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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
REMARKABLE SALVAGE OF THE
MILWAUKEE.

Probably the most remarkable
achievement in the line of wrecking
and rebuilding to be found in mari
time history is represented by the
reconstructed steamer Milwaukee,
which was turned out in the summer
of 1899 at the yard of c. S. Swan
& Hunter at Wallsend-on-Tyne Eng
land
The Milwaukee, a vessel of 4S3 feet
length and Sc feet beam, went ashore
near Aberdeen in September 1898, a
huge rock penetrating the hold for a
length of 80 feet and to a height OF
feet above the tank top. When the
salvage operators saw that it would
be impossible to save the entire vessel
it was decided to blow her in two
with dynamite. This was done sue.
cessfully and $50 feet of the fore
end was left on the rocks, while the
after end was towed to a dry-dock.
The saved portion of the vessel de.
pended for flotation, until placed In
dry dock, upon a transverse water.
tight bulkhead at the forward end oil
the boiler space. The saved portion
extended from just before the forward
end of the navigating bridge to the
stern, the engines and boilers being
thus preserved. 1t was towed to the
Tyne and moored in the river until a
new bow was built, launched, and
made ready for connection to it. So
well was this done that a person
ignorant of the facts would never
know that he was not looking at the
original bow, while even those per-
sons who knew the circumstances OF
the case were unable to point out the
point where the junction OF the new
and old portions was made.-Waldon
Fawcett in Engineering Magazine.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
WHITTIER ON BLAINE'S FIGHT
The Smartest Thing Since the Days
of Clay" Wrote the Poet in 1876.

The second instalment of a series
of hitherto unpublished letters that
passed between Gail Hamilton and
Whittier printed in the Ladies' Home
Journal, contains this one from Whit
tier written in 1876 during the height
of the canvass for the presidential
nomination:
How splendidly Blaine bore him
self in his fight with the committee!
| hope thee saw 1t. 1t was the smart
est thing done in congress since the
days of Henry Clay. ! am sorry that
he, like almost everybody else, has
been making haste to be rich, but 7
don't see that he has cleared himself
Of the charges against him. He has
had an awful ordeal. The game OF
the presidency isn't worth such a can
die. Any man who is named for the
white house will soon be in the con-
dition Of the man out west who was
everywhere we'll spoken OF until he al
lowed himself to stand for general
court. and found himself so abused
that no had to call his dog to see IL
he was himself or somebody else"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILWAYS.

The great increase of business and
industrial activity in South Carolina is
well illustrated by statistics from the
state railroad commission. There it is
shown that the railways of South
Carolina, during the year ended June
80, made earnings of nearly $4,000, 900
and a net income of $1,000. 900, being
an increase in gross earnings of 1921
600 over the previous year and a net
income more than % per cent greater,
the gross increase being nearly 10 per
cent. of the total eanings. Our rail-
roads are prospecting. Yet this is but
a beginning, for the volume of bust
ness since July ] has been far greater
than for the corresponding half of last
year and also greatly in excess of
those of the first months of 1899. The
report for the current year will doubt
less show gains even larger than for
the last, Columbia Is. CO. State.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08

ionable quarter of the city, and was
the scene of many festivities,
Miss Luella NJ. Willard was the
stenographer in DR.. Galbraith's Of
nee. She was very handsome, the
Idol of a widowed mother living on the
north side.
Inc rupture occurred last May, when
Mrs. Galbraith applied for a divorce,
Strong in the dignity of her grief. she
made strenuous efforts to keep the de-
tails from becoming public, and was
successful.
The slddenness of it and the mvs-
| terry of it staggered society. DR.. CAL
braith WIS from that moment a chang
ed man. He became unsettled. err
ratio. Miss Willard continued to
manipulate the typewriter for his
partner, but he started out alone to see
new lands. He visited Honolulu, and
there excited the admiration of the
medical profession by performing
more than one brilliant operation.
He returned to Omaha a few weeks
ago, as suddenly as he had left. Soon
afterward Miss Willard asked for a
leave of absence, and obtained it. I'm
known to their friends, she and her
former employer met by appointment
in ST. Louis. and thence. for secrecy
went to the little town of st. Charles
Mo-, and wore married.
They failed to realize the desired
secrecy, for the news was telegraphed
to the Omaha papers the same night;
and that was the second sensation IN
the Galbraith case.
Now comes the intelligence that the
infatuated physician and his second
wife are about to embark on tour in
the orient, to last at least year. Mr.
G. bennett, nephew of President
Dole, will pilot them as far as Homo
| lulu. Thence, after being made much
of by the friends Dr. Galbraith made
on his recent trip, they will sail for
China and Japan. Probably they will
take look at Manila.
That they will ever again be seen in
Omaha is doubtful. DR.. Galbraith is
in love with Honolulu, and so great
is his prestige there professionally and
personally that he would be welcomed
as permanent resident. He SAYS
that he and his bride may settle there
for life.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
THE STORY OF A MALARIA GERM.
What the Germ Has to Contend With
in the Human System.

