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The Monticellonian., 1916-03-30
FAIR SEX In THE MAJORITY
Preachers Offer to Marry Persons
Brought an Altogether Unlocked
For Response

Some Of the visiting ministers have
told some good stories about one an.
other during the Iaymen's Missionary
Movement convention here, says the
San Diego Union. This is one that
was handed" 10 Rev Hugh L Burle-
son:
A young couple came into his rooms
just as be WAS going to begin service
in the church and asked him 10 marry
them He said IL they would wait until
after the service he would give them a
public wedding
After the henedfetion he announced.
Now, will those persons wishing to
be married please come forward" Il
is recorded in the story that eleven
women and one man answered TO the
call
An Offset to that story is one told by
Dr. Alonzo R Petty OF woman who
was before a judge asking for a d.
yorce. The judge leaned over the desk
and said 10 the woman
Madam. how long did You know
this man before you were married."
Your honor" she said. I was acs
quainted with him for eighteen
months. but | never really knew him
until | asked him for a dollar"
The Monticellonian., 1916-03-30
NATURE HIDES HER RICHES
Seemingly Barren Big Horn Basin Of
Northern Wyoming Has a Wealth
of OIL and Gas.

Natures provisions for the comfort
of mankind in seemingly inhospitable
regions are sometimes well hidden and
are found only after the scientist and
the yenturesome prospector have come
to the aid of the settler. In the Big
Horn basin of northern Wyoming lack
of water and lack of fuel are conspicut
Gus features, and the sagebrush desert,
where the temperature ranges from 80
degrees below zero in January to los
degrees above zero in July. where the
annual rainfall is less than six inches.
and where timber is scarce. is not at
tractfye to the settler
Some years ago three wells drilled
in a dome or UPHOLD of the rocks near
Basin. in Big Horn county, struck a
strong flow of gas, and Greybuu and
Basin now have the distinction of be-
ing the only towns in Wyoming that
are supplied with natural gas.
Field work done by United States
geological survey parties has resulted
in reports that show the position of
the rock folds, and drilling has result.
ed in the discovery OF oil Fifty-two
wells had been drilled near Basin up
to last October and more than three
fourths OF them yielded oil or gas in
commercial quantity.
In order to drill some of these wells
water had to be hauled in wagons
from the river. miles away. Water
suitable for domestic use was found in
many of the wells
The Monticellonian., 1916-03-30
Has Made study of suddha.

Or. David Rrainard Spooner. who
propounds the theory that Buddha was
not Hindu. as is the prevailing belief.
is an American. a native OF New Eng.
land. and for some time has been in
the employ of the archaeology depart
ment OF the government of India. It
is his belief that Buddha was a Per
sian and renegade from Zoroastri-
anism. rather than a renegade from
Hindu teaching, which also explains
a reference to Buddha in the aacient
Parsee scriptures as a hereto, q term
which could not have been ase6 had
he not been connected originally with
Zoroastrianism. believes Doctor Spoon
er. Among this explorers achieve
ments is the unearthing of Buddhas
bones from mound near Pesaawur in
northwestern India.
The Monticellonian., 1916-03-30
To Train schooIboy Soldiers,

The National School Camp associa-
ton plans to give military training
to many thousand schoolboys of
twelve years and upwards, at a camp
on Staten island this summer. Every
boy will be obliged to buy his own
uniform and mess kit, but these will
not exceed in cost more than $3.50
or 81.
One hundred thousand circulars are
being printed for recruiting purposes.
It is intended to make the movement
national one.
The Monticellonian., 1916-03-30
A Just Tribute.

Why did Wombat leave his money
to found home for servant girls?"
We'll. you know he was a manufac-
turer of fine china And he ALWAYS
said the girls did a lot for his bust.
ness
The Monticellonian., 1916-03-30

Della Evans, the beautiful seven
teen-year-old girl who notified ranch
ers of the Villa raid, has offered her
services to Colonel Slocum as scout
and interpreter. Miss Evans was born
in Mexico and knows the border eoun-
try well.
The Monticellonian., 1916-03-30

Don't wait until it begins to sprinkle
before starting to lay up money for .
rainy day.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06
MILLIONS

The infinite mind of mere man bE-
comes befogged at the infiite figures
necessary to express a billion dollars.
Il would be easier for the minds eye
to picture a flock of so Equitable
buildings worth $2O,OOO,OOO a piece
than to grasp the abstract idea of a
billion perfectly good American dol
lars Yet the American Industrial and
railroad companies always work Oh
such totals in their business conduct.
Recently the Representatives Of a
leading English journal, who is over
here to prepare an American special
number visited Washington and talked
with the President, Cabinet and heads
of departments and bureaus. He re-
turned to New York and interviewed
some of the capitalists, and the burden
Of his first cable to his employers ran
something like this; 81 thought | could
do this job alone, but l am among a
people who think and speak of billions
and frankly / must have help, as
feel that my mind alone cannot grasp
the immensely of this countrys wealth
and operations"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06
WHEN MOTHER JorSED rHF rrRM


