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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-03
4 MoNopY FOR MARY.

:
Not in the calm autumnal weather,
| Not while winds did wildly rave,
Not till loved spring had knit together
The sods upon thy grave
Dear Mary, did thy lifetime lover
Dare to lift his note of woe,
Or wall as walls the widowed ployeri
What time the fowler turns to go.
Not till the month that mildly closes
Had decked thy grave with tender
care,
Starr'd the green grass with pale
primroses,
And worked the blue-eyed violets
there
Did I, dear Mary, dare to darken
Hopes pearly crescent with my
pain;
Or ask a hurrying world to hearken
TO this my sorrows hopeless strain.
f5ut now that April-handmai cherrie,
Has fringed the daisy's cap with
red;
And set, and lit, like gold lamps,
dearie,
These buttercups around thy bed
And sent, for thee, the skylark singing
Far up in the blue above,
|, IN the grass myself down-finging,
Sob out my sorrow and my love-
Musings We of kindred mothers,
Playmates, and-O thought diyinei
Long ere might made thee anothers,
Virgin love had made thee mine.
Dream not, dear. my hopes were
blighted
When the joyless rites were GER
Souls like ours once pledged and
plighted
Mated were forevermore.
Whilst thou lived, the darkest NOR
Terror none could hold, for me;
Purified by patient sorrow,
Life, God-hallowed, still held thee.
Still had | hoped some day to meet
thee
In the fields beloved of yore:
Hold out kindly hand and greet
Call thee Mary" just once more.
But, as if to blast and wither
All my fond hopes at blow,
Death stepped in and called thee
whittier
All, or soon or late, must go.
Cold the mold is now about thee.
Lone thou in thy grave dost lie,
All the sunlit world, without thee.
Empty is. and hopeless l.
Yet these daisies upward springing.
Whisper that the dead are blest;
That their angels still are bringing
God good tidings of their rest.
That they. too, some day shall waken.
Spring up from the hallowed sol,
None forgot and none forsaken,
F.. Happy souls beloved of God
Moses Teggart.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-03
BARBARIANS IN
GREAT BRITAIN
THEY ARE NOT SAVAGE OR
BRUTAL OR DEGRADED.
BUT OF ODD CUSTOMS

In Cornwall it is Said the Worship
of the Goddess Flora is Still
Celebrated as it Was Established
by the Romans--An Image of
Stone.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-03

notably in Inniskea, of the coast OF
Mayo, actual idolatry was openly prev
alent well within the memory OF
peope now living, and, it is creditably
averred, is till secretly practiced.
The Inniskea idol is of stone; is
called in the Irish language Nee
vougi," and has been from time inn
memorial religiously preserved and
worshiped. In appearance the god re-
sembles thick roll of homespun fan
mel, which arises from the custom OF
defeating to it a dress of that ma
terial whenever it's aid is sought.
This is sewn on by an old woman, its
priestess.
OF the early history of the image no
authentic information can be pro-
cured, but its power is believed by
its yotaries, the islanders, to be i'm
mense. They have recourse to it in
sickness, they invoke its aid alike III
preserving from danger their friends,
and in confounding their enemies; and
especially is 1t solicited when it is
desired to calm the waves, to admit
of the fishermen pursuing their voca-
tion or visiting the mainland for sup
plies. -Pearson's Weekly.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-03
Well-known Scientific Trick Applied
to Purpose.

Air tabloids" are being advertised
here, says a Paris dispatch to a Lon
don newspaper. Garry your oxygen
supply about with you in your waist
coat pocket" runs the announcement.
and have fresh air always with you.
whether you be in submarine Morse
boat or in a Santos-Dumont air ship. -
Sensational hyperbole being reduced
to sober fact, it is found. as your
readers will have guessed, that the So
called air tabloids are a practical ap-
plication of the properties recently
discovered in sodium peroxide and
potassium peroxide when compressed
under certain conditions.
The tabloids in question are cubes
of either of the two above substances.
In atmospheres rendered unfit, TO
breathe owing to the reduction of the
proportion of oxygen, the latter gas
Will be supplied by the peroxide of
sodium or potassium if placed in con-
tact with water, when the substance
Will also simultaneously absorb the
carbonic acid gas thrown off by the
lungs. Thus the tabloids may, as ad-
vertlsed, be employed in submarine
boats at all events. though where their
usefulness would come in during
balloon journeys at high attitudes is
not easily seen.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-03
WOMAN AS SHE is IN EUROPE.
More Occupations Open to Her There
Than in This Country

