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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-09-19
BLOOM IN THE SPRING.
What Boy Has to Say on the Subject
of Toys.

Tops do not change in fashion from
spring to spring, any more than Trims
ana Jonquils do, and every year new
boys learn how to spin them. There
is popular impression that a bow is
born knowing how to spin a top. But
this is not SO. The boy who lives in
the next house or in the next block. or
Just around the corner can tell Won
some interesting things about tops. if
you ask him.
In this story 1t is the boy around the
corner who was consulted on the sub
1ect. He saws there are three kinds of
tops this spring-the wooden top at a
penny; the rubber peg top, at two or
three or five cents, and the lockwood
top, at ten and fifteen cents. The box
wood top is the most desirable top
there is, and he states that IL he were
to have choice of the thing he would
like best at the present time it would
be lockwood top. He has a good
many tops as it is. He has a tin
bucket full, but as there are games to
be played with tops he has none too
many He scarcely knows where he
got all the tops in the bucket, but he
thinks he won some of them playing
peg top" and then he bought some of
them, and now and then he found one.
The fact is, boy In the spring is a
kind of magnet for tops. They just
naturally draw to him from all direc-
tions.
"A top having large wooden peg In
the top of IL is not good top to spin, -
said the boy around the corner. "If
you want it to spin properly It is neces-
sary to cut the peg right off with your
jack knife. The peg makes 1t top
heavy, and 1t is as likely TO spin on the
peg as on the point" Here the boy
gave an illustration of the behavior of
top with big wooden peg on it, and
sure enough it went whizzing on it's
head in manner that soon made it
feel dizzy, and so tumble over on its
side, where It lay very still as IL quite
exhausted.
There is great trick in having the
string exactly the right length con-
tinued the boy. You have TO gauge
the length Of the string by placing
your Toe on one end Of IL, and then
reaching up as high as you can. The
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highest you can reach with the string
In your hand is the longest you can
have the string. If you have the
string longer when you throw the TON
after winding it. the string will not all
unwind, and so. of course. the ton
can't spin, even if you throw il prom
eriy. Then, if the string is too short.
II unwinds too soon, and then also the
top cannot spin" Here the boy illus.
trated the scheme of measuring a ton
string, and he was quite a tall boy for
one who had just begun to use two
hgures In writing down his age. why.
1t took rather long STRING.
Eyes, girls can spin tops after a
fashion" admitted the boy with half
concealed contempt for feminine limi.
tations. THAT is, IL a girl has a
brother she may in time spin a top.
My sister sometimes spins my top.
but she is never sure when she winds
and throws it that it will spin. A boy
always knows. He knows that if the
top doesn't spin properly. it is the
fault of the top, and not his own
fault"
1t was only after an expert cross
examination that the boy was induced
to confess that the first time he ever
succeeded in making a top spin he was
surprised. He had tried all one day.
and although he had repeatedly failed
still he persevered. He knew that il
was mere question of time. that
sooner or later that top would have to
give in, and do what was expected of
it, But it was very stubborn top.
Every time he threw it all it did was TO
go wabbling off on its side and try to
hide somewhere. Finally, after an
endless amount of attempts, it at last
behaved handsomely, and rewarded
his perseverance by humming jolly
little tune, and at last it sang so soft
ly that it seemed to be asleep. That
night he dreamed of a top and the
next morning he was up bright and
early at his new accomplishment He
has never had any trouble with that
top or with any other since that time.
BY the end of the next day ne was able
to take it up in his hand While it was
spinning without manifest objections
on the part of the top.
Then there is the game of peg
top" said the boy. land 1t was very
popular this spring. Every boy places
top in ring marked on the ground.
Then they take turns 'pegging' at the
bunch of tops. Whenever you hit a
top and knock it out of the ring. then
the top is yours. Sometimes, when
you hit a top hard, it splits it right
in two. You are always glad to do
this, even though it ruins the top for
your own use. That is the advantage
of having rubber peg in a top; If the
point of top strikes 1t, instead of
splitting it only bounds.-New York
i Tribune
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-09-19
Real Names of Some Noted Rulers.

