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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-07-09

EISuteen passengers were seriously
injured and number of others slight
ly bruised, near Plainwell, Mich. when
two cars on the new Grand Rapids In
terurban line collided head-on.
Six persons were killed In a tor
nado which swept Ottawa county.
Oklahoma. Property damage was
heavy.
Statewide prohibition in Alabama
Is in effect. Every saloon and dis
pensary in the state was closed
Wednesday night.
The United States submarine H-3
was pulled of the rocks at Point Sur,
20 miles from Monterey, CAL, by the
United States submarine tender
Cheyenne.
The federal grand jury indicted Ru-
dolph Malik, Sn Austrian salesman ar.
rested in New York on a charge that
IN letter mailed to President Wilson
he threatened the president with "a
political crime" should the president
refuse to pay him $500.
Charles Lanier announced at New
York the engagement of his grand.
daughter. Miss Kitty Lanier Lawrance.
daughter Of the late Mr.. and Mrs. F.
c. Lawrance, to William Averill Har.
riman, eldest son of the late E. H
Hartman.
That Harry X. Thaw never was in
sane, at the time he killed Stanford
White, or before or after that act. was
the declaration at Thaw's hearing in
New York of DR.. Charles p. Bancroft
superintendent Of the New Hampshire
State Hospital for the Insane.
The building material builders of
Chicago closed their plants in a cam.
paign to force all unions having strikes
to arbitrate. Ten thousand persons
directly employed by the dealers were
laid OF.
Ferris Hassan, q Turk, who shot
his neighbor. John w. Fender. aged
seyenty-two years, then fred his own
home at Bedford, Ind. committed sui.
eide after desperate battle with a
posse.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-07-09

Six persons were killed In a tor
nado which swept Ottawa county.
Oklahoma. Property damage was
heavy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-07-09

Statewide prohibition in Alabama
Is in effect. Every saloon and dis
pensary in the state was closed
Wednesday night.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-07-09

Ferris Hassan, q Turk. who shot
his neighbor. John w. Fender, aged
seventy-two years, then fred his own
home at Bedford, Ind. committed sui.
eide after desperate battle with .
posse.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-07-09

The United States submarine H-3
was pulled of the rocks at Point Sur,
20 miles from Monterey, Cal, by the
United States submarine tender
Cheyenne.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-07-09

Eleven French aeroplanes, flying
across the Black Forest, attacked sew
en- German towns in Alsace and also
bombarded three railway lines. Their
bombs caused heavy damage.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-07-09

Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant
secretary of the navy, was operated on
for appendicitis at the naval hospital
at Washington.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-14
PRIZE HERD SAVED.

Everyone will rejoice that the
100000 prize herd which has been
in quarantine at Hawthorne race
track for foot-and-mouth disease, has
been pronounced cured, says the Chi
cago Journal. 1t would have been
a great pity to destroy such fine col
lection. But here is what the veter-
marian in charge of this prize herd
says about the chance of adopting
the quarantine method in a wide
spread fight on this animal plague:
cit would be foolish to attempt to
do with any ordinary herd what we
have done with this one. The cost
would make the plan prohibitive. We
had 100000 at stake and could
afford to spend $4,000 to save it.
In any general fight against the dis
ease killing the cattle is the only
sure method"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-14
LOCAL AND FOREIGN
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
items of Interest From Various
Sources That Will Interest
Our Readers.

