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and was sitting with her goose in one
hand her press board ready to thrust
into the trousers-leg in the other, rs
Dick made his announcement
''Calline," SAID he in tragic tone,
there's goin' to be a log cabin pro
cee sion in Hartland Fourth o Julyw
You don't say so! we'll, am beat p
and the hand which held the goose
trembled. ltd oughter be stopped
it'd oughter be stopped~ And down
came the goose on the wrong place in
! Bubby's trousers, making a wrinkle
that took her whole half-hour to
sponge and press ont.
"'rherer' she said, Il haven't done
sech thing since the day Deacon
Smiths critter tumbled tumbled into
my well an dropped my goose and
run. It'd oughter be stopped, again,
emphatically."
so think" .rejoined Dick Say,
can't we do somethin', Calline?"
Calline thought She thought long
and deeply. with her goose on the
open seam of the trousers-leg, till an
odor of scorching cloth aroused her
There, if don't tend to my biz
ness l shall spile Bubby's trousers
You jest wait minuter' and Calline
sponged and pressed, sponged and
pressed, till, the last seam being done,
she turned the trousers, shook them
vigorously, hung them on a nail be-
hind the buttery door, and then turn
oh to tho patiant Dick
Yes, a-fauntin' their log cabin
right in our face and eyes. Wen fix
'em, Dicky. Don't you worry. But
don't you tell soulr
Dick promised. and they two talk
ed long time. with an ear at tine door
and an eye out of the window and in
such low tones that the cat who purr-
ed and listened from her corner by
the fireplace could not hear word !;
so neither can we. But as we follow
the course Of this authentic history
we shall learn how these Two conspi-
rators plotted the discontinue of the
wings.
During a succession of daily visits
on the part of Dick, a plan of opera
tions was laid out. and each detail
carefully arranged, SO that when Dick
went down to Calline's on the morn
ing wherein this story opens, it was
not SO much because anything was to
be done as to assure him self that
everything was done. Then he drove
the COWS to the pasture, ate his break
fast, and went down behind the barn
to work on his new kite.
At intervals, he heard the report oi
the mortar on the Green where the
boys, Regardless of party lines, run
ming the imminent risk o. being blowI
in pieces every time the rusty ol(
thing went Off All. Dick would lik'
to have been thore, would he not
On such occasions he was general!
the leading spirit. But to day h'
conld not trust himself with the othe
boys So full of his secret was h.
he that he felt he should certainly be
tlay himself in some way. At on
m moment he was bursting with Taught
er as he thought of the coming sen
sation The next he fairly shivere
with sorebodings of what would hap
pen to him If he should be found ou
Then he thought of Calline and too
heart. All strategy was fair in wal
and he worked away at his kite ia
with Rover for company and so th
forenoon passed.
Confined on 4th page.
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mothers. Many famous candypull
was enjoyed by them winter nights
in her tidy kitchen; May basket expe
ditions were fitted from it. In short
the Crow Nest was general rendez
vous for that much maligned, much
enduridg class of humanity known as
boys
While she looked with a favorable
eye on all boys;it must be acknow
lodged that she had her favorltes
among them Dick was one of these.
Perhaps because he was such fro
licking, fun loving boy, always get
ting into scrapes and having to be got
ont of them. Whatever the reason,
his bonny face was always welcome
sight to the somewhat lonely woman.
And then he was a-demOcrat! and
Calline was democrat Of democrats
If she had weak side land she was
mortaD it was for democracy She
utterly despised wings and whiggery.
A whig o., if he hadn't been boy,
would have found little grace in her
eyes. B t luckily for the boy, she
was able to distinguish between the
sin and the sinner. So Dick was sure
of her utmost sympathy and help in
this dilemma in which he found him
self at the time of which / am now to
tell you.
All this was in 1910, the year of the
presidential campaign in which Gen.
Harrison WAS the whig candidate.
Comparing the presidential cam
palgns of 10 day with those of fifty
years ago, they are as mild hurricane
to cyclone. The whole country at
that time was in state of violent
ferment and the boys everywhere,
then as now, shared in the wild ex
citement, and on the playground and
at school burlesqued with admirable
fire and spirit the battles of their
elders
In Hartlan the excitement seemed
to culminate at the central district
school house Dick was the leader of
the democrats and Bob Williams of
the wings.
In the Indian war of 1911, General
Harrison had gained victory at a
place called Tlppecanoe, and it filled
Dick with rage to hear the wAig boys
as they came down the road shouting
the war cry:
"Tippecanoe and Tyler toop'
John Tyler was the whig candidate
for the vice presidency. If they reach
ed the school house without being
assailed ny volley of mud from the
denc". ats lying in ambush by the
roadside they were lucky.
The democrats were small minor
ty in school, as we'll as in town, and a
hard time they had of it. But they
got an occasional crumb of comfort.
General Harrison was irreverently
dubbed by the opposing party Gran
ny Harrison" and great was Dicks
exultation when that fact came to his
ears. Thereafter every shout of Zip
pecanoe and Tyler too" was echoed
by groan for Granny Harrison"
Listen to this!" cried Bob one day
from his perch on the ridge-pole OF
the school house. And he spread out
his fathers newspaper and read out
in loud triumphant tone an account
of an immense mass meeting IN the
West. (Ohio lay in the extreme west
in those days.)
ut is impossible" wrote the report
er, to state the exact number OF 10y
al wigs who came together to listen te
our beloved general, we can only re
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THE TWO CONSPIRATORS.
A true tale of the Harrison campaign
of 1910
BY FRANCIs A. MOORE.

