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Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17
(By II. NJ. COTTRELL.)


Hog cholera is severe again in many
large districts. Get rid of the lice on
your hogs. DR.. A. T. Peters, a veteEi-
marian of national reputation, has had
wide experience with hog cholera.
He says that there is much smaller
loss from cholera in those herds that
are free from lice. When a hog is
and out of condition and he is easily
susceptible to disease. The weak,
lousy hog gets the cholera and lice
spread the disease from him to the
hogs that sleep with him.
Feed is high and is likely to be
higher. A lousy hog is unthrifty and
does not make the gains from his
feed that are made by hogs free from
lice. Many herds of young shotes are
not making money from their feed
because they are lousy. Lice retard
fattening and injure the health of
breeding sows Get rid of the lice.
An easy way to get rid of lice when
they are not too thick on hogs is to
set a number of short posts in the
yard or field where the hogs run and
wrap these posts with old gunny
sacks. Once a week soak the sacks
with either crude oil or coal oil and
machine oil mixed half and half. The
hog rubs against the post and the oil
kills the lice.
Make a cement wallow or bath 10
by 10 feet and 16 inches deep. Fill
this to depth of IL inches with water
and cover the water with coat of
crude oil The hogs will battle in this
and the oil will cover them and Kill
the lice. Renew the oil and water as
necessary and every two weeks clean
out the bath with a shovel. Where
expense of cement cannot be afforded,
dig a hole the same size as for
cement wallow and puddle 1t with
clay. Put in the water and crude oil.
Before this hole gets filthy dig anoth-
er. Hogs can be sprayed with hand
sprayer.
1t is hard to get rid of the lice
around the sheds and yards. All bed
ding should be hauled off or burned,
all trash cleaned up and fence, shed
and ground treated with oil or coal
tar dip. This may be sprinkled with
a broom or put on with hand spray
err. 1t is a good plan to make tenn
porary sheds and put the hogs on
new ground for 80 days. If hog
cholera is in your county, get rid of
the lice quick.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17

lime produced yields of 2,127 pounds
and 3,699 pounds respectively as COM
pared with 2,215.5 pounds on the check
plat, per acre. The same applications
alone were followed by yields of 1875,
2,055 and 1850 pounds of hay per acre
respectively.
- Applications of (one) 100 pounds of
nfdriate Of potash and $50 pounds OF
dried blood and (two) 100 pounds of
muriate of potash, 200 pounds of acid
phosphate, and $50 pounds of dried
blood were followed by yields of 3.12
and 3.1S tons of cured hay per acre.
The following year it was found that
the highest yield followed an applica-
ton of 200 pounds of 16 per cent acid
phosphate. Slightly increased yields
also followed applications of one ten
of burnt lime and 100 pounds of nj
trate of soda per acre.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17
RIVAL OF BLUE SERGE
COVERT CLOTH PROMISES TO BE
COME POPULAR.
New Material Resembles Khaki. and
So Smacks of a Uniforn,-Excel-
lent In Combination With
Black Satin.

We are threatened with an epidemic
OF that peculiar greenish-tan material
known as covert cloth. 1t resembles
khaki. and that in itself is enough for
the populace. neutral though we may
be. for 1t smacks of a uniform. II is
being introduced in a wholesale way
throughout the country and promises
to rival blue serge as an everyday
suit.
Those who object to it as unbecom-
Ing and who realize that the new neck
line is as high as the chin, will have
to devise something in another color
to reach from the base of the neck up.
That is not difficult for black satin
goes admirably with covert cloth, and
II there is a high stock collar of this
material fastened straight up the front.
as these high collars are, with black
satin buttons, and topped with an inch
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17
WHERE SHE FOUND THE GUM
Youngsters Desire for a "Chew"
Caused Her to Forget Ma
ternal Injunction.

