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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-19
Poisoned by Gaudy Shirtwaist-

Menasha, Wis, July 13.-Louis
Lampert, who is a clerk in a local fur
nishing house, was poisoned seriously,
possibly fatally, by a colored shirt
waist. He purchased shirtwaist
which was a little too small for him
and the cuffs chafcd his wrists. Blood
poisoning resulted and he was taken
to hospital at Oshkosh, where it is
said that death may result.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-19
Fatally Hurt by Falling Log.

Ashland, Wis, July 12.-William
Southerly, an employee of the Spider
Lake Lumber company, was fatally
injured at Spider, while assisting in
loading a load Of logs on a train. He
was Tightening the chain which holds
the logs when one of the logs slipped
and rolled over him. Nearly all of his
ribs were broken, his hip was crushed,
leg broken and internal injuries were
sustained He will die.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-19
Robbed a Dead Man.

Milwaukee, July 15.-Philip Wabler,
an attendant at the Milwaukee hospi-
tai, is under arrest at the Central po-
lice station charged with robbing a
dead man. When James Lewis, bar
Der, was taken to the hospital he had
$40. After his death but 80 cents
could be found. When Wabler was
arrested he was blowing in" money
on a woman
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-19
Suicide of Judge Russell.

Cincinnati, July 15.-Judge D. A.
Russell of Pomeroy, O., shot himself
dead in his room at the Palace hotel
some time between midnight, when he
retired, and noon, when his lifeless
body was found. He was about 80
years of age. He left a sealed letter,
addressed to his wife at Pomeroy,
which Coroner Schwab is holding for
her. He was in slight financial diff
nultinS
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-19
Took Their Disaster Calmly.

Port Washington, Wis, July IL
The yacht Old Abe, owned by She
bOygan men, was capsiZed several
miles from this port in a severe sQuall,
and the tug Smith Brothers went out
after the men, who could be seen by
those on shore with the aid of glass
es clinging to her keel When the tug
reached her, however, the men were
found seated on the keel calmly smok-
ing cigarettes.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-19
Summer Visitors Badly Hurt.

Pewaukee, Wis, July ia party
of summer visitors was in runaway
accident here Saturday afternoon. J.
Burns, of st. Louis, had his arm brok-
en- and spine injured. partly paralyzed;
Mrs. Walton, of Chicago, shoulder dis
located and hurt internally; Mr.. Wal
ton, of Chicago, and Luke Westover,
of Hartland severely hurt 1t is
thought that all may recover.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-19
Murderer EIectrocuted.

Auburn, n. Y, July 16.-Frank
Wennerholm, the Chautauqua county
murderer, was put to death by cleo
tricity in the prison here. The current
was turned on one minute and five
seconds and the man was dead.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-19
POorhouse in q Blaze,

Burlington, Iowa, July 16.-Fire
swept the Des Moines county poor
farm, destroying the superintendent
residence, the old poorhouse, contain
ing the sane paupers, and the large
new insane structure.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-19
Caught on a Whirling Shaft.

Two Rivers, Wis, July 11.-Andrew
Rheinwandt, workman in the en-
rioy of the E. J. Vodra Canning COM
pany, had a miraculous escape from
death. His clothing was caught in
the machinery and he was whirled
around on the main shaft. He caught
a timber and was able to hang on
until the machinery was stopped. All
of his clothing was torn from his body.
He escaped with slight injuries.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-19
Victim of a Revolver Accident.

Chicago, July 16-James Thorpe, 10
years old, died at his home at 1888
West Congress street of lockjaw, the
result of an accident on July f. The
boy was discharging a small revolver
when one of the cartridges became en-
bedded in finger of his left hand.
The injury was not thought serious at
the time.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-19
Accident Causes Insanity.

Beloit, Wis, July 12.-Mrs. Oscar
Turney has been sent to the insane
asylum at Mendoza. She lost her rea-
son through the shock she received
by witnessing a railway accident by
which two ladies were killed in this
CITY q few weeks ago.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-19
Commissions from Headache Cure.

