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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-05
To Rid State of erasshoppers.

A booklet issued by the Utah agri-
cultural experiment station on EXTERN
lnation of grasshoppers has received
the highest commentator of the col
lege of agriculture of the University
of Wisconsin.
In this booklet, by E. d. Ball, the
life history and habits of the grass
hopper are given, ard the various
methods of control which have been
tried, are explained, together with an
estimate of their merits.
The experiment station of the Utah
agricultural college has been busy
several summers in an effort to find
a practical and economical way to ex-
terminate these pests, which are not
only numerous in Utah but which are
a constantly growing menace in Wis
consin.
Professor Bal, holds that the exist
ence of the grasshopper is sign of
laziness and lack of attention to the
irregular cycles of grasshopper inva-
sions. Grasshoppers are, he says. Of
two species. one, the nonmigratory,
spends its entire existence within a
restricted area. The migratory hop
per covers hundreds Of miles in his
travels. The first is the problem of
the community or county in which
they are numerous.
In Wisconsin the greatest trouble
has been with this class, but the other
has been felt and seen here in great
numbers, and may be expected again
in year or two.
Destruction of the eggs before the
insects have chance to hatch is rec
commended as the best way to exter-
inmate them, as the damage a swarm
choppers would do to two or three
acres of hoppers would do to two or
three acres would be of more loss
than the amount spent in destroying
the entire swarm in the egg stage.
The fuctuating numbers of grass
hoppers. according to Professor Ball
is due to parasites that prey upon
them and the consequent increase of
hoppers the following year with a
dearth of insects.
EoNA ACHldlE VI the W dIItOI sptClbo
lays from nineteen to twenty-three
eggs in a dry, dusty field. A week
later she returns and deposits her sec
ond and last egg mass. Where there
is a large swarm the ground will be
practically filed with these egg pods.
In one year in Utah one swarm fur
| nished 20 tons of hoppers in one
month. The number OF eggs can be
estimated. The hoppers run about
| 5000, 10000 to the ton
Professor Ball recommends that
when breeding grounds are discovered
all places where eggs have been de-
posted should be thoroughly disked
or worked up with a spring-toothed
| harrow in the fall At least three
| diskngs are favored After the dry
ing and frost action OF the winter the
| process should be repeated. This
treatment, he says, would destroy all
/ the egg masses and prevent crop OF
| hoppers
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-05
Mnre Words Followed.

I'm a woman of my word" said
Mrs Prebscomb, with an air of final
sty
Indeed you are, my DEAR" said Mr..
Prebscomb.
when l go out l don't come home
and tell an improbable yarn about
where I've BEEN"
No. you don't, my DEAR" replied
Dir. Prebscomb mildly, but that may
be due to the fact that / have never
had sufficient courage to ask you
where you have been"
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-05
NEWS Of THE STATE

Kenosha.-Edna Engel, seventeen
years old. daughter of Caspar En-.
gel, worked all Tuesday in a fac
tory. She returned home just before
six O'Clock, aIui as she went into the
house she was frightened by a rat.
She mn screaming into d field adioin-
ing the house, fell IL faint and died
: Beloit.--E&citement prevails among
the 1900 or more Italians Of this city,
They are anxiously. awaiting call fol
volunteers to the Italian army.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-05
DON'T MIND PlMPLES
tutleura Soap and Ointment viii Ban
Ish Them. Trial Free.

These fragrant supercreamy emol-
lIepts do so much to cleanse, purify
lad beautify the skin, scalp, hair and
! hands that you cannot afford to be
Without them. Besides they meet
syery want in toilet preparations and
, ire most economical.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. KY.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-05

Lyuua T.. flnkn2m 8
V ge table Com
pound. When / first
began taking it l
was suffering from
female tro lbles for
some time and had
almost all kinds Of
aches-pains in low
er part of back and
in sides, and press
ing down pains. l
could not sleep and
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-05
Drink Denison's Coffee.
Always pure and delicious.
A Marnina.

