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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-05
THE MORGAN INTERESTS.
How the Gigantic Schemes Are Pre-
NOTED and Furthef ed.


In September, 1902, the Morgan in
terest controlled $3.50 miles OF
American railways, or more than The
mileage Of Germany, Great Britain and
Ireland combined. These lines have d
capitalization of $4,000, 949.571, which
is more than three times the total in
terest-bearing debt of the United
States. In addition, the Morgan liz
fluence is powerful in almost all the
other important railroad systems or
the country. The direct Mc-ycn liz
terests include is railroad s.-tems,
ono munster steamship compaPy. 1S
industrial combinations, seven banks,
three telegraph and cable companies,
seven great insurance companies, and
innumerable smaller corporations or
divers kinds. The total capitalization
of these various combinations Is
sc. 44S, SOC. 0O0,-an amount greater
than the national debt of any country
in the world, and twice the debt OF
Great Britain. The capital of e.agfe'
one of the Morgan companies the
United States steel corporation,-is
equal to about twice the cost of the
Boer war, and its net profits for tAe
current year are estimated at $140,.
100000, sum about equal to the an
nual cost of the British navy, and bur
little short of the total revenues of
Spain. The aggregate net income of
all the Morgan corporations is probab-
ly nearly or quite equal to the public
revenues of any of the great powers
of Europe, and the taxes on those COM
panieS pay .-e entire cost of main
tanning the executive departments of
Now jersey.
But Mr., Morgan does not depend on
the dividends of his stock for the bulk
of his income. His chief business, al
present, is promoting on gigantic
scale, When he organized the under
wntng syndicate that launched the
United States steel corporation, the
subscribers were pledged, if called
upon, to pay in 100000, 900 They
actually advanced only $25,000.000,
and that was returned in the final set
Element. -. leir profit on this invest
ment was S56,OO0,000 or over 200 per
cent. share of j. p. Morgan &
Co. was about $11,000O00. Every com
pany Mr. Morgan hoats-and the num-
Der is large,-yields profits proper
tionally. Often he has no need to az
vance money. The mere magic of his
name floats a company, and his clients
gladly pay him half million, or mil
lion. or five million dollars for the
service He has the Knack of inspir-
ing confidence. The people who trust
him with ,4eir money-and he oper-
ates chiefly with other peoples money,
not with his own,--do not try to tie
his hands with contracts. They let
him alone to use his brain in their be-
half, satisfied that, in due time. checks
for the pronts will be forthcoming
Success.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-05
Objected to Coffins.

1t often happens that it is conven-
lent and, in fact, policy for a creditor
to accept the value of a'debt in kind
when cash is not available. So 1t was
in the fonowing inctance:
Mr.. Grey of Syracuse, had alitigious
client in an old farmer named Mer-
rick, who was in hot water with a cab
inet-maker. A compromise was af-
fected by which Merrick was to take.
in full of all demands, the cabinet
makers note at six months, payable
in cabinet ware"
About half year afterward, Mer-
rick came riding up 70 Mr.. Grey's
Office, dismounted. ana rushing in, ex-
claimed:
Il say, squire, am l bound to take
coffins?"
Collins! What do you mean?" in
quired the attorney.
why, that fellow has sent up three
collins to my house and receipt for
me tn sign in settlement of the debt.
st. Louis Star.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-05
GIFTS.
Labor and Rest
rtst-

Labor and Rest
These are the best
blessings that Heaven gives;
Aad happy he
Who makes them be
His gladness while he lives.
With every day
To wake and say;
Thank God for work and light!
And when at last
The day is past:
Thank God for rest and night!
This is to find
Sweet peace of mind;
To know life's precious worth;
God gifts to take
And with them make
a paradise of earth!
Frank Dempster Sherman.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-05

