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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
THIN PERSONS LIVE LONGEST
AS Age Advances Investigations Show
Danger From Overweight Is
Increased.

Recent investigations show that the
longest life and best health are not
to be found among those. of average
build at any particular age. On the
contrary, it is discovered that in those
at the younger age who are slightly
overweight and at the older ages
among those who are distinctly under
weight the longest life and best health
will be found.
Overweight is, above thirty-odd
years, a definite disadvantage to
health. It means staleness, lack OF
elasticity, clogged up tissues, and
lack of the power of adaptability to
invading germs, says, London Ideas.
| Men from twenty to twenty-four can
| be accepted as healthy and for long
life fifty to sixty pounds above nor
NAL. Less excess weight is permissi-
BILE between twenty-five and fifty and
increasingly less as you go up. There
are one-third more deaths among men
between sixty-ive and eighty who are
fifty pounds to sixty pounds fatter
than they should be for given height.
At the ages of thirty-four to forty
! i've from thirty-five pounds to forty
! five pounds heavier weight than a
man should be double his risk OF
death. For anyone above thirty-ive
who is thirty pounds too obese life in
surance companies hereafter will con-
slider poor risks or raise their insur-
ance rates.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10

ter was a warm blonde. beautiful,
queenly, finished product of civiliza-
tion and high-priced culture; a WON
an of the world And the girl on horse
back? A rather slight figure, face
winsome, masses Of copper-brown hair
eyes He caught himself won
dering if her cowboy lover-he had
already jumped to the sentimental
ever been able to look
into those steadfast eyes and trifie
with the truth.
When the fish-slaughtering matter
was finally settled-not by the tender
of money that Mr.. Cartwright had
made-the man Smith and his pretty
riding mate galloped through the ford
and disappeared among the barren
hills
"Au revoir, Mr.. Brouillard," said the
princess, as the big car righted itself
for the southwark flight into the des-
ert. IF were you shouldn't fall in
love with the calm-eyed goddess who
rides like man. Mr.. Tri'-Circ' Smith
might object, you know"
There was something almost heart
warming in the bit of parting badi-
mage; but the warmth might have
given place to disconcerting chill if
he could have heard Mr.. ]. Wesley
Cortwright's remark to his seat COM
panion.
"He isn't going to be the dead easy
mark hoped to find in the son of the
old bankrupt hair-splitter, Genie, girl
But he'll come down and hook himself
all right if the bait is we'll covered
with his particular brand of sugar.
Don't you forget it,"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
FIRST WORK FOR THE GARDEN
BY e. VAN BENTHUYSEN.

To get both pleasure and profit from
garden one does not need large
variety Of flowers and vegetables.
do the planting and much of the work
on plot of about one acre. The prod
ucts include asters, dahlias, straw
berries, tomatoes. celery, lettuce,
string beans, etc.
March is none too soon to commence
shaping ones plans for the garden. A
good catalogue from some reliable
seedman is necessary. The winter
months are the time to study and plan
out your scheme of garden. My ex-
perience has been that it is mistake
to try too many varieties of vegeta-
bles. Of peas, tomatoes and cabbage,
select two varieties, one early, the 9TH
er late. OF all the other vegetables l
find one variety suffices.
Order your seeds early, for by the
middle of March one can begin oper-
| ations by sowing tomato, cabbage and
celery seeds in boxes filed with earth.
Cigar boxes make a good receptacle
for starting plants. They are deep
enough and good size to stand on the
window sill. Two hundred plants can
be started in one box. The early cab
bage and tomato should be planted
! first
If you are going to try celery it
should be among the first started. Do
not cover the seed too deep. Follow
the direction on the package as to
depth.
Do not get discouraged about re-
suits, as celery seed terminates very
slowly. Keep the top of the earth al
ways moist, and do not look for plants
until the third week
When they do show, give plenty of
/ light, so that they will not be spin
ding
This also applies to cabbage and
tomatoes. All of them will grow long.
thread-like stems. which will be too
weak to support themselves, unless
given plenty of sunlight The celery
| plants can remain in the cigar box
much longer than any of the other
plants that have suggested for house
planting. They grow slowly. The to-
matoes and cabbage will soon need
larger quarters.
AS soon as the fourth leaf is under
way, they should be planted into flats.
Mine are about two feet square and
three inches deep. / nailed them up
myself, and any other woman with q
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
MUST HAVE BEEN FILLED UP
And Vet Receptacle Was Just an Or
dinary Handbag Same as They
All Garry.

