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VERNONCOUNTYCENSOR
n. <4. Munson, Publisher.
VIROQUA, - WISCONSIN.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
BADGER BRIEFS.
Generious Pcrr was instantly killed
at Peshtigo, i>y beitig caught between
two logs which rolled from a logging
car.
Deputy Slate Fish and Game \\ ar
den William Haslam is arranging to
hold a sale of confiscated property at
Green Bay. •
Assistant Supervisor Herman Stehn
of Manitowoc has filed his resigna
tion because of his election as cashier
of the new state bank at Mishicott.
The state Itoard of control finished
acting upon forty applications made
for parnte by inmates of the Wiscon
sin state reformatory. Of this mini
her twenty-five were paroled.
Charles Schaefer, aged 24 years, a
railroad employe, was run over by an
Omaha switch engine at Altoona.
Both legs were cut off. He was
taken to the Matt Claire hospital and
may die.
A bill allowing rural letter carriers
s;}t>o a year additional to what they
now receive in compensation to
cover "cost of equipment" was intro
duced in the house by Representative
Kopp ot Wisconsin.
Marcella Gttyott, a working girl at
the iaiw hotel at Ist Crosse, ate rat
biscuit in an attempt to commit sui
cide because of alleged unrequited
love. A physician with a stomach
pump saved her life.
•Edward Quinn, a fireman at the
sash and door plant of the It Mc.Wil
len company of Oshkosh, Is dead as
the result of burns received in a lire
at the plant. August Zushlke, assist
ant fireman, was badly burned.
Game Warden G. W Itickemaii re
ports that Deputy Game Warden F M.
Perry attested .lude WVlscli, chief of
police of Marshfield, for haying deer
In violation of law. Welsch entered
a plea of guilty and was fined $25 and
costs.
So tense lias become the feeling of
rivalry between the River Falls and
New Richmond high schools that
Prof. .1 T Antes of River Falls has
declared off the debate that was to
have taken place between tile two
schools in the spring.
William Kalis, a Kenosha man, re
leased from the state prison at M'au
pun after serving eighteen months on
a charge of grand larceny, was ar
rested again on the sane- charge.
The police here believe that Kalis has
a mania for robbing his relatives.
Warren H. Bates, engineer at ihe
state reformatory at Green Bay, was
opening a door of a furnace wnen an
explosion of gas occurred. The flames
burned his hands, neck and face. Al
bert Schwenterberger, an Inmate, suc
ceeded In smothering the (lames wltn
a burlap mat.
I.outs Derdabian ,a Greek proprie
tor of a clubhouse, became suddenly
insane and started in to wreck the in
terior of the clubrooms. He hau
broken eh a Ira, tables, beds and disnes
when the iiollce were called and he
was locked tip Claims are made that
he was drugged by some person un
known.
Kerosene poured into a heating
stove that happened to have live
coals caused the explosion of the kero
sene can at the home of Henry Gott
stein of Monroe with the result that a
young son. Henry, aged 1 years, died
. two hours later from rearful burns
and tl)i> lather is In the hospital wltn
his arms and b-gs severely burned.
John Shida, a Jap, was arrested at
Madison on charge of assnult on r. u
Johnson with intent to do great bodily
harm. He ran up on Johnson front
behind and beat him over the head
with a weapon which he had tied m
his handkerchief. He was enraged
because Johnson, foreman of a trails
fer bne, would not give aim enioiov.
ment.
Charged with manslaughter in the
second degree, as one of the counts m
an alleged criminal operation case,
Dt. Iviias G. Cole of Fairchild, was ar
raign -and for a hearing in Justice Merit
man's court at Eau Claire. The case
grows out of the sudden death of Mrs
Maud. Bennett at Mcrrillan, on Aug.
25. The doctor pleaded not guilty.
The ease was adjourned to Feb. 24.
Denying that he had any intention
of injuring his wife or children hut
admitting that he had planned to
commit suicide. Joseph Froitk, a
former hotel man who created a 4>n.
sation by threats of murdering hi>
family, whom he followed to Frank
lin. was sentenced to four months in
the county jail at Manitowoc prolik
was charged with carrying conceal. <t
weapon*.
