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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30

to be new to science, were numerous,
but all were of dull colors and re-
minded them in their habits of the
open-country birds Of northern Unit
ed States. A goldfnch lowered above
the frailejons; gray fycatcher ran
along the ground or mounted into
the air, much like the northern horned
larks: an ovenbird flew up ahead Of
them resembling a meadow lark; a
marsh wren scolded from the rank
sedges; and almost from under their
horses hoofs one of the large An
dean snipes sprang into the air with
a characteristic bleat and went zig
zaging away. On small lake which
they came to, barren except for a few
algae, rode an Andean teal, surprising
ly like the northern gadwal. And so
the story goes on. Here almost on
the Equator, but $4,000 feet above the
level of the sea, they had left the
strangeness of the tropics and come
upon a land that was strikingly like
their own.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30
Man Who Was Always Late.

Private was known to all his
chums as ''the early bird" probably
because it was an exact description OF
the very opposite to what he really
was, for ''the early bird" was always
late, the last man to get out of bed
at reveille and the last man on pa
rade, and when his regiment. sailed
for France his chums declared that he
was the last into the transport ship
and the last out of it.
When his regiment was doing it's
spell in the trenches 'the early bird"
was sent for by his off Ger, and as he
was creeping along the trench towards
the dug-out stray bullet caught him
in the shoulder, just as he was outside
the officers shelter.
After seeing that he wasn't seriously
wounded, the officer exclaimed, with
a twinkle in his eye. IF you had just
been a second earlier you would have
missed that"
81 would, sir" returned Private,
cor if 1 had been a second later it
would have missed me. London Tit
Bits.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30
PHOTOGRAPHIC MarveIs.

In making photographs Of the splash
formed by falling liquid Professor
Worthington Of the Royal society, in
London, has succeeded In giving an
exposure of less than three one-mil
lionths of a second. This is effected
with an electric spark, which can be
so accurately timed that the operator
can select any desired stage in the
progress of a splash within limits of
error not exceeding two one-thou-
sandths of second.
A Photographic printing machine
exhibited at a recent meeting of the
society had a roll of prepared bro
mide paper fed in at one end and
turned out finished Photographic
prints at the other end at the rate of
1000 to 5000 per hour These photo
graphs may be used for illustrations
in newspapers and magazines.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30

the charred stumps few handfuls of
wheat have been planted and now
wave a golden brown against the
block.
Wonderful Cloud Forest.
And next the Cloud forest! 1t is
seldom that the travellers anticipation
of any much-heralded natural wonder
is realized when he is brought face
to face with it. Usually he feels
tinge of disappointment and follows
it by a close scrutiny of the object
before him in search of the grandeur
depicted, but not so with the Cloud
forest. According to Mr.. Allen it sur
passes ones dreams of tropical lux
uriance. 1t Is here rather than In the
lowland jungle that nature outdoes her
self and crowds every available lnch
with moss and fern and orchid. Here
every twig is a garden and the moss
laden branches so gigantic that they
throw more shade than the leaves OF
the trees themselves. Giant branches
hang to the ground from the hori-
Zontal branches of the larger trees
and in turn are so heavily laden with
moss and epiphytes that they form an
almost solid wall and present the ap-
pearance of hollow tree trunk 15 or
90 feet in diameter One should pass
through this forest during the rainy
season to form a true conception or
its richness, though even during the
dryest months the variety and abun-
dance of plant life covering every
trunk and branch are beyond belief.
The great forest, occasionally inter
rupted by clearings, continues for
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30
POINTS OUT NATURES ERROR
Mr.. Gwimpleton Turns Aside From
Daily Duties to Discourse on
Matters of Conscience.

