davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-13
SHE is MUCH-NAMED PEERLESS
Widow of Sir McGarei-Hogg Has
Changed cognomen Oftener Than
Any Other Person in England.

Apropos of a paragraph about "the
late Sir McGarel-Hogg, correspond
ent writes:
Ellis widow, Lady Magheramorne, Is
still living, age eighty-two. Although
only once married. she has probably
had more names than any other person
in England. Born a Douglas. she be-
came Douglas-P ennant when her father
assumed the latter name.
ION marrying, she became Mrs.
Hogg: then her father was raised to
the peerage as Lord Penrhyn, and she
added Hon to her name. Then her
husband succeeded to the baronetcy,
and she was the Hon. Lady Hogg.
"Then he added McGarel to his sur
name and afterward became Lord
Magheramorne.
..When her husband died she was the
Dowager Lady Magheramorne, but
after her eldest son died and his widow
remarked she again became Lady Ma
gheramorne, as the present peer IS
bachelor. London News.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-13
ILITERATE USE 5000 WORDS
Persons of Fair Education Are Said to
Have. a Vocabulary Ten Times
as Large.

The Chautauqua Magazine said
few years ago: ut is estimated that
an English farm hand has vocabu-
larry limited to 800 words. An Ameri-
can workman who reads the newspa-
perS may command from 700 to 1000
words. Five thousand is large num-
Der, even for an educated reader or
speaker" This differs considerably
from the statement published in re-
Gently compiled English encyclopedia,
which states that ''it has been reck-
oned that the agricultural 1aborer uses
about 1 500 words, but this is probably
an overestimate. Intelligent artisans
have vocabulary of 1000 words, while
educated persons are familiar with, if
they do not use, 5000 to 10000 words"
This is a step forward all along the
line, but it is a long distance from DR..
Joseph Jacobs discoveries. In a re-
cent review, Doctor Jacobs said "that
the average well-educated American or
Englishman can control from 10000 to
$4,000 words. But given an Individual
with vocabulary of 10000 primitive
words, it is a simple matter for him
to increase his stock of words by the
use Of prefxes and sufixes. From four
to six derivatives may be formed by
the use Of these from nearly every
primitive word. IF proper names be
added to either of these totals 100000
to 6O,OOO), they might yield total of
$4,000 to 10000 terms, says the New
York Times.
The foregoing facts seem to warrant
these general conclusions: Every we'll
read person of fair ability and educa-
ton will be able to define or to under
stand as used nearly or quite, perhaps,
more than $4,000 words. And the same
person in conversation and writing will
command not fewer than $4,000 to TO-
600, and can add 5000 to 10000 to
these numbers if he be literarily in
clined. The plain people, as Lincoln
liked to call them, used to read under
standingly from 5000 to 10000 words,
according to- their general intelligence
and conversational power, while q
person who cannot read, but who has
q good degree of native mental ability,
will command about 5000.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-13

Not only women and girls, but babies
in arms are becoming addicted to the
cigarette habit in China. The vice is
becoming SO prevalent that Woman's
Christian Temperance union society
has been organized in Chefoo to fight
it. Candy peddlers wait outside kim
dergartens with pretty little boxes of
cigarettes to sell to the smal1 boys and
girls for a penny, and the Woman's
Christian Temperance union president
told recently of receiving visits from
high-class ladies whose babies in the
nurses arms cried and fretted until
they were given a cigarette to quiet
them.-The Continent. -
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-13
CHAPTER xIv-continued.
p