William Wend land, son of Mr anu
Mis. Wendland, of the town of Wena
land. Sheboygan county who
kicked in the head by a horse tyeloug
ing to George Herzog, died at St
Nicholas' hospital. Wendland was
employed by George Herzog, a
butcher, and was hitching th- team
when otic of the horses kicked him.
injui Ing his skull and causing n s
death. I!.- was 21 years of age.
DOMESTIC.
John Mend -I. a merchant id Cl. v.
land. Ohio, died n , t ain as it as
rived in St Louis item 'lot Si.rti
Ark.
An explosion, which caused injure
to two gunners mates ~
aboard th, Battleship Virginia while
filing a salute off Gnantanania Cna
| Bernard G'llespie of Law ,n<.v Ik .
lib. during a quarrel in a resort at
Vinci nrc . it-d.. shot tCi r- .1- ,
through the head and t.e< rg, ,
haig and William Mdey through tin
thigh. Jones died in a hospital
’•'j k men. thm white and ..tie ,
negro, were kill d'hy the collaps- of
wall of a burning building at Fr. d
ricktow!!. Mo, £ T-o bnildmgv were
destroyed w ith a loss ot The
dead men were volunteer firemen.
George 'Sully of New- Brunswick,
N. L. one of a qudrtet of acrobats,
broke his neck during their act at
a Newark, N. J. theater. He fen
from a chair on top of a table to the
stage. An examination at the hospi
tal showed his neck was broken.
Peter t'hristensen has the distinc
tion of having carried a silver dollar
in his body six day s. He accidentally
swallowed it at a party while playing
the parlor game, "Hide the Doll;.-,
fse of the X ray failed to locate the
coin which passed entirely through
the boy’s body.
V magnificent new home for the ,
Harvard Lampoon was opened ant. 1
dedicated at Cambridge, Mass., with I
notable exercises, in which many ot j
the former editors of the paper took j
part Former Governor Curtis Guild, I
,lr., acted as toastmaster at the ban
quet which followed.
W S. Caul lost his life in a fire at
Noonan, X. It. when rh<- lamp in his
room in the Great Northern hotel was
overturned The blaze Ir-canu* so
tierce that the firemen were unable to
rescue him. The (treat Northern ho
le!. Rouse's millinery store and the
Hagen poolroom were destroyed, -witn
s7,sfifi loss
Tne body of John F. Johnson, for
.<i.-r president of the Bl&te National
bank of I organs port. hid., was found
floating in the Wabash river. John
son served six years in prison follow
ing his confession that he had embez
zled $550,000 of the. hank's funds.
Recently he had been a grain broker
It is presumed he committed suicide
Louis Ostendorf, owner and director
of the Empire theater orchestra at In
dianapolis, shot and killed an Italian
violinist named Casca at the entrance
to the theater Casca, who had been
dismissed from the orchestra, had
fired two sho's into the director's
abdomen, when Ostendorf wrested
the revolver front his assailant and
killed him Ostendorf is said to he
fatally wounded.
FOREIGN.
William Jennings Bryan, his wile
and daughter, arrived at Santiago,
Chile.
Former President Zelayr. of Nina
ragua has arrived at Madrid and win
shortly join Ills wife at Brussels,
The French aeroplane constructors
have decided jointly to send a Inwver
to the United States to defend French
interests in the suits brought by the
Wright brothers
Robert Voting, formerly an employe
of ihe Panama railroad company and
secretary of the Colombian Trust
company of Panama, shot and killed
his wife and himself in the room they
were occupying at a ho <1 a t Caracas,
Venezuela.
On at Britain and France have made
joint formal and friendly recom
mendations to China that that gov
ment should not proceed with the
Chin-Chow and Aigtin railway schemes
without taking under consideration
•he w ishes of Russia and Japan.
Mohammed Abdullah of Somaliland,
tit*- Mad Mullah" Is again on the
warpath A big force of Dervishes
has raided the sultanate of the Ml-
Jertins, killing and burning in all di
rections. The slaughter of the tribes
men was heavy. One whole town was
destroyed by fire and 14.000 camels
were taken by the Dervishes.
