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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22
CIV r. B. RUSHING.l

When / speak Of the care of milk
and making of butter on the farm
speak from the standpoint of ordinary
farm conditions.
Experience has taught me that If
good, pure, healthful milk and butter
are expected the work must begin at
the base of the business-closer even
than the cow stable-pastures and
meadows must be free from noxious
weeds. The water supply must be
pure and plentiful.
If on dry feed, supply good clover
hay. Also good sweet ensilage, and
salt where cows can help themselves
at will, as they are very fond of a
change of diet.
Much less corn than is usually fed
should be given and no oats nor oat
straw if good results are expected.
The straw reduces the flow of milk
and gives an unpleasant flavor to the
butter.
Milk will take up foreign odor
with surprising quickness, so keep as
far from all communicating substances
as possible. Immediately after strain
ing separate the cream with a cream
separator. But if separator is not
available, the following plan will give
satisfaction:
During the cool weather let the milk
set in shallow pans about twelve
hours, then set it in the reservoir or
back of the stove when fire is low and
raise the temperature to that Of new
milk; then let it set IL hours longer
in a. low temperature before skimming.
In this way the yield of cream can
be almost doubled and is in a firm
sheet and easily skinned, and keeps
longer without getting old than any
other way. When cream is scarce it
can be safely kept four or five days
just above the freezing point. Then
when you have enough for churning
add good starter of sour cream and
bring it to temperature Of so de-
grees to ripeR
1t is almost impossible to add wa
ter directly to cream without injury.
This is done by setting cream buckets
In hot water and stirring cream often.
Cream so treated churns quickly,
yields more and better butter and
keeps the skim milk sweet longer than
any other plan. Properly ripened
cream is glossy on top, is thicker than
ordinary cream and has an acid taste
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22

| days warriors used to cross the Tigris,
even in heavy armor, by swimming
| on inflated goat skins; but I had no
idea that the practice still survived.
SO J. was astonished on arriving at the
river bank to see an old man walk
calmly down to the waters edge, blow
up goat skin which had hung over
his shoulder, wade out into the river
waist deep and then lie down on the
inflated skin and begin to paddle leis-
urely across. While I still watched
him, two women came down, carrying
skins, already blown up, and followed
the old mans course across the Tigris;
somehow they seemed to keep the
bobbing skins easily balanced under
their bodies, and thus supported swan
slowly, without firing.
MosuI WasherWomen.
And all up and down the river banks
were hundreds of round-limbed Kurd-
ish women washing clothes. There
must have been half thousand, all
shouting, plunging and wringing null
titude of garments. With skirts tucked
high above their knees and no sign of
yashmak or veil, they were a noisy,
easy-going set, dispelling the illusion
that in the East all women are Sc
cluded or eternally draped from head
to foot.
Long strings Of pack donkeys,
driven by noisy, swearing Kurdish
muleteers, came down to the river to
drink, and fusillades of jocular abuse
passed between these ruffians and the
washerwomen. Higher up the river
bank. and all along the waterfront,
ran long row of coffee shops, dance
halls and other resorts. Till late at
night these places are running full
blast, the din of tomtoms, native f1d-
dies and the harsh voices Of the paint
ed women who dance and sing, making
amusement for the men of Mosul. They
like excitement, these Kurds and
Arabs, and crude and amateurish as
their methods seem to us, they have
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22

and smell. In cold weather complaints
of trouble in churning are most mum
erous. Many who consider themselves
expert butter makers occasionally
meet with a refractory batch of cream
that defies all efforts to coax forth its
golden treasure.
Ordinarily there is no cream so hard
to churn that it is not amenable to
proper treatment. 1t is possible to
make the best of butter with the old
dash churn and butter bowl, but the
labor involved is out of all proportion
to results. If the butter fails to come
it is due to one or some combination of
the following causes:
First, the cnurn may be too full.
Second, the temperature is too high
or too low.
Third, the cream is improperly or in
sufficiently ripened.
Fourth, there is too small a percent
age of butterfat, probably because
there is too much skim milk with the
cream.
The churn should never be more
than half-full. 1t will often save time
and temper to divide the churning, es-
pecially If the temperature is a little
low; when churning commences the
air and cream are mixed into foam
which fills the churn so full that no
motion of the fat globules toward each
Ofhnr can occur and If ia imD0gSihI4
to churn frothy mass. In such case
part of the cream must be drawn off,
the temperature raised little and the
butter will soon come.
To have the temperature just right
is matter of the greatest Importance,
and next to good churn the thermom-
eter is the most important apparatus
in the dairy. For the making of uni
formly fine butter it is indispensable.
The kind to get is glass dairy ther-
mometer that sells for fifteen cents
and up.
About SIS degrees in summer and go
degrees in winter is usually the de-
sired temperature. The object of
churning is to bring the invisible fat
globules that are suspended in the
cream in contact with each other. If
they are just soft enough they will
unite under a steady stroke of the
dasher, the process going on till the
butter comes. If too hard or too soft
they will not do this, and that is why
temperature is SO important
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22
HANDY SLING FOR
HANDLING FODDER
Troublesome Task Made Easier
by Use of Device Described
Herewith.

