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ture is 100 feet wide and 238 feet long;
beyond these great dimensions stretch
big covered portico and wide plaza
supported by retaining wall over
whose edge one looks down to a dizzy
depth. What looks like a low attic
is ~ feet high; the first floor rooms
are IS feet high, the second story IS
but so vast is the area of the house
that it looks low and broad. The con-
servatory is 100 feet square; the wind
ing road up from the station is car
ried along the steep hillside upon re-
tanning walls that have cost a for
tune.
To build this great house and pre-
serve intact it's 500 acres of country
surroundings a public road has been
closed, cemetery has been removed,
and one murder has been committed
the latter in quarrel over trespassing.
There are thousands of chickens, hun
dreds of pigeons, cavalry troop of
horses. Yet the estate, aside from
the house, cannot compare in extent
with others at a greater distance from
the city.
What will become of these great
houses a generation hence? Biltmore
is practically deserted. George Van
derbilt, its owner, is now legal resi-
dent of Newport, and Architect Rich
ard H. Hunt is just beginning for him
a splendid house in New York. Ten
years ago Shadowbrook, the Lenox
home of the Arson Phelps Stokeses,
was the finest in America. 1t has 900
acres of beautiful land, a village of
cottages for workmen and a house
with great assembly rooms, &c guests
bedrooms and 16 rooms for servants.
And Shadowbrook is now for sale
with scant prospect of lucrative pur-
chasers! People who can buy and run
a house like that are rich enough to
suit themselves. And styles in houses
and localities change.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-01
THE GREAT COUNTRY HOUSES
OF NEW YORK'S SOCIETY SET

feeting anise-seed bag. Farther vet
are the Kernochan. Cutting, w. K. Van
derbilt and other famous houses. Be-
tween stretch illimitable plains rolling
like a prairie, where you can see grass
fires burn at a distance of 20 miles.
Oyster Bay, the Presidents home, dis
tinctly less fashionable, but more
beautiful, is ten miles due east.
This is the beginning of the coun-
try house season. 1t grows more gay
every year. The number constantly
increases of men so rich that thew
have no cares of toll and can devote
their time to enjoyment William
Waldorf Astor's Pail Mall Gazette has
been blamed for saying that America
is mo place for gentleman to live
What the poor mishandler of Ian
guage that wrote it meant was that
here a man who does not work feels
lonesome. And he does. But even that
grows less true every year. Jim
Keene works in Wall street, as many
know to their cost; his son does moth
ing but enjoy himself. Cornelius Van
derbilt worked hard; only one of his
sons shows any inclination to follow
that example. Presently Mr.. Aston
will have to take it all back.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-01

in honor of ST. Frideswide, in or be-
fore the ninth century.
The known history of organized
teaching in Oxford dates from the
year 1888, and this date may be said
to mark the beginning of the Ok
ford of to-day. This was the germ
from which has grown the great
university whose fame has spread
throughout all lands, until to-day the
world knows only Oxford the school
and nothing of Oxford the city.
The location of this worldfamous
university is As miles northwest of
London. The university buildings are
situated on low ridge that lies be-
tween the rivers Thames and Cher
we'll just above their juncture. Until
within recent years it was surround
ed on all sides by meadow and forest,
but now many pleasing villas dot the
landscape in all directions. Approach
the place almost as you will and the
first sight is one not soon to be for
gotten. What you get is a view of
spires and towers, numerous and
yet varied in character, the quad
rangles, old and new, with their pro-
fusion of carved stonework, the alb
sence of large factories and tall
chimneys, the groves and avenues of
trees, the quiet college gardens, the
well-watered valleys and encircling
hills-these are che sights that give
you your first and lasting impressions
of Oxford, the fairest spot in all
England
Twenty colleges, together with IL
braries, museums, theaters, observa-
tory, printing establishment and
halls, go to make up the university,
and the buildings are of all archi-
lectures, builded as they have been
throughout period covering some
eight centuries.
Probably of first Importance
among the various institutions is the
Bodleian library, founded in 1902, and
in which there has been scarcely a
change made since the time of Charles
/. Since 1910 this library has had the
right to receive a copy of every book
published in the United Kingdom,
and in addition to these it has re-
ceived valuable legacies from Selden.
Rawlinson, Malone, Cough, Douce
and others.
An institution much older than
the Bodleian library is the divinity
school. the building for which was
finished in 1850. Its great hall is
pronounced the finest room in Ok
ford. The Sheldonian theater. a
legacy of Archbishop Sheldon to the
university, was built from designs by
Sir Christopher Wren and opened in
1869. The Ashmolean museum. the
first public museum of curiosities in
Great Britain, occupies a building
that was completed and opened in
1858. The observatory buildings are
about the newest structures con-
neeted with the university. and we're
completed in 1878. Another of the
newer buildings is that devoted to
the Clarendon, or University Press,
which was completed in 1880, though
a printing establishment has been a
feature of Oxford since 146s. 1t is
in this building that the famed Ok
ford Bibles are printed, and the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-01
he Studio Reception.

