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The Unfootable You. When you’ve settled down at night. Locked your door, put out the light, When you’ve shut the world from cut your little room; When you've stopped ]*»ur daily work At the coming of the mirk, Then you’re face to face with truth, amid the gloom. For there’s no one there to fool, And your judgment dares be cool, Hiile the thoughts you face are merciless and true; You may hoax the world, my boy, With the tables you employ, ut you’ve not succeeded yet in fool ing you. In the daily grist of toil, In the treadmill and the moil, vicissitudes of traffic, you are wont To be tempted to cajole, Coaxed to jeopardize your soul — fe is battle; we must smile and bear the brunt. But at night when all is still, When the tension’s off your will, mes the truth that must be recog nized as true, You can fool some people, boy, With the methods men employ, it you’ll never find it easy fooling you.—Chicago News. The Hour and The Woman BY THOMAS J. PARTRIDGE. Qj I iSZSHSiESuSBFES? There was little doubt but that Don- Id McPhee was sick unto death. He as as strong as an ox and as healthy s a trout, and, despite his youth, had ome unscathed through many a bit ag winter gale on Georges, but when e stepped from an overheated par >r into a snow-bank, and shoveled now for two or three hours in light lothing, it brought cn a chill. Two ays afterward Donald went down 'ith pneumonia as if struck with a low. A fishing port! Of all the places in de world for a woman to practise tedicine! Yet there her sign swung: VINNEY M. STETCHELL, M. D. It was up-hill work with the doctor, ut she builded well when she snatch d “Big Mary” McKinnon’s child from ie black jaws of diphtheria, binding ie mother to her with hoops of steel, esides, Big Mary was a power in the cotch colony of Prince Edward Isl ld people. It was pure faith, then, edded to gratitude, that prompted ig Mary, in the face of the strenu is protests of all the other relatives, ith their favorite doctors and their idividual leaning toward this and lat mode of treatment, to call Doctor tetchell in the present instance. The ck boy was six hundred miles from is parents, and if anything should ippen! It was clear that Big Mary ad taken upon herself a tremendous jsponsibility. Nightly the relatives foregathered \ the big kitchen to discuss the case i all its lights and shades; the vir ies of this application, the dangers f that. Some were for one thing, ome for another. Thomas John’s Taggie insisted on Doctor McKenzie eing called. McKenzie was “from ome,” and there was some clannish ess in the advice; besides, Maggie elt a desire to do something, indi ectly, at least, toward the old bill, n W'hich her husband had looked with idifference for two years. Mrs. Gillis, an aunt, maintained that oultices wore weakening; Mrs. Rory IcEachern swore that it would be nurder to remove them. Sarah Me kjugall held that there was no hope efore the boy was stricken down, ’here were no details, but she had ad a dream! But the “woman doctor” w’as the one of contention. And as the case /ent on from bad to worse, it w*as ive and take, the relatives crying own the rights of women, and Big lary standing bravely by the faith hat was in her. “They’ve not the sympathy of a dan,” whispered Mrs. Pius McDonald. “They’re too chicken-hearted to be octors!” declared old Mrs. McPhail. “She can’t have much practice to ome six times a day!” sneered Mrs. ».rchie Cameron, winding up a tilt ?ith Big Mary. It was a cruel way to account for he faithful attendance, and the dart, ipped with truth, went over the low ered transom and dropped into the yreast of Doctor Vinr.ey, bending over he invalid. “Cali Doctor McKenzie!” cried rhomas John’s Maggie, for the hun dredth time, with an eye single to the Dill. “You and your McKenzie!” retorted Big Mary, out of patience at last. “A iretty mess he made of it with the minister’s baby, sponging a child over with cold water to bring out the measles!” She appealed to the whole iitchen. “Who ever heard of the ikes!” “Peace, women!” cried old Ronald VlcPail. “The lad is in her hands, and ;he’s in the hands of God!” The doctor entered the kitchen. She vas a trim little figure of a woman, vithout a trace of mannishness about ler to relieve the oppressive femln nity. Old Ronald removed his pipe rom his mouth, pulled his spectacles •own on his nose, and stared over hem as if viewing a new breed of