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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13

dollars, and there is one in England
that weighs much less than o silver
dollar, but it is valued at six hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars.
The closest relative of the diamond
is a smooth black substance called
graphite. In one form you handle it
every day, for graphite is used in
making lead-pencils. Gas-carbon is q
cousin of the diamond. and is obtain
ed, as you might imagine from the
name, in the process of making gas.
Only three things came from bitumin-
Gus coal-gas, coal-tar, and coke.
Gas-carbon is another name for coke.
Now. the diamond gives exquisite and
inimitable sparkles Of light, which
make it of great value as a jewel;
but it gives only the pleasure of
possession. It's soberhued cousin,
coke, affords broad beams of light,
making the path of night easy 20
travel, and lessening the crime that
used to prevail in dimly lighted CITY
streets. For from coke the long
black pencils, or "carbons," used IN
dTC-llSuJS are Hldue. fiTSb the cOhS
is ground to fine powder Then II is
mixed with molasses and made into
very thick dough. After being
rolled into long cylinders having
thickness about equal to the diameter
of twenty-five-cent piece, it is baked.
And night after night, in all seasons,
the power that we know as electricity
is at work in millions of pieces of
carbon all over our great country,
giving us light and comfort and
safety.
Yet can't say that this is the most
marvellous effect coming directly from
carbon. No doubt you know that
steel is a certain form of iron, but,
like many older people, you don't
know exactly how it differs from ordi-
nary iron. Well, the difference is
that steel is iron containing very
small proportion Of carbon-from rs
per cent. to 1.5 per cent.-and thus
the iron becomes very, very hard.
The surgeon, the carpenter, the en-
graver, and every one else who uses
edged tools would be in a serious
plight If they had to depend on iron
alone. With steel, however, a keen
edge can be secured. The railroads
in these days are almost all equipped
with steel rails, which last longer than
those of ordinary iron. All our Won
derful cruisers and battleships wear
outside cases of heavy steel plates.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13
A Marrow Eseane.

A Sand Hog in a red shirt and grimy
trousels sat down by me one after.
noon o. a heap of boards midway be.
tween tie Sand Hogs house and the
hospital This pressure-worker,
whose knees showed traces Of ..the
bends" evidently had a story to tell.
1T was only the other day" he said
81 seen it. and how the man ever hap
pened to live. l dunno. 1t was one OF
these little oaissons here we're putting
this big building on. He, was one Of
the superintendents, young college
teller that knows his job. Well, ne
went down with u.s. There wuz -four
in the gang, and one o. them, Tim
that Harp yer might see drinkin' cot.
fee now. They wuz rock there, and
the foreman told Tim to have a go at
it. He got his pick and swung it for
good crack. There was tearin' an
rippin', and Tim dropped his pick. AS
he swung it the young Teller had
stepped out, and the pick had riprel
off every button from the blue Jumper
he had on, without even scratchin'
him" --Leslie's Weekly.
All the Way From Sandwich islands.
All the way from the Sandwich Isl.
ands comes to us the following
prayer:
Let us all pray night and morning
That the cruel wars may cease:
That the nations now liz mourning
May stop their wars and welcome
peace.
Let us all pray night and morning,
May your prayers never cease,
Till our Lord in loving kindness
Brings about the dawn of peace.
Oh, that the money, foolishly spent
BY o-called-Christian nation
Could all be used along the line
OF Humane Education!
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13
MRS. BEN WAH's PARROT.
How a Newspaper Man Restored 10
Health an Iroquois.

