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PHONE NO. 7 N The June just past was a record breaker In more senses of tbe word than one. On tbe evenings of tbe 9th and 10th frost was reported from many sections of the country, while on ifie 18th temperatures several degrees above the 100 mark were reported from many central western cities. 'An odd incident is related In a late Issue of an eastern agricultural Jour nal of a bantam rooster that apparent ly became disgusted with the desertion of a clutch of eggs by bis mate and accordingly got on tbe nest and sat on them until the eggs hatched. It is more than likely that his mate was a suffragette and that he was trying to make the best of a bad situation. Beekeepers will be interested in a bulletin lately issued by tbe bureau of entomology of the department of agri culture at Washington, No. 1G9, treat ing of sackbrood, which is an infec tious disease and causes the death of tKe larvae in the comb cells. Copies of the publication may be bad at 5 cents apiece by applying to the super intendent of documents, Washington. That ability to resist electrical cur rents is largely an individual matter or varies greatly with individuals is shown in the recovery of a Nekoosa '(Wis.) young man after coming in. con tact with the high tension wire at the substation of the Chippewa Power company, which carries a current to taling 33,000 volts. This is more than twenty-five .times as strong as the elec trical current that is used In official electrocutions. While in no way allied to the bird family, mud turtles also lay eggs. In stead of sitting on the eggs, as do the mother birds, the mother turtle scoops out a hole in tbe sand In a sunny place and there deposits her eggs, usu ally from fifteen to twenty-five In number. These are hatched by the heat of the sun. The eggs of the snapping turtle are white, round as a bullet and have a shell that is tough and pliable like parchment Too many parents take the Puritan attitude toward their children that If they do well in whatever task is as signed them it is no more than they ought to do, while if they do 111 they should be upbraided for It This may work well with some boys and girls, but tbe more sensible plan would seem to be to give a cordial word of appre ciation for work well done. It will do the recipient good and in most cases .win also serve to develop the sympa thies and sensibilities of the one who gives. Older people crave merited ap preciation. So db boys and girls. The Adair County News and Weekly Cour-ier-Journal, both one Year Each $1.50 AN ACQUIRED TASTE. Odd Compliment That Was Paid to an English Artist. Richard Wilson, the English land scape painter, was not of a pliant dis position. Conscious of his own merits, he disdained to humble himself to those who measure men by rank and value them by pounds. But Wilson's friends liked him no less for his brusque manner. Goldsmith, Sterne, Wilson and Dr. Johnson were assembled at Garrlck's house-with a party of ladles for sup per. "We were very lively at your ex pense indeed, gentlemen," said Mrs. Garrick, rallying them for having ar rived late. "To punish you for not obeying our summons the ladies likened you all to plants and fruits and flow ers." "Pray let us hear," said Wilson. "Doubtless I come In for 'a sprig of laurel." "No, sir," said the pretty, lively lady; 'you are wrong." "For rue, perchance," said he. "No, sir; guess again." "Why, I am dubbed bitter enough, perhaps a crab," said he, "for that man," pointing to Garricfc, "has dub bed me Sour Dick." "Guess again," said Mrs. Garrick, laughing. "Will you give it up?' "Yes, madam." "Why, then, sir, you are likened tc olives. Now, will you dare to lnqulr further?" "Let me see," said Wilson, with all eyes upon him. "Well, then, my dear, out with it! I dare." "Then know, sir," said she, rising and courtesylng most gravely, "Mr, Wilson is rough to the taste at first; tolerable by a little longer acquaint ance and delightful at last" Ex change. CAUGHT THE BLUFFER. Do Wint's Clever Ruse That Sold Ono of His Paintings. Peter De Wint the English land scape painter, was accustomed each year to have a semi-private show of his pictures before sending them to the "Water Color society's exhibition. Oa such occasions his friends frequently bought pictures', which, of course, ap peared at the public exhibition marked "Sold." Among the painter's friends was a wealthy man who wanted to appear a patron of art and at the same time keep his money. He managed this by loudly admiring the paintings already sold. He was always a bit too late to buy the pictures that pleased him most and having seen them, as he wa wont to declare, he could never content himself with less