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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11

They drew about it and much CONVEX
sation as to the different books and
their respective merits ensued. Ruth
read eagerly to an absorbed group of
younger children from a book, here
tofore too difficult for her six year
old knowledge. impelled by the desire
to have them share the facinating de-
tails of the story. Before the week
was over children came daily to bor-
row from the bookshelf until a child
ish method of keeping account of
the books loaned had to be devised.
Then the significant thing occurred.
Two children came with books to
lend to the shelf and gradually it grew
until there was constant exchange
of books with a system of regulations
made by the children themselves.
Here was a veritable children's IL
brary; its value as compared to the
stacks devoted to children in our VIII
lage institution. lying in the principle
of sharing behind it. Here the child
rem not only took books from the
shelf but brought them to it as we'll.
The playroom became in a sense a
community center. Home was the con-
Meeting link and sharing was social
lied to include larger group than the
immediate family and became in fact
JOY rather than a virtue in the sight
of the children.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11

theirs bought box of shells and laid
in ambush for Mr.. Lion. Not only did
they want to kill it to make their
cattle safe from attact, but loving
money as well as anyone they decided
70 summon all their courage and face
the dreadful lion, for they said it
would bring them a large sum of
money-probably eighty or hundred
dollars and that would buy another
Jersey COW to take the place of the
one the lion had frightened to death.
So one night |. V. and his brother
shouldered their guns and calling the
fierce bulldog, Frank, they went to
make an end of Mr.. Lion. They drove
the large herd of dairy cattle toward
the end of the pasture that was near
est to Jimmy's Knob, and pulled their
tails to make them ball so the lion
would know where they were and
come to get his supper. Then the men
got behind a tree and waited for the
lion to come. -.--'--------'
But the lion must have smelled a
mouse. for he did not venture from
his den. neither did he roar as he
had been in the habit of doing. Mar
ion and |. V. were disappointed. for
they did so want to kill it. With the
money received from its hide they
could increase their herd of diary
cows in which they were very much
interested. The next night the lion did
not come forth again, and Marion
and l V. began to doubt its being a
lion.
That evening. Eli, their brother
whose farm adjoined theirs, came
down and they began to tell him
their adventures with the lion. But in
stead of turning pale. and trembling
like leaf as they expected him, Eli
began laughing hard enough to split
his side. His brothers looked at him
in blank astonishment What are you
laughing about?" they gasped. And
then he told them of hearing the
same noise and had come to find it
was only a thin board with string
tied to it that the children of the
neighborhood had to amuse themsel-
YES with and the wind had carried
the sound down into the hollow max
ing terrible noise. So this was the
lion they had heard
Well you should have seen Marion
and |. V. They did not know what to
do or say But they did say that we
were never to mention the subject of
the lion again.
Contributed to The Breckenridge
News by Eula Jackson, Tarfork, KY.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11
Near East Relief

Breckenridge News: Perhaps your
readers, friends of our Near East
Relief work will be interested in ex-
tracts from a personal letter from the
Secretary, Mr.. Charles " Vickery,
New York, he says:
Dear Miss Daniel: | have just re-
turned, from a National Conference of
Near East Relief Workers at Ocean
Grove, where your State Director
spoke enthusiastically of the cooper
alton, she had received from you
during the past year
IL wish very much you could read
the reports that came into our office
of what your work has made possible
in life-saving service in Near East.
Our 229 N. Z. r. Orphanages
housing $4,000 orphans, and aiding
over $4,000 others; our 6s hospitals
and 1913 clinics, our IL homes shelter
ing and protecting girls rescued from
Moslem harems, bear eloquent tribute
to the work you have done
Il am just leaving for a hurried
trip, in behalf of our Executive Com
mittee, to Constantinople and Ar
menia for Conference with our work
ers to learn what the conditions and
requirements are for the coming win
ter.
"In behalf of these children we
thank you for the life-saving and per-
haps Nation-saving work that you
have done and are doing. Sincerely
yours, c. V. Vickery."
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11
THE PASSING OF THE HORSE.

