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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-10-22

isn't that they haven't
gumption, for they often start out
brayely, but before long fizzle out Of
just remain mediocre"
1t is because half the time they
don't dare to think for themselves. J"
answered the wise woman. 'sThey lack
Independence
'Humph! Their independence! They
are always talking about it" grunted
the bachelor. II thought the new wom-
an was precious lot too full of it."
.fWell, that is your great mistake
then. She dares to do certain things
enter trades and professions, for in
stance but, once in them, nine times
out of ten she will be content to fall
into the ruts of other workers and will
invent nothing original herself. She
lacks initiative, the daring initiative of
thought and action. This very differ
ence between the independence of men
and women is shown in the art schools
even. It is no unusual thing to have q
girl work there from four to seven
years and never earn q penny during
that time. She will, for instance, spend
season after season copying plaster
casts. You never find the male art
student doing this, and may remark
incidentally that it is not from him
that the school makes it's money. From
the first he is anxious to put his knowl-
edge into practice. After school hours
he makes little sketches embodying the
principles he has learned. He makes
headpieces and tailpieces and even let
terings- anything that he can sell to
the art editors Of papers and maya
zines. In this way he acquires prac-
teal knowledge Of things and is slowly
but surely getting back his tuition
money and becoming known even in a
small way. The thing he is proudest Of
and gladdest to cultivate is his origi-
nality. The girl, on the other hand, hav-
ing been told she must go through such
and such classes before she can draw,
believes it absolutely and slumps down
patiently instead Of trying every now
and then to find out what her own pow
ers will do for her."
But it is in their cringing to the con-
ventionalities that women lose their
greatest chances What will they
thinkg' This is the greatest bugbear
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NEWS NOTES.

Courad Shearer of Somers has been
elected President Of the Senior class of
Ghe Oshkosh Normal
Mr.. aud Mrs. H. Reber returned
home Wednesday evening after an ex-
tended visit through the West.
ST. Georges Ministries had a good
crowd at their card party Wednesday
might and fine time is reported.
Mrs. H. Hickman of Cudahy, and
daughter Mrs. Hare of Milwaukee
spent Thursday with Mrs. Jake j.
Disch.
Sadie Strong, SanFrancisco-s had
an awful pimply and bloched face.
Friends hardly know me since taking
Rocky Mountain Tea. Am fair and
rosy" SIS cents. c. H. Hurd. OH
The barbers of Racine are attempt
ing to raise the price for shaving to
fifteen cents. 1t is to be hoped that
this fever for higher prices will not be-
come epidemic and strike Kenosha.
The expected conference between
Governor LaFollette and some of his
leaders in Racine Wednesday night
failed to materialize. The governor
ought to come to Kenosha and hold
council of war.
The State Food Commission met at
Madison Wednesday and declared a
new war on impure food stuffs being
aolc in the state. Kenosha will un-
Gioubtedly have visit from the COM
mission 10 the near future.
1t might be noted from the pictures
Gf Dowie's departure for New York
&s1at next to Dowie Conductor James
English was the biggest man in Zion.
The genial James certainly was one of
the prominent figures at the departure.
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OF the average woman, and this name
less skeleton in the closet has prevent
ed more genius, stifed more ambition
and ruined more lives than you or I
would care to know about
We cling to convention until we rec
ognize it's hollowness and even long
after. 1t is an inheritance from long
generations Of downtrodden and OPP
pressed womanhood, but that is no
reason why it should stay with us.
You take the girl who feels that she
has the ability to act, for instance, and
who defers year after year going upon
the stage until finally it is too late
just for fear Of what her friends will
say The question is, Are such friends
worth the sacrifice? Is 1t indeed friend
ship at all which prevents a friend
from doing her very best in whatever
direction that best may be?
Then take the girl who won't live
my age" and who suffers the tyranny
of an exacting relation or the tyranny
Of boarding house where she is forced
to hold a conversation as best she may
with her friends in a parlor occupied
by at least dozen chattering people
and where she may not do this and
must not do that until 1t seems as IL
the world were one collection Of don'ts.
She might have, If she were wise,
little home Of her own somewhere,
even If that home were represented
only by a studio. In this home she
might be supreme with her own books,
her piano and her pictures, and there
she could give little lunches and aft
ernoon teas and receive her friends as
they should be received. She might do
all this if she were independent.
Don't depend on any onrnot on
your relations, not on your parents
even, least Of all upon your friends. re
you know you can do thing success
fully do it even If all your world is
against you. You will find another
world which will appreciate you #
you are convinced thing is right do
It even If all the world is convinced
you are wrong. Dare to be yourself,
to be an individual woman
MAUD ROBINSON.
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their diminishing Importance as one
descends the scale represents also that
of the people speaking them it is not
difficult to see that from this one Office
there issues forth a practical linguistic
control of all the territory that is
worth while" on the face of the globe
This strange office is a light and spa
cious room, filled with many desks. all
occupied by diverse and distinguished
company Of cosmopOlitans representing
an amazing variety Of types. A mixed
company of senores, herren, messieurs
signori, indeed! Mexican, Peruvian,
Cuban gentlemen, Dalmatians, Swedes,
Dutch, Danes, men from the Levant,
from Germany, France, Malta, Hun
gary, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Japan!
Here are received and answered appli-
cations from everywhere, and here are
solved the puzzles that seem so hope
less to the layman acquainted with
only two or three of the commOner Eu-
ropean tongues. 1t is on record that
the Office has been stuck" only once
an application came in once upon a
time written in Arabic with Hebrew
characters That was, as Artemus Ward
says, 80 mutch," but only for a little
while. The riddle was eventually de-
ciphered and an answer sent, It will
be either very clever or an extremely
ignorant sphinx that can ever seriously
discompose this collection Of Qdipuses.
Whatever be the language in which
an application is received epolicy If
granted is sent out In the official Ian
guage Of the country whence the letter
arrives. Thus, for example, If an appli-
cant writes to the company in Proven
cal his policy will be in French; If he
sends his application in Basque, Span
ish will be employed, and so on Com
plications necessarily must and do
arise; but working on the principle
that no such things as real difficulties
are recognized, each puzzling knot is
patiently and surely united by these
clever linguists. There is here little
meaning in the expression, THAT is all
Greek to me-" for Greek is easy to the
foreign department
Even the far east, crowded as it is
with many and uncouth tongues, is all
under control. The man from Smyrna
furnishes a key to the situation, just
as the japanese gentleman does when
it is question Of Chinese. It amazes
one to think of the vast territories and
the almost infinite conditions of life
with which this surprising department
deals so accurately and so we'll. All
this foreign business, even in the stran
gest moneys and at the greatest dis
tances, is carried on as easily and as
perfectly as II it were done with dol
lars and cents in The next state. Tur
key, Syria, Algeria, Egypt, Palestine
all names that apyed rs In our youth
lands remembered still as pink or blue
spots IN the geography and seeming
veTs. very far away. here these all are
at Vast almost within our very reach.
DANIEL. CARTER JOHNSON.
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Knew the Flavor.

