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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-15
The Literary Microscopic.

Commenting on rather pedantic
magazine article, criticising what the
author considers the incorrect use of
words and pointing out what he thinks
are common mistakes in conversation
and writing, the New York CONNER
cial Advertiser characterizes this sort
of criticism as 'painstaking illiteracy,"
and adds: ut would be absurd to say
anything about this foolish matter if
it did not represent the attitude of a
rather formidable class of persons.
Their fine ffagrancy of this particular
instance is, to be sure, somewhat ex-
ceptional in print, unless it be among
the letters to the editor But it is
not at all unusual in conversation. In
fact, nothing speaks so well for the
kindly forbearance of the race as the
number of these people and the large
proportion of them that die natural
deaths. The incorrect pedantries of
conversation would fill many volumes.
They are not the least among the
numerous annoyances of education.
- S-AS VI DefA pA - 10 OOunCIuluS VI d
tyrant, and the triple-plate armor of
his self-complacency makes him assas-
sin-proof. There is no convincing him
that his is special case of illiteracy.
all the worse for being so deliberately
wrought out. His quarrel is with the
luxuriance of the language. He hates
the liberality of our endowment. The
activities of words must be curtailed
They must be disemboweled, sailed.
skinned and dried. And if we unbend
little in pronunciation or slide our
words, as did the Greeks, or fall in
with the sanctioned carelessness of
the leaders of our race, he is for keep
ing us in after school. He is a cold
FLOODED disinheritor of words, an
apostle of rigidity and traitor to the
best traditions people has. The
language needs no beadlc-not even
on the Bowery. Order is not main
tanned by these trivial restraints.
They incite, rather, to open rebellion
all along the line"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-15
Mr.. Maxim's Hand.

II read with more than ordinary
interest your recent interview with
Hudson Maxim, the inventor of smoke
less powder" remarked New York
merchant. "One reason why it was
interesting to me was because of an
unusual incident which vas the means
of my becoming ecquainied with Mr..
Maxim.
The inventor, you know, has but
one hand, the other having been blown
of while he was experimenting with
some high explosive. .he first time /
ever saw Mr. Maxim was one night on
an elayted railroad train. He was a
stranger 10 me at that time, and my at
tention was attracted to him by the
actions of half-drupken burly ruffian.
who sat in the cross seat opposite and
persisted in annoying him in one way
and another. A quiet protest from the
stranger brought a torrent of vile
language from the rufian, accompanied
by hostile demonstration and q pro
zane threat TO push his head The
stranger paid as little attention to the
outrage as possible and Kept on read
ing his newspaper. I noticed that the
stranger mad an artificial left hand.
which was. gloved and locked very
much like the other one. When he got
up to leave the car at his station the
ruffian jeered at him. and getting up
from his seat followed him out. 1t
wasn't my station. but feeling almost
certain that the stranger would need
some protection, followed them cut
Of the car. The stranger went down
the stairs first, the ruffian few steps
behind him. grumbling all the way.
and | next. When the stranger
reached the bottom Of the stair he
stepped out to the middle Of the side
walk, apparently making room for the
ruffian to pass him. Instead OF accept
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-15
Woman spellblnder for Bryan.

Not content with engaging an In
dian chief as one of it's staff of cam
paign orators, the democratic COM
mittee has now completed arrange
ments to secure the services of Miss
Margaret ingalls, of Kentucky, who
has already taken the stump for Mr..
Bryan. Miss ingalls, for several
years has been prominent in the excit-
ing political life of that state. At the
last stormy session of the Kentucky
legislature she was chosen head clerk
of the house, and she has won name
for herself as an orator in several ex-
citing state campaigns. She is a
ready speaker and is said to rival even
Mr.. Bryan himself in the facility with
which she turns brilliant epigrams
which stick in the memory. She is
also noted as wit and is good
story-teller, Her first speech outside
the state was made before the demo-
cratic congressional convention at
Charlottesville, Ind. A good many of
Indiana's male spellbinders were pres
ent and let the eagle soar to the best
of their powers. but Miss Ingalls, east
ly carried of the oratorical honors in
spite of them.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-15
OUR oVERFuRNIsHED HOMES.
Health, Comfort and Taste Sacrificed
for Display in American Houses.

