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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-03-01

downstairs for mailing. She keeps her
fathers private accounts and memor-
anda. She looks over the big once
ledger every day. She drafts circulars
and mails them to patrons. She taxes
notes of meetings of the officers OF the
company.
There was a headache after the first
day at the Office and some warning
symptoms of one after the second. Miss
Farrell sought rest in her pretty rose
room and unused on the multiple activ-
tiles of the business world.
On the third evening she drove her
big bay horse Dandy and her light rub
ber-tired runabout into the country.
She drove so fast and determinedly
that the headache demon fed and
hasn't made his appearance since.
She has Cancelled all her social en-
gagements. She has withdrawn from
the whist club and resigned from the
Fortnightly Dancing club. Her mother
and sister, Miss Adele Farrell, receive
alone on their days at home.
Where is Miss Elise?" is every
where asked, and always the answer is
the same-'At the Office"
She declines all invitations to
luncheon and teas and afternoon re-
ceptions because these occur during
business hours. She accepts dinner in
vitations reluctantly, because they
curtail her afternoon business drive"
which she says "smooths away bust
ness wrinkles" AS for evening recep-
lions, she protests against them be-
ause "a girl can't dance and flirt half
the night and be fresh for business in
the morning."
So Miss Farrell has really turned her
back upon the society she has wearied
of and is joyfully taking up the bust
ness like that she finds relief.
Like it?" she said to friend.
"Why, there's all the difference be-
tween business and society that there
is between meat and cream puffs. Be-
sides l am so glad to please papa"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-03-01
ANOTHER LEGEND EXPLODED.

Many persons will be concerned to
hear that the traditional story of
Count Ugolino's cannibalistic repasts
on his two children and two grand
children stands in danger of being
shown up as nothing more than an ar
tistic but grim allegory. Readers of
the Inferno" will remember that in
the tenth circle Dante and Virgil found
Count Ugolino munching the Uranium
of Archbishop Ruggieri. The legend
was that the latter, traitor himself,
caused Ugolino, who was another of
the same, to be bricked up in the Hun
ger tower of Pisa, together with his
offspring, and then dropped the keys
of the cell into the Arno, in order that
no help might be forthcoming to the
prisoners.
Hundreds of pictures have been
painted and countless sonnets have
been written on the suppositlon that
the unfortunate count prolonged his
own days at the expense of his chill
dren and grandchildren, but it must
be admitted that neither Dante nor
tradition gives direct encouragement
to such an idea All that the italian
says is: Then hunger did what sor-
row could not do" in describing the
death of the unfortunate Ugolino, and
on these words a cannibalistic theory
has been founded
But recent excavations made in the
monastery of st. Francis at Pisa, of
which the Hunger tower once formed
a part ,uave disclosed the remains of
what are supposed to be Count Ugo-
limo, his children and grandchildren,
all intact, without trace of the in
human feast which was alleged to
have taken place, and this discovery,
which is causing considerable commo-
ton among Italian men of letters, not
only puts an end to a poetic and arts
tic fiction, but also discredits the story
that the bones of the count and his
progeny were removed to Florence. In
the course of years fact and gossip are
apt to get mixed up, but If the dis
coveries at Pisa prove authentic many
people will be relieved or a nightmare,
while the poetic genius of Dante re-
mains unimpaired.
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the study of anatomy. 1t is common
! ly admitted that it is to Miss Anthony
more than to any other person that
these changes are due.
One is not surprised, in tracing the
influences upon Miss Anthony's life, to
find that she came of old New Eng
land stock, with an interesting revo-
lutionary record. She was born in
1920 in South Adams, village in the
Berkshires. Her father, Daniel An
thony, was Quaker, and in spite of
his marriage to a Baptist the Society
of Friends decided that he was too
valuable a member to be turned out of
meeting. True to the peaceful doc
trine of his sect, he refused to pay
taxes to a government that made war.
When the collector called it was his
habit to lay his purse on the table,
saying;
II shall not voluntarily pay these
taxes; If thee wants to rifle my pocket
book thee can do so.' Yet when his
patriotism was put to the test by the
civil war, Friend Anthony at once
sent two sons into the union ranks.
Before that time, however, his views
were modified by his friendship with
Claiming. Mr.. Anthony believed in
educating his boys and girls alike;
and, though he was a well-to-do cot
ton manufacturer, the daughters were
brought up with the view of being
able to support themselves by teach
ing, the only profession then open to
women. When her father failed Miss
Anthony, then II, was already indie
pendent, as she was teaching for a
dollar a week and her board.
In glancing over her diaries of about
this period. those who are accustomed
to think of her only as a reformer,
speaking on a public platform, will
doubtless be surprised to find these
entries:
did a large washing today Spent
today at the spinning-wheel Baked
twenty-one loaves of bread. Wove
three yards of carpet yesterday"
Miss Anthony is as domestic as
though she had never been arrested
for voting, and those who know her
personally speak of the charm of her
home life and of Miss Anthony as a
hostess.
Another entry at which one pauses,
on account of its Quakerish simplicity,
speaks of her having received a news
paper from young man: Its con-
tents were none of the most polite;
piece of poetry on love, and one called
Ridin' on Rail- and numerous little
stories equally bad. What he means
| cannot tell, but silence will be the
best rebuke."
In 1916 her family moved to Roches-
ter \. Y, where her father arrived
with but $40 in his pocket. The next
year Miss Anthony received an offer
TO teach in Inc female department of
the academy at Canajoharie. where
Tor the first time she was removed
from Quaker Influences. She soon
dropped the plain language" end one
hnds mention in her diaries If a new
broehe shawl and a new hat to go with
IT, which makes the villagers stare"
and of gown. which everybody ad
mits 10 be the sweetest thing entire
ly." The natural sequence Of all this
was large circle Of admirers. One
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WHY FAITH CURE FAILED.

