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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05

SCENE IN ONE OF THE FLOODED TOWNS.
bridge went out. Two were reported
dead. West Lafayette. where Purdue
university is situated was cut off
when the levees were broken by the
force Of the waters of the Wabash riv-
er. The river Is two miles wide and
rising rapidly.
At Indianapolis thousands were driv-
en- from their homes, and four deaths
were said to have resulted from drown
ing. The pumping plant was forced to
suspend operations; and the city is
without fire protection.
At Peru property damage Of 100000
was caused by the flood, it was re-
ported. Logansport also was under wa
ter.
Governor Ralston received frantic
appeal from COnnersville. Ind, for aid
for many sufferers there from the
food. 1t was said that the White riv-
er had broken over it's banks and that
there had ensued great loss of life.
The entire business district of Rush
vile and part Of the residence section
Is under water. One person is report
ed drowned. The courthouse practical
~ was the only dry place in the city,
and it was crowded with refugees who
had been driven from their homes.
Cincinnati experienced a cloudburst
which started the Ohio river rising ra-
pidly and flooded many of the streets.
Families in the low lands below Mil
ford, O., were warned in time and fed
to higher ground before the sweep Of
waters reached that place.
A big dam short distance north Of
Akron, o., burst, and horseman were
hurried through the valley in different
directions to warn the people of the
impending danger. Hundreds of farm
ers with their families fed to higher
ground.
The great bridge over the Miami riv-
er at Middletown, o., collapsed. Fiji
teen persons were reported missing at
floating down the river, which was a
raging torrent.
Sweeping up the Ohio valley from
the west. the third storm in ten days
devastated different sections between
Louisville and Cincinnati, in Ken
lucky and in extensive districts in H.
linois. southwestern Ohio and Indiana.
At Louisville the wind maintained a
velocity of sixty miles an hour.
Several persons were reported killed
at Makanda, ILL.,, although the report
could not be confirmed. A freight train
was blown from the tracks of the Illi-
nois Central railroad. and two Of the
crew were injured.
Other cities affected by the food and
storm are:
Lima. O.-Flooded by the Ottawa
river. Ten miles Of trains held up
there by washout at Middle Point.
Springfield, O.-Mad river and Buck
creek both out >of their banks and sew
eral hundred houses flooded. Many
factories compelled to close.
Laruse, O.--Inundated. Many per-
sons homeless and much suffering.
West Liberty. O.-Mad river overrun-
ming its banks.
Fort Wayne. Ind.-St Joseph, Maui
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
Pardon. Soldier Who Didn't kn.sl.

Pardons Soldier Who Didn't kneel.
e Madrid. The government has cam
ceied the punishment inflicted on
Protestant soldier for refusing to kneel
during q mass at Ferrol and will pub
ish q regulation drawn up in such
manner that a repetition OF the Incl.
dent will be Impossible in the future.
The soldier had been condemned to six
months imprisonment.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
GAS BOMBS FOR CRIMINALS.
Paris Police Use Them In Capturing a
Homicidal Lunatic.

Paris.-A weapon for the firing Of
asphyxiating bombs. devised after the
recent siege of the automobile bandits
In their strongholds. was used for the
first time In the capture of a negro
who had become suddenly mad in the
Auteuil quarter. threatening every one
with a loaded revolver.
Detectives chased the man from room
to room in a house where he had taken
refuge. firing gas bombs as they went.
The fugitive was finally cornered on
the roof Of the house In state of
semiasphy xiation. He was quite pow
erless and was transferred to a hos
pital
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
Elk For OREGON Forests.

st. Anthony. Ida.-A carload Of wild
elk from Wyoming passed through.
here for Joseph. Ore The shipment Is
in charge Of deputy warden from
Oregon. The elk are all young. and
the men In charge say they are even
better than the herd received last year
In Oregon. They will be placed In the,
big pasture ID Oregon.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
"singing Mice" For Harvard.