attle brought into the district. Ten ear-old Flora, wide-eyed, stoed root i to the floor, looking as if she had seen a ghost. Big Mary bustled about the little woman, handed her a towel-, dusted with her apron the chair that was offered. The keen gray eyes cf the doctor went round the circle. The atmos phere was saturated with prejudice. There was a respectful bearing, but not a sympathetic face. It was Big Mary McKinnon against all the oth ers! In five days the doctor had told them, the change would come. “Let’s give her till the fifth day!” cried Big Mary, as the relatives clam ored. The fifth day came and went; the sixth day waxed and waned, and the night of the seventh was come, and it did not require a professional eye to see that Donald was in desperate straits. One after another the air cells in the sufferer’s left lung had become solidified, as you would pour melted wax into a beehive. Donald was pulling the air into.his lungs in jerky, grunting inspirations. His face was as purple as a plum. If he turn ed his head to the right, there was a cry cf anguish; if he turned it to the left, all previous pain, in Donald’s experience, was balm compared to the agonizing darts that pierced his breast. But if Donald’s strength could hold out until resolution occurred, Donald would be safe. The sick-chamber presented a tragic spectacle. When all eyes were net resting wistfully on the sufferer, they were bent sternly on the doctor. On a chair stood the tank of oxygen, its red cross staring like a blazing eye at the sick-bed. Near at hand, the sister rocked herself and her wire, re fusing to be comforted. Over Donald •bent the girl who loved him w T Pb one hand waving a fan to and fro, which, like the flame in the Peruvian shrine, had never ceased from the beginning. With the other she at times removed the red splashes from the sufferer's lips, giving no heed to the doctor’s warning to be careful of contagion. As well have asked her brother of the Prince Edward Island contingent to be careful when he carried a wound ed comrade from under Cronje’s guns. Astride the bed was Donald’s dory mate, with the invalid’s head against his broad chest —an easily adjustable and appropriate pillow r in the present exigency. “Pull, Donald, pull!” he cried, en couragingly, as if a gale of wind w r as going and they w’ere “rousing” the dory up to windw'ard against a big sea.” “You can’t pull w r itli your head un der water!” gasped Donald. By the bedside sat the doctor, yeajning for the moment of the crisis. To "tell the truth-, it was her first pitched battle. There had been old women and young babies, mere out post skirmishes, but here was a strap ping young adult; here w r as a Trojan of diseases. Her professional fate, the right of woman to act beyond a certain circumscribed sphere, seemed trembling in the balance. In her prophecy concerning the fifth day she had taken expediency by the hand, and now' expediency wras pinching her fingers. She hated to call a consultant to rob her of the glory she felt w'as impending, and for which she had w’aited so long. Any one but McKenzie! She had been weak enough at one time to defei to that gentleman’s judgment, and the con descending manner in which he had treated her continued to hurt. She had called up Prof. Caroline Trefythen, thirty miles aw’ay., and that strong-minded woman had soothed a conscience that was pricking in spots with the assurance that her conduct and treatment throughout the w'hole case was beyond criticism. Morning and evening, responding to the importunities of the patient’s sis ter, she had dictated for his parents at home a rose-colored and hopeful bulletin, w'hich was straightway trans lated into cold, depressing truth, and despatched. And now', despite all her zeal and attention, it began to look like defeat. The young fisherman’s splendid con stitution, giving such hopeful prom ise of an early crisis, appeared stag gered; the heart, that overworked or gan, seemed to be but winking; the clamor in the kitchen was being re newed, and she felt that Big Mary, in the last ditch, had her back against the door. Most portentous omen of all, that worthy w'oman had twice within the last fifteen minutes ad dressed her as “Ma’am!” Some one mentioned the hospital. The doctor looked up quickly. For one moment the citadel that had been for seven days so fiercely pressed trem bled to its foundations. The hospital! Here was a middle course. It