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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-15
A Cow for Every Acre.

Where little or nothing is bought
there can be little hope Of making
every acre keep it's cow as has SO long
been the dream Of many dairymen. 1t
might be done if corn alone were
used as feed. But corn is not a COM
plete ration, and though more than
enough corn with fodder might be
grown to keep a COW through the year,
it would be always more profitable to
give other feed, such as clover hay,
wheat bran or middlings, and either
linseed or cotton-seed meal We have
known some milkmen near the city
who kept fully as many cows as they
cultivated acres of land. But they re-
lied very largely upon purchased food
generally growing only corn fodder,
which they fed green so long as they
could, and then either cured the re-
mainder or put it into the sise for win
ter and spring use. 1t is a great help
if some crimson clover has been sown
on the corn ground. 1t will make
enough growth before the land needs
to be plowed for corn in spring to we'll
repay the expense of seeding and
cutting the crop. But for the fact that
it takes two years to grow a good
crop of clover it would pay to seed a
piece Of land every year with clover. to
be cut for hay Three crops a year,
aggregating five or six tons of dried
hay may be cut on rich land. If a
farmer can succeed in keeping a COW
per acre, even with the purchase Of
some grain feed, ne may, il his cows
are good ones, realize more profit
from his land than he can with most
cultivated crops.-American Cultiva-
| tor
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of the North). Does the professor
recall that Montana is the only state
with a Spanish motto? Strange that
fur traders should have adopted Orc
Plata (GoId and Silver). If you say
that one state has a Greek motto he
probably will do some pretty hard
thinking before answering that it is
California Eureka is believed to be
Greek for I have found. The only
Italian motto belongs to Maryland,
and it originally belonged to the Cal
vert family, Patti Maschi, Parole Fe-
mine Deeds are Males, Words Fee
males). To be Trif1e palmer, Man
ly Deeds, Woman1y Words. Ask the
professor if he knows that Washing
ton is the only state with an Indian
motto. Al-ki is pure Chinook for by
and by. in the future or hereafter.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-15
Railway Parcel Service.

Worlds Work.-In England the
Great Eastern railway has perfected
a system of suburban parcel delivery
that works admirably. From the out
lying districts for a radius Of 120
miles-an agricultural country in the
main-the passenger trains bring into
London and to the neighboring sea
resorts all kinds of produce packed i'll
boxes Of definite size and shape which
are furnished by the company at from
four to eleven cents. The service fee
is moderate, eight cents for less than
twenty pounds, two cents additional
for each five pounds, up to sixty
pounds, above which the fee is tw enty-
five cents. Stamps affixed to each
package show prepayment. The com
pany publishes two pamphlets, one Civ
ing the names Of producers who use the
service; the other. the names Of
season-ticket owners who are in con
slant need of such produce The
success of the plan was immediate
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PouItrv-Yard Notes.

Fowls will endure dry cold better
than damp.
Buckwheat, barley and oats make a
good variety.
The large breeds, as rule, are the
best for the table.
Good laying hens are neither hungry
nor too fat.
The best plan is to give a good var
iety of both cooked and dry food.
Use carbolic acid occasionally in the
dust bath to destroy the lice.
Paralysis in chickens is often due to
overlooking and lack Of exercise.
Wheat, corn and buckwheat fed to
fattening fowls will whiten the flesh.
Reduce the winter stock of poultry
to layers as much as possible.
Dry-picked poultry is considered
the best; pick while the flesh is warm
The ducks intended for winter and
spring layers should not be made too
fat.
1t is often a good plan to feed corn
on the cob and let the fowls DO the
Smelling.
Well-fed fowls rarely become over
fat when they are compelled to
scratch among litter for their grain.
So far as possible in feeding, scat
ter the grain so that the whole flock
will have an equal chance.
The winter care of fowls is an easier
matter than the summer because there
is less liability of disease.
Never try to stimulate egg produc-
ton with irritating condiments, as
they usually do more harm than good.
Hens will not lay when their combs
are frosted This is one reason why
warm, dry quarters are necessary.
Hardness, vitality and vigo-r of con-
stitution are of more Importance in
poultry for profit than all other quail
ties combined.-Wester Fruit Grow
err
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-15
COLLEGE GIRLS POOR WIVES.
Evanston Professor Warns Men oil
Glasses Against Them.