The Wisconsin and United States
crop report issued by the bureau of
crop estimates, gives the following
Wisconsin figures on July 1st fore
cast: Corn 5O,900,0O0 bushels. Win
ter wheat 100000 bushels. Spring
wheat 100000 bushels. Oats So
100000 bushels. Barley 100000
bushels. Potatoes 100000 BUSH
els. Apples 3,21O,OOO bushels. All of
the crops are slightly below the 1914
final excepting oats, which is about
80 per cent above last year. The av-
erages for this year Cd rye, hay,
timothy, pasture, cabbage, onions
and sugar beets, runs about go per
cent, or slightly above the ten year
average.
The chief of the state hygienic lab
oratory, at Madison, urges the great
est watchfulness during the next two
months in regard to rabies. 1t is an
acute, rapidly fatal infection, always
communicated by the animal to the
victim. A physician should be called
Immediately and cauterize the wound
with Tuning nitric acid, laying it
open so that the acid reaches the en-
tire surface. There is cheerful side
in that only about 16 per cent of
those bitten by rabid dogs develop
the disease. The department requests
that the head of all dogs proven to
have the disease be shipped to them
for examination.
$4,000 postal employees received
pay increases this year, due largely
to the increased efficiency developed
in the department. The reduction in
the operating cost enabled the depart
ment to effect the automatic promo
tions.
To mark through automobile high
ways In Wisconsin, and post signs in
adjoining states directing the way to
the through roads in this state, is a
project undertaken by the wisconsin
Advancement association. The routes
will cover all the important points in
the state and reach thousands of at
tractive spots in a systematic man
ner. The idea is to make things so
plain that a tourist may travel
across the entire state without hav-
ing TO ask a single question.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-14
A NATIONAL CREED.

The Chicago Herald suggests the
following as a National Creed by
which the men, women and children
of America may affirm their Amer
icanism:
1 believe in the United States, one
and indivisible; in her mission as the
champion of humanity-as the friend
of the weak and distressed; in the
singleness, dignity and inviolability
III American citizenship; in the val
iditv of our national traditions; in
neace with honor; in friendship with
ali nations that respect our rights;
in entangling alliances with none; in
reasonable preparations for national
defense by sea and land; in Sinking
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-14
SEES DANGER AHEAD BE-
CAUSE OF SPECIALIZATION
University of Illinois Professor, Says
Democracy Of Country is
Threatened.

BASED in the gutter and topped
in the university, the public school
system of the United States offers
our clearest expression of the funda-
mental democratic principle of equal
ity of opportunity, said Prof. w. c..
Bagley, director of the School of Ed
ucation of the University of Illinois,
in giving an address at the university
on 1.-THE Educational Basis of Dem
ocracy."
That the mushroom growth of the
public high schools, which have in
creased ten times as rapidly as the
population in the last twenty-five
years, has brought crisis in educa-
tional policy, is the belief of Prof.
Bagley. Educators throughout the
country are tending to give up the
old standardized high school curri-
culum, and TO introduce new features
which they think especially well
adapted to their locality, or their
class of students. This tendency,
Prof. Bagley thinks, may have unde-
sirable results.
Democracy, if it means anything,
means the collective consideration of
common problems, he said. IF the
people are to think collectively on a
nigh plane, they must have back
ground of common ideas. While ed
ucation does not stop with formal ed
cation in schools, mans later ex-
perience is usually so specialized that
he does not get large ideas of ma
tionaI policy, if he has not known
something about them when he was
in school. Too specialized training,
therefore, in the primary and second
airy schools, means a loss in democ-
Tacy to the country, though it may
mean financial gain to the individ-
ual student. Madison Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-14

1t Is now forty-eight years since the
purchase OF Alaska, but the people of
the United States are only just begin
ming to get an inkling of it's interior
industrial possibilities. From this time
forward it is safe to predict swifter
development. The opening of the Pan
anna canal puts Alaska within easier
reach from our populous Atlantic
front
There are stores Of coal and copper
in the great stretches Of variable min
ing land between the Alaska noun
tains and the sea. New railroad facili-
ties will give still greater push to In
dustrial expansion. Alaskan coal IL
even a more important asset than
Alaskan gold. The more we know OF
Alaska the more we have reason to
congratulate ourselves on the farsight-
ed wisdom that induced it's purchase
nearly half a century ago, It was a
great bargain at $7,2O0OO0
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-14

It ts to be hoped that the reports
which have been circulated about the
unprotected condition of the Panama
canal had no basis in fact. However,
statements of serious import have been
traced to the authorities who are In
position to know and to give judgment
Any general unpreparedness for war is
excusable In view of the national re-
luctance In time of peace to assume an
attitude before the world OF having
possible enemies or that we nurse am
billions likely to arouse enmity. But
the Panama canal is an institution by
itself. 1t has an international mission,
and the United States is the guarantor
OF ability, come what may. to fulfill its
mission for all the world. The nation
felt relieved when provision was made
to place the canal terminals In state
OF defense, and the disappointment
would be great IL test would be put
upon the defenses and they were found
wanting. We shall not lose the canal
permanently, but 1t would be calam-
ity to have the defense OF it prove
tedious and costly II assailed. Our
control seems to carry with it the OBJ
legation to make that control secure
against every emergency.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-14
HIS COURSE WAS CLEAR.

