davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-12-25
An Apology

Excuse us II the Democrat comes
out this week shy of news, but the
Editor man has taken quite a fancy
to Hooker lately, lie went down last
Saturday and came back Wednesday
noon, stayed long enough to throw
bunch of cigars down on the table
ask for the mail and tell US he would
be back the last of the week. The
force have been trying to do the work
and get news items between meals.
Please appreciate our efforts to get
by'.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-12-25
Entertains The League

Mrs. @. d. Gassoway, entertained the
members of the Methodist League,
Tuesday evening at her home. The
evening was pleasantly spent with
various interesting games. Miss Ada
Malone favored the guests with an
excellent reading. At late hour the
hostess served delicious lunch.
Thlrty-four young people enjoyed the
pleasant event.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-12-25
Masons Elect Officers

Monday night the Masons elected
the following officers: Edwin Irwin,
W. M, Clarence Edison, L. w., Raj
pin Colvin, j. w., j. N. Evans, Treas,
H. W. Magruder, Secy., VIM. Rezeau
S. D., r. N. Cunningam, j. d.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-12-25
Gard of Thanks

We wish to express our sincere
thanks to our many friends for their
assistance during the brief Illness and
death of our darling baby.
ID. w. Grimwood anu wife.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-12-25
Union Cottage Prayer-Meet.
lngs

lnSS
Liberal, Kansas, Tuesday and
Wednesday, December 20 and 30, at
7:3O p. ms The paryer-meeting dis
trict committees, places of meeting
and leaders are as follows; DISTRICT
No. 1-All north of Seventh Street
and west of Kansas Avenue. Com
mittee, Mrs. W. II. Barbee, Mrs. w.
A. Lipprant, Frank Smith. Place of
meeting Tuesday with w, II. Barbee,
leader Rev. w. II. Hedden. Wednes-
day with Rev. w. II. Hedden, leader,
Harvey Franklin. No. 2-All east Of
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-12-25

The youngsters OF Liberal were
given quite treat by Santa Claus
last Saturday at Wileys, Drug Store,
each child who visited tie store re-
cslved a sack of candy.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-12-25

Clifford Ferguson has gone to
Hooker to assume a position at Farr
grocery down there. Clifford is
good fellow and we hope he likes his
new job and location.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
HIGH PLACE FOR OLD MAID
Surely Reward for Their SeIf-Sacrifice
and Disinterestedness Must Await
Them in Future State.

How many churches have been built
by the charity of old maids; how
many schools supported; how many
homes cheered by their presence; how
much good seed sown by their hand,
how many prayers for others heard
from their lips! Many flower that
shall bloom Ioveliest in the land where
we all hope to be, will have been
nursed and tended by those who had
no physical loneliness that could win
our admiration here, and whose ten
der, gentle heart may have been
wounded by some stray shaft of our
silly sarcasm. At a certain great har-
vest home, where the reapers shall
be no longer men, and the sickles
shall fash in a brighter sunlight than
that of earth, many humble one from
the ranks Of old maidendom shall have
more right to join in the jubilant har-
vest hymn than those whom, Diana
like, the whole world worshiped. 1t
is possibly a pity that any women
should have to pass through life with
out the most exquisite sensibilities of
woman's nature being developed in
her. But it is a good thing for many
a church, and happy thing for many
home, that there have been old
maids in their midst-heroines in a
high and noble sense, in whose heart
passion has been lost in principle, who
have been welded by a higher than
priestly hand to all that is good and
true-BosJon Transcript
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
PREPARING ASPARAGUS BEDS
Necessary to Use the Greatest Care in
Giving Plants Good Start-HeeP
the Weeds Away.

