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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-05-14
WORK OF BACTERIA
QUITE INTERESTING
Little NoduIeS Formed on Roots
of Leguminous Plants Are
Soil AeratOrS.

AS soon as the roots of a leguminous
crop begins TO grow, if the soil is
sweet-that is, does not lack lime
tiny bacteria, so small that it takes
powerful glass to see them, attach
themselves to the roots Of tho pea or
other legumnous crop and start to
housekeeping. building a little nodule,
as it is called, writes Col Henry Elk
all, In Dry Farming 1t takes only
about twenty minutes to complete the
growth of one of these entities, bu.
they do not die. They simply divide
themselves into two, each starting a
new nodule or adding to the one al
ready begun, and dividing again in
20 minutes and so on, ad intinitum;
multiplying at such a wonderful rate
that it has been estimated that II there
was one in good condition here week
ago. there are a billion now. These
little houses, nodules, grow into great
lives until soon they are as large as
walnuts> on the roots of the plants.
Their functions are peculiar and won
derfully interesting as well as profit
able.
The AIR, as you know, is four-fifths
nitrogen. Nitrogen is the most expen-
eive fertilizer that you buy, and 1t Is
positively essential to plant life. Now
these little entities suck air into the
earth and aerate the soil, 1t is just as
necessary for plant to have air as it
is for an animal to breathe 1t. They
therefore do the splendid service Of
bringing the air into the soil, and in
bringing it In they digest the nitrogen
that is in the air and convert it into
mineral nitrates that are soluble In
water and Immediately available for
plant food. 1t is estimated that under
favorable conditions where an acre Of
land is well inoculated, the bacteria
will bring $40 worth of nitrogen to the
acre within the year-that is. 1t would
cost $40 and more to buy and put
upon the land the nitrogen that these
little entities have drawn from the at.
mosphere lnto the soil.
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For Best Results
Use Perfection Oil
NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT IT
Possibly Many of Us May Find Food
for Reflection in Remark Made
by Reverend Gentleman.

Perry S. Eustis, railroad passenger
traffic manager, was complaining at
the Traffic club dinner in Kansas city
few nights ago about the way the
government pays the railroads for
hauling the mails.
Il was sweet, curly-haired child,
he said Il guess ! had a sweet voice,
too, for | sang in the choir or the
Chestnut Hill Episcopalian church in
Philadelphia. The rector, the Rev. j.
Andrews Harris, always took the choir
boys for a walk each Saturday, priv,
ilege we greatly esteemed. On this
particular Saturday my nose was out
Of joint because some one had been
CHOSEN to sing solo the next day,
and | was voicing my Indignation.
AS | understand it, your position
is that you didn't get what you de-
served said the rector.
Exactly | replied.
Then pray God you don't the rest
OF your life answered the Rev. Mr.
Harris kansas City Star.
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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 day and night and we scarcely
could touch her. because she was GOV.
cred with sores from head to foot
1--WE had heard about tho 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 T. Bartels, Nov. 25,
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
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CBy CLIFFORD PiNCHOTD


