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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29
FRUIT AND POTATO CELLARS
Temperature Should Be Kept as Low
as It Can Without lniury-keep
NentiIators Open.

Fruit and potatoes must be kept at
a uniform low temperature, as low
as it can he without injury. Close up
the windows when there is danger Of
freezing, but keep open in mild wealth
er. The changes that go on in ripen-
ing fruit generate heat and this should
be borne in mind. They also cause
the liberation of injurious gases and
when fruit is stored in cellars under
the family living rooms ample ventila-
ton should be provided. An opening
into the fiue of the chimney may an
swsr il there is not much fruit in
stoce.
Rave a thermometer in cellar and
see that uniform temperature both
day and night is secured. A warm,
damp cellar win cause rot and hot,
dry air will produce dry rot The
house cellar should not be used for
storing large quantities of potatoes,
fruits, or vegetables, as the gases
from the vegetables, Unless ample
ventilation is given, will penetrate
into the living rooms and is liable to
produce fevers and other dangerous
diseases.
StC.k beets and potatoes keep bet
ter stored in pits dug in high, dry
ground. the roots first covered with
one foot of straw and then 20 inches
of earth firmly packed down. Make
trench around the pits to carry off
the surface water.
Potatoes stored in pits thus made
win keep sound and solid and are bet
ter potatoes for roasting or boiling
than potatoes stored in most house
cellars.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29
MAKE GRAIN ELEVATOR
Cannot Be ExceIIed for Prepara-
ton of Seed.
All Parts Of Device Can Be Obtained
From Old and Discarded Machin-
ery--Total Cost Is Not More
Than Five Dollars.

BY obtaining & belt from someone
who owns a threshing machine you
can easily make an elevator for ham
ding loose grain from one bin to an
other or for sacking. The use of this
machine cannot be excelled when the
time for cleaning seed grain comes,
writes George Bersaw of Mora, Mimi,
in Missouri Valley Farmer. With it
one man can furnish a steady run Of
grain into the tanning mill while the
other runs the mill The elevator also
is handy for loading grain in wagon
box. One man can easily load 100
bushels with it in less than an hour
To make this elevator you will need
four boards s feet long. planed on
both sides; one secondhand drive belt
s inches wide and IA feet long; two
8 or inch pulleys with shaft IL
inches long and two sprockets from an
old binder, one A inches and the other
as large as you can get it for easy
drive, say IL or IA inches. Put a
crank handle on the larger sprocket
If the elevator is to be run by hand,
or il by power arrange for small
pulley. The drive chain to work over
the sprockets should be feet long
Also bracket irons will be needed for
placing the drive pulley on and for at
tachlng the entire elevator to the
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29
NO MALICE IN ELEPHANTS
Good Nature Characteristic Of Juno,.
Monster, Says Traveller Who
Should Know,

In 1905 ! found myself near ~.
Inzia, river, an important affiuent -
the Kwilu, flowing through a fertile
region which is infested by herds ~
elephants. source of constant apvi-
ETY. and frequent losses to the agrs
cultural inhabitant, writes e. Tor5a,,
in the Wide World Magazine. N
country like this, where he is nnr
hunted by man in the ordinary wav
and the only means for his destnction
are cruel but easily avoided pitfalls
the elephant is decidedly good ma.
tured We were told by the mission
boys at Pana that in the rainless sea.
son, when their usual haunts are
dried up, the elephants frequently
wander near the river and attack tha
plantations. The natives try to drive
them away with sticksl But it is M
good hitting them or throwing stones
at them" l was told; "they generally
refuse to take any notice. Sometimes
a mother with calf will turn on ia
and chase us for 100 yards or so. but
no real harm is meant and the ami.
NAL is not really angry, for all the
signs of fury spread ears and raised
trunk-are absent All the same we
do run away, although we know there
is no danger One day boy fell
when thus pursued, but the elephant
only threw sand on him"
AS | have myself seen a man Just
pushed out of the way by one of these
good-natured monsters, when. the an
imal had more than enough provoca.
ton to kill him, was inclined to &C.
cept this account as true.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29
Change Of Denomination.

