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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-26
PORT ARTHUR STILL
 UNDER BOMBARDMENI
FIRING HEARD AT THE FOR-
 TRESS LAST NIGHT

But Three Main Forts Now Remain In
 the Hands of the Russians-AssauIts
 of August q and 22 Reported Re-
 pulsed With Heavy Loss-FIeet
 Emerges-TwO Ships Blown Up
 While Clearing Away Mines.
 Chefoo, Aug. 26.-Firing at Port Ar thur was heard last night.
 Chefoo, Aug. 25.- p. m.-Golden Hill, White Marble mountain and Liaoti mountain, according to Chinese advices dated August P, are now the only main forts securely held by the Russians at Port Arthur. Others are occupied by them but they are subjected to an ar tillery fire which makes their tenure uncertain. Fort No. 5, which has fre- quently taken by the Japanese, and re- taken by the Russians, is again declar- ed to be in tn ehands of the Japanese.
 A rumor says that the new Euro pean section of Port Arthur is in flames. Owing to the mud and brick construction of the buildings, however, it is probable that the fire is not gem eral.
 It is said that the Japanese are us- ing 300 heavy calibre guns taken from the harbor defences at Kobe, Nagasaki and Yokohama.
 St. Petersburg, Aug. 26.-S a. m. The latest information from the front is summed up in to-day's dispatch from Chefoo to the Associated Press, show ing that the Japanese in the assaults on Port Arthur August 21 and 22 were again repulsed with heavy losses. De- spite the assertion made in Tokio that all the attacks so far on the fortress have been merely preliminary to a grand infantry assault, the feeling grows here that the ferocity of the re- peated attacks and defeats must grad ually be dissipating the energy of the find that after all they have broken their teeth on the stones of Port Ar thur"
 Nothing can be ascertained here re- garding the reports from Tokio of the sinking of two Russian torpedo boat destroyers at Port Arthur.
 The fact that the Port Arthur squad ron is already crippled and scattered has greatly reduced its importance as a tactical factor in the eyes of the au- thorities here. Accounts of the mis- fortuneof tn ebattleship Sevastopol, and of the sinking of the cruiser Novik, are allowed to be extensively printed, and | it appears that the balance of sea power in the East is thoroughly upset pend. ing the arrival of the Baltic squadron in Oriental waters.
 Tokio, Aug. 25.-1O:30 a. m.-Fiye steamers and three torpedo boat de- stroyers emerged from Port Arthur yesterday morning and began the work of clearing away floating mines. At twenty minutes past six in the evening, a two funnelled torpedo boat destroyer struck a mine two miles off Liaoti promontory and sunk immediately. Five minutes later second destroyer with four tunnels ran against another floating mine which exploded. This second vessel was at once surrounded by other Russian ships and lowed to Port Arthur, the entire fiotilla accom- panying her. These occurrences were seen from various Japanese watch towers. The Japanese cruiser Hashi- date also witnessed the explosion. The action of the Russians in attempting to clear the channel of mines indicates the intention of the fleet to again sally from Port Arthur.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-26
Campaign in Brooklyn Opens.

New York, Aug. 25.-Tha campaign in Brooklyn was opened tonight by a meeting held under the auspices of the Kings county Democratic club at which Senator Joseph W. Bailey of Texas was the principal speaker,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-26
Westchester Wins.

Newport, R. T., Aug. 25.-The match to-day in the finals for the Westches- ter polo cup between Westchester first and Philadelphia Country club first was won by the former by a score of 15 IA to 13 3-4. e,.@@.- s5f:@,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-26
Auto Strikes Italians.

Greenwich, Conn, Aug. 25.-A big au- tomobile driven by a New York chauf- feur, struck wagon carryng four Ital- ians late last night, and two of the lat ter were seriously injured. They were taken to the Greenwich hospital
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-26
"L', TROUBLES.
Men to Strike Unless Demands Are
 Granted.

