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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02
Thinning Apples.

The effort to produce the seeds of
apples exhausts the tree more than to
produce the much larger quantity of
meat, because seeds contain a much
larger proportion of the mineral ele-
ments. AS much meat Cor pulp can be
grown on 800 fine, large apple trees as
upon 1000 small, inferior ones, but the
production of seeds will only be one
half as great. This thinning" not only
adds to the value of the present crop,
but economies the energies of the tree
for future use.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02

Too much reliance is placed on the
pillow. There is no implement more use
full than the disc harrow in some lines.
but it's place is to cut up the sod and
render the soil fine after the land has
been plowed though farmers frequent
ly use the disc harrow for preparing
stubble land, leaving out blowing al
together. There is something more in
blowing than simply loOsening the
ground for seed. When land is proper
serbs warmth rapidly and permits of
greater feeding capacity for plants.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02
Excellent Sugar Beets.

Those who have raised beets for SUI
gar know the value of the two vari-
ties shown in the illustration. The
one on the right is the famous Klein
Waenzelben sugar beet: the other the
Imperial. The first named is largely
planted for sugar making, and they
are rich in sugar. The Imperial is
also good sugar beet for sugar max
ing. In this item, however, attention
is called to these two sorts as being
especially valuable to raise for the win
ter feeding Of stock and especially OF
the cow
Being rich in sugar, they will sup
ply much food matter, and at the same
time give the needed amount of green
or succulent food so much needed by
COWS during the winter. Neither va
riety is especially new, but they have
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02
How to Find Scale Insects.

Prof. Troop of the Indiana Expert
mental Station gives the following df-
rectiOns in recent bulletin: In look
ing for the scale insect most persons
will pass it by unnoticed Oh account OF
it's very small size. The female scale
is only One-twenty -fifth Of an inch in
diameter. while the male is only about
half that size. The shape of the fe-
male is nearly circular, while the male
is more elongated. The female is sharp
ly convex or conical in the center. This
last characteristic will help to distin-
guish it from many of the other more
common species. It's color is nearly
like the bark on which it is found. An
other distinguishing character is found
in the reddish discoloration of the bark
Immediately surrounding the scale. ex-
tending through both the outer and in
ner bark. These characters will enable
one with an ordinary pocket magnify
ing glass to readily detect the presence
of the insect.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02

The farmer should endeavor to in
crease his proportion of wheat by bet
ter cultivation rather than by planting
ing adopted in other countries that have
the available area. Our people have an
immense area of wheat culture in for
q "a lands to compete with, lands where
labor is cheap. Europe, except perhaps
in Russia and Rou1nania and India.
have dense populations and are less
dangerous competitors. European and
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02
Modern Methods.

Farmers have for hundreds of years
been engaged In opposing every at
tempt to improve them in their meth
DDS of farming. Hundreds of farm
ers' wives work daily at churning in
manner that is most laborious, tax
ing an hour or more to do what could
be performed in few minutes if they
were not too prejudiced against fancy
farming" TO use a thermometer They
have no faith in book farming" and
pay dearly for refusing to be con-
vinced
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02
Yankee Cavalry Against Virginia
ChiVaIry.

Yankee Cavalry Against Virginia
ChivaIry.
The cOolness and courage with which
some of the Virginia women are en-.
lowed is a fact which has been too of
ten and too brilliantly illustrated to ad-
nit of any doubt. During the rebel
lion, a Union cavalry straggler, after
vainly ransacking the 0utbuldings of
a plantation in search of corn, ap-
preached the door in which young
lady was standing, and demanded that
"some of the grain. which he knew was
concealed in the house should be given
him. I'VE have nOne,' was the reply.
"Stand aside until I. go in and see for
myself he rudely retOrted, at the same
time whipping out of it's sheath a heavy
Colts revolver. No sooner done than
the fair Nirginian planted herself firm
ly in the doorway, drew small re-
peater from her full and throbbing
bosom, and deliberately aiming it at
the intruders head, exclaimed:
"ApprOach one step further towards
this house and you are a dead man.
Baff1ed in his endeavors by such ar
exhibition Of bravery, the trooper turn
ed on his heel and left. without taking
that zone step further" He was not
aware, at the time, that the maiden
who thus placed a check upon his
movements was the betrothed Of George
B. Davis, a nephew of Jeff's, who dis
charged her pocket pistol with an &C.
curacy which had made her famous in
that locality.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02
Two Gallons in One Egg.