would keep the case out of McKenzie’s hands, and she would march out with side-arms. The sister staggered to heir feet. “Don’t —send him to the hospital— doctor! Don’t!” A soul, w'orn down with nights and days of agonizing sus pense, in an utter abandon of grief was clinging to the doctor’s shoulder. No human heart could withstand the appeal. “They make an idol of him at home!” went on the sobbing girl. “Father wouldn’t begrudge the farm if you could save him.” The sister’s outburst had for a mo ment drawn all attention from Don ald. It w'as the calm that suddenly called out tc them from the sickbed, like the oppressive peace that settles over all when, the voyage passed, the i throbbing engines stilled, the splendid steamer is gliding to her anchorage. The doctor stepped to the bedside and placed her hand tenderly on the invalid’s forehead. It was bathed in a cold perspiration. The crisis had come! The little doctor’s hand fairly trem- GRANT COUNTY HERALD. LANCASTER, "WISCONSIN. bled as she placed the therbHsmeter under Donald's tongue. One minute two minutes —three minutes! The doctor removed th* glass and read aloud, “One hundred and two and three-fifths!” Seme moments passed. Again the thermometer was resorted to, again re moved, and the doctor read aloud, “One hundred and one and two fifths!” She w’avNd the glass exultingly. “She’s heavin’ the lead, Donald! * cried his dory mate. “You’re over the shcals. It’s deepenin the water you are. Come on! Come on!” It was plain to all. Any one could see the red tide going out of the pa tient’s face and the peace replacing It, as the sun follows over the sands the receding sea. “Run, Rory, run!” cried the sister to Big Mary’s oldest, as she dashed off a telegram without counting the w r ords. “Donald is safe! Hurrah! Hur rah!” The December sun came up and crept sparkling over the crisp snow-, and at last laughed into the sick-room, shedding its radiance over Dcnald and the jubilant group that surround ed the doctor. The little woman’s form fairly trembled under the cares sing blows that Big Mary struck her between the shoulders; her hand was wet with the hysterical tears of the sister; the patient threw the bed clothes from his still brawny arm, and reaching out, touched with the tips of his finger s a fold of her dress. “There w asn’t i Mich water between your forefoot and the rocks,” said the dory mate, “but she brought you over the bar all right. It was live reck oning she made, not dead.” Meanwhile, the strait that runs be tween the island home and the main land had been sealed up with ice, and because of a great storm the ice-boat did not cross for a w r eek. And all the letters, embodying the cold truth, that w'ould have kept the old people’s souls oui the rack for days, came in with the telegram.—Youth’s Compan ion. THE DYING HAWAIIAN RACE. Intermarriage Is the Only Hope for the Brown Men of the Pacific. A very dark shadow' lias been felt to I hang over the future of the native ! Hawaiians. It comes from the early and obstinate depopulation which be gan writh Cook’s discovery in 1778. | The most reliable estimates place the then population at not less than 250,- 000. At the arrival of the missionar ies in 1820 not more than 100,000 re mained, and the multitude of aban doned village sites gave the old mis sionaries an impression that fully two ; thirds of the people had disappeared. The causes of that enormous mor tality w'ere not obscure. * They were the introduction among the long-isolat ed “nature-race,” wholly lacking the immunity enjoyed of Continental peo ples, of new and virulent diseases, w’hich swept them off. Chief among 1 these diseases w'as one w'hich Cock’j 1 ship brought, and which speedily in fected the entire population. Tuber culosis contributed. Added to these hostile influences w'ere the depopulating wars of Kame hameha, and the destructive collection of sandalwood, while w'haleships con verted every seaport into a public brothel. Mitigating and remedial influences have since then operated favorably under increasing moral culture and in telligence, but the depopulation is not yet wholly checked. Estimating from the later census figures there are now remaining less than 30,000 pure Hawaiians, and not more than 10,000 part Hawaiians. The total racial dim inution has been about one-half in the last half century, although part Hawaiians have rapidly increased dur ing that time. The excess of deaths over births