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The Washington times., 1905-02-26

ing; ii. J. o'Dea. Messrs Kreamer,
aundrop Weber, ourand, King. Pen
nington, Wiiaman, ard Vice Chief
George W. ui.i. after which grand
banquet was served In the adjoining
lail. Visitors from Hope Council, No.
/, were John NJ, Williams and John w.
Richardson
The Washington times., 1905-02-26
Rich's
Exclusive
Spring
Footwear

will again be the standard
of elegance and distinctive
ness this season, and be worn
by the elite of this city. In
ali the years in which Rich's
have maintained the leader
ship i'll siloe-selling they have
never presented for your
choosing such magnificent
asSortn1ents.
There Is not a fanciful con-
ception brought out by the
acknowledged leading pro-
ducers which does not find
expression here.
Special attention is called
to the new SAILOR TIES
for women, misses, children.
and infants, Of which several
shipments have arrived dur
ing the past week. 1t is
fashions decree that these
dainty ties will be worn by
particular dressers this spring
and summer and a full and
complete variety will be
found here at all times in
white canvas, white buck
skin, and new shade OF Rus
sian tan.
The Washington times., 1905-02-26

miniature. Refreshments followed. Ths
ladies of the club were in charge and re-
ceived deserved congratulations.
The Washington times., 1905-02-26

Every day now sees the
arrival of spring and sum-
lner footwear of all sorts
not only for street wear, but
the correct fashions in foot
wear for sports such as rid
ing, hunting, golfing, shoot
ing, etc, 50 that whenever
YOU are ready to see them
you'll find the varieties suffl-
Gent for easy choosing.
Ne are keeping tie stock
OF evening slippers and car
riage footwear perfectly
complete, and this depart
n1ent just now is the busiest
portion of this establishment,
supplying the best dressers of
this city with footwear for
wear at the closely approach
ing Inaugural Ball.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
a Novel "TwirIer."

In some experiments you may need
a "twir' or" which is an arrangement
used for spinning objects rapidly, and.
as you might like to add one to your
home made laboratory" description
Of it follows:
1t consists usually Of two wheels
fixed on a stand, and so connected by
means Of a band that by turning a
handle on the larger wheel the small
er one may be made to revolve rap
idly. The object to be twirled is fixed
to this second wheel.
This twirler can be bought, of
course, from a dealer in scientific sup
plies, but the wheels of an ordinary
toy cart can sometimes be utilized.
Turn the cart upside down, and tack
or pin the object to be twir.ed to one
side of the wheel, and spin 1t from
the other side by the forefnger.
But if the object is to be twirled in
a horizontal position, as pail, for
instance, the cart must be placed on
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

potatoes. II was found that the per
cent of decay in the lined potatoes
was 20. and the per cent OF decay in
the untreated potatoes was 27. 1t Is
thus seen that what little difference
there was, was in favor of the non
treatment. but as this was but a sim
gle experiment, II may fairly be as
sumed that the lining did not affect
the potatoes one way or the other. In
any two lots that might be chosen for
tests there would be some difference
OF percentage Of potatoes affected by
rot. This is in accordance with our
theory of potato rot. Spores that az
feet the potatoes begin their work
before they are dug, probably by fall
ing on the ground from the potato
tops and being washed down to the
tubers, where they find the moist con-
ditions that aid their termination. In
this termination they penetrate the
tuber, and the mycelium is already
inside the potato when it is dug.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
Harvesting
Soy Beans

The harvesting Of soy beans is
sometimes a difficult matter, for the
reason that soy beans, when nearly
ripe, readily disintegrate, the leaves
falling off. This has been the discour-
aging part in the raising of the soy
bean plant for hay. When they are
to be used for hay, the harvesting
must be done quite early, before the
stems of the leaves have ripened
enough to cause them to detach them
selves from the vines. The time for
harvesting for hay should be when
the pods are well formed. The plants
should be mown and allowed TO lie
long enough in the windrow to wilt.
They should not, however, be permit
ted to become dry. AS soon as they
have withered, they should be gath
cred into small heaps, but not packed
down so that the air cannot penetrate
them. If they are permitted to lie
about quite loosely they will cure with
little handling.
When they are to be placed in a
silo, which is probably the best use
W uidhS VI thShi IhOy hiuoI NC al
lowed to mature more than when they
are cut for hay. In any case the har
vesting should be before the plant be
comes woody. 1t should be harvested
at that point where the cows will
readily eat it. The pods should be
we'll formed, and the beans in them
well formed, but not hard. At this
stage hay could not be made of them
because they would dry up too much
to hold together. But in using then
in the silo, they should be cut after
the dew is off, and may be hauled t.
the silo at once, as no whitening Of
curing is of advantage, but is rather
a detriment to the silage. If the own
er of the soy beans has also a field o
corn to be ensiloed, the two crops ma!
be mixed together in the proportion
of one-third soy beans and two-third'
corn. This gives well balanced ra
ton in feeding.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
Half-USed
Pastures