This is the time of awakening.
Everywhere new ideas are meeting
hospitable treatment and are gaining
ground. Little by little the fact that
the farm has a larger place in the ma
tional economy than merely to furnish
the raw material of food and clothing
has come to be recognized among us.
Not less striking than the growing
interest in the farm is the growing
appreciation of the forest, and we
realize fully that not only through the
supplying Of timber, but by it's con
troll over streams and winds, its func-
ton as preseryer of the soil against
erosion and in many other ways, it is
a national necessity. When therefore
the farm and the forest meet we have
a question of the most genuine public
importance.
We are accustomed to think of the
national forests as enormous in area,
covering, as they do, as many acres as
all the New England states, together
with New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Delaware, Maryland and Vir-
ginia. Yet the area of forest in farm
ers' wood lots is larger still, while the
farmers themselves are the largest
class of direct users of the forest.
The wise handling of the wood lot,
therefore, is matter of grave con
Germ to the farmer as well as to the
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passes by all the divine-faced maidens
who have made name and fame for
him to wed the homeliest girl he
knows.
The spendthrift is attracted to the
woman who hates to part with dol
lar. But when she must do so she
makes It cover hundred necessities
more or less. The famous man whom
all adore falls In love with and takes
to wife the dear little woman who has
scarcely second thought in her
brain, who actually goes to sleep when
he tries to read her his manuscripts
of wit, humor and pathos.
1t cannot be doubted that love will
choose wisely and well in seeking its
own true mate II unrestrained
1t is rank folly for any woman to
try to make herself appear different
from what she really is in order to
gain the admiration of any one man.
Were she a fiawless beauty, she might
not be the style Of woman that ap-
peals to him. 1t Is intended that she
shall be the ideal OF some other man.
1t may truly be said that love is blind
and that every man thinks his own
dearie the most beautiful in the world,
as in the case Of a young man trav-
cling abroad, who wrote home to his
folks that he was bringing home "A
bride. He also wrote, shes so beau
tiful l cannot find words to describe
her to you" They found her to be a
good natured, over plump young
woman, red as to hair and cheek, eyes
Of no particular shade, teeth. instead
of being white pearls, much in need
Of a dentists attention. A woman
may be ever so plain, with defects in
face or form, yet there's always one
man somewhere in the world who
would not notice them, he would be
so enchanted with her personality.
No woman should cast hope from her,
believing she was intended to be
mateless
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Solomon Not In II.

TWO old Migrants were discussing
how wise the largerimmed tortoise
shell mandarin spectacles made Magis
trate Freschi look.
at makes him look as wise as Sol
omon," said one.
Solomon amt In IT," replied the
other, "in them big cheeters the Judge
looks as wise as tree full OF owls"
New York World.
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Manicurlnq In the Netherlands.

In Holland the quaint little manicur.
list uses an instrument closely resem.
ing her clients hand on lace covered
velvet cushion, she polishes the nails
with revolving wheels Of various sizes,
which take the place of the emery
board used In this country. Instead of
an orange stick she uses pointed
steel instrument after greasing the
nails This steel point is also manip-
ulated by electricity as is the polish.
ing, which Is done first by chamois
disk and then by a powdered wheel.
Such treatment Is worth form
In Holland or about forty cents in
American coin.
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nation. Wood lots differ SO widely In
the kinds. the age and condition OF
trees of which they are made up that
it is extremely difficult to lay down
definite rules for handling them.
First of all leave some trees of good
kinds for seed. 1t is natural to cut
most heavily the best timber, but the
result of that is always to diminish
the number and therefore the seed
producing capacity of those best trees
in the forest. We must be careful
that the most valuable species OF trees
have a chance to reproduce their kind.
Second, remember in thinning the
forest the important point is not how
closely together the trunks OF the
trees stand, but how much they inter
fere with each other in the tops. Thin
ming should be done strictly with ref.
erence to the tops of the trees and the
location of the trunks with regard TO
each other may safely be disregarded
Third, when tree is down, If there
is young growth on the ground upon
which it falls, the top should be cut
up and the branches piled as soon as
possible. Young trees bent down, but
soon released, recover speedily. Young
trees long bent over may be perma
nently ruined. and the less cutting
that is done while leaves are on the
trees the better for the future of the
forest.
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IS EACH WOMAN A MATE FOR
SOME MAN?

TIL love appear, we live In anxious doubt ;
But smoke will vanish when that flame
breaks out.
This is the fire that would consume our
dross,
Refine and make us richer by the loss
Is there human being so skeptical
as to doubt that each woman born
into this glad old world was not in
tended as the true mate of some par
ticular man? If this were not an un-
written law why would the learned
student pass by the beauties who
smile upon him and select for a bride
the poorly-paid, yet 1ovial, little wait
ress at his boarding house? The man
of wealth eludes the fashionable, for
tune-hunting mammas and their arts
tocratic daughters, wedding the de
mure young typewriter in his Office
The young yachtsman. who might
have had his pick of any OF the dash
ing maidens at the seashore, finds his
ideal in the farmers daughter who is
no longer In the first blush OF youth
the best man in the world IL he took
her away from .he farm. Yet the
world wonders why one particular
man who settled on farm knows
more OF ships course than why
pumpkins should grow on a small vine
und acorns grow on strong limbs OF q
sturdy oak.
The law OF opposites also holds
good in the case OF the artist who
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-05-14
, losses SURELY PREVENTED
WHY TEACHERS AGE EARLY
Fearful and Wonderful Excuses Given
for Occasional Nonatte ndance Of
Their Pupils.