Worth $500, an. egg of tall, flight
less bird, the aepyornis maximus, Is Oh.
exhibition in Liverpool. This gigantic
bird made it's home in Madagascar, and
only twenty of it's mammoth eggs are
known to exist. Each is a foot long
and nearly a yard in circumference
One will hold two gallons of water
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02
Handy Fencing Device.

a very handy device to be used in
handling barbed wire is shown here
with Take two strips 215 inches wide
and 80 inches long and bore holes
through each end. Through these, says
Farm and Home, put old broom han
dies or any round stick, and fasten by
driving a nail through the square tim
Der. Leave one loose so that it can be
put through the reel of wire as shown
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02

wide, and shape like co.. Nail one on
each side, as in cut, after having bored
hole near the middle of each. Nail
on end piece CD. Nail on OBJ, hav-
ing first chiseled a hole or 8 inches
long and 3 or inches wide in it to
admit of lever (F).
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02

When cultivating young corn it must
be done in a manner to destroy all
weeds; hence shallow cultivation may
not answer. as the weeds must be de-
stroyed by any method possible, rather
than to permit them in the cOrnfield.
But after the corn is we'll advanced it
may prove detrimental to run the cul-
tivator deep, as it then cuts many roots.
Root cutting has been tested and found
injurious. After the weeds are killed
the only work required is to keep about
an inch or two of the surface soil
loose, in order to conserve moisture, as
we'll as to put an end to any Young
weeds that may be ready to start.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02
THE DOCTRINE OF SIN.

By Rev. Clarence True Wilson, D. D.
Textile that sinneth against Me
wrongeth his own soul. Proverbs
s: So
We're you ever stung by bee? 1t
hurt for moment possibly for the
hour. But the bee was ruined 1t lost
it's sting and went off to die. Such are
stings God. He sustains so vital a re-
latiOn to us and has such large inter
ests in us that any transgreSsion of His
will is Il blow at His very heart. But
He has so constituted us that the blow
reacts. ''They that regard lying vani-
ties forsake their own mercy" HE
that sinneth against NE WrOngeth his
own soul" Is it surprising that sin
could not be wrought without cOnSe-
quences? Thinkest thou, o man, that
thou canSt sin and never reap sins har-
vest? The Most High gave to thee a
free personality, splendid mission and
a blessed destiny; but when thy heart
was lifted up and thy spirit hardened,
with thine own ways. Thou hast in
troduced discord into His government.
Thy selfish rebellion has separated the
creature from the will of the Creator,
and instead of turning in affectiOnate
alteration to God as the center of the
universe thou hast established new
center self SetishneSs has bred law
lessness. Out of harmony with God
and conscience and environment, thy
soul is never at peace it is like trou-
bled sea that casts up mire and dirt.
There is no peace" saith my God, tic
the wicked BE sure your sins will
find you out"
am old fashioned enough to believe
that man was meant for life, and not
for death. that had not sin come in.
the tree of life meant special immunity
from death. If man was created for
all he is capable of being, he was i'll
tended for immortality. But what sad
havoc sin has made! Our life" says
Augustine. lis so brief and insecure.
that | know not whether to call it
diving life. or living DEATH
What is your life? hand breadth,
What is your life? A vapor which APP
peareth for a season, and Vansheth
away. What are your days! They are
swifter than a post, sweeping by like
a weaver's shuttle, vanishing like the
ships upon the ocean.
But there is a deeper death than that
of the body which sin infiicts upon the
man: there is a spiritual death in sin
The final separation from God, the only
source of life and happiness, is the
final curse of sin. This is necessarily
eternal. The separation of the human
spirit from God. looked at apart from
redemption, is in itself doom unre
lieyed. The sinner has in himself nc
mower of self restoration to union with
Cod But thank God we are not aban
doned to this doom. IF any man sin
we have an advocate with the Father
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02
About Chickens.

