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The Jasper news., 1917-06-07

cannot be made up until the cows
freshen again. =,
There are number of crops that
may be grown for experimenting
the pasture and number OF ways
in which they may be grown. Su-
dan grass may be seeded broadcast
or in drills and used as pasture or
it may be cut green and fed to the
COWS once or twice day. An early
variety of corn may be drilled in
and cut as fodder A strong grow
my variety of sweet corn may al
so be employed for the same pur-
pose. A two or three acre field
seeded to crops of this kind will
carry an ordinary herd of COWS
through the dry midsummer pariod
and in that way bring a bigger div
idend than in any other way.
Where cowpeas do we'll, an acre Of
them will produce a lot of feed if
seeded at the rate of bushel to
the acre after the soil has become
thoroughly warm. The point is to
get something started to prevent
an unnecessary falling off of the
milk supply. Dairy products are
certain to bring good prices this
summer, and especially next winter,
and the better the flow is kept up
through midsummer, the greater
the quantity that will be produced
next winter, particularly by cows
that freshen in the spring.
The Jasper news., 1917-06-07
Mastered Second Profession.

Claude Perrault was one Of the rare
geniuses who turned from the profess
sion Of medicine to that of art. He was
born In 1913, being the brother Of
Charles Perrault, the noted barrister,
through whose influence he became
architect of the Louvre. The colon
made Of this building, which he erect
ed, is regarded as one Of the finest
creations Of Its kind of the seventeenth
century.
The Jasper news., 1917-06-07

When buying nutmegs choose small
ones; they have a better flavor than
large nuts. To test O nutmeg prick
with needle. If good the oil will in
stantly spread round the puncture.
The Jasper news., 1917-06-07
Inevitable Result

The car turns turtle just when the
driver is feeling certain that gasoline
mixed with whisky makes go miles an
hour as safe as it is delightful.-Louis-
Vile Courier-Journal
The Jasper news., 1917-06-07
Eventually Got Wise,

There are few men who have es-
capped waking up eventually to what
wonderful woman they have had all
along for wife.-Baltimore Sun.
The Jasper news., 1917-06-07
Disappointed.

"Did you hnve good time shopping
today, my dear?' asked Mr. Flubdub.
mo, didn't" snapped Mrs. Flubdub.
II found exactly what I was looking
for In the very first store."-Judge.
The Jasper news., 1917-06-07

Being clever at repartee consists of
having at your tongues end the words
which come to others an hour later
Life,
The Jasper news., 1917-06-07

The Widow--"These lawyer bodies
frae Edinburgh are near drivin' me
daft wranglln' ABBOTT this bit q prop
erty an that, till wish Sanders had
never deed at a."
The Jasper news., 1917-06-07
Tree That is Unique.

On Dinis island, in one Of the lakes
Of Killarney, Ireland, is a plane tree
which has the reputation of being the
only tree of It's kind in Ireland.
The Jasper news., 1917-06-07
Writers That Count.

Two sorts of writer's possess &C.
MUS: those who think, and those who
cause others to think.-Joseph Roux.
The Jasper news., 1917-06-07
How'S This ?

We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure.
L. ]. CHENEY e. CO.. Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned. have known f. j.
Cheney for the last 10 years. and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his firm.
Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
sent free. Price rs cents per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Jasper news., 1917-06-07
Fire Extinuulsher.

A slphon of soda water should be al
ways kept In the nursery, as 1t is a
good fire extlnguisher.
The Jasper news., 1917-06-07
Other Things Needed.

