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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
DEAD BOOKS OF nHIs DECADE.
Where Are The Heavenly Twins, The
Prisoner of Zenda and Trilby?

"The decade which is now nearing
it's end will be found, l think, when
looked at retrospectively, to have been
the most sterile decade of the whole
century whose close it's marks" writes
Harry Thurston Peck, in Ainslee's.
ut is a decade in which some eminent
authors have finished their careers,
and in which other eminent authors
have deteriorated and sunk to the
level of the commonplace. but in which
scarcely one author has arisen to do
original and splendid work imbued
with vitality that is sure to make
it live throughout the years that are
to come.
"Take fiction, for example Robert
Louis Stevenson's career laps over so
as to include the first four years of our
decade, yet in those four years he
wrote nothing that can be ranked
with is best work; for one cannot con-
slider David Balfour to deserve a place
beside Kidnapped, of which it is a
sequel. Henry James is still among
our living authors, and is still indus
triously writing; yet of him it also
may be said that his most character
istic and most enduring work was
written more than ten years ago.
Since 1890, though he still shows us
his continued possession of the quail
ties that have made him so exquisite
a master of social psychology, he
never reaches now the level of The
American, The Europeans, and The
Point of View, while in criticism and
miscellaneous writing he has of late
done practically nothing. In fiction
by Americans there is also nothing
which both belongs to this decade and
at the same time to the permanent
records of literature. Mr.. Howells,
like his literary congener, Mr..
James, is still producing novels; but
they are novels written rather for en-
tertainment than for fame, and the
two books of his which best deserve to
live-A Modern Instance and The Rise
of Silas Lapham-belong to an earlier
period of his career. In order to see
how thoroughly ephemeral the fiction
of the past ten years has been, it is
necessary only to call to mind few
of the books that enjoyed at the time
of their publication a tremendous
vogue. There are, for example, The
Heavenly Twins, Ben Hur, The Red
Badge of Courage, The Prisoner of
Zenda. Trilby Beside the Bonnie Brier
Bush, Quo Vadis, and more recently
King Noanett and Hugh Wynne. Any
one of these at the time when it first
appeared would have been described
by thousands of readers as a genuine
addition to the literature that will
last. But who thinks of any of them
in that way now? They entertained
or they amused; they served their pur
pose; they have already ceased to be
sold; and. to all intents and pur-
poses, they are forgotten"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
DEMAND FOR CoNviCT LABOR

At Atlanta (Ga) dispatch SAYS:
There is a big boom in the value OF
state convicts. This is made plain by
the fact that within the past day OF
two a deal has been made by which
Jim Smith, the extensive farmer and
prominent convict lessee of Oglethorpe
county, has sold all of his state con-
victs to James w. English, Jr., of At
lanta. Mr.. Smith has been a lessee
of state convicts for nearly 20 years
and to hear that he has retired from
the business will be unexpected news
to the public. While the price he re-
ceived for his convicts is not given
out, it is known that he sold out his
holdings at handsome profit Recent
ly there has been a strong demand for
state convicts, and the lessees under
the new system are anxious to get all
the men that they can, even at adj
vanced prices. The activity in the
coal, iron and lumber markets causes
big demand for this class of labor.
which, it is generally understood. is
the very best that can be had. due
to the fact that a lessee gets six
days full time out of his convicts
every week, rain or shine. This makes
them valuable, and will continue to
keep them so"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
PISCATOR DREAMS.

When city streets are dull and gray,
And office hours are dull as they;
When, like a schoolboy back at school,
| dream about the salmon pool.
Down from my mantelpiece reacn
The idle reel and make 1t screen.
What glorious memories will be found
In that exhilarating sound
The freshness of the autumn breeze,
That whistles through the rowan trees;
The moorland air; the grouse that
calls;
And, best of all, the spate that falls.
The spate that, as it hurries by,
Bears down my realistic fly;
My Wilkinson, my silver Scott,
Ny yellow Doctor or what not,
A specious morsel to invite
The salmon's jaded appetite.
Humor this folly to the full
And give my listless line pull;
A sudden jerk, that l may feel
The thrill, and hear the whirring reel,
May fight again those fights of mine,
With strenuous rod and running line
1 see him leaping over there,
A bar of silver in the air;
l hear the onlookers pronounce
Him twenty pounds if he's an ounce;
His rushes and his sulks begin,
He struggles-but l always win.
I never feel the sodden drag
That proves me broken round snag;
Life nay admit of griefs like these,
But N my dreamland to the lees
The chs,ice of delight I quaff,
And always bring him to the gaff.
Pail Mall Gazette.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
MELON THRESHING TINE.
New Industry Among the Farmers on
the Kansas Plains.