Jacob A. Riis tells in the Century
the story of an old F'rench-Canadian
widow in New York tenement-house,
whom he restored to health by getting
a parrot to share her room. wrote
in my newspaper, he says, that Mrs.
Ben Wah was sick and needed a
parrot, a green one with a red tuft.
and that she must have it right away.
l told of her lonely life, and of how,
on Christmas eve, years ago, had
first met her at the door of the Charity
Organization society, laboring UP the
stairs with big bundle done up in
blue cheese-cloth, which she left in the
Office with the message that it was for
those who were poorer than she.
They were opening it when | came in.
1t contained a lot of little garments
of blanket stuff, as they used to make
them for the papooses among her
people in the far north. 1t was the
very next day that found her in her
attic, penniless and without even the
comfort of her pipe. Like the widow
of old, she had cast her mite into the
treasury, even all she had.
All this told in my paper, and how
she whose whole life had been kind
ness to others was now in need-in
need of companion to share her
lonely life, of something with voice
which would not come in and go away
again, and leave her. And | begged
that any one who had a green parrot
with a red tuft would send it in al
once.
New York is a good town to live in.
1t has a heart. II no sooner knew
that Mrs. Ben Wah wanted parrot
than it hustled about to supply one
at once. The morning mail brought
stacks of letters, with offers OF money
to buy a parrot They came from
lawyers, business men, and bank
presidents, men who pore over dry
ledgers and drive sharp bargains on
Change, and are never supposed to
give thought to lonely widows pinine
! away in poor attics. While they were
being sorted came the parrot itself
big and green, in SHINING" cage
II was an amiable bird, despite It's
splendid get-up, and cooked its
crimson head to one side to have Il
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13

car on a siding. They awoke late the
next day to discover that the car was
partially filed with corn. 1t was rain.
ing cats and dogs outside, and so one
of the tramps, producing greasy
pack of cards, proposed a game Of
poker to AL the time. They Were
without chips, but a substitute was
readily found by Smelling some Of the
corn and using the kernels thereof in
lieu of the regulation white and blue
disks.
1.-THE corn was of three colors.' con-
tinued the senator, red, yellow and
white, and the knights of the road de.
cided to make the white kernels worth
500, the yellow $500 and the red
$1,000. The game being credit one,
each took most generous supply OF
chips. The hands were dealt and one
of the tramps, after surveying his
cards, nonchalantly drew out of his
pocket the stub of cigar which he
had picked up on his travels. Light
ing it, he then airily announced that
his hand was worth 100000. The
other, not to be outdone, also pro-
duced a 'steepee, lit it. cooked it at
the proper angle in his mouth, and
then, preliminaries being successfully
accomplished, saw the others bet and
raised him $1,000,000. No. 1, a man
of nervous disposition, started as he
heard the raise, but he, too, was a dead
game sport, and another $1,0p9,000 fol-
lowed the previous $2,000,00O into the
pot, and it was up to hobo No. to call
or raise as he saw fit. No 2 surveyed
his companion leisurely and then his
hand i see that bet he announced
impressively, and raise it $1,000,000,-
0O0. Take it, gasped No. 1, as soon
as he got his breath, and then, in
semi-soliloquy, added, OATS what
gets for playing poker with an educat-
ed lobster like you. What tell is
81 ,00O, 100000 anyhow
Gentlemen" concluded Senator
Hansbrough, "what ten is 81 ,000,0 00,-
900, anyhow?"-New York Tribune.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13

scratched through the bars, and held
up one claw, as if to shake hands.
How to get it to Mrs. Ben Wah's
without the shock killing her was the
problem that next presented itself.
Mrs. McCutcheon solved it by doing
the cage up carefully in newspapers
and taking it along herself All the
way down the bird passed muffied
coments on the Metropolitan railway
service and on its captivity, to the
considerable embarrassment of its
keeper; but they reached the Beach
street tenement and Mrs. Ben Wah's
attic at last. There Mrs. McCutcheoa
slowed its carefully away in a
corner, while she busted herself about
her aged friend.
She was working slowly down
through an address which she had
designed to break the thing gently
and by degrees, when the parrot
extending a feeler on its own hook.
said "K-r-r-a-a!" behind it's paper
screen. Mrs. Ben Wah sat up
straight and looked fxealy at the
corner Seeing the big bundle there.
she went over and neered into it. She
caught a quick breath and stared
wide-eyed.
where did you get that bird?" she
demanded of Mrs. McCutcheon faint
".
ooh, that is Mr.. Riis's bird" said
that lady, sparring for time; "a friend
gave to him"
where you take him" Mrs. Ben
Wah gasped, her hand pressed against
her feeble old heart.
Her friend saw, and gave right up.
81 am not going to take it any
where" she said. 'T brought it for
you. This is to be it's home, and you
are to be it's mother, grandma, and its
friend. You are to be always together
from now on-always, and have a
good time" With that she tore the
paper from the cage.
The parrot, after all, made the
speech of the occasion. He con-
sidered the garnet; the potato-feld on
the fire-escape, through which the sun
light came in, making a cheerful
streak on the floor; Mrs. Ben Wah and
her turban; and his late carrier; then
he climbed upon his stick, turned 4
somersault, and said, Here we are"
or words to that effect. .Thereupon
he held his head over to be scratched
by Mrs. Ben Wah in token of com.
pact of friendship than and there
made.
Joy, after all, does not kill Mrs
Ben Wah wept long and silently big
happy tears of gratitude. Then she
wiped them away, and went about her
household cares as of old. The pre-
scription had worked. The next day
the notice" vanished from the wall of
the room, where there were now two
voices for one.
came back from Europe to find
my old friend with a lighter step and
lighter heart than in many day
The parrot had learned to speak
Canadian French to the extent Of
demanding his crackers and water in
the lingo of the habitant. Whether
he will yet stretch his linguistic ac-
quiremens to the learning of Ironr ois
sN-u not say.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13
The Spring Awakening.

