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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-11-10
Medical Book.

Copy of DR.. Humphreys Manual, 100
pages, on the treatment and cure of dis
ease, mailed free. Address, Humphreys
Medicine Co., New York.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-11-10
Fur SCarfS and COllaretteS

AS popular articles as are to be found
today in dry goods store. We show
many styles of Collarettes from So up.
Fur Scarfs from S1.l5 up. We call
particular attention to a brown marten
Scarf with cluster tails, at $3.50; 9TH
ers up to S25.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-11-10
REMEMBER

Before buying fall and winter goods
that this store is the largest Dry
Goods and Carpet House in the world
size of city considered. Large buying
means close buying and low prices for
reliable goods.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-11-10
MCCALL PATTERNS

Pdrcefns you using nave
you ever tried the Mccall Bazaar
Patterns? They are economical be-
cause there are no wide seams allowed,
thus woman can allow her own
seams, and save much cloth in many
instances. They are easy to under
stand. There are none better made.
They are up-to-date. We send fashion
sheets free each month to any address,.
The Bazaar Dressmaker is a useful
book It contains over 600 illustra-
tons and costs only Zoe by mail. Send
for it today.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-18
A Flower Clock.

In John D. Rockefellers grounds,
at Tarrytown, there is a bed of flow
ers arranged like the dial of a clock,
by which one can tell the time of day.
The hands, which, of course, do not
move, are made of dandelions, which
open at $50 a. m. and close at $50 p.
M. Among the flowers in the twelve
spaces Of the dial are hawkweed, i,
which closes at 2 p. N. exactly, the
snow thistle, which opens at a. m.
and begins to close at II, but does not
fully close until noon; the yellow goats
beard, which opens at 4 a. m. and
closes at 4 p. M; the blue chicory,
which opens at a. IN. and closes at
noon; the morning glory, poppy, water
lily, pimpernel and marigold, opening
at 5, Z, s and 8 a. M; the Star of Beth
lehem, which closes at L; the passion
flower, which opens at noon; the beau
ty of night which opens at 5 p. m.;
white lychnis, opening at g. and the
blue convulvulus, at a. N.
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The Old MANS Advice.

A well-known contractor of this town
has son, still under 20, who has been
doing the running away from home act
ever since he attained his twelfth
year. The ''old man" has always been
called upon to fetch the young chap
back from remote points. None of the
hard luck propositions up against
which the boy has stacked while hav-
ing fun with himself in this way has
taught him a permanent lesson, prob
ably for the simple reason that he has
always found it too easy a matter to,
get home by the simple process of wir-
ing his father for the price Of a ticket.
He went away month ago. and his.
father didn't hear from him until yes
terday. Then the old gentleman got.
a dispatch, dated Hastings, Neb. The.
message ran:
cam on the hog Wire me $40 for
ticket home. JOE"
The old man went to the telegraph
office, got blank, and wrote the fol.
lowing reply:
"Eat the hog. g.'-Washington Post.
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] 3 lll|||2{} : }E5ll[l!@g5

The Maryland Game and Fish Pro
tective Association is buying partridges
in Kansas and liberating them through.
out Maryland.
A Sheridan, Mo-, photographer says
he has discovered a process by means
of which a proof Of a photograph may
be taken within a few moments after
the sitting.
Though traffic in the Baltic-North
Sea canal has not come up to expecta-
ton, the Germans are pleased at the
discovery that the herring is using the
canal as a spawning ground.
An English actor who died on the
road was shipped in his coffin to Lon
don recently by his manager as "the-
atrical properties" This cost 81, where
as if he had gone as corpse the cost
would have been $50.
Electricity has supplanted steam on
the railroad from Milan to Monza, the
oldest railroad in Italy, opened for traf
fic in 1910. Storage batteries are used
the electricity being obtained from the
turbines on the AIDA at Paderno.
n recent COMPUTATION SHOWS LnaI,
counting only donations of $4,000 and
upward, q partial list of gifts to char
table and educational institutions in
the United States during the last six
years gives an average Of more than
$35,o00,OOO a year.
1t is said that Hawaiian planters re-
alize that the contract system is at an
end and are now trying the experiment
of profit-sharing with the Eborers. So
far the plan has worked we'll and is
believed ITO be the final solution of the
labor question.
A correspondent of Paris paper
writing from Manila and describing
our army, says that the volunteer regi
ments are named ''for the provinces in
which they are raised" He Gunner
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SOUTH AMERICAN ToDDY TREES
Beetles Get Drunk by Tapping Bark
Other Arboreal Tricks.

