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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14
PLAYER LIMIT CHANGED BY Ma.
TIONAL MAGNATES

New York, December 12-Routine
business occupied the attention of the
National League magnates here today
during the first session of the annual
meeting which is expected to continue
until Thursday. The more important
subjects such as changes in the
worlds series regulations, the Inter
national League defiance of the Ma.
tional Commission in the matter of the
$4,000 award to the Brooklyn club;
the Barney Dreyfuss-Garry Hermann
controversy and the possible reprim-
and of Manager John ]. McGraw, OF
the New York Nationals, for his out
burst against his players in the final
Brooklyn-New York series at the close
of the pannant season, were not men,
toned according to the official report
of the meeting.
The meeting was preceded by con-
ference of the board of directors at
which the Brooklyn club was formally
awarded the 1916 pennant.
The magnates abolished the disabil-
ity list under which clubs were per-
mitted last year to carry extra
players and adopted a new rule for
1917 allowing each club to carry twen-
ty-two players from May Is to Au-
gust 81 in place of the twenty-one
players rule in vogue in 1916. At 9TH
err periods of the season the thirty
FIVE player regulation will prevail as
heretofore.
A committee representing the Amer
can Association, pressed protest
against Glass IA leagues and the
National Association of Professional
Baseball Leagues, to a committee re-
questing the formation of a board of
arbitration to settle disputes between
the major and minor leagues. 1t was
suggested that this board be composed
of two major league and two minor
league representatives with a fifth
member to be selected outside of
baseball ranks Both requests were
tabled for further consideration.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14
HAVE YOU A BAD BACK2
II You Have the Statement of this
Maysville Resident VIII Interest
You

Does your back ache, night and day
Hinder work; destroy your rest?
Does it stab you through and
through
When you stoop or lift or bend?
Then your kidneys may be weak.
Often backache is the clue.
Just to give you further proof,
The kidney action may be wrong.
II attention is not paid
More distress will soon appear.
Headaches, dizzy spells and nerves,
Uric acid and its ills
Make the burden worse and worse
Liniments and plasters can't
Reach the inward cause at all;
Help the kidneys-use the pills
Maysville folks have tried ant
proved.
What they say you can believe.
Read this Maysville mans account
See him, ask him, II you doubt.
l. Stevens, West End, Maysville
says: my kidneys were out of or
der and | had backaches. The pains
extended through my kidneys. Doan'i
Kidney Pills had been used in the
family. so l gave them a trial. They
made me feel better in every way
Price soc, at all dealers. Dom
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doans Kidney Pills-the same thai
Mr.. Stevens had. Foster-Milburn Co.
Props, Buffalo. n. Y.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14
ANOTHER KNOCK FOR II. C. OF
LIVING

One of the Ledger's contemporaries
published in its Saturday issue a re-
cipe for an eggless cake, which will
interest many home-keepers who. with
the price of eggs and butter doing
aeroplane stunts, are wondering II
they may afford "makin's" for a
Christmas cake.
Now we may, IL we must, keep
Christmas without turkey, but never
without a cake. In a little volume
called "Allied Cookery" which is be-
ing sold for the benefit of that section
of France devastated by the German
invasion. appears a recipe for a much
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14
RAILROAD TIME TABLES
S7

No. IL departs 5:S5 a. M. daily ex-
cept Sunday.
No. departs 100 p. m, daily eK-
cept Sunday.
No. 10 departs $40 p. m. daily.
No. 10 arrives $3.50 a. m, daily ex-
cept Sunday.
No. Is arrives 2:05 p. m. daily.
No. ii arrives $3.50 p. m, daily ex-
cept Sunday.
No. 16 arrives 1880 a. m. daily en-
cept Sunday.
No. II departs 1850 a. M. daily ex-
.cept Sunday.
Schedule effective Sunday, May rs.
subject to change without notice.
II. s. ELLIS, Agent
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14