Doctor-You've had a terrible shock.
patient-Its up to you to see that
don't have another when l get your
M
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-05

good cook is one who uses plenty
Of butter.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-05

A grocery clerk not only works long
hours for a small salary, but his Gus
toners are nearly all women.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-05

A man knows less than a woman,
but a part of what he knows is true.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-05
MRS. LYONS
ACHESAND PAINS
Have All Gone Since Taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.

Terre Hill, Pa" Kindly permit me
to give you my testimonial in favor Of
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-05

Drink Denlson's Coffee.
Always pure and delicious.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-05

a womans conscience is almost as
sstic As her tongue.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-05

shines in ten when the liver Ia
I'M, e', .l.sornach and bowels are right.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-02

The man in the picture above has
a pair of eyes that see but one thing.
That one thing is the dollar mark.
Nothing else in all this world counts
for much to him. He lives by and for
dollars.
He imagines that he can make his
wife and children happy by piling up
dollars and dollars and dollars; he
thinks that he can gain friends easily
if he has plenty Of gold. He thinks
that all the best in the world is his
for the asking and paying. That is
why he keeps his eyes glued to the
ticker as it ticks off dollars and cents
from morning until night.
Of course, we all know that this
man is mistaken; that mere money
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-02

will not make his wife and children
happy; that it will not buy for him
good and true friends; that the best
things on earth-love, health, genu-
inc happiness, and the honest esteem
of his fellow man-cannOt be bought
with gold alone.
We all know further that while
this deluded human being is using his
eyes day in and day out watching the
fluctuations of his stocks and bonds,
he is missing the greatest sights in
life
The man is the picture is to be
pitied. The galley slave chained to
his oar was no more a slave than is
this man chained to this ticker by q
golden chain of greed for dollars.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-21

making such growth do not make use
of the fertilizers.
1t is one of the hardest things l
know Of to make an enthusiastic anna
teur plant grower satisfied to "let well
enough alone" She is constantly
wanting to urge her pets on a little
faster, and in her efforts to do this
she gives them more food than they
a digest, and the consequence is
a breakdown from overstimulation
nine times out of ten.
A plant that does not get as much
food as it can make good use of, will
give vastly greater satisfaction in the
long run, than the plant that gets so
much food that it doesn't know what
to do with it.
Some persons are under the impress
sion that all plants for winter use must
be young ones. Such is not the case,
however. Year-old plants, as a gen.
eral thing, are much preferable to the
young ones.
There are exceptions as in the case
Of Chinese ~primroses, Primula obconi-
ca and others Of q habit similar, in
some respects to our ANIMALS; but for
the majority Of plants adapted to
house culture like ge%raniums, hello
tropes, begonias, abutilons, asparagus
In variety and carnations, older plants
should always be chosen.
This summer l start the %geraniums
ryhioh 7 intnnd fA dnnan1 ,,no- Co., h,;n
ter flowers a year from the coming
winter. These will bloom some this
winter If l let them, but / shall hold
them in check to a great extent for
future service.
The person who breaches young
plants for winter Towering" to you
does not take into consideration the
fact that a plant started this season
from a cutting will have but few
branches by winter. and a plant that
has but few branches cannot give
many flowers because ample Towering
surface near many branches.
Therefore, instead of letting the ge-
raniums you start this summer bios
som in the winter. keep %pinching them
back to produce a sufficient number
of branches to give the desired
amount of Towering surface.
The more branches there are the
more flowers you may expect.
Cut your ferns apart now and use
each division of the roots that has a
piece of crown attached as the basis
Of a new plant. Use leaf mold or
turfy loan for this class of plants, ii
obtainable.
Hanging baskets should receive at
tention at once.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-21
pxnamltlna MoIes.

