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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-02-17
NorwaY,s Many Meals.

Among the well to do in Norway the
frequency Of meals and lighter re-
freshments is something startling, al
least to the average American-break.
fast at 8, dinner at 3, coffee at $3.50
regular tea, with many dishes, in Eng
fish style, at 4:3O, supper at z, and al
II nature is finally fortified with fur.
Their nutriment for the long, radiant
night. These long, radiant nights, by
the way are constant peril to Chris
tiania. They encourage many forms OF
the corresponding darkness of the long
winter brings in its train a certain sor
did depression, both mental and phys
ical.-Century.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-02-17
Not a Penal Institution.

1t used to be habit of justices of
the peace to sentence an ablebodied
vag to join the army or navy as an
alternative to going to jail. The the
DRY was that any sort of two legged
male creature was good enough to
fight for his country. OF late, how
ever, Uncle Sans recruiting officers
have discouraged this practice by re.
jecting all such candidates for uni
forms and serving notice that the
service wants citizens, not jailbirds.-
Chicago Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-02-17
Same as Ever.

"What did the doctor tell you today
about old Uncle Jake's condition."
"He was telling us that his mean
temperature vas
Telling you about his mean tenn
perature, was he? That's no news.
Everybody who knows Uncle Jake
knows that he hasn't anything about
him that isn't mean" = Milwaukee
Leader.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-02-17

event became one of moment to the
local preacher, as we'll as to the
church.
A. w. Kopp is in Philadelphia
attending a meeting of the commits
sioners who check up the mint at
that point
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-02-17
Theu Wer. Not Indiana

It is said that when the first Chinese
entered California the Indians were
very curious about them. a dispute
arose among some Of them as to what
country the strangers might hail from
and whether or not they were Indians,
The Indians decided to apply the water
test. One day a party of Indians met
a party of Cinnamon approaching a lit
tie stream. The strangers approached
the bridge and started across. The In
dams, too, had filed across and, meet
ing the Cinnamon in midStream, push
ed two of them into the angry, SPOON
ing current below. The test was con-
elusive They could not swim. They
were not Indians.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-02-17
Noisy Low Notes,

Charlie aged six, on hearing song By
celebrated bassO)-Father, did he make
all that noise on purpose?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-02-17
Rahv GIraffA.

A giraffe Immediately after It's
birth measures six feet from it's hoofa
to the top of its head.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-02-17
A Matter of Einan.

A Matter of Finance.
sometimes a man marries for mon
ey, but most times it is to get rid of
it.-Florida Times-UniOn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-02-17
The LocarIthm Man.

The first to make use of logarithms
IN solving mathematical problems was
John Napier, Scotch mathematician.
who died in 1917. It was in 1914 that
Napier announced his invention 10,
garithm' is mathematical term, the
!ogarithm of a number being the ex.
ponent of the power to which it is
necessary to raise a fixed number.
called the base, to produce the given
number. Napier's system was of i'm
mense value in trigonometrical prob
lens, since its use reduced what had
previously been the labor of months to
few days. The publication of Ma
piers work in 1914 created a sensa-
ton in the scientific world
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-02-17

Plaster of Paris.
Plaster of paris is so called because
it was originally obtained from Mont
martre, in Paris
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-02-17

Try a Herald want ad.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-05-27
Swat the EIV,


In the Better Babies department Of
the May Woman's Home Companion
appears some practical advice to moth
ers on various house cleaning matters.
On the subject Of fighting flies sue
cessfully appears the following.
Flies breed and thrive in filth and
carry it into your home.
BE ready for them with screens
and swatters.
Repair broken screens. A hole in
the screen may eventually mean a
hole in your family circle.
Flies multiply in garbage. Have
your garbage can emptied regularly
and keep it covered.
After emptying the tin, flush it
with carbolic acid solution, three ta-
blespoonfuls of 95 per cent carbolic
acid to each quart of hot water. This
solution destroys fly life in egg or
maggot form"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-05-27
WESTERN CANADA
SEEDING FINISHED
Wheat and Other Grains Have
Had an Excellent Start.

