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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
WEEDS USEFUL IN
MAKING A COMPOST
Pile Them in Garden Between
Layers of SoiI-Add Poultry
Manure and S0apSudS.

The best way to care for the weeds,
crabgrass and purslane is to pile them
in some out of the way spot in the gar
den between layers of soil. The poul-
try manure may be spread over the
weeds. Make a square, compact heap.
Tramp the weeds down. Spread on
the hen droppings and then four-inch
layer of earth. The soapsuds from the
family wash and the dish water are
valuable, as they contain considerable
potash and soda. The weeds should be
composted when green The wood and
coal ashes and the sweepings from the
walks may be added to the heap. The
refuse from an acre garden, If proper
ly composted, will make several loads
Of rich compost to spread over the
vegetables and to spread around the
fruit trees and bushes. If the weeds
are allowed to remain in the rows after
being cut up with the hoe, many Of
them will root and start to grow after
the first warm rain. Plantains, crab
grass and purslane are hard to kill; I'M
less dug up by the roots and compost
ed or fed to the pigs, they will ripen
seed. These seeds have an oily skin,
are not injured by wet weather nor by
freezing and thawing during the win
ter. Crabgrass and pigeon weeds are
two pests in the onion and strawberry
beds, and purslane among the celery
plants and in the kale and spinach
beds. If the weeds get fair start
and there comes week or so of hot
moist weather, they will make an as
tonishing growth and soon completely
cover the small plants. BY thorough
culture and careful wedding and the use
of well-rotted manure, the larger por-
ton of these weeds may be held in
check and no ground should be left to
grow up in weeds. AS soon as one
crop is gathered, pillow up the ground
and plant second crop or sow in mil
let or Amler sugar cane.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18

for the worst side of others, are but
giving the world picture of them
selves
A charming woman who was re-
Gently asked how she managed to get
along SO well with disagreeable peo-
pie said: st is very simple All do
IS to try to make the most of their
good qualities and pay no attention
to the disagreeable ones" The people
who help us most are those who, like
this woman, ignore, or, rather, try to
eradicate our faults, by drawing out
and emphasizing our better qualities
and attuning our minds to high
ideals.
We are all of us constantly, but
unconsciously, holding others by our
thoughts about them. The qualities
you see in your friend and those with
whom you come in contact you tend
to enlarge. If you see only the little,
mean, contemplate side of people
you cannot help them out of their
faults, for you only intensity and fix
them; but if you see the good, the
noble, the aspiring traits in them.
you will help to develop these quail
ties until they crowd out the base,
unworthy ones.
An opportunity to associate with
people who see the best instead of the
worst in us is worth far, far more
to us than an opportunity to make
IN hy1nd-odfnld
our power to develop noble charac-
tiers.
Whenever you hear person trying
to belittle another, discard him from
your list of friends, unless you can
help him to remedy his fault. Do not
f1atter. yourself that those who tell
you of the failings of other people
and criticize them and hold them up
to ridicule, will not treat you in the
same way when an opportunity pre-
sents itself. Such people are incapa-
BILE of true friendship, for true friend
ship helps, instead of hinders; it new
er exposes the weak point in friends
character, or suffers anyone to speak
i'll Of him.
The disposition to see the worst
instead of the best grows on one very
rapidly, until it ultimately strangles
all that is beautiful and brushes out
all that is good in us. No matter how
many times your confidence has been
betrayed, do not allow yourself to
sour, do not lose your faith in people.
The bad are the exceptions; most
people are honest and true, and mean
to do what is right. When everybody
else denounces and curses man,
charity says: Wait, wait, there Is a
God in that man somewhere" and
this is what we want to see in men,
the God image in them, not the sa-
tanic reflection.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
COTS AND BOSTON CULTURE
Los Angeles Matron Had Trouble In
Making Her Wants known--Fin-
ally Secured Small Bed.