I'm convinced that seasickness is
largely matter of imagination" said
the captain of a steamship in the Cen
trail American trade. Strong minded,
determined people are very rarely af-
fected, but those who believe in adj
vance that they are going to be i'll are
never disappointed. Years ago, before
got my present berth, 1 had a billet
on the Ocean Steam ship Line going
out of Savannah, and our steward en-
joyed a great reputation for his won
derful cures of seasickness. His
scheme, which he confided to me, was to
mix up little salt and water in a
vial and direct the patient to take a
teaspoonful every fifteen minutes.
This is a very powerful drug, he
would say, impressively, and directly
after taking the fourth dose all traces
of nausea will disappear In nine
cases out of ten the treatment worked
TO charm, and he raked in numerous
fat tips. Last season, one of our
passengers for Port Cortez was a gen.
tleman who had sprained ankle and
who went directly to his cabin without
my seeing him. The first day out he
got deathly seasick, and l concluded to
try the efficacy of the salt and water
treatment mixed up the dose and
found my patient lying in his berth
groaning, with his face to the wall. Z
have certain cure for your trouble
said l, giving him the usual prelimi-
nary talk. It's a very powerful drug.
and after you take four teaspoonfuls
you may rest assured that your
nausea will instantly vanish He
turned as if he had been shot and
glared at me like a maniac. Good
Lord he groaned, it's the same old
gag and with that he grabbed the bot
tie and threw it through the headlight.
The man had heavy black beard
out the moment l heard his voice
recognized him as our steward on the
Savannah line. He couldn't be cured
he knew too much. New Orleans
TiemsDemocrat.
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signed the petition for equal rights of
women.
About this time the subject of the
property rights of married women
was arousing public interest, for a bill
introduced eleven years before-1S37-
had just passed the legislature of New
York, the first state to act upon the
question. The New York Tribune,
then edited by Horace Greeley, was
the only paper of influence that gave
the question an unbiased hearing.
The Anthonys' home was a meeting
place for such men as Frederick Doug
lass, Pillsbury, William Lloyd Garri-
son, Wendell Phillips, and Charming
With the constant companionship of
such minds it is no wonder that the
question Miss Anthony put to herself
was:
What service can l render hui
mainly; what can l do to help right
the wrongs of society?'
She decided to give up teaching, and
with her fathers encouragement en-
tered upon reform work. Her public
life may be said to have begun in
1852 In that year the Sons of Tenn
perance held state convention to
which they invited the Daughters-a
sort of auxiliary branch-to send dele
gates. When Miss Anthony rose to
reply to a motion she was told that
the women were to "listen and learn"
This resulted in her organizing a state
society for women, in which move
ment she was encouraged by Horace
Greeley. Five hundred members at
tended their first meeting, in Roches-
ter, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton was
elected president
In 1860 Miss Anthony withdrew
from the temperance society, feeling
that she wished to devote her time
entirely to woman suffrage. She keen
ly felt the injustice done women teach
ers in paying them only one-fourth
the salary paid the men for equal
work She attended the sessions of
the State Teachers association, and
though two-thirds of the members
were women not one took any part
an the conferences. Finally, after
three days of silence, she rose and
asked to speak on the subject under
debate. After much difficulty she
was allowed to do so. The question
was, why are the professions Of law,
medicine, and theology more respected
than teaching?" Miss Anthony rose
and said:
1T seems to me you fail to COM
prehend the cause of the disrespect of
which you complain. You &c not see
that so long as society says woman
has not brains enough to be a lawyer
or minister, but has plenty to be
teacher, every man who eondescends
to teach taeitly admits before all
Israel and the sun that he has no more
brains than a woman"
Her knees gave way and she sat
down. though she intended to make an
argument for opening these profess
sions to women.
1t seems almost incredible to one
now that when Miss Anthony pre-
scented a petition to the legislature.
asking that woman should control her
own wages and have the custody of
her own children, the chairman OF the
Senate Judiciary committee, to which
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Susan B. Anthony is now just 80
years old and retires from the presi-
dency of the national Woman Suffrage
association. The strength and the unity
of purpose of Miss Anthony's life rem
der it one with the cause to which it
has been dedicated; and her develop
ment from modest Quaker girl, salts
fed with earning a dollar a week, to
a woman of the world addressing legis-
latures is symbolic of the change in
the status of woman.
Miss Anthony is not one of the re-
formers who rise as opponents of a
change in popular feeling. She did
more than that. She rose in advance
of public sentiment and created it. AS
an instance of the change that has
been brought about, one has only to
contrast their opportunities of today
with the difficulties women had fifty
years ago in entering career. When
Harriet Hosmer decided to make
sculpture her life work she Travelled all
over the country before finding a medi-
cal school which would admit her to
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-03-01
BARB-WIRE FENCE TELEPHONE.

