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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
FORENOON AND AFTERNOON.

IL is a fact of common observation
at different times of the year, that the
forenoon and afternoon, as to daylight
are of unequal length. Along in later
autumn the shortness of the after
Moons is very noticeable and the
shortness of forenoons along in
later winter. Whatever makes
common facts more ineligible
adds TO the general intelligence
and to the general good II is to this
end that the following brief statements
are made Nothing is more evident
than that the sun requires Just as
much time to go from the eastern
horizon to the midday meridian as to
go from that meridian to the western
horizon. But, strange to say, there
are but four days during the whole
year in which the sun reaches the mid
day meridian at just twelve o'clock.
The true noon point varies from about
fifteen minutes before 10 about six
teen minutes after twelve o'clock.
These extreme points in one set OF
variations fall in the first week OF No
vember and in the second week OF
February, not to designate exact days
for years In general. The calendars
show that in the latitude of Saratoga
essentially Boston latitudel on No
Nember 3. 1898. the sun rose at $3.50
and set at five o'clock. thereby making
the afternoon half hour longer than
the afternoon. On that day the sun
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
WITH THE AVERAGE CHRISTMAS
GIFT.


| send a Christmas gift with this,
Kind friend, from me to thee. 1t is
Not much TO send. A token mere
OF friendship for the coming year.
With love and joy and gladness free,
II goes today from me to thee
Could | express the way | feel
Alas. My pen will not reveal,
Nor seek to show how glad am |
To send this gift, though l might try
And so it may be, doubtless, best
For me to give my pen a rest,
From this attempt to show my heart
Or write nice things. That is an art
Revealed not unto me- Just read
Down all these lines; and true, indeed
In every word, they will reveal
The simple truth of how l feel
Tom Mason in Truth.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08

reached the midday meridian at 11:45.
On February 10, 1899, the sun rose at
just seven o'clock and set at $50,
thereby making the afternoon a half
hour longer than the forenoon, and
on this day the sun reached the mid
day meridian at 1915. These are
facts plainly open to general view. and
therefore need no verifying.-Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
GRAHAM FROST DEAD.

st. Louis, Feb. Elk congressman
e. Graham Frost died yesterday after
noon at the residence of his father,
Gen d. NJ. Frost. He had been i'll
for more than year with Brights
disease
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
LADYSMITH IN BAD PLIGHT.
Poisoned by River Water Filled With
Army Sewage.

Army Sewage.
London, March General Buffers
distinct success, in storming Peters
Hill brings the rescue of Ladysmith
near, but the war office intimated that
an immediate announcement of relief
need not be expected. The going to
and fro at midnight of officials and
messengers suggested that important
news had been received.
Ladysmith is in desperate straits.
Charles Williams, the military expert,
says he learns on very high authority,
presumably that of Lord Wolseley, that
General Whites force is almost at its
last gasp"
This not so mnch," says Mr.. Will
liams, ION account of any lack of pro-
visions or of ammunition, neither of
which is yet exhausted, as because of
the poisonous waters of the Kip river.
The water of Kip river is not available
for drinking, and to boil it is impossible
because of the scarcity of fuel. 1t is
thick with putrid animal matter. Tea
made of it has suspended fibre, some
thing like beef tea. It is caused by the
sewage from the Boer camps
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
.DUN'S COMMERCIAL REPORT.
Hides and Leather Are Gradually
Getting Cheaper.
WOOL WEAKER---COTTON FIRM.

New York, Feb. 2s.-The yielding in
split leather began early this month
and in hemlock sole, week earlier,
and has reached one cent per pound
while this week union back and kip
and glove grain upper leather are
cheaper. Hides at Chicago have again
yielded, making three per cent fall in
a month and 7.3 since December 80
Supplies accumulate and or wharves
at Jersey City 25O,O sides were landed
from India. Shipments of boots and
shoes from the east have been in three
weeks 2s, 1913 cases against 43,719 in
1898, the largest previous year.
At last it is admitted wool quotations
so long held are fully three cents per
pound higher than prices in large actual
sales last week
The fact is that when mills made
enormous sales of heavy weight goods
and then bought no wool, the fable
that their stocks were exhausted ceased
to have force. In fine medium terri
tory selling at So cents, and other wool
down to the low grades, the fall is gen.
eral and English markets are also
weaker.
Prices of cottons are still on the adj
vance, the Fall River committee having
raised all its goods an eighth, and in
spite of heavy port receipts spot cotton
advanced to 9.O6 cents.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
CATTLEMEN AND RAILROADS.
An Agreement Reached Which Promises
Mutual Satisfaction.

