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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-24
! NEW YORK FASHIONS. 5
Designs For Costumes That Have Be-
come Popular in the Metropolis

NEW YORK Cry (SpeciaD. A gar
ment of this kind is exceedingly handy
at home or when travelling by railroad
or steamer, and the comfort derived
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-24
On processes for making sugar and salt
2i01 patents have been taken out.

Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take MOTTO
Bac, the wonder. worker, that makes weak mer
strong. All druggists, SOC or 81. Cure guaran
teed Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-24

broidery will form appropriate garni.
ture.
To make this drapery in the medium
size will require three yards Of forty
four inch material.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-23

carrying away. Two massive round
pieces of heavy metal were brought in
by an Englishman, who had carried
them all the way from the far West,
where he had found his bargain. They
were no light burden. They did have
an appearance of being the real thing,
but the practical eye of the expert
made him suspicious that they were
not what they seemed, and this proved
true when they We're tested. In both
cases the trick had been played of US
ing filled" bit and brace, so that
when the seller of the bricks asked the
intending buyer to select several in
various parts of the brick" he was
able to bore out shavings which proved
to be S00-1000 fine, and the victim was
ready to close the bargain promptly
When the assayer announced his YER
dict to the Englishman, who had lug
ged his heavy and worthless load so
carefully across the continent, he faint
ed and was brought to only to lament
his loss and disappointment with
violence that could not be assuaged.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-23

by inventing freaks and fabulous sto-
ries, says the Chicago Record.
1T has been left to the correspond
ents of the Eastern papers to portray
Kansas to the world in all the various
shades and tints," says Mr.. Coburn,
from those of gloomiest midnight and
deepest woe to brightest MONDAY and
heavens gliding. His finest work,
that which has stamped him as posses
sing the true artistic temperament,
has been his treatment of weather con-
ditions, especially our impulsive zeph-
yrs and periods of proerastinated rain
fall. The lines of thought always dis
cernible in his work are that we are
in a chronic condition of cyclone,
drouth or blizzard, yariegated by in
vasions and devastations of chinch-
bugs and grasshoppers. In dealing
with the farmer. he describes the wind
which he says blew a COW up against
the side of a barn that held her there
for twelve days, or until she starved
to death. The same wind, says this
veracious ehronicler, blew the cracks
out of the fences, sucked cistern from
the ground. moved the township line
and changed the day of the week. while
it yanked the bunghole out of a barrel
and buried it in sandhill eighty miles
away.
On another occasion, as he AYERS,
when stopping at farm house, cy-
clone came up. and he, with the family.
went into the cellar. The house was
soon blown away; presently the Gel
lar went, too. rolling over and over
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-23

like a silk hat. He was early spilled
out, but with infinite labor. dragged
himself back in the teeth or the wind
intending to take refuge in the cellar
the hole came out of, but, to his great
CONSERVATION, he found that the hole
had been blown away also. Shortly
after this, farmer was riding along
the road with a jug Of sorghum, tied
with strap 10 his saddle horn. A cy-
clone came up, and after it had passed
the jug handle was found inside the
jug and the strap was sticking out of
the jugs mouth. the jug having been
blown inside out without splitting a
drop of the molasses. During the
same blow, goat happened to get in
its path, and his hair was blown OF I'M
til he looked as clean as a skinned ba-
mana. This made the goat look so
much like Mexican dog with horns
thasit was placed on exhibition at the
Worlds Fair, attracting attention as
one Of the great curiosities OF the cen
fury.
THE Eastern correspondent is equal
ly at ease in dealing with the intervals
occurring between showers, which the
fertility of his imagination and the ex-
IRENE elasticity of his conscience per-
nit him to describe as 'drOughts.
Whatever portion of mis- vocabulary
has not already been exhausted in de-
scribing the cyclone is at once availa-
BILE for writing up the drought
Through him wondering world learns
Of the alleged Kansas ferryman who
has to haul water ten months in the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-23

year in order to Keep his boat running;
of the families who each morning are
compelled to run their wells through
clothes wringers that they may obtain
water for cooking purposes; of neigh
borhoods where it's so dry that water Is
wet only on one side, and where fish,
to allay their thirst and rinse the dust
from their threats swarm out on the
prairies and lap the boiling dew from
the buffalo grass. He it is who says
this distressing scarcity of moisture
is forced upon us by the corporations
that have cornered the water supply to
put into their stocks, and to soak their
hogs over night in order to make them
hold swill.
Another remarkable story Is told of
a man who was driving over the divide
north of Dodge City. when a shower
came up. He was riding a blackboard,
which has bottom made by fastening
cleats between the axles with spaces Of
half an inch between the cleats. The
water fell so fast that il could not run
through the bottom of the blackboard
as fast as 1t fell. Rushing down the
side of the divide the water struck a
barbed wire fence and damned up until
the water ran over the top wire Of the
fence This was because the rain came
so fast that it couldn't get through be-
tween the wires of the fence. On the
same trip the traveller says he saw
jack rabbit drown while it was jump
ing through the air. The same travel
er declares that within half an hour
the water was three feet deep on the
ridge and falling faster on the ridge
than it could run down both sides Of
the hill. We have supposed that posi-
bly, the traveller in his excitement
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-23