AS have travelled over the country
notice the large number of pastures
that are only partly used. Some Of
them have evidently been in full use
at some time, but gradually the shrubs
and small vines have grown up in
them. Many of these growths are
bareback, briars, blackberry bushes,
hazel bushes and various other kinds
of shrubs. These growths have devel-
oped so gradually that the owner has
hardly noticed their development. He
has been too busy to look after them
properly. l have seen large pastures,
half the ground of which was covered
with bareback. Most of our farmers
do not apparently realize the fact that
all the plant food that goes into these
weedy growths is taken 2way from
the succulent grasses, and the food
producing area of the pasture is de-
creased by that much. The pasture is
too valuable piece Of land to be rem.
dered idle by any cause. Many OF
these growths have taken place when
the pasture was but partly used. Some
farmers have told me that they have
kept down this growth by heavily
stocking the pasture. Doubtless this
can be done in this way, but heavily
stocking the pasture means over
stocking it in most cases. Pastures
that are thus rendered foul by the
presence of many kinds of hardy
growths are exceedingly difficult to
clean. Some advise the use of goats,
but that is not possible in most of our
pastures because the fences are not
strong enough to hold them, and be-
sides, goat raising is an industry in
itself that requires thought and ex.
penditure of money for success. The
man that is raising horses, cattle and
sheep does not care always to increase
his cares by adding a flock of goats to
his live stock. Burning over the bushes
has not proven successful, as they
sprouted again from the roots. Now
ing them has resulted in the same
thing. There seems to be only one
way of cleaning the pastures, and that
Is by grubbing out these growths one
by one, and seeding down so thor.
oughly with grasses that new seeds OF
bushy growths cannot again find a
resting place there-John f. Ross
Berrien Co., Mich, in Farmers Re.
view.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
Lesson for Women.

Jersey Shore. Pa, Aug. 2Sth (Spc
ciaD-"Dodd's Kidney Pills have done
worlds Of good for me-" That's what
Mrs. C.. b. Earnest of this place has
to say Of the Great American Kidney
Remedy.
II was laid up SICK" Mrs. Earnest
continues, land had not been out of
bed for FIVE weeks. Then | began to
use Dodd's Kidney Pills and now am
so | can work and go to town without
suffering any. would not be without
Dodd's Kidney Pills. have good rea-
son to praise them everywhere"
Women who suffer should learn a
lesson from this, and that lesson is
cure the kidneys with Dodd's Kidney
Pills and your suffering will cease" "
Woman's health depends almost en-
tirely on her kidneys. Dodd's Kidn ey
Pills have never yet failed to make
healthy kidneys.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
Roughage for Cows

