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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-05-28

Chapter 30 revisos the state militia regu-
lati, rs and increases the appropriation
fruIl Sl35,JeJ t. Sl30N00
Chapter IS amends the law relating to
state deposJeries and regulating the de-
posts 81 public monies. requiring that the
depository shall file with the state treas
urer good and sufficient municipal. county.
state or Unlfed States bonds to the amount
Of AT least 30 per cent, more than the value
Of the money received by the depository.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-05-28
Parks Exempted.

Chapter ZIG adds 70 the list Of exempted
property, from taxation, the tools of me-
chanics to the amount of $50, one bicycle.
one sewing machine, firearms to the value
of S25 five colonies Of honey bees. poultry
TO the value of s25 all farm animals born
after Dec 81 preceding the assessment, and
one watch less in value than $50.
Chapter 249 makes corrective amendments
10 the law taxing gifts and inheritances,
correcting the law passed at the same SEES
sinrl
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-12

and utterly overthrow him and scat
tered his army. Then she annexed part
of his territory and made him humbly
sue for peace.
In this battle she commanded with
admirable skill, ordering the DISPOSE
ton of the troops and all their move
ments, and once, when the outcome OF
the fight seemed doubtful, she headed
a desperate charge, which broke the
enemy's lines and sent the hostile
Khan fleeing from the field.
Whenever little rebillions broke out,
as they did now and then, or the wan
dering tribes of the desert got too
bold, Alice would take the field with
her army and scatter the tents Of her
enemies to the four winds Of heaven.
A traveller named De Courcey, who
visited her capital in 1858, describes
Queen Alice as "dignified, shrewd and
thoroughly capable
The shadow of the Bear.
But to the north and the west of
Turkestan a great cloud lay along the
horizon-the ever-encroaching power of
Russia. Still young and wondrously
beautiful and a powerful queen, Alice
read in those clouds the coming of the
storm which should overwhelm her and
her nation. The girl of the cantonments
listers were unable to comprehend.
Finally, in 1878, the storm broke, Rus
STA poured her troops into Central Asia,
Khiva fell and Gen. Tschandyr overran
the country of Queen Alice. Calamity
she led forth her army against the in
vaders. but the unequal and hopeless
struggle was soon over. Alice retired to
her palace, and, clad in her royal robes
ana seated on her throne, awaited the
coming of her conGueror. Deeply I'M
pressed by her beauty, her romantic
history, her misfortune and her dignity,
Gen. Tschandyr treated the fallen
queen with every courtesy and consid-
Grafton.
At first she was allowed to remain on
the throne under Russian tutelage, but
this was CALLING to her naughty spirit
and there was danger TO the Russians
as along as Alice Clifton held even the
semblance of power Eventually she
was given the great house in Orenburg
and a liberal pension on condition that
she leave Turkestan forever.
COnquerOr of the COnquerOrs.
Some of the native rulers overthrow
by the Russians in cheir Central Asian
conquests were treated with scant con-
sideration and others met with most
unpleasant fates, but Alice Clifton left
the country as she had entered it-a
Queen. This is the little. old woman of
Orenb1rG who holds an Oriental court
in the biggest house in town and who
has said that, despite her years, she in
tends visiting the great worlds fair to
be held in this country next year.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-12
SPARKLING THE MEXICAN GIRL
Courtship's Pretty Game, But Marriage Ends
the Romance
the Romance.

