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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-02-26
HAD TO BE TAUGHT FRENCH
English Horses, in Service of Gallo
Owners, Unable to Understand
Words of Command.

A French writer tells quaint story
Of the war. He says that the English
cavalry in France found themselves in
possession of number Of horses
which were not found suitable for
cavalry work. By arrangements with
the French government they sold them
off to French peasants for agricultural
work. The farmers were delighted;
though the horses were not adapted
for cavalry work, they were better
than they had been accustomed to
have for farm work. But when they
came to work them difficulty arose.
The horses did not understand French.
When addressed with "Hue" or a
Dial" (Which is idiomatic French
for Gee up!" and "Way, whoa!')
they did not bulge. No doubt carriers
in France, as in England, have whole
vocabulary of horse talk. Apart from
the starting and stopping, there are
special cries which tell the horse to
turn to the right or left or to take
up 2 particular posture when it is
being groomed.
Even in England these carriers and
grooms' words differ in different coun-
ties, but probably that would be no
difficulty in the way of transferring a
horse, say, from the north of Eng
land to the south. For, as the expert
mental psychologists tell us, animals
do not really understand articulation;
what they do understand is the tone
in which words ale spoken. This has
been said even of dogs, which are
much more intelligent than horses
and much more attentive to the
speech of man. Dog lovers, however,
deny this, and say that dogs under
stand the spoken word in whatever
tone it is uttered or however quietly.
However that may be, it would not
help the English horses in France,
since the French tones expressing
the various moods of entreaty or COM
mand differ even more from the Eng
lish than does the pronunciation Of
the words The horse is not the only
animal to which French would be a
foreign tongue. In France you call
cat not by Kissing sound, "Tsh, tsh,"
or "Psh, psh," as we do, but by some
thing between kiss and whistle.
Hence in France the vocative of "cat"
is not "Puss" but Mimi"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-02-26
DR.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
His Important Medical Discovery
Should Be Recorded in His
Memorial.

There has been suggestion that
in a memorial to DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes some worthy recognition be
made of his incompatible service to
mankind in the discovery and propaga-
ton against obstacles that would have
deferred a less honest and sympa-
thetic mind of the contagiousness or
childbed fever and its remedy. Lay
persons and unfortunately many IN
the profession are unaware OF this
epoch-making discovery by man
whose memory is beloved and hon.,
ored for his literary attalnments
only. A disease which consigned
thousands of recent mothers to I'M
timely graves was suddenly deprived
of its malign prevalence by the dis
covery of Doctor Holmes that it was
contracted by contact with the doc
tor or nurse and that simple precau-
lions by them would prevent its oc-
currence. Prosecuted in his own
country by the ridicule of great pro-
fessors in that speciality, Holmes pur-
sued the even tenor of his way until
his idea was accepted in England.
Thence it was carried to the con-
tinent, where it was taken up by a
Hungarian physician who reduced the
mortality in the Vienna hospitals enor-
mously. To the latter his countrymen
have erected a monument in Buda-
pest, and annually homage is paid to
his memory, while Holmes is barely
remembered in the United States for
this scientific discovery, which it is
said he valued more highly than his
literary fame.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-02-26