Suppose that some morning there
should appear in the newspapers such
an item as this: Mr.. and Albert E.
Victim, accompanied by their nephew,
Mr. Frederick w. V. A. HohenZollern,
sailed yesterday from Liverpool to
New York" How many people would
give more than passing glance at
this announcement? Yet it would be
piece of news calculated to throw the
people of New York, and the whole of
the country, in fact, into a paroxysm
of excitement and feverish expectation,
as must be admitted when the names
of King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra,
and Emperor William of Germany are
respectively substituted for the true
family names given in the suppositi-
tious item. Thea there is the youthful
matron, Mrs. Henry Schwerin, who
Yields more power than any other
women of twenty-one now living. She
is known to the world asWilhelmina of
Holland, and is the only Queen in the
world today with the same powers as a
King.-September Ladies' Home Jour
nal.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-09-19

THE FAD FOR PINK,
sa

bringing the wear always in the same
spot.
The princess gown is to be the
gown for the fall, aud the princess
petticoat is made to wear with it. IL
is petticoat cut with princess top.
sewed with regularity uopn band
but with a waist-like continuation.
reaching up as high as the bust
A petticoat of this description takes
the place of corset cover and petit
coat, and when worn no other corset
cover is put on.
Stockings must not be forgotten in
the reckoning of the underwear.
The creations that have been shown
year. far outrivaling the hosiery of
other seasons. To work stockings by
hand is a fashionable pastime, while
those who do not enjoy fancy work
can buy the most elaborate Of hose
ready made.
Very pretty openwork hosiery.
showing pattern that is very lacy.
can be bought under half dollar, and
there are some very fine patterns in
colors that come at the same price.
Half a dollar will really buy ones
everyday hose, unless one is very
fastidious or disposed to go into extra
quality isle, or silk or real lace.
In the matter of lace stockings the
purse can be stretched to its utter.
most. A fashionable shop was sell
ing some at $50 the pair and another
one was HAVING a bargain slae of lace
stockings at $35.
Aside from the startling pos
sibilities of hose at $50 a pair. there
are surprising features in this years
stockings. These are principally af-
forded by the variety in patterns.
Great points are found in some of the
stockings, reaching from the knees
down to the ankles, and others have
bars or color across the front upon a
background of black.
White has surprising vogue.
White silk stockings and white Isle
stockings are very modish, and where
all white is not worn there are stock
ings figured in white. White bars in
lace, white bands of Isle, white cot
ton stripes, are found upon the front
OF stockings, so placed that they bar
the instep, the ankle and the leg up to
the calf. The bars are Just across
the front, about half an inch wide.
White polka dots, or polka dots OF
any color for that matter. are fashion
able and are much to be worn.
Polka dots have never been quite
IN such demand. They come in al
sizes and are distributed upon al
surfaces, nothing being entirely free
from them. Polka dots of cloth are
stitched upon stockings of black lisle
and here again the application of thu
polka dots affords an opportunity fo,
] handiwork.
It is ultra swell to wear stockings
OF polka dots, with ties laced with
ribbon to match the polka dots. II
black stockings, dotted in powder
blue, are worn, then the ties must be
laced with powder blue ribbon.
Very wide ribbon lacing are used
and for convenience the shoemaker
viii tip them with wire 10 facilitate
the lacing.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-09-19


%oald supply the fneI used il
louisiana and Texas. but by means Of
Texas, but by means OF barges con
structed for the purpose the oil car
be distributed along the entire Allan
TIC seaboard at a small cost pcr
barrel, and it is quite probable that
within two years receiving and dis.
tributing stations viii be established
at all the principal Atlantic ports
of the United States and the oil usel
to supplant coal in many industrial
and power plants.
The extent Of the productive fer.
ritory and the permanency of the pro-
duction are still unknown factors.
The nine wells now drilled are quite
close together and do not cover 10
exceed sixty acres. but the indications
are that oil in paying qualities viii be
found over a wide extent of territory.
AT present there is wild specuia-
tive craze throughout this section.
Boom" oil companies are being
formed by the score and the stock is
being offered to the public, and 1t
would seem that many people are in
vesting their savings with the hone OF
receiving large dividends and profits.
but multitudes OF investors will be
sadly disappointed There is no
money in many OF these schemes .ex
cept to the promoter.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-09-19
MUSIC
AND DRAMA