He Would Be Perfectly Willing to Help
Her All He Could.
william" said the good wife, look
ing up from her paper, here l see an
article that says a man is suing his
wife for divorce, simply because she
went through his pockets after he was
asleep. Goodness knows, William,
probably the poor woman never got a
cent from the brute of a husband In
any other wayy'
"Uh-huh." replied William.
william" came from his better half,
don't you dare sit there and 'uh-huh'
me in such a manneri What would
you do IL you woke up and found me
going through your pocketsY
"Who-me" asked the sleepy hus-
band, who had already turned over his
pay envelope to the boss Of the house.
'Why, I'd get up and help you search,
OF course, my dear!'-Judge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-14
AFTER MARRIAGE

She = Jack, you are the sweetest
thing. Oh. how / love you!
Jack (reaching toward his vest peck
et)-How much?-Michigan GargOyle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-14

A little more thar three-flfths OF the
farms In the United States are operat-
ed by their owners and a little less
than two-fifths by tenants. AS to
farms operated by tenants, the census
makes no attempt to learn whether or
not they are mortgaged, but as to
farms operated by owners 1t reports
one-third mortgaged and two-thirds
free from incumbrance. Probably
among farms operated by tenants the
ratio Of those free to those mortgaged
is not widely different. The average
value Of the mortgaged farm is, In
round numbers, $4,000; the mortgage
is $1,7OO; the owners equity, $4,000.
Probably exactness is not to be claim
ed for these census figures, but 1t Is
fair assumption that they show ap-
nroximately the situation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-14
PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.
Prevent Malaria,

No one need have malaria or
"chills and fever" no matter
where he lives nor how many
other people around him fall sick
from this disease. All that is
necessary is to take five grain
capsule OF Quinine every day
during the mosquito season. This
will not cause even the slightest
discomfort or ringing In the ears.
1t has been used by the people
in Italy and Panama for years
without the slightest Ill effect In
any particular. For places hav-
) ing an undue amount Of malaria
that is. where there Is lot OF
} mosquitoes and many people sick
Of malaria-it is best to increase
} this daily dose to seven and one
half grains, or five grains for one
day and ten grains the next. By
means of quinine surprising re-
suits have been obtained every
place 1t has been used. In Italy
the number Of cases Of malaria
were reduced from 14,04S per
year to 5,435 per year and then
to 1858 per year. only those fall
ing sick who neglected to take
, the Quinine. The cost Of such
preventive measures is surpris-
} ingly small. At so cents an
ounce for quinine, the present re-
) tail price, one may stay free from
malaria for about a half cent a
) day. OF course such small doses
Of quinine are not expected to
) cure malaria once it has started.
1t is only intended as a proven
) tive. Such preventive measures
should be begun in malarial Sec
} lions at the beginning Of the
mosquito season and continued
) until frost.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-14

no sacrifice needed to hand down to
the future the priceless treasures be-
queathed to us by the past; in the
necessity of keeping the western
hemisphere free from the intrusions
of European institutions and ambi-
tions; in the capacity of free men
for self-government; in the love of
home and country; and in the un-
flinching resolution that government
of the people, for the people, by the
people shall not perish from the
earth.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-14
A Truthful Saw.

When church is out and Jack and Jill
In linked seclusion stray
It takes them two long, lonely hours
to pick their homeward way,
And as it's scarcely half a mile
No reason can ! find
Why it should take so very long
Except that love is blind"
Boston Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-14
PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.
Cara af the Mouth.