The Belgian chamber of deputies
by a vote of 79 to 40, passed the
Congo budget. It provides for no
change in the system or raising reve
nue by compulsory labor. M lauand
refused to vote, explaining ilia- uic
debate on the budget had proven mat
no effective control was exercised
owr the Belgian administration ot
Belgian Congo.
Il, hn Redmond, the Irish nationalist
leader, has found himself unable to
guarantee the nationalists support of
tie- budget in case its tncreased
whisky tax is retained, according to a
r- ! orl that went the political you ms
in support of this report was a confer
cu e between Premier Vsquith amt
King Edward and a second ce-'erenee
between T. p. O'Connor and Lloyd
corge, author of the budget.
Count M. de Periguy, noted archae
ologist, who arrived at Belize, British
Honduras, reports that he has discov
• red a wonderful buried city in Guate
mala. rhe city 's two miles beyond
Beetiqt.e Viejo, the last town on the
Iron tier of British Honduras The
ruins ~f the ancient city are hurled
under a dense mass of brush and
fees. Some of the trees are large
showing, Count de Periguy declares
Speedy Craft for Life Savers
i
v...tr-1-i ~ ; rortTAlM.i'
\-vv York Foil !■ ■ : otnc
latirii h company of Bayoi.nc \ ,i - la ..
jus completed four 3C-foot power
lifeboats for the United ’rates lfp
~av:ng service and on ■ ot the same
type for the Can.-n'i m service, built
from plans and specif!, at ions prepared
’-> Captain C. II Mel-ellan, who su
perintends the construction of ail
-boats and life saving apnarius for
the United States life sa ing service
Or of the but boats to be delivered
that tfie city has been abandoned fo
centuries.
The Journal of Russian Commerce
and Industry, the organ of th - min
istry of finance (joints a warning to
Russian emigrants of alleged fats’-
representations, made by Hawaiian
immigration agents who promise htga
w ;g<vs on the farms of Hr wall anu
other conditions favorable to Russian
immigrants. Hawaiian immigration
agents are active among the colonists
in Manchuria.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.
’"he Berlin Machine works will th - ,
y ea) erect a fine office building.
(). B. Olson has started a tobacco
factory at Menominee, Mich., for the
manufacture of chewing and smoking
tobacco.
The Hnmbird. Wis, Roller mills
were sold by O. M. Hein to Martin
Jacobson of Grand Rapids, the consid
eration being $7,000.
The Adell Canning company of
Adell. Wis.. will begin this coming
season canning corn. This line has
not been followed hitherto hut this
year corn canning machinery will be
! ns tailed.
The (Jir'i.u Manufacturing company
has been incorporated at Eau ('latre
with a eapital of $25,000 for the manu
facturing and selling cement mixing
and other kinds of machinery. A
plant will lie erected >r the near
future.
The Bay Cold Storage com
pany lias been .organized with a capi
tal stock of $20,000 to do a genera!
piibli' storage and warehouse busi
ness in this city. The company win
operat • the cold storage plant of the
Stevens company, an addition having
just been completed.
The Optenberg Iron works has se
cured a contract to remodel the en
tire power plant of the Oosthnrg Can
ning company of Oostburg. Anew
150 horsepower Corliss engine and an
additional new boiler will Ik- installed.
When completed the plant will be in
creased from 20 to 150 horsepowet.
A number ot farmers about Baratio .-
are investigating the advisability of
establishing a warehouse and ma
chine depot. To perfect the ot .aniza
t ion 200 men are required to lake
that number of shares at $25 each.
The warehouse is to take care of the
produce. A canvass for stock is fit--
ing made.
he annual meeting of the New
Richmond Park association developed
that the limit .\*>yv Richmond fair, the
only fair in St. Croix county, ran be
hind. and there is now a deficit of $2,-
HOOJ. It was practically decided
that there will lie no fair in New
Richmond this year unless better lo
cal support is immediately forth-emit
lug.
The capital stock of the Chippewa
Valley Railway. Light and Bower
company of Eau Claire lias been dou
bled to $2,000,000 to provide funds to
make the many big improvements
planned by the company, including
the erection of anew (tower plant and
•lam im the Red Cedar river, near
.Menomonie. the current from whicn
Will lie Utilized at EuuV'lHire Menom
oule and Red Wing. Minn
OBITUARY.