The iittIe gray squirrel is rubbing his
eyes,
For his sleep was long and sound,
And the woodchuck peeps at the glow
ing skies
From his chamber underground.
Old Bfuin is shambling from out his
den
With a dazed and stupid air,
And song-birds are flying back again,
A message of spring to bear.
The butterfly crawls from its chrys-
ais,
The beetles rouse from their nap,
And blossoms awake at the south
winds kiss
And the rain-drop's gentle tap.
From their icy letters the streamlets
leap,
The woodlands with music ring.
All things are awak ming from winter
sleep,
To welcome the merry spring.
Alice Jean Cleator.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13
Saved by a Dog.

Box 5, Holyoke, Mass, called the
fire department at 11.05 Saturday
evening to fire in the 21s-story
dwelling-house at 40 Mosher street,
owned by j.. II. Parfitt and occupied
by james Mullen and family. The
stove in the dining-roonI became over
heated and set fire to the woodwork,
making quite little blaze and lots of
smoke. The mother and two children
were sleeping upstairs and would
doubtless have been suffceated by the
smoke, which was pouring up in large
quantities, but for the dog, who ran
upstairs from the diring-room and
Tapped their faces and woke them.
The dog, it will be hardly necessary to
add, is not for Springfield Re.
publican.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13
What is a Billion DoIIarsY

The greatest business combination
or financial combination of any kind
governmental excepted, ever got to
gether in the history Of the world, is
the great steel combination which j
Pierpont Morgan e. Co. have just of
ficially announced to be an accom-.
plished fact. A billion dollars of CAPT
tai. The human mind staggers when
it tries to think what it means. II
cannot grasp it, II is the identical
sum which the famous Fifty,frst con.
gress appropriated and through that
appropriation gained the name of the
billion dollar congress.
The other evening at the Waldorf
Astoria John w. Gates of the Ameri.
can Steel and Wire company gave a
dinner to celebrate the successful ac.
complishment of this greotest OF all
great trade combinations. AS was To
be expected the conversation turned
upon the United States Steel corpora
ton. Millions and billions were con
versationally juggled until the listen.
er's head swan. Finally one man pro
pounded staggerer. Gould any one
present define what a billion dollars
really meant?" There was a pause
ami then Senator II. c. Hansbrough
Of South Dakota told the following
story. which apparently satisfactorily
answered the question:
Out in my country" said the SEN
ator, zone night two tramps looking
for place in which TO spend the
night CHANGED across half empty box
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13
Strong Men.

The Roman soldiers, who built such
wonderful roads and carried a weight
of armor and luggage that would
crush the average farmland lived on
coarse brown bread and sour wine.
They were temperate in diet and regu-
lar and constant in exercise. The
Spanish peasant works every day and
dances half the night, yet eats only
his black bread, onion and water
melon. The Smyrna porter eats only
little fruit and sour olives, yet he
walks off with his load of one hun
dred pounds The Coolie, fed on rice,
is more active and can endure more
than the negro, fed ON fat meat
Scientific American.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13
ALesson in Law.

