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The Washington herald., 1912-06-18
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By GEORGE FITCH,
Author of "At Good Old sIwaGh."

Iowa Is a large and happy cornheld,
speckled with Carnegie libraries and
half-ton hogs, which are exchanged by
their owners when ripe. for automobiles
and plano players. The field is bounded
on the east and west by Mississippi and
Missouri Rivers, but barbed wire is used
on the north and south. The State has
?. 10000 people. almost all OF whom scan
the editorial pages and market reports
in the daily papers with the deepest in
terest.
Iowa has no romance in its story. Its
history could not be dramatized. even
in a hiEh-brow theater with any sue
cess About seventy years ago people
began going into Iowa from Illinois to
raise crops, and they have been doing
il ever since. Iowa leads the world in
farm products. Its corn cribs have elias
tic sides. and the Iowa pig. after he has
fed on Iowa corn for a few months. has
TO be moved 20 and from meals on
truck The tourist who crosses Iowa
during midsummer complains Of the
dense forests and the early twilight but
he Is only going through 800 miles Of
Iowa crops which are getting their full
growth. After an Iowa farmer has sat
out on his porch on hot July evenings
ana mas nedEu MS tOEh BlON ApA N"S44ts
Ave years. Il is hard 10 interest him In
such pifiish music as grand opera pro-
duce4-
Next to its crops, Iowa is the most
famous for its politics. The high ten
sion, four-syIlabled brand Of politics is
used throughout the State. and while
more than a dozen compaigns. heated
to 400 degrees Fahrenheit, have been
pulled OF in the last ten years. they
have all been decided without the use
Of brass knuckles or bribery tnvestga-
tons There is twice as much politics
per cubic yard Of conversation in Iowa
as there is in any other State. and the
standpatters and damspatters. as the in
snrEents are called. carrN their argu-
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Freak Placer for Nesta.

Many birds that are shy and retiring
in other respects show very little fear OF
the creaking and groaning Of heavy ma
chinery, or the thunderous roar Of heavy
trains, A bird lover recalls reading some
years ago Of a pair OF courageous little
sparrows that started a nest at one end
OF large turntable In a roundhouse.
This turntable was the same at both
ends. and the birds built two nests-one
on each end. working one day on one
end and the next day on the other, as
the turntable was reversed. Here, IN the
midst Of DIN and confusion, they finally
selected one Of the nests and raised q
happy brook Of young ones
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ments into weddings, prayer meetings,
and funerals. But they associate freely
together without hiding their watches
and talk issues instead OF appointments.
In consequence. Iowa produces several
statesmen per thousand politicians, and
her Senators are remembered for their
mental and not their financial promi-
nence.
Iowa Is singularly blessed in its lacks.
II has no trusts, no great metropolis, no
smart set. no slums, no country estates,
and no abandoned farms. 1t also has no
vast increase OF population to assimilate
and educate: in fact II showed a de-
crease OF population by the last census,
and it talks Of giving medals to its vigi-
liant police force because Of this fact
Iowa people wear last years fashions
quite extensively. but read this year 5
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Bride Fined for coquetry.-

Geneva correspondence London Standard.
4 young woman Of Zurich has been
fined 81 As. and costs for ''couuetry. :
She was about to be married and duly
presented her birth certificate at the
town hall, where II was found that the
figures of the year Of her birth, 1888,
had been changed to 1856 by the bride,
who thus became three years younger.
As Il is a serious matter in Svitzer-
land TO tampor with official papers, the
police were informed and the young wo-
man, who belongs TO a good family, had
to appear before the magistrate. She
explained that she felt at least three
years younger than her age CD and,
therefore, changed the figures. In pro-
ingly remarked: 'Ah, mademoiselIe. YOU
must not be so much OF a couuette"
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Fisherman,a Luck.

From JudgeE LbFary.
In the Catsxin foothills. a New York
travelling man who was making a trim
overland passed an old man who was
fishing with hook and line in a small
stream As the drummer drove by in a
buggy, the old man never took his eyes
on the bobber in the water
When the travelling man returned
late in the afternoon. he was greatly
surprised 10 see the old man stin In
the same position, with his eyes glued
on the bobber.
'Hello. uncie." he shouted. 'Any luck
today
Without taking hIs gaze on the cork
which rested on the surface Of the
placid stream. the old man replied:
Had a nibbls long about aoon.s
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Sixteen years have passed since raw.
half-baked, ambitious dictatorial. and
swelled with his own self-importance,
Bryan flashed across the country, long
haired and clad in an alpaca coat
white vest, and linen trousers, the typi-
cal Westerner. Twice again has he run,
sobering down more and more. Now, at
the age Of ffty-one, he has, in a meas
ure. been educated as TO government
and the needs Of the country. Look out
RaltlmoreI
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wateFmeIon Culture.