Wausau, Wis, July 13.-The 2-year-
old son of William Gehrke was pois-
oned by eating sample package of
headache cure left at the house by
distributors. When found the child
was in commissions. He will recover
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-19
Accident Drove Her MD

Beloit. Wis, July 13.-Mrs. Oscar
Turney, wife of a contractor, has be-
come raging maniac from brooding
over a grade crossing accident in
which two women were killed, and
which she witnessed
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-19

MILWAUKEE,, July 16.-SamueI Mar
shall, the aged Milwaukee banker, who
will formally retire from business next
month, has held the position of presi-
dent of the Marshall & Ilsley bank
since 1S47
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-19
EIks to Meet at Milwaukee.

Milwaukee, Wis, July 16.-The re-
union and carnival of the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks will be held
in this city on July %, "a and %.
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to need the services Of an Interpreter in
Washington. Travel gave polish 10 a natu-
rally fine mind and ChulalonglSorl. when
he came to the throne, recognized in Phya
Charoon a man of good counsel. keen judg-
ment, slow to form an opinion and slow tD
express it; quick Of apprehension and with
unusual powers of concentration and as
simila ton. The king associated Charoon
with himself intimately and tog her they
worked out many problems af staIecraft.
That Bismarck of the east" Prince Deua-
wangse. the kings brother. has also been
the ambassadors preceptor in diplomacy.
Great Social Gifts.
Washington will find Phya Charpou a dis
tinct acquisition, not only because of hts
picturesque personality, but on the side OF
his social aptitudes He is a ready, brilliant
and at times a witty conversationdlist In
disposition he is kindly and consilera.e, and
he has a self-control installed by his years
under the severe restrictions OF The Bud
dhist priesthood. This has not imp aired the
natural gayety of his disposition. He Is
possessed of a healthy curiosity; not the
kind which finds expression iu thE ianocent
but often embarrassing questions " hich flow
from the Chinese minister's placid lips. but
the sort which impels its owner to the
lveiest interest in all strange ami foreign
matters. Although he is not d ladies' man.
he is profoundly courteous to women. and
much given to paying compliments 50 Cri-
entally complicated and sbstruse rs 10 be
difficult to turn off His household in WASH
lngton Will probably be purely DiticiaL it 10
not likely that he will bring any Of his
wives with him.
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in for the tickets. He moved about like a
ghost opening the door without noise. He
was in his bare feet and as he walked
he made no sound. His costume was q
calico sarong or bag, which reached from
his waist to his ankles, a navy blue jack
ct and a turban over which he wore a
cap. He put his hand to his forehead as
he entered our car and again raised it in
salutation as he examined each ticket
There were barefooted porters at every
station and barefooted cabmen ready to
drive us to our hotel. Their charge is
equal to twenty cents of our money, the
hotel carriages charge twice much.
There were no newsboys on the trains and
nothing was sold while the cars were in
motion. The latest Dutch daflies are to be
had al the stations, and they are also on
file III every depot reading room.
Tropical Garden.
My trip across the island has given me
good idea of the country. 1 cannot de-
scribe it's beauties. There is no land like
it on the face of the globe. / have visited
the picturesque parts of India and the
Valley of the Nile in the winter when
everything is the greenest of green but /
have never seen anything like Java. If
you Will imagine a garden as big as the
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our cars at home. but not more than ten
feet IN length 1t was in fact little room
about 6x1O. walled with glass at the sides
four seats at the corners and two arm
chairs of mahogany and wicker. The COM
partment contained also leather sofa
which could be put up down at will, and
a table a foot wide and four feet long
upon which we ate our luncheon. My fell
low passengers were four portly Dutchmen
clad in white duck. One of them monopo-
lized the sofa, lying there on his back
his fat abdomen shaking like jelly under
Its expanse of white linen. The other three
Dutchmen were smoking and chatting
They spoke English and found them good
fellows.
The compartment beyond this was for the
second-class passengers. Here were half
q dozen Chinese dressed in white duck. all
gorgeous with rings and scarf pins Each
had black queue. in which was braided
red silk tucked inside his jacket. All had
gold watch chains and carried canes.
There were also some of the poorer Dutch,
Including a couple OF women, who wore
sarongs and slippers In Javanese style,
and a pretty girl with beautiful eyes and
q ravishing smile and a face 80 dark that
Sou could tell she had native blood In her.
The third-class cars had plain wooden
benches. They were crowded with natives
women and men. packed in as close as
pardines.
From time to time the conductor came
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THE TRAIN.
First introduced Into England From
Bohemia by Queen.