In hauling shocks of corn, fodder
and all, to the barn to shuck it on
rainy days, it is sometimes trouble
some to handle.
An open sling will help, in which
the boards are three-fourths by four
inches, four feet long, with three
quarter-inch hole two inches from
each end for one-half inch rope.
The ropes in each sling are long
enough to inclose a shock of fodder.
To load the shocks the sings are
placed one by one on the wagon, the
boards lying crosswise, and the ropes
laid back and forward. When one
shock is loaded the ropes are brought
together and looped, then another
sling is loaded, as before until six
shocks are on the wagon.
The load is driven to the barn, the
hay carrier hooked to the sling, and
the shock is lifted at once to the
barn.
The corn as Ii is shocked is assorted
and clean well-shaped ears are thrown
into one crib; the 'nubbins" are
thrown into the bin next to the
crusher and ground for the cows, the
fodder is cut up on the large cutting
box. The cutting box is run by gaso-
line engine in the pump room.
The fodder, nice, bright and sweet,
is moistened with hot water, mixture
of wheat bran, oil meal, crushed oats
and gluten feed; sufficient salt is
added in season. The pile is forked
over thoroughly and let lie over night,
or from morning TO night.
The pith Of the stalks that the cows
do not eat is used for bedding, and
is one of the best absorbents we have.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22
IN A rIosuL. COFFEE HoUsE
never seen anything better and hence
are DleaSed

never seen anything better and hence
are pleased.
over Odd Bridge to Jonah's Tomb.
A unique bridge spans the Tigris at
Mosul for which parallel cannot
be found anywhere In the world. 1t
is built partly Of masonry, partly Of
wood, and for some distance is of the
pontoon type. First comes 100-foot
stretch of masonry pier, then a bridge
of boats 400 feet long and crossing the
main channel: then comes another
stone pier of $50 feet, leading to an
S00-foot stretch of brick arches, fol-
lowed at last by another stone pier
nearly 200 feet long. 1t seems as If
the builders changed their minds sew
eral times before finishing the odd
structure.
1t is across this bridge that one
goes to explore Nineveh, where Botta
and Layard made their sensational
discoveries so years ago. The whole
dry, brown plain about Mosul is a
vast forest of ancient mounds, thick
with signs of long-forgotten inhabi-
tants.
Ninevah is not even a memory with
the wild, ignorant tribes who roam the
desert of old Assyria. At one edge OF
it's ruins stands the little village OF
"Nebi Yunus," and the reputed tomb
of Jonah. The identity Of Jonah
seems alone preserved-and he was
one of the least In his day.
At night walked back to Mosul.
/ looked back once. and the setting
sun was reflected from the dome Of
Jonah's tomb. What fame this man
won, by riding in fish! Sennacherib
is forgotten, but all the natives know
"Yunus" and the tale of the big fish
On the morning of the Great Day, Jo-
nah may be put in the dock with Doc
tor Cook But for the present the
people are with him and he wears his
medals unchallerlged.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22

