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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28
GOLF IN OVARIAN VERSE.

A White Ball perches on Pinch of
Earth;
ne Golfer smites for all that he is
Worth;
Drive: a
BUT a weak Foozle, proper Food for
Mirth.
This is not splitting Rocks. nor telling
Trees;
No bull-like Fury, but deliberate Ease
displays the Adept, while he does
his Holes.
Not in your Mines and Fights but
Fours and Threes.
Sweet is the Click that follows Stroke
exact;
Vile is the Sound whenever Ton Is
smacked:
With Teeth on Edge the Duffer sees
his Flub,
Cry to the World that Sense and Skill
he lacked.
A steady Glare, with all thy Heart and
Soul.
Fix on the Ball, till smitten toward The
The Eye that wavers brings heav!
Curse:
Striking. squint never sidelong at tn
Hole.
Vain is the Pomp of Jacket blazing red
OF yellow Shoes to chequered Stocking
wed:
OF shiny Clubs, and parti-coloret
Hose:
OF tartan Cap upon an alien Head.
His Sham is greater when he low /!
laid.
BY Youth, in shabby Raiment, whose
strong viii,
BY Eye and Hand and Club must bt
obeyed.
Why such a Pother DER paltry Game
Why trudge long Miles on Miles, and
call by names?
On all your Gods? for nothing but tC
find.
That Out and Black in Eight Score
Strokes you came?
Better sit snugly in some Quiet Place;
Forswear the Pastime of the Scottish
Race.
Life is too short to spend it on the
Links:
We are not young, and Death speeds OF
apace.
Abbott Foster in Golf.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28

To grow peanuts successfully re-
quires a calcareous soil without much
lime, and under such conditions the
yield runs from 80 to 40 bushels per
acre. There is about 20 peanuts
factories in America and the capital
for starting a mill is small. One
factory handles five tons of peanuts
daily, producing 235 gallons of refined
oil, 175 gallons of crude oil, $3.50 pounds
of our and meal and $500 pounds of
stock food. An extensive grower does
not take the trouble to separate pea
nuts from the vines and dirt when he
has dug his crop, but sends everything
to the factory They are put into the
mill, vines, dirt and all, and are then
placed into hopper and fed out upon
q revolving slat-table, the stats resting
upon canvas, from which negro women
pick out those of the first grade which
are known as fancy" The selected
nuts are fed from the table into ehutes
and then into bags. The remainder
are run over a second revolving slat
table. fed into chutes and packed into
bags labeled extras" Four grades
are sorted, the first three being sold
to dealers and the fourth to confec-
TONERS for making burnt almonds and
cheap candies. America does a heavy
export business to Europe in peanuts
Foreigners do not eat them as Ameri7
cans do but grind them into meal
They also make oil. The nuts are
very rich in oil, 40 per cent of the she'll
ed nuts being oil. After the oil is ex-
tracted the cake which remains ia sold
for $50 ton in Germany and fed to
cattle and sheep. Peanut butter is one
of the latest uses of peanut 1t is made
by grinding the nuts very fine and re-
ducing the mass to a pasty substance,
a portion at least of the oil being re-
moved. Salt is added as fiavoring-
Scientific American.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28
THE CHoRIsTERS.

There's little band of singers
Every evening comes and fingers
Meath the window of my cottage in the
trees:
And with dark they raise their
voices.
While the gathering night rejoices,
And the leaves join in the chorus with
the breeze.
Then the twinkling stars come out
To enjoy the merry rout,
And the squirrels range themselves
upon log;
And the firefiies furnish light,
That they read their notes Alright
The katydid, the cricket, and the fog.
At night l hear them singing;
Through my head their tunes are
ringing
Strains of music straight from Mother
Natures heart;
Now the katyiid and cricket,
From the deep of yonder thicket;
Then the croaking frog off yonder
drones his part.
BY and by the moon appears.
AS the midnight hour nears,
And her smiles dispel the low ring mist
and fog;
Then the mirth is at its height,
And they glorify the night
The katydid, the cricket, and the frog,
Atlanta Constitution.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28
FOREST HYMN.

