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RITAIN WAKES UP.
stablishment of Department of
Commerce Here Arouses Interest.
Iflolal Organ of London Chamber of
Commerce Declares That Great
Britain Cannot Alford to
Lag Bahind.
The creation of a department of com
erce in the United States lias awuk
icd great interest in other countries
nd especially in the mother country,
here our active but friendly rivalry
i (he world's markets is a subject of
inch attention, and the appointment
fa minister of commerce for the Unit
-3 Kingdom is being urged. The Lon
on Chamber of Commerce Journal,
ic official organ of the London ebam
er of commerce l , in a recent issue says:
“In this country the opinion was for
mg held that the best way to assist
rode was to leave It severely alone,
nd. to rely upon the foresight, skill
nd energy of our merchants ui*L man
facturers to maintain our preeminent
ositlon in the world’s markets. Lat
erly, however, there has been a ten
ency to direct the attention of parlin
lent more and more to commercial
mtters. It is unquestionable that the
leg is rapidly gaining in strength that
i many directions considerably more
Mention and assistance might be
iven by the state to extending trade
ban is at present accorded.
“We are now at a period of tense ri
alryin trade; our merchants and ma.n
facturers are face to face with the
eenest competition that has ever been
mmn; and that competition is daily
eveloping. Is It not remarkable, in
lew of the magnitude of the interests
avolved, that the United Kingdom'—
he greatest manufacturing and com
nercial nation In the world—has not
n the cabinet a minister of commerce?
n the United States, which may be
ooked upon as our most formidable
ornpetitor, and whose people are Ueen
y alive to the necessities of modern
ommerce, the need for such a minis
er has already been fully recognized,
lurely, Great Britain cannot afford to
agbehlnd.
‘'’Those who ask for the appointment.
>t a minister of commerce do not do
10 in any spirit of complaint or ani
noslty against the board of trade, but
localise (hey believe that the interests
)f the country would he best served by
he estahlishm<%it of the desired minis
try. There is no inclination to dispar
ipe the good work performed by (he
lepartment, which has rendered great
■ervices to commerce. Few people arc
iware of the varied (Juties intrusted,to
Jie care of the hoard of trade; but
(vbat is wanted for commerce is a de
partment, which. shall be in. a position
ii The Demand
11 i
for Bread
g[ is growing greater as the use of Gold I
| ! Medal Flour increases. Bread makers are 1
i making better bread. Bread eaters are eat- ]
\ ing more bread. Both are the result of
g oot l ness of Gold Medal Flour. There (
ore no disappointments. You can always |
W{ depend on the result when the careful (
housewife makes i
Washburn-Crosby’s;
3\ 9 Cold :
Ijgnr fik ;
I II \ the basis of her baking. You can |
B \ \ always be sure of a good meal when |
I B \ ffl bread made from Gold Medal Flour ,
i My \ forms the foundation. Its goodness
I “ii H FI is assured long before it comes to the
bH user. Skilled scientists are constantly
.B testing to secure its high quality. It's I 1
1 the best flour—and always the best. I
V SVE 9 WASHBURN-CROSBY CO.,
| Minneapolis, Minn. |
jfMMIWMMIUMMMtMUHi
Flour
Only choicest finality
such as:
Gold Medal
Ceresota
Gold Coin
Eaco-patent
Straight-choice
Rye
Wheat Graham
Rye Graham
Wholewheat
Buckwheat
Farina
1 fo give its undivided attentloiT to the
furtherance l of commercial interests
Gnly, so that the distinction between
! a hoard of trade as now existing and a
ministry of commerce, ns proposed, is
not a mere mat ter of words, but consti
■ tutes a vital difference in principle.”
NEW USE FOR AUTOMOBILE.
Hnrirltn Carriage of ffrmpatead
(L, I.) Man Hade to Pomp Water
for Family Needs.
It has remained for H. J. Dietz, a
lamp manufacturer of ftempstead,
L. 1., to turn a four horse-power
automobile into a farm implement.
One of Mr. Dietz’ workmen on his
Hempstead place pumps water with
the ca# from a well 22 feet deep into
a reservoir 55 feet high, making a
total lift of 77 feet. For 15 days it
has pumped each day 500 gallons of
water in addition to carrying Mr.
Dietz many miles over the roads.
During the early part of this month
Mr. Dietz’ gasoline engine, which
tised to pump the water, broke down.
It looked ns if there would be a wa
ter famine on the place, and Mr.
Dietz was just contemplating mov
ing his family and horses to the city
until the pump could be fixed when
he hit upon the idea of using his
automobile.
PERFUMED STATUES A FAD.
French Sculptors Curry Esthctlclnm
to a Remarkable Extent In Ca
tering to Popular Taste.