animals, and around the edge of this
Dlatform runs a mud manger, from
which the beasts are fed.
These historic caravanserais form
one of the most picturesque features
of middle eastern life. No traveller,
from Marco Polo down to date. has
crossed Mesopotamia without record
ing his impressions of the unspeakably
filthy and noisy "khans.
Naomi and His Sisters.
Next morning early Naomi and / eft
the pesthouse that had sheltered us,
and started out afoot to do Mosul. Ma
omi hunted up his Telkafi relatives,
whom he had not seen for many years,
and of course the master then became
the servants guest, for a few hours
Mt least. We ate preserved sweets,
pistachio nuts, mamma, nougat, ana
MANY such delicacies for which Mosul
10 noted: we drank sweetened rose
water and smoked countless cigarettes,
and I gave away to these curious, pry-
ing, but polite people all the secrets
of my family for three generations
back.
Naomi's numerous sisters, unveiled
and good to look at, came shyly out
and sat cross-legged on the rug no
placed for them at 8 proper distance
from me. Being native Christians,
thew could show their faces without
heing disgraced. They wore baggy
blue trousers long Mother Hubbard
gowns Of some dark color, yellow
stockings and fancy slippers all Gov
cred with beads. Their big brown
ewes gazed steadily a. me with that
Iuster that is bought in western wor' IS
at the price of belladonna, ane their
white teeth glistened in beautiful per
fection-in a land where no denufriee
was ever seen. :,
From the main bazaar ] wandered
on through the town, followed by the
usual crowd of curious Arabs ana
Kurds. and then continued on my walk
,oward the river. And here | beheld
an odd spectacle
had read that in early Assyrian
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22

nah and the whale-I never
dreamed that one day / vas
IL - to stand at Jonahs tomb and
see Arabs worship him as a
saint, writes Frederick Sisupich in the
Los Angeles Times.
The famous old prophet who rode In
the fish is buried at Mosul, in far-off
Mesopotamia. Mosul itself, from which
our word muslin" came, stands on the
1oaming Tigris opposite old Nineveh.
AND here Is a sketch of what life is
like today in the town where Jonah
rests.
1t Is dirty, crowded town, is Mosul,
with $4,000 people jammed inside it's
medieval walls. It's narrow, warped
streets are no more than crooked al
leys that wander aimlessly through
the town-dusty In summer and seas
or mud in winter. So narrow are these
passages that two loaded donkeys. If
they chance to meet, cannot pass till
one donkey has been backed into a
doorway.
Mosuls houses are Moorish style
NWO 2LOAASS1 lew WluuOWS, an open
court inside and fiat roofs with para
pets-so that the family may sleep on
the roof in summer. The main door to
each housesis a huge affair, studded
with great bolts and barred at night
like the gate to a fortress-suggestin
the old days of Mongol invasions.
To accommodate its important cara
van trade, Mosul has built up many
caravanserais, or "resthouses." With
Naomi, my Bagdad boy spent my first
night at Mosul in one of these singu-
lar khans, as the natives call them.
The khan is a sort of compound or
stockade of mud walls, without roof.
Around the inside of the walls runs a
row of little cells, to which travellers
are assigned.
In the middle of the Enclosure Is a
great platform, on which are piled the
bales of freight taken from the pack
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22

Dodd's Kidney Pills and they relieved
me again. / used three boxes. That
is now three years ego and my Back
ache has not returned In its severity.
and by using another two boxes lit
tie later on, the pain left altogether
and have had no trouble since. You
may use my statement. / recommend
Dodd's Kidney Pills when and wher-
ever can" Dodd's Kidney Pills. 50c.
per box at your dealer or Dodd's Medi-
cine Co., Buffalo, ". Y.-Adv. !
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22
Population Of Japan.

According to the late census the to-
tai population of japan, excluding
Formosa, Chosen, Kabafuto, Kantung
leased territory, men in the imperial
army and navy, and prisoners, was
54,S43,0S3 on December 81 of last
year. There were ten cities that had
a population of over one hundred thou
sand. Tokyo's population was then
2,0S3,300 and Osaka's 1887 1866.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22
Keen Out Surface water

Dig a ditch about the outside of the
poultry house and bank the extra soil
against the bottom Of the wall to keep
out surface water. A dry floor In es
sential for healthy flock in winter
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22

Its last stages, l
tried Dodd's Kid
ney Pills. After
using two boxes I
was somewhat re-
lieved and 1 stop
ped the treatment.
In the spring Of
the next year I
had another at
Anzl. 7 -~-A g.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22
ScrupuIous.

