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The Detroit times., 1916-01-15

In winter as in summer, for the
sake both OF the physical health
and OF the mental health, it IS I'M
portant to get outdoors ns much as
possible. Also, when indoors, it is
important for the same reason TO
Keep the house well ventilated.
This applies in the night as we'll
ss in the day The more fresh air
one has in the house, the less the
liability OF disease and the more
vigorous the mental power.
Many people--perhaps most peo-
ple-still are unaware Of the
dangers 10 when they expose them
selves when they fail TO ventilate
their houses properly. They are
adly ignorant OF the effects Of i'm
pure air on the human organism.
For one thing. the breathing of
impure air prevents the brain from
obtaining the supply Of oxygen I'm.
ilspensable 10 its proper function
ing. Oxygen in sufficient quantities
10 keep the brain working effective
ly can be had only through giving
the lungs d chance TO absorb fresh
air.
Deprive them Of this chance and
YOU not only starye the brain. you
also poison H. For air that Is not
fresh is air which always contains
substances toxic to the brain.
Drowsiness, a feeling Of hcavi.
ness in the head. inability 10 con
centrate the attention. are among
the first symptoms Of this brain
poisoning.
Many people. especially II seated
in rooms lighted by gas or BY OIL
lamps experience these symptoms
without realizing that they are due
wholly 70 the absence Of fresh air.
According 20 Dr. Horace Greeley,
cf Brooklyn. Who has made spe-
cial study Of The air problem,
single gas jet OF the bat.wing type
eats Up as much air as FIVE people
would consume IN the same time.
An oil lamp of the ordinary burner
uses as muca air as seven persons.
This Is something worth renem.
herring in the long winter nights.
Burn oil or gas in your house.
and you have all the more reason TO
make sure that the house Is kept
we'll ventilated.
The breathing OF IMPURE air,
moreover, has directly injurious
action on the lungs themselves.
II weakens them in common with
Tho physical system generally, and
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15

You may get Smiths order, &"
said one commercial traveller to an
other, IN a Pullman smoker, the
other evening, but III make you
travel some TO beat me TO g."
Did you ever stop 70 think how
important No. is In this race OF
ufe2
II takes two 10 make a good race
or contest Of any sort. It takes two
20 make a real success OF anything
lasting No. goes his best be-
cause 80. 2 Is after him. First
Fiddle keeps correct time because
Second Fiddle will snsrl things IT
he doesn't a sells his goods al low
margin Of profit because he knows
that 3 viii Editor Jones sweats
10 get a news item first thing be-
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15
Monument to Apple Tree

Perhaps one OF the most curious
monuments In existence has recent
ly been built in Ontario by Cana
dams. The farmer have just erect
ed a marble pillar 70 mark the site
on which grew a famous apple tree.
More than a century ago a settler
In Canada named Mcintosh. when
clearing a space in which TO make
a home in the wilderness. discoy.
cred among a number OF wild apple
trees one which bore fruit 80 well
that he cultivated 1t and named it
Mcintosh red
The apple became famous. seeds
and cuttings were distributed 10 all
parts OF Canada. so that now the
Mcintosh red nourishes wherever
apples grow IN the great dominion
In 1890 the original tree from which
this enormous family sprang was
injured by FIRE: but 70 continued 10
bear fruit until eve years ago Then
after Is years. IL died, and the
grateful farmers have raised a mar
bic pillar in honor OF the tree which
has done so much for The fruit
growing industry OF their land
The story Of this apple tree illus
trates the African proyerb that
though you can count the apples on
one tree, you can never count the
trees in one apple-Popular Science
Monthly.
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15
Pointed Paragraphs

It's a wise saw that knows It's
own maker.
Don't lose an your energy wait
ing tor rich relatives TO die.
a small boy saws the road 10
knowledge has toe many branches.
II angels fear to tread where fools
rush In they should use their wings.
It's one OF fate's DEGREES that low
ers fall Ia love before they can fan
out
The muse sometimes keeps the
poet awake. bat II IS the news OF
The cat that disturb The slumbcrs OF
other people.
While some men tell their wives
everything that happens. there are
some others who tell them great
many things that never did happen.
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15

