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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-08-18
SALT BOX AND TANK HOUSE.
Convenient Arrangement by Which
The Animals are Able to Attend
to Their Own Wants.

One of the subscribers sof the Prai-
RE farmer furnishes photograph of
a unique salt box for cattle and
horses from which we reproduce the
accompanying drawing. 1t is built on
the rear side of the tank house and
occupies a space of about foot wide.
1t is about two feet long and two feet
high. The floor is about three inches
lower than the door sill SO the salt
doesn't fall out. In stormy weather
the door may be closed, but where
rock salt is used very little attention
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-08-18
LocomotIve Model for prInoe.

C. r. Crane, of Chicago, is shipping
to Crown Prince Borus, the ten-year-
old son of Prince Ferdinand of Bull
garia, a complete working model Of
the locomotive that draws the Twenti-
eth Century limited,
Mr.. Crane visited Prince Ferdinand
on his recent tour and took a great
fancy to the little crown prince
The boy expressed a great desire
for a real locomotive and Mr. Crane
promised to send him one
The locomotive and its track are be-
lieved to be the most expensive toy
ever made in the United States.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-08-18
WAS REGARDED As a WONDER
First Steam Fire Engine In Boston
Built in 1854.

Boston.-When the city fathers OF
half century ago purchased the first
steamer for the Boston fire depart
ment, ii required over year to com
plete the transaction, as negotiations
were begun in February. 1854, and
the machine did not reach here for
the ''try out" until March 8. 1855.
The cost OF the ancient fire fighter
was $1,000. Its name was the Miles
Greenwood. The corner Of fremont
and Park streets was the scene of the
practical test of the steamers ca
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-08-18
4 Kind Shepherds Advice.

Avoid extremes In al The dealings
With sheep. Keep them gentle; never
20 among them without something
for them, If it be nothing more than
kind attentions. Never allow other
stock to trespass on them Know
where they are at all times. Give
them liberty.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-08-18
The Weanina of Lamhs.

The better conditioned lambs are at
Che time Of weaving the better they re-
quife to be kept, and in most cases
the, food provided should exceed in
richness that which they previously
received, including the milk of the
ewes. Instead Of taking the lambs
from the ewes, the ewes should be
taken from the lambs.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-08-18
A. lndex 10 Health Of Sheer.

1t is an interesting TACT that the
fneness of the fiber throughout its
entire length forms fairly good rec
ord of the condition of the animal
producing it at the several stages OF
growth; any detection is shown in
dir: ished diameter OF fiber.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-08-18

is paid TO the weather and the door
is open the year around. The back
side of this box is about Is inches
high, with slanting roof. This point.
however. is minor feature, since the
rear side could be carried up to the
root. II desired.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-08-18
Women Make Coo: inspectors.

The city council Of Birmingham
England, has increased the number Of
women health inspectors from four to
twenty, because Of tho excellent re-
suits achieved in the homes Of tie
poor and in the factories
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-08-18

DEVICE FOR CLOSING CHICKEN
HOUSE DOORS.

spring II attached to rope at G TO pun
back rope when traps are to be closed.
as the weight Of the traps is not
enough to balance weight Of wire
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-08-18

eral Who Figures in a Romanee.) .
New York, viii be married soon after
the return of Gov Gen. Ide in Octo-
Der. Bourke Cochran first met Miss
Ide during the trip Of the Taft party
to the orient, Miss Ide and her sister
joining the party at Manila and MAX
ing the trip with ii to Japan and
China. On their return from the orr
emf last fall Mis- Ide and her sister
came to. Santa Barbara and last Jan
uary Mr. Cochran came out from New
York and in company with Miss Ide,
her sister, and some friends from this
city, made a trip through southern
California and to the Grand canyon.
1t was on this trip that the romance
which began on shipboard culminat.
ed in the engagement.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-08-18
END OF AN OCEAN ROMANCE.
5ourke Cochran to Wed Daughter of
Gov. Gen. lde.

Santa Barbara, Cal.-Miss Anime L.
1de. eldest daughter OF Gov. Gen
Henry c. Ide. OF the Philippines, and
Congressman w. Bourke Cochran, OF
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
A cLlNcHlNe ARGUMENT.

