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Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
CUCUMBER PESTS.

Probably no insect has withstood
more methods of repression than the
striped cucumber beetle. Each year
some new style OF plant cover, some
new poison or some new foul smelling
compound Is pronounced by writer's in
the agricultural press a never failing
defense; yet the little pests return to
the attack every season in increasing
numbers and with sharper appetite
than before, says a bulletin from the
New York experiment station. 1t may
be safely said that no perfect remedy
or preventive has yet been found.
Only by a combination of two or more
measures can we hope to keep even,
or perhaps get a trifie the better of
this Insignificant appearing little foe.
Squash Is the beetles favorite food
plant, SO this vegetable should be
planted in single rows along the mar
gins of small patches, or in several
rows around large fields, about four
days before the cucumber seed is
sown. When these trap plants are up
and the beetles appear about them
dust about half the plants with green
arsenite, reserving the other half fOr
use if rain or heavy dew makes the
poison soluble and kills the vines first
treated. The beetles will feed upon
the squash vines and be poisoned by
the arsenite. When the cucumbers
are up they should be sprayed will
Bordeaux and more of the squash
vines should be poisoned.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
POULTRY POINTERS.

Save the meat scraps for your fowls.
1t is a good rule to scald out the
drinking vessels once a week.
Ground bone can be fed alone or in
soft food.
Tobacco stems covered with straw
in the nests will prevent insect breed
ing.
Proper food and variety or IT
make strong. healthy chickens.
One disadvantage of guineas rs that
they are not good market fowls.
If you want to keep eggs for any
length Of time turn them over every
day.
Clean earth is one of the best alb
sorbents that can be used in the poul-
try house.
Whitewashing the nests, inside and
out, is a good means of keeping them
free from vermin.
Mark your chicks each year SO you
can know their age, and kill or sell
them after the third year.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
BREVITIES.

Plausible lies are facts made OF
wax"
Klondikers are having their golden
daze.
The silo is COW buoy--a Gairy
Money breeds the moral backbone
out of men.
A conceited Christian may be guilty
of idolatry.
A dishorning saw may raise a crop
Of COW peace.
No, sir--men with dual purpose
seldom do all they should.
Make 'em eat Dirt Who? The
crops. Pulverize the soil so they can
do IL.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

Many young men leave the country
and go to town for city life, because
town life is easy, or they think 1t is,
which serves the purpose OF argu-
ment. The result is that ninety per
cent of them earn enough money for
grub, clothes, a street car ride and an
occasional seat at cheap theater
Farm life is not over-luxurious, but 1t
is not anywhere near SO hard as it is
claimed to be, and compares favorably
with average city life. Successful
farmers are just as numerous as sue
cessful business men.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

Don't forget to go to picnic occa-
sionally this summer; it is not time
lost. Give the women and children
the recreation and change which is es-
sential to their well-being. The farm
er who is so practical that he does
not believe in recreation is practically
idiotic in his blindness. He gets a
fair share of change and recreation
for himself in his weekly or semi
weekly trips to town where he gos-
sips at the stores. Let him be wise
enough TO give his family the same
amount of change from the humdrum
and drudgery of the farm. He will
"get more work out OF them" in the
course of year and lifetime than
he ever will by holding them continu-
ally at toll.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

Cutting willows down will not kill
them. Osier beds can be cut for a
great many years for the OILERS with
out doing the roots any harm. The
only way to get rid of willows is tc
root out each bush. The easiest way
to do this is to hitch a chain round
the bush near the bottom and then
drag it out by the roots with horse,
after loosening the bush by cutting
some of the main roots with an AK.
Many acres have been cleared in this
way in Manitoba, and ii is found the
most convenient way of doing the
work. If the bushes are not very
large the land may be burnt over and
then plowed with a heavy scrub plow.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
No Reflected Glory for Him.

