davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09
A PRISONER IN A CROCK

An earthenware crock, which Brook lyn lad had put on bis head as a helmet slipped down and stuck fast.
 The boys muffed howls attracted prompt attention. His mother tugged at the crock until his face was sorely bruised. Then neighbors took turns at it until his neck was painfully twist ed.
 Meanwhile, the bowling boy suffered terrifying visions of lifelong imprison ment, as secure as in dungeon--of his head, from year to year, growing larger and tighter in the crock.
 The mother, the father, who had been sent for, and ah alf hundred neighbors held solemn council and decided that since the crock had slipped on it must be possible for it to be slipped of, but that only skillful surgeon could per. form the operation.
 A delegation was on its way with the boy to surgeons office when a resourceful street car motorman, see ing the situation, broke the crock with his controller handle.
 Thus, by the simplest processes, the boys trouble was ended.
 And it is by equally simple and equally direct processes that all of the troubles of all of us may be ended.
 In the presence of worries we rack our brains for a thousand roundabout ways of ending them, but overlook the simple expedient of smashing the crock.
 Like the lad, we see terrifying visions of the future; we suffer our feelings to be cruelty lacerated and our bodies to be twisted and torn by mental an guish and despair; we run here and there for sympathy and advice and help; and it seldom occurs to us how easy it is to just break the crock.
 Most of the crooks that seem to slip down over our heads are merely imag- mary. They require no street car con troller handles to break them. All they call for is mental controller handle.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09
ONE HOME IN TWELVE WRECKED
 BY DIVORCE

The fact that divorces are increasing in this country more iapidly than the population would seem to be mathemat- ical proof that in time the divorce evil must come to an end because there will be none left to be divorced. 70 It seems SO, but it isn t SO.
 For some people are divorced sever al times. They get the habit and thus inordinately swell the divorce statistics. And as rule these people contribute little to the population.
 There will always continue, no doubt, to be few simple contented folk, in- tent upon other things than petty domes- tic bickerings, who will preserve the marriage relation.
 Yet, the report on marriage and di- vorce just made by the census bureau, covering the period from 1867 to 1906, is startling.
 It shows that the divorce rate is high CT in the United States than in any other country from which reliable sta tistics have been obtained. It shows a steady increase in divorces, decade by decade, until in 1906 there is one di- vorcs out of every twelve marriages.
 There is abundant argument in this for more stringent and more uniform laws against divorce.
 But the truth is that large propor- tion of those divorced ought to be di. vorced.
 The divorce evil, menacing as it is, is better than cat-and-dog existence in the marriage state.
 Divorce is only the putrid stream from polluted spring.
 The polluted spring is unwise mar riage.
 Mary in haste and repent at 1eisure' is an old, old proverb whose pregnant truth We are slow to realize.
 The marriage rate, as well as the di- vorce rate, is higher in this country than HI any OIHCl Iildb AOOpo otebioeiSS'
 A national divorce law, or co-opera- tion of the states in the adoption of uniform laws, might tend to dam up the polluted stream.
 But the efforts of real reformers would better be directed toward cleans ing the polluted spring.
 The spring does not lie deep enough in the rock of tried affection; it is too near the surface, and every little show CT muddies it's waters.
 Marriage, the most important event in any mans or woman's life, next to birth and death, often gets the least serious onsideration-until afterward.
 Marriage, by many, is too often re- garded simply as legal contract, and not as sacrament; and while this con dition exists there must be left way out of the misery that inevitably fol- lows
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09
JAMES w. HOGUE. Vice President and Cashier.
J WATT ROGUE, President
HOME BARGAINS

Bargain a proposition considered by  the bargain spending time bargans market sale prices which will inspection Frequently there exceedingly fine
  willing sell which will interest either the who who collect else fellow advantage opportunities his order while  venture rapidly growing city like Globe today opportunities small opportunities blame?
  satisfied 
 
  agents selling, other fellow list Home Investment Company HOUSES sALE-HoUsEs JIM ROGUE, ROGUE Manager Utility
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09
It's a Crime