Women in America, it is thought,
are Tow engaged in mans occupation
to an astonishing degree. But the
innovation is carried still farther in
France.
In Holland, Germany and Switzer-
land women take part, as a mater
of course, in all the labors of agri-
culture. They till the fields, cut tho
corn and gather the crops.
On the streets of Munich women
are employed to keep the car lines
clean, and they are especially uniform
ed for the purpose, in short skirts.
Bavaria being we'll supplied with
forests, wood is largely used for fuel,
and along the curb of Munich streets
women frequently stand and sell their
firewood. In Zurich there are women
bootblacks.
In several continental cities women
do light gardening jobs, like keeping
in order the borders and gravel paths
of public parks. In Germany the rail-
way stations have woman ticket
agents.
In some OF the European art gal
leries women are engaged to take
care of the visitors sticks and UNI
brellas. They are also custodians of
museums, as the Swiss National
Museum, where one of the galleries is
in entire charge of woman.-New
York Press.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-03
PASSED A BAD HALF HOUR.
Embarrassment of a Bride on En-
counterinq a Former Fiance.

A not very recent bride, who is still
devotedly attached to her husband. as
he is to her, tells of the worst half
hour she has experienced since the
day of her marriage. 1t was on her
wedding journey.
| Il was 49," she said, when / was
| married and had been engaged to my
| husband for year, but preceding both
| engagement and marriage was sort
| of engaged, schoolgirl fashion, 10 an
| other young fellow. 1t was one of
those intangible engagements that
melt into thin air when the real
prince comes, but fervid enough while
they last. In this case my interest
in the affair cooled with the rapidity
of collapsing balloon and as the
youth lived in distant city no embar-
RAISING explanations were necessary.
so | was married and the wedding
journey included a stop of several
days in a town on the Ohio river.
where we had coy table all to our
selves at the hotel. 1t was at dinner
one day that the patriarchal waiter
approached and asked if we would OBJ
Ject to another gentleman and lady
being placed at our table.
Bride like yerself, Missy he add
ed. confidentially, as he passed INV
chair In moment he ushered to
their places the other couple and I
looked up to encounter my former
fance, CONSERVATION and amazement
written on every line of his face.
Lacking the wit or wisdom of ex-
perienced years, dropped my eyes
without further recognition than rapid
paling and flushing of countenance
and he, following my lead, began dis |
eussing the menu with his wife.
The dinner proceeded in such ap-
palling silence, so far as I was con-
cerned, as to fairly paralyze my hus-
band and explanations were in order
as soon as we returned to our apart |
ments. Then how he laughed and
went in search of the rival couple
only to find they had left the hotel
Immediately after the meal and we
have never heard of either of them
since" I
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-03