"Apropos of Boston and her RS,
said Los Angeles matron, Il had a
very funny experience with them both
last year. We were living in a cramped
fat in Boston, and / needed small
cot-bed for Harry, who was four years
old So went to furniture dealers,
where / was told that they didn't keep
cots. The obliging clerk, however, di-
rected me to a store on another street,
where, he assured me. I would find
plenty of cots.
cit turned out to be an ordinary toy
shop, and though slightly taken aback,
I walked right in.
"eDo you keep cots?' said l.
"sYes'm.'
"eWell, l want one for small boy
of four
"The clerk came back in moment,
trundling little red wagon after him!
When l want cart I explained,
as soon as l could catch my breath,
I'll say so. What 1 really would like
to get today, if the purchase is posi-
BILE in this town Of excessive culture,
is cot, cot
81 was politely told that they kept
cots, but not cots-and when | was
directed to the store l had just left,
where they kept cots, but not cots!
81 was confused, but determined,
and finally got cot that had casters
instead Of wheels"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
HOLDING AMMONIA
IN STABLE MANURE
Bulk of Value of Fertilizer viii Be
Maintained If Stored in
Cement-Bottom Pits.

Land plaster or gypsum has UNI
doubted value in holding the ammonia
or nitrogen in stable manure, al
though some scientists dispute this.
Still kainit is so much better for this
purpose than the gypsum that it is a
wonder any of the latter is used. It
is true kainit is more expensive In
first cost, but then 1t not only holds
the ammonia better than the gypsum,
but it adds to 1t desirable plant food
which gypsum does not.
IL one must, for any reason, store
the stable manure for some portion
of the winter, the bulk of its value
will be maintained IL stored In pits
with cement bottoms, so that the
liquid portions are retained, and the
mass treated with kainit occasionally
during the winter. The cost is small
compared with the increased value of
the manure. Try it this winter and
you will become convert to the prac-
tice.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
No Other Need Apply.

She was attired in the rakish style
which suggests the bashi-bazouk, and
she swept into the shoe store with a
dashing air.
ooh, where is he?" she exclaimed,
all her dash whiting with sudden dis
appointment. II mean your little shoe
clerk that had the bald head-and one
of his legs is bent"
Sorry, madame" smiled the pro-
prietor. "He has left our employ. He
is employed by the firm across the
street"
She waited to hear no more, but
sailed forth making for the store
across the street. There at the door
stood the little bald-headed clerk on
his bent leg waiting for customers
like Patience on monument, smiling.
$50 glad!" she exclaimed breath
lessly. 81 must have pair of shoes,
and I simply cannot wear them unless
you fit them for mel"
Such are the whims which govern
trade in the retail market, eveL as the
winds blow without apparent logic.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
YOUNG HOGS BEST
FOR MAKING PORK
Dean Henry OF Wisconsin Gath
erS Considerable Data on
This Interesting Question.

Young animals make more pounds
of gain from their food than when
older. Dean Henry of Wisconsin
gathered lot of data on this and
found that 3S-pound pigs required 293
pounds of feed to make 100 pounds of
gain, 7S-pound pigs required 400
pounds of feed; 128-pound pigs, 437
pounds of feed; 174-pound pigs, 482
pounds; 226-pound pigs, 498 pounds;
271-pound pigs, Eli pounds, and for
the 33O-pound hogs it took 535 pounds
of food to make the 100 pounds OF
gain, or nearly twice as much as for
the 38-pound pig. This emphasizes
the Importance of pushing the hogs
from the start in order to make the
most economical gains. 1t has been
found at the North Dakota expert
ment station that April pigs can be
made to weigh 200 to ESQ pounds by
November /.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
Phllosonhx for the Day.

1T is an optical illusion that makes
the task at hand seem commonplace,
the far off significant The mountains
near by appear rocks and stubble
fields; in the distance they are clothed
with blue beauty, majestically out
lined against the sky. Similarly, we
see about us the prosaic details Of
life, while in far off times great deeds
and lives appear splendidly outlined
against the gray horizon of the past.
So we are apt to think that If we
had but been born in some distant
time and place, we, too, would have
lived heroically to the great causes
then challenging men. How gladly
would we have died at Thermopylae,
fought at Bunker Hill, shared the pris-
on of Socrates or stood with Bruno at
the stake! Illusion-sheer illusion of
time and place! Life has always been
commonplace to commonplace people;
it has been sublime only when men
have lived subiimely. 80 Self Culture
Through the Vocation" by Edward
Howard Greggs.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
Realistic Scenery.

