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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-30
A Hog shelter.

The form of individual hoghouse
shown in the illustration is 8 feet
square on the ground and both doors
are hinged so they will open and close
readily; IL foot boards make the side
and roof Use good soft pine floor
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-30

vented can take
out the pernicious
germs. The best
gtrainer for the
average dairyman
Is a metal vessel,
as shown In the
cut, with a wire
screen Of 100 wires
to the inch. A
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-30

future the methods of modern business will change
that the old man, per So, will be In demand than
he is Economic philosophers to the effect
that In general the man who has grown old ought to
have a competence upon which to retire Cold hard
facts that indsputabe show how impossible this Is
Probably iii the vast majority of where earnest
honest men have worked at chosen work that old
age problem is met If. until the end, the worker ia
privileged to work. To die in the harness is by thou
sands considered Ideal ending OF an ideal life Ac
cumulated money and idle have shortened thou
of lives at the expense contennent For this
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-30

1t has been a generally accepted
theory among teachers of and writers
on dairy subjects that the production
AZ good butter necessitates the deve!-
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-30

First Fair One-Let me see. Who
is the oldest person in the Bible?
your family Bible. aren't you?-Brook-
Ign Citizen.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-30
Must Be.

"Why do the folks call good-for-noth'
ing fellow a bad eggY
81 suppose it is because every egg
has a yellow streak in it."-Baltimore
American.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-30
PAINTINGS APPEAL TO THE DILETrANT.
By Marcel Provost,


Painting / believe, is getting to be the
Z ]
"a most tempting art for the dilettant, more
4 ~ tempting than music There more
1 III painters than there musicians. writer's.
I J than everything else, almost There are In
| " finite numbers of them. The most modest
IA guests. At every exposition modern paint
- ings cover large area Of space. And what
does to these volunteers of art Is the fact that
no bait induces the greater part of these paint
ers to follow this vocation
In justice these dilcanu of the brush 1t must be
said that many of them do not pretend that they will
gain either glory fortune by their paintings Less
presumptuous than poets less ehimerical than must
clans, many of talent who hang up their pictures
in salons from time to time admit that they paint for
the pleasure of painting only.
The pleasure of painting is complex. While giving
occupation for the painters fingers, painting is not
exactly thing to stir the soul of the amateur. The
amateur is not required to undertake number of
positions and to pick out the difficult faithful
reproduction of house at the edge of stream and the
amateur has gained the of artist Painting
within the limits in which the dlettant exercises 1t is
of those arts where invention and originality
been greatly reduced. successful copy of a picture
OF great master with them passes for of art
The most mediocre painting has thousand times more
the chance be read 1t is for these reasons that can
and brush stand in danger of remaining idle
But will art gain by 1t? That is another question
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-30

No man ever fell in love with a
suffragist; when you find a man mar.
ried to a suffragist, he fell in love
with her before she became one.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-30

A Good str@1neR Is Necessary.
Dirt-carrying bacteria once in the
milk has done Its harm. and no num-
Der Of strainers of any kind yet in
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-30

be wrapped in paper and baked in
the oven for thirty minutes and then
kept wrapped up until time to use
again.-Farm and Home.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-30

exists which is entirely with this of
We know that the fruit of slightest goes
laundering down the ages that nothing efaced
that everything is OF infinite and eternal consequence
And II 1t leaves permanent mark on the material
universe 1t will affect also all invisible unverses This
reflection may give zest to present form of
existence. To pierce into the nnermost recesses of
nature, to mold natural forces to WILL to make life
happy and glorious for ourselves kind to as
sert supremacy disease and death to conquer
and rule this universe in virtue of the infinite power
within u.s. such is task here and now
The individual Is withdrawn towards that center of
sentent life where all souls with the great over
soul What this future fate may be we need not now
inquire Should become necessary enter upon
and pursue such inquiry may be sure that a fuIl
acquaintance with the laws of present visible uni
will form the best preparation It, And these
laws shall apply with the greater confidence when
know that they suffice to interpret only our own
universe but the other worlds Just dscernble on the
horizon of present faculties
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-30