81 believe 1t is" Wilson smiled at her.
"And yet, you continue to tempt me
and expect me to yield" Sidney replied.
zone Of the most delightful things
about temptation is yielding now and
then"
After all, the situation seemed alb
gurd. Here was her old friend and
neighbor asking to take her out for
daylight ride. The swift rebellion Of
youth against authority surged up in
Sidney.
"Very well; I'll go"
Carlotta had gone by that time
gone with hate in her heart and black
despair. She knew very well what the
issue would be. Sidney would drive
with him, and he would tell her how
lovely she looked with the air on her
face and the snow about her. The
1erky motion of the little sleigh would
throw them close together. How well
she knew it all He would touch Sid
ney's hand daringly and smile In her
eyes. That was his method to play at
love-making like an audacious boy, un-
III quite SQO0CAAAy LAAO ~AOCHA ~ OEE~N
and the danger was there.
If she could get Sidney out OF the
hospital, it would simplify things. She
Surmised shrewdly that on the Street
their interests were wide apart. 1t was
here that they met on common ground.
Carlotta gave the five-oclock medi-
cines. Then she sat down at the table
near the door, with the tray in front or
her. There are certain thoughts that
are at first functions of the brain;
after long time the spinal cord takes
them up and converts them into acts
almost automatically. Perhaps because
for the last month she had done the
thing so often in her mind, its actual
performance was almost without con-
scious thought.
Carlotta took a bottle from her
medicine cupboard, and, writing new
label for it, pasted it over the old one.
Then she exchanged it for one of the
same size on the medicine tray.
Throughout the dining room busy
and competent young women came and
ate, hastily or leisurely as their oppor-
Hunity was, and went on their way
again. In their hands they held the
keys, not always Of life and death per-
maps, but of ease from pain, of tender
mess, Of smooth pillows, and cups Of
water to thirsty lips. In their eyes,
las In Sidney's, burned the light Of serv-
Ace. The supper room was filed with
their soft voices, the rustic of their
skirts, the CLEAN of their stiff white
caps.
When Carlotta came in, she greeted
none OF them. They did not like her,
and she knew it.
Before her, instead Of the tidy sup
per table, she was seeing the medicine
tray as she had left it.
III guess I've fixed her." she said to
herself.
Her very soul was sick with fear of
whRt she had done.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-13
Preparedness unappreciated.

A city-bred child whose knowledge
OF the wild was very limited was walk
Ing through the woods with her COVER
ness. They CHANGED upon a porcupine.
At the approach Of two individuals
whose intentions might be hostile the
creature bristled aggressively, its
weaponlike quilts rising In menace.
"Oh, look !" exclaimed the little
girl. what a fright we have given
that funny animal! It's hair is stand
Ing on end!"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-13
Doino Without Copper.

In Germany, where almost all the
copper is needed by the army, some in
genious substitutes have been found
for it in the peaceful arts. In house
wiring, for instance, iron wire has
taken the place of copper. Iron cannot,
however, be used as conductor OF
electricity, for long distances, nor
where exposed to the air, because it
would cost too much and because it
rusts too quickly. Nor can it be used
for telephone wires.
Locomotives are now built with
scarcely any copper, Siemens steel TAX
ing it's place. Enameled iron is now
used in hreweries, kitchens and other
places which had to give up their cop
per tanks and kettles.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-13
eHAPrER Nv.

At something after two o'clock that
might, K. put down his pipe and lis
tened He had not been able to sleep
since midnight. In his dressing gown
he had sat by the small fire, thinking.
Ihe content Of his first few months on
Ehe Street was rapidly giving way to
unrest. He who had meant to cut han.
Helf of from life found himself again
In close touch with it; his eddy was
asep With IL
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-13

'They Say Gave Him the Wrong
Medicine"
senfeld, and closed again. Only Sid
ney and K. remained by the door, iso-
lated, alone.
"You must not take 1t like that,
dear. It's sad, of course. But, after
all, In that condition"
1t was her first knowledge that he
was there. But she did not turn.
"They say poisoned him." Her
voice was dreary, inf1ectionless.
"You-what"
'sThey say I gave him the wrong
medicine; that he's dying; that MUIR
dered him." She shivered.
K. touched her hands. They were
ice-cold.
'TeIl me about 1t"
"There is nothing to tell. came on
duty at six o'clock and gave the medi-
clnes. When the night nurse came on
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-13
CHAPTER XVI.

