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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-02
SIR JOHN WATERS A FINE SPY.
Thrilling Adventure When Captured
by the Spaniards.

Sir John Waters was the most adj
mirable spy ever attached to an army.
In the Peninsular war he gave to Lord
Wellington accurate and valuable in
| formation about the Spaniards. Once
he was taken prisoner by Spanish
dragons while clad in the English uni
form. He was supposed to be stupid
Britisher who could not understand a
word of French or Spanish, and his
captors talked freely before him. Then
he learned that they were going to kill
and rob him at an old mill where the
company was to stop for dinner. They
would pretend that they had shot him
because of his attempt to escape. On
reaching the mill the dragons dis
mounted and went into the house,
leaving their prisoner outside, in the
hope that he would try to escape. As
soon as they were out of sight Waters
threw his cloak on a nearby olive
bush and put his cooked hat on top.
Empty flour sacks lay on the ground
and he crawled into one of them. A
moment later the dragons came out,
uIGu Lu6lI CdTUlu6S dL IuS SuppOSSu
prisoner and galloped off, intending
to return later to rifle the body. A
horse loaded with sacks of flour stood
near the door and Sir John, still en-
veloped in the sack, managed to
throw himself on the horses back, as
if he were part of the load. The own
er came out, mounted and rode away
without detecting the peculiar con-
tents of one of the sacks. When far
enough away for safety, his position
being uncomfortable, Sir John freed
himself from the sack and sat up.
The horseman, happening to look
around, saw the man covered with
flour and imagined a ghost was perch
ed behind him.
He fell in a faint and the supposed
ghost threw him to the ground and
galloped off. Sir John reached the Eng
lish camp without further adventure.
New York Press.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-02
AUTUmN.

Now the last sheaves are garnered in
the barns,
The fields all bare, the cleaners all
gone home.
Ripe apples fall from overladen
trees,
And boys and girls go nutting in the
woods,
That wear drawer pomp than sum-
mer's green.
The squirrel buries deep his winter
hoard,
The swallows gather on the red farm
roofs.
The plowmen toll across the fallow
lands.
And fails are loud on every thrash
ing floor,
The kindly earth has yielded up her
fruits,
Troubled and swollen, the river
twirls among
The withered reeds, and ghostly in the
moon
Look all the misty fields and dim
woodsides,
And all the distant outlines of the
Mary A. MARI
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-02

hands actually object to being sworn at
when the oaths become too vigorous
The pay of the deckhand is usually $50
a month, even when the business is
only moderately heavy, and last winter
during the big rush crew of negroes
refused to ship because the wages did
not suit them. They were offered 800
per month, but wanted 500 for the
trip.
The first popularity which strikes
the observer about the deckhand is his
walk. He has climbed up the steep
river embankment when there was mud
all over it and he has come down that
same side with aheavy weight upon his
back He has adopted a step which
prevents him from slipping and this
gives him a peculiar shutting step un-
like any movement seen elsewhere. He
combines with this a hosting of the
shoulders and a peculiar turn of the
head acquired from turning his face TO
let sack hest upon his shoulder. These
three traits are distinctive and give the
deckhand a strange appearance upon
the levee or anywhere off boat away
from the river.
AS he works going up the inclines
or along the gang plank. precariously
resting upon a levee's crest. he has a
rhythmic sort of chant which fits in with
his music. Always the same class of
songs are sung. Usually there are no
words, but some leader chants and the
others voice the chorus as they bend to
their tasks. There are sack songs and
barrel songs and music for the cotton
bale and the ordinary package. The
music varies with the task. as the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-02

