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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-23

Ind hyperbolean feathers, a smile
buckle or comparison ornament. A
red and green feather may stand for
the press agents mixed metaphor--a
purling stream will often run into a
heavenly eyeball, in spite of the utmost
care
Your poor praise agent must pack
more thoughts into half column than
Thackeray or Dickens into a Quarto
ills illusions, like the milliner's, must
be either stunning" "swagger."
smart" else they are, to use a homely
English term, "chucked." Press agents
and milliners must never be dull or
non-inventive. Yet we have much to
be thankful for-there are man mil
liners, but, thank heaven, there are no
female press agents. While the Eng
lishman cannot abide the phrase press
agent he does, as secretary" resort
to all the devices of sheet-iron liter
airy thunder to raise a rumpus and a
row. The outpourings of his fountain
pen must be as lucid and as luminous
GO q anu opcll htt INC pnOS-
phorescent CLEANS playing on the sur
face of the troubled sea, else he is in
formed that he has missed his voca-
ticn and that the employment of sand
witch man is open to him. The Eng
fish editors fulminations may be as
dry as the remainder biscuit after a
voyage" but the secretary's rhetoric
must not be as stiff as a statue, as
motionlesS as a tombstone; it must
pulsate as water after a sunset, tremble
as sunshine through aspen leaves, or
throb as a raven wounded. 1t should
sparkle as the dancing of new stars
He must write as a genius, even if he
be Ounce.
But, you may ask, how can this be
done? Easily. The fantastic feathers,
shining aigrets and fancy flowers that
the milliner punches on wire frame
are not hers: she did not make, con-
ceive or devise them. Her trade is to
select tasteful combinations of these
pretty articles and, having piled her
nimble needle to call them a hat. So
also the so-called secretary. If he have
the sense of a last years birds nest
he will be as assiduous as hoppicker
or bee in gathering new SMILES,
metaphors and hyperboles which in
millinery as before related, stand for
| buckles, aigrets and feathers. He will
have a plentiful stock of rhetorical
millinery on hand; he will spend his
day and nights with Swift, Addison
and Johnson, and then with the
watchfulness of spider sitting in his
web he will pounce on every hollow
fact that comes along and dress it up
as would a milliner in all the gay plum
age of rhetoric.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-23
ENGLAND'S ACCOUNT
INDIA.
WITH

God help the people of Indla!" said
Donald Smeaton, a member Of Lord
CurZon's council, to Reuters agent at
Bombay the other day; Great
Britain and Ireland owe debt to the
Indian peasants, a debtof millions upon
millions" We know that India an
nually RENTS to England a sum es-
timaLcd between 100000 and 100000
for home charges, pensions, interest
and the like. We know that the people
of India are virtually debarred from
the highest posts in India, except d
very small percentage, and that G15,-
900, 900 are annually paid to European
officials employed in India and sending
all their savings to Europe. We know
that our ancient industries, like weav-
ing and spinning anu dyeing, have
been killed by European competition,
and that the land is so heavily taxed
in many provinces that the peasant
cannotsavea good years crop for years
Of baH harvest. We know that an army
is KEEP. in India, and paid for by In
dia, sufficient for England's imperial
requirements over the best part OF
Asia and Africa. We know that our
finances are adjusted by executive
councils in India and In England, in
which the people OF India have no
seat, and that in the taxation OF India
we have no voice. These are some of
the burdens we bear In India, and these
are some of the causes OF the famines
from which we periodically suffer.
Will Englishmen add to them the
burden OF paying for British forts and
armies. British establishments, and
wars in various parts Of Africa and
Asla-from the Suez canal to Mozam-
blque, from the Tigris to the Malay
peninsula? Will the English con.
science reconcile itself to thus proceed
ing when 100000 OF people ar
| affected by the worst famine tina
India has ever known, and 5,0O0,Ov
are actually attending relief eenters
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-23
MISTAKES IN FLAG RAISINGS.

