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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-25
EARNS HIS DEGREE,
(Tid-Bfts.)

Ian MacLaren tells an amusing story
with regard to bogus degrees A sweep
prosecuted a resident in the suburbs of
Edinburgh for debt The presiding nudge
called the sweep to give evidence. and
the first question he asked him was:
What is your name?'
Jamie Gregory, LID. sir"
What, Doctor of Laws? And where on
earth did You get that distinction?"
Twas a fellow fra an American un-
lverslty, an l sweep his chimney three
times L Gamma pay We cash, Jamie Greg
DRY, he says, but I'll make We an Ii
d., an Wen ca it quits And he did. .
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-25
EXPERT KODAK FINISHING.

Harry Simpler, Commercial Photoc-
rapher, Isl Main street. Get my new
price list.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-25

Very to date and stylish dress suits in all the
leading shades that sold at $40, c.
All novelty suits that sold regularly at 500 and $50
during this great sale all c.
go at |@SsOO
Suits worth up s65. including our new stock of
t SS''s' vet. SUITS grouped and cut S32.5o
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
To Mecca by Rail Soon.

The Hedjaz railroad, which is to
unite Damascus with Mecca, is being
built for the purpose of carrying pill
grims to and from the latter, the holy
city of Mussulmans. For the larger
part of its course of some 1920 miles
it will pass through deserts, idle and
unfertile regions. Still, it will bene-
fit some of the country about the Jor-
dan, a district whose crops have no
market on account of the want of
transportation, and branch lines for
commercial and industrial uses will be
constructed. From Damascus to
Maan, about 400 miles, the road has
been doing business for some months
The Germans superintend the job
Turkish soldiers do the work and they
don't get union pay To Mecca by
rail, personally conducted. The
world is growing smaller every day
Everybody's Magazine.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
The Reasoning Power of a Doc.

Mr. George D. Cline, editor of The
True Republican, Hudson, Wisconsin,
sends Us the following account of his
dog--an Irish pointer:
When he was introduced into our
home he soon singled out the mis-
tress, and when his dinner was de-
layed would take his dish to her and
hold 1T out to be filled. He soon be-
came regular customer at our meat
market, taking the money in an envel-
ope and bringing back the meat. with
out any attempt to open the package.
II we gave him an envelope with no
money in it he would drop it instantly.
Every day when about to leave the
Office he would bring my hat and rub
bers, and one day when l went out
without them he Immediately ran and
brought them to me- He had never
been taught to do any of these things.
but did them from his own intuition.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
STRENGTH OF STEEL CARS.

Before the gaze of a score of
startled spectators the other day,
huge steel coal car, within sight of the
capitol at Washington, backed off a
twenty-foot trestle and described a
half-somersault, depositing a load of
many tons of bituminous coal on the
sidewalk, says Technical World Mag
azine, The involuntary plunge is
said to have been due to slippery rails
and miscalculation of distance.
Strange to say, although the mass of
iron and coal weighed fully 10000
pounds, no injury was done to the car.
nor any delay caused to traffic, ex.
cept the comparatively small incon.
venienee incident to removing the
coal from the sidewalk to the bins, a
short distance away, for which it was
destined. Within an hour after the
accident a wrecking crew was on the
spot, and had effaced practically all in
dications of the recent plunge of the
big car into space. The ordinary
methods of hosting were employed,
and two steel cables were attached.
the huge burden being gradually
pulled back to the rails The car was
Immediately coupled to its train. and
disappeared behind wreath of
smoke on its return trip to the mines
at Cumberland. Maryland.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03

resented at Algeciras. Having flour
ished his trumpets so vigorously ana
shaken his fist so violently me-
through sheer vainglory and stubborn
ness, might have adhered to his orig
inal ideas. He might have been hot
headed, implacable and impulslVe.
He could have tied European AFFAIRS
in a confused knot and precipitated a
grave situation. 1t would have re-
quired great audacity to enable him
to stand out against overwhelming
opinion adverse to him, but sucn
thing was possible. Instead ne
climbs down from his high horse and
allows France to canter away with the
fruits of victory. His Moroccan
scheme has proved fiasco, but he has
performed a service in the cause OF
peace. He shows good judgment and
praiseworthy spirit. You may laugh
at his diplomatic failure if you will,
but you must commend his temper.
France wins and Germany agrees.
Good for the kaiser!-Louisyille
Courier-Journal.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
MARvELs OF CONCRETE.

