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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12
THOUGHTS ON LIFE.

Our surest prospect in life is death.
Mans riches are to be estimated
rather by the fewness of his wants,
than the greatness of his poss essions.
When you fret and fume at the
petty ills of life, remember that the
wheels which go round without creak-
ing last the longest
Friendship improves happiness and
abates misery, by the doubling of our
joy and the dividing of our grief.
No great characters are formed In
this world without suffering and self
denial.
We attract hearts by the qualities
we display; we retain them by the
qualities we possess.
Kind words are the brightest flow
ers of earth's existence; they make a
very paradise of the humblest home
that the world can show.
He that cannot forgive others
breaks the bridge over which he must
pass himself; for every man has need
to be forgiven.
The thought of a possible helpless
old age gives all of us moments of
anxiety.
The worlds marching orders are:
"On to the grave" but watch your
track and dodge the stumps.
The last day lies hid; therefore
watch every day.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12
PLAIN TALK TO KING EDWARD,
Physician Tells His Majesty He Eats
and Drinks Too Much.

1t is well known that the king oc-
casionally suffers from his liver, and
that the royal physicians are some
times called in to treat him for this
complaint. The latest occasion was
the other day, when Sir Richard
Powell, a prominent physician extra
ordinary to the king, was summoned
to Buckingham palace.
The physician is a baronet of the
old fashioned school. with the pro-
nounced characteristic of speaking
his mind without regard TO the social
position of his patient.
After asking his majesty a few
questions in regard to his general
health, the doctor laconically ordered
him to strip. The king asked what
portions of his clothing he should d.
vest himself of. On being told to
strip to the waist he quietly did so.
The doctor then proceeded TO exam
inc him in the usual manner, utiliz-
ing the stethescope and another PEN
cil-like instrument, until the king.
who was not used to this vigorous
5OAN VI SA1Ihihotioh VI oil HIS OTSduS,
became anxious that the diagnosis
should conclude.
When the practical baronet brusque-
ly pronounced: you have eaten too
you have drunk LOO much: |
will send you a prescription TO put
you right" he departed with the scan
test ceremony. He had hardly
reached the door when Sir Francis
Laking. who was following, overlook
him and made protest against his
abruptness. The eminent specialist,
who was apparently not in the best
of humor, only retorted:
my dear Laking, if there is any
squirming to do you must do it,
DR.. Laking returned to soothe his
maJesty's ruffied feelings, and re-
marked by way of palliation: "Sir
Richard is a busy man just now
The kings reply, which typifiei the
state of his mind. was: Good God
Laking, l thought he was going to
tattoo me-"
A story is told of the same phys1-
clan that when he was called to pre-
scribe for the duchess of Manchester,
he ordered her to disrobe. but Sir
Richard, l haven't my maid here"
she said, to which the baronet retort-
ed: Madame, | have no intention or
examining your maid"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12
APPLES IN CITY AND COUNTRY.

Strange that we are connoisseurs in
tea and wine and pickles, and yet that
apples are merely apples. Warm and
wilted and polished, they stand in
trays and rows on the stands, and we
buy them. Probably half the people
in the big cities buy their apples thus,
one at time here and there,-Ben
Davis, Baldwin, Pennock, anything
that is bright and handsome. | some
heated houses can never know what
really good apple is, no matter how
good the grocer and the caterer may
be. 1t is in the farmhouse with a real
cellar-not a basement with heater
and laundry and ash-bins-that one
beside cracking fireplace or wood
fire in the stove that is built for SER
vice rather than for ornament. The
cellar is under the upright You go
through the buttery, through the cellar
door that has a cathode in the lower
front corner, and with lamp or lantern
in hand you go down the stairs into
a subteranean world The snow is
sculrying around the house corners,
but here is dark and snug retreat, a
retreat such as no city house can have.
There is no smell of ashes and soap
suds, only the cool soft odor OF the
moist ground and the boxes and bar
rels of apples. From box to box you
go,-Northern Spies, Talman Sweets
Greetings, Roxbury Rossets, Seek-no
furthers. Rambos, Spitzenburgs, Snow
apples, Nonesuch, Swaars, perhaps be-
lated Kings and fall pippins-even
Baldwins are not good enough for this
company-and you take your pick
Country Life in America.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12
A Painful Joke.