After all, what's the use marrying
woman who has the ability to make
herself famous?"
We'll. a wife of that kind, you know,
may make herself known to poster
ity."
Nothing of the kind. Consider the
case Of Nine. Du Barry's husband.
III bet $40 that nine out OF every ten
people honestly believe there never
was Mr.. Du Barry"
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

Fl. B. Gurler of DeKalb, Illinois, re-
Gently reported at farmers institute
that as soon as his COWS. were taken
off of ensilage and put on spring pas
ture (even though the pasture was
good their milk dropped off twenty
per cent. Silos which thus increase
the output OF cow twenty to twen-
ty-five> per cent are too valuable to
ignore. If a farmer has twenty COWS
the silo will give as much milk as any
five of them and costs nothing to feed,
for ensilage is cheaper than any other
winter feed The lesson from this
is that ensilage may be fed throughout
the spring II not all the year round,
supplementing other feed.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
Concrete Arch Over Stream.

A, 2 by ~ in. plank; b. 2 by in up
rights; c. by in scantling on up
rights: d. center supporting arch; H.
concrete.
more than 21z feet apart; On top OF
this a by inch scantling is laid
lengthways of arch; then a center cut
out of the plank, or inch boards and
covered with inch lumber to hold the
arch. The carth should be well ram
med around the wall when filling in.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
Worse Than Green Goods.

Uncle Wayback-I JUS tell you, tn :
city is an awful place. Skin yeh alive 9
there.
Farmer Meadow (gloomily)
so.
Uncle Wayback-Eh? Did yek
meet some green goods men While
you was in tn city?
Farmer Meadow-Noo, but my wife
met some dry goods men.-New York
Weekly.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

Each set Of rafters should be II
feet long. The lower set should pro-
ject one foot over the lower plate.
These should be sawed SO as TO sit
sQuarely on the plate, the projecting
foot TO be two inches deep. The up
per end of the rafter rests on the per-
line plate, and the lower end of the
upper rafter lies beside it. The top
sides of the two rafters should be
flush. The upper rafter fits on the
perline plate with tongue on the
lower side 10 drop down on the in
side of the plate to form brace The
rafters are all spiked to the plates IL
necessary. The lower rafters should
have a 9-foot rise and the upper ones
seven.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
Then They Wouldn't Have Met.

rs it becoming To me?" asked she.
as she paraded, in the costume of leo
years ago, before the man who is pot
her lord and master, but is her hus-
land. ,
Eyes, my dear" said he, meekly. (
Don't you wish ! could dress this
say all the timer" she asked.
mo, my dear" he replied; "but
irish you had lived when that was the
style"
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
J9]Ll! s;;EE E
The Improvidents.

''The grocer sent his biz oSay.
and what do you think he charged us
for butter?"
How mucb?"
Twenty eight cents a pound"
Good land! It's: downright rob
berry. No wonder we're always poor.
BY the way, dear, found parrot To-
day that talks in three languages. he
man wants only $40 for it."
What bargain! We must have
the bird, by all means"
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
IL Worried Him.

THAT land" said the city nephew.
as valued at $500 front foot"
"Thunderation!" exclaimed the old
farmer, hastily moving back onto the
sidewalk. An ! stood on it most FIVE
minutes! Do you reckon they'll
charge me rent?'
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

Fruit is a profitable product of the
farm even if none of it is sold. The
eating Of it promotes health, saves
doctors bills, and saves money thas
would be otherwise spent for things
to take its place. IL there Is no fruit
arrange for it; if some fruit is no
grown, arrange for more.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

II the chimney is built at the end
of the building SO that it rests on end
of the joists these will provide suf-
ficient support, but if it is built in the
center of the room supports should be
provided Immediately underneath. IL
the chimney starts from the ground
floor small abutment can be built
under the joints or stills, which will
hold the weight.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

The hog by reason of its peculiar
makeup needs more shade ttan any
other domestic animal. The person
who neglects shade for fat hogs is
liable to meet with a loss for his negli-
gepce Hogs require dense shade
and an abundance Of water with ac'
cess to the breeZes.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

( Il is stated that Charles X. Flint of
New York has bought two CHILEAN
cruisers for SO, 100000 and is dicker.
, ing for a third. For a private individ-
ual Mr.. Flint seems to be pretty well
fixed in point of sea power.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
support for a Chimney.