Sky-scrapers, sidewalks, bridges,
fence posts, dams, roofing tiles, tele-
graph poles, railroad ties, residences,
piles, chimneys-these are a few of
the uses to which concrete has been
successfully put within the last few
years, writes d. N. Harper in Tech
nical World Magazine In 1890 the
total production of Portland cement
in the United States was 1000 bar
rels. Last year over 30,000000 bar.
rels were produced-an increase OF
nearly 10000 per cent in fifteen years.
That marks the growth of the con-
crete industry in the same period
for cement is the essential element in
concrete. Yet, lest modern construct
ing engineers take too much credit to
themselves for the miracles they
have accomplished, it may be well to
remind them that the ancient Romans
in ~ b. c., built of concrete the
famous Pantheon, which is still one OF
the sights of the Imperial City, and
the splendid dome of which is prac
tically a solid concrete she'll Surely
no building material could hope for a
better demonstration of its durability
than that.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
THING THAT FIRE WON'T BURN

The housekeeper who first made ac-
quaintance with asbestos as stove
mat, writes Aubrey Fullerton in
Technical World Magazine, now uses
it as stove-polisher, as fiatiron
holder as lampwick, and as fire
pad under her gas-burner. Most
likely, too, her kitchen range is lined
with it. Our dwelling-houses are
fireproofed with asbestos wall-plaster,
asbestos roofing material, and ashes
tos paint In office buildings and fac
tories, the steam pipes are oyerlaid
with asbestos covering, and the
boilers with asbestos cement. Ma
chinists use asbestos yarn or wick for
packing piston-rods and valve-stems,
and asbestos mill board as joint
packing. Electricians value it as a
non-conductor.
The modern theater has fireproof
stage curtains of asbestos cloth, and
the best-equipped firemen wear as
bestos uniforms. Storage rooms on
ocean steamships are lined with as
bestos, and it is equally serviceable
in the domestic refrigerators. Chem
lists find asbestos fiber the best inter
medium; and because of it's non-ab-
sorbing qualities, it is valued in hospi-
tails.
Known to some extent in ancient
Greece and Egypt, the existence and
uses of asbestos seem afterward to
have been forgotten until quite recent
years. Since 1866 the Italian mines
have been the chief source of supply
in Europe, and until twenty-five years
ago they were the only mines in the
world. At the present time, how
ever. asbestos is being mined in vary
ing quantities in Russia, Australia,
and Africa, and most largely of all in
America. 1t occurs in some nine or
ten of the States. of which Georgia
produces the largest quantity and
Vermont the highest grades. But of
the grades suitable for the highest
class of manufacture-whic in
other words, means the grades suit
able for spinning and weaving-the
Province Of Quebec has practically a
world monopoly.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
FoRETELLINo THE FLOODS.

A paltry fifty dollars expended by
the Flood Service of the Weather Blu
reau for extra telegraph tolls in sea
sons of inundation frequently saves a
million dollars in property and hun
dreds of lives. writes John Elfreth
Watkins in Technical World Maya
zine. During the great flood of 1897,
$l5,000,000 worth of perishable prop
erty was moved at the instance of the
official forecasts. Yet the total cost
of the River and Flood Service of the
United States was that year only S15,-
600, or one one-thousandth of this saw.
ing to the people So this particular
enterprise of the Government certainly
more than pays for itself, to put it
very feebly. I'VE always aim to
frame our forecasts at least within a
foot of what the conditions will after
ward prove" said DIR. II. C. Franken.
field, in charge of the River and
Flood Service. In the rapid-runnins
rivers of the mountain regions we are
rewarded with less accuracy than in
the great, slow streams of the Middle
West In the case of the Mississippi
Missouri. and lower Ohio, we can
come within from one to three-tenths
OF foot of actual rises"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
Agricultural lore