1t was lovely July morning and
early dawn. The mist rising from
Wintuxet River spread lazily over the
meadows on either side, taking on
pale tints of rose from the rays of the
coming sun; flock of sheep, feeding
among the juicy grasses, appeared
through this veil of mist more like
phantom sheep feeding upon the De-
lectable Mountains than like the or
dinary woody creatures from whose
coats the commonplace yarn and cloth
would be made. The birds were hop
ping about and twittering cheerily in
search of the early worm," or burst
ing ont in songs of welcome to the
bright new day.
Dick however bestowed little notice
on all this beauty and hustle as he
hurried along the winding bowery
lane leading to Calline's. He was first
awakened by a flashing light and
thought it was surely morning. But
on getting up and looking from the
window he saw Ezekiel on bis last
round with his lantern before gong
bed. 1t was only nine o'clock,
Again he was awakened by q pale
glow. This time it must be dawn
Alas, no. the clock struck one A
brilliant aurora was flashing and pal
ing in the northern sky The crow
ing Of The cocks awoke him the third
time, but it was still dark and he fell
asleep to wake Suddenly with the rel
light of dawn in his room at last. He
dressed quickly and quietly, dropped
from his window upon the woodhou sc
roof, thence to the ground and so
across lots to Savin Lane. As ne pass
ed the windows Of the room wherein
Squire Leighton was sleeping the
sleep of the just, his feet were shod
with velvet and he scarcely breathed.
For Dick was quite sure that however
much his father might sympathize
with his motives he would certainly
of his measures.
But" thought Dick, he'll like it
after It's over He can't help it."
And at the thought of all which that
little word ST" indicated, he laughed
outright.
But Calline approved; Calline, the
sympathizing contidante of all the
boys within her ken. Calline was a
tailoress and woman Of sixty. She
lived in a little red house known as
Grow Nest" situated at the terminus
of Savin Lane. Every spring and
fall she shut and locked the yellow
door of the red house and made pill
grimage about town in company with
her press board, her iron goose, her
big shears and her patterns. The
motive of this pilgrimage was the
making of Jackets and trousers for
all the boys in Hartland.
Doubtless 1t was because her
thoughts We're fixed upon them so
much during the year that she was so
fond of boys For while she had very
little to say to girls, the boys were at
liberty to invade her premises at all
times apd seasons. She made their
balls, mended their kites, tenderly
bound mp their bruised and cut fin
gers, and dried their clothes when
they chanced to tumble into the river
thereby saving them many we'll
merited scolding from long suffering
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GOING TO QUIT.
NOTICE EXTRAORDINARY.

