The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-11-30

a Buffalo pastor of the faith. DR.
PEBBLES i'll an octogenarian; was a con.
sui III Turkey under Grant in 1881, a
peace commissioner, and has been
+ around the world three times. Mrs
! Cooley is test medium" and claims
to get results in the cabinet box
Hoffman ditto.
| wish them we'll. We all wonder
sometimes whether 1.-The vale" may not
be very thin and our dear dead just at
hand. Some wish to communicate with
them. On this point most of us CON
cede 1--WE don't know with a strong
! qualification that we don't believe they
j do. Moreover there has been so much
humbugging of the ignorant and the
wistful mourner. that we look on the
cabinet business with great sus-
picion. And the bad English that
comes back from the spirit world.
and the undignified rap. tap and thud
so homogeneous with dignitied eterni-
ty that personally the visible evidence
for gate receipts does not interest me.
: However, this free country.
Detect Odors for Prizes.
We are about to have rummage
sale in Madison, but the Capital city
is mot so warm" In one city up
: north Catholic Aid society women
have held a shifting contest Along
one side of the hall were arranged a
! large assortment of numbered Walls
containing different odors such as Gin
namOn, Glove, arnica, camphor, lemon
ammonia, etc, land the guesser brought
a card and took each vial in rotation
entering the number on the card and
the odor opposite, and the person
guessing the most numbers correctly
would be the recipient of prize.
One man reported the odors of very.
poor whisky and adulterated rain
water, but 10 didn't get the prize.
l,0o.s in lie Bed.
An Omaha lady has secured O di-
vorce on the grounds that the father
in-law insisted upon going to bed w tn
his muddy boots on. If people slept
standing up, as a large line of animal
life does, Il great many embarrassing
situations would be averted Not
long ago hard feeling was caused in a
boarding house because man was
found in the middle of the night,
sleeping in the bathtub. He was Wig
Orously demonstrated with and told
to get into his bed. He replied that
it was his own bed, he knew it, rec
Ognized the mattrass.
Carp Destroy Duck Shooting.
The causes affecting nature often lie
deep. 1t has been noted that the
duck-shoOting on Lake KoshkOnong is
not as good as it once was, and what
do you suppose is the reason? The
German carp eat the green stuff in the
lake. A writer says: ''At one time
the bottom of the lake was covered
with beds Of wild celery that covered
it like a mat. Now all is changed;
the. lake is filled with millions of carp
that eat every tender plant that
grows on the bottom of the lake and
root UP the mud like a drove of hogs,
keeping the water covered with a
dirty scum aud continually riled up"
This fall the ducks did not stay
more than a day or twO-just long
enough to rest on their long flight
south. Some days there would be
thousands. Canvass backs usually
come about the 18th of October and
stay from three to four weeks accord
ing to the weather and get fat as but
ter from feeding on the wild celery
which covers the bottom of the lake.
Now everything is changed. The
ducks no longer linger in the lake and
get fat; they stop only long enough to
rest and then leave.
If this explanation is sound, the
carp must go. He is less deserving
creature than the wild duck.
A Wolf Shot-Rare Catch.
There was a day when wolves were
in, Wisconsin,
are people living in Madison, here in
the southern part of the state, who
tell good wolf stories of the days be-
fore 1850. And by the way, two wild
deer were sighted from the Middleton
road about month ago, not over five
miles from the big white dome. They
"just happened" there-that's all.
Dane county is so thickly settled that
there are no coverts left for deer
But wolves are rare, even up north.
Door county might be expected to
have some wild animals in reserve.
but the sight of wolf there the
other day attracted much attention.
Not for thirty years has one been seen
about Sturgeon Bay The animal
was heard splaShing in the canal. At
first it was thought to be a deer. then
a dog. Some one GOT rlHe ana
killed it and it was exhibited in
meat market The belief is that the
wolf was not n native Of the county,
but had either crossed from the nOrth-f
ern peninsula Of Michigan on the ice
or else escaped from a menagerie.
The brute belonged to some outfit
where it had been sort of pet. as
it's long and sleek coat of nearly white
indicated that it had received the best
of care.
At least some beholders thought SO.
The Inheritance Tax Disputed.
On July 1, 1899, went into effect the
Wisconsin statute which imposes state
Inheritance tax on personal property.
The consiitutoTality of this act is to
lie debated in the courts on the mo-
ton of the heirs of the late John Black
of Milwaukee. He left to two daugh-
ters personal property listed at $780,
600. Of this the state claims 1 per
cent.-$3, 600-seemingly little enough
to those who believe in the principle
that the state where the amassing of
such large means is possible and pro
tected is entitled to some part of it
when the user is through with it. 1t
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