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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-12-10

The commission appointed by the
kaiser to invest gate the drinking
habits of his subjects has finished its
Iabors and reports as follow:
Value of alcoholic liquid consumed
by the German people in the course OF
twelve months, $3.50, 900.
Portion of income spent by Ger
mans for drink on the average, one
eighth of all they earn.
Tax on drinks collected by the state,
IS per cent. of the total of all other
taxes.
| Among alcoholic drinks consumed
beer, the national tipple, holds first
place. The breweries cost Germany
$500, 200, 900 annually.
For wine the Germans spend $780,
600, 900 a year, and for spirituous
liquor, schnapps, Cognac and liqueurs,
s150,000, 900.
This showing is bad enough, but
worse still, the kaiser's commissioners
report that drinking is steadily on the
increase Despite hard times, or per-
haps on account of them, the annual
increase in the consumption of al
coholic drinks amounted to $125,000,-
900 in the last ten years.
At the beginning of the nineties,
alcohol taxed German national wealth
1850 millions of marks annually. In
1898, the figures had grown to 1900
millions of marks.
l. H., haL - q
in dollars, since he is so much inter
ested in dollar-land. IAN increase of
ninety millions of dollars in five
years" he cried, reading the report;
why, the Yankees themselves could
not stand it,"
The average income of a grown-up
German, family man or bachelor, is
500 year. OF this amount $11 goes
for liquor, and meat, sugar and other
necessaries are 25 per cent. higher in
Germany than in the United States.
Taxes are high, too, but not as high
as the drink tax. The German govern
ment spends s500000,000 per annum
for its tremendous army and navy, it's
host of officials, and for a thousand
and one other expenses. On ac-
count of this load of taxes the average
citizen is groaning loudly-he never
dreams that himself and compatriots
spend more in drink than the kaiser
does for the national government
The kaiser's commissioners have
figured out that at a generous esti-
mate $1O0000,000 for drink money
would be amply sufficient for his
majesty's loyal subjects, and that if
they could be induced to curb their
thirst accordingly the vexed question
OF taxation might be easily solved. All
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-12-10

Germans would have to do would be
to turn over to the state the savings
of their private alcoholic budget,
then the imperial and royal tax col
lector would never bother them again.
Reducing the peoples annual
drink allowance to 9 marks (s1.S0)
per head will never do" said the
raiser's advisers; cit would incite
revolution"
|. drinking must be stopped somehow, ("
cried his majesty.
Field Marshal Waldersee, a tee
totaler, then proposed to appeal to the
German peoples pride of the army.
Your majesty's subjects drink up
five times the amount of the army
budget annually" said the general. ct
does not do them any good, while a re-
duction in the use of alcoholic bever-
ages will greatly benefit the country.
propose that the average liquor
money be cut down to AZ marks per
year and that the IL marks saved be
turned over to the state in the shape
of voluntary tax. Then we can have
double the army if necessary.
Here are some more figures as
certained by the kaiser's commits
sioners:
The German peoples drink budget
is four times as high as the states
total income from duties and food
and drink taxes; it is eleven times
as high as the entire budget of the
post and telegram, twenty-five times
as high as the cost of old-age insur-
ance, thirty times as high as the
amount of fire insurance in the en-
pire, and 1000 times as high as the
cost of caring for the poor
While the kaiser personally favors
suppression of the drinking habit to a
certain extent, the government OBJ
jects to interference, pointing to the
fact that the drink tax now amounts
to IS per cent. of the entire govern
ment income. ITO stop drinking, I"
argued a high official of the ministry
of finance the other day, would mean
a heavy blow to our national wealth
The annual income of a handful of
brewing companies alone averages
two hundred millions of marks per
year, even when times are hard as
they are now"
1t is also argued that possibly two
millions of Germans make their liv-
ing by the production and sale of
alcoholic beverages.
The brewers consume not less than
two-thirds of all the barley grown in
Germany, while one-sixteenth part of
the corn and one-twelfth part of the
potatoes grown in Germany are used
to make schnapps and liqueurs.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-12-10

ercise any noxious effects, other than
the retardation just described. The
experiment was repeated twice with
the same results. To determine il mo-
tile organisms are sensitive to the ra-
diations, Mr. Dixon enclosed me rad
ium in tube of water containing large
quantities of voIyox globator. Elk
traneous light was cut off during the
experiment. After twenty hours many
of the volvox colonies had sunk to the
bottom of the vessel. but they were
evenly distributed over the bottom,
while those that were still swimming
in the water were also uniformly dis
tributed through it, some being in con-
tact with the radium tube. None
showed signs of being attracted to or
repealed from it. These experiments
indicate that the radiations emitted by
radium bromide are not able to PRO
duce marked effects in a short time on
these vegetable cells and tissues.-Ab
stracted from Nature London).
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-12-10
THE ROSE BUSH.
80 an Favnritel