1t Is NIL right to learn to do one
thing well, but don't assume that such
learning comprises liberal education.
--Atchison Globe.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17
War On Rats and Mice Is
Urged as Means of Aiding
Food Conservation Efforts

Rats and mice have too much their
own way in some households. Their
unhampered excursions into pantries
and larders will menace food conser-
walton efforts this year. Get a num-
Der of traps and fight them. Persist
ent trapping will put an end to these
raiders, according to specialists in the
biological survey of the United States
department of agriculture. PQisons
properly safeguarded are effective, but
their use in dwellings usually is unde
sirable because none is known which,
when eaten by rat. will prevent de-
composition of the body.
For both rats and mice the common
guillotine or choke traps with
wooden base and wooden bait pan are
recommended rather than those having
metal base and pan. These traps
should be set with light trigger.
Oatmeal usually is the most effective
bait. A few grains of it should lie on
the trigger pan and a few more be
scattered near the trap. A change of
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17
He Knew His Master.

Persons coming out of the Grand
Central stations carriage side in New
York recently noticed little white fox
terrier with such a clean coat, trim
collar and pert, anxious expression
that he won countless words of greet
ing from the passengers. Perhaps even
petted him-men, women and children
many of them about to step into
waiting automobiles. The dog was
merely annoyed by the attention, for
he continued to watch the doors alert
ly and neither growled nor wagged his
tail at the kindly disposed passengers.
Little girls offered him candy, excel
lentIy dressed women asked him what
his name was and men with luxurious
automobiles tried TO whistle him into
a life of luxury. He seemed to be a
stone pup. At quarter past five 2
man in blue overalls and carrying g.
large, oily bundle and glistening dinner
box came out from the baggage room.
The hitherto stationary dog leaped into
the air. barking with all his might,
somersaulted and tried to knock the
big fireman over. This happened to be
the man he was waiting for.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17
THE LEGACY OF A JOYOUS YOUTHT|ME
BY Laura Jean Libbey.

pleasures. Care-rree, happy youthtime
is theirs but once. 1t should be made
the most Of After-life hold much that
will cause them to be serious enough.
Parents should make an effort to
keep the home so attractive for their
daughter that she would be pleased to
invite her young friends there. 1t is a
great satisfaction for parents to know
just what kind of companions of both
sexes their daughter takes to. The
home roof is always a safe meeting
place. Those who are denied compan-
ionship at home may grow out of the
desire for bright, happy friends about
them, becoming r1orose and dissatis-
fed. The happy girl grows into con-
tented, satisfied woman. She has had
what joys happy sfr1hood has had to
offer and is content.te enter the most
serious path of life. She who never
had her youthful fling feels that the
world owes her something; that she
has been cheated of her rightful dues.
Those with whom a girl is surrounded
make her happy or unhappy. All duty
and cares thrust upon her make her
dull girl. Use caution in checking
laughter on a girls lips. 1t comes from
her heart Parents should give their
daughters all the pleasures In reason
which they can afford. Let them have,
if you have nothing else to leave them,
the legacy of joyous youthtime.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17

Our lives are albums written through,
With good or i'll, with false true,
And as the blessed angels turn
The pages of our years,
God grant they read the good with smiles,
And blot the i'll with tears.
Putting an old head on young Shout
ders never has been accomplished, ana
never will be. How could one except
an innocent, playful kitten to be as
wise as those of it's kind who have
summered and wintered life? How
could one expect the little lambs gam
boiling over the lea to fear the fate of
those who have gone before, or the
little speckled trout to be as wary as
the older fish that have successfully
lodged many bait set for their I'M
doing?
Youth knows none of lifes perils. 1t
is satisfied with the pleasures of to-
day. 1t thinks the sun will always
shine and joys are always to last Ones
duty is to warn the young where the
shoals and pitfalls lie. But will they
heed? Not they. Warnings and scold-
ings come in one ear and go out the
other. That's the proclivity of youth
not to want to hear. anything unpleas-
ant. While girls should not be brought
up with the idea that they are human
butterflies and joys are all that is
worth while in life. the cares that are
thrust upon their young minds should
be offset with an equal amount of
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17
Knee Breaches for All Men
May Be Style After the War

