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FRANCE'S NEW HERO
This is an article about
the Farm and City Get"
Together Festival at
JamestotsJUt JSf. J?. , where
some enterprising dreami
er turned their talents
to practical purposes : :
Gen. Robert George Nlrelle, who
lias succeeded General Joffre ns com
tnnnder In chief of the French forces,
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t achievements of the war the recovery
at a single stroke of almost all the
territory gained by the Germans before
Verdun.
General Nlvelle, whoso mother was
English, Is sixty yenrs old and one of
the numerous "discoveries" of "Pnpa"
Joffre. At the beginning of the war
he was n colonel In command of the
Fifth regiment of artillery and about
to bo retired. Ho was promoted to
general of brigade on October 24, 1014,
and a few weeks later placed In com
mand of the Sixty-first Infantry divi
sion. On December 23, 1015, he re
ceived his three stars and was ap
pointed commander of the Third army
corps.
Nlvelle Is said greatly to resemble
the authentic portraits of Cardinal
Richelieu. In nctlon ho Is alert, quick, gesticulating and gives the Impression
of having great reserves of energy, both physical and mcntnl. He has also
the reputation of being n strict disciplinarian and possibly Is the greatest gun
ner In the army. With him artillery Is the deciding arm.
The general Is n great admirer of Englnnd, speaks English nnd Is fond
of reciting old-time English wnr verso. More than this, he" frankly nsserts
that ho Is more than half English, because his father married a Miss Sparrow
of Deal nnd ho has several relatives In the British navy.
Nlvelle Is the friend of Inventors. Let one get a pass to his headquarters
and he receives the most nsslduous attention, particularly If he has brought
u product of his work with hlra.
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N TOO many eases country pco
people and town nnd city people
misunderstand one another, and
both lose. As a consequence
urban dwellers buy Oregon ap
ples nnd California grapes, and
rural folk buy (heir furniture,
farm machinery and supplies
from Chicago mail-order houses.
ft. licro aiiu inert, iiuwevur, buiiiu
'tklin ot tl10 moro fnr8lf,,tL'tl nicn nntl
omen of both groups nro mnk-
MUnnn Ing determined efforts to sup
plant distrust and contempt with fellowship nnd
co-operation. And It works Ladles and gentle
men, It works beautifully I
Tho enterprising citizens of Jamestown, N. Y
nnd the fnrm pcoplo who live In tho counties sur
rounding the city (which have a population of
about 40,000) joined heads, hearts and hands this
last autumn In n great "Farm and City Gct-To-gcther
Festival," and the nfTalr was such a huge
success that a permanent organization was
formed nnd tho festival will be held annually here
after. Hero Is an Illustration of how misunderstanding
ts bred and why It persists sometimes:
James Mason, a city dry-goods merchant, drove
out In tho country ono pleasant Sunday afternoon
In October, and was astonished at tho number
of apples ho saw on the ground In orchards along
tho roadside. "I cannot buy good apples at tho
grocery next my storo," ho complntncd, "unless-1
pay Alaska prices for them, 5 cents each. Yot
hero they nro rotting on tho ground."
Mnsou jumped to tho conclusion that tho farm
ers did not try to save tho apples, or to help tho
city man nnd his family get food. "They aro
both selfish and lazy," he asserted when ho told
of tho experience
Simon Ncwcomb lived on n farm near whero
Mason drovo that Sunday. Ho had been In town
Saturday afternoon with n load of apples. The
groccryman looked them over, nnd offered New
comb 50 cents n bushel. Ncwcomb hnd read In
his fnrm pnper that apples wero scarce, and ho
thought he ought to have a dollar n bushel.
"IJut your apples nro not sorted. There aro sev
eral kinds In tho one crate, and many of them
nro Inferior In size, and Bonro bndly worm eaten,"
objected tho grocer. "You leave them with mo
for CO cents a bushel or elso take them some
whoro else." i
Nowcomb looked at his wntch and saw It was
nearly choro time, and ho Bold them. But when
ho got homo he told his wlfo tho grocer took ad
vantage of him nnd was little better than u rob
ber. But both men were wrong. Tho orchnrd owner
was hot lazy nor selfish. Ho hnd other problems
worse to hnndlo and moro ncccssnry to him than
picking up and saving n few bushels of apples.
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Nor was tho grocer u robber. lie had n trade
which required certain stnndnrds, and tho stuff
offered him did not conform to those stnndnrds.
