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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-11-27

SONS show. A clear glass bowl far
ing like a tulip blossom held six BIZ
color Horsfieldh bulbs, kept in place
by pure white quartz pebbles; the
thick white roots, shining brown bulbs
with the green leaves and six spikes
OF lemon and orange yellow flowers,
fully three inches across. were beauti-
full.
Other receptacles forced into use
were leaf-green jardiniere, a little
brown majolica tub and a gay Jap
anese bowl, the latter for pure white
blossoms. The most effective were
clear glass dishes or those pressed in
staple patterns, as these showed both
root and bulbs. The pebbles should
be washed clean before using. My
dishes of bulbs were not put away in
the dark, but kept upon a shelf in the
kitchen until well started, then car
ried into other rooms to blossom
They were not placed in direct sun
light after the blossoms had opened
nor near a large lamp in the evening
In planting hyacinths in pots scat
Ter little coarse sand over and under
the bulbs, as this does not hold water
like the earth, and so prevents the
bulb from rotting.
Lily-of-the-valley bulbs and rootlets
lifted from the garden now and placed
in shallow pans with sand, and left
out of doors until frozen, can be
forced for winter blooming by thaw-
ing quickly from the bottom and
watering with lukewarm water. They
do not bloom as freely as the bulbs
bought especially for forcing, but the
blossoms are very dainty and the
green leaves are pretty when there
are none outside the window. Crocus
from the garden can be treated the
same way, but half dozen crocus
bulbs cost but four or five cents, and
will be sure to bloom if set close to-
gether in a fourinch pot. Unlike
most bulbs, the mixed sorts look well
planted together as is usual in beds
or on lawn. The purple, yellow and
white with the striped variety look
we'll all in one pot. and are much for
tue money expended.
Stock Feed.
With the high price of hay and
feed stuffs, it becomes important to
utilize to the best advantage every
thing produced on the farm. Many
successful stock keepers use large
quantities of leaves for bedding their
horses and other stock. Where they
can be obtained easily, they make one
of the best materials for this pur-
pose. They are dry, clean, sweet and
have the power of absorbing much
moisture. When added to the land
with the manure they carry a consid-
cradle amount of fertility and much
humus. Leaves should be gathered
when dry and about as rapidly as they
fall. Where trees are thick a supply
can be obtained in a short time. A
good plan is to take a large sheet of
canvas, such as used for covering
stacks or binders, attach light pole
on each side, and allow them to pro-
ject few inches at each end. Spread
the leaves on to it. When a good
pile is obtained bring TIE two poles
together, and a man al each end can
then lift it readily and empty it into
large wagon box to be hauled to the
barn and deposited in a dry place. If
few pine needles can be mixed with
the forest leaves they will add greatly
to the sweetness and healthtulness of
the stable.-New England Homestead
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-16
F ACTS ABoU CANCER.
Paris Authority Declares That There
Has Been No Increase in Vic
tins of the Disease.

The impression has gained ground
among medical linen that in England and
some parts of America cancer was in
creasing more rapidly than popula-.
ton. DR.. Roswell Park, of Buffalo,
who has made a special study of the
subject, expressed the opinion few
wears ago that there was a percep-
tible, if not alarming, growth i'll the
mortality from this cause in New
York state. He did not speak for the
rest of this country or for Europe,
though.
In recent number of a prominent
medical weekly published in Paris,
Prof. r. de BOWS takes a somewhat
more hopeful view than other eN-
perts do. He is skeptical as to any
increase in frequency. He also de-
MES that cancer attacks more women
than men, When all ages are fully,
considered. he thinks that the two
sexes are affected about equally. Still
another theory which he antagonizes
is that the percentage of mortality is
greater in cities than in the rural dis
tricts He points out two Important
sources of error in this matter. Sta
tistics are not collected so carefully
in the country as in the city, and many
cases which originate in the former
are sent to the city, where the victims
die. The deaths are then credited to
the wrong locality.
As for the organs in which cancer
most often appears, he says that its
~ 81.
the intestinal canal remains about I'M
changed, while in the breast it is on
the decrease. Cancer of the mouth
and upper air passages seems to be
increasing slightly, while cancer of
! the extremities has decreased. The
| chief increase in the number of cases
appears to be due to the increase of
cancerous visceral affections, and this
increase, shown in tables, is probably
more apparent than real. He states
emphatically that there has not been
a great deal of increase in this disease
in the last few years; nor does he be-
lieve that the theory advanced that
carcinoma attacks patients earlier in
life than heretofore is founded on fact.
The contrary opinion has been con-
clusively proven. The age of maxi
mum frequency of cancer appears to
be. in round numbers, 20 years for
males and Is years for females. He
reviews the influence of race, and
states that there seems to be a some
what less receptivity on the part of
the southern races than those of the
northern, but the exact measure Of
this receptivity cannot be determined
yet.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-16
HIS MuLEsHIP PROTESTED.