Decayed teeth or diseased
gums may be the cause OF poison
circulating throughout the sys-
tenn. 1t may happen in this way:
A series Of canals, known as
lymphatic tissue. connects the
several parts OF the body, includ-
ing the gums. II the teeth are
not cleaned and the mouth kept
In good condition microbes or
germs collect on the gums and
teeth. When they become so
numerous as to Overpopulate the
mouth they are pushed into the
Emphatic canals, where they get
busy developing disease IN the
body; hence the necessity for
constant and scrupulous care Of
the mouth.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-14
FooIishment.

A girl by the name Of Luella
Once sat in the park with her fella-
He sneezed in a way
That caused her to say:
Gosh. George! Shall raise an umbrellaT
New York World.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-14
Undone.

Pat-Kehoe gave dermatologist $50
for changing his pug nose into q
Grecian nose.
Mike-He did.
Pat-He did. Next day Callahan
knocked it back into a pug nose again
for nothing at all.-Kansas City Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-14
An Irate Husband.

He gave his wife an angry look.
Used language far from nice.
It seems the dame his razor took
To shave some ice.
-Kansas City Journal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-14
The Changing Panorama of Life.

BEFORE MARRIAGE.
She-Jack. you are the sweetest man.
Oh, how ] love you!
Jack pinching her cheek = How
muph7
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-04-06
How to Pick a Husband

The Paris Figaro pretends to be able
to read the character of anybody by
the way in which he eats peach and
similar trifiing acts at table. watch
your lover, young woman" it advises.
"If he bends over his knife and fork
and finishes his roast in three gulps,
beware He is surely not appreciative,
and you may dress with taste and
look ever so pretty, and he will not
know it. If he is fond of sweets, he
is nervous and will nag. If he likes
cheese and roast meat, he will be mus
cular and placid. If he has times of
immoderate eating of bread, he is fond
of the country. If he eats peach
slowly and tenderly, like connoisseur,
peels it like an artist and treats 1t
with reverence, instead of hurrying 1t
down like boor, he is all right, and
the sooner you marry him, the happier
you will be-" But it is not well to
confide too much in these snap tests.
They sound clever, but they do not al.
ways wear well.-Kate Epson Clark,
in Leslie's.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-04-06
Tropical Plants for Indoor Winter
Garden
Winter

With a little care, number OF trop-
zeal plants may be grown indoors, and
during the winter they are particular
" attractive addition to bay window
or conservatory garden. Various kinds
of palms, rubber plants, oleanders, as
pidistras and cacti are easily kept in
good condition indoors if given the
proper attention and not permitted to
be exposed to frost, according to the
Department of Agriculture's horticul'
turists.
Palms are much used for interior
decorations where there is no direct
sunlight. Regular watering is essen
tiaI, with especial care not to over.
water. 1t is better with most palms
! to keep them a little dry than too wet.
| Where a pot is in a jardiniere especial
| care must be exercised not to have
them too wet.
While small, wash the foliage oc'
casionally with soadsuds made from
| a good soap. Immediately follow with
a thorough rinsing. When too large
for this, spray the tops frequently with
clear water.
Browning at the tips usually comes
| trouble at the roots. First, Overwater.
ing; second, worms on the roots; third,
lack of plant food. The first is the
trouble in nearly every case. The
| worms that gave the trouble Is not
the ordinary earth worm, but little
| white harmless looking creature that
emerges into the air as a small fly.
Dissolve a piece of quicklime as big
as tea cup in, three gallons of water.
| After it is through sputtering and the
milky mixture has cleared, pour on
! the clear part and soak your soil with
| it. Do not dilute, for the soaking
| should be thorough. To provide plant
food, stir small quantities of bone meal
and wood ashes into the surface or in
| place of ordinary watering occasional
! ly use manure water or ammonia
| water "a teaspoonful of ammonia to a
quart of water). Trim off the brown
, TIPS, as they will never recover. II
the leaves turn yellow, look for scale
on the under side and be sure you are
not overwatering. Wash the scale on
OF spray Will hOiooSAS SAAAuASASA 70
whale-oil soap, or. some nicotine
preparation. Do not repeat too often.
| If a palm grows three new leaves
year it does well.
Rubber plants are especially salts
factory to grow where there is good
light without direct sunlight. Water
often enough to keep the soil moist
but do not under any circumstances
permit water to stand about the roots
nor allow it to become "bone dry"
potted plant set in a jardiniere needs
especial care not to overwater.
| Wash the foliage frequently with
soap suds made from good soap. Rinse
thoroughly at once.
Repot occasionally as the pots be-
come full of roots. Feed once in two
| to four weeks with dilute nitrate OF
soda "a heaping teaspoonful dissolved
in water) or ammonia water or manure
water as described for the palm or
some prepared plant food.
Oleanders may be treated more or
less as are palms.
Aspiridistras are most ornamental.
They should be kept rather drier than
palms and rubber plants.
Cacti require rather dry sandy soil.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-04-06
WhiteWash

