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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
Keen Chicks Growing.

Whe.l-S the chickens are being
raised for the market or for winter
layers, it is essential that they make
the best possible growth from birth to
going into winter quarters or to the
market The range, to large extent.
solves the question Of food and OF
healthy growth. but it is necessary
that the chicks have some food other
than that picked up on the range. or
they will wear themselves out trying
to get encsigh to eat.
Then, If they roost under cover at
night. and they should by all means
do this, there is tha question of lice
which must be given proper ccnsidera-
ton. for few Nce will cause the chick
to lose more weight in a month than
car be made good by two months Of
feeding. Everything possible must be
done to keep the chicks growing dur
ing the summer; keep them making a
strong. steady gain. and then they viii
be profitable. and not otherwise.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
Feeding Value of Alfalfa.

II is within a few years since any
special attention has been paid to
alfalfa and farmers have been slSw
in testing it. Perhaps the undispCted
statement that q ton Of alfalfa prop
erIv cured has nearly the same feeding
value as ron Of wheat brac viii
convince farmers that the crop is
worth their attention. Unlike clover
# is not difficult to get a catch Of al
falfa and it does not readily winter
kin. one cannot put TO better use a
norton OF the leisure days than IN
finding out all possible about alfalfa
and its culture.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20
uHad Had Had,

while you're discussing the Pc
culiarities of the English language"
remarked the publisher as at the
Franklin Inn club the other afternoon
he sat down to his after luncheon
cigar has it ever struck you that the
word had can. with perfect correct
ness. occur three times successfully in
an ordinary English sentence? No?
Well. it can. Only the other evening
i came across an instance. 1t was at
the meeting of a certain associa ton l
am interested in, and there the secre-
ary in reading the minutes said. The
chairman of the committee then re-
ported that the troubles which they
had had had now been overcome
That's interesting" chimed in the
literary man. but it's nothing to the
possibilities Of recurrence we can cor
rectly get out of the word that You
may say that that that that that
speaker indicated was not that that
that that gentleman intended.-Phila-
delphia Press.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20
rhs 4 hog, z:

s5:. The Who'll Hog.
~ Whence cones the xpression ito go
the whole hog .hfch occupies so.
prominent n position Id fiscal politics 2
asks the Liverpool. Post In one anthor-5
$itative work on such matters tits stat.
ed that the phrase probably arose from
the Arabian story versifed in Cow
Per's Love of the World Reproved-"
Mohammed allowed his followers to.
eat pork, except one portion Of the ami
NAL, which he did not specify, and con-
sequently strict Mohammedans We're
debarred from eating any. Others, how
ever. Thought it hard from the whole
hog to be debarred." and SO with
sophistry their sauce they sweeten. till
quite from tail to snout It's eaten" In
an American book on political squibs,
published in 1874. the author says. ITO
60 the. whole hog is an American-Eng-
lish phrase for radical reform and Is.
much used here by the Democratic par
ty to distinguish them from the Red-
era1ists. who don't profess such sweep
ing notions and consequently go only
part OF the interesting quadruped in.
question"
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20
uooed With Music.

Among the Yao Midos. one of the
many Burmese-Iartar people, the
young men WOO their wives absolutely
without words, but to the sound of
music. On the first day of winter they
have great feast. at which all the
marriageable girls gather and listen to
the music made by the bachelors. who
sit under the desire tree each play
ing his favorte instrument. As the
maiden he loves passes him the youth
plays louder and more feelinslE- If the
girl ignores him and passes on he
knows that she will have none of him
if she steps up to him and lays a
flower upon the instrument. he jumps
up, grasps her by the hand. taking
care not to drop the flower, and they
go away together.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20
city Re.tdents Nearsighted.

1.-THE race is growing. nearsighted,
owing to city life and the conditions Of
our civilization said an eye specialist.
''Our visual range is confined to near
objects for the greater part of the
day said he, and this keeps the eyes
turned in. An object twenty feet away
will make the eyeballs parallel.
Anything less will turn them in
and people who spend their hours in Of
fees and crowded flats necessarily have
a short range Of vision, which over
works and weakens the interior mus
Giles close to the nasal cavity.
THE exterior muscles not being so
strained are strong and hence cause
the eyes to turn out. Let q person who
is thus affected spend q week or two in
the country and his eyes become nor
NAL again. because he gets greater
range of vision. Savages are generally
ighted."-JewelerS' Circular-Week-
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20
DoSs In the Arctic.