you say that you left your small
handbag on the train, madam" said
the polite young man at the counter
in the department of the railroad sta
ton in which articles left on trains
were to be found, if found at all, writes
Morris Wade in Judge. "Will you
please describe the bag and its con-
tents?"
We'll, it was a small handbag of
black glazed leather about seven or
eight inches long and five or six
inches wide. | am not sure that | can
describe all of the contents, but know
that there was in the bag a handker
chief with a narrow lace edge, couple
of matinee tickets, three samples of
ribbon, sample of taffeta silk, pa1e
blue; door key and two little keys; a
laundry list, pair of white kid gloves.
receipt for skirt / had left to be
dyed, two spools of thread, card of
hooks and eyes, a newspaper recipe
for a fruit salad, little newspaper
/ poem l had taken fancy to. a small
ball Of d'-"ing cotton. a yard and q
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
What will be che first step
BrouiIlard takes to thWart the
great efforts of Cartwright and
congressional politicians in their
concesSion-grabbing S h e m e
Watch for developments in the
next instalImen-
CTO BE CONTINUEDD
Harvest Every Month.

All through the year wheat is being
harvested. In January it is cut in the
great fields of the Argentine and in
New Zealand. In February and March
it is cut in the East Indies and Egypt
The wheat fields are harvested in
April in Cyprus, Asia Minor, Persia
and Cuba, and in May in China and
Japan. June is the busiest harvest
month of the whole year. for then Tur-
key. Greece, Spain and southern
France, as well as most of the south
ern states of America are all cutting
wheat.
The more northerly states of Amer
lea, as we'll as Austria. Germany and
parts of Russia do their harvest gath
ering in July.
August sees the wheat crop gath
cred in Great Britain, aid September
and October for Sweden and Norway
Peru and South Africa are busy har-
vesting in November and December.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10

Brouillard laughed. ''It is only the
ice appropriations" he suggested.
There will be good bit of money
spent here before the Buckskin desert
gets its maiden wetting."
Il don't mean that at all" was the
impatient rejoinder. Let me show
you: you are going to have a popula-
ton of some sort That's the basis.
Then you're going to need cement
lumber and steel. 1t can be manufac-
tured right here on the spot"
THE cement and the lumber can be
produced here, but not the steel"
Brouillard corrected.
That's where you're off," snapped
the millionaire. There are fine ore
beds in the Hophras and pretty good
quality of coking coal. Ten or twelve
miles of narrow-gauge railroad would
dump the pig metal into the upper end
of your valley, and there you are
With small reduction plant you could
tell the big steel people to go hang" 4"
"Unquestionably. But this is case
of can't-help-it," Brouillard argued
You couldn't begin to interest private
capital in any of those industries you
speak Of"
why not?" was the curt demand.
Because when the dam is complet-
ed and the spillway gates are closed,
the Niqoyastcadje and everything in it
will go down under two hundred feet
of water"
"The-what?" queried Miss Cort-
wright
The Niqoyastcadje = 'Place-w where
they-came-up' said Brouillard, eluci-
dating for her. That is the Navajo
name for this valley. Our map max
ers shortened it to 'Niquoia' and the
cowmen of the Buckskin foothills have
cut that to 'Nick-wire.'"
This bit of explanatory place lore
was entirely lost upon Mr.. ]. Wesley
Cartwright. He was chewing the ends
of his short mustaches and scowling
thoughtfully out upon the possible site
of the future industrial city of the
| plain.
Say, Brouillard," he cut in, you get
me the right to build that power dam
and give me the contracts for what
material you'd rather buy than make
and I'll be switched If ! don't take a
shot at this drowning proposition my.
self. tell you, it looks pretty good
to me. What do you say?"
81 say" laughed the young chief OF
construction, that I'm only a hired
man. You'll have to go good few
rounds higher up on the authority lad
der to close deal like that. I'm moi
sure it wouldn't require an act Of
congress"
We'll, by George, we might get ever
that if we had to- was the optimistic
assertion. You think about it."
81 guess 1t isn't my think" sait
Brouillard, inclined to take the retired
pork packers suggestion as the mere
rawlings of a monet-mad promoter
LAS the government engineer il
charge Of this work. / couldn't afforc
to be identified even as friendly in
termediary in any such scheme as the
one you are proposing"
"Of course, / suppose not" agreed
the would-be promoter, sucking hi
under lip in a way ominously familiar
to his antagonists in the wheat pit
Then he glanced at his watch anc
changed the subject abruptly wei
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Always Laid ur.