still remains, with a great mortality among the pure Hawaiian children. What are their prospects for the future? We should answ'er measurably hopeful. There is manifest improve ment. •Especially is this the case among the mixed breed, who are rap idly gaining in numbers, due to their superior energy and intelligence, and to their wiser care of offspring. Un der present outlook, the mixed Ha waiians are likely in a very few gen erations greatly to exceed the pure native breed in numbers. The pre vailing language -of both classes will have become entirely English, due to the vigorous teaching of English in the common schools, wiiere Portu guese and Asiatic youth, alike with Hawaiian, are learning good “United States,” which w'ill displace the out landish tongues, as it does on our con | tinent. The future commingling of Hawaii an blood with the other races will not be an unwholesome one. The Ha waiian nature is courageous and gen erous, and peculiarly receptive to new I light. The Japanese race anciently received a very large infusion cf cog | nate Oceanic blood, w'hich loosened, up their ancient Mongolian stiffness and made them versatile and recep tive. We may thus look forward to the future descendants cf the Ha | waiians with hopefulness and pride. The future composite result will make the coming Hawaiian civilization a bright one under the presiding power of American Institutions. —St. Louis I Republic. i | Walter Graham Blackie, of Blackie and Sons, the Scottish publishers, died the ether day at the age of nine ty-one. Besides Latin and Greek, he read German, French, Italian, Span ish Danish, Norse and Dutch. An elephant will carry a load oi 5,000 pounds with ease. ELECTION FASHIONS. After searching the lower floor of his house vainly, Mr. Macumber found his wife before a mirror in her dress ing room, trying on a bat. At bis en trance she turned slowly, as a pigeon does, that he might see the hat at every angle. “Do you like it?” she asked, anx iously. “Very much,” he said. Mr. Macum ber always liked his wife’s bats. He w r as that kind of a man. “Is the plume a little too rakishly set on?” “Not a bit; couldn’t be improved.” “Aren’t the roses too deep a pink?” “Oh, no, they just match your cheeks, Molly. It is—” Mr. Macumber de cided to feel bis way. “Is it a new bat or one fixed over?” “New.” “I thought I hadn’t seen it before,” w'ith great satisfaction. “What’s on, a wedding or a club luncheon?” “Why, Ernest!” Mrs. Macumber’s voice and eyes were reproachful. “I am going to vote to-morrow!” “Why, of course,” said Mr. Macum ber, readily, although he had quite for gotten that lie was now a resident of a State in which women have full suff rage. “Every woman in Denver has a new hat —even the cook; and Mary and Katherine asked permission to go out together for an hour to get theirs.” “Did you let them go?” “Certainly; we vote the same ticket.” Mrs. Macumber now held the hat in >ne hand w’hile she twirled it round and round with the other. “Yes, I shall pin that plume down a little,” she said, with decision. “It is not quite conservative enough for the polls, and as this is practically my first appearance in politics since we moved here, I am anxious to show just the proper feeling. “I’m doubtful, too, about those pink roses. Do you think violets w’ould show' a—a higher perception of my privileges and duties? You know just a shade might make all the difference possible to my future here. They say Mrs. Storrs, of the State Federation, ow'es the presidency to her bonnets.” “Your hat is just right, in moral and picturesque effect, and every other way.” Mrs. Macumber smiled appreciative ly. She w r as not the foolish kind of woman W'lio does not know' a perfect husband when she has one. “You are such a support and com fort!” she said, sincerely. “And I can anpin the plume for the tennis tourna ment next week,” she added, happily. —Youth’s Companion. PROGRESS IN PORTO RICO. The Isslnml liiiprOTing; mid Xcciling Only Little More Help. Ten years ago Porto Rico was under Spanish control. Its foreign commerce in 1890 was the largest in its history up to that time. From various causes the opening years c/ the American oc cupation marked a time of depression and distress. The great mass of the people are still very poor, but their state is mending. The general situa tion is fairly indicated by a comparison of the figures of total commerce for the following years: Imports. Exports. Total. 