Wealth, as we know" said Mr..
Gwimpleton, lis very unevenly dis
tributed, but conscience is more so.
Some men are overburdene6 with
conscience; some have none at all.
Some people worry themselves sick
over this or that real or imagined
transgression of the civil or the moral
law.
There are others who worry only
that they cannot safely transgress the
more.
Between these two extremes we
have the man commonly described as
overconscientious, meaning one wor-
thy but timid, who lets a conscience
too keen and active keep him from
Oetterments of his fortune that he
might otherwise compass. Then we
have those people who are not trou-
bled in such ways. who are all but
constituencies and whose conscience
really lies dormant.
1t is true, too, that thing that
may stir one mans conscience may
not touch another's; we are differ
emily constituted. There appears to
be no absolutely definite standard of
conscience applicable to and actual
ing all men alike. This enormously
complexities the conscience situation.
But still the great primary diff
Guilty lies in the uneven distribution
of conscience. If we could only have
something like an even distribution
OF such conscience as now exists it
would, for one thing, in some meas
ure reduce piracy in its manifold
forms as now practiced under civilized
conditions by men without conscience,
and for another thing, it would by
reducing the stock of the man of alb
normal conscience, spare him the wor-
rlmentS that now beset him and let
him take without qualms whatever
benefits rightfully belong to him. In
fact, more even distribution of con-
science would tone up the world gen.
orally and make it in many ways a.
vastly more comfortable world to live
in.
Pending that happy day it be-
hooves us, | suppose-at any rate, my
friend MacBlink, well meaning and
cheerful but not always overtrustful
man, says it does-to be still more or
less wary in our dealings with our
fellow man in order to avoid subject
ing our we'll meaning but weaker
brother to undue temptation, and to
avoid being circumvented by some
body who was perhaps overlooked en-
tirely in the conscience distribution"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30
GREATLY IMPROVED
PEPPER VARIETIES
New Upright Sweet Salad Is of
Recent Observation-Disclosures
Dulce Is Largest.

Green peppers are fine. They can
be grown on any good garden soil, but
should not be put out till the ground
is warm. The varieties of peppers,
unlike the egg plant are numerous,
and therefore have been greatly i'm
proved Of late years. The New Up
right Sweet Salad is of recent intro
duction. 1t is bright scarlet IN color,
mild and sweet
Magnum Dulce is by far the largest
pepper in cultivation, and the most
prolific; no other variety gives such
large specimens 1t is very sweet and
perfectly reliable.
Ruby King is one Of the standards
and has for many years been deserv-
ing Of first place among the varieties
of peppers, but in many respects It is
not equal to the above-described kinds.
Chinese Giant is very large, but not
as prolific as some of the other large
varieties,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30

The hotbed should be made as early
as possible, the first week in February
in the North. A square box about Is
inches deep, covered with common
window sash and filled with II inches
of manure and two inches of finely pull
verified topsoil is all that is necessary.
A temporary hotbed can be made
by making a foundation Of coarse sta
BILE manure into broad fiat heap and
thoroughly tamping it down. The ma
nure heap should be eight or nine feet
wide, Is to "A inches deep and as long
as may be necessary to fit the window
sash. The frames, placed on top of
the manureheap, should face the south
and the front board should be from
four to six inches lower than the back,
so that the water will drain from the
glass.
After the topsoil is put on, the bed
should be thoroughly sprinkled, the
sash closed and the bed left to gen.
crate heat. If properly made the heat
ought to run up to 100 degrees or more,
but no seed should be planted until it
falls to about 80 degrees. This con-
dition will generally occur about the
third day.
The seed should be sown in straight
rows and each variety marked with the
name on a small fiat stick placed at
the end of the row.
The hotbeds must be watered slight
ly in the morning only. If watered at
night it will tend to chill the bed and
retard the plant. The bed must always
be well ventilated and on bright days
the sash should be removed in order
to give the plants all the sunshine pos
sible. On cool nights the sash should
be closed with the exception of about
an inch, in order that the plants may
have ventilation.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30