While the law Of the land compels
children to attend school up to a GER
tain age, there is no law that makes
it obligatory for them to be present
at every session. They may be "ex-
cused' on the written request of par
ents, and we herewith present some Of
these reasonable excuses:
"Dier Miss Blank: Sadie had a
pane In her left hart and could not
come yesterday. If it goes to cuttin'
up today, plese let her went home and
oblidge
Mrs. B. P. c."
Kind Friend: Kindly excuse James
for lateness. | kneaded him after
breakfast"
"Dere Miss H: Willy was not
thare yesterday becaws he had to
have his shoes half-souled. They was
so holey his feet got wet and | was
afraid he would get tonsilightous. His
konstitushion amt of the best. 1t
is some Hereditary on his pas side
him being pulling. SO excoose. New
York Evening Post.
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INFORMATION FOR
PIGEON BREEDERS
Always Strive to Establish
Breed of Birds to Equal or
Excel Any Yet Produced.
By FREDERICK a. SOFTER

tBy FREDERICK A. SOTTER)
Dirty feed, like dirty coal produces
no results.
Don't imagine too fabulous profits
from squabbing.
To produce the fact from the theory
requires good sound effort and iudg.
ment.
System is as necessary In a squad
plant as II is in a department store.
Keep an accurate account of every
pair Of birds and the young they hatch.
Then weed out the sluggards.
One hundred squads weighing from
II to rs ounces apiece, are worth more
dollars to the squabber than two hun.
dred at half the average weight and
they cost less to feed Make weight
and quality Of your meat your first
consideration.
One pair of thoroughly domesticated
birds is worth half dozen pairs of
imported birds. 1t takes year for
imported birds to become domesti.
Gated, and If you accept imported stock
you hiuSl huaHtS SOul lftu DillS lot "a
year at least without any appreciable
returns from the birds. An extra 81
per pair for domestic birds is economy.
Set loft or two aside at the start,
in which to place the finest youngsters
each week. Every plant needs an
emergency" loft and It Is well to re.
member that you need to replace worn.
out lofts occasionally.
Spend ten minutes every morning
thinking what you can do for the bet.
terment OF your squad plant on that
day. Then do II.
Always aim to establish a breed of
birds to equal or excel any yet pro
duced. Place your ideal high enough
that you may always have something
to work for.
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hams Vegetable Compound. After TAX
ing the third bottle Of the Compound l
was able to do my homework and today
am strong and healthy again. l will
answer letters if anyone wishes to know
about my case. Mrs. JOSEPH AsELIN,
628 Monroe St N. E., Minneapolis, MINI.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harmful
drugs, and today holds the record Of
being the most successful remedy we
know for woman ills. If you need such
q medicine why don't you try it?
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia f. Pinlxham's Vegeta.
BILE Compound will help yOu,write
to Lydia E.Pinkham Medicine Co.
(confidentiaD Lynn, Mass, for ad.
vice. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by woman
and held In strict confidence.
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tie tumble, tickle love take wing
knows that there is no grief more pitt
full to endure than hers. The maiden
can look elsewhere with expectation
Of meeting heart mate. The wife
has burned all her bridges of romance
behind her. She has been faithful,
loving, conscientious helpmeet, eco
nomical to fault, turning and mend
Ing her clothes until there was scarce
ly thread left Of them, always meet
ing her husband with cheerful smile
and a kiss, slave over her house
hold duties from. morning till night,
happy in the thought that all her sac
rifices are for his dear sake, and yet
to note a growing GOODNESS on his
part is a thorn in her peace OF mind,
which grows in strength and sharp
ness until it pierces her heart to the
core. She Eliminates carefully over
the many possibilities that cool hus-
bands love and cause him to become
dissatisfied-a nagging wife-a spend
thrift-a married fiirt.
She conjures up everything, any
thing save the true reason which in
duces him to find fault with her over
mere trifles; why he, who used to be
so generous in their early married life,
cuts down their allowance for house
hold expenses, to the least possible
with sarcasm; refuses to take her
out for an evenings pleasure, allows
the taxes on their home to accumu-
late, coolly informing her he does not
intend to pay and she might as well
