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3*hc Ittunitoiuoc THURSDAY. MAY :t. A RICH MAN’S WILL. Some comment has ls*en made cm the fact that Senator Sawyer's will gave practically all his estate to his own rel atives. and nothing to charitable or edu cational institutions. The St. Paul Pio neer Press criticize* severely thin dispo sition of the pro]<erty. saying that any man who ha* accumulated million* by living the first to take up and turn into money the natural wealth of the coun try should tie under a moral obligation to return a part of it to the public who helped him to fortune. This is true. But the Pioneer Press failed to note the generosity of Mr. Sawyer during his life time. Some men of wealth prefer to retain everything they make during their life-time for their own use, and then jierjietuate their memory by en dowing a college or hospital by a gift payable after death This generally re sults in the donor's name appearing on a marble tablet, or being made and kept public in connection with the institution endowed, at the cost not of the giver in his lifetime lint, of his heirs after his death. As the heirs have- not accumu lated the wealth, they have no reason to complain of the disposition of it in any way the testator may see lit. But the credit to him is scarcely so great as if he had made the gift when it involved some sacrifice to himself. Senator Sawyer gave away thousands of dollars every month for many years Me hel|ied struggling colleges, though he was not a college man himself. He heljied charities, or ganized and unorganized, public and private. He assisted relatives and friends almost without numlier. His benefac tious were made not with the- idea of placing his name with those of Girard and Peter Cooper, hut because he in tended to accomplish good in each in stance. No libraries, colleges, art gal leries or hospitals are named for him. because lie did not make that a condition of any of his gift* But the gifts were made, and the good was done. It is hardly fair to criticise him lieeause he did not confine hi* charity to one oi two large legacies, wjth Ins name attached, '(’he secret giver is snrch as meritorious as he who heralds hi* generosity with hind self acclamation. Thk past week has marked another turn in th Month African war. The Bisirs have ls-en obliged to relinquish their advantage gained ly their o|mra lions around Bloemfontein and to retire north ward. Hut during ttieir ocenpa lion of that territory they succeeded in indicting several heavy louse* the English, and in seriously embarrassing • len. Rolierts Tly latter made great preparations to cut off and capture the burghers, tint though he succeeded in forcing their withdrawal he did not sue treed in landing any of them in his net ; Thin failure left the profits of the late I Itloemfontein campaign all with the| ttoers Roberts has not advanced a foot I since he captured tin* town, but has suf I fen and several losses and the morale of hi-1 army has deteriorated However, his communications are again nnthreatened | and he should be able to rapidly com j plete his equipment for a forward move-1 ment. It seems strange that no ade ■ quate force has Issm sent to raise the I siege of Matching The small English 1 garrison there has been making a stub born and heroic defense, and is reduced to serious straits but there appears to I be no vigorous effort made to help it 1 Ar'n.if years of fighting in tin* courts ('apt Olntliii M Carter, lute I S. A has Im'i-ii ■•qnestrated jtl tin* fjeaveii worth military psison, where he will keep books ami wear slrij.es for some year* He embezzled a little matter of a half million dollar* while in charge of government work* in (teorgia He ha<l powerful friend* at Washington, and hi* cam* wan tried am) opened, reopened, revi. wed and apjiealed until it ls*gail to I'iok a* if the law * delay would !■ suf fieient to permit the captain to live out In* day* in freedom and the pursuit of happiness. Hut in this ease the intliien lial friends were finally iinahle to save him from sentence Now he probably wishes his time had heen rlllllllrik all Ihe e year* since his arrest instead of having only just liegmi Me would l* that much nearer the end of bis punish llielit I)iAVI v the Admiral, not Dewey the t'mdidal* came to Chicago Monday, and was welcomed in the noisy Chicago way If he would only promise to stay a Imiral and give over the candidacy it would Imlister up his jMipularity almost lo the [siint it once rein tied <•'iv I’ini.hm , theeccentric governor ot Michigan. who wan elected on tln- n imhli'iin ticket, him Iteconie n democrat Mi> wivh Uii- only hiqie of ecaje from *ni<! mid iiniM-riiilimn in in the ♦•lio-ti<>11 ol Bryan Michigan'* Bing' i* nothing il nut inrii-jH-Mili"iit, mid In* him managed to get n law following in bin own Mtate, though not comddered n heavy weight • IncwhiTi" Ilia announcement may mean ♦ Iml Michigan will Iwchmnod among the