II guess we'd better fix up our ad-
vertisement for summer boarders right
now" said Farmer Corntossel
what for?" asked his wife.
81 don't want to write anything that
amt truthful. There ain's any mosqui-
toes now an the nights are always
cool"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22
Quality Of Market Lambs.

The quality of the market lamb de-
Ponds largely upon the first four
weeks of its life. Give it good boost
then he viii. with reasonably good
care, prove very satisfactory at mar
ket time.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22
The Attraction.

Bacon understand in many of the
Chilean cities women are employed as
street car conductors.
Egbert-Now l can understand why
men want to crowd the back plat
forms.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22

Every girl VOWS when she marries
that she win not stand for neglect
from her husband the way her poor
old mother does.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22
THE PROFESSORS STATEMENT.

Prof. Aug. F. w. Schmitz, Thomas.
Okla, writes: 81 was troubled with
Backache for about twenty-five years.
When told I had Bright's Disease in
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22

YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TELL You
Try Murine Bye Remedy for Red. Weak, wstery
lust Hye comfort Write for Book of the Eya
by mail Free. Murine BYE Remedy Co.. Chicago
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22

Being sorry for yourself doesn't en-
list the sympathy Of your neighbors.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-22

Chile has 5000 miles of telephone
operated by an English company.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-02-24
QUIT MEAT If YOUR
KIDNEYS ACT BADLY
Take tablespoonful OF Salts if Back
hurts or Bladder bothers-Meat
forms uric acid.

We are a nation Of meat eaters and
our blood is filled with uric acid, says
a well known authority, who warns us
to be constantly oD guard against Kid.
ney trouble.
The kidneys do their utmost TO free
the blood Of this irritating acid, but
become weak from the overwork; they
get sluggish; the eliminative tissues
clog aud thus the waste is retained in
the blood to poison the entire system
When your kidneys ache and feel
like Jumps Of lead, and you have
singing pains in the back or the urine
is cloudy, full Of sediment, or the
bladder is irritable, oblging you to
seek relief during the night; when
you have severe headaches, acid stom-
ach or rheumatism in bad weather, get
from your pharmacist about four
ounces of Jad Salts; take tablespoon.
full in a glass of water before break
fast each morning and in a few days
your kidneys will act fine. This fa-
nous salts is made from the acid of
grapes and lemon juice, combined with
lithia, and has been used for genera.
tious to flush and stimulate clogged
kidneys, to neutraGze the acids in urine
so it is no longer source of irritation
thus ending urinary and bladder disor'
ders.
Jad Salts is Inexpensive and can NOT
injure; makes delightful effervescent
lithia-water drink, and nobody car
make a mistake by SalSing a little oc
casionally to keep the kidneys clear
and active.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-02-24
EXCERPTS FROM LETTER
TELLS GERMAN ATTITUDE
Father CT Salem Residents Says Not to
Send Any More Newspaper Clippings
AS They Are Full of Lies.

The following is an excerp from
letter written by the father of j. G,
and Fred Voget who is now in Ger
many. The letter is dated January l6,
1915:
Please do not send us any more
newspaper sclippings, we are only
grieved at the lies, and cannot change
matters anyway. Let them write about
constant victories over "dying Ger
many, they can neither lie our
armies out of France nor out of Russia
and "dying Germany" still will have
enough strength left to settle with
John Bull. If the big English fleet
would only come out into the open
North sea, but they keep in hiding
and dare neither attack Borkum nor
Heligoland. We expected that they
would-Buzzard like-take our few
scattered cruisers, but Germany hopes
confidentially that we shall win over
all our enemies, impossible as it may
seem at this time. The Germans fear
nobody, and will know to sweep their
country with iron brooms, and keep
it free from any enemy whatever. Yes
the allies shall find out that it is not
so easy to ransack houses and TO out
rage German women "in Germany.
The poor Jewish women and girls in
Poland, in large numbers are commit
ting suicide, Because of the terrible
conduct of the Russians. Things too
terrible to tell are happening there,
and that are the allies Of Christian
England. But no cock crows for that,
even in America. "PoOr Belgium,
Belgium they have looked themselves
blind looking at Balgium, it would be
far more necessary to send food to Po-
land than to Belgium Last Monday
Timo Balm entered service with the
guard at Berlin His brother julius is
with his regiment before Verdun. But
although many regiments are in the
field in double and even triple strength
yet every garrison in the country is
just as full Of soldiers as during times
of peace. If you should come tC
Schwerin, Garfield, you would find
your regiment in full numbers, yes
even in war strength, and likewise the
infantry regiments. 1t seems as thougl
the string will never break. Every
where you here the heavy step of III,
Prussian military boot. Kitchner vii
have to drum some before he will b,
able to send better trained soldiers il
sufficient numbers across the canal
He will have to call ON Canada anD
Australia for more cannon fodder.
From here ] can bring nothing bu
good reports, know Of no nephey
that he had fallen or been wounded
OF Aunt n. IS sons only the youngest i
in France. We are all well and W
lack or suffer nothing except for tn
sympathies that we have for our sol
diers, who endure so much for us.
On our own persons we have SUI
fered nothing so far from the wal
, while millions suffered so terribly
, Our enemies are suffering enormously
that all our soldiers say and writ,
Recently 1000 English soldiers had t
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-02-24