To neglect your health. The worst neglect that you can be guilty of is to allow constipation, biliousnens or any liver or bowel trouble to continue. It is poisoning your entire system and may lead to serious chronic disease. Take Ballard $ eHrbine and get absolutely well. The sure cure for any and all troubles of the stomach, liver and bow. els. For sale by Palace Pharmacy.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

Mrs. Guinness appears to have died and gone to Texas,'' says the Milwau- kee Sentinel. If all that has been al- legged of the lady is true, she deserves her fate.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

The Buffalo News calls attention to the Shirton laundry in that town. New ertheless, we have no idea that shirts come home with buttons on any more regularly from that one than any of the rest of them.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

A college professor says there will be no children l5o years hence. In that event there will be no Christmas trees, no Santa Clauses, and no anything else worth while.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

Richard Croker insists that he is a well-intentioned and upright old man, and never was anything but what he should have been, anyway. MT. croker and Mir. Rockefeller might consistently form a mutual admiration society.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

"A Chicago man sent trillion kisses by mail to young woman," says the Chicago Record Herald. My, but the mail carrier must have had the time of his life delivering theml
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

Monkeys fill teeth,' says the St. Louis Republic. We have sometimes felt so. The wonder is that they are able to get licenses.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

"Calve declines to tell the public her age" notes the Richmond News Lead CT. We don't blame her; it's her busi- ness. Besides, she doesn t look it, what ever 1t is.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

If Charles P. Taft is elected to the senate, will William Howard Taft be able truthfully to say, My spear knows no brother?''
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

A botanist claims to have discovered a "puckerless persimmon." Go to! As well take to us of ''sweet potato less 'possum.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

''The tariff is out of place in the pulpit, says the Baltimore Sun. That s no sign it will get out, however.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

On second thought, congress won t defeat "'Uncle Joe' for speaker next time.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

And the money all goes for new church. At Dreamland Friday and Sat urday nights.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

Haven't heard anybody knocking MT. Hitchcock's card index system since the election, have you?
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

Here's wishing Abruzzi better luck in his quest for the pole than attend ed him in his quest for bride.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09
LOST AND FOUND.

shares of mining stock in the Stephens Johnnie Gold Mining company of Nye county, Nevada. Owner can recover by proving owner ship and paying for this ad.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

LoST-Gold signet ring. Finder re. turn to this office and receive reward
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

FOR RENT-Large corral, stable, wag on shed, hay house, etc. Inquire oi Eugene Middleton.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Gents' furnishing house doing good business. Address A. B C., Silver Belt.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

WANTED.

WANTED-Colored lady wants wori by the day. Mrs. Jones, 20 Euclid street.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

FOR RENT-Four- room cottage on Pas |. COG hill; rent $20; cheap Apply Sal
 vation Army.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

WANTED-Every consumer in Gila county to try sOLWICo brand of flour, spices, canned fruits and vegetables. If your grocer is up to date he has them.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-21
MCCARTHY GETS CONTRACT.

Madison Man Will Build Power Plant
for New Capitol for $fo8,oo0.
The capitol building commission
has awarded a contract for the cree
ton of the building for the separate
heating, lighting and power plant for
the new state capitol to T. C. McCar-
thy of Madison, whose bid of $108,000
was the lowest submitted.
The building is to be Of concrete,
with brick facing. It will be 120x130
feet in ground dimensions and so feet
high. The contract includes the ma
son, carpenter, roofing, plastering,
plumbing and electrical work. There
were only two bids for the entire job,
but there were thirteen for the differ
ent parts of it. The building is to be
completed in time to furnish heat and
light for the west wing Of the new
capitol when the legislature meets
next January. The contract for the
smoke stack, which will be 200 feet
high and built Of brick and concrete,
will be let later.
The commission let a contract to
the Kostner Elevator company Of Chi
cago for two electric passenger ele-
vators for the new wing of the new
capitol. The price is $8,250.-W
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-21
Wednesday.