The groves were Gods first temples.
Ere man learned
Tohew the shaft and lay the architrave,
And spread the roof above them,-7ere
he framed
The lofty vault, to gather and roll back
The sound of anthems,-in the dark
ling wood,
Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt
down
And offered to the mightiest solemn
thanks
And supplications. Let me then, at
least
Here in the shadow of this aged wood,
Offer one hymn-thrice happy, If it
find
Acceptance in his ear
Father, Thy hand
Hath reared these venerable columns;
Thou
Didst weave&his verdant roof. Thou
didst look down
Upon the naked earth, and, forwith,
rose
All these fair ranks of trees. They in
Thx s-:n
Budded, and shook their green leaves
in the breeze.
And shot toward heaven. The century
living crow
Whose birth was in their tops, grew
old and died
Among their branches-till, at last,
they stood.
As now they stand, massy and tall.
and dark.
Fit shine for humble worshiper to hold
Communion with his Maker. These
dim vaults.
These winding aisIes, of human pomp
or pride.
Report not. No fantastic carvings
show
The boast of our vain race to change
the form
OF Thy fair works. But thou art here;
Thou fill'st
The solitude; Thou art in the soft
winds
That run along the summit of these
trees
In music; Thou art in the cooler
breath,
That, from the Utmost darkness of the
place,
Comes, scarcely felt; the barky trunks;
the ground.
The fresh, moist ground, are all in
stinct with Thee
William Cullen Bryant.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28
A Cunning VOLUME.
Matter Wanted for 'Recollections Of
Early Wisconsin Days"

S. D. Carpenter, author of the Cause
of the War, isues an appeal to early
residents for contributions of per-
sonal "reminiscences and historical
facts, worthy of perpetuity, giving
plainly written names, incidents, dates,
facts, etc. Address the author at Mad
ison, Wis. The author greets the press
of the state with all the homage and
affection of a poor relation, suggest
ing that the venture is more labor of
love than hope of gain; and that the
press may, without embarrassment,
aid the work, in sundry ways-which
| will be met with many thanks" Con-
tinuing Mr.. Carpenter says: Hap
pening to be in Washington at the
close of the session that closed the last
| term of the late Hon. Philetus Sawyer,
the author was importuned to under
take this work; but at that time it
was impossible to comply, but a con-
ditional promise was given, and the
present moment is embraced to initiate
the work which is undertaken, not
without misgivings, by the author of
his ability to do strict justice to the
subject. For the first time in a long
and busy life the author finds a rift
in the cloud of personal activity and
for the first time he has been able to
bluff his proverbial modesty and to
undertake work, hallowed by mil
lion memories-enshrined in the god
head of fortuity, and that ought to
have been grasped and conSummated
by far greater minds long ago. But
in spite of adverse winds the author
has concluded to weigh anchor and
to test the voyage for whatever fort
une may betide. Necessity defies all
laws of conventionality, and much
will depend on the good graces of the
old pioneers who may have escaped
the sickle of time in responding to
inquiries that may reach them for
recollections of events and happenings
not to be found in indexed tones, the
faithful object being to collect and
| preserve such data in the lives, not
only of the living men and women of
prominent repute, but of those who are
beyond the reach of postal commune
cation-the friends and relatives of
those absent or present who may have
enriched the domes of recollection,
where memory dwells in the store
house of intellectual wealth, which, to
give away, but enhances it's value
While the sad and solemn, if perth
nent, should not be overlooked in the
record of facts the more joyous
themes and jolly souls whose very
presence were wont to cover as with a
mantle of joy, the sad and gloomy I'M
| fortunates:
Every message to manly book or
magazine,
Should paint the lilly of hope, like a
sunrise sheen:
Be just to the dead-.to the living ever
true;
Bring the bright side of life into con-
slant review"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28
SPRING AT LOST CREEK.

This wee sonnet to spring appears in
The Lost Creek Lyre" over the sigma
ture of the poetess-laureate of the
camp, Miss Popsie Dusenberry:
THE merry days of spring have come,
King Lear hath onward went,
And Sunshine in a silvery fame
Heats up the Armament.
The birds, in plumage glad and bright,
For crumbs at back doors begs.
And happy hens are getting quite
Prolific with their eggs.
And bees, new mated, softly Groom
Upon their annual honeymoon.
Denver Post.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28
BET THE DREAM PASS.


