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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-04-16

party of travellers. Vendors of fruit
stin wore their broad, straw SOM
breros, but these were held down over
their ears by shawls, borrowed pre-
sumably from the lady members of
their families, and their otherwise
bare feet were wrapped imperfectly
in scraps of rags of every color and
description. Other portions of the
body were very thinly covered. 1t is
a sight to behold a Mexican doing his
washing at some of the small towns
of six or seven houses on the arid
plains. Water is a great luxury and,
fortunately perhaps, it's scarcity does
not seem great hardship. 1t is easy
to believe that many MeXicans put on
a garment and that it is never re-
moved until the wear and tear of time
serves in the capacity of valet. But
sometimes a reason is sufficiently APP
parent for cleansing a garment, and
the process was witnessed by the
writer during one of those unaccount-
able rests taken by the trains passing
through Mexico, probably caused by
delay in removing drifting sand from
the tracks. The gentleman in question
appeared in the sand from nowhere
in particular with a quart tin dipper
of water and large piece of soap.
He calmly removed his shirt, laid it on
a fiat rock, poured tiny and brief
stream of water upon it and rubbed
the soap on vigorously. Then he
struck it sharply with another piece
of stone. He repeated the process un-
til the water in the dipper was ex-
hausted--and it lasted some time
then hung his garment on a cactus
plant and placidly seated himself in
the sun on the rock, which had served
as washtub and board, and rested
while it dried. He was still resting
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-04-16
LIFE IN OLD. MEXICO.
Aztec Civilization Has Left It's I'M
press on the Country.
Why the Natives of Our Sister Repub-
lie Should Be Studied at a Re-
spectful Distance by Fin
icaI Tourists
Especial Ell Paso CTex.) letter.


NJ W that the opening up of rail
roads in Mexico has become so
much a thing of the past that
tourists have been enabled to write
s" Familiarity regarding the country,
the general reading public is very well
acquainted with the strange land and
its customs. Yet no one who has
l-nown Mexico only on paper is in any
way prepared for what awaits him on
his first arrival upon scenes where the
old Aztec civilization still fingers,
touching everything lightly with
dreamlike suggestions of a past of
which little is really known beyond
what tradition teaches and where even
the deeds of the Spanish invaders are
enveloped in the mistiness of languid
southern fancy. Nowhere else has the
Spaniard so strangely grated himself
on the ancient population, for on no
other portion of the globe have such
peculiar conditions been present. The
Mexican himself furnishes a course of
study not quickly mastered. His po-
likeness, which means nothing, his Sc
cretiveness amounting to almost the
stoHdity of the Indian, his fire and
ardor in contrast with his languor and
his almost invariabl rule of never
doing to-day what may be accom-
plished tomorrow, his picturesque ap-
pearance, and, in the average citizen,
his diet and his peculiar odor it is said
that even a buZZard won't eat a dead
Mexican), together with the way he
takes his religion, which is intense
enough but distinc lively his own, con-
stltute queer bundle of contradic-
lions. The women are just a little
more So than the men, especially as
to diet, languor and religion. They
hardly present so romantic an appear
ance, although the younger ones are
often very beautiful. The average
Mexican woman, over 30, is a study in
ugliness.~ The young children, aspe-
cially in summer, look like little,
brown, animated statues with very
little effort at drapery. Among the
poorer classes, in some sections, the
children up to ten years old play
around without clothing After that
age, manila bag or garment rese,n-
bling pillow slip with holes for head
and arms furnishes all the covering
deemed necessary.
1t is seldom that severely cold
weather is experienced in Mexico.
Some time since, however, in pass
ing through a railroad town during
an unusually cold season, when icicles
hung from the water tanks, a very
strange sight was presented to
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-04-16
WISCONSIN PAPER ON
WESTERN CANADA.
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, One OF the
Eavoured Districts.