Only In Moslem countries, says the
Galveston Daily News. are women
more secluded than in Mexico. One
of the prettiest views I have ever had
into this inner court of the native life
was one of the first. We had been
up the hill of Guadalupe and seen the
shrine, and were on our way down to
the miraculous well by the steps that
pass the great stone walls and CHANGED
to admire a little child in the care of
its sister, a girl of Is. The child was
playing with tiny cup of native pot
terry and insisted that I take it, and
while we chatted with them the girl
was playing with a poor, cheap locket
hung by a bead string around her
plump, brown neck. She saw that 1
noticed it and with the sweetest shy
ness and an adorable pride showed me
the picture it contained-just a brown
Indian boy in new sombrero, and
when 1 had looked at it with question
in my eyes she said almost in a whis-
per: ut is my novio."
Novio means lover, and her eyes
grew large and luminous with the
word. 1t took but little urging to let
her pour out eagerly the whole story.
She lived in Santa Maria, one of
family of fourteen. He dWeit in Tacubya
and was a burro boy. He had seen
he'd at a fiesta and she said she
loved him as soon as she looked in his
face. She had never seen him since
then except once in the street with his
burros. The picture he had taken and
carried to her with some clipped
verses by tiny muchacho, a boy so
little that no one would suspect him
of being a love messenger. Just then
woman bearing a jar of blessed wa
ter from the well approached, and the
girl hid the locket. 1t was her mother
and she was afraid.
There is much said of the pictures
que peasantry of Europe, but l doubt
If any one country of them all can af-
ford the great variety of dress found
among the women of Mexico and there
is none of the many dresses but seems
to add to the beauty of the wearer.
This beauty is not for long, for they
mature early and begin to fade when
woman of the United States would
be considered in her prime.
One day as l was walking along the
side street in the best residence por-
ton of Merida / saw a bit of paper
dangling from the end of a string that
led up over a balcony and into a win
dow, the shutter of which was almost
entirely closed, only a bare crack De-
ing visible. The string jerked just the
least bit, causing the paper to bob
up and down. / turned as if to cross
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the street for closer observation. In
Stantly the paper which l was con-
WINGED was a note, was drawn up and
l retired to the next corner, where I
paused few moments out of sheer
curiosity to see what would happen.
The note was lowered again, and soon
there came sauntering by handsome
young man in "charro" costume, some
thing unusual in the state. AS he pass
ed under the balcony he whipped out
knife, severed the string, put the note
in his hat and sauntered on.
Some of the most beautiful women
of Mexico are to be found among the
Indians of the Tehuantepec Isthmus.
There on Sundays one will see hundreds
of pretty churchgoers wearing a most
extraordinary costume. The skirt is
often of satin or silk, heavily lace
trimmed sometimes, and with a short
sleeved waist. The headdress is the
principal feature. 1t is a great stiff
laundered accordion plated sort Of
thing that can look very pretty and can
be what the women's word sloppy
means.
The Amatecas, both men and women,
wear white cotton garments on which
the embroidery is done in panels either
down the front of the womans skirt
or on the tunic the men wear. There
is a curious custom among them of
lovers exchanging the twigs of GER
tain trees in entire secrecy, except as
each new twig is received it is carried
to the father or mother or guardian
of each of the two and assent is given
to the continuance of the exchange till
orange blossoms are reached; then it
is time for the priest. This pretty
method of courtship is dying out, as it
is relic of Indian customs and is
discouraged by the priests.
In nearly all parts of the country
the lovers process is the same. 1t is
called playing bear" and is of Span
ish extraction. OF course, it is not nee,
essary to play bear in those classes
where the young folk are thrown to-
gether in the market, the field. the
workroom and the highway, but even
there a close watch is kept on the
girls and conversation with their ador-
ers is fragmentary.
The beginning of a courtship is u.s.
ually the sight of each other on some
public day, some Fiesta" or when driv-
ing in the Paseo. The lover-to-be be-
holds a face that causes his heart TO
tighten, then expand, and though she
may have but glanced at him. If he
does not know who she is he will fol-
low and ascertain her abode. That
night there will be twanging guitars
without her window; and he may at
tempt to sing (few young Mexicans
but have fair voices). The next day
burning epistles of deathless love ar
rive, and possibly an elder member of
the young mans family, and If their
respective stations. fortunes and ali
other things are suitable the young
people begin to see each other, with
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-12