Asparagus is not hard to grow and
we know OF no other vegetable that
will give more satisfactory results if
well cared for
As an asparagus bed has to be set
out only once it is. therefore. very
necessary to use the greatest care in
giving the plants start
Pillow the ground deeply as early
as possible in the spring and mix with
it an abundance Of well-rotted ma
nure.
This should be done three or four
days before planting and a strong fer
tilizer should never be put next to the
plants, because it often destroys them.
The rows should be about six feet
apart and the plants should be set
ten inches deep. Set out only strong.
one-year-old roots.
Press the soil about them and as
the plants begin to come up, throw
a little dirt into the burrows TO
smother the weeds and keep the soil
loose around the plants. Gradually
fill the rows until the ground is level.
The weeds must be kept from the
plants for two years; then not much
further care is necessary.
Cutting may begin the third year,
for perhaps thirty days, but not longer.
After that, asparagus may be cut up
to the middle Of June, or perhaps a
little later.
If your bed shows a large growth
of tops in the fall you may be sure
OF a good crop the next spring.
When plants are old enough to cut,
the tops should be cut off very early
in the spring almost down to the
crowns of the roots and then as they
start to grow again the roots should
be ridged about eight or ten inches
above the level of the ground.
The plants will push their way
through this ridge in a very few days
and will continue to grow vigorously
A wet, heavy black soil is not good
for asparagus, as it does better on
sandy loan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14

prevent its being eaten with as much
relish as the finer stemmed varieties.
That a large quantity of fine quality
hay can be obtained by growing millet
and cutting when the seed is in the
early dough stage is admitted by all,
and owing to the difficulty of main
tanning live stock in many sections,
because of the scarcity and high price
of hay it is surprising that this crop
is not more extensively cultivated
Timothy hay, for instance, which is
regarded as the standard, contains
68 per cent of protein, 23.5 per cent,
of fiber, SIT per cent of fat. Hun
garian grass contains 81 per cent Of
protein, 80 per cent of fiber, 53.1 per
cent of nitrogen free extract, and %
per cent of fat. Millet hay, if prop
erly made and cured, thus contains
more nutriment per ton than timothy
and it is generally recognized that mil
let can be cultivated successfully on
thousands of acres of land to which
timothy is not at all adapted. More
over, there is a marked divergence be-
tween the yields of the two crops, as
it is not unusual to obtain from three
to five tons of cured millet hay, as
compared with one or two tons of
timothy. The value of miIlet hay will,
of course, depend somewhat on the
variety sown, the richness of the soil
and the thickness of seeding. Thick
seeding is desirable with miIlet,
though we prefer to plant in drills
rather than scatter the seed broad
cast. If the millet is not seeded
thickly, the stalks become coarse and
are not we'll relished by live stock,
a fact which should not be overlooked.
Since such large yields may be OBJ
tanned with millet in the south, even
though the crop may draw heavily on
the plant food in the soil, it would
bring a sufficient revenue to Justify
the heavy application of commercial
fertilizers, and where a proper crop
rotation is pursued, there should not
be serious difficulty in maintaining the
fertility of the land.
Millet should be seeded at the rate
of forty to sixty pounds per acre
drilled in and covered with harrow.
From thirty to forty bushels of millet
seed may be obtained per acre, and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
Artistic Borrower

An English visitor to New York tells
the story of an impecunious French
man who was one of the most artis-
tic borrowers of whom l have heard.
He would start the year by borrowing
a hundred francs of a friend. A week
later, he would borrow two hundred
francs of another friend and with
that loan he would repay the first
and still have a hundred francs left
for the weeks expenses. The third
week he borrowed three hundred
francs and repaid the man from whom
he had borrowed the two hundred
And so he went on by steady pro-
gression to the end Of the year. Then
he would begin all over again. The
man from whom he borrowed in the
last week of the year of course would
never get his money back. But
though the borrower had created one
enemy, he had cemented the friend
ship of 81 persons during the year and
established a credit on which he could
run for the year following. He was a
writer, but he seems to have had
good business head.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
Maonificent Alaska.