The collector of bridge tolls in
Scottish border town was quite char
acter in his way. Upon one occasion
a large party of American clergymen,
who were visiting Scotland, came to
survey the classic Borderland. Inc
end of the bridge bears notice that
not more than ten people are allowed
on it at once, but the clerics chose 70
diregard this, and went on in body.
The collector saw them from his
little sentry box, and rushed out
Back off that bridget" he shouted
but unused to such tones the clerics
pressed on,
Back off that bridget" shouted the
collector again.
"But, my good man." expostulated
the foremost, "do you know that we
are members of the Pan-Presbytsrian
congress?"
Eye may call yourselves Pan-Ptss-
byterian or pot-Presbyterian," roared
the collector. ''but if We no gang all
that bridge yen be a. Baptists in twa
meenits."
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29
USE OF SIGHT ON A RIFLE
Necessary Because Bullet Cannot Be
Made to Travel on
Straight Line.

The average person, if asked to ex.
plain why rifle is sighted. would
probably be unable to do so beyond
some vague remark about taking cor
rect aim.
Sights are necessary because bull.
let does not travel in straight line,
but, under the influence of gravity and
friction, begin to drop almost as soon
as it leaves the muzzle. Thus the
bullet of our service rifle (Lee En-
field) drops six inches in the first
100 yards, but when it has gone 200
yards it will have dropped not II
inches, but two feet. The drop in
creases by leaps and bounds with
the distance. Were there no sights
on the rifle and you wanted to hit
mark at 200 yards, you would clearly
have to aim two feet above it.
This would be awkward, for you
would lose sight of the object aimed
at, to say nothing Of the difficulty of
correctly estimating a distance Of
two feet at 2U0' yaros.
The sights of a rife enable you to
keep your eye on the mark, although
the muzzle of the rifle is actually
pointed above it. The moving slide Of
the back sight enables you autonlat-
ically to point the muzzle just so
many feet above the mark aimed at
as is necessary to counterfeit the
known drop of the bullet at various
ranges.-London Answers.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29

safely there, to transport to them the
mountains of provisions that they
would consume
The railroad, therefore, is the first
necessity in feeding the army. All the
countries in the war have good trans
portation facilities with the exception
OF Russia. Perhaps this is why Rus
STA has done less execution so far than
was expected of her at the wars out
set, Over the railroad lines of Ger
many and France trains are hurrying
day and night with stores of food.
Where there are no railroads huge
automobile trucks are used
AT the beginning of the war the
countries engaged took overN practi-
cally all the automobiles they could
lay their hands on. The machines
thus taken have been used for every
conceivable purpose There have been
skirmishes between motor cars
armed with quick-firing guns and
mounted troops of the enemy. In
fantry have been moved with incred-
ible swiftness by means of taxicabs
which used to ply in the streets of
London, Berlin and Paris. Big guns
are hauled by motor tractors. Cen
erals and staff officers speed from end
to end of the far-flung lines in racing
cars. But, most important of all, food
Is carried by motor truck to hungry
men. Heavy motor trucks, capable Of
carrying several tons each of food, are
attached to the various field depots.
Adjoining these depots are the
bakeries, where thousands of loaves
are baked by day and night shifts for
the men at the front. Bread and other
food are rushed by motor truck to re-
plenishing points established at fire.
quent intervals behind the second line
of troops. Where roads are too bad
for the heavier vehicles, light auto
mobile delivery vans or even horse
drawn carts and wagons of every de-
scription are used to convey food to
the replenishing points From these
small depots men carry food, bread
and coffee to the "dugouts" where the
| lighting men rest, or even to the
trenches. making their way to these
danger zones by deep bitches dug for
the safe passage of men under fire.
The cooking equipment of the arm
les has been devised for portability
and efficiency. Each regiment carries
its own cooking outfits. On the march
the regimental cooks are busy getting
ready the mems dinners or suppers.
| immense cookers" are mounted on
wagons or automobile trucks, gener-
| ally the latter. Each cooker holds
gallons of strong. meaty stew, made
of beef and vegetables. The Russians
have an automobile field kitchen
which consists of motor truck which
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29

hand knowledge of nature and things,
that many-sided training in practical
affairs. anu that all around physical
development which country life en-
phasizes in such positive and natural
way. Most of the men and women
who have enriched our national life
and whose memories we revere havS
had just such early training and de-
yelopment as our country life afforded.
On this basis of insight and initiative
they were able to enter into the life
OF city and utilize its special oppor-
tunities, and yet abstain from its de-
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29
ANY SOIL GOOD FOR BETS
However, Rich Sandy Loan Will Give
Best ResuIts-PIant in Drills,
IL to 1S Inches Apart.