There is a lack of humor that is
humorous. according to ex-senator
Pettigrew of South Dakota. An in
stance of it occurred at little infor-
NAL society affair which the .ex-Sen-
ator attended in Washington.
"Conundrums got to going around"
said the senator, land | could only
think of one, which l used with apollo
gies. 1t was, What's the difference
between a man going outdoors in the
winter and a dog?' The answer is, a
man puts on an overcoat and the dog
pants.
Everybody politely laughed. But a
mans sins do follow him. A few
nights afterward | was at a dinner
where one of the guests was a young
woman who had heard me PROFOUND
my conundrum. She remembered and
told it. crediting me with the owner
shin of the clever thing. No one
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12
A DAY IN DELFT.
Visit to the Quaint Little Town Where
the Famous Ware is Made.

the Famous Ware is Made.
Every woman who owns a piece of
genuine Delft has doubtless INDUCED
in some speculation as to the place
wEere it is made and the process of its
a visit to Holland | will confess that
my first thought was of Delft, the
queer medieval city associated indis-
solubly in my mind with the quaint
old platter of blue and white that
adorned my grandmother's sideboard,
writes Julia Mills Dunn in The House
keeper magazine for February. To an
American the first sight of the fac
tories is rather startling. The first
glimpse of the low rambling buildings
suggests the idea that they are shabby
rather than picturesque, though they
have the peculiar Dutch setting: slug
gish canals h0rdered with lindens,
over which the willows bend lovingly,
with slow trailing boats that ripple
into fantastic shapes the reflections
of queer notched' gables overhung with
the usual accomplishments of snow
white curtains at the windows In
side the factory the atmosphere is
purely business-like. Busy workmen
are moving about with an air of silent
concentration quite unlike the busl-
ing hurry of American workmen.
Delft ware, medieval in it's origin, at
one time suffered decided decline,
and for centuries the secret of it's pc
culiar glaze was lost, but it was redis-
covered during the last century. The
unique coloring, the despair of modern
china decorators, still remains a secret
and defies imitation.
The clay is brought from different
countries and ground and prepared in
the factory. First reduced to a fluid,
it is then poured into porous molds
and left there for the space of one min
ute. SO rapidly does it dry from alb
sorption that when the contents are
poured out again, only thin crust is
left next to the mold This is al
lowed twenty minutes to harden. The
mold is then opened, and the plastic
material taken cut, smoothed and
trimmed After twenty-four hours
drying by natural heat it is smoothed
ready for the decorator. Bending over
the tables in the atelier we saw the
decorators, students under the direc-
ton of skilled artisan, put on the
outlines of the designs. At another
table a second process showed the
metallic coloring added This is ap-
Piled in simple conventional designs
for borders, sprays and the like. They
are black in color when laid on, but
come out blue in the firing. The artists
then take the piece and add the pic
ture, perhaps a landscape with the
ever-present windmill or a copy of
some masterpiece of classic art. What
ever it may be, Hollands best artists
do not disdain to devote to it their
highest skill. Two weeks suffice for
the first firing in the large furnaces.
The glazing is Their put on by miners
ing it in the liquid enamel. The glaze
entirely covers the design, which only
reappears in the second firing, done in
the small ovens.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12

guessed it. In glee at the privilege,
the young woman announced the an
swer.
"'Why, the man puts on an over
coat and the dog trousers Every
one was puzzled. l leaned over and
whispered to the young woman, set
ting her right.
"'Oh, yes, 1 forgot she said It's
pantaloons instead of trousers -
New York Times.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12

DEERFIELD, ND" When sent for
the trial box of DOan's Kidney Pills had
been a1illcted for two months with pain in
my back so bad that could not Get from
the house to the barn. 1t was called
rheumatism. | could get no relief from
the doctors. | began to improve on taking
the sample and got two boxes at our
druggists, and. although 68 years of age,
L am almost a new man. | was troubled a
gooo deal with my water had to get up
Tour and five times night. That trouble
Is over with and once more | can rest the
night through My backache is all gone,
anu | thank you ever so much for the
VIC nderful medicine, Doan's Kidney Pills. "
IJNo. II. HUBER, President Ridgeville,
Indiana, State Bank.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12
HOW THE RAILROADS ARE TAXED
Explanation of License Fee System
Railroads Do Not Assess Them

