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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
AMONG THE FLOWERS

Cut flowers of ANIMALS that seed
freely and prolorg the season of
bloom. If allowed to mature seeds,
they cease to bloom.
Don't neglect the potted plants; wa
ter well, and shade from the after
noon sunshine.
When shade is recommended, dark
ness or dense shade are not meant.
All plants require good light.
Many plants will bear strong sky
light that would be badly damaged if
set in strong sunshine.
For potted plants that must have
sunshine, set the pots in a jardiniere,
or set in box with packing of moss
around them to encourage moisture.
Root geranium slips now, if you
want winter bloomers. Keep growing
thriftily, pinching off all buds until
late September.
To root hardwood, shrubbery plants,
cut just below the joint, as all slips
send out roots from the joint, whether
soft or hardwood.
| Do not make the mistake of roofing
for winter boomers plants that bloom
only in the summer. Some geraniums
bloom more freely than others.
Evaporation is rapid; if showers are
few, the plants will become stunted
from thirst; if too much rain, weeds
must not be allowed to choke the
plants.
All shrubby pot plants should be sci
in sheltered place, out of doors, with
good light, but some shade during the
hot season, where strong winds cannot
rack them.
Prune older, weaker branches from
shrubs and roses that are done bloom
ing, and mulch roots.
Cut and pile sod for pot compos
later.
Weather seldom affects weeds ad
versely.
Heavy shade is often worse thai
strong sunlight.
Sow seeds for basket plants and win
dow garden now.
Prune out the branches of the dahl;
to promote development of flowers
water well and tie to stakes.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
AVOIDING FRICTION AT HOME
Wife of Man Prominent in Public Life
Has Some Theories Just
About Correct.

The wife of a man just now very
prominent in national affairs has been
talking to reporters. She believes
that marriage is good for men in pub
lie life. And she thinks there should
be no friction in the home. The lady
says:
''That is what 1 try most to do, to
avoid friction. My duty lies in my
home. Our Aome life is a very happy
one. I am chiefly interested in that,
as have told you. 1 try to keep it
calm, and normal, whatever the situa-
ton"
It is not necessary for woman to
have husband who may be president
in order to put into practice the the
ory thus outlined. If it were possible
to discover the facts it would be
found that most of the men who
amount to anything in any line Of eff.
| fort owe huge debt to the prudent
skfllful. calm and quiet care Of theiI
wives in and for their homes.
Man is usually an unreasonable and
often disagreeable animal. He means
well, and hopes for the best, but It /.
easy to offend him, and those he loves
best are likely to suffer most. Ths
| wife who can understand him and viii
rough edges and go around the veal
spots, is the better man of the two
-Knickerbocker Press.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
BATTLES IN PEAKS
ALPs COULD TELL STORY THAT
WOULD THRILL.
Mountain Ranges the Scene Of Many
Historic Eneounters-Passes TraV-
ersed by Soldiers Thousands
OF Years Ago.


II the rugged peaks of the Alps
could tell their story, there would be
many thrilling and warlike incident
TO relate; but none so strange as the
ones enacted between the Austrians
and the Italians in these mountainous
regions. The Italians are absolutely
at home in the mountains, and the
Austrians are using every invention Of
science to cOunteract this advantage.
All the parapets on the steep roads,
where summer tourists were wont to
motor, have been demolished, and
beautiful pine forests have been swept
away, so that nothing shall obstruct
the artillery. Large areas have been
mined, and by pressing a button the
Austrlans can hurl an avalanche Of
rocks and powders on to the heads of
the advancing Italians or blow up the
roads beneath their feet.
From the Cottian chain. marking the
boundary OF France in the west, to
the Carnic and Julian Alps, north and
east OF the Adriatic in Austria, there
are generally a thousand passes and
routes OF more or less note, nearly all
traversed by practicable roads, and
some shortened by railroad tunnels.
Over these roads armies marched to
battle over two thousand years ago.
Mont Gents pass may have been Han
nlbal's route when, In the year 218
y. O., the Carthaginian conqueror In
vaded Italy with large army, half Of
which he lost amidst the Alpine SHOWS.
The conquest Of some Alpine tribes
by Augustus the desultory warfare Of
Teutonlc and Franlxish hordes in the
fifth and sixth centuries, and the in
creasinR sanguinary strife of Swiss
"confederates" and Austrian Oppres-
sors, (which lasted from the breaking up
Of the Carolingian empire, in the tenth
and eleventh centuries, until the crys-
tallization of the Helvetic republic by
Napoleon Bonaparte's act of media
ation In 1SO3-all these fill the chron-
icles and make nearly every practi-
cable foot of Swiss territory heroic
ground.
When Napoleon entered Italy he
crossed the Alps with an army of
10000 by the Great st. Bernard pass,
May 1921, 1900 Later he constructed
the great military road over the Sim
plon pass, from Brieg, in Switzerland,
to Domodossola, Ia Italy, and thence
to Milan.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
NO WEAKNESS AT THE END
CIancy's Comment on Old Friends
clearness of Intellect Apparent
ly True One.

