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THE FARMINGTON TIMES, if AKMimiiurs, mu, w . w-i .... w . , ... - . . 'r... . T .' T t FOR THE RURAL SCHOOL GIRL When the rural school course is finished the country girls are sometimes at a loss for some thing to do. The allurements of the city begin to- call them. Dai sy or Mary have already been there for some time and have been sending home tncouraging reports. Before listening would it not be better to look at what lies around us? For work there is always the housework and cooking, each an art in themselves. Then the poultry, cows, bees, small fruits and gardening. "Phew!" you whistle, "I have a close acquain tance with all you name." Do you ? Look up your farm papers and if there is a farm bureau in your county attend its meetings and all agricultural lectures giv en in your county and see if all these departments of farm life do not have a different meaning to you than mere drudgery. A great apetizer for farm life is a short course in home economics and agriculture, at one of the State agricultural colleges or normals. Three months in the latter can be had for about $60., board and books included. If this cannot be tak en, much information can be ob tained from the farm magazines and books and by observing the successes and mistakes of others. For recreation, there are the birds to listen to and study, the flowers and shrubbery to be looked after, fishing trips, a week's camping out, etc. You say that is in story books; per haps so, but all these and more can be had on the farm. It is, will you, not can you, take recre ation. It costs money because it costs time, but costs less than doctors' and funeral bills, and is minus the suffering. With this brief review of home opportunities, let us go to the city. We arrive at Union station and in the large waiting room are met by a neat mother ly old lady who invites us to pleasant lodgings. "How nice," you exclaim. But no, see she has no badge of the Y. W. C. A. j and we had better hunt one of j their rest rooms which we can find by asking this policeman, j There we can find directions to a reliable boarding place. Now that we are at home, let us answer this "ad." Wanted Doctor's office assistant, Apply at two o'clock. Let us go ten minutes earlier than the time specified, but what does this mean? There are twenty-five ahead of us and the doctor opens the door and tells us that he thinks he has already selected his assistant. The wages paid for this much-sought-after position ? Five dol lars per week. "I believe I would prefer a position as cashier in a large department store," you say. Let us interview the man ager of one of these stores. Six dollars per week is the best he can offer, he says, and the cash ier is required to make up any deficits found in the cash box. We answer yet another "ad". Wanted Office assistant. A neatly-dressed little maid meets us. and tells us that in order to get the position we must pay one dollar and they would en deavor to get the position for us. "In case you fail?" we ask. "The dollar cannot be refunded, of course," is the reply. You see we have been nicely decoyed into an employment agency. I think now that we had better make inquiry among the shop girls themselves and find how they have obtained their positions,. Some tell us that they started on wages from three to four and, in rare cases, seven dollars per week, and they either had friends who made the board rate cheap or their homes are in the city and they are do ing this for pin money or to help eke out an otherwise scanty liv-linsr. Now let us figure a little. Take the maximum wage, seven dol lars. Rarely can board be ob tained for less than five dollars per week ; laundry, car fare and clothing are yet to be considered You see it isn't in the seven dol lars, and the finely dressed clerks must find the means some other way than their wage, even though they advance to ten dol lars per week salary. It is true some climb the lad der to buyer for their special de partments, or to some other po sition of trust and remuneration that is worth while ; this can on ly be done through long service, special ability or influence. Now, are you sure that you are so well fitted for the venture as to take the risk? If so, I'll leave you, with "Be sure you are ! right, then go ahead." If not sure, come let us go home and take up what lies around us. AUNT FANNIE. EXCERPT FROM SPEECH OF I SENATOR J AS. A. REED (By Ralph R. Guthrie.) So much has been said and written of the cutting sarcasm and bitter irony of Senator James A. Reed, that persons who never have been fortunate enough to hear him in action probably will be interested in an excerpt from the speech that defeated the confirmation of T. D. Jones, nominee of President Wilson for membership in the Federal Reserve Board. The Senator took the position that the proposed regional bank act should be tested bv its friends, and insisted Jones' finan ! cial connections as a director of the International Harvester Co aligned him with the natural ' enemies of any measure intend Bora Values Are Supreme ALUE depends upon what you &et at a price, rather than the price you pay. And the House of Born has earned the largest tailoring trade in the world by &ivin& supreme Clothes value better woolens, trimmings and workmanship than you will find in any other clothes sold at the same price. If you have been paying $35.00 a suit, you will find as much satis faction and service in a Born suit at $25.00. And if your price is $20.00 you'll feet woolens and workman ship that can't be duplicated for $25.00 in any other tailoring line. Give us a chance to prove it. A. C BOYD FARMINGTON, MISSOURI ed to insure the country against the machinations of Wall Street. The breach which was created by the speech between the Pres ident and