Dogs are undeniably the most useful
animals for man in his polar eXpedi-
tons where sledges must be dragged
over the ice of the polar sea. They
have the advantage also that. unlike
horses and reindeer, they readily eat
their fellows. Their weight is small.
and they can be easily carried on light
boats or on ice foes. AS the Danish
government has forbidden the eXporta-
ton of dogs from Greenland explorers
usually get their animals from western
Siberia
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20
Won Fireworks.

A manufacturer of pyrotechnicS in
Nagasaki, Japan, makes 4 rocket from
which, when it eNplodeS in the air,
there flies away large bird which re-
senb!es a homing bird in its move
ments. 1t is said that the secret of
this wonderful production has been in
the possession of the eldest child Of the
family for more than 400 years
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20

a grist mill on the shore of Oyster
Bay, Long Island. which was built 22r
years ago, and which is now run by
Jesse MollineauX, is to be deinoiiSle ed.
The building has not been changed
since the Revolution.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20

Tailor-The postal service is in q
wretched condition. Friend-Never no.
ticed it. Tailor-We1l. have. During
last month l sent out $50 statementS
of account, with requests for immedi-
ate payment, and so far as can learn
not more than two of my customers re-
ceiyed their letterS.-New Yorker.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20

Including the higher officials Lon
don has over sixteen thousand persons
on its police force. y policeman
pay is at first only Sc a week. rising
to SIS. Inspectors get $1,000 a year;
the commissioners salary is S12.30c.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20
ORIGIN of Measles.

"If I understand this measles bust
ness right" says Carthage punSter,
1.-The German measles come from a
germ, the French measles from q
Parasite, the Irish measles from a
Mike-crobe and the black measles from
notwithstanding (NIoD Press.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20

The history of international arbi-
tration shows that by decades, from
1910 to 1900, there were, respectively
6, 10. 23, &c, As and GO cases. In the
last three years there have been So
cases.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20

The dress OF Princess Angelbert
Won Arenberg at a recent ball in honor
of the Prince and Princess OF Wales
at Vienna caused a sensation. She
wore 4.o large diamonds and r,Ibie:
many the size of a haZelnut.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20

Our Agricultural Department Il
receive through King Alenelill a sup
ply of Kaffa coffee, hoping that by get
ting back to the wild coffee plan. the
habitat of which is in Kafta, West
africa. a new variety of great value
may be created
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20

The Royal Company'sIslands, sup
posed to be in the Pacific ocean, have
been removed from the maps Of the
photographic Institute of the British
Admiralty, because all efforts to fnd
tn EN- have failed.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20
AN the Inv ALLOWS.

Newliwed-I tell you what, old man,
my wife Is one woman in thousand
Bnchelor-Well, should hope SO. If
she were more than one you'd be a big
amist at Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20
| a Choice of Words.

z ...You sold me that horse as free from
faults. Why, it's blind"
BLIND? Well, that's not fault
that's a cruel misfortune.rE
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20

4 People say the Daily West Y Irginian.
is all right.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-09
CULBERTSON.

Charles Knowles was a McCook
pilgrim, Tuesday.
w. H. Smith and wife were in
McCook, Saturday.
Mrs. G. w. Bronson Of McCook
visited friends in town, Wednes-
day.
Hal Davenport left for his home
in Los Angeles, Calf, Tuesday,
after an extended visit with rela-
tives here.
The bazaar given by the ladies
of the Presbyterian church, Sat
urday, was a thorough success.
They cleared $I2S.oo.
Frank Gesselman departed with
a load of hogs for Denver, Mon
day night, and expects to be back
in the course of a week.
H. Cordes, representing Theo-
dore Hapke, one of the leading
builders of beet sugar factories in
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-09
Items of Interest Sent
in by THE TRIBUNE'S
Bright Pencil PuSherS
County and
NeighbOrhood News