Other Arboreal Tricks.
Nature has her rum shops her sa-
looms. She produces plants which de-
vote themselves to the manufacture
and sale Of intoxicants. The South
American toddy tree is well known to
naturalists. 1t is well known also to
the South American beetles, the
oryctes hercules. When the latter goes
on spree he never goes it alone, after
the unneighborly habit Of the human
drunkard. He collects his friends and
acquaintances to the number of thirty
or forty; the whole crowd run their
short horns through the bark of the
toddy tree, revel in the outfowing
juices and, while inebriated, are easily
caught by the human natives.
The toddy tree parts with it's liquor
free of charge. There are other plants
which are less generous. They exact
no less a penalty than the death of the
unfortunate drunkard. And what do
they do with the body: Strange as it
may seem, they eat it. In this manner
they obtain the food which nourishes
them and sustains their healthful ex-
istence. AT the end of each of theil.
long green leaves these plants have a
pitcller-shaped receptacle. We might
style this the growler, but it never
needs to be rushed. 1t is always full
of what with special appropriateness
might be called bug jiiice-a watery
| liquor, sweet to the taste and in
ebriating to the senses. Only in fine
weather is the growler open for bust
ness. On rainy days it is firmly shut
up to keep out the rain that would
dilute and spoil the contents. Natures
saloon-keepers do not water their
stock-Lippincott's
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Roys Who Succeed.

Thirty years ago Mr.. H., nursery
man in New York state, left home for
a day or two. 1t was rainy weather,
and not a season for sales, but Gus
toner arrived from a distance, tied up
his horse, and went into the kitchen
of farmhouse, where two lads were
cracking nuts.
'Is Mr.. II. at home?
mo, sir,' said the Oldest, Joe, ham.
mering at nut.
when will he be .back?'
Dunno, sir. Mebbe not for q week.
The other boy, Jim, jumped up and
followed the man out. "The men are
not here, but can show you the stock D
he said, with such a bright, courteous
manner that the stranger, who was a
little irritated, stopped and followed
him through the nursery, examining
the trees, and left his order.
You have sold the largest bill that ]
have had this season, JIM" his father
greatly pleased, said to him on his re,
turn.
"I'm sure said Joe, "1'm as willing
to help as Jim if I'd thought in time"
A few years afterward these two
boys were left by their fathers fail
ure and death with 5000 or $500 each
Joe bought an acre OF two near home
He has worked hard, but is still poor
discontented man. Jim bought an emf
grants ticket to Colorado, hired as g
cattle driver for couple of years, anl
with his wages bought land at 40 cents
an acre, built himself house and mar
ried. His herds of cattle are numbered
by the thousand, his land has been cut
up for town lots, and he is ranked as
one of the wealthiest men in the state
'I might have done like Jim,'' his
brother said lately, eff I'd thought il
time. There's as good stuff in me as il
him"
..There's as good stuff in that loaf OF
bread as in any I ever made" said his
wife, '.but nobody can eat it, There:
not enough yeast in it." The retort
though disagreeable, was true. The
quick, wide-aWal1e energy which acts
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-18
A KINGS PAINTINGS.
Abyssinia's Sovereign More Particu
lar than He Used to Bc,

