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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14
Great Gain Recorded.

DIR. Louis Frank, a member of one
of Milwaukee's pioneer families, has
completed medical history of Milwau-
kee which is of great interest and value
to the people of the entire state.
To nv mind, nothing in DR.. Frank
book is more Illuminating than the
tables in which he shows of what dis
eases the people died, year by year, for
the past forty years. AS part of this
study. he has compiled a table showing
the most important causes of death for
the last twenty years as compared with
the preceding twenty.
Today, as you frequently see in re-
ports of health departments, pneumonia
and tuberculosis are the most frequent
causes of death, whereas from 1870 to
1891 commissions and intestinal diseases
of childhood headed the list. During
the last twenty years, convulsions is
tenth, due to more intelligent feeding
and care of infants. Whereas small
pox ranked fourth as the cause of death
from 1870 to 1891, from 1892 to 1914 it
is at the bottom of the list. Practic-
ally no deaths are due to smallpox to-
day.
Diphtheria changed it's position from
fifth in the early period to eleventh in
the latter period. Antitoxin is mainly
responsible for this decrease. Scarlet
fever was seventh from 1870 to 1891;
from 1892 to 1914 it was fifteenth. Bet
ter quarantine secured this increased
safety. Meningitis was relatively much
less important in the last twenty years
than it was in the preceding twenty
years; typhoid and measles somewhat
less.
The most abrupt jumps upward in
the second period from the position oc-
cupied in the early period are made
by kidney disease from seventeenth to
sixth: cancer from fourteenth to fifth;
heart disease from tenth to third; and
pneumonia from sixth to first.
DIR. Franks table is not built on
actual increase or decrease in numbers,
but upon change of position. Obvious
ly, therefore, when smallpox drops
from near the top of one column to the
bottom Of its parallel column, it has
had to crowd more common diseases
nearer the head of the list. Neverthe-
less, this table gives point and general
! confirmation to the truth recently
pointed out that the common diseases
| of early life are growing less and the
| degenerative diseases of adult life are
! increasing.
| The above gains offer encouragement
| to and great promise from increasing
intelligent care of infants; antitoxin in
all cases of diphtheria and membranous
Group; and enforcing quarantine in all
cases of scarlet fever.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14

SAY, you legislative fellows, have
you Investigated the tax commission
with the idea of junking it? If you have
not, just read the facts for here they
are. In 1901 this commission with its
helpers had a total working force of
ten and cost Wisconsin ST., 548. Al. This
was in the morning twilight of reform.
In 1914, just before the flag of progress
siveism was placed at half-mast, it had
457 helpers and cost the state the tidy
sum of $178, 91258. There was no COM
plant about excessive taxes in 1901,
while everybody complained of them in
1913. In the face of this showing why
does our legislature hesitate about wip-
ing this sinecural feeding station off
the map?-M adisonian.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14

Now has come the most critical per-
iod of the legislature. Great measures
are approaching focus, and senators
and assemblymen are urged to stand
squarely for Governor Philips plan Of
economy and simplifcation of state
government. 1t was for these purposes
that Governor Phillip was elected, and
the people are back of him strongly.
They demand reform. They demand
lessened taxation. They insist upon an
abatement of the commission nuisance.
They ask urgently that the government
be restored to the people, and that it
may be made more responsive to the
people. Governor Phillip is thoroughly
honest in his purpose to keep faith
with the public, but he cannot do it
alone. Legislation is required for the
betterments which he desires and which
the public expects. Madison Democrat.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14

IN HIS address before the Madison
club, ex-President Taft scored the pri-
mary election laws as un-American and
productive only of the most unfavor-
able results in the choice of candidates.
He declared that the primary law was
a measure which placed an applicant
for office in the position of a supplicant
before the people and lowered the
standing of the candidates who were
nominated for office. He declared that
every indication pointed to the fact
that the so-called progressive falacies
that had found birth in Wisconsin were
being rapidly repudiated by the people
as a policy intended for Individual
preferment rather than for any good
of the people.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14