From the Queen.
England owes the fashion OF trailing
skirts to the wife of Richard IL. who in
troduced the train from Bohemia. just as
she introduced the side-saddle, and what
was to all intents and purposes the riding
skirt as our grandmothers knew it. Cover
in his "Confessio Amantis,r particularly
alludes to the new gutse OF Beme," and
describes it fully. but the prints In the
Harleian library at oxford convinced US
long ago that Cover, faithful chronicler
though he was, possessed none of the phil
osophic insight with regard to "vestural
tissue" which made -Sartor Resartus'' i'm
mortal.
Anne of Bohemia's trailed skirt was SIM
ply sleeveless coat, probably doffed at en-
tering her palace, and. moreover, worn in
the street with its full tail flung over the
arm of the wearer. Its use was. besides,
strictly confined to ladies of quality; and
instinctively, recalling the latter fact
one is also reminded of that clever COM
ment Of our very modern philosopher and
observer, the late DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes. II a woman wishes to show the
extent of her pecuniary resources by ex-
ten-.ng her skirts to a senseless length,
let her put movable train to her dress
so not to bring the impurities of the
streets into her house; in other words, let
her get rid of the useless and abominably
soiled yards at her doorstep. The old sa-
tirists, as distinct from Cover though bit
ing enough, were not sufficiently ingenious
to suggest the partial alienation of the
evil.
Perhaps the most scathing of their OBJ
servations against trains wes that con-
tanned In the legend circulated by monk
of the reign of Edward L. II heard of a
proud woman who wore a white dress with
a long train, which, trailing behind her.
raised a dust even so far as the altar and
the crucifx. But as she left the church
and lifted up her train on account of the
dust, certain holy man saw the devil
laughing, and, having asked him why he
replied "A companion of mine was just
now sitting on the train of that woman.
using IL as chariot but when she lifted
1t up my companion was shaken into the
dust, and SO 1 laughed " We no longer
believe in DEVILS either jor or minor, but
We believe in the propagation of disease by
microbes and bacilli, and the train of a
for conveying them.
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the people have picnics and feasts. They
erect temples in the fields to the goddess
of the harvest. Each temple is about as
big as pigeon house, and the offerings
consist of an egg, dish of fruit and bits
of sugar cane and cooked rice
AS the grain ripens shelters are erected
on poles In the fields and children or
grown-ups are stationed in them to watch
the crop or to scare off the birds. Some
times strings are stretched from one part
of the field to the other and by these
scare-crows are manipulated so that the
boy in the shelter can freighten the rice
birds half mile away.
How the Government Watches the
Rice.
The rice lands supply the food of the ma
tives and the Dutch government watches
them very carefully. 1t insists that all
contracts made shall not interfere with
their cultivation, and it provides that they
shall be taken care of for the people. The
government aids in their irrigation, and 1t
is due to it largely that Java, with the
thickest population perhaps on the face of
the globe. does not have famines.
The natives are lazy and shiftless. Were
they not protected the Chinese or other
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his expression informed with the dignity
of a man who respects himself and is ac-
customed to respect from others. Behind
this dignity there turks jovial spirit of
which no indication shows in the face.
His excellency is fond Of a good joke and
Of a good story, whether as relator or lis
tener. He is also fond Of a good dinner, and
is an epicure without being in any degree