quently, and little at a time, is best
at first; less frequently and more at a
time as they grow older. Do not
waste the feed; give them plenty-all
they will eat, but none to waste.
Never feed fewer than three times a
day; when three weeks old or older,
five times a day is better than three;
at least every hour the first week;
every two hours thereafter.
The plan of hopper-feeding is being
carefully studied. By this system feed
is kept continually before the chicks
in hoppers, to which they may go at
any time and help themselves, just as
bros do in cage. Some say no,
others yes, to this proposition. If the
chicks are so taught from the first,
and the hopper is continually full. they
will do well and prosper, provided
they run about for exercise. This
method Is not good for brooder chicks
closely confined. The feed for them
should go into the chat to induce ex-
ercise through scratching for it.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
The Grind of the Trusts.

After the trusts are done with their
grinding, what is left for the rest of
us? The coal trust and the labor trust
are at odds about a division of the
profits derived from the mining of
coal. The labor trust refuses to delve
unless its share of the profit is increas-
ed. When the dispute reaches a crisis
likely to result in stoppage the steel
trust takes a hand. Having a twenty
five-year contract with the coal trust,
the steel trust threatens to abrogate
it unless the coal trust shall reach an
amicable agreement with the labor
trust Upon this compulsion, as the
matter now stands, it is believed that
the coal trust will agree to pay the
labor TRUST a 1914 per cent advance
in wages. The first of April bitumin-
Gus strike will have been averted.
Calamity is sidetracked Glory to
Thereupon hurrah, and halleluJah,
Theodore! The steel trust secures it's
soft coal snap. The labor trust gets
it's percentage. The coal trust adds
the percentage to the cost If pro.luc
tion and the price of fuel The rest
of us foot the ill.-Philadelphia Re.
cord.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
Nothind.

One day they haG falling out
And played the game Of sulk and
pout;
And what dye think twas all about?
Nothing
She went to mas, and meant to stay
Which made his dinner late that day;
When she returned, what did he say?
Nothing.
Although he stayed out late that night
And drank glass or two for spite,
what did she do to serve him rightf
Nothing,
Now, ere the ending of the week,
Each caught the other going to speak,
What better ending is to seek?
Nothing.
Yet friends and neighbors were per-
picked,
And some old ladies' even vexed
To wait and find what happened next.
Nothing,
Puck
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03

the increase in the number of catts
must come by intensive methods, both
In the East and in the West. The
cattle raisers Of the corn belt are now
earnestly working on the problem
how to raise beef proftably on ladd
worth more than 500 an acre. So Ear
as they have been able to figure out
the problem, they find that 1t is a
question of producing an immense
quantity of nutritious food on rich
land. This land is now too valuable
not to be kept rich, and the catt,eman
is compelled to put both fertilizer and
cultivation into the soil, with the prop
er kind of seed, If he wishes to make
a profit out of it.
The men in the various parts OF the
country that are working on the devel-
opment of pasturage have this same
problem in mind. Both at Raleigh,
N. c., and in Columbia, Mo-, are to be
seen experimental pastures that are
producing enormous quantities of feed
The men that are trying to make beef
on these very rich and rank pastures
are using what are called by-products
for securing large percentage Of pro-
tein. Cottonseed meal is being used
in as large quantities as the cattle
raisers dare. This not only means
good beef, but also enriches the SOIL
At Columbia especially the bluegrass
pastures have been greatly improved
by feeding cottonseed meal to the
steers pastured there. Under scien-
tific methods it is probable that we
can produce beef as cheaply on high
priced land as on low-priced land.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
That sleepine-car Hammock.

Patrick O'Connor and Denis Poyle
were travelling in sleeping car. 1t
was brand-new experience for Denis
and fraught with much interest and
not a few qualms. but Patrick, having
once before spent a night in a sleep
ing-car berth, felt himself seasoned
traveller and as such patronized Denis.
When the time for retiring came
Patrick slowed himself away in the
upper berth, leaving the lower berth
for Denis.
There was much struggling and sigh
ing from behind the curtains of the
lower berth, How We gittin' on,
Denis" called down Pat.
Sure I'm all right" replied Denis.
But stu the disturbance went on.
Most ready for Shape, Denis?" sad
Patrick.
AN right, All right. replied
Denis again. Silence for five minutes
Finally Denis's voice came quaver
clothes is here. aad me shoes they're
ingly In the semi-darkness. "The
here. too, all put away. but how 10 gil
meself into the little hammock to
slape, begorra. don't know!"-Wom
mans Home Companion.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
Nile Methods on the mississippi.

