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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-29
A Village croaker.

Out on the restful dry goods box,
The village croaker stands.
No sweat e'er mars his peaceful
wbrow,
OF labor grimes his hands,
But the muscles of his brawny jaw
Stands out like iron bands.
Day in, day out, from morn to night
You can hear his hammer clang,
AS he knocks the country, state and
town
With rattle and biff and bang,
And his voice is hoarse and over
worked,
His arms like mill sweeps hang
At morning tide or noon or night,
You can hear his bellows blow,
You can see him raise his tired
arms,
And wave them to and fro.
And knock and knock and knock and
knock
With measured beat and slow.
He hammers everything in sight
Nor aught makes him rejoice,
Unless it be to listen to
The sound of his own voice,
And he knocks the entire neighbor-
hood,
With language hat and choice.
And on and on through all the years
His sad chin music flows,
At night he lays him down to sleep
In peace for we'll he knows.
Somebody hammered, somebody
knocked
Has earned a nights repose.
j. w. Foley, Jr., in Bismark Tribune.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-29

of grapes with the early frost upon
their swelling sides.
'Say yes,' pleaded Daunt, his lone
illness making his pale eyes eloquent.
Yes breathed Lena-and the wind
of the sweet countryside seemed to
blow upon her, so that she forgot the
pavement beneath her feet, and the
throngs of selfish people, and the
beating of the hoofs on The drive
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-29
swimmin' in the crick.

heard pa tellin' oncet, about
A doctor curin' folks
By washin' 'em. Huh! First I thinks
Ats one of pas old jokes.
But, say! I believe that now fer
when
I'm awful blue er sick
feel jes' great as soon's go
In swimmin' in the crick.
Who cares if faint allowed? Ats
why -
A teller wants ter go.
This "doin' things they'll let ye'---
say
AT strikes me mighty slow.
An, sides, it's more'n twice the fun,
To resk a darn good lick.
From gittin' ketched, or beinE
drowned
sA-swimmin' in the crick.
I have to laff at ma She says:
st jes' can't understand
How Billy gifts his pants an shoes
So dre'dful full of sand.'
Gosh! IT'S lucky at she didn't think
Of askin' Jim er Dick.
Them sand baths-thats the bully
part
Of swimmin' in the crick.
Our minister kin swim. l bet.
I allus guessed he could,
Cause once he preached at 'keepine
clean
Is next to bein good"
Gee Whit" thinks I; I'm kind'r.
scairt
OF goin' ter heaven too quick
From 'bein good-'bout twict. day,
A swimmin in the crick.''
Nice sandy bottom, jest as smooth!
An water-say! it's fine.
There's Dick an Jim a-whistIin' now
An givin' me the sign
Two fingers. Gee! Them telegrafs.
Amt no ways near so slick
AS that ter coax Teller down,
In swimmin' in the crick.
Maurice G. Johnson.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07
Muslin Underwear Sale,

100 dozen ladies' fine muslin gowns, full size and extra
wide, made to sell for 75c-for a special we will sell
them while they last at SOC,
Ladies' fine embroidered and lace trimmed gowns at 49c,
75c and csc.
Ladies' fine embroidered hemstitched and lace trimmed
gowns, at Csc, SOC aud soc.
Ladies' fine skirts, embroidered and lace trimmed, at Use,
CSC and 81. so.
Corset covers at 1c, 25c and SOC.
Special bargains in ladies' corsets at 81. 90,
Corsets at Acc.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07

Also in, one car Standardization Oak
swell fronts at $11.5O up to $500.
One car Dressers and Wash Stands from
$3.50 up to $500.
After stock taking We find a lot of chairs
we wish to close out and If you want one
or two chairs of a kind will let them go
cheap.
We are into the framing business larger
than ever. Just ina lot of 13x16 Frames,
several designs, made to fit the picture,
sold at 15c before Christmas-frame, COM
plete, 35c.
Baby Stuart, framed, for 35c.
Just now We can offer you some special
prices on Tables, Rockers, Chairs, Bedroom
Suits, Bookcases. Do you need anything in
Furniture? If SO come to see us before you
buy.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07
Flannel Department
E SPECIAL SALE.