Theodore Waters, in Ainslee's, has
edited the life-story of malaria germ.
Here is the germs description of a
fight with the phagocytes: Just then
lot of our newborn brothers began
crowding upon us from behind, and
when we turned to demonstrate, we
saw, away to the rear, a great commo-
ton. A fight and retreat were going
on. 1t was slaughter of the most hor-
rible kind. There at the head of tide
of blood were columns of phagocytes
cutting into the rearguard of malaria
germs, killing them swallowing them
whole, and growing lustier as the pro-
cess went on. 1t was an awful spec
tacle l hung back, fascinated. A
phagocyte would race down the cur
rent with a swift overland stroke.
reach out and grasp a microbe from
behind Then the arm of the phago-
Cyte would shorten, and, as it seemed
to me, retreat into the white monsters
interior, dragging the germ with it.
Sometimes a phagocyte would grow
facetious, and would bump against a
poor germ as though shouldering him
out of the road. Away would go the
poor germ, swimming fast in order to
avoid the encounter, but his enemy
would then swim faster, striking him
fair in the middle, and, with slow
motion going inside out like a glove
and actually taking the germ in with
him. Ugh! | should have remained
there in sheer spell if my companion
had not pulled me along with him.
Make for a red blood CELL" he
called as we went onward.
What said I, "a red cell? We
have just come from one!'
Never mind, he replied, find red
cell and eat your way inside 1t is our
only chance See, the others are do
ing it,!
"Sure enough, many of my brethren
had selected good red blood cells and
were penetrating the skin and climb
ing inside to escape the phagocytes
1t seemed to me so unfortunate, Just as
we had gained our freedom, but it was
better than death. So we looked for
cells. Every cell We came to, however,
was being occupied, and it seemed to
me that the phagocytes were gaining
on us when my companion suddenly
pulled me to one side and cried:
Look out, look out! Keep away
| from that current near the center
there 1t is worse than DEATH
What is it?' | cried, for / could
see nothing.
Don't you see?' he said, hugging
| the wall of the tunnel, there it is, that
discolored streak, running near the
center of the stream. 1t is caused by
what men call quinine, and it is dead
ly if you swim in it.
How does it affect your | asked.
If you swallow it, it numbs yolI-
makes you incapable of motion-stupe-
fies and prevents you climbing into a
red blood cell-it is living death, and
the friend of the Phagocytes!'
81 shuddered and swan on. At the
end of a sewer-like opening, my friend
darted to one side and seized a red
blood cell which was unoccupied. He
began work on it at once.
Goodbye, brother!' he said Here
is where I stop. I've work to do.
Hope you'll get out of the wet before
our white friends catch you. Look
out for the quinine streaks.'
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
PNEUMATIC TIRE FOR THE
HORSELESS CARRIAGE.