Otto Tilgner has finished pick
ing his corn and has gone down
to Arapahoe to pick corn.
Ed. Fowler, Max Long, and
Zoe Mokko of McCook took din
ner at Nelson Downs, Sunday.
There has been a canvasser on
the streets of Stringtown taking
orders for some big firm in the
east.
The dance at Gottlieb Unger's S
was not great success on ac-
count of the snow storm, Satur-
day night.
Mrs. Shamel had a quilting,
last Thursday, and quite a num-
Der were present. All report a
good time and plenty to eat.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-09

the U. S., was IN town, Tuesday,
looking over this territory
with a view to building a factory.
A meeting of farmers and business
men was held to confer with Mr..
Cordes and much interest was
manifested. In the afternoon Mr..
Cordes was shown over the beet
fields and irrigated territory about
Culbertson and the gentleman ex-
pressed himself as highly pleased
with the advantages Culbertson
has to offer.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-09

There was quite heavy snow
storm in Stringtown, Friday and
Saturday of last week, but all
signs of it now have disappeared.
A Seventh-day Advent school
has been started at the residence
of Mr.. Newman, and a teacher
has been obtained from College,
view.
Fred Ebert, the youngest son of
Charles Ebert, had quite an &C
cident, Sunday. While out rabbit
hunting, he shot himself in his
great toe. He was taken immedi-
ately to McCook to receive med
ical attention.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-09
ITEMS FROM STRINGTOWN.

Willie Wall finished fencing
their place, Tuesday.
Willie Schlutsmeier will finish
picking corn, this week.
Fowler Wilcox was seen in this
vicinity, Tuesday, hunting up
cattle.
Ida and Mary Downs are help
Mrs. August Bahr clean house,
this week.
Henry Ebert left, Tuesday,
evening on No. 6, for Watertown,
Wisconsin.
Rev. Predoehl from Schoolcreek
preached at Bondville church, last
Sunday afternoon.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-09

Charley and Frank Wilson
have finished shucking corn at
home and have gone up into
Frontier county to find work.
Miss Azuba Mcdonald finished
three months of school, last Fri
day, and on account of her health
she has decided not to contract for
the remainder of the year and
Mrs. S. D. Bolles is now in
charge of the school.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-09
A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.

Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrud-
ing Piles. Druggists refund money if
PAzo oINMENT fails to cure any case, no
matter of how long standing, in 6 to IA
days. First application gives ease and
rest, SOC. If your druggist hasn't it
send SOC in stamps and it will be for
warded postpaid by Paris Medicine Co.,
st. Louis, Mo.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-09

Removes the microbes which impover
lsh the blood and circulation. Stops all
trouble that interferes with nutrition.
That's what HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea will do. 80 cents. Tea or tablet
form. For sale by L. w. Mcconnell,
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-09
BOX ELDER,
Uncle Foye is on the sick list

Uncle Foye is on the sick list.
w. Y. Johnson has traded his
mules for span of fine mares.
George Younger is working on
a barn for George Loomis, this
week.
Mrs. Martha Johnson has been
suffering with rheumatism and the
past week been unable to use her
right hand.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-09
A Pleasant Pill.

No pill as pleasant and positive as De-
Wits Little Early Risers. De Wits
Little Early Risers are so mild and effec-
tive that children, delicate ladies and
weak people enjoy their cleansing effect,
while strong people say they are the best
liver pill sold. Sold by L. w. McCon-
nell.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-09
THE
WORLDS GREATEST SALE
WILL BEGIN AT
Es:a,e Ehs of FRANK MORGAN
McCOOK. NEBRASKA

On of making final settlement for the estate of
FRANK MORGAN, McCook Nebraska the entire stock has
been placed in the hands of the Chicago Salvage Co., to be
sold by them beginning Wednesday, Nov 3d. at 9a for
ten days only Everybody should avail themselves of this
portuny fine stock of tailor made Clothing, Hats, etc.
be sold for less than the actual of the material
If you value money, don't miss it, wish to reduce
this gigantic stock in days. the administrator make
his final settlement of the estate The Chicago Salvage Co.
the largest institution of it's kind in the world operating 48
separate sore and large warehouses and auction sales
in Chicago. Below quote few prices to show what
taornary bargains will be offered and this great sale begins
Wednesday, Nov 30, at ga m at McCook Nebraska. The
opening will be gala day Bring the chdrenhere will be
music all day. 1t will to 100 miles to visit this
sale, Wednesday, Nov 3d. at m at McCook, Nebraska,
when this great administrators sale begins at Frank Mogans
stand McCook Nebraska and positively closes in ten days
The entire stock consists of $4,000 worth of fine Cloth
ng Furnishing Goods This tremendous sale positively
begins Wednesday, Nov 3d. and closes in ten days
Wednesday, Nov. 80, at 9 a. m.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-09
The e. - :; RANK MORGAN
McCOOK. NEBRASKA
EVERYTHING SOLD AS ADVERTISED