beautiful works. De Wlnt at last suspected the man's sincerity, and when the next show day came round he concluded to test him. After plenty of time had been allowed for De Wint's friends to make their purchases the rich man arrived. As usual, his eye soon fell on two "per fect gems" marked "Sold." Turning to the artist he said: "Now, De Wint those are exactly tbe things I should like to possess. What a pity they are not to be had." "My dear sir," said the painter, slap ping him on the back, "1 knew you would like them, so I put the tickets on to keep them for you." The awkwardness of the situation was only relieved when the enthusias tic admirer became the somewhat un willing purchaser of the two "gems." Youth's Companion. Resistance to the Sun. Animals whose capacity for thermal regulation is limited, such as rabbits and monkeys, rapidly succumb to ex posure to the tropical sun. In the came circumstances the skin of a man rises some 3 or 4 degrees O. above the normal. Theoretically the black skin of negro races should absorb more hea than that of the white people. How ever, colored races are better able than the white to regulate their temperature under the influence of the tropical sun perhaps because perspiration Is more abundant The ape, although a native of the tropics, is less capable of resist ing tbe sun than other animals and even the white man. This is no doubt attributable to the fact that its natural iiome Is in the forests. For certain monkeys two hours of exposure to the tropical sun Is fatal. le Woman's Tonic FOB SALE AT ALL DRUGGISTS V4 I km Too a Woman? IN TKE WORLD OF SPORT Yale Eleven Has a Strong Defensive Line. IL s V- Photo by American Press Association. WAKREN, RIGHT TACKLE. One of the particular blue ribbon events of the football season will of course be the annual battles between Yale, Princeton and Harvard. The Yale line is calculated to be one of the best in the country this year and is depended on to stop the heavy Harvard backs and the speedy Prince ton back field. Warren, at right tackle, is one of the Yale line men that can always be de pended on to do strong defense work, and he is effective in breaking up in terference. An Odd Baseball Play. President Tim Murnane of the New England league has made a decision on an odd play in settling a disputed game between Portland and New Bedford. President Humane overruled his um pire on the play and awarded the game to Portland, which would have won it otherwise. Murnane's decision ex plains the disputed play as follows: "One man was out and one man was on third base when a fly was knocked to the outfield, which was juggled by one outfielder and caught by another. The umpire allowed a double play aft er the ball had been relayed to third because the runner left the base after the ball left the first man's hands. The umpire should have allowed the run, as the runner was entitled to leave the base the moment the ball touched the fielder's hands, whether held, muffed or juggled. This run would have won the game and prevented it from going an extra inning. Accordingly the pro test is allowed and the game awarded to Portland." K. O. Brown Going Back. It was only the semblance of the old Knockout Brown who fought against Danny Ridge in the Atlantic Garden in New York city recently. The once re nowned "Knockout" just about held his own against the east side light weight and failed to show the speed, aggressiveness and power that made him a championship contender only a year ago. He was a great deal off on judgment of distance and did not quite show the fondness for mixing it up that one time characterized his style. A whirlwind start and an equally fast finish gave Ridge an even break with his more famed opponent. Football Players Must Study Also. That the Princeton faculty will show no partiality to athletes was demon strated again recently when it was definitely learned that L. H. Boland was ineligible for this year's football eleven. Boland has an enviable grid Iron reputation, and on him the Tiger supporters were pinning a large part of their hopes. He is a quarterback and a field general of exceptional ability, and he is a past master In the art of kicking and forward passing. He en tered Princeton last fall. Wefers Thinks Mark Will Go. Bernie Wefers. one of the holders f the world's record of 21 1-5 seconds for the furlong dash, is reported to be pf the opinion that the distance can be ran In less than 21 seconds. V- V id a&HK& '' -Ami K ROUND THE WORLD Chicago has 300.000 Polish inhab itants. Nearly all the timber tised in Greece is imported. Only 7.4 per cent of the territory of Italy is unproductive. An international oil industries expo sition will be held in London in