The seeding Of spring wheat was
pretty general this spring about 7th
Of April or about as early as in Illinois
ard Iowa. Oats and barley followed.
Information is to hand that on first
Of May all seeding was practically I'M
ished. Farmers will now be busy at
their breaking, and the land for sum-
mer fallow will be entered upon. Some
who did not get their land prepared
last fall, will be later than the others,
but as the spring in Western Canada
has been very open they will be only
a few days later. At the time OF
writing rain would be welcome, but
at seeding time, the ground contained
a splendid lot Of moisture and the
lack of rain at the present time will
not be serious. The number Of farm
ers who have gone into the raising OF
cattle has been considerably in
creased, and the preparation for ex-
tensive cultivated grass pastures iS
In evidence everywhere. The culti-
vation Of fodder corn is being largely
entered upon in Manitoba there be-
ing upwards Of $4,000 acres in corn.
In Saskatchewan there will be a
large increase in the area planted, and
In Alberta many of the more progress
siVe farmers are taking hold of it.
The yield varies according to the cul-
tiVation it receives, and runs from
five to nine tons per acre. In some
portions of Manitoba where it has
been poor for some years, success has
been achieved in ripening and it is
expected that variety will soon be
developed that will provide seed for
the entire West, that will at an early
date give to Western Canada fame
for the growing of marketable corn
equal to that it has now for the
growth Of smaller cereals.
A trip through Western Canada re-
veals field after field of alfalfa, the
growth of which in any portion of
the country is now absolutely assured.
When these facts are made known to
the farmers of the corn and alfalfa
growing states, where their value as
wealth makers is so well known, there
will be no hesitancy in taking advan-
tage of the splendid gift of 100 acres
of land made by the Government of
the Dominion Of Canada, where equal
opportunities are offered. Besides
these free grant lands, there are the
lands of some of the railway COM
panies and large land companies, that
may be had at low prices and on
reasonable terms. During the month
of February large number of in
quiries were received, asking for farm
lands.
An encouraging feature of the farm
land situation in Canada is the large
percentage of sales made to settlers
in the country who desire to increase
their holdings or to others who will
take up farming in place of different
occupations previously followed.-Ad-
vertisement.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-05-27
A WlfeIa Onininn-

'I used to imagine my husband
thought only of me, but now have
decided that his thoughts have a wider
range"
How do you think they rum"
About in this order-baseball,
clothes, billiards, business, his bulldog
and me-"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-05-27
A Baseball Schedule.

ut must take a deal Of care, I
should imagine, to arrange a baseball
SCHEDULED"
YES; so many attractions conflict.
Now in Boston we have lot Of trou-
BILE avoiding dates on which there are
symphony concerts. Puck.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-05-27

"aN'Dolis, O.-Supt. A. A. Lyons Of
the Kanawha & Michigan railroad or
cered zS trainmen and mechanics dis
charged from service at Middleport
for entering saloons at Pomeroy. Mid
dleport voted dry recently with the
railroads assistance.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-05-27
AWakeninu.

Rankin-Beanbrough used to call his
wife his little turtledove.
Phyle-That was before they were
married. Now he has found out he
can't feed her on birdseed.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-05-27

Austria has the finest collection OF
orchids in the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-16
BY T. 4. QUARLES.

Second vlce-President American Game Protective
Association.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-16

costs from Is cents to 81 to raise a mallard duck
which will command from $3.50 to Sl.75 at matur-
ity. Mallard eggs sell for the same price as
those of the pheasant Pheasants are in good
demand for table purposes in the fall by hotels
clubs and such private individuals as are able TO
afford them. They sold as high as s6 pair retail
in the New York market last
Game farming is urged by those interested in
increasing the country's supply because it admits
of forced production. few facts will show how
very much greater that production can be made
per unit than it is in the wild state. Take for
instance, the quail In the wild state the hen
laws usually from ten 70 eighteen eggs in sea
son, while on the New Jersey state game farm
last year forty-sx eggs were laid by single hen.
That was phenomenal, but twenty-five is probably
a conservative estimate of the production Of the
average hen quail in captivity. This increase is
obtained by robbing the hen Of her eggs as she
laws them and placing them under domestic hens
for incubation. Robbed Of the eggs, the captive
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-16
Sea Angler Has Lots of Fun Just Now