After ALL is there any one in the
world more stupid than the man who
comes, in az the wrong time?
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-30
"oLD MAN. PROBLEM FOR YOUNG MAN.
BY John A. Rowland

Young men, middle-aged men and old men
have been interested alike In the problem of
the 'oid man" IN business. That specific COM
plant of the old man is that he is not want
ed. Modern business admits the fact But
young men and men in the prime of their
lives must grow old. What are the young
men and the men Of middle age going to do
about It? 1t Is not likely that In any near
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-30
MANS MIND PART OF UNIVERSAL MIND.
BY e. &. Fournier dAI

We are gradually and inevitably drawn to
the conclusion that mind is everything and
matter but an expression Of the universal
mind. table, house or a machine is the
embodiment of some human mind. A stone
is the embodiment of some mind at present
inaccessible to US, of some will at present
inscrutable.
OF one thing we may be certain-no uni
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-30

the cream, for two reasons, to develop
a desirable flavor and to improve the
keeping quality. Recent investiga-
tons by the United States Department
of Agriculture indicate, however. that
butter made from Pasteurized sweet
cream has better keeping qualities and
remains free from Objectionable flaw
ors for a longer time than butter
made from sour cream. II these facts
are established 1t might seem that in
the years to come only sweet cream
would be bought for butter making.
Commercial Egg Farm.
The production of market eggs Is
probably the safest branch of the poul.
try business. and the amount of CAPT.
tai invested need not be very large.
In the New England States, New York
and New Jersey there are many com.
mercial egg farms, keeping from 500
to several thousand hens. The farm.
ers, too, In this section of the country
keep large flocks for eggs for the East.
ern markets, and all seem to be do
Ing well and making money. What
we need In the South Is more egg
farms. Lands are cheap material for
housing and labor cheap, and, again.
it is not necessary In the South to
build such expensive houses. We have
every advantage in the Southland for
producing eggs at less cost than our
hrnf MI ,taly nd
satisfactory railroad facilities to the
Eastern markets the South should be.
come the greatest poultry producing
section of the entire country.
Other branches of the poultry indus.
try may pay better than egg farming,
bdt hone are attended with so little
worry and risk and are so certain OF
steady returns and fair remunera-
ton for the time and money expended
EARLY Flowing Always Best.
Last summer we got field Of wheat
stubble about half plowed when other
work called us away The remaining
stubble was turned under early this
spring, and the whole field planted to
corn. The corn on last summers plow'
ing Is now several inches taller than
that on the land plowed this spring
and is ranker and better in every
other way.
There is a difference between sum.
mer and fall blowing, the difference be
ing in favor of the summer blowing
Turning green growth into the soil
seems to be very much better thar
turning an equal growth under, but
waiting until 1t has matured and dried
before doing 1t. Here on this farm
we aim to do all the blowing possible
this summer. 1t may be hot work but
the days are long and one does not
need to hurry the teams. Not only Is
it better to get the work done as soon
as possible for any crop to be sowr
this fall, but our experience proves tc
us that the earlier the better II corr
is to be the next crop.-Farmer's Mai
and Breeze.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11

mon the scarecrow the better it scarcs, We'll let
1t go at that.
A woman from Chicago recently visited Mrs.
Holland and commented favorably upon the farm.
except for those rubes i'm the back yard who are
continually staring at a person.
Usually the agriculturist has for every gar
ment. They made over for the children and
the Oldest son, rule, retreats into the father $
dscards, at least while doing the work about the
farm When the clothes have passed the period OF
usefulness, they handed to the silent senti-
mel, where the elements play with them until there
is little to remind the farmer OF his ex-apparel.
That is. the elements play with them ii the
knights OF the side door Pullman don't happen up.
the and divest the scalecrow of its cloth
ing before storm and wind do.
There dozens and dozens OF farm stories
about nvasions of hobocs and their art of cf
fecting steathy clothing trades with the guards OF
the cornfields, in which the friends of the
crows always come OF second best and far more
tattered
In such cases 1t takes the scavengers of the air
some time to make the acquaintance of the re-
vamped sentinel anew and thus the farmer is aided.
despite the fact that he and his dog hate the DO '
But the scarecrow is absolutely and positively
to make his final appearance soon. 1t is said, and
modern methods of saving the crops taking
away one of the most picturesque features of the
American farm, the poets murmur.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11