In English theaters program costs
the equivalent of twelve cents our
money.
Boston and Philadelphia have the
only two new Metropolitan theaters to
open this fall.
Klaw & Erlanger's company to
present Ben-Hur the coming season
began rehearsals last Monday.
Maude Adams is to appear in Lon
don, Eng, April 10. 1902. in L'Aiglon
The Little Minister, and AS You
Like 1t.
There is a report from Paris that
Nine. Rejane will soon retire from ac-
tive work on the stage. TO become the
manager OF. a small Partisan theater
The Country Judge. a new rural
comedy drama by Alice e. Ives and
Jerome II. Eddy, will be produced in
November with a well-known actor as
the star.
The new comedy Martha Morton
has written for Ada Rehan and IN
which she will be seen the coming
season, will be called The Fascinating
Miss Ford.
The Greenwall theatrical circuit
company began the season at the
American theater in New York last
evening with scenic production Of
Under Two Flags.
Blanche Walsh will begin her an
nual tour in Detroit, producing at De
troit opera house. Sept. 16, a dramati-
cation by Jeanette l.. Glider of s. r.
Crockett's romantic novel, Joan of the
Sword Hand.
Joseph Arthur Is now at work com
pleting his new Florida drama. and
has decided to name II after it's hero
inc, Kis-sim-mee. II negotiations are
concluded, it will be produced by Jules
hurry during the coming season.
Miss Miriam Nesbitt. who was lead
inc woman with James X. Hackett IN
The Tree of knowledge and with the
Lyceum Theater company. has been
engaged as leading lady with William
IT, Crane for the coming season.
Nat Goodwin's former success. The
Cowboy and the Lady. will he placed
on the road this season under the
management OF George s. McFadden.
Mics EVELYN Palmer will plav Maxine
Elliott's mart and s. Miller Kent will
portray the part PLAYED by Goodwin
Pat Rooney. Jr.. and Emma Francis
will Introduce a very novel dancing
snecIality in The Rogers Brothers IN
Washington. These young people Gro
two NJ the greatest dancers on the
American stspe-and. bv the way.
tbev pre- reported enoaPed.
President John w. Pagan ~ the
Georgia Central Railway and Ocean
Steamship company beean his work IN
the railroading business as An appren.
tice in the shops Of the Illinois Contra
at Auboy. H., in 1863.
William Greet has arranged with
, Charles Frohman for a grand produc-
ton Of Miss Bertha Runkle's and law
renee Marston's 1ramatIzation Of The
Helmet Of Navarro. in which Charles
Dalton will create the role OF Etienne
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-09-19
HE UNDERSTANDS.

Our censors guard us roundabout,
And hedge us with their dusty
creeds
They cry us wrono in hope or doubt,
And howl like ban dogs at our deeds,
They wall our knotted skein of llfe
And flout us for our clumsy hands,
Because with tangles 1t is rife
But all the time God understands.
Our censors measure step and stride
With mathematic rod and rule,
And when we wander to one side,
Straightway they cry aloud Thou
fool"
And book and bell and candle bring
To curse the one who hating stands,
But, ah! the footsteps wandering
He Understandable understands.
Our censors weigh our every word
And sift its Sound for sign OF SIM
And whispered dreams that are un-
heard
Against the screen OF fate they pin.
= ia happy smile they search our
brain
To bind our thoughts with brazen
bands,
But hope shall struggle not in vain,
And all the time God understands.
He understands our little fears,
Our little doubts and little woes:
And in the shadow of the years
He sees the soul. He Knoxville
knows;
He scans us not. as censors do
To mark the blindly searching
hands
But all our good He brings to vfew.
He understandable understands.
josh Wink, in the Baltimore Sun.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-09-19
sEToN-THoMPsoN AND THE JAY
Bird that Helped the Author in the
Painting of His House.