(An Old Fayorlte).
A child sleeps under the rose bush
fair;
The buds swell out in the soft May
air;
sweetly it rests and on dream
wings flies
To play with the angels in paradise
And the years glide by.
A maiden stands by the rose bush
fair;
The dewy blossoms perfume the ar;
She presses her hand to her throoDing
breast,
with loves first wonderful rapture
blest,
And the years glide by.
A mother kneels by the rose bush
fair;
Soft sigh the leaves in the autumn
air;
thoughts of the past arise,
And tears of anguish bedim her eyes,
And the years glide by.
Naked and lone stands the rose bush
fair;
Whirled are its leaves on the wintry
air;
Withered and dead they fall to the
ground,
And silently cover newmade mound,
And the years glide by.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-12-10
Sometimes 1t Separates.

A teacher in our graded schools was
impressing upon the pupils in her
class the great value of the Atlantic
Gable in bringing the different coun-
tries closer together. keeping them in
toucsh with each other. thus promot.
his their social and commercial rela.
lions. She dwelt at length upon her
explanation, and when she had made
her point very clear. by way of sum.
ming up what she had said, she asked
the question, Now how many can tell
me what one thing unites more people
than any other thing in our world?"
One hand rose higher than the rest
Bertha, you may tell us; class, lis
ten" said the teacher.
'Matrimony. said Bertha.-wom
al Home Companion.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-12-10

all over the sand, the growth of all the
seedlings being nearly uniform; but a
close comparison showed that the
seedlings Immediately under the rad
ium tube were retarded in their de-
velopment to some extent. This re-
tardation was apparent in the seed
lings situated within a radius of about
two centimeters of the radium brom-
ide. Besidese being smaller. they de-
vcioped fewer and shorter hair roots
than those nearer the margin of the
sand. The subsequent growth of the
plants seemed to be in no way affected
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-12-10
WHEN

When cherries grow on apple trees,
And kittens wear lace caps,
And boys their sisters never tease,
And bears wear wooden wraps;
When all the nursery dolls and toys
Begin to dance and play,
Then little girls and little boys
May lie in bed all day.
When donkeys learn 20 sing and dance
When pigs talk politics;
When London is a town in France,
When two and two make siA,
When drops of rain are real pearls.
When coal is clear and white,
Then little boys and little girls
May sit up late at night.
C. Clifton Brigham
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-12-10
His New Job.
mt YOU work."

why don't YOU work."
Ii was the old question and the
tramp had grown tired of excusing
himself But this time he had some
thing new TO offer.
II do work. mum. bur I can't fine
employment in this section"
why, what is your trade?"
"T'm a lineman for wireless tele-
graph system--betweea stations"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-12-10
An Easy pron.

Did you hear about Flanders? He
dropped Is stories. from a window.
yesterday"
Good heavens! Killed instantly ,
suppose?'
Who, Flanders? On. no: it was a
bundle of dime novels he dropped
dis boy had struggled 'em into the
house."-Kansas City Journal
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-12-10
Maids | Have Met.

Once a girl sat alone in a house.
SAID she, I'm not afraid of a mouse
But rodent she spied
And then loudly she cried:
"To protect me should have
spoGsel"
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1903-01-14
ANNOUNCEMENT.
THE coMMoNER FOR 1903.

