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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-17
ISLANDER CAN'T WIN

SANDER and abues can not win i'll
a campaign before justice loving
Americans. This is demonstrated by
Tuesdays election. When the country
knew that Woodrow Wilson was to
have as an opponent a man who had
come from the Supreme Court of the
United States, prediction was made
that it would be a clean campaign,
but there were many disappointments.
It was freely said that the scandal
monger would not come back to car
ry his hideous work as he used to dc.
But he did show up, vigorous as ev-
err. He circulated secretly throughout
the country charges against the Pres
ident'S character so utterly unfounded
that not a single newspaper in the
country would print them.
Only the whisperers took up the
libelous yarn and spread it.
From the public places, in the mean
time, criticism without any sugges-
tons was hurled in monotonous reg
ularity at the head of the nation. 1t
was always destructive abuse; never
constructive advice.
When political party organs of this
city have withheld from him that 10y
atty and support the head of any gov
ernment might reasonably expect dur
ing a great crisis, we are proud to say
that The Telegram has consistently
stood by the President.
During every trial when the Chief
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-17
GOSsIPS

From a child | always liked to hear
a bit of gossip, and was not slow in
repeating all that | heard. Several
times | found there was not word of
truth in the gossip repeated. Still,
| did not realize the harmful effect
upon my character, nor the injury
done to others. AS / grew, this bad
habit also grew.
Once | was much embarrassed by
being asked by the maligned one why
l had told such and such a thing. |
easily got out of this by giving my
authority, but had made an enemy
for life.
One day while reading magazine
| CHANGED on the following story:
A Catholic woman came to her
priest in confession. Among other
sins, she confessed in repeating
piece of gossip about a neighbor to
number of friends. The priest told
her to go and gather lot of thistle
blooms, and scatter them to the winds
and return to him. She did this, and
when she returned, she was told to go
and gather up all the thistles she had
scattered. =
"But l cannot do that" the woman
replied. "Some of them have been
borne so far / could never find them"
"The gossip you have repeated is,
like the thistle, scattered all abroad"
replied the priest "Until you can
gather up and take back each unkind
word, you can never repair the wrong
done this neighbor. Go and sin no
more"
This little story opened my eyes,
and l realized for the first time the
magnitude of the fault and what hold
it had on me.
have had many hard fight to ov-
ercome the gossiping tendency, but
feel that | have at least conquered
N. NJ. Carithers, in the American.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-17
AUTUMN LEAVES VALUABLE
FOR USE AS FERTILIZER

Autumn leaves are most valuable
fertilizer and many who seek to OBJ
tain high grade stable manure at top
prices would do we'll to preserve the
leaves which fall from trees and
shrubs in their yards. H. F. Major,
assistant professor in landscape gar
dening of the department Of horticul-
ture of the University of Missouri
says: Millions of bushels of fertilizer
which could be produced from decay
ing leaves are annually wasted in
Missouri because of thoughtlessness.
Experiments have proven that the
fertilizer produced is not only valu-
able for farm fertilizer but for lawns
and gardens. At the University the
leaves are thrown into pits, soaked
down or slightly mixed with clay or
rough soil At the end of a season,
they have become decayed forming
composed heap of exceptionally valu-
able mold. This fertilizer is not only
a rich humus and hitrogenous sub
stance but is free from weed seeds
found in stable manure.
When run through screen it fur
nishes a most rich material. At the
end of each second year several tons
of this leaf mold are ready for use.
Mixed with garden soil, it is splendid
for potting house pants, ferns and
palms and unequalled as a dressing
for lawns, rose gardens and shrub
berry borders.
Leaves may be piled in shrub bor-
ders, weighted down with sticks or
soil instead Of being placed in pits,
In this way they will form winter
protection as a mulch, and after de-
caying, natural fertilizer. Care
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-17
BREAD MAKING CONTEST