a glutton. His ceremonial dinners are IA
nous In Bangkok, the capital Of Siam.
VIII Find a Change.
No minister accredited from foreign
court to this country will find himself in
mere radically changed surroundings than
the Siamese ambassador. Bangkok is per-
haps more given to magnificent ceremoni-
business, both socially and officially. than
any other capital in the world. To him
Washington will seem strangely informal
perhaps strangely dull. Also he will have
difficulty in adjusting himself to the new
conditions of rank, or rather lack Of rank.
He comes to country where all men are
equal, from country where two men are
equal At the Siamese court no two OFF,
cials or dignitaries can walk or stand
abreast, because every man Is on q differ
ent social plane from his fellow. Much as
the new ambassador will find to surprise
him in the American theory of equality,
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state of New York and as beautifully kept
as Central Park you might have a faint
idea of it. But you must add volcanic
mountains green to their tops, which are
lost in the clouds; you must put in feath-
cry bamboos, groves of cocoanuts and or
chardS of bananas and vast meadows on
which buffaloes and ponies are feeding.
You must terrace the hills with rice fields,
some covered with the golden grain ready
for harvest and others with emerald sprouts
on the silvery face of the waters. Now one
of the mountains has ten thousand steps
of this nature and now you shoot out of
the rice into great tea plantations, into
groves of red quinine and on into woods
as blue the Blue Ridge of Virginia.
Among the banana trees are little bam-
boo play houses, the homes of the natives.
You cross magnificent roads spotted with
coolies, bare to the waist, trotting along
with baskets fastened to the ends of poles
which rest on their shoulders. Some of the
poles have ends turned up like bows. They
are borne by men who are carrying rice
in from the fields. Other men have loads
of goods which they taking from one
town to another. There are women thus
loaded as well as the men, and near DJok-
ia 1 saw hundreds of young girls carrying
burdens IT. bags on their backs.
A Land of White and Green.
I have spoken of the railroad stations be-
ing white. Indeed, all Java is Of the whit
est of whites and the greenest of greens.
The Dutch go wild over whitewash, not
Everything they have built here is coated
with newly slaked lime. The villas of the
cities are dead white, with columns in
front of them the color of Parian marble.
The bridges are white, the fences along
the roads, whether they be made of bam-
boo fishing poles or of heavier wood, are
covered with whitewash, and the same
may be said of the drains and the culverts,
the warehouses, the factories and especial
ly the vast sugar factories, which cover
acres and which have white smokestacks
leaning out in their snowy purity against
the blue sky. White, indeed, is much
the fashion that the people whitewash
clean houSe-a new coat is put on
everything once and often twice every
year. The rainy season covers everything
with damp and mold. After it is over the
smell of lime fills the air, for everything
is then coated inside and out and the
buildings put on their white summer
dresses. Some of the hotels keep white
washers busy all the year round as
do also the larger property owners. The
white even extends to the clothing Of the
foreigners. The Dutch officials dress in
white duck. They wear white canvas
shoes and white helmets, and even the
military officers wear white.
In the Rice Fields.
The chief crop of Java is rice In my
trip across the island 1 have never been
out of sight of rice fields. The rice grows
on every hillside and in every valley. 1t
must have water and the irrigation works
which have been built to supply this are
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TN THE URCHES