Keep the early pullets for next years
layers and kill off all the young cock
erels for market, so as to give the pull
let's more room. They should be kept
in good growing condition, so as to
reach maturity before November, In Or
der to become winter layers. late pull
lets seldom begin to lay until spring
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02

Records of the United States Treas
nrv Department show that of all the
immigrants who land in New YORK CITY
only four out of each hundred go &c
the Southern States.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02

shall come to the conclusion that at the
head of every column and at the base
of every column we may inscribe "The
Son of God loved.''
He gave His love, but He gave more
lie gave His will As far as one can
understand the philosophy of the Atone
ment and can get at the secret of that
reconciling power by which men are
brought back to God, it is when we
stand by Christ in Gethsemane. and
when we hear Him pray that wondrous
prayer If it be possible, let this cup
pass from Me- and then takes it back
and amend His prayer: in all points
made like unto us. He fashions His
prayer and says, Nevertheless, not as
L Will, but as Thou wilt" And His will
is bent. His will is broken. His will is
surrendered, and He gives His will. The
citadel of our humanity, the secret of
our personal life, the I of the l, He
gives for us. Not as l will, but as
Thou wilt
You and ] tonight are in the pres
ence of Him Who, once dead, lives
again; not before crucifix on which
the body Of the dead Christ rests. but
before a cross from which Christ has
assembled into the heavens we stand.
And, brothers, sisters, you and l have
to say, and say it solemnly, some for
the first time, and some for the thou
sandth time, HE died to save me !;
what can / do for Him?''
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02
Breeding Salty Onions.

Joseph Zuch, an enterprising garden
er of Marietta, Pa, succeeded in rails
ing a variety o. onions which have salt
flavor, so that no seasoning at all is
necessary, whether eaten raw or
stewed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02

not been so freely planted as they
should be. The seed is low in price,
and it will pay any one with stock to
plant a small field. Both varieties are
exceedingly productive, and they will
grow in any good soil.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02
Eject of the New Meat Law.

One highly important result of the
new laws regulating the meat packing
business may already be seen in the.
tendency to keep more stock. Il am
going to increase my herds little" a,
leading farmer says; and the argu-t
ments he uses are these More perk, !;
beef and mutton will be eaten here-i
after. Folks are satisfied now that the
packers will send out only good, pure;
meat, and they will use it freely. Some
one must grow the cattle to make this
meat. We might as we'll all have a
hand in it. Not that all should drop
everything else and put the eggs all
into the meat-growing basket if we did,
that there would be a big crash but We
can keep more stock and make it pay
And this is a sensible view to take of
the matter. 1t will mean better times
for farmers all over the country
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02
Draw-E&nife Bench,

Make a bench of some heavy timber
(2-inch oak), s feet long and II or n
inches wide. Next take piece of someN
20 or "a inches long and or inches
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02

Asiatic Russia, Argentine and perhaps
before many years large areas of AZ
RIGA will be in the market against us.
We must diminish the cost of produc-
ton by improved methods.-Texas
Stock and Farm Journal
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02
Insult and Repartee.