Professor Edward P. Thompson has
published remarkable work on the x
rays, which is the most comprehensive
digest OF all the experiments made
since Roentgen's discovery. Exhaus-
tive study has been made of what are
known more recently to scientists as
dust photographs, and yet while this
is perhaps the first publication of the
strange phenomena, the publications
son to be simply based on hypotheses
and are subject to a very decided
change when the scientists begin furth-
er experiments. 1t is to William j.
Hammer, member of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers, that
we owe the discovery of these dust
images detailed by Professor Thomp-
son.
Mr.. Hammer in his workshop has a
portrait formed of fine dust upon a
pane of glass. The circumstances under
which it was obtained are peculiarly
interesting. Mr.. Hammer happened
to be in some place where an artisan
was removing a photograph from an
old frame. The glass which protected
the portrait exhibited a fac-simile in
dust on the inner surface. The glass
had not been in contact with the photo
graph because of thick passe- partout
surrounding the picture. Neither was
the glass an old negative Photographic
plate.
Further test and inspection tended to
prove that the dust picture was execut-
ed by some action of the heat or light
of the sun. Professor Benjamin F.
Thomas of the University of Ohio
scarcely thinks that the result was due
to convection, because the dust print
was so sharply defined. He thinks the
principle of the discharge of bodies by
( light may be applicable perhaps, but
| further experiment would be necessary
as a more secure foundation.
1T is common" Professor Thompson
says, ito find the print of picture in a
book upon the opposite page, being due
merely to the pressure of the linked
surface, as in the art of printing This
explanation cannot be applied to the
dust portrait. because there was no
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-02
GREAT ENDURANCE OF MOOSE.
1t Can Travel as Fast and Much Far
Their Than a Deer or Caribou.

While the peculiar pacing gait of
moose will not carry him over the
ground as rapidly as the deer or Carl
bou, his endurance far surpasses that
of either of those animals. For
short squirt or in very deep snow the
caribou can easily discount the moose,
but for an all days jaunt, where the
course is fairly open, the moose has no
rival. Many years ago when Sir Ed
mund Head was governor of the pro-
vince he owned a tanned moose that
performed remarkable feats of speed
and endurance. On one occasion the
governor wagered $500 that his
moose could travel from Fredericton
to st. John over the ice, a distance of
eighty-four miles, in faster time than
any team of horses in the stud of
Lord Hill of the Fifty-second regi-
ment. A sledge was attached to the
moose and another to the horses. The
river ice was covered with about
eight inches of snow. The start was
made opposite government house at
o'clock in the morning In seven
hours the moose and his driver were
on Market square, st. John. Lord
Hills team was distanced, one of the
horses expiring at Gagetown and the
other reaching st. John three hours
behind the moose.-Lewiston, Me-.
Journal.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-02

contact between the photograph and
the glass
1t would be well now that dust photo
graphs exist to examine carefully the
glass before removing an ola picture.
Perhaps in the near future the world
will be enriched by many fine speci-
mems of these peculiarly produced
images.
Mr.. Hammer has also an historical
collection of incandescent lamps, which
were arranged on shelves in a glass
case standing obliquely in the sunlight
about an hour day. After the lapse
of many months the very fine dust
within the case lodged upon the inner
surface of the glass in such a manner
as to produce oval dust figures CORE
spending somewhat to the shapes of
the lamps and some of them appear af-
ter reproduction. Professor Thomas
thought, when the figures were inspect
spected closely and the circumstances
were known, that the sun and lamps
acted as agents in their forpation.
AS to the correct explanation, the
cussed by scientists to enable him to
render the opinion of others, but it is
of interest in connection with the
Roentgen rays and the discharge of
electrified bodies by light. AS a matter
of course, the surfaces of the lamps
would reflect the light in such way
as to make bright spots-movable,
however, with the sun-upon the glass
of the containing case, and if the lat
ter were in any sense charged by mega
tive atmospheric electricity, this light
would cause a variable amount of dust
to be attracted according to the inten-
sity of the rays striking the glass.
Professor Thompson also details a
remarkable series of experiments made
by Professor Sanford of Leland Stan
ford university, California, and by Pro-
fessor Mckay of Packer institute,
Brooklyn. The images produced were
termed photographs, and were made
by placing a number of coins on the
sensitive side of Photographic plate,
covering each side with tinfoil and
wrapping the whole thing in black pa
per. The upper tinfoil was then re-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-02
ANTIDOTE FOR SNAKE BITE.
Scientist Who is Extracting Serum
From Snakes.