This is watermelon year in Kansas.
The fields that seem good for nothing
in ordinary seasons are producing
great, luscious melons that are the
wonder of the local newspapers. and
furnish more refreshment than the
gatherings on the rear steps of the
courthouse can dispose. Prices which
early In the season were "25 cents
straight have gone down and down
as the melons grew larger and more
numerous. until they have become
two for a nickel" or anything that
the buyer would give. The melons
have attained to an enormous size, too.
Whole wagonloads, in which the mel
ons average 80 pounds in weight. are
common in the central and western
towns, while the king melon. raised at
Clifton and carefully shipped to the st.
Louis market, is said to have weighed
107 pounds.
The sand hills that are found in
many Kansas counties have been the
best producers. These sections are
worthless for corn. and make only fair
farm lands under the best circum-
stances. But when melons are planted
there is almost no end to the number
that will be produced.
The melon raising industry here
has taken a new form. There are not
enough people to eat a hundredth part
of the number that is grown. but the
farmers raise them for the seed.
The men who raise melons for the
seed find IL very profitable under
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
RUBBER GATHERERS IN BRAZIL.
The U. S. Wilmington Explores the
Amazon River

by studying on a map of Brazil
you can see that the Para river ex-
tends almost due west, south of the
| Island of Marajo, to a network Of
narrow streams, known as the Passes,
which connect the Para with the ANA
zon These numerous channels are
from seventy to $50 yards in width,
and some of them are navigable for
vessels of eighteen or twenty feet
draft. These passes are interesting
enough to those traversing them in
small craft, but to the officers and
sailors of such steamers as the u. S.
5. Wilmington they are trebly so. AT
night there is little to arrest the at
tentlon other than the weird, dark
shapes of the banks, which ever seem
close aboard. The land being low and
hat, and the trees near the waters
edge, 1t seems as if the ship has for
saken her natural element and is run
ming overland on invisible wheels.
When daylight comes in a sudden
burst of light like the unheralded
Hash OF the theater's illumination
there is revealed on each side of the
narrow channel the forests solid wall
exposing to view panorama of over.
hanging vines, of creepers and foliaga
and branches brilliant with the multi
tudlous hues of tropical vegetation.
There is a strange chattering ot
animal life and whirr of winged in
sects. The disordant cries of mvriad
parrots echo from the trees There Is
human life, too. Here and there en-
powered in the jungle can be seen lit-
tie wooden huts with tbatcbad roof.
ana sides open to the cooling winds
Ihese are the homes of the rubber
gatherers, who labor day in and dav
out collecting the milky sap of tbe
Hevea brasiliensis. This rnbhor
gathering is interesting, and the viii
mlngton's crew watch curiouslv as
the winding channel reveals little
groups OF natives at work along the
edge of the stream.
1hose ON board who have read +be
descriptions tell others of the manner
III which the half-naked Indians labor
Oh now each family works what -
called an estrada, or street moth
through the forest, which embraces &C
many rubber trees as can he CON
Fehiently tended, of how these troos
are sllt with machete and cur
heted IN the cut to catch the san ana
Oh the manner in which the ownar
makes his daily round and brings 20
MS nut the collected Juice.
There is also interest in tho l.
scription of its next stage wban ~.
sap is dipped up by stick and , ~
vowed over smoky fire. The smo,C,
causes each layer to coagulate on the
SUCK and when the desired amount ~
formed 1t is removed and made raod,,
ior Shipment. These balls of cr,do
ruooer usually weigh in the neigbbnn
mood of twenty-five pounds ana ano
dark, lustrous hue. II was VI
experience, this visit of the WIN nIee'
ION crew to the home of the rnhhs.
sdtnerers, and the closest atton eDeI
was paid to the everchanging sca ,'son
as tne white cruiser steamed sInr,.,
aions through the Passes. F.
Ainslee's. IRON
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
EXHIBITS FOR THE FAIR.