For several years there has been
a bread baking contest under the au-
spices of the Home Economics Depart
ment of the State Normal School at
Cape Girardeau. This year the con-
test will be conducted as usual. We
are very anxious that a number Of
young women in the high schools and
other schools, will enter.
For the young woman who wins in
each county, there will be given a
scholarship covering the registration
fees at the Normal School for one
year, valued at $1,000.
This contest will occur on December
7th, so the bread must be here by noon
of that day. The loaf may be sent di-
rectly to the State Normal School, in
care of the Home Economics Depart
ment.
Any recipe may be used. The con-
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-17
OLD FOLKS AT HOME

American life never had truer in
terpreter than Stephen Collins Foster,
who wrote "Old Folks at Home"
which probably is better known as
"Suwanee River" With "Home,
Sweent Home" it is generally consid-
cred to be one of the most universally
loved songs in the English language,
and has been translated into most Eu-
ropean and several Asiatic languages.
The man who composed the lines
and music was a native of Pittsburg
and came of gentle birth. 1t was per-
haps strange that Northerner should
choose the medium of darby dialect to
express the sweetness that was his,
but he found in the slaves quaint YER
biage a medium that renders all the
more plaintive such lines as those be-
ginning:
Way doyn upon de Suwanee River,
Far, far away,
Dere's where ma heart is turning CD
Der,
Dere's where de old folks stay
Foster possessed a lyric touch that
distinguishes every one of the 100
songs which he left behind him.
Among the most famous of these are
"0ld Black Joe,'' "My Old Kentucky
Home" cold Dog, Tray" "Massa's in
de Cold Ground" and "Come Where
My Love Lies Dreaming"
Born July 4, 1926, Foster lived I'M
til January Is, 1864. When two years
of age he was able to play hating
harmonies on his sisters guitar, and
at he learned to play the flute and
bit later the piano. "Open Thy Lat
tice, Love-" his first published piece,
came from the presses when he was
but 16.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-17
Her Son Subject to Group.

"My son Edwin is subject to Group"
writes Mrs. E. 0. Erwin, New Kinsing-
ton, Pa. 81 put in many sleepless
hours at night before | learned Of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Moth
ers need not fear this disease if they
keep bottle of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy in the house and use it as
directed. 1t always gave my boy re-
lief Obtainable everywhere. (Adv.)
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-17

testant should send with her loaf the
following information: Name of the
flour; kind of yeast used and the rec
ipe. The standard loaf should be
baked in a pan about 74a by Az by
21a inches.
IDA M. SHILLING,
Department of Home Economics,
State Normal School, Cape Girar-
deau, Missouri.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-17

should be taken in placing them around
young trees. Diseased leaves should
be sprayed. Spraying the plants at
the right time win prevent disease.
Save your autumn leaves and return
them to the land in the form of fer
tilizer
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-17
TOOTHSOME MEATS

Of every description can always be
secured at Autsen's Meat Market.
$500 Coupon Books for $485. Good
meat is our speciality. Phone So.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19
Patience Worth.

Not since the late DR.. Isaac x. Funk
issued his pamphlet on the mystery Of
The Widows Mite" has psychical re-
search been so stirred as it is at the pres
ent moment by the conversations, aphor-
isms, poetry and prose compositions pro-
duced by a lady in st. Louis on an ouija
board under the Control" spirituistically
speaking, Of one Patience Worth, suppos-
edly the spirit Of a sixteenth-century
English woman. Indeed, compared with
the bulk Of the testimony gathered in the
famous report Of the Society for Psy.hi-
cal Research, these manifestations are Of
a far superior order. They are never
trivial; there is sense in them, and pro
verbal literally, in this instance,
the wisdom Of many and the wit of one.
for these aphorisms only restato familiar
truths in new forms.
Dead resolves are sorry fare" "Qunls
of sages were plucked from geese"
Should | present thee with pumpkin,
wouldst thou desire to count the seeds?"
There is no originality here but at least
familiar wisdom so pithily expressed as 10
be worth our while. The poetry has merit,
and throughout the language is truly that
lof Patience Worth's self-claimed period
on earth, the language of the seventeenth
century England.
The editor Of the book in which these
writings of Patience Worth are printed
insists strongly upon their high literary
quality. True, as has just been said some
Of her verse is excellent. But when we
consider her compositions from another
point Of view we hesitate. Ignoring their
supposedly superhuman origin, assuming
for the moment that they were recently
discovered In some obscure garnet in a re-
mote Tudor country dwelling, would they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19
No Trouble but Politics.