"a AHITI, the largest island of the
Society group, and by many
travellers believed the most
beautiful in any sea, lies nearly
south of Hawaii and about sew
enteen degrees south of the equator,
writes E. T. Allen in American For
estry. First touched by Portuguese
and Spanish navigators, it was de-
scribed to Europe by Wallis (176O
and Bougainville (1768). They gave
such a lively account of the beauty of
both island and people, and of what
they considered the idyllic perfection
of it's semiwild, semidevelOped society.
that much was written, especially in
philosophical France, to argue that
here was proof of the necessity for re-
turn to nature by the human race.
Bougainville named it New Cy-
therea. His companion, the naturalist
Commerson, called it Utopia and wrote
extravagantly of the virtues which he
said flourished because the natives
had no conventional restraint.
Cook and Forster's visits soon fol-
lowed (1769 to 1774), bringing fuller
information, and in 1888 England sent
Lieutenant Bligh in the Bounty to get
breadfruit for introduction into her
tropical colonies. How his crew mu-
tinted later, put back to Tahiti, sailed
from there again with party of ma
tive men and women, and disappeared
from the world until found long after
ed an isolated colony that exists to-
day, is perhaps better known than
any other episode in Polynesian his
tory.
Of Aryan ancestry, practically OF
wholly escaping Mongol or Negroid in
fusion by their exodus from the main
land in the remote past, the Tahitians
were and are still about what would
be expected of people much like
southern Europeans, but who have
been isolated for ages under all the
passionate influences of the tropics.
1.-THE Garden of Eden"
Rainbow colored fish play through
the coral along the sea wall at your
feet, the placid green lagoon meets a
skyline of palms on either hand. and
seward, beyond tiny palm covered
islet where a queen once had hel
fortress, the surf rolls Dreaming on
the barrier reef from the blue trop
ical ocean, ripping in the soft fresh
trades. Behind the town, itself hid
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-02-26

den in verdure green slopes rise quick
" to splintered volcanic peaks nearly
eight thousand feet high. carved by
precipitous valleys with countless
flashing waterfalls. Melville wrote
that the ineffable repose and beauty
of the Tahitian landscape was such
that every object struck him like
something seen in dream, and he
could scarcely believe such scenes had
real existence. Often" said Bou-
Granville. Il thought was walking in
the Garden of Eden"
Papeete is the only town, but the
fertile level shores of the island are
so thickly populated as to form almost
a continuous village along the road
that skirts the beach for its oircumfer-
ence of nearly one hundred miles. Yet
there is practically no open land ex-
cept in the uninhabited mountains.
Houses and villages are beneath end
mangoes, oranges, banyans and bam-
boo, with occasional ornamental exot-
les from other tropical lands. Alligator
pears native "chestnuts," mummy ap-
pies and bananas, are in almost every
doorway Except for two small sugar
plantations, a few half-hearted cotton
patches, and small clearings for taro,
vans and other vegetables. there is
no farming as we know it. Copra and
vanilla are the island crops.
Work Is Not Worry.
On the whole, however. industry has
small part in the daily life of the in
habitants. Very little work sutfices
to procure all that is essential where
nature supplies food and shelter. The
writer once asked a native to bring
him some fish.
Why don't you catch your own
fish," was the response.
That isn't the question. I'll give
dollar for a good string of fish.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-02-26
Woes OF an Author.

"How's your new book coming on?"
"Passably well. The demand isn't
what it should be. / mean among pur-
chasers. And, of course, if people
don't buy the book there's nothing in
it for me-"
81 see. BY the way, I'm reading it
now. Binks loaned me a copy that
Tompkins borrowed from Bradley.
Pretty fair story.'-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-02-26

Reason cannot show itself more
reasonable than to cease reasoning on
things sh~va reo-n- Sir D. Sidney.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-02-26

Denver women are forming home,
and school clubs in the churches.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-02-26

The mother tongue has the father
tongue beaten.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04
GRANGE MEETING HERE
Pomona Adjourned Session from Au-
burn in Topeka Saturday.

The regular meeting of the Pomona
grange, which was adjourned at Au-
burn, having failed to dispose of the
regular order of business, will be held
at Topeka, Saturday, June 5, 1 p. M,
in room 2, state house.
All delegates are requested to be
present, and all officers and fourth de-
gree members in good standing are
cordially invited to come and take
part in the deliberations.
The following subjects will be made
special orders:
Distribution of binding Irvine.
Election and installation of officers
to fill vacancies.
Adoption of constitution and by
laws.
Program for next regular Pomona
meeting.
please notify your delegates, Of
ficers and members" says G. G. Bur-
ton, master. THE date is June 5, the
hour 1 p. m, the place state capital
room of the utilities commissioners
office, in the east wing on the ground
floor, first door to the left
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04
Freight Rates Unchanged by
Recent CumminS Act.
Railways Lose Fight to In
crease Tariffs.
THE JOKER WAS NOT UPHELD
/. C. G.. Decision States That
Low Rates Are Still O. X.
Other Items of General Interest
in the Railroad World.