move, sell everything and go back to
her folks.
And he passes more weeks away
from home than in it, refusing her all
information as to where he was or
why he remained away. Even the
woman most blinded by wifely love
and devotion realizes that there is
something wrong-somewhere
The husband who is brutally frank
throws off all pretense at this stage
of the game and openly confesses that
he lis a backslider from love, faith
and duty; that it is better for them to
go their separate ways. He points
out to her that it is useless for her
longer to cling to heart upon whose
hearth the warm glow of affection has
died out.
Although he does not admit it in SO
many words yet flash of the truth
comes to her.
His tickle heart has strayed from its
allegiance to her. Even then she
makes excuses for him to herself
He has been lured away from her
against his will. All wives should
know that they have a strong hold
upon a husbands honor which she of
his idle fancy has not.
Even though a man tears his wife
rudely from his heart because of some
other attractive influence which holds
him for the time being yet he who is
false to one woman can never be en-
tirely true to another.
She in turn, loses her hold for a
fresher fancy. There comes an hour
in all such mems lives when they
would cast the tinsel from them for
the heart of pure gold that they flung
aside. It's only question of time
until he repents, seeing his folly, and
returns to the heart and home Of the
one love which proved strongest, tru-
est and best.
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Hope makes one confident and gay;
Clouds at her bidding disappear
Points she to aught, the bliss draws near
And fancy smooths the way.
1t is not every young woman who
considers that marriage is the jump
ing-off place Of satisfied ambition and
hope. There are girls of thoughtful
turn Of mind who consider 1t praise
worthy to fit themselves for some
especial duty In this work-a day world.
When young women knows that she
has no one to look to for support, she
realizes that she must buckle on the
armor and face the situation not only
bravely but eagerly. Those who must
earn their own living look with Won
der upon the weaklings who shrink
from honest labor
They pity the poor creatures who
sit with folded hands in a home that
Is in imminent danger OF being dis
rupted each time rent day rolls
around, waiting for some man to come
along, fall In love with them and
marry them.
They never know what 1t is to have
penny of their own in their pocket
and must bow submissive to the
whims of the head Of the house no
matter how bitter their hearts may
rebel in secret.
The business girl knows no such
dependence She earns her own way
in the world and If she finds one roof
inhospitable, it's inmates uncongenial,
she may go elsewhere. She sensibly
puts heart and soul into her work,
mastering all of the intricacies Of her
business that her services may be
more valuable to her employers as
time rolls on.
She acquires the habit of dressing
neatly, with judgment, and not CON
spicuously. She does not Irvine roses
in her hair during business hours
causing the wife Of the head OF the
firm to dislike her.
Neither does she wear filmy lace
waists and high French heels to bust
ness to create gossip among her as
sociates. Her plain shirt-waist Is
scrupulously neat and plain. Her
cloth skirt is not cut too loose at the
hip and too tight at the feet. Her
shoes are Of the common-sense, walk
ing type. She makes a study OF her
duties. and is faithful in the perform
ance Of them. She doesn't gossip
about business secrets She knows
the value Of a pleasant smile and
minding her own business. She asks
no favor of those about her and &C
cepts none at their hands. She real
ICES above all that good disposition
Is a business girls asset. she takes
no notice Of slight here or a word
OF sarcasm there, knowing that into
each life some rain must fall. Her
tastes are simple and her wants but
few. She has the good judgment to
lay by each week a little for the in
evitable rainy day. She learns TO be
student Of human nature and
chooses her friends wisely. 1t Is
never the fop nor the ne'er-do-well
who is attracted toward her. 1t Is the
man of good Judgment who recognizes
a true womanly woman when he finds
one. The business girl makes the
best kind of wife and mother The
popularity Of the business girl is APP
parent when It Is conceded that the
greatest men in law and letters, men
of great wealth, and in the highest
walks OF life, have chosen them for
wives.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-05-14
First GosIlno Feed.