1t isn't everybody who knows how to
throw the American colors to the
breezes. Flag-raisings are everyday
occurrences, but there are few people
among those in charge, be they ever so
patriotic, who are cognizant of the fact
that Old Glory tops everything in the
American possessions, and must not
go below under any circumstances.
At many of the flag-raisings there are
pennants unfolded on the same poles,
and generally the mistake of placing
the pennant at the top, over the flag,
is made. This is very irritating 10 the
regular navy men, who regard such an
act in their ranks as deserving of dis
missal. A number of the officers
stationed at League island navy yard
have time and again had the flag given
It's proper place on poles in various
parts of the city, especially over the
schoolhouses downtown. On Decora-
ton day there was a flag-raising over
the Matthew w. Baldwin school. Six
teenth and Porter streets, and the
pennant, which contained the school
name, was placed at the top of the pole.
Word came from League island that
the country's color should be put at the
top, and the error was Immediately
corrected. Recently the same mistake
was made at National park, on the
Delaware river The irritating sight
was seen from League island, and
message was dispatched in a boat to
have the positions of the flag and
pennant Observation-Disclosures Rec
ord.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-23
SUCH is FAME.
How the Des Moines Fans Lionized
Pugilist Jim Jeffries.

To thoroughly appreciate what
fool these mortals be- one only needed
to watch the antics of the people when
James Jeffries, the champion Of
pugilists, came to Des Moines for the
purpose of umpiring a baseball game
The big fellow had to keep inside his
room at the hotel all day
because of the crowd of gaping people
who persisted in following him around
and bothering the life out of MIN
every time he tried to move. Several
hundred hung around the hotel all
boiler-maker as he numbered by, and
in the afternoon the street leading to
the ball park was lined with people
who craned their necks every time a
big man came in sight. Jeffries fooled
them, however and by taking the back
way managed to almost reach the park
before he was discovered.
A crowd of 5000 people were waiting
in their seats at the ball-park to see
the man, and just as soon as some
urchin at the top of the bleachers
yelled that he was in sight, the people
came near tearing down the grand
stand in an effort to rush to the top
seats and eaten first look. After
waiting some fifteen minutes for his
majesty to come out and be introduced
the game was finally started. Jeffries
bowed his big, ugly head to the yell
ing crowds when introduced, and then
picking out shady spot by the fence
went out aud sat down until some one
should get base and there would he
work for him to do Just twelve times
did he walk out from his shady spot
near the score board and motion his
hand toward a player to show whether
the man was out or not and for that he
received over 5000. Every time JEFF
fries made a motion the crowd yelled
like mad, and when the game was
over two-thirds of them hung around
the entrance to see him when he came
out
As soon as Jeffries was paid his half
of the gross receipts of the day, he
lodged out of the front entrance and
jumped into the middle of the street
and then ran as fast as he could to the
hotel, with a pack of enthusiastic
rooters following him. He simply had
to run to get away from the crowd.
And this is famel-Iowa State Regis
ter.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-23
THERE EVEN DEATH is SLOW.

Everybodyin the oilcloth and linoleum
trade knows "the Potter boys" of Phil
adelphia and New York. Col. Tom
Potter of the former city, who got his
title through a staff appointment by a
former governor of Pennsylvania, is a
thorough Philadelphia, firm believ-
err in that town-in all the institutions,
big and little, and in her magnificent
future. But he always helps to circu-
late a good story on Philadelphia,
lust the same.
A hustling "free lance" in the life
insurance business was over there the
other day trying to write 10000
policy in New York company for a
rising young man who holds an i'm
portant position with the Potter com
pany. This was his third or fourth
call, and he had his intended victim
almost worked up to the point of
signing the application.
I'm take the policy" he said. but ]
don't want it just yet. Wait few
weeks"
No time like the present" ex-
claimed the agent. Delays are par
ticulsrly dangerous in life Insurance.
matters. l tell you what I'll do in
your case-if you'll make the applics-
ton now I'll carry the policy for you
myself for 30 days"
'NOh, wouldn't have you do that,
the young man protested. Il might
die within 30 days, and then whess
would you and your profits be-"
ooh, that's all right, my boy! IL
take the risk. You won't die tina
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-23
ENVIRONMENT.