more "Christmassy" cake, which is SO
cheap and good with all that | am ask
ing the Ledger to give it space:
"Canadian War Cake"
1.-TWO cups of brown sugar, two
cupfuls of hot water, two tablespoons
shortening; one pound of seeded rails
ms, cut once; one teaspoon salt, one
teaspoon cinnamon, one teaspoon
ground cloves. Boil these ingredients
minutes after they begin to bubble
When cold add one teaspoon soda dis
solved in one teaspoon hot water, and
three cupfuls of -four. Bake in two
loayes, forty-flve minutes in a slow
oven"
HENRIETTA SCHEBLER
Why not try q Ledger Want Ad?
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14
SPECIAL SESSION FAVORED

Lexington, KY, December Estate
Senator Thomas A. Combs and Rep
resentatives w. c. G. Hobbs and c. ID.
Nichols, all of Fayette county, today
declared themselves to be in favor of
an extra session of the Legislature to
consider the subject of taxation, and
that only.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14

There may be a certain satisfaction
in being just prominent enough to at
tract people who have gold bricks to
dispose Of.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14

There is no cure for the indigestion
caused by having to eat your own
words.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14

Experiments are being tried with an
internal combustion engine that is
driven by the explosion of dust.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14

Even the sea of matrimony has its
submarines.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14
Had You
Heard that nearly half the Tobacco
sold on Maysyille Market, opening
week, was sold at the
Il @ NJ E

And. that It averaged HIGHER than
the market. That is what happened.
And, such will be the case throughout
the winter. The reason for which is
that every officer and employee Of the
HOME is a home man and feels an In
terest in helping his neighbor; which
they do.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14

the mornIns hour has sold In its
mouth.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14
Crop of
Tobacco

Is carefully sorted before being sold
and there are no favored customers
All are given the same square treat
ment at the
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14
NOTICE TO TELEPHONE
SUBSCRIBERS

In accordance with agreement with
City Council rental for telephone SER
vice from July list, to December 91st,
1915, will be at same rates as was
paid by subscribers prior to July LIST,
All subscribers who have not paid
their rental accounts will be entitled
to the discount if paid on or before
December 10Th. 1916. Those subscrib-
ers who have paid will receive credit
for the overpayment on their January
bill,
Please pay accounts promptly and
take advantage Of the discount.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14
"Canadian War Cake"

Why not try a Ledger Want Ad?
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14
Chesapeake & Ohio ~.
schedule sublso, 10 eaaass ~iAOu' OsaIes
EAST BOUND

sohedule eaeelIye Deoember 10.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14

more "Christmassy" cake, which is S
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-02-17
EASY COFFEE GROWING.
The Plant FIourishes With Little Q,
No Attention In Haiti.

The Plant FIourishss With Little o.
No Attention In Haiti.
Coffee, the great staple product Of
Haiti, the West Indian island, grows
with little attention. It supplies the
bulk Of the revenues Of the govern.
ment together with the meager de.
mands Of the simple peasantry of the
mountains and valleys whose business
It is, especially the women and chill.
dren, to gather 1t and bring it to the
seaport towns on their heads and on
the backs Of donkeys and horses.
This plant is seen on nearly all the
uplands and mountain sides Of the c0un.
try, and az the product is easily port.
able It is brought to market from far
and near In an conceivable quantities,
from one or two pounds up to 200
pounds. accordingly as 1t Is carried on
the head Of child, the back Of q
horse or In sacks In OK carts.
Notwithstanding that the coffee plant
Is scarcely cultivated at all It goes on
reproducing itself from fallen berries
80 successfully that the crop Only va.
ries from year to year through ex.
traneous influences like a variation In
the rainfall-the lack Of or too abun.
dant rain near or during the Towering
season.-London Telegraph.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-02-17

vessels that nation has to trans
port 10000 men with arms, mu-
millions and provisions and coal
for the vessels. The speed of a
fleet would be that of the slowcst
vessel and il would take them
three weeks to cross the $500
miles of water, no mishaps oc-
curing. Then before any active
aggression could be made the
whole fleet would have to return
to Germany, ship men and ma :
terial and sail back here which
would not take less than two
If this iOO,OOO,OOO peo-
pie can not take care of the first
100000 invaders during that two
months the people ought to be
subjects of some other people
who could put a little patriotism
and life into them. A suggestion
To our people that, for the present
at least, they can sleep nights
great fear or awakening
i'm the morning to find the yard
filled with foreign trappers, is in
order.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-02-17