Washington, May 1.-THE further
consideration Of the Brownsville af-
fair was yesterday postponed by the
senate until Dec. 16 next. This deci-
sion was reached after an extended
exchange of views among the sena-
tors.
Senator Rayner's resolution direct
ing the president to appoint court
of inquiry to investigate the case of
Col. William F. Stewart of the army,
now stationed at Fort Grant, Ariz.,
was referred to the committee on mil
itary affairs, with an understanding
that Senator Rayner would appear
before that committee to make a fur
Their statement on the Stewart case.
One-half of the five-hour session of
the house yesterday was spent in roll
calls on the various propositions pre-
scented. When the days work had
been concluded the agricultural and
postoffice appropriation bills had been
sent to conference.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-21
Friday.

Washington, May 16-The Vreeland
currency bill, which was passed by the
house Thursday, was delivered to the
senate yesterday and at once went to
the committee on finance. Senator
Aldrich promptly made a report from
the committee, substituting the Aid.
rich bill in an amended form for the
house measure, and in that form 1t
was passed by the senate. This action
threw the bill into conference and an
effort will be made to reach an agree
ment at an early day.
The work Of cleaning up legislation
in the house preparatory to adjourn
ment May %, proceeded at rapid
pace yesterday. With only short
time allowed for debate, both the mill
tary appropriation bill and the omni'
bus public buildings bills were pass
ed, leaving off the supply bills, only
the general deficiency bill to be con-
sidered.
BY strict party vote the Vreeland
currency bill as amended by the SEN
ate yesterday, was, after lively de.
bate sent to conference; yeas $50,
nays 103, present 6.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-21
TOWN BOARDS SHOULD ASK.
Highway Division of Geological su

Highway Division of Geological Sur
vey Will Give Expert Advice.
The highway division of the geologi-
cal survey advises the farmers of
Wisconsin contemplating road and
bridge improvement to send in their
application for advice and assistance
at once. The appropriation for this
work is only $4,000. This means that
comparatively few Of the 1900 com
munities can be reached. The high
way division will, upon application, in
spect roads which are difficult to
maintain, and tell how to remedy ex-
listing conditions as quickly and
cheaply as possible; make practical
suggestions for relocation, grading or
drainage; examine old bridges and
estimate carefully the cost of new
ones; in short, insure the farmers Of
Wisconsin the best possible results at
the least possible expense. This COM
petent advice, practical assistance,
and whenever possible Tin the case of
stone or gravel roads,, outfits of road
machinery are offered by the high
road division upon application entire
1y free of charge.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-21
New Schedule for Dairy Tests.

A new schedule Of charges for con-
Quoting tests of pure-bred dairy cows
for production has been arranged by
the board of regents of the state uni
versity, and will go into effect on July
1. The rate for one-day tests is Sc,
covering the entire cost to breeder
for two-day tests, So; seven-day tests,
s25, and thirty-day tests, $50. Every
day additional to the two, seven or
thirty will be So extra
These dairy tests, which have been
conducted by the agricultural expert
ment station at the university for the
past fifteen years, have established
the fact that many animals of remark
able productive capacity are bred in
the state. The Importance Of the test
to breeders and dairymen is great, as
the purchase of cows without anthem
tic records for high production of
milk and butter fat or blood connec-
ton with such records, is now rare.
AS breeders for whom the tests are
conducted are primarily benefited, it
has been decided that they should pay
the entire cost of the tests rather than
merely the expense of the supervisor,
as heretofore, and for this reason the
new schedule has been arranged.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-21
BOAT OWNERS FIGHT.
Order From Government Engineer at
Appleton Threatens Controversy.

Order From Government Engineer at
Appleton Threatens Controversy.
A score or more owners of pleasure
launches who house their boats on the
upper Fox river in Appleton have re-
ceiVed orders from L. M Mann of
Oshkosh, engineer in charge of the
government improvement of the Fox
and Wolf rivers, that their boat
houses must be moved and giving as
the reason that they INSTRUCTED the
flow of high water and thus interfered
with navigation.
The owners of the houses and
Humphrey Pierce, who owns the land
along the bank of the river, have
raised large sum with which to fight
the order and have already appealed
to Senators La Toilette and Stephen
son and to Congressman Kuestermann
to take the matter UP with the war
department at Washington
The owners claim that they do not
interfere with navigation in the least,
but that the real cause of the order
came from the refusal of youns man
Ito take Engineer Mann across the
river in his launch few weeks ago.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-21
PARK IN DOOR COUNTY.
State Board, With Boston Specialist,
Visits Proposed Sites.