A Louisville woman who Is some
what of a crank on hygiene and who
brings up her small daughter accord
ing to the latest methods, took the
child on a day train to nearby lit
tie town. The mother sighed as she
glanced at the dusty velvet seat and
cloudy windows. The youngsters, how
ever, folded her manicured fingers in
her white pique lap and apparently
tried to absorb as little dirt as pos
sible. Looking up from her maya
zine, the immaculate parent was hor-
rified to find the small daughters
jaws working violently.
What have you in your MOUTH"
she demanded at once.
Cum" said the child.
Where did you get it," gasped the
mother.
The child pointed to a clean, round
spot on the grimy windOwsilL
There" she charlottesville Times.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17

Dark blue is surely as fashionable
as its stanchest admirers could wish
ionable for several seasons, increas-
ingly so. apparently, And it is as
much worn now as ever. OF course,
blue serge suits demand blue Access
sories, SO there are blue net bouses,
blue silk and Isle stockings, blue
handbags and other blue things by the
score. Then there are many blue vel.
vet hats. Blue is one of the best
colors in the lovely new brocades for
evening wear, too And blue velvet
even crimson velvet-is not more regal
looking than rich and sumptuous vel.
vet of kings blue.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17
GRASS CULTURE IN VIRGINIA
Report OF Interesting Experiments
Made With Various Hay Crops
Lime Increases Yield.

Among the many reports from ex-
pertinent stations received by the de-
partinent of agriculture is one of tests
made by the Virginia station In grass
culture. The report shows that or
chard grass and clover mixed averaged
2,460 pounds per acre in yield of hay,
as compared with 1876 pounds from
orchard grass alone. Timothy red-top,
and clover mixed yielded 5,44O pounds,
as compared with 4,46O pounds of
timothy and red-top, 1907 pounds Of
red-top alone and 1857 pounds Of
timothy alone. Spring ami August
seedlings yielded 1.S6 and 81 tons per
acre respectively of mixture of clio
YER. timothy and red-top.
An application of one ton of burnt
lime and 800 pounds Of nitrate Of
soda per acre was followed b. an av-
erage hay yield of 4,402.5 pounds per
acre. Applications of 300 pounds of
nitrate of soda and one ton OF burnt
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17
Beaver Fur,

Beaver fur grows more and more
Northumberland who would have
dreamed. few months ago, of wear
ing beaver again? The soft, dainty
pelt is used for collarettes and sleeve
edgings on frocks OF pussy willow silk
and on tailored frocks of white cloth.
Sometimes broad band of beaver
borders ripple tunic, but of course
this lavish trimming is exceedingly ex-
pensive. The older woman should
fight rather shy of beaver, however,
for its delicate fawn color is becom.
ing only to fresh, youthful complex,
ions.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17
'CASCARETS" FOR
LIVER, BOWELS
For sick headache, bad breath,
Sour Stomach and
constipation.
Get a 10-cent box now.


No odds how bad your liver. stomach
OF bowels; how much your head
aches. how miserable and uncomfort-
able you are from constipation. indiges-
ton biliousness and sluggish bowels
you always get the desired results
with Cascarets.
Don't let your stomach, liver and
bowels make you miserable. Take
Cascarets tonight; put an end to the
headache. biliousness, dizziness. nerv-
BUSINESS sick, sour, gassy stomach.
backache and all other distress:
cleanse your inside organs of all the
bile. gases and constipated matter
which is producing the misery.
A 10-cent box means health. happi-
ness and a clear head for months.
No more days of gloom and distress
If you will take a Cascaret now and
then All stores sell Cascarets. Don't
forget the children-their little in
sides need a cleansing, too. Adv.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17
MANNER OF FASTENING WIRE
Simplest, Easiest and Cheapest Way
Is by EncircIing Post With Wire
of Smaller Size.

There are numerous methods OF at
taching wire fencing to concrete
posts. Some makers place staples or
wire loops in the green concrete; 9TH
ers make holes in the posts. The
former method is desirable be-
cause the fastener cannot be located
exactly where the wire of the fencing
will come when the post is set in the
ground; then, too, the fastener will
eventually rust or break off and will
thus injure the looks of the post. On
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17
CASE FOR THE CORKSCREW
Handy Little Article That May Be
Easily Fashioned Out Of Soft
Wash-leather.

