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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-08-28
Similar but Different.

"Who are those two beautiful girls
on the promenade deck ?' asked the
globe trotter.
"The fair-haired one," replied The
captain of the ocean greyhound, lis a
Clrcassian whose parents are going to
sell her to a wealthy Turk, and the
brunette maid is an American heiress
whose parents are going to purchase
an Italian count for her. "-Chicage
News.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-08-28

"Hello Central" Well. Please
give me phone line for Victor Liver
Syrup. 1t is a sovereign remedy for
colds, constipation, indigestion and
headaches
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-05
STARTS BIG FIRE.
Lightning CrippIes niagara Falls
Power Plant and Concerns
Dependent Upon 1t.

Niagara Falls, N. Y, Jan. 31.-At
6:3O o'clock Friday night the tempo
rary repairs at the Niagara Falls
Power & Conduit company's plant
were completed, and the electrical
famine along the Niagara frontier
due to the early morning fire which
was started by flash of lightning
was practically at an end. Power was
sent out from the plant an hour be-
fore that tine, but it was not per-
manent owing to a short circuit
which occurred in the power house
shortly thereafter, and which seri-
ousIy burned three men, one of
whom may die. The short circuit
and the injury of the three men came
as a climax to disconcerting Incl
dents which had marked the day.
E. B. Rankin, vice president of the
company, said Friday evening: "The
cause of the fire was a bolt of light
ming, which entered the transformer
room and set fire to one of the cables.
The flames communicated to other
cables, and in a short time the roof
of the transformer house was ablaze.
The cables were destroyed in short
time and it was necessary to shut
down power house No. l. Operations
in power house No. 2 were not in
terfered with. There was no damage
to machinery in either power house.
In all, about 1000 feet of cable were
destroyed. There was supply of
cable on hand and sufficient to re-
place it." The loss by fire is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Never before since the establish
ment of Niagara Falls power has
there been a delay of such magnitude.
1t was felt directly by thousands of
people in Buffalo, Niagara Falls,
Lockport and the Tonawandas and
intermediate points. Hundreds of
factories were shut down for the day
and the street car service was de-
moralized. Thousands of workmen
employed in the factories along the
river were temporarily thrown out
of employment. The officials of the
power company state, however, that
the seriousness of the situation was
not so great as was at first thought
possible AS a matter of fact, the
electrical famine lasted 10 hours. The
| worst of it is over.
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EMPEROR OUR FRIEND.
Baron Won Sternberg Reaches Amer
lea from Germany with Mes
sage of Good Will.