Ralph Connor, the Canadian clergy
man who wrote TIE Sky Pilot" and
other novels, is now serving in France,
whence he wrote rec emily to his New
York publisher:
Our Canadian troops have suffered
heavily. But they keep up a good
heart
'At tea in London l met a Cana
dian hobbling on c~utches beside q
pretty countess.
1--WE Canadians said to him, are
meeting with much hospitality over
here, are we not?
4'Much? Too much he answered
Why, I've been In hospital nearly all
the time"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
SPRING WORK AMONG FLOW
Frs

If you want rosebuds for Easter, pot
a few hybrids and ramblers and put
them in the cellar About the last of
January, place in the window garden
and keep the temperature at 80 de-
grees until the buds start, then give
them ten degrees more.
Mend the walks about the house and
garden, and If the fences need it, re-
pair them. Later the spring rush of
work will prevent this
The umbrella plant needs light soil,
though rich, and an abundance of wa
ter and rather shady locality.
Cuttings of the half-ripened wood of
the lantana ripen easily at this season.
Sow mignonettes in pots for early
spring Towering.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
HOME GROUNDS BEAUTIFUL
BY l.. M. BENNINGTON.

Nothing adds to the attractiveness
of the home place more than thrifty
vines, and for most places perennial
vines are best For temporary screens
annual vines will do. Start the seeds
indoor early and transplant frequent
ly in order to make the plants stalky,
and as soon as the ground gets warm
they may be set out where they are to
remain.
Many of these will grow but little
at top for the first year, but will be
making root growth and be getting
ready to make top progress after
wards Some of the shrubs and peren-
malls, and even the biennials may give
a scant bloom the first year, and some
may wait for the first Towering for the
third year.
Seeds of most of the desirable orna-
mental vines, shrubs, biennials and
perennials germinate readily, while
| others are slow in sprouting, but if
planted in good soil and allowed time
the reward is sure.
We should inform ourselves on these
subjects as much as possible before un-
dertaking the work.
February and March is good time
to get our window boxes ready. In
these boxes may be planted the seeds
together with many bulbous and tuber-
ous-rooted varieties of plants. Many
of our best seedsmen sell trial orders
very cheap, hoping TO thus keep Gus
toner by sending out good seeds and
plants. Get your trial order from re
liable firm and study the catalogues
especially the directions on how to
prepare the soil and the depth to plant
the seeds.
Do not try to do anything about the
garden in happy-go-lucky way. Give
time and thought to the planting The
result justifies your most intelligent
care.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
CHAPTER II-continued.