Our sketch shows a useful little ar
ticle that can be made in spare mo-
ments in the shape of neat little case
for a slver-plated corkscrew. A case
screw in a nice and bright condition.
but it is a useful little article in which
to place a corkscrew when it is put in
the pocket
1t is made in soft wash-leather and
1t is cut out in two pieces of the
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17
FEEDING Idle Horses.

1t is a bad practice to feed idle
horses the same as if working. The
common team horses on the farm
should be turned out in dry lot or
barnyard to exercise every day. and
when idle lessen the grain feed
Plenty of good hay, straw, water and
exercise will usually keep the horse
in a thrifty condition.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17
Sounds Good.

Patience-This paper says a process
has been discovered in Japan by which
silk worms may be cultured ten times
year instead of twice, as usual
Patrice-l like that. 1t probably
means that woman can have ten silk
two.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17

and they indicate clearly the way In
which it may be used. Diagram A
shows the case empty and spread out
quite fiat, and to fasten it the flap is
folded over the handle and secured
with the press button; piece of cork
should be put on the tip of the screw
to prevent it's cutting through the
leather.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17
Growing Sudan Grass.

In growing Sudan grass there are
three things to consider: 1t will not do
we'll in a cold climate or high alti-
tude; seed is expensive, and, owing
to the similarity of its seeds to those
of Johnson grass, there is danger Of
adnlteration,
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17
New Flower for the Corset.

An entirely new flower which Is
used for both corsage bouquets and
decoration is the Ranunculus. This is
a small blossom, red in color, with
dark center almost black. Its gen
eral appearance Is somewhat like an
unusually tiny poppy, and it's stem
also resembles the poppy stem.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17
Save Whole Corn Plant.

BY saving the whole corn plant as
silage and feeding this in combination
with corn, cottonseed meal or linseed
meal and a legume hay, a man has not
only better quality of manure but
more manure.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17

turnover of white organdie or hem
stitched chiffon, the work of remedy
ing Is finished.
If one adopts that ultra new style
of placing wide, fiaring Louis XVI
pocket flaps at the side of the waist
line of a short flaring coat which is
trick that brings a coat up to the
moment, then they, too, may be of the
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17

black satin. Such a coat worn with a
short, moderately full skirt. leaving a
plated panel at each side and short
enough to show laced shoes of black
leather and covert cloth, or sand-col-
ored cloth uppers, marks woman as
a bit different from her neignbor.
There is no promise of a return to
the fashion of wearing tight-titting
covert cloth jacket with a plain dark
blue serge skirt but it is to be worn
with a plaid skirt in dull tones that
harmonic with the foundation color
ing of the coat. More and more does
plaid work it's way into the fashions,
not only for entire suits, but for skirts
worn with solid colored jackets, es-
pecially when these are short. The
combination would be ugly if the coat
was long
The use of plaid for collar and cuffs
on a Jacket of solid color is often ad
vocated, but it is not to be commend
ed Just now. The suggestion of put
ting plaid peltry on dark cloth suits
was brought out by Premet, but it was
not followed over here, possibly be-
cause it was difficult to get the dyed
fur, and the fashion was too f1eeting
and experimental for the expense in
volved'
Copyright by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17

A great vocalist is girl who can
sing baby to sleep when 1t insists
on keeping awake.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17

ors that love and common sense have
anything in common.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17

Happy is the home where Red Cross
Ball Blue is used. Sure to please. All
grocers. Adv.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-17
important to Mothers
OBVIOUS.

II suppose you have heard Of the
Fool Killer"
Yes, but I've never m ct him."
That is quite obvious"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-11-12
Where Aristocrats Shine.