Owing the fact that the Estate of FRANK MORGAN
McCoo Neb must be settled by December 2o the entire
stock will be sold The public rest assured of the
supplied with the Highest Grade
the worlds kul wholesale tailors
produce The Chicago Salvage Co. has been engaged to
sell the entire stock.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-02

Many of the Troy people are kept as
busy as. can be in merely carrying the
finished and unfinished work from
factory to factory.
There are so many folk in that town
who have never done anything else
except to work for the giant that lots
of them seem to have collars and cuffs
bred in the bone, and they bring their
children up to do just what they are
doing. There are whole families that
have done only a certain piece of
work, such as button-hole making or
scanning. ever since the days of their
grandfathers, and their children learn
to do exactly the same thing. Of
course, that makes them wonderfully
expert and they are true specialists
who can always get lots of work to do.
Giant Collarsandcuffs has an amaz-
ing appetite. He eats UP about thirty
five thousand miles of linen and cot
ton in a year, enough to go around the
world at the Equator, and still leave
material over to reach from the city
of New York across the American
continent to San Francisco, and then
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-02
Funny Questions for Parties.

Here are few tricky questions that
will furnish amusement at parties in
the moments when there is one of
those embarrassing lulls.
A business man said to friend that
he had as many women employees as
men employees, but if he counted
himself, every woman employee
would have beside herself only half
as many other women as men. How
many were there?
The answer is simple enough. There
were four men, counting the employer
himself, and three women.
Two fishermen sat down to eat. The
younger one had five sandwiches, the
elder had three. A stranger appeared
and offered them as many gold pieces
as they had sandwiches if they would
let him share the meal. They agreed
and shared evenly.
After the stranger departed the
elder fisherman said that he was en-
titled to three gold pieces, because
he had contributed three sandwiches
to the meal.
mo, no" said the younger fisher
man. ''You are entitled to only one
gold piece and 1 get the other seven"
How did he prove that he was
right?
The reply is that altogether they
had eight sandwiches. Each one ate
a third of these, that is, 2-3 sand
witches. Therefore" said the young
er fisherman, "since you ate 2-3
sandwiches out of your three, you had
only one-third of sandwich left. The
other seven-thirds were from my
sandwiches. Consequently you can
only demand one gold piece"
Here is another catch" that is so
simple so that it will make everybody
wonder why they didn't see it at
once; yet hardly anyone will be able
| to answer it correctly the first time.
The question is: How can this be?
A man wrote the following sentence
on the blackboard: Ten fingers | have
on every hand, five and twenty on
hands and feet"
The reply is that the mix-up is due
simply to misplaced comma. Take
the comma away from after "hand"
and put it after the word "have," and
the sentence is perfectly clear and
| correct.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-02
Some Games for October