To Harriet kennedy, Sidney'ssentence
of thirty days suspension came as
blow K. broke the news to her that
evening before the time for Sidney's
arrival
The little household was sharing In
Harriet's prosperity. Katie had n
helper now, a little Austrian girl
named Mimi. And Harriet had estab-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-13

had thought, at first, that ne cOu1d ngnC
down this love for Sidney. But 1t was
increasingly hard. The innocent touch
Of her hand on his arm, the moment
when he had held her In his arms after
her mothers death, the thousand small
contacts of her returns to the little
house-all these set his blood on fire.
And 1t was fighting blood.
Under his quiet exterior K. fought
many conflicts those winter days-over
his desk and ledger at the office, in his
room alone, with Harriet planning fresh
triumphs beyond the partition, even by
Christine's fire, with Christine just
across, sitting in silence and watching
his grp7e profile and steady eyes.
He had little picture of Sidney--a
snapshot that he had taken himself,
her hair blowing about her, eyes look
ing out, tender lips smiling. When she
was not at home, it sat on KS dresser,
propped against his collar-box. When
she was in the house, it lay under the
pin-cushion.
Two o'clock in the morning, then.
picture propped, not against the coli
lar-box, but against his lamp, where he
could see 1t.
He sat forward In his chair, his
hands folded around his knee, and
looked at it. He was trying to picture
the Sidney of the photograph in his
old life-trying to find place for her.
But 1t was difficult. There had been
few women in his old life. His mother
had died many years before. There
had been women who had cared for
him, but he put them impatiently out
of his mind.
Then the bell rang.
Christine was moving about below.
He could hear her quick steps. Almost
before he had heaved his long legs out
Of the chair, she was tapping at his
door outside.
ITS Mrs. Rosenfeld. She says she
wants to see you"
He went down the stairs. Mrs. Ro-
senfe1d was, standing in the lower hall,
shawl about her shoulders. Her face
was white and drawn above it.
Eve had word to go to the hospital"
she said. II thought maybe you'd go
with me. 1t seems as If can't stand 1t
alone. oh, Johnny, johnny
"Where's Palmer?1 K. demanded of
Christine.
He's not in YETI
"Are you afraid to stay in the house
alone?"
mo; please 60"
He ran up the staircase to his room
and flung on some clothing. In the
lower hall, Mrs. Rosenfeld's sobs had
become low means. Christine stood
helplessly over her.
81 am terribly sorry" she said
terribly sorry When / think whose
fault all this ISL
Mrs. Resented put out work hard
ened hand and caught Christines fin
gers.
Never mind that" she said. "You
didn't do it. / guess you and under
stand each other. Only pray God you
never have a child"
r. never forgot the scene in the small
emergency ward to which Johnny had
been taken. Under the white lights his
boyish figure looked strangely long.
There was group around the bed
Max Wilson, two or three internes, the
night nurse on duty, and the Head.
Sitting just inside the door on a
straight chair was Sidney-such Sid
ney as he never had seen before, her
face colorless, her eyes wide and IN
seeing, her hands clenched in her lap.
When he stood beside her, she did not
move or look up. The group around
the bed had parted to admit Mrs. Ro-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-13
Miuht Help.

She chatted gayly while he tinkered
with balky motor.
YES the story gave me quite q
start
"Um," he growled, II wish you'd
tell it to this automobile"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-13

New York's 1915 death rate, 1884
In each 1000, is the lowest in Is years.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-13

What do you think is the real
secret about X. LeMoyne? Why
has he given up his promising
career? What does Carlotta
Harrison know about him that
is damaging? Some interesting
developments will be recorded
in the next instaIIment.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-04-13

GO BE CoNT1NURDQ
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-10-20
SELECTING; SEED CORN FOR
NEXT YEAR.

