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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
BIRDS THE FRIENDS OF MAN
Investigation Has Shown the Extent
of Their Ravages on Insects That
Destroy the Crops.

A recent government bulletin in the
interest of bird conservation gives
some facts demonstrating their useful
ness as insect and noxious weed de-
stroyers that should become general
knowledge.
A tree swallows stomach was found
to contain 40 entire chinch bugs and
fragments of many others, besides 9th
er species of insects. A bank swallow
in Texas devoured 6S cotton boil wee
wills. Thirty-fve cliff swallows had
taken an average of IS boil weevils
each. Two stomachs of pine siskins
from Haywards, Cal, contained 900
black olive scales and 800 plant lice,
A killdeer's stomach taken in Novem-
Der in Texas contained over 800 mos
quito larvae A flicker's stomach held
% white grubs. A night hawks stom-
ach collected In Ketucky contained 81
beetles, the adult form of white grubs.
Another night hawk from New York
had eaten "a clover leaf weevils and
375 ants. Still another night hawk
had eaten $40 grasshoppers, 50 bugs,
three beetles, two wasps and spider.
A bobtailed grackle from Texas had
eaten at one meal about one hundred
cotton boil worms besides a few 9TH
er insects A ring-necked pheasants
crop from Washington contained 5000
seeds of chickweed and dandelion
heads.
The quail, between his CHEEKY calls
Of Bob White" is busy consuming 1875
varieties of insects. He will eat on an
average $4,000 insects and 100000
weed seeds a year. He is the natural
enemy of the boil weevil and the po-
tato bug and the best friend of man,
who is trying to destroy him in near
ly every state.
In fact, there are few birds that are
not the friends of the farmer, paying
him many times over in the destruc-
ton of insects and noxious weed seeds
for the small amount of toll they take
from his crops.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
SYNOPSIS.

"A curious crowd Of neigbbors invade
the mysterious home of Judge Ostrander,
county Judge and eccentric recluse, fol-
lowing a yelled woman who has gained
entrance through the gates Of the high
double barriers surrounding the place.
The woman has disappeared but the judge
Is found in a cataleptiC state. Bella, MS
servant appears in a dying condition and
prevents entrance to a secret door. Bella
dies The judge aWakes. Miss Weeks
explains to him what has occurred during
his seizure. He secretly discovers the
whereabouts Of the yelled woman. She
proves TO be the widow Of a man tried
before the judge and eIectrocuted for muir
der years before. Her daughter is en-
gagged 70 the judges son, from whom he is
sstranged, but the murder Is between the
lovers. She plans to clear her husbands
memory and asks the judges aid. Alone
IN her room Deborah ScOville reads the
newspaper clippings telling the story Of
Lne murder of Algernon EtheIidge by
John Scovllle in Dark Hollow, twelve
years before. The judge and Mrs. ScovilIe
meet at Spencer's Folly and she shows
MIN how on the day of the murder. she
saW the shadow Of man. whiting
suck and wearing a long peaked cap. like
neT husbands. Until long afterward she
uld not know that her husband had not
worn that cap on the fatal day. The
Z4oge engages her and her daughter
Gus home.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
AL THE PROOF NECESSARY
Suriy Man Must Have Been Con-
WINGED That He Was Occupy.
ing the Others Chair.

1t was the rush hour in the cafete-
ria, one of these quick-lunch places
where you help yourself and grab a
chair and use the arm OF the chair as
table. A rushed feeder grabbed a
slice of pie and copied out a chair.
Then he remembered he needed cot
fee and he dashed over to the service
counter. When he returned with his
coffee his chair was occupied by an
other hurry-up diner.
Excuse me-" said the first man.
"but that is my chair"
How do you know it is your
chair?" demanded the occupant in a
surly tone
Because I can prove it" stated the
first man.
How can you prove it?" asked the
occupant.
"By your trousers" was the reply.
"You are sitting on my pie"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
a HaIf-Cent Coin,

In these times, when every little
that can be saved on the living ex-
penses of the poor counts, l would sug-
gest that the United States govern
ment coin a half-cent, which would be
of great benefit to those who must
count every cent of expenses.
For instance, if one wished to buy a
half-pound of coffee, at 25 cents a
pound, one would be obliged to pay IS
cents; with a half-cent piece in use
there would be a saving of half cent.
There are many other things, too nu-
merous to mention, that could be
bought by poor people, especially
fruit One often sees apples and ba-
nanas sold two for one cent. If poor
person had half-cent he could buy
one, when he did not need two.-New
York Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
HARD TO INTERRUPT SERVICE
munication Can Be Easily In
terfered With.