It behooves every American to get
better acquainted with this important
territory, declares writer in the
Christian Herald. Take your atlas and
study Alaska You will get again your
schoolboy thrill to note that the United
States reaches up into the arctic cir
Gle, almost touches Asia, and stretches
westward in the north Pacific by way
of the Aleutian islands a distance from
San Francisco as great as from San
Francisco to New York. The mighty
Yukon, flowing 1900 miles to the sea
(the Hudson is 210 miles long,, mile
wide for 600 miles from it's mouth,
will hold you in awed surprise once
more. Lakes, rivers, limitless plains,
mountain ranges proclaim this coun-
try by itself, needing no annexation to
another to give it dignity and worth.
And yet it was bought by the United
States for $7,20O,00O, and for nearly
half century has been the free stamp
ing ground for fortune-hunters who
have dared its cold forbidding noun
tain passes and rushing streams to
seek for gold. A half billion has been
their reward
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
ODD WAYS OF TELLING TIME
Glance at Clock or Watch Is by No
Means Absolutely Necessary, as
This Article Shows

A clock or a watch was about as
rare in Turkey so years ago as an
aeroplane is in America today Even
at the present time in the smaller
cities and villages the house with a
timepiece in it is unusual, for a clock
or watch is considered luxurious con.
Fenience to be INDUCED in only by 8
few OF the Weather class.
Nature is the clock of that land. A
most reliable clock, which never stops
or fails to serve it's purpose. Should
you inquire the time there you would
be referred 10 the crow of the cock, the
sun. or the condition Of the cats eye.
The cock crows regularly morning,
forenoon, noon, afternoon and evening.
Sometimes he crows at irregular peri
DDS. Woe unto him! For superstition
demands that his head be chopped off,
a demand which is complied with with
out delay, for TO tolerate an ill-crowing
cock is to bring bad luck, according to
a native superstition.
One of the methods they have Of
telling time by the sun is the follow
ing: They hold their thumbs touching
one another horizontally. and extend
the forefngers up perpendicularly
Then they divide the thumb and fore
finger Of each hand into six parts,
nominal hour points, one hand repre-
senting the morning and the other the
afternoon. Where the thumbs join be-
ing twelve O'clock the tip of one fore
finger representing six o'clock in the
morning and the tip Of the other six
o'clock in the afternoon, by holding
the hands in the described position
toward the sun the shadow cast by one
forefnger upon the other viii point
to the correct time, as judged by the
hours nominally marked in mind. The
hour divisions may be divided into
additional parts, as the quarter hours.
To tell the time by the cats eye
sounds at first humorous, but it can
be done. The average person perhaps
is not aware that the shape of the
cats eye undergoes changes during
the day In the morning the pupil is
normally circular, but gradually it
narrows until noon, when only mar
row streak is left. AS the day pro
crosses it resumes its normal shape
becoming oval about three O'Clock il
the afternoon In Turkey it is com
mon for the old folks to call the cat to
their sides in order to ascertain the
time
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
Enns TO Z Pound.

Ten eggs is the average number te
each pound.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
l. zAEEEKh1nRzBl.E.0S
- SG ~ ASWNILL9 " "
WHAT DRIVES PAPA WILD.

No matter how smart and intelligent
your little boy is, he is sure to drive
you mad some evening with the fol
lowing sort of thing:
"Papai"
Well, what on earth do you want
now?"
Papa. didn't Adam have more than
one name?"
of course, he didn't have more
than one name Now, please DON'T
bother ME any more; I'm reading.
One more silly question, and you'll
go TO bed. Do you understand that?'
Yes, of course. But can't.I ask
you something about the same ques
tion?"
Yes; what is it?'
Was Adam his first name or his
last name? "-Cleveland Plain Dealer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
riahnrman's Eth.

The Webb City Register takes off its
lid" to Bill Swegard of Johnstown,
who Iured two friends to the fishing
grounds by telling them the following
true story of recent catch he made:
Il was sitting here on the bank and
had just baited my hook, when all at
once a great big fish just took that
bait, hook, line, pole and all right out
of my hand and swan down stream
with it. | rushed back to that farm
house and we got a rope and l went
down there to the dam, and when we
finally baited the hook with young
rabbit, and got that fish good and fast
on that hook, we had to take the farm
ers team of mules to pull it out of the
river. 1t was the biggest cat | ever
saw, and when we got that thing out
on the bank it just bawled like a young
calf"
OF course, we are not making any
remarks about Carterville having re-
Gently gone wet" adds the Register,
but we didn't know the ''red-eye" they
were selling ever there had such mag
nifying powers.-Kansas City Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
Her Choice.