Owen Wister, the author of "The
Virginian,' was at Harvard with the
president, and is one Of those who
still enjoy bis delightful hospitality
Among the guests at White House
dinner were q very distinguished old
lady, slightly deaf, and Mr.. Wister.
The president, placing his hand on
Mr.. Wister's shoulder, took him up to
the lady, saying:
Mrs. Jones, want you to meet my
old friend, Owen Wister''
"Ah! Mr.. Worcester said the old
lady, how charming! am so pleased
to meet you on account Ofsthe sance. )"
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OFFICIAL ESTIMATE.

RESOLVED, That the Common Council of the
City of Kenosha, hereby determine to make
the following public improvements, as author
lied by the Charter of the City of Kenosha
Wis, tO-Wit:
The construction of pipe sewers, together
With all necessary manholes, etc., pertaining
thereto as follows:
On Congress street from Elizabeth street
south 300 feet. The estimated cost of the above
improvement is 1853 90.
On Garden street from Maple street to Aida
street The estimated cost of the above inn
provement is $4,000.
On Rock street from West street to Congress
street The estimated cost of the above i'm
provement is S365.G0.
The proportion thereof to be assessed and
charged to each lot and parcel of land is the
sum OF 70 cents per lineal foot on each side of
the said sewers. The proportion thereof for
which the City shall be liable shall be the en-
tire cost of said sewers across all streets,
alleys and public grounds, and the balance of
the cost of such sewers over and above said
ST 40 per ineal foot chargeable to lots and par
cells of land as aforesaid.
By order of the Commoa Council Sept. 81,
1903.
CEAS. H. PFENNIG,
MAT. GREENWALD,
r. II. MOTH
dwo8-I5-22 Street Assessment Committee
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A MODERN BABEL.
strange ONCE Where Many Lam.
guages Are Spoken.