Forttfieations Of New York Harbor.
The narrow approaches to the har.
Dor of New York have made the forti6.
cation of it simpler matter than
usual. On Sandy Hook is Fort Han.
cock. with an artillery garrison; on
the Narrows, Fort Wadsworth, artil.
lery garrison; on the Staten Island side,
Fort Tompkins; across the Narrows,
Fort Hamilton. The older Fort LAT:
yette. between Forts Hamilton an6
Wadsworth. Is now used as q store.
house. On Governors island ar For.
Jay. infantry, important barracks Aua
the New York arsenal Of the ordnance
department. Castle Williams ia now 4
military prison. Fort Totten, artillery
post, Is on Willet's Point, and Taectly
across from this battery Is Fart Schuy.
Ter. On Sandy Hook II the provina
ground Of the ordnance department
4 signal corps 70 stationed At For,
Wood. Bedloe's lsland.-New Vorh
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-02-17
LIVE STOCK
HUSBANDRY
WEAVING YOUNG PIGS.
Easily Constructed Trough Used ..
Government Experimental Farm.

Easily Constructed Trough Used On
Government Experimental Farm.
prepared by United States department Of
agricultural
Young pigs, just after they are taken
away from their dam, should be given
their feed in such q manner that each
individual pig gets its share. The
simplest way to accomplish this is to
allow the pigs to eat from properly
constructed feed trough. one that will
keep the pigs out Of the feed and will
lessen the possibility of crowding.
The weaving trough shown in the
accompanying illustration is used with
good results on the government ex-
perimental farm at Beltsville, Md.
This trough is large enough to hold
a quantity Of slop sufficient to feed
twenty weanling pigs weighing up
proximately thirty-five pounds. It is
only three inches deep, thus enabling
the pigs to get at their feed very COD
veniently. The construction Of the
ridgepole, together with the partition
pieces. makes It impossible for the
pigs to get into the trough with their
feet 1t is very simple matter to
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-02-17
WEAVING TROUGH FOB PIGS.

keep the trough clean, az there 70
plenty Of room for one to work con.
veniently with scrubbing brush on
the inside Of the trough. Water ap.
piled freely, together with vigorous
scrubbing. will keep the trough clean
and sanitary. The trough is seven
feet nine inches In length and weighs
only forty-three pounds. making 1t
very convenient for one man to han.
die. This trough, constructed as
cheaply and as durably as possible, is
sufficiently strong to prevent the pigs
from breaking 1t to pieces.
Lumber seven-eighths of an inch thick
is used In constructing the trough, with
the exception Of the floor and ridge,
pole. The floor is made from one incl
stun, while the ridgepole can be made
from piece of lumber two inches
square dressed.
The following bill Of material Is nee.
essary to construct the weaving trough
One piece one inch by one foot by
twelve feet for the floor and ends. The
end pieces can be dressed down "a
seven-e1ghths of an inch.
One piece seven eighths by four inch.
es by sixteen feet for the two sides.
One piece two inches square by eight
feet dressed for the ridgepole.
One piece seven-eighths by one and
one-quarter inches by fifteen feet for
the partition pieces.
Total number of board feet, twenty.
Thirty-six screws one and One-quar.
ter inches mo. 81 to fasten the part.
ton pieces.
Nfty-two halls (eightpenny), fourteen
used to fasten each end piece to the
ridsepole, sides and bottom. twelve
used to fasten each side piece to the
floor of the trough.
A weaving trough constructed like
the one here described will aid each
pig to get his share of feed and will
also insure comfort to the pigs while
eating. A feeder can handle a well
built trough and carry it from place ia
place much more easily than he can q
clumsy, poorly constructed one.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-02-17
IA
misunderstanding
BY WILLARD BRAKEMAN