Health, Comfort and Taste Sacrificed
for Display in American Houses.
More simplicity in our homes would
make our lives simpler" writes Ed
ward Box in plea for the exercise of
better taste in furnishing our homes
in Ladies' Home Journal. MANY
women would live fuller lives because
they would have more time. AS 1t is,
hundreds of women of all positions in
life are today the slaves Of their homes
and what they have crowded into
them. Comfort is essential to our hap
piness. But with comfort we should
stop. Then we are on the safe side
But we get on and over the danger
line when we go beyond. Not one
tenth of the things that we think are
essential to our happiest living are
really so. In fact, we should be an
infinitely happier and healthier people
IL the nine-tenths were taken out of
our lives. 1t is astonishing how much
we can do without, and be thousand
times the better for 1t. And it doesn't
ARQtiO hluNh W lCob lnio 6OopCl Vi
wisdom. We need only to be natural:
to get back to our real, inner selves.
Then we are simple. 1t is only be-
cause we have got away from the
simple and the natural that so many CT
our homes are cluttered up as they are
and our lives full OF little things that
are not worth the while. we have
bent the knee to show, 10 display, and
we have lowered ourselves In doing il !;
surrounded ourselves with the trivial
and the useless; and filing our lives
with the poison of artificiality and the
unnatural, we have pushed the Real.
the Neutral. the Simple, the Beautiful
the best and the most lasting things
out of our lives"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-15
THEY SHOW ENTERPRISE.
Occupation in Which Women are
Achievinn Success

FcnieVIH9 SUCCESS.
The weaving Of baskets seems a
commonplace enough occupation as
means of support, yet it's discovery as.
such as made orly the other day by
Misses Mabel ard Stella Campbell.
two young wonen scarcely out OF their
teens. The idea came through seeing
little baskets made of pine needles and
brought to hotels for sale by many
country women. These young women
learned how the baskets were made
and, being in the far west-in the
Indian country-where grasses and
suitable material were procurable,
they became interested in the art Of
curing" the grasses, irventing, them
selves, numerous patterns and designs
for the novel little baskets. They are
making comfortable living at it in
their cottage rear the Adirondacks.
Miss Margaret Oliver is an enter
prising young southern woman who
has made bulb-growing profitable
business. Her home is within few.
miles of Augusta, Ca, and comprises
between so to rs acres of land which,.
when she inherited it, the neighbors
said was too poor to sprout cowpeas.
Miss Oliver took this little farm as a
means of trying out-or-door life for her
health, broken by the confinement and
worry of the schoolroom.
Marjorie Deana of New York is the
romantic name of very practical and
successful young business woman and
perhaps the only femme landscape as
sistant to an architect in the United
States.
Miss Carrie H. Lippincott is not only
the pioneer seedswomen of America"
but has achieved the distinction Of
being the sole proprietor of the largest
house in the world dealing exclusively
in flower seed. She declares she has
never had year when the balance
was on the wrong side of the ledger
Her employees are always women.
When her work is heaviest she keeps
from 16 to 25 clerks in her Minneapolis
offices.
Another profession in which Bos-
ton girl has met with success is that
of brio -a-brac surgeon. She makes a
speciality of repairing all sorts OF
porcelains, statuary, fine cut glass and
precious pottery. In one year she
patched Up 100000 worth of fragile
ware and she got nearly 10 per cent.
on the value of the goods redeemed.
Another woman of many talents is
Mrs. Madeline Yale ;. mn of Chicago.
Although successful story-writer,
painter, modeler and designer and
brilliant society woman, she is also the
only woman silversmith in the world.
Marion Daniel Mcconnell in the
Alkahest.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-15