world over.
But the pleasantest part of the
states, the part where yod will find
the most beautiful climate, the finest
scenery (save for the splendid Far
West') and the most charming and
hospitable people is the east visited
by the British globe-TotIer 1t is TO
Kentucky, Virginia, the two Caro-
linas and the south generally that you
should go if you wish to see the Amer
lean folk at their best and most typi-
cal.
Here in the towns or country dis
tricts lives a sweet and kindly, lazy
and cultivated set of people, all poor
more or less. all living in spacious old
mansions which their forefathers have
owned since the land was settled, all
knowing each other personally, and all
about each other for generations and
generations. People such as these con-
stitute the First Families of Virginia,
spoken of by the Yankees in a sort of
kindly derision as the F. F. V. The
stranger who is admitted into the So
ciety of one of these F. F. V. finds
himself as near heaven as he can ever
hope to be on earth, and he may fancy
himself back again in the golden age,
among these captivating women who
are all pretty, these chivalrous men
who are all kindly and brave.
The hospitality is the open-hearted,
transformations hospitality of the old
I'M,
hosts could spend e1,500 on roses for
their dinner tables nor would one
among them do anything so vulgar if
he had the power; but the Virginian
hostess will go out and gather the very
last roses from her garden, and, mix
ing them with feathery Travellers JOY
or crimson maple leaves, fill old bowls
of blue and white china for the decora-
ton of guest chambers, dining room
and hall. The Virginian does not feed
you on terrapin and dollhouse grapes
at So the pound, but he would literal
ly share with you his last crust, do it
in so charming a way that you would
feel no sense of obligation at all, and
have it cooked so we'll that you could
fame yit the triumph of French chef.
The tide of progress, of wealth, of
fashion, flows round the world from
east to west, from west to east with a
curious persistency. New York has
outshone London, San Francisco will
one day outshine New York, the coast
towns of Japan and China are prob
ably destined to be the homes of
wealth and fashion in the future.
But while the river thus rushes sea
ward in fret and turmoil. nevertheless
it leaves pleasant backwaters where
the ripple still laps lazily against the
, flowery shore, and the silence permits
the birds to hear each other sing.
Such backwaters are these south
ern states, and to anyone having
! leisure, some money, a cultured mind
| and kindly heart | can give no better
advice than warm recommendation
/ to visit them. In Italy, it is true, the
| traveller finds a climate even better
than in Virginia, equal natural beau
| ties and artistic glories which cannot
be found elsewhere; but if he sets the
finest type of human soul above can
vas and stone let him seek it in the
southern states of America, and he
will not be disappointed.-Alice M i.
Williamson, in Edinburgh Scotsman.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-05

Avoid all drying inhalants and use
that which cleanses and heals the
membrane. Ely's Cream Balm is
such a remedy and cures catarrn cas-.
ily and pleasantly. Cold in the head
vanishes quickly. Price 80 cents at
druggists or by mail
Catarrh caused difficulty in speak
ing and to a great extent loss OF
hearing. BY the use c. Ely's Cream
Balm dropping of mucus has ceased.
voice and hearing have greatly i'm
proved. w. Davidson, Atty. at
Law, Monmouth, ILL.,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-05
A SONG.

Ah say tomorrow" softly, lest thor
wake
Some sleeping sorrow!
How knowest thou what browsing
fates attend
That unborn morrow?
All. dream not dreams toospleaJed
lest
They mock thy care.
All, Hope. burn not too bright lest tbv
torch
Should light despair
Arthur Ketchum in The Atlantic.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-05
Demand for Art in America.

There is no lack of thoughtful and
permanently valuable paintings among
the artists Of The United States. There
is enough Of it to supply all demands.
The demand is, If You will have II so,
insufficient So huge a community
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-05
A PROLIFIC INVENTOR.
inventor Of Swedish Cream Separator
in New Fields.

DR.. de Laval, whose cream separa-
tor has acquired world wide fame, has
just completed a new invention of
high practical Importance. DR.. de La
val has now finished his many years
experiments in Gevising a process of
extracting zinc from the ores by
means Of electricity. Zinc ore exists
in great quantity both in Sweden and
Norway The de Laval company re-
serves to itself the Swedish and Nor
wegian works, but foreign rights will
be sold.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-05
BROTHER JONATHAN
AS He is SEEN FROM THE CAPT.
TOT OF SCOTLAND.
ALSO OF SISTER JONATHAN

How One of Them Got Rid of an Ad.
mirer-A Good Word for the First
Families OF Virginia-Open Heart
ed Hospitality Prevaiis-A Recon-
mendaton to Visit Them.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-05

oscar Strauss. one OF the represen-
tatiyes Of the United States at the
Hague court OF arbitration may be
called upon to act as Judge to decide
the Venezuelan dispute.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-07
Interchange.

The oriole sang in the apple-tree;
The sick girl lay on her bed, and heard
The tremulous note of the glad wild bird;
And, "Ah!" she sighed, ITO share with thee
Life's rapture exquisite and strong:
Its hope, its eager energy,
Its fragrance and its song!"
The oriole swayed in the apple-tree,
And he sang: II will build with my love, a nest.
Fine as e'er welcomed birding guest:
Like a pendent blossom, secure yet free,
1t shall hang from bough above me there,
Bright. bright with the gold that is combed for me
From the sick girls auburn hair!"
Then he built the nest in the apple-tree;
And, FURNISHED over, ball of light,
1t cleaned and shone in. the sick girls sight,
And she gazed upon it wonderingly:
But when the bird had forever flown,
They brought the nest from the apple-tree
To the bed where she lay alone.
80 builder of this mystery!-"
The wide and wistful eyes grew dim,
And the soul of the sick girl followed him
'Dear bird! have had part, through thee,
In the life for which long and long:
Have shared its hope, its energy,
Its rapture and its song!"
Florence Earle Coates in the Century.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-07