GREAT SPECIAL SALE.
Dark and light extra heavy Outing Elan
mel, sale price sac yard.
l lot Embroidered Flannel, regular SOC
and Csc, sale price, per yard, Acc.
l lot extra heavy Shaker Flannel, sale price,
per yard, 4c.
l lot Cheviot Shifting, regular 1Oc, sale
price, 61ac.
Baby Flannel, pink, blue and cream, reg
ular 10c, sale price, per yard, 61ac.
Extra heavy Cotton Flannel, sale price,
per yard, SIC.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07
Wall Paper and Paints

Just received, two carloads of Wall Paper.
They go on sale this week at ic per roll and
up. The finest selection in the city.
A carload of the famous NoXall ready
mixed Paints, guaranteed to be the best on
the market. This paint is made to retail
a. $3.50 per gallon-our price this week only
CSC per gallon.
Also Varnishes, Stains, Enamels, Brushes
and Room Moulding all at reduced prices.
SI.5O Black silk Dress rOnts, I5c.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07
Closing Out Millinery

liuery must be closed out, Not an article
carried over.
A handsome line Of the popular violets
at just half price.
Closing out the very swell Box Turbans,
Pompadours and street Hats, in all styles,
invited to call and see the great bargains
we are showing in fashionable headwear.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07
The Grocery Department.

You can make money by buying groceries at these prices.
Fancy navel oranges, per dozen .................. 124c
10 bars White Russian of Diamond. G Soap. ........... zoe
Soda or oyster crackers, per pound ................. &c
3 pounds of fancy rice for 1Oc
5 pounds of fresh breakfast oats for. ................. Toe
Fancy red c%ranberries, per pound. . ............. sc
9 sack of fine table salt for. &c
p pounds graduated sugar for ....-.........$1 90
10 pounds York State buckwheat for ......... 49,. 2c
Cold packed tomatoes, 3 pound cans ..... .......... 74c
Fancy table syrup, 3 pound cans NATURALIZATION. &c
Oven baked beans, 3 pound cans .................. 7c
Golden pumpkin, 3 pound can NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 74c
New California prunes, per pound ..... ........... sc
Pure corn starch, pound packages ...~........,... Be
Pure tomato catsup, large bottle ....... ............ Sc
Sliced pineapple, zoe cans, only ................ l4
Sugar corn, new pack, per can .................... 64c
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07
Big Sale on Mems and
Boys Gaps.

Every style and color, SOC to 75c values,
will be sold at 25c.
Children's Tam O'shanters and Toques,
25c.
Big line of mems and boys Caps, small
lots, odds and ends, 25c and 35c values, on
sale at lOc.
Stiff Hats. in all the winter styles, at
sl,OO to $3.50.
Soft Hats, in Fedora, Pasha and Railroad
styles, in all c%olors, from SOC to $3.50.
sI.5O Black silk Dress Fronts, 81
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07
Furniture

Two carloads of Iron Beds bought last
July just arrived, We have saved therefore up
to date, three different advances in price
them at a proportionately low price. We are
showing over seventy styles in brass and
can show you beds from $3.50 up to about
$1,000 that are several dollars cheaper than
these goods can be sold later on.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07
Bed Blankets

50 pair extra heavy wool mixed Gray
Blankets, sale price. pair, zoe.
10 pairs White Wool Blankets, fancy Dor
der, regular $500, sale price, $500 pair.
l lot ia all wool California Gray Bed
Blankets, fancy border, regular price $3.50,
sale price, $500 per pair.
l lot 6iX75 BIB. wool gray Bed Blankets,
regular $500. sale price slips.
S1.5O Black silk Dress Fronts, 15c.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07
Bargain Wash Goods

Hayden Bros. bought from VIM. Garner
a. Co., manufacturers of p~ercales, prints,
etc.) all the odd cases in one of their
western storehouses just before invoicing,
The prices on all these have advanced fully
80 per cent since then, We put part OF this
purchase on sale Monday at a much less
price than they could be bought from the
MAKERS.
Gamers shirtings, printed light colors.
3Hc yard.
Gamers Turkey Red Prints, 2l2c yard.
Gamers heaviest Dutch Blue Calico, DC
yard.
Gamers Fancy Dress Prints, 41ac yard,
Gamers best grade Wrapper Flannelette,
7c yard.
Garner's standard a6-inch wide Percale
Shifting, &c yard,
A bargain in Skirting for Monday-the
very best grade Doc quality Of genuine
English wool Moreen skirting, in either
black or colors, on special sale Monday, 800
yard.
$3.50 Black silk Dress Fronts, Sc.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07
Watches and JeweIry