sity where large fish TO be caught In buy
ing all these lines reels, hooks etc, TO have them
thoroughly satisfactory II Is best TO go TO regu-
lar outftter and 10 tell him exactly for what
they are to be used.
And now, what about the cost The rods will
average about SO each; the lines will run from so
cents to 81 per 100 yards; the reels will be about
$3.50 each; sinkers, about 10 cents each; hooks
from 80 cents per dozen TO 10 or 10 cents each;
and a landing net about ST. the total running up
to SIS. Where TO go is the next vital question,
for the season generally opens in April and ends
Except for cod and founders) in early October.
The months are here given with list OF the prin'
cipal fish,
April, tautog, founders, porgies; May. tsutos,
porgies June, fuke, porgies, sea bass; July,
fuke, sea bass, spot or Lafayette porgies; Au-
gust, fuke, bass, spot, porges; September
huke, sea bass, porges; October, founders, tau
tog, and others occasionally.
Among the better known and principal fishing
grounds in this particular vicinity land they are
many and dverse) those In the neighborhood
of East Rockaway, Whistling Buoy, Buoys No.
and No. 2, which furnish bass and porgies, as
do also the Southeast and Northwest grounds.
Long Beach Stone Pile and Old Sou'east ground,
where the numerous wrecks occur, are the homes
of many big tautog Then there are also the
Coney Island mussel beds, the Manhattan Beach
stone pile the Coney Island bell buoy, the latter
a famous place for fuke and tautog, and the
Roman Shoals and endless other places
Then off the Jersey coast have the Sandy
Hook grounds, Flynn's Knoll, Southwest Spit,
False Hook the Oil Spot, Outer Middle ground,
the Cedars, Highland grounds. Seabrght grounds,
Shrewsbury Rocks. the Rattlesnake, Rocky Hill,
-
grounds, West End and ElberOn grounds, Klon-
dixie Banks, Ambrose Channel Lightship grounds,
Cholera Banks. Middle Grounds, Angler Banks
and the New Middle Grounds.
Finally. as to bait the list would include blood
worms, shrimps, killies, shedder crabs, hermit
crabs, clans and hddlers. Bait, in and abou.
New York, is expensive, whoever can afford the
time will do well to forage for his own. first
class ve-bait and box, easy TO open and easy
to fasten tightly. is an absolute essential as all
denizens of the deep succumb very quickly to
heat and the following bait are used as a rule
for the fish indicated:
Fluke Live killies, herring, mossbunker or,
lacking these. snappers or porgies cut in the
shape of fish.
Founder Sandworms. clans and mussels.
Sea Bass Any of the bats mentioned except
crabs.
Tautogs-Soft she'll clans.
Porgies Claws and legs OF shedder crabs. and
CLANS. sand and bloodworms.
Spot Small sandworms, clans cut in small
pieces, legs of shedder crabs, shrimps.
This slight list will give some idea OF where
10 fish and with what to fish, for there arc very
few large cities anywhere in the world where %
many OF it's citizens have such excellent hshins
grounds in which TO go regularly for sport every
year. and TO which the fish come IN hordes from
the deep ocean each season. ,- 2
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-16
American Game Protective AssOcia-
ton Will Put Experts at Work
to Save Quail. Ducks.
Pheasants, Deer, Etc.

birds keep laying in an endeavor TO secure a
sufficient supply for incubation.
Approximately the same ratio Of increase in egg
production can be obtained by this method with
the pheasant and many other game birds. Again,
the percentage Of the brood brought TO maturity
is much greater, owing to the protection from
vermin that is afforded when the chicks are hand
reared.
It is important that emphasis be placed on tho
fact that every game farm refuge, club and pr-
vate preserve forms valuable refuge for song
and insectivorous birds well as the game spe-
cies When IL is considered that the country's
crops are damaged yearly TO the extent OF $780,
100000 UNITED States Department of Agriculture
fgures) by insects, and that our birds are the
most efficient destroyers Of these pests, the more
game movement assumes an important economic
aspect Those who are fathering it feel that they
cam in view Of this fact, call the country gen
orally to lend hand to the attainment OF the
ends they are seeking
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-16