Pneumatic scenery and stage set
tings care now being used In an en-
deavor to make them more realistic
and at the same time conserve the
portableness and convenience of the
present type of fat and built-up paper
and wood forms. This Is made of a
rubberized fabric and so arranged that
it may be inflated quickly and moved
about with ease. The idea has been
worked out in reproducing trees upon
the stage, with the result that they
appear very real from short distance.
A very large oak tree may be collapsed
and packed In a small space for ship
ment.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
WHAT DO you SEE IN oTHERs7

THE image of God is in the lowliest
,,utcast, and we can find it if we look
for it and be neighbor of that man"
says Jacob A. Riis.
One of the finest fruits of culture is
the power to see the man or woman
and not the one who is SCARED by
faults and deficiencies, the one who is
dwarfed by vicious living. 1t is only
the generous, loving soul who ever
attains to this degree of culture.
Most of us are inclined to judge peo-
pie too much by their mean traits, by
their mistakes, their shortcomings,
their peculiarities. 1t is only the
broad, charitable, great-hearted man
or woman who is blind to the defects
of others and always ready to enlarge
upon their good qualities. They real
lie the truth that there is God in the
meanest of men, philanthropist in
the stingiest miser, hero in the big
gest coward, which an emergency
great enough might call out.
A fault-fnding, criticizing dispost
ton is fatal to all excellence. Moth
Ing will strangle growth quicker thar
a tendency to hunt for flaws, to re-
joice in the unlovely. like hog which
always has his nose in the mud and
rarely looks up. The direction in
which we look indicates the life aim,
and people who are always looking
for something to criticize. for the
crooked and the ugly. WHO are al
ways sus.asous, who invariably look
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
Salt for Milk Cows.

Experiments have proved the aver
age mich cow requires about an
ounce of salt per day. Heavy mixers
should have more. Keeping salt where
the dairy cows can reach it at all
times maintains their good health and
encourages heavy milk yield by pro-
noting thorough digestion and assimi-
ration and having a cooling effect on
the whole system of the animals, at
the same time making it easier to
bring butter of a superior flavor and
color at churning time.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18

There is no occasion for being en-.
vious of others, no matter what our
station in life and circumstances may
be. The best joys are in reach of us
all; study, and the reading of good
and useful books, and inquiry into the
wonders of nature all about us, are
among the chief of these, and no one
holds monopoly of them. They
have their practical, even cash value,
too, and may prove Of much benefit to
our fellows.
1t is related of certain wellintend-
ing but poorly informed Englishman,
a great many years ago, that he de-
termined to set to digging for coal in
the vicinity of the hamlet where he
lived. His judgment was poor, of
course, for no traces of coal had ever
been found in that locality; but his
courage was good, and he continued to
bore with will, until at last he start
ed an artesian well, which has contin-
ued to run to this day, and which has
proved of great value to the neighbor-
hood ever since.
Was it not so, too, with that foolish
old Spaliard, De Soto, who set out to
find the fountain of perpetual youth ?
His first purpose failed, but he never
theless discovered to the world Flori-
da, the land of sunshine and of flowers,
still in its youth, with a magnificent
future yet before it. Who can say
nest effort, no matter how mistakenly
directed?
The soil is vast storehouse, as yet
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
Displaying Vegetables.