(By Felix Bachemin, Jr., Agent.)
Fall is the time to start right to
grow a larger crop next year. Now
is the time for all farmers to lay a
foundation for thirty or forty bush
els Ito the acre instead of the average
twenty in our parish.
Doubtless it is the great adapt
ability, general thriftiness and pro-
ductlyity of corn that have made it
the countryis leading crop. Its
adapta5ility is SO great that lit is a
crop of Importance in practically all
parts of the United States, and it
has a greater variation of types and
forms than is found in almost any
other species of plant.
The growing of this seed year
after year under local conditions has
developed strains particularly suited
to- local conditions of climate and
soil. Many sections of the State
possess types or strains Of corn that
have been grown sufficiently long 70
weed out the unit and perpetuate
the fitteSt.
In seed corn selection the lIfst I'M
portaut step = TIE chotce q . aocany
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-10-20

It is a comprehensive exhibition OF
what the ambitious boy or girl may
achieves in agriculture, livestock rails
ing, dairying, horticultural, home, gar
dening. domestic science or household
economy. 1t is an exposition OF the
marvellous improvement in farm ma
chinery and agricultural implements.
1t is an object lesson in the great
part which improved machinery plays
in the development and cultivation OF
tie farm and the increased prosperity
of the farmer.
Look for Yourself.
The chief educational value Of our
fair lies in the fact that it is demon-
strative in character. The eye is a
more convincing instructor than the
ear. We are slow to accept and be-
lieve in any new method until we have
had optical proof Of it's superiority
over the old.
Often it is difficult to secure the at
tention Of the busy man or woman long
enough to give such demonstration.
Not infrequently it happens that farm
ers who would be most benefited by
better methods Of farming are not. suf-
ficiently interested to be present at
any special meeting chilled for the pur-
pose of discussing the subject.
INT the fair anpeals to that trait q
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-10-20
MRS SMITH RECOMMENDS CHAM.
BERIAAIN'S TABLETS.

II have had more or less stomach
trouble for eight or ten years."
writes Mrs. G. H. Smith, Beaverton,
N. Y. when suffering from at
tacks Of indigestion and heaviness
after eating. one or two Of Chamber
lafn's Tablets have always relieved
me. have also found them a pleas
ant laxative" These tablets tone
up the stomach and enable II to per
form it, functions naturally. II you
are troubled with indigestion give
them . trial, ct veil and stay we'll.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-10-20

New Orleans, October 9, 1917.
John s. Dennee, OF New Orleans,
field agent tor the Bureau of Crop
Estimates, United States Department
of Agriculture, from his own obser-
uations and a large number of re-
ports furnished him by a selected
list of cane growers, estimates that
the condition Of Louisiana sugar
cane on October I, 1917, was "A per
cent of normal, or full crop, as
compared with % per cent ON Oc-
tobeE l, 1916, and "a per cent, the
average on October Of the past ten
years.
Long periods of drought during
the spring and summer months, and
low temperatures in September, are
slhe reasons commonly given for the
Backward condition. According to
some planters the crop is from thir-
ty to forty days late, and many fields
show only poor to fair stands.
Every opportunity will be given
the cane to develop to the fullest de-
gree. in consequence of which the
grinding season is expected to be late
in getting started.
Condition hgures by per.shs fol-
low:
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-10-20