". F. Massey, in 'he Progressive Farmer.
To grow Natsrmelons, plow the land
well and run out burrows ten feet apart
FIJI them half full Of stable manure
and just before planting add half a
ton Of high-grade commercial fertilizer
an acre, and bed on this. Flatten the
bed somewhat and drill the seed lib.
orally all along the bed. When a good
stand Is certain, thin out 10 Ave feet
apart, and as the vines start to run
scatter tablespoonful Of nitrate OF
soda around each hill. Cultivate well
till the vines are in the way, and as
the melons set, sow crimson clover seed
all over the plot. Cantaloupes are
grown in the same way except the rows
are six feet apart and thfnned TO
twenty inches. Use mostly sandy soil
for watermelons.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-18
Washington Woman Seeks omce.

wala wlna ocrrespondence ST. Paul Dispatch.
The first woman in the State OF Wash
inEton TO aspire TO a State once, Mrs.
Josephine Corless Preston. OF this city,
native of Minnesota, is making a
strong campaign for the Republican
nomination for superintendent OF public
instruction.
Women have voted in Washington less
than a year, but friends Of Mrs. Pres
ton, believing she has the qualifications
Of an excellent State ofiicial, have per
suaded her to enter the race, and she
has been causing the old line politicians
endless worry.
Mrs Preston is not a suhragette. She
is quiet, unassuming and capable. For
four years she has been superintendent
OF the schools OF Walla walla County
and for two years before that was as
sistant in that once. She has been a
teacher in the schools here for some
years. an active worker in educational
circles, and a recognized authority in
the work.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-18
Flies MIKE Merry IN Washington

From the Worlds Work-
In the climate Of Washington twelve
generations Of flies are produced in a
single summer. AS one hy will lay 100
eggs, the result, II all these should hatch
and reproduce their kind in like ratio,
would be appalling. The progression
carried out by raising 10 to the tyeIrr
power gives a tutu. possible progeny
from single fly of l,OS6 ISL. "a, 80. no CO., =
sOo.Oo0CoO. And as each female fly usually
Laws four patches of eggs, their un-
checked development through twelve
generations would make q mass OF flies
that would measure ess.T7S.1s5 .ssl cubic
miles, or considerably more than the
total mass Of the earth.
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II things had gone as straight in Chi
cago as the Roosevelt camp has tried to
make US believe, would the colonel have
taken the unprecedented step Of going
there to put the weight Of his own per-
sonality in the balance?
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What a hue and cry there would have
gone up from the Roosevelt camp If
men and not boys had been the ones to
throw that rock upon the train in which
Mr. Roosevelt travelled to Chicago.
Heney would nave said it was an at
tempt TO steal not only the nomination,
but the nominee, too.
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Perhaps the Baltimore Convention will
enltghten a waiting world at least as to
the reasons why the Democratic House
has abolished the tariff board.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-18
A Kansas Prairie Fire Day.

From the Hutchinson News
Tomorrow will be Prairie Fire Day
in Seward County" remarked Fred Pen
nington. who was here from Liberal last
evening. The farmers In the southern
section OF that county have all agreed to
put in tomorrow burning on the prairie.
This via be done for the purpose OF
killing the grasshopperS II Is expected
that there win be many square miles Of
land burned oR tomorrow by eoneefted
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Some one in Pennsylvania has patented
the Roosevelt party" but it is dificult
to see how that patent can hold, in view
Of the prior claim of one William Finn.
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Here is equal rights with a ven
geance. A woman at Binghamton has
been sent TO prison for beating her hus-
band.
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Poor Ormsby McHarg! To be licked
with the very stick he provided to thrash
the other fellow"
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books and originate next years political
improvements The Iowa man can be
readily distinguished by his placid brow,
his 9-oclock bed time, and his careless
habit Of paying cash for everything he
buys
Copyright. 49,. By George Matthew AdErlAj
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A Great Discovery,

'T tell you We live in an age Of progress"
How now?"
Now some sharp has discovered that
you kin shake fieas OF a dog with a vac
uum cleaner"
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Not NerY Deem.

Didn't you tell me you bought lot at
Mosquito Beach?"
7 did"
How deep is it?'
About three feet at high water
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That baby evidently has drawn DR..
Wiley more and more into the limelght
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WouId BE Terrible.

