Valley record., January 25, 1906, Image 2

Btrates that men will go out from the
cities and live on the land and make
good citizens, when they are taught
about the land after they get on it
Agricultural Education Needed,
Viewed from both standpoints, it is
a demonstrated and unquestionable
fact that American public schools need
far more of practical agriculture, in
their courses, than they now teach. In
fact the majority of them do not teach
agriculture, in any of its branches, at
all. The teachers themselves, as they
are graduated to-day, know nothing
of the subject. Their educational sys­
tem is in a rut from which it cannot
be moved except by a strong popular
demand, which in itself must come
from an intelligent comprehension of
the weak points of the system.
The problem is one for the serious
consideration of our most far-seeing
statesmen—the stemming of this cen­
tripetal movement which is overcrowd­
ing our centers of industry where men
work for day-wages, and which is
Steadily drawing from our rural com­
OLD BRITISH FESTIVAL.
PLOW MONDAY, AS OBSERVED IN
FOURTEENTH CENTURY AT
GRIMSBY, ENGLAND.
Farmers and Townsmen Gathered
to Celebrate Bountiful Crops—Town
Treasurer Paid Bills.
All old-time country people remem­
ber evenings at corn-husking, apple­
paring and sugar-boiling. Not so long
ago a husking bee was a great event,
and boys and girls, old and young,
gathered from far and near to sit on
the floor of the barn, husk big ears of
ripened corn for several hours, end­
ing with a grand feast of pie, cake,
hot coffee, cider, and all the other
goodies of the farm cupboard. But in
this country there are no definite and
fixed festivals held in the fall of the
year at harvest time. Thanksgiving
is only a formal remembrance. In this
we differ, and we have always dif­
and charged np to the municipal ac­
count) that prices ot labor and food
are many times higher now than in
that time when trusts and combines
were unknown. Actors were rated
exceedingly low, as appears by the
following entries:—
£ ■ «
To the Minstrels........................... .... 0
To Noah and his wife.......... 0
To Robt. Brown, playing God.... 0
To Jenkin Smith, playing Noah.. 0
To Noah’s wife..................................... 0
Mechanics came a little higher:
To the carver, mending the Trinity,
making his crown and painting
him ..................................................... 0
To the carpenter for making Noah's
Ship ..................................................... 5
8 0
8 0
0 10 0
. And this miscellany of services, re­
ligious, mechanical and mortuary,
came dirt cheap:
To five priests, flx-penny bell by
bell-man, and making a grave.. 0 1 10
Miscellaneous supplies were not
costly:
To straw for Noah and bls child­
ren ....................................................... 0 0 2
A pound of wax to set before the
Trinity ............................................. o 0 10
A peck of barley..................................... 0 0 3
To sugar, cakes, wine, ale, etc.,
with the Mayor and his breth­
ren ............................................ .......... 0 4 0
To six stone (84 pounds) of cheese. 0 6 0
To 2 kegs of sturgeon........................... 14 6
To four capons..:................................... 0 6 6
To four geese............................................ 0 2 8
To four pigs............................................. 0 3 4
To three doz. and eight chickens.. 0
9 10
To a pound and a half of pepper. .040
To 3 lambs with their appurtenan-
ces ..................................................... 0 10 0
To twenty-six stone (364 lbs.) of
beef ............................. ..."................ 1 14 8
To three quarters of mutton........... 0 4 6
They were not backward with the
cup that cheers, as this will show:
To six dozen of ale...............................
To one kilderkin of beer...............
To one gallon of finewine for the
priests ........................
—
To seven gallons and a bottle of
claret ...............................................
To 16 gallons of wine....................
PAINTING OF MARTYRED PRESI­
DENT HANGS IN THE WHITE
HOUSE.
0 6
16 Artist Murphy. Hitherto Unknown,
0 6
Paints This Portrait Without à
10
Sitting and from Photographs Only.
0 8
By Francis B, Gessner.
An address from the rector was not
costly:
To Mr. Lewis, for a sermon..........
the M c K inley portrait .