The latest notion among Parisian
sculptors is to perfume as well as
color their feminine figures. The
practice of tinting the marble has
been gaining in favor with French
sculptors to such an extent that in
the last few years a pure white stat
ue, particularly if representing a
woman, has been a rarity.
The younger men, in their desire
to produce something ultra-esthetic,
mix their paints with oil specially
prepared with powerful perfumes,
thus giving an touch of realism
to the statues by making an appeal
to the sense of smell ns well as to
that of sight. The true Parisian is
an enthusiastic advocate of perfume.
Retreat tor Aged Musicians,
The asylum for aged musicians,
built in Milan with Verdi’s money,
will be opened on February 27, 1903,
with four women ami five men. There
is room for 100, but not till the end
of a decade will the funds be suffi
cient to provide for that number.
The men in the home will wear
clothes and hats similar to Verdi’s.
The room set aside as a museum al
ready contains many interesting
things, including the several pianos
which Verdi played on at various
periods.
Feed
Always large and com
plete stock of:
Bran
( Red Dog
' Middl. < Flour
( Standard
Corn Meal
Pea Meal, Oil Meal
Ground Corn & Oats
Ground Cob Corn
Ground Oats
Screenings
Cracked Wheat
Cracked Corn
Blood Meal
Meat Meal
Meat and Bone
Cr. Oyster Shells
Stock Food
Poultry Food, Etc.,
CROWNS AMERICAN GIRL.
Mrs. Caroline P. Wallace, After Cir
cling the Globe, Declares Our
Women Excel All Others.
“The American girl is the mostbeau
tiful on earth. Her fullness of health
and vigor and spirit command the ad
miration of both sexes all over the
warld, while Indian girls are shriveled,
wrinkled and ready to die at 18.”
In these words Mrs. Caroline P. Wal
lace, who has made a study of the
women of every quarter of the globe,
crowned the American girl as queen of
her kind, and pleaded for help in the
! effort being made to restore childhood
to the Indian children who are forced
into wifehood at ages at which the
American child is playing with her
china dull.
Mrs. Wallace was speakingat a meet
ing of the Chicago section of the ludo-
American Woman’s Restoration league,
held at the Palmer house.
“These splendid girls are the mothers
of the nation, and their influence on
affairs is immeasurable,” continued the
speaker.
“Now think of this beautiful Ameri
can girl having been a wife for ten
years at 18, just as she is on the thres
hold of young womanhood. Think of
-this and you will have a picture of the
Indian woman at 18. But many of the
Indian child 1 wives do not Live to be
even 18. Many more are wrinkled old
grandmothers at 20. At 25 those who
have survived their long years of
agonized wifehood have not even a
remnant of beauty' or symmetry of
figure left.
“The Indian widow is a soeial out
cast. She is blamed for the death of
her husliand. She is everybody’s slave.
To marry her would be to lose your
caste. They' think mothers-in-law are
bad enough over here, but in India the
child wife is the servant, the slave of
the mother-in-law. The Indian wife
is her husband’s slave; the American
wife is her husband’s peer in most
things. The Indian husband is wor
shiped by his wife as her god; the
American wife is often called ‘divine’
by the devoted husband.”
Rich Ores In Heart of Paris.
A remarkable discovery has just
been made by M. Brette, chief engi
neer of the Metropolitan under
ground railway of Paris. During the
extensive excavations under the op
era he found indications of the pres
ence of gold. The geological forma
tion includes marl, limestone, argile,
native sulphur and argentiferous
sand. A block of gypsum crystal was
also found under the Place de la Ke
publique. 1!. Brette has presented his
collection to the school of mines.
Whether mining operations will be
commenced has not yet been de
cided.
Seeds
Certainly are A No. \ seed, it
will pay yon to call and inspect
onr line.
Wheat, Peas, Corn
Rod Clover
White Clover
Mangel Wurzel
Aisyke, Timothy
Turnips, Beans
Carrots, Kuta Baga
Lawn Grass
Garden Seeds
Potatoes
lleg to call special attention
to a variety of Seed Potatoes.
These are from Waupaca conn
ty and will pay yon to plant
them.
SILK HATS IN JAPAN.
Some Queer Specimen* Are Worn bp
Men Who Affect European
Fashion*.
The Japan Weekly Advertiser has
a few words to say about the aping
of western customs by the Japanese
and takes for its text the foreign
clothes seen on citizens of the flow
ery empire. It says:
“Men of fair status are frequently
to be seen wearing silk hats of ante
diluvian pattern, with ordinary na
tive costume down to geta and zori.