A. Il. b wish to build a brick
ilue Is feet high, 80 bricks to the foot
/ want it to rest on floor having
by 6 inch stills, IL feet long and II
inches apart. II the stills rest on the
G inch sides would they be strong
enough to bear the weight?
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

Where the span is not more than
ten feet the arch can be moulded all
in one. When the diameter Is greater
the concrete should be nodded into
blocks and then laid up the same as
stone. If the culvert is not more than
five feet wide, the arch may be put
on fiat, but II wider it should have a
little crown. The plan shown ces-
cribes the mode Of building an arch.
1t has a by II inch PLANK on the bed
of the stream; on this stand by 4
inch upright, which should not be
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

The best after-dinner speaker |
ever heard" says Senator Depew,
was Gladstone at 80, and the next
in order, in my opinion, was Simon
Cameron at co." Now, who has been
so unkind as to remind our Chauncey
that he was 20?
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

A couple just married in st. Louis
are going to try to lay up a COM
potency for the future by living on 80
cents q day for the present. They
will be spared the expense of enter
tanning much.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

A New York banker has been sent
TO prison for nine years for stealing
$4,000 Evidently the New York
courts have outlived the idea that a
mans stealings should be overlooked
if he takes enough.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

Prof. Starr of Chicago university
says this miserable continent is not
lit for the development of the highest
type of animal life" Perhaps the
professor has been compelled to- lay
i'm another ton of coal
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

Old seadogs report that the gulf
stream is running at unwonted speed.
AS soon as tho political parties find
out whether this is considered advan-
tageous or not, they will either claim
the credit or lay the blame on the 9th
or fellows.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

Down i'm the woodland pasture
The thistles and briers grow,
And the buttercups are yellow as gold,
And the daisies white as snow.
And Brindle, and Bessie, and Gray,
When the afternoons grow late,
Take the trodden. homeward path
That leads to the barn-yard gate
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

The Journal of the Deceased. de-
voted entirely to obituary notices, is
the latest newspaper venture in Paris.
Undoubtedly. ethical considerations
will impel the doctors to try to keep
their names out of the paper.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

Do you suppose it was Uncle Rus
sell Sage who persuaded the other
Western Union directors to give up
the 100000 income from the pool
room service?
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
Just a Scheme.

Mrs. Gaussip-I think you ought to
know this, Mrs. Subbubs. Your hus-
band kisses your cook.
Mrs Subbubs--Yes, told him to do
e. You see the cook thinks she Is
getting ahead of me in that way and
50 she never thinks of leaving.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

Your wall would require 19 barrels
Of natural rock cement and 10 yards
of gravel. making the concrete one OF
cement to one Of gravel; or. If Port
land is used, IA barrels would do the
work, making the concrete one of ce-
ment to seven of gravel This esti-
mate Is given on using all gravel (no
stone for fillers) as the wall, being
only six inches thick, very little stone
can be used.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

The unwisdom of wearing ring
set with an oblong ruby worth $4,000
has been demonstrated to Spencer
Trask, the New York banker, who has
just been robbed of one.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

The Emperor of Korea has bounced
his faverite and deprived her of po'
litical power. The reports say she
has been running things for ten years.
That's what she gets for growing old.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

It is thought that the higher educa-
ton for women has just about reach
ed the limit in Boston, where the fair
students are now clearing the high
Jump bar at feet inches.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
pestructlve STYLES in the Kitchen.

