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The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22

traps, sometimes called "guillotine"
traps, are of many designs, but the
more simply constructed are prefer
able. Probably those made entirely
Of metal are the best, as they are
more durable. Traps with tin or sheet
iron metal bases are not recon-
mended. .. ,5.a.1lf, 81 -s
Guillotine traps Of the type shown
should be baited with small pieces Of
Vienna sausage (Wienerwurst) or
fried bacon. A small section of an
ear Of corn il an excellent bait If
other grain is not present. The trig-
ger wire should be bent inward to
bring the bait into proper position
for the fall to strike the rat in the
neck. ,.. y. H., III -
Other Excellent Bats.
Other excellent bats for rats and
mice are oatmeal. toasted cheese,
toasted bread (buttered), fish, dsh
o6al, fresh liver, raw meat, pine nuts,
apples, carrots and corn, and sun
flower, squash or pumpkin seeds.
Broken fresh eggs are good bait q:
all seasons and ripe tomatoes. green
cucumbers and other fresh vegetables
are very tempting to tho animals In
winter. When seed. grain or meal Is
used with a gulllotine trap, It Is put
on the trigger. plate or the trigger
wire may be bent outward and the
bait placed directly under It. n
Oatmeal (rolled oats) Is recon-
mended as q bait for guillotine traps
made with wooden base and trigger
plate. These traps are especially con-
venient to use on lodges or other mar.
dow rat runs or, at the openings of
rat burrows. They are often used
without bait. " E." t@
A common mistake In trapping for
rats or mice is to use only one or two
traps when dozens IRE needed. For
q large establishment hundreds OF
traps may be used to advantage and
q dozen IS none too many for an
ordinary barn or dwelling infested
with rats. House mice are less sus-
picious than rats and are much more
easily trapped. s. ~
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22
REDUCING MOUSE .
and RAT DAMAGE
Where Fond Is Abundant It Is Inn
possible to Clear Premises
I of All Rodents. 81
euILloTlNE TRAP IN favor
Other Devices More Simple In Con-
struction Are Preferable-vienna
Sausage or Fried Bacon Makes
Excellent Bait.

Prenared by tho United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture.)
Owing to their cunning, it is not
always easy to clear rats from prem
ises by trapping; If food is abundant,
it is impossible. A few adults refuse
to enter the most 'innocent-looking
trap. And yet trapping. If persistent
~ followed, is one Of the most effec-
tive ways~of destroying the animals.
Guillotine Trap. " IT,.
For general use the improved mod
ern traps With q wire fall released by
q baited trigger and driven by coiled
spring have marked advantages over
the old forms and many of them may
be used at the same time. These
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22
The Only Peace for Germany.

Germany" said a senator, talks
a lot Of arrogant nonsense about her
peace, the German peace; but in the
end there will be only one peace for
Germany, and that is the peace Of de-
feat. ,..
ITO Germany the peace table looks
beautifully spread with colonies and
indemnities and Atlantic ports, but in
the end she will be like the man who
said to his guest: .n
"'Win you have a little of this cold
veal. or
"Here the man looked around the ia
BILE hurriedly-'or not?"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22
Give EN- Time.

Speaking of the thoroughness with
which England has gone into the war,
the officer in charge of the British re-
cruiting Office located In Los Angeles,
CAL, remarked: mot only have they
put the nation on short rations, but
even walking-sttcks have come under
government control
"But not shillelahs," grinned a by
stander, whose name obviously was
not Isaac.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22
Serpent Creature Of Mystery.

Hardly less deadly than the cobra IL
the American rattlesnake. The Moki
Indians utilize it In their religious
ceremonials. In the snake dance It
figures most conspicuously, the chief
performers carrying rattlesnakes In
their mouths. -. ....,-". ~
How they manage to avoid being
bitten is q mystery. It y a magical
performance. The gods protect the
Moki priests engaged in it.
Mystery. That IS the essential quail
ity Of the serpent. Hiding and gliding
about unseen, 1t suggests to the human
imarination an intimate connection
with the supernatural.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22
A Natural Born Matchmaker.