DR.. Joseph Mcfarland, professor of
pathology and bacterioogy at the Med
ico-Chirurgical college, Philadelphia,
has been carrying on for several
months experiments to secure an an
ldote for snake bites. He has gath
cred a remarkable collection of snakes
He says:
The experiments with snake venom
which | have been making since last
April are the first of the kind which
have ever been attempted in the United
States or with the poisonous snakes of
America, but do not claim originality
Of method, as | am closely following
In the footsteps of the noted scientist,
DR.. A. Calmette, director of the Insti-
tute Pasteur of Lille, France.
AT the present time DR.. Calmette
has upon the market an anti-venomous
serum, or 'anti-venene, as it is called
which he derived from the venom of
the cobra di capello or snake eating CO.
bra of India, which is probably the
most deadly of all snakes. Although
Dr. Calmette's anti-venomous serum,
has been seldom if ever used in this
country, 1t has been successfully en-
ployed and has saved many lives in
India.
TO carry out my experiments along
all lines | have been anxious to secure
several specimens of the cobra di ca
pello, but so far | have not been sue
cessful, as sailors appear to be most
superstitious regarding these snakes
and 1t is most difficult to get sea cap
tain to include them among his cargo
However, through the kindness of Dr.
Calmette, with whom | have been in
correspondence, | have receive some
dried venom from these snakes and
expect to make some experiments with
u soon.
I'm regard to the serum which |
hUpa 70 secure in the course of time,
may say at the outset that | wish to
disprove the alleged value of alcohol
as the ideal antidote for the poison OF
a venomous snake. Whiskey is an I'M
failing aid of death after snake bite.
and more persons die from taking it as
an antidote than from the bites. Whis-
key increases the rapidity of the cir
culation. 1t helps the poison TO jour
ney quickly through all the arteries
and veins.
"To be sure, small amount of slim
ulant is not bad idea, but it should
be slight, very little indeed. To give
all of any stimulant il is possible to
drink at such a time is little short of
There is no doubt that
more persons die from the effect of I
drinking whiskey to cure snake bites
than from the bites themselves.
The bite of a poisonous snake, if it
receives proper attention at once, is by
no means as dangerous rs most persons
believe 1t to be. In fact. think one of
the most important factors of danger
at such times is the physical fear Of
the result. Instead of whiskey the per-
son bitten should take strychnine lib
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-02
FROM "a BROADWAY PAGEANT -

l chant the world on my western sea
l chant copious the islands, beyond
thick as stars in the sky,
chant the new empire, grander than
any before. as in vision II
comes to me,
l chant America the mistress, chant
a greater supremacy,
chant projected thousand, blooming
cities yet in time on those grouns
of sea-islands,
My sail ships and steam ships thread
ing archipelagoes,
My stars and stripes fluttering in the
wind,
Commerce opening. the sleep of ages
having done its work, races re-
born, refreshed,
Lives, works resumed-the object I
know not-but the old, the
Asiatic renew'd as it must be,
from this day surrounded
by the world.
Walt Whitman.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-02
THE BARRIERS TALE.

From orient to occident
The whole wide compass round,
There never yet lived barber man
Whose speech did not confound.
From Joliet to Jericho
The tribe talks on and on,
But in Chicago there is one
Who second is to none.
In State street does this razor man
His time and tongue employ,
Assisted by two other chaps
And one black-colored boy.
And as each eager customer
Takes up the masters chair
The barber tells him stories while
He cuts and trims his hair.
One day country farmer called,
Whose hair had run to waste,
And as he had train to catch
Desired a "cut" in haste.
BE seated, sir" the barber said,
ITO please you I'll not fall"
And straightway did that barber man
Begin a weary tale.
Snip, snip, the merry scissors went,
Till many lock was shorn,
And still the BARRIERS tongue ran on
With story stale and worn.
Then out and spake that farmer man
In scornfullest retort,
Yes, yes, good sir, | listen, but
For Gods sake cut it short!"
"Oh, certainly" the barber said,
And quicker piled the shears,
And faster went his nimble tongue
About the farmers ears.
The victim kept his eyes close smut
And with his face distort
Cried out again, oh, barber man,
Why don't you cut it short?"
Your wishes, sir, shall be obeyed;
There isn't much more left"
And helter-skelter dashed his tongue
Til nigh Of breath bereft
Then from his chair that farmer man
Jumped up with angry snort
And shouted, 81 can stand no more,
So | will cut it short"
But when he his reflection caught
Within the mirror glass
He raved and swore and stamped
around
And cried, you long tongued ass!
You've only left me my bare scalp!
I'll drag you to the COURT"
Whereat the barber bowed and said
you babe me cut it short"
= meant your tale, you laundering
fool"
The countryman exclaimed.
You should have said so, then, good
sir"
The barber piped unshamed.
For words have meanings many. sir.
AS Webster doth report,
And II your train you want to catch
You'll have to cut it short"
May Jones.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-02
NEGRO DECKHAND.
The Jolly Roustabout Extinct From
the Mississippi.