One of the possible results OF the
great war is the reform of mems dress.
The trousers that bag at the knee are
coming into disrepute, owing TO the
fact that so many million men wear
knee breeches as they fight.
Even the kits of the Scotch, which
there has been disposition to rldl-
cule. are found to be most useful on
the fighting line, says the Columbus
Dispatch. For men of action knee
breeches are more comfortable ana
less cumbersome, and soldiers are ask
ing why men have been content all
these years to wear stovepipe' castings
on their legs And they are the men
who are going to exert influence after
the war. Their disinclination to re-
turn to trousers and their example, to-
gether with the fact that other peo-
pie have become accustomed to seeing
men in knee breeches, may put trou-
sers out of business altogether.
There is going to be new world
after the war, and knee breeches for
men may be part of it.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17

go through life with a scarcely per-
ceptible limp, only their closest friends
knowing that they are legless. Cor
poraP' James Tanner former commits
sioner of pensions and commander in
chief of the G. A. r., would be an alb
solutely helpless cripple without arti-
ficial legs, having lost both of his legs
nearly at the knees after three oper-
ations, yet with his artificial limbs he
moves about with perfect dignity.
General Dudley, also once commits
sioner of PENSIONS who had but one
leg, walked with only a slight limp
and many times in Washington So
ciety gracefully guided fair partner
through the mazes of the waltz in a
room full of dancers. United States
Senator M. c.. Butler, Gen. Wade
Hampton, and many other men in pub
lie life have worn artificial legs unbe-
known to most people, but what is
more remarkable, the best makes of
artificial limbs will be found in use by
the thousand by men engaged in hard
manual labor, coal miners, firemen,
,horsemen, bicycle riders, house paint
ers, and even railroad engineers and
brakemen whose vocations require the
display of no little agility, and dOz-
ems of cases are on record where men
in all these walks Of life have lost not
one but both legs.
The best artificial leg weighs. from
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17
Health Hints.

Wearing the same weight under
clothing the year around will save
you a lot of colds.
Dress cool when you walk and warm
when you ride.
Your nose, not your mouth, was
given you to breathe through.
Clean skin, clean socks, clean I'M
derwear every day.
Don't sit still with wet feet. Walk
until you have chance to change.
Never let day pass without cover
ing four miles on foot.
See how high you can hold your
head and how deeply you can breathe
whenever you are out of doors.
Getting mad makes black marks on
the health.
Envy, jealousy and wrath will ruin
any digestion.
Nature never punished a man for
getting his legs tired. She has pun
ished many for getting their nerves
exhausted.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17
Prospecting for Platinum.

A special survey to estimate exist
ing platinum fields and locate new
ones is being made by the bureau OF
mines. 1t seems that the United States
produces only 10 per cent of its own
platinum requirement Platinum is a
war necessity of the first Importance
owing to it's use in the chemical
branches of the munitions industry. 1t
is felt that the United States should
produce all its own platinum, as there
are undoubtedly sufficient ore depos-
its, needing only to be properly ex-
plotted. The bureau of mines has de-
tailed three men to the investigation
in California, Oregon and the Appala-
chan region. At present most of the
worlds platinum supply comes from
Russia.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17
A ScuIntor's Error

Whenever there is military parade
In Washington, D. c., and the soldiers
or others who have had military expe-
rience are in the vicinity of the magni-
ficent statue of General Sherman,
which stands just south of the treas
ury, there is sure to be comment on
the blunder which the sculptor made
in connection with the equipment of
the figures at the base of the statue.
The blanket roll, which is properly
carried over the left shoulder by SOL
diers, is here shown over the right
shoulder. where, as even the small
boys know nowadays. it would inter-
fere with the gun.-Popular Science
Monthly.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17