March and April. Sweden is being urged to pa&s a law giving women the right to propose marriage. In the city of New York there are upward of 5,000 building material teamsters. The Chinese have innumerable uses for empty tin cans, fashioning them Into many and various household uten sils. Immense steam shovels made in Chi cago have been ordered for new har bor work in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Russia has 1,400 acres of tea planta tions, and the acreage is Increasing constantly. By the end of 191G the Chinese army expects to have 1,000 aeroplanes, this year's budget calling for the purchase of 250. The laying of a new cable will place England within ten minutes of Bom bay. Hongkong, Colombo and Singa pore. Switzerland, in proportion to its pop ulation, spends more on poor relief than does any other country. Chinese boatmen at Macao have been letting off bombs and crackers to in duce the gods not to injure them with a whirlwind. St Louis Is installing fire escapes on all public school buildings In obedience to new state law. Bedsteads sold in India have to have upright corner posts for the hanging of mosquito netting. A Scotch builder has invented a new type of wall tie that grips half a dozen bricks instead of two, as usual. A tube which extends from the cen ter of the bottom toward the spout of a new teakettle admits heat to hasten the boiling of its contents. A giant among motorcycles is a French machine of fourteen horse pow er, designed chiefly for pacing bicycle riders on race tracks. Amsterdam, the diamond cutting cen ter of the world, has more than 1,000 applications from persons who wish to learn the art An Englishman has discovered a method for growing lawn grass on such a foundation that it can be handled as a carpet or rug. Blunt business letters, without salu tations and flourishes, are in South America considered evidences of bad business breeding. Much of the experimental apparatus, notes, etc., of Volta, one of the pioneers in the electrical field, were recently dis covered in a small Italian town. The largest bridge ever exported from England, and the largest but one ever built having a total length of 5,323 feet, is being constructed for use in India. At the request of the government of China a Chinese student has been as signed as aid in one of the field parties of the United States geological survey. Bread may be kept fresh for several days at temperatures below freezing or exceeding 104 degrees, according to a Dutch scientist The largest settlement in Greenland is Sydproven, which has a population of 7GG, and the smallest is Skansen, in north Greenland, with forty-six inhab itants. The largest cement kiln in the world, operated entirely by electricity, recent ly was put into operation by a Penn sylvania plant The desire for equal suffrage has spread to India, where successful meet ings on behalf of the cause are being held and unusual interest shown In the demand for women's enfranchisement. Three of the buoys of the ill fated Andree expedition to the north pole have been found. Disaster probably overtook Andree between Franz Josef Land and Nova Zembla. Although the United States is the richest country in the world in deposits of peat, none of several peat fuel plants that have, been established have gone beyond the experimental stage. One of the largest of the great sci entific and industrial congresses is to be held In London in the early part of June, 1915, in the shape of the sixth International congress of mining, met allurgy, applied mechanics and practi cal geology. Considered the most costly in the world, a set of porcelain dishes has been on exhibit at an art show in St. Petersburg. It consists of thirty-six hand colored plates. This set has an estimated value of 36,000 rubles ($1S. 540), a single plate, therefore, being worth 1,000 rubles (515). It is the property of Count Orloff-Davidoff. A severe blow will be dealt to the Indian cottonseed industry unless a way can be found to clean the seed before it is shipped. In England, which takes OS per cent of all tbe cot tonseed exports of India, the importers have decided not to accept any here after which contains over 2 per cent of dirt At present the dirt averages not far from 8 per cent An extraordinary case of religious mania is reported from Panama. An Individual who has proclaimed himself the Messiah predicts the destruction of the world by a deluge in a short time, and some of his eighty adherents are engaged In building an ark, while others are busy collecting In pairs ani mals of all species found in their region. THE ROMANCE OF FARMER-DALE Lost Faith In Womankind and Then Regained It. I was on a wheeling tour and stop ped for supper and all night at a for lorn looking farmhouse. 