In the June woman's Home Com
panion Is the amusing account Of the
experience Of two newspaper editors.
who decided to make their mother a
partner in their business.
when she started on the type
writer" one Of them says, eve stood
around in hearing distance, in vague
appresension, fearful that in some un-
known manner she would smash the
keyboard. In spite OF the fact that
everything Mother did was done neat
ly correctly and in good time, we we're
continually in a nervous state Of mind
about her
"one evening, though, after we had
given her the same instructions in re-
gard to the same piece OF work several
times, Mother got mad.
Mother did not stop there. Mother
had been thinking and studying since
she had started into business. She
showed US a dozen mistakes we had
been making, and the means Of cor
recting them. She also showed us
characteristics I'm her disposition that
she had never shown us before Sharp
rebuke, criticism, advice, censure and
encouragement fell rapidly from her
lips. She was going to do certain
things in that shop II We we're willing,
and II we were not willing she was
going to hunt other employers that
were more agreeable to work for. If
we would let her, she would take the
local beat, keep the books, take care
of the correspondence and keep the
business office shining. We let her.
Besides this, she hurriedly outlined
a new business-getting policy that APP
pealed to us strongly. Mother began
to show her business side, that same
side that made her boss at home. Old
timers were selling out and new peo-
pie were coming into our country. We
had devoted but little energy to our
subscription list, but had spent all of
our time in an aggressive campaign
toward developing a going priting
business. Mother saw our weak spot.
She insisted that we keep after this
changing citizenship with personal
letters and personal solicitation. She
would do the work
"She also mapped out a logical and
comprehensive mail order campaign
for our commercial priting depart
ment, which was inexpensive and
bound to win"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06
ADOPTION OF PLANK ON SUI
FRAGE

Chicago, June A week of woman
suffrage activities designed to exert
pressure upon the Republican Nation
al Convention for the adptlons in the
platform of a plank favorable 40 uni
versal suffrage will begin her tomor-
row with the opening Of convention
of the Congressional Union for Wo-
man Suffrage II will be followed
Tuesday and Wednesday by a confer
ence of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, the elimination
of which will be a parade in which it
is estimated that 10000 women will
march and which will carry to the Re-
publican Platform Committee in ses-
sion at the Coliseum set of resolu-
tons demanding votes for women.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06
RICE CROP IMPORTANT FACTOR
IN DEVELOPING SOUTH

THE work OF bringing the old lands
and the new lands Of the South under
cultivation" says writer in Farm
and Fireside, "is undergoing a marked
change. The task is no longer so
much an individual one as II is a CO.
operative or communal one. Two fac
tors are primarily responsible for the
change: the capital required and the
difficulty in securing efficient labor.
Take the case, for instance, Of the
Grand Prairie Of Arkansas, where the
culture of rice has revolutionized con-
ditlons within the last six or eight
years. Land which will produce from
40 to so bushels OF rice to the acre,
selling for 65 cents to 81 bushel,
can be had for $50 to $50. Sometimes
one years crop pays the original price
of the land The lure to the northern
farmer, accustomed to no more than
40 to so bushels of 60 to 20 cent corn
W tht ACRE Oh FloV W 9sVO iohus nus
produced such an influx of Northern
farmers to the Grand Prairie of Ark
ansas, within the last FIVE years, as
was never witnessed in all the South
before
But the price of the land has not
told the whole story. Unless the
grower who has thousands of dollars
invested in his crop can command the
necessary help to harvest and save his
crop his hair is pretty sure to turn
gray while he is yet comparatively
young man. The labor problem has
been, is now, and will long continue
to be the bugaboo of the Southern
farmer or planter. Farms give way
to plantations and porches TO gallaries
once the traveller is a few miles south
of st. Louis"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06
PONTIFF PUTS BAN on DANCING