The freight rates will remain the
same under the Cummins amendment
which prohibits any limitation of the
liability of carrier to shipper, despite
the efforts of the railways to secure
an added rate to offset the liability.
The Cummins act was passed during
the closing hours of the sixty-third
congress. 1t was signed by the presi-
dent March 4. The intention was to
do away with the limited liability
clause under which shipments have
been received by the railways, max
ing it obligatory upon the carriers to
pay full value for losses. 1t was
ordered that the standard uniform bill
of lading, which fixes a 100 per cent
rate for shipments carried on a re-
leased valuation, and ITO per cent
rate for shipments carried at full LA
bility, should be made Illegal. The
act was an amendment of the act to
regulate commerce.
Railroad attorneys claim that the
Cummins act carried a joker which
puts a burden on the shippers. 1t was
commended by the carriers that the
law automatically wiped out the lower
limited liza bility transportation, and
would force the shippers to pay the
10 per cent extra which had been in
force on shipments carried with full
liability. But this contention was not
sustained by the interstate commerce
commission.
The fight of the carriers for an in
crease of 10 per cent to go into eff
feet Thursday, with the new C1mmins
law was one of the most interesting
chapters in rate making. They sub
mitted to the commission their claim
that they were entitled to an increase
because of the tariffs already in eff
feet, which provide one rate when the
u uSPd a
per cent higher rate when II shipper
rejects that bill and insists upon one
of unlimited liability. The commits
sion rejected the claim.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04
WHAT Is A JITNEY?
Question Is Raised Before Illinois
Public Utility Commission Today.

Springfield, Ill, June As a jitney
bus a public utility, and must it have
a certificate of convenience and neces-
sity before it can operate the streets
of a city?
This was the question presented to
the Illinois public utilities commission
which today heard arguments in the
case of the Jacksonville Street Railway
company against the L. F. O'Donne1l
Motor company of Jacksonville, ask
ing to compel the motor company to
come under the commissions control.
The petition seeks to put the jitneys
out of business in the state under the
commissions policy of supporting
regulated monopoly rather than W.
restricted competition, the commission
having held that new concerns seeking
to enter the field where there already
is a going concern serving the public
in the same or similar way must show
reasons why for the public good they
should be permitted to operate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04
Are You Ready
For Your Trip? Take
HO
M allied Milk

with you when Yachting, Camping.
Motoring, Fishing, or Go1fing
A nutritious, satisfying Food-Drink ready
In a moment. A. good light lunch when
tired or run down. Simply dissolve in water,
hot or cold. A fine nights rest is assured
if you take a cupful hot before retiring.
Our Lunch Tablets are the acme OF con-
venient nourishment. Dissolve few
In the mouth when fatigued or hungry.
Sample free, HORLICK'S, Racine, Wis.
-No Sub stitute is 1syust as G0od''
as HORLICk'S, the Original
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04

ume would reach even higher figures
during the summer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04
An Easy Way to Get
Fat and Be Strong

The trouble with most thin folks who
wish to gain weight is that they insist
on dragging their stomach or stuffing it
with greasy foods; rubbing useless
flesh creams" following some fool
ish physical culture stunt, while the real
cause of thinness goes untouched. You
cannot get fat until your digestive tract
assimilates the food you eat.
Thanks to remarkable new scientific
discovery, it is now possible to combine
into simple form the very elements
needed by the digestive organs to help
them convert food into rich, fat-laden
blood. This master stroke of modern
chemistry is called Sargol and has been
termed the greatest of flesh builders.
Sargol aims through its generation, re-
constructive powers to coax the stomach
and intestines to literally soak up the
them into the blood, where they are car
ried to every starved, broken down cell
and tissue of your body. You can readily
picture the result when this amazing
transformation has taken place and you
notice how your cheeks fill out, hollows
about your neck, shoulders and bust dis
appear and you take on from 10 to 20
pounds of solid. healthy flesh. Sargol is
absolutely harmless. inexpensive, eff
cient. Arnold Drug Co. and other leading
druggists of Topeka and vicinity have it
and will refund your money if you are
not satisfied, as per the guarantee found
in every package
Caution:-While Sargol has given ex-
cellent results in overcoming nervous dys-
pepsia and general stomach troubles it
should not be taken by those who do not
wish to gain ten pounds or more.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04
SCHEDULE Is ANNOUNCED.
Hcssian Fly Train to Tour Santa Il,
Lines in Kansas.