guASGS Are spoken.
| Especial correspondence
New York, Sept. 21.The tower of
Babel still stands in the very midst Of
this big city, a place of many men and
many tongues, an oddly cosmopolitan
gathering in the very strangest bust
ness office that is to be found upon the
venerable island of Manhattan or with
In q Sabbath days journey from it's
shores. This tower is a place where
SWede elbows Cuban, where Greek
makes friends with Turk and Spaniard
holds converse with japanese, a place
where one may hear any and all recog-
nized languages and some that are not
recognized and where one marvels that
there can be in one small world so
many different ways of saying the self
same things.
The place is not school Of lam
guages nor diplomatic bureau, but
the foreign department Of the Mutual
Life Insurance company, where bust
ness is carried on with the antipodes
and where, as has been aptly remarked,
mo difficulties either Of distance or of
language are ever recognized"
The idea that here any and all Ian
guages are equally comprehensive is
astounding when, one really thinks
about it, and yet it all lies within the
strict bounds Of the possible and is aft,
er all as easy as A B G. There is no
need Of magic birds or enchanted prin-
cesses in order to decipher Finnish
letter from the shores Of the Baltic or
Japanese postal card written in clas-
sic "kata-kana" characters. There are
some fifty well educated and highly in
telligent linguists in the department
gathered from every land. Some know
two languages, some four or five. They
average about three apiece, and the re
suit is that any foreign communication
would have to dodge some $50 of the
most important languages, to say moth
ing of numberless dialects of the same
in order to escape Interpretation. Now,
when one considers that the really
great languages of the world number
perhaps less than half a score and that
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In st Louis.

There will be houses in the tops OF
trees at the st. Louis exhibition next
summer. They are intended for a
tribe of Filipinos, who are to live in
st. Louis just as they do in the island
of Luzon. Houses of the type which
Robinson Crusoe built are found in
several jungle-lands, both in islands to
the southeast Of Asia and Oh the Malay
peninsula. Now and then a returned
traveller tells OF these aerial abodes,
perched on the limbs Of trees, shell
tered from sun and rain by thaches of
leaves and twigs, and connected at
times with the earth by ladder.
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First publication October 8. 1903.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
COUNTY COURT. Probat

HENOSHA COUNTY COURT.-In Probate.
N In the matter of the will of Mary
E, Taber Bryant, deceased.
Notice IS hereby given that the claims and
demands of all persons against Mary E. Taber
Bryant, deceased, late of the town of
Bristol, in said county of Kenosha
will be examined and adjusted by the County
Court of Kenosha County at the regular
Court Room, in the City OF Kenosha, in ard
for said County, on the first Tuesday OF
January A. D. 1904. and on the first Tuesday
OF june A. D. 1904, at 10 o'clock A, M. OF
those days; also that the time until and includ-
ing the first Tuesday of May, A. D. 1904,
is the time allowed and limited for creditors
OF said Mary E. Taber Bryant, deceased, to pre-
ance
Dated at Eenosha, the 9th day of October
A. D. 1903. BY the Court.
RUSSELLH. SLOSSON,
26 County Judge.
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In order to secure certification of his
milk by the milk commission of New
York city the dairyman must have a
clean cement floor stable, with white
washed walls and abundant windows
Cows must be sponged ind their tails
scrubbed before each milking. White
suits must be worn by attendants, bot
ties and utensils scalded and filed bot
ties kept on ice and shipped only in
refrigerator cars.
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First publication, Oct. Is, 1908.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

RENOSHA COUNTY COURT-In Probate
IN In the matter of the estate OF Albert
Zens, deceased.
demands of all persons against Albert
Zens, deceased, late OF the City of
KenOsha, in said County OF Kenosha
County Court of Kenosha County at the
regular terms of said Court to be holden at the
County Court Room, in the city OF Kenosha, in
and for said county, on the first Tuesday of
of June, A. D. 1904, at 10 o'clock A. M OF
those days; also that the time until and includ-
ing the first Tuesday of May. A. D. 1904,
is the time allowed and limited for creditors OF
said Albert Zens, deceased, to present
their claims for examination and allowance.
Dated at Kenosha, the 18th day of Octo-
Der, A. D. 1903. BY the Court.
RUSSELL II. SLOSSON,
w26 County Judge.
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First publication, October 8, 1903.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS,
T%ENOSHA COUNTY COIIRT-In Probate

In the matter OF the will OF John Runkel,
deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the claims and de.
mands of all persons against John Runkel,
deceased, late of the village of Wilmot.
in said County of Kenosha, will be ex-
amined and adjusted by the County Court OF Ke.
nosha county at the regular terms of said court
to be holden at the County Court Room, in the
city OF KenOSha. in and for said county, on the
first Tuesday of January, A. D. 1904, and on
the first Tuesday of June, A. D. 1904, at 10
o'clock A. M. OF those days, also that the time
until and including the first Tuesday
of May, A. D. 1904, is the time allowed and
limited for creditors of said John Runkel,
deceased, to present their claims for examina,
tiOn and allowance.
Dated at KenOsha, the 9th day OF October,
A. d. 1908. BY the Court
RUSSELL III. SLOSSON,
WIG County Judge
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Giants Wanted.