local architect is sponsor for the
following Irish anecdote:
Pat was reported lying at deaths
door, so Clancy and McManigan de-
termined to call upon him and do
what they could to ease his last mo-
ments. Arriving at Pats domicile,
they were admitted by the sick mans
weeping wife and conducted to the
chamber of not-far-otf death.
Pat looked very bad indeed, and his
friends hardly knew whether they had
come in time or not. But the near
dead man rose up as they neared the
bed. One grizzled hand pointed floor
ward at the bedside and in a weak
whisper the sick man bade his friends
hand him that which he sought. They
looked underneath and found jug,
which Pat joyfully clasped to his
breast.
81 want" says he, ''fer you, me
friends, to take a last bit of a swie
with me-"
Acquiescing, Clancy grasped the jug
and removed the stopper. He placed
his nose to the opening, smile creas
ing his rugged countenance. Before
drinking, however, he turned to Nc
Manigan. "Sure and he's sinsible tt
the viry ind" said he,. nodding sagely
Columbus Dispatch.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
No Enterprise.

Fl. G. Frick, the steel millionaire,
said one day to a Pittsburgh reporter:
''The man who lacks enterprise is
always a lazy do-nothing man. It's
like the story of the clock and the sun
dial.
"In an old-fashioned village there
was a movement on foot to purchase
a town clock for the town hall, but
JabeZ Hartley said:
"'No, no. That'll eat into a lot
OF money. What do we want a town
clock for, anyhow. Why, lying abed
of morning, can't l see the time
by the sundial over the church porch :?
"Yes, jabez,' said progressive,
but suppose the sun isn't shining?
What do you do then?'
"'Why,' said Jabez, 4 know then it
amt fit weather to be out O. doors, so
l stay where 1 am for the day"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
Wrono Place.

For many years faithful house
keeper worked for a bad-tempered old
bachelor, but finally grew tired of his
eternal complaints and decided to
leave him. Biding her time, therefore,
she informed him that she was going
to California.
ITO California he repeated, in
alarm. "What to do there, pray?"
''To find a husband" she answered
boldly. 'They say there are many
more men than women in California y
"BahY the old bachelor snarled
Don't f1atter yourself that you'll find
husband among them, woman. It's
true that men are in the majority, Out
they're not the marrying sort. They're
runaway husbands who've gone to Cal
ifornia in search of a little peace"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
Prehistoric Man.

The life habits of prehistoric man,
ms well as his antiquity on earth, are
known almost entirely from fossil re-
mains of various sorts. The data, how
ever, are very scanty and insufficient
for strictly logical deductions. Tools
and hunting weapons, bones Of tropi-
cal fauna and remains of man are
found In the gravel beds Of western
Europe. Apparently man antedates
the glacial period as this tropical
fauna there was previous to the fee
age and because remains of glacial
fauna, together with human remains,
occur In later geological deposits. Thus,
the antiquity of man becomes a ques-
tion OF the date Of the ice age, and
that occurred 10000 years ago at least.
The implements of prehistoric man
form basis of a division of early in
dustrial development into the stone
age, the bronze age, and the iron age.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
AIpO n0
. WAR IWE