Without the blast trumpet poechn display long or blow
bust friends and the Put in general that be-
ginning 18th will launch gigantic RE SA OF sensible
and SERVICEABLE CLOTHING, FURNISHING GOODS fiAlS
CAPS SHOES and will continue to slash until
bare have before been
We quit good and rather than pack and freight and e
pesage unpac again. will the public the benefit OF all this and
move empyhanded cash than goods and are will
ING to pay preference This magnificent sale of magnitude
and much meaning economical shoppers will be here
force Their dollars will travel further before. For further facts
come and look around investigate compare This that will
be lonq remembered for within miles of this community.
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wisconsin Central Time Table.
PASSENGER TRAINS.

PASSENGER TRAINS,
Going West.
Leave ManItowoc -.....a ath q. m 2:a5 p. m
Menasla ......... ..b1b 4la
Naenah .....1Op 500 -
Arrive Ashland ........... 3I5 p. N. 7:55 a. m
= st. Paul ..............tt5 - S:l5
" Minneapolis -...... b1n - 500
500 a. m train out of ManitowOC makes con
uection at Neenah at 700 a. with tram for
Oshkosh, Fond du Lac and otner points south
thus giving Mtntowoc people a chance tn go to
Oshkosh and Fond du Lac the same day-2:a ,,
IN train also makes connection at Neenah at 5:lU
%, IN. for south.
Gong East.
Leave Minneapolis .........720 a. II. 7O5 p. m.
I" st. Paul ..-...-... .......',s9n ~ :.
z Ashland ...-.S $40 i:Z)
Neenah~ ~ ........5;l5 p, m. sos a. m.
Mentsha ..............5:2A i:ta
Arrive Manitowoc. III H)0
7N5 a m train ont of Neenah gets connection
from North and South at 7:O0 A, NJ a;l5 p, m,
train gets connection from South at BIO p IN.
w. II. NANDEGRIFF, Agt.
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NEW TRAINS AND FAST TIME.

NEW TRAINS AND FAST TIME.
CHICAGO K N. w. RY.
Leave. South Bound Arrive.
fanitowoc si:59a. m. milwaukee, .7;l0 a n
AanItowoc fs50s a. IN. }Milwauk, il0;50 n
Manitowoc II ib7 y. m. milwaukee, 1850 p H.
Manitowoc fS:i7 p. Milwaukee I'll 90 pm
Leave. North Bound Arrive
Manitowoct 20 p. m. Amigo 1890 p. ~
Manit1woc tg:39 p. m. Ashland .7:45 Il
Manitowoe 9:s9 a. m. Appleton ll:ooa' N
G:I5 a. m. S:ha. m.
II :lj l2;53p. m,
4l5 y. m, 6iO p. IN,
DAILY. Daily except Sunday.
fNos, . and are "limited" trains making
very ia time and have through sleeping cars
hetweer Mlg.tukee Chicago and Besscmer
IronwoCd, Hurley and Ashland. Breakfast
going SOUTH and supper going northl are
erved in dining cars between Chicago and Mil
waukee.
Nos and have through sleeping cars be-
tween Chicago aud Milwaukee and WauSau
and parlor cars between kaukauna and Ash
land.
Nos and 2 run between Milwaukee and
Amigo, with parlor cars between Miwauhe
and Wausau,
Nos. Z and 8 run between Milwaukee anc
kaukauna.
All trains make close connections in union
'epot at Milwaukee to and from Chicago.
For Information or tickets inquire OF
G.. II. HUGHrHAUSEN. Ticket Agent.
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DIR X S MITCHELL.
NASH IL NASH,