year. The reputed increase of the
animals is seven per female annually,
but these trappers are amply satisfied
if they succeed in raising five. The
foxes run wild on the island, but are
caught readily and without injury IN
box traps, from which the males are
taken and killed and the females are
released. The pelts are valued at from
$40 to sA5 each.
2. A. Lucas has recently described
in Science the feeding and trapping Of
blue foxes on Pribilof islands, where
the industry has not long been es-
tabnshed. The island of St. George is
admirably adapted for the abode of the
fox, the only drawback being the lack
Of food during the winter. After
pelagic sealing became prevalent, the
foxes had, for a time, an abundant
supply of food in the shape of seal
pups, whose mothers had been shot at
sea, the pups starving in consequence.
In 1896 every pup was devoured by the
foxes. On the Aleutian islands dried
salmon has been used to feed the foxes
in winter, and on st. George linseed
meal has been fed to them. In 1897 it
was declined to use the carcasses Of
skinned seals, but as the catch out of
st. George has of late been small, car
casses were salted brought over from
st. Paul and used for batting the box
traps. AS the use of the box proved
slow, corral was constructed, and ar
ranged so that the entrance could
easily be closed This plan proved a
success, the foxes entering without
hesitation, so that from five to 40 could
be taken. The males are killed by
breaking their necks, but one male is
left alive to every three females. Blue
foxes seem to lack the proverbial craft
of the other fox species, for they
readily enter the pen, and when re-
leased do so again.
If by little artificial selection and
environment naturally homogeneous
animal can be rendered polygamous,
the supply of blue fox skins will be
materially increased. The greatest
number taken in one evening on ST
George island has been 245, of which
81 were killed.-New York Sun.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-15
Work.

What are we set on earth for? Say, to
toll;
Nor seek to leave thy tending of the
vines,
For all the heart o. the day, till it de-
clines,
And deaths mild curfew shall from
work assoil.
Cod did anoint thee with his odorous
oil,
To wrestle, not to reign, and he as
signs
All thy tears over, like crystallines,
For younger feIlow-workers of the
soil
To wear for amulets. So others shall
Take patience, labor, to their heart
and hand,
From thy hand, and thy heart, and
thy brave cheer.
And Gods grace fructify through thee
to all
The least flower, with trimming cup,
may stand,
To wear for amulets. So others
shall
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-15

The libel law is a very poteDS factor
in British journalism, therefore
yelled hints and thickly muffied sug-
gestions concerning the doings OF
royal and noble folk usually take the
place of the interesting statements
such as one would be able to make in
a New York paper, for example. Peo-
ple are always wondering why on
earth the second daughter OF the
prince and princess of Wales has
never married, and why she is so little
seen in public.
The explanation is simple enough,
only people are afraid to make it. This
little known princess has, as matter
of fact, since her fifteenth year, been
subject to epileptic fits, which I'M
fortunately have been increasing in
violence year by year. 1t is a matter
OF comment how seldom she has APP
'peared in public for the last three or
four years, but, of course, simple
statement Of fact makes the matter
no mystery.
Princess Victoria, however, is not
the only member of the prince Of
Wales family in whom turks the sha-
dow OF a tragedy. Princess Maud,
who has always been counted the
beauty of the family and who married
some years ago handsome young
Prince Charles of Denmark, has since
her marriage developed an alarming
suicidal mania, which makes it inn
possible for her to be left alone for a
minute. Since her childhood she has,
like her mother, the princess of
Wales, been subject to fits Of melan-
choly, but it is only within the last
few years that these more serious de-
velopments have occurred.
The first symptom of this dreadful
complaint appeared during the prin-
cess first visit, after her marriage, to
Copenhagen. After very duh state
dinner party she suddenly disappeared
into an anteroom, and, being missed,
one of the ladies In waiting went in
search of her. A curious gasping
sound was heard in one corner of the
room, and the royal bride was dis
covered lying on the ground with the
blind cord tightly drawn about her
throat and almost in the last stages of
strangulation.
Princess Maud also mas developed
other tendencies and tastes which
have by no means increased the very
slight popularity which she was first
awarded when she arrived in her hus-
bands native land. Mysterious hints
are given concerning her other
manias. which are perhaps even more
distressing.
The last time / saw her | was
shocked at her appearance, for from
being a pretty, dainty and smart look
ing woman she has changed into a
haggard, hungry-eyed creature with
dyed hair and painted cheeks, and
hands that were ever nervously grasp
ing and fumbling with fan and hand
kerchief.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-15
ALAsKA's GAME RESOURCES.
What the War Departments Exploring
Parties Found.