Explanation of License Fee System
Railroads Do Not Assess Them
selves.
ISSUED in Behalf of Wisconsin RailwaysD
How are the railroads of Wisconsin
taxed? One would suppose, after all that
has been said and written on this subject
during the last few years, that everybody
would now know. But this is far from
being true. And if we may judge from
the number of questions that have been put
to us, we may say that those who are IA
miliar with the provisions of the law would
not form very large multitude.
LICENSE FEE SYSTEM.
In explaining the taxation of railways
and of some other corporations that pay
the So-called license fee, the Tax Commits
sion on page 20 of its first annual report
said: Certain classes of corporations or
persons engaged in quasi-public enterprises
are required to contribute to the public
revenues amounts not measured or appor
toned by property valuations, but, usually,
by fixed percentage of the income pro
duced from operation of the business en-
gagged In. Generally it is in form a license
zee or charge for the privilege of con-
Quoting the enterprise. But ordinarily it is
more than a mere charge for a business
privilege or franchise. In most instances
IL is essentially a measure of revenue the
fee or charge being imposed--with slight
exceptions-in lieu of other forms of taxa
That the fees collected from the rail
roads are something more than "a mere
nrottS I 80 a s pusih t pLlNHese appeafs
in, rid 49, iioili NY PIoNlsiVnS VI Tue
ta~o+ioL i pn eaent s'"tutte, tne [dte OF
opo'.o,.a 20 siauu''eu aGcoruihg 10 the
nor n9iI af IN, VI "n'u"i sross earnings
a.. % 30 40 900
o ~, loaus earning soOOo per mile or over,
per cent Vi gross earnings;
60 90 nno Ioa ' uarl NM 9z'ooo ana less than
Yo,o'' pei niiie' o12 per cent OF gross earn
'hss'
On roads earning $1,000 and less than
5000 per mile, 3 per cent of gross earn
lngs;
On roads earning $1,000 and less than
S2,UUU per mile. the tax is 81 per mile and
21a per cent OF gross earnings In excess
of S1,o00 per mile
On roads whose gross earnings are less
than 81 800 per mile the tax is s. per mile
GROSS EARNINGS
Tho ucepse foo ar tav is hosod rno,, .ho
animal gross eorni,rs fro,, "nar LII, 'i i
tho Sta+e ;ncInJin, snah 90 I'm - f',1i
terstata tra,tic as GRO sarnad g,,,bt,, IN
state The pross earnfnCs T~op, With tho
amonnt Of feoS is datorninod w.. as a,e
tajnad fror, sta +aT,onts lado , 49, 81,
on aan,yn,,1 49, 90 IL 's nSls, ~
tha Stota IT,, s,,rar and 20 tho on ctate ~ ~
rnad n,,,,,issio,i IN %n' 'ne s3a nal
nmired tn annrova the rennrt mnde tn tbo
Treosurar hoforo tho Una,so oa, 10 iss,,aa
authorizing the company to continue its
business.
hAlLhoADS Do MI ASSESS THEM
T. T., e. IT, % l - 20
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12
RHEUMATISM CURE FREE

l have discovered simple and abso-
lutely harmless remedy that has thus far
cured every case of Rheumatism, Govt,
Sciatic Lumbago, Neuralgia, etc, even
cases of sixty years standing, and so
confident am / as to the merits OF this
wonderful remedy that / will send every
rheumatic sufferer a liberal trial box
free Write for free box today.
c. H. ROWAN,
Station B, Box 900. Milwaukee, Wis.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12
Farmer Honk-Say, Lem!
Farmer Stackrider-Har2

Farmer Honk-Is that ere solemn,
specialized young nephew of your'n
that's bein' called Doctor and goes
around lookin' wise as a treeful of
owls, dentist hoss-Dhysician, a
corn-curer, a layer-on-of-hands, pre-
sidin' elder, or just a common doctor
thar saws bones and kills folks p
Puck.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12

Aching backs are eased. Hip, back, and
Ion pains overcome. Swelling of the
limbs and dropsy signs vanish.
They correct urine with brick dust sedi-
ment, high colored, pain in passing, drib-
bling, frequency, bed wetting. Doan's
Kidney Pills remove calculi and gravel.
Relieve heart palpitation, sleeplessness,
headache, nervousness, dizziness.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12