The Primrose Elegants Debating
society, a colored center OF literary
enlightment in the borough OF the
Bronx, New York, was engaged in a
fierce mental and vocal struggle with
this time-honored question:
IF your mother and your wife was
struggling in water and you could
save only one OF them which would II
be-"
Finally a member closed the debate
and silenced the oppositing side ~
this clincher: IF you loses your wife
Lord love us, how easy II is TO get
another one. Just like pickirs aande-
lions in May.
But IL your mother goes where in
the world are you TO get another"
The judges decided without leaving
their seats.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05

not know all the laws that are to be
found in the statute books. The
other day when the naval appropria-
ton bill was before the senate the
matter of securing discharge Of en-.
listed men of the navy came up. One
senator said that while the enlisted
men of the army could purchase their
discharge those Of the navy did not en-
joy the privilege. This led Senator
Spooner to say that he did not know
Of ANY statutory authority under
which an enlisted man buys his dis
charge from the army" Senator
Hale also declared that there was not,
so far as he knew, any rule in the
army or navy by which man can buy
his discharge. Senator Warren of
Wyoming came to the enlightenment
of his colleagues and must have as
tonished them by showig that the pur-
chase system was established in the
army by the act of June 1e, $780,
Boston Transcript.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05

VI tie Hebrew collection, said to be
very valuable. less is known, but some
OF the scrolls dated back to the
tenth century, and the one most val
liable work in the collection, accord.
ing to Sutro. was one of these Hebrew
manuscripts. 1t was valued at
$40, 900.
There was also discovered a few
years ago an incomplete and uncata,
logued Shakespeare first folio which
he bought in lump with a number
OF other old books. Outside of these
books, valuable only to q biblioman.
lac, there was great mass of matter
which made very strong appeal to
scholars. His collection of British
pamphlets and broadsides, running
from the early seventeenth century to
the late eighteenth, was said by Moss
to be the most complete outside OF
the British museum.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
OLD FASHIONED ROSES.

| They amt no style about EN-,
| And they're sort o. pale an faded,
Yit the doorway here without 'em
Would be lonesomer and shaded
With a good 'eal blacker shader
Than the mornin glories makes,
An the sunshine would look sadder
| For their good old fashioned sakes.
like 'em cause they kind O
Sort o. make Teller feel Ike 'em,
And | tell you when ] find
Bunch out whur the sun kin strike
'em
II allus sets me thinkin'
O. the ones at used to grow
And peek in through the thinkin'
O. the cabin, don't you know.
And then | think-o' mother
And how she used to love EN-
When they wuzn't any other
Less she found 'em up above EN-.
And her eyes afoTe she shut 'em
whispered, with smile, and said
We must pick bunch and put 'em
In her hand when she wuz dead.
But, as | wuz a-sayin',
They amt no style about 'em
Very gaudy or displayin,'
But | wouldn't be without EN-,
Cause I'm happier In these posies
And the hollyhawks and SIGH
Than the ummin bird at noses
In the roses Of the rich.
James Whitcomb Riley.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
Thrift That Makes Wealth.

The public debt OF France Is 81. OO0,.
100000, all held at home. In addition
the French people own foreign securi-
ties to the stupendous aggregate Of
$4,000, 000,00 and It Is further esti-
mated that an equal amount is placed
In home securities. These figures
may be exaggerated-all but those
representing the public debt--but
they Illustrate the virtue there is in
thrift, which is also a German usage.
There is no Rockefeller, no Carnegie,
In France, though there may be les
ser Russell Sage. The French people
do not speculate; they save. They do
not get rich at hop. Sip and jump:
they accumulate by slow degrees
they economize. The crime of crimes
in rural France is waste. and yss.ss
would subsist on what America throws
away. Within the past year there
have rotted on American farms
enough machinery and utensils to sup
ply agricultural France the next quar-
ter Of century, Washington Post
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
THE GOOD EARTH.