New York, June 4-Pope Benedict
has caused the issuance of an edict
forbidding any society under paro-
chial Jurisdiction from giving any en-
tertainment where there is dancing.
The congregations Of the Roman Cath
Ollie parishes of this city today were
surprised by this action, and the
works who have used the annual balls
as a chief means of raising society
funds were confronted with a problem
of finding a substitute entertainment
The Papal decree is said to apply
only to the United States and Canada.
I'm the last century in the United
States the custom sprang up of gather
ing Catholic families to balls, which
used to be protracted TO a late hour at
night by entertainments and other
forms of amusements." begins the de-
cree. II continues:
THE reason and cause given for
this was that Catholics might get to
know each other better and become
more intimately united in the bonds of
love and charity. Those who were
used to preside over the gatherings
we're generally the heads of some
pious work, but rarely the rectors or
the parish priests of churches.
But the odinaries of the place, al
though they entertained no doubt of
the upright purposes of those who
prompted these dances. still, looking
ut the perils and losses caused by the
growing custom, considered it their
1uty to forbid them"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06
Catarrh Cannot Re Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a blood or constitutional
disease, and in order to cure it you
must take internal remedies. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surface. Halls Catarrh Cure is
not quack medicine. 1t was pre-
scribed by one of the best physicians
in this country for years and is a regu-
lar prescription. 1t is composed OF
the best tonics known. combined with
the best blood purifiers, acting directly
on the mucous surfaces. The perfect
combination of the two ingredients is
what produces such wonderful results
in curing catarrh. Send for testimon-
ials, free.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06
IMPORTANCE OF LOwLY TOAD
New York Telegraph

New York Telegraph
The toad has always been looked
upon as loathtsome, even poisonous
Yet modern medical research is ex-
tracing from toadskin remedies of the
greatest value, and the benefcient pos
sibilities of these secretions have by
no means been exhausted.
Quack remedies have long been
made from the skins OF toads, and the
Chinse still use such an extract, call
ed Sense" as cure for dropsy. A
well-known remedy among the New
England colonists for sprains and
rheumatism was toad ointment made
as follows: Four good sized live toads
put into boiling water and cook very
soft then take them out and boil the
water down to half a pint, and add
fresh-churned. unsalted butter, one
pound, and simmer together; at the
last add tincture of arnica, two ounces.
The native of Brazil made an ar
row poison from the creamy secretion
of the skin glands of a giant tropical
toad, poison so powerful that 1t kills
big game in a few moments. From
this secretion is also obtained blood
pressure-raising medicine invaluable
to the specialist and the surgeon.
But the most valuable and startling
part of this toad secretion in the isola-
ton of a beautiful crystalline sub
stance to which toad skins owe its cur
ative powers for dropsy 1t seems
strange that after a century's ridicule
of toad treatment for dropsy as a
mere grandmother's remedy, we
should now find genuinely scientific
of the practice. 1t may
be objected that all varieties of toads
do not give the same secretion as the
giant toad from the Amazon, but II has
been found that another crystalline
substance of very similar properties
Is found in the skins of the common
European toad.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06
FAMILY AVOIDS
SERIOUS SICKNESS
By Being Constantly Supplied With
ThedfOrds Blsek-Draughl.

McDuH, va.-"I suffered for several
years" says Mrs. ]. b. Whitaker, Of
This place, with sick headache, and
stomach trouble.
Ten years ago a friend told me 10 try
Thediofd's Black Draueht, which ! did,
and found II 10 be the best family medi-
cine for young and old.
keep Black Draught on hand all the
time now, and when my children feel a
little bad, they ask me for dose, and Il
does them more good than any medicine
they ever tried.
We never have a long spell OF sick
ness in our family, since we commenced
using lackDraught."
Thedford's Black Draught Is purely
vegetable, and has been found to regIi-
iate weak stomachs, aid digestion, re-
lieve indigestion, collie, wind, nausea,
hesdache, sick stomach. and similar
symptoms.
II has been in constant use for more
than 70 years, and has benefited more
than million people.
Your druggist sells and recommends
Blaek-Draught. Price only 25c. Get a
package to-day. NC IA
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06
THEN AND NOW

year ago orders coming small lots few com
mune At that time owing the greatly depressed condition of
American industry small orders greatly appreciated This
indicated by the language of Boston dispatch the New York
Evening Post which makes strange reading later after
business conditions This is the
way the Post dispatch told the story:
"War orders already being executed under quite
singular circumstances. In country town of only few
hundred inhabitants is a machine shop practically the only
local industry apart from farmng employing ordinarily
twelve aud constructing machines for cutting
steel shafng we would be shut down today said of
the this week. if it not for orders The lit
tie plant has orders from Europe sufficient carry along
during several months and has taken additional help,
its machines being used shrapne and shells This
of itself is very small matter but the thing significant
of the capacities this country time of emergency
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06
TUMBLE TO FLOOR FROM HAY
NOW BREAKS NECK OF
FARMER

Sandusky, Ohio, June 4.-George
Alderman, SO years old, farmer, was
brought to a hospital here today from
his farm in Perkins Township with a
broken neck.
He went into the haymow to sleep
during a thunder shower. rolled and
fell through hole in the floor.
While his body is paralyzed from the
throat down, the hospital physicians
say there is no indications that death
Is near
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06

The Chinese to be desired wOrkngmen if
citizens than of the crOwdng every
year the partsWOOdOw Wilson opinion
from south Europe taken from his History of
People
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06