1t has recently been discovered that
dynamite can be used as an effective
and convenient means of getting rid of
moles. ground mice and other small
destructive animals which burrow into
the ground and destroy the roots of
plants.
An inch or two of a 40 per cent dyna-
mite stick can be wrapped in paper or
cloth and provided with a fuse but no
decorator. A charge of this kind
should be stuck down into each bur
row and some loose dirt packed around
the fuse after 1t is lighted. No expIo-
sion will result from tine dynamite
when used in this way. II will burn
slowly. filling the hole with poisonous
gases which will kill the animals. This
method has recently been put into ef-
feet upon a large California ranch. The
moles. which frequently ruin the ap.
pearance of a city terrace, can also be
| conquered by this method at the
trihing cost of two cents for each hole
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-21
SCREEN OF GOOD APPEARANCE
Has Durability and 10 Distinguished
Looking, Is Claim Made for New
Idea on Market.

The attitude Of the average person
toward screens is expressed by the
epigram, Screens is Screens" When
the fly fooler is in need of repairs,
the man who is doing the work gets
a few yards of screen with no regard
to its ~nonrusting and wearing abilities.
A western concern has invented a
rust-proof which, according to the man
~ufacturers, is finished with ten coats.
composed of three different materials.
The copper coats are put on first; then
the zinc coats are applied, and lastly
a finishing material OF lacquer is put
on, which protects the zinc and also
adds to the rust-resisting qualities of
the screen.
All these coats are applied to the
wire cloth after weaving by an cleo
tro-galvanizing process.
The color after finishing is a dull
aluminium, making a handsome, dis
inguished looking screen.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-21

gion of the equator, you will appre-
ciate what 1t means to lie on your
back in an upper berth and try to get
your shoes of.
And this goes double for the man
who weighs more than 200 pounds.
Every time l reached for my feet
to get my shoes off l bumped my
head off; so l decided hat in order
to keep my head on l had better keep
my shoes on also.
Then l tried to divorce my suspend
ers from my shoulders but Just as l
got the ~suspenders half way over my
head l struck my crazy bone on the
r%afters, and there I was, suspendered
between heaven and earth, but pray
ing with all my heart for a bottle of
arnica.
Finally l decided to sleep as ma
ture made me, with all my clothes on,
including my rubbers.
So stretched out, but Just then the
train struck a curve and l went up in
the air till the ceiling hit me, and
then I bounced over to the edge Of
the precipice and hung there, trem-
bling on the verge.
Below me all was dark and gloomy,
and only by the hoarse groans of the
snorers could I tell that the Pullman
company was still making money.
Luck was with me, however, for Just
then the train struck an in-shoot
curve which pushed me to the wall,
and l bumped my head so completely
that l fell asleep.
When l woke up a small package
of daylight was peeping into the car,
so l decided to descend from my cup
board shelf at once.
l peeped out through the aluminium
curtains, but there was no sign of
the colored porter and the stepladder
was invisible to the naked eye.
The car was peaceful now, with the
exception Of a gent in lower No. 4,
who had a strangle hold on a Bee
thoven sonata and was beating the
cadence out of 1t.
l made a short prayer and conclud-
ed to fall out, but just then one of my
feet rested on something solid; so l
put both feet on it and began to step
down.
Alas, however, the moment l put
my weight oil 1t my stepping stone
gave way and l fell overheard with a
splash.
How dare you put your feet on my
head?" yelled the man on the ground
moor of my bedroom.
Excuse me. 1t felt like something
wooden" l whispered, while l dashed
madly for the smoker.
From that day to this I have never
been able to look a Pullman car in the
face, and whenever anybody mentions
an upper berth to me l lose my pres
ence of mind and get peevish.
If you have ever been there your
self l know you don't blame me!
Do you?
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-21