1896. .$18,282,690 $18,841,480 $86,524,120 1902.. 18,209,610 12,448,956 25,653,566 1906.. 21,827,665 23,257,890 45,085,555 The total volume of business thus shows a marked increase, and there has been an almost complete change in the trade currents. In earlier days Porto Rico traded chiefly with Europe. The larger part of her transactions is now an American account. This is shown in the following table: IMPORTS FROM UNITED STATES. 1896 $ 3,973,855 1902 10,882,653 1906 19,224,881 EXPORTS TO UNITED STATES. 1896 $ 2.552,174 1902 8,378,766 1906 19,142,461 Our exports consist of a miscellane ous assortment of merchandise, includ ing foodstuffs and manufactured goods. From the fact that w r e sent out last year $45,000 worth of mules, w'hich will supplant a considerable number of oxen in farm work, and from the further fact that during the last tw'O years we have sent out $50,000 w'ortb of automobiles, it may be inferred that the seeds of the “hustle” plant have fallen on Porto Rican soil and are springing up and bearing fruit. We are sending out electrical apparatus, cash registers, typewriters, pianos, silk goods, clocks, watches and jewelry. The largest items on the list are rice ($3,347,101) and manufactures of iron and steel ($3,240,649). Three-quarters of our own import account is represent ed by sugar, and a large slice of the remainder is represented by cigars ($3,0G9,576). lit seems almost incred ible, but the figures show' that we bought last year only a beggarly $27,- 000 worth of Porto Rico’s really su perior coffee. If the people of this country would buy, as they ought, about $10,000,000 w'orth of Porto Rican coffee every year we should hear no more wails from our forgotten island. With the excep tion of that Industry, the most import ant to the Porto Ricans, the economic situation presents a cheerful outlook.— New' York Sun. "Worked Before Eating. “Do you ever take any exercise after a hearty meal, my man?” asked the lady at the back door, "with an eye in the direction of her woodpile. “Do I?” replied the tramp between bites. “Why, ma’am, I’ve been walking all morning after this one!” —Yonkers Statesman. Wisconsin State News WILD BATTLE IX WATER. Freahmen, Outnumbering Sopho mores Two to One, Are Victors. More than GOO students were ducked in Lake Mendota the other afternoon in the annual rush between the freshmen and sophomores classes. There were few cas ualties because of the effectiveness of the measures taken by President Van Hise. The rocky beach had been cleared of bowlders, the precipitous bank transform ed into a gentle slope and a “fair play” committee of twenty-five husky guards stationed on the rushing field to keep the rushers from doing undue damage to each other. The freshmen far outnumbered the sophomores and w r ere well organized, but the sophomores by gaining absolute control of the gymnasium doors were able to let only a few freshmen out at a time and so ducked the beginners in relays un til they became too numerous. Then the 200 sophomores were quickly soused and trampled upon and finally driven from the field. The next night 300 fresh men paraded the streets with nightshirts over their citizens’ clothes, singing and yelling defiance to the sophomores, but no sophs dared to take up their challenge. This absolute supremacy of freshmen over the sophomores has been hitherto unheard of. RACINE PLOTTERS IN COURT. Held in $2,500 Bail, District Attor ney Not Reins Ready for Case. H. D. Miller and Fred Stocking, ar rested in Milwaukee, charged with at tempting to extort $20,000 by blackmail from the family of Richard T. Robinson of Racine, were taken into court for a preliminary examination, but the district attorney was not ready and they were held on $2,500 bail to appear in a week. Both were remanded to jail. Stocking admits, it is said, that he wrote a letter to Mrs. Robinson demanding the money and that he wrote it left-handed so as to disguise his original writing. Miller, his brother-in-law, now admits, so it is al leged, that he was an accomplice and both are willing to plead guilty. The penalty for an attempt to extort money is from on to two years in the penitentiary or a fine not to exceed SSOO or less than SIOO. Slacking and Miller have called for Rev. Mr. Chynawith, pastor of the First Con gregational Church of Racine, for the purpose of making complete confessions. LOCATED BATTLE FIELD. Man Finds Roxbury Was Scene of Fight in