Topeka, Feb. 27.-The conference
arranged between the Kansas cattle
men and railroads resulted in the
differences being adjusted. The rail
roads gave the cattle pasturage or
feeding in transit rate, but declined to
restore the old carload rate.
The railroads propose to abolish the
weighing system of which the cattle
men complain and accept the weights
at the Kansas City stockyards, by
which the cattle are sold The roads
also promise to take up the individual
cases complained of and make an effort
to right wrongs which may exist.
The conference ended by general
hand shaking despite the fact that
some of the cattlemen charge that
nothing has been gained for the fat
stock shipper and that the agreement
reached is compromise in which the
cattlemen surrendered. The railroad
men claim they have met the cattle
men more than half way and made
important concessions.
This agreement, it is said, does not
stop the suit of the cattlemen against
the Santa Fe, brought to determine
the validity of the law creating the
court of visitation.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
A Curious Accident.

A curious accident took place at
Brookfield, Ind. A local freight train
was backed into a siding to allow a
fast freight train to pass. The switch
was left open, however, and the fast
freight, travelling at the rate of thirty
miles an hour, dashed into it. The
crews Of both trains jumped. The i'm
pact of the collision was so severe as to
drive the tender of the stationary train
of its truck, and telescoping a cattle
car, which was loaded with coal, it
rested half on the top of the third
car. On the fast freight car loaded
with hogs was telescoped by one load
ed with shelled corn, and the animals
not killed in the collision were smoth-
cred by the corn. 1t is said that the
locomotives are SO interlocked that
dynamite will be required to separate
them.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
Secretary Root to Cuba.

Washington, March 2:-Secretary
Root has announced his intention of
making flying trip to Cuba. He
wishes to make a personal examination
of present conditions, both political
and industrial, in the island. The
time is approaching for the holding of
the first elections in Cuba, and, as this
is critical period in the career of the
embryo nation, the secretary desires
to give it the closest attention. In
Havana, General Wood, the military
governor, is beset by many questions
Of the gravest Importance requiring
immediate answers, and it is the inten-
ton of Secretary Root to save CORE
spondence, and, by his personal
presence and advice, enable these mat
tiers to be speedily disposed of.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
Increase in National Currency.

New York, March 2.-Government
bonds continue very strong, the nota-
BILE advance being in the As of 1925,
which are not convertible under the
refunding clause of the finance bill.
The bid quotations for these bonds
advanced IL points, following SINH
lar rise of IA points. National banks
everywhere are sending to bond deal
ers in this city to procure U. S. 3, 4
and per cent bonds convertible under
the terms of the pending currency bill
into the 2 per cent issue which will be
available to secure circulation. New
York banks will also take out addi-
tional notes, increasing materially
their circulation of 1879, 500. The
feeling is general that the refunding
section of the bill will put in circula-
ton a very large addition to the
amount of national bank notes now
outstanding
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
FINE STOCK ACCUMU[ATING.
The Best Always Find Homes in
the West.
HIGHEST PRICE ON RECORD.