Granted.
 New York, Aug. 25. 1.-The day crews of the elevated railroad employees, mem- bers of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America, held q meeting tonight and voted to stand by the agreement presented to the Interborough company and to declare a strike if the company refuses to sign the agreement. Presi- dent Pepper was empowered to sign the agreement for the Amalgamated, or to declare a strike. Mr. Pepper said re believed the company would consent to give the men their demands.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-26
FINE WEATHER AT FRONT.

UenerHI SAKhHrUH NUEVNtS ANHcUEEtNcU
 of Dysentery Among Troops.
 St. Petersburg, Aug. 25.-Lieutenant General Sakharoff, commander of the eastern army, telegraphs that the rains have ended and that fine weather has set in, but that the roads are still im- passable. The excessive heat of midday has caused recurrence of dysentery.
 Skirmishing is fresuent, the general says, and there have been outpost en- counters south of Anshoshan and ascav- airy engagement southeast of Liandian- sinan.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-26
Snrnh Manchester.

Sarah Abagail Scarritt, widow of the late Eli Manchester, died yesterday in the eighty-fifth year of her age. Ar fangemeEts for the funeral have not yet been made.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-26
HoAR'S CONDITION.
Tnlxes Considerable Nonrlshment--No
 Marked Improvement.

Worcester. Aug. 25. The following bulletin was issued froe the home of Senator George F. Hoar tonight.
 Senator Hoar ha spassed a comfort able day. He has taken considerable nourishment; but there Is no marked improvement in his condition"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-26
Baltic Fleet Leaves on Cruise.

St. Petersburg, Aug. 25.-It is an- nounced that the Baltic fleet, with the exception of the new battleship orel, left Cronstadt to-day on ten day cruise,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-26
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-26

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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-08
THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY.

Could we but know
The land that ends our dark uncertain
travel,
Where lie those happier hills and
meadows low
All, if beyond the spirits Utmost
cavil
Aught of that country could We sure
ly know,
Who would not go?
Might we but hear
The lowering angels high imagined
chorus,
Or catch, betimes, with wakeful
eyes and clear,
One radiant vista of the realm before
With one rapt moment given to see
and hear,
All, who would fear?
Were we quite sure
To find the peerless friend who left us
lonely,
Or there, by some celestial stream as
pure,
To gaze in eyes that here were love
lit only
This weary mortal coil, were we
quite sure,
Who would endure?
Edmund c. Stedman.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-08
How | Made Premium Butter.

Four years ago a churning of my
butter was sent to the annual meeting
of the State Dairy association. AS
that was the first time l had ever
SHOWN butter, it naturally scored low.
Instead of Icing discouraged by my
failure | made up my mind to do better
another time. By using better methods
and constant practice l have since
had better success, although l find
have to learn
Before | made my last butter for ex-
II 5ition l was careful to see that the
COWS were getting the right kind of
feed, were kept clean, and their I'D
ders well wiped with a damp cloth
before every milking. l then took a
sample of each cows milk and care
fully examined it, with the result that
one COW was allowed to dry up.
usually leave out all shippers at such
a time. but as | had then only two
cows that were newly calved, my
dairy being small, that could not be
done. About three days before re-
CURED for use the starter was pre-
pared. This was done by having some
of the milk of a fresh COW strained
into clean scalded glass fruit jar
kept for the purpose, thoroughly aired
and cooled to so degrees. 1t was
afterward warmed to so degrees, the
lie fastened on, and kept at that tenn
perature until it thickened when it
was set away under cold water until
it was needed.
The cream intended for the butter
when separated was at once set in
cold water, we'll stirred, to get rid of
the animal odor, and cooled down to
so degrees. 1t was then set away in
p tank of cold water until the cream
from the next milking was also cooled
and added to it. l had the cream
to test about two and one-half pounds
to the gallon, Just thick enough to
churn readily and not SO thick as to
stick to the sides of the churn. The
following night, when enough had been
for a churning the cream
was warmed to 20 degrees in water
not exceeding 10 degrees. then re-
moved the cream that had risen to
the top Of the starter. shook well The
milk beneath, and strained
it i7tJ the cream in proportion Of
about one pint OF starter to ten gal
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-08
The Change in the West.