Black Hawk War. The exact site of the battle of Wiscon sin Heights of the Black Ilawk war has been discovered by C. N. Brown, a Madi son abstract man, who found it In records of early surveyors. The impression has been that the battle was fought just across the river from Prarie du Sac, but Mr. Brown locates it three miles further down the river in the town of Roxbury, Dane county. At the first annual pil grimage of the Sauk County Historical Society Mr. Brown pointed out the site of the field for the first time. Dr. R. G. Thwaites of the Wisconsin State IBs torical Society regards it as an impor tant discovery. CHARIVARI CAUSES DEATH. Physician at Crivitz Killed at Home of Newly Married Couple. Dr. Henry Frank Conover of Crivitz, a young physician, was fatally shot at Cri vitz by Richard Hamilton, a saloonkeeper, at a charivari. Hamilton says the gun was discharged accidentally, but he has been arrested pending the inquest. The tragedy occurred at the home of a newdy wedded couple. Dr. Conover heard the noise and went to the house to quiet the crowd. He was entering the door when the shot was fired. He was carried into the house and died in a short time in the arms of the man who shot him. MRS. UPHAM IS ELECTED. State W. C. T. U. Choses Marshfield Woman for President. Mrs. Mary C. Upham of Marshfield was elected president of the State W. C. T. U., after the organization appropriated $1,400 f'»r State work during the coming year. Other officers elected follow: vice president, Mrs. W. A. Lawson, Madison; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Eliza Fow ler, Spencer; recording secretary, Mrs. A. E. Strong, Madison (twentieth term) ; treasurer, Ida M. Cook, Green Bay (thir teenth term). fal.se scales hob people. Milwaukee City Attorney May Pros ecute 200 It ii tellers. The city attorney has been asked to start prosecutions against over 200 butch ers and grocers in Milwaukee who use computing scales of a certain type. The agitation was started when Frank M. Englehardt, an agent for a rival scale; made the assertion that Milwaukee people and those of other cities, too, are being cheated out of thousands of dollars an nually by the use of these scales. FORTY BOY'S OX STRIKE. Machine Tenders In Marinette Paper Mills Walk Out. Forty boys employed as machine tend ers in two Marinette mills of the Me nominee and Marinette Paper Company, ‘truck. The trouble started in a row over i n order to clean up the mill. The others (truck in sympathy and now all demand l.igher wages. The paper company has secured help to take their places. .toil X MARRIXGTOX DEAD. bending: Figure in Democratic Poli tics of Kenosha County Expires. John T. Harrington, aged 78 years, for many years a leading figure in Demo cratic politics, died at his home in Ke nosha, after a long illness. The deceased was an Englishman, hut had resided in Kenosha since 1800. For many years he was town marshal and later served as chief of police. He also held the office if assessor. lie was the father of twenty |ne children, fourteen surviving him. GIRL WILL GET HERO MEDAL. Bravery of Stndent in Savings Live* Will Be Rewarded. Miss Elsie Plantz, daughter of Presi dent Samuel Plantz of Lawrence univer sity, and Irwin W. Church of Menominee Falls, a graduate of the last class of Law rence university, will receive Carnegie hero medals because of their w r ork during the winter of 1904-1005 in saving the lives of three Lawrence girls who had broken through the ice in the Fox river at Appleton and were well nigh exhausted when pulled from the water. Mr. Church heard the cries of the girls from a dis tance of three blocks. Rushing to the river front, he saw .the trio struggling to get on top of the ice. He crawled on his stomach on the ice to keep from break ing down with him and after several min utes’ work managed to get all to safety. Miss Plantz was the first to see the acci dent and in her efforts to lend assistance she broke through the ice. John P. Cow an of New York, representative of the Carnegie hero medal commission, has been in Appleton and announced that some time in January medals will be presented to Miss Plantz and Mr. Church. BOV MEETS HORRIBLE DEATH. Moiitnsrue Femmes.