Some of the exploring parties sent
out by the war department in 1898
traversed wholly unknown regions in
inner Alaska hundreds of miles from
the coasts. They saw a good deal of
Alaskan game, and in their recently
published reports give some fresh in
formation on this subject. Lieut..
Cashier, for example, who struck out a
route all the way from Cook inlet to
Dawson City, sums up his observation
with the remark that Alaska is not so
well supplied with game as most peo-
pie imagine. Many large tracts in tie
interior seem entirely devoid of game,
and are a perfect solitude. Every
summer, however, thousands of water
fowl and song birds pay visit to our
northern territory, rear their young
and then go south again Among
them are many varieties of the duck
and geese families, and many of the
waterfowl stay all winter along the
mild south coast of Alaska. The
raven, the ptarmigan and a few small
snowbirds are the only birds that re-
main after the snow comes.
On his long journey Lieut.. Cashier
saw the tracks of hundreds of bears.
and did not see one of the animals.
The large brown and the small black
bears are the principal representatives
of the brain family. The black bear
is most plentiful and is not so fierce as
the brown bear, which is said to lie
very ferocious when wounded. The
large game that he saw were moose.
caribou, sheep. goats, lynx. foxes.
wolves and wolverines. He saw the
tracks Of perhaps a thousand moose.
but they are so shy and so quick to dis
cover the presence of human being
that he saw only one of them. The
wolverine seems to enjoy a practical
joke. for he tears open caches and de-
stroys their contents, even though
they are not edible.
Capt. Abercormbie mentions in his
report 20 species OF mammals living in
the Copper river valley, including
those mentioned above. besides the
silver tip. blue glacier and yellow
bears, and the beaver, marten. mink.
muskrat, whistling marmot, porcupine
and gopher.
CAPT. Glenn's report tells OF the
efforts Mr.. Story of the Alaska
packing association and others SIRE
making to raise blue foxes on Fox
island, about sc miles southwest Of
Port Valdez. They pay the United
States about 800 rental every year
for the use of the island and their
plant. including the foxes brought to
the island. has cost about s12 900. with
very small returns up to the end of the
third season. In 1898 they had about
800 head on hand. and expect to
utilize some OF their Increase last
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-15

ing the opportunity to go his way, he
made directly for the stranger, who
sent out good Highlander, which
caught the scoundrel on he point of
the jaw and knocked him clean across
the curb and landed hin. ali in heap
in the gutter, where he lay quivering
like beef hit with an ak. A grew
some part of the midnight incident
vas that as the stranger landed his
knockout blow his artificial hand be-
came detached and fell to the pavement
with a clatter. confess that l was a
little startled at this, and before 1
could recover myself he had picked up
his artificial hand, put it under his
arm and walked off. Although he had
demonstrated his ability TO take care
Of himself up to that time, did not
know but he would need NE as a wit
ness later, and oyertaking him, gave
him my card. He gave lie his in
return, and not till got home and
looked at the card did know that the
stranger who had so Handsomely pro-
tected himself against ruffian was
Hudson Maxim. Since then we have
become very good friends, and have
often wondered what sort Of an ac-
count of the affair the police got from
the man we left at the loot of the
stairs. New York Commercial.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-15
FORTUNE TELLING.
Some Tricks Of a Trade Now Quite in
VOGUE.