when Harriet Elizabeth Beech
err stowe. in 1851, was anxiously
awaiting the appearance OF the Ma
tional Era, Of Washington, with
the hrst lnstallment OF her story,
"Uncle Toms Cabin" an is-year-old
boy named Daniel Worcester. native
Of Vermont was an apprentice to
the printers trade at Lowell, Mass.
As n veteran OF the Civil war. he
resided for some time, until recent
~, in the Soldiers home at Bed
ningtou, in the Green Mountain
state Mrs Stoves story was dc
voured first by thousands. then by
tens OF thousands, then by hundreds
Of thousands Young Worcester at
tended theater in Lowell one
evening where he saw Sheridan
Knowles In THE Hunchback" The
performance impressed MIN greatly.
He felt that he. too. coulI act, II
given the opportunity.
In the fall Of tho year in which
The initial chapters OF Uncle Toms
Cabin" were published. and when
the whole north was talking about
the story weeping over Uncle Tom,
'dolizing little Eva, sympathlzing
With Eliza, add laughing at Topsy,
The printers apprentice became ac-
quainted with George AitkiE, who
possessed at once considerable tai
ent as writer and 4 very keen eye
Tor opportunity. Aitkin, with the
instinct of the true playwright. saw
how easily Uncle Toms Cabin"
might be turned 70 account on the
stage. and lost no time ia drama
tizing the novel. Among those en-
gagged by him 20 OIL the cast was
Young Worcester. vino. having by
this time developed some talent.
was assigned 20 the Impcrsonation
Of Uncle Tom
The first and trial performance
was given In Natick. Mass. Henry
Wilson. "the Natick Cobbler," aft.
crward vice president q the United
States, being "in front" The play
was no less successful than the
novel and the company performed
10 standing room only" throughout
interior Massachusetts and IN Con.
nectlcut Aitkln. who discerned
further possibilities. revised the
play after this tour and opened with
a newly organized company in Troy
~ Y. W-orcostor then became man
ager Of the original company. which
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15

cause Editor Bones has reputa-
lion for going after items early.
one drummer hurries to get Smith
because the other drummer makes
him travel A good No. means
that No. extends himself. The
best manager OF any business Is
one VINO has a pushing, growing
subordinate close on his heels.
The other name TO- No. 2 is Com
petition. Fair. Justly directed, based
on merit, II is good thing. Unfair,
based on mere greediLess. IL Is bru.
tality, no matter how insidious or
disguised. When men compete as
brothers, they civilize. When they
compete in pure selhshness, they de
base. Success does not consist OF
what you get In the way OF symbols
OF success, such as money, position
and influence. but in the way you
set them There is no credit IN
beating a sick man. There IS glory
In winning over a red hot No. 2.
none In winning over Indifferent
Nos. 3, y. Is and the "alsos."
Foolish little Johnny boasted that
he was always at the head or next
20 the head Of his class in spelling,
until he bad to confess that there
were only another boy and himself
in the class. Don't think you've
made a bowling success at anything
unless you've had a NO 10 make
you travel some,"
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15

read In a dim light 60 results in
fatigue and later irrltabiiity
Don't try 10 rest yourself by read
ing when you are tired. Your eyes
are Just as tired as you are.
Don't rely entirely on moral per
suasion 20 correct child's ten
dency 20 rub bis nose against the
book he "a reading; fret find out
why he does &C. Don't subject the
eyes to contact with dust Dust
carries germs.
Don't try 20 remove foreign sub
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15
DANGERS OF BAD AIR
BY II. ADONeToN BRUCE.


increases the susceptibility to colds
and other germ diseases. notably
that dread disease pneumonia.
This is not surprising when we
consider that the air ot an unventi-
lated room, occupied by one or more
persons. is necess sarily laden with
substances unfit TO be consumed
by the ungs--substances which
have beer manufactured by the
rooms occupants themselves. As
Dr. Greeley admirably pats it;
"Our respiratory system, besides
serving TO admit oxygen has inn
nortant excretOry duties. The out
flowing air carries away waste mat
Ter. including carbon dioxide and
putrefable organic matter, greater
in amount. and no more ~ 10 be
taken into the body again than that
thrown OF by the kidneys.
This waste. and the emanations
from the body, varying greatly with
tho persons present. are the most
harmful cOntamindnts OF the air we
breathe
In this way. day after day, and
night after night, thousands o. peo-
pie unc3nsciously poison them
selves Can II be doubted that they
thereby diminish their working
power and shorten their Hves7
Fresh air IS one OF the cheapest
things in the world, and one OF
God best gifts 70 man. Let us
not reject the gift. but make the
most constant use OF It that f. pos.
slble 10 Us.
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15
A Poem a Day
WINTER

