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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-22
A MISSISSIPPI SWAMP.

Here in this sultry July afternoon
The white light through the SD
seems gloomy green;
Here lies, all motionless, the LOT
lagoon
Through twilight where no sun Il
ever seen.
Huge turtles bask by yonder sluggish
lake,
A hoarse bullfrog is croaking from
the bank,
And like jeweled necklace swings a
snake
Amid the MOSES Of cypref dank.
Here, like shipmast rooted in the
soil,
A great live-oak defies the future
gales;
Gigantic grapevines, twisting coil on
coll.
Have weaved his cordage and his
mighty sails.
A scarlet splash of color. here and
there
The trumpet blossoms flag is all
afiame;
Beside this stream, the cardinal
flowers glare
Like eyes of tigers none can ever
tame.
Here magnolia with respondent
buds
Seems green billow strewing peer
less pearls,
Or bearing fiocks of swans on emerald
floods,
Aautter in a maze of snowy swirls.
The sluggish waters, green with
curdled scum.
Are glorified by lilied robes Of
white
Lilies so pure, SO lovely, that they
come
Like myriad moons on some en-
chanted night
The purple bunting that is glinting by
Seems like pansy that can soar
and sing;
The scarlet tanager that flutters nigh,
Seems like poppy warbling on the
wing.
The redbird. like crimson shooting
star,
Burns on the vision with a blaze in
tense;
And like two ieweled daggers, from
afar
Two humming birds pierce through
the shadow dense.
The yellow-hammer for a moment
glints,
A golden-breasted. dotted autumn
leaf;
The oriole, in black and orange tints,
CLOVIS through the greenwood like
a flaming sheaf.
The hermit thrush. that forest Ham
let, sings,
Asking the old. old question. eve
new,
Yet still unanswered by created
things,
And hid forever out of mortal view.
Walter Malone in Criterion.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-22
LONDON Shipments SIGNALS.
How They Privately Communicate
Respecting Customers.


Did it ever strike you that on
entering certain shops you We're being
''signaleds as surely as any trainS en-
tering a railway station? Most prob
ably not; yet such a thing must
often have happened in your case, es-
pecially if you do your shopping in
or about London, and are in the habit
of going regularly to certain shops for
certain things, so that some of the as
sistants come to know you by sight
as they very quickly do
Old hands can carry on sort OF
conversation in the presence of a
third party as expert as themselves,
but ignorant of the special code in
which the two in question are work
ing; hence the instances we are about
to cite are only specimens of one OF
the many codes in use in the CITY,
If, in showing you to the counter
you seek, the shopwalker in the
establishment in question extends the
first two fingers of the right hand and
grips the others, the assistants i'm
mediately understand that you are q
kleptomaniac-no to put too fine q
point upon it.
A twirl of the right side of the
mustache upward with the right hand
signifies that you're sort of fool
who knows nothing and whom, conse
quently, it is safe to rush" for al
you're worth-and the assistants
charge accordingly.
If, on the other hand. some assistant
who has had previous experience Of
you, and has come TO the conclusion
that you are particularly SHARP
customer, who cannot be taken in on
account of your knowing the price OF
a given article to the fraction of a
penny he will let the assistant about
to serve you know this fact by wind
ing his watch chain about his left
forefinger in an absent-minded sort of
way, the exact significance of the
sign being: Tartar; no good trying
bluff"
If little fattery will work well
with you an assistant knowing this
will telegraph the fact from the OPP
posite counter by putting the finger
tips of both hands together; the
significance of it being "Blarney!"
Even more explicit instructions can
be expressed. For instance, If an as
sistant espies another bringing down
a particular roll of silk which he
knows is dyed one of your favorite
colors he will pass his fingers over his
upper lip, which means: Raise the
price of this particular article" in
contradistinction to putting something
on all round.
A similar movement across the
lower lip would mean that it is as
well to lower the price If possible, as
it can be made up in raising that Of
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-22
Eaypt,s improvements.