David Thompson, a well known
business man of Black River Falls,
aged 55 years, is dealt.
Hern-. \\ ansing, 54 years old. post
master of the village of New Munster
for ov't twenty years, is dead.
Henry Schumacher, aged 72 years, a
pioneer of Wisconsin territorial
(lavs, is dead at Kaukauna. He came
with his parents from Germany tn
lx 12. settling on the old homestead
taint which is still occupied by his
xistir, Mrs. Jacob Dietzler.
Hugh Finn died at his home tit
xl -' : 1 tiff. Ight strokes
ot paralysis, is dead Tit was a rest
•lent of Marinette for forty-four
y-'ais and the father ol George l-’tmi
superintendent ot ill Sawy-;-Good
man company.
Mrs. Ann Crane, one of the pio
neers of Dover. Racine county, died,
aged 7tt years. She was one of the
best known women of the county.
Ib’r hits.and. Walter Crane, a
w -althy farmer. died only seven
wci'ks auo.
Judge Martin I. Bundy, aged
one of the survivors of the convention
which launched the Republican party,
tiicti at Newcastle, lud. Judge Bundy
was an intimate triettd of Indiana s
wav governor, Oliver p Morton, and
had been identified with the politics
el the state as legislator and jndgt
for many years.
i- named the Indomitable, and was
built for the tvewes (Del.) life saving
station The Indomitable has the v*>
or.j for a fast coastwise trip. Th--
beau are of the self-righting, s,
hailing type and are considered bv
experts to embody everything that it
is possible to obtain in the wav or
seaworthy qualities, efficiency in or
oration and safety, they being th
last rail in -he form of a boat for res
t tie during a heavy set.
WHY TRAINS ARE
' LATE IN WINTER
BLOCK SIGNALS SOMETIMES GET
OUT OF ORDER AND
CAUSE DELAY.
..
AND LOCOMOTIVES ARE HARD
TO STEAM IN COLD
WEATHER.
“Why are passenger trains almost
invariably off their schedule during (
the winter season?” was the question
propounded to a practical railroad
man.
To answer that question exhaus
tively woul 1 const me many columns
of space,” was the eply. Eliminating
the causes fer delays which are ot
minor importance, I will tell you
something about what happens to a
passenger train cm its run from one
terminal to another, say of 300 m'les,
he continued. “When passengers,
mail and baggage are ail loaded and
inspection shows the steam heat
pipes are in operation as w r ell as alt
the pipes of the throbbing locomotive
ahead, the conductor’s high halls' and
the long train shoots out from the
station. Threading its way out, the
train finally reaches the city iiintts
and a dear track. Often trains lose
time? during this stretch of slow run
ning, this due to the interlocking
plants and switches working slowly
and perhaps frozen. When headed
straightway, the engineer hopes that
he will he able to make up some ot
the delay. Does he do it? Not otten.
More often he loses. An aggravating
source of delay is *be electric blocks.
These delicately constructed safe
guards, are easily put out of business
by extreme cold, and when out of or
der. they show danger’ by dropping
their semaphore arm Unless they
are known to he out of order, the en
gineer must slow down to walking
speed and feel his way around curves
until assured that there is nothing in
his way. This procedure consumes
valuable time. Stations where stops
are mad**, the wait Is longer than
usual. Baggagemen can not load and
unload trunks in winter time with
their cold, numbed hands as they can
in the good old summer time. Trains
carry ing express, have au added delay
for tlie same reason. A few additional
minutes are wasted through this pro
cedure. Multiplied by many stops,
anil the delay becomes considerable.
“The engineer and firemen are
happy despite all this delay, if they
can see the steam gauge keep about
175 to 204), but if the frigid atmos
phere and the heavy pull of tin? train,
due to chilled journals, tracks covered
with snow, etc., develop lung trouble
in their engine, then the crews have
cause for depression. If the lutes Be
gin to leak or for some other reason,
duo to the cold weather, the engine
will not steam, and the pressure drop's
to the neighborhood of a hundred
pounds, then the speed of the train
begins to perceptibly slacken untli
it drops to 20 to 25 miles per hour.