than he himself had and he was much
pleased. The adage reads: Necessity is the
mother OF invention but in his case That tired
feeling was the mother of the scalecrow''
Every theatergoer remembers the Wizard of o.
since nicknamed the "Gzard Was George Stone.
an old-time athlete of marked ability capered about
as the scarecrow i'm that musical comedy and his
movements were typicalofthe silent BUFFER Stone
is double-joned. and in his part resembled scare
crow so much that the frstpart of the play in which
he stands immovable and limp for a period of rs
minutes it was often thought that he was piece
of scenery. adjusted by the property man..
Stone was the first imitator OF the scarecrow
and that show embodied the only character which
tried TO look like the minion of the cornfield
He was so Timber that his twicea-day stunt was
to fall down staircase on his face. which he
did regularly. without denting the stairs
Cal Holland, former Chicagoan but to-day q
prosperous farmer, located three miles from Ben
ton Harbor Mich, is the one and only, first and
original scarecrow expert His farm is a veritable
scarecrow convention. They stare at you from
the front yard from back of the chicken run, from
the back door of the farmhouse and the fields
are dotted with them.
And Mr. Hollands scarecrows are some scare
crows He has boy scarecrows, men scarecrows.
girl and scarecrowesses. the latter being
equipped with photographic apparatus to make
them realistic. He is now working on dog
scarecrow which when complete, will make the
brindle bull pups of the ercest mien wind their
tails between their legs and trace their steps
thither
or local color in MIR. Hollands scalecrows there
ia no end Imagine one equipped with neatly
froned rocket handkerchief cigar stub in the
place generally supposed to contain its physiogno-
mv a hat SET rakishy ON the left side OF its head.
Mr. Hollands WORKOUT trousers neatly creased.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11
coNGENlAL WORK
And Strength to Perform u.

A person i'm good health is likely
to have Il genial disposition, ambition.
and enjoy work.
ON the other hand. If the digestive
organs have been upset by wrong
food work becomes drlidgery
Until recently writes a Washing
ton girl. 4 was a railroad stenog
rapher, which means full work every
day
Like many other girls alone in "a
large city ! lived at boarding house.
For breakfast ii was mush, greasy
meat. soggy cakes, black coffee. etc.
After Il few months of this diet !
used To feel sleepy and heavy in the
mornings My work seemed Il ter
riblc effort. and thought the work was
to hlamc--toO arduons.
At home / had heard my father
speak of a young fellow who went
long distances in the cold on Grape
Nuts and cream and nothing more for
breakfast
Il conclnded If II would tide him
over mornings heavy work. 1t might
help me, so on my way home one
night l bought d package and next
morning ! had GrapeNnts and milk
for breakfast.
Il stuck to Grape. Nuts, and in less
than two weeks noticed improve
ment. cant just TELL how vel I
:e't, but J remember ! used 10 walk
the ~ blocks to business and knew
how good II was simply - live
As to my work We'll did you ever
feel the delight of having congenial
work and the strength TO perform it,
That's how ! felt. truly believe
there's life and vigor in every grain OF
Grape-Nuts. .
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek. Mich. Read The Road to Well
VILE" in pkgs. There's Reason"
Ever read the above lets~rs \ new
one appears from tlm~ 10 time. They
ssr Eeeuisss tsuss asA fsll q hsnaa
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11
BABY HORRIBLY euRNeD
BY Boiling Grease-skin All Came on
One Side OF Face and Mead
Thought Her Distigured for Life.
Used cuticura: No Scar LETT.