> y. oIH9IHy WIce FOR HARVARD.
Cambridge. Mass. - Singing mice"
are the most recent addition to the col
lection of rodents under the observa-
ton Of Charles Coburn Of the Harvard
Psychological department
The five rodent vocalists. all females,
were found by New Yorker who was
attracted to his tool chest by sounds of
high chattering that .resembled more
the notes of canaries than mice.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
HIGHER PAY FOR
our DIP OMATS
We Ask Too Great a Sacrifice,
Says President.
'TnESERVICE is HAMPERED"
Mr.. Wilson Declares It Is Impossible
For Him to Get tho Men He Wants.
Troubled by Repeated RefusaIs-Ex-
pert Says Salaries Should Be at Least
$4,000 Year.

Observation-Disclosures Wilson is Sc
rtously troubled by the repeated refus-
ais OF prominent Democrats to accept
high diplomatic appointments on ac-
count of financial inability to maintain
the positions, and he has practically
appealed to the country to support him
In request that congress pay ambas-
sadors and ministers enough to enable
poor men to represent this country
abroad. ~ -s N.sv
This appeal was made in statement
concerning the refusal by William Nc
Combs of the ambassadorshin ia
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05

1t is regarded as of pressing impor-
lance that ambassadors to England.
Mexico. Japan and Russia and min
lister to China shall be named within
short time. For none of these posts.
except that Of Mexico. has President
Wilson been able to find a suitable
man who would accept the post.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
TITLE
FOR LEPER'S LIFE.
sir George Turner TO Devote
All His Time to Sufferers.
HOPES TO FIND A REMEDY,


Thinks There Is Great Possibility Of
Discovering Cure For Ito Work
In South Africa and India-Has Lived
In SecIusion at Exeter.
London.-Although Sir George Tur-
ner is afflicted with leprosy as the result
Of his heroic self sacrifice in working
among lepers in South Africa, he has
no Intention OF abandoning his active
work among the sufferers from that
disease. but has decided to devote the
remainder of his life to lepers.
He has just offered his services to
the mission to lepers in India and the
east. but it is felt that there is greater
scope for his work in South Africa,
where he knows all the conditions, and
he will probably return to that field of
labor. He is full Of brave hope that he
may be able to do something more for
his fellow sufferers.
In an interview Sir George said that
bis treatment of lepers thus far had
been on the general principles Of max
Ing lepers more comfortable and re-
tarding the advance Of the disease
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
BUREAU TO DRAFT BILLS.
Ia Toilette Wants Its Chief to Be
Really Fit.

Washington.-A legislative drafting
bureau to draft or revise bills or,
amendments at the request Of any COM
mittee or ten members Of either. house
OF congress is proposed in a bill intro
duced by Senator La Toilette.
Its chief is to be appointed solely on
grounds Of fitness and without refer
ence to political affiliations.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
NATION NEEDS MORE CATTLE.
Demand For Meat Shown by BID
Changes In Export figures.

Demand For Meat Shown by Biu
Changes In Export Figures.
Washington. The decrease in the
meat supply available for expectation
Is illustrated Sharply BY the February
export figures, just compiled by the
statistical division of the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce They
show the number of cattle exported in
the eight months ended with last
month as 1866 head against 27O,2l9
head in the corresponding months of
1907 and the quantity of fresh beef ex-
ported as 4.709,047 pounds against 49,
SO6,649 pounds in the same months.
That this shortage in the expectations
IS due In part at least to an actual re-
auction in the number of cattle in the
United States is evidenced by the fact
that the total number Of cattle on
farms. according to figures of the de-
partment of agriculture. on Jan. 1llast
was only 56.527.OOO against 1884, 900
on Jan. !. 1907. -,
Still another evidence of the demand
In the United States for an increase in
Its cattle supply is found in the figures
OF the department of commerce. which
show an enormous increase in the i'm
portation Of cattle, the number import
ed into the United States in the eight
months ended with last month being
222'OOO head against 1858 head in the
corresponding months of 1907.
The table which follows shows for
the years 1907 and 1913 the number
and value of cattle on farms in the
United States. of those imported, of
those exported and the quantity and
value of fresh beef exported, the fig.
ures relating to the eight months ended
with February Of the years named:
CATTLE.
Number on farms JAM. 1854, 900 56.527,0oo
No. No., imported, mos. 1858 $4,000
Value imported, mos. $2n,s92 s3.67o.0OO
NO. exported, mos... 27O.T9 1855
value exported, 8 mos. $N,62226O sT9 49l
FRESH BEET
rounds exported mos lie, 8O6. GAG 47O9047
value exported ......... SIG, 310.068 $596,228
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05

MANY DEADLY
W|NDSTORMS
South and Middle West Have
Suffered Most Heavily.
ST. LOUIS DEATH TOTAL $50.