The Hessian Fly special will be oper-
ated next week over the Santa Fe and
will be in charge of experts from the
State Agricultural college.
Tuesday, June 8, the following
towns will be visited: Putnam, Sedg-
wick, Valley Center, Derby, MulVane,
Belle PLANE, Wellington, Dalton, OK
ford, Rome, South Haven, Caldwell,
Corbin, Perth; June 9, Mayfield, Mi
Ian, Argonia, Danville, Harper, An
thony, Duquoin, Rago, Norwich, Viola,
Clearwater, Peck; June 10, Goddard,
Garden Plain, Cheney, Murdoch, King
man, Calista, Pretty Prairie, Castle
ton, Nickerson, Sterling, Alden; June
IL, Partridge, Plevna, Sylvia, Stafford,
st. John, Macksville, Belpre, Lewis,
Kinsley, Garfield, Larned, Pawnee
Rock, Great Bend: June IL, Ellinwood,
Chase, Lyons, Little River, Window,
Conway, Mcpherson, Galva, Canton,
Hillsboro, Marion, Florence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04
RAILWAY NOTES.

For the guidance of tourists and
other travellers, especially those going
west to the California expositions, the
Southern Pacific company is distrib-
uting an illustrated booklet, Way
side Notes Along the Ogden Route"
1t is intended to give strangers in the
west accurate information about the
cities towns and various districts
through which the train passes on its
way from ogden to San Francisco.
Reports on the tobacco crop on the
experiment farm of the Nashville,
Chattanooga and ST. Louis railway, To-
Gated at Tullahoma, Tenn, just sub
mitted by J. H. Judd, agricultural
agent, show that despite the drouth
last year an average of more than
1900 pounds per acre was maintained.
The crop has just been marketed and
brought a net profit of S97 per acre.
The methods followed on the demon
stration farms of this road are only
those which may be successfully fol-
lowed by the farmers of limited
means.
Railroad executives representing
ninety per cent of the entire mileage
of the country, among them officials
of leading southern roads, met at At
lanta recently and approved the
course of the committee on railway
mail pay in it's efforts to secure from
the United States government ade-
quate compensation for transporting
mails and urged that congress enact a
law giving the interstate commerce
commission the same Jurisdiction over
mail traffic that it now has over all
other classes of traffic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04
Travel to Coast.

In the current issue of the Santa
Fe passenger department magazine,
Ticket Selling Talks" the travel to
the Pacific coast is commented upon.
The publication notes that during the
first five days of the rush to the Cali
fornia fairs, IS exposition trains were
sent out of Chicago
1.-The Santa Fe has made a great
record in the volume of business car
ried during the past winter and
spring" an official is quoted as say
ing, land it looks as though this VOL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04

Toledo lot gardening movement is
the largest it has ever known.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10

was absent ! entertained them. Colonel Crockett TX
me 20 one side and told me that one Of Marnaduke staff
had conidcl TO him that Narmaiuke had said Walker
was a coward at Reeds Bridge. replied that thought
his informant mistaken that while General Marina
duke was dissatisfied with General Walkers conduct on
the retreat from Brownsville and in the battle Of Reeds
Bridge and had asked TO have his command taken from
under General Walker did not think he had called Gen
era Walker coward expressed the hope that no at
tcntion would be paid to the report.
But in the meantime General Walker had heard Of it,
and asked Colonel Crockett TO request explanation
from General Marmaduke Colonel Crockett wrote for
his commander this letter:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10