Vogue.
"If had room to describe all my ex-
periences with these modern witches
and wizards, | should like TO tell you
about the amiable old fraud that cast
my horoscope. He has been to states
prison for swindling, but he advertises
in the Sunday papers just the same as
usual, and his Office is full of people
whose dollars burn In their pockets. l
should like to describe tho doctor with
three framed diplomas. two medical
books and half-pint of pills, that went
into trance for me hardly distin-
guishable from the early stages of a fit
His wrist shook like flddler's playing
Schubert's 'Serenade,' and his eyes
rolled up till they looked like hard
boiled eggs with the shell of. :
should like TO tell about the psychic
medium that did little miracle for me
in the way OF reading the answers to
my questions through the envelope in
which they were sealed. could ex'
plain how he gave me a dummy to hold
while he opened the real envelopes I'M
der cover of washing his hands. l
should like to tell how wrong In ever.
particular was the lady that read my
palm by the light of pure science. No
fortune-telling about IT, oh. dear. no.
should like 10 tell about the true and
reliable ortune-tci!crs' that ran tho
cards for me. and saw trouble from a
dark man and luck In the lottery with
the number s. or 500. or 5000. and how
there was money coming to me In a
letter from across the water. ct has
to come to me that way or could not
pay the grocer. for live In Brooklyn,
and Brooklyn is on Long Island. and
my little girl has Just come home from
school with the information that an
island is bcdy of land completely
surrounded by water. had suspect.
ed as much. Harvey Sutherland IN
Ainslee's.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-15
Prussian State Railroad Report.

The report OF the Prussian minister
of public works on the government
railways of Prussia and Hesse in 1895
SO shows a mileage of 1894 miles.
Their cost was s1,s02, 1898: or $97-
444 mile. There is large yearly
increase of equipment. the cost Of
which in the year under notice was
$27,S3o,oo0. The purchase value of all
equipment in use is put at 1857 ,000. 900,
or 1852 per cent. Of the total invested
capital. The passengers transported
numbered e22, 2S0,00 of whom LAO.
were first-class passengers, 1885, 900
260,360,00o third-class
and POI. 100000 fourth-class. AS many
as 100000 persons travelled on mill
tary tickets. The average receipts pei
passenger were Is cents. The ton
mage OF freight carried was 1875, eco
tons. Total receipts from passengers
and freight were s2S0.50o, 900. and
from all sources $500, 100000. The ex-
cess of receipts over expenses was
s127,770, 900. and the net profit was
7.07 per cent. Traffic. receipts and ex-
penses all show yearly increases, but
the rate Of profit is declining.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-15
Art Gallery for Buffalo.

The city of Buffalo is soon to have
one of the best fine-art galleries of
the country. which will cost something
like $S5o,eoo. Il is the gift of J. J. Al
bright, one Of the leading citizens of
the place and an art patron. The
only conditions imposed were that the
city should furnish the site and that
the Fine Arts Academy of Buffalo
should raise a maintenance fand Of
100000. The lot has been decided.
and is within the limits Of Delaware
Park, overlooking the beautiful Lake
park. The academy has also raised
the maintenance fund, and the build
ing will be completed in time to serve
as the art palace of the Pan-American
Exposition. The edifice will be ESQ
feet long by $50 feet wide, the princi-
pal facade looking toward the east
The architecture will be classic Greek.
The stone win be white marble.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-15

tooing. Why, half the necks and
arms and shoulders displayed by the
girls at the Hotel Mosquito by-the-Sea
hop the other evening were all criss-
cross and speckled, for all the world
like a war map or guide to golf
links, at least. 1t was what you might
call a checkered career laid bare by
those decollete bodices. My sister
says it isn't tattooing at ali, but sun
burn, and she also says that it's all
due to what she calls the diaphanous
shirt waist. think know the kind
Of shirt waist she means-that very
thin, fluffy sort, you know, that is pat
termed in plaids or dots or stripes a
bit thicker than the goods itself, and
l suppose that the girl wearing it is
bSrncd according to this pattern. Amy
way, to the masculine eye it looks just
like tattooing. I've paid to look at
many dime museum freak who
couldn't hold candle to some CT the
tatooed girls to be seen FOR nothing at
any summer resort just now. The only
thing l ever heard of to equal it is a
fellow | know who struck a Florida
hotel one night right in the season
when everything was bang-up full and
they put him to sleep in a bathtub
with a shellpattern crocheted afghan
for coverlet. The fellow woke up
next morning, he said, and found
himself quito-bitten-not in the
usual harum-scarum way, but in the
precise shell-patetrn of that crocheted
afghan. New York Sun.