Annual irrigation by shallow floods
has kept Egypt fertile age after age,
while Arabia, Syria, Asia Minor and
vast regions of the east and west
have lapsed into barrenness and decay
If for the deep, destructive, floods
which now visit the lower Mississippi
valley, shallow vistations like those Of
the Nile can be substituted, it will be
found that there will remain but small
use for levees. and none at all for such
high ones as are now constructed.
Land which could be slightly over
flowed, and only long enough for the
best results to the crops, would be at
a premium. And the bringing about
of such conditions is by no means an
impossibility to modern engineering.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
Early Feed For Lambs.

Can lambs be raised successfully on
cows milk and how should the milk
be prepared, is a thought that needs
consideration. A shepherd with a
large flock, or farmer with lots OF
work cannot usually afford to raise a
lamb or two by hand, but when there
are several of these little fellows the
reverse is true. Lambs can be raised
successfully in this way though they
never appear so well as those that
are raised by the mother, says Farm,
Stock and Home. When only a small
number need to be raised the job had
better be turned over to the little boy
or girl and let them become the own
ers alter the lambs are grown. Young
lambs need to be fed very often-every
three hours even during the night they
should receive sustenance, but feed
ing late at night and early in the morn
ing will do.
AS the lambs grow older the fire.
quency Of feeding may be lessened un.
I'll when three weeks old the lamb is
i0h bhb I'LL tt lihlSo q Wv .
is not nearly so rich in milk solids or
fat as the ewes milk, though the
amount of milk sugar is not very differ
ent. Ewes give on an average about
8 3-5 pounds of milk daily. To furnish
the lambs sufficient nutrients, at least
3 3-5 pounds or little more of cows
milk must be fed. More is usually
given, and accounts for the big middle
on hand-raised lambs. Whole milk
should be warmed to blood heat and
fed in a bottle provided with nipple
until the lamb Is about four weeks old.
Then gradual change to whole skim
med milk is allowable. and1 should be
taught to drink. Feed should then
also be given in addition to the milk.
Ground or cracked corn, oats and bran,
equal parts, makes a very good ration.
With this nice clover or prairie hay
goes well. Lambs thus fed have made
pleasing and economical gains. In
fact, the results are comparable with
other classes of animals similarly fed.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
Beef on Hish-priced Lands.

The business of producing beef In
this country developed on cheap lands.
In the beginning the lands were cheap
along the Atlantic coast, and there the
American industry of beef-making had
its inception. As the country was
opened up to the west, the great
stretches of land west of the Allie
ghenies became the scene of the cheap
production of beef. 1t was all the
cheaper because transportation to the
seaboard was difficult Later the mid
die West, with its cheap lands, was the
territory over which roamed great
herds of cattle. The men who owned
these vast stretches of land found cat
tie production the only wa in which
they could make the grass servicaole.
but when the middle West became
thicllly settled. an the prices of beef
began to rise. the men herding cattle
that the cost of pasturage was consil-
cradle. even II ii represented no more
than the interest on the Investment,
says the New York Tribune Farmer.
Then the prairies of the Northwest
We're openened. and many vast herds
soon occupied them. ). aen ready fol
market the cattle were driven over
land hundreds of miles to the shipping
point When the great transcontin,
entail railways were thrown across the
the raising of cattle on cheap lands
The semiarid plains, with their rich
carpet of buffalo grass, were ready
for any man that might come and take
them. Then ranching began to be in
its glory. With the railroads Il
transport the finished stock, the ranch
man Of the western plains became &
ruinous competitor of the eastern ca.
| tie raiser. The roads that ran over
these plains made low rates for th'
transportation of stock. and encour
aged the development Of the indus ~
| Under these conditions IL not surpris
ing that there was decadence o
cattle raising in the East, This de
cadence extended TO the Mississippi
Cheap land was the main factor in dc
termining the profits of the business
But the development of beefmakinl
ON cheap lands is practically at ~
end The flood ude OF this develoI
ment has expended its fun force alon
the eastern ridge of the Rocky Mour
tains. Henceforth there is TO be
reflex action, for the plains are no'
carrying a maximum of stock. Nna
ever the demand for beef may b
these plains cannot greatly increas
their natural production. AAencefort
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
u)indolp Gardening