One who makes a trip up the river
and watches the antics of the negroes
and listens to their weird songs and
tales will not agree with the iconoclast
who says that all the beauties and the
picturesque features have faded out of
the steamboatman's life. AS line of
negroes goes up the hill under the glare
of the searchlight with their peculiar
swinging tread and sing the music,
which seems somehow to be an essen
tial part of the action. the sight is one
which has strange wildness about 1t
and a fascination too The negro is
not the same as he was before the war
Conditions have changed too much for
that But he has retained his love for
the fantastic and most of those barbar-
ic customs which civilization seems I'M
able to eradicate from the African
mind.
The first mate has undergone
marked metamorphosis and to his
change is due some portion of the new
features in the deckhand's character.
Time was when the first mate had a
which would make an ordi-
nary sailors parrot lie for shame. He
had this vocabulary and the negroes
held the same opinion as the one who
answered when asked If he did not OBJ
iect to the mates abuse mo, boss;
OATS whut he's paid for. He's got ter
make out he's doin' somethin' an 1t
don't do us no harm" Now the deck
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-02
CHINKS.

New spheres of influence, since that
they are spheres,
Don't fit togetner closely, and, me-
thinks,
We've here the reason Why the Chinese
empire
Is made up quite exclusively Of
chinks.
-D.troit Journal.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-02

bale is lifted forward and allowed to
drop, has catchy swing to it. Down
go the sharp hooks and the bale starts
up to fall with quick thud. So does
the music.-Memphis Scimitar.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-02

A community in Alabama contain
ing 400 colored people and but two
white persons is about to be incorpo-
rated.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-02

Ryan. the Australian, was whipped
by Choynski in seven rounds.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-01-16
SKATER A BEEF EXPERT.
he Dise'aims Making he Remarks Attributed
10 Him by tagan.
says BE MD Not Know Anything
About the much uootcd Em-
baimrd Food.

San Antonio. Tex. Jan. is.-Maj. Gen.
shaftcr and party left here at O'Clock
this evening for San Francisco. They
spent the day In visiting the army post
here. whore they were entertained by
COL Miner of the sixth Infantry nt
luncheon and by q concert OF the rcgl-
mental band OF the sixth. Many people
congrcgatcd at the depot To soc the
troo.s,
Before leaving Gen. shaftcr said 10 u
representative ~ the Associated Press;
II do not wish 10 mix In anybody'a
business. I have never said TO Cen
Eagnn or any one else that the beef
over which the controversy has arisen
was good. because know nothing
about II. only know and only have
said that the beef at Santiago was good
| saw u.
II do not care TO say anything IN ref.
crcnce TO Gen. Eagan'H indefcnslhlc
TRADE ON Cen, Miles. The matter has
reached AN acute phase ana Il ~ not
my wish or province "a have anything
TO say In connection with II further
than TO dinclaim having made TO Gen.
EaEan or any one else the remarks at
tributcd by report TO me-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-01-16
AT rmr ELEVENTH. noun.
Ci,ii War Claim for sIs.ooo !. Forwarded
Ia washinEt.n by captain WIN. 1ayio,r

Torre iIautc, Ind, Jan. iC.-Captaln
VIM. Taylor of this city has forwarded
To Washington n claim against tho
government In the sum OF s72.5Oo. The
matter viii be looked after by Con-
gresham George W. Faris. During the
civil war. Captain Taylor was engaged
In building canal from the Hayou
fucha To- the mississippi river near
New orleans when Furrngut ran the
chain OF forts and entered the river,
Taylor sought out the naval command
or and offered his services aud tho use
of his light draught vessels. The offer
was Immediately accepted FOR the prer-
cncc of u pilot who knew the Hhniinw
waters was invaluable, When cnftmn.
dorc Farragut returned 20 Washington.
captain Taylor was given passes
through the Federal lines and went Ia
the capital 10 present his claim. Far
rngut was mortnlly III and Taylor was
not admitted. lie then rcturncd TO the
Mississippi river and served a. pilot for
the Federal government until the close
~ the war. Several times ne nnrr,vylv
escaped death AT the hands OF southern
Huerrillna, and both his parenta vv,r,,
murdered by them. Captain Taylor has
never presented the claim bef,re H.,
expects that there win be no .iIfIl,uis,,
IA securing Indemnity for the vessels
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-01-16
CUBANS PELT
SPANISH FLAG.
American Troops Proceed to the
Scene With Fixed Bayonets.
YELLOW BUNTING LOWERED