2 2 0
0 3 4
0 4 6
3 17 6
0 18 8
And for one who would not waste
his time on such flat mixtures:
To one gallon of old rum................... 0 6 4
On the docks, where once the theat-
ricals and the barbecue were held,
now rises the great Tower of Grims­
by, 200 feet high, serving as a land­
mark, and as a lighthouse to guide the
storm-swept ships Of Grimsby’s great
fishing fleets, into her safe harbor.
New Philippine Governor.
It Is somewhat remarkable that thè
portrait of President McKinley that
now hangs in the White House was
painted by an humble and hitherto un­
known artist in New York to whom
the President never accorded a sitting.
The lamented McKinley did pose for
famous artists of Europe and the best
portrait painters of our own country,
yet it remained for Mr. William D.
Murphy, of New York, to produce with
the aid only of photographs the one
portrait of McKinley most acceptable
to the family and friends. More than
that, it was considered the most de­
sirable one to be hung on the historic
walls of the White House.
Mr. Murphy has a modest little stu­
dio at 17 East Sixteenth street, New
York, just off Union Square. He had
achieved some local fame as a pains­
taking portrait painter, but had never
dreamed of having a picture hung in
the White House along with portraits
done by the most famous artists of sev­
eral generations. After the terrible
tragedy at Buffalo, Mr. Murphy made a
collection of the President’s photo­
graphs, together with information as
to coloring and aided by Mrs. Murphy,
who is also an artist, produced a pic­
ture in pastel. When the picture was
finished Mr. Murphy made efforts to
have Abner McKinley, the brother of
the President, see and criticise the
work. Finally the artist had an In­
terview with Colonel Wilbur C. Brown,
Abner’s business partner and who had
been very close to the beloved Chief
Executive. It was after much plead­
ing that Colonel Brown consented to
bring Abner to the studio. Neither had
ever heard of Murphy. They had seen
a hundred portraits of McKinley, good,
bad and indifferent, and were them­
selves indifferent, the more so because
they knew that this unknown artist
had never been given a sitting. How­
ever, his pleadings were so earnest
that they finally went to the studio.
The picture was unveiled and the
brother stood amazed and startled, as
if the dead had suddenly come to life.
Tears came to the eyes of Abner and
the eyes of Colonel Brown. They gazed
in silence for a time, and then the
brother said, “That is the best portrait
of dear Will that I have ever seen.”
Colonel Brown said the same, and
both advised the artist to put the con­
ception in oil and compete for the hon­
or of having it hung in the White
House. Mr. Murphy did so, aided by
his wife, and it was chosen in prefer­
ence to the hundred or more paintings
REFORM IN LA W-MAKING.
GOLD WATCHFJYEE
’
***-*-
ANO R1NC
Ex-Attorney General Griggs
an
Advocate of Deliberate Legis­
lation.
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Novelties at 10 cents each. Send nan^
John W. Griggs, at one time Attorney
General during the McKinley adminis­
tration, where he achieved fame for his
ability as an exponent of the law, and
later one of the strongest members of
The Hague tribunal, has lately been
expounding to the people of New Jer­
sey a doctrine of real reform. It is
believed that he knows whereof he
speaks, for hardly any man in that
State’s political life should know either
the need for reform or the difficulties
of achieving it better than he. Before
President McKinley induced him to
become a member of hi3 Cabinet Mr.
Griggs had earned his way to the head
of the New Jersey bar, served as mem­
ber of the General Assembly and State
Senator, been elected president of the
latter body, and met the responsibili­
ties of the governorship. He recently
spoke at a celebration on Forefathers’
Day in Orange, and laid this law down
mildly but clearly to the State politi­
cians in the name of the decent men of
the Commonwealth:
“Publicity, no backstair legislation;
no passage of bills because some one
has 0 K’d them beforehand; discus­
sion of measures on the floor of the
House; real reasons to the public giv­
en why measures are favored or pro­
posed, and a return of the days when
legislative bodies were debating socie­
ties and the public favored as much
with reason for voting as with elo­
quence.”
