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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18
GARDENING HINTS

Don't waste your effort next sum-
mer in gardening in competition with
| trees and shade. 1t can't be done
successfully. Hoeing, watering and
| fertilizing cannot make UP for lack OF
sunlight. Good garden tracts may be
spoiled by worthless, often self
nlanted, trees or shrubs. Cut them
ont so your vegetables will not have
TO compete with them for sunlight,
food and water.
The beginner in gardening is apt
to attempt too much. A small gar
den well titled is better than larger
one neglected.
No matter what kind of soil you
have in your garden it must not be
worked when it is wet. If 1t is 1t VIII
be hard, lumpy and wholly intract-
able all season. You will lose and
not gain by working soil before 1t IS
fit to work.
Buy seeds only from reliable seeds
men. They advertise in reliable pa
pers. Avoid bargains" in seeds, the
best is the cheapest. The cost OF
seed is not a big item considering re-
tsrns. Penny packets and depart
ment store bargains are to he avoid
ed
More failures result from improper
planting than from poor seeds.
Heavy soils may be much improv-
ed by a liberal use of coal ashes. IN
less much wood has been burned IN
the furnace in addition to the coal
there is no danger in using too much.
It is better to shift the ashes to re-
move clinkers which prove a source
of annoyance when hoe1ng. Coal
ashes contain little or no fertility.
One packer of onion seed Will plant
ten feet of row, carrot 40 feet, beet
20 feet, beans 20 feet, peas 20 feet,
radish ten feet
"Seeds should not be planted deep
er than is necessary to insure the
proper degree of moisture. Golf.
Press the soil firmly over the seeds
either by stepping lightly along the
row. one foot only, or patting firmly
with the back of the hoe. This is held
the most important step in seed SOW
ing After firming the soil rake light
ly to form a mulch.
More people fail in watering seed
lings than in any other way. Some
choke the plants, others drown them.
Choking usually comes from applying
small amounts at rather frequent in
tervals. Not enough water is applied
to moisten the bottom soil, and the
top is too wet, which encourages dis
ease Proper watering consists IN
putting on enough water to moiSten
all the soil in the box and then wait
ing until the surface of the soil be-
gins to appear lighter in color before
making another application
Of the mineral fertilizers, sodium
nitrate and potash are best. The va
rious stockyard products including
pulverized sheep manure, are quick
acting fertilizers that may either be
mixed with the soil when spading or
blowing or used later as a top dress
ing Mineral fertilizers must be APP
piled with great caution to growing
plants, as in slight excess they may
kill the plants outright. Three
fourths to ~ pounds of nitrate of
soda per square rod is enough. Of
acid phosphate 2 to 21A pounds per
square rod should be sufficient.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18
SUCCESS MEANS LONG HOURS

So often you hear a business man
say, well, l work hard and when six
o'clock comes / simply forget my
business until the next day" This is
the way he go:s through life Such
person may get more imaginary
pleasure than the individual who
hews closely to the line and devotes
the greater portion of his time to his
work but he does not prove sue
cess financially. AS rule he does
not succeed because if you forget
your business your business will soon
forget you. The most successful mer
chant prince that America has ever
known gave on an average sixteen
hours a day to his business and Edi-
son, Americas greatest living inven-
tor gives sixteen hours a day to his
work, and oftimes works twenty
hours at a stretch. One of Americas
most successful financiers and bank
ers recently said, when you see
real successful business you will find
that the head of the institution takes
it to bed with him.-Selected.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18
PARABLE OF FIVE FOOLISH
TRAVELLING MEN AND A
PATIENT p. o. CLERK