All wrong, almost from the stnrt
Just as the foregoing Illustration makes plain
tho problem moro thnn pages of generalities, so
tho experience of Jamestown In Its first Fnrm nnd
City festival will show how tho effort to got to
gether succeeds better than moro pages of plati
tudes. First of nil Jamestown had n live board of
commerce, nnd n secretary with a vision not
bounded hy tho fnctory chimneys of tho city nor
Its city limits. Secretnry Fred Clayton Butler
hnd been studying some United Stntcs census re
ports on Chautauqua county, N. Y., nnd ho dis
covered thnt most of tho rural towns of. tho county
and nil Its rural vlllnges, but two or three that
had a lot of factories, had decreased In population
In tho last three decades, no did not need to
bo told nbout tho Increase In cost of living. Thnt
was self-evident.
In surveying tho field ho found thnt thero was
an nctlvo npplo growers' association In Chautau
qua county, nlso n milk producers' nssoclntlon, n
fnrm bureau, a lot of big granges, nnd n number
of farmers' clubs. Tko mnnnger of tho fnrm
bureau was Hnwloy B. Rogers, and Mr. Rogers
wns called Into conference with Mr. Butler.
"You do not need to tell mo anything nbout de
creasing rural populations," Interrupted Rogers,
whon Butler stnrtcd In on his pot paragraph. "I
know nil nbout that before you city people nwnk
encd. But what enn wo do nbout It?"
Right here tho city man had tho farm bureau
man beaten. "Wo can get together nnd find out,"
was his reply. "I know thnt tho city people hnve
n doublo stako nt Issue; tho cost of what they
must have to eat, and tho market for a largo part
of their goods. I think your people have some
thing nt stnko nlso. You want good roads, and
good schools, and good markets. Pcrhups wo can
got togother."
Out of this conference grow n bigger conference,
proscnt nt which wore representatives of most of
these rural organizations and somo active busi
ness men from tho city of Jnmestown. Tho pro
portion nt this time, nnd so fnr as possible In
every succeeding step up to tho big bnnquet which
closed the festivnl flnnlly und successfully held,
was Just "fifty-fifty"; half city people, half farm
people on every committee nnd in every confer
ence. This conference, held In August, decided to hold
n Fnrm nnd City festival, n real get-together, In
November. "Not n county fair, but better thnn a
county fair,-with tho vaudcvlllo features omitted,"
was tho way It was expressed. At the Initial meet
ing tt wns decided to enrry out this get-together
Ideu by making the exhibits of nn educntlonnl
chnracter, as far as possible In every lnstnnco.
To do this and to finance it several committees
were nnmed. A street wns closed nnd covered
with tents. - Other tents wore put up on vncnnt
lots, nnd tho stnte nrmory was used. All sorts of
exhibits prize livestock, poultry, dairy products,
grains, fruit, vegetables, etc. wero shown nnd
prizes awarded. State experts In nil phnscs of
farming, In domestic science, In child welfnre, In
dietetics, etc., delivered lectures to the city nnd
country people. A railroad traffic expert dis
cussed plans for helping producer on the farm to
get his products directly and expeditiously to con
sumer in tho city. Tho government sent a good
ronds exhibit, nnd motion pictures were used to
mnkc many of tho lectures moro graphically Inter
esting. And then thero wns n grcnt closing dinner. Fhro
hundred persons representing every pnrt of trio
county nnd city attended this nffnlr. Thero wns
flno music, for one thing orclrostrnl nnd choral
work, led by Cornell university music Instructors,
nnd solos nnd Gov. Chnrles S. Whltmnn, who wns
In tho city on n cnmpnlgn trip, left politics behind
nnd ho nnd Mrs. Whitman nttended tho banquet.
"Co-oporntlon" nnd "get ncqunlnted" were tho
watchwords ot tho occasion. Two weeks aftor
wnrd tho committees met and decided unanimous
ly to hold another "Fnrm and City Get-Together
Festival" next yenr.
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SPIDERS ARE NOT VERY DANGEROUS
' The famous tarantula, reported to ho one of tho
terrors of tho nrld pnrts of tho Southwestern
tstntcs nnd northern Mexico, nnd which bulks so
largo In tho Imagination and tho fenrs of thoso
porsons who hnvo friends on tho bordor, Is really
not tho tarantula of history and ot fablo.