Man who had to grind-no axes:
Chap who never growled at taxes;
Peterborough with human nature.
Ran not for the legislature;
Nuther-what a prize they'll make
him.
Let no office overtake him;
Mamie should have fame eternal,-
No one ever called him Colonel"
'Nuther-be his fame enduring!-
Paid his notes before maturing:
Best of all, though quite demented-
Teller with this world contented,
Atlanta Constitution.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
BE CONSIDERABLE TO THE coox

Do not expect too much =,
n anes.ie' and never forget to give DO az
1etteu a. praise. Preface each reou o
win II you please" and do no Sqa .
get the thank you" pol;tor ny Tor
gets poiiteness; kindness tinsS De-
selsct,o Tng H 40 not in your house a hsd
,,n orS has been made When giv Iaa
an order you need not saw SWING
piease sweep the dining-roon ;. S r
is her regular work. But IL sh mat
stop during the sweeping az - que must
STAIRS 70 bring something. ask IL +" up
favor and acknowledge II % " II as a
Ladies' Home Journal " as such
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
GAYErY UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

Pat Riley. a one-legged man. at
tended a dance at West Columbia
While dancing his wooden leg acct
IDENTIFY went through knothole in the
floor. delaying the dance. It was re-
leased with difficulty and the dance
went on--Weston CIV. Val Demo
crat.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
CREAMERY YARN.

"Hardacre tells some awful yarns. -
Has he a new one?"
Yes. l asked him why he built his
new dairy facing east. Guess what he
said"
Can't imagined"
Said ne wanted the yellow rays
from the rising sun to stream in and
give a yellow tint to the butter"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08

In st. Louis, following an operation
for appendicitis, DR.. d. NJ. Harris. edi-
tor OF the st. Louis Observer. died
tie was formerly vice president Of LIN
coin university. Harris was well
known throughout Illinois.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-08
TO ADVERTISE

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The daily sentinel., 1900-11-15
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1900
Live or Die.

Denver, Nov. l4-The litigation over
tit.e to the Manitou soda springs has
reached the state supreme court AS
set forth in the pleadiugs and briefs in
the case fled yesterday with deputy
clerk John B. Cooke, the decision of this
case is practically decision whether
&anitou as one OF the great resorts Of
the west shall live or die. The case as
fled is a consolidation of two cases: the
town of Manitou vs. the international
Trust company, and the town OF Manitou
vs. the Manitou Mineral Water company
that the title to the soda springs as pub
lie ground be quieted, the effort being
now on the part OF private interests to
deprive Manitou as whole from the ad-
vantages derived from these springs as a
public attraction.
The town OF Manitou eets forth in part
as its claim:
Every body anywhere connected with
the transaction understood this tract of
ground to be a park. 1t was put upon
the plat in the place that it was, and in
the form that it was, and subdivided by
pathways, and provided with bridges as
it was, for use as park and TOR no other
purpose The officers and agents OF the
town company invited and encouraged
the use OF it by the public as park, by
every means within their power. This
invitation to use it as a park was re-
sponded to and accepted and enjoyed by
many thousands Of people, coming from
all over the world, for many years with
out interruption, restraint or denial by
any person whomsoever. The situation
OF the property, the nature and quality
of the springs, rendered is ftoess for a
park unique, and its use as such appro-
pirate, proper and almost essen tial to the
existence OF tho town Of Manitou as q
summer and health resort, for which it
was intended by it's founders. The
town signified it, acceptance of the prop
erty as a public park. by the expenditure
OF public monies to improve it,"
The appeal was placed at the bottom
Of the court calendar and it will be some
months before Manitou will know it's
fate.
The daily sentinel., 1900-11-15
Stay With the Old Greed.

New York Nov. 14-With a majority
OF one vote aud that the vote Of the mod
orator, the New York Presby ytery decided
that the Westminster confession, with
it's doctrine OF predestination was good
enough to remain as the creed OF the
Presbyterian church
The action taken at the meeting was
founded on an Overture" which was
sent out to all the Presbyteries OF this
country by the general assembly OF the
Presbyterian church for the purpose OF
obtaining the opinion Of the various bod
les OF the church on the question OF re-
vising the creed.
When the vote was counted it was
found that seventy one favored revision
and an equal number opposed it. The
announcement that it was tie created
quite stir. The rule governing the
Presbytery provides that IN the case OF
tie tho moderator shall cast the deciding
vote, which he did in this case the anti
revisionist. carrying the day by just one
vote,
The daily sentinel., 1900-11-15
Beckham Governor of Kentucky