Senator Reed rapidly healed, but the fame of the jun ior Senator's smashing attack on the harvester trust and T. D. Jones brought him the nickname of the "Battering Ram of the Senate." Part of. Senator Reed's speech follows : "Monopoly is a quagmire that has a common origin and a com mon bed. Touched at its cir cumference, it quivers through out its entire body. Shake it and there will come crawling to the surface the foul beasts that inhabit its slime. Their heads will appear in concert, and their angry cries unite in an inharmo nious chorus of malediction Disturb the International Har vester Co. and you arouse the Steel Trust ; awaken it, and you excite a chain of subsidiary companies; you arouse the ma licious activity of every news paper controlled by crooked bus iness. Therefore, it is not a sur prise to find that certain news papers are attacking me be cause of my fight against the Harvester Trust and against this nomination. "I deny, sir, that monopoly is a good thing. There can be no monopoly that is not built upon the grave of human hopes. There can be no monopoly that has not crushed out the life and the prosperity of individuals and of communities. There never has been a good monopoly, and there never will be. Until you can find a beneficent murderer, or a Christian burglar, or a kind hearted assassin, you will not find a good monopoly. Monopoly is born of greed ; it is cradled in avarice; its soul is cupidity. There never was a monopoly created in this world but that the man who created it did so in order that he might take ad vantage of the necessities of his fellow man. Always and for ever the vision before the eye of the monopolist is so to control a prime necessity of life that he may be able to compel the people to pay his price. His object is not to compare in the market, but to sell to hungry mouths at the price hunger is willing to pay. "It has been so from the first. The earliest monopoly of which we have record was in the land of Egypt. There were seven fat years. The world laughed with glorious harvests. The Valley oi the Nile was rich in fruitful crops. Vast fields of grain stretched away like shoreless yellow seas. The king learned that there were to be seven years of famine, and so, at th cheap prices of the hour he gath ered into vast granaries the im measurable crops of corn. He awaited the hour when the peo ple must buy. Then came the years of drought. The hot sun shot its firey arrows into the burning soil. The earth opened its mouth and cried for water Nature refused to produce her fruitage "Then came the brown hosts nf Ecrvnt the women whose sons and brothers had died i give glory to the Empire the soldiers upon whose stout shields had been borne to a thousaiK victories the imperial monopol ist. "With parched lips they cried, 'Give us corn, O, Pharaoh.' Then spake the king: 'Bring hither your silver and your gold.' They piled it in shining heaps at the feet of the monster they had worshiped as a god. "Again they cried, 'O, Pha raoh, give us corn lest we per ish.' The merciless reply came, 'Bring hither your flocks and your herds.' They drove the lowing kine through the dusty valley of the Nile and surrender ed them to the tyrant's insati ate greed. 'Once again came the piteous appeal, 'Give us corn, O, Pha raoh, for we die of hunger. ' He looked upon them; the lips of want were drawn back from the teeth of starvation; their eyes were bloodshot from the agony of hunger; the flesh had fallen from their bones. They crouch ed before him, a skeleton army upon which death had cast his ashen mark- Pharaoh knew the time was ripe to enslave the people, and he said: 'Bring hith er your sons and your daughters, your manservants and your maidservants.' When the an cient monopolist had concluded his hellish bargain, he owned all the lands, and all of the cattle, and all of the gold, and all of the silver, and all of the bodies, of the countless hosts of the em pire of Egypt. Five hundred years afterward the Sacred Writer declared, 'the people are slaves even unto this day.' "Such is the story of the first monopolist of whom we have record in history. Every man who has since gathered the ne cessities of life, cornered the means of production, conspired and combined until he dominat ed the commercial world has" been inspired by the same mo tives, has pursued the same methods, and is no better than the heathen king of 4000 years ago." 1 .18 FOUR MONTHLY MAGAZINES 1 .18 And Our Paper All One Year THIS IS A REAL BARGAIN ACT QUICKLY 1 Send ut your order right awiy, or give it to our repreentati, or call ind fte ... -k i n v,m have never mbscribed to our paper before, do it now and get theie four magaiinei. If you are a regular iubscriber to our paper, we urge you to lend in your renewal at once, and get theie lour magaainea. n you a . .uu .criber to any of theie magaiinei, tend your renewal order to u and we will extend your lubicription for one year. TtiSnl nf It Yon can get these four Magazines for - Ql inillK Ul I If If you Sufcicribe to oar paper for one year. W VTe have (ample copiei of theie magaiinei on diiplay at our office. Call and we them. They are printed on book paper with tfluitratea coven, anu are clean, intereiting itorifi and initructive article! on mitory, ociencc, ......v. Faihion, Fancy Needlework, General Farming, Live block and rouitry. $ .is Send Your Order Before You Forget it $ .18 JSL Th Vairiilaai! Will St nn Prnmntl. Whf.n Time i lid THE S. E. MO. PRODUCTS SHOW Yes, he will be a candidate fori dependent livlihood for young re-election to the office ot As On October 27, 28, 29 and 30, there will be held at the State Normal School the 3rd annual Products Show. At this show each county competes for cash prizes in field, orchard, garden, timber and geological products The prizes are so arranged that it is