WHILE we never had the opinion that
the recent survey of the University of
Wisconsin got very far beneath the
surface, the awful howl being sent up
by the University crowd indicates that
it got too close to some of them for
their comfort 1t is said that in some
countries ga professor is prince, and
above the questions of the common peo-
pie vino pay the taxes. Perhaps there
are few in the University crowd who
would like to have similar immunity.
With all its obstacles to overcome and
the short comings of the plan, the sur
vey disclosed that it was easily possible
to reduce the expenses of the Univer-
sity $500, 900 annually. Hence, another
howl. If the survey was as wrong as
the University crowd claims, why do
they not demand thorough investiga-
ton by special legislative committee
as a vindication? Their wire-puillng
through the newspapers has got to be
such an old stunt on the part of the
University bunch that everybody is
wise to it.-Black River Falls Journal
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14

EX-PRESIDENT TAFT, who came into
the state last week to deliver a series
of lectures at the university, discussing
the different phases of government
made most favorable impression upon
the capacity audiences gathered at ten
different occasions. His visit had no
political significance but it strength
ened the opinion of many people in the
broadness, judicial equipose and ability
of one of the great statesmen OF the
country.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14

THAT a great plague of disease may
sweep over Europe, as an aftermath of
the great war, need not be surprising,
although it would be appalling. Con-
ditions throughout the war zone and in
the countries involved in the conflict
are fertile for the growing of frightful
epidemics. In Servia and elsewhere
the seeding seems to be in process for
a harvest of death that may stagger
the world. Another tremendous in
dictment against warfare
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14

IF THE world is ready to accept the
doctrine that might makes right and
necessity knows no law, then the sink
ing of the Lusitania by German tor
pedos might be condoned. But or the
face of it the death of hundreds of in
nocent non-cOmbatants looks as If no
act of Germany would lose her the
sympathy of the world like this appall-
ing and inhuman sacrifice of life and
Y1rOpartU
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14

IT IS wonderful how the banks fall
for a winsome young girl with a bold
front One of this class was appre-
hended at GAINESVILLE during the week
that left trail of bogus checks all the
way from the Pacific coast. The banks
simply couldn't resist cashing checks
for the sweet thing, but the mere man
would have to be identified every time.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14
Music hv the Peck.

At the beginning of a musical exer-
else was the sign e. Teacher-What
does the number 3 tell us? Pupil
(age seven)-There are three quarts of
notes in q measure.-BOston Post
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14

We ALMOST suspect that our neigh
Dor, the Eagle, had not been favored
with the report of the Investigations of
the conditions at the prison binder Irvine
plant or it never would have attempted
to defend the present management in
trying to unload upon the state a lot of
secondhand and out of date machinery,
only little of which could be utilized.
After the expose of the inefficiency and
mismanagement in the binder Irvine
plant, the governor felt called upon to
stop the further sale of Irvine until a
more businesslike credit system was
established 1t was disclosed that one
Illinois dealer, who has since gone
through bankruptcy, owes the. state
Sc, 900 with no chance of its ever being
paid. And this was only one instance.
He did not order the plant closed, but
in order to utilize more of the prisoners
recommended running the plant day
and night until the close OF the season.
That was all there was to the inter-
ference of the governor, but the rotten
conditions at the prison would have
warranted more drastic action. 1t was
not necessary for Warden Woodward
to send notices to every newspaper in
the state saying that the Irvine plant
was not closed, nor for the opposition
press of the administration to try to
make political capital out of the incl
dent. 1t is in nowise probable that the
farmers are alarmed over their pet
project of prison binder Irvine plant
because every farmer member of the
legislature voted to adopt the report OF
the investigating committee when il
came IN before that h0dV The state
prison more than anything else seems
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14
The Fault.

''These apartments are entirely too
dark
''They are no darker than the aver
age
eyes, but we want to do light house
keeping "--EXchange.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14

EVERY taxpayer who visits Madison
should drop into the capitol and inside
take good long look up to the top OF
the dome, said to be the most magnlti-
cent dome in the whole world, for that
is all he gets back from the two mil
lions of dollars of his money it took to
build it. -FennimOre Times.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14
Determined Curiosity.

''There's no use of investigating that
official. He hasn't done anything"
Lets investigate him and ascertain
how he dares draw salary without
doing anything. Washington Star.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14
japanese Lacquer.