Perhaps the engine becomes com
pletely dead and it is necessary to
substitute another engine. This is
usually miles away and many minutes
are consumed before the exchange is
■made or the double heafft-r coupled.
“Even while standing at stations,
'-he condensed steam in the air and
steam heat pipes, or the water in the
injector pipes, freezes and has to be
thawed out. This requires time. The
operators along the road, also have a
distressing habit of blocking trains
by their inattention to duty, keeping
tin- stopboard out too long and tn
other ways arousing the ire of the
engineer and increasing delays. Coat
of the quality essential to make steam
is not always obtainable during winter
when there is a famine on. The
roads have to take what they can get,
not what they or the engine crews
want. If there is more dirt than coat,
it is up to the fireman to curse and he
usually makes the air blue, while
there is a noisy chorus from the engi
neer's side.
"When one train is late, it lays out
others. Meeting points have to he
changed, and the whole schedule is
disarranged. Everything goes wrong
and everybody gets out of humor
atui ‘balls' out everybody else. Rail
roading in w inter time is anything but
a joyous forever. There is b.g money
in it for tlie men who handle the
trains as they are given much extra
work ly reason .of cold weather. They
would willingly forego the money,
however, for the presence of more
agreeable weather. Passengers who
become annoyed by reason of long
waits at stations for their trains and
long delay n arriving at their desti
nations would lose much of their
anger if they could take a ride in the
engine and see what the eagle eye,
* si*e< utlh hose on drag freights,
haw to contend with. Then if thoy
have time, let them follow a switen
mtn up ami down the ice and snow
v.veivd ds or a dejected shame
w Hi a flop- bucket walking a mile to
lV >•; a ho o\ with the temperature
2o ;i-low -o. Oh. it's a gay life on
the -ail e w inter 1 don't think.
' Often t: ;i\e power is poor—worn
out That adds to the sorrows of
tr:>intn- n s lives. Companies seek to
- p flow: vpenses, and rolling stock
-t io ; > -.jfers. But, do you know,
1 ■ -.g the finest of engines
'■ ’-.tii ,t n schedules all frazzled
ter. A train from Madi-
SO! > tttay .tn hour or two late into
• •'.v.uo eastern liters arrive
■ : .s or more much behind
*ke ! • -s here ate not t xcep
-1 V- ■ ar trail; from Chicago
--• # X York 10 hours late, and
• vice versa
it : T he gentle railway men may
be; Why, an elderly lady was warn
ing in the Northwestern depot for a
(laughter coming from the east, the
other night ,and one of the clerks
not only told her the train was twelve
hours late, hut actual}- escorted her
home personally, many blocks away,
in the darkness. Roads may he soui
le s but the men who run them are
tar from it.”
Newspaper country Club. '
ix-troit News-Tribune —The hun
dredth anniversary of lt3 corporate
existence is being celebrated this
week by St. lands, and as an action
appropriate to so interesting an oc
casiou the St. Louis Republic prints
the results of an exhaustive investi
gation it has made into he age of
long-established newspapers in tne
United States.
It finds there are no less tnan
eight y-twg> American newspapers
which are JOO or more years old. Of
these, the Republic itself is the one
located the farthest west. Fifty-rive
are daily papers and .-ven
weeklies. More than half of the num
ber are located in New Vork, Penn
sylvania and Ohio, the after state
having nine, of which one, the Day
ton Herald of Gospel l.ber'y, is a re
ligious paper
the oldest papers or ail are the
Philadelphia North American ana
Saturday Evening Post, both of which
claim 1728 as the year of their es
tablishment.
Of the fifty-five dailies, thirty-two
are Republican, eighteen Democratic
and five independent. Of the twenty
six secular weeklies, thirteen are
Democratic, ten Republican, two in
dependent and one a literary publi
cation. The New Market Shenan
doah Valley is located in a town of
only 684 inhabitants, being the only
paper 100 years old in the country
published in a place of less than 1,000
population. The Gazette of Alexan
dria, Va.. has been owned and ed
ited by the Snowden family tor 109
years the editorship having become
hereditary in the family, a record ot
which that of the Republic is the
only duplicate.