Wife, believe the best place for a
regional bank is the stocking.
Husband-There is one thing sure;
the depositor will be well heeled.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
GROWING MlLLET HAY
OFTEN FOLLOWS WHEAT OR
OTHER WINTER CEREALS.
Problem of Maintaining Live Stock
Where Feed Is Scarce and Prices
High May Be Solved by EN-
pIoyment of This Crop.
By A. NJ. SOULE.)

Millet can frequently be grown as a
catch crop when other important
crops have failed. AS most varieties
of this crop natures in from sixty to
ninety days it can often follow wheat
or other winter cereals. There are
many varieties OF millet on the mar
ket, but only q few of these show
exceptional merit Among the best
varieties are German, Japanese and
Hungarian, which made in recent
tests, an average yield of hay of 3.85,
$50 and 2.42 TOYS, respectively. The
principal objection to the japanese is
the coarseness Of the stalks, which
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
MUCH DEPENDS ON SEED BED
Farmer Who Looks for Good Stand of
Alfalfa Must Prepare Ground
Properly Before Planting.

A good stand of alfalfa is depend.
ent largely upon the preparation of
the seed bed. A good seed bed con-
sists of a firm, well-settled soil hav-
ing a mellow, wellsettled soil hav-
surface. A seed bed of this nature
allows free movement of the capillary
water from the subsoil, and at the
same time allows for a proper root
hold.
If field is plowed and worked just
before planting, the soil will not come
into close contact with the seed, and
will not supply enough moisture for
the germ to grow well. Also, the
plant will not get firm root hold.
For spring planting, a seed bed pre-
pared in the fall is better than one
prepared in the spring, for consider
able time is required to store mois-
ture, and to liberate plant food. Sim
ply disking corn-stubble land in the
spring, makes fairly good seed bed.
If the land cannot be plowed in the
fall, disking in the spring is better
than spring blowing. If the land is
plowed in the fall for spring planting,
the ground should be allowed to lie
rough over winter, and then should be
worked into good condition with the
disk and harrow
Another good method of preparing
the seed bed for spring planting is to
plow the land in the fall or spring and
cultivate If sufficiently fhproafter RI
kill the weeds and keep up a good
soil mulch. The seed may be planted
late in the spring when the soil is
moist and weather conditions are IA
vorable. This method is especially
adapted to parts of the country
where conditions are too dry for al.
falfa to start readily.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14

owing to the short time it occupies
the land it can be made very re-
munerative crop. Millet is no more
exhausting to the soil than other
crops when comparative yields are
considered.
Millet has another advantage which
should not be overlooked, as it is a
most excellent smother crop and can
be used with great advantage on land
which it is desired to free of weeds
and put in the best possible condition
for seeding to grass or wheat In the
fall
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
AT MEMORYS KINDLY WILL
Brightly Burning Fire Aroused Senti'
mental Thoughts, Though Not of
Loves Young Dream"

He was sitting in front of a brightly
burning fire talking to her. After a
while he said thoughtfully.
This reminds me of a CRATE that l
used to sit in front of years ago."
Il can well imagine how you en-
1oyed those evenings" she responded
hopefully; open fires give one such a
sense o. home" But he went on talk
ing of drafts and heat and ashes and
the hygienic condition of a room ven
tilated by a fireplace.
Il have never known CRATE he
continued, like that one in the home
of the girl where l used to go so
often
A long silence followed, the crack
ling of the fire being the only sound
in the room. It was broken at last
by him in a voice that had echoes of
a dear memory in it's tones:
You cannot imagine how l loved
that-grate!"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
Quite Probable.