The farm garden is left to women
folk, but they manage to produce an
average of over 5000 per acre every
year-four or five times as much as
the average farmer produces from his
general crops.
The average value of garden truck
produced by dwellers in small towns
and cities is much above 5000 per acre.
1t is fact that the best gardeners in
this country are city and town dwell
ers, doubtless because men pay more
attention to the work and are more
willing to spend money for fertilizer
and good seeds than the farm wife
AS a rule farmers pay little or no at
tention to their gardens, although they
expect their wives to supply the en-
tire family with vegetables the year
around. The most menfolk do is to
grudgingly plow up a plot of ground,
harrow it perhaps once or twice and
then leave the rest to Providence and
the women.
If more attention were paid to the
selection of good seeds and the use of
proper fertilizers, in addition to stable
manure, and if the womenfolk could
have the services OF the hired man
three or four hours week, they would
be able to double their garden crop.
Even if the farmers wife cannot buy
bone meal, nitrate of soda and other
vegetable fertilizers, but must depend
upon what stable manure she can
wheel to her garden plot on wheel
barrow, she can by proper methods not
only increase the yield of her garden
but do it with less work.
The main thing is to get an early
start with good seed. This requires a
hotbed, one of the simplest things in
the world, but which is in use in COM
paratively few farmers gardens.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30
xNE)ARAMO of
z5Af S1AF ;

many hours of travel up the mountain
from 5000 to about 10000 feet, where
a sudden change occurs. The trees
become dwarfed, their leaves small
and thick, heavily chitinized or COW
cred with thick down, and remind one
of the vegetation about our northern
boys with their Andromeda and Lab
rador tea. Here, too, the ground in
places is covered with dense mat of
sphagnum, dotted with dwarf blueber-
ries and cranberries and similar plants
which remind one of home.
Out Upon the Paramo.
A cool breeze greets the traveller,
sky appears in place of the great
dome of green, and suddenly he steps
out upon the open paramo. He has
been travelling through the densest of
forests, seeing but few PAGES along
the trail and only few rods into the
vegetation on either side; he has
grown nearsighted, and even the
smallest contours of the landscape
have been concealed by the dense for
est cover Suddenly there is thrown
before his vision a whole world of
mountains AS far as he can see in
all directions, save behind him, ridge
piles upon ridge in neverending series
until they fuse in one mighty crest
which pierces the clouds with it's
snow-capped crown. This is the para
mo of Santa Isabel.
At this point the party dismounted
and led their horses along the narrow
ridge. They looked in vain for the
jagged peaks that are so characteris-
tic of our northern frost-made noun
tains. Here even the vertical cliffs
did not seem entirely without vegeta-
ton, and as far as could be seen with
binoculars the brown sedges and the
gray frailejons covered the rocks even
up to the very edge of the snow. All
about them the strange mulleinlike
frailejons, as the native call them,
stood up on their pedestals, ten or
even fifteen feet in height in sheltered
spots; down among the sedges were
many lesser plants similar to our
North American species - gentians,
composites, a hoary lupine, a butter
cup, a yellow sorrel, almost identical
with those of the United States.
Birds also, several of which proved
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30

the sun shines brightly. Too much
heat will make the plants weak and
spindly.
BY all means have an animal-proof
fence inclosing the garden and self
closing gate.
Although flowers cannot be eaten,
they, too, have a mission, so plant
them among the vegetables. The wife
will appreciate them.
The asparagus is "glutton." Give
it lots of rich food and it will repay
you.
Get the brush for the peas and poles
for the beans when it is too wet to
work a field or in the garden.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30
SOME ESSENTIALS
FOR GARDEN WORK
Windbreak Should Be Planted
in May-Do Not PIow Too
Early in the Spring.
(By MRS. JOHN FIELD)