One of the most unique telephone
systems in the country was put into
operation at Anderson, Ind, recently.
II is long distance line between
cities, and the wire is the upper strand
OF the barbed-wire fence. The line Is
IL miles long, connecting Anderson.
Pendleton and ingalls,, and will soon
reach over to Greenfield, a distance of
70 miles. Only the top wire is now
used, but within few weeks all the
six wires of the fence will be in ser
vice, and the system, though apparent
ly ridiculous in conception, will be
complete for all practical purposes and
a money-maker.
The system is the project of Cas-
sius Alley, OF Pendleton. He founC
that the farmers between Pendletor
and Ingalls, had continuous line o
barbed-wire fence. save for few shor
distances. that he could easily span
and soon the line was complete.
factory at ingalls, and the factory of
flee at Anderson are connected: like
wise two stores, one at Pendleton ant
one at Anderson. Other places will b,
put on the line right away. The sys
tenn works plendidly.-Cincinnat En-
quirer.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-03-01
ONE SOLDIERS SAVINGS.

a horton Ckan.) boy, now in Manila
writes home as follows: 81 was die
charged from the Twentieth Kansos
ABOUT week ago and Joined the nou,.
cavalry regiment that is being organ.
lzed here, and today was sworn ;nto
the United States service and Co.,
missioned first lieutenant a nico -,
Tie promotion. My salary is s1En
month, and think | can AFFORD - -.
mere awhile for that consideration
nave saved up nearly a thopsard 49,,
iars' and it will not take mo Iana vi -
save up another thousand ~ -
manage to dodge these Phtlipniro h ran
lets in the future as well as 70 - pui-
tne past and sickness dcesnt gat IN -
OF me. l will be in pretty goo a. .s no.u
nal Olty Jour-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-03-01