William; or busy The Studio Reception.
themselves with tools and mechanics
like Col. J. J. Aston.
Perhaps women feel the need of en-
ployment even oftener than men. Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney, who was Ger
trude Vanderbilt, takes advantage of
decided artistic talent to have a studio
in Newport, and she has just opened
one also in New York. 1t is in the
same building where Sir Philip Burne-
Jones, Adelbert Voss and Edward
Churchill, Winston Churchill's father,
have studios. Besides, Mr.. Ernest
Seton-Thompson, or Thompson-Seton
or Seton, or Thomps on-whateve may
be the latest official and authoritative
version of the name, / know not.
Mrs. Whitney can paint; she studied
abroad quietly under good French mas
tiers, and can do them credit. But
she can never exhibit her pictures, for
the publicity and the snapshot camera
fends would make it unpleasant.
There are other rich young men and
women who hire studios mainly as
lounging places, and to give Studio
parties"
It's just the time of year for these
quaint affairs. Studios are hung with
fishnets and queer garments and other
truck, and cluttered up with brass ket
ties that have gathered verdigris for
years, and queer old books. And the
artists acquaintance come to nibble
crackers and drink beer or something
better. Anyone who has an invitation
from an artist is free to visit all the
others in the group who have their
reception on the same afternoon.
Once in attending one of these sad
affairs, I entered by mistake the stu
dio of the late George Times master
of the American landscape school.
What a contrast! A great room, a
great sky window that admitted a
noble food of light, a great easel upon
which stood large canvas, unfinished
bare walls and nothing else To the
artist his studio was workroom; he
didn't need properties" or packing
box touches draped with fshnets.
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poverished have the island colonies
become that it is scarcely possible to
collect sufficient taxes to maintain
the colonial governments, and appro-
priations from the mother countries
are becoming each year larger and
larger to meet the demands Of the
colonial budgets. To stop the drain
upon her home treasures Denmark
has practically disposed of her pos
sessions in West Indian waters for
the paltry sum of $5,0o0,0o0 Wheth-
er other nations will wish to follow
Denmarl1's lead or not time only will
determine, but none of them are
showing any desire to lay claim to
the hundred or more small keys in
West Indian waters over which no
national flag now floats.
BERNHARD BRISTOL
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Sound.
There came an army of Italian Ia
borers, who built themselves hideous
barrack with taxpayer roof and sides.
They closed the footpath to the vii
lage public, who had trod it for 50
years, and began telling trees and
grading upon the rounded top of the
hill great space perfectly level, bare
and forbidding. Then skilled work
men came and began erecting huge
mass of masonry; after them carpen-
tiers, decorators; great bales of cost
ly tapestry; woodwork and fittings
torn bodily from foreign castles, and
canvasses painted by French artists
FOR ceiling decorations; then an
army of gardeners who worked magic
upon shrubs and dainty flowers and
upon great trees taken roots and all
and set where they would mend a
view. Terraces were built, open spaces
sodded, greenhouses erected, for
NAL garden laid out with rule and
line.
And last week the finest country
house in America, that of Mrs. CLAIR
ence Mackay, on Harbor HILL Hemp
stead, was opened by great house
warming party, to which were bid
den the choicest spirits in the most
exclusive circles of New York.
The house is classical, of course
French Renaissance, adopted from the
Chateau Lafitte in France. 1t stands
high and fair above the trees that
compass it about, and to every side
the eye is drawn by views bounded
only by the horizon. 1t is the highest
point on Long Island. On the very
clearest days just hint-a faint sug-
gestion-can be seen of the city away
to the west; just enough to make
one glad he is not there, as the sound
of rain without heightens the charm
Of coy fireplace and a lighted room.
But, so steep is the hill and SO cunning
the fringe of trees, no hint is revealed
of the sleepy village below-not so
sleepy as it was, with all these work
men to feed, the stone to cut, the lum-
her to draw. And from the village,
nay, from any public road or even any
housetop within a mile of the spot,
no glimpse of the great house can be
obtained.
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sd OMPRISINGw what are known
M/T\& as the West Indies, not
|Wiy.TN counting the innumerable
NSy rocks and keys off the
~A coast of Florida, Cuba, in
the western Caribbean or
the rocky projections of the Grena-
dimes, are 40 inhab ited islands, with
total area of 97,452 square miles, and
with a population of little more than
100000. These 40 islands are divided
by geographers into seven groups as
follows: The Bahamas, with an area OF
$3.50 square miles; the Great Antilles,
comprising Cuba, Santo Domingo,
Jamaica and Porto Rico, with an area
of S6,467 square miles; the Virgin is
lands, with an area of 372 square
miles; the outer chain of the Carib-
bee islands, with an area of 1913 square
miles; the inner chain of the Carib-
bee islands, with an area of 2,031
square miles; Barbados with an area
of 166 square miles, and the South
American islands, with an area of
2,643 square miles. Over them float
the flags of the United States, England.
France, Holland and Denmark, while
one, excepting Cuba, maintains two
Independent governments, the repub-
lies of Hayti and Santo Domingo.
Such, in a concise statement, are
the West Indian islands. They repre-
sent the first theater of historic ac-
ton for the nations of Europe in the
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ones; it is like a
great library or
courthouse at first
glance; and a hall
so feet by 40 feet,
and 33 feet high,
adds to the effect.
Farther from the
lordly entra n C e
are smaller rooms
indeed, and serv-
ants quarters cum
ningly concealed
about in t e T i o r
courts. The Struc-
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