Il was Just telling Van Bruce that
his laundering fish cartridge would
raise the neighbors." the trail climber
went on with a stout mans chuekle.
And then: You're one of the reclama-
tion engineers? Great work the gov
ernment Is undertaking here. You
are connected with Il. aren't your"
Brouillards nod was for the man,
but his words we're for the young
woman whose beauty refused to be
quenched by the touring handicaps.
Yes. am in charge Of it, he said.
Hal" said the stout man. and this
time the exclamation was purely ap.
propative. "Chief engineer. eh? That's
fnel fnel My name is Cortwright-
J. Wesley Cortwright OF Chicago. And
yours ls--f"
Brouillard named himself In one
word. Strangers usually found him
bluntly unresponsive to anything like
effuslveness. but he was finding 1t Gu
riously difficult to resist the good
natured heartiness which seemed to
exude from the talkative gentleman
overiaying him like the honeydew on
the leaves in a droughty forest.
II Mr.. ]. Wesley Cortwrights sur
prise on hearing the Brouillard sur
name was not genuine II was at least
an excellent imitation.
We'll. well. well-you don't sayl
Not OF the Brouillards of Knox county
Indiana3-but. Of course. you must be.
Yes" said BrouilIard. Our branch
OF the family settled near Vincennes
and my father was on the bench. when
he wasn't in politics"
What? Not Judge Antoine! Why
my dear young mani Do you know
that once had the pleasure of intro
ducing your good father to my bank
ers In Chicago? II was years ago, al
a time when he was interested in float
ing a bond issue for some growing in
dustry down on the Wabash. And tc
think that away out here in this howl
ing wilderness, a thousand miles from
nowhere, as you might say. should
meet his sonl"
Brouillard laughed and fell headlons
into the pit of triteness.
"The world isn't so very big wher
you come to surround it properly, Mr.
Cartwright" he asserted.
You are wondering what fool no
ton chased us away out here in tht
desert when we had comfortable no
tel to stop at" he ratified on. '1'l
tell you, Mr.. Brouillard--in confidence
II was curiosity-raw. country curios
ity. The papers and magazines hav,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Why Business Is GOOD.

No one will have the temerity to
deny that business has grown largely
better in the last few months" re-
marked S. A. George Of Pierre. S. D.,
in an interview. There is not the
shadow of doubt that business is i'm
proving in all lines, but if it had not
been for the war in Europe; if the
country had been dependent on normal
demands farm products would not be
bringing twothirds of the price they
command today. Under the present
Democratic tariff | believe there would
have been a disaster equal to that
which followed the last previous Dem
INocratic tariff"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Mr.. Wilson and the Tariff.

When we have a measure like the
Underwood act on the books there is
only one way it can be kept there, see
ing that it is not success, and there
fore not satisfactory to the country.
and that is by retaining the Democrat
ic party in power-which heaven for
fend! Consequently when supporters
If a tariff commission fancy that its
institution and operation will take the
tariff out OF politics-and this seems
to be the outstanding argument in its
behalf-they are likely to be disap-
pointed If we are to have one, more
ever, it is not for the Wilson admin
stration to present it as a specimen
# original scovery.-Pittsburgh Ga
sette-Times, Rep.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10

ask. you might say 1t was Tig Smith
foreman O. the Tri'-Circ' outfit. No. |
ain't no game warden. bat what | say
goes as she lays. Savez?"
Brouillard walked his companior
down to the car and helped her to a
seat in the tonneau. She repaid him
saw that the crudities were not
troubling her he stepped aside and un
consciously fell to comparing the two
the girl on horseback and his walk
ing mate of the canyon passage
They had little enough in common,
apart from their descent from Eve, he
decided-and the decision itself was
subconscious. The millionaires daugh
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10