Special after-inventory prices.
Fifty Watches, in guaranteed gold filled
cases. newest designs, IL size, 7 jeweled
movement, on sale at $685..
Ladies' sterling Silver Chatelaine Watches,
worth $500, on sale at $2.9s.
Ladies gold filled Hunting Case Watches,
standard movement, worth $500, on sale at
$4.95.
Closing out Sterling silver Files, Button
Hooks, Shoe Horns, Combs, etc, worth up
TO $1.OO, at 29c.
Opera Glasses from sl.4S up,
Apiece quadruple plate Tea Set, worth
500, on sale at $3.9S.
EI.5D Hack silk Dress Fronts, I5c.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07
Pianos

Now is your opportunity to purchase a
high grade Piano at a very low price. Our
prices are lower and terms more reasonable
than ever. You will have the largest line
of standard makes to select from in the
city. You will find the Chickering, Fischer,
Doll, Lester, Franklin, Behr Bros. and 10
other makes to select from.
We also have a fine line Of Wilcox &
White, Newman Bros. & Burdette' Organs at
very low prices. Catalogues free on appli-
cation. Call and see the fine line of chairs,
stools and benches. Pianos tuned, moved
and repaired.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07
EDITORIAL SHEET,
PAGES II TO 20.
IAY[)EE Plain Facts About a 4sa4s Level-Headed Buyers 1AYDEilE

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Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07
Hardware, Stoves and ftOuSefurnishjng Dept.
A Whole Car Load of Granite Ware
Placed on Sale Monday

Now is your time to lay n a SIMPLY, for these goods are going to have a .
per cent advance IN a lew days, ana yet you never bought them as low as quoted
below. NOtG Those Prices:
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07
More CI0aks Sold Last Week Than All
the Houses in Omaha Combined

And why! Because our styles are acknowledged the
best-our prices acknowledged the lowest. and our stock the
largest of any house between Chicago and San Francisco.
These are undeniable facts open to you all. Look everywhere
try them all and you will then be in better position to
know that what we state is absolutely correct.
Prices Herein Quoted Speak Louder
Tha11 NnrdS
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07

$3.50 Black silk Dress Fronts, 15c.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07

IS children's jackets, ages 6, s and 10 only
have sold up to 81. 5O-closing out at only ....
125 children's jackets, ages 4 to 12-these are SC
very best jackets manufactur come in a
braid trimmed, large sailor collars-some lined
with silk-worth up to 81. Soon sale at. ......
100 misses Jackets, ages IA, Is and Is, in brown, b
tan and cardinal Persian woods, half silk lined
bought to sell for IS. 5O-on sale at. .......
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07
Carpet Sale

$3.50 Black silk Drefs Fronts, 15c.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07

$3.50 Black silk Dress Fronts, 1oc.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07

$3.50 Black silk Dress Fronts. 15c.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07

$3.50 Black silk Dress Fronts, I5c.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07

$3.50 Black silk Dress Fronts. be.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07
Of the West
Over 10000 styles always on
1and, Wholesale and Retail.

36-inch Faucies that sold for 19c-iO-inc
Fancies that sold for 29c-Wool Plaids tina
sold for 25c-all will go on this 10T
grand sale at ~oN
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-06-22
IN THE QUEENS DOMAIN.

Sixteen cooperative bakeries in Scot
land have a capital of over $3.50, 900 and
business of over 100000 year.
Among the Mohammedans of Cal
cutta the infant mortality reaches the
enormous figure of 634.5 per 1000
births.
Over four hundredweight of sealing
wax per month is used by the Great
Seal, of which the lord chancellor of
England is the official custodian.
The annual report for 1898 of the in
spector off lunatics in Ireland shows a
total of 2O,3O4 patients under official
cognizance. Of these, TO- 22 were males
and 9,7S2 were females.
In Southampton, England, an old
church minute-book is said to contain
this remarkable entry: "This year Mr..
and Mrs - were removed by Divine
Providence to London. This church
did not suffer by their removal"
To guard against misfits the English
army clothing stores make the uni
forms in no less than 36 different sizes.
The stores at present employ over 1000
women making khaki uniforms. Khaki
is dyed cotton, but what it is dyed
with the government officials them
selves do not know. The firm that dis
covered it keeps the secret very much
| to itself.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-06-22
THE WORLD AROUND.