hams Vegetable Compound. After TAX
ing the third bottle of the Compound
was able to do my housework and today
4 am strong and healthy again. l will
answer letters if anyone wishes to know
about my case. Mrs, JOSEPH AsELnJ
6O6 Fourth Avenue, Minneapolis, MINI.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com.
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics Or harmful
drugs, and today holds the record Of
being the most successful remedy we
know for woman's ills, If you need such
medicine why don't you try it?
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia Il. Pinl5ham's Vegeta-
Bile Compound viii help you, write
to Lydia E.Pinkham MedicineCo.
(cOnfidentiaI Lynn, Mass, for adj
vice. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by woman,
and held in strict confidence.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-02-24

Refer all calls for relief or aid to
the Center. 1t is made up of all other
relief agencies of the city and hence 1t
is equally yours. By using it you rem.
der all separate relief boards and agen-
cies unnecessary and thereby save cost,
trouble and waste in duplicated effort
and expense.
Appeals for food, aims or lodging by
transients at your doors, should be re-
ferred to Center's headquarters for
men Men IS club AGO Ferry street. If
you wish to give them food in return
for services book Of ten meal tickets,
costing 81 will save its cost many times
over A meal ticket will give them
food and food only.
Relief for Local Families Women and
Children.
Food, clothing, fuel, medical treat.
ment, etc.-AIrs. w. Il. Anderson, chair.
man relief committee, l49l Court
street Phone 2394.M, 8 to l2 a. m. BE
prepared to give name address, etc,
correctly, and be sure the need is gen
uine. Mere rumors often give busy
workers unnecessary trouble.
Employment for Men.
Center S free employment bureau at
Mems CLUB, AGO Ferry street, phone
1897. Free to employer and employe
Through it the entire city N>lps find
+ work for the unemployed.
i... Employment for Women.
Refer all applicants to Mrs. A. n
Bush, chairman industrial committee
for women, Y. w. G. A., 257 North ib
erty street. Phone 1918.
Donations Of food stuffs such a,
meat, beans, flour, sugar, potatoes
fruit, etc, would be very helpful These
will reach relief department if sent tt
county Judge at the court house.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-02-24
PEACE ORATORICAL AT
CORVALLIS SATURDAY
James Read Balm, Foremost Literary
Man Of Willamette University, viii
Represent Local Institution.

The annual oratorical contest of the
Intercollegiate Peace association will
be held at the Oregon Agricultural col
lege at Corvallis next Saturday even
ing. willamette university will be rep
resented by James Read Balm, who will
take for his subject, ''The Great War
and the Great Ideal.
Balm is one of the foremost literary
men Of the university and is well known
both in collegiate and city circles as a
poet, philosophe! and student of excep-
tionll ability.
His Grafton is an exceptional proluc-
tion and if he is able to evidence in his
delivery the feeling that he has written
into production he should rank high
when the places are awarded saturday
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-02-24
Five To Be Court Martialed
For Explosion on San Diego

Washington, Feb. 24.-Court-m martial
Cf ) officers and men Of the cruiser san
Diego as a result of the recent explosion
ON that vessel which caused the death
Of persons, was recommended today
by Admiral Howard, commander of the
Pacific fleet, in a wireless message to
the navy department.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels, it
was Announced, will approve the recon-
mendation,