclination to
shirk unpleasant facts. to wriggle out
of uncomfortable logic. This supports
the passivist tendency Of today. which
is likely to devitalize the vigorous
idealism OF our past without checking
our esotistic appetite for the good
things of this world.
The gist Of the pacifist philosophy is:
All fighting is wicked. If We can hight
we will fight Therefore, let US see
that we cannot fight.
1t is a philosophy of negation. OF
weakness. and of futility.
No nation that is unwilling to fight
for some things deserves to live. If our
teachers have no will to teach that, we
had better shut up our schools and let
life teach our youth its unacceptable
lessons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-18
A HUMANIzING FACrOR.

The kindergarten as "humanizing
factor" In orphanages and other in
stitutions OF child betterment is de-
scribed in bu.letin, 1.-THE Kindergar-
ten in Benevolent Institutions" just
issued by the United States bureau of
education. Head of such institutions
declare that the kindergarten supplies
at least partial substitute for the
fc-lily influence and for the sponta-
neous activity lacking in institutional
life.
The report says: THE kindergar-
ten and trained kindergarten are of
special value to institutions because
they substitute the maternal spirit for
that of mere constituted authority in
dealing with child life The function
of the kindergarten is to nurture.
unto !. 70. I and train the childs in
herent powers: to teach him to be-
come a self-educator.
"Philanthropic enterprises for the
afflicted. both public and private,
such as schools for deaf, dumb, blind
or defective children, should have
kindergartens because of their educa-
tiona1 benefits, through the training OF
the hand Properly taught, the
hand may become the outer ear and
eye. even the outer brain. for these
unfortunates: for through the hand
the brain is awakened and stimulated
"A kindergarten il the first demand
OF the social settlement, becauSs
through it the settlement worke,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
fFrom the Chicaxo News.1

tFrom the Chicago NewsJ
Often full purse goes with An empty
head.
Only foolish man will kick himself
The best way to get out OF a tight place
10 to sober up.
If a man marries a widow it's because
she originated the thought.
A lovers quarrel and a small boys trou-
sers are soon patched up.
We would have more ideal cities but
for the scarcity Of ideal citizens.
A SELF made man 10 a. proud Of the out
come as he IL OF his income tax.
II the silly actions OF . man are not due
to his being In love, they are probably
natural.
What = lovely collection Of pessimista
We would be II we could see ourselves ~
others see US!
A.woman doesn't object to . mans past
as much as she does to his present-to
some other female.
And many q mans 70 called digni11et
silence IL due to the lamentable fact that
he doesn't know what to nay.
Jonah was the author Of the original
fish story, but it 10 Estimated that some
- 5.s63 ,51e113 other men have inftinged on
his coDyE1Rhs s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-18

more tired than hungry
there is only one floor to this house,
explained Madam Pig. Go right over in
the corner and curl up We win ali b.
there In few minutes"
MI, re could not sleep and when the little
PIGS and Madam Pig crawled CLOSE beside
MN and began to push him against the
wall he was more uncomfortable than
ever Madam Pig breathed 30 loudly thai.
, ne could not sleep and there he laid until
Billy Pig heard steps outside. and UP
jumped all the little pigs and their mother
and ran out into the yard \
lilly Pig was glad to get I'D and he fol-
lowed. but before he could get out there
All the breakfast the farmer had given
Billy Pig was hungry. and tired, and he
was anxious to be on, 50 he thanked
MADAM Pig for. her kindness and ran
spy him. and was soon on the road again.
When Billy Pig came to q brook he
waded in with his clothes on. for they
to wait
Just as he was coming on: OF the water
lie saw MI. Dog coming along with leaps
nice chase" ,. he said. why didn't you
Billy Pig was So surprised and confused
Mr.. Dog asked. Had your breakfast
Billy Pig confessed that he had not, and
back little way, come along and io see
what we can get"
NO; 7 rather go hungry than go back
and the food was 20 bad could not or c st
u, besides that there Is very cross dog
there. he chased me last night
to protect YOU Come 70 al o" s %e m 0ns
600" he laughed. suddenly, noticinx
Billy Piss vet clothes: don't you look
AS they walked aIon~ Billy Pr
thinking how he could Be rid ar Mr. mo-,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-18
NORTH AMERICAN PEACE.

That supreme achievement which
eNo.1h America can show the world &
an International boundary line be-
tween two nations across which in 2
hundred years neither nation ever
once launched a menacing army or
fired hostile gun. writes DR.. James
"A. Macdonald in the American Re-
view of Reviews for January. Think
of that achievement! A thousand
miles up the mighty st. Lawrence. a
thousand miles along the Great Lakes.
a thousand miles across the open
prairie, thousand miles over q sea
of mountains-four thousand miles
where nation meets nation and SOW
ereignty meets sovereignty. but never
a fortress, never a battleship. never a
gun, never a sentinel on guard! Four
thousand miles of civilized and Chris
tianized internatiOnalism = that is
North Americas greatest achievement.
And why Americas achievement?
Why Americas alone? Not because
these two nations are spent and vast
ed forces. degenerate sons of coward
sires. weak to defend a national right,
slow to resent national insult. No
redder, prouder, hotter blood ever
beat in British veins than the Pilgrim
blood of New England, the Cavalier
blood of Virginia, the Celtic blood of
North Carolina, or the blood Of the
Ulster Scot of Kentucky and Tennes-
see. The same blood. red. proud. hot,
throbs through Canadian veins from
Cape Breton to Vancouver. Not blood
from Britain a1one h1t from France
as we'll. and from Germany. All the
great war nations of Europe. through
the generations, have slit their own
veins and poured their best blood.
their hot war blood. into the heart of
America. If blood tells, that blood
should tell in US.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-18

He crawled under fence into a very
muddy place, but he was safe from the
dog because the dog was too large to
crawl under as ne did
But he barked until Billy Pig trembled
SO he could hardly stand. and just as he
was looking about to find way to es-
cape ne heard ugh. ugh,' right behind
him.
what il the matter here?'' and Billy
Pig turned around and saw q big mother
pig coming toward him.
Maybe he did not run and get close to
her. "Oh, madam" he exclaimed, that
dog chased me and tried to bite me.
Please let me go home with you for the
night: am on my vacation and am
tired and hungry.
why, you are in my yard now" said
the mother pig, walking toward the bark
ing dog. and gruntng at him to Be Oh:
II don't look very tidy" said Bully Pig.
- he walked into the house OF hts pro-
tector, but Madam Pig told him he need
not mind. and they waded into more mud
inside the house
There IL . little supper left. said
Madam Pig; Just help yourself she
said, leading Billy Pig UP to trough where
several little pigs were feeding.
II do not feel hungry. he said e
should like to 50 % my room. am
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-18
Journal Entries

More ambitions would be realized
if so many OF them were not SO fool
ish.
= .
The man who isn't at all pleased
with himself has q hard time OF it.
Among the expensive diplomas in
the school Of experience is the mar
riage certificate.
=
Some people are 50 constituted that
they'd -efuse to be happy II they had
the chance.
Nor is it at all difficult to interest a
man in anything that il sure to bring
him material returns.