In all, eighteen states are repre
sented in the list of eighty-two pa
pers, Delaware and North Carolina
being the only ones of the original
thirteen states which are without
representation.
SOME BIG PLAYS AT FARO.
Gamblers Whom Fortune Has Jolted
Hard in One Night
New York Telegraph.—Broadway
sporting men were pretty generally
agreed yesterday in discussing the
case of one Martin Bell, who is now in
bankruptcy courts, that if as set forth
he lost SIOO,OOO in one night’s play at
faro banks he comes very near holding
the recent record. Big faro games in
the east are like lobctcis in Ireland,
there aren’t any more. But there have
been plays that top Air. Bell's and the
big amounts in most cases went to the
house.
“I saw Phil Dwyer,” said an old
Broadway card fancier last night,
“'make the biggest losing in a given
time that I ever heard or. It was up
in Saratoga when Canfield’s palace
was in its heydey.
‘‘Dwyer, with a big roil, sat down
to play at 6 In the evening. Ke said he
felt lucky and wanted no limit. The
roof forthwith ,vas made the schedule.
Dwyer began in a moderate way- and
he lost. Then he doubled and later
doubled again as his losses increased.
It was precisely at It o’clock that he
got up a loser for just SIIO,OOO.
"He merely remarked that it wasn't
his night and walked out,” a director
of the Saratoga track said.
Quite a number of players were
busy and he joined them. He still was
playing the bank when the next train
arrived, and as he was out close to
SIO,OOO, he stayed. The losing streak
stayed also, and for two hours longer.
At the end of that time lie signed for
$02,000 in losses.
Reginald Vand< rblll’s reputed I<
which came out about the time of the
“drunken kid” incident in the Can
field trial, ran into the hundreds of
thousands, but a large proportion of
the play was at the wheel. In this
connection the play of John Samford
in Canfield’s place is worth remark.
Sanford played the wheel at SI,OOO a
whirl on the colors, and won nineteen
straight times out of twenty.
The whole session lasted less than
half an hour and Sanford's profits
were almost as great as an alienists'
at a millionaire murder trial.
Plays on from SSOO to $25,000 have
not been uncommon in this city when
the big games were running
The bigg s* play in the country ai
the present time is generally conceded
to be in Hot Spring, Ark. Swede Sam
dropped in $60,000 there in a few
weeks at faro, and his losses were by
no means regarded as records.
In Tonopah Frank Golden. the
banker and plunger, four years ago
lost SIOO,OOO in George Wingfield’:!
place at faro. On bis way toward the
floor he bumped by accident into the
roulette wheel and took it for an
omen of good luck.
”1 want to roll for $100,000,” he
said, “Does it go?”
The man dropped bis white hail
and went to see Wingfield.
“Who’s the player?” said Wing
field.
■ Frank Golden," said the piil roller ;
"Play him as far as he wants to go |
The whole place is the limit.”
Golden was accommodated and I
called red for his choice. It rolled!
black and he departed *200.00) <hv on'
the afternoon.
Charles Knickerbocker, well known I
in the west as the preacher, lawyre.
Cores Biliousness, Sick I*l T y*.* Cleanses the systne
Headache, Sour Stem- II JT I FV II thoroughly and clears
ach, Torpid Liver and mm B W* sallow complexions of
Chronic Cov- *tion f ~-y (>■■* v V r ’rffy pimples and blotche*
For sale by A. J. Johnson. Viroqua. Wis.
-ambler and the man who has said
prayers over more dead miners than
any man in the section, went up
against iaro and roulette in Ter Rick
ard's place in Goldfield in the same
year and in two days he separated
himself from s92.o*>t) In the palmy
days at Long Branch iarge plays were
the nightly rule at the Pennsylvania
c-lub.
There have been many reputed
losses of much greater size than th--
one-- already cited, but the majority
when sifted out have proved to be mol
tipiied in the telling.