The following clipped from the cor
respondence columns of the Eau Claire,
wisconsin, Leader, is bpt one of
many letters of similar character
that might be published concerning
Western Canada. the land of No. 1
Hard Wheat and the best cattle on
the continent. 1t is a simple matter
to reach the lands spoken of, the Cana
dian Government having agencies es-
tablished at ST. Paul and Duluth,
Minnesota; Grafton, North Dakota;
Watertown, South Dakota; Omaha,
Nebraska; Kansas City, Missouri; Des
Mines, Iowa; Wausau and Milwaukee,
Wisconsin,; Chicago, Illinois; Indian
apolis, Indiana; Sault Ste. Marie, and
Detroit Michigan; Toledo and Column
bus, Ohio, and by writing to or call
ing upon any of these Agents at these
points full information can be Sc
cured. This is a great opportunity to
secure home free of cost or if you
desire to purchase lands; they can be
bought now at prices much lower than
will exist in few months But read
what the correspondent referred to
has to say of one particular district.
To the Editor of the Leader:
THE rush of the land seekers will
be to the prairie provinces of the Dos
minion of Canada. The allurements Of
a soil that yields 40 bushels of wheat
to the acre are too great to be resist
ed, and an immense migration from
this country may be confidently pre-
dicted. People here laughed at first
Of h. % ~
United States for Canada, but the Do
minion authorities knew they had a
good thing and they stuck to it. Their
officials evidently knew the value OF
printers ink. They spared no ex-
pense in letting the people of this
country know that these lands were
there and that they were exactly as
represented. They did more. They
sent out specimens Of the crops raised
and samples of the grain. We have had
them here at four consecutive street
fairs, presided over by one of their
ablest immigration officers. This gen
tleman spared no pains. He explained
the value of the lands and the richness
Of the soil from morning to night to
all comers
"All this told in the long run. Sew
eral went up from here to spy out the
land, and, like Caleb, the SON of Jepun-
heb, and Joshua, the son of Nun,
brought back good report, and now
some ten families will leave here in a
few weeks for Saskatoon to settle
upon farms there, and others are pre-
pairing to follow. Of course many will
aDDear shocked at tho idea of INV
one leaving the stars and stripes for
the Union Jack, but patriotism is but
nomenclature after all, and our ex-
perience has been that in nine hun
dred and ninety-nine cases out of a
thousand, man is the most patriotic
where he can make the most money
and do the most harm to those whom
he hates"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-04-16
Routing Out Coolies.

Electricity has infringed on the
sphere of Indian coolie labor. It il
made to work the punkahs with
much better effect than the coolies
do or can. The question that trou-
bles the Indian government is what
is to become of the natives who are
incapable of any other work.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-04-16
Go-as-You-Please Punisbment

Did paterfamilias shoot the burglar
he found in the house?"
No! Much worse than that. He
made the man walk up and down with
the baby till break of dawn!'eJudge.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-04-16
EPICUREAN CHINAMEN.
The Best the American Market AT.
fords Is Always Found Upon
Their Tables

The food bought by the Chinese liv-
ing in America is often quite as ex-
pensive as that of the whites. In
stead of living almost altogether on
rice and chop suey, as is the general
impression, Cinnamon, being quite as
fond of meat as Americans, buy pork,
beef and chickens. Chop suey is
made to sell to curious white persons
who visit Chinatown, says the Forum.
In the vicinity of every large city
where there is any considerable Chi
nese colony, there are truck gardens
devoted to raising vegetables ex-
clusively for Cinnamon from seed
brought from their native land.
These vegetables are unknown to
Americans. But the Chinese also con-
sumo large quantities of the finer
kinds of American vegetables.
The Chinaman has a sweet tooth,
also; and in the best Chinese restau-
rants in San Francisco, New York.
Chicago and other large cities, the
best OF wines are served to Chinese
as we'll as American customers. to-
gether with the finest and most ex-
pensive foods. In the average Chi
nese restaurant in those cities good
board can be had by the Chinese for
from SIS to $40 a month, and these
restaurants are largely patronized.
AS rule, the Cinnamon are COM
PEELED to lodge in mean quarters;
but in New York and San Francisco
there are a number of well-appoint-
ed homes occupied by the families of
well-to-do Chinese merchants. which
the American seldom or never sees.
In New York there is an apartments
house, up-to-date in every respect, &C.
cupied by Chinese families The Chi.
naman sticks as closely as he can to
the traditions and customs of, his
country, which are strange to the oc-
cidental, and, therefore, a subject
for comment and often for derision.
His Last Trip.
A pathetic incident of an old horse
of Ipswich, Mass, formerly owned by
an expressman: On account of his aga
and debility, the old horse had been
taken, from work and turned out on
farm to Craze. One day he made his
appearance, unattended, at the rail-
way station, backed into position as if
he had an express wagon behind him,
and waited as in the old days. Short
ly after the train arrived, the old
horse went slowly away to the village.
where he backed up to the express of
fee as had been his custom for years.
Then, after reasonable time, he start
ed up the road toward the farm, and
later in the day he was found dead by
the roadside.-Boston Herald.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-04-16
Some Excuse for Tabby.