Ono of tho numerous students of Bpldcrs and
tho tarantula Is a spider saya of thnt terrifying
Insect that It Is tho Lycosa tnrautula, n kind of
spider found In somo of tho warmer parts of Italy
nnd Spain. When full grown It Is nbout the slzo
of a chestnut nnd of n brown color. "Its blto wns
nt ono time supposed to bo dangerous," snys this
authority, "and to cause n kind of 'dancing dis
ease,' but It Is now known not to bo worso than
tho stlng of a common wasp."
It Is very likely Unit when tho early Spanish
' explorers enmo upon tho great spider ot the South
west, and seeing n good deal of rescmblanco to
tho turnntuln of tho old world thoso explorers
not having been scientific entomologists they
called tho now spider a tnrautula, und tho nnino
has stuck.
Thero ts no doubt thnt tho big spider of Ari
zona, Now Moxlco, California, old Moxlcn and
many other places In a relative of tho tarantula
of Spain nnd Italy, and In color, disposition nnd In
tho matter ot his hairy legs a layman might easily
tnlstnko him for tho turnntuln. But perhaps there
ts not much In n namo so far as spiders go, and
It Is Just as well to avoid If posslblo thnt particu
lar spider which so many Americans call tho turnn
tuln, though It ts qulto certain that tho meun
nesfi ot his disposition has been exaggerated.
J. II. Emerton, ono of tho spider exports of tho
vorlfl, writes, aftor years of Intlinato study of
spiders: "When undisturbed, spiders never bite
anything except Insects useful as their food, but
when attacked or cornered nil species open their
Jnws nnd blto If they can, depending on tho slzo
nnd strength of their Jaws. Tho stories ot denth,
Insanity nnd lameness from tho bites of spiders
nro probnbly untrue."
Tho species of spider aro hard to number. Tho
spiders of North Amcrlcn hnvo been studied by
Hcntz, Emerton, Kcysorllng nnd Thorell, and no
doubt by a number of other men who havo spe
cialized In Insects, nnd It Is cstlmnted that thero
aro 800 species In North America. Tho spider
has heart, liver, stomach, Intestines, thorax, lungs
nnd several other Interesting orgnns, ns, for ex
ample, tho spinning glands and spinnerets.
It Is recorded thnt n good many experiments
hnvo been made to throw light on tho effect of
spider bites on man. A distinguished entomolo
gist, named Bortkou, allowed vnrlous kinds of
spiders to blto his hnnd. Somo of them drow
blood, giving u sensation llko thnt of u sharp
ncedlo prick. Tho wounds smnrtcd und swelled
Bomowhnt nnd Itched when rubbed, producing very
much tho sensation of jnosqulto bites, hut no per
manent 111 effects followed. Another entomolo
gist, named Blackwcll, also nllowed specimens
of tho big spiders to blto his hand. Ho reported
that ho felt no particular pnln and little Inflam
mation followed, nnd tho wounds soon healed.
Still another entomologist, named Doleschall, re
ported thnt ho had shut up small birds with tho
Mygalo, ono of tho biggest nnd llcrcost of the
spider tribe, Tho birds soon died nftcr being
bitten. He allowed ono of his Angers to bo
bitten by n largo jumping spider. Tho pain was
sever and his finger and then his hand nnd
Ever henr how It came that George
Dewey, udmlrnl of tho United States
navy, and hero of the battle of Manila,
hnppened to go to Annapolis? It's n
funny story, ns told by his third cousin,
Col. Ellns Dewey of Chicago.
"The fact that the West Tolnt ca
dets got eight weeks' vacation in four
years, while the 'middles' received but
ono week In thnt length of time wns
the reason the future ndmlral was sent
Into the naval branch of tho service,"
says Colonel Dewey.
"George lived nt Montpeller, Vt,
In the middle of tho Inst century, nnd
my home was nt Mnlone, N. Y. Our
fathers were second cousins, nnd both
of us youngsters received .appoint
ments to West Point nt the snmo time.
My fnther wouldn't let mo go because
thero wero many Indian wars then and
he wns nfrnld I would get scalped. It
happened that George was somo lad In
those days and had a good tlmo gen
erally, nis fnther, after diligent Inquiry, found thnt tho West Point boys hnd
two months vncntlon in four yenrs, while the 'middies' had to be satisfied with
a single week. This meant thnt Dewey, Sr., would have had George around
n long time if he went to West Point. Ho thought he could get along with
one week, thnt ho could manage it somehow. So ho sent him to Annapolis."
MIRACLE MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS
arm became lamo, but tho soreness soon passed
away.