once more one to be feared in the
American league.
Discussing Mack and his newly
made team recently, Bill Donovan
said that he would rather play almost
any club in the league than send his
men into contest against the Mack
men.
"They won't win any pcnnant this,
year" Donovan commented, s"bue
they're going to fight mighty hard for
every game they go into From this
time on they're going to improve. I'm
a mighty mistaken student of this ma
tional pastime If the Athletics are not
found kicking considerable dust
around before the end of the 1918 cam
paign gets here"
Donovan figures and so does every
other baseball manager who has had
glimpse of him-that Ray Bates is one
of the finest players the minor leagues
have yielded in many a day. He also
believes Witt the equal of any short
stop in the American league, with the
possible exception of Roger Packin-
paugh, his own short fielder. Second
base is problem, but McInnis is fully
the equal perhaps the superior, of
any man doing first base duty.
There isn't thing wrong with that
outfield of Connie Mack's," Donovan
ruefully remarked. Il only wish /
had q pair Of those birds working for
me. I might have chance to win a
pennant before he makes the going
so rough"
Where IS the manager VINO wouldn't
i like to have Bush Myers and Moves
pitching for him; and where, oh,
where can you find big Lacquer who
wouldn't spend several thousand dol
lars for Wallie Schang?
The foundation has been built for
another fine baseball team in Phila-
delphia. Managers and baseball men
everywhere believe it is due.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17
Several North Stars.

In the known course of history there
have been several successive north
stars. When the great pyramid of
Cheops was built Alpha Draconis was
north star, and the Egyptian astron-
omers made northward, sloping pass
age several hundred, feet long. from
a place deep under the base of the py-
ramid straight through its vast mass
of masonry, and this served them as
an immense telescope tube, without
glass, for observing their sentinel in
the sky. The present North Star is a
huge sun, between fifty and one hun
dred times brighter than ours.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17
SOME BIRDS AND THEIR PREY
Thrush Has Been Known to Use
Stone as Slaughter Block on
Which to Break Snail Shells.

In districts where shelled sna1ls
are abundant it is no rare thing to
come across a stone utilized as a
slaughter block by some particular
thrush. Even if the bird is not
caught in the act, numerous broken
and empty shells scattered in the
neighborhood betray the place where
the mollusks have been done to death.
The method adopted by the thrush
is simply that of dropping snail from
a height time and again until the shell
is broken and the succulent body
within is exposed to the captor's beak.
But the anvil is sometimes made use
of in different way, and with diff
ferent end in view. In the depths
of q Highland birch wood an observer
came upon such a sacrificial stone. at
which a thrush was busily occupied.
Field glasses made evident that not
snail but a common black slug was
his captive. This he grasped by the
middle with his beak, dashing it re-
peatedly with resounding smacks upon
the stone, whence it occasionally re-
bounded. only to be caught and ham,
mered once more.
Subsequent examination of the
stone revealed with what effect the
operation had been carried out. But
what of its purpose? Here was no
shell TO be broken. 1t may be that
the thrush simply wished to kill its
prey, but the fact that thrushes swal-
low wriggling worms without hesita-
ton renders this explanation improb-
able. 1t is more likely that the skin
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17

An artificial cork invented in Swe-
den is made of cork waste and bind
ing paste.
Pet canaries in this country con-
sumed a total of 3,704,625 pounds of
birdseed during the last year.
Last year there were shipped into
Los Angeles 100000 pounds of but
ter at "a cents pound in carload lots.
The Puget Sound division of the
Northern Pacific railroad has adopted
the policy of employing women instead
of men wherever women are able to
do the work required.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17
Glass Scarce in Britain.