The smell of burning weed,
Upon the twilight air;
The poignant call of frogs
From meadows wet and bare;
A presence in the wood
And in my blood stir,
In all the ardent earth
No failure or demur.
o Spring wind, sweet with love
And tender with desire,
Pour into veins of mine
Your pure impassioned fire!
o waters, running free
With full, exultant song,
Give me. for outworn dream,
Life that is clean and strong!
o good earth, warm with youth,
My childhood heart renew;
Make me elate sincere,
Simple and glad, as you!
0 springing things of green.
o Ringing things of bloom,
o winging things of air,
Your lordship now resume!
by Charles G.. d. Roberts.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
o HAPPY EYES.

0 happy eyes, for you will see
My love, my lady pass today;
What ] may not, that may you say
And ask for answer daringly.
% happy flowers that touch her
dress
And take her smile,
o whisper to her all the while
Some words of love in idleness.
o hspIy airs that touch her cheek
And lightly float away
So carelessly as If in play,
Why take We all the Joy seek?
% happy, happy eyes my love to see
Alas, alas! ] may not greet
With word or touch my lady sweet,
More happy eyes. say all for me.
Edward Elgar.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
Settlement That Does Not Settle.

Though the law has reached and
punished a few OK the men who pre-
pared the fraudulent petitions used
In the recent mayoralty campaign, the
punishment even of the few seems
somewhat unduly light and the worst
of the offenders have been treated
with consideration that they hardly
deserved. 1t may be said, OF course,
that no particular harm was done by
the forging OF the petitions. That is
true, and it is also true that the whole
miserable business was nothing more
than an assault on the pockets OF
those who paid for the signatures.
The real gravity of the case lies in
the fact that these small grafters in
cluded men who now hold responsible
Office and by their votes in lawmaking
bodies have an influence on large pub
lie interests. The quality Of the re-
sponsibility they feel can easily be
imagined and yet there is as yet no
indication OF vigorous action toward
getting them out OF office. or course,
they are utterly unfit for public place.
New York Times.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
Another Star IN the EIaa.

The new Oklahoma, whose admis-
sion as a state is agreed upon by the
conference committee, is formed Of
the union OF Oklahoma and Indian
territory 1t has 100000 inhabitants,
about the same number as Connect
cut. Its area viii be almost exactly
that Of North Dakota, or more than
that of all New England Oklahoma
is only is years old as a terrfaory.
Its development has been one OF the
marvels OF land Of marvels. The
Indian territory, organized more than
seventy years ago, contains most OF
the more progressive, educated and
prosperous Indians OF the nation
The new state viii be splendid one,
well fitted to put the forty-sixth star
on the fag.-New York World.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
ART CHAT.

Mrs. Jack Gardeners superb col
lection of paintings are not massed
in one room, in one gallery as is the
usual custom, but are hung with
wonderful discretion about the beauti-
ful Gardner house. A room, in some
cases, will be devoted TO a single
masterpiece, and in no instance does
wall boast more than two, or at the
most three. pictures.
Pictures are not painted to be
hung side by side. frame touching
frame along great wall" Mrs. Gard
ner said one day. Hung so, they are
at great disadvantage, and 1t is very
difficult, it is almost impossible, prop
erly to appreciate them"
She smiled.
They who hang their pictures so,''
she said, remind me, in their lack OF
all feeling for art, of a boy and his
father in picture gallery.
AS the two looked at the pictures,
the boy said:
Father, why have they all got
frames?
The father murmured impatiently:
So that the artists can tell where
TO stop, you bloclahead.'"
WE HELP MEXICO.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
FOR DEAF CHILDREN.
Provision the State Makes for
Their Care.


Their Care.
The fall term Of the Wisconsin state
school for the deaf at Delavan will be.
gin September 10.
Board, tuition and books are fur
nished free to the deaf children of the
state
What is known as the combined sys-
tenn of instruction is used. Every
child that can become at all proficient
in lip reading and speech is taught by
the oral method, others by the man
ual method. This gives to each child
the method best adapted to him. At
the present time two-thirds of the
children are in the oral classes.
The combined method of teaching
the deaf is the one unanimously ap-
proved by the st. Louis convention of
the deaf. This convention was made
up of 500 of the best educated and
most enlightened deaf in the world.
Its members were educated by all
known methods, but without dissent
ing voice they favored the combined
method This method has also been
recently urged by DR.. Passow, the
most renowned aurist of Germany.
In the German empire only the oral
method is used in schools for the deaf.
DR.. Passow insists that the German
deaf are not so well taught as those in
the United States where the combined
method is used. About nine-tenths of
all the deaf in this country are now
taught by the combined method.
This school also furnishes industrial
training. A complete manual train
ing course is provided. For the boys
there are knife work joining, lathe
work, carving, mechanical drawing
and blacksmithing For the girls,
sewing and cooking In addition to
this the boys are taught in the shops
cabinet and carpenter work, printing
and shoemaking, the girls printing
and millinery.
The health and the care of the chill
dren are in the hands of skilled super
visors, nurses and physicians. 1t is a
school where the head, the hand and
the heart of the deaf child are trained
to the end that each may become a
happy, Industrious, self-supporting
and respected members of society.
For further information about the
school persons may write to Superin-
tendent E. w. Walker.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
@Mykyste, Lydy."