A lily grew IN garden far
From the dust of the city street;
1t had no dream that the universe
Held light less pure and sweet
Than its virgin self, so chaste was it,
So perfect its retreat.
When night came down, the lily looked
In the face of the stars and smiled,
Then went to sleep-to the sleep OF
death
AS the soul of a little child
Goes back to the clasp of the Father
soul,
Untouched and undefled.
A lily bloomed on the highway close
To the tread of the sweeping throng;
1t bore the gaze Of a hundred eyes
Where burned the fame of wrong.
And one came by who tore its heart
With a ruthless hand and strong.
1t caught no glimpse of garden fair,
1t knew no other name
Fer world that used and bruised it so
Than world Of sin and shame,
And hopeless, crushed, its spirit passed
AS the evening shadows came.
And who can say but the sheltered vine
A sullied flower had been
Had its home been out on the highway
close
To the path of shame and sin,
And the other forever angel white
Had it blossomed safe within?
Elizabeth G.. Perkins
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-23
WILL HURT THE LUMBER JACK.
Stranding of Logs Will Greatly Curtail
Output of Next Winter.

The harvest of the lumber jack next
winter does not promise to be so
bountiful as was that of last year, says
the Superior Telegram. In fact the
outlook for work in the woods is quite
poor, comparatively speaking. The
logs stranded in the woods, it is claim
ed are enough to run the Superior,
Duluth and Ashland mills for one third
OF The season of 1901. A prominent
lurlberman says Of the situation:
Unless there shall be marked i'm
provement in the, demand for lumber,
there will certainly be great falling
off in the logging operations next win
ter This is especially true if the logs
which are hung up on account of low
water are not gotten down this fall in
time to be sawed. There are 240,000,-
600 feet of logs i'm the streams of the
head of the lakes and Ashland dis
tricts, and if these remain in the
water all winter, it means that we
already have enough logs on the banks
to keep the saws of both districts busy
for about one-third of next season. The
estimated sawmill capacity of these
two districts is S4O,O00,OO0 feet a
season and with 24O,OOO,OOO feet of logs
already cut, there will be a big start
in hand for the season which will not
depend upon next winters logging OPP
erations.
After September l there is little
lumber sold here usually to go for
ward the same season. 1t may be diff
ferent this year, because comparatively
little has been sold to go forward thus
far"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-23
MRS. GLADSTONE IN PARLIAMENT

To every member of parliament Mrs.
Gladstone was familiar. She always
occupied the same place the corner
seat in that part of the ladies gallery
which is at the disposal of the wife OF
the speaker, or his daughter II he has
no wife. Her presence there was as
certain a proof that her husband was
going to make a grand speech as the
oriflamme of Henry of Navarro was 70
his troops during the battle. She
seemed to be almost part of the house
itself, she leaned forward so as TO
catch every word and was so palpably
interested in her husband and so anxi-
Gus that she seemed almost part of
himself
1t was her oldfashioned idea that
the wife should always be in the gal
lery to encourage the husband in the
greater moments of his career Once
a friend of mine had to make speech
Of some length and some perplexity
during the big home-rule struggle, and
his wife had got "A place near him.
There was some difficulty in getting to
the front row, as the gallery was
crowded Mrs. Gladstone turned round
and said: why it's his wifel" and
said no more. That seemed TO her a
sufficient and unanswerable claim to
any place the lady might like to have.
Mrs. Gladstone was even more att
home when her husband and she weu
on the platform together. Indeed,
presence Of the one would have see
insufficient without the other.
always sat Immediately behind
husband, and now and then ~
advantage of the pause created
cheers to give him a hint, orI
gentle remonstrance.-Abou
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-23
THE LONDON PRESS AGENT.
How the Secretary Dresses up Hol-
low Facts With Literary Millinery.

In London each theater has it's
secretary" but there are no press
agents, writes correspondent of the
indianapolis Press. Secretary is a
pretty word. Albeit, the Bond-street
millinery shop scene in the new Drury
Lane melodrama, Hearts are Trumps,"
suggests to the thoughtful auditor the
proper name for a paid praiser," or
praise agent" commonly called press
agent in our dear country. The last
named title, however, has been brought
into so much disrepute that tP Q nest
laborer in the London thea| -. vine
yard rebels against 1t. He would be
called anything but that, which sug-
gests the road agent or the highway
robber. There is still better reason
why the term press agent" is abhor-
rent to the Englishman. The word
agent is of Latin origin, meaning TO
do" Hence the phrase press agent"
signifies Ito do the press" Horrid
thought. Why not theatrical. MILL
ner?" The press agent takes a tiny
fact and dresses it up in all the gew-
gaws Of fancy, just as milliner lays
hold Of frail wire frame and sews
on those dainty devices so dear to the
feminine hea-t-and so devastating to
the male exchequeT. One produces a
beYHching. eye-teasing bonnet, the
other charming literary chapeau.
tsvi.h - Sc artisans the method OF pro-
ducing effects is the same-both en-
ploy the articles; one savory and sat
isfying ~ the mind, the other deli
cate delight TO the optic. The literary
milliner takes his fact and sews on
flowers Of fancy, metamorphic aigrets
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-23