A good game. just suitable for this
season, is the game of the "Whalers
of New Bedford" Some particular
spot of the playground is selected to
represent the harbor of New Bedford.
All the players, except two, scatter
and pretend to be whales. The two
who remain must join hands and put
to sea" from New Bedford to go
a-whaling. They must select par
ticular whale" and go after him, but
under no circumstances must they let
go of each other in doing it.
The whale" must be carried sue
cessfully into port, and he may re-
sist his captors all he pleases. with
the exception, of course, of punching
or otherwise making rough fight.
Naturally the whalers try to catch the
smallest whale" first.
Arrived in port, the whale" be-
comes a wha1er, and takes his turn
at going out, hand-in-hand, with one
of the first whalers, to catch another
whale" and so on till the sea is
hshed out.
The master of the Drawbridge''
is another game that requires little
preparation.
With sharp stick, strip of ground
about nine feet wide and about TWEEN
tv feet long is marked off. This rep
resents the drawbridge of the castle
of Sir Montgomery of Skye. One OF
the PLAYERS is the Warder of the Cas-
tie Gate. He stands on the bridge
At the other end of it stand the play
ers. who represent foemen desiring tc
enter the castle.
They can only go on the bridge one
bvone. The foemen wheel their imagin'
arv steeds and ga1lop up and down
making feints at charging to bewilde1
the Warder, till suddenly one of them
spurts and races up the bridge. Once
he is there, he must not run OFF the
bridge again, but he may dodge the
Warder in any way he pleases, SC
long as he stays on the bridge. He
NAV run zig-zag or retreat or duck
or do anything else that may enable
him to slip past the guardian of the
castle
The Warder must touch the fcemar
three times before he can claim tina
he has made a capture. If he does it
the captured foe becomes Warder anC
the old Warder joins the besiegers.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-02

Indeed, he grew so fast that now, in
stead of being tiny little fairy, he is
one of the great American giants.
Such a giant is he that he furnishes
so much work that not only a great
part of the town of Troy, but also
many thousands of people everywhere
in the United States are kept busy all
their lives by him.
He has given America far more
than one pot of gold. Last year, for
instance, he gave pot containing
more than $4,000 to about two hun
dred children, who are all less than
eighteen years of age. This pot of
gold represented their years wages
earned by working for the good
giant
This was pretty good pot. But
it was nothing to the others that he
distributed among the grown-up per-
sons who work for him. He has be-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-02
To Make Magic Plant Growth.

The famous Oriental trick of max
ing mango plant grow from the
ground in front Of the beholder is
one of the most fascinating of all
magical" tricks 1t has held its in
terest for the world throughout the
generations, although it is well-known
now that there is no mystery about it
at all, and that it is simply a feat of
extraordinary clever jugglery.
But there is way of making plants
actually grow before the eyes of the
observer, and the growth is natural.
There is no jugglery or legerdemain
about it at all.
Set tlre to quantity of straw. Bean
or pea straw is the best, because it
contains the most fertilizing elements.
Sieve the ashes thoroughly till you
have the finest kind of powder. Now
set 1t aside and soak some parsley or
salad seed in strong brandy for TWEEN
ty-four hours.
!. Dig up about twice as much fine,
loose, black garden earth as you have
ashes. Sieve it thoroughly and mix
the straw ashes with it until the result
is a beautiful smooth, soft black
mold.
Now mix the seed in, and spread the
entire mass out in a very shallow fiat
box so that the earth will be about a
quarter of an inch deep.
Sprinkle it all carefully with luke
warm rainwater, being sure to put
only enough on to moisten it all thor
oughly and not so much that it will
make mud. Sprinkle as often as the
earth shows signs of having soaked
up all the moisture.
Inside of a quarter of an hour you
will begin to notice the first faint
flush of green over the earth, and
before long the little plants will be
seen sprouting.
# it is not possible to obtain straw
ashes, the garden mold may be mixed
with little uns1acked lime, finely pull
verified. In handling the lime and
grinding it or breaking it up, be care
ful to keep it well away from the eyes.
If even the merest bit of dust from
unslacked lime reaches the eye, the
moisture there sets it boiling, and it
may destroy the sight.
Hemp, fax and similar seeds will
grow on piece of felt or other SINH
lar stuff if it is kept wet constantly,
and all sorts of pretty figures may be
made out of it.
The little plants will not, however,
live long, for their roots cannot get
the proper hold or nourishment.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-02

to show you what new work there is
to do"
why, goodness me-" said Mrs.
Blacksmith, who and what are you,
you dear, funny. little thing?"
Il am the Fairy Collarsandcuffs, "
said the little creature.
The b1acksmith's wife had never
heard of fairy with such an odd
name. But she was wise, and she was
aware that all American fairies know
of pots of gold that they will give
to anyone who treats them right. She
took little Collarsandcuffs on her lap
and learned all that it had to say.
Collarsandcuffs saw at once that
Mrs. Blacksmith was just the person
for him. So he remained in the town
of Troy and never went back to his
caverns again.
1t was quite wonderful how the air
agreed with him. He grew visibly.