The most perfect spring we can have
is air under pressure, and pneumatic
tire is the best way yet known of put
ting that spring into use. Its use
means a deformable envelope, which
must be well and strongly made, cap
able of withstanding not only repeated
reformation at high speeds, but under
the worst possible conditions as to
wear-and-tear by the cutting and
abrading Irregularities which effect
the worst of the reformation under
an insistent load The envelope.
moreover must be easily detached and
replaced, and capable of withstanding
high tangential tensile stresses as We'll
as the continuous stress due to an IN
ternal pressure of so to 80 lbs. per
square inch. 1t does not appear to be
recognized, that, even with rubber,
there is a limit to velocity of trans
mission of impact, and therefore a linn
IL TO the volicity of impact under
which rubber will bend, or extend, and
not break. The higher the speed, there
fore, the greater the effect of road
abrasion and the more frequent the
conversion of an abrading stone into a
cutting stone. The past year has
probably seen the limit of endurance
approached by the distinctive co-ac-
ton of high speed and heavy weight.
w. w. Beaumont, in Engineering
Magazine.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
POINTS OF METRIC SYSTEM.
Principal Difficulty Encountered in Its
Working.

The great difficulty that has been
encountered on the continent of
Europe in working with the metric
system is the seeming hopeless task
of standardizing screw threads, ETC.,
under it. Whether it be the natural
tendency of mankind to count by tens,
or to continually multiply and divide
by two, it is certainly very difficult
even to suggest any satisfactory sub
division of the centimeter for screw
threads. Another important point is
that the Whitworth thread, in inch
sizes, is standardized all over the
world, that innumerable screws and
bolts and taps and dies are in ex-
istence with such threads, and that
practically all the machinery that is
now at work in the world is dependent
for repairs upon the ease in getting
standard sizes of these goods. To
change them would involve mechani-
cal confusion for a generation, and
even today. in Germany, notably,
where machinery is made on the
metric system, the screw heads are
cut to Whitworth inch gauges.
The difficulty of adopting a cent?
grade thermometer scale is apparently
not difficulty at all, but involves
only the awkwardness due to a change.
1t gives satisfaction in general use in
France. 1t is strange that no serious
effort has been made to fix upon a
standard of length thai shall be really
what the meter was intended to be
| fixed and immutable, and rediscover-
able if lost. Such standard is
found in the wave length of light
This can now be measured with ex-
IRENE accuracy, and it could be made
the basis of practical standards APP
proximating either the meter or the
foot. Some suggestion of this sori
has been made. we believe, by Pro.
fessOr Nicholson, but nothing practica
has been done toward adopting this
most scientific unit of length, excep
in refined physical research work.
Electrical Review.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS ABOUT

/ Among the stories told to the de-
served credit of such lawyers as have
no scruples against distorting and
concealing the truth in order to shield
persons whom they know or have ev-
cry reason to believe to be guilty, the
following is entitled to a good place:
An attorney had occasion to defend
a man who was justly accused of coun-
terfeiting paper money. and he manip-
ulated the case with such skill that he
secured the acquittal of the prisoner
When the lawyer and his client were
alone together again the counterfeiter
overwhelmed the lawyer with thanks
And now" said he, putting his
hand in his pocket.
And now the lawyer took up the
sentence, II will have my fee, and |
will take it in hard currency, not in
bills, If you please. Youths Com
panion
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
ROMANCE OF FAMOUS PHYSICIAN
DR.. w. J. Galbraith of Omaha, Sails
on Seas with His Assistant.

How pair of melting brown eyes
looking up from the keyboard of a
typewriter revolutionized the entire
career of one of the most famous
physicians of the west is likely to be
theme of gossip in Omaha society for
many a day
Meanwhile DR.. William J. Gal
braith's sign still decorates door on
the fifth floor of the Paxton building,
while on the fourth floor appears the
announcement of Mrs. Alice Galbraith.
the wife who divorced him, that hair
dressing and manicuring are under
taken within.
The sign on the floor above is mis-
leading. DR.. Galbraith Is no longer
there. The typewriter Is silent. The
fingers that once scampered over it so
nimbly are now his in the eyes of the
law. The melting brown eyes are
those Of his new wife, and he and she
are about to journey off across sum
mer seas, perhaps never to return.
What makes the story most remark
able to the thousands who knew DR..
Galbraith is that he, the father of a
boy Of fifteen and man whose career
seemed settled on bedrock, should
have thrown to the winds all that he
had won and fare forth with his siren
into new worlds as gayly ds any reasb
undergraduate.
Dr. Galbraith was chief surgeon Of
the Union Pacific railway, one OF the
most coveted medical posts in this
part of the continent. This brought
him an income of $4,000 a year. Then
he had the privilege of private practice
and this a valuable branch of his ac-
tivity.
His skill as a surgeon had won him
renown, and no practitioner was in
greater demand for difficult opera
tions.
In his domestic life there seemed to
be no flaw. Mrs. Galbraith is esteemed
in the best society of Omaha as an
admirable woman. Their son was a
youth Of bright promise. devoted to
both his father and mother. The
Galbraith home was in the most fash
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08