The scarcity of glass in Great Brit
ain has led to the adoption of drastic
measures by chemists and doctors. A
charge of cents usually is made on
an eight-ounce bottle. A doctor says
he has had to go round in his car
collecting bottles like rag and bone
merchant" Merchants have to get
permission from the ministry of NUM-
tions for large deliveries Of glass bot
ties. In the beer, wine and spirit trade
the shortage of bottles has not been
so great owing to restricted consump-
ton.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17
CONVERSATIONS

A plant in Germany converts 80 tons
f neat INTO nine tons of coke, with
As and tar as by-products.
new piano for travelling music
weighs but 100 pounds and can
cked and shipped like a trunk.
a increase in beet sugar produc-
Sweden has almost caught up
e nations demand for sugar.
estimated that Spain has de-
not more than 8 per cent Of
ble hydro-electric power.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17

Civil war, the vast number of COM
batants engaged in the great battles
of today has resulted in the loss of
many tens of thousands of arms and
legs. No official figures have been
made public for any of the belligerent
nations, but 1t is estimated that at
least $4,000 soldiers have recovered
from their wounds minus at least a
leg or an arm. While the various
trades of war are all doing a booming
business some of the collateral indus
tries designed to overcome or anchor
ate the havoc wrought by war are
equally busy. Not the least interest
ing of these is the manufacturing of
artificial legs and arms.
OF the hundred or more American
artificial limb factories everyone has
been surfeited with orders. some large
ones having been placed by the Eng
lish and French governments while
many private orders have been re-
ceived from soldiers themselves.
Large shipments are continually being
made abroad, the British blockade of
course restricting the sales to the sol
diers of the allies. One pioneer Amer
lean firm has completely equipped fac
tories not only in six large American
cities, but has found it necessary to
establish branches In London and
Paris, all working night and day In an
endeavor to meet the abnormal de-
mandS
1t is somewhat of a coincidence that
the crippled soldiers of France should
depend for their best artificial limbs
upon the product of American skill
constructed principally of English will
low, in spite of the fact that the faith
er Of real surgery was Frenchman,
Ambrose Pare. 1t Is true that Hip
pocrates, the great Greek surgeon, who
lived 1000 years before Pare, per-
formed amputations, but only small
percentage of the patients survived the
shock Pares greatest work came on
the battlefield some 300 years ago,
where he performed dozens of opera
tons which advanced the knowledge
of surgery more than it had been for
warded since the beginning of time.
There he discovered that instead of
pouring boiling oil in gunshot wounds,
as had invariably been the custom, a
much greater percentage of rapid re-
coveries were made when the oil was
omitted and the patients were handled
carefully and cleanly, thus bringing
about the first step toward modern
antiseptic surgery. Yet while surgeons
from the Greeks down learned how to
cut off legs and arms without killing
people, but little was accomplished I'M
til the present generation in replacing
the lost members. Egyptian hero
glyphics show one of the lesser known
of the Pharaos, who had suffered the
loss of his legs. struggling about with
blocks of wood held in his hands. not
unlike the street fakirs of today. Even
the crutch did not appear until the
fourteenth century, and the crude
wooden limb or ''peg-leg' was invented
not until after the time of Pare.
The artificial limb of today is some
thing of marvel Many men with a
leg off below or even above the knee
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17
Flashlights.

Sometimes Llight makes it
mighty uncomfortable for right.
The trouble with public life is
that it isn't nearly so public, as a
rule, as it should be.
Success is just doing a little
bit better today the things that
were done fairly we'll yesterday.
It's easy enough to get along
in this world. Its only the fell
lows who want to do it the east
est way who make hard work out
of it.
The trouble with the man who
walls that he was led astray is
that he probably made no partfc-
ular effort to travel in the right
way.
AS rule, gratitude, before
and after a favor has been done
shows about as much difference
as the before and after patent
medicine advertisements, with
the conditions reversed.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17
A Realistic Film.

This is very realistic picture"
Very" said the manager. would
you believe it, the first time we
showed this film eight young women
waited for half an hour after the show
TO see the leading man come out of
the alley behind the theater?"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-17

bats is advisable from time to rinsS
Pumpkin or sunfiower seeds, corn
meal bits of fish or toasted cheese may
be used. Bats will not be attractive
while food is accessible. Remove sup
plies that are being damaged and, as
far as possible, keep them in rat-proof
containers.