show up again. Nothing was
thought of this for awhile, but it was
finally settled that Chicago was evad-
ing his turn at work. A lasso was
brought into use, the truant was
roped and placed on picket line,
so that he would be around when
wanted. On the following Tuesday
when a ranch hand went up to Chi
cago to put a bride on him he
turned his head around, dropped his
ears and his tail hung like that of
a whipped dog. All day long the big
mule sulked at his work, and when
he was put on the lariat at night in
stead of being allowed to run at will
with the other animals he protested
with a series of he-haws, threw back
his ears, slyly turned about and be-
fore the man who was fastening him
could get out of the way, planted
his heels on the mans breast ard
sent him flying across the pasture
Now the mule is hundreds of feet
under the ground hauling coal, and
it is likely that he will never again
behold the light of day or have n
chance TO play hoolly" on Tuesday,
Friday or any other day of the week.
Ross b. Franklin, in Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-16
THE LATEST IN FROGS.
Batrachinn, Newly Discovered in
Africa, Is Equipped with Real
Fingers and Toes

The strangest of all strange ami
mails recently found in Africa is at
tracing widespread attention from
naturalists just at present. 1t is a
gigantic frog, with remarkably hui
man-like fingers and toes, and it be-
longs to the class technically known
as Batrachians.
This frogs man-ike appendages do
not appear on any other animal of
this class, and the specimen whose
photograph is reproduced herewith
from the Chicago American is the
first to be captured.
Scientists are unable to account for
such a unique and marked difference
over existing types, and it has been
accepted as an entirely new species,
hitherto unknown. The frog has Just
been received at the Museum of Nat
ural History, London, where it is be-
ing mounted. The following details
of this extraordinary animal are out
lined by Mr.. G. p. Bates, who discov-
cred it.
Mr.. Bates was stationed on the
Benito river, in what is known as the
Gaboon district, forming a part of
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-16
IL: @IEi;$;[|Ri i IN
BANKRUPT IN VITALITY.
of Energy Physical Failure
Is Sure to Follow.

You have deposit of nerve energy
placed to your account in the bank of
your body. 1t may be large, in which
happy case you are millionaire i'll
strength and accomplishing power.
Or it may be so microscopic as to need
careful outstanding and little eXpendi
ture to keep it from dwindling out al
together.
But many millionaires become pau
pers, and some dime savings" swell
into millions. 1t depends upon the
way the capital is managed You may
think you have SO much that there is
no need to be economical. You get
up in the morning, and feel the blood
bounding through your veins like
mountain cataracts, and you think
you can turn the mill wheels of the
world.
You work day and night, or you
play day and night, which is some
times more exhausting, and go at the
limit of your speed all the time. You
are overdrawing your bank account
of energy, and that needlessly, for
you probably have enough to last a
long and useful lifetime. 1t pays to
sit down and sharpen your tools, and
it adds cent per cent. to your body
bank deposit.
Another with not half your brains
or hustle will get ahead of you in the
end, for he makes every act, every
thought, go straight to the mark. He
wastes no efforts. Everything he
does means something; it helps toward
some given end. You spend a great
deal of ammunition on your quarry
because you are over-anxous. He
keeps cool, takes steady aim, and wings
his bird.
You get wrinkles and frost tipped
temples and become bankrupt in
vitality when you should be in your
prime. You have overdrawn the best
and most valuable bank account the
Lord ever placed on the books of life
the ability ito love and to work and
to play and to look up at the stars.''-
Chicago RecordHerald.
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queen in Richard III. in her maturer
years. She is perhaps best known
for her representations in the Harri-
gan plays. They were all her own
creations, for the author furnished
her but skeleton of her parts, and
she developed those remarkable old
women who were the features of the
shows. OF late years she has been
associated with farce-comedy. Her
art is literal. She is realism itself.
She has the rare gift for woman of
losing all self-consciousness in comic
acting. Off the stage Mrs. Yeamans
is a genuinely amiable cid lady who
has given welcome encouragement to
scores of young players who have
since become famous. Her compan-
ions say that she is entirely free
from the vice of jealousy; and a
greater compliment than this no play
actor could pay to another.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-16
BLOOMS IN NOVEMBER.
Witch Hazel Is the Last Blossom to
Remind Us of the Years
Carnival of Flowers.