Among the unique things in faro
play is the telephone idea. For in
stance, Dick Bernard, the actor, find
ing himself in Rochester and encoun
tering odd numbers on his dinner
ebec-k called up Lon I.udlaws and mad*
his plays on the trey, six, nine, high
card, and calling the turn. He won
s•’.->0 and got his money when he re
turned to town.
TATTERED TRAVELERS.
“Why did you feed that hobo?” j
"The poor man had no work at
his trade since he left his home in
Switzerland, a year ago.”
“What's his profession?”
’ He's an Alpine guide.”—Cleve
land Leader.
Haversup .More—Weary Walker's
too much of a 'ristocrat fer de busi
ness.
Maney Stepes—What’s he doin’
now?
Haversup More—-Got so he won’t
sleep anywhere ’cept on a flow-er bed.
—Puck.
“Which do you like best," said
Meandering Mike, “de city or de coun-j
try?"
“Well,” answered Plodding Pete,:
"de closeness together of de houses;
in town makes It convenient. But 1 j
likes de country because dere's Just j
about walkin’ enough to give you an j
appetite between handouts.” —Wash-
ington Star.
Wiggs—lt takes my wife to man
age tramps. You should see the wood
she's got cut.
Biggs —How does she work it?
Wiggs—Easily enough. She tells
them such funny stories they laugh
till they split.—Boston Transcript.
Loafer —Can yer spare us a
a’penny, mate?
Workingman—Wotcher want a
a’penny for?
Loafer—’Cos I got one, and I
wants another for the price of ’art a
pint.
Workingman—Ever done a day's
work in yer life?
Loafer —No, gov'nor, cawn't say
as I 'ave.
Workingman—Weil, yer never done
a pore bloke out of a job, anyway;
'ere's yer a’penny. —Punch.
New Sea Superstitions.
London Tit-Bits.—With the advent
of wireless telegraphy there has come
a superstition that bad news may be
warded off if the mast that is a part
of the apparatus is patted thrice w-ith
a palm of the hand.
“Go and ask the cook,” a seaman’s
inevitable reply to all irrelevant ques
tions, has been elaborated in the last
year to “Go and ask the cook’s sis
ter ” and it is related that Captain
Turner of the Lusitania went so far
recently as to alter the time-honored
reply to “Go and ask the ship's cat.”
A minister aboard ship has alw-ays
been taken as a “Jonah sign” by sea
men. In recent years, however, this
superstition has been modified to a
certain extent. A young minister,
the seamen believe, will not bring as
much of a “Jonah” with him as an old
one.
Men on the sailing vessels have al
ways held that scraping or scratching
the mainmast would bring a long peri
od of good weather. Men on the huge
modern steam vessels now similarly
believe that scratching a smokestack
with the finger nail will insure contin
ued fair weather.
One of the oldest sea superstitions
has been connected with the flying of
birds. If the birds flew high that sig
nified good weather; if they skimmed
the water that meant bad weather.
There is gradually spreading among
the seamen a superstition that if any
animal is aboard the vessel bad
weather may be deferred, even if the
birds are flying close to the water, if
the head of the animal is pointed aft
and is held in that direction for some
time.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
fey local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There >a
only one 'ray to cure deafness, and that la
by constitutional remedies. Deafness la
ta.ised by an Inflamed condition of the rao
jotts Mntne of the Eustachian Tube When
this tube Is Inflamed you hare a rumbling
sound or Imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed. Deafness Is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to Its normal condi
tion. hearing will he destroyed forever: nina
.aser out of ten are caused by Catarrh,
which Is nothing hut an Inflamed condition
of the mucous surfaces.
We will g!-e One Hundred Dollars for any
case of 'eafness (caused by Catarrh) that
cannot I* cured by Hall’s' Catarrh Cura.
Send for circulars, free.
C .1. CHE.NET * CO.. Toledo. O.
Bold by Druggists. 78c.
Take Uall's ITaaaliv Puts far coaatlnaUadt
Walsh Forfeits to Kilbatie.
Pittsburg, Keb. 23. —Jimmy Walsa
of Boston, wlin was matched to fight
Johnny Kiibnrte of Cleveland last
night. failed fo appear.