BAND n scientific warriors OF New York
is going on the trail Of the Red Man
n this summer. They will chase him to
bis lair in desert and mountain of the Far west
being armed with frying pans, monographs note
books, moving picture machines, apparatus 10
can gutturas. and especially heap plenty wan
pan 10 coax the shy savage into yielding ~ facts
and relics Of scientific value.
This is 20 movie enterprise nor an expedition
70 supply veneer OF local color for drama or
novel The trailers Of the Red Man have deadly
purpose they want to get under his skin and
ind out more about his soul than he knows MN
SELF; they viii vivisect him and label each piece
accurately; they will index bis parts and synthe-
tie his ancestors; they will make him better
Known TO US than arc our political heroes.
The American Museum OF Natural History IS
sending out the scientists, thanks TO the FUNDS
contributed By Archer NJ. Huntington. or course
ne museum has done this sort OF chasing the
IL fact it has summer habit Of chasing the
poor Indian; but the chase has become intense
and concentrated just now, and the prospects OF
neh results causing the learned hunters 20
ehortle With eupeptic JOY. Dr. Clark Wissler' VINO
heads the department Of anthropoloGy told the
writer in plain language the other day about inc
status OF the Red Man and the prospective pick
Jugs IN CHASING him
The Indian and mis- works have high scien-
nac Importance Both are yelled in much mys-
'ery, owing 20 the secretive nature OF the aborlg
me and his failure 20 write himself up from time
10 time like the Chinese and Egyptians The
white man on his arrival here took little interest
N the Indian beyond supplying him with rum
disease and discipline derived from the muzzle
end Of a rife. The romantic tales Of Cooper en-
bodied few facts
WORK OF THE SPANISH MISSIONARIES IN
THE SOUTHWEST.
On the other hand the Spanish missionaries
o. the Southwest made some useful records, and
Monumental work Of research and theory was
cone In the middle Of the last century by Lewis
morgan, best known for his Ancient Society"
Vniy about decade and a half ago il real
"so that the Indians were fast vanishing and
ths' science should get busy 10 collect Los lore.
me American Museum Of Natural History took
prominent part in the revived study, and 1t de
Voed rather lately 10 concentrate on the most
promising fields, which are now in the southwest
efh part Of the United States.
mere are few large facts surmises the
.notn problem. The Red Man did not originate
Ass' but crossed over from Asia = short time
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-16

aoo cav 10 600 wears The early European man,
Judging by the shape of his skull, dates back
at least 100000 years. Our little savage brother
is an immigrant, and not an original inhabltant
There is a strange situation in regard to Ian
guare In the Old World there are only half
dozen or so absolutely separate and distinct Ian
guages, or unrelated groups OF language. The
Indians of America seem TO have had about nifty
independent and unrelated languages not dia-
lects, but groups as distinct as the Aryan and
Semitic How did the aborgine acquire such a
marvellous lot of tongues? Why did he show
such inventive genius in speech and yet fall short
on writing and other arts?
The language mystery has been specially
tackled by Pny f. Goddard, curator OF ethnol-
ocy. who has used all the latest implements to
capture speech. 1t is said that photograph was
wrecked in the attempt TO get record OF one OF
the harsher Indian languages.
An expert stenographer was tried and left at
the post Some one suggested that seismo-
graph was needed TO take down the noise, but Dr.
Goddard sent for machine invented by French
.avant This machine fits over the head and, by
means Of levers and smoked paper, indicates the
position Of a mans speaking organs when he
makes any particular sound.
PERsUADING THE INDIAN THAT THE MA
CHINE Is HARMLESS.
The trouble was TO get the poor Indian to stand
for the machine, but DR.. Goddard finally per
suaded him that il heap good medicine, and
. be thereby charted out some of the hercest
grunts and gutturals in the savage vocabulary
Any New Yorker 90 up TO the museum
make a face like an Indian, and emit sample of
one Of the fifty aboriginal languages. Besides
capturing speech DR.. Goddard has also made
number of motion pictures OF ceremonies and
scenes in the every day life OF the Indian.
The warpath of the scientists this summer will
be especially through Arizona and New Mexico
DR.. Robert II. LOWE, an expert on the clan sys-
tenn, will make himself at home with the isolated
and curious little Hop folk in northeastern
Arizona. These people have regular houses, keep
gardens and irrigation. DR.. LOWE expects 10
get as chummy with them he did with the
Cows and TO get authentic answer TO such
questions as What is joking relative?" and
"Why can't a speak to his mother-n-law?"
He discovered some time ago the existence Of
the "joking relative" parsonage who resem-
ber the clown OF medieval times, but the inner
meaning of this figure in Indian life has yet TO be
determined SO with the mother-in-l law problem; IT
seems that it is even more Of problem with the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-16