Specials from various parts of the
state tell of much damage done by
the high winds. Oshkosh, Waukesha,
Woodland, Horizon, Green Bay and
other points report small buildings
blown down, trees uprooted and SIM
liar freaks of the wind. At Cumber-
land the heavy rains put out forest
fire which threatened to do great dam
age. At Hebron tornado blew down
two barns and killed GiIlett Reed,
farmer, and six head of cattle.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-01

The supreme court Of Wisconsin
has granted a permanent injunction
against the Kenosha Street Railway
company, making property valued at
100000 valueless, and making impos-
sible the completion of the interurban
route between Chicago and Milwaukee.
All the members of the company affect
ed are Chicago men.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-01
No Danger.

''Yes," he began, my father has
worried ever since began contrib
uting to our college paper for fear
I'd be a poet, instead
'sOh,' she exclaimed, sits too bad
that the poor old man has given him
self any trouble over the natter
Chicago Record-Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-01
CIenning un Tobacco Crop.

The buying of the tobacco crop con-
tinucs throughout the growing dis
tricts at Edgerton and vicinity, and
the movement is fast cleaning up the
remnants in growers hands, which
must aggregate several thousand cases
weekly. The prices do not show much
change from previous quotations,
ranging from six to nine cents.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-01

have no work pre-
tend that t h e y
have, to make time
hang less heavily
on their hands.
They try to break
coaching records,
like Alfred Van
derbilt; or t 0
streak, dust-c o v
cred and gasping,
across the country
in automobi l e S,
like his cou S i Il
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-01

Articles of incorporation of the La
Crosse and Black River Falls Railroad
company have been filed with the sec
rotary of state. The incorporators are
prominent capitalists of La Crosse.
The capital is placed at $4,000. The
company will build an electric line
to Black River Falls, so miles north
east of here
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Crnn Outlook.

The weekly crop report of the Wash
ington weather bureau says for Wis
cOnSin:
Week favorable for farm work, which is
more advanced than usual at this date;
seeding of oats, barley and spring wheat
practically completed in southern and CEN
trail counties; too cold and dry for Vegeta-
tion to make much progress; meadows and
pastures starting slowly; winter wheat and
rye in good condition; rain badly needed.
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- ECAUSE of the terms of
k Cecil Rhodes will giving
KxES to each state and terri
@gA VA tory in the American
eIszk union two scholarships at
- Oxford college, England,
that grand old institution of learn
ing. which has stood for the best of
progressive thought when progress
sion was founded upon fact and care
full research. assumes a new inter
est for Americans. and more es-
pecially American youths.
The history of Oxford college
could scarcely be written without
writing the history of the town of
Oxford, as for several centuries the
university has been the town. But
in an earlier day, day when the
educational interests were but
small the town of Oxford played no
small part in the making of English
history. The place was founded so
far back that nothing save tradition
may be given for the date, and there
is left us but legends for it's earliest
history. These legends and tradi-
tons tell us that the nucleus of the
town was a nunnery, and afterwards
a house Of secular canons, founded
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of country houses
in t h e w orld.
From her boudoir
Mrs. Maekay can
look out upon the
houses of W. C.
Whitney and STAN
ley Morti m e r.
these are brown
and homelike look
ing, built in the
English half-tim-
Der style = and
upon the staring
y
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Edwin D. Morgan, owner of the yacht
Columbia, and Foxha1 Keene-who,
by the way, has just stubbed his toe
or something, falling from his horse
in England. Southeast the Meadow
brook Hounds cast off, to chase the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-01

to this country to
speed a wedding
and a divorce-the
latter her own, the
former her neph-
ew's.
The fray fam
lily was English;
the boys splendid
siX-foot fell o w S,
the girls beauties.
One of the latter
married Mr.. j. Nc
Vickar, anoth e I
Poultney BigelOw.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-01
Lower Court Erred.