Jar Mahomed Khan was a much
married man already, and 1t was not
seemly that the daughter of a British
soldier should be one of the house
hold of an Asiatic prince and friend
of the Grand Mogul though he was.
So the negotiations took some time.
The Regiments Daughter Becomes
Queen.
Finally, the Khan said that his other
women were not his real wives, but
handmaidens after the style of David's
comforters, and, at any rate, he would
put them all away-pension them off
and have but one wife thereafter, ac-
cording to the custom of the white
man, if the beautiful English girl
would only become his queen.
The result of this declaration was APP
parent a few weeks later when Alice
married and departed in a litter with
ose-colored curtains from Delhi, ac-
companied by her lord and a great ca
valcade, passing across the snow
mountains and beyond Bokhara into
Turkestan, where she became queen.
Not long afterward the great Sepoy
mutiny broke out, Private Clifton was
killed in battle, and the Grand Mogul
was tried in his own palace on a charge
of treason against the English. Mrs.
Clifton escaped after many perils and
went home to live among the English
fields and daisies on a liberal allow
ance sent her by her royal daughter.
For ten years Queen Alice reigned
as the consort of Rao Khan and was
intrusted by him with almost an equal
share in the government. At the end
of that time Jar Mahomed slept with
his fathers and Alice Clifton had her
self proclaimed sole and absolute ruler
of the Khanate, There were aspiring
ministers and near relations of Jar
Mahomed who tried to dispute the
throne with her, but Alice had learned
the arts of Asiatic government, and
what happened TO the ambitious ones
who sought TO contend with her is not
recorded in history. But something
definite happened to them and they
troubled Queen Alice no more.
Her Reform Administration.
Once firmly established as queen in
her own right, Alice set about the
work of a reform administration. She
opened new caravan routes. built new
baZars and repaired the old ones, and
repealed bad laws and made good ones
in their places. She increased her
army and tried to put it on a modern
footing. She was the best soldier in
her dominions, for was she not a child
of the regiment, and of an English
regiment at that?
The ruler of a neighboring Khanate
went to war against her, thinking to
make short work of a woman general,
but Alice led her army against him in
person, met him in a pitched battle
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-12
PICTURE TO PAINT.

The DOings of the BIunderkins,
The wicked savages delight
To walk abroad and whoop and fight:
Their brawny breasts are filled with
rapture
If they can make a lucky capture,
So when they kidnapped little Andy,
They felt as you would over candy.
They waved their weapons DER his
head,
And laughed and danced and yelled
and said:
COMMUNICATIONS
Which meant, How truly glad we
ami"
Then they tied Andy to a tree,
Preparing for a fricassee,
In which. alas instead of veal,
Andy himself would be the meal.
Now it was well that Andy's mind
To thought and patience was inclined;
Had it been otherwise, he might
Have died at once from very fright.
And think! If he had died, why he
AS well might have been fricassee!
But as it was. he did not die,
But stood there modest, good and shy,
Awaiting, like a patient child,
Until the water should be billed.
And hence he saw far on the plain
His parents run with might and main.
His ma cavorting DER the land.
Both rushing like a hurricane
To make the savage cookery vain.
Scarce did the savage chef perceive
Ma coming, ere he took his leave;
So hastily he went that he
Upset the kettle DER the knee
OF his dark spouse, who seized an axe
And on his form made wild attacks.
So Andy Blunderkin ,was saved,
And all in vain the savage raved,
For safe in mas capacious arms
Shy Andy was secure from harms.
To do this deed. ma thoughtfully
Had dressed as gorgeous as could be.
A lilac hat was on her hair;
Her eyes were of a bright-blue glare!
Her waist was scarlet and her skirt
Was purple as she made that squirt.
Her stockings striped in black and
red
Matched her green shoes, as swift she
sped.
And in the distance pa just shone
For skv-blue trousers he had on.
While green his coat was, and his hat,
A yellow wonder, on him sat.
Paint Andy's smile with all your skill,
For Andy giggled fit to kill
His dainty trousers were bright green,
His shoes were yellow in the scene.
Now paint the desert tawny, and
Green mountains in the distance stand.
With chocolate color soft in hue,
Paint the one lonely foot that you
VIII see protruding from the waste.
1t is the savage in his haste.
Now when you've painted this as well
AS you know how, the set will tell
In seven pictures full of grins,
The Doings of the Blunderkins"
Yours very truly.
Little Andy's Friend.
(The End.
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He displayed this characteristic to
such a marked degree while he clerked
in the hotel that he came to be known
among the patrons as "the man with
the steady SMILE" II was through
this characterization that a politician,
stopping at the hotel, took serious note
of the clerk, with the result that the
latter was taken into the formers law
office, and along with the practice OF
law taught the devious ways of politics.
Now the college graduate is capable
of acting as political mentor to many
who are his associates, and, in fact, he
is frequently brought into consulta-
ton by some of the powers that be.
These are typical cases of the col
lege youth who gets up through his
vacation work. Others may be found
in managers or even proprietors Of
summer and winter resort hotels them
selves.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-12