The state park board, created by
the last session of the legislature for
the purpose of investigating various
regions to ascertain their desirability
as sites for state parks, is making it's
tour of Door county.
The board was recently driven some
forty miles over most excellent roads,
despite the continuous rains, and was
shown the Clark lake region, a pro
posed site, comprising some 1000
acres, lying east of Sturgeon Bay, on
the Lake Michigan side of the Door
county peninsula
The park board was appointed last
July by Gov Davidson and is com
posed of Thomas E. Birmingham,
chairman, Madison; Edward E.
Browne, Waupaca; William H. Nc
Fetridge, secretary, Baraboo. The
board is accompanied by John Nolen
of Boston, one of the most eminent
landscape architects of the country.
Senator Bird Of Wausaukee and AS
semblyman Reynolds of Jacksonport
are also accompanying the board.
Several citizens of the county are also
of the party.-W.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-21
TO GIVE "TWELFTH NIGHT"
First Outdoor Performance on the
Campus at State University,

The Edwin Booth Dramatic club at
by the Red Domino club, the girls
dramatic organization, will give an
open-air performance of Shakespeare's
Twelfth Night On the campus Friday,
May 20, for the benefitg Of the crew
fund. This is the first outdoor per-
Torrance ever given by the students
of the university, and it is the result
of the successful performance of the
play recently in the opera house. The
cast of characters is as follows:
Duke Orsino, Ernst Jung, '09, Mil
waukee; Valentino, Thomas K Car
penter, 10, Chicago; Curio, Clifford
Mcmillan, II, Fort Atkinson; Sir
Toby Belch, George Worthington 10,
Madison; Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Will
liam Tienfenthalor, 10, Milwaukee;
clown, Herman H. Harrow, '09, Mil
waukee; Sebastian, Harry BRANDED,
Fort Atkinson; Antonio, John D.
Jones, 10, Racine; Malvolio, Arthur
H. Gruenewald, TO- Oshkosh; Fabian,
John V. Mulaney, 08, East Troy; sea
captain, Edgar E. Robinson, '0S, Ocon-
omowoc; Viola, Susan Armstrong,
'08, Madison; Olivia, Gertrude Kenne-
dy, 10, Highland; Maria, Alice Currie,
'08, milwaukee,. Mr. E. j. Southwick
and A. H. tombstone of the depart
ment of public speaking will direct the
production, and the business mana
gers are Peter H Schram, '06, former
ly of Milwaukee, and Edgar E. Robin
son, '0S, Oconomowoc, with Thomas
E. Hills, 10, Beloit, as master of
properties.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-21
AID FOR WHITE PLAGUE WAR.

Cities Contribute Toward Exhibit at
National tuberculosis Congress.
To raise the necessary money for
sending a proper and representative
exhibit of Wisconsin's activity in the
fight to exterminate tuberculosis the
Wisconsin committee made assess
ments of each city's and villages pro-
portionate share of a $4,000 fund. The
assessment was made on the popula-
ton basis. The local city and village
councils that have made appropria-
ton and forwarded their contributions
follow:
Hartford, $12; Westby, So; Auburn
dale, 81; Darlington, $40; Onalaska,
Sc; Readstown, So; Spooner, SO; Sha-
ron, SO; Sheboygan Falls, So; Two
Rivers. s24; Westfeld, SO; Arcadia,
$12; Oregon. So; Sun Prairie, So Viro-
qua, S12; Withee, ST; Fountain City,
Sc; Neshkoro, 81; Cumberland So;
Sturgeon Bay, $24; Butternut, So; AL
bany. SO; Durand, So; North Milwau-
kee, 81; Amigo, S36; Clintonville, So;
Boscobel, SO; Walworth, So; Hancock,
81; total, 5000.
Milwaukee, not yet completed, adds
$500 to the fund.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-21
In and About the State
RUSTY CANS SPOIL MILK.
State University Issues Warning te
Milk Dealers.