For this $3.50 Comfort Rocker. It has
solid, closely-woven reed seat and back.
Ii has extra strong well-braced wide
arms: solid as rock throughout: good
for twenty years wear, indoor or out-
door use. Red Letter Sale price $l.2o.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-23

which was utterly unrecognizable.
Among the fragments were some Jumps
of mixed gold and silver which had
been melted down by the dealer him
self, but were to be separated carefully
by the official assayers
All the foreign ccin that comes into
the office is melted down and sent to
the mint to be recoined into American
money. This is a different and APP
parently a more wasteful practice than
that of the Bank of England where
American money is stored until needed,
to be sent back to this country in the
process of exchange
The bars of silver and gold in the
assay Office are used in many cases as
money in foreign and domestic pay
ments. Silver and gold are sold
through brokers to the manufacturing
jewelers. and siversmiths. Large guam
titles of silver are sold for use in the
arts.
All the gold and silver from the as
say are marked 999-1000 fine, which is
91-00 finer than coin gold. The bars
of gold are also stamped with their
value, but the price of silver, being a
fiuctuating quantity, is not so marked.
Occasionally the assay office gets a
gold brick" There are several of
these in the big reception room in the
company of legitimate gold bricks. One
of them was brought in by young fell
low who had paid $4,000 for it, and
thought it was worth $4,000. When
the assayor had examined it the young
man decided that it was not worth
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-23

might have exaggerated. but there ara
residents in Dodge City who stand
ready to prove the truth of the story
by showing the ridge whore the buck
board stood during the rain. and the
place in the air where the jack rabbit
was when 1t drowned"
1t is hardly just for Mr.. Coburn TO
charge correspondents OF Eastern pa
pers with all the blame. for II IL not
true. The people of Kansas themselves
have circulated these stories, and the
worst Of them have come from the Pop
ulist orators like Jerry Simpson aid
Mrs. Lease.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-23
BREEZY KANSAS.

The Yarns Told About the State by East
ern Correspondents.
Mr.. Coburn, the agricultural commits
sioner of Kansas, charges all the nOto-
riety that Kansas has suffered from
during the last quarter of century to
Eastern newspaper correspondents,
who, he says, have visited that State,
and have tried to interest their readers
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-23

strange tomb Of the late King Mtesa. This
tomb, as VIII be seen from the accom-
panying picture. Is made OF a framework
OF wood, with a matched roof Of straw.
and from its picture seems cool and roosny
enough for all the ghosts IN Africa 70
disport themselves within It's walls.
krupD the cannon king. Is an ANA
teur zoologist, his chief delight being found
IN the inhabitants of the sea-
Algeria is the only country In the
world where the horses outnumber the
human beings.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-23

driven by
little Rackife, of This consists Of three we'll
Shabby Shody Shady They
and gentle made
the rens well trained horses
and much time
did the least exhausted
shows the team hehe to Sleigh with
own o. handling the ribbons
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-23

WARDROBE, feet 6 inches high,
feet inches wide, solid oak, dou-
BILE doors, two drawers; worth
twelve dollars and fifty cents.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-23
THE TOMB or MTEsA.

At Uganda. which is usually designated
as the Pearl Of Africa" Is situated the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-23

old American fisherman who just made
his little yawl sailed chans
Mississippi
Cuba which
Although consderable rough
the sights on the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-16

and the engineman knew that he must
be cautious. At the beginning of the
curve, red lamp was stuck on a stick
beside the track The train came to
standstill The conductor ran ahead
and found the track walker, who had
discovered broken rail. The train
backed down to the next station and
made circuit into Indianapolis with
every one safe on board. The passen-
gers accepted the conductors state
ment that hot-box had caused the de-
lay, and did not think to ask why a
hotbox should cause the train to
make 30-mile detour But for the
track walker, that express train would
have been piled up, with great loss of
life and property. The track walker is
still walking the track for $55 month.
Indianapolis News.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-16
DO YOU WANT TO BE KING.