When the tractor stalled in the heaping Drifts
And chugged till their breath was gone,
We called them, then, to the task again,
That we might carry on.
We called to the faithful, willing teams,
Close linked with our human lives,
To lend once more to the need OF war
To free the Seventy hves."
Into the thick OF the driving storm
They plunged and tugged their way
Was it delightful in their last brave fight,
At dusk Of passing dayl
felt the thrill of the heaving life
Bearing me through the snow,
Then passed in fight before my sight,
Steeds of the long ago.
saw them hitched to the Pharaoh's car
When the pyramids were new
When the Romans raced, and Caesar graeed
The chariot they drew
And down through all the countless years
From the early dawn till now,
They have borne the warrior in the charge,
They have drawn the toiler's plow
And who was he, the first to shoe,
In some dim age long past,
When the craft was newt We know not who
But shall we be the lastl
Because engines came, shall our horse-love
wane,
Shall the clean-shod workers gol
For a mass Of steel can we ever feel
As we do for the friends ws knowl
Canadian Blacksmith and Woodworker
Our Dumb Animals.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11
o o o o o o o o o o o.
o SHARING A o.
o PLAYROOM. O
BY Margaret Steel Hard.

Tumble Rajah" stood with his
legs far apart and pronounced three
year old judgement II like jim" "
he declared, because he always 'vid-
es." That after all is the real basis
for childish estimation of character
as we'll as for mature standards The
child or grown-up who divides fairly
is the likable, desirable member of
society.
How then are we going to make
sure of that fundamental quality in
our children? We are all familiar with
the usual possibilities for generosity
found in the life of a small child
the division of some treat of sweet
meats, the sharing of playthings with
brothers and sisters. These are good
but we need basis for sharing, larger
than that offered by such opportuni-
ties. Sharing should be a continuous
experience with the creative impulse
behind it just as much as any other
educative process. We must take shar-
ing out of the immediate realm of
home connection with it make il a
more social activity so that it shall
become pleasure rather than vir-
tue.
The following experiment worked
out in our own playroom with such
success that it seems capable of much
enlargement and offers at least some
light on the question.
Last winter the children had so
many books that their father built a
bookshelf running the entire length
of one side of the playroom. 1t was
only enough for the children to in
spect with ease the titles and covers of
the books-for they were arranged
with their covers turned outward so
as to meet the need of "Thumbie
Rajah" to whom the cover, not the
title. spells the name of book Dur
ing the week following the erection
of the bookshelf perhaps as many as
eight children from other homes came
into the playroom. Immediately the
shelf of books held their attention.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11
FARM BUREAU NEWS
Conducted by JOSEPH W. HARrH. County Agens

where lime was used. This increase in
wheat alone would easily pay for APP.
plying several tons of lime per acre
to a field, which should last for years.
We believe that without question:
lime and acid phosphate are the means
by which Breckenridge County Soils
can be economically improved
A campaign is now being conducted
in the county by the County Agent
and Farm Bureau, to increase the
number of tons of limestone used.
All Farm. Bureau members and other
farmers are urged to use some lime
stone on their wheat this fall, as
means of securing a stand of clover
next spring.
Any farmer interested in literature
on lime, or in the purchasing of a car
load, or in organization of a COM
munity circle to purchase lime pull
yer, should get in touch with the
County Agent.
Raw Rock Phosphate as Fertilizer.
BY many analysis made of Breck-
inridge County soils, il has been de-
termined beyond any question of
doubt that our soils are extremely
low in phosphorus. For this reason
all fertilizers purchased, regardless of
the crop for which they are to be us
ed should be purchased mainly for the
amount of PHOSPHORUS they contain
at the present time 1t is possible to
purchase Raw Rock Phosphate, at a
price of possible one third the cost of
acid phosphate.
Raw Rock contains approximately
twice as much phosphorus as acid
phosphate per ton, now it is possible
to purchase a pound of phosphorus in
the form of Raw Rock Phosphate at
one sixth the cost of a pound when
purchased in the form Of acid pros
phate. The PHOSPHORUS in the raw
rock is of course not Immediately a.
valuable, but when the raw rock is APP
piled in large amounts on soil well
supplied with organic matters, enough
will become available to
supply the growing crop. Prof. Rob-
erts of the Experiment Station saws
that when the price of acid phosphate
becomes more than twice as much
per ton as rock phosphate farmers !
may well consider the use of the lat
ter" This condition now exists and
it will be to the interest of many farm
ers who are large users of fertilizer
to consider this cheaper source of
Write the County Agent for any
details.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11
HARDIN AND MEADE CO.
OFFICIALS REFUSE TO
ACCEPT GOVERNMENT ROAD.