Mr. Griggs advocates reform in the
enactment of State legislation when he
says:
“Rarely is a bill read each of the
three constitutional times, except by ti­
tle. It passes in accordance with a de­
cision made previously somewhere else.
I do not say the influence is an improp­
er one, but that influence was felt in
the side rooms or on the back stairs
before the fate of a measure was de­
cided. This method is a repression of
individuality, sinking rights into a
mere expression of some one else’s
views or wishes.”
Reports from New Jersey seem to
show that legislation at Trenton is
practically in the same condition as
that which existed at Jefferson City
before Governor Folk washed the Mis­
souri capital clean. The policy advo­
cated by Mr. Griggs has a tendency to
break up the State “organization” for
actual debate. The return of the legis­
latures to their old standing as delib­
erative bodies puts a premium on in­
dependent and personal individual
strength—and these qualities are the
death of “organization.”
When Boid» aecd ua
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“When love grows cold, thy fire Still
warms me.
Five or six* hundred years ago, the War he was a young lawyer of
from the soil.
When
friends
have
fled,
thy
presence
Yet there is an undercurrent of quiet boys in the, old town of Grimsby, no standing in San Francisco. It
charms me.
force at work, year by year becoming Lincolnshire. Eng., looked forward to
If thou art full, though purse be bare,
Plow-Monday
as
eagerly
as
those
of
1
smoke and cast away all care."
better organized and with broader pow­
German Smoking Song.
er, whose tendency is to overcome this today anticipate Christmas. This
Pine, Fir, Cypress and Yellow Pine.
feast
was
never
overlooked.
It
meant
hurtful condition and stem the tide wild excitement, a procession, a the­
L
Write tor Catalogue.
The
Yellowstone
trout
has
been
of immigration away from the land and atrical entertainment, usually out of
caught in the very act of going over Eagle Tank Co., 281 N. Green 8L,
Into the already overcrowded centers. doors on the broad docks, a church
Two Ocean Pass from the Pacific into
Industrial and agricultural schemes of service with sermon, and a grand
Chicago, Ill.
the Atlantic drainage.
education are finding footholds here barbecue
and feast extending far into
and there, and nature study courses the night. It was known as “riough-
and school gardens, where children Monday,” or the giving of thanks for
are taught to know something of the the harvest of crops. It came at the
soil and plants and the real wonders of ,close of the Christmas holidays, was
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The Angle Lamp is not the only method of lighting your home but taken all
nature, are no longer scoffed at or officially recognized, the Mayor of the
fe
I in all. it is the most satisfactory.
looked upon as fads.
town leading the procession, and his
-
For while it floods your room with the finest, softest and most restful light,
“brethren” following pro<udly. The
n—making your home more cosy and inviting, it requires almost as little attention as
To Fit for Real Life.
gas
or electric light, is as simple and convenient to operate i as either and act-
day opened early and active. Crowds
ualiy costs less to burn than ___________
the ordinary ______
troublesome
____ . old
__ 1 i style lamp.
This movement embraces the de­ flocked into town. Shop-keepers opened
Our C atalogue’ U” (sent free on request) ex­
mand for the teaching of domestic wide and dispensed generous hospi­
plains how this new principle applied to burning
common kerosene has so completely done away
science and both agriculture and man­ tality. Good cheer, good food, good
with all the smoke, odor and bother of ordinary
ual training in all the public schools, ale, shone in all faces. The plough—
lamps that such people as ex-Pres. Cleveland, the
a
common
farm
Implement
—
was
so that children shall be taught to
Rockefellers, Carnegies, Cookes, etc., who
wouldn’t think of using ordinary lamps, have
work with their hands and to force decked with brilliant fabrics. The
young
people
lined
up
along
gaily
from the soil the greatest possible
—THE—
production, as they to-day learn in the colored ropes attached to the clevis,
public schools of France, Denmark and His Honor, the Mayor, at the handles
a steamboat pilot, for it was often
other of the older countries. The new a like
chase like the wind, up street and
movement maintains that every school down,
mell. His official subor­
should have a school garden, where ev­ dinates pell
for lighting their homes and estates in preference
followed;
then the people of
ery child should be intelligently taught the town, young and
to gas or electricity, gasoline, acetylene, or any other method of lighting.