been full OF this Buckskin reclamation
scheme. and we wanted to see the
place where all the wonderful miracles
were going to get themselves wrought
out. Have you got time to put us
nextr"
Broulllard. as the son OF the man
who had been introduced to the Chi
cago money gods In his hour of need.
could scarcely do less than to take the
time. The project. he explained, con-
templated the building OF a high dam
across the upper end of the Niquoia
canyon and the converting of the in.
land valley above into a great storage
reservoir From this reservoir a series
OF distributing canals would lead the
water out upon the arid lands of the
Buckskin and the miracle would be a
fact accomplished
Sure, surel" said the cheerful quer-
fist, feeling in the pockets of the au.
tomobile coat for cigar. At the
match-striking instant he remembered
n thing neglected by George! you'll
have 10 pardon me. Mr.. Brouillard; I'm
always forgetting the little social dew.
dabs. Let me present you to my
daughter Genevieve. Gene, shake
hands with the son OF my good old
friend. Judge Antoine Brouillard OF
Vincennes."
II was rather awkwardly done, and
somehow Brouillard could not help
fancying that Mr.. Cortwright could
have done it better. But when the
unquenchable beauty stripped her
gauntlet and gave him her hand, with
q dazzling smile and a word of &C
acknowledgement which was not Dor
rowod from her fatherss ELUSIVE vo
cabulary. he straightway fell into an
other pit of triteness and his saving
first impressions of Mr.. J. Wesley Cort
wright's character began to fade.
I'm immensely interested" wa:
Miss Cortwrights comment on the out
lining of the reclamation project. do
you mean to say that real farms will
green things growing on them can bt
made out of that frightful desert W.
drove over yesterday afternoon?"
Rrouillard smiled and plunged fatu
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
I) J CHAPTER III
Z No Easy Mark

I'VE are in luck on, the cement prop
osition," Brouillard told the eager
money-maker. I'VE shall probably
manufacture our own supply right
here Gil the ground"
Him." said the millionaire; "a ce-
ment plant, Ell? The materials have
all been tested. | suppose?"
"Oh. yes; we've had experts in here
for more than year. The material is
all right"
And your labor2"
"On the dam, you mean? We shall
work all the Indians we can get from
the Navajo reservation, forty-odd miles
south of here; for the remainder we
shall import men from the States"
Mr.. Cortwright's calculating eye
roved once more over the attractive
prospect.
Fuel for your power plant wood
| take it?" he surmised; and then:
"Oh, / forgot; you say you have coal"
Yes; there is coal. of a sort; good
enough for the cement kilns. For
power we shall utilize the river. There
|
the valley where a temporary dam can
be built which will deliver power
enough to run anythingLan entire
manufacturing city. if we had one"
mo chance for a man to get the
thin edge of a wedge in anywhere"
lamented the money-maker despair.
ingly. Then his eye lighted upon the
graybeard dump of a solitary mine
high up on the face of Mount Chi
gringo. whats that up there?" he
demanded
1T is a mine" said Brouillard, show
ing Miss Cartwright how to adjust the
heldglass for the shorter distance.
Two men named Massingale, father
and son, are working it, I'm told" And
then again to Miss Genevieve: THAT
is their cabin-on the trail little to
the right of the tunnel opening"
81 see it quite plainly" she returned.
Two people are just leaving it to ride
down the path-a man and a woman.
| think, though the woman-if it is a
woman-is riding on a mans saddle. f."
Brouillards eyebrows went up in a
little arch of surprise. Harding. the
Typographical engineer who had made
all the preliminary surveys and uad
spent the better part of the former
summer in the Niquoia. had reported
on the Massingales, father and son, and
his report had conveyed a hint of DOS.
sible antagonism on the part of the
mine owners to the government prof.
| I'M had
of a woman.
THE Massingale mine, eh?" broke
in the appraiser of values crisply
They showed US some ore specimens
from that property while we were stop
ping 'over in Red Butte. It's rich
good and plenty rich-if they have the
quantity. And somebody told me they
had the quantity, too; only it was toe
far from the railroad-couldn't jack
freight it proftably over the Timan
yonis."
"In which case it is one of many,
Brouillard said, taking refuge in the
generalities.
But Mr.. Cortwright was not to be 81
easily diverted from the pointed par
tlculars-the particulars having to dt
with the pursuit of the market trail.
, I'm beginning to get my feet OF
? bottom. Brouillard," he said, dropping
} the courtesy prefix and showing his ia
! hands deep into the pockets of tn,
> dust-coat. There's a business propo
, sition here. and 1t looks mighty goo'
to me. l tell you, l can smell none,
: In this valley of yours-scads of II.