u.s." And Clara Topped herself down
on the rug, knees cooked up, with dire
results to the 'flimsy summer dress Of
white wolfe with its tier upon tier Of
,iacy ruffles.
"Tut, tut, girl, don't like to hear
you talk that way. Hal DOran Is q
spretty fine man, and comes from a
good family. You'll get along we'll
enough and 1 can just picture how gor-
eeous you'll look stepping to the tune
,of Mendelssohn." -.
Their conversation was interrupted
NV the entrance Of six-foOt-two of Won
derful manhood, cheeks and eyes glow
Ing with health, topped by waves Of jet
black hair. -. ~
-Hello, Hail." was the simultaneous
erecting of the two women, much more
cordially expressed by Mrs. Potter.
Clara received her sweetheart's kiss in
silence and left the room.
.t sWhat's the matter with Princess
Pretty? ?" he asked In his mellow voice ;
s'out Of humor?" s--@s,
.Not at an" Mrs. Potter nervously
replied, anxious for the successful de-
.nouement Of her vaccinations, 'ft's
iust the summer heat"
Summer heat was one of Mrs. Pot
-ter's favorite reasons for any indispo-
-sition. With the first peep of blade
of grass above the ground still hard
from the winters snow, she began to
imblbe great quantities of iced lemon
ade. SIS
..Jnst the summer heat" she repeat.
cd mechanically. land I suppose" she
added BY way of introducing the sub
aect uppermost in her mind, 81 little
oeryous about your approaching wed
1aing. Ny. but you'll make handsome
couple ]"
The man ut down and stretched his
opn4 legs to their full length Yea
= drawled sthat's just what mos
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22

s1Women.''-Mrs. JOHN KoPPEI.dAfln', r.
/, Mclean, Nebraska.
= This famous root and herb remedy,
lydia E.. Pinkham 8 Vegetable: Com.
pound, has been restoring women OF
America to health forgmore than. forty
years and it will welEpay any woman
who suffers from DISBURSEMENTS, in
hammation, liberation, irregularities,
backache, headaches, nervousness or
'tthe blues' to give this successful
remedy trial.
For special suggestions IN regard to
your ailment write Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. The result
of ito long experience is at your service.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22


women who suffer
from any functiona!
disturbance, as it
has done mo moro
good than all tho
doctors medicine.
Since taking it !
have q fine healthy
baby girl: and: have
.gainedinhealth and
strength. My hus-
band and ! both
praise your med
icinaf0 all?a11fferin0
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22
CENTER OF PRODUCTION

The center Of agricultural pro-
duction of the United States,
according to the valae Of crop
and animal products for 1917, is
In west central Illinois as shown
by a diagram just issued by the
department of agriculture. The
states of greatest production
are: Iowa. $3.50. 000. 600; ILL.,
.nois, $1,255, 100000; Texas, ST.
100000; Missouri. $947.OOO.-
600; Ohio. 1851. 100000; Nebras-
ka, $774,OOO 600; Indiana, $780,
100000; Kansas, $735, O0O,00
New York, $7OO,000.000; Mime
sofa, $646, 100000; Pennsylva-
MIA, $685., OOO, 900; Georgia. $685.
100000: Wisconsin, $598,OOO,- +,
600; California, $575.OO0.OOO
Michigan, $534.0 900. and Ken
lucky, $3.50. 100000.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22
Turkeys Thrive on Insects.

Because Of the Eliminating DISPOSE
ton of the turkey some are led to
believe that they do q great deal OF
damage to growing crops. This -
mistaken idea, as they live very large
" on flies, bugs, sasshoppers and the
Ike.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22
Cruelty to corns

cholly-Mother thinks I have q
natural gift for dancing, doncha know.
Miss Kawstick-Yes, as toe dane
81, Won are a wonder.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22

"My face Is my fortune, SIR.
.Sorry to hear It, madam, for 1Dur
investment has some very bad fea'
tureA"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22

Time Limit.
Mrs. Knicker-Have you a perms.
nent cook?
Mrs. Bocker-Yes, she said she
would stay till we could get another.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22

"Without the rich heart, wealth Is
an ugly .beggar."
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22

Aeronauts aver that the barking Of
a dog can be heard at an elevation Of
four miles. " ... pr 81.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22

Chester, Pa, is building 1,4O0 new
dwellings for war workers..
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22
UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
MINNEAPOLIS PAUL,

. Sounded Like German.
A college professor called at liv-
cry stable, addressed hostler rs fol-
lows:
"Boy, extricate the quadruped from
the vehicle. Stabulate him and devote
him IN adequate supply of nutrition.
and when the aurora of morn shall H.
Illuminate the oriental horizon, will
award you pecuniary compensation
for your amiable hospitality"
Groom, boiling inside, shouts:
master! Here's a Dutchman wants
to speak ter ye."
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22
Suitable Mood.

Suitable Mood.
Harry is swearing mad"
"Why?"
because he failed in his profane
history"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22
TO ALL WOMEN
WHO Are ILL
This Woman Recommends
LYDIA E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound-Her
Personal Experience.