“As for the hats, where the blocks
come from it. a mystery, but the fact
remains that a Bowery or White
chapel tough would be ashamed to
go abroad in some of the abortions
masquerading ns ‘bowlders’ and ‘top
pers,’ which are os common as per
simmons in Japan,
“Here is a case where the natives
cannot excuse themselves on the
ground that they have no model to
go by. A glance at the first for
eigner should be sufficient to teach
them that a hard hat worn over the
ears, and measuring scarcely more
than two inches in height from the
brim to the crown, is not a fashion
aide adjunct of European costume in
the twentieth century, though it
might have been so 30 years ago.”
The wearing of a silk hat. with a
kimono is, says the Advertiser, "the
outward and visible sign of a certain
intellectual inaptitude.”
AMERICAN SHOE INDUSTRY.
The Output of Footwear In Till*
Country la Something
Enormous,
The books, shoes and slippers made
by machinery in the United Slates
every year would provide a pair of
some kind for more than one-seventh
of tlie inhabitants of the earth. If
they were arranged by pairs, heels
and toes touching, they would make
a belt that would encircle the globe,
with enough "to spare to stretch
across the North American continent
from New York to San Francisco.
Placed singly, heel and toe, they
would go around the world two and
a half times. If placed on the tracks
of our great trunk railroads, the
rights on one rail and the lefts on
the other, they would cover the irons
from the Atlantic to the Pacific of all
the continental lines that now cross
our country, says a shoe journal.
The hides and skins used to form
this immense quantity of shoes come
from all over the world, but chiefly
from (he East Indies, Sontli America
and Europe, and if they were sewed
together in one sheet they would
make a tent large enough to cover
Manhattan island.
Northern Grain Company
Our entire stock is of the best to be purchased in their respective
line. It is to the interest of everyone to call on us whenever in need
of anything in our line, as we are confident we can fill your wants satis
factorily.
Merchants throughout the city and county handling our line of
Flour are doing good business and if you have not already ad
vised us, your intention of doing same, DO SO AT ONCE.
Farmers can always find what thev want in the line of Feed at our
warehouse and are welcome to give us a call.
Goods delivered to any part of the city.
Grain
All kinds:
Wheat, Rye
Corn, Oats
Barley
Peas White
Peas Green
Peas Scotch
Cob Corn
Whole Buckwheat
Whole Flax
NORTHERN GRAIN CO.
Near Tenth Street Bridge Manitowoc Wisconsin
Telephone 100
VERY SAD, SAD SCENE
Little Child Chokes to Death While
Her Classmates Pray.
Brooklyn Sunday School I* Tamed
Into a Memorial Service for Child,
Who Geta a WhlNtlinK Bal
loon In Her Throat.
A remarkable scene was enacted In
the Sunday school of the Ainalee Street
Presbyterian church, in the Williams
burg section of Brooklyn. A short
time before Emma Rausch, nine years
old, left home for Sunday school. On
the way she l>ought a penny whistling
balloon. This she took into her class,
and while inflating it for the amuse
ment of her mates, the wooden mouth
piece' slipped into her throat. She
gasped, and pain and fear showed In
her eyes. The children became
alarmed, and their exclamations of
fright attracted the attention of
Charles Pollert, superintendent of the
Sunday school. He called to a trustee
of the church andthey worked to extri
cate the toy from the throat of the
fast choking child. Not until she l>e
camc unconscious was it believed that
her condition was critical. Physicians
were hastily summoned, but could not
extract the toy. When they announced
that death was near, Rev. R. S. Dawson
raised li is hand and asked that all kneel
and pray. Then he prayed aloud and
fervently for the soul that was passing
Itefore their eyes.
The child’s parents, wjto had been
sent for, entered as the clergyman was
about to begin his prayer. The moan
ing was clear to them, and they knelt
sobbing beside their child. And
on the wings of t lie prayer of
their playmates and friends the child's
soul was borne away to its Maker.
Tenderly the body was carried into an
adjoining room, and Dr. Dawson led
the awestricken congregation in a. me
morial service in place of the regular
Sunday school exercises.
NEW CAR-LIGHTING SYSTEM.
Device Teilfd on Stew York Ontrnl
for (irnerntluH Electricity
from Car Axles.
Representatives from many rail
roads have witnessed a successful
demonstration of a device for light
ing railroad cars with electricity. The
invention was tested on a run over
tlie New York Central to Croton and
return, and ihe system will shortly
be adopted.
The light is generated by n dy
namo operated by a belt connected
With tlie axle of the, ear. When the
train stops the lights are supplied
from storage batteries, in the car. A
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Hay
Only best grade Q f
choice
Timothy
N. 15. We pay highest
market price for good
Timothy.
Straw
Line consists of
Kye
Oat
Wheat
Can fill your order with
any of the above line.
speed of only 12 miles an hour is
needed to generate sufficient elec
tricity to light the lamps. The sur
plus obtained at a higher rate of
sped is used to recharge the bat
teries.