make matters worse they came FOR
blocks around about a. m. every day
4 to whet their little bills on the croox
of conductor pipe just over Mr..
Breslauer's bedroom window. A
sparrow whetting his bill on a Goa
ductor pipe sounds as if he wers
I shaking pint of dry beans in ten
gallon milk can.
Mr.. Breslauer first tried air guns.
He recruited and equipped an anti
sparrow league, but the boy marks
men found it lots easier to hit
window lights than sparrows and the
corps disbanded. Wheat boiled with
strychnine proved destructive for a
day but was abandoned because It
seemed really pitiful to see the birds
fiuttering helpless to the ground. so
the sparrows were tolerated throu n
| the season and Michael put in the
I winter figuring.
BY spring he had the problem most
happily solved. Last week an army CT
painters with long ladders descended
upon the place and put on brand
new coat O. paint At every angle
of the caves where the conductor
spouts turned they erected a bar
ricade of wire netting and Mr.. Bres-
larer chuckled as he thought about the
sparrows' discontinue. Early next
morning, however, he had an evil
dream and awoke to the horrid realty
that it had come true. There was ne
same, old familiar rat-a-tat-tat on the
conductor spout. Hurriedly dressing
he FASTENED to his lawn and found
that a small Observation-Disclosures
sparrow had push his way through the
meshes of the wire and was working
his bill down to a needle point with
the dexterity of barber stropping
g razor. he telephone wires over Tie
lawn were black with chatterin3
birds applauding the operation.
However, Michael consoled himself
with the thought that the bird was
little one and probably couldn't fino
ais way out through the netting again
anyway. This remained inside a long
time and all day the sparrows held
their council of war on the teleph 1e
wires. Finally they seemed to evolve
a plan and the smaller birds began TO
squeeze in and out of the wire
screened nook while the bigger ones
stood ON the side-lines and coached.
Gradually the mesh began to expand
under the pressure and bigger AMI
bigger sparrows began to take a hand
in the game. They worked all day.
That night, when Mr.. Breslaue-
came home be thought he saw sns.
picion OF straw behind the crook in
the conductor spout. Sure enough, the
next day revealed behind the wire a
nest as large as bushel basket. II
had been made ridiculously large to
emphasize the sparrows' victory and
the birds hau then gone to work on /,
every screened angle about the caves.
AS the matter now stands, the
screened angles are most in demand |
for nests, for ,Ae netting was so well |
put up that 1t defies clothes poles |
and garden rakes and the nests are
perfectly safe from destruction. The
joke on Mr.. Breslauer is so palpable |
tt at the sparrows can all see it even |
Il they are English, and they revile
him on sight in shockingly bad
sparrow talk.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-03
Thought He Could do Better.

The millionaire employer was Civ.
ing his workmen fatherly talk.
In all ages of the world" he
said. "some men have accumulated
more wealth than others. This would
happen under any social system
Some men must have capital in order
that other men may have employment
Wealth does not bring happiness. II
merely brings responsibilities. | am
called rich man, but all get out OF
my riches. so far as | am personally
concerned, is my food and clothing"
by gum, I'd get more out of ii
than that if had it," exclaimed a
red-nosed man in the crowd.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-03
SKIN GRATING ON A TREE.
Unique Experiment Now Being Tried
in Washington Park.

in Washington Park.
An experiment in bark grating is
being tried on one of the big poplars
| IN Washington park, Chicago, which
Is being watched with interest by the
botanical students of the University
of Chicago.
The tree which is being subjected 10
this unusual surgical treatment is
located in the northwest part of The
park, near the little duck pond ana
children's sand pile. Next to L,
scarcely twenty feet away, is the tree
which is supplying the bark for the
grating.
Both trees are about two feet N
diameter at the base, and both were
struck by the same bolt of lightning.
One of them was split and twisted
beyond hope of salvation. The bark
was torn off in great strips from top
to bottom and the trunk of the tree
was twisted and split into long, point
ed slivers.
The tree being operated upon was
not so badly injured as the other. but
long pieces of bark were torn from il
lengthwise, in some places the ex-
posed strips being six inches broad.
Beyond the trunk the branches IRE
ripped lenglnwise in narrow streaks
OF no material consequence.
This tree the park keepers are try
ing to save. The edges of the wouuI-
ed parts were cut clean and smooth
and the bark of the ruined tree cut
into strips to fit the bare places Of
the damaged one. The edges we're
carefully matched and adjusted, and
each piece of grated bark treated Oh
the inside with a preparation of tar.
After being so treated the bark graft
was fixed over the wounded parts
with long, slim wire nails. The re-
pairing has been done with great skin,
and the injuries are now scarcely
visible, except upon close inspection.
This is the first experiment of tn
kind in the south parks, and as the
tree is fine one 1t is hoped it win
take kindly to its borrowed skin.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-03