(By MRS. JOHN F1ELD)
Let the rows run north and south !;
this gives the most sun exposure.
Two essentials are necessary for
the rapid maturing of vegetables; a
soil made light with sand and we'll
rotted manure, and windbreak.
Plant your windbreak in May, and
a hemlock hedge is the thing.
Plan to plant crops that live from
year to year, like asparagus, rhubarb,
strawberries and the like, at one end,
SO that they will not interfere when
you cultivate the annual vegetables.
Root crops should be planted to-
gether, as well as vine crops, such as
cucumbers, melons, etc.; also toma-
toes. peppers, elephants and the like.
Never plant melons near squashes or
pumpkins.
Do not plow too early in the spring.
Wait until the ground is dry. Follow
with the harrow until the soil is finely
pulverized.
Use wood ashes for potatoes. The
potato relishes the potash contained in
them and the scab does not like the
lime they contain.
Give your garden crops just the fer
tilizer they prefer. Remember that
plants that furnish us with edible
leaves or stalks flourish if given nitro
gen; when the fruit, root, kernel or
bulb is the edible part dose with ashes,
potash or phosphoric acid.
Half pound of salt to the square
Sard of the asparagus bed is beneficial
ct this season.
Keep an eye on the hotbed when
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30
He Was a Sufferer.

Madam" said the tattered and torn
supplicant to the benevolent lady who
answered his timid rap at the door,
have you any old clothes you can
spare for an unfortunate victim OF
the European war;" II think l have,
my poor man; but how does this hap.
pen? You cannot have been in this
war, surely" mo, madam humbly
replied the sufferer; "but my wife has
sent all my clothes to the Belgians.'
Harrisburg Times.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30

& EW persons VINO live IN the
Is temperate zone are aware Of
90 the fact that there is quite a
E large section of country in trop-
ical America, even at the Equa-
tor which is a land of sleet and storm
during the greater part of the year,
where many of the trails are fire.
Quently closed to men and beasts at
tempting to cross are frozen to death.
Such a region is the Andean paramo,
IA the Republic of Colombia.
Three years ago DR. Arthur A. Allen
explored that elevated land in search
of bird specimens, and he has de-
ncribed it in the American Museum
journal. The following paragraphs,
says the Bulletin of the Pan Ameri-
can Union, embody substantially the
more important features of Doctor
Aliens interesting account:
The paramo of Santa Isabel lies
about two days journey from Solento,
the largest town on the Quindio trail,
which crosses the central Andes, and
on cleab days, especially at dusk, can
be seen at several points rising above
the forest-capped ridges to an alti-
tude between 10000 and $4,000 feet.
Beyond 10 and little to the east lies
the paramo of Ruis, and, most mag
nificent Of ALL Nevada del Tolima,
with it's crown Of crystal snow CLEAN
ing in the rays Of the setting. sun.
Many travellers pass over the trail
without ever glimpse of the SHOWS
to the north, seeing only the banks of
clouds that obscure even the tops of
the moss forest and hide all but the
near distance.
One morning in early September
the naturalists slung their packs and
started for the paramo of Santa Isa-
bel From Solento the trail to the
paramo leads first down into the b.
quia valley and then follows the
rivers meandering course through
groves of splendid palms nearly to it's
source, when it turns abruptly and
begins steep ascent of the mountain
side The palm trees, in scattered
groves, continue to nearly 5000 feet,
where the trail begins to zigzag
through some half-cleared country,
where the trees have been felled and
burned over, and where in between
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-04-30
Place of Amusement.

Redd-You know London has an
automobile museum.
Greene-We ought to have one in
this country. IT, no doubt, would be
an amusing place.
"Why an amusing placer"
"Why, the automobiles do so many
funny tricks"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-04-23