Evanston Professor Warns Men of
Glasses Against Them.
God help the man who marries q
college-bred woman"
This exclamation which served as a
peroration to little heart-to-heart
talk which Professor ]. Scott Clark
had with his class at Northwestern
university has stirred to the boiling
point the whole feminine element in
the college, The male members OF the
institution are also discussing the
subject with much wrath and will seek
explanation from the faculty as to the
ACCESSIBILITY of such teachings.
Professor Clark occupies the chair
of English at the Methodist institution
in Evanston. Following up recita-
ton he began a discussion of women
of the present day to the members of
his class. In comparison he said,
the modern woman is scarcely the
equal of her mother or grandmother.
The college bred woman, he then re-
marked, generally proves failure as
the manager of a household and is
unable to completely fill the domestic
requirements necessary to make the
home an abode Of comfort.
It is then that he is reported TO
have given this sage advice to the
young men Of his class:
"You young men, who are looking
for wives among the college bred wO-
men of today are on the wrong track.
If you ever do get out, God help you
Professor Clark has occupied chair
at Northwestern university for a
number of years. He is about 81
years old and is married. Efforts are
| being made by members of his class
| to learn whether Mrs. Clark received
a. college education, the interest and
purpose of the students being obvious.
| Prof. Clark certainly did not
realize what volume of criticism
would be poured upon his head by the
thousands Of college women all over
the country, or he might never have
made the statement.
Miss Ellen Sabin, president of the
! Milwaukee-Downer college and a
graduate Of the University Of Wiscon-
sin, when interviewed with regard TO
the statement made by the Chicago
professor, said: Complete refutatiou
of Prof. Cla1's statement is made by
! observation of the home life of college
! women all over the country. AS
president Of the Association of College
Alumni, l find that the college women
are among. the prominent ladies OF
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FARM and ~ ~
~ ~ GARDEN.
EARN Fences.

At a recent western institute one Of
the speakers said: I'm summing UP
this question, l will say without fear
of successful contradiction that the ex-
perience of the farmers of this coun-
try has demonstrated the following
facts:
First-That the wooden age in farm
fence building has passed, and the iron
age is on.
Second-That woven wire fence will
be the kind Of fence that the farmer
will build in the future.
Third-That it should be made on
the farm and by the farmer.
Fourth-That the use of barbed wire
fence is cruelty to animals, and a
menace to property, and should go.
Fifth-That a simple cheap and dur
able machine for weaving wire fence
is a great want at this time.
Sixth-That when such machine is
placed within the easy reach of all
the evolution in fence building will
cease for many years, and new epoch
will have set in; and,
Lastly, the average farmer fences
too much, and in some cases he should
not fence at all.-Farming World.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-15
FISH LINES.

A fish sat him down with blink to
think,
And dipped his fin thoughtfully into
the ink;
Then filmed this short note:
Dear Tommy" he wrote,
''In response to your line of the other
day
hasten to thank you without delay.
But, had not that squirming, delicious
young worm
Shown a set in his curves too sus-
piciously firm.
I might not be here
To write you, my dear
CWhat you may not believe, It is so
strangely queer,
That the wriggler you sent
With most andy intent
Had swallowed pin that was fright
fully bent!
''You see-if I'd greedily taken bite,
finished me quite:
So, the next time you send,
My juvenile friend.
just mark if the worm has natural
bend
Ere you dangle him temptingly down
here to be
The death of some innocent young
thing like me-"
And he grinned as he used some dry
sand for a blotter
Onk dries rather slowly, you know,
under water).
Then signed it in haste
And sealed it with paste.
It was growing quite dark and he'd no
time to waste.
So he posted it slyly, without wasting
On the crest of ripple that ran
toward the shore;
Then, shaking his scales in a satisfied
glow
All shining and shimmering, sank
down below,
Where he soon fell asleep
In an oyster-bed deep,
With the green sheets of water his
slumber to keep.
-Jessica H. Lowell in ST. Nicholas.
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BACK ACTION PHILOSOPHY.