Havana. jan. i5.-Thls morning
Spanish ilag having been raised over a
hotel on the Cabado del Monte.
crowd Of cubans gathered and began
TO throw stones at H. Company u.
Tcnth regular Infantry. was called and
proceeded 10 the scene Of disturbance
at double-quick and with fixed bayo-
nets speedily dispersed the crowd.
which was fast becoming ugiy.
Tho officer In command explained TO
the proprietor that the flag ought 90 be-
lowered because II was likely 20 pro-
duce further disorder. The proprietor
IN reply assured the officer that no of-
fcnsc had been intended and that hay
ing acon the English and German nags
liyinH. he thought he would be- nt iihcr-
~ TO raise the hag of spain. Two meme
beers of the company lowered the Nag.
Corp. Francis +. Green. Coihpany *.
Fourth Illinois volunteers. was
drowned today while bathing In the
AlmcndarcH river Thc body probably
viii be sent home for intcrmcnt at
Litchncld.
Yesterday n boy who was called the
mascot Of the Second South Carolina
regiment was drowned In the same
stream. His home was In Ashcvlllc
y. G.
At Marianne today nj the house ~
the cuban chief I.cytc vidal. private
meeting was held In which a number
Of prominent military mon were proa-
emit Considerable displcasurc was cx-
pressed ut the acceptance by General
Mario Menocai and other Cuban officers
of positions under the United States
military government. the criticism be-
iug that Aiouucal ana the others had
practically abandoned the cuban army.
leaving his comrades with less iunu-
cncc to shit for thCmfolvca,
Mayor lorfccto In 'nctc OF Havana
called yesterday upon Gov-Gcn.
lirankc. wired greetings to President
Mckinley and General Gomez ana rHnt
o frinndly message 60 the cuban nHssm-
bly, az Marianne. The municipal offices
are To- be transferred from tho palace
20 the custom house. after which Gon.
Brooke VIII occupy tho ci.'fc palace.
The cuban general. AIrcio itpso.
formerly IN command 81 the inHufrrut
forcus In the province ~ Santa clara.
declines 30 accept a position In the Gus.
toms service on the ground that he
might crowd out some worthier per.
SON"
The customs receipts yesterday were
/ $50 400 mnkint n total FOR the month
thus FAR OF 1918
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-01-16
EAnAN ~ MrTr.
He Il Not TsihinE Tor Publication ut This
Iarl, Date In tn. Proceedings.

Washington. Jan. i5.-Appareutlv
there were no Developments today Ia
the ease growing out u the attack
made 10y commisrary-G General Earan
upon General Miles In the formers APP
Tcarnnce before the war invesIgating
commission. During the coming week
the probability II that some word viii
be received by the war INVESTIGATING
commission from Gen. Eagan In answer
10 the letter OF that body suggesting
the cNpurgution Of the Objectionable
part of his testimony. Gen. i,ngnn lo-
clincn to make any statement N the
matter Cor publication ut this time.
william a. De caindry. thu chief
clerk ~ the commlsary generals Of
fee Of the war department lH out In
card admitting that he had rlllsd
his resignation to the secretary uf war
through Ger. Eagnn on thr m uninF
aftc- ti,s uut mission of the AZ - ga.
per to the war Investigation commits
rni u rays the report that ihs tu-
dor ~ u NtE due 20 the nc'ipr nt ''su.
f,ay IN IN rlvnR practical funerNisiun
nrd toiuo' - the Office n chief ,ltr'g
q hl- miiltnr, assistant can unly b.
surIniscd. The card cuniinuH4. THE
r,'tsnu Ter thu presence Of cVcfs pro-
vision ~ the contracts ma L. hv HIN
(Gsn F'isnnl with Swift A -. for
th.ied refrigerated or frozen 90 ~
bnsf ~ the Amy can be- explained by
ou'. uti rri icing aware ~ nds if''u.
urn'!nn ~ Gen. Eagnn az 70 who 'ircw
up the tuptirctH, there Or no q sHptif-
ttiiiyn on 10y part about the matter