BELDING, Mich. JAN IA, 1903 re-
Celved trial box of Doan's Kidney Pills
They did me lots of good. l can now 90
TO bed and lie on my right side = the pain
there Is all gone, also the stomach distress
and belching of gas is all stopped. with
the use of two boxes. - Mrs. E. S. BEEN
X. f. d. No. 2 Reading, Mich.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12

Grace Jackson, aged 10, was
drowned at Clinton, Ind. She went
after vinegar for supper and fell into
the cistern.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12

The California assembly has passed
a bill appropriating $4,000 for the
national G. A. r. encampment to be
held in San Francisco in August.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12

Jesse Beghtol was struck by train
and killed while walking on the tracks
at Kewanee, Ill.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12

The public debt on Jan. Fl totaled
$943, 942,56S, decrease for the month,
of $3,222,116.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12

Mrs. Wlnsiow's SOOTHING SYRUP for children
teething softens the gums, reduces inflammation
ailays pain, cures wind collie. % cents a bottle.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is constitutional cure. Price rs cents.

Senator Nelson was the guest of
honor at dinner by the Norwegian
Of Washington
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12

Dyeing is as easy as washing when
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are
used.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12
That Cry--" Oh, NV Back I"

.tie mISsIonary, Doans Kidney Pills. free triaIu
isS ease rest, comfort. Most people need kidney
'p' 'hey VINO choose Doan's get it-heIp that lasts
Arizona republican., 1903-12-20
THE NEW YORK STORE. Open Evenings

Linens,
 2Ia-Tard lengths of fine Irish table Damask pretty floral and scroll de- signs, 70 inches wide. swell finish worth up to $1.25 per yard CINE Special price per length. Dl.1O 5leached and Half Bleached Napkins, German linen, fine quality, neat de- signs, regular $1.5O value C19E Special per doz............. OE.ZO Mercerizcd Bleached Napkins, large size, beautiful patterns. heavy quality. actual S2.50 value, Spe- C9 nn Cial. per dog ...............D DG.UU Satin Damask Towels, large size. snowy white, hemstitched or knotted fringe. open worked. fancy patterns the finest in the house. Spe- DE-
 cial price COG, 45c, 35c and ..... kOC Damask Dinner Sets, plain and hem stitched table cloths with 12 nap kins to match. all linen bleached. Spe- cial price, set. $7.OO, $6.OO, @ EO $500, S4.0O and .............D .DOsOU Spachtel Goods-Pnlow shams and Bureau Scarfs to match, in splendid variety of patterns. scalIoped TE or hemstitched. Special. each.... sOI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20
Christmas is Near at Hand.

Christmas is still several days away, but it has been with us in spirit many days already. It fills the streets and stores with an eager, happy throng and in all faces kindlier lines appear and in the children's faces is that bright look of anticipation which is too happy to be describable
 One can read the name of the sea son whether he walks or rides, for packages are in every hand, on every car seat, and over every wagon. The entire town is in the Christmas whirl, It is engaged in the buying and secret ing of Christmas gifts, and scarcely person escapes the prevailing conta- zion. The mail carriers and the ex- pressmen and the oyerworked clerks do, in fact, get rather more. of it as they go along than they desire.
 The holiday season is this year blessed by fine weather, and it should become the duty of one and all to make the most of it. Let us all try to make the season as happy and glorious as a holiday season ever was or can be- It will soon fit away, and in the closing days of it let us do our best to increase human happiness to the best of our ability. Let us make human happiness our study and our delight this week.
 Perhaps the best way of all consists in the finding of some one at least of the less fortunate of the community, and doing something that shall render his or her or it's life brighter even for day. Altruism is the keynote of the present week, and no one will have done his or her part who does not this week get ready to be absolutely unselfish. The days are short and crisp, and everybody should go out into the blessed sunshine and find some one upon whom the happiness of the season can be bestowed. The act will, after all help and bless the giver more than the receiver.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20
Most Dangerous Disease.