The author of Wild Animals Have
Known has gleeful way of wrecking
conventionality," writes Myra EN-
mons, who describes a day in the
woods with Ernest Seton Thompson, in
The Ladies' Home Journal with some
unexpected, boyish, utterly frank, nat
Iural and human word, look or prank.
When we had finished luncheon on
Abs Rock he went to see how the
painters were progressing on his new
house.
Those window frames must be a
light peacock blue on the outside he
instructed them. The head painter
demurred. He could not mix such a
color
If mix it you can copy it, can't
your asked the naturalist.
oh, yes.
g Then bring your colors.'
In few minutes he was blending
yellow blue and green in a mastery
way and trying the effect on piece of
board. Suddenly he looked up, laughed
and went on painting.
:. Did you hear the bluejay?' he
asked. AS hit the right shade he
said, Bloc! Bloc. That's it, That's
it!
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-09-19
TRAPPING A PROFESSOR BY WIRE.
Way in Which College Men Got Even
with an Exactinq Instructor.

Way in Which College Men Got Even
with an Exacting Instructor.
Among some intensely amusing col
lege scrapes told by graduate in the
Ladies' Home Journal, is the story of
certain professor not much liked by
his pupils, who was to be married. The
lady lived in Cleveland. And the stu
ents that loved 90 him were not, of
course, invited. But they determined
that in some way he should hear from
them. And he did. On the day ap-
pointed the professor took the train at
1000 a. m, due to arrive at Cleveland
at 1890 p. m. About eleven O'Clock
Jim Townsend rushed to the telegraph
Office and sent off this dispatch:
Chief of Police, Cleveland, Ohio. Man
coming on train No. 6, tall, well dressed,
frock coat, silk hat, side whiskers.
Escaped lunatic. Hold! Shrewd,
therefor beware! Strange case. Will
say name Finalli Mistake. Thinks
he is professor in a college. Delusion.
Escort to home of friends at No
Euclid Avenue"
This message reached it's destination
long before train No. 6, reached Cleve-
land, so that when Professor Finalli
alighted it was to walk straight into
the custody of three detectives. They
would listen to no words of reason, but
escorted him to the house on Euclid
Avenue, the home of his intended
bride.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-09-19

and be supported by an especially Sc
lected company.
Inc WeiEknown German novelist
Rudolf Lindau. who is also a LAWYER
and has for about ten wears renre-
sented the German creditors in he
management OF the Turkish debt. has
decided to retire from active life and
take up his abode in Heligoland
Joseph Jefferson's fall tour will he
gin about October i. His renertorv
will include Rip Van Wrinkle. The ri.
walls, The Cricket on the Hearth. and
Lend Me Five Shillings.
Frederick NJ. Padelford. professor
Of English at the University of Idaho
has been added to the faculty of the
state university of Washington Ne
is a graduate of Colby and Of Vale
graduate school.
John H. Hariday. the English co.'s
respondent at Pekin. has writton
Edwin H. Price, the manager of San
Toy for picture of the actor in make
up who counterfeits Lii Hung Chang
III this musical comedy. The Chimes
statesman desires it as souvenir of
his first appearance on the stage by
proxy.
Maude Adams new play, written by
j. NJ. Barrie, author of The Little
Minister, is called Quality Street
This title has been decided upon bv
j. NJ. Barrie and Miss Adams and the
manuscript has been delivered n. tsa
actress, who will return to New York
next Tuesday. Mr.. Barrie will arrive
there during the latter part az Septem-
Der in time for rehearsals OF the new
play
Louis Mann and Clara Liplnan's
new boer play by Paul Potter may be
called The Red Kloof. One of the
principal incidents in the piece hap
pens in 'kloof" or gore. The scenes
VIII represent the sitting room of a
boer farm at Doppersdorf. a Transyaal
village situated between Mafeking
and krugersdorf on the line OF
Jameson's march in 1895, Dom Piet's
bedroom in Red Kloof farm, a drift.
bank of the Tugela river. showing the
lord, parlor of the Red Kloof farm.
cave in the Red Kloof and the com
pound of the Red Kloof farm.
Mrs. Elsie j. Richards. wife of the
governor of Wyoming, was born and
reared in Camden, Ala. She was n
Miss Ingersoll, and came of Puritan
and Carolina Huguenot stock. Her
father was for years resident of
Pittsfield, Mass, where the Ingersolls
were one of the Oldest and best known
families. Mrs. Richards mother was
member of one of the oldest families
in the Carolinas. Mrs. Richards was
educated at the Camden female insti-
tute. and was married to De Forest
Richards in 1871.
Daniel Frohman, the theatrical
manager, has contract for the first
! American appearance Of Jan Kubelik,
the wonderful Bohemian violinist.
whose playing has stirred musical
London during the past few months.
With the exception of the engage
ment of Kubelik | made no other con-
tracts with celebrities while abroad,
said Mr.. Frohman. He is twenty-one
years old and possesses marvellous
ability as a violinist He is a re-
markable musician and am happy 10
/ nave secured a contract with him,
even though my agreement guaran-
tees no less than 100000 as his share
of the proceeds to be derived from the
concerts he shall give in the United
States"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-09-19