The difference between repartee and
insult depends on whether you Or the
other man makes the remark.-Life.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02

One man in five and one woman in
thirty are slightly color blind.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-19
THE HERO OF THE GEORGIA

At least one man among the men
behind the guns in the turret of the
battleship Georgia, who were killed in
the explosion of powder deserves a ma
tional monument. He was Benjamin
Krieger, of Brooklyn, who bore the
name of George Miller ordinary'sea-
man. Let Captain McCrea, of the
Georgia, tell about this hero:
MILLER was a loader of the port gun. 1t
had 1OS pounds of powder in Ii, just the
same as the starboard gun, where the
fire started. The breech had not been
closed, all the powder not having beer
fitted in, when the flash came. Then,
in a twinkling of an eye, Miller showed
his hand into the gun, put the powder
in place, and closed the breech. 1t was
one of the coolest and bravest acts
ever heard Of" This hero was IS years
old, a mere boy. Let his name be moi
forgotten.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-19
A COMMISSION THAT MEANS BUsI-
NESS.

Great public interest will attend the
investigation to be made by the New
York Public Utilities Commission of the
affairs of the immensely capitalized
aggregation of street railroad inter-
ests that control the elevated. surface
and subway roads in New York city.
The character of the commission in
sures a thorough inquiry that will take
in the cost of plant and the various
processes by which these great inter-
ests were a~malgamated, about which
the general public have only a super
fetal knowledge
Transportation in and around New
York is only in its formative state, and
Its facilities are even now being enor-
mously enlarged. Tunnels will soon
be in operation under the North and
East Rivers and new subways will
underlie the city. Consolidation of in
terests will go on, reaching out into
all the territory tributary to the
metropolis. and if it shall not be ar.
rested. the absorption of the NORTH
Jersey lines seems to be only a matter
of time.
The Public Utilities Commission an
ticipates this future development b,
its investigation, the effect of which
will at least be to make development
proceed along defined lines and within
safe bounds, preventing over-capital
ization and insuring for the public
Just share of the benefits.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-19
PUBLIC BATH coNvEN1ENcEs.

Some improvement in the manage
ment of the public baths is obviously
necessary. The real danger in these
baths was pointed out yesterday by
DIR. Charles j. Kipp at a meeting of the
street committee of the Board of
Works. The eye is a delicate organ.
easily infected. and very often there is
infection in the water of a public bath.
Much of what bias been charged against
the baths as to their unsanitary con-
ditions Is exaggerated.
1t would be impossible for a city to
maintain public baths to correspond to
the ideas of finicky people. The city can't
afford to provide all the c~onveniences of
the Roman bath, and 1t would not be
practicable to compel every bather to
undergo a wash at home before he
takes a bath. Where a public bath is
crowded the water should be changed
more frequently than ordinarily, and a
physician should be stationed at the
bath to see that persons inflicted with
communicable diseases are not allowed
to battle.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-19
SOME THINGS NEWARK LACKS.

Newark, with it's 100000 population
and its well populated suburbs, is curl
ously deficient in the attractions that
are SO numerous in New York, espe-
cially those thai belong to the summer
season. For example, the roof garden
has become a familiar feature of all
large cities and no manager has had
the enterprise to establish one In New
ark, where, with a population of half a
million to directly draw upon, such an
enterprise would be remunerative. But
no doubt not a few of these features of
metropolitan life will appear in Newark
after the Hudson River tunnels shall
have knit the city closer to Manhattan.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-19
A THOUSAND LEGISLATIVE BILLS.

There have been more bills introduced
in the Legislature at the present ses-
sion than in any legislative session in
the last thirty years. The total is up
ward of one thousand, by far the
greater number being introduced in the
House. Prior to 1875, when the constitu-
tional amendment was adopted forbid
ding special legislation. and beginning
witt 1854, there was an avalanche of bills
at every Legislative session. The number
of bills that were made laws in 1879 was
1913. about equal to all the laws enacted
in 1904, 1895 and 1906. The number of
enactments in 1890 was s11 in a session
of nineteen weeks. In 1894 the Legis-
lature was in session twenty weeks and
enacted 354 laws.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-19
JEROME UNDER EXAMINATION.