OF these was favored enough to be
called handsome, sleek as a ribbon,
with the most splendid black hair l
ever looked at"
Soon after going to Canajoharie,
Miss Anthony Joined the Daughters of
Temperance, and at supper given by
the society she made her first speech
before an audience of nearly 200. She
writes that "the room was beautifully
festooned with cedar and red flannel.
On the south side was printed in large
capitals of evergreen the name of
Susan B. Anthony"
At about this time she was a fire.
quent guest Of Abigail and Lydia Mott,
at whose home she met for the first
time many of the great reformers of
the day, who became her lifelong
friends.
In 1S4S Lucretia Mott and Eliza
beth Cady Stanton called the first wo-
mans rights convention, which met
at Seneca Falls, N. Y, and afterward
adjourned to Rochester, where Miss
Anthony's father, mother, and sister
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-03-01

amt had no chance to git II git" was
Jim's answer, "since put it in de hol'
jest befo' dat target practice you had
de odder day, commodore"
There is very handsome young
woman in Washington, rather we'll
known in art circles, who had the mis-
fortune to fall downstairs a few years
ago, so badly fracturing one of her
knees that the limb had to be am
puta6ed. The young woman, of course,
walks with the aid Of crutches. She
is not the least sensitive about the
matter, and she doesn't mind inform
ing properly introduced people of the
nature of the accident which manned
her. She has set a little limit, how
ever, and she was compelled to use
1t one afternoon last week. She got
into an f street car, bound for the
Hin, and found herself in the same
seat with a sharp-eyed woman who
seemed to take whole lot Of interest
in her and her crutches. She scrutin-
lied the young woman's face carefully
for a couple of minutes, then turned
her attention to the workmanship of
the crutches, which she took the lib
erty to handle curiously Then she
looked at the young woman over again
and leaned over to her.
Dye mind tellin' me how you lost
your leg?" she asked, raspily.
Not in the least" responded the
young woman, amiably. 81 lost it in
the battle of Gettysburg"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-03-01
FORGETS SOCIETY AND MEN.
Millionaire's Daughter Now Earning
Fifteen Dollars a Week.

There is all the difference between
society and business that there is be-
tween meat and cream puffs." So says
Miss Elsie Farrell, the youngest fairest
and favorite daughter of Franklin Far
rel, twenty times millionaire and one
of the richest men in New England,
who has gone into actual training to
fit herself to succeed him in the man.
agement of his iron foundry business
enterprises.
She has become his typewriter at $15
week while she is learning the bust
ness and perfecting herself in the me-
chanical art of casting, founding,
smelling and rolling.
Miss Elsie Farrell is one of the pref
test girls in Connecticut. She is like
wise one of the cleverest She is 81.
At 1914 she was graduated from Ogontz
She won some of the highest honors
bestowed by that fashionable school.
And she is heiress to a fifth, perhaps
more, of her fathers $4,000, 900.
From all of which it may be inferred
that Miss Elsie Farrell is fitted to grace
society. This she has done since she
burst the schoolgirl chrysallis at Og-
ontz eighteen months ago. She
| reigns by all the rights of belledom at
Ansonia. She is almost equally belle
in New Haven, where her sister. Mrs.
George Bryant, lives. She is a welcome
visitor to the exclusive sets of New
York.
But eighteen months of the priv
leges of society which her endowments
have brought her have wearied Miss
Elise. She has said, with tilt of her
determined little chin and tighten
ing of her lips, that she is tired of il
all and would rather go into business
with papa.
Papa" in this instance is one of the
great men of New England. He is the
president of a big Ansonia foundry
and machine company and his man.
sion, on the brow of hill overlooking
that city, is one of the finest of the
modern palaces on the southern side of
the Sldle OF connecticut.
When Miss Farrell learned that her
fathers private secretary had given
notice that he would leave for another
post in Boston in sixty days she ap-
piled for the position. Mr.. Farrell dis
guised his pleasure with such gravity
as he might.
MY private secretary must be a
stenographer. ne said.
she shall be- said Miss Elise Far
rel.
The next day she was a student in a
business college. She took a hurry
up course and when the private Sec
rotary went to Boston she was in
stalled in his place. Her employer
says he finds the new hand" satisflo-
tory.
Last Tuesday she drew her first
weeks salary. 1t was SIS.
Il am prouder of that than of my d.
ploma," she said
Meanwhile Miss Farrell goes to the
office at and works until 5. She dons
black sateen apron to protect her
dress and slips on black calico sleeves
TO cover those of her gown.
Then she opens and asserts the mail
Her father dictates his replies 10 the
letters and she struggles valiantly with
the pothooks. She transcribes and adj
dresses the letters and sends them
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-03-01
DISASTROUS RESULT.