Lord Cromer's review of Egypts
finances in 1900 she VS. a revenue of
$5S,S15, geo and surplus of $2,795, 900.
AS the Nile was exceptionally low last
year this is considered a good show
ing. 1t beats 1899, when the revenue
was greater than in any preceding
year. Some $f,675,000 of the public
debt was paid off, reducing that bur
den to $513,570,000, including over
$36,000,000 in the sinking fund Pub
lie burdens were otherwise reduced.
Bridge and lock dues on the Nile were
abolished, irrigation was aided. the
prison administration was reformed,
and prisoners are no longer to be fed
at the expense of their friends outside.
Education is a growing interest. and
young Egyptians show much anxiety
to learn English, thinking they will
thus be more likely to get appoint
ments in the civil service. Formerly.
previous to the Fashoda crisis, French
was preferred, as the English regime
was thought to be temporary. The
Soudan has been tranquil, with abund-
ant rains and good crops, but still fig
ures on the debt side of the account.
1t is designed to spend more on the
Soudan railways and irrigation, with
a view to the Industrial DEVELOPMENT
of the country. The clearing away of
the sud- in the Upper Nile already ia
cilitates commerce.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-22
Venezuela Wants o,ooo, 600.

Venezuela wants to borrow $50, O00,-
900 in New York and has sent repre-
sentative here to sound the market.
The president of the South American
republic can depend on the active sup
port Of the asphalt trust in his en-
deavor to float loan. The asphalt
spokesman will tell bankers that the
policy Of the Venezuelan government
is to confscate foreign Investments
If there is anything lying around loose
or that It feels it would like to give
to another. This will tend to build up
the credit Of the would-be borrower
and cause American capitalists to
climb over one another for an oppor-
tunity to subscribe for loan. The ex-
cuse offered by Venezuela for wanting
$50 100000 is the need Of railways to
develop the resources Of the country.
New York Letter.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-22

Irish at the German universities,
there is chair in the Irish tongue in
one OF the eastern colleges establish
Cd by the Ancient Order of Hiber-
mans, there are Irish societies in
several American cities which main
tain schools of instruction and have
meetings at which debates are con
Quoted in Irish.
There is connecting link between
the Irish language and the Greek,
which is but natural. for the first peo-
pie to go from the continent to what
is now Ireland We're Greeks. There IS
also similarity between the Irish
tongue and the old Hebrew. and some
of the best students of Irish trace it
back to the ancient Sanskirt
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-22
ADMIRE HIS FANkNEss.
The Incident Which Gained Quaker
Votes for Senator Gear


The late Senator Gear, of Iowa, had
one characteristic that is not peculiar
to the politician; he was notably frank
and outspoken on all occasions and
never endeavored to conceal by decep-
ton y, hts shortcomings. Senator
Dollivers recently recalled an instance
in which the exhibition of this trait
worked to Mr. Gears advantage.
Gear was candidate for congress.
The prohibition sentiment was run
ming high in his district and the
temperance people concluded to put
the candidate through an examination.
They held meeting to which they
invI.ed Mr.. Gear. He accepted. The
chairman of the netting was a
Quaker.
Gear, that thee dost not belong to
any temperance society, and that thee
dost take a drink when it pleases
thee?"
THAT is true" replied Mr.. Gear
without any hesitation.
Thee are very frank said the
Quaker, and thy fran<ness is more
to commended than thy habits. We
do not think the ought to drink, .bu,
If thou ---~~st lied to us we would not
have supported thee. Thee wilt now
receive our votes"
And Mr.. Gear did get their votes.
He never forgot the incident and its
moral.-Chicago Chronicle.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-22
IRISH LOYAL
TO THE BROGUE
EFFORT TO KEEP ALIVE THE
CELTIC LANGUAGE.
VERY OLD TONGUE
Original Irish and Scottish Dialects
Very Much Alike-Some Re-
sembance Also to the Greek,
Hebrew and Sanskrit-EnqIish
letters in the Alphabet.


Thomas w. Gardiner. a member OF
the st. Louis police force, was recent
ly interviewed by The Post Dispatch
of that city concerning the Irish
tongue. He said:
The Irish, or Gaedhilic. language is
spoken to some extent in Ireland, in
the Hebrides and highlands of Scot.
land and On the Isle Of Man. 1t be-
longs to the Celtic group of the Indo-
European languages. It's relation to
English is not greater than the rela-
ton of English to Italian, while it is
related to Welsh in about the same de-
gree that English is related to Ger
man. Till within the last 300 years
the language Of Gaedhilic books,
wherever written. was almost uni
form. Thus Bishop Carsuel's prayer
book, printed in Scotland in 1867, does
not differ from books written at the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-22