in Paris are driven to suicide or to
crime, and others make their way
home broken and disappointed; ana
still the foolish moths will fiutter
about the flame. The evil is growing
less, because young men and women
are slowly finding out, from the ex-
ample of successful painters, that 1t is
folly to study technic abroad. Anv
artist-painter. sculptor, musician
will tell the student that the time to go
to Europe is after the technic has been
acquired, and that there are nowhere
as good schools for technical instruc-
ton as in the United States. But the
old tradition still fingers, and a con
slant stream of young Americans stu
go to Paris, most of them to fail and
many 10 make shipwreck of character
and life.
If a girl has rich parents or friends
to take care of her she can waste her
time in Paris as well as elsewhere.
Under any other conditions it IS
criminal to send an American girl To
study in Paris or to allow her to go.
There is no provision for her in the
complex organization of that great
city. There is nothing that she can
gain there that can in any way begin
to compensate for the loneliness, the
discomfort, the peril of it all. Young
men can usually take care of them
selves, but a girl cannot, and unless
she becomes an object of charity Tie
best luck she can have is to get
money enough to pay her passage
home before she has paid too dearly
for her experience.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-03
COMMON PARTISAN TRAGEDY.
Criminal to Allow Unprotected Girl to
Study in Paris.


A too familiar story is told again
in a recent cable dispatch. A young
American girl who had gone to Paris
to study art found herself at the end
of her resources and could get no aid
from home. Destitute and starving.
she sought out fellow student, a
young countryman, from whom Sc
might make loan. She found him
Ill in his garnet, without attendance
and as poor as she. The girl sold
what lit, belongings were left to ner
and returned to nurse the young man
and when he recovered from his illness
they were married. But thew han
spent all they had and were alone n,
the great capital, without means ao1
without prospects. So the two poor
creatures closed the windows AID
door. turned on the gas and died.
Every year some American student
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-03
sPARRoWs DEFEATED MAN.
Minneapolis Mans Discontinue at IN
Points.

Minneapolis Michael Bre ),
lauer has a new story about the
English sparrow. Since Mr.. Breslauer
purchased handsome residence at
Douglas and Irving avenues, he has
been Gee of the best householders in
all Green's additions. Last season tn.
sparrows built nests in every available
nook about the caves, they sputterad
and scolded on his piazza roof and 60
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-03
A French Joke

Railway 0ficial-Msieu, your valet
mas been run over and cut into a
dozen pieces.
Languid nglishman-Hawi Re
good enough, please. to bring the
piece that-haw-eontains the key of
my-haw-hat box.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-03

Al Decatur WILDER B. Minds OF Mat
toon was nominated for congress by
the democrats of the 18th Illinois dis
trict.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-21
ROOFS BURNED OFF
OF FRAME HOUSES
HOUSES OWNED BY MRS. c. A.
TYSON DAMAGED ABOUT $2500.
SITUATED TWENTIETH STREET
AND PARK AVENUE.

The roof was burned off Of two houses
belonging to Mrs. C. A. Tyson. situated
on Twentieth street between Sixth
and Park avenues yesterday morning
about $50 O'clock the damage to them
and the furniture amounting to about
$1,000 fully covered by insurance.
The fire originated in the house occu-
pied by James ,Weisel, on the corner OF
Park avenue and Twentieth street, from
a defective fiue In the rear of the build
ing. 1t spread rapidly and in few
minutes the entire roof was on fire. From
this roof 1t spread to the roof of the
adjoining house, whI,h is unoccupied
A telephone alarm was sent in and the
fire department responded promptly but
the fire had gained such Roadway that
it was impossible to prevent it spreading
the two houses being within a few feet
of each other.
Mr.. Weisel estimates his loss at $1,000,
1t being fully covered by insurance. The
loss was principally from water, al
though the fire destroyed some of the
furniture. Mr.. Tyson estimates the loss
on his two buildings at about $780, 1t is
also fully covered by insurance
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-21
Progressive.

In opening our new parlors (422 N. 20th)
corner of Fifth avenue and Twentieth
street we have inaugurated a new fea-
ture in our line in this city, one we feel
confident will meet the approval of every
progressive citizen. The building here
tofore used as a residence has not been
changed, except to be nicely furnished
inside to suit the requirements of an
establishment of this kind. The parlor
is handsomely furnished and has cleo
trio fans, and will be used as a reception
room. and private parlor where members
of families may meet and privately talk
over their sad bereavement. There will be
no appearance of an undertaking es-
tablishment or suggestion of collins or
funeral furnishings, except in the sep
arate rooms In which the sample caskets
will be kept. 1t is our intention to han
ole only high-grade funeral goods at
reasonable prices, and caskets bought of
or funerals entrusted to f. r. Shaw &
Son will be a guarantee of first-class
goods. and the highest standard of sur
vice. To ladies desiring to visit our par
Tors to select funeral furnishings, or to
visit either of the cemeteries with view
of selecting lots, a carriage free of charge
will be at their disposal. We have had
a lifelong experience in our line and
are well competent to conduct the un-
dertaking business In all it's branches.
We will be open day and night Either
phone No. 1877. Very respectfully,
e. T. SHAW & SON.
422 North Twentieth Street.
7-17-2t-thu-mo
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-21
FOOD FOR CHILDREN.
Learn What to Give Them.