Der of his financial family as well.
So, when the time for fall weddings
came around, they were married, and
to-day they are living out West in the
same town with the old folks, for the
son-in-law is the right-hand man of
his father-in-law in all the latters inn
portant business enterprises; and the
older man swears that the younger is
as good at driving a deal as he was at
driving a golf ball in his callow col
lege days.
1t is a far cry from the clerkship in
a seashore hotel to politics. but among
the politicians of New York there is
college graduate who arrived by this
route.
In this mans veins flows a goodly
portion of Irish blood. and he is witty
and suave. and withal a man who has
the power of automatically handling
men and putting them at their ease.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-12

some third person ever present and he.
tween them, except in those fond mo.
ments when she stands at her window
or balcony and her lover is without
but near enough that the slightest
whisper of one can be heard by the
other, and if the bars are wide Inns
may meet. So love is made until the
wedding day, but sad to relate. when
that day is not long passed the young
wife takes her place in the household
but little higher than the servants
But she has expected nothing else, and
dutifully follows her husband to the
door each day and kisses his hand as
he extends it.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-12

The Countess of Carlisle is undoubt-
eddy the most radical woman in the
British Isles, not only on the drink
question, but in other things. She
would like to abolish all titles of nobil-
ity and If her husband and relatives
did not insist upon her using the title,
which is very old, it is said she would
have dropped it long ago. Lady Car
Isle has succeeded Lady Henry Soner-
set as president of the Woman's Christ
ian Temperance Union of Great Britain.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-12

sources, both foreign and domestic, I
am fully persuaded that the Harris
Lithia water possesses efficacy in the
treatment of Affections of the Kidney
and the Bladder unequaled by any
other water of which have made trial.
This opinion is based upon observa-
ton of its effects upon my patients
for the last three years, during which
time I have prescribed it freely and
almost uniformly with benefit in the
medical maladies above mentioned.
When failure to relieve has occurred
] have imputed ii to insufficient use
of the water, for my experience teaches
me that from one to two quarts daily
should he taken from two to four
weeks to secure its fun remedial eff
feet. A. N TALLY. MD.
WASHINGTON. N. c.
Gentlemen-I have prescribed Harris
LAthia Wafer IN my practice for a num-
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Der of years. / look upon it as the
best lithia water on the market. In
diabetes, Bright's disease and the con-
dnued fevers there is none better.
d. T. TAYLOE.
EXPIRES. N. G. Board Med. Examiners.
CHARLOTTE, N. c.
Gentlemen-In typhoid fever, and in
fact all febrile conditions, the system
needs water. Thirst is natures way
or indicating this. For many years 1
have advised and encouraged my pa-
tients to drink Harris Carbonated Iith-
ia Water. 1 keep it by their beds con-
stantly and suggest that they take a
few swallows or, better still, a good
drink every time they can relish it.
This water seems to be tolerated in
larger quantities than any other have
used. 1t causes no feeling of heavi-
ness or fullness about the stomach
sensation that very often keeps patients
from drinking large quantities of ordi-
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months. 1t is the most satisfactory,
pleasant and delightful water / have
ever used. It's influence and effects
upon the stomach. liver and kidneys
are wonderful, and / can sincerely
commend it as the most effective and
satisfactory lithia and mineral water
of which l have any knowledge.
SAM p. JONES.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-12
SAVANNAH Gs

SAVANNAH, Ga.
/ have used the Harris Lithia Springs
water for the past year in all renal
troubles, with prompt and efficient ef-
feet In equity and rheumatic troubles
/ consider the water superior to the
Buffalo Lithia Spring water. l suf-
fered from an attack of rheumatism
for eight months, during which time
drank the Buffalo Lthia Spring
water constantly for four months with
out any relief In November last /
had a case of Harris Lithia Water
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CHARLESTON. s C.