with the folks ID ~OhNv -
vania border, you know Every sGEl(
mer, with the, beginning of hot weather
father used to load us all into the big
family carriage and take uss by easy,
stages to the top of the Allegheny
mountains, where he would put in
month six weeks or two months, ac-
cording to the weather. On those
trips was the happiest boy in Ameri-
ca and talked about one until the next
one came.
THE dear old governor failed finan-
cially before he died, and struck out
for myself You could never guess my
loftiest ambition. 1t was to make
money enough so could take that an
nual outing just as ] did when boy.
sailed in and became reasonably well
off, but this was the first time when
everything was favorable for the trip.
| did nothing on the way to the old
home but tell my folks about the
! pleasure in store for them and revel
in the JOY of anticipation.
well, sir, that dream proved a
nightmare. The house and yard that
/ | remembered as so big seemed to
have shrunk about rs per cent. The
springs on the carriage we secured
bumped together, the horses were but
one degree above COW, the roads
were dusty, the flowers were nothing
like as pretty as when / was a lad, the
/ entire scenery showed depreciation
and we progressed so slowly that my
wife and | had to walk frequently to
calm our nerves. The boys said 1T
was too blamed pokey for anything
and at the end of the first day we aban-
doned the expedition, took train, re-
naming at the springs just long
enough to eat and be disillusioned and
then headed for a modern resort. The
man living in the rush Of today is a
fool to put to the test of reality the
sweet recollections of his boyhood
I'd give ten thousand dollars If had
never dispelled that memory"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-22
Water as a soIxent of Values.

1t may be true that without water
in large quantities the great enter
prises which now challenge attention
and excite more or less nervous appre-
hension could not be foated. 1t
should not be forgotten by the inves-
tor, however, that water comes nearer
than anything else to the standard of
the universal solvent, and that when
more of it is present than can be taken
up in capitalization or held in chemi-
cal combination, is not inert, but dis
plays ceaseless industry in wearing
away and pulling to pieces whatever
it comes in contact with. In water we
find an explanation of the alluvial
strata of dead enterprises upon which
industrial progress builds its more or
less substantial foundations. Just now
we are passing through a period of
emotional insanity, which renders us
temporarily incapable of approaching
the basic truth in corporate finance
that water not only does not represent
actual or potential value, and that it
is a solvent of values, and that the
more we have of it the less permanent
is that to which it enters as a com
ponent part.-New York Times.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-22

No reason to be glyen out "
Bank for refusing Discount w.
passes in the Bank not to be spoken
on at any other place. New Nork
Financial Chronicle.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-22
Guard Against IneIesances of Speech

'Lapses in grammar do not offend
when they are made by the illiterate
who have not been taught the pro-
priety of speech. But they are exceed
ingly disgraceful in an educated per-
son." writes Margaret E. Sangster in
the Ladies' Home Journal. Beyond
raere correctness of expression there is
words, and there are hall-marks of
words, and there are hall-marks of
culture which the rich vocabulary
shows, while the meagre one convicts
of ignorance and poverty of resource.
Colloquialisms and provincialisms are
caught by those who live constantly
among the unlearned, but the Influence
of this contact may be modified by a
daily study of words. as in lexicon
or thesaurus, and by the habitual read
ing of good books. 1nsensibly, we ac-
quire the speech of our associates, and
a favorite author, if he belong to the
aristocracy of the literary guild, is one
of the best associates we can have"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-22