District Attorney Jerome had the
novel experience yesterday of being ex-
amined. and lectured, as a witness in
an examination in which he appeared
as the plaintiff. Jerome stood a great
deal of villifcation until the New York
Journal assailed his character, and then
he instituted two suits for 500, 900 each
against the Hearst paper.
During his campaign Jerome re-
ceived contributions to pay his
campaign expenses. and 1t was
on that account he was attacked
by the Hearst publication with sour
rilous abuse. 1t was not necessary fol-
such a man to go to the courts to be
~vindicated, for no sane man would be.
lieve the malicious imputations put
upon him by the Journal, but 1t is vel
to subject such a publication to a heavy
pecuniary penalty as we'll as prove it'
mendacity.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-19
MACON and Dixon,s Line.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
VIII you please give me an account OF
the surveying OF Mason and Dixon's line?
II. w. w.
This line was surveyed by two survey
ors, Mason and Dixon, to establish the
boundary between Pennsylvania and Mary
land, according to terms of an agreement
to settle a long standing dispute which
grew out of overlapping grants due to q
very imperfect knowledge of the country
In England when the grants were made.
AS originally surveyed the line did not
touch Delaware by a few feet. That por-
tion Of the boundary Of Delaware was the
arc of n circle with a twelve-pile radius
from Newcastle 1t resulted therefore In
an irregular and nearly triangular piece OF
land containing a few acres. which be-
longed neither to Pennsylvania, Maryland
nor Dela ware, and was long called n
Mans Land" becaLse no State exercised
jurisdiction over it. tt was long a favorite
dueling ground, and prize fights have been
held there. In latter years q mutual set
Element of the boundary has put the land
under State jurisdiction. being divided be-
tween Pennsylvania ard Delaware.-Ed.J
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-19
THE DELINQUENT HOSPITAL MANA
GERS.


A private meeting of the managers of
the State Hospital for the Insane at
Trenton yesterday decided that as soon
as the present epidemic is well under
control an investigation will be con-
Quoted to try to fix the responsibility
for the shocking state of affairs in the
institution. 1t is understood that the
managers are quite convinced that the
responsibility was with the city of
Trenton in letting its sewer pipe leak,
the reports by a Philadelphia bacteri-
ologist and by DR.. Mitchell, of the State
Board of Health, to the contrary.
The culprits are the board of managers
and each manager individually. These
men undertook to manage the hospital,
and one of the results is a serious cpl
demic of typhoid, traceable to causes
that a wayfarer could see, 1t is evil
dent that the managers of this curative
institution, containing hundreds of pa
TENTS and requiring the most Ylgllant
supervision, never managed at all. They
were recreant to their trust, and they
deserve to be we'll fayed. An investi-
cation by the board would be a solemn
farce. What is necessary is an investi-
CATION by a legislative committee, with
these managers under the probe.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-19
THE JUDICIAL AMENDMENTS.

The apparent lack of interest in thu
State in the matter Of judicial reform
is inexplicable. Judicial reform 1!
caviar to the general because the aver
age man, who never engages in liti-
cation and has nothing to do with
courts and judges. does not compre.
bend. He cannot see where the ques-
tion touches him individually. So In
an election on constitutional amend
ments not more than 10 per cent. Of
the vote comes out, and the amend
ments succeed or fall by the will of a
small minority.
It is a mistake the average man
makes when he u that he has
no personal interest in the matter of
the construction of the States judicial
system. In one way or another he is
O victim with the rest If the judicial
system is wrong. His interests, as well
as all others. suffer when the admins
tration of justice is faulty. But there
should be enough sentiment in the
State sufficiently educated to under
stand the necessity for reform and to
unite. in demanding from the Legis-
lature the legislation necessary to en-
able the people to vote on amendments.
Last year a highly competent COM
mission drafted a number of amend
ments, and they were introduced in
the Legislature. Influences prevailed
to prevent legislative action. If the
amendments shall not be passed this
year, 1t is not probable that any can
be acted on for another five years.
There are lawyers in the Legislature.
Are they all Indifferent to judicial re-
form? Are they opposed to the amend
ments? Are they united in the purpose
to kill them?