Afger the famine of ITO and the DESC
lating wars of Warren Hastings, the
great Minister Pitt brought in his
Indian bill in 1884 to give us better
government Is there no statesman in
England at the present day who will
give us a new India bill, moderating
land tax, reducing expenditure, open
ing up the higher services to the
people of India, and giving them some
control over their finances? Is there
no Englishman of this generation who
will stand up for justice to India?-
Letter of a Native Hindu.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-23
IN A PRACTICAL WAY.

"Guzweit tells me ne Is not an ex-
pansionist' any more"
We'll, he Is, just the same. He
drinks two dozen glasses OF beer every
day Of his life. Chicago Tribune.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-23
aRLEY HOYT
CAROLINE MARKET

Playwright Won by Her
by and Becomes Broken
Arted When Death Robs Him of
svrer-Hoyt's Poetic Tribute to An
other Actress Who Died.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-12-15

10 80 -. III WtAE At ELAL LHL
A communication from the Vermont
Experiment Station says that clover
seed absolutely pure Is an unknown
article In the market. In buying clover
seed It is just 3 question Of how much
;impurity there shalt be and what the
iimpurity ID. II Ia not necessary to
have great quantity OF foreign mat
ter insorder to have y very undesirable
mixture. If there issa half ounce Of
seed of some bad weed ina bushel or
clover seed It may be enough to Iinfest
the farm for years. Vermont clover
seed is probably no worse than any
and II IS better to SOW poor
seed than not to grow clover-Hithin
certain ltmits-butin many cases TIL,
goods offered on the general market
may e we'll be subjected to an q
animation. sss @s
Ehe Vermont Experiment Station,
made 3 number 81 Observation-Disclosures
year. Twenty samples ~ red.
clover seed shoMedsan average impur.
litysof 10 Ip,eri cent weight Twelve
lssmples of alstke clover showed -;
st1gaIsimpuriHsot #3.2 Der cent. Byl
letnsl count q sMal Sssampllss hsI
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-12-15
NORWAY ~ALARsrED.
RRssaaH sswnlers Suspected nc Mill
taPy Spies.

NHssaaR SowaleFs Suspected nc Mill
tsPy Spies.
The wandering Russian sawflers
who frightened the Swedes appeared
in Norway in due time. and were al
ways'on the go, travelling entirely on
foot, and seeking the less-used roads
and paths, many Of which are un-
charted. One of them, Dimitri Aap-
arkin, confessed to being a non-com-
missioned officer in the Novgorod brig
ade.
These Russians have been observed
studying the mountain paths very
carefully, and almost Invariably taking
the less-frequented trails, as il to seek
further information than that con-
tanned in the maps. They give the i'm
preston of being men of education
and intelligence, and, although their
clothing was that Of workingmen, their
underwear was Of excellent quality.
Sometimes they travelled together, and
then they separated, apparently ac-
cording to a well-arranged plan. In a
short time they met again. In asking
the way to Drobak they inquired II
there were not Notifications there. At
Eidsberg, too, another military point,
they were much interested.
Several people have caught them
porting cver maps. They carried note
books in which were copious entries
In Russian and many figures. Unlike
wandering thinkers, they did not stop
at every farm, but, at h same time,
they were excellent sawfilers.
That their route was carefully ar
ranged and not dependent upon their
success in securing work was made ev-
dent at Waller. One Of them, upon ar
irving there, called at the postoffce for
a letter, and was surprised and anxious
to learn hat none had come. Later In
the day it arrived, however. That the
men ostensibly journeying about where
their craft might obtain for them the
best results, should expect a letter on
a certain date at a given place, struck
the officers as very singular. There
has been no interference with them.
however.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-12-15
The Hog.