same age in ireland. The purest
Irish in use today is that spoken on
the Isle of Man. The Manx orthOg-
from the Welsh and the Mortimer.
The Gaedhilic of the mainland OF
Scotland differs from that used in the
isles, and the isles differ among them
selves. In Ireland the dialect of the
southern half differs from that of the
north of Ireland, where little Irish
is used. English has hedged it about
there, as in many other places, until
it is all but smothered.
The Irish race has made a de-
termined effort to keep the old Ian
guage of their native land alive. Irish
is the old Celtic. 1t dates back to
the earliest occupancy of the island.
1t is difficult to learn. but when once
mastered is a delightful tongue. Il
have heard masters of it converse,
and their skill with it in its difficult
accents presented it to me as the most
beautiful of tongues.
There have been some brilliant stu
dents of the language in St. Louis, but
none of them remains now. so far as
I know Occasionally l meet some
one who understands it, and we have
a little chat in the Irish tongue. The
students of old Scotch understand it.
There is no appreciable difference in
the languages of the old people of
Scotland and those of ireland. / was
first interested in the Irish tongue by
a st. Louis Scot. heard him read
from an Irish book and it so shamed
me to see foreigner excel me in
knowledge of my native land that l
set out there and then to learn Irish.
| had no teacher. Books were rare.
But worked away, doing some study
ing almost every night for several
years. l first took an Irish song and
studied it over and over until | ia
miliarized myself with every letter
and every word of it, using an Irish
grammar as a guide. From this song
/ took up more extensive Irish produc-
tions, and l finally became able to
read and speak the language.
There are Is letters in the Irish
alphabet, as follows:
Aim, a palm tree.
Beth, birch tree.
Coll, hazel.
Dair, an oak.
Fearn, an alder.
Cost, an ivy.
Ioga, yew.
Luis, a quick tree.
NUN, vine.
Nuin, an ash.
Dir, a broom or furZe.
Peih, dwarf elder.
Ruis, an elder tree.
Suil, willow.
Teine, furze.
Ur, heath.
Eavrach, Hebrew.
Eavrais, the Hebrew language.
Most of these are names of trees
The written and printed Irish much
resembles the Hebrew. Printed
Irish all looks to the unknowing al
first glance to be upside down.
While the Irish tongue is in some
ways a comparatively dead language
it is still very much alive In many
parts of this country and Europe. II
is taught in the public schools il
Ireland, there are finished scholars in
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-22

Cynicism may be fashionable. but it
has a very disagreeable effect on the
corners of the mouth.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-22

A new broom may sweep clean, but
in the hands of woman who has an
argument with her husband an old one
Is equally effective.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-22

Yankees Of the East that we have for
gotten to notice several things which
are the result of natural laws and
which are tending to disintegrate the
progress they have been making and
are yet making. The people of Europe
and their descendants, the Americans,
are the product of many centuries of
thought, of investigation and of tri-
umph.
No people can jump from semi-bar-
barism to the enlightenment of modern
times in a few years and continue to
show forth the great brilliancy, the
wonderful adaptation which Japan has
been showing.
"Sadder than the truth first mention
ed is the fact that, in consequence of
this too rapid pushing, the japanese are
doomed to setback, which, indeed, has
already begun, and from this they will
emerge a very mediocre people instead
of the flashy, adaptive and prodigiously
ambitious people we have seen them in
the war with China and in their mod
ern industrial and commercial life"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-22
SEES DOOM OF
THE JAPANESE

CHICAGO, July ga great many
japanese are dying of brain fever" said
Professor Starr in lecture to his class
in anthropology yesterday. THE reason
is that Japan is too rapidly assimilat-
ing the manners and customs of west
ern countries.
1T is a well-known fact among stu
dents that examining before an exam
nation is a dangerous thing, because
there are few grounded facts al
ready in the mind to which the ne"
facts can attach themselves, and these
new facts serve to muddle the mind.
Just so with the japanese, VINO naa
| little to which they could hitch the new
ideas. the new theories. American com
mereialism and European militarisn
are proving too much for their amoi-
tious natures, and SO many are dying
of brain fever.
| 1--WE have been so astonished and Sc
J gratified with the progress made by the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-22
NATIVE WOMAN Is
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT
Sustains Nothing But a Bad
Fright and Slight
Wound.

Yesterday forenoon, near Camp Nc
Kinley, a native woman named Sarah
was shot by the accidental discharge of
gun. She was not badly hurt.
From details gathered from the Off
GERS of the camp and the rather dis
connected story of the natives them
latter had dropped in upon Hawaiian
friend who lives near the camp. Their
host is the proud possessor of 22-cal-
iber rifle, and was explaining the mys-
teries of its intricate mechanism to
his visitors when the gun discharged
itself and the woman was hit in the
upper portion of the leg. The ball
ploughed its way through the flesh,
making an ugly but not dangerous
wound No bones were broken and no
arteries or nerves were cut.
The natives thought at first that the
woman had been killed, as she fell
PROSTATE The surgeon from the camp
was called in and made an examina-
| ton, the results of which are giver
1 above.
| AS soon as the natives found tha
their companion was not dangerousl!
wounded they took her to her home
near by, to which place she walked
with little or no assistance
The officers state that the NATIVES
were respectable looking and none o
them were under the influence of intox
licants.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-22
Sam Parker on Labor.