Mclean, Neb.-"I want to recon-
mend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22
aim MINK fer pie>.

AZ soon Is the plgs WIN eat. they
shoula have sktm mn - Q shallow
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The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-22

Life's most desirable pleasures cost
the least.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-20
The Sin of Resignation

There prolific mothers tragedy the good enough that personally entirely fit world civilization likewise The other that destiny is fixed that not be changed that though far from what ought shall have to bow to fate and continue
 The who have history the who led this little further towards the fo health and victories department of e have been the men who have refused to be resigned.
 Consider the patriots who of the world have resigned letters To them liberties who have refused be bound limitations material achevmntour vaster world buildings lights facilities of communications modern civilization Consider the scientists bound by disease To them liberation and To them wider slow but certain climb towards the hills.
 Resignation would the made it racing
 What need that all everywhere and poverty and injustice and cruelty and and sin.
 Shall rebel God? God los example, He has not done He has laid down laws When suffer We therefore, ought bow before making it and Gods love in revealing it. and rebel against ignorance indifference, azness, subbornness.
 forthwith rebel minds weak wills join God offensive achieve and for the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-20

who now looms 50 big in OUT American life: He will live in characters formed and in lives fashioned for civic rights eousness and for participation in the ups building of our common country. A study of his face shows force, intellect ana manly goodness, combination of artrs4 butes and qualities from which como the finest and highest type of real man. hood"
 pr. Garfield has left behind him the university and is no longer teaching unwilling students the classes, for hs has gotten a much bigger class. A whole nation is sitting at his feet try ing to read deep into the meaning of his drastic order, which rs as Greek and, Latin to the average man in ths street. hard to be mastered by business men. and sneered at by some editors and poll iticians, but they might as well give up the idea of treating it as dead lan- guage, for Wilson, Inc schoolmaster, says America must learn its first real War lesson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-20

ty for preparing the streets and high ways for carrying this enormous in- crease in volume and weight of truck traffic and maintain them continuous ly in high-class condition"
 No matter how rapidly motor truck mail routes increase in the south, truck haulage of merchandise will reach an immense volume within the next twelve months, and now is the time for every road engineer and the authorities of various counties to plan for good road building in the coming spring and summer. There is no economy in cutting down appro- priations for road repair work, for in economic value good roads come next to sanitation and public school educa- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-20
E E * Pension Fund for Protestant Clergymen

THE various denominations have
 \ been engaged for sometime past in raising pension funds for their ministers who have grown old in pas- toral work. This should have been done years ago, and doubtless would have been taken up actively had church leaders stressed the impor- tance of it. In all of the churches the pension fund has been popular. The Methodist Episcopal church, generally known as the northern Methodist, has raised the largest fund-S12, ,00O, ,000. The Methodist Episcopal church, south, with 100000 less members and fewer people of wealth in it's membership, has raised $1,2O0, ,00O.
 The Episcopal church, which started out to collect a fund of $5, 900, ,oO0, is now able to report sS,500,O0 Other  denominations have been compara- lively successful in their efforts, and before the pension work ends, will come up to expectations.
 Of a total of 65,OOO,000 to be raised for pastors pensions, 3,0OO,- I. cr Episcopal church has raised all it's needs and more. Those churches that are short will continue to canvass un- til the full quota is in sight. The faithful pastor is worthy of his hire, and when he is advanced in years his pension should be liberal-and it will be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-20

ineishbors' homes in fancy automobiles and doing their bit in every way. They will do it to the limit for those at the front and the needy at home
 Many of those who protested and kicked did 1t upon first impulse and are now ashamed of their hasty action. The full frightfulness of this war had not permeated their brains. When the lists of casualties and the stories of sufrerings begin to come in from France how dif- ferent we shall all feel.
 # ~ #
 Let us all begin today and do our bit, whatever it be. Let us with Washington be. Accept orders and suggestions as they come, however much such hurt or harass us. Let the spirit of the boys lover there7-S guide us here.
 And now about the women. There are no slackers among them. The Red cross women are everywhere working ike factory hands making bandages and surgical dressings. sheets and pillow cases and necdful things for the hos pitals.
 These women are entitled to their re-  ward. Give them suffrage, Let them 'ote under the same regulations as men. This war has made the women, of the fight sort, thinkers and patriots, and he man who bobs up for office at the lext Alabama election against them will ,e but candy candidate.
 7,eJr rd3,uea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-20
PROBABLE REASON.
city, state and national life.

cily, Stdte ana national ll1o.
 
