PAGE 0 TILE CITIZEN, PKIDAY, DEO. 18, ifliii FOUR INSTITUTES FOR THEFARMERS Addresses to be Given by Experts MEETINGS TO HE HEM) IN HONESDALE, GALILEE, OAL KINS, HEAOHLAKE IUOGKA PIHOAL SKETCHES OF LEOT UltKKS. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture will conduct four Farm era' Institutes In Wayne county dur ing the month of December. The times and places of meeting of theso public exercises are as follows: Honesdale, Court House, Dec. 1G. Galileo, M. E. church, Dec. 18 and 19. Calkins, Dec. 20 and 21. Beachlake, Dec. 22 and 23. The exercises are public and free, and everybody Is Invited to attend. Local committees have been appoint ed In each town to look after the preliminary details of tho conven tion. W. E. Perham, Pleasant Mount, Is chairman of the Insti tutes. Educational and dairy, stock and orchard sessions will be held, at each convention, when addresses will be delivered by Dr. M. E. Conrad, Westgrove, Pa., H. M. Anderson, New Park, Pa.; Br. J. H. Punk, Boyertown, Pa.; U. P. Kester, Grampian, Pa. Mrs. Geo. E. Mon roe will speak at the Hamlin con vention which Is to be "held there January 18 to 20, 1912. A question box will be a feature of the Institutes. In the discus sions all sectarian and partisan top ics are excluded. As these meetings are for the benefit of farmers and their families and all others who may be interested, the Institutes are held either in halls or churches. At least three State speakers will be In attendance at each meeting. Music, properly conducted, has a place on every program, but Is to be Introduced as a recreation. ?25 Is appropriated to each two-days in stitute, to bo used for local expenses such as printing programs, rent of halls, necessary expenses of local managers, etc. Brief biographical sketches of the Institute lectures who have been as signed to Wayne county follow: H. M. 'Anderson was born August 2G, 187 1, on the farm which he has recently purchased from his father. He graduated from the Y.ork Col legiate Institute In 1894, since which time he has devoted practical ly all his time to agriculture. Has been for quite a number of years growing very profitable farm crops 'in what has until very recent years 'been called the York County Bar rens. He Is particularly Interested In growing alfalfa, potatoes and corn and Is doing experimental work with these crops; has an apple or chard of which he Is very proud and is a close student of .modem 'methods of Increasing soli fertility. Dr. Milton E. Conrad was born in southern Chester county, in 1851, of an ancestry of successful agricultur ists. He obtained his education In the public and high schools and Millersvllle State 'Normal school. He was for some years engaged in farm ing in his home locality; later tak ing the course in veterinary medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating In 1891, In which he has for several years been lecturer of Dairy and Milk Inspection" and Vet erinary Obstetrics. Throughout his veterinary career he has been close ly identified with dairy interests, practicing for some years In a dairy locality, and having for over ten years given his entire time as In spector and Consulting Expert for a large number of the dairies furnish ing milk to the City of Philadelphia from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware. ' J. H. Funk, M. D., 6th generation from Bishop Henry Funk, who emi grated from Holland in 1719, was born In Lower Providence, Mont gomery county, Pa., was .brought up on his father's large dairy farm; at tended public schools in tho winter. In 1859-18G0 attended Freeland 'Seminary (now Ursinus College); began the study of medicine in the spring of 1863 and received his di ploma as Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania In the spring of 1865; opened tho first drug store In Boyertown and Tun it sev eral years In connection with the practice of medicine. Served several years as the Burgess of Boyertown, also as Town Councilor and eight years as School Director. Always be ing In love with horticulture, pur sults.he planted a large orchard In 1879. In the year 1896, he planted another apple and peach orchard and 1jis continued planting until he has about fifty acres of the most profit able orchards In the state. Such a thing as "off-year" bearing Is un known in these orchards. Was several years Pennsylvania State Pomologlst. It. P. Kester was born In Clear field county, Pa., Jan. 18, 1867. He now resides on the farm which his maternal great grandfather "took up" and partially cleared nearly 100 years ago. It was farmed for 80 years In the old way and the fertility was depleted until It was one of tho worn-out 'farms. During the past few years Mr. Kester and his young er brother have been farming and dairying by modern methods, until now even five blades of grass grew where one grew before. Their lead ing business Is dairying, although fruit, poultry and trucking Tecelve attention. He was fifteen years a teacher and always a close student. Mrs. George E. Monroe graduated from Geneva, N. Y. State Normal School Classical Course. Taught two years In Dryden High school. Has lived In her present home, a farm of 60 acres, for the