The Japanese method of lacquering is
said to be at leasS 1000 years old.
Pieces made ten centuries ago are still
exhibited.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14
A Few Strong Facts.

Edison has revolutiOniZed the talking
machine business in just one year. He
has done away with the bother of
changing needles. He uses diamond
guaranteed for life. He has overcome
the hollow barrel tone and produces
real music All records play on the
Edison. Every voice of the world that
has been recorded can now be heard on
the Edison and only as the Edison re-
produces, perfect. Edison plays loud
or soft with no change of needles or
closing of DOORS Applying chamber
of the Edison Disc is of moulded brass
like all the best grade of musical in
struments. Edison says ''hear it, The
people have decided in its favor.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14

The happiest wOrkmen are those VINO
Gan absolutely lose themselves in their
wOrk.--Carl Hilty.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14

For mason work or plastering call
on NJ H. Cunningham, City. Tele-
phone PIP red.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14

Pasture for several cows Inquire
of A. E. Skinner.
-Duroc boar for sale. Inquire of F.
C. Meyers.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14
Dept. Store

Tycoon Tea, absolutely pure and
uncOlOred, Id. ... soc
Corner Stone Flour, equal to
any,
Quart Jar Pure Fruit Jam. Csc
Jelly per glass ..........1 Oc
Pure HOrseradish, glass Toe
Try our Csc Coffee, you will like it.
3 lib. dry Lima Beans. Csc
Quart Jar Peanut Butter. .35c
Fresh Sailed Peanuts, lib. =. > Oc
Sc lib. Eating and Cooking Apples
Large assortment Faucy Fresh
Cookies lib. 10, 12a, Is, IL, 20, Csc
Order Blue Ribbon Homemade
Salad Dressing, bottle 10 and Csc
A pkgs. Corn Flake. ...... Csc
8 pkgs. Macar0ni .....25 Csc
Good Coffee, Id. ..........,... .15c
Ripe Olives can ......1 5c
The Holly chieftain., 1915-08-20

high NOV will appreciate the ad-
vantages of the hayfork and sling.
In one form of sling which Is pretty
generally used throughout the East,
the sling is adjusted upon the hay
rack and the hay loaded on without
any particular care as to placing it.
When the wagon reaches the barn as
many drafts as can be taken off at
good forkfuls are elevated, then with
out removing the fork 1t is hooked
to the sling attachment by the end
pulleys, and pulled upon the free end
of the rope will bundle and bind the
balance Of the load around the fork.
The trip rope is unsnapped from the
fork and attached to the swing.
The value of the sling is the saw
ing of time in shaping the load with
a hand fork for the last draft with the
horse fork and cleaning up all the hay
on the wagon.
These sings cost from 50 to $3.50
each.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-08-20
Mexico Inciter Held in Pueblo.

Pueblo.-After melting 500 Pueblo
county Mexicans to prepare to join in
the insurrection against Americans in
southern Texas, according to the Pu-
eblo police, Rudolph Herler, an ennis
sary from Old Mexico, was arrested.
Papers in his possession are said to
prove conclusively that he came here
for the purpose of enlisting local Mex
leans in the ranks of the revolution
lists. The plot which the police say
they nipped in the bud was conceived
by Herler, and he is credited with be-
ing supplied with adequate funds to
carry out the plan. Herler is 43 years
old and presents a prepossessing ap-
p>arance. He is credited with being
one of the fathers of the San Diego
plan. By this scheme Mexicans are
said to have contemplated the death
of all American males over 16 years
old in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona
and part of Colorado, making up the
territory secured from the republic at
the south by the United States.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-08-20

smooth sumac. pepper berries. Ameri-
can holly. woodbine. black gum, and
others.
Investigation of the food OF 1886
robins from AZ states, d. c.. and three
Canadian provinces, showed that 42.40
per cent Of their food was animal mat
ter. and 57.6O per cent vegetable. OF
the latter more than so per cent con-
sisted of fruit, more than four-ffths
of which were wild species.
While the robin today probably IL
doing much more good than harm. a
bird whose diet consists Of so large
a percentage of fruit. may at any time
become pest where its natural food
falls and cultivated varieties are &C
cessible. The birds must have food
and 1t Is decidedly preferable to sup
ply the food they desire, and for which
they will amply pay. in the destruction
of harmful insects. instead Of killing
the birds.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-08-20
The Robin.