Pneumonia is probably the most dan gerous disease known to the medical science" said a physician yesterday. "There is no treatment for the actual disease known to exist. All we can do is to treat the general system of the patient for the purpose of defylng it. On a recent visit to Johns Hopkins at Baltimore l inspected the bulletins and noticed 2S per cent of the white patients carried there last winter suffering from the disease, died. Thirty-three per cent of the negro sufferers died. This is a very large per- centage. when you take into consideration that in these times. only about one per cent of smallpox patients do not survive.
 "The medical science has not advanced the least in the treatment of pneumonia for the past fifty years, however remark able this statement might seem. Special ists of the disease say that until a serum is found there will be no reliable treat ment.
 Just at this time in Birmingham we have but few cases of pneumonia"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20
Economic Value of Advertisina.


 In the latest number of the Inter national Quarterly Dr Victor Mataza, chief of ths Austrian labor office and director of the statistical departments of.the ministry or commerce at Vienna, discusses with clearness and breadth the development and breadth of adyer- Using. The business propaganda may be said to be based on announcements in black and -zhite, and Dr. Mataza first shows that mere announcement accomplishes much. Endless repetition of tn } name of an article or it's maker l. many cases suffices. If the name of an article or of firm becomes a house. hold word. the success of that article or firm is assured. Cleyerly managed commercial propaganda goes often, however, beyond publicity, attempting to create in the public mind a favorable impressin of maker or seller of an article, or of the article itself. This gives advertising a wide scope.
 But practical business men say it does not pay to expend heavy sums in advertising if the article treated be not commendable, An advertisement may bring in many customers, but unless those customers are not satisfied they will not come again, and thus the value of advertising is to a large extent lost In the case of competitors, especially in the retail trade, it is often necessary to ad5e- tse in order 70 maintain the old state of equilibrium. Modern ad- vertising, however, operates to force back the small dealer and to form large establishments.
 Advertising, says Dr. Mataja, 'has an important cultural function to perform namely by melting to a refnement of needs, by the propagationfo of novelties, and Dy the consequent Support of the technical and economic advances. The system of advertising is intimately bound up with the intellectual life of nations, having won over to it's service to marked degree art and taste, and having made possible the modern news paper and magazine"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20
Temple Emanuel.

HanulSkah services at Temple Emanuel this afternoon will be of uncommon in- terest to the members of the congregation. In addition to impressive ceremonies a unique feature will be the bonds that have been paid and cancelled.
 For the first time in eight years Temple Emanuel is free of debt and Rabbi New field is being congratulated and is feel ing happy. Under his ministry the con- gregation has not only paid off bonded indebtedness of $10.00O, but a floating debt of $200O and has made improvements in the temple at a cost of $1O,OO0.
 This total sum of s22OO0 raised within eight years does not include the running expenses of the congregation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20
Dearth of .TunefuI sonas.

q have been impressed by the dearth of tuneful songs in the musical comedies touring the country this season." said a theatre-goer. T go night after night and seldom have the pleasure of listening to an entirely new complement of songs. It is bad enough to have old jokes re- peated over and over again, but when the same condition of affairs prevails in mu- sical numbers things are in a bad way.
 For instance, l think I have heard General Four Flush sung by no less than a dozen different companies, and always with the same military setting. No one denies that the song is exception ally pretty and very effective in stage drills, but it gets tiresome to hear the same thing over and over again. Paro- dies on MT. Dooley" and "Hiawatha" are so numerous that the subject is pain ful. 1 sincerely trust that our song writers will bestir themselves and turn out some music that is tuneful as well as new"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20

the underclothing that absorbs natures stale water. Due respect should be paid to the noses of others, if the new Chicago theory is to be enforced upon the rest of the country. Chicago may be wiling to abolish baths with no recompense in frequent changes of un- derclothing, but the rest oI the country will not stand for a situation so redo lent of smells.
 All in all, we prefer the Chicago pro- lessor to the Chicago doctor The Chi cago professor is eccentric. but he is harmless. He may prefer Rockefeller to the Bard of Avon but such pref erenee cuts no ice with those who do not accept and share it's absurdity. But when a Chicago doctor says we should order out our bath tubs and de- pend alone upon precipitation. it is time to start a revolution and to fight back. Let every nose assert itself, until lne Chicago doctors are put down, and our liberty from bad smells pre-. served. s.ass .........