doubtful nUiUw next full TliKKt; am nearly 1*110111(11 mimblicnti candidate* for governor hi carry the elate by their own vote*. They ought to iimcuH, mlect inn*, mil all vote £or him lb* could 11 I fail to win with inch n big lead an that would give him. Congressman Minor seems unable to attain his majority. It seems difficult to decide whether Gen. Otis is a hero or a failure. He was set at a gigantic task, hut now that he has been relieved no one is very jsisitive whether he succeeded or not Tmk. Michigan delegate* to the Kan sas City convention have l>een instructed for Bryan. The democratic state con vention also declared in favor of the free silver plank of tin- Chicago platform and against the retirement of the green backs. The Two Rivera Chronicle takes the Milwaukee Journal to task for calling it a populist. The Journal has got into the habit of throwing around the term popu list rather promiscuously, intending primarily to convey the idea of any one who is not a gold-democrat. It calls re publicans by that name whenever the fancy suits. Probably that's the reason The Chronicles ire was aroused. It ab horred living classed, even by the Journ al, with bloated imperialists and mon opolists. WAR NHWS, Thursday and Friday brought news of the final retirement of the Boers from around Bloemfontein. They did not de stroy the waterworks which they wen in jm,-.session of so long. Wepener was also relit ved by the general withdrawal to the north. This movement left Rob erts's line of communications open and tin threatened to the south. Though ef forts were made to intercept and cap ture detachments of the Boers, they all gut away safely with their guns and munitions. The London war-office had a message from Mafeking in which Col. Baden Powel said the garrison was hold ing out well. Though the Boers were ultimately driven hack from their Free State invasion, they succeeded in caus ing much delay to the British and in flicting large damage on them, and in getting away with pi actu ally no loss to themselves. tin Saturday there were dispatches containing accounts of rear guard fight ing at Thaba N't'bn, in which lien. French's troops were engaged, (ten. Warren, one of the British officers dis credited by Roberts, was made governor of (iriqnaland West and thus saved from being recalled. A message from Lor enzo Marquez placed the present strength of the Hoer armies at Ti.nnn. Sunday brought no news, the censor apparently being at work again. The withdrawing Boers were thought to Is- | concentrating at laidybv■and, and to have a good start over their English | pursuers. The tone of the Herman : newspajiers suddenly changed from fav i oring the Boers to favoring the English. 11 is supposed that this was on account of the Kaiser’s well known sympathy with England. Monday if was retried that (ten. French had given up the chase after the Boers and returned to Bloemfontein. London pajs-rs were disposed to ( riticise Roberts for his failure to capture any of the burghers after bis elaborate pre parations of the past week or two. The Boer troops that wore Intel' active around Thaba N't‘lui liegan to disperse to their farms, many of them taking the oath of allegiance to (treat Britain. Little faith is pul by tie- British in these oaths of allegiance, as many of those who subscribed to it after (Tonje’s sur render went back into active service shortly after The members of the peace commission in Europe announced that tbe\ would sail for the I’nited States on Thursday It was understood that all the Muropean powers had declined to act for them. (ien. French's efforts to cut off the re treating I leers were reported on Tues day to I ompletely futile, dust as (ten. Hunter with .'i.immi men was about to start toward Matching to assist Col. I laden I’owi 11, it became known that the 1 leers wen* again very active near Kimberly They were reported to be in force iictween that city and Fourteen Streams. African horse sickness broke out among Roberts's horses, and many died The general situation was not favorable to the Knglish. in spile of the recent withdrawal of the burghers Wednesday it was announced that heavy lighting was imminent near Tha lia N Clin (ten. French, who was di rc. ting the Knglish forces at that point, was estimated to have from Hi (inn to ltd, (ind men and the llocr rearguard was pl.t. cl at from it.lMMi to in,(Min. Their rear guard lighting effectually prevent ed miv advance on I’ret.uia The Hints at arked the Hritish outposts at Jloshof, hut without result Mafeking sent word that they could stick it out for two months or more The Herman steamer Koenig landed a quantity of war mater ials for the Hints at Heira and embark ed a cargo of Transvaal wool ItfWiti -i I, tile Kurly Hitierx are the linen! |ii llh I ever lined 1) .1 Moore Milllirook. Ala They quickly cure all liver and Imwel trouble* Henry Hin rich*. Firnt Medical Htudeul I lielleve in letting well enough almie Second Medical Student "Then you'll never make a miccenafnl doctor Karl Beauchamp in to renign at the end of the current year from the govern orahiji >f New South Wale* SURROUNDING COUNTRY. Whitewater lies dedicated anew $14,- ! 