Officials of Hardin and Meade
counties are dissatisfied with the six
miles of new road which the gov
eminent has built to replace the
stretch of the Dixie Highway taken
over by the government when it took
possession of the reservation of Camp
Henry Knox.
County Judges G. w. Rider, Hardin
county, and S. L. Morgan, Meade
county, following inspection of the
new road, announced that they would
refuse to accept it and make formal
protest to the commander of Camp
Knox and authorities at Washington.
The road, the judges said, is merely
four inches of metal put over new
dirt fill not sufficient to bear the traf-
hc. 1t should have not less than ten
inches of stone. they contend. Frank
A. Breslin, Louisville, is the contrac-
tor.-Owensboro Messenger.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11
o o o o o o o o o o o;
o THE LION Of

Up in the Northwestern hills OF old
Kentucky, where grew the tall yellow
corn, the golden leaf tobacco, the
birds sang lovely songs, and the bees
humed merrily in the beautiful sum-
mer time; the roosters crowed carly
in the morning to wake the sleeping
farmers and the hens in the day sang
and cackled which meant a we'll flied
egg basket for Saturday, where peace
and plenty reigned supreme, lived a
family by the name of Jackson. 1t had
once been very large family but
marriage and death had taken away
SO many that there were only six
surviving. This included the father,
who was yet good man at the age
of sixty-six, and five boys, who to
do them justice, were all on some
scale good looking Roy, who was a
volunteer in Uncle Sans army was a
handsome boy as you would be likely
to find; Eli. another, was married and
owned one OF the best farms for miles
around. His wife was considered one
of the best cooks in the neighbor-
hood; Bonnie, at the time of this
writing had taken his spouse and NOV
ed to Ohio, and as he bears no par
ticular part in our story we will say
no more about him. Marion and his
brother, l. ", had possession of the
old home farm and as they were very
industrious, kept it going pretty
we'll
Marion. who was widower, had
built himself a small shack on one
side of the farm and taken to it his
three children |. V. occupied the old
homestead and was at this time not
married.
Marion and |. V. farmed on the
halves, raised corn, tobacco and things
needed for the table. They were at
present trying to eXperimnt in dairy
ing with four bony cows and a cream
separator.
| have spent so much time in tell
ing about the family that | really
haven't written thing of interest, but
now | am going to tell you of a event
that happened in this family that |
am afraid you will find hard to be-
lieve, but just the same it is all true.
One evening about dusk noise was
heard that really sounded like Cab
riel was blowing the trumpet and if
III really Hdu Dtcll III COulu not nave
frightened Marion and |. V, any more.
They did not know what to make of it,
but they said they believed lion had
escaped from a circus and had his
den on high hill close to their farm
called "Jimmy's Knob" For three
nights it came out and roared dread
fully and almost made the hair of the
Jackson Brothers stand straight up
i. v said he couldn't stand to stay by
himself so he got Marion's little boy
TO stay with him. Things went on in
this manner for several days, and
Marion and |. " said they couldn't
stand it any longer, for they said
there was no telling when the lion
might make raid on their dairy cat
tie.
And really one night the brothers
believed the lion was chasing one of
their best Jersey cows. but got fright
ened at their fierce bulldog called
Frank. and went back in his den on
the hill to wait for a better oppor-
tunity. But that better opportunity
never came for pulling together all
the wits they could master up the bro
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11
EVENTS THAT TRANSFERRED
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Breckenridge Wednesday August
The Breckenridge News. Wednesday, August 2, 1895
In Cloverport.