SEVERAL days aftcrward General Walker with Colonel
Robert H. Crockett and Major Ragland. called at
General Marmadukcs headquarters, and as Marmadulc
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-23
DENMARK
NANAAAAeHAAA

~~~>> . . . . . . . .
Sainer who teaches in the
here, was called to Bloomfield,
Friday. by the serious Illness Of
|ther.
Charles Wharton Is having an
sllo put UP. The progressive
= are planning to take care Of
soft corn.
q very pleasant three weeks
the parental Siegar and Ben
PONIES, Mrs. Adon Siegar and
q returned to their home in
last Friday. They we're ac-
MED by Miss Bessie Benners,
eturned to her home here iasr
hawkins is in very poor health
a pleasant visit with her
.er, Mrs. Van Tuyle, Mrs. /.
q LETT for Keokuk this morning.
an Iuyle accompanied her as
TT. Madison.
90 Cunningham who ha, been
,ae typhoid fever is able to be
not at school yet.
Wnitmarsh and Mary and
I.ingenfeldter are attending
a. MT Pleasant, Iowa.
nn,,.chcock goes to Knox col
Ias,esourg. III. this fail.
~. !, 2chaffer Of Keokuk and
s IN Iuyle and Miss Madeline
A. a spent Saturday evening
!. henn and daughter.
/. number from here WIFI At.
~ sunday school convention in
law next Wednesday and
udy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-23

or WAR IS TAUGHT
.,ok,es Under Leadership Of
United states Army Or
e.rs-Inerease This
Year.

- cant 2s.-Preparedness ZOE
~ ut ~ what this country wants
= disturbing times o. val LAVE
ns :. .reddyism.' Visit the cam
q .;na the hour At 4 o'clock
\. day on Monday or Wednes-
~ =. ~ ~ look and behold . mill
, lne that will tingle the mar
i.nm.cles OF the blood.
4 the sight that WIN BE- IN
Z. ,rrdred Observation-Disclosures,
..,, r uniformed cadets, hep.
= the music Of a lusty student
= hand. and passing In review:
.on,nanfes, oficered BY CAP
,,.ussnants, corporals and "hep"
y. II forming the cadet corps at
STATE college and maneuverinE
!. order extended order, IN TACT
a. Won order, in q veteran-ltke
4 that will cause q disbelievin9
70 wonder.
Il real!" Just hsten. Hsh.
Face"
4 man Of the 800 twists on his
heel and is faced in the opposite
IN before you can say scat -
h real?" Squads right-Yo.'
alignment wheels, breaks into
and marches of In squad forma-
.Ith the military dispatch ana
ion Of a West Point prize COM
4 it.s real And it's serious, too.
Ask one OF the freshmen. He'll
3. 4,
rear OF military drill Is the re-
ment at Iowa State college II the
Il wants diploma at the end
college course.
Ter the Morrill, act land grant
les are required to give military
Army officers are put in charge
Military discipline is strictly adj
to.
Iowa State college General Rush
ln has been In charge for thirty
ana he now has the aid OF his
first Lieutenant Rush B. Lincoln,
year has been the rule at Ames
bfore. Next year. however, VIII
the enforcement OF the two-year
hs rule. Freshmen and sopho-
both viii be required to report
i'll twice each week.
continues throughout the
rear until June when q six-day
~ camp is held on the campus.
& time prize drill decides the
company in close order drilling,
led order drilling. maneuvering.
onies. guard mount and disci-
Ribbons are given to each
Yer Of the company. that wins the
In any OF these departments. At
ID a cup is presented to the best
Dund company. ~
ing TO the increase IN enrolment,
det corps at Ames this year has
divided into twelve companies
mpared to ten last year. Forty
oficers are in command.
ldes Iowa State college there
1y-four other universities and
es In the United States which
military training. In addition
ee there are thfrty-seven military
at which, Of course, military
hg is also required.
preparedness, did you say?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-23
Medical Men Mac.

bbu,lNEs, Ia. Sept. 23.-Promi.
vs..a and surgeons from
(,u,e - states are here TO-DAY
Name W. ,ne two days annual session,
1sulcal society OF the Missouri
L Dr. Dung the prominent speak.
Chi. :. Murphy. a noted oper-
Ib vnleago; DR.. ]. A. witherspoon
Eelan e Tenn; DR.. Geo. w. Grille
elear oe ana mo DR.. Howard van
OF Albany, N. =.