When ii Is remembered that a cows
paunch all of the time contains some
two hundred pounds of partially mas
ticated food, when she is fed natur-
ally IN The open, the six or seven
pounds Of concentrates fed daily by
the dairyman seem of but slight i'm
portance. Yet it is the grain ration
that costs most money in the average
dairy and especially if the owner has
got it into his head that protein-rich
food must be bought in large quanti-
ties. To us it appears certain that
the supplying of large quantities OF
nutritious roughage for dairy cows is
of supreme Importance and the cheap.
er an adequate supply of such food
can be furnished at each season OF
the year the better will it be for the
dairyman and his cattle. Roughage,
according to many thoughtless dairy.
man is always easy to supply for with
him straw, coarse timothy hay and
weathered corn slower and fodder are
considered good enough to fill the bill
But they are not. They supply plenty
Of bulk to be sure but while the cows
stomachs should be distended with
coarse food to get the best results
from feeding the roughage should be
nutritious and fairly digestible. The
dryness of fodder commonly used to
ill cattle is it's chief objection per.
haps but even when fed wet or steam.
ed it does not supply much nutriment
to the cow hence it's effect is largely
mechanical and that does not mean
perfect results in feeding. Grass Is
the best possible bulky food for cattle
in general and cows do wonderfully
well upon it as all of us are well
aware. Next to grass should come
succulent food that is cut and hauled
into the yards for cows to eat as a
soiling crop. After these come the
dry folders and all of them should be
nutritious so that when wetted or
fluids in the stomachs of the COW they
may furnish not bulkiness merely. but
large amount of nutriment. Despite
these facts the average dairyman is
most exercised as to the few pounds
of concentrates he must supply to his
COWS. He figures laboriously as to the
nutritive ratio of a grain and meal
combination of which he will give his
cows six or seven pounds a day, but
pays no attention whatever to the
roughage which cows will take in
great quantities daily either to good
advantage or as a detriment to the
body and hindrance to the assimila.
ton Of the nutrients of the few pounds
of concentrates fed. The grain ration
is only three or four percent of the
food found in a cows stomach and
should not therefore be considered the
chief factor in the profitable feeding
of dairy cows.-A. S. Alexander In
Farmers Review.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
Two Kinds of TwirIers.

it's side on a table, with the wheel
projecting over the edge. The cart
must be weighted to keep it in place
and the string to support the pail
must be tackled as near the center o.:
the hub as possible BY twirling the
wheel from above you may make the
pail, with water, or whatever 1t may
contain, spin around and around.
An excellent twirler, however, can
be made, if you have no cart, with
merely a piece of board, a hook and
a piece of Irvine. Get piece of board
about two feet long by twelve inches
wide, and place it over the top of a
door slightly ajar, fitting it so that
one end of it may rest under the top
of the door frame and so be held in
place Over the other end slip loop
of cord that will hang down within
two feet Of the floor, and to this
end fasten a hook. The board must
be far enough under the top of the
door frame to hold firm when the
string is pulled on.
The loop of cord should now be
twisted tightly, and then the object to
be twirled should be hung on the
hook. AS the cord untwists the object
will be twirled and it will twirl more
rapidly il stick be pressed down
ward Just above the twist.
Flat pieces of cork may be strung
on the cord, being held in place b.
knots
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
Game of Bird Sellers.

The game of bird sellers is played
as follows: The children stand in a
row, leaving two outside. These two
represent the bird dealers. Each
child represents a bird-one being a
crow, another a crane, another can
airy, and so on. One bird dealer says
to the other:
81 wish to buy a bird"
What kind of bird?" asks the sec
ond dealer.
"A bird that can fly fast" says the
first dealer.
Very WELL" answers the other deal
er, take what you wish"
Then" says the first dealer, 81 will
take a robin"
AS soon as the word is out of his
mouth the robin" must leap from the
row and run around to escape. If the
dealer catches the bird he puts it into
a cage, where it must stay till all the
other birds are caught.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

B goes to Boston to buy baked
beans; c to Cincinnati to collect curl
osities; d to Denver to defy dentists;
E to England to entertain Edward;
to France to fry frogs; G to Glas-
gov to gather guineas; III to Halifax
to hold horses; to India to introduce
idols; to Jericho to jostle Jersey
men; X to Kentucky to keep kindling;
l. to Louisiana to'lie low; M to Mon
tana to make money; N to New York
to negotiate notes; o to Oklahoma to
open oysters; p to Philadelphia to pill
fer pennies; Q to Quebec to quote
ounces; r to Rome to read ritual;
to Savannah to sell sauces; T to Tur-
key to tell tales; u to Utah to use
umbrellas; V to Vermont to vend YER
million; w to Washington to waste
wages; Y to Yazoo to yell "Yokels";
2 to Zanzibar to zoutch zebras.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
Lining Dug
Potatoes

The practice has become general in
some parts of the country of sprink-
ling lime on the potatoes after they
are dug, the belief being that the lime
destroys any spores of rot existing in
the potatoes. The theory is so plaus-
ible that 1t has been passed from man
to man, and little investigation has
been made to find out whether 1t is
effective. So common is this practice
in New England that the Vermont
station determined to make an inves-
tigation to learn whether or not 1t was
really of any value. A number of rows
of potatoes that had been affected by
blight were dug, and one-half OF each
row was sprinkled with about one
fourth of a pound of lime to bushei
of potatoes. These were then stored
in cellar with the untreated lots. The
times of digging varied from August
81 to September 81. The test was
made on the 2Sth of September as to
what effect the lining had had on the
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
Lime on Orchard Soils.