A wealthy Frenchman at Rouen left
his property to the city on condition
that the income from 100000 francs
be used every year in finding and mar
rying a couple of giants ''for the regen-
Grafton Of the human race" AS a
matter of course the relatives contest
ed the will on the ground that the tes-
tator was of unsound mind.
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First publication October Is, 1903.
NOTICE OF SALE OF Personal
PROPERTv
PROPERTY.


CTATE OF WIS CONSIN-CounGy Court
y Kenosha County.
In the matter OF the estate of Katharine Bey-
ersd0rfer deceased.
Notice is hereby given that, by virture and
In pursuance of an order of license made in the
above entitled matter by said court on the
18th dav OF October, 1903, the undersigned
Charter FL. Pfennig, administrator of said es-
tate, will on the oath day OF October, 1913, at
Two O'Clock in the afternoon, at the homestead
OF said deceased in block Seventeen (17), in
the Sixth ward of the City of Kenosha, in said
County and State offer for sale and sell at
public auction, all the household furniture
and utensils whether useful or ornamental,
and OF every name and character owned by
decedent at the Time of her death, including
all beds and bedding, crockery, glassware,
stlverware stoves, cooking utensils wearing
apparel and household belongings OF all X nds,
an item1zed list of which IS on file in said
matter in said court.
Terms of SALE cash.
Dated at the City Of Kenosha, Wisconsin,
this 18th day of October, A. D. 1903
CHARLES II. PFENNIG
Administrator of said Estate
PETER FISHER,
Attorney. WA
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College For Policemen.

A college for policemen is in exist
ence in ST. Petersburg In the school is a
museum where candidates for the po-
lice force can make themselves famil-
lar with the tools of criminals jim
mics, drills, chisels and contrtvances
for rObbing collection boxes.
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First publication Sept. u, 1903.

CTATE OF WIsCoNSIN-Ci Circuit Court,
y Kenosha County.
Chicago s. North Western Railway Company,
Plaintiff, VS.. w. B, Smith, County of Keno
sha and City of Kenosha, DEFENDANTS
The State of Wisconsin, To the said Defend
ants:
You are hereby summoned to appear within
twenty days after service of this summons
exclusive OF the day OF service and defend the
and in case of your failure so to do. Judgment
will be rendered against you according to the
demand of the complaint, of which copy is
herewith served upon you.
EDWARD M. HYZER.
PLAINTIFFS Attorney.
Post ONCE address, Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wisconsin.
The summons and complaint in the above
entitled action were duly filed in the ONCE of
Ghe Clerk OF the Circuit Court for Kenosha
County, August 20 1903 WIS
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PROPOSALS FOR SEWERS.

ONCE OF Street Assessment Com, City of Ke-
nosha, Wis.
Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals
VIII be received at the office of the Street AS
sessment Committee in the City Hall UP to $50
p. m Friday, Oct. %, 1903 for FURNISHING ali
material and labor for the construction of
sewers and manholes on the following streets,
viz:
On Congress street from Elizabeth street
south 200 feet:-328 feet of 10 inch pipe sewer;
manholes.
On Garden street from Maple street to Aida
hole.
On Rock street from West street to Congress
holes.
Plans and specifications will be on file in the
once OF the Stirred Assessment Committee on
and after Oct. IL, 1903
certified check for 10 per cent of the
proposal must accompany each proposal
The right is reserved to reject any OF all pro-
posals.
BY order of the Common Council Sept 81,
CHAS. II. PFENNIG.
MAT. GREENWALD,
r. H. MOTH,
uWoo-l5-22 Street ASSeSsme nt Committee
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DIR. RILEY,

The best years Of my life have been devoted
exclusively to the treatment of obscure and
chronic ailments that am absolutely certain
can cure to stay cured M success in the
6reatment of all forms of chronic disease is the
result of life time of experience and makes
ut possible for me to positively guarantee per-
GecG cures.
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Ada Dittmar, 1874 Second avenue, was greatly
worried because of her hair falling. No matter
the handful until she had but small quantity
left, which was dry, harsh and split at the
ends, without life or lustre, Every body had
advice to offer, but everything made it worse,
until DR. KOWENSTROT. 81 Oneida street.
Milwaukee. restored it perfectly. She now has
an abundance of soft glossy hair
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Great Place For Eidd1ea-

The great violin neighborhood is
Markneukirchen, Saxony. In that
town and vicinity there are about 49,
600 people engaged exclusively in the
manufacture of violins.
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The louisiana leper colony will be
moved from Indian camp, which is
eighty miles above New Orleans, to a
point near thai city.
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Plymouth England breakwater con-
tains the same quantity Of stone, $780,
900 tons, as the great pyramid Of
Cheops.