When | muse on Pierpont Morgan
And his trust,
[ reflect that, after all, he's
And will turn to dust again
Made of dust, =,
Which is natural; but then,
should like to be Pierp Morgan
With his dust.
When 1 think of Albert Edward
With his throne,
To comment upon his worries
I am prone;
And | cite the restless bed,
And uneasy royal head;
But-Id like to lose some slumber
On a throne.
It is easy, very easy,
To observe
How ones philosOphic notions
Strike a curve.
Gold and glory are not all,
But we listen for their call.
To decline such things we haven't
Got the nerve.
Baltimore American.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-15
A CONTRAST.
Difference Between American and En-
qIish Newspapers.

Difference Between American and En-
oish Newspapers.
The American newspaper is-from
one point-of-view, at least-much more
open than the English; there is no in
fluence whatever that will induce the
average American journalist to sup
press what he considers to be news,
however embarrassing the disclosure
may be to the government, mOrtifying
to individuals, or discreditable to the
general reputation of the community.
The result of his ferreting out every
fact of interest, and perfect candor
and unshrinking boldness in publish
ing it, is that foreigners obtain the
impression from reading American
journals that American life, in all of
it's branches, social, political, COM
mercial and financial, is the most cor
rupt in existence; but this is because
all that is bad is dragged into light.
If the press of Europe today were as
candid, bold, and thorough as the
| American press, there would be
spread abroad as deep an impression
of corruption in some branches of
European life-in the social and
financial, certainly; perhaps, in the
commercial, though not in the politi-
cal-as now prevails about Ameri-
can life.
How long would the American press
have refrained from exposing the in
efficiency and incompetency which the
English, themselves, admit they have
in too many cases shown in the boer
war, had that war been one In which
the United States was engaged? I'm
like the contest with the beers, the
Spanish-American contest was a tri-
umph from beginning to end; and, yet
this did not deter a pitiless exposure
at the moment of every error of judg-
ment and of every instance of cor
ruption that marked it's progress. If
the boer war had been an American
enterprise, not a single transaction
would have been left in the dark;
there would have been no veil to tear
away from it's events when the con-
fiict was over, because no veil would
have been permitted to exist from the
beginning; nor would any man have
been too high in rank, though Sec
rotary of war or ommander-in-chief,
to be held up to condemnation if in
fault,-Nineteenth Century.
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Prepare Ground Well for Oats.

Of all the other crops none is so
carelessly put in as this one. / have
seen farmers pillow their ground SO wet
that it was impossible to get it in or
der, and as result a poor crop is Sc
cured. Last year | knew a 2O-acre
field that had not been plowed for two
years. 1t was a wheat field which had
been seeded in corn the previous year.
An immense crop of weeds had grown
up after the wheat. A few of the
weeds were taken off. The oats seed
was sowed on the hoed ground, which
was then gone over with spading
harrow, and that was all the labor put
upon the field. AS might be expected
there were no oats to cut. Good crops
have been raised by sowing in stalk
ground, blowing in with the double
corn pillow and then narrowing, but
this is an uncertain plan.
Last fall I had my oats ground
plowed, as I always try to do. The field
was an old meadow. 1t broke UP hard
and rough but now it is in splendid
condition. The rain and freezing have
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-15
Good Outlook For Peaches.

A dispatch in the Morning News
from Fort Valley, Ca, contained tn,
information that the outlook for
good yield of peaches in that locality
is very promising. That is the great
peach section of the state, and if the
crop is good there it is safe to say
it is good in most other parts of the
state. The crop will not be as large
parhaps as it was last year, but the
peaches will be much finer, because
the trees are not SO heavily laden.
And being finer, they will command a
better price. 1t would not be surpris-
ing if the crop this year brought more
money into the state than the crop
Of any previous year. The railroads
will not do as well, because they will
not get so many carloads to haul, but
they will be benefited by the increase
in the states prosperity Savannah
News.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-15
GIRL. LIFE IN INDIA.
What There is of it Ends at the Age OF
Eleven, Says a Woman Missionary.