London is to spend $15,000,000 On
new drainage works.
Coal mining is one of the lates,
Australian mineral industries.
Trees and shrubs are being planted
along the Suez canal to keep the sand
from drifting.
Partisan authorities are trying to
devise regulations for automobile traf.
fic which will be fair to all parties
concerned.
Gorgcnzola cheese is italian, and is
made from goats milk. It comes from
near Milan, and needs to ripen two OF
three years.
In Toxic there are seven crematories
and the cost of cremation is so low
that several of the old-style undertake
ers have been forced out of business
The town of Kos, the capital of the
small Turkish island of that name
lying off the coast of Asia Minor, pos
sesses the Oldest tree in the world.
Near Tangier native, who stole a
donkey worth 1928, was taken before
the chief of the Quar-, and as punish
ment he was tied to tree while his
eyes were burned out with a redhot
iron.
Russia is devising more liberal in
ducements for European peasants to
settle in various parts of the empire
in Asia. Approved parties of peasants
possessing capital of from $500 to
$500 are to receive transportation free
and grants of land, tax free, for 20
years.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-06-22
BITS FROM SOUTH AMERICA

The great national games of Vene-
zuela are chess and checkers.
The condor of Chilli is now seldom
seen except in the southern ranges of
the Andes, where the population is
sparse. Some years ago the congress
OF Chill passed an act declaring the
national bird public nuisance and Of
fering bounty of five dollars for every
condor killed. This reduced the num-
Der rapidly.
The principal towns in Bolivia are La
Paz, with $4,000 inhabitants; Oruro.
with $4,000; Cochabamba, with &c. 900;
Sucre, with $4,000; Potosi, with 5000;
Tarija. with 1000. and Santa Cruz, with
population of between 5000 and 5000.
The use of cigarettes is steadily on the
increase in that country, though there
is considerable falling off in the con-
sumption of the lower grades of goods.
Agriculture makes slow progress in
Bolivia. In the lands of the upper pla-
teau. surrounding La Paz and Oruro,
barley is grown and potatoes sown to
considerable extent, but the yield is
poor, on account of the very inhospita-
bic nature of the climate and the con-
slant frosts which occur at night dur
ing the summer season. The grain pro-
duced is utilized for food purposes and
the straw for fodder. II
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-06-22
BRIEF MENTION.

Nearly 1850 residents of Minnesota
shared in 1899 in the tree-planting
bounty, receiving $2.4O an acre.
The average monthly wage of farm
laborers in North Carolina is $3.50
that including rations, house, pasture
and garden.
A New York druggist says thai China
men patronize the drug store; very lit
tie, as they have little faith in Amer;-
can drugs.
Prof. Hamlin, of Columbia college,
declares that New York presents the
unique spectacle of not having one
decorative building erected at public
expense.
44aI there are rnore Indians in the
United States now than there were the
day the pilgrims landed cannot be
proved but it is generally believed and
it is stoutly affirmed by statisticians.
Residents of Toledo, O., as well as
commercial men representing firms in
that city are beginning to place beside
their names on the hotel registers
1902 instead of Toledo-a novel meth
Oh OF advertising the coming centennial
celebration there.
Most OF the old-tirle chop-houses in
New York and Brooklyn have disap-
peared. These were memorable feast
ing spots. The ale and the chops and
tne Qevlled kidneys were of the choicest.
iAe welsh .rarebits and game were
Also OF the best. In the place of the
ehep-hoases have come the "ouick
hnch.~
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-06-22
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, I
Olynnia Wash Junn 1Q00 (


Notice is hereby given that in compliance with
the provisions of the act of Congress of June g.
1878, entitled IAN act for the sale of timber lands
Washington Territory as extended to all the
Public Lands States by act OF August 4, 1892.
HERMAN C. JOHNSON,
of West Superior, County of Douglass, State OF
Wisconsin, has this day flea in this Office her
sworn statement No 590 for the purchase of the
NwL OF Section No 9, in Township No "a n
Range No 3 ", and will offer proof to show that
the land sought is more valuable for its timber
or stone than for agricultural purposes, and to
establish his claim to said land before the Reg
wash, on Wednesday, the 18th day of August
1900.
He names as witnesses: OG Won Galen of
Seattle, Wash, Lewis Larson, A Potter, Emil
Holmberg, of West Superior Wisconsin.
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
above described lands are requested to file their
claims in this Office on o. before said 18th Gay OF
August, 1900.
ER aNK G QEcK Pnnistor
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-06-22
MILLIONS FOR SLAVES
What It Costs to Keep Chicagoans'
Faces Clean.
The BARRIERS Bill for the big Clty
II Closely Estimated by q
Member Of the Pro-
=. feSsiOn.