 James A. Garfield was born in . log cabin. mighty good place to be born in, for 1t has been made sacred in our country by the great men and women who have come out into the service of mankind from beneath its humble roof The thing I liked best about Secretary proud admission that his father had founded home in one-room cabin and had dedicated 1t and himself and wife and children to God.
 I got in the above to emphasize the fact that tho Garfields did not stop with Greek and Latin, but ended with God. They did not make the mistake of the Kaiser and put their faith in pagan cul- ture. believing that worldly knowledge backed by power was to replace the older gospel grounded in the teachings of Jesus, who came with message from the Heavenly Father. They grounded their humble home on the Rock of Ages.
 James A. Garfield was farmer boy, and at 16 left his widowed mother with the idea of going to sea, but ship cap- tain drove him away, and he compro- missed by driving the mules on a canal boat and thereby gathering the exper- fence as ''canal boat boy" to be ranked in history with Lincoln ''the rail split ter;" Johnson. "the tailor" and other Presidents of humble beginnings.
 There was good stuff in the boy who began as driver of mules. later as a carpenter and farm hand, working and to make his way through seminary. to find out the value of an ed- and then by dogged perseverance, making his way through college. and later as the president of a small college. taking upon himself the teaching of Greek and Latin. This gives the story of the elder Garfield's Creek and Latin.
 It was well known in Birmingham that pr. A. F. Montague. for years the pres ident of Howard college, was great be- lever in the classics as foundation to true culture, ana that ne was one or the best Greek and Latin scholars in the south: but 1t is not so we'll known that while professor of Latin and Greek in the Columbian college at Washington he was the private tutor of James and Henry Garfield. When these two young men came into such prominence I got from him the facts which follow:
 Mrs. Garfield. their mother. Miss Rudolph before her marriage, caring less for general society than for the compan- ionshp Of her children. realizing and us- ing the opportunity of true motherhood. grounded her boys in Latin It is small wonder that later we find Henry teaching Latin in one of the colleges, and then stepping into the presidency of Williams college, the Very one from whssa his father had graduated.
 Ten years ago pr. Montague predicted ! great career for both of his former pupils. Here Is what hs said Of Henry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-20
Spirit of America
 Meets the Test

l1Ta HE response made to the drastic
 4 order of Director Garfield, which closed down industries in all
 states east of the Mississippi river, showed the patriotism of the Ameri-
 can people as nothing else could do. This was real sacrifice-in many leases great sacrifice-asked of mil lions of individuals who had previous ly borne comparatively light burdensl placed on them by the war. It brought home to these people the stark real ism of the struggle in Europe Yet, they rose to the occasion in a spirit |of which all America is proud With few exceptions this, the most revolu- tionary edict ever issued in the United States, was obeyed promptly and cheerfully.
 The American people have proved once more that they are heart and soul with the government in it's war against Prussianism. They feel con- fident that President Wilson and Dr. Garfield would not have closed down the nations industries if the need were not imperative. They are dis posed to take it for granted that of- ficials at Washington know more about the true state of affairs than the man in the street, and they are acting accordingly.
 Already the beneficial effects of the order are being felt throughout the country. Coal is moving rapidly and ships that have been waiting to put to sea are being supplied. The mountains of freight that have ac- cumulated at Atlantic terminals are being reduced and will soon be out of the way. The transportation of troops abroad is assured, together with equipment and provisions for them.
 At the end of the five-day period Americans forced to be idle will take up with renewed ardor the gigantic task of prosecuting the war to suc- cessful conclusion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-20

c7 HE effort to get the Birmingham | merchants and manufacturers to
 S kick against the governments or
 der to conserve coal died a-borning.
 Only the few who worship the dollar mark above their country entered pro-
 test, and they were so thoroughly
 squelched that they quickly burrowed
 with the ground hog.
 This is the time for merchants, manu- factdrers and all other men, who are men, to accept orders as the soldier boys and the Red Cross girls are doing. The kicker is a stacker The man who talks about a few men being thrown out of employment for few days would let our soldier boys be without food and clothing and ammunition lover there' because the ships haven't the coal in their bunkers to sail from New York and Norfolk for France.
 HUN III kuG-SACuSC lllS-rdn OUT dTIny in France subsist if the piIers here want to burn up the coal to keep warm while they are selling nails, gewgaws, hot air and alleged holiness. They should sit around a log fire in the woods and manufacture and trade like the gypsies for awhile and realize what they will come to eventually if they deprive Leon Bradley, Oscar Underwood, Bob Thach Mortimer Jordan, Henry Gray, Bryan Tomlnson. Brad Saunders and all the other boys known to every one here who are now on the firing line In France facing the damnable German butchers | who Will give them no quarter. These