People with weak children should look
to food for making the youngsters stout
and hearty, Scientific selection Of food
is the true way to health.
A mother speaks of her experience In
feeding children. She says. About two
years ago our little 2-year-old Isabella
was taken with stomach and bowel
trouble. she was 80 low at times that
we despaired of her ever recovering
"She could not digest the lightest kind
of food. She fingered along from Au-
gust to November in that condition when
l decided to try Grape-Nuts In small
quantities three times a day. l poured
boiling water over them and let them
stand FIVE minutes to soften, then added
sweet cream and a very little sugar.
Well from that day. the 10Th of No
vember, 1885, until now we have never
had to give her drop Of medicine and
she is the picture of health So also
is my little boy, now 2 years old. He
has lived on Grape-Nuts since he was a
year old and is the stoutest little fell
low you nearly ever saw.
Nearly everyone asks what / feed the
children for they are so big and healthy.
Our l2-year-od aughter began to have
headaches about last Christmas and we
put glasses on her. She got some better
but was till very poorly. Finally l took
away most of her food and put her on
Grape Nuts. She steadily improved and
is now able to go to school regularly and
is quite well. Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek Mich.
Look for free recipe book in each
package CT Grape-Nuts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-21
VIII be SsVGnty-Ons in Alabama
BY September |
INCREASE OF % THIS YEAR
Congressman underwood's District
Has 90 OF the II Routes-Flrst
and / nIrd Districts Have
No Free Delivery.

On September there will be a total of
seventy-one routes of rural free deliv-
cry in the state of Alabama, as compar-
last year. OF the seventy-one routes
twenty-nine have been established In.
Representative Underwoods district.
which is the banner rural free delivery
district OF the state.
Next to Mr.. Underwood, Representative
Bowie has shown himself more active
than any other member of the de1ega-
tion in securing rural free delivery
routes, there being twelve routes to his
district. Representative Clayton in the
Third district and Representative Bur-
nett in the Seventh each have seven
routes in their districts. Representative
Richardson of the Eighth district has
six routes and Representative Thompson
of the Fifth district has the same num-
Der. Representative Taylor of the First
district has four routes. The First and
the Sixth Congressional districts have no
rural free delivery.
The following are the number of
rural free delivery routes In the
state by counties on September 1 as pre-
pared at the Postoffce Department for
the Age-Herald.
Ninth District, Jefferson County-Bir-
mingham, seven routes; East Lake, two
routes; Adamsville, one route; Adger,
one route; Bessemer, five routes; Ems
ley. one route Leeds, one route; Nc
Gala, one route; Morris, two routes;
Palos, one route; Pinson, two routes;
Pratt City, one route; Trussville, two
routes; Warrior, two routes.
First District, Mobile County-Mobile,
four routes.
Third District, Lee County-opelika,
one route; Chewacla, one route; Auburn,
one route; Lochapoka, one route.
Third District, Barbour County-Eufau-
la, one route
Third District, Henry County-Dothan,
one route; Headland. one route.
Fourth District Calhoun County-An-
niston, three routes; Oxford, two routes;
Jacksonville, two routes; Duke, one
route; Piedmont, two routes.
Fourth District, Talladega County
Lincoln, one route; Talladega, one route
Fifth District, Tallapoosa County
Alexander City. two routes.
Fifth District, Macon County-Nota-
sulga, two routes; Tuskegee. two routes
Seventh District, Etowah County,
Gadsden, three routes; Alfalfa, three
routes. -
Seventh District. Marshall County
Albertville, one route.
Eighth District, Madison County
Huntsville, one route.
Eighth District, Colbert County-Tus-
cumbia, one route.
Eigth District Lauderdale County
Florence, two routes.
Eighth District, Limestone County
Elkmont, two routes.