Pat was showing his freshly landed
friend through New York, and the
sights were pointed out to the new
conner with the pride of one thor
oughly at home in the land Finally
they paused in front of Trinity church,
at the head of Wall street, and while
the ancient graveyard was being ex-
plored the bell in the steeple began
to ring.
Casey, the newcomer, looked Up at
the tower a moment and then turned
to his friend. Tell me, Pat" he said.
why does the bell ring at this time
of day?"
Pat studied the questioner a mo-
ment. and then observed: IT'S my
idea there's some wan pullin' tn rope
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
ERUPTION ON CHlLD's BODY

r. F, D. No. 2, Jackson, Mo.-"Our
daughter who is ten months old was
suffering from an eruption all over
the body. In the beginning they were
small red spots and afterwards turned
to bloody sores. We tried all sorts
of ointments but they did not procure
any relief for our child. She cried
almost Gay and night and we scarcely
could touch her, because she was COW
cred with sores from head to foot.
1--WE had heard about the Cuticura
Soap and Ointment and made a trial
with them, and after using the rene
dies, that is to say, the Soap and the
Ointment, only few days passed and
our child could sleep well and after
one week she was totally we'll"
(Signed) August +. Bartels, Nov. rs,
1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post.
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston" ADV.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
GATE HINGE Is ADJUSTABLE
Outer Swinging End of Gate May Be
Held in Raised Position to Clear
Amy Obstruction.

In describing a hinge for farm fence
gates, invented by T. Miller of Oquaw-
ka, Ill, the Scientific American says:
This inventor provides an adjust
able hinge to be used with fence gates,
to compensate for settlement in the
gate, or in the hinge post, or to be ad-
justed for holding the outer swinging
end of the gate in raised position to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
SeIf-Protection

You are demanding a very heavy
fee for automobiles in Crimson Gulch,"
protested the tourist.
We've got to, in self-protection, a."
replied Sheriff Joe. I'VE got tired of
the nervous strain. Every once in a
while a tire would blow out and the
report would break up every card
game in the township"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
Hinge for Farm Fence Gates.

clear any obstruction which may &C.
cur in the path of the gate. An object
of the invention is to provide adjust
ing means for the hinge, which may be
operated from the outer end of the
gate, so that the leverage afforded by
the length of the gate may be taken
advantage of in raising the gate, while
the adjusting means is operated"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
Manure Quality.

High feeding results in less COM
plete digestion of feed, and thus in a
higher quality of manure than low
feeding. The quality of the bedding
used influences to a great extent the
value of the manure. Where the bed
ding consists principally Of sawdust
or wood shavings, the value of the
manure is not nearly so great as
where straw is used.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
Worlds Supply of Coal.

The production Of coal in the United
States is about equal to that of the
United Kingdom, Germany and France
combined. In 1912 it was 100000
tons in the United States, 100000, 900
tons in the United Kingdom, 172 ,000,-
600 tons in Germany, 100000 tons
in France, rs 900, 900 tons in Russia
and 100000 900 tons in Belgium. The
reserves of coal in the earth in the
United States are nearly equal to those
OF all the rest of the world com bined,
according to recent estimates.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
From Bad TO Morse

ooh, my poor friend! All my
sympathy! What misfortune to find,
one fine morning, that your wife is
gone!"
Yes; but how much worse it is to
see her return three days later" LA
Rire (Paris).
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
Literary Axiom.

Good writer's make poor money.
The Hottest literary aim leads to the
attic. 1t is the commonplace alone
who become best sellers"
The speaker was Ripley Hitchcock
the essayist, critic and editor of New
York. He added, smiling:
THE man with the true literary
bent is always broke
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
The Browning Club.

81 want you to join our Browning
club"
Really, I'm not cultured enough for
that highbrow stuff
"Oh, all we do is to dance the tango
and go to musical comedies once in a
while"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-14
s,,nor+a,+ 80 nKo4navs
Bears the

Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it