On December II, 1900, it was
announced through the Associ-
ated Press that Mr.. Bryan was
about to begin the publication of
a weekly newspaper to be known
as The Commoner. Subscript-
ions began coming in Immediate
ly, and soon taxed the resources
at hand to properly care for
them. On January %, 1901, the
first number of the The Com
moner made its appearance.
The paper then consisted of eight
pages, but before the end of the
first year it was increased in
size to twelve pages, and during
the second year to sixteen pages.
The circulation of The Common
er has made steady growth,
each week showing an increase
over the preceding week until
the paper, as it nears the end of
its second year, has a circula-
ton of 10000.
The year 1908 will be full of
interest to those who are study
~ governmental problems.
During the next twelve months
the lines will be formed upon
which the next national cam
paign will be fought. During
this period it will be decided
whether the gold-corporation
element known as "the reorgan-
izers" will gain control of the
democratic party or whether the
/ party will remain true to demo-
cratic principles as they are set
froth in the Kansas City plat
form.
1t is the purpose of The Conn
moner to carry on campaign OF
education and organization to the
end that democratic principles
may Triumph; and thinking men
and women, of whatever politi-
cal faith, who desire TO study
both sides of pending questions
will find in its columns much val
liable information.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1903-01-14
# Anadarko had a few busi.

If Anadarko had a few bust
ness men like Geo. W. Bellamy
of FL Reno, people every where
would know that Anadarko was
on the map and just where it is
located. He is a hustler, he be-
lieves in progression, he is made
on the "git up and git" plan.
With him here to lead the cam
paign we could soon have three
railroads running into our city,
factories in operation. Electric
lights and all of the modern con-
veniences that go to build a city.
We have men here who can and
would do this, if they had the
hearty corporation of the busi-
ness men with them. NOW we
want to say to the business men
of this city you are missing gold
en- opportunities. Capital can be
brought here, manufacturers are
looking for inducements to in
vest their capital, but they must
know where we are, what natur-
al advantages we have and that
we are anxious for them to come
here.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1903-01-14

Meets every Tuesday night at I:SO inMc
Aninch Hall.
l.. Il. MCKNIGHT. c. ?.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1903-01-14

by express the latest in Monte Carlos
Bought by buyer, Mr. Jas Jacobs, very cheap
entirely different from what yor have
seen and no two of them are Prices $ooo $1,000 and
SI2. so, actually worth up to $4,000.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1903-01-14
TIME TABLE.
c.. r. I. & u. II. r.
EAST BOUND.

AN@hRA 'CbsNDs
ANo. l34 Mail Express .....ll:45 u. m.
No. 14O Mail and Express. Ar.6:40 ?. IN.
#No. 100 Mail a. Express De. 6:45 pm.
No. 252 Local freight. ..... .1:30 pm.
No. l52 Local freight. e.. De. 3:40 pm.
WEST BOUND.
*No 129 Mail 81 Express =. $40 am.
No 139 Mail & Express. De. 9:45 am.
*No. 33Mail e. Express. 3:40 pm.
No. 15l Local freight. ..... Areas pm.
No. 25l Local freight. 900 am.
NORTH BOUND
#No. l54 Mail & Express Ar. l1;4O am.
" De.l1:50 am.
No. 156 Local freight .......De. 700
SOUTH BOUND
#No. l29 Mail & Express. De. 9:4O am.
#No. 1853 ." ..Ar.3:35 pm.
" " DE. 3:45 p.
- l5l Local freight. De. 7:2O am.
I" l55 4" go. Ar. 700 %. IN.
sDaily. Others daily except Sunday
1873 and l34 run between Chickasha
and Mangum.
139 and 14Orun between Anadarko
and Mangum.
129 and 40 run between Lawton
and Shawnee via Chickasha, FL Reno
and G, o. &. G.
153 and l54 run between Lawton and
Enid.
151 and 152 run between Chickasha
and Lawton.
251 and 252 run between Chickasha
and Mangum.
1856 and 1856 run between Anadarko
ana Enid.
G. B. Bartlev, Local Agent.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1903-01-14

The leading hardware house in the
city. We carry full line of hardware
and implements. We don't claim to
be the cheapest house In town, for we
buy the best of everything, so we can
give you the best value for the price
asked. We have had our pick and
have selected the following lines OF
goods, namely: Great Western and
Garland Stoves and Ranges. The
worlds best John Deere Plows. The
New Moline Wagon. John Deere
Bupgies. Deering Harvesting Machin-
cry. j. |. Case Threshing Machines.
Wo lust mention few lines of goods
we handle To give ar idea of their
quality.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1903-01-14