Washington, Jan. 31.-Baron Speck
Won Sternburg, the German minister
to the United States, arrived in
Washington at late hour Friday
night. He was accompanied by the
Baroness Speck Won Sternburg. They
were met at the station by one of
the German attaches and went at
once to the embassy residence. The
baron will not be able to take up
the Venezuelan negotiations with
Minister Bowen until he has present
ed his letters of credence to Presi-
dent Roosevelt. 1t is expected he
will do this to-day.
In an interview in New York the
baron said he had been sent to pick
up the threads of the Venezuelan
matter where his predecessor left
them. He continued: concerning
the kaisers attitude toward the main
question and the Monroe doctrine ]
can speak with perfect assurance and
emphasis. The emperor has been
much misunderstood. He has no I'LL
terror motive whatever. 1t is as alb
surd to think that he wishes to seize
territory in Venezuela as that he
wishes to colonize the moon. The
moment he grabbed land his trade
would be lost. The situation would
be the same as if he grabbed prov
ince of China. Commerce would be
destroyed and colonization without
commerce means bankruptcy for the
nation attempting it.
1.-THE emperor is anxious, most
anxious, that the best of understand
ing shall exist between the two coun
tries. The days of the old diplomacy
are past, think. 1 consider myself
as much a representative of your
country as 1 do of the emperor.
Questions of this sort should be dis
cussed frankly. In such ways is the
best understanding maintained ana
encoura ged'
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man in his blindness.
Mr.. Rouss was about the last OF the
old-time merchants of strongly
marked individuality. He came to the
city after the war from Winchester,
Va, without q dollar. He worked pa
hours day three days a week and 10
or 16 on the others. He piled up a
fortune, but paid the penalty In shat
tered nerves and ruined eyesight.
For years he kept an offer standing
of $1,00O,000 to any one who would
restore his sight; he was the ready
prey of quacks and swindlers, who fed
only to disappoint his hope Of seeing.
Rouss ran his business himself. He
had a theory that a STEADY" man
could sell no more goods than any 9TH
er kind. For years he paid nearly all
his employees every day. Perhaps the
majority-certainly all in places of
responsibility-were sober and relia-
BILE, but there was considerable pro-
portion of "hoaterS," who took their
pay at night and came back when it
was gone. If they were ready to work
and if there was room for them no
questions were asked. Customers
were never surprised to see new faces
on the floor.
Now that was not such bad bust
ness. The unsteady men whom most
merchants wouldn't have around were
cheap; when in condition they were
not bad statesmen. The old man went
by results. He sold cheap goods eX-
clusively; was perhaps the principal
outfitter in the city of the curbstone
peddlers of shoestrings and collar
buttons.
O o O
ROuss' Statue in Central Park.
Mr.. Rouss selected his own middle
name of "Broadway." 1t was part OF
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AS a matter of fact, what really
sets the limit is the size of Mrs. AS
tors house. 1t looks like city hall.
A driveway curves up in front and
beneath a permanent awning guests
are deposited by their carriages.
John Jacob Astor's house, next door,
is similar in design; the great ball
room behind extends the width OF
both houses. BY throwing them to-
pether, Mrs. Aston can comfortably
entertain the whole number of in
vited guests. She must, indeed, linn
it her invitations. Except for illness,
few stay away. The ballroom serves
also as picture gallery, and is one
of the most beautiful in the world.
Yet it does not compare with the
public ballroom in the Waldorf-As-
toria.
Society is much bigger than any
private house. Many are included in
the Astor list who are but little
known on other occasions. There IS
really no list, no limit. There are
probably some 1000 people in the
city who would be recognized as sin
society" Obviously there must be
cliaues and subdivisions. OF the Van
derbilts, for instance, onIy two
couples appear on the list of Mrs. As
tors guests. OWEN LANGDoH.
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ties. The Winchester ladies idolized
him, and when he died they offered the
city of New York a bust of him to set
up in Central park; and there it is,
bigger than life and assuredly not the
uueerest in New York's collection of
worthless thus honored.
With the passing of Ridley, Mat
thews, McCreery, Rouss and few
others, New York knows no more the
merchant whose face was familiar to
his customers. You used to see the
oId-fashioned merchant, even when
he numbered his employees by the
thousand, patroling his aisles, his face
set in professional smile like an I'M
dertaker's. ii was purely habit born
in the old days when he had his three
assistants and personally greeted
every conner. The great merchant of
to-day is merely an investor. He may,
like the Straus Brothers, have person
al knowledge of manufacturing and
selling. or like Greenhut, the whisky
trust magnate, a heavy investor in
New York department shops, he may
merely represent money In either
case he hires experts to run his de-
partments; he has time for pleasure
seeking; he goes to theaters, plays
golf, has fast horses and does not
walk his own floor.
The old-fashioned merchants name
was valuable to him alone. Now names
are bought and sold with shops as
matter of business. There hasn't been
a Macy in "Macy's" for years. The
new store, so-called, is probably the
biggest in the world, but the Messrs.
Straus do not care to have their name
connected with it. They run factories
in Germany, are heavily backing a big
shop in Brooklyn, and do a great job
bling trade in this city. Yet their fam
ily name is familiar to the people
from the charities of Nathan Straus
and from Oscar Straus having been
minister to Turkey rather than from
their being among the city's most po-
tent dry goods factors. John Wanna
makers name has the old-time signifi-
canoe, but Mr.. Siegel, who came from
Chicago to help establish the big store
of Siegel-Cooper Company, is now
mainly interested in Simpson, Craw-
ford & Simpson, while Mr.. Greenhut,
utterly unknown to the shopping pub
lie, has heavily invested in the former
firm These changes are sometimes
bewildering.
o o O
The Death of Abram s. Hewitt.
In many ways the late Abram S.
Hewitt was a remarkable man. His
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mel we go again to Healy. Healy,
with its eight miles in length of mar
row, island-dotted water; with its
high, heaviIy-wooded bluffs; with its
white-capped waves, over which your
canoe rides as gracefully as a water
fowl when the wind blows strong
from the east or west; Healy, with
it's picllerel! For myself, [ like the
bass of Kah-pee-kog the best, but
that can only be a matter of opinion;
there are others who prefer the big,
fighting pickerel of Healy, and there
are reasons for their preference
quite as much as for mine.
The birch or cedar canoe must be
carried to get from Healy into Crane.
The portage is fully half mile long,
with nothing to follow but thinly-
blazed trail from which the bear and
the deer have not yet been fright
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The News Condensed.