their own set at their disposal on
short notice
Then, the fashions in form and
time OF entertaining, attire for foot
men and buffers and many other de-
tails, are rapidly changing, and people
finA it convenient to drop in here and
keep posted to date
Il am great believer in woman
work" concluded Mrs Stevens, and
believe if she will apply herself faith
fully and interestedly she has equal
chances with men. The first essential
however, is to select the occupation
for which she has the most knowl-
edge an adaptation. To understand
ones work thoroughly is the first half
of the battle; to love it is the other"
Mrs. Stevens is tall fne-looking
brunette, always we'll dressed. quiet in
manner and apparel. and whether in
home or at her office, bearing the I'M
mistakable air of a gentlewoman.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
/. THE TATTLING WITCH

For it is well known that tn,
shame of a mans sin liveth while HI
liveth. old Annalist.
He runs along the desert rim,
A leopard's pelt his girth,
And red as rudy earth
The long and slender shape of him.
A lissome witch beside him runs;
All yellow is her skin,
And dead her hair, and thin,
Bleached in thousand thousand suns
One leprous finger follows back
To where crimson stain
Sleeps on the blistered plain,
And oozes slow across the track.
She laughs because he will not see
Between the day and night
I'll turn thy young beard white
| heard the slung stone sing" Quoth
she
A tear falls just before he turns.
"Yon shadowy dune beside
| take another guide
That knows mott" Dry his eyelid
burns.
Beside the shadowy dune they rest,
And all the while he sleeps
The witch the night-fire keeps
Beneath a red moon in the west.
With morning wind another's there;
A moment, bone to bone,
They whisper, crone and cr.ne,
And gibber in their ,,empy hair.
He slung the killing stone in wrath:
Now, till by day and night
His young beard turneth white,
Drag we the man-blood on his PATH
Then with the wind the first witch
flies.
The second mutters fell;
Tonight one more | tell"
And wakes him with her stealthy eyes
-Maude Caldwell Perry in Century.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08

1t is an utter impossibility to catch
cold II the surfaces of the body ara
kept at an even temperature. Tie
trouble may be from without or It may
be from within-that is, by not being
either properly or sufficiently clad, by
not having perfect circulation, or by
not eating such food as is needed To
furnish the required heat Of the body
The chilliness you experience in the
winter arises from one Of two causes.
first, lack Of sufficient carbonaceous
food; second, poor circulation, posi-
bly, due to lack Of exercise.-Ladies
Home Journal.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
FRATERNAL INSURANCE ORDERS.

The mere statement that there were
nearly 100000 members of fraternal
orders on December 81. 1898, compared
with 2,166,274 policies i'm force in old
line life companies reportedto the New
York state insurance department, will
give some idea of the relative social
Importance of the two systems. On
the date named there was about
IS, 200, 900 900 worth of old-line life in
surance in force in the United States,
compared with 3.400, 100000 worth OF
benefit certificates in force issued by
fraternal orders. It only remains to
be added, to show clearly the point of
insurance, that the total expense of
management of life insurance compa-
MES in 1898 was s71.s9s SOL. while the
corresponding item with reference 10
fraternal orders was s3.5S0.380. Thus
we find two-thirds of the life insur-
ance business of the country in the
hands of about 46 old-line companies
and about one-third conducted on a CO.
operative basis by fewer than 200 fra
ternal orders. With one-third Of the
business the fraternal orders are car
rying on their work of providing bene-
fits for surviving relatives of deceased
members at one-twentieth of the ex
pense for cost of management re-
ported by the old-line companies, lit
tie less than per cent. as much. This
tbav have been doing with varying
success. considerably more than less.
for a quarter Of a century. and the
movement has ALWAYS been one OF
progress. That tney will so continue,
that the system will be still further
perfected, and that they will remain
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
BoSroN'S BOARDING-HOUSES.
Conducted by Patterns of Spnsterial
Virtue Who Provide Cultured Menus.