Active preparations are being made for
the thirtieth annual meeting Of the Balti-
more conference branch of the Woman s
Foreign Missionary Society, which will be
held in Baltimore Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday of next week
Papers will be read by Mrs Thomas Fl
Anderson, wife of Judge Anderson: Miss
Caroline F. Smith and Mrs c. M Billings
ley of Washington, and by Mrs. Henrietta
Slicer, Mrs. 8. M. Hill and Miss Fannie
More McCauley of Baltimore; Rev. DR.. E..
A. Ferris and Rev. DR.. Don s. Colt will
address the meeting. Holy communion will
be administered at 10 am of the first day
by Rev. DR.. E. b. Patterson, pastor of the
church in which the convention is to be
held, assisted by Rev. DIR. c. H. Richard
son and the presiding elders of the va
rious districts comprising the conference.
after which an address of welcome will he
made by Mrs. A. H. Eaton president of
the branch.
Letters from the field will be read nv
Mrs. E. b. Stevens, the branch correspond
ing secretary, and Mrs. H. C. Tudor will
present the treasurer's report. large at
tendance Is expected both from the branch
es in Maryland and the District of Co
lumbia. Three missionaries will be present
during the meeting to report upon the for
eign work. They are Miss Baltimore of In
Cutler Of Corea. The anniversary exercises
will be held Thursday evening at O'Clock
In Madison Avenue Church
The dedication of the new Lutheran
Deaconess Mother House In Baltimore.
which will be the mother house for ali the
deaconesses In the Lutheran Church In the
United States, will take place tomorrow.
Prominent Lutherans from all parts of the
country are expected to be present and
several Of them will address one of the
meetings.
The dedicatory services will take place ut
280 o'clock In the afternoon. The meetinr
will open with an anthem rendered bv 3
choir composed of Representatives Of all
the Lutheran churches In this city and Bal
timore. Addresses win be delivered by Rev.
y. H. Knubel Of New York, Rev. DR.. J. A.
Slngemaster Of Gettysburg, Pa. and Rev.
the dedicatory services will be Conducted
by the members of the board In charge Of
the mother house. THE services will close
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as practiced in Siam, every nobleman must
serve in the priesthood a certain time. The
king himself has been a priest. Phya Cha
room spent his allotted time as a noyitiate
in one of the monasteries, where he became
SO imbued with the religion that he donned
the yellow robe of the mendcant, renounced
his riches and begged his food from door to
door. In this guise he once accepted with
becoming gratitude small coin from an
Englishman who was afterward f1attered TO
be his guest. Nor could the Briton being
challenged at Phya Charoon's table to recall
where he had met his host previously. re-
member the circumstance until the prince
repeated the pious proverb with which he.
as beggar, had acknowledged his bene-
factors gift. In the intervals of his beg
ging the princely priest made so profound
study of the Buddhist creed that he is
now regarded as the highest authority on
certain intricacies of dogma.
After completing his priesthood he studied
diplomacy. and then travelled. He was al
ready fair linguist. Bangkok berg a very
cosmopolitan city. and many Of the young
children speaking four or five languages.
In English he was particularly proficient,
the present king, his cousin. having q lIk-
Ing for the English language. which he had
imbibed from British governess, and
which he impaired to many OF his associ-
ates So the new ambassador is not likely
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capitalists would corner the rice and 1t
would be for sale at high prices. AS it Is
every one has all the food needed, and
tnere is but little distress and no begging.
Some of the rice lands are owned by the
villages and are rented out to the rich
planters. In such cases only one-half can
be rented, the remainder must be kept by
the village for rice, and rice land can
be leased for longer than five years at one
time. 1 met Dutch indigo farmer not far
from here, who told me that his estate was
leased from the Sultan of Djokiakarta but
that he was forced to keep half of it in
rice. His daily laborerS worked only GER
tain number of days of the week and only
certain hours of the day, devoting the rest
Of the time to their rice lands.
Wages and Work in Java
L asked this man something about the
wages and hours. of work of his men, He
told me that the average day was ten hours
and that they worked from to 12 and
from / until and sometimes later lie
pays them about 8 cents a day. 1 have
met others who pay only cents a day,
but in several cases this was for only six
hours work, the men knocking off at noon
In the cities wages are higher. In Seer
Daya there are common laborers who get
as much as 16 cents for ten hours, and on
the NetherlandS-India railway the track
men are paid IA cents a day and retired
with pensions when they get too old to
work. l understand that native can keep
d Idm1ly mere on $l.5O a month and have
plenty for luxuries. He can, in fact, earn
from 81 to 81 more than he needs This is
OF course, from the Java standpoint and
not an American one.
In some parts of the island the people
need more, and, notwithstanding they are
paid more, are poor. This Is in the few
provinces in which liquor and opium are
permitted to be sold. The government has
farmed out the opium to the Chinese mer-
chants and the natives have contracted the
"A Inc to aaf
opium he becomes practically Worthless
Most OF the Java states prohibit the sale
OF the drug, and it would be a goou thing
If it could be wiped out entirely. The only
reason for maintaining it Is the large gov
ernment revenue which comes from its
sale. for the monopoies of salt and opium
furnish about one-fourth of the governm ent
receipts.
TeakwOOd for the Philfppines.
l should like to see forestry department
established in the Philippines. We have a
vast amount of hardwood timber there
now. and there is no doubt but that teak
wood and mahogany could be planted at a
profit. 1t might take a generation or so
to grow the trees, but Uncle Sam lives TOR
ever. Here in Java l have seen a number
of government plantations of teakwood.
The Dutch have planted millions of trees
They are taking care Of them, and in time
they will be of great value. The trees are
set out about four feet apart at the start
and when young the forest looks more like
a thicket than anything else
FRANK G. CARPENTER