Thomas Rooney was sentenced at
Milwaukee to two years in the peni-
tertiary for impersonating another
voter at the election last April.
The state board of agriculture will
probably ask the legislature to appro-
pirate it $4,000 for improvements on
the state fair grounds in North
Greenfield.
The organization of the Central
Wisconsin State Fair association was
perfected in Marshfeld. G. I. MOrri"
son was elected president, w. w. NOli
treasurer and George H. Welton Sec
rotary.
Gottlieb Grimm, who was engaged
in the bookbinding business in Mad
ison from 1850 until he was stricken
bv apoplexy in his bindery, died at
his home, aged 72 years.
Twenty thousand dollars were col
Iected under the inheritance tax law
from the estate of A. W. Patten, of
Appleton.
The Keystone block at West Supe-
rior was burned, cuasing loss OF
S15O,000, the Floan & LeVerooS ana
Bloom Dry Goods companies being
the heaviest sufferers.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
general store of z. A. Mellem in Mad
ison and got away with $500 cash
and $3.50 in silverware.
There is greater activity among
loggers of northern Wisconsin this
winter than for years past.
The international Brotherhood of
Paper-Makers at a conference with
the manufacturers in Appleton yield
ed to the requests of the mill owners
and will return to the long-hour
schedule. This means ~ hours work
a week and until midnight Saturdays.
Lewis Balm, aged 20 years, veal
thy pioneer hardware merchant of
Kenosha, died at his residence in that
city.
Caroline Olschesl1i, of Green Bay,
over 20 years of age, has been grant
ed a divorce from her husband, Gus
sav Olschesl1i, on the ground of cruel
and inhuman treatment.
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ened. and either may be encountered
when least expected, as l know by
experience.
With your canoe launched on Crane
lake, sit in the bottom of it; take a
firm hold on your rod; be ready for
struggle, for you are after mus
llies now They are much in the es.
timation of the fisherman, and these
muskies have the size. A 49-pounder
is the limit to my knowledge. No, |
did not catch it, and am not going to
relate to you the details of the two
hours struggle that it cost, but if
you ever meet a certain well-knOwn
doctor of Toronto he will spin the
tale for you. But even to a fisher
man, to whom a lakes first value is
the fish it contains, Crane lake has
other charms. 1t is the largest CT
all these lakes, and a weeks padding
would be necessary almost to follow
it's shores, indented in every direc-
ton with deep bays, and these again
with bays, and everywhere the mag
nifcent forests of the north.
A channel leads from Crane into
Blackstone lake, and in times past
a logging company fixed into this a
chute. You push your canoe into the
channel, and little by little you feel
it moving faster and faster. Sud
denly into the chute it goes, and
drops you over the little fall of some
IS inches into the channel below.
Blackstone is noted for its pike, the
five, six, seven and eight-pound wall
eyed fellows that take 5our line into
the deep holes, and make you wait
| their pleasure and convenience be-
fore smbitting to the tug from the
reel.
You must climb the bluffs to get
from Blackstone into Robinson.
where bass again abounds, though a
| channel will take you from there
into little Robinson, also filled with
bass. Portage lake comes next, and
we will call it the last of the chain,
though there are in reality dozens
| of others. There are lakes that have
| been left for you to name; lakes we
/ might almost say, that have been
left for you to discover, and you may
wander through this paradise for
/ days and not see a house, for they
! are not here, and meet no one but
an occasional follower of the immor-
! tai IZaak.
| A pA
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Kay Get a Road.