Joseph Choate, at a dinner in New
York, described the pronunciation of
the London cockney in an amusing
manner
Mr., Choate told how, in the past
ten years, the long az sound has TAX
en- precedence over all others In
cockney speech, and in illustration he
repeated a dialcg between an Ameri-
can tourist and the cockney conductor
of one of the new motor-omnibuses.
THE tourist, young woman" said
Mr.. Choate, "opens hcs pocketbook
as the conductor approaches her, and
says:
ga ticket. please
"sWot sly, lydy?'
81 want a ticket
Ware fur?'
Why, to get UP town
THE conductor looks annoyed.
but ware to hup town? he asked.
Then, appealingly: "Urry up, lydy.
Don't tike all dye
Noting Hill
Noting Ill or Noting Ill Gyte
station?
".Gyte station
1.-The conductor scowls at the young
woman, for, unconsciously, she has
mimicked his cockney pronunciation
of the word gate Then he gives her
her ticket and says:
Ere you hare. And 'ere's yon
shynge, Mykyste.'
"The young woman. smilingly. re-
plies, as she pockets her huge English
coppers:
Thank you. am a-myking 'yste.
"And the conductor. scowling as
black as thunder cloud, withdraws.'
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
MAN ONLY AN APPENDAGE.
Woman League Speakers Say Hus
band is But an Appendaoe

Marriage has become mere Incl
dent In the life of woman; man is
but an appendage, an adjunct, a
corollary OF woman. In short. man is
not nearly as important as he, with
fatnous self-conceit, imagines him
self. So speakers at the session Of
the National Business Woman's
League In the Palmer House declared
recently, all the speakers being WON
en-.
In art, in music. in literature, in
medicine. on the stage, as nurses, as
court reporters, and numerous other
vacations, professionally, trades 70
charts, men are by no means the
whole thing. Most startling OF all,
man as husband does not sum-
Marie the entire universe. A hus-
band is an incident, not creation.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
TRIALS OF AN EDITOR.
Redundant and Misused Words Keep
Blue Pencil Busy.

Blue Pencil Busy.
have cut out two "somewhats" from
the manuscript acceted, we have cut
out 10000. The number of times the
words 80" and "such," lacking any
that" to follow, have either had the
necessary that" supplied or been de-
lected is beyond calculation. The
habit of haying Of saying that some
thing was so sweet" or so clever
without adding how sweet or how
clever is not confined to women writ
ed from the French ''on," which we
have always regarded as, il not in
correct, at least very ugly, has con-
sumed roughly about one blue pencil
a month. We have, too, consist
emily discouraged the use of "individ-
ual' in place Of man" woman" or
person" Unique" to us means
'the only one in the world" We have
never Eve wager) allowed it to be
used in these columns for good"
exceptional or unusual while as
to rather unique" or almost unique"
not even those pampered persons, the
the writer's of signed causeries have
been spared correction when they
committed those offenses. In the
same way perfect" to us has always
meant perfect, A thing can no more
be almost perfect" than it can be
almost infinite" We admit, however,
that we have sometimes passed the
use of singular" for unusual and
of "singularly' for very"
Excellent" again is a word that
cur blue pencil has crossed out fifty
times and more in week. That
which is excellent excels everything
else of its kind, but even academy re-
viewers have an idea that the word
means nothing more than good.
While as to "very,'' writer of our
acquaintance Che is sitting in the
room with us now makes a point
while reading over any article he may
have written, of cutting out all the
"verys'-and performs in some de-
gree the same office for those whose
work he is privileged to publish.
! OF other bad habits--the use oil
phenomenal for extraordinary,
phenomenon for fact" the use Of
tags like true inwardness, ga
lore" "a certain. ''perchance,
nothing is not" "the worthy" (auth.
or of subject), up to date you shall
find ("for you will finda), together
with the use Of foreign phrases when
English phrases will dove can claim
| to be guiltless.--London Academy.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
THE SUM.