The professional humorist who had
turned policeman cast his eye fiercely
over the crowd of bystanders.
You're one of the fellows" no said
grabbing stranger, who helped that
crook to get awayr'
am not" protested the stranger.
i am travelling man on my way to
my train. never was here before "a
Where are you from?"
Hartford"
come along" said the policeman
by your own confession you're a
Conn. mani"
interfered. 'iS
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-03-01
TWO GOOD STORIES.

When a worship goes out for target
practice Ii is the custom to place all
glass, chinaware and other fragile
articles in the hold OF the ship. as
close down to the keel "a possible. in
order to prevent breakage by the con-
cusslon when follows the firing OF the
guns This led 10 an amusing incl
dent at Manila. after the destruction
slf the Spanish neet. relates the San
Francisco Argonaut. Life on board
the Olympia was gradually settling
down to its accustomed routine and
dnlinrss. when one day at luncheon
Commodore dewey asked his colored
boy. Iir s'sns '.st he
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-03-01

Greasy Grimes. who was warming
his back against the sunny side of a
cattle pen. had spelled out with much
difficulty the contents of a scrap ..
newspaper he had picked up.
This says" he observed, "ths- =
governor 'telephoned his o. X. to the
drainage trustees. Wot does that
mean?"
1t means he was tellin' 'em to
Open Kanawl,'" replied Tuffoid
knntt, YEARLY. ANY blame fool ort
NOW that"
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OLD WEATHER SIGNS.
Sayings in Which Sailors, Travellers
and Farmers Have Believed.

anu Il dTmerS nave belleVeu.
Thunder on Sunday is considered by
the weather-wise the sign Of the death
of great man; on Monday, the death
of woman; on Tuesday, il IN early
summer, it foretells an abundance OF
grain; on Wednesday, warfare is
threatened; on Thursday, an album
dance of sheep and corn the farmer
may reckon upon; on Friday, some
great man will be murdered; on Sat
urday, a general pestilence and great
mortality.
Fridays weather shows what may
be expected on the following Sunday;
that is, if It rains on Friday noon, then
1t will rain on Sunday, but IL Friday be
clear, then Sunday will be fine as we'll
The twelve days Immediately follow
ing Christmas denote the weather for
the coming twelve months one day for
a month. Inc day Of the month the
first snow storm appears indicates the
number Of snow storms the winter will
bring, For example, the first snow
storm comes on November 29-look
out, then, for Twenty-Five snow
storms.
There is an old saying-which orig
mated, perhaps, for the benefit Of
school children-that there is only one
Saturday in the year without sun dur
ing some portion of the day.
A gale, moderating at sunset, will
increase before midnight, but If it mod
crates after midnight the weather will
improve.
No weather is Ill
If the wind be still.
If the moon shall rise red, expect
wind.
Tho sharper the blast the sooner it
is past.
A light yellow sky at sunset presages
wind.
When you see the northern lights
you may expect cold weather.
Hay weather is thought to prognos-
ticate frost in winter, snow in spring,
fair weather in summer and rain in
autumn.
Storms that clear in the night will be
followed by a rain storm.
Three foggy mornings will surely be |
followed by rain storm.
If the ice on the tree melts and runs
off, rain will come next; while if the
wind cracks the ice, snow will follow.
When leaves of trees show their I'M
der side there will be rain.
When the perfume of flowers or the
odor Of fruit Is unusually noticed rain
may be expected.
rain.
II cat washes herself calmly and
smoothly the weather will be fair III
she washes against the grain" take |
your macintosh with you. II she lies |
with her back to the fire there will be
a squall
Cats with their tails up and their
hair apparently electrified indicate APP
preaching wind.
II pigs are restless there will be
windy weather. Pigs can see the
wind.
The direction in which loon flies in |
the morning will be the direction of |
the wind the next day.
Magpies flying three or four together
and uttering harsh cries predict windy
weather.
Flocks of crows signify a cold sum-
mer.
When the owl nests look out for
storm
When the swallow flies low rain will
come soon; when II flies high expect
fine weather.
II rooster crows at night he will
get up with a wet head
Six weeks from the time the first