"UUIU DC ICFTIUIUs
The doctors are going to operate on
her"
What's wrong?"
Something about the coat Of her stom-
ach, I understand"
II hope they don't find II out Of style
She'd never get over that"
The Washington herald., 1912-06-18

The German naval visitors pronounced
American women the most beautiful,
which certainly shows their good taste
The Washington herald., 1912-06-18

Mr.. Rockefeller's pastor at Cleveland
has published ten "don'tsv for wives
The man is wrong. What our wives
want is not "don'ts'' but their dues"
The Washington herald., 1912-06-18

An Historical Character.
He was greatly disappointed in Paris"
''why?"
Seems his chief object in going there
was to make a pilgrimage 10 the home OF
Monte Carlo, and nobody could point out
the house"
The Washington herald., 1912-06-18
June Is I'm History.

JWHV 10 IN HHHNVIg'
June IS. 1sl5-oom Napoleon Bonaparte
is defeated at Waterloo.
June IS. 1762-Lord Sandwich originates
the sandwich. which has since borne his
name.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-18
ALIITLE NONSENSE

APPLES AND DISCOVERIES.
Adam had an apple,
Years ago it's been.
Made a great discovery,
He discovered sin.
Newton had an apple,
Newton wasn't slow.
Made a great discovery,
Gravity, you know.
Our kid had an apple,
Got II by mistake.
What was his discovery?
Merely stomach-ache.
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Conee Grounds.
VillaEe BlnckamIth

Now they're after the coffee trust"
Ought to have plenty Of grounds"
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Uncle Pennywise saysi
An Historical Character.

Never play man for fool on Assrray
evidence.
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The village smithy hides away
Beneath the chestnut bow.
With altered biz the blacksmith 10
A motor expert now.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-12
LAUNCH CATCHES FIRE.
Six People Have Narrow Escape in
Boat Last Evening.

About $3.50 last evening while six
persons were enjoying a launch ride
in the craft owned by Elias Weinberg,
OF Tamaracll City. the occupants OF
the boat were greatly excited by the
craft suddenly catching fire. The acci-
dent happened i'm the "cut" and had
i not been for the timely arrival OF
Charles Mog and George Gillette the
results might have been serious Four
men and two women were in the boat
at the time. Just how the boat ignited
could not be ascertained by the occu-
pants. The men were greatly excited
and one jumped into the water while
the other warned The women to occupy
the rear of the boat. The arrival of
Mog and Gillette probably saved tke
life of the man who jumped into the
water The craft was towcd home by
Alex Barbeau. 1t is not thought there
was much damage done to the launch.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-12
DANGER IN DELAY
Kidney Diseases Are Too Dangerous
for Calumet People to
Neglect.

The great danger of kidney troubles
Is that they get firm hold before the
sufferer recognizes them. Health Is
gradually undermined. Backache. head
ache. nervousness, lameness. soreness,
lumbago, urinary troubles, dropsy,
gravel and Bright's disease, follow In
merciless succession. Don't neglect
your kidneys. Help the kidneys with
the reliable and safe remedy, Doan's
Kidney Pills, which has cured people
right here In this locality.
Mrs. ]. Kertisz, 3OS Franklin ST.,
Hancock. Mich, says: Il have used
Doan's Kidney Pills, for distressing
backaches and pains across my kid
neys and they have given me splendid
relief l suffered for several months
from dull pains across my kidneys and
could not get anything that would help
ne until / used Doan's Kidney Pills
l willingly recommend them"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster -Milburn.--Co. Bunalo
New York. sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-a
take no other.
i-s-t
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SUCCESS WITH THE TURKEYS
Hen VIII Take Better Care Of PouIts
Than Any Human can-Whlte
Holland for Market.

Choose the largest hens from your
own flock keeping some OF the old
quiet ones and one or two young hens.
Get young tom from some neighbor
that has a healthy flock. Never keep
two toms on the same farm. The
worst enemies turkeys have are crows.
rats, coyotes and the cholera.
Barrels or boxes filed one-third with
straw. laid in the orchard and partly
covered with brush make the best
nests. Gather the eggs every evening
until hen wants to set. Then give
her 16 10 IS eggs In her own nest and
set all the other eggs under chickens
at the same time. When hatched give
all the turks to the turkey hen.
When the next hen wants to set
give. her some eggs II there is a full
setting. otherwise Break her up by up-
setting the box or barrel containing
her nest. If not allowed to set tur.
key hen will lay three settings of eggs.
Do not set any as late as July as the
turks will only be bother in cold
weather. When Matched the hen may
taken them to the alfalfa or wheat
field and not come back to her nest.
II SO, let her go. She will take better
The Calumet news., 1912-08-12
TO DESTROY INJURIOUS LICE
Ten Drops Of PennyroyaI Added to
Tablespoonful of olive Oil VIII
Prove Effective.