The car used in the test was
eqniped with 23 lamps of 16-cnndle
power each. During the trip 4fi stops
were made and no appreciable differ
ence was noticed in the brilliancy of
the lights.
PLANS NEW BATTLESHIPS.
The (imtinn Naval Authorities Take
the l ulled Sintra Veaarla
fur Model*.
The German navy's new, design
for battleships is generally similar
to that of the Alabama, of the United
States navy. It abandons turrets for
small guns. The vessels will l>e about
24,500 tons, or 1,500 tons heavier than
the battleships of the “M" group now
building. The details of their arma
ment. are not disclosed, except that
the main batteries will consist of
four 12-incb guns nnd that they will
mount numerous 7.40-inch guns.
The first of this type of warship,
which is called the “N” group, will
be laid down as soon as the naval
budget is passed, probably in April.
The budget authorizes the construc
tion of two battleships, one of which
will be the fiftli of the. “M" group,
consisting of seven ships.
FAST RAILROAD TALKERS,
Tell About SivJft llldra on (he Hull
mid “lilt It Tp" nt a
tin-lit Knte.
A group of railroad men In New
Orleans were talking about the fast
est rides they ever experienced, says
the Times-Democrat. On 1 - man in re
lating his experiences, said: "Across
bayous nnd through marshes wo
rushed like mad. When we reached
the lligolets the most remarkable
tiling 1 ever saw took place. Tho
train was traveling so fast it sucked
the water up behind it as it rushed
across the trestle, and I could hear
the fishes groan ns we flew over this
neck of the gulf. Most remarkable
tiling I ever saw in the way of fast
runs." And he lapsed into alienee. “I
am glad you reminded mo of that
run," said another member of the
group. “1 bad forgotten the incident.
I can vouch for all you say, for I was
on the hack end of the last coach,
and the water which was sucked in
behind the train by the vacuum al
most washed mo overboard, but I
held on all right, and when we made
flic crossing and flic wafers had re
ceded, I picked up on the platform of
the rear coach the finest bunch of
fish I ever saw. They were no doubt
(tie fish you heard groaning.”
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CERESOTAFLOUR
Salt
Medium No. i
Fine No. i
No. 3
Package Salt by the bbl.
in 5 and io pound sacks.
THEY MAKE BETTER WIVES.
Women of Ep-to-D>tr Taatea aii4
Habits Preferable to the Old-
Fashioned One*.
“Let old-fashioned people croak a*
they will," remarked a well-known
literary woman lately, Bays Cassell’s
Journal, “but in my opinion the mod
ern girl is a great advance on the
maidens of a generation ago.
“Freedom and fresh air have
made her more self-reliant and
healthier in tone. She may be more
hoydenlsh, but she is less hysterical.
Instead of working samplers or shed
ding sickly tears over sentimental
novels, she is out and about getting
an insight into the world and its
ways.
“Asa result she makes i, good wife,
one who can share her husband a
tastes, understand his difficulties and
act as his chum and partner. Tho
wife of the past was too often a
childish, sentimental woman, with so
little knowledge of the * world that
she was quite helpless if it was her
fate to be deprived of her husband's
support. Hut to-day it is not an un
common thing to find women as
capable in business as their hus
bands."
Carious Old F. nitllsh Custom.
An old custom for which Wotton
churchyard, England, is famous, was
observed recently for the one hun
dred and eighty-fi 'th time. Twelve
hoys of the parish assembled in tho
churchyard, and, with their fingers
upon the tomb of William Glanville,
repented the Creed, tho Lord s Prayer,
the Ten Commandments and after
wards rend the fifteenth chapter of
the First Epistle to the Corinthians,
nnd wrote two verses of the same,
William Qlanville left in his will 110
each for five boys who should suc
cessfully perform the task. Ibis
number was afterward increased to
seven.
First Known of the DnJilla.
A strange spindly plant with nod
ding little flowers was sent from tho
City of Mexico to the Madrid botan
ical garden in 1784, nnd, being new
to the botanists, was named Dahlia,
after Dahl, a Swedish botanist. Flor
ists soon noticed tlit* great possibil
ity of variation in the flower in color
nnd size, but it w..s rare in Europe
until Humboldt brought from Mexico
a quantity of the seed.
Drills of Southern Cities.
The debts of most southern states
diminish slowly, but the debts of
southern cities are not generally
considerable. New Orleans owes $lB,-
000,000; Louisville, $8,000,000; Kansas
City, $0,000,000; Memphis, $3,300,000;
Atlanta, $3,300,000, aud Nashville,
$3,500,000.
Land Plaster
Are just in receipt of a
car load of Land Plaster.
Patrons can get any quan
tity desired.