Lady of the House-Lorena, you
freak more china and glass than any
.ook we ever had.
Lorena--I can't help IL, ma'am; RS
.hese big sleeves drags 'em often the
tables.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
cement for Kitchen Walls.

want to put up concrete kitchen,
1G by 90 feet, and IA feet high; the
end will join the present building,
leaving three sides to build, two sides
20 feet long, and the end wall 16 feet
with gable ends. How much gravel
will be required and how much &C.
ment the wall being six inches thick
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

When a single pair of boil weevils
propagate 134,000,000 other weevils
during single season, there isn't
much to say to them on the evils of
race suicide!
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

S Whatever else Of Tennyson may or
, may not live, his phrase "the sweet
girl graduate" is bound to be immor-
: tai.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

Even leap year is powerless to save
ehivalrous man from kneeling at the
feet of the fair sex, for To- the season
of the Oxford and its persistently flop
ping ties is at hand.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

A one-story house should be set
about two and one-half or three feet
above the grade. If the appearance
from the road is the only considera-
ton to take into account, and assum-
ing that the lot is level. The depth
of the cellar sometimes has 10 do
with the height from the grade. As
the general thing houses of this size
are set about that high.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

The non-professional military au-
thorities who had Japan marching all
over Siberia and into Russia in less
than three months are amending their
guesses.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

A good dairy COW is made by intelli-
gent breeding and feeding. She does
not come by chance. It takes seven
years OF steady, watchful attention
after birth to bring a COW to her best
In the production of milk.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

Baer says coal is high because the
people are willing to be robbed. Baer
is a good man. He wouldn't tell a
lie about thing like that.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

A Pittsburg man killed himself be-
cause he couldn't stand it to hear the
hand organ men playing "Bedelia."
Pittsburg never was much OF a place
for art.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

MIR wragg invites contributions OF
any new ideas that readers Of this de-
partment may wish to present. ana
would be pleased to answer correspond
discussed. Address NJ. ]. Wragg. Wau-
kee, Iowa.1
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

Here's hoping that the battleship
Rhode Island, launched the other day.
will never meet the fate of the Hat
suse and the Petropavlovsk.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

The London Times is reported to
be adopting American ideas. The next
thing we know John Bull will be talk
ing through his nose.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

That New York girl who Rugged a
man so hard that she broke one OF his
ribs should come west and grow up
with the country.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

The man who has an idea that any
body can manage a sailboat is get
ting into the accident column rather
early this year.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
Ciearino Land of Willows.

subscriber have some water
willows on my farm. l have cut them
down, but they grow up again. | think
they will have to be dug up. What is
the best way TO get rid of them?
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

President Eliot thinks "the public
school houses should be used every
day of the twelve months OF the
year." And he might add, the churches
d aIc0
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
FITTING Rafters on a Barn.

L. NJ am building barn so by
80 feet, and wish to put on two sets
of rafters, to meet at the perline plate.
What length should the rafters be
and how should they be fastened?
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

= The New York Herald notes that
bicycling seems to be in the ascend
art again" Advertising pays.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
G. A. LIsK, Publisher

Only a little mine is required to
make large battleship look like old
junk.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

"Alkali Ike" is dead, but Weary
Willie" and "MeanderiDg Mike" are
still going the rounds.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

The trouble with the submarine
mine is that it can't tell its friends
from its foes.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
TO BUILD CONCRETE ARCH.
Strong and Lasting Structure Com
parativeiy inexpensive.

S. S.-Please tell me how to use
concrete in building arches over
streams and under main roads.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
Peace to His Ashes.

Mrs. DeSwell-"You. seem to be a
great lover of the weed, Mr.. Putting.
ton. Does your father smoke ss
much as you do?"
Puhington-"Well, I should hope
not"
Mrs. DeSwell-"What do YOU
mean?"
Puhingtor--"He has been dead ton
years"
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02
SETTING 2 COTTAGE.

]. II. An building onestory
cottage. 10 by 90 feet. with a vera da
In front on level ground, how high
should it be set in order to appear
well from the road?
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-07-02

Grace-He says Friday is his Al
lucky day.
Marie-Why, do you suppose?
Grace-zOh, / guess he was born ON
that day.-Philadelphi Bulletin.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14
Taggart and Illinois