That's very well DONE" he said
when the sweet young thing who had
interested herself in the law sub
mitted the paper to him, but you
have overlooked one thing"
whats that?" she asked.
"You do not say at the conclusion,
And further affiant saith not"
but / stop, don't /, she demanded.
ooh, yes"
And put the signature in?"
Eyes
"Well, should think any one OF
sense could see that when affiant
quits talking he has stopped"
Eyes, but"
"If a person said, That's the end
every time he finished a statement
in conversation people would think he
was a fool, wouldn't theyT
"Of course, but you see"
when you close a letter you don't
have to say, Here's the fnish,' dc
your"
mo; but in law it's different"
well, IL the judges are SO stupid
they've got to be told when the end ia
reached, I'll just write 'Finis.' That's
prettier, anyway"
But it won't do"
Then you can keep your old law
books" she exclaimed petulantly.
"And you can keep your old judges.
Any one who can't see when the
writing stops and draw his own CON-
illusions from that hasn't sense
enough to do business with a reason
ing being, and won't waste any time
over him. So there, nowi"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13

actual count, the bodies of over six.
teeai thousand young seals that had
been starved to death were found,
this being caused by the killing Of
the mother seals. 1t is a paiaful sub
ject, but unless the ladies caa be in
duced 70 give UP wearing ssalskins.
we krow Of no other way We can
reach the seal fishers except by the
humane education. which We are en-.
dearoriag to promote through our over
forty-iive thousand Bands of MercyD
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13
Biology.
The wise biologist talked

The wise biologist talked
OF tissue and cell and bone;
And the mystery went from your life,
dear,
And the strangeness from my own.
But home with the stars we walked.
And saw your bosom swell.
And about you there in the moonlight
Some old enchantment fell.
Yes, homeward under the stars,
Where the moonlight spread its
gold,
| touched your hand and you turned,
dear,
The mystic being of old
Arthur Stringer, in New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13
cAReoNs WONDERFUL FAMILY.
Diamond but One Of the Famous OF.
sprlnu.

Talking Of Charcoal" in the st.
Nicholas, Ralph Benton tells OF ear
bon's wonderful family. The arisro-
crat of 1t is the diamond. / thought
you would look surprised at that re-
mark. Nevertheless, all Of those
diamonds that you see in the jewelers.
window are pure carbon They are
carbon crystallized-the most per-
manent Of gems. for they can neither
be melted nor dissolved. The car OF
Russia has set in the end Of ais
scepter a diamond that is said TO be
worth three-quarters OF a million
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13
The KILLING of Seals.

A kind friend sends us an account
OF the terrible cruelty inflicted in the
seal fisheries, and a picture from
Pearson's Magazine, illustrating that
cruelty It is too painful to reprint
in Our Dumb Animals. From the state
ment II appears that In one season, by
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13
Glory Of a Summer Garden.

The gladlolus is to the summer gar.
den what the geranium is to the win
ter garden. 1t is of the easiest pos
sible culture. 1t blooms with GER
tainty which endears 1t to the heart of
the woman. Plant the bulbs from the
first to the middle of May, in rich,
mellow soil. Set them about six
inches below the surface, planting
from six to ten in a group.--Lalies'
Home Journal.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13

You remembered Smith G Co..
and ! gave them credit. Now they've
failed"
Don't blame me. merely said
they were-a very old house. And
isn't it natural for very old house to
fall?"
Where's the chalk drawer?" asked
one Oh the drug clerks. Here's GUS
toner after borax."
"Pillbox has got it, filling an order
for magnesia."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13
THE TIDY DUTCH.
Saturday is Cleaning Day with the
Good People in Holland.