Kansas City, March 1.-The Hereford
sale was the most important that has
ever been held in this city. ''Thickset,"
bull from the herd of Mr.. T. B. F.
Sotham, of Chillicothe, No., was sold
:or $500, the highest price ever paid
:or Hereford animal in any country.
Fhe great crowd that packed the sale
ing went wild with enthusiasm when
hat bid was offered by William
humphrey, of Ashland, Neb. The bid
of S., 900 was made by E. L. Jordan of
Brentwood, Tenn. But it was soon
Teen that Mr.. Humphrey was deter
mined to have the animal and the bids
stopped at $780, Mr. K. B. Armour
was in the contest but dropped out
after the S4,7 $50 mark was passed. The
sale was remarkable in that the aver
age price of the cattle was $454. 70, or
almost double that of the day previous.
1t was also noteworthy that the average
price that Mr.. Sotham received for the
cattle he had bred himself, seventeen
of those offered was S74s, the highest
average that any one breeder has ever
received in sale of this kind.
The highest price for single animal
in the yearling class was that paid by
A. f. McCarty, of Humboldt, Kas., who
paid $5o5 for Right Sort" 94o42. Last
year Mr.. Sotham sold bull, ''Sir Bred
well, to Colonel Slaughter, of Texas,
for S., 900, which was at that time the
highest price ever paid for Hereford,
but this sale is 500 higher, and keeps
Kansas City in the first place as mar
lket for this kind of cattle.
The crowd at the sale was immense
and the bidding was done with rush.
More prominent buyers are coming
and it is possible that the prices will
go even higher.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
Cronie Saved His Artillery.

London, Feb. 27.-Cronje's plan ap-
pears to have been to hold all the
British possible about his camp till
certain his artillery retreat is assured
The proposed armistice would have
gained twenty-four hours for the re.
treat of the guns, while the agreement
would only have covered the fighting
force engaged at that point.
Boer sympathizers think Cronje will
hold fast until the last moment and
that then the order will be given
'!every man for himself" with in.
structions to rally at a point north,
where the artillery will be safe in a
new position.
1t is insisted that this plan was fol-
lowed about Ladysmith, the guns
being slowly and safely removed tc
defend the Transvaa1 passes, while a
mobile force was left in the trenches tc
prevent sudden attack by the British.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
England is Satisfied.

London, Feb. 27.-The Spectator,
which often voices the governments
views, claims it is to Great Britain's
advantage to have the United States
interests to fortify the Nicaragua
canal. The Spectator adds: ''If Amer
lea asks us to give up the clause for
bidding the Notifications we ought to
and most certainly should agree to dc
So" The Spectator points out that
other powers might not be willing, for
though Great Britain, in effect, has ac-
knowledged the validity of the Monroe
doctrine, the rest of the world has not
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
All Trains DELAYED.

Topeka, March kansas was COW
cred with blanket of snow ranging
in depth from five inches in the south
ern part to fourteen inches in the
northern. 1t is the heaviest snow the
state has seen since 1884, with the pos
sible exception of the February storm
in 1894. The snow began falling in the
southwestern part of the state and
spread all over Kansas and Nebraska,
Colorado, Oklahoma, Indian Territory
Northern Texas and New Mexico.
Trains on all Kansas roads were de-
layed from one to six hours.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
VIII ArbItrnte Nothing.

Chicago, Feb. 27.-Mayor Harrison.
who offered to secure arbitration of
the existing troubles between the
building contractors and the striking
workmen received setback when the
contractors council informed him that
it proposed to force the Buildings
Trade Council to dissolve. Proposals
to arbitrate had been offered the Build
ing Trades Council before, and it had
declined. The contractors declared
they would arbitrate nothing with ''a
body possessing such a record as the
Building Trades Council"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
For the Main Addition.

Washington, d. c., March 1.-The
bids for the construction of the main
addition to the public building at To-
peka for which the sum of Ss5, 900 was
appropriated in the last congress, were
opened in the Office of James K. Taylor,
chief superintendent of construction.
The lowest Did was for $50, 800 made
by Charles A. Moses, of Chicago, and
he will doubtless be awarded the con-
tract, although Mr.. Taylor says it will
not be acted upon finally for few
days. Other contracts will cover the
rest of the work.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
Making History.

Chicago, Feb. 27.-Director Merriam
proposes to use typesetting and tab
ulating machines in getting out his re-
port of the next census. This decision
may get him in hot water, however, as
the labor organizations are opposed to
using machines of this kind because
the work can be done by the employ
ment of about one-third the number of
printers otherwise required. Some of
the local labor leaders called upon Di-
rector Merriam and told him if he car
ried out the plan they would see Presi-
dent Mckinley and make a protest.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
Train Blown Forty Feet.