Many suppose that it is possible for
an enemy to disrupt and suspend all
wireless communication at viii by pro-
ducing very powerful waves of irreg-
ular length; in other words, by inter
ference or tanning" According to
Commander F. G. Lor42g of the Brit
ish navy, such tactics are seldom sue
cessfuL. 1t is very hard, if not i'm
possible, to lam" q well-organized
wireless service, for there are many
ways, both technical and methodical,
TO defeat such an intention. If the
enemy attempts interference. he must
put his own wireless communication
completely out of action for the time
being, with no certain prospect of Sc
Tiously inconvenieneing the commune
cation of his opponent. Commander
Loring also believes that the risk of
having the signals of the fleet inter-
cepted by an enemy is very slight.
Cooperation between operators, with
full knowledge of each others meth
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
Much Unknown About Marbles.

Though the western part of Yer
mont includes the most extensive
marble industry in this country, the
eastern part is a virgin field where, in
the lack of a general study of the
stratigraphy, the structure, the pale
anthology and the areal geology, it is
at present not only impossible to de-
termine the area and position of many
of the beds, but also even the thick
ness of some of the marble formations
which are but partly exposed. The
marbles Of eastern Vermont, many Of
which are dolomitic, vary widely in
kind and character, and the outcrops,
though few in number, are scattered
from the Massachusetts line to the
Canadian boundary. Many of the
marbles are suited only for indoor
ornamental use. The greater part Of
the lodges are to be classed as min
eraI reserves which will be drawn on
in the future.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
MIsconce ption.

Representative Herman A. Metz,
apropos of neutrality. said at a lunch
con in Philadelphia:
Some of these people take low,
debased view of neutrality; otherwise
they wouldn't do the things they're
doing.
Their idea of neutrality, in fact, re-
minds me Of the two actors idea of
marriage.
'At the seventh wedding breakfast
of the first actor the other, who had
himself been married six times, said:
"'WeI, old man, thought you had
learned by this time that a marriage is
nothing but a sentence of hard labor
for life.'
YES said the other actor, but it's
a sentence that YOU can get committed
by bad behavior. "
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
Send Tor Free Trial Psekags-2e Stamp.

It's useless and foolish to stand the tortures
the dreadful itching. he burning pain OF Eczema
when one application of Nox-Ema will give in
slant relief
Salt Rheum. chapped hands, chafed skin.
ulcers, old sores, burns, scalds, sunburn or any
and all skin troubles quickly yield to the use Of
Nox-ema.
No matter how obstinate your case may be
no matter how many remedies have failed you
will find instant relief in the of Nox-Ema. II
does not stain the skin soil the clothes, but IL
does the business. All itching and burning stop
at once and the tortured skin begins to heal at
once.
Nox-ema is sold at sf.00 per package by most
druggists or by mail prepaid on receipt of price.
Wis 1t Is sure to give you instant relief If you
never found 1t before.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
Industry Worth Developing.

Little use is being made OF the noss
from the inside of the pods of the
silk cotton tree in the West Indies.
In the Philippines the collection of
this product-known throughout the
East as "Kapok an industry
of considerable promise. 1t is being
more and more used in the manufac-
ture of patent life-belts, and agricul-
turists in the British West Indies
might with profit turn their attention
to the collection of this floss. The pro-
duction for 1918 was 245,009 pounds,
as against 9,606 in 1901. The de-
cline in 1912 is attributed by the
Mindanao Herald to increased local
consumption. Most Of the kapok for
merly went to the Netherlands, either
direct or via Hongkong; but in 1912
IS it was exported chiefly to the Unit
ed States, Germany and Australasia, in
the order named.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
HOTBED FOR EARLY FLOWERS

A hotbed enables one to gain
month on the season. They are made
and handled like a coldframe, but are
built in three-foot-deep excavation
which is filled to the level of the earth
with fresh stable manure, which for
a few days has been fermented and
forked and fermented again. It must
be trodden down and, when the soil is
at 80 degrees temperature, covered
with six inches of rich soil Bank
up the outside. When the sun shines
the temperature of the air in the bed
may be 20 to 80 and at other times 55
to so degrees. A hotbed extends the
season of tender ANIMALS by making
possible an early start for transplant
ing in May.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25

this place half-decayed sod and fill
with carefully mixed and sifted leaf
mold and sand.
Make the surface of the soil per-
fectIy smooth and level, and then scat
ter the spores on it and leave them
without any covering, that is, of soil.
However, they must be inclosed in
glass by placing a pane of glass over
the seed-box or pan.
Water by placing the seed-pan in
water, and keep it there until the wa
ter appears on the surface of the soil
Then remove at once, for too much
water will destroy the spores. Keep
the box in the light, but not the sun,
remembering that ferns naturally
grow in shady places and that we
should try to follow natures lead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
"What Father Can Do, Will Do for
You"

and wondered now if it had not been
the Dumping of this cot sliding from
step to step.
But no! the repeated stroke of a
hammer is unmistakable. He had
played the carpenter that night as
well as the mover, and with no visible
results. Mystery still reigned in the
house for all the charm and order she
had brought into it; a mystery which
deeply interested her, and which she
yet hoped to solve, Notwithstanding its
remoteness from the real problem of
her existence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
"corpseD snored:, Arrested