The following rule for preparing
whitewash which is used by large
factory, may be found useful. Have
ready one barrel of unslaked lime and
add, while shaking it, three pounds OF
glue and three pounds of suet, tallow.
lard or bacon cut in small pieces. The
heat of the shaking will dissolve the
fat. which acts like an oil. Add also
a pound of alum and six pounds Of salt.
Half a pound of borax can be added
later. Bluing may be added when the
whitewash is used, allowing about one
tablespoonful to pailful. The white
wash should be prepared three or four
weeks before using, as it improves
with age, unlike most mixtures Of the
kind. Stir it every day up to the time
of using. 1t has been used ON out.
buildings and wears well.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-04-06
DOG HIS OWN ExPREssMAN
tress in Her Own New
Home.

Pitman, N. J.-When Mrs. James
Gordon, whose family has just moved
here from Indiana, went to the tele-
phone to answe' call from local
expressman who reported the arrival
of the Gordons' dog from the Western
state, she was interrupted by scratch
ing at the back door.
AS she opened the door tho dog came
bounding into the room. He had brok
en- cut of his crate in front of the
express office. more than mile from
the Gordon home, while the express
man was telephoning. There were SO
express charges due on the log, which
the expressman gave up hope of ever
collecting until Mrs. Gordon drove into
town an hour later and told Of the
arrival of her pet.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-04-06
To Prevent Draughts

A simple and practical way to pre-
vent draughts entering under door
that has, through shrinkage, wide
crack under it is to fold three thick
nesses of paper together just the width
of the door. and two inches deep and
cover it with serge or cloth as near
the color of the door as possible.
Sew to this three small brass rings,
one quarter of an inch from each
end and one in the middle. Fasten in
to the bottom of the door three small
screwhooks and hand the rings on
them. You will have perfect protec'
ton from cold air coming under the
door and one that is easily removed
and kept busted.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-04-06
An Eye-Opener

Always have a glass medicine drop
per and a bottle of rose water in the
medicine chest and in your travelling
bag. Then when you get a foreign
body in your eye you will be spared
much pain and discomfort if the fol-
lowing very simple and harmless
method is pursued: Put into the medi.
cine dropper six drops Of the rose
water. Pull down the lower lid, float
the liquid on the surface of the injured
eye. After the rose water has been
in the eye for few seconds use the
empty medicine dropper to suck out
the liquid and the foreign matter will
come with it.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-04-06
The Piano

A piano is almost as sensitive to
heat and cold as an invalid.
1t should not be placed too near a
fire, as the heat draws the wood.
Neither should it be near an open
window, as on a wet day the damp is
apt to rust the keys and wires, and
take the polish off the case. Vs..
Always keep the piano closed when
it is not in use. The keys should be
busted frequently with an old silk
handkerchief, and rubber occasionally
with cloth moistened with menthy-
lated spirits. ...
If they get very yellow, rub with a
little lemon juice and whiting, and re-
move it with damp cloth. But be
very careful that none Of the dust falls
between the keys.
If the case gets clouded and dull
looking, give it good polish with a
very little furniture cream and polish
with a channels leather. In towns 1t
is apt to get smoky. To remove this
wipe over with cloth wrung out Of
vinegar and water, then polish.
Don't put your piano close to the
wall, as it deadens the tone. To keep
it in perfect order, it should be tuned
about every three months.
And remember that piano is never
heard to best advantage in room that
Is overcrowded with furniture and
hung with many draperies.