In late November, there only re-
mains the inconsequent bloom of the
witch-haze to remind us of the great
carnival of flowers that has passed
Not another flower shows itself, save
now and then belated wind torn,
frost stricken little dandelion, which
is struggling to fulfill its destiny and
the command to multiply and replen-
ish according to its kind, if in the face
of antagonistic conditions. But among
the witch-hazel branches, flower and
fruit closely associate in loving good
fellowship, blooming and seeding.
1t faunts its faded, ovate leaves as
though calling attention to its gleam-
ing branches so thickly covered with
hundreds of star-like yellow bios
SONS clustering in the axis of the
leaf stems as though seeking protec-
ton from the chilling blasts. They
nestle confidingly against the queer
little capsulated pods that contain the
mature seed of last years bloom, and
which can, upon occasion, lombard
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-16
A FEW USEFUL HINTS.
OF Particular Value to Women Who
Like to Dress Becomingly on n
Small Income.

The rich girl is not always the
only girl who is the well-dressed one.
The young woman who has to make
hats and frocks is frequently as
modishly attired as her better-off Sis
ters.
OF course, it takes lots of time and
skill, as well as cleverness, to make
old things look as well as new; but
then it pays to curl feathers and
clean ribbons when the hat is finished
and the gown is donned, and it just
looks lovely. For the maid who has
to make over and yet wants to look
nice here are few useful hints to
help her on her economical ways:
Feathers which have become soiled
may be washed in hot water and
soap. Soft water should be used.
Rinse thoroughly to get the soap cSt.
Brush quilts with nail brush ~
hair brush
Wash ostrich feathers in the same
way, and after rinsing thoroughly
pass them through warm solution
of oxalic acid. After this they should
be starched in plain starch.
The fibers of ostrich may be curled
with curling iron that is not very
hot. Steam the fbers before curling.
Feathers are also curled with a dull
knife, drawing the fibers between the
thumb and edge of the knife. Hold
lightly and do not curl too tight.
Do not curl the entire length, but
only at the end of each fiber.
Light-colored feathers may be
washed in benzine without detriment
to their curl or color.
Wings and fancy feathers are very
satisfactorily cleaned by washing in
benzine. After drying and pluming
with brush, white wings should be
rubbed with magnesia.
Some all-sillS ribbons and pieces or
using pure white laundry soap. 1t
is well to try small pieces first, for
all dyes will not stand the process.
Wash gently and rinse thoroughly.
Roll in towel and iron under tissue
paper when partially dry. Do not
wiring the ribbon or silk, but squeeze
the water out by running through a
wringer with towel or squeeze be-
tween the palms of the hands. Rib.
bons and silks should be ironed while
damp.
Silks are often satisfactorily
cleaned in gasoline or benzine. In
using either of these sufficient guam
tity must be used to cover entirely
the piece being cleaned, otherwise
the result will not be satisfactory
1t hardly seems necessary to repeat
the caution about not using either OF
these infammable liquids near fire:
but it must be remembered they are
very angerous.-Chicag Tribune.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-16
MY GRANDMA.