c.
To judge from the sub-titles, ''Vic-
torious Lion of the Tribe Of Judah,
King of the Kings of Ethiopia,~ Lieu
tenant of God" Menelik IL. should be
every inch a king;" but as matter OF
fact there are several inches of child,
and naughty child at that, under the
black, polished skin Of this monarch
Of Abyssina.
The child in Menelik was once easy
to amuse. Very little sufficed to enter
tain him, and Vicomte de Poncins re-
lates in the Nineteenth Century that
the first sugar-loaf which was present
ed to him threw him into ecstases of
pleasure, and that he and his consort
We're discovered with that blessed prod
uct of civilization between them, lick
ing it vigorously.
But those good times are past; Euro
peans have brought Menelik so many
toys that he has become critical. When
a new traveller is announced he now
awaits with impatience the customary
present, trying to find out beforehand
whether it is to be something new, in
w ulCu CdSe tue duuleuce is speedily
granted.
He is much interested in all machin-
cry, which, including watches, he in
variably takes to pieces. Sometimes
he deigns to be present at the unpack-
ing of the travellers boxes, and to ap-
propriate any little object that pleases
him. Such informal examinations
please him vastly.
"If l had not been king" he re-
marks at times, 81 should like to have
been a custom-house officer
Vicomte de Poncins pleased Menelik
SO much with pair of hastily darned
socks that he insisted on unsocking.
for his own benefit, party of mission
aries who passed through Ads Abeba
shortly afterward; but nowadays he
must receive more costly gifts, and,
like Oliver Twist, he asks for more.
Sometimes his majesty, tiring Of his
presents, gives them away, and silver
soup tureen, part of the gift of Euro
pean sovereign, has been seen on the
head Of one of his armed warriors.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-18
HOW MOROCCO is MADE
Simple Description of a Very Interest,"
estinE Process,

Simple Description of Very Interest,"
estinE Process.
The manufacture of morocco, as
every one knows, is the art of dyeing
leather. True morocco is goatslin
tanned and dyed on the side on which
the hair grows. Sheepskins are treat
ed in the same manner, and are then
called "sheep morocco
The first knowledge the French had
of the way in which Levant morocco
is manufactured was obtained from
Granger. surgeon of the royal navy,
who made voyages in vario lis countries
by order of the minister, Maurepas. A
description Of the art was the subject
OF note by him addressed to the
-academy in 1875. The first morocco
factory in France was established at
Paris by man named Garon. in 1749
The first thing to be done with goat
skins, in order to make them available
is to soften them, as they reach the
morocco maker hard and with the hair
on. For that purpose they are STEPPED
for several days in stagEant water
Then they are rinsed in fresh water,
cleared OF every particle of flesh ad-
herring to the skin, and are drained and
put into solution of lime.
|. The object of this last operation is
to swell the skins and open their pores,
in order to facilitate the removal of the
hair. This is effected by means of a
round knife, with which the operator
goes over the surface of the skin with
out cutting the hair, which then falls
out. Then, in order to rid them of the
lime, the skins are cleaned in water,
and to remove all moisture, they are
pressed on o wooden frame with kind
of knife called q querce.
Between each Of these operations
they pound the skins hard in tubs with
wooden pestles. Lately, for this
pounding. has been substituted violent
agitation in a tub filled with water, the
interior surface Of which is covered
with wooden spikes, and turns rapidly
on a horizontal axis.
When these preliminary preparations
are finished they give the skins baths,
which neutralize the action Of the last
particles of lime and draw the textures
closer together. Then they have g. bath
of red dye, after which they are rlnsed,
and the tanning is proceeded with.
When the tanning is completed, they
receive their final color, black, blue, or
violet.
The dyed morocco is dried, deprived
Of all supertiuous parts, and then pol
ished with a piece of slate. Finally, it
must have what is called the grain.
This is obtained by rubbing the pol
ished skin with a piece of cork. By
crossing the strokes of the cork, or by
giving a final polish that hattens the
grain in certain parts, are produced
the various kinds Of grain called the
'broken grain," the barley grain,'
and the "quadrille grain
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-18
REsCUlNG THE BABY.
The Household Gods Must Be Pre-
seEx,nd Exon in Africa

The Household Gods Must Be Pre-
served Even in Africa.
A house on fire is apt to so upset the
inmates that they throw the looking
glass out of the window and carry the
mattress down the stairs. Miss Kings
ley describes, in "West African Stud
ies,' a scene in which she herself and a
native family were turned topsyturvy
ants. She writes:
1 was in little village, and out of a
hut came the owner and his family and
all the household parasites pell-mell,
leaving the drivers in possession; but
the mother and father Of the family,
when they recovered from this unwont
ed burst of activity, showed such live
ly concern and such unmistakable signs
of anguish at having left something
behind them in the hut, that thought
it must be the baby.
Although not a family man myself,
the idea of that innocent infant perish
ing in such an appalling manner reused
me to action, and Joined the frenzied
group, crying, Where him ive?" I'D
him far corner for foor!' shrieked the
distracted parents, and into that hut 1
charged.
Too true. There in the corner lay the
poor little thing, a mere inert black
mass with hundreds Of cruel drivers
already swarming upon it. To seize it
and give it to the distracted mother
was, as the reporter would say, '.The
work of an instant"
She gave cry of joy and dropped it
instantly into the water barrel, where
her husband held it down with hoe,
chuckling contentedly. Shiver not, my
friend, at the callousness of the Ethic-
plan; that there thing wasn't an infant
1t was ham!
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LoNpon,s GREAT wgALTH.
Almost Inca1cu1able Wealth of Some
of Her Realty.