Reports from Albany declare that Gov
ernor Whitman and the legislative leaders
in conference have decided that the Mo
hansic State Hospital and the New York
Training School for Boys must be removed
from the Croton watershed. That has
been the Governors attitude ever since he
became convinced that to build those insti-
tutions where it had been planned to put
them would be equivalent to pouring their
sewage into New York's water pipes. With
the Legislature it is a horse Of another
color. Last week committees Of both
houses voted adversely on the Wagner
Bloch bills intended TO bring about this
removal and protect the city's water supply
against similar danger IN future. Now
the leaders are represented as being unde-
cided how to proceed.
There is no possible reason for indie
cision. If the institutions are built as
now planned, New York City will drink
sewage, and the Westchester County politi-
cal gang, which is fighting the proposal
to move them, will get the patronage of
one brand and another which it seeks. The
question which the Legislature must de-
eide is whether it cares more about the
health of the largest city in the state
which, incidentally, vitality affects the
health Of the rest Of the state-or more
about the Westchester County politicians
1t ought not to be hard question for any
legislator with a vision capable of under
standing anything beyond jobs and dollars.
The Wagner-Bloch bills should be re-
ported favorably anu adopted. That would
protect New York. After that there
should be little trouble in selecting APP
propriate and not too expensive sites for
the State Hospital and the training school
where no community's health would be
menaced.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19
a Naval Humorist.

Most people who read the testimony be
fore the House Naval Affairs Committee
of Rear Admiral William S. Benson, chief
Of Secretary Danielss new Office Of Naval
Operations, will think Of him mainly as
paceholder imbued with gratitude TO the
august chief whom it is his privilege 70
serve-to the great luminary about whom
he performs his official orbit. We prefer,
however, to consider him principally as a
humorist.
Gratitude would account for Admiral
Benson's assuming responsibility for cut
ting the Navy Departments estimate Of
aviation needs from S5000,000 to $4,000
600. 1t would also account for MS advice
TO the committee to 90 slow with authorize
tions for new battle-cruisers and fleet sub
marines. It might even account for his
lack of enthusiasm for any reorganization
of the navy which would put its military
control in the hands Of a Naval General
Staff.
In all these things the admiral is only
echoing the policy of those who surround
Mr.. Daniels and who share the Secretary's
anxiety to minimize the navy's manifold
shortcomings.
To prove his own efficiency Mr.. Daniels
seems to feel compelled TO insist on every
possible occasion that the navy is now not
only efficient relatively to what it was five
years ago or ten years ago, but IS also
efficient in an absolute sense-compared
with the standards set by the navies of the
other great sea powers.
Gratitude may carry Admiral Benson as
far as that. But we refuse 70 believe that
mere sense of obligation would have
led him to say, when asked about the suf-
fciency Of the present method Of control
ling and directing the navy through the
Office of Naval Operations: "The Secretary
is always there, anxious to keep in touch
with everything that is going on. With the
backing Secretary Daniels always has
given me, there's nothing left TO be de-
sired"
That tribute betrays a gift Of comic in
sight, of irrepressible humor. 1t is the
sally of the humorist who will not be de-
MED, who is able to carry his inextinguish-
able sense of the ludicrous with him even
into the atmosphere Of one Of Chairman
Padgett's ponderous and ceremonious COM
mittee hearings.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19
Pseudo Irish impostors.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: According to kilograms published in
our morning papers from New York, number
Of dsnterested pro-Irish patriots have come
together to devise some new plans to Glib
craze Ireland" The leading factor in this
great programme is no less a person than a
justice Of the Supreme Court Of the Empire
State. Hence, the matter should receive at
IGNITION Of all lovers Of Ireland, and am one
of them.
l think without question Ireland has suf-
fered moro from her loving friends than any
other country, and among those the palm
must readily be awarded TO those too loving
political lrish-Amercans and their followers
The people of ireland and England for the
last fifty years have been rapidly growing
closer, so much so that there are in Britain
at the present time far larger number of
Irish than in Ireland proper, and they are
among the most loyal, industrious and intel
iigent of the population.
There has not in that time been a single
measure or law passed for the welfare Of the
masses that did not receive their hearty sup
port, and now all this splendid labor is
sought to be reversed and upset By ire
sponsible mountebanks far from the danger
zone. The brave, devoted men who have de-
voted all their lives, fortunes and splendid
Intelligence to upift their countrymen must
now, forsooth, give way 10 a cabal of self
seeking poltroons who are looking for Ger
man votes. Their responsibility IS much
greater than they calculate, for the ardent
youth of Ireland is very apt to consider them
far beyond their merits, while We who live
here know their shameless perddy, and hence
promulgatc their mercensry motives.
As one who has been the victim Of this
mendacious vllany in youth, allow me to
enter my protest against these detestsbe
political trickstcrs and their unholy alliance
with German traitors.
C. F. BUCKLEY, B. A., NJ. D.
San Francisco, Cal, March 6, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19
As Americans Only.