Milk Dealers.
Rusty Cans and Their Effect Upon
Milk for Cheesemaking" is the title of
the latest bulletin of the University
of Wisconsin agricultural experiment
station, prepared by George A. Olson,
assistant chemist at the station. Ex-
periments made by Mr. Olson show
that milk hauled in poorly timed or
rusty cans is materially injured for
cheesemaking. 1.-THE cheese factory
operator should not hesitate to refuse
milk which is hauled in poorly timed
or rusty cans" writes Mr. Olson, ''for
in addition to the retaining influence
of the iron on the rennet action and
the naturalization of the acid by the
iron, there are also produced taints or
off favors."
The milk cans used to haul milk to
the cheese factory are often of a cheap
grade and are denied the first or Sec
ond time that they are used, with a
result that the tin cracks, and the
iron is exposed and rusts. At one
Wisconsin factory a can was found
that had been used for thirteen years
and had been soldered forty times,
with dead patches two inches in diam
eter in some places. Milk kept in
such cans would take forty minutes
longer to coagulate than that kept in
good cans.
In these experiments milk was
placed in rusty tin cans and allowed
to stand for different periods, while
other samples of the same milk were
kept IN glass beakers Every time that
this experiment was repeated the
milk kept in the rusty cans gave evil
dence of a retarding influence on the
rennet action as compared with the
milk kept in the glass beaker. Milk
which was allowed to stand in iron
utensils for several hours had a pc
culiar bluish-gray color, indicating the
presence of iron in solution 1t was
evident that the acid in the milk act
Sd upon the iron and dissolved some
Of it. The maximum quantity of iron
dissolved in the milk ranged from one
" 'S@~O
thousand pounds of milk. This iron
in solution at least partly causes the
retarding influence on the rennet &C
ton, since it increases the solids in
the milk. The bulletin urges that the
managers of cheese factories see that
the operator is a reliable man, who
will not only practice cleanliness, but
will insist that the factory utensils
and those Of patrons will be in first
class condition. He advocates the
use Of heavy steel, we'll timed cans,
similar to those used in Europe, which
experience has shown are most eco
nomical in the long run. He argues
for the cooperation of proprietors of
creameries and cheese factories and
city milk supplies for this purpose,
with the establishment of a merit sys-
tenn Of purchase of milk, founded on
sanitary and hygienic rules, to en-
courage the production of a superior
grade of milk.-W.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-21
CORN PLANTING DELAYED.

The past week has not been the
most favorable for crops in Freedom
county, and there has been so much
rain that little grogress has been
made by farmers toward corn plant
ing, but it will begin as soon as the
ground dries up sufficiently. Small
grain is looking fine and pastures are
seldom better at this season Of the
year. Present indications point to an
enormous hay crop-unless there is
too much rain for the low and damp
meadows. Corn will be more general
ly planted than ever and fields of
sixty-five to eighty acres are reported.
There will also be large acreage
planted to potatoes this year.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-21
VISITS NORMAL SCHOOLS.
Secretary Kittle Reports on His In
spection Tour


Secretary w. e. Kittle of the state
board of normal school regents has
just finished tour of inspection. of
normal schools in Middle West states
and made a report to the board. In
speaking of his trip he said:
Il visited nine state normal schools
and four city normal schools in Ohio,
Minnesota. I have reported to the
board in Wisconsin on the governing
boards in those state, the normal de-
partments, the training schools, the
summer sessions and the training of
high school teachers in the normal
schools. Ohio has not a single state
normal school, Indiana and Iowa have
only one each, Michigan has four and
Illinois and Minnesota have five each.
The equipment at Cedar Falls, Ia, is
the best in the entire northwest. The
largest attendance, 1,406, is at Ypsi-
lanti, Mich. The city normal at Chi
cago is fully the equal Of a state nor
NAL in equipment, enrolment and the
character of the work done.
"The Wisconsin normal school sys-
TEN ranks we'll with any one of the
five surrounding states, but there is
an opportunity for constructive work
in several ways. One state shows the
value of cooperation by the county
superintendent with the work of the
summer session at the normal school,
another illustrates the specialization
necessary for high school teachers;
another has established courses for
rural school teachers.
IF any one normal school could
combine the best features of even a
few normal schools in different states
it would render most effective service
to the schools of the state"-W.