Life hath its burdens
Bitter, alas!
Still we can bear this:
Let the dream pass!
Vanishing ever
The sands in the glass;
Time will not linger:
Let the dream pass
Why, in the shadow
Why, in the CLEAN,
Should We sit signing
Over a dream?
Phantoms pursuing
Vainly, alas!
Deeds for the doing!
- Let the dream passl
Ever and ever
Some flaw ir nc strain!
] ver-oh, never
The old dreams again!
Life-ligats are dying
Night comes-alasl
Heart, cease the signing
Let the dream pass!
Atlanta Constitution
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28
THE VOTE UNCERTAIN.

"Marse William" said the old family
servant, "is you gwine ter run fer Of
fee dis year,"
Don't know. Why do you ask"
"Well, sub, dey's been one er two
gentlemens put in application fer my
vote, en- des wants ter know of it's
ter stay in the famibly or go projeckln'
eroun fer itse'f!"-Atlanta Constltu-
ton.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28
CHANGED CONDITIONS

Father-That man should be an ex-
ample to you, my son. He entered
store as Office boy and worked him
self up until in few years he owned
the business
Son-He could never do that in these
days, pa, when they have cash resIg-
ters.-Judge.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28
REBELLION.

Mrs. Peck-why did you 20 and buy
golf hose instead OF shad with that
money gave you for marketing to-
day?
Hen Peck-Well, my dear, thought
! would prefer plaid shank to planked
shad.-Exchange
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28
NOT MUCH USE.

There now" said Boerm, after a
long and tiresome dissertation,
there's little good advice for you
for nothing"
Eyes" replied the long suffering
friend. that's Just about what it's
good for."-Phlladelphia Press.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28
A GIDDY YOUNG THING.

Some scientiCts say that the earth
Is 100000 years old"
Then J suppose that Venus is one
Of the ballet girls Of the solar system"
Life.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28
ADOPTING THE EARMARKS.

"Scribbs is getting ready to pose as
genius"
What makes you think so?"
Il heard him tell somebody that he
hadn't any bump of locality and never
could get anywhere On time. "-CAi-
cago News.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28
A DELIGHTFUL PROSPECT.

The Cambridge chief of police is go
ing to try to find out whether giving
prizes at whist parties is gambling.
What job he has on his hands. Few
will envy him.-Taunton Gazetet.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28
MAGNITUDE OF PEANUT CROP.

How the Nuts are Grown and Utilized.
The peanut crop of 1899 is nearly
100000 bushels heavier than the crop
Of the preceding year. The total crop
will, 1t is thought, reach nearly 1900
600 bushels or 22 pounds each. The
bulk of the crop is produced in
Tennessee, Virginia and North Caro-
lima. 1t is not generally known that
the American yield constitutes but a
small proportion of the peanut crop Of
the world; the expectation from Africa
and India to Europe is nearly 100000
600 pounds annually, half of which goes
to Marseilles to be made into oil. The
running variety is a typical American
peanut, says the Evening Post, from
which we derive our information. It's
vines are large. with spreading
branches growing fat on the ground.
The pods are large and white. There
are many more varieties grown. some
of them being upright bushes instead
OF vines. The so-called Spanish nuts
are used principally by confectioners
They have small, round kernals, and
are very fine. The crop averages
annually 10000 bags of 10 pounds
each. It is only within the last few
years that peanuts have been shelled
by machinery. With the increase Of
their production machines have been
taking the place Of the old slow-going
methods.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28
HE HAD A CHANCE.

my lovers the man in the MOON"
sang Miss Homewood.
'But you love me better than any
other man on earth, don't your" asked
Mr.. Beechwood, anxiously.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28
THE BRUTE.

| love the pretty singing birds:
Their feathers soft and gay
Bedeck the damsels' stylish hats
And cheer my gloom away.
The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-07-03
Ynie's school Of Forestry.