Alex Trowbrldge. having been gradu
ated from college, advertised for posi-
lion as tutor in private family. He
got request to call at house in a
suburban place called Glendale and
went there one afternoon to find q
handsome house in the center o. large
grounds. A ring at the bell brought a
maid, who ushered him into drawing
room and left him without waiting to
learn who should be announced Trow.
bridge, having written that he would
call on that day and hour, supposin,
he was expected, did not call her back.
He had waited some time when he
noticed movement Of screeL before
q door leading to a side room. Since
there was no apparent reason for Its
being moved. his curiosity was excited
Going to 1t. he looked behind it.
A girl of nineteen was theie who
had evidently been spying on him. Be
ing detected, she solored.
II dare say you think hard of me-
she said, 'but you must admit that un.
der the circumstances would wish to
catch glimpse of you before meeting
you"
"Quite So" replied Trowbridge. sup
posing that she was to be his pupil.
II dare say this matter is for the
best, but it seems very cold blooded,'
added the girl.
"Cold bloodedY
1T certainly seems cold blooded to
me, though there is an clement of 70
nance in girl meeting for the first
time one who is to have so important
an influence on her life.'
Trowbridge was as much astonished
as puzzled. He had heard of girls fall
ing in love with their tutors, but this
speaking of romance in a case where
the tutor had not yet been engaged
seemed premature.
II Gun readily understand" he said,
1.-THE feeling that prompted you to de.
sire to see me before receiving me. II
enabled you to turn me down in case
you did not approve, or, rather, /,
would have enabled you to do so had !
not blundered into interrupting your
survey"
1T was l who blundered in attempt.
ing to make survey. How did you
come to suspect that was behind the
screen?'
Il saw 1t rock without any apparent
CAUSE" =
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-02-17
THE ENTRANCE HALL.
Make Il Suit Not Visitors, but the %.
eupants Of the Home.

eupants Of the Home.
Is anything new to be said about the
entrance hall? The smallest room in
most houses, it is usually given in the
plans an amount Of attention that
might seem out Of all proportion to the
rest of the house. And yet the ordi-
nary entrance, whether 1t be q mere
vestibule, spacious hall Of the colo
NAL style or, as in our present day
fashions, part of the living room set
on by an archway. is quite unsatisfac.
tory. 1t is unsatisfactory for this rea-
son-that the entrance way Is designed
and decorated from the standpoint Of
the impression 1t makes on visitors,
whereas the impression we should seek
Is not that made upon guests, but upon
ourselves, the occupants of the house.
Too often We give the entrance Sc
we're treatment that impresses the stu.
dent of beauty or that amazes the less
discriminating visitor by the other ex-
IRENE Of lavish display. But how does
either Of these two types Of entrance
AFFECT those who come into the house
many times every day, the good man
and his good wife and their children?
Is 1t room that by its suggestion of
rest and repose tempts one after
nard days work at the Office to drop
into the first easy chair that comes
along, or does it irritate the nerves and
Keep one going. restless and uneasy,
wandering from the entrance to the
living room and from the living room
to the study and thence to the attic by
way Of the basement ?-Good Health.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-02-17
The siamsss Topknot.