V00 6OSs '..H .Hl
The hog of today constitutes no less
than $40 different articles Of COM
merce, and next to cotton and wheat
furnishes the largest values In ex-
ports from the United States. Its
name has become an epithet, says a
foreign writer on swine. Its applica-
ton to man means greed and BRITISH
ness. It is commonly supposed to be
a scavenger, like the puddle duck. It
takes mud baths. So do men. There
is much virtue in mud. The hog
battles in pools OF it to coat his skin
against the attacks Of insects; man
dips his festered hide in It to improve
his circulation and draw out his govt
and rheumatism. The hog is pachder-
'matous; so is MISUNDERSTANDING
Cuvier's classification. have seen
men, know men today, with skin
thicker than the hide Of a rhinoceros.
The hog is omniverous-so is man.
The hog is carniverous by choice-so
is man. The hog is herbiverous, gran
iverous, gr%aminiverous and phytivor-
GUS by edncation-so is q
These reflections are induced by the
indignities offered a useful animal.
The hog was the cleanliest Of beasts
until man built a sty and imprisoned
him in filth. fattened him on Nth,
killed him in filth and ate him in
filth. No animal, Wild Or domestic, is
SO clean about its bed as the hog. 1t
wants pure, sweet, fresh straw every
time. The hog has brains. 1t has
been known to excel the pointer in
seeming quail.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-12-15

seeds Of noxious weeds averaged about
800 to each ounce OF the clover seed.
These were principally sorrel, plan
tain. goosefoot, quack grass, pig weed,
wild carrot and kale. in the order
named. Besides these there was more
or less mixture Of other seeds like
timothy. herds grass. ETC., and Of other
species not counted as weeds. These
samples were all secured Of dealers in
Vermont. Any man with q good hand
lens can often form q very good judz-
ment Of the purity or impurity of a
sample from which he c~ontempiates
buying.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-12-15

is ready to top. In some seasons they
occur in large numbers and damage
the tobacco considerably. In the early
part Of the season. as q general thing,
but few Of them are found, and in or
binary seasons they are not especially
noticed during the early "worming"
Of the tobacco. In August they begin
to be more abundant, and generally
leave the plant about the end Of the
month, entering the ground, trans
forming to pupae and issuing as moths
toward the end Of September.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-12-15
Punp..n. in enc Hor Ration.

In the HOG 80eions
At the New Hampshire Agricultural
College experiments were made to de-
termine the value Of pumpkins. apples.
bran. milk and corn-meal in the hos
ration. Eighteen were divided into
six lots Of three pigs each. The fol-
lowing rations were fed:
Lot 1. Milk. corn-meal, and pump
hns, cooked.
Lot 2. Milk. corn-meal. and pump
kins. uncooked.
Lot 8. Milk and pumpkins, raw.
Lot 4. Milk and corn-meal.
Lot S. Milk, and pumpkins and ap-
pies. half and half, cooked.
Lot s. Milk, corn-meal and bran.
half and half.
The pigs were fed for Is days and
made the following average gains per
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-12-15
A Primitive Daily.

Peter With. Axelsen of Minneapolis
has a copy of the first daily paper pub
lished in Norway. This was a Morgen-
bladet, which Is still in existence. The
first number appeared Jan. /, 1919. and
a more unpromising newspaper would
be hard to find, as there is no news in
it. The first page is devoted to q po.
EN- dedicated to the new year. The
second, third and half Of the fourth
pages, to q story or novelette,. while in
the last column is. the "Ad" for the
paper, and two short notices, one for
church services and another for q ball.
The paper is SO small that all of. its
matter could be placed in less than two
columns of the current number Of Nor,
gcnbladt, possibly even In one
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-12-15
Bud Worms.

The true bud worm (Heliothis
rhexiae) occurs in the more southern
portions Of the tobacco-growing re-
gions, but has not been noted in tobacco
fields north of Maryland. The adult
insect is,a small, greenish moth. The
larva or caterpillar Of this moth is
nearly always found in the bud of the
tobacco plant about the time the plant