Your aristocrat is doubtless often a
very Objectionable person and in a
Democratic country like this we affect
him as a cumberer of the earth. Yet
it must be said for him that worthless
as he may be in peace, and contrary
as his claims of superiority may be
to all proper principles of natural
equality, he rarely, almost never, fails
to give a good account of himself when
his country needs him in great crisis.
In the French revolution the old no
bility of France showed the world that
they knew how to die if they did not
know how to live. And the casualty
lists which are being published in
London now prove once more that
when it comes to courage and patriot
ism the "aristocrat" is seldom found
in the rear. At the rate at which the
aristocrats are being killed at the
front in France and Belgium there will
be no lords and gentlemen" left in
Great Britain if the war lasts much
longer If all the common" people
in England were doing as well, there
would be no criticism of English pa
triotism. In spite of their leanings to
democracy, American sympathizers
with the allies, in view of the promi.
nence Of titled names on the honor
roll of the dead, might almost be in
clined to wish that the entire British
nation was composed of aristocrats
today. Can it be true after all that
there is a real significance in the old
phrase-"b1ood will teIl' and mo
blesse e?"-Baltimor Sun.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-11-12
Politicians Letters.

President Van Buren had the reputa-
ton of being the wisest politician of
his day. His political enemies named
him the Undertook Fox" Among
the political aphorisms attributed to
him was this advice to his son, popu-
larly known as Prince john" "My
son, never write on political matters.
if you can avoid the necessity by max
ing trip of $50 miles," This was in
stage coach days, when a journey of
$50 miles means as much in waste time
and practically in money cost as a trip
across the continent means today.
Politicians generally have been popu~
larly credited with having taken this
advice to heart and followed it as
closely as possible; but every once in a
while something crops up to show that
the popular impression on this subject
is a delusion. Politicians, like other
people, continue to write letters, and
letters written in the past continue to
appear, occasionally to the confusion
of writer's, even when the precaution
has been taken in writing to attach
the Injunction: Burn this letter.
| Often it is the letter which should have
been burned which is the one and only
one to be retained and to reach ulti
mate publicity.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-11-12
INDIANS HAD EDEN STORY
Creation as Told by Brazilian Tribe
Greatly Resembles the Biblical
Tale.

An account of the creation, as re-
lated by members of the tribe of In
dians living in the mountains which
divide Brazil from British Guinea,
has been received at the University Of
Pennsylvania from DR. William G.
Farabae, leader of the Amazon expe-
dition of the university museum. The
tribe never before had seen white
man, according to Doctor Farabee,
and had been cut off from the rest of
the world for many centuries.
In the account told by them to the
explorer it was related that a great
tree bearing on it's branches all kinds
of fruits and vegetables had been in
existence.
The legend of the tree is that in the
beginning there were two gods, Tumin-
kar and his brother, Duwid Tumin-
kar created man and woman and after
ward the lower animals, and Duwid
brought men and women food from
the tree. The people later learned the
location of the tree and told Duwid
that he need not trouble himself to
bring them food any more
Duwid then told the people that it
should be as they wished, but that
they would thereafter have to work
for their food and warned them that
if they would not starve they should
break off the branches and plant them,
that they would grow and bear fruit,
The legend goes on that the men
started to do as the god said, but soon
tired, SO that when the tree was cut
down only a few of the many varie-
ties of food which it bore had been
saved for mankind.
A great rock said by the Indians to
be the stump Of the original tree, was
pointed out to the explorers, who made
photographs of it. These photogra phs
were received at Philadelphia with the
| story.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-11-12
Try to Prove Gas Kills Microbes.


Gas companies, faced with the peril
of seeing their product supplanted by
electricity are struggling vigorously to
find arguments that will prove the SUI
periority of gas over electricity for
lighting, cooking and heating
The advocates of electricity urge
that electric lamps do not pollute the
air with the products of incomplete
combustion and do not form hot COM
bustible gases that must be removed.
The advocates of gas reply that the
great production of heat by gaslight
fixtures brings about natural venti-
lation effect through the air currents it
produces, so that the deleterious gas
eous products of combustion are never
allowed to accumulate in the air They
also assert that microbes in the air are
destroyed by the gas flame and by the
traces of combustion like sulphurous
acid, which exhibit an antiseptic &C
ton.
DR.. K. Ahlborn reports to a German
medical magazine on experiments
made in the Hygienic institute of the
University of Munich. In a room of
81 cubic meters capacity with arti-
ticial ventilation the number of bacte.
ria in unit volume of air decreased
"a per cent in one hour. Under sim
liar conditions, but with three large
gas flames burning, the number de-
creased 40 per cent in the same pc.
riod.
This leads the Journal of the Amer
lean Medical association to remarl
that such difference, amounting al
best TO only 16 per cent, is too small
to possess any serious significance
from the point of view of practica
hygiene"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-11-12
Somewhat Mixed.