WINTER.
T. sincuiarly moved
To love the lovely that are not be-
loved
or an tbc seasons. most
Love winter
And tho aim cloud that doth the
world yufoll
Hath less Tie character OF dark ant
cold
Than warmth and uebt sleep.
Nor h. ln Hgld or garden anything
But. duly look g int0. contains serene
The substance ~ things hoped for, Ia
the spring.
And evidence of summer not set seen.
bn every chaure-wlld day
That visits tho moist shaw,
The honeysuckle
Noids the times law
with Etill increase
or leahet new. ami little wandering
spray
often. in sheltoring brakes,
As one from rest disturo.d I'm the
nrst hour.
Primrose and violet bewilJcri wakes.
And deems tis time 10 flower.
Though not whisper TO her voice
he hear.
The buried bulb does know
The signals OF the year
And halls FAR summer with his lft'u
The ssorsS-heid dark. by sudden. gold
Turns, here and there. into a Jasou's
coventry Patwore
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15

Don't subject
the eyes 10 pro.
l0nged reading or
close application
against a direct
brilliant light The
continued strain
weakens the eyes
Don't try 20
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15
Vest Pocket Version of What May Take
Place in Chicago a Little Later On

10 a. m Theodore Roosevelt takes the plat
form 70 address the convention. Tremendous ap-
pause Old Guard banner Is lifted and Old
Guard is marching up and down the aisles sing
ing He's jolly good fellow" Band is playing
1T Makes No Difference What You Were, It's
What You Are Today"
1O:45 a M Demonstration subsidies and
Roosevelt begins speech.
10:47 a. M Roosevelt says Fellow Repub-
liCans."
3:41 p. m. The cheering subsidies.
:42 ?. N. Roosevelt takes position on plat
form and begins again Fellow Republicans"
TBS p m Cheering subsidies Roosevelt
again takes position on platform.
1929 p. m. Roosevelt says Fellow Repub
licans. my hat is once more in the ring"
1874 p. m Old Guard banner is hurled In
direction OF Roosevelt, who ducks cleveriy. Old
Guard members are jumping up and down In
their seats, tearing hair and shaking fists al
Roosevelt Loud cries OF NO Traitor,
Throw him out" How'd he get in?" Party
wrecker" byzantine logothete," Everything
Barnes said he was etc. etc.
7:29% p. m. Band plays: Throw Him Down
McCloskey"
1880 p m. Hurryup can is sent for steam
roller.
7:8l p. m Hidden orchestra plays Brother
Tell Us OF the Battle
Quoting from a letter received in the
office from a young man who submitted a
cartoon which could not be used on ac-
count of the heavy demands upon our col
umns:
Other editors have been kind enough to
return my drawings sent 10 them. VIII you
please do the same and oblige
We note by city brief that money
talks. That is TO say, a local society is
going to be addressed by A. Coin.
COMPETENT CTRI. for general housework.
family OF small apt.-Detrot liner page
Phyllis, being out of job, temporarily.
wants to know whether they mean apart
ment or appetite.
Just TO inform that octogenarian who
read every presidents message up TO
Roosevelt's last one, that he might e.
sumo as they are easier now on the 'Ts." "
When an Indian boy wants a piece of
apple pie, ne says, according to a
Carlisle authority: Pah-tah-nee-she-me
bah-ske-ne-si-g -gas-ne-we e-ke-be-baw kwa-
she-gan. The trouble with mothers APP
pie pie in this instance seems to be that
it needs shortening.
Russia has strengthened the last few
days we learn, by having bought several
tons of American butter Isr't there
danger in this, however. Of our troubles
as a neutral, spreading?
The local birth list shows z dearth of
twins and triplets for Detroit. Singular,
isn't il?
There was enough Indian in Huerta TO
permit of an opinion that he is now a
good one.
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15
The Passing of Huerta!
A Lesson for Your Boy
In This Worthless Life