When George Russell arrived in At
lanta from Birmingham he imbibed a
bit too freely, and growing sleepy
about the eleventh hour of the night,
wandered into Greenberg & Bonds I'M
dertaking establishment at the corner
of Ivy and Houston streets, picked out
a nice, soft spot near the cooling board
rest, records the Atlanta Journal
Employees of the place were awak-
ened in the early dawn by the rumble
of Mr. RusselTs shores. Such sounds
were unusual. They investigated,
found Mr. Russell, and telephoned the
police to come get him. Mr.. Russell
finished his nap in the patrol.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25

DDS, is extremely important when han
ding difficult code messages, and the
more skilled the organization, the
more difficult it is for a strange op-
orator to take down with the neces-
sary accuracy the groups of a code
message. He cannot ask for the
repetition of doubtful groups, and he
has no intimate and daily familiarity
with the methods Of the sender to as
s1st him in his task. And, after all,
giving the enemy every advantage,
giving him a perfect record of the sig
nails, the Key of the code to his hand,
and equal facility of skill and Ian
guage TO translate it for use-a most
important combination, it must be ad-
mitted-he las still failed to prevent
the an-important information from
reaching its destination. - Youths
Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25

will kill it. Try to use Judgment.
When you find a plant or plants
with lice on them, have ready large
tight box and cover the bottom
of it with an inch of cut tobacco
stems. On this sprinkle a little boil
ing water, set the plants at once on
the tobacco, cover tightly and leave
for twenty-four hours. The lice will
be sick if not dead. Repeat if neces-
sary. This is better than smoking
or dipping.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
CARE OF THE FERNS
BY /. Nj. BENNINGTON.

The ordinary way to propagate this
class of plants is by dividing the
plants, by the creeping rhizomes, by
the little bulblets that form on the
fronds and by the seeds or spores that
appear on the under side of the
leaves.
The enterprising fern lover will find
it most interesting to propagate by
spores and perchance produce a really
valuable addition to these beautiful
and graceful plants.
Procure a seed-pan or box with
plenty of drainage holes, and cover
the bottom with broken crockery. On
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
The Long Talk.

after I got through with my re-
marks" said the orator, "the people
applauded loudly"
Il joined in that applause" replied
Miss Cayenne.
you were interested"
Eyes, and grateful. I was afraid
for while that you had grown abb
sent-minded and thought you were
filibustering."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
Doctors Live Long.

Doctors are VIGOROUSLY their own
most disobedient patients. Usually
they eat and sleep irregulaTly, they are
out in all kinds of weather, and they
hesitate at no danger of contagi0n or
infection; yet of the 2,205 physicians
who died in the United States last
year, pa were more than eighty years
old. and q Of them more than ninety.
The average age was about sixty-one
years Probably doctors dose them
selves less than other people do
Youths Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
GEORGES Advantage.

Uncle-It always pays to tell the
truth. Every young man should try
to emulate the example Of George
Washington.
Nephew-Wel1, I'm willing-but we
can't all marry rich widows.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
CHAPTER Viii.
The Picture.

Night! and Deborah ScoviIle waiting
anxiously for Reuther to sleep, that
she might brood undisturbed over a
new and disturbing event which for the
whole day had shaken her out of her
wonted poise, and given, as it were,
a new phase to her life in this house.
CTO BE CONTINUED
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
Not Too Iona.

Conversation among a group of Wis
iting housewives had turned upon the
boiling of eggs, and the little daughter
Of the house explained that she knew
how to boil eggs, and always boiled
them Just eight minutes Eight
minutes, dear!" cried one of her lis
teners, in amazement. Are you quite
sure you boil them so long? l should
think that would make the eggs very
hard" "Oh, no, indeed, Mrs. Blank"
was the child's confident answer;
really, they're awfuIly loose!"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
United States Ordinance.

The United States government main
tains ordnance establishments at
WatervHet, n. Y, and at the Wash
ington navy yard. the former for the
army and the latter for the navy. Most
of the smaller arms are manufactured
by private companies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
STOP RAPID TOP GROWTH

If plant is growing too tall and
lanky, land nearly all want toy, nip
off the tip of each branch. This checks
growth, forces the strength into the
lark and will keep your plant in
r2ore compact form.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
Going to the Foot.