From Leslies Weekly.
comparatively new profession In
America. and one that offers substantial
inducements to young men OF special apti-
tude, Is that of forestry The fact that
the Federal government Is increasing the
area OF its forest preserves largely every
year and that many State governments
are following this laudable example sug-
gests the overwhelming field already open
TO students and specialists in the science
OF forestry. It Is now generally recognized
that every large forest reservation or
preserve needs for Its proper care and
supervision corps of men trained for
this special purpose. These valuable puo-
lie holdings cannot be left, as they have
been too often, in charge OF almost any
one who may be out Of job. The service
calls tor picked men who care enough for
forestry TO make it their life-Work Ger
many, France, and other European cOun-
tries nave mad their schools OF forestry
Tor years, and their graduates are found in
charge OF forest lands in every part OF he
Old World. praisewOTthy beginning IN
this line or education has been made this
year By Yale College. Through the be-
nefcence OF Mr.. James W. Pinchot cit.-
zen or Pennsylvania, this ms tuition has
been able 10 establish forest school. The
school starts with an endowment OF $50
900, besides several large acres OF forest
land near New Haven and elsewhere for
practical forest instruction During the
first year short courses OF lectures will b..
given on State and national forestry and
special Lectures on forest law and lum-
berng. The regular course covers a De-
Rod Of two years The first years course
Includes the growth and Production Of
trees and forests, the estab ishment OF
forest plantations. and how 10 make thin
nings and other classes Of cuttings. while
the second year IL devoted to advance
technical work in the classroom and IN
the field. All this Is excellent and fun OF
promise for the future welfare Of the
country.
The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-07-03

TO know II everybody IS In favor Of Or
ganizin' ne Jericho Guards"
Everybody swung his hat and yelled out
that he wag
In The second place, I'd Ike 20 know II
everybody wants to be captain"
Everybody swung his hat and yelled out
;ha; he did.
But everybody can't be-" protested
BIZ. II don't want nobody to charge me
with bein' selfish or e9aesited. but I'm tell
In you that this idea Is uline and that I'm
the man 70 boss the Jericho Guards. be-
lieve I'm the only man in this town who
wanted TO enlist 20 fight the Spaniards.
BIZ makes pint and we can't deny
II, says Deacon Spooner. but when ! Of
fered to lead them guards to victory or
death / felt that ! was the man TO do 1t.
don't want to crowd Bill Lapham out
% the place. but
Neither do WEI yells forty men.
But he must see"
of course he must"
Then thar was yeIlin' and shoutin' and
a great uprosr. and Bill Lapham said il
was doggoned crowd, and he could lick
any two OF EN- rolled together. Deacon
Spooner hammered on the stovepipe with
his cane till he could be heard, and then
| he said:
| 1t appears as IL we all want TO lead the
| Jericho Guards and die fur our country.
| and IL fur,he appears as If this meetin'
was sittin' mad about sunthin'. / notice
Lish Billings over by the 'lasses bar'ls
/ Lish, what dyou think about things?
/ D'you want TO be captain, same as the
rest?"
"Noap," replies Lish in his keerless
\ way.
Amt you willin' to die fur your coun-
! try?"
Not by a jugful. but IL 1 was thar
wouldn't be any Jericho Guard to die
with You've all bin wastin' your breath"
"How's THAR
"Thars Just ninety-six men in this
( town, continues L.sh. and when the
/ war was goin' on and thar was talk that
1t might come to draft the hull crowd
of us went to the doctors TO be examined.
| We had busts and ruptures and short legs
| and sprung knees. We had consumption
and rheumatism and Ssart trouble. We
was deaf and nigh sighted and toothless.
| Thar wasn't one blessed critter in the
| hull ninety-six who was fit to Jump over
a tow string or chaw pc nuts. and 1 kind
| er reckon we'd better git sunthin' soft to
| eat fur breakfast and carry each other
home
| (Copvrieht inA nv c n Ie.isl
The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-07-03