bearing shrubbery. From this 1t fol-
lows that an effective remedy for the
ravages of birds upon cultivated fruits
Is to plant the preferred wild varie-
ties. OF the number Of plants which
bear fruit preferred by the robin, many
are ornamental and are easily OBJ
tanned. The following are a few of
the plants the robins are fond of:
Blackberries and raspberries, cherries,
wild black cherries, china berries, flow
ering dogwood blueberries, persim-
mons, Mississippi hackberries, western
hackberries, muberries. cat brier,
green brier, red cedar, pokeberries,
The Holly chieftain., 1915-08-20
GIVING THE HORSES A DRINK
Cold Water Is Quite Injurious and
Should Not Be Given on Hot Days
Safe Plan Outlined,

How horses have died through get
ting drink of cold water when they
were overheated, on a hot day, is
something that we have all often
heard 1t is something that has hap
pened and, when care and Judgment
are not exercised, it will probably hap
pen again. But no one hesitates about
taking a drink himself on hot days,
and generally the results are not un-
pleasant, and seldom serious.
When horses are working hard in
hot weather, it is never wise to allow
them to stop and fill up on cold wa.
ter. But a light drink, taken in the
middle of the forenoon and the after
noon, will do them good, not harm.
There is no better way than to take
a pail to the field, and also double
handful of meal. Fill the pail with
water and allow it to stand with the
meal mixed in it, until the middle of
the halliday period, and then allow
each horse to drink the half Of It, This
The Holly chieftain., 1915-08-20
FRIEND OR AN ENEMY7
Robin Is One Of Best Helpers Of
Farmer and 0rchardist.
Damage Done BY Little Feathered
sonssters. II Any, May Be Re.
dueed to MinImum-UsefuI In
Reducing Insect Life.
(By F. L BEALL)

Few native American birds are more
universally cherished than are the
robins. On esthetic grounds alone
they receive free protection, partly
from the romance that clusters about
them in story and legend and partly
because of their graceful shape and
movement. bright color and pleasing
song, and close association with man
and his works.
Investigation discloses that In addi-
tion to their pleasing qualities robins
perform a very useful function in
reducing the hordes of insect life con-
stantly prying upon the crops of the
farmer. In this work a large part of
their food consists OF insects and they
feed their young upon them almost
exclusively. 1t is recognized that
birds are one of the necessary checks
provided by nature upon the increase
Of the vast number of insects pro-
duced each year; that without them
there would be greater destruction
Of vegetation, and that certain crops
OF the farmer regularly matured
would, If raised at all, be raised only
with increased difficulty and added la
Dor.
The robin is found throughout the
greater portion OF the United States,
the range Of the species extending
into Canada and even Alaska
While for the most part migratory
in the northern half of the country,
individuals remain all winter in many
localities where shelter and food are
assured. In eastern Massachusetts
and at some places farther west there
are cedar swamps which offer an
abundant supply OF wild fruit, and
robins remain throughout the winter
In large numbers. Most of the spe-
cies. however, spend the winter from
latitude 40 degrees northward as soon
as snow disappears. They arrive in
New England in the latter part of
March or early In April, and in the
northern states Of the Mississippi val
ley somewhat earlier 1t is difficult
to say just when fall migration begins,
as the first birds to leave are replaced
by others from farther north.
Reports of depredations upon fruit
by birds come principally from the
prairie regions of the West. This is
just what might be expected, for but
few prairie shrubs produce the wild
berries that the birds prefer and for
lack Of these the birds naturally feed
upon the cultivated varieties availa-
BILE. Reports of fruit losses caused
by birds in the East. are usually from
the immediate vicinity Of villages and
towns where there Is no natural fruit
The Holly chieftain., 1915-08-20
SHIP s72.s15 IN COLO
FROM THE BRECKENRIDGE DIS.
TRIcT TO DENVER.
Shipment of Placer Result of Dreda-
ing the Stream Beds by Four Boats
Operated by Electric Power.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Breckenridge, Colo. - Placer gold
amounting in value to s72,315 was
shipped during the first two weeks of
August from the Breckenridge district
to Denver. All but $6l5 was the re-
suit of dredging the stream beds by
four gold dredging boats which are
operated by electric power. The $615
was from couple of high-bar placers.
which are operating with only a par
tial supply of water.
The placer gold deposits in the
Blue river and its tributaries extend
from the head of Hoosier gulch to the
Grand river, a distance of approx
mately over sixty miles. There are
numerous local sources of gold in
the the hills of the numerous small
creeks and gulches which have con-
tributed literally to the gold enrich
ment of the main stream. There is
certainly plenty of room for the prof
table operation of an additional num-
Der of modern gold dredges in Sum.
nit county, besides the four dredge
boats now operated in the Brecken-
ridge district.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-08-20
Business Men to Aid Guard Plan.