He-Why, there is a cat at the mu.
scum that smokes cigarettes.
She-Oh, well. cat has nine lives
you know.-Yonkers Statesman.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-15
REED TO HAVE
NOTABLE FUNERAL

Portland, Me-, Dec. 9.-In the parish
house of the Unitarian church lies the
body Of former Speaker Reed. This
forenoon people will view the remains
and in the afternoon in the main BODY
of the church will assemble dist1n-
guished statesmen from Washington,
prominent men from New York, gov
errors of New England states and the
most noted residents Of the pine tree
state to honor his memory After a
brief service a short eulogy will be de-
livered by the pastor, Rev. John Car
roll Perkins. The body will be placed
in the tomb at Evergreen cemetery.
The bearers will be selected from
the Cumberland bar and Cumberland
club. During the funeral the city bells
will toll SO strokes, the age of the de-
ceased, and all public business will be
suspended.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-15

He was educated in the public schools
and early showed his natural talent
for clever work with the pencil. He
soon decided to adopt the artists call
ing for his own and succeeded in hav-
ing some of his work printed in the
MAGAZINES of lesser Importance. He
went west and before he was Is years
old had achieved a name for himself
with his humorous sketches.
He then went abroad and did work
for American and British journals and
was with Garibaldi in Italy. Mast,
with an interesting reputation, came
back to this country and was engaged
as the cartoonist of Harper's Weekly.
Nast's most notable achievement was
his assault on the Infamous BOSS"
Tweed ring in New York city, which
developed his higher power, and in
this remarkable struggle between
right and wrong, ranging in period
from 1870 to 1875, no one was more
conspicuousIy before the public eye
and no one was more applauded. His
series of fifteen cartoons, exposing the
Tweed ring, were never surpassed IN
history. For fertility of invention
and violence of invective alike they
were incompatible.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-15
COLD is DISTRESSING
SCARCITY OF ANTHRACITE is
CAUSING MUCH WORRY.
COAL MERCHANTS RESIGNED
Poor People Not the Only Sufferers
WeiI-to-do Citizens Cannot Get Fuel
at Any Price-Some Milwaukee
Companies Close Offices for a
Time, Dealing Stuff sparinaIy.

Milwaukee, Dec. 9.-The present
cold is causing considerable distress
in Milwaukee. Poor people are not
the only sufferers. The scarcity Of
hard coal is the chief factor to con-
tend with. All day long coal mer-
chants throughout the city have been
besieged by well-to-do pople who have
money to purchase fuel and other
supplies, but who are absolutely I'M
able to purchase hard coal at any
price.
Every applicant received the state
ment that there was no coal to be had
and that the visible supply in the
bins was destined for the people who
had ordered coal last spring and who
can get it only in small lots. One
large coal company has closed it's of
fee for one week, and others are deal
ing out their visible anthracite in
quantities as small as possible to their
old customers that each may have a
little. They say, however, that there
is not one twentieth of the necessary
coal in the city. Thermometers
throughout the state range from 10
above to degrees below zero.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-15
Evansville Man a Victim.

GAINESVILLE, Wis, Dec. 5.-M. M
Fardy of this city, who was killed in
the hotel fire in Chicago, was about
50 years of age and born at Mukwon-
ago, Wis. He came from Monroe to
GAINESVILLE about twelve years ago and
went into the saloon business, which
he continued up to year ago last
April, when he sold out to F. w. An
derson. Since then he has been on
the road for Kerchoff & Menbar of
Chicago. He leaves a widow and
three children.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-15
And Board Each a Vessel Ct
His Country
Blockade of Venezuela Coast
is Probable