When the governors coaching
party drove up to the hotel at vii.
Jamestown last week." says the Bos.
ton Transcript ut naturally attract
ed a considerable crowd to the broad
Yerandas. In this gathering was a
colored woman, wearing a capacious
smile and accompanied by little
miss or s years old. The latter ad-
vanced as the party alighted and hold.
ing out her hand, said: How do you
do Governor Crane; my father Is
governor. too" who is your father"
asked the governor. Governor Nc
Millin, Of Tennessee" was the reply.
The little maid seemed to assume
that the duty Of entertaining devolved
largely upon her, and she discharged
II with much sweetness and uncon-
scious grace.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-09-19

Billy johnson. who had made thou.
sands laugh on both sides of the At
ylantic in his time. is dead. He was
undoubtedly the Oldest minstrel living
Of late years. He was one of the old
school and gained his fame with the
Christy minstrels of nearly a half cen
fury ago.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-09-19
poker Aloft.

New Preacher-Is your father at
home, Willie?
Willie-Yessir. paw an Mr.. Chips
are upstairs playin' with tn kitty
Ohio State Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-11-16
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER

American textile machinery in GER
tain lines of manufacture is in good
demand in England.
What will rank among the largest
bridge building plants in the United
States is to be erected on Staten Il
land, N. Y.
The largest sugar plant in the
world has just been prospected in
Cuba to produce 10000 tons of sugar
season. The plantation takes in
1900 acres.
In recent trial of the French SUBJ
marine boat Marvel it went $50 miles
under water, but the close confine-
nent and want of fresh air completes
ly unnerved the men.
Typhoid germs retain their vitality
for many weeks; in garden earth, 81
days; in filter sand, So days; il, dust
of the street, 80 days; CT linen, 60
to 70 days; on wood, 80 days; in ice.
, year or more
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-11-16
DECISIONS OF THE BENCH.

Street railway employees riding era.
suitously when OF duty, under 4 rule
permitting them to ride free. are held,
in Dickinson versus West End Street
r. Co. (Mass.), 81 l. r. A. 1926. to be pas
sengers and not servants.
An incorporated college which sells
diplomas is held in state ex rel. Sheets
versus Mount Hope College company
(Ohio), SO L. p A. 365. to be guilty OF
such misuse of its powers as to re-
quire dissolution and a judgment GUST
ing it Of the right to be . corporation.
A promissory note given to stop
criminal prosecution is held in Jonea
versus Dannenberg Co. (Ga.), SO L. r.
A. 271, to be invalid, even in the hands
of bona fide holder, under statute
protecting such holders except against
certain defenses, including Immoral
and illegal consideration"
A note with the word president"
following the name of the person who
signs it and with the name of a cor
poration above the line Stating place
and date is held, in Second national
bank versus Midland Steel company
Qnd.) ), SO L. r. A. BOZ, to be enforcea BILE
against the corporation on proof that
it was intended to be corporation
note.
Damaged condition of dressed poul-
try put in cold storage, resulting from
the warmth of the temperature, Is
held, in Allen versus Somers Conn,
50 L. r. A. LOG, not to render the bailees
liable, where the temperature is that
ordinarily kept in cold-storage rooms.
but higher than that at which freezers
are kept, and both parties believed it
would be sufficiently low for the poul-
try.