Grease is recommended for lice, but
chicks abhor 1t, and II should not be
used unless 1t is absolutely necessary.
Never use coal oil on young chicks,
for II is irritating and likely to scald
the flesh.
If the large lice are found on the
chicks, sweet oil will answer the pur-
pose just as well, and the chicks will
not mind Il as mach. Ten drops OF
pennyroyal may be added to large
tablespoonful Of olive oil. With the
finger rub one or two drops we'll un.
der the wings and down the head
and neck OF the chicks. The small
lice may be got rid of easily. but the
large gray ones stick very close and
are hard to get off.
The large lice will kill the young
chicks, and the owner never knows
what the trouble is. They are hard to
discern, and will suck blood from
the little fellows until their vitality
Is exhausted, when they die. Watch
the young chickens very closely, and
do not allow them to be pestered
with the large lice, nor the small
ones, either. for they also will do a
great deal of harm in many ways.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-12
AUGUST t7-26 DATES FOR
PEQUAMIMG CAMP MEETING
COPPER COUNTRY M. e. PASTORS
TO HAVE CHARGE OF AN
NUAL SERVICES.

The annual Ojibway Indian camI
meeting will be held At the grounds
near Pecuaming this year from Aug
ust II to %. says the LAnse Sem
tinel A number Of celebrated preach
ers have signihed their intention To bc
present and will give daily lectures
To which all are invited.
District Superintendent James Pas
coe. of Hancock. will attend the camp
meeting for the last time as super
intendent and will be assisted
lay the Reverends c. NJ Merrill, Ernest
Brown. Frank Pequctto W. T.. Mar
vin. II. {. shaw. Alfrod Healey, q. L.
Davey and others.
The services viii be held each day as
follows:-
S:00-Morning Prayers.
1O:3O-Sermon in OJbway.
2.3O-Sermon.
7:O0--Song Service.
S:00--Sermon.
The officers in charge will make
special arrangements 10 take care ot
al visitors present. The officers are
as follows.- President George Rice
Marshal, Thomas Marksman Jr., III
nance Committee Millard Hendricks,
Treasurer jonathan Blaker
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during his vacation. Mr.. Hartman rs
now campiis at White city for day
or two. He has a large number of
friends in the Torch Lake towns VIII
will be pleased To meet Kim.
Miss Kate Seaman. "A student ~ the
university of Ann Arbor for nurses, has
arrived home for vacation with rela-
tives at Hubbell.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. y. Gillett nave re-
turned from Lac La Belle where they
spent couple Gf days. They were ac-
companied by Frank Gillet Of Calumet.
The funeral of Rose Marie, the
eighteen months old daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Kaufman of Hub
bell was held yesterday afternoon from
ST. Cecilia's church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Selden b. Crary have
arrived home from Marquette where
they visited relatives. Mrs. Crary ana
three children spent six weeks in the
Queen City and Mr.. Crazy visited there
two weeks.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-12
SUICIDE AT ONTONAGON.
Swedish Lumberjack Takes Own Life
Reason Not Known.

The Ontonagon authorities are at "a
loss TO account for the strange suicide
of William Iverson. aged %, a Swedish
mmberjacl< employed at the Diamond
camps near that city, on Friday. The
man fired two shots, one passing
through the heart and causing almost
instant death. The tragedy was en-
acted in Heard's saloon IN Ontona-
gon.
Iverson arrived in Ontonagon early
Friday morning and cashed his time
check for S9.45 at Krohn's and enquirej
for a hardware store At HecoX's ne
bought a 32 calibre revolver and box
Of cartridges and went direct to
Ileard's saloon opposite the post office.
After lounging around the saloon a
few minutes he walked out Of the back
door fired two shots, shooting himself
through the heart.
At the corouer's inquest held inn
mediately after the shooting, the jury
brought in a verdict of suicide.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-12
HoueHToN sREvITIEs


J. Il. Edwards has returned from
"a prolongcd visit To Salt Lake City
and other western mining centers.
Miss Alice Mckernan assistant post
mistress at Houghton. is spending her
vacation at Duluth. Minneapolis and s..
Paul.
A new weather observer arrived this
morning at the home of Observer aud
Mrs. n. h. Cowdrick. The little fellow
arrived almost simultaneously VITA
the return of fine weather and OBJ
server Cowdrick therefore regards his
coming as most auspicious.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Levine left yes
terday for st. Louis accompanying the
remains of the late Mrs. Belle Paradise.
who died on Friday last and whose
funeral will be held Tuesday at ST.
Louis.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-12
Chicken Brooder.