ST. John, N. B., Feb. 27.-A train on
a railroad in Newfoundland was run
ming very carefully owing to the hurri-
cane then blowing. The locality is one
noted for. violent squalls. A furious
effort of the gale lifted the train of
four cars bodily and hurled them from
twenty to forty feet away, clear of the
track. These ears weigh fifteen to
twenty tons each, and their surface of
wind resistance is very limited, SO it is
easily figured that the wind must have
been blowing lao miles per hour.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
Pnerto RIcan soldiers.

Washington, Feb. 2s.-Secretary
Root is pleased with the record made
by the battalion of Puerto Rican troops
and has issued orders to increase their
numbers by the enlistment of another
battalion, the whole to take the place
of the United States regular cavalry,
which viii be brought back to the
United States. Horses for mounting
the men will be purchased in the
island, as the American horses do not
readily acclimatize. This is but be-
ginning of plans for the future.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
Ticket Agents, Best Cow Conc DIV.

Chicago, Feb. 27.-An hopes of ticket
agents that Discussions would lead to
resumption of commissions have been
been destroyed. The Canadian Pacific
and its 500 line agreed at Montreal to
act in concert with the other American
roads and cease all commissions after
March l. The Grand Trunk had agreed
some time ago to stop paying commits
sions in the United States and now that
the Canadian Pacific has agreed to join
it will cease to pay commissions in
Canada.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
am KNOCK ON Germany

Chicago, Feb. 27.-Western sausage
makers have protested to the agricul-
tural department against the sweeping
exclusion of American sausages from
Germany, thus cutting Of an important
and growing branch of trade, and at
the same time casting most injurious
aspersions upon the purity of the Amer
lean product. One condition as to i'm
ported fresh meats alone is regarded as
impracticable, that the slaughtered
animals must be sent over whole, and
with the intestines attached.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08

! A. E. Haserick, an officer in Plum
er's force now a prisoner at Pretoria,
sent a private letter to Cape Town In
which he said. "The officers are con-
fined in the Model School, which has
an excellent gymnasium. Glasses have
been formed, and, during the morn
ings, the officers go through Shadows
developing exercises. In the afternoon
they play FOUNDERS. The prisoners gen.
orally are developing wonderful mus
cles. Our dungeons are distinctly up
to date. There is every convenience,
from electricity to toothpicks, as well
as books from the library. These
Beers don't seem to be savages as re-
ported by some of our iunky news
paper editors.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08

terprise the United States has thus far
stood without peer. The supremacy
of this country in the electrical field
has been universally recognized and
admitted. 1t was here that practical
application of electrical science was
first made successfully, and it is here
that electrical investigation, expert
1nent and invention have had the full
est and freest scope. 1t is not to be
wondered at, therefore, that here the
greatest success has been attained and
the greatest progress made. These
things have come simply as the natural
consequence of the efforts put forth to
secure them.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
CONSERVATION at Pretoria.

London, Feb. 27.-The Lourenzo cor.
respondent of the Times says:
THE feeling in official circles at Pre-
toria borders on CONSERVATION. Gen
eral Louis Botha and President Steyn
are both urging President Kruger to
sue for peace. At Bloemfontein Gen.
eral Cronje's position is regarded as
hopeless"
Lord Roberts has already captured
over 500 Beers and at this rate he will
soon have quite a respectable array OF
prisoners to hold as hostages for the
1900 British already in Pretoria.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
Territory Cotton.