" ROM the desert back to the
- town, to "the world" to the
hurly-burly of Cairo and the
fleshpots of Egypt. 1t is war
time, the summer of 1915. The city Is
full of soldiers, sunburned Australians
and New Zealanders who have not yet
been in action but are being kept lest
the Arabs should come out of the
desert and strive to efface the English
and French civilization of the banks
Of the lower Nile and so add more
ruins to the ruins of Egypt, writes
Stephen Graham in Country Life.
The city is majestical with its broad
streets, white stone palaces and state
ly mansions, its wondrous river and
its mighty bridges. The dryness,
clenness and whiteness of a city that
knows no rain. the city CLEANS in a
vast supply Of sunshine. The wind
blows all the time from the desert,
and watts heat In the face as from a
furnace. A city of life and gay en-
ergy. The fountain of life plays rap
idly and brilliantly all the time, throw
Ing up all colOrs, forms, faces. There
Is sense of resplendent and tremen-
dous gayety. No one comes to Cairo to
be an ascetie and mortify the flesh. But
every building, every sight and sound
says, Life, life, life" All around is
death-the desert which is death IT.
self, the Pyramids which are tombs,
the old cities and ruins which are the
bodies of ancient civilizations passed
away. But every sight and sound in
the oasis of the great city says-Live,
be gay. let the pulse beat fast, let the
heart go and be glad, let the eyes
sparkle and burn, let the lips form
words of passion and pleasure.
There is a sense of an immense an
tiquity which, in contrast with
the little second of the present
moment, makes the latter less i'm
portant, less holy. There is a
subtle smell in the air, an odor
that makes the head little dizzy and
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06

the hands little feverish as you
walk 1t is the actual odor of antiquity,
a finest dust in suspension in the
wind, the dust of decay from past
ages. All that dies in Egypt becomes
dry, and only after centuries turns
to dust and loses form. That which
rots away in a year in our northern
cline keeps its semblance for thou
sand years in Egypt. The stones of
the houses of native Cairo were many
Of them quarried by the ancients; the
wooden beams and joists have lasted
from the days Of the Pharaohs. and
only now are gently crumbling. Here
the very stones can be used to manure
the fields. Subtly, secretly, the sew
enth foundation is always crumblng
away and passing in dust into the
desert afr. The smell in the air is
partly the fine dust of mummies, of
the bodies that were once erect and
nervous and vivid. gay and fellcitous
and moving, the mysterious flocking
humans of thousands Of years ago.
Crowds In the Streets.
The streets roll forward with flock
ing crowds-dark faces, brown faces,
sallow faces; red caps and straw hats
and little turbans and smocks and
burnous; negroes, Copts, Arabs, wom-
en- in white wells, women with dark
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
The silver Lining.

Not long ago a clergyman, in the
course Of ministrations among the poor
of large town, called on an old LADY
who had been bedridden for some
years.
"well, Mrs. Davies" he said, "fhd
how are you todayY
"Oh, I'm pretty well, thank you,"
was the cheerful answer.
"Ah, that's right" responded the
clergyman, sympathetically. II hardly
expected to find you to be in such good
spirits, considering your affilction. 1
was afraid 1 should find you down
hearted"
"No, no, sirr' she cried, interrupting
him. sNo, no. indeed, sir. I've much
to be thankful for, have. Why, only
the other night, when that house just
opposite was on fire, 1 couldn't help
thinking Of all the poor people crush
ing each other in the street, and many
of them not getting a sight of the fire
at all, while here was /, all nice and
comfortable in bed, and I could see II
beautifully through my window with
out even turning overl Oh, no, I've
lot to be thankful for"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06

Human beings generally stop grow
ing at the age of eighteen.
1t is calculated that, within a depth
Of 1000 feet, there are still 0O,000,0 ,00O,-
600 tons of coal left in the British en-
pire.
Complete automatic telephone sys-
tens have been recommended for four
cities in New Zealand by a govern
ment electrician.
The United States is the largest pro-
ducer of raw sealskins in the world
and the greatest consumer of finished
seal furs.
Scientists have figured that the earth
is thickest along an imaginary line
drawn from the top of Chimborazo, a
mountain in Ecuador, to point on the
coast of Sumatra, where the land is
fairly high.
1t is related that friend Of Brown
ing's, finding him puzzled over the nu-
merous Browning societies that had
sprung up in this country, declared
them to indicate how much the poet
meant to America. "Yes," replied
Browning, dryly, "but it isn't very fiat,
tering to think you can't be under
stood without the aid of an orgarizsf
effort"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06