Denver.-Organization of business
men into groups, each to act in its
field as an advisory board and enlist.
ment agency, is plan which Cover
nor Carlson suggested as means Of
facilitating the campaign for rehabili-
tation of the Colorado National Guard
Taking each class of business in Den.
yer, Governor Carlson would include
its leaders and members in a single
group. In this way, bankers would
constitute one group, dry goods mer.
chants another, brokers another and
so on. At the head of each, Governor
Carlson would place a chairman,
whose duties would be to act as an
executive for his particular group. To-
gether, all of the groups would act in
cooperation with Governor Carlson
and his staff of state military officers.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-08-20
Bride.To-Re Killed,

Cripple Creek, Colo.-On their way
to be married at Fairplay in a four
day-old honeymoon car" in which
they planned to take a motor bridal
tour, Mrs. Della Edgar, So, and John
Lewis, both of Cripple Creek, were
crushed beneath the automobile when
it skidded, struck rock, pushed up
an embankment and fell backward
upon them. Mrs. Edgar was killed,
dying ten minutes after another auto
party had extricated the couple, and
Mr.. Lewis was fatally hurt. Both his
legs were crushed and he was injured
internally.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-08-20
Plan Mandamus on Prohibition Law.

Denver-That the local liquor in
ceedings with view of forcing Sec
retary of State John E. Ramer to re-
fer the state prohibition law to
vote of the people was the announce
ment made by John w. Helbig, at
torney representing the interests
which submitted Denver's 'home
rule" liquor amendment to the city
charter in May.
Attorney Helbig stated that he and
his clients hold that the prohibition
law has already been automatically
referred to the people by the filing
of the petition, and that the secretary
of state had no authority to refuse to
accept the petition.
He holds that the safety clutch"
was not effective for the reason that
in this measure it was not linked with
an emergency provision in the law.
and for the further reason that it was
not passed by two-thirds majority,
and was indeed, as he contends, not
passed by the Senate at all.
City Attorney Marsh took up with
Attorney General Farrar the proposal
of the City Council to bring about
settlement of the wet" and "dry"
controversy between Denver and the
state before the end of the year
through an appeal directly to the Su-
preme Court.
Attorney General Farrar stated that
he would take the matter up further
with Governor Carlson upon his re-
turn to Denver, and that a conference
between the parties interested will be
arranged.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-08-20
Compromise on Governors Pay.

Denver.-Lieutenant Governor Mo-
ses E. Lewis received s2OS.33, which
he claimed for his services as acting
governor during the absence of the
governor on Chautauqua lectures.
Lewis refused to withdraw the claim
which he had presented for the sum.
State Auditor Mulnix refused to dis
obey the law, which declares that the
"emoluments" of the governors office
belong to the lieutenant governor
when the governor is absent from the
state. The result was compromise
by which Lewis agreed that hereafter
when the governor is absent from the
state he will make no effort to collect
the governors salary.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-08-20
On Thin Fields,

1t sometimes happens that clio, er
field will run out, so to speak, or get
thin, and when such Is the case Elan
is to SOW more clover seed in early
spring and cut 1t in thoroughly with a
disk harrow. The thicker the clover
grows the better, for this will keep
the weeds out and the soil will be rich
and mellow.