Great Storm Of 1896 Recalled by Pres
ent Tornado-Property Loss Of $s,-
000,000-Gutf States Often Swept
Fire Causes Great Damage In Wake
Of Wind-Reeent High Winds.
DEAD AND INJURED IN GREAT
TORNADO.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
IT LOOKS VERY Cd,
But SOUNDS wei
Simp|Ified Spelling Board Issues
Fourth List.

New York.-The simpli1ed spelling
board has issued a fourth list of sim
plified spellings." The recommends
lions are comprised in thirty rules,
some Of which involve changes more
noticeable than any hitherto set forth
Some of the recommendations in the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05

A circular sent out by the board says
OF Its thousands Of supporters:
ALLOWING for the necessity and in
deed desirable proportion of criticism
and dout which always accompanies
new proposals. we may say that this
great body of educated men and wom-
en-, no matter in what degree they use
the simplified spellings themselves. viii
hereafter advise teachers to teach and
children to use these new spellings."
The reader is urged not to be too
much fnfunst by the cd appearance Of
the word. Any: change must look Cd at
first"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08
Which Did He Take7

Dr. Woodrow Wilson. pres d0nt OF
Princeton university, was sauatering
Town a shady lane one day n the
early summer when he met a tall,
handsome youth who had just been
u aduated He was poor but very in
te,ligent In all his co lrses he had
taken honors, including . hletics
We'll, Smith" said Or. Wilson,
through at last, eh?'
Yes, sir, said the young man, smil-
ing and blushing.
"And now what are you going to
do?"
4 hardly know, sir. 1 have had two
offers"
Two? Wonderful"
Yes, sir One from scientific so
ciety, offering me a secretaryship at
So a week and the other is from
baseball magnate offering me five
years contract to pitch at $4,000 a
season"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08
Great Writer Not Musical.

Macaulay was entirely insensible to
the charms of music. He wrote from
Windsor castle on January IA, 1851:
"At table | was between the duchess
of Norfolk and foreign woman who
could hardly speak English intellig-
IDLY. | got on as we'll as / could.
The band covered the talk with sue
cession of sonorous tunes. The
Campbells Are Coming was one"
And Macaulay's biographer, Sir
George Otto Trevelyan, supplies the
following instructive footnote: "This
is the only authentic instance on rec
ord of Macaulay's having known one
tune from another"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08
BY j. E. BUCK.

We have come to the dividing of the
ways-we have reached a critical
point in the history of our agricul-
tural development. Aside from the
35,000,000 acres in the United States
that can be reclaimed by irrigation,
and the 74,000,000 acres of farm lands
that can be made available for Guilt
walton by means of drainage, no very
large areas of virgin soil remain to
be brought under cultivation i'll our
country. In time, of course, these
barren lands will be made to yield
abundant harvests-but for the pres
ent we must look elsewhere to find a
solution of the problem with which we
are confronted. If we are to keep
on going forward it will be necessary
for us to secure larger yields from the
fields that are already under cultiva-
ton. That is to say, our problem is
not so much how to increase the popu-
lation in rural communities as it is
to increase the producing capacity of
the people already on the farm.
Average Yields.
The average yield of corn per acre
in the United States is only about 27
bushels
Our average yield of wheat is only
1877 bushels per acre-and the aver
age yield of nearly everything we
grow on the farm is exceedingly low,
compared with the yields in other
countries.
1t is high time we were waking up
and doing something.
Better Farm Management Needed.
One hundred years ago the Mohawk
valley in New York was the wonder of
Europe, was the wonder of the world
for it's fertility, and thousands of car
loads of cattle, hogs and farm crops
were shipped out of that valley until
it's fertility has been exhausted. The
settlers then moved westward into the
Miami and Scioto valleys of Ohio, and
did the same thing over again. Fol-
lowing the exhaustion of these rich
valleys, the magnificent broad prairies
of Illinois and Iowa were brought I'M
der cultivation, and the same process
is now being repeated Even in the
Red River Valley of the North, where
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08