wells; Europeans, soldiers, hawkers,
mendicants. postcard sellers, newspa-
per vendors. Along the center of the
broad sun-swept rOadways crash the
electric trans; the rubber-tired cabs
and wide-hOoded victOrias follow pleas
antly; the motor cars proceed; the
military auto-cycles pant; and the
heavy OK and buffalo carts of the ma
tives blunder along at the sides.
There is doing everywhere, happen
ing, being. VOluminOus and prOmiscu-
Gus action floods and surges through
the city with the traffic. II is life
everywhere. And yet mingled with
life there is death. There is plague
in Cairo, and every now and then the
eyes rest on a native funeral process
sion, one procession, two professions
five professions, ten professions all
following one another. They are in
every street. and they go past with
their strange pOmp of death, with the
body and the mOurners and the keen
ers and professional hOwlers. The
brightly living crowd on the footways
each side of the road pause mo-
ment and think, Someone has died."
and pass on, oblivious, intent on life.
In luxurious hotels gentle and beauti-
full Nubians are handing out delicate
fare, rich dishes cooked and served in
that sought-out and magnificent style
that Egypt has inherited from ages of
epicurism. And q wonderful assem-
bly, of officers and ladies, rich pleasure
seekers and tourists from the Mediter-
ranean shores, invalids, receives-sit-
ting at flower-decked tables in great
halls.
A strange impression, in the after
noon, to go down the side streets and
see the throngs of young men, un-
steady on their feet but bright-eyed
and thirsty-lipped, greedy, eager; the
strong-limbed sunburnt colonial sol
diers dancing with Arab girls, the cafe
chantants, shooting saloons, bars, bad
houses, the barrel organs, the smell OF
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
EFFECTS IN MASSING
BY L. M. BENNINGTON.


Two recent photographs showing
handsome California homes, one at
Berkeley, and the other the Smith
home at Oakland, illustrate nicely one
Of the principles Of art that the maker
of a garden will do well to study. 1t
Is the general scheme producing an eff
feet with masses of plants, and with
foliage thrown daringly into back
ground or foreground with little ap-
parent thought for the individual
plant.
1t follows the idea of the little
darky who came home one day with
a crude drawing made in school. The
little boy held up proudly the product
and said:
"See, nanny, here am what I done
drawed today"
"What dat" inquired the mother.
"Hits er cow" said the little fel-
tow.
"Yas, hits er COW, all right" said
the mother, "but whar am de tail ?'
''De teacher she done tole me-" re.
bpOuuGu Tie CA1Iu, OtlI 50 lung dS u6
general effect am good, neber mind de-
TAIL"
That is the theory shown striking
Iy by these two California pictures. Ii
one is found heavy massing of greer
effects in the background, with the
same general scheme of mass being ap
piled to the plants and grasses border
ing the driveway. Not single one Of
the trees or plants stands out individ
ually, but they all blend into a gen
eral purpose.
In the second picture the mass i!
transferred from background to fore
ground, leaving the house itself t.
stand boldly forth against the skyline
In directly opposite ways the picture
show effects of mass arrangement. 1
belongs to its school of art, and t,
art as applied to the garden, as clearl.
as the same theory has place in paint
ing in oils.
And it must be remembered that i
takes more real work to get effec
from a seemingly disordered mas
than it does to care for striking, in
dividual and isolated elements.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06

An American who has been doing am
bulance duty in France pretty close to
the lighting line was working near an
other American one particularly diff
cult day. This friend was mild-man-
nered and mild-spoken, but as a
French linguist he belonged to a class
that would never be called for active
service.
Their post was at a crossroads
when the German artillery perversely
began searching the neighborhood with
shells. A high explosive shell dropped
almost upon them; the friend was
bowled over, eyes and mouth full of
dirt. He stood up uncertainty.
"Whew," he remarked with empha-
sis, "lf just knew the French for
Bon Dieu, I'd say it."
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

In one year horse or COW will eat
nine times it's own weight.
Belgians in England are making
large quantities Of wooden shoes.
Many houses in France are num-
bered 1914 to avoid unlucky No. 13.
A motor road has been built in Bo-
uvia that crosses the Andes 1900
feet above sea level.
About half ton of whalebone is
obtained from one whale, its value be-
ing, roughly, $1,000.
The Chinese post office now handles
yearly more than 100000 parcels
weighing SO,OOo,OO0 pounds.
The guns used in 1882 at the bonn
bardnent Of Alexandria, Egypt, were
of 16-inch bore, an inch larger than
the biggest British naval cannon oi
today, while four years later that navy
had guns of 1926 inches caliber.
Records of the United States pen
sion office show the total death toll
of veterans since the close of the wal
has been 1,S16,995. In that period the
federal government has paid to vet
rams, their widows and children, 81,
-4Fd9 P;6
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
Human Giants LARGELY a Myth.