The Jews of Philadelphia, regardless
Of the opposition to such an organization
on the part of many of their prominent
co-religionists throughout the country
have taken steps toward the formation Of
a Jewish regiment, and it is to be hoped
that the effort will meet the fate Of a sim
liar movement in New York some years
ago, when opposition on the part of The
Tribune gained the approval of the jew
ish press.
At that time it was pointed out that the
day Of the Scotch, Irish, French and Ger
man militia organizations had passed, and
that the revival of distinctive military
bodies of a religious character could only
be harmful, inasmuch as it would open
the path to the organization Of Protestant,
Roman Catholic or agnostic military units.
The Tribune said then: "The man who en-
lists in the national guard should do so
as an American citizen and not as a Jew
or as a Christian Of any sect or denom-
nation"
In commenting on these views in 1910
THE American Israelite" said:
All of the Jewish citizens Of New York
whose opinion is worth anything are OPP
posed 70 the formation Of such an organ
ization. Previous attempts to have the es-
Enlistment of a Jewish regiment legalized
have been defeated, and it is to be hoped
that this one will share the same fate.
What The Tribune said in 1910 is true
to-day. 1t fits Pennsylvania as well as it
does all the other states of the Union, and
now. as then, the men who voice the senti-
ment Of the best element in American Ju-
daism will urge young men of their persua-
sion to join the national guard, but to do so
not as Jews but as Americans.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19
THE COMING HOLD-UP
A Protest Against the Logic Of
Self. Defence.
b the Editor Of n Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: The featuring Of Hudson Maxim's let-
ter on THE Coming Hold-up" makes its in-
sccuracies stand out in bold relief From
the funny designation of the victim Of hold
up as the "holdee" to the fairly large state
ment that II Germany is victorious We shall
undoubtedly have to tight her when the wa
is over, there is nothing which strikes one e.
being accurately observed or adequately rca-
soned.
In the first place, it is always rather un-
fortunate when you are arguing agains-
pacitists to reason from individual self-pro-
lection in the case Of hold-ups and burg
laries to national self-protection in the case
Of war. You play into your opponents hands.
What they most desire is an application Of
our methods of protecting individuals to the
protection Of states Individuals don't arm
themselves to the teeth; if they do the Law
Furnishes them as dangerous characters.
They intrust their protection 10 the hands OF
the civil government and let it do the arming
for them. The result is more just, eco
nomcal and efficient system. That is just
what the pacifsts advocate among nations
not the immediate laying aside Of force, bu:
the effort to place It in the hands Of an in
ternational agency in order that justice may
be administered more impartially and eco
nomically. The reasons why nations must
not always depend upon their own arma-
ments are exactly the same as the reasons
why individuals must not depend upon their
own pistols.
In the second place, it is unfortunate to
speak as though honor" were the peculiar
concern Of armament advocates and as
though it consisted in building defences. To
the pacifst honor among nations is their
finest and most precious possession. He
thinks il should be maintained at all costs.
He thinks honor too valuable to be lightly
intrusted TO the care of armament. The
fortunes of war are too doubtful, the
strength even of strong defences too pre-
carious, the whole system too dangerous 90
make honor safe. II can never be rightly and
strongly maintained until IL is given inter
national defence. When the day comes when
nations will support international action as
they support ornaments the honor Of nations
will be safe. 1t is safer now with pacifsts
than with militarists. II. +. WHICHER.
Amherst, Mass, March 10, 1916
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19
Watchful Waiting.