Hard boiled egg and bread crumbs
or little oatmeal, make good first
feed for goslings. After two days
boiled potatoes with which is mixed
oatmeal or scalded wheat make an
ideal food. Green grass or some green
stuff should be chopped and fed from
the first. After they are "A week old
they should be let out on grass and
will then require very little feeding.
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Must Have Pleased Whistler.

Richard A. Garfield, who has parted
with his superb collection of Whistler
paintings and pastels for 100000,
said the other day in New York:
1T would be a wise criticism to
state my Whistler collection is the
best in the world And this reminds
me of the unwisest criticism going
a criticism that pretty English girl
made to Whistler about my Whistler
portrait of Count Robert de Mon
tesquiou Fezensac
This pretty girl, gazing at the ia
nous portrait with enthusiastic eyes.
cried in a gushing voice:
"'Oh, Mr.. Whistler, do think your
foreshortening of the skin tints is per-
fectly wonderful
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-05-14
Mr.. Lincoln's Phrase.

phrase from the immortal Gettysburg
speech" about Government OF the
people by the people and for the
people" was not original with Mr., Lin.
coin; that is, in the sense OF having
been used by him for the first time
It's use is traceable back into the past,
the earliest occasion OF Its employ.
mont. so far as Is known, being In
ancient Athens, about $50 b. G.
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q d d 8 nalvely.
i" '1'is b e I t er t o
have loved and
lost, than never to
have loved at all"
The maiden who
loses a tickle lover
declares t h err e
were never such
woes as hers. The
wife who has bar
tered her future
happiness TOT q
name and a ring
a. the alter, with
the expectation
that 1t W gu ! d
bring her lifelong
devotion and hap
riress. and has
seen her air cas-
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Rive for Green Manuriru.

Rye is perhaps the best cereal crop
to use as green manure, since 1t costs
little to seed, is very hardy and Is
capable of growing on poor soil. 1t
also will serve az fall pasture. Rye
should not be pastured In the spring
If It is TO be used as a green ma.
nure.
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LauraJeanLibbeu'S
Talks on
Heart Topics
tCopyrish, 1914. by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
THE OTHER WOMAN's INFLUENCE

have seen a love demanding
Time and hope and tears,
Claiming all the past. exacting
Bonds from future years;
Mind and heart and JOY and sorrow,
Claiming as its fee:
That was Love of Self and never,
Never love of me.
ITO love, and not be loved Is time
lost" says the poet; to which another
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Quality viii Pay.

II you grow vegetables for a local
market plant only those Of best quail.
ity, even though the yield is not quite
as great as that of an inferior kind.
Quality will pay in the end.
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after SUFFERING
TWO LONG YEARS
Mrs. Aselin Was Restored to
Health by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.
Minneapolis, MINI. AFTER my little
one was born l was sick with pains in

my sides which the
doctors said W ere
caused by inflamma-
ton. I suffered q
great deal every
month andgrew very
thin. l was under the
Doctors care for two
long years without
any benefit. Finally
after repeated sug-
gestions to try it we
got Lydia E. Pink
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Brush thu Cow.

Every mixer should carry brush
to brush off the loose hairs from the
tanks and tho uddcr OF the COW be-
fore milking.
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l.ioht on Dairy Records.

There can be no question as to the
bright light shed by dairy records on
the actual performance of herds and
of individual cows.
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His Job,

How does your husband spend his
Sundays?"
Cleaning up the automobile, most
Ii