he laughed teethfully and hit me on
the shins with q stepladder.
The spectacular gent who occupied
the star chamber beneath my garnet
was sleeping as noisily as possible,
and when | started up the stepladder
he began to render Mendelssohn's
obbligato for the trombone in the key
of @.
Above the roar Of the train from
away Off in lower No. Q family l could
hear an answering bugle call.
l climbed up prepared for the worst
and in the twinkling of an eye the
porter removed the stepladder and
there l was, sitting on the p~erilous
edge of my pantry shelf with nothing
to comfort me save the exhaust of a
professional snorer.
After about FIVE minutes devoted to
a parade of all my sins, l began to
try to extract my personality from my
coat, but when | pushed my arm up
in the air to get the sleeve loose my
knuckle struck the hardwood finish
and / fell backward on the cast-iron
pillows. breathing hoarsely like a
busy jackrabbit.
| waited about ten minutes while
my brain was bobbing back and forth
with the excitement of running fifty
miles an hour over a careless part of
the country, and then l cautiously
tried to approach my shoe laces.
Sayi If you're a man and you
weigh in the neighborhood Of 200
pounds, most of which is in the re-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-21
nlrIboarda 4 pubIIo nuisance,

Billboards are a public nuisance.
They are dangers to human beings
who have to live ear them. They
present real perils from the stand
point Of public health, FIRE protection,
police protection and reasonable safe
guarding against accident.
This is the new and practical prin-
ciple upon which the city council is
now asked to amend Sections 706 and
TOT of the present building code.
It is a weapon against the billboard
nuisance forged out of the perfectly
definite practical rights of the citizen
instead of from that newer metal
known as his aesthetic rights. We
may not have reached the stage when
we have established the fact that a
citizen has the right to be protected
against eye-sores, but We certainly
long ago reached the point when we
recognized that his sanitary well be-
ing, the protection Of his life and prop
erty were charges Of the state.-Cht-
| cago Post.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-21

and l judge they both had lower
berths; otherwise their minds would
have been busy with dark and per-
sonal fears of the future.
Well" exclaimed the gabby one
from Kansas City, what is politics?
Well. what is it,"
Politics" replied Wise Willie from
Providence, politics is where we get
it-sometimes in the bank, sometimes
in the neck!"
Everybody present peeled the cover
off a loud laugh and the smokeless
hog at the window stole four inches
extra space SO that he could shake
more when he giggled.
Well" resumed the inquisitive per-
son from Kansas City, what is a poll
tician? Do you know? Eli, well,
what is a politician?"
"A politician" replied the fat man
from Providence, "a politician is the
reason we have so much politics."
Much applause left the hands of
those present, and the smokeless hog
turned sideways so that he could
make the others more uncomfortable.
Perhaps" insinuated gabby Jim
from Kansas City, perhaps YOU know
what a statesman is, eh?"
"A statesman is a politician in good
luck" was the comeback from our
fat friend from Providence, and in
the enthusiasm which followed the
smokeless hog found out there was no
buffet car on the train, SO he offered
to buy the drinks.
Don't you believe that all men are
born equal?" inquired the Kansas City
ite.
Yes, but some of them have pull
enough to get over it," responded the
Providence philosopher; whereupon
the smokeless hog by the window
took out a flask and began to dampen
his conscience.
Just then the towel rack fell with
a crash, and after l picked up the
comb and brush and myself | decided
to retire to my bracket on the wall
and try to sleep.
When left the smoker the smoke.
less hog was occupying two and a
half seats and was now busy breath,
ing in some secondhand cigarette
smoke which nobody seemed to care
for.
How do | reach my Alpine bunga,
lowf" l said to the porter. w~hereupon
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-21
FOR THE MORNING REPAST
Some Dishes That Are More Than Usu'
ally Acceptable In the Hot
Weather.