The red garden beet may be grown
in any good soil, but rich sandy loan
will give the best results. Sow the
seeds in the spring as soon as danger
of frost has passed. Beets should be
planted in drills twelve to eighteen
inches apart, and when the plants are
well up they should be thinned to four
or five inches in the row. If desirable
to plant the rows three feet apart for
horse cultivation, the seeds may be
sown in double drill with six inches
between, leaving 80 inches for culti-
walton. Two ounces of beet seed are
required to plant one hundred feet Of
row, or five pounds to the acre. AS a
rule, each seed ball contains more
than one seed, and -this-ac4 eunts for
beets coming UP very thickiy. The
seed should be covered to depth of
about one inch. For succession of
young beets during the summer,
paintings should be made every four
or five weeks during the spring
months. Beets intended for winter
storage should not be sown until late
in the summer, the crop being har-
vested and stored in the same manner
as turnips. Sugar beets are often sub
stituted for the ordinary garden beet,
especially for winter use.
Beets are used for pickles. or boiled,
sliced or fried in butter, adding a lit
tie vinegar just before removing from
the fire. The young plants are used
for green's.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29
Value of Country Life.

The claim has been made that the
highest type Of character cannot de-
Nelop in the country; that the stress
and strain of city life are needed to
purify, refine and spiritualize. Be
this as it may, it is certainly true that
the foundation upon which the high
est types of human character can be
developed requires the training and de-
velopment incident to life in the coun-
try. No foundation for learning and
character is safely builded if it does
not include in its elements that first
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29
Novel Egg Collector.

pan. Each nest is connected to the
main chute and each has hole in the
bottom of it and when an egg is laid
it rolls down to the ''egg-room" of my
laying coop. A small door into the
"egg-room" can be opened and the
eggs taken out without trouble If
tho chutes are carefully made there
need be no danger of the eggs break
ing en- route.-Technica World.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29
MidwInter Hoo Feed.

The most economical food for pigs
narrowed in late summer to be mar
keted in midwinter, is millfeed and
wheat~oran slop, in connection with
grass and clover pasture. When the
pasture fails, pour the slop over fine
cut clover hay, mixing in few hand
fuls Of flaxseed meal; this smakes a
rich and nourishing food. In cold
weather scald the hay. The last feed
ing month give ear corn after the
sIcr is eaten.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29
One Doc Tax the state las to Pay

One Dog Tax the State Has to Pay
What" asks the Mexican hairless
philosopher of the Topeka Capital,
has become of the watchdog% And
here is the Emporia Gazettes answer:
HE is, SO far as we can make out
from a cursory glance at the Kansas
papers, making arrangements to come
to Topeka during this legislature as
the watchdog of the treasury. ana
he isn't much of a dog-as dogs CO.
This state has paid more dog taxes on
watchdogs of the treasury than tne
nation has paid on its dogs OF war,
personally we have low opinion "a
all dogs-that grow less than 1our
legsi"-Kansas City Star.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29
Produce Prime Roasters.

To produce prime roasters they
should be confined at about four
months of age in small pens, with
plenty of shade. be hopper fed with
cracked corn, with a wet mash twice
day. This viii insure the disposition
of the fat in and through the birds
flesh, making extra toothsome eating.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29
Their Advantage.

YES" said the world traveller, tno
Chinese make it an invariabie rule "
settle all their debts on New years
day"
$50 I understand" said the Amorl'
can host. "but, then the Chinese don't
have a Christmas the week before. -
Ladies' Home Journal.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29
almnosslhle.n

Impossible. sir!" exclaimed the
first William Pitt at message from
Lord Arson that it was impossible to
fit out the ships by given time for a
naval expedition. Don't talk to me
of impossibilities. 1t is not posi-
ble,' you write to me-" Napoleon
wrote to Lemarois. That is not
French"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29
EGG COLLECTOR is UNIQUE
Series of chutes Arranged, All Lead
ing to Same Padded Pan--No
Danger of Breaking.