But it was generally understood
that our models would not pose m
Saturday, that day being exclusively
devoted to housekeeping within and
without. Early in the morning every
stick of furniture is carefully rubbed
and wiped and taken out Of the house.
Then the women, with their skisss
tucked up, entirely flood the rooms
with bucket after bucket of water,
brought up from the canal by means
Of the shoulder-yoke. With broom
and brush they souse and scrub the
red-tiled floor and finally pull up 4
plug in one corner to let the, water
dow outlet us hope into the canal
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13

Where will put this item about
the formation of Servant Girls Pro-
tective UnionY
Let IL go under the head Of either
Foreign or Domestic"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13

The perfect victory is 10 triumph
over urselves.--Thomas attempts
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-01-03
r. res- .ic-,;ci.;,.-,.-

The Buddhists believe that happi-
ness, Nfrvana, consists in self efface-
rteut, Oblivion. The young Buddhas
began life by sitting unsupported in
the air just after birth. Their mothers
attained Nirvana Immediately, and
they. the Buddhas, reached Nlrvana in
various queer ways.
One earnest Buddha, one of the earii-
est of the long line, earned the "Nibbu-
Ia" as follows:
A hawk was about to devour small
bird. Said the Buddha to the bird Of
prey:
II beseech thee, leave this little crea-
ture in peace. will give thee its
weight from my own flesh"
Down from heaven came pair of
scales, and the transaction was accom-
plIshed. The small bird sat on one side
Of the scales, and the Buddha began
putting slices of his body into the other
side, while the bird of prey looked on
with an evil eye. As the Buddha cary
ed himself up the little bird seemed to
get heavier and heavier. The beam of
the scales did not move until the last
particle of the saints body was put in
the scales.
The Buddhists' legends do not tell
how the saint managed to carve up his
last few fragments, but that is not Inn
portant. Which do you think was hap
pier, the Buddha who entered into Mir
vana as the little bird few away or the
bird Of prey that made hearty meal
Of the saints flesh and sailed of de-
lighted with his bargain New Yorh
Journal.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-01-03
Cobwebs and Cuts.

An old time remedy to stop blood
flowing from q cut is to put cobwebs
over II, but from recent discovery 1t ap-
pears a dangerous thing to do. Some
time ago a woman fell and cut her
head, and when her friends hurried to
her assistance they found the blood
flowing from a deep cash. Cobwebs
were applied, and the bleeding quickly
stopped, but in few days the woman
was taken with lockjaw.
A scientist declared there were lock-
Jaw germs in cobwebs, and that was
the way the woman contracted the dis
ease. He has made quite a study Of
the subject and says that in handful
of cobwebs he found 81 different dis
ease germs. That being true, 1t is very
easy to see how one could get not only
lockjaw, but many other dreadful dis
eases, as the cobweb is placed right on
an open wound and the germs can en-
ter the blood. Cobwebs form in dark,
dirty places, and II is not to be won
dered that they gather germs. - Elk.
change.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-01-03

English Travellers" says London
correspondent Of the Boston Tran
script, "have so jeered our advertising
outrages upon architecture and scenery
that l fancied we were Of all nations
most culpable. But after a seasons
residence In England hold America
excused. Our advertising efforts are
modest. even feeble, beside those of
our British cousins.
"a London bus is mere advertis-
ing van with accommodation for pas
sengers. 1t takes almost as long to
read one through as to read a daily
paper. The destination Of the bus is
marked in inconsplcuous letters, the
smallest or the canvas decorated We
hicle, and the chances Of disentangling
those letters from the maze of adver-
Using announcements about them in
time to hail the bus you want are small
er still"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-01-03
The Log of q Ship.

A ships log Is an instrument for
measuring the rate at which the vessel
is going and consists Of three parts
viz, the log chip. the log line and the
log glass. The principle is simply this:
A light substance thrown from the
vessel ceases to partake Of the motion
OF the vessel as soon as 1t strikes the
water and. will be left behind on the
surface after a certain interval. If the
distance of the ship from this station
airy object be measured, the approx
mate rate Of sailing will be given.
The log chip is the float, the log line
is the measure of the distance, and the
log glass defines the interval Of time.
In the old days the heaving Of the log
required skill and watchfulness, but
since the patent log has come into use
no skill is required In finding the speed
OF vessel. It is regulated by clock
work. and the number of knots the YES
sci sails per hour is recorded on the
dial without any hand touching It.