There can be no general license in
Boston's Bohemia" writes Mar
garet Allston in the Ladies'
Home Journal, las the neigh
borhood Is dotted with boarding
houses, where it is the invariable
custom that one must pass an exam
ination both in respectability and
brains before admittance is allowed,
and which are conducted by patterns
of spinsterial virtue who sit at the
head of a table full of cultured board
ers. announcing the cultured menu to
each individual somewhat in this
wise Miss -. will you partake of
lamb warmed in its own gravy? Or
a suggestion of shepherds pie? Or.
possibly chicken pie to Gomez" i,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
A MAINE FISH STORY.

One of the queerest experiencas T.,
catching trout that any man ever had
in Maine was had at Moosehead Lake
recently by an Attleboro sportsman
named Williams He was standing an
the apron of the dam at Wilson's. fish
ing In the quick water below. and he
had met with fair success. Near the
shore, on his right hand, in a little
EDDY, he noticed barrel lying on it's
side In several feet of water. He won
dered what 1t was there for, and was
SO curious that he left his fishing and
went down to examine. He found that
1t was an old molasses barrel. and was
lying so that he could see the bung-
hole. OF course, the barrel was fulI of
water, and the man had no idea there
was a fish inside of IT, but Just for
curiosity ne dropped his hook through
the hole, and no sooner had II landed
there than the water was boiling. and
the fisherman knew he had a front on
the other end. He played him until
the fish was tired, and wnen he came
10 land him he could not get him
through the hole. He secured saw
and sawed piece out OF the top of the
barrel, near the hole. The fish came
out. II weighed three pounds, and
was one OF the handsomest square
tails caught in that section this year.
One OF the guides said that tn trout
must have gone into the barrel when
small, and had lived on bugs and
worms which had taken up their abode
on the inside.-The Maine Sportsman
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08

the source of life insurance or death
benefits at low cost per capita and
per $1,000 of insurance, there is no
possibility of doubt.-Albert c. Ste
vens in American Review of Reviews.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08

Smoking IS almost unknown In
Abyssinia and is punished as a crime
when practiceG. French explorers
have to smoke their cigars in secret.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08

Vera Goodheart-Mrs. Won Tauk is
a great social light, isn't she?
Ida Nownce-Well, rather. Regular
400 scandal power.--Life.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
A SOCIAL EXPERT
CHAPERON, GUEST, CRITIC OR AU-
THoRIrY ON ELEGANT USAGE.
DESCRIBES HER WORK

Her Patrons Not All Rich Folks, I'm
tutered in Ways of Upper World
Her Business, She Says, Is to Guide
the Ignorant in Society or Aid the
Overwhelmed Hostess.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08

The Morins block, LASell. Mass. a
five-story business structure, was de-
stroyed by fire LOSS 100000.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-19
DREAMS That Are True.

I dreamt we had an election on No vember 6, and one candidate was hired to run for president so as to make it easy sailing for the other fel- low.
 I dreamt I saw poor little Agui- naldo, November ', weeping and vail ing as if there was something radical ly wrong with him.
 l dreamt I could see Mckinley helping to form the four trust, and standing ready to double the tax on tea for war duty.
 1 dreamt the city water was shut off one night, and big fire was rag ing and when they turned on the wa ter the pipes burst in every direction.
 I dreamt we elected a meat dealer to go up to Hartford to represent us where the laws are made, and the very next morning the people had to pay one cent per pound more for their meat Who says you must not be- ieve in dreams?
 l dreamt the school officials pur- chased a beautiful piano for every school building in the district; but that woke me up.
 Say, remember when we say we have bargain for you. it's no dream. It's a fact Our special with one pound of our warranted good Baking Powder will open your eyes with amaZement. Drop in and look them over. Our Tea. Coffee and Butter is, as usual. up to the top notch for quail ty and the bottom notch for price at