On every typewriter there is a bell
which rings and gives warning wnen
you are approaching the end of tne
dne. What a pity there ;r ?
licit to give men warning in a thou
sand o’her particulars:
Scott’s Emulsion
is the original —has been
the standard for thirty-five
years.
There are thousands of
so-called “just as good"
Emulsions, but they are
not —they are simply imi
tations which are never
as good as the original.
They are like thin milk —
SCOTT’S is thick like a
heavy cream.
If you want it thin, do
it yourself —with water—
but dont buy it thin.
FOE PALE BY ALLDKEGGISIS
Send 10c.. name of pap*r this a;. I r our
beautiful Savins* Bank and Child’s Sk trh-lk*;k.
Each bank contains a Good Luck Penn/.
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WISCONSIN PATENTS.
The following patents babe been
granted to Wisconsin inventors:
Henry B. Bartelsen, Milwaukee
Sled.
George M. Bennett, Kenosha, clay
balast maker.
Peter B. Bogart, Milwaukee, ventil
ator.
Ernest Bruegel, Westfield, wringer
roll.
Leonard P. Coulter. Milwaukee,
electric switch.
George Heger Milwaukee, oscillat
ing motor.
Emil M. Johnson, Waupaca, meat
press.
Philip A. Koehring, Wauwatosa,
mixing machine.
William A. Konemar, Cudahy tire.
Otto T. Lademan Milwaukee, trans
mission system.
Christopher W Levalley, Milwau
kee, three safe*;,-razor and strop.
Peter A. l.orenzen, Sheboygan
stanchion.
Francis E. McKenna, Wauwatosa,
ground-wire connector.
Frederick Purdy, Kenosha, engine
indicator.
William A. Reinhardt, Ashland pis
ton-ring.
George W. Trogner, N'eilisville. nail
puller.
Wallace B. Tyrell Delavan, in
fant’s garment.
Early Cigarettes.
Britain’s cigarette industry is of
comparatively recent growth. The
pioneer of ready-made cigarettes in
that country was the late John The
odoridi, a Greek, who at one time
served as an officer in the Russian
at my. He imported a staff of cigar
ette akers from Odessa and set up
an establishment in Leicester square,
London, in 1861. All the early cigar
ettes introduced by Theodoridi had
card mouthpieces fully an inch loig
following an old fashion still pre
vailing in Russia. He after produced a
cigarette with one end turned in.
but without a mouthpiece, and this
was the first approach to the present
form of cigarette, which, however,
was not evolved until 1865, when an
other Greek started a ship in Regent
street and sold cigarettes as they are
known now.
It was some time before plain cig
arettes interested the public. When
card mouthpiece,' ” ent out tips came
into fashion. Of these many varieties
were tried including those made of
amber tobacco leaf, silver, bronze and
aluminum imitations, glass and even
silk tips. These were all eclipsed by
the gold tip. which came in about
1891, and still holds the field among
expensive cigarettes.
Virginia cigarettes were introduced
in 1875, and with the invention of ma
chinery that can turn out 180,000 a
day cigarettes became cheap and
popular. The annual consumption or
cigarettes in Great Britain now runs
into billions, and of penny (2-cent)
packets alone (each containing five)
the weekly output is 60.000,000.
Philadelphia ledger.
FRANKIE CONLEY
BESTS MONTE ATTELL
Los Angeles. Feb. 23.—Frankie Con
ley of Kenosha, Wis., knocked out
Monte Attell of San Francfsco yes
terday in the forty-second round. The
fight was scheduled for forty-five
five rounds and was for the bantam
weigh - championship. Attell was
badly punished. When Conley
knocked him down in the forty-sec
ond. his seconds threw up the sponge
before the count was finished.
ENGINEER MAKES TIME:
SAVES DROWNING BOY
Greenwich. Conn., Feb. 23.—Yn en
gineer of a west bcur.d train, seeing a
boy drowning in Bruce’s pond, put on
fu.. steam and dashed into the sta
tion Within three minutes an auto
with Policeman Xedley. was at the
pond where he found Charles Peter
son. aged Jl, struggling to keep
above water by the aid of a human
chain of two little giris. lying flat on
ine hin ice. The boy was rescued