1 was sur prised' to see no woman about all the work being done by the owner of the place, Ezra Dale. After supper I light ed a pipe and sat on the porch smok ing. Dale came and sat beside me. "You have finished your evening chores early," I said. "When my wife is without a servant she never gets the dishes washed before 9 o'clock. "Waal, you see, I don't do it that a-wa3 I wash dishes oncet a week." I "Don't you think a wife would be handy? She could do your mending." "Don't need no wife. I got needles an' thread an buttons." "Where's your thimble?" I asked. "Don't need no thimble." "Did you never have a love affair?" "Yes, oncet It was when I was a young feller very young an' very green. I used ter look on a gal as a heathen would look on a sacred image. There was a little one livin across the creek, Farmer Owens' daughter Daisy. Purty? Ye bet, an' gentle as a kitten. She tuk a shine to me. I was a fair Iookin' young feller then, straight an' slim an' light on my feet One evenin I was a-passin' Farmer Owens', an Daisy come runnin' out with her finger a-bleedin an' asked me to tie it up fur her. I had ter git her arm under mine somehow an hold on ter her hand an" ) wrap the linen strip an wind tne string an' a lot of things all at the it I same time. While I was a-doin' of her hair got ag'in my cheek, an waal, I lost my head an', turnin', put an arm around her an kissed her. "Do ye know, stranger, I've since made up my mind she done it all a-pur-pose. I b'lieve she cut her finger on tentionally. I tell ye, women folks is tricky." "I think that was a very nice fem inine way of catching your attention." I remarked. "Go on." "That's jist what I did do. I went on from day ter day, week ter week. till if. seemed ter me if anvthinsr ban- I pened between me an that gal I'd col-! lapse. Somethin did happen. Farmer Owens tuk a farm nan' fur the hayin', an' what did Daisy do but take him out in her buggy that her father bought fur her at Christmas an drive right hv that house a-nurnose ter show him off ter me I tell ye, stranger, she had the wickedest eye in her ye ever see." "Another feminine trait" I observed. "Miss Daisy was evidently a woman." "She was a woman, stranger, an tbe worst kind of a one," Dale went on lugubriously. "She broke me all up. I j jist rented this farm an went away. I didn't come back fur ten years. Then I made up my mind that women folks j wasn't wuth worryin' about, an I tuk my farm ag'in an' began ter work it The fust time I went by Farmer Owens' Daisy come out she had I grown ter be a fine iookin' young wo- j man of twenty-six an what do ye i suppose she did?" "I can't imagine." "Asked me if I wouldn't tie up a cut finger. She had the same wicked look in her eye she had when she drove that lopsided farm ban' by my house ten years afore. Women is the persistent est critters I ever see. I jist squared off an' said: Ye don't git me that a-way ag'in. Ye done it oncet. an that's enough.' But. do ye know, stran ger, she was so slick about it that in five minutes I had my arm about her an' she was a-restin' her head on my shoulder. She was a-cryin. too cryin' crockerdile tears, no doubt "Waal, we was engaged, but it didn't las long. The question come up as ter whether we'd be married by a jus tice or a parson. I don't like parsons myself, an I wanted a justice. Daisy wanted a parson, an' she was so blame set about it that 1 reckoned if she was as obstinate about a small matter like that she'd be wantin' ter run the farm, so I called the thing off. an' I've been livin' alone here ever since." "Mr. Dale." I said, "you have mis taken natural feminine traits for gen eral cussedness." "That's what they is, I tell ye, stran ger. Ye don't understand." "You have declined to give up that which to a woman is a great deal, while to you it is nothing. Miss Owens was right to insist on being married by a parson, and you were ungenerous to refuse her. Now. let me give you a bit of advice. Miss Owens is still single? Yes. Well, go to her and tell her that when you first met her you were a blundering idiot and that later you were an obstinate brute. Say that If she will overlook your past errors you will spend your life in doing penance." "Why. stranger, if I was ter do that I'd never have any own way about anything afterward." "It is the only way to have your own way about everything with a wo man. Toss it all into her bands, and she'll toss it right back to you. More than that she'll expect 3;ou to lead, and if you don't lead she'll not respect you." "Ye don't mean it! Say, stranger, what sort of a makeup do ye call that anyway?" The next summer I rode past Farm er Dale's place. It was the trimniest looking farm