Caracas Dec 9-The British minister W. H. d. Haggard,
and the German charge daares, Balazz lett
Caracas yesterday afternoon for Lagra where Minister lag
gard went on board the British cruiser Retrbuton and Herr
Won Pilgrim Baazzi boarded the German cruiser Vnea
Both the British and the German legations have been closed
The ministers left Caracas without previously notifying the
Venezuelan government probably in order to avoid hoSte
demonstration Sunday and yesterday being festivals in Car
aca all public Offices were closed and it impossible to see
anv one in authority regarding their departure The handing
in Of demand Of such nature as that presented by England
and Germany at private residence of minister forgetting
Diplomatic rules is believed quarters to be without
precedent.
The actual situation is ncomprehensible here Up to yes
erav morning no one appeared anything about the
ANGLO German projected demonstration. The foreign minis
ter said he considered the part OF Germany mad
missbe and any threat would be only feeler while as Tor
England the said she has grounds for aggression
Venezuelan citizens consider the threat of demonstration as
bluff and set aside the possibility Of German dem
onstration.
The Associated Press learns that of the chief officers OF
the German cruiser Vnea told German family at Lagualra
that a blockade of the Of Venezuela is imminent
What London Says.
London Dec "a foreign Office official said:
There is not the slightest desire to Venezuela and II
any made repeated protests and demands
no such action taken would be proceeded with 1t was
the persistence OF this insulting disregard 10 al
which conpeed us to move It is late in the day for
anything but purely diplomatic arrangements for the satlstc
ton of our injuries When fleets have assembled there is
scarcely time to with bankers The financial settlement
should have been suggested long and would have been vel
coined by both Germany and ourselves However, any bona
fde proposition will receive careful attention.
Castro Writes Letter.
Caracas Dec 9.The Venezuelan press publishes an open
letter from President Castro the embrogo with Great Brit
ain and Germany In this communication Castro says these
two nations ave allied themselves together carry out acts
of violence"
He however refuses believe the nations entertaining cor
dial and friendly relations with Venezuela should prefer to
sort to force rather than follow diplomatic path especially
when the supposed difference comes fully within the urlsdc
ton of our laws which based principles Of justice
Castro insists that Venezuela had intention to avoid nan
cial obligations. He says:
The cause of our national dignity is based rights
and our possession of Justice and relations of friendship
and mutual respect with foreign nations.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-15
TEA MEN WANT RELIEF.
Wish Free Withdrawal From Bonded
Warehouses.

Warehouses.
Washington, Dec. 9.-Secretary
Shaw has written a letter to Chair
man Payne of the house committee
on ways and means recommending a
modification in the existing law so as
to allow the free withdrawal Of tea
from bonded warehouses, for the pur-
pose of consumption. The secretary
urges that this action is necessary to
avoid great hardship to tea merchants.
Congress has provided for the free
admission of tea after Dec. 81 next
and in various warehouses Of the
country there is a large amount Of
tea imported under the impression
that it could be warehoused and with
drawn free after December 81. Sec
rotary Shaw says the department
must collect duty according to the ex-
listing statute and suggests amend
ments giving the relief asked for.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-15

night The general store and post
office and dwelling of Max Manthey
were destroyed. The origin Of the fire
is a mystery. The dead are: Max
Manthey, neck broken in jumping
from window; Hedwig Manthey,
nine, body not recovered; Edna Man
they, died from injuries.
The Injured are: Mrs. Manthey,
slightly; Dell Manthey, three ribs and
collar bone fractured, may die; Max
Manthey, Jr., ankle sprained, body
burned Walter Manthey, slightly;
two other children slightly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-15
HOW BEETHOVEN AND MOZART
"a r.

AS authentic as most is the account
Of the first meeting of Mozart with
the young Beethoven, which took
place en- the latters long visit to
Vienna in the year 1887. Mozart, then
at the height of his fame, asked him
to play, but thinking his performance
a prepared piece, paid little attention
to it. Beethoven seeing this, entreat-
ed Mozart to give him a subject,
which he did, and the boy getting ex-
cited with the occasion, played so
finely that the composer Of Don Clio
vani, stepping softly into the next
room said to his friends there: PAY
attention to him. He will make a
noise in the world some day or an
other"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-15
From About the State