Some time ago five men entered the
Sigourney postoffice, to call for their
mail They were all travelling men
and concluded to have a little fun all
to themselves. All marched in single
file. When they reached the general
delivery the one one in front enquired
for his mail. The lady waiting on the
general delivery could not understand
the name as he spoke merely in low
whisper. Several time he tried to
make the lady understand the name
so finally yelled out loud and stepped
to one side and let the next man call
for himself. This repeated by each
of the five When the fifth one en-
quired they all faced about and
marched out as they came in. The
lady at the window kept her face
straight and never smiled. The men
said nothing to each other, kept as
mum as an oyster. When they got
outside the building they had a good
laugh, and the lady laughed and en-
joyed the fun. They were lively
bunch and carried out their plans in
a systematic way Nothing like lit
tie amusement.-Sig News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18
AVOID ANGER IF YOU
DESIRE A LONG LIFE

Violent anger, according to an emil
nent physician, produces by some
subtle process a poison in the BODY. 1t
gets into the blood, lis carried to every
part and has most serious and dele
terious effect. Certain organs, such
as the kidneys, are more affected than
others and lose efficiency. If the pols-
oning is repeated at frequent inter-
walls the whole body is in state OF
degeneracy and lowered vitality
The result is that when germ en-
ters the body it has it's own way, ana
a serious illness follows. And, IN any
event, the organs Of self-polsoned
body are going to cease functlon1ng
many years earlier than they should.
So, whether it is month, or TWO
months-one cannot say definitely, OF
course-a spell of violent rage most
certainly shortens life.
The calm, placid person can always
look forward to long life. We must
not forget that violent anger wrecks
the nerves and Injuries the delicate
gray matter of the brain. There is
commotion in each cell That is why,
after anger, there is that feeling of
exhaustion and trembling. The heart
has been raced, too, and that does no
good.
So avoid all violent anger. You
may, in your indignant rage, "slaugh-
ter" the other man, but the real SUI
ferer is yourself. You are shortening
your days. The provocation may be
great, but do not let your angry pas
5ions rise. 1t is not worth while
unless you wish to die before your
time.-FrOm Answers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18
CANNON OF MAPLE LOG
WAS A FATAL FAILURE

One of the most peculiar pieces OF
ordnance ever invented, as we'll as
one of the most unsatisfactory in it's
results-of a design probably never
used again, at least by the same per-
sons-was that which was tried for
it's sole occasion at the storming of
Fort Henry, in what is now West Vir-
ginia, by Simon Girty, the famous
renegade, and his several hundred In
dian followers, on Sept. /, 1777.
ALI day long, without success, and
with considerable loss, the savages
and their still more savage leader had
been attempting to carry the little
stockade with it's handful Of defen-
ders. Night had settled down, and
their patience was short, when some
inventive genius amongst them sug-
gested the making out of hollow log
of artillery with which to batter down
the stubborn walls. Probably, never
before or since has such a cannon
been seen.
maple log, already followed by
the process of time, was bound with
chains, plugged at the breech with
wood, filled to the muzzle with stones,
pieces of iron and other missiles. 1t
was then convened to within 60
yards of the gate and discharged.
Alas, the result was most unexpected
and disheartening. The log burst in
to a thousand pieces, its fragments
scattering in all directions, inciden-
tally killing several of the attackers,
but not a picket of the fort was in
iured-Louis A. Barber, in Adventure
MAGAZINE.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18
DID NOAH LEAVE GRANTHER
METHUSELAH TO DROWN

And now comes a writer and says
that Noah drown his grandfather.
Here's how he proves it:
The Fifth chapter of Genesis says,
"Methuselah lived a hundred and
eighty-seven years and begat Lamech.
= = And all the days of Methuse-
lah were nine hundred and siXty-nine
years; and he died. And Lamech
lived hundred and eighty-seyen
years and begat a son. And he called
his name Noah" Thus we see that
Noah was Methuselah's grandson. In
the seventh chapter, eleventh verse,
we learn:
TN the six hundred years of Noah S
life, in the second month, the seven
teenth day of the month"; the same day
all fountains of the great deep were
broken up and the windows of heaven
were opened"
Noah was 500 years old when the
flood ccme Lamech was 1872 when
Noah was born. TO this add 1877
which was Methuselah's age when
Lamech was born This totals 969
years, and suggests the obvious con
clusion that Noah left his poor old
grandfather out in the flood to drown.
Selected.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18
GOV. BLAINE SIGNS
HISTORY CENSOR ACT