When displaying vegetables at the
county fair or elsewhere 1t is impor-
tant that the various classes be ar
ranged by themselves, otherwise moth
ing shows of to advantage. Some
Of the Horticultural 'b'ts at County
fairs have abselutel.sa. u system or
order. There is really no excuse for
such haphazard arrangements. This
matter should have serious considers
ton by boards of Management.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
Worth knoWinu.

ut is said that there are thousands
of Greek boys held in bondage
throughout this country by the pro-
prietors of shoe shining parlors.
"Welll Well"
"They work for meager wages and
have to turn over all the tips they get
to their employers"
'I'm glad you told me that Here
after I will be able to withhold a tip
without feeling the least bit stingy."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18

/ half unexplored, in which the farmer
delyes, and the more industriously and
intelligently, the more to the benefit of
his fellow men. Many a humble tiller
of the soil has left behind him infor-
nation of untold value, sometimes dis
covered largely as the result of mere
accident.
| How much, after all, do we know
about the elements which go to make
up the soil as yet? The geologist, for
| instance, has been able to tell us much.
and yet is there not as much that he
can in no way explain? Hugh Miller
observes that the richest corn lands Of
England, those at Strathmore, and the
poorest, those at Milbury, are both
underlaid by the same rock, the old
red sandstone. Yet many a man will
stoutly affirm that the character of
| the underlying rock determines in a
great measure the character of the
soil above.
Some say that certain soils are abso-
lutely essential for certain crops, yet
a learned scientist utterly disproved
the statement by growing grapevines
upon as many different varieties OF
soil as he could obtain, and drying and
burning their leaves and submitting
their ashes to chemical analysis; so
demonstrating that they contained the
same substances in almost precisely
the same proportions, no matter what
the circumstances under which they
had been grown. Is the composition
of the soil in reality vastly more COM
pick than we realize?
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
A Tactful EXPLANATION.

"My dear, you are not thinking of
going to savage islands as a mission
ary, are your"
"Why not, sir? Don't you think I
Inn capable of doing the work."
"Oh, it is not that. l am only afraid
the savages will agree with us at
home here in thinking you are sweet
enough to eat"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
Didn't Mean IL That Way.

''I'm sorry can't go to the theater
with you tonight" said Miss Peach.
I'm already engaged for the evening.
But as long as you have the tickets
Til introduce you to a pretty girl and
you can take her."
"But don't want to go with pretty
girl" sorowfully protested Mr.. Lamb.
81 want to go with you" Cincinnati
ENQUIRER.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
To Be Expected.

''How was the man dressed who
Swindled you?"
HE wore a light gray derby, a
lastly checked suit, a red tie with a
diamond horseshoe pin stuck in it, a
tan velvet vest and"
That's enough. If you tried to
change a hundred dollar bill for a
shap dressed like that you deserved
TO be swindled."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
His OBJ lection.

whats your objection to women
voting?"
"They haven't got industry enough"
said the man with short hair and
large diamond pin. II used to see
men who would willingly vote six or
seven times in a day. I've never
heard woman talk who would think
of voting more than once at the same
election"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
Minor Woes,

She-I think it is terrible that Rus
STA joined in this war.
He-Yes, it is going to add vastly
to the cost of humanity.
She-I wasn't thinking of human
ity. l was thinking how hard it is
TO pronounce all those names.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
Suppressed INDIGNATION.

What do you think of that tender
foot's having the nerve to spring
deck of marked cards on me?" ex-
claimed Broncho Bob.
did you shoot him?"
What's the use of killing the goose
that lays the golden egg? / held
gun in front of him and made him
show me how he marked EN-"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
Victory.

Victory was heard to use intense
language, under her breath. concern
ing her skirts.
''Will / ever" she exclaimed, learn
to manage the drafted narrow things
so that when / get ready to perch on
one or another of these banners. the
bystanders won't look askance and
wonder If it's really moral victory7"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
Case of Thrift.

"a reception today, my dear, when
you gave party only last night?"
Yes; I had a bowl of fruit punch
left over, and / didn't see any use of
wasting it."-Kansas City Journal
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
Extreme Popularity.

"You seem to stand we'll with your
wife's relatives"
"Fll tell you something that will sur
prise YOU"
All right"
There's hardly one of them l
able expectations of getting it."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
Protect the Birds.

Protect and shelter the birds as
much as possible. A few wind breaks
or thickets of brush On the farm give
the birds a nesting place, and they
pay for it by catching many injurious
insects.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
Getting a Start.