Frankfort, Ky, Nov. 1.-THE state
lection board will meet December s, to
canvass the returns and officially declare
the result Of the election in this state
While the republicans have formally con-
ceded the election of Beckham as COVER
nor, and announced that there would be
no contest, both republicans and deno
Gratis will be represented by counsel at
the canvass Of the vote. Every phase OF
the election will be closely watched by
both sides as matters may arise which
will have bearing on the contests for
congressman in two districts-the Third
and Ninth
Gov. Beckham will be inaugurated Dec.
IL. 1t is said one Of the fret official pa
pers Governor elect Durbin OF Indiana
will have to oonsid when he takes Of
flee will be requisition from Governor
Beckham for the return OF OF Governor
Taylor and ex-Seoretary of State Finley
to this state for trial. Leading republi
cans claim to havs assurances from In
diana republican leaders that Mr.. Durbin
will follow the precedent set by Cover
nor Mount in these cases and will refuse
to honor the requisition
The daily sentinel., 1900-11-15
Board of Commissioners Meet.

The board met at 10 o'clock a. IN. pur-
suant to adjournment. Present were j.
U. Harris, B P. Blair, and James d.
Smith, commissioners, S. M. Logan, at
torney, and Henry Nichols, clerk.
The minutes Of the last meeting were
read and approved.
On motion it was ordered that tax sale
certificate No. 1909 be cancelled and re-
fund rendered the holder because OF err
roneous assessment of government land
for the year 1897.
1t WAS ordered that the valuation on
real estate assessed to Margaret Eaton,
for the year 1899, be reduced $lS5 be
cause Of excessive acreage and that re-
bate warrant for S649 be drawn in favor
of L. F. Stetler in repayment OF taxes
excessively assessed.
The following road petitions were re-
ceived and placed on ale.
For a road beginning at the west end
Of the proposed state bridge at White
water and running south and west to
connect with the present county road to
Unaweep, also praying for abandonment
OF that portion Of the present county
road from the point Of intersection OF
new road to the bank OF the Gunnison
river.
For a road commencing at the north
east corner OF the northwest quarter OF
section 81, township 10 south, range 80
west, and running thence south and west
to . point 25 rods west Of the northeast
corner OF the southeast quarter, OF the
2 northeast quarter of section 8. township
IL south, range 96 west, thence to con-
meet with tho Mesa Lake road.
The road petitioned for by b. Q. oyler
and others beginning at the northwest
corner of the east half OF the southeast
quarter Of section 10, township south,
range east, and running thence east
one-fourth mile was on motion approved
and declared public highway.
The following election bills were
allowed on tho general county fund and
warrants ordered drawn in payment oi
the several amounts.
G. G.. Smith, Judge .S1l q
The daily sentinel., 1900-11-15

Denver, Colo, Nov. 14-After with
standing the pressure OF the "sweat box"
at the city Jail for four days, John Porter,
the 16-year-old negro who was arrested
Sunday. charged with the murder OF
little 11-yenr-old Louise Frost, near
Limon, Colorado, tonight broke down
and confessed every detail of the hideous
crime.
The little girl, who was the daughter OF
a ranchman living four miles from Lii
mon, attended school in town, driving
back aud forth. On Wednesday, last,
while on her way home she was waylaId,
assaulted and murdered, her body show
ing no less than fourteen knife wounds.
On Sunday, Preston Porter, colored,
and his two 8 ns, Arthur and John, who
had been working on the railroad near
Limon. were arrested hero en- route to
their home in Lawrence, Kansas, and
John Porter WAS charged with the crime.
Only cireumstantial evidence was
brought against him, and he told a
straight story, adhering to it 80 tena-
ciously as to almost convince the officers
of his innocence. Tonight, however, he
weakened. Tho police department sent
two mon to Limon tonight to verify
some Of his ststements. They wish to be
absolutely sure Of his guilt before giving
him up. owing to a strong belief that he
will be ly.ched on his arrival at Limon.
Porter's confession was made to Chief
of Police Farley and Chief Of Detectives
Armstrong. The fact that the cloth .s
which he had shipped to Lawrence, kas.,
and which had been brought back to
Denver showed bloodstains, seemed to
unnerve him a9d he broke down. He
told tho story Of his crime 10 detail and
has since been on his knees in his cell
Porter said he had seen the girl driv-
ing from school and on the day Of the
crime waited for her at lonely point on
tho road. He dragged her from the
buggy and when she fought him he re.
The daily sentinel., 1900-11-15
Big Find.