MY baby was sitting beside tho
lender and we We're preparing tho
oreakfast when the frying pan full of
polling grease was upset and ii went all
over one side of her face and head.
Some one wiped the scald with a
.owel, pulling the entire skin OF We
.ook her 10 II doctor. He tended her
4 week and gave me some stuff to put
on. but it all festcred and thought
the baby was disiigured for life. l
nsed about three boxes OF Cuticura
Ointment and it was wonderful how
Il healed In about five weeks 1t was
better and there wasn't mark 10 tell
where the scald had been. Her skin
is just like velvet. Mrs. Hare. I.
Henry St. South Shields. Durham,
England. March ~, 1908"
Potter Drug 3 Chem. Corp. solo Props. Bossoa
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11
Why There Was a Funeral.

THAT looks like n newly made grave
that little hummock over there on
the desert said the traveller from the
east
That's just what it is. neighbor.
answered Arizona AL The editor OF
the Weekly Cactus Spine was buried
over there last week
What was his complaints
He didn't have none. II was Coyote
Cal that had the complaint. You see
there was baby born up TO Cars
house a spell ago, and the editor wrote
an item about 1t. sayin tow headed
little girl he'd come TO make Cal and
his woman happy, but 1t pears that
the printer got the letters mixed some
how I.eastways it said in the paper
when Cal read it that IL was two
headed baby, and him bein an I'm
pulsiye cuss, there want nothin to &c
but hold the funeral the next day but
one"
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11

because of the fact that
his grandson is now
holder of a high office
at Portland, Me, dis
covered that the crows
few away at the sight
OF him and he soon
grew tired of his work.
So he riggedup "A crude
imitationof a twentieth
century scarecrow and
put the invention to
work. Then he spent
his days sioozing I'M
der a tree in the apple
orchard, his employer
believing him still on
duty at the feeding
ground of the crows.
Sincethattime his idea
has been greatly inn
proved. but then it was
the pinnacle Of Yankee
ingenuity.
He tied two sticks
crosswise and simply
rested his tattered coat
over the device. This
scared the crows worse
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11
500 Reward. $loo.

The readers OF this paper VIII hc pleased 10 learn
that there tirea.ru disease tnst
has been able to In ali It's stages and tina, "a
Ixtnrrh. HATS Catarrh CURE IA the only positive
cure NOW Known to tho medical fraternity tsarth
being constitutional disease. requires cun-inu
tiona Treatment Hans tatafrh Cure In tAkcn IN
tcrnaly. acting directly upon the biooi aud mucous
surfaces OF tho system. thereby drstuyinx the
foundation OF the dsea%, and giving thu pstrit
strength by building up the constitution and assist
ns nsiur. In doing It's work. lha prrprirters have
nnrh faith III ts curative powers that they ur'r
One hundred Dollars for any that u tails tn
send Ter lat ~ testimonials
sidress 7 \ chr NEN \ co.. Toledo. O.
Sod by all i,rnsgiSts Sc
1AAc Hans fAntly iilis for constipation.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11

fiat, so that the people went up into
the city, every man straight before
him, and they took the city, destroy
ing all that was in it, except Rahab
the harlot, who had hidden the mes
sengers sent by Joshua TO spy out
the city. and her fathers household
The date OF this destruction is placed
at Il. G. 1851. In spite of Joshuas
curse on any who should rebuild the
city. it was rebuilt in the reign Of
Ahab in b. c. 3ls by Hiel, a native Of
Bethel, and il is recorded in Kings,
1854, how the curse of Joshua was
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11
tits First Visit.

The wide check OF his snit and his
monocle proclaimed his nationality
from affair His first American &C.
quaintance. met on the steamer. had
supplied him with an immense amount
of strange and wonderful information
about the United States
And since you are an Englishman,"
1t was explained, every store will at
once charge you from Ave to ten times
what they would ask an American
Eth WHAT said the Rritisher.
aehast. and hen with look Of great
cunning: "I,nt. my word, l shawn't
tell them. don't you know"
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11
LITTLE LEFT OF JERICHO

city, going round about it once day
for six days, headed by seven priests
bearing seven rams horns before the
ark. On the seventh day they en-
compassed it seven times. Then. on
Joshua's command. the people shout
ed. and the priests blew with 1rum-
nets; and 1t came to pass, when the
people heard the sound Of the trum-
net that the people shouted with
great shout, and the wall fell down
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11
Frocks and Personality.