My grandma sits in a rocking chair,
BY the window, in the sun;
She wears a soft little lacy cap,
And big white apron over her lap,
And there's always room for a little girl
there
That's tired of frolic and fun.
My grandma has always a pocket full.
OF peppermint drops and cakes:
And she knows such pretty songs that
she sings,
And stories about-oh, lots of things;
And sometimes she lets me wind the wool
For the stockings and things she makes
She told me a queer thing the other day,
Ard she says it's really true
My grandma had soft red cheeks one
time,
And hair that was just as black as mine;
ARG. she could run and tumble and play,
And all the things l can do!
I wish 1 had known my grandma then;
How very nice it would be
If grandma We're little and played with
me,
Dressing our dollies, and going to tea,
And swinging,anG watching the bantie hen,
And climbing the cherry-tree!
And the sandman crept along,
What should do for my grandma lap,
And her songs to GroWsy me into zap?
I'm glad my grandma is old and gray,
While I'm just little and young!
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-16
CHINESE ANATOMICAL CHART.

it's origin in the back of the head.
They also claim that a human being
has 365 bones, which correspond to
the 365 days of the year; that a man
has IL ribs and woman IA, and that
a mans skull is composed of eight
and woman's six pieces.
Moreover, they say that in every
human body there are % parts which
are important and Sc which are I'M
important, and they lay great stress
on the necessity of taking good care
of the important parts.
American and European physicians
do not rate their Chinese colleagues
very highly, yet ample testimony has
been furnished by missionaries and
others that there are in China many
n,.fl,ll1, in
the art of healing.-Detroit Free
Press
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-16
A TOAD's ADVENTURE.
Its Reputation for bravery Rested
Altogether Upon Il Danger That
Never Existed.

One summer afternoon Nandalia,
Eleanor and Walter were walking in
the park. Walter saw a toad hopping
across the gravel walk, and disappear
in the grass.
"Vandalia," cried Walter, "look at
the toad" Nandalia and Eleanor came
up to where Walter stood and looked
at the toad sitting in the grass, con
tented and happy. An old man pass
ing the children heard their CONVERSE
ton about the toad, paused and said:
children, let us have some fun with
Brother Toad" With his cane i'll his
hands, and getting down on his knees,
he slowly pushed the cane through the
grass, in the direction of the toad's
head, making the grass move as
though snake was crawling through
it. The toad all this time sat dignified
and stately as king, not smile on his
homely face, now and then his eyes
blinking; he looked the image of joy,
unclouded by sorrow.
AS the cane slowly moved through
the grass, its polished surface glisten-
ing in the sunlight, the toad caught
sight of it-a wonderful change came
over him-his dignity failed-he sud
denly gave high leap into the air and
fell down in the grass with thud, and
then began series of jumps and leaps,
like rabbit makes when the hound
chases him, and the toad continued
these jumps until he passed out Of
view down hill.
Walter yelled with delight, crying:
$50 it, toady." Nandalia laughed UNI
til tears came into her eyes, and said:
"Toady thinks it is snake" Eleanor
looked at the toad, hopping away from
it's supposed danger, and said in a
voice of pity: Poor little toad, it is
too bad to scare you"
When the toad reached its home un-
der the rocks, worn out by it's long
run for life, he told n great story to
the other toads of the family, about
the snake coming through the grass
and how he hoped away so fast thai
the snake could not catch him, and the
other toads all looked upon him as a
| heron. Y. Observer.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-16
WITCH-HAZEL PLANT.

me so yiciously as to requirei their
'wn distillation to allay the bruise.
No wonder that this unruly shrub
accredited with strange powers of
iivination and witchery, so negligent
t is of the proper time for seeding
nd harvest. Surely not of honest in
ent does it thus outrage the conven-
ionalities of seasons: "All trees"
says John Burroughs, form their
lower buds in the fall, and keep the
secret until spring. How comes the
witch-hazel to be the one exception,
and to celebrate its floral nuptials on
the funeral day of its foliage? No
doubt it will be found that the spirit
of some love-lorn squaw has passed
into this bush, and that this is why
it blooms in the Indian summer, rath-
er than in the white mans spring"
Edward Rowland Sill interrogates it
as follows:
Has Time grown sleepy at his post
And let the exiled Summer back?
Or is it her regretful ghost.
Or witchcraft of the almanac?"
The witch haZel's manner of dis
tributing its species is almost as
unique as is its unreasonable bloom
In the capsules are two, hard, black
highly polished. projectile shaped
seeds, snugly fitted into their velvet
covered nest, each compartment OF
which is lined with the same shiny
material that covers the seed. Wher
these capsules are sufficiently ma
tured and Jack Frost has looseneG
the locks, they burst open, and by
some propelling forca, the seeds are
shot forth to a considera bic distance
A branch allowed to ripen in ones
room, enacts 4 miniature battle, sc
loudly and sharply are the neighbor
ing walls bombarded.-Country Gen
tleman.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-16