A new trial has been granted by the
supreme court to Thomas E. Goodwin,
convicted two years ago of attempting
to kill his wife by throwing her into
we'll at Huberville, Dodge county, and
sent up for five years. The new trial
is granted on account of errors in the
admission of evidence.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-01
Decidedly Injurious.

'Dcu you think smoking is injuri-
ous?'' asked the careful friend.
.'I'm sure of it," answered Mr.. Meek
ton. Nothing is worse for lace cur
tains than smoking" Washington
Star
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lower slopes led
to a villa ge drow-
sing in its sleepy
hollow, and far
Their yet to the
simmer of a deep,
steep, landlocked
bay. On the sum-
NIT of the hill was
q rude obser V a
tory, whe n C e a
view could be had
of all north e r n
Long Island and
of the Connecticut
ao@rr 4h q
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Her Mothers visit.

Mrs. Benham-Yo on don't seem to be
very glad that mother is here.
Benham--What did you expect me
to do-die of joy?-N. Y. Herald,
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The Great Country Houses.
The house is distinguished by huge
nd splendid rooms rather than many
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-01
The Lady and the Studio.

It gets so that, as it was in France
before the revolution, people who
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-01
A Wedding md a Divorce.

One of the most beautiful women
in New York few years AGO has come
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-01

Three years ago a great fair hill
was clothed with venerable trees; it's
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-01
The Hemnstead SET

The Mackay house is at the extreme
western verge of the finest collection
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-09-20

opened at the meeting of the demo-
cratic and populistic state conven-
tions at Grand Island. There was
some doubt as to whether fusion
could be effected, and former Senator
Allen, Mr.. Bryan's spokesman, plead
ed for fusion upon the ground that
only by keeping up the alliance be-
tween the two parties in this state
could Mr.. Bryan win his third nomin-
alton in 1904. This argument was
used publicly and without any efforts
at concealment.
Mr.. Bryan himself was in attend
ance upon the conventions, and he
pleaded for fusion, though, Of course,
without declaring that he wanted it
to help him toward the presidency in
1904. lie was aware, however, of the
argument which ex-senator Allen
was using, and made no effort to stop
it. Ever since the Grand Island con-
vention Mr.. Bryan's friends have been
convinced that il he is not the nom
inee OF his party two years hence 1t
will be because the party won't have
him and not for any lack of eagerness
on Mr.. Bryan's part.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-09-20
MUDDLED DEMOCRATS.
where the Party ~ q Whole IL "At"
IL Problem Unsolvable In
Their Midst.

The democrats cannot get together
even in their campaign text books.
The document issued by the congress.
sional committee for use in the pres
ent campaign Is a strange hodge
podge and u mass of contradictions,
says the Troy Times. For instance,
in one part the book repudiates the
principle of tariff for revenue only
and that of reciprocity, although a
tariff Cor revenue only has been dem
ocratic doctrine from time immemor-
ial, AMI democrats have claimed that
reciprocity really was democratic.
Some OF the foremost democratic
statesmen of the past have been most
ardent advocates of reciprocity. Mr..
Bryan, who dictated the Chicago and
Kansas City platforms, in both de-
clared for "a tariff for revenue only,
and the adoption of the platforms by
the national conventions made them
binding upon the party. The text
book contains long chapter headed
"The Reciprocity Humbug," and this
Is what it says in part:
Reciprocity looks like free trade. but
tastes like protection. 1t Is really new
sugar coating prepared by the republican
tariff doctors for many patients who are
refusing to take their protection pills
straight. In practice reciprocity Is worse
than protection. The greatest
clamor for reciprocity comes from those
who expect to be beneficfaries Of reel
procity legislation. In the case of Cuba,
1t is the sugar and tobacco growers and
Cuban land owners and the American man
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-09-20
MANAGING THE HORSE.
Two Things which the Trainer
should Develop Into Fixed Hab-
it's OF Thought.

The affections of horse are not in
ferior to his intellectual qualities;
and, especially if made a pet, he be-
comes very fond of his master. In
case of separation, he remembers him
for wears. But his affection is differ
ent from that of q dog, which con-
tinues to love his master even though
the latter abuses him greatly. Rough.
unkind treatment will quickly estrange
the affection of horse. Good horse
sense discovers no particular reason
why a horse should be devoted to
master who habitually maltreats him.
The intellect and affections of
horse point out two things so impor-
tant to trainer that he must bear
them in mind until they become fixed
habits of thought:
Newer, under any circumstances,
allow a horse to successfully oppose
his will to- yours. If you do, he will
remember il and (reasoning by expert
ence) try it again.
always keep his affection. IL he
dislikes you, he has no wish to please
you; and, il his obedience is always
perfunctory, you will make but little
Roadway in training him.
These two points assured, he will al
most invaria bly, try to doswhatever you
require of him-if he only knows what
it is.-David Buffum, in Success.