past twenty-five years. Before the College of Agriculture was founded at Cornell, she assisted Prof. W. W. Wing In carrying on poultry experiments. Since then has regularly lectured to the poultry classes, being there for "Farmers' Week" also. For three years sho was on the Poultry Insti tute staff with Prof. James E, Rice, conductor. She has twice been In Connecticut State Meetings and for several years has been Institute I Lecturer In this state. Has bred and exhibited Single Comb Black MInorcas for 21 years exclusively, taking premiums at Boston, New York, Newark, N. J., Atlantic City, Pan-American and St. Louis Exposi tions. Has also raised ducks and turkeys. FINES PAlf EXPENSES OF NATION'S JUSTICE. Attorney General's Annual Report Sayt Department Was Self Sustaining. Attorney General Wlckershnm in his annual report stated that in the last fiscal year his department has been self sustaining. The attorney general states that during the year a little more than $4,000,000 in the nature of fines was collected by his department and that this more than paid the ex penses. , Last year the department of Justice collected $3,500,000 in fines. It was not quite enough to balance tho expenses of different bureaus of the department. The fines collected in both years were from half a hundred different sources, but the bulk of them came from timber and public land cases and trust prose cutions. The report contains a statement showing Just what has been accom plished in the line of trust and oth er prosecutions the department has brought during the year. On the three dissolution actions pend ing, tho powder trust, the plumbers' trust nnd tho harvester trust, tho at torney general says no definite decisions have been reached. He said he could not say at this time, because he did not know, whether all three of the cor porations named would dissolve with out litigation. Ue said the negotiations between the department nnd the cor porations looking to n dissolution with out any more court fighting were on still. From other sources In tho depart ment it was learned that tho powder trust and plumbers trust cases prob ably would bo concluded in n few weeks and that the government and the trust officials had about reached an agreement. There Is considerable doubt, how ever, about the government and har vester trust ever coming to terms. Tho government will not recede from Its declaration last summer when the offi cials of the harvester trust first made overtures for a voluntary dissolution. It was said at tho department that the Indications are that the harvester peo ple will not agree to the government's scheme of dissolution, but will fight tho caBe in the courts. The government has its bill in equity drawn up and ready to file. NEW ANAESTHETIC. " Boston Surgeon Overcomes Disadvan tage of Ether. Ether, the adoption of which has revolutionized surgery in tho last half century, may soon bo superseded as an anaesthetic as a result of tho remark uble experiments being made by Dr. Frederic J. Cotton, a Boston surgeon. By a combination of gaseous elements of tho air containing about half tho proportion of oxygen in tho earth's at mosphere Dr. Cotton has succeeded In producing anaesthesia not only with out tho slightest danger or discomfort to the patient, but so agreeable that the patient is unconscious of what Is being done. Technically speaking, Dr. Cotton calls his anaesthetic "nitrous oxide di luted with oxygen." He has already used It in operating on seventy-five private patients. Several of those cases were so grave that the nausea and "surgical shock" which would have fol lowed tho uso of ether would have been fatnl. Yet with the uso of "doc tored air," as tho now anaesthetic might be called, the serious operations were performed with absolute safety, and tho patients are perfectly well. Appliances for the use of the "doc tored air" are being installed in several of Boston's principal hospitals. Tho experiments have been mndo so quietly that few outside the medical profession have boon aware of tho tremendous importanco of Dr. Cotton's discoveries. STATE TO WRITE INSURANCE. Wisconsin Soon to Begin Management of a Mutual Life Plan. Wisconsin mny have a system of stato life Insurance in operation within tho next few months. Insurance Commissioner H. L. Ekern Is at work on forms for policies and blanks. As soon as these aro prepared officials in tho counties will begin to accept risks. Wisconsin is tho first state to at tempt to wrlto llfo insurance. Tho leg islature of 1011 passed a bill providing for beginning the system. The state treasurer will be custodian of all mon eys, and town, city nnd county clerks will nccept applications and forward premiums. Tho state does not assume any responsibility beypnd paying the expense. TO RAISE PERRY FLAGSHIP. Old Warship Niagara Will Make a Tour of the Great Lakes. Commodore Perry's flagship In tho battle of Lako Erie, near Put-In-Bay, the Niagara, that has lain on the bot tom of the lako in the Erie (Pa.) har bor for twenty-five years, will be rais ed, made seaworthy and taken on a tour of the groat lakes In 1013 as a feature of tho Perry centennial cele bration. The state of Pennsylvania