There is no evidence to show that
men have ever had a greater average
height than they have now. For u
long time there existed in France,
near the junction of the Isere and
Rhone rivers, a deposit of gigantic
bones known as the "Giant's field" In
recent times bones have been dug out
there which were believed to be hu-
man, and were said to be those of Teu-
tobodus, the king Of the Teutons, who
was overcome near the spot by Marlus,
the Roman general.
The researches of Cuvier, however,
prove that these bones, together with
all the others, exhumed in the same
place, were those Of the Dinotherium
giganteum, an extinct animal of the
tapir species, which measured about
twenty feet In length.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
.'!E:llbaEE REMEDY
RESTORES KIDNEYS

Tor many years druggists have watched
n much interest the remarkable record
,,intained by DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root,
ne great kidney, liver and bladder rem
ady.
1t is a physicians prescription.
Swamp-Root is strengthening medi-
cine. DR.. Kilmer used it for years in his
private practice. 1t helps the kidneys,
liver and bladder do the work nature in
tended they should do.
Swamp-Root has stood the test of years.
1t is sold by all druggists on it's merit and
it will help you. No other remedy can
successfully take its place.
Be sure to get Swamp-Root and start
treatment at once.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DIR
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06

sl1ppin' by, never nothin' to see?
How dye like it on a sunny day
when you were 'dyin' to play base
ballY says the elevator boy.
81 never thought about it at ALL
the passenger answered.
We'll, 1 have. l thought about it
most Of the time fer four years. Even
the fellows in Sing Sing gets out
sometimes, but we don't. When l get
to feelin' 1 can't stand it, l think of
block after block of Office buildings
in this town, every one of 'em with Is
or 20 cages, and a fellow like me in
every one Of 'em, spendin' his life
goin' up, comm down, goin' up, comm
down-and outside the world goin'
on"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
FOR ITCHING SCALP
And Falling Hair Use Cuticura Soap
and Ointment. Trial Free.

When the scalp is itching because OF
dandruff and eczema a shampoo with
Cuticura Soap and hot water will be
found thoroughly cleansing and sooth.
ing, especially if shampoo is preceded
by a gentle application of Cuticura
Ointment to the scalp skin.
Free sample each by mail with Book
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
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When Niqht Comes.


When Night Comes.
Night comes over the stately city,
and the Europeans in their white
clothes come in greater numbers into
the streets. The great remote staring
moon stands over the broad highway
and arched bridges. Heat seems to be
generated through the haze in the sky
but light, dry breeze is ever blowing
and the pungent, sweetish odor of the
city Is in the nostrils. In the contrast
of darkness and night silence the
clangOr of eastern music is more stir
ring. 1t stirs the body, not the soul,
and is like the sensuous music of
Nebuchadnezzar, the music of cornet,
flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery and dull
elmer. Dark women with gold orna-
ments hang out from curtainless win
dows or lurk just inside doorways and
dark passageways, ready to coil snake
like upon a prey. In the roadways a
shouting, calling crowd. In the tav-
erns they are singing "Tipperary" and
''We Won't Go Home Till Morning" ;
some men are standing on the tables,
others are trying to put gawky Arab
| girls through the steps of a tango.
The music jangles. The whole street
has a collective voice, strange tink-
ling and murmuring uproar.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
Consistent Expectation.

"The fashions for women are got
ting more youthful every year." COM
mented one man.
Does that meet with your dlsap-
provalT
'Not bit. If 1t goes o. this way a
few seasons more, my wife will he will
ing to give up her automobile and ride
in a baby carriage"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
Dearia Mel

Ethel-Has Tom proposed yet,
Maud2
Maud-No, not exactly.
Ethel-Not exactly What do you
mean?
Maud-Well, you know, he always
used to knock when he came to our
house to visit me. Well, last night he
came with a ring.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
nIsnnsted the Minister,

The new minister called upon the
factory superintendent today" How'd
he come out?" Boiling. The super.
intendent thought he was man look
ing for a Job and told him that he
would give him a job in spite of his
looks, If he could furnish first-class
references and give nd."-Houston
Post.