old; and the far­
This catalog tells how the special Angle burner and the shape of the glassware (see above
to be a lover of nature and of the mers from the neighboring country.
illustration) give combustion so perfect that the Angle Lamp never smokes or smells whether
country and trained toward the land as
burned at full height or turned low; why the lamp is lighted and extinguished like gas; the advan­
Like
the
Circus
Parade.
a source of honorable livelihood, rath­
tage of having the uoder-shadow of other lamps done away with completely, also why the Angle
They dragged the plough and the
Lamp burns n to % less oil than any other for the same amount of light. And then offers you a
er than away from it.
QA Tbow/C Trial And It does more—gives you tbe benefit of <mr ten years experience with all lighting
Mayor
and
all
the
old
folks
through
Some of the work of the Department
UV Irttj
11 lai. methods, Before you forget it—beforewou turn over this leaf—write for catalog “IL.
of Agriculture shows the tremendous the streets, singing, shouting, and beg­
listing M varieties <rf The Angle Lamp from $1.80 up. TUE yVNGLE MEG. CO., 78-80 Murray SL, New York.
ging
from
door
to
door
for
clothes,
need which exists for farm training. food, or whatever eise was to be
Need for Farm Teaching.
given away. Alms and presents were
To be a successful farmer to-day given for distribution among the poor.
means that a man must not be satisfied The company was led by a fool, or
to plant and reap as his father did be­ clown, a witch, several dancers, a fid­
fore him, but that he must study the dler, or several, called minstrels, and
conditions of his soil and climate, and a strong man wth a cart to carry the.
and uses the N. P. C. C. Photographic
If necessary discard as unprofitable presents gathered on,the way. When
the
procession
had
covered
every
Preparations only. <«< We do the
the crops which have been raised in
his locality from time immemorial and street the plough was dragged into the
weighing and you add the water
v and P>aced before an altar.
aubstitute those which scientific ex­ S.?
All
hands
then
withdrew
to
a
broad,
periments have demonstrated are the
METOL-HYDRO DEVELOPER
space, near the docks, when a
greatest money makers; he must study open
N. P. C. C.
The old standby. 25 cents for six
play
was
held
on
an
Improvised
stage
the breeding of plants as he would the This play was called “Creation,” and
tubes, making up the same amount of
DEVELOPER
breeding of animals; he must learn the company of performers consisted
Non-poisonous and will not stain the developer.
how to fight and overcome the many of pnests, clerks, and others, who
N. P. C. C. SEPIA TONER
fingers. 35 cents for six tubes, sufficient
insects and other enemies of his crops took the parts of God the Father, God
for 24 ounces developer for Velox.Cyko,
Black and white prints on developed
and live stock; in a word, he must de­ the - Son, the first woman, the first
Rotox and other developing papers, or paper may be re-developed at any time
vote as much hard study and thought man, the serpent, the devil, Noah.
60 ounces plate or film developer.
to a perfect sepia. 25 cents for six tubes.
to farming as he would to any other Adam, and other historical and scriD-
THE CELEBRATED McKINLEY PORTRAIT.
chosen trade or profession which he tural characters. This play was re­ is believed that he hardly ever submitted in the competition. It hangs |
might elect to engage in, if he moved garded as most sacred, and the great had a case worthy the name. When side by side with portraits painted by i
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into a city community. No young man crowds witnessing it were duly im­ the war broke out he entered the vol­ Stuart and others of international :
Hth Street and Pa. Ave.