When death calls a man who has
served in high place, like at the head of
his government, as Victoriana Huerta
did, fathers like TO take their sons on
their knees and read to them the story
of the mans life.
There is generally lesson contained
somewhere, for the boy generally an in
spiration in some word or deed of the
man.
But there was Victoriana Huerta.
We imagine few fathers will read to
their sons about him.
However, maybe they should read to
them about this man.
The boys ought to know why one who
occupied the highest Office in his coun-
try should have been an exile and why
he should have died, miserably, in a
cell.
They ought to know that the mans
acts, speeches, habits and motives his
life long were such that he was bound
to wind up exactly the way he did.
They ought to know that he was a
bully and loafer, despot and drunk
ard, and coward enough to fix himself
safely in the presidency of Mexico by
arranging that his predecessor be shot
from ambush and killed, which he denied
having done but which was done, and he
admitted knowledge of the person who
did it, always refusing to mention names.
They ought to know about Huerta,
that they may be told that his was the
kind of life they should NOT copy.
He helped nobody by living, unless it
was himself, to the treasury, at the time
he fled Mexico City and became an exile.
His biography mentions nothing note
worthy that he ever did.
In places it has to defend HMM one
instance against the charge that he was
as big drunkard as he had the reputa-
ton of being; in another against the
charge that he shot Madero in the back.
The parent might dwell long and
earnestly with his boy on his lap, how
ever, on the subject of the kind of gov
ernment Huerta gave Mexico while he
was that country's seIf-appointed presi-
dent.
1t is the identical form of government
toward which the boys own country was
headed at one time, and may be found
headed again, and at which it may event
ually arrive if the voters are ever found
asleep again as they were few years
back when it took Theodore Roosevelt's
third party to awaken them and deliver
them out of the clutches of coterie of
political sandbaggers.
These men betrayed their party and
betrayed the people just as Huerta be-
trayed his country and his people.
They sought to run over the people Of
their country the same as Huerta ran
over the people of his country.
II Huerta's life served no good pur-
pose, his death does.
1t comes at a time to warn the Repub-
lican party against permitting a repeti-
ton of the Chicago convention of 1912.
1t brings to mind situation in the
government of Mexico and a country S
sad experience that would have been our
experience, more than likely, if politi-
clans for selfish gain had not been
smoked out in the Republican party four
years ago and compelled to lift their
masks, come out in the open and show
their hands,
Hurrah for Huerta--for dying
~
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15

stances from the eye with unwash.
ed Gugcrs.
Don't rub eyelids with your hands
because they smart.
Don't wash your face in water
just used by someone else.
Don't use hair pins or pen holders
tJ -emOye wax from the ear.
Don't subject the ear % sudden
loud Loises at close range.
Don't "sniH' water up into the
nose Il is apt 20 get into the pas.
7ages leading to the ears and cause
trouble
Don't sleep bare headed n you
sleep ont doors IN cold weather.
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15
The Keep Well Column
DON'T

Here are a dozen "donts" for the
care OF eyes. ears. noses and throats
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15

The PENNSYLVANIA railroad, due TO ar
rive in Detroit last summer, seems to be
bit late.
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15

70 Is hard 70 convince a school
boy that summer vacation days are
longer than winter school days.
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15
From Another Point of KieW
BuCT is.

Suppose the songs of long ago
Were sung by us today,
When words so foreign quite are used
For what we want to say.
If two old maids were hoeing beets-
Or spinsters, beg their pardon
Suppose we sang that song about
''The chickens in the garden ?"
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15

Teeth are 3 good index OF years
10th in horses aud men. Diseased
moiar mean premature old age.
The Detroit times., 1916-01-15

Local headline: Sleeping Italian Gets
Shot in the Arm" Why the arm, while
they were at it, instead of in the Black
Hand?
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-22
Man and His Wife
Praise TanIac
BOTH HAVE USED MEDICINE
AND BOTH HAVE BEEN
GREATLY BENEFITED

Eugene Cagney, a prominent farm
or, living on North Allegan Road,
Allegan, is very enthusiastic about
Tanlac The reason for this is that
he and his wife have both used the
medicine and have been greatly ben
Gifted by it. Not long ago he said:
"Tanlac has given me relief from
indigestion and stomach disorders
and, that too, in a very short time.
Both my wife and l used the remedy
and both can speak of it in the high
est terms. We consider Tanlac the
finest stomach remedy ever msde."
Tanlac is a wonderful aid in restor-
ing digestion. The medicine, which
is entirely vegetable in composition
containing no harmful drugs or min
erals, stimulates the digestive and
assimilative organs, thus permitting
the stomach to thoroughly digest the
food. The blood is therefore enrich
ed and the whole system Is invigor-
ated.
Tanlac may be obtained here at
the store Of Wortley & French.--adv.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-22
F A r M A N ID
O r. G. III A II ID