West Africa, and in the French Con-
go. This territory is wild and partly
explored. The river region teens
with alligatorS that are very fierce
and dangerous.
The new frog was discovered while
Mr.. Bates was on canoe journey
and was shot just as it was about to
plunge into the stream. On eXamina-
ton the frog proved to be new and
unknown species. Besides the man
like fingers and arms, the frog pos
sesses another remarkable feature,
having a long bearded growth run
ming along the sides of its body. The
some parts of the body being COW
cred with dark brown spots. A black
cross-bar runs between the eyes to
the center of the body. The head is
large, broader than it is long, and
much depressed.
The fingers are the main and all,
absorbing feature. They vary In
length and are capped by round
bony substance. The toes are hall
webbed and are furnished with large
tubercles. The skin and sides of the
body are smooth. A large, darl
stripe runs along the upper surface
of the thigh. In size the frog meas
ures over one foot in length. 1t was
capable of leaping some ten feet OF
more at time. The huge Congo
frog, aside from being a great curl
osity. is considered rare and valu
able contribution to natural history
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-16
OLD MULE WAS LAZY.
Story of Wyoming Kicker Which
Has Concealed Within 1t Moral
for Young Folks.

There was recently sold to the own
ers OF Wyoming coal mine an old
mule which for a long time had sue
cessfully lodged work. The mule
was big strong fellow and was
called Chicago by the people of the
ranch where he was raised. So1ne
time ago Chicago was selected for
the work of herding, at which task
he was used twice week, Tuesdays
and Fridays. After his days work
he was always turned out with the
other mules and horses to pasture.
He soon learned to distinguish the
days of the week; at least, he began
to disappear on each Tuesday and
Friday morning until after the herd
ers had gone out, when he would
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MRS. JOSEPH cHoATE.
Wife of the American Ambas sa or to
Great Britain Is n Most Adj
mirnble Woman.

If Joseph Hodges Choate, ambassa-
dor from the United States to Eng
land, is man fitted for his position,
Mrs. Joseph Choate is woman quite
capable of holding her own as the
wife of one of the proudest diplomats
living.
The post of ambassador to the
court of st. James is purely honor
airy one, for it's emolument is wholly
inadequate to meet the demands that
are made upon it. At the same time
1t is one of such pride that states
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-16
A clever Boston Horse.

A great many horses are fed on the
streets from 'catbags" drawn up over
their noses, and wabbling about in a
manner which must make it very I'M
comfortable to eat ones dinner in that
way The Boston Herald tells of a
bright horse down in ''Pie alley
which had nearly reached the bottom
of his bag. 1t wabbled awfully. but
the oats We're sweet and he was hungry.
In front of him stood a wagon and the
wagon had a wheel. Happy thought.
He walked up to the wheel, rested his
canvas bucket on top of it and finished
his dinner to the last oat in remark
ably leisurely fashion. and With twin
kle in his eye. If that was not tri-
umph of mind over matter, what was
It?
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-16
CHINESE CHART OF MAN.
Anatomy, ms We Understand 1t. Is nm
Unknown Science in the Ce-
Iestial Kingdom.

Chinese physicians have some curi-'
Gus notions in regard to human anat-
omy. The truth is, they know Moth
ing about anatomy as that word is
understood by American physicians.
their principal authority on the sub
ject being work entitled Netting"
of which Huang-ti, who lived from
2697 to 2597 b. c., is said to be the
author.
According to Chinese physicians,
the human heart occupies almost the
same position as is assigned by Euro
pean and American physicians to the
stomach, and bile, they maintain, has
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-16
MRS. ANNIE YEAMANs.
For Fifty-six Years She Has Enter
tanned Audiences in This Coun-
try and Europe.

There is hardly theater-goer il
the United States who does not know
Mrs. Annie Yeamans, who has now
been on the stage for Sc years. She
has played almost every line of char
acter in the drama, from picka.
ninny, when she was child, to the
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-16

Z Cleaning KNIVES Made Very Easy.
Knife-clenning may easily be per-
formed by rubbing the knives over
with a slice of potato and then polish
ing them with brick dust.