Almost Inca1cu1able Wealth of Some
of Her Realty.
Values of real estate and some other
things in the city of London are set
forth in an article in a paper published
there. Mansion house, which cost $3,-
100000 to build, is now valued at fully
ten times that figure. The Royal Ex-
change, as a building of bricks and
mortar, is worth $1,000000, but land in
that neighborhood has recently sold at
the rate of $10,0O0OC0 an acre. Eight
bridges over the Thames cost $25,00O,-
600 to build, but are now worth much
more than that, while the tunnels un-
derneath are worth other millions, and
double the $10,0OO,OOO it cost to make.
1t st. Pauls We're private property you
might induce the owner to sell it for
S50,O00,000, but the likelihood is very
remote. Those tattered banners which
you have seen so often would arouse
pretty keen bidding at the sales. West
minister abbey is difficult to value. But
the sales give us some idea of what
historic treasures are worth in the mar
ket, and should not be surprised if the
abbey, put up in lots, realized $2,50O,-
000,O0O
The British museum empty would be
worth $780, 900, and it is full of price
less treasures. The National gallery
is worth millions 1t cost, with the new
Tate gallery section, $1,750,0OO to build
and has one picture which cost $40 an
inch. The Nelson column, close by,
is worth S250,00O, and the statue Of
King George Ill, little way down
Pail Mall, cost $2O,0O0 The Albert
hall and Royal aquarium are both
worth about S1,25O00O, but the Crystal
palace cost more than three times the
value of both of these. Earl's court,
the great show rivaling the palace, has
millions worth of treasures, and even
when it is empty the twenty-five acres
of gardens and buildings are worth
$1,500000. Imagine buying the tower,
the Holborn yiaduct, the miles of sew
ers, walks and pavements; the various
markets, of which four-which are for
cattle-cost $5O,OOO.O0O between them;
think of the hospitals and schools and
churches, and fancy the market value
of the parks cut into city lots. The en-
frances alone at Hyde Park are said to
have cost nearly $7,500,000.
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A sMuGGLER. S TRICK.
Many Diamonds Delivered in Ne w York
Without Having faid DUTY.

Many Diamonds Delivered in New York
Without Having faid DUTY.
If people would take as much trou-
BILE, and show as much ingenuity, in
doing an honest business as they do in
evading the law, they might be quite
as rich, and with infinitely less danger.
Some Of the methods adopted to grow
rich fraudulently are as ingenious as
they are dangerous and wicked. A
story is told Of q certain merchant Of
New York who for years was suspect
ed Of smuggling precious stones into
this country.
Every time he returned from Europe
he was carefully searched, and it was
even proved that he did not swallow
his diamonds, before going ashore, but
inferior stones, and these he did not
try to conceal. Traps We're set for
him, but without avail.
At last detective, cleverer than the
rest, by carefully watching the doings
of the suspected man and his partners,
hit upon clew. He found that when
ever one of the members of the suspect
ed firm arrived in New York upon a
steamer, another member Of the firm,
or an agent, always took a trip back on
the same vessel, and always engaged
the same stateroom. He invariably
had the whole stateroom, so that he
was alone upon the voyage. This clew
led to the discovery Of the fraud.
1t was found that the importer, dur
ing his voyage to New York, would cut
a small piece out of the flooring be-
meath the carpet Of his stateroom, and
after concealing the diamonds in the
hole would put back the flooring and
replace the carpet. When he left the
ship he left the diamonds behind him,
and thus none were ever found upon
him.
A few days after, when the vessel
was about to start for Europe, the 9th
er member of the firm secured the
stateroom and went on board, accom-
panied by his confederate. The latter
would then go ashore and take the dia-
| monds with him. AS there are no Gus
toms officers on duty when vessels de-
part, he would be allowed to pass I'M
| molested, and to carry in his valuable
cargo,
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The Fitzgerald Machine Gun.