What There is of it Ends at the Age OF
Eleven, Says a Woman Missionary.
At the Y. M. c.. A. assembly hall
Yesterday afternoon and at the Central
PRESBYTERIAN church last night Mrs.
Abbie Smell Burnell, for several years
a missionary in India, impersonated
"Menarchee," a highcaste Hindu wo-
man. When Mrs. Burnen appeared or
the rostrum she was wrapped in a
gold-embroidered purple robe, under
which a yellow silk vest, with sleeves
reaching to the elbow, showed. Heavy
bracelets of coral and metal and
amulets binding her hair were her
ornaments Between her eyebrows
was round black patch to simulate
the mark of the red-hot iron with
which the women of India are branded
to show their allegiance to the god
| silva.
"The children of India are clothed
with brass jewelry rather than with
garments of cloth" Mrs. Burnell said.
''They run wild, with little or no at
tention. At the age of IL Hindu
girl becomes a woman and then her
liberty ceases They can neither
read, write nor sew, being taught
only to cook little. and they spend
their time backing their eyebrows,
dying their finger nails red and deco
rating themselves with jewelry. In
India the wealth of man is gagged
by the amount of jewelry he lavishes
upon the women of his family.
when a girl is born" said Mrs.
Burnell, ''the first question asked is
whom shall she marry. Every high
caste girl must be welded at H. and
to a man of her caste and her horo-
scope He may be comparatively
young, middle-aged or old, immoral,
diseased or brutal; it makes no diff
ference if his caste and horoscope
agrees with hers. A woman in India
is perfectly helpless.
fsShe is generally married at s or g,
but does not become member of her
husbands family until she is IL. If
it should chance that her husband die
before that time she becomes child
widow, the most despised of creatures.
A curse is believed to be upon her,
and if she goes the ordinary course
she commits suicide in desperation
There are $4,000 child-widows under
8 years Of age in India.
There is no wooing or being won in
India" she said. Every girl over IL
is wife or widow. There the mother
in-law reigns supreme. She rules
with high hand and rod Of iron.
"The Hindu who dies without a son
believes he loses eternal life, and
frequently mothers give their daugh-
ters to be nautch girls in the temple
the vilest life in all the world-in the
belief that they may appease the
anger of the gods and have sons born
to them.
"The religion of India is nakedness
without whitewash, yet they are
bringing it to your American women,
the queens of the earth"
Mrs. Burnell talked of the work of
the Christian missionaries and the op-
position to them.
American dolls, given as prizes in
the Christian schools, and American
fine-tooth combs, the Importance of
which you must visit India to realize
are doing more to Christianize India
than anything else," she said.-Kansas
City Times.
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The Humors of Translation.

Some amusing instances of transla-
tors misunderstanding are mentioned
by the London Daily News. An italian
paper not long ago turned Kiplings
"Absent-Min Beggar" into a dis
tracted Mendicant" A foot note to
the same version explained "son of a
Lambeth publican" as reference to
Mr. Kruger! Another italian editor,
who translated a passage from an
English paper about man who had
killed his wife with poker, added
an ingenious footnote to say: eve
do not know with certainty whether
this thing, pokero,' be a domestic or
surgical instrument" In the French
version of one of SCOTS novels, a
welsh rabbit has to be dealt with
The translator, never having met with
that article of food, naturally turned
it into ''un lapin de Gales and in a
foot-note explained that the peculiarly
delicious flavor of the rabbits of Wales
created a large demand for them in
Scotland, whittier they were exported
in bulk that would compare with the
trade of Ostend The desperate expe-
dent Of the French translator of
Cooper's Spy" who had to explain
how a horse could be hitched ito a To-
Gust" is also worth recalling. He had
never heard of a locust tree, and rem
dered the word by "sauterelle," or
grasshopper. Feeling that this needed
some explanation, he appended foot
note explaining that grasshoppers
grew to a gigantic size in the United
States, and that it was the custom to
place stuffed specimen at the door
of every considerable mansion for the
convenience of visitors, who hitched
the horses to it.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-15
The Best Time to Answer a Letter.