Telephone II
Graduate Chicago Veter
mary College.
f. r. FLACK,
Veterinary Surgeon
and Dentist.
93l South Eighth 81.
Manitowoc, Wis
J Il MULHOLLAND, NJ ID
Practice limited to
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat.
Office hours:
9to II a m, to 4 n. H., to Sp IN.
Office in Books Bldg, n S. tn Str
Manitowoc. Wis
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-20

not permit peanut culture to decline.
Already the yield has gone down from
so and 100 bushels an acre to 20.
If all the people, now suffering from
cold and hunger in the Klondike were
well supplied with peanuts a large part
of the danger of their succumbing
would disappear. A comparison, based
upon prices in Germany, of peanut
meal, with a list of twelve other foods,
including, besides milk, bacon, beef,
peas, potatoes, rye -four and rice,
shows that the peanut meal is not only
the most nutritious, but also the
cheapest of the lot.
Preserve the nations peanut supply.
The peanut is success in about every
thing but politics.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-20
PASSING OF THE PEANUT

In a bulletin, the Agricultural De-
partment sets forth the interesting fact
that the peanut crop in this country is
steadily diminishing.
1t may surprise some people to know
that the normal peanut crop of this re-
public is about 100000 bushels an
nually, and that Americans spend
something like $10,000,00O every wear
for peanuts.
According to a veracious contempo-
rary, George Francis Train, who sub
sided almost exclusively on peanuts for
two years, declared that he never saw
a sick Gay, though during two winters
he sat in Madison Square Park everv
fair day without an overcoat. the fatty
quality of the peanut furnishing him
sufficient heat.
A chemists analysis shows the pea
nut to contain so per cent of lat and
over 80 per cent of nourshing Ncom-
pounds, and it is the testimony Noi
many physicians that it combines
within itself more Of the elements
needful for the blood than any other
article Of food yet discovered
The Agricultural Department must
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-20
THE ANNEXATION SCHEME.

In commenting on the point that the
annexation Of Hawaii must defeat the
objects of our anti-Chinese and immi-
Tation restriction laws, which seems
% have spiked the guns of the anneXa-
ion press, the Indianapolis says:
There is no possible way by which a
constitutional discrimination can be made
between the people of Hawaii as to race
n color, If the territory becomes United
States territory, that can prohibit the
free movement of them to any part of
the United States, any more than there is
of a Chinaman from moving from San
Francisco or Santa Fe to Indianapolis.
The islands might be held under terri
torial form of government, notwith-
standing their population, but that would
not make any difference as to the right
of change of residence. If admitted as a
State not even the right of voting could
be denied on account of race or color. and
the islands would be entitled to repre-
sentaton for the whole number of per-
sons only excluding Indians not taxed.
of whom there are, of course, none No
doubt if Hawaii is admitted and the harm
'AoAie' inc CoiiSIeSSIleH VINO vote Tor II
and the Republicans in general, will ear
nestly protest that they had no intention
of admitting this host of pauper laborers
to the main land but there is nobody
who can have any excuse for not know
ing that such exclusion is absolutely i'm
possible. If Hawaii comes in at all. it's
people viii come in as citizens of the
United States. and will be entitled to all
the privileges and immunities of citizens
of the United States"
politicians who vote for the annexa-
ton of Hawaii must be prepared to de-
fend their act before constituencies that
are steadfastly opposed to the admission
OF the riff-raff population of the islands
to unrestrained competition with Amer
lean labor.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-20

Associate Justice Of the United States
Supreme Court.
President McKinley's private life and
official record show him to be too ami
able man and too keen for popular
ity to willingly defy public sentiment
in such a manner. 1t is obvious, there
fore, that the President is carrying out
the hard terms of bargain made as a
condition precedent. to his election
bargain which he finds himself unable
to repudiate.
It behooves the Senate to exercise the
greatest caution in dealing with the Nc
Kenna appointment. The Senate can
protect the country from the stain of
raising to the Supreme Bench plant
tool Of special selfish and audacious in
terests. Distrust Of this high tribunal
has already found expression in various
forms of popular protest. Let it not be
strengthened by an act of the Senate in
approving, without the most thorough
and Gearching investigation, the ap-
pointment Of Joseph McKenna.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-20
REED VS.. MCKINLEY.