Tho Englishwoman does not difHuso
enough personality into her clothes
II she is tall and eannt she chooses
severe tailor made costumes and looks
like "a clothes press II she IL small
She ,ilts on her enormous curled colt
furc monster hat and sews gigan-
tic Elizabe,han lrill into the neck VI
her blouse London Bystander.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11

A native OF Annam Indo-C hina. sen
fenced in Paris tor theft, wrote the
following apology TO his employer:
IAN Annamities. whether emperors.
mandarins. secretaries. literary men.
and others, are born thieves. 1t is a
grave and deadly complaint. and
there is no cure for It, know people
do not like thieves in France. bMs II
cannot be helped"
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11
rruth,u, Bessie.

There had been lovers quarrel
and ii was his first visit in two weeks
= guess Ncn know there was dif
ference between your sister and my
self he Ncntured trying TO pump the
little sister
'Nes indrca responded the lat'er
without hesit;elon
We'll er do YOU think Clara Will
make VII when she comes down .
l-ille I'cssic leaned over nearer and
whispered
She oueh, 10. MIR Rilkins She 10
upstairs making M now
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11
Decisive.

The four*year-old son of minister
remarked gravely one day that he had
decided to be fireman and put out
fires.
That's good said his father. But
you know fireman has to be wonder
fully brave.
And the father described wildly the
danger that firemen have to go into
at big fires. The little fellow thought
about it several minutes Finally he
announced change Of decision.
NO. I'm not going to be . fireman.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11
Thanks to the Burglar.

The dark lantern flashed through
the fiat Then came the CLEAN OF .
revolver.
Hands up" Kissed the head of the
family. You're burglar"
yves" gaspcd the intruder, q he
faced the cold steel
What have you stolen?"
Your wifes pug dog"
Him En- ii that's all you may
sneak out quietly"
And your motherin.law's parrot"
you don't say. Well here is some
loose change
"And your daughters photograph. =
Good, Here's some more loose
change"
Also your sons punching bag
What, Great Scot, man. come ont
to the library and IN open special
bottle. Tit Bits
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11
Wh.t,. "vvhite Coffee :"

Being q waiter in q Jewish restau-
'ant where there weren't many folks
who couldn't understand his native
ongue, the man got along all right
antil he struck party Of two who
we're just investigating. By dint OF
pointing to things and taking chances
he pair made meal Of it until they
ame to the coffee.
They didn't want small cups. When
hey pointed out coffee ON the bill OF
Are they indicated with their hands
Afge cups. But here the waiter vas
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11

fulfilled The second city fonrished,
and under Herod the Great became
important. 1t was sacked later Arch
claus, the son of Herod founded a new
town on the plain, which he had plant
ed with palms. Jericho was finally de
stroyed by Vcspasian in A. ID. SIS.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11
oniy Part Of the Walls Of the Biblical
Stronghold Remain.

The walls of Jericho, remains of
which have been excavated by German
lrchaeologists. are, Of course. chiefly
hmous in connection with their
miraculous destruction by Joshua. 1t
recorded in the Book of Joshua,
chapter s, that. by command of the
Lord. Joshuas army comprised the
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11
Action Of the Maonetic Needle.

The magnetic needle comes rest pointing
north and south because the earth If it
great magnet A compass needle would
to rest pointing lengthwise of bar magnet
placed under the compass needle, just IT does
under the influence OF the earth For this reason
think of the earth great magnet. The north
pole and the north star have no influence over the
compass needle
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11

equipped wDeh English, and he was
bound to show it,
"Oh. yes. white coffee he re-
marked.
Which was the descriptive phrase
for coffee with cream.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-03-11
Nautical, Error.

II am sorry TO hear. captain. that
your wife left YOU 50 uncercmoni-
ously'
My mistake. sir l took her for
mate and she proved to be a skipper"
bits