Aye, we have watched and we have waited
long.
Waited, the while fatuous and supine,
As though befogged by dreams or dazed
with wine;
The hand that should be rigorous and
strong
Paltered and faltered, swayed as by the
song,
Known from of yore, of Gree to her
swine.
Whose, then, the blame, whose, then, the
fault malign-
Delay TO smite, and right the hideous
wrong?
His, aye, and theirs who close have held or
hold
Through policy in leash the eagles
BROOD
Honor, we hear, is now no more than gold.
Washington, Lincoln, Cleveland, spirits
bold,
Spur US, inspire US, as in years of old,
And rouse US from this base ineptitude
CLINTON sCoLLARD.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19
A Voice from Texas.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: The need Of this nation is man at its
head who knows what to do and when and
how to do ia man Of honor, courage, wis
dom, knowledge and reputation
This is no time for experiment or taking
risk where there can be certainty We have
that man, true and tried, possessing in full
and we'll rounded measure all the requisite
qualifications. His Official life of more than
twenty years is open book, known and
read OF all men, not only in his own country.
but throughout the civilized world. Super
added his popularity and magnetic influence
among the masses are unequalled by any
other living American.
With what has been said, IL is now IN
necessary to say that Colonel Roosevelt is
the man FOR the Republican nomination for
President
With him at the head there is certainty
not only Of his election, but Of the redemption
Of the honor Of our country from the deg
radiation and contempt in which it is now
held. He and he alone can and will unite
all the now discordant elements OF the Re
publican party, except a few disappointed
office seekers and grafters.
W G. ETHERIDGE.
Lott, Tex. Nsrch O. 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19

still seem so important 10 US as literary
/ products Of their day? Would we not
rather dismiss them as initiative, and find
their importance 70 us 10 be chiefly
/ pathological one? Withal, they are not
unworthy Of being submitted to the great
est living authority on mountaineering
English poetry, Sir Sidney Lee.
But their artistic quality has nothing TO
DO with the real interest Of these mani
festations The element Of fraud seems in
this instance TO be entirely excluded. The
medium, Mrs John II. Curran, is abun-
dantly vouched for She did not 90 into
frances; she disclaims all knowledge Of the
life and the tongue of Patience Worth's
period on earth. Scientific psychology may
furnish an explanation Of the mystery,
but, so it is reported, Mrs. Curran refuses
to submit to hypnotic tests.
And, in the end, Patience Worth brings
the psychical researchers no nearer TO
their true goal, which is a knowledge OF
the hereafter. She brings no message
from beyond the bourn. The communi-
cation she has established is purely mum
dane one. She assures her audience OF
Immortality, but that is a message which
spiritualists are convinced they have re-
ceived often before She is profoundly re-
igious; there is a strong touch Of the
Puritan in her-but her faith is essentially
that Of this world, not Of that other one,
where she is supposed to dwell.
The advance which her manifestations
must mark for the spiritualists is purely
an Intellectual, not spiritual, one. She
does not babble trivialities and obscuritles.
Hers are wit and wisdom, sense Of
beauty and poetry, and complete command
Ct the literary medium of the period to
which she assigns herself. But she does
not lift the veil.
The theory of deliberate fraud being
completely excluded, the only alternative
to the spiritualistic explanation Of Pa
thence Worth lies in the sub-conscious self
of the woman whose hands moved the
ouia board under her supposed control.
Skeptics and unbelevers will find this to
be the first spiritualistic document which
they can read with interest from beginning
to end.