In Cloverport.
Mrs. Jno. d. Babbage and children
left Monday to visit her old home near
Brandenburg
Misses Elizabeth Skillman and
Maggie Bowmer went to Hardinsburg
Sunday to be present at the Bowmer-
Campbell nuptials.
-(o)-
Mr.. Edward A. Nissan, of this city
and Miss Make Bandy, of Union
Star, were married today at high noon
at the residence of the bride.
-(o)-
Mrs. VIM. Ditto and daughter,
Cornelia, Miss Addie G.. Ditto, Frank
lin Ditto, Sr, of Brandenburg, and
Franklin and DuRelle Fairleigh, of
Louisville, arrived Saturday and spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Jno. D.
Babbage
-(o)-
Ludwell, the three-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. V. G. Babbage died
very suddenly last Saturday with
diptheria.
-(o)-
p DISQUALIFICATION to the wife of c.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11

d. Hardaway, July 81, daughter.
-(o)-
Miss Zelma Strother gave a lawn
fete last Friday in honor Of her Wis
itors, Misses Clarkson and Love.
-(o)-
Mattingly-S c. Frank was called
to Rockport, Ind, last week to the
bedside of his sick brother, Chas.
Frank, who is yet no better.
-(o)-
Mr.. Geo. Gray will begin his school
at Bal,town next Monday, Aug. 10
We hope Mr.. Gray may have as sue
cessful school as he did last year.
-(O-
Clifton NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are too
cheap to be good
-(o)-
Born to the wife of John Hatfield
on Aug. sth, darling girl, Johns all
smiles.
-(o)-
A. NJ Hardin, Lodiburg, has the
boss chester white pig, which he has
named Free Silver" and tipped the
scales at ffty-three pounds, eight
weeks old.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11
MEASURING PRICE OF
HOGS IN BUSHELS.

Measuring the prices of hog in
bushels of corn, instead of in dollars.
is form of applied mathematics
used by the United States Department.
of Agriculture in keeping tab on prices
OF farm products. theoretically 100
pounds of live hogs should be worth
about 10 bushels of corn. The ratio
varies. 1t is generally highest in the
corn belt and lowest in New England,
the far South, and the far West At
the present time the ratio is unusually
narrow-that is, 100 pounds of hogs
is not worth asNmany bushels of corn
as. usual The department, draws the
inference that during the next 1s
months hogs will advance more than
corn or corn will decline more than
hogs.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11
Common Sudan Grass

Common Sudan Grass
The Experiment Station is now
feeding 40 dairy cows so pounds
Sudan Grass daily, and will continue
TO do so until September 18th. The
Sudan Hay was first cut in July and
made 1-2 tons to the acre, and the
second cutting will bring the produc-
ton to IL or ~ tons to the acre.
Stock Foods, TONES
and Worm Expellers.
The following extracts are taken
from an article prepared by the Vet
Urinary Department of the College of
Agriculture, on the dangers associated
with the use of so called stock tonics
and worm expe1lers.
So called stock tonics and stock
foods are not essential to value. They
contain much substance that is val
ueless. Meny of them are actually in
furious, and when you take the coun-
try over, the total less following their
use is very great, il you want to feed
salt to your animals give it in the
pure form. II the condition of the
animal or animals is such as to need
some agent that happens to be an in
gredient of stock tonic, purchase it
in pure form and administer accord
ing to the best method for that parti-
cular agent to be affected for the dis
ease which it is to be given.
II an animal is sick, che only logi-
cal procedure is to determine the ma
ture of'the sickness and then to ad-
minister a treatment that has known
value for the. disease If the animal is
not sick it does not need medicine or
tonic.
Can Farmers Afford To Use High
Price Fertilizer on .Wheat1
Experiments conducted by the Ex-
pertinent Station on the various soils
outside the Blue Grass Region show
that when 16 per cent acid phosphate
was used at the rate of 200 pounds
per acre on wheat, it gives an in
crease of 1-2 bushels of wheat per
acre, on ground that has not been
lined and bushels per acre increase
on land that has been lined. The pre-
sent price of wheat easily justifes the
purchase of acid phosphate, even at
the present high price.
Limestone Campaign
Attention is called to the above item
in which the Experiment Station
found that 200 pounds acid phosphate
per acre without lime made an in
crease of 4 1-2 bushels per acre of
wheat. and an increase of 9 bushels
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11