How do you want your eggse'
soft boiled"
"Yessuh. I'll boil 'em about five
minutes"
Five minutes!"
"Yessuh. Desc is cold storage eggs
an it's liable to take EN- a couple o.
minutes to thaw."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
Fathers COOKING,

"Of course, you and your wife are
happy"
YES" replied the young man. "But
she is little thoughtless. Whenever
perform with the chatting dish she in
sists on talking about the superior
Welsh rabbits her father used to
make"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
Plainly Evident.

Mrs. Lovewett (at a. m.)-Whcre
have you been?
Lovewett-Just fell in wiz an Of
frien', m'dear.
Mrs. Lovewett-Fell in, Ell? / be-
live you. You're Standardization
Transcript
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
Household Ecnnnmx

You shouldn't permit the butcher
to throw away all the trimmings after
he has weighed your meat"
Il don't. take them home and let
thescook throw them away"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
The Accompaniment

Who told Billy that the champagne
supply would not give out after all9'
Il don't know. but | guess 1t was
little hot bird"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
COULDN'T RESIST.

Bill-Dey say dat a lot OBJ dem ex-
sursionists got left down de river las
night.
Joe-Of course dey did. A bunch OBJ
dem struck watahmelon patch and
de captain wouldn't wait fo' dem.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
The One Execution,

Americans are expecting TO use
cotton in every possible form here
after"
YES" replied the patient native
citizen; every form except guncot-
hon."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-18
imnudence.

Smith took Jones apart to tell hin
the news"
what happened them"
HE told Jones to collect himself"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-11
eFaHd tRsHy q MscHsHBafg-
SchEerin:
The pffnTicee; Who Is " years Of age,
is believed to be about four years
younger than his bride-to-be.
WOMEN CAN'T VOTE FOR U. S.
SENATOR, SAYS MITCHELL

The Board of Election Commission
ers will be told by their attorney,
Charles H Mitchell, today that wom-
en- have no legal right to vote for
United States Senator under the tit
1ois equal suffrage law. II the COM
missioners disregard Mitchef1's optt-
ion the fight will be taken to the SUI
prer1e Court.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-11
KaUjfFM4N Vas THE MAN

The item in the city briefs under
date Of April 9; Stating that D. R.
Cohen. constable, haywood, was
fined SIS for allowing boys to play
poker III his ice cream parlor, was an
error iii names, The man fined was
A. Kaufman, 642 s: Berkley av., for
whom Mr.. Cohen acted ais attorney.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-11

c6HRtssss v65hf. gssssWittz-EstifzzdoW
and Pfince oscar:
Opposition of Kaiser wilhelm to
the morganatic marriage Of His fifth
son, Prince Oscar, to Cothtess Ina
Marie Won Observation-Disclosures has
disappeared, and the Empress fi1aid
of honor will become her daughter
in-law
The countess is one Of the most beau
tiful women in Germany and daugh-
ter of the minister of state Of the
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-11
rs r@F-o-o- rs pa
ELECTRIC KILLS CHILD

ELECTRIC KILLS Child
4 xteeen-m6hths'-old Baby was
kfed yesterday When All electric rti1t=
ab0ut crashed 8nt6 4 Sidewalk ana
upset the befamb ufat6r ii which the
ehtid was steepthg.
fhe alto Vas df1Veh BY Mrs: Bes=
Sic Patfitnan, wife Of Henry PAUL
man; pr0minert auto dealer: The
child was the daughter st Mrs: Alex
andria KooYowska, wife of a janitor at
1915 Woodla#n avenue. The accident
Occurred in front of that address.
Mrs. Paulman said the car be-
CAME tftftiiaansgeable.
PROBE ies cREEM F6R GERMS
TIE G6ieag6 Health Department Is
oh d hunt for germs id ice creafn.
Health Gomtnissi0Eer Young will be-
gin the investigation this week to see
if the frozen dainty is safe. Ice
cream and car6onated drinks are, also
being. Investigated, by the State
Board of Health.
KAUFMAN VAS FIFE MAN