possible for a county to win $100.00 and, as there are five premiums in each class, every county stands a good chance of winning something. In addition to the county pre miums, big prizes are offered in dividuals for exhibits of any thing grown or made in South east Missouri. The Corn Show, formerly held in January, will be held with the Products Show. Three other big meetings will be going on in Cape Girardeau at the same time. They are the Southeast Mo. and Northeast Arkansas Highways Association, and the Southeast Missouri Woman's Federation of Clubs, and the Southeast Missouri Teachers' Association. Write for premium lists. Plan to be in Cape Girardeau Octo ber 27, 28, 29 and 30. - SETH BABCOCK, Cape Girardeau, Mo. PRESIDENT WILSON WILL VOTE FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE sessor for St. Francois County. That is the pleasing remark you hear on every street corner about our friend, Lawrence O. Wells. We do not say so from a politi cal or prejudice standpoint, but we say it to be just to him. He is the first real Assessor we have had for many years. Mr. Wells assesses all alike; he goes to their homes and sees for him self what they have, he don't stand on the street corner and naaosti the entire block. An other thing he has done that is out of the ordinary for men who have held the office before his time, and that is he 1 as press ed the majority of the foreign ers, who have been allowed to work here, live and enjoy our liberty and not pay one solitary cent of taxes, but now they have to pay the same as Americans. Another thing of importance he has done and that is to assess some members of the lead com panies, who heretofore have been allowed to "slip out" of paying their taxes here, by claiming their residence in New York, at the same time they held a residence in the County. He, women. Elmo McCtintock, official Court Reporter for the 28th Judicial District, made us an appreciat ed visit last Saturday. He re ports his brother, Earl is suc ceeding nicely with the Himmel berg and Harrison Lumber Co., Cape Girardeau, as stenograph er and general office assistant. William Green was a recent visitor in our office, reporting his daughter, Golda, has been promoted to an excellent posi tion. It is in order to mention that several other stenographers are in the same office with Miss Green, having been there much longer than she, but Miss Green's work was of so high grade that she was give the promotion ov er these other young women. Mrs. Barrett of Bismarck vis ited her daughter, Irene, one of our students, Tuesday. Miss Margaret O'Sullivan, who has been with the Palmer Penmanship So. for two years, made us a highly appreciated visit one day this week. Wm. Kendall is now doing janitor service, superseding Mr. Cook. At this writing we have en- too, has lowered the general tax! rolled four new students this I 1 J till ..I-...!, 1 . I II for the lnhnrinr men all over the , wecK, anu slm. .mvu F,v,....o county by assessing all alike. When you pay your taxes you others to enroll next Monday. In fact, we are very anxious to V lien vuu pay juui tuo.,u must remember that the cause! have all who can join us on the ,.f ti in,ronae,l tPS vnu have I 18th inst, as new classes will be i HIV. ...X I The following statement has been sent out by President Wil son, defining his position: "I intend to vote for woman suffrage in New Jersey because I believe that the time has come to extend that privilege and re sponsibility to the women of the States, but I shall vote, not as the leader of my party in the nation but only upon my private conviction as a citizen of New Jersey called upon by the Legis lature of the State to express his convictions at the polls. "I think that New Jersey will be greatly benefitted by the change. My position with re gard to the way in which this great question should be handled is well known. I believe that it should be settled by the States and not by the national govern ment, and that in no circum stances should it be made a par ty question, and my view has grown stronger at every turn of the agitation." Running water is badly need ed on every farm. Are you planning to provide it? to pay are not of the general tax, but is due to increased school taxes, which in many cas es have been doubled on account of newly erected school buildings which have been erected in num erous parts of the county, places that have only a small popula tion, and beautiful brick and granite school buildings, which cost as high as $30,000. Mr. Wells is not responsible for that and if you will study your tax receipt and compare it with the old one you will discover what! we have tried to tell you that he has lowered your general tax. St. Francois County Record. organized j Newcastle, Intl. Moab Tur ner, 77, is dead. Thirty years ago he suffered his first stroke of paralysis and made his fune ral plans. A walnut chest was turned into a coffin and given to the local undertaker to care for. He will be buried in the walnut casket. ' J BUSINESS UNIVERSITY NOTES President Moothart has just received a letter from Miss Ma bel Brown, saying that she ar rived in St. Louis on Tuesday, and by Wednesday evening had the promise of two excellent po sitions, and accepted one with the General Roofing Manufac turing Co., being much pleased with her work. Her salary is lucrative and the writer is pleas ed to know that Miss Brown is now, as she has been since grad uation, a very enthusiastic sten ographer and endorser of busi ness training, as a means of in- HESttME Til crei it NO OTHER LIKE IT. WO OTHEU AS GOOD. Put. hae the "NEW HOME" will have life a-'t nt the pike sou pay. The elimination of repair rxpenao by superior inr.ntlup ami l;ct quality of raster ul fn.tires B!c-onf -rv..-r m nj oi mum com. 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