MADISON.-Gov Blaine on Friday
affixed his signature to the Senator
John E. eastman bill, banishing from
schools of the state all history text
books which do not show respect Ior
American leaders in the Revolution
and the War of 1912. Cashman's law
is based on an alleged ''pro-Britlsh
propaganda which he declares IS at
work among school historians.
Superintendent to Judge.
Determination of whether a text
book is disloyal will be decided under
the new law by a hearing, which may
be called on petition of five voters IN
any school district. The hearing
shall be conducted by the state super
intendent of public instruction, or his
representative, and after the hearing
the state superintendent will had
down a ruling on the book in ques-
ton.
A ruling against book will mean
that it is removed from the approved
list of texts, and therefore cannot be
used by any public school of the
state.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18
GERMS ON INTIMATE THINGS

The germs on door knobs, base
balls, coins, bank notes, hanging
straps. theater chair arms, street car
transfers, borrowed pencils, swing
ing door push plates, plate glass
show cases, circulating library BOOKS,
or even the common bath tub, need
give US no anxiety, as / have tried 10
explain. unless
And here is the important quail
fication which is not microbiophoDla
(fear Of little things), but just good
hygiene
Unless we hurry the germs which
we may pick up from such sources
directly into our mouths.
OF course, we know mat mere ply
steal strength or agility, such as an
individual develops by wholesale ply
steal training, does not confer the
slightest immunity to such an 1ntec-
ton as tuberculosis. l have often
wondered about Christy MatthewsOn's
tuberculosis, whether the big fellow
became infected from using the spit
ball Short of sneezing at, coughing
upon or talking to an individual
whose face is not more than four feet
away (the range Of the spray given
off when one talks is four feet; the
range for unmuZzled cough is 10 feet)
| can imagine no indirect mode OF
transferring disease germs from one
person to another that would be more
likely to succeed (from the germ
point of view than the tossing of
spit ball from player to player In
order to convey disease germs from
pasture to pasture, from garden to
hot 70
you please, it is necessary to work
fast, for the delicate little things are
sure to succumb when exposed for
just a few moments to light, air and
dryness From the moment a ball
player ticks his finger or spits on his
glove or the ball until the next player
handles the ball and ticks his finger,
possibly some good lusty tubercle
bacilli could survive. 1 would not ad
vocate hot and cold running water in
stallations at each position on the
baseball diamond, but in all fairness
the umpire ought to Danish to the
baths any player caught splitting on
the glove or ball. Baseball purports
to be a clean game. Dirty players
should receive no encouragement.
1t is not micrObiophobia, but simple
personal hygiene, to wash your
hands with soap and running water
Immediately upon arriving home from
wherever you've been working, play
ing or committing crime. l have
known a few downright nuts" who
were really daft about washing their
hands-but the characteristic feature
Of that kind of dementia is that the
unfortunate is never contented with
the result, never enjoys the sense of
cleanliness and safety which nor
NAL individual derives frim his sani-
tary rite By little calm philoso-
phical thought, and a considerable
amount of practice and schooling you
can in time acquire fair aseptic
technic which will become second ma
ture and definitely widen your margin
Of safety against communicable dis
ease. For instance, how often, from
the time you handle a theater chair
arm or street car hanging strap I'M
til you find opportunity to wash your
hands, how often does your hand go
to your mouth or your finger to your
tOnpun2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18
GROWING HUMAN Loco WEEDS