A Siamesc child, whether boy OF
girl. wears its hair in q little topknot
until 1t has attained the age of eleven
or twelve years. On reaching this age
the topknot cutting ceremony takes
place. The child Is dressed in its best
and amid much rejoicing of relatives
and friends the topknot is cut, one
lock at time. The head is then com.
pletely shaved by the priests All
guests invited to the ceremony b.fng
presents. usually money. which Is
carefully invested for the child By its
parents or guardians. A young prince
or princess will sometimes receive al
much as $4,000 in presents at Lis u
her topknot cutting ceremony. while
. poor child may get $40 or $15.-Wide
World Magazine.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-02-17
EvER-oRINp,no LAW MILLS

n lHOuSanQ DllIS, proposals Ot
law, were introduced into the SEN
ate aitcr this Cc.r"ss cnns encd
II Is :.ated that within the last
five years sixty thousand laws.
Federal and State, have been ell
acted within he United States.
Does anyone suppose that one
tenth of these laws were needed.
or have been beneficial to the peo-
pie? Can it be expected that more
than a minority, small minority
of these laws have been enforced,
ever will be enforced. or ought !u
be enforceGj? 1t is not true that in
large part we avoid the penalty of
such superiluity Of legislation by
the eXpedient of considering the
large mass of them dead letters?
Yet enough are enforced, or ell
deavor to enforce is made, to
plague us nightly. No people in
all history was ever so much leg
islated for. And the characteristic
of this legislation is that nine
tenths of it is ill-drawn, half
baked, when not positively ridi-
culous or manifestly injurious.
What is the remedy? TO get at
the remedy, let us inquire what is
the popularity that permits, or
encourages, the evil.
There is growing demand now
for the establishment of the bud
get system. A budget is but part
of the whole reform which should
prevail. A budget takes the power
to initiate appropriations from ir-
responsible and expert depart
ment of administration. The re-
striction and requirement should
be extended to all subjects of leg.
islation, saving only those that
are strictly private bills.
Just now extravaganza of ap-
preparations seems the crying evil
1t is such. But the whole system
constitutes a crying evil. While
establishment of budget will 60
far towarGD redress of those trou-
bles from which the, people suffer,
the budget is only the largest item
Of a series.
AS in every other great State
whether republican France, con-
stitutional England, or monarch
ial Germany, Legislation should be
proposed by responsible ministers
or secretaries, responsible to the
people and to the legislative bodies
The ministerial system is the only
one ever devised whereby such
legislation as is demanded can be
really had.
We have made shift to get a.
long in this Country by endowing
a popular President with virtual
dictatorial powers: On the who'll
the shift has worked. But it neve.
has reduced extravaganza, or pro-
vided proper legislation. And ever
the United States cannot indefinite
ly inulge in superintendent
government and in ineffective leg
islatiOn.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-02-17
silaae For Beef Cattle.

The man who is handling a herd Of
beef breeding cows may keep them In
ideal condition by grazing in summer
and feeding sllage with alfalfa or clio
yer hay In winter, thus carrying them
through the entire year without the
use of grain or concentrates, says the
Kansas Farmer. This method is easily
adaptable to those Sections where farm.
ing and grazing lands are in close prox.
unity. Where alfalfa or clover hay IL
not produced successfully the addition
Of one pound Of cottonseed meal daily
to a ration Of silage and straw, fed &C.
cording to appetite, will carry breeding
COWS through the winter in the best Of
condition.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-02-17
PREPAREpNEss

Preparedness, reasonable de-
gree of preparedness and various
other conditions and styles Of
that article seems to be engross-
ing the attention of the papers
to the exclusion of much else
which should find space.
Preparedness and a reasonable
degree of preparedness may or
may not differ greatly; and are
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-02-17
Fattsnins Horses For Market.

GassVu"uS SsVSoOo TUT "drNOts
In the north and west a favorite fat
tcning ration for horses is based upon
boiled sugar beets. There Is another
ration in general use in breeders sta.
bles all over the country that consists
Of bran, cornmeal, barley and sugar
beets. This is mixture that Is boil
ed into a soft mash. The formula fos
preparing it Is like this: You take q
bushel Of barley aid with this placs
twenty-five pounds Of sugar beets.
This part of the mixture is boiled uD
til well softenel, and to three pounds
Of this Is added two pounds of cracked
corn or cornmeal and three pounds Of
bran. Boiling water is poured over
after it Is mixed, and the mess is fed
while warm. Along with this q pint
Of linseed meal Is fed.