oil company shipped a car of oil to
Columbia, but before it was unload
ed it was rebilled to Mt. Pleasant.
Mr.. Thomas held that this constituted
an intrastate act, and that therefore,
the company was liable for taxation.
This same question was brought up
in a number of other counties. FL
nally, by agreement between the at
torneys of the oil company, ]. Shelby
Coffey and A. L. Dorsey, of Spring
field, and the county court clerks Of
the various counties of the state, it
was agreed to make test case Of
the one from this county.
Suit was first brought before Esq
Alexander in the magistrates court.
He upheld the contention for the oil
company. His decision was sustained
in the circuit court by Judge Turner,
who rendered quite an exhaustive
and lengthy opinion in the case. APP
peal was then taken to the supreme
court, where the lower court was re-
versed on the reshipping feature. The
court held that had shipment been
made directly from Indiana to Colum,
bia, Mt. Pleasant, or any other place
in the state, the company would not
have been liable for state and county
taxation, as that constituted an inter-
state act. However, after the ship
ment had been made to Columbia, and
then reshipped to Mt. Pleasant, the
court held that this was an intra'
state act, and therefore that the com
pany was subject to taxation by the
county and the state.
J. Shelby Coffey, leading counsel
for the oil company, stated this morn
ing that appeal would probably be
taken from the supreme court OF the
state of Tennessee to the supreme
court of the United States upon. the
reshipping feature of the case. The
oil company is very anxious to have
it's rights and limitations very clear
ly defined, and will want a decision
from the court of last resort of the
land.
One of the interesting features OF
the case is the bearing of the decision
of the court upon the peddler nui-
sance. 1t would seem, according to
the opinion of attorneys, that vend-
ors Of clothing from another state
NAV henceforth do business here or in
any other county of this state without
paving state, county or city licenses,
as they are doing an interstate bust
ness.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-04-23
MAD DOG CAUSES
GENERAL HUBBUB
SHOT FROM LANcASTER'S Pts
ToL BRINGS EASE TO A NUM-
Der or PEOPLE.

The rumor that mad dog held at
bay the entire congregation of the
First Christian church, an auto scoot-'
ing at forty miles an hour through
the streets, carrying a number of the
officers Of the law, and a loud pistol
shot few second later caused con.
siderable excitement Friday evening
about nine o'clock.
The revival services at the Chris
tian church on South High street had
just closed when a member of the
congregation, who stepped out of the
door first, saw dog in the gutter,
evidently in the last stages of hydro.
phobia. He was frothing and foaming
at the mouth, and gave every indica-
ton of having a violent case of
rabies.
Someone slipped to a telephone
nearby and called police headquar-
tiers. Patrolman Will Lancaster Sc
cured car and drove at a great clip
to the church. A bullet from his pis-
toll put the dog beyond further trouble
and suffering, and brought a sigh OF
relief to number of people who
were stampeded by the rumor that
mad dog was amuck upon the streets
of the city, biting women and children
at random, and causing general con-
sternation.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-04-23
Beware Of ointments for

Catarrh That Contains Mercury
as mercury will surely destroy the
sense >of smell and completely de-
range the whole system when enter
ing it through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions from reput-
able physicians, as the damage they
will do is ten fold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. ].
Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains
no mercury, and is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In
buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure
you get the genuine. It is taken in
ternally and made in Toledo, Ohio,
by F. ]. Cheney & Co. Testimonials
free.
Sold by Druggists. Price 75c per
bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.-(Advt.)
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-04-23
VETERAN ENGINEER
CALLED BY DEATH
END COMES TO WILLIAM BOOK.
Err, OF THE LOUISVILLE &
NASHVILLE.

William Booker, veteran engineer
of the Louisville & Nashville Rail-
road, and prominent in the Brother
hood Of Locomotive Engineers for
several years, died Thursday evening
at his residence on South High
street after an illness of some time
He was sixty-two years of age and is
survived by his wife, two sons and
one daughter, a brother, who lives
in Nashville, and one sister, Mrs. j.
A. McAlister, of Columbia
Mr.. Booker was prominent Ma
son, member of the McCabees, the
Knights of Honor and a member of
the Methodist church. He was re-
garded as one of the most reliable
and efficient engineers in the service
of the railroad.
The funeral services will be held
at the South Columbia Methodist
church tomorrow morning at 10: 80
O'Clock conducted by Rev. G. A. Aus
tin, of Portland, assisted by the pas
tor, DR.. ]. B. Cheek The interment
will be at McCains.
Maury Undertaking Co., funeral d.
rectors, in charge.