upon those who are strangers to it,
and no one is more truly working for
the benefit Of agriculture, the basis of
all prosperity, than he who proclaims
its excellence as the foremost forage"
Ex-Governor Hoard.
Grow Alfalfa.
An acre of alfalfa yields $3.50
pounds of digestible matter; red clio
yer, 5000 pounds; and corn, $500
pounds.
In every dollars worth of alfalfa
there are thirteen pounds of protein
in every dollars worth of corn there
are only eight pounds of protein. The
great value of alfalfa as feed stuff is
therefore apparent.
Alfalfa enriches the soiI-grain i'm
poverishes the soil.
There remains little more to be said
Every farmer who reads this should
begin Immediately to make prepare
tons for putting in piece of alfalfa.
even though 1t be only one acre. If
you can grow an acre next year you
can grow ten acres the following year
and then twenty, forty, and even
one hundred if your farm is big
enough to make SO large a field prac-
ticable.
Ten acres Of alfalfa on every farm
in the United States would give US in
round numbers 64,000,00O acres Of al
falfa. Before the next decade has gone
into history we would be growing
100,000,000 acres of alfalfa in the Unit
ed States. If we do this we will be
infinitely better off than we are today
our fields will be vastly more fertile
and our crop yields win be bigger and
better-our herds will be larger and
the quality of butter fat viii be great
II fncreased-we win have happier
homes-and we viii be better citizens.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08

On motion the county board of
supervisors of Villas County, Wiscon-
sin adjourned to the call of the coun-
ty clerk. motion carried, all members
voting aye.
Dated this 18th, day of Sept A. d..
1918.
W. A. BRADFORD,
County clerk.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08
Food Supply and Population.

l6Su DuSuOlS Is SIOWu.
Food Supply and Population.
To make it possible for the people
of the United States to raise, clothe
and feed future generations, we must
change our system of agriculture. We
cannot depend upon Uncle Sam for
any more land, and the only method
by which we can keep the United
States on the map is to make two
blades of grass grow where only one
grew before
During the last decade the popula-
ton of the United States increased rs
per cent. During the same period the
production of beef in the United
States fell off % per cent.
A few years ago it cost the labor
ing man $52.05 for his yearly supply of
meat-today the same number Of
pounds of meat cost $85.05, an in
crease of $500.
In view of this what shall we do?
A careful analysis shows that we
need more fertile fields, or rather
fields with greater fertility.
We need larger and better herds.
We need better roads.
We need larger bank accounts.
We need better homes.
We need better citizenship.
How can all this be done?
Perhaps no one thing will do more
to secure these things than growing
alfalfa.
If that is true, why haven't we been
growing alfalfa?
Because we thought it was impos-
,sible.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08
We Can Grow Alfalfa.

Many farmers in the corn belt do
not believe that they can grow alfalfa
They are under the impression that it
requires peculiar climatic conditions.
and peculiar type of soil, such as is
found in the western states. parricu-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08