There are numerous orchards that
have made good growth of trees, and
yet have never borne good crops. This
is generally due to some deficiency oil
fertility in the soil. Very frequently
this deficiency is the nitrogen content
and the nitrogen content is low be
cause the soil is acidy, which condi
ton prevents the growth of legumin
Gus crops. Natures way of putting
nitrogen into the soil has been by the
use of large numbers of varieties oil
plants bearing pods, all Of which have
the power of taking the free nitrogen
of the air and fixing it in soluble form
in the soil. The instruments for this
transformation have been plants of q
fungous nature known generally as
bacteria. These cannot exist in a sol
which has too much acid, but acid car
be easily neutralized by an applica
ton of lime, either in a caustic form
which is the burnt lime of commerce
or in a slowly soluble form, which we
get in ground lime rock. This latter is
the more desirable form to use, and i;
cheaper than the burnt lime, as it car
be obtained at about 81 per ton at the
quarries where it is ground. There
are very many orchards in Southern
Illinois on the kind of ground de
much of the land in Southern Indiana
is also too acidy for the growing of or
binary cover crops.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

diagram here pictured, but is NOR
fun played out on the turf. just as
mumbletypeg and so many other
games are played.
Two persons play the game. If they
are inside the house, using a board,
they use nine checkermen, or pegs
apiece, differently colored or shaped
If out of doors, marbles or pebbles
may be used.
The players lay down their pieces
whatever they are, in the holes, one
at a time, alternately, and it is each
players business to prevent the other
one from placing three of his pieces
so as to form row of three without
any of the opponents pieces between
them.
Whenever either one succeeds in
forming row, he may then take VI
and remove any one Of the other play
er's pieces he pleases, except from a
complete row already formed. When
all the pieces are laid down, they are
played backward and forward in what
ever direction each line runs, but q
piece can be moved only from one
spot to another at time.
1t is still the object of each player
to keep the other from getting three
men down in an unbroken row. When
ever one succeeds in forming row
he removes any one of his opponents
men he pleases. The player who
finally takes off all his opponents
pieces wins the game.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
Tricks of Animals.

There are a surprising number Of
Quaker animals-animals whose regu.
lar method of self-protection is to Of
fer no resistance to their enemies. The
'possum's trick of "shamming dead" is
an old story. The hedgehog and some
of the armadillos refuse to fight, but
they are protected by sharp spines
or armor. Among marine animals is
starfisn, often called the brittle
star" which is the despair of collect
ors. 1t seems to make it point that
none of it's family shall be shown in
bottle or on museum shelf. When
taken from the water this starfish
throws off its legs and also it's stom-
achs. The story is told of one col
lector who thought he had succeeded
in coaxing a specimen into pail, only
to see it dismember itself at he last
moment. w. H. Hudson describes tnc
death-feigning habits of small South
African fox common on the pampas. If
caught in trap or overtaken it col
lapses as if dead, and to all appear
ances is dead. Some kinds of beetles,
many of the woolly caterpillars which
have poisonous hairs on their backs,
and numerous spiders ADOPT the same
trick. Perhaps the commonest in
stance of passive resistance is the land
tortoise, which draws up its front
piece and pulls in its head and legs
and defies its foes by locking them
out.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
Alphabet Trips.