A careful estimate has been made
recently of the proportion of citizens
of foreign birth and descent through
out the United States which proves OF
especial interest at the present time
According to Prof Albert B. Faust o.
Cornell university, who has made 6
special study of the subject, the coun
try coptained in 1910, 32,243,3S2 people
of foreign birth, or 35 per cent of the
entire white population. OF this mum
ber 13,345,545 were foreign born; 49,
1851 had been born in America oi
foreign-born parents, and 5,981,52f
had one such parent.
According to the statistics large
proportion of the foreign-born popu
lation, or at least those of foreign
birth, are of German origin. There
are S,2S2,61S Germans and some 1904,
$50 of Irish descent md 3,231,9
classified as English. Scotch ant
Welsh. Canada contributed 2,754,61'
to the so-called foreign population
Austria-Hungary, 2,701,SS6; Russia
2,541,649; Italy, 2,O9S,S60, and thu
Scandinavian group, including Swed
en-, Norway and Denmark, 1,743,37S
All the other countries totaling SOM
LIT ,092.-The Christian Herald.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-11-12
To Amuse Children,

So much has been written regarding
entertainment for little folk on rainy
days one would suppose all had beer
said. Not so, for little people will take
great delight in the following pastime,
which is SO easy that the mother will
feel well repaid:
Take an old magazine, on its pages
carefully paste cuttings, some news
illustrations, which make the book
quite attractive. Save the fairy and
other stories which are published in
the Sunday newspapers; ask friend
or two to do the same; supply the
children with blunt-pointed scissors
and jar of paste. The result will be
many happy hours and an amusing as
well as instructive book.
Of course, blank book or scrap
book is more substantial, but for econ
omy and pastime an old magazine
will answer.
Pictures from old calendars are
good, as they usually picture some
noted spot about which mother OF
nurse can readily weave some story
starting with the time-honored "once
upon time"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-11-12

copyrighted, 1914. by Thomas ]. Sullivan
A book with pictures and book
without pictures differ nearly as much
as a room with windows and room
without windows. for pictures are loop
holes of escape to the soul, leading it
to other scenes and spheres where the
fancy for the moment may revel, re-
freshed and delighted. They are win
dows of imprisoned thought.
A picture is invariably an exaggera-
ton Of the object reproduced. and, gen
orally speaking, to please it must de-
ceive.
Of Deceptive Value.
The deceptive value Of drawings or
paintings over photography is recog
nized by no one more fully than by the
great catalogue houses, hence their
adoption Of the most expensive method
of displaying their goods to the public.
well knowing that photographs tell the
truth, so far as a correct pictorial re-
production is concerned, and would not
be conducive to good business methods
when the goods offered are faulty.
How many farmers would think of
buying COW from picture in
newspaper or catalogue, with just
name and description under 1t? OF
course the description would say that
the COW was a fine black and white
COW. weight 800 pounds and so many
hands high, free from blemishes and
offered at the reduced price Of $39.97
because Of a spot cash deal with a
stock farm which failed.
There is as much sense In pur-
chase of that nature as there Is for a
farmer to buy a buggy. "our own
brand" at $24.70 when he can get the
real article from his home dealer for
$25 and have the privilege Of inspect
ing it before buying. And no freight
to pay.
Did Farmer Consider Everything?
While talking to farmer the follow
do not like to send their money to Chi
cago or any other place for their goods.
They would rather buy of their local
merchants If their prices are not out
of reason. Merchants generally buy
their goods where they can get them
the cheapest whether in Chicago, New
York or Asia, no matter how much OF
the same goods the farmer has to sell
The price is the first and last consider
alton. They fix the price of what he
| sells as we'll as what he buys. Can
the farmer be blamed for buying
where he can get the best bargains
He wants to enjoy the same privilege
as the merchants do. Fair play Is al
he wants."