will bft' PLAN go; SCHOOL UPLIFT National Education Association Launches Wide Campaign, INQUIRY TO BE THOROUGH. States Will Be Asked to Give Fair Share of Taxes Better Trained Teachers . Sought Committee of Eleven at Work. A nation wide campaign to rnlso the standing of the rural schools to a level with those of the cities and towns is the latest plan 'of tho National Educa tional association, the organization of educators and teachers which is the largest body of the kind in tho world. Tho first step in tho movement, an investigation of school conditions throughout tho United States and sup plemental inquiry Into tho subject of teachers' salaries, stato and county ap propriations nnd teaching methods, has been delegated to a committee of elev en which was authorized at the San Francisco convention of tho National Educational association in July, when a fund of $10,000 was voted to defray the expenses of tho inquiry for the next tbreo years. The members are E. T. Fairchlld, superintendent of schools of Kansas, chairman; Dr. L. H. Bailey, Ithaca, N. Y.; Dr. E. C. Elliott, Madison. Wis.; Professor T. H. Harris, Baton Rouge, La.; Miss Adelaide S. Baylor, Indian apolis, Ind.; II. C. Morrison, Btate su perintendent of schools, Ne"w Hamp shire; A. C. Nelson, state superintend ent, Utah; Edward Hyatt, state super intendent, California; L. L. Wright, state superintendent, .Michigan; J. V. Joyner, stato superintendent. North Carolina, and Professor Charles H. Keyes, New York city. Phases of Investigation. Among tho important phases which tho Investigation will undertake are: Rational basis for the distribution fit stato school funds, which the various states may be led to adopt. Careful study of the several units of school organization with a view to urging the adoption of the most effi cient unit. Strong presentment of the advan tages of centralization or consolidation of rural schools. Study of. compulsory school laws In tho different states should be made and a plan devised for a uniform law. System of standardization for rural schools and n small financial recogni tion or bonus on the part of the state to such schools as shall reach tho standard. Closer supervision of tho rural schools. The Oregon plan of providing supervisors for each twenty schools is worthy of consideration. Plan Legislative Campaign. The general plan of the Investigation also includes a legislative campaign to raise tho standard of courses of study and to obtain better trained teachers., These Ideals are set forth as follows: Appointment of one or more rural school Instructors, under tho direction of tho state superintendent, In each state. Adoption of a course of study for all elementary schools and tho compul sory uso of such courses. Adoption of a law in every state fix ing tho minimum length of the yearly school period and giving stato aid to weak districts. More adequato preliminary training on tho part of applicants for teachers' certificates In order to obtain a better grade of teachers in the rural schools. Investigation of normal training courses in high schools In certain states to determine recommendations for their adoption generally in solving the problem of getting better trained teachers. Study of tho principle of township high schools and the ndoptlon of legis lation providing for free high schools for all nonresident pupils. Model school buildings, equipment and grounds. Rural School Big Problem. That the problem of raising the standard of rural schools Is far and away the greatest in education was the declaration of Chairman Fairchlld. "It is conceded that tho rural school Is tho one laggard in tho educational procession," ho said. "The conditions governing theso schools and the lack of adequato results aro well known. It would therefore appear that the problem to which this committee can with the greatest advantage address Itself Is that of suggesting ways and means for tho betterment of these schools and for tho awakening of the public to a definite sense of their needs. "In view of the general recognition of tho need of a certain reorganization and redirection of tho courses of study In our rural schools, special instruc tors In vocational work, particularly as It relatea to agriculture, should be provided nt county expense." Wrights Buy Aviation Grounds, Orville and Wilbur Wright have clos ed a deal for 1,000 acres of land at Kit ty Hawk, N. O., on which a permanent testing ground for neroplanes will be established next spring. The stretch, composed of giant sand dunes and woodland, runs east aud west across the "Blanks" from tho Atlantic ocean to Croatan bay and Includes threo dunes, the highest of which is known as Thirteen and rises to a hundred feet. A MATRIMONIAL'; , ASSOCIATION By HELEN R. OGELSBY Copyright by American Press Asso ciation. 