The future of the sheep business
in the west will be changed in few
years. In the range country in the
last few years the sheep business has
been one full of trouble for sheep own
ers. They have had to run the
gauntlet of all sorts of evils from win
ter storms to depredations of enemies
who have killed both sheep and herd
ers. The time is not far distant
when all the large f1ocks of the plains
will be known only to history.
There are many reasons for this. A
large number of settlers are coming
in, such as small farmers and ranch
men from the country east of them,
where the land is getting too high for
them. Water rights are being taken
up, the two mile limit law is being put
in force, and great tracts are being
broken up and put to alfalfa and beets,
and the already overcrowded condi-
ton of the range is becoming appar-
ent through the lack of feed for the
stock already there. The timber re
serve laws have become a great
menace to the open range sheep bust
ness, and all these, with the spread of
irrigation, have tendency to change
the situation and it is commended that
it will be only few years until sheep
will be pastured instead of trailed, as
is now the case.
There is room for improvement in
the methods of western sheep hus-
bandry, and with a change will come
better sheep, and we believe the profits
will not be cut down much in conse-
quence of the change.-Iowa Home
stead.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-08

Ions of cream. The cream was then
closely covered and left until it
ripened, which took amout twelve
hours. was careful to notice lust
when it began to turn thick and had it
cooled TO sc degrees the churning tenn
perature, as soon as possible and kept
at that point for at least two hours,
frequently stirring it to make sure OF
it all being cooled alike and thus help
secure clean churning and butter
with good grain. The cream when
ready to churn was slightly sour and
on being stirred with the paddle stuck
evenly all over it not running off in
streaks, as cream insufficiently ripen-
ed would do.
In the meantime had scalded and
cooled the churn to insure it being
perfectly clean and the cream was
poured into it, coloring put in to suit
the eye, and churning begun. The
butter came in granules, smaller than
wheat kernels, in thirty to forty min
utes, and small handful of salt was
~ouSN W hStp ~ h0dl Oll luS
milk. The churn was then given a
turn or two more and the buttermilk
strained off. The butter was washed
twice in water at so degrees, about
one quart of water to a pound of but
ter. The worker, butter mold, and
ladle having been sealded and cooled,
the butter was lifted out of the churn
and weighed, then put on the worker,
and sailed one ounce to the pounc
The salt was thoroughly mixed through
the fine grains with the ladle and the
butter just worked enough to bring
it to smooth, compact mass and
press out most of the water To know
when it was worked enough | relied
most on breaking off piece of the but
ter and observing the broken edges,
which should resemble quite closely a
bit of fractured steel.
The butter was then nodded, wrap.
ped in parchment paper, and packed
away from all harmful influences. On
three things | consider depend sue
cess in butter making. They are
cleanliness, regard to temperature,
and doing the best one knows.-Mrs.
Charles Lamont, in Orange Judd
Farmer.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-08
GIVE CONTENT 10 OTHERS.

God, give content to others, but to me
The throbbing night and bugie-
noted day;
No peaceful valleys, but the strong.
salt spray
OF some large sea.
Give me no transient pain that frets
and stings;
Let me be the nightingale forlorn,
That, leaning her bruised breast up
on thorn,
Bleeds while she sings.
Give me, o God, not overmuch Of
sweet;
Let me climb heights, and, looking
backward, see
My own blood-prints and know the
agony
Of stone-cut feet.
For more and more feel that not loz-
me
Are little passions and delightfuE
ways:
Only can thro' torturing nights
and days
Climb up to thee.
Ella Higginson in Home Companion
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-08