the potato plants appear above
ground with bordeaux mixture to
which three pounds Of pste or l 1-2
pounds Of powdered arsenate Of lead
is added to every so gallons of spray
or Sd of pound of paris green can
be used instead of the arsenate of
lead.
The paris green is to be preferred
because il is an active positive poison
while arsenate of lead is neutral
poison, and therefore not so i'm
mediately effective as the paris green.
Second Spray-Two weeks after
the first spray, using the same mater
ials as in the first spray.
Subsequent Spraying--Should be
made at intervals of two weeks
throughout the season, or until danger
| if insects or infection from diseases
is past, usually three or four spray
ings.
The sprayer attachments must be
such as to admit of spraying the un-
derside of the leaves and the STEM
as we'll as the top. The principal in
sects and diseases are:
Chewing Insects-Potat bug, bis
ter beetle, stalk and flea beetle.
Fungus Diseases-Early and late
blight, stem rot, rhizoctonia or scurfy
Bacterial-Fuserium wilt, wart, dry
rot and powdery mildew.
The later diseases can only be con-
trolled by practicing vigorous
stamping out process. Fields and
/ farms should be quarintined until all
traces of these terrible destructive
diseases are entirely eradicated. Just
/ as contagious diseases in the human
family must be quarantined to get rid
Of.
Blight either early or late can only
| be prevented by keeping the vines or
stems of the potato plant covered with
bordeaux mixture. Keep them copper
covered.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-22

CONTINUED From Last Week.
scale insects, anthracnose anu luss
The spraying should be made tnor-
ough. x.,;. ~
nears- spray with bordeaux mixture,
arsenate of lead and nicotine sulphate
as recommended for the apple at TINS
neriod. This spraying will control
practically the scale insects and aphis
which suck their food, and the bugs
and caterpillars, which chew their
food. and the anthracnose, rust and
other diseases which attack the foli-
age and the canes.
The currant worm, mildew ana an
thracnose have destroyed the most
promising crops of cane fruits and in
iured the vines to such an extent that
If they were not entirely destroyed,
thew were devitalized to such an ex-
tent that they became Improbable.
Third Spray.-Should be made two
weeks before the crop is harvested
using the same treatment as that rec
omended for the second spraying.
Fourth Spray.-Should be made al
ter the crop is harvested, for the pur-
pose of holding the foliage and keep
ing free from both insects and dis
eases. This is particularly true OF
raspberries that usually lose their
foliage after the crop has been gath
cred. This will be prevented by
spraying, using the same treatment
as recommended for the second spray
ing.
The principal insects and diseases
of cane fruits are:
Sucking Insects-San Jose, scurfy
oyster shell scale and aphis.
Chewing Insects.-Currant worm
caterpillars, imported stem borer, the
snow tree cricket, raspberry byturus
the raspberry slug, gooseberry fruit
worm.
Fungus Diseases.-Blight, anthrac'
nose, rust, shot hole fungus, downy
and powdery mildew, and brown rot
Bacterial.-Crown gall or wart, cut
out and burn. For the best method
of control is to bar pillow the pleata'
ton, spray the roots at base of plant:
with nicotine solution and pillow bach
the soil.
Spraying cane fruits will be founc
as profitable as any spraying done
on the farm.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-22
Strange Phenomoen

Grand Ledge-Near the rear of the
opera house on River street stands
one of the big poles of the Consumers
Power company and across the street
back from w. B. Smiths store an
other big pole is located. Suspended
between them are number of heavy
transmission wires. One day last
week breath of wind started the
wires in a movement up and down
One side went up, every wire on that
side of the cross arm moving in uni
sion, then the wires on the other side
duplicated the motion. This was kept
up for two hours and the poles bent
several inches this way and that each
time the heavy wires sagged and
raised. The mysterious movement of
the wires is a phenomenon as old az
electricity, but no satisfactory explain
alton has ever been offered. Neither
do the workmen know how to stop it.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-22
For Tired Women
With Aching Heads

"They help me so much and find
relief as soon as begin taking your
Foley Kidney Pills" Mrs. Frank p.
Wood. Morrill,, Maine, r. 4. d. No. 2.
Sometimes II seems as IL you can't
stand the pain across your back. 1t
IS just making your life miserable
and robbing you OF all energy and
strength. When you are constantly
tired. head always aching. nerves ION
edge" kidney action painful and burn
ing. then Is the time to start In at
once on Foley Kidney Pills.
They strengthen the weak. ailing
kidneys. improve their action, enable
them to throw Off the poisons that
cause your trouble. Your nerves grow
peaceful. sleep becomes sounder. nerv-
Gus headaches disappear. AS Mrs.
Wood says: II find relief as soon as
begin TO take your Foley Kidney
Pills BE sure you get the genuine
FolCS Kidney Pills, for they are
purely medicinal and contain no
Harmful drugs.
Wortley q French
Conneil's Drug Store