The best time to answer letter is
while you are under it's spell. and be-
fore your interest in it has grown cold.
Home letters should be regular. The
glow and impulse of love. stimulated
anew, will be responsibility stirred, if
the reply is not too long deferred.
am always sorry for families who
suffer the lines Of communication be-
tween them to weaken or rust because
Of carelessness in writing, and
many time my heart has ached for
the disappointment visible in an old
face, when some young Jean or Mollie,
whose letter is wistfully anticipated
has forgotten to send it at the right
Margaret E. Sangster in Ladies
Home Journal.
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Pot vs.. LAYER Strawberries.

TOI vs. Layer OtFaWDGFF1CS.
While good layer plants may answer
all purposes for general spring plant
ing, good potted plants offer many adj
vantages over them when the require
ments are not general, viz: When you
wish to plant at any other time but
spring, to plant in the spring when
you wish to fruit them the first season,
to plant in the spring or fall when you
desire to get very early runners, for
long distance shipment, when only a
few are required of a new variety, to
plant after an early crop of potatoes,
or the like, and when you wish to de-
velop any variety to it's highest degree
of perfection. Besides these advant-
ages, which are very considerable,
they possess many other minor adj
vantages, which are very considerable,
those who are acquainted with the
merits of good potted plants. So much
depends upon the word good, how
ever, and so very few of those sent out
by nurseries can PROPERLY be qualified
by that adjective, that it is very
doubtful if their true value will ever
become generally known or acknowl-
edged among fruit growers. At the
usual price, $3.50 per hundred, great
profits can be made by the sale of poor
plants, while on good ones at that
price there is but a very small margin.
E w. w, in American Gardening.
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| Milwaukee in social life, and are ex-
! ceptionally delightful homemakers.
! And this is true not only in this city,
but all over the land, as well. If a
nan is looking for a wife who will sit
| Town, and admire him and think him
| the most phenomenal creature on
earth, then he does not want college,
bred woman. But if he wishes a
woman who will be for him COM
panion, a woman of thought, who -
| able to enjoy with him all the higher
| and better things of life. then he IS
/ not going to avoid the college-bred
woman. A college education is rs
about as small a demand for education
as one can make. People who have
paid the most attention to domestic
training and have studied it from the
scientific side, women who are leaders
! in school established for the study
| of domestic science and for work along
the line of child study, will readily
acknowledge that the college woman
| is the one who is taking the lead N
the most important line of home and
| child culture, is having the greatest
success in making her home what it
| should be and caring for her children
as they should be cared for. The
| college education results in such train
ing of mind and heart that the college
woman is more likely to appreciate
and set a high value on those thing
which help to make happy home.'
Mrs. G. P. Williams. of Milwaukee.
also an alumnus of the University of
Wisconsin, said: "The people to be
| consulted with in regard to this ques-
ton are the husbands of college wives.
| think that a broad, general and
liberal education should make any
woman better able to fill her position
in life, whether it be that of house
keeping or teaching. The education
which one gets in the college of today
is not a mere collection of facts, but 1t
consists of that broadening and de-
veloping of character which helps to
fit woman for whatever position in
life she may be called upon to fill.
Statistics go to prove that the per
cent of divorces between husbands
and college-bred wives and the per
| cent. Of mortality among children
whose mothers have been college-bred
are lower than in any other cor
responding classes"
Mrs. George w. Peckham. of Mil
waukee, who was graduated from
Vassar, says: prof Clark. in making
such statement, certainly cast more
disrespect on himself than he did on
college women Their lives speak for
themselves, they speak louder than
anything else. I think that the
average American man would be quite
as willing to advocate the college
education for women as for those OF
his own SEX True. our girls do not
find much time to give to the study OF
domestic science while. they are in
school, but the woman who has had
the advantage of mind training is
more able to do the work of the home
when she sees she has it to do, than
she would be without this training
If she have special taste for the
domestic, she will learn it. no matter
how much time she may give to- the
development of her intellectual
powers"