How much does it cost the male
population of Chicago in year to keep
well shaycn and shorn: This question
was asked in downtown hotel barber
sep few days ago, and tie answers
given brought out some astonishing
figures. Before anyone took time to
make any computation few guesses
were given, but all fell short of the
mark The highest guess was $1,000,
600, and everyone else in the shop said
the man who gave it must lie mentally
unbalanced to place the figures so
high. But the man with lead pencil
ard taste for figures, who is 10 be
found in every crowd, was here, ard it
was not long before he hat; shown to the
satisfaction of all present that the
yearly BARRIERS bill of the Chicago men
is not less than $3,5OO,0O0. This is the
way he did it:
How much, on an average, does a
barber take in a day?' The question
was addressed to the proprietor of the
shop.
"All the way from SO to 81 on a dull
Wednesday to SIP or $13 on busy Sat
urday."
mo, that won't do. What is the av-
eragc daily amount, for six days in the
week, taken in by each working barber,
on an aycrage?"
Then the proprietor did little fig
uring. The wages of the BARRIERS, he
said, ranged from $40 to SIG week,
when they worked for boss BARRIERS.
The bosses, besides wages, had to pay
rent and all bills Of expense for run
ming their shops, and figure on margin
of profit besides for themselves. 1t was
agreed that $25 week was fair basis
for computation as the amount taken in
in a week by each barber.
Then the men in the crowd thought
the man with genius for statistics was
up stump. How was he to find out
how many BARRIERS there are in big
city like Chicago?
But the figurer was right at home
with the problem. He knew just how
to go at it. Ue got a city directory and
turned over to the back, where he found
list of BARRIERS filling several pages
three columns of names to apage. He
counted a column. It contained 129
names. There were nearly 16 columns,
giving total of 2.053 BARRIERS. Inquiry
showed that many BARRIERS who were
residents of the city when the list was
compiled had escaped classification, and
it was agreed that $500 YVES fair csti-
mate of the total number in the city.
Several dc.1iurred at the immensely of
the figures thus produced-$3, SOC, COO
but the proprietor, fattered at the i'm
portant showing made for his craft, in
sisted that the estimate was too low.
"a barber takes in," said he. more
than $25 week On an average. Id
think he was poor man in my shop
that didn't take in more than S35."
But his was q lucent shop. and the
man with the lead rencil--also by this
time with the triumphant smile-was
ready to admit that Sa,5OOOC0 was
enough.-Chicago Tribune.
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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-06-22
AS LEGALLY DECIDED.

State taxation of copyrights is held,
in People ex rel. A. j. johnson com.
pany VS.. Roberts IN. W, As L. r. A.
1876, to be invalid on the ground that
copyrights, like patents, are protected
therefrom by federal law.
An ordinance imposing license tax
on occupations is held, in Laurens VS..
Gilmore Is. CO., As L. r. A. 249, to be
invalid as against person selling pic
ture frames, when he sells them only
on pictures made in another state pur-
suant to orders heretofore goven.
Inherent power of courts created by
the constitution to enforce respect
and obedience by Furnishing contempt
without jury trial is held, in Carter
VS.. Com. (Va.), As L. r. A. 80, to be
beyond the power of the legislature to
take away.
A surety who has paid judgment
against himself and his cosmetics on
account of the principals debt is held,
in Merchants national bank VS.. Great
Falls Opera House company (Mont.ll
As L. r. A. 2s5, to be entitled to an
assignment of it as basis for enforc-
ing contribution from his cosmetics.
Contract to repurchase stock "at the
end of two years." if the holder so de-
sires, is held, in La Dow VS.. E. Bemert
& Sons (Mich.), As L. R. A. 479, to give
reasonable time for notice on the
expiration of the contract, and such
notice is not required on the first day
after the expiration.
Power of state court of equity to
entertain a bill to set aside judg-
ment obtained by fraud in federal
court is sustained in Wonderly VS.. La
fayette county (Mo.), As L. r. A. $50,
where the claim was that the jurisdic-
ton of the federal court was fraudu-
lently invoked by false representation
as to the citizenship of the parties.