red man than with the white, since talking is
taboo.
The dwarfsh Hops will not make q straight
answer TO the scientsts's questions on these and
other points. They will ramble of with silly
tales of two-legged snakes and horned toads who
intermarried with their ancestors. But 1t is these
silly legends which record in the form OF
parable. the history and social makeup OF the
people By correctly interpreting them we may
learn things that date bark TO the dawn of time
The great work of Lewis Morgan, which revou-
tionzed our idea of primitive man. was based on
such fairy tales and a seemingly meaningless
system of names of relatives
PROFESSOR KROEBER TO STUDY CLAN Or
GANIZATION.
In the Zuni colony of western New Mexico Pro-
lessor A. L. Kroebor will study the clan orgsni-
cation for the American Museum Of Natural His"
tory. although he is regularly connected with the
University of California
The work Of excavating the Pueblo ruins south
of Santa Fe, y. ", will be continued by y. l.
Nelson of the Museum staff, who has already
made an important find in the matter OF stratlh-
cation. In the more anciently occupied Old " orId
u is easy to find strata OF human debris layers
of building and other rubbish top of the
other the newest at the top and the oldest at the
bottom whereby chronological record OF mans
progress is obtained. Until Mr.: Nelson's hnd IN
New Mexico no sterilization had been discovered
IN North American Indian ruins. The layers OF
successive periods now being studied may yield
time record on internal evidence, or by reference
TO the more highly developed Aztecs or Mayas OF
Southern America. The latter had crude calen-
dsr and if one OF their utensils or ornaments Is
found in a layer, it may be feasible TO date 1t &C
cordng TO its makers and at the same time date
one OF the periods of New Mexican development
Between present day history and the records OF
the Spanish priests II is possible to reconstruct
Indian life in the Southwest for about 400 years
back By digging in the ground and by inter
preting legendary history and custom the Red
Mans record may be had for many thousands OF
years.
The idea OF the present scientific campaign on
the Indian is TO round up great mass OF facts
and then TO shape appropriate theory 10 nj
them The complete facts will probably bear out
some of Morgans great deductions while others
nut forward by him and other authorities may be
modified or discarded.
Meanwhile the scientific hunters armed with
the latest weapons Of inquiry, are hot on Los
trail.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-16

s.cond vice.President American Game Protective
Association.
wv 7 HEN we have in America lOO,-
"a 900 gamekeepers game will be
w Tar more plentiful and the
laws far better observed"
Thes. are the words Of DR.. Edward Howe
Forbush State Ornithologist OF Massachusetts,.
and one Of the foremost naturalists OF his time.
Why hasn't this ountry 100000 gamekeepers
and granted that such state OF affairs is de-
sirsbl.. how can il be brought about? These
ar. questions that naturally arise when one
con,.nplates the universal demand for more
game and the defamation Of the supply that
h. country has witnessed almost within the
memory OF the present generation.
The American Game Protective Association,
tn. national organization Of the country's
spoftsmen is addressing itself TO solution OF
III. problem o; increasing the game supply In
iurtherance OF this, it called to meet in this
city recently the first national conference on
game breeding and preserving. State othcials
having 10 do with wild life conservation, game
keepers Of national reputation, ornthologists,
sportsmen. owners OF preserves and rePresen-
tatves Of sportsmens clubs which have taken
up game breeding and preserving were present
in large numbers. They came from as far west
as Iowa and as far south as Louisiana. The