Adams, the only county in Wiscon-
sin without a mile of railroad within
it's radius, may have few miles of
steel rails within a year if the efforts
of the county board succeed. At
meeting of the board it was decided
to recommend that Adams county me-
gotiate with any railroad company to
the end that a proposition be sub
mitted to the voters whereby Adams
county will grant $4,000 to any COM
pany that will submit a proposition
to build a railroad extending north
and south through Adams county
from Grand Rapids to Portage, and
provided that there shall be seven
stations within the limits of the
county
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Don't Like the Law.

Ministers at Superior are advocat-
ing the amendment of the marriage
law. They have appointed a commit
tee to draft resolutions to be sent to
the legislature asking that the five
days waiting clause &c cut off. They
assert that the reform law fails to
reform where it tries to make people
wait five days, because people who
don't want to wait will go to other
states to get married The amount
of money that ministers and justices
of the peace lose yearly on account
of this law is greater than the
amount they now make from mar
riageS.
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Farmer Murdered.

John Bradshaw, a wealthy farm
err, was found murdered on his door
step at Monroe. The crime is sup
posed to have been committed by
robbers. Every room in the house
showed that it had been ransacked
and the mans pocketbook, together
with all of the valua bles in the house,
were stolen. Mr.. Bradshaw was IS
years of age and was supposed to be
worth $4,000. He was known to have
kept a large sum of money in the
house.
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-
E8B!sgS- Canada a playground for
Eo.b36M9 the people of the states,
Sa214s% and while the Dominion
MNN3 has it's share, probably, Of
IRPY cultivated acres, it has.
as we have, much territory
that nature seemed to have intended
only for a playground. Such, es-
pecially, is a section that lies east
of Georgian bay, and between that
magnificent body of water and the
Muskoka lakes. In fact, as a play
ground, all of these bodies of water
should be included, but between the
bay and the Muskokas lie a verita
BILE fisherman's paradise.
Stretching in line from the Sew
ern river on the south to the Mag
netawan on the north in this little
narrow stretch are hundreds of lakes
that are filled with the gamey spe
cies Of the fnny tribes. Sufficient
unto this article are those with
which the writer is most familiar,
and on which he has passed many
pleasant day with rod and reel. These
lakes lie between the beautiful Moon
river on the south and terminate
with Crane lake, lying a little south
east of Perry sound, on the north.
A glance at any good map of On
fario province will show that this
is not a large territory, but there are
few maps that will show any of the
numerous lakes to be found here,
and comparatively none that will give
=, Ha l.
ties for the sportsman who is either
a devotee Of the gun or the rod.
Let us view the country starting
from the Moon river, with its falls,
its rapids, it's narrow canyons, where
the water boils along between high
walls Of solid granite, with it's broad
stretches, where it's waters flow
smoothly and slowly between pine
and fr-wooded shores, shores so
1hickly set with the northern timber
that they seem almost impenetrable.
shores which abound in deer and
bear and smaller game, while the
waters of the river furnish muskies,
pickercI and bass to the ardent fish
erman who is here privileged to cast
his line.
Pine lake and Mud lake lie just
north of the Moon, and in Pine lake,
especially, may the small-mOuth
bass be found in quantities to suit
the most exacting fisherman, but to
reach it, it is best to let your canoe
drift with the current of the river
to it's mouth, and then after a mile
OF padding, cross the portage from
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What the People of New
York Do 10 Be Talked About