In the summer this meal should be
simple and of wholesome, easily di-
gested food. OF course things must
be tasty, and quite as much thought
and pains should be expended on a
light breakfast as on a heavy one.
Foods should be selected in reference
to their suitability to one another and
the season. The Sunday morning
breakfast should be different. Danish
from the Sunday morning breakfast
table anything that is served on week
day mornings except coffee.
Here are a few simple menus which
may serve Is a guide:
Peaches or stewed pears, hominy,
poached eggs on toast, cocoa or coffee.
Raspberries or blackberries, fried
egg plant, toast, coffee.
B~lackberries, cream of wheat, mold
ed eggs, toast, coffee.
Fruit, cereal, small broiled lamb
chops, with cold asparagus; rolls,
coffee.
Fruit, cereal, an omelet with peas,
asparagus or tomatoes, biscuits, coffee.
Fruit, cereal, a well-soaked salt
mackerel, boiled or broiled, with a
cream parsley sauce; rolls, cocoa or
coffee.
Fruit, cereal, creamed dried beef,
mullins, coffee. Chop fine a cupful of
dried beef. Put over the fire with one
gill of cream or milk. Season with
pepper and stir in four beaten eggs,
When thick turn over quare of hot
buttered toast.
Orange Juice, cereal, broiled mack.
erel, baked potatoes, toast, coffee.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-21
SOME HELPFUL HINTS

Roses of all kinds should be thor
oughly MANFRED With v%ell-rotted COW
manure and Du,ched with lawn cut
tings and leaves.
Liquid manure should be applied
only when the ground is moist enough
to absorb it.
1t is fatal to some plants to fertilize
them with rich ANU when the
ground is very dry.
Never allow roses to remain on the
bush until the petals begin to fall.
All plants that are intended for win
ter boomers should have the buds
pinched off now.
Pick the pansies and nasturtiums
every day If you want to have plenty
of bloom.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-21
Carafe Frappe.

Frappe, al most persons know, is to
freeze, and carafe is the glass decan-
ter smart folk use at their functions
for holding drinking water. Fill the
bottles with distilled water to within
an inch of the top and then sink
them to two-thirds depth in a tub of
ice, as for making ice cream; use less
salt than for cream, and do not have
the ice cover the decanters any higher
than stated, as the glass may break.
Stopper them with bits of absorbent
cotton during the freezing. The ice
forms at the bottom of the bottles
and the displaced water rises, and as
long as the ice remains the decanters
can be reflled and used after a few
minutes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-21

naries from Plainfield, New Jersey.
They were members of the Soubrette
Singing Society, and they were en-
route to the West to join the Bunch
Of Birds Burlesque Company"
Their names were Mile and Tillie,
and they wore Feather Buster hats,
and did a sister act that contained
more bad grammar than an East Side
pinochle game.
Mile was fully var that she
could back Duse off the map, and
Tillie was ready to bet a weeks sal
airy that she could make Bernhard
feel like she was out in the storm we
had day before yesterday.
Tod called them the Roast-Beef Sis
tiers, Rare and Well-done.
In a minute the castors on Wedges
neck began to turn.
Nick put the others wise with a
wink, so they lit the fire and began
TO cook it up.
Wedges heart was warming for the
birds in the gilded cage.
Nothing into it," said Slim. ITS
a plain case Of Appomattox. The war
is over and they are yours, Wedgel"
Wedge turned a few more volts into
his twinkling lamps.
Lower your mainsail, Wedge, and
drop alongside; you've made the
landing" suggested Nick.
Wedge began to feel his necktie
and play patty-cake with the little
bald spot on the top of his head.
stop the hanson and get out;
you're t your corner" said Tod.
The Sweet Dreams across the way
were giving Wedge the glorious eye
roll, and he felt hat dinner was
ready.
Hang up your hat. Wedge, and
gather the myrtle with Maryl" Slim
Clipped in.
Then Wedge bounced over and be
gar to show Mile and Tillie what Q
handsome brute he was at close quar-
tiers.
He sat on the arm OF the seat and
steamed up.
In less than a minute he crowded
the Information on them hat he was
a millionaire who had escaped from
Los Angeles. California. and he was
just going to put them both in grand
opera. when Slim toddled over &c
him and said: Next stop Eriei You
told me to remind you TO send thai