The use of window boxes Is not 70
he recommended extensively except
r., crowded downtown districts, apart
,nent houses and hotels, where tney
are effective in relieving the monot-
ony of otherwise bare windows and
yerandas. Where it is possible, how
ever to grow the hardy types OF
climbers in the ground. they will be
found far superior to boxes planted IL
the window or on the veranda.
A window box is usually eight
inches to foot in depth, and the same
in width, the length varying. II
should never be made of seven-eighths
inch lumber and should conform in
shape to the window Or veranda to
which it is attached. 1t should be
either hung to the veranda railing or
rest on brackets. 1t is often placed
on the window sill if the latter is
wide enough.
1t is important to see that the box
Las good drainage. Holes of good size
should be drilled in the bottom,
about eighteen inches apart, and these
covered with some loose material be-
fore putting in the soil. Use rather.
light soil, and preferably that which
has been made open with plenty OF
COW manure. Heavy clay soil has a
tendency to become hard and unfit for
plants if allowed to become at all dry.
Two excellent fertilizers for window
boxes are bone meal and bone shay
ings, especially the latter which
should be placed in the bottom of the
box and thoroughly mixed with the
soil. 1t will fit the plants later in the
season when they most need it.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
TIE VIRGIN DAY.

In dark and dew and falling ilgnt
In paling night, at heavens bourne
There stands for me virgin day
And blows upon her crystal morn
Whatever have done or do,
So long as am more tnan Gay
At every dawn, divine and blue,
Will break for me a virgin Gay.
Deepfooded as the stars behind
Her sapphire heights and piiins
SHOWS
NV heart | pray may know the wind
of truth her crystal bugle blows.
Edith Wyatt In the Reader.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
MISTAKE IN THE LANDING

He tried to land on the other mans
neck,
But the other man had to be shown;
The would-be lander was a sorry
wreck
He had landed, instead, on his own.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
Value Of REGULAR Ian,ts

A writer in Washington paper
says that sleeping late on Sunday
morning is injurious. Certainly Any
irresularity me-: be said to be in.
furious. A person should sleep late
every morning Buffalo Express.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
Winninu Point

lny young mon kin git his future
muther-in-law's good WILL" said the
lanitor philosopher, "if he tills her tn
furst tonne he sees her thot he mis-.
took her to be sister av his sweet
heart"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
Nothin, pain,

Short say, old man, would YOU
be willing to lend a friend $40 for
few days?"
Long-"Certainly-but, honestly.
don't believe have friend on earth,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
WHERE ARE TAEX2

They call it single blessedness
But still it keeps one guessing
In such very lonely life
To find single blessing.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03

Ethel says she never will marry
Pshaw! How can she possibly
know that some man won't propose
to herr"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
Better Name.

Why does dentist call his place
of torture a parlor?"
why not?"
Isn't It a drawing room?"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03
cred,table to the Kaiser.

1t is creditable To the German EN-
peros that he yields to the position OF
the majority of the governments rep
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1906-06-16
Wild Flowers.

Yellowstone is TRULY one OF the
"SEVEN WONDERS". AS a place
Of grandeur and scenery it Ii unsur-
passed by the famous Alps. Wild
flowers abound there in great profu-
sion. In order to furnish the pub
lie with souvenir within reach OF
all, tho NORTHERN PACIFIC RY.,
has prepared dainty publication,
containing twelve specimens OF some
of tho most beautiful wild flowers
within the park which have been
pressed and nicely mounted in port
folio form.
This magnificent souvenir. which
also contains six full page half tone
illustrations, will be mailed prepaid,
upon receipt of so cents.
A. Nj. CLELAND,
General Pass. Agt., st. Paul, MIMI.