principle through which the course OF
balls can be curved, if one has ever
realized the density of the atmosphere
and the TACT that it is q compresSible,
elastic gas. These properties of he
atmosphere make of it, under tine cir
cumstances described, a continuous
elastic cushion upon which the rota.
ting ball impinges, and by the inter
vention of whose moderate resistance
the course OF the ball is modified in
direction. The average pressure of
the atmosphere, at the level of he
sea, to the square inch of the earth's
surface is 14.7S04 pounds, commonly
called, in round numbers, Is pounds.
The average barometric height is
about 80 inches at the level of the sea:
but it is only 24T5 inches in height at
Denver. Colorado, a difference in
height between the two situations
corresponding to a difference in
weight of atmosphere of over two and
half pounds out of nearly fifteen.
Yet it has been lately stated that bat
ting averages at Denver are the same
rs lnuSS on tnS eastern coast or the
United States. However that may be
land it seems utterly irreconcilable
with what has beer shown here)
there must be, in so rare an atmoS-
phere as that of Denver, compared
with that of the eastern coast OF the
United States, less possible curvature
TO the flight of balls than is common
to pitching them in the latter region.
The main fact here elaborated as TO
cause may be concisely stated in Ian
guage not forbiddingly scientific. The
''upshoot," "downshoot," and right
and left "outshoot' and "inshoot'' OF
the baseball, thrown by pitcher to
plate" of baseball Held. represent,
through their various incurves at til .
plate resultants corresponding with
the compounded forces of the projec-
ton of the ball, it's rotation in vary.
ing positions of its axis of revolution
and the resistance due to the density
Of the atmosphere; the last factor be.
ing known as Wis inertiae the force
OF inertness. which involves resistance
to motion. and which is thorefore
| truly regarded as a species of force.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-08
No Need to be Jealous.

Senator Depew tells of a converse
ton between two men of his acquaint-
ance, one of whom is the husband of
an exceptionally handsome woman.
1t appears that one evening after
dinner the second man remarked to
the proud husband at a moment when
the beauty's attention was given else
where, "Old man, wife is such beau
tiful creature that wonder you are
not jealous of her."
ITO tell the truth, / am" answered
the husband, frankly and with fine dis
regard of the attempt of his friend to
be facetious. For that reason ] never
invite any one here that any sane
woman could take fancy to-
woman's Home Companion.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-08
A Great JUDGES Suicide.

Lord Chief Justice Hankford of
England, who lived in former cen
tury, notwithstanding his high posi-
ton, became so tired of life that he de
termined to shuttle off this mortal coil
But he feared to commit suicide, be,
cause at the time a verdict of felo de
Sc followed as matter of course, and
the body of the suicide was buried at
four crossroads with stake thrust
through it. Further, he had to avert
the consequences to his relatives Of
forfeiture of his goods, which was also
one of -4e penalties for self-destruc-
ton. He adopted a novel expedient.
Several of his deer having been stolen.
he gave orders to his keepers to shoe:
any person they saw in or near the
park at night who did not Immediately
stand when challenged. Then on a
dark night he threw himself in the path
of the keepers and, not answering the
challenge, was shot dead on the spot
The stump of an old oak under which
he fell still marks the scene of the
tragedy and goes to this day by the
name of Hankford's oak.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-08
Told by a Tenor,

Ellison Van Hoose, the tenor, tells
this story on himself:
Once, when travelling in Germany, l
visited Bonn and looked up all the Bee
thoven relics could find. / became
intensely interested, and at the home
Of the master the guide was put to IT, "
as we say, to answer all my questions
concerning the man and the memen,.
tos.
ut suddenly struck me as being sin
gular that nothing was said concerning
the musicians father, and, turning to
my guide. ! asked him who and what
was the paternal parent Of the sym
phonist.
On he replied. nonchalantly, he
didn't amount to much. He was only
a tenor"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-08
Good Roads,