Hens need a dark place to lay in;
so it is convenient to build q small
house for them within barn or shed.
But it is always difficult to get the
eggs out of such a laying coop, if it is
built economically. 10 overcome this
obstacle l have arranged a series of
chutes, all leading to the same padded
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29
whx they Never Buy Havana.

'sWhat kind of cigars do you wish
to give your husband, madam-Ha'
ana or domestic?"
"Oh, domestic by all means. I'm
giving them to hin tc encourage him
to spend his evenings at home, you
know" Judge.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29
Lioht Poultry House,

Have light poultry house, admit
ting plenty of fresh air without pro-
dueing direct drafts of air. The germs
of most diseases cannot live in fresh
air or very strong light.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29

les lived off the land and grew fat
when the iarders round about the bat
tlefield were well provided. or starved
when the fortunes of war or thu needs
of strategy staged the fight far from
human habitations. Not so today.
Victuals and victories go together. In
the long campaign big guns and high
powered rifles are less important than
good bread and beef If a modern
army were to attempt to take its prov
ender from the territory over which
it travelled it would have to keep on
the move all the time, for in a few
days it would exhaust the provisions
of even the most fertile countryside
Like cloud of locusts it would eat
bare the fields it traversed.
A nation going to war must think
first how it will feed its million men
in the field. A nation preparing over
long period of years for a life and
death struggle with its neighbors
must spend as much thought and
money on its lines of military COM
munication as on its fortresses and
ornaments. Science, which has revo-
lutionized every branch of warfare,
has evolved commissary system
which transcends anything dreamed
of by the great leaders of other days.
And the men behind the fighting line,
the men whose business it is to see
that the army's Unsuitable NAV is sup
piled with steady stream of provi-
sions. are no less heroes than the
men facing death in the trenches. 1t
is quite as big a job to feed as it is
to lead million men. Indeed, the
mistakes of a general at the front may
be far less costly than the mistakes
of commissariat at the rear, Cour-
age and enterprise may make the
struggle even though officers blunder
and re-enforcements fail to arrive.
Imagine the vastness of the task of
feeding millions of meu on a battle
line hundreds of miles long. The great
battle line in France for weeks ex-
tended over two hundred miles. Fac
ing each other on that vast line are
probably between three and four mil
lion soldiers. They must get three
square meals a day. They must
get plenty of food, nourishing food,
well-cooked and served hot The
concentrated rations in use by all
governments and customarily carried
by soldiers on the march for emer-
gency purposes are not intended for
day-in-day-out use. The soldier must
have varied diet, consisting of meat
and bread and vegetables and some
thing to drink-and a little dessert
now and Unexpectedly as must the
clerk or the rrechanic or the profes-
lsional man. How does he get it?
He wouldn't get it at all if it were
not for the railroad train and the mo-
tor truck. They have been laying their
railroads with the thought that some
day great war would come in which
it would be essential to mobilize all
their men without a moments DELAY.
and move them to some point on their
frontiers. Therefore they built many
and splendid railroad lines. GERMANY
especially saw the need for railroads
built for her army as much as for her
civilians. There was no sense in
arming and training a mighty host of
men unless at the same time she built
great railroad lines to carry them to
the scene Of war, and after they were
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29

grading influences.-From a bulletin
of the United States Bureau of Edu-
cation.
The Dickinson press., 1915-01-30
A PIGGER is CAUGHT
AT WERNER, DUNN COUNTY

Last Saturday Sheriff H. A.. Kasper
and a deputy at Halliday arrested C.
J. Loree at Werner. The fellow had
been peddling whiskey and in one in
stance after selling the, stuff to an
intoxicated party stole it back. This
made trouble all round. and it was
not long until Loree was being nicely
herded by the people at Werner,
awaiting the arrival of a Halliday Of
ficer, Sheriff Kasper having stopped
on his way east earlier in the day and
assured the people that the man would
be arrested and taken to Manning on
his return.
Sheriff Kasper took the prisoner to
the Stark county jail for Sunday and
on Monday, in company with T. G.
Johnson, states attorney, and j. G.
Joslin, clerk of court, journeyed to
Beach OF a special which went west
late in the afternoon. Loree pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to six
months at hard labor at the peniten-
tiary. Sheriff Kasper took his man
to Bismarck on the local Tuesday
morning.
The Dickinson press., 1915-01-30
PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES

The public library is open from 200
to $50 in the afternoon and 700 to
900 in the evening of every week
day. It is also open from 900 to
1900 on Saturday mornings and from
200 to $50 Sunday afternoons. It
is for the free use Of everyone.
Amony the new books of fiction that
have been put in the rental collection
this week, are:- t"Today's Daughter"
by Mrs. Bacon; 'The Clayhanger" by
Arnold Bennett; "The Romance of
Ali" by Eleanor Stuart; "R. Us Moth
er and Other People" by Margaret
Deland; "Polly of the Hospital staff"
by Emma Dowd; "Martha-by-the-day"
by Julie Lppman; "Miss Billy" by
Eleanor Porter; 1.-THE Letters of 8.
Self-Made Failure" by Maurice Switz-
err.
I A complete list of these latest
books to be put in circulation is kept;
at the library.
The library has been open to, the
public for nearly five and a half years.
Many people who took books in it's
first years have moved away from.
Dickinson, or for some other reason
no longer use the library. To, ascer-.
tain the number of present users, a.
new registration of borrowers will be,
taken, beginning the first day of Feb
ruary. This will not Inconvenience
the patrons of the library, as it will
merely mean new numbers for them.
The Dickinson press., 1915-01-30
GLEE CLUB SECURED

1t has been definitely arranged to
have the University Glee Club visit
this city on their trip to the south
western portion of the state. A tour
is made every year by this famous
musical organization, this one being
the tenth. The main object is to keep
the University in touch with all parts
of the state and to aid in stimulating
an interest in this, our home institu-
ton. 1t is not a money making prop
osition as very little is left above ex-
penses at the close of the trip each
year. The members give willingly of
their services not only during the
trip but during the many months of
practice necessary before the start.
Only the training and instruction and
honor are their recompence. The
club is under the able director, Prof.
W. w. Norton, who is we'll known to
many in this city. Though made up
largely of new men it is considered
one of the best balanced clubs ever
sent out by the University. Dickin-
son is fortunate in having the oppor-
turity of hearing this group of young
men in an entirely new program
which will be given in the opera
house Friday night, February 18th.
The Dickinson press., 1915-01-30
Gets 18 Months

j. A. Warbritten, the school teacher
in Dunn county from north of Taylor,
pleaded guilty to forgery and was
sentenced by Judge w. C. Crawford
to Is months in the p~enitentiary.
Warbritten is about 20 years of age
and came out from Indiana some over
a year ago. He told the judge that
he had never been arrested before,
but it develops since his sentence that
he had, being out on parol from the
Indiana reform school. A letter to
the prisoner from Indiana which was
opened by Sheriff Brown the first of
the week, revealed this fact.
Sheriff Brown, States Attorney H.
A. Burgeson and Clerk of Court Koch
took the prisoner to Beach the last
of last week where sentence was
passed.
Warbritten passed one of his worth
less checks for $24 at the Hub, an
other for So at the Fad and another
at the Model Clothing House. He
also had a check for $26 made up
which he evidently dropped on the
train between Taylor and Dickinson,
as it was picked up by one of the
railroad men and handed to the sher-
if.
The Dickinson press., 1915-01-30
HOSPITAL. NOTES

John Hess of Burkey is quite sick
with typhoid fever.
A. Carlson of Taylor arrived from
Taylor Tuesday evening with a broken
arm.
Mrs. Matt Blick entered the hos
pital Wednesday to receive medical
attention.
Otis Quinion came in from Quinion
last Friday and is receiving medical
attention.
A. B. Stefin Of Belfeld came to
the hospital Sunday and is receiving
medical attention.
Theodore Weterkamp of Zenith,
who underwent a serious operation
last week, is getting along. nicely.
Raymond Woods of Beach was oper-
ated upon Monday, DR.: Museus ac-
companied him here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schuster of Fergus
Falls arrived this week to visit with
their daughter, who has been quite
sick with typhoid fever for several
weeks.
Miss Pearl Gray, who has been
quite i'll at the hospital for several
weeks, has recovered sufficiently so
as to be taken to her home at Medora
the latter part of the week.