The latest new weapon of war is the
Fitzgerald machine battery gun. 1t can
fire at the rate of eight shots per sec
ond, under any test, however severe,
and prolonged of rapid, continuous fire,
and abrogating the fierce heat which is
generated usually by sustained rapid
fire. The Admiralty and Horse Guards
Gazette pronounces it a success, and
declares that at the end Of over 500
rounds the barrels were quite cool
However rapid the action of the mech
anism Of the gun, one tier of barrels
is always loaded. The gun possesses
two tiers Of barrels Uee- -Metford),
four in each tier. The weight is $50
pounds. The gun is SO mounted on its
stand that it can be Immediately ele.
waited or depressed to any angle
A smile travels much farther than
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-18
A Singular Custom.

The very singular customs of the
President of the House of Lords, who
is called the Lord Chancellor, and
sometimes the Keeper of the Great
Seal, and the twelve Judges, WHO are
peers, sitting on wooisacks, is said to
have been first established when wool
en- cloth was the principal article Of
English manufacture, and consequent
ly the growth and improvement OF the
raw wool were considered objects of
the highest Importance.
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TALKED TOO FREELY.
COACHMAN AND FoOTMAN LOSE
THEIR SITUATIONS.
Discussed Their Master aud Mistress
in Manner Far from Respectful,
While the Latter Heard the Conver-
sation from Her Carriage.

Do our servants talk about us? asks
Polly Pry in the New York Herald
Well, 1 should say they did. They
note what we do and what we don't
do, what we wear and say and eat and
drink and generally in an enyious and
disagreable way. The candor of the
kitchen would give us headaches and
heartaches if we could hear it, and it's
just as well that we don't. But all are
not SO fortunate
l know of a good, kindly woman of
some means, and with an angels dispo-
sition, who had an experience one even
ing that is worth repeating. In COM
pany with a friend she had driven in
her own carriage to the front entrance
of city theater about 8 o'clock at
night. They left the carriage and went
to the managers office, where the sec
ondlady had an appointment regarding
a charity benefit. Matters becoming
, little dull for my friend, she begged
leave to wait in her carriage and came
out to it. Neither coachman nor foot
man was on the box and the indignant
| woman saw that the horses had been
hitched to lampost. She entered the
vehicle, quietly closed the door and
awaited developments.
| Presently both of the men emerged
from nearby saloon and, wiping their
mouths on their coat sleeves, mounted
the box after unhitching the horses.
| Then this conversation foated down to
| 1,nr
going to be?"
"God knows! 1 wonder what she's
up to?''
81 dunno. Maybe she's gone in to see
the show"
mo, she amt. I heard her tell the
old man she'd be back in an hour
He wouldn't care if she didn't come
back in week"
"That's right. Say! she's got him
under her thumb, if ever a woman
had"
We'll, don't blame her. He's a
hard proposition, he is. I guess he
| must have married her for her money!"
"You needn't guess again. You're it,"
By this time the poor lady below was
in condition bordering on frenzy. She
bit her lips until they almost bled, and
her heart grew cold as she thought of
the cruel ingratitude of these men,
whom she had always treated with
kindly consideration. But there was
more.
"What's her friend want at the tile
ayter?"
''Well, cook says she thinks she's go
in to play actress
'Ha! ha! ha! Why, she couldn't go
on the stage. They'd give her the
laugh sure. She's too old.''
Here the much h-maligned lady came
out, escorted by polite attache, and
Joined her half hysterical friend in the
carriage.
"Drive home," said the new arrival
Then she caught her weeping friend
in her arms.
'.Why, Annie, dear, what's the mat
ter? Drive home, Frank"
The coachman hesitated.
"Sha'n't we wait for Mrs. B.,
madame
"She is here in the carriage. She has
been here for the last twenty minutes
Drive home.''
And home they drove, the chill of hor-
ror upon the faithless twain on the box
and the heat Of Indignation generating
in the carriage. The two men We're
discharged that night, and was glad
when heard that it had been done.
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NoaCables in Paris.

Twelve systems Of mechanical trac-
ton are used on the street railways Of
Paris. None Of them is q cable. Most
of them use electricity, in one form or
another or compressed air.
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as leaven in character Is partly nat.
ural. But it can be lnculcated by par
ents and acquired by boy if he
chooses to keep his eyes open and act
promptly and boldly in every emer.
gency.