9m constrained to send you this
testimonial OF the efficiency of the Har-
ris Lithia Water. The value of the
testimonial may be enhanced from the
fact that it goes to you unsolicited.
AS a friend of humanity l feel bound
to withhold my knowledge of its vir-
tues no lcs4Cer. 1 have been using the
water for more than a year with
rnarke1l benefit To any one troubled
with w6uey disorder it is the remedy
par excellence. prefer It to the Buff
falo Lithia Water. Very truly yours,
A. c. KAUFMAN.
President Vanderbilt Benevolent As
sociation of Charleston, S. c.
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Murray Drug Company, Columbia, s.
G. 1 drank this water and no other
for twelve months; since which time
have been entirely well, and have
had no return of these symptoms Of
my complaint.
]. M. Common.
COLUMBIA, S. c.
Gentlemen-I have been sufferer
for four years with bladder and kidney
troubles, and have visited various
springs with a hope of being benehteu'
but have found nothing as effective
as Harris Lithia Water. have no
hesitancy in saying that Harris LAtnia
Water is superior to any water in TINS
country for any kind of kidney, bIad,,
der or stomach trouble, and l WI
cheerfully answer any inquiry al
dressed to me concerning 1t.
]. E. LAWSON
Conductor Southern Railway
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A PERFECT
NATURAL

This water has made prompt and permanent
in the years 1t has been the market many
waters advertised extensively for thirty years.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-12

ASHEVILLE, N. c.
An extended clinical use of Harris
Lithia Water prompts me to the state
ment that l regard it as one of the
best, If not the best, lithia waters
known to the profession. In the con-
dition of phosphate urine, it's acton
is marvellous. Its use in the rheumatic
and equity diseases affords me more
comfort than either the Buffalo or
Londonderry waters. Very truly yours,
JOHN HEY WILLIAMS, NJ. D.
COLUMBIA, s. C.
After long and varied experience in
the use of mineral waters froen many
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COLUMBUS. Ga

COLUMBUS, Ga.
GentIemen-I have prescribed Harris
lithia Water extensively in INV nrac -
tice for various kidney and bladder
troubles, and have found it highly ben
ehcial. 1 regard it as best of all the
Ilthla waters which have come to my
notice.
JOHN EVANS WALKER, NJ. d.
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SPARTANBURG.

SPARTANBURG, S. C.
Gentlemen-T take pleasure in adding
my testimonial to the many Others
you have acknowledging the virtue Of
your Lithia Water. In 1894 and '95 l
suffered greatly with my kidneys and
Aver. Harris Lithia Water was rec
commended to me by DR.. Murray, of the
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nary water.
EDW. c. REGISTER, M. D.
Editor Charlotte Medical Journal
Charlotte, N. c.
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BELOW ARE A FEW OE THE MANY ENDORSEMENTS ON FILE,

sent to me, and, after drinking it for
about three or four weeks, the pain
and stiffness left my limbs, and have
not been troubled since. / feel that
l can safely recommend the Harris
Lithia Water Respectfully.
r. r. HARRIS, NJ. D.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-12
KIDNEYS AND BLADDER.

harris Lithia Water is in class by itself does not
compete in price with so-caIIed ithia waters
to cure every ill known to the profession.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-12
DINAH SHADES DAUGHTER
WHO BECAME A QUEEN

The Remarkably Romantic Life Of the Maharanee OAR Ma
homed Rao, Who Has Announced Her Intention Of Visit
ing America in the Near Future.
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CARTERsvILLE. Ga.

CAkIENS LILLE, ga.
Gentlen1en--I have been using, with
other members of my family, Harris
Lithia Water for more than twelve
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Perfect Solvent of Uric Acid in the SYSTEM


These statements based the testimonials reputable
piled in book form, mailed any address free
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-12

ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE WATER YOUR
Hotel under Management of o
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oVPPLY YOU WE DELIVER
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-06-25
AN INTELLIGENT HORSE.

VIII Wadsworth owns horse
that his children drive to school
mornings, and upon arriving at the
school house they all go in, leaving
the horse to go home alone, which
he does without accident or
loss of time. At night MIR.
Wadsworth harnesses him to
the wagon and the intelligent
animal goes after the children. If
he arrives before school is closed,
he waits patiently at the door until
it is out and his charges are all
aboard and then conveys them
home. The distance that the saga
cious brute thus travels alone is
more than a mile. Such an instance
of intelligence and sagacity in an
animal is rare, and can hardly be
accounted for on the theory of in
stinct alone.-Gilbertsville Journal.