Here is good chance for people
wishing to become Independent landed
estate proprietors. The French govern
ment offers for sale some of the little
islands situated at the entrance of the
Bay OF st. Malo, on the coast of Brit
tany. Formerly, when the famous
French pirates, Jacques Cartier and
Sourcouf, brought down the wrath of
the English on their heads by their
acts of daring the victims tried to get
near enough to st. Malo to throw fire.
brands and to discharge cannon into
the town. but they were never able to
succeed in passing the islands The
French government has taken away
the cannon from the fortified walls of
Gouehee. La Plate. La Ronfleresse, and
one or two other of these rocks. The
state, which is always short of money
found 1t needless expense to keep VI
this property, and so offers ii for sale
The inhabitants of st. Malo are un,
easy and discontinued at the proceed
| ing. And not without cause, for. NJ
restrictions having been put upon the
sale, the highest bidder will becom,
practically their king, be his nation
ality what 1t may.-London Mail.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-16
RUSSIAN GIRLS.

Russian girls are sketched by barley
Dale in the Girls Realm. The writer
says they are charming in childhood
they mix with their parents and elders
much more than Is allowed in England,
and while thus becoming excellent con-
versationalists by Is or 16 have few
illusions left. Until marriage they are
kept under sharp surveillance, and
perhaps in consequence are inclined to
evasiveness. To escape the tender
mercies of a chaperon, girl students
go through the form of marriage with
some man, but without otherwise en-
tering married life. They are excel
lent linguists, read widely, are practi-
cal and domestic, have little sense of
humor. Their faces are remarkable
for pallor and heaviness, with an ex-
preston of sweet melancholy. Cigaret
smoking is universal custom among
Russian ladies, though not quite so
prevalent among girls. They skate
well, dance beautifully, ana are fond
of amusements.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-16
FALL BOUGH TREES.

Two years ago bought lot of apple
trees in the fall, carefully heeled them
in. covering them almost entirely over
with earth, and they came through the
winter in splendid condition. They
were set out the first favorable oppor-
tunity that presented itself the follow
ing spring. A few days before setting
them l changed my plans slightly and
then found l did not have quite enough
trees to fill out the orchard, so sent an
order for few more. The order was
placed on the books and was filled
when it was reached, and the trees ar
rived about three weeks after the
others were set out. The soil was the
same, the cultivation the same, yet the
trees bought in the fall made 10 inches
of growth to one made by the spring
bought trees. | simply lost a good
years growth on all that ordered in
the spring. l would advise all who in
tend planting trees of any sort rext
spring to buy them this fall and heel
them in WE'LL
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-16
TOBACCO CULTURE IN GEORGIA.

The Central of Georgia railroad has
recently issued an interesting pam
phlet on tobacco culture in Georgia.
The pamphlet contains number of
testimonials from Georgia farmers,
which show conclusively that tobacco
can be grown as successfully in this
state as in North Carolina or Ken
lucky The Central has determined to
do all in its power to encourage the
farmers along its lines to engage in the
culture of tobacco. With this end in
view, the road has made an offer to-
send an expert to any point along it's
line to pass upon the probability Of
success, wherever the farmers will get
up clubs, with view to planting as
much as 200 acres in tobacco. There
is every reason to believe that money
can be made by raising tobacco in
west, middle and southwest Georgia,
as we'll as in sections of the eastern
portion of the state. The country
around Columbus is believed to be well
adapted to the culture of the weed, and
Farmers of this section would do well to
accept the offer made by the Central of
Georgia road.-Columbus Enquirer
Sun.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-16
HELP THAT COMES TOO LATE.

'Tis wearisome world, this world of
ours,
With it's tangles small and great,
Its weeds that smother the springing
flowers,
And it's hapless strifes with fate;
And the darkest day of it's desolate
days
Sees the help that comes too late.
All, woe for the word that is never
said
Till the ear is too deaf to hear,
And woe for the lack to the fainting
head
OF the ringing shout of cheer;
An! woe for the laggard feet that tread
In the mournful wake of the bier.
What booteth help when the heart is
numb?
What booteth a broken spar
Of love thrown out wnen the lips are
dumb
And life's bark drifteth far
Oh! far and fast from the alien past
Over the morning bar?
A pitiful thing the gift today
That is dross and nothing worth.
Though if it had come but yesterday
1t had brimmed with sweet the earth
A fading rose in death-cold nand
That persisted in want and dearth.
Who fain would help in this world of
ours,
Where sorrowful steps must fall,
Bring help in time to the waning pow
ers,
Ere the bier is spread with the pail;
Nor send reserves when the flags are
furled
And the dead beyond recall.
For battling most in this weary world,
With its tangles small and great,
It's lonesome nights and its weary
days,
And it's struggles forlorn with fate,
is that bitterest grief, too deep for
tears,
OF the help that comes too late.
Margaret e. Sangster.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-16