1--WE want all the labor we can get in
the islands," declares Colonel Sam
Parker, the Hawaiian cattle king, now
on tour of the States. Il can employ
all the men that are sent. Years ago
1 tried to get South Sea Islanders, and
succeeded in securing twenty-five. They
cost 81 900 each, as l bought and fitted
a vessel to go after them, which was
wrecked, and then chartered another.
The Porto Ricans should make SPLEEN
did laborers for our islands, and 1, am
ready personally to employ all they can
send me. The Government lands are
of immense area and are leased on
long time to people like myself, who
would be glad to work every foot of
them if we could get the labor with
which to do it."
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-22
The LOWR|E
MUSICALE
Social Event Of
Month on
Maui.
A FINE PROGRAM
WAS CARRIED OUT
Farewell Function Previous to the
Departure for the Mainland
of the Hosts.

MAUI, July 2O.-On the evening of
the 18th a musicale was given at the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs w. J. Low
RE of Spreckelsville. The large Lanai
beautifully adorned with S1ruhging bas-
kets of~smaidenhair fern and potted
palms and brilliantly lighted with cleo
tricity was filled with guests from Wal
luku, Kahului, Makawao and Spreckels-
Vile Because of its central position a
larger number of people always attends
a social function at Spreckelsville than
at any other place on Maui.
The following program, which was OF
unusual excellence and variety, was
rendered:
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-22
rendered:
iss Adams

Nearly every number received an en-
core and was greatly enjoyed by the
large audience present.
The cornet solo of Mr.. Luflin and the
cello solo by Mr. Decoto were, because
of their rarity, especially appreciated.
The solos of Mr.. Ault, who possesses
one of the finest voices on the Islands,
are always most popular with Maui peo-
pie.
The piano playing of Misses Lowrie
and Adams and Mr.. Schrader was most
excellent. The recitations of Misses
Lindholm and Featherstone and Mrs
Lowell were listened to with great at
tention. After sandwiches and coffee,
ice cream and cake, the train bore the
Paia people to their homes and after
wards returned for the Kahului and
Wailuku residents This entertainment
was given by Mr.. and Mrs. LoY-rie as
sort of farewell receptiorf-to their
| many friends prior to their departure
| for a three months holiday to be spent
in the northern part of the United
States. They will depart on the 9th
and will be accompanied by their
daughter, Miss Clara Lowrie.
GENERAL NOTES.
| There's some talk of the consolida-
ton of the Kahikinui and Ulupalakua
ranches.
Mr.. F. S. Dodge, wife and children
of Honolulu, are at Erehwon cattle sta
ton, Kula.
Mrs King and Miss Bella Weight o.
Honolulu are the guests of Mrs. b. ID
Baldwin of Spreckelsville.
Mrs. Dowsett and Mr.. Alex McKib
bin of Makawao depart today for sew
eral months visit to the Coast.
The lsmokestacks of the new Puunen
mill are $50 feet high.
Superintendent Filler of the Kahulu
Railroad Company put on fine new
coach for the first time to take peopl
to and fro from the Lowrie's musicale
This coach is similar to those in use b.
electric street car lines.
Misses Ida and Claire Zeigler of Ga
hu are at Maunaolu Seminary. Paia.
Miss Hall of California is the CUES
of her cousin, Miss Eva Smith of Ha
!, makuapoko.
{ A party of twelve from Waikap
spent the night of the 18th at Mrs. Bai
ley's, Makawao, for the purpose of al
tending the polo game next day.
II Mr.. H P Baldwin will take chare
Aof Spreckelsville plantation during M
II Lowrie's absence abroad. Mr. Baldwi
4 ara family will reside for the time
I Spre ckelsville.
u Miss Elston of Honolulu is the que:
of Mrs Waterhouse at Haiku.
On July 31st Miss Lilly Hattie New
ton will be married to D. K. Eldridg
The ceremony will take place in Kut
the home of both the prospective brit
and bridegroom.
Miss Maggie Walker of Honolulu a
rived from Hilo this morning and W
go to Kula as the guest of Mrs. Do
Won Tempsky.
Fred Baldwin of Yale College arr
ed on Maui on the 18th in time for Il
polo game.
weather-Heavy trades; dry.