** Drawn Into Grain Chute and Loses I.ife. Montague Fourness, the 11-year-old son of Charles Fourness, a locomotive boiler inspector of the Milwaukee Road, met death in a tragic manner at Richfield, by suffocation in a grain elevator. With a brother, four years older, Montague went to Richfield on an errand for the father. While waiting at the station, the boys entered the grain elevator alongside the tracks and amused themselves in jumping from one grain bin to auother and in oc casionally jumping into the grain in the bins. Workmen below, not knowing of their presence, suddenly opened one of the hoppers and the grain instantly start ed to move. Montague was in the grain of the particular hopper. He screamed to his brother, “I’m going down ; I’m going down.” The brother sprang to the side of the bin and catching his brother by the arms made frantic efforts to pull him out, but the suction was too great and in a few seconds he was forced to let go as lie saw his brother rapidly sink in the descending grain. SNAKES RUIN A DAM. Hundreds of Reptiles Found at Mountain l»y Workmen. George Merline tells a strange story regarding the going out or the Farm dam at Mountain last spring. Merline says that some of the men employed in the work of rebuilding the dam were busy one day with their pickaxes when they ran across a small hole out of which two or three snakes were protruding their heads. One of the men drove his pick into the hole and immediately the snakes began sliding out of it. The workmen, lie says, killed thousands of the reptiles. The snakes may have been the reai cause of the dam going out last spring, by digging holes in the approaches. The snakes are spotted and it is believed they are what is known as pine snakes. MAY BUILD RIVAL ELEVATORS. Bankers from North Dakota Threat en Action Great Northern. President Cashel of the North Dakota Bankers’. Association, who has been in Superior with a committee of four bank ers to investigate the grain inspection situation, declares that the Dakotans will request the Great Northern to open its elevators to the public for grain at once. In event of the refusal ol* the road to do this without delay he says that they will at once go ahead with plans to build an elevator in Superior to receive their grain. The company is said to have leased its ele vators to A. D. Thompson of Duluth to evade the Wisconsin grain inspection law. Home for Agred Fire Horses. C. M. Perkins has started a project to establish a home for superannuated fire horses in Milwaukee. All Over the State. The flour mill of Ivenop & Schleis at Fish Mills has been destroyed by fire. The loss is SB,OOO. The postoffice at Chilton was entered and the safe was blown, but nothing of value was secured. Mrs. Frieda Hermann, 24 years old, of the town of Somers, fell from a fence and died two hours later. The body of John Kraus, an old sol dier, was found in the woods near Rock field. The man had died from exposure and hunger. Miss Louise Liebl, aged 3G years, is dead of lockjtw at Sheboygan. Her ill ness was caused by a set of false teeth, blood poisoning setting in. Joseph Buchan of Theresa, a freshman at the State University in Madison, held off a crowd of sophomores with a pistol and knife and escaped a hazing. Julia Winslow, living near War ren, committed suicide by saturating her clothes with kerosene and setting fire to them She was the last of six sisters, all of whom committed suicide. She was 40 years old. In a battle between gangs of boys from North and South La Crosse for the pos session of fishing grounds on the La Crosse River, Frank Schaefew, aged 10 years, was shot in the head and probably fatally injured. Henry Kelley of Montfort, while fish ing in Lake Monona, found a pocketbook containing a certificate of deposit for SI,OOO on the American Insurance Bank of West Superior and a draft on a Se attle bank of $250 floating in the water. Mr. Kelley has advertised the find and refuses to disclose the identity of the depositor. So far as known there has been no accident or suicide ot the lake. The police are investigating. Four men were buried under tons of wreckage by the collapse of the roof of a steel ore trestle at the plant of the Illinois Steel Company at Milwaukee. One of the men was crushed to death. The m ill lions* at Waterloo, belonging to the Badger State Malt and Grain Com pany of Chicago was destroyed by tire. 'l'ln* loss is estimated between $50,000 and $G0,090, partly covered by insurance. A spanking, administered by his father in court, was the sentence pronounced by Justice Blewett of Fond du Lac on Guy Higgins. 15 years old, who stoned a street car. His mother approved the sentence. 3