adapted variety. Next comes the
choice of good, wen-matured field
of this variety which has not grown
within some good distance of an
other kind of corn. Wind often
carries corn pollen for several hun
bred feet, and two kinds planted
close together will cross-pollenate or
mix, making variable corn from
which lit is necessary to eliminate
the unfit by seed selection.
By selection the tendency to pro-
Efficacy or many ears to THE stalk can
be increased. Except for fodder
corn or silage corn, a large number
of small ears to the stalk is less de-
sirable than two large ears. Large
ears should be preferred, but the
size should he due to great length
rather than to great diameter.
Very thick ears are slow In drying,
and often spoil. Long, broad and
thick kernels are preferable. Ten
der, close-fitting kernels are STOW dn
drying and when planted usually
itart growing with less vigor than
large, heavy kernels.
A good corn crop is impossible
without good seed. Good seed can
always be available. The methods
of selecting 1T are not difficult or in
tricate, therefore the planting of
poor seed corn is made unnecessary.
A good corn for any saotio is a
corn THAT natures in time to escape
frost or drought and that produces
grain or shelled corn Of good quality
abundantly. On the other hand, a
corn should be sufficiently late in
! maturing to utilize THE entire period
OF good growing weather, as longer
growth is favorable to greater pro
duction. With these points we'll un-
derstood the only remaining charac-
tiers that constitute good selection of
seed corn are: desirable stalks, ears
and kernels, remembering that we'll
matured ears and preserved from
ripening time till planting time in a
manner that will RETAIN it's full vigor.
At corn-ripening time drop all
other business and select AN aIbund-
ance of seed corn. The process is
too important to be conducted in
cidentalfy while lusking. When Sc
lecting seed corn give the proce s
your. entire attention. Get the very
best that is to be had and preserve
1t we'll, and your Increased yields
will return you more profit chan any
! other work you can do on your
| farm. The only proper way to Sc
aect seed corn is from THE stake;
standing where they grew, as soon
as ripe, and before the first hard
, freeze.
If you have ever found yourself
| compelled to plant corn that was not
fit for seed, do not get caugh. that
way again, especially during these
war times, and the surest safeguard
against this is select your own coed
corn this tall. It is too discourag-
ing TO begin the season with poor
prospects, of good crop. Get your
seed at ripening time when the best
qua1ity g most plentiful. Get IN
abundance enough for planting
noAin = 60 4our 4r1t planEine r
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-10-20

mankind which demands entertainment
and amusement and becomes conn
mon forum for the discussion OF all
matters having to do with agriculture,
industry, the home and the school.
In this clearing house Of education
the farmer learns what the manufac-
turer, the merchant and the banker are
and have been doing to make his la
Dor less arduous and his farm more
profitable and the town resident learns
what rapid progress is being made In
agriculture. A bond of common inter-
est is created which means much to
both town and country.
Value to Everybody.
The farmer learns by actual obser-
walton of the newest devices and inn
prOvementS in agricultural imple-
ments. He learns their use and bene-
fits. He learns in what way they
assist in soil cultivation, In plant
growth, in sowing, in harvesting, in
threshing. He learns the economic
value of the more modern machinery,
Of the silo, of motor power on the
farm.
The urban dweller is furnished a
vivid picture Of the agricultural re-
sources of the community. He learns
about the fertility of the soil in the
vicinity; Of what is being done to in
crease the farm yield; to improve the
quality of the stock, and to multiply
the total dairy product.
Every man and woman, whether
town or country resident, is brought
into closer touch with the home life
of others. All imbibe that broader
education which means cooperation
that ideal education which is service
to self and all humanity.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-10-20
VALUE Of FAIR
TO OUR PEOPLE
Agricultural and industrial Show
for Both the Town and
Country Folk.
AN EXCHANGE FOR new IDEAS
Besides, Il Appeals to All Of Us Who
Want to Be Amused While We're
learninQ-closer Touch With
Home Lives Of Neighbors.

The fair Is an educational clearing
house. It Is an agricultural and in
dustrial institute for residents OF both
town and country 1t is short course
in better farming and better living. It
Is physical demonstration of why the
man who farms with his head instead
Of with his hands must inevitably sue
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-10-20

destroyed. or probably an extra sup
ply for some farmer who may move
into your community, or for
netghbor who could not select his
seed corn at the proper time.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-10-20
THE FAIR
BY Douglas MalIoch.

We wrest uberranean from
Nor with the boodred hand Of make a
tears
Ours the wealth Of Gods good SOIL and his earth leave
mark
But burrows of the farmers toll the business of thousand
years.
Here assemble what grew here have gathered the yield,
The products Of the work the who ask
These the children of the seed the fertile field,
world ct weary to feda noble duty honest task
Even Of labor done have hour deeper thought
To the glory Of the smiling fruit and golden gran
Zen in the froc Of the fair realize how God has wrought
Till herds blossoms bear
his
All mindful of work again another yet to be,
Let forth rejoicing then pass merry week away
Proud Of the treasures that with and industry
Taking of earth both fruit and flowers, taking of life both
work and play. i
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-10-20
Percentage o. q nor
NAL, or full crop rep
resented by 100.

Average for tine Cane Betl