Wichita, Feb. 2s.-Wichita railroad
men say that since the first of the year
265 cars of Oklahoma cotton have pass
ed through this city, consigned to the
Orient. They consider this a wonder
full showing for the Oklahoma cotton
industry, as that which passes through
this city is only a small part of that
which is exported, not counting that
which is shipped to interior markets.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08

The suit of the Chicago Tribune COM
pany against the Associated Press in
wolves questions of fact as well as prin-
Importance. 1t is charged, in the first
place, that the Associated Press has
been appropriating news purchased by
the complainant from the London
Times under a special contract and
copyrighted in this country. This,
however, is fatty denied by the defend
ant. 1t is claimed by the Associated
Press that the news and comments in
question were obtained by it, not from
the early edition of the Tribune, but
by cable from London.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
Gas Famine in Indiana.

degrees to five below zero throughout
Eastern Indiana is causing untold suf.
fering in the entire gas belt. The gas
pipes are frozen, and little or no fire
can be had in many homes, there being
no wood or coal at hand. Many homes
are abandoned and hotels resorted to,
while families in hundreds of cases are
leaving home and crowding to houses
where there is gas or wood fires.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
Bird FRIEND. of . Boston pollcemau

Bird Friends of 3 Boston Policeman.
From the Boston Evening Record:
On a short street leading from Wash
ington street every noon there Is a
little occurrence in which policeman
figures, and which attracts the atten-
ton of many passers-by. The officer
comes there to ring in a duty call and
then gets some peanuts from a nearby
stand and begins to whistle. In mo-
ment dozens of pigeons begin circling
around him, and he shells the peanuts,
holds out his hand, and the pigeons
light on his arm and hand and eat as
many peanuts as they can get. One
brown one is particularly tame and
greedy, and viii eat pint Of them, the
officer say1 Many people come there
every noon to watch the little show.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
Great Scarcity of Labor.

Milwaukee, Wis, Feb. 2s.-Labol
agents here say there is scarcity OF
labor such as has not been known for
years. 1t is almost impossible to get
men for work in the Northern woods.
At Fort Benton. Mont, the Great
Northern railroad is building a cutoff
and it has been found impossible to
supply all the men wanted on the
work
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08

In some parts of Italy the fllbert
crop is almost, if not quite, as impor-
tant as the produce of the vine. The
nuts are grown on bushes planted from
fifteen 20 twenty-five feet apart, so
that they have the advantage of plenty
of air and sunshine. The bushes bear
fruit in their third year, and there are
plantations nearly hundred years old.
the bushes of which still bear we'll
Deep clayey soil is best for filbert
growing, and in Italy the planting
takes place from slips in November
and December. The filbert is not liza
BILE to disease like many other crops.
but it suffers severely from hailstorms
and cold winds.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
Corn Shipping Ports.

New York has dropped from first to
second place in the shipment of corn
abroad, Baltimore standing first with
expectation of 100000 bushels in
1899. Philadelphia takes third place,
with New Orleans fourth. In the ex-
portation of cereals the gulf ports have
made great gains of late years. In
wheat expectation New York is still
first, but the shipments are declining,
while Galveston, Texas, is second, with
shipments rapidly increasing.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08

At a banquet in Washington the
other evening Senator Depew told an
interesting little story of three young
men who, having graduated from Yale
about forty years ago, started for their
homes in Michigan, Kansas and New
York to begin the battle of life with
the agreement that if they were sue
cessful they would hold reunion at
the college ten years later, but it was
not until the other night that they met,
at his home, in this city. They were
Justices Brown and Brewer of the Su-
preme Court and Mr.. Depew himself
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08
Discharce of soldiers discretionary.

Washington, Feb 2s.-The war de-
partment, through the judge advocate
general, declares that the law relative
to the purchase of discharges was not
mandatory but discretionary. The
secretary of war may" in time of
peace discharge a soldier who wishes
to purchase his discharge. While final
action has not been taken it is proba-
BILE all the applications will be return
ed, under the discretion conferred by
this law. This obviates the need of
decision as to whether war now exists
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08

Eddy of Minnesota is said to be one
of the homeliest men in congress. He
rather glories in the distinction, espe-
cially as all his other characteristics
are enviable. During his last cam
paign the enemies of Mr.. Eddy charged
him with being double-faced. He met
the charge in a manner that disarmed
all criticism. Great heavens" said
Mr.. Eddy to his audience, do you
think that if had two faces would
wear the one am showing you now?"