On the southwestern cattle ranges
q weed grows called "locO" by the
horse herders and cattlemen. Ami
mails that feed on it degenerate. They
fall away physically, grow rough in
appearance and finally go insane. The
ranchers have to shoot them. They
are dangerous to other animals and to
life and property.
Almost every community has its
human loco weeds. Youth that con-
sorts with them loses caste, falls
away, and often, finally, must be put
under restraint as dangerous to So
ciety. These human loco weeds need
not be sought. They travel like the
old-time tumble weeds Of our prairies
before every wind. They seek out
and poison. An for some ineXplica-
BILE reason we let them continue and
grow and even flourish.
There are a few men in every COM
munity who make profit by their own
viciousness and the inculcatiOn of
vice of one and another kind, crook
ed little gamblers, bootleggers, and
that ilk of underworld activity and
occupation. Not many. Only few,
usually well-marked men and we'll
known as the patches of loco are
known to the rancher.
Why don't we dig them up? Know
ing them as we do, why do we let
them grow?
You -Marshalltown (Iowa)
Times Republican.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18
GETTING READY FOR OLD AGE

To live to be very old is not always
a pleasant experience. The numerous
aches and pains that come to mortals
after eighty are not agreeable. OF
course, young-old men may not knov
what rheumatism or govt means. But
there are old-young men of thirty
eight that have had nearly every NAL
ady save the one which is the cause
Of death.
Dr.. Stanley Hall suggests that as
the young have ideals suitable to ma
turity, the mature should plan for the
next stage of their lives. Thus at 40
we should plan for so, at so for CO.,
60 for 70 and at 70 for so. Doctor Hall
somewhat forcibly describes 40 as the
infancy of old age, SO as its boyhood,
go as it's youth and 20 as the time
when it attains its majority But in
computing age the mind must be TAX
en- into account as well as the body.
Some people feel old at 30 Others
feel young at 80. The normal man or
woman never feels old. Moreover,
octogenarians have undertaken great
works after &c. Goethe was 80 when
he began the second part of Faust"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18
NEW WILD TURKEY TO
TO BE BROUGHT TO e. S.

An expedition of the United States
biological survey is to penetrate Cen
trail America to capture live speci-
ted turkey. This is the first attempt
ever made to demonstrate this rare
wild bird.
1t is planned to place these birds
on Sapelo island off the coast of
Georgia under conditions which it is
believed will be favorable to their
propagation. If they prove adaptable
to this country, further steps will be
taken to domesticate and introduce
them.
Officials stated that prediction of
the outcome of the experiments could
not be made at this time. They point
ed to a large number of birds and ami
mails which had upset calculation in
the past. The nightingale introduced
in this country soon died out, while
the English sparrow multiplied rapid
ly.
The Honduras or ocellated turkey.
the range of which extends over only
a limited section of Yucatan, Hondu-
ras, and Guatemala, has been greatly
admired for the brilliantly colored
eye-like spots on its feathers and for
its excellent meat. 1t is somewhat
smaller than our domesticated turkey
but the taste is said to be similar.
Although it is found in the region
occupied by the Magyar who had the
oldest and most brilliant civilization
on this continent, as far as is known
it has never been domesticated.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18
VAMPIRE FEASTS ON
BLOOD OF ITS VICTIM

How does a vampire such the blood
Of a living being? An Englishman at
tempted to learn the secret ia the
course OF a trip to New Guiana and
has Just published an account of his
experiences.
One night, after he had gone to bed,
he stayed awake and left an arm out
from under the covers. Soon the
vampires arrived. A rustic of wings, a
sound hardly perceptible, and slight
touch indicated their presence. The
man kept absolutely still, even re-
tarding his breathing.
Finally one of the enormous bats
lit on his arm. He was aware of the
animal feeling around for vein,
The sensation produced by this con-
tact was scarcely noticeable and dur
ing sleep would not have been felt at
ali. Then he felt tickling which
soon changed to sensation of burn
ing. A little later his arm seemed to
he growing numb. That was enough.
with a quick movement he seized
the hairy body and felt a sleek, satin
like wing slipping through his
fingers. Then he examined his arm
ia find only a very small wound.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18
MUSKRAT EMPTIES POND
WITH MILLION GALLONS