livered by Henry Clay or Daniel Webster,
and both of 'em put together never made
the p'ints our Bill Lapman has. Bein'
hev the floor, I'll say l favor the idea.
Yes, sir. I'm with il heart and soul.
want my name to go down fust fur the
Jericho Guards. and I'm even wilIin' 20
sacrifice myself and be captain of the
company. S'pOsin' We hear from Abner
Jones on the subject"
y s'pose it's known in this town that
my great-grandfather was killed at the
battle of Monmouth" says Abner, as he
gets off the counter, though / Amt brag-
gin about il. III Jest say that I'm willin'
TO die fur my country any time I'm cali
ed upon, and If I'm elected captain of the
Jericho Guards I'll promise that no In
yader shall set foot on these shores and
live for five minits."
.aThar's a pint ia that" says the dea-
con. as he looks a biz put out. When q
mans willin' 10 die fur his country. that's
a pint In his favor. but, OF course We
want 10 hear from other patriots. How is
( IL with you. Moses Plumber
Does any man here doubt that I'm
wIllln 10 die fur American asks Nose.
as he draws himself up. "My great.
grandfather didn't die at Monmouth. hui
| the blood OF them seven uncles OF mine
! that fell durin' the civil war flows in NV
veins, and my SatchwoFd is liberty or
deathr AS captain Of the Jericho Guards
/ you'll find me- at the front. and IL don't
/ KIN at least seven invaders g week YOU
kin bounce me out"
The seven unc.es and seven invaders Is
a pint Moses" says the deacon. and I'm
/ proud that We both 1--we In the same tow
| Biil LApham seems 10 be Uneasy, and I'll
ask him If he has anything more TO say 81
| I'm the fust place" says Bill, I'D like
The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-07-03
METROPOLITAN SKePilClSM
Explained In Part BY the Case of the TIVE
Priests at the Auction.

From the New York sun
Visitors from the provinces sometimes.
indeed often, deplore the atmosphere of
suspicion prevailing about the metropo.is.
whose people are apt to refuse to place
implicit confidence even In men whose
cloth should protect thenl-members of
the clergy. An incident occurring at a
downtown auction the other day, could
1t be retaileo among the panied provinc:als
who deplore the metropolitan skepticism
might open a new world to them.
The auctioneer, in the exercise of his
privilege, had announced that he would de-
mand a deposit at that particular sale
from any and every bidder no ma ter
whether the bidder was known to the
house or not The clerks taking the
bids were careful 10 observe the auction
GERS declaration against any protests.
one or them, however, at last took a bid
from priest or man who was dressed
as priest, and when the clerk went 10
the bidder to receive a deposit the clergy
man asserted that he had not heard
the statement as 10 the requirement of a
deposit and Acknowledged that he had TO
money but some small change with him.
His companion, who was also In the garb
OF priest, offered a small deposit but the
clerk said that as the customers we're
clergymen he would waive the require
ment OF deposit on his own responsible
ity. and the two gentlemen of the clio n
bowed their thanks.
The sale lasted two days. but the clergy
men did not call for their purchase. which
amounted to 81, and although the arti-
cies BID on were put up again at the
close OF the sale. they brought little more
than half what the priest had bid on them,
and the clerk had 10 lose the difference.
Ii is 10 be said in behalf of the pres S
that the catalogue did not give full de-
scription of the goods and that the bid
ders were some distance from the stand
on which they were exhibited, but the
worldly will not wonder that the incl
dent added one more to the number OF
those of the unregenerate who have
since that time felt less like putting
their trust in clergymen.
The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-07-03

1881. and Is therefore a hundred and three
years old. Seized with a burning desire
10 see the exposition. she had left Alsace
two weeks before. intending to walk all
the way 10 Paris for she had a horror OF
railroads and, besides. was poor
She had accomplished more than half
the journey and had walked more than
80 miles On her shoulders she carr ed
her luggage, two bundles weighing fftry-
nine livres CpOunds). Her money. which
she carried In a handkerchief. was a
trifing burden. as II consisted Of one 2
france piece
In this financial condition Il is needless
70 add that the courageous old woman
had resolved al the outset not 10 enter
an inn or restaurant during her journey.
She subsisted entirely on bread and cheese.
slept in barns when she could or in default
OF shelter passed the night under the trees
by the wayside
As soon as she had recovered her senses.
Tor she was unconscious when found. she
wished 70 resume her journey. and it was
dlfhcult TO make her understand that
Paris was yet long way of. At last she
! understood and seemed resigned TO her
failure.
She apparently abandoned her wild prof.
ect, put she may yet be found lying I'M
conscious on the road In the suburbs of
Paris She certainly deserves 10 I've long
enough 10 reach and see the exposition.