heater, curved in cross section, which
permits the chicks to get their backs
UP against the cloth-covered heater, so
that their bodies may be warmed in
the natural way. Another object is to
provide means for warming the heater.
which will use to the best advantage
the heat supplied by the lamp. As
warm air from terminals passes
through the openings shown in the top
ofAhe brooder in the perspective view,
IL will tend to draw with II air from
the housing chamber, which will In.
sure circulation of air.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-12
DREDGING is COMPLETED.
$1,000 Cubic Yards of Dirt Removed
at Ontonaaon Harbor.

The work of dredging ontonagou
harbor has been completed. the con
tractors having removed approximate
~ $1,000 cubic yards of dire WORK
has been i'm progress about ten weeks,
but the amount of dirt removed was
not quite as great as was first ex-
pected, the government having out the
original contract from $4,000 yards
10 $1,000 Yards. This change in the
contract was made when the west side
mill was burned.
II is expected the dredge which sank
Ontonagon Harbor early i'm the spring
will he raised this week. Divers faS.
tened cables to the sunkcn dredge last
week and everything is now in read
mess TO lift il and tow il to the har-
bor. After the dredge is raised, 1t will
be taken to Port Wayne. Wis. accom-
panyiug the dredge which has just
completed the work in the harbOr.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-12
FEEDER OPERATED BY HENS
California Man Invents ContrIvance
Worked Automatically by Chick.
ens--Good Exerciser.

People who regard chickens as not
having enough sense to get in out Of
the wet Will have to revise their opin.
Ions. A California man who knows
something about fowls has designed a
feeder which is operated automatically
by the chickens themselves, and IL a
hen is too dumb che is apt to starve
TO death. A hopper containing feed is
placed on trestle. The valve from
which the feed is discharged is nor
mally kept closed by the weight en-
one side of the swinging fulcrum. To
open the valve, weight must be ap-
piled to the other side OF the fulcrum
and this Is done by the chicken lump.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-12
White Holland Turkeys.

care n them than any human can. In
feeding give the hen corn to fill up on
so she will not rob the turks of their
food Give the turks hard boiled eggs
chopped fine once a day in the after
noon.
Nothing equals turkeys as grasshop-
per and army worm destroyers. A
flock will eat many bushels Of insects
In season.
The Mammoth Bronze is the Ply
mouth Rock of the turkey world. the
Bourbon Reds though smaller are fav-
orites because of their domesticity and
the White Holland turkey is especial
ly priced as a market fowl for its pink
white skin. Young hens usually weigh
ten pounds, old 1obblers twenty-six
pounds.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-12
TORCH LAKE
HUBBElL NINE BLANKED
ITAMARACKS YESTERDAY
TORCH LAKE PLAYERS WIN IN
TERESTlNG GAME FROM
THE VISITORS.

The Hubbell baseball team showed
superior work on the diamond yester-
day against the TamaracR Mine n,he.
The contest was witnessed by a large
number of fans. For the visiting play
ers Percy Mcssncr was i'm the pit her 5
box while oliver caught FOR him. Mol
then occupied the box for Hubbel!,
l5aril catching. The locals did not So
cure a hit off Messncr until the third
innings when three bingles nctted two
runs. In the fourth two more hits
brought in another score and this end
ed the scoring The score by innings
follow: r Ii Il
Hubbtll .......092 10000 }
Mossner struck out >, Molthcn 13;
two base hit. Baril Hubbell. Messner
walked 1 and Molthen l.. Umpire,
George Werner
Molthen pitched great ball in the
firth and sixth innings as he struck out
five men IN succession, two in the fiftn
and three straight in the sixth. He also
was accorded good support.
Colts are Victorious.
The Tamarack Colts and the Lead.
ers game went To the Colts by II 20
I score. The Leaders scored Jwo more
runs In the sixth and one IN the ninth,
making their total seven. Errors were
responsible for their victory as the
visitors made two runs H. the sixth,
both ON errors after two men were out.
Three more runs in the next inninG. all
on wild pegs gave the Colts q good
lead which their opponents were uu
able to overcome. Dupras did good
work in the box for TIE Colts while
John Lenz caught behind the bal. For
the Leaders Bert Dougherty did the
mound work and Lemier caught for
him. The Colts led in hitting.