At Marquette, Mich, a mine ire is
beyond control.
The striking employees of the Wa
bash decided to accept the company,s
offer.
The stockholders of the Chicago,
Peoria & St. Louis railroad reelected
the old directors.
The first car over the Beloit, Rock
ford and GAINESVILLE interurban line
ran into the city Sunday.
The Jefferson council has granted
Frank P. Mansfield of Lake Mills a
franchise for telephone system.
Mrs. Frederick Studley and her g.
year-old son we're rescued from
drowning in a pond by Joseph Kpavil
The wild man seen near Pembine is
thought to be Harry Burby, who es-
capped from the Washington county
asylum at West Bend.
Peter Olson, who sustained frac-
tured skull in the Florence mine acct
dent, is dead. The deceased was 70
years of age and unmarried.
The United States circuit court at
New York has decided that tea in
bond can not be admitted free of duty
after January 1, when the tariff ceasr
es to apply.
At Washington the feast Of the i'm
maculate conception was observed at
the Catholic University with unusual
solemnities. Pontifcial mass was eel
ebrated by Bishop Conaty.
Banks have been established at
Casco and Luxembourg, in Kewaunee
county, by Edward Decker and his
sons, David Becker of Sturgeon Bay,
Edward Decker, Jr., and Nathan Deck
er of Algoma.
At Neillsville Anthony Kohl, former
ly Of Milwaukee, was convicted OF as
sault with intent to murder Anna
Nieman at Thorpe, whom he was to
have married Sept. 2. He was given a
sentence of three years at Waupun.
The Manitowoc county bar associa-
ton discussed plans to relieve the cir
cult court district of which Mantle
VOC county is a part. A committee
was appointed to prepare a bill to be
presented to the legislature asking for
division Of the circuit.
Several Kansas millers held Sc
cret meeting and raised $4,000 to
prosecute injunction proceedings in
the federal courts against Kansas
railroads putting into effect, as pro-
posed, higher freight rates on grain
and grain products out Of the state.
The moose at the Knapp animal
farm, south of Beloit, broke loose a
short time ago, and before it could be
captured had Travelled over 100 miles,
had swum the Pecatonica river four
times and started for fifth trip, and
had frightened two woodchoppers so
that they climbed trees. 1t was las
sooed.
President Eaton has informed the
class of 1903 of Beloit that the senior
vacations out of town will be allowed
no more 1t has been the custom of
the graduating class for years to
spend the week preceding commence
ment at some summer resort. The
unfriendly criticism of people living
in the vicinity of resorts where the
outings have been spent is said to be
responsible for the mandate.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-15
HOLD-UP IN
WISCONSIN

Green Bay Wis.,, Dec. "a stage
driver carrying mails from Shawano
to Green Bay was help UP yesterday
afternoon by bandit. 1t is not
known at present how much valuable
mail was in the pouches. The robber
disappeared in the woods.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-15
WRECK ON SANTA Re

Kansas City, Dec. 9.-The west
bound California limited passenger on
the Santa Fe was wrecked at Roth
vile, Mo-, yesterday, causing the
death of Engineer Samuel Wise of
Argentine, Kan, and his fireman and
great damage to the engine and
coaches. Several were injured. Con
gresham elect Loud Of Michigan and
Rabbi Hirsch of Chicago were on the
train and assisted in caring for the in.
jured.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-15
Wants Tariff Reduced.

Washington, Dec. General
Wright, vice governor Of the Philip
pines, before the house committee Of
ways and means yesterday advocated
reduction Of the tariff rates on
Philippine goods coming into the
United States to the 25 per. cent.
Dingley schedule.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-15
CAN HAVE AMES.

But Minneapolis Detectives Fail to
Find Fugitive.
Louisville, KY, Dec. 9.-Minneapo-
lis detectives arrived last night from
Frankfort where Gov. Beckham hon
ored a requisitton from Minnesota for
the arrest of, A. A. Ames, former may
or Of Minneapolis, Ames and his
wife left here Sunday for the south.
Their destination is unknown. Ames
was indicted in connection with mu-
nicipal scandals in Minneapolis.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-15
Kaiser Wants Good Show.

Washington, Dec. Ambassador
Won HoIIenben of Germany called on
the president today and presented
Herr Lewald, the imperial German
commissioner to the Louisiana pur-
chase exposition. Lewald is on his
way from ST. Louis to Germany to
make a report to his government.
He told the. president it was the de-
sire of Emperor William that Ger