000 city hall. Milwaukee hi having much difficulty in raining the $15,000 guaranty fund for I the state fair. i Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Rice of Fort At kinson recently celebrated their sixtieth i wedding anniversary. I 100,000,000 feet of loss arc expected to i pass through the Tomahawk boom on 1 the Wisconsin river. Beloit students gave a successful pres entation of the (ireek play ‘Tphigenia in Anlis” last Friday. Bankers estimate that American tour ists in Enrol*- during the coming year will sjjend $150,000,000. A bad Indian named Manypenny, un der arrest for distributing whiskey on the Odanah reservation, escaped from custody by jumping from a moving train near Ashland. Carl Schnrz was the guest of the Mil waukee Musical Society at their grand concert Tuesday evening, (ten. Schnrz was one of the early members of the so ciety when he resided in Milwaukee be fore the war The Beaver Dam Malleable Iron Works were destroyed by fire Tuesday morning. The loss was SIOO,OOO, with $87,000 in surance. The concern had been in oper ation for eight years, and paid its first dividend last fall The city of Hull. Ontario, and a large part of Ottawa, just across the river, were destroyed by fire last Thursday. The property loss was estimated at s‘3o.- 000,000. about one-quarter of which was covered by insurance. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway has secured options on a right of way from Random Lake to Sheboy gan. If the road decides to build to She boygan it will probably start a line of carferries across Lake Michigan. Ex-Mayor Herman Erb. Jr., of Apple ton, killed himself by shooting Sunday morning. He was only twenty-seven years old, and was elected mayor of Ap pleton at the age of twenty-four. He had lieeii suffering for some time with mental ailments. 1 The republican congressional conven- I tion in the Eighth District, held at Ap ! pleton, resulted in a deadlock, the dele gates being divided between Minor of Sturgeon Bay, Hatten of New London and Knestennann of Green Bay, The convention finally adjourned to Wednes day of this week .Miss May Williams, an attractive young woman of Milwaukee, attempted suicide in New York by taking carbolic acid. She followed a young man to that city who had been attentive to her in Milwaukee, but he declined to Lave any thing more to do with her. which made her deaperate She will recover. Winn Allen a clam digger at Prairie dn Chien found a pearl near there meas uring three-quarter.- of an inch in diam eter and half an inch thick. It is per fectly formed ami of tine lustre, and weighs 111) grains. It is undoubtedly worth several thousand dollars. Forest tires along the line of the Wis consin & Michigan railroad north of Marinette have become dangerous. The little town of Ames, Michigan, was en tirely wiped out, and other towns and lumber property are threatened Giei n Bay is so enveloped in smoke that navi gation is difficult. Forest tires of this magnitude in April or May are unpre cedented Nothing but rain can check them. QUESTION ANSW UHIII) Vcs, August Flower still has the larg est sale of any medicine in the civilized world. Vour mothers, and grandmoth ers' never thought of using anything else for Indigestion or Biliousness. Doctors were scarce, and thev seldom heard of Ap pendicitis, Nervous Prostration or Heart failure, etc. They used August Flower to clean out the system and stop fermen tation of undigested food, regulate the ration of the liver, stimulate the nervous and organic action of the system, and that is all thev took when feeling dull and had with headaches and other aches. You only need a few doses of Green's August Flower, in liquid form, to make you satisfied there is nothing serious the matter with you. Sample bottles at Os car A. Alter s drug store "Jack proposed to me while turning the music for me at the piano.' Ah. 1 see; you played right into his hands." SOUND advice to those who have kid ney and bladder troubles is to take a site, sure medicine like Foley’s Kidney Cure. It alwavs benefits!he MDMA 'S. Henry Hinriehs. "Why Do Men Gamble?" is the title nf a brochure now attracting attention. A lot of men wimble liecause a few men win. "After suffering from piles for tifteen years I was cared by using two (sixes of DeWitt s Witch Hazel Salve " writes W. J. Baxter. North Brook. N, (' It heals everything. Beware of counterfeits. Hen ry Hinrichs. As we travel the path of iife. we al ways fancy that the other fellow has the ls*st side of the road Persistence in doing ones duty ends in liking it. something like acquiring a taste for olives. Just Received at THE RAND & ROEMER HARDWARE CO. . . . our . . . SPRING STOCK of Ready Mixed House, Floor, Barn, Wagon and Carriage Paints. Brushes in large variety. Quality “The Best.” Get our COLOR CARDS and PRICES. % ‘‘Darling, do you love me as well as yon did yesterday?" “Not quite as well, Harry. Yon have not said anything about my new slnrt waist." HOW ’S THIS? We offer ()ne Hundred Dollars Reward for any ease of Catarrh that cannot he cured by Hall s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & Cos., Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be lieve him perfectly honorable in all busi ness transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. Wkst & TrcaX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Walkin' ;. Kinnan A Mar vin. Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, <). Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal ly. acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testi menials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggist. Hall's Family Pills are the best. may 81 Japanese do not care much for novels. Among 37,000 new books printed last year only 403 were works of fiction. Nine chances in ten it's your kidneys that need attention if you don't feel wi 11. Foley’s Kidney Cure makes healthy kidneys and will make you well. Hen ry Hinriehs. In Sweden good hotels are erected by the communities in places where it is thought tourists would like to tarry. A WOMAN'S AW Fl' L PERIL. • There is only one chance to save your life and that is through an operation,” were the startling words heard by Mrs. I B. Hunt of Lime Ridge. Wis., from her doctor after he had vainly tried to cure her of a frightful case of stomach trouble and yellow jaundice. Gallstones had formed and she constantly grew worse. Then she l>egaii to use Electric Bitters which wholly cured her. It's a wonderful Stomach. Liver and Kidney remedy. Cures Dyspejisia. Loss of Ap petite. Try it. Only 50c. Guaranteed, i For sale by Henry Hinriehs druggist. may 31 France pays in tensions every year 70,- 000,000 francs, of which 35,000,000 are subtracted from the salaries of officials. CI KHI> A RUNNING SOUK. "1 had a bad rnnningsoreon my breast for over a year." says Henry H. Richards of Willeyville. N Y.. “and tried a great ! many remedies, but got no relief until 1 used Banner Salve. After using one half ; l>ox. I was perfectly cured. I cannot re commend it too highlv and will never Is- without it in the house.” Henry Hin I richs. Dr. E. M. Kapitan, . .. Dentist . . . Over Mendlik & Mulholland’s Store, N. Bth Str Linens, Linens, . Linens . We are again showing a large line of TABLE LIN ENS, NAPKINS, TOWELING, HANDKERCHIEFS, which we offer at very low prices. Call in and ex amine quality and price. 1 i r'* f Corner So. 9th Henry Esch, §A. B. Melendy Photographer. Studio in Alctropolitan Block, IN. Bth St My new studio is a decided success'in the produc tion of fine portraits, in Cabinets and Photo Ovals Special care given to Family Groups and large work also Photo Buttons and Photo Novelties. Remem my Studio is one block north of Hth street bridge. Chicago & North Western Railway. NORTH BOUND TRAINS: No 3 No 1 No 5 No 17 Vo 1) No 51 Leave Chicago T (HI ain ll3oam sno pm Leave Milwaukee 7 (10 a m 955 am 150 pm 7 30pm Leave Cleveland .. 9 11am 1159 am 354 pm 5 40am 1140 am Leave Newton 9 30am 12 08pm 4(pra 5 53am 12 08 pm Leave Manitowoc 937 am 12 25pm 4 30pm (120atn 954 pm 107 pm Leave Branch 9 49 a ra 4 32pm 030 am 150 pm Leave I’incOrove 4 39pm Leave Cato 9 59am 443 pm 047 am 21ft pm Leave Qrimms. lilltlam 4 49 pm 051 am 2 85pm Leave ReeUsville 10 08 a in 4 55 p m 0 50 am 3 15 p m Arrive Appleton Jet 1113 am 000 pm 8 15am 1132 pm Arrive Antigo 9 20 p m 1140 am 2 20am Arrive Ashland ft 20 p m 7 45 a ra Train No II daily; trains No s 35, 17 and 51 daily except Sunday. Trains No.'s3. 5, 11 ami 17 making connections at Appleton Jet for north and south. No.'s Band 17 making connections at Marshfield for St. I’aul and .Minneapolis and the northwest. Trains No.'s 11 and L making con nections at Ashland for Duluth, the Superiors and the west, SOUTH BOUND TRAINS. No 2 No 4 No 10 No 14 No 16 No( leave Reedsville 518 pm 741 am 1822 pm 9 30am leave Orimms ,523 pm 7 46 a m 1227 pm 1008 am leave ('ato 527 p m 751 a m 12 SJ p m 10 15 a m Leave Pine drove . 7 53am 1234 pm Leave Branch . 584 pm 7 59am 1240 pm 1035 am Leave Manitowoc 551 pm 4 59am 816 am K 107 pm 4 oft p m 1145 am 1 Leave Newton (104 pm 830 am 123 pin 4 85pm 12 50 pm Leave •'lereland . 6 14pm 839 a m 133 pra 435 pm 108 pm Arrive Milwaukee. 8 10pm 7 (15 a m 1035 am 350 pm (140 pm Arrive Chicago 7 30am 930 am Ilftpm 615 pm 930|im Train No. 4 daily No.'s 2. 10. 14, 16 and 50 daily except Sunday, all trains making connections at Milwaukee audChlcago for east, South and west. TWO RIVKRS TRAINS. Leave Manitowoc 645 am 10 30 ain 430 pin Leave Two Rivers 7 40am 1210 pm 515 pm Arrive Two Rivers 710 a m 1060 am 450 p m Arrive Manitowoc B(iam 12 35pm 5 40pm For any further information apply at depot ticket office. C, A. Hichtii4vics, Tkt. Agt,