1911. Miss MutlUIn U'eatliLTsO.v on opei, Ing her timrnliij; tniill read a drcului letter, us follows: You are Invited to be present at a meet ing of bachelors and spinsters for J ho pur pose of organizing a matrimonial exchange for elderly persons. Because that period at which persons usually marry has passed there Is no rea ion why marriage should be entirely glv n up. The exchange Is Intended for those tvlio have before them a lonely old age, that they may be thrown together with a view to forming matrimonial copartner ships for their mutual comfort. Miss Weuthersby thought the matter over nnd concluded to attend the meet ing. She was fifty-two. but did not consider herself old enough to entitle her to a membership to the exchange Nevertheless sho was very lonely nnd ready to catch at any straw that might bring her companionship. On entering the room where the meeting was held Miss Weathersby re celvsd a shock. Men and women whose hnlr was either sprinkled with gray or had turned white were chat ting together, any one of whom, she thought, must bo older than herself. She was received by the chairwoman of the ladies' reception committee nnd made bold to express tho opinion that those she saw present were entirely too old for marriage. To her aston ishment the lady informed her that most of the women present were her Juniors. A gentleman was presented to Miss Weathersby, whoso name sho did not hear, who began to chat with her, nat urally choosing for a subject the pur poses of tho exchange. Miss Weath ersby declared that sho had come sim ply from curiosity; that sho was per fectly satisfied with single life and would not marry on nny account "Perhaps." said the gentleman, "years ago you loved somo young man from whom fate separated you." "Itather say his own innate wicked ness." "And you were obliged to send him a way?" "I certainly was." "Sometimes in such matters tho wo man is partly nt fault" "That was not so In my case." "1 was dismissed by a girl I loved. I was but twenty-two years old, she nineteen. She considered herself very badly treated by mo. I felt sure that she was in error, therefore If I yield ed to her I would npt only make a mistake In that Instance, but be oblig ed to continue yielding to her, right or wrong, throughout our married lives. Therefore I refused, and sho dismissed inc." , "My case wns very different," said Miss Weathersby. "I was entirely right, and my lover was entirely wrong. I had a brother who needed my care. I Insisted on his living with mo after my marriage. My lover very selfishly declined tho arrangement. 1 naturally clung to my brother and let my lover go." "Was your brother worthy of the sacrifice of the happiness of two per sons?" "Ho wnsl" "Affectionate, unselfish, honorable?" "AH these." "Is he still living with you?" "No. He died twenty years ago." There wob a pause in tho dialogue, during which the gentleman looked thoughtfully at his companion nnd with a tinge of melancholy in his eye Then he said: "What would you think of your ac tlon if it could bo proved to you thai your brother was unworthy of the sac rifice yon made for him a sacrifice that involved yonr lover's lifelong hap piness?" "No such supposition Is possible." ne drew forth his pocketbool; nnd took out n paper which he bnnded to her. She read It. and every vestige of color left her face. It was n con fession written many years before tc her lover by this samo brother that ho hnd stolen money from him. the confession being made on condition that the debt was canceled and the theft kept a secret When Miss Weatberby looked up she gasped: "And you are Tom?" "I am Tom." "Why did you not tell mo of this at the time it occurred?" "I preferred that you should choose between me and your brother rather than between me and a criminal. A lover, a husband who is willing to tie second to nny one Is a weakling." From the time of her entrance Into the world to the present moment Miss Weathersby had been one of those women who are best described by the words, "She knows it nil." This trait was strengthened by a strong will, The paper that trembled in her hand and produced in her a revolution. It came late, but it left in her not one trace of her former fault From a lioness she bad become a lamb. "I beg your forgiveness for showing you that paper," resumed tho man. "I had an object in doing so. For two decades I have lived In a foreign country. Returning, I received an la vltatlou to Join this exchange and ac cidentally learned that you were a member. I enmo hero with one ob ject, to meet you, and that we should meet understanding I preferred to explain tho past" At the next regular meeting of the exchange the president announced that the first match had been made. 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The dyeing of native leather, for which Morocco has long been famous on nccount of the softness of Its tone, Its texture and Its flexibility, contin ues to be practiced in Tafilct, Sus, Morocco City, Fez, Tetuan and Itebat, but artificial dyes are also being sub stituted In the modern process, supple menting the use of the secret vege table ingredients formerly used to produce the inimitable tones of earlier times. Pyramids of Egypt. The pyramids of Egypt, seventy-five in number and of various sizes, were constructed for the preservation of mummies of the kings nnd their fami lies. The Kind You Have Always In use for over 30 years, and ffly J?" . sonal supervision since Its Infancy. CCcCulZ Allnw Tin nnn tn dnnnivn vnu in this. 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