A game that requires no material
and no preparation. but may be play
ed off-hand, is sometimes just the
thing to know, particularly at party.
Here is one that the older boys and
girls would enjoy. Let us call it al
phabet Trips"
Any number of persons may take
part in the game. The first thing to
do is to choose leader, who stands
in the middle of the room, with the
players seated around him. Then he
tells them that they are each to take
a trip somewhere, and must announce
to him, in turn, where they are going
and what they intend to do when they
get there.
Now, the oddity OF this game con-
sists in the fact that every word in
each individual answer must begin
with the same letter. If a player, for
example, says that he Is going to q
place, the name Of which begins with
G, every additional word in his answer
must begin with G. The game Is real
" a trial of wits, for the better the
answer, and the more quickly IL is Civ
en-, the more credit player deserves.
A prize may or may not be offered,
to be awarded by the leader, or by a
vote Of the players. to the one who
makes the best and readiest answer.
The leader begins the game by the
announcement just given, and then
asks the first player where he is go
ing. For the sake of illustration, we
will give a few answers in alphabet
ical order. The player answers, there
fore, that he is going TO Athens, and
when the leader asks him what he is
going to do there. the player says
Advertise athletics"
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
FOR THE PLAIN GIRL.
Possible to Cultivate Beauty OF the
Finest Sort.

Finest Sort.
A good many girls are considered
pretty, and plain girls cast some
what envious glance at them, and
each murmurs inwardly, "Oh, dear.
how I wish | were pretty"
Cheer up, poor little plain girls, for
you can be victorious over your pref
tier sisters. Remember that the face
should be the true index OF the heart
and soul.
BY cultivating amiable emotions
and noble desires the countenance
which does not possess outward love
liness will in time have beauty or
finer and more appealing nature than
was ever attained by perfect features
and rose-leaf complexion.
When one meets plain girl who is
heartfelt Christian, trying to walk
in the straight road, upselfish, loving
and pure-minded, her plain face be-
comes sort of revelation of the heav
emily soul hidden through the surface
of plainness, just as the most price
less jewels are discovered in the most
unlovely localities.
Remember, plain girls, what the
great poet Spencer wrote, For Of the
soul the body form doth take. "-Bos
ton Globe.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
A Few Don'ts.

Don't write on soiled or torn sheets
of paper.
Don't write letters with lead pen
Gil. 1t is very bad form-not to say
objectionable breach of correct letter
writing.
Don't seal letter Of introduction.
The person to whom it is given is sup
posed to inform himself Of it's con.
tents.
Don't fail to inclose a stamp to car
ry an answering letter to letter of
business.
Don't write carelessly. Spell cor
rectly and be painstaking about your
punctuation and the language in which
you express your thoughts.
Don't send a letter bearing blots or
scratches. Make a new copy if neces-
Sary.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
A Problem in Arithmetic.

Jack had two apples; Fred had
three; Alice and Bertha. between
them, had seven. The girls being I'M
selfish put their fruit in the lunch
basket and told the boys to help them
selves while they went to gather May
bowers. They walked mile and eight
furlongs to a field, which the boys said
was full of flowers, but there were
none. Then Bertha bit her lip and
said something to Alice, and the two
ran back as fast as they could, arriv-
ing at thirteen minutes past three.
Opening the basket, how many apples
did they find? The answer is conceal
ed in the above paragraph.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
How Wine Is Colorec.

Most people think white grapes
make white wine and dark grapes
make red wine; it is popular error.
Red wine is made by fermenting grape
juice and grape skins together, and
white wine is made by fermenting
grape juice alone. The juice of white
and dark grapes does not differ in hue.
In each sort Of grape the juice is al
most as colorless as weak lemonade.
Champagne is made Of grape so dark
as to be nearly black, but the juice of
that nearly black grape is quite as
pale as that of the ordinary white
grape-London Taller.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

This is a good time of the year to
size up" the farm-to see where we
have neglected some important thing,
to find out whether we have put all
our years work to best account. Take
a walk out over the corn fields. II
they are spotted" find out the cause.
See that these places are built up.
They detract from the value of the
field, and will continue to be unprofit-
able until they are brought up by ap-
plication of manure. 1t may be that
these places are sour; that they need
draining and sweetening up. Farm
land is too expensive to remain long
unnroductive. Get ~ To work again
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
Railway Notes.

Mr.. !. P. Spinning, who for several
years past has occupied the position
OF Northwestern passenger agent Of
the c. & o., has been appointed Gen
eral Northern Agent of the Big Four
Railway, with headquarters at 23S
Clark street, Chicago.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

houses, as shown in figure 1. Now 1t
seems that four rich men coveted the
lake. They tried to buy the four
poor men out at first, but these people
refused to sell. Then the rich men.
knowing just how much land each Of
the poor men owned (Which was hard
ly more than that covered by the poor
meas houses), bought every foot of