"Japan wax" as it is called, is OBJ
tanned from a tree, Rhus succeda-
nea, which is found in Japan, China
and throughout the East Indies in gen.
eral. In the Japanese langus Q it is
called haje or haze. The tt COM
mences to bear fruit when fiv~ or six
years old and increases its product
every year till at the age of fifty years
every tree will produce $50 to 400
pounds of berries, from which seventy
to eighty pounds of wax can be OBJ
tanned.
The wax is formed in the middle of
the berry, between the skin and the
seed, like the pulp of the grape. 1t is
extracted by boiling the berries in wa
ter and allowing it to cool, when the
wax separates from the skin and seed,
sinking to the bottom of the vessel in
solid cake. The specific gravity Of
this wax is $40 and its melting point
131 degrees F.. It is largely used, Ell
ther alone or mixed with tallOw, by the
Chinese in the manufacture of candles.
This tree should not be conf0unded
with the "tallow tree" of China, which
has pith Of solid tallow in all trees
that have fully matured.-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-07
"A Merry Heart
Goes all the Way

~ EMILE reader, do not be SO
gentle. Brace up and be
Y hearty. Come into the game
Take some chips. Life is
short, and is certainly disappointing.
Be friendly and have friends. Socra-
tes thought we'll of having friends.
Why despise Socrates? Would that l
had time to say a word for him. He
thought well of friends, and his own
career shows how much better they are
than enemies. Getting friends is not
hard; it is easy. It is like the enter
prise of getting string of buttons in
to which we plunged headlong some
years ago. You still remember, ardent
reader, that you had no trouble in get
ting string Of buttons. You got
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-07

the city. Year after year the hotel and
club life of our large cities is increas
ing enormously. President Roosevelt
has recently advocated large families,
but unless there is a change in the
mode Of life in our large cities the
smaller the families remain the better.
Home! In days past what halIowed
memories were not revived by that
word! It stood for the best days Of
mans life and for all that was best in
him. Now it is too often an empty
pretense. AS place where the family
occasionally eat and sleep, it is the
home, but all of the most beautiful and
sincere features are being eliminated.
After dinner, if the family happens to
have dined together, they separate and
each goes to his favorite haunt. The
children are left to their own devices
to wander at will among all that is
dangerous to young manhood and
young womanhood; or if they are
youngsters they are left to the care of
strangers
On the other hand, home in the coun-
try is a real home. After supper is
cleared away tie family gather togeth-
er and there is an interchange of tender
and sympathetic interest from which
each member of the family der ives no
small measure of encourapem6et and
good cheer.
Ours is great and rich country, but
the nucleus of all our large fortunes
was the result of the courage, foresight,
prudence and thrift of country lads.
The bait that lures men from the
country to the city is the thousand and
one inventions and appliances that
make life in the city one of compare
tive ease and luxury. But there is
inst where we take the wrong road, fol
luxury gives no pleasure when the
novelty has worn off and bodily ease
can never give happiness. Every ounce
of ease costs pound of responsibility
and anxiety, and every week Of luxury
costs year of care and worry. If then
we would be successful in our quest
for happiness let us avoid the grasping
scheming throng where gold is god
where the right hand of friendship il
seldom extended save to those wht
succeed, where the smiling face only
too often serves as a mask for tn,
passions beneath; let us avoid all thi'
and go back to Nature, back to th'
music of the running stream and sway
ing tree, back to the fields and pastures
and woods and mountains where th'
birds and beasts and even the very in
sects bespeak the joy that comes from
Nature alone. Give up the chase TO
the dollar, the fleeting recognition O
men, and all the mockery and sham o
the artificial city life and go back wher
the pure air. blue sky and green field
impart health and vigor and there b
content to bathe in Natures swee
simplicity. F. I.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-07

a button by giving button. Some
times you we're offered pretty poor
button, and you did not feel like trade,
but half the time you got the best of it.
And you got string of buttons. Get
a string of friends. You have as good
a right to friends as anyone else. Get
out and claim them. Call everybody
John and Jim and Joe. Don't wait ten
years to call man Joe. It doesn't
take an order of the court to call man
Joe. He will like it all the better if
you call him Joe on the second meet
ing. He will think there is something
free and friendly about you. Call some
body Pete and have someone to call
Jake. Don't be backward with the
capitalist him Mack. Call the
banker Hank. Everybody will chime
right in and call you Dave, like those
good little synchronous telegraph in
struments that always answer to the
true note And always be glad to see
people. Don't hand out an exact form
al greeting to man as if it were an
accurate segment of cold pie. And be
full of glee, uncounterfeited glee. Have
it about you in tens and twenties. "It
is merry in hall when boards wag all;
jog on, jog on the foot path way, and
merrily hent the stile-a." Be jocular
and gay, and if you can not be any
thing else, be noisy. Sing songs, old
ones or new ones, good ones or bad ones,
only sing them loud. Dance a step,
and the worse it is the better it will
show your good will.
''Life is wine from the world-old tun
night together, and all is DONE"
Dance and sing and make merry, you
win like everybody and you will be sur
prised at the result. And you will have
on your monument the sculptor
will design the scroll and Bill the
handy man will write the rhymes:
| This is the lesson and this is the creed:
When that he lived he lived indeed;
| When he was dead as a kit of smelts
He was no deader than anyone else.
| A. r. S.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-07
evening Song.