IdTIy Kansas, Nebraska, COIoIduO'
California and Utah-the great alfalfa
states. We have reached the point
where we know we can grow alfalfa
in the corn belt, and it is now up to
us to grow it.
Where Alfalfa Is Grown.
The accompanying map shows where
alfalfa is grown in the United States
today At the present time all the
alfalfa grown in the United States is
less than the area of the little state
of New Jersey. The total area under
alfalfa in this country is 4,707, 1S6
acres OF this area Kansas alone has
956,962 acres of alfalfa-or about one
fifth of our entire alfalfa crop.
Nebraska comes second with $685.
282 acres; Colorado third, with 508,892
acres; California fourth, with 484,134
acres; and Idaho fifth, with 308,S92
acres.
All of the corn belt states are lam
entably shy in the growing of alfalfa,
as is shown by the following rank in
which they come as producers of the
crop:
Missouri, IT; Ohio, 10; Iowa, 20; Illi-
nois %; Wisconsin, %; Indiana, "a;
Michigan, 20; Minnesota, 35.
With the unquestioned advantages
of alfalfa, we should be growing more
of this great legume crop.
Advantages Of Alfalfa.
AS to the advantage of growing al
falfa in the corn belt, Prof. P. G..
Holden says:
cit produces large yield per acre,
more than double that of clover.
ct is rich in protein, having almost
as high a feeding value as bran.
"It is the most enriching crop for
the ground which we have.
when a good stand is once secured
it will generally last four to six years
in the humid regions and much longer
in the west.
"It can be fed as hay to all kinds Of
animals, and has no superior as a hog
pasture"
Builds Up Agriculture.
mo one more literally abets the
growth of two blades of grass where
one grew before than he who effect
lively urges the cultivation of alfalfa
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08

General Claims
EAGLE River, Wis. Sept. I, 1918

Eagle Wis, 1, 1913.
Villas Wisconsin,
referred sundry
have examined claims NO
allowed daoVe as set
that
clerk issue county orders Tor all sums
days from date
d. 1913 Cha d. hamke supervisor
n. NJ Emmons supervisor > Il. hunter
Peter
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08

Eleven pounds Of alfalfa is worth as
much In feeding value as ten pounds
Of bran, and 1t costs but half as much.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08

The following bills for mileage and
per diem were presented, and the
chairman of this board and the coun-
ty clerk were authorized and directed
to issue county orders for the same.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08
A Toss-Up.

IoSS|Ups
The Grill don't know whether to
run for the fence or the tree.
The Cow-Moo-oo-oo!
The Girl-Oh. l guess it's tcss-up.
up.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08
rak.r- ne Ml-1le c.uese

II, S5fs-t way q not beng yer.
misc sle IS NJ = expect To be yer.
aa.ry SlLopt auar.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08
alfalfa ON EVERY FARM IN The
CORN BELT OF GREAT IMPORTANCE
| H C Agricultural Extension Department Makes
Preliminary Announcement.

81 NOTHING WHICH WILL MORE FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE ADD MORE TO ITS WEALTH
THAN A THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF
ALFALFA-GROUT
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08

committee accepted
chairman this board and the county clerk auth
allowed the
piraton of five days from date
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08

not unusual, today not more than if-
teen bushels is grown.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08

larly Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado,
California and Utah-the great alfalfa
states. We have reached the point
where we know we can grow alfalfa
in the corn belt, and it is now up to
us to grow it.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08

Progress.
oh yes. he's pretty deep III poll
tics no,y"
Wei, that's not surprising, that
has been his bent for years.
Bent? Huh, Hes positively
crooked now Philadelphia Press,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-09

draped gown of brown lace over
brown satin. the sleeves and corsage
formed of the lace, and the draperies
of the corsage caught with one large
American Beauty rose Her becom-
ing hat OF cream coIored lace was
edged with fur. Miss Rawson resem-
bled a Vatican painting in a gown of
hunters green brocade, the corsage
formed of gold threaded lace with a
finish OF fur. Her black velvet hat
was tied beneath the chin with black
velvet ribbons and was adorned with
one rose Colored plume. Mrs. Moody
wore black satin and shadow lace.
A number OF beautiful costumes
were worn by the guests who includ-
ed the debutantes of the season, the
brides-elect and a few young matrons.
Misses Helen Dargan, Annie Lee Nc
Kenzie, Laura Ansley, Lucy Hoke
Smith Harriet Calhoun, Passie May
Ottley, Jennie d. Harris and Mrs.
Forrest Adair, Jr., assisted in enter
tanning.
M ISIS RUTH WING has returned
III home after an absence Of
several months in Pennsvlva .
MIA with her sister, Mrs, George Bba1
Russ,