The rapidity with which the senti.
ment in favor of national aid to the
common roads of the country has
spread, and the eagerness with which
the proposition is welcomed since the
introduction of the Brownlow bill in
congress, have not only been highly
gratifying to the friends of the meas
ure, but surprising and astonishing to
its opponents. The truth is the great
body of the farmers of the land are
slow in demanding what they are Just
iy entitled to. Had the same neces-
sity as the want of good roads among
farmers existed in relation to the man.
ufacturing, mining or commercial in
terests of the country, such a necessity
would have long since been recognized
and met by adequate appropriations
from congress. The tillers of the
soil do not work in concert for their
own advancement.
BY the census of 1900 the whole
number of people above the age of ten
years engaged in gainful occupations
in the United States was 29,074,117. OF
this number 10,3S1,765 were engaged
in agricultural pursuits. No other
specified occupation employs so many.
The manufacturing and mechanical
pursuits employ 7,0S5,992 persons:
trade and transportation, 4,766, 964,
and professional service, 1858, 739.
farmers of the country, that contribute
more to its permanent prosperity than
all other classes combined, have the
smallest amount of consideration in
the matter of congressional appropra-
tions. IN all the history Of the past
legislation of the country but few eff
forts have been made to eQualize the
benefits of congressional appropria-
tons, Until the rural mail routes were
established citizen living in the
country rarely received direct benefits
from the money expended by the gen.
eral government, except that for the
agricultural department.
The commerce of the country felt
the exuberance of fresh and lusty life
and visor from the improvement of
the rivers and harbors, but this ex-
uberance would have been vastly in
creased had half the money appro-
priated for rivers and harbors been
applied to aid in the Improvement and
maintenance of the public roads, the
foundation of commerce. 1t must not
be imagined that any one proposes
that the government shall enter upon
the work of building public highways
without the cooperation of the state,
county or other political subdivision.
The policy of the government should
be to help those communities that help
themselves; to stimulate action and
enterprise rather than to repress it
by appropriating money to those COM
munities that do nothing for them
selves.-J. B. KileDrew in Practical
Farmer.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-08
ROMANCE OF AN OLD HOUSE.
Where jefferson Davis Married the
Daughter of Zachary Taylor.

A little frame house that stands
amid great beech trees in the rear of
an imposing structure of recent date
near Crescent Hill and a record in the
Jefferson county court are all that is
left to tell Of romance involving
famous names that was consummated
sixty-nine years ago.
1t is little known by Louisville peo-
pie that in this house, which is now
used as servant quarters, Jefferson
Davis afterward president of the con-
federacy, on June II, 1885, married
Miss Knox Taylor daughter of Gen.
Zachary Taylor afterward conqueror
of Mexico and president of the United
States.
In the Jefferson county courts
archives there is record of marriages
for 1895 which contains the following:
Jefferson Davis and Miss Knox
Taylor of legal age, daughter of
Zachary Taylor"
II was a romance with a sad sequel
Davis took his bride to his plantation
in Mississippi The climate was not
favorable, and the young woman, ac-
oustomed to the purer air Of Kentucky,
could not stand the miasmatic exhala-
tons of the swamps. Soon after her
arrival in Mississippi she grew Ill,
stricken with malarial fever. Within
three months of the time she became a
bride she was dead.
The pathetic sequel makes Gen.
Taylor's objection to the wedding
seem to have been due to the pro-
phetic feelings of devoted father. He
strongly disapproved of the match be-
tween his daughter and Jefferson
Davis, who was then a soldier, with
nothing to indicate the great, though
mournful, career that was before him.
This opposition was not due to dis
like or mistrust of Davis, 1t seems.
but to Gen. Taylor's fear that as the
wife of gallant soldier, on what was
then the frontier, his daughter would
be subjected to many hardships.
But Miss Taylor was willing to face
any future for the man of her heart.
Mrs. Gibson Taylor, her aunt, espoused
the cause Of the young lovers, and
when Miss Taylor came to visit her
she added her pleadings to those
of her niece. After a long course OF
persuasion Gen. Taylor, though not
relinquishing his objections, was pre-
vailed on to permit the marriage,
which took place in the home of Mrs.
Gibson Taylor. II is not known
whether Gen. Taylor attended the wed.
ding, though Mr.. Hancock Taylor is
OF the opinion that he was not present.
1t was from this house that the
young soldier and his bride, after the
usual merry-making, congratulations
and blessings, set out ON journey
with happiness that was so soon TO be
changed to grief,
Such is the story of long ago that
centers around this little house, which
now stands to the rear of the residence
occupied by Mr.. A. Levy on the
Brcwnsboro road.
At the time Jefferson Davis and Miss
Taylor were married within its walls
ii was a two-story structure, with
broad verandas built after the then
prevailing style for southern homes.
Now it has been reduced to one story
and has been transformed into a cot
.age.-I1ouisville Evening Post.