Wr Wilson wants Congress to hurry and adjourn He
lected call Congress
knew the world fire because he wanted the the
stage for himself Now he has divide the attention the country
with Congress and he doesn't relish it, However Congress will
journ when gets ready
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06

Don't kick if your wife threatens to
go home to mother. She might do
worse. She might bring mother home
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06
A NOVEL USE FOR MOVIE BOXES

Round tin boxes In which motion
picture films are shipped make excel
lent lunch boxes and exchanges will
give them away.--Womans Home
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06

A true friend is a man who will lis
ten to a hard-luck story without re-
peating one of his own.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06

The man who can accurately de-
scribe a womans dress made a mis-
take in not being born a dressmaker.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06

Democrats hope win strength prosperity based
1t can't be done
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-06

Try want ad In The Ledser's claA
slfied column. Il will bring results.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-02
~ POULTRY NOTES ~
k8O

IL It Ia advisable to increase the size OF
our plant. II Is never advisable to
start In a big way unless you have had
years OF experience. More failures are
due to this than to any other cause.
Many tire nj tho sameness Of the work
in raising poultry. 1t Is the Same thing
every day in the year. Poultry respects
no holidays. The man who can 60
through all this and not get tired Of the
monotony or discouraged is the man
whose name you will find enrolled with
the successful poultry keepers of to-day.
But more than a~daptability Is re
CURED. There must he capital to make
the start and there must be capital TO
work with. Without money nothing can
be accomplished. The poultry business
IL not unlike any other business In re-
spect to capital. There have been many
failures largely due to lack of money.
When men must go into debt they step
upon dangerous ground. Be frugal. keep
down the expenses and pay as you 30.
The expense of labor is cut down con-
siderably when one does his own work.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-02

and ut as good rates of return with AZ
good possibilities for increase. as any
where In the greater city In fact. OPP
p%ortuni,ies for making money In real
estate were never better than they are
to-day.
In every grade OF porperty and every
part OF the city conditions are more
favorable thar during the memory Of
the present generation. for profitable In
vestment. Prices OF all properties are
lower than they were since before
| the beginning OF the last boom and the
| supply of new. well rented. good income
! producing properties was never much
better than now. Many owners who
cannot Yet figure their properties on
the lower basis OF values established
curing the last few years are one OF the
stumbling blocks to the resumption OF
active trading inability to finance build.
ing operations in the present market Is
another and between them they have
caused much of the recent depression.
For the new year the outlook is bet
ter than was the outlook at the begin.
ming of the year Just past. or recent
months there has been a decidedly bet
ter demand for rentable space which
has made an actual need for more con-
struction in many sections. Improved
business condition IN many HUE
throughout the country have resulted In
much money being made which will seek
reinvestment. Officials who are charged
with the enforcement of laws relating
to buildings and building construction
are showing a more liberal attitude ant
"A reasonable desire to cooperate will
realty interests to have new laws made
that will relieve real property OF man!
of the abuses from which. 1t now suffers
Economy, with the eventual Idea OF
lowering the tax rate. IL part OF thu
platform of every elective officer In cit,
and state. These are some OF the rea'
sons why real estate trading should b.
better this year than 1t was during 'h'
last twelve months. On the other hand
a. pltal is likely to continue to refuse L
commi. itself permanently while the wal
in Europe continues with its man!
possibilities of embroiling this country
In addition money In likely to he lack
! ing for financing real estate as loni
ias foreign governments are borrower
here willing to pay higher rates thar
real estate can hope to pay.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-02

In the city on account OF his wife's
health. She had been an invalid for
years. After they boarded In the town
for a veal or two and Mrs. Ware showed
a great improvement In health Mr.. Ware
purchased a home with -four and a half
acres of land.
He bought a few fowls. and the WORK
of attending to them n also the culti-
walton of a small garden occupied both
his mind and body. Gradually the poul-
try part increased until to-day he has
one of the largest intensive poultry
farms in this section of the country.
one thousand head of stock Is quartered
and Mr.. Wares book show that he has
reached an Income. clear. of about 50
a day.
John r. Gerhart conducted a cigar
store in the city of Philadelphia for ove'
twenty-six years. 1t meal hard work
and long hours. Standing behind a coun .
ter for an average Of fifteen hours n
day. and that. too, in a room more or
less laden with smoke. broke down his
health, and the doctor ordered that he
give up city life and get out into the
open air of the country.
This all happened eight or nine years
ago and in that comparatively short pc
Rod he has established the most inten-
sive poultry plant Of the town. Welding
a better profit thar that realized behind
the counter Of his cigar store. Then.
too. the better hours. the more con-
genial work. the purer air and tho phys
icai exertion not only cured his attacks
of nerves." nut restored his lost az
petite and gave him peaceful rest at
night. Mr.. Gerhart keeps between 500
and 900 layers and his books show an
annual profit of $1,000.