A little dreaming by the way.
A little toiling by the day,
A little pain, little strife,
A little joy-and that is life.
A short lived fleeing summers morn.
When happiness seems newly born,
When one days sky is blue above
And one bird sings--and that is love.
A little wearing of the years,
The tribute Of a few hot tears,
Two folded hands, the fainting breath
And peace at last--and that is death.
Just dreaming, loving, dying; so
The actors in the drama go,
A fitting picture on the wall
Love, death and themes! But is that
all?
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
Gold Going to the Sister Re-
public

1t is pleasing for Americans to
know that their country is giving ma
terial aid to Mexico in making this
change of financial base. Nearly
all the $27000,000 OF gold which
Mexico has received since she began
the transition twelve months ago has
been from the United States. The
Philadelphia mint is supplying gold
to Mexico at the rate of $1,000, 900 a
week. The capacity of that mint Is
far greater than any in Mexico, but
Mexico herself is coming gold at the
rate Of 100000 a week. At this
ratio of progress Mexico win soon
have all the gold which she will need
in her circulation and in her treas
ury and banks. Her banks are get
ting gold now nearly as fast as they
can absorb It profltably, but they will
need many more millions than they
have already accumulated, for Mexico
is a country of large business activi-
ties and of excellent business pros
rects
Happily, Mexico made the change
of base at time when the silver
market was strong, and when
her additions to the gem
eral floating stock could not depress
prices. A few years earlier silver
denomination In Mexico would have
disturbed the market, and gold none
tization by her would have been
more difficult. AS the worlds stock
of gold is now growing at the rate OF
S400000000 year, threefourths OF
which goes into the coinage, a good
deal can be spared to the countries
which want TO go on the gold basis.
The United States is especially well
provided with the yellow metal and.
she is happy TO place some of 1t at
the service of her neighbor on the
other side Of the Rio Grande, -a.3
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
LOVES OF THE OCEANS.

Now Uncle Sam so kindly
Would bring about match,
And those who know the parties
Declare them both = catch.
They long have lived as neighbors,
Without word to say
The peaceful chap, Pacific,
And Miss Atlantic, gay.
Yet will their love run smoothly?
1t hardly seems discreet :.
To make a breach between them
Before they ever meet.
-McLandburg Wilson
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
Witb tbt Rbymstsfs
A COLOR SCHEME.

/ wish the whole creation
Were keyed a higher scale,
They reach such degradation
The weakest ones that fail,
Temptations so prevail.
And yet these pitcb-black sinners,
By contrast Judgment day,
May class US near the winners,
Our pet faults turned to gray
Not black nor whitehall way!
Edith H. Johnson.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
A HIM.

A HIM.
want to be an angel
And with the angels stand:
But now it isn't possible,
For the women are all bann'd.
] hoped to be hereafter
tWhate'er ] might be now
A white-and-blue robed harper,
With a crown upon my brow.
But alas II they're all he
! must hunt another heaven,
Where they call the angels "she"
And a woman's rights are given.
Jane Fraser in Judge
Throughout these broad United States
The purchasers Of household treas
ures
Have found there's lots OF Graft in
weights
And measures
Perhaps. Perhaps the grocery store
Instead Of old avoirdupois weight
Is weighing tea like precious ore
In Troy weight.
VIII inches be no longer square?
Is crookedness the shortest dis
lance
Between two points? What an un
/ fair
Existence!
EFT quae cum tia sint"-alack!
And no ones giving US the right
weight
Why should the poets not come back
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05

With light weight
With lightweight rhymes? Ha! Ha,
you bet
The short-weight bads-come. let's
blacklist 'em
And come. investigate our met
Trick SYSTEM
r. F. Adams in the New York Mail.