BILL see that cobbling is the lat
est course to be introduced in the
public schools of Oakland, California.
JiII-Looks as if this would teach
the scholars in the classes to go to the
foot.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25

mouth. at the base. st. Kentigern In
the seventh century, took I'D his
abode on the site of the present city
OF Glasgow. Upon an oak in the clear
ing he hung a bell to summon the saw
ages to worship, hence the oak and
bell. a queen, having formed an at
tachment to a soldier, gave him
precious ring, which the king had
given her. The king, aware of tbs
fact, stole upon the soldier in sleep.
distracted the ring, threw it into the
Clyde, and then asked the queen for
it. The queen, in alarm, applied to
st. Kentigern, who went to the Clyde,
caught salmon with the ring in its
mouth, handed it to the queen, and
was thus the means of restoring peace
to the royal couple.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
Lffe-savinq Garment for a

Life-Savine Garment for Aviators.
David Williams Ogilvie Of Balboa,
Canal Zone, in a patent, No. 1109140
presents a ife-saving garment especial
ly designed for aerial operators and
which has means for retarding a fall,
means to cushion against injury from
a fall, and float means to act as life
preseryer if the operator should drop
in the water.-Scieutidc American.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
Chief Pleasure.

"Do you think aeroplanes will ever
be popular as automobiles?
Never. You cant fly low enough
to put on airs for the benefit Of your
pedestrian friends Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
The Arms of Glasnnm

The explanation of the coat of arms
of Glasgow is curious. On it an oak
tree with a bell hanging on one of its
branches, bird at the top at the
tree, and salmon, with ring in it's
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
Some Pen

Binx-What kind OF reputation has
Jones got?
Jinx-So good that he can wear
cuff buttons with other peoples mi
tails and get away with it-Michigan
Gargoyle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
Retvreen TWO Fires

q hear you intend to move. What's
the trouble?" why, hang ii, the fam
lily above US has bought a pianola. and
the girl in the fat below is learning
to burn leather. Boston Transcript
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
EIsttery Wa sted.

The Flatterer-"But don't you think
your son is wasting his talents in
this little burg?" The Magnate (caus-
ticaIly)-"Of course he is, but he
might as well waste them here as
somewhere else."-Life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
DEFENDS

do you like Holsters, Miss Polly?"
Eyes, the ones who have limou-
sines."- Baltimore American.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25

lifelong teetotaler since the first of
January.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25

Taking a FaI! Out of Hymen.
"She married a stick of man; a
perfect blockhead."
Sort of a wooden wedding?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-25
STOP THAT
ECZEMA NOW
Instant Relief from that Awful Itching
and Burning Palm.

Rox-EMA Does II. There is No Case Of Skin
Disease, scaIy Skin, chafing, chapped Hands.
Itching Piles, Which Hox-EMA Will Not
Instantly Relieve and Quickly Heal.
Why Suffer LongeEf
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-11
BIRDS BEAK BLINDS BOY.
Blue Heron Turns on Young Pursue
And Pecks an Eye.

Asbury Park, N. j., Aug H.
Louis Ellenson, IL years old, wss
plunged into blindness Monday by a
peck from the beak of bird \
blue heron alighted in the ya4'd OF
the Bangs avenue school, where Lo1i;
had heen playiag.athrough the SUI.
shiny afternoon, and the boy, fled
with desire to possess it as pet,
gave Chase. The heron turned or
its pursuer, an dstruci him in the
left eye with its sharp beak. As
the child fell and writhed at the feet
Of his companion the bird went wing
ing away.
Other children helped little LOUIS
to the home of his parents. DR.. K.
S. Bennett sal d there was little
chance to save the sight Of either
eve and called in DR.. John A. Hill,
an eye specialist. The physicians
say that the boy will be blind.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-11
Office CITY School Board

Alexandria, Va, August Z, 1919
Sealed proposals will be received b!
the Clerk of the City School Boarc
for the Committee on Finance ano
Accounts until Thursday, August %
1915 at - o'clock noon, for the fur-
nishing of Forty Tons or more OF
White Ash Coal and One Hundred
Tons of Cumberland Coal or more 10Y
the Public Schools.
Also Ten Cords of Sawed and Spill,
Pine Wood.
Both coal and wool to be delivered
and stored as needed. The right to
reject any and all bids is reserved.
Proposals to be addressed to the
Clerk of the City School Board.
Aug. 7. St.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-11
A. confession
Hopes Her Statement, Made Public,
will Help Other Women.

Hines, Ala.-"I must confess" says
Mrs. Euia Mac Reid. cf THIS place, thai
Cardui, The wonlan's ionic, has done ne
4 great deal OF good.
Before commenced using Cardui, !
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Tired, sleepy feeling all the fine, ard was
irregular. could hardly drag around,
end would have severe headaches ccn-
tinuous!y.
Since taking Cardui, have entirely
quit splitting up what | eat. Everything
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If you are victim OF any OF the ntilner-
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For half a century, Cardui has been re-
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