Washington, D. C.
would expect to pass from the farm pressed by its solemnity.
unteer army and rose rapidly to a high fame. Mrs. McKinley has never seen I
<*<*»118 of the play are not given, position. In August, 1898, when Ma­ the original painting, but admires the
Into the city and make even a bare liv­ .
of God 8 blessing in the nila fell, Mr. Smith was made Deputy photographic copies. The engraving
ing unless he felt himself specially
Provost of the city. Then he became a herewith presented lacks, of course, the
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member of the commission which met fine coloring of the painting, but the
the agents of Aguinaldo at the begin­ pose, the expression is strikingly im­
ning of the following year. Later he pressive to anyone who knew the be­
commanded the Island of Negros with loved McKinley in life. As before
much success, and ultimately the De­ mentioned, the remarkable thing is
BE A BOOK-KEEPER!
partment of the Visayas. This was but that the artist created the picture from
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a stepping stone for him to a place on photographs and the result seems to
the bench, and later a promotion to a those who have seen the portrait to be
You Will Never Tall Asleep Over Your
commissionerstiip.
something little short of an inspiration.
Work
Mr. Smith has been successful as a
or be troubled over long columns of figures, If
member of the Philippine Commission,
you will purchase and master the contents of
Works all Over His house.
being in charge of the educational sys­
•*Goodwis’s Improved Book-kcepisg aad Business
Flanual.” This book is not a luxury but a neces­
tem now being established in the Joel Chandler Harris only works
sity—particularly to the progressive. It leads
islands. He is close to Secretary Taft, when inspiration seizes him. He has
directly to money-making and money-saving.
understanding all of the Taft methods no settled library, no study, no desk,
You can learn from it within Six weeks* home
Study hnw to open, keep and close, ANY set of double-entry books in ti.e most modern, "up-
of dealing with Philippine problems. no workroom of his own, but in every
to-date
”
manner;
change
from
single
to
double-entry;
locale errors in trial balances; prove
A rumor is current that were Secretary room of his house is to be found a
postings; improve systems; audit accounts; average accounts; compute Interest; teach book­
Taft to become President of the United table with pen, ink and paper, so that
keeping; earn money as an expert; save one-third labor; make “balar.ee sheets:” render
comparative statement: keep books tor or manage a Slock company or maauiaclarihg
States Smith would more than likely if the happy idea comes to him it can
concern, and more—MUCH more I
be caught and fixed without delay.
become Secretary cf War.
SILOS
FT The Most Satisfactory Light
Angle Lamp
He Has Thrown Away His Bottles anil Scales
Wake Up, Old Man
Wake Up!
Why Go to “College” to Learn Book-keeping
West Point Religious.
Valuable Small Library.
American Messenger, the organ
Annual Tract Society, says, in
an account of the annual •presentation
of Bibles to the graduating class at
the United States Military Academy at
West Point, that there is a strong re­
ligious atmosphere there, that nearly
all the cadets are members of the
Young Men’s Christian Association,
and that about half of them attend
seme twenty Bibles classes, conducted
by leaders chosea from among them­
eelves, who are in turn enrolled in a
normal Bible class, taught by the
chaplain.
Dr. Frederick Rowland Marvin has
one of the rarest libraries in the coun­
try. It contains only about 4,000
volumes, but many of them are first
editions and the manuscripts are me-
m-jntoes of gifted men and women no
longer living.
The
of the
THE -NEW GRIMSBY" WITH ITS BIG LIGHTHOUSE,
trained and educated tq^meet his city grain and fruit appears dominant
competitors. No more can the farmer The nearest approach to the festival tn
cf to-day expect to keep abreast of the this country is our Thanksgiving Day.
procession unless he equips himself
It is evident from a statement of
with a knowledge which will enable the expenses incident to the festival
bim to reap full harvest of the farm. (all of which were borne by the town
Linguistic Parrot.
A parrot which can talk in two
languages, and which has seventeen
phrases, has been added to the London
Zoological Gardens. It is a native of
Northern India.
and spend from $60 to $600 oi money and from 6 to 16 months of time tc learn an antiquated
system, full of superfluities, when the undersigned, who has hau 8 years’ practical
experience as an accountant, will, for the small sum of $3.00, qualify, y u at your own dome
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