We want your coal trade. Call
us up, phone go.
70tf MISSOURI LUMBER Co,
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1903-01-14
ALSO BY EXPRESS

Silk Dress Skirts from Cincinnati They
Made by of the best Silk Skirt manufacturers in America
Prices from S875 to $4,000 Come your upon
them Always in stock Henderson
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1903-01-14

Wm. Mckinley Post No 81. Dept OF okll-
homo G. A. r. meets every second and fourth
Monday evenings In the probate court room at
1880 J. ClRICHEY. Post Commander
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1903-01-14

Meets every wednesday night in Nc Aninch
Han Visiting brothers invited.
w. s. MORSE. N. G..
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1903-01-14
SECRET SOCIETIES.

a. r. z A. NJ.
Meets First and Thid Tuesdays OF each month
n Masonic Hail. corner Sixth and ID streets,
Visiting brethren cordially invited.
FRANK FARwELI. w. NJ.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-16
BENSoN's CAMPAIGN EXPENSES
Petition and POpuIist Candidate Says
the Run Cost Him
&I4B.44.

Yesterday was the last day under the
state law for filing statements of expenses
incurred by candidates at the last city cleo
ton, n three of such statements
were filed The first was that of D.. ].
O'Brien, the only democrat elected to the
city council He spent $15s.5O. of which SIS
went to the populist central committee, SIS
to the democratic committee and $3.50 for
cards and postage.
1t cost Erastus A. Benson 1854 to run
second in the race for mayor, according to
his statement. OF this the populists re-
ceived $1b. No other committee received a
cent from the independent candidate. ac-
cording to the statement, but he paid the
balance OF the money as rent for head
quarters at the Merchants hotel. for ad-
vertising, for a photograph from which the
Autographs were made and for travelling
expenses of a number OF workers.
The statement Of william Fleming shows
that 1t cost him S253.45 to be elected to the
position of tax Commissioners. OF this
amount $40 was paid to the campaign COM
mittees Of the democratic and peoples in
dependent parties, $40 for advertising, SIS
for hall rent and the remainder for cards,
advertising and similar expenses.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-16
NILES PRAISES SOLDIERS
Declares Philippine Atrocities Fault Of Few
officers Men Tried to Oppose
PRNATEs A%BHORRtNcE AN ARMY GLORY
General Lands Refusal 20 Garry out
Brutal orders and Requests
Mailed Home for Action 10
stop Cruelty.

NEW YORK, May l5.-The Army and
Navy Journal will print a letter from Cen
eral Miles tomorrow in which he says he
went to the Philippines in an official ca
pacity and that his instructions came from
the president, who directed him to give
special attention to the Instruction, dis
cipllne and supplies Of the army.
Coming to the subject Of crueltles in the
Philippines. General Miles letter reads:
II is idle to assume that campaigning in
the Philippines has conditions that warrant
resort to medieval cruelty and a departure
from an honorable method OF conducting
warfare, and that such depredations should
be overlooked and condoned.
II is most gratifying that the serious
offenses have not been committed by the
soldiers unless under the direct orders Of
certain officers who were responsible. Sol
diers have withheld fire when ordered 20
shoot prisoners, protested against acts of
cruelty and written to relatives at home
urging them to take action to put a stop
to these crimes. II will ever be one of the
glories of the army that such deeds, com
United by whatever authority, are abhor-
rent to the American soldier.
The officers who are responsible do not
by any means constitute the American
army and there must be an unmistakable
line drawn between the great body OF
honorable and faithful officers and brave
soldiers, whose records have been com
mendable, and those OF whatever station,
whose acts have received and should re-
ceive the sternest condemnation of all
honorable men.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-16
DEPUTY TAX COMMISSIONER
RumOr that Mr.. Fleming Has Selected
bert sJOberE for the
Place.