Cripple Creek, Nov. 14-O Ono Of the
greatest strikes ever made in the famous
Cripple Creek gold mining district has
just been uncovered in the property OF
the Gold Bond Consolidated Mining
company, on Gold hill, OF which Charles
N. Miller Of this city is the principal
owner.
The assays on narrow streak OF the
ore body run as high as 100000 per
The daily sentinel., 1900-11-15
Forest Fire.

San Bernardino, Nov. 14-A forest Ore
has destroyed Brookings' mill in Fredal-
bra park, and over 10000, 900 feet OF lum-
bsr. The Gre ragged for many hours and
the flames could be plainly seen for sixty
miles. Brookings mill is the largest in
southern California and gave employ
ment to $50 men. The damage is esti-
mated at $500, 600.
The daily sentinel., 1900-11-15

Slocomb soils the famous Jewel stoves
and ranges. They are the best. There
are limitations, but like everything else
which is really first class they must have
THAR imitators. The Jewel 10 the best
The daily sentinel., 1900-11-15
Notice to Contestants.

All votes in the Merchants piano con-
test must be in within one week from
the date OF their issue or they positively
will not be counted.
Truman Ketchum, Counter.
The daily sentinel., 1900-11-15

On motion the board adjourned tt
meet Thursday, November 10, 1900, at II
o'clock a. m.
The daily sentinel., 1900-11-15
BLACK FlEAD RgVISHER
Portor, the Negro, Contesses To
Killing Little Louise Frost With
Sickening Details.

peatedy stabbed her with small pen
knife. She finally yielded, and after
wards to prevent her betraying him, he
crushed her skull with his heel. He re-
turl cd to the boarding car and attemp-
ted, by washing some Of his clothes and
burning others, to remove the evidences
OF his cline. Later in the week the
Porters quit work and shipped their ef-
fects to Lawrence, KanSas, their homo
They came to Denver to draw their pay,
and on Sunday last were arrested by tho
Denver police on a telegraphis order
from Sheriff Freeman, OF Lincoln county.
The greatest excitement was caused
by the discovery of the body Of the muir
dered girl and rewards to the amount Of
$4,000 were offered for the capture OF
the murderer, dead or alive.
After suspicion became fastened upon
young Porter, pair Of shoes which he
had left at the car were found to fit the
tracks which led from the scene Of the
crime
This afternoon the baggage OF the
Porters was received from Lawrence and
a pair OF overalls and shirt which
showed stains Of blood we're found.
When confronted with this evidence the
boy lost his nerve and told the story.
Denver, Nov. 15-At ono o'clock this
(Thursday) morning telegram from
Limon says the statements Of Porter
have been corroborated. He hod told
where he had thrown his victims pocket
book and it was found there by the ofti-
GERS. People are gathering at Limon
from the surrounding country awaiting
the arrival of the murderer. 1t is now
said that there is evidence that the
father and brother Of Porter had guilty
knowledge of his crime and it is possible
that il they are taken to Lincoln county
at the same time as the murderer, they
may share his fate.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-08-24

"Sewall a political adventurer,' is
the Advertisers dictum. This is ;he
same Sewall, who has the unqualified
respect and endorsement of national
Republican leaders, who was appoint
ed by President Mckinley to one Of
the most important diplomatic posts Of
the nation. and has the unqualified sup
port Of the Republican party Of Ha-
wall. The Advertisers personal ram
cor fast is leading 1t to open endorse
ment of Bryan and all his fallacies.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-08-24

Sam Parker is a good fellow and a
Republican, but II he loses the chance
OF going to Congress It will be because
he applied to Star Chamber for the
honc rather than to the Republican
party in open convention. "-Advertis
Anotherjoke. Parker's candidacy Is
before the open convention of the peo'
pie who will register their endorse
ment first at the Republican primaries,
then in the Territorial convention and
finally in victory at the polls in No
vember. What is the Advertiser
open convention" the private Office
Of that journals dictators?