The night wind murmurs in the poplar tree.
The white moon sails in deeps of cloudless sky;
The nightingale is singing, all for thee,
Her lovely lullaby.
The bright light birds that in the sunshine sing
Are sleeping nOw-as thou, my bird, ShOuldst be;
The spell of night lies soft on everything
On all the flowers and thee.
The lawn is gray with dew; the river flows
With ceaseless murmur by the willows gray;
Soft sleeping now, the lily and the rose
Wait patiently for day.
The daisy buds are sleeping-softly curled-
Soft sleeps my flower at last, upon my knee;
And the Almighty Love holds all the world,
AS mothers love holds thee.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-07
Dare not, If Desolate.

The broken stair of love winds round your house.
I say,
If friendship set ladder in its place,
And climbing, lift to you quiet face,-
Stay not, nor parley. Turn your own away.
Servant to him who hath, shall joy on joy attend.
Who hath not misseth ever all his own.
For this is craven, being law, on stone:
"Dare not, if desolate, to need friend"
Mary Adams in the Century.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-07
You and coday.

With every rising of the sun.
Think of your life as just begun.
The past has shrived, and buried deep,
All yesterdays; there let them sleep.
Nor seek to summon back one ghost
OF that innumerabIs host.
Concern yourself with but today
Woo it, and teach 1t to obey
Your will and wish. Since time began,
Today has been the friend of man;
But, in his blindness and his sorrow,
He looks to yesterday and tomorrow.
You, and today! soul sublime,
And the great pregnant hour of time,
With God himself to bind the twain!
Go forth, I say, attain, attain!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Century.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-07
Samuel.

CaCoO nOgS ana your luC0lllgeuI
dogs, also your horses and cats.
There is nothing strange that
pets and domestic animals should &C
quire certain degree of intelligence
after years of domestication. 1t is only
natural. But when you find an animal
fresh from the primeval forest or some
denizen of the mighty waters showing
more intelligence to the square inch
than a street car conductor; you have
really turned trump.
1t was some years ago that became
possessed of pet of this description
that was a marvel of concentrated en-
ergy and intelligence. One day as [
was taking stroll near one of the many
<'shoots" that connect with the Mississ-
ippi River, chanced upon very large
specimen of the mossback turtle max
ing it's way overland to neighboring
slough. Upon my near approach, |
was greatly astonished at the peculiar
behavior of the reptile. He Immediate
ly sat up, resting on his rear fiippers
and tail, and after gravely saluting he
drew my attention to an inscription on
his breast. It read as follows: "This
is Sam, treat him kindly and he will re-
ciprocate." Now I was greatly sur
prised at this unusual mark placed up
on so homely creature; and especial
]y was surprised at the remarkable
sagacity displayed by creature whose
very nature and appearance is any
thing but intelligent. After so novel
an introduction, determined to take
''Sam" home with me, but as he was
very heavy, being large specimen of
his kind, was somewhat at a loss how
to accomplish my purpose. However,
/ grasped him firmly by the tail and
started for home, where finally arrived
after great exertion. 1 had a large cask
in which constantly kept quantity
of milk, water, bran and table refuse.
In this I placed him. already had
several of the same species captive in
this place, so Sam would have company.
Imagine my surprise when few
hours later discovered all my pets out
in the yard, and all except Sam max
ing for the river as fast as they could
travel. After short chase I recap.
tured them and again placed them in
the barrel. could not understand the
mode of their escape and so determined
to keep close watch upon them, from
position where they could not see me
had not long to wait. Soon beheld
the head of a turtle, which afterwards
proved to be Sam, appear above the
chime of the cask and peer cautiously
about. Then the entire body made its
appearance They had, under Sans
instruction, built a ladder out of theil
own bodies, over which he mounted tc
the top. AS he reached the top HI
paused to allow the one next to hin
get firm hold of his tail with his jaws
then he toppled over the edge, hi
weight assisting in drawing the other
up. Thus, forming living chain, the.
successfully made their escape. San
Immediately set upon them with all tn
viciousness of bull dog and literall!
drove them from the place, after whicl
he quietly took up his position near tn
cask.
Sam soon got so tame that he woul'
follow me about the farm and becam
quite a convenience to me. For in
stance, if happened to be on one sid
of a stream and the boat on the othel
Sam would take a small strong cord i