and the memory of his piping voice.
He was so remarkable that he foresaw
years ago all the needs of great in
dustrial institute, and laid plans for
it that have needed no changing. He
did not, however, endow Cooper insti-
tute. After his death, Mr.. Hewitt and
a few others of the family, without
blowing of trumpets, furnished the
money necessary to run the union and
to build it up. At the time of their last
great gift, year ago, they had given
it sums more than equaling all that
they received as legacies from the
Cooper estate.
Mr. Hewitt was in everything but APP
pearance and voice as singular per-
sonality as his father-in-law. 1t was
pleasure to see him and Edward
Cooper, brothers-in-law and lifelong
friends, making in those last days one
acknowledgements visits to their down
town office-a pair of bent, white
haired old men, irritable, but kindly,if
you admit the possibility of the de-
scription.
Mr.. Hewitt was a favorite with
newspaper men--when they under
stood him. For years he was in bad
odor with them because as congress
man he denied an interview with him
printed by e. G. Dunnell, long the
Washington man" of the Times. l
can understand how it happened. l
| once took to him an interview to re-
wise. 1t was accurate, somewhat in
| formal in phrasing.
II didn't say that" the old man
complained. why did you clip my
speech so? Educated men don't say
! don't"
And SO, repeating the very express
sion to which he objected, he cor
rected' the offending word, and all
was well.
Mr.. Hewitt's last years were mar
vel of vitality. He scarcely slept at
all - reason enough for irritability.
Two years ago he was almost in his
grave, and was revived and set GO
ing again by the wisUrdry of an in
lection of a saline solution into his
veins, widely heralded at the time
as an ''eliXir of life" / wish it had
been.
o o q
Mr.. Rockefeller as n sunday school
Teacher.
Young John ID. Rockefeller is happy
in planning clubhouse for his Sun
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small mouth and red eye. The gami-
est bass of all the world, it seems to
me. are there in unnumbered quantf-
ties. | can see each water-soaked
log, each bit of brush, under which
it seems there is always a fish in
waiting for bait. And how they
strike with snap and a whirl that
makes a reel fairly sing. Out of the
water they go with a shake of their
saucy heads. They are familiar with
every trick with which the angler
must contend, but experience could
not have been their teacher, for
scarcely a dozen people year fish
in these waters. Do not imagine it
an unskilled task to land these I'M
taught prizes, Brother Fisherman. Il
Won are not carefud they viii wrap
your line half a dozen times around
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Georgian bay into Lake Healy, thence
through the channel into Kah-pee-
kog, and across the short portage
into Pine lake.
But we will not tarry long at Pine
lake. 1t has it's attractions, but they
are minimized by what Kah-pee-kog
offers us. ''Kah-pee-kog!" What
memories the name brings back to
one who knows every nook and cor
ner of it. Memories of its pines,
some living. some dead, memories of
its rocky shores, it's deep bays, it's
picturesque islands, it's berry patches,
where there are no signs to warn
1respassers away, and far from least.
memories of its gamey bass, the
sparkling, fighting kind with the
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Clones with Three Women.

George King, of Brooklyn, left that
village in a bob sled, taking with him
the 16-year-old wife of his brother.
who had $3.50 in her possession. They
fed northward. At Deforest King
gave his brothers wife the slip, re-
tanning the $3.50. which she had in
trusted to his care, and took with
him another woman he had picked
up at Deforest. The couple started
for Columbus, Is miles northeast, at
which place King again exchanged
partners, leaving No. ? behind in his
sled,
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his stock in trade.
Anyone who omit
ted it in writing to
him need not ask
a favor. In bust
ness he was a hard
man, but he had
his soft side. That
soft side was his
n a tive t o w n.
Nothing was too
good for Winches-
ter. He gave the
town fire engines,
school houses and
contributed liber-
allv to local chart
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Paradise from the viewpoint
of the Fisherman
A Wilderness Of Lakes Where the Finey Tribe Are
Found in Variety and Abundance.

the branches of fallen tree, or
carry it with them into the crevices
of the rocks from which it is next
to impossible to dislodge them.
You lose one, but the loss is small
for another is in waiting, and, per-
chance, you land him after a stub
born fight; but, if you are true
sportsman, you take the hook as
gently as possible from his mouth
and drop him back into the water
again. 1t is the least reward you can
give him for the pleasure he has
given you. Wanton destruction Of
the beauties is worse than criminal.
But we must not tarry too long at
Kah-pee-kog Back through the chan
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In it's second biennial report the
state tax commission renews it's rec
ommendation, made two years ago,
for taxing the railroads of the state
on their valuation, instead of on the
license fee basis. A strong argument
is made by the commission against
the taxation of credits. Taxation of
inheritance is strongly recommend
ed, and it is hoped that the legisla-
ture will reenact, with proper
changes, the law recently declared
unconstitutional.