1t will not be at all surprising il the
administration of President Mckinley
runs up against power at the capital
quite as strong as itself in the person
of one Thomas Bracket Reed, Speaker
of the National House Of Representa-
tives. For Reed is ambitious and he
has his eyes on the nomination of his
party in 1900.
For some years now, Reed, although
self-constituted Car, disregarding
law and order in his arbitrary rulings
as Speaker, has been far and away
the biggest man in his party, standing
larger for whatever of manliness or
of sincerity is still represented
in that party. For this reason
he was not in favor with the men who
have controlled the course of his party
in past years. What was needed in the
last election, especially, was candi-
date who could be pledged absolutely
to the support and defense of the trusts
and monopolies, and to so direct the
foreign policy of the country that
there should be no danger of any I'M
settlement of invested securities, no
matter what might be the provocation
to the honor or the dignity of the
government. Reed was not such can
didate. Mckinley was-his debts paid
by Millionaire Mark Hanna and his
fcalty pledged to Mark Hanna in the
most dangerous combination that this
country has ever known.
1t is against this combination that
certain self-respecting element of the
Republican party will surely revolt in
1900, and as surely will Tom Reed be
the Presidential candidate for that ele-
ment, and of his party if there is
strength sufficient to repudiate McKin-
leyism and Hannaism in national Re-
publicanism. The man from Maine is
not the sort of man to surrender him
self to a domination such as that eX-
it is more than likely that he would
also insist upon directing the policy
of a party which chose him as its
leader. For this reason it is safe to
assert even now that Reed will be OPP
posed by every machine politician in
his party, and that only the unequivo
cal demand of the masses Of his party
will secure his nomination, l. his nom
nation can be secured
1t will be interesting to watch de-
velopments bearing upon this phase Of
the political situation. So many years
have elapsed since the Republican
party had a leader of democratic pro-
clivities that Tom Reeds triumph in
the next convention should be desired
if only for the sake Of refreshing nov
city.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-20
WILL BE EXEMPTED.
Positions to Be taken from the Classified
Service-What the President Will Pro-
badly Do During the Recess.
oil %bo

Positions to Be Iaken from the Classified
Service-What the President Will Pro-
badly Do During the Recess.
Special to the Register.
Washington, D. c., December 19.-It
is extremely probable that before Con-
gress again convenes the President will
take such radical action as will pre-
vent any radical change in the civil
service by Congress. Among other
things, it is alleged the President is
considering modification of the
Cleveland blanket order" which
placed more than forty thousand OH
GERS in the classified list.
Since Congress has been in session
the fight against the civil service law
has been SO persistent and strong that
many of the Republican Senators,
knowing the Presidents inclination
, in this matter, have advised him to act
Immediately in the matter to prevent
any serious modification of the law by
Congress.
1t is now stated that the President
will, before Congress meets again, is
sue new rules in regard to the civil SER
vice law, removing from the classified
list all bonded officials, such as deputy
1 COllcClOlS VI CuStOulS, uCpuly CUlltC-
tors of internal revenue, deputy mar
shals, assistant district attorneys, as
sistant sub-treasurers and, perhaps,
executive chiefs of bureaus and depart
ments.
1t is we'll known that the members
of the cabinet favor such modifica-
ton, and have urged that it be done.
This will not affect the civil service in
regard to clerks or other officials, for
which the civil service law was origin
ally intended. 1t will have an effect
of allowing the cabinet officers and
chiefs of the various departments to
select their own assistants, and to
carry out the policy of the adminstra-
ton, and at the same time protecting
clerks and other officers, and remove
the latter from political influence, The
change contemplated will affect sew
eral thousand officers, not only in
Washington, but all over the country,
and already hints as to the order have
been given and preparations made as
to the changes.
The attitude of the President on the
civil service was described as follows
by him in his recent message to Con-
gress:
Much, of course, still remains to be
accomplished before the system can be
made reasonably perfect for our needs.
There are places now in the classified
service which ought to be exempted
and others not classified may properly
be included. l shall not hesitate to ex-
empt cases which 1 think have been
improperly included in the classified
service, or include those which in my
judgment will best promote the public
service. The system has the approval
of the people and it will be my en-
deavor to uphold and extend it."