the solitude of his study at the White
House in those anxious days before
the assembling of congress. He could
not divide the burden of such heavy
responsibility he had to bear it alone
and without precedent to guide him.
Should we give a further trial to
armed neutrality? Or should we en-.
ter upon an Independent naval war.
fare against the submarine menace to
our shipping? Or should we back the
allies with money and supplies. but
leave them to do the fighting? Or
should we join forces with them unre-
servedly, contrary to the historic pol.
Icy Of America to go 1t alone?
Those alternatives were in every
mind in that bewildering period. and
the president had to choose between
them in framing the policy to be sub.
mitted to congress. He made the
bOider choice of going into full part.
nership with the entente allies, pool.
Ing with them all our resources, our
man power, our money power and our
producing power.
The broad plan which he unfolded
and which congress quickly approved
assured in advance the success Of the
great. unparalleled undertaking, and
he pushed it through to victory with
grim, unrelenting persistence. Ameri-
cans generally assumed ut the start,
and the British government agreed
with them, that we should not have
to send a great army to Europe, If in
deed any at all. But when 1t became
an imperative necessity to go at
double quick to the relief of the bro
ken line In France. the foundation was
so well laid that we rose to the I'M
foreseen emergency, building up In a
year and half an army Of 100000
and ferrying 100000 soldiers across
the Atlantic.
The brains Of the country, all the
talents, were mobilized for the war
merchants and scientists, bankers and
railroad men, labor leaders and cler-
gymen. each being charged with the
task for which his training fitted him.
1T is race between Wilson and
Hindenburg," said Lloyd George, when
the big German drive surprised the
entente and smashed through its
front In the spring of 1918. Well,
whoever won the war. Hindenburg
lost that race.
The rest-the presidents journeys
to Europe. the treaty and the battle
over II, are history still In the max
Ing. Many years must pass before
that extraordinary chapter In the story
Of the presidency will be finished and
may be told In the spirit Of historical
'mDartiality.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11
ONE HUNDRED WOMEN
TO TAKE STUMP FOR cox.

The Woman's Bureau of the Ma
tional Democratic Committee will
send out battalion of 100 women
speakers, who will stump the country
in interest of the election of Gov
Cox for President. The women will
be genralled by Mrs. George Bass,
chairman of the Woman's Bureau,
and later the Battalion of Death" as
the women speakers will be called
may be recruited to include several
hundred spellbinders, occupying plat
forms in every section of the country
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11
SERVICE CHART
AGAINST CHOLERA

In its efforts to hold down hog
cholera with a reduced force, the
United States Department of Agri-
culture is putting out new type of
poster In a sense it is a service chart.
Its picture says to the farmer,
when your hog looks like this, look
out for cholera" The picture of hog
in colors shows. the visible symptoms
of the disease. There is printed on the
poster information as to how to pro-
coed
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11
U. S. DEPT. CUT $7s, 4o4, ass.

Washington, Aug. 3.-The gross
National debt was reduced a total of
S76,404,453 during July. according to
the Treasury statement today. This
leaves the public debt at $24, 222, 917 ola
The reduction was accomplished
through the retirement of that amount
of Treasury certificates of indebted
ness.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11
A LESSON FOR GRUMBLERs

rich Gin
them They
On.
only
this whole annual of $4,000
these surprising figures:
reporting moons from to $4,000.
reporting from $4,000 $4,000
incomes from $4,000 to 100000
3,3o2 reporting incomes from 100000 to $15oOoo
reporting incomes from S150OO0 to 100000
reporting from 100000 $5O0O00
reporting incomes from 100000 S,O0OOO
incomes from million and Total 1896
According would be possible to assemble
who income $4,000 single
half of Cincinnati What nconsdabe fraction
of fellows who have little than they
slight the lives!
What ifing difference would make in personal condi
if their shared with the OF us!'
The International Revenue Bureau has ruled that brew
providing
necessarily have contain less than
half alcohol doesn't
giving thirsty neghbor of cider
the
bushels of wheat Lab
be
artheest
Millinery predicted cheaper has for
will what's
the difference?
Hardnburg Sphenspo be holding their
population
of this having dull in
Cloverport.
shopping before Christmas
Be don't picnic dates mixed
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11

t9t7-Feb. 9, President Wilson
broke OF diplomatic reIs-
tons with Germany on her
renewal Of ruthless sub
marinIno.
April 2, read his war mes
sage TO congress.
f9fe-Jan. 10, laid before the
senate hls ~ points.
Nov. II, the armistIce
signed with the German
evolutionary government.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11

I'd and shopping days before Christmas
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11

Hardinsburg and Stephensport be holding Their
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11

any rate, we can't complain of this having been d
port.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-08-11

don't get your picnic dates mixed.