1t was reported yesterday that Tax
Commissions Fleming had decided upon
Albert Sjoberg, president of the Swedish
Western Tribune company as deputy com
missioner, displacing Arion Lewis, the
present incumbent. 1t has been known for
some time that Lewis head was TO fall in
the basket. Mr.. Fleming refused TO either
afhrm or deny the reported selection Of
Sjoberg, who at one time was in the state
land once at Lincoln during Governor Hol-
combs administration. In connection with
this report 1t was asserted that Comptroller
Lobeck has promised to give Frank PIanck
a place in his once as soon as II is re-
organized. Planck was once sergeant-at-
arms OF the city council.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-16
AT THE ~PLAYHOUSES
weber and Fields ut the Creighton

weber and Fields at the Creighton
Orpheum.
It was a delightful evening that we spent
with old friends at the Creighton-Orpneum
last night, and that word ''old" goes just
as 1t lays, too. All of the stars of this
now famous aggregation of funmakers and
ridicule dispensers have been known here
for 10, these many years.; some have not
been seen here for so long that one doesn't
exactly care to fix the date, and others
have been with US more recently, but none
had outlived the memory Of local adj
mirers, and each received a cordial greet
ing as he or she came on the stage last
evening. Lillian Russell is still the mag
nificent type of American womanhood, so
far as visible charms are concerned. we
have known for such a long time. In her
personal appearance is the most effective
advertisement for physical culture known.
She makes no bones of the fact that it Is
from exercise alone that she derives the
perpetual youth hat seems to be hers.
! She never was much shakes as an actress,
and her singing ability has never been such
as to endanger the reputation of the great
stars of the operate world, but she is GER
tainly good to look at.
Fay T-empleton-may her shadow decrease
until 1t is only about half what It now is
gives physical evidence of the lapse of time
since she first sang her way into Omaha
heart; but with the maturity that follows
in the wake of years has come the ripen-
ing of an artistic instinct that Is now In
it's fullest bloom, and which j~ustihes her
recognition as the unquestioned leader in
her line. Her voice is still rich and reson-
ant, and musical in a high degree, and
while her acting has lost its girlish charm,
1t has taken on the fuller and rounder
lines of experience, and is therefore the
more satisfactory. Louise Allen is Just
what she has always been. an extremely
clever woman, and her burlesque of Mary
/ MacLane Is one of the most delightful
things of the sort ever shown here.
OF the men little need be said beyond
the fact that each s~ustains his reputation.
All are we'll known for their ability as
comedians. In the instance OF Mr.. Collier
one is pleased to notice that he shows the
advance due TO the careful schooling he
has had in the way OF repression. and a
consequent development OF. ability. In
the selection Of a chorus the anager
lave been unusually happy, having secured
a bunch of girls with fresh looking faces
and sweet, clear voices and muscles that
apparently never tire. At any rate, they
hustle from first TO last. There isn't ar
idle minute for them chorus girls, and or
the stage there is something doing all the
time. Omaha people were never better
entertained than last night.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-16
FOR WORLDS FAIR TRAFFIC
President FELTON, Talks Of Arrange
ments Made by Chicago a
Alton Road.

President S. NJ. FELTON, of the Chicago &
Alton railroad. who was on the Hartman
Burt special that passed through Omaha
from the west at midnight Thursday, said
his road had just completed extensive track
improvements on its main line from Chi
cago to st. Louis in preparation for the
worlds fair.
1--WE will be right in the thick of It,"
said President FELTON,, land will have to
make improvements ano engagements in
our equipment that no other condition has
ever demanded. We rave done a great
deal of double-tracking and roadbed work
that places our line in the most excellent
condition and insures for us the most COM
plete success in undertaking the transpor-
tation of the vast throngs hat will be 60
ing back and forth between these two great
cities throughout the fair period. We are
now working in conjunction with various
other railroads entering st. Louis on the
terminal arrangements at the worlds fair.
These will be surprising in arrangement
and facility. Practically all the arrange
ments for extra construction work made
necessary by the worlds fair and most of
the actual work is already done, but 1t Is
now the question of handling the crowds
that Is commanding our attention, The
crowds promise TO be the greatest ever
known In this country, and therefore the
transportation question may be considered
the biggest with which these roads ever
have had to contend. But we feel jubilant
over the prospect of coping with the situa-
ton. Everybody has gone to work in a
way that insures complete success.
THE Atoms car and engine equipment
Is being materially increased. We now
have fifty new passenger coaches in process
of construction and a number of locomo-
tives. Tn dedicatory ceremonies gave us
a foretaste of what the big show would
be, and I think served to help us in de
termining and proceeding on further plans
and preparations"