in the county. Alter supper the farmer told me how much better contented he was while Mrs Dale was washing the dishes. FOR THE CHILDREN A Number Puzzle. Ask a friend to thiuk of two. thre6 or more numbers, none of which must exceed uine. and you will tell him the numbers thought of. If he thinks of two numbers double the first and add 1 to the product, multiply the whole by 5 and add to that product the sec ond number. If there be a third make him double the first sum and add 1 to it; then desire him to multiply the new sum by 5 and to add to it the third number. If there should be a fourth l number you must proceed in the same manner, desiring him to double the preceding sum. to add 1 to it. to mul tiply by 5, and then to add the fourth number, and so on; then ask the num ber arising from the addition of the last number thought of, and if there were two numbers subtract 5 from It; If three, oo; if tour, ooo, ami so on, tor the remainder will be composed of figures, of which the first on the left will be the first number thought of. next the second, and so of the rest Suppose the numbers thought of to be 3. 4, G; by addding 1 to G, the dou ble of the first, we have 7. which beiug multiplied by 5 gives 35; If 4, the sec ond number thought of, be then added, we shall have 39, which doubled gives 7S, and if we add 1 and multiply 79 by 5 the result will be 395. Lastly, if we add G, the third number thought of, the sum will be 401. and if 55 be de ducted from it we shall have for the remainder 34G. the figures of which 3, 4 and G indicate in order the three numbers thought of. Conundrums. Why are potatoes and corn like cer- I tnin slnnors of old? Because they have eyes and see not, and having ears they near noc Why is a trader like a divinity stu dent? Because he studies the prophets. What was the longest day of Adam's life? The day on which there was no Eve. Why is a roomful of married ladies like an empty one? Because there is not a single person in it. What is the difference between a cat and a comma? A cat has its claws at the end of its paws, a comma its pause at the end of a clause. Why is a black man out for a holiday like a bandy legged man? Because the ; negro's out (knee grows out). j Why is there never such a thing as ' one whole day? Because every day j begins by breaking. J Why does a good blow leave a blue ' mark? Because blow in the perfect makes blue. Boy Scout Tree Census. Massachusetts Boy Scouts of Ameri ca are enlisted in a state competition i which has assumed big proportions. A "tree census" is the strenuous task the boys have tackled. In different towns and cities scouts are busily canvassing their own localities. listhrz the trees and getting data concerning the species, health and general ap pearance. A system of cards with spaces for diagrams, statistics and other information is in use. Pretty large consignment this work of list ing all the city trees in Massachusetts! But the boys are competing for prizes which will equip the troops that win them for many months to come. The State Forestry association has offered three prizes $G0. 350 and $40. The boys may have the money or the equivalent in trophies. A City Problem. What is the city of learning? Uni- versify. What is the city of enmity? Animos ity. What is the city of shrewdness? Saagcity. What is the city of truth? Veracity. What is the city of doubt? Perplex ity. What is the city of greed. Voracity. What Is the city of ostentation? Pomposity. What is the city of spring? Elas ticity. What is the obstinate city? Perti nacity. What is the city of inclination? Pro pensity. What is the animated city? Vivacity. What is the plain city? Simplicity. Game of Cobbler. The players form a circle around one of their number, who personates the cobbler and for whom a stool is provided, on which he takes his seat saying, as he goes in mimicry through the operations of his trade: "Come, ladies and gentlemen, come and let me try on your shoes!" to which the band reply by dancing round him as quickly as possible, singing, "Try, try!" The cobbler, without moving from his seat strives to seize one of the dancers a girl by her dress or sash, a boy by his leg and, if he suc ceeds, becomes master and remains idle in the middle of the circle, while his prisoner pays a forfeit and becomes. cobbler. vff. 1, M 1 v Hidden Hardware. The wren chased the swallow through; tbe field. I am glad Jessabol takes to Latin Ir school. Under the willow I remained during' the storm. The courtier's courtesy was sham, merely sham. The ship's crew gave a lovely eater tainment The doctor saw Milton ailing, yej gave him no medicine. Answer.-Wrench, bolt, wire, bfiT , ner, screw, nail. f y K r I fr. v 41 LSf.S. 'f. r .v