WEST CHESTER, PA million
gallons of water intended for use here
rushed into Chester creek at Midtown
when bank gave way on the side of
a big impounding pond.
One muskrat is charged with caus-
ing the break. An investigation dis
closed that the animal had dug a
trench beside 24-inch pipe intended
for draining the pond. The water,
rushing at high pressure through
this, soon enlarged the opening until
a big section of the embankment gave
way.
Thousands of bass, catfish, suckers,
and other fish went down Chester
creek, but many more are imprisoned
beneath a foot of ice, which covers
the bottom of the pond
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18
CHEMICAL WARFARE ON
COMMON BARBERRY BUSH

An experiment conducted in Rich
land county last season for the pur-
pose of trying out a plan of killing
common barberry bushes with chemi-
Gals has been successful in furnishing
the government with a cheap and eff
fective eradication method, according
to representatives of the United States
department of agriculture.
The material used was sodium ar
semitic, obtained in connection from
from the western SmelterS. A gallon
of this solution is diluted with about
forty or fifty gallons Of water to pro-
vide a poison sufficiently potent to kill
the barberry without being harmful
to stock and chickens. In applying
the treatment couple of gallons,
poured about the base of each bush,
will kill it root and branch. 1t is not
even necessary to cut down the shrub.
The plant simply withers and dies,
leaving no heritage Of sprouts md
seedlings to renew the menace of
black stem rust.
The Richland county barberries on
which the chemical process was used,
were found growing wild in Marshall
township. A total of 118 bushes were
=
cents each, the aggregate cost being
about $25. 1t is estimated that the
labor required to remove these bushes
by digging would have cost from $500
to $500. Even then it would have been
extremely difficult to do the work
thoroughly enough to prevent heavy
sprouting and the owner certainly
would have had to go over the ground
again, perhaps several times, before
he could he sure that he had perman-
emily eradicated the pest.
This season chemical treatments
will be freely used in the war on the
barberry, which will be continued by
the government with the support OF
the state department Of agriculture,
the Farm Bureau Federation and ag-
ricultural interests in general. In
Wisconsin there are many areas in
which the common barberry is grow
ing wild in large numbers. In some
Of these areas the eradication of the
bushes by digging is impossible on
account of the rocky character of the
soil or because of their location on
steep hilIsides and in other inaccessi-
BILE places. In these cases chemicals
may be used to advantage.
Where sodium arSenite cannot be
obtained, common rock salt will ac-
compIish the same results, govern
ment experts declare. However, an
effort will be made to make available
a sufficient supply Of sodium arsenite
to fill the requirements of farmers who
desire to get rid Of their barberries as
a means of protecting their grain
crops from rust. Information in re-
gard to chemical methods of eradica-
ton may he obtained from VIM. A
Walker, state leader of the federal
barberry eradication forces, whose
address is the Capitol Annex, Madison,
or from Harrison Fuller, director of
the Conference for the Prevention of
Grain Rust, $40 Mcknight Building,
Minneapolis, Mimi.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18
ARE WE FITTED FOR
SELF-GOVERNMENT?

"There is more malice, prejudice,
Pronunciation and hatred for the gov
eminent now than at any time since
the civil war;" asserted Federal Judge
Martin j. Wade in addressing the
grand jury panel after opening of the
United States district court in Coun-
Gil Bluffs.
when the boys returned from
France it was believed that we would
stand more firmly united; but some
thing is tearing us apart" said the
Judge. There are hundreds of thous-
ands of people who haven't any con-
ception of what the constitution
means.
81 am beginning to think that this
is the last trial of the human race to
have a government that can be free.
1t is an appalling fact that you hear
men standing around cussing the ma
ton, finding fault and abusing every
body. 1t is rare occasion when you
hear some one stand up and say, I'm
for the good old U. S. A."
Judge Wade pointed out that less
than half of the voters in Iowa went
to the polls at the last election.
"They are probably the fellows who
are now CuSSuuS Cne government, he
said. ga man who does not take as
much interest in running the govern
ment as voting, is not good Ameri-
can"
Judge Wade spoke Of the numerous
postal thefts and said:
Keep your eyes on the drug traffic,
even down into the school yards. 1t
is becoming a national menace.
81 love to send a drug peddler to the
penitentiary," he concluded.