and to supply the orders have had to
send to Cuba and to California for
them. The ordinary cherry contains
an acid which relieves, if it does not
effectually cure. Of course, it may all
be in the season, and that rheumatism
would disappear anyhow, but 1t is safe
to say that there is no rheumatism
during the cherry season. I 90 not
know of anything healthier, though
even the best tasting, thoroughly ripe
and perfect cherries start up very fine.
cases of collie and cholera morbus,
which are very annoying. The col
ored people of the south think, and it
may be that the same belief exists else
where and among Others as we'll, that
all the cramp or collie is taken out Of
the cherry by eating it, swallowing
stone and all.
"In Florida the orange seed is very
frequently swallowed, and appendicitis
is unheard of there. AS a spring med
icine generally cherries are without
doubt the most valuable of the small
fruit crop, even if they do not effectu-
ally cure rheumatism. They free the
blood of the uric acid which produces
the condition known as rheumatism,
and if they do no more than that we
should be, and, think, are, grateful"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-16
EXPERIMENT IN TRANSLATION.

An odd experiment in translation Is
recounted by G. S. Layard in the Corn
hill. He wrote a four-lined English
epigram, got friend to translate it
into Latin, and sent the Latin to an
other friend, who turned it into Eng
lish. The new English version was
turned by another into French. The
process went on until the much trans
lated quatrain had passed through
Greek, English, German, English, Per-
sian. The whole twelve quatrains are
given. The last English (eleventh)
and the first English (first) may be
compared here:
heard that S. would write my Life"
When l gave up my breath.
felt that this indeed would add
A new delight to death.-G. S. L.
XI.
He-"Dear, in my song you still shall
live
Though under earth you lie!"
She-"Ah! had you now that grace to
give,
should not need to die!"-
o. S.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-16
THE BOOK OF THE WORLD"

l need no volume of verses
Where music and dreams combine,
/ know where the better and worse Is
The book of the world is mine.
There's grandeur up in the mountain
There's love in the flowery vale,
Romance by the moonlit fountain,
And mirth by the swelling sail.
There's peace in that humble cottage
Where the mother sings to her child
Where the grandfather mods in his dot
age,
And the breadwinner's smile is mild
There's tragedy there in that mansion,
Where knowledge came just too late:
And coming, grew by expansion
To suspicion and then to hate.
l need no volume of verses
Nor draught of Pierian wine,
| hear the laughter and curses,
The book of the world is mine.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-16
CHERRIES A CURE FOR RHEUMA
TISM.

There is an impression very prev
alent in the minds of many persons, $
explained a prominent fruit dealer to
the Washington Evening Star, that
there is rheumatism in strawberries.
1t may be only imagination, and due
to the season, but there is no doubt
that the persons who are subject to
rheumatic attacks suffer from them
very frequently during what is known
as the strawberry season, whether they
eat strawberries or not. / am satisfied
in my own case that the acids in straw
berries work up a nice attack of rheu-
matism for me every year, but l can
not resist them. and do not know as !
want to. But there is one satisfaction,
and that is that while strawberries
may have something to do with rheu-
matism, cherries, which follow them.
are an absolute cure for rheumatism.
l have never known a person to suffer
from rheumatism who ate freely of
ch erries. and l know of hundreds who
have been relieved of attacks by eating
them. have often had cherries or
dered two and three months before the
season for them opened hereabouts,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-16
CONFEDERATE PENSIONERS.

Judge Richard Johnson, commits
sioner of pensions for the state of
Georgia, has completed the work of
compiling his annual report for the
year 1899. From this report it is
learned that in the year 1898 the total
number of pensions paid were 1884,
and in 1899 HIPS, an increase of 731.
The new claims paid in 1899 were
1,S0S, loss from rolls 1898, 577, being an
increase of 7S1. The total amount paid
in pensions during 1898 was 5000, 100,
and in 1899 s652,S2O, an increase of
s4S,O60. The pensions paid to widows
in 1898 were 3,S30-se0 to each
amounting to s229,SO0, and in 1899,
S,7O6, at $50. 1922 800, being loss of
124, amounting to S7,440. Loss from
rolls IN 1898, III. The new claims un-
der this head for 1899 are SO, being a
loss of 124.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-16
NEAT FOR CUT FLOWERS.

One of the seasons novelties for the
table is wire netting which fits into
the top of a vase, with spaces large
enough for the stem of a single flower
TO be put through. By this means the
flowers are held in place and not al
lowed to droop toward each other or
lose grace by falling to one side. ANY
one who has tried to arrange a vase
full of cut flowers will appreciate this
seemingly Insignificant assistance.
When the presence of cut flowers is al
most daily necessity anything which
tends to their preservation or proper
arrangement cannot be too highly con-
sidered, and no home patent like pieces
OF cotton or paper thrust through the
different parts of the cluster compares
with this wire netting, simple and IN
expensive.