As between the Democratic, Ma, anal
Committee Chairman Thomas Tagsart.
and the Democratic leaders >Jf Illinois,I
the situation is, to put it mildly, more
than melancholy.
Chairman Taggart came to Chicago
and went away again leaving behind him
trail of blasted hopes. The Illinois
Democrats expected to get some money
from the Democratic party, affiuent for
the first time in many years, because the
trusts are with the Democracy. But
Chairman Taggart has no money to give
to Illinois. Whatever else may be said
Of Chairman Taggart-who is a fine fel-
low--it has never been said of him that
he was fool. He knows better than
to waste money on Illinois in this cam
paign, and has practically, SO expressed
himself.
This makes one sympathize and regret
somewhat the condition of the Democra-
tic leaders in Illinois, but exalts ones
esteem of Chairman Taggart's good
sense.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14

posts in the nation. In neither of them
did he ever do an executive act that has
turned out disastrously for the country ?
Where does the unsafeness come in?
The pretended alarm of Democrats on
this score is really great compliment
to Mr.. Roosevelt. 1t is equivalent to
saying that he is an energetic Presi-
dent. We Americans are an energetic
people, accustomed to doing things in
stead of sitting down and dreaming about
them, and why should not we have that
kind of President? Mr.. Roosevelt's
energy is of the healthy American kind,
and it has had a wholesome effect upon
our own people and in other countries.
A President who has spent his life doing
things is greatly preferable to one who
has spent his life writing judicial opin-
ions
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14
Parker VI. Cleveland.

Cleveland's second administration was
disastrous to the prosperity of the coun
try; nevertheless, history will give much
credit to Cleveland because of his OBJ
stinate defense of the gold standard
against the assaults of his own party in
Congress, and because of his Venezuela
message.
But while Cleveland was doing his
best to preserve the gold standard. Park.
er was voting for free silver. And when
Cleveland wrote his Venezuela messag &c
did he have the moral support of the
candidate who in his recent speech of
acceptance condemned as extravagant
and unjustifed the Republican policy Of
getting the nation in readiness for war?
Had it not been for this very policy
as pursued by preceding Republican ad-
President Cleveland's fam
Gus Venezuela message would have been
an empty bluff"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14
DEMOCRACY'S PLIGHT.

Bill Bryan said he'd help them; he sal
that he would talk;
He said that he would fix things S
they'd win in walk;
He went to Colorado-they know they'v
lost the State
Because Bill Bryan acted like he's tn
candidate.
They sent Bill home.
No more to roam,
For he couldn't find Denim,
with fne-tooth comb.
Bill Sheehan said he'd do it; he sale
he had a scheme:
He woke up at Esopus--he found 'twa.
all dream;
He boasted that his tactics had bottled
up New York
They found the other fellows had come
and pulled the cork.
They sent Bill home
No more to roam.
For he couldn't catch the voters
with tine-tooth comb.
Dave Hill said it was easy, he'd fix the
thing up right,
He fretted and he figured with all his
main and might.
And when he'd led his trump card some
body covered it
They whispered then to David: "We
think you'd better quit"
They sent Dave home
No more to roam
FOR he couldn't find the voters
with fne-tooth comb.
Tom Taggart had his innings-he
brought out all his guile,
Ills fnger-pinching handshake, his oily,
spreading smile
But up came Mr.. Parker his morning
sleep to break
With: 'Who has chloroformed YOU?
And what is this-a wake?"
They sent Tom home
NO more to roam
For he couldn't find a voter with
fine-tooth comb.
Then Arthur Pusey German, as slick as
slippery elm,
Went on the deck as Captain, with no
one at the helm.
Democracy went drifting as far as far
could be,
And now the craft is sinking somewhere
upon the sea.
They've all gone home
No more to roam
For they couldn't catch a voter
with fine-tooth comb.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14

ton. Neither currency nor tariff legis-
lation Is so firmly enacted that the laws
could not be changed by Congress il the
people demanded their revision, and the
only reason that the Democratic party
is attempting to make the tariff an is
sue in this campaign is that they hope
the people have forgotten their sad ex-
perience under the Wilson German Dem
ocratic tariff bill. After the votes are
counted in November, the Democrats
will find that the people who by their
votes rule this country consider the pro-
tective policy as we'll as the gold stand
ard firmly and irrevocably established
as cardinal principles.