Tho Mygalo Is ono tho best-known of tho lnrgo
nnd heavy spiders. It Is a native of tropical nnd
subtropical Amcrlcn, It Is snld that It catchos
and kills small birds with Its poisonous blto nnd
then sucks tho blood of Its victims. Tho body
of tills spider Is pitch black nnd Is covered with
long reddish-brown hnlr. It has eight eyes placed
closo together In tho front of Its head. It Is n
closo klnsmnn to tho so-called bird spider of
Surinam.
Tho ofilclnl nnmo of that Amerlcnn spider cnlled
tho tnrantuln Is Ctcnlza Callfornlcn, and It Is ono
of the trapdoor spiders. It Is common In New
Mexico, Arlzonn, nnd Cnllfornln. According to
John Sterling Klngsley, this spider digs Its hole
In n flno soil which when dry Is nearly as hard ns
brick. These spider holes are sometimes nenrly
nn Inch In dlnmoter nnd vary In depth from- two
nnd three Inches to nenrly n foot Tho mouth of
tho holo Is enlarged and then closed by n thick
cover which fits It tightly. Thnt cover fits Into
tho mouth of tho holo very much ns n cork does
In the neck of n bottle. The cover Is made of dirt
fnstened together with threads and, llko tho hole,
ts lined with silk nnd is fastened by n thick hinge
mndo of spider's silk. When tho cover Is closed
It looks exactly llko tho ground nround It.
This, llko many othor' Bpocles of spider, la
nocturnal in Its habits, raising its trapdoor nt
night nnd snllylng forth In senvch of food, It
chief food being Insects.
Thero Is so much diversity of opinion as to tho
effect of tho blto of these spiders thnt In Jiving
whoro they nro u mnn should practice safety first
and take no chances with them.
Somo tlmo ngo trnchomn broke out
in n dangerous degree In tho Appa
lachian regions of Kentucky, Tennes
see, Vlrginln und West Vrlginln, nnd
for n year the federal health authori
ties havo been working to stop tho
sprend of the Infection. At a cost far
less than the cost of a single torpedo
boat, tho government hns checked the
spread of this Infection, which might
hnvo proved an expensive plague If It
had been nllowed to sprend.
But the picturesque figure In the
fight Is tho Mlrnclo Man of the Moun
tains, the "gov'ment doctor," Dr. John
McMullen, who with his faithful nurses
has wrestled with tho power of dark
ness nnd brought light to hundreds of
eyes. It wns difficult to persuado these
simple, childlike people at first to sub
mit to operations on their eyes; now
during the latter months of tho fight
against trachoma Doctor McMullen's
clinics hnve lasted from daylight to
dark and hundreds have waited patiently in line for their chnnces.
Doctor McMullen would not tell It himself, but It Is n fact that In Muhlen
berg county ho held n four-dny clinic nnd in that time operated 00 times, no
examined nnd treated 400 people, and nt any time could look down nnd see n
hundred In lino wnltlng to reach him. To do what ho did ho had to begin
work nt sunrise, and, except for lunch, stopped only when tho sun went down.
Tho service has three hospitals In Kentucky nnd ono each In tho other
threo states whero trachoma Is prevalent
GARTER GLASS AND HIS SON
Reprcsentatlvo Carter Glass, who
Is secretary of tho Democratic national
committee, ts not n lawyer. Ho is a
newspaper man and banker, but one
of tho Virginian's sons Is now qulto
convinced thnt his dad would havo
been successful had ho followed tho
profession of tho lnw Instead of de
voting his energies to flnnnce.
It appears that Mr. Glass has a
son nmong tho troops on tho Texas
border. He Is a bright youth and Mr.
Glass is proud of him. Tho younger
Glass, llko other boys of his ago,
started to smoke cigarettes somo time
ago, much to tho discomflturo of his
father, who protested against It.
A short tlmo ngo Mr. Glass re
ceived In his mail n packago contain
ing threo photographs of his soldier son,
nil In uniform. Later n letter came,
and In It tho boy wrote thnt he stopped
smoking clgnrcttes, "which no doubt
would bo gratifying," tho boy snld.
Mr. Glass read the letter, and rend again. Then he took up tho photo
graphs. In two of them young Glass held firmly between his fingers a cig
arette. "It's no use," wrote Mr. Glass to his son, "It's no use. I'd llko to believe
that you huvo cut out cigarettes, but tho preponderance of evidence Is ngatnst
you."
